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20 October 1950 – 2 October 2017 (Aged 66)
Petty was a legendary American singer-songwriter, who was the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1976 and a co-founder of supergroup the Traveling Wilburys in the late 1980s.
Among his most famous records are "Free Falling", "American Girl", "Learning to Fly", "Won't Back Down", "Don't Come Around Here No More", and his duet with Stevie Nicks, "Insider".
Over the course of his career, Petty became one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.
In 1988, Petty joined Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne to form the Traveling Wilburys, whose self-titled album went triple-platinum and won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance, with hits such as "Handle with Care" and "End of the Line".
In 2002, Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while in 2005 he received the Billboard Century Award, the organization's highest honor for creative achievement.
In October 2017, one week after the completion of the Heartbreakers' 40th-anniversary tour, Petty died from cardiac arrest at the age of 66.
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22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017 (Aged 77)
Hurt was an acclaimed English actor whose screen and stage career spanned over 50 years.
Among the most famous films Hurt starred in are Alien, The Elephant Man, The Field, The Harry Potter film series, Scandal, V for Vendetta, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
In the 1979 science-fiction horror Alien, a scene with Hurt at the centre of it is widely recognized as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.
Possessing a unique and distinctive voice, Hurt's voice acting can be heard in films such as Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Dogville, as well as the TV series Merlin.
In 2012, Hurt was honored with the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award, and he received a knighthood in 2015 for his services to drama.
Hurt died in January 2017 at the age of 77 after having been suffering from pancreatic cancer.
Dick Gregory
(Comedian/Civil Rights Activist)
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12 October 1932 – 19 August 2017 (Aged 84)
Gregory was an American comedian, civil rights activist, and writer.
In the 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy in which he mocked bigotry and racism.
Until 1961, he performed largely to black audiences at segregated clubs, after which he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences.
Renowned for his political activism, Gregory protested the Vietnam War and civil rights injustices, resulting in his arrest on multiple occasions.
Gregory became devoted to health and fitness, following a vegetarian diet. He went on to become a university lecturer and an author of numerous books. He also became known for his conspiracy theories in his later years.
In 1999, Gregory was diagnosed with lymphoma, but refused chemotherapy and instead turned to diet and alternative treatments, with his cancer ultimately going into remission.
Gregory was married for over fifty years to Lillian Smith, whom he married in 1959, and had 11 children. He died of heart failure at the age of 84 in August 2017.
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18 October 1926 – 18 March 2017 (Aged 90)
Berry was a hugely influential American singer, songwriter, seen as one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
Among his most famous songs are "Maybellene", "Rock and Roll Music", "My Ding-a-Ling" and "Johnny B. Goode".
In high school, Berry was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory from 1944 to 1947. Following his release, Berry returned to his hometown of St. Louis, working for his father's construction business and as a janitor at a local auto plant.
Attracted to music from an early age, Berry's big break came when he met Muddy Waters in Chicago in May 1955, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records.
As a result of this meeting, Berry recorded "Maybellene", which went on to sell over a million copies and reached number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand.
In 1972, Berry's release of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. In 1986, Berry was among the first group of musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening.
Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Records, two phonograph records aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched into space in 1977.
In 1984, Berry was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists have ranked Berry fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He died of cardiac arrest at the age of 90.
(Comedian/Actor)
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16 March 1926 – 20 August 2017 (Aged 91)
Lewis, nicknamed "The King of Comedy", was an American comedian, actor and humanitarian, whose career spanned across eight decades.
Born in New Jersey, Lewis met singer Dean Martin in 1945, leading to the creation of a popular slapstick comedy act, performing in nightclubs, and opening the way to many television and film roles.
Lewis starred in, wrote, and directed numerous films, such as Rock-A-Bye Baby, Cinderfella, The Ladies' Man, It's Only Money, The Nutty Professor, and The Disorderly Orderly.
As a solo performer and as part of the groundbreaking partnership Martin and Lewis, Lewis was voted Hollywood's top box-office draw from 1951 to 1965.
In his personal life, Lewis spent over 50 years as national chairman and spokesman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and hosted The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon every Labor Day weekend for 44 years.
In recognition of his work for Muscular Dystrophy, Lewis was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, and for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, he was given a Jefferson Awards annual award in 1978.
In 1997, Lewis was given the American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. Lewis died from heart disease at the age of 91.
(Actor/Playwright)
5 November 1943 – 27 July 2017 (Aged 73)
Shepard was a renowned American actor, author, playwright, and director whose career spanned half a century.
