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Arizona Coyotes 2021 Season Preview
by Emma Brown5 days ago
Okay, honestly? I don't think anyone knows what to do with the Arizona Coyotes. If you're looking at the money side and business side of hockey, they bring in the least amount of revenue and the least amount of fans. They play in Phoenix and that's not a hockey rich environment, they were 11th in the west at the time of the season pause. They beat the Nashville Predators in four games and then lost to the Colorado Avalanche in five. Phil Kessel was supposed to be the star of this team but he ended 5th in scoring with 38 points.
They've had some struggles with general managers and losing draft picks and changing general managers and having to renounce certain draftees. The last ten years haven't been easier for the Arizona Coyotes and I can't imagine that's going to change anytime soon.
Key Additions: Johan Larsson (Buffalo Sabres)
Larsson came from the Sabres in free agency. He doesn't have a lot of NHL ice time but he was captain of Team Sweden in the 2012 World Junior Championships and led his team to gold. Having experience in a leading role is going to help him keep this team together.
Losses: Taylor Hall (Buffalo Sabres)
Hall was one of the only consistent players in Arizona. He didn't have a lot of points but he could move the puck. I don't really know why they didn't re-sign him.
Forward Line Predictions:
LW C RW
Nick Schmaltz Christian Dvorak Conor Garland
Clayton Keller Derek Stepan Phil Kessel
Larson Crouse Barett Hayton Christian Fischer
Tyler Pitlick Johan Larsson John Hayden
Defensive Pairing Predictions:
Oliver Ekman-Larson Jason Demers
Jakob Chychrun Alex Goligoski
Jordan Oesterle Niklas Hjalmarsson
In the Net:
Darcy Kuemper was really the backbone of this team. In the first couple of games against the Avs, he brought real competitiveness to the ice every night. He just ran out of gas in the last two games and unfortunately got blown out. There more than likely won't be any changes made to the Coyotes net unless Kuemper is moved to bring in some strong defensive players.
Coyotes are in hot water again thanks to 2020 draft pick Mitchell Miller
Umm… Coyotes fans, I think you know what's coming. This isn't your year. Maybe they can get some scoring percentages up and develop more consistency and move some players around for the 2021-2022 season. Clayton Keller has a lot of potential to kick it into high gear this season. He was a Calder Memorial Trophy finalist in 2018 a long side Brock Boeser and Mat Barzal so we know he can keep it together. Oliver Ekman-Larson has also been the only redeeming quality of the defense. But there's only so much you can do with two skaters and a goalie.
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This Shabbat we will be celebrating the New Year for Trees, Tu-B'Shvat. Since the Torah compares Man to "a tree of the field," our tradition collected nine lessons from the mystics that we can learn from trees.
1) Always Grow Towards the Light - As we go through life, we must always move towards holiness and light, reaching ever higher for that which is beyond us.
2)Even the Smallest Scratch Can have Lasting Effects - A seemingly small scratch on a young sapling can leave a lasting scar on the fully grown tree. Think, then, about how critical the formative years are, and how careful we must be when educating our children to do good.
4) Provide Refuge for Others - Just as a tree selflessly provides shade and shelter, be a source of comfort for others and provide resources for those in need.
5) Grow Sweet Fruits for Others to Enjoy - Beyond providing shade, a tree also bears fruit. Proactively reach out to others; bring sweetness and sustenance into their lives.
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7) Be Limber in the Wind - Only a tree that can bend in the wind will survive a storm. Likewise, we must be accepting of what God sends, never breaking or giving up hope.
8) Grow Stronger Through Your Life Experiences - Just as the rings of a tree record its growth, through years of drought and rain, fire and calm, so too, must we continue to grow, always adding another level of wisdom learned from the experiences of life.
9) Be Impactful - Trees don't only provide immediate benefits like shade, wood, and food, they enrich the ecosystem, filter the air, and give off oxygen. Give oxygen to the world by making a lasting impact on the people around you and the world .


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<?php

if (!defined('FORUM_ROOT'))
	define('FORUM_ROOT', '../');
require FORUM_ROOT.'include/common.php';
require FORUM_ROOT.'include/common_admin.php';

($hook = get_hook('afo_start')) ? eval($hook) : null;

if ($forum_user['g_id'] != FORUM_ADMIN)
	message($lang_common['No permission']);

// Load the admin.php language file
require FORUM_ROOT.'lang/'.$forum_user['language'].'/admin_common.php';
require FORUM_ROOT.'lang/'.$forum_user['language'].'/admin_forums.php';

// Add a "default" forum
if (isset($_POST['add_forum']))
{
	$add_to_cat = isset($_POST['add_to_cat']) ? intval($_POST['add_to_cat']) : 0;
	if ($add_to_cat < 1)
		message($lang_common['Bad request']);

	$forum_name = forum_trim($_POST['forum_name']);
	$position = intval($_POST['position']);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_add_forum_form_submitted')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	if ($forum_name == '')
		message($lang_admin_forums['Must enter forum message']);

	// Make sure the category we're adding to exists
	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> '1',
		'FROM'		=> 'categories AS c',
		'WHERE'		=> 'c.id='.$add_to_cat
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_add_forum_qr_validate_category_id')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	if (!$forum_db->num_rows($result))
		message($lang_common['Bad request']);

	$query = array(
		'INSERT'	=> 'forum_name, disp_position, cat_id',
		'INTO'		=> 'forums',
		'VALUES'	=> '\''.$forum_db->escape($forum_name).'\', '.$position.', '.$add_to_cat
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_add_forum_qr_add_forum')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

	// Regenerate the quickjump cache
	if (!defined('FORUM_CACHE_FUNCTIONS_LOADED'))
		require FORUM_ROOT.'include/cache.php';

	generate_quickjump_cache();

	($hook = get_hook('afo_add_forum_pre_redirect')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']), $lang_admin_forums['Forum added'].' '.$lang_admin_common['Redirect']);
}

// Delete a forum
else if (isset($_GET['del_forum']))
{
	$forum_to_delete = intval($_GET['del_forum']);
	if ($forum_to_delete < 1)
		message($lang_common['Bad request']);

	// User pressed the cancel button
	if (isset($_POST['del_forum_cancel']))
		redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']), $lang_admin_common['Cancel redirect']);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_form_submitted')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	if (isset($_POST['del_forum_comply']))	// Delete a forum with all posts
	{
		@set_time_limit(0);

		// Prune all posts and topics
		prune($forum_to_delete, 1, -1);

		delete_orphans();

		// Delete the forum and any forum specific group permissions
		$query = array(
			'DELETE'	=> 'forums',
			'WHERE'		=> 'id='.$forum_to_delete
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_qr_delete_forum')) ? eval($hook) : null;
		$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

		$query = array(
			'DELETE'	=> 'forum_perms',
			'WHERE'		=> 'forum_id='.$forum_to_delete
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_qr_delete_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
		$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

		// Regenerate the quickjump cache
		if (!defined('FORUM_CACHE_FUNCTIONS_LOADED'))
			require FORUM_ROOT.'include/cache.php';

		generate_quickjump_cache();

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_pre_redirect')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']), $lang_admin_forums['Forum deleted'].' '.$lang_admin_common['Redirect']);
	}
	else	// If the user hasn't confirmed the delete
	{
		$query = array(
			'SELECT'	=> 'f.forum_name',
			'FROM'		=> 'forums AS f',
			'WHERE'		=> 'f.id='.$forum_to_delete
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_qr_get_forum_name')) ? eval($hook) : null;
		$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
		if (!$forum_db->num_rows($result))
			message($lang_common['Bad request']);

		$forum_name = $forum_db->result($result);

		// Setup breadcrumbs
		$forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
			array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
			array($lang_admin_common['Forum administration'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
			array($lang_admin_common['Start'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
			array($lang_admin_common['Forums'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums'])),
			$lang_admin_forums['Delete forum']
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_pre_header_load')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		define('FORUM_PAGE_SECTION', 'start');
		define('FORUM_PAGE', 'admin-forums');
		require FORUM_ROOT.'header.php';

		// START SUBST -
		ob_start();

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_output_start')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>

<?php printf($lang_admin_forums['Confirm delete forum'], forum_htmlencode($forum_name)) ?>

		<form class="frm-form" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="<?php echo forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']) ?>?del_forum=<?php echo $forum_to_delete ?>">

				<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="<?php echo generate_form_token(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']).'?del_forum='.$forum_to_delete) ?>" />

<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Delete forum warning'] ?>

				<input type="submit" name="del_forum_comply" value="<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Delete forum'] ?>" />
				<input type="submit" name="del_forum_cancel" value="<?php echo $lang_admin_common['Cancel'] ?>" />

		</form>

<?php

		($hook = get_hook('afo_del_forum_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		$tpl_temp = forum_trim(ob_get_contents());
		$tpl_main = str_replace('', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
		ob_end_clean();
		// END SUBST -

		require FORUM_ROOT.'footer.php';
	}
}

// Update forum positions
else if (isset($_POST['update_positions']))
{
	$positions = array_map('intval', $_POST['position']);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_update_positions_form_submitted')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> 'f.id, f.disp_position',
		'FROM'		=> 'categories AS c',
		'JOINS'		=> array(
			array(
				'INNER JOIN'	=> 'forums AS f',
				'ON'			=> 'c.id=f.cat_id'
			)
		),
		'ORDER BY'	=> 'c.disp_position, c.id, f.disp_position'
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_update_positions_qr_get_forums')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	while ($cur_forum = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
	{
		// If these aren't set, we're looking at a forum that was added after
		// the admin started editing: we don't want to mess with it
		if (isset($positions[$cur_forum['id']]))
		{
			$new_disp_position = $positions[$cur_forum['id']];

			if ($new_disp_position < 0)
				message($lang_admin_forums['Must be integer']);

