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Watch the guards changing in Alba Iulia, be a guest at a wedding in Sibiel, visit Sighisoara, the birthplace of the famous Dracula, be astonished by the Fagaras Fortress or just relax yourself in Sibiu or Cluj Napoca. Super magical sites, incredible moments, culture and tradition at its best will make you say: WOW!
Arrival and departure transfers
DAY 1: Arrival Sibiu
The guide will meet you at Sibiu Airport at your arrival. Transfer provided to the 4* hotel in Sibiu.Hotel check in and you`re ready for your fantastic tour to be started.
We will start with the sightseeing tour of Sibiu by foot, including: the Brukenthal Art Museum, the Stairs Passage, the Liar's Bridge, the Grand Square and the Lesser Square, the Stairs' Passage, the medieval fortress' walls.Sibiu was the European Capital of Culture in 2007, together with Luxemburg, being the first city in South-Eastern Europe to receive this title. Even before Romania adhered to the European Union, Sibiu was already known for having an European character, mainly for its infrastructure, but also due to the fact that it is a cultural location and its European spirit.You will be amazed by the charm of this beautiful city!
Dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight.
DAY 2: Sibiu - Sighisoara - Fagaras Fortress - Sibiu - 231 km
Breakfast in the hotel and departure for Sighisoara.
We will visit the only medieval citadel in Europe that is still fully inhabited; mentioned in 1280 as "Castrum Sex". Detailed tour of the citadel, including the Tower Museum, the Scholars' Stairs, the Church on the Hill. Feel the attractions of the Torture Room and visit the Medieval Weapons Collection. Visit the house where is supposing that Vlad "Dracula" was born.
Sighisoara, besides being the birthplace of famous Vlad the Impaler associated with Dracula is the last still inhabited medieval citadel not only in Transylvania but in whole Europe and also a World Heritage Site since 1993.
What a fantastic city!
Lunch in Sighisoara.
We will continue our tour with a visit at the Fagaras Fortress. Situated right in the heart of Romania, the Fagaras Fortress is located in the town with the same name.The Fotress represents one of Eastern Europe's largest and best-preserved feudal Castle complexes.The feudal Castle in Fagaras, whose construction began in the late 14th century and continued through successive additions until the middle of the 18th century, was preceded by a wooden fort, surrounded by a moat and wave of land, archaeologically attested to 12th century.This is the only fortress of its kind in Romania. In the early 17th century, the city became the princely residence of Michael the Brave and the citadel expanded continuously, reflecting the growing wealth of a center that exercised control over much of Transylvania and central Romania.
From 1948 until 1960 the castle was used as a prison. One of the most famous torture device called "The Iron Lady" has been found in one of its towers. Nowadays the castle hosts the Fagaras Country Museum, dedicated to local history and the municipal library.Fagaras Fortress ranks second in the top of the most beautiful castles in the world, according to a classification made by Hopper, a well known website dedicated to travel planning.
For today our tour finishes back to Sibiu. Dinner and overnight in Sibiu.
DAY 3: Sibiu - Alba Iulia - 75 Km
Breakfast in the hotel and departure to Alba Iulia.
On the way to Alba Iulia we will stop in Sibiel, a very traditional village near Sibiu.
You will take part to a Romanian traditional wedding. Join the wedding guests through the streets and stay behind the groom on his way to the bride's home, according to the old romanian customs. It seems that history stands still here and nothing has changed from the old times. Just imagine seeing the groom on a horse as you join him in such an important moment!
From Sibiel we continue the tour to Alba Carolina Citadel considered to be the most spectacular and the largest citadel in Romania.
The Citadel of Alba Iulia has been designed by Marquis de Vauban. His revolutionary system of fortifications and defenses brought him international recognition throughout the centuries, as today there are tens of citadels built by the system that bears his name.
Check in hotel and dinner in a local restaurant in the Citadel.
But the evening hasn't finished yet! If you come on a Saturday you may witness the "Changing of the Guard" ceremony and you can watch troops from the city's Austrian Empire's infantry, cavalry and artillery divisions in their traditional military costumes (only Saturdays, at 9 pm). What an evening!
Dinner and overnight in Alba Iulia.
DAY 4: Alba Iulia - Turda - Cluj - 101 km
Breakfast in the hotel and departure for Cluj - Napoca.
On the way to Cluj - Napoca we will visit probably the coolest underground place on Earth - Turda Salt Mine. The place looks like you are on other planet. Believe us when we say this is a super magical site.
Lunch on our way.
Arrival in Cluj - Napoca and check-in Hotel 4*.
We will do a walking tour through the city and we will have our farewell dinner in local restaurant in Cluj - Napoca. If we are not exhausted after such a long day we may continue our last evening in the beautiful Romania having a drink in a jazz and blues cafe.
Return to hotel and overnight in Cluj.
DAY 5: Departure from Cluj
This is your departure day.
Check-out and transfer to the airport.
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Owned & operated by the Stewart family on Sanibel & Captiva Island since 1986. Adventures in Paradise Cruises & Tours hopes to show you just how amazing the islands of Sanibel and Captiva are and why we fell in love with the sea. Explore and take a journey with us to discover dolphins, manatee, sea horses, osprey, and pristine beaches brimming with shells, shells, and more seashells! The waters of Sanibel and Captiva provide for some of the worlds best boat cruises, and our family would like to guide you to the best fun-filled adventures.
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Additional details about the vulnerability can be found in the links section below.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported related to how Single sign on (SSO) vendors and SAML libraries use the SAML protocol.
Coupa allows customers to configure SSO integration using SAML with their identity providers. Coupa uses a commercial vendor to implement the SAML service provider functionality within the product. The vendor used by Coupa is not vulnerable to the reported vulnerabilities.


Sometimes life can be downright nasty. People can wrong you, betray your trust, defy you, and put you in a situation where you are victimized. It's unfortunate, but it happens. Have you wondered what happens if you refuse to play the role of a victim and take back control in your life?
Let's first define what a victim is. A victim is someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as a result of an accident, crime, or other event. Being victimized can come in all shapes and forms. You could have your trust betrayed by someone near and dear to you, you could be a victim of a horrible crime, you could be a victim of your own mindset. You can be victimized by friends, family members, strangers, your country, or even yourself. But you can do something about it, and it starts with you.
Oftentimes when we are victimized, we feel overwhelmed or even alone and struggle with coping appropriately. But after some time, playing the role of the victim is detrimental to our health. However, there are plenty of things you can do when you choose to reclaim your life.
Ask yourself this question: can I leave or remove myself from the situation?
For example, if you're in a relationship and your trust has been betrayed for whatever reason, can you leave the situation — can you put yourself out of harm's way?
Oftentimes, the environment we surround ourselves with will harbor the role of being a victim. It's time to change that. You could go stay with a friend, family member, or get a hotel. Either way, refusing to leave a situation that only affords you the role of being a victim is not healthy.
Instead of waiting for a situation or a person to change, why not see what you can do? More often than not, you cannot force a person to change, but you can greatly influence change. You can act as a catalyst for that change.
For example, if you live with a family member or significant other who has a substance abuse problem and tends to be really mean to you when they're under the influence, what can you do? You can start changing the situation by setting boundaries. You can take your power back by letting a particular person know what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
You cannot change others, it's up to them, but you can greatly influence their behaviors by changing how you interact with them.
Accepting the situation and then changing your mindset should be applied to almost any situation where you have been victimized. Trust me, this is a hard thing to do, but you can do it. Accept that a tragic wrong has been done, accept it, put it in the past, and live in the here and now. It may take time, but the greatest gift you have is the present.
Changing your mindset when you have been victimized means you will no longer assume the role of a victim. You will reclaim your power and voice — they are yours and should have never been taken. Regardless of how you were victimized, changing your mindset to know that you have complete power over your thoughts, actions, and reactions will change your life.
You know what will happen when you decide to stop playing the victim and take your life back? A lifetime full of possibilities. You will have your personal power back. Your creative spark will glow to help solve problems where most other people wouldn't know where to start.
By taking back your power and no longer playing the victim, you will grant yourself permission to have more freedom, as you will no longer depend on others. You will become the master of your own life. You set the pace and decide what road to take.
Yes, it will be hard — I'm not suggesting it will be easy. With perseverance and dedication, your hard work will pay off. In turn, you will have crafted a more relaxed life built on your own power.
No one wishes to be victimized, but it happens. By changing your role from victim to personal hero, you can begin to reclaim your power and become the hero in your own story.


