These cute labels are perfect for wine favors!
Planning on having wine at your next party or event? Here are a few tips to help you skip the "whine" and enjoy the "wine"!
First, decide if you want to use the wine list provided by your caterer or you want to choose your own wines (if allowed). Don't hesitate to ask questions about the wines on the caterer's list. If you are really undecided, the caterer may let you try some or give you the wine names so you can try them at home before making a final decision. Keep in mind that if you decide you want to choose wines not on the list, caterers will often charge a fee to obtain and/or serve the wine.
Second, decide what types of wines to serve. You can pick wines that pair well with the food you're serving or simply your favorite wines. If you decide not to serve wine with dinner, you can offer it during cocktail hour and afterwards with dessert. Is your event in the summer or winter? Guests tend to drink more red wine in the colder months and sip more whites in the summer.
Third, calculate how much wine you will need. If you're sourcing it through a caterer, they will probably help you figure out this number. If you're supplying the wine yourself, there are several factors to take into consideration. What time of day is your event (guests tend to drink more in the evening)? Are you serving any other drinks besides wine (are your guests a mix of beer and wine drinkers)? A general rule of thumb is to assume guests will consume one drink per hour. For example, 40 guests + 4 hours = 2-3 cases of wine (estimating you will pour 5 – 5 oz glasses per 750 ml bottle).
Last, have fun! You want your guests to have a good time at your party, so why not make the wine fun too. Here are a few fun and useful ideas if your party turns into a wine-themed party!
Cover all the bottles with numbered bags and give guests cards to write down their guesses about each wine. They can guess the region, year and grape. Have a prize (like these fun wine cork flash drives!) for whoever gets the most correct.
Give each guest a notepad or cards to write notes about which wines they liked and didn't like. At the end of the night, have a raffle where guests can win a bottle of their favorite wine that night to take home.
Serve desserts with your wines or different cheeses. Have signs to explain which wine pairs with which food and why.
Need an easy way to remember your glass? Use colored sharpie markers to write guests' names on the bottom of the wine glasses. It will wash right off at the end of the night!


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Q: Save On My Domain Class Object Is Not Working. I have a User class which has a List field namely pt. This field is not initialized  when User register his account. But when user goes this controller action :
def updatePt() {
       //performs some action
       def user = User.get(springSecurityService.principal.id)  //find the user
       user.pt = []
       //on certain conditions i put values into user.pt like this
       user.pt << "E"
       //at last I save it
       user.save()
}

But using user/show action via scaffolding I found that pt field is not saved on users object. Where I'm making a mistake?

A: It's possible because of validation error. Try with
if (!user.save()) {
   log.error('User not saved')
   user.errors.each {
       log.error('User error: $it')
   }
}

PS or you can use println instead of log.error

A: You have to provide a static mapping in the Users domain class so that Grails knows the field must be persisted:
class User {
    static hasMany = [pt: String]
}

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UWG's Theatre Virtually Produces 'I and You'
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By Alma Beauvais / November 20, 2020
Though live entertainment took a big blow this year due to COVID-19, UWG's theatre company offered virtual performances to keep theatre alive.
UWG actors performed in front of cameras rather than an audience for the production of I And You, directed by Amy Cuomo. Students have access to online viewing through Broadway on Demand from Nov. 11 through Nov. 20, 2020.
I And You is the second Fearless production of the UWG's theatre company for the 2020-2021 season. It is a contemporary play written by Lauren Gunderson dealing with the ephemeral yet profound connection between two teenagers.
The plot revolves around a long conversation between Caroline and an unexpected visitor, her popular classmate Anthony. The pair talk about life and death while exploring Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass for a class project. Since Caroline is homebound due to illness, the entirety of the play takes place in one setting—her bedroom.
What's captivating about this play is how it presents the conversation, which begins awkwardly and very lightly. However, as the conversation evolves, it reveals the complexity of adolescent life by perfectly touching important topics that are familiar to most high school students and young adults, such as the fear of not fitting in society and the fear of dying.
Though the play starts as a comedy, the ending will make any audience speechless. While the audience realizes the importance of Leaves of Grass to the meaning of the story, the information given by the protagonists makes total sense at the end. Further, a fascinating element of the play lies in the decoration which foreshadows the ending. Indeed, the Romeo and Juliet poster works as a subtle reference to another brief connection between two young lovers. As the story unfolds, the similarities are strongly apparent.
While the action is seen through video, the audience gets a clear sense of Caroline's personality thanks to the actor's placement on set and the cameras' tracking shots. Throughout the play, Caroline and Anthony constantly move, which allows for the discovery of Caroline's bedroom. The bedroom is filled with Caroline's pictures, revealing her passion for photography and her love for cats, which makes her personable for the audience. Overall, the actors seemed as comfortable on camera as they would be during a live production.
Watching a play on video is an odd experience, and not everyone will appreciate it. Yet, the on-screen performance did not prevent viewers from enjoying the play. UWG's production of I and You was refreshing. The actors did a good job occupying the space while being followed by the cameras. Although there were a few jump cuts, camera shake, and some audio inconsistencies at times that took away from the production value of the play, the production crew's effort to offer this performance amid the pandemic is commendable.
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Secrets of the Meyerson: The Organ
by Bill Zeeble 8 Sep 2014
The Meyerson's majestic Lay Family Organ is one of the symphony hall's greatest assets – a beautiful "monster" that can rattle the seats and wow the virtuosi. So why don't we hear it more often?
Listen to the story that aired on KERA FM
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Dallas audiences next get a chance to hear if it's magic for them, this Thursday as a part of a "Rush Hour Concert" at 6 p.m.
You can watch a performance of Finale from Mendelssohn's Organ Sonata No. 1 by the Dallas Symphony's resident organist, Mary Preston at our interactive web site, Secrets of the Meyerson.
The Lay Family organ made its debut in 1992, three years after the Meyerson opened. Camille Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony No. 3 capped the inaugural concert. It's the rare classical work that almost perfectly marries the organ and the orchestra. And on that night, Dallas heard a new instrument almost perfectly matched to its home.
"The Lay Family Organ at the Meyerson Center is one of the great organs of the world without question, in one of the great halls," says Michael Barone. He knows. He's host of the award-winning radio show Pipedreams. "What makes the hall wonderful is that its acoustics are adjustable, and can be made quite extravagant. And when opened up to the full, the resonance chambers really do make quite a splash of sound…"
That resonance thrills audiences and makes the organ sound like it's been lifted out of a grand European Cathedral, says Dallas Morning News critic Scott Cantrell. "The more reverberation there is the more they like it. So in a solo recital you can open up all those reverb chambers and get this incredible swim of sound there, although it never gets muddy."
The Dallas Symphony's organist Mary Preston praises builder, C.B. Fisk, for that accomplishment. "This is a glorious instrument because each of the stops is very pure. Each of the sounds of the ranks of pipes are very pure in and of themselves," she says. Preston has played with the DSO for 20 years. "Some organs, in order to get a pretty sound, you need to pull out a whole bunch of stops, meaning engage a whole range of pipes. On this instrument it's not so. This instrument has beautiful sounds each and every one of them." She adds that purity comes from the pipes. You can see 70 of them in the hall.
Mary Preston has been the Dallas Symphony's resident organist for the past 20 years. Photo: Dane Walters
The rest, says retired DSO Vice President Mark Melson, are hidden in back, up some skinny steps. "We're in the organ loft behind the organ consul and the organ pipes. There are over 4000 pipes. They're crammed into this 6-foot deep space," he points out. The smallest pipe's about an inch long. The 32-foot tallest pipe is so big a person can stand up inside it. It can play a note a full octave below anything the orchestra can.
"Even when you don't quite hear it, there's just this low rumble that's not so much a pitch but an experience," describes Michael Barone. "When the full organ is going, when you pull on the big 32-foot Bombard, it's not just the sound. It's the "wow" impact of the sound vibrating your whole body." Which leaves fans and musicians like Mary Preston with a desire seemingly as big as the instrument. "It would be wonderful if we could play it more," Preston says.
Dallas Morning News classical music critic Scott Cantrell is a little more emphatic. "People want to hear this instrument. There it is. It's right at the front of the hall. It's an enormous presence. People often ask me does it ever get used? And I have to say, well, almost never."
There was an international organ competition. Launched in the 90s, three were held, then its top champions retired or moved away. An ailing economy helped kill it. But some of that's about to change. The orchestra plans to program more selections that include the organ. And this coming season, the symphony will re-launch an organ recital series. Jonathan Martin, DSO President and CEO, says it will include three concerts with international soloists. He thinks, "You know, we've got this great car in the driveway and we need to take it out and drive it more."
Barone believes the effort will pay off once people open up to this monster that Mozart called the King of Instruments, and realize the organ, which predates Christianity, isn't just for church. "It is the most complicated of musical instruments and yet to be able to make it sing, to make it touch your heart, to be able to create emotions with this machine is quite magical."
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For many, MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l'immobilier) has marked the four most important dates in the calendar. It can set the scene for the year and be the start of many a profitable relationship. It is no stranger to well-rehearsed and very thoughtful conversations. So the question is, after the last 12 months, what is the mood of the real estate industry? Is it downbeat or upbeat? Or is it one of cautious optimism?
If the morning of the first day was anything to go by, the 'mood music' for the UK is very upbeat. Many are leaving the changes of Brexit to one side. They are also not discussing the additional changes imposed on the UK or picking one side or the other. Instead, the picture is changing and there are some very clear messages.
The market is more competitive and for investment funding it is becoming increasingly an international market. Significant progress is being made by African and Asian trade blocs in expanding their free trade initiatives (some lessons to learn for the UK perhaps).
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is now the third-largest trade bloc in the world, increasing globalisation of business ownership and supply chains means organisations need to put more effort into building cross-border relationships with the private sector, trade bodies and governments in other countries, and high-growth emerging markets in particular.
Relationships can serve as both sources of capital and information. Understanding different cultures, new ways of doing business and the opportunities and threats in different regions will help businesses delving into new terrain to work on an international scale.
It is important to ensure that the UK creates the right structures – be it regions, the northern powerhouses, city regions or sectors – and they must work together, as the scale of the competition cannot be under-estimated; the scale of some of the new cities in China is mind-blowing.
With all that said, global investors still like the UK, as the location (time zone advantage) and history creates a very stable rule of law and the transparency and professionalism of business still maintains. Add to this the current currency devaluation.
There is a clear message from MIPIM that for the UK to really drive and to compete there needs to be more 'clusters', either from a sector or regional approach.
With such clear vision (cities must be able to articulate their offer) and cohesion, investment and funding will follow. As these clusters evolve, they need to improve their productivity and enable regeneration, which improving the infrastructure which joins them. Within these ecosystems driving up skills also becomes important.
One issue which came to the surface when trying to make sense of the conference agenda is the move from real estate as a financial asset, to real estate as a product and more significantly, to real estate as a service. It is a move away from a transactional focus to added value.
In the various conferences and network meetings, the conversation matured from product to service at a building level, as well as focusing on the wider urban level, with urbanisation continuing to be a buzz word for the industry.
Continuing from the thoughts raised by day one, if the UK is to compete in an international market, successful communities and cities need to attract the most diverse number of people to collaborate effectively and share resources, whether that is infrastructure, technology, cultural facilities or ideas.
The UK's buildings, towns and cities need to be living ecosystems that adapt and evolve. This is essential. In the past 10 years there has been significant technology change, but the level of opportunity hasn't always been met with an industry that is quick to adopt. Perhaps now, the real estate market and MIPIM is maturing rapidly.
However, as the political landscape is becoming more disruptive, it is important not to ignore the disruptive trends, as they will become too important to ignore. In the same vein, one of the long-standing mantra that all in the real estate market stand by is the value in bricks, mortar and location. Should the talk now be of adding to the value of the services, usability, adaptability and service quality of the property?
This results in a perception that returns will flow with little need for active interaction between owner/investor and occupier/user. If this can be done right, this will lead to new business models, new structures with multiple layers of investors and outsourced service providers.
As always MIPIM continues to inspire and provoke interesting conversations and debates. In an exciting and fast-changing world, events like MIPIM are an essential channel for bringing the industry together to review, reflect, regroup and get ready for the next challenge.
The Day 1 article was originally published here, Day 2 here by BRE Buzz. They were written by Martin Townsend.


