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Jeremy Bowen promotes political narrative in BBC's Six Day War centrepiece
The centrepiece of the BBC News website's coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War was published in the 'Features' section of its Middle East page on June 5th. That article by the corporation's Middle East editor is titled "1967 war: Six days that changed the Middle East" and it runs to a remarkably lengthy 6,181 words and – as Jeremy Bowen's Twitter followers later learned – is based on a book he originally had published 14 years ago.
The article includes numerous factual inaccuracies or inadequately clarified statements. For example, the person named by Bowen as "Ray Rothberg" was actually Roi Rotberg from Nahal Oz. What Bowen repeatedly describes as "disputed territory" along Israel's border with Syria was in fact the demilitarised zones defined as such in the 1949 Armistice Agreement between the two countries, while his reference to "Syria's attempts to divert the River Jordan away from Israel's national water grid" fails to adequately clarify that the Headwater Diversion Plan was actually conceived by the Arab League in 1964. The article also makes use of B'tselem's inaccurate and partisan map that has been seen in numerous other BBC reports.
Interestingly, readers of this article discover that the BBC's Middle East editor is entirely aware of factors such as Soviet disinformation, Nasser's demand to expel UN peacekeepers from Sinai and his closure of the Straits of Tiran that were crucial in causing the war but yet curiously are so often omitted from BBC portrayals of the topic.
However, the most important aspect of Bowen's tome is its promotion of a narrative composed of two parts.
As he has done in the past, Bowen suggests to audiences that the Six Day War was not a war of survival for Israel. [emphasis added]
"Western powers had no doubt which side in the Middle East was stronger on the eve of war in 1967. The US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff judged "that Israel will be militarily unchallengeable by any combination of Arab states at least during the next five years."
In a report on the Israeli army in January 1967, the British defence attaché in Tel Aviv assessed that "in command, training, equipment and services the Israel army is more prepared for war than ever before. Well-trained, tough, self-reliant, the Israeli soldier has a strong fighting spirit and would willingly go to war in defence of his country.""
"The pressure was crushing General Rabin. Against all the military evidence, he had convinced himself that he was leading Israel to catastrophe."
"If they could fight on their own terms, Israel's generals were confident they would score an overwhelming victory. But strict military censorship kept those conclusions private."
The second part of Bowen's narrative is designed to steer audiences towards the belief that the modern-day conflict is exclusively rooted in the outcome of those six days in June 1967. [emphasis added]
"Fifty years ago, war broke out between Israel and its neighbours. The conflict lasted just six days but its effect would last to the present day."
"All the issues that are now depressingly familiar to anyone who follows the news – violence, occupation, settlements, the future of Jerusalem – took their current form as a result of the war. The shape of the occupation emerged very quickly. Predictions of the dangers that lay ahead were ignored."
"The 1967 war made Israel into an occupier, which is why more than anything else it matters. The experience has been a disaster for Israelis and Palestinians. Israel built settlements for Jews, in defiance of international law that says occupiers cannot settle their people on the land they capture. Israel, though, sees it differently."
"Military occupation is by definition oppressive. The occupation has created a culture of violence that cheapens life and brutalises the people who impose and enforce the occupation and those who fight it."
"Fifty years on from 1967, President Trump – like many new American presidents – is hoping to help Israelis and Palestinians make peace.
If his dreams become substantive talks, they will have to be about the future of the land that was captured in six days of war. […]Ignoring the legacy of 1967 is not an option."
However, the urge to promote that selective narrative means that Bowen has to erase from audience view the fact that – as Michael Oren recently explained – the Six Day War was just one chapter in a conflict that began long before.
"Far beyond 1967, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is in fact about 1917, 1937 and 1947. Those anniversaries can teach us much about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and why peace has proved so elusive. […]
What began as a clash between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews changed overnight into the Arab-Israel conflict. The two-state solution twice turned down by the Palestinians, in 1937 and 1947, would be forgotten as Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Jordan annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Yet the Palestinians showed no interest in establishing sovereignty in those areas. Instead, they rejected Israel within any borders. "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants" swore Ahmed Shukairy, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the eve of the Six-Day War. […]
The conflict is not about the territory Israel captured in 1967. It is about whether a Jewish state has a right to exist in the Middle East in the first place. As Mr. Abbas has publicly stated, "I will never accept a Jewish state.""
Jeremy Bowen's promotion of his preferred narrative (which, notably, has not altered at all over the years despite repeated Palestinian rejections of peace proposals) has long been on view. However, while his exclusive focus on "the occupation" and his related concealment of the most basic factor underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict – the refusal to accept the Jewish state's right to exist – may well serve the advancement of that political narrative, it does not serve the BBC's funding public: the people for whom he is supposed to "make a complex story more comprehensive or comprehensible".
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, Impartiality, Omission, Public Purposes	• Tagged 'settlements', Arab-Israeli conflict, B'tselem, BBC, BBC Middle East Editor, BBC News, BBC Online, International Law, Israel, Jeremy Bowen, Jewish state, MEPP, NGOs, Six Day War
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When you attack and lose, you must suffer the consequences.
June 7, 2017 @ 10:59 am
Bowen will be having a party celebrating the cultural events of Manchester and London.
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Some of the smallest class sizes in Kindergarten and 1st grade of any district in Skagit County
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Encyclopedia > Secret Wars
Secret Wars (the actual title of the series was Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars) was a 12-issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics from 1984 to 1985. It was Marvel's answer to the company-wide, universe-spanning "crossover series" begun at DC Comics with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Although the first issue of the series was published before issue #1 of Crisis, comic book industry insiders say the series was hastily approved and put together in order to appear on newsstands and comic book store shelves before DC's mini-series.
Secret Wars literally pulled together the most popular of the many superheroes of the "Marvel Universe," pitting them against their most dangerous enemies in an all-out battle that was meant to be the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. It introduced an enigmatic, all-powerful, godlike character called the Beyonder to the Marvel Universe. At the beginning of the story, the Beyonder had apparently been observing the events of the Marvel Universe for some time. For reasons of its own, it literally snatched about two-dozen of Earth's greatest heroes away from their lives, bringing them to the other side of the universe, and creating a planet especially so that the heroes could battle their greatest foes (which the Beyonder had also taken from Earth and brought to the same location).
The battle between superheroes and supervillains was fought, with the tide of battle turning in favor from one side to the other. Even the Beyonder found itself caught up in a battle for its life, as Doctor Doom put his own plans into action. In the end, the heroes won and everyone returned to Earth (though The Thing remained behind for another year, starring in his own comic book series at the time).
Unlike DC's 12-issue epic, Secret Wars had few long-lasting repercussions in the Marvel Universe. Spider-Man gained a new costume in this series, and the costume evolved into the supervillain "Venom," but otherwise Secret Wars is seen as merely an entertaining diversion from the long, drawn-out plots and subplots of the various Marvel comic book series. Nevertheless, the series was an enormous hit for Marvel, breaking sales records for monthly comic book series of the time.
Marvel Comics also began its series of yearly, company-wide "crossover epics" with Secret Wars. It followed up the story with Secret Wars II a mere few months later. Soon, both Marvel and DC settled down into a yearly routine of having one "epic" crossover series (sometimes even more than one), classified under such storylines as The Fall of the Mutants, Mutant Massacre, Acts of Vengeance, The Infinity War, and Heroes Reborn.
The Fantastic Four (Mister Fantastic, The Human Torch[?], The Thing)
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The Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Captain Marvel [the second Marvel Universe incarnation], The Wasp)
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Please carefully read and accept these terms and conditions before using the services of Grayshaw and Yeo Gardening Company Ltd. These terms and conditions set out our legally binding agreement.
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Share this Story: Ex-Dallas police officer found guilty of murder for killing neighbour after 'mistakenly' entering his apartment
Ex-Dallas police officer found guilty of murder for killing neighbour after 'mistakenly' entering his apartment
Unlike other recent high-profile killings by police officers, Guyger was not on duty or responding to a reported crime when she pulled the trigger
Bruce Tomaso
Former police officer Amber Guyger is escorted from the courtroom after she was found guilty of murder by a 12-person jury in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 1, 2019. Photo by Tom Fox/Pool via Reuters
DALLAS — A Dallas jury found former police officer Amber Guyger guilty on Tuesday of murder when she accidentally walked into a neighbor's apartment thinking it was her own and shot him dead as he ate ice cream.
The Sept. 6, 2018, killing of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old black PwC accountant, by a white officer sparked street protests, particularly when prosecutors initially opted to bring the lesser charge of manslaughter against Guyger, 31.
Ex-Dallas police officer found guilty of murder for killing neighbour after 'mistakenly' entering his apartment Back to video
"We the jury unanimously find the defendant Amber Guyger guilty of murder as charged in the indictment," Judge Tammy Kemp read aloud to the courtroom from the jurors' statement. A sob cut the judge off and Kemp paused to address the courtroom: "No outbursts."
Guyger, 31, could face life in prison for the slaying.
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It is relatively rare for U.S. police officers to be convicted of murder for shooting people they view as suspects. But unlike other recent high-profile killings, such as those of Michael Brown in Missouri and Philando Castile in Minnesota, Guyger was not on duty or responding to a reported crime when she pulled the trigger.
"Botham was the best we had to offer. It shouldn't take all that for unarmed black and brown people to get justice," said civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Jean family.
"This verdict is for Trayvon Martin, for Michael Brown … for Eric Garner … for so many unarmed black and brown unarmed human beings across America." Martin was shot and killed in 2012 by a civilian neighborhood watchman in Florida, who was cleared. Garner died in 2014 when a New York police officer put him in a prohibited chokehold, that officer was fired last month.
Guyger, who had spent four years on the force before the killing, took the rare step of testifying in her own defense during her trial, tearfully expressing regret for shooting Jean but saying she had believed her life was in danger when she pulled the trigger.
We believed the right verdict would come out
During the trial, Guyger's defense attorney said she was "on autopilot" after a long work day, when she mistakenly parked on the wrong floor in the garage and was able to enter Jean's apartment because he had left the door slightly ajar.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I have to live with this every single day," Guyger told the jury of eight women and four men.
In cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus asked her, "When you shot him twice, you intended to kill him, didn't you?"
"I did," Guyger responded, in a calm voice.
Prosecutors also argued that Guyger did little to help Jean even after realizing her mistake, calling the 911 emergency phone number for an ambulance but not administering first aid.
Hermus also told the jury that Guyger missed blatant clues that she was not in her own apartment – including the smell of marijuana smoke – because she was distracted after a 16-minute phone conversation on her commute with her former police partner. Guyger testified that the call was in relation to work.
In her testimony, Guyger told jurors that the shooting "is not about hate; it's about being scared."
Guyger sat alone at the defendant's table, wiping away tears, after the verdict was read.
Neither prosecutors nor the defense focused on race during the trial.
Lee Merritt, another lawyer for the Jean family, said they were unsurprised by the verdict.
"You had someone who was unarmed, unaggressive eating a bowl of ice cream, and somebody barged in and shot him to death," Merritt told reporters after the verdict was read. "We believed the right verdict would come out, though we knew that in America that is rare."