			// We only want to update if we changed the position
			if ($cur_forum['disp_position'] != $new_disp_position)
			{
				$query = array(
					'UPDATE'	=> 'forums',
					'SET'		=> 'disp_position='.$new_disp_position,
					'WHERE'		=> 'id='.$cur_forum['id']
				);

				($hook = get_hook('afo_update_positions_qr_update_forum_position')) ? eval($hook) : null;
				$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
			}
		}
	}

	// Regenerate the quickjump cache
	require_once FORUM_ROOT.'include/cache.php';
	generate_quickjump_cache();

	($hook = get_hook('afo_update_positions_pre_redirect')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']), $lang_admin_forums['Forums updated'].' '.$lang_admin_common['Redirect']);
}

else if (isset($_GET['edit_forum']))
{
	$forum_id = intval($_GET['edit_forum']);
	if ($forum_id < 1)
		message($lang_common['Bad request']);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_selected')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	// Fetch forum info
	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> 'f.id, f.forum_name, f.forum_desc, f.redirect_url, f.num_topics, f.sort_by, f.cat_id',
		'FROM'		=> 'forums AS f',
		'WHERE'		=> 'f.id='.$forum_id
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_qr_get_forum_details')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	if (!$forum_db->num_rows($result))
		message($lang_common['Bad request']);

	$cur_forum = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result);

	// Update group permissions for $forum_id
	if (isset($_POST['save']))
	{
		($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_form_submitted')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		// Start with the forum details
		$forum_name = forum_trim($_POST['forum_name']);
		$forum_desc = forum_linebreaks(forum_trim($_POST['forum_desc']));
		$cat_id = intval($_POST['cat_id']);
		$sort_by = intval($_POST['sort_by']);
		$redirect_url = isset($_POST['redirect_url']) && $cur_forum['num_topics'] == 0 ? forum_trim($_POST['redirect_url']) : null;

		if ($forum_name == '')
			message($lang_admin_forums['Must enter forum message']);

		if ($cat_id < 1)
			message($lang_common['Bad request']);

		$forum_desc = ($forum_desc != '') ? '\''.$forum_db->escape($forum_desc).'\'' : 'NULL';
		$redirect_url = ($redirect_url != '') ? '\''.$forum_db->escape($redirect_url).'\'' : 'NULL';

		$query = array(
			'UPDATE'	=> 'forums',
			'SET'		=> 'forum_name=\''.$forum_db->escape($forum_name).'\', forum_desc='.$forum_desc.', redirect_url='.$redirect_url.', sort_by='.$sort_by.', cat_id='.$cat_id,
			'WHERE'		=> 'id='.$forum_id
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_qr_update_forum')) ? eval($hook) : null;
		$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

		// Now let's deal with the permissions
		if (isset($_POST['read_forum_old']))
		{
			$query = array(
				'SELECT'	=> 'g.g_id, g.g_read_board, g.g_post_replies, g.g_post_topics',
				'FROM'		=> 'groups AS g',
				'WHERE'		=> 'g_id!='.FORUM_ADMIN
			);

			($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_qr_get_groups')) ? eval($hook) : null;
			$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
			while ($cur_group = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
			{
				// The default permissions for this group
				$perms_default = array(
					'read_forum'	=>	$cur_group['g_read_board'],
					'post_replies'	=>	$cur_group['g_post_replies'],
					'post_topics'	=>	$cur_group['g_post_topics']
				);

				// The old permissions for this group
				$perms_old = array(
					'read_forum'	=>	$_POST['read_forum_old'][$cur_group['g_id']],
					'post_replies'	=>	$_POST['post_replies_old'][$cur_group['g_id']],
					'post_topics'	=>	$_POST['post_topics_old'][$cur_group['g_id']]
				);

				// The new permissions for this group
				$perms_new = array(
					'read_forum'	=>	($cur_group['g_read_board'] == '1') ? isset($_POST['read_forum_new'][$cur_group['g_id']]) ? '1' : '0' : intval($_POST['read_forum_old'][$cur_group['g_id']]),
					'post_replies'	=>	isset($_POST['post_replies_new'][$cur_group['g_id']]) ? '1' : '0',
					'post_topics'	=>	isset($_POST['post_topics_new'][$cur_group['g_id']]) ? '1' : '0'
				);

				($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_pre_perms_compare')) ? eval($hook) : null;

				// Force all permissions values to integers
				$perms_default = array_map('intval', $perms_default);
				$perms_old = array_map('intval', $perms_old);
				$perms_new = array_map('intval', $perms_new);

				// Check if the new permissions differ from the old
				if ($perms_new !== $perms_old)
				{
					// If the new permissions are identical to the default permissions for this group, delete its row in forum_perms
					if ($perms_new === $perms_default)
					{
						$query = array(
							'DELETE'	=> 'forum_perms',
							'WHERE'		=> 'group_id='.$cur_group['g_id'].' AND forum_id='.$forum_id
						);

						($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_qr_delete_group_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
						$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
					}
					else
					{
						// Run an UPDATE and see if it affected a row, if not, INSERT
						$query = array(
							'UPDATE'	=> 'forum_perms',
							'WHERE'		=> 'group_id='.$cur_group['g_id'].' AND forum_id='.$forum_id
						);

						$perms_new_values = array();
						foreach ($perms_new as $key => $value)
							$perms_new_values[] = $key.'='.$value;

						$query['SET'] = implode(', ', $perms_new_values);

						($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_qr_update_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
						$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
						if (!$forum_db->affected_rows())
						{
							$query = array(
								'INSERT'	=> 'group_id, forum_id',
								'INTO'		=> 'forum_perms',
								'VALUES'	=> $cur_group['g_id'].', '.$forum_id
							);

							$query['INSERT'] .= ', '.implode(', ', array_keys($perms_new));
							$query['VALUES'] .= ', '.implode(', ', $perms_new);

							($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_qr_add_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
							$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}

		// Regenerate the quickjump cache
		if (!defined('FORUM_CACHE_FUNCTIONS_LOADED'))
			require FORUM_ROOT.'include/cache.php';

		generate_quickjump_cache();

		($hook = get_hook('afo_save_forum_pre_redirect')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']), $lang_admin_forums['Forum updated'].' '.$lang_admin_common['Redirect']);
	}
	else if (isset($_POST['revert_perms']))
	{
		($hook = get_hook('afo_revert_perms_form_submitted')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		$query = array(
			'DELETE'	=> 'forum_perms',
			'WHERE'		=> 'forum_id='.$forum_id
		);

		($hook = get_hook('afo_revert_perms_qr_revert_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
		$forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

		// Regenerate the quickjump cache
		if (!defined('FORUM_CACHE_FUNCTIONS_LOADED'))
			require FORUM_ROOT.'include/cache.php';

		generate_quickjump_cache();

		($hook = get_hook('afo_revert_perms_pre_redirect')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		redirect(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']).'?edit_forum='.$forum_id, $lang_admin_forums['Permissions reverted'].' '.$lang_admin_common['Redirect']);
	}

	$forum_page['form_info'] = array();
	if ($cur_forum['redirect_url'])
		$forum_page['form_info'][] = '
'.$lang_admin_forums['Forum perms redirect info'].'
';

	$forum_page['form_info']['read'] = '
'.$lang_admin_forums['Forum perms read info'].'
';
	$forum_page['form_info']['restore'] = '
'.$lang_admin_forums['Forum perms restore info'].'
';
	$forum_page['form_info']['groups'] = '
'. sprintf($lang_admin_forums['Forum perms groups info'], ''.$lang_admin_forums['User groups'].'').'
';
	$forum_page['form_info']['admins'] = '
'.$lang_admin_forums['Forum perms admins info'].'
';

	// Setup the form
	$forum_page['item_count'] = $forum_page['group_count'] = $forum_page['fld_count'] = 0;

	// Setup breadcrumbs
	$forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
		array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
		array($lang_admin_common['Forum administration'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
		array($lang_admin_common['Start'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
		array($lang_admin_common['Forums'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums'])),
		$lang_admin_forums['Edit forum']
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_header_load')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	define('FORUM_PAGE_SECTION', 'start');
	define('FORUM_PAGE', 'admin-forums');
	require FORUM_ROOT.'header.php';

	// START SUBST -
	ob_start();

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_output_start')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>

<?php printf($lang_admin_forums['Edit forum head'], forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['forum_name'])) ?>

		<form method="post" class="frm-form" accept-charset="utf-8" action="<?php echo forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']) ?>?edit_forum=<?php echo $forum_id ?>">

				<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="<?php echo generate_form_token(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']).'?edit_forum='.$forum_id) ?>" />

