We recently published 4PHOTOS Part 1 for EDE's Viewpoint, featuring four of the eight young choreographers soon to be showing the fruits of their choreographic labor this coming weekend at Studio5 at Dance Center Evanston. Now in its fourth season of production, The Young Choreographers Project gives the teens in Evanston Dance Ensemble to create and produce an original choreographic work. Each of the eight young choreographers is paired with a local professional mentor. DancerMusic's Kristi Licera now brings you Part 2, featuring the remaining four young choreographers.
When Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre brings their very successful fall concert Alone / Together to Studio5 on Friday, October 13, you'll be seeing layer upon layer of creativity. That's because one of the most imaginative dance companies you can go see, Cerqua Rivera, will be performing in one of the most imaginatively designed venues in Metro Chicago.
One of the very best places to see what Joe Policastro Trio has got going will be at Studio5, where they take the stage, and a uniquely cool stage it is, on Friday, October 6 (from 8 to 10pm). The group has just released their third album, Screen Sounds, and the trio will be taking advantage of the Evanston venue's excellent production facilities, presenting the music in a multimedia format with experimental film and original lighting design.
If Studio5 is not a name that you recognize, that's alright, because you'll be hearing about it more and more. It's an unusual new venue in a lot of ways -- an impeccably designed performance space that opened just last year. This Saturday, The Live at Studio5 Jazz series presents Brazilian Guitarist Paulinho Garcia and Mike Allemana, with special guest Grazyna Auguscik sharing vocals with Garcia.


John is a longtime Java guy, with a past at Sun and then Oracle. So he knows Java, Java EE, and the new MicroProfile project. This post (and the one before on the future of Java EE and recent Gartner reports) are very much worth a read. This specific post provides a rundown — with links! — on some of the big news relating to Java in 2016 and touches on the potential interplay between Java EE 9 and MicroProfile development projects.
Mark has an articulate and strategic view of technology as a whole that I really like. His posts on established tech like Java and emerging trends like microservices are always engaging and he gives a big picture view that is an excellent counter balance to that myopic (or distracted) forest-for-the-trees perspective that's easy to fall into. What I love about this specific post is the "scientific method" that he uses to walk through and measure a report on Java EE and its long-term prospects.
Eric is a middleware powerhouse (with a new book out on effective BPM strategies), plus an expert in cloud. He definitely grasps the challenges of both dev and operations, and his post here (really, the presentation linked in it) examines bimodal IT and how CTOs can apply that to their real infrastructures and teams and then develop a technology strategy.
EG is a posting machine, in a good way. He has tons of posts on an amazing variety of subjects, from IT talent to security to cloud. I like this particular post because of the nice rundown of security strategy for small businesses. It's succinct, clear, and practical.
This is the last on a great series on microservices on Christian's blog. Basically, the goal for microservices is autonomy and reduced dependencies between services, which allows individual teams to be able to roll out their own services within their own parameters more efficiently. Getting to that particular unicorn, though, is complicated, and Christian outlines an approach to break down data needs, domains, workflows, and transactions and to see how you can engineer a microservices architecture that reflects your infrastructure reality.


