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A Confession, from acclaimed screenwriter, Jeff Pope, starring Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Siobhan Finneran and Joe Absolom has been coproduced by ITV Studios and Urban Myth Films.
The series tells the story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman (StartUp, The Hobbit, Sherlock, Fargo), deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.
Set in Swindon, Wiltshire, 'A Confession', details the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan in March 2011. On a night out with girlfriends, Sian left a nightclub in Swindon Old Town to walk the 15 minutes home to boyfriend Kevin Reape, played by Charlie Cooper (This Country). Worried for her safety, Kevin reports Sian missing when she fails to come home in the early hours or respond to his increasingly frantic texts.
With the police investigation underway, officers arrive on the doorstep of Sian's mother, Elaine O'Callaghan, played by Siobhan Finneran (Cold Feet, The Moorside, Happy Valley), who at first thinks her daughter must have stayed overnight with a girlfriend. Described as a 'family girl', it was uncharacteristic of Sian to be out of touch with her loved ones.
Senior Investigating Officer Steve Fulcher leads a team which begins to piece together Sian's last movements, scouring CCTV footage from the club and re-tracing her steps home. Cell-site analysis reveals her mobile phone signal bouncing off a mast 14 miles away in Savernake Forest. With the missing person's enquiry in full swing Fulcher, orders a full-scale search operation.
Believing Sian may still be alive, Fulcher operates on the premise that Sian is being held somewhere against her will. If she is, he knows it will be a race against time. Through diligent and painstaking police work Fulcher and his team discovers CCTV footage of her in the High Street, which leads to vital clues in the investigation.
Meanwhile, Karen Edwards, played by Imelda Staunton (Maleficent, Paddington, Harry Potter, Vera Drake, The Girl), the mother of Becky Godden, a 20-year-old who disappeared eight years previously in 2003, is watching the investigation unfold on the local news and in the town centre. Reminded of Becky's disappearance, she becomes gripped by fear that her daughter will somehow be involved in what is unfolding before her eyes as the search for Sian goes on.
A known drug addict and prostitute, Becky had disappeared many times before and although Karen had tried to help her daughter, staging interventions and paying for rehabilitation, sadly Becky continued to lapse back into addiction.
Coincidentally, the property where Karen lives with her second husband, Charlie, backs on to the home of Elaine O'Callaghan and her then partner. Although they don't know one another, their lives become tragically intertwined when Fulcher and his team edge closer to their chief suspect, local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, played by Joe Absolom (Doc Martin, The Level, Suspects).
The investigation culminates in a standoff between Fulcher and Halliwell at a remote location, as Fulcher tries to avoid him being taken back to a police station, being given a solicitor and saying 'no comment'. Just as Fulcher is about to give up, Halliwell suddenly makes a startling confession. But this moment of apparent triumph takes on sinister consequences and steers the investigation in a completely unforeseen direction.
Lives for the residents of Swindon, Wiltshire, have been flipped on their head after the discoveries of two young murdered women by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (Martin Freeman) in the local area. And with the second body now formally identified as that of Rebecca Godden-Edwards, Steve also has to break the news to John Godden (Christopher Fulford) that his daughter is dead.
Having already met with Becky's mother Karen Edwards (Imelda Staunton), the effects of the investigation weigh heavy with Steve, who is certain that murderer Christopher Halliwell (Joe Absolom) has killed other victims between Becky in 2003 and Sian in 2011. But now that he has been advised by a solicitor, Halliwell is going 'no comment' and a question regarding the legitimacy of Fulcher's interview tactics with Halliwell, looms like a dark cloud overhead, threatening to unravel the entire investigation. So Fulcher tasks his dwindling task force with developing a supporting case based on evidence other than Halliwell's confession, to help towards a guilty verdict.
Unaware of the problems Fulcher is facing at Gablecross Police Station, Elaine Pickford (Siobhan Finneran) has her daughter's funeral to deal with, and the effects of Sian's murder on the local community are clear to see, as thousands take to the streets of Swindon Old Town to watch the funeral procession pass by.
Karen Edwards confronts her ex-husband John about the sightings of Becky after 2005. John says his relatives 'must have got their dates mixed up'. The two part in bitterness.
With the close proximity between Elaine and Karen Edwards now clear, living only doors apart, Becky's funeral now takes place. Karen has only been given a small box with her daughter's bones in to bury.
With Steve Fulcher and his team at Wiltshire Police, confident of the fact that Christopher Halliwell taking them to the scenes of two dead bodies would be enough to secure a guilty verdict, the Pre-Trial Hearing of the case against Halliwell starts at Bristol Crown Court. Early confidence however, is quickly eroded by the work of Halliwell's legal team, who pick holes in Fulcher's urgent interview tactics.
Fulcher's decision not to allow Halliwell access to his lawyer before questioning leads the judge – Mrs Justice Cox, to side with Halliwell's defence team in agreeing that Fulcher has breached the laws of PACE and that his confession should not be allowed into evidence. The charges against him for Becky are dropped, Karen Edwards descends into utter despair - Halliwell can no longer be prosecuted for murdering her daughter even though he admitted it and took a convoy of police cars to her body.
With DNA evidence still linking Halliwell to the murder of Sian, he pleads guilty and receives a 25 year sentence. But Becky's father John Godden decides to complain to Wiltshire Police that Fulcher's actions 'prevented justice being obtained for his daughter' and Fulcher's life starts to unravel.
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Insatiable debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles on 17 February 2002. It has been in the Top 40 Singles for 19 weeks with a highest position of #1. There are two songs by Darren Hayes in the Top 40 Singles with one reaching Number One.
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A thought on The Rise of Skywalker's new Force ability
January 3, 2020 davidmvining
So, randomly looking around the Interwebs, I saw complaints from people that the new Force Heal ability demonstrated in The Rise of Skywalker broke the entirety of the franchise up to that point. "Force heal me, Obi-wan," Qui-gon saws to his padawan. "I'll just Force Heal you, dad," Luke says to Vader.
However, I would disagree, though it takes a bit of supposition and the connecting of some dots that the movies themselves don't do.
The Jedi of the prequels always felt small to me. I think the greatest example of that is the fight between Yoda and Dooku in Attack of the Clones. These are two masters of the Force and all they can do is throw boulders at each other before devolving to a lightsaber fight? I actually fault that with lack of imagination on George Lucas' part, but accepting that as the reality of the universe in that era, what does it show us? It shows us that the Jedi and the new generation of the Sith knew little more of the Force than what Luke Skywalker picked up in his fractured training in the original trilogy. Combine that with Palpatine's promise that the dark side knew more about the Force, that it could lead to abilities the Jedi would call unnatural, meaning that there's a lot more to the Force than what we've seen. I assumed that it was an empty promise on Palpatine's part, but what if it wasn't?
Skip ahead to The Last Jedi and the ancient Jedi texts hidden on Ahch-To. The implication is that these texts have been hiding there for a very long time, since long before the fall of the Republic. This implication leads to an assumption that the knowledge hidden in those texts was not known to the Jedi of that era. The hidden mysteries of the Force that Palpatine talked about were at least partially there, including abilities that the Jedi didn't know about. At the end of that film, Rey takes the texts and when we see her next in The Rise of Skywalker, she's pouring over the ancient words in between trainings with Leia.
Later in the film, she is presented with an opportunity to test the knowledge she's gained from the texts and heals the weird serpent monster in the tunnels beneath Burning Man in Space. Knowing it works, she uses it on Ben Solo later in the film. Shown what can be done, Ben then uses it again on Rey later, saving her life.
It's a further indictment of the Jedi as they were in the prequel era. They weren't interested in advancing their knowledge of the Force. They were interested in maintaining the political status quo more than anything else, so they became blinded to the Dark Side.
I think it's relatively convincing as a thought, though it does rely on a good bit of supposition.
Anyway, just a thought.
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Super Bowl 51 New England Patriots vs Atlanta Falcons Start Time, Betting Odds
The New England Patriots are taking on the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51 on Sunday evening. The game is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. start time and it will be televised nationally on FOX. The Super Bowl Odds for the game have the Patriots favored by a field goal to pick up the win.
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New England has won nine straight games entering Super Bowl 51 and this is the seventh time Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will be playing in the NFL's ultimate game. They beat the Seahawks in Super Bowl 49 and have won four of the six title games they've played in. Ironic enough, but a pair of Eli Manning-led New York Giants teams have kept the Brady/Belichick combination from being the most impressive duo in the history of American sports. Together, they've already won 24 post-season playoff games. As it is, Brady can win his fifth Super Bowl title here, which would end all talk of who the greatest quarterback in the history of the league is.
Atlanta has had an amazing season, Matt Ryan has had his best season as an NFL quarterback and the offensive line has been strong in front of him. The Falcons led the league in scoring at 33.8 points per game and they averaged better than a yard more per play than the league average.
While the Falcon offense has been superior, the defense has played strong as well, holding five of the last six opponents to 21 points or fewer. While their overall numbers aren't great (27th in points allowed at 25.4 per game), head coach Pat Quinn has helped them play better as the season has moved along. In the playoffs the Falcons have up 20 to Seattle and 21 to Green Bay against teams with post-season veteran quarterbacks.
New England's defense has been arguably the best in pro football as well this season, they surrendered just under 16 points per game and played at a high level despite continuing to be a team filled with no superstars on that side of the football.
Brady and the Patriot offense will look to utilize that short passing game. One of Atlanta's defensive goals has to be putting pressure on Brady, but if his offensive line can play well and allow him to get the ball out quickly, the Patriots should be able to move the football with Julian Edelman and the gang catching passes.
The Falcons have the big-play threat in Julio Jones and the two backs Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman can catch passes out of the backfield as well. Atlanta did not turn it over twice in any game this season, so this game should be a clean game between two solid teams.
Brady is 4-0 against the Falcons in his career, throwing nine touchdowns and only one pick. Ryan had his best season yet with 4,900 yards and 38 scores. The quarterback play should be excellent in this game and Ryan will be the best quarterback the Patriots have seen all season.
Turnovers could be the difference here. The two teams tied for the fewest in the league with just 11 giveaways this season and Atlanta has turned it over just once the last six games. They're also playing inside a dome here, which should give them some confidence as well.
This is the biggest game in Brady's career, because it obviously determines what his legacy could be. No quarterback has won five Super Bowls (Brady has four, along with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw) but with a win here, Brady elevates himself even higher in the history of NFL greatness. New England has been in this situation before and the experience could play a role in this one.
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Twists and Turns and a Strange Saga of an Alleged Crashed UFO
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Leonard Stringfield
Today's article is the third and final one on the issue of alleged crashed UFOs and dead aliens in the U.K. This one is a very strange and intriguing story, for reasons that will become apparent. It was in 1991 that Leonard Stringield - a UFO investigator-author who spent much of his time investigating cases of what are known as UFO "crash-retrievals - revealed something notable. In July 1991, Stringfield published his biggest, self-published report. Its title: UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum. When the 142-pages-long book was made available, I bought a copy and sat down to read it. I was amazed to see that Stringfield's latest publication included an account from 1964 and near Penkridge, England - which is less than twelve miles from where I grew up as a kid. I corresponded with Stringfield and explained that I had lived in the area and knew it well. As a result, on March 29, 1994 Stringfield - who died in December 1994 - very generously let me use the story for my own work. That account, in Stringfield's words, reads as follows:
