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Q: AVAssetExportSession Cannot create file Error -12115 For some reason I am always receiving this error:

Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-3000 "Cannot create file"
  UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot create file,
  NSUnderlyingError=0x1321dd730 {Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain
  Code=-12115 "(null)"}}

when attempting to export an AVSession to m4a.  This works fine on my co-workers device,  however it fails every time on my iPad Air 2 (iOS 9.1), as well as our QA iPad Mini 3.
- (void)processSourceVideoFile:(NSURL *)mediaURL completion:(void (^)(BOOL success))completion {
    [self showProgressOverlay];

    NSString *outputFileType = AVFileTypeMPEG4;

    __block NSString *videoID = nil;
    if (self.videoAttachment == nil) {
        [MagicalRecord saveUsingEditContextWithBlockAndWait:^(NSManagedObjectContext *localContext) {
            self.videoAttachment = [SPXAttachment MR_createEntityInContext:localContext];
            self.videoAttachment.uuid = [NSString uuid];
            self.videoAttachment.clientCreatedAt = [NSDate date];
            videoID = self.videoAttachment.uuid;
        }];
    } else {
        videoID = self.videoAttachment.uuid;
    }

    self.videoAttachment = [SPXAttachment MR_findFirstByAttribute:@"uuid" withValue:videoID];

    NSString *targetPath = self.videoAttachment.filePath;
    DDLogVerbose(@"Exporting Video to %@", targetPath);
    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:targetPath]) {
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:targetPath error:nil];
    }

    AVAsset *video = [AVAsset assetWithURL:mediaURL];

    self.exportSession = [AVAssetExportSession exportSessionWithAsset:video presetName:AVAssetExportPreset640x480];
    self.exportSession.outputFileType = outputFileType;
    self.exportSession.outputURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:targetPath];

    [self.exportSession exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^{

        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            [self hideProgressOverlay];
        });

        switch (self.exportSession.status) {
            case AVAssetExportSessionStatusFailed:
                DDLogError(@"Video Export Failed: %@", self.exportSession.error);
                completion(NO);
                break;
            case AVAssetExportSessionStatusCancelled:
                DDLogVerbose(@"Video Export Cancelled");
                break;
            case AVAssetExportSessionStatusCompleted: {
                DDLogVerbose(@"Video Export Complete for %@", targetPath);
                BOOL dir;
                if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:targetPath isDirectory:&dir]) {
                    DDLogVerbose(@"FILE IS THERE MOFO!!");
                }
                completion(YES);
            }
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
    }];
}

Source URL: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/BD85BA54-5B3D-4533-A142-C2A30F373814/tmp/capture-T0x12fe1e8e0.tmp.CbksL4/capturedvideo.MOV
Output URL: file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/BD85BA54-5B3D-4533-A142-C2A30F373814/Library/Files/59124681-ba1a-4453-8078-9ca6ac3088bf/attachments/454dd782-6b14-44cd-9f4e-84664908388b
I tried adding a file extension (.mp4) to the output URL and that did not help.  I have searched around nothing quite matches this scenario.
Any help appreciated!

A: Make sure that your Output URL's path has the .mp4 file extension at the end.

A: You probably have a date in the file name with forward slashes.
Forward slashes are fine for a dir name but not a file name in a AVAssetExportSession.


Originally a track from Lene´s album, March in 1989,it was then done with Erasure on the album,Tame Yourself compilation along with Don´t Kill The Animals.
File deleted. Any chance of repost. I missed this one. Big Erasure fan. Thank you.
Thank you. Interesting partnership but I think it works!


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Q: How to use atoi in kernel module Unable to #include <stdlib.h>, now I need to write my own int my_atoi(char* str) function in my kernel module. But I think that there must be more simple ways to use this function and some others from stdlib (atof, itoa, etc.). Do you know something about that?

A: You can convert from char* to int without atoi in the following way,
#include "ctype.h"

int charToInt(const char *s)
{
  int n;
  unsigned char sign = 0;

  while (isspace(*s))
  {
    s++;
  }

  if (*s == '-')
  {
    sign = 1;
    s++;
  }
  else if (*s == '+')
  {
    s++;
  }

  n=0;

  while (isdigit(*s))
  {
    n = n * 10 + *s++ - '0';
  }

  return sign ? -n : n;
}

int main (){

    const char * g = "123456";

