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GYbeeandbee charity needs more volunteers and B+B landlords
Yarmouth homeless support charity celebrates 1st year
Questions asked to people at Pathway Support Centre
Council asks Norwich churches to help rough sleepers
Imagine Norfolk Together's news and prayer letter August 2018
Pathway Café and Support Centre
Great Yarmouth Christian charity warns of crippling impact of debt
Great Yarmouth churches' homeless project completes 2 years
Comments from People at the Pathway Café
Brogan Berwick reports, following her visit to the Support Centre
Everyone who I spoke to praised the organisation and celebrated how successful the support centre is in ensuring all individuals are kept fed and also prepared to live on the streets by the resources the Pathway provides, including the clothes, sleeping bags, packaged food, and clean water
I spoke to people who weren't rough sleepers but individuals who just struggled to make ends meet and therefore visited the Pathway to be given food that they were able to take home and use to feed themselves.
"The Pathway not only provides me with a warm meal but they kindly give me resources that I can then take away with me to feed myself for the other days of the week". "Without this centre I would have probably starved to death months ago". This is the sad reality that people who don't have access to services like the Pathway could end up dead, and why the brilliant work of the Pathway should be expanded so that it can reach more communities
One commented that the citizen advice service that the Pathway provides, helps to remove some of the red tape that they encountered while trying to approach local councils themselves. The service made it easier for them to get the answers to the questions they were looking for to help them try and get back into housing or permanent housing
An individual referred to the centre as being his 'home'
The value of having safety and security within an environment is so important for these people who may have no other sense of security in their personal life, so the fact that the Pathway is able to supply this proves how necessary the service is
They said that the atmosphere of the centre was relaxed and calm and they were able to feel as though they had a sense of belonging. With the community atmosphere they found they could meet friends who they could then hang around with while sleeping rough or confide in because they were experiencing similar life experiences. People said this gave them a sense of safety because when sleeping rough within a group they felt less threatened
I was quite overwhelmed when I heard that they felt they had a voice within the Pathway centre. They commented on there being a lot of 'red tape' in the way of them accessing help from the council and authorities and because of this they felt disregarded, but none of this was felt towards the centre, they said how the centre acted like a 'bridge' connecting them to services and other people that could help them


I travel a lot and one thing I've noticed is that I can find Vanilla Reload cards in smaller cities easier than I can in my home town. There are two particular small-ish cities where I've never had trouble finding Vanilla Reloads at a particular 3 letter named drugstore. Once I find them I use the Vanilla Reloads to load funds onto my Bluebird® by American Express and make everyday purchases.
The first city is Nashville and the surrounding areas. I've never had trouble finding the Vanilla Reload cards. Whether they are in the gift card rack, or next to the register, they are always present.
The other is Tampa. Now there are several stores within a 5 mile radius of the airport. They've always been stacked with Vanilla Reloads. Just last month I visited a few while I was handling some business around the city, and at each one I was able to pick up enough for my purposes. Have you ever had any trouble locating Vanilla Reloads in Tampa? If not, I bet that is about to change.
Here's a prediction, one of these two cities will not have very many Vanilla Reloads after this weekend. Can you guess which one? Dare to share what are your go-to cities for finding Vanilla Reloads?
When driving down the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West the three letter drugstores have ample supplies of VR's and all are aware of the latest $5k per month rules.
It is becoming incredibly difficult to find them in Columbus, OH. Went to four today including my usual go to and nada. Doesn't even look like people are hiding them as I search through all the similarly colored gift card racks. The 5k limit daily by CvS has actually made it harder.
Tampa will be cleaned out after FTU this weekend!
John Guide, three letter drugstore $5K per month rule?! I thought it was a $5K per day rule (well, it better be). The Weekly Flyer, I'm curious, what is your home-town?
Has the VR packaging changed? I don't see any in the picture in your post.
Minnesota has been BONE dry! In a week's time, 8…EIGHT of the stores went from having easily 100+ each to empty racks no matter where I turn.
ATL hasn't been kind to me lately. Had been having pretty good luck for MONTHS, but the last few weeks I've run dry at all my usual stores.
VR did show up my usual gas station for the first time, but they were the reload in the store type and were cash only, as were the One Vanilla cards they had on the rack. I got really excited about finally maxing out my Freedom quarterly bonus, but it was not to be at that time.
What credit card is best to use for these cards these days? With Hilton's devaluation do you use your Ink Plus?
Las Vegas is sold out everywhere and the few that do, only take cash.
The CVS in L.A. (actually West Hollywood) at Santa Monica & La Cienga usually has them, and I had no trouble buying them with a credit card. I only buy one at a time and don't hide them. Don't be greedy, people… you'll mess it up for everybody.
The places I go to in TX are either dried up or have loads of VRs… but the places with VRs are cash only.
@Brandon. My bad. I meant $5k per day.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area where it seems finding Vanilla cards is becoming more and more of a challenge. However, I do have a couple of places where I can go and they always have the cards available. Now why would I share and dry up my pool?!?
Jacksonville has a few good CVS stores that are stocked and take credit cards.
Thank you to all the greedy people (or should I call them something else?) who wiped out ALL of the Vanilla Reload cards at the Sequoia Station location in Redwood City. The store display looked just like the picture above, except for the empty slots where the Vanilla cards go.
Just do what I did at my Charlie Victor Sierra store in Marin. I walked the manager over to the gift card rack and pointed to the UPC code and asked him to scan it and reorder the cards. He gladly did so……..then it brings more joy to all of us (whether we hide or not)!


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Charity Online Quiz for Heart Research UK
By theorkneynews on May 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Mark Bonnar, star of Guilt, Line of Duty, Shetland and smash new show Quiz, is hosting a charity quiz night raising money for national charity Heart Research UK.
Mark, who became a patron of the charity last year, will quiz viewers on subjects including sport, film and TV and music on Heart Research UK's YouTube channel at 8pm on Wednesday the 6th of May.
Mark will also be taking over Heart Research UK's Facebook page to chat live with participants and host a live Q&A after.
Heart Research UK are asking for donations if players quiz along at home, with all the money supporting the charity's pioneering medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease.
Mark first became involved with Heart Research UK in 2018, producing a piece of original artwork that was auctioned as part of the charity's anonymous heART project.
Since then, he has been involved with various campaigns, including Heart Research UK's Heart of Scotland appeal, a dedicated fundraising campaign to raise money to take on Scotland's biggest killer – heart disease.
Mark Bonnar said:
"In the uncertain times that we find ourselves in, it's really important that we try and have a bit of fun, as well as giving something back. That's why I'm so delighted to be hosting this quiz – I've dreamt up some devilish questions so you best be on top form!
"The work that Heart Research UK does is incredibly close to my heart. My father had a triple bypass over 20 years ago, and thankfully he is still going strong.
"The advances in research and surgery over the last few decades have been truly remarkable, thanks in no small part to the vital work that charities such as Heart Research UK are doing."
Mark Bonnar wearing the Heart of Scotland T-shirt
Kate Bratt-Farrar, Chief Executive of Heart Research UK, said:
"I'm sure we've all done a virtual quiz or two over the last few weeks, but Mark Bonnar's big quiz for Heart Research UK promises to be one of the best!
"We can't wait to see what Mark has up his sleeve for the quiz – I've been told there may be a few surprises but I won't give any answers away.
"This is obviously a difficult time for everyone, and charities are no exception. We're hoping that this will be a really enjoyable evening for everyone, which also helps us raise some much needed funds to help us take on heart disease, the nation's single biggest killer.
"We hope to see you all there!"
Mark Bonnar's Big Quiz for Heart Research UK kicks off at 8pm on Heart Research UK's YouTube channel – www.youtube.com/heartresearchuk. Participants can catch up with Mark before and after the quiz on Heart Research UK's Facebook page – www.facebook.com/heartresearchuk.
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If you start running an AVAssetReader while using a Remote I/O callback to play audio, starting the AVAssetReader will block the Remote I/O callback unless you allow iPod mixing with...
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Does anyone know of how I can setup my AudioSession so I can use both?

