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The Red Violin by DeWyNGaLe (John Sylva)    Rating: A

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Francois Girard directs this arty movie which consists of five languages,
English, German, French, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese. The Red Violin follows
the travels of a violin built in 1681 by Nicolo Bussotti, (Carlo Cecchi) who
spends hours working on perfecting his violin.  After the death of his wife
Anna (Irene Grazioli) during childbirth, Nicolo commemorates the violin to
Anna, building it to perfection.  After around one hundred years, the violin
resurfaces in Austria.  At an orphanage, the young Kaspar Weiss (Christoph
Kocnz) plays the red violin with great talent.  After seeing Kaspar play the
instrument, music teacher Georges Poussin (Jean-Luc Bideau) takes on the
responsibility of preparing Kaspar for a concert in front of the Vienna
emperor.  From Vienna, the violin ends up in Oxford, England where musician
Frederick Pope (Jason Flemyng) has possession of the violin, and with his great
technique and playing style, Pope quickly becomes a famous violinist.  From
England, the violin is shipped to Shangai, China, where Xiang Pei (Syvlia
Chang) owns the violin, but must keep it hidden because China considers music
pointless and offensive.  The last journey the violin goes on in the film is to
Montreal, Canada, where Charles Mortiz (Samuel L. Jackson) is investigating if
the violin is authentic for an auction that is going to take place.  In each of
the five stories, the violin brings good fortune, followed by bad fortune.

Each chapter of the film unfolds as Cesca, (Anita Laurenzi) a fortune teller,
turns over a new tarot card, telling Anna Bussotti her future, which
mysteriously becomes the fortune of the violin's.  Director Francois Girard
makes this film seem like five short movies, all starring one main character,
the red violin.  Over the three hundred years that the film takes place, we are
bombarded with dazzling costumes, realistic set pieces, and beautiful,
classical music written by John Corigliano.  The music is mysterious and sets
the mood for the different sections of film.  Joshua Bell, who composes the
solo violin pieces, executes each song with great feeling, just as every actor
playing the violin does.  The music matches each section well, as the sections
become closer to the present, the music seems more fresh and modern.

The Red Violin has no lead human character, only about fifteen actors that
support the performance of the lead character, the red violin.  Each supporting
character gets around fifteen minutes of screen time, making the best of their
time, performing to their potential.  Each character had their own, unique
personality which was developed well in the short time they had on screen.  The
strongest performances come from Samuel L. Jackson and Sylvia Chang, whose
performances are effective as they perform every line with great feeling.

Leaving the theater, I felt spellbinded by what I saw.  The Red Violin, with
its mixture of mesmerizing music, vast settings, and the innovative way of
presenting the film makes for a film that left me stunned when the credits
started rolling.  The Red Violin is an international movie, using five
different languages, so the dialogue cannot be understood by the average
citizen of any country.  Although those five languages may not be familiar to
one individual, The Red Violin has a language everyone can understand,
wonderful music.  Being a musician, and a music lover, The Red Violin may
appeal to me more than many others, but all of the elements of the film work
and make a great movie.  It is amazing that one violin has been through much
more than any human will ever be through, and the film got me thinking.  Where
has the penny in my pocket been?  Where has my trumpet been?  I am left with
one final question about the film- Like the violin whose story was told, the
film is high quality.  Where will this movie go, concerning awards and the
thoughts of the viewers?

The Bottom Line- The Red Violin was music to my ears.

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Coronavirus: Tippecanoe Mall plans to reopen Saturday to shoppers with limited hours
Emily DeLetter
LAFAYETTE – Simon Property Group, which owns several malls in Indiana including Lafayette's Tippecanoe Mall, is planning to reopen the shopping center Saturday, according to leaked internal memo obtained this week by CNBC.
Indiana's stay-at-home order currently extends through May 1, although Gov. Eric Holcomb has said there is still work to be done before Friday to determine whether the state can begin to reopen.
Once reopened, mall hours will be limited, operating from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday to allow for overnight cleaning and sanitation. Masks, hand sanitizer and free temperature testing will be available, according to the memo.
Dr. Jeremy Adler, Tippecanoe County health officer, said the opening of Tippecanoe Mall – or any other nonessential business – was up to what Holcomb does about his statewide stay-at-home order on Friday. Adler said Wednesday that he believed the governor would take any reopening of the Indiana economy slowly.
But would a shopping center, like Tippecanoe Mall, pose a different sort of risk that a home improvement center or grocery store, which remained busy in recent weeks, deemed essential businesses?
"There's always a concern in any sort of setting where you have a large number of people congregating – that's a situation where a virus like coronavirus could spread easily," Adler said. "So, it's really important for those businesses to take steps to mitigate the potential spread."
Adler said Simon officials came to the Tippecanoe County Health Department to share their plans to do that.
"We reviewed those," Adler said. "Overall, they were good plans that were very consistent with the measures listed in Gov. Holcomb's executive orders and the measures that we had provided to area businesses as directives for protecting customers and employees. So, I think that reopening of any business, particularly a business that while have a large number of customers, has to be done very carefully."
Requests for comment from Tippecanoe Mall on reopening procedures were not immediately returned.
Along with its properties in several other states, Simon closed Tippecanoe Mall March 18, closing dozens of stores inside, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Kohl's, Macy's and JC Penney.
Many of the employees working at stores inside Tippecanoe Mall were either furloughed or laid off from their retail jobs, including Brandi Potts, who was furloughed as a keyholder at Earthbound Trading Company.
As far as Potts is aware, she is still furloughed from Earthbound until May 17. Even with the mall preparing to reopen Saturday, Potts said she has not heard that Earthbound will be doing the same for its Lafayette store.
"I bet that if I had to go into work right now, I would be cautious, really cautious," Potts said. "Maybe even a little bit worried, but I would honestly rather go back than have to stay at home anymore."
Some stores inside the mall have not been able to last through the shutdown. Hot House Market, a vintage clothing, furniture and decoration store, announced via a Facebook post that after eight years, the physical store inside Tippecanoe Mall will close.
Operations will continue in the Lafayette warehouse and in the Indianapolis and Bloomington locations, but Hot House Market will not open a new storefront in Lafayette.
Hot House Market declined to comment on the reason for closing the Tippecanoe Mall store.
Emily DeLetter is a news reporter for the Journal & Courier. Contact her at (765) 201-8515 or via email at edeletter@jconline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @EmilyDeLetter.

