The MLB postseason is known for drama, but not every big play goes down as an epic moment in history.
There are many oddities and cool factoids unearthed when digging through playoff history and statistics.
Everyone remembers walkoff homers, but walkoff sacrifice bunts? Yep, they've happened. A game that was essentially played twice? Yep, that, too.
Here's a look back at some postseason odds and ends you might not know about, via BaseballReference.com .
There have been 17 times in postseason history when a batter has reached base because of catcher's interference. After having zero instances of postseason catcher's interference from 1985 to 2008, it has happened 10 times since 2009. The latest occurrence was in Game 1 of the 2018 NL Championship series when Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal interfered with Brewers batter Jesus Aguilar in the third inning.
There have been four instances in which a postseason series MVP has come from the losing team. It happened most recently in 1987, when the Giants' Jeff Leonard was voted MVP of the NLCS against the Cardinals. Leonard hit .417 with four homers in the Giants' seven-game loss. The other LCS MVP recipients from losing teams are Mike Scott of the Astros in 1986 and Fred Lynn of the Angels in 1982. Only one World Series MVP has come from the losing team — Bobby Richardson of the Yankees in 1960.
Only three players in postseason history have hit a home run on their birthday. Willie Aikens of the Royals hit two in Game 1 of the 1980 World Series against the Phillies, the Rays' Evan Longoria hit one in Game 3 of the 2013 ALDS against the Red Sox, and the Cardinals' Kolten Wong hit one in Game 2 of the 2015 NLDS against the Cubs. Aikens' big birthday performance in 1980 also set an MLB postseason record for RBIs on a birthday, with four.
There have been four times in postseason history that a game has ended on a walkoff sacrifice bunt. Yes, a walkoff sacrifice bunt. It happened most recently in Game 3 of the 2014 NLCS, when the Giants' Gregor Blanco laid down a sacrifice only to have Cardinals pitcher Randy Choate make an errant throw to first that allowed the winning run to score.
Runners have stolen home 19 times in 70 attempts in postseason history (a 27 percent success rate). The most recent was by the Cubs' Javier Baez in Game 1 of the 2016 NLCS against the Dodgers. Before that, the most recent was by Elvis Andrus in Game 2 of the 2010 ALCS as part of a double-steal. Others to steal home — either as a straight steal or in a double-steal — include Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Tim McCarver, Reggie Jackson and Brad Fullmer.
If you had to guess who holds the all-time record for highest single-year postseason batting average, it would probably take a while to arrive at Lloyd McClendon. But the Pirates' utility man was on fire in the 1992 NLCS against the Braves, when he hit a staggering .727 in 16 plate appearances across five games, including two doubles and a homer. McClendon also set the record for highest single-year postseason on-base percentage, at .750. His OPS for the postseason was 1.932, good for fourth all-time.
There have been 21 postseason homers by pitchers, the last being Joe Blanton for the Phillies in Game 4 of the 2008 World Series. Bob Gibson and Dave McNally are tied for the most all time with two each. McNally's homer in Game 3 of the 1970 World Series was a grand slam.
Derek Jeter has seen the most pitches in postseason history: 2,749. That's 563 more than the next-closest player (Bernie Williams). Having seen that many pitches in the postseason, it should come as no surprise that Jeter also has the most hits in postseason history (200), the most balls put in play (508) and the most strikeouts (135).
There has been one triple play in postseason history. It was turned, unassisted, by the Indians' Bill Wambsganss in the fifth inning of Game 5 of the 1920 World Series against the Dodgers. Blue Jays fans will tell you the team turned one in the 1992 World Series against the Braves but were the victims of a bad call.
The 1991 World Series between the Twins and the Braves had four walkoff wins, the most ever in a postseason series. The Braves and Twins split the walkoffs with two apiece: the Braves' coming in Games 3 and 4, and the Twins' coming in Games 6 and 7. The breakdown was: single (Mark Lemke, Game 3), sac fly (Jerry Willard, Game 4), home run (Kirby Puckett, Game 6) and single (Gene Larkin, Game 7).
This one isn't so much an oddity as just something a lot of people don't seem to know: The Washington Nationals franchise has, indeed, won a playoff series. Well, it wasn't technically the Nationals — it was the Montreal Expos — but it counts just the same. Back in 1981, MLB added an extra round of playoffs because of the players strike, so each league had a divisional round to determine who would play in the league championship series. In the division series to determine the NL East champion, the Expos beat the Phillies in five games to advance to the NLCS, where they lost to the Dodgers, also in five games. The 1981 divisional rounds have become mostly an obscure memory for seasoned baseball fans, but younger fans usually have no idea they even happened. The Nationals' website didn't even include it on the team's official postseason history page until 2017. So, for all you Nats/Expos fans, here's video proof of your team's 1981 postseason triumph.
In 1982, the Braves and Cardinals played Game 1 of the NLCS twice. Sort of. Here's what happened: The Braves led 1-0 after 4 1/2 innings in the original Game 1 before rain halted play three outs from it becoming an official game. Had those three outs been recorded and the game made official, it would've been suspended at that point and resumed the next day. Instead, the game was called and the teams played a new Game 1 the next day, with the Cardinals winning 7-0. In 2009, MLB changed its postseason rainout rules to allow the suspension of a weather-affected game at any point, regardless of whether it has been made official. Had that first 1982 NLCS game been played today, it would've been suspended with the Braves leading 1-0 in the fifth and resumed later. Sorry, Braves fans. What might have been.


Disney always bewitches us with its fantastic stories, proposing its great classics again in live action! Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that everyone has watched at least once, this is the strongest point of the movie: we all may turn back in time, when we spend time seeing these wonderful stories.
Everyone knows the enchanting story of Belle and Beast, but if you don't … click here.
Belle is considered the first Disney heroine really emancipated respect to the other princesses. She loves reading books, she doesn't believe in love at first sight and she is seen as an "original" girl. The relationship with the Beast makes her rebel aspect stand out, because Belle is able to understand his feelings. This happens also with Gaston: she is the first girl to stand up to him refusing his courtship. (Don't worry Gaston, we are here to cheer you up!).
The most important message in the movie is about beauty: it is inside everyone and it is not in their appearance. In our society people are worried to be judged, so the opinions of the others matter and nobody is able to be truly themselves.
The opening song, which describes daily life. Everyone, like Belle, is tired of monotony. For this reason we dream to travel and see beautiful places around the world.
The song par excellence about him: the only and inimitable Gaston who wins over every girl with his charm, even us! Not to mention his friend LeFou: he is amazing!
The character of LeFou aroused a lot of controversy because he's the first homosexual character in a Disney movie. Many cinemas refused to have the movie on for this reason. There were many requests of censorship but at Disney they weren't intimidated by this round of hate. All the complaints were rejected. We are #TeamDisney!
One of the most romantic songs ever! All of us dreamed to dance with our prince charming on this song with a gorgeous dress, and we still dream about it!
Summing up, we love this movie and we couldn't find any flaw. It entertains, amuses, excites and makes you dream.
We wrote about the film but now it is your turn: have you seen the movie yet? What do you think about it? How about the musical scenes? Do you prefer the live-action or the original cartoon? Tell us in the comments!