A: This works now in iOS 5.   The correct handling is to leave MixWithOthers OFF.  The AVAssetReader will no longer stop the callbacks of your audio playback.

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Spacious, light, modernized house in lovely Pyreneean village for holiday rental. The house's three balconies overlook the River Aude which offers white water and other river sports. Lots of hiking and walking.
Spectacular views. All amenities (boulangerie, epicerie, pharmacie, charcuterie, boucherie, cafe, restaurant within 50 metres' walk. In the middle of Cathar Country with incredible 12C chateaux (Queribus, Peyrepeteuse, Puilaurens, Montsegur, Foix, Carcassonne) within one hour.
Also within an hour, past the wine country of Maury and environs, is the Mediterranean at Perpignan. House has well-equipped kitchen, dining room with spacious balcony overlooking the river, lounge, twin bedroom, king-size bedroom with its own loggia, bathroom on each floor. Comfortably furnished, good lighting for reading, free wi-fi.


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Within the framework of a public-private sector partnership, Bouygues Construction is responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the New Paris Law Court complex in Paris. Designed by Renzo Piano, the high-rise building (standing 160 m tall) brings all of the services for the Paris Court of First Instance, public prosecution service, police court and district courts under the same roof. And thanks to its 90 courtrooms, it is capable of holding 8,000 people every day. With thermal inertia, natural ventilation, the use of photovoltaic panels on the facade, a rainwater recovery system, and terraces planted with trees covering a combined area of one hectare, the building that Bouygues Energies & Services is responsible for operating and maintaining for the next 27 years sets the benchmark for energy performance in the Greater Paris.


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EPL Spurs examine legal route over loss of earnings from Europe Conference League
Spurs examine legal route over loss of earnings from Europe Conference League
Tottenham Hotspur are set to seek legal advice in the wake of UEFA's decision to effectively kick the club out of Europe, despite the fact that the club has no intention of appealing.
Rennes have been awarded a 3-0 victory by UEFA in their final Europa Conference League group game against Spurs, which was postponed due to the English club's coronavirus outbreak. This decision effectively eliminated head coach Antonio Conte's team from Europe, and while Spurs have accepted the decision, they may seek legal advice on whether to pursue a claim for potential revenue lost.
UEFA's decision is understood to have infuriated Conte, who insisted last week that awarding the game to Rennes would be unjust. Tottenham issued a relatively reserved statement in which they expressed "disappointment" with UEFA's decision.
Tottenham had offered to give up home advantage and play against Rennes in France after being forced to cancel the game on the scheduled date.
They had requested that the Premier League postpone their match against Leicester City to allow them to do so.
The Premier League denied the request, but the Leicester game was already postponed due to an outbreak in Brendan Rodgers' squad. Rennes was livid that Spurs had canceled the original game after they had arrived in London.


A good friend recommended this place to me during one of my trip to Dusseldorf, Germany. (Thanks Lyn !!) She told me that this restaurant serve really good Ramen and I was certainly craving for noodle and soup after days of pork, pork and more pork in Germany.
So, we took the train Oststraße and from there took a short walk to reach the restaurant.
We got there just in time for early lunch as Lyn say it is crazy during peak hours. Manage to reach there around 11:45am (and already there was a mini queue outside the restaurant). Fortunately, we manage to secure a table after 15mins of wait. Around 12:30pm, the crowd and queue got really crazy. phewww… !! Lucky we had Lyn to bring us around Dusseldorf.
I was really impressed to see many Japanese eating there. This is definitely a plus point when you are dining Japanese food. We ordered one Curry Rice, 2 Shio Ramen and another ramen which I forgot the name. And of course, how can you have Ramen without gyoza, right? (It's like ordering steak without fries) So, we ordered 2 plates of those!!!
Overall the meal was really satisfying and authentic (considering you are eating it somewhere in Europe and not inJapan). Not to mention, it was relatively not too expensive. The bill was less than EUR 40 for the 3 of us. If you order just the noodle soup – it is about EUR 8-10 (depending on what you order). If you were to order this in Japan, it would probably come up to the same price. It is definitely one of the few restaurants that I will visit whenever I drop byDusseldorf.


After being teased and tantalized by not-quite seeing the second issue of Venü — the lushly produced, beautifully designed culture magazine that comes from Fairfield — I finally managed to grab the July/August issue.
Robert Cottingham was a savvy choice for the cover. A detail of a photo-realistic neon sign that reads "Roxy Arcade" is a real grabber. The minimal design, devoid of coverlines or teasers, really sings, just like in issue No. 1. Philip Eliasoph, the art professor and gallery owner, followed through with an illuminating profile of the artist, who at 74 maintains a studio in a converted barn in or around Newtown.
They have expanded the content with new departments, including travel and music, and the editor's note promises even broader coverage in the future. This humble blog started out promoting arts mainly on Fairfield Avenue in Black Rock, so I know what it's like being tempted to go wide with new topics and terrain.
But before they grow too quickly, they need to address some details.
I work in print, so I'm a little more picayune than most readers, but I've always believed that a strict copy chief is your tough-love guardian against missteps that create barriers to readers and advertisers. The artfully composed paragraph correctly uses apostrophes, colons, em-dashes, uses abbreviations consistently and knows in which order to place the period and quote. You can set apart the title of a work with italics or quotes, but not both. And phrases like "critically acclaimed" and ""world renowned" should be avoided altogether.
I remember as a young writer getting chewed out by an editor who objected to my cliched description of an award as "highly coveted." That was even worse than getting caught forgetting that "accommodate" has two m's. Every newsroom or magazine office needs a persnickety type like that.
High visual standards, and an appreciation of art and culture, should be reflected in the quality of the written word. Yes, I'm in a glass house throwing stones, but when I see a contributors page headed Contributor's, with a possessive plural, I gotta speak.
I'm really rooting for Venü, not just as a gallery-goer but also as a print designer. I'd like to think that there's still some viability left in the old ink-on-paper format, and Venü's investors appear to be betting the farm on it. Thank you, Venü, for your gift to the community.
This beautiful magazine is available at the Pantry, the Southport Galleries, the Fairfield Arts Council and many other highbrow places throughout the region. I'm hoping they start to distribute at Frame Makers, the Gallery at Black Rock and Port Coffeehouse, too — Black Rock, with its community of artists, collectors and enthusiasts, is a natural environment for Venü.


