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Q: express-rate-limit not working when deployed to heroku I have this code working on localhost (sending has no problem only the express-rate-limit), but when I deploy / push it to my heroku app and do a post request it exceeds the max limit which is 3.
const router = require('express').Router();
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
const rateLimit = require("express-rate-limit");

const apiLimit = rateLimit({
    windowMs: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // 24 hrs
    max: 3, // limit each IP to 3 requests per windowMs
    message: "Spam detected!"
});

router.route('/').post(apiLimit,(req, res) => {

    const transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
        service: 'gmail',
        host : "smtp.gmail.com",
        port : "465",
        ssl : true,
        auth: {
        user: process.env.USER,
        pass: process.env.PASS
    }
    });

    const mailOptions = {
        from: '',
        to: '<myemail>',
        subject: req.body.subject,
        text: "FROM: "+ req.body.email + " MESSAGE: " + req.body.message
    };

    transport.sendMail(mailOptions, (err, info) => {
        err ? res.json(res.status(400).json("Error " + err)) : res.json("Email sent.");
    });

});

module.exports = router ;

serving on localhost works, when i request more than 3x it returns the spam detected message and doesnt send mail anymore. when i use rest api extension on vscode this shows. The X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 2 doesnt change if i do a few more post requests.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Cowboy
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: Express
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
X-Ratelimit-Limit: 3
X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 2
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:09:11 GMT
X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1592793933
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 13
Etag: W/"d-EBrE0f9LbjD0DZTwvOVLMa8Lqo8"
Via: 1.1 vegur

"Email sent."

A: It seems likely that the express-rate-limit module is not getting the correct IP address for the client when you run it on heroku?  Perhaps because heroku is using a proxy in front of your server?
Per the express-rate-limit documentation:
// Enable if you're behind a reverse proxy (Heroku, Bluemix, AWS ELB, Nginx, etc)
// see https://expressjs.com/en/guide/behind-proxies.html
// app.set('trust proxy', 1);

So, it looks like perhaps you need:
app.set('trust proxy', 1);

This will cause the req.ip and req.ips values to be populated with the list of addresses from X-Forwarded-For header which is likely what express-rate-limiter needs when running behind a proxy.

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NFL: Houston Texans season preview
bet365 News Team 16 Aug 22
The Houston Texans are on the ground floor of a rebuilding phase and everyone knows it - even the franchise executives that were for so long in denial.
They cut their losses on Deshaun Watson and sent Lovie Smith in as an experienced hand on the tiller to guide a young roster through the choppy waters that almost certainly lie ahead.
There is no doubt it is a roster full of youngsters - with two of their top three pass catchers 23 or younger, as is the starting quarterback Davis Mills, with three rookies projected to start in Week 1.
So 2022 looks like being a tough year for the Texans and one in which, by January, finishing in a position that would enable them to recruit one of the best prospects in the following year's draft, could be a saving grace.
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He could show steady improvement again this season but, if Alabama's Bryce Young has another hot season, the Texans would be silly not to draft him if he fell into their lap.
The two intra-division games with the Jaguars, who are not expected to draft a top-tier QB next year, will be a good test of where they are in relation to each other in the rebuilding process.
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Who are the Houston Texans' opening opponents?
The Colts are first up at NRG Stadium on Sunday September 11th.
Indy will have yet another new quarterback under center after they traded for 15-year veteran and former Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Ryan in the offseason.
The Colts have opened the past five seasons with a new quarterback: Carson Wentz (2021), Philip Rivers (2020), Jacoby Brissett (2019), Scott Tolzien (2017) and Andrew Luck (2016).
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Although there's no rivalry with the Dallas Cowboys as such, intra-state pride will be at stake when the Texans head to Dallas in Week 14.
The all-time record is 3-2 in favor of Dallas and the last two in the series have been epics that went into overtime - Houston winning the most recent encounter in 2018 on the boot of Hawaian placekicker Ka'imi Fairbairn.
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Smith's NFL career began in 1996 when Tony Dungy took him on as a linebackers coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers - where he helped develop the Tampa 2 defense.
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He earned his first head coaching chance with the Chicago Bears, leading them to the playoffs in three of his nine seasons at Soldier Field - of which the highlight was the run to Super Bowl XLI and defeat to his former mentor Dungy's Indianapolis Colts.
He returned to Tampa Bay for a two-year stint midway through the last decade, but couldn't turn them around and went back to the college coaching ranks for several years before the Texans came calling.
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Just Added: Hear Mark Stuertz author of Secret Dallas discusses the gas station owed by Clyde Barrow's father that still exists in West Dallas. Hear the interview at the 10:15 mark
I recently set out to visit the grave sites of notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Both are buried in Dallas. Despite their wish to be buried together, the Parker family denied their request.
Bonnie Parker was originally buried in Fishtrap Cemetery off Singleton Road in Dallas but in 1945 her body was moved to the new Crown Hill Cemetery.
Directions to Crown Hill Cemetery
Enter Through the Lombardy Lane Entrance
Clyde Barrow was buried next to his brother in west Dallas' Western Heights Cemetery off Fort Worth Avenue. The cemetery has a fence and a locked gate, which causes a lot of visitors to think that that cemetery is off limits.
But at the east corner of the lot, the fence ends, and there are welcoming steps into the cemetery.
No criminal mind could penetrate this fortress of security.
A few years from the locked gate are steps into the cemetery
Not far from the Barrow gravesite is a old gas station that was once home to the Barrow family. Located on 1221 Singleton, the building is vacant and for sale.
The gas station in its early days
Available for purchase, the gas station today
Read our Blog Post on the Bike Trail that retraces Bonnie and Clyde's Escape Route
Labels: Barrow, Bonnie, Bonnie and Clyde, Cemetery, Clyde, Dallas, Grave, Home, Parker, Site
Bonnie Parker is a distant cousin of mine!
Ive heard that just a headstone was moved for Bonnie, to distract visitors and disturbance to the original grave. I think the original grave is still marked with a brick with her initials on it.
The Grave Sites of Bonnie and Clyde (Plus the Bar...


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Object Type: Wall relief/block
Material: Limestone
Date: c. 1294-1279 BC
Period: 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I
Findspot: KV17 tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings, West Thebes
Dimensions: height 226.5cm, width 105cm
Inventory number: B7, N 124, Champollion No. 1
Current location: Room 641, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Print Reference: DP01C
This beautiful relief was part of the decoration of the tomb well-preserved tomb of King Seti I (KV17) in the Valley of the Kings.
It depicts Seti walking towards the still figure of the goddess Hathor, who played an important role in welcoming the dead to the underworld and accompanying them into the afterlife.
Hathor, Lady of the West, is shown welcoming Seti into her domain and holds out her menat necklace as a symbol of her protection. On the goddess's wig are the horns of a cow, her sacred animal, and a solar disk showing she is the daughter of Ra. She is named in the hieroglyphic text above using the symbol of a falcon in a building or temple, which reads Hwt-Hr meaning 'House of Horus'.
Seti is distinguishable by the royal uraeus cobra which stands out in front of his forehead, and by two of his royal names given in cartouches. The left reads Men Maat Ra, meaning 'Eternal is the Truth of Ra' and the right reads Wesiri Seti, mer en Ptah, meaning 'Osiris Seti, beloved of Ptah'.
Their jewellery has the colours of the precious materials from which it was made, including gold, silver, lapis lazuli, turquoise and carnelian.
The characters' finery reflects the refinement and elegance of the art from this period and retains some elements of the Amarna style developed fifty years earlier during Akhenaten's reign.
The original is now in the Musee de Louvre, Paris.
Hathor, Chief of Thebes
Mistress of the West
Lord of the Two Lands, Menmaatre (Eternal is the Justice of Re)
Lord of Appearances, the Osiris Merenptah
Giving life like Re forever
My Reproduction
Symbolism In The Art Of Queen Nefertari's Tomb


