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Now for the fishing conditions. The river is at 386 CFS, 68'F and clear. Summer, Good Water Flow, Smallmouths & Wet Wading on the Housy !! Who has better fishing days then this !! Start off swinging streamers to find aggressive smallmouths. During bright daytime sun light; Nymph or Swing Streamers in all the riffles and pocket water. With the water temps going up the smallmouths are in all the pools and riffles in the TMA. Trout will move into the Thermal Refuges where they are protected from fishing until 09/15/17. For streamers swing John's Lion Bugger, G's Catch'Em All, Circus Peanuts, Zonkers, Woolly Buggers, Pick Yur' Pocket, Conehead Muddlers. Swing soft hackles like; Spiders, Hares Ear or Pheasant Tails. For nymphs high stick big yellow stones with a caddis pupae dropper or fish with BH Hares Ears & BH Princes. Tune-up your fly vest by cleaning out the old leaders & tippet spools and replace them with fresh new leaders & tippet spools. Reorganize your flies into new boxes. Check to see how much floatant, lead shot, strike indicators, tippet rings are left over from last year or bring your gear into the shop and we can help you tune it up for the coming season. If your fly line is becoming stiff or cracked it's time to change it. You can bring your fly reel to the shop and we can machine wind a new fly line with free backing !! If your favorite rod has broken guides, tip tops, missing hook keeper or needs new wraps.......Bring it down to the shop for repair.
We like the following patterns: Poppers, Dry Flies: Caddis', Cahill's, Alders, Streamers: John's Lion Bugger, G's Catch'Em All, Circus Peanuts, Zonkers, Woolly Buggers, Pick Yur' Pocket, Soft Hackles: Spiders, Hares Ear or Pheasant Tails, Nymphs: Golden Stone (8-10) BH Hares Ear (12-16), BH Princes (10-16), BH Pheasant Tails (12-18), Rubber Legs (all colors), 20 Incher's (8-16) & Euro Bead Head Princes. Don't forget to try a Chartreuse or Yellow Stone Mop Fly, too. We recommend a drop rig for maximum effectiveness and use an indicator to make sure you don't miss any takes. Try the AirLock indicators if you haven't already. They are the best!
Don't forget we offer a FULL ROD REPAIR SERVICE Bamboo, Graphite and Glass. - Reel Seat Replacement, Cork Grip Repairs, Guide Replacement, Rod Wrapping and Rod Finishing. - Repair your old favorite rods and fish them again!!


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The Thin Skin of Apple Fans
DAN MITCHELL
IN his new book, "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society," Farhad Manjoo, a writer for Salon, argues that "new communications technologies are loosening the culture's grip on what people once called 'objective reality.' "
In an excerpt posted this week, he looks at an area where facts often become particularly slippery, specifically perceived bias in the news media against, of all things, a technology company: Apple.
"Last year," Mr. Manjoo writes, "I praised the iPhone in something of the way Romeo once praised Juliet: The device, I said, is revolutionary — 'it marks a new way of life. One day we'll all have iPhones, or things that aim to do what this first one does, and your life will be better for it.' "
But because he mentioned that the phone was a bit pricey, "several readers alleged that I was an Apple-hater." One wrote him to ask, "Does Salon actually pay you or are you being paid under the table by rival companies?"
Anybody who has ever written about Apple products will tell the same story — introducing even a hint of negativity into a review or article will bring down the wrath of Apple's most fanatical fans.
What explains this? Mr. Manjoo cites a study (a pdf is available here) by Robert P. Vallone, Lee Ross and Mark R. Lepper, psychologists at Stanford University, in 1985. That study measured perceptions of media bias relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People who held strong opinions on the conflict going in were more apt to perceive bias in news accounts. Pro-Palestinian subjects saw a pro-Israel bias, and vice versa.
When "a reporter, editor, news network, or pundit mentions the other side's arguments, it stings," Mr. Manjoo writes. "Psychologists call this the 'hostile media phenomenon,' and it goes far in explaining how both Apple and PC folks can see the opposite bias in the same news story."
But the phenomenon is particularly stark when it comes to opinionated reviews — however laudatory — of Apple products. That's because many Apple fans "care little for honest opinion," Mr. Manjoo writes. "They want to pick up the paper and see in it a reflection of their own nearly religious zeal for the thing they love. They don't want a review. They want a hagiography."
CUSTOMERS' DISSERVICE It may seem counterintuitive to argue that it may be better sometimes for business owners to worry more about their business than about a particular customer. But Alexander Kjerulf, a business consultant, argues just that on his Web site, Chief Happiness Officer (positivesharing.com).
Believing that "the customer is always right" is just plain wrong, he writes. He cites several examples of why companies shouldn't be spending too much time and money to make a troublesome customer happy. Some customers are simply better for business than others, he says. And it's unfair that "abusive people get better treatment and conditions than nice people."
TV WATCHES YOU Gerard Kunkel, the senior vice president for user experience at Comcast, told Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee that Comcast is experimenting with various camera technologies that will let it know who is watching television. By recognizing body forms, for example, a set-top box would make recommendations to individual viewers (newteevee.com). It could also present individually tailored advertisements, something Mr. Kunkel called the holy grail.
"Perhaps I've seen 'Enemy of the State' too many times, or perhaps I'm just naïve about the depths to which Comcast currently tracks my every move," Mr. Albrecht wrote. So "why should I trust them with my must-be-kept-secret, DVR-clogging addiction to 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' "?

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The popular TomatoUSB firmware now supports the ASUS RT-AC66U 1.75Gbps wireless router. The TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware fully supports AC-mode (802.11ac) on 80MHz channel width.
If you are looking for an easy to follow ASUS RT-AC66U TomatoUSB firmware flashing guide, this guide is for you.
Download and install the ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration Utility.
Download the latest TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware for the ASUS RT-AC66U.
Connect up the RT-AC66U to the computer.
Flash the TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware using the Firmware Restoration Utility.
You should be presented with the search results.
In the OS drop down selection box, choose the Operating System (OS) you are on (e.g. Windows 7 64-bit).
The page should refresh and shows the list of files available for your operating system.
Click on the plus (+) beside Utilities to expand the list of available downloads.
The Utilities link should expand to show a list of files available for download.
Locate the "ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration" and download it.
Proceed to install the ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration Utility by launching the downloaded utility. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration Utility.
Locate the latest build (e.g. 102-EN is newer than 100-EN).
Navigate into the folder containing the latest build.
Download the firmware (file ending with .trx). If you are not sure which to download, download the one with "AIO" in the filename.
Currently, you should have the ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration Utility installed (on your computer) and have downloaded the latest TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware. Lets proceed to the next section.
Power off the ASUS RT-AC66U.
Connect the computer (with the Firmware Restoration Utility and TomatoUSB firmware) to LAN port 1 of the ASUS RT-AC66U.
Ensure the computer is configured to use DHCP.
Press and hold on to the reset button.
Keep holding the reset button until the power led starts to blink / flash (on and off). When the power led starts flashing / blinking, release the reset button.
Launch the ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Restoration Utility on your computer.
In the Firmware Restoration Utility, browse for the TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware that you have downloaded earlier.
Start the firmware flashing process.
If a prompt appears stating that it is a incompatible firmware, acknowledge and proceed with the flash. The utility should start scanning for the RT-AC66U.
Allow the firmware flashing to complete.
Reboot / Power cycle the ASUS RT-AC66U wireless router when prompted.
After the router has completed booting up (stable led lights for wireless), power off the RT-AC66U.
While holding the WPS button, turn on the RT-AC66U.
The router should reboot once you release the WPS button.
After the router has completed booting up, navigate to the TomatoUSB web admin (http://192.168.1.1) using the default credentials (user: root, password: admin).
If you notice that your 5GHz band is not showing. You will need to do the following steps.
Using your web browser, navigate to the TomatoUSB web administration page of your ASUS RT-AC66U.
Navigate to Administration –> Configuration.
Under the "Restore Default Configuration" option, select "Erase all data in NVRAM (thorough)" and click Ok.
Once the router has finished rebooting, navigate to the TomatoUSB web administration page.
Through the TomatoUSB web administration page, reboot the router using the "Reboot…" function.
Once the router has finish rebooting, the status page should reflect the 5GHz wireless band.
Congratulations. Your ASUS RT-AC66U is installed with the latest TomatoUSB (Shibby) firmware.
Thanks for this guide. It's worth mentioning that if you're not running Windows, the restoration utility won't work.
From there you can upload the Tomato Firmware and continue with the guide.
You probably don't even need the utility on Windows either.
Confirming Andre's comments.. I was able to upgrade to TomatoUSB wirelessly from my Mac using the router's built-in firmware upgrade; no need for the Flash Restoration utility.
Thanks guys, TomatoUSB rocks on this router.
Thanks – although I restored defaults (thorough) w/o checking the 5Ghz status, and afterwards it was missing. A regular default restore had it appearing again.
Also, your Donate link doesn't work!
Great article, but what are the steps to update tomato? Do I just have to upload the newest TomatoUSB-File at "Upgrade Firmware" dialogue? Should I select "After flashing, erase all data in NVRAM memory"?
Only snag is that Asus stock firmware gave me bandwidht of 15MB (file transfer from my nas) while the tomato one reduced it to 10MB (note MBytes not Mbits).
Can I also apply this tutorial on my Asus RT-N18U router?
The TomatoUSB (Shibby) supports RT-N18U. The steps should be roughly the same.


