One of the challenges I face, is where to go. Where we go is determined by who is coming with me. There are some places that I am comfortable going with just one other person. But sometimes, when I know it is a trail with not much traffic, I like to have more bodies. Or if someone has just hiked a trail with me, I look for some place they haven't been.
If I'm going to a new place, I try to research it as much as possible ahead of time, looking at maps (which is usually Greek to me) and trying to determine how best not to get lost.
Today I lucked out on two fronts. First, after starting with five women who expressed an interest, and ending up with two who could actually go, we went to one of those places where we were about the only ones on the trail. There was one other car in the parking lot, but we didn't see anyone on the trails.
Less than an hour away from home, we were treated to a splendid hike that rendered . . .
Mill Creek Trails just on the edge of Narrows, VA proved to be a wonderful discovery. There are several trails with all levels of difficulty. So of course we must go back.
And these brave ladies trusted me to take them to a place I had never been.
Let the fall hiking begin!


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> > about implications of setting this option to N.
> runtime disablement, otherwise it wouldn't even be an option.
> > needs this option or not.
dynamically allocated (and protected via set_memory_ro()) memory pages.
loadable LSMs are legally allowed.
* careful as the SELinux team.
* Each LSM has to register its hooks with the infrastructure.
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It's still easy to tell computer-simulated motions from the real thing – on the big screen or in video games, simulated humans and animals often move clumsily, without the rhythm and fluidity of their real-world counterparts.
But that's changing. University of California, Berkeley researchers have now made a major advance in realistic computer animation, using deep reinforcement learning to recreate natural motions, even for acrobatic feats like break dancing and martial arts. The simulated characters can also respond naturally to changes in the environment, such as recovering from tripping or being pelted by projectiles.
"This is actually a pretty big leap from what has been done with deep learning and animation. In the past, a lot of work has gone into simulating natural motions, but these physics-based methods tend to be very specialized; they're not general methods that can handle a large variety of skills," said UC Berkeley graduate student Xue Bin "Jason" Peng. Each activity or task typically requires its own custom-designed controller.
A paper describing the development has been conditionally accepted for presentation at the 2018 SIGGRAPH conferencein August in Vancouver, Canada, and was posted online April 10. Peng's colleagues in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences are professor Pieter Abbeel and assistant professor Sergey Levine, along with Michiel van de Panne of the University of British Columbia.
To achieve this, Peng obtained reference data from motion-capture (mocap) clips demonstrating more than 25 different acrobatic feats, such as backflips, cartwheels, kip-ups and vaults, as well as simple running, throwing and jumping. After providing the mocap data to the computer, the team then allowed the system – dubbed DeepMimic – to "practice" each skill for about a month of simulated time, a bit longer than a human might take to learn the same skill.
"The machine is learning these skills completely from scratch, before it even knows how to walk or run, so a month might not be too unreasonable," he said.
The key was allowing the machine to learn in ways that humans don't. For example, a backflip involves so many individual body movements that a machine might keep falling and never get past the first few steps. Instead, the algorithm starts learning at various stages of the backflip – including in mid-air – so as to learn each stage of the motion separately and then stitch them together.
"The recoveries come for free from the learning process," Peng said.


Captain RJ Waldon checked in last night with an update from the Sundance out of Emeryville, CA. Today we had very good fishing for our group of 6 anglers. The weather was flat calm. We fished from Duxbury Reef to Drakes Bay. We had some very nice fish that included a beautiful 32 pounder.
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color Beyond Kandinsky: On the phantasmal character of electronic proliferation (and speed) as a form of an objective spiritual.
Ahh, your font is performing a spiritual dance. Then, the "virtual spiritual" is objective as it mirrors the "reality...in a swirling (essentially phantasmagorical) electronic-based society", right?
My persistent question, however, is this: You speak of this experience as being "non-alienating" – presumably in contrast to the alienating experience of most conventional (i.e., analog) art – but I wonder if there's not an element of alienation from the body implicit in what you describe. This occurs to me primarily in view of the larger movement toward disembodiment so prominent among technologists deeply interested in virtual reality and the like (the futurist Ray Kurzweil comes to mind), whose vision seems to be one of a "post-nature" Utopia. Does the trans-humanism movement epitomized by the Extropians figure into your thinking at all, I wonder? My concern is rooted in my suspicion that the latter's quest to transcend the body is motivated more by what it seeks to be rid of (i.e., the "messiness" of flesh and fluid and all that ties us to the earth) than what it seeks to attain. There is also, on a more modest scale, the issue of the increasing alienation from body and earth discernible among the younger generation (for example, their utter incomprehension of where food comes from).
Finally, on a related note: I was interested to learn last year at a Kandinsky symposium at the Guggenheim that Kandinsky was notoriously repulsed by the human body. In life drawing classes, for example, he was known to complain about the "stinky, smelly models" he was forced to draw from! Alas, it seems the desire to transcend the body haunts the spiritual from many quarters.
You will have to remind me where I used the phrase "non-alienating" Tanay. I usually include a sense of critical distance when I discuss immersion. (See my text: Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances).
On the question of de-materialization: Of course it will never fully happen, so we can put away the Matrix fantasies of Ray Kurzweil, but yes information technology will become increasingly ubiquitous and knitted into the material world. But we will never dematerialize our body, the body will be joined into the information web in a viractual manner. If you think about it, our flesh is already viractual, dancing on a clock.
I did not know that Kandinsky was notoriously repulsed by the body, but I do know that Kandinsky's interest in de-materialization began in 1895 with his love for Manet's Haystack series. And that he went on to postulate that the state of painting should approach that of music, the most de-materialized of the arts, even while encouraging art to approach gesamtkunstwerk unity.
The issue you raise of spiritual transcending of the body is exactly why I insist on forgetting about the transcendental in connection with the spiritual and rather insist on spiritual immanence.
so, the mystical experience is very much transcendental( here I'm thinking the Catholic legends that are hard to swallow); and the spiritual immanence, by a new paradigm rethinking, is in favor of material or neutral monism?
I'm glad you've clarified your position on de-materialization, Joseph. I agree that Kurzweil's vision is a pipe dream -- and not a very appealing one at that. It seems crucial here to make the distinction between the move toward de-materialization, which you and others are proposing, and the position of anti-materialism, which has been such a strong current underlying many of the last century's spiritual movements. I have always rather associated Kandinsky's enterprise with the latter, but maybe I'm wrong to do so. In any case, it's now clear to me that what you're working toward is a kind of "hyper-corporeality" (I think that's the word you use in your book, Towards an Immersive Intelligence, no?) that is not about moving "beyond" the body but rather about expanding our sense of self to encompass body + world, or to reveal the fundamental interconnectedness of the two. And yes, immanence should replace transcendence in our thinking about the spiritual. (Or, better yet, is there a third term that might imply the two poles in unison?) Now I'm on board!
Another issue that interests me about your enterprise is the challenge it presents to the general suspicion of totalities that pervades contemporary intellectual culture. The anti-metaphysical strain of deconstructive postmodernism is something with which I've long had a problem. While I'm sympathetic to the move away from God and teleology, I stop short of rejecting wholes altogether. I embrace any position that poses a challenge to this anti-metaphysical movement, which is what draws me so strongly to systems theory/cybernetics. The absolute rejection of absolutes is as absolutist as the positions deconstruction has sought to dismantle. I say it's time to move beyond deconstruction.
My apologies, Joseph, for attributing the term "non-alienating" to you. I had it in my notes, but I cannot for the life of me find it in any of your texts. Mea culpa!
No problem. Yes I see us (and art) moving towards a state of hyper-corporeality. The strategy of hyper-anything includes principles of networked connections and electronic links which give multiple choices of passages to follow and continually new branching possibilities.
My hyper-corporeal approach to noology places emphasis on self-re-programmable internal functions that explicitly offers a furtherance in envisioning internal, anti-hierarchical patterns of thought.


