I would like to watch Hana Yori Dango because it was one of the first Japanese dramas that I saw and liked, what made me love Japanese dramas.
Just about everything I have watched elsewhere because I would like for them to be translated into my language in order for people in my country that don't know good English to be able to enjoy them as I did.
Examples: Ace won Nerae, Attention please, Attack No1, Nurse Aoi, Anego, Bambino, samurai high school, hero 1&2, chance, change, golden bowl,love revolution, love generation, 14 sai no haha, tumbling, umazerou, fireboys, rescue, god hand teru,iruye team dragon all seasons, gokusen all seasons, code blue all seasons, bloody monday 1 and 2, binbo danshi, at home dad, abarenbo mama, edison no haha, prince of tennish live action, absolute boyfriend 1 and 2, almost 40, hataraki man, gyne, koumizarou, and many many more.
There is the Season 2 of Hana Yori Dango aka Hana Nochi Hare (that is broadcasted right now).
Uh oh! From this title I understand it must be veeery melodramatic.
Yes, I'll admit that 1 Litre of Tears can be a very emotionally moving story, but here's what I like about it.
Rather than being pure fiction, it's based on a true story, and a best-selling book written by the heroine herself. Of course, I'm sure the usual dramatic liberties were taken in the script, but still, it's not totally manufactured.
This is one of the first J-dramas I was exposed to, and contributed to my getting hooked on Asian dramas. It aired in 2005, although I saw it several years later. There may be some nostalgia involved in wanting to see it again, but there's more to it than that.
There was a lot of effort involved in actually watching this drama. Without the benefit of Viki or any other such service to see it on, I had to hunt down sequential excerpts from it on YouTube in order to watch it. The pieces I could find were often of different lengths and of varying resolutions, posted by an assortment of users. Definitely not optimal, but the fact that I was willing to go through that to watch speaks to how this drama was able to grab me and hold my interest. So now, I would really like to watch it as it was meant to be seen - without the fragmentation and in HD!
So now, I would really like to watch it as it was meant to be seen - without the fragmentation and in HD!
Well, if viki doesn't get it, it's available somewhere. I easily found it. Of course I'm not allowed to post a link, but a very short search should yield results.
15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. She has been falling down often and walks strange. Her mother, Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Aya has spinocerebellar degeneration - a terrible disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat.
_I watched a lot of K-drama and J-drama that a lot of people say that would make you cry but I never cried that much while watching it, It makes me sad but not to the point that would make me cry that much teary eyed maybe?? But this drama broke the record! 1 Liter of Tears indeed! I've watched it twice already but the impact of the drama in me is still the same! I'ts the only time that I watched a drama that would make me cry and sad soooooo much!!
Little drops of water is what makes an almighty ocean!
I watched this over 10 years ago and still to this day, this is the saddest thing I've ever watched. You just cannot compare this to anything else. It still withstands as being iconic to me...there's just so much meaning to it. I'm not entirely sure if I'd watch it again though - just cos I'd cry all over again and be in such a state. (Just to give you an idea: I remember I cried every episode except the first. And by cried, I mean sobbed.) However, you cannot miss this. Just prepare yourselves!
There were a lot of dramas mentioned, so I won't even mention them anymore (Hana Yori Dango, 1 liter of Tears!!!), but I would add the original Rich Man Poor Woman, with Shun Oguri (he nailed it there; literally).
Maybe dramas like Boku to star no 99 nichi being a little cross over with k-drama would also peek the interest of people that usually only watch k-dramas. Aside from that I really liked Buzzer Beat. Nodame Cantabile is also pretty famous. But some more current dramas/movies would also be great. Re:LIVE was a nice movie for example, relatively light hearted.
I would love for you guys to watch here at Rviki WHAT I LONG FOR.
It's something like the American version of 13 reasons why. Trying to make sense of their suicide. The Japanese version is not why but WHAT. The american version concentrates on WHY. Really cool, I recommend both.
I need to watch this drama!
Yes! I was looking for Hana Yori Dango, Last Friends... Classic Japanese Dramas.
guardian, beautiful bones, shirlock,, lady shurlock and many more. I want to see them all.
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Countries Announced for Goalball Competition at 2019 IBSA Qualifier in Fort Wayne
Posted May 13, 2019 Goalball | National Goalball Teams | Tokyo 2020
Colorado Springs, Colo. (May 13, 2019) – The 27 goalball teams vying to secure a place in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games at this summer's International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) International Qualifier in Fort Wayne, Indiana, have been finalized. The announcement comes with 50 days remaining before the July 2-9 competition at Turnstone Center and Indiana Tech.
The 27 teams include 14 men's and 13 women's squads. The top two teams in each gender at the conclusion of the tournament will earn berths at next year's Paralympic Games, provided they have not already qualified.
"The level of competition in this IBSA qualifying tournament will be incredibly strong," said Mark Lucas, executive director of the United States Association of Blind Athletes. "With more than 100 countries competing internationally in goalball, these are the best teams in the world who have yet to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games."
The U.S. goalball teams boast nine Paralympic medalists on their rosters including Asya Miller (Portland, Ore.), Lisa Czechowski (Boonton, N.J.), Amanda Dennis (Peachtree City, Ga.), Eliana Mason (Beaverton, Ore.) and Marybai Huking (Plain City, Utah) on the women's side, and Tyler Merren (Coral Springs, Fla.), John Kusku (Commerce Township, Mich.), Joseph Hamilton (Sacramento, Calif.) and Andrew Jenks (Wilmington, Del.) on the men's team.
The American teams are coming off medal-winning performances at the most recent Paralympic Games in Rio in 2016, where the men's squad captured the silver medal and the women's team won the bronze.
Other teams selected for the men's goalball tournament are Argentina, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine. The strong field includes the past three Paralympic gold medalists in Lithuania (2016), Finland (2012) and China (2008).
The women's field boasts two-time Paralympic champion Canada along with powerhouse Denmark, the third-most decorated country at the Paralympic Games with four medals, including one gold. Other nations in the women's tournament are Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Korea, Spain and Ukraine.
"For many of these teams competing, this is their first and last chance to secure a spot in Tokyo, and with only six spots left to qualify, all teams will be extremely motivated to win more than ever," added Lucas.
The event also includes the IBSA Judo Qualifier from July 3-5 at the Grand Wayne Center, as well as the IBSA General Assembly.
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On the surface, Doug Flynn's life and baseball career appear pedestrian, but it is far from that.
Flynn made his major league debut in 1975 as a member of the Cincinnati Reds. Over his first two major league seasons he mostly watched as, arguably one of the greatest teams in baseball history, won two World Series. The Big Red Machine as they are now often referred was loaded with talent: Johnny Bench, George Foster, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Ken Griffey.
On June 15, 1977, the Reds traded four players — Pat Zachry, Steve Henderson, Dan Norman and Flynn — to New York for Tom Seaver. The deal shocked New York fans and thrilled Cincinnati.
"You think it doesn't bother you, but then you hear people shouting: 'We want Seaver,'" said Flynn. "We four guys in the trade used to say that it would be silly to try to live up to the Seaver pressure. We just didn't want to go down in history as a trivia question: 'Who were the four guys traded in 1977 for Tom Seaver?'"
More than 40 years later, Flynn called the trade the "best thing that ever happened to me as a baseball player." For Flynn, the trade gave him a chance to become an everyday player. The opportunity also allowed him to show off his defensive skills, winning a Gold Glove in 1980 as a member of the Mets.
But playing baseball in New York, in the shadow of "The Franchise," was nothing compared to what Doug Flynn was living with trying to manage off the field. In January 1977, just months before the trade to New York, Flynn's sister, Melanie, went missing and was later suspected murdered. Flynn later confessed that dealing with life in New York combined with his sister's disappearance "weighed" heavily on him.
To this day, Melanie Flynn is still considered missing. No body has been found. Suspects have died. Potential witnesses have not provided anything new. But the Flynn family remains hopeful that an answer will one day come. In 1989, the book, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, shed some light on the events surrounding Melanie Flynn's death, but still, the case remains open. You can read more about the facts of the case below.
Doug Flynn joins us on the latest Mets Rewind podcast. You can listen to the streaming interviewing below or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify or the iHeart Media Podcast Network.
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February 23, 2010 6:45PM EST
UK: 'Fast Track' Asylum System Fails Women
Accelerated Asylum Procedure Unsuited to Complex Claims
A security officer walks down one of the corridors of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Center. Women who go through the detained fast track system are held here. © 2002 Reuters
(London) – Women who fear severe human rights abuses if returned to their home countries are not getting fair consideration of their asylum claims under the United Kingdom's "detained fast track" asylum system, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 69-page report, "Fast-Tracked Unfairness: Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK" documents how women asylum seekers with complex claims are being routed into a system designed for much simpler claims. The women are held in detention largely for the UK's administrative convenience, have very little time to prepare a legal case, and have only a few days to appeal if refused. But the claims often involve such sensitive and difficult issues as sexual violence, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and domestic abuse. There is little time for lawyers or other representatives to build the trust with their clients needed for them to explain their claims or to obtain medical or other evidence needed to verify them.
"The 'detained fast track' system doesn't meet even the basic standards of fairness," said Gauri van Gulik, women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. "It is simply not equipped to handle rape, slavery, the threat of 'honor killings,' or other complex claims, and yet such cases are handed to it regularly."
The report is based on research conducted in the UK in 2009, in locations such as Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Human Rights Watch conducted 50 interviews, including with women in detention who were going through the "detained fast track" system, women who had gone through part of the system but were taken out, solicitors, representatives of nongovernmental organizations working with the women, and Border Agency officials.
"If I go back, my husband and my family kill me," said Fatima H., a woman from Pakistan who based her claim on severe domestic violence and was refused in the fast track system. She spoke to Human Rights Watch on September 24, 2009. "If there [is] in this world a little bit of humanity or you can say human rights, please protect me from them. If no, then allow me to kill myself as a right of human who have nothing in this world, not a little place where I live safe."
The report describes a screening procedure with guidelines too vague for the border agents who make the decisions about how a woman's case will be handled to assess properly the complexity of many women's cases and whether they can be handled adequately in the fast track system. Despite the UK Border Agency's own gender guidelines, designed to explain particular considerations around gender-related claims, some Border Agency staff lack a basic understanding of the special issues often involved in women's asylum claims, Human Rights Watch said.
Once routed into the fast track, women with complex cases have far too little time to prepare their case, obtain medical or other expert opinions, and establish the credibility of their claims. This is especially true in cases involving rape or abuse, where women may only be able to come forward with relevant information late in the process, or not at all, because they may be traumatized by their experience, frightened by the procedure, or simply embarrassed to tell an official.
Placing women in detention exacerbates the problems. Some of the women have no access to female interpreters, case workers, or medical staff.
"The UN, numerous groups that work with immigrants, parliament, and even its own quality assessment team have been telling the Home Office for years that 'fast track' is failing women," van Gulik said. "The UK Border Agency's failure to fix this suggests that deporting women is a higher priority for the agency than protecting them."
In 2008, about one in four women assigned initially to the Detained Fast Track procedure were eventually moved into the standard asylum procedure. The government asserts that this shows that the system is working. But lawyers and nongovernmental organizations told Human Rights Watch that it was their intervention that led most of these cases to be reassigned rather than a reassessment by Border Agency staff. In the regular asylum system, the asylum seekers are not held in detention while their claims are examined, and they have weeks, not days, to prove their claims.
The Detained Fast Track system was created in 2003 and opened up to women in 2005. Currently, it is an important part of an effort by the UK government to "resolve" 90 percent of all asylum claims within six months. Under fast track, an effort is made to decide a claim within two weeks, and the asylum seeker is detained so that the agency will have immediate access to the person for quick processing.
So far 2,055 women have gone through the fast track process, all held at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford. About 96 percent of the claimants were refused on first hearing. Government statistics for 2008 and the first half of 2009 show that 91 percent of appeals were refused.
While the UK is entitled to control its borders and to remove people with unfounded claims, it is also obliged to ensure that people who actually need protection from persecution on Refugee Convention grounds should be granted refugee status, Human Rights Watch said. To ensure this, individuals who may need such protection have the right to a full and fair refugee status examination procedure.
Human Rights Watch said that the Home Office should put more rigorous procedures into effect immediately to ensure that people with complex claims are not routed into the fast track procedure, including:
In the suitability guidance note for routing into this system, add complex gender-related persecution claims, such as sexual violence and domestic violence, to the list of "claims unlikely to be accepted into fast track."
Clarify the criteria for routing a person through fast track, including the factors that would enable a "quick" decision on a claim.
Among the women interviewed was Laura A. from Sierra Leone, who was routed into "detained fast track" but taken out later by the Home Office and eventually granted refugee status based on the several forms of gender-related persecution she escaped from. She said of her initial experience and refusal under the fast track system, "I am a fighter, I am used to fight to live, but to be told, 'You faked your life,' is a little like death."
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Ithaka of the Clouds – An Update
February 27, 2013	 Lands of Dream / News / Projects
The first few days of the campaign have been amazing. We freaked out a little when Paypal suddenly stopped processing contributions for almost a day (just our luck), but once everything was fixed we saw that quite a few people were actually supporting us. It's slowed down now, but we've already reached more than $7000! Which is amazing. Seriously. Wow. Thank you. THANK YOU!
We've also made it into the press – RPS, PC Gamer, Adventure Gamers, IndieGames.com, even Eurogamer. At this point it looks like Ithaka is getting more attention than The Sea Will Claim Everything!
It's still a long way to reaching our goal, though, and we could really use your support. Not just in the form of contributions, but also in spreading the word. There are a lot of websites out there that have never heard of the Lands of Dream, or that can't imagine that games like these could have fans. There are also many people who might hugely enjoy Ithaka of the Clouds, but who don't generally think of themselves as gamers and who normally would never hear about a project like this one. You can do a lot to help make Ithaka happen by tweeting about it, sharing links on Facebook, and letting your favourite sites that haven't covered it know that it exists. Don't spam anyone, but retweet/share/submit buttons do exist for a reason. (They do, right? Because otherwise I may have been doing it all wrong…)
We'd like to do a video giving you a bit more information about the various perks, but before we do: does anyone have any questions? We'll gladly answer them, in the comments or in the video. We've put a lot of care into making each of these perks as cool and unique as possible, because we really don't want to feel like we're ripping you off. If you're going to pay a lot of money, you should at least get something special.
We will, of course, also answer questions not related to the perks! Several people have asked when the game is set, for example, to which the answer is "a long time before any of the other games". So you will be returning to many of the locations you've seen before, but they will be quite different.
Ah, I'm rambling again. Do feel free to ask if there's anything you want to know, and see you in the next update.
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Matters of Substance - May 2010
Ross Bell
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The Government's rejection of the Law Commission's proposal to raise alcohol excise tax flies in the face of common sense and incontrovertible scientific evidence.
The research may be complex but it is also irrefutable. Raising the price of alcohol reduces consumption – including among heavy drinkers and young people – and reduces harms such as car crashes, violence and disease. It also reduces the likelihood of young or moderate drinkers becoming heavy drinkers.
The often heard but mischievous sound bite about 'penalising the majority of responsible New Zealanders' is just cleverly constructed misinformation. New Zealanders who drink moderately will incur only minor cost increases from a 50 percent rise in excise tax. An average 330ml can of beer would cost just 17 cents more, and an $11 bottle of wine would go up by just 96 cents.
In fact, alcohol is already costing us dearly – whether through delay in getting treatment at an emergency department flooded with intoxicated patients each weekend or through our tax dollars funding the frontline services mopping up the effects of this epidemic. (Alcohol-related issues suck up at least 18 percent of the total Police budget.)
It is therefore critical that revenue from excise tax directly funds the mitigation of alcohol harms including prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services. We can learn from the experience across the ditch. In 1992, the Northern Territory put an extra 5 cent levy on every standard drink sold and used the revenue to fund a range of alcohol harm prevention and rehabilitation measures. Evaluation showed significant decline in alcohol-attributable mortality as a result.
The World Health Organization identifies raising prices as an ideal policy instrument for reducing substance harm. Our Government clearly understands this when it comes to tobacco, yet has chosen to ignore this advice when it comes to alcohol.
Of course, price alone won't solve the problem, which is precisely why the Law Commission says Government should adopt its recommendations as a package and not just cherry pick the least politically risky options.
The Law Commission's final report is comprehensive, balanced and firmly evidence-based. Raising excise tax is no magic bullet, but as part of a balanced package of measures, it will significantly contribute towards reducing the ongoing carnage from alcohol misuse plaguing our communities.
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Kyrie Irving addressed his future in Boston. Kind of.
Celtics guard Kyrie Irving spoke to the media Friday morning for the first time since recent reports emerged from Yahoo! Sports and Bleacher Report that he may have interest in becoming a Los Angeles Laker.
He later said that the plan is to remain with the Celtics.
"At the end of the day I spent the last eight years trying to do what everybody else wanted me to do in terms of making my decisions and trying to validate through the media, through other personnel, managers, anybody in this business,'' Irving said.


