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Strong, spare, and elegiac poems; a fine collection.
BIRD YEARS
by Dicko King ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A
This poetry collection considers memory, family, the body, aging, and loss.
In his first collection, Doggerland: Ancestral Poems (2015), King explored the deep history of family and the Irish. Here, he touches on legend—one section is titled "Mythic"—but locates many poems in personal childhood memory and aging, his parents' and his own. In "Bird Years," the titular poem plays with the more expected concept of dog years (the next poem's title, in fact) to give King's own age, lending it strangeness: "In man years, I am sixty-seven." The speaker sees himself as having a precarious hold on existence, like the California condor with which he later identifies. This vulture went extinct in the wild but has been slowly and expensively reintroduced; the poet writes, "More public support is needed / to save me for a little while longer… / I am nearly extinct." That he compares himself to a vulture, not some more cuddly endangered species, comports with the weary mood that inhabits many poems in this collection. Several pieces reflect on parental decline but also decline in the speaker's generation. In "Mouth," for example, the speaker writes of himself and siblings: "We are wary—listening to Tom, / our weary brother, the reliquary," his sawlike words "working the lean hindquarter / of our childhood." Here, with the speaker's caution and resistance alongside Tom's weary work, age isn't a time of retirement and rest but of increasing labor. Tom becomes a kind of archaeologist as the siblings talk; "on a last late night of excavation, / he makes a deep wound deeper while the wives sleep / —digs at our new, our long dead." But beside all this difficult work is the poem's lilt, as with wary/weary/reliquary. This hints interestingly at the speaker's Irish background (also underlined by "reliquary"), Ireland being a country marked by both struggle and poetry. Forgetting takes on an ambiguous role as loss and protection from the past; the book's final poem ends with elephants peacefully forgetting something their mahouts bitterly contest.
Pub Date: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Mayapple Press
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
More by Dicko King
DOGGERLAND
by Dicko King
A volume of poetry and prose that offers heroic visions of urban African Americans.
SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR
by Garrett S.L. King Jr. ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2011
A debut multigenre collection of short pieces presents vignettes focusing on the lives of African Americans from a variety of perspectives, both real and fanciful.
This eclectic anthology begins with an autobiographical sketch, "P Is for Pride and Perseverance," in which King traces his early years from his 1979 birth to a 16-year-old mother to his incarceration for attempted robbery and his subsequent determination to do something positive with his life. "Baby Girl" reprises the story of King's birth from his mother's point of view, a girl whose teen pregnancy seems predestined by both her grandmother's clairvoyant dreams and her own limited expectations. Other narratives are linked by shared characters, such as "Posse Up, Ladies First!" and "Thug Angel," which provide somewhat idealized portraits of street gangs as building blocks of the black community. "Battle Kats" is an SF work about a group of humanoid felines from another planet who work undercover to defend Earth and its alien allies. The central section of the book is occupied by a collection of 21 poems. Some, like "Hold on to Love" and "Away From Home," focus on romance while others, such as "The Rent Is Too Damn High!" and "Blockstars," illuminate the experiences of working-class African Americans in inner-city neighborhoods. "Remember Me?" calls up the spirit of LaTasha Harlins, a young black woman shot by a Los Angeles shop owner in the early '90s, speculating "I wonder what you could have been LaTasha?" King's efforts to describe his personal struggles and the vibrant characters who populate impoverished black communities are ambitious and dynamic. His prose narratives are too short to feel really complete, but they deliver glimpses into a world mainly familiar to the urban poor, where drug dealing is one of the few available career choices, incarceration is a rite of passage, and street gangs view themselves as community leaders. While the author does have a tendency to romanticize life on the street, as in "Posse Up," in which a girl gang maintains a strict "code of principles," his writing presents a vision of what could happen if people worked to "play a part in the improvement of the community."
Publisher: Xlibris
Review Posted Online: Jan. 6, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2020
A nihilistic poetic remembrance that will appeal most to older teens and 20-somethings.
THE KING OF FU
by Benjamin Davis , illustrated by Nikita Klilmov ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 25, 2018
Davis recounts the confounding pressures of his 1990s childhood in this debut memoir-in-verse.
When telling the story of your life, one might as well start at the very beginning. That's exactly what the author does in this memoir, which he describes as "a thing like a very long lie to yourself." Specifically, he tells of how "The White-Gloved Sheriff / kicked in the door / and / Pulled me" from his mother (whom he calls his "Supervisor"; he later calls her "the Computer Science Major," "the Waitress," and other occupational names). Unusually, he had horns and a lot of hair at birth, he says. He was immediately at odds with the people and other living things around him—his parents, his brothers, his family dog. As a toddler, he created an imaginary world for himself known as "FU," which was "Filled with things that looked like me / And where things made sense / I was King." His earliest years were characterized by horrible discoveries (school work, isolation, crushes, problems in his parents' marriage), but his teen years proved to be an even greater series of highs and lows, involving confusion over geopolitical events, friends, computers, pornography, and marijuana. Like a novice who can't quite figure out the rules of a game, Davis bumbles forward—all horns and fur and misunderstanding—inadvertently angering authority figures as he seeks an adequate method of self-expression. The poem is composed in short, direct lines, enjambed to emphasize particular words or phrases rather than establish a consistent overall rhythm. Davis' idiolect is inventive in its names for things (siblings are "life partners," pets are "prisoners," teachers are "Part-Time Supervisors," and so on), and his outsider's observations of society are shrewd and often funny. However, the combination of snark and self-seriousness causes some poems to come off as petulant and cloying; as a result, it's difficult to imagine anyone over the age of 22 finding the work emotionally affecting. Even so, the tone and style, coupled with debut artist Klimov's truly engaging black-and-white illustrations should captivate readers of a certain anarchic mindset.
Pub Date: May 25, 2018
Publisher: Nada Blank Press


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Your Banker is Your Best Friend II - Sitzberger & Company S.C.
Send timely quarterly financial statements for their review. Statements are timely if within 45 days after quarter end and ninety days after year end.
Call your banker and keep him or her alert for any problems as they arise. This involvement allows them to become part of the solution.
Always have a year-end profit in your company. Do this even if it means you taking less or no salary. This means so much during the loan review. You never have to explain a profit but you always have to explain a loss.
Balance between tax planning and money taken out of your company. A good net worth in your company insures your banker's continued support.
Keep your loans current. This should be considered a top priority. Pay your loans before your accounts payable. The banker is happy to advance more funds only if your present loans are current.
Your banker truly is your best friend and if treated properly will provide financing for future equipment purchases, cash flow shortages, mergers, and if you are lucky, a free game of golf at the next Brookfield Chamber Golf outing.
The next several articles will discuss lines of credit, intermediate loans and long term financing.