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The gig economy (The Cambridge Judge Business Debate podcast series)
From Uber to Deliveroo, the 'gig economy' is increasingly visible. But with flexibility for workers comes uncertainty, so what is the future of the gig economy including the role of government?
L-R: Dr Chris Coleridge, Dr Belinda Bell, Dr Thomas Roulet and Michael Kitson
In this episode, joining podcast host Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, are Cambridge Judge colleagues Dr Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice; Dr Belinda Bell, Director of Cambridge Social Ventures at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation; and Dr Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory & Information Systems.
This is the 17th in a series of "Cambridge Judge Business Debate" podcasts featuring faculty and others associated with Cambridge Judge Business School and the broader Cambridge community.
This latest podcast focuses on the gig economy – its benefits and drawbacks, and the role of government in ensuring that benefits from gig economy technology are shared throughout the ecosystem.
Here is an edited transcript of some of the podcast discussion:
What is the gig economy, and is it really new?
Michael Kitson: "It's been suggested that the world of work is changing as increasingly workers are no longer salaried but are employed as independent contractors, and are paid by consumers for a particular job or gig, often arranged through a technology platform. Research by the Trades Union Congress estimates that one in 10 workers in the UK now regularly does platform-allocated work. Is the gig economy empowering workers, providing flexibility and encouraging entrepreneurship, or is it the product of big technology companies enabling the exploitation of workers? First of all, what is the gig economy?"
Belinda Bell: "When people mention the gig economy they're usually talking about Uber drivers or Deliveroo and these platform-driven businesses. But it's also reflected in the precarious positions of all sorts of people across our economy, the increased casualisation of their labour, and this includes academia and the medical profession. So it's helpful to consider it more broadly in terms of precarious work and lack of salary security."
Chris Coleridge: The last 30 years have sort of prepared the ground for the gig economy. We used to think that workplaces had a social function providing people with their social capital and the opportunity to socialise and learn things and develop themselves, and that idea has really weakened across the economy."
Thomas Roulet: "We now have this intermediary who can concentrate a lot of power because they have information about the customer, the market, the suppliers, and they bring the demand and the supply together and take a cut out of it. In the UK where we have zero-hours contracts we already had the casualisation of work, but in France the gig economy is creating a lot of casualisation that wasn't there before."
The gig economy and consumer trust
Chris Coleridge: "Where the platform owners are adding value is that they're dealing with the issue of trust: how does the consumer trust that a very random person plugged into the platform will deliver the service to a basic standard? The platforms are adding some kind of uniformity and some kind of trust."
Belinda Bell: "We'll see increasingly whether or not the trust lasts through data security breaches which are an inevitable development on the horizon."
The role of government
Michael Kitson: "What would government policies regarding the gig economy look like? How are we going to regulate this sector in a way that it remains competitive? Should we break some of these big platforms up?"
Chris Coleridge: "Competition is already doing that to some extent, as Uber has competitors in many of the markets it operates in. Perhaps government could force platforms to provide portability to workers: portability of the proof of work, the proof of reliability, the proof of good reviews. That might be a way the government could help lubricate the situation for drivers without upsetting the stability of the platform itself."
Belinda Bell: "What about sick and holiday pay, and what do training and development look like in the gig economy? We'll all have long careers, so it's important to have these discussions now."
Thomas Roulet: "There have been mixed research findings on whether gig working is good for mental health. Being self-employed provides a feeling of freedom and drives up motivation, but zero-hour contracts take a toll on people in terms of their relationships and a lack of sleep. So it's important to focus on the conditions of workers."
Chris Coleridge: "It's painful to watch neo-Dickensian conditions emerge in the economy again, but these platforms do bring increased fluidity in terms of people being able to determine their destiny in even a small way. We see around the world that this is one way of people getting out of poverty, as they seize even small trickles of opportunity and make something out of it."
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Jan. 21, 2013 – Warmer weather may still be months away, but Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/Neuter Clinic wants you to "beat the heat" by spaying your cat in advance of her heat cycle and preventing unwanted litters from being born this spring.
Animal shelters commonly refer to spring time as "kitten season" because that is when they receive the largest influx numbers of unwanted litters that are difficult to adopt.
To help reduce the number of homeless cats born this spring, Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/Neuter Clinic is offering a special "Beat the Heat" promotion sponsored by PetSmart Charities®. During the entire month of February, Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/Neuter Clinic will spay 200 femalecats for a special rate of $20. Call the clinic at (970) 484-1861 to schedule an appointment.
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Spaying a female cat before the first heat cycle is actually beneficial, rather than waiting until after one heat cycle has occurred. The procedure is known to improve the health of the pet, including a reduced risk of certain reproductive cancers and infections.
This special rate is even less than the organization's normal low-cost price and is available to all residents of northern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. Cat parents who wish to take advantage of this offer must mention the "Beat the Heat" promotion when they schedule their appointment.
Thanks to the PetSmart Charities grant, Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/Neuter Clinic will provide 200 female cat sterilizations for $20 during February. Please visit www.FCCRSNC.org or call (970) 484-1861 for more information or to schedule an appointment. The clinic is located at 2321 E. Mulberry St. #9 in Fort Collins.
Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/Neuter Clinic is a limited admission, adoption guarantee, nonprofit cat shelter and low-cost sterilization clinic for both dogs and cats. The organization is dedicated to the well-being of all cats and dogs in our community with emphasis on preventing pet overpopulation and on the sheltering and placement of surrendered or abandoned cats into loving, permanent homes. Since its inception, the shelter has found homes for more than 4,800 cats, and the clinic has performed over 22,600 surgeries.
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The percentage of aging household cats has increased significantly over the last decade. While the aging process may induce certain physiological changes that may complicate the health care management of pets, age itself is not a disease. In fact, many conditions attributed by the owner to "old age" are actually treatable conditions that, with appropriate and timely medical intervention, can be controlled, if not cured, so that the cat's quality of life is significantly improved.
Some examples of behavioral changes and other health problems that are often attributed solely to old age, but instead may be associated with a treatable disease are inappropriate elimination; changes in attitude; activity or mobility; weight gain or loss; or an alteration in eating or drinking habits. These changes may be slight and develop slowly, therefore, it is important to observe your cat closely so that even the most vague changes will be noted.
With younger cats, routine yearly visits to the veterinarian are recommended for health maintenance. An aging cat, however, needs more frequent routine monitoring (every six months) by the veterinarian, since changes associated with aging and disease progression can occur within a relatively short time. Also, cats are particularly good at hiding illness; a cat with significant disease can appear healthy to the owner. Be sure to tell your veterinarian about anything that seems abnormal with your cat, even if the sign seems vague and unimportant. Your veterinarian will also need a record of any current prescription or nonprescription medicines being administered, all foods being fed (don't forget to count treats), and nutritional supplements.
Some treatable diseases that may commonly occur in aging cats are hyperthyroidism, chronic renal failure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease, cognitive dysfunction, and cancer.
If your cat should develop any of the above signs, report them promptly to your veterinarian. While they may be due to other problems or diseases and do not necessarily mean your cat has cancer, early diagnosis and treatment is important.
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According to a recent survey, overall pet ownership has increased during the 1980s and 1990s; however some substantial shifts in the types of pets owned have occurred. The dog population appears to be stable or is increasing only slightly. The cat population has increased substantially as compared to the dog population. Most interesting is the increase in the number of households owning nontraditional pets, such as birds, fish, rabbits, ferrets, and reptiles.