    printf("num:%d",charToInt(g));
    return 0;
}

which produces the output,

123456

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How do you define a community? Who gets to define a community? Should it be Little Haiti or Lemon City?
H aitian Creole is a mixture of French and various West African languages. It's the most widely spoken language in Haiti, yet French remains the official language of government and legal documents. But at least it's legal now to speak Creole on the radio in Haiti.
Back in the 1960s, it wasn't. Jean-Marie Denis, also known as Jan Mapou, was well aware of that. He used to host a radio show in Port-au-Prince that featured folk stories read on the air, in Creole. The subject matter wasn't controversial. But this was the time of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, one of Haiti's most brutal dictators. Even reciting fairy tales in Creole on the airwaves could get you in trouble.
"The regime was concerned that by talking to the people in Creole, we would start opening their eyes and they'll understand what's going on," Mapou says today.
That year Mapou caught a plane for New York. Forty-four years later, he continues to promote Creole and Haitian culture in his adopted country through his artistic group (Sosyete Koukouy), his plays, his dance performances, and his poetry. A resident of Miami Shores, Mapou owns property in Little Haiti and runs a Creole-language bookstore, Libreri Mapou, at 5919 NE 2nd Ave.
It's here that his fight for Haitian culture is entering a new stage -- preserving the name and character of Little Haiti, an area just west of Miami's Upper Eastside that for decades has been the center of the Haitian exile experience in South Florida.
On the surface, Haitian culture and the name Little Haiti seem secure in this part of Miami. A statue of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'ouverture stands at NE 62nd Street and NE 2nd Avenue. There's a 12-acre, city-owned soccer field and track called Little Haiti Park at 6301 NE 2nd Ave. The Caribbean Marketplace, a failed experiment at creating a tourist attraction for Little Haiti, is being renovated, thanks to a $900,000-plus investment from the city. Behind the market sits the 20,000-square-foot Little Haiti Cultural Center, where nonprofits rent space to provide arts and after-school programs for the community.
Haitian-owned shops, stores, restaurants, offices, and other businesses are easy to spot along commercial corridors like NE 2nd Avenue and NE 54th Street. There are also plenty of churches in Little Haiti whose congregations are predominately Haitian, the most well-known being Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church.
But Miami is changing. In the downtown area, developers have hatched plans to build some of the tallest skyscrapers in the southeastern United States. Wynwood is transforming from a land of artist studios and galleries into a hub of bars, restaurants, and tech startups. Developer Craig Robins and French-based luxury retailer LVMH are gutting swaths of the Design District with the intention of turning it into South Florida's ultimate high-end shopping destination. Motels from the 1950s and the sprawling Biscayne Plaza Shopping Center are being renovated in the Upper Eastside.
In the midst of all this activity is Little Haiti, which is also changing. Over the past few years, a growing number of warehouses in the area have been transformed into chic offices and art studios. Within the past decade, as many as 35 non-Haitian-owned businesses have opened between the FEC railroad tracks and NE 2nd Avenue. That trend may accelerate as developers and business owners scout for cheaper alternatives to the Design District and Wynwood.
At the same time, a growing number of Haitian-owned businesses, unable to cope with rising rents and slowing sales, are closing. The protracted reconstruction of NE 2nd Avenue has been blamed for the woes of various businesses along that road, both Haitian-owned and not. But the main culprit has been the dismal economy, which hit Little Haiti's residents especially hard. Many of them worked as low-level service employees, and they still serve as the main customer base of Haitian businesses in Little Haiti.
"When people can't buy a pastry for 60 cents, things are bad," says Leaman Bien-Aime, owner of Lakay Tropical Ice Cream at 91 NE 54th St.
Another indicator of change: The green "Welcome to Little Haiti" signs the city once planted at intersections along NE 2nd Avenue and N. Miami Avenue have disappeared during the road construction and haven't come back.
"People seem to think that they need to do more -- otherwise they'll lose Little Haiti to the developing part of the Design District and Buena Vista area," says Faidherbe "Fedo" Boyer, owner of the translation service CreoleTrans at 375 NE 54th St.
By "lose," Boyer means a future in which most Haitian-owned businesses have closed, Haitian-themed wall murals have been painted over, and references to a "Little Haiti" within the City of Miami vanish.
To prevent that from happening, Mapou and other Haitian-American business owners and activists have decided, as Boyer puts it, "to do more." They've organized themselves as the NE 2nd Avenue Partnership, and they're pushing for a study that would define the boundaries of Little Haiti. Then they'd like the city to officially christen Little Haiti as a neighborhood, with borders clearly marked by new signs. Their hope is that an officially designated Little Haiti will be promoted as a cultural-tourism destination.
The idea was discussed, twice, in Miami City Commission meetings last fall, thanks to Michelle Spence-Jones, who at the time was the commissioner for District 5, which includes Little Haiti. During the October 24 city commission meeting, several prominent Haitian community members made speeches about Haitians' contributions to Miami and the United States, but in the end there was no clear direction given to city staffers on how to proceed.
Spence-Jones is out of office, but the activists remain undeterred. They vow to lobby her successor, Keon Hardemon, to continue where she left off.
But that effort has sparked a firestorm of opposition. An assortment of landlords, business owners, homeowners, and local historians have coalesced around efforts to block the creation of an "official" Little Haiti. Their motivations vary. For one thing, it's unprecedented. Miami city officials do create zoning districts and borders for service areas, but they don't set boundaries for named communities. That's left to those living in and developing a particular area. Not even Little Havana has official borders.
The area referred to as Little Haiti is generally located within the Little Haiti NET district, one of 12 "neighborhood enhancement team" zones designed by the City of Miami. The Little Haiti NET's boundaries are from 36th Street to 84th Street, and NE 4th Avenue west to NW 6th Avenue. This territory includes communities such as Buena Vista East and West, the Design District, Bellaire, Brentwood, Edison, Oakland Grove, Little River Gardens, the Little River Business District, and Lemon City.
Another reason for opposition to an officially delineated Little Haiti is that many people who own land or buildings in the area want to preserve or reclaim old neighborhood names that were in use long before Haitians began arriving in the 1970s. "Look, many ethnic groups back to the 1600s have lived, worked, and prospered around this still-flowing river called Little River. The Haitian community is only one of many," declares Bennett Pumo, a prominent landlord in the Little River Business District, an industrial section between NE 2nd Avenue and the FEC railroad tracks, from 62nd Street to 72nd Street.
It's difficult to determine exactly how many Haitians live in Little Haiti because the U.S. Census doesn't count Haitians as Haitians. Instead they are either "black" (a racial category shared with other groups, such as African Americans) or West Indian (ancestry that includes Haitians, Jamaicans, Bahamians, and other islands of non-Hispanic origin). Census figures suggest there's still a large Haitian population living in Little Haiti, although they're no longer the majority.
Out of 33,800 people living in eight census tracts within the Little Haiti NET district, 14,800 (about 44 percent) are identified as West Indian, according to a U.S. Census survey taken between 2008 and 2012.
B efore there was Miami, there was Lemon City.
Peters did acknowledge that Lemon City was a community of firsts. Lemon City had the first library south of Jacksonville (Lemon City Library, founded in 1894), Dade's first community church (Lemon City Methodist Church, now Grace United Methodist Church, finished in 1893), and Dade's first public school (Lemon City School, started in 1886).
Until the latter half of the 19th Century, there were few non-Seminoles living in southern Florida, except for Key West. The federal government aimed to change that. In 1842, soon after the end of the Second Seminole War, Congress passed the Armed Occupation Act, under which a white man could claim 160 acres of Florida land so long as he lived there. Back then, the future Lemon City was simply known as Section 18.
In 1883, Saunders filed his claim for 148 acres. On 100 of those acres, Saunders grew orange, mango, coconut, and lemon trees. Within a few years, he sold 12 acres of his land to Eugene Harrington for $400. Harrington promptly subdivided that land and sold the parcels at a handsome profit. For just one acre, Harrington snagged $500 from Key West investor Charles Moffat. That acre of land, incidentally, was on the bay. The deed of sale between Moffat and Harrington was the first time "Lemon City" was mentioned in the public record. The date: December 28, 1889.
Three years after the wharf was completed, the U.S. Census listed Lemon City as the second most populated community in Dade County. Back then, Dade included what are now Broward and Palm Beach counties. West Palm Beach, with a population of 1000, held the No. 1 spot.
Like everywhere else in the southeastern United States, Lemon City was segregated. Three black communities once existed there, according to Peters: Boles Town (located west of today's N. Miami Avenue by NE 57th Street); Knightsville (a five-acre area by NE 2nd Avenue and 68th Street); and Nazarene (between the railroad tracks and NE 2nd Avenue, south of NE 71st Street). Most of Lemon City's black inhabitants were migrant Bahamians and their descendants, known for their skill at growing crops in coral rock soil.
Several churches and lodges catering to black residents were started in Lemon City's Knightsville. St. James A.M.E. Methodist Church in Liberty City was founded in 1906 in Knightsville. So was Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church, which was finished in 1902.
