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A concert for the people
During the summer there are all kinds of outdoor festivals and concerts going on because people want to be outside. One of the most anticipated events of the season — at least for country music fans — is the Listener Appreciation Concert hosted by local radio station KATM-FM, Kat Country 103.
This year's concert, slated for the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds on June 1, has a blazing lineup including Chris Janson, LoCash, Jordan Davis, Cassadee Pope, duo Everette, and Dillon Carmichael.
For over 20 years, Kat Country has been bringing Northern Katafornia, as they coined it, a free concert for their loyal listeners with a great artist lineup and fun to spare as a way to show their appreciation. The planning process for the event takes about a year, expalined D.J. Walker, Kat Country Morning Host, and they always try to find artists that put on a great show.
According to Walker, the LAC began in Stockton at the Spanos Center with an attendance of about 3,000 to 5,000 people. The concert was held there for about three to four years and was graced by superstars like Toby Keith, Rascal Flats and Clay Walker.
"Nobody knew who they were at the time," said Walker. "Now he (Toby Keith) is like one of the biggest superstars in country music. I think you get a couple headliners but a lot of people you see on the lineup you may not have heard of but it is kind of like a lucky charm for them to play the LAC."
The concert has moved around to different venues over the years, but will be in Turlock once again for 2019.
"We decided the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds is really the best place for us to hold it because it works great there," stated Walker. "It is an easy location for people to get to. It is a fun place to be. It is a good area for us to be in. We have done tons of shows there."
Through the years the LAC has seen many country artists like Jon Pardi and Eric Church that were just starting out and have gone on to have huge careers.
"There was a young gal who came through here, she was just 17 years old," stated Walker. "We took a chance at putting her on stage and singing for a few folks and her name was Taylor Swift. There is a guy that was just starting off that had a couple hits and we weren't quite sure, you know. We threw him on stage, he wasn't the headliner, Travis Tritt was the headliner at the time but this guy was brand new. He came out and did a couple songs, his name was Blake Shelton."
This year, Chris Janson will be headlining the show bringing his hits like "Buy me a Boat," "Drunk Girl," and "Fix a Drink." As a songwriter he has written songs for several other artists including Tim McGraw, LoCash and Randy Houser.
"A lot of people are going through stuff and I enjoy playing my part in trying to make a day better," said Janson about his favorite part of being a country music artist.
He was also inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on March 20 2018.
He is excited to play for country music fans at the LAC and thrilled about the lineup.
American country music duo LoCash which includes Chris Lucas and Preston Brust formerly known as LoCash Cowboys will hit the LAC stage singing fan favorites like "I Know Somebody" and "I Love This Life". They will also sing new hits from their latest album "Brothers" that was released at the end of March.
"Rhett Atkins has a bunch of stuff on this album," the duo explained during an interview with Walker.
"The theme or feel it is called Brothers" added Brust. "Chris and I aren't blood brothers but we feel like brothers. We wanted to share that message with everybody. Everybody needs that out there right now you know with all the drama in the world. We need each other."
The duo was nominated for Vocal Duo of the year at the Academy of Country Music Award a few
months ago.
New artist singer, songwriter, Jordan Davis has hit the country scene with a vengeance with hits like, "Singles You Up," and "Take it from Me" that have hit number one. He is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana and has been around music since he was young. Davis and Janson are friends and have toured together previously.
Cassadee Pope recently released a new album "Stages" that she expressed is a good representation of her sound and is well rounded with songs of heartbreak and falling in love. She is known for a few singles like "Wasting All These Tears" and "Think of you," a duet with Chris Young.
"It sort of happened by accident but I think that is why the record tells such a vivid story because life actually happened during the making of it," Pope explained. "When I am writing I think I do go more country when it comes to storytelling just overall the structure of songs are more country. I did incorporate some pop and rock elements; I wanted to stay true to the things that I love and I am not just one thing I am a few different things."
Pope has spent some time in the spotlight when she won the Voice Season 3 with Coach Blake Shelton.
"It was a lot of things," added Pope about being on the show. "It was nerve-wracking, exciting. The biggest thing for me is that it taught me to go with my gut. There were a lot of songs on the show that I just really felt connected to and felt like I could tell the story for the song in a way that would get people to sort of connect with me and hopefully want to root for me. That whole process made me grow a lot."
With the new album recently released and a few singles out on the radio like "If my heart had a heart," and "One More Red Light" Pope hopes fans check out the album and can sing along with her when she hits the stage at the LAC.
Kat County will have ticket stops throughout the 209 area in April and May. To find a ticket stop near you, visit www.katm.com.
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What makes this nifty app so great is its capability to make free calls over mobile phones through the Internet Viber.
Viber doesn't need a special registration, but as (login) identificator uses your mobile phone number – you just need to have a working Mobile operator phone num. Once registered under a number even if you change your mobile sim card to other operator (for example moving from country to country) still the Viber account will continue work. Another good reason to use Viber is it makes possible price free calls between different countries (for example if you travel a lot and you want to regularly speak with your wife) – in my case right now I'm in Bulgaria and my wife is in Belarus, so to save money and keep talking daily we use Viber daily.
What Devices and Operating System Viber Supports and what is Viber advantages / disadvantages ?
Another reason why Viber is so great is its multi-platform support it works on iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia (Symbian), Windows, Mac OS and even (Korean own OS-ed) Bada devices. Some might argue that Viber is inferior to Skype and interms of Voice and Video quality its better because of its enhanced HD voice enhanced codecs, besides that Viber's video is still in Beta. However Viber has one big advantage it makes easy possible to reach people using just their Mobile Phone numbers where in Skype it takes time and effort to register in Skype install application on your Mobile keep yourself logged in in Skype and have all contacts previously added, all this happens automatically in Viber in time of installation of Viber App on your mobile.
Which Is Cheaper Viber or Skype?
Once installed Viber could integrate itself with rest of your Mobile OS Call Manager and in time of call a friend number you have the opportunity to make it free Viber call. Viber are also selling Viber Credits so if you want to use your Viber Voice Over IP you can call external mobile operator numbers on a very very cheap price. Viber Calls to landline or mobile phones could be up to 400% cheaper than Skype! Whether you own a Smartphone it will be nice to give Viber a try.
One not so standard Viber use is to make Viber calls with no smartphone (at hand) from PC to another Viber equipped Mobile and vice versa.
I needed to make Viber calls from my ZTE Android running mobile to my wife's MacBook Air PC because her mobile is an old Nokia running obscure Symbian version which is not supporting Viber + she doesn't have an Internet access tariff switched on her mobile.
BlueStacks App Player is a software designed to enable Android applications to run on Windows PC, Apple Macintosh Computers and Windows tablets. BlueStacks is something like (VMware, Qemu) Virtual Machine which allows you to install and run any Android App on your Desktop PC.
BlueStacks is needed in order to emulate a smartphone on your PC, therefore once setupped Bluestacks. Launch it and inside its necessary to login with your Gmail (Google Account) in order to allow access to Google Play Appstore on your PC.
This is the most crucial and tricky part in order to make Viber working on any device you need to receive a special Viber verification code, you need to fill in this code to confirm Viber installation on PC. Here I assume you have BlueStacks running with Viber Application installed.
First will be prompted to Agree with Terms and Conditions and provide Mobile Phone number for verification. Tell the Viber app that you have a smartphone with Viber already when prompted. After receving Viber Verification Code you need to fill in this code into BlueStacks Window (inside Viber should be running), go further to next step and you should be done with Desktop PC Viber number registration.
N.B. ! One brackets to open here is you need to have a working Mobile Phone number where you will receive the verification code as SMS, otherwise you cannot get the verification. On your filled in mobile phone number you will get the verification code as SMS.
There is no more further need for BlueStacks so you can uninstall it, however I preferred to keep it as its useful to be able to install Android Applications straight on your Desktop PC. To start using Viber on Desktop, just launch Viber application (not through BlueStacks) but the direct install.
Use Viber dial pad to dial your desired remote Smartphone number with Viber equipped.
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Batman est un film fantastique et de super-héros américano-britannique de Tim Burton, sorti en 1989.

Il met en scène le personnage homonyme de DC Comics créé en 1939 par Bob Kane et Bill Finger.

