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Episode 16: What It's Like To Go Viral and Be a Video Producer, with Evelyn Ngugi
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You may have bumped into one of Evelyn's hilarious videos on the Internet, ranging on varying topics like beauty, travel, social justice, and Beyonce. Born to immigrant parents from Kenya, Evelyn always wanted to be a storyteller – and today she's exactly that – a humor writer, digital storyteller and successful YouTube star with over 240K subscribers. On this episode, Evelyn tell us how the vision for her career evolved, how she followed her creative passions and eventually made the scariest move of all – to go freelance and work for herself.
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YouTube invited me to interview Margaret Atwood. And so to sit down next to the person who wrote Handmaid's Tale and talk about storytelling and talk about writing about the dystopian future, that was super cool.
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Welcome to the Early Career Moves Podcast, the show that highlights remarkable young professionals of color killing it on their career journeys. I'm your host, Priscilla Esquivel Weninger – proud Texas Latina, daughter of immigrants, and lover of breakfast tacos. Meet me for a coffee chat each Friday, as we dive into a special guest's story, and hear all about their challenges, milestones, and lessons learned. If you're a young professional of color and you're feeling lost in your career, or just need a dose of inspiration, you're in the right place! Let's get started.
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Hey everyone, today you get to hear from Evelyn from the Internets, also known as Evelyn Ngugi or Evie. Evelyn is a humor writer. She's a digital storyteller based out of Austin, Texas.
And in her own words, this means that she posts funny words and videos on the internet, but I would add that she's wildly successful at doing so. Evie's YouTube channel has blown up since it started back in 2008, as it's had nearly 18 million views and has over 240,000 subscribers. On this episode, Evie guides us through her early career years, as she figured out what she wanted to do with her journalism degree, as digital content and social media blew up. She also tells us what it was like to go out on her own, leaving her corporate job behind, and freelancing as a self-employed boss.
Priscilla: Hey, Evie, welcome to the show.
Evelyn: Hey, y'all, thanks for having me on, Priscilla.
Priscilla: Yes, I am so excited to have you here today and to get to dive into your career story because, you know, a lot of my guests tend to come from more traditional career paths, but I love that your story is a little more non-traditional and I'm just excited to share your story with everyone. So Evie, why don't we start with having you just tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, how you grew up, anything that we should know about you.
Evelyn: Yeah. So I grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, and the Fort Worth Texas area. I moved to Texas when I was in seventh grade and that's where my parents still live today. My parents are Kenyan, so I am first generation American. And, you know, I moved to Austin to go to journalism school. So that's me.
Priscilla: When you were growing up, what did you think that you wanted to become when you would get older? And how did that lead you to UT and studying journalism?
Evelyn: So when I was younger, like elementary school, I thought movie director, because that's the only thing I knew existed besides the actress. So I was like, "Yeah, movie director," didn't really know what that meant. And then in junior high, I was on the yearbook committee, I was on the newspaper staff, so it turned kind of into, "okay, journalism," and that's when I knew I wanted to go to college for journalism. And so I did, I chose magazine, not because I particularly know many things about magazines, but because I wanted to learn how to research a story for a long period of time. And I thought I would grow up and follow some rappers for Rolling Stone and then just write these big stories about what happened. I always thought I would become a reporter and just be dispatched to all these places. I really saw myself as a culture writer, so not like, "There was a fire down the street," but writing feature stories and really getting to know different cultures, different types of people, and traveling the world and doing that. I didn't know how that would happen, but that's what I thought.
Priscilla: That's so cool because even though you didn't land exactly where you thought you were going to land, you are doing those things now. And in many ways you sort of are a movie director, right, with your video work and your YouTube channel. So, yeah, very interesting. So tell us how you first got involved with starting a YouTube channel in college.
Evelyn: Going into college, I knew that I would have to diversify my skillset just because I entered undergrad around the time where the recession was kind of ending. And so I was like, "Oh, there's not going to be many journalism jobs because newspapers and publications rely a lot on advertising." And when we're in economic downturn, advertising is the first thing to get chopped. So I was like, "Okay, let me continue this hobby that I have for making videos and using an actual camera and hopefully that will make my resume and my skill set a little more diverse. So I am the journalist and reporter who's not just writing but can also make a video about it in case that is what's required. So I didn't make that definite decision when I was in college, to keep doing YouTube on the side. I started using YouTube maybe in 2008 when I started school. And it was just a hobby on the side whenever I had time, since I've always been like a media type girl even from the times of like cassette tapes and burning things onto DVDs, YouTube was like that next evolution and the technology of creating your own media.
Priscilla: Yeah. You were definitely ahead of the curve with the whole YouTube thing back in '08. How did it start out? What kind of videos were creating? What did that look like?
Evelyn: Yeah. So it was just my thoughts. It was more like a diary in a way. Over time, I realized that people would post videos talking about themselves, because at the time everyone thought YouTube was funny cat videos, bloopers. It wasn't really like a place you go to watch things as much as it is now. I started following these Black people who are around the world and doing interesting things, and for me, I had only ever traveled to Kenya. So I wanted to travel a lot more in my adult life now that I was in college. And so I started watching all these people and it really inspired me to keep making videos of my own and talking about my own life.
Priscilla: Yeah. And so, as you were working on YouTube and being creative and expressing yourself, I know eventually you graduated from college and you had to find a job. So how did you approach your first job? What was that like figuring out what to do next after you graduated?
Evelyn: It was so difficult. I graduated a semester early and so I wasn't prepared at all. I kind of just showed up to my advisor and she was like, "Okay, go ahead and order your cap and gown." And I'm like, "For what?" She was like, "Well, I mean, you have no more credits." And I was like, "Oh, all right." So, it kind of threw me off to to be done with school on December, so I ended up moving back home to Fort Worth and I was doing some freelance copywriting online. I was trying to get freelancing writing gigs and I was playing around in Photoshop and just doing things for myself, trying to keep myself busy because I wasn't full-time employed. And then I applied for a fellowship and I got it. I went to Arizona, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, and they paired us with the local publication, and so we worked there while taking classes at the school. And so that's what I did right before I moved back to Austin, because the whole point of that fellowship was that you would get placed at your hometown's version of that publication. So for me, that would have been the Dallas Observer. So I was excited to be moving to downtown Dallas and live that whole life, but that didn't end up working out. So then I got an opportunity to be a social media manager at a place I interned at in college, and that is what led me to Austin.
Priscilla: So social media manager is a pretty common title nowadays in 2021, but back in 2012, that wasn't as common. So what did you do in the role at the time?
Evelyn: It really was all about getting people to engage, whether that means an Instagram strategy for increasing comments or writing tweets. We used to have giveaways because I worked with the hair and beauty space. It was also kind of customer service because we had an online shop. If people want to complain, they usually do it on social media, so managing all of that. So it was a lot of creativity but also a lot of strategy and looking at numbers and being able to make presentations to the CEO about that. It was a lot of copywriting, a lot of working with a designer to make any visuals that you want to make. And it was a lot of presentations because you have to convince the higher ups that it's worth it at the time. But now I don't think anybody needs convincing that social media is important.
Priscilla: Yeah, definitely not. So, Evie, how did you evolve from a social media manager at this company to doing more video production and then ultimately becoming a freelancer slash having your own business? Or how do you define what you do? How do you describe it?
Evelyn: I just had my own YouTube channel there on the side that I had since college. That was really the only thing I did until we started making videos at my full-time job, just a couple of us with who had some free time at work. And so slowly but surely we created this new job position, a new section, new department of the company to produce videos. And one by one, we got promoted to that. So I was there from 2012 to 2017, so five years full-time. And then the time I realized it was time to move on was when I've been doing so many things for my YouTube channel on the side, I might have to take some paid time off or I would always be having to leave my job to go do this YouTube thing on the side. And so I was like, "What if I just freed up my whole time to do this thing?" And it felt like a good time to do that. I think I was 27 at the time and I was like, "Yeah, I can ride out my twenties doing something new, I guess." So that's when I decided to just resign and take a little break. So then I started freelancing even more and I still struggle with calling it one unified business. I feel better saying like self-employed or like a freelancer versus an entrepreneur. So right now I'd say that I'm just self-employed, working for myself, and I'm a video producer. So back then is when I realized that it was time to take this step.
Priscilla: Yeah, which we'll get to in a little bit what that was like for you to become a freelancer. But before that, I'm curious, when you were balancing your full-time job, just starting to do more video production but also doing your own thing on the side, were these purely creative projects that you were developing that you were not getting paid for, or were you actually starting to be able to charge for some of that work that you were doing?
