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Game of Thrones History: The Dothraki
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The Dothraki haven't appeared all that often throughout the whole course of Game of Thrones, but they have played a critical role in the storyline of Daenerys Targaryen. Daenerys became a khaleesi of Khal Drogo in season 1. She lost the support of his khalasar, but the end of the season did lead to the birth of her dragons. Now, Daenerys finds herself among the Dothraki once more. This time she's much surer of herself and her ability to rule.
She made quite a decisive power play that killed all the great khals and left the people in awe of her. She may have held sway over Khal Drogo as his khaleesi, but now she may rule all the Dothraki people herself. How will she do it? Will she inspire them to less cruel or patriarchal ways of life? Will they respect her as their ruler in addition to being in awe of her?
We'll probably have to wait to find out, but for now we can better understand the Dothraki by exploring their history in the world of Ice and Fire. This history includes the Horselords, whose steeds are central to their mythology, their diet, their culture and their martial power. Here is the history of the Dothraki in Game of Thrones.
The Dothraki Sea
Essos is Huge. It's about as large compared to Westeros as Eurasia compared to Western Europe. The Dothraki Sea is the biggest region in Essos making up almost all of its inland area so we could imagine it being as big as all of China or Russia. The rolling fertile grasslands of the Dothraki Sea are believed to be a likely point of origin for many of the peoples that populate the series, including the Andals and the First Men before they migrated to Westeros.
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The Dothraki themselves are believed to have originated from the Bone Mountains. This massive mountain range marks the Eastern border of the known world described so far in the series. The Dothraki have been nomadic for their entire history. When they first arrived in the land now known as the Dothraki Sea, it boasted many great cities. The Dothraki quickly trampled what cities exited in this region with their fierce mounted army tribes called khalasars. Now only legends live on from those cities and their peoples.
The Century of Blood
The Doom of Valyria had drastic consequences for all of Essos. It was immediately followed by the Century of Blood and started about 400 years before the events of the show. When the Valyrian Freehold collapsed, the lack of a centralized military to keep the peace in Essos made an opening for the Dothraki to expand their territory. They poured out from the Dothraki Sea and sacked every town and city they came upon.
The Free Cities along the Western Coast of Essos warred amongst each other making them susceptible to the rampaging khalasars. Several kingdoms that existed in Essos before the Doom were conquered and snuffed by the Dothraki during the Century of Blood. Some of these were the kingdoms of Sarnor and Ifequevron. Other cities more familiar to us in the show were also raided by the Dothraki during this period.
Many other territorial and political conflicts raged across Essos during this Century of Blood but the Dothraki were arguably the most fortunate from their conquests during this time. The exact chronology is unclear but it is possible that the conquests of this time lead to the founding or considerable expansion of Vaes Dothrak, the Dothraki central city.
The Battle of Qohor
Qohor was a city established by some of the Valyrian refugees after the Doom of Valyria and is the easternmost city of the nine free cities. Near the start of the Century of Blood, the great Dothraki conqueror Khal Temmo set his sights on the city. Qohor had received word of Temmo's approach, trampling towns and villages. In preparation for the kahalsar's attack, they strengthened their walls and hired two mercenary companies to defend the city. One envoy was also sent to Astapor to purchase 3,000 Unsullied.
On the first day of their attack on the city, 25,000 screaming horse riders overcame the defenders easily. Temmo, thinking the city was easily pickings now, called off actually sacking the city until the next morning, giving his khalasar time to feast and rest. But in the night, the Unsullied reinforcements arrived. When Temmo returned to the field in the morning, the Unsullied were waiting for him, arrayed in defensive formation before the gates.
Keep in mind in the books Jorah tells Daenerys this tale trying to convince her to buy Unsullied, so questions of reasons behind why the battle played out how it did are understandable. Nonetheless, it is impressive.
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The Dothraki saw the foot soldiers in heavy armor before them and considered them in contempt. Armor was craven to them on top of their distaste for non-mounted combat. With their force at least 6 times greater than their opponents, the Dothraki could have easily surrounded and overrun the Unsullied. Instead they charged directly into their disciplined line. Temmo assaulted the Unsullied 18 times head on but never broke through their defense. The khalasar suffered heavily for their hubris. At the end the fighting the Unsullied had been reduced to 600 soldiers but the Dothraki suffered more than 12,000 loses. Temmo, his bloodriders and all his sons had perished before they gave up the assault. So if you've ever wondered what would happen if the Unsullied and the Dothraki fought each other on Game of Thrones, here's at least one example.
Four days after the battle, the new khal lead his warriors in a procession before the city gates. Each of them cut off their hair braids and threw them before the Unsullied, signifying their defeat and respect for their foes. Since that day, the city guard of Qohor has always been comprised of Unsullied.
Vaes Dothrak
Vaes Dothrak, which means "city of riders" is the only city within the Dothraki Sea. Its boundaries are large enough to hold every Dothraki khalasar when they gather in it but most of the time the city is empty. The Dothraki are nomadic after all. It is still a sacred place to their people. It rests at the foot of the Mother of Mountains and next to a lake called the Womb of the World. According to Dothraki legend, the first man emerged from this lake a thousand years ago already riding a horse.
The city's structures are made up almost entirely of buildings or landmarks brought to the city by slaves from lands the Dothraki have conquered. Its gates, such as they are, are defined by two massive stone statues of rearing horses whose hooves meet hundreds of feet in the air to form an arch. Leading into the city from the gates is what's known as the Godsway. Hundreds of idols and monuments line each side of this road, displaying the range and variety of the Dothraki's conquests and their trophies from all sorts of peoples.
Two sprawling markets make up the city's major districts, the Eastern Market and the Western Market. Each one is a hub of trade for the city with merchants and peddlers from the respective direction.
Warfare may be a way of life to the Dothraki but unsheathing a blade or spilling blood is forbidden in the city. That doesn't mean someone determined or clever enough to find a loophole, like burning somebody, can't still kill you for looking at them funny. But for the most part, the Dothraki respect the rule of not killing in their sacred city.
Daenerys spent a lot of her time as khaleesi in Vaes Dothrak. It's where she underwent the ceremony of eating the stallion's heart, presided over by the Dosh Khaleen. Now that she's won over the Dothraki people, she may soon leave the city behind again as the Dothraki have done for centuries, setting out on their campaigns. It could be the start of a new era for their people, ending the tradition of raiding and pillaging and infighting and totally uniting behind one ruler. How far will Daenerys take the Dothraki? We'll have to stay tuned to Game of Thrones to find out.
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After 50 years of business, iconic Spokane store files for bankruptcy
Rings & Things, an iconic Spokane business and founding member of the cluster of downtown shops known as 2nd City, filed for bankruptcy this month following what owners described as a forced closure caused by a computer-system crash.
According to posts on Facebook, the 50-year-old business suffered an irrevocable computer failure on Aug. 15.
"By noon, we were dead in the water, with no way to even post anything on our website to explain," the post said. "We made it 50 years, so (we) can be proud of that, although we are very sad at how abruptly we ended."
Calls and messages left at the store and on its Facebook page were left unanswered this week.
According to the bankruptcy that was filed Sept. 1 by company President Polly Jo LaRue, Rings & Things had total assets of about $250,000, of which about $230,000 was in merchandise.
The company listed its liabilities, or the money owed to others, at about $894,000 to a long list of creditors.
Attorney David Gardner, who filed the bankruptcy on behalf of LaRue, did not immediately return a message Thursday seeking comment.
The closing prompted a massive response on social media, with more than 490 people posting mostly positive comments about their long years of patronizing the Spokane store that mostly sold items to make jewelry.
The store, which had a yearslong run in River Park Square, had been the creation of the late Russ Nobbs, who died in 2014 at the age of 70.
Raised on a farm in upstate New York, Nobbs was proud to be called a hippie.
Once convinced he wanted to become a physicist, Nobbs was accepted to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology but didn't go because of the cost.
After studying engineering at a different school, Nobbs lost interest. "So when an opportunity came to walk out of school and join an anti-nuclear-weapons march, I took it," Nobbs told the newspaper in 2014.
Before founding Rings & Things, Nobbs founded a local commune and published a counterculture newspaper from 1967 to 1970 called The Spokane Natural.
The "hippie," who once was arrested for vagrancy by the Spokane police, later built his business worth several millions and later served on the Spokane Chamber of Commerce.
"I scared people, but it was intentional," Nobbs told The Spokesman-Review. "People need to be scared in order to wake up and see what was going on."
He eventually started Rings & Things in 1972 with jewelry merchandise leftover from his father-in-law's business at the 1964 New York's Worlds Fair.
Nobbs and his wife, Dee Mueller, eventually built the business into three stores: Rings & Things retail, a bead store and The Jeweler's Bench, a fine-craft gallery.
But he never lost his hunger for advocacy. He led recycling efforts at Spokane events for decades and in 2012 was inducted into the Washington State Recycling Association's Recycling Hall of Fame.
That same year, he received the inaugural Mike Chappell Spokane River Hero Award from the Center for Justice.
But he also built his business by selling jewelry at state fairs and then malls, and later become one of the first wholesale bead merchants to offer online sales.
At one point, Nobbs said he traveled to China, Taiwan, Bali, Thailand and India to find beads.
Just before his death in 2014, Nobbs estimated that it would cost $4 million to start a business from scratch at the size it had become.
"Jewelry is really about sex, when it comes down to it – making yourself attractive," Nobbs said. "Now, do the beads I'm wearing make me attractive to young women? Probably not, but my wife likes them."
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Off we got to Trent Bridge for the third one day international and England are staring down the barrel of a 3-0 series whitewash.
On Sunday, on a picture perfect pitch with a glass table outfield and set 360 runs to win England batsmen got in and then got out with alarming regularity playing reckless shots.
Ian Bell in particular was culpable of a rush of blood to the head and gave his wicket away recklessly when set.
The one player to emerge with credit in the futile run chase was Jonathon Trott (again) who made a perfectly measured century and just needed those with more aerial hitting ability to show their colours.
England should welcome back Broad and Finn for the third instalment and they will be welcome returns for their replacements in the last game were not up to snuff and were chiefly the reason why New Zealand managed to rack up such a huge total.
Dernbach in particular bowled some absolute filth and was constantly trying variations which were dispatched to the boundary with regularity when he should instead have been trying to find line and length.
Some of the pies he chucked down were awful tripe bowling. 0-87 tells the story.
New Zealand have won seven of the eight ODI's they have played so far in this country and they will be going into this game brimming with confidence.
Unless Cook or Bell can get in and build a big total and support the often criticised Trott then England are going to be trounced again.


