My Photography, and a record of what I watch, mostly when I watch it.
Third in the series following the loss of Loki, and the battle against the dark elves, and begins with Thor, in a cage. In fact the first "vocal" sequence the audience could be forgiven for thinking that Thor had in fact broken the "4th wall". But alas he's just talking to a skeleton.
Before too long, Thor is up to his usual and escapes his bonds and begins beating up on some beast that has threatened damnation (or more appropriately Ragnarok) on the Asgardians. So quickly removes the beasts head. Then upon returning to Asgard, he finds things aren't quite as they were when he left.
A quick trip to earth (and introducing Dr Strange into the storyline) finds the All Father at the end of his time, and at his death the release of his 1st born, Thor's eldest sister, Help the Goddess of Death. Almost immediately they refuse to get along and she destroy's Thor's favourite toy, Mjolnir.
As Loki call on Handel to assist with their escape, instead he provides the means for Help to get to Asgard and take over, whilst they get ejected during the trip back and end up in Sakkar, where Thor is forced into a gladiator style servitude. His first opponent, Hulk, who hasn't been seen since the battle of Sokovia where he left in the Queen Jet. Whilst stuck here on Sakkar he encounters the sole survivor of the Asgardian Valkeries, who were the last to go up against Hela.
Well, you can probably guess what happens when Thor gets off planet with Banner and the Valkerie and get their butts back to Asgard. Yep some more epic battles, funky scene music and Thor saves the day. Well until Asgard gets blown up.
This movie has escaped the pure action and thriller style of the previous ones, and instead has brought in the comedy aspect of it into the movie, and it works perfectly. But asides from the usual quality action, and story that goes with the Thor movies, there isn't much to this one. Now to clarify, I'm not saying that I didn't like it or anything, cause I do, it's my sort of movie.
The best thing is that Avengers: Infinity War follows on immediately from this one.


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This Hyundai Concept Is the Next Tucson SUV (Mostly)
Tone down a few of the Vision T's features and there's the new Tucson.
The Hyundai Vision T concept debuting at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show previews the production version of the upcoming next-generation version of the Tucson SUV, and also offers a peek at the next evolution of the Korean automaker's Sensuous Sportiness design language.
Sporting a matte-green exterior, the Hyundai Vision T concept is powered by a plug-in hybrid powertrain that can be juiced up via an illuminated charging port cleverly hidden in the passenger-side rear fender. In terms of exterior dimensions, the Vision T is half an inch longer than the current-generation Tucson with a wheelbase that's 5.3 inches greater.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the Hyundai Vision T concept is its front fascia, which integrates the grille and lighting together. When its headlights are on, part of the grille illuminates, giving the car a unique and futuristic look. The grille itself has a cool geometric design complete with air shutters that can move in sequence. Out back, the taillight pattern mimics the headlights and is connected by a thin LED strip. From the side, the Vision T has a swoopy profile like the current-generation Tucson but it's distinguished by a massive chrome strip that spans the entire upper area above the daylight opening. Its wheels also have a cool, three-dimensional beveled design that carries over onto the tire sidewall, while its roof has purple embossed glass with a diamond pattern.
Although Hyundai calls the Vision T a concept, it clearly hints at the next-generation Tucson. Expect most of the exterior design to remain intact through its transition into a production model. The next-gen Tucson should ride on the same new platform as the new 2020 Hyundai Sonata and will likely feature the same Smartstream 191-hp 2.5-liter inline-four paired to an eight-speed automatic transmission. Other powertrain options, including hybrids and possibly a turbocharged variant, could also be in the cards for the upcoming Tucson compact crossover due in a year or two. We won't know for sure until we get closer to the new SUV's launch, but at least we have a pretty good idea what to expect visually thanks to the Vision T.
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Q: Why does this function application generate a runtime error in purescript? I have the following PureScript snippets; note parseXMLFromString is partially applied:
parseXMLFromString ∷ String → DOMParser → Effect Document
parseXMLFromString s d =
  parseFromString "application/xml" s d

parseNoteDoc :: DOMParser -> Effect Document
parseNoteDoc = parseXMLFromString TD.noteXml

note <- parseNoteDoc domParser

The following code is generated:
// Generated by purs version 0.12.4
"use strict";
var Effect_Console = require("../Effect.Console/index.js");
var Test_Data = require("../Test.Data/index.js");
var Web_DOM_DOMParser = require("../Web.DOM.DOMParser/index.js");
var parseNoteDoc = Web_DOM_DOMParser.parseXMLFromString(Test_Data.noteXml);
var main = function __do() {
    var v = Web_DOM_DOMParser.makeDOMParser();
    var v1 = parseNoteDoc(v)();
    return Effect_Console.log("TODO: You should add some tests.")();
};
module.exports = {
    parseNoteDoc: parseNoteDoc,
    main: main
};

The line var v1 = parseNoteDoc(v)(); gives the error TypeError: parseNoteDoc(...) is not a function.
I'm not sure where the extra () is coming from on parseNoteDoc but that is the issue. When I manually remove the () in the generated source, it works works as expected.
Update: Added the code to reproduce this on this branch. After the usual formalities, npm run testbrowser and open dist/index.html in a browser.

A: TL;DR: your FFI code is incorrect, you need to add an extra function().

Longer explanation:
The extra empty parens come from Effect.
This is how effectful computations are modeled in PureScript: an effectful computation is not a value, but a "promise" of a value that you can evaluate and get the value as a result. A "promise" of a value may be modeled as a function that returns a value, and this is exactly how it's modeled in PureScript.
For example, this:
a :: Effect Unit

is compiled to JavaScript as:
function a() { return {}; }

and similarly, this:
f :: String -> Effect Unit

is compiled to JavaScript as:
function f(s) { return function() { return {}; } }

So it takes a string as a parameter, and then returns Effect Unit, which is itself a parameterless function in JS.
In your FFI module, however, you are defining parseFromString as:
exports.parseFromString = function (documentType) {
  return function (sourceString) {
    return function (domParser) {
      return domParser.parseFromString(sourceString, documentType);
    };
  };
};

Which would be equivalent to parseFromString :: String -> String -> DOMParser -> Document - i.e. it takes three parameters, one by one, and returns a parsed document.
But on the PureScript side you're defining it as parseFromString :: String -> String -> DOMParser -> Effect Document - which means that it should take three parameters, one by one, and then return an Effect Document - which should be, as described above, a parameterless function. And it is exactly this extra parameterless call that fails when you try to evaluate that Effect Unit, which in reality is not an Effect at all, but a Document.
So, in order to fix your FFI, you just need to insert an extra parameterless function, which will model the returned Effect:
exports.parseFromString = function (documentType) {
  return function (sourceString) {
    return function (domParser) {
      return function() {
        return domParser.parseFromString(sourceString, documentType);
      }
    };
  };
};

(it is interesting to note that makeDOMParser :: Effect DOMParser is correctly modeled in your FFI module as a parameterless function)

But there is a better way
These pyramids of nested functions in JS do look quite ugly, you have to agree. So it's no surprise that there is an app for that - EffectFn1, runEffectFn1, and friends. These are wrappers that "translate" JavaScript-style functions (i.e. taking all parameters at once) into PureScript-style curried effectful functions (i.e. taking parameters one by one and returning effects).
You can declare your JS side as a normal JS function, then import it into PureScript as EffectFnX, and call it using runEffectFnX where needed:
// JavaScript:
exports.parseFromString = function (documentType, sourceString, domParser) {
  return domParser.parseFromString(sourceString, documentType);
};

-- PureScript:
foreign import parseFromString ∷ EffectFn3 String String DOMParser Document

parseHTMLFromString ∷ String → DOMParser → Effect Document
parseHTMLFromString s d =
  runEffectFn3 parseFromString "text/html" s d

P.S. People who purchased EffectFn1 also liked Fn1 and friends - same thing, but for pure (non-effectful) functions.

