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Favorite Silent Movies
By Batman, April 22, 2006 in Movies and TV
I haven't seen that many, but I really enjoyed "Faust" and "Nosferatu." Well...the problem with both of them is that around the middle they ran out of steam. But they're really dark and great. They've scared me away from ever going to Germany.
I've seen a few silent comedies (Buster Keaton and stuff like that) but I didn't like them so much.
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I love the Chaplin shorts, as well as Keaton. I even like Our Gang silent shorts (pre-Spanky).
I was sick with pneumonia during Christmas of 7th grade and PBS was showing a Chaplin marathon..fell in love with it and it made me feel better.
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To be honest, I don't like silent films. I've tried watching them loads of times but never been able to get into them. Oh well.
Anyway, for films which are in a similar style to the old silent ones, check out a few Guy Maddin films, if you can get hold of them. In particular I'd strongly recommend Tales from the Gimli Hospital, a bizarre, surreal independant film which is well worth seeing.
Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr is another horror masterpiece which is quite similar to silent films (and with good reason, I suppose, since it was made in the 30's).
Then there's the superb Begotten, by E. Elias Merhige. It was made in the 90's and although it has a soundtrack there's no dialogue. Visually, it's one of the most stunning films ever created - according to several sites between eight to ten hours of optical work was required for one minute of film. It's pretty damn creepy, too. People do complain that it gets repetitive but it never bothered me and it's only about 80 minutes long. Unfortunately, depsite the fact this is an brilliant work of art it's very obscure and you'll probably have trouble getting hold of it for a reasonable price.
Have you seen Herzog's remake of Nostferatu? A great film by a genius of cinema.
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I haven't, I'll have to see it.
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I love Silent Movies! Besides the various Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies, my favouties are Nosferatu and Metropolis (think of the video of "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen)
lonelyday 0
I have a vague memory of watching silent films of Charlie Chaplin at my grandparents house when I was little, or them watching them anyway.
I haven't seen any others, but maybe I should.
Rent Mel Brook's "Silent Movie". It's pretty funny.
Pretty funny is an understatement for me...I thought it was hilarious.
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I am surprised that Hollywood has not resurrected this genre of film. There is enough of an audience to warrant risking a budget on one. My favorite silent film remains Nosferatu. Awesome.
It would be unique. Imagine a silent film, with a live band playing the music (instead of just a piano player with sound effects.). It would work.
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Metropolis and any of Chaplin's films.
I know there are more but I can't think of any at the moment...
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At least make them available on DVD!
The Great Train Robbery gets my vote.
Since everyone has mentioned Chaplin, why should I be any different. Modern Times was a good one as well as the Great Dictator.
All of Chaplin's work:
He did 36 folms in 1914...one every 10 days!
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King in New York, A
Monsieur Verdoux
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Pilgrim, The
Souls For Sale
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Idle Class, The
Kid, The
Nut, The
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Shoulder Arms
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Cure, The
Immigrant, The
Count, The
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One A.M.
Pawnshop
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Vagabond, The
Bank, The
Champion, The
His New Job
His Regeneration
Hot Finish
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Night in the Show, A
Night Out, A
Shanghaied
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Woman, A
Between Showers
Busy Day, A
Caught in a Cabaret
Caught in the Rain
Cruel, Cruel Love
Dough and Dynamite
Face on the Bar-room Floor
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Uncle Joe 0
That's all very nice but....
What we really need are some silent movie-goers.
Joe, have you been reading your Oscar Wilde recently? Your being even wittier than usual and that's saying something, Unk...
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Wilde, O.
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Yeah, but how would they pack all them pianos into the theatre?
RyanTurtle 0
Nosferatu...........best silent film ever.
I just watched "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins. That video was inspired by Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), a Science-Fiction movie from 1902(!). It was written, produced and directed by Georges Méliès, a former magician. Of course he also played the lead...
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Home » Blogs » brad's blog » Can phones help older folks enjoy restaurant conversation again?
The system could try to figure out the arrangement of people around the table. Or people could quickly touch and drag the faces to collaboratively do that layout. That could help the system decide what volumes to use.
That leaves the problem of the waiter. You need another microphone for the waiter. So somebody has to bring a spare phone. Or quickly unplug their earbuds and hand their phone to the waiter -- who, it being his or her job -- can hear you all without the buds. Or maybe restaurants get used to this and the waiters get the app on their phones, the system designed to let them speak to the group but not listen back.
Or, of course, people can all pull out their earphones when the waiter shows up.
Great audio will take some work. Each microphone will be picking up every voice around it, though if it gets close to the owner's mouth the problem is easier. You need the audio to feel natural to get an acceptable quality level. There are some tricks to mute which don't clip the start of every phrase.
Those who are young and don't need earbuds would like to use this without putting them on. One solution is for them to just put them on their neck, or clip on just a microphone. Restaurants could come with a supply of cheap microphones. They can be had for $2 from China -- you don't need top quality. Older folks could even just carry a bag of them to loan out. Of course, newer smartphones have started removing the headphone/microphone jack, requiring a different type of earbuds, though they also have gotten cheap.
It's also possible to do fancy things using arrays of microphones. With beamforming techniques, software with an array of microphones can isolate a voice from the din of the crowd without needing the person to wear a microphone. It causes some minor distortions. As such, it is possible, in theory, to put a set of phones on the table and use their internal microphones (with excellent clock sync) in this way. This lets somebody join the conversation and be heard by everybody by just putting their phone down on the table. They still need good ears to hear people.
And yes, this could even work on an individual basis. A person with decaying hearing could just ask the one person they are talking to do this. They could even use their own phone if the idiots who designed Bluetooth's headset profile had not decided it was only for low quality phone calls, and hard limited the quality of the microphone signal.
The system could allow nearly private conversations (ie. feed no audio of you to anybody but your subgroup) but for social reasons, that might not be a great idea. You are supposed to hear the conversations of your neighbours, and join in them at appropriate times. So it should let you hear the others at reduced volume, and allow you to mute them, but not them to block you, since they could not do that at a physical table. If you want to flirt with the cutie at the far end, you could do so, but expect that others might hear you. (In fact, your immediate neighbours will of course hear you.) And if you mute somebody, they should always be able to unmute themselves to get your attention.
Another bonus feature -- one I proposed long ago for all cell phones -- is for the system to give you feedback on how loudly you need to talk. Everybody talks too loud into their phone when in an open area, when in fact the phone is picking you up just fine. The phone can compare the audio levels of the background and the speaker (as it hears them) and if the speaker is being needlessly loud (as is our instinct in a loud room) it can issue a beep in the ears to remind them to quiet. A visual display can also help with this, if the person is watching. New AI tools can also help remove move of the background noise.
Fortunately, you don't need to get the whole table on board to try this out. If a group goes out to a loud restaurant, a subset group of 4-6 people could put on earbuds and try this. They could now converse with the other members -- no matter where they are around the table -- and could also talk to their immediate neighbours, by pulling out the buds for a while.
Some years ago I decided to test-drive hearing aids. Went to DishDash in Sunnyvale, which is both the best and loudest Middle Eastern restaurant around (it's always crowded, and the main room walls and ceiling echo badly.) They let me have a conversation across the table, even with just one.
There are cellphone hearing aid programs; you need to use a wired headset, because Bluetooth latency is too high, and I haven't seen a phone with a good way to connect dual mikes, so it's only mono, but that's enough to help high-frequency roll-off some.
Why wouldn't "library rules" work?
Groups come to restaurants as much for conversation as food. So I can't see this applying. Put a bunch of tables together doing that and it's doomed. So fancy restaurants have booths and private rooms and sound deadening walls. But most don't.
That's a marvelous idea, particularly since my hearing is not what it once was. Nor is is just for dining out. It'd work well in situations where people who're separated need to chat. That'd include having being seated apart on a plane or in a crowd at an amusement park.
It is of course very easy to do this with push to talk -- but I think that would put a damper on regular conversation, so I would want to find a way to do it with just normal conversational flow, like a full duplex audioconferencing system. With the added challenge of the high background noise, and the fact it hears other members of the group through microphones other than their own. The closer you can get the microphone to your mouth, the better.
Just have everyone dial into the same conference call number. No new app needed. You could even use a free conference call service.
As a product manager, seems one could validate this idea very quickly, first with the conferencing feature via each user's carrier via the conference feature already baked into many phone apps.
Then if that idea had legs, perhaps try it with the mobile versions of Skype, Zoom, or GotoMeeting via the restaurant's IP or via each individual's carrier.
If this appears to be "a thing" then you can spend dev dollars on exploring NFC or Bluetooth approaches.
But the latency on that would be extreme. Ever tried to talk to somebody on a cell phone when they are in the same room and you are looking at them? It will drive you nuts. However, you can test at least the audio isolation.
If you use enough cameras and mics to track the voices and ears of everyone at the table, plus whatever audio is coming at them from other tables, can't you broadcast appropriate cancelling waveforms for each ear of each person? I have no idea if audio cancelling can be broadcast at a distance even if you did know the final waveform you were trying to suppress.
I think the restaurant could reasonably *boost* the right voices to the right listeners, but that's kind of adding to the overall problem.
Would be a major research breakthrough. But no, you can't do the cancel waveforms like that -- you need to be right at the ear.


