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Mixed Tongues
by Youngho Ryu on February 21, 2007 March 17, 2013
One sunny Saturday morning, at the end of my first week in Japan, Ms. Shinako arrived, packaged gift in hand, bowing deeply and smiling as she stepped through the door. She was in her mid-twenties, petite and a little bit mousy, with long black hair coming down to her shoulders, which she kept sweeping behind both ears.
This was the first time anyone in the family had met her, but even I had heard much about her from my host mother. She was the fiancée of my predecessor, a man they had boarded through the city's homestay program ten years ago. Whenever she talked about him, my host mother would call out his name with an emphatic sigh: "Hak-joon!" Over the past week, the family had worked out their excitement at meeting his fiancée by telling me all about the man himself. "A good person" was the phrase that my laconic host father would use, and then my host sister and host mother would jump in with various anecdotes. "After working in Kobe for a while, he became super-Kansai-speech," my host sister said, grinning and imitating the strong intonations of that folksy southern dialect. Later he changed jobs and moved to Singapore and then Australia, helping out my host sister when she was a college student in Sydney. "Look!" they would say, poring over Saya's newly arrived graduation pictures. "This is Hak-joon. And here he is again." After greeting her warmly, we moved to the living room where we had a view of the garden through the glass doors. It was the beginning of June, and the roses were in full bloom. It wasn't a large garden: square and compact, it felt like it had been pushed into the house, like those poor commuters in Tokyo. Each morning my host mother would conduct a tour of the garden, pointing out the new roses that had blossomed over the night as we all stood in our slippers and brushed our teeth. When Ms. Shinako gasped over the roses, my host mother just about burst with pride. Saya was out so it was just four of us. Ms. Shinako was a Kyoto lady, born and raised in the traditional seat of Japanese culture and sophistication. She wore a black single-breasted jacket and below it a blouse printed with a large pink flower. Her skirt, also black, came down to her knees. She was well-mannered and feminine, maintaining a natural grace and economy of movement throughout the conversation. Most Japanese people are very expressive with their hands when they talk. While my host mother kept her hands down beneath her neck, where they had room to be tossed and flung about, Ms. Shinako liked to bring her hands up to her face, hiding her cheeks with little whimpers of embarrassment when complimented, and making small restrained gestures with her fingers drawn together to help convey what she was trying to say. When she was listening she would place her hands clasped upon her lap, on top of her legs which were kept neatly together and tilted to the side just so. Ms. Shinako and Hak-joon had met just seven or eight months ago, when Ms. Shinako had tagged along on a trip that her friend had organized. The trip was part of a corporate seminar that Hak-joon was participating in, and the weekend became more than just a free vacation for Ms. Shinako. Since then, they had been meeting whenever Hak-joon visited Japan for work, which was every other month or so, and had exchanged more than 9,000 emails. "9,000 emails!" I blurted out. The problem was, and this was the reason why Shinako had visited the Miyakawas, that the couple was having trouble getting her parents' blessings. "At first," she said, "I had expected Hak-joon's family to oppose, but it went much better than I thought it would. You hear about anti-Japanese sentiment on the news…" She had visited his family in Seoul several times now, and had been welcomed and accepted each time. I was surprised, as many Koreans still strongly dislike the Japanese and everything from fishing rights negotiations and Korean-Japanese soccer matches are treated as if the nation's sovereignty were still at stake. Her story took a stranger twist as she continued to talk about Hak-joon's family. His father had been a fighter pilot and Major General (two stars) in the Korean Air force, and had later been promoted to Lt. General (three stars) of what would later become the National Intelligence Service. This was during the 80's, when South Korea was ruled by a military dictatorship that ranked human rights low on its list of priorities, especially in the intelligence corps. "That was where he completed his military service. It was a nine-to-five job in Seoul, and was very comfortable." The association of the beloved Korean with that harsh period in Korean history struck me as bizarre. "But in the end," she said, "it wasn't so much a matter of national politics as it was a matter of individual personalities." She was talking about her own parents. The conventional phrase in Japanese that kept popping up though out the conversation was "a hard ball of prejudice and stubbornness stuck together." Her mother's family were caretakers of one of the many Buddhist temples in Kyoto and Ms. Shinako's grandfather was a Buddhist monk (In Japan, monks are allowed to marry). Her father ran a hair salon, one of the largest in Kyoto, with three stories for the salon and their home on the top floor of the building. When Hak-joon came to Kyoto to get her parents' approval, they made him stand outside. My host father murmured and shook his head. "It was so very impolite," Ms. Shinako sighed. He had come to the salon during morning roll call for the employees. When she heard that he had arrived, her mother said that she would commit suicide if he so much as set foot inside the house so her father left roll call to a subordinate and took him outside. There were gasps of shock all around. "Yon-chan," This was my host mother calling me. Up to this point, I had been listening quietly as I downed my tea. My host mother and sister called me by the suffix reserved in Japanese for children, "-chan", the closest English equivalent being "Little." To them I was "Little Yon-ny." They used the suffix liberally; my host mother's married younger brother was still "Shin-chan" in his early thirties, and later during my stay the family's six week old Pomeranian was dubbed "Pomu-chan." "When he heard your story, Yon-chan over here said that the two of you might as well break-up." Embarrassed, I tried to hammer together an explanation. "Well what I meant to say was that, in a situation like yours, most ordinary couples would consider, possibly, giving up." Ms. Shinako was silent for a moment and then replied, "Speaking for both of us, we haven't even considered 'giving up,' I am prepared to marry him even if, in the end, we don't gain my parents's approval, but we would like to try as hard as possible." I just nodded. Much to my chagrin, my host mother brought up my words again and again, and Ms. Shinako gave the same reply each time. I gradually realized that what my host mother was actually doing was testing her resolve, trying to find any loopholes or clauses in her commitment. I was a convenient foil: I would be gone by the end of the summer, but the rest of the family might be involved for much longer. Going back to the subject of her parents, she called them a "mask husband and wife" a seemingly happy couple that hardly talked to each other. Ms. Shinako's mother relied on her daughter, since she knew that her husband wouldn't respond to anything that she said. She thought that he was cold and uncaring, and she had had surgery several times to correct a heart problem so she scarcely left the house. She had few friends so her only child was her entire world. Since she was a little girl, Ms. Shinako had heard that she was to "remain in the family," married to someone who lived in Kyoto, not to this shifty foreigner who roamed all over Asia. "The sad thing is that they weren't always like this." Her own father had been fierce and persistent in asking for her mother's hand. He was a renegade who had given up his job at the national electric utility in a society where being a government bureaucrat meant comfort and stability. He moved to Kyoto to start