Ayant pour acteurs principaux Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton et Kim Basinger, le film a été un succès commercial et critique, recevant de multiples nominations aux Golden Globes et Saturn Awards, et gagnant un Oscar (celui de la Meilleure direction artistique pour Anton Furst). Il rapporta plus de 411 millions de dollars au box-office mondial pour un budget de 35 millions, ce qui en a fait, à l'époque de sa sortie, le  film le plus rentable de tous les temps.

La bande originale du film est signée Danny Elfman. Par ailleurs, le chanteur Prince élabora pour le film plusieurs chansons qui donnèrent lieu à un album, Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack, qui se vendit à  d'exemplaires dans le monde, appuyé par des singles comme Batdance, Partyman ou Scandalous!.

Le film a connu trois suites : Batman : Le Défi (1992), également réalisé par Tim Burton, Batman Forever (1995) et Batman et Robin (1997), tous deux réalisés par Joel Schumacher. Il inspira aussi la série d'animation Batman (1992-1995).

Synopsis

Présentation générale
Enfant, le milliardaire Bruce Wayne voit ses parents assassinés par un voleur des rues, qui en voulait au collier de perles de sa mère. L'orphelin jure de venger leur mort en se lançant dans une bataille à vie contre le crime organisé. Pour cela, il crée un justicier masqué nommé Batman, et cache cette identité secrète derrière celle d'une image de playboy flambeur.

Synopsis détaillé
Gotham City est contrôlée par le parrain Carl Grissom. En dépit des efforts du fraîchement élu procureur de district Harvey Dent et du commissaire James Gordon, la corruption de la police demeure constante. Le reporter Alexander Knox et la photo-journaliste Vicki Vale commencent à enquêter sur les agissements du justicier habillé en chauve-souris, alors que ce dernier n'est aux yeux des médias et des policiers qu'une rumeur confuse propagée chez les criminels.

Vicki et Alexander parviennent à se faire inviter au Manoir Wayne, où Bruce tombe sous le charme de Vicki. La même nuit, le bras droit du chef de la pègre Carl Grissom, Jack Napier est envoyé faire un cambriolage à l'usine chimique Axis Chemicals. Mais la police reçoit un « tuyau » de Grissom lui-même, qui joue double-jeu et arrive pour l'arrêter; Jack se rend compte qu'il a été trahi par son patron car il avait une liaison avec l'épouse de ce dernier. Batman arrive en pleine fusillade entre les mafieux et la police. Jack fait feu sur Batman qui évite la balle; cette dernière ricoche sur un tuyau et atteint le criminel au visage. Blessé et aveuglé par la douleur, il recule et chute d'une plate-forme en hauteur. Il tombe dans une cuve pleine d'acide. Ne le voyant pas réapparaître, Batman le croit mort.

Un peu plus tard, Napier émerge dans une cuve adjacente, défiguré par l'effet des produits. Sa peau est devenue blanche, ses cheveux verts et ses lèvres rouges sang. À la suite d'une intervention chirurgicale, Napier affiche un rictus permanent lui donnant l'air d'un clown sinistre. Il sombre alors dans la folie, devient « le Joker ». Il tue son supérieur et prend le contrôle de son empire criminel avec l'Axis comme quartier général.

Le Joker terrorise la ville de Gotham en empoisonnant chimiquement des produits d'hygiène corporelle vendus en masse. En effet, certaines combinaisons de produits créent une réaction chimique qui force les utilisateurs à rire jusqu'à en mourir, leurs lèvres affichant dans la mort un rictus semblable à celui du Joker.

La lutte de Batman contre le Joker s'intensifie considérablement lorsqu'il se rend compte que c'est ce dernier qui a tué ses parents à Crime Alley : éliminer le Joker devient alors une affaire personnelle à deux niveaux pour lui. En effet, le majordome et confident de Bruce, Alfred Pennyworth, mène Vicki à la Batcave. Elle et Bruce se promettent de vivre ensemble après avoir vaincu le Joker, tandis que celui-ci s'éprend de Vicki.

Batman détruit l'usine de fabrication de produits chimiques du Joker, mais ce dernier organise une parade dans la ville où il attire la population en distribuant  de faux billets de banque. Son but caché est d'empoisonner les citoyens avec son gaz mortel « Hilarex », mais Batman fait échouer ses plans. Le Joker enlève Vicki et l'emmène au sommet de la cathédrale de la ville.

Le chevalier noir combat le Joker pour sauver Vicki Vale. Mais les deux ennemis jurés finissent par se rendre compte qu'ils sont indirectement responsables de la création de leurs personnages respectifs. Après une violente altercation, le prince du crime tente de s'enfuir en hélicoptère, laissant le justicier masqué et sa promise suspendus dans le vide. Cependant, Batman le neutralise en lui accrochant une gargouille à la jambe avec le Bat-Grappin. Incapable de s'en défaire, le Joker chute et meurt sur le parvis du bâtiment.

À la suite de cela, Harvey Dent lit au public une lettre laissée par Batman, expliquant qu'il défendra Gotham contre le crime à l'avenir. Pour le contacter, Batman a laissé à la police de Gotham City un projecteur nommé « Bat-Signal ».

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 Titre original et français : Batman
 Réalisation : Tim Burton
 Scénario : Warren Skaaren et Sam Hamm, d'après une histoire de Sam Hamm, d'après le personnage Batman créé par Bob Kane
 Musique : Danny Elfman et Prince
 Direction artistique : Leslie Tomkins, Nigel Phelps et Terry Ackland-Snow
 Décors : Anton Furst
 Costumes : Bob Ringwood, Tony Dunsterville (non crédité), Linda Henrikson(costume de Kim Basinger), Tommy Nutter (costume du Joker)
 Photographie : Roger Pratt
 Son : Bill Rowe, Don Sharpe, Michael Babcock
 Montage : Ray Lovejoy
 Production : Peter Guber et Jon Peters
 Production déléguée : Benjamin Melniker et Michael E. Uslan
 Production associée : Barbara Kalish
 Coproduction : Chris Kenny
 Sociétés de production :
 États-Unis : The Guber-Peters Company, avec la participation de Warner Bros.
 Royaume-Uni : produit en association avec PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
 Société de distribution : Warner Bros. (États-Unis, Canada, France)
 Budget :
 Pays de production : ,
 Langues originales : anglais, français, espagnol
 Format : couleur (Technicolor)
 35 mm - 1,85:1 (Panavision) - son Dolby stéréo
 70 mm - 1,85:1 (Panavision) - son 70 mm 6-Track
 Genre : fantastique, thriller, action, aventures, super-héros
 Durée :
 Dates de sortie :
 États-Unis, Québec :
 Royaume-Uni :
 France :  (Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville) ;  (sortie nationale)
 Belgique :
 Classification :
 États-Unis : accord parental recommandé, film déconseillé aux moins de  ()
 Royaume-Uni : interdit aux moins de  ()
 France : tous publics (conseillé à partir de )
 Belgique : tous publics (KT/EA :  / Enfants Admis)
 Québec : tous publics - déconseillé aux jeunes enfants ()

Distribution

 Jack Nicholson ( : Jean-Pierre Moulin /  : Vincent Davy) : Jack Napier / Le Joker
 Michael Keaton ( : Patrick Osmond /  : Éric Gaudry) : Bruce Wayne / Batman
 Kim Basinger ( : Michèle Buzynski /  : Claudie Verdant) : Vicki Vale
 Robert Wuhl ( : Philippe Peythieu /  : Carl Béchard) : Alexander Knox
 Michael Gough ( : Jacques Ciron /  : Michel Maillot) : Alfred Pennyworth
 Pat Hingle ( : Yves Barsacq /  : Yves Massicotte) : le commissaire James Gordon
 Billy Dee Williams ( : Hervé Caradec /  : Hubert Gagnon) : Harvey Dent
  ( : Jacques Lalande /  : Jean-Paul Dugas) : Joe Borg, le maire de Gotham City
 Jack Palance ( : Jean-Claude Michel /  : Jean Fontaine) : Carl Grissom
 Jerry Hall ( : Martine Meiraghe /  : Élise Bertrand) : Alicia Hunt
 Tracey Walter ( : Gilbert Lévy / VQ : Marc Bellier) : Robert « Bob » Hawkins, le bras droit du Joker
 William Hootkins ( : Jacques Frantz) : le lieutenant Max Eckhardt
 Edwin Craig : Antoine Rotelli, le chef des mafieux
 John Dair ( : Pierre Baton) : Vinnie Ricorso, un mafieux
 Christopher Fairbank  ( : Richard Darbois / VQ : Bernard Fortin) : Nick, le voyou
 George Roth ( : Jean-Pierre Leroux /  : Benoit Rousseau) : Eddie, le voyou
 Bruce McGuire ( : Renaud Marx /  : Mario Desmarais) : le présentateur
 Kit Hollerbach ( : Véronique Augereau /  : Johanne Léveillé) : Becky Narita, la présentatrice qui a le fou rire
 Jon Soresi ( : Jean-Jacques Nervest /) : l'ambulancier
 Hugo E. Blick  : Jack Napier (jeune)
 Charles Roskilly : Bruce Wayne (jeune)
 David Baxt : Thomas Wayne
 Sharon Holm : Martha Wayne

Production

Genèse du projet
Après le succès de Pee-Wee Big Adventure en 1985, Tim Burton est choisi par la Warner pour réaliser Batman. Il écrit alors un traitement de 30 pages avec sa petite-amie de l'époque Julie Hickson, pensant que le script de Tom Mankiewicz est un peu camp. Par ailleurs, le succès des comics Dark Knight et The Killing Joke relance l'intérêt d'une adaptation cinématographique de Batman. N'étant pas un grand fan de comics, Tim Burton est cependant attiré par le ton sérieux et sombre de Dark Knight et The Killing Joke.