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History's Greatest People, Places and Events.
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James Knoll Gardner, American jurist, Died at 76
James Knoll Gardner was born on September 14, 1940, in Allentown, Pennsylvania and died on April 26, 2017.
He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Yale University in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1965.
James Knoll Gardner passed away at 76 years old.
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Buhari orders crackdown on hard drug barons
Buhari: orders crackdown against drug barons
President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed law enforcement agencies to deal decisively with drug barons, all those who import, distribute and sell illicit drugs in the country.
Speaking at an interactive meeting with religious leaders in Kano, on Thursday, in the course of his two-day State visit, the President expressed concern about the growing problem of drugs abuse in the country.
Kano is battling a crisis of drug addiction by youths and women. Last month the Kano State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it destroyed 54.2 million tons of illicit drugs, especially marijuana.
"The Customs is already doing a good job and I'm happy that I got someone who is efficient, strong and trusted to lead it in the person of Hameed Ali, a former governor of Kaduna State.
''I have charged them and other law enforcement agencies to go after those trafficking in illicit drugs that are causing much harm especially among young people," he said.
President Buhari also assured the religious leaders that the war against corruption will be prosecuted with the highest regards to due process and respect for human rights.
He asked Nigerians to be patient on this issue, saying that as an elected President he was bound to follow the constitution.
"When I came in uniform as military Head of State, we locked every suspect in Kirikiri prisons until they proved that they were not guilty.
''Under the constitution, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That is the constitution and we will abide by it," he stressed.
Reaffirming his strong support for the proposed anti-corruption courts, the President said to strengthen judicial integrity and the rule of law, such courts must be manned by ''incorruptible judges.''
President Buhari used the occasion to counsel leaders to rise to the challenge of the country's growing youth population.
"Leaders at every level must pay attention to this. We must give everything we have including education, vocational skills and training for our large youth population so that they can grow to be responsible citizens," he said.
On the provision of infrastructure, the President restated that his administration will ensure increased investment in infrastructure across the country to stimulate the economy and job creation.
He praised the Chinese government for proving the funds for some ongoing projects in the country including railways, roads and the Mambilla hydro-power project.
The President welcomed the suggestion from some of the religious leaders for the setting up of a religious advisory committee made up of Muslim and Christian leaders to meet periodically to advise the government.
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Jacky is the founding Managing Director of TRADEMARK2U (Thailand) Co,. Ltd. A branch office of TRADEMARK2U.
Bachelor of Law, Faculty of Law (special program), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Registered patent agent in Thailand.
Thaneeya has more than 10 years experience in intellectual property field, in particular to patent and trademark registration. Before working at Trademark2u (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Thaneeya worked as a Patent Agent in Thailand for International Law firm handling for patent drafting and registration.
At TRADEMARK2U, Thaneeya manages various patent applications and is responsible for filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). She is experienced in patent search, drafting and prosecution in both domestic and foreign jurisdictions. She is also responsible for filing trademark applications in overseas and Thailand, responding to inquiries, relating to all Intellectual Property matters.
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From the outset, Sony has considered the PlayStation 3 an all-around entertainment console, with tendrils that extend well beyond the realm of game play. Perhaps chief among these is its support for the Blu-ray Disc format, which lets you play high-definition movies. But can the PS3 perform competitively with stand-alone Blu-ray players from consumer electronics makers?
The short answer is yes. In my initial hands-on tests, the PS3's Blu-ray Disc playback was very good--even better than I'd anticipated. (If you're impatient to read my first impressions of the PS3's image quality for Blu-ray Discs, skip ahead to "Sublime Video," past the interface discussion.) However, this is not an unqualified endorsement; in fact, I found several drawbacks that may give audio-visual enthusiasts pause.
The PS3's movie playback experience is best if you start from scratch, inserting a disc into the front-loading slot as soon as you power up the unit. It took just 3 seconds for our Underworld Evolution disc to physically load into the unit itself, followed almost immediately by the PlayStation 3 startup music. The screen then blacked out, and the movie came up on screen. Total elapsed time from disc insertion to the start of the program (in this case, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's opening splash screen) was a respectable 24 seconds.
If you want to play a movie with the PS3 unit already on, the experience differs. You insert the disc and wait for something to happen, except nothing happens. The issue--one of several that keep the PS3 from being a killer Blu-ray Disc player--is that, if already turned on, the machine does not automatically start the movie disc. Furthermore, after detecting the presence of the BD-ROM, the PS3 doesn't automatically highlight that new video option so that you can select it, let alone properly identify the BD-ROM movie on the disc--as Black Hawk Down or The Phantom of the Opera, for example.
Instead, the newly inserted BD-ROM appears as an option above the Video menu index (in contrast with the other video content that we had loaded on the PS3's hard drive, which appears below the Video menu listing). You have to manually select the BD-ROM by scrolling up to that spot, and then select it by pressing the X button on the controller. The movie disc is still not identified by name, only as a BD-ROM.
Once I had the movie loaded, I discovered the next irksome hurdle to using the PS3 as a home entertainment console. Since it doesn't come with a separate remote control for video playback, I had to use the game controller to navigate through movies, and that required two hands.
Two-handed navigation for entertainment players is not unheard of--several high-end remote controls from Harmony, Philips, and others require two hands--but it is unusual, and certainly a departure from the more commonplace and ergonomic single-handed clicker. I adapted to the PS3 controller, but ultimately, though elegant for game play, it proved kludgy as a BD remote. Using two hands to control basic functions like play, fast forward, and rewind was both ungainly and imprecise; I missed not having dedicated buttons for such common features.
Nonetheless, even with the added cost of the remote, the high-end PS3 still costs significantly less than stand-alone BD players, which range in price from $899 for the Philips BDP9000 to $1500 for the forthcoming Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1. If you buy the high-end PS3 with the remote, you'll spend about $625 (the standard console costs $100 less), making the PS3 an attractive option for high-def movie playback.
To navigate up, down, left, or right within the disc menus, you can use either the PS3 controller's directional pad or the left analog stick controller. You press X to select options and to activate play. The O button lets you exit the BD player, the square button brings up the disc's pop-up menu, and the triangle button gives you a handy, transparent-overlay on-screen menu that pops up on the left side of the screen. This menu provides quick access to certain settings, and awkward access to dedicated software-based playback controls (for example, buttons for fast forward, rewind, play, and stop)--which you need since the game controller lacks such dedicated controls.
Trying to perform certain operations, such as precise fast-forwarding, was particularly frustrating. The fast-forward steps ahead at 1.5X, 10X, 30X, and 120X, and you must press the X button to cease moving forward. Stepping forward frame by frame is even more awkward: No option clearly exists for this, but you can press the controller's X button to pause playback and then use the analog stick or the right and left arrows on the directional pad to advance a frame at a time.
Unfortunately, you'll have to experiment to figure all this out: The manual included with our PlayStation 3 provided no clues on how to use the controller's buttons for movie navigation. I had to dope out the responses via trial and error, and frequently found several paths to the same operation. This could be either confusing or convenient, depending on your perspective and on how comfortable you are using the controller to navigate the interface.
In spite of these nits, the PS3's Blu-ray Disc movie player proved highly satisfactory in many ways.
I popped multiple Blu-ray Disc movies into the player and found that I liked the relatively quick speed with which it loaded and navigated through discs. I encountered a few noticeable pauses while switching between far-flung chapters on a disc, but no interminable hourglasses or annoying waits like the ones I experienced with the Samsung BD-P1000. The PS3 can resume playback; I discovered, though, that if I exited the player app to do something else on the PS3 before reselecting the BD movie, there was an obvious lag before play started up again.
I found the pop-up info display elegantly designed--unobtrusive, yet easily readable. (The easiest path to this display: Press the Select button in the middle of the controller.) It's a good thing that the display is a pleasure to read, because you'll be invoking it a lot: The pop-up is the only way to figure out where you are in the disc, since the PlayStation 3 console lacks an LCD screen such as those commonly found on DVD and dedicated Blu-ray Disc players. Personally, I prefer having an LCD on my player that I can glance at to see how many minutes remain, but the PS3's approach does have an advantage: In dark environments, you won't be distracted by a glowing LCD.
The display shows plenty of information about a given disc. On the top row you see the audio codec, including how many channels of sound, the sample frequency in kHz, and the bit rate. Comparable information is displayed for video (the video codec and bit rate). The bottom row displays the disc's title number and chapter number, the time elapsed, and the total time, with a meter that shows where you currently are on the disc relative to the total playing time.
While usability is critical to any consumer electronics device, the quality of the output remains paramount. Having the PS3 finally allowed me to compare the first-to-market Samsung BD-P1000 (with the original, factory-installed firmware) side by side with another Blu-ray Disc player, and the results highlighted a video-quality shortcoming in the original release of the Samsung player that shipped in the summer.
Earlier, with no other Blu-ray player to compare against the Samsung, I had found its output of HD films on Blu-ray definitely better-looking than the same movies on standard-definition DVD. However, when I watched the same Blu-ray movies on the PlayStation 3, I could better appreciate Blu-ray's potential for image clarity. I also found the overall image quality more comparable to that of HD DVD films I've seen displayed on Toshiba's HD DVD players, in terms of sharpness, detail, and color.
Though my first impressions of the PlayStation 3's Blu-ray video playback quality were positive, videophiles should take note: The PS3 has two technical limitations that set it apart from stand-alone Blu-ray players. First, unlike stand-alone Blu-ray players, the PS3 does not have a dedicated video chip set optimized for decoding Blu-ray video, instead relying on the Cell processor and its software to do the job. This may turn out to be a plus, however, as Sony's improvements to the player software can be more easily distributed to existing users than a hardware upgrade.
Second, the PS3 offers 1080p60 (where the 60 refers to frames per second) playback, which is less optimal than 1080p24 for filmed content. Few displays support 1080p24 output today, but if your HD set and your BD player do so, you should see higher-quality images than you'd get from 1080p60 output. Since movies are filmed at 24 frames per second, you'd want to use an even multiple of 24 (such as 72 frames per second) to avoid motion artifacts in slow-panning scenes. If you display 24-fps content at an uneven multiple, like the commonly used 60 fps, you'll end up with those artifacts.
The PS3's minimalist menu interface has some strong points, but the bare-bones approach can leave you scratching your head as you explore your audio and video output options.
For example, if you bravely dig deep through the Settings menu into the BD/DVD Settings, you'll find an arcane option for Cinema Conversion, with choices of Automatic and Video but no on-screen explanation of what they mean. You have to turn to the online user manual for clarification. According to that manual, the setting optimizes playback to match the frame rate of your source video: The Video option is for 30-fps output, such as you'd find with TV shows and animated content encoded at 480i or 576i resolution. The Automatic option refers to movies, which are captured at 24 fps. The player will convert the video for output to your display depending on the setting you choose (the default setting is Automatic).
The minutiae of the PS3's audio settings are even less clear. Neither of the two BD Audio Output format options--Linear PCM (the default) and Bitstream--is explained. I had to go to Sony directly to find out.
The PS3's default is to convert recognized audio streams to Linear PCM, an uncompressed audio format, for output via HDMI or digital optical audio. This can be advantageous if, for example, you're outputting to an HDTV that has built-in speakers and decodes only Linear PCM. If you're using your own home theater receiver, though, you'll want to use the Bitstream setting: In this mode, the PS3 passes the audio "bitstream"--be it Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, or DTS-HD--through to your receiver via the HDMI or optical connector; from there, the receiver decodes the audio and outputs it to your speakers.
If you go with the default and use HDMI for a source with 7.1-channel audio, you'll need to output to a device that can read Linear PCM at 7.1 channels to get the full benefit. If your disc has DTS-HD 7.1-channel audio, that audio will be output at 5.1 channels instead. If you choose the Linear PCM default but use the digital optical connection, you can have only 2- and 5.1-channel sound. The multi-A/V-out (either component or composite video) supports 2-channel audio only.