up his own hair salon, and persevered through threats and even beatings to win the approval of his wife's family. In turn, her mother had been a devoted wife: she even started studying for a hairdressing certification after they got married, and the two ran their small salon together. When her father took Hak-joon outside, he told him not to return for three years. In three years he would consider their marriage. Ms. Shinako didn't know why it was three years, but she speculated that this was because of an "urana." "What's an urana?" I butted in. An "urana" was a divination, a fortune telling. "I heard that in Korea these things are very popular, aren't they?" I thought a while before answering. It was true that there seemed to be many places of "divination" and "Taoist philosophy" in Seoul. "Well, in Japan, they aren't as popular as they are in Korea, more the kind of thing that lovers do for fun on dates than as a basis for serious decisions, but Kyoto people tend to be more inclined towards the supernatural. Even I feel a weight on my chest and my mind is poisoned when I walk through Gion (the ancient geisha district of Kyoto) though it's all become high class restaurants." It was also significant that her mother had grown up in a temple. It is commonly said that "happy" events such as the New Year or births and weddings follow Shinto rites while Buddhist rites are used in funerals and the midsummer festival of the dead. My host mother remarked, "I had a friend who was the daughter of a monk just like your mother. She assisted her father at many funerals. Eventually she started to hear footsteps going up the stairs when no one else was home. I went to Europe with her once, and at a church in Germany, yes, one of those churches with a graveyard around it, she turned pale and felt nauseous and wanted to leave immediately." I started to rub my arm. Ms. Shinako said, "My mother is very spiritually sensitive. The day my father had a big car accident, she knew when and where it had occurred and told me that the police would call soon." When Ms. Shinako had pointed Hak-joon out in the group picture from the seminar trip, her mother recoiled and said "don't have anything to do with this man." "Actually," she said, "I laughed when I looked at the picture. I think that it was just a pretty bad picture." It was past lunch now, and it was time for Ms. Shinako to go; she wanted to see a relative in the neighborhood before she took the train back in the evening. My host parents pledged to act as Hak-joon's de facto parents and go visit Kyoto in the near future. I know that Hak-joon came to visit Japan for three days in early July, about four weeks later, and they came to visit the Miyakawas on the seventh evening of the month, the lovers' holiday that the Japanese call Tanabata and the Chinese Qi xi. This is the day that Vega, the star of the weaving girl, and Altair, the star of the shepherd boy, meet at the Milky Way, the "river of the sky." There are several variations of the legend: some say that they were separated because they were so happy together they were shirking their duties, others that they were separated because the emperor or empress of the heavens was angered that a common shepherd boy had stolen their daughter, but in any case the two are said to cross over the Milky Way on a bridge of magpies and spend just this one night together every year. I never did get to meet Hak-joon though. His visit overlapped with my break from the PII language program so I have nothing more to write.
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Appeal of THOMAS NASCA, SR., on behalf of his son, THOMAS NASCA, JR., from action of the Board of Education of the Somers Central School District regarding student discipline.
Russo & Galgano, Esqs., attorneys for petitioner, Louis J. Galgano, III, Esq. and Christopher Riley, Esq., of counsel
Anderson, Banks, Curran & Donoghue, Esqs., attorneys for respondent, Daniel Petigrow, Esq., of counsel
MILLS, Commissioner.--Thomas Nasca, Sr. ("petitioner") appeals the decision of the Board of Education of the Somers Central School District ("respondent") affirming the suspension of his son, Thomas Nasca, Jr., from May 17, 1995 through the end of the 1994-95 school year. The appeal must be dismissed.
At the time of the incident giving rise to this appeal, Thomas was a junior at Somers High School. On May 9, 1995, a student was shouting Thomas's name and threats from below the window of his social studies class. Thomas left the classroom, after being denied permission to do so, and went to the parking lot below to confront the student. Thomas admits that he agreed to fight the student off school grounds and that, as the other student attempted to push him, he grabbed the student's hands. The principal arrived at the scene and the incident ended. The assistant principal took Thomas to his office and contacted his mother to pick him up. He alleges that when Thomas returned to the building he was acting in a violent manner and that he verbally threatened the other student when Thomas later encountered him in the office, requiring the assistant principal to step between them. Thomas was suspended for five days and was charged with participating in a disturbance, endangering the safety of others, and threatening, violent behavior.
On May 17, 1995, respondent held a hearing pursuant to Education Law '3214 at which respondent's superintendent presided. Thomas, his social studies teacher, and the assistant principal testified. The superintendent found Thomas guilty of the conduct charged, and after reviewing his anecdotal record, recommended his suspension for the balance of the 1994-95 school year. On July 6, 1995, at petitioner's request, respondent reviewed and affirmed the superintendent's decision. Petitioner filed this appeal requesting that the suspension be removed from his son's record. He contends that nothing in the record supports the finding nor justifies the suspension imposed.
Education Law '3214(3)(a)(1) authorizes a school district to suspend "a pupil who is insubordinate or disorderly, or whose conduct otherwise endangers the safety, morals, health or welfare of others." However, the decision to suspend a student from school must be based on competent and substantial evidence that the student participated in the objectionable conduct (Appeal of Herzog, 35 Ed Dept Rep ___, Decision No. 13,505 dated November 6, 1995; Appeal of Gorzka, 35 id. 20; Appeal of Homick, 34 id. 150). In the present case, Thomas admits that he left the classroom against his teacher's directives for the purpose of confronting the student who was threatening him and that he agreed to fight the other student. The assistant principal testified as to Thomas's violent demeanor and verbal threats toward the other student. The superintendent found this testimony credible and it, in conjunction with Thomas's admissions, led him to conclude that Thomas was guilty of participating in a disturbance, endangering the safety of others, and threatening, violent behavior. Respondent's findings were not founded on Thomas's physical contact with the other student, but rather his act of confrontation, his violent demeanor and his verbal threats. Consequently, there is no basis to overrule respondent's decision to uphold the superintendent's determination of Thomas's guilt.
After there is a finding of guilt, a student's anecdotal record may be considered in determining an appropriate penalty in a student discipline case (Appeal of Bowen, 35 Ed Dept Rep 136; Appeal of Homick, supra; Appeal of Lewis, 33 id. 520). Thomas's anecdotal record reveals that during the semester in which the events in question occurred, he had been suspended on three occasions and was disciplined for acts of insubordination and disruptive behavior on at least five occasions. Where a penalty is excessive in a student discipline case, I will substitute my judgment for that of the board of education (Appeal of Tietje, 34 Ed Dept Rep 567; Appeal of Stewart, 34 id. 193; Appeal of Nathaniel D., 32 id. 67). Based on the foregoing, I find that the penalty imposed (a suspension of approximately six weeks) was not so excessive that it would warrant substitution of my judgment for that of respondent.

