The African and Oceanic Art auction hosted in Paris this summer was somewhat of a rainmaker for Sotheby's; the auction house reported a final result of €11.1 million (about $12.4 million USD). Estimates were shattered on many pieces before the gavel fell; for example, one African mask estimated at about €2-3 million ended up selling for €5,411,000 (about $6 million USD).
Magdalene Odundo, Untitled, 1994. Photograph courtesy of Sotheby's.
One of the highlights of the auction went to a gorgeous, curving form by Magdalene Odundo. Sans Titre (Untitled), 1994, was estimated between €35,000 to €50,000 ($39,345 – $56,207) but ended up selling for €195,000 ($219,207).
Sotheby's states that the hand-shaped work avoids the symmetry of the turn, the surface is not glazed but burnished. The work was covered in a slip and heated in a container filled with wood chips, causing its unique charcoal hue.
Odundo was born in Nairobi in 1950. She studied graphics and commercial art at the Nairobi Polytechnic school in Kenya before moving to England in 1971 to become a graphic artist and studio potter. She studied blackware vessels at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. In 2008 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).


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A no less important benefit, bequeathed by war, has been the formation of large societies. By force alone were small nomadic hordes welded into large tribes; by force alone were large tribes welded into small nations; by force alone have small nations been welded into large nations. While the fighting of societies usually maintains separateness, or by conquest produces only temporary unions, it produces, from time to time, permanent unions; and as fast as there are formed permanent unions of small into large, and then of large into still larger, industrial progress is furthered in three ways. Hostilities, instead of being perpetual, are broken by intervals of peace. When they occur, hostilities do not so profoundly derange the industrial activities. And there arises the possibility of carrying out the division of labor much more effectually. War, in short, in the slow course of things, brings about a social aggregation which furthers that industrial state at variance with war; and yet nothing but war could bring about this social aggregation. These two truths, that without war large aggregates of men cannot be formed, and that without large aggregates of men there cannot be a developed industrial state, are illustrated in all places and times. Among existing uncivilized and semi-civilized races, we everywhere find that union of small societies by a conquering society is a step in civilization. The records of peoples now extinct show us this with equal clearness. On looking back into our own history, and into the histories of neighboring nations, we similarly see that only by coercion were the smaller feudal governments so subordinated as to secure internal peace. And, even lately, the long-desired consolidation of Germany, if not directly effected by "blood and iron," as Bismarck said it must be, has been indirectly effected by them. The furtherance of industrial development by aggregation is no less manifest. If we compare a small society with a large one, we get clear proof that those processes of coöperation by which social life is made possible assume high forms only when the numbers of the cooperating citizens are great. Ask of what use a cloth-factory, supposing they could have one, would be to the members of a small tribe, and it becomes manifest that, producing as it would in a single day a year's supply of cloth, the vast cost of making it and keeping it in order could never be compensated by the advantage gained. Ask what would happen were a shop like Stewart's, in New York, supplying all textile products, set up in a village, and you see that the absence of a sufficiently-extensive distributing function would negative its continuance. Ask what sphere a bank would have had in the Old-English period, when nearly all people grew their own food and wove their own wool, and it becomes obvious that the various appliances for facilitating exchange can grow up only when a community becomes so
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Try this URL for posting: http://localhost:8181/restconf/config/network-topology:network-topology/topology/topology-netconf/node/controller-config/yang-ext:mount/config:modules/ . Can you paste exact error response from restconf? Should be an XML.
Hi Dana, Even if we try to delete the existing RIB(default). we are not able to do it.but still can get it using same restAPI. On deletion, we are getting warning on karaf console" opendaylight-user@root>Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD' is not recognized. Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit' is not recognized." " please suggest me! Thanks !
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7,000 submissions received to date in NTA's bus network consultation process
Biggest ever number of respondents to NTA consultation
The online consultation relating to the review of the bus network in Dublin has generated 7,000 responses to date.
The consultation process was launched on June 6th when the NTA published the Dublin Area Bus Network Redesign Choices Report. The Network Review is one element of BusConnects, NTA's plan to radically transform public transport in the Dublin region, which was published in May.
Speaking today at the Eolas Magazine 'Transport Ireland 2017 Conference', Gibson Hotel Dublin, NTA Chief Executive Anne Graham said:
"We launched this consultation process a month ago, and with 7,000 respondents, the reaction has been very positive.
"A lot of the work we do involves consulting with the public, but we took a different approach this time around and decided to put an online survey at the centre of the process. This made it far easier for people to respond to, and I think that has made the world of a difference in terms of the number of members of the travelling public who actually participated in the consultation.
"Of course there are always people who are more comfortable filling in a survey on paper and sending it in to us, and we have been more than happy to accommodate them too.
"The traditional approach to a consultation is where we would publish a report or a set of recommendations, and ask people to write to us to give us their views. There certainly are situations where that is the appropriate process, but we are very pleased with the outcome so far with the response to the online survey, and it's something we will look at positively when it comes to other projects.
"The consultation is due to close on Friday of this week, so people still have an opportunity to fill in the survey. The more people who do so the better, so that the information on their views about bus services and the bus network can be factored into the redesign process and help shape the final outcome in a meaningful way.
"We will go through the submissions in detail in the weeks ahead. The responses to the survey will be used to inform the network redesign process which will produce a detailed Network Review Report that will published later this year. That report will itself be open to a further process of public consultation in early 2018 before any recommendations are implemented."
The Choices Report has been prepared by Jarrett Walker & Associates, a US based firm which specialises in designing metropolitan public transport systems. The Report reviews the patterns of transport demand across the Dublin region and the structure of the existing bus network. It identifies certain issues with the current bus system and proposes possible strategies that could address those deficiencies.
The NTA is seeking the public's views on the issues raised in the Choices Report and, in particular, on the possible strategies that could be implemented in the redesign of the bus network – these are set out in Chapter 5 (Strategies for a Redesigned Bus Network) of the Choices Report.
The online survey is available at www.BusConnects.ie until Friday 7th July.


© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. While much work has examined approaches to increase uptake of a variety of household environmental, health and energy technologies, researchers and policymakers alike have struggled to ensure long-term use. Drawing on a pilot-scale experiment conducted in rural Cambodia, this study evaluates whether economic incentives enhance continued use of - and fuel savings from - improved cookstoves (ICS). Capital-cost subsidies that have been traditionally employed to enhance ICS adoption were augmented with rebates linked to stated and objectively measured use in order to investigate impacts on both initial and sustained adoption in the treatment group. Results show that households do respond to these rebates by adopting the intervention ICS at significantly higher rates, and by using it more frequently and for longer periods. Consistent with these stove-use patterns, solid-fuel use and time spent collecting or preparing fuels also decline. However, this effect appears to diminish over time. Thus, while economic inducements may significantly increase adoption and use of new environmental health technologies, corresponding reductions in environmental or livelihood burdens are not guaranteed. Additional research on the design and implementation of incentive-based interventions targeting households directly - such as carbon financing or other forms of results-based financing (RBF) for improved cookstoves - therefore seems warranted prior to wider implementation of such solutions.


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At the same time privacy legislation such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) set strict requirements for the handling of customers' personally identifying information (PII), and also mandated stiff penalties in case of violations.
Industry expert Kent Graziano noted in a recent article entitled The true impact of GDPR is emerging now that in the first three months of 2019, Google was fined $57 million for GDPR violations and complaints were filed against Amazon and Apple for up to 4% of their worldwide revenue, which is $9 billion in the case of Apple. Small wonder that according to Gartner, accelerating privacy regulation was the top risk concern of surveyed executives.
IAM and Privacy
Effective privacy means ensuring that only the correct people have access to PII and only under the right circumstances. For example, doctors need patients' medical histories but not their home addresses, whereas someone in a hospital's billing department would need just the opposite data. Likewise, a number of states, such as Michigan, have passed recently laws requiring insurance companies to implement strict data privacy policies and the trend is expected to continue GDPR itself is explicit in requiring "protection against unauthorized and unlawful processing" Complying with requirements such as these are the concern and strength of IAM.
Additionally, IAM is useful in complying with the following aspects of GDPR, CCPA, and similar regulations:
-Security of processing: Beyond Authorization issues in terms of access to data, these statutes require that networks be secure, a basic mission of IAM.
Informed consent: IAM solutions must include data proving users' consent to data storage as well as limited access to that data.
-Data minimization: As John Notman of OpenText's recently acquired Identity Platform argues, IAM enables you to determine how long data needs to be stored, allowing you to set an automatic deletion date for "ghost" accounts and to enact other policies to eliminate data that becomes irrelevant.
Cloud services: Hospitals often use delegated Authorization with pharmacies, a situation requiring strong IAM to comply with GDPR as well as other security concerns.
Identity governance: IAM can be used to ensure separation of duties [as well as] enforcing and auditing access policies to sensitive accounts and data.
-Cloud services: Hospitals often use delegated Authorization with pharmacies, a situation requiring strong IAM to comply with GDPR as well as other security concerns.
-Identity governance: IAM can be used to ensure separation of duties [as well as] enforcing and auditing access policies to sensitive accounts and data.
PBAC and Privacy
Authorization, in the IAM context, is determining which users can access which resources and under what circumstances. There are several approaches to this task, but in recent years Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) has emerged as the solution of choice, especially for B2B Delegated Authorization, SaaS, and other cloud-based scenarios. PBAC is a relatively recent Authorization solution, combining the best features of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Policy Control.(ABAC) while avoiding their problematic features.
RBAC contributed roles or clusters of authorizations that a user always has, regardless of the current conditions (e.g. time of day). ABAC takes a different approach, authorizing usage based on conditions as well as user characteristics. Both can be cumbersome, difficult to maintain, and so complex that managers often end up delegating authorization to IT, instead of creating the important policies themselves.
PBAC offers a much better solution: it uses roles but allows permissions to vary with circumstances, such as time of day. PBAC supports the creation of natural language rules that can be implemented on a user interface, such as "sales managers can access certain customer financial data only during business hours, when they are in the office or using a VPN network, but not when they are using a non-secure connection." Thus, PBAC supports what is known as fine-grained Authorization, which allows for very specific policies, using roles and attributes. These policies work in real time, and can be easily edited by the data/application owner, allowing for a maximum of flexibility with little or no downtime.
Additionally, PBAC supports the creation of policies that can be consistently applied throughout an enterprise; this type of standardization is difficult to achieve in ABAC, but it is required by laws such as GDPR and CCPA. The ability to support clearly written policies that are both flexible and applicable across an enterprise's subsystems both helps a company provide security and also returns access control policy to management's hands where it belongs, since it is ultimately a business decision. This is easier if the chosen solution has a UI that supports the creation of entities (users, resources, etc.) and makes it simple to link them graphically.
A Policy-Driven Solution for a Privacy-Driven Future
PBAC offers the best Authorization solution for meeting privacy requirements such as GDPR and CCPA. PBAC supports using both roles and attributes to create natural language rules that specify which users can use which resources, and under what conditions. In addition, PBAC can be used by enterprises that have more than one network and need standard policies that are fully compliant with applicable regulations.
Given the growth of cloud-based businesses and organizations, with the resulting growth in PII that must be protected, it is likely that privacy concerns will only grow in the future, making PBAC solutions even more necessary.
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An ambitious and sexy con artist uses every tool at her disposal to obtain a fortune in jewels. To help in her plan, she woo's her lover's deadly henchman and then his attorney, eventually falling in love with one of them.
One response to "DECEMBER 26TH Cinematiki Maui Presents: A Fish Called Wanda, Directed by John Cleese & Charles Crichton, Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline"
mauims | December 23, 2016 at 11:32 pm | Reply
"Three dogs are inadvertently killed when one of the main characters tries to kill the dogs' owner to prevent her from testifying in court. Additionally, several pet fish are eaten alive by another character including Wanda.
Comedy and cruelty
I was reminded of the scene that marred an otherwise funny movie, "A Fish Called Wanda." At one point, the villain played by Kevin Kline set out to force Ken, the hapless, animal-loving henchman played by Michael Palin, to reveal critical information by eating Ken's beloved tropical fish, one by one, as he watched in helpless horror. I just didn't think this was funny; I didn't think it was funny when someone did it in real life, either. Killing an innocent animal, even a fish, to torture the human being who cares about it is gratuitous cruelty times two. Some joke.
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Instagram and Your Business: So Much More Than Just Selfies and Shelfies
Posted on April 9, 2017 by Melanie Yunk
Recognizing the value of—and for—businesses, Instagram has recently launched increasingly more functionality and insights for business. Instagram for Business, which debuted about 10 months ago, allows a business to switch to, or create, a business profile and then leverage insights and other tools within the application. Here's the lowdown on some of the capabilities available to businesses on Instagram.
Switching from a traditional account to an Instagram business profile allows an organization to include business and contact information on a profile, such as a phone number, an email address and physical address. This profile detail makes it easier for people to verify that a profile belongs to an actual business and to reach out and touch someone directly from the app.
Note that to upgrade, a business must also have a Facebook Page and connect the two profiles; the business contact information will be imported from the business' Facebook Page (but the information is editable once in Instagram).
Has your business upgraded to a business profile yet? If not, check out Instagram's blog post on how to create a business account and get going and reap the rewards!
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Once a business upgrades to the the enhanced business profile, it is afforded all the scoop: new insights and analytics on posts and stories are available through Instagram's Business Tools. Insights include data such as:
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Reach: The number of unique accounts that saw a post or story
Website Clicks: The number of accounts that tapped the web link on a Business Profile
Follower Activity: The average times followers are active on Instagram on a typical day
Video Views: The number of times a given video was viewed for 3 or more seconds
Saves: The number of unique accounts that saved a given post
Additionally, insights on stories include such deets as:
Replies: The number of times people send messages through the "Send Message" option
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German heavy metal veterans Tankard has announced that their new studio album, "Vol(l)ume 14" will be released through AFM Records on December 17th. A deluxe edition of the record will also be released, which will contain the band's full set from Headbanger's Open Air 2009. You can check out the cover artwork below.
"Fat Snatchers (The Hippo Effect)"
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Really waited a new thrashing album of the masters Tankard, and this cover artwork is pretty fun and nice.