Responsible for writing 44 plays, as well as many more short stories and essays, Shepard has won ten Obie Awards, the most won by any writer or director.
In 1979, Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff in 1983.
Among his most famous films are Steel Magnolias, The Right Stuff, The Pelican Brief, Black Hawk Down, The Notebook, Fair Game, and Blackthorn.
In 1982, while filming Frances, Shepard met co-star Jessica Lange, who went on to become his partner for nearly 30 years and with whom he would have two children, he also had one from an earlier marriage to O-Lan Jones.
In 2009, Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist. He died from Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 73.
(Cult Leader)
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12 November 1934 – 19 November 2017 (Aged 83)
Manson was an American criminal and cult leader of what came to be known as the Manson Family during the late 1960s in California.
When the Manson Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, working as a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music scene.
In July and August 1969, Manson's followers committed a series of nine brutal murders. Most notoriously, the murder of actress Sharon Tate, who was almost nine months pregnant at the time. The horrific events became known as the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Family members were also responsible for other assaults, thefts, crimes, and the attempted assassination of United States President Gerald Ford in Sacramento.
In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, all of which members of the group carried out at his instruction. He was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths.
Manson had been obsessed with the Beatles, and their 1968 album, known as the "White Album". Manson adopted the term "Helter Skelter", a song on the album, to describe a looming apocalyptic race war.
His followers, who were mostly young women, believed that the murders would help precipitate that war. A pop culture arose around Manson's notoriety, which ultimately became an emblem of insanity and violence.
Manson was originally sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after California invalidated the state's death penalty statute in 1972.
In the end, Manson was never granted parole and spent his final years in the California State Prison. He died at the age of 83 in 2017.
17 May 1955 – 25 February 2017 (Aged 61)
Paxton was an American actor and director, best known for his roles in films such as The Terminator, Weird Science, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, Mighty Joe Young, U-571 and Tombstone.
An eight-year-old Paxton was in the crowd when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Photographs of Paxton being lifted above the heads of the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Paxton's starring role in the HBO series Big Love from 2006 to 2011 earned him three Golden Globe Award nominations. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
His final film appearance was in The Circle, which was released two months after his death. Paxton died from a stroke after heart surgery at the age of 61.
Graham Taylor
(Football Manager)
15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017 (Aged 72)
Taylor was an English football player and manager, best remembered for his stint as the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993.
The son of a sports journalist, Taylor found his love of football in the stands of the Old Show Ground watching Scunthorpe United. He became a player, playing at full-back for Grimsby Town and Lincoln City, before retiring through injury in 1972.
In 1976, Taylor won the Fourth Division title with Lincoln as a manager, before moving to Watford in 1977. He took Watford from the Fourth to the First Division in five years, where they were runners-up in 1982–83, and FA Cup finalists in 1984.
Taylor took over at Aston Villa in 1987, leading the club to promotion in 1988 and 2nd place in the First Division in 1989–90. In July 1990, he became the manager of the England team.
His England team were knocked out in the group stages of the 1992 European Championships, and after failing to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he resigned in November 1993.
Taylor returned to club management in March 1994 with Wolverhampton Wanderers, before returning to Watford, leading them to back-to-back promotions and into the Premier League in 1999.
His last managerial role was as manager of Aston Villa, leaving it at the end of the 2002–03 season. Taylor served as Watford's chairman from 2009 until 2012 where he also held the position of honorary life president. He died of a heart attack at the age of 72.
Don Rickles
(Comedian)
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8 May 1926 – 6 April 2017 (Aged 90)
Rickles was a much-loved American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, who was best known as an insult comic.
Throughout his career, Rickles was a popular guest on and grew in popularity from numerous talk show appearances, including The Dean Martin Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Late Show with David Letterman.
Among his prominent film roles included Run Silent, Run Deep, Kelly's Heroes and provided the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise.
In 2000, Rickles was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project won Rickles a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007.
Rickles died of kidney failure at the age of 90 in April 2017, at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
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Gordon Kaye (British Actor) (Aged 75)
Kaye was an English actor best known for playing womanizing cafe owner René Artois in the comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!
Erin Moran (American Actress) (Aged 56)
Moran was an American actress, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi.
Charlie Murphy (American Comedian) (Aged 57)
Murphy was an American actor, comedian, writer, and older brother of comedian Eddie Murphy.
He is best known for his work as a writer and cast member of the sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show, and as the co-star on the sitcom Black Jesus.
Joost van der Westhuizen (South African Rugby Player) (Aged 45)