The eight CCGs across Lancashire: East Lancashire; Blackburn with Darwen; Lancashire North; West Lancashire; Blackpool; Fylde and Wyre; Chorley and South Ribble; and Greater Preston, agreed on the need to review and harmonise a number of their clinical policies.
In order to ensure that the polices are consistent and offer a fair approach across the county, a working group consisting of representatives from each of the CCGs, along with Public Health Consultants and other health representatives, have agreed to review and wherever possible develop joint polices across Lancashire. Public forums to discuss the set of principles that underpin the current policies were held some months ago. Now the CCGs across Lancashire wish to hold a series of focus groups to discuss two of the clinical policies up for review. These are assisted conception services (including IVF) and cosmetic procedures.
Dr Chris Clayton, Clinical Chief Officer, from NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG said: "CCGs are stewards of the local NHS and as such we are responsible for commissioning a wide range of clinical services, including secondary (hospital), community and mental health services for your area and for paying for those services, for and on behalf of, the local population. In some areas this also includes commissioning GP services.
Assisted conception services and cosmetic procedures are two of the broader clinical policies up for review and, should the draft policies be implemented, there may be a change in the service or treatments currently provided.
Members of the public are invited to attend focus group sessions to learn more about the revised clinical policies and give their views on them. Comments will be fed back to the CCG and the working group as part of the development process. Booking a place on the focus group is advised as space may be limited.
Further opportunities will be made available for public involvement and feedback on other individual clinical policies (such as varicose vein and carpel tunnel) as and when they are developed and available for discussion.


A. General. The university has agreements in place to permit acceptance of VISA, MasterCard, Vandal Debit Card, Discover, debit cards, and check cards for payment in the sale of goods or services. Transactions are normally processed via electronic terminals that are rented from the university's primary bank and require a dedicated telephone line. Departments accepting credit cards are required to pay the cost of the equipment, telephone lines and the applicable merchant discount assessed by the credit card companies.


The process behind "Sing a new song"
I have been on a most interesting musical journey this past week.
I am currently in the studio recording with some great musicians. For at least the last few years I have been wanting to do an album of some of the best, most sung songs that I have written for worship and it seems that now is the right time. Some of these songs are knocking on 20 years old so they are familiar friends to me. What has been fascinating through the studio journey is that these familiar tunes have become encompassed by whole new music arrangements and moods which have taken them to a new place. They sing the same but feel so fresh.
Incidentally, the process has been enabled by several insertions of good, hot tea which seems to work wonders for musicians' fingers and brains. Could this indicate we do church the wrong way around? Maybe tea, coffee and biscuits should come first – food for thought.
1 We just don't rehearse enough.
Many churches are happy to go with the idea the the musicians turn up when they will and all muck in together to create a joyful cacophony and alas this usually means the music being delivered to the standard of the lowest common denominator. I like the idea that musicians arrive sufficiently early to run through all of the songs before a service. But this should be a bare minimum, checking links between songs and making sure everyone knows what they are doing. To expand repertoire and style a team of musicians need to gather away from the pressures of church service during the week and spend quality time learning the songs so that they become embedded in our musicianship and vocalisation including that we have learned to play and sing them without charts or lyrics.
2 When we rehearse we just don't do it well enough.
Often the way it works is this: in rehearsal we get a chord chart and aim to go from start to finish. If we can do that then the song is done and dusted, ready for public consumption. No wonder then that they all end up sounding the same. We are going to have to learn to dig deeper. That will mean a change of approach to the point where we all come having prepared the songs having already learned to play and sing them ourselves. The point of our rehearsal now is not to learn the song but to learn how WE are going to play the song, ie we are going to work on arrangements. This will require an investment in time before rehearsal preparing our own charts and if necessary learning new chords or practising difficult transitions. Could I suggest it means investing time into listening to and learning songs from a variety of styles so that this can be brought to bear in any new arrangement.
So, back to my time in the studio: working with some top class musicians I have been challenged musically as the songs have veered off on unexpected and delightful pathways and as a result have had to relearn songs that I wrote. I could no longer play them the way I always had. Chord choices and voicings had to change to accommodate a new approach, along with strumming patterns which now needed to vibe in a different way. Whilst the tune stayed the same greater attention to the detail of phrasing and pitching of notes had to happen since this was a recording – once captured it will be that way for all time so it's got to be right and it's got to be good. The shaping of the vocal tone too came under scrutiny with choices on the part of voice to use and how hard to sing in order to get the he right tone. This is all valuable grist for the mill of singing the songs live. I can't just rock up and sing any more, I have to think about how I am singing. The chords are not the same so the old embedded ideas have to be overwritten and you know what that means? I have to rehearse, yes, even my own songs!!
So let me leave those thoughts with you along with the encouragement to examine carefully your own patterns of rehearsal along with your musical delivery when you play. Let's have a conversation then about the costs of rehearsal pinned against its benefits.
I love to Worship God and to help others do the same.
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Dave, your points about rehearsal seem to me to be obviously right, and I found myself asking,"Oh, isn't that what other peoplle do?" Of course, I guess it's pretty tough if you have to play every week (and I don't see how that can really be a good thing), but if you are fortunate enough to have enough musicians in your church so that you only have to play every few weeks, then it's a great opportunity to use the in between time to meet up with your band and play. That's what I do with my small group, and we don't always play plugged in – it is just as valuable to have an accoustic practice in a living room with a cajon, and it's often more relaxed and productive. I get the impression that some churches have such large bands that it must be very hard to get people together to practice in this way. Maybe smaller, more intimate music teams make life easier,as people resourses can be more efficiently used. I'm just amazed when I see Hillsong-type videos on Youtube, with about 20 poeple on stage (it seems). We produce perfectly good sound with 4 -5 people (max), and the personal dimension remains.Regarding keys and arrangements, I like to have that largely thought out before the rehearsal in the week (Monday for us), and then also to play through on Sunday morning before the service, where we meet 90 minutes before the service begins at 10:00. It's good to have the best part of a week to practice at home, but even a Friday night is OK. I couldn't imagine any possibility of delivering quality, in an atmosphere of worship if we only got together on the Sunday….
I hope your CD brings many blessings to many people, and that the creative juices keep flowing!


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Popular comedian and television host Sunil Grover, has been roped in to play the male lead in National Award winning filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj's upcoming comedy drama, Chhuriyaan. But sources close to the project say that Sunil is not paired opposite the two lead actresses - Sanya Malhotra and Radhika Madan. "In fact, the makers are currently on the lookout for two actors to play their husbands," confirm sources.
Acclaimed actor Vijay Raaz who was last seen working with Vishal in Dedh Ishqiya (2014), will be seen as father of female leads in in the film.
Sunil is currently seen in newly launched web series De Dhana Dhan, which is mix of cricket and comedy.