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Q: What character set should I assume the encoded characters in a URL to be in? RFC 1738 specifies the syntax for URL's, and mentions that

URLs are written only with the graphic
  printable characters of the
  US-ASCII coded character set. The
  octets 80-FF hexadecimal are not
  used in US-ASCII, and the octets 00-1F
  and 7F hexadecimal represent
  control characters; these must be
  encoded.

It does not, however, say what code set these octets then represent.
RFC 2396 seems to try and improve on the situation, but:

For original character sequences that
  contain non-ASCII characters, however, the situation is more
  difficult. Internet protocols that transmit octet sequences intended to
  represent character sequences are expected to provide some way of
  identifying the charset used, if there might be more than one
  [RFC2277].  However, there is currently no provision within the
  generic URI syntax to accomplish this identification. An individual URI
  scheme may require a single charset, define a default charset, or
  provide a way to indicate the charset used.
It is expected that a systematic treatment of character encoding within URI will be
  developed as a future modification of this specification.

Is there any unambigous way in which a client can determine in which character set to interpret encoded octets, or in which a server can determine what a client used to encode with ?
It looks to me like most servers default to UTF-8, but this seems to be a de facto choice more than a specified one.

A: I believe the specification you are looking for is RFC 3987, which describes IRIs - Internationalized Resource Identifiers.

A: As per your quote, URLs are ASCII. That's all.
URIs OTOH, allow for bigger charsets; usually UTF-8 as you said yourself.
The point to remember is that URLs are a subset of URIs. Therefore, the real question is, which of these is what you write in a browser?
I'd guess you can write an URI, and the browser should try its best to transform to an URL (which is what HTTP/1.1 support, AFAICR). For non-ASCII characters, that means hexcodes, usually coding UTF-8.

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Enjoy watching a meeting between a mid-table team and a leading team (ranked 13 and 5). Payasspor is in awful shape (in the last 5 games wins – 1). Recent matches Çorum Belediyespor is playing unpredictable (in the last 5 games wins – 3). Çorum Belediyespor could have advantage in physics – more days for rest in last days. The chances to win of two teams are almost the same in this match.


So it seems like everyone has a lot to say about that first season of Gotham so I decided to go ahead and give my HOWL on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Gotham City.
Okay so I've watched Supernatural on and off for basically ever. I fall off for a season or 2 then find myself wanting to catch up. As for the past season I actually watched it on schedule and really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the whole Mark of Cain saga and all of that. I enjoyed Crowley's mother bringing back a "witchy" element to the show. I even enjoyed the whole good Crowley / bad Crowley thing. I also thought being able to kill Death with his own scythe was kind of cool.
Okay so I will preface my thoughts on this first season by saying this. I have read every issue of the Walking Dead up to this point & have seen every episode of the show. I am a fan of both.
Alright so here goes the howl.
I have heard much talk of descension toward the show. People are not a fan of it's slow pace. I enjoy it's slow pace. I believe it was set up that way in order to make us care a little more about our cast of protagonist than in The Walking Dead in which we were just thrown into the mix mid zombie apocalypse. I am enjoying getting to know this mixed family. Even the bratty kids.


