RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad's turret is bringing together people from across the country with distant but powerful ties to those who died aboard.
The ceremony Friday at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington will include Monitor kin who believe the two sailors — whose remains were discovered in 2002 — are their ancestors, despite DNA testing that has failed to make a conclusive link. But the families stress that the interment pays homage to all 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down, and nearly 100 people from Maine to California are expected to attend.
"When I learned they were going to do a memorial and have the burial at Arlington, it was like, 'I can't miss that,'" said Andy Bryan of Holden, Maine, who will travel with his daughter Margaret to the capital. He said DNA testing found a 50 percent likelihood that Monitor crewman William Bryan, his great-great-great-uncle, was one of the two found in the summer of 2002, when the 150-ton turret was raised from the ocean floor off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
"If it's not William Bryan, I'm OK with that," Bryan said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I feel like I should be there."
The same holds true for Diana Rambo of Fresno, Calif. She said her mother, Jane Nicklis Rowland, was told of the ceremony for Monitor crewman Jacob Nicklis a week before her death in December, at age 90. He was Rowland's great-uncle. That, Rambo said, makes the interment especially poignant.
Rambo, too, suspects Nicklis was one of the two in the turret. "We know he was on the ship," she said. "We know he was one of the 16."
Two weeks ago, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the two would probably be the last Navy personnel from the Civil War to be buried at Arlington. He'll speak at the interment. "It's important we honor these brave men and all they represent as we reflect upon the significant role Monitor and her crew had in setting the course of our modern Navy," he said.
The ceremony is scheduled on the 151st anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, which took place on March 8 and 9, 1862. On the second day, the Brooklyn-made Monitor fought the CSS Virginia in the first battle between two ironclads. The Monitor was the Union's answer to the Confederate Virginia, built on the carcass of the U.S. Navy frigate USS Merrimack. The battle of the ironclads ended in a draw.
The Monitor sank about nine months later in rough seas southeast of Cape Hatteras while under tow by the USS Rhode Island. Dubbed a "cheese box on a raft," the Monitor was not designed for rough water. Sixteen of the Monitor's 62 crew members died. The crew of the Rhode Island was able to rescue about 50 people. Most of the dead were lost at sea. The wreck was discovered in 1973.
Retired Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley was commanding officer of the team about 40 divers who descended to the Monitor wreck in 2002. The turret was upside down and filled with coal, sand and silt that had hardened into a solid mass. Divers chipped away until the turret could be lifted.
"We knew there was a good chance we would find sailors in the turret because they would escape that way," said Scholley, who will travel from her home in Annapolis, Md., for the Arlington ceremony.
"I think everybody realized, yes, this is a piece of history, but it's more than that," Scholley said of the mood among divers, archeologists and others on a support barge when the remains were found. "These are men who fought for us and died for us, and here they are and we're bringing them home. It was very powerful."
The turret has gone through restoration and is on display at the USS Monitor Center of The Mariners' Museum in Newport News.
Meanwhile, in a longshot bid to identify the remains, the skulls of the sailors found in the turret were used to reconstruct their faces about a year ago.
Some families whose ancestors had served on the Monitor came forward — including Rambo's mother and Bryan — but DNA testing did not produce a conclusive match.
But some are confident their own detective work has sealed the family links to the two found in the turret.
Gaydee Gardner, Rambo's sister, said it's surreal to know "I am a blood relative to Jacob ... a 21-year-old kid off to sea on the first ironclad, whose president was Abraham Lincoln." She will travel from Rancho Mirage, Calif., for the ceremony in memory of "a kid who must have been terrified during his final hours."
Bryan said the Navy is sending a DNA kit to a maternal descendent in Australia in hopes of cementing the link with William Bryan.
"The more I've learned about him, the more I'm attached," said Bryan, who will join 20 family members in Washington. "It doesn't hurt that my father was William Bryan, so that always make it feel that it's pretty personal."
The remains were sent to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii. They concluded the sailors were white, each was 5-foot-7, and one was 17 to 24 years old while the other was in his 30s. They narrowed the possibilities to six among the 16 Monitor sailors who died.
Forensic anthropologist Robert Mann said the command has not given up hope and is conducting more DNA testing. Genealogists have been able to determine possible descendants for 10 families of the missing 16 sailors.
But while efforts to identify the two continue, "let's lay the men to rest," said David Alberg, superintendent of the Monitor sanctuary.
Alberg — along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Maritime Heritage Program and descendants of the surviving Monitor crew members — have pushed for the Arlington honors.
"It's their final voyage," Alberg said. "They sailed out in 1862 and never made it home, and now they're finally being laid to rest 150 years later."
The USS Monitor Center at The Mariners' Museum: http://www.marinersmuseum.org/uss-monitor-center/uss-monitor-center.
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Q: How to use conditional statements on the existing columns to create a new pandas column I have a dataframe:
df = pd.DataFrame(data={'true': [1, 2, 3], 'billed': [4, 5, 6], 'genre':['a','b','c']})

    true    billed  genre
0    1         4    a
1    2         5    b
2    3         6    c

I want to create a new column selection based on true but with condition on genre and achieve something like this:
[Expected]
    true    billed  genre   selection
0     1        4      a       1
1     2        5      b       2
2     3        6      c       6

[Attempt]
df['selection']=(df['true'] if df['genre'] is 'a' or 'b' else df['billed'])

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0     1        4      a       1
1     2        5      b       2
2     3        6      c       3

