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У математиці абсолютне значення або модуль дійсного числа  — це невід'ємне значення  без врахування його знаку. Позначається .

А саме, , якщо  додатне, та , якщо  від'ємне значення (у цьому випадку  додатне), а також . Наприклад, абсолютне значення числа 3 дорівнює 3, а абсолютне значення числа  також дорівнює . Абсолютне значення числа також можна розглядати як відстань від нуля.

Узагальнення абсолютного значення для дійсних чисел зустрічається у різноманітних галузях математики.
Наприклад, абсолютне значення визначається для комплексних чисел, кватерніонів, , полів і векторних просторів. Модуль тісно пов'язаний з поняттям величини, відстані і норми в різних математичних і фізичних контекстах.

Термінологія та позначення
У 1806 році  увів термін модуль, що позначає французьку одиницю виміру, зокрема, для комплексного абсолютного значення, і в 1886 році цей термін був запозичений у англійську мову як латинський еквівалент модуля. У цьому сенсі термін абсолютне значення використовувався з 1806 року французькою мовою і з 1857 року англійською мовою. Позначення  (з використанням вертикальних рисок) було введено Карлом Вейєрштрассом у 1841 році. Інші назви для абсолютного значення включають числове значення і величину. У мовах програмування та обчислювальних програмних пакетах абсолютне значення  зазвичай позначається , або за допомогою інших подібних виразів.

Позначення вертикальних рисок також використовується в ряді інших математичних контекстів: наприклад, при застосуванні до множини, воно означає його потужність; стосовно матриці, воно позначає її визначник. Вертикальні риски позначають абсолютне значення лише для алгебраїчних об'єктів, для яких визначено поняття абсолютного значення, особливо для елемента нормованої алгебри з діленням, наприклад, для дійсного числа, комплексного числа або кватерніона. Тісно пов'язаним, але іншим поняттям, є використання вертикальних рисок для евклідової норми або для  простору неперервних функцій вектора в , хоча подвійні вертикальні риски з нижнім індексом знизу ( або ) є більш поширеною і менш неоднозначною формою запису.

Визначення та властивості

Числа
Для будь-якого дійсного числа
абсолютне значення або модуль позначається  і визначається як

Таким чином, абсолютне значення числа  або додатнє або нуль, але ніколи не є від'ємним. Якщо число  від'ємне , то його модуль завжди додатний .

В аналітичній геометрії, абсолютне значення дійсного числа — це відстань від цього числа до нуля уздовж дійсної прямої, а в більш загальному сенсі, абсолютне значення різниці двох дійсних чисел — це відстань між ними. Дійсно, поняття абстрактної функції відстані в математиці можна розглядати як узагальнення абсолютного значення різниці (див. "Відстань" нижче).

Оскільки символ квадратного кореня представляє собою єдиний невід'ємний квадратний корінь (від числа більшого за 0 або 0), то це означає, що

еквівалентно наведеному вище означенню, і може використовуватися як альтернативне означення абсолютного значення для дійсних чисел.

Абсолютне значення має чотири наступні фундаментальні властивості ( і  — дійсні числа), які використовуються для узагальнення даного поняття для інших областях:

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Невід'ємність, додатна визначеність та мультиплікативність очевидні з означення.  Щоб побачити, що має місце напівадитивність, спочатку зауважимо, що одна з двох альтернатив вибору для   як  або  гарантує, що  Тепер, оскільки  та , то,  залежно від значення , для всіх дійсних  виконується умова . Отже, , що й потрібно було показати. (Для узагальнення цих аргументів на випадок комплексних чисел див. "Доведення нерівності трикутника для комплексних чисел".)

Нижче наведено деякі властивості модуля, які є наслідками, що випливають із означення або з вищезазначених чотирьох властивостей:

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|збереження ділення (еквівалентно мультиплікативності)
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Дві інші корисні властивості щодо нерівностей:

Дані властивості можуть використовуватися для розв'язування нерівностей, пов'язаних із абсолютним значенням . Наприклад:

Абсолютне значення, як "відстань від нуля", використовується для визначення  між довільними дійсними числами, є стандартною метрикою на множині дійсних чисел.

Комплексні числа
Оскільки множина комплексних чисел не є впорядкованою, означення, наведене вище для дійсного абсолютного значення, не можна безпосередньо використовувати у випадку комплексних чисел.  Однак геометричне тлумачення абсолютного значення дійсного числа як його відстані від 0 можна узагальнити.  Абсолютне значення комплексного числа визначається евклідовою відстанню від його відповідної точки в комплексній площині до початку координат. Цю відстань можна обчислити, використовуючи теорему Піфагора: для будь-якого комплексного числа

де  і  — дійсні числа, абсолютне значення або модуль числа  позначається   і визначається як

де  і  позначають дійсну та уявну частини числа  відповідно. Якщо уявна частина  дорівнює нулю, то це означення збігається з означенням абсолютного значення дійсного числа .

Якщо комплексне число  задано у полярних координатах:

де  і  —  (або фаза) числа , то його абсолютне значення дорівнює

Оскільки добуток будь-якого комплексного числа  та його комплексно-спряженого  (з тим же абсолютним значенням) — це завжди невід'ємне дійсне число , то абсолютне значення комплексного числа можна зручно виразити як

що нагадує альтернативне означення для дійсних чисел:

.

Для комплексного абсолютного значення також виконуються чотири основні властивості, що наведені вище для дійсного абсолютного значення.

Мовою теорії груп властивість мультиплікативності можна перефразувати наступним чином: абсолютне значення — це груповий гомоморфізм з  комплексних чисел в групу з множенням додатних дійсних чисел.

Важливо, що властивість  ("нерівність трикутника") узагальнюється на будь-який скінченний набір з  комплексних чисел  наступним чином:

Ця нерівність застосовується  також у випадку нескінченних індексованих наборів за умови, що нескінченний ряд  є абсолютно збіжним. Якщо інтеграл Лебега розглядати як неперервний аналог підсумовування, то дана нерівність аналогічно виконується для комплекснозначних, вимірних функцій  при інтегруванні над вимірною підмножиною :

(Це включає функції, інтегровані за Ріманом, на відрізку , як частковий випадок.)

Доведення комплексної нерівності трикутника
Нерівність трикутника, що визначена співвідношенням , можна довести, використавши три прості властивості комплексних чисел. А саме, для кожного комплексного числа :

(i): існує  таке, що  і;
(ii): .
Також для індексованого набору комплексних чисел :

.

Зокрема,

(iii):  якщо , то .

Доведення : Оберемо  таке, що  та  (підсумовування по ). Тоді наступні обчислення приводять до бажаної нерівності:
.

З даного доведення випливає, що рівність  виконується тотожно в тому випадку, якщо всі  — це невід'ємні дійсні числа, що, в свою чергу, виконується тотожно, якщо всі ненульові  мають один і той самий , тобто  для комплексної константи  і дійсних констант , .

Оскільки функція  є вимірною, то  є також вимірною функцією, то доведення нерівності  проводиться аналогічно, лише замінюючи   на  та  на .

Функція абсолютного значення
Функція дійсного абсолютного значення є неперервною у всіх точках. Вона диференційована у всіх точках, за винятком . Вона  є монотонно спадною на інтервалі  і монотонно зростаючою на інтервалі . Оскільки дійсне число і його протилежне мають однакові абсолютні значення, то вона є парною функцією, а отже, не має оберненої.  Функція дійсного абсолютного значення є кусково-лінійною та опуклою.

Дійсна та комплексна функції абсолютного значення є ідемпотентними.

Зв'язок із функцією sign
Функція модуля дійсного числа вказує на його значення незалежно від його знака, тоді як функція sign визначає знак числа незалежно від його значення. Наступні співідношення показують зв'язок між цими двома функціями:

а також при ,

Похідна
Функція абсолютного значення має похідну для кожного , але не є диференційовною при . Похідна функції для  задається :

Субдиференціал функції  у точці  — це числовий проміжок .