The government changed the law about which flags you can fly without consent back in 2012.
The World Cup is here and many fans want to show their team support by displaying flags on their properties.
Changes to the law introduced after the World Cup held in South Africa mean that it is no longer illegal to fly a national flag without permission of the local council.
The changes came after widespread calls for common sense after a number of people faced legal cases during the 2010 event.
People will still have to take into account health and safety regulations, especially if sporting flags on or in their cars. It is also stipulated that the flag must not display any advertising in addition to its recognised design.


Misery Will you comfort me? In my time of need Would you understand?
Mediburd Just call me "Mediburd"
Favorite Movie: Coralline, The nightmare before Christmas, and Scott Pilgrim vs the world.
Favorite Musician: Danny Elfman, Savant, Who ever did the sound track for Tf2, Cameleon Circuit.
Favorite Book or Author: Megaman gigamix/ megamix, H.I.V.E., Tf2 comic's, Scott Pilgrim.


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Technical glitches briefly mar first day of applications for Canada Recovery Benefit
Canadians seeking to access new financial support after missing work because of COVID-19 appeared to briefly run into technical glitches as applications opened for the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) on Monday.
Applications for the new benefit, which will pay $500 per week for up to 26 weeks, can be made through the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The benefit is open to those who don't qualify for EI because they never paid into it or don't have enough hours.
On Monday morning, some people reported having trouble applying through the Government of Canada website.
According to screenshots posted to social media, numerous people got an error message saying: "You cannot apply for the Canada Recovery Benefit as you have applied for all eligible periods."
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Another error message told applicants they do not qualify for support payments.
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A message appeared for a short time Monday morning on the CRB website, saying that the CRA was "experiencing technical issues with applications for Recovery Benefits" and was "urgently working to restore this service as quickly as possible."
A CRA spokeperson told CBC News just before 12:30 p.m. ET that the issues have now been fixed. "Taxpayers may now resume their applications. The CRA regrets the momentary impact this may have on applicants, and we appreciate their patience."
The new benefit from the federal government comes into effect as concerns rise about increasing job losses with Ontario and Quebec imposing targeted restrictions on restaurants, bars and fitness centres to slow the spread of COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus.
Other financial supports
Applications also opened last week for a new caregiver benefit, after numerous calls since the start of the pandemic for added support for parents and others who are forced to miss work to care for a dependent due to COVID-19.
Women have seen a disproportionate impact on their careers and earnings because of the pandemic because they have largely shouldered the burden of child care and home schooling.
The caregiver benefit applies to people who miss work because of school or daycare closures, and whose children who miss school or daycare because they have contracted the virus or may have been exposed.
It also applies to people forced to miss work to care for family members who need specialized care that is unavailable to them due to COVID-19.
The federal government anticipates 700,000 Canadians will apply for the caregiver benefit.
The government has also created a new sick-leave benefit that pays up to $1,000 over two weeks to people who can't work because they contracted COVID-19 or must self-isolate because of the virus.
The multibillion-dollar suite of new benefits are taking effect following an acrimonious political battle in Parliament that ultimately saw all parties vote in favour of them but not before the airing of widespread concern that the Liberal government was rushing them through.
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What is Grand Corruption and how can we stop it?
Grand corruption is one of the great unresolved legal challenges of our day. With its serious and often global effects, combatting grand corruption must be the responsibility of the international community.
For this to happen grand corruption should be treated as an international crime.
Transparency International has developed a legal definition of grand corruption to encourage advocates, scholars, lawmakers, and others to seek ways to enhance accountability of high-level public officials and others whose corruption harms their citizens egregiously and too often with impunity.
If designated as an international crime countries could exercise universal jurisdiction, similar to the treatment of war crimes.
Our targets: the leaders who co-opt the institutions of state for their own personal gain and sweep all before them to do that: human rights, human dignity, equality, development.
What is grand corruption? Grand corruption is the abuse of high-level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society. It often goes unpunished.
Domestic authorities are often unable or unwilling to bring the grand corrupt to justice. In these cases, the international community has an obligation to act, collectively and through action by individual states.
Grand corruption is a crime that violates human rights and deserves adjudication and punishment accordingly. This ranges from stealing from public budgets used to build hospitals and schools, to constructing dangerous facilities as the result of underfunding caused by corrupt actors.
An example of grand corruption: Yanukovych
Ukrainian ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies stand accused of stealing US $7.5 billion. Yanukovych himself is allegedly complicit in many corrupt activities as well as the murder of activists. He is currently living in Moscow under the protection of the Russian government.
At the same time, Ukrainian prosecutors have shown a reluctance to seriously pursue a public prosecution of Yanukovych, allowing him to spend his stolen wealth and live as a free man. His cronies have impunity, defying prosecutors to prove their corruption, with monies stashed away in other countries.
If Yanukovych were to travel to a country with a grand corruption statute that included universal jurisdiction, he could be held and tried for his egregious crimes against the people of Ukraine.
If Ukraine had a grand corruption statute that allowed for private prosecutions, Yanukovych and his cronies would have much more to fear. If Ukraine's domestic law allowed for private prosecutions (something currently under discussion in Ukraine) victims could team together to hire lawyers and pursue a case against Yanukovych and his cronies.
The role of civil society
Civil parties should be allowed a role in criminal procedures under a grand corruption statute. In such legal systems anti-corruption NGOs can take part in criminal procedures and represent a broad range of victims.
In France, for example, our chapter and the group Sherpa represented the victims of three African dictators.
It was announced last week that the son of Equatorial Guinea's long-time president will go to trial in France almost a decade after the initial complaints were filed.
The younger Obiang is accused of siphoning off more than €200 million (US$225 million) of public money for personal purposes.
Unsurprisingly, he denies the allegations and nothing is being done about it in his home country where his father is firmly in control.
Why grand corruption matters:
Grand corruption is a major obstacle to the achievement of sustainable development.
It undermines and distorts sound financial practice and clean business, both domestically and internationally.
It deepens poverty, inequality and it increases exclusion.
Grand corruption also results in violations of human rights; a link recognised by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Together with a group of top international legal experts including the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, and Richard Goldstone, the first chief prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, we worked on translating this understanding of grand corruption into a formulation viable in a legal context.
We developed a legal definition emphasising that grand corruption occurs when bribery, embezzlement or other corruption offences occur.
Read the full detailed legal definition here.
Grand corruption used to carry on unseen, with little publicity. Today – thanks to new possibilities opened up by globalisation, global communications and investigative reporting, the massive secrecy industry created by the enablers of grand corruption are in headlines every day. So too is the inability of current laws to tackle this transnational network of thievery and worse.
This needs to change. People have had enough. There should be no impunity for the corrupt.
For any press enquiries please contact press@transparency.org
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CPI 2019: Middle East and North Africa
With the same average score of 39 as last year, there is little progress in improving control of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa region.
IPC 2019: Américas
Por cuatro año consecutivo, con una puntación media de 43 puntos, la región de las Américas no logra progresar significativamente en la lucha contra la corrupción.
Multiple scandals in 2019 demonstrated that transnational corruption is often facilitated, enabled and perpetuated… https://t.co/5vSRLNGCkI
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"Do you know more people die in the East Bay commute every three months than that idiot ever killed? He offed a few citizens, wrote a few letters, then faded into footnote." —Paul Avery, Zodiac