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January 13, 2021 india
'DMK not satisfied with the SC order staying farm laws '
DMK president M.K. Stalin on Wednesday promised waiving of farm and jewel loans if his party was elected to power.
"When the DMK was elected to power in 2006, our leader Kalaignar signed the files for waiving ₹7,000 crore co-operative loans on the day of swearing-in. We will come to power in four months and I promise cancellation of farm loans," he said while participating in Pongal celebrations in Natham panchayat in Tiruvallur district.
Recalling his party's promise in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls that jewel loans up to five sovereigns would be waived [if Congres-led government was formed at the Centre], Mr. Stalin said that promise also would be fulfilled.
He said the DMK government had always safeguarded the interests of farmers and one of its major contributions was enacting the land ceiling Act that benefited lakhs of farmers. "Communist leader Manali Kandasamy organised a meeting to felicitate Kalaignar for the order. He said Kalaignar had achieved through the means of ink when we (Communists) could not do through blood-drenched struggles," Mr. Stalin said.
Mr. Stalin said his party was not satisfied with the order of the Supreme Court staying the farm legislations and constituting a committee. "Farmers are firm that they would protest till the legislations are withdrawn. We stand by the farmers. Now a committee has been formed. But farmers felt that it will not get them justice. We also agree with their sentiments," he said.
Mr. Stalin said while all political parties were against the farm laws, only the CM was claiming that they would benefit the farmers. "He is betraying the interests of farmers even though he claims that he is also a farmer," he charged.
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What do cats think about all day?
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How can we better communicate with them?
Although millions of cats live with humans worldwide, the scientific community knows relatively little about their behavior and cognition. Kristyn Vitale, PhD is a researcher studying cat behavior, cognition and the human-cat bond.
If you are still looking for cats to do preference testing, my cat, Zahara, is available. We live in Corvallis.
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Coronavirus UK latest: Nearly 16k new COVID-19 cases missed due to computer glitch | UK | News
Britain reported a surge in daily COVID-19 cases to a record 22,961 on Sunday after authorities admitted a technical issue had meant that over 15,000 test results had not been transferred into computer systems on time, including for contact tracers. The technical problem, which was identified on Friday and has now been resolved, led to 15,841 cases not being uploaded into reporting dashboards used by the NHS contact-tracing system.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is due to give a statement in the Commons later today to explain the blunder amid reports the missing results exceeded the maximum file size.
Political commentator Andrew Neil described the new as a "government shambles".
News of the glitch was likely to cast further doubt over the robustness of the national test-and-trace system, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson said would be "world-beating" but which has experienced a series of delays and setbacks.
In terms of tracing the contacts of the infected people, Public Health England (PHE) said the information had been transferred to the relevant systems over the weekend and contact tracers were now working urgently to catch up.
The authority said all the people concerned had been given their results in a timely fashion, and that those with positive results had been told to self-isolate.
PHE said: "NHS Test and Trace have made sure that there are more than enough contact tracers working, and are working with local Health Protection Teams to ensure they also have sufficient resources to be urgently able to contact all cases.
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A Scot In the Dark by Sarah MacLean
Posted by Highland Hussy | Sep 5, 2016 | Book review | 4 |
Series: Scandal and Scoundrel #2
Published by Avon on August 30, 2016
Genres: Regency Romance
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Lonesome Lily Turned Scandalous Siren
Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn't hesitate...until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin.
Highland Devil turned Halfhearted Duke
The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of the most venerable dukedoms in Britain—he wants nothing to do with it, especially when he discovers that the unwanted title comes with a troublesome ward, one who is far too old and far too beautiful to be his problem.
Tartan Comes to Town
Warnick arrives in London with a single goal: get the chit married and see her become someone else's problem, then return to a normal, quiet life in Scotland. It's the perfect plan, until Lily declares she'll only marry for love...and the Scot finds that there is one thing in England he likes far too much...
I've noticed a lot of people (via my Twitter stream) don't like the inspiration for this story/series. For those who don't know, it's basically "if TMZ existed during the Regency." There's a mention of the Kardashians having been a part of the original inspiration as well. Some readers see this and instantly think that the whole book is a rip off of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. It's not. In fact, Avon has another series called Keeping Up with the Cavendishes that is more along those lines, and it's pretty fun. But this is more in the line of a woman who acts out of line for the Ton's way of thought, and is punished for it via the media. In this particular story, instead of a celebrity with a leaked sex tape, it's a well-known young woman who poses for a nude painting. It's meant for her lover's eyes only, but he decides it's his Mona Lisa and shows the world.
Okay, moving on, my main point with this note, is that if you hate the Kardashians, that won't be a problem with this series. If you love the Kardashians, you'll see a nod to them in a manner of speaking and you might get a kick out of it. I mean, if you think about it, Kim Kardashian's ex-boyfriend leaked their sex tape to the world, and instead of being humiliated, she made a humongous business from the notoriety. She's famous for being famous. Keep that in mind when you read this.
Lily is lonely. Not just lonely, but so lonely that she fully expects to never feel human touch again. It's heartbreaking. She's a ward of the Duke of Warnick, has been since she was a child, but she's been largely ignored. She's not titled, but she's not the same status as the servants either, she's at a weird in-between place. And about 5 years before the main action of the book starts, the duke dies. And in a series of tragic accidents, his next 17 successors die. The title finally lands on Scotsman Alec Stuart, the latest Duke of Warnick. The problem? He doesn't want the title.
He tells the solicitor in very blunt terms, that he wants nothing to do with it. So the man leaves Alec. And it takes 5 years before he bothers him again. But the letter is to let him know he has had a ward this whole time, and now, she needs his help. ASAP.
Lonely Lily has been so lonely for so long, that when a man notices her in the park, she falls instantly in love with him, or unknowingly, she's in love with the attention he shows her. She's starved for attention. Desperate for any contact. What bothers me about this is that Lily is known amongst the ton as the most beautiful woman in the world. Literally. And yet, she's ignored. She never got a Season since her patron duke died. The next several dukes never knew her, and Alec didn't even know of her. So I get that she wasn't out and couldn't go to balls and the like. BUT she also could have made friends at the park while she was out. I don't get why she didn't even attempt to make a friend? But aside from that, Ms. MacLean does a fantastic job of showing how alone Lily really is.
Alec is broken inside. He's suffered the harsh reality of only being wanted for a night, never for life. He's constantly referred to both in the newspapers, and throughout polite society, as the Scottish Brute. He's six and a half feet of sexy, studly muscle. But inside, he genuinely believes everything said about him. Alec has good reason for this. A reason I definitely did not see coming. But with such an intense backstory, I wish it had come sooner in the storyline. I know why the author waited to reveal it until so close to the end, but I think if it had been addressed sooner, it could have saved Alec from being so frustrating as a hero. He seriously irritated me with his hot/cold issues.
I like that Lily didn't write to Alec, that it was the lawyer who called him in. Lily was determined to handle this scandal on her own. She grew up and flourished throughout this book, going from scared and ashamed, to strong and magnificent. With Alec standing behind her, she learned more about who she was, and with the Talbot sisters standing by her side, she learned how to handle new friendships, and how to stand tall amid a scandal. I like that Lily realized the difference between latching on to the first person who shows her affection versus the love and strength that Alec shows her. And most of all, I like that Lily owned her mistake, stood tall amid the scandal, and then went for what she wanted.
This book has all the makings of a break-out story that no one has done before. But parts of it dragged on too long and unfortunately frustrated me. With the hero having such an intense backstory, I feel that he needed more time to come to terms that he wasn't unworthy of Lily. That being said, I still couldn't put it down, it was a great story. But I'm sad that I did't love Alec the way I have MacLean's other heroes, even that ass Bourne. To me, he was more frustrating than heroic. However Ms. MacLean's talent for words, and her incredible knack for pulling off amazing plots no one else could touch shine through each page.
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Stormi Johnson	on September 5, 2016 at 1:05 pm
Okay, so your note has me even more than the blurb of the book…lol. 🙂
Highland Hussy	on September 5, 2016 at 4:04 pm
LOL You'll like it,no doubt 🙂 I'm not even a Kardashians fan, and I totally love this series.
Ada	on September 6, 2016 at 2:13 am
I've always been a fan of Sarah MacLean so I would have tried it even if it was more Kardashian like but I'm glad to hear it's not 🙂 And I do love Keeping up with the Cavandishes, Maya Rodale did well writing that series!!
Patricia Eimer	on September 7, 2016 at 7:13 am
I love Keeping up with the Cavendishes and I can't wait to read this one