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China's Civilian Army - The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
Narrator Derek Perkins
Publisher: Tantor Audio
China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front line: China's diplomats. They give a rare perspective on the greatest geopolitical drama of the last half century.Little is known or understood about the inner workings of the Chinese government as the country bursts onto the world stage, as the world's second largest economy and an emerging military superpower. China's Diplomats embody its battle between insecurity and self-confidence, internally and externally. To this day, Chinese diplomats work in pairs so that one can always watch the other for signs of ideological impurity. They're often dubbed China's "wolf warriors" for their combative approach to asserting Chinese interests.Drawing for the first time on the memoirs of more than a hundred retired diplomats as well as author Peter Martin's first-hand reporting as a journalist in Beijing, this groundbreaking book blends history with current events to tease out enduring lessons about the kind of power China is set to become. It is required for anyone who wants to understand China's quest for global power, as seen from the inside.
Duration: about 11 hours (10:33:49)
Publishing date: 2022-01-18; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2022. Copyright Statment: —
Peter Martin was born in Argentina and educated in America. He has taught English literature at universities here and in England, and is the author of the recently acclaimed Life of James Boswell....


Fancy faux leather sleeper sofas? These will give you an creative measures in order to decorate your sofa furniture more wonderful. The important tips of making the perfect faux leather sleeper sofas is that you must to get the plans of the sofa that you want. Also important to start getting inspirations of sofa's concept or colors from the architect or designer.
Another serious things of the sofa's remodel and decoration is about the perfect arrangement. Pick the sofa furniture maybe a simple thing to do, but make sure to the arrangement and decor must be totally match and perfect to the particular space. Also regarding to choosing the right sofa furniture's decor, the functionality and practicality should be your essential things. Having some instructions and guidelines gives people a right starting point for decorating and designing their house, but the problem is some of them aren't practical for a particular space. So, just keep the simplicity and efficiently to make your sofa looks beautiful.
Provided that, faux leather sleeper sofas perhaps the right design ideas for your sofa's layout, but personality and characteristic is what makes a space looks stunning. Make your perfect styles and enjoy it! The more we make trial, more often we can view which perfect and which doesn't. The best and easiest method to get your sofa furniture's style that you want is to start collecting concept or plans. You can get from home design magazines, website, etc, and save the galleries of sofa that wonderful.
In short, if you're designing your interior, functional concept is in the details. You can ask to the home planner or find the beautiful inspirations for every interior from magazines. For your inspirations, explore these pictures of faux leather sleeper sofas, these can be gorgeous designs you can select for comfy or beautiful home. Don't forget to take attention about related sofa topics so you will find a completely enchanting decor result about your home.
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Patong is a large beach resort on the west coast of Phuket and is the heart of the island. It became one of the most popular attractions in Phuket thanks to its gorgeous white sand beach with crystal clear water and its world famous bustling nightlife. Home to upscale hotels, countless entertainment complexes and world class restaurants, Patong Beach welcomes tourists from all over the world, who wish to experience this big, crowded, bright and loud place globally renowned. Patong Beach registers the highest occupancy rate of the island and constitutes Phuket's heart of tourism. Its dynamism and popularity largely favour rental investments.
Investing in Thailand is nowadays a credible option to consider. With a healthy economy, excellent infrastructures, a major tourist attraction, a structured real estate market offering a good quality for its value, a low taxation and a clear law regarding real estate property, the country mixes all the required elements to realize a safe investment.Thanks to the stunning attractiveness of the region, the real estate market in Thailand knows a steady evolution of prices. Patong, Kata and Surin maintains their high level and offers one of the most luxury properties of the region. Due to its strategic location, its high-end infrastructures and its international airport, the island offers unique conditions to invest in an attractive and dynamic area. Facing this fondness, the local real estate has been modeled according to the new demanding inhabitants. The real estate offer perfectly meets the various expectations through different types of investments, from rental to residential, by way of speculative investments. Besides, the occupancy rate of rental properties remains high -around 75%-, which is a good element to know for future investors.
In Thailand, the law considers that a foreigner cannot own a land. The land where is built the property will be rented for a period between 30 and 90 years. Besides, the purchase is made in foreign currency (the bath, which is the Thai currency is not used).
As for the purchase of a condominium, the buyer will receive a "full ownership title" thanks to the "condominium license" but only if the good is legally registered as such.
It is encouraged to contact a professional of the real-estate market in the area to know the different steps of the buying process. It is well advised to be careful of unscrupulous vendors who might propose you a land or even a property he does not own.
The period from May to October corresponds to the rainy season. As Phuket is close to the equator, the effects of the monsoon are reduced even if the sea can be rough.The region enjoys a tropical wet climate with steady and warm temperatures all over the year. During this period, it is not always raining but there are high rainfalls with overcast sky. However, this season can be a nice way to discover the island without the traditional crowds of tourists and benefiting from attractive prices.
From November to April, it is the dry season. The month of March can be the best compromise between crowd and weather : tourists are fewer and prices are cheaper while the monsoon has not starting yet. This period provides an enjoyable climate to take advantage of the dream beaches and discover the stunning landscapes and temperatures are around 30 degrees.
The period from December to February is the best one as the weather is dry, it hardly ever rains, there is a blue sky and temperatures are pleasant and not particularly too much high. However, it also corresponds to the busiest period of the year. Mainly in January and February, hords of tourists arrive in Phuket to discover the stunning island. Prices skyrocket and places are crowded.
The exclusive Freedom beach is a 300m-long strip of white sand set in a splendid bay with granite rocks and crystal blue waters. The surroundings are characterized by hills covered by thick and luxuriant jungle, a natural gem. Its exclusivity is due to its difficult accessibility and its untouched aspect. Freedom beach is one of the nicest spots to practice snorkelling as the area hosts superb underwater fauna and flora. You will enjoy tranquility as jet-skis and other noisy marine leisure activities are forbidden in Freedom beach.
The Muay Thai Boxing Stadium is probably the most famous boxing stadium in Phuket. It attracts both fighters and spectators from all over the world to attend this spectacular show. The ancient Thai martial art is a traditional fighting that remains very popular in Thailand as it is the national sport. In Muay Thai, fighters can use their fists, elbows, knees and feet and they box faster than for traditional boxing. Attending such a show can be an unprecedented experience for the first time viewer thanks to the electric ambiance, traditional rituals. It allows to discover the Thai culture and its friendly locals.
If you want to discover how to cook Thai food specialities, the Pum Thai Cooking School is the perfect place. It focuses on learning Thai recipes that you will be able to cook once back home thanks to ingredients you will find in your own country. Students choose from a large selection of more than 40 recipes which they want to learn, from curries, soups, noodles and even morel. Classes range from one to six hours and all students receive a recipe book as well as a certificate when they attended longer classes.
Apartment with 7% rental yield for 15 years.
Apartment with roof terrace access and relaxation area.
Flat with contract of recovery and rental yield 7% during 15 years.
Ideally located, close to the beach and the city center.
Apartment overlooking the sea. Furniture very soft, taupe colors.
Possibility of occupation of 2 weeks per year with rental guarantee of 7% for 5 years in full ownership.
The Cottages nestles in the heart of nature, on a hillside with a view overlooking Patong Bay. Take care of your "Cottage" for one month a year and enjoy the quiet environment, the sea view from the terrace and the private Jacuzzi.