"Some time in 1964, 'somewhere at sea,' between the Caribbean and the Atlantic, a specially rigged LST, a flagship for a naval amphibious force, received a coded radio message in its 'crypto-machine' room, which reported that 'artifacts' had been received with three dead personnel. According to my informant, former Third Class Petty Officer, S.M. Brannigan (pseudonym) a specialist trained to translate intercepted Russian transmissions, the decoded report stated that a UFO had crashed in two parts; the main section near Penkridge, in Staffordshire, England, the remains in West Germany. He further stated that the retrievals of the parts and the occupants were conducted by Air Force Intelligence and shipped to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, adding that U.S. and other NATO interceptors were involved. Brannigan admitted that there was more to the incident, involving coded information, that he preferred to keep confidential."
Stringfield concluded: "The Brannigan disclosure, while sketchy, may spotlight only the tip of the iceberg as to the scope of military crash-retrieval operations in foreign lands. Researchers know that reports of crashes are worldwide, from pole to pole, on every continent, and in many countries. If such incidents are to be secreted, it is my suspicion that U.S. special retrieval teams have been, and still are, prepared to 'go into action' into any crash location within its sphere of military or economic influence such as was exercised with NATO in the 'artifact' retrievals in England and West Germany."
At the time, there was nothing else to say. That was the beginning and the end of the story. As for Stringfield, he got no more leads. At least, it was the end for a while. In 1995, Irene Bott - who also lived in the area - established the Staffordshire UFO Group. Then, in September 1996, Irene put a conference together to promote her group and to demonstrate the incredible level of UFO activity that was going on in the skies above the Cannock Chase. Me and Irene became good friends and, one day not long after the conference, I told her of the account that Stringfield had published in his report. Irene was very excited by this and contacted the local news paper: would they like a story on the case? It turned out that, yes, the local media were interested. Very interested. I should stress that from 1994 to 1996 I was still working as a forklift-driver and van-driver, and also writing my first book (for Simon & Schuster) A Covert Agenda. As a result, I didn't have much time to dig into the 1964 affair anymore. But, luckily, Irene did.
As a result of the newspaper coverage, Irene got some interesting snippets of information from people in the vicinity. And she got a very intriguing - and lengthy - story from a man named Harold South. He lived only a short drive from where both me and Irene lived. South, in his late sixties at the time (we estimated), claimed to have seen the UFO in a field close to Penkridge, which is where "Brannigan" said the unearthly craft came down. South also told Irene that he had been harassed by both the local cops and military personnel and that film was taken out of his camera - after it became clear to the authorities that South had taken a few photos of what he described as a small, triangular object. In December 1996, me and Irene arranged to visit South in person. We did so on the 11th of the month. We called him - from my landline - in the morning and arranged to drive over to his home. When we got there, South was very disturbed and worried. South claimed that in the time between me calling him and me and Irene arriving, he had received a call from the Ministry of Defense - something that had put South into a state of distinct unease. South said that the MoD told him to call another number - as in right away. He did not. Rather, South put the phone down.
I have to say that, at first, me and Irene suspected this was a ruse: South's way of getting out of being interviewed - after possibly having changed his mind about speaking to us. It turns out that was not the case, though. We asked South if we could use the U.K.'s "1471" system (that permitted someone to find the number of the most recent incoming call). We dialed. Sure enough, and just as South said, there was a Ministry of Defense number. It turned out not to be from the main MoD building in London, but from the Ministry of Defense Guards Service at a local military base, Whittington Barracks. The person who answered the call claimed no knowledge of the MoD's call to South, even though we pointed out that we had specific evidence of the call. The conversation went no further - apart from in circles. South, by now, was a man on edge: he quickly closed the conversation with us, clearly concerned that he was now in a situation that he had no desire to be in. South stopped the interview and refused to speak to us again. It was just another day in the weird world of UFOs.
A final word: such was the interest that surfaced when the story originally got out, a blog was created - titled "Penkridge Mystery 1964." - by a local guy. Although the blog has not been updated for years, it's still open and contains a large amount of material on this admittedly very odd story. Maybe, now, someone else will dig further.
Nick Redfern
Nick Redfern works full time as a writer, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. Nick has written 41 books, writes for Mysterious Universe and has appeared on numerous television shows on the The History Channel, National Geographic Channel and SyFy Channel.
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It might be £120, which will be considered steep for a console game controller, but that is a small price to pay for perfection. And after all, serious PC gamers are willing to pay hundreds for mice and keyboards. Why should they have all the fun?
Beautifully made with robust design
Customisable controls can suit each game specifically
Thumbsticks and d-pad can be swapped out
More comfortable to hold than any other controller
New assignable paddles
Too pricey for casual gamers
No rechargeable battery in the box
Until recently we've felt that the controllers that come with Microsoft's Xbox consoles have been far superior to the DualShock ones that have accompanied Sony's PlayStations. And we're not the only ones. We've often heard that hardcore and pro gamers have favoured Xbox controllers over the years.
However, we feel that Sony significantly upped its game with the PS4's DualShock 4 controller and we've been less sure on which gamepad we prefer for this generation of gaming. Until now, that is.
The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller is, quite simply, the best game controller we've ever used. It is the ultimate in games-playing tools, and while it comes with a hefty price tag to match, there is no better out there.
So why does it justify such a meaty outlay? Make yourself comfortable and we'll reveal all.
Xbox One Elite Controller review: Better in every way
There is already much to like about the standard Xbox One Wireless Controller: it sits nicely in the hand; it's reassuringly hefty, solidly built; and the rumbling impulse triggers add to haptic experience that offers more immersion into a game.
But the Elite version builds on that in almost every way. It is heavier and more substantial to hold, with more pronounced rumble in the triggers (by default). With grippier surfaces on the handles and a slightly nicer matte finish on the face it's nicer to hold too. It looks more premium thanks to silver finishes around the Xbox button and on the left and right bumpers.
It is also less garish thanks to the A, B, X and Y buttons not adhering to Xbox's usual primary colour scheme. It makes it trickier to follow on-screen button presses for less experienced players – during games like TellTale's Walking Dead adventures – but the type of player this pad is aimed at will instinctively know where each button is placed without ever having to glance down.
Xbox One Elite Controller review: Customisable controls
The same players will make best use of the Elite Controller's main selling point too: it is the most customisable controller there has ever been from a first-party console manufacturer.
Mad Catz released a controller it designed in conjunction with the Major League Gaming Pro Circuit more than three years ago, for both Xbox 360 and PS3. It had swappable thumbsticks and plenty of other customisation options, and even took the form factor of an official Xbox 360 pad (regardless of what system you used it with), so the idea of a controller you can alter is far from new. And PC owners will know more than enough about reconfiguring controls and sensitivity of devices, with plenty of mice and other devices out there with those features.
However, few are as elegant as the Xbox equivalent. The Elite Controller comes with three sets of stainless steel thumbsticks, that magnetically attach to the controller itself. You can have the traditional dimpled thumbpad, a rounded one more like DualShocks of old, and a longer thumbstick for more pronounced movements.
The d-pad can also be swapped, with the new plate able to make way for a more conventional directional cross – both of which are finished in stainless steel too.
Then there is the rear of the controller, which offers something completely new for Xbox: as well as two flip switches that can reduce the distance each trigger travels in order to add a hair-trigger effect for shooters, there are slots for four steel paddles.
These paddles can be removed if you find yourself accidentally pressing them during play, but can also be assigned to any of the regular buttons on the controller. That way you can use them to specifically access elements of a game more quickly. Up and down manual shifting during a driving game, for example, or scrolling through available weapons.
Xbox One Elite Controller review: App adjustments
There are also plenty of other options that can be manipulated through a dedicated Xbox Accessories app on the Xbox One itself. As well as map button presses, you can also change the sensitivity of the thumbsticks independently, and the triggers too. The amount of vibration in each trigger and handle can also be tuned. Even the brightness of the glowing Xbox button can be toned down.
Pro players and dedicated gamers will no doubt spend considerable time adjusting each setting to make for the best set-up for specific games, and there is a switch on the controller to choose between two configurations so you can have one set for Halo 5: Guardians or Fallout 4, for example, and the other for Forza Motorsport 6.
If you're not the sort of player who will spend hours fine-tuning your experience, you can also download configurations other gamers have designed for different titles. The app will list all those that are currently available and there are several available already – mainly for Microsoft's bigger games. More will appear as the community becomes larger too.
The whole package is rounded off with a carry case for when you want to ensure you have the very best chance of winning games around a friend's house or in a competition. And pro gamers will be delighted by the inclusion of a tough, fabric-coated USB cable. In pro tournaments, you cannot risk disconnection so wired is always preferred in that scenario.
The cable doesn't double as a charger, though, as there's no rechargeable battery in the box, just a couple of Duracell AAs. Which, for some, will be the controller's biggest, if not only, shortcoming.
Having used the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller to finish Rise of the Tomb Raider and plunge into the wastelands of Fallout 4, we can safely say that it offers the most comfortable control experience yet. It takes a little getting used to, mainly because of the additional weight, but it now feels weird when we go back to our original Xbox One controller.
We also found it more responsive during Halo 5: Guardians single-player and multi-player matches, thanks to the offered configurations available through the Accessories app. But it perhaps came more into its own, for us, when playing Forza Motorsport 6 thanks to the rear addition paddles acting as gear-shifting paddles.
If there's one small gripe, it's that we'd like there to have been a rechargeable battery included in the box. The rear cover of the battery compartment features button indicators and any replacement rechargeable equivalent devalues the design immediately, but it's not enough to spoil our enjoyment of the device.
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One of the happiest moments in my life happened in the month of September. It was during this month that I said "I do" to the man that God gave me. The date was 9/11/02, just a year after the tragic event that devastated NY. It's been 14 years now that I've been married to my hubby.
We try to celebrate our anniversary every year. Last year, we spent the night in a beach resort and dined in their restaurant in my homeland. This time, we are in Texas so it's just a very simple celebration. I didn't even celebrate my birthday here. We have to be frugal because our dollar is not multiplied here unlike in the Philippines. Besides we are saving up so we can buy our tickets and go back home.
We went to church to worship the Lord with Sherry and then after worship service we went to eat out. I wanted to go to Golden Corral, my fave buffet restaurant but hubby said it might be full and busy being Sunday. So we just went to Dairy Queen and ordered hamburger meals. We did not really get full but it's good so we will not gain more weight. Then Sherry drove us to Fort Worth and went to a museum. I am not really very fond of going to a museum, I would rather go to a park, garden, lake or beach. In fact, I wanted to see the Sundance Square and The Stockyards but hubby don't wanna walk so we ended up going to the Amon Carter Museum. We will just go back to see those two places I mentioned before we leave. I hope.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art showcase beautiful collection of paintings from many different artists. The frames are exquisite and a piece of art themselves. Great presentation of the pieces. Quiet and meditative, Best of all, admission is free and so is parking. The only downside is, they don't allow flash in your camera if you want to take pictures of the paintings. I was able to take couple of pics with flash before we were told. Before we left, hubby asked one of the employees why they don't allow flash in the camera and she said that bright flashes of light can damage paintings over the long term. Well, I did not know that. At least they allowed photographs taken but no flash. I just edited my pics so it's not too dark. At least they came out fine.