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Business of TV
'How do you go ahead and plan?' Splitting TV's upfront deal-making amid Coronavirus concerns is far from clean-cut
June 16, 2020 by Tim Peterson
TV advertising's annual multimillion dollar upfront deals are unlikely to move en masse to a calendar-year model, and that may make a mess of the whole market, especially for advertisers that are newer to advance buying.
On June 10, the Association of National Advertisers called for the upfront to switch to a calendar-year model, under which deals would take effect on Jan. 1 and run through Dec. 31. The move is meant to give advertisers until the fourth quarter to assess how much money they are willing to commit to spend on TV and streaming advertising over the following year.
"By the time you are entering the fourth quarter of the year, you would have a fairly decent idea of what you are going to be spending next year and how you are planning your activities next year," said Mastercard CMO Raja Rajamannar, who is among the advocates for moving to a calendar-year model that would also align better with many upfront advertisers' own corporate fiscal calendars.
However, some advertisers remain set on signing upfront deals under the traditional broadcast-year model that starts Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30. That could have an impact on what inventory is available for advertisers waiting until the fall to do their deals. It could also put pressure on advertisers with a shorter history of participating in the upfront to get their deals done this summer so they aren't locked out of networks' most in-demand programming if they were to wait.
A split upfront market throws the haggling over TV networks' inventory into disarray. It's akin to conducting an auction at two different times. Since networks package up their programming for upfront advertisers to purchase, a network would need to decide how much inventory in a given show to sell during summer and how much to withhold until fall. That's a delicate calculation that could scuttle deals now or later if advertisers are unable to access the inventory they want.
Assuming traditional upfront advertisers such as Ford and McDonald's will seek out similar programming in the next round of upfront negotiations, "it would be very easy for networks to set that inventory aside. But a new advertiser would be subject to what's available in the calendar marketplace," said one agency executive.
Advertisers' desire to delay this year's upfront negotiations until the fourth quarter is warranted. Normally advertisers and their agencies would be finalizing their upfront budgets in early summer and signing deals over the next couple months. However, ad buyers are still waiting to see how the economy recovers, people's spending and viewership habits shake out and TV networks' programming pipelines shape up.
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"We don't even know if we are out of Covid phase-one or if wave two is coming. In that scenario, how do you go ahead and plan?" said Rajamannar.
Not all advertisers desire delaying this year's upfront negotiations, though. While major advertisers including Mastercard, Bank of America and Procter & Gamble have backed the ANA's call for a calendar upfront, there are advertisers and agencies actively talking with TV networks about doing deals under the traditional broadcast-year model, according to executives at agencies and TV networks.
TV networks do not sell all of their inventory in the upfront but reserve some to sell in the so-called "scatter" market, where networks sell the inventory left over by upfront advertisers for advertisers to buy weeks and even days before an ad airs but usually at higher prices compared to upfront rates, though the pricing divide has recently narrowed. Broadcast networks usually keep 10% to 15% of their inventory for scatter and cable TV networks usually retain 30%, said the agency executive. "So there's inventory to buy, but it may not be the exact inventory you want," the executive said.
The questionable desirability of the inventory available in the scatter market as well as the higher prices is what keeps advertisers in the upfront. And TV networks would prefer to keep advertisers in that market because of the revenue security that year-long commitments provide. So while advertisers consider whether they can sit out the traditional upfront window to do their deals in the fall, networks must weigh what to sell now or later.
"We're going to look for predictable money and money that's ready to be committed," said Barbara Bekkedahl, president of advertising sales at The Weather Group, which owns The Weather Channel. In that hunt, the cable TV network will talk with longstanding advertisers to gauge what opportunities they will be looking for. But even then, Bekkedahl said the economic picture remains so unpredictable that "it will be hard for us to lay out a plan based upon [advertisers'] past investments."
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Hulu will likely remain the dominant ad-supported service, but TV networks' standalone streamers will give free services a run for advertisers' money.
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Aliens and UFOs - Hotspots of the World
19/03/2019 · By Jack Stacey
Aliens have long captured the imagination of the world in one way or another.
Moscow – St Petersburg in Winter
19/06/2017 · By Peter Liney
Russia in winter is a breathtaking spectacle of colour. As the CEO of a travel company, I have the fortunate pleasure of visiting many of the destinations our tours explore, and with Moscow and St Petersburg featuring in brand new itineraries, it was time to discover the nation for myself.
Musical Destinations around the Globe
05/06/2017 · By Lorna Heatley
Music is a splendid thing, and comes in many genres that can be appreciated at a variety of destinations around the world. Here are our picks for musical holiday spots, by genre.
Literary Holiday Destinations
12/05/2017 · By Sukie Chapman
How many of us have wanted to walk straight into the pages of our favourite books? While it might not be possible quite yet to experience the lives of the fictional heroes and heroines we've walked side by side through life with for a little while, and sometimes who'd want to (think of just about any character from a Stephen King novel).
In the footsteps of Tolstoy's War and Peace
23/03/2016 · By Joel Draba-Mann
Brilliant, bold and brimming with elegance – BBC's War and Peace may have ended, but you can join us on our own tour of the cities featured in Tolstoy's iconic novel.
Historic Cities: Moscow & St Petersburg
Throughout the centuries these two historic cities have vied for the title of Russia's capital. We look at the history between them.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway history is full of impossible feats, years of work and the constant battle against the elements.
Great Rail Journeys' fantastic around the world rail holiday. Travel from London to New York, across the USA, China and Russia for an adventure of a lifetime.
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At Great Rail Journeys we believe the best way to experience the world is by rail. Our holidays range from the Trans-Siberian to the trains of India.
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Fine James Franco, We Will Watch Your Damn Movie, But Only Because of Bryan Cranston
By Dustin Rowles | Trailers | July 1, 2016 |
Did you guys watch Bryan Cranston's LBJ HBO movie, All the Way? Yeah, me neither. What about Trumbo? I didn't get around to that one, either. The reviews were middling, and I just couldn't muster the interest.
You know what it is? I think I miss Malcolm in the Middle Cranston. He's a funny guy, and he hasn't been playing really funny characters lately. That should change, however, in the coming two years. He's gonna be in James Franco's The Masterpiece, the movie about The Room. He's signed on to a Kevin Hart film called The Untouchables. He's going to be in a movie called Wakefield, where he has a nervous breakdown, leaves his wife and moves into his attic, and I don't know if that's going to be funny or not, but I'm going to laugh either way. He's also playing Zordon in Power Rangers, which is … funny in theory.
Anyway, it's good to see Cranston returning to his comic roots. He'll be doing so in a big way in a movie called Why Him?, out this Christmas, which looks like a version of Meet the Parents, where Cranston plays the overprotective father and James Franco plays an Internet zillionaire with no filter.
I have moral objections to wanting to see it because of Franco, but I have to admit the trailer suggests a certain easy-to-digest Seth-Rogen like comedy vibe that is strangely appealing. I'M SORRY. I feel like I'm letting you all down, but a stoned Megan Mullally offering anal to Cranston kind of sealed the deal for me.
My first thought upon seeing the female lead, by the way, was "Who is that? She's familiar? I should have put her on the list of female Sam Worthington equivalents." Then I looked it up and realized she was Zoey Deutch and I did put her on the list, which basically proves my point about her Worthington-ness.
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The next time you visit the newsstand, take a look at a parenting magazine and you are likely to find an article about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as well as at least one pharmaceutical advertisement for a drug to manage its symptoms. ADHD is diagnosed in 3% to 7% of American school-aged children, of which 15% of these children are currently taking medication to alleviate the symptoms of ADHD. It is the most commonly diagnosed neurobiological disorder in school-aged children. (CDC, 2011). Other studies suggest that rates of diagnosis are much higher.
In the case study of Gretchen, it is unclear at what age her symptoms initially presented, however, the DSM specifies the criteria that "symptoms that caused impairment were presented before age 7 years". In Gretchen's case, it is clear that the onset was before age 8 as this was the age at which she first reports forging her parents' signatures on disciplinary notes from school to avoid punishment. The DSM also specifies diagnostic criteria of a minimum of six of the inattention symptoms, of which Gretchen demonstrated eight of the ten symptoms of inattention: inattention to tasks, lack of organization, loses things, distractibility and forgetfulness. Gretchen also had difficulty with fidgeting, talking out of turn and leaving her seat at school at inappropriate times, by her own report she was "always on the go". The symptoms meet the DSM criteria for hyperactivity. These symptoms present themselves in two or more settings, at home, school and on the soccer field. Evidence for a significant impairment in an academic setting is seen in the frequent notes home and eventual expulsion from school. There is no evidence of a developmental disorder. For these reasons, paired with the results of the psychological testing Gretchen underwent, the diagnosis of ADHD is appropriate.
However, Gretchen also demonstrates many symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, of which there is some symptomatic similarity with ADHD. Gretchen's inability to concentrate and her restlessness could be symptoms of either GAD or ADHD. The most compelling evidence for GAD can be found in the physical symptoms of anxiety Gretchen reports: her difficulty in controlling her apprehensive expectation about her parents' reaction to the notes from school, the resulting upset stomach, headaches which are prevalent at home and school. As reported in Elia, GAD is concurrently co-morbidity in 18% of children with an ADHD diagnosis. (Elia, et al., 2008). ADHD does not preclude one from developing other disorders, including anxiety disorders. As also found in Elia, up to 21% of children with ADHD are also diagnosed with some form of depression. For this reason, I believe the possibility exists that Gretchen also has a generalized anxiety disorder along with attention deficit and by adolescence was also depressed.