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Evidence Corner: G.L. c. 233 s. 79B
The Supreme Judicial Court recently issued a decision regarding a little-used and often-overlooked hearsay exception that provides an avenue for the admission of a wide variety of documents into evidence. In N.E. Physical Therapy Plus, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., the Court held that the trial court properly rejected an attempt by Liberty Mutual to offer into evidence a statistical study culled from a database of medical charges, as evidence that the plaintiff's charges were unreasonably high.
Liberty attempted to invoke G.L. c. 233, § 79B, which provides that:
"Statements of fact of general interest to persons engaged in an occupation contained in a list, register, periodical, book or other compilation, issued to the public, shall, in the discretion of the court, if the court finds that the compilation is published for the use of persons engaged in that occupation and commonly is used and relied upon by them, be admissible in civil cases as evidence of the truth of any fact so stated."
The trial court rejected the evidence, noting that the statistics offered by Liberty Mutual were based on data voluntarily submitted by participating insurers, to which a proprietary formula was applied. There was no evidence that the resulting costs had ever been cross-checked against actual data for accuracy. In fact, the Court noted that the New York Attorney General had investigated the company and criticized the methodology, noting that its calculations seemed to understate medical costs.
Liberty Mutual argued–against the specific language of the statute–that the trial judge had no discretion to reject the evidence. The SJC, not surprisingly, disagreed. The Court noted that the exercise of discretion encompassed a finding of reliability or trustworthiness by the trial court as a foundation requirement for admissibility.
Notwithstanding Liberty Mutual's failure, G.L. c.233 s.79B is a powerful weapon in the trial lawyer's arsenal. The statute's potential applicability is limited only by the lawyer's imagination, and may provide a path to admissibility for a surprisingly broad range of documents into evidence. These may include such varied items as membership directories, Medicare billing code definitions, historical interest rates, and other financial calculations. The statute forms the basis for Section 803(17) of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence.
Any trial lawyer with a directory or database to offer should review Section 79B to see if the document satisfies the requirement for admissibility under this important but largely ignored statute. If the document contains objective facts, rather than conclusions or opinions, there's a good chance it's admissible under Section 79B.
Read the decision in N.E. Physical Therapy v. Liberty Mutual here.
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Q: Flutter try changing the type of the parameter, or casting the argument I do not understand this error which SOMETIMES appears out of nowhere and other times lays silent.
Porting an app from a typical React & Redux type I'm trying to implement Redux (it is implemented and working actually). One of my models which handles theming looks like this:
import 'package:flutter_web/material.dart';