Van der Westhuizen was a South African rugby union scrum-half who made 89 test appearances for the national team, scoring 38 tries, playing a key role in helping South Africa win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
In 2007, he was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame and later into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
In 2011, van der Westhuizen was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and raised awareness of the disease through his charity, the J9 Foundation. He died at the age of 45.
Malcolm Young (Australian Guitarist) (Aged 64)
Young was an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, guitarist, backing vocalist, and songwriter for rock band AC/DC.
In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He died having suffered from dementia in his final years at the age of 64.
Chris Cornell (American Singer) (Aged 52)
Cornell was an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. His songs have sold over 30 million records worldwide and earned him two Grammy Awards.
Having struggled with depression for much of his life, Cornell was found dead in his Detroit hotel room at the age of 52, as a result of suicide by hanging.
Chester Bennington (American Singer) (Aged 41)
Bennington was an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for Linkin Park. He was also lead vocalist for the bands Dead by Sunrise, Grey Daze, and Stone Temple Pilots.
Selling over 100 million records worldwide, Linkin Park is one of the best-selling bands of all time. Bennington was found dead at his California home as a result of suicide by hanging.
Jana Novotna (Czech Tennis Player) (Aged 49)
Novotna was a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic, who won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in 1997.
She also won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three Olympic medals. Novotna died of cancer at the age of 49 in November 2017.
Harry Dean Stanton (American Actor) (Aged 91)
Stanton was a renowned American actor, who starred in films such as Cool Hand Luke, Kelly's Heroes, Alien, Escape from New York, Pretty in Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Green Mile, Alpha Dog, and Lucky.
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City Pays People Not to Commit Crimes – And It's Working!
What do you think about taxpayers paying repeat offenders not to commit crimes?
It may sound strange, but this is just what one US town has been doing.
The district of Richmond in San Francisco Bay has employed an unusual method of crime control – paying some of the worst troublemakers to behave themselves.
The program was the idea of DeVone Boggan, the Program Director of the Richmond Office of Neighbourhood Safety (ONS). He believes that, thanks to the initiative, they are well on the way to eliminating gun violence from the city entirely.
The ONS Peacemaker Fellowship program started five years ago, when Boggan realised that 70 per cent of murders and firearm offences in 2009 were linked to just 17 people.
Now, the district's murder rate is lower than it's been since the early 1970s. And at a cost of around $1.2 million per year (as well as private donations) the program has saved the taxpayer millions in the cost of prosecution and incarceration; not to mention avoided the harm that might have been caused to victims of crime and their families.
The annual murder rate in Richmond for 1990 was 62, which the highest on record; but it fell to 47 in 2009, which was the program's first year. Since then, the rate has continued to drop; last year, the murder rate was just 11.
The program was not the only factor that came into play – changing demographics and lower unemployment levels may have also contributed, but this unconventional program certainly played an important part.
But the program does have its critics – with some arguing that taxpayers should be rewarding people for doing what they should in the first place; obeying the law. The program, they are argue, essentially rewards those for having committed crimes, which is an unacceptable situation.
The ONS Peacemaker Fellowship is not just about giving cash to criminals – those who are involved are also required to undertake training and rehabilitation. Importantly, participants are provided with help to find housing and employment, and to address health issues.
Each participant is allocated to a mentor to help them identify and achieve their goals – which may relate to housing, finance, anger management, drug rehabilitation, relationships, parenting and so on.
At the end of 18-months, they are eligible for $1000 cash per month if they demonstrate improvements in behaviour and positive social advancement.
The funds are cut off if they start going backwards, and the amount can fluctuate depending on progress.
Boggan is proud that several participants have gone on to complete college degrees, and that out of the 68 that started the program, 64 are still alive.
At first, the ONS found it hard to win over recruits, but interest grew over time. One young man, D'Vondre Woodards, has gone from prison, drug dealing, hustling and carrying guns to finishing his high school education and making it into college.
He accomplished every goal that was set out achieve – a remarkable transformation.
Woodard's son was born just three weeks before he entered the program. The young dad knew he wanted to turn his life around for the sake of his child, so that he could be a positive role model and give his son a good upbringing.
So perhaps the lesson to learn is not that we need to start paying people not to commit crimes, but to develop specialised programs that are based directly on the needs of individuals, and provide the motivation and support that they need, instead of just throwing money at police forces and increasing penalties.
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Henri Bergson ( – ) introduced new life to French philosophy, examining the non-mathematical sciences from a philosophical stance. He introduced. Henri Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the Einsteinian Universe Time, Duration and Freedom – Bergson's Critical Move Against Kant. Duration and Simultaneity. Henri Bergson Henri Bergson in 20th Century Philosophy Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond.
