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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1960s → 1967 → March 1967 → 23 March 1967 → Commons Sitting
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT BOARD
HC Deb 23 March 1967 vol 743 cc1923-32 1923
§ The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)
With your permission, Mr. Speaker and that of the House, I should like to make a statement about the Highlands and Islands Development Board.
In reply to a question by the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. G. Campbell), on 17th March, I undertook to let him have information about the assistance given to businesses in which members of the Board have an interest it I obtained the consent of the businesses concerned. Having obtained that consent I can now give the following details:
On 24th March, 1966, the Board approved a loan of £7,500 to R.T.S. (Potatoes) Ltd., who rent a building from Mr. John C. Robertson.
On 12th May, 1966, the Board approved a building grant of £1,500 and a loan of £23,500 to Polyscot (Polycast) Ltd., of which Mr. Frank Thomson is one of the two principal shareholders.
On 23rd December, 1966, the Board approved a loan of £4,000 to Shetland Knitters Association, in which Mr. Prophet Smith holds 10 £1 shares.
On 26th January, 1967, the Board approved a building grant of £1,687 10s. to Buchan Meat Producers Ltd., in which Mr. Robertson holds 100 £1 shares.
In each of these cases the member concerned declared his interest and I am satisfied that throughout these transactions the Board not only complied with the statutory requirements governing pecuniary interests, but acted fairly and objectively in the discharge of their duties.
Having given this information in the very special circumstances created by the recent spate of innuendo and rumour, I hope I carry both sides of the House with me in emphasising how vital it is to the Board's operations in the field of financial assistance for private industrial and commercial projects that those who come 1924 to the Board for assistance should be able to rely completely on the confidentiality of their dealings with the Board. This is a cardinal principle and it would be nothing short of a tragedy if the splendid work the Board has done and is doing in this important field were to be impaired or frustrated.
I would also like to say something about the Board's examination of the possibilities of petrochemical and associated development in the Invergordon area. Clearly, this could be a highly desirable project and could contribute greatly to the economy of the Highlands. I must emphasise, however, that a great deal of study and investigation will be required before the technical and commercial feasibility of such a major project can be established, and there will be important issues to be considered by the Government.
Various studies and investigations are proceeding, and whether or not the development will prove feasible cannot be decided until these are completed. I must, therefore, make it clear that there has not been, nor can there be at present, any commitment by the Government in this matter.
I now turn to Mr. Frank Thomson's position. When I appointed him to be a part-time member of the Board I was aware of his other activities, including his active desire to encourage a major petrochemical project in the Invergordon area. I accept that in the Board's study and exploration of the possibilities, Mr. Thomson played his part with genuine regard to the well-being of the Highlands.
While he is a member of a partnership which owns Kincraig Farm and House, in the vicinity of Invergordon, he has sought the agreement of his partners to withdraw from it. He is, however, also Chairman of Invergordon Chemical Enterprises Ltd. and in that capacity he has an interest in the petrochemical development should it go ahead. Mr. Thomson told me that, in that event, he would take steps to see that he did not derive any profit from either of these interests; and that he would not take any financial interest in the new enterprise.
But Mr. Thomson was not able to assure me that he would not accept an appointment in the enterprise should it eventuate. In all the circumstances, he has decided that in order to avoid any 1925 possible misunderstanding he should now resign from the Board and I have accepted his resignation. I do so with regret, knowing as I do the enthusiasm, concern and effort that he has put into the development of the Highlands.
§ Mr. Noble
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement, but there are one or two questions which the House would wish him to answer.
First, the right hon. Gentleman has said that the Board approved the various moneys to different people, but did the Secretary of State himself approve proposals which appear to have given more than 10 per cent. of the money paid out by the Board to companies in which Board members were directly involved, those members themselves having been appointed by the Secretary of State?
Secondly, has the right hon. Gentleman satisfied himself that no private commercial benefit accrued to members of the Board as a result of the Board's decision to develop, if possible, a big chemical complex at Invergordon? The right hon. Gentleman's statement seemed to make it clear that Mr. Thomson had considerable interest in this development and that it was his intention to develop his own personal interest as well as that of the Highlands and the Board. He has now resigned, but has his resignation, in the Secretary of State's view, removed the very difficult position that he was clearly to some extent using the taxpayers' money and his position on the Board to develop an interest in which he had, in the past at least, an intention of taking a considerable part?
Thirdly, does not the Secretary of State think that the delay in making this full and frank statement has done serious damage to the reputation of the Board? Was it not the Secretary of State himself who, through his own office, took so long to clear up the whole of this position? Does he not therefore think that, in view of the complex nature of many of these things, it would be wise to publish in a White Paper a full statement of all the documents in this case?
§ Mr. Dalyell
On a point of order. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) did not mean it, but certainly my understanding of what he said was an innuendo that the Secretary of State himself had some- 1926 how benefited by the appointments. Could this be cleared up?
The hon. Member must not seek innuendoes, especially when they are not there.
§ Mr. Ross
I do not think that a White Paper is essential. There has been far too much paper already about this matter. If I asked everyone whether he could swear that he had not seen confidential and private documents which were really the property of the Board, I would get some surprising answers.
As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the Secretary of State's approval is not required—and he will remember his own speech on the Bill—which provided that the Board could act up to an expenditure of £25,000 on its own initiative, except in exceptional cases—when he said that the figure should be at least £50,000 to give the Board freedom, prestige and the like.
It is the Board's job to develop. It was set up to be able to assist in the exploitation of the resources of the area. The right hon. Gentleman should appreciate that in this case the Board is not undertaking the development: it is a private investor, I do not know which, who might or might not do so.
As to the suggestion that the taxpayers' money has been used for a private purpose, the right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. There must be few members of the Board who have sent in fewer expense accounts than Mr. Thomson. There has been no delay in this respect, and the right hon. Gentleman should appreciate that it would have been quite wrong for me to make any announcement about this last week without the consent of the businesses concerned.
§ Mr. Willis
Is my right hon. Friend aware that some of us are very seriously concerned at the manner in which certain persons with certain interests have impugned the integrity of members of the Board—who are very good public servants—in their vicious pursuit of Mr. Frank Thomson? Is he also aware that we have been very seriously concerned at the apparent willingness to sabotage the whole conception and idea of the Board in order to carry out this vendetta against Mr. Thomson? Is he also—
Order. Questions must be brief.
We all know how they started. No one in this House could agree with, or justify, the leakage of information through someone who had been employed by the Board, but had not given it the loyalty that it merited. There is no doubt of the effect that the attacks upon the Board will have upon its work if they continue. The Board is the first instrument which has shown itself prepared to take action in the Highlands. I ask the House to give support to the Board to ensure that its work goes on at a good rate.
§ Mr. Stodart
The right hon. Gentleman has agreed that there has been rumour and innuendo, and far too much of it. Will he therefore answer two perfectly straight questions? The first is, did Mr. Frank Thomson have a controlling interest in a travel agency handling the Highland Board's account, and, secondly, can he explain why the firm, Timber Systems Ltd., which is one of Mr. Thomson's, was the only company given a commission by the Board to prepare a possible hotel project, without any other company being allowed to quote?
Mr. Thomson does not have a personal interest in the travel agency. It is owned, I think, by a trust. This was the only travel agency in Inverness, and the Board was using the travel agency before he became a member. As to the contract given for the timber houses, I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the Board's idea is to support industries and firms in the Highlands. This firm is in the Highlands, and he should not read too much into this. This was a perfectly suitable and reasonable way of doing this job. The cost in respect of this was about £300.
§ Mr. Russell Johnston
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that everyone welcomes his unequivocal statement that there has been no improper activity by any member of the Board? None the less, would he agree that the lesson to be drawn from this sorry story is that no Board member should be in a position where he may be suspected by the public of having obtained private gain through public activity? This is particularly true where one has a Board involved in risk enterprise. Would he agree that the lesson is that Board members henceforth 1928 ought to be full-time, and ought to be asked to sever all business connections?
I would not accept that. This was debated very fully when the Bill went through. It was in respect of full-time and part-time membership that one important change was made to the Bill. If the hon. Gentleman casts his mind back to the discussion we had, and the speech of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. G. Campbell), he will remember that this was envisaged as one of the possibilities and likelihoods, and it was faced as being inevitable. At that time the Committee and the House took it to be, as I still think, properly covered by the statutory declaration of interest.
§ Mr. Maclennan
Would my right hon. Friend accept that this statement has cleared the air and has been a great service to the future of the Highlands? Does he agree that the resignation of Mr. Frank Thomson is nothing more than a step to protect the future good name of the Board, and that there is no implication of impropriety which the House can draw from it?
Order. We cannot have long questions.
I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that this is to clear the air—I hope that it will clear the air. I would draw the attention of the House to how the air was muddied. To my mind, this is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the Highlands. According to reports I have read, information has been deliberately passed to everyone except Ministers. As to what my hon. Friend said about the imputation, this is perfectly true. Mr. Frank Thomson had declared his interests in these matters which I covered in my statement.
§ Mr. Alasdair Mackenzie
Would the Secretary of State be assured that his statement, putting the position of the petrochemicals project at Invergordon into perspective, will cause much satisfaction in that area? Will he also ensure that in future people who are intimately concerned in the area will be given adequate information and thus prevent rumour and speculation? Would he also be assured—
Order. Briefly, please. I think that that is enough.
The point is essential. People should be adequately and accurately informed, and the source of information has been far from accurate. That is why I went out of my way to stress that there has not been and at this stage can be no Government commitment in respect of this.
§ Mr. Dewar
Would my right hon. Friend accept that the most useful contribution that could now be made to the work of the Board and the future of the Highlands will be the co-operation of both sides of this House in ensuring that no encouragement is given to any irresponsible element outside the House which might be tempted to continue a useless and stupid witch-hunt upon a gentleman who has now been exonerated by investigation?
I entirely agree.
§ Mr. G. Campbell
Is the Secretary of State aware that my criticism is of him, and not of the Board? Was this not an unwise appointment, an error of judgment on his part, not only because of the known commercial entanglements but also because Mr. Thomson had, shortly beforehand, publicly declared his full support for the Labour Party? Is he aware that this caused a great deal of criticism in the area of a political connection?
I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I was not aware of his full support for the Labour Party when I made him a member of the Board. I did not get an indication of that in relation to a "McPuff" campaign which was going on very much earlier, when I was concerned. The hon. Gentleman says that it was an unwise appointment. That is open to everyone to say. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that very few appointments are made which are recognised by everyone as being wise. This particular appointment was praised by the very people now participating in this vendetta.
When will the feasibility studies at Invergordon finish? May I invite the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) to explain to the House precisely what he meant by his references to appointments—that needs to be explained.
Order. We have dealt with that.
I cannot give my hon. Friend accurate information as to when these feasibility studies will be concluded.
§ Mr. MacArthur
In view of the interest of certain Board members, did the Secretary of State approve these loan and grant arrangements under Section 8 of the Act? If not, should he not have done so? If he did so, was not his judgment wholly wrong? In either case, is not the best protection which he can give the Board to resign himself?
I think that that is quite wrong. Part of the criticism of the Act when it was going through Committee— we had better look up the hon. Gentleman's speeches about this—was that I should give the Board as much freedom as possible. I think that I have been able to exercise the right kind of judgment on how it has been conducting its business. There has been a searchlight on a very small part of the Board's work. I hope that when we get the Board's report next month—and, I hope, debate it— we shall get properly into perspective the wonderful work that the Board is doing, which is fully appreciated in all parts of the Highlands.
§ Mr. Rankin
Would my right hon. Friend agree that if the Highlands are to be properly and fully developed we can no longer rely merely on the supply industries like hydro-electricity, afforestation, and so on, and that development like a petrochemical project at Invergordon is absolutely necessary if the Highlands are to be modernised?
I think that we can take it that if the Highlands and Islands Board had ignored the possibilities it would have been under even severer criticism by other people. We must appreciate that there are many people who do not want it to do anything.
While Members on both sides of the House are entirely in favour of any development in the Highlands, does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that the question of people whom he has appointed to the Board is very different from the question of the ordinary allocation of money by the Board? In these special cases should not they go to the 1931 Secretary of State for his personal approval, because these are the sort of cases which cause troubles of the kind which we have had? In spite of what the Secretary of State has said today, I feel that in the particular circumstances of the Invergordon chemical enterprise there is a great deal of information which the Secretary of State, I know, has and which, as he said, may have come from a leak sent to the Scottish Office as well as to the Press. [Interruption.] I accept the right hon. Gentleman's assurance, but this is what Members have been told.
It is not true.
If it is not true, I accept what the right hon. Gentleman says. Since Board documents were involved, is it not wise that they should be published in the form of a White Paper?
No. It is quite wrong of the right hon. Gentleman to assume— and I should like to know from where and from whom he got his information— that these pirated documents which have been spread around the Highlands were sent to me or to other Ministers. Did the information come from the sender? The right hon. Gentleman should watch his words very carefully. He should appreciate that the difficulties which have arisen would arise with anybody in the area who was actively engaged in business.
It might well have arisen—and we debated this and considered it—when we were making appointments in relation to the man who went before Mr. Frank Thomson. But I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that we felt that this was covered. This difficulty was faced and discussed fully by the Committee. It felt at that time that it was covered by the Statute.
Mi. Speaker
Order. I must protect the business of the day.
§ Mr. Buck
On a point of order. Would it now be in order if a Minister were to make a request to you, Mr Speaker, to make a statement about a matter which has arisen during this week?
It would not be in order.
On a point of order. We know that the right hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) is a very honourable Member for the House. But I am still under the impression, as are some of my hon. Friends, that he made an innuendo against the Secretary of which should be clarified. May he have the opportunity to clarify it?
I heard no such innuendo. Political criticism of the Secretary of State is quite legitimate in the House of Commons.
May I announce what I propose to do about the Adjournment debates? I gave the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Kenneth Lewis) an hour, and I gave the hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. William Price) an hour. I have solved the problem of the time which we have lost by cutting back those two debates to three-quarters of an hour. I hope that hon. Members who have subjects to raise on the Adjournment will keep to the times. I have had the new times posted up in the "No" Lobby.
Back to BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
Forward to BILLS PRESENTED


