Mock drafts, like NCAA Tournament brackets, have been swept up in the fantasy sports culture. If your team is picking high in the draft, no matter the sport, you probably spent the weeks and months leading up to the draft reading reports and analyzing mock drafts until your bloodshot eyes scream for Visine.
As a result, you know exactly who the experts say should be selected at each pick. You've identified the best and the best of the rest, and you will become very testy if your team reaches outside of that consensus-designated boundary.
For the 2012 NBA Draft, the national basketball pundits had identified Kentucky forward Anthony Davis as the single biggest prize, a deadbolt-lock to go first overall. After Davis, they had identified a group of five other prospects as suitable selections for the teams that followed -- including the Cavaliers, picking at No. 4.
So we in Cleveland set our sights on a small selection of prospects and made up our minds that we'd be happy -- in varying degrees, depending on who you're talking to -- with any member of that group. If the Cavs took Kentucky forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Florida guard Bradley Beal, North Carolina forward Harrison Barnes, Connecticut center Andre Drummond or Kansas forward Thomas Robinson, some of us would have been less thrilled than others depending on the specific selection, but we could at least convince ourselves that the Cavs got one of the best players in the draft, and had secured a major building block for the future.
Then came draft night. And we found out that Cavs GM Chris Grant wipes his nose on mock drafts.
A year after causing a stir by reaching to select Tristan Thompson with the No. 4 pick, Grant did it again by reaching to select sophomore Syracuse guard Dion Waiters.
A report by ESPN.com writer and former Cavs beat reporter Brian Windhorst said the Cavs had whittled the No. 4 pick down to two players -- Kidd-Gilchrist and Waiters. When the Bobcats selected Kidd-Gilchrist with the second pick, the Cavs' decision was made for them.
The Cavs' front office is apparently very high on Waiters -- a prospect who granted no workouts to individual teams, possibly because he already had a promise from a lottery team. Whatever information the Cavs were able to amass on Waiters came from game film and the NBA draft combine in Chicago last month.
Whatever the Cavs saw sold them on Waiters' NBA potential, not just as a competent starter, but a first-option scorer on a winning team -- in other words, a legitimate star player. A player who was worthy of the fourth overall pick.
But convincing a fan based that was primed for names such as Barnes, Kidd-Gilchrist and Beal is going to take a bit more work. The Cavs are asking the fan base to take a leap of faith and see the star guard waiting to emerge from the shell of a backup combo guard, which was Waiters' role at Syracuse. A backup combo guard who, at 6'-4" and 215 pounds, is shorter and thinner than the prototypical NBA shooting guard.
As a fan, you flash back to Jim Paxson referring to Dajuan Wagner as "Allen Iverson with muscles," then try to swat that memory away. Do the likes of Iverson and Dwyane Wade prove that shorter combo guards can succeed in the NBA, or are they supremely-talented exceptions, thereby proving that shorter guards are indeed fighting an uphill battle against bigger, stronger competition?
Waiters may not have started, but at 24 minutes per game as a sophomore, he did play starter's minutes. He averaged 12.6 points per game, which projects to about 19 PPG in 36 minutes -- a more-than-respectable output for a realistic NBA workload. So he can score. And, heck, Wagner would likely have become a productive offensive force in the NBA had his career not been derailed by a severe intestinal disorder. Talent is talent.
But there's that nagging issue of Waiters' lack of size, and the fact that he very nearly brought Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim to his wit's end as a freshman with his utter refusal to play defense. Waiters' attitude reportedly improved as a sophomore, but his effort and competency at the defensive end bears watching.
It could be that the Cavs drafted a super-sub. Waiters might find himself hopelessly overmatched at the defensive end by bigger, stronger NBA two-guards. His NBA calling might be the exact same job he held in college -- coming off the bench for a quick-burst shot of offense against the other team's backups.
It's a necessary role on a winning team. If the offense stagnates, you need a player who can come into the game, take the ball and put it in the basket. It can force the other team to pull their backups and reinsert the starters sooner rather than later, which can work to your advantage later in games, and especially later in hard-fought playoff series.
If Waiters pans out as a new-generation Vinnie Johnson, the Cavs certainly could have done worse. But if a top-five pick yields a non-starter in any way, shape or form, it's a questionable use of resources.
After the Waiters pick, the news feeds were still churning with rumors that the Cavs were feverishly trying to make some kind of move. At first, we heard reports that they were still in hot pursuit of Harrison Barnes, selected at No. 7 by Golden State. Those rumors died off fairly quickly. But the Cavs did make a move.
At No. 17, they traded their three remaining picks -- Nos. 24, 33 and 34 -- to Dallas for the rights to North Carolina center Tyler Zeller. The pick was met with less criticism than the Waiters pick, but it still generated some controversy for those who thought three picks was too steep of a price to pay.
The Cavs, like most teams with four picks, don't want to sign that many rookies at one time. Each NBA team can only carry 15 players, and teams as a general rule don't want almost a third of the roster occupied by rookies -- not even rebuilding teams like the Cavs.
It makes sense, then, to take your remaining picks and trade them for one player who you believe can make a real difference to your team. Zeller is a 7-footer who lacks girth, and might have a limited ability to pack on more muscle, but he is a polished four-year senior with a reputation for good post moves, a solid midrange jumper and a high basketball IQ.
Most of us probably would have been satisfied if the Cavs came out of last week's draft with one safe pick and one calculated-risk pick. The trouble is, most of us wanted the safe pick at 4 and the risky pick at 24. Instead, we got a roll of the dice at 4 and a trade-up for a safer pick at 17.
Myself, I really don't care if Chris Grant, Byron Scott and the rest of the Cavs' decision-makers walk to their own beat when it comes to building a roster. But the beat better lead to sweet music in May and June sometime in the foreseeable future.
Right now, all we have is a front office with a hard-to-decipher philosophy on drafting, and a fan base that can only scratch their heads, shrug their shoulders and do their best to try and trust that Grant and his cohorts know what they're doing.