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President Trump awards Lou Holtz with Presidential Medal of Freedom
The legendary football coach has been a vocal supporter of President Trump and spoke at the Republican National Convention in August.
Author: WTHR.com staff, The Associated Press
Published: 11:18 AM EST December 3, 2020
Updated: 10:52 PM EST December 3, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump calls Lou Holtz "one of the greatest coaches in American history" and has honored the college football Hall of Famer and political ally with the nation's highest civilian honor.
Holtz had a 34-year coaching career that included the 1988 national title at the University of Notre Dame. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during an Oval Office ceremony Thursday.
Holtz led six different programs to bowl games and is an outspoken Trump backer. The 83-year-old Holtz says being honored by Trump makes the award particularly meaningful. He says Trump is the "greatest president in my lifetime"
The award is given to people who have made "especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Trump announced he would award Holtz with the honor in September, saying he received letters from a number of prominent college football coaches, including Nick Saban and Urban Meyer, politicians and others.
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"We looked at Lou's life and his career, what he's done for charity and the football, it's obvious he was a great coach, but what he's done beyond even coaching," Trump said during a September news conference.
President @realDonaldTrump will award the Medal of Freedom to @CoachLouHoltz88 tomorrow! https://t.co/db2FZjauvA
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 2, 2020
Holtz has been a vocal supporter of President Trump and the Republican party. He spoke at the Republican National Convention in August, saying "nobody has been a stronger advocate for the unborn than President Trump."
Holtz coached college football for 33 years, most notably leading the Fighting Irish for 11 seasons from 1986-1996. Notre Dame won the national championship in 1988, finishing with a 12-0 record.
The Fighting Irish compiled a 100-30-2 record under Holtz, who retired following the 2004 season after six seasons coaching the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Holtz, 83, was diagnosed with COVID-19 in November. At the time, he told a Columbia, South Carolina TV station he didn't have much energy.
Trump was also diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this year before returning to the White House in October.
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Q: Creating a yearly summary from a filed Array using Stream Writer c# So I need to create a Yearly Summary that gives feedback from the amount of events held a year. There must be an event held each month for this to happen.
So far I have stored the months in an array like this:
 public string[] sMonths = new string[12] { "01", "02", "03", "04", "05",
                                       "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" };

