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New York, New York Movie Review
by AVForums Jun 16, 2011
New York, New York Movie (1977)
I've been a fan of big Hollywood musicals for as long as I can remember and when Martin Scorsese announced he was going to make 'New York, New York' in the mid 1970's I was keen to see it. A musical drama set just after the Second World War starring Robert DeNiro and Liza Minnelli seemed like a great idea but something at the back of my mind queried the choice of DeNiro since he was then being hailed as a great actor. I had no trouble with Liza Minnelli in a musical as I knew she could sing, but had doubts about her acting ability although she seemed to have inherited most of her mother Judy Garland's talent. The movie was released in 1977 and I missed it on its week long engagement at the local Cinema and I spent the next 33 years missing every TV screening thereafter. Now, thanks to its release on American Region free Blu-ray I've finally had the chance to catch up with it.
You know the old saying that goes 'It is better to travel hopefully than to have arrived'? Well, that's pretty much how I feel now that I've at long last seen 'New York, New York'. Kinda disappointed is an understatement. The film had everything going for it with its two big stars, a great director, one of the best cinematographers in the world (Laszlo Kovacs), a superb production designer (Boris Leven) – holy smoke, it even had the legendary Sidney Guilaroff doing Liza Minnelli's hair. Apart from the 1940's musical numbers, a brace of original songs were written for it by John Kander and Fred Ebb including the absolute belter of a title song that was later recorded by the great Frank Sinatra.
So with all of this in its favour, how on earth could the movie go wrong? It started out with a fairly good screenplay by Earl Rauch, but then other people got their hands on it. It was meant to be an ode to the Big Band era but then 'ideas' were added. Along came hotshot director Martin Scorsese with the idea of making a movie in the style of 1940's and 50's musicals featuring bright, colourful studio bound sets – just like the MGM extravaganzas. Then he wanted to take it a stage further. He wanted to convey realism in the acting department by getting the actors to improvise on set. Sounds like a great concept, but do the two styles go together well? Some hope, no hope and Bob Hope. It could almost be forgiven for being experimental, but there's a time and place for experiments – and that's not on a big budget movie.
In the opening sequence on VJ Day, Jimmy Doyle (DeNiro) attempts to chat up Francine Evans (Minnelli) at a huge celebration party. He plonks himself down at her table and tries all his best lines. All she can think of to say in reply is "No." An actor without a script is a pitiful sight indeed. I'm not talking about DeNiro here as he's the master of both method and improvisation. So, due to the actors having almost free reign here, we get a scene that's devoid of wit, humour and charisma. DeNiro just comes across as annoying and Minnelli as cold. The scene has no warmth at all. Now, a good scriptwriter could have made it really sparkle.
A further example of the clash of styles is when Jimmy and Francine go outside to have a chat in the snow. Suddenly in the middle of a dramatic sequence we have cardboard trees and a painted backdrop behind them – because that's what they used to do in the old movies. It grates and crunches like the teeth on a gearbox with no synchromesh.
This is one long movie too with a full 163 minutes running time – and it feels like it. After the first twenty minutes, I seriously considered ejecting the disc – but then Liza Minnelli sang her first song and the quality of her voice persuaded me to continue to watch the movie. The story bears many similarities to 'Love Me or Leave Me', the movie about torch singer Ruth Etting starring Doris Day and James Cagney. It also draws heavily on 'A Star is Born' which starred Liza's Mom, Judy Garland, and the great James Mason. In 'New York, New York', Jimmy Doyle is the controlling saxophone player who teams up with singer Francine Evans. Unfortunately he has a built-in self destruct mechanism that causes them to lose out on lucrative deals, so Francine eventually goes her own way and pursues a successful solo performing, recording and movie career. He cannot abide having anyone tell him what to do as he is the 'big shot'. His character is quite unsympathetic as he is just so unpleasant to Francine especially when she announces she is pregnant and in the heat of an argument he asks her if he'd told her to have the baby. Nowadays, we'd call him a prat – among other things. I just found the character totally unlikeable and there seemed to be no chemistry between the two stars on screen. If this is what was intended, then I salute the director – although I suspect otherwise.
Martin Scorsese's desire to recreate the look of a Hollywood musical from the 40's and 50's included attempting to make it look as if it had been shot using the old three strip Technicolor process which had long since become obsolete by the time he came to make 'New York, New York'. This caused a lot of work for cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs as he tried to change the characteristics of Eastmancolor neg so that colours would leap off the screen. In the end they painted the colours on, as witnessed by Liza Minnelli's bright red lipstick and the use of strong primaries in the set designs. Initially they tried to shoot it in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, but this caused production problems so they changed mid-way to the widescreen 1.66:1 ratio, which is what we have on the Blu-ray. More on this in the Picture quality section of this review.
So, 'New York, New York' was a very ambitious project for a young Scorsese and at the end of the day we have a very uneven film that fails to involve the audience with the main characters. It could also do with a good edit to remove at least 45 minutes worth of material. As it stands, it's just too long and I found myself looking at my watch on several occasions. The saving grace of 'New York, New York' just has to be the amazing singing voice of Liza Minnelli who covers a wide range of 1940's period numbers beautifully. The songs especially written for the movie aren't particularly memorable – all, that is, except the title song, often referred to as the Theme from 'New York, New York'. It is just such an exuberant show stopper of a number that it almost makes putting up with the rest of the movie worthwhile. This is really one for the Blu-ray collections of Scorsese completists or those who, like me, just love that high kicking title song.

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The United States may have a president who denies the facts of climate change, but American states and cities couldn't have been more emphatic in declaring last week that a climate emergency is upon us – and since the federal government won't lead on solutions, US mayors, governors and businesses are.
That was the main takeaway from last week's Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, whose centrepiece was a progress report on the America's Pledge initiative, launched shortly after Trump announced he would withdraw from the Paris Agreement last year.
Backed by the US Climate Alliance, the Climate Mayors and more than 3,000 private and public sector "real economy actors" who signed the We Are Still In declaration, the pledge committed non-state actors to work towards fulfilling the US target to cut planet-warming emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025.
The 162-page progress report, released on the eve of the high-octane conference, showed that the US is already halfway to meeting its Paris commitments. It also outlined 10 climate strategies that cities, states and businesses can realistically take in the near term that could drive emissions down to 21% below 2005 levels by 2025, without any supporting policies by the Trump administration.
The 10 climate action strategies include boosting renewable energy targets, speeding the retirement of coal plants, incentivizing energy retrofits on buildings, increasing electric vehicle usage, preventing methane leakage, enacting carbon sequestration, and forming state coalitions for carbon pricing.
The cities and states in the pledge represent more than half the US population; if the group were a country, it would be the world's third largest economy. But its commitments are being challenged by a Trump administration that has aggressively worked to deregulate methane emissions and relax motor vehicle standards on carbon emissions, among other anti-climate legislation.
Bodnar cited the emergence of green banks at the state and municipal levels across the US as evidence that business and government are working with urgent resolve to shift greater funding and resources into the renewable energy economy.
"These are publicly owned but commercially operated institutions that are resolving market failures and are able to actually make things [move] faster without using subsidies. Some of the innovation that's taking place at the state level of finance is then providing an opportunity for additional capital to be brought in," he added.
One of the biggest announcements came on the eve of the summit, when Brown signed a new law requiring the Golden State, the world's fifth largest economy, to generate 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2045. The news was followed by a host of other ambitious government targets, as the mayors from 26 major global cities pledged to purchase only zero-emission buses by 2025, and 17 US states and territories vowed to invest $1.4 billion in carbon-neutral transport solutions.
Achievements in clean transit loomed large at the summit. Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, who is vice-chair, with Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, of the C40 Cities initiative, touted the rapid progress his city had made slashing emissions from its transportation sector.
LA, which is building 15 new mass transit lines in the run-up to its hosting the 2028 Olympics, boasts the largest EV market in the nation and plans to soon have 25,000 chargers on the streets – along with all 80,000 of its city buses running carbon-neutral by 2025.
He also announced the Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative, a web portal to help cities get better prices on electric vehicles for fleets by buying in bulk, with commitments from 62 city and state governments and companies to establish 100% zero emission targets in their fleets. The more than two dozen companies include IKEA Group, which said it would transition to EV in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Shanghai by 2020.
The strategy of marshalling combined purchasing power to create a market for low-carbon technologies was not confined to electric vehicles. At one of the hundreds of affiliated events going on at the same time as the summit, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched an initiative to tackle emissions reductions in the freight and shipping industry, which is responsible for 30% of all transport-related CO2 worldwide.
Transforming Heavy Transport brings together more than 20 companies. Working with the We Mean Business Coalition, the companies aim to identify gaps in decarbonizing transport and encourage operators to reduce their freight emissions across the supply chain through use of new-generation fuels and other strategies.
He added that urgent action is needed to bend the curve on heavy transport emissions, with global freight traffic expected to quadruple by 2050.
Among the latter was the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, who pointed out that his city, despite being the centre of the US oil and gas industry, now leads all municipalities in the US in green energy use, due to the region's booming wind market. He said devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey was a "game-changer" for the city, whose citizens have endured three "500-year" floods in the last five years.
He also announced that the city's five pension funds will double their investments in climate solutions to $4 billion, or 2% of their portfolios.
According to a new report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, the world's largest 100 public pension funds are investing just $90bn a year in low-carbon technologies, or less than 1% of their assets, despite the UN climate secretariat's assessment that $1.1trn a year is required to finance the green economy.
"Imagine if the top 50 US pension funds invested 2%. That would add up to $200bn, enough to convert half the homes in America to solar power and a major step towards $1trn," De Blasio said.
As Jerry Brown, who co-chaired last week's conference said: "What happens in Washington still matters, of course, and we need to vote out of office those who refuse to recognize reality. But the American people are not waiting on Washington to take action.