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Q: Remove Redundant text when displaying titles within a loop I have a loop that calls all my post titles of a CPT, each of with starts the the same X characters.
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Here's my loop:
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EDIT:
I added the following:
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After the line opening the while statement. By simply replaceing "XXXXX Post" with the text I wanted to remove I was able to accomplish my goal.
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A: You can use str_replace function! Here we go!

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With today's news that Wadjda will become the first Saudi Arabian film submitted for Oscar consideration, the film—also the first directed by a Saudi woman and the first shot in the country—continues its history-making streak.
With today's news that Wadjda will become the first Saudi Arabian film submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar consideration, the film—also the first directed by a Saudi woman and the first shot in the country—continues its history-making streak.
Though Haifaa Al-Mansour's film, about a girl named Wadjda on a quest to own a bicycle, confronts the harsh realities of gender politics in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Society for Culture and Arts wanted it to represent the country at the Oscar ceremony. "We are very proud of this film, which is an authentic representation of our country and our culture and are delighted that the themes and the story of this film has connected with an audience far beyond our borders," said Sultan Al Bazie, the president of the society, according to Scott Roxborough of The Hollywood Reporter.
But Wadjda, according to New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, treads lightly when it comes to confronting women's roles in Saudi society. Mansour told Nora Caplan-Bricker of The New Republic that she wanted to make sure the film would be shown in Saudi Arabia. "Wadjda is circumspect about putting forth any overt criticisms of mosque or state," Scott wrote. "Instead, the movie presents the facts of its heroine's life — and also, more obliquely, the lives of her mother, classmates and teachers — with calm authority and devastating effectiveness."