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<?php

namespace Monolyth\Formulaic\Radio;

use Monolyth\Formulaic\{ Attributes, Validate, Radio, Checkbox, Element, Label, Labelable, Testable, Transform, Normalize };
use ArrayObject;
use Stringable;

class Group extends Element\Group implements Labelable, Testable, Stringable
{
    use Attributes;
    use Validate\Group;
    use Validate\Test;
    use Transform;
    use Element\Identify;
    use Normalize;

    private mixed $value = null;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @param callable|array $options Either a callback (called with new group
     *  as first parameter) or an array of value/label pairs.
     */
    public function __construct(protected string $name, callable|array $options)
    {
        if (is_callable($options)) {
            $options($this);
            foreach ((array)$this as $option) {
                foreach ($this->prefix as $prefix) {
                    $option->prefix($prefix);
                }
                $option->prefix($name);
            }
        } else {
            foreach ($options as $value => $txt) {
                if ($this instanceof Checkbox\Group) {
                    $option = new Checkbox("{$name}[]");
                } else {
                    $option = new Radio($name);
                }
                $option->inGroup(true);
                $option->setValue($value);
                foreach ($this->prefix as $prefix) {
                    $option->prefix($prefix);
                }
                $this[] = new Label($txt, $option);
            }
        }
        $this->prefix[] = $name;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the base name of the group.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function name() : string
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the ID (base name) of the group.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function id() : string
    {
        return $this->prefix[0];
    }

    /**
     * Sets the element where the value matches to `checked`.
     *
     * @param mixed $value
     * @return self
     */
    public function setValue(mixed $value) : self
    {
        foreach ($this as $element) {
            if ((string)$element->getValue() !== "$value") {
                $element->check(false);
            } else {
                $element->check();
                // Radio groups can only ever have one option selected
                break;
            }
        }
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the checked value in the group.
     *
     * @return array Array with a single entry (for compatibility with
     *  Element\Group, but obviously radio groups can only ever have one entry
     *  checked at a time).
     */
    public function getValue() : array
    {
        foreach ((array)$this as $element) {
            if ($element->getElement() instanceof Radio
                && $element->getElement()->checked()
            ) {
                return [$element->getElement()->getValue()];
            }
        }
        return new class([$this->value]) extends ArrayObject {
            public function __toString() : string
            {
                return "0";
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Marks the group as required.
     *
     * @return self
     */
    public function isRequired() : self
    {
        foreach ($this as $option) {
            $option->isRequired();
        }
        return $this->addTest('required', function ($value) {
            foreach ($this as $option) {
                if ($option->getElement() instanceof Radio && $option->getElement()->checked()) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        });
    }