"Magic Bean" chocolate cake by Sarah Wong. A Thermomix ® recipe in the category Baking - sweet on www.recipecommunity.com.au, the Thermomix ® Community.
In your TM puree the beans, water/coffee, 1 egg and vanilla until smooth on speed 7. Set aside.
Add the remaining eggs & beat for 20 seconds SP 4.
Add bean mixture SP 4 5 seconds.
Add the cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and blend SP 4 10 seconds.
Pour batter into greased ring tin pan and bake MOD oven for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
This GLUTEN FREE / NUT FREE /HIGH PROTEIN cake is wonderfully moist and works with most canned beans. Chickpeas work but they have a bit of a strong taste. If you use a round tin it will take a few minutes longer to bake.
You can also use oil instead of butter to make it dairy free - but butter is better!!
You can also make it in muffin tins which take about 20 mins to cook.
Submitted by N.arelle on 17. February 2019 - 16:30.
Sooo delicious 🤤 I added a few strawberry's with the beans cause they needed to be used up added a nice little twist. I didn't use the water or coffee.
Any adjustments to make it into a TM5 recipe?
Submitted by Juliap74 on 2. February 2019 - 19:12.
Submitted by RachelK on 14. January 2019 - 16:15.
Best 'flour free' cake ever!!
Submitted by Jennifersite on 4. January 2019 - 19:39.
Is this recipe suitable for a diabetic?
Submitted by Nadeane on 10. October 2018 - 14:01.
Submitted by katevaughan on 3. October 2018 - 10:59.
I was doubtful about this recipe - very pleasantly surprised. I'll definitely be making it again and again.
Submitted by Bronze Sunflower on 23. July 2018 - 19:31.
I really liked these and added spinach to them too.
My family weren't overly happy with them finding them too bitter so I would have to either add more sugar or reduce the cocoa amount next time. I thought these tasted like a delicious piece of dark chocolate with a fudge moistness to them and was quite happy with the result.
The kids eventually ate them with a dollop of cream and a drizzle of maple syrup.
Submitted by aimeest on 30. June 2018 - 16:20.
20 out of 10. This cake is amazing. Thanks for Sharing.
Submitted by Cathie81 on 3. June 2018 - 20:18.
Love this! Very moist although still somewhat crumbly. Both the toddler and the man child both love it. I made them into 12 cupcakes rather than a large cake.
Submitted by Anna Crompton on 8. May 2018 - 18:45.
Submitted by effiemakri on 26. April 2018 - 15:28.
maplegoh: thanks for the tip. Would this temperature be for "fan" setting?
Submitted by Bubblensqueak on 13. April 2018 - 10:09.
Submitted by maplegoh on 8. March 2018 - 17:54.
Submitted by MStark92 on 6. March 2018 - 15:16.
Submitted by SUZYkay2861 on 4. March 2018 - 18:32.
Submitted by mountaindreamer on 3. March 2018 - 16:31.
miargy: Hi Miargy, You use 1 x 420 g can of red kidney beans, rinsed You will love this cake!
Submitted by miargy on 26. February 2018 - 21:18.
Submitted by sahappydays on 25. February 2018 - 19:25.
Beautiful recipe... my kids loved it!
Submitted by sahappydays on 18. February 2018 - 18:51.
Hi has anyone used dry kidney beans?
Submitted by Rau on 16. February 2018 - 03:19.
Submitted by wishbygift on 11. February 2018 - 19:16.
I really enjoyed reading this post. Fantastic this informations for us.
Submitted by carlacancook on 2. February 2018 - 21:11.
iolanda578: Do you make your own date paste? And how much did you use in this recipe pls?
Submitted by Mal on 22. December 2017 - 23:46.
toni5623: Hi Toni, this is my very first reply, thought I mite b able to help n others by asking if you drained your red kidney beans n rinsed them well Using yr rice basket ?
make sure yr weights r correct by weighing yr mc lid tm31 is 25grms tm5 is35grms.
Plse have another go I made a batch of muffins from the recipe n they were so moist n yummy!
Submitted by samuelj on 1. December 2017 - 04:27.
I love chocolate and this one is truly delicious. I made it in six minutes and relished every bit of it. My neighbour also tried it, she too liked it. We did it at the same time over wifi and wifikill made it even more easier. Using wi-fi kill apk we both completed it in almost six minutes. Thanks for showing us such a tasty cake. Keep going, looking forward for more.
Submitted by ShellzMcL on 11. November 2017 - 08:21.
Submitted by banarie on 28. October 2017 - 07:59.
toni5623: that's really weird - and you definitely used baking powder and baking soda? I've baked this cake about a dozen times and is my "go to" cake for birthday parties - I actually just logged in now to get recipe to bake for my sons 5th birthday party tomorrow! I also use coconut oil and have never had a problem (although I've never used Nuttlex - I completely substitue with coconut oil and it tastes delicious). Don't give up on it, try again following exact steps and instructions.
Submitted by toni5623 on 24. October 2017 - 18:23.
I was so excited by the number of stars and people that had rated this recipe but the result I got was disastrous!
I bake yummy unhealthy cakes all the time but am always looking for that special healthy cake recipe that wows....I thought this might be that cake but unfortunately it wasn't for me.
Admittedly I used coconut oil Nutlex instead of butter but I see that lots of you do the same thing successfully.
Even though I cooked it for a bit longer than the 1/2 hr, the cake ended up VERY wet...it was a horrible consistency and I had to throw it away.
Anybody have any ideas about what went wrong please?
Submitted by Cake-Delivery_in on 14. October 2017 - 20:58.
Submitted by nik_m_84 on 13. October 2017 - 09:50.
Wow!!! So delicious and moist!
Submitted by CM16 on 28. September 2017 - 12:33.
Could not click stars for some reason but 5 stars! Made this today for a healthy treat, served with aocado mouse inbetween as like a ganache, my kids had 2 pieces each and were asking for more! Potential future birthday cakes!
Submitted by lex.p on 20. September 2017 - 16:32.
This really is some sort of magic. I have just taken this out of the oven and I have no idea how a tin of beans and no flour can make a cake that looks and tastes this good?! Definitely a keeper!
Submitted by mand-z on 24. August 2017 - 14:32.
Cake I freeze it sucessfully ?
Submitted by Jackieattard on 20. August 2017 - 11:23.
Submitted by KristyPimm on 15. July 2017 - 18:41.
This recipe has become a family fave. Very popular baked in tea cups for individual portions, with frosting or ice cream. So good!
Submitted by ericjohn on 27. June 2017 - 01:29.
Delicious and easy cake to make. I just tried it last night went over very well, me and my friends loved it. Enjoyed it just like the new flik we did on showbox movie app. Surely going to try this once again. Thanks!
Submitted by ozFranny on 24. June 2017 - 00:16.
Submitted by Jashyboo on 21. June 2017 - 20:25.
Oh my GOD! This cake is truly amazing! So so so moist and chocolatey!! Do yourself a favour and top it off with the BCB chocolate ganache what a match made in heaven... soooo decadent!!!! And I feel healthy consuming kidney beans win win !!
Submitted by Stella.easton on 17. June 2017 - 13:42.
Submitted by guest on 13. June 2017 - 16:07.
Yes!!!! This article is too simple that everybody can understand and make cake after reading this article.
Submitted by bellla on 7. June 2017 - 18:08.
I have made this recipe so many times, both cake and now make it about once a week as muffins. I use mainly dates and few raisins (chopped up very fine) instead of sugar, add walnuts and put a small piece of dark chocolate tucked in the middle of the muffin. Lovely and healthier without the sugar. Also have a lot of friends try it, but I don't tell them what it is made of until they finish it and tell me how delicious they taste.
Submitted by gabiherlin on 29. April 2017 - 23:06.
Absolutely loved it! I don't mind bits or little chunks on beans as it gets soft and you can't taste it.
I love that it's not overly sweet and you can actually taste the richness of th chocolate.
I froze half of the cake and it defrost well.
Submitted by Kez289 on 28. April 2017 - 18:45.
Submitted by BDAE on 31. March 2017 - 09:43.
Have made this fantastic recipe several times now: both as a cake and as muffins. Works way better as a cake, but I like gooey!
The last time around I swapped out the butter and replaced it with apple sauce and it turned out fantastic, just needed to cook for about 5-10mins longer.
Thanks for the great recipe - my pantry is now stocked with kidney beans!!
So pleasantly surprised - delicious!
Submitted by kmh1981 on 18. March 2017 - 15:52.
Submitted by enchanted gypsy on 9. March 2017 - 22:10.
Submitted by Myfranz on 7. March 2017 - 02:47.
I was wrong the first time I made it, using red kidney beans in chilly sauce! (I rinsed them). It left a surprising and unexpected hot aftertaste, very light, and absolutely amazing!
this recipe is pure genius!!!
Submitted by farmeating on 1. March 2017 - 14:47.
Submitted by HannahB on 16. February 2017 - 16:41.
Fantastic cake! Delicious, moist and super easy. My very fussy 5yo boy ate it up and for a kid who's quick to notice differences in taste or texture (with a highly functional gag reflex to match) he proclaimed that it was "really yummy chocolate cake!" So - THANK YOU!! This is one way I can get some legumes in him!! My hubby, 1yo and I also loved it too. This will be a regular for afternoon tea and lunch boxes. Many, many thanks!
Submitted by JulianneD on 12. February 2017 - 20:30.
A great success at Christmas. They loved it and were quite surprised this cake was made with beans.
I made these as cupcakes and they were delicious!
Submitted by Elly0312 on 30. January 2017 - 18:05.