FORT MYERS, Fla. (Jan. 5, 2017) – The Southwest Florida Community Foundation recently closed on a $10 million New Markets Tax Credit deal to be used to restore the historic Atlantic Coast Line railroad station and build a technology hub and headquarters in the Midtown historic neighborhood of Fort Myers.
The New Markets Tax Credit, or NMTC, program encourages economic development in distressed neighborhoods.
As part of the public-private partnership with the City of Fort Myers, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation will sign a long-term lease with the city to move its regional headquarters to the train depot on Jackson Street. The building will be restored, and the Foundation plans to construct a 10,000-square-foot LEED Gold addition to create a campus that includes the Foundation offices and state-of-the-art shared space for the community and tenants.
Florida Community Loan Fund provided the $10 million in the NMTC allocation, and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation is an investor on the project. Whitney Hancock Bank provided additional financing.
According to Sarah Owen, president and CEO of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation, the innovative thinking around community investments that created this opportunity will result in a gathering place for philanthropy and nonprofits in the heart of midtown Fort Myers, featuring vibrant spaces for work, gatherings and special events. In addition, plans include state-of-the-art broadband access.
The center, along with the Internet network, will be a resource for regional nonprofit organizations, local businesses and schools.
"This is a fantastic project because it gives U.S. Bank the opportunity to support the restoration of an important historical building, spark new economic development in a growing region and partner with a visionary non-profit," said Jennifer Westerbeck, vice president of U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation, a division of U.S. Bank.
The City's Midtown redevelopment plan covers the areas south of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, north of Edison Avenue, east of U.S. 41 and west of Fowler Street. Part of this plan also includes 15 blocks of upgraded utilities and $2.5 million of streetscaping.
The Foundation is supporting the financing by paying closing costs and interest payments for the next seven years. The New Markets Tax Credit provided $3 million of equity-like financing to the $10 million project, which after seven years will be available to be converted to true equity.
The Atlantic Coast Line railway station at 2031 Jackson Street was presented to the city on Feb. 4, 1924, the same year Fort Myers was poised to join the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. In the face of shrinking revenues, the Seaboard Coast Line (which had merged with ACL) sold its track and discontinued all passenger service into Fort Myers and closed the station in 1971. After sitting empty for a decade, the Southwest Florida Museum of History opened on the site in 1982. In 2015, the museum merged with the Imaginarium Science Center and recently moved to the Imaginarium's site at Cranford Avenue.
Work on the site is anticipated to begin February 2017, exactly 93 years after the original presentation to the city.


Variety is the spice of the Three Arctic Islands: Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Iceland adventure, named one of National Geographic Traveler's 50 Tours of a Lifetime. Check three different Arctic regions off your list, heading above the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, to remote East Greenland and ending in Iceland. The towering cliffs, iconic wildlife, massive glaciers and swaths of untouched tundra of these three Arctic tours de force never cease to impress.
Exploring Spitsbergen, the largest of the Norwegian-ruled Svalbard islands, rewards you with abundant wildlife and austere beauty. Here, you'll visit spectacular glacier fronts and steep- walled fjords with walrus, polar bears and Spitsbergen reindeer among your possible wildlife sightings. Birders will be thrilled to see arctic terns, skuas, long-tailed ducks, kittiwakes and ivory gulls. When conditions are right, you could sail within 10 degrees of the North Pole!
Your Arctic adventure begins in Oslo, where you may arrive at any time during Day 1 of your itinerary. Upon arriving in this splendid capital city, known for its green spaces and museums, you will check into your included airport hotel.
Exploring Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, rewards you with abundant wildlife and austere beauty. Here, you'll visit spectacular glacier fronts and steep-walled fjords, with walrus, polar bears and Svalbard reindeer amongst your possible wildlife sightings. Birders will be thrilled to see arctic terns, skuas, long-tailed ducks, kittiwakes and ivory gulls. If conditions allow, you could sail within 10 degrees of the North Pole!
While sailing south through the Greenland Sea, your Expedition Team will teach you about the wildlife and history of Greenland, your next stop. On deck, you'll learn to identify seabirds on the wing. Take in a lecture, share your photos, sip an icy cocktail in the bar or watch a movie—there are many things to do during your time at sea.
During your tour of Greenland's remote eastern coast, you'll enjoy Zodiac cruises and shore visits to several locations. Explore the remains of ancient Thule settlements and keep an eye out for grazing muskoxen—40 percent of the world's muskoxen population lives here. Finally, you will sail through spectacular Scoresbysund, the birthplace of many icebergs and, some say, the most beautiful fjord system in the world.
As we cruise south, the Denmark Strait is your pathway toward Iceland. Your Expedition Team will keep you informed and entertained with presentations about the history of exploration in the Arctic and the seabirds you'll see soaring above your ship.
While sailing north through the Denmark Strait, your Expedition Team will teach you about the wildlife and history of Greenland, your next stop. You'll learn about the history of exploration in the Arctic, as well as polar politics, glaciology and climate science. You'll also learn about the incredible sights, geology and ecology you will soon explore.
During your tour of Greenland's remote eastern coast, you'll enjoy Zodiac cruises and shore visits to several locations. Explore the remains of ancient Thule settlements and keep an eye out for grazing muskoxen—40 percent of the world's muskoxen population lives here. If conditions allow, you may also visit Ittoqqortoormiit, the most remote community in East Greenland.
As we continue to cruise north, the Greenland Sea is your pathway toward Svalbard. On deck, you'll learn to identify seabirds "on the wing." Take in a presentation, share your photos, sip an icy cocktail in the bar or watch a movie—there are many things to do during your time at sea.
Exploring Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, rewards you with abundant wildlife and austere beauty. Here, you'll visit spectacular glacier fronts and steep-walled fjords, with walrus, polar bears and Svalbard reindeer amongst your possible wildlife sightings. Birders will be thrilled to see arctic terns, skuas, long-tailed ducks, and kittiwakes. When conditions are right, you could sail within 10 degrees of the North Pole!
The time to say goodbye has come. Your adventure ends in the frontier-style settlement of Longyearbyen. From here, we'll transfer you to the airport for your return group charter flight to Oslo.


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Jewgeni Wiktorowitsch Sadowy (; * 19. Januar 1973 in Wolschski) ist ein ehemaliger russischer Schwimmer.

Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1992 in Barcelona gewann er drei Goldmedaillen im Schwimmen. Im gleichen Jahr wurde er zum Welt-Schwimmer des Jahres gewählt. Bereits bei den Schwimmeuropameisterschaften 1991 wurde er über 400 m Freistil und mit der russischen 4 × 200-m-Freistilstaffel Europameister. Ein Jahr später bei den Olympischen Spielen 1992 in Barcelona wurde er Olympiasieger über 200 m Freistil, 400 m Freistil und mit der 4 × 200-m-Freistilstaffel. Über 400 m Freistil und mit der Staffel stellte er zudem neue Weltrekorde auf.

Im Jahr 1996 beendete er im Alter von 23 Jahren seine Karriere. Im Jahr 1999 wurde er in die Ruhmeshalle des internationalen Schwimmsports aufgenommen.

1991 war er sowjetischer Meister, 1992 GUS-Meister und 1993 und 1994 russischer Meister (200 und 400 m).

