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Never again: Owen Abbott's story
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By Tricia Sloma
Published: May. 2, 2019 at 6:21 PM EDT
Crashes involving school buses have resulted in unforgettable tragedies in our area.
On Oct. 30, 2018 a bus stop crash in Fulton County killed three students and injured one.
Just five weeks later, on Dec. 5, a truck slammed into a school bus that had stopped at a railroad crossing in Marshall County, killing 13-year-old Owen Abbott.
By law, school buses are required to stop at rail crossings, even on busy highways. The Eastern Pulaski school bus was full of Winamac Middle School students on a field trip to Warsaw. They were just pulling away from the crossing near Argos on U.S. 31 when a truck slammed into the rear of the bus, sending an overhead rack into the bus and causing Owen's fatal injuries.
In February, a grand jury recommended no charges be filed against the driver of the truck. Owen's mother, Britni Fritz, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and his employer and does not speak publicly about the specifics of the case.
Indiana Sen. Blake Doriot filed a bill in the Indiana Legislature that would have added safety lanes to highway rail crossings. Fritz testified in support of Senate Bill 42 at a Senate hearing in February.
"I think this would really help to save other lives," Fritz testified. "No one should have to go through the pain that I am going through…. Maybe if we thought of this sooner, he would still be here."
While the bill passed the Indiana Senate, it was stopped in the Indiana House.
Doriot and Owen's family say they'll continue fighting for safety improvements at rail crossings. And NewsCenter 16 will continue to follow progress on any future legislation.
In the meantime, on Thursday, May 2, we pause to remember the bright, funny, athletic Owen on what would have been his 14th birthday.
NewsCenter 16's Tricia Sloma visited his family home for an exclusive interview with his mother.
Surrounded by farm fields, there's a patch of woods near Winamac where a mom can go to collect her thoughts.
"You know, when you're a mom, you don't get much time to yourself. This is about the only place I can escape to where they can't find me sometimes," Fritz explained as she walked along a path, moving branches along the way.
Outdoors is where Fritz finds peace and feels close to her oldest son, Owen.
"He was great," she said. "He loved the outdoors."
Owen had his hunting safety certification and participated in youth hunts with his stepdad, Nick Fritz.
"All three boys got a deer," Britni Fritz said. "[I] don't remember if he got a buck this year or was it last year."
He loved hunting about as much as he loved sports.
"He did a lot of baseball. He played football," Fritz said.
Owen was an all-star player every year in his league and was good at football too.
But he still took the time to play with his brothers: Britni's 8-year-old son, Parker, and Nick's 7-year-old son, Cason.
The busy household became awfully quiet in December.
"Definitely the worst day of my life," Britni Fritz said.
She was at work on Dec. 5 when she got a call from the middle school principal. She just thought Owen was in trouble.
"I was just like, 'What did he do now?' Then, when I knew what happened, everybody just told me I was as white as a ghost, and I ran out the door," she recalled.
Although the next several days were a blur, a few things stood out.
"It was very moving when the whole eighth-grade class came in and they all just stood around me and we just cried," Britni Fritz said. "Then, all the EMTs and first responders came, and it was amazing."
Britni Fritz is thankful for her community and wants to keep Owen's memory alive. There is a memorial ride coming up at the end of the month that benefits Winamac Middle School athletics and safety programs.
"I think it's a great cause, and I want to carry on my son's name. He can't do it, so I feel like I need to do it for him," she said.
And she'll continue to push for change.
"I think it's a great idea to put the extra lanes, because it could help save a life," Britni Fritz said.
She wants all drivers to be more mindful of school buses.
"This is an accident that shouldn't have happened, and I just want people to pay attention," she said.
Pay attention to avoid this mother's pain.
"I'm never going to see him walk down that aisle," she said. "I'm never going to see him get married. I'm never going to have grandkids from him."
Owen was one incredible child who is remembered with love.
"His smile. His dimples. His laugh. I miss everything about him," Britni Fritz said.
If you want to help support the Memorial Ride for Owen Abbott, it will be held May 25. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m., and the ride starts at 11 a.m. The event starts and ends at Winamac Middle School. Motorcycles will start the event, but cars and trucks are welcome too.
Vehicles will follow the route that the school bus was taking on the day of the field trip, with a stop planned at Wagon Wheel Theater in Warsaw. The benefit will support athletic and safety programs at the school.
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The last two lines are the result of npm list, there are no packages installed. However, the npm install resulted in audited 580 packages. I don't know where it gets these 580 packages from, because they're not in an node_modules folder.
The weirdest thing is that re-building a successful commit from last week, breaks this week.
Please send a links to successful (last week) and failed (today) builds of the same commit.
Sorry I thought I had answered my own question yesterday, but I don't see my answer here.
The issue was in my configuration. My project only had devDependencies, and I needed those installed. But a few months (!!) ago I added the NODE_ENV=production environment variable. Since then, the devDependencies weren't installed anymore, but I didn't see that because the node_modules folder was cached. Only now was the cache invalidated and did I notice that it was broken.
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Imagine trying to score an interview ith a football player right before the playoff for the national championship. And the team is the Crimson Tide.
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You came to this country at an early age?
Yes, I was born in Cameroon [in West Central Africa]. I was 6 years old when we left and I haven't been there since. My parents are still in the D.C. area and they go back often.
Right now I'm not sure how it will work but, yes. I've been looking around and am really open to opportunities. I'm getting together with people to figure out a way I can go back to help in Cameroon or other struggling, developing countries around the world.
I chose finance because I've always been interested in the stock market and things like that. I thought it was a broad major that could help me learn things to move forward in life. I chose economics because of my developing interest in helping out the struggling countries, and I wanted to learn more about the subject.
Probably the SAS (statistical analysis software) courses with Dr. Denise McManus and Dr. Junsoo Lee. As soon as I started understanding the software, I got really excited about going to class. I also enjoyed Economics 521 (Statistical Data Management SAS I), 522 (Advanced Statistical Data Management SAS II), 531 (International Finance) and 532 (Advanced Data Mining II).
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I will remember so many of them: Dr. McManus, Dr. Lee, Dr. Cali Davis, Dr. Daniel Henderson, Dr. James Peery Cover. All the teachers I had were exceptional people, and they helped me learn a lot. It's pretty difficult and tough at times.
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The green house next door
By Nino Bucci and Suzanne Dredge, ABC Investigations/7.30
Updated July 02, 2018 16:27:24
Photo: Cannabis plants found inside a grow house. (ABC News)
Hiding in plain sight in homes all across Australia, international crime syndicates are growing millions of dollars worth of cannabis. Here's how they do it.
You have almost certainly seen a cannabis grow house — you just don't know it.
They're dotted throughout our suburbs, as discreet from the outside as they are lucrative within.
Inside this ordinary brick veneer home, on an ordinary western Sydney street, sits hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cannabis.
Police know this and they're about to take down the front door.
Video: Police raid a property in south Sydney (ABC News)
The smell hits them first. Then, an otherworldly glow.
Amid the mess of cables, blacked-out windows and high-intensity lighting, police find four converted rooms filled with 93 cannabis plants at various stages of growth, worth about $250,000.
No-one is at home.
The drugs
It's impossible to know just how many hydroponic cannabis grow houses there are in Australia.
"The ceiling is … well, we don't know what we don't know," NSW drug and firearm squad commander Peter McErlain said.
"The scale of what we're finding in cannabis grow houses across NSW and potentially across Australia is alarming."
Photo: Police bag up thousands of dollars of cannabis after a raid in Sydney. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