With Sarah's parents' 39th anniversary coming up, she decided to surprise them with an extremely unique gift. She would get her parents their very own personalized plushies based on illustrations by her father.
Sarah's father, Mike Pardo, is a cartoonist. Shortly after Mike and his wife Eve got married, he self-published a graphic novel called Eve & Me. This novel told the story of how they met and the early parts of their relationship. They realized that even though they were opposites, they had a connection and wanted to make things work.
For Mike & Eve's 29th wedding anniversary, Mike surprised his wife by bringing her to a local theater. Mike had written a two-act play for Eve. Act 1 was based on the novel Eve & Me, and Act 2 was based on further into the couple's future. This was truly a night that Eve would always treasure.
Sarah found out about Budsies through her former college roommate who now works for the company. She knew turning her father's designs into Budsies would be the perfect anniversary gift for her parents, and a gift that would be so special and unique to them.
Her mom opened the box, and her parents were over the moon! Mike was even more overjoyed, loving when someone brings up his artwork.
"He couldn't get over how closely the dolls matched his original drawings," said sarah.
As an artist, Mike can be critical, but he loved the Budsies so much that he even mentioned them in their annual family newsletter.
"My parents want you to know how happy they are with their dolls and have them proudly displayed in their living room for everyone to see," said Sarah.
Surprise your loved ones with the best custom gift today!
My name is Sammi Gebhardt, and I am a blogger for Budsies. I believe that just about anything you do in life is better with a pet. I love to find fun, cute stories and share them with the world. I'm very extroverted and do believe that a smile is the cutest thing you can wear. You will always find me with an iced coffee in one hand and my iPhone in the other.


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Micro-satellite product line developed jointly by EADS Astrium and the French Space Agency CNES beginning in 1998.
AKA: AstroSat;AstroSat-100;Elisa;Essaim;Parasol;Picard;VNREDSAT. Status: Operational 2004. First Launch: 2004-12-18. Last Launch: 2013-05-07. Number: 15 . Gross mass: 125 kg (275 lb).
The Myriade program was principally designed for scientific, application and technology missions, in response to increasing demand from the scientific community for quicker, cheaper access to space, with the accent on enhanced payload capacity in terms of mass, power, pointing accuracy, telemetry and processing and orbit control propulsion. The program was also envisaged for institutional or export opportunities. The first mission flying this platform was CNES' scientific microsat Demeter, launched in June 2004, followed by the French MoD system for electro-magnetic environment analysis, Essaim.
Demeter French earth seismology satellite. Demeter studied disturbances of the ionosphere due to seismic electromagnetic effects and human activities (power lines, VLF transmitters, HF broadcasting stations). Science, Ionospheic, earth science satellite for CNES, France. Launched 2004. Used the Myriade bus.
Essaim 1, 2, 3, 4 ELINT satellite built by Astrium for DGA, France. Launched 2004. Used the Myriade bus.
PARASOL Parasol carried a wide-field imaging radiometer/polarimeter called POLDER (Polarization and Directionality of the Earth�s Reflectance), designed in partnership with the LOA atmospheric optics laboratory in Lille. Used the [Myriade] bus.
SPIRALE A, B Early warning satellite built by Alcatel Space, Astrium for DGA, France. Launched 2009. Used the Myriade bus.
Picard Solar observation payload. Used the [Myriade] bus.
AlSat 2A, 2B Earth observation satellite built by EADS Astrium => Airbus Defence and Space for Algerian Centre National des Techniques Spatiales (CNTS) => Agence Spatiale AlgTrienne (ASAL), Algeria. Launched 2010 - 2016. Used the AstroSat-100 / Myriade. Launched 2010-2016.
ELISA 1, 2, 3, 4 ELINT satellite built by EADS Astrium for DGA, France. Launched 2011. Used the Myriade bus.
VNREDSat 1a Earth observation satellite built by EADS Astrium for Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Vietnam. Launched 2013. Used the AstroSat-100 / Myriade bus.
MICROSCOPE Science satellite for CNES, France. Launched 2016. Used the Myriade bus.
FBM Science satellite built by CNES for CNES, INPE. Used the Myriade bus.
MicroCarb Earth science satellite built by CNES (prime), Airbus Defence and Space (payload) for CNES, France. Used the Myriade bus.
TARANIS satellite Science, satellite for CNES, France. Used the Myriade bus.
Family: Astronomy, Earth, Earth seasat, Sun synchronous orbit, Surveillance. Country: France. Launch Vehicles: R-7, PSLV, Ariane 5, Dnepr, Ariane 5ECA, Ariane 5Gp, Soyuz-ST-A, Vega. Launch Sites: Kourou, Kourou ELA3, Kourou ELS, Kourou ELV. Agency: CNES, DGA, EADS Astrium. Bibliography: 2, 6725, 12865.
2009 February 11 - . 22:09 GMT - . Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Complex: Kourou ELA3. LV Family: Ariane 5. Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5ECA.
Spirale A - . Mass: 117 kg (257 lb). Nation: France. Agency: Arianespace. Class: Surveillance. Type: SIGINT. Spacecraft: Myriade. USAF Sat Cat: 33751 . COSPAR: 2009-008C. Apogee: 35,693 km (22,178 mi). Perigee: 631 km (392 mi). Inclination: 1.80 deg. Period: 637.60 min. Demonstrator to prove infrared sensors designed to detect ballistic missile launches and other military targets..
Spirale B - . Mass: 117 kg (257 lb). Nation: France. Agency: Arianespace. Class: Surveillance. Type: SIGINT. Spacecraft: Myriade. USAF Sat Cat: 33752 . COSPAR: 2009-008D. Apogee: 35,681 km (22,171 mi). Perigee: 641 km (398 mi). Inclination: 1.80 deg. Period: 637.60 min.