Throwing a "make your own taco" party is super easy, stress-free party idea and is a fun and festive way to add a little spice to everyday entertaining or a great way to gather the family for a special night. And it's so easy you can do this any night of the week.
Ready to Make Your Own Taco Creation?
Ground Beef sauteed in taco spices or salsa.
Head to the dollar store to pick up Mexican streamers to hang + paper plates, napkin, and any serving trays you want to be able to just toss at the end of the night.
Use empty and washed Mexican food cans as utensil holders or planters for small cactus and other succulents.
This is also a great time to pull out your white Christmas lights to string across the yard or if the party is inside they work great there too!
To make this dinner super easy use rotisserie chicken, a slow cooker recipe like Beef Deshebrada.
Or cook extra meats earlier in the week and use leftovers for a casual taco night.
Mix up a pitcher or 2 of the official drink of anything Mexican. A Margarita is a perfect compliment to anything you are serving. I love the classic lime, on-the-rocks with salt. It's easy to make a pitcher or two from scratch. But it is perfectly acceptable to pick up a good quality bottle of pre-mixed Margaritas.
I like to experiment with different fruit combinations + right now I'm really into using savory or spicy elements in my Margaritas. These are my normal recipes but this year I'm going to try using the premixed margarita as the base for the creations. I'll let you know how that works out.
I have a bunch of metal tubs that I'll fill with lots of ice and serve frosty cold Mexican beer, right now my husbands favorite is Sol. Place lime and orange wedges + maybe a few thinly sliced fresh jalapenos (make sure you remove the seeds- and wear gloves when handling the chilies unless you want removing your contacts to be a really painful experience) next to the beer to make it easy for everyone to add their favorite. I'm digging orange at the moment.