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Pioneer Who Survived the Blacklist
By JERRY TALLMER
Phoebe Brand, at 96, recalls The Group, now memorialized by playwright Ronald Rand
"The Group" is a full-length script by Ronald Rand about the founding of the Group Theatre, the pioneering handful of actors, directors, and playwrights who in the bleak 1930s moved American drama into the gristle of the 20th century. In its short life, about a dozen years, the Group had its impact on everything that followed in American theater, especially the kind of acting that would one day give us a Julie Harris, a Marlon Brando, a Kim Stanley, an Al Pacino, a Meryl Streep, a Robert de Niro.
The play opens with the Group in formation at a summer retreat in Connecticut. An ingénue named Phoebe Brand has rescued a baby sandpiper and hands it to playwright Clifford Odets, who says: "It's so beautiful! Look, he's looking at me!"
Odets, who gave the world "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," "Golden Boy," "Rocket to the Moon," and more, left us in 1963, but Phoebe Brand, at 96, is very much with us, in an apartment right on West 43rd Street. In an interview, during which playwright Rand was on hand, she remembered everything including the tumultuous, historic opening night of "Waiting for Lefty," January 5, 1935, at the old Civic Repertory Theater on West 14th Street.
"That was an affair to remember," she said of the first performance of the Odets hammer blow about a starvation-driven taxi drivers' union meeting under the thumb of management goons. It ended with cries of "STRIKE! STRIKE!" by actors and audience, sparked by a young Elia Kazan.
This was the same Elia Kazan to whom and of whom, to the end of his life, Brand would never again speak except with quiet fury—the Kazan who'd named names, including hers and that of her husband Morris Carnovsky, during the invidious House Un-American Activities Committee years of the early 1950s.
"In that rickety theater, the people were stomping in the balcony. I thought the building was coming down," the actress recalled. There was also a huge jam on 14th Street. "All those cheering taxi drivers. The police stopped them. The crowds were too big. The police were hitting people with their billy sticks, and the people ran.
"When we [the actors] went out on the street, people came up to us and asked: 'How could you do that?' [be so real on stage]—marvelous!' "
In that first production, "Sid" and "Florie," young dreamers trapped in the grip of grim economic reality, were Jules Garfield (later renamed John Garfield by Hollywood) and Phoebe Brand.
She laughed as she spoke of a scene between actors Tony Kraber, as a dedicated young research scientist, and her future husband Carnovsky, as the lab administrator who tries to get the younger man to squeal on any radical associates.
"At the end, the man Morris played says: 'No hard feelings?' And the character Tony Kraber played says: 'Sure, hard feelings.' With that [in the heat of performance], Tony punched Morris in the nose, and broke his nose. Such a beautiful nose!" Brand said.
A photo of Brand's late husband when he appeared as King Lear adorns one wall of the 43rd Street apartment, across from a signed program of Edwin Booth as Hamlet.
"A doctor set the nose in the dressing room. Morris played the whole rest of the show bleeding," she recalled.
No, broken noses weren't a common occurrence in the Group. Broken relationships, broken feelings often were.
The Group often had productions and would-be productions in progress at the same time.
"At the same time as 'Waiting for Lefty,' we were rehearsing 'Johnny Johnson' [the Paul Green/Kurt Weill anti-war musical] up in the country at Pinebrook, Connecticut," Brand related. "Kurt Weill was there. Lotte Lenya was there… It was on the side that we were doing 'Waiting for Lefty,' kind of off-the-cuff. We didn't know if it would be any good. Clifford wrote that play in two weeks' time. No changes. Brilliant."
The triumvirate that started the Group Theatre, coming over from the Theatre Guild, was Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, and Cheryl Crawford. All three are now gone.
"That summer [of 1934] we also did one act, the last act, of 'Awake and Sing'"—the great Odets play about the Berger family of the Bronx, and Grandpa Jacob (Carnovsky, in his late 30s playing a man in his 70s) who passes along to grandson Ralph (Garfield) the passionate injunction: "Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills," one of the ringing lines in all American literature, never mind drama.
"Clifford was from Philadelphia," Brand said. "He was a stranger here. He came and fell in love with New York. He'd walk around"—she acts it out—"saying: 'Oh, what a beautiful building!… Oh, what a beautiful subway!' He used to listen to everyone and write everything down."
The original production of "Awake and Sing," at the Belasco Theater, in February 1935, had, in addition to Carnovsky and Garfield, Stella Adler as Bessie Berger, powerhouse of the family; Brand as her restless, unsatisfied daughter Hennie; Sanford Meisner as Hennie's nebbishy, greenhorn, unloved husband; Art Smith as her ineffective, daydreaming father; and Luther Adler as Moe Axelrod, the caustic boarder who'd lost a leg in World War I and for whom Hennie ultimately leaves husband and child.
At the Act I curtain, Moe Axelrod gropes in a fruit bowl and explodes: "What the hell kind of house is this it ain't got an orange!" When the show reached Chicago, the audience was not friendly.
"They threw oranges and apples," Brand recalled. "I was hit by a grapefruit. Stella stepped forward and said: 'These are your actors. You have to protect them.'
"Arthur Miller saw that production in Chicago. He has said it made him want to write plays. He even remembers the color of the refrigerator. People are always reviving 'Awake and Sing,' but they don't get it, don't get the poetry."
Odets's "Awake and Sing" was in fact almost strangled in its cradle, when Strasberg turned thumbs-down on it.
"Lee stood up and said: 'Clifford, we don't like your play.' But Stella said: 'Lee, we like that play.' She saved it. And then Harold said: 'Let's all take time off, and come back in the fall, and I'll direct it.' What nerve [by which she meant courage] Harold had! He had never directed anything."
Ronald Rand studied under, and reveres, Harold Clurman. In addition to the full-length "The Group," which gets a reading June 29 at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (featuring John Martello, the executive director of The Players theater group, and actor David Pressman, among others), Rand wrote the one-man "Clurman" that's he reprised in performance this past weekend at the Phil Bosakowski Theatre on West 45th Street.
Rand believes that Strasberg didn't like "Awake and Sing" because it was too close to Strasberg's own Lower East Side family background.
Brand on the other hand connected to the play despite her lack of a cultural link.
"I had no relationship at all to Hennie, I wasn't even Jewish," she said. "It was Harold who gave me the action that saved me."
In all the long years of the blacklist—what Stefan Kanfer calls "The Plague Years—Brand and Carnovsky, wife and husband, established formidable careers as acting teachers.
In Brand's apartment, listening in, Rand inquired tongue-in-cheek: "What was so good about Morris?"
"You have to ask? He was gorgeous!" Brand cried. "He looked like an actorovich! I teach Morris's method, based on three things: The self, the object, and action between those two.
"With The Group, I met Stanislavsky," Brand continued. "He was not dogmatic; he was an investigator, same as Morris. Morris was studying acting till the day he died.
"To find yourself is the hardest thing to do. My students, when they find themselves—with simplicity—they don't try to act. It's not that they should do less. They should do more in a different way."
Phoebe Brand, whose father was chief mechanical engineer for Remington typewriters, was born in Syracuse and brought up in Ilian, New York and Stamford Connecticut.
"My mother loved theater, adored it," she recalled. "She took me to see Maude Adams in 'Peter Pan.' I saw 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' I saw Duse! I saw Pavlova! I saw Barrymore's 'Hamlet'—gorgeous."
As a very young woman, Brand auditioned for Winthrop Ames, founder/director of an American Gilbert & Sullivan company.
"I opened my mouth and nothing came out," Brand recalled. "Mr. Ames said: 'Never mind, darling, you're in.' I heard from other people, he fell in love with me the minute he saw me. For two years I played a lot of princesses with that company."
Brand then auditioned for Cheryl Crawford at the Theatre Guild. Like Winthrop Ames, Crawford said: "Okay, you've got it"—"and Lynne Fontanne worked with me and said: 'You're going to be a big actress.' "
The invitation to join the Group came in a letter from Clurman to Phoebe Brand and 30 others. The new adventure in American theater didn't even have a name yet.
"I packed just one suitcase. I was thrilled," Brand recalled. "We all said, 'Thank God! We're all going away to the country and we're going to build a theater.'"
Clurman directed many stunning plays and wrote a crucial book, "The Fervent Years," a biography, so to speak, of The Group. More than once in his life, not least during the construction of Lincoln Center, he was heard to say: "You don't start a theater with a building. You start with an idea."
The Group Theatre was an idea, and still is.