enum ThemeType { light, dark }

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    textTheme: {
        "headline": TextStyle(
            fontSize: 72.0, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold
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        "title": TextStyle(
            fontSize: 36.0, color: Colors.blueGrey
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        "body1": TextStyle(fontSize: 14.0)
    },
    brightness: Brightness.light,
    fontFamily: "Roboto"
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class ThemeModel {
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    String fontFamily;
    Brightness brightness;
    Map<String, Color> colors;
    Map<String, TextStyle> textTheme;

    ThemeModel({
        this.currentTheme,
        this.fontFamily,
        this.brightness,
        this.colors,
        this.textTheme
    });

    factory ThemeModel.initialState() => defaultTheme;

    ThemeModel setDark() {
        //  Must return a new instance
        return new ThemeModel(
            currentTheme: ThemeType.dark,
            colors: new Map<String, Color>.from(defaultTheme.colors)
                ..addAll({
                    "primary": Colors.amber,
                }),
            textTheme: defaultTheme.textTheme,
            brightness: Brightness.dark,
            fontFamily: defaultTheme.fontFamily,
        );
    }

    ThemeModel setLight() {
        return defaultTheme;
    }
}

The main part (entrypoint) of the application uses a view model that pulls this theme info:
class Typely extends StatelessWidget {
    final store = new Store<AppState>(
        appStateReducer,
        initialState: new AppState.initialState(),
        middleware: createAppMiddleware()
    );

    @override
    Widget build(BuildContext context) {
        return StoreProvider(
            store: store,
            child: StoreConnector<AppState, _ViewModel>(
                converter: _ViewModel.fromStore,
                builder: (context, vm) {
                    return MaterialApp(
                        title: 'Free online proofreading and essay editor - Typely',
                        debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
                        theme: ThemeData(
                            brightness: vm.theme.brightness,
                            primaryColor: vm.theme.colors["primary"],
                            accentColor: vm.theme.colors["accent"],
                            fontFamily: vm.theme.fontFamily,
                            textTheme: TextTheme(
                                headline: vm.theme.textTheme["headline"],
                                title: vm.theme.textTheme["title"],
                                body1: vm.theme.textTheme["body1"],
                            ),
                        ),
                        routes: {
                            "/": (context) => PageWrapper(child: HomePage()),
                        },
                    );
                }
            ),
        );
    }
}

class _ViewModel {
    final ThemeModel theme;

    _ViewModel({
        @required this.theme,
    });

    static _ViewModel fromStore(Store<AppState> store) {
        return _ViewModel(
            theme: store.state.theme,
        );
    }
}

30% of the time my application works but, quite often as I'm making changes, this error appears:
Error compiling dartdevc module:typely|lib/main.ddc.js

packages/typely/main.dart:65:23: Error: The argument type 'ThemeModel/*1*/' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'ThemeModel/*2*/'.
 - 'ThemeModel/*1*/' is from 'package:typely/store/models/_theme.dart' ('packages/typely/store/models/_theme.dart').
 - 'ThemeModel/*2*/' is from 'package:typely/store/models/_theme.dart' ('packages/typely/store/models/_theme.dart').
Try changing the type of the parameter, or casting the argument to 'ThemeModel/*2*/'.
            theme: store.state.theme,
                               ^

From what I'm reading it may be related to the fact that the imports for that model are not always the same but I triple-checked and it's consistent using absolute imports from the package:
import 'package:typely/store/models/_theme.dart';