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History Is Central Theme
By HELENE ELLIOTT
In finishing second in the Central Division with 103 points this season, the Detroit Red Wings overcame the tragic accident that ended defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov's career, the prolonged holdout of center Sergei Fedorov and the trade that sent Mike Vernon--the most valuable player in their Stanley Cup drive last spring--to San Jose.
Their next obstacle, however, might be their biggest yet: history.
No team has won consecutive Cups since Pittsburgh in 1991-92, and no team since then has made it to the finals in consecutive years. The Red Wings, hit by a flurry of late-season injuries, will be hard-pressed to win again, but their depth keeps them among the prime contenders.
It also helps that Coach Scotty Bowman, with his uncanny anticipation, put players with different linemates all season, preparing them for situations such as this. The Red Wings will open their first-round series against Phoenix today without feisty left wing Brendan Shanahan (back injury), center Kris Draper (sprained knee), left wing Brent Gilchrist (groin pull) and right wing Doug Brown (severe shoulder separation).
"We've always said for the last year that we've been fortunate to have guys that are just eager and willing to step in," said Steve Yzerman, the Red Wings' captain and leading scorer. "They have been able to play well and be effective. That's been one of the big reasons for the success we've had."
History is also the enemy of the Dallas Stars.
They won the Presidents' Trophy with a league-leading 109 points, but only three of the previous 12 winners have won the Cup the same year: the 1987 Edmonton Oilers, the 1989 Calgary Flames and the 1994 New York Rangers. In addition, the Stars face a dangerous first opponent in the San Jose Sharks, who dominated them the last two seasons and bring to mind the Stars' shocking first-round loss to Edmonton last spring.
"We all know the first round is going to be difficult for us," Star Coach Ken Hitchcock said, "first of all because of who we're playing, but also because of the psychological aspects of playing in the first round and trying to get by."
Said Dallas center Mike Modano: "It will be nice to avenge last year. It left a bad taste in our mouths. There's a lot more to prove because of last year."
The New Jersey Devils had the best record in the Eastern Conference and the NHL's best team goals-against average for the second successive season. After losing to the Rangers in the second round last spring, they're intent on avoiding another early exit.
"It's been a long season with the Olympics and everything," said defenseman Scott Stevens, who played for Canada at Nagano. "So now it focuses on the most important thing."
The East features two series involving teams that have never met in the playoffs before--Montreal vs. Pittsburgh and Ottawa vs. New Jersey--and one series involving teams that missed the playoffs last season--Washington and Boston. In the West, the Kings will make their first playoff appearance since their 1993 loss in the Cup finals, and the Sharks are back for the first time since 1994-95 for a first-ever matchup with Dallas.
All series are best-of-seven. Six of the eight series begin today. The Montreal-Pittsburgh and King-St. Louis series start Thursday.
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Helene Elliott joined the Los Angeles Times' sports department in 1989. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers "who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey." A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 16 Olympics. She recently crossed covering Wimbledon off her bucket list.