Absent organized law enforcement, Lemon City saw its share of crime. Jerome Sands, an old-timer raised in Lemon City, told the Miami News that his teacher, Ada Merritt, would excuse her students from school whenever there was a murder. "We had about 20 of those holidays a year," he said.
In 1896, Henry Flagler built his railway through Lemon City and south to the small settlement by the Miami River. "Up until the time Flagler brought his railroad at the urging of Julia Tuttle in 1896, the area around the Miami River did not attract community development as did Lemon City and Coconut Grove," wrote Florida State University professor Ron Blazek in the journal Tequesta.
But a wave of development followed after Flagler gathered 368 adult males, including 162 black rail workers under his employ, to vote for the incorporation of the City of Miami in July 1896, according to the 1993 book City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami, written by Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick. By 1900, Miami had a population of 3000 people. By 1904, 4500 people called Miami home, at least in the wintertime.
F lorida was a Spanish colony when an army of African slaves led by Toussaint L'ouverture crushed French forces on the western portion of the island of Hispaniola. On January 1, 1804, the French colony of Saint-Domingue came to an end, and the independent nation of Haiti, the second in the Western Hemisphere, was born.
From the beginning, Haiti's economy and politics were unstable. France threatened to invade once again unless Haiti paid it 150 million francs as reparations. The United States, meanwhile, refused to trade or establish diplomatic relations with Haiti. Formally recognizing a nation created by a bloody slave uprising was unthinkable for a nation dependent on slavery.
Led by President Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. finally did recognize Haitian independence in 1862. That recognition, however, didn't stop the American government from intervening militarily in Haiti 17 times between 1862 and 1915. From 1915 to 1934, U.S. troops were a constant presence there.
During its 212-year history, many of Haiti's leaders came to power via violent coup d'états. François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, on the other hand, came to power in 1957 by the ballot box (albeit rigged), thanks to support from the Haitian military. Duvalier's Tonton Macoutes killed or tortured the dictator's opponents while extorting tribute from Haitian businessmen and peasants.
According to City on the Edge, 60,000 Haitians arrived in South Florida between 1977 and 1981. Instead of arriving by plane, as many of the New York migrants had done, most came in flimsy vessels via unscrupulous smugglers. The bodies of those who didn't make it sometimes washed ashore on South Florida's beaches.
In response to pleas from Miami leaders to stop the influx, the Immigration and Naturalization Service launched a "Haitian program" in 1979 that sought to deport Haitians as soon as possible. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration sent Coast Guard cutters to patrol Haitian waters "around the clock so that Miami-bound boats could be intercepted at sea before reaching U.S. jurisdiction," according to City on the Edge.
But it wasn't just poor Haitians from the island who were coming to Miami. "Middle-class Haitians came from New York to join the entrants released from INS custody and those who managed to slip in undetected," wrote Portes and Stepick. These more prosperous Haitians usually didn't move into the old Lemon City or Little River areas. Instead they bought houses in other parts of the county. One exception was Buena Vista, where Haitian professionals purchased single-family homes, sometimes on the same block as residences that had been converted into rooming houses for Haitian laborers.
Middle-class Haitians did, however, pick the Lemon City area as a place to conduct business. In 1974 there were 34 Haitian-owned businesses in Little Haiti. By 1989 there were more than 300.
"He was having a conversation with a reporter in the late 1970s," recounts his son, Carl Juste, a Miami Herald photographer. "He always admired how the Cubans were able to come to Miami and retain their identity. So he said, 'The Cubans have a Little Havana, why can't the Haitians have a Little Port-au-Prince?"It was in this environment that Viter Juste, who had moved from New York to Miami's Buena Vista neighborhood in 1973, sought to create an identity for Miami's Haitian enclave. He published the first Creole-language newspaper and opened Les Cousins, the first Haitian record store, which flourished for years at 7830 NE 2nd Ave.
Viter Juste wrote a letter to the Herald, proposing the idea. But "Little Port-au-Prince" was too long for the headline. Herald editors used "Little Haiti" instead.
The Haitian Task Force hoped to make that dream a reality. The nonprofit community organization, formed in 1982, managed to snag a $740,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to provide low-interest loans for Haitian businesses. The task force obtained another $30,000 grant to help paint the façades of Haitian businesses.
The most ambitious task force plan was to transform an empty furniture store at 5925 NE 2nd Ave. into the Miami version of Port-au-Prince's landmark Iron Market. Over the course of several years, the group's members managed to raise $1.2 million in grants and loans from foundations and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mapou became friendly with a director of the Haitian Task Force. The director, who knew of Mapou's poems and plays, encouraged him to set up a Haitian bookstore in the Caribbean Marketplace. Contacting his friends from New York and utilizing his own personal collection, Mapou had 300 books in stock.
When the market finally opened in 1991, there were 20 small businesses operating from booths inside, include Libreri Mapou and the first incarnation of Lakay Tropical Ice Cream. Unfortunately, the Haitian Task Force was neither a good landlord nor competent at bookkeeping. When the group failed to pay the marketplace's bills, the Ford Foundation cut off funding, and the federal government demanded that $200,000 be returned. In response, the Haitian Task Force dissolved itself. In 1997 the city finally shut the place down.
Both Mapou and Bien-Aime blame the inexperience of Haitian Task Force board members and staff for the Caribbean Marketplace's failure. "They charged too much money," Mapou says. "I was charged $300 a month and I charged one dollar for a book, and I sold a book once in a blue moon." Fortunately, both Mapou and Bien-Aime kept their day jobs. Mapou bought a building on the same block as the marketplace and a vacant lot across the street . Bien-Aime bought a strip mall on NE 54th Street with free parking.
Little River landlord Bennett Pumo sees things differently. He calls the Caribbean Marketplace the "perpetual failing market" and cites the city's contribution to the project as "$3 million and counting." Pumo adds that the market is just one of several investments made by taxpayers in the name of Little Haiti, including $20 million to build the Little Haiti Cultural Center and as much as $44 million for Little Haiti Park.
Enid Pinkney, a board member of Dade Heritage Trust and president of the Lemon City Cemetery Community Corporation, says she's concerned that Lemon City and its residents' contributions to the region, especially of its black community, will be completely forgotten. After all, Miami leaders had long forgotten about the Lemon City Cemetery, the final resting place of the settlement's black residents, once located at NW 71st Street and NW 4th Avenue. In the 1950s, a YMCA was built on top of it. Rediscovered in 2009 during the construction of an affordable-housing project, the old cemetery yielded the remains of 525 people, including Pinkney's grandfather and Ayers's grandfather.
Fred St. Amand, a prominent Haitian-American who owns the Pax-Villa funeral home at 54 NE 54th St., is quite aware of the area's crime problems. After his funeral home was broken into a few times, he started carrying a pistol, "just to let them know I'm as crazy as they are." But St. Amand vows to organize against any attempt to change the name from Little Haiti.
On a recent afternoon, Ehrlich gives a tour in his black SUV of an area of warehouses east of NE 2nd Avenue along NE 59th Terrace and NE 59th Street. He owns the ones painted white. "We only use white semi-gloss paint," he explains.
There's no graffiti on the buildings in this area, Ehrlich points out. There's no trash on the street, either. The warehouses, those owned by Ehrlich and others, aren't just storage facilities, but rather offices and studios.
Since 1998, Ehrlich, an Upper Eastside resident, has been investing his time and money in this section of Lemon City. In the early days, he says, he contended with homeless drug addicts and armed robbers. But he also had to deal with illegal dumping, much of it done, he alleges, by Haitian-owned rag shops that sorted through piles of clothes for material they could sell to Haiti, and then simply dumped the rest, sometimes right on the public right-of-way. The rag shops on Ehrlich's block have since been replaced by new tenants.
Ehrlich is Mapou's nemesis. He maintains that Mapou and most of the Haitian activists clamoring for an official Little Haiti don't even live in Miami. Mapou, on the other hand, accuses Ehrlich of not only wanting to eliminate the Little Haiti name, but of wanting to drive out the Haitians.
"He's a bug!" Mapou says of Ehrlich. It was Ehrlich, he asserts, who made the expansion of Notre Dame d'Haiti Church at 110 NE 62nd St. more costly because he complained that oak trees on the site might be damaged by the construction. In the wake of that complaint, the church was forced to spend more funds redesigning its plans.
The church's construction plans threatened the lives of nine majestic oak trees more than a century old, Ehrlich counters, adding that other Miami activists were concerned about the fate of the trees at Notre Dame. Many of those trees, he adds, will probably die in the next five or six years.
Like other critics of the Little Haiti name, Ehrlich stresses that Haitians are migrating out of Lemon City and Little River, a fact hasn't been lost on Haitian entrepreneurs. Between 2010 and 2012, the Miami Herald reported, about 90 new Haitian-owned businesses opened in North Miami, a city with a large Haitian population.
Produced by the nonprofit Rhythm Foundation, Big Night in Little Haiti features Haitian musicians, Haitian art, Haitian food, and Haitian-brewed Prestige beer.
Jan Mapou intends to make sure he won't disappear like the lemon trees of old. Even though he's "still in the red" businesswise, he vows not to sell his store or the vacant land across the street from Libreri Mapou that he uses for parking. Just two months ago, he says, a man with a cigar told him he wanted to buy his building.