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Home Politics No Way To Own Easements, Waterways
Estero Illegal Settlers, commonly known as Squatters
By Fernan J. Angeles
FOR the longest time, the perception is that the Office of the Ombudsman has been used as a platform for harassment against public officials who have refused to cave in to pressure or can't seem to please everyone to the very least, like this case of assertion of private interest over easements and waterways.
For one, informal settlers have literally encroached the stretch of the Pasig River, which in effect causes waterways to shrink – literally, at that. There were also reports of vanishing esteros in the cities encompassing the National Region and its adjoining provinces.
Missing Esteros
According to urban planning experts, the case of the "missing esteros" in Metro Manila cities significantly contributes to flooding in the region. In Manila's Binondo district alone, the esteros which form part of the map have been literally covered by new buildings. So are the esteros in Sampaloc, Tondo and Paco area to name a few.
Interestingly the vanishing esteros may have been triggered by the fact that real estate properties in the capital city have plummeted to as high as P300,000 per square meter.
There are many other esteros in Metro Manila cities where natural waterways were decimated to the size of drainage canals. In some instances, cases were filed against the poachers and protectors. However, cases filed in the proper forum either end up junked or archived.
Decimated Waterways
Ten years ago, the government called off flood-control projects designed to restore holding capacity of the Laguna de Bay and instead found it more logical to clear the entire stretch of the Pasig River of illegal structures.
The directive – to clear the entire stretch of illegal structures – however did not cover pollution emitting businesses which literally ate up a portion of the Pasig River adjacent to their facilities. The order was to move out 125,000 families living along waterways in Metro Manila and 60,000 to 70,000 families living around Laguna Lake.
The government has since implemented a program to eliminate structures in the area in an apparent effort to reduce, if not rid flooding in Metro Manila.
A decade after and despite reluctance of politicians at the helm of cities in Metro Manila, some parts of the Pasig River stretch seemed to have been cleared as squatter colonies were replaced with jogging lanes as easement.
But flooding remained as silt and garbage rendered the water way too shallow. Hence, renewed calls for the government to consider regular dredging as a mechanism to keep the carrying capacity of waterways from decreasing.
Mayors' Cooperation
Even with the best infrastructure project plans, retrieving easements appears a tall order amid refusal of the local government units to cooperate. More often than not, politicians at the helm of LGUs are not bent on taking chances on something that would piss off their voting constituents.
And to make matters worse, thousands of cubic meters of garbage are directly dumped into the river.
As it is, there is an urgent need for a program that would put an end to an old practice that literally transforms river systems and the lake into a trash dump or a huge septic tank.
Under this situation, local ordinances compelling real estate developers to come up with their own water catchment basins instead of discharging water into the city drainage systems is a must. But that does not guarantee results as implementation remains a question.
Based on the government's 2012 estimate, the program which would cover dredging of waterways, building and heightening of flood walls, excavation, and rehabilitation of floodways would require P352 billion.
Other Way Around
Ironically, that's not the case in the lakeshore town of Angono (Rizal), 32 minute-drive away from eastern Metro Manila.
In what appears to be one of those cases designed to pin down local officials who made a firm conviction that easements could not possibly be a private property, the Office of the Ombudsman reaffirmed its first resolution junking three charges filed against former Angono, Rizal Mayor Gerardo Calderon who stood against poachers.
In its nine-page resolution, the Office of the Ombudsman cited Presidential Decree 1067 which provides 20-meter easement of each side of rivers and creeks, and 40-meter easement for bays and lakes, "could not possibly be owned by a private corporation or an individual."
PD 1067, which was issued December 31, 1976 by the late former strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr. (father of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos), instituted the Water Code of the Philippines, providing for the utilization, exploitation, development, conservation, and protection of water resources to be subject to the control and regulation of the government through the National Water Resources Board (formerly referred to as National Water Resources Council).
Foiled Attempt
The case stemmed from the construction of what is now referred to as the Angono Lakeside Park, a local government-initiated project which attracts foreign and local tourists with a nature adventure by the side of the majestic Laguna de Bay.
Records showed that the complainant, one Cecilia Del Castillo accused Calderon (then Angono mayor), of encroaching on her property to construct the Lakeside Eco-Park at the easement of the Laguna de Bay sometime in 2017.
However, a closer look by the Office of the Ombudsman into the area being claimed by Del Castillo proved otherwise – the area she claimed as part and parcel of her property is actually covered by the law protecting easements.
On Del Castillo's allegation that it was then Angono Mayor Calderon who authorized squatter families to occupy her property, the Ombudsman – which did its own investigation – found out that it was the complainant's caretaker who "sold and leased" the land to the informal settlers, at cost.
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Back in May I began talking to a male coworker I had a crush on for the longest time. I'm a little bit older than him, I'm 23 and he is 20. We began speaking thanks to a mutual work friend bc I told this friend I thought he was cute and he thought the same about me. So to us talking/seeing eachother, I thought everything was going fine. Great connection, lots of things in common, our personalities mesh well. When we would hang out he would always smile at me, hold my hands, and cuddle with me.
One day he messages me and tells me he isn't ready for a relationship right now, didn't want to lead me on, and backs out and just wants to be friends. I was upset and cut him out because I was heartbroken. Luckily we don't work in the same department at our job so I didn't have to be have be around him a lot. The mutual work friend who got us talking told me he cried in front of her and told her that he still likes me and he just doesn't know what he wants right now and he was crying while telling her all this. Every interaction I have had with him since he dumped me has been at work and strictly professional because there were a couple work situations in which I had to interact with him over these past five months. I remained professional, polite, and composed in spite of what happened.
I still caught him looking at me since he dumped me. Even making direct eye contact up close when he would walk past me. He's been doing this a lot more lately. Even coming by my area of work a lot more. I initiated the no contact rule with him on social media and personal interacts in real life so he wouldn't think I'm desperate and needy .
That's the backstory. Here are things that are signs regarding him.
-Seeing angel numbers like 1111, 111, 222, 333, 444, 555 in unexpected places or whenever I check the time, on license plates, prices in stores, receipts, facebook likes etc. etc.
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If it lives, it can die … even immortal dragon shifters. Unfairly cursed and then mercilessly hunted for a thousand years by a powerful group of druid witches, the Dracones fight for their very survival.
After their village was massacred, Tierney and her friends fled the realm of Tartaria for Earth, keeping their identity as dragon shifters secret. Only you can't run from the past—a point made crystal clear when twenty-one-year-old Tierney gazes into the tormented eyes of the man she loves.
His failure to protect his brother long ago left Jax broken and full of rage. Now as his Awakening approaches, his powers grow unpredictable. If he survives the emergence of his dragon, he fears he will endanger the one he loves above all others—Tierney.
Their past catches up when Tierney has a brutal vision. The Ilyium have found them, triggering ancient instincts in the Dracones and now Tierney and Jax must overcome their legacy and learn to trust in themselves in order to avoid the Ilyium's sinister plans.
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REVIEW: Avengers Infinity War (NO SPOILERS)
Posted on April 27, 2018 by Matthew Martin
INTRO (NO SPOILERS)
There really hasn't been anything quite like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An ignorant critic (or James Cameron, apparently) might say "it's just a bunch of comic book movies and sequels and sequels and more sequels." But that's hardly fair. Including Infinity War there have been nine sequels in the MCU. Out of the nineteen movies in the franchise, only nine (less than half) have been sequels.
But consider how odd that sentence is. It's a franchise of nearly twenty movies, but less than half are sequels. Don't sequels make a franchise? The MCU is unique in that the "franchise" is the universe in which the movies co-exist. Until Infinity War, Dr. Strange and Iron Man never crossed paths, though they shared the same cinematic universe. Spider-Man never met Peter Quill before now, and yet we know they inhabited the same sphere of existence. It's not like watching Superman (1978) and wondering why Vito Corleone is wearing an aluminum foil onesie pretending to be KalEl's dad. Those are different characters who exist in a different universe. You can watch Tim Burton's Batman and then watch Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight and never wonder why Batman and the Joker don't already know each other; they're the same characters but exist in a different universe.
Never before (at least not on this scale) have so many different characters on film all inhabited the same universe. Dismiss it as "not a big deal" or as "an excuse to further sequelize Hollywood" all you want; that level of cynicism has lost sight of the accomplishment Kevin Feige and his team have done over the course of these past ten years.
And what's more, before Spider-Man joined the fold, Kevin Feige assembled this crew using nothing but a bunch of B-characters (Black Widow? Hawkeye? Even Iron Man and Thor were losers.), box office disappointments (Hulk), or punchlines (Captain America).
KEVIN FEIGE BUILT THIS IN A CAVE…WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
And now, ten years after the first Iron Man film flew to half an improbable half-billion dollars , we get the biggest movie yet in the franchise. Six years after the first Avengers dropped a Thanos tease as a post-credit scene (something Joss Whedon tossed on a lark and made Kevin Feige say "hmm" about), we have the ultimate pay off. The big shebang. The almost-guaranteed two-billion dollar earner.
It used to be movies were for self contained stories and TV shows were for ongoing tales. Movies had sequels, sure, but for the most part they too were self-contained. Movie trilogies like Star Wars were different but they always had an endgame (movie three in the trilogy). The idea of doing a movie series like a TV series, with story after story after story building on the one before, peaking here and there but never ending…that was considered "anti-theater."
Credit to Kevin Feige for saying "lets do Marvel movies the way we do Marvel comics: Stories that ebb and flow, peak and valley, build and add and then blow up in an epic, universe-shattering crossover special."
Eleven years ago the idea was a joke.
Ten years ago Feige said "let's try it"
Today the fruits of his labor are here.
In Captain America: The First Avenger, our hero encounters the Space Stone.
In Thor: The Dark World, we are introduced to the Reality Stone.
In Guardians of the Galaxy, we see the terrible might of the Power Stone.
In Avengers and Age of Ultron, the Mind Stone is central to the plot.
In Doctor Strange, the sorcerer supreme harnesses the power of the Time Stone.
For ten years these gems have been floating around the (Marvel Cinematic) Universe, each with devastating power that, if combined, could literally reshape the universe (for the worst).
And now…someone's come for the set.
NO SPOILERS REVIEW
[click here for the spoiler filled review with thoughts and reflections]
DOES IT DO THE CHARACTERS JUSTICE
or are there just too many people?
Indeed the movie does a great job juggling its balls (so many balls, yall). One or two that you might think would have a big role instead are kind of left out of the center-stage, but I'll say this: Almost every character's best moment happens in this movie. Like what's the coolest thing you've seen Thor do? Or Peter Quill? Whatever it is, it'll be topped.
New characters stretch their legs along with old, there are some fun meet-and-greets, everyone shines. No one had a clunky line or a misguided plot they followed. There are a lot of things happening and a lot of people making things happen, but it's never disorienting and it's never overwhelming (in a bad way at least).
IS THERE A SELF-CONTAINED PLOT
or just an endless stream of set up and fight, set up and fight, etc?
The movie has very strongly-defined acts, but within those three acts are key sequences and…moments? That word seems awfully small. The Russo Bros., who directed the picture (as well as Civil War and Winter Solider before it) said that Infinity War would have ten or twelve moments as huge as the "airport fight" in Civil War. That is not an exaggeration.
But despite so many colossal sequences, the plot and the story are never forgotten. There's a purpose to the action, which gives the epic fights weight and drama, something many "action" movies fail to do. So to answer the question, yes there is a plot, a fantastic one in fact, filled with as many hilarious quips as it has impactful dramatic moments. The balls-to-the-wall action stuff is just gravy.
DOES IT FEEL LIKE A WORTHY CONCLUSION TO THE TEN-YEAR MCU SAGA
or does it buckle under the high expectations?
Yes it is worthy.
Although it's not really a conclusion because this is comics come to life. And comics are like soap operas; characters come and go, stories ebb and flow, endings are not really endings, just stopping points to let you catch your breath before they ramp up the crazy all over again.
Like, I can't even put into words what's like to have seen this: I've seen great comic book movies before, but never have I seen a movie that does what comic books do: This was a classic "universe-upending crossover epic" like DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" or Marvel's own "Civil War" (the comic series not the movie). It makes the first Avengers movie seem quaint. I can't believe they pulled it off, but they did. And the other half is coming next year.
So here's to next year, I guess.
10/10 – Infinity War is not the "best, tightest and most perfectly fine-tuned" MCU movie; that honor still belongs to Winter Solider. What it is…is a cinematic achievement unlike any other. It's the rare bird film that meets and occasionally exceeds it's hype, does things that you'd never expect or even imagine, has fun, has heart and has heartbreaking drama. I can not wait to see it again.
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The International Confederation of Principals elected Lisa Vincent to an executive position
Lisa Vincent, Quinte Secondary School Principal has been elected an Executive Position for the International Confederation of Principals for the term January 2010 to December 2011.
The ICP provides Ontario and Canadian principals with an opportunity to learn from school leaders from around the world. A valuable component of membership through this professional organization is the sharing of expertise, research findings and resources.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as the one executive member representing north, south and central Americas and appreciate the support from the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, the Ontario Principals' Council and my colleagues. It is an incredible opportunity to expand my learning, to serve my colleagues, and to bring back knowledge to my school and to the HPEDSB," said Lisa Vincent.
Lisa's main goals are to make connections and increase participation and membership of principals' organizations in North, South and Central America.
As an executive member, Lisa will be involved in meetings with the International executive and with the International Council to further the work of the ICP in serving member organizations from around the world. A key role will be to represent the Americas as an executive member and to increase communication within principal organizations in the region.
Lisa has been fortunate to attend International Council meetings and to visit schools in New Zealand, China, Australia, USA, England, Ireland, and Singapore. She has learned about school organization, student involvement and leadership, instructional and assessment practices, facilities enhancements such as the use of technology to enhance instruction, inclusive education, leadership hubs in schools (shared and distributed leadership), and strategic planning to improve student performance.
During her term with the ICP, Lisa will be involved with the International Confederation of Principals World Convention which being hosted by the Ontario Principals' Council from August 15 to 18, 2011 in Toronto. The program strands will align with the five domains of the Leadership Framework which is currently being implemented in HPEDSB and in districts province-wide. The convention expects to attract more than 2000 participants from all regions of the world.
"The ICP has provided me, as a school based leader to significantly expand my professional development and knowledge, which I try to bring back to my role as a Principal in HPEDSB and to our board through committee work and professional development," said Lisa.
Pictured: Lisa Vincent, Principal, Quinte Secondary School.