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Problem F
Fractal Area
The Circle-Square Fractal, or CS Fractal (which also goes by other names), is a simple two-dimensional fractal constructed in an iterative fashion out of solid circles of decreasing radii. As the construction proceeds, certain square regions become noticeable (in particular, the entire fractal), hence the "Square" part of the name.
The $1^{\mathrm{st}}$ iteration in the construction of the CS Fractal consists of a single circle of radius $r > 0$. In the $2^{\mathrm{nd}}$ iteration, this "parent" circle spawns four "child" circles of radius $r/2$ that are tangent to the parent circle in each of the north, south, east, and west directions. Now let $n \geq 3$. In the $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ iteration, each circle $C$ added in the $(n-1)^{\mathrm{st}}$ iteration spawns three child circles whose radii are exactly half of $C$'s radius, and that are tangent to $C$ in each of the three compass directions other than the direction in which $C$ touches its parent circle (here the compass directions are relatively to $C$). For example, in the $3^{\mathrm{rd}}$ iteration, the circle $C$ of radius $r/2$ that is north of the $1^\mathrm {st}$-generation circle spawns three circles of radius $r/4$ that touch $C$ in its west, north, and east directions. The illustration accompanying this problem depicts the CS Fractal after $6$ iterations. (Technically, the fractal is the shape generated after infinitely many iterations, but we informally use "fractal" to refer to the partially constructed shape after a finite number of iterations.)
Given the radius of the starting ($1^{\mathrm{st}}$-iteration) circle and the number of iterations, determine the area of the partially constructed fractal.
Note: Other than the single-point intersection between any child circle and its parent, no two circles in the fractal intersect.
The first line of input contains an integer $T$, the number of test cases ($1 \leq T \leq 50$). This is followed by $T$ lines, one per test case, each of which contains two space-separated integers, $r$ and $n$ ($1 \leq r \leq 200$, $1 \leq n \leq 50$), where $r$ is the radius of the starting ($1^{\mathrm{st}}$-iteration) circle and $n$ is the number of iterations.
For each test case, output the area of the partially constructed fractal with starting radius $r$ after $n$ iterations. Each computed area will be considered correct if it is within $10^{-6}$ of the official answer.
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Problem ID: fractalarea
CPU Time limit: 1 second
Memory limit: 1024 MB
Sample data files
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I have known that many growers are afraid of calculations about fertilizer rates in parts per million. After a recent Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association (AGGA) bedding plant workshop, many growers commented that they want to learn more about calculations and are worried about underfeeding or overdosing.
Look at these mature cucumber crops from the bottom to the top. The lower leaf is showing damage due to an EC of over 5.0 millimhos, and the top growth shows symptoms of calcium deficiency.
So, I would like to take the fear factor out of fertilizer calculations. Within this feature are pictures sent by a grower where a fertilizer miscalculation caused problems.
It is obvious that it was a miscalculation and electrical conductivity (EC) was high enough to cause this type of damage. The grower said the petunia seedlings in the photo did not receive the "rooting fertilizer," but it is apparent that damage is due to "salt burn." With further checking, the grower was able to supply me with the information that EC was 5.71 millimhos and pH was 6.0 from a 10-30-20 fertilizer being used for rooting purposes.
■ Understand the basics: Plants need 17 elements for growth and they are non-selective. It means that the presence of an element in plant tissue does not mean that they are essential.
The results of a fertilizer miscalculation.
Out of these 17 elements, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are supplied through carbon dioxide from the air and water through the roots. So we have to supply nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphur, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, boron, molybdenum and chloride. Silicon is being recognized more and more as an element found in plants, and it is provided as part of a fertilizer program or is available from water.
Understanding fertilizers: The above mentioned elements don't exist on their own, they exist as salts, a combination of two or more elements. So, when you buy a fertilizer you will see names like potassium nitrate, calcium nitrate, mono potassium phosphate, etc.
Ready-made fertilizers may contain additional elements, such as iron, manganese and other trace elements. Growers are familiar with 20-10-20, 20-8-20, 12-2-14, and many other combinations. These numbers indicate per cent nitrogen, per cent phosphoric acid, and per cent potash. Many experienced growers don't realize that per cent phosphorus will be 43 per cent, and per cent potassium will be about 80 per cent. Thus, 20-10-20 will look like 20-4.3-16 on the N-P-K basis.
Most fertilizers don't have calcium. There are some exceptions, such as 12-2-14 that has six per cent calcium in it.
■ In order to use fertilizers wisely, one must understand the role of each element in the growth of the plant.
Out of all these elements, the type of nitrogen must be understood. Nitrate nitrogen is most commonly utilized by the plants and results in the least stretching of the plant. Ammonium nitrogen and urea nitrogen are more readily utilized compared to nitrate nitrogen and the ratios are listed on the label.
The title of this publication is Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer Management in Greenhouse Grown Crops. The cost is $30 and the funds raised will go to the AGGA's Dr. Mirza Educational and Scholarship Foundation.
Preparing a fertilizer program: That is probably the fear factor. How to prepare the program specific to your crops?
Parts per million (ppm) is the commonly used term for preparing the fertilizer solution.
Simply stated, one part of a chemical in one million parts of water will be considered one ppm. It is a measure of concentration.
I will give you a simple example that can be easily remembered.
Just memorize one gram and one litre. Take one gram of 20-10-20 fertilizer and dissolve it in one litre of water (1,000 ml) – that will be 200-100-200 ppm. So I just multiplied the 20-10-20 by 10. That is all to remember.
Take any fertilizer, dissolve one gram/litre of water and multiply by 10 and you get the numbers in ppm.
If you have a 100-litre tank, then you will dissolve 100 grams of 20-10-20 and if the tank is 1,000 litres, then you will dissolve 1,000 grams (1 kg).
Now take it a step further. You have an injector at 1:100 ratio, meaning that one litre of stock solution will be taken up and diluted 100 times. That simply means you will dissolve your 100 grams of 20-10-20 in one litre of water and set the dilution at 1:100. If your stock tank is 10 litres, you will add 10 times more and that is 1 kg.
Now that is the simple calculation that you can expand to your situation by logical extension. There are different types of injectors and dosing pumps available.
Stock solutions for calcium-based fertilizers are always kept separate from other fertilizers. The mixing occurs after dilution has occurred. Don't try to experiment with mixing calcium with fertilizers containing phosphates and sulphates. The laws of nature are eternal – you will get a precipitate and lines will be plugged up.
Adjust pH and EC as needed. You should have a basic knowledge of these factors. The booklet I mentioned earlier has very good information on their management.
Bedding plant growers generally need three-stage fertilizers. Included are early growth and rooting stage with higher phosphate; main growth stage with a nitrogen-to-potash ratio of 1:1; and the hardening stage with higher potash than nitrogen and lots of calcium and magnesium.
Also remember that elements such as calcium are "stubborn." Its movement within the plant depends on a "calcium uptake climate" that features active air movement, a relative humidity below 70 per cent, and good root health.
Familiarize yourself with the mobility or non-mobility of elements. It is a popular topic of discussion for me!
Take water quality tests at least twice a year and make adjustments accordingly. One of your biggest problems could be the presence of high levels of sodium in your water.
Keep yourself updated with new fertilizers. A lot of exciting things are happening with the use of new manufacturing technologies.


But a recount is not automatic.
If a machine recount ends with the two candidates separated by one-quarter of a percentage point or less, then a manual recount would take place. That's a time-consuming process of manually counting the ballots.
Scott claimed victory just before midnight on Tuesday, taking the stage to chants of "Senator Scott" with nearly all precincts counted and a comfortable 60,000 vote lead. However, the Associated Press had not called the race as of Wednesday morning.
Bartenders had already packed up the Maker's Mark, and TV crews broke down their cameras. The already quiet room emptied quickly, with Nelson staff out of sight as news spread of Nelson's apparent fall.
Whatever the outcome, it's a fitting finish for a race that has been neck-and-neck since the first poll of 2018 dropped in early February. Nelson by one over Scott, it said. A statistical tie.
In the nine months since, Nelson and Scott campaigned on health care and immigration, red tide and blue-green algae, Russian hacking and Puerto Rico recovery, Nelson's missed Senate votes and Scott's intertwined investments, a Navy hat and an empty suit.
Well over $100 million was spent.
The Associated Press has not yet called the Senate races in Florida or Arizona, where Republican Martha McSally leads Democrat Kyrsten Sinema by less than one percent, or just over 15,000 votes. Republicans currently hold 51 Senate seats, to the Democrats' 46. A runoff special election will be held on Nov. 27 in Mississippi between Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Mike Espy, as neither obtained the 50 percent required for a victory Tuesday.


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I thought it was just my internet. Or maybe Facebook was just mad I'd deleted their app and bragged about it.
But as it turned out, Facebook's uptime took a massive hit….all around the globe. This included Instagram and Whatsapp.
Ironically, everyone went to Twitter to complain about it.
Until then, I hadn't realized how many businesses rely on Facebook. Not only for advertising, but for communication and different forms of team-building.
From what I read, it seems like this is akin to all copies of Microsoft Windows crapping out simultaneously because of a bug in 1998.
This reminds me of an oft repeated not well followed quote: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." But that's the problem with monopolies. You only have one basket and someone chained it to your wrist.
Fortunately, Facebook isn't yet a full monopoly. You can still diversify your means of communication and advertising.
Facebook isn't a bad place to advertise. Ads show up exactly where you need them and the cost is still fairly cheap. But using only one form of advertising means you're cutting your reach by a chunk.
Take e-mail marketing for example. You would lose out on a possible audience of 3.7 billion people who use e-mail.
While your actual target audience isn't that big, you can imagine how much of that number is your target audience. If you're not using something like Hubspot Mailchimp Connection alongside Facebook, you're missing out on potential.
Going Back to Morse Code?
How would you communicate with your team if you only had one means of communication available? We don't have the telegram system anymore. You can't just wire someone a message.
Mail would take forever, but do you even have anyone's physical address? How about their phone number?
Remote teams are awesome, but you need to make sure you've got backup communication methods in place. Even in a disaster, cell towers will remain functioning thanks to Government. So, make a classic Rolodex and get your team's contact information.
Learn from the Facebook crash. Don't put all your communication and advertising eggs in one basket. You'll thank me some day.