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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. ("the Company") today announced that it has executed a site agreement with AES Shady Point, LLC ("AESSP") to host the Company's pilot plant at its power plant in LeFlore County, Oklahoma (the "Site Agreement"). The Company believes the execution of this Site Agreement is a major milestone in the commercialization of its unique processes. The Company's modular pilot plant is scheduled to be delivered to the Oklahoma facility within the next six weeks for commissioning and testing.
The construction, commissioning and testing of the Company's pilot plant at Shady Point is being conducted by Science Applications International Corporation ("SAIC"), under the terms of an EPC agreement signed earlier this year with the Company, as previously reported in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 5, 2013. Although the pilot plant has been engineered by SAIC around the Company's unique concept for upgrading high moisture coal, a key component of the pilot plant is a devolatizer section that is also the core of the Company's Pristine and Pristine-SA clean coal processes. Together with certain front end test equipment under design by Carrier Vibrating Equipment of Louisville, Kentucky, the Company believes it will have put into place a very robust platform to rigorously test coal types from anywhere in the world, reliably generating key data to inform the design and functioning of commercial scale modules using any of the Company's proprietary processes.
The Site Agreement term is eight months, with active operations scheduled for approximately 8 weeks including ramp-up and shut-down. The agreement calls for the Company to pay AESSP approximately $94,000 for the use of the site, with additional pro-rated fees due if active operations continue for more than the planned 8 week period.
Also included in the Site Agreement, the Company has agreed to extend to AES Corporation, AESSP's parent corporation ("AES"), concessional terms for a future technology license on royalties and license fees that will be charged to the Company's anticipated commercial clients. Such terms would apply in the United States or anywhere in the world where AES has majority-owned operations.
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The information included in Item 1.01 above is incorporated herein by this reference. A press release announcing the signing of the Site Agreement is attached to this Report as an exhibit.
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VIDEO of moment blaze begins at busy shopping mall in Russia's Kemerovo
CCTV footage has emerged online showing the moment when one of the deadliest fires in Russia's recent history ignited, engulfing a crowded shopping mall last weekend, leaving at least 64 people dead.
Footage published on social media purportedly shows the top floor of the shopping mall in Russia's western Siberian city of Kemerovo, where the blaze started on Sunday afternoon. A children's playground is visible in the background, which eventually becomes engulfed in flames. People, including some children, can be seen running as thick smoke fills the premises.
The video supports one of the early accounts of the incident, suggesting that a trampoline caught fire as a result of a child allegedly playing with a lighter. However, no official version of events surrounding the blaze has been announced so far.
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MBA Colleges in Central America
The Virgin Islands (Virgin Islands) was thus named by Columbus in 1493 as a tribute to Santa Ursula and its 11,000 virgins. When Columbus arrived, the islands were populated by cariber and Arawak people, but by the middle of the 16th century the Europeans had succeeded in exterminating them all.
From 1872, the archipelago was incorporated into the British administration of the Caribbean islands, administered on the basis of federal principles. The federation was dissolved in 1956, but until 1960 the governor remained responsible for the administration of the British Virgin Islands. This year, the administration transitioned to an administrator appointed by the British Crown. Unlike the other British Isles, the Virgin Islands did not form part of the West Indies (1958-62), but instead wanted to make close links with the other part of the archipelago controlled by the United States (see Virgin Islands, American).
The British became owners of the eastern part of the archipelago in the 18th century, and with African slave labor they built up a production of sugar cane, the dye indigo and cotton. By the middle of the 18th century, the slave population was already 7,000 people – 6 times more than the British settlers. It was not until the 1830's that slavery was abolished.
In the 20th century, the colony was ruled on the basis of a variety of constitutions. In 1967, the country gained its first government, after the first elections in the country's history. In 1977, the Constitution was amended to expand self-government and implement changes to the electoral system. Responsibility for defense, internal security and foreign policy remained in the hands of the governor. He was appointed by the British Crown.
In the 1979 parliamentary elections, the independent candidates won 5 of the 9 seats. The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) won the remaining 4.5 years later the Independents won only one seat, but through an alliance with United Party (UP) managed to get the Prime Minister post.
Tourism contributes 45% of national income, while fishing is the traditional profession. With the elimination of taxes, the islands became an ideal place for banking. Sand and gravel are the two most important export items, while examining the islands' subsidence for copper deposits.
In August 1986, the British government dissolved the parliament and held new elections a few days after the opposition presented a vote of no confidence in Chief Minister Cyril Romney. In the September elections, VIP won 5 of the 9 seats, UP 2 and the independent 2nd VIP's leader, Levity Stoutt was appointed new Chief Minister.
In March 1988, Prime Minister Omar Hodge was accused of corruption and resigned. He was replaced by former UP leader Ralph O'Neal, who joined VIP. However, Omar Hodge maintained his innocence. In March 1989, he created a new party, the Independent Popular Movement (IPM), and in 1990, Hodge won a case in the courts for defamation.
In the November elections, VIP increased its number of seats to 6, while IPM gained 1 and the independent 2. Stoutt retained the post of prime minister and O'Neal was elected prime minister.
Due. drug trafficking and following recommendations from the UK government, a law was passed to monitor foreign banking companies. They needed to be licensed to operate, and had to accept periodic inspections. The authorities believed that the banks were largely involved in money laundering.
In October 1991, Peter Alfred Penfold was appointed governor.
As a result of the rapidly rising tourism on the coasts, the environment was exposed to increasing pressure. This was especially true of the coral reefs.
In the February 1995 election, VIP regained its 6 seats, IPM gained 3, while Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM), like UP, gained 2. Following H. Lavity Stoutt's death, Ralph O'Neal took over the post of prime minister on May 15, 1995, and the month after David Mackilligin was appointed new governor.
In 1995, only 3% of the population was affected by unemployment, economic growth was 4% and per capita income was $ 10,200. In July 1997, the government adopted a three-year development plan, which included: included an extension of the port and the building of 2 tourist centers.
In 1998, the British Crown appointed Frank Savage as governor. In the May 1999 election, VIP received 38% of the vote and 8 seats. The National Democratic Party got 36.9% and 5 seats, while the remaining 4% went to CCM, which got 1 seat. The independent candidates obtained a total of 13.4% of the vote, but due to the distribution of votes no one was elected.
The government implemented road works and other infrastructure projects in the outer islands, and in its December 2001 submission of the 2002 budget, O'Neal emphasized the importance of infrastructure for tourism development at Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke.
In May 2004, a new office was created to combat money laundering. Chief Minister Orlando Smith declared that the Financial Investigation Agency should step up efforts to ensure honesty and transparency in financial matters.