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Anna van Buerenplein 2362595 DE 's-Gravenhage	€ 2.750,- p.m.
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Stairs to 1st floor. Modern toilet and basin. Beautiful large cupboard with washing machine and dryer built in. Completely new kitchen with all modern appliances and entrance to a sunny balcony. Very spacious lounge/dining room (ca 14.05x3.75) with original ceilings and separation sliding doors. Little study room(ca 3.35x2.15).
Stairs to 2nd floor. Landing with 2nd luxury toilet and cupboards. Large and very light front room with large cupboards. Very modern bathroom with walk in shower and a separate bath tub. Master bedroom with large double doors to sunny balcony (SE). Small study/bedroom at the back.


Hi! I'm Jason. I've been playing guitar and bass for over 15 years and I would love to help you or your child on the journey!
I've been helping people learn guitar throughout my career but have spent the last 3 years officially teaching students. I've loved helping my students relate their current musical knowledge to the guitar, help them learn their favorite songs, and push the boundaries of what they thought was possible!
My training comes from years of self-study, lessons, classes and most importantly, performance experience on the bandstand with other musicians.
I'm personable and laid back. I see my job as a coach and a source of encouragement. My teaching style is flexible, customized to the student, and goal-oriented.
My high school punk band.
After his first lesson, my son was very excited. He felt motivated and expressed that Jason would hold him accountable for his practice time. Jason was encouraging and has my son very eager for his next lesson.
Jason is a fabulous instructor, very easy going and willing to listen to his students and help them learn what they're interested in. He's been giving my daughter lessons for a year now and she looks forward to them every week.
Jason has been giving lessons to my 10 year old daughter for about 6 months. We've been really pleased with the progress she's making and she really enjoys her lessons. Jason does a great job working with her to make practice fun and keeping her engaged.


Dr. Eric Gifford is currently leading the MSD Research & Development IT organization in Singapore. Previous to this assignment he worked at Merck Research Labs in Boston, MA and West Point, PA applying machine learning and data analytics to translational medicine problems including drug safety. He joins with a strong commitment to advancing the science and relevance of remote patient monitoring to gain new scientific insights. He is also a strong advocate for patient involvement and citizen science based approaches to discover improved treatments and cures for unmet medical needs. Eric joined MSD in 2013 from Pfizer where he led a number of initiatives in computational ADME/Tox searching for relationships between pharmaceutical agents, biological targets and physiological responses. Today his primary focus is on the digital transformation of drug discovery and development.
Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation and Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. She has been involved in research on rehabilitation for many years both in the development of services and the evaluation of innovative psychological treatments for psychosis. She founded and is now Co-Director of the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), which employs expert researchers with experience of using mental health services.
She edits the Journal of Mental Health and is NIHR Senior Spokesperson on Mental Health Research. She was awarded a Damehood recently for her work in mental health.
Sara is a post-doctoral research associate in the psychology department at King's College London. She facilitates patient involvement in the RADAR-CNS project. This includes the co-ordination of our patient advisory board. Her role also involves developing a better understanding of processes that improve engagement with mobile technologies in healthcare, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Sara is a qualified clinical psychologist and has a PhD in neuropsychology. In her previous work she has researched the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of e-health interventions for treatment of mental health problems, including symptoms experienced by people with chronic physical health problems (such as acquired brain injury/stroke). She also has experience of evaluating the psychometric properties of measurement tools in psychology.
Sara has an interest in bringing her knowledge of clinical psychology and behavioural science to the field of e-health with the aim of better understanding the implementation of novel interventions and assessment resources, including remote measurement technology. An important part of this is applying a person-centred approach that focuses on the elements of care, support and treatment that matter most to the patient, their family and carers.
Chris Hollis is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham and Director of the NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative. He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, where he was awarded an MRC Training Fellowship and completed his PhD on the long-term adult outcome adolescent-onset psychosis. As Director of MindTech, Chris is passionate about harnessing digital technology and building its evidence-base in mental healthcare by bringing together patients, clinicians, academics and technology developers. He was lead author of 'Technological Innovations in Mental Healthcare' in the 2013 Annual Report of England's Chief medical Officer. Chris chaired the NICE Guideline for schizophrenia and psychosis in children and young people (2011-13) and is currently a member of the NICE ADHD (Update) Guideline Committee. He is a member of Innovate UK's Digital Health Strategy Group.
Lies graduated as a clinical psychologist at the university of Leuven in Belgium. After her studies she went to Maastricht University where she finished her PhD at the faculty of Mental Health and NeuroScience (around imaging markers of Alzheimers disease). After a short period of being a post doc she decided to continue her career outside the academic setting and joined Janssen in 2014, started as an MSL, and promoted to Medical advisor in 2017. Lies is now working for 5 years in medical affairs at Janssen.
Jenny Jamnadas-Khoda is a Research Fellow in the NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, based in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. She trained in health services research at ScHARR, University of Sheffield before embarking on clinical neuroscience training at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, where she worked for four years in the field of epilepsy research. More recently, Jenny has worked at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, on a wide range of applied health research projects. This included a fellowship at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden exploring cognitive accessibility and technological use when ageing.
Jenny has extensive experience working with patients, public, healthcare professionals and service providers, and was elected a trustee of the charity Epilepsy Action from 2012-2016. Within the RADAR-CNS project, Jenny will be involved in Work Package 9 Clinical Pathways, looking at healthcare professionals' experience and perception of remote measuring technology in clinical practice.
Michael is Senior Research Fellow in the NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, based in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK.
He has spent 30 years in research and teaching in the areas of healthcare technology assessment, electronic engineering and computer science.
Additionally he is a member of Faculty of Engineering Bioengineering research group, holds an honorary contract with Nottingham Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is Health Economist in the Centre for Healthcare Equipment and Technology Adoption (CHEATA) based in the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
André W. Broekmans MD PhD is currently Director Regulatory Science at Lygature, The Netherlands.
He has more than twenty-five years regulatory experience, both with the Dutch regulatory agency (as Head of Clinical Assessment and as Chief Executive Officer resp., Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board) and with major pharmaceutical companies (senior management positions with MSD, Schering Plough, Organon). He was successful in gaining regulatory approval for a great number of medicines (small molecules, vaccines, biotech products). In all companies he was involved medical technology initiatives.
He built up his regulatory policy expertise by participating in EMA activities (as chair of the Management Board), ICH Steering Committee (as EFPIA representative) and international trade associations.
André has practiced as a general internist at the Leiden University Hospital where he also did his PhD in thrombosis research.
Steve is a regulatory professional with more than 25 years of applied strategic and tactical delivery of knowledge and experience in International Medical Technology Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Project Management working in various medical technologies including drug/device combination delivery systems, borderline drug/devices, software medical devices, digital health including 'Apps', In-Vitro Diagnostics/companion diagnostics, medical electrical equipment, cosmetics, consumer health products and food supplements.


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Kate Mara and Ellen Page Are Tiny Detectives
Move over, McConaughey.
By Melissa Locker
While everyone waits for HBO's True Detective to announce its rumored female lead, we'll just sit here watching Tiny Detectives over and over again.
The new spoof from Funny or Die stars Kate Mara and Ellen Page as two pint-sized detectives who may or may not sleep in a shoebox and definitely have an aversion to stepladders. While their diminutive stature is detrimental to their police work—since they can't see a suspect's face and need a boost to see some blood splatters—but they can certainly dish out attitude with the big boys.
As for real True Detective news, HBO announced that season two would revolve around "three police officers and a career criminal [who] must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder." So far__Colin Farrell__ and Vince Vaughn have been officially cast in the new season of the dark crime drama, with Vaughn playing the career criminal. Farrell is confirmed as one of the police officers and it is expected that he will be joined on the force by Friday Night Lights veteran Taylor Kitsch.
As for female leads, Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss, The Notebook's Rachel McAdams and even Kiera Knightley have all been rumored to be in contention for the new season. After Tiny Detectives, though, it's clear that Mara and Page should be considered contenders as well.
Melissa Locker
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For those who have been following my photo posts on my other social media sites, you know I'm all about the joy of gardening. I confess, this summer has had me busy with the day job and I've been a bit absent from sharing the summer plants.
Today I walked through the garden and thought how the fluttering grasses that are in full harvest bloom bring their own grace to the day.
The blue sky with clouds paint a lovely backdrop for the autumn leaves and trees.
My holly bush is alive with its brilliant red berries to greet the next season.
The new hollyhock growth pushes through the crinkled fallen leaves with the promise of a new day.
Thanks for coming along with me through the garden. There is always something that delights every season of the year.