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Oakland, Calif., community rallies to stop ICE raids
By Judy Greenspan posted on February 22, 2016
On Feb. 17, with the strong support of the Oakland Education Association, students, parents and teachers rallied outside Coliseum College Prep Academy, one of Oakland's small public schools, to demand "safety" for undocumented students and an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. On "National Walk-In Day for the Schools Our Students Deserve," this coalition focused on the demand of "No ICE! Stop the attack on Oakland families!"
"It is our duty to stand up to ICE. We support the teachers and students who are organizing this week all over our city," said Trish Gorham, president of OEA. The Oakland teachers' union passed a strong resolution last week opposing deportations and the appearance of ICE in this community.
The rally was a coalition effort of teachers and students from 30 Oakland schools who have committed themselves to informing the community about their rights and to organizing solidarity actions.
María Robles, mother of an Oakland student, spoke about the pain and fear that ICE causes in the immigrant community where she lives. "We live in constant fear of deportation. We are regular families working hard to survive," Robles stated.
Another speaker introduced as María, a member of "67 Sueños," a local community organization fighting for the rights of undocumented students, stated proudly, "We are not illegal. We are human beings."
Edgar Sanchez, a teacher at Coliseum College Prep and the son of undocumented parents, chaired the action and led a march into the school, where many students showed their support and solidarity. Summing up the theme of the rally and march, Sanchez said, "Our students and families have a right to stay together and feel safe."
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Today we get to the problem at the heart of America's democracy- and it has nothing to do with the Electoral College. Also, the Social Security Administration apparently doesn't know their a$& from a hole in the ground (as Kate's dad would say). If nothing else after today's LWKAM podcast you'll have "An easy and safety way to know your body situation." Go Girl!