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Articles › Broadband
What is Broadband?
Defining broadband can get complicated
There are many different takes on how to actually define the word: broadband. The first and most obvious way to define it is a transmission medium that allows for multiple pathways and types of data, far exceeding simple voice communication devices. Simply, put it is the ability to access a variety of data through one connection at a reasonable speed.
Where a phone line severely limits the amount of information it can transmit, a broadband line, which has bandwidth greater than 2 mbps, unlike a standard dial-up connection which will only have 56kbps, can allow for a variety of different frequencies and channels to travel down its wide pathway. This makes it optimal for those who play video games on the Internet or are involved in heavy graphics work that they need to import, send and receive along the information superhighway.
The minimum width of a broadband line has become a matter of debate. While initially, the broadband definition was a line that was greater than 2 mbps in width, other experts began asserting that it should be at least 3 mbps wide. Still others complain that at least 20 would be appropriate. But now, broadband services start as low as 1 mbps, for those who are trying out broadband for the first time. So who really knows what the minimum level of bandwidth is needed in order for it to be called broadband? One thing is certain though. DSL service which an range from 256 kbps capacity on the downstream and upstream side up to 1.5mbps, or even higher, is considered a broadband service as well. So are cable television modems, which have similar speeds. So, in reality anything with greater capacity than a narrow line, like a telephone line, which can only hold up to 64 kbps, is technically considered a broadband service.
Broadband services have become all the craze in the past few years. When the Internet started to become more mainstream in the 1990s people were content with simple dial-up Internet services, which used only narrow lines. But as the need for speed became important, especially as files and Web pages became more elaborate, requiring more computer storage space and memory, the need for larger bulks of information being able to be sent and received at a quicker pace became essential. Hence, we have the broadband revolution. Today, hardly anyone uses narrow band service, or dial-up. Broadband Internet access is the name of the game. And if you work in an office it is absolutely essential, as larger chunks of information are frequently sent to and from businesses on a regular basis. Simply put, if you don't have broadband today, you are probably a person who does not need the Internet for a living. With the number of telecommuting jobs available today, the need for broadband services is only likely to expand greatly.
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What's the best way to cut down my guest list without feeling terribly guilty?
Cutting your guest list can be difficult and leave you feeling yucky. The most important thing to remember is that it's your day and most people won't be as upset as you think they will. The best thing to do is first divide your list in to two: the people you are definitely inviting, and the people you're on the fence about. Then with your fiancé go over the fence list and think about whether or not their presence at your wedding will really make a difference to you and if it will make a difference to them. Another thing to consider is limiting all your guests to only plus 1 and don't allow children. If all else fails grab the list, a pen and a big bottle of vodka and see who gets scratched off first.


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James Bond writers confirm 'Skyfall' is their last 007 outing
Jamie Crossan Nov 20, 2012 9:07 am GMT
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade bow out with Sam Mendes-directed movie
James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have confirmed that Skyfall is the last 007 movie they will pen.
The film, the most successful Bond film in its 23-film history, was the fifth time Purvis and Wade have teamed up to write a 007 movie, having started with 1999's The World Is Not Enough.
The British screenwriting duo lifted the lid on their time writing Bond movies, and confirmed Skyfall is their last, at a writing masterclass at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
"When we were originally asked to come in to meet the Bond people, we weren't expecting to be walking straight into a meeting with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson," said Neal Purvis describing how the pair first began on Bond. "We certainly were not expecting to be kept around for 15 years."
He added:
We were going to stop with Quantum of Solace, but it's good to go out on a high with Skyfall.
Robert Wade continued:" We're very happy to have done five Bond movies, I think we've gotten it to a good place. I know that John Logan (co-writer on Skyfall) and Sam Mendes have come up with a plot for another one, which takes the pressure off because these films take up a lot of time."
Skyfall is the 23rd Bond movie and has been a critical and commercial hit. The film opened in UK cinemas last month (October 26), while current 007 Daniel Craig is believed to be signed up for at least two more movies.


Automotive wire harness indirect purchasers—automobile dealers and end payors—have standing to pursue federal antitrust claims of a price fixing conspiracy by manufacturers and sellers based on guilty pleas that suggested a broad, industry-wide conspiracy, the federal district court in Detroit has ruled (In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation (Wire Harness Cases), June 6, 2013, Battani, M.). The court also considered and dismissed in part the indirect purchasers' claims under state antitrust and consumer protection laws. In separate opinions, the court considered motions to dismiss by individual defendants.
The indirect purchaser plaintiffs (IPPs) brought class actions based on an alleged conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices, and allocate the market for automotive wire harness systems (WHS) and related products. The defendants are manufacturers or sellers of wire harness products that are manufactured or sold in the United States. WHS are the "central nervous systems" of automotive vehicles and consist of wires or cables and data circuits that run throughout the vehicles.
According to the end-payor plaintiffs (EPPs), wire harness systems include automotive electrical wiring, lead wire assemblies, cable bond, automotive wiring connectors, automotive wiring terminals, electronic control units, fuse boxes, relay boxes, junction blocks, power distributors, and speed sensor wire assemblies. The automobile dealer plaintiffs (ADPs) include two additional products in their definition of wire harness products: automotive wire harnesses themselves and high voltage wiring.
Federal antitrust claims. The court rejected the defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the indirect purchasers' federal antitrust allegations, noting the guilty pleas demonstrated that an express agreement existed to fix prices and allocate customers in a market with conditions ripe for conspiratorial conduct. The factual allegations created a reasonable expectation that discovery would reveal evidence of illegal agreement beyond those parties that had pleaded guilty, according to the court.
The indirect purchasers asserted an injury-in-fact for purposes of constitutional standing by alleging that they were induced to pay unlawfully inflated prices and that any costs attributable to wire harness systems can be traced through the chain of distribution to the named plaintiffs and members of the classes, the court determined.
State law claims. The court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that the IPPs lacked to standing to pursue claims under the laws of states in which no named IPPs reside. The better path was to defer the issue until the class certification stage, according to the court.
The ADPs sought relief under the laws of 30 states and the District of Columbia, without distinguishing between antitrust and consumer protection statutes. The EPPs brought antitrust claims under the laws of twenty-three states and the District of Columbia. The EPPs brought state consumer protection claims under the law of eleven states and the District of Columbia.
The ADPs' Illinois antitrust claim was dismissed because Illinois does not allow an indirect purchaser plaintiff to maintain an antitrust claim as a class action. The court dismissed without opposition the ADPs' Massachusetts and Missouri antitrust claims and the EPPs' Massachusetts antitrust claims.
In 2006, the Utah legislature amended that state's antitrust laws to provide that actions "may be brought under this section regardless of whether the plaintiff dealt directly or indirectly with the defendant." Utah Code Ann. §76-10-918. The IPPs' antitrust claim was limited to price fixing that occurred after the 2006 amendment, the court determined. Under a New Hampshire indirect purchaser statute, N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 356:11, the IPPs cannot seek recovery under the New Hampshire statute for any conduct that occurred prior to January 1, 2008. The court held that indirect purchaser statutes in Hawaii and Nebraska in 2002 did not require the application of time limits to claims under the laws of those states.
The parties agreed that the laws of Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and West Virginia, and the District of Columbia require a plaintiff to allege a nexus between the defendant's conduct and intrastate commerce. The court denied the motion to dismiss on this ground noting that the IPPs alleged that WHS were transported into these states and purchased by IPPs.
The defendants contended that the relabeling of antitrust price-fixing claims as state consumer protection claims rendered under the laws of several states subject to dismissal. The court narrowed its discussion to the law of those states' laws under which the IPPs actually pursued the claims and held that the ADPs could proceed with price fixing under the laws of Arkansas and the IPPs could proceed with claims under New Mexico law and Rhode Island law.
The ADPs indicated that they are not seeing relief under the consumer protection laws of Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, or the District of Columbia. The court dismissed the ADPs' claims under those states' consumer protection laws and also dismissed the ADPs' consumer protection claims under the laws of Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, and Vermont.
Attorneys: Adam T. Schnatz (The Miller Law Firm) for indirect purchaser plaintiffs. Craig D. Bachman (Lane Powell PC) for Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Andrew Marovitz (Mayer Brown LLP) for Lear Corp. Andrea M. Price (Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarer) Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. John V. Biernacki (Jones Day) for Yazaki Corp. Brian C. Smith (Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Door LLP) for Denso Corp. David F. DuMouchel (Butzel Long) for Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. Randall E. Kahnke (Faegre Baker Daniels) for TRAM, Inc. James L. Cooper (Arnold & Porter LLP) for Fujikura Ltd. Jeffrey G. Heuer (Jaffe, Raitt) for Kyungshin-Lear Sales and Engineering, LLC. Donald M. Barnes (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP) for G.S. Electech, Inc. David A. Ettinger (Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP) for NSK, Ltd. A. Paul Victor (Winston & Strawn LLP) for NTN Corp. Alison R. Welcher (Sherman & Sterling LLP) for Schaeffler AG. Michael L. Brown (Alston & Bird LLP) Autoliv, Inc. Robert J. Wierenga (Schiff Hardin LLP) for TK Holdings, Inc. Benjamin W. Jeffers (Dykema Gossett) for AB SKF. Jennifer M. Stewart (Winson & Strawn LLP) for Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. Danielle Garten (Arnold & Porter LLP) for McGuire Bearing Co. Companies: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Companies: Lear Corp.; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.; Denso Corp.; Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.; TRAM, Inc.; Fujikura Ltd.; Kyungshin-Lear Sales and Engineering, LLC.; G.S. Electech, Inc.; NSK, Ltd.; NTN Corp.; Schaeffler AG.; Autoliv, Inc.; TK Holdings, Inc.; AB SKF.; Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.; McGuire Bearing Co.