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Whoever pollutes it and "earns" from Shara, will pay
The price for freedom and the state
Aleksandar Litovski
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Anti-Macedonian psychopaths glorify Macedonian traitors like Mihajlov, Tatarchev, Drangov, Chkatrov and the rest of the Vmrovist-fascist dregs. They are spouting the most stupid nonsense to justify Vancheta's rehabilitation and continuity with his fascist and anti-Macedonian organization. As a few years ago, they carried out the rehabilitation of Vancho's comrade, the "legendary" murderer of Gjorce and Sandanski, the extreme Bugaroman Todor Aleksandrov.
In these transitional years, we got used to right-wing and neo-fascist Macedonian revisionism, many sleazy and sleazy shopkeepers and national converts throwing trash at Macedonian liberators and state builders. The most perverse thing is that among those sick people there are some who are considered our socio-political "elite", who are partisan children and grandchildren, persons whose ancestors fought for the creation of the Macedonian state and for the right and freedom of national self-identification of the Macedonian people. Among the revisionists there are also some historians-opportunists, who used to be members of the communist party, enjoyed privileges during socialism, wrote panegyric historical readings about the communists and their struggle, and today they play great Macedonian nationalists and "comites" delighted by Todor and Vancho. These are, in fact, ordinary ideological turncoats and national unfortunates, who, by drooling and historiographical diarrhea in front of today's bigwigs of the anti-Macedonian and anti-communist political parties, are trying to profit financially. And, of course, without any hesitation - they profit handsomely.
In the creation of the revisionist deluge of spittle, the descendants of the fascist-Bulgarian collaborators, those wretches whose grandfathers and uncles remained alive, undeservedly, thanks to the mercy and great virtue of Kolishevsky and the communist ruling structures, who in the form of creating a broad national liberation front, contribute the most to the creation of the revisionist deluge of spittle. , carried out a massive political and criminal amnesty. These neo-fascists, neo-fascists and pro-Bulgarian neo-superarchists, daily spit on the national liberation partisan army and the Macedonian state-makers, unable to accept the shameful national betrayal and hypocrisy of their ancestors. They think, of course in vain, that with slander, with lies about history, with absurd fantasies, packaged as historiographical revisionism, they can change the former defeat experienced by their fascist and anti-Macedonian ancestors into a victory.
The winners!
These days, seventy-eight years have passed since the liberation of the last Macedonian city by the Macedonian partisans, who, under the command of General Mihajlo Apostolski and under the supreme command of Josip Broz Tito, defeated and destroyed the ballistic and German-fascist armed formations. Those were the days when foreign occupier boots were definitively expelled from the Macedonian land, when the thunder of Macedonian shells and cannons proclaimed the birth of a Macedonian national freedom and a new Macedonian national state.
The Macedonian People's Liberation Army fulfilled its Macedonian patriotic duty by defeating and expelling from the country the foreign occupiers and domestic traitors and by creating the Democratic Federated Macedonia. It is an unchangeable historical fact that the Macedonian partisan rifle defeated the Tsarboris legions, and ballistic gangs, and Italian military-police paraders, and the powerful divisions of the Wehrmacht, and numerous occupation collaborators from Vancho Mihailov's gangs... Of course, all these victories were won with cooperation of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and in the final operations with cooperation with the invincible Red Army, the liberator of humanity from Nazi-fascism.
The supreme revisionists!
These days, once again, the pro-Bulgarian supremacists appeared to repeat the lie that the Bulgarian armies participated in the liberation of our seat. They convince us, those anti-Macedonians, that a few years before there was no occupation by the German and Tsarboris fascist hordes, because we were under Great Serbian occupation anyway. The fools think that nobody here has ever heard of the term reoccupation, so they will sell us their small-minded supremacist story. Simply, all normal and literate people know that the Bulgarian occupation cannot be relativized and hidden behind the old Serbian occupation. But these are the same ones who, for decades, have been convincing us that we are not Macedonians, but Bulgarians.
Those who, these days, repeat and rewrite the words of the anti-Macedonian "pop stars" from the east, that we lived in "Yugoslav totalitarianism", that "communists are criminals" and that it is necessary to renounce their state-building heritage. These are the same ones who constantly lie about the ability and numbers of the Macedonian partisan units, about the moral qualities of the Macedonian fighters and partisan leaders, about the invented mass shootings and imprisonments, about some kind of completely hallucinatory terror against the "Bulgarians"... All this would lead to disappearance of Asnom Macedonia, which is the main anti-Macedonian goal.
These days, this human and national scum, who hates everything with a communist and Macedonian connotation, is barking on social networks and in the media, against Kolishevski and the Macedonian communists whose bones were broken in Bulgarian and Serbian prisons and who were mercilessly brutally killed in the Macedonian mountains and streets in the occupied Macedonian cities.
Anti-Macedonian psychopaths, delighted by neo-liberalism and neo-fascism, comment and spit on those dead Macedonian heroes who stood up with a rifle in hand against the almighty Third Reich and its handmaiden - Tsarborisov's Bulgarian soldiers, and glorify Macedonian natives and traitors like Mihajlov, Tatarchev, Drangov, Chkatrov and the rest of the Vmrovist-fascist dregs. They are shaking up the most stupid nonsense and the most magnificent fabrications to justify the rehabilitation of Vancheta and the continuity with his fascist and anti-Macedonian organization. Just as a few years ago, with a caricatured imitation of the Bulgarian historical anti-Macedonian narrative, they justified and carried out the rehabilitation of Vancho's accomplice and comrade, the "legendary" murderer of Gjorce and Sandanski, the extreme Bulgarian lover - Todor Aleksandrov.
The non-national neoliberals!
But, apart from the semi-literate revisionists who rewrite the Great Bulgarian historical and anti-communist fabrications, these days, the behavior of the neoliberal "brains" on duty is interesting, who are silent about the rehabilitation of the Vanchovists and fascism and, miraculously, have no opinion about it. And they chatter and scream, even, about the "rights" of dogs and cats. Those faceless non-national elitists are silent as fish even about the freedom they enjoy today thanks to those brave Macedonian communists and patriots, who dared to fight and sacrifice eighty years ago. That "pro-European" weak-blooded "elite" of ours, made up of petty opportunists, profiteers and cunning scoundrels, unfortunately, does not even feel a racial moral obligation to defend anti-fascism. And they should have that obligation, because a large part of them, both property and education, are "inheritance" from the benevolence of the former state.
After all, the neoliberal poltroons of the plutocracy, due to their own anti-communism, can ignore it, but they cannot change the truth that the victory in the forty-fourth meant a radical increase in the quality of life and the range of individual freedoms and rights. It was that victory that allowed women in Macedonia to get the right to vote and become completely equal with men, it allowed the population to become completely literate from a level of almost complete illiteracy, it made it possible to carry out industrialization, for which other nations needed for more than a century, it allowed a high cultural-national emancipation to happen by building a network of respective cultural and scientific institutions, it made it possible to build the transport infrastructure that was completely destroyed, it made it possible to provide a free and quality health system for the entire population, it made it possible to introduce self-government, as the highest degree of democratization...
Honor and glory!
Hence, Macedonian citizens these days should not listen to the rumors that some foreigners liberated us, because that is an insult, not only to the partisan victims of the fight with the occupiers, but also to the Macedonian national honor today. There is no need for anyone to listen to and believe the revisionist liars about the mass crimes committed by the Macedonian state-makers, about the invented "complete dependence on Belgrade", about the idiotic equations between communism and fascism, about the anti-Macedonian small-minded comparisons and parallels of Vancho and Lazo, about mythologies for Cento, Pavel and Panko, who, although orthodox communists, have become contemporary symbols of Macedonian anti-communism.
Macedonian citizens should know that a huge percentage of pre-war and military Macedonian communists sacrificed their lives during the anti-fascist and national liberation struggle, that hundreds of those rebels and national disobedients were imprisoned and tortured in Bulgarian, Italian, Greek and Albanian prisons, and all for to reach national affirmation and freedom. Macedonian citizens should remember these days that the price for freedom and the state is - priceless. That there is no price! Because, it was paid with the lives of the best and most virtuous Macedonian sons. And because, if those values are lost, they cannot be compensated with anything. Therefore, if they truly love their freedom, their nation and their state, all Macedonian citizens should, without exception, always and everywhere, bow before the monuments erected in honor of the Macedonian partisans, with a simple slogan: Glory to the Macedonian anti-fascist victory !
The author is a historian
#columns #Aleksandar Litovski
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Dear Bulgarians, you are welcome at the grave of Gotse Delchev, and we invite you to Vatasha as well

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Melbourne tram route 96 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from Brunswick East to St Kilda Beach. The 13.9 kilometre route is operated out of Southbank depot with C2 and E class trams.

History
The line opened as a cable tram line operated by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company on 30 August 1887, operating along Bourke and Nicholson Streets. It operated until 26 October 1940, when the Bourke Street cable lines were abandoned by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) in favour of double decker buses. The Bourke Street cable lines were the last cable trams to operate in Melbourne.

The MMTB, unhappy with the performance of the buses, decided to reinstate trams when the buses reached life expiry, trams on the 88 (predecessor to the modern 86) started on 26 June 1955 with the first tram to Brunswick East operating on 8 April 1956.

The W7 class trams were built for running on these lines and the new Z class trams first ran on route 96 in June 1975.

The line was extended south to St Kilda along Spencer Street, the former St Kilda railway line, Fitzroy Street and The Esplanade to terminate in Acland Street on 20 November 1987 following the conversion of the St Kilda railway (along with the Port Melbourne railway line) to light rail. The broad gauge  track was re-gauged to standard gauge  and the overhead voltage was reduced from 1500 V DC to 600 V DC with light rail platforms built adjacent to the former stations' platforms.

With the closure of North Fitzroy depot on 19 December 1993, its route 96 duties were transferred to South Melbourne depot.

After the merger of the M>Tram network with Yarra Trams in 2004, most D2 class trams were transferred from Malvern depot to Southbank depot to help alleviate the congestion on the route. After the introduction of these low floor Siemens Combino trams on the route, accessible stops were built on Bourke Street, Fitzroy Street and St Kilda Esplanade, increasing customer safety and comfort.

In response to frequent overcrowding on the tram system in 2008, the state government leased new C2 class trams from Mulhouse, France specifically to run the route. The first of these new trams began operation on 11 June 2008 with the nickname Bumble Bee 1. In November 2013, the first E class trams entered service on the route. In January 2016 of which there are now 26 which saw all D2 class trams transferred to Brunswick depot. Route 96 began operating through the night on Fridays and Saturdays as part of the Night Network.

Route 96 Project
On 17 April 2012, it was announced that Route 96 would become the focus of tram upgrades to transform it from a tramway to a light rail system; a "model" for how Melbourne's tram network should operate. The Route 96 Project superseded a similar project of the previous government, Tram 109.

The proposed aims of the project are:
Providing level access stops along the entire route
Upgraded termini at Blyth Street, Brunswick East, and Acland Street, St Kilda
Segregation treatments to better separate low-floor trams from traffic
Improved priority for low-floor trams at traffic lights
Improved customer information

The objectives are to:
Increase access to trams and safety for customers through providing improved infrastructure and information
Improve tram reliability and efficiency through increased priority and accessible infrastructure
Ensure better utilisation of the road network with a focus on moving people
Design a full route of enhancements to demonstrate the benefits of a modern light rail system in Melbourne conditions, compared with a traditional tram network.

In mid-2013, the proposed changes were released to the public. They involved an eventual segregation of trams from traffic along nearly the entire route, and the upgrade of all stops to level access to improve passenger flow and make the network disability-compliant. On Nicholson Street, all on-street parking would eventually be removed to create dedicated tram lanes where it is illegal for cars to drive. Easy-access stops (level access by raising the road to footpath level) would be constructed between Blyth Street and Brunswick Road, while centre island superstops would be constructed between Brunswick Road and the CBD.

