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Israel Goes to the Polls: What's Next for Netanyahu?
By Avner Zarmi 2015-01-14T01:14:47
The Israeli governing coalition led by Binyamin Netanyahu has collapsed, the 19th Knesset has been dissolved, and Israel faces new elections in March, less than two years after the 19th had been formed.
Israel has a parliamentary system. The 120 members of the Knesset are all elected at large in the country under a system of proportional representation (there are no districts directly represented). One does not vote for individual candidates, but for a party slate. This is considerably more democratic than the system employed in the United States; it also guarantees a fractious ensemble of parties.
At no time in Israeli history has any one party held a majority of seats (the closest any party ever came to that was the 56-seat delegation of the old Ma'arach party, direct ancestor to the modern Labor party, from 1969 to 1973). The country has always been governed by a coalition of several parties commanding at least 61 seats. After the election results have been determined, the Israeli president exercises one of his few non-ceremonial functions by appointing the head of one of the parties to form a governing coalition (logically, this is usually the head of the party with the largest delegation). If he or she succeeds, then that person becomes prime minister, and wields executive power until the coalition collapses or a statutory period of six years passes (the longest any government has lasted is a bit more than four years).
The ruling coalition is referred to as the government, and all the ministers are serving Knesset members from the ranks of the participating parties. The other parties constitute the opposition.
The coalition sworn in on February 5, 2013, consisted of the following parties: Likud Beytenu (31 seats), headed by Netanyahu; Yesh 'Athid (19 seats), headed by Ya'ir Lapid; HaBayit haYehudi (12 seats), headed by Naftali Bennett; and HaTenu'a (6 seats), headed by Tzipi Livni.
The election was actually something of a disappointment to Netanyahu: in the previous Knesset, before the Likud and Yisra'el Beythenu parties decided to pool their strength as one party, the two had held 43 seats between them. In a monumental miscalculation, Netanyahu (apparently on the advice of an American consultant) came to believe in the simplistic existence of an Israeli "right" and a "left." He believed that the many religiously observant voters who had been supporting Likud in recent years would continue to vote for the party, even though it amalgamated with the militantly secular Yisrael Beytenu. Some did, most bolted, and between them they lost 12 seats.
This election primer is to help readers avoid making the same mistake. Though one can speak of a secular "right" and "left" wing, there are actually at least five major groups of parties which must be taken into account in understanding the Israeli political scene (some would say more).
Various tensions between the parties over the government's short run caused the break-up of the coalition, which was presaged when Yisrael Beytenu again separated from Likud. Tzipi Livni, always to the left of Netanyahu on foreign policy issues as well as domestic ones, sniped at him constantly. Naftali Bennett, considerably to the right of Netanyahu, did the same. Ya'ir Lapid's mishandling of the budget and a populist -- if economically nonsensical -- proposal to create a tax break for certain categories of first-time home buyers also contributed to the break-up.
So who are these five groups, and how are things shaping up for the March 17 elections?
https://pjmedia.com/blog/israel-goes-to-the-polls-whats-next-for-netanyahu/


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What got you into Cyberpunk first.
Snatcher on Sega CD back in the day. The world that I experienced playing that game as a kid blew my mind. While other kids were pretending to be soldiers, cops or Michael Jordan or whatever I walked around in my yellow winter coat imagining I was a Junker searching for androids pretending to be...
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Stop drawing conclusions when CDPR openly states that things are placeholders and subject to change.
Don't get me wrong, in my opinion CDPR is at the top of the pyramid when it comes to current games developers. They're loved and deservedly so by a large number of gamers and I count myself as one of them. I've been critical of them during the last few years of development because I love them...
FPP only cutscenes might be a deal-breaker for me
My feelings exactly.
This seems to be the attitude of so many these days. I blame Edward Bernays.
Yet. EA and Bethesda (like countless others) were once loved and cited as examples of quality, game developers absent of greed. Then opportunity (aka truckloads of cash) knocked and suddenly genuine, quality artists who previously didn't have a greedy bone in their body suddenly started...
Multiplayer confirmed
What's the over/under that CP2077 multiplayer essentially ends up being GTA Online complete with mxt and "Eddie Cards"? My jaded, veteran gamer prediction is that it's all but confirmed.
Thanks for sharing your views, I share many of them myself. Realistically as someone who has been gaming for a long time I shouldn't be shocked and caught off guard by something that is as sure as death but I continuously am because of the continuous rise and fall of the latest chosen one...
Photo mode in first person too?
Something like that is what I was hoping for as well, even something like a still scene creator which would go a long way towards making up for seldomly being able to see your character. I imagined being able to pose V in your threads of choice and position NPC's in various night city...
Step 1: Introduce the teaser trailer in 2013 and use the solid CDPR RPG fan base for viral marketing hype. Step 2: Promise your game is a RPG and not a FPS with RPG elements to keep the core market. Step 3: Actually make a "open world action adventure" for mass appeal. Step 4: Profit hand...
That would be cool for a mini photo mode but considering the overwhelming lack of ability to see your character I feel like our last hope at this point is for a third person photo mode.
Not sure the validity of the information in this article, can someone confirm? "...There was hope that the Cyberpunk 2077 photo mode would be helpful in this regard, especially after being confirmed to be in the works. However, based on a forum user, who actually discussed the Cyberpunk 2077...
@BluPixel Perhaps I'm remembering wrong but I'm pretty sure back in or around 2012/2013 the game was being described as FPP and TPP in those early announcement videos that appeared on YouTube. Either way that isn't what I was referring to but rather that the experience of playing your...
Been waiting for this game for too long not to buy it and get as much enjoyment out of it as I can...that being said I hate the direction they've gone concerning the FPP situation. Character customization is extremely important to me in games, especially in a cyberpunk RPG and the direction...
Will Sony's Censorship Policies Affect CP2077?
If Sony forces me to purchase an Xbox for one game, to play CP2077 uncensored I will never purchase another Sony product for as long as I live.
The game seem very ambitious
I feel your pain, the video game industry has been flooded with let downs and disappointments for quite awhile but this time I think it's fairly safe to say that if you're on board with what you've seen so far, you're gonna love it when it's in your hands. Obviously there are no guarantees but...