    /**
     * Bind to a model.
     */
    public function bind(object $model) : self
    {
        $name = self::normalize($this->name());
        if ($this->valueSuppliedByUser()) {
            $model->$name = $this->transform($this->getValue());
        } else {
            $this->setValue($this->transform($model->$name ?? null));
        }
        return $this;
    }

    public function valid() : bool
    {
        $errors = $this->runTests();
        return $errors ? false : true;
    }

    public function errors() : array
    {
        return $this->runTests();
    }
}


From the top to the bottom of society people were very much more active in the 18th Century than in the late 2Oth.At the bottom agricultural labourers aided by horses did by hand ploughing, sowing seeds and harvesting, their teenage children were mostly employed as servants, their wives worked most of the hours of the day preparing food, washing clothes by hand, gleaning in season.Nowadays the same group of people are aided by machines which take away the effort of work, or are unemployed and receive a dole. Likewise upper and middle class people use cars to travel and machines to do most tasks so that it is necessary to go to a gym for exercise. The diaries show us even well off people walking, riding and engaging in activities of a/l kinds.
The amazing Dr. Morris successfully pursued so many activities it is hard to list them. He had a professional life of visiting and diagnosing patients which involved much travel. He had his own 'elaboraory' in which he dispensed medicines. He played many musical instruments and played in consorts with his friends, took his children to their boarding schools. He ran s~veral farms, supervised the brewing of a vast quantity of beer and entertained friends regularly. Besides all these activities his mind was very inventive and he personally tried to solve many little problems which were thrown up in everyday life. He undertook tasks which we would pass on to specialists such as cleaning a watch or servicing a barometer. His mind was constantly active noting things which did not work well and thinking out solutions then trying to make the mechanisms himself. He made a new jack for his harpsichord of metal instead of quill which would have resulted in a very much louder sound. He made a mechanism for opening and closing his curtains which sounds very like the contrivances sold today for this purpose.He devised a way of counting the revolutions of his coach wheels so that he could record the number of miles travelled. He was indeed a renaissance man.
Dudley Rider as a student made himself a fountain pen, presumably fitting his quill pen with some sort of reservoir. All of our diarists were writing in the tedious way then necessary. They used the feathers of geese, swans, and crows. They had to point and slit the lower end. The hollow inside the feather held some ink but not much so writing involved constatntly dipping their quill pens in ink. In 1809 Joseph Bramah (1748-1840) patented a machine for cutting gooe feathers into three or four nibs to be used with a separate pen holder. As early as 1780 a Birmingham manufacturer, S. Harrison produced a metallic pen but it was too difficult to use We see passages faint as the ink supply diminished or blotted where it flooded and marvel at their industry and at the ease with which we can put down our thoughts on word processors.
One might imagine that aristocrats with many servants passed the days in idleness or at least dOing no more than the many social activities which undoubtedly occupied much of their time. Mary Delaney's diaries show an intelligent and gifted woman engaged in many artistic and craft works. Her paper mosaics, flower paintings and shell work were famous in her time. She also did knotting,was interested in organizing gardens, growing orange trees and making wine.ln her old age she was a valued friend of King George.
But machines were being invented and beginning to effect all branches of society. Spinning and weaving and agricultural machines took away jobs while enabling less men to do the work. Mary Delaney noted an invention by which 1800 candles were lit in 3 minutes, but unfortunately not how this could be done. Part of the entertainment for the well off of her day was to see wonderful machines like the clock which played twenty four tunes perfectly or an Orrery.
"I visited my Daughter, she having been, Yesterday morning about 8 a clock deliver'd of a Daughter.
Travelling from Dover to London on a sunday on which day the police law forbade coach travel.
"Between Canterbury and Rochester the inhabitants of a village situated on the side of the highway had made choice of that day on which the high road was to be free, to remove a windmill from the left to the right side of the road, to the place which seemed best suited to it.
"I hope you received the harpsichord strings, the ballads and the edging. I send the rest of the strings this post.
12 October 1727. The day after the Coronation of George 1/ and Queen Caroline. To her sister Ann Granville.
which was drawn up from below into the galleries by baskets at the end of a long string, which they filled with cold meat and bread, sweetmeats and wine.
A more ordinary day. Mary Delany's letter to her sister vividly conjures up the day.
Mrs. Foley, of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire to Mrs. Dewes at Bradley near Droitwich in Worcestshire.
Daily activities at Cornbury, seat of the Duke of Queensbury.
In 1861 Lady Uanover still had some brilliant blue linen chair covers with a border of oak leaves cut out in white linen and tacked down in different sorts of white knotting which also formed the veining and stalks, the work of Mrs.Delany. She said it was the custom of ladies to use their knotting shuttles in periods of relaxing such as the tea-table hour.
"We got to Bristol at one. Mr. Calcot, the philosopher was there, who has the famous collection of fossils … his collection is rare and curious, of spars, minerals and tossns, such as I have never seen, and unanswerable testimonies of the Deluge. But his heart I believe is of the petrified kind, and encrusted with avarice, for he has many of most sorts in his collection, and he gave me not so much as a single grain of tin! however I was not disappointed, as I went for instruction and entertainment, though not without some small hope of a little gain.!
"I am glad Mr. Lucy is so well; I wish he would bring some shells from Naples; there are very pretty ones there, though none extremely rare … 1 sent you a specimen of Gibraltar shells, to let you see Captain Meade may bring you very pretty ones ..
Dr. Jeffries in company with Mr Blanchard set off in an Air Balloon from the Rhodenum, Park Lane 25 Minutes before 3 o'clock & landed in the Parish of Stone in Kent 10 minutes before 4 o'clock.
[Dr. John Jeffries 1744-1819. American balloonist & Physician, born in Boston. A loyalist during the American Revolution, he settled in England and made the first balloon crossing of the English Channel with the French aeronaut Francois Blanchard in 1785.
"I wrote a letter to Mr. Samuel Woodforde my Brother which I began at seven and finished before eight, being in haste to send it up to Mr. Bidewells that he may put it into the Post Office tomorrow.
Received a letter from Brother Sam. Paid for the letter 5 pence.


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/* Include files */

#include "MON_sl_after_harness_sfun.h"
#include "MON_sl_after_harness_sfun_debug_macros.h"
#include "c2_MON_sl_after_harness.h"

/* Type Definitions */

/* Named Constants */

/* Variable Declarations */

/* Variable Definitions */
uint32_T _MON_sl_after_harnessMachineNumber_;

/* Function Declarations */

/* Function Definitions */
void MON_sl_after_harness_initializer(void)
{
}

void MON_sl_after_harness_terminator(void)
{
}

/* SFunction Glue Code */
unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_method_dispatcher(SimStruct *simstructPtr,
  unsigned int chartFileNumber, const char* specsCksum, int_T method, void *data)
{
  if (chartFileNumber==2) {
    c2_MON_sl_after_harness_method_dispatcher(simstructPtr, method, data);
    return 1;
  }

  return 0;
}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_process_check_sum_call( int nlhs, mxArray *
  plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{