Rosary at Kilmeedy church on Friday, January 25 at 7 pm.
Reader – Helen Kenneally, Eucharistic minister – Sharon Danaher, Altar servers – Corie and Leah Lynch, Conor Donegan.
Sunday, January 27 at Kilmeedy church at 10 am – Mary and Maurice Sheehan RIP.
Reader – Diarmuid O Connor, Eucharistic minister – Deborah Prout, Altar servers – Jamie O Doherty, Josh Gilbourne.
Saturday, February 2 at Kilmeedy at 7.30 pm.
Sunday, February 3 at Feenagh at 10 am.
Jim Lyons CD's are available at Glenwilliam creamery and Snows shop.
Sympathy is extended to Seán O Gorman and family Kilmeedy, Tadhg O Gorman, his wife Nora and family in Feenagh on the death of their niece Mrs Patricia Herlihy RIP, Ballyagran. Extended sympathy to her cousins and the entire Herlihy and O Gorman families.
17/08/2018 (no Draw weather poor) 24/08/2018 -Joe Carr Barna €206.
23/11/2018 Richard Stack NCW €369, 30/11/2018 Pat Condon NCW, €205.
Thank you to all who support or help in any way with our fundraising 5050 draw it is very much appreciated.
The first lecture organised by the Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society for the new year will be held in Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick on 28 January 2019, in room T .1. 17 Tara Building Revival in Ireland' at 8 pm. The lecture will be about 'AWN Pugin and the Gothic Revival in Ireland'. Augustus W N Pugin (1812-1852) shaped Gothic architecture in Ireland, leaving his mark on landmark churches and other buildings across Ireland. Although Pugin did little work in Co. Limerick, he was proceeded by other architects who worked in the Gothic style in Limerick, notably the Pains and the Fogerty's, and his influence can be seen in his work in Adare and throughout Co Limerick in the work of J. J. McCarthy and other architects.
The lecturer will be (Rev Canon Professor) Patrick Comerford, who is priest-in-charge of the Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of Parishes and Canon Precentor of Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick and Saint Flannan's Cathedral, Ennis, Co. Clare. He is a former Adjunct Assistant Professor in Trinity College Dublin and for many years lectured in Anglicanism, Liturgy and Church History at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. He has been cataloguing Pugin's work in Ireland for years.
Due to change in the financial year, all ICA fees were due before December 31 2018. If anyone still wants to join, please pay your fees to Mary Cronin before the end of January. The first Guild meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 8 pm.
To celebrate 90 years of Education, The Board of Management of Kilmeedy National school would like to extend an open invitation to visit the school on Friday 25 January from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Past pupils, past members of staff and prospective parents and their children are especially welcome. Please join us on Friday 25 for a cup of tea for this special community event.


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Q: How to allow the user to logged in a new fb account while another is logged in I am using facebook api. I want to fetch user data from facebook. User can add register multiple Facebook accounts at a time.
My problem is:
If the user logged in once in a Facebook account and want to add another account. It do not logged out automatically from the existed account.
I want to logged out the user from existed logged in page and redirect it to the Facebook login page

A: Use the javascript api call:
FB.logout(function(response) {
  alert("user is now logged out");
});

If you are using the PHP-SDK
header("Location: " . $facebook->getLogoutUrl(array('next'=>"http://domain.com/wheretoredirectafterlogout.html")));

A: You can call the FB.logout function and then call the FB.login function directly after, e.g.
function logout_and_login() {
  FB.logout(function(response) {
    FB.login( function() {
      // do something
    });
  });
}

Then you can add the function to a button / link as needed.


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All workplaces need two primary things to function.
1) The processes by which the work gets done.
2) The people who perform the processes.
By this point, you, the reader, are probably thinking 'Yeah, I knew that!' But follow this line of thinking for a minute and a very common mistake will be revealed.
Supervisors are subject to human nature. Human nature dictates that we react to the squeaky wheel and ignore the quiet one. Processes are squeaky wheels. You see, we measure processes and the results of processes much more often than we do the people of our business. Most organizations measure business results daily (or even hourly) but only measure their people at annual reviews. This constant measuring of processes becomes the blinders that prevent us from seeing that the problem might just be a disengaged employee or team.
I have a cousin who works for a large telecommunications corporation. She shared with me her experiences with two different supervisors. Both supervisors held weekly coaching sessions with their employees, her included. The coaching sessions centered around listening to recorded customer service calls. You might be familiar with this if you've ever called a customer service line and heard the announcement that "this call may be recorded for quality assurance." And as a reminder, the process here is the service call, and the person, obviously is the call-center employee providing the service call.
The first supervisor would pause the recorded file every so often and tell the employee how they had approached something poorly and how they should approach it differently next time. It was a very one-sided conversation with the supervisor doing all the talking and employee nodding quietly in compliance. He was approaching their calls as processes that could be improved with a different word here and a different phrase there – the people speaking those words and phrases were simply interchangeable word-machines in his eyes. If they couldn't do a good service call, he would find someone who could. When people quit the team (which was often) he rarely saw it coming.
When the second supervisor would pause the recording, he would ask the employee, "tell me why you approached the problem this way?" and a dialogue would begin. He spent more time asking questions and listening than he did talking. He was measuring his employees in these conversations. He was assessing their knowledge, their training, their engagement, their desires to perform, their abilities to perform… This is a difficult kind of measuring. It's much easier to look at calls per hour or sales per shift and see a number. To measure people, supervisors must engage and interact as human beings. By the end of the coaching sessions, his employees most often ended up coaching themselves by offering their own suggested changes in behavior. Occasionally he would ask "may I suggest something?" After getting permission, he would offer his approach to the scenario at hand. These offerings were received with enthusiasm. His employees knew that he understood them and they trusted him in return.
It probably doesn't need to be said, but my cousin liked the second supervisor much better; in fact, she had retracted a letter of resignation when he came on board to replace the first supervisor.
Today's American business culture focuses on measuring processes. The most effective leaders know this and balance it out by having meaningful dialogues with the people they lead to measure their engagement, their knowledge, and their desire to perform. They focus on the person and they empower the person to take care of the process. The best leaders focus on the quiet wheel.


The archetype Hugh Grant romance, Four Weddings made British romantic comedies a massive international success. The robust cast represent the classy, well-spoken members of British society. It also contains some American, for a little contrast.
Continuing the Four Weddings vibe, Love Actually is an ensemble film - meaning it has a vast range of characters. Contains various English accents and some well-spoken Irish (from Liam Neeson).
The opposite extreme to Four Weddings, the film that started a modern movement of British gangster comedies, Lock Stock… has a range of horrible people talking in a range of dirty London accents. Plus two from Liverpool.
Dealing with the depressed industrial communities, The Full Monty is both a charming comedy and an effective portrait of 80s' Sheffield.
Another gritty look at 80s England, this film has a mix of midlands accents and one very strong Liverpool accent. Shane Meadows' other films contain further midlands accents, Dead Man's Shoes is a particularly good dark comedy.
A history lesson in music, 24 Hour Party People charts the success of the Manchester music scene in the 70s. Steve Coogan, the star, may not be entirely representative of Northern accents, but the supporting cast certainly are.
Again the lead's not Scottish, but the fine supporting cast are, and it's an epic historical tale. Aside from watching it for the Scottish, it's worth watching for Patrick McGoohan as the wicked king of England.
Madcap, brutal and good fun, Trainspotting will really test your ability to understand the Scottish accent. For something a little softer, you might consider other films starring Ewan McGregor, where he's allowed to use his own accent. Like A Life Less Ordinary.
Solid Irish accents from the two leads, and a London accent from Ralph Fiennes as a bonus. And a great, quirky film.


