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Orlando's Lethal Weapon Cat-Tastrophe
By Lesleyanne Drake, Curator of Collections
As rumors circulate about the possibility of a Lethal Weapon 5, some Orlandoans may remember that our city has its own connection to the famous action movie franchise: the demolition of the old Orlando City Hall in the opening scene of Lethal Weapon 3.
The movie begins with its two heroes, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh (played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, respectively), responding to a bomb threat at International Control Systems, Inc. (played by Orlando City Hall). Convinced that there is no bomb, Riggs saunters into the building with a reluctant Murtaugh at his heels, only to discover a car full of plastic explosives and one stray cat who decided not to evacuate. When Riggs' attempt to disarm the bomb only succeeds in speeding up the countdown timer, he and Murtaugh barely escape with their lives before the building is engulfed in a fiery blast. The pair does manage to rescue the feline, but not without a groan-worthy "cat-tastrophe" joke.
What most moviegoers will not realize is how close this scene was to an actual disaster. With the new $36 million City Hall built just four feet behind the old one, engineers Mark and Doug Loizeaux of Controlled Demolition, Inc. had no room for error. It took them nearly ten months to meticulously plan the implosion so that the charges placed inside key pillars would drop the building at an 8 to 10 degree angle to the east, toward Orange Avenue and away from the new building. The Loizeauxes' calculations were so precise, they said they could predict where the rubble would land within 10 feet. Even so, they still furnished a $20 million insurance policy to cover the safety of the new City Hall.
In addition, the demolition team had to coordinate with special effects crews to create the look of a classic Hollywood explosion. An initial, bright flash was followed by 4,000 pounds of exploding glass, cork, and paper before the bottom four floors erupted into flames. The entire sequence, which utilized 400 special effects charges, had to be perfectly timed with the implosion, and there was only one chance to get it right. As Mark Loizeaux told the Orlando Sentinel at the time, "It's a demolition ballet. What we're trying to do is choreograph what the principal dancer, the building, will do."
On October 24, 1991, the evening of the implosion, nearby office towers hosted exclusive implosion parties, and thousands of people gathered along Orange Avenue and other vantage points outside the six-block safety zone to watch the spectacle. When the big moment finally came, the long months of planning and preparation paid off; the 33-year-old building collapsed in less than six seconds, with not a single scratch to the new City Hall.
Released in 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 was a box office success. For observant viewers, there was also one final Easter egg – a cameo of Orlando's mayor at the time, Bill Frederick. Playing a member of the bomb squad who arrives moments after the explosion, Frederick claps and gives the two heroes a "Bravo!" Though delivered sarcastically, his line is a fitting conclusion to this singular moment in Orlando's history, now immortalized on the silver screen.
Constructed in 1958 under Mayor Bob Carr, the old Orlando City Hall was replaced by the current City Hall building in 1991. To help offset the cost of the demolition, the City of Orlando sold film rights of the implosion to Warner Brothers for $50,000.
Bill Frederick, Bob Carr, Demolition, downtown Orlando, Lethal Weapon 3, Orlando City Hall, Orlando history
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Brad Paisley Thrills Fans With History-Making Announcement
By Jennifer Pernicano on April 24, 2017
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If you thought Brad Paisley was releasing a lot of music videos, you'd be correct! Normally, singers film music videos for singles that have just been dropped, but in a previously unforeseen reason, Paisley released several music videos in the last few weeks. We aren't complaining, though! We loved each and every one.
As we found out Monday (April 24), there is a reason for this.
In a short and sweet Facebook post, Paisley revealed that his most recent album, Love and War, which was released on April 21, 2017, will be country music's very first visual album.
Visual albums, albums where each song has a music video, have been around since the 1960s when The Beatles released A Hard Day's Night. Over time, many artists have tried their hand at releasing visual albums, with pop and R&B music making it a huge trend in 2016.
Paisley, who served as co-writer to all 16 tracks, collaborated with Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Bill Anderson, and rapper and producer Timbaland on the album. One of his songs, "Gold All Over The Ground" is based on a love poem Johnny Cash wrote his wife, June Carter.
While we have already seen some of his videos, including the hysterical "Last Time For Everything" and "Selfie#TheInternetIsForever", we can't wait to see what the entire album looks like.
The visual album for Love and War will be released to Apple Music on Friday (April 28). Watch the trailer for it below.
We are so excited to announce the first ever country music visual album available on Apple Music April 28th. Who wants to come watch it with me on Wednesday? #LoveandWar #AppleMusic
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Should he be an All-Star? Kemba Walker: 'Not really, if you ask me'
Associated PressJan 19, 2017, 8:33 AM EST
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Kemba Walker is focused on Charlotte's record. He isn't very interested in the All-Star game right now.
Walker scored 23 points, and the Hornets stopped a five-game slide with a 107-85 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
Walker went 4 for 8 from behind the arc against Portland and 8 for 14 from the field overall. But he said he doesn't think he has done enough this year to make the All-Star game for the first time, citing the team's 21-21 record.
"Not really, if you ask me," Walker said. "Especially because of where my team is. But like I said, I really don't care honestly."
"We haven't been doing a great job of winning consistently (so) the All-Star game is the last thing I'm going to think about right now."
While Walker is brushing off talk about next month's game in New Orleans, he is making a strong case for a spot on the Eastern Conference team. He is averaging 23 points and shooting 41.3 percent from 3-point range this season.
Coach Steve Clifford said Walker is playing at an All-Star level, but doesn't know if he will be selected.
"It's not a question of whether or not he's playing like an All-Star – he's an All-Star-caliber guard, no question about it," Clifford said. "The factors will be looking at the other point guards in the East. The East is loaded. Point guard is the best position in our league right now and also, a lot of other guys are playing on teams with better records than ours. It's about winning."
The Hornets snapped an eight-game streak of allowing at least 100 points.
Charlotte led 79-72 after three quarters but blew the game open in the fourth behind eight quick points from Frank Kaminsky. The reserve had all 11 of his points in the final quarter, including three 3-pointers.
Walker had a big first half, hitting 6 of 9 shots and three 3-pointers to help the Hornets build a 54-46 lead.
Trail Blazers: Made all 11 free throws, but shot 8 of 31 from beyond the 3-point arc.
Hornets: Bench outscored Portland's reserves 44-22.
HIBBERT'S BIG NIGHT
Charlotte center Roy Hibbert played what Clifford called the best game of his season.
The 7-foot-2 Hibbert, who came in averaging 5.2 points per game, had a season-high 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting and provided two of the game's biggest highlights.
He brought the crowd to its feet on a drop-step drive through the lane and an unexpected one-handed dunk over Meyers Leonard. A few minutes later, Hibbert threw a backdoor alley-oop pass intended for Kaminsky that inadvertently went in. Hibbert didn't even crack a smile as he jogged back down court.
"That was a helluva pass, shot – I don't know what it was," Walker said with a laugh. "I'm just glad it went in."
Hibbert, who has battled through knee issues this season, said he wasn't trying to score, but glad it went in.
"That was a bad pass and a bad shot, that's all I can say," Hibbert said.
LOSING WAYS
Damian Lillard scored 21 points and C.J. McCollum had 18 for Portland, which has lost three straight and 16 of 22 since Dec. 5.
"As a group we have to let last year go," Portland center Mason Plumlee said. "If it was the first 10 games of the season we could talk about building on last year. This is a new team, this is a new group and we aren't playing how we did last year so it's a new season, new challenges. We have to make the most of this group and this team, and the situation we are in."
Charlotte turned 16 Portland turnovers into 21 points.
"We had some turnovers and they took advantage of every little thing," Lillard said. "It seemed like they were getting what they wanted. They played a comfortable game and we didn't make them very uncomfortable."
Trail Blazers: Travel to face the improving Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.
Hornets: Back home on Friday night to host another high-scoring team in the Toronto Raptors.