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What Megan Fox Has Been Doing Since The Transformers Movies
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May. 30. 2019 8:49 PM
After appearing in projects like Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Two and a Half Men and Hope & Faith, Megan Fox was propelled to worldwide stardom when she was cast in 2007's Transformers, the first live action adaptation featuring the robots in disguise. Fox gained a lot of attention and media exposure for her portrayal of Mikaela Banes, but while we're still getting Transformers movies (the Bumblebee spinoff rolled into theaters last December), Fox's time in the film series would be short, as she departed after the second movie.
However, don't think that Megan Fox's career has slowed down since then. While she'll arguably always be best known for her time in the Transformers universe, she's starred in various other movies and television shows that have allowed her to stretch other acting muscles, with the occasional foray back into blockbuster territory.
So if you're interested in learning what she's been up to in the decade since her last Transformers appearance, read ahead to learn about the most notable Megan Fox movies and TV shows that have come out since then.
Actually, let's first quickly recap Megan Fox's time on the first two Transformers movies. Her character, Mikaela Banes, served as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character, Sam Witwicky, and she was also quite skilled at fixing and stealing cars thanks to lessons from her incarcerated father. Transformers is what put Fox on the map for a lot of people, and she was nominated for three Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie & TV Award for her participation in that movie.
Megan Fox returned for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the plan was for her to be back for the third installment, Dark of the Moon, too. However, plans changed after Fox compared working with director Michael Bay to working for Hitler. After initially refusing to apologize, Fox later retracted this statement and said she was "very fortunate" to be part of the Transformers franchise, but the damage was already done. She was eventually fired and replaced in Dark of the Moon by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who played Carly Spencer, Sam Witwicky's new girlfriend.
Jennifer's Body
Although Megan Fox had already completed work on Jennifer's Body before her ungraceful departure from the Transformers franchise, it's nonetheless notable for being her first movie after the debacle, coming out just three months after Revenge of the Fallen. Jennifer's Body sees Fox's titular character becoming demonically possessed and killing her male classmates in order to survive, and her best friend Needy, played by Amanda Seyfried, tries desperately to stop her.
Upon its initial release, Jennifer's Body was met with mixed-to-negative reviews, and it didn't make much of a splash at the box office either. However, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the movie has received more attention for its depiction of sexual harassment and how Jennifer later uses her body to exact revenge on those who wronged her. Now Jennifer's Body is considered more of a cult classic, but whether or not viewing it through this news lens makes it better is up to the respective viewer.
A year after Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox returned for Jonah Hex, which brought the same-named DC Comics character to live action for the first time. In the movie, Fox played Lilah, a gun-toting prostitute who is dragged into the chaos that Josh Brolin's scarred bounty hunter in caught up in. It's revealed later that Lilah's real name is Tallulah Black, who is a character from the Jonah Hex comics, although Fox's version didn't have the scarred physical appearance of her comic book counterpart.
Alas, like a lot of pre-DCEU DC Comics movies not centered on Batman or Superman, Jonah Hex was met with negative reviews, and it was also a huge box office bomb, making a little under $10 million despite costing $47 million to make. Fortunately for Fox, this wouldn't be the last time she'd get to leave her mark on a property that began as a comic book, but we'll get to that later.
Thus far we've looked at Megan Fox's experience in genre work, but she also has experience in the comedy realm. Case in point, 2011's Friends with Kids, where Fox was part of an ensemble that included Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd and Edward Burns. Fox played Mary Jane, an actress who becomes romantically involved with Scott's Jason. No spoilers here on what happens with their relationship.
Friends with Kids might not go down in film history as one of the more beloved romantic comedies, but when it came out it did fairly well for itself critically, if not commercially. At the very least, this was an opportunity for people only familiar with Megan Fox through her more visually-stimulating work to see that she could lend her talents to a smaller-scale movie.
To American audiences, Sacha Baron Cohen is arguably best known for starring in the wacky mockumentaries Borat and Bruno, but in 2012, he returned to the big screen in The Dictator, where he played Admiral General Aladeen of the fictional Republic of Wadiya in a purely fictional narrative. Fox plays a fictional version of herself who sleeps with Aladeen and other world leaders in exchange for handsome payment. But she doesn't do cuddling!
Megan Fox's appearance in The Dictator is nothing more than a cameo, but at the very least, it showed that she can poke fun at herself. If/when Sacha Baron Cohen leads another movie as one of his ridiculous characters, maybe she can cameo in that as well or obtain a bigger role.
In 2007, Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl starred in Knocked Up, which Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd also appeared in, with the former playing Debbie, the sister of Heigl's Allison, and the latter playing Pete, Debbie's husband. Five years later, Rudd and Mann's characters returned for the semi-sequel/spinoff This is 40, and Megan Fox played Desi, who works for Debbie at her boutique and makes a side living as an escort.
While Knocked Up was met with a lot of positive reviews (though it wasn't without controversy), This is 40 earned more mixed reception. There was talk of making a sequel, which possibly could have resulted in Megan Fox reprising her character. That sequel never moved forward, but This is 40 still remains an noteworthy example of Fox's comedy work.
Megan Fox and Michael Bay's time on the Transformers movie might not have ended well, but the two of them would reunite for the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, which Bay produced. Fox played April O'Neil, the intrepid reporter who accidentally learns about the Turtles during her investigation into the Foot Clan and soon becomes their closest ally on the surface. As alluded to earlier, the Teenage Mutant Turtles first appeared as comic book characters in the mid-1980s, so this movie marked Fox's second time working on a comic book property.
Megan Fox reprised April O'Neil two years later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which saw April meeting Casey Jones, the sports equipment-packing vigilante played by Arrow's Stephen Amell. While there were plans to make a third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie set in this continuity, a threequel was scrapped due to Out of the Shadows' mediocre box office return, but at least Fox had two movies where she got to star alongside anthropomorphic giant reptiles. Few others have done that.
Up to this point we've only covered the movies Megan Fox appeared in post-Transformers franchise, but she also collected some TV work as well. In New Girl Season 5, star Zooey Deschanel had to leave for maternity leave, so her character Jess was written as being called in for a long amount of jury duty. Megan Fox filled in for her during that period as Reagan, a pharmaceutical sales representative who rented out Jess' room and shook things up among the main characters.
Megan Fox continued recurring as Reagan in New Girl Season 6, but she did not return in the final season. While the New Girl creative team was undoubtedly glad to have Fox fill in while Zooey Deschanel was away, Reagan wasn't particularly well-received among fans, and her presence served as a reminder that there's no substitute for the lead character who hooked people in from the start.
Legends Of The Lost With Megan Fox
In addition to acting, Megan Fox has also made a name for herself in the realm of documentary programming. Last December, the first four episodes of her series Legends Of The Lost With Megan Fox, where saw the actress traveling across the globe and learning about ancient history, cultures and myths.
This show received some criticism for how it blended actual history with pseudo-archaeology, and overall it's earned a mixed reception. It's unclear if Travel Channel will bring Legends Of The Lost With Megan Fox back for Season 2; if it does return, Fox will have more opportunities to go visit other countries and learn about their history when she's not acting.
So these are all the major projects that Megan Fox has appeared in since she exited the Transformers franchise, but don't think she's slowing down now. She'll appear later this year in Zeroville and Above The Shadows, and she's also signed on for Big Gold Brick, which doesn't have an assigned release date yet, but began production earlier this month.
Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for any major news concerning Megan Fox, but for now, be sure to browse through our 2019 release schedule to plan your trips to the movie theater this year accordingly.