<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Edit forum details head'] ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_details_fieldset')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
			<fieldset class="frm-group group<?php echo ++$forum_page['group_count'] ?>">
				<legend class="group-legend"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Edit forum details legend'] ?></legend>
<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_forum_name')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Forum name'] ?>

						<input type="text" id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="forum_name" size="35" maxlength="80" value="<?php echo forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['forum_name']) ?>" />

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_forum_descrip')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="txt-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Forum description'] ?> <?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Forum description help'] ?>

<textarea id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="forum_desc" rows="3" cols="50"><?php echo forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['forum_desc']) ?></textarea>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_forum_cat')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Category assignment'] ?>

						<select id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="cat_id">
<?php

	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> 'c.id, c.cat_name',
		'FROM'		=> 'categories AS c',
		'ORDER BY'	=> 'c.disp_position'
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_qr_get_categories')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	while ($cur_cat = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
	{
		$selected = ($cur_cat['id'] == $cur_forum['cat_id']) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';
		echo "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".'<option value="'.$cur_cat['id'].'"'.$selected.'>'.forum_htmlencode($cur_cat['cat_name']).'</option>'."\n";
	}

?>
						</select>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_forum_sort_by')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Sort topics by'] ?>

						<select id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="sort_by">
							<option value="0"<?php if ($cur_forum['sort_by'] == '0') echo ' selected="selected"' ?>><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Sort last post'] ?></option>
							<option value="1"<?php if ($cur_forum['sort_by'] == '1') echo ' selected="selected"' ?>><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Sort topic start'] ?></option>
<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_modify_sort_by')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>						</select>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_forum_redirect_url')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Redirect URL'] ?>

						<?php echo ($cur_forum['num_topics']) ? '<input type="text" id="fld'.$forum_page['fld_count'].'" name="redirect_url" size="45" maxlength="100" value="'.$lang_admin_forums['Only for empty forums'].'" disabled="disabled" />' : '<input type="text" id="fld'.$forum_page['fld_count'].'" name="redirect_url" size="45" maxlength="100" value="'.forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'" />'; ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_details_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
			</fieldset>
<?php

($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_details_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

// Reset fieldset counter
$forum_page['group_count'] = $forum_page['item_count'] = 0;

($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_permissions_part')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>

<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Edit forum perms head'] ?>

					<?php echo implode("\n\t\t\t\t\t", $forum_page['form_info'])."\n" ?>

			<fieldset class="frm-group group<?php echo ++$forum_page['group_count'] ?>">
				<legend class="group-legend"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Edit forum perms legend'] ?></legend>
<?php

	$i = 2;

	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> 'g.g_id, g.g_title, g.g_read_board, g.g_post_replies, g.g_post_topics, fp.read_forum, fp.post_replies, fp.post_topics',
		'FROM'		=> 'groups AS g',
		'JOINS'		=> array(
			array(
				'LEFT JOIN'		=> 'forum_perms AS fp',
				'ON'			=> 'g.g_id=fp.group_id AND fp.forum_id='.$forum_id
			)
		),
		'WHERE'		=> 'g.g_id!='.FORUM_ADMIN,
		'ORDER BY'	=> 'g.g_id'
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_qr_get_forum_perms')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	while ($cur_perm = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
	{
		$read_forum = ($cur_perm['read_forum'] != '0') ? true : false;
		$post_replies = (($cur_perm['g_post_replies'] == '0' && $cur_perm['post_replies'] == '1') || ($cur_perm['g_post_replies'] == '1' && $cur_perm['post_replies'] != '0')) ? true : false;
		$post_topics = (($cur_perm['g_post_topics'] == '0' && $cur_perm['post_topics'] == '1') || ($cur_perm['g_post_topics'] == '1' && $cur_perm['post_topics'] != '0')) ? true : false;

		// Determine if the current sittings differ from the default or not
		$read_forum_def = ($cur_perm['read_forum'] == '0') ? false : true;
		$post_replies_def = (($post_replies && $cur_perm['g_post_replies'] == '0') || (!$post_replies && ($cur_perm['g_post_replies'] == '' || $cur_perm['g_post_replies'] == '1'))) ? false : true;
		$post_topics_def = (($post_topics && $cur_perm['g_post_topics'] == '0') || (!$post_topics && ($cur_perm['g_post_topics'] == '' || $cur_perm['g_post_topics'] == '1'))) ? false : true;

($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_cur_group_permissions_fieldset')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>
				<fieldset class="mf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">
					<legend><?php echo forum_htmlencode($cur_perm['g_title']) ?></legend>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_cur_group_read_forum_permission')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

							<input type="hidden" name="read_forum_old[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="<?php echo ($read_forum) ? '1' : '0'; ?>" />
							<input type="checkbox" id="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="read_forum_new[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="1"<?php if ($read_forum) echo ' checked="checked"'; echo ($cur_perm['g_read_board'] == '0') ? ' disabled="disabled"' : ''; ?> />
							<label for="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"<?php if (!$read_forum_def) echo ' class="warn"' ?>><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Read forum'] ?> <?php if (!$read_forum_def) echo $lang_admin_forums['Not default']  ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_cur_group_post_replies_permission')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

							<input type="hidden" name="post_replies_old[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="<?php echo ($post_replies) ? '1' : '0'; ?>" />
							<input type="checkbox" id="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="post_replies_new[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="1"<?php if ($post_replies) echo ' checked="checked"'; echo ($cur_forum['redirect_url'] != '') ? ' disabled="disabled"' : ''; ?> />
							<label for="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"<?php if (!$post_replies_def) echo ' class="warn"'; ?>><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Post replies'] ?> <?php if (!$post_replies_def) echo $lang_admin_forums['Not default'] ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_cur_group_post_topics_permission')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

							<input type="hidden" name="post_topics_old[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="<?php echo ($post_topics) ? '1' : '0'; ?>" />
							<input type="checkbox" id="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="post_topics_new[<?php echo $cur_perm['g_id'] ?>]" value="1"<?php if ($post_topics) echo ' checked="checked"'; echo ($cur_forum['redirect_url'] != '') ? ' disabled="disabled"' : ''; ?> />
							<label for="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"<?php if (!$post_topics_def) echo ' class="warn"'; ?>><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Post topics'] ?> <?php if (!$post_topics_def) echo $lang_admin_forums['Not default'] ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_post_cur_group_post_topics_permission')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_pre_cur_group_permissions_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				</fieldset>
<?php

		($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_cur_group_permissions_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		++$i;
	}

?>
			</fieldset>

				<input type="submit" name="save" value="<?php echo $lang_admin_common['Save changes'] ?>" />
				<input type="submit" name="revert_perms" value="<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Restore defaults'] ?>" />

		</form>

<?php

	($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_forum_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

	$tpl_temp = forum_trim(ob_get_contents());

	$tpl_main = str_replace('', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
	ob_end_clean();
	// END SUBST -

	require FORUM_ROOT.'footer.php';
}

// Setup the form
$forum_page['fld_count'] = $forum_page['group_count'] = $forum_page['item_count'] = 0;

// Setup breadcrumbs
$forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
	array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
	array($lang_admin_common['Forum administration'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
	array($lang_admin_common['Start'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_index'])),
	array($lang_admin_common['Forums'], forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']))
);

($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_header_load')) ? eval($hook) : null;

define('FORUM_PAGE_SECTION', 'start');
define('FORUM_PAGE', 'admin-forums');
require FORUM_ROOT.'header.php';

// START SUBST -
ob_start();

($hook = get_hook('afo_main_output_start')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>

<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Add forum head'] ?>

		<form class="frm-form" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="<?php echo forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']) ?>?action=adddel">

				<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="<?php echo generate_form_token(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']).'?action=adddel') ?>" />

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_add_forum_fieldset')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
			<fieldset class="frm-group group<?php echo ++$forum_page['group_count'] ?>">
				<legend class="group-legend"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Add forum legend'] ?></legend>
<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_new_forum_name')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Forum name label'] ?>

						<input type="text" id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="forum_name" size="35" maxlength="80" />

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_new_forum_position')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Position label'] ?>

						<input type="text" id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="position" size="3" maxlength="3" />

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_new_forum_cat')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				<div class="sf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?>">

						<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Add to category label'] ?>

						<select id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="add_to_cat">
<?php

	$query = array(
		'SELECT'	=> 'c.id, c.cat_name',
		'FROM'		=> 'categories AS c',
		'ORDER BY'	=> 'c.disp_position'
	);

	($hook = get_hook('afo_qr_get_categories')) ? eval($hook) : null;
	$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
	while ($cur_cat = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
		echo "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".'<option value="'.$cur_cat['id'].'">'.forum_htmlencode($cur_cat['cat_name']).'</option>'."\n";

?>
						</select>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_add_forum_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
			</fieldset>
<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_add_forum_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

				<input type="submit" name="add_forum" value=" <?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Add forum'] ?> " />

		</form>

<?php

// Display all the categories and forums
$query = array(
	'SELECT'	=> 'c.id AS cid, c.cat_name, f.id AS fid, f.forum_name, f.disp_position',
	'FROM'		=> 'categories AS c',
	'JOINS'		=> array(
		array(
			'INNER JOIN'	=> 'forums AS f',
			'ON'			=> 'c.id=f.cat_id'
		)
	),
	'ORDER BY'	=> 'c.disp_position, c.id, f.disp_position'
);