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Q: jsforce search does not work on contact using like operator my code looks like
const conn = new jsforce.Connection({
oauth2: {
loginUrl: SFDC_LOGIN_URL,
clientId: SFDC_CLIENT_ID,
clientSecret: SFDC_CLIENT_SECRET,
redirectUri: SFDC_REDIRECT_URI,
},
instanceUrl : baseUrl,
accessToken : ACCESS_TOKEN,
refreshToken: REFRESH_TOKEN
});

const resp = await conn.query("SELECT Id,Name,Title,Email,Phone,Department FROM contact WHERE name LIKE 'michael%25' ORDER BY LastModifiedDate DESC LIMIT 10");

this returns now result
if i directly fire this query using postman then i see the data.
if i remove the like part and keep the query to
SELECT Id,Name,Title,Email,Phone,Department FROM contact ORDER BY LastModifiedDate DESC LIMIT 10

then i see the data. So there is some issue with where clause. Plz advise

A: Try with '%', not '%25'. I think you're urlencoding the '%' and then jsforce does it 2nd time, messing your query up.

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Air Quality - Statement
– in the House of Lords at 4:44 pm on 24th April 2017.
All Lords debates on 24 Apr 2017
Lord Gardiner of Kimble The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 4:44 pm, 24th April 2017
My Lords, I beg leave to repeat, as a Statement, an Answer to an Urgent Question given by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State in another place.
"This Government are committed to making sure that ours is the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than we found it. As part of that, I am personally deeply committed to the importance of clean air. I can tell the House that since 2011, the Government have announced over £2 billion to help bus operators upgrade their fleets; support the development and take up of low-emission vehicles; reduce pollution from vehicles such as refuse trucks and fire engines; and promote the development of clean alternative fuels. In addition, in the Autumn Statement, we announced a further £290 million to support electric vehicles, low-emission buses and taxis, and alternative fuels.
Our actions have enabled the UK to make significant progress on improving its air quality since 2010. We now have lower emissions of the five key pollutants: volatile organic compounds, sulphur dioxide, ammonia, particulates and nitrogen oxides. However, due to the failure of EU vehicle emission standards to deliver the expected improvements in air quality, the UK is among 17 European countries, including France and Germany, that are not yet meeting EU emission targets for nitrogen dioxide in parts of our towns and cities. We are taking strong action to remedy that. Since November my department has been working jointly with the Department for Transport to update the Government's national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide. We have updated the analytical base for the plan to reflect new evidence, following the Volkswagen scandal and the failure of the EU's regulatory regime to deliver the improvements expected on emissions. The plan adapts to these new circumstances by setting out a framework for action.
Following long-standing precedent, we have now entered the period of pre-election sensitivity that precedes elections. In accordance with the guidance covering both local and general elections, the propriety and ethics team in the Cabinet Office has told us that it would not be appropriate to launch the consultation and publish the air quality plan during this time. The Government have therefore applied to the High Court for a short extension of the deadline to publish the national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide so that we can comply with pre-election propriety rules. The Government are seeking to publish a draft plan by 30 June and the final plan by 15 September. The application will be considered by the court".
(Citation: HL Deb, 24 April 2017, c1232)
Lord Grantchester Opposition Whip (Lords), Shadow Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change), Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
I thank the Minister for repeating the Answer given earlier in the other place. However, notwithstanding that the Government may wish to absolve themselves by sharing culpability across other EU member states, they were given their final warning, as was clearly stated in the court case brought recently by ClientEarth, and told that they should publish their proposals to comply with EU law within two months.
Despite the argument that the purdah period on government announcements may start from a vote in the other place to undertake a general election, this announcement of government intentions could be said to be a matter of public health. I am sure the thousands of Britons at risk from diseases caused by air pollutants such as fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ammonia, and the businesses that will suffer lost working days from pollution-related illnesses, would agree that this is a public health issue and that an announcement is desperately needed. Will the Government not consider that an announcement on public health grounds could be made that would then comply with the court and negate any application for an extension?
It would be futile to ask the Government any further questions, as the Minister may well invoke purdah in all his replies. If I may, however, I will tempt him further by asking whether a new clean air Act would not be required to give citizens new rights to breathe unpolluted air and rectify the situation across all the responsible culprits.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his questions. On his last question, I can say that we believe the legislative framework exists to deal with these matters, and therefore a separate clean air Act is not necessary because they can already be dealt with.
On the issues at hand, we have been advised that there are very strong requirements vis-à-vis purdah. However, I say to the noble Lord and indeed to all noble Lords that we will ensure that this short delay in the timetable will not result in a delay in the implementation of the plan. It is precisely to deal with the purdah issue, relating to both local government and the general election, that we have given the dates by which we want to publish this report. Obviously it is in everyone's interests that we publish, and we want to work in partnership. That is why we are working with the devolved Administrations and the Mayor of London, and indeed we are working with many cities that have this acute problem which we need to address.
Baroness Parminter Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
My Lords, this is clearly a public health crisis, with 40,000 people dying prematurely in the UK every year because of air pollution and many more suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. The reason that the Minister has given why this needs to be delayed does not stand proper scrutiny, because here we face a genuine public health crisis, which is a legitimate reason for the purdah rules to be put aside. Given that the department has shilly-shallied about producing its 25-year plan for the environment, it is very good at talking the talk on protecting the environment, but it is not good at walking the walk.
I have two quick questions for the Minister. First, does he accept that after Brexit, when we no longer have the European Union obligations, we need firm air quality targets in UK law to hold the Government to account? Secondly, what comfort can the Minister give to both parliamentarians and the public on the question that, in the absence of the European Union, there is no alternative to costly judicial reviews for the public to hold the Government to account on the crisis of air pollution?
My Lords I do not think that the facts bear out what the noble Baroness said. In fact, it was during a Government in which her party was in coalition that £2 billion of taxpayers' money was diverted: £400 million for ultra-low-emission vehicles, £600 million for the local sustainable transport fund, £224 million invested in cycling and more than £27 million since 2013 to retrofit and clean up more than 3,000 of the oldest vehicles. I hope that she would agree that that was a success during the time that her party was in coalition with mine. That is why £2 billion was diverted to that important subject.
On the question of how we will proceed, as I said, this is a short delay in the timetable, because we have purdah requirements. That is the advice that I have received. I fully acknowledge that this is a public health issue. That is one reason why considerable sums of money are being invested in it, why we will continue to do so and why we in the department very much want to bring forward these plans after the general election.
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Crossbench
Has the public health issue been part of the submission to the courts, because as well as adults, there is now strong evidence that atmospheric pollution impairs the development and growth of children's lungs, which means that you are storing up big problems into the next generation? What have the Government done to ensure that enforcement powers are used when vehicles on the road are belching out pollutants because they have not been properly serviced or there is a fault? Quite a lot of them could be deemed as in the public service, including taxis, buses, and so on. Sometimes they are belching out vast quantities of grey, stinking smoke.
I thank the noble Baroness because that plays into why retrofitting is so important, why there has been investment since 2013 of £27 million to retrofit and clean up 3,000 of the oldest vehicles and why we have sought to introduce low-emission buses, taxis and alternative fuels. As I said, this is a very important issue which will need a partnership of us all, whether local authorities, the devolved Administrations, the Mayor of London or us, to mitigate. I have found it interesting how small features—the changing of a traffic light or turning engines off—can change pollution levels and create considerable advances.
Lord Higgins Conservative
Does my noble friend agree that the problem of air pollution is greatest in London, and that the reality is that Transport for London has totally failed to deal with the issue? Indeed, it has made it a great deal worse, in two respects. First, it apparently has no authority to limit the number of minicabs. In fact, the extraordinary position emerges that no one has any authority to limit the number of minicabs. Does my noble friend agree that urgent action needs to be taken in that regard?
Secondly, there is the ludicrous way in which Transport for London has been building bicycle lanes. There is enormous congestion as a result of this, not only when they are being constructed but in the longer term. It is an appalling policy. I spend much of my time in Holland, where they do not have any problem with bicycle lanes operating properly without being blanked off in a way that prevents them being used in off-peak periods.
My Lords, I shall ensure that my noble friend's points are put to officials who meet fortnightly with GLA officials to discuss air quality. I think that that would be the best way forward.
Lord Campbell-Savours Labour
My Lords, is not the real problem, in London in particular, lorry emissions? Why do we not have a national programme of conversion of diesel trucks to LPG systems, because tests by Millbrook and HORIBA MIRA show that conversion of trucks to LPG leads to substantial reductions in carbon emissions and substantial savings by lorry operators, with a payback period of as little as 18 months? I have identified a firm called Quicksilver-AFI that has a system that is made for truck conversions, which is not too expensive, and which the Government could pump prime with public money, because the emissions from trucks are very much more substantial than from individual motor cars.
My Lords, what the noble Lord said is extremely helpful. I have mentioned retrofitting quite a bit during this Question, but that is a point that I would like to take back, and I am most grateful to him.