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Profiles 8
Known For Acting
Known Credits 113
Birthday 1968-11-05 (54 years old)
Place of Birth Daly City, California, USA
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Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco, where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were spent with his mother in New York.
He made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother, and later attended J Eugene McAteer High School in a program called SOTA. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse (1989). The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. His next big break was supposed to have come when he was slated to star in a short-lived NBC TV-series called Dream Street (1989), but he was soon fired.
After graduating from high school, Sam returned to New York for good and for two years he had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials (1972): Over the Limit (1990) (TV) and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992): Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); and a guest-star turn in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Law & Order (1990), while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.
His performances in The Green Mile (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999) wowed audiences and critics alike with his chameleon-like performances as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter.
More recently, he appeared in another string of mainstream films, most notably as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000) and as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), while continuing to perform in smaller independent movies. After more than ten years in the business, Sam has earned his success. In 2018, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as a troubled police deputy in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
— Argylle
— Untitled Martin McDonagh Project
— Untitled Merle Haggard Biopic as Merle Haggard
— The Heart
— The Adventures of Drunky as Drunky
2022 See How They Run as Inspector Stoppard
2022 The Last Movie Stars (2 episodes) as Stuart Rosenberg (voice) (2 episodes) as Self
2022 Maraschino Ruby as Mr. Wolf (voice)
2022 The Bad Guys as Wolf (voice)
2020 The One and Only Ivan as Ivan (voice)
2020 Home Movie: The Princess Bride (1 episode) as Westley
2020 Trolls World Tour as Hickory (voice)
2019 Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
2019 Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary as Self
2019 Jojo Rabbit as Captain Klenzendorf
2019 Fosse/Verdon (8 episodes) as Bob Fosse
2019 The Best of Enemies as Claiborne Paul Ellis
2018 Vice as George W. Bush
2018 Blue Iguana as Eddie
2018 Blaze as Oilman 3
2018 The Origins of Ebbing as Himself/''Dixon''
2018 Woman Walks Ahead as Silas Groves
2018 Mute as Sam Bell
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
2017 The Dark of Night as Officer Witt
2017 Axis as Himself
2016 Mr. Right as Mr. Right
2015 Don Verdean as Don Verdean
2015 Digging for Fire as Ray
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2 episodes) as Self
2015 Poltergeist as Eric Bowen
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden (2 episodes) as Self
2014 Laggies as Craig Hunter
2014 Loitering with Intent as Wayne
2014 Better Living Through Chemistry as Douglas Varney
2014 Showing Up as Self
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 episode) as Self
2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones (1 episode) as Self
2014 Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Justin Hammer
2013 A Case of You as Gary
2013 Schooled: The Price of College Sports as Narrator (voice)
2013 A Single Shot as John Moon
2013 Drunk History (1 episode) as Bugsy Siegal
2013 The Way Way Back as Owen
2013 Trust Me as Aldo
2012 Seven Psychopaths as Billy Bickle
2011 The Sitter as Karl
2011 Cowboys & Aliens as Doc
2011 Gettysburg as Narrator
2010 Conviction as Kenny Waters
2010 Iron Man 2 as Justin Hammer
2010 F--k as Sam
2009 Everybody's Fine as Robert
2009 Gentlemen Broncos as Bronco / Brutus
2009 G-Force as Darwin the Guinea Pig (voice)
2009 Moon as Sam Bell
2009 The Winning Season as Bill
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008 Frost/Nixon as James Reston Jr.
2008 Choke as Victor Mancini
2008 The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw as Himself
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
2007 Snow Angels as Glenn Marchand
2007 Joshua as Brad Cairn
2005 Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005 Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005 Nobody Wants Your Film
2005 Robin's Big Date as The Bat-Man
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Zaphod Beeblebrox
2005 Unscripted (1 episode) as Himself
2004 Piccadilly Jim as Jim Crocker
2003 Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Chuck Barris
2002 13 Moons as Rick
2002 Welcome to Collinwood as Pero
2001 Heist as Jimmy Silk
2001 Made as Hotel Clerk
2001 BigLove as Nate
2000 Charlie's Angels as Eric Knox
2000 Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self (uncredited)
1999 Galaxy Quest as Guy Fleegman
1999 The Green Mile as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Francis Flute
1998 Jerry and Tom as Jerry
1998 Celebrity as Darrow Entourage
1998 Safe Men as Sam
1997 Lawn Dogs as Trent Burns
1997 Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground as Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
1997 Drunks as Tony
1997 Prince Street (6 episodes)
1997 Arresting Gena as Sonny
1996 Box of Moonlight as The Kid
1996 Basquiat as Thug
1995 Mercy as Matty
1995 Glory Daze as Rob
1994 The Search for One-eye Jimmy as One-eye Jimmy
1994 Somebody to Love as Polish Guy
1992 In the Soup as Pauli
1992 Light Sleeper as Jealous
1992 Happy Hell Night as Young Henry Collins
1992 Jack and His Friends as Louie
1991 Strictly Business as Gary
1990 Law & Order (1 episode) as Officer Weddeker (1 episode) as Randy Borland
1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Head Thug
1989 Last Exit to Brooklyn as Al
1989 Clownhouse as Randy
1985 The Equalizer (1 episode) as Slick
1975 Saturday Night Live (1 episode) as Self - Host / Various
1953 The Oscars (1 episode) as Self
— The Smack … Producer
2021 No Longer Suitable For Use … Executive Producer
2020 Sweet Thing … Producer
2019 Fosse/Verdon (8 episodes) … Executive Producer
2018 Blue Iguana … Executive Producer
2013 A Single Shot … Executive Producer
2009 The Winning Season … Executive Producer
2005 Domino … Thanks
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Ars Electronica Blog
School of the Future
Klasse! Lernen. 2022: These are the best projects
The Austria-wide education award "Klasse! Lernen" honors pupils and teachers who integrate digital tools creatively and sustainably into the classroom. We took a closer look at the main prize and the two Awards of Distinction.
"We have to invent the future we want"
Therefore, it needs people who have a feeling for change and recognize contexts, develop new strategies and set the course. And that is precisely where we want to support companies from now on.
"Technology will be part of the solution"
Shortly before Christmas, Katharina Hof, cultural mediator at the Ars Electronica Center, gave a lecture entitled "Anatomy of an AI System" to roughly 500 students at the HTL Neufelden. How it happened and what the lecture was about was revealed to us by the school's director, Walter Jungwirth.
Space to think: Ars Electronica Art Thinking School
"Art Thinking is not a methodology, but an attitude", says Ars Electronica Futurelab curator and key researcher Hideaki Ogawa. As such, Art Thinking can be cultivated – which is precisely the aim of the new initiative Art Thinking School, premiering at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival.
Just for Fun? Playful learning!
Feel young again? The Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer adults a mental rejuvenation cure through a fresh, young approach to current topics and give children and teenagers the freedom to breathe life into Artificial Intelligence with pleasure and in the self-experiment.
Discussions about the Future in the School of the Future
School of the Future creates the setting for discussions about technology, society and art right in the middle of Tokyo. The format consists of a regular series of temporary exhibitions and round-table discussions that the Ars Electronica Futurelab stages in the Tokyo Midtown complex in the heart of Japan's megalopolis. Sound interesting? Read on!