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Over 300 Including 20 Newly Joined Companies Attend First Member Meeting To Collaborate On And Support IOWN GF Milestones And Goals
Wakefield, MA – October 15, 2020 – The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN GF) announced today that it has tripled its membership since April of this year with the addition of 20 new member companies and successfully held its first all member online meeting with over 300 participants from September 14-18, 2020.
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To learn more about IOWN GF, download the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum Vision 2030 and Technical Directions White Paper here or watch the "Looking Toward the Future – IOWN GF's Vision" webinar here.
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IOWN GF's objective is to accelerate innovation and adoption of a new communication infrastructure to meet our future data and computing requirements through the development of new technologies, frameworks, specifications and reference design in areas such as Photonics R&D, Distributed Connected Computing and Use Cases and Best Practices.
Technology, telecommunications, and other industry organizations are invited to join the forum. Based in the United States, IOWN GF membership opportunities are available. More details on IOWN GF and membership information can be found at: https://www.iowngf.org.
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 Juanita La Maicera
 Ají Picante
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A Polish nationalist member of the European Parliament may be punished after he said women "must earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent".
The parliament's president is investigating whether Janusz Korwin-Mikke broke the body's rules with his remarks to fellow MEPs.
The rules ban defamatory, racist or xenophobic language or behaviour.
Saying that the little darlin's are weaker and smaller is true, on average, and a claim of less intelligence is not defamatory, racist nor xenophobic.
So what they mean is that we don't like him saying that so we'll have to find some excuse to punish him.
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acarraro March 3, 2017 at 3:33 pm
How is it not defamatory?
One definition I found is: damaging the good reputation of someone; slanderous or libellous.
Falsly accusing someone of being less intelligent seems to fit the description… Does defamatory only applies to individuals rather than groups?
Andrew C March 3, 2017 at 3:57 pm
I think it probably would pass the definition of defamation but there would be no chance of suing as such cases (around the world) generally only succeed if a group being defamed is so small that an individual could claim that they could be easily identified from the statement.
There is a defence of "it's true". Anyone got any data on average IQs or other intelligence tests? I suspect that any that point towards men being more intelligent are in hiding whilst any suggesting women are more intelligent are receiving maximum publicity in The Guardian and on the BBC.
So Much For Subtlety March 3, 2017 at 4:45 pm
On the other hand a lot of them have nicer breasts. Which certainly must help redress the balance.
They are looking at the wrong figure. Women's earnings are irrelevant. The key measure is women's spending. How much do women spend? Well it is something like 80-90% of household budgets for married couples.
In other words men are working hard to hand over all their money to their wives who spend it on things they like.
Which probably explains the income and the IQ results. Why bother knocking yourself out when you can marry some sucker and get him to knock himself out before he hands all his money over to you? IQ tests and hard jobs are for ugly girls who need to work. I believe the correct phrase is evolved parasitism.
Mr Ecks March 3, 2017 at 4:58 pm
Free speech covers it. Unless he is making a false statement about a particular individual such as to constitute libel or slander.
Rational Anarchist March 3, 2017 at 5:08 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence suggests that a number of researchers hold out that men are smarter on average, and their opposition say that neither are smarter. Noone seems to be claiming that women are smarter. Make of that what you will…
DP March 3, 2017 at 5:53 pm
Dear Mr Worstall
Good job he didn't say they had the appearance of a low grade bank clerk or the charisma of a damp rag.
Gamecock March 3, 2017 at 7:14 pm
We will know that women are equal when someone says, "they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent," and they ignore it.
The Ctrl-Left wants a political solution: "You can't say that!" Their speaking up is proof that women are weaker, smaller and less intelligent.
jgh March 3, 2017 at 7:14 pm
Another idiot who doesn't understand what "earn" means. People earn what they earn. If they do less work or work of less value they earn less. Not because of what's between their legs or in their heads, but because of what work they have done. Anybody is at complete liberty to earn more – just do more/do more of more value.
NielsR March 3, 2017 at 7:48 pm
@gamecock, that would be an excellent point, if the left wouldn't immediately respond with accusations of patriarchy/white supremacy/islamophobia or whatever strawman-du-jour.
Flubber March 3, 2017 at 8:44 pm
II thought the accepted wisdom on IQ/Gender is that women tend to cluster around the mean (100) whereas men are much more spread to the extremes.
hence the 140 IQ grand-masters and the 70% prison population.
JerryC March 3, 2017 at 8:47 pm
IQ testing indicates that women and men have similar average scores, but women have a lower standard deviation – fewer very high and low scores and more in the middle of the range. Pointing that out is what got Larry Summers chased out of Harvard by a torch and pitchfork wielding SJW mob.
Edward Lud March 3, 2017 at 9:58 pm
Women, especially when one is in a relationship with one, almost always seem more stupid than oneself. Right up until the moment one realises one has been outwitted by the gal in question.
Ok, too many 'ones' ….
So Much For Subtlety March 4, 2017 at 12:46 am
JerryC – "IQ testing indicates that women and men have similar average scores"
Aren't they normed to make sure that both have the same average of 100?
In other news, presented without comment:
http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2017/03/another-breakthrough-in-feminist-mathematics/
In much the same way that feminist education scholars have shown, via discourse analysis, the incompatibility between femininity and mathematical achievement, both Walker and Stinson show the complex ways successful black mathematics students must accommodate, reconfigure or resist the discursive construction of a normative white, masculine mathematical subjectivity.
Mohave Greenie March 4, 2017 at 2:41 am
Edward Lud, it doesn't matter what male IQ is, they tend to think with the smaller head. Hence often outwitted.
WTF? How can the answer to 2+3 depend on what's between your legs?
Chris Miller March 4, 2017 at 9:42 pm
If I claim 2+3=6, then it equals 6. Stop oppressing me!
Bloke in Germany March 4, 2017 at 10:37 pm
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Despite advances drones today are still limited by their range, but new technologies like hydrogen fuel cells are helping overcome those limitations.
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Although multi-copter drones are now being used to transport everything from blood supplies to donuts their short battery life limits their range, but this week, hot on the heels of hydrogen powered trucks and a hydrogen powered flying taxi with a record beating 400km range, a new hydrogen powered delivery drone achieved a new drone flight record and managed a staggering 1 hour, 43 minute ocean crossing between two Caribbean islands.