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Pan Family History
Pan Name Meaning
Chinese : from the place name Pan, which existed in the state of Wei during the Zhou dynasty. Bi Gonggao, fifteenth son of the virtuous duke Wen Wang, was granted a state named Wei when the Zhou dynasty came to power in 1122 bc (see Feng 1). Bi Gonggao in turn granted the area called Pan to one of his sons, whose descendants eventually adopted Pan as their surname. This name is also Romanized as Poon, Pun, and Pon. Korean: There are two Chinese characters for this surname; only one of them, however, is common enough to warrant treatment here. There are three clans which use this character: the Kisong (also called the Koje), the Kwangju, and the Namp'yong. The founding ancestors of these clans were Koryo (918–1392) figures, and it is widely believed that they were related. Spanish and southern French (Occitan): metonymic occupational name for a baker or a pantryman, from Spanish and Occitan pan 'bread' (Latin panis). English and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who cast pans, from Middle English, Middle Dutch panne 'pan'. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish pan 'lord', 'master', 'landowner', hence a nickname for a haughty person. Perhaps also an Americanized spelling or translation of German Pfann (North German Pann).
Similar surnames: Han, Pang, Yan, Man, Kan, Tan, Fan, An, Pann, Gan
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In 1921, Labourer and Clerk were the top reported jobs for men and women in the CA named Pan. 16% of Pan men worked as a Labourer and 34% of Pan women worked as a Clerk. Some less common occupations for Americans named Pan were Cantonnier and Marchande
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Between 1964 and 2004, in the United States, Pan life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1983, and highest in 1970. The average life expectancy for Pan in 1964 was 84, and 84 in 2004.
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Gosh what a ride! After two month's of intense campaigning, some rather silly videos, a public vote, ten day fundraising challenge and televised final- I can announce that I have been offered the Nicest Job in Britain!
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It was very literally a campaign of blood, sweat a nd tears in the end – after a blistering 5k crawl through Bristol in the final week to raise funds for the RSPCA and the best phone call could have ever hoped to receive which left my old colleagues in the open plan office wondering quite what had made one of their lawyers bawl with happiness!
I met some truly inspirational people from all walks of life at the final all doing some amazing things for the causes they believe in. Winning this competition means everything to me and I am so excited to begin my biggest and best challenge yet and to do you all proud.


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Q: Permuting Racked Pool Balls with a Single Break Given reasonable physical assumptions (on friction, collisions, etc.), would it be possible to "break" in a pool game such that when all the balls come to rest, the only difference is that the racked balls have been permuted non-trivially?
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More generally, would any non-trivial permutation be possible?

