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Hawass's changing story about the looting of Egypt
Following the looting of the Egyptian Museum, Zahi Hawass's story about the events that occurred has changed many times. It will be interesting to see if he manages to keep his job for long in an Egypt no longer ruled by Mubarak.
Speaking with the Sphinx
Posted by Jenna Krajeski
The gates to the office of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, and of Zahi Hawass—the council's Secretary General, then Minister of Antiquities Affairs, and now object of public scorn—were padlocked yesterday, in an effort to keep out protesters. Unemployed graduates of Egypt's archaeology programs milled around on the sidewalk outside the building, in Cairo's Zamalek district, demanding jobs and Hawass's resignation. The calmness of their demonstration raised the question: Was the security measure really necessary, or was it an act of theater staged by Hawass? The gift store inside was still open.
Since the Egyptian Museum was looted on January 28th, Hawass's official story has fluctuated. First he said that daft, amateur looters stole nothing of value—"They thought the shop was the museum, thank God!"—and all was well. Hawass was appointed as Minister of Antiquities Affairs in Mubarak's interim government, and announced that protesters should go home; the Sphinx, he wrote on his Web site, agreed: "I looked carefully into his eyes, and imagined that I saw tears. The Sphinx is sad because of what has happened; Egypt will lose billions and billions of dollars, and for Egypt to recuperate this money it will take at least three years." Then Mubarak resigned, and Hawass revealed that eight pieces remained missing from the museum, among them a statue of Akhenaten and two of Tutankhamun. Broken bits were being recovered from the area around the museum.
On Thursday, I spoke to Hawass, who claimed that they had now recovered the statue of Akhenaten outside of a downtown hotel. (By way of evidence, he shouted for an assistant who brought in a large color photo of the statue.) The looters, he maintained, were looking for gold, but, finding only gold-painted statues, threw them out, not realizing that they were valuable anyway; one piece, he said, was found in a trash can in Tahrir Square. He referred to people who wondered whether the looting might have been an inside job as "idiots."
Hawass courts the press, sets himself up as an easy target—a bluster-fattened goose in the media crosshairs—and then vilifies reporters for writing negative things about him. (Ian Parker wrote a Profile of Hawass for The New Yorker.) And he tends toward statements that suggest egomania and élitism, not to mention a certain dismissiveness. ("Madame, try to use your head!" he told me, when I asked him whether any of the "two thousand little Zahi Hawasses," as he called them, whom he had personally seen get an education, were among the protesters). He has been accused of prioritizing his own fame over the quality of excavations. The protests this week also included calls for an end to corruption in the antiquities offices. And Hawass is not very friendly. But he may have at least a partial defense here. Garry Shaw, an Egyptologist who worked with Hawass from 2008 to 2010, told me in an e-mail, "I don't find it surprising that the initial statements later needed to be updated and clarified…. If an entire floor of the British Museum had been looted, I doubt they would be able to make an accurate statement as to the level of damage within 24 hours. The other option would have been to simply not say anything until facts were absolutely correct. Then people would be accusing Hawass of hiding information." Shaw added, "If they truly had connections within the museum, I don't see why they would risk coming through the roof."
Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, also told me that looters on the museum's second floor did seem "to be opportunists who were more intent on breaking things, grabbing things that looked to be gold," without any apparent knowledge of what was really valuable. They did not seem, in her opinion, to be museum insiders.
Fair point, but it's hard to imagine anyone other than Hawass issuing statements that derisively accuse the museum director of laziness while trumping up his own heroism—"I was at the museum while she was sleeping in Germany." Neither does it seem likely that a public figure reacting to a theft at the British museum would rely so heavily on something that veers between a fatherly insistence and a cult of personality in order to badger the people into trusting them, as Hawass has. "You all know me, if anything happens I will report it right away," he wrote on February 4th. "Again, and again, and again I tell you that the monuments of Egypt are safe." And now, by his own account, statues of Tutankhamun are still missing.
Egyptian journalists I know used to say that Hawass was the second most powerful man in Egypt, after Mubarak. While it was never much of a compliment, such a comparison now might bode poorly for the embattled Minister. It's hard to imagine a figure like Hawass, so bloated on his own notoriety, surviving a revolution. But both Shaw and Ikram think he's done reasonably well by Egypt. According to Shaw, "His legacy will be a long line of new museums, better educated officials, stricter regulations meant to protect the sites, modernized tourist facilities, and, through his media work, many people who may not have been interested before, becoming enthused for Egypt's archeology." Or, as Hawass put it himself yesterday, after loudly claiming that he could make more money on a lecture circuit than sitting in Cairo, if he is forced to leave, "Egypt will lose and the world will lose."
"I'm sorry to say this: the public loves me," Hawass said. It went without saying that the protesters outside did not count.
More on the situation in Egypt : May 10, 2011
Zahi Hawass faces allegations he facilitated antiquities thefts : November 15, 2014
Zahi Hawass insists he has a future in Egyptian archaeology : January 9, 2012
Missing objects returned to the Egyptian museum : November 29, 2011
Louvre returns ancient artefacts to Egypt : December 26, 2009
US to return smuggled coffin to Egypt : March 5, 2010
Tutankhamun treasures to be returned to Egypt : December 12, 2010
Egypt steps up bids for Nefertiti bust return : December 6, 2011
Tags: Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Museum, Looting, Mubarak, New Yorker, Zahi Hawass
Ann said,
10.25.11	at 1:33 pm
Didn't he loose his job once already, got it back, and now lost it again?
Chuck Jones said,
I'm not sure whether this post is mis-dated, or what, but Zahi Hawass was ceased to hold office in early July. See this most recent interview with him
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/111021/history-catches-famous-egyptologist-zahi-hawass
Matthew said,
Sorry for the confusion caused – see this earlier post: http://www.elginism.com/20111025/3718/

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Thomas Greiner (* 3. Mai 1963 in Dresden) ist ein deutscher Rudersportler. Er war Goldmedaillengewinner der DDR bei den Olympischen Spielen 1988.