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Arista's Video Projection Mapping Turnkey System Turns Heads at LDI
Mountaincrest Communications ⋅ Dec 5, 2019
Fremont, CA – December 2019… Arista Corporation, recognized globally as a leading Pro AV manufacturer of video wall LCD displays, AV extenders, matrix switchers, AV MultiViewers, and related products for the AV installation and industrial markets, attracted record crowds to its booth during the recent LDI show—thanks to the company's surprisingly compact and capable video projection mapping system. Combined with the creative and technical knowhow of Arista's partner Blockhouse Media, the Arista booth was a continually changing collage of images, video, and color that re-defined the capabilities of projection mapping technology.
Arista's Projection Mapping Technology leapfrogs other industry offerings. The system greatly simplifies connectivity with its support of popular formats including SDVoE, DisplayPort, HDMI, HDBaseT, and 10/100 LAN—incorporating digital and analog audio and video into one central distribution device. Equally compelling is the system's integrated 4U rack mount computer named QuadMosaic. Powered by an Intel Xeon 10-core processor, it can be upgraded to a 22-core processor if more CPU horsepower is required. Combined, Arista's video projection mapping system centralizes all operations crucial to a successful video projection mapping setup.
Event planners and permanent venues are looking for the next generation of lighting technology—enter projection mapping. In the history of the lighting industry, never has lighting and video been incorporated as elegantly as is now available via projection mapping. The result is a far greater and immersive visual experience, with Arista playing a central role.
Arista's video projection mapping solutions allow for the best-in-class 3rd party elements, including software and hardware that, together, form an ideal turnkey solution with Arista being a key enabler. Arista is creating a consortium and alliance of partnerships—forming an entire ecosystem in the process—to bring together the hardware, software, and creative artists that can provide end-to-end projection mapping solutions.
As a complementary element to its video projection mapping agenda, Arista also displayed its E-Vocal® Dante® audio products. Audio is a crucial part of the immersive picture and sound experience, so the company's E-Vocal Duo, E-Vocal Duo+, and E-Vocal Myriad line of Dante products enable engineers and AV technicians to seamlessly integrate a wide range of audio sources into the video projection mapping experience.
Reflecting on the success of the company's showing at LDI 2019, Martin Fishman, Vice President of Arista, offered the following thoughts, "Arista attracted thousands of LDI attendees with new and informative technology design ideas. Designers and PRO AV companies are actively looking for the next breakthrough beyond the same old lighting ideas when it comes making their events and venues come alive—and Arista has a viable, comprehensive solution in its video projection mapping product. Video projection mapping is the ideal emerging platform that takes all the great lighting technologies of yesteryear and brings us into the next century. Countless LDI attendees told us they are looking for new technologies to make their future events far more engaging and have found our offerings to be a great solution."
The Arista Video Projection Mapping Turnkey System ranges in price depending upon the desired configuration. For additional information on this and the company's E-Vocal Dante products, contact Arista Corporation at 510-226-1800.
About Arista Corporation
Arista offers products for a variety of professional audio-visual markets, including events, retail, residential, education, government, healthcare, and control rooms. Networked AV over IP has forever changed the dynamics of the pro AV industry by enabling installers and system integrators to replace proprietary AV matrix switches with off-the-shelf Ethernet networks that deliver dramatically better price/performance, flexibility, and scalability. Arista focuses on this market trend and has invested considerable resources on developing and expanding its networked AV over IP product families to help customers achieve their goals with the latest technology products. To learn more about Arista Corporation, visit www.aristaproav.com.

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Hessonite is an orangy brown to deep brown color gemstone which is a part of the mineral family Garnet. It is one of the abundantly available minerals in the earth's crust and is used extensively in astrological uses and is associated with mythical planet Rahu. Hessonite is the high-quality Brown color garnet having good transparency. Rahu is a shadow planet and it plays an important role in astrology when it comes to various predictions. Gemstone Gomed helps tremendously while reducing the malefic effect of this planet.
Which is the Best Substitute For Hessonite Gemstone?
Astrological Significance (Who should wear Hessonite): Hessonite is associated with the mythical planet Rahu. According to the Vedic astrology, People who are going through Mahadasha of Rahu which is generally an 18 years period in a human life, can wear Hessonite gemstone to reduce the malefic effects of Rahu.
Hessonite is worn to increase the production ability, wit & intelligence.
It bestows the wearer with a good work & personal life balance.
Hessonite is also considered to be worn by people suffering from anxiety, stress & nervousness.
How To Wear Gemstone Gomed?
Best Weight (in carat or ratti): Hessonite is a semi-precious gemstone. Every gemstone, when worn for an astrological purpose, need to adapt to the body mass of the person. Therefore, it is considered good to wear the gemstone more than 1/10th carat of the body weight of the person. For example, if a person weighs 60kgs, he/she should wear minimum 6 carat [60 / 10 = 6].
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When to wear: Best time to wear the gemstone gomed is during the sunset of a Saturday which falls between Ashtami tithi of Shukla Paksha ( the 8th day the Waxing moon period) and Ashtami tithi of Krishna Paksha (8th day of waning moon period).


If you are interested in joining Goolawah Co-operative you can become a member and buy a share as opportunities arise. Members have a right to occupy home improvement sites of approx. 5,000 sqm (1.2 acres), which are grouped together in several 'hamlets'.
The Co-operative owns all the land on behalf of its members. Please be aware that you are not buying freehold land. You are buying a share in a co-operative with entitlements plus any improvements on your allocated site (dwellings, dams, gardens, sheds).
The Co-op has Development Consent under SEPP15 planning legislation for rural land-sharing, which requires it to be your principal place of residence. Individual dwelling development is subject to Council approval.
Carefully consider our website information, including membership and costs.
Visit the land and talk to members. You must be accepted as a member by the Co-op before acquiring a share and access to land. Get in touch by email to make visit arrangements – you can also observe community meetings and attend social events.
Read 'Creating a Life Together' by Diana Leafe Christian (or view YouTubes).
If you decide to apply, the application process helps you learn more about us and v.v. Visiting Goolawah and meeting people helps complete some steps. A Membership Guide will assist you.
Membership fees – on completion of the membership application process your application will be put to the community for approval. If successful and if you have found someone willing to sell a share, then you pay the joining fee and share capital to the Co-op.
Share capital of $7,000 is paid by the buyer directly to the Co-op and is recorded on the share transfer form and share certificate.
The joining fee is calculated as the sum total of all annual levies per share since the Co-op's inception in 2000. For the second quarter of financial year 2018/19 it is $7470. The Treasurer will inform you of the exact joining fee at the time of your application.
Share transfer – once eligibility for membership is approved and payments made the community formally ratifies your share transfer. The Co-op's official share register is then updated and a new share certificate issued to you.
Annual Subscription: $500 in 2018/2019 financial year for single or joint members.
Annual Work Levy: volunteer 18 hrs of your time to the community or pay $180 levy for each share owned.
Road Levy: $500 in 2018/2019 is payable for each share owned. The Co-op built and maintains 12 kms network of roads.
Other Levies/Charges: if the community incurs costs on your behalf (e.g. fire hazard reduction work on your site) these costs will be charged to you. Infrastructure levies could also be raised for communal building needs.
• Dwelling structures must meet Australian Standards and receive Council approval. Contract building costs are similar to suburban constructions.
• When a Development Application for construction is approved by Kempsey Shire Council, it levies a one-off Section 94 Contribution (for public amenities like local roads and recreation areas) on top of DA fees. The S94 fee depends on the number of bedrooms (approx $3,700 for one bedroom in 2018) and is CPI-linked.
• The Co-operative is off-the-grid, so members need water collection and onsite sewage management systems that meet approved sanitation standards ($5,000+); and remote power systems (solar installations cost $10-20,000 depending on your energy needs).