($hook = get_hook('afo_qr_get_cats_and_forums')) ? eval($hook) : null;
$result = $forum_db->query_build($query) or error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

if ($forum_db->num_rows($result))
{
	// Reset fieldset counter
	$forum_page['set_count'] = 0;

?>

<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Edit forums head'] ?>

		<form class="frm-form" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="<?php echo forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']) ?>?action=edit">

				<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="<?php echo generate_form_token(forum_link($forum_url['admin_forums']).'?action=edit') ?>" />

<?php

	$cur_category = 0;
	$i = 2;
	$forum_page['item_count'] = 0;

	while ($cur_forum = $forum_db->fetch_assoc($result))
	{
		if ($cur_forum['cid'] != $cur_category)	// A new category since last iteration?
		{
			if ($i > 2) echo "\t\t\t".'
'."\n";

			$forum_page['group_count'] = $forum_page['item_count'] = 0;
?>

<?php printf($lang_admin_forums['Forums in category'], forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['cat_name'])) ?>

			<div class="frm-group frm-hdgroup group<?php echo ++$forum_page['group_count'] ?>">

<?php

			$cur_category = $cur_forum['cid'];
		}

($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_edit_cur_forum_fieldset')) ? eval($hook) : null;

?>
				<fieldset class="mf-set set<?php echo ++$forum_page['item_count'] ?><?php echo ($forum_page['item_count'] == 1) ? ' mf-head' : ' mf-extra' ?>">
					<legend><?php printf($lang_admin_forums['Edit or delete'], ''.$lang_admin_forums['Edit'].'', ''.$lang_admin_forums['Delete'].'') ?></legend>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_edit_cur_forum_name')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

							<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Forum name'] ?>
							<?php echo forum_htmlencode($cur_forum['forum_name']) ?>

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_edit_cur_forum_position')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>

							<label for="fld<?php echo ++$forum_page['fld_count'] ?>"><?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Position label'] ?>

							<input type="text" id="fld<?php echo $forum_page['fld_count'] ?>" name="position[<?php echo $cur_forum['fid'] ?>]" size="3" maxlength="3" value="<?php echo $cur_forum['disp_position'] ?>" />

<?php ($hook = get_hook('afo_pre_edit_cur_forum_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null; ?>
				</fieldset>
<?php

		($hook = get_hook('afo_edit_cur_forum_fieldset_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

		++$i;
	}

?>

				<input type="submit" name="update_positions" value="<?php echo $lang_admin_forums['Update positions'] ?>" />

		</form>

<?php

}

($hook = get_hook('afo_end')) ? eval($hook) : null;

$tpl_temp = forum_trim(ob_get_contents());
$tpl_main = str_replace('', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
ob_end_clean();
// END SUBST -

require FORUM_ROOT.'footer.php';

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San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2006.
125 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
Ivy + Bean and the Ghost That Had To Go / #2 / written by Annie Barrows ; + illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean ; bk. 2.
100 ME:PersonalName 1 $a Personal name Barrows, Annie.
$c Statement of responsibility written by Annie Barrows ; + illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
$c Date of publication, dist, etc c2006.
520 Summary $a Summary, etc. note Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
650 Subj:Topic 7 $a Topical term Ghost stories.
800 SAE:PersonlName 1 $a Personal name Barrows, Annie.
$v Volume/sequential designation bk. 2.


One of the websites I host used register.com to register their domain name. I wanted to ask them to allow me to transfer their domain name over to my godaddy account because it makes things easier for me if everything is in one location. Plus if I have admin access to the domain name it makes things easier if I need to make any updates - I don't have to bother them to do it or try to figure out some other registrars processes.
I went to register.com to check to see what they charge per year for a domain name, only I couldn't find any price listing on their site for just domain registrations. I went into their help and searched on 'price' which did give me the link i wanted - only that link just redirected me back to their home page.
So I opened a chat session with one of their support reps. I'll post the entire chat conversation below, but the short version of it is that they say they don't post the pricing for domain registrations because they don't want to 'confuse' anyone by giving too much information. Apparently they don't have a problem displaying the pricing if you want to host a website with them. But for some reason, they think it'll be too confusing to have a single page that just tells you how much it'll cost to register a domain name. I wonder why they think it'll be 'confusing' to tell you they charge $37/year to register a .com name. I'm sure that they charge more then 3x what godaddy and many of the other registrars currently charges to register a .com domain name has nothing to do with them hiding - i mean simplifying their website. Those poor godaddy users - they must be all confused with a link right on the home page that lists all their domain registration pricing.
Even if their pricing were just a few dollars more then godaddy's, i still wouldn't use them. If a company can't post their prices, then they are hiding something and it's not worth doing business with someone like that in my opinion.
<Agent>.: Hi, my name is <Agent>.. How may I help you?
<Agent>.: Hello Ian. My name is <Agent>. I will be your Chat Representative. How are you today?
<Agent>.: I do apologize Ian, but our site does not have the pricing, because we offer several different packages, and discounts for services.
If you can let me know what you are looking for, I can certainly help you.
<Agent>.: Is it a .com domain name? This would help determine the price as well.
<Agent>.: No, unfortunately we do not have it listed online.
.Com domain names are $37.00/ year.
<Agent>.: We do not "hide" our prices, but because we offer so many other services, and domain extensions, etc, we do not display them so that they are not confusing.
I appreciate your suggestion, and will pass it along.


Jul 2, 2014 . Here is my complete compilation of Pepa and Silvia clips for seasons 5 through 8 (episodes 56 through 104) of Los Hombres de Paco. 1573 likes · 1 talking about this. pepa y silvia su historia real. Pepa y silvia shared their photo. may contain: 10 people. Image may contain: 13 people, people smiling · See All Clips from the Spanish TV series "Los Hombres de Paco. May 17, 2015 Pepa & Silvia Storyline on Los hombres de Paco (Paco's Men) in Spain. Video's are with English subtitles. The series is sometimes happy, sad. Los hombres de Paco is a Spanish television series centred around the So if you're at all interested in finding out what all the fuss is about or you just want to 4x15: In which the potential for naked Pepa breaks Silvia and Curtis' brains.
Where can i download naruto all episodes in Hindi? at narutoblog.co.tv after about a weeks worth of search i was finally able to find a torrent for them here.


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Q: Jobs are stuck in queue forever ( Condor - Parallel Universe ) i've lately trying to configure HTcondor. I managed to submit serial (Vanilla Universe) jobs with no errors or problems. But when i try to submit parallel ( Parallel Universe ) jobs, it seems that the jobs get stucked in queue forever.
***Submit file Code :
universe = parallel
executable = SommeP
output = outputP.$(NODE)
error = errorP.$(NODE)
log = logP
machine_count = 4
should_transfer_files = yes
when_to_transfer_output = on_exit
queue

***Condor_q
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***Condor_status ( 1 Master 2 Slaves 6 Slots in total )
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A: The admin of your condor pool will have to configure execute nodes to see your submit node as the Dedicated Scheduler before Parallel Universe jobs can be scheduled. See the Parallel Applications section in the manual for more information: http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/2_9Parallel_Applications.html#SECTION00392000000000000000

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Anna Carolina Alberts invites you into her family's farm kitchen, a magical place filled with aromas, flavours and stories. Containing more than 80 tried-and-tested recipes, Butter & Love is a tribute to a rich culinary heritage.
A funky, proudly Afrikaans cookbook, (in English) combining accounts of farm life, doilies, koeksisters and other Afrikaans icons. Anna Carolina draws on the myriad influences in South African urban culture to present something uniquely contemporary, celebrating a rich culinary heritage.


Pricing in Brazil can be a bit…surreal.
A Brazilian friend of mine recounted a classic example of this at the canteen of his Federal University. The menu included everyday snacks which included (i) a cheeseburger, (ii) an egg and cheeseburger and (iii) a fried egg as a side order.
The pricing of the menu was such that the egg and cheeseburger was more expensive than ordering a cheese burger and a fried egg separately. Therefore, the very logical reaction of students who wanted an egg and cheese burger for lunch, was to order the component parts as separate items and then assemble them at their tables immediately prior to consumption (they were studying Economics).
When the canteen's management got wind of this, fearing a loss in profits, they prohibited the practice notifying the students that from then on the egg and cheese burger could only be purchased as a single unit. Canteen staff kept a watchful eye over side orders of fried eggs to make sure they were not placed in any burgers.
But this created all sorts of headaches as the students attempted to get around the ban by sending different people to buy different component parts. Inevitably, the policy provided enormous entertainment value for the students and was impossible to enforce for the canteen.
House prices in Brazil seem just as bonkers at the moment. They rose 165% in the city of Rio de Janeiro and 132% in the city of São Paulo between February 2008 and February 2012.
The main justification for this growth is the rise of the so-called Brazilian middle class and its increased spending power. The significant growth of this group is centered on what is known in Brazil as Classe C, i.e. households earning 3 to 5 minimum salaries (R$622) a month according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Household income in this group is therefore approximately US$ 12,129 and US$ 20,125 per year (13 monthly salaries at US$ 1 – $2).
But middle class in this case is a misnomer. In the United States, for example, this socio-economic group would at the bottom 25% of households and classify as low income.
It should also be stressed that Brazilian consumers face a considerably higher tax burden than Americans for example (on goods) and receive a lower level of public services – which often requires them to pay for everything from school buses, private education, healthcare out of their net salaries – placing further strain on household budgets.
The danger here is that the term `middle class´ is used to describe these consumers´ spending habits not their incomes.
So, how might low-income Brazilian consumers acquire middle class spending habits?
By assuming significant amounts of debt. In August 2012, for families earning up to 10 minimum salaries (R$ 6,200 a month – that´s Classe D, C and Classe B, i.e. the vast majority of Brazilian households) 30.1% of income was spent on debt servicing. Closer inspection reveals that a hair-raising 18.2% of this demographic is spending more than half their monthly income to service debts.
Evidence would also suggest these consumers after years of easy credit may now have overextended themselves (below – in blue) i.e. 23.7% of this demographic reported debt repayments in arrears in August.
The continued rise in spending power of Classe C should not be overestimated nor should their ability to keep the Brazilian real estate bubble inflated, particularly in the event of any increase in interest rates.
This month a study by the Brazilian Applied Economics Institute (IPEA) stated the "concrete possibility that there is a real estate bubble in Brazil" which is likely to burst on any increase in interest rates.
This would not only put this 'middle class' under more financial stress but also means investors that had migrated from the long established Poupança savings account and into property portfolios may very well migrate back again.
And that would really burst the bubble.