There may be arguments over which David Fincher film is the strongest—the existential noir of his endlessly imitated serial killer movie Seven, the plugged-in portrait of modern masculinity in Fight Club, the Rashomon-like complexity of Facebook's origins in The Social Network—but there's no question which is the most Fincherian. That would be Zodiac, his 2007 recounting/reinvestigation of the unsolved Zodiac killer case that gripped the San Francisco Bay area in the late '60s and early '70s, then tapered off as the trail went cold. All the qualities associated with Fincher—his dictatorial command over every aspect of the production, his Kubrickian habit of forcing his actors to do dozens of takes, his rigorous attention to detail—are epitomized by Zodiac, an obsessive movie about the nature of obsession. And here's the kicker: That obsession is never satisfied. It just lingers, pungently, luring viewers down the blindest of true-crime alleys.
Fincher has cited All The President's Men as the primary influence for Zodiac, and the parallels are unmistakable, from the fluorescent-banked newsroom of the San Francisco Chronicle to the intrepid professions in pursuit of justice to the ever-expanding cast of witnesses and informants that pile up as the investigation moves forward. More than anything, though, All The President's Men proved it was possible to document a real-life case without streamlining it for easy consumption. Zodiac is a movie awash in information: dates, crimes, locations, suspects, evidence, meaningful connections and red herrings, breakthroughs and setbacks. And though it burrows deeply into that information—and generously respects the audience's ability to process it all—it's not so myopic that it misses the cultural significance of the Zodiac killer, either. On a macro scale, Fincher captures the tenor of a city transfixed by a boogeyman who embodied the anxieties of the time. On a micro scale, he cleanly explicates an absurdly complicated procedural while dealing insightfully with the type of person that would follow this case down the rabbit hole—a person very much like himself, it's safe to say.
The opening sequence is breathtaking: Fourth of July in Vallejo, California, 1969, fireworks popping against the night sky, Three Dog Night's "Easy To Be Hard" on the soundtrack. The lyric "How can people be so heartless?" would seem to hit the nail too hard, but the music and vocals are so soft and inviting that it doesn't feel like we're entering a cruel world at all. As the sequence continues with a passenger-side camera angle of a car gliding through a neighborhood alight with sparklers and bottle rockets—it's like a beautiful motorized tracking shot—we see a suburb that appears untouched by the dramatic changes in the culture. This could be a decade earlier, an impression that's reinforced moments later when the car swings into a diner that looks straight out of American Graffiti. Though he doesn't go as far as David Lynch in the opening shots of Blue Velvet, the effect is similar: Here is an innocent place, steeped in Eisenhower-era Americana, that's about to be befouled by a dark and dangerous menace.
From there, Fincher moves onto two more astonishing sequences: The first murder, where the killer guns down Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau to the swells of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man," a song that suggests the Zodiac as a Pied Piper figure who carries his victims off like the children of Hamelin. (The Zodiac's claim, via one of his letters, that his victims will become his slaves in the afterlife reinforces this impression.) The second is the opening credits, which follow the first hand-scrawled Zodiac letter from the mailroom at the San Francisco Chronicle to the news desk. From the beginning, the killer knows how the media can amplify terror: Being responsible for the deaths of half a dozen people is one thing—as Paul Avery, the troubled Chronicle reporter played by Robert Downey, Jr., notes later, "more people die on the East Bay commute in three months than that idiot ever killed"—but forcing newspapers like the Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Vallejo Times-Herald to publish ciphers under threat of violence is another matter. That's more than serial murder; that's terrorism. Decades before Osama Bin Laden haunted America's collective psyche, the Zodiac accomplished it on a smaller scale, posing a threat that altered people's lives in a way that was totally disproportionate to the specific danger of being victimized by him.
Working from a book by Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist for the Chronicle when the story broke, Fincher and screenwriter James Vanderbilt proceed through the timeline with a methodical, step-by-step directness that's simple and clear, but almost radical in its disregard for the way conventional movies are structured. Fincher recreates the murders with chilling panache, perhaps in part to compensate for the fact that the bulk of Zodiac consists of nuts-and-bolts detective work—collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, following leads that either pay off or head to dead ends. The focus falls on three of the pursuers: Finding the ideal vessel for his puppy-dog eagerness, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Graymith, who puts his love of puzzle-solving to good use; Downey's self-destructive Avery covers the beat for the Chronicle, and becomes part of the story when the Zodiac sends him a threatening Halloween card; and Mark Ruffalo stars as Inspector David Toschi, a detective whose exploits would later make him the model for Steve McQueen's character in Bullitt. These are the men who would stay with the case in the years after it faded from public conscience—though for the frazzled Avery, it was more like the case stayed with him.
My friend (and Zodiac case expert) Mike D'Angelo, who writes the Scenic Routes column for us, called Zodiac an "OCD movie," and that's particularly apparent in the time stamps, which are marked with such fastidiousness that it's almost comical. Just after the Chronicle releases the Zodiac's first ciphers, there's a sequence that whisks the viewer from the Skaggs Island Naval Communication Station 12 hours later to FBI headquarters six hours later to the CIA in Langley five hours later to another 12 hours later in the breakfast nook of Donald and Bettye Harden, the elderly couple from Salinas that cracked the 408-symbol code. There's a kind of madness to Fincher treating scenes in his movie like documents in a police file, but the concept of time is essential to Zodiac, and one of its primary weapons as it goes along. It's not important that the audience remember the times, dates, and places of everything that happens, but the overall pattern has an enormous impact. From August of 1969, when the first Zodiac letter surfaced, through the following year, as he claimed more victims and threatened to pick off children on school buses, the time stamps come at a furious clip, as both the media and the police commit their full resources to tracking him down. And then it slows… and slows… and slows… until the dates get farther apart, interest in the case ceases, and the city evolves past it. Lest you believe that a filmmaker of Fincher's prodigious talent would pass the time with subtitles alone, we also jump ahead with brilliant sequences like this one:
(Note: The "director's cut" includes an even more audacious two-minute "blackout sequence" that passes four years over a montage of news reports and popular songs. It's restored on the DVD, but was trimmed from a film that the studio felt was already too long and inaccessible.)
Zodiac finds other clever and ironic ways to document the dead years that follow, like Toschi attending a screening of Dirty Harry, which feature a Zodiac-like villain named "Scorpio." ("That Harry Callahan did a hell of a job with your case," someone taunts.) But one of the remarkable elements of the film is how urgent the case remains for the three men still in pursuit, especially Graysmith, who dashes around in a panic after each game-changing discovery. Never mind that thousands of days have passed since anyone heard from the Zodiac; he's suddenly back to being a killer on the loose, America's Most Wanted. There's even a sequence where Graysmith and Toschi return to the same San Francisco street corner in 1977, eight years after the Zodiac gunned down a cab driver. As dazzling as Zodiac is in the early going, when the killer is active and Fincher takes the city's quickened pulse, it's the film's documentation of these fallow years that sets it apart from other procedurals of its kind.
At this point, pursuing the Zodiac is an odd obsession, fodder for the true-crime hobbyists, yet the film understands—and shares—that impulse. And the truth is, the motives of the men still on the hunt, Graysmith and Toschi especially, aren't terribly heroic. They're not driven by some burning desire to find justice for the victim's families or anything so noble; it's just an itch they can't keep themselves from scratching, or to use a more pertinent metaphor, a puzzle they won't give up trying to solve. And when faced with a mass of contradictory evidence, they're sometimes guilty of cherry-picking only those pieces that support their current theory. In one terrific scene late in the film, Graysmith visits a friend of a victim who appeared to know the man who killed her. The friend talks about a creepy guy who once went to a painting party thrown by the victim, but she couldn't quite remember his name, except that it was one syllable. Graysmith gives her the name "Rick," she rejects it, and he keeps on insisting that she's remembering it wrong, right up to the point where she settles on "Leigh," as in Arthur Leigh Allen, the chief suspect to this day.