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Q: R apriori algorithm-How to assign top items of ItemFrequency() to a vector? I am working in R apriori algorithm which have a function ItemFrequencyPlot() of arules library.
This function create a plot by passing argument (topN).Here we pass (Top N =20) which plot the top 20 items.Basically the function find top items on the  basis of  frequency.The function returns plot image which have top items.
Now My Question is that who assigns these top items to a vector or  how we get these top items in order to perform additional operation.enter image description here

A: If you want to get the most frequent items, you can use the function itemFrequency. To get the absolute count of the 20 most frequent items, try
itms <- itemFrequency(myTransactions, type = "absolute")
head(sort(itms, decreasing = TRUE), n = 20)


On December 2 we remembered the four churchwomen killed on that date in El Salvador in 1980. Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan were raped and murdered by members of the Salvadoran military during the terrible period of oppressive violence that lasted in that country for more than a decade.
One news report commemorating the event mentioned that the killings of these women opened the world's eyes to the atrocities being committed in El Salvador. It's important that we look at the context in which this awful event occurred, and that there is plenty of blame to go around. Conversations I've had this week about these women often turned to a number of topics- the School of the Americas, Oscar Romero, US involvement in Latin American conflicts (with a healthy dose of my guiltiest pleasure: Reagan-bashing).
At what point do our saints stop being people and become symbols? Can we remember these women as individuals in their own right and as part of a grander narrative? I think there's a tendency in hagiography (particularly when it comes to women) to miss the trees for the forest. We miss the particularity of their holiness by focusing on What The World Learned From Them.
If these women were merely victims caught up in the world-wide turmoil of the late Cold War, if this were only about the lingering effects of European colonization of the Americas, or the American support of oppressive regimes, or a civil war in which few were acting morally, we wouldn't admire them. Through the memories of those who knew them and through their writings, we find evidence of an integrity that both put them in harm's way and gave their lives purpose. They knew who they were and what they were called to do, and they didn't let the world around them muddy the waters.
Integrity is the quality we need from our modern saints. To stand firm among the swirl of our complex world, to remember one's mission while being bombarded by competing values, to keep the spark of divine love alive in our hearts while being told that we should fill our hearts with only ourselves, that is to be holy. We may think that we have something new going on here, but wasn't Jesus also caught up in a complex political and social environment, and put to death for refusing to deny who he was?
The four churchwomen followed Jesus by not denying who they were, even though the path they were on led to martyrdom. Their conviction is admirable (or foolish, depending on how you look at it), and shouldn't be ignored when examining the bigger conflict in which they were caught up. It's a horror that simply living an honest life of service can lead to a brutal death. We do a disservice to the women's memories if we focus only on the salaciousness and drama of their death and fail to notice the simple holiness of their lives.