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Digitizing Analog VHS tapes - to AVI or to DVD
Among "digitizers".. people who want to transfer or convert their VHS tapes to PC files or DVD media there are two camps.
First are the professionals who know every detail about quality and quantity and do it as a business.
Second are the casual users of VHS tapes, who have not used them in years or infrequently and now find they want to perform this quickly and as a means to finally get rid of the tapes.
Among the first category are websites and forums that are mostly going quiet these days, occasionally helping one another to care for the equipment they are using to make these conversions, and answering few questions from "newbies" to the profession or hobbyist who happen to just be starting.
First its important to understand the last VCR was made in 2016 and the tapes are also no longer being made. Every year the tapes get older and degrade and these forgotten memories move closer to oblivion.
Of the remaining VCRs most are not well maintained or cared for and decay from misuse.. or become damaged from being plugged into fluxuating power lines and lightening strikes. If they don't end up being recycled or tossed in the dump.. they are given away.. and a very few end up on eBay or Amazon or Craigslist as "used".
Among the second category users generally start out with a combo VHS to DVD or some USB dongle to perform the "captures" and are sorely disappointed with their results.. they turn to the web and find the "prosumer or professional forums" and discover a new world of choice and information that tends to overwhelm.
There is also almost a "stages of grief" that sets in from the gradual understanding that what they were attempting has many levels of quality and generally the professionals tell them they've been doing everything the wrong way.. so they get their standards wound up and upgraded to "pure" and "archival quality".. seeking legenday and near mythical "unobtainium" in the role of VCRs with digitial noise filters and line and frame "Time Base Correctors"..
Eventually if they don't quit.. or run out of money and hope.. they discover the easier "MPEG2" path.. a lower bit rate and quality that for some is "good enough" and subscribes to a lower spec than "absolute perfection".
In or around 2003 to 2008 there was a fleeting moment in time when $500 to $1500 DVD recorders were "Staged" to replace the VCR as a means of copying broadcast television to DVD discs.
These could also be used to "capture" the VHS tapes being played back to DVD discs.
Unfortunately with success also comes the realization that the DVD could not hold as much per disc.. so people sought to edit out "commercials" or beginning and end credits for seasons of shows. Doing this by DVD recorder alone with no intermediary was "impossibly difficult".. enter the combo.. Hard Disk (HDD) and (DVD) recorder.. which could "Capture" even the longest tapes to its internal hard drive and let the user selectively edit and rearrange material and burn "title lists" to a single disc or break up the list and burn groupings of "title lists" to sequences of DVDs one after the other.
Great in theory and practice with a little experience.
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So people then looked towards settling for capturing DVD quality to PC files.. but the capture equipment usually (with a few exceptions) would not allow copying the large MPEG2 files used to create DVD discs to a PC.
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A single maker of an HDD/DVD recorder lasted until 2017 "magnavox" and then mysteriously did not deliver a set of three new recorders in the last half of that year.. stranding many archivist with no way to finish their conversions.. or soldier on.
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The IODD portable combo USB - CD/DVD rom drive emulator and simultaneous USB hard drive is a great way to boot quickly and switch between many ISO images. A special directory on the IODD is labeled ( _iso ) and in this directory .ISO images are placed.. a combo jogwheel and selection button on the side of the drive case allows scrolling between images inside this directory and "mounting them".. the selection is saved to a Fujitsu based microcontroller in the drive case and immediately this is presented as a USB attached CD/DVD rom drive with the selected image mounted as if it were an Optical disc.. no burning, no "actual" optical media needed.
Upon reboot the last selected disc image is automatically presented as a bootable device option. the drive case also simultaneously appears as a seperate USB hard drive, which is very convenient for offloading or onboarding files to and from an operating system that can mount the virtual attached optical drive and virtually attached usb hard drive.
The fit-PC2i has a half height microSD slot for flash media or four USB ports, two Type A and two microUSB ports.. and a drive slot for a SATA drive.
Unfortunately the support site recommended Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 as a boot option.. but this had a "Bug" in that if a SATA drive were installed, it would not be seen by the boot installer kernel.. frustrating to say the least.. the Centos 6.9 kernel correctly "sees" the SATA drive, and using advanced options during partitioning.. even allows checking off drives to use, or unchecking off drives to not use when installing the linux operating system on the device hard drive.
This is a metal case, passively cooled device.. so it generally gets "hot" and a USB powered external fan like the "AC Infinity" line up with inline speed control and rubber shock absorbers makes a very low cost and effective cooling solution.. and is very quiet.
The dual LAN ports make this Ice Cream sandwich sized server a fairly flexible platform.
Toshiba xs54, xs55 - Net Dub (copy) to PC
A random websearch turned up a 2008 blog article in Japanese regarding the xs37 (a model sold only in Japan) with a "Navi from Net" feature called Net Dub.
Net Dubbing is a term for Network Copying or "Duplicating.. hence Doubling.. or Dubbing" a rcording to another xs37 or other recorder.
As a hand held remote "workstation" for mastering and creating DVD recordings.. shuttling recordings before editing from one workstation to the other was taken into account as a desirable feature. The recordings are "not" transcoded but are at the same resolution as they were in when originally recorded.
PCs don't normally participate in Net Dubbing.. however they can with a simple protocol daemon that listens for a Netbios broadcast requesting XS recorders identify themselves with their Anonymous FTP server paths.
A simple systray windows application was created and released as Freeware. I modified the text labels for English and the result was a Virtual RD-XS recorder service for the PC.
Starting this allows you to set a download path for recordings "pushed" to the PC from the Net Dub interface on the XS recorder. The title or name for a recording on the XS recorder is used as its destination filename on the PC. An extra txt file is created with any metadata associated with the recording.