In a brilliant piece of irony, the most suspenseful sequence in the entire film turns out to be a red herring, with the panic induced mainly by Graysmith's overactive imagination. Pursuing the theory that the killer was Rick Marshall, projectionist at a silent-movie house who surely would have known about the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game, about a man who hunts human prey, Graysmith finds himself in home of Bob Vaughn (Charles Fleischer), a Marshall associate. Graysmith is operating under idea that a) Marshall designed a poster in handwriting that could match the Zodiac's and that b) he lived in one of the rare California homes with a basement. When Graysmith discovers that it's Vaughn himself who meets those criteria, the scene suddenly goes white-knuckle; I can remember wanting to crawl under my seat the first time I saw it. But watching a second time through, with full knowledge that the Marshall/Vaughn theory is a dead-end, the suspense is mostly generated by Graysmith's panic over a strange but perfectly benign old cineaste.
The end of Zodiac finds Michael Mageau, the surviving victim of the July 4 attack we see in Vallejo, identifying Allen's picture in a line-up of driver's license photos more than 20 years after the crime. It's the closest the film can come to providing some kind of resolution to an unsolved case, and just last weekend, Corey Starliper, a 27-year-old from Massachusetts, came forward with the claim that he'd solved a 340-character cipher that no one had been able to crack—and that it explicitly identified Allen as the killer. (This revelation was not well-received by the authorities, who had long discounted Allen based on handwriting samples and a passed lie-detector test.) But there's a difference between following through on a theory and reaching a definitive conclusion, and Zodiac, despite its coda, feels as distinctly haunted and unsettled going out as it does in the preceding two and a half hours. Those of a certain disposition will continue to live with it.
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New Yorkers Aren't Stress-Shopping Online This Week
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While hundreds of New Yorkers without power are lining up to buy iPad Minis — nothing better to do! — online retailers say those sitting at home or at makeshift offices aren't stress-shopping online. "It's nothing like a snowday, when people will jump online and start shopping," Neil Blumenthal, co-CEO of Warby Parker, told the Cut. "I don't think there's an appetite as people are glued to their televisions, glued to their Twitter feeds, or chatting with their new apartment guests."
Of course, as those in need are lining up for food, water, and gasoline, even discussing the hunt for a new pair of sunglasses feels crass. But as New York has become a hub for technology start-ups, the city has welcomed dozens of online retailers too. When the storm hit, businesses like Warby Parker, Gilt Groupe, Bonobos, Fab, and Mr. Porter had to first locate their employees and make sure they were safe. (In one case, Warby Parker even worked with their "friends in fashion" to get employees with flooded apartments new clothes.) Then these companies had to figure out how to serve the rest of their customers across the country while working remotely, and determine which distribution centers and mail services were out of commission. Warby Parker, with four distribution centers through the United States, had to route all traffic away from its Long Island center. And Fab.com, which distributes out of New Jersey — along with a number of other retailers like Bliss and Vineyard Vines that employ a fulfillment company called Dotcom Distribution in North Bergen, New Jersey — had to e-mail customers and tell them shipments would be delayed. Obviously, no one complained.
"Right now, there are about twenty zip codes we can't ship to," says Andy Dunn, the CEO of Bonobos, who "luckily" sends his packages out of Devins, Massachusetts. "And we haven't done the analysis, but people are not shopping in those places." Kevin Ryan, the CEO of Gilt Groupe, told Betabeat the company lost 10 percent of sales on Monday and Tuesday and would have to become fully functional by Thursday to not disrupt future business. Everlane, which launched a new range of apparel in the midst of it all, told the Cut they've seen New York sales decrease by about 50 percent. Others, like Net-a-Porter and eBay, declined to comment on how they were faring. Perhaps because Sandy came right before retail's most important season; admitting any hiccups now portends future trouble for the holiday season.
"No doubt this will have an effect on [annual] retail numbers," Dunn adds. "Delays in shipping, customers not thinking of shopping, folks who can't get things done, importing from China — all of that will have an impact." That's why, on Tuesday after the hurricane, he convinced his building's superintendent to let him break in to the Bonobos office. Inside, there was holiday merchandise he needed for a photo shoot in Brooklyn. Delays would harm his Christmas business, sure. But his decision had more to do with running a business in New York, where shopping feels nice and all, but carrying on as normal feels even better.
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Significant economic leap a testament to Party's success
A woman walks past flower decorations set up along Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
The Chinese economy has grown 189 times in real terms since the People's Republic of China was founded, demonstrating how the country's economic strength has made great strides under the Communist Party of China's leadership, a senior official said on Monday.
"When the PRC was just founded, the country was unable to make even a tractor. Now the country is the worlds' only economy that has all the industrial categories classified by the United Nations," said Han Wenxiu, deputy head of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs.
"China's output of more than 220 types of industrial products, including automobiles and computers, has ranked first across the globe," Han said, adding that the country's GDP has surpassed 100 trillion yuan ($15.48 trillion) and accounts for more than 17 percent of the world economy.
Under the Party's leadership, people's living standards also saw huge improvements since the PRC was founded more than 70 years ago, as per capita national income has increased from tens of dollars to more than $10,000 while the average life expectancy has risen from 35 years to 77.3 years, Han said.
Up to 770 million rural residents have been lifted out of poverty in China since reform and opening-up started, accounting for more than 70 percent of the world's total during the same period, according to him.
China has embarked on a new journey of fully building a modern socialist country, which will feature common prosperity for everyone, coordination of economic development with environmental protection, and peaceful development that strives for mutual benefits with other economies, he said.
The country's modernization will be "unprecedented" in human history, given China's population as large as more than 1.4 billion, and will contribute more to the advancement of mankind, he added.
Han made the remarks on Monday at a news conference for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.
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You've heard of Mars Attacks, but do you know the origin of Mars Attacks? A 1950s serial? A pulp magazine series? Strangely enough, Mars Attacks was an idea created by Len Brown and Woody Gelman for a 1962 set of 54 Topps trading cards. Those oversized-brain Martians first conquered Earth with a piece of pink bubble gum, and bridged sci-fi and horror like never before. One of my favorite areas of collecting as a kid were trading cards, what collectors today categorize as "non-sports trading cards." I collected any card that came in a loaf of bread, cards that came on the backs of boxes of cereal, and cards given away at Burger King.
It's not likely that many people actually got their hands on the 1962 of Topps trading cards, as explained in Mars Attacks 50th Anniversary Collection , the latest in Abrams Comicarts' series of bubble gum-inspired books including Star Trek: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, and Bazooka Joe and His Gang 60th Anniversary Collection, both reviewed previously here at borg.com. The original Topps card set was not well-received by parents and teachers because of its graphic depictions of burning bodies, exploding, mutilated, and sliced-up people and animals by the vile Martian invaders. So the card set had a limited run. The result is a collectible that would cost you $25,000 in order to acquire a complete card set. Which makes this new book a great way to see what we missed.
Creators Brown and Gelman were surprised by the backlash against the cards. According to Brown, "Our Civil War set was just as gory as Mars Attacks. I suspect because it was historical, people just felt that kids were learning, so the violence was okay." Brown, Gelman, and artist Norm Saunders were told to go back to the drawing board several times even before the series was released, to correct women who were too scantily dressed, and update skeletal remains with some flesh.
Now the stuff of collecting legend, the trading card series is reproduced from the original transparencies used for the original card release and the backs of a perfectly preserved set of cards. Other images include the front and back of the only known sealed pack of the cards, as well as boxes, ad art and other design references, a 1994 set of Mars Attacks cards, promotional cards, and comic book cover art, released after a resurgence of interest in the series following the release of the big-screen Mars Attacks film starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Tim Burton. You also get four new cards with the book, which is wrapped in the classic, nostalgic wax pack dust jacket that Abrams' book series is becoming famous for.
It's a fun–and informative–look at a classic licensed property. Mars Attacks 50th Anniversary Collection is available at Amazon.com.