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Allen Irvine McHose (* 14. Mai 1902; † 14. September 1986 in Naples, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Musikwissenschaftler, -pädagoge und Organist.

McHose war stellvertretender Direktor der Eastman School of Music, Leiter der Departments für Musiktheorie und Professor für Musiktheorie. Als Direktor des Sommermusikprogramms der Schule gründete er die Konzertserie Arranger's Holiday. Daneben wirkte er als Organist und Chorleiter an der Brick Presbyterian Church. Er verfasste Bücher zur Musikgeschichte und -theorie, darunter The Contrapunctal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century und Basic principles of the technique of 18th and 19th century composition, außerdem die Lehrbücher Sight-singing manual und Teachers Dictation Manual.

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Musikwissenschaftler
Musikpädagoge
Klassischer Organist
Hochschullehrer (University of Rochester)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1902
Gestorben 1986
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Jordan Howden says the trip to Catterick gave the squad a chance to bond ahead of the Betfred League One season getting underway.
The squad were put through their paces ahead of their trip to face Newcastle Thunder on February 16.
He said: "It was very tough mentally, it was good to get away with the boys though and work on different aspects of communication.
"We did a lot of running and they showed us what sort of things they have to go through on a day-to-day basis.
After facing three Super League sides in pre-season, Howden says the side are ready for a trip to Kingston Park in round one.
He added: "We came up against three good teams who will go well in Super League, we maybe just lacked a bit of intensity against them.
"I think the Newcastle game is one of the best fixtures to have first up, they're a new team and we've had a settled squad for a good period of time now.


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Le Cerf cochon (Axis porcinus) est une petite espèce de cervidés du genre axis.

Description
Les individus de cette espèce peuvent avoir une taille au garrot comprise entre 61 et  tandis que la taille en longueur varie généralement entre 1,05 et , le tout pour une masse oscillant entre 30 et .

Les mâles ont des bois et les femelles n'ont pas de bois. Les femelles sont généralement moins grandes et moins lourdes que les mâles. Le pelage des femelles, d'un brun rougeâtre en été, prend des teintes plus sombres en hiver tandis que le pelage des mâles est brun peu importe la saison.

Distribution
L'habitat du cerf cochon s'étend du Pakistan tout le long de la chaîne de l'Himalaya au sud-est asiatique. Il a également été introduit par les Européens en Australie.

Habitat
Les habitats principaux du cerf cochon sont les roselières situées dans les plaines inondables et les hautes prairies. Cet animal préfère éviter les forêts et peut également vivre dans des zones agricoles.

Alimentation
Le cerf cochon se nourrit principalement d'herbes tendres et de feuilles qu'il mange durant les périodes les plus fraîches de la journée, afin de pouvoir digérer à l'ombre pendant les moments de la journée où la température est élevée.

Menaces
Depuis la fin , cette espèce a subi un déclin de sa population de 50 % et son aire de répartition a grandement diminué. Les principales causes de ce déclin sont la chasse intensive et la dégradation de son espace de vie.

En captivité
Un programme de reproduction a été mis en place en Europe afin de préserver l'espèce et le 24 juin 2018, dans un parc animalier d'Auvergne, une naissance d'un cerf cochon a eu lieu.

Prédateurs
Les prédateurs de cette espèce sont principalement les tigres, les dholes et les léopards. Parfois, la panthère nébuleuse et le python birman attaquent également les cerfs cochons.

Galerie

Notes et références

Liens externes

Cervidae
Mammifère (nom vernaculaire)
Faune d'Asie du Sud
Faune d'Asie du Sud-Est