What is clear, according to senior police in multiple states, is the majority of cannabis sold in Australia is grown this way.
Given 2.1 million Australians reported using cannabis in the past 12 months, that's a lot of houses.
Senior police believe the syndicates controlling Australia's multi-billion-dollar cannabis black market are far more powerful than they had previously suspected.
The majority of these grow houses are operated by Vietnamese organised crime.
Many syndicates operate across multiple states with several dozen houses — described as a "scattergun" model by Superintendent McErlain, designed so the detection of one house does not cripple the business.
Photo: Police set about bagging up dozens of cannabis plants. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
Some syndicate heads currently under police investigation have tens of millions of dollars in unexplained wealth, the ABC has been told.
Since 2011, the NSW Strike Force Zambesi has raided more than 570 grow houses in south-western Sydney, finding about $205 million worth of cannabis — a staggering representation of the scale of the problem, in just a small pocket of the suburbs.
"It's just enormous, it's a huge problem," the strike force's commander, Gus Viera, said.
"We have been raiding all these houses and I'm not sure we're even making a dent."
Photo: Gus Viera isn't convinced NSW police are making a dent in grow house syndicates. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
In 2017, Victoria Police seized almost 33,000 plants, weighing more than 14 tonnes, from about 160 grow houses.
But they suspect some Victorian-based syndicates have shifted their focus interstate.
The Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission reports that while most hydroponically grown cannabis in their state is from Victoria and South Australia, an increase in Vietnamese organised crime-linked grow houses is being detected.
In December, police made one of the largest hydroponic cannabis seizures in Queensland's history — a $60 million bust linked to a Vietnamese organised crime syndicate.
Western Australia and South Australia are also understood to have recorded increases in grow houses linked to these syndicates.
The homes
Video: Inside a suburban grow house (ABC News)
The properties used for cannabis cultivation are either leased or bought and can be converted into a grow house within a day.
Every room itself becomes a mini grow house, with its own lighting, watering and nutrient system, and plants at different stages of growth installed in separate spaces. In some houses, even the linen press is used for seedlings.
An average house can make $250,000 in three months. The first crop typically meets the set-up costs. Everything after three months is profit.
Police say the model used to establish the houses is incredibly regimented. Most syndicates use identical equipment for each house — the same light shrouds, electrical transformers, light globes and even the same type of mulch: coconut husk.
The windows are covered to prevent the light being seen from outside, but sometimes lights are installed between the windowsill and the blind and turned on at night to give the impression someone is home.
Ventilation systems are installed to suck out the pungent aroma of cannabis. It means the fans — commonly known as whirlybirds — mounted on the roof of a grow house often spin faster than those on neighbouring properties.
Each house drains millions of dollars worth of electricity from the power grid.
Devices are used to divert power from the mains without the usage being tracked to the grow house.
A syndicate operating an average-sized grow house raided by police in 2015 was found to have stolen almost $200 worth of power a day.
Photo: Forensic officers dust electrical equipment for prints after a police raid on a crop house. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
People have been electrocuted setting up a grow house.
At some houses, the wiring is so dangerous police have been able to feel the heat from electricity pulsing through the floor.
Unpredictable electrical set-ups aren't the only danger — some houses are laced with booby traps like razor wire, or door knobs that will electrocute whoever touches them.
The damage caused to a property that is transformed into a grow house is immense — holes in the walls and the floor, water stains throughout the house and electrical cabling ruined.
After a police raid, the detritus of a destroyed cannabis crop can be found in just about every room.
Stefan Gorgievski privately rented his two properties in Wheatsheaf, in central Victoria, to a man he thought was "respectable".
His properties were used to grow a $2 million haul of more than 500 cannabis plants, uncovered by police in 2014.
Photo: Stefan Gorgievski is still repairing his home after it was converted into a crop house. (ABC News: Ron Ekkel)
Fixing the damage has cost Mr Gorgievski thousands of dollars.
Years later, he's still picking up the pieces.
"This is the part when your stomach drops," he said, while looking at photos of police hauling cannabis from his property.
"When you see your own house and all your own work and sweat that you put into it … it's just heartbreaking."
There were just two men arrested when Mr Gorgievski's properties were raided: the crop-sitters.
The sitters
Photo: The view over Hai Phong and the surrounding rice paddy fields. (Reuters: Hang)
This is Hai Phong. It's about 100 kilometres east of Hanoi in Vietnam.
Hundreds of young Vietnamese men and women travel from here to Australia to work as crop-sitters.
Just outside of the main town, past rice paddies and failed residential developments, you'll find the family home of Pham Minh Duc.
The village is a long way from the brown-brick Brunswick factory in Melbourne's north where Duc was arrested, only two years ago, surrounded by 433 cannabis plants.
Duc was a crop-sitter — employed to stay in the grow house, turn on the lights and complete a short checklist of daily tasks.
He's far from the only young man from Hai Phong to end up in that line of work.
That's because, in just a matter of weeks, crop-sitters can make more than 10 times the average Vietnamese wage.
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The common story told by crop-sitters is that they were recruited after they arrived from Vietnam.
Duc insists this is true in his case.
"When I arrived in Australia, I didn't know much about that kind of work. I worked normal jobs to make ends meet and did not engage in any illegal activity," said Duc, through a translator.
"But after a while I was seduced into that path."
The crop-sitters are typically the only person charged once that property is raided by police.
Photo: The crop-sitter's bed in the Brunswick warehouse grow house where Duc worked. (Supplied: Victoria Police)
Often they arrive on student or tourist visas, which have long since lapsed by the time they are caught.
They plead guilty, meaning the stories they tell police, including details about their immigration, student and work histories, are taken at face value.
Many of the crop-sitters charged in Australia explain in detail the desperate situations that led to their offending.
In several cases uncovered by the ABC — including two young men on student visas who were sentenced last month for crop-sitting — a toxic chemical spill off the Vietnamese coast was described as the catalyst for their offending.
The chemical spill in 2016 devastated the local fishing industry and some Vietnamese people in Australia said it forced them into working as crop-sitters to support their families.
Sitters have told police they were recruited through newspaper advertisements, or from farms where they had been working illegally.
Duc spent almost a year in prison and then immigration detention after his arrest. The experience was nothing compared to having to tell his family about what he'd done.
Photo: Pham Minh Duc worked as a crop-sitter in Melbourne. (ABC)
"When it happened, at first, I kept it hidden from my family, I didn't know how my parents would react," he said.
"When my parents found out, they were deeply upset. In fact, I was very upset.
"From the day that I returned until now, my spirit was still broken, because what happened was a big shock to me."
Hoang Vu Duy, 28, also travelled to Australia from Hai Phong and began crop-sitting.
He made $20,000-$30,000 in six months crop-sitting a house in Melbourne's outer north, but like Duc, he doesn't think it was ever worth it.
Photo: Hoang Vu Duy worked as a crop-sitter before he was found out by police and deported back to Vietnam. (ABC News: Michael Barnett)
It is not just the shame of his family that Duy had to live with. After he was found at a grow house by Victoria Police, Duy was deported and separated from his wife in Australia.
His first child, Alan, was born in Melbourne in April.
"Now when I think about the past, it's not worth to do it," he said.
"My whole life completely changed."
Like Duc, Duy said he was recruited in Australia when he was approached after his student visa had expired.
He also said he knows nothing about the syndicate that controlled the house.
Duy was arrested in 2014 and deported the following year.
He wants to forget the circumstances behind his offending.