En mars 1986, Steve Englehart est engagé pour écrire un nouveau traitement. Ce dernier inclut le Joker et Rupert Thorne comme méchants principaux, avec un caméo du Pingouin. Silver St. Cloud et Dick Grayson y sont des personnages secondaires. Cependant, le scénariste trouve qu'il y a trop de personnage et retire le Pingouin et Dick Grayson du second traitement, fini en mai 1986. Tim Burton approche ensuite Sam Hamm, un fan du comics, pour écrire le scénario. Ce dernier suggère d'écrire une histoire originale. De plus, il remplace Silver St. Cloud par Vicki Vale et Rupert Thorne par un personnage qu'il crée, Carl Grissom. Son script, dans lequel Dick Grayson ne fait qu'une apparition, est finalisé en octobre 1986. La Warner est alors enthousiaste à propos du script de Sam Hamm, tout comme le « père » de Batman, Bob Kane.

Batman ne peut se tourner qu'après le succès du précédent film de Burton, Beetlejuice, sorti en 1988.

Casting
Bien que Tim Burton, réalisateur du film, ait déjà choisi Michael Keaton pour le rôle de Bruce Wayne/Batman, les producteurs font auditionner Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Charlie Sheen, Pierce Brosnan, Sylvester Stallone, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Jeff Bridges, Matthew Broderick, Tom Cruise, Jeff Goldblum, Michael J. Fox, Harrison Ford, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Spacey, Patrick Swayze, Tom Selleck, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Kevin Kline, Bruce Willis et Bill Murray. Finalement Tim Burton réussit à les convaincre que Keaton est l'acteur le plus adapté pour incarner le chevalier noir.

Pour interpréter Le Joker, Tim Curry, Willem Dafoe, David Bowie, John Lithgow, James Woods et Robin Williams auditionnent mais c'est Jack Nicholson qui est retenu pour le rôle. Les premiers choix de Burton furent Ray Liotta et Brad Dourif. Le premier refusa le rôle et les studios Warner ne furent guère emballés par le second choix. Jack Nicholson accepte le rôle du Joker sous certaines conditions dont un important salaire, une partie des recettes du box office et des produits issus du merchandising et une programmation à l'avance de son temps de tournage.

Originellement, Vicki Vale aurait dû être interprétée par Sean Young mais une mauvaise chute de l'actrice lui fait renoncer au rôle. Plusieurs actrices comme Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ellen Barkin, Robin Duke, Kate Capshaw, Glenn Close, Joan Cusack, Madonna, Geena Davis, Judy Davis, Denny Dellion, Christine Ebersole, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Teri Garr, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Goldie Hawn, Mariel Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Holly Hunter, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Diane Keaton, Diane Lane, Kay Lenz, Jessica Lange, Lori Loughlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Virginia Madsen, Kelly McGillis, Bette Midler, Catherine O'Hara, Tatum O'Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Susan Sarandon, Jane Seymour, Cybill Shepherd, Brooke Shields, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Lea Thompson, Kathleen Turner, Sela Ward, Sigourney Weaver et Debra Winger passent une audition jusqu'à ce que le rôle soit attribué à Kim Basinger.

Le personnage de Robin aurait du être présent dans le film, avec Kiefer Sutherland pour l'incarner. Mais ce dernier refusa la proposition et les scénaristes décidèrent de supprimer le personnage du scénario. Pour le personnage du chef de la pègre Carl Grissom, Phil Collins avait été un temps envisagé pour le rôle vu qu'il venait de jouer en 1988 le premier rôle du film Buster où il incarné un voleur, mais les producteurs trouvaient Collins trop jeune pour le rôle, étant donné qu'il était plus jeune que Nicholson; ils optèrent alors pour Jack Palance.

Pour le personnage d'Harvey Dent, Don Johnson et Dale Midkiff ont été envisagés, avant que Billy Dee Williams soit choisi.

Tournage

Le tournage devait se dérouler dans les studios de la Warner à Burbank en Californie. Il a finalement lieu en Angleterre, aux Pinewood Studios, entre octobre 1988 et janvier 1989.

Le budget passa de  à  de dollars à cause de la grève de la guilde américaine des scénaristes de 1988 qui retarda le tournage. Le scénario est alors réécrit par Warren Skaaren, Charles McKeown et Jonhatan Gems.

Certains lieux extérieurs sont également utilisés, comme Knebworth House et Hatfield House pour le Manoir Wayne.

Musique

Batman: Original Motion Picture Score

Batman: Original Motion Picture Score est la bande originale du film, composée par Danny Elfman et distribuée par Warner Bros. Records. C'est la  du compositeur avec Burton. On remarque une ressemblance avec la musique du film Voyage au centre de la Terre (1959), composée par Bernard Herrmann (que Danny Elfman décrit comme son maître).

Liste des titres

Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack

Le chanteur et musicien Prince a été contacté par Tim Burton et Jack Nicholson car ils souhaitaient au départ utiliser deux de ses morceaux (1999 et Baby I'm a Star) dans le film. Prince, grand fan de Batman depuis son enfance, souhaita visiter le plateau de tournage. Enthousiasmé, il demanda plutôt à réaliser des morceaux pour le film. Michael Jackson était prévu pour un thème romantique et Prince pour le thème du Joker mais c'est finalement Prince qui réalisa toutes les chansons du film et Danny Elfman la bande originale instrumentale. La bande originale de Batman fut ainsi composée de deux albums : celui instrumental de Danny Elfman (cf. Batman: Original Motion Picture Score) et celui chanté de Prince sous le titre Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack.

L'album de Prince est enregistré en six semaines, de mi-février à fin mars 1989, exceptés trois morceaux enregistrés plus tôt : Electric Chair (juin 1988), Scandalous! (octobre 1988) et Vicki Waiting (décembre 1988). L'album est un énorme succès et s'écoule à  d'exemplaires dans le monde, appuyé par les singles Batdance, Partyman et Scandalous!.

Dance with the Devil était une chanson prévue pour l'album mais elle a été retirée à la dernière minute et remplacée par Batdance car Prince jugeait le titre trop sombre. On peut entendre parler le Joker (Jack Nicholson) sur Batdance avec la pluie qui tombe en fond sonore.

Musiciens
 Prince : chant, guitare, basse et claviers
 Eric Leeds : saxophone
 Atlanta Bliss : trompette
 Sheena Easton : chant sur The Arms of Orion
 Clare Fischer : arrangement de cordes sur The Future

Listes des titres

Accueil

Accueil critique
Certains ont reproché à Batman d'être trop sombre, mais ont néanmoins reçu des critiques positives de la part des critiques. Sur le site Rotten Tomatoes, la cote de popularité du film est de 72 % selon 74 avis, avec une moyenne de  : « Un spectacle étrange et obsédant, Batman réussit comme un divertissement noir, même si le Joker de Jack Nicholson occulte trop souvent le personnage principal ». Indiquant des « avis généralement favorables », les spectateurs interrogés par CinemaScore ont attribué au film une note moyenne de A sur une échelle de A + à F.

Box-office
Batman rapporte  sur le marché nord-américain et  à l'international, soit un total de . En France, le film totalise .

Distinctions
Entre 1990 et 2021, le film Batman a été sélectionné  dans diverses catégories et a remporté  récompenses.