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Q: How do range queries work with Sorted String Tables? I'm a bit confused. I cannot find any information about how to execute a range query against a sorted string table.
LevelDB and RocksDB support a range iterator which allows you to query between ranges, which is perfect for NoSQL. What I don't understand is how it is implemented to be efficient.
The tables are sorted in memory (and on disk) - what algorithm or data structure allows one to query a Sorted String Table efficiently in a range query? Do you just loop through the entries and rely on the cache lines being full of data?
Usually I would put a prefix tree in front, and this gives me indexing of keys. But I am guessing Sorted String Tables do something different and take advantage of sorting in some way.

A: Each layer of the LSM (except for the first one) is internally sorted by the key, so you can just keep an iterator into each layer and use the one pointing to the lexicographically smallest element. The files of a layer look something like this on disk:
Layer N
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File1    | File2 | File3 | ... | FileN     <- filename
n:File2  |n:File3|n:File4| ... |           <- next file
a-af     | af-b  | b-f   | ... | w-z       <- key range
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aaron    | alex  | brian | ... | walter    <- value omitted for brevity, but these are key:value records
abe      | amy   | emily | ... | xena
...      | ...   | ...   | ... | ...
aezz     | azir  | erza  | ... | zoidberg
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First Layer (either 0 or 1)
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File1    | File2 |     ...     | FileK
alex     | amy   |     ...     | andy
ben      | chad  |     ...     | dick
...      | ...   |     ...     | ...
xena     | yen   |     ...     | zane
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...

Assume that you are looking for everything in the range ag-d (exclusive). A "range scan" is just to find the first matching element and then iterate the files of the layer. So you find that File2 is the first to contain any matching elements, and scan up to the first element starting with 'ag'. You iterate over File2, then look at the next file for File2 (n:File3). You check the key-range it contains and find that it contains more elements from the range you are interested in, so you iterate it until you hit the first entry starting with 'd'. You do the same thing in every layer, except the first. The first layer has files which are not sorted among each other, but they are internally sorted, so you can just keep an iterator per file. You also keep one more for the current memtables (in-memory data, only persisted in a log).
This never becomes too expensive, because the first layer is typically compacted on a small constant threshold. As the files in every layer are sorted and the files are internally sorted by the key too, you can just advance the smallest iterator until all iterators are exhausted. Apart from the initial search, every step has to look at a fixed number of iterators (assuming a naive approach) and is thus O(1). Most LSMs employ a block cache, and thus the sequential reads typically hit the cache most of the time.
Last but not least, be aware that this is mostly a conceptual explanation, because most implementations have a few extra tricks up their sleeves that make these things more efficient. You have to know which data is contained in which file-ranges anyway when you do a major compaction, i.e., merge layer N in to layer N + 1. Even the file-level operation may look quite different: RocksDB, e.g., maintains a coarse index with the key offsets at the beginning of each file to avoid scanning over the often much larger key/value pair portion of the file.

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DEAR DR.PAUL: How long is a fever safe in a child of 13 months? The fever was as high as 103°F (39.5°C). Antibiotics were started on the 4th day and the fever disappeared on the 7th day. Thank you.
PEDIATRICIAN DR.PAUL Answers: Your question and concerns are shared by many parents, in whom fever is a source of anxiety. Fever is a symptom and not a diagnosis or a medical condition.
The most common cause of a fever in children is an infection, mostly viral but in some cases bacterial. One of the challenges we have in evaluating children with fever is trying to determine the cause, or at least to make sure it is not due to a bacterial infection. This distinction is important, as viral infections do not need antibiotic treatment, but bacterial infections usually do. So the signs and symptoms that we keep an eye on in children with fever are clues to the cause.
In general, the younger the child, the sicker looking the child and/or the longer the fever persists, the higher the chance of a bacterial infection. As important as the degree of fever, is how a febrile child generally looks. I personally worry more about a sick looking child with a low fever, than a very well, active child with a higher fever. Having said that, most children with fever do not need antibiotics. Your situation sounds like it was more than just a virus. In fact, parents should consult their doctor if the fever persists beyond 4 days, even if a child is not sick looking.
The antibiotics were likely given to fight a bacterial infection, like an ear, sinus or chest infection. Importantly, once on antibiotics, the fever does subside right away. It usually takes at least a full 48 hours of antibiotic treatment before the fever falls completely.
The normal body temperature is usually 98.6°F (37°C). A child is said to have a fever depending on how the temperature is taken. If the temperature is over: 100.4°F(38°C) rectally, 100°F (37.8°C) orally or 99°F (37.2°C) axillary (armpit), the child is considered to have a fever.
Lowering the temperature with Acetaminophen (Tylenol or Tempra) can help your child feel better and less irritable. Aspirin(acetylsalicylic acid) should not be used. It usually takes up to 60-90 minutes for the fever to go down. If this doesn't work, then the child could be given a luke warm sponge bath. Do not use cool or cold compresses or baths and never use alcohol sponging.
My bottom line is that fever is usually not dangerous, and can be handled at home. Understanding the possible causes of fever and knowing what alarm signs to look for in a febrile child, is a great source of comfort to many of my patients.


Between midnight and 1 AM on April 8th, a prison guard was stabbed inside Staton Correctional Facility in Alabama. There are reports that two stabbings occurred at Elmore CF, in unrelated cases.
The violence at Staton broke out when a guard violated the personal space of a prisoner by trying to take down his clothesline, verbally attacking him in the process. The inmate told the guard not to take down the clothesline, and a physical altercation ensued. Two inmates attempted to intervene to deescalate the situation but were unsuccessful. The officer was stabbed, after which point another officer started macing everyone in the area.
All 3 inmates involved in the situation are now in segregation units at Kilby Correctional Facility. The prison guard was transferred to a hospital in the free world.
This incident of violence is a direct result of the constant dangerous environment for both inmates and officers inside Alabama prisons–an environment that is created by the ADOC's own policies and practices. As the recent DOJ investigation into the ADOC has revealed, routine instances of neglect, abuse, and violence have gone unaddressed for a long time. This creates a daily reality of extremely heightened tension, such that something as petty as a clothesline can and has escalated to a potentially lethal situation for ADOC's own personnel.
This case also reveals wider issues about physical and mental health inside the ADOC. The clothesline that sparked the stabbing was up because prisoners don't have access to effective laundry machines, so they are forced to do their own laundry by hand. Alabama's prison laundry system is so inadequate that hand washing by inmates is the only way to keep their clothes hygienic. Physical and verbal attacks by guards and the chronic denial of access to basic hygienic needs are nothing new to prisoners in Alabama. All in all, this is yet another story in a continuous pattern of commissioner Jeff Dunn and governor Kay Ivey's blatant disregard for the health and safety of both the prison staff and the inmates under their jurisdiction.