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A: You can set the class with @class="className" but you have to specify actionName, controllerName, FormMethod too because there is no overload of Html.BeginForm that supports setting only html attributes.
@Html.BeginForm("ActionName", "ControllerName",
                 FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "newsletterform" }

You can create your own html helper, that does that for you, too.
Update
Here is a custom html helper does that.
public static class HtmlHelperExtension
{
    public static MvcForm BeginFormWithClassName(this HtmlHelper helper, string cssClassName)
    {
        string controllerName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
        string actionName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"];
        return helper.BeginForm(actionName, controllerName, FormMethod.Post, new { @class = cssClassName });
    }
}

You can call the method from your view like this.
@using (Html.BeginFormWithClassName("newsletterform"))
{

}

hope this helps


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What is likely to be the final Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix today produced two memorable shootouts. Up front, defending Honda world champion Marc Marquez dogged Yamaha stud Jorge Lorenzo for 24 laps before stealing his lunch money at Turn 1 of Lap 25 and holding the Mallorcan off for the final three laps. The undercard featured Yamaha icon Valentino Rossi and Repsol #2 Dani Pedrosa in an equally riveting daylong battle for third place. Rossi prevailed after half a dozen lead changes over the last 10 laps, keeping his string of 2015 podia intact and his lead over teammate Lorenzo at nine points.
At the start, Lorenzo rocketed out of the three hole to lead the pack into Turn 1, trailed by Marquez, Pedrosa, Ducati #1 Andrea Iannone, Tech 3 Yamaha's Bradley Smith and Rossi, whose loss today was once again assured in qualifying on Saturday. By the end of Lap 5 Rossi had taken over fourth place, and the lines were drawn. At that point, Rossi trailed Pedrosa by 1.6 seconds, but you got the impression that the Italian marvel wasn't going to go down without a fight.
By Lap 14, Rossi trailed Pedrosa by a mere three tenths. While Lorenzo continued to lead Marquez, who appeared to be biding his time letting Jorge do the "donkey work," I made a quick note: Y H H Y –> H Y Y H. This was my shorthand prediction that the Yamahas would move from positions one and four to finish second and third. Midway through the race, my suspicion that Marquez would eventually take down Lorenzo while Rossi outraced Pedrosa was, in the end, rewarded. Prior to the race I had envisioned two Hondas and one Yamaha on the podium; that prediction turned out wrong by 18/100ths of a second, Rossi's margin over Pedrosa at the line.
At this point in 2015 there can be no argument that Marc Marquez has returned to his otherworldly form of the past two seasons. For the first 25 laps today he was maintaining strict control of his RC213V, not throwing the front into the turns and waiting for the rear to show up. Once he made his move on Lorenzo he engaged his "reckless abandon" setting and turned the dogs loose. Lorenzo would get close several times over the last three laps, but he wasn't going to get past young Marquez late in the day. Pedrosa, who had improved steadily between Friday morning and Sunday, qualifying second, appeared ready, willing and able to podium today. There was a time when Pedrosa would have taken on the two leaders once his fuel load dropped, but that day appears to have passed.
Rossi, for his part, will either figure out how to deal with the 15 minute qualifying sessions or see perhaps his last best chance for a tenth world championship vanish before his eyes. He may be the fastest raceday rider on the grid, but his habit of consistently digging himself a hole on Saturday and trying to climb out on Sunday will eventually burn him. Lorenzo, much more interested in Rossi than Marquez, adjusted his strategy for qualifying, opting for three runs rather than two, simply in an effort to gain a front row start today. Had qualifying been limited to 13.5 minutes rather than 15, Lorenzo would have started at the back of the second row, his race strategy blown. This year, more than any year in recent memory, races are being won and lost on Saturday.
Ducati #1 Andrea Iannone qualified seventh and finished fifth today on his 26th birthday while teammate Andrea Dovizioso went seriously walkabout at Turn 2 of Lap 1, re-entered the race in last place, i.e., behind Toni Elias, and pedaled his posterior off for a distasteful ninth place finish. Dovizioso, once the model of consistency and control, had amassed a total of four (4) points in the previous four rounds before hitting a seven point jackpot today.
Anyway, Espargaro held off LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow today for seventh place while rising Octo Pramac star Danilo Petrucci, who had received a major tow on Saturday into a second row start, completed the top ten riders.
The two Suzuki guys had utterly forgettable weekends in Hoosierville. Rookie Maverick Vinales qualified ninth and finished 11th, while the elder Espargaro, Aleix, dawdled through Q2 to start 12th and could only manage a 14th place finish. While it's safe to say the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is not terribly friendly to any of the manufacturers, it seems distinctly unfriendly to the Suzukis. Team Ecstar will probably be thrilled to see Indianapolis fall off the calendar next year.
Just for the record, lest I be accused of ignoring the only American on the grid, Nicky Hayden had a criminally bad hair day today on his way to finishing 16th. Kind of a weak semi-mullet with a painfully lame mini-ponytail on top. The kind of haircut that would be much better suited to World Super Bike.
Movistar Yamaha maintains control of the 2015 championship, with Rossi on top of Lorenzo by nine points and Lorenzo leading Marquez by 47. Even though Marquez has gathered 70 points over the last three rounds, Rossi has earned 57 and Lorenzo 49. At this rate, Marquez will not catch Rossi until Round 24, a virtual impossibility in an 18 round season. Iannone holds a solid grip on fourth place, 32 points ahead of Smith and 35 points ahead of former Ducati #1 Dovizioso. Despite having started three fewer races due to injury, Pedrosa now leads wannabe Alien Cal Crutchlow by six points, with Pol Espargaro a single point farther back. Vinales rounds out the top ten with 62 points.
It's a short week until Round 11 at Brno, The Circuit That Desperately Needs a Vowel. Forward Racing is slated to perform its swan song in the Czech Republic, with the pitiable Loris Baz riding their last open class Yamaha until and unless he breaks it prior to the race. Karel Abraham figures to return to his Cardion AB Honda, since all his aunts and uncles will be there cheering for him to earn a point or two.