Комплексна функція абсолютного значення є неперервною у всіх точках, але вона ніде не є комплексно-диференційовною, оскільки не виконуються умови Коші—Рімана.

Друга похідна функції  відносно  дорівнює нулю у всіх точка, крім нуля, де вона не існує. Другу похідну як  можна розглядати як двократну дельта-функцію Дірака.

Первісна
Первісною (невизначеним інтегралом) функції дійсного абсолютного значення є

де  — довільна константа інтегрування. Це не є , оскільки такі первісні можуть існувати тільки для комплексно-диференційованих (голоморфних) функцій, а комплексна функції абсолютного значення не є такою.

Відстань
Див. також Метричний простір

Абсолютне значення тісно пов'язане з поняттям відстані.  Як зазначалося вище, модуль дійсного або комплексного числа — це відстань від даного числа до  початку координат вздовж прямої дійсних чисел (для дійсних чисел), або в комплексній площині (для комплексних чисел) і, у загальному випадку, абсолютне значення  різниці двох дійсних чи комплексних чисел — це відстань між ними.

Звичайна евклідова відстань між двома точками  та  у евклідовому -вимірному просторі визначається як

Це можна розглядати як узагальнення, оскільки  та  є дійсними числами, тобто в одновимірному просторі, відповідно до альтернативного означення модуля,

а для комплексних чисел  та , тобто у двовимірному просторі, модуль визначається наступним чином:

Усе вищесказане свідчить про те, що "абсолютна значення" — відстань для дійсних та комплексних чисел
узгоджується з стандартною евклідовою відстанню, яку вони наслідують у результаті їх розгляду  як одно- та двовимірні евклідові простори, відповідно.

Такі властивості абсолютного значення різниці двох дійсних або комплексних чисел як невід'ємність, тотожність нерозрізних, симетричність і нерівність трикутника, які були наведені вище, можуть слугувати підставою для більш загального поняття функції відстані наступним чином:

Дійснозначна функція  на множині  називається метрикою (або функцією відстані) на множині , якщо вона задовольняє наступні чотири аксіоми:

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Узагальнення

Упорядковані кільця
Наведене вище означення абсолютного значення для дійсних чисел можна узагальнити для будь-якого . Тобто, якщо  — елемент упорядкованого кільця , то абсолютне значення елемента  (позначається як ) визначається наступним чином:

де  — протилежний елемент до елементу ,  — адитивний протилежний елемент, а знаки  та  мають звичайне значення щодо впорядкування у кільці.

Поля
Основна стаття: Абсолютне значення (алгебра)

Чотири основні властивості абсолютного значення для дійсних чисел можуть бути використані для узагальнення поняття модуля на випадок довільного поля наступним чином:

Дійснозначна функція  над полем  називається абсолютним значенням (також модулем, величиною, значенням або оцінкою), якщо вона задовольняє наступні чотири аксіоми:

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Де  позначає  поля . З аксіом додатньо визначеності та мультиплікативності випливає, що функція , де  позначає одиничний елемент поля . Вищезазначені дійсні та комплексні абсолютні значення є прикладами абсолютних значень для довільного поля.

Якщо функція  — абсолютне значення над полем , то функція  на , визначена як , є метрикою та наступні умови еквівалентні:

  задовольняє ультраметричну нерівність  для усіх , ,  на .
  обмежена на R.
  для всіх
  для всіх
  для всіх

Абсолютне значення, яка задовольняє будь-яку (тут усі) з вищезазначених умов, називається неархімедовим, в противному випадку воно вважається архімедовим.

Векторні простори
Основна стаття: Норма (математика)

Знову ж таки, основні властивості абсолютного значення для дійсних чисел можна використати з незначною модифікацією для узагальнення поняття на випадок довільного векторного простору.

Дійснозначна функції на векторному просторі  над полем  (позначається як  ) називається абсолютним значенням, але як правило її називають нормою, якщо вона задовольняє наступні аксіоми:

Для будь-яких  та ,

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Норму вектора також називають його довжиною чи величиною.

У випадку евклідового простору  функція, визначена як

є нормою, яку називається евклідовою нормою. Якщо дійсні числа  розглядати як одновимірний векторний простір , абсолютне значення є нормою, а також  -нормою (див. простір  для будь-якого .  Насправді, абсолютне значення є "єдиною" нормою на векторному просторі , у тому сенсі, що для будь-якої норми   на одновимірному векторному просторі , .  Комплексне абсолютне значення — це особливий випадок норми у .  Воно співпадає з евклідовою нормою, якщо комплексну площину ототожнювати з двовимірною евклідовою площиною .

Алгебра композицій
Головна стаття: Алгебра композицій

Будь-яка алгебра композицій  допускає інволюцію , яка називається спряженням. Добуток в алгебрі  елемента  і його спряженого  записується як  і називається нормою елемента .

Дійсні числа , комплексні числа  та кватерніони  — це композиційні алгебри з нормами, заданими . Абсолютне значення в цих алгебрах з діленням визначається квадратним коренем норми алгебри композиції.

У загальному випадку алгебри композиції може мати квадратичну форму, яка є невизначеною та має . Однак, як і у випадку алгебр з діленням, якщо елемент  має ненульову норму, то  має оберненний елемент, що задається співвідношенням .

Примітки

Література
 Bartle; Sherbert; Introduction to real analysis (4th ed.), John Wiley and Sons, 2011 ;
 Nahin, Paul J.; An Imaginary Tale; Princeton University Press; (тверда обкладинка, 1998) ;
 Mac Lane, Saunders, Garrett Birkhoff, Algebra, American Mathematical Soc., 1999 ;
 Mendelson, Elliott, Schaum's Outline of Beginning Calculus, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008 ;
 O'Connor, J.J. and Robertson, E.F.  "Jean Robert Argand" ;
 Schechter, Eric; Handbook of Analysis and Its Foundations, pp. 259–263, "Absolute Values", Academic Press (1997) .

Зовнішні посилання
, ed. (2001) [1994], "Absolute value", , Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / \\ Kluwer Academic Publishers, ;
 absolute value  на PlanetMath;
  "Absolute Value" . MathWorld.

Див. також
 Абсолютні величини (у статистиці)
 Абсолютне значення (алгебра)
 Метричний простір
 Норма (математика)

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Victoria Series 2: Fans will see a power struggle between Victoria and Albert
Posted August 27, 2017 by Caroline Preece Filed under
Victoria finally returns to ITV tonight, and it's clear that it won't be an easy ride for the young queen.
We pick up a month from the end of the first series, just as Victoria (Jenna Colman) and Albert (Tom Hughes) are navigating life as new parents and trying to establish a new status quo amidst political turmoil.
Series creator Daisy Goodwin said: "They have just had their first baby and they are adjusting to shock of parenthood. Victoria finds it hard to juggle marriage, motherhood and her job: being Queen. Their relationship is extremely volatile, I think of them as the Taylor and Burton of the nineteenth century – tears, tantrums, and fabulous jewels!"
While the first series was focused on Victoria's journey from 18-year-old girl to strong Queen, the second series will see her struggle to hold on to that power as she endures multiple pregnancies.
In many ways, she is much more of a modern heroine – a working mother who is attempting to juggle multiple roles with a husband who feels threatened by his part in the power dynamic.
"The Victoria we explore this series is in her honeymoon period, which is interrupted by numerous pregnancies," said Colman. "She is hugely disappointed to be what she calls, 'caught'. We see Victoria, as ever, deeply in love with Albert, learning to navigate her new life as a mother and keep her hands firmly on the crown, whilst ring true to her independent and stubborn nature. Such a balancing act leads to inevitable fireworks.
"Although a beautiful thing, [the second pregnancy] is not a choice for Victoria and not what she wants. She feels imprisoned by it after only just finding her independence. It's something I have never seen on screen before and a really interesting route to go down – a woman who loves and adores her husband but also loves her job and doesn't necessarily want to be pregnant."
So what about Albert? While Victoria is in confinement after the birth of their first child, we see in the first episode of series two that Albert has been relishing his new responsibilities taken on in her absence.
"The biggest thing in this series to get right was how those dynamics between them shift and change," continued Colman. "Albert is incredibly ambitious and has a great vision for the country. He is a workaholic and Victoria is threatened and initially resents any attempt to take away any of her power. You have to remember how long she has striven for being independent. It is a complex dynamic and creates a thunderous clash of wills."
Hughes added: "In my interpretation nof Albert, there is a strident, inquisitive and at times restless nature within him. As such, I am not sure if he would ever truly feel as if he has finished striving."
Victoria airs on ITV tonight at 9.05pm
Tags: ITV, Jenna Colman, Tom Hughes, Victoria