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Nebojša Stanojlović (; born 2 April 1989) is a Serbian football forward.

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If you did not know this yet, Barbie's latest incarnation is… an architect! recently launched the model in New York, as part of the "I Can Be…" series, which feature a variety of professions. The architect-character looks highly cheerful, seems to be very much into pink and carries a set of blueprints. We've read some funny comments saying that the model is not realistic, as its face looks very fresh when it should have actually been dark and tired-looking, with bags under the eyes. We don't know about you guys, but to us it doesn't seem like she's too much into CAD either. We featured this post on Workingholiday Canada, as we believe this could make for a fun and funny gift in the field of architecture. We are looking forwards to your opinions and comments on how believable this architect Barbie doll really is.
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I've finished my latest novel! Feeling pretty pleased with myself, I began my rewrites. Horror of horrors! A boring first paragraph stared me in the face. I have to hand over the manuscript to my publisher in two weeks. How do I hook my reader with that first line?


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Q: How to check all checkbox by pressing one? I want to make a code by selecting a checkbox from the ListView to automatically select all the checkbox from the ListView.
I'm using visual studio 2005 so I don't have ItemChecked form.
Thats why I want to make this by using ListView itemcheck event. Here is my code.

private void lvBase_ItemCheck_1(object sender, ItemCheckEventArgs e)
{

    if ( ) // If selecting one checkbox from the ListView
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < lvBase.Items.Count; i++)
        {
         // Select all checkbox from the ListView
         }
     }
     else // If unselecting one checkbox from the ListView
     {
        for (int i = 0; i < lvBase.Items.Count; i++)
        {
         // Unselect all checkbox from the ListView
         }
     }
}

Can you help me to fill this out? Or if you have any better idea please share :)

A: Use the ListViewItem.Selected property:
foreach(ListViewItem item in lv.Items)
    item.Selected = true;

foreach(ListViewItem item in lv.Items)
    item.Selected = !item.Selected;

A: Note: there's most likely a better way to do this, but this is a pattern I used a long time ago and it worked then. :)
In the event you've shown above, it will be called from the listView, and the ItemCheckEventArgs e will tell you if the box is checked or not. It actually tells you the state of the checkbox before the check. So if checkbox was unchecked and the user just checked it, e.CurrentValue will be CheckState.Unchecked.
Now, the problem we may have if we try to update the state of all the checkboxes inside the ItemCheck event is that we will recursively call the event each time we check a box. One way around this is to track whether or not the user is calling the event (by checking a box) or we're triggering the event by calling item.Checked = true;.
Something like this may do the trick:
// Set this to true when our code is modifying the checked state of a listbox item
private bool changingCheckboxState = false;

private void lvBase_ItemCheck(object sender, ItemCheckEventArgs e)
{
    // If our code triggered this event, just return right away
    if (changingCheckboxState) return;

    // Set our flag so that calls to this method inside the
    // loop below don't trigger more calls to this method
    changingCheckboxState = true;

    // Set all the checkboxes to match the state of this one
    foreach(ListViewItem item in lvBase.Items)
    {
        item.Checked = e.CurrentValue != CheckState.Checked;
    }

    // Now that we're done, set our flag to false again
    changingCheckboxState = false;
}


To enter, users had to follow @kalaharicom and tweet #kalahari15 throughout the day. Kalahari staff would play popular music tracks at the office and live-tweet the occasion. Whenever a music track finished, as announced via the feed, a gift was handed out to the fan that submitted the latest serendipitous tweet – think "musical chairs", just in reverse. Prizes ranged from Kalahari vouchers to a Sony Bravia TV.
Towards the afternoon, Twitter was abuzz with hundreds of #kalahari15 tweets every minute, a trending hashtag and lots of spontaneous campaign discovery.
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Sometimes the success of a campaign lies in the power of the crowd. On March 5th 2012, Domino's UK ran a clever campaign that reduced the price of a particular pepperoni pizza by one pence every for every 100 tweets with the hashtag #letsdolunch. The promotion ran for two hours and attracted 85,000 tweets, dropping the pizza price from £15.99 to £7.74 for the day. The result? Many new followers, rushing out to enjoy the pizza promotion they had helped create.
This type of campaign – which rewards the entire group for participation – is a great way to raise awareness about a new product line (such as a new pizza flavour) or simply give fans a sense of 'ownership' over a current promotion.
This digital treasure hunt led to a whole new level of brand engagement and the hashtag trended for the duration of the campaign.
The lesson: Fans gain a special sense of satisfaction by working together as a group towards a common cause.
"Got a friend who needs cheering up? Or maybe you just want to tell them that you love them/miss them/really like their new haircut... Well, why not say it with a singing tweetagram!"
By running regular campaigns of this nature, Orange UK fans have become highly attentive to updates by the feed.
The permutations of this approach are endless. You can turn fan tweets into t-shirts, custom illustrated comics, animated short films, items of food, movie-style voiceovers, and so on – any and all items that will entertain your audience and tie in with your brand message.
In 2012, one Audi fan wanted an Audi R8 so badly she coined the hashtag #WantAnR8 and shared it with her community.
Picking up on this buzz, Audi decided to give her an R8 for a day and document the experience with live tweets, videos and pictures. The company then promoted the hashtag #WantAnR8 and asked its fan base who else wanted an R8, promising to give away 5 more drives.
The campaign was renewed for a second round the following year due to popular demand.
Lesson: Sometimes, listening to fans generates the best campaign ideas.
Paypal capitalised on anti-Valentine's Day sentiments in February 2013 by sharing the fan tweet, "Who needs a boyfriend when you have a PayPal account?" Overwhelming fan reactions prompted Paypal to dig further, "This Valentine's Day, tell us, how would you like to #TreatYourself?" The company then decided to surprise selected respondents with gifts that matched their answers, ranging from flowers to concert tickets.
This campaign drove 3.4 million Twitter impressions and worked particularly well because it tied in with Paypal's existing 'treat yourself' slogan.
Lesson: Look for creative means to align popular holidays with your brand message.
Lastly, HBO raised hype for Game of Thrones Season 2 by asking fans to describe the show using the hashtag #got140, while using a specific keyword (such as "betray", "power" or "family"). The best answers were then featured on HBO Connect as well as selected TV spots. A new keyword was released every day, leading up to the season 2 premiere.
The result? The campaign recruited many new fans to the show, with season 2 premiering to a series high of 3.9 million viewers (a 74% improvement compared to the previous year) and crashing GetGlue servers on the day.
Noteworthy: A Twitter campaign can double as qualitative market research, shedding light on the narratives that fans use to describe your product.
If you want to stand out in the sea of Twitter noise, a few well-crafted campaigns can help you stay top of mind. The campaigns don't have to break the bank or take months to plan, but work particularly well when they are clever, creative and well aligned with your brand message.
We'd love to hear your ideas, suggestions and observations on Twitter campaigns in the comments below!


