Missing -- Pet devil bat, 102 years old, around 250 pounds, red scales, bloodstained razor sharp teeth, mean as hell, goes by the name of Fluffy. Call Bill at 666-1313 with info.
For Sale -- Glove with knives as fingernails. Used, but only in a few dreams. Needs sharpening. Very effective, especially on reckless teens with wild imaginations. Best offer. Will throw in red and green striped sweater if the offer's right. Place your bids at RealNightmares.mon.
Halloween Tree Sprouts Odd Pumpkin -- A typical Halloween tree is hung with gourds of all shapes and sizes, each with a face burned through it. Hundreds of pumpkins, hundreds of grins, hundreds of flickering lights behind those grins. One such pumpkin hanging from one such tree in Transyl-vein-ia Pines grew large and round on a giant, overhanging branch, and the face that burned through the shell came in the form of a hashtag and several letters: #ThisHalloween'sGonnaBeSoLit.
Looking for Spook to Haunt House with -- Lonely, trapped in house on Stormy Night Place with plenty of unsuspecting trespassers on nightly basis. Looking for a fellow specter who also likes to moan, wander halls, play dusty old pipe organ, move candelabras and make scary noises with chains. Email Ms.LonelyButNoHeart@yaBOO.mon.
Got Web? -- Looking for more spider-webbing in your home? House deteriorator with entire life experience (three years) spinning web in structures to make rooms look more "not lived in." Can create big expanses across large staircases in open foyers, able to catch small flying insects and people, too. Will deteriorate houses in no time for fraction of cost you'd pay a big-time Darwin's bark spider. Call Charlotte at 666-WEBB.
Electricity Fun Fact -- The average Transyl-vein-ia Hills citizen uses just 6,000,000,000 joules of energy (approximately six bolts of lightning) every stormy night for creature creations. How much do you use?
Looking for Spook with House -- Tired of bouncing around. Wanted: Mature ghost who enjoys spooking, wandering halls, playing a dusty old organ, moving candelabras and making scary noises with chains. Hoping to settle down. Candidates must already have house you're forced to haunt for eternity. Summons me from Hell by ringing a bell.
Werewolf Walker for Hire -- Born and raised in Transyl-vein-ia Hills, now a student at Blue Moon HS in Werewolftown. Have plenty of experience with lycanthropes. It's my major, too, and I'm half lyc. Looking for part-time work. Will walk your werewolves for nearly nothing. Just throw me a bone. Email WolfWalker@BlueMoonHS.mon.
Crow Fun Fact -- A flock of crows is known as a murder. Can someone say crow party?
Please Fund Me -- Worried about blood misters coming to town and depleting precious blood resources? Afraid portals between human world and monster world will close on Halloween, leaving you or hated ones in the human world? I'm an up-and-coming mad scientist with big, crazy ideas. Send me the money to rent space in the Mad Science District and get equipment of my own. Not one of those scientists with only goals to take over the world. Want to save it first. Donate to my page at Wilma.ThrowMeTheMoney.mon.
Saliva Fun Fact -- Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water, while monster saliva boils humans.
Random Fun Fact -- Fun facts are fun.
TRANSYL-VEIN-IA HILLS -- President Count Dracula has been making his way through all of Transyl-vein-ia, passing ordinances requiring establishments with patios or outdoor areas to install blood misters. Transyl-vein-ia Hills is the next district in line to get the law, following Downtown Transyl-vein-ia and the Mad Science District.
According to a poll, the residents here fully support the president.
When asked if non-vampire residents feel the same way, Pyre said they do because even non-vampires in the area are under some vampire's spell, so they have to take a vampire's side.
Little do those like Pyre know, the blood misters law is really a carry-over piece of legislation from the Electrified Creature's administration, and not the work of President Dracula.
TRANSYL-VEIN-IA HILLS -- Following news of a mad scientist's prediction that portals between the human world and the monster world will close on Halloween night, leaving monsters stranded there and unable to return to the monster world, No-Care Community Hospital no-caregivers began dumping patients into portals and leaving them in the human world, and they have plans to leave dozens more, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.
Hospital officials claim they're doing what their contract doesn't say.
Wory said she's not stressed about the lawsuit because she doesn't get worked up about anything. She thinks the claims that portals will close on Halloween is nothing to get uptight about, anyway.
As for the portals closing on Halloween night and never opening again, The Frantic Scientist, who built a time machine and traveled into the future to see this fate, said he's been hard at work to uncover the cause.
The lawsuit against No-Care Community Hospital will go before a crooked judge at the Unjust Courthouse next week. Wory said that no matter what, she and her fellow no-care providers would no doubt be no-shows, and she doesn't care.
TRANSYL-VEIN-IA HILLS -- A common household spider in the suburbs of Transyl-vein-ia Hills enjoyed a beat-up teal green sport utility vehicle over the weekend.
The eight-legged freak was the first customer in a line of many to try out the new eatery on Insect Centre Drive called The Junkyard, which offers up everything from tasty motorcycles and vans to mouthwatering sedans and trucks. Already, The Junkyard is gaining a reputation as the best bite in town for giant insects looking for a hearty breakfast, lunch or dinner.
To see the menu, with fresh catches from Hell's Highway every day, check the Travel Tragedies section of the newspaper for newly crashed vehicles to come.
MAD SCIENCE DISTRICT -- The rooms in the Two-Headed Lion's Head Inn are meant for mad scientists to conduct work of terror. According to sources, however, some geniuses are using the spaces for good.
As with almost anything that has bad intentions, there will always be monsters out there taking advantage of these tools of evil and using them for rightdoing.
Hell said one of his guests actually offered an employee at the inn a seat in his chamber for dinner because, as he claimed, he was lonely.
But do-gooders, such as the one mentioned above, who offered a seat in his chamber to an inn employee for dinner, might just have perfectly bad intentions. One source that wishes to remain anonymous brought up the story of Dr. Frankenstein.
MAD SCIENCE DISTRICT -- Critics of the Robot Lounge and Dance Club on Doom Drive called the dance moves at the once hot spot tired and predictable, but with new charging stations and update jacks right in the walls and at the tables, there's been an unsuspected robot uprising there.
Even terminator machines have been going.
The T-666 was caught doing some dope hand hops, flares, head spins and even the jam boogie on the dance floor.
According to Robot Lounge officials, robot patrons will also be able to get firmware updates and USB-imported snacks at the bar. You can even get service packs, hot fixes and other goodies with enhanced features, intelligence and new sub-routines, which will be available in the restrooms where you can dump old files in the trash (or recycle bins, depending on your O.S.).
And while robots are thrilled to have a great place to go and play, hackers are already trying to create viruses to infiltrate the lounge's network.
MAD SCIENCE DISTRICT -- New mandatory blood misters at the Evil-More Shopping Mart on Doom Drive have damaged at least 10 pallets of human eyeballs that were put outside the store to be sold starting Monday.
The outdoor display of merchandise was placed there as a promotion for mad scientists who pass by on their way to the Mad Science Convention down the street. The convention, which began on Monday and goes through Friday night, has brought in mad scientists from all over the world.
Last week, Count Dracula took the presidential office of Transyl-vein-ia by storm, and his first piece of legislation was an order to install blood misters on patios and in other outdoor areas at Downtown Transyl-vein-ia establishments. The project was met with criticism, as the blood mist immediately began making a bloody mess, according to some.
The President hasn't budged on his position. He's extended the legislation to include the required installation of blood misters in the Mad Science District. Evil-More Shopping Mart was one of the first places to get the misters and already, the mad scientist supply shop is having trouble.
Upon examination of the returned merchandise, Murchent and his RTV clerk determined that the blood mist in the air from the blood misters out in front of the store damaged the eyesight in the eyeballs.
Murchent said his RTV clerk had to send over 300 eyeballs back to the vendor. But they couldn't even get credit. The vendor told them all sales were final and returned the eyeballs to the store.
Even with the loss, President Count Dracula won't allow Evil-More to shut off their blood misters. The blood must go on, he told them.
So, beginning today, Evil-More Shopping Mart invites one and all to come see the giant sale on aisle 13: Eyeballs for half the price!
MAD SCIENCE DISTRICT -- Tomorrow marks the start of the Annual Mad Science Convention at the Mad Science Convention Center, which will go through Fri., Aug. 18. Mad scientists from all over the globe will be there to show off their plans to take over the world.
Some will show off their proposals using crude models, some will use the actual machinery to carry out their plots and others will explain their ideas by way of elaborate drawings. But all of these maniacs are off their rockers.
"I'll be executing a trial run of my brilliant scheme using hand puppets," said the Master of Puppets, a mad scientist who says he and his puppets will one day be in charge. The puppets on his hands went on to say something else, but the high pitch voices were too difficult to make out.
Those who want to catch all the action should arrive at least an hour before the doors open. According to the posters spread around town and several newspaper and magazine ads that were published over the weekend, the convention starts at midnight tonight (technically tomorrow). But the doors won't open till 1 a.m.