Werdegang
Mit neun Jahren erlernte er 1972 das Rudern bei der damaligen BSG Motor Dresden Niedersedlitz, heutiger Vereinsname Dresdner Ruderverein. Seine großen sportlichen Erfolge hatte er beim damaligen SC Einheit Dresden, Sektion Rudern. Deren Nachfolger ist der Dresdner Ruder-Club 1902.

Im Januar 2000 legte er die nationale Wettkampfrichterprüfung des Deutschen Ruderverbandes (DRV) ab und ist seitdem wieder mit dem Rudersport verbunden. Seit 2005 ist er auch internationaler Wettkampfrichter der FISA.

Thomas Greiner hat zwei Kinder. Für seinen Olympiasieg 1988 wurde er mit dem Vaterländischen Verdienstorden in Gold ausgezeichnet.

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1988 Olympiasieger im Vierer ohne Steuermann (Seoul)
1980 3. Platz Junioren-Weltmeisterschaften im Doppelvierer
1981 Junioren-Weltmeisterschaften im Doppelzweier
1982 Weltmeister im Vierer mit Steuermann (Luzern)
1983 Weltmeister im Zweier mit Steuermann (Duisburg)
1985 3. Platz Weltmeisterschaft im Vierer ohne Steuermann (Hazewinkel)
1986 3. Platz Weltmeisterschaft im Zweier mit Steuermann (Nottingham)
1987 Weltmeister im Vierer ohne Steuermann (Kopenhagen)
1989 Weltmeister im Vierer ohne Steuermann (Bled)
1990 3. Platz Weltmeisterschaft im Vierer ohne Steuermann (Tasmanien)
1991 Thomas-Keller-Medaille; diese erhielt er für seine außergewöhnliche Karriere im Rudersport von der FISA