"When I was inside the house I just smell it, smell it. And I can see a lot of trees. And I don't know how many, until I get caught by police and they say you have … 200 trees."
Photo: An eerie glow from the lighting hangs over the cannabis plants. (ABC News)
Despite Duc and Duy's experiences, there are seemingly no shortage of Vietnamese men and women keen to work as crop-sitters in Australia.
This year alone in the Victorian County Court, 14 crop-sitters who arrived on student or tourist visas have been sentenced — an average of one a fortnight.
In sentencing one crop-sitter in May, Judge John Smallwood neatly encapsulated their value to the syndicates who employ them.
"It is clear to all of us involved in the criminal law that the real architects of these crops get people such as yourself with no prior convictions — illegal immigrants — and no way really of being traced within this country, on the understanding that if apprehended you will not give anybody up and you will just simply do a bit of jail and get deported," he said.
The syndicates
Photo: Police suspect money from Vietnamese crime syndicates has been laundered through the tables at Crown Casino. (ABC News: Jane Cowan)
Nguyen Son Nam considered himself a "star gambler".
He probably thought nothing of betting $918,000 in an hour and 12 minutes at Crown Casino.
Wagering $819,000 over a slightly longer period that same day wasn't particularly unusual either.
As for the $511,000 he gambled in 13 minutes, also on June 14, 2013? Money well spent.
Son was laundering money for a cannabis grow house syndicate based in Melbourne's west.
He knew he would lose some of the syndicate profits, but what was left on the table could be cashed out as seemingly legitimate takings.
Last August, Victoria Police successfully restrained property linked to the group.
The case gives a rare window into the heft of the syndicates that control the cannabis grow house industry, the way they launder millions of dollars and the ties back to Vietnam.
Only, the Son syndicate isn't even considered particularly big-time. The family-based group had about $4 million worth of property seized, including a service station and four houses.
Other ongoing police investigations are currently looking into kingpins with tens of millions of dollars in unexplained wealth.
In 2016-17, Victoria Police seized almost $17 million in property linked to grow house syndicates — a third of all the property seized in drug-related investigations.
But the prosecution of people other than crop-sitters, as occurred with the Son syndicate, remains rare.
It took significant input from federal authorities — including the then-Australian Crime Commission and Austrac — something state police believe is not as forthcoming when it comes to cannabis as it is when investigating syndicates linked to other illicit substances.
The commission monitored over 11,550 phone conversations between Son and his associates, and Austrac found that more than $130,000 had been sent to Vietnam.
In the calls, Son tells crop-sitters when to water the plants, when to provide them with nutrients and chemicals, how to identify infestation or bugs on the plants and how to dry the cannabis leaves during harvest.
It's an example that his syndicate was far from sophisticated: he was not only expected to launder millions of dollars, but to organise crop-sitters.
The properties seized by police were in the name of his mother — herself convicted of being a crop-sitter in 2008 — and his sister; not a wise move if you're hoping to insulate yourself from unexplained wealth proceedings in court.
Photo: Most grow house syndicates operate in a three-tier structure. (ABC News)
Superintendent McErlain said most syndicates have a three-tier model — the masterminds, the facilitators and the crop-sitters.
As part of an increased focus on facilitators in Victoria, police charged and seized the assets of an electrician, bank staff and a loan broker.
But it appears the Son syndicate skipped much of that middle tier.
The more sophisticated syndicates, Superintendent McErlain said, use cash businesses such as nail salons and restaurants to launder their money, rather than using property and the casino, which are more easily traced.
"Some of that cash is injected into cash-only businesses, which is an attempt to hide the black economy in cannabis.
"Some of that cash obviously goes to the middle section of the organisation, the logistic side and the crop-sitters who mind the grow houses.
"Some of that cash goes offshore, but I think there's a bit of an intelligence gap about [where] the majority of it goes."
Photo: Money from Vietnamese grow house syndicates is sometimes laundered through nail salons. (ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Police suspect most of this cash stays in Australia and is reinvested in other grow houses, importations of other drugs, such as ice, ecstasy and cocaine, and into property and businesses.
Some cannabis cash — as was revealed in the Son case — goes to Vietnam, where many of the syndicates still have relatives.
But there is another country where cash from Australia's cannabis grow house syndicates flows: Canada.
British Columbia, on Canada's west coast, is the home of the cannabis grow house.
It's there where Vietnamese organised crime syndicates perfected the model that would be exported across Canada, the US, Europe and Australia.
The US Drug Enforcement Authority and Royal Canadian Mounted Police first became concerned about the syndicates in the late 1990s.
Then, in 2005, the Australian Crime Commission reported that Vietnamese-Australians had travelled to Canada to learn about grow house methods.
Around the same time, Australian police were finding a new type of cannabis on the street — a strain known as BC Bud, which hailed from British Columbia.
Grow houses were first detected in South Australia, but exploded in New South Wales and Victoria around 2002 to 2006.
Photo: Syndicates are unperturbed by losing a grow house or two due to police raids. (ABC News: David Maguire)
Detective Inspector Viera believes there are still syndicate members travelling to Canada to hone their skills.
"These people actually go to Canada and they're trained in this art," he said.
"Then it's brought here."
It's not just information that's exchanged — in the course of this investigation, the ABC has learned of five recent cases of Vietnamese organised crime syndicates attempting to import tens of millions of dollars' worth of cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA from Canada to Australia in foot spas.
In some cases, it appeared the syndicates used nail salons — the same salons which launder cash from grow houses — to order the spas, to give the impression they were a legitimate commercial importation.
It's another example of police peeling back one layer of a grow house syndicate, yet still barely getting closer to the centre.
One former senior Victorian police officer, who did not want to be named, told the ABC the syndicates have become gargantuan as a direct result of the force's fluctuating interest in investigating them over the past decade.
He said other drug syndicates involved in heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine importation were targeted by police, motivated by the priorities of state governments who wanted results on "harder" drugs.
The cannabis kingpins stayed in the shadows.
"It's like all drugs — if you tackle it, if you put resources into it, it will start to come out," he said.
"But if you don't, it stays hidden."
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'Genius in Wonderland': Maybe it's for the best - maybe it's not for anything.
Maybe it's for the best - maybe it's not for anything.
The word 'spent' has so many connotations.
He 'spent' all her money.
He 'spent' the night at her place.
1. pt. and pp. of SPEND.
Well, listen here, peeps, I am all 'spent' out. I emotionally, physically, and financially have nothing left to spend. In two days – yes, TWO DAYS – I am leaving the Lone Star State to return to Husker Nation. Bloody Hell! Ne-fecking-bras-ka. The one place I swore I would never live again. Ever. *insert self deprecating laugh here* It's funny how we plan and plan and think we are doing it all right – only to find out that it is all terribly wrong.
My spiritual advisor (for lack of a better title) told me recently that it would be in my soul's best interest to just hunker down, get through these last days in Texas without giving in to the dark cloud that has been stalking me. That once in Nebraska, I will be freer than I foresee and that the path I tread will lead me to bliss – or something close.
Maybe this time; this lifetime; I will overcome the demons and actually learn from my previous lives and their experiences. I am not looking for Nirvana this time around. I just want a little peace.
Yesterday, I 'spent' time with two people who make life worth living; even on the worst days. I stayed 'in the moment' with them for an hour and a half. I cannot recall the last time I was completely 'present' for a full 90 minutes. Normally, I am looking around, worried about the future or memorializing the past. Not last night. Not for those 90 minutes.
And, I am going to do my best at continuing to find 90 minutes here and 90 minutes there for more 'in the moment' living. I have two 10-year-old role models to emulate.