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I've never met Bob Dylan.
But I've met Bryan Leckie of the Krueger Band, and it's probably as close as I'll get. I don't know if Leckie would be happy with the comparison. I know he's a Bob fan, but I don't know if he sees himself that way.
He might prefer Edgar Allen Poe. Both are figures he brought up in our first conversation after I wandered into his print shop one afternoon. I came in to put up a poster, and I left an hour later with a Krueger Motel CD in my hand and a fascination with this Dylan-esque character that I'd heard so much about.
In one of our conversations in his 'sitting room' (crafted with two chairs by his shop window where I imagine he finds inspiration for songs watching the characters of Owen Sound walk by), he tells me he's got a "really cool thing" to tell me that's absolutely true, he says.
He leans back and launches into his story: "While we were recording over at Trevor's [Mackenzie]…and we…were figuring out the arrangement, we were asking ourselves 'is that right?' and I said 'that's not the way I heard it in the future.'" He stops and offers one of his classic smiles that pushes his black handlebar moustache up towards his nose.
"So we finished the whole CD, and it's out. And about a week later I'm at Metro talking to the lady that usually checks me out and it turns out she lives in the house I used to live in when I was a kid," he says and stops to go turn down the Phil Ochs playing from his shop stereo.
"Maybe I have heard it when I was a kid," he says.
The armchair psychologist in me wondered if this is an unconscious way of making music that the future Leckie will enjoy. So I ask him if he's worried about his future self liking the albums he produces.
"Me?" he asks. "I don't care." And laughs.
But are you ever concerned about the longevity of the music? I follow up.
Our next meeting takes place at his house. He's invited me to one of his rehearsals with new Krueger singers Corrie Martindill and Lisa Stethem. He didn't tell them I was coming, so when I showed up with pen and camera in hand, they were a little surprised. He first leads me into the kitchen – it's the bar, and offers me a drink, I choose bourbon and wander the house. Some rooms he's filled with records and CDs, some with books, some with instruments. The walls are lined with posters of the very things that influence his writing.
It's Poe that hangs from numerous spots in the living room looking down in his macabre fashion on the rehearsal taking place. Corrie and Lisa are new to the band, an ever changing crew that rotates around the enigmatic front man who keeps the Krueger machine rolling. Some of his constants over the years have been Trevor Mackenzie, Larry Dickinson, Rob McLean and Dave Farrar. His previous singers have been Lauren Jewel, Josi Elder, and Silvie Kindree.
"You don't want to hang outside the song," he says to his new bandmates, Corrie and Lisa, as they rehearse one from their setlist. "Take control of it," he advises, and follows up with one of those classic smiles I mentioned. They launch back into the song.
They're rehearsing for the upcoming Heartwood Hall show on April 26, billed as The Show They Never Gave – perfectly titled if you know Leckie's reverence for all things cryptic. I came to understand this side of him when he explained the band name to me, which is also the title of his first album, Freddy Krueger's Hat.
It isn't what you think. Leckie isn't obsessed with the character Freddy Krueger, or even the movie Nightmare on Elm Street.
No, he's more interested in the one scene when the girl wakes up from a dream she met Freddy in, and when the scientists don't believe her, she produces the hat. The hat is the thing that can't be explained. "Here's this. It can't be, but here's this," he mimics to finish the story.
And that's what fascinates Leckie – the things that are that just can't be. He's got a talent for taking pieces from pop culture and turning them into his own creations. And these creations span an output of more than 9 albums. His stories and his songs are adventures through pop culture history drawing on everything from the X Files to Marilyn Monroe to Hitler's dog to the JFK Assassination.
There's enough in those lyrics that could fill an hour of an English lit lecture. Plus, I love that he rhymed 'balcony' with 'Valkerie'.
And that's what makes him so similar to Bob Dylan. It's not just the way he looks with his wavy black hair and dark outfits. It's not even the way he talks, but it's the connections he makes in his songs to all the things he's collected in his life. He's absorbed so many fascinating characters, stories, and titles that create narratives only he can tell. And he's fascinated by the way words sound together.
"I wanted to make Krueger more of a Edgar Allan Poe character. I just like the sound of the name," he says to finish up his justification for its central role in his music. The sound of the words is something that many lyrical musicians are concerned about, including Dylan and Paul Simon, and it's no wonder that Leckie is too. He's very well read, and was actually on his way to teach high school English after university but found there were no jobs waiting for him. He opted to start a print shop instead, which he's been doing for forty years. It's worked out well for him as a place to listen to music, entertain visitors, and above all write hundreds of songs.
And over those years, he's written himself into Owen Sound's musicology. He's played Summerfolk a few times, including the very early years. He tells me he even ordered a bunch of his CDs leading up to the festival performance only to have them arrive on the Monday following. He's full of stories like this one, and I'm pulling them out of him slowly.
He's quietly built himself into a musical icon in this region and I'm surprised his music hasn't traveled further. It's got everything to give it mass appeal, while also appealing to the serious music lovers. He experiments on each album by taking on genres of folk, country, blues, and doo-wop. He surrounds himself with talent, so his band is tight. But he admits it's hard to get people together these days to rehearse. He actually holds his rehearsals in stages with different members at different times.
It's clear from talking to him that he's always got music on his mind. "It's what I do all day. I'm writing a song write now," he says. And he takes his time with them. They are crafted well so that a listener can enjoy them on many levels.
But there's a problem with this kind of songwriting – he worries that it's in danger of becoming obsolete.
"We used to have a common mythology," he says. "Now that I'm getting older I'm losing [it]. You could pull on characters and everyone knew who they were…they're drifting away," he says as he references things like Seinfeld and the Ed Sullivan show.
He tells me his songs stay with him until they're ready to come into the world. Sometimes it takes the right person, like ex-Krueger singer, Lauren Jewell, who coaxed Far Country out of him after 40 plus years of having it half written. "The song is about the stages of a person's life…I didn't know I'd have to live the damn thing. But then she sang it and it was done. I didn't know it was a girl's song. It isn't, it's about a guy," he says and laughs. But his approach works for him. He doesn't force it and eventually the songs get finished when they're meant to be finished.
He's also written a song dedicated to Heartwood Hall, where he's performed previously, a show billed as Krueger Meets Dylan, which reinforces my original theory and makes me think Leckie would be okay with the comparison after all.
With all these new songs, I assume there must be a new album in the works. Considering Krueger Island was a double, and Krueger Motel was a triple, I ask him what he plans for the next.
"It'll be a five" laughs.
I think he's joking, and he probably is, but you never know with Leckie. And considering the amount of songs he's created over the years, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he releases a five disc album.
The funny thing is that while I'm interviewing him, I get the feeling that he's figuring out how to use our interaction in a tune. He already told me he's writing a song right now, so I know I'm at risk of becoming a line in it, a cryptic line I expect.
I just hope he doesn't call me Mr Jones.
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Sticks & Stones I, II, III, 2013-2015
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American Images, 2014
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Central boulder on image: 66 x 87.6 x 57.2 cm | 26 x 34 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
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Untitled (margin), 2013
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Sticks & Stones IV, V, VI, 2013-2015
Heavy on the Page (version 2), 2009
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GRIMM proudly announces two new solo exhibitions by Lucy Skaer, running simultaneously at both gallery spaces in Amsterdam. In her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, Lucy Skaer presents keys works from the last ten years of her practise. The new exhibition space at the Keizersgracht will showcase some of Skaer's most iconic works, including Black Alphabet (originally part of The Siege, nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009). The show at Frans Halsstraat will feature, among other works, Sticks & Stones, a monumental sculpture series that was recently expanded by three new pieces.
Each of these works were originally conceived for and exhibited in a different context. American lithographic limestone boulders were brought from the Midwest to Oregon and placed over load bearing posts, marking the structural spine of an old building. Copies of Brancusi's Bird in Space made from compressed coal, became both the fuel and the protagonists in a staged Siege, when a layer of narrative added to an industrial building in London. Bring- ing these works together here runs counter to the original intention and meaning, but allows for a different creativity to emerge, one that takes in to account what it is to deploy the works again with the added dimension of the passing of time.
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After making two major retrospective shows, in 1974 and '75, the artist Anne Truitt wrote:
The force of this concentrated and unprecedented attention to my work, and to me, swept over me like a tidal wave. The objects I had been making for years and years were drawn in to visibility and, many of them for the first time, set forth to the public eye. But it was not this aspect of the situation which confounded me. The works stood clear, each in its own space, intact. It was I myself who, the longer and more intensely we worked, failed to stand clear.
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Protesters on the streets of Lago Agrio. Credit: Rainforest Action Network
With more than three people killed every week, 2015 was the deadliest year for environmental and land activists, according to a new study.
Global Witness said that at least 185 environmental activists were killed last year across 16 countries, the highest annual death toll on record.
According to the report published on Monday by the UK-based watchdog, fatal attacks increased by nearly 60 percent over the previous year.
Global Witness documented lethal attacks across 16 countries. Brazil was worst hit with 50 deaths, many of them killings of campaigners who were trying to combat illegal logging in the Amazon. The Philippines was second with 33.
Colombia had 26 fatal attacks; Peru, 12; Nicaragua, 12; and Democratic Republic of Congo had 11.
Conflicts over mining were the number one cause of killings in 2015, with agricultural businesses, hydroelectric dams and logging also key drivers of violence.
"As demand for products like minerals, timber and palm oil continues, governments, companies and criminal gangs are seizing land in defiance of the people who live on it," said Global Witness campaign leader Billy Kyte.
"Communities that take a stand are increasingly finding themselves in the firing line of companies' private security, state forces and a thriving market for contract killers. For every killing we document, many others go unreported. Governments must urgently intervene to stop this spiralling violence."
In 2015, almost 40% of victims were from indigenous groups according to the report.
The number might be higher since indigenous victims are under-reported, Global Witness said.
Global Witness say that It is likely that the true death toll is far higher as many of the murders occur in remote villages or deep within rainforests – for every killing the organisation are able to document, others cannot be verified, or go unreported.
"The murders that are going unpunished in remote mining villages or deep within rainforests are fuelled by the choices consumers are making on the other side of the world," said Kyte.
"Companies and investors must cut ties with projects that trample over communities' rights to their land. Our warming climate and growing population mean that pressures on land and natural resources are set to increase. Without urgent intervention the numbers of deaths we're seeing now will be dwarfed by those in the future."
Smaller communities are completely displaced as their land is cleared for whatever developments are planned, according to the UK-based watchdog.
In one incident, activists in Peru launched a protest against a Chinese-run mining company. Police opened fire on the protesters, killing four of them and injuring 15 others.
The family of Michelle Campos were among those killed. In September 2015, her father and grandfather were executed in full view of their family and friends in an attack that drove 3,000 indigenous people from their homes. Rich in coal, nickel and gold, their region of Mindanao in the Philippines is one of the most dangerous in the world for land and environmental activists, with 25 deaths in 2015 alone.
"We get threatened, vilified and killed for standing up to the mining companies on our land and the paramilitaries that protect them," said Michelle.
"My father, grandfather and school teacher were just three of countless victims. We know the murderers – they are still walking free in our community. We are dying and our government does nothing to help us."
Global Witness are calling for urgent, meaningful action to end the rising tide of violence which – despite the high profile murder of Berta Caceres earlier this year – is largely escaping international attention.
Download the full version of the Global Witness report, On Dangerous Ground (pdf)
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Amazing 2013 for Appery.io – Year in Review
2013 was a stellar year for the Appery.io platform!
The biggest event happened in April when we launched the Appery.io platform a (pronounced "Appery dot io"), as we transitioned from the Tiggzi app UI builder to a completely cloud-based mobile app platform for creating enterprise HTML5 and native mobile apps. The Appery.io platform provides both an app UI builder and integrated backend services (MBaaS) including a cloud database, push notifications, and a server code facility.
Faster Mobile Development
To celebrate launching Appery.io, we participated in the famous TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and Conference. The new Appery.io completely stole the show. Over 30 teams used the Appery.io platform to build mobile apps during the hackathon, the highest number for any platform or builder. Three teams, Bar Power (1st), Career Hound (2nd), and Waterlog (3rd), won Appery.io prizes. We were impressed with the innovation and quality of all the apps built in Appery.io. In fact, other Appery.io apps won prizes from other sponsors, including prizes from Visa and AT&T!
After the amazing success at the TechCrunch Hackathon, we went on to add some really useful features. In addition to the already available cloud database and push notifications, we added the Server Code feature to Appery.io Backend Services. Server Code allows you to write any custom app logic and invoke it on the Appery.io server without the need to maintain any servers yourself. We also launched source-code editing right in the app builder and also app versioning — both features often requested by users.
In 2013, we partnered with three amazing companies: Salesforce, Heroku, and Mashery. In the summer, we published the Salesforce plug-in, which became the Salesforce Mobile Pack for Appery.io. The Mobile Pack makes it super fast and easy to build mobile apps with the Salesforce platform. While the Mobile Pack greatly simplifies app development, we wanted to make it even simpler. Just before the Salesforce Dreamforce conference in November, we launched Salesforce Integration. Right from inside the Appery.io app builder, you can browse all the Salesforce objects in your account and instantly generate services from them. (For more about the partnership with Salesforce, read this analysis.)
The Heroku partnership added a new HTML5 app publishing option. In addition to publishing the app to Appery.io's own HTML5 app hosting, developers can now instantly publish their app to Heroku directly from the Appery.io dashboard.
As part of our partnership with the Mashery API network, we unveiled plug-ins for three Mashery-managed APIs: for ESPN, Aetna, and Best Buy (featured as a Mashery API Power Tool). We followed this up with a joint webinar to discuss our partnership.
Other new features in 2013 were:
Simplified app collaboration
Push message filtering and scheduling
New UI themes
Appery.io Mobile Tester for iOS
New API plug-ins
Updates to jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap libraries
Ability to add any custom PhoneGap plug-in to your app
Appery.io = App UI Builder + Integrated MBaaS
2013 saw some consolidation in the MBaaS (Mobile Backend-as-a-Service) space. Parse was acquired by Facebook in April, and StackMob was acquired by PayPal in December. These were both pure MBaaS players. Over the same time, Appery.io emerged as a complete mobile platform that provides a visual app builder and integrated MBaaS. What's important is the integration. While you can use any API-based backend, the integration between the app builder and Appery.io Backend Services is what makes Appery.io unique and delivers the most value. Probably the best summary of this was done by Ben Kepes. In his post Appery.io and More Mobile Development Democratization, he writes:
"Appery.io sees its point of difference from other MBaaS vendors in that it is offering a complete platform – core development tools, backend services and the ability to integrate third party services. In contrast the others, Kinvey, Parse and StackMob offer, in Appery.io's view, a less complete offering. But unlike purely GUI based approaches, Appery.io also offers the ability to code in JavaScript to make more complex applications."
In other industry news, Appery.io was selected as one of the 10 best mobile platforms (Mashable). And, our CEO had this article published in Slashdot, Software-Development Tools Belong in the Browser. TechCrunch, Mashable, CIO, Forbes… The word has certainly been getting around about Appery.io. Hop over to our news page to keep up on all the latest media buzz over Appery.io.
Developer Outreach and Community
We attended quite a few developer events, such as conferences, hackathons, and trainings this year. We attended API Strategy and Practice conferences in New York and San Francisco, TechCrunch Distrupt in New York, jQuery Conference in Toronto, SXSW in Austin with Mashery, MobiCon, MoDev, and, of course, the very big Dreamforce. We participated in quite a few hackathons, too, with the AT&T Developer Program. We used Appery.io at AT&T DevLab trainings to build complete mobile apps with the AT&T SMS API. We also visited a good number of meetups and user groups from Los Angeles to New York.
We hosted 12 live webinars in 2013. Simply go to our YouTube channel to view the webinars. We are planning many more in 2014.
We placed for two awards. We won a Mobile Merit Award for best Enterprise Product or Service. We were a finalist for a MobITs award in the category of "Applications and Platforms for Enterprise Extensions to Mobile."
Appery.io 2014
No year in review would be complete without mentioning what's planned for this year. Expect a lot more integration between the app UI builder and the backend services: database, push, server code. We are also adding a Secure REST feature to our back end. This will allow you to keep all the API keys on the server for privacy. Expect a new feature where you can generate app pages based on your database schema. This will allow you to create a simple app within seconds. And, of course, there will be new UI components such as Panel, and there will be upgrades to jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. If there are any features you have in mind, please share your ideas with us on our forum.
Happy New Year from the Appery.io team and awesome mobile app building in 2014!
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This week our friend Sasha Frere-Jones was kind enough to share his good counsel. By day, Sasha is the pop critic for The New Yorker, and by night he is a member of the bands Calvinist and Piñata. By day or night, he gives darn good advice.
Lately I've been watching a lot of after-college angst films. Kicking and Screaming by Noah Baumbach and St. Elmo's Fire by Joel Schumacher more than any others, though there are others. Anyway, I'm currently studying writing in Chicago, and with graduation just around the corner I've been wondering about novels that focus on this time period, or perhaps even nonfiction. I realize there are many college novels, and books about people who have in fact received diplomas from various universities, but I'm wondering more about books that focus purely on that new onset of confusion immediately after leaving the comforts of academia.
Try Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? and Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado. Dundy's book is set in 1950s Paris, ground zero for Madcap Hijinks. A young woman named Sally Jay Gorce larks about, alternating between enthusiastic musing and socially inept hedonism. Some of the comedy is too arch, like a Jack Lemmon movie with too much mugging, but Gorce is as likable as Lemmon. Dundy's sentences are rhythmically subtle and easily devoured. It is not a bad thing to be reminded that your postcollege years can be infinitely ill-considered without doing too much damage.
How Should A Person Be? is the inverse of The Dud Avocado. The book's form is fluid and unpredictable: lists are followed by dramatic dialogue, and a fair number of pages are devoted to a competition between friends to see who can create the worst painting. The architecture gives the prose a circular, easy feeling, even though Heti is taking a hard look at what makes life meaningful and how one doesn't end up loveless and lost. It is book peopled by twentysomethings but works easily as a manual for anyone who happens to have run into a spiritual wall. (Heti's book is out in Canada now, but will be released here in June. The American version will be different, because Heti herself wanted to modify the text, a fairly unusual thing in fiction.)
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Could you let me know of a few books, written between 1790 and 1930*, that will make me undepressed? I don't mean a book that's necessarily funny or optimistic, usually those throw me even deeper into depression—I mean something that's going to legitimately make me see the world through someone else's completely fascinating or biased or hyper-judgmental or abstract vision of it so that I can leave my own consciousness for a bit? Or even a book that puts depression into perspective.
*I add a time constraint because I would like to read books that were written before depression was labeled as such, or diagnosed.
I can't promise that either of these books will cure depression or induce happiness—enormous tasks—but both are fantastic and are narrated by protagonists living in fractured worlds. Emilio Lascano Tegui's On Elegance While Sleeping was published in 1925, and is as far from self-help psychobabble as fiction gets. The protagonist, Meursault, is entirely unreliable, and that is not a failing. He wanders, apparently syphilitic, through a French village at some point in the nineteenth century. He witnesses acts of depravation and plans, in a leisurely way, to commit murder. The book is brief and compressed, with the blurred edges of a dream, and the perversity of the characters is matched by the economy of Tegui's prose. The present moment seems pretty timid after spending time in Meursault's mind.
Fernando Pessoa did not exactly write The Book of Disquiet, which was assembled from various scraps and published long after the author's death in 1935. The fragments that make up this book are attributed to Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's several alter egos, or "heteronyms," as he called them. Soares seems almost identical to Pessoa, from what we know, and this work chronicles the life of a flaneur in Lisbon, walking, worrying, assembling, and disassembling his own psyche.
Like a lot of adults in our sad digitized times, I don't have a home stereo system, just some cheap speakers that I use to play music on my computer. Let's imagine for a minute that I have the cash to upgrade this situation—where do I even begin? Like, if I'm not a hobbyistic music listener but I'd still like to listen to music in slightly supra dorm-room conditions. My sense is that I should buy a record player and some records, probably? Which ones? Do I have to spend a zillion bucks? Answer quick, before I realize how embarrassing this question is to even ask!
The easy answer is yes, you should have a turntable and a real stereo system. The slightly less convenient part is that this isn't a fast or cheap task. You don't need to spend $10,000 but you do need to get bits that match. Look to audiophile forums and go to whatever stores still exist near you to audition gear. Spend the money on the speakers and the turntable—decent amplification is not particularly expensive. The digital world is fantastic, and I have no nostalgia for a golden age when sharing was harder and AM radios crackled in and out of operation. Vinyl just creates a physically thrilling experience and it's a smaller world if you don't get to have that feeling regularly. (Insert food or sex metaphor of choice here.)
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As I have only been knitting for a year, it is mistakes like this that strike fear in my heart! Of course, it is also reading, and learning, about how you fixed the problem that is so inspiring!! Thanks!
I learn so much from my mistakes and when I am able to redo things I'm so proud of myself!
These sock make me want to go back to making socks again.
I feel your pain (says the person who knit one sock with a stockinette leg, and the second entirely in rib). But your fix looks beautiful.