Thread: Do you think President R.A. Trump should consult with the Chinese?
Re: Do you think President R.A. Trump should consult with the Chinese?
"WASHINGTON, DC(James Ryan Lowe)—Learning that the United States also borders a country to its north, President Donald Trump called for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Canada border."
I could almost believe it!
I think Canada is building their own wall in preparation for the massive liberal evacuation after DFT wins in 2020.
I am trying to talk the Mrs into heading North before the rush.
That one worked as designed for two thousand years, I'd not knock the notion by comparing the President's plan to the Great Wall of China.
The Israeli Palestinian wall seems remarkably effective too, if you need another example.
Whether a wall is a morally acceptable solution is a different matter, but they do seem to work.
Hadrians wall has lasted well as well although a brexiteer I am acquainted with now wants it demolished and moved to the eire/northern Irish border to help control the flow of vegetables.
Since Trump first spoke of the WALL and fails to depart from the singular word wall drives me nuts.
Considering the terrain and distances it seems logical to place barriers which best suite the purpose desired, to stop illegal crossing of the border. He seems fixated on the southern border as there is a huge problem with legal visitors overstaying their visas. Real help would be a reliable way for employers to check job applicants and enforce laws which prohibit hiring of such people.
Seems uses of physical barriers is not unique.
Sorry Mr. spot, but I was not 'knocking' or 'comparing' the Great Wall Of China. I will admit to being a little sarky when I said 'low dividing wall' but that was purely for President Trump's benefit. I was suggesting that Pres. Trump should maybe consult with the obvious masters at the art of effective wall building, just to give him some idea of how to build an effective and long lasting substantial wall. With him organising things, his 'wall' may possibly outlast his term of office !
The word that struck me was "consult with the Chinese as they have built" - my English teacher told me the present tense implies a recent action. Using the same construction technique would not be wise. If you laid all the died-on-the-job builders of the Great Wall of China end to end, they'd stretch the entire length of the Great Wall of China. That's a surprisingly accurate estimate, if you fancy checking it. Not as tight a packing as the Japanese achieved in Burma on their railway but close enough.
We already have the tools in place "for employers to check job applicants and enforce laws which prohibit hiring of such people."
What we seem to lack is a way to monitor and manage employers who do not employ those tool and choose to hire the undocumented workers.
Anne Coulter went into a rant on the Bill Mahr show claiming that if anyone should resist a barrier it would be people such as herself because, as she stated, and I'm paraphrasing, that due to illegal immigration the landscaping at her residence looks great and is cheaper than it would be otherwise.
What Coulter and her followers miss in her statements is that she has the power to refuse the service providers that employ illegal immigrants and thus reduce the incentive for immigration but chooses not to. Coulter instead wants the government to force her to make that decision, because, it appears, she's incapable of resisting cheap labor to legal labor. Conservatives seem to really like government rules, which is rather odd for a party that dislikes regulations.
On the one hand, capitalists preach the power of the competitive structure of market forces and yet complain when it doesn't suit their bigotry.