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Former President Donald Trump has urged a boycott of the Major Baseball League over its decision to move the All-Star game from Georgia to protest new election reforms, quickly snowballing into a major battle in the culture war.
"Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D. … to have anything to do with our elections," Trump said in a statement released by his Save America PAC on Friday night, also taking a jab at major corporations that have criticized Georgia's recently passed election bill.
Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections. Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all!
The ex-president's statement came after MLB commissioner Robert Manfred announced earlier on Friday that both the game and the draft will be relocated from Atlanta as "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport."
"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box," Manfred said.
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After Biden backs punishing Georgia over election law, MLB announces MOVING All-Star baseball game and draft from Atlanta
MLB "caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies," Governor Brian Kemp said in response, issuing both a statement and a series of tweets on Friday afternoon. MLB's decision means that "cancel culture and woke political activists are coming for every aspect of your life, sports included. If the left doesn't agree with you, facts and the truth do not matter," Kemp added.
The "attack" on Georgia is a "direct result of repeated lies from Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams about a bill that expands access to the ballot box and ensures the integrity of our elections," the governor said. "I will not back down. Georgians will not be bullied."
This attack on our state is the direct result of repeated lies from Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams about a bill that expands access to the ballot box and ensures the integrity of our elections.
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) April 2, 2021
Abrams is a Democrat who lost the 2018 gubernatorial election to Kemp, refusing to concede and claiming she was cheated. Her lawsuit led to Georgia agreeing to loosen verification rules in the 2020 election, which resulted in Biden winning the state thanks to mail-in votes and Democrats capturing both seats in the US Senate, giving the party total control in Washington.
Reacting to the MLB decision, Abrams said she was "disappointed" by the game's move out of Atlanta, but blamed Republicans for "making it harder for people of color to vote." She also called for the "corporate community" to join her in the fight against the law – passed last week – and argued that leaders "must support" controversial House Democrat bills that seek to federalize election rules.
Biden had denounced the Georgia bill as "Jim Crow in the 21st Century," referring to the nickname for notorious segregation laws once aimed against African Americans. Mainstream media fact-checkers have called him out on misrepresenting some of the law's provisions – even as they parroted the Democrat narrative about it amounting to 'suppression' of voters by requiring 'racist' voter ID.
One sports commentator pointed out that MLB's talk of "values" was hypocrisy, considering that New York – where the league has its corporate headquarters – has more restrictive voter ID rules than Georgia.
New York State has more restrictive voting rules than Georgia. I assume Rob Manfred will be relocating @MLB corporate offices this weekend, right? It's the only choice to make.
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Georgia's MLB franchise, the Atlanta Braves, chimed in as well, saying they were "deeply disappointed" by the move and adding that it was "neither our decision nor our recommendation."
"Unfortunately, businesses, employees and fans in Georgia are the victims of this decision," the Braves said.
While Democrats hailed MLB's move as standing up for "democracy," Republicans and conservatives called for a boycott of the league. Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-South Carolina) tweeted he would propose legislation to remove MLB's federal antitrust exception, in light of their stance to "undermine election integrity laws."
"An overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support requiring an ID to vote, and any organization that abuses its power to oppose secure elections deserves increased scrutiny under the law," said Duncan.
He was backed by fellow Republican Chip Roy of Texas, who said he would co-sponsor and "aggressively push" such a measure.
The New York Post chose to comment on the controversy as well, accusing MLB of caving to partisan politics and "endorsing the overwrought and fundamentally false agitprop campaign" under pressure from "Democratic politicians and Twitter mobs."
Campaign against Georgia "depends on ignorance of the facts and cowardice by those who know better," the NYP editors argued, ending the editorial with a warning: "If the private sector doesn't start standing up to this bullying, it'll soon find itself with neither friends nor freedom of its own."
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US sports leagues opened their doors wide to social justice and political activism last year, as the riots over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota spread across the US.
MLB's Manfred pointed out on Friday that the league was among the first to join the "Civic Alliance," an association of over 1,000 corporations committed to "strengthen our democracy" in 2020. Other major sports leagues on board are Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball League (NBA) and the WNBA, the golfing PGA Tour, Premier Lacrosse League, and the women's hockey league WNHL.
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How 2023 calculation spurs Uyo district's insistence on Emmanuel's re-election
By Inemesit Akpan-Nsoh, Uyo
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There are many reasons the political atmosphere in Akwa Ibom State is steeped in intense heat and momentum as the elections draw near. Since 1999, political observers believe 2019 marks the first time the state is witnessing serious electoral competition, because for the first time also the opposition seems to be in a strong position than in previous years.
In the past 20 years, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been governing the state, but today the situation seems set to change. The opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state believes the power from the centre could help it pose serious challenge to PDP.
APC stakeholders in the state have been persuading their supporters with the argument that for the state to continue in opposite was counterproductive, stressing that it was time to join the party at the center. On the other hand, PDP has continued to counter such sentiment with the claim that within the years they have been at the helm of affairs of the state, tangible and significant indices of developments have not only been recorded, but are also there to be seen in all sectors of the economy.
For instance, PDP points to health, education, industries, youth development, security, women empowerment and others as its success card, maintaining that Akwa Ibom compete favourably with other states in the country. "It would therefore be hazardous to change the goalpost in the middle of the game," the party asserts.
But in terms of equity and political considerations, it should be noted that Akwa Ibom State sits on a tripod that consists of Uyo, Ikot Ekpene and Eket Senatorial Districts. From 1999 through 2007, Obong Victor Attah of Uyo Senatorial District served as governor and Senator Godswill Akpabio succeeded him. Akpabio, who hails from Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, was in office from 2007-2015. It should also be noted that in the interest of stability and harmonious development, Obong Attah and Senator Akpabio were allowed to complete two tenures of eight years each on the same political platform.
Now, the incumbent governor, Udom Emmanuel, who is from Eket Senatorial District, is occupying the governorship seat on behalf of the third leg of the tripod. Emmanuel is rounding off his first tenure of four years and seeking a second in office. It was in line with this trajectory that the stakeholders from Uyo Senatorial District resolved that, for equity, fairness and justice, Eket Senatorial District should be allowed to complete eight years with the same candidate, as obtained when the other two districts took their turns, noting that this would sustain the balanced political equation and peaceful coexistence for future generations in the state.
It could be seen from the line of reasoning of people of Uyo Senatorial District that altering the arrangement at this point could jeopardize their chances in 2023 when they hope to take their deserved turn at the governorship.That fear seems to be accentuated by the general belief that in the event that the APC governorship candidate, Obong Nsima Ekere wins, he would naturally recant his promise of serving for just one term. Uyo people maintain that such political promises by an outsider to the throne have never been honoured in Nigeria's history.
Some stakeholders who spoke with The Guardian said the matter goes beyond politics, nothing, "What we are saying has nothing to do with ethnic colorations, whether you are Ibibio, Annang, Oro, Obolo, but what we are saying is that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If Uyo and Ikot Ekpene Senatorial Districts have gone for eight years with one candidate each, Eket Senatorial District with Udom Emmanuel of PDP should be allowed similar access, so as not to create mistrust in the minds of Eket people in future elections.
Although, the APC candidate hails from the same Eket Senatorial District, Uyo people are afraid that, being the mother of the state, it would be suicidal for them to stay away from power for 20 years without another stint at the governorship seat.An APC chieftain who pleaded anonymity from the zone said: "If anything happens on the contrary, there is no way Obong Nsima Ekere will run for one term; this will leave Uyo on the waiting seat for 20 years after Obong Attah left office.
"Therefore, for the people of Uyo Senatorial District who are angling for the governorship to return to the zone in 2023, we should make sure we put our house in order and sustain the political arrangement put forward by our forebears to guarantee equity, fairness and justice to all. Nobody had ever promised to run for one term and kept such promise in this country."
Addressing a rally recently, the Senator representing Uyo Senatorial District, Bassey Albert (OBA), enjoined his people not to believe the APC candidate's promise of serving for just one term as governor, maintaining that the zone should support the PDP governorship candidate for a second term as they did for Ikot Ekpene zone.
Senator Albert said: "I believe in God Almighty that God shall speak for Uyo Senatorial District in 2019 and 2023. Governor Udom has lived up to his vision on the establishment of industries in Akwa Ibom, most importantly, the prevailing peace in the state. He deserves a second term. By 2023, it would be the turn of Uyo Senatorial District. We must support Udom to complete his tenure.
"Our leader, Obong Victor Attah, did eight years and championed powershift to Ikot Ekpene zone and the lot fell on Senator Godswill Akpabio. By 2015 Udom Emmanuel started the race for Eket and it is for eight years. As a leader you have to define the interest of your people and have your interest subsumed in their interest. My people strongly feel governor Udom Emmanuel should do eight years on the saddle.
"Anybody from Uyo Senatorial District who believes his personal interest supersedes the collective interest of the people is deceiving himself. Nsima Ekere can never do four years. God forbid. He can never keep that agreement. There is no way Nsima can do four years. The constitution allows him eight years. It means Uyo would be out of power for 20 years. God forbid. The people will re-elect Governor Udom Emmanuel based on his performance.
"Uyo Senatorial District was supposed to produce the deputy governor; they took it away from us, because we had nobody to speak for us. We will not allow them take 2023 from us. It is only through the instrumentality of the re-election of governor Udom Emmanuel that Uyo for 2023 is guaranteed.
"No matter whose ox is gored, l will continue to defend the interest of Uyo Senatorial District. God had a purpose for making me a Senator at a time like this. When you are lifted by man you are limited, but when you are lifted by God you shall succeed no matter the battles and gang-ups against you."
Taking up the refrain, the Speaker, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Onofiok Luke, who is from Uyo Senatorial District and also a contender for Etinan Federal Constituency, told his people to support governor Emmanuel's second term bid, since according to him, the governor means well for people of the senatorial district and the entire Akwa Ibom State.
The Speaker declared: "I believe strongly in the same God that made Obong Attah and Senator Godswill Akpabio to govern the state for two terms respectively. The same God is still alive and will make governor Udom Emmanuel complete his two terms of eight years in office as governor."
But aside from the overt campaigns by stakeholders and people of Uyo Senatorial District for governor Emmanuel's second term on the basis of their interest in the 2023 political calculations and power shift, most citizens of Akwa Ibom express worry that politicians might destroy the smooth development going on in the state under Governor Emmanuel's watch.
Those who spoke with The Guardian on the tensed political atmosphere in the state said it was regrettable that some of those who enjoyed two terms and are seeking another term in office are ganging up to cause political confusion in the state.While commending the governor for his ability and demonstrated capacity in managing resources, they believe his background in banking has helped his administration to record outstanding achievements, particularly in the areas of industrialization, road construction, youth development, education, healthcare delivery among others.
In the weeks preceding the governorship poll, the direction the pendulum would swing in Akwa Ibom would become clearer. However, there is nothing to indicate that the noise from the opposition APC would radically alter the pre-arranged calculations to thwart Emmanuel another term in office.
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Tipping has not been a thing in my country until the latter part of the 1990s, but it really took off in the early 2000s. Personally, I see no reason to tip, and refuse to do so. Waiters and servers are paid a decent wage and a service charge is already included in the bill.