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IT IS A Wednesday night at the Capitol City Brewing Company in Washington, D.C. After-work coed softball teams file in; pints of Yuengling and Fat Tire pass from trays to tables. Meanwhile, the televisions that surround the bar underscore a sudden truth: A region dead to sports is coming alive. The first-place Nationals are on the big screen against the bottom-feeding Mets. So take that, New York. On the smaller screens, the last-place Red Sox (take that, Boston) are trying to play spoiler to the Yankees, a game that matters because at the same time, the used-to-be-nothing Orioles are playing the Rays with the AL East lead in sight. Outside, throughout the city, into the vast, ever-expanding suburbs, the leaves are changing and, take a deep breath now, baseball matters again. The vaunted Phillies are 17 games behind the Nationals -- chew on that, Broad Street -- and the last time the city's baseball team played in the postseason, back in 1933, television barely existed. So take that, history.
In both the fantasy world of sports and the real halls of power, DC is now a battleground. Every commercial break between innings features at least one haymaker from Mitt Romney to the jaw of President Obama (one ad shows the word "Forward" dissolving into ashes, replaced by the slow-motion zinger, "Backward"), countered by an uppercut from the president ("Mitt Romney's not the solution," the voice-over says, with an ominous death pause setting up the roundhouse. "He's the problem"). At the same time, with every game, the capital is also facing a referendum on its status as a sports town. The Nationals have pretty much pulled a wire-to-wire job, in first place all year, the shoe-shine boy as underboss. Now bring in the surging Orioles, the city's baseball caretakers for 33 years, and it isn't actually insane to think that the first-ever Beltway World Series could actually happen. And dwarfing it all is the Redskins and the city's new hope. Already, the District is electrified by the cartoonish bigness of a young man picked to be the signature player for the most dominant franchise in town. He is 22 and hasn't yet played half a dozen games in his professional career. But the combination of the hype, his undeniable talent and the staggering marketing muscle behind him have already made him RG3, avenger. His actual name, Robert Lee Griffin III, sounds more like the cover for his secret identity.
The energy should be perfect; the buzz should be filling the Capitol City Brewing Company and all the sports bars in Metro DC. Except that it isn't. Instead of that noisy, civic testosterone that spikes when a city's sports teams are rocking, DC is sweating with anxiety. The Redskins are maybe a .500 team. Maybe. Due to bad moves and bad vibes, the Wizards have failed to build a following. The Capitals are locked out. Even the Nationals, despite their "Natitude" campaign, don't seem to have a mandate. They've crushed the league but are merely middle of the pack in attendance. Every red Nats cap on the street is matched by a red Phillies cap. And while the game was on at the bar, no one was really watching it -- giving the impression that the city isn't any closer to supporting this franchise than it was the Senators, who left town not once but twice, in 1961 to become the Minnesota Twins and in 1972 to become the Texas Rangers.
None of it is exactly fair, and yet all of it is fair game, for if there is one defining characteristic of Washington, D.C., as a sports town, it is insecurity. Unlike its muscular neighbors along the Northeast corridor -- Boston, New York, Philadelphia -- the district sometimes frets about whether it's a sports town at all. The result is a certain nervous mumbling that betrays an ineluctable fact: RG3 is the most important player at the most important position on the most important team in the city playing the most popular sport in the country. And along with RG3, there is 24-year-old Stephen Strasburg and 19-year-old Bryce Harper, the cornerstones of the Nationals. There is John Wall, just 22, who will be ably handling the rock for the Wizards. And yes, Alex Ovechkin is still flying through the neutral zone as the city's elder statesman at 27. No city has as much good, young star power across its four major sports -- something its East Coast rivals would announce with bullhorns.
Griffin was the first Skins QB to throw and rush for TDs in consecutive games since 1980. Kevin Terrell/AP Images
GET INTO THE Range Rover at the corner of 16th and K, White House to the right, Washington Post to the left. Shawn Springs is driving -- through Georgetown, to Adams Morgan, to the U Street corridor. The retired NFL cornerback grew up in nearby Silver Spring, Md., was a star at Springbrook High and had a dad who played for the Dallas Cowboys. When the Redskins were so desperate that they reached back into the trophy case and dusted off Joe Gibbs, one of the first transactions the legendary coach made in 2004 was to sign Springs as a free agent from the Seahawks. But while Springs is down by law here, know this: It wasn't the Orioles, Redskins, Bullets and Caps for him as a kid. Style wouldn't allow it. "Cowboys, Bulls, Yankees," Springs says. "I didn't like the Orioles, and DC didn't have baseball. It was all about the Starter jackets. That's where the rooting came from: Yankees, Lakers, Raiders."
All over the city, everybody's got a different theory as to why DC doesn't rate as a sports town. Some say downtown is a bad place to find the city's pulse. That's where the tourists and the transplants are, the ones who work for this senator or that lobby. The military, all those college kids at Georgetown, Howard, American and George Washington -- they too are largely transplants with competing loyalties. You'll hear that the district's real fans live outside the Beltway, in Maryland and Virginia, or at the very least a little farther out from Union Station.
But all these truths are secondary to one fundamental truth: DC is defined not by what unites but by what fractures. By the forces of gentrification that have pushed Chocolate City into surrounding counties and diluted the traditional soul of the city. By Marion Barry and the history of rising black political power. By the tensions between police and the residents of predominantly black Prince George's County. By the pride for its most popular team and its incorrect name and dreadful racial history. And, of course, by the steel-cage paradigm that is Republicans vs. Democrats, which turns this town over every two years. All of which makes it hard for the city's teams to build a loyal constituency. "If Pittsburgh is built on steel and Detroit on cars, then DC is built on divisions," says Dave Zirin, a political sports writer who lives in Maryland.
Then there is the losing, the nonstop slog of losing. The Wizards, formerly the Bullets, haven't won 50 games since they went to the Finals back when Jimmy Carter was turning down the thermostat in the White House. That was 33 years ago. The Capitals have never won a Cup in their 37 seasons and haven't made it past the second round of the playoffs since 1998. The Nationals failed to finish above .500 in each of their first seven seasons after their arrival from Montreal in 2005. "You can't just expect people to come out and spend hundreds of dollars after losing the way the teams in this city have," says Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, who grew up in the DC area and would become the sports editor of The Washington Post.
But -- and here everyone agrees -- the Redskins are different. This team, with just two 10-win seasons and three playoff wins since hoisting the Lombardi in 1991, is the region's great uniter, despite its ugly past. Original owner George Preston Marshall, who moved the team to DC from Boston in 1937, was adamantly opposed to racial integration. He agreed to draft the team's first African-American, in 1962, only after then-Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall threatened to cancel the team's stadium lease. But the racial tensions rapidly de-escalated when Jack Kent Cooke became majority owner in 1974. Cooke hired Joe Gibbs to be the Redskins' coach in 1981, and Gibbs, of course, led the team to three titles, including one in the 1987 season that saw Doug Williams become the first black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl. Nearly a quarter-century later, a recent Washington Post poll found that 66 percent of black fans hold a favorable view of the team, higher than for any other local pro team.
"People say sports aren't real, but I remember my cousins crying when the Redskins lost," says Springs as he makes his way through DC's snarling traffic. "Look at all the people whose season tickets have been passed down 50 years. The fans? They were authentic. Rich, poor, black, white, blue collar, white collar … Only a few places had that kind of passion. The Dawg Pound in Cleveland, Oakland. And Washington."
And that passion is now being focused upon the 6-foot-2, 217-pound frame of one Robert Griffin III, the second pick overall of April's draft, who won the Heisman and set or tied 54 school records at Baylor. Springs drops his car off at the valet and heads into the Park at Fourteenth, a packed bar/restaurant that caters mostly to African-American professionals. It is Week 2 of the NFL season, halftime in the Bears-Packers game, but when the wall of flat-screens shows a clip of RG3's debut a week earlier, the dancing and the flirting stop as people become transfixed enough, even with the volume down, to watch TV in a club. "See?" Springs says. "RG3 has a great chance. Everybody wants him to make it. The question is whether the Redskins will do right by him. Everything else is in place. The people are hungry."
You can see it outside of FedEx Field before the Redskins' home opener a week later. While the Skins' season-ticket base cuts across racial lines and a sea of other divisions, the diversity of the Redskins tailgaters -- black, white, side-by-side, all investing emotionally in a young, black quarterback from a two-parent home -- suggests an audacity of its own.