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Moondyne Joe - the Story of an Escape Artist That No Prison Could Hold
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Joseph Bolitho Johns, also known as Moondyne Joe (February 1826 – 13 August 1900), was born in Wales. He was an English convict and Western Australia's most famous bushranger. He is remembered as a person who escaped from prison several times.
Joseph escaped from prison so frequently that a special prison cell was built for him. He also escaped from this cell and became known as Moondyne Joe. Here's the full story.
On November 15, 1848, Joseph and his friend William Cross stole three loaves of bread, ham, cheese, and a few other items for unknown reasons. The two were then sentenced to ten years of penal servitude, including prison time and hard labor. Joseph served the first four years of his sentence (1849-1853) in various English prisons before being transported to Western Australia on February 2, 1853; he arrived at Fremantle on 30 April 1853.
On arrival, Joseph was given a ticket of leave as a reward for his good behavior, and on March 10, 1855, he was granted a conditional pardon. He then settled in the Avon Valley, one of the Darling Range's most rugged and inaccessible areas. He made a living there by fencing and rounding up stray cattle and horses.
He was doing well until he was arrested in 1861 on a charge of horse stealing after being accused of rounding up and branding cleanskin horses from an isolated gorge on the Avon River known as Moondyne Springs. He escaped the cell while awaiting trial in the middle of the night, reclaiming his horse in the process. While, he was apprehended the next day, charged, and sentenced to three years in prison.
He was released earlier because he behaved well in prison, but Joseph was sentenced to ten years in prison again in 1865 after being accused of killing a neighbor's ox. He claimed innocence when Johns was charged, but the court sentenced him to ten years in prison.
He was determined not to serve what he saw as an unjust sentence, so Joseph and another prisoner escaped while on labor duty. For a month, the two were on the run, committing several thefts. During this time, he earned the moniker "Moondyne Joe." Joe was sentenced to another twelve months in chains when they were apprehended.
In April 1866, Moondyne petitioned the Chief Justice and was granted a four-year sentence reduction on his 1865 sentence of 10 years. But, instead of being happy, he thought it was too little. This was apparently insufficient for him; as a result, in July, he attempted to cut the lockout of his door, for which he was sentenced to an additional six months in chains.
He was able to flee again in early August. This time he was with three other escapees. The group had been on the run for seven weeks, and the four of them roamed the bush around Perth, committing several robberies and narrowly escaping capture on several occasions.
To avoid being apprehended again, he intended to travel to the South Australian colony with his companions. On the other hand, the difficult journey necessitated careful planning, which prompted him to carry out the biggest robbery of his criminal career. But, once again, luck was not on Moondyne Joe's side; the police apprehended the gang at Bodallin Soak, near the current town of Westonia. Unfortunately for Moondyne Joe, he was apprehended once more.
When he was apprehended again, the judiciary was determined to prevent Moondyne Joe from escaping for the fourth time, so they constructed a specially reinforced cell with triple-barred windows at Fremantle Gaol from which he would be unable to escape. His new home had thick stone walls that were lined with eucalyptus wood. More than 1,000 nails were used to secure the cladding to the masonry, making the cell nearly airtight and light-proof.
John Hampton, the Governor of the Swan River Colony, once told Moondyne Joe, "If you get out again, I will forgive you."
In early 1867 due to his deteriorating health, Joseph was allowed out for exercise on medical advice. He was given daily exercise breaking stones in a Prison yard near the perimeter wall; the broken rock was supposed to be removed at the end of each day, but the rubble was not collected regularly. As a result, a pile would form, occasionally obstructing the guards' view. These were the times when Joseph swung his sledgehammer fervently against the prison wall, gradually paving his way to freedom.
On March 7, 1867, Joseph escaped from the prison through a hole he had dug in the prison wall. He was free for the next two years until he was caught stealing wine on 25 February 1869. He was now sentenced to an additional four years in irons. In 1871, however, Governor Weld issued Joseph a ticket of leave. He most likely made his decision after hearing about the previous Governor's promise to Moondyne Joe. They told him that they would grant him a conditional pardon if he stayed out of trouble for the next four years.
Joseph moved to Karridale and worked as a carpenter. But even there, he couldn't stay out of trouble, and he was sentenced to a month in prison for a minor offense. On June 27, 1873, he regained his freedom. Later in life, in January 1879, he married a widow, Louisa Hearn, and they spent some time prospecting for gold near Southern Cross. But his story does not end there.
Joseph's wife Louisa died in 1893 at the age of 40, and her death had a profound effect on him. Years later, he began acting strangely and was eventually diagnosed as mentally ill. On August 13, 1900, he died in the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was buried in Fremantle Cemetery.
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Film 4 Summer Screen at Somerset House – Line-Up
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Movies under the moonlight. A nestled architecture house in the bustling metropolis of the capital. Film fans strewed upon blankets and pillows with their friends. Picnics, wine, and music in hot anticipation of the evenings celluloid activities. Premieres, classics, and double bills in the midsummer evenings and heated nights. Why, it almost sounds like a dream.
Well, it isn't a dream movie fans as Film 4 Summer Screen at Somerset House has released their brand new programme and it's so very good. The enchanting thriller Sunset Boulevard, last year's best movie Ex Machina, 10 Things I Hate About You, a secret Kubrick Film, Jackie Brown, 10 Things I Hate About You, and more will delight scores of movie buffs and happy film fantastic this season. As well as this, they'll have the premieres of Things to Come and Captain Fantastic! Trainspotting 2 will also get a 20th anniversary screening with sneak footage of it's sequel T2!
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A Whole Lotta Spiel-berg: Duel (1971) – Review
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Is it fair to say that Steven Spielberg is the most famous film director of all time? I mean, you could argue Hitchcock, but Spielberg is a guy that people who don't even watch films regularly know. Say the term "film director", he's the first name that usually pops up. He's used in all sorts of jokes about films, and frequently set as the bar for good film making ("You're not Steven Spielberg"). He is a man that has made an undeniable impact on cinema as we know it, as whilst he may be considered a stock choice for best director of all time (Or one of them, at least), there's a reason why stock choices are stock choices: They're fucking good. I've become fascinated with the man recently.
Since this year sees a new release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the release of his new film The BFG in cinemas this July, AND the BFI are celebrating his films with a whole Spielberg season, I thought it would be a great time to revisit the man's entire body of work, from his first film Duel to his Oscar-winning latest Bridge of Spies, and take a look at the evolution of one of the most passionate men in cinema.
Duel (1971) tells the story of business man David Mann (Dennis Weaver), who is driving to a meeting on a long, empty stretch of road when he suddenly finds himself being chased off the road by a hulking gasoline truck. It's part chase movie, part monster movie, and the monster movie aspect is handled really well. We never see the driver's face, nor does he have a name or even a motivation for what he does – He's just this looming, evil presence that constantly has our hero on edge. It's definitely a 'first' film; there is so much about it that is so unrefined, and so many Spielberg-esque features that would go on to develop as he made more films, such as tracking shots.
For a first go at it, it really is quite decent; it's very inventive and very lovingly crafted. Straight off the bat, Spielberg was trying his best to make a damn great movie and it didn't pay off in spades, but the effort is so clearly there. Dennis Weaver gives a pretty damn good performance, especially in the bar scenes in which his paranoia boils and it's without a doubt the most engrossing moment of the film. The score is great too; the film is full of heavy music that ups the tension and adds real fear to the chase sequences.