ICO for E-Chat, a revolutionary multitask product that has all chances of becoming the most successful project in 2018, has started on November 16, 2017.
ICO for E-Chat, a revolutionary multitask product that has all chances of becoming the most successful project in 2018, has started on November 16, 2017. The token price of the first decentralized messenger with capabilities of a multi currency cryptowallet is set at level 0,75. This price is available just for a month, until December 15th. In the following 6 months, it is expected that the token price will increase significantly.
To place photo and video content in the feed and get paid for it.
At the moment, e-Chat is not only a great idea, but already a working messenger that functions in beta-version. The period of testing will be completed on November 30th. The permission for using e-Chat in China has already been received. The team of developers continues updating messenger to perfection in all aspects.
over 100 million users in 1.5-year term.
Under conditions of the increasing cryptocurrency market and popularity of such means of communication as messenger, e-Chat has all chances to become a hit product of the coming year, being a multitask tool that fully responds to the conversational and financial needs of modern people.


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Drug-sniffing dogs to search Litchfield High School
Members of the Litchfield Board of Education.Shako Liu — The Register Citizen
LITCHFIELD >> The Board of Education recently approved a State Police plan to bring drug sniffing dogs to the high school campus. In the education board meeting last week, Trooper Jim Holm proposed to have the dogs on school grounds to search student lockers and vehicles.
Holm said he believes students are bringing drugs into the school and cited how administrators had given out penalties this year to students caught with marijuana. The school is allowed by law to enact penalties against students found with marijuana, but state police would handle students found in possession of narcotics, according a report by Litchfield.Bz.
According to the superintendent Deborah Wheeler, the board agreed to provide letters to the State Police documenting their authorization, and to parents providing notification.
"The canine officers will arrive at the school, the school will be placed into lockdown; the dogs will sweep through the common areas of the school (hallways, cafe, gym, parking lot). No students will interact with the dogs," Wheeler wrote in an email.
The plan was supported by the majority of the board members, with the search planned to be conducted before the school year ends next month. The exact date is not known, nor if the results will be announced to the public.
Students will be tucked away in classrooms as the dogs search lockers and vehicles. The State Police narcotics division will conduct the search, while assisted by local police.
Board member John Bongiorno was one of the supporters and said he doesn't think there is a problem with the search.
"The only people who are concerned are people who are doing something wrong," Bongiorno said, "If you didn't do anything wrong, you shouldn't be worried."
Board member Gayle Carr was the only member to vote against the plan. She said students who have drugs will keep the drugs with them as the dogs come in, because the dogs won't have contact with them. She said such "scare" tactics do not work.
"It's a mistake when we haven't done the survey, we haven't run any prevention education program, we are not taking the steps we can do preventatively," Carr said, "[The dog search] will ultimately result in punishment [if they find drugs]. It's a very bad way of teaching."
The education board approved a lifestyle survey for the high school students in March which includes questions about drug use and sexuality. The survey received a lot of negative response from the community and 20 percent of parents had opted out of the survey for their children. The survey was later abandoned by its provider before it was implemented.
Reach Shako Liu at 860-489-3121 ext. 316.