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How to reduce 'collateral damage' from blockbuster cyberattacks
Bryson Bort February 9, 2018
Spring is a time of rebirth, but for cybersecurity last year, it delivered a crippling blow that continues to have serious ramifications. Thanks to a couple computer exploits stolen from the U.S. government, the WannaCry cyberattack in May affected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, and caused estimated collateral damages of up to $4 billion.
It's very likely that more nation-state and military-grade capabilities and exploits will be stolen, exposed, and released, especially as the cost of cybercrime continues to drop, and the skills necessary to carry out these crimes are easily rented on the Dark Web.
WannaCry, NotPetya, and other blockbuster cyberattacks have spread beyond the usual targets of businesses or governmental organizations to victims who are presumably tangential to attackers' primary goals. More than ever before, these attacks are impacting consumers. And their rapid spread, scale, and breadth heralds a future where this is the new norm.
This should be a wake-up call for all organizations and the security teams that defend them: They need to find better ways to secure their systems and, by extension, consumers. They need to stay informed, expand their thinking and testing, and act quickly to direct their defenses before the next news headline targets them and those they aim to protect.
Historically, organizations perceived themselves as safer from certain types of attacks, and they adhered to a schedule of patching and updates released by their vendors. When planning to tackle security problems, they focused on prioritizing the myriad risks they face. This meant identifying, exploiting, and patching vulnerabilities, most often through penetration testing or red teaming.
The current paradigm shift in cyberattacks should prompt organizations to think differently about vulnerability assessment. And the first step is recognizing that today, we are all in this together. No one is safe, and reactions to threats must be swift.
Consumers are not wholly off the hook, of course, but organizations—from companies to government agencies—bear the most responsibility here.
Look at the Mirai campaign, which hijacked hundreds of thousands of consumer home devices such as Wi-Fi routers and video cameras. They were vulnerable because there were more than 60 device types that had default usernames and passwords. You could blame consumers for not updating the credentials themselves, but it's very easy for manufacturers to provide device-unique credentials. And in some cases, consumers aren't given an option to update them.
The best solution for consumers is, whenever possible, to personalize log-in information, check for and update patches regularly, and ensure that devices are behind a personal firewall, which can prevent simple, scripted fingerprinting. But ultimately, organizations should be held accountable for the security of the products and services they sell and support.
The "just patch your systems" advice—commonly doled out to consumers and businesses alike—is easy to say but hard to follow for large, complex organizations that have numerous variables and configurations to validate before rolling out a significant change. System administrators are generally willing to roll some security dice before taking their systems offline. And critical-infrastructure systems such as power plants, and water and sewage treatment facilities, are designed to operate for years with near-zero downtime. They may not even be patchable.
Fortunately, information about new leaks becomes democratized "buzz," commonly and quickly available. There is value in such pre-emptive knowledge; directed defensive measures can be launched before new threats are used.
Organizations, for example, can immediately factor new exploits into ongoing penetration-testing activities to understand how they affect their IT infrastructure—and ultimately the consumers they serve. They can expand their red-team playbook activities to include brainstorming sessions on out-of-the-box scenarios and responses to new threats. And importantly, they can keep corporate leadership in the loop.
There are hard costs to assessment programs, and each organization must determine the appropriate trade-offs between the risks and costs it is willing to tolerate. Penetration-testing costs generally start at $20,000, and red teams start at $50,000 for basic services. They scale up from there.
Proactively engaging an organization's leadership will help secure resource investment proportional to the threat. That's more than just cash: Organizations need to invest in becoming more aware of newly leaked threats and exploits, and in improving their ability to quickly test exposure and quickly respond.
But first, they must acknowledge that they are not safe.
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Bryson Bort
Bryson is the founder and CEO of Scythe, founder and chairman of Grimm, and founding member of the ICS Village, a nonprofit organization advancing education and awareness of security for industrial control systems. Prior to launching cybersecurity consultancies Scythe and Grimm, Bryson led an elite research and development division in the Department of Defense that directly contributed to U.S. national-security priorities and interests, and served as a U.S. Army officer. He holds master's degrees in telecommunications management from the University of Maryland, and business administration from the University of Florida.


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Michelle Yvonne DeFaut Dismuke, 63 of New Bern, NC passed away on December 23, 2022. She was predeceased by her mother Mary A Yost DeFaut, father James H. DeFaut, and son James M. Lockhart. Michelle left behind her husband Zadock Dismuke, son Phillip Crabtree (Holly Dunn), daughter Emily Lockhart Stevens (Justin Stevens), daughter-in-law Rebekah Simpson Lockhart and beloved grandchildren Ruby Stevens (4 months), Chase Dunn (10 years), Hadley Crabtree (11 years), and Chloe Mederos-Dunn (17 years).
Michelle was a strong-willed, passionate and intelligent woman who had many talents. She began her career as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at the Cleveland Clinic. She continued to work for several state agencies between Pennsylvania and North Carolina including the prison systems and hospice care. Besides being a registered nurse, supervisor and consultant she would later go on to gain her Cosmetology Degree. After completing her certifications she opened her own salon. The people she worked with there were not just her employees, they became like family.
If Michelle wasn't at work she was on her Sail Boat with Zadock and the kids. Being on the water was her favorite place to be. She had many other hobbies throughout her years from knitting to antiquing with her best friend Ricky, and she always made time to color and complete crafts with her granddaughter Hadley.
Michelle loved her family but she adored her animals. She brought in many dogs, cats, birds, snakes, ferrets, and bunnies throughout her years, but her two Chihuahua's Max and Mya were her greatest furry companions. They kept her company throughout the day and they always wanted to be on her lap or snuggled up beside her.
The funeral will be a private ceremony with only close family members present. In place of sending flowers, we invite you to make a donation to the Cape Fear Parrot Sanctuary, Great Dane Rescue NC & SC, or the Chihuahua Rescue and Transport Southeast.


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Q: What is wrong with my while loop in this java program? When I run the program it runs the else part and executes but on the if part it just keeps looping and doesn't stop until I have to forcibly stop it. I'm trying to give it parameters on the choice from 1 to 4 and parameters to meters that doesn't go under 1. is there an alternative to having the parameters?
import java.util.*;

public class Project4

{
    public static void showKilometers(double meters) //this is a parameterized function

    {
        double kilometers = meters * 0.001;
        System.out.println(meters +" meters is " + kilometers + " kilometers.");
    }

    public static void showInches(double meters)
    {
        double inches = meters * 39.37;
        System.out.println(meters +" meters is " + inches + " inches.");
    }

    public static void showFeet(double meters)
    {
        double feet = meters * 3.281;
        System.out.println(meters +" meters is " + feet + " feet.");
    }

    public static void quitProgram()
    {
        System.out.println("Goodbye!");
        System.out.println(0);
    }
    public static void showMenu()
    {
        System.out.println(" 1. Convert to kilometers ");
        System.out.println(" 2. Convert to inches ");
        System.out.println(" 3. Convert to feet ");
        System.out.println(" 4. Quit the program ");
        System.out.println(" ");
    }

    public static void main (String [] args)
    {

        double meters;
        int choice;

        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

        System.out.println("Enter a distance in meters: ");
        meters = keyboard.nextDouble();
        while (meters <=0 || meters > 0)
        {
            if (meters > 0)
            {
                showMenu();
                meters = keyboard.nextDouble();
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("Please enter a number greater than 1");
                meters = keyboard.nextDouble();
                showMenu();
            }
        }

        choice = keyboard.nextInt();
        switch(choice) //note the use of switch case
            {
            case 1: showKilometers(meters);
            break;
            case 2:showInches(meters);
            break;
            case 3:showFeet(meters);
            break;
            case 4:
            quitProgram();
            }
    }
}

A: It's an infinite loop. You might as well write while (true)
Try either while (meters <= 0) or while (meters >0)
Or:
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

System.out.println("Enter a distance in meters: ");
meters = keyboard.nextDouble();
while (meters < 1 || meters.isNaN())
{
    System.out.println("Please enter a number greater than 1");
    meters = keyboard.nextDouble();
    showMenu();
}

Your output also specifies "Greater than 1", so your condition needs to agree.