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De Vlaamsch-Nationale Demokratische Partij (VNDP) was een Belgische Vlaams-nationalistische politieke partij.

Historiek
De partij werd opgericht door Hector Plancquaert en Karel Leopold Van Opdenbosch omstreeks 1933 in de traditie van het Daensisme en als reactie op het VNV. De partij nam deel aan de wetgevende verkiezingen van 1936 in de kiesarrondissementen Aalst (1,36%) en Sint-Niklaas (0,59%). In het kiesarrondissement Kortrijk kwam de partij op onder de naam Vrije Volkspartij van Vlaamsch Nationale Demokraten (0,57%).

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Paddy McCarthy – The man who built Boca
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Paddy McCarthy – the man who built Boca by Dylan O'Connell
With seven Copa Libertadores titles and thirty-four Primera División honours, it cannot be denied that Boca Juniors are one of the most successful clubs in world football.
The foundation of the club can be traced all the way to Ireland to a school teacher from Cashel in Tipperary who left for Argentina in 1900 in search of a better life.
Paddy McCarthy sailed the Atlantic Ocean through rocky waters to the new world in South America. There, in the thriving metropolis of Buenos Aires he set out to make it as a professional boxer.
To make at that time in Argentina was an achievement in itself. The previous century had been dominated by a bitter civil war between the Federalists, who wanted the country to be a federation of independently governed provinces, and the Unitarians, who wanted a centralised government in Buenos Aires which represented the commercial and intellectual interests of the city. This sense of uncertainty had been enhanced by a national identity crisis spurred on by the mass immigration into the country from Europe. Famed journalist and writer Jonathon Wilson described the country as "only a few decades old as an independent nation and was racked by civil strife, Argentina was an unstable entity'; almost everything about it – its borders, its governance, its laws, its sense of self – in certain".
Through the creation of the modern Argentine state, the 29-year-old began building a new life for himself in sport.
McCarthy's first sporting success came in 1903 when he took part in the first-ever professional boxing fight to be held in Argentina. The bout, which was organised by El Gladiado" magazine, saw McCarthy win by a fourth-round knockout against Italian Abelardo Robassio.
While working as a PE teacher in a local Commerce School, McCarthy was approached by five students of Italian descent. The group asked him to become a coach, an offer he immediately accepted. He is said to have inspired the boys with his vision of a passing game built on style and flare.
From his leadership, the boys created Boca Juniors. They played their first game in April 1905, beating Club Mariano Moreno 4-0 with all of McCarthy's students featuring. One, Santiago Sana, scored the fourth goal, in a game best remembered for Boca's striking black and white kit.
Interestingly, Boca would later adopt the colours blue and yellow, the same as McCarthy's home county of Tipperary. Despite claims that Boca was inspired by the Premier County, the real reason is over a Swedish ship which docked next to the boys as they discussed football.
McCarthy's name can be found in all sorts of records in South America. As well as having the title as 'president' of Boca Juniors he later joined Estudiantes as a coach and brought them to Brazil in 1910 as the first-ever Argentine club to visit the country. This was a huge success for Argentine football, as they beat Rio Grande on three occasions, winning 0-4, 3–7, and 0-5, while also seeing off Pelotas RS 7-0.
This tour sparked conversations of pan-continental club competition in South America. Three years later this concept was semi created as the Argentine and Uruguian champion would play off for the Copa Aldao. This led to the creation of the South American Championship of Champions which then inspired the European Cup.
In later life, McCarthy became a referee and he further wrote his name into world footballing history when he refereed the first-ever Superclassico between Boca Juniors and River Plate.
McCarthy's contribution to sport in Argentina became a regular feature in the football magazine
El Gráfico, a publication which is regularly held up as the bible for sport all across South America. In the pages of the age-old title, his interviews and stories would become apart of his legacy.
His contribution to sport in Buenos Aires earned McCarthy a celebrity like reputation. Through the 1930s, he was regularly called to meet celebrities upon their arrival in the city. Pictures of McCarthy show him with the President of Argentina, the Duke of Kent and the Prince of Wales when they visited Buenos Aires in 1931.
One of the most recognisable photographs of McCarthy, where he is wearing a Yale jacket, has its own claim to history as the jacket was gifted to him by former United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
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The Foundation Board
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Organizing & Developing Pekka leadership
Developing community-based Learning Center
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Policy advocacy and social system that promote gender justice
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MULTISTAKEHOLDER FORUM ON SOCIAL PROTECTION
A dialogue on "Strengthening the Voice and Influence of Women Household Heads within the Social Protection System" was held at the East Simeulue Sub-District Office on Tuesday, 18 September 2018. It was attended by representatives from BPJS, Bappeda, P3AKB, Local Health Office, Local Social Affairs Office, Local Civil Registry Office, village heads and Pekka Union. The aim of the dialogue was to build communication and cooperation networks with stakeholders relating to social protection programs in Simeulue District, and discuss local government policy recommendations on Pekka Union's participation in the district's social protection program monitoring system.
PEKKA observed several factors hampering women's access to social protection programs. Firstly, a closed information system where women find it hard to meet eligibility requirements and poor program management at the village level. For the raskin program for the poor for example, subsidized rice is distributed evenly to every villager to avoid conflict, but as a consequence the poor and marginalized women in the village or urban ward receive lesser amounts of rice than what should have been their share. Poor and marginalized women also lack access to public services such as healthcare, education, decent work and are vulnerable to exploitation. Furthermore, the inability to obtain the necessary civil registry documentation has made it difficult to access social protection schemes. PEKKA facilitates these women in obtaining their formal documentation, such as family card, identity card, birth certificate and marriage certificate through one-stop service courts, circuit courts and KLIK PEKKA.
In Siumat Island, the majority of the population is of Nias ethnicity. Many of them have no legal identity, and therefore no access to social protection. It would be difficult for them to seek medical help not only because of the distance, but also lack of transportation and harsh environments as they need to navigate through rough waters and strong winds during bad weather.
Cut Putri Handayani from the local health office took the opportunity to inform about an online puskesmas (local community health clinic) referral system in two sub-districts, i.e., at the puskesmas in East Simeulue and Central Tepa. She also explained on the Indonesian Healthy Program, which adopts the family-based approach where puskesmas expands its reach and improves its services by visiting households within their area of operation. The Indonesian Healthy Program has 12 indicators on the health status of families. Based on this set of indicators, the Healthy Family Index is determined. Cut Putri also brought attention to the Asuhan Mandiri Program (Taman Toga) implemented through community groups such as the dasawisma ten-houses grouping system. Pekka groups are expected to play an active role in the program, and at the village level cadres will be trained on traditional medicine. Household can also cultivate medicinal plants to earn additional income.
Meanwhile, Ridwansyah from the local civil registry office said that he was pleased that many more islanders now know about the civil registry services provided for free, thanks to the local Pekka Union. The East Simeuleu Sub-District Secretary on the other hand hailed the PEKKA program as a commendable breakthrough, which he fully supports and is willing to arrange for the venue if needed. He also hoped that PEKKA will not limit its work to only 7 villages, but extend to all 17 villages in East Simeulue Sub-District.
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'An Arm And A Leg': The Full Story Of Insulin And Its Cost ― No Sugarcoating It
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One out of every 4 people with Type 1 and 2 diabetes rations insulin. Adeline Umubyeyi is among them. She's a college grad with a professional job and health insurance who still sometimes goes to bed without dinner — because skipping a meal allows her to skip a dose of her costly insulin.
On Episode 5 of "An Arm and a Leg," meet Umubyeyi and take a 98-year journey with host Dan Weissmann as he traces insulin's origins. It begins with a couple of scrappy researchers, toiling in a sweltering attic, who left a trail of dead dogs in their wake. And the trip includes a visit to an unconventional lab space in present-day Oakland, Calif., where amateur researchers are working on a 21st-century recipe for affordable insulin.