With the sun out and the dirt tacky from the recent rain, racer spirits were high ahead of today's downhill race. And with a view like this from the top, how could they not be?
Judging from Loic Bruni's poise on his final practice run, he was going to be a contender in today's race.
The always-animated New Zealander Wyn Masters was holding strong in one of the first dicey, off-camber corners toward the top of the course. He ended up taking 13th place.
Fellow New Zealander Brook MacDonald was also riding strong today, here airing the stepdown that led into the Redwood forest section of the track. His run was enough to earn him 8th place overall.
Even though Australian David McMillan didn't finish in the top 20, he was still showing the style that he put on display during the Oceania Whip-Off Championships two days earlier.
New Zealander Matt Walker exhibited the aggressive stance of a seasoned pro as he headed toward the finish, ending up taking 12th place.
British racer Mike Jones was fully pinned heading into the finish, crossing the line just a second behind fellow Brit Bernard Kerr to take 11th place.
Aussie Connor Fearon blasted off the course's final hip jump into the finish corral to claim 5th place, consolidating his stellar performance at Crankworx Rotorua. Fearon took second place in the Oceania Whip-Offs on Wednesday.
Of all the New Zealand racers, Sam Blenkinsop looked hungriest for the win today, charging into the finish area like a bull in Pamplona to claim the third spot on the podium.
After spending much of the afternoon in the hot seat, US racer Eliot Jackson was eventually ousted by Frenchman Loic Bruni, but his spirits nonetheless remained high. As an interesting side note, music meister Jackson wore headphones for the entire race, given the fact that it was not UCI sanctioned and therefore not prohibited.
Loic Bruni was all smiles after his commanding two-second victory.
8,773 feet of descending and only 830 feet of climbing made for a successful start.