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Analysis of more than 2,300 news and opinion articles from 2018 related to renewable energy—sourced from Google News and Feedly. Articles came from national and state outlets, as well as online and trade publications.
Purpose of the research was to understand how the media covers renewable energy, in particular to determine if funding gaps in climate philanthropy are also leading to a gap in media coverage of local leaders and innovations. To what extent would articles quote women as spokespeople, reference issues of equity, or talk about communities of color?
Study found that 65% of the articles sampled were solutions focused or positive about renewable energy.
Only 21% of the articles quoted a woman as a spokesperson.
Communities of color, despite being disproportionately impacted by climate change and fossil fuels, were referenced in only 7% of articles.
10% of the articles referenced issues related to equity and justice.
Local leaders and their organizations are having outsized impact in the renewable energy space, especially relative to the funding they receive.
Developed by The Solutions Project, a philanthropic organization, and Conspire for Good, a strategy and communications firm.
Over the past decade, the dream of 100% renewable energy in the United States has gone from abstract policy proposals to concrete commitments and achievements. Cities, states, and companies across the country have responded to public demand for clean energy and taken advantage of its decreasing cost. As the industry grows, news coverage of the sector has grown along with it—reporting on everything from new solar arrays and technology developments to 100% commitments and clean energy investment.
Since 2014, The Solutions Project has been investing in frontline organizations that are working to make 100% renewable energy a reality in their communities, in such a way that everyone benefits. Our grants and media support have helped elevate local leaders, particularly women and people of color, taking their solutions to scale so other communities can benefit.
While the media has shown interest in these leaders, coverage of their work represents just a drop in the bucket. Missing from coverage of the sector is a representative collection of voices and stories from the communities most impacted by climate change and fossil fuels, which disproportionately affect poor and low-income communities and communities of color. Those communities understandably feel a sense of urgency and are therefore often the source of the greatest innovations and strongest drives toward 100% renewable energy policies.
For more information, please contact Dannie Tillman, dannie@thesolutionsproject.org


Following UKIP's surge in the local elections, new survey data indicates that one possible explanation of their success - until now largely overlooked - is their emergence as the party with the strongest appeal to English patriots.
The data, taken from the Future of England Survey (FoES) run by Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, the think tank IPPR and Edinburgh University, charts the strengthening of English identity, but also its politicisation.
The 2011 Census found that 70 per cent of the English population identified themselves as either solely English or English in combination with some other national identity. Just 29 per cent of respondents identified themselves as feeling any sense of British national identity.
Without explicitly promoting themselves as an English party, UKIP appears to have become the key political beneficiary of this trend because the more English someone feels, the more likely they are to believe that England is getting a bad deal from its membership of both the European Union and the United Kingdom.
UKIP's supporters express the strongest sense of English identity (55 per cent describe themselves as either 'English not British' or 'More English than British'). And UKIP supporters are the most dissatisfied with the constitutional status quo in the United Kingdom (49 per cent agree that England should become an independent country compared to 36 per cent of Tories, 35 per cent of Lib Dems and 29 per cent of Labour supporters) while over 90 per cent want to withdraw from the EU.
When people were asked: 'which party best stands up for English interests', UKIP tops the list.
Even more striking is the fact that UKIP's support as the party that best stands up for England has more than doubled since 2011 - up from 9 per cent, and overtaking Lab (21 per cent ) and Con (20 per cent ) and none of the parties (23 per cent).
UKIP's rise in this context will be of particular concern to the Conservatives. Conservative voters at the last general election (2010) are split on the party who they believe best stands up for England. While 38 per cent say the Conservatives, almost as many (34 per cent) say UKIP - and this figure has almost doubled from 18 per cent in 2011, suggesting a potential for Conservative support to drift over to UKIP.
Nick Pearce, IPPR Director, said: "There is an undercurrent of English national sentiment that has been growing in recent years and this appears to be propelling UKIP forward. Tories traditionally feel more confident that they are the patriotic party; but there are signs that complacency on their part is handing a gift to UKIP which is fast emerging - in the eyes of the English electorate - as the party which best stands up for English interests.
"If the Tories have been complacent about their natural position as England's patriotic party, Labour has been consumed by fear. Fear that giving England more recognition in the union will inhibit its political interests by limiting the role of its Celtic fringe; fear that recognition of Englishness will simply lend credibility to the views of Little Englanders in respect of Europe and immigration. But fear breeds inertia, and inertia weakens Labour's capacity to contest the politics of England."
Richard Wyn-Jones, Professor of Politics at Cardiff University, Director of the Wales Governance Centre and co-author of the report said: "To understand the rise of UKIP as simply a manifestation of anti-European sentiment or even some kind of anti-political spasm is to the ignore the very significant, and much broader transformation in attitudes currently underway in England. It is a transformation that is bringing England and Englishness to the fore as a political community and political identity. It is a transformation that the current political class seem scarcely to have noticed let alone formed a coherent response too. UKIP is surfing a wave of existential angst about England's place in world."
The Future of England Survey (FoES) 2012 is a joint initiative between IPPR and the Wales Governance Centre (Cardiff University) and the Institute of Governance (Edinburgh University). The FoES is the most comprehensive examination of how public attitudes within England are changing in respect of issues around national identity, nationhood and governance. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGovTotal sample size was 3600 English adults/3401 White adults/651 BME adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 23rd - 28th November 2012. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all adults (aged 18+).
IPPR will publish a major report based on the full findings of FoES 2012 later this summer.


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Q: ReactJS app deployed on GitHub pages does not work with custom domain set App works perfectly fine when it's deployed on https://github.io/architect_portfolio (when custom domain is not set). When it's deployed to https://architect.mszanowski.pl, all I can see is a blank white page.

What can I do to make it working? I think it has something to do with architect_portfolio part in assets urls.
To deploy it on custom domain I did following:

*

*add CNAME mszan.github.io. record to my architect.mszanowski.pl subdomain,

*update my package.json homepage and name values:

  "homepage": "https://architect.mszanowski.pl",
  "name": "architect_portfolio",

*made a commit to master branch,

*run gh-pages -d build
Repo: https://github.com/mszan/architect_portfolio
Another repo of working React app deployed on custom domain which is working fine: https://github.com/mszan/aestral_portfolio

A: Your second repo that works fine have CNAME file in gh-pages branch which contains the custom domain who github reads for custom domains mapping. While the repo that does not work in your case don't have this file in your gh-pages branch.
Solution:
Add CNAME file to /public dir

For details please consult getting-a-custom-domain-to-behave-with-react-on-github-pages.