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Country kitchen decorating ideas are suitable for any person who gets pleasure from the warm, earthy feeling of the simplicity of nature. Decorating a country kitchen is one of the popular types of interior decorating. This is because of the overall feeling of being welcoming and friendly that country kitchen decorating can give those who own the kitchen, as well as any guests and visitors.
If you're considering country and kitchen and decorating ideas, then you'll need to decide if you are going to be limiting it to your kitchen, or if you will be spreading it throughout your house. You'll also need to look into the ideas and country kitchen and decorating ideas budget that you will offer to get the job done.
Country kitchen decorating ideas usually include furniture in lighter woods, as well as wicker furniture. Floral and gingham patterns flatter the upholstery of chairs and couches well, by either purchasing brand new furniture or creating slipcovers for your existing furniture.
Country kitchen decorating means that you will have natural wood, tile, or even flagstone flooring. If these are outside of your budget, an equally appropriate look can be achieved with wall-to-wall carpeting or laminate in the correct light shade. Hooked or braided rugs add an authentic appeal to finish the look.
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One of the joys of traveling is being able to visit new and exciting places. On the whole these tend to be sacred spots, buildings of cultural, historical or religious significance or areas of outstanding natural beauty. But just occasionally you have a day like today. One which reinforces the brutal side of unfettered power, the cruelty of a totalitarian regime and the sheer horrors of man's inhumanity to man.
The killing Fields of Cambodia
I have to admit to having an initial internal debate about the ethics of visiting this site before we left. Was it basically commercialization of genocide? Was it Disneyfication of the macabre? Was it wrong for us to visit?
Visits to the site have increased by 8 fold in the last 10 years from originally locals paying their respects to now including far more foreigners than ever. But when we arrived my fears we put to rest. This site, 17km south of the city centre was a respectful, educational testament and memorial.
The site is quiet and for a modest entrance fee of $8 (£6.12) which included the audio guide we were able to wander around the site absorbing the atmosphere and learning much.
My knowledge of Pol Pot and his doings were sketchy until the release of the iconic film. I did have the benefit of working with an academic at St Martin's College, Ian Harris, who has researched into the effects on Buddhism of the genocide and I had heard him lecture. His book is a seminal work on the subject.
This prior knowledge was useful but nothing like seeing the site and experiencing everything at first hand. It was a sombre and moving day which left my heart breaking at times but the victims deserve to be remembered.
In silence we wandered along wooden paths which straddled the uneven earth that had held the mass graves of approximately 9000 victims. Occasionally we heard witness testimonies or listened to the stirring revolutionary music which was played from loudspeakers with the intention of masking the cries of those being murdered. The graves had been exhumed but weather does shift the soil and from time to time more rags and scraps of clothing are exposed along with more fragments of bone. Every few months the caretakers of the site collect them up and put them into glass cases.
The stories which we heard were gruesome and chilling. Pol Pot educated in France had a warped utopian vision of an agrarian communist state. He was reacting against the US oppression when years of bombs had fallen in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. This coupled with a corrupt civil government left the country crippled and ripe for change. Pol Pot recruited young men and teenagers from the countryside. They were uneducated and willing to give unswerving devotion to 'the cause' as a promised solution to their woes and thus the Khmer Rouge was born.
Pol Pot basically led the world's biggest offensive against the intelligentsia. Anyone who was a professional, could speak a foreign language, had soft hands or wore glasses was deemed the 'enemy' and had to be eradicated. In total 1/4 of the Cambodian population was executed in a 4 year period.
Pol Pot did not have a rich country and bullets were expensive so the killings were all from starvation, disease or brutal beatings with sticks, hoes or other farm implements. This was quicker and easier.
There are over 300 killing field locations throughout the country many of which have been left undisturbed. In this site though the bodies have been exhumed, catalogued and the bones displayed in a memorial stupa to stand as a testament to the atrocities and serve as a reminder to future generations of the folly of such regimes. I was reminded of the saying, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
In the calm sunshine we meandered past the sites of sheds which had been demolished which had contained the chemicals used to mask the smell of the decomposing corpses.
Below us were shallow trenches which had each contained the bones of up to 450 people. We could imagine the fear that the 300 people each day felt as they met their deaths. Many of them had endured weeks or months of torture at the S21 prison before giving false confessions. Perhaps they felt that death was a release from their suffering. All the executions were conducted at night time.
It was all very sobering but perhaps the single most upsetting part was the tree festooned with colourful ribbons and bracelets. Here soldiers took infants by the feet and smashed them against the tree in front of their mothers who were then raped, murdered and thrown into the pit. As a mother I cannot bear the thought of what those women suffered. Words fail me at this point and I can only say that we offered prayers.
S 21 inside the city was originally a high school which was closed down as all education was forbidden and was taken over by the Khmer Rouge as a prison in 1975. Here classrooms were converted into torture chambers and some of the photographs inside were quite graphic. One thing which a totalitarian regime does very well is to document all its crimes very efficiently. Many of those captured and brought here were just kids.
Thousands were killed for being 'new' people not the simple countryfolk which the revolution aspired to. But even these 'old' people who were gathered into farming collectives were slowly being starved. The quota for rice production was tripled and those sent from the cities as forced labour had no idea how to farm. All Cambodians had to survive up to 13 hour working days on as little as two bowls of rice soup a day. Any excess rice they produced was sold to China so that Pol Pot could buy weapons!!! It beggars belief that anyone could think that working his entire country to death was in any way a sensible or sustainable option!!!
Men have a track record throughout history of being power hungry, violent war-mongers. This part of our visit here really drove that home. Most of the time that fact is distant, idolized in legends or glorified. But the stark reality of the consequences of genocide were before our eyes. We must not forget.
This is the logo of the International Women's Peace Group and their exhibition at the end of the day gave a sliver of hope. They are working to bring an end to areas of conflict and violence throughout the world.
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They deserve support.
Many members of the Khmer Rouge returned to society and now live normal lives. There were simply too many of them to track down and prosecute. Very few have been punished for war crimes or crimes against humanity. The Cambodians have accepted this. I found it hard to come to terms with that fact but there is a saying here
'We forgive but we don't forget'
One survivor we heard said,
'When you hold hatred in your heart you hurt only yourself'
Such wise and humbling words.
As responsible tourists we have to see the bad alongside the good and the magnificent. We need to remember the atrocities to ensure that history does not repeat itself. The final words of our audio tour urged us to be ambassadors and to bear witness to the reality of what happened here to try to prevent it or anything like it ever happening again.
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So we arrive in the capital of Cambodia Phnom Penh on our round SE Asia trip. And it is HOT here. It feels hotter than anywhere else we have been so far. As a result we are having siestas in the mid day heat and seeing sights in the morning only. Even then we very quickly get completely drenched in sweat! April in Cambodia is not for the faint-hearted.
First stop was the Royal Palace. The king is 65, unmarried and lives here with his mother. Good catch there ladies. The blue flag shows that he is residence today. This was for a special New Year ceremony where he makes an offering of fruit to the gods. And Fanta, apparently the gods like Fanta and Sprite.
King Norodom Sihamoni Was formerly a monk and then a professional dancer and has a PhD in dance (who knew that?) from Prague where he lived for 10 years.
He has a moonlight pavilion which has no electricity and no roof so is open to the sky where he holds dances.
The Khmer dynasty began in 802 AD and flourished for 600 years. In 1863 Cambodia came under the governance of France from which it gained independence in 1953. Then came the Vietnamese war and the country was heavily bombed by the US. In 1970 the king was overthrown and the right-wing Khmer Republic established. The opposition party, the Khmer Rouge is infamous and more about them anon.
The monarchy was restored in in 1993.