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Facing the climate change threat
Today's "dominant economic theories" and conceptions of modern capitalism are inadequate because they falsely assume societies will have continued access to cheap energy, like fossil fuels
Evarist Bartolo 5 September 2018, 7:56am
The evidence which shows that our climate is shifting is considerable
Climate change is a discussion which polarises people and creates endless discussions about the environment around us.
The evidence which shows that our climate is shifting is considerable and the fact that we're affecting the environment where we live is also an important factor. We have grown accustomed to luxuries, which today are found throughout. Owning multiple vehicles within the same family is something that progress has allowed us to do, but there is a cost to this.
I don't think that, on our own, we will realise that the damage being caused is enough to even disown things like personal cars. We have to have a bigger picture approach to this as otherwise we'll be slow-walking off a cliff.
As an island, climate change should concern us even more. It can affect even areas which are not directly linked to the environment, such as tourism.
Research by biophysicists with the BIOS Research Unit in Finland who were asked by the UN to contribute research for the UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), had some sobering thoughts on climate change and how it relates to the economic models we use.
The team argues that today's "dominant economic theories" and conceptions of modern capitalism are inadequate because they falsely assume societies will have continued access to cheap energy, like fossil fuels. Also, these theories generally don't factor in sink-costs – meaning costs that can't be recovered – like climate change, and they fail to account for the potential socio-political consequences that could result from continued unchecked consumption and growth.
"Because economies are for the first time in human history shifting to energy sources that are less energy efficient, production of usable energy (exergy) will require more, not less, effort on the part of societies to power both basic and non-basic human activities," the scientists wrote.
The paper called for societies to start thinking about new models of governance and economics that relate better to the climate change.
"It can be safely said that no widely applicable economic models have been developed specifically for the upcoming era," they wrote, suggesting that the global economy is approaching a new era. "Our focus is on the transition period, the next few decades."
Instilling important principles at a young age is a very important step to countering all this. The sensitivity to environmental issues is increasing as time goes on, with more young people growing up in an age where caring for the surroundings is seen as important. Social media is helping this, with important initiatives such as minimising the use of plastic gaining ground online and creating movements across the world.
The idea of a movement for a cause can be an important factor. We have seen different ones growing in the US and Europe, and even in Malta we have social movements with worthy causing growing and expanding thanks to the internet.
We must work harder because as a country our environment is a major resource that contributes to our well-being. Change might be difficult, but in the case of climate change it is obligatory.
Evarist Bartolo is minister for education and employment
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With just about 1000000 people, Monravia is the national capital of Liberia and the largest city in the country. Monravia poses an image of a melting tropical city. The city is situated next to the sea and lined with many palm trees. The highest paint chipped buildings featured in the city are just three stories high but the streets are quite vibrant and lovely. Unfortunately, Monravia is a city where there is nothing much to do, see or buy. You will find some few merchants along the streets selling household wares, DVDs and used clothes. The two supermarkets in the city are well stocked and large. The streets are lined with billboards requesting locals to pay taxes and boost the local economy.
Locals in Monravia are very friendly and streets seem peppy and alive. Some of the landmark buildings in Monravia are government ministry buildings life foreign affairs, health, education, finance and others like Ducor Hotel, Pan African Plaza and the Executive Mansion. Most travelers to Monravia use Brussels airlines that fly from Brussels in Belgium and touchdown in Ghana's capital, Accra. Daily flights to Monravia are not available and it is essential that you schedule your travel well. Getting around the city is easy considering that it is less congested and traffic is relatively light. Taxis are many and cheap but rumors of pick pocketing and robberies in the taxis have increased. For this reason, hiring a shared taxi is advisable as it is much safer.
Tourist attractions in Monravia are limited and the government doesn't seem to recognize tourism as an important economic activity as such. Nevertheless, the Waterside Market is worthy a visit as well as National Museum of Liberia in Monravia and the attractive Dukor Hotel. Paynesville also receives a large number of tourists due to the human face shaped rock formation known as the Blo Degbo. The Monkey Island is less than an hour drive from Monravia close to Robertsfield International Airport. The island is a combination of six small islands and home to various chimpanzee groups. International researchers have been carrying out experiments on these monkeys and visitors can accompany the caretakers to the island and get to learn more about the chimpanzees and progress of the research.
Shopping is a less attractive activity in Monravia but visitors can still buy Afropolitan, a tailor made and ready made clothing, jewelry and home decoration items. The waterside market is well known for its fine clothing and children's supplies. There are pretty many options for dining in Monravia. However, most of the things rather than Liberian and Lebanese are quite expensive even though there are some few places that offer reasonable prices. The Beach Bar and Grill, B First, Casablanca, Dona Maria and Diana's are just some of the eating points you can visit. Most travelers to Monravia nowadays opt for self catering as fruits, herbs, salad and vegetables are readily available. Most of the supermarkets also stock imported Western European items and food products that visitors can buy.


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August 5/11 22:54 pm - BMX national Championships: Day 1
Posted by Editoress on 08/5/11
The 2011 Canadian BMX Championships presented by Leclerc, held in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures near Québec city, kicked off today with the first ever CDN Time Trials Championship races of this cycling discipline. The Time Trials were first introduced at the Olympic Games in 2008.
The Time Trials is a brand new event added to the Championships program this year. In the past, this discipline was previously called 'seeding runs', and no title was awarded to the fastest riders.
In the men's Elite category, Tory Nyhaug of Coquitlam, BC won this historical title, crossing the finish line with the fastest time of 30.301 seconds in the Superfinals, more than one second on the second place. Earlier this season at a World Cup, Nyhaug placed third in the time trials, and enjoys having the discipline in the championships.
"I really had a lot of fun today. It's my first race as Elite in Canadian Championships, and just a week after Worlds. I really wanted to go hard here tonight. Time Trials is an important part of the season, with Olympic points at grab. In 2016, it may be in the Olympic program as well...You definitely have to train for both the TT and the Supercross" said Nyhaug.
"I think the Time trials are a really good format. It's exciting for the fans, especially with the Superfinals. I am really happy about having it as a Championship race. It's just you against the track and no one else. You just have to go with it, you have to ride track, and not over think it."
The defending Canadian BMX Champion Jim Brown of Airdrie, Alberta, came second, followed by Connor McCormack of Kelowna, British Columbia in third.
In the women's race, Sabrina Millman of Cochrane, Alberta claimed the title with a time of 35.604 seconds. Racing her first ever Elite race tonight, Sabrina was excited to be on top immediately, especially racing with a broken wrist.
"It feels really good. I am cooming back from a broken wrist, which I broke in Abbotsford in a UCI race a couple of weeks back. I had to do a lot of physio in the last few weeks. I didn't prepare at all, and came here hoping for the best," said Millman. "I loved the track, probably the best track I have ever been on in my life. It's really smooth and everything is so easy to jump. It's just fun. The racing tomorrow will be hard, and it will be fun!"
In second place came Amelia Walsh of Ontario and Makara Martin of Alberta, returning to competition after a few years away from the competitive sport, took the third place.
In the junior rank, Corey Walsh of Ayr, Ontario grabbed the men's title, and Paige Zarazun of Vancouver, BC took the win in the women's race.
Close to 300 riders are registered for the BMX Championships race, including Jim Brown of Airdrie, Alberta is present to defend his 2010 title. Held tomorrow, the race will feature a brand new Canadian Champion crowned in the women's Elite category as the defending champion retired earlier this summer.
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High school senior Genesis Morales thought she knew what she wanted to do with her future, but after completing a special Turner-UCLA Allied Health internship this summer her plans changed direction.
The Turner-UCLA Allied Health internship was created in early 2017 when philanthropists Lauren and Robert (Bobby) Turner partnered with UCLA to give students from underserved areas exposure to allied health careers and educate them about job opportunities after graduation from high school. The program also offers them support to get into training programs, including providing scholarships.
UCLA teams up with the Los Angeles Unified School District and community organizations to recruit student interns. Morales was referred by her after-school organization, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), a non-profit that provides access for underserved children to leading organizations to help them plan for their futures.
Allied health careers include diverse fields such as respiratory therapy, nutrition and phlebotomy, areas that often to not require a bachelor's degree. The jobs account for nearly 60 percent of the health care workforce, so the positions are in high demand, offer good wages, health insurance and other benefits.
Fourteen teens participated in the recent internship in July. They spent a week living in a dorm on the UCLA campus, attending workshops and closely following allied health professionals in more than 10 departments at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The Turner-UCLA program was free to the students.
"The students can also volunteer at UCLA during the school year to further their learning about various careers," said Dr. Carol Mangione, director of the David Geffen School of Medicine Community Engagement Group.
For Jose Diaz, a high school junior, the internship opened his eyes to career paths he had not thought about. He appreciated learning what education and training were required for various jobs.
Turner-UCLA organizers hope to expand the summer program to include up to 60 interns next year.
Visit http www.medschool.ucla.edu/community-career-guide for more information.


1) Preheat oven to 400. Clean mushrooms and pat dry. Slice mushrooms vertically from base to cap.
2) Toss sliced mushrooms and spring onions or scallioins with 3 tablespoons oil. Season with salt and pepper. Roast 15 minutes, or until slightly browned. Meanwhile, bring stock to a low simmer.
3) In a thick-bottomed saucepan, heat butter, remaining 2 tablespoons oil and minced onion. Cook over medium heat until onionn is translucent, about 3 minutes.
4) Add rice and cook with onion for about a minute. Add wine and bay leaf. Stir until wine is reduced by half. Add enough hot stock to cover rice. Stirring constantly, gradually add more stock. When rice is cooked to your liking, add roasted mushrooms and spring onions, cheeses and creme fraiche, stirring over low heat until fully absorbed. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Garnish with chopped chives and serve.