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Day 108 - Pan Cam - A Different Perspective
Pan Cam
Inside the pan cam is just a 9V battery, and a standard RC servo. STII controls the servo when triggered.
The servo horn has a simple bracket and screw to attach the camera.
The micro switch is attached to an adjustable clamp to allow you to position it under any part of the rocket.
Setting up for the first flight.
On the pad and ready.
Launched at 100psi.
Rocket drifted a long way in the wind.
Setting up for launch #2. John is starting to take good pictures.
Pan Cam view - frame from the video
Getting to the end of the guide rail.
Still in the water phase.
Just after the air pulse.
Retrieval team in action.
The camera does get a few droplets on it, but not too bad.
Setting up for the last launch.
What goes up must come down.
Date: 10th July 2011 8:30am - 9:40am
Conditions: Blue skies, 40km/h wind, temp ~12C
Team Members at Event: PK, Paul K, John K, and GK
Last week I watched a couple of pyro rocket videos of the LDRS29 launch from the US, and saw a very unique shot of a rocket flying past a camera at the top of the tower and the camera tracking it as it went past. So we thought we would give it a go too. Tracking it optically or thermally would have been difficult, so we opted for setting up the camera so it would just move according to a predicted path of the rocket. Knowing the rate of the servo movement, the acceleration profile of the rocket and a bit of trigonometry, we worked out roughly where the camera needed to be.
The original concept of the panning camera for a water rocket triggered by launch was first developed by wyldbytes. He presents his idea here: http://www.wyldbytes.co.uk/?p=225 as a part of an automated and servo controlled launch trigger. A video demonstrating the concept is here: http://youtu.be/F284FmfZuMI
We mounted the servo timer II, battery and an RC servo in a box and put it on top of a tripod. We also attached a bracket to the servo horn so we could attach the Casio high-speed camera to it. The start and end servo positions were configured so that the camera would start out pointing at the nozzle and end up pointing about 85 degrees from the vertical as the last position. We ran a pair of wires from the STII's external trigger to a micro-switch mounted under the rocket's fin. This ensures the camera only starts panning once the rocket actually starts moving. This made it a lot easier to synchronise as rockets can be quite unpredictable as to when they actually start moving when you pull the string.
Launch Day Report
We arrived at Doonside at 8:30am, but the wind was really starting to pick up. Pyro rocket launches were cancelled for the day and so we decided to downsize one of the rockets to just over 3 liters to stop it going too far since we were really only interested in trying out the Pan Cam.
We set up the Pan Cam fairly close to the rocket and launched it at 100psi. The first part of the flight was good but the camera just missed the rocket as it was leaving the launch rail, but caught up with it quickly again. After the parachute opened the rocket drifted a long way down range in the strong wind.
For the second launch we put the camera back about 1 foot, and adjusted the start position to have the nozzle nearer to the bottom of the frame rather than at the center. This time the camera followed the rocket well and the video turned out great. :)
While setting up for the third launch we again pressurised the rocket slightly to make sure it was popped up in the launcher so we could set the microswitch properly under the fin. As I was pushing the switch up to the fin I accidentally pulled on the release mechanism and launched the rocket. Because there was very little pressure in the rocket, it didn't go very high, but since the timer was still turned off the rocket just came down nose first in the grass. The nose fairing was bent, so we swapped the nosecone and reloaded the rocket onto the pad. Other than the bent fairing nothing else was damaged.
The third flight was similar to the second one and the camera again tracked the rocket really well. With the wind speed increasing we packed up and were heading home before 10am.
Overall we were really happy with the results, but didn't get to test it with pyro rockets like we wanted to. We'll try that during the next launch. If I get time I'll have a look at updating the firmware by the next launch so you will be able to set a particular pan velocity profile for the Pan Cam so it will be easier to match a rocket's expected flight profile.
Here is a video from the day including an explanation of how it works and videos from it.
Rocket Axion III
Pressure 100 psi
Notes Good flight with parachute opening just past apogee. Good landing but drifted a long way downrange in the strong wind.
Notes Good flight with parachute opening past apogee. Good landing and didn't drift too far.
Notes Good flight with parachute opening just past apogee. Slightly tangled again, but opened well above ground, and landed safely near the pad.


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namespace DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs
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    public class TabChangeSettings : ServiceLocator<ITabChangeSettings, TabChangeSettings>, ITabChangeSettings
    {

        #region Public Methods
        public bool IsChangeControlEnabled(int portalId, int tabId)
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* Interim positions as CFO, President, and CEO for midsized transportation and wholesale companies.


"In our own experience as a business, mental health conditions can have devastating consequences if not addressed. The rise of the gig-economy means that there is now a dangerous gap in care for non-permanent workers, who are most at risk of falling through the cracks amid uncertainty around who is responsible for the occupational health of these individuals.
In 2017, we were rocked to the core when one of our contractors – a young father from Bradford – sadly took his own life. I cannot help but think that if one of our own team, or someone at the company where he was working, had been trained in MHFA, we may have been able to spot the tell-tale signs that something was wrong." Craig Burton, Founder and Managing Director at The Works Recruitment.


If you decide to implement new token classes, you need to change the parameter linotpTokenModules in /etc/linotp2/linotp.ini in the DEFAULT section. This parameter contains a list of token modules LinOTP should use.
The module linotp.lib.tokenclass will always be used.
for this new token without having to adapt anything in the LinOTP core.
This file contains all the program logic, the calculation and verification of the OTP values and the handling of the policies.
This file contains the GUI parts for management and selfservice.
The existing tokens are located in the module linotp.lib.tokens.
Both files describe the new token and need to be located in the same directory i.e. the same python module.
The new_token.mako file is written in the MAKO templating language. More information on how MAKO works can be found on the project website .
Please take a look at the example file dyntoken.mako.
Therefore there is a top level switch in this file that evaluates the variable c.scope.
The scope config is used for the generic token configuration information. E.g. for a time based HMAC Token (TOTP) you can use this scope to configure the default time window and the default OTP length. The scope config contains the complete HTML code of this config tab.
This is the header text of the config tab.
The name of the function starts with the token type name of the token. You already know tokens like hmac, totp, spass. So the function names concatenate like <token type>_get_config_val and <token type>_get_config_params(). The example above are the functions of the token type dyn.
In the config tab for the token, you might have several HTML object. The function maps the identifier of the HTML objects to the configuration keys stored in the LinOTP configuration database.
The function _get_config_val is called, when the config tab is opened. It tells LinOTP to get the config entry with the key DynTokenTimeOut from the LinOTP configuration and put it into the HTML object with the id=dyn_challenge_timeout.
The function _get_config_params is called, when the config tab is saved. The values of the HTML objects are written to the corresponding LinOTP config database entries.
All config entries are stored in one config table. So you need to review third party token modules and assure, that a foreign token modules does not interfere with your other tokens or break your LinOTP. Best practice is to let your token config key start with the token type as prefix.
This is the HTML GUI for the enrollment of a token by the administrator. Here all necessary data input is displayed.
This is the header text for the enrollment.
This is the HTML GUI for the user self enrollment in the Selfservice Portal.
This is the header text of the selfservice tab.
The generate_serial() function generates a new serial number with the passed prefix.
When doing input validation the corresponding jQuery.validator needs to be defined.
The token file dyntoken.py itself contains the token definition as a python class that inherits from TokenClass which is defined in linotp.lib.tokenclass.
Starting with LinOTP 2.6 you can easily create tokens capable of doing challenge response.
Usually a challenge will be triggered when sending an authentication request to /validate/check with the additional parameter data or challenge. The method is_challenge_request() determines, if the given request is a challenge or not.
The response will also be sent to the /validate/check interface. Usually the response has to contain the parameter state or transactionid so that the request will be identified as a response to a previous challenge. The method is_challenge_response() determines, if the given request is a response for a previous challenge.
Each token type can define it's own challenge handling by overwriting the corresponding base class method.
This is the normal single shot authentication e.g. for push button OTP tokens. No challenge and no response is involved. is_challenge_request and is_challenge_response both return false. The authentication workflow will call the authenticate() method.
The method is_challenge_request returns true and is_challenge_response returns false. A new challenge will be created. The authentication workflow will call the method initChallenge() and createChallenge().
The method is_challenge_request returns false and is_challenge_response returns true. The authentication workflow will call the method checkResponse4Challenge().
Please see the base class definition in Base TokenClass.


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Q: How to stop PyCharm from closing networked folders I've been testing out PyCharm but ran into a crazy little feature and or bug and cannot figure out how to solve it.
I've created a project on a network, and created a project locally and added a network folder to the project both are resulting in the same bizarre behavior.
I can open files, navigate the project tree and everything is fine inside of PyCharm. But once I switch focus to another window and then come back to PyCharm, it will automatically close the entire project tree back to the root and close any files I have had open.
This is certainly making PyCharm completely unusable. I've been searching most of the morning to find out how to stop this but haven't even come across any other similar problems.
To test, I made a sample Python directory on the network, filled it with a few folders to simulate modules and added init.py files to them all. Then created a PyCharm project in the folder. It will exhibit this behavior and I can't figure out how to stop it from closing everything.  What's going on?
This is Windows Community PyCharm 2017.2.1 Version. A picture would just be everything open and then everything closed and the tree view, since it closes everything when it regains focus. I'm not sure how I'd best take a picture of that.