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Emirates SkyCargo Partners with Gargash to Transport Alfa Romeos for Celebrity Motor Rally
Cars flown to London to mark Dubai based Gargash's 100th anniversary
Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, and Gargash, one of the largest distributors of premium and luxury cars in the UAE, have partnered to transport two Alfa Romeos from Dubai to London for the prestigious Gumball 3000 motor rally.
The two cars, an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio and an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio were transported onboard an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 freighter from Dubai to London. Emirates SkyCargo's Boeing 777 freighter aircraft can carry up to 100 tonnes of cargo and with its wide main deck doors allows for the transportation of large and outsized cargo.
Both cars will compete as 'Team Alfa' in Gumball 3000, an annual celebrity motor rally established in 1999, which takes place on public roads at different locations around the world. During the first leg of the rally in the first week of August 2018, Team Alfa will travel from London to Bologna. The second leg of the rally will see the cars driving around iconic sites in Japan including the historic cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Mt Fuji. The rally will end in Tokyo on August 12 and Emirates SkyCargo will fly both cars back home to Dubai from Japan.
Team Alfa's participation in the Gumball 3000 rally will mark the 100th year of operations for Gargash, an established name for premium and luxury cars in the UAE.
Watch Emirates SkyCargo roll out the first class experience for Gargash's 'Team Alfa' cars as they fly from Dubai to London for the rally.
"Emirates SkyCargo would like to congratulate Gargash Group on their centenary this year. We are excited to be taking part in this momentous occasion by supporting them in the Gumball 3000 rally. The Alfa Romeos, which will be sporting the Emirates logo throughout the rally, are getting first class treatment under Emirates Wheels and will be handled by our trained and experienced staff at Dubai, London and Tokyo," said Moaza Al Falahi, Emirates Vice President, Cargo Product Development and UAE National Affairs.
"In our 100th year, we are proud to be associated with Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates, a truly iconic representation of the UAE'S global enterprising spirit. Emirates SkyCargo has proven to be an indispensable partner as we begin our epic journey from London to Tokyo," said Shehab Gargash, Managing Director and Group CEO, Gargash Group.
Emirates SkyCargo has extensive experience in transporting high value premium and luxury automobiles on its fleet of passenger as well as freighter aircraft. Emirates Wheels is the air cargo carrier's specialised air transportation solution for automobiles bringing together a modern fleet of 270 all widebody aircraft, an extensive network, state of the art facilities as well as highly experienced personnel for the rapid and secure transportation of cars.
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Enjoy a riding holiday at this country Castle estate, with its lovingly restored 17th century castle, is on the Tuscany Umbria border, close to Lake Bolsena. It has been in the same family for generations and once a favourite summer retreat of the young Pope Pius XII, this estate makes a wonderful holiday base. Daily rides take you to the hilltop town of Onano, past ancient Etruscan tombs, along the infamous Brigand's Path and to the shimmering crater lakes of Mezzano and Bolsena. You can visit the fortified towns of Sorano, Proceno and Pitigliano, There is a sand school for lessons, or you can just relax by the pool, play tennis, taste local wines, try a thermal spa or enjoy a cooking lesson! Perfect for families, riders and non-riders, this estate is a magical and peaceful retreat in the heart of Italy.
There is great flexibility at this estate – the ride programs are aimed at reasonably competent riders, who are secure, comfortable and in control of a horse at a walk, trot and canter in open country. Other programs are more flexible and novice and even beginners can be catered for with lessons in the sand school. The horses have been carefully selected, according to their attitude and breed, to match the guests different levels. The trail riding suits confident novices and above, but beginners may take lessons in the arena.
The horses are a mixture of Thoroughbred and Warmblood crosses, and local Italian crosses, varying from 15hh to 17hh and also one or two children's ponies. They are all well-schooled, responsive, willing and enjoyable to ride and are very well looked after. The horses are kept in paddocks in the 100 hectares surrounding the castle.
Tack is English style. Riding helmets must be worn and a packing list will be provided when you book the ride.
Rides are usually limited to a maximum of 5 guests. On the specific riding programs, there is generally 2 to 5 hours riding a day, broken with rests and a long lunch.
There are two large sand arenas available, with one arena used mainly for the flat work and the other larger arena is used for show jumping. At the opposite side of the castle they have created a 2000 metre cross-country course with beautiful wooden jumps and soft reliable ground.
A week of riding in the enchanting countryside between Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio. Beautiful horses and experienced guides will lead you every day on a fantastic ride across one of the less inhabited Italian country sides. Beautiful nature and also a lot of history surround the estate, with castles and archeological sites framing the view.
The old trails used by the "Brigands" (outlaws) to escape from the law 200 years ago provide a fantastic opportunity to explore this beautiful area on horseback, just as they did!
Although there is always some flexibility. The itineraries below are examples of standard 7, 4 and 3 night stays – but please note they are just examples and routes and daily arrangements may be varied in your guide's discretion if weather, local conditions or circumstances require. If you wish to do less riding or swap rides out for lessons (novice to intermediate level) this is also possible. Daily timetables also vary a little with seasons – in spring and autumn riding is later in the morning; in summer there is an earlier start with a longer rest in the middle of the day (and full day rides not usually possible if it is very hot / in peak summer months).
Contact us at info@snaffletravel.com.au or on Tel (+61) 03 5428 6061 for further information and answer any questions.
Accommodation is based at the estate. The old farmhouse in the grounds of the castle, has been converted for guests and there are several apartments, a dining room and swimming pool. All accommodation is in twin/double bedrooms which have an en-suite.
The food is freshly prepared and authentic. Expect lots of pasta dishes and other Tuscan style cuisine, with a chance to try many of the local specialities.
Breakfast is at the castle. Lunch and dinner (three to four courses) is usually eaten at the estates taverna. Lunch can sometimes be a picnic brought to meet you out riding.
The ground floor of the farm house opens onto the main terrace, which overlooks the main swimming pool. On the ground floor, there is a large "taverna" with brick vaulted ceilings. The space is divided into three main areas: dining room, billiard room, ping-pong room, plus a large kitchen available for all the guests and equipped for cooking courses.
Please note due to constantly fluctuating exchange rates, prices are quoted in Euros and we can provide an Australian dollar rate based on the ANZ bank sell rate. Rates are subject to currency fluctuation until the final balance is paid. Please contact us for the most up to date pricing.
Please check with us as sometimes specials maybe available.
All meals as per itinerary 7, 4 or 3 nights.
During the ride you will enjoy sightseeing. The property has a swimming pool, bikes to hire, tennis court, cooking classes on offer and a spa nearby. Golf and Boat hire can be also arranged. If you do not have a car, sightseeing excursions with a car and driver can be arranged for an additional cost.
The closest airport is Rome and the closest train station is Orvieto train station. Transfers can be arranged for an extra charge. We also recommend hiring a car from Rome.
Please ask about other activities of which there are many available from the estate.