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The school-family educational alliance – INVALSIopen
Co-responsibility between the school and parents for the education of the new generations is one of the fundamental principles expressed in the Constitution. And today, in the context of the health emergency, the educational-didactic continuity family-school it is an even more valuable ally in ensuring access to quality education and education.
The crucial point is the basic meeting between parents and teachers, concrete form of the encounter between school and society: if this meeting failsthe the structure does not live
Gianni Rodari – In fantasy school
Educating a child requires the collaboration of a whole educating communitywith a confident leading role School and Family.
Research experiences have shown that a good relationship between home and school leads students to:
Get better learning outcomes
Promote more self-regulation I general welfare
Reduce absenteeism
Keep a a more satisfying relationship with teachers and peers
Have one a more positive attitude towards the School and cultivate more ambitions towards education
In addition, not only the student benefits.
Even teachers and parents, as part of the established collaboration, are encouraged to build an environment of cooperative learning and develop virtuous processes of peer learning.
School-home collaboration
Cooperating does not mean confusing roles, which on the other hand always remain different in the exercise of their specific educational function.
In recent decades, educational research has come up with several proposals to describe it continuous educational between the process of acquiring skills at school and the activities that are done at home and in the family.
An example is the ecological model from Urie Bronfenbrenner (1986), based primarily on fostering intersections between the two educational ecosystems.
Working on these premises, Joyce Epstein introduced terms such as school-like families I family-type schools to represent thecooperative and integrated approach to educationin which families support the strengthening of school skills, while schools are equally supportive in proposing an emotional and supportive relationship.
Epstein saw 6 different areas of parental cooperation / involvement:
Support families to create supportive family environments for children in their student life
Design effective forms of communication in both school-home and home-school management about school curricula and children's progress
Recruit and organize the help and support of parents in school activities
Provide information and ideas to families on how to help students with homework and other curriculum-related activities
Invite parents to participate in the school's decision-making processes by joining the representative bodies
Collaborating with the community
Identify and integrate resources and services available through the community to strengthen school curricula, family practices, learning, and student development.
Co-responsibility in the Constitution
It is mainly in the Italian Constitution that the educational co-responsibility between school and parents and the framework of rights and duties, competencies and values, in which the role of education for the new generations is expressed.
In fact, with different but complementary roles, the Charter assigns to the family and the school the responsibility to educate, instruct and train young people.
This legislative principle has gained momentum in parallel with the changes in society.
On the one hand the education system has changed and evolvedplacing the child more and more at the center of the training process and listening to the specific needs of each student.
On the other hand, Parental involvement in school life has expanded thanks to precise regulatory provisions, but also to a renewed upbringing that wants to participate, together with an entire educational community, in all the steps of the growth of their children as conscious citizens.
It's not just about increasing number of connection opportunities between the two parties but at the same time raise the bar of quality of the relationship.
National / Regional Forum of Parents' Associations
A role of promotion, improvement and support of parental involvement in school life was commissioned in Italy National Forum of Parents' Associations (FoNAGS), also set up as a panel discussion with the Ministry of Education.
In conjunction with the National Forum, i Regional Forum of Parents' Associations (FoRAGS) with similar functions at the regional level.
Participation and co-design
Parents have the opportunity to get to know the school on several levels, until they get one participatory planning and inclusivewith shared tasks and responsibilities in full fulfillment of their functions:
At this level the Family dialogues with the teachers, she expresses opinions and rep useful information about your children's progress and how to collaborate at home to achieve the expected skill goals.
In a collective and associative way
At another level, parents choose their own representatives in the collegiate bodies of the class and of the Institute per Collaborate in the planning of activities.
Also, thanks to theassociationsparents can become mediators and bearers of broader views of self-interest and shared questionsin addition to encouraging the awareness and the formation on some topics.
The co-responsibility educational pact
Another legislative intervention on the subject of the School-Family relationship is the instrument of co-responsibility educational pactthat parents sign when their children enroll in high school.
In parallel with enrollment in the individual center, parents and students are required to sign an agreement on educational co-responsibility, aimed at defining in detail and shared the rights and duties in the relationship between the autonomous center, students and families.
The co-responsibility educational pact defines the guidelines that each center in full autonomy, students and their families they promise to follow respecting reciprocal roles, competencies and responsibilities.
Cooperate even from a distance
Clearly with the Distance learning and the Integrated Digital Education the co-responsibility pact acquires an even more important meaning, in fact and its own pact of trust and solidarity between teachers, school principals, parents and students.
The planned health regulations, but also the new teaching modalities, demand that the teacher-parent-student cooperation be extended. proactivity in the face of new needs.
For example, following lessons from home has a spatial dimension that actually involves parents more. At the same time, due to the role that is being played, the educational environment that is being set up is mainly entrusted to schools.
Respecting the rules for containing the virus both in the classroom and at home is a classic example of how the educational community must work together to protect students and ensure that its development is not compromised.
In the context ofCOVID-19 health emergencythe school-parent education alliance can therefore be one of the most important tools to consider protection of the right to education of young peoplebeing able to contribute among other things to:
Maintain the student's connection with the School and sense of school community
Teaching redesign discipline based on the needs of new delivery methods
Enforce health regulations at school and at home
Manage time and methods of Distance Education and Digital Integrated Teaching
Exchange information for the specific sustainability of the lessonalso in relation to the equipment owned by the families for its use
Periodically update parents on the progress of students to respond adequately to the educational needs of each, even in the remote mode
Establish a fruitful collaboration to guarantee the right to privacy of students and teachers, also encouraging an ecological use of digital and social networks
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Schauffele ties course record and wins at Kapalua
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1 X. Schauffele -23 F
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3 J. Thomas -18 F
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4t M. Leishman -15 F
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AP Golf Writer
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) Xander Schauffele never had a better round or a more peculiar ending.
After holing out for two eagles, and closing with four birdies over his last five holes for an 11-under 62, he chose to wait inside the scoring trailer to see if it would be enough to beat Gary Woodland in the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Sunday.
The trailer was just behind the grandstands on the 18th hole. The television had a 10-second delay. He heard sighs. He heard radio traffic. About the time he figured out that he won, he saw Woodland's birdie putt to force a playoff slide by on the right.
"So it was a bit strange," he said. "But the day was awesome."
Schauffele took another step toward joining the young elite in golf with his second victory this season, and fourth in the last 18 months. He already has two multiple-win seasons in his third year on the PGA Tour. He moved to No. 6 in the world.
"This is the stuff you dream about," Schauffele said. "But to actually pull it off, it feels awesome. I could see myself doing it, but it's hard to believe just sitting here and talking about it."
In all four of his victories, he had to rally on the final day. Kapalua presented the biggest deficit at five shots. He delivered a record-tying round.
He started with a bogey and figured he had nothing to lose. Before long, he was in position to win. He ran off three straight birdies. He chipped in from the front of the green on the par-5 ninth for eagle. He holed a wedge from 107 yards for another eagle on No. 12. He took his first lead with back-to-back birdies on the 14th and 15th holes, both times coming close to chipping in for more eagles.
Tied with Woodland over the closing holes, Schauffele finished birdie-birdie for a 61 that tied the course record at Kapalua held by four other players.
"It was a crazy day," Schauffele said. "I knew it was going to be a birdie fest at the end. We kept our head down and made a run for it."
Woodland had a chance to force a playoff, but he hit his drive on the par-5 18th so far - 390 yards downhill but into a Kona wind - that he was between clubs. He tried to draw a hard 4-iron and left it out to the right, hit a pitch-and-run to 10 feet and missed the birdie putt.
It was a tough loss for Woodland. He started the final round with a three-shot lead and closed with a bogey-free 68. He never shot worse than 68 all week and was the only player in the winners-only field to have all four rounds in the 60s.
It still wasn't enough.
"This one will sting," Woodland said.
Schauffele was in the group ahead of him, and Woodland could see as the 25-year-old Californian went after the left flag on the tough 17th hole with a 6-iron to just inside 10 feet for the first birdie of the final round. Woodland hit his approach to just inside 12 feet, and made the second birdie of the day to tie for the lead.
Schauffele wasn't finished. He hammered a 5-wood onto the green at the 18th to about 12 feet, narrowly missing his third eagle of the final round. He rolled it in for his 62 to finish at 23-under 269, and then had to wait.
Before long, he had a lei around his neck and the trophy in his hands, along with one other perk.
"It means I get to come back, which is even better," Schauffele said.
Thomas closed with a 65 to finish alone in third.
Woodland couldn't think of much he did wrong except fail to take advantage of a few pins he could have played to more aggressively. But he found no consolation in losing to a guy who shot 62 in the tougher of the two wind directions on the west end of Maui.
"I don't think it will ever be easy because I still believe I was playing well enough to shoot 66 today," Woodland said. "You have an iron into the par 5 in the middle of the fairway on the last hole, you expect to make birdie. I had killed the par 5s all week this week, which is what you've got to do out here. So I knew what he was doing and the competitor in me knew I needed to do one better. And unfortunately, I didn't get it done."
Neither did Rory McIlroy.
He played in the final group with Woodland, three shots behind, knowing he had played in the final group six times last year without winning. He got within two shots early, but didn't make a birdie after a two-putt on the par-5 fifth and closed with a 72 to tie for fourth with Dustin Johnson (67) and Marc Leishman (71).
"I gave myself plenty of chances, just couldn't get anything to drop," McIlroy said.
Brooks Koepka closed with a 69 to finish 24th, meaning Justin Rose returns to No. 1 in the world.