In the grounds of the palace grow this tree, native only to tropical countries it is known as the cannonball tree after its heavy, dense spherical fruit which you can see here. The flowers are interesting too. They bloom in the morning but die and fall off by the evening. The plant extract is used to treat skin conditions, stomach aches and colds. It has been know to cure maleria, toothache and even mange in dogs. So an all round great tree. It is also special to Buddhists as it is believed that this was the type of tree under which Gautama was born.
Here we have the elephant house. The balconies are so big as this was where the king would mount his beast.
Notice also the colour of the tiles on the roof. Yellow at the centre means Buddhism. The blue rim of the colour of the king and green around the edge stands for Cambodia. So country, king and religion.
Colour here is also significant in determining the days of the week. Sunday is a red day, Monday is yellow and so on. I guess it makes deciding what to wear in the mornings easy!
There are four Brahma faces on the planes of this spire. Each face represents a virtue
It was surprising how few visitors there were to this palace, especially after the extreme sardine-crush that is the Bangkok royal palace experience. Perhaps the heat kept them away.
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Today's adventure was an hour long Touk Touk ride (which is more of a two bench vehicle than a Thai tuk tuk is). It was a bumpy ride at some speed but we at least had fantastic views of the countryside. It is the season for farmers to slash and burn so there is a constant haze in the sky and a tinge of smoke in the air most of the time.
The Tat Kuang Si waterfall was worth the uncomfortable journey though.
I have seen a fair few waterfalls in my time but I have to say that this is probably the prettiest one. The water cascades down different routes through the various levels into the brilliant turquoise pools.
This close up shows how the sediment in the water has shaped the limestone so instead of cutting through the rock it is depositing and creating stalactites type shapes.
The water flows down into a variety of terraced pools and there are some that you can swim in. So we did.
It felt pretty awesome to be bathing in the jungle! The water was cold but so refreshing in the heat of the day. In each pool were tiny fish who nibble your legs so we also had a free and totally natural fish spa!
Calcium carbonate particles in the water reflect the light making the water look such a vivid hue. The water colours were soothing on the eye but the jungle trail had some pretty vivid flora too which was delightful against the dense greens.
But the best treat of all was the bear sanctuary at the bottom of the hill. I hadn't even realized that it was there until the trail took us through their enclosure. These are sun bears and moon bears a type of asiatic bear all of whom who have been rescued from trappers and poachers. The sanctuary restores them to health.
This short video clip shows the cubs play fighting. I guess kids are kids whatever the species!
Bear bile is highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine and bears are caught then kept penned up in cages with tubes draining their bile continuously. It's an awful trade and the bears are in misery. It was so wonderful to see them enjoying being out in the open.
Our final stop of the day was to the library (bus Man's holiday!); the Luang Prabang public library was tiny and had only a few shelves of tatty books but they had launched a book boat project
Anyone can buy a book from a preselected shelf for $2 and donate it to a Book Bag'. These are then taken by boat to the poor village schools who have few resources. We are always happy to help those less fortunate than ourselves- especially with the gift of books!
The Mekong
SE Asia's longest river at 4350 km it starts with springs in Tibet and flows through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Mekong literally means 'mother of the rivers in Asia' and as one of the worlds' major waterways this was something I had heard of. Having watched Sue Perkins travel the Mekong I was keen to take a boat trip.
We duly booked a cocktail sunset cruise for 2 hours via our hotel for $15 each (approx £11.50) A bargain we thought.
I should at this stage point out that this is the low season as the temperatures can get quite high (40 degrees). Having said that, coming from Bangkok we can confirm that it is nowhere near as humid. So whilst we do get hot & a bit sweaty here during the afternoon the rest of the time is lovely for us. Anyway, to cut to the chase, its the low season and there aren't many other tourists around. Most people come during the high season which is Nov – Feb. There are multiple restaurants along the river bank with empty tables which is quite sad.
Anyway we went down to the river to board our boat
In Laotian style it was long and very beautiful inside with polished wooden floors and little tables.
Then we discovered that we were the only guests so it ended up being a private cruise!!! for 11 quid each! We certainly lucked out there!
It was a magical evening floating gently down the river watching the golden sun sparkling on the water as it set behind the mountains
What could be nicer than sipping Laos Mojitos on such a special river.
And the nibbles were new to us too… (Not the peanuts)
The black curly things were actually locally sourced mushrooms made into crisps. Although the looked pretty grim and unappetizing they were in fact delicious. Organic and very more-ish.
We sailed up to the quite rickety bamboo bridge at the confluence with the Nam Khan River. You can pay £1 to walk across. I didn't as it looked pretty ropey in the middle!
Our host was fascinating and spoke impeccable English (which he had taught himself when working as a waiter) his parents were farmers in the north but on their death he decided that he didn't want to continue to cut down trees as they had done but instead he wanted to give something back to his country. He started his boat business and any profits he makes he uses to fund a school in the countryside. He has paid for classrooms, toilets and last week he made them some new tables as they don't have enough and the children eat in the same place that they study. Sadly, he said that the low number of tourists this year would mean that he couldn't do much more to help them financially so he was going to spend some time teaching English instead. What an inspirational man.
And what a beautiful place.
I guess that being landlocked most westerners don't think of Laos as a holiday destination as there are no beaches. But if you like cultural experiences and nature you can't beat this. I would recommend it for anyone wanting a holiday with a difference.
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I have to admit that until I arrived in SE Asia I was woefully ignorant of the fact that Laos even existed as a country! Shameful I know, but it never featured on my school geography curriculum, no major (or minor) world events have happened here to mark it in the history books thereby raising it to my attention and it has spawned no remarkable citizens. It hadn't really registered on my radar until I came to live in neighboring Thailand. And what I treat I have been missing all these years. It is a delightful country.
If any of you are as totally ignorant as I was here are a couple of fascinating facts for you:
Laos is the only landlocked country in SE Asia. It's proper name is Lao People's Democratic Republic and it has a Marxist-Leninist government. The country used to be colonial French (probably why I've never heard of it!) and it had several wars against that ruling power until finally gaining independence in 1953. Basically the land is a conglomeration of various hill tribes such as the Hmong, Lue, Khmu and others with the Lao tribe being the largest. The currency is the cutely named the Kip.
Our first stop is Luang Prabang, a provincial town on the banks of the Mekong River (which I HAD heard of) Here we sat on the river bank in cafes and bars watching the river traffic float by. There is none of the gaudiness of the party boats on the Chao Pharaya back in Bangkok. This felt like stepping back in time and witnessing how people have lived for centuries.
Originally a royal capital (in 1353) it was named Lan Xang Hom Khao which means Kingdom of a million elephants and a white parasol (this has got to be the best country name ever). Our hotel, located directly opposite the Royal Palace, was actually the home of the King's brother! The current name comes from the precious golden Prabang or Buddha statue which is 2000 years old and which is processed around the streets on Buddhist festival days.
(Picture from a postcard as we weren't allowed to photograph the statue itself)
In 1975 when the communist party took over the Lao royal family moved here but the city soon fell into desolation as many fled the new regeneration. With the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the 1990s Luang Prabang was declared a UNESCO world heritage site and it remains the cultural capital of the country.
We had been told about the dawn alms giving at the nearby Wat and so made the effort to get up at 5am to join with the local women waiting in the pearly early morning light.
With the sounds of cock crows ringing in our ears the first monks came out of the temple bare footed and carrying their alms bowls. We each in turn gave lumps of sticky rice as they filed passed us and I noticed that all of them kept their gaze fixed downwards.
I think that I should have been sitting or kneeling but is didn't have a mat or stool so I just stood.
It felt like the Asian equivalent of the church ladies. They each prayed before making their offerings and gave more exciting donations of vegetables from their straw bags to the younger novices
At the end the novices chanted for us all which hopefully you can hear
It was a beautiful spiritual experience that I felt privileged to have been a part of.
… and now you know as much as I do about this lovely country