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Farming Simulator 22 release date grows near
Simulators are as popular as ever. In a time when you can play as anything from a PC builder, a goat or a content creator, it's not surprising that Farming Sim is still going strong as we plough on towards Farming Simulator 22's release date.
Farming Simulator 22 release date
Nearly 14 years on from the game that launched the franchise, Farming Simulator 22 will be ripe for the picking on November 22, 2021. With more animals than any other Farming Simulator before it, and new crops such as grapes and olives, you'll be able to dig into a more extensive Farming experience than ever.
What platforms can I play Farming Simulator on?
On November 22nd, 2021, you'll be able to play Farming Simulator 22 on Windows PC, PS5 and PS4 and Xbox One and Series S/X. The game will be available on Google Stadia in the near future.
It looks as though, for the time being, Nintendo Switch has been left out. Despite the fact that Farming Simulator 20 is available on the Switch, 22 will not be playable on the Nintendo console for now.
Is Farming Simulator cross-play compatible?
Farming Simulator is both cross-play and cross-platform. Not only can you carry your own Farming progress across multiple platforms, you can also play with friends, regardless which platform they are on.
Farming Simulator pre-order bonuses
If you purchase the physical or digital copy of Farming Simulator for PC, Xbox or PlayStation, you will get the CLAAS XERION SADDLE TRAC DLC Pack for free. This pack will allow you to expand your fleet with the CLASS XERION 4200 SADDLE TRAC tractor, as well as four pieces of equipment from KAWECO that extend your SADDLE TRAC's capabilities.
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Copa90 head James Kirkham on why the MLS All-Star Game's fresh approach is an example for the rest of the soccer world.
Last week in San Jose, the great and the good of brands who activate in U.S. soccer gathered in the name of a single game. At the 2016 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, from ESPN to Adidas, brands, broadcasters, and Major League Soccer clubs mixed together for a week to celebrate the continued rise of soccer in America.
Each year, the MLS All-Star Game pits a selection of the best Major League Soccer players against a high-profile club from overseas. Billed as the battle between north London and North America, this year's game brought over Arsenal of the Premier League, but the game has become almost incidental now to the hive of activity and incredible buildup created to heighten overall awareness and excitement around soccer in North America.
But this isn't some naive marketing exercise for an audience who are less knowledgeable about the sport. On the contrary, what we saw was a refreshingly innovative, transparent, fun approach to brand, talent, marketing, and sporting occasion, from which the U.K. in particular should sit up and take note.
The "Vice of soccer" is using the Euro 2016 tournament to show brands and fans just what it's capable of.
From the moment you landed, the excitement was palpable from San Jose through Silicon Valley, up to San Francisco and beyond. People know it's a big event, previewed on local and national news, and the game is rightly a source of pride. It reflects an incredible rising tide of soccer in the U.S., a game being played at grassroots level where school children are choosing to kick a ball rather than whacking one with a baseball bat, or hurling themselves into tackles wearing body armour. The unanswered rise of the game here is pleasingly mirrored by brands and marketers not resorting to old tactics and techniques.
Nothing epitomizes this more than the team selection in the game itself. Fans get a significant say in who is picked, and who plays. The favorites of Major League Soccer are subsequently thrown together in a kind of crowdsourced dream team. That's not all, as the mechanics of selection involved the hottest platforms right now. First up was Snapchat. You simply send in your vote by submitting a snap of your chosen player for each position. What a wondrous, engaging, and rich manner to get involved with an exhibition game. None of your cynicism here, or tried-and-tested techniques refusing to interrupt the status quo. On the contrary, leveraging the most authentic platform on the planet right now feels absolutely on the money for keen fans and users alike. Secondly, the 11th player on the roster was determined by an AT&T/EA Sports "More Than a Vote" challenge. A player received a vote every time a fan scored while playing FIFA 16 using a striker from the MLS All-Star Ballot. The striker with the most goals could earn a place on the actual all-star team. NYCFC striker David Villa took that spot, as fans scored more than 800,000 goals with him in the video game.
This is such exciting work from AT&T and EA Sports. There is a young audience who simply mix and match their language, terms, and vernacular between games like FIFA and Football Manager, and the real-life action. They do not see the joins or divisions like us older crowd once did, and don't refer to being online simply because they're never offline. Subsequently, to merge the formats of real-life team selection and that of playing as part of a game of FIFA, is a brilliant blurring of lines that are already unclear. EA Sports pride themselves on a game predicated perfectly on real, accurate statistics, so the more it feels like real life, the better. To even have an impact on the actual action you watch is therefore a fantastic achievement, and one we all should be applauding. I would be surprised if we saw anything like this level of smart innovation around the game in Europe right now, where too much red tape and reliance on the past would prevent such quality thinking and activation.
From this team selection innovation, the MLS also approached the event with something of a marketing masterclass. Daily emails, text alerts, and notifications took you through a dizzying array of events held to promote the game itself, and Major League Soccer overall. Particularly encouraging was the focus on youth, with one of the largest stadiums around holding a game for effectively the teams' youth product, yet in front of predictably packed crowds. This particular element taps into a fascinating U.S. obsession with college football and beyond, where the youthful exuberance is embraced and hundreds of thousands attend their local college sports. What is smart, is that the best of this sentiment is leveraged here, yet repositioned so more familiar with football (soccer) fans.
One brand that got it very right at MLS All-Star was Adidas. The brand's "first never follows" motif felt particularly appropriate for these guys who arrived in force but with a focus on youth and creating moments wherever they could. On Friday, July 29, the brand released the All-Star team's shirt, which would be worn against Arsenal, by leveraging a photo shoot with Soccer Bible, building in influencer media to help establish immediate credibility into the launch. The brand then ramped things up by holding an Elite Soccer Performance (ESP) match featuring the top MLS academy players around the country, as well as an international academy team. It was a typically smart and assured role for a confident brand, able to mix and match superstar involvement with a constant promotion of the youth product, too.
Soccer in this region can often throw off the shackles of tradition, which can hold back its innovation in other places, like in the U.K. Top talent for example is everywhere, from presenters to pitch-side pundits, and even players absolutely willing to engage and be a part of the footy fiesta. Access to all areas doesn't seem just for the privileged few, but instead a mantra for encouraging everyone to get up close and personal. From one-off live TV specials, to kids' football academies, and even incredibly controlled signing sessions in the hotel where players take their time to mingle with fans–the whole feel is of a refreshingly open, modern, branded event, which is perfectly reflecting the modern attitude with which the game is being run.
This is an age after all where Twitter has enabled fans to speak directly with their stars, and where selfies have replaced the arms-length technique of an autograph. It is all about immediacy and authenticity, and the MLS All-Star game has managed to marry the demands and appetite of a modern consumer with a new way of showing off the world's most popular sport. They have figured out how to propel the game forward for fans, while shrewdly bringing brands into the mix as well.
The freshness of this event feels in direct contradiction to how brands engage with football and its fans elsewhere. In the U.K. for example, so bound by the red-tape rules of the past, image rights, or broadcaster privileges, this level of inventive involvement is rare. The fans alone are providing the continual push of innovation through their leverage of smart technology and an empowered stance. Subsequently, it is a fan who holds aloft Periscope at Glasgow's Ibrox Stadium, and has more people watching his stream than are in the stadium at the Edinburgh Derby. It is the fans who watch recreated illustrative goal animations like we crafted at Copa90 over 6 million times during the tournament, exceeding most viewing audiences of live on-air matches. The fans drive the freshness of approach to the game in the historic home of soccer, but it is admirable how much innovation is pushed directly from MLS at this most vital of events.
Baseball in the States, like cricket in the U.K., was arguably made for the radio era–full of long-winded statistics and played at a much slower pace with only the occasional rush of real drama. The NFL was built for TV, complete with compartmentalized and quartered action enabling high-spending advertising to act as a divider between the action. So soccer feels built for this digital and social age, where moments are everything, and instantaneous on-pitch memories are captured, documented, and spread around the world at the speed of a meme.
The MLS All-Star Game is proving that there is a rich methodology to engage with even the most dyed-in-the-wool sport, which captures imagination, leverages the young, and brings top talent closer to the fans. The game will be all the better for it, on both sides of the Atlantic.
James Kirkham is the head of global football network Copa90, and chief strategy officer for Bigballs Media.