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Bob Ullman Dies: Veteran Broadway Press Agent Was 97
Robert "Bob" Ullman, a longtime Broadway and Off Broadway press agent whose career spanned Ethel Merman, A Chorus Line, Curse of the Starving Class and many others, died of cardiac arrest on July 31 in Bayshore, Long Island, New York. He was 97.
His death was announced by longtime friend (and former Broadway press agent) Rev. Joshua Ellis.
Among the many Broadway productions on which Ullman worked were Ethel Merman and Mary Martin: Together on Broadway, A Chorus Line (from workshop to Public Theater to Broadway), Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit, Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower, The Dining Room, Driving Miss Daisy, Sunday in the Park with George, and over 150 additional Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals.
Actors and theater greats with whom Ullman worked include Tallulah Bankhead, Luise Rainer, James Dean, Dame Edith Evans, Geraldine Page, Phil Silvers, Bert Lahr, Rosemary Harris, James Earl Jones, Sam Waterston, Colleen Dewhurst,
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Broadway Press Agent Bob Ullman Passes Away at 97
Robert 'Bob' Ullman left, the legendary theatre press agent, whose career included Ethel Merman and Mary Martin Together on Broadway, A Chorus Line from workshop to Public Theater to Broadway, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit, Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower, The Dining Room, Driving Miss Daisy, Sunday in the Park with George, and over 150 additional Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals, died on July 31, 2019 in Bayshore, Long Island, New York. He was 97. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Bob's death was announced by Rev. Joshua Ellis, a long-time Ullman friend, a former Broadway press agent, and now, an Interspiritual minister.
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Quentin Tarantino Curates Film Series Inspired by 'Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood' for Sony Pictures TV
by Brian Welk
Quentin Tarantino is curating a film series inspired by his new movie "Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood" that will air later this month on the Sony Movie Channel, Sony Pictures Television announced Monday.
The film series is titled "Swinging Sixties, a Movie Marathon," which will include nine films from the Columbia Pictures library that were released from 1958 to 1970. All of the movies were handpicked by Tarantino, and each film served as a specific influence on his latest movie, which follows an actor during a changing Hollywood in 1969.
Films such as "Easy Rider," "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," "Hammerhead" and more will begin airing on the Sony Movie Channel starting July 21, with two films airing each night until July 25.
Also Read: Critics Love 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' - but Saying Why Might Spoil Everything
Tarantino will also hold conversations with film writer and historian Kim
See full article at The Wrap »
Sylvia Miles, Oscar-Nominated for 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Farewell My Lovely,' Dies at 94
by Pat Saperstein and Jordan Moreau
Actress Sylvia Miles, who was Oscar-nominated for "Midnight Cowboy" and "Farewell, My Lovely," died Wednesday at her home in New York. Her friends, journalist Michael Musto and actress Geraldine Smith, confirmed her death. She was reportedly 94, although she gave various accounts of her age.
Celebrity journalist Musto, who was about to appear with Smith and Miles in an indie film, said, "She was one of my first celebrity interviews (in the 1970s) and was charismatic and career driven. She'd run up to directors at Studio 54 and say 'Hire me!' She was very proud of her two Oscar nominations."
Smith said "Her family was her New York friends," and related how she had been excited to get back to acting.
Miles' first major role came in the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy" alongside Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Despite only appearing on screen for about six minutes, her role as Cass earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress.
See full article at Variety »
James Karen Dies: 'Poltergeist' Actor Was 94
by Dino-Ray Ramos
James Karen, who is best known for his roles in Poltergeist and The Return of the Living Dead, died October 23 at his home in Los Angeles. His wife Alba confirmed the news. He was 94.
Born in Wikes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents, Karen served in the Air Force during World War II and then went on to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. in addition to his popular roles in film, he appeared on television and the stage. He got his break when he was the understudy for Karl Malden in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He also appeared in productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cactus Flower.
From there, he appeared on As the World Turns as well as All My Children and Eight is Enough. He starred in the 1979 miniseries Blind Ambition and then made appearances
Will Melissa McCarthy join 11 funny actresses who got serious for the Oscars?
by Susan Wloszczyna
Oscar often calls when funny ladies get serious on the big screen. This year, it might be Melissa McCarthy's turn to be recognized for her dramatic change of pace in the truth-based "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" As Lee Israel, a Manhattan-based curmudgeonly author with a drinking problem whose style of celebrity biographies have gone out of fashion by the year 1991, McCarthy drops all pretense of adopting her usual bouncy and brassy comic persona.
Instead, she wallows in disappointment, bitterness and child-like prankish behavior. In order to raise much-needed cash to pay her bills, she stoops to forging letters from long-dead celebrities and selling them to gullible bookstore owners and collectors. I kept waiting for McCarthy to part the clouds that hang over her character and inject a bit of her sunny side. Instead, she is marvelously morose as she performs a committed overcast performance that pays off big time as the movie concludes.
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Chevy Chase movies: 12 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include 'Vacation,' 'Caddyshack,' 'Fletch'
by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
Chevy Chase celebrates his 75th birthday on October 8, 2018. Known for his smug, bemused sense of humor, the actor has become famous for a series of highly profitable comedies. In honor of his birthday, let's take a look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in New York in 1943, Chase turned to comedy after a series of odd jobs. After a short stint with the "National Lampoon," he shot to stardom in 1975 as one of the original Not Ready for Primetime Players on "Saturday Night Live." In its first season, Chase became famous both for his pratfalls and his Gerald Ford impersonation. He was also the initial host of "Weekend Update," starting each week with the catchphrase, "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."
After winning Emmys for writing and performing in 1976, Chase left "SNL" after one year to pursue a movie career (he was
Walter Matthau movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include 'The Fortune Cookie,' 'The Odd Couple'
Walter Matthau would've celebrated his 98th birthday on October 1, 2018. Born in 1920, the actor was a celebrated performer on both the stage and screen, known for his gruff, rumpled persona. In honor of his birthday, let's take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Matthau turned to acting after serving in the United States Army Air Force during WWII. He became a frequent presence on the small screen with appearances in "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Goodyear Playhouse," and "The Du Pont Show of the Week" (which brought him an Emmy bid in 1963), to name a few. During this period he also appeared in several films, few of them comedies, including "A Face in the Crowd" (1957) and "Fail Safe" (1964).
At the same time, he gained increasing respect as a stage actor with Tony Award-winning performances in "A Shot in the Dark" (Featured Actor in a Play
Ingrid Bergman movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include 'Casablanca,' 'Gaslight,' 'Notorious'
by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
August 29 marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of legendary film star Ingrid Bergman. Born in Stockholm, she was working in Swedish and German films during the 1930s, when one of her Swedish films, 1936's "Intermezzo," caught the eye of powerful Hollywood producer David O. Selznick. He announced that he planned to remake "Intermezzo" in English and would bring Bergman to Hollywood to star. The only problem was that Bergman didn't speak English, but she turned out to be a fast learner, and the combination of her work ethic and her radiant beauty put Bergman well on her way to becoming an authentic movie star.
Not only did Bergman become an audience favorite, but her acting skills earned her the respect of moviegoers and Hollywood producers alike. In the course of her four-decade film career, Bergman was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning three for "Gaslight," "Anastasia" and "Murder on the Orient Express
Lily Tomlin Remembers Getting Her Equity Card With 'World of Illusion'
by Shalini Dore
Lily Tomlin received her fourth consecutive Emmy nomination this year for Netflix's "Grace and Frankie," which she generously calls "very much an ensemble" show. The half-hour has been renewed for a fifth season, which starts next year. The actress is also set to appear in the recently announced "9 to 5" movie sequel, with Dolly Parton and "Grace" co-star Jane Fonda.
Tomlin drew her first Variety mention on July 1, 1964, in a review of the New York stage show "World of Illusion." Her stage success led to TV work, and her big breakthrough came when she joined NBC hit "Laugh-In" in 1969.
She has won a Grammy Award, two Tonys and five Emmys (out of 25 Emmy nominations), and she received an Oscar nom for her film debut in the 1975 movie "Nashville." She still performs regularly onstage, and her work for Actors & Others for Animals is among her many charitable pursuits.
Goldie Hawn Inks With ICM Partners
Exclusive: Goldie Hawn has signed with ICM Partners, the move coming after she starred opposite Amy Schumer in 20th Century Fox's comedy Snatched.
Hawn won a best supporting actress Oscar and Golden Globe for 1969's Cactus Flower, and was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe for 1981's Private Benjamin, in her most memorable role. Before Snatched, a road trip comedy in which she played Schumer's mother, Hawn's previous film was 2002's The Banger Sisters.
She was a producer on 2002's Emmy-winning The Matthew Shepard Story, and also oversees the Hawn Foundation, which she founded in 2003 to focus on children and education.
Hawn remains managed by Jason Weinberg.
Anthony Ray Dies: 'Shadows' Actor, Son Of Director Nicholas Ray Was 80
Anthony "Tony" Ray, the actor-producer son of Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray, died June 29 in Saco, Maine, following a long illness, his family has announced. Ray, who lived in Saco for the last 10 years, was 80.
A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and a member of the Actor's Studio, Ray was on the producing teams of such 1970s hits as The Rose, An Unmarried Woman, Harry and Tonto, and Freebie and the Bean. He was an assistant director throughout the 1960s and into the '70s on TV series The Iron Horse and Bewitched, films Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Cactus Flower, and, according to his family, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and John Huston's The Misfits, among other credits.
Ray, who often went by the name Tony Ray, also worked as an actor, his credits starting in 1957 with Men In War and an uncredited appearance in
Will 'The Shape of Water' be the ninth Best Picture Oscar champ not to win any of its three-plus acting nominations?
by Joyce Eng
"The Shape of Water" is one of two Best Picture Oscar nominees with three acting nominations — the other being "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" — but star Sally Hawkins and supporting players Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins are not predicted to win any of them. If they indeed go 0-3 on Sunday and "The Shape of Water" takes the top prize, the fantasy drama will join eight other Best Picture champs that did not convert any of its three-plus acting nominations into wins.
"Birdman" (2014) was the most recent Best Picture winner not to carry an acting award from at least three nominations, as Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton fell to Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything"), Patricia Arquette ("Boyhood") and J.K. Simmons ("Whiplash"), respectively. Arquette and Simmons were the supporting frontrunners all season, but Keaton was locked in a tight Best Actor race with Redmayne until the SAG Awards
Oscars 2018: Jordan Peele ('Get Out') follows sketch comedy alums like Kristen Wiig, Jamie Foxx & more by contending for Academy Awards
by Ronnie Boadu
Movies that win Oscars tend to be dramatic, but performers and filmmakers with a background in comedy — specifically sketch comedy — have done surprisingly well over the years. The latest sketch alum-turned-Oscar nominee is Jordan Peele thanks to his work behind the camera as a writer, director and producer of "Get Out."
Peele got his start on Fox's "MADtv," where he was a cast member from 2003-2008. He and his "MADtv" co-star Keegan-Michael Key followed that by co-creating the sketch comedy series "Key and Peele" which ran from 2012-2015 on Comedy Central and finally won them the Emmy for Best Variety Sketch Series in 2016. After they concluded that show Peele co-wrote the action comedy "Keanu" (2016) before making his directorial debut with "Get Out," which explores racism in America through the prism of the horror genre. Its critical acclaim (99% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and commercial success ($255 million grossed worldwide) has carried over into awards season,
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow! Kate Hudson Debuts New Buzz Cut for Upcoming Sia Movie
by Dave Quinn
Kate Hudson showed fans how to lose your hair in 10 seconds on Tuesday, when she was spotted sporting a new buzz cut on the Los Angeles set of her new movie, Sister.
The 38-year-old actress shaved off her famous long blonde locks for the flick, which comes from Australian singer/songwriter Sia — who also wrote and is directing the project.
It's the most drastic haircut Hudson has had since she found breakout success in 2000's Almost Famous.
It also makes the Fabletics mogul look even more like her mother Goldie Hawn, who rocked a longer pixie cut in the
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Snatched – Review
by Jim Batts
WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's a big holiday weekend, so Hollywood has concocted a new flick that's a perfect match for that very special day. It's an ode to mothers everywhere, but it's not sugary and sappy, no hearts and flowers here. That's because it's the sophomore feature film from Amy Schumer, so it's more than a touch tart and spicy. Two years ago the superstar of stand-up and cable TV (the critical and ratings darling of Comedy Central) stormed the multiplex with the hit comedy romance (which she wrote) Trainwreck. For this follow-up , she's decided to share the screen (top billing, above the title in the ads) with a movie veteran. Of course, she had terrific co-stars in her previous flick (Bill Hader, future Oscar-winner Brie Larson and NBA icon LeBron James, for gosh sake). But this time Amy's part of a team similar
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'Snatched' Review: Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn Almost Save So-So Raunch-Com
There have been complaints in early reviews about Snatched being disposable junk. Huh? Let's back up a minute. The comedy stars Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer as mom and daughter – those words alone should mean something for film enthusiasts, and not just because Mother's Day weekend. Schumer, the baby-faced bad girl of 2.0 comedy, is teaming up with Hawn, a laugh-inducing golden girl since she won an Oscar for her breakthrough role in 1969's Cactus Flower. So, yes, we'll allow that this female raunch-com is built on a script by Katie Dippold (The Heat,
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Goldie Hawn Remembers the Casting-Couch Sexual Predator Who Left Her in Tears at 19
by Jess Cagle and Ale Russian
At home with Goldie! Goldie Hawn opens up about motherhood, her 34-year romance with Kurt Russell, and her hilarious return to the big screen in Snatched. Subscribe now for a look inside her extraordinary life — only in People.
Goldie Hawn's rise to fame wasn't always pretty.
The Snatched actress opens up in People's latest cover story about the time famed cartoonist Al Capp came on to her in an infamous "casting couch" moment. After running into a casting agent on the streets of New York, the young actress met with Capp for what she thought was an audition.
Exclusive: Amy Schumer's Guide to 5 Essential Goldie Hawn Movies to Watch Ahead of 'Snatched'
Snatched may be Amy Schumer's favorite Goldie Hawn movie, but that's mostly because it was, as she's said, "a complete dream come true" to film with one of her idols. "I threw my arms around her -- I don't know if this is weird or not -- and I was just like, 'I love you so much,'" Schumer told Et of being on set with Hawn. "Getting to see Goldie every day and be on camera together was the best part. We fell in love...but [also] the movie's amazing."
Fair enough. But it was Hawn's illustrious filmography -- spanning 50 years and including an Academy Award win for Cactus Flower in 1969 -- that inspired Schumer to try to entice her back to the big screen, marking Hawn's film in 15 years. (Her last was 2002's The Banger Sisters.) Ahead of Snatched's release on Friday, we had Schumer list her five must-watch Goldie Hawn movies.
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Win Passes To The Advanced Screening Of Snatched In St. Louis
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After her boyfriend dumps her on the eve of their exotic vacation, impetuous dreamer Emily Middleton (Amy Schumer) persuades her ultra-cautious mother, Linda (Goldie Hawn) to travel with her to paradise. Polar opposites, Emily and Linda realize that working through their differences as mother and daughter – in unpredictable, hilarious fashion – is the only way to escape the wildly outrageous jungle adventure they have fallen into.
Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn star in the new comedy adventure Snatched, which also features Ike Barinholtz ("Neighbors"), Wanda Sykes ("Bad Moms") and Joan Cusack ("Working Girl").
The film opens in theaters nationwide on May 12, 2017.
Wamg invites you to enter for the chance to win Two (2) seats to the advance screening of Snatched on May 9 at 7Pm in the St. Louis area.
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Home News Double nominations for Bloomsbury and Vintage on Baillie Gifford Prize longlist
Double nominations for Bloomsbury and Vintage on Baillie Gifford Prize longlist
Published September 12, 2019 by Mark Chandler
Bloomsbury and Vintage have scooped double nominations on the 12-strong longlist for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
The shortlist for the award, which recently announced it was raising prize money to £50,000, will be announced on 22nd October, before the winner is crowned on 19th November in a ceremony at the Science Museum.
Today's longlist includes a double nomination for Bloomsbury with The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple and The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth by William Feaver.
Vintage also bagged two spots on the list with Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell and Ian Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean, which illuminates the lawlessness and vastness of the high seas.
Other nominees include Casey Cep's hybrid of true-crime, courtroom drama and Harper Lee biography Furious Hours (William Heinemann), and art critic Laura Cumming's investigation of her mother's disappearance On Chapel Sands (Chatto & Windus).
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies (Riverrun) also makes the cut, along with journalist Amelia Gentleman's The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey (Picador).
There are also nods for Azadeh Moaveni's account of women who decided to join ISIS, Guest House for Young Widows, (Scribe UK), Hallie Rubenhold's myth-busting The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday) and imprisoned journalist Ahmet Altan's memoir I Will Never See the World Again (Granta Books).
Chair of judges Stig Abell said: "It's been a summer of reading with unbridled pleasure, and I think we've ended up with a longlist of books that are - by turns - provocative, magisterial and beautiful pieces of work. Above all, they are companionable: stories to which you are happy to turn and return, some with contemporary resonances, others that are more timeless. Going from twelve down to six and then picking a winner is going to be a bit of a challenge."
Alongside the TLS editor, the panel includes TV producer and writer Dr Myriam Francois, English Literature professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, critic Frances Wilson, writer and lawyer Petina Gappah, and TV presenter Dr Alexander Van Tulleken.
Last year's prize was scooped by Serhii Plokhy for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (Allen Lane).
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Antoni de Cortada i Pastors (Manlleu s.XVII - Manlleu 1714) fou un militar català durant la Guerra de Successió Espanyola.