The Batman Park (previously the World Trade Centre) and Clarendon Street Junction (Previously Port Junction) stops in South Melbourne would be redesigned with a separate bay for the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant, while in St Kilda, some parts of Acland Street would be closed to cars in favour of widened footpaths, pedestrian plazas and tram right of way.

The project has received strong support from commuters, urban planners and public transport advocates, while there have been concerns from shop owners along the route that a loss of on-street parking will negatively affect business.

Work completed as at October 2018 has included:

new Blyth Street terminus headshunt at the northern end in July 2015
new Clarendon Street Junction stop in January 2016
new Acland Street terminus in December 2016
stop upgrades at Johnston Street, Moor street and Melbourne Museum  in September 2018 along with stop removal at Hoddle St and Hanover street

Route

Route 96 runs from its terminus in Brunswick East, travelling south on Nicholson Street through the suburbs of Carlton North, Fitzroy North, Carlton and Fitzroy, passing the Royal Exhibition Building and Melbourne Museum. It enters the CBD on Spring Street turning right into Bourke Street at Parliament House, travels through the Bourke Street Mall and turns left into Spencer Street, passing Southern Cross station. It crosses the Yarra River and enters Southbank on Clarendon Street before passing through the suburbs of South Melbourne, Albert Park, Middle Park and St Kilda on a right-of-way track. The tram line exits the private right-of-way and travels along Fitzroy Street and The Esplanade to Acland Street, St Kilda where it terminates.

Operation

Route 96 is operated out of Southbank depot with C2 and E class tram.

Special events and services
Several annual events affect the usual services along route 96:
Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix - most services terminate at Middle Park and are replaced with buses
RMIT University exams - (held at Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre) additional services
St Kilda Festival - additional services but terminate at St Kilda station

Route map

References

Further reading

External links

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1955 establishments in Australia
Transport in the City of Merri-bek
Transport in the City of Port Phillip
Transport in the City of Yarra
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I can't remember if it is one dream or several strung together, but I was being chased by a person (don't know the gender), who eventually caught me and started to hack at me with a knife.
I was flying above my grade school, when all of a sudden I was falling, and woke up. This happened twice. I was still attending that school, so it happened more than eighty years ago.
My little mother was walking on the edge of the ocean, and the weather was terrible. It was raining and VERY windy, when all of a sudden a big wave came crashing onto shore, and swept her away. I saw it happen; ran to the shoreline and tried to take off my jacket, but both arms were stuck in the sleeves behind my back. I watched her be swept out by the sea and drown.
Coming up stairs from my bedroom and not being able to stand up because people were shooting through the windows. Not sure who was or why. I have to crawl around and hid downstairs with family members.
Recurrent nightmare is to be chased, and when I reach a telephone I cannot dial correctly. The dream has manifest itself into pretty much every scenario familiar to my life from childhood being chased through home built tunnels to keep the Russians from enslaving my neighborhood, friends, family and way of life, to bad guys and strangers in my teens chasing my friends and me at the beach and shopping malls. In the former I was always trying to get to the old black dial telephone next to my mother's bed, and in the former I was always in search of a telephone booth. The recurrent nightmare was always so difficult to bear because when/if I finally got to the telephone it was very difficult to dial correctly. I forced myself to stop that dream when 911 came about; I saw that event as an opportunity to block further crazy dreams and it has worked well for me.
I and my family were being chased by maneating dogs. I was shooting them and blowing the maneating dogs up and trying to rescue others.
I dreamed that my Mother had died, while she was still alive, I sat up in bed and screamed for her. The dream was so real that I called her in the middle of the night to make sure whe was okay. Scared her when she found out why I called.
I recently dreamt that someone killed both my mom and my dog. I dont know the specifics, nor did I "see" it happen...I just became aware that they were both murdered, separately. IT WAS AWFUL!
My mother died in Afghanistsn. The grief was unusually vivid and the feelings of shock occurred the next day after the dream. In reality, my mom had been back from Afghanistan for 6 months at the time.
probably the one where the car runs off the road into a muddy river and i'm searching drastically underwater for one my children to keep them from drowning.
Being in combat, under attack in Vietnam (after I had returned home). Many soldiers around me had been killed, and I feared for my life. Strangely, the dream was worse than any hostile action that I actually experienced in Vietnam.
Although the aforementioned nightmare was damned terrifying, this one pulled out all the stops. The previous dream was horribly scary yet almost entertaining, and the perspective was mostly a detached camera view, so the terror was similar to that of a horror movie: escapist and kinda fun. This next one was awful for me as a kid. My dreams tend to not make sense, especially when I look back and remember certain details in order, and this one shares that same continuity problem, but in the dream, it seemed real. I was running away from some creature, and no matter what I did to try to stop it or try to outrun it, it just kept gaining on me. Only once did the dream actually reach a conclusion and not just "flip to a different channel," and in the dream it killed me. I woke up and my heart was racing and I could not fall asleep for several hours. In a few different variations, I try fighting it or using different tactics, and in one instance, I managed to kill it, since I realized I could control the rules of the dream. I've stopped having the dream since.
It is a recurring dream. I am in the house where I grew up and there are people trying to break into it. All of my family have gathered at the rear door, hoping to escape, but as we get to that door, we see that the lock is slowing being turned from the outside as the intruders are about to enter.
The only one that comes to mind is lying in bed and hearing someone in the bedroom who seems to be looking at me in the dark. I try to move to comfront the intruder, but again I can't move! It's scary as heck.
I was in a prior home,when a spirit(female in a long dress)was floating in the air towards me.I comanded it to leave IN THE NAME OF JESUS! It disappeared!
I had a nightmare about riding a bus with my mom to a haunted house. I had a horrible feeling about it, but couldn't convince anyone not to go. By the time we reached there, body parts were everywhere, but all the patrons thought it was part of the show. It turned out to be a slaughterhouse for Freddy Kruger. I can't remember the details, or perhaps I've blocked them out, but my mother and I made it out alive, while noone else did.
There was a big house on a hill that I was in, and this guy with a gun drove up and tried shooting me. The whole dream was trying to escape him, and I woke up once he finally shot me while I was running from the house through the yard.
I often have nightmares about spaceships, or unknown forces coming across a horizon, often with a sense of impending doom. The anticipation of death lasts and lasts and lasts...eventually i wake up.


Keropok Leko is one of my family favourite snacks and we never get tired of eating them he he he. When I first came to Kuwait, I brought some with me and whenever my mum came over, she will bring some too but face it, it wont last forever… I have to find the recipe so that I can make them myself. Actually there are lots of recipes out there in the internet for you to try and this recipe was given to me by one of the mums here… thanks Atie for sharing the recipe. I think this must be the 6th or 7th time that I made keropok leko using this recipe, alhamdulillah menjadi and everybody in the family love it.
Fresh from the wok ….
Clean and fillet the fish and then place the fillet in a freezer for about 1 hour so that they become semi frozen.
Add all ingredients and mix until they form a dough. This dough is kind of soft and stick to your hand… so don't worry about it and DON'T add any more flour!
Divide the dough into 20 equal balls. Take one ball and roll it into a cylinder. If necessary use some flour to sprinkle counter top before roll the dough.Or rub some oil on your hands to roll the dough. Repeat for all 20 dough.
Prepare enough water in a large wok at high heat. When water rolling boil, place all the cylinder shape dough into it and boil until the dough floated on the surface.Then remove dough from wok, set aside to cool down.
Once cooled, cut them into whatever shape that you like and deep fry in hot oil, or you can freeze them for later.
Last Thursday, 6 Jan 2013 Gulf Bank (this is where my other half works…) has announced their Al Danah Millionaire of 2012…. the luckiest person this year is a girl from Jahra. I've been told that her father deposited a very small amount of money to her account just before the dateline to make sure that she will be eligible for the draw and she is now a millionaire. Masha'Allah. I guess this proves that you do not need to have thousands of dinars in the account to be a winner in a draw… but should you have more money in the account, the probability of your account to be selected is more… hai bila lah nak kena Jawhara draw ni (this is Nationak Bank of Kuwait punya draw) he he he… berangan jugak tu!
Okay… back to real stuff… Mocha cake he he he. The recipe was taken from Food Network – Ellie Krieger. This cake suppose to be a guilt free cake. If you follow the cake and frosting recipe diligently, a slice of this cake should only contain about 200 calories. Is that low? Well, don't know much about this but this is what Ellie Krieger claimed in her Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger show he he he. For this cake, I didn't use her frosting recipe simply because most of the review said that the frosting was terrible, so I just used my simple coffee buttercream frosting. What do I think abut this cake? Well,this cake is soft and moist, not too sweet and I would say enough to satisfy your craving for cakes if you are on diet but honestly, you can't beat the real cake muahahaha. Having said that my girls love them so much. Happy baking ladies!
Arrange rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 175C. Spray a 9 by 13-inch cake pan with cooking spray and set aside.
Kullu 'am Wa Antum Bikhair … is a normal greetings that you will hear if you are in Arab world during Eid or New Year. It simply means "Wishing you blessings throughout the year" and I think it is appropriate for me to say Kullu 'am Wa Antum Bikhair here since we are now just started a brand new year… and to start off year 2013, I would like to present to you a charming chocolate cake that I took from Rahel blog. This cake is easy to make and lovely to eat. I baked this cake for my son's 5th birthday last year (wow! sound so long ago he he he). Actually his birthday was on the last day of the year i.e 31st December 2012… yes… end of the year baby. Happy Birthday Haqeem, we love you so much.
Let's check our the ingredient, shall we.
Heat up your steamer before making the cake. Line and grease a 8″ cake pan.
Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder in a medium bowl. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs, condense milk and sugar till sugar dissolved.
Add in the flour mixture into the wet ingredient and mix well.
Add in cooking oil and mix well.
Lastly add the hot water. Mix well.
Pour the batter into the cake pan and cover the top of the cake pan loosely with a piece of aluminium foil to prevent droplets from falling on the cake.
Place the cake pan in the steamer and steam for 45-60 minutes.