I then initiate the array into a combo box, with a counter:
 for (iCount = 0; iCount < sMonths.Length; iCount++)
        {
            cboMonth.Items.Add(sMonths[iCount]);

        }

Then take this information from the interface (windows form) like this:
 sEventName = txtEvent.Text;
        sVenueName = txtVenue.Text;

        lstActivity.Items.Add("Dance");
        lstActivity.Items.Add("Theatre");
        lstActivity.Items.Add("Music");
    }

        //summary

    private void btnExit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show("Are up you sure you want to exit?", "Exit", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question);
        if (dialogResult == DialogResult.Yes)
        {
            Application.Exit();
        }

    }

    private void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("EVENTS.TXT", true))
        {

            sw.WriteLine(txtEvent.Text);

            sw.WriteLine(txtVenue.Text);

            sw.WriteLine(cboMonth.SelectedItem.ToString());

            sw.WriteLine(lstActivity.SelectedItem);

            if (rdoRange1.Checked == true)
            {
                sw.WriteLine(rdoRange1.Text);
            }
            else if (rdoRange2.Checked == true)
            {
                sw.WriteLine(rdoRange2.Text);
            }
            else if (rdoRange3.Checked == true)
            {
                sw.WriteLine(rdoRange3.Text);
            }
            else
            {
                sw.WriteLine(rdoRange4.Text);
            }

            sw.Close();
        }

    }

I'm not sure if I am doing this correctly, or if I am getting my counters confused, or infact need to use more than 1? But when I then try to create the summary, nothing appears at all?
private void btnSummary_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("EVENTS.TXT"))
        {
            for (iCount = 12; iCount < sMonths.Length; iCount++)
            {
                if (iCount == 12)
                {
                    sMonths[iCount] = sr.ReadLine();
                    listBox1.Items.Add("You held an event every month of the year.");
                }

                else
                {

                    label1.Text = " ";
                    listBox1.Items.Add("You cannot produce a yearly summary until you have entered an event for each month");
                }

            }

I try to read the information from the file but it's returning nothing at all.
I am trying to get this to work using local variables, before transferring it into classes.
there may be many errors in my code, I am new to this.
Thanks in advance, any advice appreciated.
UPDATE:
a sample of my readfile is:
jdisfhs
ddnsojds
05
Dance
0

There will be 12 records in each of them. I need to check each value against variables and produce the outcome.