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	//
	// A fixed-size, lockfree queue.
	//
	//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	template<class type>
	class LockFreeQueue
	{
	public:
		class Node
		{
		public:
			type mValue;
			std::atomic<Node*> mNext;

			Node(type value)
				: mValue(value)
			{
				mNext = nullptr;
			}
		};

		std::atomic<Node*> mHead;
		std::atomic<Node*> mTail;

		LockFreeQueue()
		{
			mHead = new Node(type());
			mTail = mHead.load();
		}

		~LockFreeQueue()
		{
			while (mHead.load())
			{
				Node* first = mHead.load();
				mHead = first->mNext.load();
				delete first;
			}
		}

		void Enq(type value)
		{
			Node* node = new Node(value);
			while (true)
			{
				Node* last = mTail.load();
				Node* next = last->mNext.load();
				// Testing shared varialbes one more is helpful to mitigate bus contention.
				// This technique is called test-and-test-and-set, TTAS.
				if (last == mTail)
				{
					if (next == nullptr)
					{
						if (last->mNext.compare_exchange_strong(next, node))
						{
							// from prior senctence to this, it is not atomic.
							// every other method call must be prepared to encounter a half-finiched enq() call,
							// and to finish the job.
							// This is called "helping" technique.
							mTail.compare_exchange_weak(last, node);
							return;
						}
					}
					else
					{
						mTail.compare_exchange_weak(last, next);
					}
				}
			}
		}

		type Deq()
		{
			while (true)
			{
				Node* first = mHead.load();
				Node* last = mTail.load();
				Node* next = first->mNext.load();
				if (first == mHead)
				{
					if (first == last)
					{
						if (next == nullptr)
							return 0; // empty

						mTail.compare_exchange_weak(last, next);
					}
					else
					{
						type value = next->mValue;
						if (mHead.compare_exchange_strong(first, next))
						{
							delete first;
							return value;
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}

		bool TryDeq(type& outData)
		{
			Node* first = mHead.load();
			Node* last = mTail.load();
			Node* next = first->mNext.load();
			if (first == mHead)
			{
				if (first == last)
				{
					if (next == nullptr)
						return false;

					mTail.compare_exchange_weak(last, next);
				}
				else
				{
					type value = next->mValue;
					if (mHead.compare_exchange_strong(first, next))
					{
						delete first;
						outData = value;
						return true;
					}
				}
			}
			return false;
		}

		type SeeCur()
		{
			return mHead.load()->mNext->mValue;
		}
	};
}

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The Federal Communications Commission has said it will propose new rules to allow content companies such as Disney, Google or Netflix to pay ISPs like Comcast and Verizon for faster lanes to send video to their subscribers.
The proposed changes effectively end the guarantee on net neutrality — the principle that no providers of legal Internet content should face discrimination in providing offerings to consumers, and that users should have equal access to see any legal content they choose.
The proposal comes three months after a federal appeals court struck down, for the second time, agency rules intended to guarantee neutrality.
Tom Wheeler, the FCC chairman, defended the agency's plans, saying speculation that the FCC was "gutting the open Internet rule" is wrong. Rather, he said, the new rules will provide for net neutrality along the lines of the appeals court's decision.
But the regulations will reshape how Internet content is delivered to consumers. If a content company cannot afford the fast track to players, customers could lose interest in its product. The rules are also likely to raise prices as the likes of Disney and Netflix pass on to customers whatever they pay for the speedier access.
Consumer groups attacked the proposal, saying that not only would costs rise, but also that big, rich companies with the money to pay large fees to Internet service providers would be favored over small start-ups with innovative business models — stifling the birth of the next Facebook or Twitter.
Under the proposal, broadband providers will have to disclose how they treat all Internet traffic and on what terms they offer more rapid lanes, and would be required to act "in a commercially reasonable manner," agency officials said. That standard would be fleshed out as the agency seeks public comment.
The proposed rules will be circulated to the agency's other four commissioners beginning and will be released for public comment on May 15th. They are likely to be put to a vote by the full commission by the end of the year.


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Activist Investor Seeks Changes at Chip Maker
March 3, 2003 12:10 am ET
Investor Ralph Whitworth, who has a history of shaking up companies, is taking aim at National Semiconductor Corp.
Mr. Whitworth, in an interview, disclosed that he has acquired about 7% of the Silicon Valley chip maker's shares and has been pressing directors to improve what he regards as the company's unsatisfactory financial performance. He plans to seek two board seats and push for changes that would boost the stock price.
"There is no way to look at this other than that the board has failed to appropriately oversee this company," Mr. Whitworth said.
Over the weekend, National Semiconductor issued a statement saying that it is "committed to shareholder interests and to increasing shareholder returns." It cited a restructuring plan announced Feb. 20 as an example of that commitment, calling it "absolutely the right move, given the current environment."
National Semiconductor, of Santa Clara, Calif., was part of a pioneering chip-technology triumvirate with Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. But where those companies have focused in recent years on digital chips, particularly microprocessors that serve as the brains of personal computers, National gets about three-quarters of its revenue from analog chips, which amplify or process real-world signals such as sound, images or electrical power.


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Melt the butter in a large saucepan and reserving about 1 tbsp to grease 6 x 200ml soufflé dishes. Place the remaining butter back on the heat, then sprinkle over the flour and mix well. Cook for 5 mins, stirring constantly, then gradually whisk in the warm milk, a little at a time, until you have a thick, smooth mixture.
Stir in the Parmesan, mustard and thyme, then set aside to cool slightly.
Beat in the egg yolks, fold through the goat's cheese, season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a large bowl.
In a clean bowl, whisk the egg whites until they just start to stiffen and hold peaks. Fold the egg whites into the cheese mixture, a third at a time (it's important to fold in a third a time as this will allow the mixture to loosen and then to also retain the lightness of the egg whites – essential for a soufflé) Use a metal spoon or a rubber spatula. Not a wooden spoon, as this will make the mixture flatten also.
Spoon the mix into the soufflé dishes, then sit them in a roasting dish, lined with a cloth tea towel to prevent slipping. Pour boiling water into the baking dish to reach halfway up the sides of the soufflé dishes.
Bake the soufflés for 20-25 mins until they have risen and are coloured. Remove the dishes and set aside for 10 mins. Run a knife around the edges, then turn them out onto an oven-proof tray. The soufflés can now be kept covered in the fridge for 1 to 2 days.
To make the Parmesan glaze, whisk the cream, Parmesan and egg yolk until combined.
About 15 mins before you are ready to eat, heat oven to 180° fan forced or 200°c conventional.
Drizzle the tops of the soufflés with the glaze. Bake for 10 mins, then finally flash under the grill until the tops are golden.
Make the salad. Toss the salad leaves, apple, chives and walnuts. Mix the red wine vinegar and olive oil together, season, then dress the salad.
To serve, place the soufflés in the centre of the plates and scatter salad around each.