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Letter: A great job at ski club
I read the article about Mark Cole's resignation ("Cole steps down from Aspen Valley Ski/Snowboard Club," The Aspen Times, Feb. 28) and felt compelled to write a letter.
I had the pleasure of working with Mark almost his entire career at AVSC as he engaged my accounting firm to provide accounting for the organization. In that time, I was able to watch Mark grow the club from a grassroots neighborhood organization to one of the valley's most prominent nonprofits. I don't have the numbers and statistics, but to put it bluntly, under Mark's leadership, he took the organization from a shoebox to a major valley nonprofit with one goal in mind: to provide skiing for kids in the valley. While Mark was respectful of the rich history of the club and its ability to produce world-class winter-sports athletes, he never lost track of the reality that a local club was a lot more than statistics and achievement of sport. Rather, the "club" nature was his goal, and he realized that through mass and participation, all the accolades would come naturally, but all kids needed access to winter sports no matter their ability, ambition, whatever. Today, the club caters to literally thousands of families and kids, and winter sports are alive and well. But Mark also brought organization to the club that, at the time and today, it was in need of. He worked tirelessly, selflessly and professionally to use his background from other highly successful nonprofits, and he modified the organization through experience to get the club where it is today, one of the finest ski clubs in the world if not the finest.
I could go on and probably write a book on all that Mark accomplished, but suffice it to say, from the trenches of the club over the past 15 years, with a firsthand view working with Mark most of those years, as much as he is respected and appreciated, no one will ever really know the extent of how he rolled up his sleeves, how difficult the job was at times and how he always got down and dirty no matter the situation to simply get the job done. I never saw him lose his cool, and it was always a pleasure working with him.
Thanks, Mark. It was a hell of a ride, and you did a fantastic job!
Mike Marolt

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Title A View of the Lake from Smith's Hotel, Channel Lake, Antioch, Ill.
Description View of Channel Lake from Smith's Hotel.


Working in the Middle East since the 1990s, DP Architects' successful design and completion of The Dubai Mall, a landmark project that developed the city into a global hub, enabled us to establish a foothold in the United Arab Emirates. Our Dubai office functions as a base from which to serve the region while reaching new markets in MENA countries. We have been able to achieve this progressively and have expanded our portfolio of works to include projects in the neighbouring Abu Dhabi, Jordan and Qatar. The footprints of our works now extend to international territories such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Across the Middle East, we have built a significant portfolio of works covering a multitude of project types from retail to residential, commercial to hospitality, and large-scale complex to city-scale master plan.
Passion is what sets DP apart – our indomitable can-do spirit enables us to overcome challenges to deliver excellent and economically successful design projects to our clients. The common thread tying these varied projects together is our continuous commitment to good design that responds to local conditions and specific requirements of our clients. Our creative edge lies in the breadth and depth of our design experience, our relentless pursuit for excellence and constant questioning of the status quo; allowing us to gain fresh insights, see the big picture, and focus on the users in our design solutions. Led by a team of diverse professionals, we work on the design and management of projects. This includes concept design, architectural consultancy as well as project co-ordination between industry players.
The Dubai office, together with our other international offices, functions as One Global Studio – tapping into the skills and knowledge of our 10 specialist companies, DPA brings a multidisciplinary approach that is tailored to the needs of each project and the demands of each client.
Sitting on some 43 hectares and located about 15km north of the downtown district, Doha Festival City comprises a retail and entertainment hub complete with hospitality and business facilities, a theme park, and motor showrooms. The Doha Festival City Mall, with 500 retail stores and a gross floor area of 327, 000sqm, is the largest component of the development. The scale of the project and the immediate surrounds inspired the design concept of creating an extension of the vast desert site.
At the heart of Downtown Dubai's Opera District, standing at 66 storeys tall, Opera Grand enjoys splendid view of the art and culture-rich district, The Dubai Mall, Dubai Fountain and Burj Khalifa. Opera Grand has sixty storeys of residence, two storeys of residential amenities, two storeys of cafés, restaurants and retail outlets, and a grand entrance lobby at the lower level. The apartments include spacious units with two or three bedrooms as well as a collection of four-bedroom duplexes.
The Seef Lusail master plan has been conceived as an urban waterfront concept that seeks to transform the image of city living and reprise the character of traditional Qatari coastal towns that are intimate in scale, walkable and oriented to the sea for livelihoods and recreation. The 60-hectare mixed-use development is set along a 2.3km waterfront promenade and located within Lusail City. The master plan is characterised by deeply integrated mixed-use zones that are woven together by climate-sensitive pedestrian paths and a multi-modal transportation network.
The recent weekend edition of The Business Times (2-3 November 2013) featured local firms with high-profile projects overseas. DP Architects' The Dubai Mall was one of the projects featured.


> >> Python Software Foundation need this, especially when nobody else does?
> I presume others are correct that an address helps as an identifier.
than a postal address (and it's probably a much better identifier too).
> contributors agreeing that they will offer such.
a contributor their postal address does not make them better informed.
> > have one, then you can probably submit a fake one.
address to your professional and personal contacts).
really live at the postal address they once declared on their CLA.


Do you remember trying to peek at what was in your Christmas or Birthday presents before getting to open them as a kid? Well, almost every Sunday Connie gives us a peek at what wonderful new arrival will be making it's way to her stores and for me it's like getting a peek inside a gift each week! Let's take a look at this week's sneak peek.
Like what you see? Check out the Sunday Sneak Peek post on Facebook at Club Connie Prince and leave a comment for a chance to win the kit on new release day!
Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Here is a nice quick page freebie created by CTM Deanna with Travelogue Montana just for coming by.
Love these bright colors. Thank you!!


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Leki melatoninergiczne (melatonergiczne) – leki o działaniu chronobiotycznym, zbliżonym do endogennej melatoniny, wpływające na receptory melatoninergiczne MT1 lub MT2. Leki te regulują przebieg rytmu okołodobowego, podawane o odpowiedniej porze i we właściwej dawce synchronizują fazę snu z pożądanym rytmem człowieka (sen w nocy, czuwanie w dzień).

Do leków melatoninergicznych należą agonisty receptorów melatoniny, głównie MT1 i MT2:
 melatonina egzogenna – naturalny agonista wyżej wymienionych receptorów, podawana doustnie najczęściej w formie tabletek o niemodyfikowanym uwalnianiu lub o przedłużonym uwalnianiu
 ramelteon – związek o silniejszym powinowactwie do receptorów melatoninowych, zarejestrowany w USA i Japonii do leczenia zaburzeń rytmu okołodobowego
 tasimelteon – stosowany do leczenia zaburzeń rytmu okołodobowego u osób niewidomych
 agomelatyna – związek o powinowactwie do receptorów melatoninowych (agonista) oraz do receptorów serotoniny 5-HT2C (antagonista), stosowana w leczeniu zaburzeń rytmu okołodobowego w przebiegu depresji

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Uber's NY manager hit with "disciplinary actions"
Brittany A. Roston - Nov 28, 2014, 10:05pm CST
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed reported that one of its reporters, Johana Bhuiyan, had her Uber data accessed multiple times by the company's New York general manager Josh Mohrer. Following the claim, Uber said that it was investigating the incidents, and now it has revealed that "disciplinary actions" have been taken against Mohrer. The nature of that disciplinary action has not been detailed, however, and Slate reports that Mohrer will continue in his role as general manager. No other official details about the matter have been given.
This follows a month of bad press for the company, which largely caught the public eye after comments made by executive Emil Michael at a private dinner became public. Among those comments were suggestions that the company could dig up dirt on journalists that had given the company negative press. Michael later apologized for those comments.
The attention spurred Uber into posting its privacy policy, something that was soon followed by a letter from Senator Al Franken detailing his concerns about it all. In particular, the company's alleged "God View" tool has been called into question, with it being reported that Uber staff can access user data.
On November 20, Uber announced it had brought in privacy experts to conduct a review of its privacy practices. Those reviewers will work with the Uber team and recommend any "enhancements" they feel the company should make to help ensure user data remains private.
SOURCE: Slate
Topics Businessprivacyuber
GameStop PS5, Xbox Series X restock announced, but there's a huge catch
Your new Porsche Taycan just got easier to track
Apple said to be creating beastly VR headset in its quest for AR dominance


Neo Geo CD game prices were low at US$ 50, in contrast to Neo Geo AES game cartridges which cost as. Today we' re happy to launch the new version of RN! The Neo Geo CD released in 1994 was initially an upgrade from the original AES. This console uses CDs instead of ROM cartridges like the AES.
100% Fast Download. The unit' s ( approximately) 1X CD- ROM drive was slow, making loading times very long with the system loading up to 56 Mbits of data between loads. The hardware is almost the same as the Neo Geo AES but as the name sugests, it uses CD' s as the media format.
The Neo Geo CD was first unveiled at the 1994 Tokyo Toy Show. The console uses the same CPU set- up as the arcade and cartridge- based Neo Geo systems, facilitating conversions. SNK planned to release Neo Geo CD versions of every Neo Geo game still in the ' s Neo Geo CD ROMs section.
Browse: Top ROMs - By Letter - By Genre. Mobile section for Neo Geo ROMs of Rom Hustler.