We are Never Never Other. We are the Center.
UNM Art Museum, in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts and For Freedoms, invites you to join us for our 50 State Initiative kick-off event and keynote talk by artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Focusing on the artist's role in civic and democratic participation, Aram will set the stage for a semester-long series of programs and political activations organized by UNM students in the Albuquerque community. Join us in the Museum after the talk (6:30 – 8:00pm) to meet the artist, add your voice to the For Freedoms conversation and if you have not done so already – register to vote.
Aram Han Sifuentes's art practice situates itself at the intersection of fiber, social practice, performance, and pedagogy. At the core, she creates socially engaged and materially rich projects in an 'art world' environment that are available and accessible for those who are disenfranchised, particularly for dispossessed immigrants of color. She confronts social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riff off of official institutions and bureaucratic processes to reimagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging. She does this by creating participatory and active environments where safety, play, and skill-sharing are emphasized. And even though many of her projects are collaborative and communal in nature, they incite and highlight individual's experiences, politics, and voice. Much of her communal work revolves around sharing skills as a point of connection. Often, sewing techniques are shared to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest.
Aram Han Sifuentes is a fiber, social practice, and performance artist who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest. Her work has been exhibited at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago, Illinois), Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, Illinois), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, Missouri), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (Seattle, WA), Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum (Seoul, South Korea), and the Design Museum (London, UK).
Be sure to join us directly after the talk for the For Freedoms Party happening in the UNM Art Museum from 6:30-8pm. DJ Caterwaul, free food and civic engagement!


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Category Archives: Nouvelle Vague
Anna Karina 22nd September 1940 – 14th December 2019
The beguiling French-Danish icon of the nouvelle vague has died at the age of 79. So much more than Godard's muse, she starred in several genres and literary adaptations for many directors, was a decent singer, novelist and directed films herself. She had a voice, grace and infinite talent. Adieu, Madame.
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Bande a Part (1964)
Aka Band of Outsiders. A Who-Dunit, Who's Got-It, Where-Is-It-Now Wild One From That "Breathless" director Jean-Luc Godard! Smalltime crooks and cinéphile slackers Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur) spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile (Anna Karina) whom they meet at English class. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre trying to set a record for fastest circumnavigation. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory – just like their B-movie heroes … Isn't it strange how people never form a whole?Ostensibly an adaptation of a novel called Fool's Gold by Dorothy Hitchens, that's just a skeleton on which the mischievous Jean-Luc Godard drapes his love and admiration of Hollywood genres (and Karina) over a series of apparently improvised riffs in this lightly constructed charmer. A few clues for latecomers: Several weeks ago… A pile of money… An English class… A house by the river… A romantic young girl... It's a splendidly rackety affair, with several standout scenes providing the postmodern matrix for much of pop culture (and a name for Quentin Tarantino's production company). It's Godard at his most playful, joyous and audience-pleasing, exploring what it's like to not want to grow up and how it's always possible to have fun with like-minded people. Then, you go a little too far and someone goes and spoils it all for everyone. Maybe. Sheer pleasure. Godard said of the dance scene: "Alice in Wonderland as re-choreographed by Kafka". A minute of silence can last a long time… a whole eternity
filed under 1960s, Adaptation, Animals, Architecture & Interiors, Atmospheric, Auteur, Bars, Boats, Books, Breaking the fourth wall, Cafe, Cars, Chase, Cinema, Cinematography, Comedy, Cosmetics, Costume, Crime, Cult, Dance, Death, Diner, Dogs, Drama, Drinks, Editing, Escape, Femininity, Finance, France, French, Godard, Guns, Heist, Homage, Irony, Language, Masculinity, Melodrama, Michel Legrand, Mirrors, Morality tale, Museum, Music, Narration, Newspapers, Nouvelle Vague, Paris, Pastiche, Philosophy, River, Romance, Shootout, Songs, Soundtrack, South America, Suburbs, Subways, Teachers, Uncle, Woman in jeopardy, Woman writer
Agnes Varda 30th May 1928 – 29th March 2019
The heroine of the Nouvelle Vague has died. Agnès Varda wasn't just a director, she was a master of a medium she knew little about when she made her brilliant debut, La Pointe Courte in 1955. She infused all her work – mainly in documentary – with a finessed sensibility that transcends the time in which it is made and her major features, Cleo de 5 à 7 and Le Bonheur are devastating portraits of contemporary womanhood. The later Vagabond was as shocking as her earlier work and made Sandrine Bonnaire a star. Her marriage to Jacques Demy was complex and yielded a wonderful homage, Jacquot de Nantes, a combination of essay with cinephilia that is utterly unique. Documentaries and art installations proved her humanity, flooded with an interest in the marginalised, the unheralded and the quotidian. She seemed to take great pleasure in finding everyday faces and places. She was making films until quite recently and was a regular visitor to film festivals where I was privileged to hear her speak on occasion. Varda seemed to be able to access her inner child, eternally youthful, questioning and interested, an impression assisted by that French bob she wore until the end. Some critics would claim her films have outlasted those of her male peers: I wouldn't entirely disagree. Merci, Agnès.
filed under Auteur, Documentary, Feminist, Filmmakers, French, Nouvelle Vague, Obituary, Photos, Woman director, Woman writer
Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (1962)
Autant que je sache, le mariage entre Jean-Luc Godard et Anna Karina fut foutu pendant le tournage – et bien, ce film-ci, dedie aux B-movies, soit en meme temps une espece du cinema verite (fonde dans une these, Ou en est la prostitution, de Marcel Sacotte), un hommage a Karina par un mari obsede, et aussi un film assez experimentale, bien que le camera (un Mitchell) fut beaucoup plus lourd que normale pour un film de la nouvelle vague (cinematographie par Raoul Coutard). Karina est impressionante et emouvante dans ce conte tragique, une femme qui depart son mariage et famille pour une carriere comme actrice mais elle se trouve obligee a se prostituer, venduee d'un souteneur a un autre, et finalement tuee. Une histoire d'un amour fou et mortel, entre un realisateur et sa muse.
filed under 1960s, Actors, Atmospheric, Auteur, B&W, Betrayal, Cinema, Cinematography, Cult, Death, Drama, Experimental, Filmmakers, France, French, Guns, Homage, Hotels, Marital, Melodrama, Michel Legrand, Narration, Nouvelle Vague, Police, Prostitution, Screenwriters, Shootout, Shop, Soundtrack, Storytelling
Breathless (1959)
Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol dreamed up the story, a riff on Gun Crazy and homage to Bogart. It is celebrated for its technique but it is so much more. Jean-Luc Godard conducted an alchemical transformation with Raoul Coutard's moving camera and jump cuts; the music by Martial Solal has a breezy quality that transports us there, to that very place, Paris, at that moment; the cars and shirts and hats make us dream of timeless style. Belmondo is insouciant and charismatic, Seberg disarming. The quality of charm is underrated in movies: that is what remains in this core episode of cinema, the ultimate cool. Essential.
filed under 1950s, Auteur, B&W, Betrayal, Black comedy, Breaking the fourth wall, Cars, Chase, Cinematography, Comedy, Costume, Crime, Death, Drama, Editing, Film Noir, Filmmakers, France, French, Gangster, Guns, Homage, Irony, Masculinity, Morality tale, Newspaper, Nostalgia, Nouvelle Vague, Paris, Pastiche, Police, Soundtrack