A: There is an open bug filed in PyCharm for this issue which is yet to be fixed : https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-171352
Description of the bug mentions :

I didn't observe the problem with PyCharm 2016.3.3.
PY-171.3780.115, JRE 1.8.0_112-release-736-b13x64 JetBrains s.r.o, OS
  Windows 10(amd64) v10.0 , screens 2560x1440, 1920x1080, 1080x1920

Apparently the issue is in later releases of PyCharm


These are our one day old chicks. My Daughter is holding all three. We have named them Sparkle because when she grows up her black feathers will have a green iridescent shine in the sun. She was named by my son. The other black one, kind of gray with a white dot right on the top of her head is a Plymouth Barred Rock (black speckled hen). Her name is Dot. She was also named by my son. The yellow chick looks like a dandelion fluff and my daughter wanted to call her Evangaleen. So she mixed the two and tadah...Dandaleen is her name. Our three baby chicks, Dandaleen, Sparkle and Dot!


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Pierre Clairambault, né le  à Asnières-en-Montagne (Côte-d'Or) et mort le  à Paris, est un généalogiste français.

Biographie
Généalogiste des ordres du roi, Clairambault s'occupa toute sa vie à rassembler ce qu'il y avait de plus curieux et de plus intéressant soit pour la noblesse, soit même pour l'histoire générale et particulière. Il finit ce long travail par une table générale.

La plupart de ses ouvrages, qui n'ont pas été imprimés, subsistent en manuscrits. Les principaux sont : les Généalogies des principales familles de France, ms. in-fol. ; un Recueil pour servir à l'histoire de l'ordre du Saint- Esprit, ms. in-fol. ; le Catalogue des chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit, pour la deuxième et la troisième édition de l'Histoire de la maison de France du P. Anselme.

Source
 Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale, t. , Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1854, 634.
 * voir BERTHIER DE GRANDRY (Frédéric de), Le Journal de Clairambault, Les Grandes Recherches de Louis XIV sur les familles notables de la Généralité de Paris, Préface de Béatrice de Andia, délégué général à l'Action artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris : 2000-2003 (58, Clamecy : Impr. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery) - 528 p. – ill. en noir, couv. Ill. en coul. ; 22 cm – Biblio. p. 523-524 -  (br.)
 Françoise Pathie, Le Cabinet des Ordres du Roi, thèse de l'École des chartres, 1959, deuxième partie, Les Hommes, chapitre premier, Biographies, Pierre Clairambault, pages 100-121.

Notes et références

Généalogiste français
Naissance en mai 1651
Décès en janvier 1740
Officier de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit
Décès à 88 ans

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Q: Facebook Login Failed ?
A: If you encounter a problem that BIAS FX showing 'Facebook login failed', please try the steps below.
1. Open Facebook page, click on the arrow icon on the upper right, then select Settings.
2. Click on 'Apps' on the left side, then find Bias FX Desktop and click on the edit icon.
3. Check the email option and make sure your email account which registered with license is correctly filled in the email address option.
4. If the email address is incorrect or empty. Please go back to the previous page, then click on the x icon to remove Bias FX Desktop.
5. Launch BIAS FX with your DAW, click on the gear icon, then select Log in ToneCloud, and click on the 'Log in with Facebook' button.
6. Input your email account which registered with license and password for Facebook, then submit the information. You should see Bias Desktop asking for the permission to receive your email account and public profile. Please make sure the email account is provided to Bias FX Desktop.
7. Back to the BIAS FX plug-in, check the 'License Tier' in the gear icon -> App Information and see if the license is properly activated.
Q: What are the Amps and Effects Models in BIAS FX ?
Q: Why my Paid-for version is reverted to Demo version ?
1. Log out of the plugin, and log back in. This works most of the time.
2. Turn off all anti-virus and firewalls. Repeat Step 1.
Q: Having problem recording in stereo with guitar track ?
However, not all the DAWs provide a stereo mode for mono tracks. It needs to be set by users manually. There are some popular DAWs such like Studio One, Cubase and Sonar that don't support stereo plug-ins on a mono track. They cannot perform mono to stereo, therefore the stereo plug-ins could only play one side of the sound.
1. Create a stereo track for guitar, and create a secondary track for VSTs additionally.
2. Duplicate the mono track to make it two, and merge them together to be a stereo track.
Q: How to sync with BIAS FX iPad?
A: Login to the Tonecloud with the same account you usually would on your Deskop version on iPad, and you'll find all your previously shared presets in "MyTone" section by clicking the user icon up-right.(See the photo below).
You can download / upload preset to sync with your mobile system.
Q: How to select amp global output module ?
A: Click the 'gear' icon on top right, and there will be a global control option. You can turn on/off preamp , tonestack , poweramp and cabinet as you wish.
If you get lost, have a look at the steps below that will help you further!
Q: How to integrate BIAS AMP with BIAS FX Desktop?
A: BIAS AMP and BIAS FX will share the same amp document folder on desktop system, so every factory preset and custom amps in BIAS AMP will be automatically shown in BIAS FX amp menu.
a) Right-click an amp in the BIAS FX signal path.
c) Your amps come up at the bottom of the screen.
d) Look in the BIAS AMP category to find your BIAS amps.
Q:Why the window size is so small and can't be resized on my computers with a 4K monitor?
A: Unfortunately, Positive Grid's desktop software are not optimized for 4K/UHD monitors at the moment, therefore our software window will appear very small on super high-resolution monitors. The only workaround is to lower the screen resolution, but of course that's not the long-term solution we want.
For us to make our application windows scalable is an enormous undertaking that will require a lot of time and if we were to take on this project right now it will shift our entire focus away from the projects that we have planned for this year. However, we're not entirely ruling out the possibility of implementing this feature further down the road. Once we have the resources available for us to make that decision, we are certain that it will be done.
Q: Why the tuner does not work?
A: This is most likely due to the internal routing inside your audio interface not linking up correctly with BIAS FX. Please try disabling either input 1 or input 2 and see if the tuner reacts to the input signal from your guitar.
Q: Why The Metronome is not working?
A: The BPM shown is to set the BPM for time based effects such as delays within BIAS FX.
BIAS FX doesn't have a metronome currently.
Q: How can we save the processing power when using BIAS FX as an insert on every track in DAW ?
Q: Do I need to purchase BIAS FX iOS again if I have BIAS FX Desktop ?
A: Please note that the license does not carry over across platforms, meaning iOS and desktop versions of our applications are separate purchases.
Q: "MIDI/Automation" is missing, No MIDI support available in BIAS FX Standard ?
A: MIDI control support is only available in the Pro version of BIAS FX. You will need to upgrade from Standard to Professional in order to use this feature.
Q: How to create a new preset in BIAS FX ?
Have your signal chain in the order you would desire with all your amp and effect settings configured. There is no specific order for this, but we suggest you can first try gate->distortion/overdrive->amps->modulations->delay/reverb.
Select a Bank, enter preset name and it's done!
Q: How to backup my presets ?
Q: What does "The value conflicts with existing setting and are skipped " mean when assigning MIDI PC/CC in BIAS FX ?
A: The message " The value conflicts with existing setting and are skipped " means you have the PC number assigned to another preset, please make sure you're not using the same PC number with another preset.
Q: Why my FCB1010 volume/wah pedal is not functioning correctly with BIAS FX ?
Q: Why can I only hear dry signal in REAPER ?
A: Is the guitar track armed (record enable) ? and Is the Record Monitoring turned on ? It's on the track panel, the button between the "In" (input select) button and your source selection.
Q: I can't type a word in the Login window of BIAS FX plugin in Reason, what should I Do?
A: There is an option in Reason that activates keyboard shortcuts for VST plugins (in the Options menu).With that activated, the login window will work fine in Bias FX plugin.
It's called "VST windows get keyboard focus"
A: The Metal Signature Pack amps are a complete amp/cab solution and there isn't a way to turn off the cab, preamp, poweramp..etc., nor modify the amps in BIAS Amp.
Q: Can I download presets which contain custom amps from ToneCloud if I don't have BIAS Amp?
A: You can still download and use a patch that has custom amps made with BIAS Amp in it, but you can't edit the amp in BIAS Amp, or use it on other patch that you made yourself in BIAS FX, if you don't have a BIAS Amp license.
Q: Why can't I find BIAS FX plugin in Pro Tools First?
A: Pro Tools First doesn't allow use with 3rd party plugins, it's a closed application in that sense.