Le film  été présenté hors compétition à la  du Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville. Michael Keaton et Jack Nicholson apparaissent tous deux dans le classement 100 Héros et Méchants établi par l'American Film Institute en 2003.

Années 1990

Années 2000-2020

Sélections
 Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville 1989 : premières - hors compétition pour Tim Burton.

Héritage culturel
De par son succès et son impact dans la pop culture, le film et sa bande originale sont considérés comme cultes.

Il initia un regain d'intérêt pour les films de super-héros, influençant le marketing moderne  ainsi que les techniques de développement des films de superhéros, tout en engendrant plus de  de dollars sur les produits dérivés.

Différences entre film et comics
 Selon le film, le meurtrier des parents de Bruce Wayne n'est autre que Jack Napier, qui deviendra le Joker (qui est ainsi, lui-même, le créateur involontaire de Batman). Là encore, les scénaristes ont pris certaines libertés par rapport à la mythologie « classique » de Batman.
 Batman tue dans le feu de l'action, ce qui ne correspond pas à la vision moralisatrice du personnage, symbolisée par la série dite kitsch des années 1960. Il y risquait même parfois sa vie pour sauver celle de ses ennemis. Au contraire, sous la plume de Bob Kane dès la fin des années 1930, Batman tuait ses ennemis de sang-froid dans ses toutes premières aventures. Le film de Tim Burton renoue donc avec le côté sombre et torturé du personnage.
 Le Joker est tué à la fin du film, alors qu'il est toujours vivant dans l'univers BD de Batman. De façon générale, les ennemis de Batman meurent presque tous à la fin des films.
 Le personnage d'Harvey Dent est, dans la mythologie « classique » de Batman, un homme blanc, mais il est joué par l'acteur afro-américain Billy Dee Williams. Ceci est loin d'être anodin car le procureur Dent (un des premiers alliés de Batman avec le commissaire Gordon) n'est autre que celui qui deviendra Double-Face, l'un des pires adversaires du justicier de Gotham City. Extrêmement secondaire dans ce film, il deviendra central dans Batman Forever sous les traits de Tommy Lee Jones.

Anecdotes

 Dès lors que Michael Keaton fut annoncé pour le rôle de Batman, l'acteur subit un déferlement de critiques et près de 50 000 lettres de protestation furent envoyées à  Warner Bros. Une vingtaine d'années après, Ben Affleck sera victime des mêmes circonstances pour Batman v Superman : L'Aube de la justice.
Prince rencontra sur le plateau Kim Basinger avec laquelle il eut une liaison amoureuse d'environ une année.
Danny Elfman affirma dans une interview que ses musiques avaient été malmenées pendant la post-production du film.
 Le dessin humoristique montrant Batman en chauve-souris vampire et costume rayé au début du film est signé Bob Kane.
 La scène où Jack Nicholson alias le Joker sort de l'appartement de Vicky Vale après avoir joué une tirade poétique a été complètement improvisée par l'acteur.

Éditions en vidéo
Pour les 80 ans du personnage de Batman, Warner sort un coffret comprenant la série de films Batman sortis de 1989 à 1997, tous restauré en 4K : Batman, Batman : Le Défi, Batman Forever et Batman et Robin.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Jean Desobrie, Rencontre avec des films remarquables, Viroflay, Roger, 1994 .

Articles connexes
 1989 : Batman, album de Prince
 1992 : Batman : Le Défi de Tim Burton
 1995 : Batman Forever de Joel Schumacher
 1997 : Batman et Robin de Joel Schumacher