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alley oop
an exclamation uttered before lifting something.
I'll lift you onto the stage, ready? Alley oop!
Last edited on May 06 2011. Submitted by Rex H. from Spokane, WA, USA on Feb 05 2003.
bunghole
the anus; "butt hole". Popularized by Beavis, of the animated series Beavis and Butthead.
I need TP for my bunghole.
See more words with the same meaning: anus.
Last edited on Jun 30 2010. Submitted by Fred B. from Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Feb 05 2003.
used as an insult, but with the same meaning as above.
You bunghole!
Last edited on Jun 30 2010. Submitted by Jon B. from Bluefield, WV, USA on Feb 16 2003.
Older British slang for mouth. After a big meal an old relative of mine would say that she was "Full up to bung 'ole".
The term is from the hole in a wooden barrel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunghole
Last edited on Dec 21 2010. Submitted by Lord Pleco from Canberra ACT, Australia on Dec 21 2010.
v. (1) to light a cigarette you plan to smoke with the one already in your mouth, (2) to smoke more than one cigarette at the same time.
You going to lend me a light, or will I have to chain it?
See more words with the same meaning: to light a cigarette.
Last edited on Feb 05 2003. Submitted by Dan R. on Feb 05 2003.
on a menstrual cycle.
I need a painkiller, I am riding the crimson tide.
Last edited on Feb 05 2003. Submitted by Joy from Orlando, FL, USA on Feb 05 2003.
Dick deprived
Last edited on May 08 2017. Submitted by Anonymous on May 08 2017.
daughter; acronym for "dear daughter".
DD threw a tantrum when I wouldn't buy her a new Barbie.
Last edited on Mar 07 2018. Submitted by Nina C. from Nashville, TN, USA on Feb 16 2000.
a person who is "dumb [as] dog shit", i.e. a very dumb person.
That boy is DD.
Citation from Renaissance Man (1994 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Feb 20 2013. Submitted by Loki from Menomonie, WI, USA on Feb 05 2003.
acronym for "designated driver".
See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of).
Last edited on May 13 2011. Submitted by Trista Z. on Jun 24 2004.
female masturbation. From Digit Dunk or Dunk Digits.
I was so horny after seeing that gorgeous guy, i just had to go to the girls room and have a DD.
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Last edited on Mar 07 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 25 2016.
acronym for "don't die", usually used in video games online chat.
Last edited on Sep 07 2017. Submitted by Chuck S. on Sep 07 2017.
geeked
to be extremely excited about something.
I'm so geeked that we got front row tickets!
Last edited on Apr 24 1999. Submitted by Kim D from MI, USA on Apr 24 1999.
High, under the influence of drugs, and most often to an extreme degree; as in really high as opposed to high (most often cocaine, and sometimes methamphetamine).
Man, she was so geeked!
Last edited on Feb 07 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 24 2001.
stoned, high.
I was geeked.
We sat around and got geeked.
I had a party and everyone got geeked.
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by M. Bonomo from Zelienople, PA, USA on Jan 08 2002.
under the influence of marijuana.
Let's all go get geeked.
Last edited on May 14 2011. Submitted by Emmet Light from Milwaukee, WI, USA on Nov 29 2002.
to be under the influence of cocaine.
I am really geeked.
Last edited on Feb 05 2003. Submitted by Tony C. from Blue Island, IL, USA on Feb 05 2003.
hyped up
high on cocaine, not weed.
See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of stimulants (e.g. methamphetamines, caffeine).
Last edited on Aug 01 2005. Submitted by Tinian from Amherst, MA, USA on Aug 01 2005.
high on cocaine.
She is so geeked, look at her eyes.
Last edited on Jan 04 2006. Submitted by e t. from Pensacola, FL, USA on Jan 04 2006.
get dirty
Popular in Christina Aguilera's song "Dirty". To have sex.
Do you want to get dirty?
Last edited on May 13 2011. Submitted by Michelle from Waukegan, IL, USA on Feb 05 2003.
To procrastinate over a task or to completely forget it.
Oh I'll just jib that.
Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Julez from Wirral, Merseyside, UK on Nov 06 2001.
marijuana.
I talked to Ted last night, and he is coming over with a HUGE sack of jib tonight!
See more words with the same meaning: marijuana.
Last edited on Feb 05 2003. Submitted by Fred B. from Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Feb 05 2003.
a mini gravity bong, constructed from a plastic bottle and a container of water.
I smoked a jib last night and got fucked UP!
Last edited on Oct 12 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 06 2016.
noun - uncountable
the drug crystal methamphetamine (aka crystal meth.)
Last edited on Oct 12 2016. Submitted by Anonymous from UK on Aug 27 2002.
the faces pulled whilst on drugs. From "jib" meaning the drug crystal methamphetamine (aka crystal meth.)
Look at him jibbin'.
You were jibbin' your face off last night.
See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of drugs.
to "goof around" doing tricks and stunts, while e.g. mountain/trail/BMX biking, skating, skateboarding, or snowboarding.
Let's go jibbing on our bikes out in the skate-park.
Last edited on Oct 12 2016. Submitted by MLD from Arlington, MA, USA on Mar 08 2003.
Skiing or snowboarding in a terrain park or in the backcountry, especially performing jumps and tricks.
Last edited on Dec 22 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 24 2009.
jimmy-jammy
to force an object into, or squeeze and object through something, in a hurried, off-handed, haphazard, humorous fashion.
He said if I asked him to borrow his hockey stick one more time, he'd jimmy-jammy it straight up my ass.
Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Fred B. from Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Feb 05 2003.
molly-whop
Kyle and the crew of "the block" were getting Molly-Whopped on the line tonight!
slang for getting hit hard, usually with fists, but can be extended to include feet, objects, etc.
He picked up the fence post and molly-whopped that bitch... that's when the cops showed up.
Damn! That kid just got molly-whopped for pissing off that drunk guy!


Accepting reality does not necessarily mean that we enjoy every event. Nor does it mean that we shouldn't take steps to prevent or alleviate unpleasant situations. We do not enjoy the fact that our roof is leaking.


You are clever, exotically international, and there are more of you than ever before. You contribute billions of pounds a year to the British economy. The trouble is, nobody cares.
Or at least they did not until just a few weeks ago, when policymakers finally seemed to wake up to the idea that someone should start thinking about postgraduates.
Amid all the kerfuffle about the future of higher education — Lord Browne's review of fees, the government's white paper, the dire warnings of universities going bust or being taken over by profit-hungry capitalists — postgraduates occupied barely a footnote. They did have their very own report, by Adrian Smith, in 2010 but it sort of got forgotten, such was the excitement of a change of government and disputes over the more radical proposals for undergraduates.
But, to the surprise even of those who have been gamely trying to push postgraduate heads above the parapet for years, all this has begun to change.
First, Smith's review group was briefly reconvened to discuss the likely impact on postgraduates of the new undergraduate fee system. Then, early in July, came the announcement of an independent inquiry on behalf of the higher education commission, a cross-party group of MPs and representatives from business and academia, to look into how postgraduates could contribute to the knowledge economy.
The group's chairman, IBM's Graham Spittle, says: "So much attention has been on undergraduates yet nobody has really thought structurally and strategically about what we should be doing with postgraduates, and what the effect of these undergraduate changes are going to be on them."
He says the commission, which is due to report next year, will look at the contribution of postgraduate education to the UK economy and the competition it faces from emerging economies. It will also look at access and funding.
"I do think there's an urgency to this," he says. "As soon as we have a coherent picture, we want to make some pretty firm recommendations."
Even more significant for those rooting for postgraduate education are new promises of cash. For the first time, universities are to receive extra government money specifically for taught postgraduate courses. They will get £1 100 a student starting one of these courses in the next academic year, except in those arts and humanities disciplines that are cheapest to run.
This means they will in effect be cushioned from cuts in funding to undergraduate courses — which are expected to make up the shortfall through student fees, paid for by student loans.
The big bone of contention is that postgraduate courses remain outside any loan system. Whereas undergraduates can merrily fork out up to £9 000 a year for their degrees, safe in the knowledge that they have 30 years to pay it back and that if they have not done it by then the debt will disappear, most postgraduates have to butter up friends, family and the bank manager to scrape together the cost of their course. And these debts are the kind that remain until every penny is paid off.
Employers once offered to support staff wishing to do postgraduate study, but many have cut back on sponsorships because of the recession. About six in 10 taught postgraduate students receive no support for their studies other than family or commercial loans. And even banks have become more reluctant to take on the risk of lending to postgraduates who may or may not turn out to be the next Bill Gates.
The big worry is, with undergraduates paying higher tuition fees from this year, it is likely that universities will want to start charging postgraduates more too.
Malcolm McCrae, who until last month chaired the UK Council for Graduate Education, says universities have felt in limbo on the question of what to do about postgraduate fees. A Times Higher Education analysis of this year's fees found the average British and European Union fee for taught postgraduates was just under £6 184, a 24% rise from the previous year but still well below the average £8 354 institutions are expected to start charging undergraduates in September.
McCrae says he cannot see how a university could justify charging taught postgraduates less, when their courses run for more weeks and at a higher level.
The financial squeeze has already led to a growth in the number of postgrads studying part-time and working while they take their degree. But McCrae fears many UK students will duck out of postgraduate education altogether and choose to go straight into the jobs market instead.
A survey by High Fliers Research last month found that employers are increasingly keen on work experience, with more than a third of graduate vacancies likely to be filled by those who have worked for the company to which they are applying.
Although the number of postgraduates studying in UK higher education institutions leapt by 36% between 1997 and 2009, and is still growing, this growth is largely among international students. In those 12 years, the numbers from European Union countries rose by 69%, and from non-EU countries by a whopping 155%.
"The government sees postgraduate activity in universities as a success story," says McCrae. "But the success part of it is largely overseas recruitment rather than home recruitment. Are we looking forward to the prospect of training people for the knowledge economy everywhere in the world, just not doing it for our own?"
Tim Leunig, chief economist at the think-tank CentreForum and a reader in economic history at the London School of Economics, has proposed a new loan system for postgraduate students to try to redress this imbalance.
He argues that countries with the highest levels of educational qualifications tend to be the most successful, and that it is therefore vital to increase the number of UK students studying at postgraduate level and to ensure this level of education is open to disadvantaged groups.
"If all these foreigners want to do postgraduate degrees here, shouldn't we be thinking of why British kids don't want to be doing them too?" he says.