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Ben Affleck Rewrote 'Batman' Script While Wearing the Batsuit
ByChristopher Spata
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Ben Affleck is a Batman of many talents. He's an actor, a director—he can even count cards at a Las Vegas blackjack table. He also snagged his first Oscar way back in '97 for writing Good Will Hunting (along with Matt Damon), and has writing credits on The Town, and the upcoming Prohibition-era gangster flick Live By Night.
Taking all that into account, this story from US saying that Affleck took it upon himself to rewrite the parts of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice script that he didn't like isn't all that unbelievable.
"Ben wasn't thrilled with it and would find himself on multiple occasions fixing it the day of," an "insider source" told the celebrity gossip magazine.
That's not the part that's hilarious, though. The good part of the story is that BatFleck was supposedly hanging out in his Batsuit while he was typing away.
'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' to Get an R-Rated Special Edition
Affleck, the source said, "would go into wardrobe and get all suited up for the day in his Batman suit. Then he would sit around reworking the script."
It makes sense. Ever heard the saying, "When you look good, you feel good, and when you feel good, you do good"? Also, if you have access to a Batsuit, and you literally are Batman, why the hell wouldn't you spend as much time in it as possible?
Batman v Superman (which, by the way, will sort of be the first R-rated Batman movie) is set for a March 25 release. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale Feb. 29, with some already predicting the film is going to smash the March box office record.
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[READ MORE: The search for a Sports Illustrated cover that slighted Muhammad Ali]
What connects us to the people who play the sports we like? What makes one more athlete more special than the others? What makes us latch on and say, "This one is mine"?
With Ali, it was movement. No big man had traversed a ring the way he did, and I can comfortably say no big man ever will. No big man moved his hands as quickly as Ali moved his. Remember how he jerked his head back to avoid a punch? You're not supposed to do that. Boxing coaches probably were infuriated. Ali's opponents were, too.
On Nov. 14, 1966, Ali fought a tough craftsman named Cleveland Williams. Had Cleveland changed his name to a city that enjoyed more athletic success, it wouldn't have mattered. Ali was never better than he was against Williams.
Bigger than boxing
Ali was so much bigger than boxing. He was funny and brash, an entertainer in satin shorts. He was a poet. His poems might have been silly. But they were funny. Ali was big and, as he constantly said, pretty, and no matter whom he fought it was an event. More than any athlete I've encountered, he connected sports to the real world.
To some, he'll always be the antihero because he refused to fight in Vietnam, in a war that tore out country apart. His combat, of course, almost certainly would have been limited to exhibitions in the ring. A Black Muslim, he felt his religion forbade him from engaging in war, regardless of his role. In 1967, Ali was sentenced to the maximum penalty, five years in prison and $10,000. He appealed and, four years later, his conviction was overturned.
Ali was, however, out of boxing for 3 1/2 years. While he was speaking at colleges, his brilliant movement and speed were beginning to erode. He missed the peak years of his career, and when he returned, he was not the same fighter.
A visit to Charlotte
In 2003, Ali came to the Duke Mansion in Charlotte for Close to a Cure, a Parkinson's fundraiser. I had long ago stopped being nervous around athletes, but when he stepped out of a white Suburban and walked 6 feet into the house, my stomach turned tight and my voice ceased to function. I watched him enter and thought, "Oh, do I hope he is who I think he is."
As a result of Parkinson's, Ali was shaking uncontrollably. Yet he wasn't embarrassed, so why should we be? He would take his medicine and while the shaking didn't stop, it was considerably muted.
Ali, 61, worked the room, joking with the kids and playing with the adults, snapping his fingers and plucking quarters from behind our ears. He picked up a black Magic Marker with his right hand and, holding it with his fist, repeatedly pounded it on a cloth napkin. The drawing was remarkable. It was the Thrilla in Manila, Ali's third fight with Joe Frazier, which some consider the greatest boxing match of all time.
Felix Sabates, a Charlotte businessman and big Ali fan, bought the napkin for $10,000.
A moment with the champ
The media – there were only four of us, including the Observer's Jeff Siner – was supposed to leave after an hour or so. But the organizers invited Jeff and me to stay. One of the organizers asked if I wanted Ali's autograph. I thanked her. But I've always said I don't believe in autographs for adults, and this proved it.
The woman returned and asked if I'd like to ask Ali a question. I stood in a corner and thought about the question and suddenly, less than a minute later, there he was. I'm 5-9 and he's 6-3, and he bent over so I could speak into his ear. But what was I going to ask? I had to ask something. I wanted to ask something. And I needed it to be good.
"What's the secret of life?" I asked.
Ali stood back up, thought for perhaps 20 seconds, and bent back down.
"Believe in God," he said.
The children in the Duke Mansion had been collected in the same room so they were all together. Ali told them he could levitate. Somehow, he looked as if he did.
That day was one of the best of my career. Ali didn't really levitate. But when I walked out, I did.
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Aaron Cole February 26, 2018 Comment Now!
Volkswagen AG settled a lawsuit with more than 300 owners days before a potentially embarrassing trial in the U.S., Reuters reported last week.
According to the report, Volkswagen reached a settlement Friday with David Doar, a North Carolina man, and similar owners after a judge rejected a request by the automaker to delay the trial. Lawyers for Volkswagen argued that publicity from a Netflix documentary about the emissions scandal and reports that the automaker subjected monkeys to diesel fumes in 2014 would taint a jury.
Court documents revealed that an Albuquerque-based laboratory funded by VW exposed monkeys to diesel fumes in a bid to generate data that diesel fumes were less harmful than gasoline emissions. The fumes were generated by a diesel-powered VW Beetle with an illegal "defeat device" that would reduce emissions in laboratory testing but pollute far more on the road, according to reports.
The Virginia judge rejected those arguments and ruled that a fair jury could be seated despite the publicity, according to the Reuters report. Doar's attorney, Mike Melkersen, was interviewed for the Netflix documentary.
A spokeswoman for Volkswagen of America declined to comment on the settlement Monday. Terms of the settlement weren't made public.
Doar was among roughly 2,000 VW diesel owners who refused a settlement with the automaker in 2016 and have pursued separate lawsuits against Volkswagen. About 500,000 owners agreed to buybacks and additional compensation with Volkswagen as part of a $14.7 billion settlement for small cars in 2016. A separate, $1.2 billion settlement was reached with SUV owners last year.
In 2015, Volkswagen admitted that it had sold cars and SUVs in the U.S. that illegally polluted up to 40 times more than allowed by law. Later that year, the automaker admitted that it had lied about carbon dioxide emissions in millions of cars worldwide.
The scandal forced the ouster of several top executives, including its chairman, and has cost the automaker more than $30 billion so far.
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The PC App is in a very early beta stage. Not all features are available yet and there may be bugs. More features and improvements are in the works and should be rolling out shortly.
Updates, suggestions, thoughts, rumors, myths, etc.
This forum is intended to allow you to connect to others in the Active911 community who may have experience with a similar system and maybe able to shed some light on how to best configure yours for the best results.


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Q: Strange UI behaviour when app is opened with a URL Scheme The easiest way for me to explain this is to upload a test app, so I've stripped out everything that is unecessary and uploaded a bare bones project to SendSpace.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/z86g0z
I'm writing an app that will receive custom URL's from Mobile safari like "plasma://hello-world". These are then processed by my app and it displays a notification on screen.
In the test app the main class is a singleton and there is a "test" button this demonstrates what should happen when you open it via a URL. You get the custom link shown in a label on the screen and a green notification label at the top which then fades away. During this process the Xcode console shows this .....
2012-09-05 21:53:29.719 PlasmaLinker[2866:f803] Link: plasma:Test+Link
2012-09-05 21:53:29.778 PlasmaLinker[2866:f803] Show Alert: Success - Link Received
2012-09-05 21:53:35.779 PlasmaLinker[2866:f803] Remove Alert

All works fine.
Now I launch it from Mobile Safari by entering "plasma://hello-world" I hit enter and Safari switches to my app, the console shows EXACTLY the same output (with what ever URL you launch it with), however I get nothing in the UI at all. The link isn't placed in the text box, the notification is never shown.
What am I doing wrong? After its been launched with the URL you can again click the test button and see the UI elements change as desired. Its driving me nuts but I don't know enough to be able to get it to work when launched by a URL. Can someone please shed some light on this?
Kind Regards
Plasma

A: Your singleton method that gets the PlasmaLinker_ViewController is returning a different instance to the one that is created by the storyboard and added to the main window.
One example that works, (in your app delegate)
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url {

    NSString *link = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",url];
    vc = (PlasmaLinker_ViewController*) self.window.rootViewController;
    [vc processLink:link];

    return YES;

}

Another option is to override the view controller's -(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder and set your shared instance to self in that method.
+ (PlasmaLinker_ViewController *) sharedInstance
{
    return _sharedInstance;
}

-(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder {

    NSLog(@"In initWithCoder!");
    if (!_sharedInstance) {
        if (self = [super initWithCoder:decoder]) {
            _sharedInstance = self;
        }
    }
    return _sharedInstance;
}