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Netherlands Netherlands government Mark Rutte Geert Wilders Ruud Lubbers General news Government and politics National governments Political resignations Political scandals Political issues COVID-19 pandemic Coronavirus Infectious diseases Diseases and conditions Health Lung disease General elections Elections
Dutch PM's popularity high but eroding as election looms
By MIKE CORDER - Mar. 02, 2021 03:40 AM EST
Two people pass election posters in Den Bosch, Netherlands, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. After more than a decade in power, a recent scandal that forced him to resign and a year battling the coronavirus, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's popularity, heightened by his handling of the pandemic, remains high less than a month before a general election. But it is showing signs of eroding along with support for his country's tough COVID-19 lockdown as the vote approaches. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After more than a decade in power and a year spent battling the virus, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's popularity — boosted by his handling of the pandemic — remains high two weeks before a general election.
But amid a tough COVID-19 lockdown, that support is showing signs of eroding as the Dutch grow weary of pandemic restrictions.
The election is being held over three days, starting with a limited number of polling booths opening on March 15 and 16 for people who are extra vulnerable to the coronavirus before the main voting day on March 17. Some 2.4 million people aged over 70 are entitled to vote by mail.
It's shaping up as a referendum on the government's handling of the unprecedented health crisis and political parties' differing plans for the country's economic and social recovery when it finally ends.
Rutte's conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, or VVD, is currently projected to win about twice as many seats as its nearest rival in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
Political science professor Tom van der Meer of Amsterdam University says the VVD's huge lead in the polls is partly a result of the pandemic.
"The popularity of Mark Rutte ... got a big boost last year due to the COVID-19 crisis," Van der Meer said.
Rutte's regular TV appearances — to explain new lockdown measures, relax some restrictions or announce multibillion state support packages for ailing businesses —have cast him as a strong, dependable leader working tirelessly to protect his nation from the worst of the pandemic.
But with the election approaching, support for the virus lockdown is fading and many Dutch businesses are growing increasingly angry at being shuttered for months. The Netherlands has seen over 15,700 deaths in the pandemic and officials fear the impact of the highly transmissible and more deadly U.K. virus variant.
"We see that this rally-around-the-flag effect has diminished," Van der Meer said. "But at the same time, voters for the VVD haven't really yet had this clear reason to move away."
If the VVD emerges as the largest party in parliament, the 54-year-old Rutte will be first in line to form the country's next governing coalition and begin a fourth term in office. That would make him the longest-serving Dutch prime minister, overtaking the 12-year tenure of Ruud Lubbers.
Opposition parties, however, are keen to stress their differences with Rutte, even though they have largely supported his government's efforts to rein in the pandemic. Parties on the left accuse him of running the country's health service down with years of market-driven reforms.
Rutte's ongoing popularity is all the more striking because his government resigned in January over a scandal involving tax office attempts to root out fraud among parents claiming child benefit payments, leaving Rutte as a caretaker leader. A parliamentary inquiry concluded last year that tax office policies that included racial profiling violated "fundamental principles of the rule of law."
In the campaign's first major televised debate on Sunday, Rutte was confronted by one of the parents, Kristie Rongen, who told him: "You have failed me."
"Why do you think that you can stay on as the person who is ultimately responsible in the benefit scandal?" she asked.
"I asked myself the same question," Rutte replied. "This is such a stain, such a debacle, but I weighed up that so many things have gone well in the last 10 years and that I'm proud of and I decided in the end to keep going."
The largest Dutch opposition party is the Party for Freedom led by populist, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has harshly criticized the government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, from the slow start of its vaccination program to its imposing a curfew.
But most mainstream parties reject the idea of working in a coalition with Wilders because of his strident anti-Islam rhetoric, effectively putting his party out of the running to join a new government.
The right-wing populist Forum For Democracy, which performed strongly two years ago during a provincial election, has imploded over the last year amid reports of anti-Semitism in its ranks. Some key members have left and set up a rival party that is fielding candidates in the March election.
That new party is among a record 37 groups registered to take part in the election, a further fragmentation of the Dutch political landscape that could make forming a new ruling coalition tricky. After the last election in March 2017, it took a post-World War II record 225 days to form Rutte's third Cabinet.
Labor Party leader Lilianne Ploumen has appealed to left-leaning parties to work together, saying "if we don't, the only one laughing will be the VVD."
Follow all AP developments on the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