A:  while (meters <=0 || meters > 0) is an infinite loop

A: The condition specified in the loop is contradictory. The condition must be used like this :
while (meters >= 0)
{
    // logical statements here if the condition is satisfied
}
else
{
    // logical statements here if the condition is not satisfied
}

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Suggestion cards provide a means to select relevant suggestions for transform steps to apply to the data that you select in the Transformer page. The suggestions vary depending on the data you have selected. You can then use the cards to preview the results in the data grid, so that you are confident that the proposed transformation works for your dataset.
Suggestion cards are displayed in the context panel you select something in the data.
Tip: As you mouse over areas of the Transformer page and its panels, the Lightbulb icon appears next to the cursor to indicate that suggestions are available. Select the data to see the suggestion cards.
Hover over different suggestions. A mini-preview appears to the left of the suggestion.
Click a different suggestion in the same card. In this case, you might click the first suggestion in the Replace card, so that you can remove zip code.
Tip: Among the suggestion cards, scroll down to see other suggestion cards that are off-screen. If it is present, a See all link displays more suggestions in that card. Variants further down in the suggestion card typically become more specific in their changes to the dataset or rarer in their usage.
Modify the selected transform. To edit the step, click Edit. You can fine-tune parameters of the transformation. See Transform Builder.
Tip: If you select one or more columns, you can apply column menu transformations immediately through the context menu in the panel. Some column menu items may not apply to multi-column selections or columns of a specific data type. For more information, see Column Menus.
To apply a suggestion, select the data, and then choose the suggestion to apply from the list of cards. Click Add.
If needed, you can customize the selected suggestion. Click Edit. See Transform Builder.
To generate a new set of suggestion cards, click Cancel. Then, select a different set of columns or values within a column.


VAKS (Vans And KitchenS) is our way of abbreviating what is often called a 'soup kitchen' - a place where food and drink is offered to those needing a feed for free or at a reasonably low price and some home grown TLC.
The goal is simply to provide a 'one-stop-shop' online resource for anyone seeking information about a van or kitchen nationwide. It is primarily designed for anyone needing to know where a van or a kitchen is operating nearby.
The goal is also to promote the services of each of the providers who have given their information to VAKS, without imposing on their autonomy or their organisational structure. It also offers the added advantage of being a notice board for the provider to post information and updates about themselves and their services.
vaks.org.au is not a Provider, but a community service website. It has been constructed for ease of use by anyone needing to know the when, where, what and who of a van or kitchen, and has been designed with users, providers, welfare agencies, public organisations and the general public in mind.
In 2005, ChaplainWatch, as part of its NightWatch Project identified that the food vans in inner Brisbane lacked a central 'when, where, what and who' van list for use by beneficiaries, welfare agencies and organisations.
As a result, between January 2006 – September 2008, ChaplainWatch began producing hard copy versions of the VAKS list. This list was circulated to a small group of people and welfare agencies, which allowed more effective communication and co-ordination of the vans and kitchens.
With the introduction of the VAKS website in October 2008, this unique site has been able to reach a broader audience – further meeting the needs of the homeless, service providers and welfare agencies in our community.
In 2018, VAKS formed a partnership with Community Information Support Services to enhance the features and usability of the website and to provide greater reach to the target community who use this valuable service.
www.vaks.org.au™ © is an online web site developed, maintained, underwritten and made available by ChaplainWatch Inc™ (www.chaplainwatch.org.au) for all to freely use. VAKS™ is working in partnership with Community Information Support Services (www.communityinfo.org.au) – the one place to find online community information.


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Karnataka considers tax breaks, firms who produce retrofit kits to encourage EV adoption
The Karnataka government intends to provide incentives to electric vehicle (EV) companies who convert petrol-powered two- and three-wheelers.
A senior government official said, "We want to look at it from the demand side, and give a policy push to drive demand," he was involved in stakeholder discussions. Officials hinted at giving incentives to entrepreneurs as part of a policy push, but they stressed that the discussions are still in the early stages.
When it comes to electric vehicles and battery storage policy in 2017, Karnataka was ahead of the game. The government, on the other hand, is dissatisfied with the rate at which stakeholders are adopting electric vehicles, and it is in this context that a policy nudge is being considered.
The government is working on measures to drive the transportation industry toward clean-energy choices as a method to combat vehicle pollution, according to Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani. Electric cars, he added, have a bright future since renewable energy is abundant, and EVs will have lower operating costs, making them more appealing to consumers. Many firms in places like Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and Pune have been working on conversion kits that can be retrofitted into automobiles to transform them into either fully electric or hybrid vehicles. These businesses are hoping that rising gasoline prices would encourage a big number of consumers to convert to electric vehicles.
"People won't switch to EV until their existing scooter's life is done. The best way to accelerate an EV is to retrofit it to EV," said HR Vivekananda, CEO at Bounce, a ride-share company that has already transformed about 100 bikes into EVs. "For this to be encouraged, subsidy on retrofit is required."
The industries department is optimistic that it will be able to get the necessary regulatory approvals for such modified cars, allowing them to quickly gain market acceptability. It intends to concentrate on two- and three-wheelers for the time being.
Officials from the industries department stated that once a policy framework is finalized, Nirani and the finance department would review it before presenting it to the Cabinet for approval.
If the proposed strategy involves government money, the finance department will have to provide allocations, according to the source.
Vivekananda said, "Millions of petrol scooters can be quickly converted to electric and it also comes with the lowest carbon footprint. It's also an effective way of scrapping."


Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen #6) After her last mission tested the limits of her humanity and took her out of this world, Secret's friends, determined to keep her safe from her old nemesis Alexandre Peyton, keep ushering her from one babysitter to the next. Couch surfing would be a lot more fun if Alexandre would let up on her long enough to allow her to get in some alone time with her lovers. Including Holden, her self-appointed shadow. As if living out of coffin isn't bad enough, Secret literally brings down the house while hunting a rogue, causing the council to exile her from New York—for her own safety, of course. With her list of people to trust getting shorter and shorter, Secret ends up embroiled in a mystery to find a vampire warden gone AWOL and a missing artifact. Things go from bad to worse when she falls into the hands of a man who will prove that humans can be the worst monsters of them all. Warning: Contains a cross-country journey, an unexpected family reunion, heated lovers' embraces and a hell of a lot of trouble.


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Q: How to disable KEY-ENTER behaviour in Eclipse RCP PreferencePage in my application I have several preference-pages. In some of them the user has to edit a few items. If the user uses the Enter key-KEY the whole Preference Dialog closes, caused by the fact, that the OK-Button has the focus.
So how can I disable this behaviour?
I can set the focus on any item on the page, but pressing Enter forces the dialog to close.

A: Extend the default Dialog and override the following method.
@Override
protected void createButtonsForButtonBar(Composite parent) {
    // Its the same as super.createButtonsForButtonBar(), but makes no default buttons by sending false.
    createButton(parent, IDialogConstants.OK_ID, IDialogConstants.OK_LABEL, false);
    createButton(parent, IDialogConstants.CANCEL_ID, IDialogConstants.CANCEL_LABEL, false);
}

A: You can use this code on your target widget
widget.addListener(SWT.Traverse, new Listener() {
    public void handleEvent(Event e) {
    if (e.detail == SWT.TRAVERSE_RETURN)
        e.doit = false;
    }
});


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James Bodenstedt is the former President and CEO of MUY! Brands, an operator of franchised restaurants, including Wendy's and the Yum! Brands of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and others. He and his wife are major donors to President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign, donating more than $1 million. MUY! Brands and its subsidiaries were among the first companies to receive coronavirus relief aid by the Trump administration.