A: You wanted an answer with realistic physics, but let's start with the case where there is no friction, all collisions are perfectly elastic, and the cushions are extended to fill in the pockets. You then have something similar to dynamical billiards, which has been studied for a long time. (The difference would be that you have multiple balls. Since there is no friction, I don't think the dynamics of the balls, e.g., moments of inertia, come into play.) This is a Hamiltonian system, so by the Poincaré recurrence theorem there will be infinitely many times when it revisits the racking triangle in the initial configuration to within, say, a precision of 0.1 mm. It won't stay in that configuration, just pass through it. Poincaré recurrence doesn't guarantee that it will visit other configurations, such as the permuted ones, but I think it's plausible that all such permutations are equally probable, i.e., that the system's behavior is ergodic in this sense.
Can we arrange for the configuration to be exact? This seems unlikely to me. The flow through phase space is volume-preserving, so for some ensemble of initial conditions with a small phase-space volume $v$, the Poincaré recurrence time goes like $1/v$. If you can control the shot of the cue ball to within a certain precision, then $v$ is a measure of that precision. If infinitely good precision is required, then $v$ approaches zero, in which case the recurrence time approaches infinity.
Of course this argument is only statistical, so it's possible that there is some trick that evades it, e.g., involving some hidden symmetry. If you could shoot the cue ball exactly parallel to the short axis of the table, it would never hit the cue balls, which only solves your problem for the trivial case of the identity permutation. If you could shoot exactly parallel to the long axis, the whole system would have a permanent reflection symmetry in its motion. This would halve the number of dimensions in the phase space, greatly shortening the recurrence time, but it wouldn't affect the no-go argument about $1/v$ given above.
If there's friction, then in addition to the statistical argument above, you have the problem that the flow isn't volume-conserving. A given initial ensemble's volume $v$ in phase space will shrink and eventually become zero when the balls come to rest. The flow only "paints" some tiny fraction of the whole phase space, which is unlikely to include the desired final configuration. Putting the pockets back in makes things even worse.
Thermodynamically, you're asking for a gas to cool down and condense into a crystal. But since there is no attractive interaction between the balls, I think their melting point equals absolute zero, which the third law of thermodynamics prevents you from reaching. If you did introduce some small attraction, and set up the detailed behavior of friction such that balls didn't just end up sticking at one point on the felt, then presumably they would condense into a triangular lattice in the end. With some finite probability the shape of the whole crystal would be a triangle. If you were able to shoot the cue ball with extremely high precision along the long axis of the table, then symmetry would guarantee that the triangle would be centered on the axis and aligned with it. With 50% probability the triangle would point the right direction. By adjusting the speed of the initial shot, you could probably get the triangle to position itself in the right place as well. The trouble is that the angle of the initial shot has to be controlled to within a precision of $10^{-n}$ degrees, where $n$ is large, because the system has a Lyapunov exponent.
I don't think this question can be addressed by brute-force simulations, because the Lyapunov behavior means that the number of initial conditions you'd have to test would be $10^n$, where $n$ is large. If the equations of motion have a closed-form solution for a smaller number of balls, that might give some insight into whether there is some trick or hidden symmetry that evades the $1/v$ argument. But the usual rule of thumb in physics is that two-body problems are easy, but three-body problems are impossible.

A: The question is not well posed because the initial position has triple contacts. These form singularities in the phase space of the pool table system: Imagine you have two balls touching and a third one approaches. Say it hits the left ball and almost immediately after it hits the right one. The directions and velocities of the three balls after the collisions are different, so it is not clear what is the behavior in the situation that the approaching ball hits the other two simultaneously.
With this example in mind, say you have the initial configuration of the picture, with the rack balls all touching and the cue ball in the center. What are the directions of the balls after  breaking? Not well defined!


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October is one of my favorite times at the beach. Hell, any time of the year is my favorite if the ocean is involved. But fall is just a little more special. The air crackles. The sea reclaims itself after the throngs of tourists have gone home, and yes, the water might even be a little deeper blue. That's never more true every year than during the second weekend in October when the beach throws one of the best parties on the coast. For nineteen years, the residents of the strand known as Pleasure Island, home to Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, and historic Fort Fisher, have quietly built stages, set up booths to house a handful of local well-known seafood vendors, and invited some of the cream of the blues crop to come on down and play at the Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival right there on the banks of the Cape Fear River. And then they turn around and invite us to come on down too! The Saturday night headliner this year is Greg Allman.
I was a reluctant first timer in 2010 when Leon Russell was the Saturday night big name artist. Been there, done that with festivals. I like little intimate venues where it feels like I'm yay-far from the stage and feeling up-close-and-personal with who I've come to see. Yes, I'm one of those … I want to see the sweat on the brow and the crazy faces the guys in the band make. It turned out to feel like someone's ginormous backyard party (albiet a really big, cool backyard that has a view of the Cape Fear), and we were not all that many lawn chairs away from stage left. But wait. Two days of nearly non-stop music? More stages? Smaller ones, scattered around the park … one for blues, one for jazz … one of which was so close to the Cape Fear River you could almost party on the boats gathered off-shore. Local food vendors were filling bowls and baskets with seafood chowder, fried shrimp, and other goodies that were right out of the sea only days ago.
I even ran into a healthy handful of friends from Chapel Hill and Carrboro who begged me not to give away the secret. A tattooed, pony-tailed man from New Jersey who had perfected the slow rock that usually only true Southerners can claim, went lazily back and forth next to me in a big old rocking chair and told me he'd been riding his Harley down since Johnny and Edgar Winter headlined in 2008. He, like those before him, wanted it to remain a well-kept secret. 2009 featured Delbert McClinton, and 2011 brought in Jimmy Vaughn. It's not just about the headliner. Opening for Allman is the Jaimoe Jasssz Band. Die hard fans will recognize Jaimoe as the legendary drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. You can also catch the Polar Bear Blues Band featuring Harvey Dalton Arnold (bass player and former member of The Outlaws), Damon Fowler, and a handful of some of North Carolina's own homegrown blues artists. My pop-up chair is already in the car.
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It was a good day for a ride in a truck in the country. So westward we drove, about 15 miles to Saxapahaw, NC. Yes, there was an agenda … lunch at the Saxapahaw General Store (Your Local Five-Star Gas Station) before checking out the area's newest venue (and undoubtedly, one of it's more interesting), the Haw River Ballroom.
LUNCH! Local beef short rib Sandwich on homemade foccaccia with manchego, roasted tomatoes, caramelized onion and lemon-garlic aioli. I was so busy enjoying how each ingredient played nice with the others that I let the two guys I was with just prattle on about this or that without speaking or interupting … for those of you who know me, silence is a rare occasion that typically only happens when I'm enjoying what I'm eating, reading, or sleeping.
"If you build it, they will come" … "build a house of quality in the woods, and the world will beat a path to your door" … yada, yada. Owners Tom & Heather LaGarde hope that's true. Their version of the American dream appeared in the form of an old mill/dye house way-the-heck out in the country. Cobbled together by a respect for the area and it's history, along with a playful repurposing of eclective salvage from all around the state, the Haw River Ballroom is a testament to creative visioning. Since I couldn't say it any better, I'm shamelessly just quoting their own description here: "three levels, a riverside deck, a concessions bar and coffee shop, a full service stage and sound system, gorgeous historic detail, solar and geothermal power and an idyllic rural setting" … really, the only thing missing is a place to sleep so you don't have to drive home after. I got goosebumps when I walked in the front door.
Go this weekend for the Sunday performance of Spirit Family Reunion. Doors open at 6:30. Music starts at 8pm (opening act Dark Water Rising). That's all I can say. Go. And see. And hear. And be blown away. Go.


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Janet Sunderland lives in Kansas City with her husband Cliff Kroski. Her work has appeared in The Writer, KC Voices, The Rockhurst Review, Lalitamba, theotherjournal.com, Imago Dei, and others. She's an instructor at Avila University and Longview Community College and is completing a spiritual memoir, Standing at the Crossroad.