In Lot D is a 69-year-old black woman named Joyce Thompson, a retired elementary school principal. Thompson is from Houston originally but has lived in the DC area since the early 1970s. The day before the game, she bought an RG3 jersey for $100. "We've had season tickets for 11 years, and this is the most exciting year," Thompson says. "This is the first time I've bought the real-deal jersey, so that tells you how I feel, for a retired person to spend $100 on a shirt."
Across the street in Lot E are four senior citizens, all white males. There's Charlie Dennis, 63, a truck driver from Alexandria, Va.; Bill DePuy, 72, a retired insurance claims worker from Springfield, Va.; Phil McConchie, 61, a retired insurance claims worker from Dewey Beach, Del.; and Ned Cotter, 72, a retired insurance claims worker, also from Alexandria. They've been coming to games together since the late 1960s and have been season-ticket holders since 2000.
They arrived at the stadium at 9 a.m. and are grilling brats, eating Krispy Kremes and drinking Yuengling. Dennis is wearing a white Portis No. 26 jersey; DePuy wears a white Darrell Green No. 28 jersey. McConchie and Cotter aren't wearing gear, but they soon will be rewarded with some. Eighteen months ago, Dennis sustained a serious injury on the job. His pals helped him get to all of his doctor appointments and recover, so he plans to repay them by buying jerseys for the entire foursome today. RG3 jerseys, naturally.
"We haven't had a QB in so long," Cotter says. "Used to be we'd score 10 points and it was a big deal. Now with Griffin, we've got a shot. He's mobile, he's accurate. Win or lose, he'll make a difference. We've been so poor for so long that going 8-8 would feel like going 10-6."
Walking past the tailgate is Byron Harper, 46, and his son Blake. Byron, African- American, is a high school math teacher and basketball coach at nearby Gonzaga College High School. He hasn't been to a game since before his son was born and admits that RG3 is the only reason they are at FedEx Field on this day. "We haven't won in 20 years," he says. "My son is 6, and he thinks I'm crazy to root for the Redskins. But RG3 is touching way more than football. He's touching this whole area."
Hype, meet reality. Griffin is the first rookie QB to be named his conference's NFL Player of the Week in his debut. Rob Tringali for ESPN The Magazine
Yes, the Skins fans are feeling it. Inside the stadium, as the pregame festivities get under way, the first nine offensive players out of the tunnel receive a smattering of applause, maybe a 2 or 3 on a scale of 1 to 10. The 10th man out is running back Alfred Morris, who rates a 5. The 11th and final man out is RG3. The response is deafening, easily an 11. After his name is announced, he stands in the tunnel, salutes and sprints about 60 yards to the opposite 40-yard line, slapping five through the Skins line. And then, as he raises his palms up to the sky to pump up the crowd, they begin chanting. RG3 ... RG3 ... RG3.
Of course, as this town knows all too well, every would-be savior has his limits. Though Griffin is the image of awe-inspiring motion on this afternoon -- throwing for 221 yards, rushing for 85 more, scoring through the air and on the ground -- he comes up short on the Skins' final drive, getting his team to the Bengals' 19 but no further in the 38-31 defeat. In the postgame news conference, the rookie comes on last, speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of about 70, about 20 more than listened to coach Mike Shanahan. Dressed in dark jeans, squeaky-clean white sneakers and a burgundy polo with the Skins logo on the left side -- looking more like a coach than a player -- he stands flat-footed, with his hands grasping either side of the podium. "It was a great atmosphere," he says. "Great vibe for us. But we need to give them a better showing. I know we scored 31 points, but we didn't win the game. The bottom line is, the fans showed up, and we need to show up as well."
It's clear that Skins fans don't share Griffin's dejection. The sea of No. 10 jerseys that emerge from the stadium after the loss will be seen all over the city the next week, from Dupont Circle to Kingman Park. He remains the hero their team has been waiting for.
Too much? Who knows? Who cares? All that matters now is that he is offering this ring-starved town an opportunity to wipe away the past, start something new and make it right. A chance to elevate not just the Redskins but the town's sports profile. Over the next several months, leading into the next several years, DC, as a sports town, will be defined by what its teams do with this chance of a lifetime. If the Natitude can be sustained through this year's World Series and beyond, if the city's dormant love for basketball re-emerges due to the promise offered by John Wall, if Alex Ovechkin returns from the lockout rejuvenated -- maybe DC is ready to rewrite a story that hasn't had a happy ending since Bush I was in office.
It is an awesome proposition, a grand challenge. But on this Sunday, with this quarterback, you can already see a small sign of a bigger movement to come. Held aloft by a Redskins fan before kickoff, it reads:
GRIFFIN III FOR PRESIDENT, 2012
Additional reporting by Eddie Matz.
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Labor has accused the government of lacking a financial strategy to pay for a second Bass Strait energy interconnector. TasNetworks on Wednesday released a business case on the proposed $3.5 billion Marinus Link which it said stood up technically and commercially. But the report said Australia's energy pricing framework needed reform to ensure Tasmanian electricity users did not pay higher electricity prices once the interconnector came online for the benefit of mainland customers. Labor's finance spokesman David O'Byrne said the report raised more questions than it delivered answers. "The government can't say who will pay or how we will pay," Mr O'Byrne said. He said the federal government was silent on changes to national rules to ensure Tasmania was burdened with the cost of the link. Mr O'Byrne said it was naive to think other states would pick up the bill. TasNetworks chief executive Lance Balcombe said the second stage of the plan, the design and approvals stage, would determine funding for the project. This stage of the project is estimated to take three years to complete. Mr Barnett said it was expected questions over finance and ownership would be answered by late 2021. "The government will also ensure Tasmanians only pay their fair share for what is strategic national infrastructure benefiting the nation," he said. "At the recent COAG energy council, we agreed to task the Energy Security Board to prepare advice on a fair cost allocation methodology for interconnectors." Cradle Coast Authority chief executive Daryl Connelly said the project would transform prosperity for the North-West region. "Thousands of jobs are likely to be created not only during construction but as a result of further wind and hydro investments that will become viable," he said.
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Tasmanian Labor demands answers on who will pay for second Bass Strait interconnector
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Guy Barnett
Labor has accused the government of lacking a financial strategy to pay for a second Bass Strait energy interconnector.
TasNetworks on Wednesday released a business case on the proposed $3.5 billion Marinus Link which it said stood up technically and commercially.
But the report said Australia's energy pricing framework needed reform to ensure Tasmanian electricity users did not pay higher electricity prices once the interconnector came online for the benefit of mainland customers.
The government can't say who will pay or how we will pay.
David O'Byrne
Labor's finance spokesman David O'Byrne said the report raised more questions than it delivered answers.
"The government can't say who will pay or how we will pay," Mr O'Byrne said.
He said the federal government was silent on changes to national rules to ensure Tasmania was burdened with the cost of the link.
Mr O'Byrne said it was naive to think other states would pick up the bill.
TasNetworks chief executive Lance Balcombe said the second stage of the plan, the design and approvals stage, would determine funding for the project.
This stage of the project is estimated to take three years to complete.
Mr Barnett said it was expected questions over finance and ownership would be answered by late 2021.
"The government will also ensure Tasmanians only pay their fair share for what is strategic national infrastructure benefiting the nation," he said.
"At the recent COAG energy council, we agreed to task the Energy Security Board to prepare advice on a fair cost allocation methodology for interconnectors."
Cradle Coast Authority chief executive Daryl Connelly said the project would transform prosperity for the North-West region.
"Thousands of jobs are likely to be created not only during construction but as a result of further wind and hydro investments that will become viable," he said.
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Mishawaka native Adam Driver nominated for Academy Award
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Posted: Mon 11:45 AM, Jan 13, 2020
Mishawaka native Adam Driver has been nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "Marriage Story."
The former Mishawaka High School student is competing in the Best Leading Actor category alongside Antonio Banderas for "Pain and Glory," Leonardo DiCaprio for "Once upon a Time...in Hollywood," Joaquin Phoenix for "Joker" and Jonathan Pryce for "The Two Popes."
In 2019, Driver was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "BlacKkKlansman."
Click here for the full list of 2020 nominees.
The 92nd Academy Awards will be held on Feb. 9 in Los Angeles.