This week, we pushed some code that fixed a few issues: Fixed Rise of the Runelords module, which was failing to create the campaign data when making a new game. D&D 5e by Roll20 Sheet: Encode Thoughts now works in the Charactermancer Leveler. If you haven't read the road map , check it out here. Looking for previous release notes? Read the full list on the wiki , or check out the most recent note .


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wars, spaces and bodies
Droning on
Posted on October 27, 2012 by Derek Gregory
Here's a selection of recent reports on drone strikes from around the web plus commentary:
Craig Whitlock completes the Washington Post's three-part series on 'Permanent War' – started by Greg Miller's report on the US 'disposition matrix' for targeted killing – with a remarkable account of what he calls 'the US military's first permanent drone war base' at Camp Lemonnier, just (barely) outside Djibouti City. It's 'the busiest Predator drone base outside the Afghan war zone', from which Predators are launched around the clock, sixteen times a day, to conduct missions in Somalia and Yemen. Nominally overseen by US Africa Command (AFRICOM) – 'the primary base of operations for US Africa Command in the Horn of Africa' – Whitlock mades it clear that it's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that calls the shots. What is remarkable about Whitlock's report is his artful piecing together of a jigsaw of information from construction solicitations, contracts and plans, submissions to Congress, planning memoranda, Air Force journals, and Predator accident investigation reports, some in the public domain and countless others obtained through FOI requests. More on drone wars in East Africa from Somalia Report (which also provided the image of Camp Lemonnier below) and on what David Axe calls 'America's secret drone war in Africa' from Wired's Danger Room.
Alex Kane at Mondoweiss reprises the Columbia report on Counting Drone Strike Deaths issued earlier this month – which is sharply critical of the estimates of civilian casualties in Pakistan reported by both the New America Foundation and the Long War Journal and endorses those provided by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism – and then follows up with an interview with Naureen Shah, Acting Director of the Human Rights Clinic and the Associate Director of the Counter-terrorism and Human Rights Project at Columbia:
… all of these estimates, including our estimate, are just based on news reports, news reports filed in that region where journalists have very limited access to the scene of the crime, if you will.
It's not like journalists, for the most part, are going to where the drone strike happened and talking to witnesses, doing a bit of, almost a forensic analysis, being able to see what happened with their own eyes. This [Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas] is a region where few journalists, even Pakistani journalists, can really get there. We're talking about media reports that are often based on the word of anonymous, Pakistani government officials who have an interest in telling a story of, "drone strikes kill only militants." We're not going to see anonymous government officials admitting that many of the people killed are civilians. So it's a stacked deck.'
All true. But there is a striking geographical absence from the kerfuffle over civilian casualties caused by drone strikes: Afghanistan. The situation there is no less fraught: as the map below shows, journalists in Afghanistan also work in highly dangerous circumstances. (More on the map here and more from the Committee to Protect Journalists here).
The politico-technical matrix is also more complicated: in Afghanistan Predators and Reapers are part of an extended network in which aircraft are linked to ground forces and through which remote operators carry out persistent surveillance while, on occasion, leaving attacks to conventional strike aircraft (though they certainly also launch them from their own platforms too). This makes it more difficult to disentangle drones from the wider apparatus of military violence – but why on earth should they be? Afghanistan is part of a recognised 'war zone' – but does that make civilian casualties there any less grievable than those that take place across the border?
In the Mondoweiss interview Shah draws attention to the perpetual fear induced by the persistent presence of the drones:
We're talking about planes hovering over head for hours every single day, and really the casualty of that, the human casualty, is peace of mind for the people who live there. We see reports that parents don't want to send their kids out to school, that people don't know what's going to get them killed by a drone strike. Imagine living in that kind of fear, and we're talking about communities that are already ravaged by war.
For more on this, turn to UK-based Medact's report on Drones: the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war, also issued earlier this month. Free download here.
Women are disproportionately affected by drones. What little control they have over their lives is further eroded by a weapon they know could strike at any time. Their lives and those of the children they try to protect are under constant threat. While men can sublimate their grief and anger to some degree by becoming fighters – one of the terrible consequences of drone warfare – women have no such outlet. And if their menfolk are killed in a drone strike, they may have to endure the continuing presence of the drone just overhead.
The report is a survey of surveys, short and to the point, but it adds a British dimension to the debate – important at a time when the RAF is doubling its Reaper fleet and moving control from Creech AFB in Nevada to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire – and too briefly brings Israel's use of drones in Gaza into the general discussion. That last point desperately needs to be sharpened, given the global prominence of the Israeli drone industry and the filiations between US and Israeli practices of targeted killing. Another depressing blank on the drone debate map.
(I hadn't heard of Medact before, but it claims to speak out 'for countless people across the globe whose health, wellbeing and access to proper health care are severely compromised by the effects of war, poverty and environmental damage', and it's associated with the journal Medicine, conflict and survival – a source which deserves close attention).
Haymarket Books has just published (pb and e-book versions) a collection of Nick Turse's columns on drones and Obama's other signature modes of warfare, The changing face of empire: see here for an adapted version of the conclusion (extract below) and here for the book.
Several times this year, [General Martin Dempsey], the other joint chiefs, and regional war-fighting commanders have assembled at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico to conduct a futuristic war-game-meets-academic-seminar about the needs of the military in 2017. There, a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out so the Pentagon's top brass could shuffle around the planet — provided they wore those scuff-preventing shoe covers — as they thought about "potential U.S. national military vulnerabilities in future conflicts" (so one participant told the New York Times). The sight of those generals with the world underfoot was a fitting image for Washington's military ambitions, its penchant for foreign interventions, and its contempt for (non-U.S.) borders and national sovereignty.
And lastly, on an almost lighter note, Teo Ballvé at Territorial Masquerades has an artful post on 'Writing like a drone'. Following up on the 'New Aesthetic', he describes a robotic graffiti writer that can write text massages 'on such high risk/high profile targets as the U.S. Capitol Building' and 'can be deployed in any highly controlled space or public event from a remote location.' It's the remoteness that presumably prompts Teo to call this a 'graffiti drone', but there are two other (remote) connections to the real thing.
The project comes from the Institute for Applied Autonomy, which also hosts Trevor Paglen's captivating (sic) Terminal Air, a satirical version of the CIA's extraordinary rendition flights – the 'capture' side of the kill/capture regime that uses drones for the 'kill'.
Former US Ambassador Kurt Volker adds a gloss to this in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post following up the 'Permanent War' reports:
More people have been killed in U.S. drone attacks than were ever incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. Can we be certain there were no cases of mistaken identity or innocent deaths? Those detained at Guantanamo at least had a chance to establish their identities, to be reviewed by an oversight panel and, in most cases, to be released. Those who remain at Guantanamo have been vetted and will ultimately face some form of legal proceeding. Those killed in drone strikes, whoever they were, are gone. Period.
What he doesn't quite say is that most of those incarcerated at Guantanamo were, on the US government's own admission, never al Qaeda fighters. More on the implications of these intelligence failures for the US targeted killing programme from the Stanford/NYU report on Living under drones here (scroll down).
Finally, back to Theo's 'graffiti drone': one of several synonyms for graffiti writing – particularly at night – is bombing…
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My mom passed away April 2, 2017 from a brain aneurism. The previous day I was at her house picking up my son. I dropped him off with my husband then went to work a graveyard shift at a coffee shop. The regular coffee drinkers were telling me about the guy that bought my old house which my mom gave to me but my husband and I returned to her so she could sell it. They told me he hanged himself in the backyard. I thought they were playing an April fools joke on me but they kept saying nope it's not the first anymore. I got chills and was creeped out. I left work at 5am. I drove by my moms house on the way home. I thought about stopping to tell her about the guy at the house because I knew she would have some thoughts on it. Then I thought nah I don't want to wake her up. When I got in front of her house I noticed her bedroom light was on. Then I realized the flashing meant it was the tv. I thought she must have fallen asleep with the tv on. And I went home. My husband went to work at 6am. The kids were awake so I turned on cartoons and dozed off on the couch. For some reason my husband had a police scanner he just randomly would listen to. It was turned on and right near my head. I slept through the cartoons and scanner. At around 8am I wake up from my sleep because I hear the scanner say ambulance run and my moms address. I grab the kids jump in the car drive over. My dad tells me they found her passed out on her bedroom floor. Sometime, 2011. I'm working for a video game company remotely from another state. Igeton calls for meetings and a coworker keeps picking on my voice. She jokingly demands proof of age because I sound like a child to her. I'm actually older than her so I joke back that I'm going to call her mom if she doesn't stop. She doesn't stop so I call her mom whenever I'm talking to her. Few months later I end up relocating to be near the company for a job promotion. We meet in person. I still call her mom. March 2013, we are about to do a major relaunch on a game. We are in the conference room looking at the calendar trying to pick a date. I say anything except April 2 is ok for me. My boss says what's April 2nd? As I'm saying my moms death day, my coworker that I call mom says "my birthday". The entire room looks at us confused and thinks I'm joking calling her mom when she's obviously not my mom. I thought she was joking as if she replaced my mom when she died kind of joke. Once we realized neither of us were joking we all had goosebumps. 2014, she married a guy that shares a birthdate with her fathers death date. 2017, I remarried a guy that shares her fathers full name.