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Few cops we found using force on George Floyd protesters are known to have faced discipline
ProPublica compiled 68 videos that seemed to show officers using disproportionate force on protesters. A year later, police have disclosed discipline for a total of 10 officers.
Mollie Simon
SOURCEPro Publica
Last summer, ProPublica compiled 68 videos that appeared to show police officers using disproportionate force against protesters during the nationwide events following George Floyd's death in police custody.
We had culled the videos from hundreds circulating on social media in the wake of the protests and highlighted the cases that seemed to clearly show officers using disproportionate force. We then reached out to dozens of law enforcement agencies whose officers are in the videos and asked some straightforward questions: Have the officers' police departments investigated the incidents? And what consequences, if any, have the officers in the videos faced?
As time passed, we've been checking in with the departments to get their answers.
After a year, we wanted to give a final update on what we know: Departments have disclosed discipline for 10 officers.
A Seattle Police Department officer received a written reprimand for striking a protester with "six to eight punches over six seconds." In Grand Rapids, Michigan, an officer shot a man in the shoulder at close range with a long-range tear gas round. He received two days without pay. In Salt Lake City, an officer received "coaching and counseling" for using a shield to push an elderly man.
Six officers were initially fired, though two got their jobs back after a review. Criminal charges are also pending against 11 officers, including some who have already faced internal discipline.
In 17 cases that we followed, the departments have decided not to discipline the officers or could not identify them.
Investigations are still ongoing in 25 of the cases. This includes a high-profile case in Buffalo, New York, where two officers pushed a man backward, causing him to hit his head on the pavement. A grand jury dismissed felony assault charges against the officers, but a decision on departmental discipline is still pending.
Finally, in 18 instances, ProPublica could not determine the disciplinary outcome — either because the department did not respond or the department said it could not share the information.
The weaving journey of accountability has played out starkly around one of the cases in Atlanta.
In May 2020, the mayor announced the firing of two officers just a day after they were involved in the violent arrest of two college students who were pulled from a car.
But the officers quickly sued to get their jobs back, citing a lack of due process. In February, Atlanta's Civil Service Board agreed. The two officers are once again employed by the department but remain on administrative leave. The incident remains under investigation. Criminal charges have also been filed against the officers, including assault, though the district attorney who brought them has since been voted out of office.
One reason departments have declined to comment on the status of cases is that the incidents have been subject to litigation. But the back and forth on such suits can be illuminating.
Responding to a lawsuit by a protester who was hitby a Los Angeles Police Department vehicle, the city wrote that the "force used against plaintiff, if any, was caused and necessitated by the actions of plaintiff, and was reasonable and necessary for self-defense."
In about half of the cases we reviewed, including one resulting in discipline, the officer or officers involved have not been publicly identified. Sometimes, it's not even clear which law enforcement agency they worked for.
In Minneapolis, where Floyd's death occurred, sparking outrage across the world, a video captured the moment in May when officers patrolling a neighborhood fired paint rounds at a woman's home while enforcing a curfew.
A Minnesota National Guard spokesperson told ProPublica the agency was "not involved" in the incident. The Minneapolis Police Department said the incident was "not our agency." The Minnesota State Patrol said that it reviewed the video of the incident, and that "the officer who fired the marking round was not a State Patrol trooper." When asked which agency the officers who fired the paint round were from, the spokesperson said it was "unclear."
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Destroyer reviews: What do critics say about Nicole Kidman thriller?
DESTROYER sees Nicole Kidman take on a whole new look in her stunning performance as Erin Bell. What do critics have to say about the neo-noir thriller?
By Gabriella Geisinger
PUBLISHED: 19:49, Thu, Jan 24, 2019 | UPDATED: 19:56, Thu, Jan 24, 2019
Destroyer follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell. As a young cop, Bell was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
A Dog's Way Home reviews: What do critics say about A Dog's Way Home?
The Upside reviews: What are critics saying about The Upside?
What do critics say about Destroyer?
The neo-noir thriller directed by Karyn Kusama has received a respectable 71 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critics' consensus reads: Destroyer's gruelling narrative is as uncompromising as Nicole Kidman's central performance, which adds extra layers to a challenging film that leaves a lingering impact.
Jake Coyle for Associated Press:
While "Destroyer" can be overwrought and mechanical, it's an often gripping, well-crafted crime drama with a distinction of its own in the genre, an almost always male-dominated one.
Rafer Guzman for Newsday:
"Destroyer" is a worthwhile film, especially for moviegoers who love film noir in all its phases: The hard-boiled Bogart era, the nihilist takes of the 1960s and '70s, the neon-lit productions of the '80s.
VICE REVIEWS: WHAT DO CRITICS SAY ABOUT DICK CHENEY MOVIE?
Destroyer: The Nicole Kidman thriller has a positive 71 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (Image: AP)
Gary M. Kramer for Salon.com:
Despite the film's uneven qualities, "Destroyer" is compelling because of Kidman's unflinching performance.
The actress appears in every scene, and it's impossible to take one's eye off her.
She exudes a fierce determination that is alluring.
Peter Travers for Rolling Stone:
Nicole Kidman, playing a burned-out LAPD cop, proves she's as an actress who knows how to stay the course, no matter how twisty, tangled or down and dirty it gets. She's dynamite.
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Manohla Dargis for the New York Times:
Kusama is still figuring out how to balance form and pulp, but she has a singular unapologetic idea about what women can and cannot do onscreen, one she lets rip with verve and her superbly unbound star.
Mark Kennedy for Associated Press:
It's been a while since we've had a Los Angeles on the screen like this one.
Rachel Leishman for The Mary Sue:
Destroyer is hands down the best work Kidman has done yet, unafraid of inhabiting this incredibly raw character-one who is trying to understand pain in a new way, and it's definitely a movie you don't want to miss.
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Destroyer: Critics were over-all pleased with the movie by Karyn Kusama (Image: AP)
Sara Stewart the New York Post:
The particulars of the story are typical for the genre - a heist gone wrong, a slippery crime boss - but they're elevated to visceral levels by Kidman's hard-core performance...
Bilge Ebiri for New York Magazine/Vulture:
Kidman's performance as this broken, obsessed woman is powerful. Breathless, rasping through her teeth, she conveys both vulnerability and intractability.
April Wolfe for TheWrap:
Despite the film's needlessly fractured structure and a relentlessly grim story, Kidman and Kusama seem to be speaking the same language, illuminating the faults of the protagonist and of every tragic hard-boiled detective in cinematic history.
Linda Holmes for NPR:
Rarely are women cast in these roles of screwed-up, hard-boiled antiheroes with a lifetime of regrets to make up for, and even if this is your basic LA noir, it's well-executed and satisfying in all the ways it should be.
Destroyer: Nicole Kidman (L) with director Karyn Kusama (R) have been praised for their work (Image: Getty)
Katie Rife for AV Club:
At the centre of it all is Kidman, the indisputable heart of the film, whose all-in performance elevates Destroyer above a well-made cop drama and into something special.
Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly:
A solid-enough L.A. noir whose hook, and albatross, is the transformation of a beautiful Oscar-winning actress into a desiccated crone.
Peter Debruge for Variety:
Even though the film unravels a bit toward the end, it destroys the standard confines of what an actress can do on-screen, allowing her to be difficult, unlikable, and almost completely independent.
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Miriel Saga
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In Miriel Saga, evil creatures known as Dreadlings are fast approaching to threaten the world balance and mankind. In a world of might and magic, engulfed in conflict since centuries past, it's your role to stand up for all, gather your allies and solve the remaining mysteries to unfold in this story-driven, action packed RPG!
For eons, Miriel has existed, brimming with life and mana. With mana, came the power to bend reality at will. This widespread ability has been called "Magic" to this day. Those who wielded magic are called "Evokers"
However, once upon a time, magic entered into collapse. A young evoker, sought a way to harness mana, corrupting it in the process. Evokers started losing their ability to use magic and this one evoker became more and more powerful. For the first time, the whole world united itself against one enemy. This was known as the "Age of Darkness", until the corrupted mana, the Miasma, was sealed away at the southern continent, after a grueling war.
After the war was over, people were lost and frightened. Afraid to share the knowledge and power over magic and give birth to another nemesis, the remaining evokers started living in isolation,over the eastern continent, Linnah.
Ex-Evokers started studying mana and its properties, unable to wield mana normally, except when discovered that Mana is raw, wordly, vital energy, one's life could fuel a magic's need for mana; Thus, the Arcanists of the northern continent, Kristi, were born.
The ones who now didn't have magical talents, now as the majority of the population, began to live in fear of a possible persecution from Evokers and Arcanists alike. Their sense of unity grew and inflated over the decades. The Manaless developed technology, industry and weapons to defend themselves. It was the beginning of the Military State of Boleslava, on the western continent.
It was not long until instability grew among the nations and conflict began once again, on the central continent. All of them were equally matched and had no winner. However, the clash made the area unstable, and chaos rose anew as the once sealed evil began to show it's gaze…
Once again, humankind was faced with an overwhelming enemy. Once again, they set differences aside and united against one common enemy. Once again, their efforts bore the fruits of victory. The new country, Zefral, was consolidated on the old battlefield, with Accord as it's capital, to remember what unity brought to all nations: Victory, glory, peace. This marked the end of the "Age of Discord".
Even so, there still remains ambition, prejudice, fear among nations…but there is hope, compassion and determination hatching…
This is the world they live in.
This is Miriel Saga.
You start your adventure as Aleister Sirius, a young and promising boy from the countryside, adopted by Fiora, who acted as his mother after he was made orphan by the aftermath of the last war.
Together with him will be:
Lilluza, his cheerful, yet unexpectedly summoned familiar.
Naga Edoum, an Evoker whose honesty and knowledge exceed among others.
Wendi Viena Ambava IV, an Arcanist from a respectable and noble lineage of casters.
Anya Nikita, a brash Manaless willing to prove herself to the world.
Take their place in the upcoming challenges and take your chace to get close and know each one better!
Miriel Saga presents many aspects of modern JRPGs, such as:
A variety of fields, dungeons, towns and treasures to find
A variety of enemies to battle and strategies to take
Fast paced, 3D action
Level progression system based on experience points.
Many characters to learn patterns, movements and skills
Equipments to optimize characters
A breathtaking story, full of characters and twists
Sidequests, each with it's own unique storyline and events
Trust Events, made to deepen your bonds with your companions and undestrand them even further
Tons of dialogues between characters for a lively experience.
Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit)
Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
Sound Card:
DirectX 11 compatible
Evil creatures known as Dreadlings are fast approaching to threaten the world balance and mankind. In a world of might and magic, engulfed in conflict since centuries past, it's your role to stand up for all, gather your allies and solve the remaining mysteries.
Publisher: NG+ Studios
Blade & Sorcery
Action, Adventure, RPG, Simulation
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Q: ¿Cómo mostrar una vista sin el layout de la aplicación? ¿Cómo se hace para mostrar una Vista (view) de Rails sin mostrar el layout de la aplicación para un usuario registrado y otro layout para un visitante? ¿Se puede?