Early life
Bodenstedt discovered his passion for business while working for McDonalds as a teen, taking their management training program at the age of 15  and by 17, he was a general manager. James would later go on to receive his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from University of Texas at San Antonio and in 2003 founded MUY Brands.

Career
Bodenstedt was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of R&L Foods in 2010 while building MUY.

MUY! Brands
MUY! Brands (also known as MUY! Companies, MUY Brands, Muy Restaurants, Muy Consulting, or Muy Cos) is based in San Antonio, Texas. Bodenstedt purchased 18 Texas locations in 2003 to start MUY!. By 2010 it had 118 locations, by 2012 it had 230 locations in Texas and New Mexico, and at least 635 locations by 2016, with annual revenue over $630 million. MUY purchased 70 Dallas, Texas restaurants directly from Wendy's in 2014, and in 2016, 75 franchises from Richard Fox's Great Lakes Restaurant Management in Cleveland, Ohio and upstate New York. The latter purchase made MUY the largest Wendy's franchisee.

In 2019, MUY settled a Department of Justice investigation over employment discrimination. MUY paid a $175,000 fine to the Justice Department, as well as requirements for back pay and mandatory training.

In January 2020, an attempted robbery of a MUY! Wendy's in Edinboro, Pennsylvania led to the shooting death of an employee. A fundraiser was held at the store, and Bodenstedt donated all sales, doubled by Muy, from the day to the victim's family.

Bodenstedt was part of a May 2020 White House roundtable to discuss restaurant recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Bodenstedt had donated at least $440,000 to Trump's campaign.

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Q: Runtime Callable Wrapper Class Not Registered I have a dll called srxCOM.dll for titan-FTP, this dll was made for VB6. I want to use the dll in Visual Studio .NET, So I created a run-time callable wrapper using tblimp and called it srxCOMnet.dll. I've added the dll as a reference in my VS project and can access functions within it. Upon building the project I get this error,
ERROR: CLSID {A82C6CF0-7B42-4ABD-AECB-987E298A41AF} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
After some research I have tried:

*

*registering srxCOM.dll which was successfull.

*registering the RCW srxCOMnet.dll which failed.

*Changing build options from Any CPU to x86.

I don't want to write my application in VB6, is there anything else I can try?

A: I ended up using a different dll supplied by titanFTP.
I found this codeproject.com:
Primary interop assemblies can reference only other primary interop assemblies. If your assembly references types from a third-party COM type library, you must obtain a primary interop assembly from the publisher before you can generate your primary interop assembly. If you are the publisher, you must generate a primary interop assembly for the dependent type library before generating the referencing primary interop assembly.
See this link below
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Pitkachi (Pitkati), pleme američkih Indijanaca porodice Mariposan, nastanjeno na južnoj obali rijeke San Joaquin u Kaliforniji, gdje su im se nalazila sela Kohuou (blizu Herndona ili Sycamore), Weshiu i Gawachiu. Pripadaju skupini Chauchila Yokutsa, užem ogranku Northern Valley Yokuts. Pitkachi su s Heuchima i Chauchilama smejšteni na rezervat Tule River, gdje su i nestali.

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had proposed directives to service providers on the procedure for providing Value Added Services (VAS) to users in a move to protect the interest of consumers in the month of July. According to the proposals, the service providers needed to obtain confirmation from the consumer through SMS or e-mail or in writing within 24-hours of activation of the VAS.
The service providers should charge the consumer only if they receive a confirmation from them. And in any case if a confirmation is not received then the service should be discontinued immediately. However, the service providers feel that such directives are not consumer friendly and this may also result in a loss of Rs.1,500 crore to the government, besides affecting a Rs. 10,000 crore industry that employs over 12,000 people.
Sources say that if this proposal is implemented, it will also deny the customers their right to consume entertainment as they wish to, as they'll have to send a confirmation to the provider of a service every month.
Jatin Ahluwalia, the founder of vRock Mobile, a VAS provider said that this move will impact the mobile content industry adversely, as content providers invest to bring VAS and utility services to mobile users while on the move.