Outfit including burgundy beanie and tights and checkered floral dress.
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All I can think about is having all of these cozy items right now.
Cozy Peach: blush peach fuzzy pullover sweater tucked into blue denin jeans with a black Gucci belt. A simple and casual outfit, the perfect street style.
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Brush Creek Distillery, the craft distillery located at The Farm at Brush Creek, part of the award-winning Brush Creek Luxury Ranch Collection, never considered hand sanitizer as a future product release. However, the Distillery's manufacturing set-up and access to necessary materials provides an opportunity for small-scale production of hand sanitizer, a product that is in short supply nationwide and an integral weapon in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19).
"In times of need, communities must come together, and this is the right thing do for our neighbors," says Stephen Julander, Head Distiller at Brush Creek Distillery. "We've halted production of all spirits and have transferred all operations to this community partnership and helping keep the people of Carbon County safe during this pandemic."
Production and distribution began this week with approximately 1,000 eight-ounce bottles and additional bulk quantities distributed free to the local community. The distillery has been working with Carbon County first responders, medical clinics, and hospitals to identify the largest needs with the greatest benefit. Distribution will begin later this week.
This summer will mark Brush Creek Distillery's initial launch of its spirits line, including a Straight Bourbon, Straight Rye, New American Gin, and Vodka. The distillery instills the pioneering essence of the Wild West into its spirits by marrying age-old, true-to-life stories with flavors from the land. Each batch is handcrafted and expertly made locally, where we utilize the freshest and local ingredients unique to the West.
Like Brush Creek Ranch, the distillery is committed to visionary and innovative practices and helping consumers experience the True Spirit of the American West. For more information, visit https://www.brushcreekranch.com/thefarm/brush-creek-distillery.
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There are a couple of interesting looking boxes inside the house with light fittings and fixtures, we couldn't really get decent pictures of them (I had to use my phone - the camera battery was exhausted again), but it looks like the electrical is almost done.
We had our pool design meeting today, it went very well, and soon we'll be having a pre-construction meeting with them to pick all our options! We also have our framing inspection and pre-drywall meeting on Friday morning, and tomorrow or Thursday I'm supposed to take a "slow video" of everything in the wall so that we can find the studs etc after the sheet rock goes in.
The wires in the walls will be in conduits (at least some of them will be - and they'll even leave some conduit in there so we can run our own wires through them later), but in the attics here, they don't bother, since you can walk around in there and find them.
Nope, I know it's complicated, so here's the run down: the understair closet is going to be a secret room (for H or anyone else).
The bonus room is an actual room upstairs that will be our exercise room (an can also be a home theatre room).
The attic, which is next to the bonus, will house the utilities and plumbing/wiring, just like the attic in our current house (and, in fact, like the attic in D'Abadie - with the exception of plumbing).


Where is the current position of OCEAN VICTORY presently? Vessel OCEAN VICTORY is a pleasure craft ship sailing under the flag of Cayman Islands. Her IMO number is 1011850 and MMSI number is 319055400. Main ship particulars are length of 140 m and beam of 28 m. Maps below show the following voyage data - Present Location, Next Port, ETA, Speed, Course, Draught and Photos.


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Harold Wolpert
Harold Wolpert is a leader and strategist with nearly three decades of experience in all aspects of arts administration at major not-for-profit theatre companies. Wolpert has made significant contributions in executive roles at Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Alley Theatre. His areas of expertise include not-for-profit leadership, strategic planning, organizational and business development, relationship-building, financial management and board relations. He has proven adept at managing organizations through critical transitions in business models, creation of new strategies and approaches, and developing and leveraging talent to achieve success. In the industry, Wolpert is acknowledged as a national leader in the not-for-profit field through years of service to the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), most recently as LORT Vice President, Executive Committee member, chair of several LORT negotiating committees, key member of LORT's Diversity Initiative Steering Committee, as well as a member of Theatre Communications Group's (TCG) Board of Directors. He was recently honored with the Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award by the Lucille Lortel Awards. In the community, Wolpert has always been actively engaged locally, serving as a teacher, consultant, grants panelist, and volunteer. He was an adjunct lecturer for the Brooklyn College MFA Program in Performing Arts Management for nine years, and recently was a guest lecturer for Shanghai Theatre Academy. As Board Chairman of AIDS Foundation Houston, he led the organization's fundraising efforts. He is an active volunteer for The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people ages 13-24. A Philadelphia native, Wolpert earned a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Company Manager for Circle Repertory Company and Manhattan Theatre Club at the outset of his career.
An unparalleled commitment by a theatre to accessibility, equity, and outreach.
Pictured above: Harold Wolpert, photo by Lindsey Augusta Mercer.


One of the more common objections we get when talking to specialty manufacturers about Inbound Marketing is, "Our prospects don't use the internet to buy this type of product." Because Inbound relies in part on promoting offers of valuable content using social media platforms like LinkedIn, we also hear, "Our prospects aren't on social media."
Fisher Tank Company, one of the country's leading full-service welded steel tank fabricators and constructors, makes above-ground welded steel tanks for industries like ethanol/bio diesel, industrial, municipal, refining, pulp & paper, water & waste treatment and more. As you can imagine, their products are highly specialized, their sales cycle is fairly long (anywhere from 12 months to several years), many projects run into the millions of dollars, and sales of these massive tanks and related services come almost always as a result of requests-for-quotes (RFQs) or bid packages.
So would Inbound Marketing work for this specialty manufacturer?
Would the principles apply? – attracting visitors to the website, converting them to leads with content, and nurturing them with additional related content?
When we told the Fisher team that an Inbound Marketing approach would attract more (and more qualified) prospects to their website and give the company a chance to demonstrate how they think and what they do, they jumped at the opportunity. Since their founding in 1948, their sales people had grown the business primarily by cold calling, word-of-mouth referrals, and with repeat customers. Inbound could be a huge shot in the arm, they agreed; a way to extend their reach, attract visitors to their website and, by nurturing leads with content they're interested in, generate warm leads for their sales team.
Our first step was to help Fisher develop a more visually attractive site, and one that was a magnet for search engines. Aside from a fresh, contemporary look, we included calls-to-action to download content of interest and value to prospects (primarily engineers, owners and facility and project managers). We also improved the site architecture, integrated a blog with social sharing abilities, established company social media profiles, and optimized the site with the right long-tail keywords to get Fisher found in more searches.
Complete with simplified navigation, content offers, a blog, social media and optimized for search!
Here's a look at the numbers, just 12 weeks into launching Inbound Marketing.
While Fisher's team was somewhat hesitant initially to add an Inbound strategy and tactics to their marketing, today they're some of the most enthusiastic supporters and promoters of the approach. Their team is eagerly writing good content, sharing the content on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, and reaping the rewards as more and more qualified leads come to the site and download that content in exchange for providing their contact information.
If Fisher Tank isn't a testament to the power of Inbound Marketing for specialty manufacturers, I don't know what is.
Now that you've seen what Inbound can do for a company that manufactures big-ticket specialty B2B products, do you have any doubt it could work for yours?