A: Podes cambiar el layout para un controlador o una acción del controlador, una manera de mostrar una vista con otro layout cuando el usuario no esta registrado seria así:
class MyController < ApplicationController

  def my_action
    if current_user.nil?
      render layout: "new_user_layout"
    else
      render layout: "member_layout"
    end
  end

end

Para cambiar el layout de todos los controladores que heredan de ApplicationController seria lo siguiente:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  layout :users_layout

  private
    def users_layout
      current_user.nil? ? "new_user_layout" : "member_layout"
    end

end

En las guias de rails podes encontrar más información sobre layouts.

A: este codigo es sino te gustaria usar ningun layout
 class MyController < ApplicationController

      def my_action
        #solo debes poner en modo false para  que lo desabilites solo para este metodo
         render layout: false
      end

    end

o tmb puede ser
class MyController < ApplicationController
layout: false
  def my_action

  end

end


I've spent the last five years writing a book about "settler" Australians. It's a novel about a representative settler, William Thornhill, who comes to Australia as a convict - and at the end of his life recognises that this foreign place has become his home. It's a complicated sort of home, though, because in some ways it's still foreign.
What I'd like to talk about today is not so much the content of the book as the journey of writing it. As I wrote I found myself caught up in questions I'd never asked before - questions about what it means to call Australia home. Can your own place still also be a foreign one? What does it mean to be descended from that first generation of settlers, and what happens when you immerse yourself in the documented history of this place?
What draws a writer to one subject rather than another? This book started as an exploration of family history. My mother had told me about our convict ancestor, Solomon Wiseman. He'd worked on the docks in London, committed some offence, and was transported in 1806. By 1812 he was a free man and by 1817 he had "taken up land" on the Hawkesbury River. He made a bucketload of money and died rich & respectable.
For years this was just a family story – a kind of sealed capsule, its telling a ritual always in the same words. You either swallowed it whole or you refused it, but you didn't take it apart and examine it.
The Reconciliation Walk in 2000 was the thing that burst the capsule open for me. During that walk I met the eye of an Aboriginal woman and we smiled at each other. But even as we were acknowledging each other I had a shocking thought – shocking because it had never occurred to me before. My great-great-great grandfather had been right here, underneath the bridge, when he was landed off the boat in 1806. Her great-great-great grandfather might have been there too. They might have glanced at each other, the way she and I just had. Would they have smiled at each other in mutual acknowledgement, as we had?
I didn't know a lot about early Australian history, but I didn't think so. There'd have been distrust, perhaps open hostility. And what about when Wiseman went up to the Hawkesbury and "took up" land? What about the Aboriginal people whose land it was – how had Wiseman persuaded them to give it up?
It was the time of the history wars – historians at each other's throats over what kind of violence might have taken place on the frontier - how much there'd been, or even whether there'd been any at all. In the moment of smiling at that woman, the history wars became something more than academics bad-mouthing each other. Suddenly, history had a very personal face, the face of my own ancestor. I needed to know more.
I started with research in the archives, and began with that "unknown offence" that Wiseman had committed.
Four generations of my family had repeated the statement that we didn't know what that offence was. And yet, when I went looking, I found it in a quarter of an hour. The family story had denied knowledge of the crime, but had kept alive the two facts that made it easy to find out: the date of Wiseman's arrival here, and the name of the ship he came on. If you know those two things, you can just go straight to the transcripts of the Old Bailey trials, on the open shelves of the Mitchell Library.
He was just the most ordinary sort of crook – nothing very exciting or glamorous about stealing a load of timber. But that search for his crime told me something much more interesting than the nature of his crime - something about stories and the people who tell them. The family story pretended it didn't know. But at a deeper level it knew that it knew - and made sure that the key to that knowing was there for anyone who went looking. It was revealing, even in the act of concealing.
The idea of concealing and simultaneously revealing became something of a motif in the journey I had begun.
It also dawned on me how the language itself was an accomplice in this knowing and not-knowing. There was a of linguistic sleight of hand going on – the land wasn't really "taken up", it was just "taken". The word "dispersed" that I came across so often in the sources - as in "we dispersed them in the usual manner" - this bland little word often meant shoot.
This sleight of hand wasn't a conspiracy, there was no conscious intent to deceive. "Taken up land" or "disperse" weren't words that lied, exactly. They were sort-of true, so that the people using them didn't have to acknoeldge to themselves that they were fudging.
I started to wonder where my own sense of "being Australian" came from. To do that I found myself going back to childhood.
I grew up in the city but with a sense of the bush as the real Australia. I loved the bush – my family did a lot of camping. I'd go off for the whole day with a knapsack of food and a penknife ( and Condy's crystals in case of snake bite). Later as a uni student I went on week-long canoing trips with friends, out of touch with anyone, no mobiles, just us & a map. We took pride in foraging for what these days we'd call bush tucker. We'd try to go barefoot (though not for long). On one memorable occasion I killed, cooked and ate a snake.
This was all in the context of assuming that the Aboriginal people were "all gone" as the family story had it. On our family picnics Mum would always look around at some creekside or beachside spot and say, "The blacks must have done well for themselves here." So there was a sense of them having been there, underneath our own lives, but somehow – blamelessly – now vanished. The bush was ours to inhabit.
What I now see as revealing is the way I chose to inhabit it. All that barefoot stuff, all that going feral and eating snakes - I was mimicking what I thought of as Aboriginal ways.
I'll talk in a moment about where the "going native" illusion has gone for me, and what I think it's about, but it's still alive & well. When I was writing The Secret River and I'd tell people what it was about – a questioning of what happened on the frontier - a frequent response was to fire up with instant indignation and say something to the effect that "I love this place as much as the Aboriginal people do." Now that the book's published, one of the most common questions is about the Aboriginal connection to the land – I'm often asked what that is, and how it's different from the love of the place felt by non-indigenous Australians.
The implication behind these questions is that Aboriginal people may claim a special bond to the land but in fact non-indigenous Australians can have just as strong, even spiritual a bond. We can be white blackfellers.
Of course it's true that we settlers can have a powerful and genuine love for this place of ours. But I'm interested, for the sake of exploring, to question that feeling of belonging.
It intrigues me, for instance, what happened to the word "native".
The first settlers called the Aboriginal people "Indians" or "the black natives". But within a very few years, the word "native" had shifted its meaning 180 degrees – it came commonly to mean not an Aboriginal person, but a white person born in Australia. A kind of linguistic appropriation, if you like, echoing the appropriation of the land itself that was going on.
In metaphorically leaping off the boat and calling ourselves natives, we short-circuited something important in the settler experience. An immigrant becomes a native through a process, not a moment. It has to start with a kind of mourning. Whatever they might later gain, immigrants first of all suffer a loss - of homeland, of the identity with living in the place that's home. Once that mourning has been lived through, the next part of process can take place - a series of adaptations, a gradual process of putting down roots. The end of that process is a real belonging in the new place.
Inheritors of those settlers - that is, us – have a slightly different journey to go through, but it also begins in loss. The loss is our sense of ourselves as blameless. The mourning has to involve the acknowledgment that we have a home because other people were turned out of it.
What our ancestors did, and from which we benefit, was a bad and sad thing, but also a fairly normal human act. The history of the human race is, by and large, the history of one set of people displacing another set. What's useful is not either to criticse or defend what those settlers did, but to think about the traces of their actions on our present psyche.
If we can't acknowledge that we are, in some sense, interlopers, we live with the anxiety that the reality of that fact will break through the crust of belonging. We might have to work a bit too strenuously to be a true blue Aussie fair dinkum mate out in the bush going barefoot and eating snakes.
So no wonder the moment with that Aboriginal woman on the bridge was so disorienting to me. A complicated grief happened, a grief with a kind of outrage tangled up in it. It felt as if something had been taken from me, and it had been. What was gone was my thoughtless taking for granted that this was my place.
I did a huge amount of research for the book – more than any sane person would really have to do to write a novel. It was as if I wanted to go back to that founding moment and live through it for myself, detail by detail.
I was writing about a family of settlers – their story was the literalisation of my own new sense of "outsiderdom". To them, this was the most foreign place on earth. In order to write about them, I had to share that feeling.
I spent many days and a few nights in the bush on my own. The place itself – the landscape of the lower Hawkesbury – is frightening. The bush is as crumpled and intricately folded as a piece of scrunched up cloth. When I took a few steps off the track one day – just to get the feel of not being on a track – it was terrifying how quickly I felt lost. The place swallowed me, disoriented me, got to me in some way so that it was a huge intellectual effort to remind myself that the track was behind me, and I had only to turn take six steps and I'd be back on it.
Trees gestured at me from the corner of my eye and I whirled arounded, sure it was a person. These days there was no one there with a spear poised to throw, but 200 years ago there might have been. Thornhill would have seen – or thought he saw – fleeting black figures everywhere, flickering among the light and shade. He'd always have felt watched.
I began to understand that fear, and I could see how it could make you do things you might not otherwise do.
The bush at night makes you feel very small, very alone, very vulnerable. The wind in the trees is speaking a language you don't understand. The weird little night-noises – the cracklings and snappings, the hums and ticks - all tell you that there's a life going on here that you have absolutely nothing to do with.
Lying there in my sleeping bag trying not to think about snakes and funnelwebs was uncomfortable but it was also rewarding. Once I could drop all that barefoot in the bush stuff, it was amazing how easy it was to accept that the bush had always felt eerie. You can live with eeriness. You don't have to pretend it isn't there.
I'd expected resistance to this book, even anger. What I've found is a huge hunger to know – the same hunger that drove the writing. For many people the book is really just a lever with which to open the can of worms about their own feelings. There are a lot of questions, a lot of anxiety. What should we feel about the stolen gift that our forebears have made to us? But there's also a willingness to voice the anxiety.
Fiction is a good medium for entering anxiety-producing situations and being able to stay with them for long enough to learn from them. It's a vicarious experience, and one that's under your own control - you can identify only as closely as you want to with the characters. You can close the book any time it gets too much. And fiction offers a compensatory pleasure that offsets the discomfort – the satisfactions of narrative and the sensual pleasures of language.
At the end of The Secret River, Thornhill has made good, made lots of money, has driven the Aboriginal people away. He's won. But he's infused with a kind of melancholy, some gnawing feeling of something not being finished, not right. His trouble is that things have happened that can't be talked about. Violence has created a no-go area around itself. There's a silence, a gap, where there should be acknowledgement. Thornhill knows the gap is there, but can't let himself feel it. Knowing, but not-knowing, he's suspended in an emptiness that he seeks to fill without knowing how.