Liens externes

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Film réalisé par Tim Burton
Film avec une musique composée par Danny Elfman
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Film tourné aux Pinewood Studios
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Visual kei band Misaruka had their second one-man live at Tokyo's Ikebukuro Cyber and will hold their first one-man tour in October.
Visual kei band Misaruka had their second one-man live, titled Juliet, at Tokyo's Ikebukuro Cyber on April 26th. Some eager fans came from distant prefectures to join in on a defining night of the band's five-year career before the long awaited breakthrough--the band will hold their first one man tour in four cities: Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo in October. Misaruka has a lot of songs inspired by well-known classics, such as "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen and "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The band's vocalist, rui, exhibits different personas in songs by embodying characters in the stories, such as a prince, a mermaid in love, and even a jealous witch. Consequently, the band's performance in a way becomes like a visual kei live-band-style musical show, with some elegant waltz steps and a lot of headbanging involved.
The opening act scheduled for this event was another visual kei band, Synk;yet. Synk;yet is a relatively new band from label Starwave Records, to which Misaruka also belongs. This promising band has just released their second mini album, titled Sacred Symphony, and is now gearing up for their first one-man live on November 18th in Tokyo.
Already, the live house was filled to capacity to enjoy the opening act. After a black out, Synk;yet's members entered the stage one-by-one: first drummer Kouji, then bassist Shiori and guitarist Rino, and finally vocalist Liki.
Rino's aggressive riffs started the opening song, [Re]:birth. Soon after, a heavy bass sound from Shiori and pounding drum beats from Kouji blasted fans. Liki's hooking sweet voice made the symphonic metal song both catchy and glamorous at the same time. Following the vocalist's lead, fans jumped around, creating a mosh pit. Liki then stirred up the fans with "Let's set a great atmosphere for Misaruka".
Later, the band played the touching ballad, blessing rain. Putting his hand on his chest, Shiori sung along without using a microphone, but his warmth communicated to fans. Synk;yet then finished the opening act with Fake Out. "Come on! Jump at us!" Liki provoked fans while Rino's hard guitar strokes and Shiori's shouts aroused them. Fans, one after the other, rushed to the front row, and Liki literally grabbed them. With Kouji's drum solo signaling the end of the act, everyone was ready for the night's main event.
While waiting for the main act to start, fans put glow sticks around their wrists. Suddenly, an instrumental version of Prologue started to play, and the band's logo was projected onto the black curtain on the stage. Then, the title of the one-man live, Juliet, appeared. After the stage was unveiled, the band members, all dressed in noble clothing and a dress, made their entrances and settled at their respective positions on stage. First was vocalist rui, then came guitaristrin in a red dress, second guitarist sawah, bassist azami and finally drummer vetchie.
"Dear our beloveds, this song is for you". rui escorted fans to the opening number, Juliet, which is a brightening love song with a melodious guitar rhythm describing Romeo's love for Juliet. The fans all kneeled down on the floor with their arms opened wide to show their appreciation for rin's majestic guitar solo, who in response, smiled gently at them.
"Are you ready, Juliet?" rui asked the fans. Suddenly, the band became aggressive with the second song, Curse of Contract. This was a prelude for the songs to follow, which described the struggles between the fates of a little mermaid and a prince. Fans responded to the symphonic unison of guitars of sawah and rin with violent head bangs, but sawah shouted out the chorus, as if he was asking more from them. The band then played the heroic number Prince, the blind unrequited love songs of a little mermaid, sin and Forbidden, and also Why only me, a heart-breaking song about a witch's self-hatred. rui, singing with either a clear high note, whisper or anguishing shout, articulately portrayed the different characters.
Out of nowhere, the fire alarm of the venue went off. Fortunately, it was a false alarm. "I guess your guys' passion made the alarm went off", rui laughed. He took the moment to announce the upcoming one-man tour in October and also thanked fans for their continuous support, encouraging them that Misaruka is always there for them.
Shortly after, he invited fans to a ball in the eighth song, L'oiseau blue. A graceful melody of a synthesizer started to play, and azami and rin put their instruments aside. They showed elegant dance steps while rui sang sweetly at the center of the stage. Following their leads, fans also waltzed with the members. Uncharacteristically, azami also suggested fans to imitate his choreography and made a turn with them. At the end of the song, three lead dancers made bows together.
Later, the band created an even more romantic mood by playing Kanon. "This song is about the wedding ceremony of Romeo and Juliet. My best friend's wedding gave me an inspiration to craft it. This is a very happy song", rui said. Indeed, Kanon would make a great wedding song, celebrating two lives coming together as one. Fans were swept by rui's tender, heartfelt voice and beautiful harmony of the guitars. The echoing sound of wedding bells and a warm vibrating sound of azami's bass guitar left fans with sweetness.
However, the wedding singer wanted more action. "This is the last song. Are you ready?!" The last and the most rampaging number, My Dear Rose, unleashed chaos in the live house. Fans headbanged with the relentless drum beats of vetchie. sawah also came to the front and pointed at his head while fueling them with his cutting guitar riffs. "I will catch you! Come to me!" rui shouted to fans. rin also elegantly invited fans. Irresistibly, fans rushed--some literally jumped to the front row--and held onto members. "Don't forget! We are here!" rui shouted while catching fans by their hands. "I will catch everything of you!" the vocalist passionately yelled at fans. A rather violent physical contact created an even stronger bond between the band and their fans.
The fans then called for encore and presented flowers to each member when they returned to the stage. The band closed the show with Rosary, wherein they enjoyed the same physical interaction with fans for the last time. "We are happy to be here with you tonight. Thank you!" rui bid farewell, and the members took their last bows. Deeply satisfied, the fans applauded the members.
Misaruka and their fans, whom rui called "Juliet", are now moving on to the next stage of their shared dream.
2013 Misaruka one-man Tour "Valzer di amore e di tristezza ~Ai to kanashimi no waltz~"
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The rise of digital technology has arguably been the single most important change in the retail market. Consumers now have the option to shop on the go, order from the comfort of their own homes, and automate much of the shopping, ordering and delivery process. Amazon has already introduced 'Subscribe & Save' which offers consumers between a 5-15% discount if they opt for automatic reordering of a particular product. We partner with a significant number of clients in the Food & Drink industry, and many of them come to us because we offer Supply Chain management as one of our core services. So what does all this automation and digitisation mean for the future of supply chains?
The latest piece of tech to hit the market has been the Amazon Dash button. A handy "thumb-sized" button, connected to your Amazon account and a corresponding product, which you can place next to the product and press when you run out. This automatically reorders the product for you. Amazon has previously launched Dash in the USA and is now extending the market to the UK, Germany and Austria. Here in Britain, there will be an initial roll out of 40 branded buttons, like the US brand of washing powder Tide shown below.
This automation shows an increased focus on groceries across the industry, programmatic commerce; i.e. reordering of items with a smart device, is billed as the future of grocery shopping. However Amazon Dash seems a little bit like a drop in the ocean. If our fridges and cabinets are equipped with built in smart technology, how long will we continue to use individual buttons? The answer is, until we buy a new fridge! At the moment, most consumers in Britain have a non-smart fridge, but when it breaks- most of us will consider replacing it with a smart version. From the perspective of supply chain management, we need to be increasingly aware of the use of programmatic commerce. Consumers will start to expect automation as a standard part of their shopping experience, and we need to be ready to deal with the new challenges this will entail. Concerns over lack of control and security have already been raised, and the opportunity for little hands and paws to push buttons has already been dealt with by Amazon with its 'order protection' policy, but will still have lasting impact on consumer behaviour.
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Table A - University of Sydney Business School
The Table A areas of study are those offered by the University of Sydney Business School for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce and combined Bachelor of Commerce degrees. Students can complete majors, minors (in most cases) or electives from these subject areas for their degree. The degree core units for the Bachelor of Commerce and electives only available for Commerce students are also listed in Table A.
Note. Students cannot complete both a major and a minor from the same subject area for their degree.
The Table A areas are as follows:
Accounting (Professional)*
* The Professional Accreditation program is not available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. Students enrolled in this combined degree who wish to seek professional accreditation in accounting should refer to the Professional accreditations under the Commerce and Laws section of this handbook.
Table S - Interdisciplinary Studies
Students are able to complete a major, minor or electives from another faculty of the University of Sydney. For example, a language from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, or Behavioural Sciences from the Faculty of Science can be completed as a second major or minor in the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
The available majors, minor and units of study are listed in Table S in the Interdisciplinary Studies Handbook.
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2020 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards
Memphis, TN, April 01, 2021 - The Hartwell Foundation officially announced today the recipients of the 2020 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards. Each Award provides support for three years at $100,000 direct cost per year. Twelve individuals representing ten institutions received recognition as Hartwell Investigators:
Christopher B. Rodell, Ph.D.,,- Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University for "Development of a Geometrically Tunable Blood Shunt for Heart Reconstruction Surgery."
Jeffrey D. Martell, Ph.D., - Assistant Professor Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison for "Safer Cancer Therapies Using Switchable Immune Cells."
Johannes Schöneberg, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego for "Fast 3D Time-Lapse Subcellular Imaging in Restoring Mitochondrial Dynamics as a Cure for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy."
Joshua C. Mell, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Microbiology & Immunology, Drexel University for "Detecting and Disrupting Biofilms in Recurrent Ear Infections."
Meghan A. Koch, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for "Harnessing Breastmilk Antibodies to Enhance Neonatal Growth and Long-Term Health."
Oleh Akchurin, MD, Ph.D., - Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Cornell University for "Immunophenotyping of Peripheral Blood Monocytes to Personalize Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease."
Prithvi Raj, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for "Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease Through Comprehensive Profiling of the Blood Microbiome by Metagenomic Sequencing."
Qingfei Jiang, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Medicine, University of California, San Diego for "Regulating Leukemia Initiating Cells in Relapsed and Refractory T Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia."
Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Ph.D.,- Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering, Duke University for "Mapping Affected Brain Areas in Epilepsy by Non-Invasive Optical Detection of Cerebral Blood Flow."
Stavroula Sofou, Ph.D.,- Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University for "Curing Glioblastoma by Alpha-Particle Radionuclide Therapy."
Shuai Xu, MD, - Assistant Professor Dermatology, Northwestern University for "Predicting Sepsis with a Machine Learning Algorithm Enabled by Continuous Monitoring of Cardiovascular Health."
Yolanda M. Fortenberry, Ph.D., - Associate Professor Biology, Case Western Reserve University for "Sickle Cell Disease Curative Therapy: Targeting Hemoglobin S Polymerization with Bifunctional Nongenomic Strands of RNA."
The 2020 award-winning proposals represent early-stage, innovative and cutting-edge technology in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, covering research areas that include Cancer, Diagnostic Imaging, Infectious Disease, Medical Diagnostics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Tissue Engineering. The Hartwell Foundation is pleased to provide financial support to these exceptional scientists who are pursuing biomedical research to advance children's health.
Each year The Hartwell Foundation invites a limited number of institutions in the United States to hold an internal open competition to nominate candidates from their faculty who are involved in early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research that has not yet qualified for significant funding from outside sources and with the potential to benefit children of the United States. In the 2020 competition, 16 institutions were invited to participate. Based upon the Nominees submitted, the Foundation selected 12 researchers from ten different institutions to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. Notably, Drexel University and UC San Diego each received two Individual Awards.
"In our 15th year supporting innovative, early-stage biomedical research with the potential to benefit children, the 2020 competition for Individual Biomedical Research Awards was once again, extremely competitive. Nominees who received an Award leveraged internal support and guidance from their participating institution, as well as the experience of previous Hartwell Investigators," said Fred Dombrose, President of The Hartwell Foundation.