While companies can do better about how they protect user privacy, the fact is, we have to take control of our own privacy.
Privacy used to be a fringe conversation, something people thought about only when Facebook or Google rolled out a "new" feature, or when targeted advertising got a little too stalkerish. After almost seven months of reports about various programs run by the National Security Agency and other government agencies, even the average user is beginning to think about what is public and what should stay private.
Consumers generally view online privacy as a "shared responsibility," but it ultimately begins with the user, Brendon Lynch, Microsoft's chief privacy officer, told Security Watch. In a survey of "tech-savvy" consumers in the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, respondents said they want transparency about exactly what kind of data is being collected, how their data is being used, and who it is being shared with.
Even so, only 22 percent of survey respondents on both sides of the Atlantic said they actually read the privacy policies in full before accepting them. This likely has more to do with the fact that privacy policies are difficult to read and very confusing to begin with, Lynch said. If the policies become simpler, people will know up front what they are agreeing to and would be able to make better decisions.
Users are looking at companies for "technological innovation," and care less about detailed transparency reports, Lynch said. Customers expect strong privacy protections to be built into technology. They also want privacy controls that lets them manage their preferences, Privacy now needs to be a feature, Lynch said.
Companies need to start thinking about the "responsible" way to use data, as opposed to just depending on users to communicate their preferences.
This is particularly important with the prospect of wearable computing and Internet of Things, as there may be times when it wouldn't be realistic to ask for user consent. Certain devices will always be personal, such as wearables, and insisting users have to opt out of data collection just doesn't make sense.
At the OTA town hall event there was also some discussion of how users need to take advantage of the tools that are already available to them, such as turning on "Incognito" browsing on Android or selecting "Do Not Track" on iOS devices. Users concerned about location tracking need to turn off GPS or Wi-Fi networking when not in use. They can also look at app permissions and not install apps that ask for access to location data with no real reason, said Mark Goldstein, a strategic advisor for OTA.
There is a long way to go before we can say we have full control of our privacy online, but there are some things we can do, and companies are beginning to take user concerns seriously. It's a good start.


Sedalia Police received a report that sometime in the last few weeks that someone forced their way through a back door and stole some items in the 1000 Block of East 9th.
A man on Oak Grove Lane reported to the Pettis County Sheriff's Office that a subject known to him stole some property between June 30 and August 9.
A woman in the 700 Block of East 24th reported to Sedalia Police that her purse was taken from her vehicle at her residence and someone used her debit card.
Pettis County Deputies were dispatched to James Road for a suspicious activity call last night(August 9). The Pettis County Deputies issued three summons for minor in possession of liquor to subjects that were in the area.
A 12-year old girl in the 1600 Block of West 3rd reported to Sedalia Police that he was bit on the leg by her friend's dog. The dog is quarantined at the Sedalia Animal Shelter.
Sedalia Police arrested Casey Greeway for a failure to appear charge for bad checks and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The city bond was set at $1,063 cash/surety and the state charge was set at $1,500 cash/surety.
Yesterday morning (August 9), Sedalia Police went to Wal-Mart as two subjects tried returning items that were stolen. Rebecca Bell and Curtis Jackson were arrested for stealing.
Sedalia Police arrested Donald Beck for having a Benton County warrant, bond set at $1,000 cash only.
Sedalia Police arrested Leadrewis Harris for a failure to appear charge, bond set at $326.50.
Sedalia Police arrested Amy Lancaster for failure to appear on a trespassing charge, bond set at $50 cash.
Pettis County Deputies arrested Jamie Campbell for possession of marijuana.
Sedalia Police arrested William Palmer for driving while suspended.
Pettis County Deputies arrested Wesley Garrison for an outstanding warrant.


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This talk places pressure on the border separating creative work from academic research, through an examination of a number of cases from my own work as a composer and interactive artist. The works I discuss range from computer music performance and interactive installations to opera, and were all developed through a combination of ethnographic method, historical and archival work, and analysis of musical and social practice.
George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. The recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, a 1999 Alpert Award in the Arts, a 2011 United States Artists Walker Fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lewis has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971. His work in electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and notated and improvisative forms is documented on more than 140 recordings.


Adam Nemett is a relative newcomer to Charlottesville (he and his wife moved here last year), but he's no stranger to music.
"Starting at age three, I'd spend hours lip syncing to Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen while fake-strumming a ukulele. I tried playing various instruments—piano, guitar, saxophone and bass—but nothing really stuck," he says.
The instruments may not have stuck, but the music did. In high school, Nemett got into jam bands and improvisational music. He attended his first Phish show in December 1995 and spent the next few years following the band around the country, catching anywhere from 10 to 20 Phish concerts each year.
When he arrived at Princeton University in 1999, he discovered that most of the social and music scene there was centered around campus DJs playing "the same tired Top 40 playlist." Nemett and a couple of friends formed Modern Improvisational Music Appreciation (MIMA) and started organizing concerts on an off campus. Membership grew to about 500 students, and the club brought to Princeton the likes of Willie Nelson, the Disco Biscuits, John Scofield, Antibalas, and a bunch of electronic music raves.
By the end of college, Nemett was writing lyrics and "doing spoken-word stuff" for a band while simultaneously trying his hand at filmmaking. His film project focused on the very thing that Nemett claims escapes him: the instrument.
It was yet another chance for Nemett to work with talented musicians while exploring his own creative outlets.
MIMA works with the U.S. Department of State and various embassies to train teachers and launch songwriting workshops in more than 30 countries. (If you attended last year's TEDx Charlottesville, you might have heard of this.) The organization also produces audio and video recordings of the songs created in the songwriting workshops, and organizes concerts that act as fundraisers to help support the music and media offerings. Nemett served as board chairman of MIMA from 2012 to 2014 and currently serves as a trustee.
Nemett has introduced many people to new music, but he considers his most important audience to be his young son.
When his son was born, Nemett says that his relationship to music "immediately shifted and became much more direct and personal again, rather than organizational." He picked up an instrument—the mandolin—about a month before his son was born, and started playing bluegrass once a week with a group of local musicians.
Nemett's son has a lot more listening to do. From the day he and his wife learned that they were having a boy, Nemett has been working on "a massive playlist for Jack called The History of American Music." It starts, he says, in 1899 and "attempts to cover pretty much all the important songs from the past century or so." He plans on including about 1,000 songs, and he's about three quarters of the way through right now.
When he's not being a dad, bringing music to the masses or making playlists (he curates the music for Forage dinners, too), Nemett is writing. Or, he's at his day job, as an author and creative director for The History Factory.
Nemett brings the sonic journey home with a tune from Humble Tripe, who will be playing a show in Nemett's living room on Dec. 7.