Where this film fails is it's ability to hold interest, and that's largely due to the length. It's not even a long film; the original TV cut is 76 minutes long, and the version released to cinemas was 89 minutes, but it's still too long. After a while, it does kind of feel like you're watching the same chase sequence over and over again, and whilst they try to interject some character development in between these scenes, it really adds nothing to the film. In fact, the film would arguably be better without any character development. Yes, the bar scene is the best scene in the film, however, this might have played out better as a short film; cut out anything to do with David's wife and kids, or him in the bar, or absolutely anything, and shred it down to maybe 30-40 minutes at most. See, the character development is unnecessary because it doesn't really make him any more or less likable as a character. It doesn't really add any stakes (Apart from him dying and his family being ruined obviously, but the thought of that never really occurs during the film), and we know he's not strictly a bad guy, so if this film just consisted of one extended car chase, it would be great. The truck is already handled perfectly, and let's face it, we're going to immediately side with the seemingly innocent guy who being chased down by that monster of a vehicle, so combine that and JUST that with the excellent camera work and great score, it'd be quite an exciting short.
As far as directorial debuts and TV movies go, Duel is just fine, but it feels like there was a missed opportunity by making it feature length. It's not fair to say it's boring, but it definitely could've been handled in a more exciting way. Still, it goes to show just how far Spielberg has come. That's one down, join us next time where we'll be looking at his second film, another road movie called The Sugarland Express.
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Hired to Kill (1990) – DVD and Blu-Ray Review
May 24, 2016 Graham Osborne	Leave a comment
There are some films that that have a premise that just seems to boggle the mind. Hired to Kill is the epitome of these films.
The film was released in 1990 and featured Brian Thompson as Frank Ryan (no known relation to Jack Ryan of the Tom Clancy books, but a similar background nonetheless) who is hired by an inconspicuous man working for a shady arm of the American Government (represented by George Kennedy) to locate and rescue the leader of a rebel militia in the exotic country of Cypra, by posing as a world famous fashion designer and infiltrating the militaristic regime with his group of stunningly beautiful female models/mercenaries.
Being a product of the (very) early 90's, the film shows all the hallmarks of a cheap 80's B-movie, so much so that you can almost hear the scriptwriter's desk straining beneath the weight of the "Big Book of 1980's Action Film Tropes and Clichés." Everything you could want or need is in here: Muscular male protagonist with hints at an army past? Check! Scantily clad females who parade around in less fabric than a thread-bare G-string? Indeed! Casual misogyny and mildly homophobic comments that would make a modern audience feel slightly uncomfortable? You bet your sweet ass there is sugar tits!
Some (but definitely not all!) of these stereotypes would have been acceptable if the actors had been given a script that didn't sound so incredibly clunky and talk almost exclusively in pseudo-menacing Bond-esque one liners, each one trying to outdo the last. One could almost argue that it is a masterpiece in how not to write a script, if you could forgive many of the sexist comments and general stoic brooding that ensues from the actors.
Whilst the script is abysmal, and the actors don't really seem completely into it, there is a very talented cast within the film. Oliver Reed (he of Gladiator and The Three Musketeers fame) plays Dictator Michael Bartos, the film's antagonist, and José Ferrer (Lawrence of Arabia) is the imprisoned revolutionary leader. Both play their parts admirably, albeit with Reed suffering a mild case of "Bad Accent Syndrome" from time to time. On the other side of the gender scale are the lovely ladies, seemingly picked (for the most part) for their looks rather than their acting talent. They appear in the film predominantly as eye-candy, and, with the exception of Barbara Niven and Jordana Capra, don't really perform all that well.
Finally, we must arrive at the staple point of all action films, the final dramatic, explosion-filled shootout. Once again, there is plenty left to be desired within this scene; it steadily becomes harder and harder to ascertain which side is shooting at whom and the repeatedly over the top shooting feats of the protagonists become almost strained to the point of no return.
Hired to Kill is a film that attempts to find some form of refuge in audacity, yet ultimately fails at every turn due to a combination of terrible scripting, lacklustre acting and a yearning desire to be the new Rambo. I'm sure this film will skirt the borders of many people's "so bad, it's good" lists, but it doesn't really deserve the recognition, although it may almost be worth a watch, just to appreciate how truly terrible it is.
HIRED TO KILL IS OUT ON DVD NOW
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Fever – Brand New Trailer!
Kids who kill are a terrifying phenomenon that has been explored in moviedom for a very long time. The idea that innocence had never appeared for folk who went straight into murder is perplexing.
The issue is explored in this French thriller Fever.
Based on the Leopold and Loeb true-life crime, the film revolves around two young students who kill a woman they just met. However, because they had no motive, they seemingly get away with the crime. But morally? Morally they start to suffer the consequences in different dramatic ways.
Fever is set to look at the intricacies of murderous folk and how incidences can unravel them. The stunning trailer is gifted with a reserved nature that makes the plot a little bit more chilling. Directed by Raphael Neal, this could be a superb thriller.
FEVER IS OUT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY NOW!
Finding Dory – Brand New Trailer!
May 24, 2016 Cookie N Screen	1 Comment
There is an abundance of sequels out there at the moment. Certainly, 2016 doesn't feel at all original: We're trapped in an endless sea of reboots and remakes. It's tiring. But one plucky blue fish is telling us to Just Keep Swimming in her own film!
Finding Dory revolves around the opulent blue yet forgetful fish who befriended the titular character and his Dad Marlon in the last outing. However, prone to bouts of amnesia, Dory is determined to find out more about her past.. Can she find her family?
Look, it's Pixar, there is nothing that this animated studio can do wrong so we're highly excited for this film. Though it may be a sequel, and the studio struggles with sequels beyond the Toy Story lore, Finding Dory looks to be as enchanting as the first!
FINDING DORY IS OUT 17th JUNE
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The Conjuring 2 – Brand New Featurette!
Ghosts. Are they real? Do supernatural occurrences actually, you know, occur? Or are they just figments of our imagination?
Though horror movies explore it in an over-enhanced way, they still tickle the "what if?" side of our terror and plague us whenever we hear a strange sound. The Conjuring 2 returns to freak us out all over again.
Heading over to England for their next film, the story of Ed and Lorraine Warren looks at the infamous Enfield Haunting. The ghostly plague saw a British family and their young daughter seemingly taken by a poltergeist. Welp.
The latest spirit based romp does look to have some scary moments in it. Plus Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are so stellar together that this could be genuinely brilliant. The featurettes also explore the terrifying truth behind the Enfield Haunting!
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We Have Traveled To The New Age Known As 'Meghalayan Age', The Name Is Named After Indian State
Here we are at the new AGE of our life; it's called the Meghalayan Age. So say goodbye to Norgrippian and Greenlandian. The new era has crop up, which started 4,200 years ago.
So, let's know about this new Era which has evolved, but before that let's know some things about the past to have a clear picture of the present.
We are currently living in what we know is the Holocene epoch/series. Holocene epoch stores all the happenings that had have happened over the past 11,700 years. Earlier, Holocene epoch is divided into 2 parts:
The Greenlandian and the Northgrippian.
The Greenlandian age was from 11,700 to 8,200 years ago and the Northgrippan age was from 8,200 to 4,200 years ago,
But now after scientist researches we have got a new era called as Meghalayan Age(named after Indian state), it started 4200 years ago to the present day.
For our knowledge, International Union of Geological Sciences shared an image chart which tells us about the old and new age history.
The latest version of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart/Geologic Time Scale is now available! New #Holocene subdivisions: #Greenlandian (11,700 yr b2k)#Northgrippian (8326 yr b2k)#Meghalayan (4200 yr before 1950) https://t.co/IhvZHfHnWh#ChronostratigraphicChart208 pic.twitter.com/8Pf9Dnct7h
— IUGS (@theIUGS) July 13, 2018
According to scientists, Meghalayan age began at the time when the world experienced an abrupt and critical mega-drought and cooling phenomenon that devastated several ancient civilizations from Egypt to China.
Now the question which might be bouncing in your mind is, how the scientist know about the age of the different eras and the era which we are now?
The answer to this is; Earth is 4.54 billion years old and to calculate the ages or the time, they check the major event that had happened in the Earth's past, Like, the break-up of continents, dramatic shifts in climate, checking the rock.
Their detective eyes and sharp brain help them solve these puzzling mysteries of Earth.
And the thing which the scientists found is 'The Rock'. It's the stalagmite which they on the floors of caves in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. The rock has some evidence which proves that the new age ie. Megahalan Age has developed 4200 years ago.
TAGS: meghalayan age, holocene age, ice age, old age, modern age, new era in history