While significant early-stage funding benefits the individual researcher, participating Hartwell institutions also receive recognition in the form of a Hartwell Fellowship. For each Nominee selected for an Individual Biomedical Research Award the sponsoring participating institution receives one Hartwell Fellowship that they are asked to designate to a qualified postdoctoral researcher in the early stage of their career. Each Fellowship provides support for two years at $50,000 direct cost per year to enable specialized training in biomedical research.
"The Hartwell Foundation seeks to inspire innovation and achievement by offering individual researchers an opportunity to realize their professional goals. Our approach is to be unique, selective, thorough and accountable. We provide an opportunity for those we support to make a difference and to realize their hopes and dreams," said Fred Dombrose, President of The Hartwell Foundation.
In selecting awardees, the Foundation takes into account the compelling and transformative nature of the proposed innovation, the extent to which a strategic or translational approach might accelerate the clinical application of research results to benefit children of the United States, the extent of collaboration in the proposed research, the institutional commitment to provide encouragement and technical support to the investigator, and the extent to which funding the investigator will make a difference.
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Western Virginia Campaign
Battles of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War
Confederate victories of the American Civil War
Pocahontas County, West Virginia in the American Civil War
Protected areas of West Virginia
1861 in Virginia
Battles of the American Civil War in West Virginia
Battle of Camp Allegheny
Part of the American Civil War
Battlefield along Allegheny Mountain
December 13, 1861 (1861-12-13)
Pocahontas County, Virginia (now West Virginia)
38°28′26″N 79°43′28″W / 38.47389°N 79.72444°W / 38.47389; -79.72444 (Camp Allegheny)Coordinates: 38°28′26″N 79°43′28″W / 38.47389°N 79.72444°W / 38.47389; -79.72444 (Camp Allegheny)
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Rich Mountain
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Carnifex Ferry
Cheat Mountain
Greenbrier River
Camp Allegheny
The Battle of Camp Allegheny, also known as the Battle of Allegheny Mountain, took place on December 13, 1861, in Pocahontas County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.
In December, Confederate forces under Col. Edward Johnson occupied the summit of Allegheny Mountain to defend the Staunton-Parkersburg Pike. A Union force under Brig. Gen. Robert H. Milroy attacked Johnson at sunrise on December 13.
In a piercing winter wind, fighting continued for much of the sunny morning as each side maneuvered on the hillside fields and woods to gain the advantage. On the right flank, Milroy had posted a strong force in a mountain clearing, among the fallen timber, stumps and brush, which proved to be too difficult for the Confederate infantry to drive off. A Confederate artillery battery unlimbered and unleashed a "storm of round shot and canister among them, knocking their timber defences about their heads, and making their nest too hot to hold them..." Finally, Milroy's troops were repulsed, and he retreated to his camps at Green Spring Run near Cheat Mountain. Johnson's losses were high: 25 men were killed and 97 were wounded in the engagement, plus 23 went missing.
According to one Confederate soldier in the 52nd Virginia Infantry:
I had a splendid position in this battle and could see the whole fight without having to take any part in it, and I remember how I thought Colonel Johnson must be the most wonderful hero in the world, as I saw him at one point, where his men were hard pressed, snatch a musket in one hand and, swinging a big club in the other, he led his line right up among the enemy, driving them headlong down the mountain, killing and wounding many with the bayonet and capturing a large number of prisoners...
Johnson would receive the nickname "Allegheny" Johnson for his efforts. At year's end, he remained at Camp Allegheny with five regiments, and Henry Heth was at Lewisburg with two regiments.
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Camp Allegheny Historic District
The Camp Allegheny Historic District is a national historic district encompassing one contributing structure and four contributing sites. They are the earthworks, site of hut and campground, cemetery, church site, and the site of the Yeager farmstead.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[2]
White Top — site of Union Army camp several miles west on Cheat Mountain
↑ Kim A. McBride (November 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Camp Allegheny". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/pocahontas/90001446.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
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Robson, John S., How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War: The Story of the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as Told by a High Private in the "Foot Cavalry" pages 20–21
Video tour of Camp Allegheny battlefield
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10 years of 'Lost,' and 10 years without it
On May 23, 2010, the cultural phenomenon of ABC's Lost concluded after six years.
By Proma Khosla May 23, 2020
Within the next five days, I rewatched "The End," the two-part series finale, because I needed to face it alone and bawl my eyes out. I am not heartless, so like any Lost fan I've revisited some favorites over the years (always "Do No Harm," "Greatest Hits," or "The Constant," and one anomalous viewing of "LaFleur").
But I have not rewatched one of my self-proclaimed favorite TV shows of all time from start to end since 2010. Until now.
A few months ago, I did something either very funny or very fucked up or both, and decided to watch Season 3's "Stranger in a Strange Land," a notoriously rough episode and one of the show's worst, on a flight to Thailand (this is the episode about Jack living in Phuket and doing truly nothing of import). But what was supposed to be a bit and a way to kill time in transit also hit me with a flood of memories.
Everything about the show and the episode rushed back to me from whatever cave of my brain in which it had been hiding. I was hit full-force by my affection for Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and everyone else — they felt like friends from another life, brother, whom I hadn't seen in ages. At the end of the episode, Michael Giacchino's stirring score kicked in like the emotional equivalent of an electromagnetic implosion — and in that moment, I knew I had to rewatch all of Lost.
From 2004 for 2010, Lost was a ubiquitous component of pop culture. It was the thing you meant to watch, the thing you were sick of hearing about, the thing you gave up on or didn't get — or, for some of us, an unequivocal constant. It was designed emphatically not to be a binge — indeed, there was no such thing at the time — but a project to be chipped away at painstakingly over time.
To watch any episode was to buy in to days, weeks, or years of tantalizing mystery, suspense, and emotional investment. At a time when we were still getting a new Harry Potter book every several years, I likened Lost to reading a few pages every week. (I also devoured copious articles about the show in between and thought "Huh. This would be a cool job.")
Rewatching it as an adult and as something of a TV journalist myself, I did see Lost's flaws under a magnifying glass. Season 2 is still solid but unmemorable, while Season 3 bears unmistakable markers of floundering: plot lines with no endgame, pointless flashbacks, and character assassination (Sawyer/Kate was a baseless abomination and I will gladly fight about this). Season 6 is obviously clunky because at that point everything outside of Jacob, the Man in Black, and half a dozen main characters was lip service — unimportant and ultimately unaddressed, weighing down the show's final hours before being blown into oblivion like Leslie Arzt.
That last season excels when it focuses on the big picture, but Lost's final episodes were in many ways a microcosm of its dueling identities. It wanted to be a sweeping, poetic portrait of morality and the human condition, but so many episodes were devoted to comparatively microscopic conflicts that ultimately meant nothing: Remember Ilana? Or Dogen? Or Zoe? Yeah, you don't have to.
Perhaps the toughest and weirdest part of Season 6 is processing that all the joy and suffering these characters endured was to bring most of them to an undisclosed location for a job interview. It is painful, if not impossible, to grapple with the fact that our lives may utterly be meaningless, either a blip in the history of the universe or, at best, a blip in our own consciousness as it continues beyond death.
My friends hanging out in church!
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Lost remains remembered for a divisive finale, one which boiled many of the show's most pressing questions into an overarching epic of good and evil, life and death. I never understood those who dismissed "The End," and after revisiting it mere days ago, I can stand by that even more firmly now. Having devoured Damon Lindelof's work since then, it makes perfect sense to me, like the surreality of Watchmen or unapologetic enigma of The Leftovers.
It is impossible, while watching the early seasons of Lost, to imagine how it could ever lead to an all-powerful being and a battle for humanity's essence. But it is also impossible, if you've spent 121 episodes with these characters, to stay dry-eyed during that final scene and not want them to stay awhile longer. People leave and things end and suffering is one of life's few actual constants: All of these are the agonizing but ever-present themes of Lost.
Most 'Lost' promotional images are of dirty people staring off into the distance. We stan!
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When I think about what Lost means to me 10 years since its completion, it has almost nothing to do with the actual story and everything to do with who and where I was as I witnessed it unfolding. I think of my best friend, who was effectively a stranger until we started exchanging a few scarce daily words about Lost between high school classes. I think about the people I've loved and lost since the show ended, and about how unlikely and special it was that our paths crossed at all, that they may cross again in the proverbial flash-sideways or flash-forward. My heart swells for my friends as it does for these characters, with whom I spent countless crucial hours in a strange and unfamiliar place.
I doubt any Lost fan would be so bold as to declare it the best TV show ever, but it was undeniably one of the the best viewing experiences many of us will ever have. It is not the greatest show, but I'm glad to confirm after a decade that it remains one of my favorites. I got the same chills and then some when we learn that Ethan wasn't on the plane, when the raft finds a boat, and when our castaways meet a man named Henry Gale from Minnesota.
In this viewing, I was moved more than ever by what these characters mean to each other and how their shared time on the island bonded them inextricably from the first moments to the last. I can't think of many shows where most of the core characters didn't know each other at all before events of the pilot. These were literal strangers, to us and one another, but to paraphrase Christian Shephard, they all needed each other.
The significance of that went completely over my head as a teenager; I spent my days with classmates or family who knew me since childhood — the true concept of strangers, let alone those who change one's life forever, was effectively foreign. 10 years later, it's something I've been through again and again.
I'm aware that Lost isn't your typical comfort TV, but I relished rediscovering this series because it reminded me of who I am and how I became her. We are all shaped by the people and events of our lives, and in some cases, the TV shows. I consider myself lucky to have found Lost when I did, and no matter how many years go by, I can always, if I have to, go back.
Lost is streaming now on Hulu.
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During the nineteenth century, what we today know as Italy was a medley of states, governed by separate peoples. There was Naples, the largest, Tuscany, the Papal States, and Piedmont among others. Austria occupied Venetia, Venice and Lombardy. The attempt to unify Italy in the early eighteenth century by Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi had failed and resulted in the exile of both of these nationalist personages. The latter was to become the greatest general Italy had ever seen and a highly respected figure.
A key figure in the successful unification of Italy was Count Camillo di Cavour, the prime minister of Piedmont (1850's). He loved the classical liberal philosophy and leaned towards civil liberty. Cavour wanted an Italian unification, but under Piedmont rule.
In his efforts to unify northern Italy, Cavour was supported by Napoleon III, the French emperor (see Revolutions of 1848). Napoleon agreed to help in battle only if Austria would strike the first blow. He wanted this so that he could come help Piedmont under the pretense of 'defending a friend.' When Cavour failed to provoke Austria, Napoleon almost backed out. However, just a little later, Austria decided to attack and was defeated.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, seeing that the North was unified, came out of exile and led 1,000 troops into the southern states. He successfully united them and retreated back into exile, a highly respected man.
However, the South did not want to join the North. Finally though, in 1866 Venetia (the only state Austria had retained) joined the North and in 1871 the Papal States, except for the Vatican City, also joined leaving Italy fully unified.
Italy was now the unified country we know today, but only politically; culturally, the states were still separated.
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Q: Como desenhar molduras no console, junto com palavras acentuadas? Eu utilizo a função BoxDraw abaixo para desenhar molduras, num programa com saída em modo texto (console).
Não consigo utilizar esta função se usar palavras com acento, pois quando incluo a biblioteca <locale> (para as palavras do menu como "Relatório", por exemplo) buga a saída da minha moldura da BoxDraw.
O que posso fazer para utilizar em conjunto molduras e os acentos corretamente?
O código para desenhar as molduras é esse:
void BoxDraw(int posX, int posY, int width, int height){
    char TL = 201, TR = 187, BL = 200, BR = 188, LINE = 205, COLUMN = 186;
    gotoxy(posX, posY);
    cout << TL;
    for (int i = 0; i < width - 1; i++){
        cout << LINE;
    }
    cout << TR << endl;
    //columns
    for (int i = 0; i < height - 1; i++){
        gotoxy(posX, posY + i + 1);
        cout << COLUMN << endl;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < height - 1; i++){
        gotoxy(posX + width, posY + i + 1);
        cout << COLUMN << endl;
    }
    //endcolumns
    gotoxy(posX, posY + height);
    cout << BL;
    for (int i = 0; i < width - 1; i++){
        cout << LINE;
    }
    cout << BR << endl;
}