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from __future__ import unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function

import ctypes
from ctypes import windll, wintypes, POINTER, Structure, c_void_p, c_char_p, c_uint
from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, DWORD

from .._ffi import FFIEngineError
from .._types import str_cls
from ..errors import LibraryNotFoundError

__all__ = [
    'advapi32',
    'get_error',
]

try:
    advapi32 = windll.advapi32
except (OSError) as e:
    if str_cls(e).find('The specified module could not be found') != -1:
        raise LibraryNotFoundError('advapi32.dll could not be found')
    raise

HCRYPTPROV = wintypes.HANDLE
HCRYPTKEY = wintypes.HANDLE
HCRYPTHASH = wintypes.HANDLE
PBYTE = c_char_p
ALG_ID = c_uint

try:
    class CRYPTOAPI_BLOB(Structure):  # noqa
        _fields_ = [
            ("cbData", DWORD),
            ("pbData", POINTER(ctypes.c_byte)),
        ]
    CRYPT_INTEGER_BLOB = CRYPTOAPI_BLOB
    CRYPT_OBJID_BLOB = CRYPTOAPI_BLOB
    CRYPT_DER_BLOB = CRYPTOAPI_BLOB
    CRYPT_ATTR_BLOB = CRYPTOAPI_BLOB

    class CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER(Structure):
        _fields = [
            ('pszObjId', wintypes.LPSTR),
            ('Parameters', CRYPT_OBJID_BLOB),
        ]

    class CRYPT_BIT_BLOB(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('cbData', DWORD),
            ('pbData', PBYTE),
            ('cUnusedBits', DWORD),
        ]

    class CERT_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('Algorithm', CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER),
            ('PublicKey', CRYPT_BIT_BLOB),
        ]

    class CRYPT_ATTRIBUTE(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('pszObjId', wintypes.LPSTR),
            ('cValue', DWORD),
            ('rgValue', POINTER(CRYPT_ATTR_BLOB)),
        ]

    class CRYPT_ATTRIBUTES(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('cAttr', DWORD),
            ('rgAttr', POINTER(CRYPT_ATTRIBUTE)),
        ]

    class CRYPT_PRIVATE_KEY_INFO(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('Version', DWORD),
            ('Algorithm', CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER),
            ('PrivateKey', CRYPT_DER_BLOB),
            ('pAttributes', POINTER(CRYPT_ATTRIBUTES)),
        ]

    class PUBLICKEYSTRUC(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('bType', wintypes.BYTE),
            ('bVersion', wintypes.BYTE),
            ('reserved', wintypes.WORD),
            ('aiKeyAlg', ALG_ID),
        ]
    BLOBHEADER = PUBLICKEYSTRUC

    class DSSPUBKEY(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('magic', DWORD),
            ('bitlen', DWORD),
        ]

    class DSSBLOBHEADER(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('publickeystruc', PUBLICKEYSTRUC),
            ('dsspubkey', DSSPUBKEY),
        ]

    class RSAPUBKEY(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('magic', DWORD),
            ('bitlen', DWORD),
            ('pubexp', DWORD),
        ]

    class RSABLOBHEADER(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('publickeystruc', PUBLICKEYSTRUC),
            ('rsapubkey', RSAPUBKEY),
        ]

    class PLAINTEXTKEYBLOB(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('hdr', BLOBHEADER),
            ('dwKeySize', DWORD),
            # rgbKeyData omitted since it is a flexible array member
        ]

    class DSSSEED(Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ('counter', DWORD),
            ('seed', wintypes.BYTE * 20),
        ]

    advapi32.CryptAcquireContextW.argtypes = [
        POINTER(HCRYPTPROV),
        wintypes.LPCWSTR,
        wintypes.LPCWSTR,
        DWORD,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptAcquireContextW.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptReleaseContext.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTPROV,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptReleaseContext.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptImportKey.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTPROV,
        PBYTE,
        DWORD,
        HCRYPTKEY,
        DWORD,
        POINTER(HCRYPTKEY)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptImportKey.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptGenKey.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTPROV,
        ALG_ID,
        DWORD,
        POINTER(HCRYPTKEY)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptGenKey.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptGetKeyParam.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        POINTER(DWORD),
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptGetKeyParam.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptSetKeyParam.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY,
        DWORD,
        c_void_p,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptSetKeyParam.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptExportKey.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY,
        HCRYPTKEY,
        DWORD,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        POINTER(DWORD)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptExportKey.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptDestroyKey.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY
    ]
    advapi32.CryptDestroyKey.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptCreateHash.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTPROV,
        ALG_ID,
        HCRYPTKEY,
        DWORD,
        POINTER(HCRYPTHASH)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptCreateHash.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptHashData.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTHASH,
        PBYTE,
        DWORD,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptHashData.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptSetHashParam.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTHASH,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptSetHashParam.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptSignHashW.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTHASH,
        DWORD,
        wintypes.LPCWSTR,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        POINTER(DWORD)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptSignHashW.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptVerifySignatureW.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTHASH,
        PBYTE,
        DWORD,
        HCRYPTKEY,
        wintypes.LPCWSTR,
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptVerifySignatureW.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptDestroyHash.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTHASH
    ]
    advapi32.CryptDestroyHash.restype = wintypes.BOOL

    advapi32.CryptEncrypt.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY,
        HCRYPTHASH,
        BOOL,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        POINTER(DWORD),
        DWORD
    ]
    advapi32.CryptEncrypt.restype = BOOL

    advapi32.CryptDecrypt.argtypes = [
        HCRYPTKEY,
        HCRYPTHASH,
        BOOL,
        DWORD,
        PBYTE,
        POINTER(DWORD)
    ]
    advapi32.CryptDecrypt.restype = BOOL

except (AttributeError):
    raise FFIEngineError('Error initializing ctypes')

setattr(advapi32, 'HCRYPTPROV', HCRYPTPROV)
setattr(advapi32, 'HCRYPTKEY', HCRYPTKEY)
setattr(advapi32, 'HCRYPTHASH', HCRYPTHASH)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_INTEGER_BLOB', CRYPT_INTEGER_BLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_OBJID_BLOB', CRYPT_OBJID_BLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_DER_BLOB', CRYPT_DER_BLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_ATTR_BLOB', CRYPT_ATTR_BLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER', CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_BIT_BLOB', CRYPT_BIT_BLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'CERT_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO', CERT_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_PRIVATE_KEY_INFO', CRYPT_PRIVATE_KEY_INFO)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_ATTRIBUTE', CRYPT_ATTRIBUTE)
setattr(advapi32, 'CRYPT_ATTRIBUTES', CRYPT_ATTRIBUTES)
setattr(advapi32, 'PUBLICKEYSTRUC', PUBLICKEYSTRUC)
setattr(advapi32, 'DSSPUBKEY', DSSPUBKEY)
setattr(advapi32, 'DSSBLOBHEADER', DSSBLOBHEADER)
setattr(advapi32, 'RSAPUBKEY', RSAPUBKEY)
setattr(advapi32, 'RSABLOBHEADER', RSABLOBHEADER)
setattr(advapi32, 'BLOBHEADER', BLOBHEADER)
setattr(advapi32, 'PLAINTEXTKEYBLOB', PLAINTEXTKEYBLOB)
setattr(advapi32, 'DSSSEED', DSSSEED)

def get_error():
    error = ctypes.GetLastError()
    return (error, ctypes.FormatError(error))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Kendrick Lamar is proud of his heritage and he wants the world to know. The Compton rapper releases his new self-empowering song "The Blacker The Berry" today which is scheduled to appear on his upcoming sophomore album. The powerful song produced by Boi-1da also features vocals from Assassin who appeared on Kanye West's 2013 album Yeezus. Listen to Kendrick Lamar reclaim his roots above and let us know what you think.


I just found out that Tony Hawk is in production of an animated feature/show/whatever created using Motion Capture. The trailer looks pretty sick actually. Skaters are Tony Hawk, Alex Chalmers, Chris Haslam, Russ Milligan, and Keegan Sauder. No info on IMDB though, Hmmmm. Via: Tacky World.
Fer-resh. The tricks look hella real. And they even snagged Tony's steez quite well. Posh!