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Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC
Life and Love inside Cambodia's 1993 Election
Russian/Русский перевод
Every writer likes positive reviews. One of my most complimentary came from people in Cambodia who liked my book so much that they pirated the book, printed it poorly, and sold it on the sidewalks of Phnom Penh. I appreciated their enthusiasm, but it definitely did not help sales.
But the most flattering review of all came from the heroine of Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC, Sovan, who will never know how tightly she held my heart in her hands from the time she received the book until the time she told me in a postal letter that she liked it. Later she told me that she had stayed up late two nights in a row to read it. Now, these many years later she apparently still likes the book, which is why she wrote a long piece for the afterword in this edition and gave me permission to put her picture on the cover. Thanks, Sovan.
Four other reviews, all of which are below, have special meaning for me.
Farang Magazine is geared towards tourists in Thailand. Because so many "travelers tales" are printed in Bangkok, a book has to be special to stand out; apparently, mine did.
Review by Daniel Cooper
While many expatriates produce books about a chapter of their travels that are boring and poorly written, Tom Riddle's keeps the reader flipping the page well after lights out. It follows the author, who joins UN Volunteers and is sent to Cambodia to help people use computers during Cambodia's first election in living memory. Once there he has adventures in the countryside, hangs out in Phnom Penh, and ends up supervising a data-entry center.
Lacking Cambodia's usual suspects of guns, girls, and ganga, the book's value is in Riddle's humor and observations on the inner workings of the UN's largest-ever project. There is not much dialogue, but it is hilarious for its staccato delivery and dry wit.
Once the scene is set, the book starts to heat up as the story moves closer to the election date and Riddle's relationship with Sovan, a returning Khmer, spirals closer to its climax. The writer's knack for storytelling and expert pacing makes Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC a great read until the last page. Definitely worth picking up.
The man wearing the blue T-shirt wrote the next review. To his right is Sovan, to his left a staff member, Euro, and then me. I don't know who took the picture, but it was taken in 1993.
5.0 out of 5 stars – This is a droll insight into a country reeling from war.
Riddle offers an inside perspective into the chaos of Cambodia at this critical juncture in history. As far as I know, all that he wrote was true. As a minor character in the story, slightly disguised, I was able to see some of the same world that Tom Riddle saw while I was working at another humanitarian relief agency in Cambodia. Riddle examines the very nature of reality as he probes this isolated peasant society, plagued by war induced poverty and destruction, and overlaid with the sudden arrival of a weakly organized UN military and technical support force of around 20,000 people from many different countries.
Riddle taps into many different realities as he looks at the worlds of a myriad of different characters trying to make sense out of the chaos they are experiencing. It is offset with his own ironic humor, personal life crises, and the participant-observer perspective.
The idealism of the United Nations is a paradox of its inefficiency, political agendas, and bureaucracy. You get an international version of "Catch 22" in this book. The career bureaucrat is offset by the author as the naive idealist. The brave young Cambodian woman recovering from war and life in a refugee camp is struggling to help her family survive and save her country. She is offset by the romantic notions of the author, hopelessly in love with her. Peaceful interludes of Cambodian life are interspersed with violence and disarray. The oppressed Cambodian society seeking to find itself is continuously falling back on the international community and even the traditionally adversarial Vietnamese population for energy and direction.
This nonfiction account of social chaos reads like a lighthearted Franz Kafka. It transcends the war journalist's perspective that is our usual source of information about social crises such as these. As a participant-observer in life's international fast lane, the author is able to bring unusual insight into unusual life experience. Whether you seek information about Cambodia, the United Nations, the impact of war, a good adventure story, or a cross cultural perspective on human relationships, you will find this fascinating reading.
I didn't know John Marston, but he worked for UNTAC at the same time that I did.
Inside the United Nations' 1993 Election
Book review by John Marston
(Pacific Affairs Vol. 72 No. 1)
This book, a memoir of the U.N. presence in Cambodia in the period leading up to the 1993 elections, is written for a popular audience. On its own terms it works – the question being, what are those terms?
Riddle is an American who taught English in refugee camps in Thailand and later did graduate work in anthropology at the University of Hawaii. The book recounts, from a very personal perspective, his experiences from March 1992 to July 1993, working as a United Nations Volunteer (UNV) for the Electoral Division of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). UNV's were known within UNTAC for being motivated by idealism and for the long hours they worked at low pay. Riddle worked with computers in the UNTAC electoral headquarters. (I also worked for UNTAC, in another division, but never had contact with Riddle.)
In the 'grand tradition', Riddle's relation to Cambodia is embodied in his love for a beautiful woman, a thirty-year-old Cambodian co-worker; Sovan, who had recently come from a refugee camp on the Thai border. Sovan, as an icon of purity, elegant and aloof, is held up in contrast to the loose morality of many UNTAC staff, and to the prostitutes of Thailand and Cambodia, whom Riddle describes in fascinated detail, but never touches.
This story unfolds against the backdrop of the UNTAC period. Simply in terms of recounting a basic narrative of that period, Riddle's book is perhaps the most successful I have read so far. Clearly and dramatically, he retells the sequence of events and the popular moods associated with them, as they were perceived by many of us working in Phnom Penh. As he readily acknowledges, much of what he knew about what was going on in the country was gleaned at the time by reading the English-language newspapers, the Electoral Component newsletter, and other reports.
Take away the love story and the second-hand historical narrative, and Riddle is mostly in a position to report on his experiences working with UNTAC computers. This is not totally without interest. There is no little irony in the idea that the U.N., at great expense, was willing and able to superimpose the theater of its high-tech election on a low-tech country. Riddle writes about his experiences with wit and narrative flair, but this in and of itself would not be enough to sustain the interest of the book.
Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC is a much better read than the book it most closely resembles as a popular memoir, Radio UNTAC of Cambodia, by Zhou Met (Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1994), although Radio UNTAC probably provides more information that would be useful to future historians. (Neither of these books represents the ambition, in terms of political and social analysis, of a book like Propaganda, Politics, and Violence in Cambodia, Steve Heder and Judy Ledgerwood, editors [Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996]—a collection of articles by people who had worked in the: UNTAC Information/Education Division —in effect a totally different genre.) Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC is rather an efficient summary of the kinds of things that journalists were writing and people in Phnom Penh were talking about at the time but is not a source of much new information or a new synthesis of the old.
Much of the effect of the book depends on its tone of hip irony. This, with its frankness and humor, is both its strength and its weakness, in that it ultimately serves to keep the country and the events happening in it at arms' length.
I found myself liking the persona of the author and cannot judge too harshly a book that successfully evoked my own memories of UNTAC. Nevertheless, I cannot help wishing that Riddle or his editors had pushed a little harder to move beyond the limits of the genres of travel writing and popular fiction within which the book is framed. Would I assign this book for a class on Cambodia? Probably not. I would recommend it for reading on the plane or between swims on a beach in Southeast Asia somewhere other than Cambodia.
John Marston, Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Thomas Grace wrote the definitive book, Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, pictured below, about the shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, five days after the U.S. invaded Cambodia.
5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable book
It cannot be said that expatriate author Tom Riddle was born to write a book about the 1990s UN run election in Cambodia, a plebiscite in which he participated. Yet, serendipitously, he was born in the right place. When Riddle was but nine-years-old, then Cambodian Head of State Norodom Sihanouk visited Riddle's neighboring community of Kent, Ohio, where, in 1970, four students were shot to death in protests sparked by the US invasion of the Southeast Asian nation following Sihanouk's ill-advised overthrow. Still too young to have participated in the demonstrations, Riddle started at the nearby university months after the killings. There he became something of a fixture in Kent State's burgeoning antiwar movement, a movement in which this writer also played a role. Twenty-years after he began his youthful activism, Riddle landed in Cambodia where he used his computer skills to help the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) administer the country's first, and sadly, only free election.
When I first read the book over fifteen years ago, it immediately became apparent that Riddle had accomplished what no other author writing about that war torn nation had done: he brought welcome humor, albeit of the black variety, to an otherwise decidedly and deeply depressing subject. I never made it to Cambodia, although I know other historians and writers that did, George Hildebrand and Steve Heder among them. While there are many worthy books that explain Cambodia's descent into dystopian darkness and that assign responsibility for the fall, Riddle's book is different, very different. He is unafraid to expose his frailties and completely willing to poke fun at himself and others.
His well-told tale reveals a good deal about the vices brought to Khmer society by western influences, enlightens readers as to the virtues of Cambodian mores, and tells of his romantic connection with Sovan, the embodiment of what had been the country's traditional way of life. Though he is reluctant to do so, Riddle manages to take some small credit for bringing a moment of good order to a nation wracked by death and strife. In a more lasting achievement, he also provides his readers with a remarkable book.
Thomas M. Grace
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Robert Kraft Masseuse Arrested After Video Details Sexual Encounter
By Phil Mason On 23 April 2019
Back in February, Robert Kraft was reportedly busted for his alleged involvement in a prostitution ring at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida. Kraft was charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution which he eventually pleaded not guilty to. Kraft has a day in court this upcoming Friday where he will continue to fight the alleged video which details the sexual encounters he received at the spa. Florida state laws dictate that the video has to come out by law, although for now, the judge has put a hold on that.
The video in question has now led to the arrest of one of the women who allegedly performed sexual acts on Kraft, according to TMZ. Shen Mingbi was picked up by authorities and charged with one count of deriving support from prostitution and eight counts of offering to commit prostitution. Mingbi is currently in court to face those charges and as of right now, her fate is unknown.
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Lei Wang was the other woman in the video, although she was arrested and charged back in February when the story first came to light.
If Kraft is unable to block the video from reaching the public, Wang, Mingbi, and Kraft's alleged acts will be for the entire world to see.
Stay tuned for updates as they become available.
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Attorney Catherine Meehan Joins MUSC College of Nursing Board of Directors
Catie Meehan, Esq.
Charleston, SC (Law Firm Newswire) May 4, 2020 - Catherine Meehan, an attorney with the Steinberg Law Firm, joined the MUSC College of Nursing Board of Directors. The position offers an opportunity for Meehan to act as a community leader at MUSC, which ranks sixth in the nation among nursing programs.
Before entering law school, Meehan distinguished herself in the medical field. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and then proceeded to the Medical University of South Carolina where she received a B.S. in Nursing. She worked at MUSC as a pediatric nurse for three years before law school.
As a member of the Board of Directors, Meehan will serve a three-year term, contribute financially to the school and advise the school on strategies to increase community engagement. She will assist the Dean and Director of Development with individuals, corporations or foundations who are potential sources of support. She will accompany the director on visits with prospective or current donors and speak on behalf of the school.
Meehan graduated magna cum laude from the Charleston School of Law in May 2013. In law school, she served as the Student Works Editor of the Charleston Law Review. She authored two published articles. One article explored the property rights of human tissue and was published in the Charleston Law Review. The other article studied the NFL concussion litigation and proposal to create a fund to pay former players with football-related neurological injuries. The article was published here.
After finishing two internship/clerkship appointments, Meehan realized she wanted her legal career to concentrate on helping people, not corporations. Her passion for law and medicine led her to the Steinberg Law Firm. The firm concentrates on individuals who have suffered injuries at work or injuries outside of work. Meehan's background in nursing helps her understand the medical issues that arise in personal injury lawsuits and workers' compensation claims and makes her a valuable member of the Steinberg Law Firm's team.
Meehan is active in the local community. In addition to serving on the MUSC College of Nursing Board of Directors, she is on the Charleston School of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is a member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, Junior League, and the South Carolina Bar Association. She and her husband live in Charleston and have two daughters.
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SwingPals was founded in 2009 with the express purpose of using the game of golf to connect children who face adversity with caring adults who love the game and the desire to give back to the community. SwingPals founder and Executive Director, Doug Hodges, initiated the program as a result of his long history of support of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) and mentorship (pictured above Doug with Jordan when they were first matched in 2003, and Doug with Jordan at his high school graduation, 2010).
Doug's goal was to target middle schools in Durham, NC, with the highest percentages of students enrolled who are eligible for free/reduced-price lunches, and the schools that have the highest percentages of students testing at or below grade level in reading and math. These metrics indicate higher levels of financial insecurity and academic challenges for these students in the future. Many students from these schools are also at risk of facing poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, high crime rates, obesity, teen pregnancy, and child mistreatment.
SwingPals was initially offered to disadvantaged youth who were on the BBBS wait list. The program was offered evenings and weekends. This posed a number of challenges, including transportation of children from their homes to the golf course. For this reason, SwingPals began a partnership with Neal Middle School in the 2012-13 academic school year. That year over 100 6th grade students entered the program in the fall semester, receiving 8-10 training sessions during their P.E unit. From this cohort of students, 16 were invited to continue in the after-school program (pictured above-second from right).
Students who continued to show interest in the program and an earnest desire to improve their performance in all areas of life, were invited to continue with SwingPals throughout middle school, thereby having three years in SwingPals prior to entering high school.
Since its humble beginnings, SwingPals now serves the four Durham middle schools where the need is great, and delivers programming to over 1,000 Durham Public Schools students each year. The four schools served are Sherwood Githens, Lowe's Grove, Neal, and Shepard. This completed the first phase of the SwingPals model in which every sixth grade student experiences SwingPals during their school day (school graduation pictured above far right). In the Fall of 2016, SwingPals entered the second phase of the program model whereby support was extended to students graduating middle school through to their high school graduation.
SwingPals is now entering our third and final phase. This phase ensures that all school-based middle school students continue to benefit from SwingPals programming during the school day, regardless of whether they enroll in the SwingPals after-school program. Phase three also creates the opportunity for our SwingPals Student Leaders and SwingPals Student Ambassadors to utilize their mindfulness and leadership skills through mentoring their peers, as well as school staff and faculty, in their originating middle school - paying forward their SwingPals experience.