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Buttressed between Ridglea Hills to the west, Westover Hills to the north, and Tanglewood to the east and south, the Como neighborhood has served the surrounding white communities with domestic workers for several decades. A new generation of college-educated working professionals is reframing Como's workforce as the neighborhood continues to benefit from its enviable location within Fort Worth.
Growth and development in Como have been mixed over the past several years, according to Leon Reed, a criminal defense lawyer. Several buildings near the intersection of Horne Street and Manhattan Drive, where I spoke with Reed and two other locals, are shuttered. Economic incentives and a booming population have spurred growth along the stretches of Bryant Irvin Road and Camp Bowie Boulevard that border Como, but once vibrant Black-owned small businesses are now a rarity within the neighborhood, Reed said.
Residents of the predominantly Black community have long been the target of over-policing, Reed said, but the recent installation of police cameras have made that daily law enforcement reality almost unbearable. Reed said a growing contingent of his clients face criminal charges because police officers, possibly several miles away, thought they detected suspicious activity. Reed said that besides being a lazy and Constitutionally precarious form of policing, the camera system lacks transparency.
Reed recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request through the Fort Worth Secretary's Office to learn the number and location of the visible police cameras — not hidden cameras. Reed's hunch is that the monitoring devices are more prevalent in predominantly minority communities and absent from Fort Worth's wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods like Tanglewood and Rivercrest. Reed also has questions about who is monitoring the cameras.
Rather than release the locations of the publicly viewable, tax-funded cameras, the secretary's office asked the State Attorney General's office for a legal brief, which is basically a request to keep important public information private through loopholes in the FOIA.
Fort Worth police department did not respond to numerous requests for basic information about their surveillance program.
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Fort Worth's use of public cameras to monitor areas with higher-than-average rates of crime is not unique. Dallas' new Starlight program allows Dallas police department to directly monitor private business surveillance cameras. The program, which uses software to detect anomalies that may indicate criminal behavior, is also used in Chicago, Detroit, Louisiana, and other locales.
While basic information on the camera system remains hidden by city officials, the Fort Worth police department's website noted that the recently renewed Crime Control and Prevention District (a half-cent tax that raises more than $80 million a year for the police department) allocates around $900,000 for "cameras that have and will continue to be installed in strategic areas throughout" Fort Worth, including historic Stop Six and Las Vegas Trail, two low-income neighborhoods. Upscale districts like the West 7th corridor also have police cameras, the website stated.
Fort Worth police department maintains two camera programs: active monitoring cameras and a Community Camera Program that the city says deters crime and promotes public safety. Unlike the neighborhood camera program, the community program relies on the voluntary participation of residents who register their cameras with the local police department. A database maintained by Fort Worth police department is used to locate registered cameras for criminal investigation purposes. Participants are not obligated to release video footage, even if their cameras are registered. Fort Worth police department did not respond to numerous requests for basic information about their surveillance program.
If Fort Worth leaders see a surveillance state as a replacement for boots-on-the-ground community policing, Reed said, locals will rise up against that government overreach.
"People may not know everything about their rights, but they know when you are abusing your authority," he said. "People are just trying to live. That's why people in Tarrant County want less government. We don't want Big Brother."
Traffic has increased in and around Como. Once unhurried Horne Street is now a busy thoroughfare where cars dash north and south through the heart of the historic neighborhood. Due to the locations of three police cameras along Horne, local resident Pam Smith said many of her neighbors have opted to avoid that stretch of road altogether. Word of random police pullovers near the cameras has spread quickly, she said.
"The cameras are diverting drivers to Littlepage [Street] and side streets," Smith said. "People are treating Littlepage Street like Horne Street and not stopping at the stop signs. I can see them running the stop signs. It will take one person having an accident to make people look at what's happening. That's one of the biggest concerns I have."
Tonya Carter: The officer told me "point-blank" that he pulled me over because of the camera.
With a precision honed from 16 years of defending clients from a local criminal justice system that disproportionately pulls over, harasses, and incarcerates persons of color, Reed described how something as seemingly uncontroversial as a camera fuels mistrust of police.
"This camera primarily faces this store over here," he said, pointing to OK Food Mart, which sits on the northwest corner of Horne Street and Manhattan Drive. The police camera (basically a small tinted bubble affixed to a utility pole) was aimed at the food store and the intersection that leads customers to Horne Street.
"It's one thing to have cameras that other stores use to help solve crimes," he said. "Once the crime has taken place, go back and figure out what happened. I think it's a whole separate thing to watch people and try to actively catch someone," especially when that surveillance isn't performed uniformly across the city.
Actions that may appear suspicious from a distance — a prolonged handshake between two Black men, someone momentarily jumping into a friend's car, or a reach into a sock for an unidentified item — can be perfectly explainable without nefarious suppositions, Reed said.
The intersection and Texas' traffic laws offer several opportunities for Fort Worth police to pull over Como residents. Coasting over the sidewalk without coming to a full stop, not signaling 100 feet before reaching the stop sign (an impossibility when leaving OK Food Mart), and not coming to a full stop at the stop sign could lead camera monitors to radio nearby cops to pull over unwitting food store customers.
Lifelong Como resident Tonya Carter described being pulled over after leaving OK Food Mart two months ago. Moments before Carter drove away from the store, a Black man leaned into her car to type his phone number into her phone. The man was scheduling hairdressing services, Carter said. Shortly after driving off, Carter was pulled over by a Fort Worth police officer.
"You can see what that exchange may have looked like," she said. The officer "told me point-blank" that he pulled me over because of the camera.
If Fort Worth police justify the surveillance of Como because of high offense rates, it's a function of over-policing, Reed said.
"It's selective prosecution or, as some would say, selective persecution," he said.
Police cameras are often brought at the request of community elders with the promise of lowering crime, Reed said. Councilmember Gyna Bivens welcomed the installment of 35 police cameras in Fort Worth's East Side three years ago, for example.
"Some of the community elders may have wanted cameras" at first, Reed said. "They may not have been told how the police were going to use them. It's one thing to say we need a camera in this store. I can tell you that this store already has plenty of cameras. When you have cameras to help solve a crime, that's one thing. When you are using them to actively police people, they don't want their family members being stopped and harassed. If you are going to use the cameras in that manner, then you'd better be using them citywide. Don't drop 100 cameras in lower-income neighborhoods."
Reed said the same fair standards that govern other aspects of life should apply to Black communities.
"Referees don't blow the whistle on fouls that they think happened," Reed said. "They blow the whistle on fouls that they saw happen. In our community, they keep blowing the whistle because they think someone committed a foul. Blow the whistle when you see that a foul was committed. Don't guess at it. Don't call it from the backside. It frustrates citizens in the community."
Max Krochmal, author and associate professor of history at TCU, said over-policing in Como is the result of decades of public policy decisions that suppressed economic development in the historic neighborhood.
"We know Como was built as a white resort neighborhood that [relied on] Black domestic servants," he said. "Segregation was baked into the area by design. White wealthy families there needed a labor force for jobs that were racialized and designated for Black workers. Over time, Como was encircled by ongoing development, including Ridglea Hills — a segregated white neighborhood" that built a wall to keep Como residents out.
As the population in Como became predominantly Black, Krochmal said bank practices deemed Black-owned homes as less valuable. Loans in Black communities came with unfavorable terms, he added.
"As a result, it becomes more difficult for people to invest in homes and neighborhoods" in Como, he said, "so the tax base is lower. Local governments saw the area as contributing less in taxes, so they provided less public services. There was a systematic disinvestment of municipal services due to the history of discriminatory lending."
Throughout the 1960s and '70s, federal services that addressed poverty began being replaced with increased policing, both in Fort Worth and across the county, he said.
"What was happening was a war against the expanding rights of African Americans and other people of color," he said. "It was a counterinsurgency designed to contain the liberation struggles and to preserve the unequal status quo of the 1960s."
Lyndon Johnson's call for a war on crime and Ronald Reagan's war on drugs created sentencing guidelines and policing policies that disproportionately targeted Black and brown communities, he said.
"If I was a resident in Como and saw one of these cameras or felt like I was being pulled over more often, I think there are many reasons to be suspicious about what's going on," Krochmal said.
This past month, I sent the Fort Worth police department several questions about their surveillance program, including basic questions about the cost and the purpose of the cameras. My repeated requests for information were ignored.
Speaking to Channel 8 in 2017, Fort Worth officer Daniel Segura said the cameras were installed to "follow leads, follow suspicious activity, and to help the community. We have to be careful about who has access to cameras. Only command staff and specific personnel" can monitor the cameras.
The intersection and Texas' traffic laws offer several opportunities for Fort Worth police to pull over Como residents.
"The surveillance society is upon us," reads the opening line of a recent article by the American Bar Association. The article goes on to list the Constitutional concerns raised by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be coupled with existing camera systems to target individuals based on biometric analysis. The only long-term solution is national legislation to protect civil rights, the article notes.
The United States is home to tens of millions of cameras that could be weaponized to find compromising footage to blackmail politicians or for other nefarious reasons, a 2019 New York Times article said. Fort Worth police currently use license plate recognition software, according to the police department's website.
"License plate readers have played an increasingly critical role in the transformation of policing and improving public safety," the website said. "The Fort Worth police department has had multiple success stories utilizing this technology, aiding in the location of missing loved ones, locating kidnapping and sexual assault assailants, and other high-profile cases. The Fort Worth police department continues to invest in this technology, which has proven to be a force multiplier."
A video made by Vigilant Solutions, a California-based surveillance corporation, uses a cartoon to show how the program catches dangerous criminals.
When automated surveillance programs are in clear sight and uniformly enforced, Texans tend to reject those programs. Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning red-light cameras. Critics of red-light cameras noted that it ran afoul of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right of defendants to be "confronted with the witnesses against him."
The same Constitutional-rights violations potentially afflict the Fort Worth police camera program. Reed said Fort Worth's documented history of systemic racism places the burden on police to prove that their cameras are not disproportionately targeting Black communities. Since 2001, state laws have required Texas police departments to track race-related data. Reed cites those records when describing Fort Worth's documented racist policing habits that date back until 2001 and presumably much earlier.
Reed provided copies of the reports, which were reviewed in full. Consistent in the data is underrepresentation of white residents and substantial overrepresentation of Black residents in tallies for traffic citations and arrests. The city data frequently change reporting methodology (bar graphs, pie graphs, no graphs) from one year to the next. That decision makes comparing year-to-year changes difficult.
In 2019, Black drivers accounted for 38% of vehicle searches. In 2009, 42% of vehicles searched had Black drivers, and numbers from 2002 show that Black residents accounted for nearly 40% of Fort Worth police department vehicle stops, even though the Black community at the time accounted for only 18.5% of drivers in Fort Worth. Black drivers were significantly overrepresented across a wide range of police interactions — without exception — between 2003 and 2019, according to Fort Worth police department records.
"When you look at the raw data of African Americans who have vehicles, it's [as low as] 14% of drivers," Reed said. "We're getting stopped in the 36th percentile and higher. From those stops, you are deriving citations, searches, arrests, and potential crimes. Whites are always underrepresented. These cameras are used to selectively stop [Black] people."
Reed believes Fort Worth police frequently search the cars of Black men and women without consenting. Open warrants that result from an inability to pay off traffic tickets are grounds for continually pulling over Como residents, Reed said.
"They are keeping that warrant open so they can pull you over again," he said. "If they find something the second time, they reverse engineer it. If they say they found weed, then it becomes, 'Oh, I smelled marijuana, so I searched the car.' Now, you have someone catching a criminal case in a predominantly minority neighborhood."
The Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan American think tank, found little variation in marijuana use by race. In Tarrant County, Black and Latinx defendants constituted nearly two-thirds of misdemeanor charges for possession of under two ounces of marijuana last year. Black men and women are arrested for marijuana possession at more than twice the rate of whites. Lopsided policing practices and a complicit district attorney's office create statistics that are then used to validate over-policing, Reed said.
Como residents take crime seriously, Reed said. The tight-knit community has a long history of calling out bad actors within the neighborhood. The best deterrents of crime are engaged police officers who participate in community events and build trust with elders, children, and everyone in between, Reed said.
"Go to the little league games and show the kids that you are interested in them, and you're not fake about it," he said. "Everyone knows everyone's families here. We want Como to be around for a long time. Our church wants to remain here."
Reed believes that he will ultimately be successful in gaining the locations of the publicly viewable police cameras. He is asking for the camera locations from specific dates so city officials or police can't fudge the numbers by installing cameras in predominantly white neighborhoods after the fact.
"They are over-policing us, and they are still wondering why there is distrust between people of color and the Fort Worth police department," he said.
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Level 8's pour began yesterday.
I believe you will find it was level 9 that was being poured. Level 8, pool deck and community area with some apartments is hidden behind the crenelations. The form work above that is level 9.
No it was level 8. One of my friends on Facebook is working on this and did a short live video. That's how I knew they were up to level 8. This was last week though so they are probably doing level 9 now.
All quiet on site on a very hot Friday lunchtime.
Great photos thanks. This is the first time I have seen a photo showing how close Realm is to the Adelaide Uni student apartments on North Terrace... makes the complaints by Samaras about the proposed student tower next to Adelaidean look a bit silly.
There was a great photo from a Real Estate listing a few months ago showing how some apartments balconies would be basically in the lobby.
What did the level 1 balconies overlook "before"? Is this actually an improvement?
I suspect he meant, in terms of outlook, the Urbanest student apartments built on North Terrace after this was proposed. The mixed-use/carparking podium levels are higher than Mansions apartments (the rear balconies of which were previously internalised in the former arcade) so there won't really be interaction on that face.
Those images I think you will find are the Renaissance Arcade, the lobby is immediately to the west of the facade of Assay House off Austin Street.
I think it is a big improvement for them, and will continue to be so assuming the new development attracts people and the place actually thrives rather than become a ghost town. Below are 2 images taken from Google Maps, one from overhead and the other from Porters Lane. The level one balconies are enclosed in the mesh and perspex? enclosure and not able to be seen. I think that was like a side alley off the Renaissance Arcade - someone will correct me or have photos if my recollection is wrong.
Bugger, I was there earlier and was wondering what that other crane was there for. They had Potters Lane blocked off.