Evelyn: It was both. So in order to get the projects where people pay you to do it, you have to do a lot for free or not even for free. You have to have a body of work already. Yeah, just uploading videos because it was a fun thing to do and it was my hobby, but also because I was starting to become involved in different projects or maybe work with sponsors, so I would have ads in my video. So it was a mixture of both.
Priscilla: Yeah, that must've been so exciting to see that starting to grow, right?
Evelyn: Yeah. It's weird because it happened so gradually. I really don't think I appreciated it at the time because people always ask me like, "How did it feel getting your first hundred subscribers?" And I'm like, "That would have been like over 10 years ago." I don't remember when, so I didn't really appreciate things as they were happening because it was happening over such a long period of time.
Priscilla: That's also a really good piece to pull out of your story, Evie, is that you are not like an overnight a YouTube star, right? Like, you have put in work over a long period of time. I think that's really important and how much consistency is required to be able to really build a brand and a platform and to be well known for it. So I'm curious on a personal note, did you feel shy when you started to create YouTube videos and put them out there into the world?
Evelyn: I did not feel shy and I have this video about the difference between being quiet and being shy. It's really about where your energy comes from and where your energy goes. And so for me, I'm quiet because I am people-watching or I'm just observing things, but we're Leos, Priscilla, okay, we're Leos, so there is that part of us that's like, "get me onstage, hand me the mic," we're just ready. So there's a little bit of that going on but also when you're making these YouTube videos, I'm still in my room by myself. So it's not as an extroverted of an activity, it's probably the most introverted activity because you're just by yourself recording videos.
Priscilla: That is such a good point. I think that's so true. I'm currently in a room by myself, essentially talking into the air with you, but I totally agree and we definitely have that in common, although I'm definitely a baby podcaster at the moment. But yeah, so Evie, you've probably had so many cool experiences like connecting with people all over the world now that your YouTube channel has gotten to the level that it's at. What has that been like for you, to connect with strangers all over the world?
Evelyn: It's been such an amazing experience and experiment, just because you never know who is watching. You never know what things mean to people. I have gotten emails from women who were like, "Girl, I am old enough to be your grandmother, but I love your videos." I've talked to dads who are like, "Hey, my daughter watched," and so it's just been really interesting to see and meet the different types of people. So it's always so funny to see who's watching.
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Priscilla: Totally. And at the same time, you've also created content that can really impact people's lives and the way that they feel in the world. And what comes to mind when I say that is the video that you made in 2015, Calling in Black, where you basically talk about the ongoing trauma that Black folks deal with as they hear about more and more Black death that goes unchecked. So that video, you have nearly 170,000 views on that video. Was that something intentional that you thought through like, "How do I make videos that are speaking to some of these other more serious topics"?
Evelyn: It was never a decision that I made. It was more just the nature of the videos I was making. So if I'm making videos about my life or telling stories about my life, there are certain stories that I can't separate from the news or current events or whatever is going on at the time. So I don't talk about every single thing just because that's exhausting. But whenever I do feel especially passionate about something, I will make a video about it.
Priscilla: Yeah, very cool. So let's move into talking about what it was like for you to become a freelancer and so what it was like to leave your full-time job, the security of that, and joined this world of freelancing, what was that like for you?
Evelyn: Yeah, so the suckiest thing was that first year I didn't have health insurance just because it is so expensive. Even this year, I have health insurance this year and every time I see that money leave my account, I'm just so pissed. So that was a con to the whole experience. It was just making sure I'm not spending more than I'm making, but I also had saved money from all those years of side hustling while I had a full-time job. So I've had a lot of savings that allowed me to extend the time that I took off. And I did move out of my apartment just because I had to make sure I had the money so I was like, "We need downsize," and I rented out a room at my friend's house. So, yeah, just trying to minimize my bills while I'm making this transition, and I did have a lot of savings though.
Priscilla: Yeah, that can be super scary. So how did you deal in those moments when you were just freaked out?
Evelyn: Definitely crying, definitely happened. Just letting yourself freak out is the best thing you can do, because if you try to hold it together, you're not going to hold it together very well for very long. So just allow yourself to feel the feelings. And I think those freak outs are what led me to never really take a true break. I was always working on something for that fear of not being able to do this long-term, yeah. I guess the long and short of it to that question is that I'm still, every month I'm like, "Oh, okay. We did it, we did it."
Priscilla: Yeah, and how do you figure out balancing your personal time and then your work time, especially since you're your own boss, basically you direct your own time and how you spend it. Has that been a challenge for you?
Evelyn: Yeah, I still haven't found my balance. I do work weekends so for me, it's that the days themselves don't mean anything. I can have my weekend in the middle of the week if I want, but Saturday doesn't automatically mean it's my weekend. I also work random hours. I try to work regular nine to five hours, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, just because that's the way the rest of the world works so that I can be up when everyone else is up and sleep when everyone else is asleep, but that doesn't always end up working. And sometimes I'm up till 4:00 AM, but that's because I didn't get started until maybe 3:00 PM. So it's flexible in that I can make up for my mistakes whenever or however I want.
Priscilla: Yeah, and when you started freelancing, you went from working on a team, seeing co-workers, having people around you, to suddenly being a lone wolf. Was that a hard transition for you to go from a big team to basically being a little bit isolated? Was that a challenge for you?
Evelyn: No, it was very difficult. I joined a co-working space just to get out of the house, just because I was like, "Dang, if I don't go grocery shopping or something, I'm in the house all week." So I got a little spot at a co-working space, but that was just to get out of the house. It wasn't much like socializing that took place. And so even at the beginning of the year, I was actually looking for part-time jobs so that I could have co-workers, but then the pandemic hit or we realized the pandemic hit, and then I was like, "Dang, back to having no co-workers." So it's something that I'm currently trying to understand how to acquire, how to be on a team. And that might mean like changing up some of the work that I do so that I get to be on teams.
Priscilla: Okay. Tell me about some of the coolest moments that you've had so far in your career as a YouTuber.
Evelyn: So there have been many that all of them feel ridiculous. YouTube invited me to interview Margaret Atwood. And so to sit down next to somebody, the person who wrote Handmaid's Tale and talk about storytelling and talk about writing about the dystopian future, that was super cool. And then on another occasion, YouTube asked me to speak at one of their events and they just threw in casually the day of that I would be speaking after Malala. And so the purpose was for me to give more laughter to the crowd after listening to her talk about super heavy stuff, and I was like, "No pressure." So I got to talk after Malala, and then having my video shown on Beyoncé's world tour definitely takes the cake. It's what everyone talks about, so.
Priscilla: Yeah, so for the audience who's listening and may not know this, Evie actually created a video reviewing Beyoncé's Lemonade album, and in 2016 during Beyoncé's world tour, Evie's video made it to the video collage into the concert. And so her video popped up on the big screen and I'm sure millions of people saw it. So, anyway, Evie, what was it like finding out? How did you even find out that you were being featured in Beyoncé's concert?
Evelyn: So my college friend, actually, he texted me in the middle of the night and I was like, "What are you–" because he was just texting random stuff and I'm like, "What's wrong with you?" And so then he texts me a video and he's screaming and I'm like, "Are you at a concert? Where are you?" And it was my face on the jumbotron.
Priscilla: That is truly wild and amazing, Evie. And of course, indicative of just how talented you are. So anyway, what would your advice be to someone who is looking to make a similar early career move, like, leave your corporate job to become a freelancer?
Evelyn: Oh, yeah. I would say work at finding the balance between being prepared, but also accepting that sometimes to begin, you can't wait until you know everything. I don't even know if that makes sense, but it's this feeling of sometimes we get scared because we're like, "I'm not knowledgeable enough." But if you wait to become quote-unquote "knowledgeable enough" you'll never start. So it's being responsible enough to prepare and do your due diligence when learning about taxes or things like that. But at some point you're just going to have to press start and go, and then you learn on the way
Priscilla: That is great advice, right, because we learn as we go, we get better as we go. And if we stay paralyzed, then nothing happens, so great advice. Okay. Very last question – tell us what you're up to. What are some upcoming projects? What are you working on? What's next for, Evie?
Evelyn: Yeah. So right now I'm producing videos for my own YouTube channel, but also working with other organizations and other channels to either host shows on their channel or contribute in the way of writing a script. It's fun to collaborate with people. And then moving into 2021, I'm hoping to start season 2 of Say it Loud, which is a PBS digital studio show on YouTube. And then I would love to be more diligent about screenwriting and learning how to write TV shows. So that's what my next plan is.
Priscilla: I love that and I can't wait to check out all of those projects. Evie, thank you so much for being with us today.
Evelyn: Thanks for having me on.
Priscilla: Thanks for tuning into The Early Career Moves Podcast. Be sure to visit ecmpodcast.com to join the conversation, access the show notes, and become a part of our newsletter community. And if you love this episode, head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Talk to you next week.