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David Carradine's Legacy of Shame
by Guest Contributor (and regular commenter) Atlasien
David Carradine was found dead yesterday in a hotel room in Bangkok. The circumstances of his death are outrageously sensationalistic. I won't go into any detail other than to remark that these circumstances have helped ensure a steady barrage of media coverage. Just now, tuning into NPR in my car, I heard part of a David Carradine interview, replayed to commemorate the occasion of his death.
He was a famous and much-loved actor. Tributes to Carradine are pouring in. In discussion threads devoted to Carradine, you'll find many nostalgic accounts of childhood evenings spent watching his TV show, Kung Fu.
Some Asian-Americans, such as myself, may find these tributes quite upsetting.
I remind myself that David Carradine was an actor. He was doing a job for money. It's difficult to draw a work/life dividing line when it comes to celebrity actors, but the line does exist. And I cannot presume to judge the moral worth of David Carradine's life. He was a human being whose life is just as worthy of respect, just as precious, as the life of any other human being.
But I can judge his career. Fuck David Carradine's godawful racist career!
For many Asian-Americans, tributes to Carradine's careeer feel like a cold and bitter insult. Bruce Lee was originally considered for the lead in Kung Fu, but the producers decided America was not ready for an Asian man as a heroic lead. David Carradine was chosen instead. His character, Kwai Chang Caine, was supposed to be half-Chinese and half-white. All the rest of the characters reacted to him as if he were Asian, when he was quite obviously 100% white. This confused the hell out of me when I first saw the show. Once I realized he was supposed to be Asian, it made me angry.
Why did I watch it in the first place? Well, Kung Fu was a pretty good show. It was plotted and shot and edited skillfully. It touched on important philosophical and cultural themes. It was ground-breaking, unique, and had some of the only respectful depictions of Asian culture available on American television in the 1970s. What were the alternatives? The servile, scraping, Hop Sing on Bonanza? Minor characters on M.A.S.H.? A scattered assortment of cackling Fu Manchu-type villains? It would be hard for Asian-Americans not to want to watch Kung Fu. But every time we watched it, we were reminded that it was possible for white people to take the best of what they wanted from Asian culture. Asian culture was mysterious and cool, but real Asian people were unwanted and superfluous. They could easily be replaced by the right kind of white man. And nobody remarked about it, nobody complained… at least it seemed that way.
I was very young when I saw reruns of Kung Fu, but I caught on quickly, and began to dread the sight of David Carradine's face. I still have some fond memories of sequences that didn't involve Carradine, such as the training sequences set in China. Then I stopped watching the reruns because the experience became too painful. Sitting there and watching was like… offering your body up to be erased. It's hard to explain.
Anyway, it was an ignominious start to a career, and it went downhill from there. Carradine milked Kung Fu for as long as possible, and when the milk ran dry, he just squeezed harder, until blood dripped out of the metaphorical udders. He even did a series of Kung Fu workout videos. Quentin Tarantino capitalized on Kung Fu nostalgia by casting Carradine in that pretentious faux-ironic Asiaphile crapfest, Kill Bill. And a few years ago, Carradine did a series of Kung Fu-inspired Yellowbook.com commercials. Get it? Yellow Book? Wink wink, nudge nudge, vomit. In 2009, the heavily yellowfaced Carradine had a role in Crank 2 as a lecherous Chinese gangster named "Poon Dong". Wink wink… and so on.
I don't blame David Carradine for all the anti-Asian racism in America. But he had an important and highly visible role in a vicious feedback loop. Audiences identified with his performance of a calm, detached, self-important masculinity seemingly grounded in an exotic Asian tradition. He satisfied certain urges of the audience in that regard, and as he performed, he innovated, and created new and more refined stereotypes with extra layers of self-awareness and sophistication. His performances also worked to naturalize the desire of white people to appropriate the aspects of Asian culture they happened to find most appealing.
In a better world, Bruce Lee would have gotten the lead role in Kung Fu. It would have been a truly great show, not a merely good one. David Carradine would have gone on to other projects, and perhaps he would have become a great and versatile actor, meeting new challenges and truly acting instead of being frozen in the same stale role for decades. He was a man of many diverse talents and could have found fulfillment and success in other realms as well. If I continue much longer in this morbid vein I'll write a full-fledged alternate history obituary, so I'll stop… although I would have liked to say more good things about David Carradine's impact on the world. But in all honesty, the way his choices affected my life turned out to be very negative, and I wish it didn't have to end like that.

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A few weeks ago, I went to an exhibition of paintings by Canadian artist and writer, Emily Carr, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London.
Emily Carr is most well known for her paintings of the natural landscape and Native communities of coastal British Columbia. I've long been an admirer but, this time, felt drawn closer to her as I discovered more about her search for a sense of Western Canadian identity and her place in the art world.
In May 2014, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the five-year rule for Canadian electors living abroad was no longer valid. The rule had stipulated that Canadians living outside of Canada for more than five years consecutively were not eligible to vote in federal elections by special ballot.
Now, however, all Canadian citizens aged 18 or over and living abroad may register for the International Register of Electors to vote by a mail-in special ballot in federal elections, by elections, and referendums if they have previously resided in Canada.
I hope this finds you well in the new year. Wow, 2015 - it's official, it's the future!
As at the close of a project, January can come with the feeling of a slight letdown. There has been a long buildup of preparation for the main event, and following all of the time, energy, and effort we might put into celebrations, it can be a bruising bump back to reality when all is said and done.
Not to mention having to recover from jet lag after making the return trip from Canada. I liken it to operating behind a screen in slow motion - for about a week.
So, just when I thought I had a particularly Canadian voice, on two separate occasions in the last few weeks I've been told by UK natives that I sound Irish! Apparently, these 5-6 years living in London have softened my accent - unbeknownst to me…! I think I still sound the same as I always have, but our cultural surroundings do have a way of seeping in and shifting things around a little, especially when we're not looking.
Acting is letting go and jumping off the edge while thinking, "Here goes…!". There's a frantic sense of, "Oh, my god, what have I done?!" combined with a little bit of, "It's too late now", and mostly, "This is the best thing ever!".