These fine grain and high polish onyx come from a quarry owned by Henry Ford before the Depression. When Ford was making high-end gearshift knobs for his luxury automobiles, he used these stones. Before it was owned by Henry Ford, the quarry was speculated by Bucky O'Neill, one of Teddy Roosevelt's original Rough Riders during the Spanish American War.


Known for her 'powerhouse vocals', Kendra has firmly established herself as an artist to watch and garnered respectable radio play with her recent two singles 'Buy You A Drink' and 'Fuel On The Fire' feat. Don Amero easily cracking the Top 100 Canada Country National Airplay. She has been called a 'star in the making', earned the Manitoba Country Music Association Female Artist of the Year award and her latest EP 'More To Me' was co-produced by country superstar Terri Clark, with additional production credits going to Murray Pulver, Jeff Johnson and Bart McKay. The star studded effort includes songs co-written by artists such as Jessica Mitchell, Meghan Patrick and Patricia Conroy, while featuring 3 x Juno nominee Don Amero.
Armed with her high energy 5-piece band, she has played shows across Canada including the CFL Banjo Bowl Halftime Show to over 33,000 screaming fans, Canadian Music Week, Canadian Country Music Awards Showcases, Boots & Hearts pre-party, Dauphin Country Fest, Roger's Hometown Hockey Festival and headlined the Manitoba Stampede. Along with this, she has opened for artists such as Jess Moskaluke, Doc Walker, Drake White, Alee, Blackjack Billy and Aaron Prichett, among others. During this time, her profile increased as she was interviewed by Sirius XM, KX 94.7 (Ontario), Global TV and was featured in Top Country News, along with many other digital, radio and broadcast platforms.
Her sophomore EP 'More To Me' is set to release September 21, 2018 and with more announcements on the way, Kendra is poised to continue to grow and take the country music world by storm.