i have to look at pictures of renoir's luncheon of the boating party because raymond dufayel from amelie is obsessed with the painting! i am finding LOADS of copies of this painting plus some badly-done studies of it. but do you know what the girl with the glass' real problem is? i do. there is some guy who is boring her to death. really. she is drinking poison so she won't have to listen to him anymore.


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Q: Set Sysdate in H2 for Testing I'm adding some integration tests to my app that will exercise sql that performs a query based on a relative date range (current-date - 90).
I'm using H2 in-memory, with a bunch of canned sql files (in which the date fields are hard-coded). As time progresses, the result of the query will change, and the test will be useless.
Ideally, I'd like to bootstrap H2 with a fixed timestamp that represents "now", so that the tests will always be repeatable. Is this possible?

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I've been searching for my second destination to travel this month. My own theory, traveling buy experiences. I have been searching for a calm and safe place for over few weeks di. Then i came across a lot of my pictures in my hard disk which i am too lazy to post previously. Add up to the recent condition of mine… suddenly dont feel like writing anything.. but… like i said, i make myself to write something once in a few days time. So hello, im here.
Where to stay in Melbourne? I prefer to stay at Melbourne CBD. Punthill Apartment Hotel is my best choice. An aparthotel for a family of four like me is just nice. Location wise : 9/10 I feel like a genius when i found this aparthotel because theres hardly any nice place with the location as convenient as this one.
You can never starve staying at Punthill Flinders Lane because it is surrounded by eateries. The yellow line i drew is where all kinds of eateries are. And just exactly beside the hotel is where i had my good runny egg Benedict. Not enough? Swanston street is just few streets away. Oh… and coles central supermarket. Walking distance. Another best thing about the locality, Flinders Station is just a block behind! How convenient can that be? I'll definitely stay at Punthill Flinders Lane again in the next visit to Melbourne!
Punthill Apartment Hotel Flinders Lane.
It is a 2 bedroom apartment hotel. With a nice cozy living room, dining area, kitchen, and clean spacious bathroom. Totally love in fall with this apart-hotel.
We mingle at the living room enjoying our meal almost everyday.
And our happy little angels.
Oh.. forgot to mention we had a quick lunch before checking in to Punthill ApartHotel.
Dropped by South Wharf DFO next to Melbourne Convention Center. You can access through the public transport. Stop at Southern Cross Station and you can see it..
The comfort food of all. Salmon Roll. AUD 2.00 per roll.
And after checking in Punthill Flinders Lane, we explore a lil bit and hop into the bus that bring us to the famous Queen Victoria Market.
The bratwurst sausage was grilled to perfection, sealing all the juice. So when you bite it, it just burst in your mouth. Soft, tender, juicy and flavorful, each bite of the bratwurst sausage give you the ohh-ahh effect. Yums!
And the dips and tapas. One thought of mine, how nice if i can stay a lil bit longer to try out all these.
Mama went to the outdoor area where all the fresh vegetables, nuts and fruits are. Bought a lot of macadamia nuts. Happy mama.
And there is this truck that sell spanish donuts and churros. We were curious at first because even when the vendor start selling, there is already a long queue. I love things that need to wait. So, i waited. AND i never regret. We found the best Churros throughout our 9 days stay in Melbourne. Ever since that time, we have been craving for Churros but none beats this one!
It was simple. I always believe, it is never easy to make a simple dish so delicious and impressive.Its not just ordinary churros dusted with sugar. Its the best churros we had. Crunchy on the outside, fluffy in the inside, and the crunch is just so fragrant. The sugar is not too sweet, just awesome.
Then with a happy and satisfied heart, we went to the market fair selling all kinds of food. We chose to try out the Turkish delights.
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Tawerna Dominikanska (The Dominican Tavern) is located at the heart of Gdansk, by the River Motlawa. It offers outstanding interiors, which feature doric pillars, striped cushions, bathrooms adorned with ceramic tiles and stained glass as well as art nouveau details. The extensive menu includes delicious Polish specialities as well as some Mediterranean classics. During the summer the guests can enjoy dining in a beer garden with a view over the Motlawa River and the Crane.
Hello Dominican tavern Worst restaurant in Gdansk Yesterday, along with friends went to dinner at a tavern called. Unfortunately, after the contract started to have problems. We have not received one soup you ordered more, an explanation of the waiter, "You forgot to fill up the kitchen." did not receive one of the main dishes, the waiter explain "the print order to the kitchen runs out of paper in the printer, and omitted some of the dishes." It's not the end of my adventures in the restaurant after the kitchen pseudo revolutions. When you eat the second course was the salad familiar face value 5 cents. It's been top of my patience. This is the worst restaurant I have ever been. Restaurant can not work when there are no managers. No owner, manager and manager. I recommend this restaurant only worst enemy.
Our tour group of 20 travellers had reservations here in September. The place looked great but the service and overall bad attitude of the wait staff was like nothing I've ever experienced. Our tour leader served the water herself because we couldn't break-up the BS session the staff was having at the bar. No smiles, no conversatio, barely an acknowledgement that we were there. A waitress did finally serve our food, the order for which had been called-in 2 hours before we arrived. The fish was average; but try getting a drink!