The other day as I was driving home, I saw an amazing sight.
An osprey was winging across Cinco Bayou with a fish in its claws. Suddenly another bird swooped in, and although I was a good distance away, there was no mistaking the white head of a bald eagle. It began grappling with the osprey for the fish. At one point the osprey dropped the fish and the eagle dove after it. Then the osprey began chasing the eagle to retrieve its hard-caught dinner.
How many people get to see something like that? I felt lucky.
Later, it occurred to me that we see amazing sights throughout our lives, not only the great big �amazings� that make the history books but also the small miracles of daily life that go on around us, unnoticed by most.
For instance, I was standing on my patio one night and saw the International Space Station glide silently across the star-spackled sky. It�s hard to believe people are living up there, people who might be looking down at millions of people like me and wondering what we�re thinking.
I saw the Apollo 17 moon launch. It was the only moon mission launched at night and it almost didn�t happen, as a last-minute glitch stalled the countdown. But finally those big engines fired up and night became day. The roar was something you felt in your chest.
Another amazing sight � the ground at 2,000 feet from the waist-gunner position of a B-24. In 1998 I was privileged to catch a ride on the Collings Foundation�s �All American,� a restored Liberator bomber that was touring the country with a B-17. We flew from Panama City to Crestview, where the �All American� would remain for two days, a flying museum of 1940s technology. I remember the ride was cold and, for me, a terrifying experience. I have severe acrophobia and won�t fly in the comparative comfort of a modern jetliner. But I was determined to experience, at least in part, the travails of World War II aviators.
One chilly morning, Dad and I were crossing Choctawhatchee Bay in a tiny aluminum boat with an even tinier Golden Jet outboard motor. I glanced over the side, and what did I see but thousands and thousands of moon jellyfish swimming in the dark water. Moon jellies invade the bay each winter, but I�d never seen them in such numbers. It was awe inspiring and, as I remembered the size of our boat and its temperamental engine, a little scary.
Another bay memory: One cloudy summer afternoon, I stood in the shallows off Elliott Point, fruitlessly casting my MirrOLure into the grass beds for speckled trout or bluefish. The cloud in front of me suddenly dropped a funnel cloud, which reached toward the surface to form a waterspout. I could actually hear the thing hissing as it traveled across the Gulf of Mexico and crossed the island near the Destin bridge. Too bad camera phones hadn�t been invented; I could�ve shot a million-hit YouTube video.
Mom and I were sitting on her front porch one Sunday afternoon when a fox trotted across the yard, climbed a chain-link fence and dashed off into the hinterlands. I had seen raccoons, possums and armadillos in the neighborhood, but never a fox.
Earlier this year, the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola hosted a gathering of Mercury and Gemini astronauts, who got up on stage and told backstories of their missions. As the group gathered, I heard somebody behind me talking to another person about where they would sit. I turned around and there stood Sen. John Glenn and his wife. I wanted to shake his hand and say something to him about the space program and how it had affected my life. But time was short and I didn�t want to bother him, so I kept to myself.
I did the same at the National Hardcourt Championships at King�s Island in Ohio back in the �90s. I was wandering behind the stands when who should walk through the crowd but Andre Agassi. I�ll say this for Agassi � he�s a lot shorter than I imagined!
�Amazing� is relative, but to my eyes the experiences I�ve related here were simply amazing.
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No challenges, no avoids, no deaths, and we're getting spring weather, finally.  Yay!
of?  Shouldn't their managers tell them off for doing that?
top Total Parry.  Mr. Bush is top Striker.
one-sided melee.  Mr. Tower is our top Waste, but oddly, not super popular.
(0-0-0,181).  HARI-KARI bested VILLAINOUS INFORMER in a popular 3 minute contest.
Hari-Kari is our best Aimed Blow.
favorite.  Wow!  He should write a column.
brawl.  King is top Basher, but he was no match for Gojiro.
minute contest.  Uncle Fester is our top Slasher.
1,109) of OUTLAWS.  TUESDAY WELD demolished CRYBABY in a 2 minute one-sided brawl.
WARLOCK (72-6137) (18-27-5,36) of OUTLAWS fought UNEMPLOYED PERSON (106-5) (0-0-0,70).
WARLOCK was overpowered by UNEMPLOYED PERSON in a 1 minute bloody mismatched brawl.
temp job as a gladiator.  Would you?
spring weather, and we'll meet again next turn.
DUTCH TREAT devastated G W BUSH in a action packed 1 minute mismatched Title fight.
DARK TOWER demolished VERMICIOUS KNID in a popular 3 minute gruesome one-sided melee.
HARI-KARI bested VILLAINOUS INFORMER in a popular 3 minute contest.
BULL DURHAM overpowered HOPALONG CASSIDY in a 1 minute mismatched match.
THE REFEREE viciously subdued CRYSALIS GUARD in a popular 5 minute bloody duel.
KING FORADAY was overpowered by GOJIRO in a popular 2 minute mismatched brawl.
BLACK JACK SHELACK vanquished ORPHAN in a action packed 2 minute uneven duel.
TAMMY FAYE was overpowered by DISCO QUEEN in a 3 minute uneven duel.
THE LION KING was overpowered by RIRORNI CAPTAIN in a 2 minute one-sided fight.
WEDNESDAY ADDAMS overpowered CRYSALIS GUARD in a 2 minute bloody one-sided match.
UNCLE FESTER was overcome by DAIRY QUEEN in a exciting 1 minute contest.
TUESDAY WELD demolished CRYBABY in a 2 minute one-sided brawl.
NANU NANU handily defeated KING MIDAS in a action packed 1 minute one-sided conflict.
JINX savagely defeated JOHNNY APPLESEED in a action packed 3 minute gruesome struggle.
COPYCAT was overpowered by SUPERSIZE ME in a exciting 1 minute one-sided bout.
WELD 73-6047, and NANU NANU 45-5227.
DAIRY QUEEN 47-2685, UNCLE FESTER 59-2768, and G W BUSH 59-2764.
straight in the saddle since that is more comfortable for riding.
It was twilight, stars coming out above and lights in farmhouse windows below.
of his leather cuirass. His horse screamed and ran faster.
with swords and some with halberds.
"Howdy?" he said, hoping they were friendly.
"Well damn!"  Keel laid a comforting hand on the horse's flank, which quivered.
"So have you," the guard continued.
tried to look over his shoulder, but could only see the feathered end of the bolt.
"We are the Queen's Guard."
the ***holes that shot him."
HORSE!  I'm gonna get 'em."  Unslinging his huge sword, Keel strode toward the gate.
"I've heard of you!  The Queen will want to meet you."
around, we'll be targets in the middle of the street."
wouldn't have waited around to be hunted.  They might have left clues, though.
now, a bit chilly although there was a warm and slightly funky breeze from the marsh.
Corporal Brat Langerman said quietly, "Is this where it happened?"
"Well, I don't think they're here anymore."
Keel was about to agree, when a crossbow bolt appeared in the Corporal's arm.
The young man hissed, "Everybody down!"
greenish glow.  He looked around, searching the darkness for signs of their foes.
of the darkness, one lodging in his calf, the others missing him altogether.
grabbed him by the ankle and hauled him the rest of the way down.
"Are you okay?" asked Brat, sheathing his sword.
unconscious prisoner to one hand and bending to pick up his sword.
arm.  "Got some ties in my right-hand belt pouch.  If you could get them for me?"
They bound the prisoner, then bandaged each other.
"What did they want?" asked the Corporal.
Keel shrugged.  "No clue.  Let's get him somewhere safe and we can ask him..."
He listened.  "Your guys are coming back."
looking reasonably comfortable except for his bandaged head.  "All right," said Brat.
"Now I want you to tell me that you're going to turn Queen's Evidence."
Keel leaned forward.  "You guys shot my horse."
"Oh.  Sorry, didn't mean to do that.  We were just shooting at you."
we could sell it so we followed you."
five hundred years and it picked up some energy, that's all.  All it does, is glow.
The bandit looked chagrined.  "But... it's got to be magic."
belonged to another, always and forever.
This is a continuing adventure.
Watch for future chapters in the Bonsur and Home Guard newsletters!
regular DM arenas (including closed arenas) since the last tournament.


These are the stories of good people doing great things in Riverside, IL..
Here's my interview with our neighbor Ashley Prosser.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Joanne Schiemann.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Romney Cirillo.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Nina Makovski.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Ike Orcutt.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Jerry Owen.
Here's my interview with our neighbors Andrea & Anthony Vizzari.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Shari Klyber.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Kristen Phelan-Swiderski.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Grey Ingram.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Sarah VenHorst.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Erin Ahern.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Suzanne Muirheid.
Here's my interview with Jill Mateo where we discuss the upcoming Riverside Arts Weekend (RAW).
Here's my interview with our neighbor David Pollard.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Aberdeen Marsh-Ozga.
Here's my interview with our neighbor Rory Dominick.
Here's my conversation with our neighbor Courtney Greve Hack.
Here's my conversation with our neighbor Lisa Guillot.
Here's my conversation with our neighbor Ben Sells.
Here's my conversation with Laura & Alex Garcia of Three Story Media.
Here's my conversation with Kate Coffey of Chocolate Twist.
Here's my conversation with Ken Circo of Circo Architects.
Here's my conversation with Brian Carroll of Mollie's Public House.
Here's my conversation with Laura Muller of Spicy Latina Mom.
Here's my conversation with Peter Boutsikakis of Riverside Foods.
Here's my conversation with Camille Silverman of the Riverside Arts Center.
Here's my conversation with Amy Jacksic of the Riverside Farmer's Market.
Here's my conversation with Adriana Saldana Meadath of Flur.
Here's my conversation with Scott Zimmer of The Chew Chew & Sawmilly.
Here's my conversation with Sarah Kampbell of Vault Escape.