#ifdef MATLAB_MEX_FILE

  char commandName[20];
  if (nrhs<1 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]) )
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the checksum */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"sf_get_check_sum"))
    return 0;
  plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix( 1,4,mxREAL);
  if (nrhs>1 && mxIsChar(prhs[1])) {
    mxGetString(prhs[1], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
    commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
    if (!strcmp(commandName,"machine")) {
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[0] = (real_T)(555819579U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[1] = (real_T)(2588286862U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[2] = (real_T)(3243856178U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[3] = (real_T)(3557706927U);
    } else if (!strcmp(commandName,"exportedFcn")) {
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[0] = (real_T)(0U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[1] = (real_T)(0U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[2] = (real_T)(0U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[3] = (real_T)(0U);
    } else if (nrhs==3 && !strcmp(commandName,"chart")) {
      unsigned int chartFileNumber;
      chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[2]);
      switch (chartFileNumber) {
       case 2:
        {
          extern void sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_check_sum(mxArray *plhs[]);
          sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_check_sum(plhs);
          break;
        }

       default:
        ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[0] = (real_T)(0.0);
        ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[1] = (real_T)(0.0);
        ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[2] = (real_T)(0.0);
        ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[3] = (real_T)(0.0);
      }
    } else if (!strcmp(commandName,"target")) {
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[0] = (real_T)(2175283100U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[1] = (real_T)(1852739243U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[2] = (real_T)(2327506406U);
      ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[3] = (real_T)(1783100865U);
    } else {
      return 0;
    }
  } else {
    ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[0] = (real_T)(3076392174U);
    ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[1] = (real_T)(2160858172U);
    ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[2] = (real_T)(2020070836U);
    ((real_T *)mxGetPr((plhs[0])))[3] = (real_T)(435233621U);
  }

  return 1;

#else

  return 0;

#endif

}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_autoinheritance_info( int nlhs, mxArray *
  plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{

#ifdef MATLAB_MEX_FILE

  char commandName[32];
  char aiChksum[64];
  if (nrhs<3 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]) )
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the autoinheritance_info */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"get_autoinheritance_info"))
    return 0;
  mxGetString(prhs[2], aiChksum,sizeof(aiChksum)/sizeof(char));
  aiChksum[(sizeof(aiChksum)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';

  {
    unsigned int chartFileNumber;
    chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[1]);
    switch (chartFileNumber) {
     case 2:
      {
        if (strcmp(aiChksum, "qKzD6V0QYSAaY7w0HIpKLF") == 0) {
          extern mxArray *sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_autoinheritance_info
            (void);
          plhs[0] = sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_autoinheritance_info();
          break;
        }

        plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
        break;
      }

     default:
      plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
    }
  }

  return 1;

#else

  return 0;

#endif

}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_get_eml_resolved_functions_info( int nlhs,
  mxArray * plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{

#ifdef MATLAB_MEX_FILE

  char commandName[64];
  if (nrhs<2 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]))
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the get_eml_resolved_functions_info */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"get_eml_resolved_functions_info"))
    return 0;

  {
    unsigned int chartFileNumber;
    chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[1]);
    switch (chartFileNumber) {
     case 2:
      {
        extern const mxArray
          *sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_eml_resolved_functions_info(void);
        mxArray *persistentMxArray = (mxArray *)
          sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_get_eml_resolved_functions_info();
        plhs[0] = mxDuplicateArray(persistentMxArray);
        mxDestroyArray(persistentMxArray);
        break;
      }

     default:
      plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
    }
  }

  return 1;

#else

  return 0;

#endif

}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_third_party_uses_info( int nlhs, mxArray *
  plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{
  char commandName[64];
  char tpChksum[64];
  if (nrhs<3 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]))
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the third_party_uses_info */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  mxGetString(prhs[2], tpChksum,sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char));
  tpChksum[(sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"get_third_party_uses_info"))
    return 0;

  {
    unsigned int chartFileNumber;
    chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[1]);
    switch (chartFileNumber) {
     case 2:
      {
        if (strcmp(tpChksum, "sJPh899iu7e4qJor7dRCajH") == 0) {
          extern mxArray *sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_third_party_uses_info(void);
          plhs[0] = sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_third_party_uses_info();
          break;
        }
      }

     default:
      plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
    }
  }

  return 1;
}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_jit_fallback_info( int nlhs, mxArray *
  plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{
  char commandName[64];
  char tpChksum[64];
  if (nrhs<3 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]))
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the jit_fallback_info */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  mxGetString(prhs[2], tpChksum,sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char));
  tpChksum[(sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"get_jit_fallback_info"))
    return 0;

  {
    unsigned int chartFileNumber;
    chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[1]);
    switch (chartFileNumber) {
     case 2:
      {
        if (strcmp(tpChksum, "sJPh899iu7e4qJor7dRCajH") == 0) {
          extern mxArray *sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_jit_fallback_info(void);
          plhs[0] = sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_jit_fallback_info();
          break;
        }
      }

     default:
      plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
    }
  }

  return 1;
}

unsigned int sf_MON_sl_after_harness_updateBuildInfo_args_info( int nlhs,
  mxArray * plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray * prhs[] )
{
  char commandName[64];
  char tpChksum[64];
  if (nrhs<3 || !mxIsChar(prhs[0]))
    return 0;

  /* Possible call to get the updateBuildInfo_args_info */
  mxGetString(prhs[0], commandName,sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char));
  commandName[(sizeof(commandName)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  mxGetString(prhs[2], tpChksum,sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char));
  tpChksum[(sizeof(tpChksum)/sizeof(char)-1)] = '\0';
  if (strcmp(commandName,"get_updateBuildInfo_args_info"))
    return 0;

  {
    unsigned int chartFileNumber;
    chartFileNumber = (unsigned int)mxGetScalar(prhs[1]);
    switch (chartFileNumber) {
     case 2:
      {
        if (strcmp(tpChksum, "sJPh899iu7e4qJor7dRCajH") == 0) {
          extern mxArray *sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_updateBuildInfo_args_info
            (void);
          plhs[0] = sf_c2_MON_sl_after_harness_updateBuildInfo_args_info();
          break;
        }
      }

     default:
      plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);
    }
  }

  return 1;
}

void MON_sl_after_harness_debug_initialize(struct SfDebugInstanceStruct*
  debugInstance)
{
  _MON_sl_after_harnessMachineNumber_ = sf_debug_initialize_machine
    (debugInstance,"MON_sl_after_harness","sfun",0,1,0,0,0);
  sf_debug_set_machine_event_thresholds(debugInstance,
    _MON_sl_after_harnessMachineNumber_,0,0);
  sf_debug_set_machine_data_thresholds(debugInstance,
    _MON_sl_after_harnessMachineNumber_,0);
}

void MON_sl_after_harness_register_exported_symbols(SimStruct* S)
{
}

static mxArray* sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct= NULL;
typedef struct SfOptimizationInfoFlagsTag {
  boolean_T isRtwGen;
  boolean_T isModelRef;
  boolean_T isExternal;
} SfOptimizationInfoFlags;

static SfOptimizationInfoFlags sOptimizationInfoFlags;
void unload_MON_sl_after_harness_optimization_info(void);
mxArray* load_MON_sl_after_harness_optimization_info(boolean_T isRtwGen,
  boolean_T isModelRef, boolean_T isExternal)
{
  if (sOptimizationInfoFlags.isRtwGen != isRtwGen ||
      sOptimizationInfoFlags.isModelRef != isModelRef ||
      sOptimizationInfoFlags.isExternal != isExternal) {
    unload_MON_sl_after_harness_optimization_info();
  }

  sOptimizationInfoFlags.isRtwGen = isRtwGen;
  sOptimizationInfoFlags.isModelRef = isModelRef;
  sOptimizationInfoFlags.isExternal = isExternal;
  if (sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct==NULL) {
    sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct = sf_load_rtw_optimization_info(
      "MON_sl_after_harness", "MON_sl_after_harness");
    mexMakeArrayPersistent(sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct);
  }