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Movies with a political murder, a birthing loss, and a classic children's tale
By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Culture, Vancouver culture | January 8th 2021
Also: A runaway slave's story, some British ultra-violence, and an Alabama romance.
The new movies this week can't match the drama, shock and outrage we watched on TV from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. But they do bring us light romance, some timeless kid-lit, a bloody puzzle, and an escaped slave's story. Plus, a potent documentary with a cameo by Donald Trump. Read on.
The Dissident: 4 stars
Pieces of a Woman: 3½
Pinocchio: 4
Pandemic a roller-coaster ride for this restaurateur
Emperor: 2
Knuckledust: 2½
Stars Fell on Alabama: 3
THE DISSIDENT: Here's a supreme example of hard-hitting journalism. So hard that it has been almost buried since it premiered at Sundance last year, where the audience stood up and cheered. The facts it unearths are much too threatening for business and diplomatic connections with Saudi Arabia, and may be the reason for its sidelining. It finally arrives video-on-demand, and you should seek it out.
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The basic story is about Jamal Khashoggi, the writer for the Washington Post who was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a harsh critic of the regime (and originally an insider, and therefore knowledgeable). His main target was the new leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS for short, who he attacked as a tyrant. MBS feared his access to U.S. President Donald Trump was in danger (it took a Trump veto to restart arms sales) and 15 of his agents went to Istanbul just as Khashoggi arrived. He was never seen again, but there is an audio tape of his killing and dismemberment. The film doesn't play it, but lets us read a transcript. There is much more evidence from security cameras, and, surprisingly, a Canadian connection. Omar Abdulaziz, in Montreal as a refugee, describes a social media war between Saudi Arabia and a group he organized. He also criticizes the regime in a YouTube show, and it's growing influence, he thinks, may have led to the Khashoggi murder. The film's director, Bryan Fogel, has a good track record. His film Icarus, about doping in sports, won an Academy Award and got Russia banned from the Olympics for a time. (Streaming VOD/EST.) 4 out of 5
PIECES OF A WOMAN: You'd better be strong in disposition to watch this Netflix film about a home birth gone wrong. The event itself is graphically portrayed in one continuous shot that lasts 23 minutes and delivers anxiety and then anguish. The midwife monitors the baby's healthy heartbeat, then loses it. The baby is stillborn. What went wrong isn't discovered, but the effects are felt by all involved over the months that follow. Mostly, naturally, by the woman herself, played in a very moving and natural performance by Vanessa Kirby. She played young Princess Margaret in The Crown and is and will again be in the Fast and Furious and Mission Impossible films. She won the best actress award in Venice for the mood changes she shows here.
There's also her mother, played by Ellen Burstyn, who pressures her to sue the midwife (Molly Parker). And there's her husband, played by Shia LaBeouf, who gets violent and frustrated as his wife turns icy and aloof. It's a role that fits him perfectly, but he has been removed from publicity material for the film because of abuse allegations in his real life for which he's now apologizing. In the film, he strays and dreams of escaping (from Boston to Seattle). There's a family dinner scene that brings out resentment (not needed) and affecting sequences (that work very well) as Kirby's character watches children at the mall or feels pity from co-workers at the office. Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer-partner Kata Wéber originated this for live theatre, and turned it into a powerful film (shot in Montreal, incidentally), financed by Bron Studios here in Burnaby. (Netflix) 3½ out of 5
PINOCCHIO: The enduring tale of the wooden puppet that wants to be a real boy gets told again. And before two more arrive (one starring Tom Hanks), here's Italy's latest version featuring a toned-down Roberto Benigni as the wood-carver/father Geppetto. Almost 20 years ago, he played the puppet in a film he directed. This time, he's only in it early and late, and most of the film gives us a child actor named Federico Ielapi as the somewhat bratty kid who has to learn some hard lessons as he wanders through life. Chief among them? Don't trust anyone, particularly people (or foxes and cats) with get-rich-quick schemes. Also, go to school and study hard if you want to grow your humanity.
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Carlo Collodi's classic tale got a colourful, lilting, and animated telling by Disney and won two Oscars in 1941. Matteo Garrone has made it somewhat darker and a little creepy in live action. The boy in his wood makeup looks like an alien figure from another world. The characters he meets are more menacing, except, of course, the cricket and the fairy who help him. The circus he joins, the island of toys, the whale, they're all here and shown with more realism and danger than before. Garrone is most famous for a very strong film, Gomorrah, about the Italian Mafia. Not for him to soften Pinocchio. He does make it magical, though. (Streaming at VIFF Connect as part of an Italian film festival.) 4 out of 5
EMPEROR: It's good to get these lesser-known stories about America's terrible racial history, but this one is marred by not telling us all of it. And some events on the way are questionable and possibly even wrong. We meet Shields Green, who was born a slave and escaped when the plantation got a new and very harsh owner. Shields went north just before the Civil War, was influenced by two abolitionists, the thinker Frederick Douglass and the militant John Brown, whose attack on Harpers Ferry he joined.
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Shields was pursued by bounty hunters, met anti-slavery activists along the way, and carried a deep regret for leaving his son behind, and ached to connect with him again. That's lots of drama there, but it comes to us stiffly written and directed by Mark Amin. It's full of gruff and heavy-breathing racists, and a few better people. That, I can tolerate. The film is didactic after all. But it rewrites the ending by not getting to it at all, possibly to make it more uplifting. The actors do what they can with it, including Dayo Okeniyi as Green, Ben Robson as a bounty hunter, Bruce Dern and Kat Graham as activists, and James Cromwell as John Brown. They can't save the film from being clichéd, though. (Available on demand and digitally.) 2 out of 5
KNUCKLEDUST: The Brits do violent action, too, as writer/director James Kermack demonstrates with this bloody, sometimes ugly, thriller. There's a secret fight club, you see. People pay to watch men battle each other to a red mess, death preferably. The bodies are dismembered and disposed of. The fighters are military veterans who've ended up on the street homeless.
The police raid the club and try to figure out who is running the place and who is this one guy (Moe Dunford), known as Hard Eight, who has somehow survived. A top military official is coming to get him and a chief inspector (Kate Dickie) has only a short time to interrogate him. The film toggles between battle segments and the questioning. What exactly is the role of Serena, played by Camille Rowe? She is said to own the club, certainly runs it, but maybe for somebody higher up? Interesting puzzle for us, but far too stacked with diversions. You can't tell who is who, who is truthful, and how they connect. The film has a very low opinion of them, and of humanity in general. It's for a particular audience. (Available on demand and digitally.) 2½ out of 5
STARS FELL ON ALABAMA: Maybe you're in the mood for some mindless fun to take your thoughts off everything else. This will do. It's trite, sure, but also sunny, cheerful and strongly in favour of recalling and getting back to the small town you came from (or maybe, wish you came from). James Maslow plays a Hollywood talent agent who intends to go to Willow Valley, Ala. (population 1,400) for a high school reunion. All his old friends are married; he needs a woman to take along, and who better than Madison Belle, a starlet he's promoting. (She's played with lots of warmth and charm, by Ciara Hanna.)
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He has one rule: He won't date his clients. How long do you think that will stand up on such a trip? Right. There's only one room for the both of them, and they do get along: at the pub, in the pool at the school they sneak in to, and at the reunion dance. There are complications when he sees her kiss somebody, and later she sees him do the same. (Both times with explanations.) Also, her ex-boyfriend, a rock singer played by Zebedee Row (true), shows up, wants to restart something with her, and could pop the pretence going on. Yes, it's light and slight, but a pleasant enough time-waster for people who go for that. (Also available on demand and digitally.) 3 out of 5
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My Top 20 Television Shows of 2015
Haven't seen: The Jinx, Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, South Park, Casual, Catastrophe, Bob's Burgers, Halt and Catch Fire, The Flash, Looking, Steven Universe, Doctor Who, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Outlander, Key and Peele, Manhattan, The 100, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Making a Murderer, F Is For Family, American Crime, Fresh Off the Boat, Getting On, Wolf Hall, Agent Carter, Black Sails, Agents of SHIELD, Inside Amy Schumer, Empire, House of Cards
Honorable Mentions: Louie, Transparent, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, UnREAL, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Master of None, Silicon Valley, Shameless, Veep, Orphan Black, Better Call Saul, Narcos, Strike Back, The Affair, Marvel's Jessica Jones, Homeland, The Last Man On Earth, The Knick, Arrow, iZombie, The Man In the High Castle, Continuum, Masters of Sex, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Penny Dreadful, Childrens Hospital, Orange Is the New Black, Community, New Girl, Archer, Togetherness, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Wife
The most notable honorable mention: Fargo (I prepare for your wrath)
20. Sense8
19. Rick and Morty
18. Bloodline
17. Daredevil
16. Mr. Robot
15. Show Me a Hero
14. Please Like Me
13. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
12. Person of Interest
11. You're the Worst
10. The Americans: Anchored once again by brilliant performances from Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, and Holly Taylor, season 3 of The Americans handles a key revelation with poise and delivers one of the biggest emotional impacts with "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?"
9. Bojack Horseman: Along with You're the Worst (and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, from what I hear), television is exploring depression in more nuanced and complex ways. Bojack can be hilarious, but its real power lies behind masterful episodes like "Escape From LA".
8. Review: This show takes a unique concept to absurd levels, but also maintains an undercurrent of humanity. Andy Daly is turning in one of the best performances on television here.
7. Mad Men: One of the driving forces of this recent "golden age of television" is this show right here. It bows out with a wonderful seven-episode run that does justice to all of its characters, and episodes like "Time & Life" remind us of seasons past while looking forward. One of the most polarizing questions of the year–"Did Don make the Coke ad?"–is perhaps best left unanswered.
6. Nathan For You: Like Review, this show finds poignant human moments in absurd scenarios, and "The Movement" and "The Hero" are two of this year's greatest television accomplishments. Also, Nathan Fielder is the best.
5. Banshee: Like I said in my "Best Episodes" list, this season feels like season finale after season finale. It's an awesome, badass, and absolutely thrilling ride all around, and it's not just an action show; it has interesting characters and themes as well.
4. Hannibal: The fact that this lasted three seasons on NBC is impressive. Nevertheless, season three is magnificent yet again, both closing off the Mason Verger storyline and introducing the Red Dragon. "Wrath of the Lamb" is as perfect of a series finale as we could've asked for.
3. Rectify: A beautiful show in every way possible. Heartbreaking and uplifting, and affecting on a level that most shows never reach. Plus, the entire cast delivers Emmy-worthy performances each week.
2. The Leftovers: I loved season one, but I understand why season two has been met with so much more acclaim. It really turns it up a notch here, moving to a new setting and expertly combining character studies with supernatural elements. And once again, I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent cast.
1. Justified: Now, we get to my favorite show of the year (following Breaking Bad in 2013 and Hannibal last year). The admittedly weaker fifth season probably lowered opinions about the show as a whole, but it without a doubt rebounds–and more–in its final season. It's a near-perfect final run, and the new characters are integrated nicely into the story as the lovable main cast gets one final spotlight. And of course, it all culminates in that beautiful and satisfying series finale. "We dug coal together" indeed.
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JustMeMike January 3, 2016 at 4:23 pm #
Well let me be the first to commend you for putting your choices out there for the public's gaze. Many of the shows that you included in your top 20, I either did not see, or did not choose to watch (there is a difference). Just as you did not see or choose to watch House of Cards.
But I will take you to task for the inclusion of Bloodlines, which may have directly or indirectly led to the exclusion of Fargo. Well we all know that in Best of Lists, there is no right or wrong. We all have different tastes, backgrounds, and schedules.
Now as it happens I have watched Bloodlines, and rather enjoyed it. But Bloodlines – despite the stellar setting, cast, performances and writing – started a step behind by 'opening' the show by showing us how the show's major element would play out. Not a new technique or scenario, but, in my view, it hurt the show.
Obviously, you didn't attach the same importance. But that is just how it goes. Thought I'd let you know.
polarbears16 January 3, 2016 at 5:09 pm #
Thanks for the comment! I do tend to agree with you there about Bloodline; I'm definitely not a fan of that technique for most shows, and I do not feel it added anything to this. I also wasn't a fan of the final scene of the season. Nevertheless, I was a big fan of the season as a whole, of everything in between. As for Fargo, I'd say it just missed the cut, although I do acknowledge its stellar cast and some great episodes.
So with Fargo, does it just not click with you, or do you think it's actually just a lot more flawed then others? Like, say, with me, I'm not the biggest fan of The Sopranos, yet I still agree with anyone who says it's one of the all time greats despite the fact that it wouldn't rank in my top 20 shows.
Doesn't click for me, I'd say. I can recognize that it's very very well made though.
So with Fargo, does it just not click with you, or do you think it's actually more flawed then most people?
peggyatthemovies January 4, 2016 at 12:40 am #
Wow.. I am in on your #1..there hasn't been a better finale than that one in quite some time.. But I've never even heard of Review,..Bojack Horseman??? Nathan for you..Please Like Me & Rick & Morty.. and i watch a lot of TV and know of many shows I don't watch or have given a try to but decided nah.. that's 5 shows..hahahahah
Haha yeah, those are much lesser known comedies for sure. But at least we can agree on Justified!!! Love and miss that show so much.
peggyatthemovies January 6, 2016 at 3:55 pm #
I miss it SO MUCH! Timothy Olyphant is an absolute hoot w/Rob Lowe & Fred Savage on The Grinder tho.. he does comedy well.. 😀