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Peter Moore (Born 3000BC in Hell) is the head of Microsoft's Sinister Interactive Nazi devision (the SIN devision), which includes overseeing and promoting video games for the soul harvester (the Xbox 360).
Peter Moore was originally thought to be Satan himself as it was thought he was the original divine being that was cast out of heaven, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born in Hell. Moore is the first child of Satan and holds a Bachelor's Degree in the field of pure evil and is currently working on a Master's Degree from majoring in the field of Pedophilia.
Moore originally surfaced to the Earths surface during the Edo period and hit from public view until the early 20th century, where he worked in Germany with his own son, a man known as Adolf Hitler. Moore played a pivotal acting role in the Holocaust during WWII, but he was thwarted by the British before he could complete his master strategy (which remained unknown until the Great Operating System War of 2031).
Microsoft hired Moore in 2003 to lead the mighty army of blind Halo fans, to head the SIN devision and help the Xbox 360 harvest as many souls as possible for his father and Lord; Satan.
Peter Moore is also famous for having tattoos of Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV that he used when announcing that anyone who purchases those games would surrender their soul to him for eternity. It is currently expected that the average gamer will sell his soul to Peter Moore after Microsoft spread rumors that there wont be any video games in heaven except that really annoying game at the arcade that promises a copy of Halo 2 if you win, but is actually impossible to win.
Moore also reportedly endorsed the Wii console as an alternative over the PlayStation 3, claiming that for the price of one $600 PS3, the consumer can buy both the Xbox 360 and Wii, claiming that he can still claim the souls of those gamers... a vital task that would be impossible if customers bought the PS3 instead.
Peter Moore become frustrated with how little his evil was actually reaching the common teenager, he had built the Soul Harvesting Xbox machine but he wasn't actually in charge of any of the games to lure in innocent souls. Moore remedied this situation by moving away from Microsoft and into the jagged arms of the worlds second most evil corporation; Electronic Arts. He will now sit on the throne of the Evil Sports Devision so he can directly harvest the innocent souls of sports fans around the world. It has been reported that he will now have access to over 60,000,000 fresh souls to offer to his father and lord Satan with his new position at EA.
He also won the 2007, Most Evil Looking Video Game Suit award (both staff and fan vote) in Gamesmaster magazine.
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A Brief History of Jamaica's Iconic Sound Clash Culture
By Amira Rasool
Musicians thrive off competition. Whether attempting to surpass their previous musical achievements or taking on musical peers as a rivals, the spirit of competition runs deep across genres and moments in history. Over the years, sound clash –– an iconic Jamaican music battle event, has remained at the forefront of music's competitive landscape by hosting some of the most legendary Jamaican dancehall and reggae performances.
Despite sound clashes' influence on global culture (early Bronx hip-hop battles were modeled after the event), the iconic history of sound clash has relatively remained underground. Originating in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1950s, sound clash competitions were made up of neighborhood crews battling one-another for the crowd's admiration. The crews, referred to as 'sound systems' were composed of local DJs, singers, and artists. Sound systems would take the stage to performer back-and-forth battles inside small club venues and often times, large vacant fields.
Sound clash pioneers Tom the Great Sebastian, Duke Reid's the Trojan, and Count Nick led early battles playing the local sounds of Kingston, which predated dancehall, reggae, and ska. Each crew had a 'selector' who was in charge of choosing the music played at the battles. Selectors became stars of the group, and had the power to break new records and create new sounds that were subsequently replicated and shared throughout the country, and eventually, the world.
As much as sound systems and selectors were important, the speaker systems and the bass it produced, is what gave the battle its edge. Each crew fought to out blast the other with their speakers. In this battle, the louder the sound system, the louder the crowd. Not only did the sound of the speakers matter, but its overall display were judge too. Crews stacked speakers on top of one another and found innovative new ways to incorporate the physical presence of the speakers into the show. Large trucks would arrive with speakers systems attached to the back and turntables and the battling crew in tow.
The audience played a major part in the events over-the-top mosh-pit style. Crowd participation was not only encouraged, it was necessary. Fans served as the official judges of the competition and announced their admiration and excitement by screaming at the top of their lungs, issuing gunshots into the air, lighting flame throwers, and more recently, waving cell phone lights from side to side.
As the event became more prominent in Caribbean culture, musicians from America and Europe quickly adopted it. British musicians in particular embraced the cultural event and began merging the various Caribbean and African sounds dominating the UK's underground scene. Even today the U.K., much like Jamaica, keeps sound clash culture alive by hosting large annual events like UK Cup Clash. Contemporary sound clash battles in Jamaica have maintained much of its original charisma, with an added dancehall and reggae sound now dominating the newer, bigger, and louder speaker systems.
Atlanta is yet another city putting its twist on Jamaican sound clashes. This Friday, four musicians from the worlds of Trap, Dancehall, EDM, and Latin music, will battle it out on stage with their crews at Red Bull's annual Culture Clash. Crews led by legendary producer Zaytoven, EDM producers Mija & Kenny Beats, dancehall singer Kranium, and Latin producer Fuego will do their part to keep the legacy of sound clash alive and the sound systems as loud as possible.
You can live stream Red Bull's Culture Clash Friday, August 24 at 9 PM ET.
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Q: Product of sizes of subtrees of a perfect binary tree A perfect binary tree is a binary tree for which every parent node has exactly two children and each leaf occurs at the same depth (alternatively, same height) in the tree.
A perfect binary tree of depth $k$ has $n = 2^{k+1}-1$ nodes. Is there a closed form solution expressing the product of the sizes of its perfect subtrees (each such perfect subtree is obtained as a maximal perfect subtree rooted at a node of the tree)? For instance, a perfect binary tree of size 15 has the product of subtree-sizes: $(2^4-1)(2^3-1)^2 (2^2 - 1)^4$. In general: $(2^{k+1}-1)^{2^0}(2^{k}-1)^{2^1}(2^{k-1}-1)^{2^2}(2^{k-2}-1)^{2^3} \ldots$ Is there a closed form solution for this expression? Or an asymptotic classification O(f(n))?
The online resource by Banderier discusses the sum of the sizes of the subtrees. I am looking for information on the product of these sizes, but for the case of n (maximal) perfect subtrees, each rooted at one of the n nodes of the given perfect tree.


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Libyan court sentences Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam to death
A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, on Tuesday for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.
© Mahmud Turkia, AFP | Saif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, during a court hearing in the Libyan city Zintan on April 27, 2014
The court also handed down in a televised session a death sentence by firing squad to Gaddafi's former spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, and his former prime minister, Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.
The verdict on Saif al-Islam was passed in absentia since he has been held since 2011 by a former rebel group in Zintan region that opposes the Tripoli government, which is not recognised by world powers.
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I was going to call this–A SCARF A DAY– but after 4 days, my back said to slow down. But let me tell you how difficult it is… The yarn is so beautiful! Thank you Mountain Colors!
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What promises to be another phenomenal Weaving Conference begins tomorrow! Interestingly enough, this Conference is taking place on the University of Montana campus (in walking distance from my soon to be former residence (but that is a post for another day).
Here is the next installment as promised. What you see below is where I am at this moment.
I am somewhat stymied as to weft selection.
So when in doubt, try them all!
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Costa Rica was the first county in Central America to produce coffee, it was introduced to Costa Rica in the early 1700s. Some plantations existed in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, however mass production began after the country's independence in 1821. At this time, municipal government promoted coffee cultivation by granting farmers land and seeds. The National Assembly went as far as saying anyone who grew coffee for more than 5 years on land could claim the land for themselves. This increased coffee production in Costa Rica tremendously and led to trading with the Old World. WIthin the country, 10% of the population is involved in coffee production which makes up 90% of their produce exports.
The Instituto del Cafe de Costa Rica (ICAFE) was created in 1933. This organization helps to monitor coffee production within the country to maintain quality, sustainability, and socioeconomic wellbeing. Along with the International Women's Coffee Alliance, who started a chapter in Costa Rica, a number of organizations work together with coffee cultivators to sustain growth in the coffee sector.
There are 8 different coffee growing regions within Costa Rica, all establishing distinctive flavor profiles.
Producing some of the highest quality coffees in the country, Tarrazu has very high altitudes from the country's interior mountains. Coffee from this region produces a heavy-bodied cup with complex aromas and mild acidity. This region also contributes to about 35% of the country's coffee production.
The coffee growing region of the West Valley produces about 25% of the country's coffee. Within the region there are a number of microclimates which contribute to the complexity of flavors in the beans. The coffee from West Valley can be characterized with medium body and orange acidity.
The Central Valley is where Costa Rican coffee first originated. Representing about 15% of coffee production, the region has distinctive wet and dry seasons. Influenced by volcanoes in the area, the soil of Central Valley as a tropical acidity and plenty of minerals which help contribute to great flavor.
Due to the coffee expansion within the Central Valley in 1820, Tres Rios was created to contribute to coffee production. However, being close to the capital, San Jose, lack of land to cultivate on is becoming a problem. Coffee from Tres Rios exhibits bright flavors with sweet and mild flavors. This region now only produces about 2% of the coffee grown in Costa Rica.
Representing about 20% of coffee production in the country is the growing region of Brunca. Coffee in this area is produced in hillside farms due to the lower elevation.
The other 3 less common growing regions in Costa Rica are: Guanacaste, Orosi and Turrialba. Altogether, Costa Rica's coffee trade only represents about 1% of the global market. Although Costa Rica doesn't produce the most coffee in the world, much of the population depends on the coffee industry to support them. It is also integral to the coffee industry within the country to maintain sustainable practices. High quality coffee from Costa Rica is some of the best in the world because of the attention to quality and perfect growing conditions.