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While the relationship between consciousness and matter instantiated in the instinct of animals is sufficient and well adapted to their survival from the point of view of the specieshumans are not adequately equipped in this respect; hence the necessity of something like intelligence, defined by the ability to make tools.
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Its disproof does not rest with experiment or with its mathe- matics, but with abd inconsistency in the physical part of the theory; it has physical implications that are both inescapable and incompatible with one another. Simmultaneity the same is not true for the philosopher.
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It will therefore be so again for the duration of the single trip computed by this new procedure with two clocks: Now, in this ether, before these optical facts, in the midst of these electromagnetic events, you sit motionless.
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The many mystical ideas that have been built on the supposed discovery that there is in nature some objective thing called "space- time," while space simultaneitt time are merely the subjective products of our arbitrary analysis of this "reality"-these ideas can now be dismissed as purely fictional. They must be called tendencies precisely because they are both rooted in, hence inseparable from, the duration that informs all life, all change, all becoming.
What may happen is anybody's guess. Since its publication inMatter and Memory has attracted considerable attention see, for example, Deleuze They owed their paradoxical appearance merely to a misunderstanding. By continuing to browse the site with cookies enabled in your browser, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy. Physics also is concerned with experiences, but with relatively trivial ones, that is, those amenable to measurement.
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Bergson's criticisms of language, moreover, must have struck the generation of French philosophers who came of age in the 's as strange.
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Then, draw it out to make a line growing progressively simultaneoty. The very forces that have generated the formulas are instead now being explained by those very formulas. The lack of archival material is one reason why Bergson went out of favor during the second half of the Twentieth Century. The phenomenon has nothing to do with the lengthening of a pendulum.
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One must accept time as it really is through placing oneself within duration where freedom can be identified and experienced as pure mobility.
Manchester University Press, 42— Each choice corresponds to the place three co-ordinates berfson time one co-ordinate of a pomt-event when a particular standard of position, zero of time, and standard of rest are chosen, and any one choice is as vahd as any other. Instead, let us bergsoh an infinitely small piece of elastic, contracted, if that were possible, to a mathematical point.
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In brief, absolute simultaneoty, expelled by the understanding, is reinstated by the imagi- nation.
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Zambia's kwacha weakened for a fourth day, the world's worst performer after Ukraine's hryvnia, as dollar supplies in Africa's second-biggest copper producer dried up and the price of the metal stayed near a 44-month low.
The kwacha retreated 2 percent, heading for its biggest drop since December 2012 and the most among 24 African currencies tracked by Bloomberg, to 6.265 per dollar by 3:43 p.m. in Lusaka, the capital. The kwacha dropped 11.5 percent this year, Africa's worst-performing currency. Copper for delivery in three months headed for its biggest one-day drop since March 13. Yields on the nation's dollar-denominated bonds due September 2022 rose to the highest since Feb. 25.
"The currency is caught in a bit of market panic, with importers covering their forward-currency commitments and exporters sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the kwacha to go a bit higher" before repatriating foreign earnings, Nema Ramkhelawan-Bhana, an Africa analyst at Rand Merchant Bank in Johannesburg, said by phone. "We're seeing a liquidity crunch caused by" factors such as lower copper prices and emerging-market risk aversion, she said.
The Bank of Zambia has used $178 million of its foreign reserves and raised its benchmark lending rate to a record to support the local currency. A weaker kwacha poses risks to inflation in a country that imports items from oil to clothing, while also pushing up external debt repayment costs. Concern that growth is slowing in China has weighed on the price of copper, which accounts for 70 percent of Zambia's export earnings.
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The Zambian central bank's low level of foreign-exchange reserves meant it's ability to support the kwacha is weak, Ramkhelawan-Bhana said, making the currency a one-way bet. The currency is undervalued given Zambia's economic outlook and should recover to below 6 per dollar in coming months, she said.
Infrastructure investments and expansion in mining, including projects developed by Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FQM), are set to boost growth to 6.5 percent of GDP this year, faster than the sub-Saharan African average of 6 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund's October World Economic Outlook. Agricultural output may climb, allowing corn exports, Vice President Guy Scott said March 7.
Spending reforms by President Michael Sata, whose 2011 election victory ended two decades of rule by a single party, were met by a Fitch Ratings downgrade last year deeper into junk. Sata, 76, has focused on developing roads and railways in the $21 billion economy and sought to harmonize civil-servant salaries that drove the budget deficit to 8.5 percent of gross domestic product last year along with food and fuel subsidies..
Zambia Overtaken