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Digital India to Support Judiciary: PM Narendra Modi
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Joint Conference of Chief Ministers of States and Chief Justices of High Courts
Narendra Modi stressed the need to prepare for emerging areas of litigation such as maritime law and cyber crime.
The Prime Minister (PM) of India Narendra Modi said Sunday that under the Digital India programme, technology should be deployed to bring about a qualititative change in the Judiciary.
Modi was addressing in Delhi a joint conference of chief ministers of states and chief justices of High Courts.
He stressed that quality manpower was required for the Judiciary. He was as concerned about the Human Resource, as he was about the physical infrastructure, Modi added.
He said the Judiciary should be both "Sashakt" and "Samarth" – empowered and capable – to play its "divine role" of ensuring the rule of law, and delivering justice to the common man.
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Modi also said good infrastructure for the Judiciary was a priority for the Government, and an amount of Rs. 9,749 crore (about $1.5 billion USD) had been earmarked for strengthening the Judiciary under the 14th Finance Commission.
Without going into the details of pendency in litigation and corruption in the Judiciary, the Prime Minister hoped that this forum would suggest some fresh approaches to deal with these issues.
He said Lok Adalats were an effective way of dispensing justice for the common man, and this mechanism should be strengthened further.
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Similarly, he stressed the importance of "Family Courts." He also called for a comprehensive review of the system of Government-appointed Tribunals to assess their efficacy and effectiveness.
The Prime Minister said laws are sometimes not drafted well, and therefore lead to multiple interpretations. He said there should be minimum grey areas, and therefore, drafting of laws requires special attention. He said he is committed to removal of obsolete laws.
He stressed the need to prepare for emerging areas of litigation such as maritime law and cyber crime. Modi said acquaintance with forensic science is now a must for those associated with the legal profession.
The Chief Justice of India, H.L. Dattu, and the Union Minister for Law and Justice, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, were present on the occasion.
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Despite the rapid advances in both output and efficiency, the basic theory of the gas turbine has remained unchanged. The layout of this new edition is broadly similar to the original, but greatly expanded and updated, comprising an outline of the basic theory, aerodynamic design of individual components, and the prediction of off-design performance. The addition of a chapter devoted to the mechanical design of gas turbines greatly enhances the scope of the book.
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As a college instructor of over forty years, I answer a resounding "yes" to this question. In my many years of teaching I have seen the money that students spend on textbooks increase faster than the cost of tuition at virtually every institution where I have taught. Students may think that faculty members are not concerned about the high cost of textbooks or that we don't do our part to decrease the cost of textbooks. I want to assure college students everywhere that teachers are well aware of the textbook cost problem and many are working to alleviate it.
Let's discuss just why textbooks cost so much. After all, textbooks are books and the cost of books seems to be going down if you look at online sites such as Amazon.com. Even at Barnes and Noble or Books a Million, you can get a fairly thick paperback novel for under $20. Why is it that a paperback textbook, then, costs $100 or more?
There are several reasons that textbooks cost so much: 1) supply and demand, 2) market size, and 3) captive audience. Let's examine each of these concepts.
First, you have heard of supply and demand. This economic principle truly comes into play in the textbook industry. It's not a terribly large industry, actually. Where your particular class in concerned, the publisher is a seller of one. That is, only one publisher manufactures and sells the textbook selected by your professor for your particular class. Look at it this way, if you professor required you to bring a calculator to class, you would have your choice of a whole host of calculators and thus could choose either an expensive one or a cheap one. With the textbook your teacher selects, there is only one choice. You can't decide you'd rather study from a different textbook that might be cheaper (well, you could but you probably wouldn't too very well on the exams). When you professor selects the textbook for your particular course, there is all of a sudden a strong demand and a fairly small supply. Thus, the publisher can set the price for the textbook at whatever they like.
Also, keep in mind that textbooks are not books that people typically are anxious to purchase. That is, there is not a great demand for these books in the general public. Therefore, if professors do not require the book for a course, the book will not be purchased and demand will plummet. The publisher will lose money. The publisher often must recoup their losses from all the potential sales that aren't made when professors do not choose this textbook.
Second, consider the issue of market size. The textbook market is large but not as large as other book markets. The textbook market is only as large as the number of college students (and not everyone is a college student) and college students buy textbooks. However, that's about the only time in a person's life when they will buy such booksthis four year college period. So textbook publishers have this finite size audience that will potentially buy their books over just a brief span of four years. Compared to other book publishers who have a potentially much larger market size that will last a potentially much longer time, textbook publishers must make their money from this limited group in a very limited time frame.
Finally, is the idea of the captive audience. Textbooks are books that readers are forced to buy. The audience is captive. Professors expect their students to have copies of the textbook. I have experienced instances where students have come to me and informed me that they couldn't afford to buy the textbook. I usually placed a copy of each textbook on reserve in the college library where students without a textbook could go to read the assignments. This, of course, was a stop gap measure and was implemented only for emergency cases. I certainly have sympathy for students in this situation, but part of college is buying the books for the courses taken. Surely, students don't expect teachers to supply each student with a textbook, and students lacking a textbook are truly at a loss in a course.
Is there anything that can be done about the high cost of college textbooks? Probably not across the board. Textbook publishers have monopolies on their particular textbook areas and disciplines and that is unlikely to change. Solutions for students include buying the textbook used, buying the textbook online, renting the textbook from academic rental agencies, sharing the cost of textbooks with fellow classmates, or trying to read the textbook (or portions of it) online. Yes, the cost of college textbooks is too high compared to other books, but there is not much that can be done about it.


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Basil Hayden's is the lightest-bodied bourbon whiskey in the family of Jim Beam small batch bourbons produced by Beam Suntory (a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan). It is 80 proof, in contrast with its three sibling brands of higher alcohol concentration (Knob Creek, Booker's, and Baker's).

The Basil Hayden's bourbon brand was introduced in 1992 and is named in honor of Basil Hayden Sr. Hayden was a distiller, and he used a larger amount of rye in his mash than in some other bourbons.  Later, Hayden's grandson Raymond B. Hayden founded a distillery in Nelson County and named his label "Old Grand-Dad", in honor of his grandfather, which bears a rendering of Basil Sr.'s likeness. When Beam Industries introduced their "small batch" collection, among the four was "Basil Hayden's." The company says it uses a mash identical to Knob Creek, which is similar to that originally utilized by Hayden in 1792.

The brand expression was originally labeled as "Aged 8 Years", but in 2014, the age statement was replaced by "Artfully Aged", indicating that the brand no longer carries an age guarantee.

History of the Haydens

Basil Hayden Sr. was a Maryland Catholic who led a group of twenty-five Catholic families from Maryland into what is now Nelson County, Kentucky (near Bardstown) in 1785. There Hayden donated the land for the first Catholic church west of the Alleghenies and the first Catholic church in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The Heydons (original spelling) emigrated to the Virginia Colony in the 1660s, when much of Britain became inhospitable to Catholics. Francis Hayden, Basil Sr.'s great-grandfather and the first Heydon (then switching to Hayden), moved from Virginia to Maryland in 1678, settling in St. Mary's County on St. Clement's Bay, where the family remained until Basil led his band of Catholic families into present-day Nelson County, Kentucky.  During the American Revolution, Basil Sr. supplied provisions to the Colonial Army.

Hayden's family can be traced back to England (Norfolk) to the period shortly after the Norman Conquest.  One ancestor, Simon de Heydon, was knighted by Richard the Lionheart in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade in the 1190s.  His son, Thomas de Heydon, was made Justice Itinerant of Norfolk by Henry III.  Around 1400, another ancestor, John Heydon, appears to have been associated with "The Grove" – a large estate in Watford (Hertfordshire),  located about twenty miles northwest of London.  Some researchers have speculated that John Heydon was given the estate for his father Sir Richard de Heydon's services in the French Wars, where Sir Richard perished. Others are less sure. But Heydons definitely lived in Watford from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.

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Food critic Morgan Murphy said "The rye-heavy whiskey is aged 8 years and carries a buttery flavor and smooth, tannic finish."