void sideMenu(Product *p[], int n, int op) {
    static int indice; indice = Product::getNumProduct();
    switch (op) {
    case 1:
        system("cls");
        insertProduct(p, n, indice);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 2:
        system("cls");
        search(p, indice);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 3:
        system("cls");
        deleteProduct(p);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 4:
        system("cls");
        //debitarValor(c, n);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 5:
        system("cls");
        sale(p);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 6:
        system("cls");
        report(p);
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    case 0:
        system("cls");
        cout << "Saindo!" << endl;
        exit(1);
        break;
    default:
        system("cls");
        cout << "Opção inválida!" << endl;
        getEnterFromInput();
        mainMenu(p, n);
        break;
    }
}

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When you are starting on a new web project, or even just beginning to develop web sites and applications in general, you might want to start small. But you probably won't stay that way. You might not want to expend resources on a new web farm when you are entering the proof-of-concept phase, but when things get going, you also wouldn't launch a major marketing campaign on a server under your desk. Developing and deploying in the cloud on Windows Azure Web Sites is no different. In this blog post, I'll take you through the ways that you can develop, test, and go live, all while staying within budgeted time and costs.
How many individual sites are you planning to host? For example, a digital marketing campaign might include a social-media page for each service you are using, and a different landing page for each target segment.
How popular do you expect the sites to be? When should traffic levels change? You estimate might be based on numbers of employees for a line-of-business application, or the number of Twitter followers and Facebook Likes for a campaign site. You may also expect differences in traffic due to seasonaility, demand-generation activities like social media activities and ads.
How much resources (CPU, memory, and bandwidth) will the sites consume?
One of the best things about Windows Azure Web Sites is that you do not need to be able to answer this questions at the time that you launch your web apps and web site into production. Using the scale options provided in the Management Portal you can scale your site on the fly according to user demand and your business goals.
Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) offers 3 modes: Standard, Free, and Shared. Each one of these modes – Standard, Shared, and Free -- offers different set of quotas that control how many resources your site can consume and provides different scaling capabilities. These quotas are summarized in the chart below.
No data egress bandwidth limit – The first 5 GB of data served on the site is included, additional bandwidth is priced according to the "pay-as-you-go" rate.
Custom DNS Names – Free mode does not allow custom DNS. Standard allows CNAME and A Records.
Standard mode carries an enterprise-grade SLA (Service Level Agreement) of 99.9% monthly, even for sites with just one instance. Windows Azure Web Sites can provide this SLA on a single instance site because of our design, which includes on the fly site provisioning functionality. Provisioning happens behind the scenes without the need to change your site, and happens transparently to any site visitor. By doing this we eliminate availability concerns as part of the scale equation.
Simply put, Shared and Free modes do not offer the scaling flexibility of Standard, and they have some important limits. Free mode runs on shared Compute resources with other sites in Free or Shared mode, and has an upper limit capping the amount of CPU time that that site (and the other Free sites under the subscription) can use per quota interval. Once that limit is reached, the site – and the other Free sites under the subscription – will stop serving up content/data until the next quota interval. Free mode also has a cap on the amount of data the site can serve to clients, also called "data egress". Shared mode, just as the name states, also uses shared Compute resources, and also has a CPU limit – albeit a higher one than Free, as noted in the table above. Shared mode also allows 5 GB data egress with "pay-as-you go" rates beyond that. So, while neither Free nor Shared is likely to be the best choice for your production environment due to the limits above, they are useful. Free is fine for limited scenarios like trying and learning Windows Azure Web Sites, such as learning how to setup a publish config, connect to Visual Studio, or deploy with TFS, Git, or other deployment tools. Shared has additional capabilities vs. Free that make it great for development and testing out your site under limited, controlled load. For more serious production environments, Standard has way more to offer.
Windows Azure Web sites offers multiple ways to scale your website using the Management Portal. These operations are also available if you are managing your site via Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, as detailed in our service documentation.
Changing the site mode: If you choose Standard mode, for example, your web site will have no quotas imposed on the CPU usage, and data egress will only be limited by the cost of data egress over the included 5 GB/month.
A scale out operation is the equivalent of creating multiple copies of your web site and adding a load balancer to distribute the demand between them. When you scale out a web site in Windows Azure Web Sites there is no need to configure load balancing separately since this is already provided by the platform. To scale out your site in Windows Azure Web Sites you would use the Instance Count slider to change the instance count between 1 and 6 in Shared mode and 1 and 10 in reserved mode. This will generate multiple running copies of your website and handle the load balancing configurations necessary to distribute incoming requests across all instances. To benefit from scale OUT operations your site must be multi-instance safe. Writing a multi-instance safe site is beyond the scope of this posting, but please refer to MSDN resources for .NET languages, such as http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e8s7xdd.aspx Scale up and scale out operations can be combined for a website to provide hybrid scaling. The same contentions about multi-instance sites would apply to this scenario.
In this blog post, I discussed the concepts involved in scaling up and scaling out in Windows Azure Web Sites, focusing on doing these tasks manually via the Management Portal; similar manual settings are also available in Visual Studio. We have also added Autoscaling to Windows Azure Web Sites, allowing unattended changes to the scale up/scale out settings on your web site in response to demand. In addition, the Windows Azure PowerShell allows some scaling operations as well as versatile control of your site and subscription.
Windows Azure Web Sites allows you to develop, deploy, and test a web site or web app at low, or even no cost, and seamlessly scale that site all the way up to a more production-ready configuration, and then to scale further in a cost-effective way. I focused in this blog post on scaling up and scaling out in your web site, but, keep in mind that your site is potentially only a portion of a more complex application that uses other components such as databases, data feeds, storage, or 3rd Party Web API's. Each one of this components will have its own scale operations and should be taken into consideration when evaluating your scaling options. Scaling your web sites will have cost implications, of course. And an easy way to help estimate your costs and the impact a given scale operation will have on your wallet, is to use the Azure Pricing Calculator.