The Assessing office is handicapped accessible and is located on the first floor of the Limerick Municipal Building.
Tax Maps and Property Cards are available on the J.E. O'Donnell website. Click on the link below and then select the Town of Limerick. You can search by Map and Lot, Owner name, Street name or Documents.
Homestead Exemption is for Maine residents who have owned a home in Maine for at least 12 months. It doesn't matter if you sold one home and moved to another, as long as you can show "continuous ownership" over the 12 month period. Click on the link below to download a copy of the Homestead Exemption form and return it to the Assessing Office in the Town of Limerick Municipal Building, 55 Washington Street, Limerick, ME 04048.
The Maine Tree Growth Tax Law provides for the valuation of land that has been classified as forestland on the basis of the productivity value, rather than fair market value. The law is based on Article IX, Section8 of the Maine Constitution that permits such valuation of forestlands for property tax purposes.
The Open Space Tax Law provides for the valuation of land which has been classified as open space land based on its current use as open space, rather than its potential fair market value for more intensive uses other than open space. For more information regarding the Open Space Tax Law click on the link below.
The Farmland Tax Law provides for the valuation of land which has been classified as farmland based on its current use as farmland, rather than its potential fair market value for more intensive uses other than agricultural. Click on the link below for more information regarding the Farmland Tax Law.
The link below will provide information on the property tax exemptions of Veterans.
Beginning Tuesday July 18, 2017 JE O'Donnells, the Town Assessors, will be available at the Municipal Building two days a month from 10 AM to 4 PM.
They will be here on the first and the third Thursday and will meet with the public by appointment only.
You may call the Code and Assessing Office at 793-2166 x 14 Monday through Friday 9 AM to Noon to schedule an appointment.