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Miasta w USA:
 Clear Creek – jednostka osadnicza w stanie Kalifornia, w hrabstwie Lassen
 Clear Creek – jednostka osadnicza w stanie Utah, w hrabstwie Carbon
 Clear Creek – miasto w stanie Wisconsin, w hrabstwie Eau Claire
Gminy w USA:
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Arkansas, w hrabstwie Drew
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Arkansas, w hrabstwie Hot Spring
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Arkansas, w hrabstwie Sevier
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Indiana, w hrabstwie Huntington
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Indiana, w hrabstwie Monroe
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Iowa, w hrabstwie Jasper
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Iowa, w hrabstwie Johnson
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Iowa, w hrabstwie Keokuk
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Kansas, w hrabstwie Ellsworth
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Kansas, w hrabstwie Marion
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Kansas, w hrabstwie Nemaha
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Kansas, w hrabstwie Pottawatomie
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Kansas, w hrabstwie Stafford
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Missouri, w hrabstwie Cooper
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Missouri, w hrabstwie Vernon
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Nebraska, w hrabstwie Saunders
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Karolina Północna, w hrabstwie Henderson
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Ohio, w hrabstwie Ashland
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Township) – gmina w stanie Ohio, w hrabstwie Warren
 Clear Creek (ang. Clear Creek Town) – gmina w stanie Wisconsin, w hrabstwie Eau Claire
Hrabstwa w USA:
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Senate Bill Would Veto Big Media Giveaway
From Free Press
Today, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced a "Resolution of Disapproval" that would overturn media ownership rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission last December. Sen. Dorgan will join public interest groups on a national conference call today to discuss the new legislation.
In a 3-to-2 vote on Dec. 18, the FCC eliminated the longstanding ban on "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership," which prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major daily newspaper in the same market.
"The American public has resoundingly rejected more media consolidation," said Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, which coordinates the StopBigMedia.com Coalition. "The FCC wouldn't listen, but Congress can still stop this massive giveaway. Whether you're on the left or the right, Republican or Democrat, you know the last thing we need is for our local news to be swallowed up by the same few companies who already own too much."
Sen. Dorgan and a bipartisan group of 25 senators sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin prior to the Dec. 18 vote, vowing to "immediately move legislation that will revoke and nullify the proposed rule." In 2003 �" the last time the FCC tried to change media ownership rules �" the Senate passed a similar resolution to reject the new rules.
Though the FCC's latest attempt to remove media ownership limits was approved in December, the final language of the new rules just reached the Senate this week. Now that the resolution has been introduced, the Senate has 60 days on the legislative calendar to approve it. In the week after the FCC's vote, more than 200,000 concerned citizens signed on to an open letter calling on Congress to overturn the rules.
"People across the country still depend on their local TV and newspaper to find out what's happening in their communities," said Alexandra Russell, program director of Free Press. "They won't sit idly by while Big Media companies like Tribune, Media General and Gannett greedily gobble up the few remaining independent voices and keep new, diverse owners from getting on the air."
The new rules also must past muster with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which threw out the previous rule changes and sent them back to the FCC in 2005. Free Press has joined Media Access Project, Prometheus Radio Project, Georgetown Institute of Public Representation, United Church of Christ and Media Alliance in a lawsuit appealing the new rules.
"We applaud Senator Dorgan for taking a stand against Big Media on behalf of the vast majority of Americans who oppose what the FCC has done," Silver said. "We look forward to working with Congress to reverse this terrible decision and start rolling back media consolidation."
Read the FCC's cross-ownership order: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-216A1.pdf
Learn more about the FCC's new rules: http://www.stopbigmedia.com/files/devil_in_the_details.pdf
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Criminals due for deportation pulled from Jamaica flight
Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor
Tuesday August 10 2021, 5.00pm, The Times
It is understood that the majority of criminals who were removed from the flight had been convicted of drug offences
PETER MACDIARMID/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
All but 11 of about 50 criminals due to be deported to Jamaica this morning were removed from their flight after last-ditch appeals.
The offenders — including a murderer, rapists and paedophiles — were scheduled to leave at 1am.
Home Office sources said that the department had been forced to postpone many of the deporations after successful legal challenges.
Hours before take-off Jamaica asked Britain to halt the flight because of fears that it would import the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Last night the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Priti Patel, the home secretary, to "do the right thing and cancel this inhumane deportation flight". A Home Office source said: "I wonder if the victims would consider their deportation as inhumane."
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Does anyone have any interest in a Pebble app for operating homeseer? I started the implementation last week (no idea when it will be ready). In a first phase I thought about the following functionality:In the (Android) companion app you can whitelist / blacklist events / devices that you want to see on your pebblePebble retrieves the list of devices / events and displays them in different screens. A select on an event runs the event, a select on a device shows a list of the supported values (and a next select sets the status).Are there many HS people who have a Pebble by the way?