Doesn't anyone remember the dot com bubble of 1997 to 2001? The advent of the internet spawned a plethora of dot com start-ups whose IPOs doubled overnight only to crash and burn later on. Thousands of dot coms got dot gone in a hurry. It became known as the "dot com crash" on NASDAQ.
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So where are we headed now? Virtually every business now needs to be in social media if they want to survive but which ones? Meanwhile the choice of social media platforms continues to proliferate.
Two years ago my friend Melonie Dodaro at Top Dog Social Media put out an info-graphic listing 256 social media platforms. In doing research for this article I found no such handy all-encompassing info graphic. I found lists of around the same number & then I found some 700 more!
It is impossible for any individual to possibly be knowledgeable about all of these platforms. Social Media Marketing Specialists are starting to concentrate more and more on how to use the top 5 or 6 effectively. For business those are LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, WordPress, Twitter and You Tube. I suspect those will all survive although the incredibly curtailed shrinking organic reach of LinkedIn and Facebook is being supplanted by paid or "sponsored" updates is turning off the small business world.
The bottom line is that I predict that many of these platforms will disappear some time in the next few years in another spectacular internet melt down. A lot more dot com platforms are going to get dot gone. Don't believe me? Take a close look at the picture in the heading. How many of the dot com companies pictured in that bubble still exist today?
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The History Of Journalism In India, The Emergence of Radio, Television and The Internet
Written by Muskaan Singhal in Historical
Newspapers and magazines have always been the primary medium of journalists since the 18th century. We saw the emergence of radio and television in the 20th century and the Internet in the 21st century. Journalism is not naturally Indian. Starting in Europe, journalism emerged as something so crucial to a Indian's life that a day that does not commence with flipping the pages to a newspaper, sounds odd to the average Indian.
The history of journalism ranges over the growth of technology and trade, marked by the dawn of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused the steady increase of the scope of news and the speed with which it is transmitted.
Before the printing press was invented, word of mouth was the primary source of news and this method of transmission of news was highly unreliable, and died out with the invention of the printing press.
Pre Independence Period
The pre-independence phase saw Wall Porter as the front-runner of newspapers in Europe. All the newspapers we know today are of European origin, however, it did not take shape until the early years of the 18th century. The Wall Porter, initially called 'Notize Secrette' which meant 'Written Notices' first appeared in Venice and was displayed in public places.
A small coin called 'gazette' was levied as a token fee. The Chinese discovered the art of printing in 868 AD. In 1476, the first printing press was established in England. 8-paged newsletters came in London and Italy both, in the 16 th century. News books were published in 1513. In 1621, a n/p appeared in London.
It was a primitive news sheet called Coranto and it carried only foreign news. First domestic news came in 1628. A new era of journalism was ushered with the publication of 'Oxford Gazette' in 1655. In March 1702, the first daily newspaper appeared in London under the name 'Daily Courant.'
James Augustus Hicky launched the first print in India called 'Bengal Gazette' or 'Calcutta General Advertiser' on Jan 29,1780. Bengal Gazette announced itself as 'a weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none'. It was a two-sheet paper measuring 12 inches by 8 inches, most of the space being occupied by advertisements.
Its circulation reached a maximum of 200 copies. Within six years of Bengal Gazette, four more weeklies were launched in Kolkata. 'Madras Courier' was launched in 1782 and Bombay Herald in 1791.
'Bombay Courier' was launched in 1792. In 1799, the East India administration passed regulations to increase its control over the press, which caused disruption in the existing peace in the field of journalism. The first newspaper under Indian administration appeared almost after 17 years, in 1816.
It was also called Bengal Gazette and was published by Gangadhar Bhattacharjee and was a liberal paper which advocated the reforms of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Raja Ram Mohan Roy brought out a magazine in Persian called 'Mirat-ul-Ukhbar'. He also published The 'Brahmanical Magazine', an English periodical to counteract the religious propaganda of the Christian missionaries of Serampore.
In 1822, the 'Chandrika Samachar' was started in Bengal. The years of 1830 to 1857 saw a large number of short-lived newspapers in Indian languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu and Persian.
The advent of 1857 brought out the divide between Indian owned and British owned newspapers as during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the "Gagging Act" had been passed by Lord Canning which sought to regulate the establishment of printing presses and to restrain the tone of all printed matter.
After 1857, the pioneering efforts in newspapers shifted from Bengal to Mumbai. In 1861, Mr. Knight merged the 'Bombay Standard', 'Bombay Times' and 'Telegraph', and brought out the first issue of 'Times of India'. In 1875, he started 'Indian Statesman', now known as 'The Statesman'. Around the same time, 'Amrita Bazar Patrika' was able to establish itself in Kolkata.
Starting out as a vernacular paper, it was constantly in trouble due to its outspokenness. In order to circumvent the strict provision of the Vernacular Press Act in 1876, intended to prevent the vernacular press from expressing criticism of British policies, Amrita Bazar Patrika converted into an English newspaper.
Amrita Bazar Patrika inspired freedom fighter Lokmanya Tilak to start Kesari in Pune, which he used to build anti-cow killing societies and reviving the Chhatrapati Shivaji cult. He used mass communication as a powerful political weapon, something politicians of the 21st century have quickly learnt. By 1905, the English and vernacular press had become pretty professional.
The 1920s and 1930s saw newspapers that reflected popular political opinion. While big English dailies were loyal to the British government, the vernacular press was strongly nationalist. Nehru started the Independent of Lucknow as a newspaper of extreme Indian opinion. The Home Rule Party started Young India, which later became Mahatma Gandhiji's mouthpiece.
As more and more Indians started learning English, many became reporters, editors and even owners. The Anglo-Indian press began to lose ground except in Bombay and Calcutta. In 1927, industrialist G D Birla took over the infamous, Hindustan Times and placed it on a sound financial footing.
Post Independence
In the post-independence era, the press enjoyed a large measure of freedom because Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minster of India was a liberal who realized that for the successful functioning of democratic set-up, the freedom of the press was crucial. Although Nehru was a liberal and believed in freedom of the press, but he was forced to enact laws curbing freedom of the press after independence in order to check increasing writings with communal overtones.
He found that the press was contributing to the already difficult situation created by the partition of India on communal lines. On October 23, 1951, he got new Act passed called 'The Press Objectionable Matters Act' which was a reflection of Nehru's concern over the newspapers' role in rousing communal discontent in India. Objectionable matters included any words, signs, or visible representations which were likely to incite or encourage any person to resort to violence or sabotage for the purpose of overthrowing or undermine the Government.
However, during Indira Gandhi's regime, she expected that the press should blindly support her government without questioning her ability to deliver the goods. In 1971, the government led by Mrs. Gandhi made its first attempt to control the press when her own ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Indira Gandhi's son, Rajiv Gandhi, became Prime Minister after the assassination of his mother in 1984. He had a smooth relationship with the public and the press for the first few years.
The press started becoming critical of his government afterwards and so, he got the Defamation Bill, 1988, passed in Lok Sabha, thereby making an attempt to suppress the press. The mounting pressure of the public and the press forced the government to withdraw the Bill without referring it to the Rajya Sabha. Looks like both the mother and the son did not handle criticism well.
Economic liberalization in '91 also brought in new resources, including foreign money, which in turn induced new morals and manners. Journalists were now paid handsomely and the profession attracted new talent and television journalism changed dramatically. After 1991, a kind of corporation of the media was inevitable.
The upside was that the newspapers were no longer entirely dependent upon the government for advertisements, nor were the journalists dependent upon the government's discretion. After 1991, successive minority governments in Delhi found themselves having to humor and appease an increasingly aggressive media, demanding a role for itself in determining the public interest. However, Narendra Modi disrupted this arrangement. He bypassed the newspapers, using television to reach the people, which well, has proved to e very effective.
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Hořelice (v jednotném čísle, ta Hořelice, v Hořelici, dříve ty Hořelice) je bývalá obec, od roku 1951 jihozápadní část města Rudná v okrese Praha-západ. Leží v mírně kopcovité krajině mezi Berounem a Prahou, při silnici II/605, tedy bývalém hlavním tahu z Prahy na Plzeň, a to dále od Prahy než Dušníky, druhá část Rudné. Evidenčně se dnes Rudná nečlení na části a má jen jednu řadu čísel popisných, dosud však existuje katastrální území Hořelice, které je statisticky rozděleno na dvě základní sídelní jednotky: vlastní sídelní část nese označení Hořelice, oblast západně od ní je evidována pod názvem Průmyslová zóna Rudná (průmyslová zóna však přesahuje i do Nučic).

Historie
Nejstarší dochovaná zmínka o vsi je nadační listina knížete Břetislava z roku 1052, kde je mezi statky věnovanými kostelu ve Staré Boleslavi zmiňován důchod ze vsi Zhořelce u Prahy. Od roku 1228 vesnice patřila klášteru svatého Jiří na Pražském hradě, od 14. století klášteru svatého Tomáše na Malé Straně. Po husitských válkách ves od krále Zikmunda získali bratři Jeroným, Jan a Bušek z Čečelic, poté se ve vlastnictví vystřídali Bořivoj Měsíček z Výškova, Kateřina z Nedabylic, Ondřej Erb z Erdsteinu a rod Karvinských, který ji vlastnil až do roku 1730, kdy byla začleněna do tachlovického panství.

V letech 1771–1772 zasáhla oblast morová epidemie, při níž zemřelo mnoho lidí.

V roce 1932 bylo v obci Hořelice evidováno 1621 obyvatel a tyto živnosti, obchody a služby: katolický kostel, československý kostel, synagoga, sbor dobrovolných hasičů, společenstvo hostinských, důl Pražské železářské společnosti, hospodářské družstvo, 2 stavební družstva, 2 velkostatky, výroba voňavkářského zboží, autodoprava, Bio invalidů, výroba cementového zboží, 2 cukráři, drogerie, hodinář, 5 hostinců, hotel Paříž, 3 kapelníci, knihtiskárna, konsum Včela, kožišník, 2 zahradnictví, zubní ateliér, železářství.

Stavby
Nedaleko kostela stávala kamenná tvrz s dřevěnou horní částí. Pod tvrzí byla rozsáhlá zahrada se studnou, potůčkem a sádkovým rybníkem. K hospodářství se přimykal mlýn, panský dvůr, pivovar, vinopalna a hospoda. Za třicetileté války byla tvrz poškozena. Kolem roku 1700 nechal rod Karvinských zbytky tvrze přestavět na barokní zámek.
V roce 1839 byl zámek klasicistně přestavěn. Celý areál je zapsán v seznamu kulturních památek. Patří soukromé firmě.