Valley Wide Kayak Club has monthly outings to various places and conducts a monthly kayak instruction & conditioning paddle.
for consideration to be used as "picture of the month".
Lake Perris - Sail Cove Conditioning Paddle - Sun. April 7 - 9 am launch at 9:30 am - Lake Perris is just beautiful after all the rain. It's hillsides are covered with wild flowers. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen and your kayak and gear. We'll paddle 6 miles around the lake and have lunch on the island.
The Elkhorn Slough is one of California's largest wetlands and is part of a National Estuarine Research Reserve. Located at the heart of the Monterey Bay, it's a short trip from the Monterey Peninsula and the Santa Cruz area. The slough winds inland seven miles and provides vital feeding and resting grounds for a diverse population of wildlife. The weather is mild year-round, and each season offers unique opportunities for wildlife viewing.


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Flyers Backcheck: Up in Flames, Rangers Win Again
By Andy Dudones November 28th, 2014
With only 22 games in the books, it's becoming more and more obvious that the 2014-15 season is a lost one. Friday afternoon's 3-0 Rangers win over the Flyers handed Philadelphia their seventh loss in their last eight games. And with the tail end of their back-to-back coming up on Saturday in New York, the Flyers appear to be cooked.
Cam Talbot's 26 saves gave the backup goalie his second shutout of the season, and another Rangers win against the Flyers. (Don McPeak-USA TODAY Sports)
Talbot, Rangers Win Again
On the heels of Thanksgiving and his second consecutive shutout against the Flyers, Rangers backup goalie Cam Talbot is certainly thankful for the opportunity to suit up against the orange and black.
Talbot, who last started on Nov. 19th (against the Flyers), bettered his record to 2-2-1 on the season. And if Talbot isn't giving thanks for seeing Philly, he should. Not only were both of his wins on the season against the Flyers, they were both shutouts.
"It was more of a big team effort," said Talbot after his fifth career NHL shutout. "I was back there but a lot shots were from the outside, and the guys did a great job of boxing out and pretty much letting me see every puck."
Forget how the Flyers are 4-14-1 against the Rangers in their last 19 regular season games, they've now been shutout three times in the last 20 days. As for Talbot, the 27-year-old has now shunned the Flyers on their last 66 shots dating back to Oct. 24th of last season. That, of course, includes last season's relief for Henrik Lundqvist in Game 6 of the quarterfinal round.
"Our frustration level right now is high & we've got to find a way to flush that out." -Hextall on today's loss → http://t.co/y4dM9LFVXJ
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 28, 2014
Saturday's cruise to victory, though, may have been Talbot's easiest effort against the orange and black. The Rangers continued to sniff out Philadelphia's out-of-sync offense by swarming the Flyers at their blue line, and staying in their back pocket for the duration of the game.
As for today's game, there were no more signs of life than previous outings. Philly only mustered 26 shots — including a mere 15 through the first two periods — and allowed another power play goal, marking the seventh time in the last eight games the league's worst PK unit has allowed at least one PPG. Unsurprisingly, Flyers were showered with boos by the disappointed home crowd. — Mike Halford, Pro Hockey Talk
Calling the Flyers a fragile team with no identity would be considered a drastic understatement. For the 16th time in 22 games, Craig Berube's team surrendered the game's first goal, dropping their record to 3-11-2 when doing so.
On the flip side, the Rangers improved to 8-2-2 when scoring the game's first goal. When Dan Boyle opened the scoring in the first period with his second goal in as many games, the Flyers may well have retreated to the dressing room to shower and leave.
https://twitter.com/__ZacTweets/status/538460741243002880
"I think the first period was all right and it seems like we came apart after that," said a composed Ron Hextall. "I think our frustration level right now is high and we've got to find a way to flush that out. You can play with emotion, and I actually thought we had some emotion tonight, but it's got to be controlled emotion or it doesn't do you any good."
Starting in his fourth straight game, Flyers goalie Steve Mason fell to 4-8-2, yielding goals to Boyle, Martin St. Louis, and a shorthanded mark to Rick Nash. But despite dropping his third straight, Mason was anything but the scapegoat. The third-year Flyer was ambushed early on with 21 shots through the first two periods. But while Mason was able to shrug off 19 of those attempts, his teammates answered with zero goals on 15 shots throughout that same span.
The Rangers followed up a number of their shot attempts by teeing off on rebounds off of Mason's initial stops. This, of course, was facilitated by a high volume of turnovers either in Philadelphia's own zone, or in the neutral zone, sending the puck back into the Flyers' zone.
Translation: It was an uncreative sequel to Nov. 19th's game at MSG with an extra goal as an added insult.
Special Teams Therapy
The Flyers, who can't seem to get anything right lately, have now been shutout for the third time this season. That's after being shutout a grand total of four times in 82 games last season. But with the epic struggles to areas such as the penalty kill unit and the power play alike, last year's mark looks as if it'll be easily eclipsed if the special teams units continue to wallow in futility.
The power play was bad. Full stop. The Rangers had seven shots shorthanded today, including one goal. The Flyers? Five shots in their 12 minutes of power play time. I've seen that top unit of Giroux-Voracek-Simmonds-(whoever)-(whoever) work through enough slumps over the last three-plus seasons to know that they'll probably turn it around soon, so I'm not exactly worried, per se, but man, the way this team is going, it'd really help if "soon" was "now". — Kurt R., Broad Street Hockey
The Flyers were not only blanked on all six of their power play chances on Friday, they were only able to muster up six total shots with the man advantage for the day. Adding more embarrassment to that statistic are the five shorthanded shots recorded for the Rangers, with one of the five beating Mason in the midst of a four minute double-minor.
With Philadelphia's o-for-6 power play performance in Friday's matinee, the Flyers are now one for their last 12 when skating five-on-four. And despite their past success on the power play at home, 7-for-16 in their previous four home games, their fruitless reward on Friday was the first time in five home games they were unable to convert on at least one power play.
"Obviously the effort could be a little better but I think the effort is not the issue right now," said Flyers captain Claude Giroux. "I think it's the way we are playing as a team. We are just not playing together. We've got to do a better job of sticking together. Chief [Craig Berube] said it before, when they score a goal we need to start changing our game. We need to start playing better and we will soon. We just need to figure it out."
How do you not get a goal with a man advantage for 4 MINUTES!!!!
— Kristie ❤ (@Kristie1077) November 28, 2014
Friday posed to be a golden opportunity to "figure it out." The Rangers entered the Wells Fargo Center as the 27th ranked road penalty killing team. After their 3-0 victory, though, that ranking improved to 17th.
"Obviously, on the power play, guys are going full force to score goals and sometimes the defensive part of it gets left behind," said Mason, who after giving up six shorthanded goals last season, gave up his first of the year on Saturday. "We have to do a better job of defending against it. That third goal was a killer."
Only the Flyers can allow a 3-on-1 shorthanded goal. Embarrassing.
— Tim Riday (@TimRiday) November 28, 2014
The penalty killing also continued to stumble, despite killing off five of their six penalties committed on the day. Friday's penalty killing still wasn't good enough to pull them out of the league's cellar, despite raising them to 73.7 percent – one percentage point below the 29th ranked New York Islanders.
And we haven't even mentioned the Flyers' penalty kill. Once a vaunted part of their overall defense, the Flyers' PK units these days have slipped so far below the Mendoza line, there's no scale to measure it.
The Flyers gave up their 11th power-play goal in eight games in this one. — Tim Panaccio, CSN Philly
Friday's loss keeps the Flyers at 19 points on the season through 22 games. That's four points ahead of Carolina and Edmonton, and five points better than Buffalo and Columbus. But it's not as if the Flyers have been without opportunity to keep pace with other teams within their own division.
In a span of 14 days, the Flyers collected only three of 16 possible points. And while it's somewhat unrealistic to expect any team to pull off eight straight – especially with the current team – it does little for the confidence moving forward since they've now failed to gain at least one point in six of their last eight games.
With a trip to MSG on deck for Saturday afternoon, it's back to the road for the first of five in road whites. And at 2-7-1 as the visiting team, things are looking uglier by the moment.
Tidbits from Another Rangers Win
Martin St. Louis' multi-point afternoon resulted in the 16-year-veteran becoming the fifth active member to reach 1,000 career points. After assisting Dan Boyle's first period goal, the former Lightning captain tallied his 1,000th point with a second period goal.
St. Louis now has 321 points since the 2010-11 season, which is second to only Claude Giroux's 329 points over the last five seasons.
No one wanted Martin St. Louis. Now he has 1,000 points. What a career.
— Аrpon Basu (@ArponBasu) November 28, 2014
After dishing out his ninth helper of the season, Chris Kreider will now miss Saturday's back end against the Flyers due to the passing of his grandfather. After missing 16 games last season, the Rangers forward will miss his first game of the current season. Through 22 games, Kreider has four goals and nine assists.
Sad #NYR news. Chris Kreider has lost his grandfather, will not be available tomorrow v. Flyers @ MSG. NY preparing to recall JT Miller.
— Larry Brooks (@NYP_Brooksie) November 28, 2014
Since notching a goal and two assists in Game 7 of last season's quarterfinal loss to the Rangers, Claude Giroux has now been held scoreless in both games against New York since. Despite owning 30 points in 34 regular season games against the Rangers, the captain hasn't been alone. After all, every Flyer has been held pointless through the first two tilts against New York. That's what happens when you get shutout.
https://twitter.com/K_Mac_14/status/538436062583222273
Saturday's turnaround at MSG brings the projected matchup of Henrik Lundqvist against Ray Emery. Perhaps that's good news for the Flyers, who have yet to figure out Lundqvist's understudy. But if the Flyers are to break their nine-game regular season losing streak at MSG, they'll have to beat New York's best, who is 27-13-3 all-time versus the Flyers.
#Flyers shut out for third time in 8 days, twice by the #Rangers. And Henrik Lundqvist did not play a single minute. #FlyersTalk
— Kevin Durso (@Kevin_Durso) November 28, 2014
Does it really matter, though? No matter who Alain Vigneault sends out, the Flyers need to first figure out how to score a goal. That in itself, against the Rangers anyway, looks and feels like a monumental task.


Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by threeam, Nov 6, 2012.
I have recently had an email account on our server compromised, which was sending out spam via our server from multiple IP addresses.
It was easy to find which cpanel account the emails were being sent from via WHM in the Mail Delivery Reports and Sent Summaries. The problem though was that none of this information would show what user account was being used to send these emails.
I was able to find the courier_login information by searching for the message ID in the /var/log/exim_mainlog, and then reset the compromised password. It would be much better (and efficient) if this information can be found within WHM, which could link right back to the user account so the password could have been easily reset in one step, without need to go through SSH to lookup the log file.
Is there something I have overlooked, or is this feature not currently available in WHM.


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Dig a little deeper and you'll see that each category — food, alcohol, groceries and laundry — has its own unique experience, specially tailored to mirror what it's like to shop in the real world.
In alcohol, that means a product-first view with beautiful imagery, where you can add items to your bag just like you're grabbing them off the shelf of your local liquor store.
In laundry, it means finding the perfect cleaner based on exactly what you need cleaned. Just build a bag of wash-and-fold or dry cleaning, and we'll show you the price from all available cleaners.
Take it for a test drive today, and keep an eye out for the little tutorials that'll have you navigating the new app like an old pro. And over the next few days, check back on the blog for more helpful tips and tricks.


Discover America's Best Kept Secret!
50 Years of Dedication to the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel!
Membership is open to all Cavalier lovers.
13 three day shows annually & Puppy Sweepstakes.
Regional clubs throughout the US.
370+ page Yearbook (mostly color) free to members.
Each show averages between 100 to 200+ entries.
Judges from Englanrd, the UK and AKC.
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Everyone is welcome to become a member of the CKCSC,USA, bring your love of this wonderful breed and join us. The first Cavalier was registered in the Club in 1956 when there were only three members but by 1966, there were 321 registered. The first show was in 1962 with an entry of 42 and was held at Sutherland Farm, Prospect Kentucky, at the home of Mrs. Lyon Brown's sister, Mrs. George Garvin Brown (Trudy), who was to guide the Club to maturity.
Twenty-five years ago, the CKCSC,USA held their Silver Jubilee in Kentucky with an entry of 502 and was judged by Lady Forwood (UK) who gave Best in Show to Can Ch. Amantra Royal Salute and BOS to Kilspindie Tailspin (Best Bred by Exhibitor). The following day Bill Taylor (Canada) gave Ch & CanCh Kilspindle Mockingbird BIS with Charlescote Najona of Arkenken BOS. The farewell event after the weekend was a riverboat cruise exactly like the one for the 50th just held in Louisville where the entry was the largest in breed history in America.


Trondheim, Norway's jazz conservatory has an excellent reputation for nurturing countless original musicians and outfits. Clockwork, a Norway/Sweden quartet, was formed in that conservatory in 2009 and, after numerous tours, now has The Contest, a debut co-produced, mixed and mastered by Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar.
The compositions were written by three quartet members: pianist Oscar Grönberg (a member of Norway's Friends & Neighbors and Hanna Paulsberg's Concept, appearing on their respective Øra Fonogram debuts, 2011's No Beat Policy and 2012's Walz for Lilli); guitarist Odd Steinar Albrigtsen (of the as-yet-unrecorded Norwegian trio Hijack, as well as his own quartet); and bassist Peder Waern (of Sweden's Quiet Night Orchestra). Clockwork reveals its roots in American bebop, but with its own modern expression.
After years of playing together the quartet has formed its own solid aesthetic which includes balanced interplay, clever compositions that do not follow obvious narratives, patient, slow-burning structures and a clear affinity for calm, melodic articulations. This temperament is open to numerous variations. On Grönberg's brilliant "Valseri," the pianist's repeated, disciplined chords construct a subtle tension released by Albrigtsen's impressionist linear flights. Grönberg's playful, Thelonious Monk-like theme on the title track pushes the quartet towards a rare, urgent and muscular approach. Waern's "Slingshot" has a similar formula, stressed by a tight, swinging rhythm, while his "Festivus" revolves around a gentle, reserved theme explored on double bass with minor abstractions from Albrigtsen, Grönberg and drummer Truls Rønning. Albrigtsen's compositions—"Café Bentsebru," "Minor Leaps" and "Ballato"—feature his lyrical and highly melodic phrasing. His acoustic solo introduction for "Ballato," and later the fragile interplay that he develops with Waern, charge this beautiful composition with profound emotional impact.
Track Listing: Café Bentsebru; Valseri; The contest; Festivus; Minor Leaps; Löt; Slingshot; Ballato.
Personnel: Odd Steinar Albrigtsen: guitar; Oscar Grönberg: piano, rhodes; Peder Waern: double Bass; Truls Rønning: Drums.


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Trilogija (trans. "Trilogy") is a compilation album from influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. The album features all songs from three parts of Riblja Čorba trilogy, Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite, Trilogija 2: Devičanska ostrva and Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje.

Track listing

Personnel
Bora Đorđević - vocals
Vidoja Božinović - guitar
Vicko Milatović - drums
Miša Aleksić - bass guitar
Nikola Zorić - keyboards

2007 compilation albums
Riblja Čorba compilation albums

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I loved Wonder Woman Year One, the current (Rebirth) origin story of the titular character, now with more Steve Trevor beefcake! Wonder Woman #12 & 14 gives us our last dose of shirtless Steve as drawn by Nicola Scott. I love how he's unapologetically the main source of fanservice in this book. They always find a way to get his shirt off!


NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (October 4, 2017) – Award winning female group HIGHROAD scored its very first #1 song this month. The single, titled "We Are Broken," topped the PowerSource Magazine's Country Gospel Top 100 chart for the October 2017 issue. PowerSource Magazine is the industry leader in Country Gospel for news and radio reporting.
"We Are Broken" is the second single from HIGHROAD's award-winning release Somewhere I'm Going. The single "Christ My Hope, My Glory" (featuring Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Crabb) was awarded Country Song of the Year earlier this year at the 2017 Absolutely Gospel Music Awards. The video for the song is airing on the GAC network during their Sunday morning programming.
The group's current single, "Somewhere I'm Going," is also making strong strides at Southern Gospel radio, leaping to #33 on the AbsolutelyGospel.com Top 40 Weekly Chart this week.


Meet Kingsley Elikpo a foremost Nigerian Artiste who goes by the stage name "DJ ZEEZ " He is also a Song writer, Actor, Music Producer and a former Disc Jockey, popularly known for his hit singles like Sami – Ni, 4kasible , Bobbee-eh and many more.
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A brief history of the Mase and Cam'ron beef
The Harlem natives' decades-old feud spilled over in the form of two diss tracks over the weekend.
Y'all see this it's right 🤷🏽♂😂 ya man I hope he wit the shits tho 👊🏽👊🏽
A post shared by @mr_camron on Nov 25, 2017 at 9:05pm PST
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Cam'ron and Mase stoked the flames of an old beef, trading diss tracks back and forth. On Friday, Mase shared "The Oracle" and promptly took to Genius to annotate it. Cam'ron responded on Saturday night with "Dinner Time," in which he alleges that Mase retired from rap to run a Ponzi scheme and calling into question his roots in Harlem.
The two Harlem natives' relationship goes back decades —Mase and Cam'ron famously hooped on the same team at Manhattan Center High School and formed Children of the Corn with Big L in 1993. Take a look at the history behind Mase and Cam'ron's recent disses.
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1997 — Mase and Cam'ron appear together on Rap City
Mase introduced Cam'ron to the world on Rap City. During the interview, Cam'ron says, "I do a lot writing. I'm not gonna say who I write for." When the interviewer presses him on who he's written for, Mase replies, "We can't do that."
April 1998 — Cam'ron uses a fake Mase in the "Horse & Carriage" video
After Children of the Corn disbanded in 1996, Cam'ron unsuccessfully tried to restart his basketball career at a junior college in Texas. Upon his return to New York in '97, he linked back up with Mase, who then introduced him to The Notorious B.I.G. and Lance "Un" Rivera.
Cam's debut album Confessions of Fire was released on Rivera's Untertainment label and its lead single, "Horse & Carriage" featured Mase, but the Harlem World founder demanded $40,000 to appear in the song's video. Instead, Cam'ron employed a body double, and Mase is nowhere to be found in the Rivera-directed clip.
April 1999 — Mase retires from rap to becomes a pastor
During an interview with Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97, Mase announced that he was retiring from his rap career to become a pastor. However, many speculated that Mase's move towards God, and out of Harlem to Atlanta, was a result of ongoing beef with Harlem street figure Baby Maine.
July 2004 — Mase, Cam'ron, and Jim Jones argue on live radio
After five years, Mase announced his return album Welcome Back. In an interview on Hot 97, a month before the August release of the album, Mase explained why he left Harlem and the rap game. During the interview, Jim Jones and Cam each called into the show to question Mase's story about leaving Harlem and call him a "fraud."
December 2004 — Cam'ron and Juelz Santana diss Mase on Purple Haze
Following the radio argument and Welcome Back, Cam'ron and Juelz Santana went at Mase on "Take Em To Church," a track from Cam's Purple Haze album. "Everybody Welcoming this, Welcoming that / He wasn't welcome in the first place, how we welcome him back?" Juelz rapped on the track. "Do Harlem a favor, get a church or something," Cam added.
March 2006 — Cam'ron says he'll never speak to Mase again
In a 2006 interview with XXL, Cam'ron told Bonsu Thompson, "I'll never speak to Mase again." The rapper said that he had met up with Mase six months prior to the interview, and Mase, who was associated with G-Unit at the time, told him he had $1 million from Dr. Dre to record an album.
March 2017 — Cam'ron reflects on Mase becoming a pastor
On Instagram Live, Cam'ron discussed why he thinks Mase really became a pastor. "See that's what Mase did. Mase went real wild," he said. "He said, "Yo, they can't beef with me, they can't ask me for nothing. I'm gonna throw on the Rev. Run collar and get the fuck out of here."
November 2017 — Cam'ron disses Mase on "It's Killa"
In November, Cam'ron released a new mixtape entitled The Program. On "It's Killa," he rapped, "Got this ni**a home and he passed me a hundo ($100 dollars?!) / Told him straight up I ain't feeling him / Let me curve this ni**a 'fore I end up killing him." In another bar, he again referenced the real reason why Mase left New York: "I watched him play Pop Lotti against Baby Maine / At this time I'm moving heroin in Maryland / They both died and this n***a turned reverend."
November 2017 — Mase finally responds on "The Oracle"
After years of silence, Mase finally responded to Cam on Friday with "The Oracle," addressing years of controversy and putting forth some strong allegations. He took to Genius to elaborate on the stories behind the lines.
November 2017 — Cam'ron hits back with "Dinner Time"
The next night, Cam'ron responded with "Dinner Time."
November 2017: The two rappers go back and forth on Instagram
It seems as though the beef is squashed, even as the two rappers continued to go back and forth on Instagram. Mase declared himself the winner of the beef, while Cam asked, "When u leaving Harlem again?"
#Mase Believes he unanimously won feud with @Mr_Camron pic.twitter.com/rypLRbSprg
— Michael $ap (@LordTreeSap) November 27, 2017
Cam'ron, Hip-Hop, Mase


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> Glossary of terms
> 40 second play clock
Football 40 Second Play Clock
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What is the 40 Second Play Clock in Football?
The 40 second play clock is a timer that is designed to maintain a steady game pace, giving the offense 40 seconds to begin a play after the previous play has been completed.
When Does the 40 Second Clock Begin?
The clock starts to count down immediately after a play is whistled dead, meaning the ball carrier has either been brought to the ground by a defender or a pass has fallen to the turf. The offense then has 40 seconds to hike the ball and begin the next play. Within the 40 seconds allotted, the offense must form a huddle, call a play and get in position prior to the ball being snapped. In order to preserve time, the offense occasionally elects to use a 'no huddle' strategy, in which two or more plays are called at one time to negate the need for a pre-snap conference.
Play clocks are designed to maintain a relatively fast-paced game. Without a play clock, offenses could take several minutes to get organized in between plays. If permitted to do so, games could take upwards of 5 hours to finish, which tends to be far less entertaining than the standard three hour timeframe fans have come to expect.
If the 40 second play clock expires before the offense can hike, a delay of game penalty is issued by the referees. A delay of game penalty results in the offense having to back up five yards from the previous spot before beginning the next play.