Brno is one of those long flowing circuits that tend to favor the Yamahas, so Marc Marquez will need to bring his A game if he intends to continue to cut the gap between himself and the Bruise Brothers. This doesn't appear to present much of a problem, in that he once again looks unbeatable. But there don't appear to be enough battles left to allow him to win The War of 2015.
Aliens expecting close encounter at The Brickyard.
By Bruce Allen. Exclusive to Motorcycle.com.
MotoGP starts the back nine of the 2015 season this week in Indianapolis with all four Aliens looking fast and frisky. At the top of the heap, a mere 13 points separate factory Yamaha grandees Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. Factory Ducati interloper Andrea Iannone, in third, sits squarely in the crosshairs of defending world champion Marc Marquez, who finally has his Repsol Honda figured out. Hard luck Dani Pedrosa on the #2 Repsol bike, health fully restored, loves Indianapolis. Expect an all-Alien battle for the podium in the Hoosier heartland heat on Sunday.
Having been given last rites after his third DNF of the year in Catalunya, Marquez has since returned to his frightening form of the past two years with a podium in Assen and a win at The Sachsenring. But 52 points separate him from second place; conventional wisdom suggests it took too long for him to find the proper frame and settings for an historic second half rally. While he's finally doing well—really well—both Rossi and Lorenzo are at the top of their respective games, giving meaning to the term "veteran." Moreover, while Indianapolis remains a Honda-friendly venue, the next four rounds—Brno, Silverstone, Misano and Aragon—are all painted Yamaha blue.
To put himself back in title contention for the home stretch, Marquez must be essentially flawless. And both Rossi and Lorenzo need to experience some serious adversity. Some might say the Bruise Brothers are overdue for a fall or two, while others will insist they can easily stiff-arm the young Catalan wonder over the next nine rounds. The wildcard in all of this is the intra-team competition at Yamaha, with both riders determined to do whatever it takes to win the title. For these two, suffering greatly from the sin of pride—machismo–second place is little different from last. Shades of 2009.
2012 saw Dani Pedrosa win going away, followed by Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso on the Tech 3 Yamaha, and Casey Stoner, who rode essentially on one leg, having broken an ankle in qualifying on Saturday. Stoner's first loss in his last four American outings would be followed by three DNSes, putting an end to any hopes he might have harbored about a repeat world title. Nicky Hayden who, along with Stoner and Spies, crashed in qualifying, broke his wrist and had to sit out his home race. 2012 was the high water mark of Ben Spies' brief MotoGP career, as he started on the front row but blew his engine while chasing Pedrosa in 2nd place. He would move down to Ducati for a miserable 2013 season before exiting MotoGP for good at the end of the year.
Marc Marquez' win at Indy in 2013 gave him a hat trick of hat tricks for his first remarkable season in MotoGP. It was his third consecutive win at Indianapolis, the other two having come in Moto2. It marked his third consecutive win in 2013 following superlative outings at The Sachsenring and Laguna Seca. And it was his third consecutive win in the US, following wins in Austin and Monterey. Pedrosa took second place that day, Lorenzo third, and Rossi a distant fourth. Having topped the time sheets in every practice session, the defending world champion's win on Sunday came as no surprise.
Last year Marquez made it four in a row at Indianapolis, beating Lorenzo by 1.8 seconds and Rossi by 6.5. He was running in third place when the two Italian leaders, Rossi and Dovizioso, had their own close encounter on Lap 6, forcing both to run wide and opening the door for Marquez. Modifications to the layout and to the racing surface during the offseason made Indianapolis more Yamaha-friendly than it had previously been, but the Catalan's win last year put him 10 for 10 in 2014, his cushion by then so large that he was able to coast to the title despite a relatively ordinary second half season. Lorenzo, as we know, mounted a furious second half charge which fell short but which helped propel him to a strong start this year.
Events of the past three weeks have revealed just how tenuous many of the sponsor relationships are in this game. In a boutique sport like MotoGP (as opposed to a mass market industry like the NFL), owners often need to seek out sponsors who, sharing William F. Buckley's famous view on yachtsmen, "enjoy standing under a cold shower tearing up $100 bills." Several dominoes have fallen recently, the most unsavory being the jailing of Forward Racing boss Giovanni Cuzari on charges of money laundering, tax evasion and bribery, with an investigation of LCR Racing's lead sponsor, CWM (Capital World Markets) boss Anthony Constantinou on charges of sexual harassment running a close second.
All of the above has put the fortunes of both Forward Racing and LCR in jeopardy for 2016. And, while Bradl has kept his iron in the fire, moving from the Forward Yamaha to the Gresini Aprilia cannot be viewed as a career advancement. If such action had occurred on track, it would have been referred to as "a gigantic moment." Meanwhile, it appears likely that LCR will be unable to field a two bike team next year, with Jack Miller's prospects, bolstered by HRC, for continuing with the team apparently stronger than Cal Crutchlow's, as the Brit has seriously underachieved, while running his mouth and burning yet more bridges, on his Honda RC213V this season. Poor Cal may have to go crawling on his belly back to Tech 3 which, in my opinion anyway, would be foolish to part with Pol Espargaro in favor of the consistently disgruntled and older Crutchlow.
A loyal reader has pointed out how 2016 looks to be a lousy year to be a rookie in MotoGP, what with the adopted changes in electronics and tires combining to throw a one-two punch at everyone and sure to make life especially difficult for newbies. Add to this the fact that the riders in the upper tranches are already contracted for 2016. The emerging sponsorship difficulties at the back of the pack, Nicky Hayden's long-expected move to World Super Bike notwithstanding, and rumors swirling around Johann Zarco, Tito Rabat and Sam Lowes suggest there may be more bums than seats available next year. It is easy to imagine the grid shrinking for a year before KTM joins the fray in 2017.
With conditions at the IMS expected to be hot and humid, look for the Hondas to enjoy their usual advantage in such conditions. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Marquez at the top of the podium and Pedrosa on a lower step, with either Rossi or Lorenzo making up the final rostrum spot. We'll have race results and analysis right here on Sunday afternoon.