V centru Hořelice stojí barokní kostel Stětí svatého Jana Křtitele. První zmínka o kostele na tomto místě je z roku 1395. Pravděpodobně byl znovu postaven roku 1605, ale ve třicetileté válce byl těžce poškozen; rodina Karvinských ho v roce 1697 nechala opravit. V letech 1740–1747 nechala majitelka tachlovického panství, velkovévodkyně Anna Marie Toskánská, kostel zbořit a na jeho místě postavit nový; toskánský znak se nachází v průčelí kostela. Autorství stavby je přisuzováno Kiliánu Ignáci Dienzenhoferovi. Na hlavním oltáři je malba stětí svatého Jana Křtitele, boční oltáře jsou zasvěceny sv. Rodině, sv. Barboře, sv. Janu Nepomuckému a sv. Františku Xaverskému. Varhany stavěl místní varhanář Karel Weiss. Kostel je zapsán v seznamu kulturních památek.

V roce 1558 bylo zavedeno pravidelné poštovní spojení mezi Prahou a Řeznem a Hořelice byla první důležitou zastávkou na této trase. Poštovní trubka se dostala i  do znaku města Rudná. Na místě původní pošty byl v roce 1690 vystavěn hostinec Na Staré. Ten byl spojen s poštou, v roce 1700 tam byl zaměstnán hospodář s manželkou, hospodářský personál, 3 postilioni, podomek a v hostinci číšník. Poštovský úřad byl dědičný a rodový. Na chodbě v přízemí se dochoval výklenek s kůlem pro uvazování koní. Památkově chráněný však hostinec není.

U Molákovy ulice stojí boží muka z roku 1610 v podobě kamenného sloupku zakončeného kovovým křížkem. Místo sloužilo jako morový hřbitov.

Hořelický hřbitov u hlavní silnice byl zřízen roku 1831 a v roce 1900 rozšířen.

Hořelická škola byla postavena roku 1898. Roku 1698 působil v Hořelici na místní farní škole jako učitel, kantor a varhaník otec Matěje Jelínka.

V roce 1923 byl při hlavní silnici postaven Husův sbor, kostel Církve československé husitské. Za okupace bylo při bočním vstupu do kaple přistavěno kolumbárium. V roce 2008. (2005) byl kostel i s farou prohlášen kulturní památkou.

Těsně u jižního okraje Hořelice se na území Nučic nachází nádraží Nučice na trati 173. Západně od něj protínala území Hořelice od roku 1858 Kladensko-nučická dráha. Úsek Kladno – Hořelice byl zrušen 31. prosince 1968, úsek Hořelice – Mořina o délce 12,5 km byl předán podniku Rudné a nerudné doly Mořina, jehož nástupcem jsou dnes Lomy Mořina. Nákladové nádraží v Rudné-Hořelici se označuje jako nádraží Hořelice nebo jako Nučice nákladové nádraží či Nučice nákladní koleje.

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Learn how our Gastroenterology, Liver and Nutrition Program cares for children with obesity and weight management concerns.
At Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, we work with families to help children achieve a healthy weight through physical exercise and diet modifications. Energy balance is key because a child who consumes more calories than he or she burns is on the path to potentially lifelong health consequences.
We know it's not always easy for a child to lose weight, and we're here to offer all the support and resources you need. Our multidisciplinary team includes pediatric gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, dieticians and nurse practitioners who specialize in obesity, ensuring that your child will receive comprehensive care.
The first step is to measure your child's weight and height. If those results show that your child is overweight or obese, your child's doctor may recommend additional tests to screen for related health problems, such as high cholesterol, elevated liver enzymes, insulin resistance or high blood pressure.
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We all know not to drink and drive, however in Cyprus, the law states that you mustn't eat and drive too. Even just drinking water whilst driving is illegal, and having a quick snack at the wheel could land you a pretty hefty fine.
For most of us, our vehicles are our pride and joy, however we can all admit to letting them get a little dirty every now and again. But be warned, not keeping your car clean in Russia or Belarus could land you in some pretty hot water, as driving a dirty car can incur a fine.
What's perhaps most interesting about this next law is why it was even created. In the US state of Alabama, it's illegal to drive while blindfolded… which poses the question as to why anyone would want to in the first place?
On Germany's famous Autobahn, it's illegal to stop unnecessarily. Given that it could have been avoided, running out of fuel is considered unnecessary, meaning that pulling over because you've run out of fuel is breaking the law. Hence, make sure to fill up your tank before tackling this route.
When driving in Germany, it's also worth being aware that motorists may also be fined for making derogatory signs or using abusive language.
That's right; in the state of Alaska tethering a dog to the roof of your vehicle has (rather unsurprisingly) been declared illegal….it's probably best not to ask.
If you're planning a trip to Portugal or Spain and require glasses or contact lenses, then make sure to take a spare pair with you. The law in these countries dictates that drivers are required to bring an additional pair with them when driving.
Many European countries such as Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Russia forbid hitchhiking.
When driving in Malta, it's particularly important to keep your eyes peeled, as it's not customary to signal when changing lanes.
You may or may not know this one already, but when driving in France you're required to carry a self-test breathalyser.
In Switzerland, the use of headlights is compulsory for all vehicles, even during the day time, and a fine can be imposed for non-compliance.
On a side note, it's also worth bearing in mind that it's apparently unlawful to wash your car on a Sunday in Switzerland.
In Croatia, drivers are legally required to carry a shovel during the winter months.
Spain has some rather complicated parking rules, which make multi-storey parking seem like a dream.
In some cities, cars must be parked on different sides of the road according to the day of the week. For example, when parking on a one-way street on odd days of the month, vehicles must be positioned on the side of the road where the houses have odd numbers. Whereas on even days, vehicles must be parked on the side of the road where the houses bear even numbers.
We hope you've enjoyed this round up of some of the more unusual and obscure driving laws from around the world.
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Contact with Space: Oranur; Second Report 1951 - 1956 (Paperback)
By Michael Mannion (Foreword by), Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich's final publication, Contact With Space contains the result of six years of intensive research and field work: a natural scientific account of and the basis of practical measures for combating the DOR emergency. This volume is an exposition of the newest developments in the technology of Cosmic Orgone Engineering, which involve the use of "Spacegun," an extension of the cloudbuster made possible by the discovery of ORUR.During Reich's scientific expedition to southern Arizona (1954-1955)--which he documents in this book--it was Cosmic Orgone Engineering that caused desert land to turn green with prairie grass. Here Reich submits a natural scientific explanation of the metabolism of the Life Energy, a study which goes into the nature of primal vegetation, and the nature of dying or death of vegetation, i.e. desert development.Nature being one, Contact With Space examines the new basic energetic facts brought into the open by the Oranur Experiment in terms of the various branches of science into which they ramify: biophysics, Oranur medicine, astrophysics, meteorology, chemistry and pre-atomic chemistry, space technology, man's reactions to these events, etc. It also deals with the methods of the functional scientist.Written under unrelenting attack from conspiratorial commercial interests, this book gives some of the background into the difficult social and physical milieu in which this research was done, and conveys the excitement of the adventures that began the cosmic or "atomic" age.
Publisher: Haverhill House Publishing


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L'Anglais au Moulin-Rouge est une peinture réalisée en 1892 par l'artiste français Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Réalisée à l'huile sur carton, l'œuvre représente l'artiste britannique William T. Warrener - un ami proche de Lautrec - et deux femmes au célèbre cabaret du Moulin Rouge à Paris . La peinture a servi d'étude préparatoire à une lithographie couleur de 1892 et fait actuellement partie de la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York .