This English antique Chippendale style chest of drawers is in good condition. It consists of 7 graduating drawers each with wonderful lion mask brass handles. It has blind fretwork carving along the cornice. It stands on bracket feet.


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AcDec finishes second in Region IX competition, advances to state
Aparnna Manoj, Managing Editor|January 30, 2017
AcDec team poses with award after winning second place in region competition.
The Academic Decathlon team successfully reached the finals of the region nine competition at Coppell High School held on Feb. 20 and 21. The team placed second during the competition, competing against other Region IX schools, including Marcus, Creekview, Lewisville, and Newman Smith.
"It was our best finish overall," AcDec coach Donna Friend said. "We have some tough competitors there. We've never beaten Marcus or Coppell, and [during the region competition] we did both of that."
Winning second place in the regional competition helped the AcDec team to place 11th in the state of Texas. The state AcDec competition will be held Feb. 24-26 in Lubbock.
"We're definitely better," senior and captain Claire Boschert said. "I don't know if it's because we have more talented students or if we've learned how to prepare better. I remember my freshman year on the team, we didn't spend a lot of time outside of class."
The AcDec team started preparation for the competition during the summer. They met in the library once a week for an hour and a half and were able to study the material early in order to prepare better.
"The way it works, you get material you have to spend time with on your own," Boschert said. "But we all spend a lot of time together coming up with some stupid mnemonics that managed to help remember the details. It's just that balance between helping each other and becoming familiar with the material."
According to Friend, AcDec strives to better a student's ability to retain the information they learn on the topic given to them for the competition. During the competition, they go through a variety of competitions: art, music, social science, science, economics, literature and mathematics.
"That level of experience is really important as a team," Friend said. "They are a naturally gifted group. When you look at the B/C average students, even though their report cards don't show their intellect, they are still some of the most smartest kids, because they love learning. So it's not about what their grades say about them; this group is just naturally gifted. A fantastic thing is that we found them and they get along. Me and [AcDec coach Travis] Zuber get along really well with them. They are my family, and it's really fun to be apart of their family."
The team consists of nine people, split into groups of three. These groups are determined by the grades they make in the past years in school. Having a well-rounded team in competitions gives them an advantage over other teams.
"I'd say a strength is that we're a strong team overall," senior Emma Hauck said. "A problem that a lot of teams will run into is that the varsity part of the team isn't really strong. So the varsity kids are the ones averaging C's, so the kids on that team are significantly less strong than the kids in the A or B group. Most of our C kids are really good, and our team is pretty solid, so that goes a long way."
The team has improved their performance throughout the years by competing and studying their material earlier on in the year.
"The [returning members have] done better and better throughout the years and that's a motivation for new students to do well," Friend said. "Just knowing we're not rookies anymore and knowing what to expect and how to prepare for it, just gives us a head start."
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Home/business/'Hard reality' for non-totaleros
'Hard reality' for non-totaleros
computeropruimingDecember 27, 2022
Juarez City.- After spending the December holidays, some 448,400 users of bank credit cards and department stores in the state of Chihuahua, who only pay the minimum or a part of their monthly payment, will face a harsh reality between January and February of next year, since they will pay higher interest on unpaid balances.
In the state of Chihuahua, just over 1,200,000 bank and departmental credit cards are active, of which 40.7 percent do not pay the full monthly amounts required by the institution, reported the president of the State Banking Center of Chihuahua, Hector Sada Marquez.
He pointed out that, without covering the entire capital that is requested, the credit card user will be directly affected by an increase in their monthly payment.
More rate hikes coming
During the current year, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) increased the reference interest rate (TIIE) by up to 500 base points during the current year, something not seen since 2008, to place it at 10.50%, which follows the behavior of the cost of money lent by banks and departmental houses.
The financial analysts and the members of the Board of Banxico themselves indicated that what follows for monetary policy is that Banxico will continue raising its interest rate, still following the trajectory of the interest rate of the Central Bank of the United States, which would increase its rate another 50 basis points in January and 25 points in March, with a terminal rate of 5.25%.
Banxico would do the same and in the same magnitude, so its rate would rise to 11.25% in March. I would leave it constant for a semester and start its decline process towards the fourth quarter, closing 2023 at 10.50%.
The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of users of Financial Services warned that, given the increase in reference interest rates, which is related to the debt that is charged in addition to the loan, it is necessary to try to avoid indebtedness and not compromise future income.
He specified that, in case of having a credit card, which is generally governed with variable interest rates, it is very important that it be used responsibly.
He advised to first evaluate the ability to pay and debt, which should not be more than 30 percent of income, so it is better to make responsible purchases.
It is essential to know, then, if the purchase is linked to the TIIE and that it is now on an upward trend and, therefore, more and more interest will be paid.
'Families get more into debt this season'
Francisco Santini Ramos, president of the Center for Social Responsibility for Sustainable Development (Persé), said that, at this time, a large part of families go into debt to meet their basic needs and have a dignified life.
Apart from covering the basic food basket, families need other important things such as transportation, clothing, housing, services and a small part for fun, but there are a large number of families that cannot cover this expense with the income they currently have. , and that is why they resort to over-indebtedness, mainly with credit cards from banks or department stores.
He pointed out that these have a high interest cost and more at this time, where inflation has led to extremely high rates.
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I looked at different edges in the photo, particularly the cab car, using my grid lines in Lightroom. I'm not seeing a lean here. Is there a different reference point I should be using? Are there any other issues I need to take note of?
I'm guessing they meant to click a lighting based rejection? RP isn't a huge fan of lacking side light.
Kinda high sun also. I like the reflection effect, maybe if you crop it down to emphasize that.