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Sunday Post: BSO Brass Triple Dips System, Makes Obscene Pay
Bob Norman | July 12, 2009 | 1:26pm
With talk of 177 layoffs and the closing of the Stockade at the Broward County Sheriff's Office, upset deputies are fixing their eyes on the waste in Sheriff Al Lamberti's command staff and political coterie.
They glare at Lt. Col. Ricky Frey, for instance. He's making almost $320,000 a year, or nearly twice what the sheriff himself makes. Plus, like several high-ranking BSO officials, he gets a new SUV to drive for free.
How does Frey warrant that kind of pay? It's got nothing to do with overtime -- the total he takes from the Sheriff's Office itself is is $144,537. The rest of Frey's annual compensation comes from the state retirement system. Frey, you see, is a "triple-dipper."
Frey "retired" in 2006 after about 28 years at BSO. When he stepped down, he began getting both a pension and a monthly payment from his participation in the state's Deferred Retirement Option Program. In 2001, he signed up for the DROP, agreeing to retire in five years, which he did in 2006.
Now his pension is $7,570 a month, the monthly benefit coming from DROP is $6,813. Add those two together and you get $14,383 a month. That's $172,596 a year, which is $2,596 more than Sheriff Lamberti makes in salary.
That's obscene enough, but what makes it really grotesque is that Frey's retirement was basically a sham designed to snag the hefty state benefits. According to BSO records, he retired on April 30, 2006, and was back on the job by June.
"It is good to have you back," then-Sheriff Jenne wrote him in an email.
And Frey replied by happily stating how the Sheriff's Office "made the process quick and easy" to get his old job back. Frey isn't the only high-brass member of BSO to go through the retirement "process."
Today, Frey is in charge of running the jail, even though the bulk of his career was spent on road patrol. Sources at BSO say he often isn't there. Instead, he regularly gives presentations at law enforcement conferences, and Lamberti, his longtime friend, often puts him on special details that take him away from the jail.
"He's one of the go-to people for special events," confirmed sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal. "He helped organize the National Sheriff's Association Conference, and he's going to be involved in our Super Bowl organizing."
As for Frey's obvious sham retirement and profiteering on the state's pension program, Leljedal said, "It happens all the time everywhere, and right or wrong or indifferent, the system permits it, and some people take advantage of that ability."
I told him it sounded like a fraud on the state.
"You can look look at it that way, but it is permissible," he said.
Yes, but it really doesn't happen everywhere. Some local governments have laws against the practice. This is a glaring example of our top law enforcement officials -- people who are supposed to stop crooks and swindlers -- gaming the state system. It's a rip-off of the state pension fund, even if it is technically legal. An honest and honorable department wouldn't allow it at all, let alone turn it into a quick and easy process.
(I should note, in fairness to Lamberti, that the process flourished under his predecessor, Ken Jenne, himself a convicted criminal.)
If Lamberti is forced to lay off 177 people, including 70 deputies, then I would say the "retirees" with the fat paychecks should be the first to go. Let Frey do what he promised to do, leave BSO for good and save some jobs for those who really need them.
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Oh man. I just bought 25 Sweet Streets houses/buildings and spent three hours taking pictures of them last night when I read this post. LOL. I got a steal on them ($1-$3 per item) and some of them I'm keeping for my 3 year old so I'm just aiming to recoup what I spent + a little extra. I think that's doable. I have a question for you though. in researching my items I've run across a lot of weird auctions on ebay that are WAAAY overpriced. They never seem to sell, but I was just wondering what was going on? See an example here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Fisher-Price-Sweet-Street-Victorian-Stable-People-/260814988466?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb9c8e4b2. Do you know what the deal is with this? Obviously this is *not* worth $112. Thanks!
I'm sure you will do better with yours than I did with mine! It's just hit or miss I have found. About those weird overpriced auctions, I have been wondering that myself lately. And I have NO CLUE what they are all about, of course they never sell! Does anyone else out there know?
I was wondering that too, I saw an Ergo Carrier listed as a BIN for $888?? Weird!
I saw The Host being offered for $100 which I thought was weird since copies of it weren't even being sold for 99 cents!
Wow, sweet! Make $27 and shipping for those little guys has to be easy and inexpensive....a home run!
Man I wish I hadn't sold that travel Barney Play house With all the figures I had for $5 On craigslist! I could've done great on eBay!


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The Beatles are THE best band in history. Rock and roll was slowly disappearing, but then The Beatles started. These guys just about saved rock and roll. If you like Rolling Stones, then you've got to like The Beatles. I mean, The Beatles and The Stones were friends, and The Beatles gave The Stones their first single. Every song by The Beatles is excellent (even Revolution 9 and Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey). The Beatles had enough songs to keep them rolling 'till TODAY. I mean, just imagine if Imagine, Live And Let Die, and My Sweet Lord were Beatles songs. These are some of the biggest songs in history, and they would have been Beatles songs had The Beatles not split up. It's obvious: THE Beatles SHOULD HAVE BEEN #1 ON THIS LIST. THEY ARE THE BEST BAND IN HISTORY. PERIOD.