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Rising R&B/Soul singers and two of the most talented upcoming artists in not only R&B/Soul, but all of music, Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith, are not only very talented and both coming off big years in 2018 that seen both release their own very critically-acclaimed debut albums, as well as play several festival's and each playing their own headlining sold-out North American tours. So with the two also being such great friends and even collaborating on one of the best records on Uchis' album, Isolation, with the record, Tyrant, it should be no surprise to hear that they announced earlier today they're going on a co-headlining tour. Entitled, The Kali & Jorja Tour, the short 17-trek North American tour that will be this Spring will hit everywhere from New York's famed The Theater at Madison Square Garden, D.C.'s Anthem, Chicago's world-famous Aragon Ballroom and Los Angeles' storied Greek Theatre among many others. With pre-sale tickets for the newly announced shows available here starting tommorrow, Wednesday, February 13 at 10am local time. While, General sale starts this Friday, February 15 and can be purchased here, it's the beginning of what's already sure to be another great year for Smith too, who's heading back to the U.K., after being nominated for and attending her first Grammys. While also getting ready for this year's BRIT Awards, in which she's nominated for 'British Breakthrough Act'. That you can also still vote for if you have yet to, by following the link below. You can see the tour flyer above for complete dates and information on the tour too.


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select * from Mytable where username='Peter';

I did not take care in the database to write Peter the correct way. Now I also want to select records with this content :
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using ADO and DELPHI XE 2  and MSSQL Server EXPRESS version.

A: SQL Server Collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS - case insensitive search .
If the default collation of your database is not case sensitive you can explicitly make your query ignore case sensitivity.
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A: One option, if performance isn't critical, is to make each lowercase (or uppercase) before the comparison:
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A: You could make both sides upper or lower case:
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Mark Zuckerberg hosting town hall Q&A with India's Prime Minister Modi on September 27
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been known to hold town hall-style Q&As, but later this month, he'll hold one with a special guest: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country's 15th prime minster and leader of the world's third-largest economy will chat with Zuckerberg about social and economic challenges on September 27, and Zuckerberg is encouraging users to submit questions.
Answering questions from the social network's 1.49 billion monthly active users isn't new for Zuckerberg. It is the second town hall event he'll be doing this month — this Tuesday he's hosting one in which the questions will be entirely about Facebook. Nor will the event with the Prime Minister be his first Q&A with a world leader.
In 2010, former president George W. Bush did a town hall on Facebook to promote his book "Decision Points." A year later, Zuckerberg was joined at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California by President Barack Obama to "connect with Americans across the country."
With Prime Minister Modi, the focus won't be on books, but instead on the challenges faced by India and how the world can collaborate to face these problems together. Scoring points with one of the most populous countries might also be a motive for Zuckerberg, especially as Facebook continues to push its Internet.org initiative. It's possible that Zuckerberg will press not only Prime Minister Modi, but his constituents as well, to convince them that the Internet.org initiative will benefit India by connecting millions of people with the rest of the world.
Facebook's CEO has touted the economic and social potential of the Internet in the past, saying:
The internet is one of the most powerful tools for economic and social progress. It gives people access to jobs, knowledge and opportunities. It gives voice to the voiceless in our society, and it connects people with vital resources for health and education.
But not everyone in India is a fan of Internet.org — many have criticized it in the past for not adhering to net neutrality principles. The country's telecom companies have complained to their regulators that messaging services like WhatsApp and other new communication platforms are competing with services provided by traditional telecom firms, but aren't subject to the same regulations. The incumbents assert that Facebook's Internet.org has an unfair advantage over competing services and can be picky about which websites and applications are served up to users.
Zuckerberg fought back against those claims and defended zero-rating, saying:
We fully support net neutrality. We want to keep the internet open. Net neutrality ensures network operators don't discriminate by limiting access to services you want to use. It's an essential part of the open internet, and we are fully committed to it.
But net neutrality is not in conflict with working to get more people connected. These two principles — universal connectivity and net neutrality — can and must coexist.
To give more people access to the internet, it is useful to offer some service for free. If someone can't afford to pay for connectivity, it is always better to have some access than none at all.
Internet.org doesn't block or throttle any other services or create fast lanes — and it never will. We're open for all mobile operators and we're not stopping anyone from joining. We want as many internet providers to join so as many people as possible can be connected.
In terms of its 1.49 billion monthly active users, the Asia-Pacific region continues to be one of the two biggest expanding markets for Facebook, growing nearly 19 percent last year from 410 million in Q2 2014 to 496 million in Q2 2015. There's still potential for more users.
Previewing some of the top questions on Zuckerberg's Facebook post, this event is going to cover a wide array of topics. Some have asked about Prime Minister Modi's support for the agricultural community, multiple others are seeking comment from the Prime Minister about elimination of the country's caste system, which they believe negatively impacts both the economy and the society. At least one user has questioned Facebook's ability to partner with India's telecom companies (!). Questions have been posed to Zuckerberg directly, asking about how the social network can be integrated with India's government to help advance information technology and connect more people to their leaders.
The town hall Q&A event takes place on September 27 starting at 9:30 a.m, Pacific Time.