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After three decades in the CIA, a Peoria native developed a phone app for COVID-19 records
Date: November 25, 2021Author: bannedhipster 4 Comments
Karl Wagner has ventured a long way from The Knolls neighborhood in Central Peoria. In almost 30 years with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, he was stationed around the globe.
Now, with COVID-19 affecting just about every aspect of life, Wagner has helped develop a cellphone application that could make it easier to travel and to work.
Wagner is CEO and co-founder of ConfirmD by BuddyCheque. It's a new digital wallet that allows its user to upload and share test and vaccination records medical professionals have verified.
ConfirmD complies with federal health-privacy laws. Its current primary focus is on storing COVID-related data, but it's to be expanded to cover tests and vaccinations for other communicable diseases.
"I travel all over the place. How do I share my medical records?" Wagner said last week as he was preparing for a trip to the west African country of Burkina Faso. "I can't do it very easily, especially that information I might have to share with others.
"We didn't find anything like (this), so we created it. … I travel all over the world with this app, and everybody's accepted it everywhere I've gone."
Wagner said he doesn't have a health-industry background. His specialty is cybersecurity. It's something he honed in the CIA and in his subsequent job, onetime senior director of global security for Tesla.
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Watch how this app will be one of a thousand seeds thrown out – most will die out, but one will flourish and become dominant. These "Chinese soldiers" will be the defense against connections being made and allow CNN etc., to call any connection a conspiracy theory. These fuckers are well funded, dedicated, very clever, and obdurate in their dedication to their plan –
The question for me is whether this guy is aware of his complicity in the plan or if he is just trying to fit in at the country club and fund his summer home…
Jeb! says:
Remember, near the start of COVID hysteria Gates literally wanted to use an invisible tattoo as a tracking number for your vaccination status. Perhaps that was a little too blatant? Literally branding the sheep before they're culled.
"Do not travel to Burkina Faso due to terrorism, crime, kidnapping and COVID-19."
That's the latest State Department, Nov 5th, 2021, advisory for this popular tourist destination.
If I were going there, I too would want the ConfirmD/ BuddyCheque app, I'm sure 99.9% of the population there would want it as well.
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I unflinchingly support anyone and everyone, including the NSA and every other occult group of skulduggery and vice, willing and able to roll up the COVID patronage network and use Musk's rockets to launch its every shell entity and material artifact and co-conspirator directly into the sun.


Countrywide has scrapped a pay plan that could have handed its top executives more than £20m after a shareholder revolt.
Earlier this month the beleaguered estate agent group, which has nearly 10,700 staff and operates under about 50 brand names including Hamptons International and Bairstow Eves, was forced to ask investors for £140m in emergency funds to save it from collapsing under the weight of its debt.
Shareholders will vote on the cash call next week, as part of what Countrywide is calling its "Absolute Growth Plan" (AGP), which also includes pushing through a new incentive scheme.
Under the proposed scheme top executives including the chairman, Peter Long, whose role changed to an executive position following the ousting of former chief executive Alison Platt, could have received Countrywide shares worth more than £20m.
Countrywide's proposals to replace its existing long-term incentive plan with AGP sparked a furious response from shareholders. Institutional Shareholder Services, an influential investor advisory service, said investors should oppose the new policy and labelled the scheme "excessive" and "unnecessarily convoluted".
"No compelling explanation has been provided as to why the proposed arrangement is essential to effectively implementing the group's strategy and turnaround plan," ISS said.
While Countrywide was expected to be able to push through the scheme – its largest shareholder Oaktree Capital was reportedly set to back the proposals – the company has decided to avoid a clash with investors by dropping the pay plans.
The decision to drop the new incentive scheme will save Long, who also chairs Royal Mail, from a second humiliating run-in with investors in as many months.
In July, more than 70% of Royal Mail investors rebelled against the company's remuneration report, one of the biggest pay revolts in UK corporate history.
Long, who is also vice-chairman of travel group Tui, saw almost a third of disgruntled Royal Mail investors vote against his re-election as chairman.
Countrywide has lost more than 80% of its market value over the past year as the housing market cooled.


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Forster on beating Messi, England stardom, becoming forgotten and rising again
Fraser Forster will complete a remarkable journey from the "dark days" of being a forgotten man to potential Wembley hero.
Southampton keeper Forster, 33, made just ONE Premier League appearance in more than three years after being frozen out at St Mary's before completing a remarkable comeback.
Forster fell out of favour under previous boss Manuel Pellegrino, did not play under Mark Hughes, was loaned out to Celtic for a year and fell so far down the pecking order at St Mary's that sometimes he did not even make the bench.
But Forster refused to give up, has used the FA Cup as a route back to being Southampton's first choice since January after working hard to improve his game and find a way back under Ralph Hasenhuttl.
Former England keeper Forster said: "I've had to wait and the FA Cup has been brilliant for that but I'm not going to lie, there have been some horrendously hard days along the way and luckily I've come through the other side of that.
Forster had become a forgotten man at Southampton
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"For me, not playing was incredibly hard because you're coming into training, you've got no game at the weekend to aim for, it's a very frustrating time and just one for whatever reason I just ended up stuck in a situation.
"I had just signed a new five-year deal here, six months later you're out of the team and then a year later you're not even making squads so it was very tough, I'm not going to lie. It was very tough, very frustrating and it was hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel at times.
"Managers, they pick the team and if you're not their cup of tea or they don't rate you, as a keeper it's hard to get back in. Hard to get those opportunities. There have been some very, very dark days that's for certain."
It is hard to imagine that Forster – who joined Southampton from Celtic for £10m in 2014 – could drop down so far as he had won six England caps, was nicknamed The Great Wall in Glasgow after famously defying Lionel Messi's great Barcelona side in the Champions League in 2012.
Forster was in the Celtic side that beat Barcelona in 2012
But Forster was dropped after a 5-2 defeat at Tottenham in December 2017, played just once on the penultimate day of the following season in a 3-0 defeat at West Ham and found himself stranded at the start of this season with little hope.
Forster said: "I think you've just got to adopt the mindset that you can only do what you can do. If you come in, train well, work hard, do everything right, try and be a good guy around the place, try and do everything right that's all you can do ultimately.
"It was a tough decision in the summer. We had a fantastic year last year at Celtic, I had another year back there which I absolutely loved, but I made the decision that I wanted to come back here.
"The manager here has been absolutely brilliant with me. He knows what he wants from his keepers, what he demands and that's clear across the pitch.
"Everyone has got real clarity on what he wants from each position and I came back, worked at that, what he wants and had to obviously bide my time and the FA Cup was perfect for me to get a few games and that run has really helped me get my place in the team."
Forster came back into the Saints team in January and has stayed there ever since
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Forster worked hard on his kicking and distribution, when Alex McCarthy missed the Liverpool game in January through Covid, the ex-Celtic keeper stepped in and has never looked back after his man of the match display in a 1-0 win over Jurgen Klopp's men.
Forster is an ever present in this season's FA Cup run, has been first choice in the Premier League in recent weeks and now has a chance to be a hero in the semi final.
He added: "That's been one of the remarkable things this season. The first half of the season we couldn't stop winning. Then, for whatever reason, we just couldn't put a win together for nine or ten games.
"This is a great opportunity, we're coming up against a fantastic team with a fantastic manager as well. But over the course of 90 minutes, it's one game, anything can happen and it would be fantastic if we could progress into the final.
"As you say, it's set up so nicely to do that. Both Leicester and us, will be thinking let's go and get into a final and see what happens. It should be a fantastic day and should be a great game as well."
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A man's been charged with attempted murder after a woman was attacked in Portsmouth.
Police were called to Stubbington Avenue last Friday night.
A 40-year-old woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries but is now said to be stable.
"We can confirm detectives from the Hampshire Major Investigation Team (HMIT) charged a man on Tuesday 31 December 31 2013 with attempted murder after a 40-year-old woman was assaulted in Portsmouth.
"Police were called to Stubbington Avenue in Portsmouth shortly after 11pm on Friday 27 December 2013. A man was arrested in the Merton Road area of Southsea later that night.
"Adam Paul Buxton, aged 32, of Stubbington Avenue, Portsmouth, was charged with one count of attempted murder.
"He appeared before Portsmouth Magistrates Court on Wednesday 1 January 2014 when he was remanded in custody to appear before Portsmouth Crown Court on Wednesday 8 January 2014.
"The 40-year-old victim was taken to hospital to receive treatment for life-threatening injuries. She is described as being in a stable condition."