There are several different methods to transfer text or ink to wood. I have used the wax paper transfer method which works well if you have a large amount of text. But since you print on wax paper, and then bring water into the equation, you run the risk of smudges and smears.
For a recent project, I only had one word I needed transferred to wood. I wanted to write "HERBS" on the side of my DIY new herb garden box. I never trust my freestyle handwriting for this kind of job and without a stencil I was wracking my brain as to how I was going to do this. That's when I remembered a recent technique I had pinned that involved using newsprint.
It's really a very easy method to transfer text to wood if you don't have a lot of text or if you have some kind of intricate design.
On your computer, use a word processing or graphics program - or if you're among the PowerPoint faithful, like me, use that - to creating your wording. Adjust the font style and size to your liking ensuring that it fit on your piece of wood. It doesn't matter what color you print because this inkjet print is not actually going to transfer onto the wood.
After you have your texted print, cover the entire surface of the wood with a piece of newspaper. Try to use an area that has a lot of tiny print such as the classifieds. I used this colored ad and it worked out fine.
On top of the newsprint, position the paper that has your text on it, to your liking.
Using a sharp pen, trace just the outline of your text, pressing down firmly. Be careful not to move the printed sheet or the newspaper.
Now, take a sharpie marker or some paint (if you have a steady hand) and trace over the text. I actually used a regular black sharpie marker to color in my lettering.
After I filled all the letters in, I lightly distressed them with sand paper. Since my herb garden box is going to be outside, I seal the entire thing with a waterproof sealer. But if you are keeping your wood sign inside, you can choose another type of sealer - like acrylic - to protect your work.


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Il campionato di Serie A di pallacanestro femminile 1979-1980 è stato il quarantanovesimo organizzato in Italia.

La formula rimane invariata: le sedici società vengono divise in due gironi da otto, con partite di andata e ritorno. Le prime quattro di ogni girone si classificano per la Poule Scudetto, le ultime quattro per la Poule Salvezza. La prima classificata vince il titolo, le ultime tre retrocedono in Serie B. Quest'anno, si rende necessario uno spareggio per l'assegnazione dello scudetto.

La Fiat Torino vince il suo quinto titolo (secondo consecutivo), dopo aver vinto il Girone A di prima fase e lo spareggio contro l'Algida Roma per la supremazia della Poule Scudetto.

Prima fase

Girone A

Girone B

Seconda fase

Poule Scudetto

Poule Salvezza

Spareggio per il titolo

Verdetti
 Campione d'Italia:  Fiat Torino
 Formazione: Silvia Daprà, Roberta Faccin, Lidia Gorlin, Orietta Grossi, Chiara Guzzonato, Giuseppina Montanari, Sandra Palombarini, Mariangela Piancastelli, Wanda Sandon, Rosanna Vergnano. Allenatore: Bruno Arrigoni.
 Retrocessioni in Serie A2: Pescara, Piedone San Giovanni Valdarno e Corvo Palermo.

Bibliografia
 Almanacco illustrato del basket 1990. Modena, Panini, 1989.

1980 A
Pallacanestro nel 1979
Pallacanestro nel 1980


Those of secondary school age have their own youth teaching class during Sunday meetings.
A monthly 'get together' takes place on the last Saturday of the month to allow the young people to develop their relationships with each other and to facilitate further spiritual input into their lives.
The youth are encouraged to attend local Christian events and the annual Youth Retreat held at Calvary York.


Motel 6 is paying a $12 million to settle a lawsuit after seven of its Washington locations gave immigration authorities access to guest lists, according to the state attorney general's office.
At least nine Washington state residents were deported after the hotels provided the information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents over two years, according to a press release from Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office.
Nearly 80,000 people who stayed at those Motel 6 locations between Feb. 1, 2015 and Sept. 17, 2017 could be eligible for compensation, the office announced. The guests who were questioned, arrested or deported could be eligible for a greater compensation.
More information about filing a claim is available from the Civil Rights Division of the Washington State Attorney General's Office. The deadline to file is Oct. 31, 2019.
The settlement was reached after Ferguson's office sued Motel 6 last year. The office claimed that the hotel chain had violated the Consumer Protection Act and the Washington Law Against Discrimination. As part of the settlement, Motel 6 employees nationwide must contact the company lawyers before disclosing guest information, and the chain has to train its employees on proper procedures and provide a hotline that employees can call for questions.
Tags: Bob Ferguson, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Washington State Attorney General.


Making your own pasta is the perfect way to spend a free Saturday afternoon, and use up all the spare '00' flour left over from making pizza dough (shameless recipe plug).
Homemade pasta sounds terrifyingly complicated, but in truth all it takes is flour, eggs and a little bit of elbow grease… okay, and a pasta maker, although you could definitely try and do it the old fashioned way with a bit more elbow grease and a very big rolling pin.
Place the flour on a clean surface, for small portions of pasta you may be able to use a large mixing bowl.
Make a well in the middle of the flour, ensuring it is large enough to fit required number of eggs into without them spilling out, and crack the eggs into the well.
Now start the work and knead the dough until it's smooth and shiny. Unlike pastry dough you don't need to be afraid of overworking it. The more you knead the dough, the more developed the gluten will be and the better the pasta! Once kneaded, wrap the dough tightly in cling film and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
Now its pasta machine time! (You'll need a lot of space for this bit, especially if you're making enough pasta for more than three people, you also may need to recruit a sous-chef to help feed the pasta into the machine) Flour a clean surface, and clamp your pasta machine to the worktop. Set the machine to the thickest setting and begin feeding the dough through the machine. Lightly flour the dough and repeat on the next setting. Keep going until you reach the narrowest setting.
Finally, cut your pasta into the shape you want, make sure you do this quickly before the pasta starts to dry. For pastas such as linguine or tagliatelle, boil the pasta in water for a few minutes, or cut into rectangles and fill to make tortellini or ravioli before cooking.
I love pasta! Thanks for the info.