"At The Money Charity, we know money doesn't grow on trees, but being on top of what you do have can help you make the most of your life.
"That's why we empower people across the UK to build the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours to make the most of their money throughout their lives."
What did our sessions teach?
"If we save a little it can become a lot."
"How to manage money whether you have a little or lots."
"Think about the future and how money plays a massive part in it."
"You don't just buy everything you want, it's everything you need."
What have you done since the workshop?
"I bit the bullet and sat down with my bank statements and spreadsheets to try and wrap my head around it all and so far so good! I feel more on top of my money in that I am more aware of where it's going. I have looked at how I spend my money and put processes in place to help me monitor it better."
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Health agency leader: "We welcome" audits into contracting issues
Texas Health and Human Services executive commissioner Charles Smith said during a speech Thursday that his agency is working to improve how it handles contracts.
by Marissa Evans Feb. 1, 2018 6 PM
Charles Smith, executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, testifies at a Nov. 1, 2017 state House committee hearing. Bob Daemmrich for the Texas Tribune
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission won't fight an auditor coming through their doors — in fact, they welcome it.
That's what Charles Smith, executive commissioner for the state health agency, said just one day after his staff was blasted by state leadership for mishandling state contracts.
Smith said during a keynote speech at the State of Reform Health Policy Conference in Austin on Thursday that the commission is intent on making sure "we're responsive to the taxpayer funds that we have."
"We're not perfect, haven't been perfect, probably aren't going to be perfect going forward in the future, but what we're going to do is we're going to continue to get better," Smith said.
Smith and agency staff faced scathing criticism from House Speaker Joe Straus on Wednesday after he called for an investigation into why the Texas Health and Human Services Commission allowed a health insurance company to report $29.6 million in bonus and incentive payments paid to medical providers' employees, even though those payments were not allowed under its contract with the state.
The news came after legislators took Smith to task last year over not reporting at least 42 contracts worth $100 million or more to the Legislative Budget Board's database in a timely manner.
While talking to reporters after his speech, Smith said he has tried to work with staff to create "an environment where people don't run from the auditor" and where agency workers don't see them "as someone that comes in and looks for dust in corners that doesn't mean anything."
He pointed out that the agency has started doing quarterly business reports for programs and that staff have been more proactive about asking for internal audits of programs they're working on. Smith said his agency won't fight state auditors or the inspector general and wants staff to have a "mindset of continuous improvements."
"The point is we welcome you coming in because if you see things that we didn't see, then it's an opportunity for us to improve and ask the question 'Why didn't we see that already? What are our checks and balances?,'" Smith said.
During the 45-minute keynote in front of more than 100 attendees, Smith touted the agency's work securing the $25 billion federal waiver funding for hospitals treating uninsured patients; continuing to work on improving the managed care program; and improving health outcomes for Texans who face chronic health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
The speech comes a little more than a year and a half into Smith's tenure as head of the Health and Human Services Commission, leading an agency with 60,000 employees and an $80 billion biennial budget despite having no background in health care. During that time, the agency has launched the Healthy Texas Women program; overseen assistance for Hurricane Harvey victims; ensured young patients under the Children's Health Insurance Plan would have coverage if Congress didn't renew funding; and merged with two other state agencies. The commission is also watching for changes at the federal level as Congress mulls how to repeal the Affordable Care Act and overhaul Medicaid, the joint federal state health insurance for the poor and disabled.
Gov. Greg Abbott promoted Smith from chief deputy executive commissioner to his current post in June 2016. Smith has worked for the governor previously in the attorney general's office, when Abbott was the state's lead attorney.
But Smith's tenure has been plagued by ongoing accusations from former and current agency workers that he has caved under pressure by Abbott's office to make policy decisions. The agency has faced backlash over a rule that would require medical providers to cremate or bury fetal remains from abortions and miscarriages; efforts to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid; elimination of the agency's refugee assistance program; slowness in delivering food assistance to Hurricane Harvey survivors; and dialing back funding to the Heidi Group, an anti-abortion organization, after it failed to attain its patients served goals — a move critics say could've been avoided had the agency not given them money in the first place.
The organization has also seen the departure of dozens of experienced staff members who say morale has plummeted during Smith's time as executive director and they feel overworked and undervalued.
Smith said the agency does a "tremendous amount of work" but that he tells staff "all of the time how much I appreciate their work" because he knows they could go elsewhere and make a higher salary. He went on to say HHSC staff are "hardworking, knowledgeable people." He said he tries to encourage staff to not get caught up in what the media reports about them.
"Challenge the work, force us to improve our work — we can do that," Smith said. "But, you know, some of the shots become personal, and that brings people down, and so I pick them up."
Smith also pushed back on critics' assertion that the exodus of staff has created an institutional "brain drain."
"Some of the people at the top may have left, but the subject matter experts and the program staff are there, and that is what a lot of people lose sight of," Smith said. "The public face left, but the people who know how to do things, how to get it done, they're still there, and we're going to them and tapping them and having them push themselves."
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För släkterna Wieslander och Wislander, se Wieslander (släkter)
Wieslander är ett svenskt efternamn som kan stavas på olika sätt.
Bland annat förekommer även stavningsvarianten Wislander.

Personer med efternamnet
Agnes Wieslander (1873–1934), svensk målare och tecknare
Anna Wieslander (född 1969), svensk svensk samhällsvetare
Bengt Wieslander (1920–2001), svensk jurist och regeringsråd
Camilla Wislander (född 1964), svensk handpolsspelare
Eliot Wieslander (född 1972), svensk samhällsdebattör och generalsekreterare
Gunnar Wieslander (född 1962), svensk politiker
Gösta Wieslander (1907–1975), svensk lektor och rektor
Hans Wieslander (1929–2017), svensk statsvetare och akademisk ledare
Hugo Wieslander (1889–1976), svensk friidrottare
Ingvar Wieslander (1917–1963), svensk kompositör och kapellmästare
Ivar Wieslander (1891–1971), svensk jurist
Jujja Wieslander (född 1944), svensk barnboksförfattare
Lars Wieslander (född 1950), svensk molekylärbiolog och professor
Magnus Wieslander, flera personer:
Magnus Wieslander (präst) (1727–1820), svensk kyrkoherde och prost
Magnus Wieslander (läkare) (1779–1850), svensk överfältläkare
Magnus Wislander (född 1964), svensk handbollstränare och tidigare handbollsspelare
Mikaela Wieslander (född 1981), svensk spjutkastare
Nils Wieslander (1905–1990), svensk jägmästare
Per-Ola Wislander (född 1964), svensk handbollsspelare
Peter Wieslander (1931–1986), svensk företagsledare
Sven Wieslander (1828–1914), svensk politiker
Therese Wislander (född 1990), handbollsmålvakt
Tomas Wieslander (1940–1996), svensk kompositör, barnboksförfattare och illustratör
Ulla-Britt Wieslander (född 1942), svensk friidrottare