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using System;
using TrueCraft.API.Logic;
using TrueCraft.API;
using TrueCraft.Core.Logic.Items;
using TrueCraft.API.Networking;
using TrueCraft.API.World;
using TrueCraft.API.Server;
using TrueCraft.Core.Entities;

namespace TrueCraft.Core.Logic.Blocks
{
    public class GravelBlock : BlockProvider
    {
        public static readonly byte BlockID = 0x0D;

        public override byte ID { get { return 0x0D; } }

        public override double BlastResistance { get { return 3; } }

        public override double Hardness { get { return 0.6; } }

        public override byte Luminance { get { return 0; } }

        public override string DisplayName { get { return "Gravel"; } }

        public override Tuple<int, int> GetTextureMap(byte metadata)
        {
            return new Tuple<int, int>(3, 1);
        }

        protected override ItemStack[] GetDrop(BlockDescriptor descriptor)
        {
            //Gravel has a 10% chance of dropping flint.
            if (MathHelper.Random.Next(10) == 0)
                return new[] { new ItemStack(FlintItem.ItemID, 1, descriptor.Metadata) };
            else
                return new ItemStack[0];
        }

        public override void BlockPlaced(BlockDescriptor descriptor, BlockFace face, IWorld world, IRemoteClient user)
        {
            BlockUpdate(descriptor, descriptor, user.Server, world);
        }

        public override void BlockUpdate(BlockDescriptor descriptor, BlockDescriptor source, IMultiplayerServer server, IWorld world)
        {
            if (world.GetBlockID(descriptor.Coordinates + Coordinates3D.Down) == AirBlock.BlockID)
            {
                world.SetBlockID(descriptor.Coordinates, AirBlock.BlockID);
                server.GetEntityManagerForWorld(world).SpawnEntity(new FallingGravelEntity(descriptor.Coordinates));
            }
        }
    }
}


The U11 Girls Final was held at Orleans Park School, Twickenham.
There were 15 teams of 12 boards and the competition took place three rounds using jamboree pairing.
Sussex (29 points) took first place followed by three teams each on 25 points. On tiebreak Barnet finished second, Nottinghamshire and Wey Valley shared third. Herts (7 points) and Northamptonship finished together at the foot of the table.
Out top scorers were Katie Ball (bd 2) and Isabelle Marke (bd 11) on two points each.


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William Ascher
William Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College.
Knowledge and Environmental Policy
Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics
William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy 2010
An analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of knowledge into making environmental policy.
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in connecting scientific discovery to science-based policy are systemic. The process—currently structured in a futile effort to separate policy from science—is dysfunctional in many respects.
William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy analyze the dysfunction and offer recommendations for incorporating formal science and other important types of knowledge (including local knowledge and public sentiment) into the environmental policymaking process.The authors divide the knowledge process into three functions—generation, transmission, and use—and explore the key obstacles to incorporating knowledge into the making of environmental policy. Using case studies and integrating a broad literature on science, politics, and policy, they examine the ignorance or distortion of policy-relevant knowledge, the overemphasis of particular concerns and the neglect of others, and the marginalization of certain voices.
The book's analysis will be valuable to scientists who want to make their work more accessible and useful to environmental policy and to policymakers who want their decisions to be informed by science but have had difficulty finding scientific knowledge that is useful or timely.


Wind turbines are machines that take the kinetic energy in wind and convert it into mechanical energy. If the energy is used directly by machinery, we usually call the machine a windmill. If the mechanical energy is not used directly but is converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator.
Two types of wind turbines exist based upon the axis about which the turbine rotates. The most common turbine rotates around a horizontal axis while those that rotate around a vertical axis are used less frequently.
In addition to classification based on the location of the axis, wind turbines are also classified by the location where they will be used. Onshore, offset, and aerial wind turbines each have unique design characteristics. Wind turbines may also be used along with a solar collector in order to extract the energy from the sun, which rises through a large vertical solar updraft tower.
In a horizontal axis wind turbine, the main rotor shaft and electrical generator are located at the top of a tower where they must be pointed facing the direction of the wind. Small turbines usually use a simple wind vane, while larger turbines tend to use a wind sensor along with a servomotor. Most also include a gearbox for turning the slow rotation of the blades into quicker rotation, thus making them more suitable for generating electricity.
Because a tower creates turbulence, the turbine tends to be pointed upwind of the tower. The blades on a turbine are made stiff so that they will not be pushed into the tower by high winds. In addition, the blades are usually placed quite a distance in front of the tower and usually tilted slightly upward.
In spite of the problem with turbulence, downwind machines are in existence because they need no additional mechanism to keep them in line with the wind. In addition, in high winds the blades are allowed to bend, thus reducing their swept area and wind resistance. On the other hand, since turbulence leads to fatigue failures, most Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines are upwind machines due to the importance of reliability.
The main rotor of a vertical axis wind turbine runs vertically. This type of turbine is advantageous in that the tower doesn't need to support the generator and/or gearbox as they can be placed near the ground because the turbine doesn't need to be pointed into the wind. On the other hand, a pulsating torque may be produced during each revolution along with drag that is created each time the blade rotates into the wind. Finally, because the vertical axis wind turbine cannot be mounted on a tower, it must operate within the much slower but more turbulent airflow near the ground. This causes less efficiency in the extraction process.
Although its design generally makes the horizontal axis wind turbine more efficient, there are times when the vertical axis wind turbine may be preferable since it doesn't require the use of a tower. They are also easier to service and maintain since most of their moving parts are located near the ground. They are also advantageous in areas that do not allow the construction of high structures such as the type that would be required for a tower to operate a horizontal axis turbine.
A horizontal axis wind turbine has advantages of its own and is more widely used than vertical axis wind turbines. The fact that it is connected to a tower allows it to be placed offshore and on uneven ground. Its height also allows it to pick up the higher speed winds that surface above ground. Most importantly, they can be cheaper to operate because of their higher production volume, larger sizes, and their general factors relating to both capacity and efficiencies.