A: There are a few problems with this chunk:
for (iCount = 12; iCount < sMonths.Length; iCount++)

sMonths is an array of 12 elements so sMonths.Length = 12.
You create your counter with the value 12 and your condition to loop is that your counter is strictly inferior to 12, so you will never enter the loop.
To loop through an array you usually want to do something like :
for(int iCount = 0; iCount < sMonths.Length; iCount++)

But in this case you want to read a file, so your loop should be on the file reader with something like that :
private void btnSummary_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("EVENTS.TXT"))
        {
            string line = string.Empty;
            /*the condition in the while reads the next line and puts it in line,
               then tests if line is null because sr.ReadLine()
               returns null when the end of the document is reached*/
            while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                //Do your tests on line
            }
        }
    }

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BOSTON -- Gov. Charlie Baker isn't the only one with a big speech coming up.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo, who holds great sway over state policy and finances and as a result the direction of the 2018 elections, is planning to make his own remarks to his House colleagues next Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Coming midway through a sluggish session, the Winthrop Democrat's remarks will be monitored closely for signs of approaching policy battles and whether the House intends to intervene and address issues on track for the 2018 ballot, including the minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, nurse staffing, and a major reduction in the state sales tax.
DeLeo was first elected speaker of the House on Jan. 28, 2009, and next week will start his tenth year in that role.
Another player on Beacon Hill, Associated Industries of Massachusetts President Richard Lord, plans an 8 a.m "State of Massachusetts Business" speech Friday at the Newton Marriott. Picking up on the role that technology is constantly playing in shaping policy debates, Lord plans to focus on whether automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will help employers solve a shortage of skilled workers.
Baker plans to deliver his fourth State of the State address at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the House chamber. The governor is running for re-election but three Democrats running for governor this year - Jay Gonzalez, Robert Massie and Setti Warren - are hoping this will be the governor's final annual address.
Since his narrow election in 2014 over Martha Coakley, Baker has consistently earned high marks in public opinion polls and his challengers this year are struggling to build name recognition.
While Baker has touted his "no drama" administration and emphasized his interest in making sure government operates efficiently, his political rivals have asserted that the Republican governor's vision for Massachusetts is too limited.
Baker has not yet held a formal campaign launch or outlined his case for re-election.
On Tuesday night, he plans to again highlight the importance of bipartisanship and lay out ideas that will enable the state to increase support for education at all levels, take new steps to fight climate change and promote renewable energy. Just after noon on Tuesday, the governor announced an executive order and named members to a commission, chaired by Steven Kadish, to examine transportation needs for the period 2020 to 2040.
"I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the success we've had over the course of the past few years as a collective up here dealing with things like the budget and the opioid epidemic and clean energy," Baker told reporters Monday after meeting privately with top House and Senate Democrats.
Baker in the 2015-2016 session worked with lawmakers to finalize major bills addressing opioid abuse and addiction, pay equity, economic development, municipal government reform, ride-hailing industry regulation, and renewable energy.
Baker has filed many bills during the 2017-2018 session that remain in the legislative maze and which he hopes to see action on during the six months before formal sessions end for 2018.
In addition to major criminal justice, health care and housing proposals, Baker has also put before the Legislature bills dealing with short-term rental industry regulation, opioid addiction, construction zone safety, drunk driving, a sales tax holiday, water quality and permitting, life sciences, and distribution of sexually explicit visual material.
Joint legislative committees by Feb. 7 need to make recommendations on most bills filed for the 2017-2018 session.


The Rules Do Not Apply is a must-read for every woman out there; it takes you through the various experiences women go through. This tells the story of Ariel Levy, a thirty-eight-year-old reporter for The New York Times, who talks about her moments in love, motherhood, and work. This book tells the heartbreaking and warming journey of a woman who simply wanted it all, no matter the rules.
What's intriguing about this book is how relatable it is. Women have shown acclamation for Levy's story and have empathized with her. She touches on various events which possibly every woman has lived at least once in her life, or probably will. And even if you've not, you'll still feel her journey truly and deeply. It's refreshing to read about all these moments from a female voice.
"Ariel Levy seems to be living out the unlived lives of an entire generation of women simultaneously. Free to do whatever she chooses, she chooses everything," said Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist and writer, about The Rules Do Not Apply.
The book's main characters are all women, except for Levy's dad. The female characters of the book are all shown in a light for which, even when they're doing something wrong or considered immoral, judgement is never an option. Her flowy narration, plus her choice of words, are so personal that not much is left to do but to empathize with every character. Of course there are times where you most definitely disagree with certain decisions and characters, but the narrative is too raw and intimate to not touch your heart.
One of the most important subjects Levy explores in her book is motherhood. She narrates her relationship with her own mother as well as her own personal experiences. Levy and her mother share a unique bond; in a way Levy is her own mother re-invented. The bond between them is strong and this strength is narrated in all its genuine self throughout. Her mother lost both breasts to breast cancer, plus was the primary breadwinner of the family (she made more money than Levy's father), making her a respected, strong female character. She also talks about her own unique journey with motherhood as she battles with pregnancy and her career, having to make tough decisions in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother at the age of thirty-eight.
The Rules Do Not Apply, is a memoir discussing all the unique, difficult, amazing journeys women partake in. This is a book that will be impossible to put down.


The global fashion brand has collaborated with Spanish artist Ignasi Monreal for a series of unique art installations for "Gucci Bloom"
The wall art expresses the unique look of the almost forgotten art of hand-painted outdoor advertising. The New York mural.
Fashion behemoth Gucci has unveiled a new wall art project in New York and Milan to create buzz for the launch of its new fragrance—Gucci Bloom.
A special partnership between Gucci and the artist Ignasi Monreal sees the Spaniard create two unique artwork installations—one, on the 760-square-meter wall on Lafayette Street in New York City's SoHo neighbourhood, and the other on the 176-square-meter wall in Milan's Largo la Foppa, in the district of Corso Garibaldi.
Over the years, these districts have become regular canvasses for the fashion house's collaborations with artists.
In depicting his interpretation of the Gucci Bloom urban garden concept, Monreal's designs feature a giant rendition of Gucci Bloom's pink fragrance bottle and its box-packaging adorned with the Herbarium pattern.
The tableau also has echoes of the Dutch Vanitas genre of still-life painting of the 17th century.
Executed in New York by Colossal Media, and in Milan by the European leader in out-of-home advertising, Urban Vision, the designs express the beauty and unique look of the almost forgotten art of hand-painted outdoor advertising.
The art installations will be on display until the end of this November 2017.


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Jean Pierre François Guillot-Duhamel - (ur. 31 sierpnia 1730 w Nicorps, zm. 19 lutego 1816 w Paryżu) francuski inżynier, inspektor generalny kopalń, członek akademii, profesor metalurgii.