Copper, used in plumbing and electrical wiring, for delivery in three months has fallen 12 percent this year, last week touching a 44-month low. Zambia, which mined an estimated 830,000 metric tons in 2013, was surpassed by the Democratic Republic of Congo as the continent's top copper producer, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Yields on Zambia's $750 million of debt sold in September 2012, which began trading at 5.16 percent, have climbed 305 basis points since then to 8.21 percent. The securities lost 11 percent in the past 12 months, compared with a 17 percent return in African sovereign bonds, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. indexes.
"Local demand for the dollar, net dollar outflows from emerging markets and negative fundamentals, such as weakening copper prices continue to weigh heavily on the Zambian currency," Zambia National Commercial Bank Plc analysts, including Virginia Mwalilino, wrote in an e-mailed note today. "The local currency is expected to remain on the back-foot."
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"The laundress brought the deed to light"
Axel Springer began his traineeship at the "Bergedorfer Zeitung" in 1932. His first article concerned a crime. The young journalist promptly adopted the tabloid style.
How many lines does it take to describe a crime? That naturally depends on the type of offense, the scope of police work – and the available space in the newspaper. Or how quickly the author gets to the point. In his very first article in early 1933, the young journalist Axel Springer needed fewer than 17 lines to describe the case of the brazen theft of some dress shirts. Including the denouement of the crime caper.
Following an apprenticeship as a printer and typesetter, as well as a traineeship, at Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau in Hamburg, Springer, then in his early 20s, began an editorial traineeship at the small "Bergedorfer Zeitung" on October 1, 1932, a further station in the education that father Hinrich Springer, the owner of a small publishing house and printer's in Altona, had devised for his son.
The first article by Axel Springer, January 1933 © Unternehmensarchiv Axel Springer SE
So what did trainee Axel report in his first journalistic publication? On the evening of New Year's Eve, several dress shirts had been stolen from a car on Heimhuderstraße. But the thief would not have much time to enjoy the lovely shirts, as Springer wrote. "After all, in the days to come he would commit a fateful blunder." Before presenting himself to "Hamburg's women in a spiffier getup", the thief – evidently a "cleanliness fanatic", the young Springer surmised – wanted to have the shirts thoroughly cleaned first.
And what was wrong with that? The laundress to whom he took the shirts recognized the clothes, which she had handled many times in the past, and informed the true owner. When the new customer came back to collect "his" possessions at 7 pm that evening, the "strong arm" of the security police pounced minutes later. His laconic conclusion: "And that was bad luck." It was certainly meant ironically, without the slightest sympathy for the thief.
What stands out about the text, despite being a minor bulletin, is that Axel Springer used the few facts in order to craft a very brief, yet amusingly written story. As is still the style of BILD, which he would later found, to this day, one might add.
The regional daily newspaper was founded in 1874. Axel Springer Verlag initially acquired 20 percent of the shares in 1971; three years later the "Bergedorfer Zeitung" was taken over completely © Unternehmensarchiv Axel Springer SE
It can be assumed that Axel Springer was not, initially, overly enthusiastic about his stint at the "Bergedorfer Zeitung". His dream in 1932/33 was one day to work at the large Ullstein Verlag in Berlin. As he penned in his private work "To my children and children's children" in 1981, while his father Hinrich Springer had encouraged the fulfillment of this dream, he insisted that the "Ullsteiners" would want him to undergo a basic education in a variety of smaller companies "in the country" and "from the ground floor" before joining the operation in Berlin.
The "Ullsteiners" would certainly have been bemused if they had heard the elder Springer's stipulation. They were simply looking for good employees. Hinrich Springer apparently wanted to keep his son Axel in his own company in Altona.
Axel Springer at the family summer residence in Bendestorf, ca. 1932 © Unternehmensarchiv Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer initially acceded to his father's wish, and in the end he was able to profit from his time at the "Bergedorfer Zeitung", a small regional paper whose editorial office only consisted of the editor-in-chief and two editors. One could really learn how to run a newspaper there, "because everyone had to do everything". Not least the task of reporting a crime in fewer than 17 lines.
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Narrow it down, flip a coin.
Then give yourself 90 days to get something working.
The procrastination and doing nothing will kill you. Win or lose, in 90 days you'll know whether it worked out or not AND you'll have the added benefit of experience.
You don't have to be a full-on expert. You just have to know more than (say) a beginner and know enough to be able to sell something of value to that beginner. You will provide a lot of value in a) doing the research and b) putting it into a useful, logical order.
To find the perfect niche is to really think deeply what your passionate about, If you are really passionate about and love a unique subject anything can become gold!
In selecting your niche, your best bet would be to start with your hobbies or passions. From there, do a bit of research to see if there is any market demand. Are there other product listings in clickbank, JVZoo, or other affiliate platforms? If yes, are they selling (CB &JVZ make this easy) and at what price points? Next take a look at the keyword tool of your choosing (remember google is still free). What are the search volumes for the given results. You will need more than a couple hundred in volume to make it a viable option. Also, you may want to consider the avg bid for PPC /Adwords of your chosen keywords as a site monetization option down the road. It also gives you an idea of overall competition in the niche. Higher bids generally equates to higher competition within the niche. higher competition usually means the niche is viable.
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Dr. Broadway is een Amerikaanse misdaadfilm uit 1942 onder regie van Anthony Mann.