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package io.realm.entities;

import io.realm.RealmObject;
import io.realm.annotations.PrimaryKey;

public class PrimaryKeyAsShort extends RealmObject {

    public static final String CLASS_NAME = "PrimaryKeyAsShort";
    public static final String FIELD_ID = "id";

    @PrimaryKey
    private short id;

    private String name;

    public short getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(short id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}


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package org.scalactic.anyvals

import reflect.macros.Context
import org.scalactic.Resources

private[scalactic] object PosZIntMacro extends CompileTimeAssertions {

  def apply(c: Context)(value: c.Expr[Int]): c.Expr[PosZInt] = {
    val notValidMsg = Resources.notValidPosZInt
    val notLiteralMsg = Resources.notLiteralPosZInt

    import c.universe._

    ensureValidIntLiteral(c)(value, notValidMsg, notLiteralMsg) { i => i >= 0 }
    reify { PosZInt.from(value.splice).get }
  }
}


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Q: Photon energy depends on frequency (and/or amplitude)? I know there are already some similar questions like Amplitude of an electromagnetic wave containing a single photon but I can't get my head around it since the answers there seem not to fit very precisely to the question: What is the amplitude of a single photon?
I know the energy of a photons depends strictly on its frequency and light is described by electromagnetic waves. Are (single) photons also seen as electromagnetic waves? If so, what does it amplitude then tell?
Thank you!

A: The energy of light wave is not simply it's frequency component - it is both its frequency and amplitude.
But as with any wave, amplitude is a different quality than frequency, and the two are not completely interchangeable in their effects (even though a wave with high-amplitude and low-frequency may carry the same or more energy as a wave with low-amplitude and high-frequency) because of the effects of resonance (which is somewhat related to inertia).
Consider when your car bumps over a pothole - even a relatively shallow pothole might break wheels and almost knock your fillings out. That's a high-frequency, low-amplitude shock.
And yet you may drive up and down a mountainside comfortably (even though the amplitude of that movement involves orders of magnitude more energy being borne by the car through its wheels and suspension, it is so diffuse over time that it is insufficient to disrupt the physical integrity of the car or your body, which simply rides the wave rather than being shattered by it).
There is no way to substitute amplitude to achieve the same effect that frequency has - excessive amplitude would compromise the superstructure of the car rather than shocking it's components or passengers.
The same is true of atoms, that at too low a frequency of light, they may be temporarily perturbed by such light but it is insufficient to affect their integrity and cause (for example) the photoelectric effect, and at too high an amplitude, the solidity of the superstructure which is composed of the atoms would be compromised before the individual atoms were.


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Q: MarkLogic node.js - conditional updates using fields other than versionId I'm using ML8 and Node.js. The documentation here: http://docs.marklogic.com/guide/node-dev/documents#id_68765 describes how to do conditional updates in ML using the versionId field.
But for example if I want to do a conditional update on a different field, is it possible?
My scenario is: I have JSON documents with elements assignedTo and assignDate (where assignDate is set to current date every time a new value is set to assignedTo)
Now, for my "Assign" operation, I would like to make sure that no one else has changed the assignedTo/assignDate fields between the time I read the document and when I perform the update. I don't care if other fields in the same document have been updated or not - if other fields have been updated, I can still proceed with the Assign operation (hence I cannot use the versionId approach, since that covers the whole document)
How can this be done?

A: Optimistic locking doesn't look at the content of the document. Instead, the version id is a system value reflecting the timestamp on the document.  Checking the timestamp is more efficient than reading the document content.
You could write a POST resource service extension that

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*receives the update content