  return(sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct);
}

void unload_MON_sl_after_harness_optimization_info(void)
{
  if (sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct!=NULL) {
    mxDestroyArray(sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct);
    sRtwOptimizationInfoStruct = NULL;
  }
}


text:
Ezra 1:1
Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
NEXT Ezra 1:2
Ezra 1:1 in Other Translations
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
1 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the LORD fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia - this fulfilled the Message of God preached by Jeremiah - God prodded Cyrus king of Persia to make an official announcement throughout his kingdom. He wrote it out as follows:
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and [to put it] in writing:
Ezra 1:1 Meaning and Commentary
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia
Not in the first of his reign over Persia, for he had been many years king over that, and now had all the kingdoms of the earth given him, ( Ezra 1:2 ) , but over Babylon, and the dominions belonging to it, which commenced with Darius upon the taking of Babylon; he reigned in all thirty years, as Cicero F7 from a Persian writer relates; or twenty nine, according to Herodotus F8; but in what year this was is not certain; Africanus F9, has proved, from various historians, that it was the first year of the fifty fifth Olympiad, perhaps about the twentieth of Cyrus's Persian government F11; (See Gill on Daniel 10:1),
that the word of the Lord, by the mouth of Jeremiah, might be
fulfilled;
which foretold that the Jews should return from their captivity at the end of seventy years, which fell on the first of Cyrus, reckoning from the fourth of Jehoiakim, and the first of Nebuchadnezzar, see ( Jeremiah 25:1 Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12 ) ( 29:10 ) .
The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia;
who has the hearts of all men in his hands, and even of the kings of the earth, and can turn them as he pleases; he wrought upon him, put it into his heart, enlightened his mind, showed him what was right, and his duty to do, and pressed him to the performance of it; so that he could not be easy until he had done it, and he was made thoroughly willing, and even eager to do it:
that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in writing; gave it in writing to his heralds to read and proclaim throughout all his dominions:
saying;
as follows.
F7 De Divinatione, l. 1.
F8 Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 214.
F9 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 10. c. 10. p. 488.
F11 Nic. Abrami Pharus, p. 303.
Ezra 1:1 In-Context
2 "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: " 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
3 Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
4 And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.' "
5 Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
1. Jeremiah 25:11-12; Jeremiah 29:10-14; Zechariah 1:12-16
2. Ezra 6:22; Ezra 7:27; 2 Chronicles 36:22,23


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Did You Know Channing Tatum Played Superman?
It's true, in an unlikely film Channing Tatum does in fact play the man of steel... er plastic.
Tatum voiced Superman in the 2014 film 'The Lego Movie.' You may remember his character from his interactions with the Green Lantern voiced by Jonah Hill.
Yes, you read that right. The duo that brought you 21 and 22 Jump Street also had you laughing at their quips as Superman and the Green Lantern.
Take a look if you don't remember.
Of course Channing also stars in this week's Magic Mike XXL which opens nationwide tomorrow.


Podcasting is starting to get lumped in with blogs as one of the most significant hot new trends online. For those of you who don't know, podcasts are content delivered via the Web to your iPod that allow you to listen at your leisure. If you read the press, you might come to the conclusion that Adam Curry invented podcasting, but then again you might also believe that Al Gore invented the Internet.
Podcasting is similar to personal video recorders if you think about it... it's another example of consumers owning the experience of consuming content at their leisure. In the same way that a consumer can watch "CSI" when they want to via TiVo, they can now listen to the Top 25 Countdown when they want to. Some of these are free while some of them charge for the content, but all of it serves to once again prove that the consumer is in control.
If you take note over the last few weeks of my columns and those of my colleagues, you will continue to see more and more proof that we are losing control. We are losing the battle for ownership of the media we create. The consumer is becoming a partner in its development by demanding what they want, how they want it, and when they want it. Sooner or later, it's inevitable that the consumer will completely own the relationship. The iPod ad, the Nike ad, the Volkswagen ad... these will be examples of the future. This year might be recognized as the year when the consumer overthrew the throne. A virtual coup, if you will.
Podcasting is just a baby step in this direction, but one that could easily be overlooked (I know that I have to date). Currently there are only 3,140,000 results for "podcasting" on Google, as compared to 37,500,000 for "tv listings" and 22,400,000 for "radio stations." That said, "satellite radio" has 28,500,000 listings. Satellite radio, after all, is another rapidly growing form of audio content delivery. Satellite radio is digital and its programming could easily be time shifted as well and offered to consumers on their schedules, possibly loaded onto an iPod and further driving the growth of podcasting.
Once again, I examine these different technologies not in a vacuum, but with the hopes of understanding where they overlap and how they affect one another. Understanding consumer behavior is the key to effective advertising (this can never be said enough).


Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to keep the door open on a legislative pay raise later this year, a measure that may come later this year that's included in a package of bills aimed to resolve a host of issues such as raising the minimum wage.
Well, whenever you have an agrement on legislation — whether it's on the federal level, state level, or local level — it tends to be a certain transaction quality, right? You have a Senate, you have a Congress, you have an Assembly, you have Democrats, you have Republicans, so an agreement by definition normally is an exchange of benefits and burdens so in that regard there would have to be an agreement on legislation that everybody wants to pass, right?
The governor said a lot of what happens with the pay raise is riding on the outcome of Election Day.
It's believed that the governor would seek other sought-after measures such as an overhaul of campaign-finance laws. Cuomo today mentioned reforming stop-and-frisk arrests as well.
"If they want to do and if we can come to agreement on what we want to get done," Cuomo said.
Lawmakers last received a pay raise to their current salary of $79,500 more than a decade ago. At the time, then-Gov. George Pataki tied the pay bump to expanding the number of charter schools in the state.


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Even though Season 2 of Home Fires ended with a cliffhanger, there will be no more episodes in the series. The producers had originally intended on producing a third season—and maybe even continuing it beyond that—but the show was cancelled in the UK.
Fans of Home Fires will, however, have an opportunity to follow the lives of the characters they've come to love. Series creator Simon Block is writing four novels to continue telling the story of the women of Great Paxford as they live through World War II on the home front.
Keep the Home Fires Burning, the first book, will be available in July 2017. Meanwhile, watch below and revisit Home Fires' most memorable moments as you say farewell to your favorite characters on screen and await the unfolding of their stories on the page.


The docs essentially run in circles and looking at the ruby/php code it seems that there is an options object that is not mentioned anywhere in the js library for put requests.
"values": " some string 42"
You are returning the result of podio.request, but that will simply be undefined because it's an async operation and the result of that operation will be available to you in the callback (that you're missing there).
The url you're using will never work because you're not actually replacing the placeholders with real values.
Hope that helps, and for future reference you can take a look at the documentation for making API requests through the podio-js client.
but not sure how or where to place the space_id so Podio will know in what workspace it will be installed.