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3. Remove the speaker grille. This will allow access to the radio speaker and the defroster diffusers.
4. Remove both defroster diffusers.
7. Remove the stainless trim that encompasses the lower edge of the dash pad. Use extreme caution when removing these trim strips. They are held in place with spring clips and damage to the dash and/or the trim can result if handled improperly.
8. Remove and old foam or adhesive from the steel dash frame. This surface needs to be completely free of all foreign matter to allow for the best fit of your new dash.
You may ask why the dash pad is trimmed in the manner it is. We trim the pad with option #1 in mind so that the installer will have a bit of extra material to work with. Most jobs are done with the windshield out of the vehicle and we highly suggest this method. We realize that exact trim can never be achieved until the pad is positioned on your vehicle so to avoid any fatal errors we intentionally leave a bit of extra fabric intact for the installer to trim. Trimming of the forward edge will be required. This pad will also require the installer to trim the lower fabric after the pad is installed and the lower trim molding is clipped into place.
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81 East 125th Street [Harlem+Bespoke]: Steel framing has made quick progress at 81 East 125th Street — in East Harlem — where the Corn Exchange Building is being reconstructed to seven stories; the first five floors have been built-out. Offices will eventually occupy the upper floors, while retail space will span 8,200 square feet on the first two levels.
42-14 Crescent Street [The Court Square Blog]: Demolition of the two-story structure at 42-14 Crescent Street, in Long Island City, is imminent; Meadow Partners will soon begin construction of a 13-story and 48-unit apartment building, previously revealed by YIMBY in July. Sidewalk shedding and scaffolding are up around the perimeter.
594 Dean Street [Brownstoner]: After being forced out of 542 Atlantic Avenue to make way for redevelopment, the Boerum Hill Post Office will be moving into a two-story warehouse being converted to retail and community use at 594 Dean Street, in Prospect Heights. Renderings have been posted on-site, and the building is set to span roughly 25,000 square feet, per alteration permits.
570 Fulton Street [Crain's New York]: A three-story office building at 570 Fulton Street — in Fort Greene — is set to hit the market as a development site, potentially selling for more than $25 million. The lot is zoned for a "residential, commercial, or a hotel development," and the building potential amounts to 86,000 square feet, including zoning bonuses.
1030 Flatbush Avenue [Ditmas Park Corner]: Renderings have been posted on-site at 1024-1030 Flatbush Avenue — in Flatbush – Ditmas Park — where a three-story and 30,783 square-foot commercial building is being constructed. The project is technically an expansion, and interior demolition appears complete.
32 Avenue C [EV Grieve]: Three low-rise structures — spanning 26-32 Avenue C, in the East Village — are likely to be demolished. Due to the buildings' states of disrepair, the city asked the occupants to vacate the structures in 2012.
424 West 33rd Street [Real Estate Weekly]: The 13-story and 200,000 square-foot building at 424 West 33rd Street — in Chelsea — has been targeted by Brookfield, which controls the rest of the block for their Manhattan West development. The owner of the building has stated "Brookfield hasn't made an offer that we found acceptable." If acquired, razing the building "would create enough space for a fourth tower to replace the low-rise" Brookfield is currently planning next to the structure.
149 1st Avenue [EV Grieve]: The five-story tenement at 149 1st Avenue — in the East Village — is being vacated to make way for demolition; reportedly, "the building has serious deterioration issues." Recent filings include multiple renovations, but demolition permits are currently lacking.


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For much of the last century Hemp was vilified for its track record synonymous with Marijuana, and also, regrettably, the fear project salaried by western national politics pigeon-holed a crop of high financial potential, as a harmful and also dissident medication. In addition to its prevalence in the groups of sturdiness, durability and also price performance, the hemp plant has one of the most diverse checklists of applications of any business crop. For example, hemp could be made use of as a element for rope, clothing fabrics and also structure, to name a few points. A current research has actually also revealed that the material can be made use of in car building and construction!
Nonetheless, a relatively originality gaining prominence is Hemp's ecological value, especially concerning the species that depend on Hemp crops as a structure for their habitat. A recent research study conducted by the Video game & Wild Animals Preservation Trust (GWCT) has actually concluded that, apart from the plant's financial potential, it likewise a extremely valued part of swallow as well as whitethroat ecology. The research came from as a comparative task to evaluate the environmentally feasibility of Hemp against two other prominent crops, particularly Oilseed Rape as well as Area Beans. It was developed that, while the birds make use of all three plants as a hunting ground during their particular nesting periods, Hemp was unique in its popularity among swallows as a last roosting ground in the late summer season, before their yearly southbound migration. On their research study ranch in Leicester, the GWCT taped groups, counting in the thousands, of the swallows whose then habitat was likewise being used backwards and forwards the nation by the aforementioned white throats, that are a typical sight on British ranches anyway.
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My excellent adventure, Day 17: Considering Paula Radcliffe, by Larry Eder
This is my daily journal on my trips to Copenhagen, Paris, London, Boston and some of the fun things that happen, or I consider during my journeys.
Paula Radcliffe setting WR, photo by PhotoRun.net
Traveling around the athletics circuit as I do, one appreciates the truly herculean heights that London marathon has reached in terms of its field development, its support of media and its support of the sport.
The success of the race has been built over 33 years and the number of volunteers who give their time, energy and heart to make this race successful would overwhelm you. Glen Latimer, long time friend of Mr. Bedford, former US LDR chair, and long time agent, is seen, with the second most famous mustache in the marathon in London, limping a bit as he helps coordinate elite travel and events. Mr. Latimer is just an example of the people who have supported this event for decades, and with their support, the event continues to grow.
I kept this in mind as I saw Paula Radcliffe, the WR holder in the marathon, World Champion in marathon, readying herself for the BBC broadcast.
In 2003, after years of championing cross country, and track performances against the Kenyan and Ethiopian elite women, Paula Radcliffe did something Beamonesque: she destroyed her own world record for the marathon and clicked off a 2:15.25. To this day, the best performance ever by a women distance runner.
Derek Clayton, the tall Australian who was the first to break 2:11, 2:10 and 2:09 for the marathon, told me that his 2:08:34 totally wrecked him physically. He knew, after some of the physical ailments he endured, that his 1968 performance just destroyed him.
That is what happens, I always thought, when you have that perfect day, and you run way beyond your wildest dreams.
Chris Thompson, the 2010 Euro silver medalist at the 10,000 meters, told me, that in his career, he only had one race like that in his life. When he ran his road 10k PB of 28:02, it was flawless and strangely painless. When I queried about his 10,000m silver he told me about hurting his knee just before the race, and not feeling decent until 800 meters to go, and running a final lap of 55, to get that silver.
Paula Radcliffe paid a huge price physically after her 2:15:25. Her body broke down several times, in the most untimely of times and circumstances. Paula Radcliffe endured the trials of the biblical character Job. In the 2004 Olympics she was destroyed, dropping out of the marathon, and five days later, the 10,000 meters. In 2005, she won the World Championships. In 2008, she finished in 32nd place, after having to stop and stretch.
In 2011, Paula ran 2:23:46 at the Berlin Marathon. Injuries kept her out of the 2012 London Olympics.
Now, Paula is running twice a day, with little pain and her stature in the sport, hard earned, has provided her a strong financial future and a developing career in sports broadcasting.
Why is Paula Radcliffe so credible to her British audience (hell, to global audience? Because, Paula Radcliffe, with style, honesty and grace, has lived the " Miles of Trials and Trials of Miles" as writer John Parker (Once a Runner) spoke of that experience gained from races won, and hard fought races lost.
For me, even if Paula Radcliffe never ran another race again, she would be the women who took the marathon to a new level.
But tomorrow, I will listen and look forward to her comments on the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon broadcast. Paula Radcliffe has, what I call street cred.
Leo Manzano Video Press conference
Ryan Vail Hopes to up his Game at London Marathon, by David Monti, RRW, used with permission


If we are talking about sport and fashionable watches, we have to mention that Omega is one of the leading manufactures with a long history of innovations in the industry. They have managed to be recognized as the choice of athletes all around the world and with such a big competition with watches, this is no small feat. Fashion has taken sport watches out of their natural environment and they are no longer simple timepieces but much more than that. A sport outfit demands a sport watch and a true enthusiast knows that a good sport watch has to be from one of the many famous manufacturers that have a great history and also a great reputation in the fashion industry.
Also another known fact is that fashionable sport watches are a bit expensive and so they should be. They offer you the possibility of having the latest features on your wrist and they do with style. This can tell a lot about your personality and about your interest with sports.
There are many watches on the market nowadays that claim to bring the glamour and style of a luxury watch. Knowing what to expect from one of these timepieces can make your search for that perfect watch a bit easier. There are different aspects to a luxury watch and everything starts with the name on the back.
The name of the brand that made the watch is one of the most essential things. Despite the fact that a luxury watch has to function flawlessly, the main thing that attracts clients is the brand. The exclusivity and history of every luxury watch manufacturer is what can turn a simple watch into a must-have fashion item. Of course, it is not all about the brand, design and style also play big roles in creating a luxury watch. It has to look different, but in a good way, it has to be special, without loosing the classic features of the brand, it has to inspire the most recent fashion trends, but it must also be timeless. Therefore, a luxury watch is not that easy to make but it can be easy to spot one in a crowd.
The quality of the built has to be perfect. You can't expect for a high end watch to fall behind and not give an accurate time reading. Although the main reason we buy a watch has changed over the years, it doesn't mean that it should lose its basic time telling feature. Luxury watches are made with the finest materials and the best craftsmanship so you can expect their beauty to be more than just skin deep.
The known brand names, the quality of the pieces and the care that goes into making a luxury watch can only result in a high price tag. This is not really a problem for buyers and actually it is a requirement for luxury watches. A high price also means a bigger level of exclusivity and when you buy a luxury watch, you don't want to walk down the street and spot five just like it; you want to feel and look special. This is what a luxury watch is all about and as many models turn into collectables over the years, you can expect that it won't break down anytime soon. A luxury watch will last you a lifetime and it will never go out of style or fall behind with even a second.