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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 12
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THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDELL
THE story was originally written by Lollius, an old Lombard author, and since by Chaucer. Pope.
Mr. Pope (after Dryden) informs us, that the story of Troilus and Cressida was originally the work of one Lollius, a Lombard; (of whom Gascoigne speaks in Dan Bartholmewe his first Triumph: Since Lollius and Chaucer both, make no doubt upon that glose,") but Dryden goes yet further. He declares it to have been written in Latin verse, and that Chaucer translated it. Lollius was a historiographer of Urbino in Italy. Shakspeare received the greatest part of his materials for the structure of his play from the Troye Boke of Lydgate. Lydgate was not much more than a translator of Guido of Columpna, who was of Messina in Sicily, and wrote his History of Troy in Latin, after Dictys Cretensis, and Dares Phrygius, in 1287. On these, as Mr. Warton observes, he engrafted many new romantic inventions, which the taste of his age dictated, and which the connection between Grecian and Gothic fiction easily admitted; at the same time comprehending in his plan the Theban and Argonautic stories from Ovid, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. Guido's work was published at Cologne in 1477, again 1480: at Strasburgh, 1486, and ibidem, 1489. It appears to have been translated by Raoul le Feure, at Cologne, into French, from whom Caxton rendered it into English in 1471, under the title of his Recuyel, &c. so that there must have been yet some earlier edition of Guido's performance than I have hitherto seen or heard of, unless his first translator had recourse to a manuscript.
Guido of Columpna is referred to as an authority by our own chronicler Grafton. Chaucer had made the loves of Troilus and Cressida famous, which very probably might have been Shakspeare's inducement to try their fortune on the stage. Lydgate's Troye Boke was printed by Pynson, 1513. In the books of the Stationers' Company, anno 1581, is entered "A proper ballad, dialogue-wise, between Troilus and Cressida." Again, Feb. 7, 1602: "The booke of Troilus and Cressida, as it is acted by my Lo. Chamberlain's men." The first of these entries is in the name of Edward White, the second in that of M. Roberts. Again, Jan. 28, 1608, entered by Rich. Bonian and Hen, Whalley, "A booke called the history of Troilus and Cressida." Steevens.
The entry in 1608-9 was made by the booksellers for whom this play was published in 1609. It was written, I conceive, in 1602. Malone.
Before this play of Troilus and Cressida, printed in 1609, is a bookseller's preface, showing that first impression to have been before the play had been acted, and that it was published without Shakspeare's knowledge, from a copy that had fallen into the bookseller's hands. Mr. Dryden thinks this one of the first of our author's plays; but, on the contrary, it may be judged, from the fore-mentioned preface, that it was one of his last; and the great number of observations, both moral and politick, with which this piece is crowded more than any other of his, seems to confirm my opinion. Pope.
We may learn, from this preface, that the original proprietors of Shakspeare's plays thought it their interest to keep them unprinted. The author of it adds, at the conclusion, these words: "Thank fortune for the 'scape it hath made among you, since, by the grand possessors wills, I believe you should rather have prayed for them, than have been prayed," &c. By the grand possessors, I suppose, were meant Heming and Condell. It appears that the rival play-houses at that time made frequent depredations on one another's copies. In the Induction to The Malcontent, written by Webster, and augmented by Marston, 1606, is the fol. lowing passage:
"I wonder you would play it, another company having interest in it."
"Why not Malevole in folio with us, as Feronimo in decimo sexto with them? They taught us a name for our play; we call it One for another."
Again, T. Heywood, in his Preface to The English Traveller, 1633: "Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print." Steevens.
It appears, however, that frauds were practised by writers as well as actors. It stands on record against Robert Greene, the author of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, and Orlando Furioso, 1594 and 1599, that he sold the last of these pieces to two different theatres: "Master R. G. would it not make you blush, &c. if you sold not Orlando Furioso to the Queen's players for twenty nobles, and when they were in the country, sold the same play to the Lord Admiral's men for as much more? Was not this plain Coneycatching, M. G." Defence of Coneycatching, 1592.
This note was not merely inserted to expose the craft of authorship, but to show the price which was anciently paid for the copy of a play, and to ascertain the name of the writer of Orlando Furioso, which was not hitherto known Greene appears to have been the first poet in England who sold the same piece to different people. Voltaire is much belied, if he has not followed his example. Collins.
Notwithstanding what has been said by a late editor, [Mr. Capell] I have a copy of the first folio, including Troilus and Cressida. Indeed, as I have just now observed, it was at first either unknown or forgotten. It does not however appear in the list of the plays, and is thrust in between the histories and the tragedies with out any enumeration of the pages; except, I think, on one lea only. It differs entirely from the copy in the second folio. Farmer.
I have consulted at least twenty copies of the first folio, and Troilus and Cressida is not wanting in any of them. Steevens.