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The Victorian city is often painted as a place of squalor and misery for the working class, where hordes of downtrodden workers were crammed together in dehumanising conditions, lacking the proper freedoms that modern people have come to expect from metropolitan living. Emma Griffin, author of Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution, published by Yale University Press, investigates the reality of Engels' assertion that working class life in a newly industrialised Victorian city was 'Hell Upon Earth'. By contrasting the common experience of urban life to the reality of the rural struggle that migrants left behind, Griffin discovers that the city offered its inhabitants a host of opportunities, securities and freedoms that the countryside simply couldn't.
Victorian cities have received a very bad press. Take Dickens' famous creation, Coketown in Hard Times – a mill-town set in the north of England and probably inspired by a visit to Preston. Coketown was depicted as a miserable place filled with identical and uninspired brick buildings, all covered with soot, thanks to the coal burned in its many factories. Engels' account of mid-nineteenth-century Manchester was even more uncompromising: a place of dirt, squalid over-crowding, and exploitation. The historic heart of Manchester he described as a place of 'filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness', adding that it was hard to describe 'the defiance of all considerations of cleanliness, ventilation and health … which characterise the construction of this single district, containing at least twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants… If any one wishes to see in how little space a human being can move, how little air – and such air! – he can breathe, how little of civilisation he may share and yet live, it is only necessary to travel hither'. It was, quite simply, 'Hell upon Earth'.
Yet in their haste to describe the drawbacks of urban living, historians have arguably overlooked the advantages that living in the city offered, even to those who lived in the slums. A remarkable collection of autobiographies written by working men and women in the nineteenth century provides a very different slant on city life to that offered by such iconic writers as Dickens and Engels. These writers do not mention ugly buildings or soot. Nor do they describe their cities as 'hell upon earth'. They present them as places of social and intellectual freedom. It may jar with what we think they ought to be saying, but it is a verdict that we ought at least to consider.
In order to understand the positive light in which workers portrayed cities, it is helpful to begin by thinking about the places from which they came. Despite our tendency to romanticise the rosy cottager, living conditions in many rural areas were abysmal. Certainly, population density was low, but houses were nonetheless very small, so the overcrowding experienced by families was already significant. Rural homes lacked clean water and sewage disposal, so there was nothing new about this aspect of slum life either. In the agricultural districts, wages were low and there was little to do in the hours after work anyway, so the opportunities for entertainment or self-improvement were very limited. Autobiographers were rarely nostalgic about life on the land. As one told his employee when a chance to work on the railways came his way, he did not know where he would go, only that 'I can't stand this any longer'.
The urban scene was far more diverse. Nineteenth-century cities offered opportunities for education and improvement. Cities had a range of schools offering classes in the evenings and on Sundays, often at no or very little cost, which held out the promise of an education to those who had missed out during childhood. Most cities hosted a lively mutual improvement scene – clubs in which members purchased, shared and discussed books and newspapers. Some even had Mechanics Institutes as well. These various organisations helped to improve literacy which paved the way for men to get involved in other clubs and societies. And as most of these small clubs and schools were also run by their members, they also helped to teach vital skills in the ways of running an organisation. Several of the autobiographers indicate that the skills learned as a treasurer or secretary were at least as important as anything they learned in their lessons.
Cities helped to improve the education and skills of workers, but this was not all. They were also environments in which individuals could get involved in political organisations, regardless of whether they conflicted with the views of the employers. Rural communities were small and enclosed. Employers sometimes even housed their workers; they certainly knew everything about their whereabouts and interests. As there was usually too little work to go around, masters also held a very strong hold over their employees. In such a context, landowners could expect their workers to sit on the pews of the parish church each Sunday and to refrain from any political activity of which they disapproved. Failure to comply would meet with immediate dismissal, a very serious threat in a community with no alternative forms of employment.
The situation in rapidly expanding cities could hardly have been more different. Here the demarcation between work and leisure was much clearer; once a man left work, what he got up to was no business of his employer. He could worship at one of many churches, join the Chartists, the Anti-Corn-Law League, a union – there was a wide range of causes to get involved in and no-one to stop him. In any case, workers were in demand. An employer might sack a worker for religious or political views of which he disapproved, but workers did not respond by concealing their views in order to stay in work – they simply found another employer, which in the rapidly growing new cities was a relatively straightforward matter.
In all then, workers did not find city life as grim as middle-class observers have generally assumed. This is certainly not to deny that the rapidly growing towns could form dismal and unhealthy environments. It is simply to suggest that if we listen to the words of the working poor themselves, we find that they did not dwell too long on these drawbacks. In their eyes, cities represented the opportunity for personal and political freedom. Little wonder then that throughout the nineteenth century, so many flocked towards the new cities, and so few ever returned.


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Leocadia ist ein Theaterstück von Jean Anouilh, erstellt im Théâtre de la Michodière (Paris) am  1. Dezember 1940. Es ist Bestandteil der Pièces roses zusammen mit Humulus le Muet (1932), Le Bal des voleurs (deutsch: Der Ball der Diebe) (1938) und Le Rendez-vous de Senlis (deutsch: Rendezvous von Senlis) (1941). Francis Poulenc komponierte für das Stück das Lied Les chemins de l'amour (deutsch: Wege der Liebe),  das von Yvonne Printemps gesungen wurde.

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Das Stück handelt von der Geschichte einer jungen, mittellosen Hutmacherin aus Paris und eines reichen Adeligen (Albert).

Nach einer Liebesromanze mit der Operndiva Leocadia, die drei Tage später tödlich verunglückt, ist Alberts Herz gebrochen. Um ihn zu trösten, engagiert seine Tante (Herzogin) die wichtigsten Personen, die während dieser drei Tage dauernden Romanze eine Rolle spielten, und lässt alles immer wieder gemeinsam mit dem Prinzen durchspielen. Dazu gehören u. a. Oberkellner, Taxichauffeur, Eisverkäufer, Kneipenwirt, Zigeunerorchester. Als Ersatz für die verstorbene Leocadia engagiert sie Amanda, die ihr täuschend ähnlich sieht.

Aufführungen
 Besetzung der Premierenvorstellung
 Yvonne Printemps: Amanda
 Pierre Fresnay: Der Prinz
 Marguerite Deval: Die Herzogin
 Victor Boucher: Der Oberkellner
  Paul Demange: Der Eisverkäufer
 Leon Larive: Der Taxifahrer / Der Herbergsvater
 Mercedes Brar: Die Garderobenfrau
 Henri-Richard: Hector
 Jacques Januar: Der Wildhüter
 Henry Gaultier: Der Oberkellner bei der Herzogin Sets
 Originalmusik: Francis Poulenc

Regie führte Victor Boucher (1877–1942), der langjährige Leiter des Théâtre de la Michodière. Leocadia ist das letzte Stück, das Boucher in seiner langen Bühnenkarriere inszeniert hat. Die Premiere war am 1. Dezember 1940, die letzte Vorstellung nach 173 Aufführungen am 27. April 1941.
1984 wurde das Stück an der Comédie des Champs-Élysées gespielt, mit Sabine Haudepin als Amanda und Lambert Wilson als Prinz.
Die Premiere war am 11. September 1984.

Die deutsche Erstaufführung fand am 29. Oktober 1950 auf den Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt statt.
1963 stand das Stück zum ersten Mal auf dem Spielplan des Wiener Theater in der Josefstadt in einer Inszenierung von Otto Schenk, mit Johanna von Koczian und Helmuth Lohner in den Hauptrollen. Am 9. Mai 1963 wurde die Inszenierung im ORF übertragen.
1976 inszenierte Boleslaw Barlog das Stück am selben Theater mit Eugen Stark als Prinz und Sylvia Manas als Amanda.

Patricia Moyes übersetzte das Stück unter dem Titel Time Remembered ins Englische. Das Stück wurde 1957 in London und am Broadway im Morosco Theatre mit Richard Burton und Helen Hayes in den Hauptrollen aufgeführt und erhielt 5 Nominierungen für den Tony Award, den Helen Hayes gewann.