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Dokter Timothy Kane werkt in Broadway in New York. Op een dag redt hij een vrouw, die van een gebouw wil springen. Later blijkt dat ze bezig was met een reclamestunt. Dan vraagt een ter dood veroordeelde man hem om 10.000 dollar naar zijn dochter te brengen. Voordat dokter Kane het geld kan afleveren, wordt de man vermoord door bandieten. Ze stelen bovendien het geld uit zijn brandkast. Als gevolg daarvan wordt dokter Kane van moord beschuldigd.

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Every self-respecting showcase for "cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity" has to have its own official mobile app. Thankfully, SXSW does. The SXSW Go app has event recommendations, venue maps, and transportation schedules, with some obligatory social networking functionality thrown in. To quote the SXSW first timers guide, you "cannot overemphasize the importance of downloading SXSW GO." Download it before you arrive, delete it when you leave, and use it in between.
This year SXSW will host its first showcase of virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Check it out if you're in Austin: it probably won't be long before virtual reality becomes actual reality, and SXSW becomes an event you experience through a pair of goggles from the comfort of your own home.
The Hyperloop - Elon Musk's proposed system for transporting people and cargo at speeds of nearly 800 miles per hour using hovering pods shot through depressurized tubes - is a ridiculous fantasy. Unless it's the future. Decide for yourself at this presentation featuring Hyperloop Technology's CEO Dirk Ahlborn.
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The Academy Awards for nerds, the Innovation Awards ceremony is the capstone to SXSW Interactive. It's a huge celebration of "the best in digital design, health technology, privacy and security, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality." We've also heard it's a pretty fun party.
The free SXSW festival shuttle circulates between the convention center and major venues downtown. Shuttles depart every 7-10 minutes throughout the day, and run with reduced frequency until 2:30 AM.
Festival-goers staying outside of downtown can purchase a five day pass from SuperShuttle, starting at $100.
Austin's public transportation network is not as extensive as a car-less visitor might hope. Still, bus service throughout downtown is frequent, and the fares ($2.50 for a day pass) can't be beat.
The Austin B-cycle bike sharing program offers unlimited rides of 30 minutes or less ($8 for a 24-hour explorer pass). Finding an available B-cycle will be unusually difficult during SXSW, so if you're hoping to get around Austin on two wheels, renting a bike through Spinlister might be advisable.
Be warned: Uber's surge pricing during SXSW has in the past reached comical levels. Uber and Lyft ("the official ridesharing partner of SXSW 2016") have designated pick up and drop off zones around the city, and incentivized drivers from out of town to work in Austin during SXSW. High fares are probably still in the cards, but knowing the best spots to hail a ride and avoiding travel during periods of peak demand can help (sort of).
Franklin Barbecue is as famous for its three-hour line as for its brisket. We're not saying the meat is anything less than transcendent, only that you should have gotten in line yesterday if you hope to get any during SXSW. Alternatively, you could head to one of Austin's other renown barbecue joints.
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If you're looking for a something (free) to do off the beaten festival path, head to the University of Texas campus and visit the Ransom Center, one of the world's premier collections of literary and cultural artifacts. With a Gutenberg Bible, two Shakespeare folios, and the oldest photograph in existence, the Ransom is a welcome analog antidote to SXSW's digital overload.
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By Richard Whittaker, March 13, 2009, News
House Bill 873 – the latest push by Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, to reform the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program – is steaming through the Lege with near-universal support. The proposal isn't an arts subsidy, Dukes explains. Instead, it's a sensible way to secure an existing industry that's taking a pummeling.
Incentives have become the norm for states competing to attract film production, but Texas isn't competitive. Nationwide, Dukes told the March 4 meeting of the House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee, the median tax credit among other state programs is 25%. Texas only currently offers a capped 5% cash rebate on the budget of qualifying TV, film, commercial, and video-game productions. What's on the table not only increases the total amount available to the program (Gov. Rick Perry wants to boost it from $22 million last session to $60 million for the next biennium) but also increases the number and type of productions eligible. As well as reaching out to independent and straight-to-DVD productions, Dukes said, "We would be able to increase the potential for more episodic television [shows], which are long-term projects." Another Friday Night Lights moving to Texas could mean years of stable jobs, plus the potential for tourism. Take the old TV show Dallas. "People wanted to see Southfork, and it's this itty-bitty place in Parker," she said.
The bill's biggest structural change gives the Texas Film Commission more authority and latitude over payouts. That bucks the current trend of legislators fighting to restrain the power of appointed commissioners. Dukes argues that the current rules leave commission Director Bob Hudgins with far less rule-making authority than his counterparts at other agencies. Hudgins said the new proposals address "the dire need for flexibility" when it came to tooling rebates to the exact needs of individual productions, while still getting their tax dollars into Texas and enforcing accountability on his office. "There will still be rules; there will still be supervision," he assured those fearful of another rogue agency.
The market in incentives is getting tougher. Louisiana, Massachusetts, and New York have all upped their programs in recent months, while on Feb. 20, California (which has never suffered for production) introduced tax credits. The right incentives attract producers: In 2002, the last year before New Mexico introduced incentives, that state had only $8 million in film production. In 2006, that number had jumped to $400 million. Dukes could even point to individual productions that Texas has lost. The upcoming Roller Derby movie Whip It!, based on a novel set in Austin, "is now being filmed in, of all places, Michigan, where incentives are much higher than in the Lone Star State," she noted.
Out of the roughly 80 witnesses at the March 4 meeting, only one – Michael Sullivan, president of arch-conservative Texans for Fiscal Responsibility – spoke against the proposal. The rest – including motion picture industry and union representatives, the Texas Hotel Association, and film professionals such as director Richard Linklater and animal wrangler Gil Dean – were all in favor.
The good news, Hudgins told the committee, is that the current incentives have attracted commercial and video-game production – mainly because no other state incentivizes them. HB 873 gives them a bigger boost and opens up the program to educational and instructional videos – like commercials, not as glamorous as big-budget movies, but an untapped market that could keep production crews busy and soundstages booked.
Attracting productions, Dukes said, is really about protecting the Texas film industry's permanent infrastructure and skills base. Both are under threat: Rebecca Campbell, executive director of the Austin Film Society, told the committee that two recently renovated soundstages at Austin Studios are currently empty, while Steve Belsky, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 484, said a third of his members had moved out of state for work. These are well-paid jobs being lost, Dukes notes: Local crews and actors can make between $100 and $500 a day on a union picture, and the blue-collar workers are more likely to spend their wages in Texas. If current estimates hold, the reforms add another 4,500 jobs. Hudgins added, "There aren't too many industries out there that can pull the switch, and suddenly projects roll in."