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Troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post say they were dispatched to Trail #23 in Schoolcraft Township near the Sawmill Road just before 7:00pm.
Authorities say the man was traveling northwest on the trail when he lost control during a left turn and crashed into a group of trees.
The driver was ejected from the snowmobile, sustaining injuries to his leg and hip area and was unable to stand or walk. He was able to call for help on his cellphone. Bootjack First Responders were able to transport him from the crash site and he was taken to Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital by Mercy Ambulance, where he was treated for his injuries.
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The current Baltic state of Latvia became independent from the Russian Empire in 1918, was absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1940, was invaded by the Nazis in 1941, retaken by the Soviet Union in 1944, and was a Soviet Socialist Republic until the fall of Communism and independence in 1991. That political history served as a backdrop for Latvian immigrants to the Milwaukee area, a small migration before World War I and then a larger migration from refugee camps in Europe after World War II. Latvians settling in the United States prior to World War II obtained the moniker of "Old Latvians," while the post-World War II refugees were "New Latvians." Though small in number, Latvian immigrants in Milwaukee strongly identified with their culture, as evidenced by the existence of numerous cultural institutions that kept Latvian traditions alive.
Wisconsin's "Old Latvians," who left their homeland in the early twentieth century, mainly lived in Lincoln County in northern Wisconsin. Although many of the "New Latvians" came from urban backgrounds, at least half of all displaced persons brought to Wisconsin in the late 1940s and early 1950s were sponsored by farmers looking for laborers. In fact, 53 percent of Milwaukee Latvians came to Milwaukee after living in another town or city in the state. The Latvian community in Milwaukee grew in large part due to the efforts of Lauma Kasak, a Latvian immigrant who had left her homeland in the 1930s. From 1949 to the mid-1950s, Kasak helped relocate more than 600 Latvian immigrants to Milwaukee, including bringing Latvians, who worked for little pay in the cotton fields of the South, up from Mississippi. Once these Latvian immigrants arrived in Milwaukee, Kasak cared for them by providing medical care, food, and clothing, and sometimes by acting as an interpreter for Latvians who could not speak English and needed to communicate for their work.
By the mid-1950s, Latvian churches existed for Lutherans, Catholics, and Baptists. One Lutheran Sunday school offered courses on Latvian language and history. A Latvian Saturday school also had Latvian language courses, as well as classes on Latvian literature, history, geography, and cultural practices, such as music and dance. Even the Girl Scout troops organized by Latvians, and composed entirely of Latvians, took part in activities meant to promote Latvian culture. A 1958 study of Milwaukee's Latvian community found that more than half of approximately 200 respondents belonged to at least one Latvian organization. As a result, by the early 1960s, Latvians had organized at least 32 groups, or one for every sixty Latvians living in the city. In the early 21st century, some 1,000 to 2,000 people in the Milwaukee area identify themselves as of Latvian ancestry in the census.
^ John Powell, Encyclopedia of North American Immigration (New York, NY: Facts on File, 2005), 175.
^ Juris Veidemanis, "Latvian Settlers in Wisconsin: A Comparative View," The Wisconsin Magazine of History 45 (Summer 1962), 252-253; Rick Romell, "Woman Helps Build Latvian Community," The Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1985, 1, 3; "Foreign Born to be Honored," The Milwaukee Sentinel, March 22, 1961, 2.
^ Maija Rumpeteris, "The Need for Group Activity of the Latvian Youth in Milwaukee" (Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1958), 8, 16.
^ Veidemanis, "Latvian Settlers in Wisconsin," 254.
^ Tabulated from the public use samples of the 2000 Census and the five year estimates from the American Community Survey, available at Steven Ruggles, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, and Matthew Sobek. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 6.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015.
Powell, John. Encyclopedia of North American Immigration. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
Rumpeteris, Maija. "The Need for Group Activity of the Latvian Youth in Milwaukee." Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1958.
Veidemanis, Juris. "Latvian Settlers in Wisconsin: A Comparative View." The Wisconsin Magazine of History 45 (Summer 1962): 251-255.


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Book one in our historical adventure duology will be released any day now as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. World Odyssey is the prequel to our bestseller Fiji: A Novel, book two in The World Duology.
Set in the nineteenth century, World Odyssey follows the fortunes of three young travelers as each embarks on an epic journey. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world – from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa.
Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson's journey begins when he runs away to sea to escape a violent father. After surviving a shipwreck and enslavement by one of the indigenous tribes of America's northwest, his stocks rise and he becomes a successful trader. When Nathan decides to visit Fiji to trade muskets to the natives, he doesn't know it but his fortunes are about to change again.
Sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake's journey begins after she agrees to accompany her clergyman father to Fiji to help him run a mission station there. They endure a nightmare voyage they're lucky to survive. When Susannah finds herself sexually attracted to a young crewmember, she is forced to choose between her forbidden desires and the life her father has mapped out for her.
Irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday's journey begins when he steals hemp from an unscrupulous employer who owes him outstanding wages. For this he's sentenced to seven years' hard labor in the British penal colony of New South Wales. Jack escapes to Fiji only to be tracked down by a bounty hunter employed by the British Government to round up escaped convicts.
After traveling thousands of miles and experiencing the best and worst that life can offer, these three disparate individuals eventually end up in the remote archipelago of Fiji, in the South Pacific, where their lives intersect.
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The company Klocke Nanotechnik produces and sells the "Nanomotor", the smallest and most precise linear motor worldwide as base for a series of Nano-robotics. KNT is specialized on nano-robotics from components to complete production systems. More than 25 man-years of product development, an international network of customers, agencies and partnerships in different markets and the membership in 4 German Competence Centers in the areas of Microtechnology, Nanotechnology and New Materials enables to deliver innovative solutions for complex problems.
Volker Klocke is founder of Klocke Nanotechnik, a company that produces and sells Nanorobotics, in Aachen. Dr. Klocke studied physics at the University of Cologne and received his Ph.D. from the University of Aachen (RWTH) in the field of nano-layers and UHV technology. After five years working at a computer company, in 1992 he began developing the Nanomotor, based on an invention at the Research Centre in Juelich. He started his own company in 1994 operating in the field of Nanorobtoics worldwide. Dr. Klocke is a member of four German Competence Centers in the areas of Microtechnology (IVAM), New Materials (NeMa), and two in Nanotechnology.
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Q: Python Generating Infinite Loop When First Arg is 0 I am not understanding why the below code is falling into an infinite loop when the 'start' argument of totalArea is 0. I have been watching the code run in Python Tutor, and j executes through value of Stop -1, but then resets to 0 without moving onto value of Stop.
import math
def totalArea(start, stop, step):
    def f(x):
        return 10*math.e**(math.log(0.5)/5.27 * x)

    area = 0.0
    j = start

    while j <= len(range(start, stop)):

        for j in range(start, stop):
            area += float(step) * f(j)

    print area

totalArea(0, 11, 1)

A: while j <= len(range(start, stop)):
    for j in range(start, stop):

Every time the for loop ends, j = 10
len(range(start, stop)) is 11
So j <= len(range(start, stop)) forever
The while loop seems entirely superfluous. Try removing it entirely:
def totalArea(start, stop, step):
    def f(x):
        return 10*math.e**(math.log(0.5)/5.27 * x)

    area = 0.0
    j = start

    for j in range(start, stop):
        area += float(step) * f(j)

    print area

A: Within the outer (while) loop, len(range(start,stop) is a constant (11).  Within the inner (for) loop, j takes on the values 0 to 10 (per the help for range:
Return a list containing an arithmetic progression of integers.
    range(i, j) returns [i, i+1, i+2, ..., j-1]

)
Why not take out the outer while loop?

A: Let's say start=0 and stop=11. Then len(range(start,stop)) is 11, the length of [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. Inside the while loop, j iterates over the values 0 through 10. As you can see, j never exceeds 11, so the while loop never terminates.