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If you follow me on Twitter you've likely seen an increase in the number of beach photos that appear in my stream. Now seems as good a time as any to explain why.
I'm blessed to live near the California coast—not walking-near, but close enough that I can jump in the car and be standing in surf and sand within 10 minutes. However, living in such close proximity to the ocean is a bit like having a swimming pool. It's great for the first little while, but after that while wears away you tend to ignore it. Because I easily can, I'd now no more spend a day at the beach than a San Francisco resident would frolic along Fisherman's Wharf.
But I'm trying to shift my priorities so that I give my surroundings their due. While I may not routinely pack the umbrella, cooler, fuzzy-tennis-ball-that-you-throw-at-the-velcro-paddles-and-really-what-is-it-about-that-activity-and-the-beach-anyway, and boogie board, I'm coming to realize that not spending some time witnessing this natural wonder (particularly during non-tourist hours) is disrespectful. In my more delusional moments I feel that I must represent the countless landlocked souls who can't be here (and when they can, spend a lot of time and money to do so).
That said, there's only so long that I can stand and stare at the vastness of the ocean and live within Grace's golden bubble. Truth is, I get bored and need something else to do. I've tried beach sculpture, sand castles, shell collecting, tide pooling, dog admiration, and bird watching, but the thing that seems to stick is photography (and Tweeting the results).
I have a decent camera I can carry in my pocket. My iPhone 5s isn't the world's most versatile camera, but it's easy to pack and can take some damned fine photos. Plus, it has the ability to share its pictures in an instant.
It compels me to experiment. Wonderful though the beach may be, it's a little limited. You've got your water, your sand, and your sky. Again, I appreciate the miraculous expansiveness of it all, but do this long enough and it's easy to fall into the "seen one beach, seen 'em all" trap. I don't want every shot to be an image with a bit of sand at the bottom, ocean in the middle, and sky on top. And so I look for different ways to represent where I am. That may mean looking for interesting light, shooting some easily ignored detail, or capturing something that reflects my mood. It's a little like painting with three colors and therefore requires some thought and planning.
And then there's the Twitter component. I have opinions about how to use this social networking service, the upshot being that I view it as a personal playground/soap box/stage. And with that in mind, it too serves a variety of purposes.
By way of reminder. The ability to snap a picture and then, within seconds, share it with the world is wonderful. People use this to great effect to promote, complain, and entertain. I use the beach photos as a way to remind people that places like this are open for business, right now. Forever. It's easy to forget when you're sitting in a soul-draining open office that the tides roll in and out, day after day, and that maybe slapping a cover sheet on the TPS report isn't as important as it's made out to be.
It's not commercial. I understand that business makes the world go round and that the people who founded Twitter did so with the idea of making a living from it. But the commercialization of Twitter and other social networking services leaves me cold. The beach photos aren't selling anything. They likely do nothing to increase my visibility or follower count (in fact, they probably decrease it). They exist because I want them to.
I'm a little bit evil. And okay, I occasionally take a perverse delight in letting you know that I'm at the beach and you're not. It's an unpleasant facet of my personality and one I deeply regret (until such time that I give in to that temptation).


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Q: Uppercase or lowercase for global variables? I declared a global variable in lua in VS code starting with a lowercase character.
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Then I encountered an issue that a global variable should not begin with a lowercase character although it did not result in any sort of error. The code worked perfectly fine but I was constantly displayed this issue for each global variable that I declared in lowercase initial.

This lead to a few question: "Should I begin my global variables with an uppercase letter? Will it make my code more easy to inspect and understand? Is this issue only for Lua or other languages too?". I would like to know your opinions and suggestions. Thanks y'all for the help in advance.

A: The Lua language server extension provides diagnostics which can be individually disabled via Visual Code Manage Settings (Ctrl+,):

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*Lua.diagnostics.disable

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When an African American woman in a Lynn Nottage play worries about her roots, she's more likely to mean her hairdo than her ethnic heritage. The moment I'm thinking of comes from Mud, River, Stone, the heroine of which is an affluent tourist trapped in an African drought, but it exemplifies the kind of sardonic jab at the comforts of the newly arrived black bourgeoisie that's a basic element of Nottage's new play, Fabulation. This awareness of the comedy inherent in black prosperity is a major part of what makes Nottage's voice distinctive among the fascinating current crop of African American women playwrights. It is the wit of a writer whose interest in the world is broad enough to include a sense of its disparities, and who can't help finding at least some of them, like the juxtaposition of roots and "roots," irresistibly funny. That the bigger disparities in Nottage's work inevitably concern white and black, or rich and poor, doesn't eliminate this comic sense when a writer has such a panoramic view of life; it simply enriches it with a degree of tragic pathos, as well as some wonderment at a world so full of paradox and surprise. The pious black hero of Nottage's early Crumbs From the Table of Joy goes out looking for Father Divine and comes home married to a white woman who may or may not be a concentration camp survivor. A Nottage play, like history, is full of discoveries; you never know what, or who, will turn up next.
Fabulation is a picaresque narrative, with Undine, the heroine, enduring wild reversals of fortune and journeying to improbable places, and the play's first joke is that she can do this without ever leaving New York; for those who've escaped from the projects of Brooklyn to the penthouses of Manhattan, going back is as big a trauma as getting trapped in the Lisbon earthquake is for Candide. This is perhaps a clue: Like Voltaire's hero, Undine has learned something by the end of her travels about living simply and cultivating—well, if not her garden, at least her familial roots. Nottage gets a little sententious about this idea, especially toward the end, which gives her play an uncertain feel. (As the quite different Intimate Apparel also demonstrated, she has trouble winding things up.) Her assertiveness about the value of family and children rings oddly because so much of the piece has been spent showing that Undine's working-class family, on which she has brutally turned her back since graduating from college, is just as comically grotesque as the fast-lane friends who, at the play's start, turn their backs on her when she finds out she is penniless.
More readily forgiving, the poor are less phony than the rich, but not less funny; it's hard to imagine what the cynical, high-living Undine we see in the opening scenes will make of the bleak, shoestring future she seems to be facing so cheerfully at the end, back to being plain Sharona Watkins and bringing up another of the project's fatherless children. Indeed, Nottage goes so far into the beauty of this dubious fantasy that she even makes the baby's father—the apparently compulsive criminal who has cleaned out Undine's fortune—into a voice of morality, who has been driven to his crimes in a last desperate attempt to awaken her heart. This is cheating on reality, and on comedy, with a vengeance, and you'd be tempted to dismiss the author out of hand if the scene weren't preceded by half a dozen bits of brilliant satiric comedy, including two perfect gems: a hilarious rendering of a drug rehab group, and a mordant sequence in which Undine/Sharona doesn't quite become an anti-bureaucratic activist in a welfare office. These scenes show Nottage at her best: sure of hand, generous of heart, yet heedless of all pruderies. An artist who can play the panpipes so alluringly shouldn't interrupt herself to pound on the moral drum.
Still, Nottage isn't the first comic writer to have struggled with this problem, and in Fabulation she masters it more often than not. A perfect instance is the motif that supplies the title. "Fabulation" means the making of fables, the process by which Sharona has turned herself into Undine. When the fable collapses, she comes home to Brooklyn to find her hapless brother, who has become a security guard like his parents before him, still attempting to write the great black American epic that he was struggling with when she left home 14 years ago, in which the central metaphor for African American life is Brer Rabbit. We hear fragments of this epic (the word fabulation comes up in the course of his describing it), and the balance in them of ludicrousness and truth is exact: We get an image that strikes at the core of Undine's life (and human life generally) but is still a hopeless piece of pretentious nonsense, never to be completed. At such moments, Nottage isn't far from the great writers of a century ago, whom she clearly admires (this is her second play in a year to contain some reference to Edith Wharton).
Fabulation is such an intriguing script to write about that I have to confess, guiltily, to having left myself next to no space to praise the first-rate cast of Kate Whoriskey's lively, occasionally overly broad, production. Charlayne Woodard navigates the demanding central role with a mixture of flamboyant charm and rooted passion that's a wonder in its own right; I particularly liked, among her able supporters, Myra Lucretia Taylor as an unexpectedly feisty grandmother and Steven Kunken as the haughtiest ex-crackhead in history.


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The new Miss Gabon is Ruth Jennifer Ondo Mouchita who competed as Miss Haut-Ogooue. She is 20 years old and stands 1.81m tall. Miss Gabon 2013 will represent her country at the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant. Brunilla Moussadingou (20) was the first runner-up and will represent her country at the 2013 Miss World Pageant that will take place in September in Indonesia. Moussadingou competed as Miss Moyen-Ogooue and stans 1.75m tall.
The winner is a disappointing choice for me but I like the girl who is going to Miss World.