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Q: Retrieve metadata of Kura components/drivers I need a way to retrieve Kura compontents metadata. For instance, when you add a new component from the Kura web interface, you are prompted with a data form which has different fields according to the component you've added. Some of these fields are required and some are not, some of them require a value in a specific range and some are up to the user, etc. I would like to know if there is a Kura API that could give such data, like information about the data a component needs and what type of data. I was giving a look at the classes ComponentConfiguration and ConfigurationService but I didn't find anything useful. Is there a way to retrieve and get such data?

A: Just share my understanding of Kura, FYI.
As we know, Kura is based on OSGi framework and provides some extra features like MQTT integration and friendly user interfaces, etc.
So, at its core, Kura shall be agnostic to user component's implementation, the interfaces like ComponentConfiguration and ConfigurationService are only helping Kura to compose user interfaces, but not designed to understand the configuration details.
In my opinion, Kura will not provide such APIs to describe the details of components' configuration, but you can write a component to read from your target components via above-mentioned interfaces and try to understand according to some beforehand knowledge.

A: If you implement an OSGi bundle that implements the ConfigurableComponent interface, then all the metatype data will be passed as a Map<String, Object> to the activation and updating hook methods. You can then extract the inserted value by specifying the key of the searched property.
In the Kura documentation you can find some examples.

A: Actually, there are three ways to obtain what you need in Kura 5.1.1:

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*API REST: there is a set of REST requests to manage the configuration in Kura. Specifically you could use getConfigurableComponentsConfigurations. It returns the configuration and the definition. Remember you need the rest.configuration permission assigned to the user you use.

*Programmatically: when you are developing something to run in Kura framework, you can use the ConfigurationService you've already explored. With the method getComponentConfigurations you retrieve all the configurations and their definitions (OCD).

*MQTT API: Kura provides an MQTT API to interact with an IoT Platform (preferably Eclipse Kapua) and through this API you can request the configuration with not only the data but also the definition of the configuration. It is intended to be used by a third party platform to provide a full configuration interface. Specifically, the request you need is Read all configurations.

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Die Orvanne ist ein Fluss in Frankreich, der in den Regionen Bourgogne-Franche-Comté und Île-de-France verläuft. Sie entspringt im Gemeindegebiet von Saint-Valérien, entwässert generell Richtung Nordwest und mündet nach rund 39 Kilometern bei Moret-sur-Loing als rechter Nebenfluss in den Loing. Im Mündungsbereich verläuft sie parallel zum Canal du Loing, der den Loing hier als Seitenkanal begleitet und mündet erst unterhalb der letzten Schleuse. Auf seinem Weg berührt die Orvanne die Départements Yonne und Seine-et-Marne.

Orte am Fluss
 Dollot
 Vallery
 Blennes
 Voulx
 Thoury-Férottes
 Flagy
 Dormelles
 Villecerf
 Moret-sur-Loing

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Knowledge about HIV/AIDS among secondary school students
Pratibha Gupta1, Fatima Anjum1, Pankaj Bhardwaj2, JP Srivastav1, Zeashan Haider Zaidi1
1 Department of Community Medicine, Era's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, India
2 Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS, Jodhpur, India
Pratibha Gupta
5/351, Viram khand - 5, Gomtinagar, Lucknow - 226 010, UP
Background: HIV/AIDS has emerged as the single most formidable challenge to public health. School children of today are exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS. Aims: The study was conducted to determine the knowledge among secondary school students regarding HIV/AIDS and provide suggestions for HIV/AIDS education in schools. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of tenth to twelfth standard in the intermediate schools of Lucknow, India, from July to October 2011. A total of 215 students, both boys and girls, were enrolled in the study. Results: In this study, for majority of the students (85%), the source of information about HIV/AIDS was the television. Regarding knowledge about modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS among girl students, 95.1% of them told that it is through unprotected sex. A total of 75.8% students said that it was transmitted from mother to child. Conclusion: It was observed that the knowledge of the school students was quite satisfactory for most of the variables like modes of transmission, including mother-to-child transmission of the disease. However, schools should come forward to design awareness campaigns for the benefit of the students.
Gupta P
Anjum F
Bhardwaj P
Srivastav J P
Zaidi ZH


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public class TryCatchFinallySample {

  public static void main(String... args) {

    String[] greetings = { "Hello", "Hello World", "Hello all the world" };

    for (int i = 0; i < greetings.length + 1; i++) {
      try {
        System.out.println(greetings[i]);
      } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
        System.out.println("Exception");
      } finally {
        System.out.println("Always executed");
      }
    }

  }

}

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What Does Our Partnership with Catalyst Global Bring to the Table?
As a leading provider of team building events and activities, Team Challenge Company's partnership with Catalyst Global provides our clients with wider opportunities when taking part in team building days. As a result of our partnership, we can now collaborate to offer different activities which have also enabled us to support businesses more efficiently.
While our partnership is relatively new, we have already seen that the events we now provide have made for a positive impact and lasting impression on various clients. As you might be wondering what activities our collaboration with Catalyst Global has brought to the table, we thought we'd tell you.
Some activities that Catalyst Global have provided us with have proven to help our clients inside and outside of the workplace, which is a definite goal of ours. It can often be difficult to motivate people but with activities such as Beat the Box and Quickfire it's not only easier, but it becomes something that people will enjoy.
Beat the Box is aimed to motivate through its time limit as the group will need to crack the code before time runs out in order to win the game. Though time isn't always seen as a motivational tool, this game shows that by giving a team a common goal and a set time limit that they will feel the need to complete the task together, rather than wait for others to complete it.
While a team challenge day is aimed to motivate, it's also designed to improve various skills that need touching up within the team. Whether it's developing negotiation or customer service skills, there is an activity for each that will help to improve and broaden knowledge.
Bridging the Divide is a game that was designed to help build customer service skills, while also enabling the team to enjoy the activity. The aim is to build a bridge to a customer's specific needs using the tools and equipment provided, which has proven to help teams work cohesively to provide the right product for customers.
While many workplaces have individuals working on separate tasks, it can often cause some disagreements over individual skillsets and work styles, however, choosing an activity that will help to unite the team could improve the atmosphere and resolve any workplace conflicts.
Knowing Me Knowing You is a group activity that helps to unite teams by mixing the same skillsets together at first to then complete a task and then mix's different skillsets to complete the same tasks. This highlights that there are different approaches while enabling workers to understand one another in a new way.
While Catalyst Global has brought a lot of activities to the table, this collaboration has also given us the right tools to help our clients. With each one being different with varied interests, the activities that have come from this partnership have proven to improve team building.
If you're considering holding a team building event, think about what it is that you want to achieve and check out the various activities - as an added extra, why not consider a team building trip? It would give your team longer to spend together and enable you to plan a full weekend full of activities.
For more information on our range of team challenge events, or to organise your own team building event, please send our team a message via our contact page today.


Robins TV: Mullins gets taxi with BBC Points West!
Defender Johnny Mullins recently got a special lift from BBC Points West as part of the show's Team Talk Taxi feature!
Watch on Robins TV how he got on with presenter Alistair Durden on his trip around Cheltenham as they discussed his summer move and even his muscial tastes!