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News TRAI
Network Capacity Fee not mandatory for more than one
by Techi Yogiz on 08:24 0 Comment
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has clarified that the network capacity fee (NCF) is not mandatory for subscribers who own more than one TV connection in a household. A number of Direct-to-Home
(DTH) and cable TV users had raised concerns over likely high expenditure for multiple connections under new rules.
Under its new broadcast framework which came into effect starting this month, TRAI did not make it clear if subscribers would have to pay same NCF fee for each and every connection they have in a household. Now, the regulating body has clarified that the NCF is not mandatory for consumers with multiple TV connections.
"The regulation does not prohibit the service providers to offer a discount or lower network capacity fee for second or additional connections in the same location or home," a TRAI statement said.
Commenting over the discount given on NCF by distribution platform operators, TRAI said that "such discount shall be uniform in the target market area of respective TV channel distributor" and the DPO (Distribution Platform Operator) shall declare it on their platform."
It also clarified that the regulation, as previously stated, provides a capping of Rs 130 as NCF for 100 standard definitions (SD) channels and Rs 20 for the slab of next 25 SD channels.
While the new framework aims to reduce DTH prices by giving consumers the freedom to choose and pay only for channels they actually watch. While many consumers have reported a decrease in their monthly TV bill, a large number of consumers feel it has only escalated the bill amount.
TRAI, however, believes that DTH prices will come down in 3 months. It says that the new mandate promotes consumer choice and will also provide a fair competition among broadcasters. The regulating body says that is only after a few months of market play that real prices will be discovered.
Under the new rules, consumers will also have the freedom to change their channel choice at any time, choosing to add or delete a channel from their pack.
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True Ashok tree is Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde syn. S. indica auct. non Linn. with medicinal value
By Ashwani Kumar | January 12th 2011 11:37 PM | Print | E-mail
Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde syn. S. indica auct. non Linn. Caesalpiniaceae (Fabaceae) Bark. Distribution Area It occurs almost throughout India up to an altitude of 750 m. in the central and the eastern Himalayas and the Khasi, Garo and Lushai hills; it is also found in the Andaman Islands. Common Uses . The bark is bitter , astringent, sweet, refrigerant,anthelmintic, Styptic, Stomachic, constipating, febrigue and demulcent. It is useful in dyspepsia, fever, dipisa, burning sensation, visceromegaly, colic, ulcers menorrhagia, metropathy, leccorrhoea and pimples. The flowers are considered to be uterine tonic and are used in vitiated conditions of pitta, syphilis, cervical adenitis,hyperdipsia, burning sensation, haemorrhoids, dysentery, scabies in children and inflammation. The dried flowers are used in diabetes and haemorrhagic dysentery and seeds are used for treating bone fractures, stangury and vesical calculi. Employed in drug formulations prescribed in uterine affections, especially menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and stone formation in kidney and bladder. The main preparations employing Ashoka are Ashokarishta and Ashokaghrita. Bark is reported to cure biliousness, dyspepsia, dysentery, colic, piles, ulcers and pimples. Leaves posses blood purifying properties and their juice mixed with cumin seeds is used for stomach-ache. Flowers, pounded in water are used in haemorrhagic dysentery and the dried flowers in diabetes. Flowers are considered to be an excellent uterine tonic. They are also considered useful in biliousness and syphilis. In Assam, fruits are chewed as a substitute for area-nuts. Pods are reported to make a very good forage for cattle. Similar crude drugs Stem bark of Polyalthea longifolia Benth. Hook. (Fam. Annonaceae) commonly planted in parks and gardens and also known as asoka tree is the most common adulterant of the drug.
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Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde true Ashok tree of Ramayana dried flowers are used in diabetes and haemorrhagic dysentery and seeds are used for treating bone fractures, stangury and vesical calculi.
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'Good manager' Benitez not the right appointment for Everton – Anichebe
By Taiye Taiwo
The Toffees are enduring a poor run of results in the English top-flight with their last win dating back to September
Former Nigeria striker Victor Anichebe believes Rafael Benitez is not the right manager to succeed Carlo Ancelotti at Everton.
The ex-Liverpool coach returned to Merseyside on a three-year contract in June but he has struggled to help the Toffees record wins as they currently sit 14th on the Premier League table.
With just four league victories so far this season, Everton are enduring an eight-game winless run and their last win was against Norwich City (2-0) on September 25.
Anichebe recently watched his former club suffer a 4-1 defeat to city rivals Liverpool in Wednesday's Merseyside Derby and he feels the fans are not behind the Spanish manager.
"There's no doubt that Benitez is a good manager. He's a really, really top manager," Anichebe told Sky Sports.
"But he's not the right appointment for Everton. It's just as simple as that. The fans will never take to him, they'll never ever take to him.
"I don't really know where they're going to go from here. Yes they have missed Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Andre Gomes and some top players but they're still not going to take to him even if they get some good results.
"If you look at how it is right now, you talk about culture, there's just nothing there.
"The fans don't really seem to be supporting the manager at all.
"It's only going to get worse and the atmosphere yesterday was probably the worst I've ever seen it."
Everton won their two Premier League games against Arsenal last season and they will be looking to turn their form around when they host Mikel Arteta's side for a league fixture on Monday.
Nigeria's Alex Iwobi is the only African star in Benitez's squad but he was an unused substitute at Goodison Park on Wednesday.
Iwobi has made 11 Premier League appearances this campaign with a goal to his name and it remains to be seen if he will be called upon to face his boyhood club.


An annual celebration of music, arts and dance is returning to Wimbledon for another year.
This will be the third year that the Festival of Joy and Happiness has hit town, and the free-for-all event is part of the worship for the Hindu mythical goddess of arts and knowledge, Saraswati Puja.
Running from 5pm to 9pm on February 10, the event will be curated by Indian classical vocalist Srimati Chandra Chakraborty.
The festival will also feature Chakraborty's three senior disciples Anuja Pradhan, Satarupa Ghosh and Dr Priya Bhagwat along with a rendition of Bharatnatyam dance by Sharmishtha Pandit and poetry reading by an Argentine poet Gaby Sambuccetti, Urdu poet Jenumz Naqvi and Ayub Aulia.
Musical promoters Saudha is hosting the event and its director, Ahmed Kaysher, said: ''The festival is shaping as a true community event in Wimbledon with an ver-flowing attendance from South Asian, Latin American, African, European and almost every cultural community.
"The event was hugely successful last two years in terms of our aim to create new audience of classical music and other art forms through community festival.
''Apart from the devotional side of the event, this helps us introduce the ordinary audiences with the post-modern presentations of art and music we work on.
The group also highlighted Tagore's session which they say "entails devotional compositions of Tagore, the first Nobel laureate in literature from the East by a prominent Tagore singer Dr Imtiaz Ahmed and his group Anadadhara."
The festival will take place at Merton Arts Space, and to register click here.