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The Kansas City Chiefs were a couple of defensive stops away from going to the Super Bowl, so defense figures to be a priority in April's NFL Draft. After all, they had the league's best offense and one of its worst defenses in 2018.
Unfortunately, Kansas City's success last year means they will be drafting all the way down at 30th overall in the first round. Some of the best prospects will already be gone by then. However, there will still be quality players for the taking.
Here are four of the best players the Chiefs could look at in the first round, according to mock drafts.
Last year's surprise trade of Marcus Peters left a gaping hole in the secondary the Chiefs could never fill. They had the second-worst pass defense in terms of yards allowed in the NFL. A mock draft by CBS Sports has the Chiefs replacing Peters with another Washington product in Byron Murphy.
Murphy racked up 58 tackles and four interceptions for the PAC-12 champions last year. What he lacks in size at just 5'11'' he makes up for in talent and instincts, according to scouting reports.
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper, on the other hand, had the Chiefs taking Alabama safety Deionte Thompson in a January mock draft. Kansas City needs to prepare for a future without Eric Berry. The former All-Pro safety has played just a few games in the past two years and there is no guarantee he will ever be available and fully effective again.
Enter Thompson. The 6'2'' defensive back totaled 78 tackles for the national championship runner-up Crimson Tide last year in his first full year as a starter. He also intercepted two passes and forced three fumbles.
Going back to the cornerback spot, Bleacher Report predicted the Chiefs will take Georgia corner Deandre Baker. The Bulldogs defensive back had 40 tackles, a forced fumble and two interceptions last year for the team that almost beat Alabama in the SEC title game.
A WalterFootball scouting report praised coverage and ball skills, as well as his overall athleticism. However, there are concerns about his speed and character issues that could drop him to the Chiefs.
One of the more interesting players mocked to the Chiefs is defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence, by WalterFootball. A few months ago, the idea of Lawrence falling as far as 30th overall was unthinkable. However, Lawrence tested positive for a performance enhancing drug late in the season and was suspended for Clemson's playoff game against Notre Dame.
However, Lawrence is massive at 6'5'' and 340 pounds and anchored one of the best college defensive lines in years. Opponents had a difficult time running the ball against Lawrence as well as trying to block him in pass protection. He could make an immediate impact next to Chris Jones on the Chiefs' defensive line.