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Xeneta Data Powers DNB Markets Forecasting Model, Keeping Customers Ahead of the Market on Maersk
June 6, 2018 – Oslo, Norway -- DNB Markets has developed an 'earning's crystal ball' by working with Xeneta, the leading global ocean freight benchmarking and market intelligence platform. The investment bank has tapped into Xeneta's up to the minute long- and short-term ocean freight rate data to accurately forecast the earnings of Maersk, the world's largest global shipping line, before they are released to the public.
Xeneta, which crowd-sources shipping data from more than 700 leading international businesses, has built a database of over 55 million contracted rates, covering 160,000 global port-to-port pairings. This, according to Nicolay Dyvik, Head of Shipping Research, DNB Markets, sheds light on the complex container shipping market, allowing his team to glean unique insights and make informed recommendations to customers seeking to buy and sell stock.
DNB Markets, part of DNB, one of the largest financial institutions in the Nordics and a key provider of maritime equity research, utilized Xeneta's data to build a model that accurately predicted Maersk's latest earnings. It works by estimating average container rates across relevant global corridors, before weighting those averages to produce an overall average rate. Changes in this figure can then predict Maersk's actual reported rates, allowing for detailed forecasts of revenue, profit and, ultimately, share price.
The Xeneta based model showed a close correlation with the firm's actual reported rates within the period, with an R2 (financial performance measurement) of 0.93.
"We are constantly looking for data that can have true market impact," Dyvik explains, adding: " Xeneta is the only source that provides this for container freight. It delivers detailed, global coverage of both long and short-term rates, allowing us to provide research that accurately predicts changes in earnings for shipping lines.
"Having looked at all data providers available, we are very happy to have finally found one accurate and broad enough to provide value to our clients."
Xeneta CEO Patrik Berglund comments: "It is our mission to provide total rate transparency, allowing users to make intelligence-based decisions that give them a competitive edge. We are now an established name within the shipping, carrier and freight forwarder segments, where customers know that we help them get the best value for their assets and services. Therefore it's pleasing to see how our data is now being used within new sectors, such as financial research, to accurately analyze and predict performance.
"We see this as a clear indication that we are the most up-to-date, comprehensive and trusted provider of ocean freight rate data and intelligence in the market. It is now our aim to build on that position and add an even greater depth of data, from our ever-expanding community of contributors, to unlock further insight and value for anyone looking to understand the complex and fast-moving world of freight rates."
Xeneta, which was last month named as a Cool Vendor in Supply Chain Execution 2018 by acclaimed technology research firm Gartner, Inc., is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with regional offices in New York and Hamburg. The firm has recently moved into air freight in a bid to help customers generate optimal value from negotiations in a segment that shares ocean freight's rate volatility.
Xeneta is the leading ocean freight rate benchmarking and market intelligence platform transforming the shipping and logistics industry. Xeneta's powerful reporting and analytics platform provides liner-shipping stakeholders the data they need to understand current and historical market behavior – reporting live on market average and low/high movements for both short and long-term contracts. Xeneta's data is comprised of over 55 million contracted container rates and covers over 160,000 global trade routes. Xeneta is a privately held company with headquarters in Oslo, Norway and regional offices in New York and Hamburg. To learn more, please visit www.xeneta.com.
Xeneta AS
M: press@xeneta.com


Former U.S. Congressman Victor H. Fazio advises clients on a range of public policy and government relations issues.
Mr. Fazio served for 20 years as a member of Congress, representing California's 3rd District. During his tenure of distinguished public service, he was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, serving as a subcommittee chairman or ranking member for 18 years. He was also a member of the Armed Services, Budget, Ethics and House Administration committees. In addition to his role on the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Fazio was active in the Democratic leadership of the House, holding several appointive and elected positions. He served as the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus from 1989 until 1994, when he was elected chairman, the third-ranking position in the House. He was the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm of the House Democrats, for four years in the early 1990s. He also was a majority whip-at-large and served as a regional representative on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
Before his election to Congress, Mr. Fazio served in the California State Assembly. Prior to being elected to public office, he was a senior assistant to the speaker of the California Assembly.
After his retirement from Congress in 1998, Mr. Fazio served as the co-managing partner of strategic communications consulting firm Clark & Weinstock in Washington.
Mr. Fazio is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, and served as a CORO Foundation Fellow in California upon graduation. He has a significant background in journalism and co-founded the California Journal, a periodical covering state government and politics.


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Soredex Optime Dental X-Ray Phosphor Plate Scanner is a laser scanning device designed to automatically read reusable SOREDEX dental intraoral imaging plate sizes 0, 1, 2, and 3.The unit can either be connection directly to the PC or to network via the LAN cable. USED EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION !!!


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text:
import React, { Suspense, useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import * as rtl from '@testing-library/react'
import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server'
import { hydrateRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
import { createStore, createSlice, PayloadAction } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'
import {
  Provider,
  connect,
  useSelector,
  useDispatch,
  ConnectedProps,
} from '../../src/index'

const IS_REACT_18 = React.version.startsWith('18')

describe('New v8 serverState behavior', () => {
  interface State {
    count: number
    data: string[]
  }
  const initialState: State = {
    count: 0,
    data: [],
  }

  const dataSlice = createSlice({
    name: 'data',
    initialState,
    reducers: {
      fakeLoadData(state, action: PayloadAction<string>) {
        state.data.push(action.payload)
      },
      increaseCount(state) {
        state.count++
      },
    },
  })

  const { fakeLoadData, increaseCount } = dataSlice.actions

  const selectCount = (state: State) => state.count

  function useIsHydrated() {
    // Get weird Babel-errors when I try to destruct arrays..
    const hydratedState = useState(false)
    const hydrated = hydratedState[0]
    const setHydrated = hydratedState[1]

    // When this effect runs and the component being hydrated isn't
    // exactly the same thing but close enough for this demo.
    useEffect(() => {
      setHydrated(true)
    }, [setHydrated])

    return hydrated
  }

  function GlobalCountButton() {
    const isHydrated = useIsHydrated()
    const count = useSelector(selectCount)
    const dispatch = useDispatch()

    return (
      <button
        disabled={!isHydrated}
        style={{ marginLeft: '24px' }}
        onClick={() => dispatch(increaseCount())}
      >
        useSelector:
        {isHydrated
          ? `Hydrated. Count: ${count}`
          : `Not hydrated. Count: ${count}`}
      </button>
    )
  }

  const mapState = (state: State) => ({
    count: selectCount(state),
  })

  const gcbConnector = connect(mapState)
  type PropsFromRedux = ConnectedProps<typeof gcbConnector>

  function GlobalCountButtonConnect({ count, dispatch }: PropsFromRedux) {
    const isHydrated = useIsHydrated()

    return (
      <button
        disabled={!isHydrated}
        style={{ marginLeft: '24px' }}
        onClick={() => dispatch(increaseCount())}
      >
        Connect:
        {isHydrated
          ? `Hydrated. Count: ${count}`
          : `Not hydrated. Count: ${count}`}
      </button>
    )
  }

  const ConnectedGlobalCountButtonConnect = gcbConnector(
    GlobalCountButtonConnect
  )

  function App() {
    return (

        <Suspense fallback={<Spinner />}>
          <GlobalCountButton />
          <ConnectedGlobalCountButtonConnect />
        </Suspense>

    )
  }

  const Spinner = () =>

  if (!IS_REACT_18) {
    it('Dummy test for React 17, ignore', () => {})
    return
  }

  let consoleError = jest.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {})

  afterEach(() => {
    jest.clearAllMocks()
  })

  it('Handles hydration correctly', async () => {
    const ssrStore = createStore(dataSlice.reducer)

    // Simulating loading all data before rendering the app
    ssrStore.dispatch(fakeLoadData("Wait, it doesn't wait for React to load?"))
    ssrStore.dispatch(fakeLoadData('How does this even work?'))
    ssrStore.dispatch(fakeLoadData('I like marshmallows'))

    const markup = renderToString(
      <Provider store={ssrStore}>
        <App />
      </Provider>
    )

    // Pretend we have server-rendered HTML
    const rootDiv = document.createElement('div')
    document.body.appendChild(rootDiv)
    rootDiv.innerHTML = markup

    const initialState = ssrStore.getState()
    const clientStore = createStore(dataSlice.reducer, initialState)

    // Intentionally update client store to change state vs server
    clientStore.dispatch(increaseCount())

    // First hydration attempt with just the store should fail due to mismatch
    await rtl.act(async () => {
      hydrateRoot(
        rootDiv,
        <Provider store={clientStore}>
          <App />
        </Provider>
      )
    })

    const [lastCall = []] = consoleError.mock.calls.slice(-1)
    const [errorArg] = lastCall
    expect(errorArg).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
    expect(/There was an error while hydrating/.test(errorArg.message)).toBe(
      true
    )

    jest.resetAllMocks()

    expect(consoleError.mock.calls.length).toBe(0)

    document.body.removeChild(rootDiv)

    const clientStore2 = createStore(dataSlice.reducer, initialState)
    clientStore2.dispatch(increaseCount())

    const rootDiv2 = document.createElement('div')
    document.body.appendChild(rootDiv2)
    rootDiv2.innerHTML = markup

    // Second attempt should pass, because we provide serverState
    await rtl.act(async () => {
      hydrateRoot(
        rootDiv2,
        <Provider store={clientStore2} serverState={initialState}>
          <App />
        </Provider>
      )
    })

    expect(consoleError.mock.calls.length).toBe(0)

    // Buttons should both exist, and have the updated count due to later render
    const button1 = rtl.screen.getByText('useSelector:Hydrated. Count: 1')
    expect(button1).not.toBeNull()
    const button2 = rtl.screen.getByText('Connect:Hydrated. Count: 1')
    expect(button2).not.toBeNull()
  })
})