*reads the document and checks that assignTo/ assignDate haven't changed

*does an xdmp:node-replace() on the root of the document with the update content

Hoping that helps,


HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD) one of Illinois' oldest retailers, applauds Governor Pat Quinn's approval of House Bill 3659, which will restore long overdue fairness to the tax system for retailers and taxpayers in Illinois. The "E-fairness Law" helps to correct a longstanding problem of out-of-state businesses not collecting and remitting the sales tax in Illinois, a practice that has put brick-and-mortar retailers at an unfair competitive disadvantage for far too long.
Amazon.com is threatening to leave states and terminate relationships with all its affiliates rather than comply with this new law. As we have stated, we will gladly welcome these affiliates to the Sears Affiliate Team. We recognize and value our relationships with our over 6,500 affiliate partners AND the state and local communities we serve and we look forward to adding new affiliates.
Sears Holdings thanks state lawmakers in the House and Senate for their overwhelming support for the bill and in particular wants to acknowledge the leadership of the main sponsors of House Bill 3659: Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago), Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno (R-Lemont) and State Representative Pat Verschoore (D-Milan).
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Every year, an estimated 35 million U.S. citizens visit the hospital for sinusitis. Even more, the money spent on treating acute and chronic sinusitis each year in the United States is estimated to be over $11 billion.
More than a stuffy nose, a sinus infection can actually be uncomfortable and painful. While most cases of sinusitis can be treated by using a decongestant, few cases may often require surgery to drain mucus from the sinuses.
In this article, we shall be taking a look at natural remedies for sinus congestion and inflammation. But first, let's get to understand sinus infections a little.
Sinus congestion, or sinusitis, is an infectious condition that is marked by the inflammation of the sinuses and an excess production of mucus, which leads to a blockage or congestion.
The sinus is an air-filled hollow cavity in the skull bones around the nose. An infection of the sinuses can lead to their inflammation and they become filled with mucus and germs, instead of air.
Sinus congestion can be as a result of different factors. The causes vary from allergies to flu, or an infection. As a result, sinusitis can be grouped into viral and bacterial types, based on the type of disease-causing organism.
Sinus infections caused by a virus are mostly acute and last for short periods of time that can span no more than a maximum of 10 days. If the symptoms of the sinus infection go beyond 10 days, then it is most likely that it is caused by bacteria.
Hydration is one of the simplest, but yet effective natural ways of treating various health problems, including sinus congestion and inflammation. Drinking lots of water and other helpful fluids will help to thin out mucus in the sinuses, so as to clear the sinuses. You should make sure to avoid alcohol and caffeine, as these beverages tend to dehydrate the body rather than to hydrate.
Nasal irrigation, also known as saline irrigation or nasal flushing, is a way of clearing the nasal cavity of excess mucus. Sinus congestion and irritation can be relieved by flushing/irrigating the nose with a solution. You can make a saline solution for clearing the sinuses by adding half a teaspoon of salt to half a cup of tepid water, and then dripping the solution into each nostril.
This oil is rich in essential minerals and vitamins like vitamins A and D. One good thing about this oil is the fact that the nutrients are preserved during the fermentation process. Adding fermented cod liver oil to your meals or using it for cooking will help to boost your body's immunity against diseases.
You can make grapefruit seed extract by crushing some dried grapefruit seeds into a smooth powder. Use a nasal spray to apply the grapefruit seed extract. This herbal remedy is effective as it helps to drain the sinuses of mucus.
Hot spices such as cayenne pepper can also be used as natural remedies for sinus congestion. Cayenne pepper contains capsicum, which has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties that should be helpful in relieving sinus congestion.
The sinuses are extensions of the digestive tract. This means that there is a relationship between digestive health and respiratory health. An unbalanced gut flora can lead to a weakening of the body's defense system – which is mostly in the gut. That said, a sinus infection can leave the gut flora depleted, which, in turn leads to a compromised immune system. To remedy this situation, it is advised that you eat more foods that are rich in probiotics – beneficial bacteria that constitute the gut flora. Examples of probiotic-rich foods are kefir, kimchi, yogurt, and sauerkraut.
Respiratory conditions like cold can be the cause of your sinus congestion. If this is the case, then you can benefit from the antibiotic and antioxidant properties of garlic. Garlic's antibiotic properties are attributed to the presence of allicin. Eating garlic cloves daily can help to reduce the risk of developing common cold, as well as in improving some of the symptoms of sinus congestion.
Eucalyptus oil is another natural remedy for sinus infections, including sinus congestion. Based on report from the University of Maryland Medical Center, eucalyptus oil can be used as a sinus decongestant because of its phlegm-loosening property. You can use the oil by dripping a few drops into a bowl of boiled water and with your head bent towards the bowl, start inhaling the steam (ensure to cover your head with a towel so as to get the most of the steam).
The menthol present in peppermint oil can be beneficial in treating sinus congestion and inflammation. Menthol helps in this way by stimulating the receptors in the nose to give the nose a feeling of decongestion.
Based on anecdotal reports, eating too much horseradish can help in treating sinus congestion. To get the most from horseradish, mix some horseradish powder with lemon juice and drink.
Like most other herbs on this list, onion's decongesting property is due to its anti-inflammatory effect. Onion as a natural remedy helps to reduce inflammation of the sinuses, thereby reducing the pain and mucus production. To reap the benefits of onion as a sinus decongestant, get some fresh onions and chew, or add onions to hot water and inhale the aroma.
Turmeric is rich in antioxidants and other beneficial chemical compounds like curcumin, which has anti-inflammatory properties. Turmeric powder can be mixed with ginger root and prepared as tea. The combination of turmeric and ginger helps to thin out mucus from the nasal cavities. Moreover, treating sinus congestion can cause an upset stomach, which can be alleviated by the ginger root.
Oregano oil has antimicrobial properties that should come in handy when treating sinus infections. Drip a drop of oregano oil in a cup of water or tea and drink once each day to alleviate the symptoms of sinus congestion. You can also apply oregano oil topically on the neck to relieve mucus congestion.
Apple cider vinegar is a storehouse of many helpful chemical compounds. You can benefit from apple cider vinegar by adding two to three tablespoons of the raw liquid to a cup of hot water or tea. Repeat the procedure two more times daily.
Echinacea plant can also be used in treating sinus congestion. This is because Echinacea possesses anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties that help in reducing swelling and in fighting off viruses and bacteria responsible for sinus infections. In addition, Echinacea's immune-boosting property can help in strengthening the body's immune system in combating infections.
You can chew on some fresh ginger roots or drink ginger tea to relieve sinus inflammation and congestion. Ginger contains several helpful compounds that help in reducing mucus in the sinuses, as well as in reducing the swelling.
Taking 2 to 3 teaspoons of natural local honey twice each day can help to clear the congested sinuses. Another way to benefit from honey is to add it to beverages before drinking. Among other health benefits, honey's anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties are helpful here.
You can relieve sinus congestion by drinking up a bowl of chicken soup. This helps because chicken contains cysteine, which is an amino acid that helps to thin out mucus in the nasal cavity.
Pineapple contains bromelain, an enzyme that has anti-inflammatory, astringent, and mucus-loosening properties. You can cook the pineapple if it is too tart for your mouth.
Lemon's antioxidant and astringent properties can help in the treatment of sinus congestion. You can add a few drops of lemon juice to water and drink if you are feeling congested.
Add a pinch of table salt and some crushed cloves of garlic to blended tomato juice and drink up if you have sinus congestion. This mixture is a fast and effective method of alleviating the symptoms of sinus infections.
You can use fenugreek seeds to reduce mucus build-up in the sinuses. Get some fenugreek seeds and pour to a cup of water and bring to boil. Allow the mixture to cool, then strain and drink.
Based on a particular report, you can soak you feet in a footbath with mustard seed powder added to relieve sinus congestion. According to the report, this process works because of the fact that the footbath helps to promote blood circulation to the feet, thereby, reducing blood circulation to the sinuses.
Sinus infections are becoming more popular and a great reason for many hospital visits each year. And with many of the antibiotics available being ineffective against viral sinus infections, choosing to go with natural remedies seem to be a good option.