Era fill de Jacint de Cortada i d'Aruga, noble i propietari del mas Cortada de Manlleu, i de Teresa Pastors i Carles, filla de Ramon de Pastors, burgès de Perpinyà. El matrimoni també va tindre una filla anomenada Jacinta.

Va ésser l'hereu del patrimoni Cortada de Manlleu i va participar en les Corts del 1701. Juntament amb Carles de Regàs eren els principals terratinents i aristòcrates de Manlleu.

Des de la primavera del 1705 va ser dels vigatans que es revoltaren contra l'administració borbònica del virrei Velasco. El 17 de maig va ser un dels signants del Pacte dels Vigatans juntament amb altres notables compromesos, com el també manlleuenc Carles de Regàs, Bac de Roda, Moragues, Joan Anton Martí i els Puig de Perafita.

Com a cabdill de les milícies vigatanes, a finals de juliol i principis d'agost va prendre part en el combat del Congost, enfrontant-se als destacaments enviats pel virrei Velasco per combatre'ls. Vençudes les tropes del virrei borbònic a la batalla del Congost, Antoni de Cortada va participar en l'atac a la guarnició borbònica de Barcelona, facilitant el desembarcament de les tropes aliades.

El setembre del 1705, juntament amb Carles de Regàs i Francesc Puig i Sorribes, es va dirigir amb una part de les milícies vigatanes cap a Girona, per tal d'obtindre l'obediència de la ciutat a favor de l'arxiduc Carles d'Àustria.

El novembre del 1705, en constituir-se el Regiment de Reials Guàrdies Catalanes, format per aquells primers vigatans i catalans que s'havien posat de part de Carles d'Àustria, Antoni de Cortada va obtindre el càrrec de capità amb grau de coronel del nou regiment reial català i va dirigir-ne una companyia.

El 5 de desembre del 1705 participà en les Corts de 1705-1706. El setembre del 1713, després de vuit anys de lluita a favor del rei Carles, Antoni de Cortada es va lliurar a les tropes borbòniques, seguint l'exemple d'altres vigatans, en un moment en què els exèrcits borbònics anaven dominant ja la major part de Catalunya.

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Jacques Roger (* 1920; † 26. März 1990)  war ein französischer Wissenschaftshistoriker der Biologie und Paläontologie.

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Roger studierte klassische Literatur (Agrége 1943). 1951 bis 1953 forschte er für das CNRS und lehrte dann an der Universität von Poitiers. 1964 wurde er Professor an der Universität Tours, an der er 1965 bis 1969 Doyen de la Faculté des lettres war, und 1970 Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Sorbonne. Er war ab 1982 Direktor an der École des hautes études en sciences sociales, ab 1978 Direktor des Centre international de synthèse und 1983 bis 1989 Leiter des Centre Alexandre Koyré.

Er befasste sich besonders mit der Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Biologie im 18. Jahrhundert und speziell seit den 1950er Jahren Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, dessen Biograph er war. 1962 gab er eine kritische Ausgabe von Buffons Epoques de la Nature heraus (Paris: Éd. du Museum 1962, Neuauflage 1988).

Er war Herausgeber der Zeitschrift Revue de synthèse und im Herausgebergremium von History of Science, Journal of History of Biology und anderen Zeitschriften. Ab 1985 war er Mitherausgeber des Revue d´histoire des sciences neben René Taton und ab 1989 neben Jean Dhombres. Im Jahr 1967 wurde er zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt.