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These Badass Moms Are Raising Kids to Save the Planet
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Happy Mother's Day, Eartherlings. I'm no mom yet, but you know what? Moms are amazing—especially those raising the kids who will turn this world around and stop our governments from burning fossil fuels past the point of no return.
And some young people are really dedicated. From all around the world—in Colombia, India, and the U.S.—youth have been suing their state and federal governments to attempt to force them to tackle climate change. All they want is a chance at a future where they can live healthily and happily. In the U.S., a group of relentless kids has even secured a trial date for their landmark federal case.
What about the moms behind the scenes, though? "They must be equally as badass," I thought recently. Confirmed: They are.
Earther spoke with some moms behind the 21 youth plaintiffs who have launched a lawsuit against the U.S. government in 2015. Here are just a few of the women raising the climate warriors taking our government to court.
Melanie Oommen, mother to Kiran Oommen, 21
Kiran Oommen (left) and his mom, Melanie Oommen.
Photo: Courtesy of Melanie Oommen
A pastor, Melanie Oommen has woven kindness and healing into her and her family's everyday life. The reason she's concerned about climate change? Literally, humanity is at stake.
It's no surprise that concern has rubbed off on her son Kiran, helping energize him into taking action. Oommen didn't push him into the world of activism, though. Others involved in the federal climate case invited him to join in 2015, and with his values, it was a bit of a no-brainer, Oommen said.
"As a young person, he became increasingly concerned about the world," Oommen went on. "He grew up in a community and family where concern for the world was just a part of everything we do."
This mom of three has been sure to instill this concern for the planet and its people in all three of her children, not just Kiran. This Mother's Day, she'd like nothing more than for the U.S. to come up with a strategic, science-based plan to reduce emissions, but in the meantime, she'd settle for more time with her kids.
"That's always what I love best," she said.
Sharon Baring, mother to Nathan Baring, 18
Sharon Baring holding rocks.
Photo: Courtesy of Sharon Baring
Baring spends a lot of her time in schools. So does her husband. She's an elementary school nurse, and he's a teacher. "I try every day to help people connect with their authentic selves, with those around them and with where they live because that sense of being connected is where health lies," she wrote in an email to Earther.
Health, the environment, and how they'll worsen in the face of climate change, are prominent topics of discussion in the Barings' household, and Nathan appears to get it. Baring and her husband weren't too excited at first when Nathan was asked to join the climate case because, well, suing the government isn't something to do lightly. Nathan was determined, though. As a kid, he couldn't vote, and he was fed up with people dismissing him and telling him, "someone else will handle it."
So his parents agreed. "We knew he needed to do this," Baring said, "and we needed to support him, come what may."
That's the kind of mom she is. All Baring asks in return for her unconditional support this Mother's Day? A morning cup of coffee and a game of frisbee.
Helaina Piper, mother to Aji Piper, 17
Aji Piper (left) and his mom, Helaina Piper.
Photo: Courtesy of Helaina Piper
Piper is a single mom, so she knows the struggle. She juggled up to five jobs sometimes to make ends meet, from nannying to working at an art studio. And yet, she still finds time to plug into her community by serving on nonprofit boards and volunteering. That dedication and commitment to community is what got Aji so revved up about the environment.
Well, that and music. He taught himself to play the ukulele at 12 and would write songs with his younger brother. They'd perform that at city halls and public hearings. It served as a launching point for community engagement, and people started seeking Aji out to speak at events. Once he started learning about climate change, there was no going back. Aji was in the fight for the long run.
His activism and participation in a high-profile lawsuit hasn't been an easy journey for his mom. After all, he's a young black teen who travels around the country in a time where simply being black can result in police confrontations. But Piper doesn't let her worries stop Aji. He deserves to be empowered, she said. And she's proud.
She's not too proud, however, of his dish-washing skills. With Piper's busy work schedule, she just wishes her boys would clean up every now and then. No time like Mother's Day to get started on that.
Holly McRae, mother to Avery McRae, 12
Avery McRae (left) and her mom, Holly McRae.
Photo: Courtesy of Holly McRae
McRae has worn many hats. She was a park ranger, environmental educator, and now she works for a land trust. Her passion for the environment helped guide how she raised Avery.
And while Avery is just 12, her mom's passion has clearly rubbed off on her. At five, she learned snow leopards were endangered, and McRae helped her plan a snow leopard-themed party. At the party McRae told them all Avery's friends about the dangers the animal was facing. They gathered donations and sent them to a foundation doing work to save the snow leopard.
This save-the-world party thing? It became a regular occurrence and demand from Avery. "It was so much fun that the next year, she was like what are we doing this year," McRae told Earther.
If that's not a parenting goal, then I don't know what is.
Having a child so young in the national spotlight can be exhausting for McRae, but she strives to help her daughter find a balance between being a kid and saving the world. She also wants to help keep her daughter's optimistic spark alive as she grows older.
"I know Avery doesn't even understand all the impacts [of climate change]," McRae said. "She's too young to understand them. I think the hardest thing going forward is, as she begins to grapple these things at a deeper level, being there for her and supporting her.
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Sounds to me like McRae's got nothing to worry about. If she can plan cool-ass endangered animal parties, she'll know exactly what to do the next time her daughter needs some guidance.
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JIRGA to screen in competition at the 65th Sydney Film Festival!
May 9, 2018 May 16, 2018 by benjamingilmour
We are excited to announce that our feature drama film Jirga will have its World Premiere at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival, screening at the State Theatre in competition, June 8th/9th. It is the greatest honour to have been selected in this section and, above all, to have a great first audience for our film. This what the official festival program has to say:
Made under extraordinary, and extremely dangerous, conditions, Jirga tells the emotional story of a former Australian soldier who travels to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness.
Three years after an Australian army helicopter raid on a small village led to the killing of an unarmed man, former Australian soldier Mike (Sam Smith) returns to Afghanistan to find the victim's family. Doggedly, he sets off on a perilous journey over a terrain where both the Taliban and ISIS are active. Mike is determined to make amends and so puts his life in the hands of the Jirga – the village justice system. The risky trek has remarkable parallels with the making of the film. With an earlier version of the screenplay in hand, director Benjamin Gilmour and actor Sam Smith headed to Pakistan to shoot a film on the border with Afghanistan. When the script was deemed too politically sensitive, the promised funding disappeared and along with it the possibility to make the film. Gilmour says: "Returning to Australia to make alternative plans would've been the sensible conclusion to our adventure. Instead, we went with Plan B and decided to shoot the whole film ourselves in Afghanistan." With a camera bought at a Pakistani shopping mall, Gilmour shot the hastily rewritten film himself, while frequently in danger of kidnapping or worse. The result is a sensitive and compassionate tale on the impact of war and the cost of redemption.
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Q: System.NullReferenceException in a class library I'm trying to configure some connection strings in app.config, but keep getting this error message,
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I've looked at numerous solutions on the web, but nothing directly applies,

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*I'm copying the app.config file to the target directory

*I've referenced System.Configuration and am using ConfigurationManager

*The XML / source is almost a verbatim copy of the Microsoft guidelines
The only difference is that the project is a class library, which I'm exposing to Excel via ExcelDNA.
Is there something special I need to do to get this to work with Excel?
Here's a snippet of the XML,
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="ConnectionCSV" providerName="System.Data.OleDb" connectionString="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" />
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

This is the source code (have got a using System.Configuration along with necessary reference),
string constr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionCSV"].ConnectionString;

The above line throws the Object reference not set to an instance of an object error.

A: The name of the configuration file needs to match the name of the .XLL file that is created by ExcelDNA.
e.g.
MyApp-AddIn.xll -> MyApp-AddIn.xll.config
MyApp-AddIn64.xll -> MyApp-AddIn64.xll.config

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*Libraries don't have their own app.config files, they belong to the parent executable.

*Excel.exe does not have its own app.config file.

*The connection string ConnectionCSV does not exist in whatever configuration file, if any, is being used at runtime. You can verify this by checking if ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionCSV"] != null first and warning the user if the key doesn't exist.

In your case it might be better to store the connection string in the user's registry instead. To whit:
Update:
I just found this page on MSDN which describes your exact problem and explains how you can use app.config files with Office add-ins: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/16e74h9c.aspx
Specifically:

In the [app.config filename] box, type the same name as the assembly plus the extension .config. For example, a configuration file for an Excel project assembly called ExcelWorkbook1.dll would be named ExcelWorkbook1.dll.config.

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Club Atlético de Madrid Sociedad Anónomia Deportiva, simply known as Atlético Madrid, were founded in 1903; only one year after their big brother Real Madrid was founded. The club became independent of parent-club Athletic Bilbao in 1921, and was invited to join the Primera División in 1928.
Atlético Madrid's greatest successes were between 1960 and 1980, as they won the Intercontinental Cup, 4 League titles, 1 UEFA Cup Winner's Cup and 5 Copa del Rey-titles. Winning the Intercontinental Cup without ever having won an international competition is unique. The reason Atlético Madrid participated was quite bizarre: Bayern Munich had refused to participate because they simply did not want to make the journey to South America. Atlético Madrid have never been able to win the Champions League: they have been a runner-up three times, more than any other club.
Atlético Madrid's home kit is red with white vertical striped shirts, and has been like this since 1911. They used to play their home matches at the Estadio Vicente Calderón until 2017, which had a capacity of almost 55,000. Nowadays, they play all their home matches in the Wanda Metropolitano, a brand new stadium with a capacity of 67,000. It's the third biggest stadium of Spain, following up Camp Nou in Barcelona (99,000) and Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid (81,000).
The new stadium perfectly reflects Atlético Madrid's ambitions: they belong at the top tier of Spanish football and are a worthy opponent to clubs such as FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the Copa del Rey-final in 2013 they beat Real Madrid with 2-1 and in 2014 they even won the League-title. In 2018, Atlético Madrid won their third Europa League-title and also won another UEFA Super Cup after beating Real Madrid again with 4-2. Diego Simeone is the club's head coach and has been so since 2011. Under his management, out of 377 games, the club has won 233 games, 200 clean sheets and accomplished to get to 8 finals. With such great results Diego Simeone is often being compared to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
Last season, Los Rojiblancos (the Red-Whites) finished 2nd in La Liga, 9 points above Real Madrid, and they will do anything to fight for the title next season. With players such as Koke, Diego Costa and recently signed players João Félix, Marcos Llorente and Héctor Herrera, Atleti could be strong enough - despite missing Antoine Griezmann - to defeat Real and Barça.
Atlético Madrid is not just a great club with a beautiful stadium, it's also located in the city of Madrid: a perfect way to extend your football trip with a mini city trip by visiting some of the cities' beautiful highlights, such as Plaza Mayor, Parque del Buen Retiro and the Temple of Debod.
At Number 1 Football Travel you can book a perfectly organised football trip to Madrid. We guarantee group seating up to 3 people together with good views of the field. All our hotel accommodations include breakfast and are located in the city centre.
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Wishing you a great football trip to Atlético Madrid!
Please note that the exact times and dates of the La Liga matches are usually confirmed by the Spanish Football Federation 2-3 weeks before the match. Due to European competition and live TV broadcast the time and day of the match can be changed. Therefore our package deals are mostly from Saturday till Monday to cover all possible match dates. Of course it is possible to book 1 night once the dates have been confirmed. You will recognize these confirmed matches by the orange 'date confirmed' sticker.
Primera División / Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid
Champions League / Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid
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