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Pasta is one of the items that is easier to find in Cuba; ditto for tomato sauce in tetra packs. I found it rather ironic that I shipped packages and packages of my favorite De Cecco pastas and dozens of cans of tomatoes in our container, only to discover that versions of both are almost always available in the markets.
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Place flour in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the center. Pour the eggs into the well. Beat the eggs with a fork, working in some of the flour.
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Thirty-seven anti-torture activists arrested at White House
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Thirty-seven members of Witness Against Torture were arrested in front of the White House on Thursday, January 12 around 3 p.m. Dressed in the iconic Guantanamo orange jumpsuits and black hoods, and accompanied by a cage representing indefinite detention, the activists were warned to clear the sidewalk by National Park Police or risk arrest. After occupying the sidewalk for more than three hours, they were arrested one by one.
Nine arrested occupying Trident sub base entrance on King Day
On January 14, 2012, activists from a local peace group blocked entry to the main gate at the Navy's West coast Trident nuclear submarine base for nearly a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons.
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action held a peaceful vigil and nonviolent direct action at the main gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington. The group protested the U.S. government's continued deployment of the Trident nuclear weapons system. Its continued reliance on nuclear weapons as an instrument of foreign policy is in contravention of both U.S. and international laws.
Persistent women arrested again at Vermont Yankee
As they participated in a walking meditation in the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant driveway to mourn cancer deaths caused by radioactive emissions, fourteen women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group were arrested Wednesday, January 18 by Vernon police and Vermont state police when they refused to move.
Pentagon arrests mark Feast of the Holy Innocents
Report from Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington, D.C.
On December 28, the feast commemorating the slaughter of the holy innocents in Bethlehem ordered by King Herod, our community held an early morning witness outside the Pentagon metro entrance. Displaying a small mock drone warplane, eleven people staged a "die-in" to represent children and numerous others who have been murdered by U.S. Drone attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere. They were arrested and charged with failure to obey a lawful order and released several hours later with a February 17 court date. Following the arrests, as hundreds of military and civilian workers streamed into the Pentagon, the remainder of the community held a prayer service in the fenced-off area outside the Pentagon metro known as the "free speech" or "protest zone."
Fr. Bix fasting and praying in lone prison cell
On January 10, Fr. William "Bix" Bichsel, SJ left SeaTac, and headed to a federal transition house in Tacoma, Washington for the last month of his sentence for a July 2010 protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Tennessee.
That evening, friends who are Buddhist monks with the Nipponzan Myohoji Order on Bainbridge Island, were part of a group who were walking and drumming on their way to attend a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day vigil and action at the Trident nuclear sub base in Bangor. Senji Kanaeda and Gilberto Perez decided to make a small detour to drum and pray in front of the house where Bix was now residing.
Bix was very happy to see and hear them. His captors were not as happy, and reported the incident. Early the next morning, Bix was abruptly awakened, shackled, and returned to SeaTac by marshals. Upon his arrival, he choose not to comply with demands and was placed in a solitary cell in the special housing unit (SHU).
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A strange new alien companion?
Thousands of tiny space spiders?
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Q: How to make two states in mobx that toggle each other? I'm trying to create an object that has two flags that can't be both true. How do I do that? I can't find a relevant example in the docs. I was thinking somewhere in the lines of:
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The Out of Towners (1999)
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Plot: The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
Release Date: 02 Apr 1999
Starcast: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese
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John Cleese Is A Bad Girl! (by Guitar-8)
Every time I think about that movie, I always laugh over John Cleese's character, Mr. Mersault.He's rude, sophisticated in the outside, but he's also a transvestite who loves to dress in ladies' clothes dancing to Donna Summer's Bad Girl! And when I hear Donna Summer's song, it reminds me of John Cleese.Another scene I liked was when they were in the limo, and a drugged Steve Martin describes his wife as being "Frisky!. He tells his wife to say that word as well as Mr. Mersault. The hotel manager loved that new word, "Frisky!".Years ago, I went to see <more>
John Pizzarelli in concert. Afterwards, I met him & told him I liked him the movie. He started singing "That Old Black Magic". Here's the zinger, I told him that his performance was very "Frisky"! Pizzarelli laughed at my comment!That made the movie funny for me!
What a Trip! (by hershykissed26)
This remake of a movie is funny! Steve and Goldie are a great on screen couple! They bounce off each other with their comedic timings. The antics that come about are hysterical! I love the car scene with the map - that could happen to anyone and I fear that it would happen to me one day if I rent a car like that! Let's not forget John Cleese! LOVE him! He is quite the "gay" man in this film - what an uproar he makes!!! His scene in the guest room with the fur coat and the high heals - makes you wonder how long it took him to learn how to walk let alone dance. This movie is a <more>
GREAT remake. I thought the first one was a little strained but this version is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
What is everybody's problem? (by lilkbraptor15)
This movie was great. I don't know why all of these people thought it wasn't good. If you haven't seen this movie, I advise that you should watch it. You will certainly laugh and you'll certainly have a lot of fun. Steve Martin is great, and so are Goldie Hawn and John Cleese.I rated it a perfect 10!
A Funny, Funny Movie (by jtesto)
I don't know why so many people are slamming this movie, I thought it was hilarious. Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, and John Cleese make the movie very, very funny. A decent sense of humor is all one needs to laugh from beginning to end.
A remake which outshines than the original! (by tenderlovingtony)
After seeing the new version of "The Out-of-Towners," I rewatched the original the next day, and am of the firm opinion that the Steve Martin-Goldie Hawn version is not only one of the funniest movies this year, but an improvement over the original.Here's why: The Jack Lemmon-Sandy Dennis version suffered from poor pacing; a lot of screen time was wasted watching them walk in the rain, for example. The new version moves much more quickly and contains funnier gags. It's also a plus that the couple's children are grown and figure into the plot, replacing the quite young <more>
children unseen in the original.Another problem with the original was the discontinuity of the characters. The couple the Kellermans in the first outing; they're now the Clarks was supposedly from Ohio, but Jack Lemmon's character carried the same attitude "Your lawyers are going to hear from my lawyers about this." as any number of Neil Simon's native New Yorkers. Sandy Dennis also spoke in a tone of voice and accent which suggested Brooklyn, not Columbus. She also had misplaced concerns "What about the milk for the children?" more appropriate in a local with time on her hands than a visitor in a run for her life.Finally, one glaring plot hole from the original has been fixed. In the 1970 version, the Lemmon character is interviewing for a job in the Manhattan office of the firm he now works for, and it is established that he has been there before. It is a mystery why he simply didn't call someone from the office when he got in trouble. In the new version, this same character is out of work and interviewing with a firm whose members are unknown to him.Although both films are quite good -- the 1970 version is a notable icon of the helplessness and frustration people felt with the world at the time -- the 1999 version stands as the better production.
Surprisingly funny (by Frank-177)
Surprisingly funny movie with the dynamic duo Martin/Hawn.The movie brings to life the differences between the American cities and the countryside. Even if these exist, they are seldom brought up in the rest of the world.This plot gives a warm feeling inside and brings up real problems and thoughts with comic twist.
This movie is funny! (by Soledad-2)
Sorry to disagree with so many negative reviews. I have not seen the original with Jack Lemmon and I don't doubt the original is much better than the remake, but I feel the obligation to tell everyone that I really enjoyed this movie a lot, that I love Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, who are in the list of my favorite actors, and that this movie is really funny. Therefore, I wish to recommend this version and I can assure you that you won't regret it.
Funny Movie (by Bluesradio62)
This is a great comic tool for two great comic actors ...Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin.....Definitely has some hilarious scenes and might even make you fall in love with New York again.l There is no doubt it's campy but a little campy fun is always a joy...