Schriften
Panorama du XVIIe siècle français, Paris: Seghers 1962
 Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle. La génération des animaux de Descartes à l'Encyclopdéie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1963, Neuauflage 1971, 1993 (seine Thèse de Doctorat von 1963) – ausgezeichnet 1964 mit einem Grand Prix Gobert
Présentation du Discours sur les sciences et les arts de J.-J. Rousseau, Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1971.
Un autre Buffon, Paris, Hermann, 1977 (Vorwort Jean-Louis Binet, Auswahl aus dem Werk von Buffon mit Kommentar)
Buffon : un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, Paris, Fayard, 1989
 Pour une histoire des sciences à part entière, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995
Réflexions sur l´histoire de la biologie (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle): problèmes de méthodes, Revue d´histoire des sciences, Band 17, 1964, Nr. 1, S. 25–40

Literatur
Cédric Grimoult: Jacques Roger et la méthode historique, Histoire de l'histoire des sciences. Historiographie de l'évolutionnisme dans le monde francophone, Paris-Genève, Droz, 2003, S. 89–101.
Jean-Jacques Fisher, Rosalyne Rey: Jacques Roger, historien des sciences (1920–1990), Revue d'histoire des sciences, Band 44, 1991, 469–478, Online

Weblinks
Goulven Laurent: Jacques Roger (1920-1990) et l'Evolution, Travaux du comité francais d´histoire de la géologie (COFRHIGEO), 2004, Webseite der Annales des Mines

Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen

Wissenschaftshistoriker
Hochschullehrer (Sorbonne)
Hochschullehrer (Tours)
Mitglied der Leopoldina (20. Jahrhundert)
Franzose
Geboren 1920
Gestorben 1990
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Rubenstein Discusses Theories of the Multiverse on Studio 360
by Lauren Rubenstein • June 19, 2017
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Professor of Religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein was a guest on WNYC's "Studio 360" recently, in a show titled, "The Theoretical Physicist Wore a Toga." She addressed existential "what if" questions and the idea of multiple universes—an idea, she explains, which "is about 2,500 years old."
"For the ancient Atomist philosophers [in Ancient Greece], the most desirable thing about what we're now calling the multiverse was that it got rid of the need for a god. If it is the case that our world is the only world, then it's very difficult to explain. How is everything so perfect? How is it that sunsets so beautiful?" she said. "What the Atomists believed was that religion and the belief in these kinds of benevolent gods actually caused people to behave terribly to one another, so they wanted to find a different explanation. So their explanation was that it's not the case that some anthropomorphic god or gods made the universe so it was just perfect the way it is, but that actually that our world was just one of an infinite number of other worlds that looked totally different from our world, and that worlds were the product just of accident, of particles colliding with one another and randomly forming worlds."
"It sounds a lot like modern physics," she added.
What are the practical effects of such theories?
"Every major development in modern Western science since Copernicus has been advertised as this radical de-centering of our importance. […] As science progresses, we learn that we are less and less important than we thought we were. That's one argument. But of course, it doesn't seem to be the case that these purported decentralizations of the importance of the human have in any way contributed in any way to our feeling like we're insignificant. We still tend to think that we run the planet."
Rubenstein is also professor of science in society, professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies.
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Promo Features Music from ODESZA
Live electronic duo ODESZA lent some of their music to HBO to hype up the final season of Game of Thrones.
Tonje Thileson
In a recent promo for the final season of HBO's worldwide phenomenon, Game of Thrones, music from ODESZA (real names Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight) can be heard playing throughout.
Titled "The Countdown," the upcoming preview for the final season of the long-running fantasy television show features the track "Corners Of The Earth" ft. RY X off of ODESZA's latest album, A Moment Apart.
WARNING: The below video may contain spoilers.
This is not the only dance music and Game of Thrones crossover out there. The actor who plays Hodor is a touring DJ and recently released music, while The Chainsmokers were also featured in a promo for the show.
Meanwhile, ODESZA fans are gearing up for the final show dedicated to A Moment Apart this July. They will play their last show for their latest album at Los Angeles State Historic Park before setting out to create what is speculated to be the follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album.
Washington state's live electronic duo is also celebrating the success of their first-ever, SUNDARA Festival and just recently released its aftermovie.
The final season of Game of Thrones premiered Sunday, April 14th and will conclude May 19th. A Moment Apart by ODESZA was released September 8th, 2017.
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Several members of an ODESZA Facebook group have complained about the quality of the merchandise at the duo's finale pop-up.
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A slew of major artists have joined the project.
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ODESZA are ending the A Moment Apart era with one last show at Los Angeles State Historic Park.
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The much awaited new ODESZA album finally has a release date and an accompanying World Tour by the duo!
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A dedicated fan recorded ODESZA's entire headlining Electric Forest 2019 set and uploaded it for all to enjoy.


The secret to a successful lighting application design relies on more than simply choosing the right LED. Avnet Abacus can help you specify the right components for your application from the power supply to the optics. Our dedicated team of lighting product specialists will help specify interconnect, device control, thermal management, power & protection components that are designed specifically for solid state lighting applications.
This Energy Savings Calculator shows you the energy savings potential when you upgrade to a Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System. Simply enter basic information about your facility and press "Submit" to see how much money you could save over the next 5 years.
NALMCO is an industry association for lighting professionals. They offer lighting certification programs for lighting technicians (CALT, CSLT) and lighting management consultants (CLMC).
The National Association of Independent Lighting Distributors (NAILD) was founded in 1977 by a small group of lighting distributors. Since then it has grown to well over 180 members. Membership in the association is made up of Specialty Lighting Distributors and Vendor/Manufacturers of lighting goods & supplies used in the operation of specialized lighting distributors.
The NCQLP is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 to serve and protect the well-being of the public through effective and efficient lighting practice. NCQLP administers the LC (Lighting Certified) qualification exam for lighting professionals.
The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1976 to educate lighting decision-makers about the benefits of High-Benefit Lighting�. The NLB is sponsored by professional societies, trade associations, manufacturers, utilities, and agencies of the federal government.
Online and print magazine for architectural lighting professionals.
LED lighting is a rapidly evolving technology that produces light in a whole new way. It is already beginning to surpass the quality and efficiency of existing lighting technologies, such as fluorescent and incandescent � but not all LED lighting is created equal.
The ENERGY STAR is awarded to select fixture types that meet strict efficiency and performance criteria.
An online portal for a broad range of LED lighting information related to Osram. The website provides news and trends, as well as the latest videos featuring expert statements. Customers benefit from support with LED applications and can access important information such as standards or interactive product data. And the website user can also gain direct access to data sheets, CAD data plus electrical, optical and thermal data on the products.
The DOE CALiPER program supports testing of a wide array of SSL products available for general illumination, using industry-approved test procedures. This testing is done to encourage improvements in LED lighting design.
User reviews of replacement/retrofit LED bulbs.
Lunera's Payback Calculator is intended to provide a rough estimate for the payback from replacing standard commercial lighting with their LED grid or suspended lighting.
A resource for lighting art and design. Not specific to SSL, but expect to see an increasing amount of LED lighting related content. We expect high brightness LEDs to enable a revolution in artistic lighting design.
Home page for DOE's SSL education and market growth efforts.
Good overview of LED based general illumination. Covers technology, markets, and applications.
This is a great blog that addresses a range of areas related to living a green lifestyle. This includes a genuine interest in LED Lighting by the authors, Mr. and Mrs. "Green".


The other day, Joel posted on Rick Warren basically submitting himself to an Inquisition by that Torquemada himself Piper.
I prefer my theologians to be 3 things: Intelligent. Bold. And lastly and most importantly, HUMBLE. James Hal Cone may seem abrasive in my writing, but he is a very humble man, and he has accepted criticism. That is why I like him.
Elizabeth Johnson has joined my list.
To read the rest, go here at Political Jesus.


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defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Billsys extends CI_Controller {
	function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
		$this->load->model("Bill_model","Bill");
    }
	public function GetClientIp(){
		$this->load->helper('captcha');
		return $this->input->ip_address();
	}

	/*
		设备查询版本号信息
		返回格式
		{
			"ret":"-1000" //0是成功
			"billno":"423424"//订单号
		}
	*/
	public function getbillno(){
		$data_post = $this->input->post("data");
		$this->log->write_log($level = 'error', "clientIp:".$this->GetClientIp()."data:".$data_post);
		$post_array = json_decode($data_post,true);
		$userid  = $post_array['userid'];
		$paytype = $post_array['paytype'];
		$itemId  = $post_array['itemid'];

		$billInfo = $this->Bill->createBillInfo($userid, $paytype, $itemId);
		echo json_encode($billInfo);
	}
	public function yijie()
	{
		$data_post = $this->input->post("data");
		$this->log->write_log($level = 'error', "clientIp:".$this->GetClientIp()."data:".$data_post);
		$post_array = json_decode($data_post,true);
        $st = $post_array['st'];
        $billNo =  $post_array['cbi'];
        $ConsumeStreamId = $post_array['tcd'];
        $OriginalMoney = $post_array['fee']/100;//fen wei dan wei