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Q: How to add image in image view ios I have a view controller,on top of this I have added a image view.Now I wanted to load some image dynamically to that image view.Fallowing is my code:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
if (getAnySelectedRow == 0)
{
    //Load corresponding image
    NSLog(@"1 image loaded");
}
else if (getAnySelectedRow == 1)
{
    //Load corresponding image
    NSLog(@"2 image loaded");
}
else if (getAnySelectedRow == 2)
{
    //Load corresponding image
    NSLog(@"3 image loaded");
}

}

Note: Image view is already loaded on top of view controller.So I believe no need to init new image view.
How can I do this?

A: This is actually quite simple. UIImageView, has an image property of type UIImage. All you have to do is create a UIImage object and then assign it to this property. If the image exists within your applications bundle, you can use +[UIImage imageNamed:]`.
myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImageName"];

Or to expand a little further..
if (getAnySelectedRow == 0) {
    myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImageName"];
}else if (getAnySelectedRow == 1) {
    myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myOtherImageName"];
}else{
    myImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myAnotherDifferentImageName"];
}

A: x, y are the position the image view located,
 width and height are the size of the ImageView
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];

imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"your image"];


Longshot café has been part of the Beecroft community for over thirteen years, with local owners Daniel and Melissa taking ownership in 2011. In recent years we have featured in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Café Guide and were thrilled to receive a cup.
We continue to strive towards creating a venue for people to kick back, relax, enjoy a fresh and hearty meal, indulge in one of chef Jenny Morgan's house made baked goods and drink a decent cup of Morgan's coffee.
Longshot café is open 7 days a week from 7am and is located in the heart of Beecroft on Hannah Street at the entrance to the village arcade, just above the Children's book shop. We cater for people of all ages, serving up a selection of coffee, artisan teas, milkshakes and a seasonal breakfast and lunch menu. We cater for all diets, with most meals being gluten free and coeliac adaptable.
Please stop by and pay us a visit. Here at Longshot we don't take reservations, however due to the free flowing nature of our café we turn over tables quickly and are sure to be able to accommodate you.


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Q: DataGridViewColumn.DataPropertyName Property I have a DataGridView control and I want to populate it with data.
I use DataSource property
// dgvDealAsset is DataGridView
        private void DealAssetListControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            dgvDealAssets.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
            dgvDealAssets.DataSource = DealAssetList.Instance.Values.ToList();
}

Now problem number one. The class of my collection does not contain only simple types that I can map to columns using DataPropertyName. This is the class that is contained in collection.
class MyClass
{
  public String Name;
  MyOtherClass otherclass;
}

class MyOtherClass
{
 public String Name;
}

Now I am binding properties of MyClass to columns
col1.DataPropertyName = "Name"  // Ok
col2.DataPropertyName = "otherclass" // Not OK - I will have empty cell

The problem is that I want to display otherclass.Name field. But if I try to write
col2.DataPropertyName = "otherclass.Name"

I get empty cell.
I tried to manually set the column
private void DealAssetListControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    dgvDealAssets.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
    dgvDealAssets.DataSource = DealAssetList.Instance.Values.ToList();

// iterate through rows and set the column manually
        foreach (DataGridViewRow row in dgvDealAssets.Rows)
        {
            row.Cells["Column2"].Value = ((DealAsset)row.DataBoundItem).otherclass.Name;
        }

But this foreach cycle takes about minute to complete (2k elements). How to solve this problem?

A: Problem nr.1:
Try to do the following:

*

*extend MyOtherClass from Object (this step might not be needed)

*and override, or create, method ToString().
That should do it.

A: DataGridView doesn't support databinding to child properties. For more info, check this post
I like the solution that uses the CellFormatting event.

A: In case you want to use many child elements like this:
class MyClass
{
   public int Id;
   public MyOtherClass OtherClass;
}

class MyOtherClass
{
   public string Name;
   public int Number;
}

How about
1st solution
Set value for each cell in some event (mabye other one is better), manually, after setting datasource, for example:
private void dgv_CellFormatting( object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e )
{
   MyClass data = dgv.Rows[ e.RowIndex ].DataBoundItem as MyClass;

   dgv.Rows[ e.RowIndex ].Cells[ "colName" ].Value = data.OtherClass.Name;
   dgv.Rows[ e.RowIndex ].Cells[ "colNumber" ].Value = data.OtherClass.Number;
}

2nd solution
What about creating a DataTable from the data and then bind it?
I'd be thankful for any opinion ;-)