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Vern Classic
Complete archive of the Geocities era version still available.
Motion Picture Trash
Badass Cinemas
Welcome to the 2006 revised edition of the BADASS 100 LIST.
The OUTLAWS were given away January 8, 2000 in a special party at Vern's house.
Well 2000 is a pretty fucking important year because in the old movies, it was the space age.
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Until now, Leigh Whannell has seemed like James Wan's sidekick. I guess technically he's the creator of SAW, because he wrote the short film, but he's mainly known for co-writing the first three SAWs, DEAD SILENCE and all the INSIDIOUSes. And then he directed INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY CHAPTER THREE. But did you know he had it in him to go off on his own and write and direct a ferocious low budget cyberpunk action thriller? Man, why didn't you tell me?
Logan Marshall-Green (from THE INVITATION and Quarry, but I'll always think of him as "I just want answers, baby" from PROMETHEUS) stars as Grey Trace, a simple mechanic who loves listening to Howlin' Wolf records in the garage and working on his Firebird even though he lives in a near future with self-driving cars and cyber implants and shit. (Yeah, I know. But at least they don't say out loud that he's an analog man in a digital world. They just show you visually and then move on.)
Then one night mysterious criminals shoot him and his wife (Melanie Vallejo, the Blue Ranger on Power Rangers Mystic Force), leaving him paralyzed and her dead. Though his house is set up with some pretty sweet robot arms that can prepare food for him, he's miserable and suicidal without his wife or the ability to work with his hands.
Then one of his clients, weirdo prodigy computer mogul Eron Keen (Harrison Gilbertson, NEED FOR SPEED), who looks like Dane DeHaan cosplaying David Bowie circa "Let's Dance," comes to offer him some experimental technology. It's a micro-computer implant called STEM that will communicate with his brain and make him walk again. But experimenting on humans like this is still illegal, so he has to keep it a secret. That's kind of a bummer, but it's better than nothing.
And STEM does more than advertised. It not only allows Grey to move again but speaks to him (voice of Simon Maiden, SON OF THE MASK), and next thing you know its using its computer brain and ability to interface with other technology to help him go over surveillance footage of the attack and find clues to help him track down his attackers. And when he goes to a guy's house and starts to get the shit beat out of him he gives STEM permission to take the controls. And STEM knows how to make him kick ass!
So it's kind of like DEATH WISH II meets M.A.N.T.I.S. Just like M.A.N.T.I.S. he's a quadriplegic who uses his paralysis as an alibi while sneaking out using experimental technology to walk and fight. The difference is that M.A.N.T.I.S. pulls a Batman and fights crime, whereas this guy specifically seeks the violent degenerates who killed his wife. So that's the DEATH WISH II part.
But it also subverts that template because he's not seeking revenge. Going after them isn't even his idea, he just kinda goes along with it. That first time he gets in a fight it's true self defense and he's horrified that STEM makes him kill the guy. There are things he can't stomach to do himself, but he gives STEM permission, so he's culpable. (I think there's a parallel there to the many brutal things that we benefit from but stay distanced from, from war to sweat shops to factory farms. Or even just to the use of drones in combat. Grey literally has blood on his hands but he tells himself STEM is responsible.)
Hats off to fight choreographer and stunt double Chris Weir (Romper Stomper tv series [apparently there is a Romper Stomper tv series]) for coming up with the jagged AI fighting style that's about short, efficient movements, devoid of human impulses like the vanity to do cool poses or the restraint to not slice halfway through a guy's head. Whannell and cinematographer Stefan Duscio (JUNGLE) emphasize the non-human origin of the violence with machine-like camera moves flipping alongside Grey or a victim who he tosses across the room. Marshall-Greene gives a great, blackly humorous physical performance, with his body moving like a weird machine while his face looks horrified and surprised. It really seems like he's being taken on a ride against his will.
That's both the fun and the horror of it. He has this machine that can do amazing things, but he has to submit to it, allow it to use his body as its own, and he has to be inside it with no control. (Weirdly this seems to be what the upcoming Tom Hardy movie VENOM is about too, and I think we've all noticed how much Marshall-Green looks like Tom Hardy.)
This escalating vigilante crusade happens in a setting full of cool sci-fi concepts, but light on the sort of sleek digital effects that almost all movies have now. This is more like the first TERMINATOR, or an episode of Max Headroom. There's not much about it that doesn't seem like it could've been made in the '80s. It's mostly shot on location in normal, low rent neighborhoods, but with little touches like police cars with a different type of lights, or a condemned building littered with glow sticks instead of syringes.
There are still normal action/crime movie things like the tough detective (Betty Gabriel, Georgina from GET OUT) who's keeping him updated on the search for the killer, or the bar full of scary punks who will take him into the back room to try to kill him. The recent remake of DEATH WISH has those things too, but it doesn't have a guy who loads bullets into his arm and fires them out of his hand, or dead bodies where you can plug into the cornea to rewind through their memories.
It seems like they can do just about anything with computers now, but they can't solve all of humanity's problems. Nobody ever says anything about it, but the fateful attack happens after their automated car crashes into a tent city. Life is not great for everyone.
Weird little detail I noticed: Detective Cortez wears a necklace of a sideways cross. Not right side up, not upside down, but sideways. I've never seen that before and I wonder what it means.
It's a very reasonable extrapolation of current technological trends without feeling like a cautionary tale. It seems too matter-of-fact for that. The surveillance state (cops can easily track you with footage from overhead drones) is very matter-of-fact and clearly well-intended – the frustration is not that it's invading your privacy, but that the criminals know how to evade it. And the tech that can make Grey walk again is clearly a miracle, but nobody bothers to think through the consequences until it's too late. Everything snowballs.
From what I've read, UPGRADE is not expected to do well enough for a sequel, which is too bad, because I'd love to see the T2 to its TERMINATOR. But it's a perfectly fine self-contained story and I recommend seeing it with an audience if you have the chance. Whannell takes a bit of time getting the pieces in place, but once it gets cracking it's a real thrill ride. STEM always goes too far, eliciting gasps, laughter, applause and a few scolding "that's disgusting"s from my crowd. I'm not sure they liked it as much as I did, but they definitely reacted.
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MaggieMayPie
I've seen the sideways cross necklaces before, so it's a thing. I don't know its significance, but it's a thing.
I thought it was just stuck in that position
CJ Holden
This doesn'T seem to have a German release date yet, but when it does, I wonder what it will be called, because THE PREDATOR will run here as PREDATOR: UPGRADE
geoffreyjar
Not PREDATOR: BACK IN BLACK or PREDATOR: BLACK & DEKKER? What a lost opportunity. The German distributor could at least honor tradition and call it FRANKENSTEIN: UPGRADE.
Dan Owen
He didn't direct THE LAST KEY, he only wrote it.
Vern – Dan Owen is right. Whannell directed Insidious Chapter 3
Falconman
Saw this yesterday night. My expectations were modestly low, and I rather enjoyed it despite myself. I don't know why, my mind kept going back to the Michael Crichton sci-fi actioner RUNAWAY while watching the movie. Maybe it had something to do with the affordable near-future setting, the techno-sleuthing police, and the subjective camera movement. The gory, violent bits elicited the appropriate responses from the audience I saw it with.
I would say that I only have two major complaints about the film. First, the aural opening tiitle credits with the waveform pattern of the spoken credits appearing on-screen. Was it their attempt to bring the audience into the world of the film? Like, it was a futuristic story but not far-future. The concept was a little too abstract for me.
My other complaint is about the reveal of the villain at the end of the film. It only raises more questions than answers and affirms the fears the protagonist has in the beginning of the film. A number of people also walked out of the cinema during the fakeout at the end, so I'm guessing there's a small percentage of folks who saw this movie and believe it ended in the hackiest way possible.
Everything else was tolerable. Even the baddies and their whole eyeball roll-inducing "upgraded" mumbo jumbo. As it stands, it'll probably become yet another one of my guilty pleasures. In a weird way, watching this film now has me interested in seeing HOTEL ARTEMIS. If "Support mid-budget genre films opening in the summer!" hasn't yet become a rallying cry, then maybe this will be the year.
Franchise Fred