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The Voices of Misery
One of the unspoken and unvoiced trials of the current time is the massive number of priests who feel they are alone, who have no voice or advocate, neither in the Church nor in the world.
September 23, 2018 Aquae Regiae The Dispatch 5 Print
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" (c. 1550) by Hieronymous Bosch
Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing. Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, "Comfort, comfort my People" (Isa 40:1), and the description of the Messiah as one who would not break the "bruised reed" or the "smoldering flax" (Isa 42:3). There is something perennially compelling about awakening to hope, to the realization that with the Coming of Christ, a new day dawns upon us, as groups and individuals. We see something of ourselves as the audience to whom the Prophets speak afresh, year after year. For us to receive the Coming Lord, both in the present "Middle Coming", as at the end of time, we all need that "thrill of hope" to raise us up to the joyful realization that the Lord is near to us. Yet how far that realization seems to many, lost in the horizonless firmament of modern living.
One of the unspoken and unvoiced trials of the current time is the massive number of priests who feel they are alone, who have no voice or advocate, neither in the Church nor in the world. In this near universal news cycle of bad news after bad news, there are continual reports, informal and formal, of priests turning to unhealthy behaviors to cope with the stressors. Some, perhaps many, neglect their health and become obese, turning to food as their comfort and not practicing legitimate and essential self care. Others turn to the bottle in an attempt to forget their sadness, or to find some degree of cheer in the company of others. There is the scourge of pornography and its "imaginary brides", which affect priests perhaps just as much as the lay faithful. Add to these difficulties the average burdens of priestly living, from complaining parishioners to finances, and you have a man beset with trials, but with few of the supports on which the 'average' man may rely.
Add to this then the fact that he doesn't know to whom to turn: if he turns to his bishop, he may very well be considered unfit for ministry, even if his falls are infrequent and hopefully manifested to their Confessor or Director (although if studies are true, some priests are eschewing even these important remedies). If he is a young priest, he may be facing a presbyterate which may despise him as a degenerate or a malcontent, perhaps even generally hostile toward the young priest's zeal and orthodoxy, and even secretly jubilant at his fall. If he is an old priest, he may be facing a creaking diocesan structure which would be far more interested in laicizing him to avoid liability and costly medical bills and pension plans. Some priests have even been offered something akin to 'severance packages' to incentivize them to forsake their greatest treasure, to alienate the unalienable: the priesthood of Jesus Christ, which Our Lord, with a brother's kindness, has shared with them. Some priests have literally left everything to follow Christ, and have no family to fall back on. To whom shall they go?
What so many of these approaches have in common is that priests, bishops and even lay faithful don't seem to understand the toxic conditions that they have created or abetted which is largely the source of the current record low in clerical morale. It's so easy to pin the fault on priests, even when no one wants to seem to understand that most well adjusted and fulfilled people do not willingly turn to vice, especially when they are habitually disposed and trained to love what is good. What happens is a slow fade, a breakdown in the resistances, a wearing away of the radiant dawn of hope into the stillborn embrace of cynicism. For such men, grace and conversion have become half-remembered dreams. They may even say their prayers, but only as fragments they "shore against their ruins." The end has come for them, again to quote T.S. Eliot, but with a whimper, not a bang.
Some of these vices are thrills to the senses when the joys of the spirit have departed. Instead of seeing in their confreres voices of consolation and edification, far too many priests abide on the sidelines, living alone without any reference to common life and group collaboration, as they compound idiosyncrasy upon idiosyncrasy due to years of living alone and unobserved by correcting human company. Some perhaps love this arrangement, so that they can continue to polish the bars of their mental prison cells, and cherish hidden vice.
It seems to me that help will not be immediately forthcoming from our spiritual fathers, the bishops. Their house is now in ruin, and the judgment of the Lord has now fallen upon them. Many have outright abandoned their mandate to shepherd the shepherds, and although we once professed love and respect for them, it is a love and respect as toward a father who long ago left the family to depart to a far distant land. Sometimes it feels to priests that they are dancing pegs in a gyrating game of personnel musical chairs, a "ring around the rosie", while the corpses of priests drop dead from moral and physical exhaustion. Bishops seem almost as distant celestial beings, unaffected and disinterested by our plight, as they legislated procedures inimical to us, while exempting themselves from the same. We have continued to be obedient, even as we have seen our brothers, some of them long dead and saddled with accusations as baseless as they are unprosecutable, have their memories and reputations defiled, while for the bishops, the band has marched on. I think most of us would have endured any regulation or reform if it meant protecting the people of God and ourselves, because the days are evil. But they have played by another set of rules.
I do have ideas for the renewal of the morale of the priesthood, but I am only trying to explicate the depth of the problem, if only I can touch the hearts of the discouraged and the afraid. I want to say two things to these priestly souls: firstly, you are not alone. Secondly, what is happening to most of us is wrong. Thank God for the kindness of friends and good parishioners who have shown us such understanding and support. Sometimes things for us don't seem so bad, especially if we are grounded in prayer and healthy relationships. But our concern must be for our broken and vulnerable brothers, because who us can understand fully, except for us? I worry for those who may be swept away with the tide.
I understand that there may be truly evil people among us, men who either never entered the priesthood with worthy intentions, or, having entered, have become so corrupted that they strike at the Church and abuse their spiritual and moral authority. Yet I think these men are worlds away, psychologically and spiritually, from the wounded priest who is laboring under a tremendous amount of stress, and may have his issues. Even now, certain lay groups, zealous for the reform of the priesthood, seem more interested in their pitchforks and feelings of righteousness, than for the actual cleansing and healing of individual priests. They make the same mistake that negligent bishops and arrogant Curiae do: they forget that priests are first persons, with a humanity touched by grace, while never completely leaving behind our common human fragility. They make a mistake that is common to self-styled reformers in every age, when they try to make the ideal completely actual. They can abide no stain, no spot, no weakness: all must be absolutely perfect. The fact is, this is a false anthropology, and makes no room for grace.
Bishops, if any listen, consider how you may restore confidence in your paternal leadership. Speak as a priest to priests, a father to fathers. We will love you for it, and willingly. Understand that most of us are striving for virtue, and we want to be as Christ wants us to be. Give us the tools to become that, rather than simply punishing us for when those among us make mistakes. No priest will deny that you can and must remove a priest gravely guilty of a crime or a deeply entrenched problem which makes him unfit for ministry. But first, before having to sanction him, love and appeal to him as a dear son. In former days, bishops protected bad priests more out of fear of 'scandal' or 'bad press' than truly out of love for their welfare and that of the lay faithful. Love indeed covers a multitude of sins, but not in this manner. Stand up for us before a press and a world that has condemned us in the court of public opinion. Save us from the predations of the mob. Ironically, in the current storm, it is we who may be able to understand your plight now, for not all bishops are corrupt, any more than we are. Not all are careerists devoid of the Spirit of Christ, or more branch managers and bureaucrats than pastors. And we know that.
But above all, implore Almighty God with us, having heard these voices of our misery, that he should give us all the blessing spoken of in the beloved Psalm: Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum habitare fratres in unum (Psalm 133)!
(This essay originally appeared on the Scutum et Lorica site and is posted here by kind permission of the author.)
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Hang in there Fr. Michael. Prayers and fasting are offered for all faithful priests and Bishops.
David Discenza
Prayers and fasting are needed and necessary. In addition, let's start "adopting " priests into our families, especially those without family. Have them to dinner. Invite them to family events. We can all set one more place at the table.
"Add to this then the fact that he doesn't know to whom to turn: if he turns to his bishop, he may very well be considered unfit for ministry"
I thought of this when I read that:
Mhttps://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/24/chicago-catholic-priest-burned-rainbow-flag-removed-parish/
Cardinal Cupich's first thought does not appear to have been that of a loving father.
I am praying for you and all priests today. God bless you and Mary protect you.
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Way Too Close: A Review of "The Giver"
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Shaandaar: A colossal mess or we expected too much!?
Take a blank canvas. Daub some 'Orphan Annie' paint on it. Add a little dash of 'Cinderella'. Come closer home and borrow from that old durable 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun', and the much more recent 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha'. And gild the whole with glitter and gold. What 'Shaandaar' is trying to do is clear: reinvent beloved fairy tales with the help of winsome stars, but ends up being a blinding mix of everything with nothing of its own to boast of.
One day, little Alia (Alia Bhatt, going by her own name) is brought home by Papa (Pankaj Kapur), a man ruled by his money-grubbing mommy (Sushma Seth) and wife. Alia grows up not knowing where she came from, not knowing how to sleep and perchance to dream. And then her Prince Charming (Shahid Kapoor) rides into her life, and everything changes.
There's enough in this premise for it to have turned into a delightful concoction, given that Vikas Bahl's last was 'Queen'. But so much else is so relentlessly piled on– a big fat wedding, no, make that a Big Fat Sindhi Wedding, a grand mansion somewhere in the UK, the standard jibes-at-gay-people, fat girl shaming, sorry stabs at whimsy– that very soon into the film, you are left groaning under the double assault of bling and blather.
The film is bloated with excess. Songs dressed up and going nowhere, saying nothing. Sequences meant to showcase actual planes, and flights of fancy, but looping no loops. Costumery and puffery may work with other actors, but it is wrong for Alia. Underneath it all, she knows she is real, and she can't help letting us in on her. But here, she's been made to play so determinedly cute that she sinks into a set of mumbled mannerisms. And using her own name so soon in? There's a problem right there.
Shahid suffers from a badly-written character. He can be such a natural charmer, but here the charm offensive is not allowed to stop, and finally just overtakes him. It doesn't help that he gets into a similar loop with the scenes he has with his real-life `papaji', and there are several. Shahid and Alia look good together, but there's not very much else they manage between the two of them.
The only one who leaves an impression in this crowded-yet-slack film is Sanah Kapur, the real-life half-sister of Shahid, who plays a bride being used as part of a 'deal' between two business families. She has a couple of strong scenes, and wears her weight well. The rest of it is a non-stop barrage of stereotypes being played for laughs: rich Sindhi men and their love for living life large, grooms obsessed with their eight-and-a-half packs, limp-wrists and fat waists. We still love Alia and Shahid and without a doubt they are fire! But this film did not live up to its expectations. After Queen – the task required a lot more than delivered from director Vikas Bahl