A: It sounds like the DataGridView's virtual mode would solve your problem.  In virtual mode, the DataGridView will fire an event whenever it needs to display a cell.  The event lets you populate the cell however you please.  The advantage of virtual mode is the system only needs to pull the data that's actually being displayed, so there's no slow start-up time while you load everything.
    private void my_init_function() {
        datagridview.VirtualMode = true;
        datagridview.CellValueNeeded += new System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellValueEventHandler(datagridview_CellValueNeeded);
    }

    private void datagridview_CellValueNeeded(object sender, DataGridViewCellValueEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Value = get_my_data(e.RowIndex, e.ColumnIndex);
    }

A: The way of databinding a specific column of a datagrid to a child property of the datagrid's datasource is using the DataGridView.Column.Tag property, along with the ToString() override method inside the child object. It goes as follows:
public class Car
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public int Name { get; set; }

    public string Colour { get; set; }

    public Wheel Wheel { get; set; }
}

public class Wheel
{
    public string WheelName { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return WheelName;
    }
}

public class Main
{
   private void LoadGrid(List<Car> data)
   {
       this.dataGridView.Columns["Wheel"].Tag = "WheelName";
   }
}


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Itai Shumba shared the story of how he created an opportunity for rural children to get a computer education by building a mobile classroom.
Itai Shumba was disappointed after computers he'd donated to a rural school in Zimbabwe didn't get to the learners. They were instead "used by the teachers for their personal gain," Shumba said.
So Shumba, who is from Zimbabwe and now lives in Strand, came up with a cleverly designed mobile classroom (see photo).
Shumba who was himself educated in a rural area — Chisungo secondary school in Matabeleland — is aware of the problems rural learners face. He said that he promised himself that one day after finishing his education he would give back to rural communities.
"Since I came from a privileged family I excelled in my academics. Now I would like to give back to rural communities by establishing a project named Muono (Vision)," he said.
In 2013 he donated six computers to a school in a rural area but after a few months when he went to the school to monitor progress, he discovered that some of the computers were damaged, and some stolen by the teachers. The learners in the community never benefited from the donation.
He then built a centre where children from nearby schools could come to learn how to use computers but schools from far away communities were left out. Eventually he designed the mobile computer classroom to accommodate these other schools.
The mobile classroom is a rectangular box, made of wood and built on a trailer. Ten computers are mounted on the structure. When opened the two sides that seat five children each, turn into two desks facing each other.
The classroom has a ceiling so that the computers do not get damaged, and a night mode to help learners to study after dark. It also uses solar panels but can receive electricity from the power grid as well.
Shumba works for himself as an electrician. He has used some of his savings to fund the mobile classroom; it has cost him about R42,000 so far. He bought the computers on auction. He used recycled materials for some of the construction, most of it collected from scrapyards.
Two men also work with him on the project: Tafadzwa Nyatoro and Kudakwashe Mandishaya.
Shumba said the advantage of a mobile class is that ten computers will be utilised by many schools, and accountability will be easier because one person will be responsible for the classroom.