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It could be argued that the downfall of the 2017 Cowboys had more to do with left tackle Tyron Smith's injuries than any other factor.
Sure Ezekiel Elliott was suspended for six critical games, Dak Prescott's play declined down the stretch, Sean Lee missed three crucial losses, and questionable coaching decisions seemed to be made week after week. But when Tyron Smith was healthy and playing the first 8 games of the season, any and all of the Cowboys' issues seemed to be masked.
The reasoning behind this is simple. Dallas is built around their three All Pro offensive linemen, they value running the football and winning the physicality battle at the line of scrimmage over any other element of offense. And, when this key strength is handcuffed due to injury, and inexperienced backups are forced to play, things go downhill rather quickly.
Or, at least they did in 2017.
Heading into the 2018 season opener, it's a different member of that All Pro trio who will be out. Center Travis Frederick is facing a rather serious issue, diagnosed with Gullian-Barre Syndrome. I'm far from a doctor, but anyone who spends five minutes on the WebMD page describing this illness knows how awful it can be.
Frederick's health and livelihood is way more important than his availability for a football game, but he is out indefinitely for the Cowboys. Replacing him, like replacing Smith a year ago, will be the most important challenge the Cowboys face in 2018.
Joe Looney has been tasked with aiding the Cowboys in overcoming this challenge, moving into the starting center role while Frederick is out. Best known for impersonating Ezekiel Elliott's crop-top practice jersey, Joe Looney is now looking to make a name for himself as the center.
The seven year veteran entered the league in 2012 as an undrafted free agent with the 49ers, bouncing around the league a bit before landing with the Cowboys in 2016. Looney has played the "first interior lineman off the bench" role for Dallas since then, even seeing time in 6 linemen sets over the past two seasons.
Looney has been a career backup lineman, only starting 10 games in the four years prior to joining the Cowboys. Due to the reliability of Frederick and guard Zack Martin, Looney hasn't actually started a game during his career in Dallas (those 3 starts are 6 OL sets).
Looney had a relatively impressive preseason, looking more athletic at the second level than we had seen in the past. This will prove incredibly important when the Cowboys run their bread-and-butter run play, outside zone.
Joe Looney hasn't seen much playing time during his time with the Cowboys. This Sunday, however, Joe Looney might be the most important player on the field, as he looks to fill an All Pro's shoes.
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Counting the pockets of Cowboys star players has become a favorite activity of the national media this offseason, as everyone tries to figure out how Dallas will structure the deals for their young players over the course of the next year.
While trying to figure out what the new deals will look like, it's worth reflecting on how well the team did on some of their past negotiations. The Ringer released an article this week naming the most underpaid veteran on each NFL roster, with Tyron Smith earning that honor for the Cowboys.
Smith, who signed his extension with the team back in 2014, is under the deal until the 2024 season. That 8 year extension was lucrative at the time for sure, but as the salary cap rises and other offensive tackles have gotten paid, it looks more like a bargain deal for Dallas by the second.
"A long contract is a bad deal for an elite player in a league in which revenue grows handily. The salary cap was $133 million in 2014, but it's $188.2 million for 2019. So while the Cowboys have 41.5 percent more money to spend, Smith hasn't had a raise in five seasons. The Cowboys essentially locked up one of the best tackles of his generation for his entire career."
When put like this, you can see just what a steal of a contract the Cowboys signed Tyron Smith for. Smith is inked for the entirety of the prime of his career, and has very little leverage for a holdout given how many years still remain on this deal.
On the field, Tyron Smith remains one of the best left tackles in all of football, even if back issues have forced him to miss some time over the last two seasons. Smith should remain a top contributor for the Cowboys for at least a few more years, all of which will come at a bargain for a Cowboys team looking to execute some salary cap gymnastics next offseason.
The Cowboys duo of young linebackers took the NFL by storm in 2018.
Rookie Leighton Vander Esch and former second round pick Jaylon Smith played well above expectations, as for the first time in years Dallas did not face a significant drop off in defensive production when Sean Lee was out and injured.
These young linebackers are the cornerstone of a run defense which should be among the league's best going forward, and Pro Football Focus agrees. Well, somewhat agrees.
PFF ranked all 32 run defenses heading into the 2019 season, slotting the Cowboys 13th overall. Better than half the league, but not quite top 10.
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PFF's reasoning behind this ranking certainly makes sense, as they credit the young linebacker duo without mentioning much of what will be in front of them helping to stop opposing running games.
"The Cowboys' run defense begins and ends with the league's best young linebacker duo. Leighton Vander Esch ranked third in run-stop percentage as a rookie while Jaylon Smith checked in at 29th."
The playoff loss in Los Angeles has left a bad taste about the Cowboys' interior defensive line in a lot of mouths, but I do think they've improved the unit this offseason. Signing Christian Covington and drafting Trysten Hill was a nice start to do so, but having Maliek Collins healthy and Antwaun Woods back for a full season will also go a long way.
Interestingly enough, two of the Cowboys divisional foes came in ranked above them on this list. Washington was slotted as the 12th best run defense, while Philadelphia was placed at number 8. Both teams' units deserve respect, of course, but this further highlights how difficult it could be to run the ball in the NFC East this season.
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Amari Cooper changed life for the entire Dallas Cowboys offense in 2018. Finally, Quarterback Dak Prescott has the number one option at wide receiver he's desperately needed since his rookie campaign. Now, after half a season and multiple playoff games under his belt in Dallas, Cooper is set to have a monster year. Here are three specific reasons why.
1. Culture
Head Coach Jason Garrett has established a certain way of doing things in Dallas since taking over in 2010. His constant search for the RKG or "Right Kinda Guy" as he puts it has the culture in the locker room at a very positive and productive place. As criticized as he is, justifiably or not, he has his team all on the same page. This is something Cooper has been trying to find since he entered the league in 2015. An organization with the right mindset in order for him to perform and maximize his skill set. After being traded to Dallas, Cooper opened up in November about being unhappy during his days in Oakland.
"I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that. But when I sat and thought about it [Monday} night, I thought about the fact that they traded me away. I don't know how to feel about it," Cooper told Yahoo Sports.
This may seem small to others considering these players make millions of dollars right? Well, it doesn't change the fact that they're human. When you feel unappreciated you don't play to the best of your abilities. Shortly after the trade, Cooper talked about how he's been different since putting a star on his helmet. "I feel like it did change me, as far as having that chip on my shoulder. Not that I wasn't passionate before, but playing with more passion, trying to intentionally have fun out there. It definitely has changed me, in terms of me going out there and just having fun with it," Cooper said. A change of scenery was just what the doctor ordered for Cooper and the Cowboys.
2. The other weapons around him
The Cowboys aren't just Amari Cooper or bust at the wide receiver position. Michael Gallup and Randall Cobb provide more challenges for defenses on a weekly basis. Gallup has firmly locked down the number two spot on the depth chart. It took a while for him to establish chemistry with Dak Prescott, as they would misfire on several big plays during the first half of the season. Nonetheless, by seasons end things started to pick up, and he finished with 33 receptions for 507 yards and 2 touchdowns. In the playoffs, he scored a touchdown in the Cowboys Wild Card win over Seattle. The next week against the Rams he performed well even in defeat, with 6 receptions for 119 yards. He's got speed, size, and versatility. Now with a full season and two games of playoff experience under his belt, I look for even more production from Gallup, as a possible breakout star.
Randall Cobb is a much-needed upgrade in the slot for the Cowboys. Unlike former receiver Cole Beasley, Cobb can line up inside or outside. Giving new Offensive Coordinator Kellen Moore a bigger bag of tricks at his disposal. Now, he can lineup Cooper inside or outside and play with a plethora of different looks, keeping defenses off balance because of the uncertainty of how the Cowboys will attack through the air.
Then, of course, there's Ezekiel Elliott. The two-time rushing champion is the tone-setter on offense and dictates how defenses will attack. With Cooper being such a threat in the air you basically have to pick your poison. 8-9 man fronts against the run can make you vulnerable to play action down the field or quick slants with Cooper's exceptional route running. The more productive Elliott is the more honest it keeps opposing defenses, opening up more opportunities in the passing game. Averaging 101.2 yards per game for his career, second all-time to Hall of Famer Jim Brown, Elliott can make create even more opportunities for Cooper in 2019 with a full season of playing time together.
3. Motivation
Amari Cooper is currently looking to sign a long-term deal with the Cowboys. Preferably, both sides would like to get this deal done before the season starts considering he's in the last year of his rookie contract that is set to pay him 13.9 million in 2019. However, it isn't just a new deal that motivates Cooper heading into the new season.
"It's kind of a weird situation, just being that I've never been in this situation before, talking about a contract. But also, I'm under a fifth-year option, so I'm not too familiar with it. I really don't ask my agent many questions. I'm not really worried about it that much. I'm more focused on actually playing and really earning the respect and then the contract," Cooper said.
Being motivated by earning respect is a very mature approach from Cooper. Now, add that to the fact that I'm sure he wants to firmly put his name alongside Julio Jones, Antonio Brown, DeAndre Hopkins, Odell Beckham Jr, and Michael Thomas as the best receivers in the game, you have a fully motivated number one option heading into the new season.
Amari Cooper has already made three pro bowls, but now there's another level for him to reach. In just nine games last year with the Cowboys he caught 53 passes for 725 yards and 6 touchdowns. Also, he caught another 13 on 18 targets in the playoffs for 171 yards and a score. He's in the right culture, he has a number of other weapons around him and he has multiple reasons to be motivated heading in the new season. With a full offseason of building chemistry with Dak Prescott, I see Cooper taking that leap to the All-Pro level in 2019.
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
by Chet Van Duzer
by David Schuster
This entertaining and erudite book deserves to be read by anyone who, like myself, has ever felt a thrill of adventure from seeing the Treasure Island type maps so beloved of Hollywood films. Such scrolls are always adorned with fearsome illustrations of sea monsters, lurking just offshore to deter the faint-hearted and gullible. It's true that early charts did include a myriad of sea monsters but, as with so much in popular fiction, there's a kernel of truth to the media portrayal – but it's not what you might expect.
The key revelation from this book for me was that the majority of maps intended for use in navigation did not include sea monsters, and the reason was simply one of economics; drawings were an optional upgrade. You can imagine the scene: A cartographer stands in the heavily gilded drawing room of a prestigious client. The shiny mahogany table is littered with papers and scrolls, rolled and unrolled. "This," he says pointing to an unadorned chart of the Indian Ocean, "is undoubtedly the work of expert craftsmen, but…" With a flourish he produces a copy of the same location, this time with fantastical creatures, boats and scroll-work labelling across the expanse of the ocean: "..this is a work of art, fit to be owned by a scholar such as yourself." This then is the secret of the survival of these documents; they were often 'coffee table' items, intended to impress the friends and acquaintances of those wealthy enough to commission them.
"Immensely engaging"
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps is laid out roughly chronologically, starting with classical precursors, the earliest medieval charts through to the end of the Renaissance in the sixteenth century. However, this is by no means a dry indigestible tome, there's a light and humorous treatment of the subject which is immensely engaging. There are chapters with titles such as 'Sea Monsters on the Ceiling', 'How to Buy a Sea Monster' and 'The Curious Career of the Flying Turtle'. The latter section is one of my favourite snippets: It was common practice for creatures to be copied by artists from earlier designs. The flying turtle first appears on a map of 1558 and was published by Arnold Nicolai at the 'sign of the turtle'. From this the turtle is taken to subtly identify Nicolai as the cartographer. It was then duly copied by other cartographers in 1564, 1597 and 1590, all of whom were unknowingly copying the logo of a competitor!
Any title which deals with illustrations is inevitably going to be judged on the quality of its own art work. In this, 'Sea Monsters' triumphs. It is sumptuously and generously illustrated throughout, with almost every page holding exquisite colour reproductions of the pictures being discussed. The paper quality is highly glossy, and the publishers have gone so far as to include flaps on the end pages as handy book marks. As someone who regularly sees Archaeology books at two or three times this cost, it's astounding that the British Library have manged to produce this for the cover price of £14.99.
Chet Van Duzer is clearly an expert in his field, being an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island and having previously produced the first detailed analysis of the earliest surviving terrestrial globes of the New World. But more than this, perhaps due to his impressive catalogue of journal publications, he is someone who is able to impart his knowledge in a way that is fun and easy to read. That said, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps isn't the snappiest of titles. I can't help feeling that it would have had greater mass market appeal if it were called something with an exclamation mark after it, such as Monstrous Maps! But perhaps that would undermine its academic appeal. Whatever, I'd certainly recommend this to armchair adventurers everywhere.
'Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps' by Chet Van Duzer is published by the British Library, £14.99 paperback
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A significant number of our string quartets in essex musicians were London based and trained, perhaps being attracted to the bracing sea breezes of the coast. jazz bands in essex presumably hide from the sea breezes, being more associated with night life and the in indoors. ceilidh bands in essex are popular the country over, and our barn dance bands in essex would bring any evening event to life. wedding quartets in essex are a must for every wedding day.