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U.S. Junior Amateur Qualifying
Yolo Fliers Club
Pairings/Results
Recent Lodi High School graduate Justin Gums is headed back to the U.S. Junior Amateur championship.
Gums, who also qualified for the 2016 U.S. Junior Amateur, fired a 6-under 66 at Monday's qualifier held at par 72 Yolo Fliers Club. His round included eight birdies and two bogeys to earn medalist honors. Gums has committed to play golf for TCU starting in the Fall.
Finishing second to Gums and also advancing is Bryce Kvick after his 4-under round of 68. Kvick, who is a 2018 graduate from Del Campo High School, will play golf for Long Beach State after he concludes his junior career.
With just the top three advancing to the championship proper, there was a playoff for the final qualifying spot. Advancing from the playoff after a round of 3-under 69 is Chase Sienkiewicz, who will be a senior at Jesuit High School in Carmichael, CA this fall.
Ryan Meyer of Oakdale, CA takes the first alternate spot after also shooting 3-under 69. Joey Burlison from Salinas, CA, takes the second alternate spot after shooting 2-under 70.
This year's U.S. Junior Amateur will tee off July 15-21 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
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Q: Extracting nearest lat-lon and time value from netcdf using xarray I have a netCDF file with foll. structure:
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Dimensions:    (latitude: 94, longitude: 192, time: 366)
Coordinates:
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  * latitude   (latitude) float32 88.5419 86.6532 84.7532 82.8508 80.9474 ...
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How do I extract values for a grid cell for a specific latitude and longitude (say 86.45, -156.25) and time (say 2016-01-10)? It is possible that the exact latitude/longitude value is not in the coordinates in which case we want the closest latitude/longitude value
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A: You are quite close although you don't have quite the right syntax yet:
_hndl_nc.sel(time='2016-01-10', longitude=-170.0, latitude=-20.0, method='nearest')