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The Cabin in the Woods
Tags: Alexandre Aja, Amy Acker, Anna Hutchison, Bradley Whitford, Buffy, Buffy Season 8, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Joss Whedon, Kristen Connolly, Piranha 3-D, Richard Jenkins, Studio 60, The Cabin in the Woods, Tom Lenk
Five American teenagers travel to a remote cabin in the woods in the South for a debauched weekend; terrible things ensue, and by gad sir is it hysterically funny…
Alpha male Curt (Chris Hemsworth) invites his loose girlfriend Jules (Anna Hutchison) and her sober friend Dana (Kristen Connolly) to join his bookish friend Holden (Jesse Williams) and their mutual stoner friend Marty (Fran Kranz) at his cousin's vacant cabin in the woods. Once there they unwittingly unleash forces of evil that pick them off by one. The set-up and execution is the stuff of parodic cliché. But then, it is parodic cliché, because the script is by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard; with the great Goddard making his directorial debut. The sinister blood-stained opening credits are interrupted by coffee-making, and then the mundane office drones sequence that launched is interrupted by the inappropriately sound-tracked title card. This is by far the funniest film I've seen in quite some time…
Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins play the office drones in the control room of a giant military-industrial operation that Goddard uses to undercut all the horror clichés. They have tremendous comedic chemistry and make this move terrific fun as they organise office gambling pools, snarl at video monitors, indulge in an unbelievably funny speakerphone prank sequence, and humiliate Whedon regulars Amy Acker and Tom Lenk; a harassed chemist and intern respectively. It's a privilege to see Studio 60's Whitford again rampaging thru great comedic dialogue, his delivery of lines like "I think, mostly, that I just want this moment to end now" guaranteed to bring the house down. Great lines like "Yeah, I kind of dismembered that guy with a trowel" abound and Kranz, despite his irritating vocal delivery, grabs a lot of them. The true acting revelation though is just how likeable Hemsworth is when he's not playing Thor.
This is not a scary movie. There's gore aplenty at the end, but it's so ridiculous that one setting in particular seems like it was a bet with Piranha 3-D auteur Alexandre Aja on who could use more fake blood. Having read Buffy season 8 I'm inclined to praise Goddard for everything that's great, especially all the hilarious nonsense with Whitford, Jenkins & Co, and blame Whedon for everything that doesn't work, namely the final act's descent into VFX overload and lame mythology. The collision of military science and magic screams Whedon's disastrous Initiative in Buffy season 4 and the increasingly silly mythic tone is pure Season 8. Goddard meanwhile has always specialised in joyous (and undercutting) comedy preceding incredibly bleak shocks. Here his comedy soars before unveiling the most fitting character death you could hope for.
Sure the ending is deeply unsatisfactory and the whole third act is increasingly preposterous, but this so damn funny that it must be judged an excellent film overall.
On Doubting The Avengers
Tags: Black Widow, Buffy Season 8, Cabin in the Woods, Captain America, Die Hard, Drew Goddard, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, John McClane, Joss Whedon, Lethal Weapon, Loki, Mission: Impossible 2, Nick Fury, On Doubting The Avengers, Paranormal Activity, Pepper Potts, Richard Kelly, Robert Downey Jr, The Avengers, The Box, The Krulls, Thor
I can't get excited about The Avengers, allegedly the biggest or second biggest film of 2012 depending on who you talk to, even though it should be catnip to me.
The Avengers consists of one successful film franchise, Iron Man, two newly launched franchises (that with their Norse Gods magic as opposed to super-science technology don't really synch with the interior logic of the successful franchise), Thor and Captain America, and one franchise that has failed to launch, twice, Hulk. That mixture just does not cry out for a super-team-up super-franchise. If in 1991 John McClane and Riggs & Murtagh had joined forces for a super-team-up action-movie buddy-cops super-franchise, Die Hard with a Lethal Weapon, it would have made far more commercial sense than Marvel foisting The Avengers on us.
Commercial sense (and interior logic) aside I have grave screenwriting concerns about the movie. Does anyone really think that one film can successfully contain so many characters? Think about it. Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Pepper Potts, Agent Coulson, Loki and The Krulls. What exactly can be done in 2 hours in terms of actual story once you've finished establishing ground rules for all those characters (in case some people, as is highly likely, missed some of their cinematic instalments), introduced Hawkeye and somehow not made him ridiculous, and given the stars ego-balanced arcs?
If by some miracle you manage to synch all the fictive micro-universes together into one coherent macro-universe, and massage all the egos involved in juggling several franchise characters, what villains are you left with after the customary slaughter of bad guys in the denouements of the existing franchises? The Krulls. Oh, great. What works well in comics doesn't necessarily work well in cinema. The Krulls immediately invoke the Mission: Impossible 2 peril. If everyone in every scene could really be someone else wearing a mask then you cease to emotionally invest in anything that happens because it mightn't be real.
Given these problems does anyone really think that co-writer/director Joss Whedon has it in him to pull this off? Whedon has after all directed only one two film, which had a fraction of the budget and star power of The Avengers, while his most recent filmed screenplay has been sitting on a shelf for over a year, allegedly while the studio debates whether to convert it into 3-D because all horror films have to be in 3-D now. Paranormal Activitys rake in the money without being in 3-D which leads to the suspicion the studio thinks The Cabin in the Woods sucks just as much as Buffy Season 8. Whedon apologised for that arc (so awful that Wolves at the Gate, the largely stand-alone volume written by his Cabin co-writer Drew Goddard, is the only remnant worth salvaging) citing unlimited VFX giddiness…
Thus giving Whedon an unlimited special-effects budget, without Goddard's counter-weight, may be as counterproductive as giving Richard Kelly the money he always needed to ramble on about aliens, time-travel, philosophy, and water.