San Antonio, a modern city with a distinct Hispanic influence, is the third largest city in Texas and has grown to become the the seventh largest in the United States. Most of the downtown area is attractive, with modern skyscrapers intermingled with historic sites (including the Alamo and the Spanish Governors Palace). The Paseo del Rio, or River Walk, contains shops and sidewalk cafes along the San Antonio River, and downtown entertainment is lively.
The winning of the Mexican War in the 19th century opened up large areas north and east of town for agriculture and settlement, which at the time gave rise to such towns as New Braunfels and San Marcos. This added many European immigrants and especially Germans to the mix. The best suburbs spread in this direction from the center city, with excellent housing values, schools and neighborhoods. These include Hollywood Park, the older and more upscale Hill Country Village, and numerous developments northeast of the State Route 1604 beltway. The sheer distance to some of these outer suburbs has brought some of the traffic and commute problems one might expect. Unfortunately, other inner neighborhoods and some suburbs extending in other directions have not fared as well economically and have a reputation for high crime.
Although the city has a laid-back character, there is a substantial business community that includes the headquarters of SBC Communications (AT&T), Valero Energy, Tesoro Petroleum (oil and gas), Clear Channel Communications and a strong banking and financial presence. Future job growth projections are strong. The South Texas Medical Center is one of the largest in the state, with a substantial medical and biotech research component.
Four nearby air force facilities bring a strong military presence. The city has a full complement of museums and cultural assets, sports teams (notably the NBA's San Antonio Spurs), transportation facilities, and entertainment venues. These advantages are accompanied by a strong economy, low cost of living, and a favorable winter climate. Better planning than most Texas cities has allowed San Antonio to avoid some growth-related issues.
Located on the San Antonio River in a flat to gently rolling area, the city sits at the border of the coastal plain to the southeast and the hill country to the northwest. The climate is a mix of humid subtropical elements in summer and continental elements in winter. Temperatures are in the 50's in January, and above 90 over 80% of the time in mid-summer. San Antonio is situated between a semiarid area to the west and a coastal area of heavy precipitation to the east. Precipitation is fairly well distributed throughout the year with the heaviest amounts occurring from May to September. Summer rain usually occurs as thunderstorms and most winter precipitation occurs as light rain or drizzle. Measurable snow occurs only once every 3 or 4 years. Tropical storms occasionally affect the city.
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The one spotted in Conn. looks o be wearing Colorado plates.?.
Great start to the thread guys! I love the ones that get captured while driving. The in-motion aspect is super cool.
Here a sweet OB I spotted this June in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood.
I used to know where two sat for a while but never took pictures.
I've only seen 2 others driving since getting mine but didn't get pictures.
Here's the most recent unexpected 928 sighting, 3 days ago.
It was a 79 I think, light front end damage, and a cabin fire.
It has an LSD in it, the yard poked a hole in the gas tank after I asked about buying it. The car seemed really well taken care of. I have no idea why it would have burned.
I met a guy in another junkyard here looking at an 81 928 looking for K jet parts, if he happens to see this hopefully he can go get the parts.
Spotted this one yesterday in Atascadero, CA. @ Home Depot on my way out. I wish I had more time would have liked to talk with the owner. Only second one I've seen in the last year in my area.
Found the guy. He was / is a Rennlist member, but hadn't visited for a couple of years.
928S spotted NB I-85 crossing the Yadkin River, Salisbury NC earlier today.
We were in the MB ML and he was 'getting on up the road".
Gave a nice cursory wave to the SO after the photo.
^^^ Dang! Nice shot! And nice car. Kiln red I believe. Great color.
My wife and I saw a rather tired looking black mid-80s rolling south on the I-476 NE Extension.
Ha Ha - that was my '85 Euro, 5spd , on post#16! - Headed to VIR yesterday for the IMSA race! -small world!, and Yes I always enjoy driving her!