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The test was the result of a collaboration between Texas based drone development company Guinn Partners, Georgia based Skyfire Consulting, the US Department of Health, and drone manufacturer Doosan who supplied the hydrogen fuel cell powered DS30 octocopter.
Using its temperature controlled payload system the drone was used to transport live bacteria samples from a hospital on the Caribbean island of St. Croix to a testing facility on the neighbouring island of St. Thomas that involved crossing 43 miles (69 km) of open ocean, and when it successfully reached its destination the drone reportedly still had almost 30 minutes of flight time left on its fuel cell.
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According to Guinn Partners it can ordinarily take up to a week before patients' biological fluid samples are transported between the two islands by manned aircraft, and in the case of illnesses such as Dengue fever the infection can progress to dangerous levels within that amount of time, but because using a drone is much cheaper and simpler solution the new test means that the samples could be sent to St. Croix immediately for a much faster life saving turn around.
For the inaugural test flight a crew from Doosan followed the drone in a boat ready to take manual control if needed but next year, when the drone undergoes its first fully autonomous test flights, it will fly completely solo.
Source: Guinn Partners
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MANNS HARBOR – Owing to the impacts of COVID-19, the N.C. Department of Transportation has canceled its 2020 contract for the Ocracoke Express passenger ferry.
"There's just so much uncertainty with this virus," said Tim Hass, Ferry Division spokesman, notably, what restrictions will be in place for social distancing and mask wearing.
The travel needs are uncertain as will be the crowd restrictions, Hass said.
The vehicle ferries will continue between Hatteras and Ocracoke and ferry personnel will encourage those passengers to remain in their vehicles or stand at least six feet from other people while on board.
Hass said the current schedule of the three routes will continue for now as well.
"They look at the traffic every week," he said about monitoring traffic when Ocracoke reopens to non-resident property owners on May 11.
The passenger ferry was introduced in 2019 as a transportation alternative for people traveling between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
The Ferry Division last summer leased a 150-passenger ferry from Seastreak Marine out of New Jersey from late May to Labor Day. More than 28,600 people used the passenger ferry last summer, the Ferry Division said.
Ferry officials expect to decide whether to resume passenger ferry service next year in the coming months.
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Bankruptcy Filing Reveals Chrysler Spent Years Searching for a Partner
A review of Chrysler's Bankruptcy Filing today has revealed a company far more desperate to find a partner to merge with than previously known. By the time Chrysler merged with Fiat, it had called major automakers across the planet looking for an alliance, only to be turned down.
"It is Chrysler's last best hope. I know because I have spent over two years looking for, talking to and evaluating potential partners," Chrysler Co-President Tom LaSorda said of the Fiat alliance in the filing, obtained by The Detroit News.
Along the way, Chrysler tried to make deals with Nissan, GM, Volkswagen, Tata, Magna, GAZ, Hyundai, Honda and Toyota, but LaSorda said that the efforts "have been determined and undertaken in good faith, but have met uniformly without success." Talks with Nissan nearly came to fruition and went farther than has previously been reported, but ultimately failed over financing problems.
The filing painted a picture of a struggling automaker that has been trying to find a new partner for years, one desperate for help after the debacle with Daimler. Chrysler approached Nissan about an alliance in 2007 before it was even sold to Cerberus. Talks continued all the way into the summer of 2008, with both companies convinced that the deal would be mutually beneficial, but the deal ultimately feel apart in July 2008 "due to the inability of Nissan's finance company to provide the needed support."
With Nissan out of the picture, Chrysler went hunting for a new partner. In June 2008, when talks with Nissan were beginning to fizzle, Chrysler approached GM about a merger and high-level talks were being held by August. Rumors of the talks came to light in October 2008 and by November, the talks had fizzled with GM pulling the plug.
"Since that time, GM has consistently remained uninterested in reopening the discussions about a potential merger," LaSorda wrote, noting that GM turned down a request from Chrysler to reopen talks in January 2009.
Around the same time Chrysler began courting GM, it was also sending feelers out to Toyota, offering up Chrysler's extra capacity to work on joint projects. Toyota turned them down a month later in July 2008. While talks with GM were still in the works, Chrysler sat down with Nissan again in September 2008 and tried to hammer out an agreement, but the companies again couldn't come to terms. After being dumped by GM, Chrysler reached out to Hyundai, but those talks never went anywhere. Chrysler even sent a letter to Honda in December 2008, but it was rejected the next day. Desperate, Chrysler put one last call into Nissan, but the answer was still no.
While all of this had been going on, Chrysler had also been talking to Fiat. Talks first began around the same time as the GM talks, but didn't really kick into gear until around the time Honda passed on a deal. Fiat, eager to regain access to the North American market, dove in head first and got to work on a deal that would ultimately be successful.
It wasn't easy, though. While Chrysler and Fiat were working on a deal last month, Chrysler was also busy trying to sell off some of its assets to Chinese buyers to raise money. In much the way it sold the PT Cruiser to Russian automaker GAZ last year, Chrysler hoped to sell complete vehicle lines, engines, transmissions and even a paint shop in New Jersey to Chinese companies, but the deals never materialized due to the struggling economy.
"Chrysler has attempted in recent weeks to sell product lines and other units to a number of Chinese companies, but these efforts too have been unsuccessful," LaSorda wrote. "Chrysler sent letters to parties, primarily in China, whom we thought would be potentially interested in purchasing our assets. Over the next two months, several companies, including Beijing Automotive Industry Holding *** Tempo International Group, Hawtai Automobiles, and Chery Automotive *** expressed interest in purchasing specific vehicles, powertrains, intellectual property rights, distribution channels and automotive brands."
After years of hunting for a partner, trying to sell off pieces of itself, flying and then driving to Washington with its hat in its hand and fighting tooth and nail with creditors and unions, Chrysler was finally able to sign a deal with Fiat at the last minute. Chrysler will still have to go through Chapter 11 bankruptcy to deal with a few holdout creditors, but if all goes to plan, the company could be out of court in 30 to 60 days and bringing Fiat vehicles to the U.S. in as little as 18 months. What will actually happen remains to be seen, but Chrysler is no doubt happy to have finally caught a break after years of hardship.
The million dollar question, though, is sales. Chrysler just announced its April sales and they don't look good. The company's April 2009 sales were down 48% from April 2008 and year-to-date sales were down 46%. Out of Chrysler's three brands, only two models actually posted positive sales numbers in April, the Dodge Journey and the Jeep Wrangler. If Chrysler and its new partner Fiat are going to make it out of this, they're going to need to post substantially better sales and soon, or they'll have trouble even paying off their restructured debt.
Source: The Detroit News