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Yes, finally finished studying. Diploma in your pocket, already working for a while and now looking for your own owner-occupied home. Only, you have a student debt and the question is whether a student debt and mortgage can go through one door. Or you are currently studying and ask yourself whether it is useful to borrow more via the DUO to take out a mortgage later with the study debt, to pay the additional costs. Read all about a study debt and mortgage here.
Does the student debt affect mortgage?
Fortunately, it is a misunderstanding that no mortgage can be taken out with a study debt. In the past there was virtually no examination of the student loan for the mortgage. The mortgage lenders assumed that you would get a job with HBO diploma and the income would increase over the years. The credit crisis has thrown a spanner in dealing with the student debt and mortgage.
The student debt currently has a (limited) influence on the maximum mortgage amount . To calculate the maximum mortgage, the mortgage advisor (and later the bank for the acceptance) will review your income, the house value of your dream home, any donations and loans.
An independent mortgage advisor can calculate for you personally how much impact your student debt has on the maximum mortgage amount.
The bank looks at the loans you have run. They do this by checking the BKR your registration . However, the DUO study debt is not registered in this. You think fine, the study debt does not affect the mortgage anyway. The mortgage advisor will ask you about all financial obligations. It is wise to mention the study debt yourself. For example, the consultant can take this into account and see whether you can pay the mortgage monthly payments. It would be annoying if you bought a property that you actually can not afford and therefore get into financial trouble.
Do you take out a mortgage with a National Mortgage Guarantee , and did you conceal your student loan for the mortgage application upon closing? Your right to remission of the residual debt will then lapse if you are forced to sell the property with residual debt. Honesty also lasts when applying for a mortgage the longest.
The percentage by which the monthly payment of the loan is calculated is lower for a student debt than for a regular loan.
Do you have a student loan from the old loan system, ie before 1 July 2015? Then they assume that you pay back 0.75% of the total debt to DUO each month.
Example: The average student debt is € 15,000. Then the monthly payment that is taken into account is € 112.50 (0.75% of € 15,000). With this you can get around € 21,000 less for the mortgage. Based on your income is determined that you can get € 700, – per month mortgage, then the maximum mortgage amount € 587.50 per month (€ 700 – € 112.50 = € 587.50).
In the new loan system, no basic grant is provided to students. This results in higher student debts. In consultation with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the banks, it was decided to charge the student debt less heavily as a burden than before. Do you have a student loan from the loan system from 1 July 2015? This study debt can be repaid in 30 years and is included as a monthly expense for 0.45%.
Example: For the new loan system, the average student debt is expected to be € 20,000. The monthly charge is € 90, – (0.45% of € 20,000). As a result, you can get around € 17,000 less in mortgage than if you did not have a student debt. Based on your income is determined that you can get € 700, – per month mortgage, then the maximum mortgage amount € 610 per month (€ 700 – € 90 = € 610).
Use study debt to get a mortgage?
There are students who think about the future during the study and because of the lower interest rates for a student loan, borrow more money than necessary for the study. They are thinking of using part of the mortgage debt, because less and less extra can be borrowed and the additional costs have to be paid more and more from their own pocket. NIBUD has calculated that more than 30% of the students borrow more than they need and save 10% to be able to buy a home after their studies. This mortgage loan debt is smart because of low interest rates, but is that?
Saving money yourself with the help of a part-time job in the future, the extra costs of buying a home is smart. Extra borrowing is less convenient, because as you have read before, this affects the amount of the maximum mortgage. The more (study) debt there is, the less there can be borrowed. Therefore, try to pay the study and the costs as much as possible with a job. Who knows, you can continue to work there after the study.
Your parents, or perhaps your grandfather or grandmother, may decide to lend you a hand by donating an amount to you so that you can, for example, pay off your student debt. Did you pay off a part of the student debt? Then the bank still assumes the original amount of the debt. Imagine you have a student loan of € 15,000 and you have already paid off € 10,000. The bank will still start from € 15,000 instead of the remaining € 5,000. Unless you have repaid extra in the interim. Then the bank can proceed to a re-calculation of the loan charges.
Do your parents help to pay off the last € 5,000? The maximum mortgage is now no longer hindered by the student debt.
Being a starter can sometimes be difficult to obtain a mortgage, also due to often a low income at the beginning of your career. Fortunately, you can be helped in various ways, to get a mortgage despite the student debt. Look for that at starters mortgage .


As the Eagles start to fill out their front office and coaching staff for the 2019 season, a nugget of news was reported yesterday that suggests a former employee returning to the team.
Joe Pannunzio was the Director of Personnel Operations for the Eagles in 2015 and 2016 before heading back to the University of Alabama to be their running backs coach.
If Pannunzio does indeed return, that will be the fifth hire for the Eagles in the past month. Since their season ended, the Eagles have added Roy Istvan as their assistant OL coach, Matt Burke to an advisory role for the defense, G.J. Kinne as an offensive assistant, and Carson Walch as the new wide receivers coach.