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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Allegedly Shared What It's Like To Take Care Of Archie, Lilibet
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Two weeks ago, Prince Harry and Markle went to New York for a four-day tour. While there, some fans saw the couple and asked how Lilibet Diana is doing since the couple has not shared information about their daughter.
Markle replied by saying that her daughter is beautiful, but she didn't say anything else.
With this, the tabloid's source claimed to know all the details with regards to what's happening to the Sussexes at home.
"The transition has been a struggle. They feel more like a family now. Even though it's twice the work, Meghan and Harry are using a lot of the techniques they learned with Archie when it comes to bathing. And they're total pros at diaper changing now, especially Harry," the source said.
The insider added that Prince Harry and Markle are both very hands-on. When one is busy taking care of the other, the other parent usually spends time with their other children.
So, when Markle is busy tending to Lili's needs, Prince Harry and Archie hang out in their garden. The father and son allegedly enjoy playing fetch with the dogs. And they also kick a football and go on long walks.
Prince Harry also shares a special bond with his daughter. He enjoys reading bedtime stories to Lili, and he's also the one that puts the 4-month-old to sleep.
The Duke of Sussex also fusses over Lili and he always makes her laugh.
"Harry and Meghan have always said that Lili will be their last baby, and that's still likely to be the case. Life has had a funny way of surprising them, but it's not something they're planning. They're more than happy with what they have. They couldn't ask for more," the source said.
However, none of this information about Prince Harry and Markle is accurate. After all, they have never shared these kinds of details about their family life.
And upon closer inspection, everything that the tabloid mentioned seems like generic activities that parents do with their children. So, these kinds of activities can easily be fabricated.
While it is true that Prince Harry previously said that he and his wife only want to have two children, no one knows for sure if Lilibet will be their last child.
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I was so overwhelmed by yesterday.
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Washington, D.C., police officer Dutch Van Den Broeck and Republican Congressional hopeful Kay Chandler have their lives changed forever when the plane carrying both of their spouses crashes into the Chesapeake Bay. As it turns out, the dead man and woman had been carrying on an adulterous affair and were on their way to Miami for a fling. Dutch, an obsessive investigator, must know more about the fatal liaison. Kay, on the other hand, would rather not know the sordid details, partly to protect her teenage daughter and partly to protect her run for Congress. In his quest for knowledge, Dutch hounds Kay until the pair turn their mutual betrayal into a convenient attraction to each other that threatens to make headlines any budding politician would be better off without. Meanwhile, Dutch is on the trail of a crooked cop as part of his 9-to-5.
Positive Elements: The beautiful fall foliage is a sight to behold. Also, Kay and her teenage daughter enjoy a tender, loving relationship as evidenced by Kay's desire to keep her out of the political spotlight and preserve the girl's positive memories of her dad by not disclosing information about his extramarital rendezvous. She begins to question whether or not she can continue to manipulate the truth in order to get elected ("I think I'm losing what it takes to lie"). Dutch doggedly pursues a police officer who murdered a witness, even though it may cost him his job.
Spiritual Content: The deceased adulterers are honored with church funerals which involve scripture reading and hymns. Unfortunately, Kay's political rival is vilified and called "nut case" and "Elmer Fudd" for his religious beliefs and conservative stand on the issues (Kay says she hopes he tells people he talks to God so that his campaign will suffer).
Sexual Content: It is implied that Dutch and his wife have sex the morning before her fateful flight. There's a shot of women in a dressing room clad in underwear, as well as a scene showing clubbers in the midst of steamy Latin dancing. Besides talk of Kay's husband having multiple mistresses (including her best friend), the only on-screen sexual activity occurs between Kay and Dutch on two occasions. First, they engage in impulsive kissing and pawing in a parked car. Later, she drives to his remote cabin in the woods for an overnight romp in which these two unmarried people have sex (the camera closes in on them undressing one another, then cuts to the couple lying beneath the sheets after the fact). Much of the film's discussion of adultery treats it as a common occurrence to be accepted and endured—in one case, even celebrated for spicing up life with forbidden romance. Before feeling obliged to share her indiscretions, Wendy says, "Hey, c'mon; it's only adultery," and tells Kay nobody cares about it anymore. She is quickly proven wrong when her confession costs her a friend. Elsewhere in the film, individuals are similarly devastated by revelations of unfaithfulness.
Violent Content: Dutch is shot and sent to the hospital. A teenage girl is arrested for having a gun in her school locker. A man's bloodied body is found in a trash dumpster. Dutch and the dirty officer he's tracking get into a brawl in a bowling alley. Following the plane crash, submerged victims are shown still belted into their seats. Airline officials parade foreboding body bags past next of kin who must identify their loved ones.
Crude or Profane Language: Several slang expressions for intercourse are punctuated with a single f-word (when Kay uses it for impact with Dutch, he senses her discomfort and replies, "If you don't like that word, don't use it"). Common profanities include nearly a dozen blasphemous uses of God's name.
Drug and Alcohol Content: Social drinking is common (beer, wine, mixed drinks), as is consuming alcohol in times of stress.
Other Negative Elements: After their night of passion, Dutch asks Kay the morbidly honest question, "Are you sorry the plane went down?"—in essence, wanting to know if it was worth the disaster to know the truth about her philandering husband and find comfort in his arms.
Summary: This may be the film that inspires concession stands across America to start selling No-Doze. There's little or no suspense in this plodding drama. We know from the start about the affair between Dutch and Kay's unfaithful spouses, and the details uncovered in the final 2 hours and 10 minutes provide little additional info. We even know who the crooked cop is from the start. The only questions are 1) Will Dutch get his man? 2) Will Kay win the election? and 3) Will Dutch and Kay end up together? And frankly, I had a hard time caring. Hip earring notwithstanding, Harrison Ford has never looked more tired or perpetually annoyed in a film. I realize Dutch has just lost his wife and learned she was cheating on him, but his character is unbearably sullen. Meanwhile, Thomas has followed up her turn opposite Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer with another character tormented over marital loyalty and forbidden passions. It gave me an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. On the MPAA ratings scale, Random Hearts qualifies as a soft R for mature subject matter. While not extreme, foul language, alcohol use, violence and sexual situations (led by mixed messages about adultery and premarital sex) will present problems for discerning viewers.
Harrison Ford as Sgt. Dutch Van Den Broeck; Kristin Scott Thomas as Kay Chandler; Charles S. Dutton as Alcee; Bonnie Hunt as Wendy; Sydney Pollack as Carl Broman
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Q: How to use multiple features such as pitch, formants, shimmer and jitter to train HMM using HTK toolkit instead of MFCC only? I am trying to develop a note transcription system using HMM. For this I am using HTK Toolkit. I want to use different features such as pitch, formants, shimmer and jitter instead of MFCC only.
How can I create a feature vector of above features to train HMM in HTK so that I can improve the performance of the system?