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Movie Review – Alien
I remember when I first saw Alien. It was 1979, I was a freshman in high school, and our biology teacher (Fred Granger) took us on a field trip to see "Alien". I recall his words: "This is far more likely what an extra-terrestrial encounter will be like…"
The creature that bursts out of John Hurt's chest
From the first suspense-filled moment when the Egg exploded on John Hurt's character, to the chest burster scene, to the final scene where Sigourney Weaver finally finishes it off before heading for home, it is a roller coaster ride of epic proportions.
I recall tossing my popcorn when the first encounter of the alien, and never stopped being on the edge of my seat.
The cinematography is typical Ridley Scott, gritty, realistic, and engaging. Mr. Scott has an eye for detail and this movie is no exception. Unlike the contemporary "Star Wars", where the characters were pristine, the ships were spotless, and the characters somewhat stiff and wooden, Scott brings a realism that makes the movie "pop"
Part of the brilliance is the design of the stages of the alien, and the set of the alien ship where it all began were done by H. R. Giger. Mr Giger's work is legendary, gracing the cover of the ELP album "Brain Salad Surgery", his surrealistic style really fits the film.
There were three sequels, all decent, but none of them matched the brilliance of the original for visceral reaction, suspense, and raw terror factor.
Ironically, one of the contemporary critical reviews complained that Ridley Scott didn't do enough character development of the cast. FFS, how much character development do you need? 7 people, one monster on a spaceship.
A true tour de force, and a spectacular film, nearly 35 years on. I am glad I have a copy and I still get a thrill watching it.
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Call the Midwife: Jenny Agutter on Christmas special
Call the Midwife finished its tenth season in the spring so viewers have been waiting quite some time for the return of those at Nonnatus House. The heartwarming BBC One series is going to round off 2021 before season 11 begins in the New Year. Here's everything you need to know about the cast of the Call the Midwife Christmas Special.
Who stars in the Call the Midwife Christmas special?
Sister Mildred – Miriam Margolyes
Reprising her role as the lovable Sister Mildred is actress Miriam Margolyes.
She has been in numerous television shows and films over the years including the Harry Potter franchise, The Real Marigold Hotel, Babe, Ladies in Lavender and Little Shop of Horrors.
Sadly, Margolyes was absent from season 10 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 travel restrictions meant she was prevented from coming back to the UK for filming.
Trixie Franklin – Helen George
Original cast member Helen George will be starring in the festive episode as Trixie Franklin.
Fans may remember that she briefly stepped away from the show to take on a new challenge in the form of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.
She was partnered with Aljaž Skorjanec and finished in sixth place.
George won't be in the entirety of season 11 as she took some time off before her second baby with former Call the Midwife star Jack Ashton arrived.
Doctor Patrick Turner – Stephen McGann
Doctor Patrick Turner is going to have his hands full in the Christmas special as he takes his son Timothy Turner (played by Max Macmillan) along with him on a job which, worryingly, is to see some gangsters.
Patrick is played by actor Stephen McGann who has also starred in the medical drama from the very beginning.
Prior to the BBC One series, he had been in Casualty, Doctors, The Hanging Gale, Streetwise and Strauss Dynasty.
For a couple of years in the early noughties, McGann portrayed Sean Reynolds in Emmerdale.
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Lucille Anderson – Leonie Elliot
Actress Leonie Elliot was welcomed to the cast in the premiere episode of season seven.
Nurse Lucille Anderson is going to be the centre of attention in the special as she is set to marry Cyril Robinson (Zephryn Taitte).
She has starred as Cherry Patterson in the Lenny Henry comedy-drama Danny and the Human Zoo, Undercover Heart and Boogie Man.
Elliot was also in the Black Mirror episode Hated in the Nation on Netflix.
Sister Julienne – Jenny Agutter
As the Sister in charge of Nonnatus House and a mother figure to them all is Sister Julienne.
Actress Jenny Agutter has been in Captain America: Winter Soldier, The Alan Clark Diaries, Spooks, And The Beat Goes On and film Sometimes Always Never.
Other cast members include:
Nurse Crane – Linda Bassett
Shelagh Turner – Laura Main
Sister Frances – Ella Bruccoleri
Call the Midwife Christmas Special will air at 8pm on Christmas Day on BBC One.
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Explosions by Mathieu Poulin
18 Sep 2018 1 Comment
by winstonsdad in Quebec Tags: 2018, QC fiction, Quebec fiction, TRANSLATIONS
Explosions (Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the imagination) by Mathieu Poulin
Quebecian fiction
Original title – Des explosions
Translator – Aleshia Jensen
A quick return to one of my favorite place to read books from Quebec and one of my favorite publishers QC. Now after a thoughtful short book we have a clever comic book. Mathieu Poulin initially was a film fan (which given this book is easy to guess), but a teacher inspired him into books and writing. He has cohost a culture show in Quebec and also writes the comic piece about sport this is his debut novel.
At the age of Two, Michael Bay was adopted by Harriett Stamper, a professor of Literature at the University od California, Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in American and French Poetry(her doctoral thesis, defended in 1964, was titled " Transalantic Filiations: from Whitman to Ginsberg and Aragon"), and Jim Bay, a plastic surgeon in the midst of forging a reputation as a "magician" and "career-booster" among women with acting or modelling ambitions.
this gives the perfect mix of maybe what made Bay poetry philosophy and films in the beauty of films.
We are all aware of the films that Michael Bay has made. those all action films that are full of explosions and violence and a bit OTT. Well, what we have here is a book that reimagines Michael Bay as a left field man that has used his films to bring a subtle message across. He thinks everyone gathers that is what his films are about? We imagine he was into philosophy and those long films I love but my other half always says at the end what happened!! Directors that made a difference. What is shown is a man want to strive but also one that doubts he is given the appreciation he is due.So instead of bad Boys being a buddy cops film, it is a commentary on colonization hence all the badies in the film being white and Miami is a replacement for Africa. Then other films like Pearl Harbor is a thesis on what is freedom his. The rock is about understanding one's peers. Then Armageddon is what would happen if the earth end. This rips apart Michaels life then rebuilds it as a very different version of who he is and what his movies mean. He also struggles with his being adoptive at times. But his adoptive parents are the ones that inspired his discovery of books and philosophy.
A brilliant yet restless student, michael studied and was particularly interested in the examination of identity in Shohei Imamura's films, the influence of Noveau Roman narrative techniques in last year in marienbad , porter's aesthetics of tableau, the poetry and temporal relationship in Tarkovsky's stalker, the ethical dilemas raised by Serge Dubrvsky's fiction, the post colonial discourse in Conrads Heart of Darkness, was also one of the first note the ground breaking theoretical importance of French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze's the movement Image.
Michael was attractch to the great thinker of cinema and writers Like Conrad.
As you see this is a clever twist on the Autobiography. I know very little about Michael Bay other than his films are very OTT and sometimes more about the special effects than the story. now it is believable he could really be a man trying to be the new Goddard trying to show the woes and mistakes of the modern world through the lens of his camera. An unsung hero underrated and misunderstood! This what Mathieu has done so well this tongue in cheek book is fun. He has taken a character that has often been held up for the dumbing down of cinema plowing the same furrow when he made follow-ups to the transformer movies. It is a book that can make you laugh out loud at times it is one of those books that shows you how comic novels should be. So nect time you lick on to a Ba film just linger and think what is behind this film really !!! then turn over.
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In Port Arthur, Creating COVID-19 Medical Equipment Puts Residents' Health at Risk
Local petrochemical facilities pump out essential plastic goods—for gloves, masks, gowns, and more—as well as harmful pollutants.
By Elena DeBre
Children play near a refinery in Port Arthur, on September 27, 2017. David Goldman/AP
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Benjamin Thomas had grown accustomed to wearing a mask in Port Arthur, his hometown, where inhaling the air can feel like breathing the exhaust of an old car. The city is home to the largest oil refinery in North America and ten of the highest-emitting petrochemical facilities north of Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast. The EPA has linked cancer, respiratory illness, and reproductive disorders to emissions in the area. In high school, Thomas and his teammates on the football team had a running joke that inhaling the air during practice would turn them into "half-mutants."