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Read multiple coordinates with xarray


Food was forgotten from our order again (has happened twice before), at least the delivery man realised just before getting to my door, apologised straight away and got onto the phone to get the second bag delivered ASAP. The food was luke warm and bland. Puddle of liquid on my plate straight after serving.  Three strikes and you're out! That was our last order from you.
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The second book in Erin Bowman's gripping Taken trilogy, Frozen, will thrill fans of dystopian sci-fi series like Michael Grant's Gone and James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
Gray Weathersby has escaped Claysoot and uncovered the truth behind the Laicos Project and the Order's twisted plans. Determined to fight back, his small group of rebels is on the hunt for more answers and more allies—a search that will take them on a harrowing journey across a frozen wasteland, and even deeper into a world built on the Order's lies.
In Frozen, discover more of the nonstop action and riveting plot twists that made Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the Legend trilogy, call Taken "an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end."
Erin Bowman used to tell stories visually as a web designer. Now a full-time writer, she relies solely on words. She lives in New Hampshire with her family, and when not writing she can often be found hiking, commenting on good typography, and obsessing over all things Harry Potter. Erin is the author of Contagion, the Taken trilogy, Vengeance Road, and Retribution Rails. You can visit her online at www.embowman.com.


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Marco Fichera (Catania, 4 de septiembre de 1993) es un deportista italiano que compite en esgrima, especialista en la modalidad de espada.

Participó en dos Juegos Olímpicos de Verano, obteniendo una medalla de plata en Río de Janeiro 2016, en la prueba por equipos (junto con Enrico Garozzo, Paolo Pizzo y Andrea Santarelli), y el séptimo lugar en Tokio 2020.

En los Juegos Europeos de Bakú 2015 obtuvo una medalla de bronce en la prueba por equipos. Ganó una medalla de bronce en el Campeonato Europeo de Esgrima de 2018, en la prueba por equipos.

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Esgrimidores de Italia
Esgrimidores en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016
Esgrimidores en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020
Medallistas olímpicos de esgrima
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de Italia
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de Río de Janeiro 2016
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Talisman in the age of difference
By Sedition
Date July 6th, 2018
A group exhibition curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE explores the subversive and the magical in the context of African and African diasporic cultures. Talisman in the Age of Difference runs from 5 June to 21 July 2018 and features works made from the past century. Artists featured in the exhibition include Larry Achiampong, Ghada Amer, Romare Bearden, Armand Boua, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Sonia Boyce, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Beauford Delaney, Samuel Fosso, Kendell Geers, Hassan Hajjaj, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Isaac Julien, Abdoulaye Konaté, Hew Locke, Whitfield Lovell, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, William Pope.L, Jeremiah Quarshie, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Kehinde Wiley and Portia Zvavahera.
Talisman in the Age of Difference looks at magic and beauty in work by artists of African origin and across the diaspora and by artists who empathise with the spirit of African resistance and representation. The works include paintings, drawings, objects and sculptures, many of which challenge conventions of beauty. Shonibare's focus is on the power of subversive beauty as a form of resistance.
In the context of the exhibition the artwork is a talisman - both a marker of change and an active producer of change. A talisman is simultaneously a gateway to the vast and unknown, a projection of hopes, wishes and desires, and a political vehicle.
Questions at the heart of Talisman in the age of difference include 'Can political art truly convey the power of its subject? Can art that is unconventionally beautiful be a form of resistance?'. The exhibition, and the accompanying reading list compiled by Iniva from the Stuart Hall Library collection, seeks to address these and other questions linked to beauty, convention, spirituality and identity. Also accompanying the exhibition is an essay by Antwaun Sargent titled Black Magic, written in response to the exhibition.
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Q: how can i set a background image in ios objective c to rootViewController? i can set a background color like :
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Whether you're traveling for work or pleasure, dealing with back pain while on the road or in the air an take the joy out of traveling. If you suffer from chronic back pain, here are some tips to help you manage your back pain while traveling.
Talk to your doctor and notify the airline.
While there is no guarantee, with a letter of medical necessity from your physician, the airline and flight crew may allow you special accommodations, such as upgraded seating, priority boarding and allowing you to get up and move about the airplane cabin as much as needed on long flights. Of course, safety is always the airlines' top concern, but it can never hurt to ask. When you book your trip, contact the airline and inform them of your medical condition. As needed, you may be provided wheelchair assistance in the airport, as well as assistance with your baggage.
If you're flying, schedule your trips for the least busy time of day to increase your chance of having extra room to stretch out on the flight. Call to schedule your flights by phone so an agent can provide insight and help you pick the flight that is least likely to be packed full. If possible, limit layover and connection times so you won't be stuck sitting in an airport for hours. And if you do end up with a long layover, be sure to walk, stretch and then find a place where you can lie down on your back and rest.
Whether you're traveling by plane or car, be sure to bring a lumbar support pillow or back roll to help prevent slouching and keep your spine straight. A neck pillow may also help with neck pain and provide a more comfortable position to catch some sleep.
Don't forget your pain meds.
If you take over-the-counter or prescription pain medication, be sure to pack it in your carry-on and have them with you at all times. Take your pain meds one hour before leaving on your trip so it's already in your system and working.
Long car and plane rides can no doubt be uncomfortable, and with airlines continually decreasing passenger space on the plane, you may find it difficult to ergonomically position your body to avoid pain. However, try to keep your feet flat on the floor with your knees at a 90-degree angle. If you have long legs, request an exit row for more leg room.
As much as possible, get up and move around on long flights. Try to find an open space near the back of the plane where you can do a few light stretches to loosen tight muscles. If you're taking a road trip, schedule frequent stops (at least every hour, or more if needed) to get out of the car, move around and stretch. Any movement you can do on your trip helps stimulate blood flow to your lower back. While seated, adjust your position at least every 20 minutes. Flex your feet and ankles frequently to keep blood flowing and stretch your leg muscles.
Applying a cold pack to your back can help reduce inflammation that may be causing your pain. This is easier to do if you're traveling by car rather than plane, though you may be able to ask the flight attendant to fill a small Ziploc bag with ice on your plane. Instant ice packs found at the pharmacy are another good option. Be sure to keep a protective layer of clothing or a towel between your skin and the cold pack.
A long trip in the car or on a plane allows for plenty of time for you to focus on deep breathing to relax your muscles and nerves. Listen to soothing music or read a book or magazine that will help distract your mind from any stiffness or pain you might be experiencing. Stay focused on your final destination and the scenery and activities you will enjoy once you arrive.
If you suffer from chronic back pain, contact Houston's experienced back pain doctor, Dr. Vivek Kushwaha, today.