A: The range function returns a list that doesn't include the end value:
>> range(5)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

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THUNDER Announce 'All The Right Noises' TV Special Online Show, Feat. Live Performances And Q&A
Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 19, 2021
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Photo Credit: Jason Joyce
THUNDER have announced an online TV special, where they will exclusively perform tracks from their forthcoming album 'All The Right Noises', as well as some of their classic hits from years gone by.
The show will take place at 2:00 P.M Eastern U.S Time on Saturday, March 13th 2021 and will be streamed for 48 hours afterwards, enabling ticket buyers to watch as many times as they like during that period.
The live studio performance will be filmed with adherence to Covid-19 restrictions, and will feature collaborators who played and sang on 'All The Right Noises'.
Singer, Danny Bowes says of the forthcoming show, "As soon as we made the announcement to move our arena shows back to 2022, we decided we can't wait until then to play the new tunes. Fans have been asking us for a streamed gig since the first lock down began, but we've resisted until now, because it can't be a proper Thunder live show without them in the room. The format we've come up with will involve our fan club members via video for some of it, so they'll see us performing, and get to ask us questions too. It's not the same as a live show, but it's not meant to be. When the show goes out, we're hoping it'll feel less like a gig, and more like a TV show, with us playing these brilliant new tunes, and loads of screaming nutters in their front rooms. What can go wrong?"
For tickets & full info on how to watch, visit: https://thunderband.lnk.to/TVspecialPR
Thunder Channel (Patreon) fanclub members will also be given exclusive access to watch sections of the filming as it takes place, and take part in a Q&A session with the band via video.
Thunder will release their brand new album, 'All The Right Noises' on Friday, March,12th 2021 on BMG. The album is a return to the full-throttle sound of Thunder that has seen them create a hugely successful 30+ year career at the forefront of British rock.
Listen to the most recent single released from the album, 'Going to Sin City', HERE.
New Thunder Tour Dates:
Saturday 21st Glasgow SEC Armadillo
Sunday 22nd Leeds First Direct Arena
Thursday 26th Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Friday 27th Birmingham Resorts World Arena
Saturday 28th London The SSE Arena Wembley
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Angelo Biasi runs an education company by day. At night, he tells a different story.
Executive: Angelo Biasi, founder and CEO, MassiveU, Naples. MassiveU is a mobile education platform and distance learning technology company that develops courses primarily with the mobile user in mind.
Diversion: Playing funky rhythm and blues with fellow Venture X tenants Jose Tribaldos and Raphael Santos, architectural associates at Hlevel Architects. Venture X is a shared office and co-work space in Naples.
"Who here has the funk?" he asked fellow inhabitants of the co-op workspace.
People get ready: It was at a Venture X networker and jam night that he got his answer. It came from Jose Tribaldos and Raphael Santos, a pair of musically inclined architects for Hlevel Architects with desks no more than 10 feet from Biasi's workspace. They happened to be fans of the mix of soul, jazz and rhythm and blues perfected decades ago by the likes of Curtis Mayfield and Bill Withers — precisely the sound Biasi had in mind.
Move on up: Since you bring your own instrument on jam night, the trio came prepared. The 40-something Biasi handled keyboards, Tribaldos was on bass guitar and Santos manned the drums. "We practiced some songs. We enjoyed it so much we started rehearsing here a couple nights a week just for fun," Biasi adds.
Share the groove: "They feed off my energy and I feed off theirs," Biasi says of Tribaldos and Santos. Tribaldos, Santos and Biasi have acquainted each other with the various styles of music that influence them. Tribaldos and Santos have made Biasi a fan of Paolo Nutini, a Scottish soul and folk singer, and Bishop Briggs, a Los Angeles singer whose music has strong soul influences.
"They've exposed me to music I wouldn't be listening to," Biasi says.
Tour time: The band is now a mix of contemporary, soul, funk and fusion music. Their name: The Jive — a moniker the trio adopted after deciding to play gigs around Naples.
"Our next step is writing our own songs," says Biasi, a New York native, father of twins and a musician who played piano at gigs in Manhattan and accordion at a French restaurant there. He never went full pro musician, he quips, because he had to eat.


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Land Buyers Stampede Into Texas Oil Patch
August 26, 2016 — Industry News • News
Wall Street's rush to Permian Basin is sign that long-awaited recovery in oil and gas prices may be in the offing
Oil prices are mired in their worst slump in decades, but you wouldn't know it in West Texas, where a land grab has energized an otherwise dormant market and sent some explorers' shares soaring.
Blackstone Group LP said Thursday that it has agreed to invest $1.5 billion in a pair of drilling deals there. One came about after the New York investment firm early this year lost out to a big oil company bidding on about 12,000 acres south of New Mexico. Blackstone didn't walk away from the auction empty-handed, though, having persuaded the sellers to join it in a new billion-dollar drilling venture in the area.
The firm also committed $500 million more to another group of experienced oilmen who had purchased 16,000 acres about 100 miles to the northeast, in another section of the region's red-hot Permian Basin.
Cash for the deals came from an $8 billion pool that has otherwise sat largely untapped since Blackstone raised the money to invest in energy early last year.
Wall Street's rush to the Permian is a sign that the long-awaited recovery in oil and gas prices may be in the offing. In some cases, Permian drilling properties are fetching prices that exceed those paid when oil prices were above $100 a barrel two years ago.
"It looks like we've come out of the trough portion of the cycle for the oil-and-gas sector and are on the road to recovery, though the road will likely be winding and it will take some time to get there," said Angelo Acconcia, who oversees Blackstone's oil and gas investing.
Private-equity firms like Blackstone, which invest on behalf of big clients such as pensions and endowments, have largely sat out the oil bust despite amassing hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on energy investments. But the Permian is luring them off the sidelines.
Other big investors, including Wilbur Ross's WL Ross & Co., EIG Global Energy Partners and Apollo Global Management LLC, have bought discounted debt of troubled Permian producers in hopes of seizing their assets or profiting should they recover, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
Roughly half of the $25.5 billion that has been paid this year for U.S. onshore drilling properties has been spent in the Permian Basin, according to RBC Capital Markets.
Investors have cheered these deals, snapping up $6.25 billion of new shares sold this year by oil producers who have said they would use proceeds to acquire Permian properties. Shares sold in each those 16 deals are trading above their offering prices, a sharp contrast from a year ago when many of the shares sold by energy producers lost value as crude prices fell further.
It took Concho Resources Inc. and Parsley Energy Inc., two companies that drill only in the Permian, about four hours each to sell a combined $1.6 billion worth of new stock early last week to pay for deals they made to boost their share of the region's shale. Parsley's bankers received orders from investors for more than four times the number of shares it sold in the offering, its executives said.
"There's this one corner of the world, the Permian Basin, where investors will keep financing you to keep on acquiring," said Bryan Sheffield, founder and chief executive of Austin-based Parsley, which has sold stock to buy land five times since 2014.
On Tuesday, PDC Energy Inc., which has drilling operations in the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, said it had agreed to buy $1.5 billion worth of Permian fields from a New York investment firm. When the stock market opened the next morning, PDC's shares shot up and executives, on a late-morning call with investors, said they would likely sell stock or bonds to cover the cost before the purchase is finalized. PDC shares are up 6.9% since its Permian foray was disclosed.
"It's like musical chairs," said Bill Costello, a portfolio manager at Dallas investment firm Westwood Holdings Group Inc., which manages about $20 billion. "At some point in time, there's not going to be a chair, and [oil producers] want to make sure they have a seat."
But some investors remain uneasy. In the two years since the oil slump began, prices have rallied several times only to fall again, stinging investors who piled in early.
At an industry gathering in Denver that began the morning after Concho and Parsley announced their acquisitions last week, talk among investors centered on whether the market for West Texas drilling fields was getting too frothy, said Charles Robertson II, an analyst at Cowen Group Inc.
"Some are starting to feel like this is a bubble," he said.
U.S. crude for October delivery rose 56 cents, or 1.2%, to $47.33 a barrel on Thursday.
The same stacked layers of energy-bearing rock that make Permian wells productive enough to be worth drilling at low oil prices complicate comparisons between deals. Analysts and investors say oil companies these days are generally having to pay up for deeper, more lightly explored layers that used to not be included in purchase prices and may not be drilled for many years.
Yet others note that drilling costs have come down by as much as half in the Permian as companies learn how to extract more oil from each well, often by drilling horizontally through oil-rich rocks for nearly two miles. That is twice as long as was typical just a year ago and has required producers to lock up ever larger swaths of land—albeit at increasingly higher costs.
"The Permian has attracted so many new entrants that the competition for these deals is really at a fever pitch," said Price Moncrief, vice president of capital markets and strategy at Concho, which in January made the $360 million cash-and-stock offer that beat out Blackstone for the West Texas land it tried to acquire.
Write to Ryan Dezember at ryan.dezember@wsj.com and Corrie Driebusch atcorrie.driebusch@wsj.com