More than a decade ago, Thomas had been desperate to leave. He turned down an offer to work as a processor at one of the petrochemical facilities, instead opting to travel as a singer-songwriter before joining the military. Two of his grandparents who worked at local plants had died prematurely of asbestos poisoning and cancer. "Watching them die from it—how they struggle and are sick—it made me not want to be around it," Thomas said.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Thomas decided to return home, arriving in July. Last week Thomas was preoccupied with Hurricane Laura, which made landfall less than fifty miles east of Port Arthur and whose winds knocked down local power lines and caused small fires. But before the hurricane's near miss, he was struggling to readjust to life in his hometown. It was strange for him to wander streets made ghostly empty by the pandemic. Immediately after he returned, so did the headaches that had dogged Thomas growing up.
This summer, the local petrochemical facilities, which process the hydrocarbons that make plastic products, have been playing a critical role in America's medical response to the coronavirus. Plastic is in our gloves, gowns, disposable masks, medical tubes, ventilators, and even Clorox wipes. Single-use plastic bags, recently the subject of bans in many cities—but not in Texas where the state Supreme Court has struck them down—have become a precious resource thanks to fears that reusable bags can spread the virus. Skyrocketing demand has led petrochemical facilities to ramp up production. During a July 7 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the environment, Plastics Industry Association CEO Tony Radoszewski said: "Simply put, plastic saves lives."
But for those in Port Arthur, a community of 54,000 that is 38 percent Black and 33 percent Hispanic, and where median income is just 60 percent of the state average, the increased production comes with increased health risks. Dr. Elena Craft, a senior health scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund based in the Houston area, said that "the higher the emissions, the higher the risk of some sort of adverse health outcomes." A 2004 study from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that 80 percent of Port Arthur residents self-reported heart ailments and other health problems, compared with only 30 percent in Galveston, a town with similar demographics that, because of favorable wind patterns, sees fewer effects from nearby industrial pollution. Port Arthur has double the national average of childhood asthma. And Port Arthur activist Hilton Kelley, who spearheads the Community In-Power and Development Association, an environmental justice nonprofit, says that he can ask a room full of locals if they know someone who has died of cancer and can guarantee that almost everyone will raise a hand. The most recent data taken from the Texas Cancer Registry shows that the Beaumont–Port Arthur area had around six more cancer cases and 24 more fatalities per 100,000 residents than the state as a whole during 2013–2017.
This puts residents at particular danger from the coronavirus. A recent Harvard University study determined that the more exposure one has to a common Port Arthur air pollutant, PM2.5, the more likely one is to die from contracting COVID-19. It's a fact not lost on local activists. "If you are here at the fence line during COVID, you're inhaling all of the gloves that everyone in the country needs," said Yvette Arellano, who works for the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality won't have a detailed air emissions inventory for 2020 until March of next year, but a Texas air quality specialist told me that anecdotal evidence shows that emissions are increasing in Port Arthur, as plastics production rises. When Hurricane Laura threatened the city last week, many petrochemical facilities rushed to close and burned off unprocessed product—an authorized emergency procedure, but one that the TCEQ acknowledges can cause excess emissions that violate air quality standards. Last week, the facility shutdowns in the Port Arthur area resulted in as much as four million pounds of additional chemical emissions, according to the Houston Chronicle. TCEQ reports that at the Motiva plant—the largest refinery in North America, jointly owned by Shell Oil and Saudi Refining—a leak that occurred during its shutdown might have released a few hundred pounds of chemicals as well. According to the Beaumont Enterprise, Motiva self-reported the leak to the TCEQ and wrote that "the line was blocked in to prevent further material from leaking" and "the area the material was contained in was boomed and measures were taken to reduce emissions."
Industry representatives have long worked with local organizations to curb emissions. The American Chemistry Council, a trade association whose members include Motiva and other prominent petrochemical companies, has spearheaded efforts with the TCEQ to analyze levels of toxic emissions, including sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, and make sure they adhere to national standards, according to Tara Henriksen, managing director of the association's Responsible Care Initiative.
But Port Arthur residents, and others in communities along the Gulf Coast fueling the plastics industry, are dealing with the effects of these emissions. Former Port Arthur city councilman John Beard, who worked at the local ExxonMobil chemical plant for 38 years, said his daughter is starting to develop headaches that are eased only by leaving town. Beard noted that common symptoms of the coronavirus are hard to distinguish from the daily discomforts of dry coughs and sore throats that many Port Arthur residents experience from breathing the petrochemical facilities' emissions.
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Some in the city are now bracing for the worst. Judith Smith, the director of the Port Arthur health department, said that as COVID is spreading in the city, she's especially worried about the high percentage of vulnerable residents. The community struggles with high rates of comorbidities in COVID-19 patients, such as lung disease and cancer. Members of the city's large Black and Hispanic communities face increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19 as well. Nationwide, COVID-19 is killing Black and Hispanic Americans at rates 2.1 and 1.1 times higher, respectively, than those of white Americans. The CDC attributes the increased mortalities in part to deep-rooted inequalities in the health care system. White Texans are covered by health insurance at substantially higher rates than others. The CDC also identifies as factors inequality in the housing, employment, and education systems that can increase the likelihood of infection and of carrying pre-existing conditions. Black and Hispanic populations in Port Arthur, in particular, experience higher rates of homelessness and make up a large portion of the essential workforce whose jobs often make it hard to maintain safe distancing.
Cases of COVID-19 in Port Arthur have been rising, recently nearing 1,000. "We're experiencing it this week," Mayor Thurman "Bill" Bartie said in late July, referring to how the virus is tearing through the town at an accelerated rate. Concerns are rising rapidly among residents and activists alike.
Hoping to mitigate any damage he can, Kelley has been focused on grassroots advocacy work. He's spending his weekends passing out free masks and hand sanitizer bottles on the city streets, and has fed more than two thousand Port Arthur residents through a food drive he organized this month. But other advocacy efforts have slowed as attention has shifted to the more immediate needs caused by the pandemic. "There's going to be a serious increase in toxic emissions coming from plastics being molded and made," he says, "and we're paying for it."
As the pandemic surges, one lawsuit against a polluter lingers. Last year, a local activist group, the Port Arthur Community Action Network, filed a lawsuit against the Valero Energy refinery for allegedly emitting more pollutants than allowed under federal air quality standards. Attorney General Ken Paxton subsequently filed his own suit against the company that is pending in state courts. Valero's executive director of media relations and communications, Lillian Riojas, wrote Texas Monthly that the company "is committed to working cooperatively with the TCEQ and Attorney General to resolve the State of Texas' enforcement concerns."
Experts say air quality standards are difficult to enforce in a preventive way. Neil Carman, a former TCEQ employee, now the clean air director of the Sierra Club, doesn't believe that petrochemical companies can coexist safely with neighborhoods like those in Port Arthur. He argues that companies should consider buyout options in which they pay residents to leave the neighborhood. This summer, Valero proposed buyouts for properties in west Port Arthur.
Many in the community want to stay. Benjamin Thomas, now working to assist an uncle whose house was destroyed during Hurricane Laura, says that despite the air quality and his headaches, he can't abandon Port Arthur when it's in such dire need: "I'm here to help."
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The FIBA Intercontinental Cup (formerly the FIBA Club World Cup) is an international basketball competition that is organised by FIBA, the sport's global governing body. Currently, four teams qualify for each season, the winners of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), Basketball Champions League, Basketball Champions League Americas, NBA G League and the FIBA Asia Champions Cup (from 2024).