Open data is at the centre of innovation in agriculture, food security and nutrition. Data is elemental to identify needs, track progress and make change happen.The ILSI Research Foundation is leading an effort to greatly expand the use of open data in nutrition modeling, in close collaboration with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. The GODAN Open Data Summit brought together world leaders, researchers, farmers, students and leadership from the public and private sectors to collaborate on making agriculture and nutrition data open and available in order to accelerate the attainment of a zero-hunger world. The GODAN initiative was formed two years ago to support global efforts to make agriculture and nutrition data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide. There are now more than 300 partners from nongovernmental, international and private sector organizations and national governments. The initiative focuses on building high level policy and institutional support for open data, both in the public and private sectors.
The two-day highly interactive Summit featured sessions highlighting best practices as well as barriers and solutions on different topics from precision farming to using data to measure progress towards achieving SDG2. The ILSI Research Foundation presented during the "Using Data to Improve Nutrition Policy, Programming, Accountability" session.
To view presentations from this conference, click on the PDF below or visit the conference website.
Follow along to #GODANSummit2016 for updates on Twitter.
Open Data – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR). Does this idea really have the potential to help provide safe, nutritious food to everyone on the planet? And could such data make it possible for that food to be provided in ways that reduce environmental impacts and improve lives?
These are just two of the big questions raised at the 2016 GODAN Summit, held in New York City on September 15-16. GODAN stands for the "Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition" initiative, which in less than two years has inspired nearly 400 entities to join – governments, universities, companies, NGO's, and others – including the organization I work for, the ILSI Research Foundation.
Here at the ILSI Research Foundation, we use computer modeling to help food systems meet nutrition needs in more sustainable ways. These models require access to many different types of agricultural and nutrition data, so I was quick to accept the invitation to become part of the 2016 GODAN Summit, where I knew there would be many scientists looking for new ways to make such data available.
I'm pleased to report that I met many such researchers at the Summit, and I learned many things about the power and promise of open data. The GODAN team created a wonderful video that opened both mornings, which displayed a number of satellite images that morph into human faces from around the planet, inspiring viewers to see the promise that agricultural and nutrition data have to positively transform lives in every country of the world. A powerful video created by the organization One illustrated how the entertainment world can be leveraged to help shine light on issues critical to human life – such as the supreme importance of good nutrition in an infant's first 1000 days. The role of open data in helping to hold governments and other decision makers accountable was emphasized during the summit in a plenary presentation by Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
The Summit featured several other dignitaries, including USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, who announced the release of the US Branded Food Products Database as an open data resource, the result of a highly successful public-private partnership between the USDA and our sister organization, ILSI North America. It contains, in a machine-readable format, all of the nutrition information printed on US food package labels. This database is a big step forward, enabling a variety of new consumer-facing apps that can access these data and use them to help better inform consumers about the nutritional content of their food.
The overall theme for the panel I participated in was "Using Data to Improve Nutrition Policy, Programming and Accountability," chaired by USDA Chief Scientist, Dr. Catherine Woteki. The other panel members included Dr. Shenggen Fan (IFPRI), Mr. Roger Thurow (Chicago Council on Global Affairs), Dr. Suneetha Kadiyala (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Dr. Pamela Starke-Reed (USDA), and Dr. Samuel Myers (Harvard). It was an honor to be included on a panel with such gifted scientists, and I learned a lot from each of their presentations.
The task of sustainably providing nutritious food to all 10 billion of us by mid-century will not be easy. But it's clear that the innovation and collaboration made possible through the use of open data will give us a fighting chance. I congratulate and thank the GODAN visionaries for taking the action to bring us together and begin the challenging task of transforming our food systems through open data.


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output of 2018-07-24 04:11:52,194 - ERROR - Warning:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mininet_wifi-2.2.1d1-py2.7.egg/mininet/wifi/module.py", line 247, in assign_iface
    '| tr -d ":"' % phys[0], shell=True).split('\n')
IndexError: list index out of range
2018-07-24 05:04:13,563 - ERROR - Warning:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mininet_wifi-2.2.1d1-py2.7.egg/mininet/wifi/module.py", line 247, in assign_iface
    '| tr -d ":"' % phys[0], shell=True).split('\n')
IndexError: list index out of range

Now the log output
$ cat /tmp/mininetwifi-mac80211_hwsim.log

2018-07-24 17:06:40,381 - ERROR - Warning:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mininet_wifi-2.3.0d1-py2.7.egg/mn_wifi/module.py", line 247, in assign_iface
    '| tr -d ":"' % phys[0], shell=True).split('\n')
IndexError: list index out of range

and
$ lspci -knn | grep -i net -A3

00:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter [8086:001e]
    Kernel driver in use: e1000
00:04.0 System peripheral [0880]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service [80ee:cafe]
--
00:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter [8086:001e]
    Kernel driver in use: e1000
00:0b.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c]

Can anybody help me?

A: Normally in virtual box you are connected to the internet via the host's connection.  So if your host OS is connect it's like being connected via a home network. You should not have to have any other connection.