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A city to inspire heroes
A «magical» place which speaks volumes of history and culture and makes an ideal excursion destination for those seeking plenty of enthralling sights and experiences.
«My eyes never saw a more glorious place…»
Some of the most momentous events of the 1821 Revolution against the Ottoman occupation occurred here. Against impossible odds and under appalling conditions, «The Free People» of the town survived for years under siege until their final bold exodus turned the tide of European support firmly in favour of the Greeks. One of the most glorious chapters in its history books, the memory of this great sacrifice still reverberates to this day in the collective consciousness of the Greek nation. The Gate of the Exodus and the walls of the city stand as a reminder of the heroism of the people of Messolonghi. The lush Garden of Heroes is strewn with monuments, amongst which is the Tomb of the Heroes, as well as the memorials erected to honour M. Botsaris, Lord Byron and other freedom fighters. Every year Palm Sunday is marked as a day of remembrance. Outside the wall, a visit to the little chapel of St. Paraskevi, where the decision was taken to confront the enemy, can be a very moving experience.
Messolonghi Wetlands
«Enchantment is nature and a dream in beauty and in grace…»
The National Park of Messolonghi-Aitoliko includes the lagoons of Messolonghi, Aitoliko and others, the one of a kind Forest of Fraxos and a many picturesque terrains that stretch out from the river banks.
Indulge in the unique pleasure of canoe-kayak on the lagoons, observe or photograph flamingos and herons, follow the hiking and mountain climbing trails of Arakynthos and Varasova. Whatever you chose to do, you'll find your senses constantly assailed by fragrant natural scents and stupendous colours.
Relax on the banks of the lagoon with a fishing rod and reel or go for a swim off the shore of Tourlida, a beautiful beach on the islet of the same name, where the open sea meets the lagoon, or Louros and Dioni, beaches which also form a vital part of the famous ecosystem of the region.
Gastronomical delights
Try traditional recipes with eel, salt fish and the unique shrimp. Do not miss the opportunity to taste avgotaraho, the «Greek caviar», one of the finest Greek gastronomic products. Stock up on delicious local pulses, rice, olives and cheeses and, of course, ouzo and tsipouro.
Culture in full force
Visit the Museum of History and Art, where you can admire a rich collection of original paintings, copies and prints with scenes of the Exodus. On your city tour you will also see the Gallery of Modern Art and the stately homes of our national poet K. Palamas and the Trikoupis family which now serve as museums.
Nature's grand design on Messolonghi lake
The Messolonghi lagoon is one of the most important wetlands in the Mediterranean and is an environmental park which is rich in both flora and fauna and is protected by the Ramsar Convention. If you visit the area, you will see the pelades, the uniquely beautiful wooden houses built by local fishermen. These humble shelters which are supported on stilts and seem to hover on the surface of the water are an integral part of the region's history, and also a feature of its landscape. Learn more
Take the opportunity to get to know this wonderful area with its rare natural beauty on a tour that will give you memories to last a lifetime. Take a tour there. (photo_by_visitmes.gr)
Afloat with charm in Aitoliko
On a small island in the middle of the lagoon, connected to the mainland by two lovingly preserved stone-built arched bridges, lies the «the town on the water», Aitoliko. Walk along the picturesque cobbled stone alleys next to gardens in full bloom and visit the historic Holy Temple of Kimiseos tis Theotokou and Taxiarchon and the Engraving Centre and Museum of Vaso Katraki. The harmony and beauty of the place imparts an instant feeling of tranquility.
From Aitoliko, visit the ancient town of Oiniades with its distinctive docks and ancient theatre.
Historic, heroic and heavenly. Make your own mark on magnificent Messolonghi!
Aitoliko, the "floating"islet on the Lake of Messolonghi
Messolonghi lake
Τhe home of Lord Byron
Sailboats in Messolonghi
Aitoliko islet from above. (photo_by_visitmes.gr)
Louros Beach (photo_by_visitmes.gr)
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The enchanting citadel
In the embrace of Acheloos
A surprise around every headland
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Katherine Clark was tired of the moments of silence. After each mass shooting, legislators would file solemnly onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, proclaim their immense sadness and frustration over the latest tragedy, and bow their heads—then do nothing. That "grisly routine," as the congresswoman calls it, repeated yet again after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, the deadliest in American history. Republicans refused to allow a vote on legislation with overwhelming public support: a bill to close a loophole on background checks, and another forbidding people on the FBI's terrorism watch list from buying guns.
Clark took her frustration to Representative John Lewis, the civil rights icon from Georgia. He suggested they "try something dramatic," and together they led a sit-in on the House floor. Republicans ignored the action and shut off C-SPAN's live feed, which the Democrats worked around by broadcasting live to social media. The sit-in lasted more than 24 hours, drawing 170 legislators in the House chamber and a large crowd of supporters outside the Capitol Building.
It was—albeit an unsuccessful one, if the goal was to force a vote on the two gun bills. But compared to the usual milquetoast behavior of Congress, the spectacle was almost revolutionary. And it wasn't the first time Clark had taken such a bold stand. A former prosecutor, she made national news during the Gamergate controversy in 2015, when she launched a crusade against internet trolls—calling on the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute online harassment, and sponsoring several bills to address the problem. More recently, she was just the second of more than 60 members to announce she would boycott Donald Trump's inauguration. Instead, she spent the day meeting with the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. The next day she was back in the capitol for the Women's March on Washington.
Democrats, now fully in the minority in Washington, will need this kind of political punch in opposing the Trump administration, but they will also need legislative savvy. Clark is not a bomb-throwing ideologue who's more interested in getting media attention than in getting things done on the Hill. In the 114th Congress, she was the lead sponsor of eight bills that were signed into law. More recently, she's sponsored legislation in the House—The Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act—that would attempt to rein in the Trump administration's myriad violations of the Emoluments Clause; the bill has around 80 co-sponsors for so far.
At a time when the Democratic Party is bitterly divided between the emboldened progressives and reeling centrists, Clark has carved out a space that fluctuates between the party's poles. She's willing to be a progressive pugilist when necessary, but has also demonstrated the savvy to reach across the aisle in the service of her ideals. That political flexibility—or cunning, depending on your perspective—may prove invaluable to the Democratic opposition to Trump, which suggests Clark's star may rise further yet.
Katherine Clark was born in 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut. Her mother was a librarian, her father an attorney. After getting her law degree from Cornell, she joined a large firm in Chicago. She later clerked for a federal judge in Colorado, followed by stints with the state's attorney general and the Colorado District Attorneys' Council. In 1995, Clark moved to Massachusetts, where she studied at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and worked as general counsel for the state Office of Child Care Services. That latter role has shaped much of her family-based approach when it comes to legislation.
Though Clark volunteered on Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992, it wasn't until 2001 that she entered politics herself, running for the Melrose School Committee. She was among eight candidates for nine open spots—hardly a brave gamble, she jokes. Once she tasted public service, she was hooked. In 2002, she ran unsuccessfully for the Massachusetts Senate before eventually winning a seat in the state House in 2007. Even then, she never imagined serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Clark has Barack Obama to thank for it—indirectly. After the president tapped John Kerry for secretary of state, Representative Ed Markey won a special election for Kerry's vacated seat. A second special election was then held for Markey's congressional seat. Clark dispatched six Democratic rivals before trouncing the Republican choice with 66 percent of the vote.
In her short time on the Hill, Clark has won the admiration of her colleagues and constituents. She's a compelling speaker, as comfortable delivering an emotional plea or self-deprecating wisecrack as she is explaining wonky legislation. Her successful bills include federal funding for the study of and treatment of postpartum depression, and measures to address the opioid epidemic that has hit much of the country, including her own district. The latter law, she says, is an example of how the two parties can find common ground: Mitch McConnell is the lead sponsor. "This epidemic doesn't care if you're a red state or blue state, what level of income you have, how much education, it is an equal opportunity killer," she said. Clark also penned a domestic violence bill with Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with whom she played on the women's congressional softball team.
Melrose police later confirmed they'd received a computer-generated voice messages about "shots fired and an active shooter" at her address. Under normal circumstances, it would have been a terrifying thing to hear, but Clark, having recently introduced the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act, quickly pieced things together.
Clark had introduced the anti-swatting bill after it happened to one of her constituents: video game developer Brianna Wu, who was targeted for harassment amid the Gamergate controversy in 2014. Wu had spoken out about sexism in the gaming industry, and eventually was forced to flee her home. Now Clark was the target of a similar harassment campaign.
Clark seems to have found her niche: standing up to bullies, whether they're internet trolls, the gun lobby, or Trump.
This is where Clark seems to have found her niche: standing up to bullies, whether they're internet trolls, the gun lobby, or President Trump. It's something that Democrats will need more of in opposing the administration and a Republican Congress.