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Category Archives: Literary Couples
You Make Me Possible at the Woordfees
One of my favourite events of the year opens the literary festival season and I am really looking forward to speaking about You Make Me Possible at the Woordfees with Kerneels Breytenbach on 6 March 2019, at 12:00, in the ATKV Boektent.
OUR LOVE LETTER
Karina Szczurek, in gesprek met Kerneels Breytenbach
Aangebied deur Protea Boekhuis
Haar man het haar met briewe die hof gemaak, vertel Karina Szczurek van die skrywer André P. Brink, met wie sy 'n dekade getroud was. Nou is dié briefwisseling sedert hulle ontmoeting in Desember 2004 in Oostenryk deur Karina gebundel as laaste liefdestaak teenoor André. You Make Me Possible begin in die roes van die ontdekking van 'n geesgenoot, dokumenteer die brose begin van 'n byna onmoontlike verhouding, en daarna die verdieping daarvan tot 'n volwasse verhouding in 'n nuwe wereld van saamwees en erkenning. Kerneels Breytenbach vra haar uit.
6 Maart 12:00
60 min | ATKV Boektent
R55 | R70 by die deur
This entry was posted in Events, Literary Couples, What I've Written, Writing Couples and tagged André Brink, Karina M. Szczurek, Kerneels Breytenbach, love letters, Woordfees, You Make Me Possible on January 15, 2019 by Karina.
Literary Couples: Alex Smith and Andrew Salomon
This is the first in a series of posts I would like to devote to Literary Couples. Think Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, or Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster.
I would like to begin, however, locally and very much in the present with two dear friends: Alex Smith and Andrew Salomon.
Alex, Andrew and their son Elias
Photo: RHS
Alex Smith is the author of Algeria's Way, Four Drunk Beauties, Agency Blue and Drinking from the Dragon's Well. Her writing has been short-listed for the SA Pen Literary Award and the Cain Prize for African writing, and has won a Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and a Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award. She lives in Cape Town with her partner, their book-loving baby boy and their dogs. Her latest novel is Devilskein & Dearlove.
Andrew Salomon is the author of a young adult novel, The Chrysalis, and his short stories have appeared in several journals and collections. He received a PEN/ Studzinski Literary Award for African Fiction in 2009 and was shortlisted for the 2011 Terry Pratchett First Novel Award. He lives in Cape Town, but his work as an archaeologist has taken him all over southern Africa and a few places beyond. Tokoloshe Song is his first novel for adults.
Alex and Andrew allowed me to ask them some questions:
Please describe your partner's creative process.
Andrew: Alex gets an idea – whether it be a character or a situation, or something else – and she writes away. She has an amazing ability to get the words down, to just write thousands of words at a time. Just a few months after our son was born she had to write three novellas within one month, and she did.
Alex: I think we are both a bit secretive about new ideas – or maybe I just am! I often see Andrew typing up notes – fragments of things he has seen or words that have intrigued him – and I'll come across files on our shared desktop (laptop that is) with extraordinary file names; I don't open them, but when I inquire, it always turns out that the file is a page of these notes, which could for example be graffiti he has spotted on his way home in the train. So he hoards ideas, that's probably the beginning of his 'creative process'. Then he takes the plunge and starts writing a new novel or story. To be honest we have never discussed anything like our 'creative processes' so I have no idea what happens after that. I do know that he likes to get a first draft done in a focused period of time – so during that time he becomes quite single-minded about the task of writing; he'll set himself a daily word target, that sort of thing. I also know that when it comes to editing, he is meticulous, far more so than I am – I always feel like a bit of a lazy slut in comparison to him when it comes to editing.
Are you each other's first readers?
Andrew: Definitely, I know I can count on Alex to be truthful in her assessment, but also kind in the way she delivers it.
What is your favourite piece written by your partner?
Andrew: Alex's latest novel, Devilskein and Dearlove is a wonderful read, and I am also a big fan of the book that came from her experiences living and working in China, Drinking from The Dragon's Well – it's a book that depicts her experiences very truthfully and that also paints an intriguing picture of a place caught in extremely rapid change, so rapid that now it could probably serve as an historical snapshot.
What is the best and worst aspect of sharing a life with another writer?
Alex: Well, I'm not really one to dwell on negatives, but if I must then probably the worst thing is that you have to be really thick-skinned as a writer because it entails all manner of disappointments – from awards you are shortlisted for but do not win to flat out rejections on various projects. So when you share a life with another writer, you experience those slings and arrows in duplicate – those aimed at yourself and those experienced by your partner. For me the best thing is just having somebody very close who loves books, loves stories, gets excited by possible plots and characters and even possible names, and who also really understands what this strange business of writing is like, both its wonders and its realities – small things like knowing what editing actually is (it's interesting how many non-writers imagine that novels fall out of the heads of their authors in pristine condition and all ready for the typesetter).
Andrew: The best aspect is that you share your life with someone who understands the deep desire to write, to tell a story. So there's never any explaining necessary about the need for time and space to do this, and we support each other in creating that time and place.
I'm not sure there really is a 'worst' aspect but Alex has an uncanny ability to misplace bookmarks, so she keeps borrowing mine, and I have a tendency to use bookmarks that usually have some kind of sentimental meaning to me, which I get to keep for only a short time until they get sent to the secret place of bookmark-no-return. Also, both of us being book-lovers, when we moved in together, our already-substantial book collections got combined into a giant collection and now we seriously need a room just for books, but there's no chance of that in our postage stamp of a house!
You can win a copy of Alex's and Andrew's latest titles in my BOOK GIVEAWAY.
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Four Janesville residents lost their home and $40,000 damage was reported in a house fire early Thursday morning on the city's near west side.
A tenant suffered minor burns to the arm in the fire that broke out in a second-floor bedroom of the house at 206 McKinley St., reported at 12:41 a.m., the Janesville Fire Department reported.
A candle left burning on a table in the bedroom started the fire, according to a fire department news release.
Three adults and a child were displaced and are staying with family and friends, according to the release. Damages were estimated at $30,000 to the building and $10,000 to contents.
Firefighters saw smoke coming from the second floor as they arrived. All occupants had already left the building, according to the release.
The release said smoke detectors gave occupants time to get out safely.
Off-duty firefighters were called in, and the Milton Fire Department provided backup to the Janesville crews, according to the release.
The building's owner is from out of state, a department spokesman said.
The building's owner is William A. Leahy of Blue Springs, Missouri, according to fire department records.


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As the leader of the Pragmatic Brain Science Institute®, Collette uses theories and methods from the behavioral and social sciences to uncover the less conscious and emotional drivers of consumer behavior. She consults with clients and develops frameworks and measurement approaches to get to better insights. Collette loves the mix of theory and application, wrestling with big ideas and then seeing how they play out in addressing real business challenges.
Collette has two decades of experience conducting basic and applied research. Prior to joining LRW, a Material Company, she was a professor of psychology at Syracuse University where her research and teaching addressed emotions, stereotypes and identity. She received a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Originally from Jamaica, Collette has moved between New York and California four times in 20 years. She cultivated a love of hiking from her years out west but is most at home in NYC, happily exploring trails in nearby Hudson Valley. Her easy-going demeanor disappears when she plays Scrabble (old-school, on an actual board). She is a fierce Scrabble competitor, saving scores from her best games to prove it.