Napisał "Géométrie souterraine, élémentaire, théorique et pratique, où l'on traite des filons ou veines minérales, et de leurs dispositions dans le sein de la terre"

Bibliografia
 Encyklopedya Powszechna Kieszonkowa, zeszyt X, Nakład druk i własność Noskowskiego, Warszawa 1888

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Volume 118 >> Issue 68 : Wednesday, January 27, 1999
Movie Review: Affliction
By Roy Rodenstien
Directed by Paul Schrader
Written by Russell Banks (novel), Paul Schrader
With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn,Willem Dafoe.
Released in Europe early last year and having opened in the United States a few weeks ago to qualify for the Academy Awards, Affliction arrives to high expectations. Paul Schrader, who wrote the 1976 pop-culture icon Taxi Driver, directs the screen adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks, writer of the highly-regarded The Sweet Hereafter. Affliction stars Nick Nolte as the troubled son of an abusive father, a role that has already won Nolte the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actor.
The movie opens with narration by Rolfe Whitehouse (Willem Dafoe), who sets up the story of how his brother Wade (Nolte) has been permanently erased from their family's consciousness. Wade is first shown warmly, driving through Banks' patented wintry landscape while chatting happily with his daughter, but the comfortable mood is soon dissipated. Within minutes, we understand that Wade is divorced and that his relationships with both his wife and daughter are severely strained. When his wife shows up to take their daughter away, Wade explodes into violence.
The central hour of the movie is a masterful depiction of the walls closing in on Wade. Subtle flashbacks show us his childhood threatened by a domineering drunkard of a father, Glen, played by James Coburn in a stout and harrowing performance. Working a dull jack-of-all-trades job as policeman and school crossing guard, Wade's life is filled by resentment toward his miserly custody arrangement and toward powerful townspeople he thinks may be getting away with murder. He sets about fixing these situations, but it's clear his daughter doesn't want to see more of him, and the murder investigation will probably not work out very well either.
Sissy Spacek plays Margie, a woman who loves Wade but comes too close to his volatility and has a rude awakening. Rolfe, Wade's brother, listens to his troubles on the phone and tries to get Wade to focus on the small problems getting some rest and getting his aching tooth fixed. Wade's tooth is representative of his greater troubles, his deep-rooted emotional affliction; he punches at it to numb the pain, he tries to bury how much it bothers him, but only a dentist or drastic action will take care of the tooth, and it's clear Wade is not a dentist kind of guy.
Schrader takes his time developing the story, and the gentle pace at which the asphyxiating mood of Wade's life rises creates very powerful scenes, such as when we suddenly realize the chilling extent to which Wade increasingly resembles his father, the clearest sign of his doom.
Nevertheless, there are several rough edges. While the character development of Wade and Glen is excellent, almost every other character is a cardboard cutout. The interaction between Wade and his daughter is glaringly wooden, and the murder investigation subplot, while not completely irrelevant, is handled so discontinuously and superficially that it ends up detracting from the main thrust of the film. The main message of the film is so powerful, however, driven by the slow burn of Nolte's extraordinary performance, that it plows right over these weaknesses unabated.
For such a serious movie, there are a few scenes that are very funny, though as often happens actually living them would probably not be much fun. In perhaps the movie's best scene, Wade describes to his brother his tunnel vision, how he goes through the day with no consciousness of himself or his actions until he accidentally catches his reflection in a mirror and wonders with detachment about that physical manifestation he sees. This inability to escape the walls of his own mind is what ultimately prevents Wade from breaking the pattern of violence in his life. With such insights, and a subtle soundtrack and imagery that linger long after the movie is over, Affliction is an imperfect gem of a movie.


The first thing we thought of Josephine's Mee Rebus when she first shared her recipe was whether it had enough of a 'wow' factor and honestly, we really weren't big fans of Mee Rebus. A confident Josephine told us that her recipe would win us over and so we took the gamble and made this video. At the end of filming, we were quite literally lost for words and the only expression we had was WOW!
There isn't an ounce of peanut in this supposedly savoury dish which is centered around its thick peanut sauce. What we've found out is that there are many variations to this popular dish and while it is also known as mi rebus, or mie rebus in Indonesia. It's hard to say where this dish originated from, with egg noodles being considered as Chinese and Mee Rebus looking like much like is Javanese cousin, Mee Jawa.
While there is no way to pin-point who owns boasting rights to the originators of Mee Rebus, what's important is that we have found a recipe that we so fondly love - a version that has been perfected by a true culinary artisan. No doubt that this is also one of her husband's favourite dish - lucky man!
The savoury sauce made from sweet potatoes is to die for, tantalising every millimetre of your tastebuds. Each bite will leave you begging for more as sneaky chunks of diced beef flanks explodes with a mouthwatering broth. A must have garnish and almost a secret ingredient is the udang geragau or small shrimps (not dried shrimps!) seals the deal for Share Food's dish of the week!


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Sewage Notification Bill Passes Legislature, Now Awaits Governor's Signature
During the final hours of the legislative session, the Massachusetts House and Senate enacted, An Act promoting awareness of sewage pollution in public waters. The bill now sits on Gov. Charles Baker's desk, where he has 10 days after the…
Recovery on the Harbor Set to Open Next Month
by John Lynds • January 14, 2021 • 0 Comments
A new resource center for people in recovery will open its doors in Orient Heights Square next month and serve residents from East Boston and Winthrop working on their sobriety. Run by North Suffolk Mental Health Association (NSMH) Recovery on…
Is Your Dog a Hero to You? Nominations Open for the 2021 American Humane Hero Dog Awards
Special to the Trnscript American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, has announced the official start of the 2021 American Humane Hero Dog Awards campaign. The annual, year-long campaign seeks to identify and honor the best of our best friends…
Monday, Dec. 28 1122: An officer assisted with traffic control at the COVID testing site at the E.B. Newton School. 1538: A Governor's Drive resident came to the station to report that four of her packages had been taken from…
Thank You, Sgt. Judy Racow
Amidst all of the commotion in the world of the past few weeks, we wish to acknowledge the recent retirement and outstanding career of long-time Winthrop Police Sergeant Judy Racow. It's hard to believe that it was more than 27 years…
We Must Never Forget the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we were watching on TV the dramatic events unfold in Washington last week when the Trump Mob stormed the Capitol, threatening the lives of the Vice President, members of Congress, and the police who tried to hold them back (and…
"Can't Do That" Dear Editor, I am writing to try to help our "Younger Generation" to understand "The Elderly." Soon it will be a year since this deadly virus ravaged our lives. My wife and I were regularly going to…
Guest Op-Ed: Please Stop the Violence
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Acts of violence against a marriage partner have never saved a marriage. Violent acts toward family members have never made a family happier. Typically, they create emotional and sometimes physical wounds that are never forgotten. Too…
June Briggs Retired Registered Nurse June B. (Evans) Briggs, 91, of Winthrop passed away peacefully in her home on January 7. June was a lifelong resident of Winthrop. She was predeceased by her parents, John and Rosamond Evans and her…
Five Candidates Vye for DeLeo's House Seat
by Cary Shuman • January 7, 2021 • 0 Comments
The race to fill the seat held by State Rep. and Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo is on. Four candidates, Marc Silvestri, Jeffrey Turco, Valentino Capobianco, and Alicia DelVento, have officially announced their intentions to run in the…
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The next meeting of the Florida Public Relations Association will be at noon today at Magnolia Avenue Grill, Daytona Beach. James E. Ball, public affairs officer at Kennedy Space Center, will be the guest speaker. The meetings are open to any person engaged in public relations in Volusia/Flagler counties. Cost is $7 for members and $9 for non-members.
-- Craig Gay, district representative for U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins, will speak to the Halifax Republican Women's Club Federated at the meeting June 25 at the Halifax River Yacht Club, 331 S. Beach St., Daytona Beach. A social hour will begin at noon followed by lunch at 12:30. Cost of the luncheon is $4.50. Necessary reservations may be made by calling Claudette McGrath at 255-2038. Tickets for the Old-Fashioned Fourth of July, sponsored by the Volusia County Republican Executive Committee at the Ormond Hotel, will be available at the meeting. Plans for the club's delegation to the National Federation of Republican Women's Convention will be discussed.
-- The Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce will hold its quarterly dinner meeting July 17 at the Magnolia Avenue Grill in Daytona Beach. A social hour will be at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7. Tickets are available through the chamber office. The cost of the dinner is $14 per person. July 12 is the deadline to register. Carol Granstom will be the guest speaker.