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Biden Cabinet members among 72 infected with COVID at event
April 11, 2022 April 11, 2022 WND News Services
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (Video screenshot)
Despite government vaccination mandates, members of the Biden administration and reporters were among the 72 prominent people who tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C.
The infected included Attorney General Merrick Garland; Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo; New York Mayor Eric Adams; Reps. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the Intelligence Committee; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director, Jamal Simmons; first lady Jill Biden's press secretary, Michael LaRosa; and Valerie Biden Owens, the president's sister, NBC News reported.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has been fully vaccinated and boosted, tested positive on Friday, NBC noted. His office emphasized that the secretary experienced only mild symptoms.
Last week, the spokesman for Nancy Pelosi, who was not at the Gridiron event, said the "fully vaccinated and boosted" House speaker was asymptomatic after testing positive for COVID-19 and "is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided."
The ability of the vaccines to reduce the severity of illness has been the last argument of promoters of the shots, after acknowledgements by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and others that they have failed to stop infection and transmission. However, the dominant omicron variant and a recently discovered subvariant have presented with mild symptoms among both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
And there is government data indicating there are more infections as well as deaths and hospitalizations among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
Meanwhile, Biden's COVID-19 tsar, Dr. Ashish Jha, said the federal government is not "excessively concerned" about the new omicron subvariant.
"We don't have to let it dictate our lives anymore," he said.
CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen expressed that view in a column for the Washington Post titled "The Gridiron Club outbreak shows what living with covid-19 looks like."
In a series of tweets promoting her column, she said that accepting that COVID-19 infections "will be part of our lives doesn't mean that we are giving up."
"Rather, it means acknowledging that we finally have the tools to live with it, and that people will make different choices from our own."
In contrast, Mother Jones reporter Tom Philpott's wrote a piece titled The Gridiron Club Superspreader Event Shows We Can't Just Go Back to Normal."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Last year, America's doctors, nurses and paramedics were celebrated as frontline heroes battling a fearsome new pandemic. Today, under Joe Biden, tens of thousands of these same heroes are denounced as rebels, conspiracy theorists, extremists and potential terrorists. Along with massive numbers of police, firemen, Border Patrol agents, Navy SEALs, pilots, air-traffic controllers, and countless other truly essential Americans, they're all considered so dangerous as to merit termination, their professional and personal lives turned upside down due to their decision not to be injected with the experimental COVID vaccines. Biden's tyrannical mandate threatens to cripple American society – from law enforcement to airlines to commercial supply chains to hospitals. It's already happening. But the good news is that huge numbers of "yesterday's heroes" are now fighting back – bravely and boldly. The whole epic showdown is laid out as never before in the sensational October issue of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION: 'We will not comply!' COVID-19 power grab ignites bold new era of national defiance."
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24 of the Best Dance Movies of All Time
Tuesday the 19th of February, 2019
It's a well-known fact that dance movies are the best kind of movies. Real life would be so much better if everyone broke out into spontaneous, highly choreographed dance at any given moment. From the ever-popular Honey, to the nostalgic Billy Elliot, the classic Saturday Night Fever and the electric Strictly Ballroom, we've compiled a list of the very best dance movies of all time.
So, if you're planning on embarking on a dance movie binge, look no further! Plus, you have our permission to test out any new moves on the Alma de Cuba dance floor!
We had to begin our list with this solid staple in the dance film genre. Starring Jessica Alba as wannabe choreographer, Honey Daniels, this film follows her journey from teaching hip hop at a local community centre to starring in a world famous music video. Mekhi Phifer and Joy Bryant co-star as the boyfriend and best friend, respectively, who help keep our fledgling choreographer grounded. Mrs Elliot is also in it, which is a good enough reason for anyone to watch!
The classic story of a small town girl looking to make it big in the city, Burlesque is undoubtedly one of the best dance movies on the list. Starring not only Christina Aguilera, but also Cher and Kristen Bell, this film is filled with drama, divas and more diamonds than you could ever imagine. So, if you're looking for a dance movie with sass and a vampy edge, Burlesque is perfect.
Strictly Ballroom
Next up in our guide to the best dance movies is legendary film maker Baz Luhrmann's debut masterpiece, Strictly Ballroom. Over the top and full of frills, this classic film sees flamboyant dancer, Scott Hastings partner with a left-footed local girl who is just waiting to blossom on the dance floor. As the prestigious Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship looms, she goes through a seamless transformation, Scott's hair takes on a life of its own, and a cover of "Time After Time" serves as their love song.
Possibly one of the best known and popular dance movies of all time, Step Up obviously deserves a spot on this list. The film that made us all fall in love with Channing Tatum, this classic movie expertly fuses ballet and hip hop through the interests of its main characters. This movie also provided the backdrop for Channing's romance with his ex-wife Jenna, romantic at the time…
Save the Last Dance
Another amazing fusion of ballet and hip hop, Save the Last Dance sees darling of 00's teen movies, Julia Stiles take centre stage as a budding professional ballerina. After her mother tragically dies, Julia's character Sara moves to Chicago to live with her father and meets a young man (Sean Patrick Thomas) who shares her love for dancing.
You Got Served
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Centring around dance battles in Los Angeles, You Got Served is an iconic hip hop drama showcasing the amazing moves of Omarion. Serving you a slice of fiercely competitive dance, the film focuses on a contest where the prize is getting to dance on a Lil' Kim video, what's not to love?
As well as being one of the best dance movies of all time, Center Stage is also one of the greatest romantic dramas ever! Featuring everything from Peter Gallagher's eyebrows, a young Zoë Saldana, Olympic gold medallist Ilia Kulik, and a jaw-dropping finale number set to Michael Jackson and Jamiroquai. Come for the fantastic ballet dancing, stay for the inspirational message that you should always dance with your heart. However, we can all agree that her relationship with her dance teacher was totes creepy and way inappropriate.
An absolute classic film and not just in the dance movie category, Bring It On is a must see. Haters will say the film is about cheerleading rather than dancing but we totally disagree. Those people must not have been paying attention, because the whole point of the movie is that cheerleaders don't get enough credit for their sophisticated choreography and fierce athleticism. Team Clovers forever!
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One of the very first and best dance movies, Fame has us all dreaming that we could attend the High School of Performing Arts in NYC. Competition is fierce and talent is sky high, with those making the cut realising that it takes a lot of hard work to become a star! This iconic film is well worth a watch and introduced star, Irene Cara to the film scene.
We can tell by the way you use your walk that you're a fan of Saturday Night Fever, the 1977 blockbuster that made John Travolta a mega-star and brought disco into the mainstream. Not everything about this movie ages well, but John Travolta's dancing is eternal. Saturday Night Fever will go down in history as one of the greatest dance movies ever.
The original was good, but we would argue that the remake was better! With a star-studded cast including Zac Efron, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes and Queen Latifah, Hairspray is a legendary dance movie. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.
If you love flappers, tappers, sequins and all that jazz, look no further than Chicago. It tells the tale of Velma Kelly, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Roxie Hart, Renee Zellweger, two murderesses that find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago. Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture!
This film follows buttoned-up and serious lawyer John Clark, played by Richard Gere, as he looks for something new and exciting in his life. He begins taking dance lessons from Paulina, played by Jennifer Lopez and what ensues is a magical foray into the world of ballroom dance. Not only is it one of the best dance movies ever, it's also one of JLo's best films, too!
This iconic film tells the story of a young ballet dancer who is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. Starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, and Marius Goring, and a whole host of renowned dancers from the ballet world, this iconic film transports you into a magical technicolour dream world. You're in good company if you love this film, as famous filmmakers Brian De Palmaand and Martin Scorsese have named it one of their all-time favourite films too!
Next up is the dark and at times terrifying Black Swan. Natalie Portman plays Nina, a young woman desperate to land the lead role in her ballet company's production of Swan Lake. Throw in an overbearing director, competition in the form of Mila Kunis, and a psychotic mum living vicariously through her daughter, and you've got a big ol' ballet nightmare.
We couldn't compile a best dance movies guide and not include the all-time classic Grease. We got chills and they're multiplying every time we watch this fabulous film. A wholesome exchange student, played by Olivia Newton-John and a leather-clad Danny, John Travolta have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?
If you love this movie as much as us, did you know that Arthouse Hotel, situated just down the road from Alma has a whole room themed around this iconic high school drama? Check it out and book an amazing Grease themed stay. Grease is the word!
Possibly one of the best dance movies on the list, Flashdance follows Alex Owens, a welder by day and burlesque dancer by night. She dreams of becoming a professional ballerina one day, because why not? The soundtrack is also amazing, featuring a whole host of classics including "Maniac", "Flashdance and "What a Feeling." The '80s were truly special.
Forget the remake, the original Footloose is undoubtedly the best version, mainly because of Kevin Bacon. When Ren (Bacon) and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, he is prepared for the adjustment to his new high school. What he isn't prepared for are the local laws – including a ban on dancing! Let's just say, this ban doesn't stop the film being full to the brim of epic dance scenes.
The protagonist and title character, 11-year-old Billy Elliot, could literally dance circles around most of us. Set in England in 1984, the movie follows Billy as he ditches boxing and enrols in a ballet class to follow his real passion. This film has a great message, reminding us that we should always be true to ourselves no matter what, plus, the soundtrack is amazing.
A wonderful tale of the transition in the film industry from silent films to `talkies', this iconic movie follows the careers of Don and Lina. After having been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, they face a new challenge as their next movie is to be made into a musical. Only Don has the voice for the new singing part, which becomes even more evident after Lina still sounds terrible after a lot of practice with a diction coach. Enter Kathy, a bright eyed and bushy tailed aspiring actress, who happens to have the voice of an angel.
The be-all and end-all in our list of the best dance movies, Dirty Dancing is the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman. When she goes on holiday with her family to a picturesque resort, she quickly becomes involved with dance instructor, Johnny Castle, played by the handsome Patrick Swayze. Having the time of her life, the final dance sequence is downright iconic and will make you question why your own partner can't lift you like that on command.
This award-winning musical is a modern day Romeo and Juliet, centred around New York street gangs. On the harsh streets of the upper west side, two gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes complicated when a gang member falls in love with a rival's sister. And, of course, there's more dancing than you can shake a stick at.
Magic Mike offers Channing Tattum lovers yet another dazzlingly dance movie, bursting with choreographed scenes and sexy strip teases! Yes, this is technically a dance movie, because remember: The Kings of Tampa aren't strippers, they're male entertainers. And male entertaining means dancing, to "Pony," or in the case of the whole group, "It's Raining Men." Hallelujah.
Last on our list of the very best dance movies of all time is a sizzling salsa classic. Equal parts dance and romance, this samba drama stars Vanessa Williams as a stuck up ballroom dancer and Chayanne as the free-spirited Rafael Infante. They enter a dance contest together and sparks fly!
Don't forget, you can test out all of your new found moves on the Alma de Cuba dance floor! Why not book a booth for you and your dance partners and really make the most of your night out in Liverpool.
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An astonishing transformation for Gary Oldman into British wartime PM Winston Churchill.
A raft of thespians really made the effort to become unrecognisable for roles in 2016, whether through over-eating (McConaughey), heavy prosthetics (Downton's Dan Stevens for 'Beauty and the Beast') or simply just bad eyebrows (John Travolta in 'The People Vs O.J. Simpson). Here are a few more of the best.