From to 1970 to 1980, there were no finals played as the league champions were decided through a league format, in which all teams played each other once and were ranked based on wins. The Intercontinental Cup was not organised between 1998 and 1995, and 1997 and 2012 as well.

Real Madrid holds the record for most championships, with five, with two of them coming after a direct confrontation in a final. Spain has been the most successful country with nine titles distributed among clubs from the country. Teams representing Europe have been most successful, winning 33 titles in total.

The current champions are Canarias (known as Lenovo Tenerife for sponsorship reasons), who beat São Paulo in the 2023 final.

List of finals

Results

Performance by head coach
Lolo Sainz holds the record for most Intercontinental Cup titles won by a head coach, with four titles won with Real Madrid. He is followed by Hank Vaughn, who managed the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots during their three consecutive championships from 1967 to 1969.

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Paul van Dyk presents Music Rescues Me on Vandit Records
Release date	2018-12-07
You've had 'Music Rescues Me', the single. Last month we gave you Music Rescues Me', the preview show (presented at London's titan Printworks). We reckon appetites have been whetted enough.
Main event time.
'Music Rescues Me' – the album – is the ninth collection to be delivered by pioneering electronic musician, composer and performer, Paul van Dyk. Containing artistic collaborations with Alex M.O.R.P.H., Sue McLaren, Jordan Suckley, Plumb, Saad Ayub, Lostly and a host of other talents, December 7 will see its release.
Commenting on the album's context, Paul says: "though it might have been its seed, this new album is not about music bringing one person back from the brink. Its theme reaches beyond that. This is about music's ability to open us up, to stimulate mental imagery, to unlock or bring back memories. It's about its often hard-to-fathom capacity to support us, to get us through our tougher or more challenging times, as well as soundtracking the good ones, and making them even better. This, to me, goes beyond the mere 'inspirational'. This is something else. That music can 'unlock' us, allow us to access emotions and places our mind might not otherwise go to is nothing less than extraordinary. It's both force and a gift. I feel that's a big part of what keeps it so magical for me – indeed for all of us. So this album is a celebration of this most mysterious, impalpable and wonderful aspects of music's nature".
Not for nothing is 'Music Rescues Me' the most swiftly followed-up-on PvD long-player (just 14 months separate it and the release of 'From Then On' in 2017). If ever "do today" was Paul's guiding principle in '98 or '08, it goes a dozen times over in 2018. Stimulus driven by his recuperation from the now-well-documented events of spring 2016 has had the profoundest of effects on van Dyk's life-view. That has been expressed most clearly through his professional work, taking the form of a tap-wide-open creative stream. Telegraphing Paul's developmental, progressing and to-the-future outlook, it's one that's echoed by the vibrant state of the music scene in which he operates.
For the album, a number of last year's co-producers have been invited back to the studio with Paul. Alex M.O.R.P.H., James Cottle, Jordan Suckley and Tristan D (under his new Delta One guise) are some of those who've returned to Berlin to write follow-up tracks. With even deeper roots in the PvD universe, there are also vocal contributions from Sue McLaren ('Lights'/'We Come Together') and Plumb ('I Don't Deserve You').
Equally though you're going to be hearing co-productions with artists Paul's in studio partnership with for the first time. "Alan Wyse, Steve Deekay, Saad Ayub, Rafael Osmo, Project 8, Lostly – these are musicians from around the world who, week-in, week-out, we see lighting up the VONYC forums, he says. The producers who've really risen in estimation for me. Sound-wise, each one has their own area and represents a different sub-style within our shared field. It's these shades, grades & tones, meshed with my own, that open up a whole world of new musical angles for this, my ninth album".
With the album primed for release December 2018, Paul offers a final reading on 'Music Rescues Me's title. "The 'Me', he clarifies refers to 'you, me, us – everyone'. 'Rescue' means less 'save', but more 'liberate' or 'free'. My greatest aspiration for this release is that people – either now, or in years to come – listening to 'Music Rescues Me' will find that one of its tracks elevates, alleviates, opens them up, or takes them out of themselves. That's the point at which I'll consider it a success".
Paul van Dyk's ninth studio album 'Music Rescues Me' is released 07.12 and is available to pre-order now.
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01. Paul van Dyk & Lostly – Amanecer
02. Paul van Dyk, Alan Wyse & Sue McLaren – You Are
03. Paul van Dyk & Alex M.O.R.P.H. – Voyager
04. Paul van Dyk & Chris Bekker – Solar Snapshot
05. Paul van Dyk ft. Plumb – Music Rescues Me (PvD Club Mix)
06. Paul van Dyk & Steve Dekay – Aurora
07. Paul van Dyk & Saad Ayub – Future Memories
08. Paul van Dyk & Rafael Osmo – Moments With You
09. Paul van Dyk & Delta One – Lost Angels
10. Paul van Dyk & Jordan Suckley – Accelerator
11. Paul van Dyk – Mission Control
12. Paul van Dyk & Project 8 – Made Of Stars
13. Paul van Dyk – Time Traveler
14. Paul van Dyk – Reprise
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Started three of eleven games played as a freshman before sustaining a torn ACL, then suffered another season-ending ACL injury three games into the following year. Became a starter the following year and totaled 79 tackles and an interception as a safety. Converted to linebacker in 2017 and picked up 85-10.5-1.5, following that up with 75-9.0-3.5 this past year. Two-time team captain. Size and length are decent for a weakside linebacker; more like a big safety, which is unsurprising given his background. Pretty good athlete who does a nice job of reading keys and flowing toward the ball; has the raw speed to roam sideline-to-sideline and make tackles near the boundaries. Closes fast and can deliver some big hits to help set the tone defensively, although his radius is constrained by his lack of length. Has good functional strength which allows him to hold up better than anticipated against blockers, although his lack of length can cause him to get stuck on opponents for too long; is active with his hands when engaged. Was an every-down player at the college level, and his work in coverage may be the most impressive element of his game. Was often working in short zones or serving as a quarterback spy, playing with a low center of gravity and keeping the play in front of him so he could plant and drive on a spot; however, would also shade over opposing receivers or tight ends and carry them downfield. Does a good job of placing his hands and using them to provide tight coverage through the route stem. Flips his hips easily and has no problem running with them into the seam. Capable of carrying running backs out of the backfield. Does a good job of diagnosing route combinations and sniffing out screens. Improved his stock with a strong Combine in which he ran well, leapt 37.5", and put up thirty-one reps on the bench. One of the draft's most comfortable linebackers when it comes to working in coverage, his play at the college level suggests that at a minimum he should be able to eventually work his way onto the field in sub packages and as a special-teams contributor. Assuming he checks out medically after suffering two torn ACLs in college, his combination of athleticism, leadership, and instincts should draw the attention of plenty of teams on draft day.
LB Germaine Pratt, North Carolina St.