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Church news for July 13, 2019
Christian Education Workshop: New Vine Baptist Church, 616 Old Rustburg Road. 9 a.m. Our guest facilitator will be Dr. M. D. Mays, his topic "Church leadership," including the roles and responsibilities of Deacons and Deaconess in the church. A $10 donation for the workshop which includes breakfast.
Ice-Cream Social: Indian Hill United Methodist Church, 2278 Oxford Furnace Road. 5 to 7 p.m. Many varieties of homemade ice-cream and hotdogs. Monetary donations appreciated.
14th Pastoral Anniversary: Empowerment Temple Church of God In Christ, 1617 Park Ave. 4 p.m. Anniversary celebration for Superintendent Charles and First Lady Ghana Ramey. Our guest speaker will be Administrative Assistant Alfred Nicholson, Gates of Faith Church of God In Christ, Richmond.
Guest Speaker: College Hill Baptist Church, 1101 Floyd St. 11 a.m. Our guest speaker will be Nate Taylor, Gospel Community Church Rivermont.
Fellowship Service: New Dearington Baptist Church, 400 Smyth St. 3 p.m. Our guest will be the Rev. William Glover, choir, ushers and church family from Silver Grove Baptist Church, Rustburg. Sponsored by the Usher's Ministry.
Fellowship Service: Trust In God Holy Temple, 357 Old Wright Shop Road, Madison Heights. 3 p.m. Our speaker will be Co-Pastor Shirley Slaughter.
Gospel Play: ScottZion Baptist Church, Madison Heights. 3 p.m. Title: "Tempted, lead us not into Temptation," hosted by the Pastors Aide Ministry.
Worship Service: Jordan Baptist Church, Stonewall Road, Rt. 608. 9 a.m.
13th Pastoral Anniversary: Sharon Missionary Baptist Church, 16242 Big Island Highway. 11 a.m. Our guest preacher will be the Rev. Edward Jones and Sharon's JWR Male Chorus. At 3 p.m. the Rev. Ryan Hubbard and Sharon Mass Choir.
Homecoming: St. John Baptist Church, 11080 E. Lynchburg Salem Tpke, Forest. 3 p.m. Our guests will be the Rev. Harland Brown and church family, St. Paul Baptist Church, Forest. Lunch will be served following morning worship service.
Annual Revival Services: Hills Creek Baptist Church, Gladys. 5 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. Our guest preacher will be the Rev. Andre Austin.
Vacation Bible School: West Lynchburg Baptist Church, 3031 Memorial Ave. 9 a.m. to noon. Monday through Friday. In the Wild-Amazing Encounters with Jesus. Ages PreK-6th grade, worship, crafts, music, recreation, snack, missions, and Bible study. Register at WLBC.org or at registration table each morning.
Spiritual And Life Skills Academy (SALSA): Amelon United Methodist Church, 220 Amelon Highway, Madison Heights. 7 to 8:30 p.m. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Tuesdays in July. A new ministry to promote both spiritual and life skills. Register by July 14 online, go to www.amelonumc.com or call: (434) 929-3200.
Women's Conference and Fellowship: Change Me Ministries and Fellowship, 2310 Fort Ave. 7 p.m. Theme: We have been Empowered now we are Moving. Saturday, 10 a.m. continental breakfast, prayer, various sessions, and keynote speaker Dr. Valdrie Walker, Church Planter, James Crossing. For more information on sessions or transportation call (434) 401-2636.
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BBQ and Bingo: Hurt P.H. Church Outreach, 1212 Grit Road, Hurt. 4:30 to 6:30 meal and bingo at 6:45. BBQ on bun, baked beans, cold slaw, dessert and beverage for $8, eat-in or take-out.
Community Yard Sale: Prayer of Faith Temple COGIC, 3100 Hill St. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sell or shop, turn your clutter into cash. Tables-$10 Individual or $25 Group/Auxilliaries (table included). Call: (434) 847-8990.
Food Drive/Fundraiser: Forest Road United Methodist Church, 2895 Old Forest Road. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Featuring the Lynchburg Area NScalers train layout. Admission is one can of food per person. Also, the Forest Road & Forest Youth Group will have a $3 hotdog lunch from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come by and see the trains and have lunch.
Spaghetti Supper Fundraiser: Eternal Baptist Church, 623 Thomas Road. 5 to 6 p.m. dinner and hymn singing at 7 p.m. $10-Spathetti, salad, garlic bread, beverage and dessert.
Quest for Love Concert: Amelon United Methodist Church, 220 Amelon Highway, Madison Heights. 7 to 9 p.m. Featuring The Duncan L. Wood Band performing a variety of music, all associated with different aspects of LOVE. Also, an inspirational message/conversation between Pastor Mark Tinsley and the audience. No age restrictions for this performance. Free admission, although LOVE offerings are appreciated.
Pastor's Aide Anniversary: 3 p.m., Silver Grove Baptist Church, Rustburg. 3 p.m. Featuring Carrol Austin and the Voices of Faith in concert.
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Tally Ho! Unspeakable #Tories & #ukip Pursing Unpopular Repeal of Hunting Act 2004 #StokeByElection
When Matthew Goodwin writes Nigel Farage's biography, I am sure you will, Matthew, perhaps he ought to call it Farage: The Diary of a Foxhunting Man (who liked a tab and a pint down the Stockbroker's Arms)?
Farage (heading a party of the working man, women need not apply) has been spending a goodly amount of time cosying up to the Country Land and Business Association (formerly the Countryside Landowners' Association). Back on July 19th 2014 at Blenheim, Oxfordshire, Farage, a regular Game Fair visitor and shooter, promised that farming subsidies would continue if Britain were to leave the EU. You know, the money we pay to the EU now that Farage says that, if we were out of the EU, we would use to give the low paid a tax 'cut'. You will note, though, that the panel's response to the shooter's anti EU stance was not all favourable. Nice, however, to see that writer and racehorse trainer, Charlie Brooks, has already managed to find (gainful?) employment!
Now, you may be wondering about what Farage's appearance at a Game Fair has to do with repealing the Hunting Act 2004? Well, check out this article in the Sunday Express of 28th September 2014. Yes, Elizabeth Truss (a member of the party of the working class, its trade union that has a bit of a problem with women) thinks devoting Parliamentary time to repealing the Act, if the Tories form the next Government, is more important than other matters which fall within her portfolio. I am sure her stance is in no way affected by the thought of losing 500,000 votes to ukip.
So we have an organisation devoted to representing the interests of the landed Establishment (a trades union) lobbying two Right wing parties, dominated at the top by members of the Establishment. And yet, ukip, in particular are the insurgents, the mould breakers, the party of the 'left behind', a peasants' revolt in the making … The definition of the 'left behind' has become very flexible, if it now includes people like country landowners and their neighbours, the peasantry (in the original sense of the word)?
These landowners hardly need ukip's help to get their points across. They sought to infiltrate the National Trust and overturn its hunting policy in 1998. You will note who they did get elected, whose friend he just happened to be and the use of the term 'political correctness'. Now take a look at FONT's slate in 2001. A number of them, Clarissa Dickson-Wright in particular, 'forgot' to mention the reason why they were seeking election. Ms Dickson-Wright wanted to put her culinary skills at the disposal of the Trust. All she had to do was volunteer to work in the kitchen at one of the Trust's properties not go to the trouble of getting elected to its ruling council. I took particular pleasure in voting against FONT's slate. Incidentally, ukipers, the National Trust is more democratic than ukip and a lot more fun (and British) too!
Labour, Matthew Goodwin particularly says, needs to face up to the challenge of ukip. In this regard, good advice about 200 or so years ago, but today most of us live in urban areas and we have universal suffrage. It did, however, take from 1949 to 2004 for the will of the people to prevail and a hunting with dogs ban to be enacted. Matthew is big on ukip addressing the issues of the 'left behind' whose interests he, condescendingly and patronisingly, thinks do not extend to matters such as climate change. Well, Matthew, care to explain the level of support for the Hunting Act to remain in force? Looks to me like a lot of us (working class boy made good, me), including ukip supporters support the ban. Our concerns, Matthew, and those of "metropolitan liberals" quite often overlap. I do wonder if Matthew was spooked by Polly Toynbee during his formative years. It would certainly explain a lot!
Finally, lest we forget, we are not just talking about allowing people to hunt foxes again, a Christmas card scene, but Bambi's mother as well. Let us also not forget the words on a placard (held by a farmer) in a Steve Bell cartoon marking a Countryside Alliance March against the passing of the Hunting Bill, "Give us yer money and eff off our land!" Well, ukip, just whose side are you really on? Him and the ruling, rural elite or the rural poor (and the many who support the Hunting Act)?
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Liverpool legend Luis Garcia returns to Lebanon
ormer Liverpool midfielder and legend Luis Garcia made his second trip to Lebanon in less than 10 days, saying that two trips to the same country in that timespan sent a clear message to the world.
"The fact that I was here less than 10 days ago and that I am back is the most important thing. … If I was scared or didn't enjoy my time in Lebanon last week, I would not be here today," Garcia told reporters and fans at a news conference at the Radisson Hotel.
Reporters and fans, mainly of the Official Liverpool FC Fan Club of Lebanon, had a dream come true when they were able to ask Garcia questions and take photographs with the Champions League winner.
When asked who the best player he had ever played with was, Garcia responded: "I played with a number of great players from [Steven] Gerrard, Xabi Alonso … but Ronaldinho always had that magic where he could break down defenses and was the best player in the world at one point and one of the best to ever play the game." Garcia then said with a laugh, "Messi, now, is [on another planet] so we can't bring him into this conversation."
The former Spanish national team player added that despite the number of exceptional players on the current Liverpool squad, he most wished he could play with Brazilian magician Philippe Coutinho.
When asked what his most memorable moment was with the Reds, other than winning the Champions League, Garcia said the first-leg quarterfinal game that year was unforgettable. "Playing against Juventus in the quarterfinals when they had players such as Ibrahimovic, Pirlo, Cannavaro, Thuram, Nedved, Del Piero and to say I scored a pretty amazing goal against Buffon was fantastic," Garcia said referring to his stunning volley which sailed into the back of Italian legend Gianluigi Buffon's net.
Following the news conference, Lebanese Sports Media Association President Rashid Nassar voiced his excitement for Garcia's visit.
"The importance of his visit and other world-class stars coming to Lebanon helps portray the correct, civilized picture of the country in contrast to how the outside world portrays us via various media outlets," Nassar told The Daily Star.
"Stars of this caliber coming to Lebanon should push those in charge of Lebanese football to further develop the game here, especially after some of the scenes we witnessed in the domestic football league, because the Lebanese people love the game."
The Official LFC Fan Club of Lebanon will take Garcia on a day filled with sightseeing around the country Saturday. Fans will have the chance to take in the Liverpool vs. Southampton Premier League game Sunday at Pros Cafe in Dekwaneh.
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As a result of the acquisition, Heron brings 8 branch offices throughout central Florida and a team of over 200 employees, including 90 pest control and lawn care technicians. The fast-growing company offers residential pest control, including termite, mosquito, bed bug, and wildlife control services. Additionally, Heron also offers lawn care treatment and irrigation services. All existing employees will stay on and the current leadership will remain intact to run the operations moving forward to guarantee a seamless transition for all Heron customers.
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Annual Cost of High School Sports Injuries? $19.2 Billion
By League of Fans On October 7, 2017
A recent research study by Yale University revealed that if high school contact sports could be made non-contact (e.g., tackle football to flag football) the savings in medical costs would be $19.2 billion per year.
Moreover, that figure only takes into account the immediate consequences of an injury, not the long-term effects of concussions or subconcussive brain trauma. Or, the long-term effects of injuries like ligament tears, which can result in a greater than 50 percent risk of arthritis a decade later, according to Dr. Mininder Kocher, a professor of orthopedics at Harvard Medical School.
"The issue really is that contact is the driving force in all these major injuries," said Ray Fair, an economics professor at Yale and the senior author of the study. "Any sport that does not have contact, the injuries are not that great."
The economic cost of football is increasingly becoming a heavy burden on high schools. Insurance for football players, due to the cost of injuries and a growing number of lawsuits, has resulted in a number of schools having decided this is a sport they will not continue, according to Dr. Robert Cantu, a founder of the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center at Boston University.