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This was a one-time survey conducted in November 1992 as a supplement to the Labour Force survey to find out more about the activities, previous work force attachment and future plans of persons not presently in the labour force; information was also collected on the plans of non-student youth and the retirement circumstances of retired people.
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The survey of persons not in the labour force was a supplement to the Labour Force Survey (SDDS ID 3701) in three of the six rotation groups. The supplement was completed for all household members between the ages of 15 and 69 classified as not being in the labour force (i.e. neither employed nor unemployed) during the LFS reference week (full-time students and persons permanently unable to work were excluded). Most of the data was collected by telephone interview. Data were captured in Statistics Canada's regional offices and transmitted to head office for processing.
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Competition commissioner Matthew Boswell has his hands full reining in the digital economy
One to watch: In this Q&A, the commissioner reveals where he sees red flags and how he'll push to promote a 'culture of competition'
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The Competition Bureau is monitoring areas including online search, social media, display advertising and online marketplaces for possible anti-competitive practices.	Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg files
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Ten months after taking the top job at Canada's chief competition enforcement agency, Matthew Boswell spoke to the Financial Post about his plans to rein in anti-competitive practices and behaviours in order to create trust in the digital economy, which he views as a key plank to advance the country's productivity and global prospects. The former Crown attorney, who was also a senior litigator in the enforcement division of the Ontario Securities Commission before joining the Competition Bureau in 2011, reveals where he sees red flags and how he'll push to promote a "culture of competition."
FP: What are your priorities as Commissioner of Competition?
MB: We see a vision to be a world-leading competition agency at the forefront of the digital economy in terms of all things we do. The second aspect of our work is to promote competition in Canada and champion a culture of competition, which I think, quite sadly, we don't have — at least not one as vibrant as I would like to see it. The benefits of such a culture of competition for Canadian consumers and the benefit to the Canadian economy would be tremendous.
FP: What do you mean by culture of competition?
MB: Competition is quite simply the force that is driving us to do better. It encourages companies to be more productive, to innovate, to improve quality, to decrease prices, all of which is of benefit to Canadian consumers, so they have choices and markets work for them and what they need.
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FP: Why is this a priority for you?
MB: It's key to increasing Canadian productivity and prosperity. Canada does not place sufficient importance on competition and we need to change that for the benefit of Canadians and our economy, to make it more productive. Something lots of people have been talking about of late is declining productivity in Canada, and so the bureau is out there making the point quite loudly that competition is a driver of this increasing productivity. We are also making the point that, unfortunately, we have significant regulatory barriers to increasing competition in Canada, and this is something that we believe the entire country would benefit from taking a long, hard look at.
FP: How? Do you have a recommendation?
MB: The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) has recommended that countries undertake something called competition impact assessments, which is where you look at your regulation at all levels of government and see if those regulations are unnecessarily impeding competition in the country: Are they being too heavy administrative burdens on startups, creating barriers to entry for small and medium-sized enterprises?
FP: How does Canada stack up against other countries?
MB: The sort of sad bit in this regard is that the OECD created something called the PMR, the product market regulation indicator, which measures regulatory restriction on competition, and in 2018, the PMR indicated that Canada was 33rd out of 34 countries. We're now just ahead of one country, Turkey, I believe. This has evolved over time where a culture of competition would significantly help (improve) this, we believe. In 1998, we were 10th out of 28. In 2008, we were 18th out of 34.
FP: What are you doing, or plan to do, that's specific to businesses that operate in the digital economy?
MB: In terms of the digital economy and enforcement, we're already doing a fair bit to advance the vision. We hired a chief digital enforcement officer last summer, someone who's joined the bureau through a secondment from IBM, to take a look at quite literally all aspects of how we do our work in the digital economy, how we can improve, what sorts of tools and technology we need, what sort of training our current employees need, what kind of employees we need for the future so that we are well-placed to enforce in a rapidly changing data-driven digital economy. We have to stay constantly ahead of the curve on this stuff.
FP: How are you being proactive in terms of the business community?
MB: Consistent with the emphasis on enforcement in the digital economy, we put a call out to businesses in Canada to communicate with us about potential issues they might be seeing, so that we're aware of challenges they may be facing, or anti-competitive practices that they may be suffering under that may be preventing them from competing on a level playing field.
FP: Who was the target here?
MB: This is specifically targeted at certain aspects of the digital economy, and certain large players, to make sure we're hearing from smaller players, small and medium-sized enterprises that might be experiencing anti-competitive conduct.
FP: What industries? Banking? Telecom?
MB: In our enforcement call-out, we highlighted areas like online search, social media, display advertising and online marketplaces, and different types of practices that might be going on there that are anti-competitive. There are no specific companies named, obviously.
FP: I know you can't name specific companies that may be under investigation, but some of the big players in Canada are not Canadian-based companies.
MB: That doesn't prevent us from doing our work if they're conducting business in Canada. If it's through the internet and they have a substantial connection to Canada in terms of their business, then their conduct, if it's anti-competitive, falls within the bureau's mandate. In the past, we've pursued enforcement cases against large, digital companies that don't have a significant physical presence in Canada. We brought a deceptive marketing case against Amazon, for example. We had an investigation into Google that in 2016 resolved by way of some undertakings from Google to cease certain types of conduct. We're not limited by the fact that the companies might not actually be Canadian companies.
FP: What about within Canada's borders? Some have argued that there are industries where incumbent dominance has frustrated competition from new players. I'm thinking about telecom again and discussions about creating a fourth national wireless player.
MB: We're very active in that space as well in terms of competition in Canada. We just provided our submission to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) in their wholesale wireless hearings into whether or not to have mobile virtual network operators. And we're often advocating to the CRTC on competition issues, domestic competition issues in terms of the digital economy. Our submission is quite extensive and it's supported by an independent expert report. We make specific recommendations on how they might consider going forward with a wholesale wireless regime in Canada. And our recommendations are aimed at enhancing the already existing fourth players in different parts of the country — the regional competitors. We believe the submission we made will facilitate them becoming stronger competitors in the long run. We've already seen from those regional competitors cheaper cellphone prices in the areas where they have a significant presence. There will be a CRTC hearing in February where the bureau, including myself, will testify.
FP: What sorts of other probes can we expect? Is there anything you're doing now that will indicate what's ahead?
MB: We've done a lot of enforcement work and will continue to do so through our deceptive marketing practices branch here at the bureau. In digital economy matters, we recently obtained a temporary consent agreement — an injunction — against FlightHub, preventing them, while we continue to investigate, from making false or misleading representations on Flighthub.com and JustFly.com, with respect to hidden fees on their website, false or misleading representations about seat selection, all digitally made through their websites. This was significant from our perspective, so we took the step of obtaining this injunction from the Competition Tribunal while we continue the investigation to prevent harm in the marketplace. Also in the deceptive marketing area, we've done significant work in terms of drip pricing online.
FP: What's drip pricing?
MB: It is where you'll see an advertisement or representation on your cellphone or on your home computer that you can get a product or a service for X dollars and you then start going through the purchasing process and as you click your way through, additional mandatory fees are added in so that at the end when you're checking out, the price that was originally represented to you is not in fact available. It's often a significantly higher price. This is a deceptive marketing practice. We've brought multiple cases against multiple large Canadian and global companies for this practice … including this summer's settling with Ticketmaster for drip pricing practices and they paid a $4-million penalty for that conduct. Prior to that, we pursued all the large car rental companies for the same drip pricing practices. Collectively, that was about $6 million in penalties. And these were all primarily online representations that are deceptive to Canadians.
FP: Will we be seeing more from the Competition Bureau in this area?
MB: We'll continue to do that work. We're also doing work to prevent a practice known as astro-turfing. It's when companies make positive reviews or five-star ratings for their products and it's done by their own employees or people connected to the company, without disclosing those connections. We had an enforcement action against Bell for this a few years back, and we're monitoring for that sort of activity going on in the digital marketplace.
FP: Do you think foreign ownership limits should be changed in industries where there are barriers, such as telecommunications?
MB: That's not something we've ever addressed in a report. At a very high level, it's important for the discussion in Canada to be about how we can have a greater culture of competition for the benefits of the economy. There are estimates that reducing the regulatory barriers to competition could increase GDP per capita in Canada by two to five per cent, which is a significant change. That's an area where part of our vision during my time as commissioner is really to champion this culture of competition in Canada. The other point that needs to be made is that as we compete in a global marketplace, it's more and more important that we have a strong competitive market at home so that our companies who want to go out and compete globally are prepared to do so, having thrived under competitive conditions in Canada. It's really helpful to refer to a person named Michael Porter, who's a very well-known Harvard economist, who has stated that — and this brings the point home — unless a firm is forced to compete at home, it will usually lose its competitiveness abroad. It's really important for Canada to take this into account when we're considering all aspects of competition within the country.
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Long time reader, first time writer! Haha!
I've been single for a couple years. I was definitely dating. Some more consistently than others. But I was single.
I just met someone amazing. She's all the things I've been looking for.
BUT, I'm so used to being single. I just have single habits now. For example, it's really hard for me to just go home after work or when it gets late or whatever. I didn't have a reason to go home before!
Do you have any advice on how to get comfortable with being in a relationship again?
Love your blog. You seem like such a cool, fun person! I relate to your writing.
What do you guys think? How do you transition from longterm single living to being relationship minded? Have you ever felt like this before?