The biggest U.S. metal festivals are coming back in 2017.
Wanna Know How Much Money is Made by Festivals Like Rocklahoma and Rock on the Range?
Get a general idea of the earning power of each of these fests, especially relative to one another.
Wanna Know How Much Money Rock on the Range, Rocklahoma, Rockfest, and Carolina Rebellion Made?
Is there money to be made putting bands like Slipknot, Korn, Godsmack, Slayer, and Marilyn Manson all on one bill?
Let's just hope they're just on a Godsmack-fueled bender.
Line-up includes Twisted Sister, Deftones, Down, and Skid Row.
REMEMBER WHEN ROCKLAHOMA WAS A HAIR METAL FESTIVAL?
WHY DOESN'T NU METAL HAVE ITS OWN ANSWER TO METAL SLUDGE?
BUT WHAT WE REALLY WANNA KNOW IS, WILL IT HAVE MORE CHAINSAW SOLOS?
EXTREME, CINDERELLA, TESLA, KIX, OTHERS CONFIRMED FOR ROCKLAHOMA 2008?


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"Debut novelist Dave Boling has written the kind of rich, compelling and utterly unforgettable novel all too rarely attempted and even more rarely realized. Boling's remarkably researched book is a humane and thoughtful narrative of genuinely good people in impossible circumstances."
— PNBA Awards Committee on Guernica
by Dave Boling
In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life,he finds a love that not even war, tragedy or death can destroy.
The bombing of Guernica was a devastating experiment in total warfare by the German Luftwaffe in the run-up to World War II . For the Basques, it was an attack on the soul of their ancient nation. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship.In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life,he finds a love that not even war, tragedy or death can destroy.
The bombing of Guernica was a devastating experiment in total warfare by the German Luftwaffe in the run-up to World War II . For the Basques, it was an attack on the soul of their ancient nation. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship.
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William Shatner: Ted Cruz calling Kirk a Republican is 'silly'
Actor William Shatner speaks at the 12th Annual Heller Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on September 19, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
July 24, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC / Updated July 24, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC
By Benjamin Landy
Self-professed "Star Trek" nerd and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz believes Captain Kirk was "quite likely" a Republican. And William Shatner, who starred as the character in the original 1960s hit television series, is having none of it.
Star Trek wasn't political. I'm not political; I can't even vote in the US. So to put a geocentric label on interstellar characters is silly
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) July 23, 2015
"To put a geocentric label on interstellar characters is silly," Shatner tweeted Thursday after The New York Times Magazine published an interview with the Texas senator in which he offered "a little psychoanalysis" on why Kirk was probably a Republican and Jean-Luc Picard, the starship captain in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," was a Democrat.
"If you look at ''Star Trek: The Next Generation,' it basically split James T. Kirk into two people. Picard was Kirk's rational side, and William Riker was his passionate side. I prefer a complete captain. To be effective, you need both heart and mind," Cruz said, later comparing himself to his favorite character.
"The original 'Star Trek' was grittier," Cruz continued. "Kirk is working class; Picard is an aristocrat. Kirk is a passionate fighter for justice; Picard is a cerebral philosopher. The original 'Star Trek' pressed for racial equality, which was one of its best characteristics, but it did so without sermonizing."
RELATED: Ted Cruz: 'Star Trek's Captain Kirk was probably a Republican
Although "Star Trek" has been praised for its progressive outlook on racial and gender relations, which broke ground with a diverse cast, humanitarian plot lines and television's first interracial kiss, Shatner pushed back on any political reading.
"Star Trek wasn't political. I'm not political; I can't even vote in the US," tweeted the actor, who was born in Canada. At least he and Cruz have that in common.