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Ireland: Left surge in South's local and European elections
Sinn Fein's Lynn Boylan is one of the party's three MEPs in the South.
For more coverage of the 2014 European elections, click HERE.
[See a table containing the results for the European left, Green and left nationalist parties HERE.]
By Henry Silke, Dublin
[Stop Press, June 14: Radical independent MEP Luke "Ming" Flanagan has joined the radical left group of MEPs in the European parliament, the European United Left (GUE.)]
[Stop Press, May 28: In further counting, Sinn Fein has won a third MEP seat, meaning it is represented in each Euro electoral district in the South.]
May 27, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Over the past few days there has been a minor earthquake in Irish politics. Sinn Fein has made a breakthrough into mainstream southern Irish politics, almost doubling its vote to 17% nationally in municipal polls (and more than 20% in the European election). This was alongside a surge of electoral success from those further to the left and independents.
Overall in the municipal elections in the South, Sinn Fein won 150 seats and the "further left" won around 40.
In the European election, Sinn Fein topped the Dublin poll with a first-time candidate; this was replicated in Ireland South with another first-time candidate winning a European seat for the party. The success of first-time candidates across Ireland has seen Sinn Fein arrive as a party, lessening its previous dependence on individual local candidates.
The bourgeois parties are attempting to console themselves with the belief that people vote differently on Euro and local elections compared to national elections, however there is ample evidence that Sinn Fein and the further left can convert much of their success into Dail (parliament) seats and wider political influence.
An interesting aspect to the Sinn Fein vote was that Gerry Adam's recent arrest for the 1972 murder of Jean McConville seemed to have no effect on the outcome.
Nationally, the governing Fine Gael Party (Irish Christian Democrats) lost 8.4 per cent of its vote, leaving it at 24%, while the Labour Party, the junior coalition party, lost half its popular vote, to 7%. The Labour Party was decimated in the local councils across Ireland; the party has now no seats on Cork City Council (Ireland's second-biggest city), and the party has been reduced to eight seats on Dublin City Council (a drop of 17% of the first preference votes). Nationally, Labour has been reduced to 50 seats, which compares poorly to Sinn Fein's 157.
In Dublin, Sinn Fein won almost one quarter of first preference votes, an increase of 12%, making it the largest party on the council with 16 seats. This vote tallies with the 23% won by Sinn Fein's Lynn Boylan in the European election, making the party by far the most popular in the city.
On the far left the Socialist Party and its electoral front, the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), won a very impressive 14 council seats; what is particularly important here is that the block won three seats on the Limerick City Council and three seats on Cork City Council, making it a national rather than Dublin-centric alliance. The Socialist Party also won a parliamentary by-election in Dublin West, meaning that now two of the four seats in the constituency are Socialist Party. This also leaves the party well placed to keep a seat after party stalwart Joe Higgin's retirement from parliamentary politics in 2016.
The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) and its electoral form, the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA), also did very well, winning a total of 14 council seats. (The group also made a breakthrough in Northern Ireland winning a seat on Belfast City Council).
Outside of the main blocks, the United Left (a group made up of some independents from the now defunct United Left Alliance), won two council positions and the Workers' Party won a seat on Cork City Council. The Tipperary Workers' and Unemployed Group also won a seat. A number of independent left councillors were also elected across the country, some of whom will be key to the future development of left politics.
One sour note on the left was the loss of Paul Murphy's (Socialist Party) Dublin European seat. In a particularly Machiavellian move, the SWP ran a candidate (Brid Smith) in the European election with the aim of building her profile for the 2016 national elections. This -- as widely predicted -- split the vote with Murphy taking 30,000 (around 8%) of the first preference vote and Smith taking 23,000. Smith argued that her standing made no difference to the final outcome, but this is a very dubious claim as the few percentage points that most likely would have gone to Murphy may have been enough to keep him ahead of the pack in the transfer race. In the end Nessa Childers, with only 5000 more first preference votes than Murphy, won the third and final seat. There is of course no guarantee that if Smith had not run that her votes would have gone to Murphy, although if the PBPA had canvassed for him it is likely a significant amount would have.
However, it is clear that Smith's running severely damaged Murphy's electoral campaign and it is very likely that her "profile building" cost Dublin an excellent and articulate MEP. An MEP, it must be said, who gave his support to campaigns and groups across Ireland and Europe that are too numerous to mention and one who will be missed. The key point for many of the left independents (and indeed even for some within the ranks of the SWP itself) is that the SWP leadership were prepared to throw away a hard-won MEP seat for crass electoral purposes.
The Labour Party is in crisis seeing the almost immediate resignation of its leader Eamonn Gilmore after the election. There will be a one-member, one-vote election for a new leader in the next month, however Labour's problems are far deeper than one of simply replacing the leadership. The party not only abandoned its base but seemed to relish unleashing neoliberal austerity measures on the poor and working classes. The party is now completely hollowed out and is likely to go into a long period of stagnation.
Overall the vote, including Sinn Fein's, was a vote to the left. Sinn Fein stood on an openly anti-austerity platform, including opposition to water charges, however the party will most likely soften its program post-election, having recently dropped its proposal for a wealth tax and how it will use its new local successes also remains to be seen. The further left made a serious electoral advance but remains fragmented. On her first television appearance Ruth Coppinger, the new Socialist Party TD, called for a new political movement. How and if this is followed up on remains to be seen.
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Sri Lanka agrees to resettle remaining IDPs soon- Sonia Gandhi
Wed, 2010-11-10 03:45 — editor
Sri Lankan government had agreed to resettle the remaining Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the very near future.
Junta-backed party claims "victory" in Myanmar polls
The Myanmar military's political proxy claimed an overwhelming victory on Tuesday in an election condemned as a sham by the West, as fresh fighting erupted between rebels and government forces, reports from Yangon said.
Exclusive: Sri Lankan 83 porn stars now public despite local newspaper editors' refusal
Despite leading newspaper's refusing to publish the porn star photographs, Sri Lankan Police has issued 83 porn star images yesterday to all media organizations in the country with a view of seeking help from public to take them into custody.
BJP demands probe into CWG, 2G Spectrum and Adarsh scam
The main opposition party, the BJP on Tuesday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into corruption allegations in the Commonwealth Games, 2G spectrum allocation and the Adarsh Housing Society and said it will corner the government on these issues in Parliament from tomorrow.
Sri Lanka Parliament extends Emergency
Sri Lanka's Parliament on Tuesday (November 09) extended Emergency Regulations for another period of one month by a majority of 114 votes.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to present 2011 Budget
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will deliver 2011 Budget speech in his capacity as the Minister of Finance on November 22.
Lesson to Opposition: Negative Vs Positive Strategies
Sri Lanka is now witnessing the development in terms of economic as well as in social welfare. This can discuss in many perspectives. In tourist sector it can be seen the progress in recent years. Sri Lanka has been ranked as the number one tourist destination by the New York Times in its list of "31 Places to Go in 2010".
Sri Lankan mobile subscriber to have a maximum of 25 SIMS-TRC Chief
Despite media reports that said Sri Lanka's Defense Ministry had limited use of Mobile SIMS to 5 per person an official from country's telecom regulator said that the rule has only restricted a person to have 5 SIMS per mobile operator in the country.
Iran pledges new support for post-war Sri Lanka, ACD brings Iran–Sri Lanka closer
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad assured Lankan Minister G.L Peiris of the bond between the two countries and reiterated Iran's continuing support for Sri Lanka. President Ahmedinejad also assured assistance in the 'challenging tasks connected with rapid economic and infrastructure development in the new phase' in Sri Lanka's history.
A conspiracy of silence - rejoinder to Asif Ezdi
Hardly had Operation Rah-e-Rast in Malakand Division and Swat been over in July 2009 and the horizon was still echoing with thunderous chants of applause from all and sundry including traditional critics, eulogizing the seemingly impossible feat accomplished in less than two months that few odd voices were heard in August-September about extra judicial killings in Swat which disturbed the symphony.
Swarovski Gems brings pure brilliance cut for Zirconia
Swarovski introduces to Sri Lanka, the latest innovation, in the science of precision cutting and excellence in the form of the Pure Brilliance Cut for Zirconia.
Housing scam: Maharashtra CM Chavan axed
From R. Vasudevan - Reporting from New Delhi
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan resigned on Tuesday following a directive from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in the wake of the Adarsh Housing Society scam.
Indices decline amidst low turnover and consolidated Reefcomber Shares coming to trade
Amidst stock analyst views on Reefcomber shares hitting the market after 10 is to 1 consolidation and to be traded at Rs.200 level both indices of the Colombo Stock Exchange All Share Price Index declined by 47.81 points closing at 6,592.38 and Milanka Price Index (MPI) coming down by 40.69 points closing at 7,169.87.
ILO urges G20 to intensify focus on jobs
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Colombo office indicated that in the face of a fragile labour market marked by persistent high unemployment only "slack" jobs growth and declining wages, ILO urged the Group of 20 (G20) to intensify its focus on "productive employment and job-intensive growth policies" at its upcoming summit in Seoul. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia is expected to attend the meeting.
Lanka & Mexico emphasized the importance of mutually strengthening diplomatic and trade relations
Gitanjana Gunawardena, Deputy Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka held a bilateral meeting with Lourdes Aranda, Vice Minister of External Affairs of Mexico on 8th November 2010.
Sri Lanka army is to enlighten the world on the marvels of the humanitarian operation
The Sri Lanka Army has managed to defeat the most brutal terrorist outfit in the world -The LTTE - and to eliminate terrorism from the island.
India to promote the Uva region in the social, cultural and educational institutions at a local cost of SLR 92.5 million
India has come up to assist Tamils of the Indian origin resident in the Uva Province to promote social, cultural and educational institutions at a local cost of SLR 92.5 million. With this in view the High Commissioner of India, Ashok K. Kantha, visited Central and Uva Provinces on 7-8 November 2010.
Sri Lanka: JICA-Supported Eastern Infrastructure Projects to provide business for local contractors
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) financed 315km of rural roads and water supply facility projects in the Eastern province has welcome the Sri Lanka's Eastern Province contractors to participate and be partners of the Eastern province development drive.
Sri Lankan version of Rs. 11bn Eiffel tower mooted
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa mooted setting up country's tallest multipurpose tower at a cost of nearly Rs. 11bn (US $ 100) which will be funded by China.
Sri Lanka's nurses to conduct island-wide strike today
Sri Lankan nurses suspected to be led by trade unions attached to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will conduct an island-wide strike today (November 10) despite Health Minister appealing nurses not to engage in trade union action.