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Q: What type of exception should the web API controller 'create' action throw in case the creation was not successful? There are an ASP.NET Core Web API project and a controller in it. The controller has an action to create something. The creation itself is done by a different service, so that action just calls that service with proper arguments.
If the service returns null, I consider the creation failed and would like to signal that somehow. Here is the pseudo-code:
[HttpPost]
[ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status201Created)]
public async Task<ActionResult<string>> Create(SomeEntityInfo someEntityInfo)
{
    // ...
    var x = await _someService.CreateSomeEntityAsync(someEntityInfo).ConfigureAwait(false);
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(x))
    {
        // What type of exception should be thrown here?
    }

    return CreatedAtAction(...);
}

So, what type of exception should be thrown in this case? Or is it better to return some special type of the ObjectResult?

A: If the failure is a result of an improper request made by the user, I'd not throw any exception in your code but I will return a HTTP 400 - Bad Request to the user, along with a message explaining why the request is not correct.
If the failure comes from within your service, due to an exception thrown for example, then I'd catch the exception in the controller method and return a HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error to the user.
So, It would look like :
    [HttpPost]
    [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status201Created)]
    public async Task<ActionResult<string>> Create(SomeEntityInfo someEntityInfo) {
        // ...
        try
        {
            var x = await _someService.CreateSomeEntityAsync(someEntityInfo).ConfigureAwait(false);
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(x)) {
                return BadRequest($"{nameof(someEntityInfo)} parameter is not valid");
            }
            return CreatedAtAction(...);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            //log exception somewhere
            Response.StatusCode = 500;
            return "Service failed, that's unfortunate.";
        }
    }


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Kult of Konsciousness, poetry by Kim-Anh Schreiber
Art: Picnic at Haning Rock
8A play set in a 10' x 10' tent on the beach.
Karma (KA), The Dominatrix
Kween (KW), The Dreamer & Visionanary
Khaos (KH), The Personality, who is always challenging others…
The Stagehand, dressed in black
A kitchen. Three flowers, Karma, Kween, and Khaos, lounge and smoke cigarettes. A little drone is buzzing around recording them.
Karma enters. There's music. Smiling and waving. Khaos sits up straight and purses lips. Kween is under a blanket. "Reality" begins.
Hey Karma.
Hey Family.
Karma leans in to hug Khaos again and she jumps away.
Ugh mom. Why are you dressed up like a butterfly in electric shock?
What are you talking about Khaos? That's rude.
You just gave me a hug and rubbed foundation all over my collar. Your face is literally falling off all over the house.
Air kisses. They dissolve into long, awkward laughter.
So I'm worried about Kween lately. I think she's hiding out because she doesn't like what people are saying about her body.
Maybe the more she becomes invisible, the more her stock will rise –
Yeah but right now they'll do anything to catch a photo of her, and she needs to develop a plan to get out of the house and have her baby.
She hasn't made a plan yet? She's about to explode!
She's organized her outfit and makeup. She says that she wants her baby's first thought to be that she's the most beautiful woman in the world.
The Stagehand brings Karma a salad, made of petals and in a huge plastic container. She shakes it vigorously.
Kween, wake up. Get out of bed.
Kween
I'm taking an In-The-Bed Day Mom! Self-care is self-love.
No, Kween, that's unprofessional. This isn't like you.
Says me, your Mother. I watched you as a child, as you found out who you were, and I learned about who you were before you could even tell me about it.
Mom, I'm pregnant.
Lots of people are pregnant and work. Get over yourself. You don't even have to do anything. You just have to sit here and be the woman you are.
That's exhausting.
It's so… litigative. All anyone wants to do is catch me in some kind of lie. Self-definition can be so limiting.
Kween, what an aggrandizing moment of privilege and insubordination. There are tools to the self as the self is a tool. You have all the tools you need to challenge yourself… and to escape yourself. You are so lucky. You say when, you say how… (to the drone) You are the Us of Now. Deliver us to the future, but let us frame our own memories. To be totally transparent, with the mark of good timing. One House, One Take… Productions. Amen. Kween, let's go.
Kween drags herself out of the cocoon of her blanket and sits down at the table. The Stagehand yells, 'CUT!' Kween, Karma, and Khaos turn off their mics.
Kween sits at the table still wrapped in a blanket. Karma and Khaos sit to her left, their salads half-eaten.
Do you like the décor changes I've made to the house, honey?
Truthfully, I don't think they're significant enough.
Significant enough?
To wake me up out of this crotch-drying repetition and banality.
The kitchen though. (looking around) I love what you've done to this kitchen. The lighting is great, flat and even. Flaw-less. Literally. I think if you can have a good kitchen, it doesn't really matter where you live. You never have to go outside.
Oh no. Outside? No. Why would you do that? We're making memories.
Karma and Khaos turn towards Kween in unison.
Kween, what are you going to do about getting out of the house. Are you just gonna stay inside and be a boring whore all your life?
Khaos, staying inside is safe. I can think of nothing more disorienting than the dull roar of the unknown.
That sounds like depression.
It's not. I would tell you. I'm an open book. Truthfully I'm trapped in my house. I'm trapped in my body. I'm trapped in the things people say about my body. I want a new body.
You want it? You can have it. Go get it. You don't have to lie under a fur blanket all day waiting for some other person to come suck at the teat of your poisoned apple. The revenge body – as I know – is the best body. That's what everyone will remember, anyway.
The latest version.
(crying) There's no worse feeling for a mother than seeing her child unhappy. People are sensitive. And no one has ever understood how sensitive my children really are. Well… (looking towards the camera) May the future bring us our narrative.
They break character for a second and smoke a cigarette, then straighten back up when The Stagehand brings a camera for them to take a selfie.
Ok, so the reason I wanted us all to meet today is… I have an announcement.
What? That the thirst is real?
I have an idea for a new business venture. I think we should start a cult. The Kult of Konsciousness.
You dumb Debbie Desperado. What do you mean by Konsciousness?
Like what lives in the body and moves through space, that feels and remembers. We are alive in the minds of millions. We process our own issues, so others can understand theirs. We're creating Konsciousness as we experience and transmit it – we have all of the material we need to write a religion! What would it sound like? Look like? Fabulous, I'm sure.
You're already everywhere! You're so overexposed.
You're just over. And now you want to profit off my consciousness? Whatever – it just sounds like another way to extort us. You should pay me if you want to use my face in the branding.
Pay you? I gave you a career!
I gave you a career. Khaos and Kween. Name a pair more iconic. Go.
I'm part of the brand too!
Brand brand brand brand brand. Every hallway is a gallery of myself and I'm lost. I'm surrounded by cameras and the content keeps coming.
I'm sorry – did I traumatize you?
This performance echoes everywhere. I'm so bored.
This is making me really sad… all I ever did was bring you to paradise.
Khaos lights up.
Ma, I've got my own methods for filling the void.
Kween takes a contemplative bite of her salad. The Stagehand yells 'CUT!' and grabs a cig. Khaos, Kween, and Karma turn off their mics.
Kween is sitting alone at the table. Khaos walks on set.
Just uploading photos onto my computer to make a blog…
Where have you been? I've been looking everywhere for you.
Where have you been looking?
Your part of the house, Facebook, Instagram…
—I was just outside dude.
You're lying.
I don't get it Khaos. You feel like a stranger to me. I know we're busy, but we're still family. You feel so far away.
Why do I have to be a totally transparent person? Can't I just keep a part of my life to myself?
I don't want to live under any rules?
Rules give me purpose, relief – like a massage.
Oh my god, Kween. Have you ever come across anyone more desperate than yourself?
I'm not desperate at all. I've touched millions of people emotionally. They cry real tears. That means something.
That means you need to make a plan to have your baby.
Yeah, I'm gonna do that tomorrow.
Khaos leaves the set. Karma enters.
You know what Kween? You should have a house party.
That's the last thing I want.
Why not? It's a huge, beautiful house.
I just don't want people in my space, you know? Messing it up. Looking at me and calling me a sperm whale. If I wanted people to stare at me and judge me then I would just go outside and get fro-yo. And I would, but every time I try to step outside everything becomes warped and wobbly.
Well, Kween, unfortunately, the world is not designed for stilettos.
Fuck a duck.
The stagehand brings them their petal salads. They shake them vigorously.
Where does this food even come from?
Lord knows. Let's say grace.
A pause while they rearrange themselves and Khaos joins them. They hold hands in a circle.
Long live this new flesh.
Thank you for our Family. Under the light of play and pretend may we act in brand new ways.
Bless us and grant us a clearer reality, more deals and appearances, and the fabulous lighting we've installed that makes our personalities shine bright… and deliver us away from language by delivering us to things.
They begin to eat their salads. The Stagehand yells 'CUT!' Kween breaks character and begins to say something juicy while turning off her mic.
Karma, Khaos, and Kween sit around the table smoking cigarettes. The Stagehand brings them their salads. They shake them and eat carefully.
You know, I've been thinking about this cult. And I was thinking that when I was a little girl, I came to this country with nothing. I thought that the place that had everything was the mall. That's why the mall is such a huge part of my dreams—it's deep in my psyche. The things that it holds have power. (looking at the audience) There is an exile in everyone. I think that the work I'm putting into this experience has to do with working out that cracked shop window. My brand of spirituality is something that needs to reach the world.
How sad. A single tear cuts a clean line down my makeup.
That's not funny! (crying) I didn't realize how long I've been waiting to say that.
Kween puts her arms around Karma.
I'm sorry Mom. That's a beautiful story.
Khaos puts her arms around Kween and Karma.
(sniffling) I love you girls.
They dissolve into laughter.
(sniffling again) Why is it so dusty in here? Honestly, there's dust everywhere. Everywhere in the world. Even on a yacht in the middle of the ocean. There's still dust. Where does it all come from?
They laugh. The Stagehand brings them their camera and they take a selfie.
Oh, thank god you're in my life! Without you girls I would be unimaginably dull and lonely.
The Stagehand yells 'CUT!' They turn off their mics, break character.
Kim-Anh Schreiber is a writer, director, and performer. Recent exhibitions have been at SPF15, Helmuth Projects, and A Ship in the Woods (San Diego), Fringe Projects (Miami), The Sunview (Brooklyn), and Material Art Fair (Mexico City); work has been published in Emergency Index, littletell, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, and Amor Forense. As part of the collaborative Hysterical Accuracy, she has co-written/co-directed Candy Ego, a video project to be released late 2017, and wrote and performed in the nomadic play Kult of Konsciousness. She received an MFA from UC San Diego.