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Editor's note: This tutorial is written using Ubuntu Linux. If you are on a different platform you may need to replace commands such as apt-get with your distributions equivalent.
What's In Those .img Files?
Let's take a look at the BeagleBone Black Debian distribution file. You can download it with this link.
If you don't have xz installed you can obtain it through apt-get install xz-utils.
Once the image is decompressed many tutorials would have you stop there and go straight to using dd to do a byte-by-byte copy onto an SD card, insert into the BeagleBone Black, and boot. We want to examine it a bit further first.
Now /dev/loop0 is attached. What can we do? How about look at the partition table with fdisk?
We want some more information about the filesystems on the partitions, so we're going to utilize the utility kpartx, which according to the man page will Create device maps from partition tables. If you don't have kpartx on your system, it can be installed with apt-get install kpartx.
Don't go looking for loop0p1 in /dev, but rather you should look in /dev/mapper. kpartx will assign the partitions it found and enumerate the partitions in /dev/mapper with the pattern loop0pX where X is the partition number assigned.
Now that the partitions are mapped, let's examine the filesystems on each partition with file and the --special-files and --dereference options.
From the file manpage: Specifying the -s option causes file to also read argument files which are block or character special files. This is useful for determining the filesystem types of the data in raw disk partitions, which are block special files.
Let's look at the second partition, which the only thing we know thus far is that it is a "Linux filesystem".
The second partition is clearly formatted with an ext4 filesystem.
Once they are created, mount the filesystems.
It should be quite clear as to why we chose these commands to mount the filesystems. Once they are mounted you can cd into them and look around, change things, etc.
Creating your own .img files is quite easy. Let's say we want to distribute a 2G USB stick that is partitioned with two filesystems: one an ext4 filesystem and the other a btrfs filesystem. On each we'll store the latest (as of this writing) kernel source code: linux-4.2-rc5.
First, we'll use the dd utility and the /dev/zero device to create a monolithic 2G file. We'll use the SI definition for 2 gigabytes, which is 2000000000. This command instructs dd to use /dev/zero as the input file and linuxsource.img as the output file. bs is block size and count is the number of blocks to write. We could have used a block size of 1 but dd is much slower (an inordinate number of minutes compared to 10 seconds with a blocksize of 1000).
Warning: It is a time honored tradition to remind you to treat dd with respect, akin to issuing commands as root. Misused or supplied the wrong arguments dd can seriously ruin your day.
Now we have a raw file, 2G in length, full of zeroes. What do we do with it?
The answer is to present it to the OS as a loop device, and then use fdisk to create a partition table. We effectively created a blank disk drive with nothing on it, so the first step is to put a partition table on the disk.
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xed4eb569.
Surprise! There's no partition table on the "disk". We have to create one and create our partitions. Type n at the Command prompt. n is for new partition.
Hit ENTER to accept the default of a primary partition. Hit ENTER again to accept the default of partition number 1. Hit ENTER again to accept the default of 2048 as the first sector.
Let's create a second partition while we are at it, but if you are curious, you can press p here to print out what the partition will look like when its written.
Create the second partition by issuing n and following the same steps. Choose defaults for the partition type, partition number, first sector, and use +990M for the last sector. To write out the partition table type w.
Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8) Syncing disks.
Don't ignore the warning here. You've changed the partition table of a disk but the kernel is still referencing the old (i.e., non-existent) partition table. Run partprobe and the kernel will reread all of its attached devices for the partition tables. If you run fdisk -l /dev/loop0 now, you won't get a nasty comment about no partition table!
Okay, we have our partition table written, but there are no actual filesystems present. We will have to make them with mkfs (make filesystem) utilities. Using kpartx once more we need to map the partitions.
We'll start with our first partition and create an ext4 filesystem, followed by a btrfs filesystem on the second partition.
Note: If mkfs.btrfs is not available you can install it with apt-get install btrfs-tools.
After these commands you should be able to use file -SL to examine the filesystems present.
If you look in the ext4 directory you should find a directory called lost+found. This is a special directory present on ext-based filesystems where fsck puts recovered files. You will not see this directory present in the btrfs directory.
We're going to unpack the Linux source tree into both filesystems. Download the source from Kernel.org. We are using 4.2 Release Candidate 5.
Using df in the respective directory you can see how much space was taken up.
Now that the source has been exploded into the two filesystems, unmount the partitions.
Go ahead and instruct kpartx to unmap the partitions as well and remind yourself that /dev/loop0 is still presenting our original image file. You can release it as well.
Now we come to writing the entire linuxsource.img out to a USB thumbdrive. Once more we will be using dd and once more we'll warn you: ensure you are writing out to the USB device. Writing to the wrong device could render your system inoperable and destroy data!. I suggest watching /var/log/syslog with tail -f to see where the USB drive was attached. In this case it was attached to /dev/sdh.
Warning: Replace /dev/sdX below with the device your system mounted the USB drive.
dd will happily write out every byte in linuxsource.img onto the device presented at /dev/sdh. Once it is done we're going to have a USB stick with a partition table and two partitions. Once the command completes run fdisk -l /dev/sdX, where X is where your system has the USB drive available.
We can take a look at our partitions and see our filesystems are there!
Mount a partition and verify that our Linux kernel source is intact!
Linux provides a variety of powerful tools for creating and manipulating disk images and disks. Although a little daunting at first the concepts of devices, partitions, and filesystems are quite simple to grasp. Hopefully this tutorial was helpful in exploring how to leverage these tools to create your own disk images!
What if xxxx.img file is a huge file and placed on different partition ?


the gumboot: WE ARE THE BEST!
On Friday, Oct. 10 at 7:45, Quadra Community Centre, Friday Flicks presents WeAre The Best!
This ebullient and observant portrait of DIY spirit and being different is an adaptation of a graphic novel about three young misfits growing up in early '80s Stockholm. Pixieish, mohawk-sporting Klara and her best friend Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) are 13-year-old rebels looking for a cause. Without instruments – or discernible musical talent – the two put all their energy into forming an all-girl punk band, recruiting their shy, classical guitar-playing schoolmate Hedvig as the third wheel. Story and character are wrought with tender affection for the young characters and the era.


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Q: Dictionary of Dictionaries of Dictionaries of Dictionaries syntax understanding I need to map the doors of buildings into a single map, from which afterward I need to populate three pickers using this data.
Each door contains the following data: building, level, range, door number and other information that is less relevant. So I created the following map:
public var doorsMap: [String : [String : [String : [String: Door]]]] = [:]

and a have a list of doors that I need to populate this map with, the problem is that I can't understand what should be the right syntax to perform this task, I tried:
doorsMap[door.building]?[door.level]?[door.range]?[door.number] = door

but this doesn't create the inner sets of dictionaries. when I tried to do:
doorsMap[door.building]![door.level]![door.range]![door.number] = door

Obviously, I get the:

Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

because I try to unwrap a nil value.
So what would be the correct syntax in swift to populate this map from a list of doors?

A: A single assignment won't create the multiple, intermediate directories.  You need to do it explicitly.
You could use something like this:
func add(door: Door) {
    var building = self.doorsMap[door.building] ?? [String : [String:[String: Door]]]()
    var level = building[door.level] ?? [String : [String: Door]]()
    var range = level[door.range] ?? [String:Door]
    range[door.number] = door
    level[door.range] = range
    building[door.level] = level
    self.doorsMap[door.building] = building
}

Personally, I would look for a better data structure, perhaps use a struct to hold the doorsMap.  This struct could have functions to handle the insertion and retrieval of doors.
Perhaps something like this:
struct Door {
    let building: String
    let level: String
    let range: String
    let number: String
}

struct DoorMap {
    private var buildingsSet = Set<String>()
    private var levelsSet = Set<String>()
    private var rangesSet = Set<String>()
    private var numberSet = Set<String>()
    private var doorsArray = [Door]()

    var buildings: [String] {
        get {
            return Array(buildingsSet).sorted()
        }
    }

    var levels: [String] {
        get {
            return Array(levelsSet).sorted()
        }
    }

    var ranges: [String] {
        get {
            return Array(rangesSet).sorted()
        }
    }

    var numbers: [String] {
        get {
            return Array(numberSet).sorted()
        }
    }

    var doors: [Door] {
        get {
            return doorsArray
        }
    }

    mutating func add(door: Door) {
        buildingsSet.insert(door.building)
        levelsSet.insert(door.level)
        rangesSet.insert(door.range)
        numberSet.insert(door.number)
        doorsArray.append(door)
    }

    func doorsMatching(building: String? = nil, level: String? = nil, range: String? = nil, number: String? = nil) -> [Door]{

        let matches = doorsArray.filter { (potentialDoor) -> Bool in
            var included = true
            if let b = building {
                if potentialDoor.building != b {
                    included = false
                }
            }

            if let l = level {
                if potentialDoor.level != l {
                    included = false
                }
            }

            if let r = range {
                if potentialDoor.range != r {
                    included = false
                }
            }

            if let n = number {
                if potentialDoor.number != n {
                    included = false
                }
            }

            return included
        }

        return matches

    }
}

var map = DoorMap()

let d1 = Door(building: "b1", level: "1", range: "r1", number: "1")
let d2 = Door(building: "b1", level: "2", range: "r1", number: "2")
let d3 = Door(building: "b2", level: "2", range: "r1", number: "2")
map.add(door: d1)
map.add(door: d2)
map.add(door: d3)

let b1Doors = map.doorsMatching(building:"b1")
let level2Doors = map.doorsMatching(level:"2")
let allBuildings = map.buildings()

Now, maybe you have more information on buildings and levels etc, so they could be structs too instead of just strings.