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Nebraska's criminal justice system can't get it right
In Nebraska, the overall error rate in death penalty cases is 68 percent, meaning that courts have found serious, reversible error in nearly 7 of every 10 death penalty cases.[2]
In 2008 and 2009 Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Kathy Gonzalez, James Dean, and Debra Shelden were pardoned for a crime they didn't commit. Joseph White was fully exonerated when charges against him were dropped on November 10, 2008. The Beatrice Six were the first six people exonerated by DNA evidence in Nebraska history.[3]
Top Douglas County crime scene investigator David Kofoed was convicted of planting blood evidence in a car, which led to the incarceration of two innocent men. Kofoed served jail time and was ordered to pay $6.49 million to the two men his phony evidence helped incarcerate.
In addition to the lawsuit against Kofoed, one of the innocent men agreed to a settlement that cost taxpayers $1.65 million ($1 million paid by Cass County; $600,000 by the State of Nebraska; and $50,000 by Douglas County, Nebraska) [4]
Across the USA, more than one innocent person has been exonerated from death row for every ten who have been executed. That's an error rate of more than 10 percent. More than 300 others, including 6 in Nebraska, have been exonerated from long prison sentences as a result of dramatic advances in DNA testing.[5]
The threat of the death penalty increases the risk of sending an innocent person to prison.
The "Beatrice Six" are six innocent Nebraskans who spent a combined 77 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit. They confessed to the crime after being threatened with the death penalty. "We were all scared of it. They were all threatening us with it," said James Dean, one of the five who was exonerated. Ada Joann Taylor, another defendant, said, "They told me they wanted to make me the first female on death row." 5 confessed, and their confessions were used to convict the sixth defendant, whose fight for his exoneration led to the DNA testing that freed all six.[6]
The Beatrice Six have sued Nebraska for damages, and been awarded over 1.8 million dollars.[7]
The Beatrice Six weren't the only innocent people who went to prison because of the death penalty. In April 2006, in Cass County, Matthew Livers, then 28, confessed, after more than 11 hours of questioning, to the murder of his uncle and aunt, and implicated his cousin, Nicholas Sampson, in the murders. Livers, like the Beatrice Six, was threatened with the electric chair. The problem—he didn't do it, and neither did his cousin. The real murderers are now serving life sentences.[8]
The system makes it difficult to find and free those wrongly convicted.
Contrary to popular belief, the post conviction process isn't designed to root out innocence, only to discover errors in the trial process.
Shockingly, in 1993, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional to execute an innocent person as long as that person had a "fair" trial.[9] This ruling hasn't been reversed.
In fact, the vast majority of exonerations have come about only because of the extraordinary efforts of people working outside the system—pro bono lawyers, family members, and former jurors, even students.[10]
Forensics is not a safety net for the innocent.
Hundreds of DNA exonerations reveal that murder cases are often riddled with problems: mistaken eyewitnesses, bad lawyers, shoddy forensics, unreliable jailhouse snitches, coerced confessions, and more.
DNA cannot solve these problems – it can only tell us how bad they are. DNA evidence exists in just 5-10% of homicide cases – far fewer than one would think from TV crime shows.[11]
Some forensic evidence used in cases is now known to be based on junk science. The FBI announced that experts exaggerated the value of hair analysis in hundreds of cases, 32 of which resulted in a death sentence. Defendants in 9 of those cases have been executed. Finger print, bite mark, ballistics, and fire pattern analyses have also come under scrutiny.
In cases where DNA evidence is available, courts can block access to testing, even when it could exonerate someone. Furthermore, scientific evidence is only as good as the people testing it. Crime labs from Baltimore to Oklahoma City have come under fire for errors and even fraud in their forensics. Here in Nebraska a top crime scene investigator was convicted of planting blood evidence in a double homicide case.[12]
It is unacceptable to risk executing an innocent person while the real perpetrators remain unpunished and at large
Wrongful convictions mean victims' families suffer while the real killers remain at large and tax dollars are wasted. These cases represent much that is failing in our justice system.
National List of Death Row Exonerations
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
The Innocent and the Death Penalty
http://www.innocenceproject.org/the-innocent-and-the-death-penalty/
The Beatrice Six and The Death Penalty
http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/local-view-a-lesson-from-the-beatrice-six-the-death/article_a78728e4-b419-5659-99ee-ead14ca2fbe5.html
The Boston Globe "The Case Against Evidence"
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/11/07/the_case_against_evidence/
Testimony to the Nebraska Judiciary Committee, January 29, 2009
"The Disposition of Nebraska Capital & Non-Capital Homicide Cases (1973-1999): A Legal & Empirical Analysis," 2001; http://www.ncc.state.ne.us/documents/other/homicide.htm. See also Jerry Soucie, Nebraska Capital Cases, Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy, March 15, 2007.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/debra-shelden/
"Former Investigator ordered to pay nearly $6.5M for Planting Evidence" KETV 7 Omaha, April 1, 2014
http://www.ketv.com/news/former-investigator-ordered-to-pay-nearly-65m-for-planting-evidence/25268416
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/macarthur/projects/wrongful/livers.html
Death Penalty Information Center, www.deathpenaltyinfo.org; The Innocence Project, www.innocenceproject.org.
P. Hammel, "Pardons granted to five in murder they didn't commit," Omaha World-Herald, January 27, 2009
J Dugan, "Nebraska to pay $300k to defendant wrongfully convicted in Beatrice 6 case," Omaha World-Herald, December 17, 2014
http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/nebraska-to-pay-k-to-defendant-wrongly-convicted-in-beatrice/article_750ef530-860d-11e4-bdb7-efa0091171ca.html
Cara Pesek, "Nephew of slain Murdock couple files wrongful imprisonment suit," Lincoln Journal Star, March 12, 2008; Northwestern University, Center on Wrongful Convictions, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/.
Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993).
Kathleen Hawk Norman, "Trials too impure to risk executions," Omaha World-Herald, March 2, 2009; The Innocence Project, www.innocenceproject.org.
K. O'Brien, "The Case Against Evidence" The Boston Globe, November 7, 2010
"The most haunting fear for a prosecutor is that the system could make a mistake, sending an innocent person to death."
-Brent M. Bloom, former chief deputy Douglas Country prosecutor.[1]


At the end of Day 2 the original starting field of over 4,000 players has been trimmed dramatically as just 59 players remained in the $1k No Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 WSOP, and sitting smack dab in the middle of the leader-board is a very familiar name when it comes to large field WSOP tournaments: Jonathan Duhamel, the 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion.
Joining Duhamel on Day 3 of the tournament will be chip-leader Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, the least known of the Flying Mizrachi brothers, Eric, and poker pro David Peters who is looking to better his runner-up finish in this event from the 2010 WSOP.
On the line for the remaining players is a $611,185 first-place prize (plus a WSOP bracelet) although each remaining player is guaranteed at least $14,000 in prize-money.
With the Hard-Stop rule in effect it's unlikely the tournament will finish up on Tuesday, but the final table may be a possibility before play is halted after 10 levels of play.
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Home inSight Obama as Protector of Putin, Assad & Khamene'i
Obama as Protector of Putin, Assad & Khamene'i
Shoshana Bryen • November 27, 2013
SOURCEAmerican Thinker
When protests broke out in Syria in late 2011, Russia hoped for a short, nasty war as a matter of Russian national interest — just enough to put the Muslim Brotherhood and assorted Sunnis in their place. Violence from its own Sunni Muslim population has plagued Russia for decades. Saudi Arabia took over the defeated nationalist Chechen rebellion in the late 1990s, infusing it with money and Islamist overtones, prompting the second Chechen war. More recently, there has been open fighting and rioting in Moscow between Muslims and Slavs.
Iran counted on a short war as well — something to shore up the Shi'ite crescent from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon out to the Mediterranean Sea.
It didn't work. Turkey and the Gulf States armed and trained various Sunni militias, including the Free Syrian Army, the Muslim Brotherhood, and "foreign" jihadists of many stripes, including al-Qaeda and Chechens. Keeping Assad armed, fed, and reinforced with Iranian and Hezb'allah troops was an immense drain on the Iranian treasury, already under duress from Western sanctions. More sanctions were brewing in the U.S. Congress, and Iran needed relief at many levels. The question for the Islamic Republic was whether it was possible to protect Assad, put money in the bank, and shore up the Shiite axis without giving up its nuclear program.
Enter the United States, seeking and needing a diplomatic success. According to David Ignatius of The Washington Post — the administration's favorite reporter — the U.S.-Iran deal was cooking in secret as far back as March.
Could that account for the fact that although Secretary Kerry announced in April that the U.S. would "arm and train" Syrian rebels, nothing arrived for them throughout the summer? The first shipments arrived in September, while the terms for the nuclear deal were being negotiated. Could that have been to "remind" the Iranians of American leverage? Ignatius approvingly called Obama "the covert commander in chief," acting "most effectively out of sight." Maybe, or maybe he was used by those whose understanding of intrigue exceeds his. Either way, the president ended up the guarantor of Iranian, Syrian, and Russian interests in the Middle East. Shi'ite interests.
No wonder the Saudis and the Gulf States, the Israelis, the Egyptians, and the Jordanians are all furious with the administration, and Turkey finds itself having to cozy up to the Iranians — something anathema to a Sunni internationalist leader.
The White House said it was "outraged" over Syrian chemical weapons use in July, but was the administration being disingenuous when it pleaded with Britain's David Cameron and France's François Hollande to support American military strikes on Syria? (Cameron became the first British prime minister to be denied a war vote in the Parliament since 1782. Hollande won his vote, but it was tough.) The White House also asked American Jewish organizations, which had determinedly stayed out of the Syrian civil war, for support on Capitol Hill, and they agreed. Did the president pull the rug out from under them and legislators of both parties by urging support for a military option when there would be none as long as the Iranian negotiations were the top priority?
Russia was holding a poor hand at that point. The U.S. had for months roundly criticized Putin for supporting Assad and for obstructionism in the U.N. Saudi Prince Faisal al-Turki, asked in an interview in the Washington Post whether Russia could fill the gap left by the apparent American withdrawal from the region, replied, "I don't think Russia will ever fill the gap. [Russia's support of Syria] is costing the Russians the rest of the Muslim world. They are fighting on the wrong side."
What was meant to be steadfastness that would impress Arab countries worried about American withdrawal had begun to look like sole superpower support of a homicidal maniac. Putin needed American help to make Assad look legitimate and so proposed a deal on Syrian chemical weapons. The White House quickly deferred to the Russian-sponsored proposal that allowed Assad to morph from an "illegitimate" ruler to a partner in the management of his chemical weapons arsenal. Elements of the deal ensure that Assad will be working with the United States, the Russians, and the U.N. until at least the middle of 2014.
Thus did the U.S. save Russia from superpower isolation in support of Assad. And thus has the United States become the guarantor of Assad's continued rule, allowing Damascus to concentrate on the rebels and perhaps win the war — later than Assad's patrons (Russia and Iran) had hoped, but win it nonetheless.
But there was still the question of money. Iran was increasingly desperate throughout the fall — not only was Syria draining the coffers at an increasing rate, but international sanctions were collapsing the economy at home. The mullahs were not happy with the thought of a civil uprising.
The outlines of a deal emerged: Assad would stay, Iran's coffers would be refilled and its nuclear project continued in most of its important aspects, and Russia would have a partner. And President Obama would get his deal. Not a perfect deal. Not a "this justifies the Nobel Peace Prize" deal. But a deal.
Oh, yes, and the Iranian regime would be safe from military action as long as the conversation continues. Indeed, at least one report indicates that the White House made clear to Israel and Saudi Arabia, who have been huddling in the corner a lot of late, that military action against Iran will not be tolerated.
Thus has the United States become the guarantor of the Iranian and Syrian regimes, and of Russian interests in the Middle East. How far we've fallen.