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The SVP & GC of WPX Energy (NYSE: WPX) is Selling Shares
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Jenny Lindbäck (* 30. August 1987 in Helgum als Jenny Jonsson, Gemeinde Sollefteå) ist eine ehemalige schwedische Biathletin.

Jonsson begann im Alter von 13 Jahren mit dem Biathlonsport, nachdem sie bereits einige Jahre zuvor an Skirennen für Nachwuchsläufer in Schweden teilgenommen hatte. Anfang 2004 trat sie bei den Juniorenweltmeisterschaften in Haute-Maurienne zum ersten Mal international in Erscheinung und belegte mit der Staffel den fünften Platz. Im Folgejahr erreichte sie Rang 14 beim Einzelrennen der Juniorenweltmeisterschaften von Kontiolahti. Ende 2007 bestritt Jonsson insgesamt vier Wettbewerbe im Europacup der Juniorinnen und gewann am 30. November 2007 nach einer fehlerfreien Schießleistung das Sprintrennen in Torsby. Einen Tag später bestätigte sie ihren Erfolg trotz sieben Fehlern mit Platz drei in der Verfolgung.

Ihr Weltcupdebüt feierte Jonsson in der Saison 2007/2008 in Pyeongchang im Februar 2008. Nach Rang 59 im Sprint endete das anschließende Verfolgungsrennen mit einer Überrundung. In den beiden letzten Weltcups von Chanty-Mansijsk und Oslo wurde sie erneut im Sprint eingesetzt, kam jedoch über Platzierungen im hinteren Feld nicht hinaus.

Beim Sommerbiathlon-Cup in Östersund Ende August 2008 gewann Jonsson das Sprintrennen und belegte Rang drei in der Verfolgung. Ihre ersten Weltcuppunkte errang Jonsson in der Saison 2008/2009 mit Platz 18 beim Einzel in Vancouver-Whistler. Bei ihrem ersten Aufgebot als Startläuferin der schwedischen Frauenstaffel in der Saison 2010/2011 siegte sie am 6. Januar 2011 in Oberhof zusammen mit Anna Carin Zidek, Anna Maria Nilsson und Helena Ekholm. Ihr bislang bestes Einzelergebnis hatte Jonsson in derselben Saison beim Sprint in Antholz am 21. Januar 2011 mit Platz 15.

Jenny Jonsson ist die jüngere Schwester von Helena Ekholm, die ebenfalls für die schwedische Mannschaft im Weltcup startete.

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Blixtorp is een plaats in de gemeente Varberg in het landschap Halland en de provincie Hallands län. De plaats heeft 56 inwoners (2005) en een oppervlakte van 8 hectare. De plaats wordt omsloten door landbouwgrond en net ten westen van de plaats loopt de Europese weg 6/Europese weg 20.

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Q: Different Methods of Solving Bernoulli Equations The equation in question is: $\frac{dy}{dx} + y = y^2$.
I make the substitution: $v = y^{-1}$ and $v'=-y^{-2}$ .
This I believe gives a first order linear ODE: $-v'+v=1$
I think that this can be solved using an integrating factor of $e^x$, but I am having trouble solving it this way. Are there any other methods of solving the ODE by making that substitution? Thanks in advance.

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${\mathrm{d}x\over \mathrm{d}y} + y = y^2$.

Should that be: $\color{blue}{\mathrm{d}y\over \mathrm{d}x} + y = y^2$? $\color{red}{\text{(Check this.)}}$

I make the substitution: $v = y^{-1},$ and: $v'=-y^{-2}$ .

That would be: $v' = -y^{-2} y'$  (derivation wrt x, rather than y, by the Chain Rule)

This I believe gives a first order linear ODE: $-v'+v=1$

$y' + y = y^2 \implies -y^{-2}y' - y^{-1} = -1 \implies v' - v = -1$

I think that this can be solved using an integrating factor of $e^x$, but I am having trouble solving it this way. Are there any other methods of solving the ODE by making that substitution? Thanks in advance.

Nah.  No integrating factor required here. Just a plain rearrangement.
$\begin{aligned}v' = -1 + v & \implies \int \frac{\mathrm{d} v}{-1+v} = \int \mathrm{d} x \\ ~ & \implies \ln(-1+v) = x + c & \text{for arbitrary constant } c \\ & \implies -1 + v = k e^x  & k = e^c \\ & \implies y^{-1} = k e^x + 1 \\ & \implies y = \dfrac{1}{k e^x + 1} \end{aligned}$


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Here We Stand, 11/07/2021
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Overcoming our Orwellian World and its Medical Genocide: Remembering our History and Taking Action
Here We Stand with Reverend Kevin D. Annett
Title: Overcoming our Orwellian World and its Medical Genocide: Remembering our History and Taking Action
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For whatever reason we can rove the landscape of mars with robots and walk the face of the moon, but we can't figure out how to get 24-hours of juice out of laptop batteries. Nonetheless, this article offers a few solutions to extending your mobile writing time with extended or external battery options.
Extended batteries are OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) add-ons that offer additional juice either by swapping out a battery and replacing it or attaching an additional battery. Many laptops on the market have the ability to remove the optical drive and replace it with an additional modular bay battery, thereby adding 3 – 5 hours to the main battery life. When purchasing a "mobile" laptop be cognizant of optical drives described as "Modular DVD/CD, DVD-ROM, etc". Modular means it's removable and not screwed into place. Since you probably rarely use the DVD/CD on the go, this isn't a bad option if your laptop is equipped to do so. Some laptops allow for the main battery to be easily replaced with a larger, more powerful extended battery. For example if your main battery is only 6-cells, you can upgrade to a 9-cell battery and gain several additional hours of computing time.
External batteries are more flexible than their extended brethren. These gadgets not only power your laptop but additional devices like your cell phone and iPod. These non-OEM devices are usually more powerful, offering as much as 10 hours or more of juice. Some external batteries like the Electrovaya PowerPad 130 recharge the main battery while powering the entire laptop. Before choosing you want to be certain that the voltage output (if not adjustable) matches the voltage input of your device. Extended batteries usually come with multiple adapters so it is a "one-size-fits-all". The caveat emptor here is size and weight. Remember, as a mobile writer, the lighter your gear the better.
This topic really deserves a dedicated article. Quickly though… you can always extend your mobile juice by cutting off things such as WIFI and Bluetooth when not in use. Lowering the brightness on your screen, decreasing or muting the volume and turning off all scheduled tasks helps to save battery life too.
As I mentioned earlier, the lack of laptop battery technology amazes me. Innovation efforts seem to be moving toward lower power consumption processors, and LED lighting that consume less battery, rather than more powerful batteries. And while I'm on my soapbox, any Starbucks resurrected after circa 2002 that does not have more than one outlet in the café area is just a godless oversized container of java beans!
If you're taking that long oversea excursion and want to make good use of a 10hr+ flight, an external battery might be a great investment. Keep in mind plane adapters like the Apple MagSafe Airline Adaptor don't recharge the main battery, but it will keep you juiced during the flight if your seat is equipped with the necessary plug-in.
Overall, if you're tired of staking out the last outlet in Starbucks, and just need a few more hours of juice to support your writing schedule, then look into extended or external battery options for your laptop.
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Find us at 9:30am on Sundays in the New Lynn Community Hall!
We love to have BBQs after the service - Here is us at a BBQ in one of our homes!
How wonderful it is to have visitors join us for our two year anniversary!
Here is us at our Care Groups!
To celebrate our new service time, we went and had lunch after the service at Bunga Raya, New Lynn. Yum!
On the 12th March we were able to witness Sam getting baptised!
We started the year on the 5th of February. This was the first Sunday for Hanli to start as a working intern. Here is Steve, praying for Hanli and his wife Sarah.


Joanie's Classy Card Corner: Whew!!! Almost missed the challenge!!
I just sort of got side tracked or something and realized I didn't get my card in for Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge - End of Summer. So without too much gabbing here I am going to get my card posted as I am down to 2 hours!!!!!
I sort of run close sometimes, but 2 hours???? Okay, so now I am finished here and going over to Fresh Brewed Designs to get my card posted there.
OH geez!! This card is super cute!!!