Rating 5/10 | 2.5 Stars
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Android vs. iOS: security comparison 2022
Android and iOS smartphones are taking over the world, but that could be good news for cybercriminals. If you value mobile security, you'll probably want to compare Android and iOS. Here's how they measure up across a range of different features.
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Winner: iPhone
Apple closely inspects every app on its app store, which might reduce the number of apps available, but helps to reduce malware riddled apps.
Android's open Play Store marketplace has far more apps to choose from than on iOS' App Store, but there's a far greater chance that hackers can make it onto the platform to distribute malware apps.
On numerous occasions, highly ranked apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads from the Android app store have been discovered to contain malware.
Android users can also change their settings to allow apps from outside of the Android app store. This provides an even greater selection of apps, but opens users to an even greater risk of malware.
iPhone's integrated design makes security vulnerabilities less frequent and harder to find.
Apple's devices and their OS are inseparable, giving them far more control over how they work together. While device features are more restricted than Android phones, the iPhone's integrated design makes security vulnerabilities far less frequent and harder to find.
Android's open nature means it can be installed on a wide range of devices. Depending on the manufacturer and the model, this can be a good thing or a bad thing. Some devices integrate perfectly with Android while others leave significant security vulnerabilities.
Device-based security across Android devices also varies – some offer retinal and fingerprint scanners while others are limited to passwords and patterns.
Updates to patch vulnerabilitiesy
Apple updates are easier to control across devices, promising consistent security.
Constant OS updates are one of the main ways that Apple and Google can keep iOS and Android secure. Because Apple strictly controls the devices in its ecosystem, updates are easier to create and distribute. This also means that Apple can usually keep iOS devices updated for longer, generally withdrawing official support after 5 years.
The number of Android devices Google has to serve makes it virtually impossible to keep all of them updated to the same level of security and for the same amount of time and frequency.
It also makes it harder to roll those updates out, as they have to be distributed across multiple manufacturers and devices. Updates come out less frequently and devices are supported for less time.
In the iOS vs Android competition, there's one problem that they both face – users who forget to update their phones. In this respect, however, Apple still has an easier time of it. Because everyone's on a system they control, they can put more pressure on users to update their phones.
Winner: iPhone and Android
Both operating systems support a wide range of third party security apps, including VPNs.
Useful as a device's built-in security features can be, it's also important to be able to integrate third party services like antivirus software and VPN applications into the operating system.
Thankfully, iPhone and Android smartphones both support the most popular and useful security apps, including NordVPN. With the NordVPN app on your device, you can protect your iOS or Android phone against hackers, Wi-Fi snoopers, and data brokers.
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Apple closely guards their source code, while Android has made most of their OS open-source.
Apple's closed source code makes it harder for hackers to find security flaws. While Android's open-source nature could mean the exact opposite of that, it also makes it more easily accessible to a wide variety of developers, and Google is slowly beginning to use this feature to their advantage.
In addition to its own security research, Google has increased the bounties it's willing to pay to independent security researchers for reporting new vulnerabilities. At a major annual mobile security event in 2017, mobile security researchers failed to collect a single bounty for finding Android hacks.
Less users means less targets, and less motivation for hackers to develop malware for the iPhone.
The smaller number of targets on iOS, as well as its heightened security, make the iPhone a somewhat less attractive target for hackers. As the most used smartphone in the world, Android's popularity has become it's weakness; more users means more targets for hackers and more reasons to develop malware for Android (the same goes for the Windows computer OS).
There is a silver lining for Android users. Android's popularity and open marketplace mean that there's a far wider range of security apps available. The security of your Android OS and device out of the box may vary, but with the right apps, you can take it to the same level of security as iOS or even further.
The threat level depends on things that are out of your control, like inconsistent update releases as well as the ease and rate at which exploits can be developed by hackers.
1. Android makes it easier for hackers to develop exploits, increasing the threat level.
Apple's closed development operating system makes it more challenging for hackers to gain access to develop exploits. Android is the complete opposite. Anyone (including hackers) can view its source code to develop exploits. As the most used mobile in the world, It could be said that Android phones are generally more susceptible to security flaws.
2. Android's inconsistent update releases, could mean that there are more Android bugs in circulation.
Android and iPhone both receive several updates a year, that also patch dangerous security flaws. Android updates depend on the hardware, manufacturer of your phone, and the support for your current phone. It's also easier to push updates back, unlike Apple's stricter update system.
The likelihood of your phone being hacked partially depends on how you use your device, and what safety precautions you take. At the end of the day, after all, both Android systems and the iPhone can be hacked.
iOS security focuses more on software-based protection, while Android uses a mixture of software and hardware-based protection: the Google Pixel 3 features the 'Titan M' chip, and Samsung houses the KNOX hardware chip. Both chips work to isolate, encrypt, and secure your data, and Titan M disables the phone if your passcode is entered incorrectly more than three times. The iPhone also has similar functionality.
Ultimately, a device is only secure up to a point, unless you take your own precautions. To improve security on iOS or Android, you can use the NordVPN app to encrypt your data and secure your smartphone online. A VPN secures your online traffic and app-data, protecting your personal information against any malicious actors.
Both iOS and Android have similar built-in security features, including virtual sandboxes that limit the damage that malware apps can do. iOS drive encryption comes standard while Android users must enable this feature.
Both OS fully support VPN encryption, which is especially important for mobile devices (NordVPN provides top-of-the-line security to both iOS and Android devices. Secure yourself today!)
Android has been working hard to clean up their act. David Kleidermacher, the head of security for Android at Google, has even said that Android's security now equals that of its rival, iOS.
Until we see those changes borne out in the real world, however, we're going to have to give it to iOS. In 2018, iOS is still the best OS when it comes to smartphone security. But that doesn't mean it can't be improved upon.
With Google hot on its heels, Apple hasn't been sleeping at the wheel. The new iOS 14 is a stampede of security including recording indicators, an 'approximate location' option, and password and tracker monitoring in Safari.
Download apps from official stores. Avoid downloading apps from third-party websites, as you can never know if they're legitimate and safe.
Use strong passwords. A strong password should contain lowercase and uppercase letters, along with special characters and numbers. Make sure to create unique passwords for every account you have.
Avoid logging into apps using Facebook. Many apps and websites allow you to log into their services quickly using your Facebook profile. However, if your Facebook is compromised, hackers can easily access all the other accounts linked to it.
Update your software on time. iOS and Android updates fix bugs and add new security features. It's tempting to postpone updates for later, but if you do you're putting yourself at risk.
Use a VPN. A virtual private network hides your IP address and encrypts your traffic, mitigating the risk of getting hacked. If you often connect to public Wi-Fi, having a VPN on your smartphone is a must, as wrongdoers can use fake hotspots to infect your device with malware.
NordVPN iOS and Android apps come with the Dark Web Monitor feature, which notifies users if their personal details are ever leaked on the dark web. With one NordVPN account, you can protect up to six different devices: smartphones, laptops, routers, and more.
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LPL Financial LLC Acquires 1,109 Shares of NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP)
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LPL Financial LLC raised its holdings in shares of NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) by 3.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 30,392 shares of the data storage provider's stock after purchasing an additional 1,109 shares during the quarter. LPL Financial LLC's holdings in NetApp were worth $1,332,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Xponance Inc. increased its holdings in NetApp by 1.1% in the 3rd quarter. Xponance Inc. now owns 21,357 shares of the data storage provider's stock worth $936,000 after acquiring an additional 235 shares in the last quarter. Albert D Mason Inc. grew its holdings in shares of NetApp by 1.4% during the third quarter. Albert D Mason Inc. now owns 19,280 shares of the data storage provider's stock worth $845,000 after buying an additional 260 shares in the last quarter. Anderson Fisher LLC grew its holdings in shares of NetApp by 45.2% during the third quarter. Anderson Fisher LLC now owns 838 shares of the data storage provider's stock worth $37,000 after buying an additional 261 shares in the last quarter. CWM LLC grew its holdings in shares of NetApp by 82.8% during the third quarter. CWM LLC now owns 649 shares of the data storage provider's stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 294 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Personal Capital Advisors Corp grew its holdings in shares of NetApp by 4.1% during the second quarter. Personal Capital Advisors Corp now owns 8,656 shares of the data storage provider's stock worth $384,000 after buying an additional 337 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 92.70% of the company's stock.
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In other NetApp news, Director Thomas Michael Nevens sold 22,831 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $44.62, for a total value of $1,018,719.22. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 22,831 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,018,719.22. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.36% of the company's stock.
NetApp stock opened at $58.49 on Friday. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $48.93 and its 200 day moving average price is $45.19. NetApp, Inc. has a one year low of $34.66 and a one year high of $65.38. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.99 billion, a PE ratio of 16.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 9.26, a quick ratio of 1.57 and a current ratio of 1.62.
NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) last announced its earnings results on Monday, November 30th. The data storage provider reported $1.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.32. NetApp had a return on equity of 240.01% and a net margin of 14.47%. The company had revenue of $1.42 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.31 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.09 EPS. NetApp's quarterly revenue was up 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts forecast that NetApp, Inc. will post 2.68 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 8th will be given a $0.48 dividend. This represents a $1.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 7th. NetApp's payout ratio is 54.39%.