Upon telling my husband that it was his turn to decide on a Crock Pot meal for our family, he came up with a pad thai dish. I couldn't really find any recipes that I was completely sold on, so I started substituting different ingredients and came up with my own version.
I would also like to apologize for not having a picture to post with this recipe! By the time I remember, we had already finished off the dish! Oops!
Stir. Let cook on HIGH for 4-5 hours or LOW 7-8 hours.
About 20 minutes before you're ready to eat, add crushed peanuts to Crock Pot and stir. Make rice noodles according to package.
Dish out rice noodles onto serving dishes, and cover with thai crock mixture. Enjoy!!
Though tasty, I should note that the sauce in my recipe should really be replaced with a pad thai sauce for a more authentic pad thai flavoring. My husband and I really enjoyed this dish, though my husband said that it could have been spicier. I think that next time I will add fresh ginger and scallions to this recipe.
If you try it, let me know what you think!!
Stay tuned! Next week for Crock Pot Wednesday I'll be making dessert! Stay tuned for Crock Pot Pecan-Cinnamon Pudding Cake!


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The air's going to be hot in Tunica this November!
Visitors are invited to the 1st Annual Tunica Balloon Bash that will welcome 40 hot air balloons to four casino resort properties. Hot air balloonists from across the country will come together the weekend of Nov. 9 – 11 to compete in early morning races to win over $12,000 in cash and prizes.
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The staff at Academy of Little Learners and All About Kids are participating in the Florida Brain Cancer 5K in honor of our beautiful owner and friend, Cindy Osborne. Cindy's nurturing spirit made her true passion for early childhood education shine clear. She firmly believed and often said, "If a child could read, then a child could do anything in life"!
Cindy was diagnosed in January of 2017 with a fast-growing brain tumor. Glioblastoma attacks the supportive tissue of the brain and is the most aggressive type of brain cancer. Sadly, we lost Cindy just ten months after her diagnosis. Her love, kindness and contagious laugh will forever live in our hearts.
We want to thank you for your consideration to support our team. This 5k will help to raise funds to benefit cutting-edge brain cancer research through ABC2 (Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure). ABC2 has funded over $1,000,000 in Florida-based brain cancer research thanks to participant fundraising and we hope to add to that impressive total. Every dollar raised gets researchers closer to new treatments and breakthroughs.
If you are able to support us with a donation, simply click on the "Donate" button directly to the right.
We sincerely thank you in advance for your support! Together, we are walking and running to cure brain cancer!


This single ep represents all the obscure filthness this band has to offer to your thirst of death and decadence, 3 long and aggressive songs of stenchcore depravity mixed with sludgy sensations for fans of Deviated Instinct and the oldest Coffins.. The best recording ever from this band so far!! Vinyl is haused in a coated thick 7 ep jacked with a 3mm spine. Logo and title of this EP are printed with a green foiled insert on the cover. Front artwork is signed by mighty metalpunk Japanese artist TKC, and inner artwork by Italian metalpunk artist Geno!


Robert Bertuzzi knows minimum wage will reach $15 someday, but says his business can't afford such an increase by 2019, as proposed by the provincial government.
The governing Liberals announced a proposal this May to increase Ontario's minimum wage from $11.40 per hour to $14 on Jan. 1, 2018, then to $15 on Jan. 1, 2019.
Several small businesses and organizations including the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and Ontario Chamber of Commerce have voiced concerns about the proposed timeline, which they feel is too much, too fast.
Bertuzzi is president at Reliable Maintenance, a Sudbury based company that provides cleaning services and products and has locations across Northeastern Ontario. He was among those to speak up, and recently outlined his concerns in a letter to the Ontario chamber.
"For many of our janitorial contracts that we hold, they are longer-term in nature and can range anywhere from one year to five years," Bertuzzi told The Sudbury Star. "Most of those contracts have a fixed price as part of that contract. When you have a fixed term and a fixed price for that term, I don't have an opportunity to go back and say, 'Listen, things have changed. Can I change my price?' When you're locked into a time period and all of a sudden, the government has announced an increase in the neighbourhood of 32 per cent, and given the fact that our labour cost represents around 82 per cent of our costs, there's no way we can absorb that cost over the term of the contract."
Bertuzzi said many clients have already told him they can't afford to increase budgets for cleaning services.
"What we anticipate happening is customers are going to come back to us and ask us to provide the service for the same price that we're currently providing it for, which means we're going to have to drop the amount of labour hours that we provide for that contract," Bertuzzi said. "I don't see that as a good thing. I see that as a loss of employment for people within our industry. With that loss of employment, those people are going to eventually end up on employment insurance, which is really a government cost. I believe it is better to have the people working than the people collecting unemployment."
Cleaners are already "pushed to the limit" as it is, he said, and expecting them to do more work in less time is unrealistic.
"Our cleaners have to clean anywhere from 2,500 to 5,000 square feet in an hour and that's a difficult task as it is," he said. "If we're going to be challenged to do more with less hours, that productivity is going to have to increase and quite frankly, it's already at its breaking point. To add another 30 per cent to that, I believe it's almost impossible. The strain on the industry is going to be pretty dramatic."
The government's proposed wage hike won't only apply to those currently making at or near minimum wage, he said, but also supervisors who are currently paid two or three dollars more than their co-workers.
"When minimum wage goes to $15, those people are going to anticipate an increase in the $17 to $18 range and that's only right, because not only is part of their job cleaning, but part of their job is supervising the people working with them," Bertuzzi said. "They need to be compensated appropriately for that."
Bertuzzi outlined many of his concerns during a recent roundtable discussion in Sudbury, which involved provincial finance minister Charles Sousa and representatives of local businesses and government agencies.
The Keep Ontario Working Coalition, a group that includes the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, also sent an open letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne last week, outlining its concerns with the proposed increase.
Bertuzzi clarified that, like the Ontario chamber, he's more concerned about the speed with which the province hopes to increase wages.
"It's unprecedented in Ontario for minimum wage to increase by that amount, that quickly," he said. "If you're going to do something like that, it should be thought out and put into effect in a longer term, so that everybody has an opportunity to plan and budget for it."
Dr. David Robinson was one of four Laurentian University professors, and more than 50 economists in all, to sign their own open letter supporting the increase of Ontario's minimum wage to $15, saying the increase makes good economic sense.
"There are several reasons," Robinson told The Star. "One of them is we have to support welfare and sorts of other public programs for people who don't make a decent income, so a minimum wage reduces those costs to the public sector. Another one is that it actually does increase the income of a community, which means other businesses certainly are going to do better. Those are among the main gains, and the third thing that economists typically point to is that these low-wage jobs are not actually highly productive, so as you reduce those jobs, you actually either induce the businesses to increase their productivity, or you move people to more productive activities.
"All of those things take some time, but they generally make the economy a bit wealthier."
Robinson does not disagree with Bertuzzi, however, that there will be an impact on businesses in the shorter term.
"There's no question there's a short-term impact," Robinson said. "If you have to start paying more money, your profit margins go down right away. Businesses don't, though, absorb that kind of cost. What they do is they pass it on to their customers. For the fraction of the population that are working at very low-wage jobs, essentially what is happening is the customers are not paying full price for those services and this forces them to what is the community standard. Minimum wage is a community standard – we're basically saying that somebody's time is worth that, for whatever reason, and the consequence of that is that some jobs still aren't worth doing under the new standard and consumers end up paying a bit more for the ones they were getting a free ride on. The businesses are in between and they do not absorb that cost in the long run. The consumers do."
Robinson questioned whether a longer timeline would have prompted businesses to begin preparing sooner for the increase.
"The faster it happens, the more disruption there will be, but whether a year, two years, three years is the right amount of time, probably what happens is if you say, 'We're going to do this more slowly,' businesses adjust more slowly. They'll take every moment they can at lower rates and very few are going to be installing technology or changing their work schedules until the actual wage increase happens."
Read the Keep Ontario Working Coalition's letter to Wynne at www.occ.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/July10_KOW_OpenLetter.pdf.
To read the economists' letter in support of a $15 minimum wage, go to www.progressive-economics.ca/2017/06/29/economists-support-15-minimum-wage-in-ontario.