Vern, you see The Mule or Cooties? Whannell is pretty solid but I get how it could seem he's slowly establishing himself since his biggest hits were franchises with Wan. He stayed to write two more Saws while Wan started branching out.
Mr. Majestyk
Yeah, this was a good one. So nice to be able to see something even the slightest bit disreputable in the movie theater.
My only beef is the whole "Cop seems to care more about the person killing murderers than the murderers themselves" trope. I just don't really buy it. Cops prioritize. We all know this. Yet we're expected to believe that the same police department we're always told is too understaffed and overworked to solve murders is willing to work nights (does she get OT for that because I hear that's hard for cops to authorized) to catch the guy who she suspects is killing known felons. I just don't think that's how cops operate. They might suspect something's up but I have a hard time thinking they'd care enough to put in that extra mile.
RBatty024
For whatever reason, it really skeeves me out when someone uses the word "baby" as a pet name for their girlfriend. Also, when I saw a preview for this movie, I legit thought it was starring Tom Hardy. That's all I got.
Mr M, whenever something like this happens in a movie, my thinking behind it is always that they of course SHOULDN'T give a fuck about a killer killer, but most of the time the vigilantes happen to go fucking hyperkill on them (for our entertainment). And if they would know for sure that the vigilante would just kill some creeps in their own house, they wouldn't care, but of course they have to expect that one day they kill some innocent bystanders or set up a bomb in a kindergarten to kill some gang boss who picks up his son.
And RE: "Baby", yeah I don't get this either. I'm not gonna say that people who use that as a nickname for their loved one are pedophile, but babies are loud, sticky and smelly. There is a reason why we say "Don't act like a baby"!
I just have a hard time reconciling the attitude of these movie cops who are willing to spend days of their free time stalking a traumatized crime victim on the off chance he did the world a favor and executed a murderer with the attitude of the real cops I know, which is they punch in, do their job, and go home to their families with a bemused detachment to all the carnage they saw go down that day. That's not even counting all the awful cops you read about who barely give a shit when somebody from the lower classes (like the kind of "creeps" you find in a vigilante movie) get killed. I see cops having more of a "Maybe he did it but what am I gonna do about it? I got 45 other cases on my desk and this one with all the dead criminals can easily be chalked up to gang warfare and forgotten" attitude about stuff like this. It happens all the time in cases not involving vigilantes. If some evidence turns up, of course they'll make the arrest. But all this extracurricular activity strikes me as wrong, and it all just feels very warmed-over when filmmakers still use that subplot. Are we supposed to be on the cop's side? Because we're not. We never will be. If the cop was a viable character we could respect, we wouldn't be watching a vigilante movie.
Vinnie S
Best movie of 2018 so far. Flawed yet awesome. It reminded me of early Cronenberg (without the sex) and Demon Seed (without the sex). My audience gasped, too, at the sudden graphic violence, which was fun. I was the only one who audibly chuckled at J WAN being clearly visible on the buzzer panel outside the hacker's apartment building. (Is Whannell suggesting his boy has gone slumming?) I also loved the concept of a VR crack house. Brilliant, and a definitely the other side of VR, re: Ready Player One. I do hope there is a sequel, as this obviously has elements of intended franchise/universe-building aspirations given the reference to an underground rebellious group ("we can't let them win") and the shadowy entity that created the other Upgraded.
Is it only men calling women "baby" that you guys don't like? Just curious. I actually like being called baby and often use it on boyfriends and have never been told they don't like it. Intellectually, it should be skeevy, but it's never bothered me.
Yeah, I thought it was Tom Hardy as well.
Re: "baby". I like it. I like using it and I like being called it. It feels very affectionate to me, not condescending at all.
Mastor Troy
The turning point in my new relationship was about a month in, when I unconsciously called her "baby". It felt natural. She liked it and told me so. That's when I knew I was going to marry her someday.
Other variations on "baby" I use – "baby-doll", and our most-used term of affection for each other, "babe".
All aboard the Baby Train.
Saw the trailer for this and was very impressed with how real it's future looks.
Part of what's nice about living in the times we live in is filmmakers now have more of a real idea of what "the future" will look like, remember in the past whenever a movie was set in the future almost EVERYTHING had to be "futuristic" in some usually ridiculous way.
Now we know that the future is something more subtle.
I didn't notice Wan's name, but I noticed the graffiti of Billy the puppet from SAW.
I can accept the detective subplot because she's been talking with him and then it becomes obvious so she's morally obligated to look into it. Also she just has to be curious how the fuck he's doing it.
Yeah, it's not a deal breaker in this case. I can see how mere curiosity could be her motivation. It's more just the trope in general. You know how sometimes you see the first scene of what you know will be a subplot you've seen a thousand times before and you just wish the movie would skip it and do something else instead? That's this subplot.
After the brilliance of UPGRADE last week, and this week's effective, atmospheric slow-burn that is HEREDITARY and the Carpenter-like, Assault on Precinct 13ish HOTEL ARTEMIS, this is shaping up to be a pretty good summer for typically disreputable genre fare.
Binkysguy
RE: baby
I think 'daddy' is a lot creepier than 'baby'. I call my wife baby, sweetie, honey, beba, and woman. She will call me beba, honey, and sexy man. I would never tolerate being called daddy by her in an intimate sort of way. Too incestuous sounding. JMO.
Vinnie has a point. Why are all these weird little exploitationy movies coming out now, when the summer season is in full swing? There's been jack shit on that front all year and now they all decide to pile up and compete with each other, not to mention with all the Big Gulp cup movies. What's the thinking there? You think the kids are gonna be lining up to see matinees of HOTEL ARTEMIS? That would be great, because I would prefer to entrust the world to a generation that developed good taste like that at such a young age, but I think I gotta doubt the marketing algorithm on this one.
In conclusion, go see HOTEL ARTEMIS. It is awesome. Do it for the kids.
Mr. Subtlety
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Sternshein
Mr. M, you saw and like Hotel Artimis?
I saw this today thinking it would be the last chance to see it and then my friend got mad that I didn't wait for him. Turns out I could have. I liked it a lot but then it had
Another depressing ending where the bad guy won. I'm tired of all this cynicism in genre movies these days.
I don't wanna freak anyone out, but my pet name for my GF is… Kiddo.
Kiddo's totally age appropriate for me, it's just that she's 10 years younger than the woman I dated before her (who was, in turn, 4 years older than me).
I also call her babe, baby and the like. In fact, she kinda hates it when I call her by her actual name.
Sterny: Yeah, I didn't think it quite stuck the landing (Why is she still wandering out into the riot-filled city when she sees the hotel sign light up again? I think they muddled up the thematic resolution with that shot) but I'm curious as to why you think it's a story where the bad guy wins. SPOILERS: All the bad (or even just unpleasant) guys die (generally pretty painfully) and most of the "good" guys live. One even becomes a millionaire and gets to run off and start a new life. I don't think it's a cynical ending. It's an ending where evil isn't defeated, because evil can't really be defeated, only constantly and persistently battled. And that's what Foster's character represents: the dogged and unglamorous fight to just barely beat back the ever-rising tide of awfulness. It's not rainbows and sunshine but it's still about hope and selflessness and compassion.
I saw Upgrade and Hotel Artemis today as a double feature. Enjoyed both, but Upgrade is definitely a cut above. Loved the ending and the way it played as a meta take on DOA. The first half-hour is a bit rough, but it builds and builds. And the lead performance, wowza! Great physical control and facial work. I really believed his mind and body were two distinct entities. The whirring sound effects were a risky choice that could have come off as too cheesy, but they mix them low enough that the effect is almost subliminal, adding to the weirdness. The film is generally well directed, but the car crash, car chase, and especially the first moment when the hero relearns to walk all felt like they were missing Key shots. The first two are issues of budget, I'm sure. But when he stands up… we never see him stand up! The swelling score was way over the top in that bit, too. Also, as others mentioned, They spend too much time on the detective hunting the hero subplot, instead of giving any sense of logic to the antagonist thugs. Those issues aside, this is a solid little bit of nastiness that really deserves a sequel that box office dictates we'll never see.
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