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By Lisa Fabrizio
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, many questions thought to have been answered, remain quite maddening mysteries. From the FBI, the BPD, the ATF and a plethora of acronymous LEO types have come many conflicting and confusing reports. Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev armed? Did he shoot himself in the throat? How did he manage to drive through a police blockade and elude the authorities, fleeing on foot and hiding undetected only steps away from the massive manhunt? And what about the Saudi student who was originally a "person of interest" and was reportedly visited in the hospital by Michelle Obama?
Now, those who are fond of conspiracies, and even some who aren't, figure that all misinformation is disinformation; particularly when it comes from representatives of government agencies. But why would the government, especially this, the 'most transparent administration ever,' lie to us? Have they anything to hide? Maybe, as some suspect, they are once again using tragic incidents to advance their agenda.
Every time there is an event involving great loss of life or property; be it a hurricane, fire or mass murder, equally great forces swing into action. Both government and private funding is mustered, grief counselors are dispatched, concerts are organized and, invariably, media and politicians begin calling for reforms of one kind or another.
Sometimes these calls come from conservatives, but are quickly ignored, since right-wingers are usually supposed to be the cause – either directly or indirectly – of these tragedies to begin with. No, those who usually use these events as platforms from which to launch their crusades are liberals; with the NRA, the wealthy and Christians cast as the usual culprits in need of chastisement. However, since in the case of the Boston bombings none of these reliable scapegoats seem to be suitable for whipping, liberals have been fairly quiet regarding a few salient issues; namely gun ownership and radical Islam.
And so I have a couple questions of my own: addressed not to the quasi-military personnel who are supposed to protect us, not for the media who are supposed to inform us and certainly not for our politicians who are supposed to represent us. My questions are for the American people; specifically for those who are in denial about self-protection and from whom we need that protection.
If two neighbors lived in similarly-valued houses, one with an NRA sticker on the garage door and one without, which would be a more likely target for home invasion? It's always heart-warming to hear liberals – many of whom support abortion on demand in all its gruesome forms – speak about 'saving the life of one child.' What better way to accomplish this than to own, and be proficient in the use of, firearms? You can argue all you want about whether or not gun-control laws deter crime – hint, they don't – but no one can deny that criminals are less likely to inflict mayhem at locations where they know that their intended victims will be packing heat. This would be particularly useful when Chechen Islamists come a-knocking at your door. Which leads to my next question.
If you had a choice to board a crowded bus together with a few zealous Christians who follow all the teachings of their religion to the letter, or one with a few zealous Muslims who follow all the teachings of their religion to the letter, which bus would you get on? The point being, that while a Christian is just as likely as anyone else to commit any number of heinous crimes, it would have nothing to do with his religion. There is absolutely nothing in Christianity which encourages violence or crime; quite the opposite.
On the other hand, as has been chronicled everywhere but in the mainstream media, there are many Muslims who interpret all exhortations to violence in the Koran not as historical allegory – as do Christians with the Old Testament – but presently binding, as in "slay the idolaters wherever ye find them." And so I suspect that all of America would want to ride the Christian bus; with the exception of hard-core leftists, who, with the most cursory of glances at any newspaper, could see that the great majority of global bloodletting is shed in the name of Islamist Jihad, still blame Christianity for all violence in the world.
But this kind of twisted logic is to be expected from folks who seek to create jobs by overtaxing those who would provide them; who talk about "energy independence" while seeking to curb every natural resource we have; who believe that humans are responsible for changes in the weather and who have decided to gut and dismantle the greatest healthcare system in the world for reasons known only to them.
So I guess the final question is this: are we ever to return to the application of common sense to solve the problems of our country; can we survive as a prosperous and free republic without it? That's an easy one.
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Posted in Movie Blog, tagged 1960s, 1970s, Barry Newman, Brad Pitt, Bruce Springsteen, Cannonball, Dennis Wilson, Easy Rider, Fight Club, Fury Road, George Miller, Golden Age of Cinema, Gone in 60 Seconds, James Taylor, Mad Max, Mark Cousins, New Hollywood, Nomadland, or the various Gumball Rally, Smokey and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run, The Conversation, The Parallax View, The Story of Film an Odyssey, Two Lane Blacktop, Tyler Durden, Vanishing Point, VHS, Watergate scandal on May 31, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Easy Rider (1969) didn't chronicle the end of the decade/era, and the death of hope and optimism that the 1960's promised, but it certainly symbolised it. It could be argued that the loss of hope wasn't followed by despair, but by a new more measured hope with less lofty ambitions, a more weary even cynical hope, but hope none the less. And this is what we saw on the big screen, the cinema of new Hollywood. In truth, a child of the 70s, I saw it on late night TV, and VHS in the 80s and 90s. The Watergate scandal of 1972 may have ground zero for the political and conspiracy thrillers of the time, films like The Parallax View (1974), The Conversation (1974), but the spirit, or lack thereof found a place on screen before that, it found it on the road! There has always been a link between cars and movies, the two were invented around the same time, and both found popularity in the United States, a country built out of exploration, and a country built on a dream; and as Mark Cousins reminded us The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a (2011) "movies look live our dreams".
While there had been movies about cars and drivers before, the road movie as we know it was born in the 70s, buit on a foundation from the Golden Age of Cinema. We are not talking the capers of Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), or the various Gumball/Cannonball movies (various movies from mid 70's to mid 80s), I am referring to the existential road movies like Two Lane Blacktop (1971), and Vanishing point (1971). Existential movies, where to drive is to live, to stop is to die. Kowalski (Barry Newman), the hero of vanishing point is just driving, we never understand why. He drives for the sake of driving the way we live for the sake of living. If you don't know the film, the plot of the film revolves around a man delivering a car 1,200 miles from Denver Colorado, To San Francisco. He has a week to get there but for reasons never explained is compelled to do it in a couple of days. There is little plot, and almost no explanation, but flashbacks give us an idea of what is going on. The Driver (James Taylor) and Mechanic (Dennis Wilson) in Two Lane Blacktop may not have names but they have more of purpose, or do they. They cruise around looking for action in the shape of drag races like the subjects of a Bruce Springsteen song, but when we look a little deeper, they have no purpose, they are racing for money to fund their lifestyle, so they can continue racing. They are not the unwilling or repentant criminal looking for one last job so they can go clean, they are living day to day, a modern take on the hunter gathers of our past. But does that make them any different to anybody working a day job, as Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt from Fight Club ((1999) said nearly 30 years later "working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need". Are they closer to the breadline than the average wage earner, or do they have a fallback? Both films have an other-worldly character enhanced by uncertainty and ambiguity, this was lost in the 90s, made for TV remake of Vanishing Point, everything they gave Kowalski by way of motivation, stripped away a layer of meaning from the subtext of the movie.
Although most associated with America, the genre isn't exclusive to the nation. By the end of the 70's the angst and desire had been forgotten, swallowed up by "blockbusters". Australian filmmaker George Miller fussed the road ideas of the road, if not the road movie itself with a dystopian future. For a more recent generation, their knowledge of the Mad Max franchise may not stretch beyond the fourth, and most recent instalment: Fury Road (2015), but it started long before that in 1979. Inspired by the fuel crisis and economic crash of a few years earlier the first film depicted the beginning of society crumbling. Max, the movies "hero" first hits the road for revenge, but by the end of the first movie, he disappears down the road. Not with the glory of a cowboy riding into the sunset, but a long and dark road, as a man with nothing, and nothing to live for. Max's only option for survival it to live, to exist, and he can find this simplicity, only after he has lost himself on the road. A generation later, the characters of Fury Road think they can find hope, redemption, or even eternity on the road, for most none of this is true.
Both as surreal and mainly masculine genre, director Chloe Zhao gave her a new take, and grounded and more real take. Nomadland is loosely based on Jessica Bruder none fiction book of the same name we see real life people living a nomadic existence. This, like many other road movies was exist in the traditional heartland of the western genre, but this isn't a pioneering story of A to B, of someone with a destination. It is the story of a person not looking where to live, but how to live. As the world gets smaller, and cars have begun to lose importance in the world, we may think the days of the road movie are numbered. I don't think they are, we may see a day were they become nostalgic chronicling relatively recent past rather than telling their own contemporarily stories, but in the hands of talented filmmakers, this artifice will not prevent the real story, one that is lingering beneath the surface.
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Posted in Movie Blog, tagged Ali MacGraw, Burt Reynolds, ernest borgnine, Gator, Hooper, Jackie Gleason, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jeff Bridges, Joe Don Baker, Junior Johnson, kris kristofferson, Last American Hero, Moonrunners, Rolling Thunder, Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, Thunder Road, Walking Tall, White Lightning, White Line Fever, William Devane on October 27, 2012| 2 Comments »
When I was a kid (from the age of around five) The Dukes of Hazzard was my favourite program on TV. It was therefore no great surprise that when as a family we got our first VCR I gravitated to a certain type of movie. I don't know what to call it, a genre or sub genre I guess, I'm not sure if anyone has ever given it a name. Sometimes B movies, others were high grossing blockbusters. Usually featuring bootleggers, truckers and small town sheriffs and nearly always set in America's southern states. Typically the men (it is a very male genre) are simple talking, rough tough men with rough edges but a heart in the right place. The characters often spent their time just the wrong side of the law or taking the law into their own hands. These films were all made in the 70's and they belong in the 70's, there have been attempts to recreate the style many times but they don't really work in the modern era. Quentin Tarantino has given us a nod at the genre but Strangely Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson has probably come closest with the remake of Walking Tall and Faster, but you have to go back to the original movies of the 70's to appreciate the genre.
Although it's a 70's genre its roots go back before that to films like the Robert Mitchum bootlegger classic Thunder Road (1958). Mainstay of 70's cinema and the genre, Burt Reynolds stars as Bobby "Gator" McKlusky in White Lightning (1973). Reynolds plays a moonshine runner who is let out of prison to help bring down a corrupt sheriff (Ned Beatty) who was responsible for the death of his younger brother. Cars are an important part of the genre and this movie is no exception. Gator's vehicle isn't an exotic sport car but a working class hero, a suitably anonymous muscle car, a souped up Ford Custom 500. From the same year Last American Hero sees a young Jeff Bridges as Elroy Jackson Jr. a character based on real life moonshiner turned NASCAR driver Junior Johnson. Also from '73 the original Walking Tall stars Joe Don Baker and is loosely based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser who cleans up his small town at great personal cost. Forget the remake and watch the classic original.