The ransom is on the move.
The Bitcoin wallet controlled by the NotPetya attackers showed surprising signs of life over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, with approximately $10,000 in paid ransom disappearing from the account. Around the same time, a message purporting to be from the culprits behind the maybe-ransomware attack surfaced — demanding 100 bitcoin in exchange for a key they say can unlock encrypted files.
At the time of writing, 100 bitcoin is worth approximately $260,000.
"Send me 100 Bitcoins and you will get my private key to decrypt any harddisk (except boot disks)," read the message posted to Pastebin. "See the attached file signed with the key."
As NotPetya, which first surfaced in Ukraine on June 27, has been shown to damage an infected computer's master boot record, the person behind the message is only claiming to be able to decrypt specific files — not entire systems. Still, that ability could be a godsend for companies struggling to restore lost data, assuming the ransomer is telling the truth.
The new demand was posted on July 4, the same day ransom payments made in the hopes of obtaining decryption keys were moved from the Bitcoin address listed in the initial NotPetya attack to another wallet.
The message displayed by NotPetya.
No new Bitcoin address was listed for payments should anyone decide to actually fork over the 100 bitcoin. However, a link was provided to a chatroom for the purpose of getting in touch with the hackers and presumably arranging payment.
Motherboard exchanged messages with someone claiming to be one of the hackers, who told the publication the key for sale would "decrypt all computers."
So, should organizations desperate for their data pay up? It's a tough question. Security researchers have more or less reached a consensus that the intention behind NotPetya was to damage cyber-infrastructure, not to make money. As such, the calculus for victims is different than it would be with a more traditional form of ransomware.
Either way, this latest series of developments — the transfer of funds between Bitcoin wallets and the new demand — serves to further muddy the waters behind the NotPetya attack. It also makes one thing clear: The story of the latest ransomware scourge to sweep the globe is not over yet.


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Q: Git merge master to branch and accept partial changes I am working on a feature branch which I wanted to keep up to date with the master update. I did git merge master to branch. This gave me lots of conflicts. I manually merged two conflicts and kept my changes on these two files. Now the rest of the files which are quite few, I want to accept the master changes. How do I do that?

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I've got my new Echo Dot and have got most things working. I can stream music from Spotify to the Dot itself and have the audio play either through the internal speaker or through the audio jack on my amplifier. The former sounds rubbish and the latter is not convenient because I don't leave my amp on all the time and I don't want Alexa's voice coming through the amp.
So I want to stream to "something else" on the Network. I have a Google Audiocast, a Sony BluRay player and a Denon Amp with media player inbuilt.
Can I get any of these to work?
If not, any suggestions for another device with either HDMI or preferably audio jack?
I have my Echo bluetooth connected to a Belkin adapter in the room, which is connected to some altec lansing PC speakers. I also have a TP-Link Bluetooth adapter connected to a boombox 3.5mm input jack in the shop. It works for me, and the cost of the adapters wasn't much. I have a Audio Amp with Bluetooth so If I want to use the Amp instead of the Echo for music I can connect to above mentioned via Bluetooth. I hope this helped.
Thanks, that's definitely worth looking into.
Do you have your echo connected to the two bluetooth devices at the same time?
Or do you have to switch between devices when you want to use your Audio Amp?
Yes, only one BT device, and yes I have to switch devices when using amp.


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Karlheinz Bauer (* 24. April 1928 in Schrobenhausen) ist ein deutscher Bauingenieur und Bauunternehmer.

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Karlheinz Bauer wurde als Sohn des Karl Bauer und dessen Ehefrau Luise, geb. Kastner, in Schrobenhausen geboren. Das Familienunternehmen Bauer entwickelte sich aus einer Kupferschmiede, deren Gründer 1790 aus Niederbayern nach Schrobenhausen kam. Karlheinz Bauer gehört der sechsten Generation seit Gründung an. In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts erfolgte der Wandel zu einem Brunnenbaubetrieb, ab Mitte des Jahrhunderts zu einem kontinuierlich wachsenden und heute weltweit tätigen Bau- und Maschinenbau-Konzern – der Bauer AG.

Karlheinz Bauer zählt zur "Flakhelfer-Generation" und machte nach Kriegsunterbrechung 1946 in Augsburg das Abitur. An der Technischen Universität München absolvierte er bis 1951 das Bauingenieur-Studium, anschließend eine Referendarzeit beim Bayerischen Staat. Es folgte die Dissertation zum Thema Die Veränderungen im Grundwasserstrom durch Staustufen und Wasserverluste im Stauraum in weiten Tälern mit alluvialer Füllung, abgeschlossen im Sommer 1954 an der Technischen Universität Karlsruhe.

Als der Vater Karl Bauer 1956 unerwartet starb, gehörte er schon vier Jahre dem Familienunternehmen an und führte nun – unterstützt von Ehefrau Marlies Bauer, geb. Zenger – den Betrieb. Er leitete den Übergang vom Brunnenbaubetrieb zum Bauunternehmen für Spezialtiefbau ein.

Mitentscheidend für den steilen Aufstieg des Unternehmens war im Jahre 1958 die Erfindung des Injektionsankers in Lockergestein. Seither können große freie Baugruben hergestellt werden; anstatt der bislang üblichen und hinderlichen  Aussteifungen mit Holzträgern werden nun Verbauwände seitlich im Erdreich verankert. Der Anker wurde patentiert, ebenso später viele weitere Verfahren. Da im Markt nur mangelhafte Maschinen für die neuen Techniken vorhanden waren, begann Karlheinz Bauer ab 1969 auch die Maschinenkonstruktion und -herstellung, erst mit einem Ankerbohrwagen, 1976 mit dem ersten Drehbohrgerät.

1984 nahm Karlheinz Bauer – die Familie hatte sechs Kinder – seinen Sohn Thomas Bauer als Mitgeschäftsführer in das Unternehmen, wenige Jahre später zog er sich dann von der Geschäftsführung zurück und wechselte als Vorsitzender in den Aufsichtsrat. Unter der Führung von Thomas Bauer wuchsen die Firmen der BAUER Gruppe zu einem weltweit tätigen Konzern. Bis zum Jahr 2005 stand Karlheinz Bauer dem Aufsichtsrat vor. Zum Börsengang der Bauer AG am 4. Juli 2006 gab er den Vorsitz an Klaus Reinhardt ab. Seinen Sitz im Aufsichtsrat behielt Bauer bis zum Jahr 2011.

Auszeichnungen

 1983: Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 1990: Goldene Bürgermedaille der Stadt Schrobenhausen
 1993: Ehrendoktorwürde der Technischen Universität München
 1996: Leo-von-Klenze-Medaille des Bayerischen Innenministeriums für herausragende Ingenieurs-Leistungen
 1998: Ehrenbürgerwürde der Stadt Schrobenhausen
 1998: Bayerischer Verdienstorden
 2007: Ehrendoktorwürde der Technischen Universität Sofia, Bulgarien

Literatur

 Klaus Englert, Manfred Stocker (Hrsg.): 40 Jahre Spezialtiefbau 1953–1993. Technische und rechtliche Entwicklungen. Festschrift für Karlheinz Bauer zum 65. Geburtstag. Werner, 1993.
 Franz-Josef Mayer: BAUER – Geschichte und Geschichten. Ballas, 2006.
 Erwin Stötzer, Manfred Schöpf, Franz-Josef Mayer, Klaus Englert: Spezialtiefbau. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Karlheinz Bauer. Ballas, 2008.