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Q: How to fix problem with z-index and overflow:scroll code in sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/vibrant-microservice-4rplf
I got  select and modal components . When I click on select, it unfolds inside modal component and creates scroll.

I want make it like in the picture below . Display select over modal. I make it by removing overflow:scroll from modal component. But I need to leave overflow:scroll in case modal gets bigger. I think there is a problem with z-index. Could you please help me solve that problem.

.modal-block {
  overflow-y: scroll;
  width: 60% !important;
  max-height: 300px;
  margin-top: 100px;
  background: #fff;
  border-radius: 4px;
  z-index: 1111;
}

.select-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1600;
}

A: Add overflow-y:scroll; in .modal-wrapperand remove overflow-y: scroll; and max-height: 300px; from .modal-block.  Checkout the sandbox link Sandbox example

A: If your "Select" tag is coming at the end in the modal then you can do like this:
Class .modal-block remove overflow-y:scroll;
Class .modal-body add overflow-y:scroll;
Move .select-wrapper out of .modal-body like this

Content

SELECT OPTION

A: Just a different opinion, I think we could just apply scroll effect to the text paragraph instead of the entire modal block. In this way, you can easily set the height of the entire modal block and its child text paragraph as needed.
Link: https://codesandbox.io/s/suspicious-curran-pzq5j

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Meet the Adebanjos is a single-camera sitcom created by Debra Odutuyo and Andrew Osayemi and produced by MTA Productions. Centred on a Nigerian-British family living in Peckham, South London the show focuses on the larger-than-life patriarch Bayo Adebanjo as he struggles to instill his old-fashioned African values within his reluctant British family.

The sitcom began as a revolutionary self-funded web series in 2011 and quickly became an international hit on televisions across the globe  as it was shown in countries like Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda. Since its launch, the programme has gained a devoted following in the African-British community.

Production

Meet the Adebanjos began life in 2011 as a web series that was self-funded by the show's creators, Andrew Osayemi and Deborah Odutayo. The comedy stems from the typical ups and downs of family life, and the patriarch Bayo's rivalry with the equally larger-than-life and rather eccentric Auntie Funke.

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters
 Wale Ojo as Bayo Adebanjo
 Yetunde Oduwole as Gladys Adebanjo
 Andrea Ama Aboagye as Sade Adebanjo
 Daniel Davids as Tobi Adebanjo
 Moji Bamtefa as Aunty Funke
 Jordan Coulson as Kevin (Series 1-3)

Minor cast and characters
 Tolulope Ogunmefun as Cousin Femi (Series 1-3)
 Andrew Apraku as Pastor Michael (Series 1-3)
 Lateef Lovejoy as Greg (Series 1-3)
 David Erdos as Tony (Series 2-3)

Episodes

Three seasons have been produced so far, with a total of 50 episodes.

Season 2 premiered in the UK on channel OHTV in 2014 and on Africa Magic/M-Net in Africa.

In December 2015, it was announced that the third season of Meet the Adebanjos will launch on the multi-ethnic content service Lebara Play. The third season was made available to watch from the beginning of 2016 and included 19 new episodes, adding up to a total of 50 episodes produced.

Following the pick-up of the series by Netflix, a fourth season is currently in development.

Reception

Meet the Adebanjos has been critically-acclaimed and recognised by a number of awarding bodies, including ZAFAA, NEL, Screen Nation Film and Television Awards, BEFFTA, and The Black Comedy Awards UK.

References

2012 British television series debuts
Black British sitcoms
Television shows set in London

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Ulkomainen Itäkluppi är öar i Finland. De ligger i Bottenhavet eller Skärgårdshavet och i kommunen Gustavs i landskapet Egentliga Finland, i den sydvästra delen av landet. Öarna ligger omkring 75 kilometer väster om Åbo och omkring 220 kilometer väster om Helsingfors.

Arean för den av öarna koordinaterna pekar på är  hektar och dess största längd är 220 meter i nord-sydlig riktning. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten.