The inaugural Batons awards will celebrate BAME women of Past, Present and Future by acknowledging Britain's BAME pathfinders and inspiring future pioneers across diverse sectors.
The Baton Awards will specifically fall on International Human Rights Defenders Day, November 29th, at The Terrace Pavillion, Houses of Parliament. Those attending the event will witness female achievers in a selection of industries and backgrounds being handed a Baton by the original game-changers; our . torchbearers.
Trailblazing, ambitious, BAME and making a difference. Who do you know that is making a difference in their field? We want to find the most driven, passionate and inspiring BAME industry trailblazers from every corner of the U.K.
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The awards will be carefully sifted and two finalists will be selected in each category. The Adjudication Panel will be invited to choose two finalists in each category on October 12th.
The Launch and Shortlisted Nominees Event will take place on October 26th. Batons Award Finalists will be selected by the Final Judging Panel and on November 15th* Stage 3 the finalists will be announced.
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Week 10 was another tough week as far as picking goes. Upsets have been the norm the past two weeks in the NFL. I think things will return to normal in week 11. The one pick that has held steady for me is the upset in the making. I got it right again and this time it was my Carolina pick that won the day.
This week I was 2-4 in my picking bringing my year to date total to 22 Correct and 18 Incorrect.
Here are week 11's picks.
This is a must win for Tennessee but the loss of Jake locker will doom them the rest of the way forward. If the Titans thought that they hit rock bottom by losing to the Jaguars they have another thing coming and it Andrew Luck who will come after the Titans.
Luck rebounds from a terrible game in week 10 by winning this one easily.
This battle of the two worst teams in the NFC should be a yawner. This will be a game where you can take a nap through 60 minutes and have missed just about nothing.
While Monday's victory was against a Dolphins team is disarray, the Bucs face an even more pathetic team in the Falcons. Look for the Bucs to have one more decent week before tanking it.
So you thought I couldn't get any bolder with my upset pick, did you? Well let's give this a try.
On paper this is a mismatch and the Lions should be overwhelming favorites but this game will not be played on paper. It will be played in Pittsburgh where Big Ben Rothlisberger will razzle and dazzle the crowd.
This week features one of the league's premier defenses in Kansas City against the hottest offense in the Broncos.
Kansas City hasn't faced an offense and quarterback like they will face in week 11. If the Broncos Offensive line can protect Peyton Manning it will spell trouble for the Chiefs.
If the Chiefs get to Peyton and hammer him, it might spell the end of the game if not the season for the injured Manning.
Those are the wild cards. Will it be Manning torching the Chiefs defense or will it be the Chiefs defense feasting on Manning and the Broncos offensive line?
I think Peyton's hot hand will rule the day. Denver wins 35-13.
This is a tough week to pick the lock. While I doubt that the Jaguars will have the week they had in week 10, they are facing the Cardinals. It's hardly a lock for the Cardinals to win this one.
So I had to continue my search for a lock of the week. I'm going outside the box for this one. You might be thinking that I'm crazy picking New Orleans as my lock of the week but have you seen Drew Brees play in the Mercedes Superdome?
He's unbeatable. I'll say it again. Drew Brees is unbeatable in the friendly confines of his home office. Drew will light it up and demolish the 49ers.
Drew Brees 42, San Francisco 17.
New Orleans 48, San Francisco 17.
The Panthers have a good defense and Cam Newton has played well in the past 5 games but they are facing an elite QB.
I think that the Patriots will win this game and it won't be close. The Patriots are the better team.
I've made some bold picks this week. I need to turn my poor picking of the past two weeks around and there's no better way of doing that than thinking outside the box.
So good luck to me and good luck to your favorite team.
The NFL picks segment is written by Sportmentary (Anthony Bloch) who is Editor in Chief of Sportmentary.com.