The Saint Andrew's 1st and 2nd chess teams faced Saint David's Marist Inanda in Johannesburg on Friday as two very well matched teams did brain battle.
The 1st team drew 3-3, while the 2nd team suffered a narrow 2-4 defeat.
Well done to the boys on a very good effort.


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10 Most Offensive Punk Album Covers of All Time
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 1:21 PM (PST) by Johnny X
Nothing is more entertaining than a good controversy and if you're a punk rock fan they come in no short supply. Today we thought it would be fun to shake up the conservatives by revisiting the 10 most offensive punk album covers of all time, so put away your decency, get ready to take a shower, and let's get to it.
Check out the most obnoxious, disgusting, rude, and down right appalling artwork to ever grace the cover of a punk rock album right here.
10. Frenzal Rhomb – "Dick Sandwich"
As any owner of a penis might tell you, the idea of a sandwich made with three severed male genitalia is a bit disturbing. I'm assuming all the members of Australian punk act Frenzal Rhomb have penises of their own, but that didn't stop them from using the aforementioned visualization as the cover art for their debut EP "Dick Sandwich." According to legend, the artwork was so offensive to Australian youth radio station Triple J, they allegedly told the fellas in Frenzal Rhomb to "grow up" after seeing it. The band may or may not have grown up in the sense implied but either way, it's still ironic that singer Jason Whalley and Frenzal Rhomb guitarist Lindsay McDougall became hosts of the youth network's breakfast program ten years later.
9. Black Flag – "Slip It In"
The term "slip it in" has a pretty heavy sexual connotation, so when you make it the title of an album that depicts a nun arm in arm with a shirtless man you know you're pushing the controversial envelope. That's exactly what Black Flag did for the cover of their 1984 album.
8. Dwarves – "Blood Guts and Pussy"
The title of the Dwarves album "Blood Guts and Pussy" is pretty spot-on as a description of its cover. Not sure if a dwarf is really offensive to anybody, but full-frontal nudity certainly is. So are chicks completely covered in blood, so when you combine the three you're looking at some pretty controversial artwork. Allegedly, this album sparked protests by some feminists.
7. I Spy – "Perversity Is Spreading…"
Any artwork depicting the Pope has the potential for some serious controversy. Depict Pope John Paul II and his cardinals getting shit upon by three celestial rear ends and it's safe to say you've got something pretty damn offensive. That's what Winnipeg punk act I Spy went with for the cover of their discography spanning release "Perversity Is Spreading… It's About Time!" Though the label admits that the cover art was designed "to send the theocratic-right into a tizzy of epic proportions", the album managed to fly under the radar without any public backlash from the Catholic Church or its followers.
6. NOFX – "Heavy Petting Zoo"
I don't think you have to be an animal rights activist to get offended by NOFX's 1996 album "Heavy Petting Zoo," which depicts a dude finger banging a sheep in front of a barn (I suddenly feel the need to shower after typing that). The artwork was used for the CD and cassette formats of the release, but the vinyl release of the same album was actually titled "Eating Lamb" and used a different version of the cover art. That one depicted the same dude, and presumably the same sheep, taking it past third base by 69ing each other (now I definitely have to take a shower). Here in the States retailers generally let this one slide, but in Europe (particularly Belgium) their was significant backlash and the album was pulled from many shelves.
According to Dying Scene readers, "Eating Lamb" is the most offensive of the two versions so we're featuring that one here in this list.
5. Living With Lions – "Holy Shit"
You probably only need to be slightly Christian to be offended by the packaging of Canadian pop-punk act Living With Lions' latest album "Holy Shit." The outside cover mimics The Holy Bible and the inside artwork depicts Jesus Christ as a turd, which inevitably brought religious scorn upon the band and label. Interestingly, the Canadian government also took shit for "Holy Shit" because they partially funded the creation of the album through their FACTOR program, which is "dedicated to providing assistance toward the growth and development of the Canadian independent recording industry." So much fury was rained down upon the band, label and Canadian government that Living With Lions ended up returning the $13,000 loan to the government and recalling all the albums distributed with accreditation to the program.
4. Gallows – "Grey Britain"
Though not many people can claim to have seen it, the artwork that was originally created for the cover of Gallows' 2011 album "Grey Britain" was so offensive the execs at Warner Bros Music refused to let the hardcore punk act use it. At first glance it doesn't seem so bad but a closer inspection yields some pretty f'ed up shit – some dude in a black hoody raping a decapitated corpse, a pig headed cop toting a machine gun and getting a hand job from a bearded man, another dude masturbating with his fist in some chick's butt while she stabs herself… I'm cringing as I write this and thinking to myself the depictions sorta make Dante's "Inferno" seem like Disneyland. Supposedly the artwork was done by the band's singer (at the time), Frank Carter, and is supposed to be a metaphor for what's going on in England right now. For me at least, the message has gotten lost in translation.
3. Leftover Crack – "Fuck World Trade"
The second album from New York "crack-rocksteady" group Leftover Crack features a black and white image of the World Trade Center during the attack on 9/11. In the foreground the images of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani (Tony Blair on the UK release) infer that they were the ones orchestrating the mayhem. Considering the title of the album, the "Fuck World Trade" cover would undoubtedly ruffle a lot of feathers even without the foreground imagery. Not surprisingly, the album was banned from most of the big music selling chains, such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Music Land, for its cover as well as the lyrical subject matter of its songs.
2. Dayglo Abortions – "Feed Us A Fetus"
Hailing from British Columbia, Dayglo Abortions landed themselves in legal trouble for the covers of two albums, "Here Today, Guano Tomorrow" and "Feed Us A Fetus." The first features a photo of a hamster with a gun pointed at it on the front cover, while the back cover depicts the ensuing carnage after the trigger was pulled. I don't even want to ask if the back cover is real. "Feed Us A Fetus" features Nancy and Ronald Raegan sitting down to a meal, which appears to be a human fetus on a plate. This one is a drawing, so perhaps it's a little easier to… er… swallow, but the Ontario police officer who discovered the albums in his daughter's record collection was not amused. He instigated a criminal investigation which brought charges for "distribution and possession with intent to distribute of obscene material" to the band's record label. They were later found not guilty.
1. Dead Kennedys – "Frankenchrist"
Considering the artwork included in the Dead Kennedys album "Frankenchrist" was so offensive it brought criminal charges to band members for "distribution of harmful matter to minors," I think it's safe to say that this this 1986 album deserves a spot at the top of the list for Most Offensive Punk Album Covers of All Time even though it technically wasn't the album cover itself that was responsible. Rather, it was a poster titled "Work 219: Landscape XX" (aka "Penis Landscape") included with the album that was the focus of the criminal charges and depicts… well, just take a look.
Singer Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno (former Alternative Tentacles label manager) ended up being acquitted after the trial in 1987.
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RAMARIOT9/9/2011 1:02 AM | Permalink
Oi.. Oi.. !! :)
guest9/9/2011 9:14 AM | Permalink
A correction on your description of the Black Flag – Slip It In cover, the nun's arm is actually around a man's naked leg, implying fellatio has just or is soon to occur
Mario9/9/2011 11:57 AM | Permalink
I think a band should be able to put whatever they want on an album cover, it is so stupid and ignorant that they get shit for their artwork. People who see it and get offended need to get a life. Its not hurting anyone, i love when a band i like does something that some people think is "strange"or"offensive"or"disturbing"or"sick"to me it just makes the Whole thing better and more interesting. I love the list you put together i love almost all those bands and own more than half of those records.
Johnny X9/9/2011 3:16 PM | Permalink
Holy shit, you're right! I don't know why I didn't see it that way before!
RobinDam9/25/2015 7:29 AM | Permalink
Bull shet
Dick Disease1/11/2016 12:50 PM | Permalink
Wow, for thirty-some years I've seen it as a leg. Now I see it as an arm. She does look like she's standing…
The artwork is supposed to be offensive.
PaliseRolsher1/26/2016 6:23 AM | Permalink
DemonQueenJ2/14/2016 2:14 AM | Permalink
DK Insert poster: "Landscape XX / Penis Landscape" is an HR Giger painting, 1973…Giger gave his permission for DK to use this piece for the actual album cover art but it got vetoed and became an insert poster
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Most Brazilians find Bolsonaro a hindrance to vaccinating kids against COVID-19
Bolsonaro is a "threat to democracy," HRW says
Lula's most trusted and closest political advisor sentenced to 23 years in prison
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Dirceu was former President Lula da Silva's chief of staff from 2003 to 2005 before being forced to step down over a congressional vote-buying scheme.
Judge Moro justified the lengthy sentence noting Dirceu was a key architect of the Petrobras even after having being convicted over the vote-buying corruption case
Dirceu and his good friend Lula da Silva when they were king of the hill, after winning the 2002 election.
A Brazilian federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Jose Dirceu, a former presidential chief of staff, to 23 years and three months in prison for his role in a massive corruption scheme centered on state-controlled oil company Petrobras. Judge Sergio Moro, who is spearheading the bribes-for-inflated contracts probe, found Dirceu guilty of accepting and paying bribes and money laundering.
Dirceu was former President Lula da Silva's chief of staff from 2003 to 2005 before being forced to step down over a congressional vote-buying scheme. In 2012, Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced him to nearly 11 years in prison in that case.
The latest sentence handed down against Dirceu is the stiffest thus far in the sprawling Petrobras probe, which has involved around 50 politicians from across the ideological spectrum and top executives from a score of private-sector firms.
Investigators say a cartel of construction and engineering companies overcharged the oil giant for contracts, splitting the extra money with corrupt Petrobras executives, as well as with politicians who provided cover for the graft.
Moro justified the lengthy sentence by noting that Dirceu served as a key architect of the complex bribes-for-contracts scheme even after having being convicted over the vote-buying, a corruption case dubbed Brazil's "trial of the century."
The judge said there was "aggravated guilt" in Dirceu's case because, among other things, he was found to have continued to receive illegal commissions stemming from the Petrobras scheme while serving out his prior sentence under house arrest.
Dirceu spent two decades as the political right arm of Lula, founder of the Workers Party, or PT, and predecessor and political mentor of Dilma Rousseff, who has been impeached and suspended from office for allegedly violating budget laws.
Once seen as the natural heir to Lula, Dirceu was forced to resign as presidential chief of staff in the summer of 2005 after lawmaker Roberto Jefferson accused the PT of having bribed legislators of other parties to build the congressional majority that the government failed to obtain at the polls in 2002.
Dirceu a former guerrilla who ended up in Cuba in the seventies, changed his name, his physiognomy, and went back to Brazil to begin a new life, allegedly with Cuban support. He ignored his original family he had left in Brazil and quickly became a close advisor of Lula da Silva, who at the time was an ascending union leader.
Lula da Silva turned into politics with the creation of the Workers Party in the eighties, and since then became a reference of Brazilian politics. On the fifth attempt with different coalitions he finally was elected president at the end of 2001, taking office January 2002, with Dirceu as his most trusted advisor.
Dirceu's office, from where he created and manipulated all the schemes to ensure funds to have a necessary majority in Congress to pass legislation, was next to that of Lula da Silva, but the president at all times has declared he was unaware of what was going on.
Categories: Politics, Brazil.
Tags: Brazil, Brazil corruption, Jose Dirceu, Judge Sergio Moro, Lula da Silva, Petrobras corruption.
As Rousseff's party prepares to mount a massive rally on 1st June, I ask a simple question for Brasiliero to answer.
Is there any member of the PT party in public life who isn't bent?
I don't rule out any interpretation of the word "bent".
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The Chief Crook Lula must be anxious to gain 'permission' from the new 'government' for free passage from the Palace to the airport so he and his brrod can piss off to Italy.
Hasn't ity got enough crooks of it's own, they don't need another bunch?
May 19th, 2016 - 05:30 pm 0
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Great! Hopefully, that's just the beginning. So when are they going return the loot?
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Reading Family Aid receives The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
Reading Family Aid are thrilled to have been honoured with The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.
The Charity began operating in the 1950s and became a registered charity in 1993. In the 1950s, we were helping a handful of families and the first outing recorded cost just £10. More recently, we have been helping up to 1000 families each year and, despite the challenges of 2020, we were still able to provide over 1400 children with gifts at Christmas with our generous supporters helping us raise over £33,000.
Reading Family Aid is one of 241 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year. The number of nominations remains high year on year, showing that the voluntary sector is thriving and full of innovative ideas to make life better for those around them.
The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service aims to recognise outstanding work by volunteer groups to benefit their local communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate The Queen's Golden Jubilee. Recipients are announced each year on 2nd June, the anniversary of The Queen's Coronation. Award winners this year are wonderfully diverse. They include volunteer groups from across the UK, including an inclusive tennis club in Lincolnshire; a children's bereavement charity in London; a support group for those living with dementia and their carers in North Yorkshire; a volunteer minibus service in Cumbria; a group supporting young people in Belfast; a community radio station in Inverness and a mountain rescue team in Powys.
Representatives of Reading Family Aid will receive the award crystal and certificate from Mr James Puxley, Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire later this summer. Furthermore, two volunteers will attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in May 2022 (depending on restrictions at the time).
Ruth Perkins, Chair says: "When we heard that we were to receive the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service we were so excited, astonished and humbled. It was a huge honour to be nominated for it but to actually receive it is overwhelming. I'd like to thank Cllr Paul Woodward, Reading's Mayor at the time, for nominating us as well as Homestart Reading for supporting his nomination.
It is fantastic that the work that the charity has been doing in the Reading area for so many years has been so publicly recognised in this way. It is thanks to all those who work tirelessly on the RFA Committee but also to all those hundreds of volunteers who have come year after year to help with the Toys and Teens Appeal, to all those who have organised toy collections, raised funds and helped in a myriad of other ways.
This award is for all of you. Every one of you has helped to put so many smiles on so many children's faces and each of you deserves this recognition. Brilliant!"