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Guitarist, Singer
Who Is Russell Crowe?
Early Years and Career
"I am always described as 'Hollywood Hard Man.' It's just ridiculous. I know some hard men, mate, and I am not a hard man. I'm a guy who likes poetry, who writes songs. I put on make-up for a living. Give me a break.""I'm not Machiavellian. I don't play chess with my life, ya know. I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor. It makes me sometimes a good interview subject. But it also makes me a very easy target."
Russell Crowe Biography
Guitarist, Singer (1964–)
Actor Russell Crowe won an Oscar for his performance in the 2000 blockbuster 'Gladiator' and a nomination for his 2001 role in 'A Beautiful Mind.'
Born on April 7, 1964, in Wellington, New Zealand, Russell Crowe first made a name for himself acting in Australian cinema. He eventually became an international star with projects like L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator (for which he won an Oscar), A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, while also becoming known for his combustible behavior. Later films included a screen adaptation of Les Misérables, Man of Steel, Noah and The Nice Guys.
'Blood Oath,' 'The Crossing,' 'Proof,' 'Romper Stomper'
A role in the stage musical Blood Brothers in 1989 led to Crowe's first feature film, Blood Oath (1990, released in the U.S. as Prisoners of the Sun). His other early films included The Crossing (1990), which marked his first leading role, and The Efficiency Expert (1991, released in the U.S. as Spotswood), with Anthony Hopkins and Toni Collette.
His breakthrough roles showcased two very different sides of Crowe—in 1992's Proof, he played a gentle, gullible dishwasher, earning an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor; he won the Best Actor statue the next year, for his turn as a brutal Nazi skinhead in the controversial film Romper Stomper. His next and equally iconoclastic role was as a gay plumber living with his widowed father in The Sum of Us (1994).
'The Quick and the Dead,' 'Virtuosity'
In 1995, Crowe made his American film debut, appearing with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Leonardo DiCaprio in the offbeat Western The Quick and the Dead. That same year, he played SID 6.7, a virtual reality outlaw created as a composite of more than 150 serial killers who is hunted by Denzel Washington in the sci-fi thriller Virtuosity. He also took the romantic leads in the little-seen films Rough Magic (1995), opposite Bridget Fonda, and Breaking Up (1997), with Salma Hayek.
'L.A. Confidential'
Though some insiders pegged him as "one to watch," Crowe didn't truly capture the attention of American movie-goers until L.A. Confidential, the highly acclaimed 1997 neo-noir film that probed the dark underside of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Crowe played the brutal, forthright cop Bud White, one of a trio of very different policemen—the film also starred Kevin Spacey and fellow Australian Guy Pearce—who stumble upon a twisted and murderous conspiracy. Crowe's simmering performance, including steamy love scenes with co-star Kim Basinger, earned him rave reviews.
'The Insider'
Crowe's first starring role of 1999 came in Mystery, Alaska, a poorly received comedy written by David E. Kelley and co-starring Burt Reynolds. He had a good deal more success with his next film, The Insider, based on the true story of an ex-tobacco company executive, Jeffrey Wigand, who is convinced by a TV news producer to blow the whistle on the powerful tobacco industry.
Despite mediocre returns at the box office, The Insider, which was directed by Michael Mann and also starred Al Pacino, garnered major critical praise. Crowe's intense, Oscar-nominated performance as the reluctant Wigand was arguably the most remarkable aspect of the film; the actor gained 35 pounds for the role and was nearly unrecognizable in a thinning gray wig.
Oscar Win for 'The Gladiator'
In 2000, Crowe vaulted to A-list Hollywood stardom with his charismatic performance as a Roman general turned vengeful slave in Gladiator, the ambitious Roman epic and blockbuster summer hit directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Joaquin Phoenix. The film garnered 12 Academy Award nominations, including a second straight Best Actor nod for Crowe. On Oscar night in March 2001, Crowe beat out Hollywood stalwart Tom Hanks, among others, to take home the Oscar. Gladiator won in five categories, including the night's biggest honor, Best Picture.
Also in 2000, Crowe starred in the romance/adventure Proof of Life, as a hostage negotiator who becomes romantically entangled with his client, played by Meg Ryan, after her husband is kidnapped. (The film, like The Insider, was based on an article published in Vanity Fair.)
'A Beautiful Mind'
In 2001, Russell Crowe starred in A Beautiful Mind, an acclaimed biopic about the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. The film, directed by Ron Howard, co-starred Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. For the third year in a row, Crowe's bravura performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
'Master and Commander,' 'Cinderella Man'
After Crowe's lead role in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), he and Howard teamed up again for the boxing drama Cinderella Man (2005) about Jim Braddock, the Depression-era pugilist who defeated heavyweight champ Max Baer in a 15-round bout.
Other releases for the decade included A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008)—all three of which were directed by Ridley Scott as well—and State of Play (2009).
'Robin Hood,' 'Les Misérables'
Crowe reunited with Scott for the fifth time in the director's 2010 adaptation of Robin Hood, which co-starred Cate Blanchett. After being featured in 2012's martial arts flick The Man With the Iron Fist, the actor put his singing chops to use in the musical Les Misérables, released in December. The Oscar-nominated Tom Hooper film, co-starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried, saw Crowe portraying obsessed constable Javert.
'Man of Steel,' 'Noah,' 'The Water Diviner'
Crowe's next major roles came in 2013 with the winter release of Broken City, in which he portrayed a mayor up for reelection, and the summer release of Man of Steel. Directed by Zack Snyder, Steel retells the story of Superman, starring Henry Cavill in the title role and Crowe as his Kryptonian father, Jor-El.
In 2014, Crowe dove back into big-budget fare with the biblical Noah, before doing an about-face with The Water Diviner, his directing debut, about a father searching for his sons in Europe after World War I. Fathers and Daughters (2015), with Seyfried, also showcased the actor in a complex role.
'The Nice Guys,' 'The Mummy,' 'The Loudest Voice'
Crowe's next effort, as an enforcer alongside Ryan Gosling in the action comedy The Nice Guys (2016), was generally well received. He was unable to do much to help the reboot of The Mummy (2017), which drew mostly poor reviews, though the actor fared better with Boy Erased (2018), as the father of a teenager placed into gay-conversion therapy.
Turning to the small screen, Crowe took on the role of Fox News founder Roger Ailes in the summer 2019 Showtime series The Loudest Voice.
Russell Crowe was born on April 7, 1964, in Wellington, New Zealand. His family moved to Sydney, Australia, when Crowe was four years old. He spent a good deal of time on the sets of various film and television productions, where his parents worked as caterers; at age six, Crowe was cast as an orphan in the TV series Spyforce, the first of his many small parts as a child actor.
His family returned to New Zealand in 1978, and Crowe began performing as a rock singer, billing himself as Rus le Roc and recording the prophetically titled 1980 single "I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando." During this period, he and a friend formed Roman Antix, which later evolved into 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, a rock band for which Crowe served as a singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Crowe returned to Australia in the early 1980s to pursue his acting career, winning a role in a production of the musical Grease in 1983. From 1986 to 1988, he starred in a touring production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Altercations and Bad Boy Reputation
Widespread rumors about Crowe's brash personality increased with his growing fame in the 1990s. In late 1999, he was reportedly involved in a brawl outside a bar in New South Wales, Australia. The owner of the bar, who claimed to have a security videotape that showed the actor had initiated the brawl, was subsequently charged with blackmail after allegedly attempting to extort money from Crowe in exchange for the video.
Crowe's bad boy reputation and smoldering on-screen intensity inspired comparisons to the young Brando. However, although he is reportedly demanding while working on set, a number of co-stars have publicly praised him for his charming, professional demeanor.
On the more bizarre side, news broke in early 2001 that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had launched an investigation into a rumored plot to kidnap Crowe. He attended the January Golden Globes ceremony flanked by FBI agents in tuxedos and was guarded by Scotland Yard at the London premiere of Proof of Life the following month.
In addition to the 1999 bar fight in Australia, Crowe was reportedly involved in a bathroom brawl in a trendy London restaurant in 2002. Three years later, he was arrested and charged with second-degree assault after throwing a telephone at a hotel employee in New York City.
Crowe began a long-term relationship with Australian singer/actress Danielle Spencer while the two were filming The Crossing in late 1989.
During the summer of 2000, Crowe became romantically involved with his Proof of Life co-star, Meg Ryan, and was mentioned as a factor in her separation from her husband of nine years, actor Dennis Quaid. However, Crowe and Ryan split in late December of that year.
Crowe later reignited his romance with Spencer. They married in April 2003 and had two sons, Charles and Tennyson, before announcing their split in 2012.
In April 2018, before his legal separation from Spencer was finalized, Crowe held his "The Art of Divorce" auction to rid himself of "about 3 rooms full of things I will no longer have to care for, document, clean, tune and insure." Live-streamed on Facebook, and including such sought-after items as the actor's groin-protector from Cinderella Man and a dinosaur skull purchased from DiCaprio, the auction reportedly netted Crowe a cool $2.8 million.
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There has to be more than a frisson of irony in the news that one of the casualties of the Coalition Government's cuts to public services and the drive towards the 'Big Society' will be the promised exhibition centre in Lincoln featuring the Magna Carta—generally regarded as Britain's first attempt to broaden out political control.
In deciding against the proposal to move the Crown Court out of Lincoln Castle—and thus create the space into which a new purpose-built Magna Carta exhibition would have moved—junior minister Jonathan Djanogly blamed cuts in the budgets of the Ministry of Justice in the recent Spending Review for the fact that HM Courts Service (HMCS) can no longer afford the move.
HMCS said building a new court somewhere else in Lincoln would not represent good value for money for taxpayers and that none of the options for a new home for the Crown Court were considered achievable or affordable. The move would have cost almost £19million, and is believed that it could have brought in £68million annually from tourism, creating around 1,100 jobs.
The news comes as a blow to the city and county councils and the local media in Lincoln, each of whom had supported the idea and backed proposals that could have brought jobs and tourism revenue to the city.
On a day when defence experts are questioning the Government's decisions on aircraft carrier provision, when hundreds of University of Lincoln students are protesting in London, and when job cuts are threatened throughout public services, it may seem a tad indulgent for Lincoln to worry about an 800-year old document and its possible new home.
But Magna Carta is special as a token of UK citizen's rights, many of which people believe will be eroded by the present round of cuts, and such a potentially powerful booster for the local economy that the campaign to secure a modern, efficient Crown Court and to free up a historic venue for Magna Carta is sure to continue.
Local MP Karl McCartney has led the first appeals to Djanogly and the Ministry, his next test will be to see if he puts loyalty to party and Government about support for this key local initiative.
— Peter Smith is a retired Government PR professional, now lecturing in journalism, communications and politics at the University of Lincoln.