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Q: SpriteKit coordinate system messed up In portrait mode, i created a SKShapeNode at the position of 0,0. Yet it seems that it does not appear in the screen at all.
This is the code i am using now
let test = SKShapeNode(rect: CGRectMake(0, 0, 10, 10))
test.fillColor = SKColor.blackColor()
self.addChild(test)

The background colour white, so the shape node will definitely appear if it was on the screen
Yet 0 node appears in the screen?
children.count returns 1
And this is how i display the scene
override func viewWillLayoutSubviews () {
    super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()

    if let scene = GameScene.unarchiveFromFile("GameScene") as? GameScene {
        // Configure the view.
        let skView = self.view as SKView
        skView.showsFPS = true
        skView.showsNodeCount = true

        /* Sprite Kit applies additional optimizations to improve rendering performance */
        skView.ignoresSiblingOrder = true

        /* Set the scale mode to scale to fit the window */
        scene.scaleMode = .AspectFill

        skView.presentScene(scene)
    }
}

The SKShapeNode is drawn, but it is outside the screen?
EDIT 1: I change the scale mode to .AspectFit, and this is what happened

Is the game forcefully running in landscape although the game is suppose to run in portrait?

A: Base on @fuzzygoat answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/24170460/1879382.
Simply open GameScene.sks, then change the value of x and y to the appropriate value needed.
For me, I used 320 x 568 since i run the game on iPhone 5S


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In a recent regression intensive, a student was reliving several devastating lifetimes in world history, such as the horrors during the Crusades and the Holocaust. She kept remarking, in a perplexed sort of way, that Mother Mary was there and just watching, witnessing. The student remarked that she, too, had been called to witness, in many of her livetimes, including this one. We were all moved by her experience, and in the post-session discussion, her experience raised several questions.
We were all struck by the idea of the witness. What is the role of the witness? Since the discussion, I have pondered the roles of Jesus and His Mother in this context. History is full of compassion for the suffering of Jesus on the cross, but what about the suffering of His Mother, that had to watch, to witness, the crucifixion, the agonizing death of her beloved son? It sounds like one of those ethics class questions – Who suffered more, Jesus on the cross or His mother having to watch? A lively debate would surely ensue.
In the readings of Edgar Cayce, we are told that Jesus and His mother were twin souls. So in some way, half of the twinship is on the cross while the other half is present and holding the space, in compassion. We all come into this world as half of soul selves. The soul is androgynous. We come in with either the expressed male or expressed female, while the other half is relegated to the subconscious. The anima and animus. It seems that the New Age is about expressing the truer soul consciousness through androgyny. But that's another topic for another time.
As meditation develops, we begin to develop the consciousness of the witness. One part of our consciousness is in the world doing and another part is observing. In my trance experiences while entering the Oneness, I too, feel that sort of benign neutrality, that sense of pure being. The consciousness of the infinite self is the now. No past, no future – all now.
So is the watcher, the witness, part of our eternal soul consciousness, overseeing our suffering? The finite ego consciousness wonders if there could be a God that would allow such suffering. But somehow the witness, offers us compassion for our suffering. The witness knows we must go through this experience, that its temporary. I wonder if that's what Jesus meant by The Comforter? That somehow He and Mary were part of facilitating that process of internalizing the witness. He and Mary expressed it externally, and now we can do that internally, just as we are all to awaken our own Christ Consciousness. I would surmise this is the New Age message of integration of all into One, of awakening to Oneness.
So is this guidance for us? The Piscean Age was, in a broad brush, an age of feeling while the Aquarian is one of detachment. Are we to heed this counsel? To learn to both be in our experience and also have a part of us witness, in loving detachment? Are Jesus and Mary the model for us, not just in Jesus, but also in Mary. Are both needed for enlightened living? So a part of us, like Jesus, lives in the world and rides the waves of pain and joy, while the Mary part, bears witness, compassionately observes. What was modeled outside in Jesus and Mary, is now to be our experience. Jesus and Mary united -in our consciousness. The Trinity – the actor/Son-Daughter, the observer/Holy Spirit and the consciousness of both/The Creator/Father-Mother God – the Three in One.
Beautiful! Thank you! It means a lot to me what you just put down on paper and explored to enhance understanding and awareness. Makes PERFECT sense! I hated being the observer but just today, also learned, to realize the love I send is helping more than any other "help" I give. I am beginning to understand the part of the observer, now more, because of what you explained here. Thank you again.
Thank you for your kind words. I found the experience important so I thought I'd share it. Thank you for validating that!


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Джеймс Э́двардс Я́нси, известный как Джи́мми Янси (; 20 февраля 1898, Чикаго — 17 сентября 1951, Чикаго) — афроамериканский джазовый пианист, композитор и поэт-песенник. Он был первым получившим известность музыкантом в жанре буги-вуги. В 1986 году он был включён в Зал славы рок-н-ролла.

Джимми Янси не получил профессионального музыкального образования. Его брат Алонзо также был пианистом, а отец играл на гитаре. С детства он пел и танцевал в составе передвижных ярмарок на юге США и в Европе, позднее выступал на вечеринках и в чикагских клубах. В то время Янси не смог прославиться, и в 1925 году, оставив своё ремесло, он стал смотрителем спортивной площадки бейсбольного клуба Чикаго Уайт Сокс.

В 1936 году Мид Лакс Льюис сделал запись «Yancey Special», и тогда о музыканте вспомнили. Он снова начал играть в клубах и через три года выпустил первый альбом. В конце 1930-х годов получили известность такие песни, как «Yancey Stomp», «Two O'Clock Blues», «The Fives», «State Street Special», «The Mellow Blues», «Slow and Easy Blues». С начала 1940-х Янси давал концерты в качестве вокалиста совместно с женой Эстеллой, аккомпанировавшей ему на фортепиано и органе; их дуэт назывался Jimmy and Mama Yancey.

Умер 17 сентября 1951 года от инсульта.

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