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The Cavs hold one big advantage over the rest of the NBA in signing LeBron James, and it could force other teams to get creative
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The Cleveland Cavaliers can offer LeBron James the most money in free agency, and that is their one distinct advantage.
According to reports in recent years, James has not been willing to take anything less than a max contract, and by all accounts, he has not had a change of heart.
If James still wants the max contract but doesn't want to re-sign with the Cavs, he could orchestrate a trade to another team, which could benefit the Cavs.
As the Cleveland Cavaliers were swept by the Golden State Warriors in the Finals and generally looked overmatched in the playoffs, many in the NBA world started to anticipate LeBron James would leave the Cavs in free agency this summer.
Not only do the Cavs look to be nearing the end of their run of dominating the Eastern Conference, but they have few paths to improve this offseason, thanks to a bevy of large contracts and a lack of attractive trade assets.
However, the Cavs do hold one significant advantage over the rest of the NBA in potentially re-signing James: money.
The Cavs can offer more money than any other team in the NBA, thanks to its Collective Bargaining Agreement. They could offer James a five-year contract worth 35% of the salary cap, with 8% raises each season, whereas any opposing team could give him only four-year deals with 5% increases.
Since returning to the Cavs in 2014, James has not been willing to accept anything less than the maximum amount. He opted out of his contract each season to not only keep the pressure on the Cavs' front office, but maximize his earnings.
When James' initial plan for a $200 million contract was foiled by an obscure rule under the old CBA, he helped the players union change it in the new CBA, allowing teams to sign players to five-year deals up until they are 38 years old, up from 36. James is 33.
Furthermore, in December, James told Cleveland.com that he wanted to "break the mold" on his next contract.
"I want to kind of try to break the mold just for the next generation, just take the narrative out of 'You're past your prime when you hit 31,' or 'You're past your prime in your 12th year in the league,' or whatever the case may be," James said. "Hopefully I can break the mold so when the next guy comes, he can still get $200 [million] or $300 million and be 33 years old. I'm serious."
In December, ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelburne wrote that when James hit free agency in 2014, his representatives told prospective teams to be prepared to offer the max "and not a penny less." Windhorst reported on Saturday that James' views had not changed.
Of course, the Cavs wouldn't necessarily be the favorite to re-sign James. But they can offer the most money to a player who is not willing to take a discount.
It could benefit the Cavs in other ways too. Only a few teams will be able to open up the cap space to sign James outright this summer to his max salary, approximately $35 million for next season. That could force teams to have to trade for James, which would benefit both him and the Cavs. Teams that want to sign James outright but don't have the cap space will have to explore two avenues: making trades to clear that cap space without taking money back, or making a trade with the Cavs.
If James were to get traded, he would have to opt into the last year of his deal. According to Windhorst, a team that trades for James could sign him to a four-year extension after six months, giving James a five-year commitment worth over $200 million. If James were to play out this season on his contract, he couldn't sign a five-year deal next year, as that would take him beyond age 38.
James and the Cavs could also arrange a sign-and-trade, in which the Cavs sign James to his true maximum contract then trade him to another team in a prearranged deal.
For the Cavs, it could mean they could get something for their best asset even if he decides to leave. Teams won't give up their best assets for James in a trade if he's determined to go there, but something is better than nothing for Cleveland.
The only thing that seems certain as James enters what could be a wild offseason is that teams that want him must be able to offer the max contract, or they'll have to get creative.
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Billionaire Mark Cuban Leads $1.5 Million Investment into Austin-based Meta SaaS
May 25, 2017 by lalorek Leave a Comment
Arlo Gilbert, CEO & Co-Founder at Meta SaaS, courtesy photo.
Billionaire Mark Cuban is leading a $1.5 million seed round investment into Austin-based Meta SaaS, which runs a platform for managing software as a service subscriptions for companies.
The startup announced the investment this week which also includes Bazaarvoice and data.world Founder Brett Hurt and participation from Barracuda Networks, Capital Factory, Deep Space Ventures and other investors.
"SaaS has solved numerous business problems, but it has also created a whole fresh set of pitfalls that can cost companies tens of millions of dollars annually," Arlo Gilbert, CEO and co-founder of Meta SaaS said in a news statement. "The traditional method of tracking SaaS subscriptions and contracts via spreadsheet (if at all) isn't going to cut it. In many cases, companies have absolutely no idea how many SaaS applications they're paying for or using."
"We're generating and processing more data than ever due to the likes of artificial intelligence, machine vision and deep learning," Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, investor and Meta SaaS advisor said in a news statement. "That tidal wave of data has been inextricably tied to an explosion of SaaS vendors supporting the industries advancing these complex technologies. Meta SaaS has an incredible opportunity to navigate those costly vendor waters and save companies serious money."
Meta SaaS tracks company online subscriptions and find the ones that are not being used frequently or have been abandoned altogether. It ultimately saves a company time and money.
In addition, the Meta SaaS software can notify a company when an employee leaves to end their access to subscription applications.
Meta SaaS, founded in 2016, plans to use the funds on product development, to hire software engineers and on sales and marketing. Its customers include RetailMeNot, Spredfast, Indeed, BenefitMall and Civitas Learning.
"Gilbert and CTO Scott Hertel co-founded the company after Gilbert realized what a money pit SaaS can be while bootstrapping and rapidly growing both iCall, the first VoIP provider for iPhone (acquired in 2012) as well as affiliate marketing powerhouse Click Feel Media," according to a news release.


The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that the nation's federally collected revenue for the third quarter of 2018 rose by 8.9 per cent to N2.52 trillion, compared to the previous quarter.
According to CBN in its economic report for the third quarter of 2018 released on Monday, said, "Federally collected revenue, at N2.52 trillion, in the third quarter of 2018, was 24 per cent lower than the proportionate budget estimate, but was 8.9 per cent above the receipts in the preceding quarter.
The apex bank said it maintained a non-expansionary monetary policy stance in August 2018, aimed at further curbing inflationary pressure.
It said broad money supply, on quarter-on-quarter basis, fell by 2.4 per cent to N33.6 trillion at the end of August 2018, in contrast to the growth of two per cent at the end of June.
The report said, "The development reflected, mainly, the 3.4 per cent decrease in domestic credit (net) of the banking system. Over the level at end-December 2017, broad money supply grew by 7.9 per cent, due to 18.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent increase in foreign assets (net) and other assets (net) of the banking system, respectively.
The CBN said developments in banks' deposit rates were mixed, while lending rates trended downwards in the review quarter.
It said, "With the exception of the one-month and 12-months deposit rates, which rose by 0.28 and 0.07 percentage point to 9.12 per cent and 10.07 per cent, respectively, all other deposit rates of various maturities fell from a range 3.75 – 10.67 per cent to 3.65 – 9.85 per cent at end-September 2018.
"The average savings rate remained unchanged at 4.07 per cent, same as at the end of the second quarter of 2018, while the average term deposit rate fell by 0.20 percentage points to 8.52 per cent at end of the review quarter.