Why Did My MIL Have To Friend Me On Facebook?!
Here's what I like about Facebook: I can hide there. It's great for procrastinating, and reading a friend's posts or random article (although, since the presidential election that's become a wholly depressing pastime). Often, I'll post articles I've written or just share some random bullsh*t that's popped into my head. I mean, isn't that basically what we all do on Facebook? It's a place we can meet up with friends without actually having to be in human contact. Awesome.
Well, not anymore. And I have my mother-in-law to thank for that. My in-laws are sweet people and wonderful grandparents, living a small town life in the 'burbs. We get along well enough, but there is one thing I find extremely difficult when spending time with them: not f*cking swearing. I mean, sh*t. I have a potty mouth, and I don't give a damn. For better or worse, I don't censor myself (much) around my kids, either, on the agreement that bad words are not to be used in school or around friends as long as we keep our swearing purposeful, and at home. So far, so good.
So, yeah. I curse. I can't help it! Whether my lasagna was f*cking awesome, or I'm angry and would rather scream sh*t! into the air than strangle my 2-year-old, I'll go for profanity. It's relaxing, it's cathartic, and it's part of who I am. But, here's the thing: my MIL was raised in a time and place where swearing is extremely distasteful and improper. Phooey is about as R-rated as this woman gets, and she will leave the room if the vocabulary on a TV show becomes unsavory.
Over the years, I have learned to curb my cursing when I'm around her, but when I'm not around her, I get to be myself. Or, at least, I used to. Then my MIL sent me a mother-f*cking friend request on Facebook. Sh*t. For a few weeks I ignored it, but the guilt weighed me down. I didn't want her to think I was snubbing her (which I was).
Suddenly, it's like I'm not allowed to be me anymore. I'm constantly censoring my jokes or the articles I post, for fear that I'll offend her prim and proper ways. Or, worse! Occasionally (like so many of us facing the realities of this new presidency), I find that I just cannot contain the shock and horror and I have to let the expletives come pouring out. It's not until later, when my MIL "likes" an innocent picture of my kids at the playground that it hits me: of course! My mother-in-law must have received a notification that I'd posted something, then seen my sailor-mouthed tirade and just ignored it. The poor woman! It must've given her a heart attack!
In the end, I have decided I am just going to (mostly) be myself. Sure, I may shock her from time to time, but I don't want to change who I am. I married her son, after all—not her—and after 15 years and two kids, I think she knows I have plenty of good qualities (even if some of 'em are just too f*cking awesome for her to handle).
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The Onoyama General Athletic Park was the first athletic park built in Okinawa, in 1959.
The extent of available facilities and the ideal setting of the park with its spacious lawns make it a prime choice for recreational sports. You can have access to the budokan (indoor arena), gymnasiums for personal training sessions and multiple sports, a swimming pool, athletic fields and tennis courts for a modest fee.