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Authorities said a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 700 block of East Lyon Street shortly after midnight Tuesday.
A 16-year-old boy was shot shortly after midnight Tuesday in central Laredo, authorities said.
Laredo police officers responded to the 700 block of East Lyon Street. A woman stated that her son had been shot.
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I'd like to ask members of this forum a favor. If I ever begin to comment on every topic on the board, regardless of the value of my comments. If I ever seem to comment just for the sake of arguing, or starting an argument. If I ever begin to continually question others advice, second guess them or flat out tell them they are wrong because in my mind my way is best. Please, please, somebody stop me because I find it very annoying and wouldn't want any of my respected fellow members here on this forum to have to put up with it. I can take a hint.
I knew I liked you, but now you have been elevated even further. I think that it's time for me to move on.
Hopefully Bill will leave this thread active long enough for good folks to POLITELY explain what the problem is. That might help you.
Well, now I see that you changed your post as you like to do.
You posted that you would be "Happy to help me leave" - then you pulled your classic 180 degree turn.
I will politely back out of this conversation and let you play your games - in a place that most of do take seriously.
The virus has mutated, I'm pretty sure of that, I've used all the antibiotics at my disposal, perhaps someone else has some available, they would need to be pretty strong as the mutation is not responding to the common over the counter types.
Honesty, while difficult, it's best just to ignore them (or the specific post). This behavior is usually seeking attention, be it positive or negative.
That being said, I have so enjoyed my time (many, many hours) spent on this forum since I've joined. I've learned so much and discovered there's so much more to learn! I appreciate all the "useful" posts, not so much the ones described above.
Completely agree, this is the best quality forum for solar and a nice amount of traffic from across the world. It's also amazing to be hosted by such a great solar retailer.
I started on another forum before arriving here (I won't mention the name) and one of the first responses I received was that my system "was too small to bother talking about". I've never seen that attitude here; systems of all sizes and complexities are respected.