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How to Take Over a Country
by Richard C. Gross
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
– Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister for Nazi Germany
The conservative Republican Party, led by a vindictive warlord from his wolf's lair in Florida supported by millions of voters, has a malevolent stranglehold on America with its lies and trumped-up cultural wars.
The country is sinking into political quicksand, living in two worlds: the fantasyland of Donald Trump, who insists he won reelection, enveloped in the Big Lie by his loyalists who have set his fable in concrete, and the reality in which President Joe Biden and his Democrats have passed trillions of dollars in legislation intended to help all Americans live better lives.
Extracting the country from the insidious menace of an all-encompassing far-right packaging of lies and manufactured cultural bull will be difficult, if not impossible, unless Republicans wake up and sideline Trump. The Republican strategy seems intended to stir anger, resentment and bitterness against Biden and "radical liberals" to attract voters to their base in order to retake power.
It extends from twisting the history of American racism into something evil for secondary school children, to attacking school boards, to damning masks and vaccines deployed to prevent illness, to putting the transgendered into a corner after branding them with a red letter "T."
It's like living in a theater of the absurd.
A revolution of the politically maligned, the maladjusted, the unhinged and the misinformed seems to be simmering in America's cold civil war and is in mortal danger of exploding. The Jan. 6 Trump-inspired insurrection at the Capitol merely was prologue.
We could lose our cherished freedoms because of a democracy that has been subverted by a dictatorial, narcissistic madman and his un-American party (See gerrymandering, minority rule, suppressed and restricted voting, redistricting to exclude minorities, the Senate filibuster rule, packing the courts with conservatives, withholding judicial nominees of the opposition party) that wants to turn this country into a replica of an East European state whose leader is worshipped like a cult icon.
See Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Hungary as a lesson in taking over a country, step by step.
In this atmosphere, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse after shooting to death two men and wounding a third as a teen carrying an assault rifle illegally serves as a horrific example of how far we've slid downhill in the values we live by as a country. The jury agreed with Rittenhouse and his lawyers that he fired his AR-15 to defend himself. Conservatives cheered, of course.
The trial dealt with gun control, self-defense, vigilantism and racism, the latter because Rittenhouse took his gun to a Black Lives Matter demonstration against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wis. The protest followed the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a White cop. He was wounded severely.
"It seems to me that it's open season on human rights demonstrators," the Associated Press quoted civil rights leader The Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Rittenhouse, 17 when he killed, is the newest hero of the right-wing, a totem of gun-carrying vigilantism that made it okay to shoot people during political protests and may invite copy cats. The killing recalls George Zimmerman's gunshot slaying of another boy, Trayvon Martin, also 17, in February 2012 in another plea of self-defense and another acquittal.
What would have been the verdicts if Rittenhouse and Zimmerman were Black?
Before the verdict by a 12-member jury, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, an enthusiastic Trump supporter of Florida, said his office may ask Rittenhouse, now 18, to think about working for Congress, according to The Washington Post.
"Kyle Rittenhouse would probably make a pretty good congressional intern," he told the right-wing Newsmax. "We may reach out to him and see if he'd be interested in helping the country in additional ways."
Rittenhouse faced six felony accounts, including murder, and a misdemeanor that was dismissed. He probably may have been sentenced to life in prison if he had been convicted. Shooting three people, killing two, was "helping the country" that fiery night of Aug. 25, 2020? Really?
Another icon of sanity, good judgment, poise and decency in the far-right Republican biosphere is Rep. Paul Gosar of the well-armed state of Arizona. The House censored and ejected him from committee assignments for having posted an anime of himself slaying a progressive Democratic member of Congress with sword swipes to the neck and waving swords at Biden. A regular St. George. He should be thrown out of Congress.
Nevertheless, the ever-vindictive Trump, who may hold the record for the longest memory of those who were disloyal to him, praised Gosar and, of course, endorsed him for re-election.
"That's kind of that social media mentality that's built up in this country where we don't agree with one issue so we're going to attack them, we're going to vilify one person or one individual," New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, a non-Trumper, told CNN Sunday, referring to Gosar's tweeted attack. "We've got to get beyond that because culturally, it's really, really ruining America."
It sure is.
We're locked in a Republican stranglehold because millions of people believe in Trump as their savior regardless of what he says or does and have signed on to his party's delusions. It's a reason why Biden's approval ratings are in the low 40s.
And because Republicans in Congress who have the power and should know better don't do anything to stop Trump's shenanigans because they fear his wrath. And on it goes, creating concern in America and among its allies that he could win reelection in 2024.
And because Republicans in the Senate led by Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will to everything to obstruct the Democratic legislative agenda. So gridlock strangles Congress and nothing gets done, but for the latest Biden legislation that was passed without a filibuster.
Example: Senate Republicans three times voted down a voting rights bill intended to override the 33 racist laws restricting one person, one vote adopted by 19 states.
"I don't want anybody to take their eyes off the ball for what we do every day. . . . "We're taking down the Biden regime," Republican political guru Stephen K. Bannon told reporters last week.
Richard C. Gross, who covered war and peace in the Middle East and was foreign editor of United Press International, served as the opinion page editor of The Baltimore Sun.


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