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The actor: It's fair to say there's no role too big for Malcolm McDowell. From his first film appearance in Lindsay Anderson's 1967drama If…, McDowell commanded the screen with his cocksure charm and devilish swagger. That impish quality served him well in 1971's A Clockwork Orange, lending a sympathetic tinge to the movie's sociopathic protagonist, and in later parts, like the self-mythologizing head of the Joffrey Ballet in Robert Altman's The Company. On the occasion of Clockwork coming out on Blu-ray and the U.S. release of Never Apologize, which chronicles the three films McDowell made with Lindsay Anderson, The A.V. Club asked the actor to look back on his long, sometimes checkered career.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)—"Alex DeLarge"
The A.V. Club: Much of the language of A Clockwork Orange comes out of Anthony Burgess' book, but what made you decide to give Alex a Northern English accent? That's where you're from.
Malcolm McDowell: Yes. I decided to do it Northern, because if it's Cockney, it's very sharp letters. You sort of expect a spiv or a thug. But Northern, the vowel sounds are much softer, and therefore I felt that the fact that he is this menacing character with this softer sound would be more interesting.
AVC: So you thought it through on those technical terms.
MM: Yes. I mentioned it to Stanley, who went, "Whatever."
AVC: Although Kubrick lived in England, he was raised in the U.S., and the subtleties of those different accents are lost on Americans.
MM: I know. Actually, there was a good case in point, because he had cast one of the stuntmen to play the eminent doctor—Sir something something. When the guy came in, the stuntman, he had a good Cockney accent, he goes, "Ah, well 'ere Minister, 'ere's little Alex now." I started to laugh. He said, "What are you laughing at?" I said, "He's an eminent doctor, Sir something, he's not going to have a Cockney accent."
AVC: There's a funny link between Clockwork and If…. Stanley Donen was the president of the jury when If…. won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and you later found out Donen was personally responsible for presenting the film as a compromise choice between polarized factions. Later, you picked "Singin' In The Rain" as the song Alex would sing while he's beating a man half to death. You've said Donen's co-director Gene Kelly wasn't thrilled about that.
MM: Stanley took it for what it was, and knew it was an homage to him and to Gene. Of course I meant no disrespect. It was instinctive, because they made such an important and indelible sequence out of that. It's a terrific movie, anyway. I can understand somebody being really pissed, of course I can. It's a shame.
AVC: It says something interesting about how Stanley Kubrick worked at the time. Kubrick is known as a control freak, doing hundreds of takes until he got exactly what he wanted, but that song, which you suggested using on the set, ends up playing an important role in the plot, and even plays over the closing credits.
MM: It totally, totally changed the movie, I think in the same way Peter Sellers changed Strangelove. It's the perfect device, that's what's so amazing, because it gets us over the rape and beating in this satirical way.
AVC: It also seems representative of the kind of energy and even theatricality you brought to your performances at the time.
MM: But don't forget, of course, that Alex was a music lover. He loved Beethoven. He was obsessed by it. And of course it would follow that he would like "Singin' In The Rain."
O Lucky Man! (1973)—"Mick Travis"
MM: Can you imagine that ever being made today? The only reason we made it for Warner Brothers was because Clockwork Orange was such a huge hit. I sent them the script, and the director just happened to be in New York, two weeks after the film had opened. I don't know whether they read the script. It wasn't an expensive movie, we did it very reasonably, £1.7 million. That was probably $3 million. But it encompassed everything, and the music.
AVC: Just the style of the film is so wild. It opens with a silent-film parody, there are musical numbers—
MM: You know, I'm the one who gets his hands cut off [in the silent film]. A lot of people don't even know it's me. I play two parts.
AVC: After you get thrown in jail, Lindsay Anderson puts those statistics up on the screen about how many people are in prison, and it's as if we're briefly in a whole different kind of movie.
MM: Nonsense, pick any number you want, it's nonsense. That was the whole point, though, because people manipulate statistics however they want. So they don't mean anything, that's what that's saying.
AVC: O Lucky Man! started out as a story based on your experience as a coffee salesman, but it grew into this massive, absurd picaresque. When did it leave your control?
MM: I did not write the original 40-page treatment to sell the script with me as the writer. I could care less who did it. I knew it would be a collaboration between David Sherwin, the writer of If…., myself, and Lindsay Anderson. But I'm the start of it. I did write a lot of it, but I don't need to be credited with that, because David earned his living as a writer. And that was pointed out to me, when I went, "Well, really I should be co-writer." Then he goes, "What's your next script?" I go, "Well, I don't know." And he goes, "No, you're not a writer, let David." To be fair, Lindsay wrote the majority of it anyway.
AVC: Your treatment wasn't, for example, "And then he comes across a man whose head is attached to the body of a sheep."
MM: No, it wasn't that specific.
AVC: I mean the more fantastic elements, generally.
MM: There was the whole fantastic element of the nuclear meltdown, that I handled myself. It wasn't quite as catastrophic as that, but Lindsay took it to its nth level. Which was great. Which was correct, to do it that way.
AVC: There are little lines here and there that seem like they might be references to you: "This is no place for a boy from the North," or when you're serving at a soup kitchen and you're told not to "put on an act."
MM: I don't think the one at the soup kitchen is in relation to me and my career. Of course, the end is the audition for If…. in a very stylized way. It didn't happen like that—my God, I wish it had, but it didn't. I kept saying to Lindsay, "I don't know how to end the damned thing." He goes, "What happened to you?" I went, "I became a movie star." He went, "There you are."
AVC: Was that the actual script for O Lucky Man! he slapped you with? It's a long, long movie.
MM: Of course. It's this thick. I said, "Can't we cut this down?" He had me do a good 15, maybe 18 takes. I don't remember the number. I remember having the crap beaten out of me. David had rather naïvely put in, "He hits Mick, and Mick smiles the smile of success." Of course, that's just a writer's fantasy. He doesn't know that you can't smile the smile of success if you're hit with a script like that. You're actually quite stunned. But there was a rather enigmatic sort of look, which was perfect, the look of understanding. It is the Zen moment. It leads back to when I auditioned for If…., this girl [Christine Noonan] slapped me so hard. That was the Zen moment in my life that moved me from there to there.
Never Apologize (2007)—himself
AVC: It's great that Warner Bros. is taking this opportunity to release Never Apologize, the film of your one-man show about Lindsay Anderson.
MM: Then you know a lot about it, because it's all there. I was thinking of actually doing a script, a film, about my relationship with him, and maybe playing him. Because it's a love story, in a way.
AVC: You speak of him with great affection and respect, and playful criticism as well.
MM: It's almost like a marriage.
AVC: Never Apologize definitely conveys a sense of how creative relationships work. On O Lucky Man!, you and David Sherwin are plotting out who will bring each newly written scene to Anderson, since if you both bring it, he'll reject it out of hand.
MM: No, because he'll think we're ganging up. "You take this, I'll take this." And then he'd go, "Yes, I rather like this, that's not bad. Good work today, boys." It's like the master at school giving us an A. It's unbelievable. That's the way we did the damn thing. It seems inconceivable now, but that's the way it was done. I had it in the back of my mind, maybe, to do it, and to write the script about the whole relationship, and the whole thing of the films and everything, because I thought that people would never see that. And we could do that reasonably cheaply. It wouldn't have to be on location with him looking around and going, "Who is this girl?" "Oh, that's my girlfriend." "Get her off the set!"
The Player (1992)—"Malcolm McDowell"
MM: Bob was a friend of mine. We were friends for 35 years. I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much, because I always thought he was a genuine voice. If you wanted to know what was going on in America for all those years, just go rent Altman's movies. He was a unique person, and anti-establishment; he hated Hollywood and all that. But what fun to have a night with him. They loved to party, those guys.
AVC: Did you have anybody in mind when you came up with the moment where you confront Tim Robbins' producer in a hotel lobby?
MM: Actually, I did. I'm not going to tell you who it was. I stupidly said to the man—who I'd worked with, who went on to head three major studios, at which I never worked of course, for one of them. Because I went up to him at a screening, and I said, "Look, if you want to badmouth me, you can do it to my face, not behind my back." And I just turned. Then I read, oh my God, he's the head of UA, then he was the head of Columbia. And I went, "That was a bit stupid." So at least I got the one line I could use, and I gave it to Altman for his film.
Time After Time (1979)—"H.G. Wells"
MM: Oh, I love that part. I love that film, actually. Well of course, I was in love during the filmmaking—how could you not love the damn film? And I've always loved San Francisco since. In fact, Mary [Steenburgen] and I went back there six years later, and I'm like, "What the hell do we like about this place?" I said, "My God, even the Tadich Grill is not that good." So you do see a place through rose-tinted spectacles. It was a wonderful time, and also such a beautiful part. Normally I would have been cast as Jack the Ripper, and I'm so happy David Warner did it brilliantly, and I didn't have to do that. H.G. Wells was such a fun part.
AVC: There are recordings of Wells, and photographs, but you don't seem like an actor who buries yourself in research.
MM: I never do research, unless it's extraordinary circumstances. But I actually did do research for that part. I called the BBC's archives office, and I said, "Would you send me recordings of H.G. Wells?" He'd done a radio interview in 1932 or something, whatever it was. Anyway, the vinyl comes, I put it on, and I was so shocked to have this high-pitched, whiny Cockney accent. I thought, "Right, I'm going to take that to Hollywood." So I sent the thing back, and I went, "Forget about, you know. I'll grow the mustache, that's it. That's the character."
AVC: Did you ever regret not taking the opportunity to play more good guys?
MM: The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves. I'm very happy to be where I am. Of course, H.G. Wells is really a character lead; it's not a romantic lead, even though it's a romance. And actually, when the studio sold the movie originally, they sold it as a Jack the Ripper chase movie, which killed it stone dead. If they'd sold it as a romance, a love story, I think they would have done a lot better with it, because audiences loved that film. Mary and I snuck into a screening in Times Square, and the whole black audience were talking back to it. We were like, "Oh my God, this is so much fun!" We loved it; we just had so much fun watching it with them. But because of this dreaded word, "market research," which has its place but has replaced a nose for the business, ingenuity, whatever, they thought it would be better off sold as a Jack the Ripper movie.
Royal Flash (1975)—"Captain Harry Flashman"
MM: Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course. He'd done The Three Musketeers and the Beatles movies. An incredibly talented man, who just withdrew from the business because there was a tragic accident on one of his sets [The Return Of The Musketeers]. Roy Kinnear, who was a friend of mine, was killed on a horse. Actually, he wasn't killed on the horse; they killed him in the hospital. They gave him the wrong thing, or something. It was tragic, and of course it wasn't the fault of Dick Lester, but he took it very hard, and he couldn't bring himself to direct again. Which is our loss. But I also met Roy Kinnear's son. That was a great treat for me, because I loved Roy. He was such a great actor; he was such a wonderful, roly-poly character, and a wonderful comedian. It was very, very tragic.
Royal Flash, it was a lot of fun to do it. It was really sad that we didn't start that franchise with the first book. But there was so much baggage attached to it that Dick Lester said, "To hell with it, let's just do the second one." That's why there's this whole thing at the beginning with him at the fort—that's the whole of the first book, right there. Awarded the V.C., because he had the Union Jack draped around him. Of course it fell on him, hit him, knocked him out, and he got entwined in it. It was a great part, but it didn't really quite gel. The script was a bit overlong, then they introduced the partisans halfway through. Just a bit too much going on, I think. But Oliver Reed was wonderful as Bismarck.
AVC: The books aren't that well known in the U.S., but that must have been a hugely anticipated film in Britain.
MM: Yes, I think so. But in Britain, there again, it should have been the first one, and I think people just went, "That's weird." So they didn't go see it.
Star Trek: Generations (1994)—"Dr. Tolian Soran"
AVC: You've gotten some flak for killing Captain Kirk, haven't you?
MM: I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming. I don't do too many of those things, but I've found them very cordial, and I'm very happy with the film. I think it's a terrific film, Star Trek: Generations. It was nice to be in [William] Shatner's last one, and do the dastardly deed myself. It was nice to work with Patrick [Stewart], because I hadn't worked with him since Stratford-on-Avon, 1965. As I like to say, he was playing old men even then.
Fantasy Island (2002)—"Mr. Roarke"
AVC: You told Shatner that half the audience would hate you for killing him and half would love you, by which you meant they were sick of seeing him in that role. That's never happened to you. You've had a few TV opportunities, like Fantasy Island, but they haven't lasted long.
MM: I wish they had done. I'd rather got used to the life in Hawaii. But unfortunately, the scripts weren't that good. It was a great shame, but it's all to do with script, you know. I've got this new show called Franklin & Bash, and this time we've got really top-drawer writers that are fantastic. And these two kids are fantastic, Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
Heroes (2007-08)—"Daniel Linderman"
AVC: The verdict from the fans is that the show went off the rails at some point.
MM: I had nothing to do with that. They made some dumb choices, but Tim Kring is a very talented man, and he will come back with a great series, I have no doubt whatsoever. I wasn't even sure whether I should even do this thing. I thought, "I don't know, I don't think I want to do a TV show, a reoccurring bit." Anyway, I was talking to my son, Charlie, my older one. I said, "Have you ever heard of this thing, Heroes?" He goes, "Dad, I love it!" I went, "You do? Oh, I've just been offered something." He goes, "Oh my God, you got to do it!" I went, "Oh my God, I think I turned it down. All right, listen, I got to get off the phone. I'll call my agent. Are you sure I should do it?" "Yes!" I call my agent, said, "You didn't turn it down yet, did you?" He went, "No, no, I knew you'd be calling back." I said, "I'll do it."
I had no idea they'd been building this Linderman character up all season. It was a culmination, and this incredible character. I was very happy, and it just worked beautifully. Baking pies, it was a great scene. Then it was such a success, that character, even though they killed me off. But it was so successful. They brought me back for the next season, but unfortunately, the man who'd written my thing originally was off on another series. He was doing Kings with Ian McShane. McShane is a terrific actor. I like McShane a lot. He's another one who found a career late, which is great. I mean, better late than never.


2If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.


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