Klimat
Klimatet i området är tempererat. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är augusti, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C.

Källor

Öar i Gustavs
Finländska öar i Bottenhavet


These days, it's hard to go anywhere without being subjected to some form of advertising. The same holds true when it comes to clubfitting, to a certain extent. One would expect if you were being fitted by a specific manufacturer, that company would fit you with its products. But what if you're looking for a truly neutral third-party clubfitting experience where all clubs are equally considered for a proper fit? The folks over at SkyGolf, makers of the popular SkyCaddie GPS systems, recently unveiled the Swing Labs fitting system. Swing Labs, as it's appropri-ately named, uses a highly complex system of equipment-testing data and research, launch-monitor evaluations and individual player characteristics to formulate objective equipment recommendations. If there's a particular club/shaft combo suited for your game, you can count on Swing Labs to find the right makeup for you, no matter what brand it is. Now, that isn't to say you can't add your personal tastes to the mix. Swing Labs can base its findings on your particular brand taste, as well. To learn more, and to inquire about Swing Labs, or to go through one of the various types of fittings the system provides, hop online and check them out at SwingLabs.com.


More Religious pamphlets for the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) came our way this week, mostly from New College Library. I always find the titles so fascinating, and some of them have lovely woodcut details too. The following are some of my favourites.
The Digital Imaging Unit attended the "Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography" conference for the first time in November at the end of last year. The conference was hosted in Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern and was opened by Sir Nicholas Serota the Director of Tate. Marvelous venue aside it was an engaging conference. Serious joke of the morning went to the Preservation Advisory Centre Imaging Group who highlighted that often at the end of digitisation planning the final step is usually outlined as, " Just put it online". This really diminishes the enormity of that task. However it is interesting to see so many national institutions grappling with the same digital problems and discussing digitising for access verses digitising for preservation and issues like high value low volume workflow verses mass digitisation workflow.
Sarah Saunders of Electric Lane who has been involved with IPTC embedded metadata standards introduced ,The new SCREM (SChema for Rich Embedded Metadata for Heritage Media Files) project. Plans are afoot to cater for heritage imaging metadata within IPTC fields. Sarah also made a strong case for this in the example that when we download music files by right clicking and saving to our desktops we now expect at a minimum to see a title, author and probably a creation date. So why has this not happened for images? and can IPTC embedded metadata remedy that situation?
It was cool to find out from Maureen Pennock that the British Library not only backs their truly massive amount of data up, but stores that data backup in four geographically distant separate locations across the UK. Maureen also warned against the perils of BIT FLIP which degrades image quality in a variety of ways and the need to manage stored data for its preservation. Her view on cloud storage was an outright DON'T DO IT! which is a strong message from someone with her experience.
Dani Tagen's talk was controversial as she described " how we at the Horniman Museum & Gardens have managed to take 15,000 photos of about 8,000 objects in 10 months with one photographer and a small team of collection assistants." she lost three kilos in weight teaching collections assistants how to take photographs. In my opinion the results were high volume poor quality by professional standards and the assistants themselves admitted that more training and time would be required to come up to professional standards. However the images were a marked improvement over previous efforts and were not for public consumption they were for internal use as documentary images of the collection. Dani was however playing to a tough audience. When viewing her own photographs alongside the assistants the quality of Dani's work was far greater.
The highlight for me was English Heritage's short film by Alan Bull covering the last hat mould makers in UK. The film described that the poisonous materials that hat mould makers worked with actually accounted for previous generations going insane hence the phrase "Mad As A Hatter".
Conference abstracts can be found on the AFHAP website.
Have you been doing too much of this recently?
Or maybe you got stranded by the winter storms….
The DIU team hope that 2014 will bring you manna from heaven!


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Peter 05Nov16: I have categorically not opposed any changes the the operation of the "Select all ...". I clearly told you I had "no dog in that race", it is not a preference I have ever had set to "on" (apart from when I am testing) so I really don't mind what you make the "Select all" do or even if you have multiple types of context-dependent "select all" as you seemed to be suggesting. And if you do go down that more complex route then that makes a further strong argument for making the defailut setting to be "off" so that newbies don't get confused. But that is not part of this proposal anyway and should be discussed elsewhere
Peter 08Nov16: Our argument here is that basically there is no real need for the "Select All ...". If we had adopted the approach of this proposal in the first place we would probably never have introduced the "Select All ..." preference as there would have beem no real need for it. It is so simple for users who need to select all to use Ctrl-A and most of them will be very used to doing that from the other apps they use like Word and Excel. But, as a compromise, with this proposal we agreed to retain that preference for users like you that feel a need for it, the only change is for this proposal to make any kind of sens that proposal must then be "off" by default.
And here you would seem to be outvoted Gale, with Steve, James and myself recognizing the need to set the default for that Prefernce to be "off". Plus Vaughan (from a related email thread) who seems to be in favour of just removing that preference as his preferred choice.
[ ] In future, automatically select all when none selected
[Help] [Select All] [Close]
An alternative wording that makes clear there are other ways to select:
Peter 08Nov16: Now there's a thought, I hadn't really considered that, but now you've made me think about it. I was assuming than any one who was a new user, or anyone who did a reset on installation would get their default set to "off" and those who had an existing .cfg would remain unchanged. Of course those who save and restore their .cfg woul also remain unchanged. But maybe we should consider cahanging it for users who have installed preciously yet don't do a reset on installin 2.1.3
Peter 08Nov16: But now you've made me think about it, Gale, I would sugest that a) all new users gert the "off" setting - b) all users who do a reset on installation get the "off" setting. Personally I would even reset it to "off" for all users who re-installl and don;t reset - as for those, like you, that feel a need for it it is so easy to turn it vback again.
Peter 08Nov16: Done.
'Gale: I am trying to be constructive rather than outright oppose the Proposal. I shall continue to oppose it unless the dialogue is made more user friendly e.g. somewhat along the lines I propose. Users applying effects to the entire audio do not want to get rid of the dialogue by having the extra step of select all every single time. So yes, the dialogue should IMO link to the "Select All" preference, just like the very verbose dialogue for importing uncompressed files lets you select a preference to not show the dialogue again. I replaced "let me" with "automatically" in the preference checkbox.


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Sunday at the Burley 8th Ward, 2050 Normal Ave.
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Collecting money for work delivered is never an easy conversation. Most people are uncomfortable with talking about money, and even more uncomfortable being chased for money owed by them.
There's one thing worse, not being paid for something you are legitimately owed. Most traditional collections approaches place a huge amount of trust in existing infrastructure to communicate an invoice or payable to a client or customer (post, email, hand delivery). The truth is that the only way to get paid consistently is to build a relationship with the payor and to set clear expectations early in the process.
Early in my career, I interviewed a CFO of a medium sized business which owned a number of car dealerships. When I asked about their process for paying the bills, he opened the draw to his desk and showed me a bin.
"Every bill that comes in that isn't threatening to turn off our business or to sue us get's filed in here." In short, if you don't chase payment, I won't pay it because I want to stretch my credit terms. This is proper old school finance, pay your creditors slow and chase your debtors fast, but in today's fast paced world, this will just get you a bad name and restrict your ability to negotiate on a fair playing field.
Most modern businesses who are not in financial distress do not fight paying items to a contractual term (provided it's reasonable), and most will pay an accurate invoice timely if you set up the process to support them.
When I first started working in collections, I asked what was the number one reason a customer did not pay an invoice. By far the biggest culprit accounting for 45% of late payments, was "I didn't receive my invoice".
It doesn't matter whether you post it (may as well make a paper airplane), email it (guess who's email is marked as spam) or fax (really who uses fax anymore, it just turns into a pdf which goes to email and is deleted). The easiest solution, follow up your first ever invoice to a customer with a phone call to let them know they should of got their very first invoice and do they need any help.
Customers and partners never like to be chased for money, so the pitch on your call needs to be "service".
The key is not to talk about how much, when or how they will pay unless they ask, the key is to get the confirmation they got the invoice, they understand what it's for and finally, they have a clear understanding of how and when to make payment.
By having a phone conversation, it's more personal, you can confirm in real time any problems, and if they do say they haven't received the invoice, you can send them out a new copy and get them to confirm they have received, or if not, what's the correct email address. Even better, if you're lucky enough to have a portal where they can log in to check their invoices, talk them through how to check themselves, and send them a one pager explaining how so they can self serve in future.
On the regular response to "I don't pay the invoices", ask for the contact details of who you can speak to, and promise to update immediately in the system to make sure you don't bother them in future. Always good to check if they still want to receive invoices as a courtesy as well as their payable person, approval queues can be pushed faster when you get the information to everyone in the process first time.
This practice shouldn't be repeated every month, it's about establishing the first point of a relationship with a hopefully repeat customer, confirming they understand the process, and their obligations. If you try it every month, you're just going to annoy them, and it takes away the veneer of service, let alone breaking your ability to scale collection operations by adding calls.
This is the first step on setting expectations with your customers, and it won't be the last, but you instantly take out all of the friction generated by a first time call to a partner being angry on both sides, since you get to confirm both of you are speaking to the same information.
It sounds simple, but this one call to a new customer sets a benchmark for the relationship, and gives them an opportunity to ask all the questions they need before they make their payment.


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Q: Data Binding / Data Conversion in Python Is there a Python lib to convert a bunch of strings to appropriate objects?
Web frameworks represent request data typically as map of the form { str : [str, ..]} and I want to apply these string data structure to domain objects like Grails does:
def book = new Book(params) // params is from the request

or
book.properties = params

A: The example you show looks similar to JSON (see e.g. the json python module).
Quoting an example from its documentation:
import json
json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]')

gives you a nested structure of lists/dicts:
[u'foo', {u'bar': [u'baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]


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Pavel Nedvěd (Cheb, 30. kolovoza 1972.) je češki umirovljeni nogometaš. Do 2006. bio je stalan član Češke nogometne reprezentacije. Prije pridruživanja Juventusu, igrao je za klubove Dukla Praha te Sparta Praha u Češkoj, te Lazio u Italiji. Osvojio je jedan talijanski  scudetto s Laziom te četiri s Juventusom (iako su Juventusu posljednja dva scudetta oduzeta zbog upetljanosti u aferu namještanja rezultata 2006.).

Nedved je poznat po svojoj borbenosti i predanosti timskoj igri. Također je veoma prilagodljiv igrač. Može igrati sve vezne pozicije, pa čak i napadača. Iako dešnjak, Nedved jednako dobro može igrati i s ljevom nogom. To se posebno očituje u njegovoj sposobnosti pucanja izvan šesnaesterca; sposoban je uputiti opasne udarce s daljina većih od 25 metara s obje noge. 2004. Pele ga je uvrstio u svoj popis 125 najboljih živućih nogometaša.

Klupska karijera

Pavel Nedved počeo je svoju profesionalnu nogometnu karijeru igrajući dvije godine za tadašnjeg češkog prvoligaša Duklu iz Praga, ubrzo odlazeći u daleko uspješniji i slavniji klub, prašku Spartu. Nakon europskog prvenstva 1996, na kojem je Nedved odigrao zapaženu ulogu, PSV i S.S. Lazio, među ostalima, uključili su se u utrku za njegov potpis. Nedved je odabrao Lazio, klub u kojem je instantno postao miljenik navijača. S klubom je osvojio Talijanski kup te superkup. U svojih 137 nastupa za Lazio zabio je 33 gola.

Njegove dobre igre u Laziu nisu prošle neprimjećeno, i 2001. Juventus je Laziu platio oko 30.000.000 € za Nedvedove usluge. Talijanski div vidio je Nedveda kao nasljednika velikog Zinadinea Zidana koji je te godine prešao u Real Madrid. Dokazao se kao više nego adekvatna zamjena za Francuza, postavši jedan od glavnih igrača momčadi koja je osvojila scudetto sezone 2001/02, 2002/03, 2004/05, te 2005/06.U 184 nastupa za Juve zabio je 42 prvenstvena gola. 2003. pomogao je odvesti Juventus do finala Lige prvaka, koje je morao propustiti zbog prikupljenih žutih kartona. Juventus je utakmicu izgubio od Milana na jedanaesterce.