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Snapchat Has A Patent That Could Help It Become The Defacto Camera App
Billy Gallagher	8 years
While larger competitors struggle to differentiate themselves with different video lengths, Snapchat could use a different weapon to be the first camera app opened: speed. And unlike filters, this one will be more difficult to copy.
Snapchat has a patent, "Single mode visual media capture," on its technology that allows the user to take a picture by tapping the camera button and a video by holding down the same camera button. Photos are simply taken by the tap, and videos end when you release the camera button, or after 10 seconds.
The app always opens directly to the camera screen, and this single camera, single button for both photo and video makes capturing moments simple and very fast. Vine's recording interface is most similar, and is also quite quick, but it only does video.
By comparison, to move from photo to video in Instagram, you have to hit the video button, wait for the camera to shutter for a few seconds, move to a new screen, then press and hold to record. In Poke, Facebook's Snapchat clone, you have to select camera or video camera before you see the capture screen; and, again, there's loading time for the camera to open before you can capture something. Even in the standard iPhone camera app, you have to slide the dial from camera to video, wait for the camera to shutter for a couple seconds, then shoot.
Figure 2 of the patent shows the processing operations behind Snapchat's photo and video taking apparatus.
This might seem like a trivial difference, but waste a couple seconds to switch to video or to wait for your camera app to load and the moment you were hoping to capture could be over.
The patent could also help Snapchat settle a pesky lawsuit. Frank Reginald "Reggie" Brown is currently suing Snapchat and co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy; Brown claims he was a co-founder of the company and was forced out by Spiegel and Murphy.
In a lawsuit filed in February 2013, Brown alleges:
"In addition, at this time [summer of 2011], Brown undertook the responsibility of drafting and filing a patent application for the technology used in the Application, which named Brown and the Individual Defendants as co-investors. Brown prepared the patent application and filed it with the United States Patent Office on behalf of the joint venture/partnership."
As I wrote in March, this original patent led to a major argument:
"There was a big argument over patent filing," the first source tells me. "Then there was a huge fight where each person said terrible things about the other and then Spiegel changed the passwords and Reggie just sat and waited to file…it was something to do with who's name was listed first. Literally a pointless argument. The bigger thing was what happened after. I really don't think the patent ended up being a problem. It's pretty much just a fight between friends and people calling each other out. Not much basis for why they actually had a big split up."
Nearly a year later, in August 2012, Spiegel and Murphy filed this patent.
Until recently, patent searches for Brown, Spiegel, Murphy, Snapchat, and even the company's early names like Picaboo and Toyopa Group, came up with nothing.
A representative from the United States Patent Office tells me an "inventor can ask for an application not to be published at all until the patent is actually issued." The patent eventually gets abandoned if it is never issued. The representative noted that if an application has multiple inventors, any of them can file a non-publication request.
A lawyer from the firm Lee, Tran & Liang, Brown's representatives, confirmed the statement in the February 2013 complaint, but could not comment further due to the nature of the ongoing case.


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Ezra Klein Walks It Back
Ezra emailed the Dish yesterday and wrote the following:
I set two rules for members: Center to left, and not working for the government, I didn't exercise discretion beyond that because I didn't want to be in the position of selectively choosing people.
He now concedes in another email that this is untrue:
I should say that I did make a few discretionary decisions. I didn't allow the Media Matters people on Journolist. I thought that was a conflict of interest.
He now says he also determined whether invitees were too interested in media coverage to join and also moderated spats between existing list-members and possible new members. This is is how Glenn Greenwald was first invited and then disinvited by Klein. It's also how much of the Firedoglake crowd never got on the list. Klein says he wasn't doing this on the basis of who he liked, and that is borne out by the evidence. He also tried to be as hands-off a moderator as possible.
But, contrary to his initial spin, he did act as a gatekeeper for a liberal list of journalists and did make decisions as to who would be included or not.
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Adam BensonAugust 23, 2018No comment
posted on Aug. 23, 2018 at 5:34 pm
The information that Ford Fusion won't be redesigned in 2020, was a huge news. In a letter to its suppliers, Ford reportedly said it would be canceling the previously planned redesigned program for the Fusion. In that letter no one word on whether there would still be another redesign at a later date. We think that Ford will promote a new model of Fusion in 2021. The redesigned 2021 Ford Fusion, will wait a little bit competition and then get out on the market with couple advantages.
The main competition of 2021 Ford Fusion are Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.
Fusion is Ford's most popular sedan. The sales in 2014 and 2015 was 300,000 units, and drop down in 2016 on 266,000 units. So this cancelation of face lift model in 2020 is strategy move of the company.
2021 Ford Fusion interior and equipment
Interesting expectation is that new Fusion will have much better standard equipment. That is main advantage if you compare this model with it's competition. 2021 Fusion Titanium version will come with а glass roof, adaptive cruise control, satellite navigation, and 19-inch wheels as standard. 2021 Ford Fusion Sport the updated variant will be equipped with a navigation system, glass roof, parking sensors, ventilated seats, adaptive cruise control, rear inflatable seat belts, and more, which is much more equipment then in previous times. The 2021 Ford Fusion will have a new infotainment method and has including a smartphone integration with android mobile phone Vehicle and Apple CarPlay. Shoppers will also get new Ford Sync3 feature, double-sector intelligent environment control and premium safety features like adaptive cruise management, boosted safety straps and oxygen bags.
Price range of new 2021 Ford Fusion
We think that the new 2021 Ford Fusion S will have a starting price of $22,900 including destination. The SE model should start at $24,000. If you go for the Fusion Titanium, it will set you back $35,000, while the range-topping Fusion Sport will start at $40,000. If you want an electrified Fusion, the Fusion Hybrid will be available with a base price of $28,000.
Ford Fusion, 5 / 5 (5 votes)
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