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Welcome to the Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration Web Site. The Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration (BHDDA) is located within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
The Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration (BHDDA) carries out responsibilities specified in the Michigan Mental Health Code (Public Act 258 of 1974 as amended) and the Michigan Public Health Code (Public Act 368 of 1978 as amended). It also administers Medicaid Waivers for people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and it administers prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders. The administration establishes the policy directions and standards for the statewide system including Community Mental Health Services Programs (CMHSP) services to children and adults, Substance Abuse prevention and treatment, Autism Services to Children and families, problem gambling addictions services and State Hospital Centers.
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Home News Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Celebrates 111 Years of Achievement
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Celebrates 111 Years of Achievement
Written by Danny J. Bakewell, Jr.
By Danny J. Bakewell, Jr.
Since January 5, 1911, the noble men of Kappa Alpha Psi, Incorporated have celebrated its motto of "achievement," dating back to its founders, Elder Watson Diggs, Dr. Ezra D. Alexander, Dr. Byron Kenneth Armstrong, Atty. Henry Tourner Asher, Dr. Marcus Peter Blakemore, Paul Waymond Caine, George Wesley Edmonds, Dr. Guy Levis Grant, Edward Giles Irvin, and Sgt. John Milton Lee.
According to Kappa history, consequently, the young men met for the purpose of organizing such a fraternity. During its founding, African Americans faced racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
As Black men at a mostly attended White Indiana University, Black students were isolated from each other. The founders sought one another's company between classes and dropped by each other's places of lodging to further discuss the means of formulating the fledgling fraternity in an effort to relieve the depressing isolation.
They found that through these close interactions, they had common interests and a close bond began to emerge.
The fraternity's founders wanted to increase the ambition of Black youth and encourage them to achieve more than was otherwise expected or ever even imagined.
As the second-oldest existing collegiate historically Black Greek-letter fraternity and the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body, Kappa Alpha Psi has continued to embody its founder's mission with over 175,000 members worldwide and 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters in the United States and abroad.
Members of this fraternity are well-known for their support and participation in leadership programs evoking change in areas such as education to political and social causes. Some of the programs include Room to Read, Achievement Academy, Military and Veteran's Affairs, Guide Right, and the Kappa League.
Curtis R. Silvers, Jr., former (21st) Western Region Polemarch (president) of Kappa Alpha Psi and current member of the Pasadena Alumni Chapter, considers joining the fraternity as one of the hallmarks of his life. "One of the biggest joys of my lifetime was being able to join 'The Fraternity' that my father belonged to for 50 years. Another fraternal joy was the ability to meet so many Kappa men of Achievement throughout the Los Angeles area, as well as the country," he commented.
Christopher Nolan, polemarch of Pasadena Alumni Chapter, reflected on joining a fraternity that gave him far more than he could have imagined. "I joined Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. over 30 years ago, looking to bond with strong-minded men with common interests and goals. What I found was that and much more from my brothers in the bond as Iron sharpens Iron; bringing out the best in all of us," he said.
"What's more, is our level of service to our respective communities throughout the country, as well as abroad, and supporting young men with mentorship through our Guide Right program. I am proud to be a Kappa." Nolan joined the fraternity in 1990 through the Upsilon Chapter.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated is one of the nine organizations that comprise the National Pan-Hellenic Council. NPHC or the Divine Nine is a collaboration of nine historically international African American Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities. Since itsfounding, the members of these organizations have pledged to provide their communities with service, leadership, and scholarship.
Some notable Southern California members, past and present, include Gerald Freeney, 1st African American Tournament of Roses President, former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (deceased), Assemblymembers Reggie Jones-Sawyer and Mike Gipson, Judge John L. Meigs (ret), Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran (deceased), former Lt. Governor Mervyn Dymally (deceased), Attorney Clifton Albright, Attorney Rodney Diggs, Dept. Attorney General Damon Brown, Cedric "The Entertainer," John Singleton (deceased), Daniel Tabor, Councilman Jawane Hilton (Carson), Kevin Harbour, businessman Cedric Price and many more.
Leonardo Cablayan says his decision to become a Kappa was based on their early influence since his adolescents. "From an early age, I've had the great fortune of being influenced and mentored by incredible Kappa men! As a member of Baldwin Hills Little League, I met, then City Councilman Thomas Bradley (Grand Polemarch).
Later, while attending Dorsey High School, I participated in Kappa League and was influenced by various esteemed members like Johnny Cochran, Randall Bacon, Ron Sweeney, and Edgar Bishop. Of course, after all of those solid examples of achievement, when I first enrolled at Cal State University at Long Beach, the first thing I asked my counselor was, "where are the Kappas?" And guess who my counselor was, yes, a Kappa man! Achievement personified, the men of Kappa Alpha Psi!" said Leonardo Cablayan, EK Spring '77.
"I joined the bond to be a part of a group of men achieving at the highest level! A fraternity with a long history of serving our community and building leaders through our Guide Right and Kappa League programs," said Wendell Younkins, Pasadena Alumni Fall of 2016.
111 years from its beginning, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated continues to unite, educate, and uplift young Black men by the carrying the torch of its founders. To learn more about the Kappa Alpha Psi, Incorporated organization, visit https://kappaalphapsi1911.com.


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Q: FFMPEG movie not compatible with QuickTime with yuv420p tag I've recently downloaded and started using ffmpeg to convert a series of images to a .mp4 movie. It won't open in QuickTime, saying that the file is incompatible. In other threads I've seen that this is fixed with -pix_fmt yuv420p, but that doesn't fix the problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Here's the entire command:
$ ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -pix_fmt yuv420p -tag:v hvc1 -i "*.png" test.mp4

And here's the resultant error message when trying to open test.mp4 with QuickTime:


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Q: Response Listener didn't work I'm newbie in Android world.
I met some trouble using Volley Response.Listener.
I don't no why the json didn't catch the Result, whereas when i'm manually execute the json URL, it goes well.
Please give me some help to find where's the problem.
this is My code :
MAIN ACTIVITY.java :
package com.mitrainfotek.locationlistener;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.location.Location;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.android.volley.RequestQueue;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.Volley;
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationListener;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationServices;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.OnMapReadyCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.Marker;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements
    OnMapReadyCallback,
    GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener,
    GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks,
    LocationListener {

private GoogleMap mMap;
private Marker mMarker;
private GoogleApiClient mLocationClient;
private LocationListener mListener;
private LocationRequest request;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    // Obtain the SupportMapFragment and get notified when the map is ready to be used.
    SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
            .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
    mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);

    mLocationClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .addApi(LocationServices.API)
            .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
            .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
            .build();

    request = new LocationRequest();
    //request = LocationRequest.create();
    request.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
    request.setInterval(3000);
    request.setFastestInterval(1000);

    mLocationClient.connect();
}

@Override
public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
    mMap = googleMap;
    mMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL);
    if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        return;
    }
    mMap.setMyLocationEnabled(false);
}

@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle bundle) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Ready To Map!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    mListener = new LocationListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
            UpdateLoc(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());
        }
    };
    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationClient, request, mListener);
}

@Override
public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {

}

@Override
public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
    Log.w("LatLng", connectionResult.getErrorMessage());
}

@Override
public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {

}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.removeLocationUpdates(mLocationClient, mListener);
}

public void UpdateLoc(double Lat, double Lng) {
    Log.w("LatLng","Start UpdateLoc");

    // Login
    Response.Listener<String> responseListener = new Response.Listener<String>() {

        @Override
        public void onResponse(String response) {
            Log.w("LatLng", "WUANJEEEEENGG");
            try {
                JSONObject jsonResponse = new JSONObject(response);
                boolean success = jsonResponse.getBoolean("success");

                Log.w("LatLng", String.valueOf(success));