Have You Heard About Cloud Bread?
Let me first start by saying that back when I had given up gluten, I NEVER thought that I could find a bread that would make me feel like it was okay not to have the real thing. Even with a severe gluten intolerance, bread was the one thing I could not give up for life. I just craved it too much. But every GF bread out there just tasted like cardboard, and I could not stand them.
Now, as I am looking into a more paleo-esque lifestyle, I can't help but desire a bread alternative that will not make me feel like my stomach is eating itself. So when I heard about Cloud Bread, a four-ingredient bread that is low carb, gluten free and is actually high in protein? Well… I just had to try it for myself. And it. Is. Amazing.
Preheat your oven to 300 F. Have a baking sheet ready to go.
First separate your eggs. Put your egg whites in one bowl and yolks in another.
In your first bowl with the egg yolks. You want to mix in your cream cheese until it is really smooth. I suggest a hand mixer or stand mixer.
Add in your honey as well and mix in.
In the bowl with egg whites add your 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tarter.
Now you want to beat these until they are really fluffy and form peaks.
Fold in your yolk mixture carefully. Do not mix around a ton.You want the mixture to remain fluffy.
Now grab a large spoon and spoon little round clouds onto your pans. If desired, add a seasoning like rosemary or chives. Sprinkle a little on each round now. Then place in the middle of the oven.
It takes about 20 minutes to bake. Keep an eye on it. It depends how big you spoon your mixture. You want them to be golden brown. Once they start to brown a little on top. You can put the broil on low for a minute or so. (Tip)- Do not let your eyes off them or you will sharing a pinterest fail. This happened with half of the batch. One minute got away from me. Let cool and use a spatula and enjoy.
How gorgeous are these?? They are wonderful to eat all on their own, but you can also treat them as a bread or bun. You can toast them in the toaster and add butter or jam. You can keep them on the counter for up to 3 days or in the fridge for a week! They also freeze beautifully.
How have I not heard of this before? I'm totally going to try it as soon as I buy some cream cheese. Thanks!
I am supposed to avoid cow milk. Do you think this could be make with a creamy goat cheese?
This looks amazing and I plan to make it soon. However, to be low carb, we'll have to use some other sweetener besides honey. Thanks for the great recipes.
It depends on how big you scoop it, but I generally get around 9.


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Thomas Bradshaw: A few of his notable plays include, Thomas and Sally which premiered at Marin Theater Company in September 2017; Carlyle which premiered at the Goodman Theatre as part of their 2015-16 season; and Fulfillment which co-premiered at American Theater Company (Chicago) and The Flea Theater (New York) in fall 2015. His other plays include Intimacy and Burning (New Group); Mary (Goodman Theatre); Job and Dawn (The Flea Theater); The Bereaved (Crowded Fire, Partial Comfort and the State Theater of Bielefeld in Germany); Southern Promises (PS122). He is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Prince Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in 2012, a Doris Duke Implementation Grant in 2016, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award in 2017. Mr. Bradshaw has been featured as one of Time Out New York's 10 playwrights to watch and was named "Best Provocative Playwright" by the Village Voice. A compilation of his work Intimacy and Other Plays was recently published by TCG. Mr. Bradshaw is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University. He is currently under commission from The Royal National Theater in London, The Goodman/Second City in Chicago, and The Foundry Theater in New York.
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Make varmint problems go away with this 200-round case of .223 Remington ammunition from Fiocchi. These cartridges fire a light 40 grain Hornady V-MAX polymer tipped hollow point bullet at a muzzle velocity of 3,650 feet per second. The high velocity of this ammo promotes instant fragmentation for rapid kills against various pests such as coyotes, groundhogs, or squirrels.
This ammunition is loaded in Ozark, Missouri using non-corrosive Boxer primers and brass cases. It comes packed in a reusable, stackable plastic ammo can that provides excellent protection.


16th April 2013 will be forever a sad day for me. OXM reported on (later confirmed by GameInformer) that Bethesda have moved onto their next big project and will only release minor bug fixes moving forward.
So said the blog post.
Skyrim was one of the highest-scoring games of all time, with an average of 95% at Gamerankings and 96% at Metacritic, and has had more people playing it at one time than any other single-player game – over 5 million playing at one point on PC alone. That's a truly historic achievement. One of my favourite RPG's of the last 5 years, it's sad to know there won't be more DLC on the way.


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Plain White T's
Produced by Sean O'Keefe & Ariel Rechtshaid
Album All That We Needed
Hey There Delilah Lyrics
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes, you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise
I'm by your side
Oh, it's what you do to me
What you do to me
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me, girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me, you'd fall
We'd have it all
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
And we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah, I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You'll know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This one's for you
What you do to me, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
About "Hey There Delilah"
Plain White T's hit, "Hey There Delilah" was in the running for two Grammy awards, people are still talking about the girl from the popular tune. Delilah DiCrescenzo, a very successful professional runner who just missed out on the 2012 Olympic Team, will be featured in the ESPN The Magazine's February 18 music issue, in which she tells the story of how she ended up in the song for the umpteenth time:
She was back home in Chicago while on break from school at Columbia University. She had a boyfriend at school, but met a guy at a party who was in this band called the Plain White T's, and the musician told her he was going to write a song about her. A few months later, Tom Higgenson visited her house to drop off a CD. One of the tracks was called "Hey There Delilah."
She was flattered. Then the song got big. Real big. Nominated for a Grammy big. On February 8th, 2008, she attended the Grammys with the band. The song didn't win, but she described the day as one of the best of her life. In years since, the song still follows her. And that's okay. The song didn't get Tom Higgenson the girl, she is still with the same boyfriend from college , but they've both enjoyed the ride.
Who is Delilah
Delilah is a woman named Delilah DiCrescenzo, a one-time Olympic hopeful runner whom singer Tom Higgenson fell for after being introduced by a friend. The two were never romantically involved.
"Hey There Delilah" Track Info
Written By Tom Higgenson
Recorded By Ariel Rechtshaid
Mixed By Lou Giordano
Recorded At Harddrive Analog and Digital Recording
Release Date May 9, 2006
Sampled In
Havana (SING OFF) vs Anna Maynard by Conor Maynard (Ft. Anna Maynard)
Hey There Delilah by Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (Ft. Joey Cook)
Hey There Deanna (Delilah Cover) by Sinneyy
Hey There Delilah by Alaina Castillo
Performed Live As
Never Be Alone / Hey There Delilah (Live Medley) by Shawn Mendes
All That We Needed Plain White T's
1. All That We Needed
2. Revenge
3. Take Me Away
4. My Only One
5. Sad Story
6. Breakdown
7. What More Do You Want?
8. Lazy Day Afternoon
9. Anything
10. Sing My Best
11. Faster
12. Last Call
13. Hey There Delilah


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The Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies at Catholic University offers a meeting point and active scholarly community for researchers and students of the medieval period. It involves faculty members from various schools and departments, offers interdisciplinary programs both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and organizes and co-sponsors a variety of events, from public lectures and symposia to museum field trips and Medieval Day.
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The EU-funded MedMedia programme today launched an innovative online database aimed at enhancing the representation of women in news programming across the Southern Mediterranean Region.
Launched in the run-up to International Women's Day on March 8, Khabirat is an online Arabic-language directory of women experts which has been designed for use by editorial teams at national media outlets.
The initiative is based on strong national partnerships with institutions such as public broadcasters, journalists' unions, publishers, regulatory authorities and women rights' groups. It aims to promote consistent national policies which improve women's contribution to media outputs on a national and regional level.
The Khabirat directories, which are being developed across the region, will debut in Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Palestine, where special events are scheduled to showcase their content and resources.You will find more information here.
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Professor Jerry Sobelman (electrical and computer engineering) will lead a new program for 2014 exploring the current state of research and application of electrical and computer engineering in Australia!
Professor Jerry Sobelman (electrical and computer engineering) will lead a new program for 2014 exploring the current state of research and application of electrical and computer engineering in Australia! Combining university visits with faculty and guest lectures, students will have a window into the technical developments and industries of circuit design, and an introduction to three exciting Australia cities--Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne. The seminar will include participation at the 2014 international conference of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Melbourne.
In addition to a number of historic and natural sites and the technical conference, additional technical sites may include: the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology Sydney, the University of South Australia, the University of Melbourne, and more! These and other visits will be finalized prior to departure.