Today is the day! Despite the dreary skies outside it is going to be nothing but a bright, bold, vivacious, and lively Spring soiree at the store today! Join us 1:30-3:30 to meet and greet with our special guests and design duo behind the new Madcap Cottage for Robert Allen collection while enjoying light bites and refreshments and all of our new Spring inventory! For those that attend, not only will the Madcap Cottage fabrics and pillows be on sale 20% off today but the entire in stock inventory will be 20% off today! Surprise!!!! Our Memorial week sale officially starts on Saturday but for those who join us today we are extending the discounts early- that means 20% off all in stock merchandise, 10% off all special orders, 50% off suggested MSRP Wesley Hall custom orders, and an additional 20% off of clearance items and remnants! Come in today to celebrate the new collection and call first dibs on all of our new fabrics and accessories before the big sale blowout starts- you just have to mention that you saw our social media post! See you soon!
Madcap Cottage Trunk Show Tomorrow!


Thank you for coming to our farm this October 2018!
We have many farm-inspired activities that you're sure to love!
MAZE DAYZ was from OCT 5 through NOV 4 2018. We had a wonderful time and thank God we had pretty decent weather! We want to thank all of our great sponsors, staff, and everyone who came and supported our farm this season.
We're excited to invite you out for Country Christmas starting December 7th! Please click on the link for all info!
Maze Dayz Admission $10, Three and under are free. Everything included unless noted.
Buy local produce from our 2-acre pumpkin (our homegrown pumpkins didn't do well with the weather but we'll still have pumpkins for sale) & sunflower / celosia patch.
$2.00 off for military, police and firefighters with ID.
Groups 10 or more- $1.00 off /person, 20 or more– $2.00 off /person. Group's money should be given to one person that would give it to us in one lump sum upon arrival. Please contact us and let us know when you plan on coming.
Click on our rules and FAQs tabs here on our website and read them before coming.
CONTACT US ABOUT SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS!!
Country Christmas at the farm! Click here for all info!
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Jesse Burkett
Birthdate 12/4/1868
HoF Page
SABR Bio
Death Date 5/27/1953
Debut Year 1890
Year of Induction 1946
Teams Browns, Cardinals, Giants, Red Sox, Spiders
Position Left Field
The only MLB players to hit over .400 in two or more seasons are Jesse Burkett, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, and Ed Delehanty.
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In the collection:
Jesse Burkett signed 1950 Callahan card
Three-time batting champion Jesse Burkett is remembered for his inclusion in one of baseball's most prestigious fraternities — men who have hit .400 or better more than once. The group contains Burkett, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, and Ed Delehanty. Many believe baseball will
Three-time batting champion Jesse Burkett is remembered for his inclusion in one of baseball's most prestigious fraternities — men who have hit .400 or better more than once.
The group contains Burkett, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, and Ed Delehanty. Many believe baseball will never again see a man bat .400 for a season.
Burkett's first batting title came with the Cleveland Spiders in 1895. The outfielder hit .405 with a National League-leading 225 hits. He followed that up by hitting .410 in 1896, again leading the league in hits with 240.
Though he never again hit .400, Burkett did capture another batting title in 1901 – the best season of his career. Playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, Burkett led the league in hits, runs, batting average, on-base percentage, total bases, and OPS+.
Ten times Burkett finished in the league's top ten in on-base percentage, including six top-five finishes. His career mark of .415 ranks 26th all time as of 2020.
By the time he retired, Burkett compiled some gaudy numbers including 2,850 hits and a .338 lifetime average. He also holds the MLB record with 55 career inside-the-park home runs.
Burkett broke into professional baseball as a pitcher. In 1890, his first big league season, he went 3-10 with a 5.57 ERA for the New York Giants. That year Burkett also had hit .309 in 401 at bats.
The Cleveland Spiders purchased him in the off-season. Burkett focused full time as a hitter on his way to a Hall of Fame career.
In the collection is this autographed baseball card produced by Callahan in 1950.
Rogers Hornsby
George Sisler
Ed Delahanty
Dan Brouthers
Billy Hamilton


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Palatine's 'The Music Room' Named to Top 100 Music Store List 2nd Year in a Row
Read more at the Daily Herald: The Music Room Named NAMM Top 100 Dealer
The Music Room (TMR) in Palatine was recently named one of the world's Top 100 music stores by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) for the second time in two years.
The business also is a contender for the Dealer of the Year award, in addition to competing in seven other 'best of' categories, including Best Store Design, Best Marketing and Sales Promotion, Best Online Engagement, the Music Makes a Difference Award, Best Emerging Dealer, Best Store Turnaround and the Best Customer Service.
The awards will be given out during Summer NAMM, a yearly music retail industry event that celebrates those named to the Top 100 Dealers list, which will be held in Nashville, Tennessee from July 9-11.
The Music Room owner Carol Cook was asked to be a speaker at the event, and plans to discuss how TMR has evolved over the last 20 years, while increasing the value provided to students.
"I am both excited and honored to join the ranks of my esteemed colleagues and be considered for a number of accolades, as I speak at the Summer NAMM convention," Cook said.
Her specific topic of discussion will be how the business eliminated their make-up lesson policy, and provided more advantages to customers in the process.
"It is my responsibility to show our students how to get the most out of their investment. We've raised the value of the lesson experience by encouraging (and rewarding) strong attendance, while emphasizing effective practice habits at home," Cook said.
Businesses considered for the Top 100 status are evaluated for a sound business model, resourceful approaches, and effective implementation of best practices. A panel of independent judges scores each entry to determine who is named to the Top 100. Dubbed the 'retail Oscars' by Music Inc. magazine, NAMM's Top 100 Dealer Awards spotlights the industry's very best music product retailers.
"The music retailers honored with NAMM's Top 100 Dealer status are those working hard to create positive musical experiences for everyone, from those just learning to experienced musicians," said Joe Lamond, president and CEO of NAMM. "The Music Room is an important ambassador for making music in Palatine, Illinois and exemplifies the passion for making music that unites us all."
For more information, visit The Music Room online at www.The-Music-Room.net or call 847-934-5440.
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December 2018 — ScanDesigns and Muse & Merchant Charity Promo!
Scan Designs Ltd. and Muse and Merchant have been supporting us since 2011. Over these years they have donated countess items to us for silent auctions for our events and they have raised over $40,800 in donations for us.
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