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Sunday Review|Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting
Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting
By Maureen Dowd
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in their home in Plains, Ga.CreditCreditDustin Chambers for The New York Times
PLAINS, Ga. — Most people would run away screaming at the thought of working for a boss who humiliates subordinates in public, throttles them in private, demands constant flattery, spends all day watching cable TV and behaves in a wildly unpredictable way.
And yet, there is someone who is eager to work for President Trump.
Curious, but it's a Democrat. And even curiouser, it's a fellow member of the presidents club. And curiousest, it's someone whom Trump has disparaged on Twitter as one of the worst presidents in history.
Miracles can happen. No one knows that better than Jimmy Carter, who defied all odds 40 years ago to leap from his peanut farm to the White House and defied all odds again two years ago to beat brain cancer.
The 93-year-old would like to pull another rabbit out of a hat — just not a killer rabbit — and enter into a productive partnership with Donald Trump over North Korea. When you think about it, though, it makes sense. One of the basic premises of the Carter Center is that you should talk to dictators.
The closest our two countries had come until now to resuming the Korean War was in 1994. Carter flew into Pyongyang on his own over the objections of President Bill Clinton and struck a deal with Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong-un, and the man the grandson models himself on — right down to his hairstyle. North Korea secretly cheated on the deal by pursuing another path to a bomb just four years later.
So is it time for another Carter diplomatic mission, and would he do it for Trump, his polar opposite in so many ways?
"I would go, yes," he said, wearing a big "JC" belt buckle and sipping coffee in his ranch house, which is chockablock with Carter family paintings and with furniture he made himself, including his four-poster bed. Rosalynn sits nearby, chiming in slyly at moments.
I told him that the big shots in Washington were terrified about the childish, bellicose tit-for-tat tweeting battle between the Dotard and Little Rocket Man.
"I'm afraid, too, of a situation," he said. "I don't know what they'll do. Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China's influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong-un. He's never, so far as I know, been to China." (Who knows if he made a surreptitious trip.) Carter continued, "And they have no relationship. Kim Jong-il did go to China and was very close to them."
He said that the "unpredictable" Kim Jong-un makes him more nervous than his father, Kim Jong-il, and that if the young leader thinks Trump will act against him, he could do something pre-emptive. "I think he's now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland," Carter explained.
He said he has talked to Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, who is a good friend, including at Zbigniew Brzezinski's funeral when McMaster asked to sit next to Carter, but has so far gotten a negative response.
"I told him that I was available if they ever need me," he said.
When I asked about Trump's souring our image in the world, Carter defended his successor.
Mr. Carter at his home in Plains, Ga.CreditDustin Chambers for The New York Times
"Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump," he said. "The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we're not anymore. And we're not going to be. Russia's coming back and India and China are coming forward."
Holy malaise.
He also said he liked Trump's initiative reaching out to Saudi Arabia. He doesn't know Jared Kushner but is not totally dismissive of the idea that the son-in-law could succeed where others have failed.
"I've seen in the Arab world, including the Palestinian world," he said, "the high esteem that they pay to a member of one's own family."
Indeed, Carter was harder on Obama during the interview than he was on Trump. Both Carter and Trump had stern, demanding fathers. "Daddy expected me to be perfect," Carter told me. "So I obeyed his orders and his wishes."
Saying that he did not think "there's much hope now that Israelis will ever permit a two-state solution," he knocked Obama on the Middle East: "He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that."
Recalling that "we have 22 votes in our family and Obama got all 22 of them," he complained that Obama had "refused" to talk to North Korea more, and then Carter lamented the fact that Obama joined in the bombing of Yemen, which Carter says is the most interesting place he's ever been. (He even tried chewing khat, an addictive shrub that acts like amphetamines.)
I asked if he had Obama's email address.
"No," he said flatly.
I wondered about his relationship with other presidents, given his body language in the famous picture where he stood off to the side, which he told Brian Williams was deliberate because "I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents."
"I had my best relationship, when he was in office, with George H. W. Bush," he said.
Carter is also not as bothered as some by Trump's Putin bromance. "At the Carter Center," he said, "we deal with Putin and the Russians quite frequently concerning Syria."
Did the Russians purloin the election from Hillary?
"Rosie and I have a difference of opinion on that," he said.
She looked over archly. "They obviously did," she said.
He said: "I don't think there's any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes."
Rosalynn pressed, "The drip-drip-drip about Hillary."
Carter noted that in the primary, "We voted for Sanders."
I asked the famously ethical Carter what he made of Obama's post-presidential string of $400,000 speeches.
"I don't care if he gets rich or Clinton gets rich or whatever," he said. "I don't want to get into a bragging position; I'm not trying to do that. But I announced when I was defeated I was not going to be on corporate boards, I was not going to try to enrich myself with speeches. I was patterning my policy after Harry Truman."
When I compared the Clinton Foundation with the Carter Center, Carter noted: "Rosie and I put money in the Carter Center. We never take any out."
I wondered how the starchy Carter, who put out a White House edict that nobody could fly first class, felt about the louche Trump White House, where conflict of interest has been replaced by confluence of interest.
"I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I've known about," Carter replied. "I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation."
Since Rosalynn's focus as first lady was mental health, I asked her if we should break the last taboo and let presidents have a White House shrink.
"I think it might help them," she said with a smile.
She told me that she was left out of a first ladies lunch held by Michelle Obama on the issue of mental health, making it clear that she was still hurt.
On the issue of tearing down Confederate statues, the former president mused: "That's a hard one for me. My great-grandfather was at Gettysburg on the Southern side and his two brothers were with him in the Sumter artillery. One of them was wounded but none of them were killed. I never have looked on the carvings on Stone Mountain or the statues as being racist in their intent. But I can understand African-Americans' aversion to them, and I sympathize with them. But I don't have any objection to them being labeled with explanatory labels or that sort of thing."
On the issue of N.F.L. players kneeling, Carter was less sympathetic: "I think they ought to find a different way to object, to demonstrate. I would rather see all the players stand during the American anthem."
I asked if he thought the president was deepening racial divisions. "Yes, I think he is exacerbating it," he said. "But maybe not deliberately."
As a genuinely pious man, how does he feel about the Two Corinthians president bonding with evangelical voters, who do not desert Trump no matter how coarse his language or how upsetting the "Access Hollywood" tape was. Don't the evangelicals seem cynical to stick?
"Apparently not," he replied.
In "The Art of the Deal," Trump wrote that Carter came to his office to ask for $5 million for his presidential library.
Trump was impressed that Carter had "the nerve, the guts" to ask for something so "extraordinary," but didn't give it to him.
"He bragged about it," Carter said wryly. "That was one of his major selling points: 'I turned down Jimmy Carter.'"
But now the indefatigable Carter is back with another nervy proposal.
Will Trump bite?
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Axure There are so many tools for interaction demo, I prefer to use Axure. Axure is simple and easy to use for experienced designers, it has a strong ability for interactive demo. For advanced users, the production of a very high fidelity demo is also a great achievement.