Summer went by quickly but I made sure to make it another memorable one. This year summer was different because it was my first time not having as much free time as in the past. Between juggling work life, love life and family time it was nothing like any other summer before. All in all it was about learning and slowly adapting to adulthood.
I love the pop of color with the pants and shorts, they go great with your skin tone!


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Jean Kim addresses SGA on housing, Governor's proposal
By Ashley Berger
Filed under Campus News, News, SGA
Cade Belisle/Collegian
In the third meeting of the semester, the Student Government Association had a number of items to tend to on their agenda.
The meeting began with an address delivered by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Jean Kim, who made a variety of announcements discussing student residential life for the next year and the plans to revamp the Faculty in Residence programs.
Kim explained that there will be faculty living in the new Commonwealth Honors College dormitories when they are completed and encouraged students to nominate faculty that would be a good fit for the program.
She also explained that if Governor Deval Patrick's recent proposal to give more money to public universities was approved, then it would put a halt on fee increases for the next couple of years.
Secretary of Finance Zachary Broughton questioned what would happen to the recently passed Student Activities Trust Fund fee should the governor's proposal pass. The $28 fee that was approved by a direct student referendum in December would funnel money directly back into student organizations and services.
Vice Chancellor Kim explained that since the Amherst campus, being the flagship university in the University of Massachusetts system, would receive a large portion of the potential funding, it is not likely that the SATF fee increase would go through, despite the referendum's approval by the student body. She did offer that the topic can be revisited once the actual proposal is decided.
Following Kim's announcements, role was taken and with 27 present senators, quorum was called.
One of the most poignant moments of the meeting was a motion sponsored by Speaker of the Senate Hayley Mandeville to formally recognize Jake Hoffman, a UMass student who passed away in the recent Rolling Green apartment fire on Jan. 21. Hoffman was a senior hospitality and tourism management major.
Mandeville proposed the motion as a first of its kind in the Senate. She explained that the SGA's motions are a reflection of the opinions of the student body and that the body can use their opinions in different ways to help the student community.
The motion illustrated Hoffman as an infectious and curious person, in addition to being a dedicated student who loved being around people.
Students from the Jewish Student Union and the Jewish Leaders in Business clubs came to speak in honor of Hoffman's memory. Members from both groups testified that Hoffman's personality was one deeply felt by the groups and that he will not be forgotten.
The Senate passed the motion in a roll call vote. All members of the SGA stood as the motion passed in honor of Hoffman.
The final acts on Monday night's agenda were motions to appoint new members to the Senate. Samuel Medeiros was sworn in as the Chancellor of Elections. Outgoing Chancellor of Elections Ed Tedesco was appointed to a North Senate seat, as he plans to help with budgetary issues, while Lauren MacCormack was appointed to an open Southwest North seat. Billy Bebrin, Dave Morin, Jacob Gorham and Vincent Vecchiarello were appointed to open Commuter seats. Finally, Aaron Shepard, Annie Mombourquette and Dan Burkowsky were appointed to open Commuter seats.
Ashley Berger can be reached at [email protected].
Tags: Faculty in Residence Programs, Governor Deval Patrick, SGA, student housing
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Q: Use a PHP function on MySql Column I have 4 columns in my database. Atk,Str,Dex,and Con. Each being INT and then I have a PHP function get_level that takes those 4 columns and determines the correct level for them. I'm trying to select all users in a given range based on these "levels". The get_combat function takes those 4 values and finds the users combat level. This is what I have, which doesn't work.
<?PHP
$query = "SELECT get_level(attack) as atk,
    get_level(strength) as str,
    get_level(dexterity) as dex,
    get_level(constitution) as con,
    get_combat(atk,str,dex,con) as level
    FROM `users`
    WHERE level > 5 AND level < 10";
?>

Is there a way to do this?

A: What you are trying to do is impossible. MySQL doesn't even know what PHP is or which language is talking to it.
Why not fetch the values and call your function on in in the loop where you iterate over the results?
Depending on how complex the function is you could also create a stored procedure in your database. You cannot write PHP code in that function though.

A: I think you can't do something like this in SQL. After executing the query you can use the functions. Assuming you are using the old mysql_* functions:
<?php
$result = mysql_query($query);
$newResults = array();
$i = 0;

while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
  $newResults[$i]['atk'] = get_level($row['attack']);
  $newResults[$i]['strength'] = get_level($row['strength']);
  /** ect. **/
  $newResults[$i]['level'] = get_combat($newResults['atk'],$newResults['str'],$newResults['dex'],$newResults['con']);
}


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Serving suggestions: Sea shells, oily fish, seafood, white meats, pork, Mediterranean cuisine, pasta, salads, fresh cheeses.Enjoy today and for the next 5 years.


Former CCFC Fencer Kat Holmes Wins World Championship!!!
Three Medals at Summer Nationals!!
Chevy Chase Fencing Club had two fencers competing in three events at the Summer National Championships and won three medals. Bettie Graham earned 7th place in both the Veteran-70 Women's Epee and Veteran-70 Women's Foil. Mark Henry won 7th place in the Veteran-70 Men's Epee. Congrats to both Bettie and Mark for a job well done.


Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal described the Union Budget presented by the Union Finance Minister, Parnab Mukharji as anti-people, anti-poor, anti-farmers, anti-employees, anti-workers and above all directionless. He said that not a single section of the society have been given any relief in the budget. No step has been taken to reduce the galloping prices but increase in Service tax, Excise duty would result in further price rise thereby crushing the poor people further from onslaught of rising prices. Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal said that to raise minimum income tax limit from Rs. 1.80 lac to Rs. 2 lac was mockery as there has been hike in emoluments in last few years of the employees and other people and also the rising inflationary trends. He said that the prices of almost all commodities will go up.
Chief Minister said that indication by the Union Finance Minister about cut in subsidy in kerosene, LPG and fertilizer was also unfortunate as this will affect the farmers and people from all walks of life.
Prem Kumar Dhumal said that ignoring the Himachal Pradesh's legitimate demand for restoration of the industrial package was also unfortunate and step motherly treatment with the non UPA ruled States as well as people of Himachal Pradesh, the Union Minister on the other hand had proposed Rs. 500 crores for promotion and application of Geo Textiles in the North-East.