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your password's in the dictionary? anybody can look it up
I know you're not unsavvy enough to write your password on the back of your ATM card as one fellow I met did. (Admittedly, he was new to New York.) But chances are, to make it easier to remember, you've chosen a password that appears in the pages of Webster's. So?
Turns out that a "dictionary attack" is the most common, easiest-to-pull-off kind of hacking. It's why power Twitter-user Obama sent out thousands of tweets Monday urging supporters to try for $500 of free gas. And why Fox News announced that host Bill O'Reilly "is gay." And Rick Sanchez from CNN tweeted "I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today."
Last weekend, an 18-year old hacker who's been perpetrating cyber-hoaxes since he was 15, turned his attention to Twitter, the micro-blogging service he hadn't heard of until seeing someone mention it on YouTube. (Further confirming rampant suspicion that Twitter is not yet embraced by Millenials, sorry Biz.) YouTube, on the other hand, was a service with which GMZ (his code name) was intimately familiar. Last year he hacked the YouTube account of teen idol Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) and posted that she'd been killed in a car accident.
Using a self-authored dictionary attacker, GMZ tried to guess the passwords of several of Twitter's most popular users. He let the program run overnight and when he checked results Monday around 11 AM, he discovered he'd gotten into an account for someone named Crystal. He didn't know that she was a member of Twitter's support staff (who must have known better than to trust the security of her account to "happiness".) "I thought she was just a really popular member" he later told Wired. But after delving into her account, he realized that by using the tools Crystal had access to, he could change any Twitter user's password.
Excitedly, he posted a message to Digital Gangster, a forum for hackers (who knew there was one?) offering free access to any Twitter account. To prove he had access, he posted a video of his hack to YouTube. Twenty hackers immediately asked for access to Obama's account; he "awarded" it to five. He also filled requests for access to Britney Spears' account, as well as the official feeds for Facebook, CBS News, Fox News , the accounts of CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez and Digg founder Kevin Rose, and other celebrities. He compromised 33 high-profile accounts in the two hours before Twitter figured out what was happening and shut him down.
According to Twitter, the violated accounts were almost immediately closed and restored within hours. Still. A few minutes of stolen Twitter Time can do a lifetime of damage. Consider the ramifications of updating followers as Britney Spears inadvertantly did: posting the dimensions of your, ahem, Vagina Monolgue.
Do what IT technicians needle you to do: use passwords that contain both lower-case and upper-case letters, as well as numbers or special characters. In researching this, I can't tell you how many times a popup invited me to Get any password for just $9.99!
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French Open 2018: Simona Halep beats Alison Riske to reach second round
After his hard-fought win against Simone Bolelli, Rafael Nadal criticized the standard of the court for being too slippery.
Cilic, a former US Open champion who reached two of the past three Grand Slam finals, was not bothered by the rain that stopped play for about an hour and won 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (4).
Shapovalov compiled a 32-9 edge in winners and converted 6 of 12 break points.
The Swede lost his ground and Nadal broke him at the start of the final set to control the scoreboard in the rest of the match and reach the second round when Robin netted a forehand in the last point of game seven to earn one of his most impressive records on clay.
Mixing deep groundstrokes with subtle shots, Bolelli obtained another set point with a backhand drop shot to lead 7-6, but Nadal hit a service victor on the next point.
After getting rained off the schedule on Monday night, two-time champion Maria Sharapova made a comeback to the tournament after missing the 2016 and 2017 editions.
Nadal won the first three games on the day but the 129th-ranked Bolelli raised his level and managed a series of good returns. "He had many chances in the third set", Nadal said.
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"It was a very hard match, Simone played very aggressively, he had many chances in the third set", Nadal said.
The 31-year-old, five-time major champion, took just 24 minutes to win the first set of a match which was delayed from Monday due to thunderstorms, but threw away a 3-1 lead in the second.
¶ The two-time Grand Slam victor Garbiñe Muguruza is back to winning ways at the French Open after beating Svetlana Kuznetsova, another former Roland Garros champion.
After beating Serena Williams in the 2016 final, Muguruza's title defence was ended in the fourth round a year ago.
Yuki Bhambri's maiden appearance at the French Open ended with a first round defeat even as Rohan Bopanna began his men's doubles campaign with an easy win along with French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin.
The American insisted it was "fun as well as functional" in a nod to the severe health problems she suffered after giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia in September.
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For Rozier, the change will likely mean a return to the bench, and as of yesterday that seemed fine with the young point guard. But he anticipated that change. "You know, obviously Kyrie Irving is Kyrie Irving". "I'll never take nothing away from that".
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This Dividend Stock Just Made a Very Bullish Crossover
When dividend stocks are on the rise, it could be time to buy them up. That's because an increase in the share price will result in a declining yield. Plus, buying before it takes off could allow investors to benefit from the potential gains earned on a rising stock, which can complement the cash flow generated from its recurring dividend payments.
That's where healthcare stock Becton, Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) finds itself in today. Its yield of 1.3% is in line with the S&P 500 average and can be a good source of regular cash flow for investors. And of late, the stock has been picking up some momentum. Earlier this month, it made a bullish crossover with its 50-day moving average climbing higher than its 200 day average. When that happens, that has the potential to trigger more momentum buying.
It could also be a sign of more optimism behind the medical device company, which could see better results ahead if there's a return to normalcy in the healthcare industry – assuming, of course, that the omicron variant doesn't derail that.
The company is coming off an already strong quarter where for the period ending Sept. 30, 2021, its sales of $5.1 billion rose 7.3% year over year. And with expenses remaining fairly consistent, that allowed the company's bottom line to see a large 136% improvement in its earnings per share, which rose from $0.36 to $0.85. If it can build on those results, this could be an underrated dividend stock to own this year.
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Neuropsych — January 21, 2017
Study: Fast Talkers Convey the Same Amount of Information as Slow Talkers
A study analyzes the relationship between how fast people speak and how much information they actually relate.
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Do you take your time when you speak, thinking out each word to make sure it's the most appropriate in that situation? Or do you speak two hundred words a minute, blanketing listeners with your ideas? Either way, you would probably get across the same amount of information in the same amount of time. That's the conclusion of a new study from Brown University.
Uriel Cohen Priva, the author of the study and assistant professor in Brown's Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, found that when people speak there is an interplay between how quickly they speak and how complicated is their speech. It turns out there's a narrow channel of communication data – people who speak fast tend to use simpler words and easier sentence construction, while those who speak slower use more complicated, "contextually unexpected" words and word combinations. But in both cases you get the same info.
"It seems the constraints on how much information per second we should transmit are fairly strict, or stricter than we thought they were," said Cohen Priva.
Why there are some "constraints" is not yet clear. It could be either because the listener can process only so much information at a time or the opposite – the speaker's inability to come up with and express more than a certain amount of information.
Priva's conclusions were based on analysis of two independents sets of data – Switchboard Corpus, which includes 2,400 annotated phone conversations, and the Buckeye Corpus, containing 40 long interviews. Altogether the data had the speech of 398 people.
The researcher calculated and compared the frequencies of words, usage of the less frequent passive versus active voice, taking into account each speaker's age and gender and other factors. He also studied how long each word would take to be spoken on average versus how long each particular speaker needed.
Information theory considers the less predictable and more surprising message as more information. To help explain how different statements convey information, the study suggests considering the phrase "dog bites man". This expression actually provides less information than the phrase "man bites dog" with is a less expected situation. So while having the same words, the two expressions provide a very different amount of information. And if you want to up the ante, saying "human bites dog" is even more lexically informative, because the word "human" is used less frequently than "man".
The finding that faster speakers limit their information is explained by the study as an adjustment necessary for maintaining the speed of speech.
"Repeatedly choosing more frequent words and structures would mean that speakers would rarely have to slow down for infrequent words and structures, thereby maintaining overall faster speech rate," says the study.
What's also notable is that the researcher found the same basic relationship between information rate and the speed of speech across all the data.
"We could assume that there are widely different capacities of information per second that people use in speech and that each of them is possible and you can observe each and every one," said Cohen Priva. "But had that been the case, then finding these effects would have been very difficult to do. Instead, it's reliably found in two corpora in two different domains."
One clue as to why there might be a limitation on the information rate lies in the difference between how men and women speak. While both men and women conform to the overall speech pattern the researcher found, men tend to convey more information than women given the same speech rate. According to Cohen Priva, this may be because women are more likely to want to make sure their listener is actually understanding what they are saying. This hypothesis corresponds to other studies that show women more likely to provide verbal cues during dialogue that ensure understanding.
Interestingly, as the study notes, "slow speech rate was correlated with high usage of passive voice constructions."
Positive correlation between slow speech rate, measured in mean pointwise speech rate and normalized, and passive voice usage, measured in log odds in Switchboard. Each point represents a speaker in a conversation. The lines represent the raw correlations between speech rate and passive voice usage, by gender. Source – U. Cohen Priva / Cognition 160 (2017) 27–34.
The study "Not so fast: Fast speech correlates with lower lexical and structural information" will be published in the March issue of Cognition. You can read it online here.
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