An underrated actor, Jan-Michael Vincent. Is probably best know in the UK for the TV show Airwolf, his first entry on this list is in White Line Fever (1975). Returning home from Vietnam and setting himself up as an independent truck driver that predates Convoy by three years. A lot of the movie is of its time, but the themes of fighting against corruption and oppression are timeless. I started by talking about The Dukes of Hazzard, Moonrunners (1975) was actually the origin on the TV show: directed by Dukes of Hazzard creator Gy Waldron, the Balladeer (Waylon Jennings) introduces us to cousins, Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg, who run moonshine for their Uncle Jesse. A lot of the elements of the movie were toned down for the family friendly TV show but were reinstated for the (rubbish) 2005 movie. Although fictional Moonrunners was inspired by the life of bootlegger turned stock car racer Jerry Rushing. Rushing was a contemporary of and raced against Junior Johnson mentioned above. The movie is dated but worth a look for fans of the genre. I'm not aware of it ever being released on DVD and the hard to find VHS copies date from the early 80's but you can find it streaming online with the claim it is now in the public domain.
Burt Reynolds returned in Gator (1976) a sequel to White Lightning, with a similar story to the first movie it is very much a case of more of the same, it is most notable as Reynolds first feature as a director. Continuing the theme of returning Vietnam veterans, Rolling Thunder (1977) is the story of Major Charles Rane (William Devane) a former POW who returns home to a small town in Texas. A brutal revenge drama the movie has more in common with Walking Tall than the other films on the list. It is also one of the best movies from the ever reliable William Devane and an early film role for Tommy Lee Jones. Possibly the most well known movies of the genre Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was a huge hit and spawned two sequels and countless imitators. A lighter more fun and comic film than the others mentioned, the movie is basically one big car chase from Texas to Georgia. Reynolds may be the star of the movie but Jackie Gleason's Sheriff Buford T. Justice has all the best lines and steels the movie from under him.
Reynolds was back again in Hooper (1978) reunited with Smokey and the Bandit director Hal Needham and co-star Sally Field. It also featured Jan-Michael Vincent. Although very different to the other movies I have mentioned in story and setting, it has the same spirit of character as many of them so I felt compelled to include it. Reynolds plays a veteran stuntman and Vincent the new up and coming rival. It is as much a story of an end of an era as it is a tribute to movie stuntmen. Very fitting as Reynolds and director Hal Needham both began their careers as stuntmen. Is Convoy (1978) an attempt to cash in on the CB radio craze of the time? Or a protest at the 55 MPH speed limit? Or even an exploration of equality or race? Its probably a combination of all three. Like Hooper above it is also the story of an end of an era, and this is the speciality of director Sam Peckinpah. Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw are perfectly cast, but the real star is Ernest Borgnine.
By the 80's the genre was dead having become a pastiche of itself with movies like The Cannonball Run. But we still have a whole decade of movies to enjoy and to remind us the 70's was about more than New Hollywood, Jaws and Star Wars.
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When does the mandalorian take place
Suppose the Stormtrooper's head on pikes and the glaring absence in Darth Vader didn't clue you into the plot. In that case, The Mandalorian takes place immediately following what happened in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. The 1983 film concludes with the Rebels blasting out the Imperial's Death Star, Darth Vader dying, and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) burning his body in a funeral pyre Endor then Luke, Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) getting a party from the remaining members in Star Wars Rebel Alliance.
The Mandalorian is set five years following The events from Return of the Jedi, meaning that the Empire has fallen, and Luke, Leia, and Han Solo are still alive across the galaxy. Also, this implies that Rey and Finn aren't even born yet, and Kylo Ren (still called Ben Solo at this point) is just a small child. It's pretty trippy. Because The Mandalorian takes place on the Outer Rim, however, it's doubtful that we'll be seeing any of the protagonists from the Skywalker series appear; however, the odds are high that they will be mentioned, as the circumstances from Return of the Jedi are part of the show's recent memories.
Update: As of the Season two finale on The Mandalorian, we have witnessed the immediate effects of the end of the Empire and the remains of Imperial rule still thriving in the areas of our galaxy. Some of the most memorable moments in The Skywalker Saga, including the Battle of Endor, have been reconstructed from the perspective of the Mandalorian team in flashbacks (and there's been notable appearances by characters from elsewhere in the universe).
So when does the Mandalorian Event Take Place?
The Mandalorian is set within the larger Skywalker Saga, in 9 ABY, five years following The Return of the Jedi and nine years following A New Hope. After the first trilogy, the series expands on an expanded Star Wars timeline and is set more than 30 years before the Force Awakens.
The series is generally set following the Empire's collapse, but before it was the New Republic. Therefore, two seasons in Mandalorian do not give an exact time frame. But, because Din Djarin (Pedro pascal) wears a brand-new Beskar Armor, it is believed that Grogu and Din Djarin Grogu went on numerous adventures during some months in-between seasons.
What are we aware of about What is the Mandalorian Timeline?
We've learned that The Rebel Alliance builds on the momentum gained from its victory at the Battle of Endor and finally defeats the Empire and creates The New Republic. The absolute defeat for the Empire is two years after the Emperor's death at the Battle of Jakku (hence all those Star Destroyers destroyed in the film The Awakening). Awakens). While some former imperial warlords such as Moff Gideon are still operating ships and troops during the Mandalorian period, the Empire is no longer a real force in the galaxy at the time of this episode.
We can see this shift in the power balance through The Mandalorian. Season 2 Episode 2 returns David Filoni's the New Republic Pilot Trapper Wolf. Wolf has revealed his belief that the Republic is slowly taking back the remaining systems in Imperial control.
Numerous Star Wars projects have filled some of the gaps of this time. The novels of Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy give insight into the making that was The New Republic. The Season 2 premiere of The Mandalorian also builds upon a book's storyline. In addition, Star Wars: Battlefront Star Wars: Battlefront games have focused on The Battle of Jakku itself. The sequel has revealed the crucial role that ex-Imperial agent Iden Versio played during that conflict. The most recent Star Wars: Squadrons also has its place in the post-Episode VI period and revolves around the rival Rebel and Imperial squadrons competing for supremacy in the current chaos.
A Mandalorian timeline: What does it have to do with the series as well as The Book of Boba Fett?
The Mandalorian is set within a period mainly left unexplored by Star Wars media. Some books have dealt with the events that occurred between the first trilogy and then the subsequent trilogy; however, few have presented important stories about well-known characters. Therefore, we're in the right direction for appearances from cameos, as we've witnessed with appearances from Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, and Luke Skywalker. In addition, Leia, Han, Lando, and Chewie are all in the air in the wild and may appear in the show.
Another quarter-century has passed in between The Mandalorian and the sequel trilogy, which suggests there's plenty of room for long-running stories. The Mandalorian can tie in with other Star Wars spin-offs, and Mando's appearance in The Book of Boba Fett illustrates that the creators aren't scared of crossing over. Boba Fett's series begins immediately following the Mandalorian season 2's finale featuring Din Djarin wielding the Darksaber and with Baby Yoda, real name Grogu, on his side. There's a good chance that the Mandalorian season 3 will follow on from all the drama of Boba Fett's show.
What does the word "baby Yoda is a factor?
In the final minutes of the pilot episode, the Mandalorian is informed that the bounty item Werner Herzog's character unnamed has hired to collect a child of Yoda's species. It's a baby who's 50 years old. What precisely the origins of the baby Yoda — whom fans have affectionately called the large-eared, slow-ageing alien has come from remains unknown; however, knowing that others of Yoda's race are located in the distant galaxy should not be too much of a shock. Furthermore, we were introduced to Yaddle, the woman Yoda alien in the prequels. This means that we already know that Yoda was not the only one of his kind.
What year Was when the Great Purge was?
We can learn from the comments of The Mandalorian, a.k.a. Din Dujardin, as well as his fellow enclave members located on planet Navarro of there was a Great Purge was a horrific incident that forced noble warriors to hide and was a bit "like rats living in sand." First, they seized Mandalore's valuable Oskar steel. Then, they melted the steel into bricks using an Imperial furnace (hence the Imperial symbol incorporated into Din's payment to Werner Herzog). However, the question remains: what was the Great Purge and when was it?
It was simple at first to confuse the Great Purge with the attack depicted in flashbacks of Din Djarin's previous life. First, characters discuss a terrible last incident; then, you present scenes from a terrible past event, a standard error to make. However, these are not the same event. We are aware of it because the empire carried out the Great Purge, and it's the Separatist Alliance seen destroying Din Djarin's village of childhood.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Reigns 5 Years Following The Clone Wars Ended
It's been a tense experience in the history of Star Wars games in this new era of the series. The fact that there have only been four games over seven years has irked the fans, and there was a lot wrong in the first two of the four.
There was an upswing; Battlefront II became awesome due to the hard-working developers before launching Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, One of the greatest Star Wars games ever. The story is fantastic and expected to continue into the near future, as it takes place five years following what happened in Revenge Of The Sith and the Clone Wars, at the beginning of the Empire's rule.
About The Mandalorian
He is the show's executive producer with Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. The show's title was announced in October 2018 when filming began at Manhattan Beach Studios in California. A visual effects business called Industrial Light & Magic developed the StageCraft technology used in the series, which uses virtual sets and an immersive 360-degree video wall to create the show's settings. The technique is now being used by other TV and film productions.
The Mandalorian premier in the streaming service Disney+ on November 12 the 12th of November, 2019. The first season of eight episodes received positive reviews. The show was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards and won seven Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The second season premiered on October 30th, 2020, and the work to develop the third season is in progress as I write this article.
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Balearic hotel occupation in September 90 percent
THE average hotel occupation on Majorca in September will be around 90 percent, four percentage points more than in the same month last year when 86.6 percent of places were occupied.
This indicates that the Balearics will be among the regions with the highest level of hotel occupation in September, according to sources from the Majorcan Hoteliers Federation (FEHM).
They also highlighted that the majority of hoteliers on the island report that the tourist season is "working out better" than last year for all of the tourist areas and they forecast results for the end of September which will confirm the upward trend of the last few years.
At this point they also highlighted the "exceptional" level of occupation which is being recorded in the Playa de Palma, with tourist hotel occupation levels of around 95 percent during the weekends and where, in some cases hotels have had to put up "full" signs. "In the other areas this month the level of occupation has not been so spectacular, but in general it has been good", the sources said.
During the high season reservations have been coming in without the need for special offers, a trend which will serve as a reference when tour operators and hotels are negotiating contracts for 2008, as it puts the hotels in "a better negotiating position" according to the Hoteliers Federation.
Although their position in the market has been recovered (it fell in the year 2003), prices have not increased in the same proportion.
In spite of this, the FEHM calculate that profit margins in 2007 will be "slightly above" those of last year, "because there have been no special offers and also because the number of hotels offering 'all inclusive' deals are decreasing", they said.
These are "positive figures" which were extracted from a poll which the Association did a few days ago among the heads of the 26 Majorcan Hoteliers Associations, who shared their experiences of the season so far.
The poll also showed a positive trend which will be confirmed once the definitive figures are known.
On the other hand, the same sources said that the there are some Majorcan hotels which will stay open until October 31, although it is still "unknown" how booking of places in tourist establishments will be handled, given that most reservations are made at the last minute.
Nevertheless, the hoteliers are expecting to exceed the results of the past year, when occupation in October was 60.6 percent.