A: This issue has been covered many times on HTK forums and mailing list, you can search for more details.
Basically you need to create your features first for every frame in some form, for example in text table. Then you can convert those values to a binary HTK format using C code or Matlab code. C code is not very complex but it requires you an understanding of HTK binary format. For example you can check detailed code at:
http://blog.jamesrossiter.co.uk/2008/11/16/converting-csv-and-vector-data-to-native-htk-format-using-c/
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/voicebox/doc/voicebox/writehtk.html

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package gov.sandia.cognition.learning.function.kernel;

import gov.sandia.cognition.math.matrix.Vector;
import gov.sandia.cognition.math.matrix.Vectorizable;
import gov.sandia.cognition.math.matrix.mtj.Vector3;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Random;
import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * This class implements JUnit tests for the following classes:
 *
 * @author Justin Basilico
 * @since  2.0
 */
public class ProductKernelTest
    extends TestCase
{

    public static final Random RANDOM = new Random(1);

    public ProductKernelTest(
        String testName)
    {
        super(testName);
    }

    public void testConstructors()
    {
        ProductKernel<Vectorizable> instance =
            new ProductKernel<Vectorizable>();
        assertTrue(instance.getKernels().isEmpty());

        Collection<Kernel<Vectorizable>> kernels =
            new LinkedList<Kernel<Vectorizable>>();
        kernels.add(LinearKernel.getInstance());
        kernels.add(new PolynomialKernel(2));

        instance = new ProductKernel<Vectorizable>(kernels);
        assertSame(kernels, instance.getKernels());
    }

    /**
     * Test of clone method, of class gov.sandia.cognition.learning.kernel.ProductKernel.
     */
    public void testClone()
    {
        Collection<Kernel<Vectorizable>> kernels =
            new LinkedList<Kernel<Vectorizable>>();
        kernels.add(LinearKernel.getInstance());
        kernels.add(new PolynomialKernel(2));

        ProductKernel<Vectorizable> instance =
            new ProductKernel<Vectorizable>(kernels);
        assertSame(kernels, instance.getKernels());

        ProductKernel<Vectorizable> clone = instance.clone();
        assertNotSame(instance, clone);
        assertNotSame(kernels, clone.getKernels());
        assertEquals( kernels.size(), clone.getKernels().size() );
        for ( Kernel<Vectorizable> kernel : kernels )
        {
            assertFalse(clone.getKernels().contains(kernel));
        }
    }

    /**
     * Test of evaluate method, of class gov.sandia.cognition.learning.kernel.ProductKernel.
     */
    public void testEvaluate()
    {
        LinearKernel linear = LinearKernel.getInstance();
        PolynomialKernel poly = new PolynomialKernel(2);
        RadialBasisKernel rbf = new RadialBasisKernel(RANDOM.nextDouble());
        Collection<Kernel<Vectorizable>> kernels =
            new LinkedList<Kernel<Vectorizable>>();
        kernels.add(linear);
        kernels.add(poly);
        kernels.add(rbf);

        ProductKernel<Vectorizable> instance =
            new ProductKernel<Vectorizable>(kernels);

        int count = 10;
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            Vector x = new Vector3(RANDOM.nextGaussian(), RANDOM.nextGaussian(), RANDOM.nextGaussian());
            Vector y = new Vector3(RANDOM.nextGaussian(), RANDOM.nextGaussian(), RANDOM.nextGaussian());
            double expected =
                  linear.evaluate(x, y)
                * poly.evaluate(x, y)
                * rbf.evaluate(x, y);

            assertEquals(expected, instance.evaluate(x, y));
            assertEquals(expected, instance.evaluate(y, x));
        }
    }
}

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