Researchers analyzed neuroimaging data from a group of 1093 adolescents from the IMAGEN project.
Smaller brain structures in the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex may be associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or conduct disorder symptoms in adolescents, according to the results of a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Researchers analyzed neuroimaging data from a group of 1093 adolescents with a mean age of 14.47 ± 0.39 years from the IMAGEN project. The aim of the study was to elucidate any specific relationships between ADHD or conduct disorder traits with brain structure and behavioral characteristics. Participants completed various magnetic resonance imaging, neuropsychological, and personality assessments over the course of the study.
After regions of interest analysis, researchers found a negative correlation between gray matter volumes (average intracorrelation coefficient 0.516; P =.026) and surface area (average intracorrelation coefficient 0.633; P =.030) in the dorsolateral/dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and caudal anterior cingulate cortex in those with ADHD and conduct disorder symptoms. The structural results were compared in a parallel manner with behavioral findings from neuropsychological assessments, which found certain symptoms to depend on both prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical regions.
Primary study limitations involved the lack of comprehensive trait inclusion for both ADHD and conduct disorder assessments.
"Our study suggests that, apart from the large overlap in structural relations, there are morphological characteristics that are specific to either ADHD symptoms or [conduct disorder] symptoms, and that those relations can be observed on trait level within a community sample," the researchers wrote.
Further studies are needed to fully understand the links between brain structure and ADHD or conduct disorder.


Over 142 000 new HIV infections were diagnosed in the WHO European Region in 2015, the highest number ever. The HIV epidemic is driven by cases in the eastern part of the Region, where the number of new diagnoses has more than doubled during the past decade.
Over 13 million people in the Region are living with chronic hepatitis B infection and over 15 million with chronic hepatitis C infection. Two-thirds of those infected are in eastern Europe and central Asia. Hepatitis B and C infections lead to 400 deaths in the Region every day.
Two advisory committees met in April 2016 to guide new action plans on HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis for the WHO European Region 2016–2021. The aim of the new HIV/AIDS plan is to boost efforts initiated with the 2012–2015 plan to achieve zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths in the Region.


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Q: SLOT rejected(), accepted() in QMainWindow I am a newbie in Qt-programming. I have read a book about GUI-programming with Qt. I have an trouble in creating a dialog. Here is sample code:
// gotocell.h
#ifndef GOTOCELL_H
#define GOTOCELL_H

#include <QDialog>
#include <QtWidgets>

#include "ui_gotocell.h"

class GoToCellDialog : public QDialog, public Ui::GoToCellDialog
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    GoToCellDialog (QWidget *parent = 0);
private slots:
    void on_lineEdit_textChanged();
};

#endif // GOTOCELL_H

// gotocell.cpp
#include <QtWidgets>
#include "gotocell.h"
#include <QtWidgets>

GoToCellDialog::GoToCellDialog (QWidget *parent):
    QDialog (parent)
{
    setupUi(this);

    QRegExp regExp ("[A-Za-z][1-9][0-9]{0,2}");
    lineEdit->setValidator(new QRegExpValidator(regExp, this));

    connect (okButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(accept()));
    connect (cancelButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(reject()));
}

void GoToCellDialog::on_lineEdit_textChanged()
{
     okButton->setEnabled(lineEdit->hasAcceptableInput());
}

// main.cpp
#include "gotocell.h"
#include <QApplication>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    GoToCellDialog *dialog = new GoToCellDialog;
    dialog->show();

    return a.exec();
}

but when I compiled, there is an error: no known conversion for argument 1 from 'GoToCellDialog* const' to 'QMainWindow*'at setupUi() function. I think because the designer in Qt Creator created a QMainWindow, not a QDialog. So I changed GoToCellDialog class to QMainWindow. But there is no slots whose name is "accepted", "rejected" in QMainWindow. Can anyone help me?

A: If you want to display a Dialog as main window you have two choices:
 1. make the whole main window QDialog based
 2. design the Dialog separately and set it as the main windows central Widget (QMainWindow->setCentralWidget()).
In both cases you still have the problem what semantics you give to the OK and Cancel buttons. Generally it may be a better idea to consider what the main window of the application should contain, and design the dialogs later.


NEW YORK—Travel Tripper and Pegasus, two hospitality technology providers, today announced that they are joining forces to deliver greater value and innovation to hotel groups worldwide. The combination is backed by a substantial investment from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm.
The merger brings together two companies known for reservations, distribution, business intelligence, and e-commerce platforms designed for hotel groups large and small to directly own end-customer relationships and maximize bottom-line ROI.
Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Pegasus. Cypress LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner served as legal advisors to Pegasus. Cooley LLP served as legal advisor to TravelTripper and Goodwin Procter LLP served as legal advisor to Accel-KKR.


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The Boys: Tom Holland Turns Out To Be A Fan Of The Amazon Prime Video Series
The Boys: Everyone knows that The Boys is one of the great successes of Amazon Prime Video, having conquered millions of fans around the planet. Tom Holland, one of the main stars of hero movies, was revealed to be one of the lovers of the series inspired by the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
The statement was made during an interview with Buzzfeed Celeb, which also functioned as a sort of quiz game. In addition to Holland, other stars of Spider-Man: No Return Home also participated, such as Zendaya and Jacob Batalon.
The group talked about which comic book adaptation they would choose to watch on television at night. The options available were: The Umbrella Academy, Jessica Jones, the Batman movies by Christopher Nolan and the Spider-Man movies by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
Holland made some honorable mentions but confirmed that he would be in the production of Amazon Prime Video. "Oh, I think out of all the franchises here, my favorite would be The Boys," replied the British actor.
Holland's speech was shared by The Boys' official Twitter page, which still wrote in the caption: "With great powers, must also come good taste", making a play on the iconic phrase "With great powers comes great responsibilities".
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