PE files or Portable Executable files is an format for executables in the Windows Operating System.
PE file header hold a host of information, about the executable. The header preceeds the actual information of the file. In any windows executable file these day, the DOS header occupies the first 64 bytes of the file, it is present so that the program runs fine if loaded form DOS mode, then followed by PX header.
Viewing PE files is simplified using tools like PEview.
Click the image to enlarge, you will see that the IDATA PE header contains all the Dll's that it loads, even the functions it calls, do not expect malware to be like this, they are heavily obfuscated. Using PEView, we can find out if an program has been packed or not.
Look at the Size of Raw Data and the Virtual Size, if you find that Virtual Size is insanely large that Size of Raw Data, you can safely assume that it is packed.(look in IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER .text ).
For example look at StuxNet, the Virtual Store is 16AD while Size of Raw Data is 1800, meaning that it unpacks and the process kills itself, i.e spawns itself. The PE shows a lot of useful info about the program.


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Q: Archive parameter not looping I am using the wp_get_archives function to display a list of posts on my sidebar. Currently this does work as intended.
I want to build upon this sidebar by displaying get_the_title() and get_the_excerpt(). these also work.
However they are only displaying the current title and excerpt and not the corresponding title and excerpt to the current post.
Example:

Post 1 displays post 1's title and excerpt.
Post 2 displays post 1's title and excerpt.

Here is my full sidebar:

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How can I make my posts display their corresponding titles and excerpts?

A: So as my sidebar gets more involved, I thought it best to refactor and create a sidebar.php template.
Within my sidebar.php template I use get_posts() within get_posts() you can use setup_postdata( $post ) to globalize post information like the_excerpt(), the_title(), etc.


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John Irving (n. 17 septembrie 1989, Portsmouth) este un fotbalist englez care evoluează la clubul galez Bala Town FC pe postul de fundaș. Anterior a evoluat și la clubul Everton FC din Premier League.

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Nașteri în 1989
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1. Start with your body in a straight line and your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Keep your toes and balls of the feet touching the floor.
2. Bring one knee up toward the center of your stomach and then quickly alternate between legs.
3. Continue alternating until set is complete.
Maintain a plank position during the entire exercise, keep your core engaged, your hips low and your body in a straight line. It's important to maintain proper alignment to get the most out of the exercise. Don't sacrifice the form for the speed and try to breathe as slowly as possible.
Mountain climbers are a dynamic, compound exercise, that works several muscles simultaneously and in a constant movement. This full body exercise has the added bonus of raising your heart rate and boosting your metabolism. Adding mountain climbers to your workout routine can also help increase aerobic fitness, flexibility and agility.
Start with a slow pace and do 1 or 2 sets of 8 to 10 repetitions. Once you're comfortable you can increase the number of sets and reps. With mountain climbers, it's crucial that you pay special attention to the alignment of the body. Practice doing planks first and then you can safely advance to mountain climbers.


This document describes Zeeco's approach to designing the ZEECO® DB Series Low NOx burner to exceed environmental standards.
Rex K. Isaacs, Director of Burner Products, Zeeco, Inc.
Zeeco® offers the proven GLSF Enhanced Jet Flat Flame technology for ethylene cracking, coking, reforming and process heater-type applications that require a flat flame profile and low emissions.
This report outlines the thermal analysis and airflow distribution model as part of an air heater package produced by Zeeco.


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Östlig stenkrypare (Lithobius pelidnus) är en mångfotingart som beskrevs av Haase 1880. Östlig stenkrypare ingår i släktet Lithobius och familjen stenkrypare. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige.

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Arten delas in i följande underarter:

 L. p. pelidnus
 L. p. triangulatus

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Gloucester Shopping Centre offer more than 52 brand name stores. Gloucester Shopping Centre is located in Gloucester, Ontario - 1980 Ogilvie Rd., Gloucester, Ontario, ON K1J 9L3, Canada (GPS: 45.431864, -75.609996).
Look at the list of stores in Gloucester Shopping Centre, hours, location and information about mall and special events, sales, coupons. You can choose store from list below and get detail information - other stores locations for the brand, location, shopping hours, phone, map, directions contact. Gloucester Shopping Centre is one of the best shopping place for spend your free time - mall/shopping center has all types of stores - outlets, department, fashion, traditional and more.
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Some performers don't realize the many benefits to playing at charity events. Besides Karma and the fact that you are helping out a good cause, you can actually benefit from donating your services. From the fans you'll gain to the exposure you'll get, it is a win-win situation for all involved.
First of all, many people attend charity events. The best way to sell your services is for people to see you perform. You never know where your next gig is going to come from. An audience member at a charity event might fall in love with your performance and decide that you would be the perfect fit for their upcoming event. There could even be a few music and event professionals in the room – venue owners, event planners, record company execs. – that you may impress enough to get offers from.
Even if you don't leave the event with a new gig lined up, you should leave with a good number of new fans. Having fans is never a bad thing. You can never have enough people talking about you to their friends and family.
Don't be shy to tell the audience to 'like' you on Facebook or to look you up on GigMasters. The more people you can get in front of, the more fans you get and the more likely you are to get booked at better venues – even those that require a certain draw.
The more fans you get and the more successful gigs you play, the more likely you are to become the 'go-to' band for parties and events in your area. Not bad for playing one non-paying gig.
Besides the potential clients in the audience, most charity events are covered by some type of media. If it's not your local TV station it may be a newspaper or magazine. This gives you a chance for free publicity. Not only did you play the event, you donated your services! Remember to save any publicity you get – you can use it in the future to secure more bookings at bigger and better venues.
If you get contacted by someone hosting a charity event and they don't plan on having any media there, it is ok, as long as you get their permission, to contact the local newspaper to cover the event. Not only would this guarantee your name in the paper but the host would most likely appreciate the assistance.
In addition to all this, why not give back to your community just for the sake of it? We all have known someone that has been affected by disease or tragedy. Why not use your talents to give back to the less fortunate and to help your local community? You got into music because you love to play, so why not just go out and do what you love?!