Nedved je potvrdio da će svoju karijeru završiti u Torinskom klubu. 2007. potpisao je novi jednogodišnji ugovor, zajedno sa suigračem Maurom Camoranesijem. Ugovor istječe na kraju sezone 2007/08. Nedved je najavio otvaranje vlastite nogometne akademije u Češkoj nakon završetka karijere.

Reprezentativna karijera

Nedved je prvi put za reprezentaciju nastupio 1994, no prve važnije utakmice odigrao je na Europskom prvenstvu 1996. Češka je došla do finala, gdje je izgubila od Njemačke. Prvenstvo 2000. bilo je mnogo manje uspješno; reprezentacija je zastala već u grupi, gdje su ih pretekli Nizozemci i eventualni prvaci Francuzi. 2004. Nedved je kao kapetan reprezentacije predstavljao Češku na prvenstvu u Portugalu. Nakon eksplozivnog starta, u polufinalu su ih zaustavili Grci, no u borbi za treće mjesto pobijedili su Dansku te osvojili treće mjesto. Nažalost, Nedved se u polufinalu ozljedio te je ubrzo objavio povlačenje iz reprezentacije.
No 2006. Česima je trebala pobjeda protiv Norveške za kvalifikaciju na Svjetsko prvenstvo. Češka javnost apelirala je na Nedveda da pomogne reprezentaciji što je on naposljetku i učinio, igrajući u obje utakmice. Česi su pobijedili te je Nedved upisan u popis reprezentativaca za svjetsko prvenstvo. Svjetsko prvenstvo 2006. prvo je pojavljivanje Češke reprezentacije na svjetskim prvenstvima nakon gašenja Čehoslovačke. Nažalost, iako su imali dobar start protiv SAD-a (3-0), nisu uspjeli proći grupu. Ubrzo nakon prvenstva, Nedved je drugi put okončao reprezentativnu karijeru. Njegova posljednja utakmica bio je poraz 1-3 od Srbije.

Nagrade
čehoslovački prvak: 1992/1993
češki prvak: 1993/1994 - 1994/1995
češki kup Republike: 1996
talijanski kup: 1997/1998 - 1999/2000
talijanski Superkup: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003
talijanski prvak: 1999/2000, 2001/2002, 2002/2003
talijanska Serie B prvak: 2006/2007
UEFA-in superkup: 1999

europski nogometaš godine: 2003
talijanski strani igrač godine: 2003
najbolji veznjak Lige prvaka: 2002/03
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It's Time To Start Watching The Giant Student Protests In Quebec
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You've probably noticed a few headlines, on BI and elsewhere, about some kind of student protest for the last few months in Montreal and Quebec, just over the border in Canada.Well yes, it's true. Many of Montreal's students (and there are a lot—the city has 6 fairly major universities) have been on strike for much of 2012, with multiple marches and protests throughout the year.
Honestly, we've perhaps shied away from reporting too much on the protests. It's a regional issue that deals with a pretty unsexy subject (tuition fees) that arguably affect only a certain proportion of the population. If you're reading in the U.S., and didn't want to send your child to McGill, frankly, it might not seem so important to you.
But it is — and these facts should help you change your mind.
FACT 1: It's huge
After some time, perhaps around the 100 day of the march, the strike became a little too big to ignore. We saw videos of seemingly endless lines of people marching through the centre of the city. One particular march last week was estimated at between 300,000 to 400,000 people.
To put that in context, the larger Occupy Wall Street marches have been estimated at around 15,000 in October 2011, or up to 25,000 in May's "general strike." Most of the anti-Putin protests we saw in Moscow this winter seemed to cap out at estimates of 180,000.
400,000 people is — in pretty much any context — huge. It is around a quarter of Montreal's population.
FACT 2: Not all students support it
Of course, it would be wrong to characterise the protests as having the support of all the students. There are plenty of good arguments and organisation coming from the students who don't support the strikes as well.
Roughly speaking, there's something of a split between English-speaking students and Francophone students (so much so that at least one blog has elected to translate the more positive stories about the strike in the French press for English speakers).
For example, McGill, perhaps Canada's premier university, is largely English-speaking and elected to not strike. On the other hand, three Francophone student unions (Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec [FECQ], the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec [FEUQ], and the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante [CLASSE]) have led the strike action — to a certain extent, their leaders and spokespeople becoming the "stars" of the strike.
By the way, the leaders of these organisations, despite their young ages (they're students!) have become household names in Quebec. "The three student leaders are better known than any Liberal cabinet minister," one journalist argued. The leader of the most radical student group (CLASSE), has become something of a a romantic figure, with a Tumblr dedicated to him.
FACT 3: Those marching are not just students
A relatively new aspect of the protests is the "casseroles" — local families and older protesters who come out banging their pots and pans in spontaneous neighbourhood protests.
One protester we talked to spoke about a march he attended that was led by 3 nine-year-olds on skateboards.
While most polls suggest a majority of Quebec supports the fee increases, some newer polls are suggesting a shift.
FACT 4: It's become about more than just tuition fees
Part of that change comes from the Quebec parliament passing the controversial Bill 78, a law that in effect bans any kind of spontaneous protests by students, and imposes huge fines (up to $35,000 for union leaders, far higher for the unions themselves) on those who break the rules (you can read an English translation of the bill here).
BIll 78 prompted a damning Op-Ed from two University of Montreal professors in The New York Times. The article concluded "Americans travelling to Quebec this summer should know they are entering a province that rides roughshod over its citizens' fundamental freedoms."
Some students we spoke with said that the talk of government clamp-downs and police brutality were hyperbolic — it's worth noting that the the number of arrests for Occupy Wall Street does seem to be in line with the Quebec strikes, despite the smaller numbers — almost all agreed that the government was handling the crisis badly.
Photo: NASA Photo by Don Pettit
FACT 5: The strike says a lot about the U.S. systemQuebec's government has a relatively simple argument when it sticks to the tuition fee increases themselves. Quebec students pay the lowest fees in North America. The government plans to raise fees by around 75 per cent. A big number, sure, but current fees are only CA$2,493 a year, meaning that the increase will only bring it up to CA$3,793 by 2016-17. That figure is still below the Canadian average of $5,535, the government says.
If we think about education fees simply in terms of "fairness," then sure, it's maybe unfair that Quebec students pay less than their neighbours.
The wider issue, however, is that Jean Charest, Quebec's premier and member of the right wing (for Quebec at least) Quebec Liberal Party, made his name with tax cuts.
Most pro-strike students we spoke to argue that the solution is higher taxes rather than higher fees, and even the pro-tuition students we spoke to balked at the idea of a U.S.-style private system (even with the increases, Montreal wouldn't reach those levels).
"If you want to have an increase of 79 per cent (or actually 82 per cent), you need to have an evaluation of it, and that means comparing our system to the other side of the border," FEUQ president Martine Desjardins said when we asked her what American students might think of the protests. "Actually … people in the U.S. have a lot of debt, and this is why we don't want to go there."
Given recent data about the U.S. student debt crisis ($1 trillion!), it's perhaps not surprising that students in nearby countries are terrified of heading in that direction at all, and instead look longingly at countries with no tuition fees, such as Sweden.
When we asked Desjardins why Quebec couldn't have a system like Sweden's, we were expecting a practical answer. Instead, she replied simply "It's a political decision." And to a degree, she's completely right; Quebec once did have a free system and a political decision was made to move away from it.
FACT 6: It's not over quite yet
Most people we spoke to thought that the government and the strikers were so far apart (and apparently so unwilling to compromise) that no end was in sight.
But unions and students are in talks, and what we've heard suggests that perhaps both sides might be coming to a compromise — Charest is reportedly negotiating with students, and one union organiser has hinted that his union was willing to compromise.
And what exactly would a compromise between tax interests and student wallets look like? Whatever side of the debate you're on, that's probably something you'd want to know.
Now read: A Recent Graduate Explains Why She Doesn't Support The Strikes — And You Shouldn't Either >
See also: 26 Amazing Facts About Finland's Unorthodox Education System >
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Anselmo Silvino (Teramo, Italija, 23. studenog 1945.) je bivši talijanski dizač utega.

Nakon bavljenja boksom i biciklizmom, Silvino se posvetio dizanju utega te s devetnaest godina postaje nacionalni juniorski prvak. Prvi veći rezultat ostvario je na Mediteranskim igrama 1967. u Tunisu kada je osvojio srebro te postavivši novi nacionalni rekord od 370 kg. Na sljedećim Mediteranskim igrama u İzmiru osvaja zlato dok je iste godine bio brončani na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Limi.

Tijekom 1972. Silvino biva brončani na Olimpijadi u Münchenu s time da je olimpijski turnir bio ujedno i svjetsko prvenstvo. Također, medalju istog sjaja osvojio je i na predstojećem europskom prvenstvu u Constanţi.

Tijekom svoje karijere rušio je talijanske rekorde u dizanju utega 43 puta, sudjelovao je na preko 30 međunarodnih turnira dok mu je 1991. godine rodni Teramo dodijelio nagradu Il Paliotto d'oro.

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Kansas City Chiefs News
4 Chiefs become nominees to Pro Football Hall of Fame
The door is finally open for legendary Kansas City wide receiver Otis Taylor to be inducted into the Hall.
By John Dixon@Arrowheadphones Updated Jul 7, 2022, 5:30pm CDT
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On Thursday, four former Kansas City Chiefs passed the first hurdle to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August of 2023: wide receiver Otis Taylor, head coach Marty Schottenheimer, general manager Carl Peterson and scout Lloyd Wells.
Taylor was nominated as a Senior candidate, while Schottenheimer, Peterson and Wells were nominated as Coach/Contributor candidates. A total of 25 Seniors candidates were named, along with 29 total Coach/Contributor candidates.
The Senior and Coach/Contributor selection committees will now pare these two lists to 12 candidates each before July 27. The Seniors committee will reduce that to three finalists on August 16, while the Coach/Contributor group will be reduced to one finalist on August 23. In most years, only one person from each group may become a finalist. However, under special rules, the Hall will allow three Senior finalists in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Taylor, 79, played his entire NFL career in Kansas City after being taken in the fourth round (29th overall) of the 1965 AFL Draft. He was a key member of both the 1966 and 1969 teams that appeared in the first and fourth Super Bowls — and his legendary 46-yard touchdown reception to ice the Chiefs's 23-7 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV is among the most celebrated plays in team history. Taylor retired after the 1975 season — and has long been considered as a player who belonged in the Hall.
Schottenheimer served as the team's head coach from 1989 through 1998, returning the team to respectability with a 101-58-1 record. After the Chiefs had made playoffs only once between 1971 and 1990, Schottenheimer's teams made the postseason in seven of his 10 Kansas City seasons. Unfortunately, he was never able to translate his regular-season success into postseason victories, winning in only three of his 10 playoff appearances with the Chiefs. Still, he is one of only eight NFL coaches to collect more than 200 wins. Of those, Schottenheimer is the only eligible coach who has not yet been inducted into the Hall. He died in February of 2021.
Peterson, 79, hired Schottenheimer when he was hired as the team's general manager in 1989. While he remained in his position for another ten years after Schottenheimer's resignation from the team following the 1998 season, the two are inexorably linked in the minds of Kansas City fans. During Peterson's 20 years as the GM, the Chiefs turned in only six losing seasons, compiling a record of 176-143-1.
Wells is often seen as one of those who finally fully opened the doors for Black athletes in professional football, serving with the Chiefs informally before he became professional football's full-time Black scout in 1963. He was responsible for recruiting many players from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), including previous Hall of Fame inductees Buck Buchanan, Emmitt Thomas and Willie Lanier. His story is also intertwined with Taylor's. It was Lloyd who famously arranged to hide the former Prairie View A&M wide receiver in a Texas hotel room to prevent the Philadelphia Eagles from signing him to an NFL contract after both teams had drafted him in 1965. Wells died in 2005.
The other Senior candidates include Ken Anderson, Maxie Baughan, Mark Clayton, Roger Craig, LaVern Dilweg, Randy Gradishar, Lester Hayes, Chris Hinton, Chuck Howley, Cecil Isbell, Joe Jacoby, Billie "White Shoes" Johnson, Mike Kenn, Joe Klecko, Bob Kuechenberg, George Kunz, Jim Marshall, Clay Matthews Jr., Eddie Meador, Stanley Morgan, Tommy Nobis, Ken Riley, Sterling Sharpe and Everson Walls.
The remaining Coach/Contributor candidates are K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr., Roone Arledge, C.O. Brocato, Don Coryell, Otho Davis, Ralph Hay, Mike Holmgren, Frank "Bucko" Kilroy, Eddie Kotal, Robert Kraft, Rich McKay, John McVay, Art Modell, Clint Murchison Jr., Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Lee Remmel, Art Rooney Jr., Jerry Seeman, Mike Shanahan, Clark Shaughnessy, Seymour Siwoff, Amy Trask, Jim Tunney, Jack Vainisi and John Wooten.