The Bolts looks good this year. But good enough?
The Kansas City Chiefs offense is very good.
The Chargers are an LA team again for the first time since 1960, and I think they should go back to San Diego.
This was the Chargers first game in LA since 1960, and they shouldn't have come back.


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On Sunday, Max Verstappen once again proved his potentiality as a champion of the future with a commanding victory for…
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On Sunday, Max Verstappen once again proved his potentiality as a champion of the future with a commanding victory for Red Bull in an astonishing and crash-hit Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. He twice passed newly-crowned six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in a tough contest that had two safety car interventions and saw the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc clash and retire, ahead of gaining the eighth victory of his career.
This season, his third win also made up for his disappointment in last year's race in Brazil when he was hoping to win but a late accident ruined his hopes of victory. Ahead of his former Red Bull team-mate Pierre Gasly, he made the most of the pole position and finished a dominant winner.
They delivered a Honda-powered one-two for the Japanese company for the first time since the heyday of local hero Ayrton Senna. Frenchman Gasly came home 0.062 seconds ahead of Hamilton, who became third for Mercedes but was demoted to seventh following a post-race stewards' investigation after crashing with luckless Thai driver Alexander Albon, the man who replaced Gasly at Red Bull, in the final laps.
"Lewis was very quick," said Verstappen. "So I had to keep pushing all the time. He pitted early so we had to be on top of our pit-stops and we had a good move on him.
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Verstappen 'flat out'.
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Welcome to Notre Dame Academy's Athletic Department. The athletic programs at Notre Dame Academy are built to allow each student-athlete the chance to succeed on the court, field, track, pool, or floor. Whether it is on the court, in the classroom, or out in the community, the Notre Dame Academy student-athlete is an example of determination, courage, and respect. We have athletic opportunities for all of our students to be involved in. We want all students to experience.....THE IRISH WAY.
While we want all of our student-athletes at Notre Dame Academy to "Play Like A Champion", we also want them to live like a champion, compete like a champion, and be a member of the community like a champion. To that end, all of our athletic programs encompass skill development in their specific areas but also character development to focus on developing the whole athlete, leadership, competitive drive, and a sense of community.
Starting in lower school, our students have the chance to compete recreationally in flag football, Catholic Metro League Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer, as well as participate in intramural track and field events. When student athletes get to middle school, the teams are starting to incorporate skills, drills, and concepts that their respective varsity coaches would like to see for their team. These middle school teams are a great time for our student-athletes to learn how to compete but also how to be a Notre Dame Academy Student-Athlete on the field, in the community, and in the classroom. Once in Upper School, our JV and Varsity teams are developing well-conditioned, high character students that can compete with class and pride on their field of play.
I am excited for the opportunity to lead this athletic department and cannot wait to see the growth that it encourages with your son or daughter at Notre Dame Academy!
Thank you to ND Academy parent, Jim Arnette, for capturing the building of our new athletic field!


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TENJO SAJIKI
Throw Away The Books, Let's Go Out on the Street
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"Typical of the company's early, crazed style is the recently reissued Throw Away The Books, originally released on their own label in 1970. Confusingly, there is a film soundtrack of the same title, but this is the extremely rare original theatrical version and contains entirely different material. Subtitled 'A High-Teen Symphony,' the performance centers around untrained adolescents reading out their own tortured, angry (and in one case, stuttering) texts and poems. Their stories of family disintegration and mother-hate, dreams and hopes for the future, and love songs to teen murderer Norio Nagayama and Mick Jagger are set to an attractively rough and ready pounding psych-rock soundtrack largely composed by organist Kuni Kawachi. Kawachi had been a member of pioneering Prog group Happenings Four and his brooding organ riffs feature throughout. As well as heavy rockers like the great opening 'Lets Go Ornette', with its ripping fuzz lead, Orff-style choral chants and motorbike effects, Kawachi was also capable of delicate, folkish pieces ideally suited for some of the company's outstanding female vocalists, several of whom developed successful singing careers outside of Tenjo Sajiki. Also of note is a track composed by a young design school dropout, Shinjuku street hippy and winner of a nationwide longhair competition, by the unlikely name of JA Caesar (Tenjo Sajiki also had its own Sinatra and Salvador Dali). Set to a simple handclap rhythm, Caesar's tale of the panhandling life possessed a subtle melodic strength and depth that hinted at the minor keys of traditional folk song. Caesar soon came into his own, composing all the music for Terayama's performances and films for the next decade, and finally inheriting the remnants of the troupe after Terayama's death in 1983." -- Alan Cummings, The Wire.
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Just about every Christian will have to deal with some form of illness in their life weather it be mild, severe, short or life long we need to learn how to deal with illness.
First, where did illness get its start? Who can we blame for it? Many try to blame God. Tell story about a Christian man who lost his son to cancer and how he studied the Bible for an answer and could find one that appeased him, so he blamed God and left the church.
Illness and death began in Gen. 3. The first person that caused illness was Satan. 2. The woman didn't have to heed is words but did. 3. Adam didn't have to eat the forbidden fruit, but did.
Job 2:4 So Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5 "But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!" 6 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life."
However, we learn that not even this caused Job to sin because he loved God and he was going to use his affliction to grow closer to him. However, his illness did work on his wife.
Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!" 10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Many times during the Bible times people assumed that when someone had an illness that it was because they had sinned and God was punishing them. That was Job's friends thought.
Job 4:7 Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, Those who plow iniquity And sow trouble reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, And by the breath of His anger they are consumed.
While it true on certain occasions, God would give someone an illness for the sinful behavior this was the exception not the rule. While it certainly possible for God to bring about illness is someone's life through his providence today, there would be no way for you and I could ever know or be able to say that someone was suffering an illness by the hand of God. Instead of concerning ourselves about things that are out of our control, we should look at what good come from illnesses.
1. Illness can become a humbling experience and make you appreciate life more and realize how important each day is.
2. It you use your illness right you can use it to grow closer and more dependent upon God. That what Paul did.
2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Tell story about lady who had to stop working because of an illness and how she told me that was the best thing that happened to her and caused her to realize how important that she was serve God more.
3. We can use our illness to teach others. Tell story about Johnny and how He did this and touched many lives as he struggled in the hospital with cancer treatment.
4. Illness can also cause your friends and your loved one to start appreciating life and the blessing that God gives. This is illustrated in Mark 2 where these 4 men were determined to get the paralytic man to Jesus.
Now lets take a look at some of things we can focus in on to help us during our time of affliction.
1. God loves and he doesn't like to see anyone in pain. We can see how much compassion He has for the afflicted through His Son.
Matthew 14:14 And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.
Matthew 20:29 Now as they went out of Jericho, a great multitude followed Him. 30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!" 31 Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!" 32 So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, "What do you want Me to do for you?" 33 They said to Him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." 34 So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.
2. No matter how bad our illness may be, we need remind ourselves that God will be with us through it all.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. Sometimes our illness can seem like it lasting forever, but we need to realize just how temporary it is compared to life in eternity.
2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
While we may suffer now, we can always keep in mind that wonderful place called heaven.
Revelation 21:4 "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."
Another important thing that will help us during our time of illness in our brothers and sisters in Christ. In fact, as Christians we should be following Jesus example and have compassion for those who are suffering both Christians and non-Christians and we should do what we can to help them, but especially those who belong to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:25 there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
1. We need to encourage the sick to draw strength from God.
2. We need to visit the sick.
3. We can help them out by mowing the grass, or getting food for them etc..
4. We can pray for them. James 5:13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray.
If we will apply all these methods the Bible teaches about dealing with illness, we will always be able to use illness to help us to grow closer to God and to each other. I would like to close this lesson with one of my favorite passages.


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