A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on shares of NetApp from $45.00 to $52.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Citigroup upped their target price on shares of NetApp from $37.00 to $39.00 and gave the company a "sell" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Cowen upped their target price on shares of NetApp from $45.00 to $52.00 and gave the company a "market perform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on shares of NetApp from $50.00 to $56.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Finally, Northland Securities increased their price target on shares of NetApp from $51.00 to $57.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eighteen have given a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. NetApp has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $56.85.
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NetApp, Inc provides software, systems, and services to manage and share data on-premises, and private and public clouds worldwide. The company offers cloud data services, including NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for AWS, NetApp Cloud Sync, NetApp Cloud Tiering, NetApp Global File Cache, NetApp SaaS Backup, NetApp Cloud Manager, NetApp Fabric Orchestrator, and NetApp Cloud Insights.
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Cllr Ed Davie (right) with Dominic Mallins (left), Headteacher of La Retraite
Cllr Ed Davie is the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People and a councillor in Thornton ward.
As a difficult school term and a tumultuous year comes to an end, it's appropriate to take stock and reflect on the course of a challenging 12 months.
Most importantly of all, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our education staff in Lambeth. They have done an incredible job in tough circumstances for which I, as a father of two Lambeth-schooled children, and we as a community should all be incredibly grateful for.
The professional and hardworking manner in which education staff have coped with a number of new ways of working, introduced in such a short space of time, all whilst ensuring our children and young people are educated and cared for amidst the biggest public health crisis in a century, is nothing short of remarkable.
However, our diligent education staff have not been aided by a Tory government and a sloppy Secretary of State that has repeatedly let them down. The charge sheet, as long as Santa's list, includes:
Being slow off the mark in supplying appropriate technology to ensure remote learning is possible for all, regardless of socio-economic background.
Late in the day with issuing guidance and supporting our schools to change the way they deliver education both within and outside school buildings.
An uncoordinated and uncooperative approach to pupils and staff returning to schools in the summer.
A very public U-turn on continuing free school meals over the course of the summer and then a tone-deaf, steadfast refusal to do so over the autumn.
The downgrading by algorithm of pupils' GCSEs and A-levels results, causing millions of young people unnecessary distress, before finally seeing sense and trusting in our teachers.
Playing politics with Transport for London and planning for the abolishing of free travel for under 18s in London.
Rather than the ill-conceived and unilateral approach taken by the Tory government throughout the pandemic, in Lambeth, we have taken a localised, collaborative approach between council, schools, and unions to step up locally and lead in a co-operative manner.
As a council, we have stepped in and done all we can to assist our schools in delivering the best education possible for our children within current social constraints whilst keeping school staff safe:
Distributing hundreds of laptops to our most disadvantaged pupils.
Paying for art materials for vulnerable children being home schooled.
Helping schools carry out risk assessments for all education staff at our borough's schools.
Working closely with parents, teachers, and trade unions to ensure a safe return to school for all.
Creating more than 20 'School Streets' to aid social distancing and providing a safer, cleaner and greener environment for our families on their way to school.
Funding the feeding over 10,000 of our most disadvantaged children over half term.
Now this Tory government is yet again calling on our schools and their staff to deliver mass Covid-19 testing within schools next year, with no notice, on the eve of school holidays. Lambeth Council will do everything we can to assist our schools and their staff in introducing yet another challenging demand and yet another way of working at incredibly short notice.
We will continue to do all that we can locally, as we know how important a good education and time spent in the classroom can be for some of our most disadvantaged children. But the time has long come for successive Tory-led governments to stop treating some of our most precious assets, our children and their educators, as an afterthought.
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Research charity launches $330M initiative to fund high-risk life sciences projects
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Dr. Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust. Magda Rakita for STAT
One of the world's largest biomedical research charities is setting up a new $330 million initiative to fund high-risk projects — an effort it hopes can help researchers challenge the status quo in the life sciences.
The Wellcome Trust says that it is establishing what it is calling the Leap Fund — an independently run offshoot that will seek out and provide funding for outside-the-box science.
The idea is to support research that is simply not a sure enough bet for more traditional funding bodies, Wellcome's director, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, told STAT in an interview.
Established funding bodies — like the National Institutes of Health or its British equivalent, the Medical Research Council — are "quite rightly a little bit conservative, because funding is tight and people want to fund things that they really think are going to work," he said.
That "perhaps takes us down a too-conservative route," he said. "So this is trying to break that mold."
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The fund will have an initial endowment of £250 million — roughly $330 million — for its first five years of operation. That is the equivalent of about 5 percent of what Wellcome would normally spend to fund research over a five-year period.
Scientific advances typically follow a couple of paths. Most develop through the slow, incremental work in a field — each step building on a foundation already laid. But occasionally progress takes a giant step, hence the leap analogy from which the new fund gets its name.
"Just every so often something really truly transformative — tangential, often may come from a different field — opens up a new line of inquiry which really very few people had thought would be possible or could happen," Farrar said, pointing to gene editing technology or PCR — polymerase chain reaction —testing as examples.
"Often these will come, not just from biology but also from engineering and physics and computer science," Farrar said. "They take you a number of steps up the ladder rather than just the next one. And I don't think in the current funding climate anywhere globally really — certainly in the academic world — that this ability to fund that sort of approach is really facilitated."
Major figures in the world of research concurred.
"It is extremely difficult in today's world to get funds for high-risk projects, all the more so when the potential grantee has not already completed substantial work on their proposed project," Robert Langer, a star Massachusetts Institute of Techonology bioengineering professor whose broad-ranging research is almost a paradigm for this type of work, said in a statement.
"Many grants today are funded along the lines of a single scientific discipline. By enabling funding from teams representing a range of disciplines … new scientific areas can emerge and be encouraged," he said "and the students, faculty and others who participate in such endeavors will have the potential to grow in ways that are often not possible through conventional, single disciplinary, grants."
The push to fund research teams composed of experts drawn from a number of fields appears to be something of a trend in philanthropy. It's a hallmark of the efforts of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, a foundation started by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan. It is also an emphasis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; when Bill Gates announced a special grant call this spring to spur development of a universal flu vaccine, applicants were urged to include on their teams people with a diversity of research expertise, including artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.
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The Wellcome Trust is now looking for a CEO to run the Leap Fund. There is an expectation that the majority of the projects funded will not end up revolutionizing medicine or science. That's the reality, when you are funding high-risk ventures. A success rate of between 10 percent and 20 percent would be "tremendous," Farrar said.
Initially, at least, all the funding will come from the Wellcome Trust, the second largest funder of biomedical research after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If it succeeds, however, that might change over time.
"If I was dreaming, I would think that in years to come it will be a success and others would either want to join or would set up their own, with maybe the same or a different model," said Farrar. "But at the moment, the money is only from us."
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I honestly wish that more shows would do this. It sounds like a brilliant idea. There's less physical change likely to occur such as the actors growing or getting pregnant that could provide more work for writers. It also would prevent decisions based on audience reactions and tell more of the story that the writers/director want to tell.
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That is the best word that I can use to describe the feeling you might experience at the end of the season 2 premiere episode of the brilliant but underrated A&E series Breakout Kings. If you have been paying attention to the promos and posters of the new season, there is one recurring theme: "One King Will Fall" and you are not going to believe who it will be.
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Chris Jericho fires back at Triple H: "NXT sucks, it's not a good show, and they know it"
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As previously noted, Triple H addressed WWE NXT losing to AEW in an interview with Ariel Halwani and said "they beat our developmental system, good for them."
While speaking to Alex McCarthy of ITRWrestling.com, Chris Jericho issued a response to what Triple H said…
"Once again it is just changing the narrative and changing the history, which makes me laugh. Because when it started, it was not developmental, it was a third brand, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, and all the other bullsh*t that they said, so of course we [AEW] beat the developmental or whatever you want to call it, but who gives a sh*t? It's such old news, and the show sucks, NXT sucks, it's not a good show, and they know it. Whether they were punished or not, they probably were punished. That's probably why Triple H said those things because he is angry that we beat them, and he is probably angry that we exist. But you know, we don't care about WWE, we care about our show, we care about putting on the best stories that we can put on, we care about building our fanbase and building our ratings."
"We will continue to exist and I will tell you this, my boss has a lot more money than his boss does. A lot more. So you want to go to that and, we are not going anywhere, we will continue to grow. That p*sses them off and why wouldn't it? They had a monopoly for so long and don't like the fact that we exist and that's fine. We don't care that they exist, God bless them. They are running a show in front of 50,000 people, why would he care about us? But you know, he should, and he does, and that's why he said those things."
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Q: Why did Mad-eye Moody (disguised Barty Crouch, Jr) wait until the very end? If Mad-eye Moody's only purpose was to get Harry to Lord Voldemort then why did he have to wait until the very end of the Tri-wizard tournament? Being a teacher he had Harry at his mercy anytime so should he take the pain of getting Harry into the tournament, risk helping him with the tasks, and so on? He could have easily done it any time during the entire year with any other object as the port key.  Why was the Triwizard cup chosen?  Is there anything that I'm missing?