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Who does Antigone say is partly to blame for her death?
Creon
Why does Antigone admit what she has done even though she knows Creon will punish her?
4. Key Ideas and Details: Why does Antigone admit what she has done even though she knows Creon will punish her? Provide evidence from the text to support your inference. Antigone admits what she has done b/c doesn't want to deny the fact that she was honoring her brother.
What kind of woman is Antigone?
Antigone is a strong woman who understands that her will does not need to be secondary to the will of men. She feels empowered to make her own decisions, even if they contradict the decisions of the men that society has bestowed with power. Ismene, her sister, disagrees.
Who does Antigone say she is acting for?
bury Polynices
What did Antigone kill herself with?
Antigone's suicide is described by a messenger – the sentries broke in through into the burial cave and saw her hanging by the neck with a noose of silk or muslin from her own clothing.
Who is Oedipus's daughter?
Who does Antigone compare Creon?
The main discrepancy between Antigone and Creon is that Antigone is loyal to the individual while Creon is loyal to the state. After he just became ruler of Thebes, Creon is committed to the state and to the rules he implemented.
What is Antigone's response when Creon asks her if she is guilty of burying Polynices in defiance of his edict?
For to do excessive things is nonsense. When Ismene refuses to help bury Polynices, Antigone angrily responds that she will do it herself. She then says: It seems fair to me to die doing it.
What does Ismene try to convince Antigone to do?
In the most basic sense, Antigone is the more strong-willed of the two sisters, while Ismene is compliant. Antigone is willing to defy Creon's decree at any cost, including death, while Ismene tries to persuade her sister to obey the law, and thus King Creon himself.
How does Creon react to haemon's death?
How does Creon react to Haemon's advice? He is enraged, and accuses Haemon of being influenced by his love for his fiancé, Antigone. Describe Creon's death sentence for Antigone.
What does Antigone convince the nurse that she was out doing?
What does Antigone convince the Nurse that she was out doing? It makes Antigone feel like a little girl.
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Movie Review: The Expendables 3
Anyone looking for The Expendables 3 to provide summer's final hurrah at the box office might want to look elsewhere. Where the first Expendables played like a shaggy, small-scale reprieve from career oblivion for former action stars Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, and Jet Li, this one feels like it's lining up the burial plots. Where the second and best film in the series raised the stakes by bringing in Jean-Claude Van Damme as its villain and Chuck Norris as comic relief, The Expendables 3 overplays its hand amassing a cast of has-beens and future never-will-bes of such an unwieldy size that few get a chance at making any kind of impression.
The first that does is Wesley Snipes, returning to the screen after half a decade to play an original member of the mercenary crew led by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). It's telling that though the former medic's nickname is "Doctor Death," hinting at an intriguing kind of murderous expertise not yet seen in the motley crew, the choice is made to make the good Doctor a simple knife-wielding rival for the team's co-captain, Lee Christmas (Jason Statham). Though it does give Snipes a funny new appellation, "the Knife Before Christmas," it doesn't offer him much more than the one-note to play unfortunately. It is within that narrow space that Snipes seems determined to breathe some life into a movie otherwise devoid of character development.
Faring a tiny bit better is Mel Gibson, whose maniacal off-screen antics serve his role as Barney's arch-villain Conrad Stonebanks rather well. The real life issues that have brought these actors low enough to throw into this mess informs the background of most of these characters. So after Doctor Death's jailbreak from a black ops prison, the requisite "Why'd they send you away?" is met with the disarming "Tax evasion!" Stonebanks explains his motivations for betraying his one-time pal Barney by elaborating on how the espionage establishment turned their collective back on him and, worse yet, sent his own friends after him to eliminate him when all he wanted to do was make some money. Replace "espionage" with "Hollywood," and it's not hard to imagine how Gibson summons such spittle-inflected gusto as Stonebanks bitterly tells his tale.
But those moments are fewer and farther between than in previous installments of The Expendables. Though the movie clocks in at 20 minutes longer than the last installment, much of that time is spent re-acquainting us with the ever larger cast of roughnecks. And now, there's a new twist, Ross calls on an old ally (Kelsey Grammer) for younger replacements, a forgettable group of athletes and CW stars led by Kellan Lutz. So there's all of them to introduce in the hopes of handing the franchise off with the next one. Harrison Ford replaces Bruce Willis after he regained his senses and declared he better get more money if he's going to sink any lower in this morass. And there's Antonio Banderas and the required cameos by Jet Li, Schwarzenegger, etc.
Only Stallone gets any screen time, moving from one section of this loosely stitched Frankenstein's monster of a film to another as a sort of facilitator. But if it's any indication, a lethargic, slurred speech delivered as the gang of veterans drowns their sorrows may be proof that the 68-year-old Stallone is self-aware enough to know he can't keep pushing these action films out forever. Stallone designed The Expendables 3 to put these action heroes out to pasture in favor of fresh blood but, younger or not, don't look for their lackluster young co-stars to take the lead anytime soon.
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