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Cellini is the only Rolex model without an Oyster case. As a result, it has features that are significantly different from other models in terms of design. The new model is extremely sophisticated with details such as a guillocheed three-dimensional dial, smartly arranged indexes, a distinctive double bezel combining dome and fruited types, and a flared crown. The design is condensed, giving a classical and elegant impression. One of the attractions is the enhancement of series development. This is a model that has a glimpse of the new side of Rolex, such as the Cellini Date with a date display, the Cellini Dual Time, which expresses day and night in the second time zone with the sun and the moon, and the Cellini Moonphase with the Moonphase function.
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Cellini Time, which features a simple and elegant sophisticated design, and Cellini Dual Time, which allows you to check two time zones at once. Another popular model is the Cellini Date, which features a date display at the 3 o'clock position. As of 2022, the only current model is the Cellini Moonphase, but it is also popular for its elegant and classical impression.
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The name Cellini is said to come from the 16th century Italian Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. One of the characteristics of the Cellini around this time is that it was not a non-waterproof self-winding watch, but at the time of the Cellini's announcement in 1928, Rolex's three major inventions, the oyster case and the perpetual, had not yet been invented. I did. In 1982, "Cellini Prince" was announced with the meaning of "a gift for doctors". This is a hand-wound model, and is a rare Rolex model equipped with a second hand called a small second in a characteristic square case. By the way, this Cellini Prince was revived in 2006 and became a hot topic.
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NAFTA Overhaul Talks Begin
Last month, the Trump administration listed its objectives for the renegotiation, some of which will meet fierce resistance from Canada and Mexico.
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In this Friday, June 2, 2017, file photo, Claudio Montes checks a shipping manifest for U.S. manufactured parts heading to assembly plants in Mexico at Freight Dispatch Service Agency LTD in Pharr, Texas. The freight service ships parts between the U.S. and Mexico that pass through the border freely due to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Of all the trade deals he lambasted on the campaign trail as threats to American workers, President Donald Trump reserved particular scorn for one: NAFTA.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Of all the trade deals he lambasted on the campaign trail as threats to American workers, President Donald Trump reserved particular scorn for one: The North American Free Trade Agreement.
The NAFTA agreement with Mexico and Canada was "the worst trade deal in history," candidate Trump declared. He accused NAFTA of having swollen America's trade deficit with Mexico, pulled factories south of the border and killed jobs across the United States.
Trump promised to renegotiate the 23-year-old deal — or walk away from it. Now the time has come. Five days of talks aimed at overhauling NAFTA begin Wednesday in Washington, with negotiations to follow in Mexico and Canada.
The United States has never before tried to overhaul a major trade agreement. So analysts aren't sure what will emerge from the talks.
But it's clear that delivering on Trump's campaign promises will be difficult. A new version of NAFTA would require approval from a divided Congress. And even an improved NAFTA might not deliver the payoff Trump and his supporters are hoping for: The restoration of millions of lost manufacturing jobs.
Economists and trade analysts do see opportunities to improve NAFTA, which eliminated most barriers on trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico. If nothing else, the pact could be updated to reflect the growth of the digital economy.
But a technocratic rewrite is unlikely to satisfy Trump supporters and NAFTA critics who want a revamped agreement to shrink America's trade deficit and return jobs to the United States.
A more aggressive approach — demanding more made-in-America content for products that qualify for NAFTA's duty-free status, for example — risks imperiling some benefits that Americans think the trade deal provided to them.
American farmers, for example, fear losing easy access to the Mexican market. Manufacturing companies have built supply chains that crisscross NAFTA borders; they worry about having investments jeopardized. And Canada and Mexico are sure to respond to any harsh American demands with their own.
Plus, the clock is ticking. Next year brings a presidential election in Mexico and congressional elections in the United States. Forging a complex agreement will be even tougher if the political temperature is running hot.
Last month, the Trump administration listed its objectives for the renegotiation. Some of them will meet fierce resistance from Canadian and Mexican negotiators.
The administration has riled Canada, for example, by saying it wants to eliminate a dispute-resolution process established under NAFTA. That process lets Mexico and Canada appeal unfavorable rulings by U.S. courts and agencies in trade cases. They can appeal to five-person NAFTA panels, composed of two members from each county in the dispute and a fifth that usually alternates between them. The panels' rulings are binding.
But the panels have a reputation for overturning U.S. trade decisions. That is especially so in cases involving Canadian softwood timber imports to the United States — a long-standing source of conflict. America complains that Canada subsidizes its loggers, allowing them to dump cheap timber in the United States.
"We lose lots of sales," says Jason Brochu, co-president of Pleasant River Lumber in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. "It's not fair to have subsidized lumber come in unchecked." The ruling panels, he says, lack "a proper dispute-resolution process." He'd like to see them eliminated.
That idea causes heartburn in Ottawa. Before they could rely on the panels, Canadians "felt they were not getting a fair shake" in U.S. courts and administrative proceedings, says Daniel Ujczo, a trade lawyer with Dickson Wright in Columbus, Ohio. "They see (the panels) as something they earned."
The United States also wants more leeway to slap tariffs on imports that are found to hurt American industry. For now, NAFTA limits America's ability to use that power in cases involving Canada and Mexico. If America imposes taxes on their exports, would Canada and Mexico retaliate with their own tariffs?
In another attempt to ensure that any revamped pact promotes U.S. manufacturing, the Trump administration wants tougher rules requiring that goods that qualify for NAFTA benefits are actually made mostly inside the three-country free-trade bloc — and don't include too many components from, say, China. Manufacturers, which have built supply chains that straddle NAFTA borders, worry that a NAFTA redo will disrupt their operations.
Magna International, an auto supplier based in Aurora, Ontario, for instance, has 55 manufacturing plants in the United States, 50 in Canada and 30 in Mexico. Its products, such as car-seat components, can cross NAFTA borders five or six times. If it had to pay tariffs at each border crossing or produce more paperwork to prove where parts originated, Magna's costs would rise.
If a NAFTA overhaul raises costs, "eventually that cost is going to get to you — you, the end consumer," says Scott Paradise, a Magna senior executive.
American consumers have benefited, after all, from low-cost small cars built south of border.
Renegotiating NAFTA is part of the administration's plan to restore a chunk of the 7 million factory jobs America has lost since U.S. manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. NAFTA lured many manufacturers to Mexico to capitalize on cheaper labor.
But Matthew Gold, a former U.S. trade official who teaches at Fordham University's School of Law, says robots and competition from China have played a bigger role in wiping out American factory jobs.
"Nothing in the NAFTA renegotiation will bring back that tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs that America lost to automation and to trade with China in the years since we entered into NAFTA," he says. "While this renegotiation will improve NAFTA, it will be a great disappointment to those who expect the see its impact on their lives."
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Entertainment: disruption in full forceHarlan Lebo2020-01-09T03:22:18+00:00
Entertainment: disruption in full force
Center director Jeffrey Cole joined other national experts in a nine-part feature in the Los Angeles Times on December 20, 2019, that offered predictions on key issues for the nation in 2020. Cole took on the subject of how competing forces within the entertainment industry will transform film and television with the broadest impact felt in more than 60 years.
Cole's predictions are below; the full feature from the Los Angeles Times is here.
By Jeffrey Cole
The next 12 months will see the most important change in the history of the entertainment industry since the television era began in the 1940s. The disruption is in full force.
Once again, Netflix — after moving the DVD rental business from the corner store to our mailbox and then pioneering the streaming business — is changing everything.
In November, Netflix released "The Irishman" online less than a month after its theatrical release. The same is true this month for "Marriage Story" and "The Two Popes." Although films aren't being released to moviegoing and home audiences on the same day, the gap is closing. We can watch major motion pictures likely to contend for Oscars as part of our monthly $10 Netflix subscription.
Theaters can't compete. The line separating movies from television has completely blurred. "Dinner and a movie" has become Netflix and Uber Eats.
In 2020, television viewers will get burned. All the content we have been getting for years for $10 a month will soon cost closer to $50 as the fees for the recently launched Apple TV+ and Disney+ and other new services add up. We'll also see the launch of HBO Max (forecast to cost about $18 a month) as well as Universal's ad-supported Peacock. But viewers will win big. . .
Television viewing habits also have changed dramatically. Viewers under age 30 watch only 15% of their television live, according to USC's Center for the Digital Future. The other 85% is recorded or streamed. We have come to expect television on our terms.
Until 2017, studios were thrilled to sell their old theatrical and television content to Netflix. WarnerMedia could command $100 million a year from Netflix for "Friends," a TV series that hasn't had an original episode in 15 years.
Then the studios realized they had created their biggest competitor. Two years ago, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger made a difficult decision: Disney would no longer sell content to Netflix. Warner and Universal followed. Shortly thereafter, seemingly everyone in Hollywood announced their own streaming services to compete with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
In 2020, television viewers will get burned. All the content we have been getting for years for $10 a month will soon cost closer to $50 as the fees for the recently launched Apple TV+ and Disney+ and other new services add up. We'll also see the launch of HBO Max (forecast to cost about $18 a month) as well as Universal's ad-supported Peacock.
Most households will subscribe to 2.5 services. Viewers will constantly switch services to get the content they want. This will probably mean the end of binge-able new shows, since streaming services will release episodes weekly to hold onto subscribers as long as possible, a trend that's already begun.
Traditional broadcast and cable television cannot compete and will increasingly move toward sports. But eventually Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft will outbid them for those rights. At that point, the broadcast model will enter its final phase as live, linear television.
Viewers will win big. We'll have almost complete control over more and better content. We'll have TV and movies anytime we want. And by this time next year, we'll be adjusting to an entirely different entertainment landscape.
Jeffrey Cole is the founder and director of The Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg.