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The Departed (2006)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
Synopsis: An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.
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The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern-day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration. The Departed was also a rare example of Scorsese remaking someone else's work — the Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs (2003) — his only other remake being 1991's Cape Fear. So while it might lack some of the trademark touches associated with Scorsese's gangster pictures, it focuses very strongly on his on-going preoccupation with the role of Catholicism in the lives of his criminal characters.
The plot revolves around the lives of two young men, both of whom have created fake personas in order to infiltrate their enemy's stronghold. Billy Costigan is an undercover cop, a member of the law-abiding branch of a family with a host of criminal contacts. These links to crime make Costigan an ideal candidate for an undercover assignment to infiltrate the criminal organisation of top-ranking mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is also a cop, a high-flier quickly climbing the promotion ladder and acquiring a position of responsibility. However, Sullivan is also the protege of Costello, and regularly uses his insider knowledge to ensure Costello remains one step ahead of the law.
As both men establish their positions within the respective organisations they each struggle to cope with the pressures that come with living a double life and the perpetual threat of discovery. This pressure is intensified as both organisations slowly come to the realisation that they each have a mole in their midst, and so both men come under an increased scrutiny which further limits their ability to function without raising suspicions. Apart from a couple of occasions when Costigan angrily harangues his superior officers for keeping him undercover for so long, Scorsese and writer William Monahan avoid having their characters directly expressing the stress they are feeling, choosing instead to communicate these stresses in other ways. Costigan pops pills with increasing frequency and small twitches and blinks betray the nerves beneath his otherwise composed exterior, while Sullivan endures chronic impotence. And all the while, both men share a feeling of their true identities being slowly and methodically erased.
As always, Di Caprio delivers a flawless performance as Billy Costigan, but it's the clean-cut Matt Damon as hot-shot police detective Sullivan who makes more of an impression. As with his earlier turn as a psychopathic killer in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Damon uses those all-American looks to good effect, inescapably suggesting the core of rottenness that lies within the heart of the American (and, to some degree, universal) ideals. It's much easier for the high-minded principles of the good to be exploited by the wicked, than it is for the good to escape unaffected the stains of evil.
At the core of these emotional complexities abides Scorsese's perpetual pre-occupation with the influence of religion and, more specifically, the Catholic Church. The Departed is essentially an examination of the oldest of subjects, the battle between good and evil. Costello is evil incarnate, rejecting the church with a thrqwaway line and a shrug, 'Church wants you in your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand.' Sullivan is an altar boy who comes under Costello's malign influence at a young, impressionable age, seduced from the path of good by rolls of bread and quarts of milk. Costigan is the force of good against the odds, the son of an honest man from a dishonest family in a milieu immersed in crime. But, of course, there's no room for pure good in Scorsese's view of the world, and the threat of — and ease with which — men can lose touch with the good within them is always up there on his screen for us all to see. While some might tire of Scorsese's seeming obsession with the matter, it is just this pre-occupation which lends The Departed an extra dimension to lift it above the straightforward action thriller upon which it is based.
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Antech, Blanquette de Limoux, Réserve Brut 2016
Made from the best Mauzac grapes, this wine is bright gold in colour with a regular flow of delicate bubbles. Aromas of spring flowers, apples and pears on the nose. The palate is harmonious, lively and soft, clean and well balanced. The wine's lightness and freshness makes it a perfect companion for drinks either before or throughout a meal.
90 % Mauzac, 5% Chardonnay, 5% Chenin
Concours Général Agricole de Paris
Gateau aux poires, tian d'oranges...
The history of the Antech wine company began more than six generations ago in Saint-Hilaire (near Carcassonne in the Aude département) where the Tisseyre-Limouzy families began to cultivate a vineyard which flourished over the years. In the beginning of the 20th century, Eugénie Limouzy became one of the first women in the Languedoc to manage a vineyard, relentlessly striving towards methods to improve vine growing. Françoise Antech-Gazeau joined her father and uncle in 1996 to take over the management of the Antech Estate. For over ten years, she has succeeded in the challenge of perpetuating the Antech style by focusing on demanding methods of production and creativity in design and packaging to ensure the future development of the company with the support of Georges and Roger. Wine making, tasting, assembling, sampling, marketing, commercial development, sharing of experience, and persuasion add up to their continual, long-term commitment. Sound agricultural methods, a strong dedication to sustainable development, and the improvement of cellar hygiene have been day-to-day practices of the Antech company, even before methods or rules were imposed by official authorities. From generation to generation, the Antech company has always given priority to a culture of excellence, rigourous methods, authenticity, and quality. Today, with over one million bottles sold in France and abroad, Antech follows constant innovation while the company respects tradition in order to bring together pleasure and fantasy. Under the company's logo of a Cathare chateau, the Antech family asserts its independence, its identity, and its tireless pursuit of excellence.


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Conduct of Public Hearings (100-RICR-10-00-4)
To establish a defined set of procedures for the Department of State for the conduct of Public Hearings regarding Proposed Rulemaking.
This regulation is promulgated pursuant to the authority granted in R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2(a)(4).
A.	For the Purpose of this regulation:
2.	"Member of the Public" means any individual, firm, business, corporation, association, partnership or other group.
3.	"Presiding Department Official" means the Department of State employee conducting the Public Hearing.
4.	"Public Hearing" means the convening of Members of the Public and agency personnel for the purpose of obtaining public comment on a Proposed Rulemaking.
5.	"Proposed Rulemaking" means a proposed new rule, proposed amendment to a rule or proposed repeal of a rule as noticed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2.7.
4.4	Procedure for Conduct of Public Hearings
A.	Convening of Public Hearing
1.	Public Hearings may be held at the election of the agency or as required pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2.8(c).
2.	Notice of Public Hearings shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 42-35-2.8 and 42-46-6, when applicable.
3.	The Public Hearing shall be held at a time and place designated by the Department.
B.	Transcription
1.	The Public Hearing shall be transcribed by a stenographer or audio recorded.
2.	For Public Hearings, any official transcript, recording, or memorandum summarizing presentations prepared by a Department official shall be made part of the rulemaking record in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2.3(b)(5).
C.	Testimony
1.	Oral Testimony
a.	Members of the public may make oral testimony during the meeting.
b.	Members of the public who wish to make oral testimony during the meeting must put their name on the speaker list.
c.	Members of the public will be called to testify in the order which their names appear on the speaker list.
2.	Written Testimony
a.	Written testimony must be submitted via e-mail, fax, hand delivery or regular mail to: Administrative Records Office, Division of State Archives, Library, and Public Information, Department of State, 82 Smith Street, Rm. 38, Providence, RI 02903.
D.	Disruptive Conduct
1. Members of the Public attending the Public Hearing shall not cause disruptions, including but not limited to: screaming, loud noises, and disorderly gesticulations, which interrupt or distract from the testimony of other Members of the Public or from the ability of the Presiding Department Official to conduct the Public Hearing.
Part 4 Conduct of Public Hearings (100-RICR-10-00-4)
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2(a)(4)
This rule is being adopted to comply with R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-2 which mandates that all agencies adopt a rule outlining for the public the manner in which public hearings concerning proposed rulemaking are conducted.


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IHG has now launched its Winter Sale for stays at participating hotels in the UK, Ireland, and Europe through December 31, 2023.
The discount is a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 25% off, and IHG One Rewards members save an additional 10%. You must book this offer by January 16.
You can access this offer on IHG's website here.
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Note that the discount is 10% to 25% off, and IHG One Rewards members get an additional 10% off. The rate is prepaid, non-cancelable, and nonrefundable.
You should only book this rate plan IF your plans are firm, as the payment is taken at the time of booking.
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The Winter Sale promotion (the "Promotion") is valid only for selected bookings made from 28 December 2022 to 16 January 2023 (both dates inclusive) (the "Booking Dates") for stays at participating IHG® branded hotels in the UK and Ireland and Europe until 31 December 2023 (the "Stay Dates") using the "Book Early and Save" or "Book Early and Save – IHG® Rewards Member Rate" during the Booking Dates.
The Promotion offers a discount at participating hotels of a minimum 10% off, and up to 25% off, the hotel's Best Flexible Rate, which is an unrestricted, non-qualified, non-discount rate. Members save an additional 10% off our Best Flexible Rate. Rates are per room, per night based on single or double occupancy and are subject to availability during the Stay Dates.
Bookings must be made at least five days in advance of arrival. The Book Early and Save rate is non-refundable, with full payment for the entire stay is due at time of booking. No changes or cancellations can be made. Please check at the time of your reservation to be sure you are booking the most suitable rate for your travel needs.
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Bookings made through IHG Brand websites, IHG App, CRO or directly at hotel qualify for IHG One Rewards points. Standard IHG® One Rewards program terms and conditions apply. Visit https://www.ihg.com/onerewards/ for details. IHG reserves the right to remove a member's points or cancel a member's account if fraudulent use of the Promotion is detected.
In-room dining purchases, minibar purchases, private dining and other hotel incurred charges are excluded from the discount. City taxes may apply in some cities. Credit card guarantee is required to make a booking. The Promotion is not applicable to group bookings. Unused components do not have a cash value and are non-refundable. The Promotion is not valid in conjunction with any other offer, discount or promotion. Rates are subject to availability with a limited number of rooms at participating hotels available for this Promotion. Blackout dates (days when the offers are not available) may apply in some participating hotels. Final bill will be in hotel's local currency.
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Characters, Male characters, Season 3 characters,
Andrew Mittal
Status: Deceased
Actor: Raza Jaffrey
First Appearance: "Enough Nemesis To Go Around"
Last Appearance: "Hemlock"
Family: Santhosh Mittal (father), Doug (brother)
It's not how I wanted to meet you.
— Andrew to Sherlock, "Just a Regular Irregular".
Andrew Mittal was Joan Watson's ex-boyfriend. He was a software engineer who lived in Watson's building.
Watson meets Andrew when he was living in his brother's apartment near to Watson's apartment. He misplaced his brother's lizard which Watson helped him find. He asks how he can repay her and she gives him her business card and leaves for a meeting. ("Enough Nemesis To Go Around") Andrew meets Holmes at Watson's as he is coming out of the bathroom with no pants on. Holmes comments that Watson appears adequately sexed by him. ("Just a Regular Irregular")
I swear I usually wear pants.
When investigating an AI case, Holmes asks for Andrew's help which puts him in contact with many intelligent people with computer skills. Watson thinks Holmes is trying to find out about Andrew but he claims innocence. This puts Andrew in contact with a future business partner that requires him to spend significant time in Denmark, much to Watson's disappointment. However, she surprises him by flying to Denmark with him to spend the first few days of his trip there with him. ("Bella") When Andrew returns from Denmark, Watson has dinner with Andrew and his father, Santhosh, which goes perfectly but makes her realize that she doesn't want a conventional relationship. Days later, she invites Andrew to a coffee shop to break up with him. Andrew drinks a latte, meant for Watson, that was poisoned with hemlock by an assassin hired by Elana Marsh and dies. ("Hemlock")
You're remarkable.
Andrew's death.
IMDb incorrectly lists the character name as Andrew Paek.
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But the call never came. I suppose we all believe that if we do good work people at the top will notice, but it takes much more to really make it to the top – grit, tenacity, passion, willingness to put it all on the line – which are traits which are actually less likely to be found in the privileged ivy covered settings of our top universities. Few of the people who make it to the very top went to Ivy League schools. They were not given their positions. They worked for them and usually got there through the path less traveled.
In a way, I suppose Einat and I are exceptions. We went to Ivy League schools, were at the top of our classes, and worked at McKinsey before heading out to riskier endeavors in entrepreneurship and politics. However, for us, school never really ingrained a sense of entitlement. It was a place to let our intellectual curiosity run wild. To learn everything and anything surrounded by brilliant and fascinating people. At Princeton, I studied everything – molecular biology, the Roman Empire, Slavic literature, multivariable calculus, European politics, the Peloponnesian War, psychology, sociology and much more. It was brilliant and I learned to learn, but that was all it was.
As for McKinsey, it is an amazing place with the smartest people I have ever met where we solve interesting problems and meet Fortune 50 CEOs from an amazingly young age. However, we never saw it for more than it was: a place to learn oral and written presentation skills, teamwork and strategic and analytical thinking. It was essentially business school, except they pay you 🙂 It was a stepping stone on the way to realizing our ambitions and dreams.


The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek is not intended for beginner-level Greek learners, but as clearly stated in the introduction, for second-year or beyond Greek students. The book basically lays out "handy" charts for grammatical and usage references, i.e. syntax, conjugation, phrase diagramming, etc.
Huffman has composed a basic but accessible reference book that would be a great accompaniment to a full-sized textbook, but I think it would also be a useful tool for anyone studying Greek whether in school or out. I found his inclusion of a Select Bibliography in Greek studies particular helpful in finding other works that could be used alongside the handbook.
There's very little that separates chapters and sections. The entire book is printed in orange and black. So if you're hoping to quickly turn to and recognize a section that you're studying, you'll have to first take the time to look in the table of contents and find the page number.
It seems to me if a press was going to take the resources to print in color, it could have changed up the colors for each section. Tabs would have been a useful addition too, and maybe even a spiral binding so that the book can sit open flat in the section that you're studying. For an example of a great pocket style grammar manual (English not Greek) see Diana Hacker's "A Pocket Style Manual".
Also, I didn't really see the logic in the organization within the three main sections. Why go from nouns, to adjectives, to adverbs, to articles, to pronouns, to prepositions, to verbs? It seems a little more logical to group parts of speech in the sense that they affect one another, for example adverbs affect verbs but they're several pages away from one another.
Overall, I think this was a great first edition, but I'd love to see a little better approachability in future editions. There's not much here that makes it a "quick" reference, just a lighter reference than carrying around a textbook.
The publisher provided a copy of this text in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.


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LUTRONIC® ANNOUNCES THE NEW GOLD HANDPIECE FOR SPECTRA; EXPANDING THE IMPRESSIVE TREATMENT OPTIONS EVEN FURTHER
July 01, 2014 — Fremont, California
Lutronic, a global leader of lasers and therapeutic devices for aesthetic and medical applications, announced today that the new Gold Handpiece for SPECTRA is now available in the United States, expanding the already robust workhorse to even more clinical applications. "The gold 585 nm handpiece now available on the Spectra Q-switched laser, has proven to significantly reduce the purplish-red color from acne lesions in studies conducted both at our clinic and international sites. We've found the color to be actually more distressing than the acne itself, to many of our patients." Stated Dr. Gilly Munavalli, Medical Director and Founder of Dermatology Laser and Vein Specialists, "It's great to finally have a no-downtime, painless treatment to resolve this issue that can occur during acne outbreaks and typically persists for many months after active acne has resolved. The gold handpiece has proven very beneficial for our patients and our practice."
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'Alarming Number' of Recent Fatal Drug Overdoses in Montana Linked to Fentanyl
Illicit fentanyl-laced pills and other narcotics are displayed by law enforcement in a file photo. (Scottsdale PD)
June 8, 2022Updated: June 8, 2022
Health officials in Montana said there were at least eight fatal drug overdoses between May 22 and June 1 in the state, blaming them all on fentanyl and calling the recent trend an "alarming number of fatal overdoses."
Officials found blue M30 pills near those who died, which they said are likely counterfeit pills that contain the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The drug, which is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of fatal overdoses across the United States in recent years.
"Counterfeit pills containing fentanyl are becoming increasingly common nationally, and in Montana are taken by people who misuse diverted prescription opioids as well as those who inject, smoke, or snort drugs," the state's Department of Health said on June 7.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said the increase in likely fentanyl overdoses can be attributed to drugs being transported across the U.S.–Mexico border.
"These tragic events serve as another reminder of the deadly consequences of illegal drugs funneled across our nation's porous and insecure southern border," Gianforte, a Republican, said in a statement. "In Montana, we remain focused on getting drugs off the street, holding drug dealers accountable, increasing treatment options, and ultimately, saving lives."
Montana recorded 87 fentanyl-related deaths in 2021, which is more than double that of the 41 fentanyl-related deaths the previous year, officials said.
In the first three months of this year, state law enforcement officials have confiscated more fentanyl than during the previous four years combined, the statement said.
"The Department of Justice is working to get fentanyl off the streets and continuing to track the crisis closely," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said. "Please, do not take pills that were not prescribed to you and talk to your children about the extreme risk associated with opioids and drug abuse."
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed at the office of the New York Attorney General in New York City on Sept. 23, 2016. (Drew Angerer/file/Getty Images)
In May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released provisional data suggesting that 106,700 people died from drug overdoses last year, setting a U.S. record. Overdose deaths also surged 15 percent from 2020 to 2021, the agency said.
The CDC's report stated that data suggests fentanyl, the precursors for which are often manufactured in mainland China and shipped across the border, was connected to the most overdose deaths in 2021, at 71,238. Methamphetamine was linked to 32,856 overdose deaths, cocaine to 24,538 deaths, and prescription painkillers were connected to 13,503 deaths.
While some experts have noted that overdoses have been increasing nearly every single year for decades, fentanyl—which is often illegally transported into the United States via Mexican cartels—has triggered a recent spike in deaths.
"The DEA is seeing a nationwide spike in fentanyl-related mass-overdose events involving three or more overdoses occurring close in time at the same location," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a March report. "In just the past two months, there have been at least 7 confirmed mass overdose events across the United States resulting in 58 overdoses and 29 overdose deaths.
"Many of the victims of these mass overdose events thought they were ingesting cocaine and had no idea that they were in fact ingesting fentanyl."


One thing that is becoming increasingly clear in the battle for the Republican nomination is that Donald Trump will need to have enough delegates on the first round by the time he gets to the GOP convention in Cleveland in July.
If he fails to have reached the magic threshold 1,237 then all the media talk is of efforts being made at the convention to stop him being the party's nominee.
In this context the winner takes all primaries are absolutely central and the next one is on Tuesday in Wisconsin when 42 delegates are at stake.
The polling there has become very very tight with the current RCP average showing a small lead to Cruz.
One indicator how the race is going is the rush of money on Senate Speaker and 2012 VP nominee, Paul Ryan, for the nomination on Betfair. He has what could be a crucial role at the convention and is being talked up as a potential nominee although he has not entered any of the primaries.
Back in November the leading US pollster, Stan Greenberg, tipped Ryan as a possible nominee in one of the PB/Polling Matters podcasts if it went to the convention. Ryan's odds then were 150/1 and longer.


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Adam J. Elias, Esq.
Daniel F. Gonzalez, Esq.
Email: DFG@eliasandgonzalez.com
Mr. Gonzalez has more than twelve years of experience practicing exclusively criminal defense. He completed his undergraduate studies in Law and Justice at the College of New Jersey and received his Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Gonzalez served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Dennis V. Nieves J.S.C., in Middlesex County Superior Court. Thereafter, Mr. Gonzalez worked as a staff attorney for the Middlesex County Public Defender's Office, where he gained a tremendous amount of courtroom experience handling a high volume of criminal cases.
Mr. Gonzalez has defended those accused with nearly every type of criminal charge from investigation to trial verdict. He has attained positive results for countless clients, including many not guilty verdicts, pre-trial motion success and pre-indictment investigation of matters that resulted in clients never being charged. Mr. Gonzalez is well known in courts throughout the State of New Jersey and is respected by both judges and his colleagues. Mr. Gonzalez has dedicated his career to defend those accused of crimes. He is a zealous advocate who aggressively represents his clients and strives to protect the constitutional rights of all defendants, no matter how big or small their case is.
Criminal law is an area that is constantly developing and changing. Mr. Gonzalez prides himself on staying up to date on those new developments and employs an innovative approach in defending those that are accused with criminal offenses. Whether it is negotiating a positive resolution or picking a jury and going to trial, Mr. Gonzalez does so with attention to detail and due diligence. Should you or a family member be charged with a crime, Mr. Gonzalez will ensure that your rights are protected and will fight for your freedom.
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Bishop Hannan breaks ground for the I.H.M. Novitiate Building.
A Language Laboratory is installed in Liberal Arts building.
A Mezzanine Floor is constructed in the Library, housed in the Liberal Arts building. Extending above the main floor, twenty feet wide on each side and five feet wide above the entrance, it doubles seating capacity and adds shelves for nearly ten thousand volumes.
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) approves Marywood for teacher training.
Sister M. St. Anthony Radzikowski, I.H.M., gives an address before the Inorganic Chemistry section of the American Chemical Society in New York City.
The Marywood Players stage a production of The Glass Menagerie.
The Department of Natural Sciences receives a $9,500 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission to purchase equipment for a nuclear laboratory.
By this time, Russian courses have been added to the curriculum of the Modern Foreign Languages Department.
Marywood receives the Edgar J. Schmiedler award at the National Catholic Family Life Convention for its six-year sponsorship of the Family Life Lecture series; only three of the nearly three hundred participating colleges are so honored.
Marywood is represented for the first time at the University Women's Forum in New York City, sponsored by fifty-two colleges and university groups and the New York Branch of the American Association of University Women.
Marywood advances from associate to permanent membership in the American Association of University Women.
Two-credit courses are gradually replaced by three-credit offerings, and the core curriculum requires twelve hours of both Religion and Philosophy.
Author Vance Packard speaks on campus.
Poet Sean O'Faolain speaks on campus.
Educator Clarence Walton, Senator Thomas Dodd, and Marietta Tree first woman ambassador to the United Nations share their diverse experiences from the lecture podium.
Goldovsky's Grand Opera presents Mozart's Don Giovanni at Marywood.
The Tamburitzans of Duquesne University offer an evening of Slavic and East European music and dance.
The Catholic University players perform The Merchant of Venice.
The Reverend Gustave Weigel, S.J., discusses "The Significance of Vatican II."
The Reverend Thurston Davis, S.J., analyzes "The Dilemma of Hope and Despair."
Three Marywood faculty members, the Reverend William Pakutka and Donald Inverso of the Philosophy Department, and Ronald Terranella of the English Department, fill the Nazareth Hall Blue Lounge to overflowing with a symposium on the topic "God is Dead."
A dual major in Mathematics and Physics is established, as is a Mathematics program in cooperation with the Business Department.
The Mathematics Department adds the following undergraduate courses to the curriculum: Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics.
The Mathematics Department receives a National Science Grant to provide continuing education courses in Mathematics for high school teachers.
The Religion Department adds its first full-time lay teacher, John Zaums, who later becomes its first lay chairperson.
On the terrace floor of the Liberal Arts building, a coffee shop opens, as well as a bookstore managed by Helen Vanson. Also installed are a duplicating room; secondary, elementary, and developmental reading laboratories; and a photography darkroom.
The Modern Foreign Languages Department gains a fully equipped language laboratory in the Liberal Arts building.
The Delta Delta chapter of Alpha Gamma Mu, the honor society for Foreign Language students, is organized.
Students have the opportunity to qualify for membership in two schoolwide honor societies: Kappa Gamma Pi, the national honor society for students at women's colleges, and Delta Epsilon Sigma, the national scholastic honor society for students of Catholic colleges and universities.
The Classics Forum develops at Marywood, fostering appreciation of the Graeco-Roman heritage.
The Slavic Club forms and sponsors an annual dinner of traditional ethnic foods.
The Semi Group is initiated for students of Mathematics.
A Day Student Committee is organized, representing and regulating commuting students as the House Committee does for residents.
A chapter of the International Conference on Government is inaugurated, fostering instruction in parliamentary procedures.
The Ushers' Club is established, providing Marywood with a gracious and efficient corps of young women, clad in black caps and gowns and white gloves, who greet and seat audiences at formal campus events. Admission to the Ushers' Club is limited to forty, and new members enter only by the invitation of an outgoing senior.
The Marywood Players take Forty-five Minutes from Broadway on tour, presenting it before thirty-six audiences over a period of four months.


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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Hard to Close
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 978-0374214913
* * * ½
If Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore were a mall movie, the poster tag line and review pull out quotes might include: "Bound Books-Meet e-Books," "Nostalgia in a Steel-cage Death Match with Innovation," "The Luddites Battle the Techies," "Utopia Takes a Holiday," or "Vanity Versus Basic Biology." I'd label it "The Da Vinci Code for Geeks," and my one-line assessment is that it's an engaging page-turner that should not be confused with great literature. It may be my favorite "guilty pleasure" of 2012.
Our protagonist is Clay Jannon, a guy in his twenties who may be too bright and too clever for his own good. He's a quick study for just about everything that doesn't involve deep human interaction: computer hacking, design work, typography, detective work, electronic systems, cryptology…. His intellect has made him mildly jaded. He's a dilettante with pronounced slacker tendencies who has done very little with his talents beyond designing Websites for concept bagel emporiums that go under at the drop of a sesame seed, whilst buddies from his college days raked in cash from high tech ventures as profound as hardware development and as banal as making superb boob-simulation software! Faced with the need to pay his share of the rent in the San Francisco digs he shares with two other people, Clay takes a job at a shop whose name intrigues him: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
This is no ordinary bookstore. Clay works the graveyard shift and seldom sees a paying customer. He does, however, encounter numerous "members" who borrow ornately bound books shelved in high stacks. They come and go quickly and Penumbra gives Clay the odd charge of writing down their member number in a massive logbook along with everything he observes about them. He's also told not to snoop among the reserved stacks, remove anything from the store, or investigate any of the logbooks. Can you say "Pandora's Box?" As Clay grows more and more curious (and bold), he adds some coconspirators: college friends/entrepreneurs, a roommate, and Kat Potente, a gorgeous high flier who works for Google. Her name means "powerful" (aka/potent) in Spanish, German, and Italian, and is a synonym for "stiff" in the latter language. Kat is both strong and stiff, but before long Clay is in love (or is it lust?) with her. She seems to reciprocate, though it's very clear that she loves Google more than anything or anybody.
The book's central mystery is straight out of Dan Brown by way of National Treasure. To say too much would be a spoiler, so let me tantalize you by asking you to think of a secret code, a possible search for immortality, a bicoastal caper, and what it might be like if your favorite book group consisted of a bunch of Rosicrucian wannabes. Got that? Of course you don't! It's the job of Clay and his team to make sense (or not) of all of this. Like a Dan Brown novel–also guilty pleasures–or a Nick Cage National Treasure film–way too banal to suppress my guilt instincts–Robin Sloan's novel relies on too many coincidences and sudden flashes of insight about amazingly arcane things to be plausible. It also depends on technology that doesn't actually exist yet and levels of secrecy unlikely in the age of, well, Google. But, as good mysteries do, Sloan's pacing and setups are such that you are willing to suspend disbelief to see how things resolve. If you can get past the fact that Sloan's prose is occasionally turgid and the narrative structure is frequently contrived, Sloan has a fascinating yarn to spin. You also have to give him credit–it's not everyone who can fashion a novel loosely based on the life of Aldus Mantius (1449-1515), the late medieval printer who developed a favored form of slanted italicized type (with the help of punch cutter Francesco Griffo), the semicolon, and standardized punctuation. (If you think that's no big deal, try deciphering a pre-punctuation Latin manuscript!)
Sloan used to work for Twitter; hence he has at least passing familiarity with some of the issues he raises in his novel, including what constitutes a "cult." Google comes across as an amazing innovation incubator, but are its devotees any less scary than robed cultists from the past? Other conundrums are raised. Does the digital future portend a kind of salvation, or the rise of new slave masters? Will that future destroy the past, or will that which survives be the only hope of a better future? What does tomorrow hold for art? Will technology bring eternal life, or death of the soul? (If tech-based immortality seems preposterous to you, check out inventor/futurologist Ray Kurzweil's belief in the "technological singularity.")
These are interesting and important questions, but don't expect Sloan to resolve them in any substantive way. In the end, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore isn't much more than pulp fiction for the Millennial Generation. In fact, it's the sort of book that's probably going to look very dated in about five years. All the more reason to read it now! It's a quick, breezy read that's a bit like hot air-popped popcorn: filling without being bad for you. Go ahead; indulge and damn the guilt! --Rob Weir
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Not Fade Away Needs a Decent Script
NOT FADE AWAY (2012)
Directed and Written by David Chase
Paramount, 112 minutes, R (brief nudity, language)
Not Fade Away has thrilled some critics and chilled others. Most viewers are likely to experience it as a classic 3 of 5 stars movie. Grade it C, an A for ideas, music, and class awareness and an F for scriptwriting.
The setting is New Jersey in the 1960s, specifically the time period in which grief over President Kennedy's assassination inexorably gave way to the giddiness of the early British Invasion. It was, of course, also the time in which the first wave of Baby Boomers came of age, discovered the Generation Gap, and began to articulate value systems quite different from those of their parents. The protagonist of our story is nerdy, pimply Doug (John Magaro), a working-class kid with very little luck with girls but one helluva record collection of black R & B records, a drum set he's learning to play, and an emerging perception that his town is too small for him. His companions are just like him–guys with not-so-bright prospects, wild ideas, and an abiding love of the new music they're hearing. Doug's best friend, Eugene (Jack Huston), plays pretty good guitar and fancies himself a vocalist, though he's really a copycat channeling others. Before long, a musical dream begins to play out in the basement of a down-market small town. We watch Doug morph into a guy who looks like Dylan, dresses like Dylan, sings like Dylan, and writes songs like Dylan. The open question is how far talent can take the band, and part of that answer depends on whether it can stay together, or if some of the band members even want the fame, travel, and spotlight they claim they desire.
I enjoyed the class dynamics of this film. At times I was reminded so much of my own teen years in a blue-collar Pennsylvania town that it's as if I knew some of the people populating the film. I certainly recognized the tension between those chomping at the bit to leave, those content to be the big fish in a poi pond, and those whose deficiencies (intellectual, monetary, imaginative) cemented them in place. Blue-collar dreams are not often presented in American movies and director/writer David Chase hits a lot of correct notes, including the manner in which wage earners often held stereotypical views of the middle class. Doug's "unobtainable" desire is Grace Dietz (Bella Heathcote), the younger daughter of pretentious parents who only appear to be high on the totem when viewed from the bottom. Certainly Doug's working-class stiff father, Pat (James Gandolfini), sees them that way. Like lots of dads during the era, his ideal scenario for Doug is a bit of college, some ROTC training, and then home to earn a paycheck. We all know what Vietnam did to that sort of dream.
Not Fade Away captures the look of blue-collar life–the crowded ranch houses, the Formica counters, TV trays, the faux wood paneling…. You can almost smell the mold in the shag carpeting. It also has a killer soundtrack–iconic blues, 50s skiffle, pop hits from the 60s, and some pretty nice original stuff. Alas, this is where the good ends and the bad begins. Chase may or may not be a good director, but he's not much of a writer. There's more enigma in his script than in the average Dylan song. Chase was born in 1945 and is clearly enamored to the music and culture of his youth. Alas, he tries to jam in everything. What we get isn't the 1960s so much as cartoon and poster images of it–a JFK image here, a Rolling Stones concert snippet there, dropped references to civil rights, oblique mentions of Vietnam…. His episodic cameos are like his blue-collar interiors: all surfaces. Chase is certainly correct to present small town America as a place where the 60s came in through the backdoor, but his skip-the-stone approach leaves us with characters that change for no apparent reason.
A stronger cast would have helped. Gandolfini–who is always good–is the closest thing to a "star" in this lineup. A small film such as Beasts of the Southern Wild can shine with no-name actors–of the right quality. John Magaro is very good and Jack Huston–John Huston's grandson–is competent. The rest, not so much. It's hard to judge whether the actresses are any good or not, as Chase's script is abysmal in the area of gender. Women simply appear in the film; they have no character or depth. Molly Price plays Doug's mother as if she's a mash of every imaginable stereotype of dowdy Italian mothers. Dominique McElligott appears as Grace's trippy older sister, but we have no idea of why she, or Doug's sister Evelyn (Meg Guzulescu) are in the movie in the first place.
And then there's the contrived stuff that's as cheap as a Silvertone guitar. A corny prelude of a Paul McCartney stand-in meeting a John Lennon stand-in is supposed to prefigure the rivalry between Doug and Eugene. I think we're supposed to see Grace as a Yoko substitute, but that's one of many threads that flap untied in the breeze. We also get gratuitous "sightings" of rock gods, clichéd scenes such as Doug's vocal debut (A Star is Born), and set-ups that Western Union couldn't have telegraphed better. Later the film drifts to Los Angeles, though why an aspirant musician who lives a short train ride from Grand Central would go to LA isn't very clear. (Film school? Desire to be Jim Morrison? Access to orange groves?) And if you think that's unclear, explain to me (if you can) what happens to Grace the first night she's in LA.
When Not Fade Away is at its best, it's reminiscent of Diner meets The Commitments. When it's bad–which is frequently–it reminds you of how superior those films are to this one. Should you see it? Sure. But go to dance, not immerse yourself in transcendent filmmaking. --Rob Weir
Football Bowl Games We Probably Don't Need
The site of UMass's first bowl appearance.
I admit that I find football boring. I especially find college football to be a waste of money that could be put to much better use. TV would have you believe that college football is a big-time moneymaker. That's pure BS; fewer than two dozen NCAA schools take in more football revenue than they spend. Among those that do–Penn State comes to mind–it's an savory racket dominated by gamblers, grifter alums, and politicians willing to pay whatever it takes to bring glory to the gridiron, even at the expense of public safety, morality, and protecting children.
My own school, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently took the plunge and "upgraded" its football program to Bowl Championship Series level. Oh yeah, it also joined the Mid-America Conference, because everyone knows there's a natural rivalry between a university in western Massachusetts and those in central Michigan, northern Iowa, and Ohio's Rust Belt. Hundreds of fans poured into Foxboro Stadium to witness some of these matches. Another brilliant idea: play home games in Foxboro, 90 miles from the UMass campus. Needless to say, UMass lost millions of dollars in a season in which it went 1-11. It didn't get a bowl bid.
And to that I ask, why not? It's just not fair. Among the sillier things about college football is that you don't actually have to be any damn good to get a bowl bid. It's the every child is an honors child syndrome goes to college. In 2012, a dozen teams went to bowl games, even though they had 6-6 records. Half of them lost, thus finishing under .500 for the season. (Georgia Tech was 6-7 and still went to a bowl.) Another 11 were at 7-5 going into their bowl games. Of course, it's not about excellence any more; it's about corporate promotions. The old bowl names are out and the games are now just big advertisements for businesses whose commercials happen to feature gear-wearing shills. Is there any reason in the world not to add more bowls so that really bad teams like UMass can get a piece of the action? I scoured the bottom 25 teams for 2012, a list that includes UMass. (Team chant: "We're 17, we're 17!") Here are a few bowl games we need to have:
Three of the worst 25 are in Texas, where they do love their football and their guns. I propose the NRA Assault Rifle Bowl: Texas State vs. Texas-San Antonio.
How about Florida Atlantic vs. San Jose State in the iMaps Bowl in Bora Bora. Travel expenses will be minimal as neither school will be able to find the site.
Let's refight the Civil War with Buffalo vs. South Alabama in the Clint Eastwood Bowl. Just to make sure no one gets hurt, the teams will stay at home and scream at empty stadiums.
Akron is so shitty it managed to lose to UMass, which makes it a perfect match for Memphis in the Fake Dog Poop Bowl.
Louisiana generally ranks at the bottom of American education rankings and its Ozark neighbors are just a tick ahead of them. How about Louisiana-Monroe vs. Arkansas A & M in the Jello Brain Mold Bowl?
Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky are genetic naturals for the Spray-On Hair Bowl.
My own beloved UMass will take on Hofstra in the first Ty-D-Bol Bowl. Hofstra doesn't actually have a football squad any more, but some of those cocky frat boys on Long Island on the intramural flag football team have been running wind sprints and are bragging they'll take down the Minutemen. The over/under has Hofstra +10.
Finally, let's give PA Governor Tom Corbett his wish: Penn State gets to play a bowl game against Ball State in Chatham County, Georgia on the grounds of Bethesda Home for Boys, the nation's largest orphanage. And who better to sponsor it than Dick's?
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Blennerhassett
Blennerhassett distance to Martinsburg
How far is Blennerhassett from Martinsburg?
Shortest distance between Blennerhassett and Martinsburg is 196.25 miles (315.83 km).
Flight distance from Blennerhassett, WV to Martinsburg, WV is 196.25 miles. Estimated flight time is 00 hours 32 minutes.
It takes 00 hours 28 minutes to travel from Blennerhassett to Martinsburg with an airplane (average speed of 550 miles).
The driving distance from Blennerhassett, West Virginia to Martinsburg, West Virginia is: 265.13 miles (426.68 km) by car.
Driving from Blennerhassett to Martinsburg will take approximately 04 hours 17 minutes.
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Census-designated place in Wood County, West Virginia
#2 Martinsburg
City in West Virginia, United States
Starting point in Blennerhassett: Dupont Road (-81.629322,39.263652)
Ending point in Martinsburg: East King Street (-77.963854,39.456185)
Estimated Travel Time Between Blennerhassett and Martinsburg
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There is no time difference between Blennerhassett and Martinsburg. The current time is 03:11:24.
A car with a fuel efficiency of 8.3 l/100 km will need 35.41 liters (9.36 gallon) of gas to cover the route between Blennerhassett and Martinsburg.
The estimated cost of gas to go from Blennerhassett to Martinsburg is $30.83 (diesel $34.21).
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Driving distance from Beckley, WV to Blennerhassett 141.17 miles (227 km)
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Clarksburg, WV
Driving distance from Clarksburg, WV to Blennerhassett 77.21 miles (124 km)
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Driving distance from Weirton, WV to Blennerhassett 132.61 miles (213 km)
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Santi Latora (b. 1936) was born in Palermo, Italy and was educated at the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini. Upon his graduation in 1953, he turned his focus to the then new electronic organ and began a freelance career as an organist and performer, particularly active on the Italian lounge and club scene. He collaborated with many leading Italian artists of the day including Mina, Franco Franchi, and Riccardo Rauchi. During this time, Latora was approached by the president of the Italian electronic organ maker Farfisa to become one of its primary musical consultants and demonstrators. In 1967, he left freelance performing to work primarily with Farfisa on its instruments. As an electronic organ recording artist, Latora produced more than 15 albums from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. As a composer, he published a number of original organ compositions.


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using Umbraco.Cms.Infrastructure.Persistence.Dtos;

namespace Umbraco.Cms.Infrastructure.Migrations.Upgrade.V_8_0_0;

[Obsolete("This is not used anymore and will be removed in Umbraco 13")]
public class TablesForScheduledPublishing : MigrationBase
{
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Lyme disease protection: No vaccine yet, but an antibody shot could soon provide a season of immunity
Ticks can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease. jwilkinson/iStock via Getty Images Plus
Mark Klempner, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States. Caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, it can lead to heart problems, meningitis or arthritis if left untreated. It is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that around 475,000 people likely contract the disease each year.
Scientists, doctors and ecologists have worked for decades to slow the spread of Lyme and the blacklegged, or deer, ticks that carry the disease-causing bacteria. However, the ticks' range continues to expand. Today, over 50% of the American population lives in an area where these ticks are found.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine against Lyme in 1998, but it was met by controversy and was pulled from the market three years later. Efforts continue today to create a human vaccine as well as to stop the spread of Lyme by other means, including using gene editing to immunize mice that can transmit the bacteria to ticks, killing deer and using pesticides to control ticks.
My colleagues and I have been working on a different kind of prevention: a yearly injection. I am an infectious diseases physician-scientist and have been studying and working toward preventing Lyme disease for much of my career. Our recent work on preventing Lyme disease has been conducted at University of Massachusetts Medical School's MassBiologics, the only nonprofit, FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines and biologics in the United States.
Our method, known as Lyme PrEP, delivers a single anti-Lyme antibody directly to a person rather than triggering the patient's own immune system to make many antibodies, as vaccines do. It is designed to be a seasonal shot that people can get once a year before tick season begins in April. We have published several peer-reviewed articles on this method, including on its success in mice and nonhuman primates.
In February 2021, we received approval from the FDA to proceed with the first human clinical trial of Lyme PrEP, and all of the volunteers in this trial have been enrolled and received the shot. Our goal for this study, also known as the phase 1 clinical trial, is to test the safety of the new medicine and determine how long it might stay in the bloodstream and prevent Lyme disease.
The preliminary results from the trial are very encouraging: They show that Lyme PrEP is safe and should be effective during the entire nine-month season when most people acquire Lyme disease.
A vaccine's cautionary tale
In 1998, the FDA approved a Lyme vaccine composed of protein antigens from the surface of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi.
A vaccine works by introducing proteins from the disease-causing agent into the body to trigger the body's immune response, which includes making antibodies against bacterial proteins. Antibodies have been used to prevent and treat infectious diseases for over a century. In the case of the Lyme vaccine, it can take many months for the body to build up the necessary level of immunity to prevent infection. It also means that some of the antibodies induced by the vaccine can have "off-target" effects, or side effects.
The Lyme vaccine, known as LYMErix, largely reduced infections but was withdrawn from the market after three years because of limitations and controversy.
LYMErix needed to be administered by multiple injections over a year before immunity developed. Uncertainty about the length of immunity from the vaccine also raised questions of whether a booster shot would be regularly needed. Further, publicity about side effects such as arthritis, reported by some who had been vaccinated, contributed to its decline in popularity.
Today, a French biotech company, in collaboration with Pfizer, is attempting to develop a Lyme vaccine; it is currently in clinical trials.
Unlike a vaccine, Lyme PrEP uses a single human antibody, or blood protein, to kill the bacteria in the tick's gut while the tick drinks its victim's blood, before the bacteria can get into the human host.
Through our research, we realized that just one of the antibodies that the human body developed after multiple injections of the LYMErix vaccine was sufficient to prevent infection. So we identified which antibody led to immunity and tested it in animals, where it proved 100% effective.
Lyme PrEP is an antibody shot. Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images
These animal studies show Lyme PrEP gives protection immediately upon injection as it circulates through the blood. Unlike a vaccine, which induces many antibodies that may not contribute to protection but can cause side effects, this approach uses a single, defined antibody, thus reducing the risk of side effects.
Initial tests of a single injection of Lyme PrEP protected mice for several weeks.
Humans, however, need to be protected longer, likely for the approximately nine-month season when over 90% of cases occur. So far our phase 1 trial indicates that the shot will give protection for the necessary amount of time, but we will have to confirm that during the later phases of the clinical trials.
For the phase 1 trial we wanted to avoid testing the Lyme PrEP antibody on volunteers who may have already been exposed to the Lyme bacteria and have developed responses that could confuse the results. For that reason, initial testing took place in Nebraska in volunteers who have not been exposed to Lyme disease.
The next two phases of the clinical trial will test for safety and efficacy. We hope to complete these larger studies in late 2022. If all goes well, Lyme PrEP could become available to the public in 2023 or 2024.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on June 4, 2020.
Mark Klempner, Professor of Medicine and Executive Vice Chancellor for MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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I for Burl Ives
AGED: 85 yrs from oral cancer
Married: Twice
"Silver and Gold, Silver and Gold...." Mr. Snowman himself from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. I have his Christmas album with these songs on it. Great Folk Singer who sang "Blue-Tailed Fly". Was brought to the House Un-American Activity trials and he spoke which did cause a rift between him and Pete Seeger-terrible, terrible, times. Under-rated actor who worked in Film, Theatre and TV. A rotund sweet man.
OSCAR: The Big Country
FILMS: East of Eden, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Brass Bottle
Frankie Miller April 10, 2014 at 7:15 AM
Yes, Burl Ives was under-rated as an actor, Birgit.
Sorry I missed the Katherine Hepburn blog. She was a really great star.
I'm enjoying these memories.
Birgit April 10, 2014 at 8:35 PM
I always felt he was cute and wanted to hug him
Stephanie Faris April 10, 2014 at 7:17 AM
Yes, I know him best from Rudolph. His legacy will live on for centuries because of those movies.
His Snowman lives on and on as does his singing and his acting
Julie Flanders April 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM
His Holly Jolly Christmas is my favorite Christmas song. Loved it as a kid and still love it now. :)
I love that song along with Silver and Gold
Kevyn Knox April 10, 2014 at 11:15 AM
I grew up with Burl Ives the Snowman, and I still consider Holly Jolly Christmas to be one of my favourite Christmas songs, but once I grew up, I discovered Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and damn, that Burl could act!
See ya 'round the web. All Things Kevyn.
Yes he could act-My favourite is The Big Country and I think he almost upstages Gregory Peck
Donna Sexton April 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM
In addition to Rudolph, my parents owned one of his folk albums that I played constantly (aged 8 or 9). Great memories. Donna's New Day
He had such a soft warm and embracing voice, how can one not like him
Su-sieee! Mac April 10, 2014 at 2:05 PM
I liked him the best in Summer Magic with Haley Mills. He sang a cute song called "The Ugly Bug Ball." To this day when I come across Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on TV, I am surprised that is Burl Ives playing such an ugly character. He was good.
I never heard of that song but have to try to find it now. I know he seems so mean in that film and I think of him as the cuddly Snowman
Alex J. Cavanaugh April 10, 2014 at 7:46 PM
His voice was one of the best things about Rudolph. The snowman even looked like him.
It does-that's what I love...I have to try to find that snowman
Liz Blocker April 10, 2014 at 8:41 PM
I didn't know he was brought before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee...but then, I suppose, who wasn't? Sigh. He WAS a sweet, jovial man!
He was and that time in life was full of fear and could cripple people's lives. I can not blame a person if they took the stand and spoke. He did not want to go but, like so many, wasn't really given a choice
Visiting from A/Z; cute theme you have going for A/Z. I do remember watching Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Burl Ives voice with it.
Good luck with the rest of the challenge!
I still watch it every year
JosephAlsarraf April 11, 2014 at 2:18 AM
Oh cool, one of my favorite sing-alongs! I didn't know who sang that song. Thanks for sharing! : )
he has such a wonderful voice and I love Blue tailed Fly now hum a few bars.."Silver and Gold...Silver and Gold...
Sharon Himsl April 11, 2014 at 2:10 PM
Oh, boy....could he ever sing. He made me want to curl up in his lap :)
Shells–Tales–Sails
Yes and I wish I could have when I was a kid
C.D. Gallant-King April 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM
Oh man, I didn't realize he looked exactly like the snowman...
Yes and I love it that's why I want to have a snowman that looks like him
Peanut April 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM
My grandmother had his Mother Goose Songs record...that's my earliest recollection and my intro to his songs. Seems like a lifetime ago.
xxx Asha
Z for Vera Zorina
Y for Loretta Young
X for Francis X Bushman-Yup a Little cheat
I still made some cards!
W is for John Wayne
V for Rudolph Valentino
U is for Peter Ustinov
T is for Spencer Tracy
S for James Stewart
R for Rosalind Russell
Q for Anthony Quinn
P for William Powell
O for Merle Oberon
N for David Niven
M for James Mason
L for Vivien Leigh
K for Gene Kelly
J for Van Johnson
H for Katherine Hepburn
G for Cary Grant
F for Errol Flynn
One for the Boys
E for Nelson Eddy
D for Marlene Dietrich
C for Ronald Colman
B for Louise Brooks
A-Fred Astaire


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"The only thing I feel like I know is that I want to make things"
Martin Creed is an artist best known for turning the lights on and off. Winning the Turner Prize (the most prestigious art award in the UK) in 2001 for an installation that consisted only of that action, his conceptual art practice has been ridiculed by sectors of the media but nevertheless left him a hugely significant and well-regarded contemporary artist with a prominent national and international profile within the art world.
Creed's work takes everyday objects, throwaway materials and playful subversions of familiar spaces and asks its viewers to divine meaning through the experience of their viewing. In doing so he raises questions about the material requirements of art and the hang-ups of skill, effort and training that dictate how we judge quality. Although rejecting the label of conceptual art, his work is deeply invested in the notion that art is, and indeed should be present all around us, requiring only attention. This leads to installations, music, performance and objects that are playful and often amusing in their subversive call to reconsider what art is, what it does, and who it is for.
Creed's work is grounded in the everyday and mundane, made strange by the frame they are placed within. He does so by using familiar objects, materials, or actions in unusual ways, such as structuring them around a rhythm or adhering to tight rules. This has included arranging objects by size, height or volume to create sculptural installations, or creating paintings by marking canvases with the strokes of different sizes of household brushes. Creed's actions as an artist makes his audience reconsider the world around them by reappraising the familiar, foregrounding the unacknowledged beauty that exists in the everyday.
Creed's work often includes humor, prankishness and/or direct challenges to notions of value, worth and skill. His artworks are conceptually sophisticated but almost deliberately invite the response 'but I could have done that'. This has caused his work to be ridiculed and condemned as a 'con', but that reaction too forms part of its impact. Implicit in this is a challenge to the art market, the international gallery system, and perhaps capitalism itself, where a simple action or everyday object can have its value hugely increased by its framing as an art object.
Although best known as a visual artist, Creed is also a musician, and ideas of musical rhythm and notation appear throughout all his practice. Scores and notation structure and dictate the experience of his work, with incremental progressions particularly common, as in the graphic patterns of his paintings or in his reimaging of the Scotsman Staircase in Edinburgh, Work no.1059.
Since his Turner Prize win, Creed has created a series of large public pieces, several of which are now highly regarded as monuments to civic or institutional pride (such as the steps, or his neon installation at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art). Despite its media characterisation as impenetrable or elitist, Creed's work has great popular appeal, confirming his egalitarian approach to the making and viewing of art.
Creed was born in Wakefield, England in 1968 before moving to Scotland at three, where his father (an ironmonger) lectured on glassmaking and jewellery at the Glasgow School of Art. Creed grew up in a musical as well as artistic family. His grandmother was a concert pianist, and Creed began to learn to play the violin at four and the piano at twelve. As he remembers, "I was taught as a child the most important things were music and art." These two forms would later be combined throughout his own artistic work.
The work comprises a crumpled piece of paper, tightly packed into a ball. It is presented in a cardboard box, surrounded by shredded paper packaging, also designed by Creed.
The instructions for Work 200: Half the Air In A Given Space are as follows: "Calculate the volume of the space. Using air, blow up white 12in balloons until they occupy half the volume of the space. As usual the space should be full of air, but half of it should be inside balloons...". As work that is different each time it is displayed, it has no permanent dimensions or appearance.
Work No. 227: The lights going on and off comprises an empty room, which is alternately lit for five seconds and in darkness for five seconds - a pattern that repeats ad infinitum. The work uses the existing light fittings and interior space of the gallery it is installed within rather than any external equipment. As such it is created out of the ordinary and everyday mechanisms we interact with, perhaps confounding the viewer's expectations as to the nature of the installation.
The phrase "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT" in large neon letters was designed to fit the length of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's facade, and installed there to mark its 50th anniversary in 2009. The installation has since become part of the Gallery's identity, regularly photographed by visitors and used in publicity shots. Other versions of the work exist, including variants in Times Square in New York and at the Rennie Museum in Vancouver.
This work is made up of five thick strokes of dark red acrylic paint, the bottom stroke spanning the width of the canvas and each subsequent stroke reducing in height and width. The overall effect is reminiscent of a stepped pyramid or ziggurat, with the rest of the white ground on the canvas left exposed. Work 1105 is one of a series of paintings in this style, which the artist began in 2006. They were made shortly after the artist's return to painting, after he became disillusioned by the medium in his years as an art student. They do however continue to correspond to Creed's minimalist practice and ambiguous relationship to skill and artistic convention. The paintings resist any representational analysis, echoing the experiential minimalism of painters like Mark Rothko.
This work constitutes Creed's restoration of the Scotsman Steps in Edinburgh. The steps were formerly in a poor state of repair but remained an important historic part of the cityscape. Creed was commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery to create a public artwork to change the public's perception of the steps and to bring art into their daily lives. In response to this commission the artist clad each of the 104 steps in a different kind of marble. This was potentially inspired by Italian techniques, as Creed currently lives on Alicudi island near Sicily and Scotland has an enduring history of Italian immigration. The idea follows Creed's 2010 solo exhibition "Down Over Up", which brought together various works inspired by progressions by degree - whether this be size, musical pitch or tone. It took two years of architectural engineering and complex stonework to plan and deliver the installation.


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News & Opinion | October 20, 2020 11:07 am
Danish Submarine Murderer Peter Madsen Uses Bomb Threat in Prison Break
Madsen, who is serving a life sentence for the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, was captured
A police marksman and his dog observe convicted killer Peter Madsen threatening police with a bomb.
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By Evan Bleier @itishowitis
In a story that sounds like it came out of Hollywood, the Danish inventor who was sent to prison after being convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine briefly escaped from confinement after taking a hostage and possibly threatening authorities with a bomb.
Peter Madsen, who was convicted of the 2017 killing of Kim Wall, escaped from the Herstedvester Prison near Copenhagen after taking a staff member hostage with what appeared to be a gun. After making it outside the facility, Madsen was reportedly wearing a belt-like device around his waist, leading to members of the bomb squad responding to the scene.
Madsen did not get far and was caught about 430 yards away from the prison as he tried to flee on Tuesday morning, according to Western Copenhagen police.
BREAKING – Alleged submarine killer Peter Madsen: Danish police apprehend prisoner after an attempted escape.https://t.co/Db8K6DQyVA
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) October 20, 2020
Convicted murderer Peter Madsen, who killed journalist Kim Wall in 2017 on board his submarine, has been surrounded by police and arrested after trying to escape from prison.
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— SkyNews (@SkyNews) October 20, 2020
Madsen, 49, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Wall in 2018. The year before, he lured the 30-year-old reporter aboard his UC3 Nautilus submarine with the promise of an interview for a story. He was also found guilty of sexual assault and the defilement of a corpse for dismembering Wall's body and dumping it in the Baltic Sea.
"Kim wanted to give a voice to people who didn't have one," Joachim Wall, her father, said in a recent interview with The New York Times. "She was always looking for the story behind the story."
Disruptive Airline Passengers Now Face Potential $35K Fines and Prison
One of the Biggest Mafia Trials in History Kicks Off Today in Italy
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Robert Downey Jr. Pardoned for '90s Drug Conviction
ReutersDecember 24, 2015
California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday pardoned actor Robert Downey Jr for drug and weapon offenses from the 1990s, following a request for clemency, according to a copy of the pardon on the governor's website.
Robert Downey Jr. Tops Forbes List of Highest Paid Actors
Rachel X. LandesJuly 22, 2014
For the second year running, Robert Downey Jr. tops Forbes' list of highest paid actors in Hollywood. Since June of last year, Iron Man has made $75 million — impressive even by Tony Stark standards.
Robert Downey Jr. and Wife Expecting Second Child
Anne CohenJuly 10, 2014
Mazel tov to Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey!
Forgotten Hebrew Hunks: Rank Your Top Hotties
On Monday, we ran a story called "Hottest Jewish Men: Who Was Left Out?" in response to Buzzfeed's recent "Official Ranking Of The 51 Hottest Jewish Men In Hollywood." In the comments, we asked you to point out some of your favorite Jewish hotties that we may have forgotten.
Hottest Jewish Men: Who Was Left Out?
Last week, Buzzfeed published "The Official Ranking Of The 51 Hottest Jewish Men In Hollywood," a comprehensive list of the heebiest hunks in stardom.
Robert Downey Jr. Rocks Lederhosen
Anne CohenApril 12, 2013
No one could accuse Robert Downey Jr. of being boring. The actor really, really tries to embrace local customs wherever he goes. While in South Korea promoting the third installment of the Iron Man franchise in early April, he stunned locals by busting out some Gangnam-style dance moves.


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OurMine targeted Wired's Backchannel, a Fortune contributors network, and possibly Bloomberg Tech.
If advertising isn't going to work, what will Medium replace it with instead?
Periscope poaches an editor from online publishing upstart Medium.
Does it have something to do with the Panama Papers?
Founder Evan Williams says the site wants to become a platform for publishers of all kinds.


The Town of Paradise Public Council Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Public meetings begin 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, located at Paradise Town Hall, 28 McNamara Drive.
Starting in January 2019, Council will hold one Public Council Meeting on scheduled meeting days. Previously, Council held Committee of the Whole meetings, which was closed to the public, followed by a Public Council Meetings. This change is the latest step in the Town's transparency work, and provides further insight into the Council decision making. Council may hold Privileged Meetings as needed for topics relating to legal and human resource matters.
Delegations wishing to meet with Council can request to attend a Committee of Council Meeting or address Council at the beginning of a public meeting. A written request for a meeting should be forwarded to the attention of the Town Clerk.
Minutes for Council Meetings are listed below and are posted once approved at the following Council Meeting.
Beginning with the September 18, 2018 Public Council Meeting, the agendas for public meetings were posted the day prior.
Anyone wishing to view minutes prior to 2013 is asked to contact the Town Clerk.


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Home | University hubs | University of Surrey | Reviews students | Night life
"The nightlife isn't great, there are only a few clubs but plenty of bars and pubs."
"There are a range of pubs in Guildford that provide a chilled atmosphere or starting point for nights out. There are a handful of small clubs with a number of student nights throughout the week as well. The more popular clubs can get very busy, as can the students' union club. The scene is very one dimensional (mainly standard pop music) and it's hard to come across nights with hip hop, R&B, rave and techno music. There's a small shisha bar near the station and a Creams that's open until late. Guildford has good links to Clapham and London, where there is a bit more on offer."
"There are three night clubs in Guildford plus a Rubix on campus. Student societies do bar crawls around pubs and clubs, which are very popular. There are also a lot of pubs and restaurants that are great for going out in the evening."
"There are many beautiful pubs with cosy environments in Guildford."
"It's acceptable. There are things to do at night time like clubbing, karaoke and more but it's not too crowded. They do have some options for having fun out there but not all of them are good."
"I definitely expected more nightlife from a major city. The clubs in town are poor and few."
"How good you rate the nightlife will depend on where you come from. I come from quite a small town so the nightlife in Guildford offered plenty for me. For those that want more, there is always the option of travelling into London. The main spot on campus is the SU Rubix, which has a second event held downstairs most nights. In town there is Casino, Popworld, Thirteen and Spoons all in close proximity with more bars around the town."
"There's a lack of choice and almost everything is at London prices. The nightclub on campus is very good with a range of themed nights and guests. There's a whole host of pubs but they're also slightly expensive. There are other activities such as bowling, indoor trampolining and a cinema."
"We have one university club, a lot of bars in town but only one other club that's worth attending."
"There are quite a few clubs and bars with different themes and great restaurants."
"There are minimal clubs and bars. They're not all great but some are nice places to go for drinks."
"There are plenty of shops (both high and low end brands) as well as many restaurants catering for vegetarians, vegans and meat eaters. The canal is beautiful in the summer and there are many places to catch amazing views such as the nearby hills, cathedral, and castle."
"There are a few clubs and many bars and pubs that are quite nice. There are also lots of shops for shopping as well as places to go bowling, and ice skating as well as a cinema and many restaurants."
"There are three clubs, a Wetherspoons, lots of restaurants and also activities such as swimming and bowling."
"There's Boileroom offering great gigs and around five popular night clubs, each on a slightly different theme. There are also lots of local pubs for casual evenings of beer and chat."
"Frisky is my favourite club night as it's the only one that suits those who grew up with urban music."
"The only really big nightlife in Guildford is Casino night club."
"Clubs are average but there's a shisha bar, a Creams and a pool place so there are other things to do. It's also close enough to London for a night out there if you're bored of Guildford."
"Since Guildford is not a big city, it doesn't offer many options for nightlife. The transportation is limited too."


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#endif

/**
 * <p>
 * The specified attribute does not exist.
 * </p>
 */
@interface SimpleDBAttributeDoesNotExistException:AmazonServiceException
{
    NSNumber *boxUsage;
}

/**
 * The value of the BoxUsage property for this object.
 */
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber *boxUsage;

-(id)initWithMessage:(NSString *)message;

/**
 * Returns a string representation of this object; useful for testing and
 * debugging.
 *
 * @return A string representation of this object.
 */
-(NSString *)description;

@end