		$billInfo = $this->Bill->getBillInfo($billNo);
        if($billInfo == null)
        {
                return "1003";
        }
        $fetch = mysql_fetch_array($result);
        $itemId = $billInfo['itemid'];
        $Uin = $billInfo['userid'];
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        {
                return "SUCCESS";
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        if ($num > 0)
        {
			//然后更新玩家数据库表
			$this->load->model("UserDB_model","Player");
			$accountId = $this->Player->updateRecharge($Uin,$post_array);
			return "SUCCESS";
        }
        else
        {
            return "1004";
        }
        return "SUCCESS";
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — We the people.
We the people, President Barack Obama said, more than ever, must work together as one nation, as one people.
Evoking the Declaration of Independence, Obama called for the pursuit of the document's ideals through collective action and cooperation.
During his second inaugural address, Obama addressed the crowd of more than 800,000. He faced the challenge of addressing his people four years after his first inaugural speech revealed many aspirations that remain unfulfilled.
"Faith in America's future" was the theme of Monday's inauguration.
The theme of faith ran throughout the ceremony — faith in the country and its future prosperity, faith in each other to work together and faith, ultimately, in Obama.
He addressed the deficit, saying difficult choices must be made to reduce it, as well as healthcare spending, but caution will remain.
"We reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future," he said.
Moments of near-silence were punctuated by loud eruptions of cheering, such as when the president discussed equality.
He emphasized it throughout the speech, including equal pay for women, full legal rights for homosexuals and non-discrimination against the downtrodden and poor.
The topic of climate change and preserving the earth also arose, with Obama putting forth a desire to lead development in that sector.
Obama also addressed immigration, a topic largely tabled in his first administration, saying it's time to reform the process.
He closed with a charge to the public and to himself to uphold the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.


Pilates allows an opportunity for the body to re-align, re-educate and rehabilitate muscles, joints and bones.
Looking for a new workout routine for 2017? Sick of running? Not coordinated enough for Zumba? Why not try Pilates? Vernette Channel, who manages and coordinates the Pilates Program at Life Time Fitness in Alpharetta, sat down with Alpharetta Lifestyle to give an expert's view on what Pilates is and why anyone can do it.
Pilates is not just an exercise. Pilates is a system of physical and mental conditioning that can enhance your physical strength, core stability, flexibility, balance and coordination as well as reduce stress, improve mental focus and foster an improved sense of well-being.
Pilates is perfect for all ages. Whether a soon-to-be mommy is seeking to increase and maintain stability and coordination with her growing tummy, a senior looking to improve posture and alignment to prevent falls, or the athlete training for performance enhancement, injury prevention or rehabilitation, Pilates is appropriate for all ages. Life Time Fitness in Alpharetta is even launching a Kids Pilates program to improve the posture, coordination and strength of younger generations.
Why is Pilates something we should do?
Pilates allows an opportunity for the body to re-align, re-educate and rehabilitate muscles, joints and bones. The movement patterns provided by Pilates improves circulation, digestion, mental fatigue, respiration and stiffness. These benefits overall can reduce injury, stress, dysfunction and increase longevity and sense of well-being.
How did you get started teaching Pilates?
As a classically trained ballerina, Pilates was an intimate aspect of my training regimen. After dancing professionally, I transitioned into the academic world by obtaining degrees and certifications in psychology, exercise physiology, rehabilitation, neuroscience and chiropractic. Now as an integrative healthcare practitioner, I see people are desperately seeking to take control over their health. I serve as the vessel that empowers them to regain that control.
At Life Time Fitness Alpharetta I am privileged to work with clients hands-on to develop and implement a comprehensive exercise prescription that will promote healthy living. Additionally, I have the ability to order labwork, metabolic testing, and facilitate nutritional coaching in order to compliment my clients' exercise prescriptions.
What are some tips for people who want to get started doing Pilates?
Take baby steps. The first step is to consult your primary physician to discuss any restrictions you may need to address prior to beginning a new exercise program. Next, find a fitness professional for a consultation to help you discover your goals. Finally, don't forget to set an appropriate plan to achieve them properly and effectively. And then get started!


I am a professional harpist who plays harp for now 20 years. I went to the Conservatory in Reims for 13 years where I got my final diploma in classical harp. After High School, I studied Musicology in Reims University where I got a Two-Years University Degree. Then, I stopped playing classical harp to learn celtic harp and I took lessons in Quimper in Brittany for a year with a very famous French teacher named Dominig Bouchaud. The same year, I received the 3rd price at The Jakez François International Celtic harp competition in Nantes. Thanks to that, I was able to move to Dublin where I got two diplomas: the Higher Diploma of Traditional Music Performer delivered by the Ballyfermot College of Further Education, and the Diploma of Associate Performer in Irish Harp delivered by the Irish Royal Academy.
I'm absolutely passionate about my instrument and it's always a pleasure to share this passion with other people.
I also worked at the Conservatory of Music and Dance In reims to replace a harp teacher several times.
I m a believer that everybody can play music. Harp is such a beautiful instrument, and when you're passionate and motivated , it's very easy and quick to learn the basics.
You can learn to play harp by ears by also by reading music. I think both are very important in order to be a full complete musician. This is why i can also give you some music theory lesson to be able to read basics tunes.
CharlotteFrom Louise (5/5): Charlotte is a wonderful teacher. She has great patience with me as a complete beginner and encourages me at every stage. She is always a pleasure to be with. I have learned so much thanks to her and highly recommend her for students of all ages and ability.
CharlotteFrom Sarah (5/5): Charlotte gives well-paced lessons, she is more than efficient with giving direction and explaining musical concepts.
Charlotte from day one is excellent in her teaching. She is a teacher who devotes a great amount of personal effort and interest to my daughters teaching activity.
More importantly and above all my daughter loves her lessons with Charlotte and as a parent to watch Charlotte transition her talent on to a younger generation is a joy.


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Metal Lee's Parentage and Family Tree Theories Explained
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Family has been a major theme in both Boruto and Naruto, so knowing the family tree of each character, including Metal Lee, is important.
The mystery surrounding Metal Lee's parentage has puzzled the Boruto fandom for years now. All other characters belonging to the next generation have a clear family tree. When the identity of both parents is known, it becomes easier to understand the source of that character's personality or abilities. Even Mitsuki, a rather mysterious character, was ultimately revealed to be Orochimaru's child through cloning and genetic engineering.
Metal Lee's only confirmed parent is his father, Rock Lee. Metal's mother is completely unknown to the fandom. Uncovering the identity of Metal's mother would reveal not only more information about Metal, but Rock Lee as well. What kind of woman would Rock Lee have a child with and what would their relationship be like?
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One Reddit user u / Pradeepk98 believes the identity of Metal's mother could also explain why he's so anxious. Rock Lee has always been a confident ninja and is never afraid to put on a show to impress the people around him, but his son is the exact opposite. Metal is extremely embarrassed and panics when he realizes people are watching him. Maybe it was a trait he inherited from his mother, or something he learned from watching her.
There have been many different theories proposed by the fandom about Metal's lineage. Some of them are more credible than others, but all of them are worth considering. The most popular theory is that Tenten is the mother of Metal. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch; Tenten was the only female member of Rock Lee's former team, so it's likely romance could have blossomed between the two of them. Sasuke got married and had a child with his former teammate, so why not Rock Lee? Reddit user u / nyfilexs even cited a scene from one of the Boruto openings as proof. In the scene, all of the next-gen parents stand together – and Rock Lee is next to Tenten.
The problem with this theory is that the series has never shown Tenten and Metal to interact before. If Tenten is the mother, it would be strange if there was never a scene from her Metal training, or even talking to her, given that she is still present in the village. Unless Tenten is an extremely neglectful parent, it's hard to imagine her as Metal's mother.
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Another Reddit user u / borutostan19 jokingly theorized that Metal doesn't even have a mother. Much like Orochimaru, Rock Lee may have produced a child asexually, through the power of youth. Rock Lee and Might Guy are both known to claim that the power of youth can overcome anything. Maybe in this case he can even overcome human biology.
However, the most likely fan theory is that Rock Lee simply adopted Metal and his biological parents are unknown. Rock Lee could play a similar role for Metal that Might Guy served for him. Even though Rock Lee and Guy looked surprisingly similar, the two were not related. Despite this, Guy always acted as a father figure to Rock Lee and trained him in his fighting style. Other children of the next generation were also adopted; Gaara adopted Shinki and raised him to be his successor. The same situation could apply to Rock Lee and Metal.
The parental bond that exists between Rock Lee and Metal is extraordinarily strong, regardless of the true identity of Metal's mother or if Rock Lee is her biological father. Rock Lee believes that anyone can become a powerful ninja, even if they were born without special abilities or not from a famous family. Metal Lee turns this belief into reality. With the teachings of Rock Lee and the hard work of Metal, he learns to overcome his anxiety and grow as a ninja.
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