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Imperial Assault Tournament
by Nate T on April 04, 2017
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The Imperial Assault skirmish game is an exciting experience in which two players create armies using their favorite Star Wars characters. The armies then face each other on the battlefield in a winner-takes-all skirmish mission.
One unique element of the skirmish game is that players can build their own personalized armies. This allows them to control their experience and see how their own ideas and strategies stack up against different foes.
Army building has players not only choose the figures in their armies, but also which Command cards they wish to use. Command cards have a wide range of special abilities, and add suspense and unexpected tactics.
Different combinations of figures and Command cards create wildly divergent experiences and open up unique strategies. Players can discover unexpected synergies, plan daring gambits, and feel more invested in their armies.
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2017 @ 1PM
Cost: $10 ($9 for Flock members)
Maximum # of participants: 16
Participants are expected to be familiar with the rules of the game
Participants are expected to bring their own complete Skirmish army (40 point build + 15 command cards), as well as the requisite components to build the various maps.
Format: All participants will play 3-4 rounds of one-versus-one Swiss pairings (depending on number of participants). Players will be ranked based on wins and tiebreakers.
Prizes: Participants will be given a core prize card. Top 4 winners will then have the opportunity to draft elite prize cards or elite prize item/set (depending on availability). Additional prizes may be added based on number of participants.


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MVP. This award is usually for the most valuable player. However, as a coach who appreciates a warm smile and a good attitude, I'd like to rename this award the Most Valuable Person. I say this because the MVP should not just be the most successful athlete on the team, but should also be someone who puts in the most effort. This athlete is kind, talented, has powers of skill, and coordination. I hope that he can continue to be great student athlete.


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Could you run your age in kilometres?
Article written by Pip Coates on May 5th 2015 for Executive Style
What is it about an impending milestone birthday that makes people decide to take on a major physical challenge? As in: "I'm about to turn 40, so I'm going to run a marathon."
Of course some people don't wait for a zero birthday; they mark every year by running their age in kilometres, for example, or swimming 100 metres multiplied by their age. I've been one of these people; I think it's about feeling alive rather than just old. Age is a state of mind and nothing can take away from the feeling of achieving a physical goal and overcoming mental hurdles along the way.
People are so healthy these days that birth year has little bearing on what our bodies are capable of, anyway. When it comes to fitness, today's 40 is the previous generation's 20.
And what better way to prove to yourself and anyone who's listening that while your passport may be saying you're 40 (or 50 or 60 etc), your body is much younger?
Call it age denial or age reversal, who cares. If a milestone birthday motivates you to get moving and achieve something special, isn't that a good thing?
"When it comes to fitness, today's 40 is the previous generation's 20."
Well, yes, so long as there's a little bit of common-sense applied to the process. Otherwise, you can come unstuck and end up feeling quite old and decrepit.
Sports physiotherapist and ultra-distance runner Mark Green admits he didn't like the idea of turning 40, in spite of the fact that he was already one of the fittest men in Australia.
"I think 40 years seems to be a milestone that men, more than women, don't want to reach," he says. "I notice among our clients that turning 50 hits women harder than men, whereas men really don't like turning 40."
Green is a fan of goal-setting to mark special birthdays, but he says unfortunately the ambition doesn't often match the reality of what the body is ready for. He's treated about 50 clients in the past four years who have fallen victim to such over-ambition.
Too much, too soon
"We come across a lot of the milestone birthdays; having a mid-life crisis at 40 and deciding to enter a 100km race when you might have done just one marathon is a common phenomenon," he says.
Or deciding to mark turning 50 by doing a run like the North Face 50. "But people usually come up with that idea when they are about 49-and-a-half," says Green. "They give themselves six months to achieve it. If they are not coming from a relatively solid background of endurance sport, including running, then they should make up their mind to do it when they are 46 or 47 rather than 49-and-a-half."
It always comes down to too much too soon: the heart, lungs and mind may be up to the task, but the body usually isn't. It gets loaded up too quickly and succumbs to injury.
The adjustment theory
So how to prepare for a milestone marathon?
"With time you should be able to achieve almost any goal," says Green, "but the more extreme the goal the longer the timeframe needs to be in which to achieve it."
It's all about adjustment.
"For example, if you can run 20km fairly comfortably now, but 30km leaves you feeling sore for a week, then the best thing you can do is to train consistently for a year doing lots of 20km runs and some 22km runs and the shorter runs as well. Then you'll build up to be able to comfortably do the 30km.
"Next it might be the 40km run that is a little bit too much for you. Another year down the track, 40km is possible and 50km is a bit of a struggle. Our body adjusts to the load over a period of time. We want instant gratification, but really what we need is time."


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The Jason Reitman film "Labor Day" stars Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Gattlin Griffith.
Writer-director Jason Reitman continues his tradition of debuting his films at the Telluride Film Festival with the screening Thursday of his latest, the drama "Labor Day," starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin.
Based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, "Labor Day" tracks the tale of single mom Adele (Winslet) and her son Henry, who unwittingly take in an escaped convict (Brolin) as the police scour the town for him.
The film nabbed the coveted first feature slot, screening this afternoon in the Colorado mountain town. Last year's best picture Oscar winner "Argo" also debuted in this spot.
Early reviews suggest "Labor Day," which is not scheduled to open wide in theaters until January 2014 -- nowhere close to the Labor Day holiday -- to be a more mature effort from Reitman, best known for the 2009 Oscar-nominated film "Up in the Air" and 2007's "Juno."
Kristopher Tapley from the website In Contention compares the film, which he says "sits with its characters, measured, patient with them," to Clint Eastwood's early '90s films like "Bridges of Madison County" and "A Perfect World."
Indiewire's Anne Thompson tweets her initial reaction to the film, an endorsement that bodes well for both its commercial prospects and its Oscar chances: "Labor Day is that rare thing these days, a well wrought drama, a love story and a tear jerker. Sniffles in the house. Winslet in Oscar race."
Hitfix's Gregory Ellwood wasn't nearly as euphoric: "Interesting departure. Requires major suspension of disbelief."
Reitman's early publicity efforts for the film are just beginning. The Canadian director will have a homecoming of sorts when he takes his fifth feature to the Toronto International Film Festival next week.