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Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian American film director best known for the classic 'Casablanca.' This biography of Michael Curtiz provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
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Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian American film director best known for the classics 'Casablanca,' 'Mildred Pierce,' and 'White Christmas' among others. A highly prolific director, he directed more than 50 films in Europe and more than 100 in the United States, an output unmatched by anyone else of his era. He enjoyed the peak of success in the 1930s and 1940s, during the Golden Age of Hollywood during which he worked for the Warner Bros. studio. Born into a Jewish family in Hungary, he became interested in the show business as a youngster and studied acting at Budapest's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art. He made his stage debut in Budapest in 1910 and proceeded to act in, and direct many stage plays. He soon ventured into the newly emerging medium of cinema and starred in 'Today and Tomorrow' which was the first film released by the nascent Hungarian film industry. Before long he directed several films and became one of the top most directors of silent films in Hungary. After leaving his home country in 1919 he eventually made his way into Hollywood to join the Warner Bros. studio. He began his Hollywood career with silent films and effortlessly made the transition to talkies with the advent of sound. He worked with Warner Bros. for almost three decades over the course of which he produced notable films like 'Captain Blood,' 'Dodge City,' and 'Casablanca'.
Birthday: December 24, 1886
Died on: April 10, 1962
Famous: Film Director, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors
Spouses: Bess Meredyth (1929–1962; his death), Lili Damita (1925–1926; divorced), Lucy Doraine (1918–1923; divorced)
Known as: Manó Kaminer, Mihály Kertész, Michael Kertész
Birth Place: Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Birthday December 24, 1886
Died on April 10, 1962
Famous Film Director, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors
Spouses Bess Meredyth (1929–1962; his death), Lili Damita (1925–1926; divorced), Lucy Doraine (1918–1923; divorced)
Known as Manó Kaminer, Mihály Kertész, Michael Kertész
Birth Place Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Sun Sign Capricorn
Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Famous as Film Director
Died at Age 75
Michael Curtiz born at
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Michael Curtiz was thrice married. He married Lucy Doraine in 1918 and divorced her in 1923.
His second marriage to Lili Damita in 1925 was very short-lived and ended the following year.
He was known to be a short-tempered and difficult man to work with, though he was a brilliant director. His marriages too, were very tumultuous and volatile. He married actress and screenwriter, Bess Meredyth, in 1929. This marriage too was not a happy one though the couple did not divorce. Curtiz was never loyal to his wives and had sexual relationships with other women throughout the marriages. He also fathered children out of wedlock.
He was born as Manó Kaminer to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary). Not much is known about his early life as no credible records exist. Even his birthday which is generally believed to be December 24, 1886, is open to debate.
Childhood & Early Life
He told tall tales about his childhood, often contradicting himself. According to his own account he had run away from home to join the circus and had been a member of the Hungarian fencing team at the 1912 Olympic Games. However, no proofs exist to validate these claims.
He probably had a normal middle-class upbringing. He studied at Markoszy University and the Royal Academy of Theatre and Art, Budapest.
He began his career as a stage actor in 1910 and went on to act in and direct many stage plays. When the film industry emerged in Hungary, the ambitious young men ventured into it and starred in 'Today and Tomorrow' (1912), the first feature film released by the nascent Hungarian film industry.
He went to Denmark in 1913 where he spent six months at the Nordisk studio in Denmark, honing his craft. When the World War I broke out, he briefly served in the artillery of the Austro-Hungarian Army but was back to film-making by 1915.
On his return to Hungary, he directed a number of silent films and had earned a reputation for himself by the late 1910s. He left the country in 1919 and moved to Vienna for a few years. He continued his prolific film-making career and made many movies including the Biblical epics 'Sodom und Gomorrha '(1922) and 'Die Sklavenkönigin' (1924).
One of his films caught the attention of Jack Warner who invited the Hungarian director—who eventually changed his name to Michael Curtiz—to Hollywood in 1926. He began his Hollywood career with silent films and soon moved to the talkies with the part-sound films 'Tenderloin' and 'Noah's Ark' (both 1928).
He began the 1930s with a string of successes. He experimented with the adventure-drama genre and formed a highly productive collaboration with Errol Flynn, who he directed in 'Captain Blood' (1935), 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1936), 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' (1938), 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex' (1939), 'The Sea Hawk' (1940) and 'Santa Fe Trail' (1940).
Michael Curtiz directed the classic film 'Casablanca' starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. A romantic drama set during the World War II, the film was a critical and commercial success at the time of its release and consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history.
He directed Joan Crawford in the title role in the film noir 'Mildred Pierce,' a story about a middle-age mother who struggles with an ungrateful daughter. The film earned Crawford an Academy Award and was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.