9.2. Configure SOAP and logical handlers on the client side.
The declarative configuration works for proxy clients only and works in the same way as for the endpoint example. That is, you simply add an annotation to the client-side generated SEI, which enables the handlers for all proxies and dispatch clients that are generated by using any ports on the SEI.
The highlighted code shows the relevant handler configuration code. The application creates a new anonymous inner HandlerResolver that returns a singleton list that contains an instance of the HelloMessengerProtocolHandler.
An advantage of the programmatic approach is that you are not required to change generated code.
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Car crash victim 'lucky to be alive'
KENYA DAVIDS
The car being removed after it had rolled down a cliff.
A Hout Bay woman says she is lucky to be alive after her car shot off the cliff-edge of Victoria Road and rolled down onto the rocks below.
Giorgie Mittön was on her way to work in the CBD last Wednesday, at about 7.20am, when, she said, the car behind her drove her off the road.
"I noticed the driver behind me was quite a distance away. When I looked in my rear-view mirror, I saw the car coming towards me fast, trying to catch up and the driver appeared to be looking down," said Ms Mittön.
Realising that the car wouldn't have time to slow down, she tried to move to the left to give the car room to stop, but it was too late.
"When I saw the rocks below in my windscreen as I started to roll, I closed my eyes, held the steering wheel tightly, thinking, 'this is it, Giorg'," she told Sentinel News.
Once the car stopped rolling, Ms Mittön took off her seat belt and started making her way up the rocks, fearing the car could catch alight or explode.
"I was extremely lucky, not only to walk away with moderate injuries but also that it is a populated area in the mornings,
with Mark's coffee being a morning ritual for many," said Ms Mittön.
"This meant there were a large number of people on the scene to assist, some drivers who stopped, and others who were already there."
Charl Witte and Ted Shapley were two of the men who helped Ms Mittön collect her valuables from her car, walked her to the road and helped to stabilise her while waiting for paramedics.
"Another anonymous woman also helped in keeping in contact with my mother, Yoli, who I had called off someone's phone and was on the way.
"These three were like real-life angels, and I am eternally grateful for such kindness, generosity of spirit and gentle assistance," said Ms Mittön.
She only sustained moderate injuries, including whiplash and a haematoma to the right side of her skull.
She is wearing a neck brace and being treated by a physiotherapist.
Ms Mittön believes it was her seat belt that saved her life and she urges all drivers to remain alert, awake and drive carefully because no rush is worth the risk.
"This experience was not only emotionally and physically damaging, but now also created unnecessary financial pressure too. A few moments of negligence, wavered attention or unexpected happenings can cause irrevocable loss and damage in many people's lives."
Despite the ordeal, Ms Mittön is seeking trauma counselling so she can face it head on and remain positive.
"The experience as a whole has also been such a great reflection on humanity and how kind people are. As cliché as it sounds, it makes you appreciate the small things, and observe life with wider eyes," she said.
In April last year, a biker lost his life, following a crash between him and two other motor vehicles on Victoria Road.
Camps Bay police spokesman, Captain Keith Chandler said the other driver was not charged but he had apologised to Ms Mittön.
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In the second of two articles, Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer chemistry and physics experiments to harness the Sun's energy and measure carbon dioxide levels.
Discussions of climate change in the science classroom can be very wide-ranging, but different sources of energy and their consequences will probably have a role. The topics raised are likely to include different fuels that can be used, how effective they are and how they are produced; alternatives to combustion; solar energy; and the importance of carbon dioxide in global warming. Below, we suggest two laboratory activities to support physics and chemistry lessons on climate change. Three activities relating to fuels were published in Shallcross et al (2009).
The Sun, of course, is the source of most used energy on Earth, besides geothermal and nuclear energy – including that released from fossil fuels or modern 'green' fuels. But sunlight can also be used directly as a source of energy, as can be demonstrated in the classroom using Grätzel cells, also called 'nanocrystalline dye solar cells' or 'organic solar cells'. Named after their inventor, the Swiss engineer Michael Grätzel, Grätzel cells convert sunlight directly into electricity by artificial photosynthesis using natural dyes found, for example, in cherries, blackberries, raspberries and blackcurrants. These purple-red dyes, known as anthocyaninsw1, are very easy for school students to extract from fruits and leaves by simply boiling them in a small volume of water and filtering.
These cells are very promising because they are made of low-cost materials and do not need elaborate apparatus to manufacture. Although their conversion efficiency is less than that of the best thin-film cells, their price/performance ratio (kWh/M2/annum) is high enough to allow them to compete with electricity generation from fossil fuels. Commercial applications, which were held up due to chemical stability problems, are now forecast in the European Union Photovoltaic Roadmapw2 to be a potentially significant contributor to renewable electricity generation by 2020.
Grätzel cells separate the two functions provided by silicon in a traditional cell design: normally, the silicon acts as the source of photoelectrons, as well as providing the electric field to separate the charges and create a current. In the Grätzel cell, the bulk of the semiconductor is used solely for charge transport, while the photoelectrons are provided from a separate photosensitive dye (the anthocyanin). Charge separation occurs at the surfaces between the dye, semiconductor and electrolyte.
The dye molecules are quite small (at the nanometre scale), so to capture a reasonable amount of the incoming light, the layer of dye molecules needs to be fairly thick – much thicker than the molecules themselves. To address this problem, a nanomaterial is used as a scaffold to hold large numbers of the dye molecules in a 3D matrix, increasing the number of molecules for any given surface area of the cell. In existing designs, this scaffolding is provided by the semiconductor material (titanium oxide), which serves double duty.
Take two glass plates, each about the size of a microscope slide, one side of which has been treated with indium tin oxide to render it electroconductible.
One plate needs to have titanium dioxide baked onto its uncoated side. The titanium dioxide forms a highly porous structure with a very high surface area, to which the dye can bind. A word of caution: it is very easy to scratch the titanium dioxide powder off the glass plate, and whilst you can purchase titanium dioxide paste, it is inconvenient to bake the plates for a considerable time with a new coating in a furnace. Storage is therefore a consideration. The easiest solution is to purchase the materials ready-made.
Cover the other plate with a layer of pencil graphite by simply rubbing a pencil over the uncoated surface of the glass.
Fill a Petri dish with anthocyanin dye. Soak the photosensitive anthocyanin dye onto the titanium dioxide by placing the corresponding plate in the Petri dish, then dry with a hair drier. The dye is left covalently bonded to the surface of the titanium dioxide. After use, it is easy to remove the old anthocyanin pigments using ethanol or propanone (acetone).
At the bottom will be the graphite plate, graphite side up, serving as a cathode.
Use a solution of iodine dissolved in potassium iodide as an electrolyte and squirt between the plates.
On top will be the dye-coated titanium dioxide plate, indium tin oxide side up. The indium tin oxide will serve as transparent anode.
Use a paper clip to keep the plates together.
Use two crocodile clips to clip the overlapping pieces of glass (top and bottom, see image) of the Grätzel cell and connect with two electrical leads to a multimeter to take readings.
Shine light onto the cell. If investigating this apparatus in northern Europe during the winter months, a microscope lamp or a desk lamp will be useful to provide the light.
Use a light meter to determine the light intensity falling on the Grätzel cells.
A close-up diagram of the Grätzel cell.
For amusement, the Grätzel cells can be used to power different mechanisms. For example, you can replace the batteries in a calculator with leads that allow several small Grätzel cells in series to power it. Alternatively, you can also power the music circuits from birthday greetings cards or small motors with the cells.
Several cells in series or in parallel.
Details on the chemistry behind these cells can be found in an online articlew4.
CO2 is the most commonly known greenhouse gas and one of the major concerns in discussions of climate change. One might well ask how levels of CO2 are measured in air samples, particularly as their concentrations are so low: the answer is infra-red spectroscopy. Carbon dioxide molecules absorb specific frequencies of infra-red radiation, which affect the covalent bonds between the carbon and oxygen atoms, depending on the energy. Low energies cause a bond-bending motion, and high energies cause bond stretching. The frequencies at which this occurs are within the infra-red part of the electromagnetic spectrum (between 4000 and 650 wavenumbers). A wavenumber is the reciprocal of wavelength and is a unit commonly used in infra-red spectroscopy. This effect can be used to determine the CO2 concentration as follows.
There are two main types of carbon dioxide sensor (see Harrison et al, 2006). The more expensive research sensors pump air through the sensor, whereas the cheaper devices rely on the diffusion of air. Air passes into an absorption cell, which is effectively a small darkened cylinder within the sensor.
I0 is not measured for each reading, but will be measured frequently to check that there are no appreciable fluctuations in the instrument's infra-red light intensity.
Students who have used such sensors, on loan from the University of Bristol, have been surprised that the measured CO2 level inside an empty classroom is much greater than that outside, well above 0.037% (0.037/100 x 1 x 106 = 370 ppm) reported for the CO2 atmospheric concentration in some textbooks. New school buildings in the UK appear to have windows that are not designed to be opened, so the exhaled CO2 accumulates!
The CO2 sensors that we use with students are tuned to the CO2 ?3 asymmetric bond stretch at 2349 wavenumbers (Harrison et al, 2006). An asymmetric stretch is where the double bonds between carbon and oxygen (C=O) absorb energy, and one of the two bonds lengthens while the other one contracts (see diagram). For CO2 there can only be one asymmetric stretch. This particular bond stretch is important because carbon dioxide is the only molecule present in high quantities in the atmosphere to absorb at 2349 wavenumbers. Therefore, only absorption by CO2 can cause a change in infra-red light intensity at this wavelength.
A diagram of an absorption cell from a CO2 sensor.
Bristol ChemLabS would be interested to hear from schools across Europe that would like to borrow one of these easy-to-use meters for research into the carbon dioxide concentration of air samples. Although the instruments are commercially available, they are quite expensive and thus not commonly available in schools or colleges.
Shallcross D, Harrison T (2008a) Climate change modelling in the classroom. Science in School 9: 28-33.
Shallcross D, Harrison T (2008b) Practical demonstrations to augment climate change lessons. Science in School 10: 46-50.
Dudley Shallcross is a professor in atmospheric chemistry, Tim Harrison is a school teacher fellow, and Linda Sellou and Steve Henshaw are both postdoctoral teaching assistants at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK. The school teacher fellowship is a position for a secondary-school teacher that was created to bridge the gap between secondary schools and universities, and to use the resources of the School of Chemistry to promote chemistry regionally, nationally and internationally. For more information about modelling climate change or about the post of school teacher fellow, please contact Dudley Shallcross (d.e.shallcross@bristol.ac.uk) or Tim Harrison (t.g.harrison@bristol.ac.uk).
The 'Solar Spark' website, run by the SUPERGEN Excitonic Solar Cells Consortium, a group of research scientists from eight UK universities working together to do scientific research on excitonic solar cells, offers a teaching activity to make a solar cell in a drinking straw out of cheap and readily accessible materials. The mechanism is similar to that used in a dye-sensitised solar cell (see the Grätzel cell, above), but uses different electrolyte and electrode materials to demonstrate the concept.
The article is a good complement to the previous trilogy of climate change articles by the same authors, on modelling climate (Shallcross et al, 2008a) and classroom experiments (Shallcross et al, 2008b, 2009). This time, the authors highlight the technological side of the climate change issue. They propose a hands-on activity as a possible alternative to conventional solar cells and an investigation of the CO2 content in different environments using professional equipment that they offer to lend to schools.
I recommend this set of articles to secondary-school science teachers looking for a full set of didactical materials to address the complex topic of climate change, global warming and energy resources. The style is plain enough for non-native English speakers, and the web references allow further learning on the subject. The article is also a valuable starting point for planning a stimulating interdisciplinary science curriculum.
Which of the following statements about anthocyanins is true?
Which of the following statements about titanium dioxide is false?