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"Blood Bath" (1966): What a Long Strange Trip
Posted on June 10, 2016 June 10, 2016 Author Bill Mulligan Comment(0)
Ever buy one of those "50 HORROR MOVIES FOR $10" dvds? And then you feel stupid because the very next week they have the "200 MOVIES FOR $5" offer, eventually followed by the "16 QUINTILLION MOVIES WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF STARS IN THE UNIVERSE AND WE WILL PAY YOU 10 SILVER DOLLARS TO TAKE THIS OFF OUR HANDS" deal. Anyway, what all of these DVD collections have in common is: (a) a total lack of any extras, up to and including the cardboard box; (b) transfers that make the visuals look like they were run through an electromagnet strong enough to pick up trains; and (c) Blood Bath, or Track of the Vampire, or both. If you ever wondered why the same movies are always included — White Pongo, looking right at you — it's because the producers allowed them to fall into the public domain. Since that means they didn't think the film was worth the investment of a stamp, you can guess at the perceived quality of the films involved, though some surprisingly great movies also got treated this way. For the thrifty filmmaking whizzes at American International Pictures (AIP), it was a common strategy to employ expensive looking special effects from obscure foreign films to add dynamic visuals and precious minutes of running time to their more modestly produced epics. Watching a movie like Queen of Blood on TV as a child, I would be struck by how ordinary the sets looked when the English speaking actors were front and center — either those who had seen better days like Basil Rathbone, up and comers like Dennis Hopper, or Forrest J. Ackerman like…well, there is no one like Forrest J. Ackerman — and how amazingly great the scenes suddenly became when everyone was safely obscured by space suits. In retrospect, it was obvious what was up, but Young Detective Mulligan never caught on to the subterfuge. It's no easy task to swipe space footage and cool planet sets and use them to turn Planeta Bur into Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women; nor to take Nebo Zovyot, a Soviet propaganda film extolling the superiority of the People's Space Program, and rearrange it so that the commies lose and there are monsters that look like sex organs (I am not making this up). You may be thinking, "Boy, the guy who came up with THAT idea must be flipping burgers somewhere," which he may well be, under the shelf that holds his five Oscars. It can be fun to try to spot all the little tricks the filmmakers did to make the inserts seem as seamless as possible. And then…there's Blood Bath. God bless Tim and Donna Lucas and Arrow Video. Tim Lucas, whose Video Watchdog magazine, co-published with wife Donna, has been THE indispensable chronicle of fantastic cinema for the past quarter century. Some of the very first issues were used to solve the long and complicated story of Blood Bath/Track of the Vampire's origins, an endeavor that took three issues. What seemed like a simple (?) story of a piecemeal production and subsequent expanded TV version, became a maze that involved not two, not three, but five separate films. The four surviving features have been, for the first time, released together in a beautiful 2-disk collection by Arrow, along with an absolutely fantastic 80-minute video expansion by Lucas of his original article that is at least as equally rewarding as watching all four films and is significantly shorter. So settle in for a story… Roger Corman, who would squeeze a quarter so hard that both the eagle and Washington would cry for mercy, managed to shoot some car racing movie in a way that left $22,000 of it's already meager budget unspent. This is Corman we're talking about. When The Raven finished early, he didn't tell Boris Karloff, "Hey, go take a few days off!" No, he just reused the sets and made The Terror with a script that was whipped up in a few days. So faced with some unexpected pocket change, he took the 22K and handed it over to Francis Ford Coppola to see what Genital Monster Boy could do on his own. Coppola promised him a rip-off of Psycho and delivered Dementia 13, a cool, little, gothic thriller starring William Campbell (perhaps best known for Star Trek's "Squire of Gothos") and Patrick Magee, a well known character actor who was in everything from Clockwork Orange to Die Monster Die! Corman hated it. He got director Jack Hill (who had already proven his bona fides by adding 20 minutes to The Wasp Woman for a TV version, without having access to any of the original cast) to do some reshoots. Corman may not have liked Dementia 13, but he must have appreciated Coppola's ability to work fast and cheap, because he hired him for his next great idea, investing another $20,000 in a Yugoslavian crime thriller named Operation Titian. By providing money, the American actors, and Coppola, Corman was trying to make sure the final result would be something he could use. But the result was something Corman could not use. Presented here for maybe the first time ever, was the next iteration, Operacija Ticijan, directed by Rados Novakovic, who never became a big name but clearly knew his shit and was a film historian. The movie opens with a wonderful shadowy sequence that evokes the best of the German Edgar Wallace Krimi genre, and has fine performances by Magee as a hitman and Campbell as a mad painter, but is hindered by too much scenery (the old world sets are wonderful but too often it looks like it was financed by the Yugoslavian tourist bureau) and a second act that spends too little time with the bad guys and too much time with the investigators. By meticulously taking cribbed footage from the High Def subsequent edits and SD elements from wherever the hell they found them, Arrow created a cut that is pretty good looking –miraculously good looking in fact, considering nobody thought this version existed! But again, Corman was not happy (a continuing theme). American audiences were unlikely to care much about plots involving Titian paintings and would doubtlessly pronounce it "Tit-ion," like I did for 20 years. So he had it reedited into 1965's Portrait in Terror, which managed the neat trick of tightening up some of the flab and padding…and still ended up longer! That's some serious TARDIS time/space distortion right there. Besides reediting sequences, there was clearly some additional footage shot with not the greatest amount of quality control. An understated murder sequence becomes far more graphic, but any possible improvements in the scene are undercut by the too bright cinematography — all the worse looking in a film that contains brilliantly moody set pieces — and the fact that the actress turns into a completely different woman halfway through the scene. It also kills any suspense over who the murderer is, although even the Scooby Doo gang would have figured that out long before the big reveal. It is unclear who was responsible for the reshoots, though Lucas makes a good case for Stephanie Rothman, one of the few women in Corman's organization with the skill to do it, as a likely suspect (Rothman's absence among the DVDs' extras suggests she is not talking). Portrait in Terror went straight to television and that should have been that. But, you know, Corman. He turned once again to Jack Hill with the directive to scavenge at least 30 minutes of the good stuff from Operation Titian and come up with a more exploitable horror movie plot to go with it. He was given the ludicrous sum of $900 and a few weeks of reshoots. He was also given the chance to shoot more footage with William Campbell, who wisely knew he had Corman over the barrel and got some serious money in return for coming back, which is no small feat. Hill came up with Blood Bath, an entirely new movie about a lunatic painter who uses blood for his paintings, becoming a hit among the beatniks. Basically, he ripped off Corman's own A Bucket of Blood with Campbell's nutty artist dipping his victims in hot wax (inspired by Magee's fate in Operation Titian). In a scene that may have inspired William Lustig's Maniac , the wax covered corpses come to life and give their killer a taste of his own medicine. It seems like a pretty good idea and Hill did a great job of emulating the Yugoslavian background with some stylish set pieces of his own, but he only used about five minutes of Operation Titian and Corman was still not satisfied. The film needed still more footage, but Hill went off to make his masterpiece, Spider Baby, and his cut of Blood Bath is apparently lost forever, though Lucas does an excellent job in his documentary of describing what that film would have looked like. Stephanie Rothman came in and reworked the film into the version of Blood Bath that finally made it to the theaters by keeping most of what Hill had made…and adding a vampire. Now, not only was Campell a lunatic murdering artist, he was also a shapeshifting vampire, said shapeshifting being forced on the plot by the fact that Campbell was no longer available and since he had sued Corman for reusing his performance in other movies, Corman may have been in no rush to pay him again. Rothman made the wise choice to have the vampire look much like a character from the original Operation Titian film, allowing more footage to be used. New characters got added. Patrick Magee's role ended up being little more than his big death reveal. The whole thing is a glorious, mishmash mess that cannot possibly work, but largely does. Three directors, three plots, one baffled viewer. I love it. If, for example, you wanted to play a drinking game, you could do worse than to just take a shot when, during the opening scene, they switch directors. Novakovic! (drink) Hill! (drink) Rothman! (drink). You'll be dead before the 15-minute mark. Little of it makes a lick of sense. Hill's original story would have likely held up had it been completed, but Rothman's addition of the vampire elements defies all logic. I may not know much but I do know that if I'm being chased by a vampire, I do NOT go on a merry-go-round. Bumper cars? Sure. But…this is still not the version most people have seen. The film went out on a double bill with Queen of Blood, yet another AIP hybrid film, to some success. But when it came time to release it to TV, the movie was too short, and Rothman provided even MORE footage, adding 15 minutes to what would be titled Track of the Vampire. More stuff from Operation Titian was put back in, including a scene with Campbell and Magee that hilariously redubs their confrontation into a fight between an angry husband and his unfaithful wife's lover. Magee still ends up dead and covered in wax. Poor sap never could catch a break. There is also a new and interminable chase scene and worst of all, an interpretive dance on the beach by some woman. Who is she? Why is she dancing? What is her purpose in the movie? I can answer that last question–she adds another four minutes of time. Wow. That's some crazy stuff right there. The story behind the movies is actually more interesting than the movies are. That fact provides Arrow Video's shining moment, the 80-minute essay/documentary, The Trouble With Titian, Tim Lucas' illustrated video version of his 3-part article, now updated with more information (he had not seen Operation Titian when he wrote it and neither had anyone else). There is no more entertaining film historian than Lucas and Arrow gave him total freedom to tell the tale. If you are not the kind of lunatic who has to watch all five of the features provided (I regret nothing!), you should probably watch Blood Bath and then the Lucas essay and call it a night. A few other extras round out the package: brief interviews with Sid Haig and Jack Hill, a stills gallery, and some fine liner notes. The 2k scans of all but Operation Titian are as good as the films will ever look and even Operation Titian looks pretty good. Just a solid job from start to finish.
Bill Mulligan
Bill Mulligan's earliest movie memory is of watching THE BLACK SCORPION on a black and white TV with a level of definition that barely qualified as "static". This initiation served him well in his subsequent quest to see as many marginal genre movies as possible, under any conditions necessary. If they contained stop motion animation, all the better.
A half century of watching movies has given him the perspective that comes with encroaching death. He will gladly tell you of the sublime chars of Mario Bava, Paul Blaisdell, Ray Harryhausen, and Roger Corman, as well as the good old days when there were only 3 channels on TV but ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS was on at least once a month, as opposed to now when there are approximately eleventy billion channels and no crab monsters of any kind. Also, the music of these kids today is just noise.
His love for practical special effects and makeup has, to his utter amazement, yielded great results as, for the last decade, he has been able to live his dream of making low budget horror films with like minded lunatics in the great North Carolina indie film community. Four feature films and over a dozen shorts, as effects technician, actor, writer and director. His work can be seen in KNOB GOBLINS, THE FOREVER DEAD, FISTFUL OF BRAINS, A FEW BRAINS MORE, FIX IT IN POST. CACHE ME IF YOU CAN and 400 WAYS TO KILL A VAMPIRE, which he will either make into a novel or die trying, either option sounding as good as the other.
Tagged American International Pictures, Arrow Video, Blood Bath, Donna Lucas, Jack Hill, Operacija Ticijan, Operation Titian, Patrick Magee, Rados Novakovic, Roger Corman, Stephanie Rothman, Tim Lucas, Track of the Vampires, William Campbell
Bill Mulligan's earliest movie memory is of watching THE BLACK SCORPION on a black and white TV with a level of definition that barely qualified as "static". This initiation served him well in his subsequent quest to see as many marginal genre movies as possible, under any conditions necessary. If they contained stop motion animation, all the better. A half century of watching movies has given him the perspective that comes with encroaching death. He will gladly tell you of the sublime chars of Mario Bava, Paul Blaisdell, Ray Harryhausen, and Roger Corman, as well as the good old days when there were only 3 channels on TV but ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS was on at least once a month, as opposed to now when there are approximately eleventy billion channels and no crab monsters of any kind. Also, the music of these kids today is just noise. His love for practical special effects and makeup has, to his utter amazement, yielded great results as, for the last decade, he has been able to live his dream of making low budget horror films with like minded lunatics in the great North Carolina indie film community. Four feature films and over a dozen shorts, as effects technician, actor, writer and director. His work can be seen in KNOB GOBLINS, THE FOREVER DEAD, FISTFUL OF BRAINS, A FEW BRAINS MORE, FIX IT IN POST. CACHE ME IF YOU CAN and 400 WAYS TO KILL A VAMPIRE, which he will either make into a novel or die trying, either option sounding as good as the other.
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