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I Watched 'She's All That' for the First Time Ever & I Have Questions
By Nakeisha Campbell
Guess what? Netflix is releasing a gender-swapped remake of the quintessential '90s teen film, She's All That, later this summer and it's already generating a lot of buzz. With a modernized plot and a star-studded cast (from Kourtney Kardashian to Addison Rae), it's bound to become one of Netflix's most popular releases this year. So naturally, I marked my calendar as soon as the release date was official (August 27th), then proceeded to finally watch She's All That in its entirety. For the first time ever.
Now, before you gasp, I ought to note that literally any movie that involved lips touching was deemed inappropriate by my parents back then. I was only eight when the movie came out, and the closest I ever came to watching it was sneaking a few peeks at my older brother's TV when it replayed on cable. Still, it was enough for me to piece together what the film was about, and news of the Netflix reboot felt like as good a time as any to finally give it a watch.
Just to quickly recap: The '90s rom-com stars Freddie Prinze Jr. as Zack Siler, who bets that he can turn Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), a talented young artist and outcast, into the new prom queen after his girlfriend dumps him. And now, having officially watched it in one sitting, I can honestly say that this film did not age well. Not only is it packed with pointless scenes, but it also includes quite a few awful stereotypes and damaging tropes, from the hopelessly clumsy protagonist to the heartless jock with no self control. But while a lot of things in this movie scream "problematic," there are several moments that just left me completely confused—and I sense I'm not the only one. Perhaps someone can address the following questions for me...
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1. Since When Is It Appropriate To Announce Student Breakups To The Entire School?
Can you imagine? The most popular guy in your school gets dumped by his girlfriend and then the campus D.J. (which, for the record, sounds like a cool concept but is very unrealistic, especially at a high school), after making the morning's announcements, decides to offer his "condolences" to a certain someone who got "dissed and dismissed." So now, the entire student body and the faculty are aware of this humiliating break up.
I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't satisfying to see Zack's massive ego take a hit, but deeming this news important enough to announce over loudspeakers is a bit much. Never have I ever heard a single school announcement that included a full rundown of a student's love life.
2. Did Zack And Taylor Ever Really Care About Each Other?
That breakup scene between Taylor (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) and Zack made me question their relationship (if it's even fair to call it that). Taylor matter-of-factly tells Zack about her summer fling without an ounce of guilt. And Zack, clearly confused and disappointed, is already worried about how this will affect his perfect reputation. So what does Zack do? He immediately agrees to participate in a bet—one that would salvage his good name and prove that his ex-girlfriend is easily replaceable. Meanwhile, Taylor is way too busy making out with her new reality star boyfriend (Matthew Lillard) to give Zack the time of day.
Given that they both cared more about keeping up appearances than they did one another, it's not too surprising that they both moved on within the span of 10 minutes.
3. Does Laney's Makeover Really Count As A Makeover?
I can appreciate that Zack's sister Mackenzie (Anna Paquin, before X-Men and True Blood) emphasized that Laney's look was new and, not "improved," but "different." Still, seeing her awkwardly walk down those steps with contact lenses and a fitted red dress didn't make her all that different. She was just as beautiful in her overalls with glasses and a messy ponytail. And the fact that she was convinced to change her appearance in order to impress a guy is seriously problematic.
4. Am I The Only One Who Doesn't Find Zack's Approach Romantic At All?
Zack seems to fall under the category of guys who simply can't take "no" for an answer. For instance, in one particular scene, he shows up at Laney's house unannounced and she's understandably peeved. Of course, Zack acts like it's no big deal and then proceeds to invite her to the beach. Then when she says no, he manipulates her into changing her mind by making plans to stick around with her little brother and her dad. Perhaps I would've seen this as cute if I were watching it at 16, but now, I cringe when I think of Zack trying so hard to force his way into Laney's life, even despite her discomfort.
5. Why In The World Was Usher Stuck As The Dj And Not On The Dance Floor During Prom?
Seeing Usher get stuck behind a microphone throughout the entirety of this film was like watching someone casually hold a flashlight that's turned off as they stumble through the dark. Here was an R&B star on the rise, complete with smooth vocals and seriously impressive dance moves, and yet, we barely got to see him dance at all in this film. Sure, he worked with the dance club and led his peers through the choreography of that infamous dance number, but the fact that he wasn't out there performing with them felt like a wasted opportunity.
It's worth mentioning that Usher is just one of several breakout stars who had supporting roles in this film, including Lil' Kim, Gabrielle Union, Paul Walker, Anna Paquin and Kieran Culkin. But even with such an impressive lineup, some of these talented stars were criminally underutilized. Legendary rapper Lil' Kim appeared as another face in the popular crowd who barely said two words throughout the entire movie. And while Union did appear momentarily as Taylor's sidekick Katie in a few scenes, none of them were especially memorable.
Meanwhile, Walker, Paquin and Culkin all had significantly more screen time and their performances were pretty decent. Walker was extremely convincing as the inconsiderate douchebag. Paquin was really good as the sensible sister that I instantly wanted to befriend. Culkin was great as the goofy, Sega-obsessed little brother. But their performances just weren't enough to make me fall in love with this movie.
6. Wouldn't It Have Made More Sense To Hire An Actor Who Was Hard Of Hearing For Simon's Role?
As mentioned before, I believe Culkin portrayed Simon pretty well, but I'm not so sure about the film's depiction of Simon's disability. On the plus side, it was nice to see some inclusivity and I really like that his character was not defined by his condition. But when I initially spotted Simon with hearing aids in his initial scene (after Laney tries to wake him up by yelling at him through the door), they seemed so random and out of place—almost like a random prop to make Simon's character appear stereotypically nerdy. Had Simon been played by a talented actor who is actually hard of hearing, I feel like the hearing aids would've felt less puzzling. It could have added even more depth to the character and maybe even offered a more accurate portrayal of those who are hard of hearing.
7. Whatever Happened Between Dean And Zack?
After prom night, when Dean (Walker) tries to have his way with Laney, she defends herself by blasting an air horn directly into his ear. It's mainly brushed off as a joke and, aside from the airhorn incident, we don't get any real confirmation that Dean was held accountable for his actions. Which begs the question: What happened between Zack and Dean after that night? How did Zack handle the situation, knowing that his "friend" couldn't care less about his reputation and that, more importantly, he came dangerously close to assaulting Laney? Did they talk? Did they officially part ways? Or did they laugh it all off and pretend like none of it was a big deal? I'm inclined to lean more towards the latter, since apparently, they all live in a world where cute, shallow guys can get away with almost anything.
Clearly, it was never Laney who needed the makeover. It was this movie. It's rife with cringe-worthy moments and it sends such a damaging message to women about beauty, which is why I would rank it way below (and I mean wayyyy below) most of the '90s teen movies that I've seen so far (maybe somewhere between Drive Me Crazy and American Pie). But thankfully, Netflix has stepped up to release a modernized remake, and I can only hope that it won't be a carbon copy of the original.
Fingers crossed that He's All That turns out to be a smart, compelling and inclusive film that actually empowers women. Your move, Netflix.
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V2V Technology Will Most Likely Become Mandatory
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It's not talked about much. It's actually not even in mainstream consciousness. But there's a potential change coming that to all vehicles that has nothing to do with self-driving technology, if you can believe it. So what is it? It's known as V2V Technology, and it has the potential to drastically reduce or even eliminate vehicle accidents and collisions.
V2V Technology, which stands for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technology, is a technology that has been created for the sole purpose of allowing vehicles to be able to communicate with one another through a wireless ad hoc network.
Through having dedicated short-range communication radios, also known as DSRC radios, vehicles will essentially be able to "talk" with one another, which would allow for crash prevention.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), V2V communications systems will be able to, through the use of DSRC, exchange information without other nearby vehicles about:
Location;
Speed;
Braking Status.
This will allow other vehicles equipped with this technology to be able to send a warning, if needed, to a vehicle for crash prevention purposes. Considering that 94 percent of vehicles crashes are due to human error, V2V technology can be of significant help.
V2V technology has many benefits over existing driver assist systems and semi-autonomous vehicles, which are:
It has a range of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, which is greater than the distance that ultrasonic sensors, radar, and cameras can see/detect;
It can provide warnings earlier as a result of this range;
Since it uses radio messages, it can essentially see around corners and the vehicles in front of it, which is useful, for example, in intersections;
It can also work well in harsh weather conditions, rather than having its sensors or camera lens affected as with driver assist systems.
V2V technology will be able to compliment and enhance existing on-vehicle sensors.
The NHTSA has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would require manufacturers to install DSRC radios in new light vehicles starting in around 2020. If it passes, it'll be known as Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 150). This proposal will also set a standard that all vehicles equipped with V2V technology will have to follow, in addition to various privacy and security measures.
Of course, V2V technology can also be equipped on larger vehicles, such as buses and trucks, as well.
V2V technology, if it does become standard in all future vehicles, will be a major step forward in making our roads much safer in the United States. When combined with all of the innovative and rapidly-advancing safety warning and autonomous systems that are being developed for vehicles, we might soon see a major reduction in preventable accidents.
For more information on V2V technology, please visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website.
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