A: It was Voldemort's plan. Who was Barty Crouch Jr. to decide to do something different from what Lord Voldemort decided?
As for why Voldemort wanted to wait - he had detailed plans to orchestrate. And enough patience/intelligence to follow them at appropriate pace.
Part of those plans was making sure that he didn't announce his resurrection to the Ministry right away, as abducting Harry via Portkey from Hogwarts would - instead, had he disappeared from inside the Maze, nobody would have known what happened, or blamed Moody/Barty.

A: Another point is that Voldemort wanted a show.  He wanted to make a grand event of Harry's kidnap, right under Dumbledore's nose.
He does not just want Harry, he wants him a glorious way which will have the wizarding world talking in whispers about it for years.  Kidnapping a young teenager in the middle of the night is a feeble way to go about things for the great Voldemort.

A: If everything had gone according to plan, big V would have been able to use the Portkey to get himself and his death-eaters into Hogwarts (undermining Dumbledore's ability to protect anyone). No doubt parading the lifeless body of "the boy who lived". This would have offered the maximum amount of worldwide exposure - as the event was attended by wizards from all over the world. It would have also given him the opportunity to kill the heads of three major eurpoean schools, the Minsiter for Magic and I can only assume other influential figures in the magic community. Taking all this into consideration the Port Key AND the Tournament could be considered a dream scenario for a large-and-in-charge return.
Personally, I can't be sure if this level of thought went into this area of the story. After all the plan was destined to fail purely because it was Book 4 in a series of 7, but this is what I plugged the plot hole with so I could sleep at night!
Edit: This is supported by the fact that the Portkey was configured to return to Hogwarts at all. I don't think this is the default behaviour for them.