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World War Three Isn't Coming. We've Been Living It All Our Lives.
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As Julian Assange awaits the final appeal of his looming extradition to the United States while languishing behind bars in London's notorious Belmarsh Prison, leading left luminaries and free press advocates gathered in Washington, D.C. on Friday for the fourth sitting of the Belmarsh Tribunal, where they called on U.S. President Joe Biden to drop … Continue reading "'Freedom for Assange and Journalism Are at Stake': Belmarsh Tribunal Comes to DC"
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On February 19, Washington, DC, will witness a protest against the war in Ukraine that marks a sharp departure from past demonstrations. The lead demand is simple and direct, "Not One More Penny for war in Ukraine." It is a demand that emphasizes what we in the US can do to end the war, not … Continue reading "Right and Left To Join in D.C. Protest: 'Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine'"
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Turkey has dismissed a legal attaché at its embassy in London who allegedly sent an unauthorized document to a British court hearing a case on the requested extradition of businessman Akın İpek, who is affiliated with Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Islamic cleric that Ankara accuses of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016.
The Turkish government requested the extradition of İpek, accusing him of using the ByLock smartphone application and providing financial aid to the Gülen movement, which denies any involvement in the failed coup.
The Justice Ministry claimed that the attaché, Abdullah Murat has submitted the note without approval from Ankara and launched an investigation into him. It further argued that the note prepared by the legal advisor was not in line with decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Turkey.
Last week the London court denied Turkey's extradition request for İpek, who has openly supported the movement, citing the risk of ill-treatment in Turkey's prisons.


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FIRE > Newsdesk > FIRE Releases Second Edition of 'Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies'
FIRE Releases Second Edition of 'Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies'
by Azhar Majeed
I'm pleased to announce that today, FIRE is releasing a revised and updated second edition of our handbook for college administrators, Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies. First issued in 2009, our Common Mistakes guide takes a look at the most consistent and problematic speech restrictions found in university policies and provides FIRE's recommendations as to how those mistakes can be corrected to protect student and faculty expressive rights.
New for the second edition, our handbook goes through an in-depth review of campus sexual harassment and discriminatory harassment policies, which often contain broad and vague language encompassing much speech protected by the First Amendment. In light of the pressure placed on universities in recent years by the federal government to promulgate such policies, FIRE is very concerned that students' and professors' freedom of speech is being shortchanged in the process. Therefore, we hope that our revised Common Mistakes guide will help erase the confusion that exists in this arena and bring clarity to university policymakers.
Similarly, our handbook addresses campus expressive activity policies that regulate demonstrations, protests, distribution of literature, and similar activities. As the updated Common Mistakes guide discusses in great detail, policies that misapply the "time, place, and manner" doctrine and cabin student expression to tiny and remote "free speech zones" do a great disservice to the free flow of ideas on campus and flout well-established law with respect to public colleges and universities.
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We hope that administrators at colleges and universities throughout the country—both public and private—will take advantage of this timely resource and put it to good use in reforming their institution's speech-related policies. FIRE is always on standby to assist an institution with improving its speech code rating, and we have already worked with five schools this year to attain our highest, "green light" rating. We hope for many more success stories in the months and years to come!
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There Could Be Another Harry Potter Movie After All
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Remember that time J.K. Rowling said Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is only a play and will never be a film? Well, it now turns out that may not be true.
To the delight of muggles everywhere, Warner Bros. has reportedly filed for a Class 9 trademark for the Cursed Child.
A Class 9 specifically includes pursuing 'motion picture films featuring comedy, drama, action, adventure and/or animation, and motion picture films for broadcast on television featuring comedy, drama, action, adventure and/or animation', Mic reports.
So, basically, there may just be a good chance the play will turn into a film.
Or there may be absolutely nothing in this at all as J.K. Rowling has already stated that the play is not going to be a movie:
You heard wrong, I'm afraid. #CursedChild is a play. #FantasticBeasts will be 3 movies, though! https://t.co/7tvw4rolcR
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 29, 2016
But she could have changed her mind since.
It's important to note, however, that the trademark also includes merchandising material, so it could just be that they want to sell Harry Potter-themed items.
But considering Hollywood's inclination to continue money-making franchises like Harry Potter spinoff trilogy Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Cursed Child turning into a film (or a few) wouldn't exactly be a surprise.
And Danielle Radcliffe hasn't ruled out taking up the role of Potter again. Not to mention, his age wouldn't make the role reprise too much of a stretch for the Cursed Child's narrative, which sees Harry as an adult.
With the play still in its preview performances until the end of the month, it's yet to become a global phenomenon, so we may be getting ahead of ourselves. But then again, it's Harry Potter isn't it? It's already a global phenomenon despite how long the play has or hasn't been on.
So, while there's not been an official announcement, I'm sure many muggles out there would agree that the world would welcome a Cursed Child film. You can't have too much of a good thing.


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Барбадос  — колишня конституційна монархія і королівство Співдружності, королева Єлизавета II була главою держави, з офіційним титулом «Королева Барбадосу». Була представлена генерал-губернатором.

У вересні 2020 року уряд Барбадосу оголосив, що планує усунути королеву з посади глави держави до кінця листопада 2021 року. Монархія Барбадосу скасована 30 листопада 2021 року, коли Барбадос став республікою у складі Співдружності з президентом Барбадосу на чолі.