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Top 10 Most Expensive Watches
Facts, People & Lifestyle,
by Vatsala Sinha March 5, 2018, 8:04 am
"Time is priceless" says an old proverb. As cliche as that might sound, we all agree that the world belongs to the people who have mastered the art of using their time wisely. Make every second of every minute of your life count, and life shall reward you with good times. Waste that time and life will leave you with nothing but regrets. By mastering this art of making the most of our time, some of us have created a successful life out of our excellent skills in the art of timekeeping. Confused? I am talking about the passionate and enthusiastic watchmakers of the world. The masters of timekeeping, who work round the clock to manufacture brilliant timepieces. These watches, being the creations of their dedicated watchmakers are nonetheless exceptionally brilliant and hence incredibly expensive. Well! Time is not so priceless afterall. Have a look at the world's most expensive watches and their price.
10. Vacheron Tour de'lile:
Price: $1.5 million
This luxury watch also entitled as the most complicated watch in 2005 was launched to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Vacheron Constantin. Vacheron Constantin is a swiss manufacturer of luxury watches which was established in 1755. Tour de'lile won this company the "Golden Hand" award The case of this watch is made of 18 carats gold and coated with sapphire crystal. Vacheron Constantin manufactured 7 pieces of this watch one of which was auctioned at 1.87 million swiss francs, making it one of the most expensive watch in the world.
9. Louis Moinet "Meteoris" Watch:
Known for its unique pieces and limited editions, Louis Moinet made this watch out of the fragment of a Martian meteorite "Jiddat al Harasis". The fragment is more than 180 million years old which makes the it as expensive as $1000 per gram. It has a tourbillon dial made of 50 components.Tourbillon watches have escapement and balance wheels mounted on rotating cages to counter the effects of gravity. Louis Moinet decided to flaunt the brilliant tourbillon movement of this watch by integrating an open work dial architecture in the design. All in all this Swiss company didn't leave any stones unturned while manufacturing the"Meteoris", which made this watch worth every penny of it's price.
8. AP Royal Oak grande complication:
Price: $ 547,124.00
Featuring a perpetual calendar, chronograph and minute repeater, The Royal Oak is the most famous model of watches manufacture by Audemars Piguet (AP). Audemars Piguet is yet another Swiss manufacturer of watches known for their complicated movements with chimes or tourbillon complications. The Royal Oak was designed in 1971, on request for wristwatch that could be worn while driving a sports car, during a weekend on a boat, at a fancy dinner, and celebrating at the country club. One of the most important feature of this grand watch is its grand tappisserrie pattern, in which the links taper off the closer they get to the clasp. It comprises of a set of eight hexagonal screws which hold the bezel onto the case. The slots in the screws are aligned in the form of a circle.
7. Hublot -Big bang:
Price: $5 millions
When the phrase " diamonds are a women's best friend" became too overrated Hublot decided to shut everyone up with this diamond studded masterpiece. The Big Bang is embedded with 1,280 3 carat diamonds each one of them meticulously cut by a well renowned jeweler, such that each one of them have the same signature cut. What's more to this watch is that it adorns the wrists of the famous rapper Jay z.
6. Patek Philippe Ref 1518 wristwatch:
Price: $ 11 million
This timepiece by Patek Philippe is a stainless steel, rare perpetual calendar chronograph with moon phases. Auctioned at Geneva on November 12, 2016, this watch broke all records and became the most expensive watch in the world, by being sold for $11,136,642. What makes this watch special is the fact that this is the only perpetual calendar chronograph made in stainless steel. This incredible watch is a dream come true for Aurel Bacs, who is an internationally recognized leading specialist in the watch market.
5. Patek Philippe- Henry Graves pocket watch:
It took Patek Philippe a total of 8 years to assemble and manufacture this historical masterpiece. Known as the most complicated watch in the world, it featured more than 24 functions and was manufactured in 1933 for Henry Graves (Banker). What makes this watch so expensive is its 18 carat gold case as well as its intriguing history. Ever since it's manufacture in 1933, this watch kept getting passed on from Henry Graves to his successors, to museums until 2014 when it was put to auction. It was bought for $24 millions by an anonymous entity.
4. Chopard 201- Carat watch:
Price: $25 millions
This luxury jewel watch is a class apart from the rest of the watches on this list. Manufactured in 2000 this timepiece was a trendsetter. As unarranged and vague it might seem from a distance, the watch is in fact very intricately handcrafted into an array of the most precious coloured diamonds. Three uniques features make this watch well worth it's price. Firstly the brilliant shimmer created by 874 high grade coloured diamonds. Secondly the attention to details and lastly the intriguingly beautiful flower shaped pattern which the 3 heart shaped stones form to reveal the watch face.
3. Breguet Grande Complication Marie Antoinette:
Having a rich history of being a priceless gift for the French Queen Marie Antoinette, a watch was designed by Breguet on order from a mysterious admirer of The Queen. The watch was expected to be as spectacular as possible, incorporating the fullest range of horological known at the time. Having no limitations with respect to time or money led the watchmakers to manufacture a timeless masterpiece. Centuries later Breguet's watchmakers designed a replica of this fabled timepiece and named it "Marie Antoinette" in the honour of Her Majesty. One of the most distinguishing features of the watch is its self winding movements which comprises of 823 parts and components. The friction points, sinks and bearings are fitted with sapphire.
2. Graff diamonds the fascination:
Here we have Graff diamonds adding yet another diamond laden timepiece to the list and this one is worth a whooping 40 million dollars. The Fascination is made of 152.96 carats of white diamonds with a centre fancy cut exquisitely rare stone which is a 38 carat pear -shaped diamond. This watch can also be transformed into a ring. Quoting Laurence Graff the founder of Graff diamonds ""The Fascination is an outstanding piece, carefully crafted so it can be worn in a number of different ways – adding a touch of magic to the jewel"
1. Graff hallucination:
The Fascination was definitely not where Laurence Graff stopped. Instead she took the exquisite diamond show on timepieces a notch up by unveiling The Hallucination at the Baselworld watch and jewellery fair in 2014. This timepiece is made of 110 carats of the rarest diamonds fitted on a platinum bracelet. The rarity and vivid and sharp colours of the diamonds makes this watch the most expensive watch in the world. Graff diamonds created this expensive timepiece to showcase it's authority, skills and excellence in the industry.
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