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Q: Passing map-data between ViewController I nearly followed this post. The viewcontroller will push via storyboard. Here the relevant code:
ViewController.m:
-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView annotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view calloutAccessoryControlTapped:(UIControl *)control
{
    NSLog(@"%@", view.annotation.title);
    MapPoint *annView = view.annotation;
    DetailViewController *dvc = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"DetailViewController"];
    dvc.title = @"my own Details";
    dvc.titleTMP = annView.title;
    dvc.subtitleTMP = annView.subtitle;

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:dvc animated:YES];
}

MapPoint.h:
@interface MapPoint : NSObject <MKAnnotation>
{
    NSString *_title;
    NSString *_subtitle;
    CLLocationCoordinate2D _coordinate;
    UIImage *_storeImage;
}

@property (copy) NSString *title;
@property (copy) NSString *subtitle;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) UIImage *storeImage;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate;

- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString*)title subtitle:(NSString*)subtitle coordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate storeImage:(UIImage*)storeImage;

and DetailViewController:
@interface DetailViewController : UIViewController
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *branchImage;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *titleLabel;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textView;

I think my mistake is in the calloutAccessoryControlTapped method but I dont know what is the real reason for this issue.

A: If you use a storyboard, can use prepareForSegue method and set within a class similarly as you have made.
I post a portion of code
-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{

if([segue.identifier isEqualToString:@"Brs"]){
    NSLog(@"segue %@ ",[segue identifier]);
    [segue.destinationViewController setPath:[ris_xml objectAtIndex:index_post-1] ];
    }
}

In this example I set attribute "Path" of next UIViewController only if his identifier is "Brs".
For use this method is need set UIviewController identifier into storyboard right panel.
Using this isn't need to instantiate new UIViewController if you have it in storyboard.

A: I solved it by thinking about loading sequence.
All what to do is create temporary @properties
@interface DetailViewController : UIViewController
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *branchImage;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *titleLabel;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textView;
@property (nonatomic) NSString *titleTMP;        //added
@property (nonatomic) NSString *subtitleTMP;     //added

and do
-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView annotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view calloutAccessoryControlTapped:(UIControl *)control
{
    NSLog(@"%@", view.annotation.title);
    MapPoint *annView = view.annotation;
    DetailViewController *dvc = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"DetailViewController"];
    dvc.title = @"my own Details";
    dvc.titleTMP = annView.title;
    dvc.subtitleTMP = annView.subtitle;

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:dvc animated:YES];
}

The DetailViewController:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    titleLabel.text = titleTMP;
    textView.text = subtitleTMP;

}


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Варе́р () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Окситанія, департамент Лот. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 510 км на південь від Парижа, 90 км на північ від Тулузи, 25 км на південний схід від Каора.

Історія

До 2015 року муніципалітет перебував у складі регіону Південь-Піренеї. Від 1 січня 2016 року належить до нового об'єднаного регіону Окситанія.

Демографія

Розподіл населення за віком та статтю (2006):

Економіка

У 2010 році в муніципалітеті числилось 140 оподаткованих домогосподарств, у яких проживали 302,0 особи, медіана доходів виносила  євро на одного особоспоживача

Сусідні муніципалітети

Посилання

 Варер на сайті французького Національного інституту географії

 Варер на сайті французького Національного інституту статистики й економічних досліджень
 Варер на сайті Quid (загальні відомості, історія, пам'ятки, фото, адреси)
 [ Розташування муніципалітету Варер на мапі Франції та сусідні муніципалітети]
 Мапа муніципалітету Варер на сайті Mapquest

Див. також
 Список муніципалітетів департаменту Лот

Примітки

Муніципалітети департаменту Лот


So what makes the Lloyds Bank campaign a winner? LGBT+ representation can sometimes be seen as tokenistic, but here it felt integral to the idea. The campaign gives the viewer a window into modern life. It doesn't portray stereotypical gay men and it comes across as genuine and believable. The subject of gay marriage makes a strong emotional connection with its LGBT+ audience, while the brand shows its support for gay marriage to a mainstream audience.
So congratulations adam&eveDDB! Not only do you have an MAA #DoDifferent award, you're the proud owner of a unique MAA #DoDifferent award with the PrideAM ribbon on it.
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František Zvonek [františek zvoněk] (1926 – 6. prosince 1974) byl slovenský fotbalový brankář.

Hráčská kariéra
V československé lize chytal za ČH Bratislava. Do Červené hviezdy přišel ze Slovanu.

Prvoligová bilance

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Luboš Jeřábek: Československý fotbal v číslech a faktech − Olympia 1991
 Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyklopedie našeho fotbalu − Libri 1997
 Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík a kol.: Atlas českého fotbalu − Radovan Jelínek 2006

Externí odkazy
 Bratislava mala zrazu v I. lige tri mužstvá, bratislavskenoviny.sk [cit. 2011-03-12, autoři Jozef Kšiňan, Igor Mráz]

Českoslovenští fotbalisté
Slovenští fotbalisté
Fotbaloví brankáři
Fotbalisté Slovanu Bratislava
Fotbalisté Interu Bratislava
Osoby s nejistým datem narození
Narození v roce 1926
Úmrtí 6. prosince
Úmrtí v roce 1974
Muži


text:
Massive fire breaks out in London
Incidents » Disasters, catastrophes
A massive fire broke out near Elephant & Castle underground station in south-eastern London, where commercial buildings and vehicles caught fire. Several explosion occurred. According to most recent reports, the incident is not related to a terrorist attack. Reportedly, no one was hurt.
About 70 firefighters are working on the scene, people are being evacuated. For the time being, the reasons of the fire and explosion remain unknown.
According to London's Fire Department, three commercial buildings underneath the railway arches, four cars and a telephone booth near the train station were on fire.
The roads in the area were closed. People were asked to stay away from the scene and keep windows and doors closed.