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Q: Access reference in combination with RefLibPaths crashes access on exit I'm having the following issue. I've got a .mde that needs to use another .mde for some functions. That referenced .mde has to be on a unique location for every user. I thought I could drop it on our P:\ drive (which exists for every user but leads to a different folder). The only issue I got there access saves the UNC path and which gets translated to \\[server]\[user]\mylib.mde instead of P:\mylib.mde
So I thought I would use this guide:
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When I use this it works. Except that I can't close Access without crashing Access.
Some more detailed information about our environment. We're running on Win7 with office 2010 except for Access, which is Access 2003.
Anyone got an idea why this does not work?
EDIT: After some extra testing I've noticed that I Access does not crash when the reference .mde is located on my local hard drive, it only crashes when it's on a network drive.

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A Timperley woman with terminal cancer is looking to raise £50,000 to undergo specialist treatment in Germany that could save her life.
Mother of two Alison Rolfe, 50, was diagnosed with small bowel cancer in October 2015 after suffering chronic symptoms for several years.
She believes her condition could have been diagnosed much earlier had it not been confused with irritable bowel syndrome after she was diagnosed with coeliac disease in 2014.
She underwent a course of chemotherapy which was initially successful, meaning she could then have the operation she needed.
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She has now been diagnosed with a second tumour, and her best chance of survival rests with a clinic in Germany that could help her with specialist treatment.
"The main factor preventing Alison from being there right now is still the finance as although a great amount was raised the cost for treatment to start is approximately £50,000.
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