                // Sukses
                if (success == true) {
                    Log.w("LatLng","Success");
                    // Failed
                } else {
                    Log.w("LatLng","Failed");
                }

            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                Log.w("LatLng", "Failed : " + e.getMessage());
            }

        }
    };

    // temporary Force Parameters
    UpdateLoc updateLoc = new UpdateLoc("mloc_insert", "46", "-6.23434", "106.823423", responseListener);
    RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(MainActivity.this);
    queue.add(updateLoc);
    }
}

UPDATELOC.java :
package com.mitrainfotek.locationlistener;

import com.android.volley.Request;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.StringRequest;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Created by MAULANA on 6/28/2016.
 */
public class UpdateLoc extends StringRequest {
private static final String REGISTER_REQUEST_URL = "http://10.0.2.2/pangkut.com/pang_function.php";
private Map<String, String> params;

public UpdateLoc (String funcName, String user_no, String lat, String lng, Response.Listener<String> listener) {
    super(Request.Method.POST, REGISTER_REQUEST_URL, listener, null);

    params = new HashMap<>();
    params.put("funcName", funcName);
    params.put("user_no", user_no);
    params.put("lat", lat);
    params.put("lng", lng);
}

@Override
public Map<String, String> getParams() {
    return params;
    }
}

ACTIVITY_MAIN.XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<fragment
    xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.mitrainfotek.tespeta.MapsActivity" />
</LinearLayout>

ANDROIDMANIFEST.XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.mitrainfotek.locationlistener">

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
        android:value="*****MY_KEY****" />
</application>

</manifest>

BUILD.GRADLE :
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.3"

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.mitrainfotek.locationlistener"
    minSdkVersion 17
    targetSdkVersion 23
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
    }
}

dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.0'
compile 'com.android.volley:volley:1.0.0'
}

many thanks for any help.

A: you can add a parameter when your instantiate(object) your updateloc. aside from passing in your four parameteters and a responseListener, add in another parameter which takes in your url. also add this paramter to your updateLoc constructor


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Quantum Leap: 10 Greatest Guest Performances
Remember this lot popping up in Quantum Leap? They're our picks of the best guest performances in the time travel show...
By Juliette Harrisson | March 25, 2019 |
This article comes courtesy of Den of Geek UK.
Once again, we're celebrating great guest performances in one of our favorite shows. We're defining a guest appearance as an actor who plays a particular character no more than twice over the run of the show. There's a bit more competition for the list for this show than most – since Quantum Leap only had two regular cast members and nearly every other actor on the show appeared only once!
10. Bruce McGill as Al the Bartender in "Mirror Image"
Al the Bartender is far from the only mysterious, enigmatic, highly knowledgeable bartender in science fiction and fantasy (Nelson the barman in Life on Mars springs to mind, for one). However, he is a key part of what would turn out to be Quantum Leap's final episode – not to mention the possibility that he is God, Time, Fate, or Whatever. McGill's performance is the perfect balance of light, witty, and enigmatic.
9. Andrea Thompson as Maggie Dawson in "The Leap Home Part 2 (Vietnam)"
Maggie Dawson is one of those roles where the challenge is that the audience has no idea how important she is until the end of the episode. Quantum Leap was, for the most part, a positive and optimistic show – you can count on one hand the episodes in which Sam was unable to achieve a properly happy ending, but had to leap following a consolation prize of some kind (the most downbeat episodes are probably "Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Raped," both covered below, and in the case of the former it was constrained by real history).
read more: Quantum Leap's Top 10 Episodes
This episode, however, is one of very few to end with a real gut punch. After being unable to reunite Al with his beloved first wife, or save his father from an early death or his sister from an abusive marriage, Sam finally seems to get a win when he successfully prevents his brother's death in Vietnam – but the price is another woman's life. It's a tribute to Thompson's engaging performance that Maggie's death hits us as hard as it does.
8. Michael Boatman as Billy Johnson in "Nowhere to Run"
In an episode primarily memorable for Jennifer Aniston's very green jumper and huge green earrings, providing a sensitive portrayal of a disabled veteran contemplating suicide is no easy task. Boatman pulls it off, though, never losing sight of the seriousness of his character's situation, even in the lighter moments of the episode. His descent into utter despair is truly heart-breaking.
7. Roddy McDowall as Edward St John V in "A Leap for Lisa"
Al Calavicci is a pretty big personality, so it takes an equally big but totally different personality to drive home the horror of his temporary loss when Sam accidentally gets him executed as a young man. Quantum Leap ran on the chemistry between Bakula and Stockwell as Sam and Al, so replacing him with anyone would have been jarring, but Roddy McDowall's prim Englishman is the perfect innocently annoying foil to make us cross fingers, toes, and everything else that we'll soon get Al back again.
6. Melora Hardin as Abigail Fuller in "Trilogy Parts 2 & 3"
Melora Hardin is better known these days for playing Michael Scott's unstable girlfriend Jan in the U.S. incarnation of The Office, but here she played one of the few girls of the week that Sam Beckett really falls for, and the mother of his accidentally-conceived daughter.
What makes Abigail Fuller a particularly unusual role is that the story in "Trilogy" waits until the very end to fully explain what happened when she was a child that led to the death of another young girl. So although Abigail must be fully sympathetic and we must be rooting for her innocence to be proved as Sam falls in love with her, there also needs to be a constant tension coming from the idea that she just might be hiding a dark secret. Hardin walks that line to great effect as a memorable love interest for Sam.
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5. Willie Garson as Lee Harvey Oswald in "Lee Harvey Oswald Parts 1 & 2
Although he's played many roles over the years, Willie Garson is best known as Stanford Blatch in Sex and the City, and to SFF fans as Martin Lloyd in Stargate SG-1. He most often plays comic, slightly socially awkward roles, and had already done so in Quantum Leap itself, in season one's "Play It Again, Seymour."
In this season five two-parter, however, he plays a very different role, taking on one of the world's most famous assassins and presenting Donald Bellisario's interpretation of him as an unstable loner with Communist sympathies (based on having met him while they were both in the Marines and found him reading Pravda). Watching him play such a different role will make you wish he got the chance to do so a bit more often!
4. Liz Torres as Angelita Carmen Guadalupe Cecelia Jimenez in "It's a Wonderful Leap"
Liz Torres' performance in this whimsical episode is lovingly over-the-top, and rightly so. Once or twice a season, from "A Portrait for Troian" onwards, Quantum Leap stepped out of the straight drama that usually takes place once Sam has leaped (aside from Al's intervention and knowledge of the future, that is) and incorporated an added aspect of science fiction or, more often, fantasy into its stories.
read more: Quantum Leap — An Episode Roadmap For Beginners
This often skewed towards horror (mummies, demons, vampires) but here turns the other way (Trump cameo aside) to bring an angel into the show. Torres' joyful, just-annoying-enough performance provides a really delightful guardian angel, even if you have to wonder where these angels are the rest of the time…
3. Cheryl Pollack as Katie McBain in "Raped"
"Raped" is one of Quantum Leap's most earnest episodes on a theme of social justice, and at the same time one of its oddest. The show had previously made use of its unique premise to place a white man in the place of a black man, or of a white woman (and, once, a black woman) and highlight the way non-white-male members of society have been treated at various points in recent American history.
Usually, this is quite effective, but in the case of "Raped," in which the episode centers entirely around a violation of the body of a woman that was not experienced by Sam Beckett, the disconnect becomes rather problematic.
The show tried to solve this by blending Scott Bakula's performance as Sam into a guest performance from Cheryl Pollack as the leapee Katie, one of very few leapees to be listed as a guest star. Al brings Katie in to testify at the trial and Sam's parroting of her testimony is faded out so the audience see only her. Without a stirring, heartfelt performance from Pollack, the scene would fall apart, but she is convincing and moving in the role.
2. Tyra Ferrell as Delilah "Lila" Berry in "So Help Me God"
At the opening of this episode, Sam leaps in at the most dramatic possible moment, as usual, and has to answer how his client, Lila, will plead – guilty or not guilty. It's the look in her eyes that tells him she is innocent, and that convinces him to continue to try to prove that innocence despite her repeated protestations that she was supposed to be pleading guilty.
Ferrell must equally convince the audience that she is innocent despite her refusal to testify until the real, horrifying details of the murder, revealing whom she is protecting and why. Her performance shows just the right amount of strength and tragedy to pull that off, and to keep the audience rooting for her throughout.
1. Susan Diol as Beth Calavicci in "M.I.A." and "Mirror Image"
Susan Diol has already appeared on one of our lists for her guest appearance on Star Trek: Voyager. She delivers an even more memorable performance in an even more bittersweet love story here, as the only woman Al ever really loved, his first wife Beth.
Considering how many women Al talks about over the course of the series, Beth had to be something special, but while the script is excellent, there's only so much it can squeeze into 45 minutes. Much of Beth's warmth and appeal has to come from Diol and her performance, and she does it well – so well that this episode always appears near or at the top of lists of the best Quantum Leap episodes, and it was this story that we returned to for closure in the last few minutes of "Mirror Image" and, therefore, of the series.
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Canine Companions for Independence is Breaking Ground April 3
The organization has raised more than $13 million of its $21 million goal
Because of donors' generous support, Canine Companions for Independence® is thrilled to announce it is breaking ground on the new Canine Companions for Independence® campus in the North Central Region. With assistance from donors, the organization has raised more than $13 million toward its $21 million goal. It's truly amazing to see people from all over the United States contribute to help make this campus a reality. Their gifts will have an impact on countless future Canine Companions assistance dog recipients.
On Feb. 15, CCI launched a "Push-for-the-Shovel" campaign at each National Graduation Day ceremony, encouraging everyone to take part and support the new campus. Anyone who donated $25 or more received a commemorative gold shovel keychain to show they are helping to break ground on this important project.
This campaign is running through the end of March with a goal of raising $50,000, and CCI is making great progress.


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Whether your puppy needs beginner obedience classes or your dog is ready for advanced classes, our trainers know many different breeds and how best to handle them. Whether you want to prepare your pet to become a show dog, or just need a bit of basic obedience, Blue Springs 'n Katydid Dog Training Center can make any dog into a good dog. We also have private lessons available either at your home or at our Englewood, Colorado, training facility.
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We will open for business as usual on Monday, April 29th.
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This is a fine salt spoon made in solid Sterling Silver and it is marked 925 for Sterling. This is a sterling silver art-deco style salt spoon - a wonderful and unique shape, too! This has a great deal of detail, too. These salt spoons measure nearly 1 3/4 inches long, too. This is a hand-made item and it is very difficult to find items of such quality. Imported and hallmarked 925 for sterling silver.


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Hotels in Empuriabrava
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Xon's Platja HA
Avda Pompeu Fabra S/N
Empuriabrava, 17487
The Xon's Platja HA Aparthotel is located in Empuriabrava, Spain, 150 metres from the beach and 10 kilometres from Roses Water Park.
Five kilometres from the hotel, the medieval town of Castelló d'Empuriés features Santa Maria, a 14th-century Gothic church. Nicknamed the 'cathedral of the Empordà', the church is one of the largest in the region.
Housed in a nine-storey block of holiday apartments, Xon's Platja Aparthotel opens to air-conditioned interiors with a 24-hour front desk.
The grounds extend to an outdoor swimming pool with adjacent children's pool. Further amenities include a games room and a television room, and onsite shopping includes a supermarket, a boutique, and a hair salon. Garage parking is available for surcharge.
The buffet restaurant at Xon's Platja serves Spanish and international dishes.
The aparthotel serves drinks at the Pub Rendezvous and also at the poolside bar. A complimentary buffet breakfast is available. The full-board rate includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The half-board rate includes breakfast and dinner.
Bicycles and scooters can be rented on site. The sandy beach 150 metres away offers water sports from windsurfing to jet skiing. From the marina, boats can be hired for canal cruises. The nearest golf course is 20 kilometres away in Perelada.
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The 210 apartments at Xon's Platja include kitchenettes, bedrooms, and bathrooms. All extend to balconies. Decor is modern and neutral with wooden furnishings. Amenities include satellite television, complimentary Internet connections, and telephones. The hotel offers full-board and half-board rates.
Shopping on site
Castelló d'Empuriés: 5 km
Roses Water Park: 10 km
Dalí Museum at Figueres: 15 km
Toy Museum at Figueres: 15 km
Peralada Casino: 20 km
Monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes: 30 km
Besalú: 50 km
Cadaqués: 70 km
Volcanic Park of Garrotxa: 70 km
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Wine Flies wine tour was recommend by a travel friend before I arrived to Cape Town and since recommendations are the best way to go it made my decision making easy. I signed up for the Stellenbosch and Paarl wine tour for my last day in South Africa, it was also an excellent way to spend my birthday.
Lord G and his Wine Flies van picked up thirteen people in Cape Town and we had an educational and fun drive out to Stellenbosh and Paarl. I lucked out with twelve great people and Lord G was awesome - a total wine lord, hence the nickname. The drive was gorgeous with vineyards pushed up against steep rock mountains. I couldn't believe it, made me love South Africa even more (and I hadn't even had a glass of wine yet). Since we were picked up at 8am we started the drinking off with something easy... champagne. From there we visited four more wineries and had an excellent lunch along the way. I will definetly be looking for South African wine when I am back in the States!