A: There are three critical components to consider.
One: portkeys are not supposed to be used to transport oneself onto or out of the grounds of Hogwarts without prior knowledge of the ministry and Dumbledor.  It is possible to break this rule (as we see Dumbledore do himself in Order), but as the only example of a wizard doing this without ministry permission is Dumbledore himself, Crouch probably wasn't capable of it.  The cup was an "allowed" portkey and was supposed to transport the winner out of the maze and back to the stands to be celebrated.  Crouch Jr. altered it a little before placing it by adding the portus to the graveyard.  This is simpler than layers of spells probably needed for circumventing portkeys that have not been "registered" so to speak.
Two:  While Crouch could have killed Harry and then escaped, Voldemort wanted to kill Harry himself and he needed Harry's blood.  It hurt Voldemort's pride that he had been defeated by a baby and he felt he needed to prove there wasn't really anything special about, "the boy who lived."  He talks about this need in "The Death Eaters" when he says:

"You know of course, they have called this boy my downfall. . . but no
  matter, I can touch him now! [Harry feels terrible pain in the next
  paragraph while V touches him] I miscalculated my friends, I admit
  it."

He goes on for quite some time re-hashing stuff we really already knew from the first three books.  He talks about the Sorcerer's Stone and being thwarted again by Harry and his dissappointment in the lack of a search for himself by the Deatheaters standing there, but goes on and begins to speak about Bertha jorkins and how the plan to capture adn kill Harry evolved,

"But how to get at Harry Potter?  For he has been better proteced than
  I think even he knows, protected in ways devised by Dumbledore . . .
as long as he is in his relation's care.  Not even I can touch him
  there. . . Then, of course, there was the Quidditch World Cup. . . I
  thought his protection might be weaker there, away from his relations
  and Dumbledore, but I was nt yet strong enough to attempt kidnap in
  the midst of a horde of Ministry wizards. and then he would return to
  Hogwarts . . ."
"So how could I take him?  Why by using Bertha Jorkins's information
  of course.  Use my one faithful Death Eater, stationed at Hogwarts, to
  ensure that the boy's name was entered into the Goblet of Fire. . . "

Voldemort goes on to have Wormtail release Harry so they can have a "duel" in the next chapter.
Additionally, Harry neede to be portered to Voldemort at an expected time and a particular place.  There was a complicated bit of spell work and a potion involved here so just having Harry show up when ever crouch could happen to get him to touch the proper pen or whatever wouldn't have worked well.
Just before having Harry released for the Duel Voldemort says:

"You see, I think, how foolish it was to suppose that this boy could ever have been stronger than me, but I want there to be no mistake in anyone's mind.  Harry Potter escaped by lucky chance and now I'm going to prove my power by killing him here and now. .  ."  Emphasis mine.

Sure, Voldemort could have had Pettigrew call his Deatheaters to guard the graveyard and wait and capture him and then had pettigrew start in on the potion etc. etc. but then, I don't think Voldemort trusted the other Deatheaters to let Pettigrew go through with it, he certainly didn't want all of them seeing him in his weakened state and doing it the way he did meant he could put on a show and monologue for awhile - something all Villians truly enjoy.

A: Barty Crouch Jr said it himself, in that he couldn't do ANYTHING to risk Dumbledore suspecting him. Let's face it, you have to be pretty damn conniving to get something past Dumbledore.
Anyway, it's just a story. If he did it your way, the book would be about 100 pages long.
It's all about the journey :)


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Leberecht Uhlich (1799–1872) was a German clergyman and one of the founders of the German Free Congregations.

Biography
He studied at Halle, and served as pastor in various places till 1847, when he withdrew from the Evangelical Church, and thenceforth was preacher of the Free Congregation at Magdeburg. In 1841, he became the leader of the Friends of the Light (also called Protestant Friends). His liberal views frequently involved him in difficulties with the authorities. He published Bekenntnisse (4th ed. 1846); Christentum und Kirche (2d ed. 1846); Die Throne im Himmel und auf Erden (1845); Handbüchlein der freien Religion (7th ed. 1889). His autobiography appeared at Gera in 1872.

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1799 births
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Supernatural, which ends its run this month with 15 seasons under its belt, is also among the longest-running primetime series ever. With over 300 episodes, it's just as bingeable, snackable, and all-purpose-consumable as any police series. Though the show becomes increasingly wedded to complicated lore and season-long story lines, episodes from its golden age (generally agreed to be seasons one through five) are often monster-of-the-week mysteries familiar to fans of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files. At the start of the episode, someone or some ones die in a novel and bloody fashion, and brothers Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padelecki and Jensen Ackles) roll into town to investigate. They often disguise themselves as detectives or FBI agents, complete with fake badges and identification. Posing as cops, they examine victims' corpses in morgues, duck under police tape to check out crime scenes, and interview witnesses—nearly everything that your favorite TV detectives do. The show even features bonkers celebrity guest stars like Snooki and Rick Springfield, and dubiously ripped-from-the-headlines episodes. In Supernatural, for example, the internet lore of Slenderman becomes the not-too-cleverly rechristened "Thinman." Episodes just tend to end with the bad guys succumbing to wooden stakes and silver bullets rather than being led away in handcuffs.
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Reckless by Craig Lucas (A very funny, very bizarre Christmas story)
December 6, 2019 | 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Category: Play
Location: Underground at the Hilberry (Hilberry Theatre)
Cost: $15 - $27 + fees
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For those that are looking for a darker take on the holidays, Reckless by Craig Lucas, is the perfect way to celebrate. The story begins on Christmas Eve when Rachel is informed by her husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her. She scrambles out the kitchen window, fleeing for her life, and escapes into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd, who's changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie — who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability. But downtrodden Rachel's luck changes when she wins $100,000 on a game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. Soon, she begins to wonder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.
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