Конституційна роль
Конституція Барбадосу 1966 року надала країні парламентську систему правління, подібну до інших держав Співдружності, де роль монарха й генерал-губернатора була як юридичною, так і практичною, але не політичною. Корона вважалася корпорацією, у якій декілька частин поділяли владу цілого, суверен перебував у центрі конституційної конструкції, що означає, що всі повноваження держави конституційно передавали монарху Барбадосу. Конституція вимагала, щоб більшість обов'язків королеви виконував генерал-губернатор, якого призначав монарх за порадою прем'єр-міністра Барбадосу.

Усі державні установи діяли під владою суверена; величезні повноваження, що належать Барбадоській короні, були відомі як Королівська прерогатива. Для здійснення королівської прерогативи не було потрібно схвалення парламенту; ба більше, згода Корони була необхідною, перш ніж будь-яка з палат парламенту могла навіть обговорити законопроєкт, що зачіпає прерогативи чи інтереси суверена.

Таким чином, уряд Барбадосу також офіційно називався урядом Її Величності. Крім того, конституція вказувала, що будь-яка зміна позиції монарха або представника монарха на Барбадосі вимагає згоди двох третин усіх членів кожної палати парламенту.

Спадкування престолу
Спадкування престолу здійснювалося відповідно до Акта про престолонаслідування 1701 року зі змінами від 2011 року. Порядок престолонаслідування визначався за принципом абсолютної прімогенітури (відомої також як шведська система престолонаслідування), тобто престол передається по низхідній лінії незалежно від статі. Крім того, спадкоємець до моменту вступу на престол повинен був бути протестантом і складатися в євхаристійному спілкуванні з англіканської церквою, але міг вступати в шлюб із католиком.

Спадкоємцем престолу Королівства був Чарльз, принц Уельський, спадкоємцем другої черги — його старший син принц Вільям, спадкоємцем третьої черги — старша дитина принца Вільяма принц Джордж Кембриджський.

Скасування монархії
30 листопада 2021 року Барбадоську монархію скасували. Дама Сандра Мейсон склала присягу як перша президент новоствореної Барбадоської республіки. У посланні до Мейсон королева надіслала привітання та побажала барбадосцям щастя, миру та процвітання в майбутньому. За запрошенням прем'єр-міністра Мії Моттлі, принц Уельський, як майбутній глава Співдружності, відвідав заходи та святкування Дня Республіки в Бріджтауні. Це був перший раз, коли член королівської сім'ї був присутній на переході королівства до республіки. Принца нагородили орденом Свободи Барбадосу, він узяв участь у громадських заходах.

Королівський прапор

Єлизавета II мала особистий барбадоський штандарт, виконуючи обов'язки королеви Барбадосу. Вперше його використали, коли королева відвідала Барбадос 1975 року. Еталон складався з жовтого поля з фіговим деревом, давнім символом острова Барбадос, і національної квітки у кожному з верхніх кутів. Синій диск із літерою «Е», увінчаний гірляндою із золотих троянд, був на прапорі в центрі дерева.

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On this special "in person" edition of the Critical Path, Horace and Anders discuss Apple's latest product offerings, the iPhone SE and the new 9.7 inch iPad Pro 9.7, and take listener questions via Twitter.
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INDYCAR TO TEST COCKPIT WINDSCREEN AT PHOENIX DURING PRESEASON TESTING BY: BRUCE MARTIN
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Jeff Horton, IndyCar director of engineering/safety and Dr. Terry Trammell, IndyCar's safety consultant, install a windscreen on the 2018 Indy car at Chip Ganassi Racing.
Four-time champion Scott Dixon will turn laps at ISM with the protective shield
After two years of development on the computer, IndyCar is ready to put a windscreen on an actual race car.
Series officials will test its latest safety enhancement on Feb. 8 as a windscreen will be placed on a Dallara chassis and turn laps at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The test will be held in conjunction with the Verizon IndyCar Series preseason open test. It will be put on a Chip Ganassi Racing Honda driven by four-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion and 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner Scott Dixon.
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The prototype windscreen has been tested in a scale-model wind tunnel and racing simulator at Dallara, IndyCar's chassis producer.
Harding Racing's Gabby Chaves provided driver feedback after testing in the Dallara driving simulator last year. The on-track test at ISM Raceway is the next step in its evolution, though Frye said there is no timetable for implementation in Verizon IndyCar Series competition.
"This has been a long process, one that's been very methodical and purposeful," IndyCar president of competition and operations Jay Frye said of the windscreen project. "We have been striving to create a safety piece that aesthetically looks good and works in all conditions, and this is a test of those things. Any piece we put on an Indy car must work for multiple types of venues and different lighting conditions. It has to be versatile.
"We've tested this at Dallara's simulator, but this will be the first time it has been on a car at speed. So, this is just the next step in the process."
The windscreen is not an enclosed canopy and is similar to windscreens that were used on Indy cars from the 1960s through the 1990s. The material, however, has never been used on an Indy car before.
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What's the deal with Australia's bushfires?
Understanding this tragic natural disaster and its impacts
Geneviève Nolet
Bushfires aren't uncommon in Australia—in fact, the country experiences a natural "fire season" every year during the Australian summer. However, the past few months have been much worse than normal, as the intense fires have burned millions of hectares of land and destroyed thousands of homes.
Scientists and experts point to the climate crisis as a contributing factor to the disaster.
Increasing carbon dioxide levels are warming the planet through a process known as the greenhouse effect. As a result, Australia has been getting alarmingly hotter and drier over the past few decades. This has led to record-breaking temperatures and months of droughts—even before the beginning of fire season.
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Many have criticized Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's decision to take a family vacation to Hawaii in the midst of the national emergency. The political figure is also receiving backlash for failing to take adequate measures against the broader climate crisis.
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Many organizations are actively raising funds for the cause. Donations are used to buy food and clothes for those affected, fund firefighting efforts and care for rescued animals. Find out how to help and where to donate, if you have any money to spare.
Most importantly, if you want to ensure these kinds of natural disasters stop getting worse each year, educate yourself on our climate crisis. Learn how you can pressure our local and federal officials to make positive changes meant to heal our dying planet, so people don't have to lose their homes—or even die—because of the worsening climate.
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This glass water tool attachment fits snugly into the whip included with your ViVape Vaporizer. Push the adapter into the end of your whip and any 14mm water tool can be attached, allowing you to to cool and moisten the vapor from your ViVape. This whip adapters also compatible with the included whips in most other desktop vaporizers.


Soon to be in Hollywood.
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It's true i'ma become a famous rapper Dawg.
But first I'ma need a rapping name.
Raze wrote: This is a LIE!
Ok dont have to belive me brah.
You're never going to be famous saying brah if that's what you're thinking.
Plus if you becoming famous I demand proof.
Raze wrote: You're never going to be famous saying brah if that's what you're thinking.
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