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HPE's GreenLake remade with fresh set of cloud services as biz starts move to aaS future
'Ezmeral' brand added to container platform and machine learning stuff
Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Tue 23 Jun 2020 // 15:00 UTC
HPE is going public with a series of enhancements for its GreenLake Cloud Services, an on-premises managed computing service.
"We take our technology, we take the hardware, we take software – it might be third-party or our software – with our HPEFS financing arm, and with our HPE Pointnext services, and we bring that together and we put that into our customer's environment," said Keith White, general manager of HPE's GreenLake Cloud Services, in an interview with The Register.
"Then we meter every hour, on the hour, for the amount of CPUs or gigabytes or VMs the customer is using. And then we bill them for what they use. Then on the backend, we manage all of that for them."
The GreenLake augmentation brings customers an expanded set of menu items from the self-service HPE GreenLake Central platform, which provides a point-and-click interface for deploying machine learning tasks, containers, VMs, storage, compute, data protection, and networking options, as well as options for learning about pricing and making service trial requests.
The refurbishment brings with it a new software brand, HPE Ezmeral, which describes a suite of software for running, managing, and securing customers' applications and data. The new name means that the HPE Container Platform will now be known as the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE ML Ops becomes HPE Ezmeral ML Ops.
White describes the latter service as an on-prem version of ML Ops. "It helps data scientists get up to speed and running really quick," he said. "And we basically allow them to easily and seamlessly move models from pilot to production."
HPE has also portioned GreenLake cloud services out into pre-packaged, pre-configured building blocks, to allow customers to place orders for these use-case-tuned architectures and get them up and running on-site in as few as two weeks.
"What we're providing is basically 17 pre-integrated configurations that are all workload optimized that are available for these services from the factory direct for HPE GreenLake," White said, likening the components to Lego bricks or T-shirt sizes.
White told us the announcements represent a significant milestone for HPE. "Last year, Antonio Neri, our CEO, announced that we were going to move all of our offerings to as-a-service in the next three years," he explained. "And so this is really sort of that first implementation, first instantiation of a new generation of cloud services for GreenLake."
GreenLake differs from public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in that it doesn't charge for data egress.
"There's no data egress charge since it's on-site," said White, adding that keeping data local improves latency, which helps machine learning and AI algorithms.
White said HPE has found that its customers want to get out of the data center business. "They don't want to have to pour their own concrete or figure out how many megawatts they're going to get to their environment or what the cooling system is," he said. "They want to offload that to a colo like an Equinix or a CyrusOne, and they want to have this cloud-like experience where they can have it be all self-serve and automated, so it's all managed for them on the backend." ®


A 115 year old woman's two secrets to a long life.
Her name is Emma Morano.
The Gerontology Research Group lists her as the fifth-oldest living person in the world.
She was born on November 29, 1899 in Civiasco Italy.
Later she moved to Verbania Italy a small town in northwest Italy.
In Verbania, where she still lives, she got a job in a factory making jute sacks, the bags most commonly used to hold potatoes.
She was married once, but it ended in 1938 after the death of her only child.
And while she's been single ever since, it was not for lack of men vying for her attention. However over the years she's managed to resist all advances.
Her decision to do so is one of things she credits her longevity to.
She says after her unhappy marriage she "didn't want to be dominated by anyone."
Morano has a positive attitude and still lives alone in a two room apartment (which she refuses to leave even for doctor visits.) And according to her doctor (who visits her in her home,) "she's aware of the privilege of living."
The diet that appears to reduce your risk of a blood clot-triggered stroke.
Are you familiar with the Mediterranean diet?
It's the diet that encourages you to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fish, poultry and olive oil.
And encourages you to limit your intake of red meat, sweets and saturated fats such as those found in meat, butter and full-fat dairy products.
A study lead by Dr. Ayesha Sherzai, a neurologist at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City analyzed data from more than 104,000 teachers in California. Their average age was 52 years. The study was especially rigorous, since the authors accounted for "other factors" that would reduce stroke risks, such as exercise, total caloric intake, body mass index, smoking and menopausal/hormonal status.
The study found that following a Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced risk of stroke caused by a blood clot. However they also found that the plan had no effect either way regarding a bleeding (hemorrhagic) stroke.
The researcher also noted that prior research has shown a Mediterranean diet also lowers the risk of heart disease, mental decline and death.
The average age of the students in the study was 12.4 years.
The 1,649 middle-school students who took part in the study consumed an average of two sugared energy drinks per day (the range of consumption was from zero to seven drinks).
The study, done by the Yale School of Public Health, found that children who consumed heavily sweetened energy drinks were 66% more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms.
"As the total number of sugar-sweetened beverages increased, so too did risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms among our middle-school students. Importantly, it appears that energy drinks are driving this association. Our results support the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that parents should limit consumption of sweetened beverages and that children should not consume any energy drinks."
Some sugar-sweetened energy drinks contain up to 40 grams of sugar per day. The recommended daily sugar intake for children (depending upon their age) ranges from 21 to 33 grams.
Of course, hyperactivity and inattention aren't the only problems that may occur. A consistently high-sugar intake can also lead to childhood obesity.
Is your "drug of choice" processed foods?
Highly-processed foods, or foods with added fat or refined carbohydrates such as white flour and sugar, are addictive.
The study points out that due to the "concentrated dose and rapid rate of absorption" some elements in highly-processed foods react similar in people's bodies to drug abuse.
"This is a first step towards identifying specific foods, and properties of foods, which can trigger this addictive response. This could help change the way we approach obesity treatment. It may not be a simple matter of 'cutting back' on certain foods, but rather, adopting methods used to curtail smoking, drinking and drug use."
Among the most addictive foods on the list were chocolate, pizza and French fries. On the flip side unprocessed foods, with no added fat or refined carbohydrates such as brown rice and salmon were found not to be associated with addictive-like eating behavior.


Leonard Albert Ankrom, 73, of Markleysburg, PA, died Friday, April 12, 2019, at Select Specialty Hospital, Johnstown, PA.
Born July 7, 1945, in West Waynesburg, PA, he was the son of the late Thomas Albert and Betty (Ward) Ankrom. He was also preceded in death by one brother, Ed and one sister, Sue.
Mr. Ankrom was owner and operator for Ankrom's Carpet and Remodeling for over 40 years and a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He was a hard worker, who loved antiques and mountain dew and was a member of Turney-Riley Post 7250, V.F.W., Confluence, PA.
He is survived by one son, William (Tammy) Ankrom, Fort Hill, PA; two daughters, Rebecca (Douglas) Fike, Somerset, PA; Sarah (Jonathon) Ankrom, Markleysburg, PA; four brothers, Wayne, Robert, Charles and Richard; four sisters, Sandy, Maxine, Donise and Brenda; three grandchildren, Kyle (Caitlyn) Fisher, Morgan and Thomas Fisher; one great-granddaughter, Mia Fisher.
A committal service will be held on Sunday, July 7, 2019 at Oakmont Cemetery, Waynesburg, PA.
Newman Funeral Homes, P.A., 179 Miller St., Grantsville, MD, is in charge of cremation arrangements.


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