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Q: Compare a filename with pattern provided or compare two strings having wildcards I want to compare a filename with particular pattern or strings. Please suggest if there is a inbuilt function for the achieving this task.
Ex : file name having pattern of ".txt" or "HU.txt". Or two strings abc.txt and a*.txt.
I have to use this to get the list files from FTP so cannot use directory.getfiles(path,pattern).
My task is to download the files from FTP server which has the pattern as "HU*.txt" or can be "CZ*.txt" or can be sometimes "*.txt".
Please suggest.
Thanks

A: You can do this using Regex.IsMatch.
For instance:
string fileName = "Something.txt";
string originalSpec = "*.txt";
string pattern = originalSpec.Replace("*", ".*?");
Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
bool isMatch = regex.IsMatch(fileName);

Adapt this to fit your particular case and you're good to go.
Good luck!

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A nodejs implementation for the PUSH.co Notification Service API.

## Instalation: ##
npm
```
$ npm install pushco
```
## Usage: ##

##### 1. Load it #####
```javascript
var pushco	= require('pushco');
```

##### 2. Create Instance: #####
```javascript
var pusher = new pushco.Push(api_key, api_secret);
```

##### 3a. Push Message #####
```javascript
pusher.pushMessage( message[, notification_type, article, imageUrl] );
```
__NOTE:__ To send to all channels use `notification_type = '*'`

##### 3b. Push Url #####
```javascript
pusher.pushUrl( message, url[, notification_type] );
```

##### 3c. Push Location #####
```javascript
//as params
pusher.pushLocation( message, latitude, longitude[, notification_type] );

// or as array
pusher.pushLocation( message, [latitude, longitude][, notification_type] );

// or as object
pusher.pushLocation( message, {latitude:'latitude' ,longitude: 'longitude'}[, notification_type] );
```

##### 4a. Listen for response #####
```javascript
pusher.on('response', function( response ){
	console.info( response );
});
```

##### 4b. Listen for errors #####
```javascript
pusher.on('error', function( err, response ){
	console.error(err);
});
```
## Todo: ##

* Create User Class

	* Authorize methods
	* Subscription methods
	* Clannel methods

## API Docs: ##
[push.co/api](http://push.co/api)


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Diego da Silva Rosa, mais conhecido como Diego Rosa (Campo Grande, 22 de março de 1989), é um futebolista brasileiro que atua como meia. Atualmente, defendo o .

Carreira
Revelado nas categorias de base do , Diego Rosa foi contratado pelo  em junho de 2010, integrando inicialmente a equipe sub-23. Estreou pelo clube profissional em 17 de novembro de 2010, num amistoso entre reservas do Vasco e  em que a sua equipe venceu por 1–0 no Piauí.

Ponte Preta
Em 1º de dezembro de 2012, Diego Rosa foi contratado pela  como novo reforço para temporada 2013.

ASA de Arapiraca
Em setembro de 2013, Diego Rosa foi anunciado como novo reforço do  na sequência do Campeonato Brasileiro - Série B.

Paulista
Em fevereiro de 2014, Diego Rosa foi contratado pelo  na sequência do Campeonato Paulista.

CRB
Em 2014 foi anuniado como reforço do CRB para a temporada. Fez sua estreia na partida contra o Murici pela 4a rodada do Campeonato Alagoano, na qual deu uma assistência e foi um dos destaques da vitória regatiana por 2–0. Em seu segundo jogo marcou seu primeiro gol pelo clube, além de ter sofrido um pênalti, sendo eleito o melhor jogador da vitória sobre o CEO por 3–0. Marcou o gol da vitória no clássico contra o CSA na última rodada da primeira fase do Campeonato Alagoano, eliminando o rival da competição. Voltou a ser destaque no jogo de ida da semifinal onde fez um gol e participou de diversas jogadas, sendo outra vez o melhor em campo, ajudando o clube a conquistar uma vitória importante fora de casa por 2–0 em cima do ASA. Fez mais um gol no jogo de ida da final da competição, na derrota por 2–1 contra o Coruripe. Entre o jogo de ida e o de volta Diego Rosa teve de lidar com o falecimento de sua filha de apenas 1 ano de idade. No jogo da volta o CRB lutou até o fim, mas empatou por 0x0 e perdeu o título estadual.

Na Copa do Brasil Diego Rosa se destacou na partida contra o São Paulo no Rei Pelé na qual o CRB venceu por 2–1. No jogo da volta o clube perdeu por 3–0 no Morumbi e foi eliminado na segunda fase.

Luverdense
Em abril de 2015, Diego Rosa foi anunciado como novo reforço da Luverdense para a disputa do Campeonato Brasileiro - Série B. Diego Rosa vem se destacando no clube de Lucas do Rio Verde.

Bahia
Em janeiro de 2017, após passagem no futebol japonês, Diego Rosa foi confirmado como novo reforço do . Porém, não se destacou e, sem chances, teve o contrato rescindido no dia 8 de junho de 2017.

Atlético Goianiense
Horas após rescindir seu contrato com o clube baiano, em 8 de junho de 2017, Diego Rosa foi rapidamente anunciado pelo , clube que tentou a contratação durante a pré-temporada.

São Caetano
Em dezembro de 2017, Diego Rosa foi anunciado pelo , para o Paulistão de 2018.

CRB
Após o Campeonato Paulista, é anunciado como novo reforço do galo para a sequência da temporada de 2018. Em partida contra o , no dia 9 de outubro, o jogador foi expulso após empurrar o árbitro. Acabou suspenso pelo STJD por cinco partidas.

São Caetano
O atleta retornou ao Azulão e disputou o Campeonato Paulista de 2019.

Paysandu
Em abril de 2019, foi anunciada sua contratação pelo clube paraense. Após a eliminação na Série C de 2019, o atacante deixou o clube.

Vila Nova
O clube goiano contratou o jogador em setembro de 2019 para reforçar o elenco na Série B.
Em 28 de novembro, foi dispensado junto a outros sete jogadores.

Aparecidense
Em dezembro de 2019, foi contratado pela  para jogar pelo Goianão 2020.

Portuguesa
Em 18 de maio de 2020, a  anunciou a contratação do atacante.

Botafogo-PB
Em 21 de setembro de 2020, foi anunciado como novo reforço do time paraibano, sendo parte de uma reformulação promovida no clube para a disputa da Série C.

Títulos
 Vasco da Gama
 Copa do Brasil - 2011

 Bahia
 Copa do Nordeste: 2017

Naturais de Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul)
Futebolistas de Mato Grosso do Sul
Futebolistas do Esporte Clube Juventude
Futebolistas do Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama
Futebolistas da Associação Atlética Ponte Preta
Futebolistas da Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense
Futebolistas do Paulista Futebol Clube
Futebolistas do Clube de Regatas Brasil
Futebolistas do Clube Atlético Penapolense
Futebolistas do Luverdense Esporte Clube
Futebolistas do Esporte Clube Bahia
Futebolistas do Atlético Clube Goianiense
Futebolistas da Associação Desportiva São Caetano
Futebolistas do Paysandu Sport Club
Futebolistas do Vila Nova Futebol Clube
Futebolistas da Associação Atlética Aparecidense
Futebolistas do Botafogo Futebol Clube (João Pessoa)


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Currently location targeting allows advertisers to select their target audience based on country, province, city, postal code or even a specific business address. With the added benefit of adding radius targeting around the above selections and also adding excluded locations. Now Facebook has added an additional layer of detail when it comes to location targeting by adding multiple options to refine the targeting to users within this selection who would be the most interested in your content.
Everyone in this location: Users whose current location on their Facebook profile is the selected location, as well as anyone determined to be in that location through their mobile devices.
People who live in this location: Users whose current location on their Facebook profile is that location. This is also validated by IP address.
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