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The site offers a list of the best betting operators that give you the opportunity to play fantasy sports online. If you don't know anything about this form of gambling, then take your time and go through our guide. If you feel skeptical, your opinion will change after you see the many prize pools and betting options.
The game of daily fantasy betting doesn't refer to the entire sports season. The bets are made for a single day, so players are more independent from time. That is why this form of gambling guarantees quick results and is more dynamic.
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To summarize everything in short, be sure that the game is created for the benefit of the fans. The main advantage of fantasy sports is that as a player you can use his or her knowledge for betting instead of relying entirely on luck and prognosis.
The types of daily fantasy wagers depend on the money you are willing to bet on a sports match and the number of people that compete for the big prize. The most popular contests are guaranteed prize pools, cash games, 50 to 50 and head to head.
Since this form of gambling was created in the USA, you can find all the traditional American sports in daily fantasy betting. If you're unfamiliar with any of the games, you don't have to make a research. We've got description of the gambling options for each of the sports and the odds for winning.
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The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures traces its roots to the nineteenth century and the first courses in Sanskrit offered at the University of Michigan. Instruction in Chinese and Japanese were added in 1936. Today the department offers instruction in twelve languages of Asia. Over the course of its long history, the department has produced internationally renowned scholars of Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, and Buddhist Studies.
Today, the department has graduate students working in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, India, and Indonesia in disciplines including Literary Studies, Media Studies, History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies. Staffed by faculty with interests and expertise that are both deep and broad, in the past decade the department has sought to move beyond the area studies model to explore the boundaries between the traditional regions of Asia and Asian Studies, tracing lines of influence and interconnection across borders, languages, and historical periods.
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"Dominion" stands 12 feet high 10 feet in diameter. Constructed of stainless steel with a patina finish. This piece is a central element outside the clubhouse of Griffin Ranch. Dominion represent a graceful dominance of the development in the desert community that surrounds Griffin Ranch.
"Dominion" is constructed of 3 stainless steel elements with the combined weight of over 2000 pounds. The elements were trucked in and set in place with a crane.


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Bryan Lowe takes up his new role as chief executive of Screen Queensland on August 20.
The government agency has also appointed Rocky Bester as director of production and investment, replacing Nick Hopkin. Meredith Garlick, who has been acting head,will return to her old role as head of development and production.
Lowe was a key executive in the Macquarie Bank fund that raised money from the private sector about a decade ago for 11 features, including Crackerjack and Dirty Deeds.In 2010 his company, Harbourside, formed a joint venture with Beyond International.
Screen Queensland also has an entirely new board, with Geoffrey Cooper replacing Professor Peter Coaldrake as chair, and including film academic Professor Stuart Cunningham and former Brisbane International Film Festival chair and the driving force behind the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Des Power.
The rest of the board comprises barrister Peter Baston, Gold Coast councillor Jan Grew, lawyer Michael Hawkins, Queensland Property Council executive director Kathy MacDermott, business consultant Kaye Martin and former commercial radio host John Miller.
When Cooper announced Lowe's appointment he referred to it in the context of boosting Queensland's employment and tourism and making the state a cultural hub with a vibrant arts community. In March this year in a state election, the Liberal National Party lead by Campbell Newman defeated the Labor Party lead by Anna Bligh.
Meanwhile, ScreenWest, a state agency on the opposite coast of Australia, has decided to put three dollars towards every dollar raised for local filmmakers using online crowd funding platform Pozible.
The Western Australian agency has only put aside $260,000 in total (A$250,000) and has set a $157,000 (A$150,000) limit on individual projects, but the '3 to 1' initiative is being billed as a world first.
The money will be delivered on a "first past the post" basis and, unlike most agency funding schemes, projects do not require a traditional distribution deal. Each project will have a 90-day time frame to reach its funding target. New and established practitioners are eligible.
Last year an Australian Government review into private sector support for the arts recommended public support for crowd funding.
ScreenWest chief executive Ian Booth said the partnership would also inspire digital creators to be entrepreneurial about how they raised their budgets and proactive about building audience interest in their projects.
Super Dingo, a comedy series for the web, and Hunter: For The Record, a documentary about a hip hop artist that recently passed away, are the Western Australian projects that have already raised their budgets on Pozible.
Pozibleco-founder and director Rick Chen is due to give a workshop on raising money using his site on August 15. Pozible bills itself as Australia's biggest crowdfunding platform for creative projects. Reliance Consulting brokered the deal with ScreenWest.


Event when all players have loaded map?
Hey, so i have a problem, i have a multiplayer game where all players starts as spectator and then when the match begins the server will spawn a character for all players and then all players will posses their specific character. The problem is that i dont know when to make the game spawn them?
The spawn process happends inside the Game Mode so my first idea was to use PostLogin, but that does not work since i use seamless traveling, everyone "PostLogins" at the Lobby so it never gets called.
I Cant use Game Mode "Event Begin Play" because then only the Server gets a character since he is the only one who is connected at that time.
Is there somehow i can check if all players have loaded the level? If so then i can use that as an event to start.
I am almost certain you'll have to manage this yourself. My recommendation is that if you know how many players there are going to be in the game (like 5v5), have a integer value that gets incremented by 1 for each on the "OnPostLogin" event. When that integer value is equal to the total number of players the game is expecting, you can have another custom event fire for your "AllPlayersHaveLoaded", or whatever you want to name it.
So when a player decides to change a map, you need an event? Or, when a player loads, as in joins, a map?
I'm looking for a solution to this too. Is there an equivalent to OnPostLogin that fires when a player has loaded the map after joining a session?
Inside the GameMode and GameModeBase there is a 'HandleSeamlessTravelPlayer' method, which is called for the player that finished loading, but it's not accessible from blueprints... You can implement 'HandleStartingNewPlayer' event that called inside 'HandleSeamlessTravelPlayer', but this method is also called inside 'PostLogin', so you should determine somehow by yourself these situations if you need it.
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US support for Taiwan bipartisan: Hurd
PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE MEETING: The statement by the former US representative came as Congress is poised to back US$10 billion to bolster Taiwan's self-defense capabilities
By Chen Yun and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Former US representative Will Hurd yesterday said visiting Taiwan has made him realize that China's "one country, two systems" framework is not a feasible solution for Taiwan.
Hurd, who is visiting Taiwan with an international delegation, made the remarks when meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) at the Presidential Office in Taipei.
There is bipartisan support for Taiwan in Washington, with Republicans and Democrats agreeing that only the 23.5 million Taiwanese can decide the nation's future, said Hurd, a trustee at the Washington-based German Marshall Fund think tank.
Former German lawmaker Marieluise Beck, left, speaks as former US representative Will Hurd, second left, and President Tsai Ing-wen, right, look on at the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday. Beck and Hurd are members of an international delegation to Taiwan.
Former German lawmaker Marieluise Beck said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed mindsets in Europe, and has underscored the difficult challenge of maintaining freedom.
All democracies must make daily efforts to address that challenge, she said.
The purpose of the delegation's visit is to respond to the threat of a similar invasion of Taiwan before it could occur, Beck said, adding that she hoped to hear Taiwan's views on the future, as well as to learn how the international community can help the nation.
Tsai said the expansion of authoritarianism poses serious challenges to democracy globally, adding that democracies must bolster their alliances to jointly defend their shared values.
Taiwan would continue to bolster its self-defense capabilities, Tsai said, adding that she hopes the nation can cooperate with more democratic countries on ensuring peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
Taiwan, the US and Europe should also bolster economic cooperation to create safer and more resilient supply chains, she added.
In related news, US lawmakers are poised to back as much as US$10 billion to bolster Taiwan's defenses against growing threats from China as part of a compromise annual defense authorization bill, Bloomberg reporter Roxana Tiron wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
Voice of America and US-based Web site Politico have in the past few months reported that the US Senate, the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and other committees have been negotiating the contents of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
A version of the bill that reflects cross-party compromises might be announced as soon as this week, and be voted on in the House and then the Senate next week.
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I am constantly coming back to Jessica Alba's gorgeous guest room for inspiration. Designed by LA based design firm Consort Design, it mixes bohemian elements seamlessly with some of my favorite midcentury pieces such as the infamous Serge Mouille 3-arm chandelier, and throws in a little glam with pops of color and texture. Scroll down to find out how to get the look (for what I'm assuming is a fraction of the cost!).
I have been seriously digging Ms. Chung's style lately - she has a way of putting together outfits that perfectly defines the term "effortlessly chic." Also can we talk about the fact that she got famous from being on Real World San Diego?! Yeah, I just dated myself pretty hard.
See some of my favorite of Jamie's looks below.