Simple question but Why do our players seem disinterested and unmotivated yet again? its just like last season under Bilic.....so new season plenty of new blood in the squad but this same old problem keeps arising....Are the new management and coaches making the same mistakes and being to soft on our players if so it has to stop I don't want to hear about how good we look during the week I want to see it on Saturday when it matters but I already like many here have my doubts we will see that as the old problems raise there head again.,,so why do our players have such a poor attitude? its not like they are the first ones this has been a running theme for a good long while now...I often say that we are cursed as nothing seems to change at our club(apart from the ground!)The board must be thinking the same they have put a lot of money in and got the manager they said they wanted and yet 4 games in we look as poor if not more so than the start of last season?
Players already coming out saying its not good enough we need to do more blah blah bloody blah well get off the social media and start bloody grafting because you just don't earn the support you get from loyal west ham fans....I would like to say things will change and quick but seriously the stick I am getting off of my friends and colleagues already is getting hard to defend and the old whats the difference between west ham and a triangle joke being repeated over and over again is irritating and try as you must to defend your team amongst all the stick thrown my/our way is getting harder and harder so El Pel get to grips and get it sorted or we will be in for another bleak winter.
Hard to say which is worse......player&manager recruitment is it taken seriously? any thought given to it?....now When El Pel was heralded as the new man and the man they had been after for a long time I like many I think were surprised but yeah give him a chance but I was a bit worried as his pedigree in this league was with uba moneybags citeh so he was successful but not enough to keep those owners happy so off he went to china and well hardly set that league alight and now he is here demanding money for the players he wanted and demanded they get so with money spent we are already looking bad at the back fabianski saved us a few times yesterday against wolves diopp Balbuena well they are currently our version of mangala/otemendi who he had at citeh and were a disaster only pep is now managing to get a tune from them....I had heralded Bristol city def Aiden Flint as a good buy but you get shot down with no prem experience well neither had the two we got...james maddison also another I thought get him you could see this lads got it but naa too expensive and not exotic enough so he goes to Leicester and looks right at home in the prem...demari gray when at brum I was calling for but again not worth the money but again he's doing well at Leicester......so we have the exotic we have scrabble winning names but do we have a team and a manager that does us proud? well clearly right now we do not....don't panic they say only 4 games in etc but two of those matches at home to wolves and Bournemouth we lost those are a big 6 points to be missing already this season...but both those teams are coached well Bournemouth in particular so why can we not be equally as well coached? afterall do we not have a world class manager and the staff he wanted.
These are players that would have added something...unless this shower improve we have a load of panic buys to appease the fans & pellegrini,what sort of way is that to run a football club!!
I think the issue is obvious, we have no strategy in the transfer market, whereas a lot of other teams do and they build to their identity. We do a scatter gun approach, fill the team with journeyman pros hoping they come good. Look at teams with recent success; Burnley, young British workhorses, Bournemouth- young pacey mostly British. Wolves- Portuguese technical players etc etc. Every person is bought to fit into the club ethos. We sign mercenaries on high wages with limited ability and fitness and wonder why we struggle. Yes we spent a lot, thank you to the chairman but the players we've bought in haven't really improved us. A couple of young CBs and some average midfielders. The keeper is class and top quality, a snip at 7 mill.
In January we need a proper forward and defensive midfielder athlete who is quick and covers the ground. Sell chicarito it's obvious he doesn't want to be here. If we continue like this we will be relegated come the end of season.
yes, spot on. where was the thinking of system, style etc before recruiting?
one major problem this time is the fact we've changed the back four. the two cb's yesterday were new and both look dubious, but they need time to settle as its a key position in the team. i also think we're buying foreign players who have no real interest in the club. whether its for the big pay day or a chance to get 'in' the prem and move on, they don't seem interested. i also think pellegrini hasn't been strong enough - he should have sorted a formation and system out first, bought players to suit it. right now he doesnt know if he wants to play yarmelenko, where to play anderson, how or whether to play chicho- I'm surprised as a 'top' manager this wasnt done. for all the slating moyes got - he came in and knew exactly how to organise the side and slap a few backsides. he forged a hardworking ethic and whether we enjoyed his football or not - he turned things around. can pellegrini do similar if we continue with this dire start?
Yeah,and moyes had no pre season,Pelle has had a full pre season,hand pricked his own back room staff, players and director of football yet we look worse.
This is spot on. The team were fit and could defend under Moysey and there was clear signs of improvement. I was more than happy for him to stay, but seeing Pellegrini and a 100 million pound budget, I'll have to admit I was excited.
Moyes would have bought with a plan and we would not be in this position.
Shhhhh! you will wake the beast up!
Mac in answer to your original post, I'm holding everything in at the moment. Things can't go on as they are. It has to be something bigger than the manager as we have had the same thing with bilic, Moyes and now pellegrini. I'm so deflated I can't even muster a rant anymore.
I would actually love to hear the players explain why they walk around totally like they couldn't careless and I don't mean on twitter/instagram etc I mean face to face to fans who pay cold hard cash to see that rubbish but of course they wont and unless we fans get behind them 100% well its our fault isn't it!
You may need to take quite a few half time baths to get us out of this dire situation, red.
A man with a good memory m6.
A man with a good memory m6. Trouble is I can't help anymore as my bath ritual has changed outside of Saturday kick offs as I'm at the rugby now. But I still don't stink as much as this team does!
Well I don't know, Fredricks cant pass water, Sanchez couldn't trap a bag of cement, and as for Pellegrinis barnet, well it's got a mind of it's own........... cos he's worth it...... Oh, and the rest is just bollox....!!!
Have to say I was effing appalled at our performance on Saturday. And said to myself when the board went up with four mins left I should go to bed and be happy with the draw. Sat there though and to watch Sanchez dither on the ball as he did, knew then I'd made the wrong choice.
That aside though it was the attitude that worried me more than the inability. No players getting into the box for crosses, midfield static, back 4 not pushing up. I was dumbfounded tbh and Fabianski aside we looked useless. Everyone mocked Palace last season for starting with 7 defeats, well I'm not seeing a win before November which will be 10 before a home game vs Burnley of all teams.
don't worry, we can always call moyes in December.
I think we have been in a rut for years,except for Bilics first season,other than that what else can it be.I think the situation this season is, it is too many new players too soon,Pelleigrini STILL dosent know his best eleven.I think that when it clicks,we wont know when it is or what team it will be against,home or away,they will get seriuously spanked,and it will make big headlines.
But we fans do stay strong its the players who do not....they may believe the sugar coated nonsense that gets fed to them week in week out about how good they are and what top players they are but not one of them one of them would show the guts and determination that the Watford players did yesterday against the spuds...if we go a goal down we lose(wimbledon against 10 men not counted)our players have no stomach for a fight and our new all singing and dancing manager has no clue as to how he wants the team to play or the best eleven he has.....after the international break its everton away now before everyone starts heralding how great they are just rmbr they struggled to draw at home with Huddersfield another team expected to be fighting the drop all season but a team that will fight as a team unlike ours....clueless and no bottle that's us right now Burkie and one win whenever it comes will not change that.
Spot on mac,good post mate.
Word for word that's how it's got me now dave,it's like your reading my mind mate.
I agree with every word there mate,though i do still get pissed off when we lose.Why is it like this though,this club has always been like it,i remember some horrendous games lost over the years,right through the 70s,abysmal, though we still won the FA Cup in 75 and 80,its like we are constantly under a black cloud now..........One good thing about the weekend,Spurs lost.
Is the latest player to come out and say he is ready to battle hard for the fans and we must do better after the international break.....if they put in as much effort as they do with there social media we would be top of the bloody league..whats that old saying ahh yes its "Talks cheap" or if you prefer "actions speak louder than words" lets see what happens T-13 and counting!
its the start of the season ffs why isn't he fit?
already? talk about injury prone.
With no interest in West Ham other than a fat pay packet. Not just in football, but in the East End of London as well. Can't see anymore homegrown players coming through the ranks. Local boys who would die for Claret and Blue. For free!!
Whats that bling round our bobbys neck?
Sully & bradys way of modernising westham greats i suppose!!
He was defending himself stan!!