This week for Travel Tuesday I am going to take you on another adventure up in Arches National Park, Utah. This is the Devils Garden Primitive Loop Trail.
This trail is about 7.2 miles, although depending on how many or how few of the points of interest you take it could be slightly longer or a bit shorter.
I recommend if it's your first time, doing the entire loop!
This trail will take you to 8 beautiful arches.
The first arch you will see is Landscape Arch, which if you want to catch my post on it you can HERE. That first portion is a very well maintained trail, very little to no difficulties.
Once you get beyond Landscape Arch, the trail does get a little more difficult. You will be doing some slickrock climbing on the sandstone rock. This next picture, are the rock fins you will begin your climb up, to get up onto the next portion of the trail.
If you are unfamiliar with hiking in the desert, because rock doesn't always show signs of a trail. Just watch for the stacks of rocks, those will keep you on track and show you where to go.
If you are afraid of heights, you may find some difficulties with this hike. As their are a few spots where you will be walking along edges with drop offs on both sides of you. As well as climbing up and down slickrock along edges with long drop offs, further down the trail.
However, with that said I hiked this as a young child. If you are a parent or guardian who is okay with lifting and directing kids or carrying them down some cliff spots at times. Especially if your kids are well behaved and used to hiking. You can definitely take the whole family on this if you'd like.
If you don't think your kids are ready for it yet, save it for them when they get older!
You will definitely want a good pair of shoes. There are a few very narrow area's, with ledges that can get very sandy at times and good sturdy hiking shoes are best!
There is very little shade on this trail. I did this hike this year in 100 degree heat in the middle of the summer. It was hot, but still fine because I carried plenty of water with me.
If you don't like hiking in the heat, I would recommend this as a spring or fall hike.
However, because in the winter with snow and ice, with the ledges and cliffs this may not be the best hike to take during icy times.
There is a point on the hike where you will come to a large bowl of water (usually there is water in it.) It's just drainage from when it rains, and the rock holds the water in. I'd say about 10-15 feet across on way and about 8ish feet across between the sandstone surrounding cliffs.
It's not deep you can wade across it.
Last, if you can climb a little you can take a running (well that's what I did) jump and run up a bit of the cliff reaching into the cracks as you slow and climb. It's about a 25 foot climb, and I said take a running start just because the momentum helps you. If you have good shoes, its a pretty easy climb I was up it in no time. But if in bad shoes, like I saw others the day I did it, well lets just say you might just slide back down and not have the traction needed to make it up!
No matter which you choose, don't let the small pool of water discourage you from getting past!
It's a beautiful trail, lots to see and enjoy! If you are ever in the park, I highly recommend this hike it is worth it!
Have you taken the Devils Garden Primitive Trail before? Did you enjoy it?
If not, is this something you are going to add to your list of things to do if you visit Arches in Utah?
Thanks, yes it really is some beautiful country in Arches!
Oh wow! I love hiking! These places look like a dream and I love your images too!
Thanks Julie, its a beautiful place to visit.
Oh how awesome! You do the most gorgeous hikes. How did your ankle/tendon feel after the hike? It's weird but with plantar fasciitis, walking uphill doesn't hurt but walking on flat paths does sometimes.
Thanks Denise. I actually took this one earlier this year back in June, at the time my ankle/tendon was doing quite well. I found my hiking boots laced tight offered a lot of support, I never had any problems with it, thankfully!
I have more trouble standing for long periods, or walking too slow. It's weird how things affect us huh!
You really have some gorgeous places to hike! Those arches are amazing!
Yes, Utah is a beautiful state I could never get bored hiking here!
Great pics Kristy! Loved that hike when we went to Arches! Your pics make me want to go back!
Seriously, every time I read your posts I realize how badly I need to get out there and see that part of the country!! It's so beautiful!
Oh just amazing, I'm so jealous.
Thanks Matilda, I have been working on this new blog for a while:) glad to know others like it too!
This is a beautiful hike, if ever you find yourself in the states and in Utah definitely visit Arches!!!


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Q: Oracle to SQL Server: Month + Year where clause I have an Oracle Query that goes as follow:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE ...
    AND to_char(a.bill_Date, 'MMYYYY') = '072017'
    ...
ORDER BY ...

In SQL Server, we have the MONTH() and YEAR() functions.
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE ...
    AND MONTH(a.BILL_DATE) = MONTH(GETDATE())
    AND YEAR(a.BILL_DATE) =  YEAR(GETDATE())
    ...
ORDER BY ...

Is there something that allows me to apply a Month-Year constraint like Oracle does with to_char through a single step? I have to make this parameterized and maintain compatibility with both databases through a common interface. Now, one would require two parameters and other would just one.

A: To get year and month in SQL Server (2012 and above) you could use FORMAT:

FORMAT ( value, format [, culture ] )

WHERE ...
  AND FORMAT(a.bill_Date, 'yyyyMM') = '201707';

--or

WHERE ...
  AND FORMAT(a.bill_Date, 'MMyyyy') = '072017';

Rextester Demo
Please keep in mind that FORMAT(a.bil_Date, 'MMyyyy') is not SARG-able so there will be no index usage.

A: I think the closest thing to Oracle's TO_CHAR function in SQL Server would be CONVERT.  But even with CONVERT I see no option to request only the year and month.  Rather, we would need to accept at least the day as well, and possibly a timestamp in addition to this.
CONVERT accepts a date format mask parameter as its third argument.  The 112 mask returns a date only in the following format:
yyyymmdd

So for the date in your question it would return this:
201707dd

where I have left dd undefined as I don't know which day a given record might have.  Now we can get close to what you want by taking the left 6 characters of this output, e.g.
WHERE ... AND
    LEFT(CONVERT(varchar, a.bill_Date, 112), 6) = '201707'

A: You could rewrite your Oracle query to avoid data to char conversions:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE ...
    AND EXTRACT (MONTH FROM a.bill_Date) = 7
    AND EXTRACT (YEAR FROM a.bill_Date) = 2017
    ...
ORDER BY ...

and the equivalent SQL Server
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE ...
        AND MONTH(a.bill_Date) = 7
        AND YEAR(a.bill_Date) = 2017
        ...
ORDER BY ...

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