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The Observer profile
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech
As he prepares to host a Wikimania festival in London, the Wikipedia co-founder is also gearing up to challenge Europe's controversial 'right-to-be-forgotten' legislation
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Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, looking into the right-to-be-forgotten legislation. Photograph: Observer
When Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales married Tony Blair's long serving aide Kate Garvey, they chose a chapel in the heart of London's tech city. The maid of honour, a Croydon schoolfriend of Garvey's, joked in her speech that the bride had succeeded in marrying the only world-famous internet entrepreneur not to have become a billionaire.
The event was an unusual mix of digital royalty and British political leaders, with a decorative sprinkling of celebrities. Blair's spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, played the bagpipes, while Tony and Cherie sipped champagne with Lily Cole. David Cameron's former adviser, Steve Hilton, and his wife, Rachel Whetstone, Google's communications chief, shared canapes with Mick Hucknall, and David Miliband turned up with a present wrapped in pink tissue paper.
Not your typical silicon valley nuptials, but then Wales is not your typical silicon valley entrepreneur.
Despite creating the planet's sixth most visited website – the online encyclopedia attracts more traffic than Amazon – Wales receives no salary from Wikipedia. The organisation is not-for-profit, raising $50m a year in donations to pay for the server farms that host its pages, and a select group of researchers and administrators, but there are no shares to sell on. Wales's 2011 divorce settlement with his second wife put his assets at $943,000, barely enough for a small flat in central London. But the UK capital is where he has chosen to settle. He and Garvey, who tied the knot in 2012 and now have two daughters, live in Marylebone. London is also the venue for this week's Wikimania festival, the annual gathering of mostly unpaid volunteers who have created Wikipedia's 110m web pages.
More than 1,300 people are expected to descend on the Barbican Centre for the five-day event, where the talks have titles such as "Now that Wikipedia has done everyone's homework, what's left to teach?" A young scientist called Jack Andraka will tell how he invented a test for pancreatic cancer aged 15 using information found on Wikipedia and in a State of the Wiki address, Wales will attempt to answer the following question: "We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?"
Wikipedia has around 35,000 human contributors and a growing number of digital ones: computer programs known as bots that hoover up content from other sources. One bot, created in Sweden, is responsible for 2.7m articles, many of them cataloguing animal species. The site now has 4.5m entries in the English language and many more in 286 other tongues. The Chechen version has nearly 50,000 entries, while the Nigerian language Igbo has just passed 1,000. There are even 100,000 entries written in Latin.
Sitting atop his tower of babel of knowledge, Wales describes himself as little more than a figurehead. He is a mouthpiece who speaks for a global movement, but has little real power over Wikipedia's army of men and machines. "I'm the constitutional monarch," Wales has said. "Like the Queen. It doesn't mean I have any actual power. I do a lot of waving."
In recent years, he has taken the broader role of defending free speech online. He successfully opposed the snooper's charter, legislation that would have given British intelligence agencies the ability to track the websites visited by any given citizen, and spoke his mind when Cameron used an emergency vote to push through similar measures this summer.
On 9 September, he will travel to Madrid as a member of a Google-appointed panel, charged with drawing up guidance for search engines on how to handle requests to remove links to web pages under Europe's controversial right to be forgotten legislation. It is an issue close to home – Google is understood to be about to remove its first link to a Wikipedia page. "The legislation is completely insane and needs to be fixed," says Wales.
Open internet campaigner, hedge fund speculator and even internet pornographer – a colourful career has seen Wales take on many roles. As the editing wars that continually revise his Wikipedia biography suggest, even the most informed observers have found it hard to define the real Jimmy Wales. The man even has two birthdays – his mother maintained he was born on 7 August 1966, but his passport states 8 August.
Jimmy Donal Wales, or Jimbo as he is known online, grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, where his father was a retail manager and his mother ran a private school. It was here that Wales and his brother received their early education, in small classes where several year groups shared a teacher.
Memories of his mother's struggles with school inspectors inspired a DIY approach to learning, and the Wales family were among the first in Huntsville to own a computer – a Tandy TRS80. "My mother was always a super gadget freak," recalls Wales.
He received a bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University in Alabama, and at the tender age of 20 married Pamela Green, whom he had worked with at a grocery store. He began studying for a Phd, but after separating from Pamela and abandoning his dissertation, Wales decided to make his fortune, heading for Chicago to join a hedge fund.
Soon he was married to a steel trader, Christine Rohan (with whom he has a 13-year-old daughter called Kira) and studying coding in his spare time. He was working on his own web browser when the 1995 initial public offering of Netscape saw the company's value rise to $3bn on its first day of trading. Later he said: "When Netscape went public I realised that their web browser was better than what I had been writing in my spare time, but not billions of dollars better."
The next year, with a colleague from Chicago Options Associates and his friend Tim Shell, he set up a search engine called Bomis. It began as an information resource, but things really took off when Bomis started not only linking to adult content, but selling it.
A promotional photograph taken at the time features Wales at the wheel of a yacht, with a glamour model on each arm, in shades and a rather dapper captain's hat. As a father of the modern internet and a fellow of Harvard Law School, it is an image Wales would probably like Google to forget, but the profits from Bomis funded Wikipedia.
The site went live on 15 January 2001, and on 11 September that year, as clouds of dust drifted over New York, Wikipedia awoke. Entries began to flood in, on the planes, the buildings, and the history of al-Qaida, as America struggled to make sense of the tragedy. Wales had created his legacy.
He makes a living as a well-paid public speaker and from sitting on boards. He is co-chair of the People's Operator, a Shoreditch-based mobile phone service that gives part of its profits to charity and is soon to launch in America. He also has shares in Wikia, which takes advertising and organises user-generated content into themes such as Brickipedia, a database of Lego products.
Wales could be said to have arrived on the international stage in 2007 when he was invited to a meeting at Davos by Bono. The rock star introduced him to world leaders, and Wales credits his wife with extending his social circle even further. Now a director at the public relations firm Freud Communications, Garvey's clients have included Queen Rania of Jordan and the London Olympics. "My wife, you know, knows everyone," he has said.
Wales still has a touching ability to appear starstruck. In July, he and Kira visited Pinewood studios, to watch his friend JJ Abrams filming the latest instalment of the Star Wars saga. "I am so excited. Going to visit JJ on the set of Star Wars. Will beg him to kill Jar Jar Binks," he tweeted beforehand.
Wales, who named his second daughter after Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician who wrote what is believed to be the first machine algorithm, would love his daughters to enter the industry. He plays Minecraft with Kira and has begun to teach her coding, and is working to remove Wikipedia's gender bias, by welcoming women editors and redesigning the editing interface to make it simpler to contribute. One thing that will never change, says Wales, is the site's not-for-profit status. Its contributors would revolt against commercialisation. The academic and artificial intelligence researcher Nigel Shadbolt, who will talk about machine learning at Wikimania, says Wales is in good company when it comes to being unable to exploit the fruits of his invention. Tim Berners-Lee has suffered the same fate.
"The ethos of open for them trumps everything else," says Shadbolt.
"Power is often in what you deny others. Jimmy has worked hard to make this thing not identical to him. Wikipedia has a structure and a foundation that will persist beyond him."
• This article was amended on 5 August 2014 to correct the chronology around Jimmy Wales's first web browser and the public offering of Netscape; to clarify his invitation to a Davos meeting and to make clear his interest in the potential offered by collaborative online games while at university.


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Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster talk exlusively to HELLO! about their pregnancy battle | HELLO!
Music legend Rod Stewart and his lovely wife Penny Lancaster are over the moon.
As they joyfully revealed on hellomagazine.com, the couple are expecting a sibling for their four-year-old Alastair.
But until now, the long and emotional struggle they had to fulfil their dream of having another child has remained under wraps.
In a HELLO! exclusive this week, the couple open up about the gruelling series of IVF treatment they resorted to and the subterfuge they went through to keep her pregnancy secret until the 12-week mark.
Thankfully, all is well now. Radiant Penny, 39, is just showing the beginnings of a baby bump and Alastair is thrilled - above all because doctors are 99 per cent certain it's a boy.
"It's exactly what he wanted and his happiness made all the IVF treatments worthwhile," says his mum.
Issue number 1149 contains the interview and 18 pages of gorgeous photos.


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You know when you romanticise a part of your life, yeah i feel like i know i'll do that about this part in my life in years to come. Though i'm obviously hoping more opps come my way but right now I know shits good.
And amazing shits happening to all the people around me, so that makes me feel so much better.
I'm about to leave university this year and go into 'the real world' though i feel like im already there with all the other stuff i do, i still feel so horrified to see whats on the other side.
I actually have no idea what i want to do, until i can blog fullllll time. If you have any advice for me please send it over. I do want an industry job for a bit, but i just have no idea what kind. Obviously i have a passion for social media, photography, makeup.. so so many things so i'm not bothered if i do something like that for a bit.
I do still hope i receive an amazing blogging job or pr job to just fall into my lap, but realistically how would i make that happen, and like soooonish.
I have some amazing opps coming my way atm, so lets hope i get something that pays the bills soon? I don't have my hopes up though, i know i'll have to get a job asap when i leave uni.
Anyway this shoot is featuring some amazing jewellery i received from Accessorize.
All from the Z for Accessorize collection. I'm wearing a rose gold ear cuff, bracelet, and intial necklace.
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Hoang Su Phi Ha Giang, a mountainous district of Ha Giang province is located in the Northeast region of Vietnam. Hoang Su Phi district covers an area of 629 km², offering some of the most beautiful off the beaten track holidays in northern Vietnam. Options include Hoang Su Phi hiking, trekking homestay, mountain biking, car trips, and scooter, motorbike tours.
Hoang Su Phi district is divided into 1 township and 24 communes including Vinh Quang, Ban Luoc, Ban May, Ban Nhung, Bam Peo, Ban Phung, Chien Pho, Dan Van, Ho Thau, Nam Son, Nang Don, Nam Dich, Nam Khoa, Nam Ty, Ngam Dang Vai, Po Lo, Po Ly Ngai, San Xa Ho, Ta Su Choong, Tan Tien, Thang Tin, Then Chu Phin, Thong Nguyen, Tu Nhan, and Tung San.
The best way to get to Hoang Su Phi from Hanoi is to rent a car with driver. You will be picked up at your place in Hanoi and brought to Ha Giang city. From there, take either local bus or motor-taxi to Hoang Su Phi. Those who are on budget can take a public bus at My Dinh bus station in Hanoi. Hanoi Ha Giang city bus journey takes about 6-8 hours on road. There are both overnight buses and day buses from Hanoi to Ha Giang city.
Booking a guided tour (with a tour guide) is highly recommended, especially when you travel to an off the beaten path destination like Hoang Su Phi Vietnam.
The average annual temperature in Hoang Su Phi is 22.78 °C (73.00 °F); the monthly averages range from a low of 15.48 °C (59.86 °F) in January to a high of 27.88 °C (82.18 °F) in July. The annual rainfall in Hoang Su Phi is 2,430.1 millimetres (95.67 in); the monthly average varies from a low of 31.5 millimetres (1.24 in) in December to a high of 515.6 millimetres (20.30 in) in July. The average annual humidity level is 84%. More about Vietnam weather.
There are plenty of hiking opportunities in and around Hoang Su Phi district. Discover the jungles, mountains and hill tribes around Hoang Su Phi Ha Giang on a hill tribe trek. Whether it is a single or multi day trek we have something to suit everybody. Maybe you just want to trek through the jungle or maybe you really want to get away from the crowds we have something to suit.
Hoang Su Phi is surrounded by mountains, rice fields and luxuriant forest. Cycling in Hoang Su Phi to discover Vietnam's hidden places. Hoang Su Phi has some great roads offering some fantastic rides for enthusiastic mountain bikers. We have a range of road and mountain bike tours around Hoang Su Phi and the region of Ha Giang, northeast Vietnam providing options for both those who want some mountainous challenges and those who prefer long flat rides.


In 2010, the US Department of Education named St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School a National Blue Ribbon School. St. Vincent's was one of only 50 private schools and 254 public schools nationwide to receive the honor in 2010. The first school in the Diocese of Peoria to receive this award, St. Vincents was recognized as an exemplary high performing school.
Founded in 1982, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students' academic achievement. A National Blue Ribbon School is a mark of excellence in education recognized by everyone from parents to policy-makers in thousands of communities.
The resulting success of the school points to the strong partnership between the school staff, parents and the entire parish community.