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Genres: Action/Adventure
The A-Team is an American action adventure television series created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a "crime they didn't commit".
The series aired in the USA on NBC from 23 January 1983 to 8 March 1987. There are 98 episodes in five seasons.
The A-Team originally aired in South Africa on the SABC in the 1980s and later on DStv's M-Net Series channel. A rebroadcast of the series premiered on M-Net Series on Tuesday 1 May 2007, marking the first time in the channel's history that it had rebroadcast a series it had already aired.
See "Seasons" below for seasonal broadcast dates and times.
Season 1 premiered on SABC3 on Thursday 2 December 2010, at 12h00. New episodes broadcast daily, on weekdays. There are 14 episodes in the first season, including the two-part pilot.
The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit".
In 1971 a Special Forces A Team, John H. "Hannibal" Smith, Bosco Albert Baracus, and Templeton Peck, led a raid into North Vietnam to rob the central Bank of Hanoi, a raid that succeeded but which landed Smith's A Team in trouble when his CO, Colonel Morrison, was killed in a Red shelling.
Smith, Baracus, and Peck were court-martialed in 1972 and sentenced to Leavenworth, but en route to prison escaped into the underground of LA.
For the next dozen years they survived as soldiers of fortune, aiding those in trouble in the US or overseas, working with their former pilot, Hector M. Murdoch, who has been committed to a VA psycho ward and who must be broken out via confidence games hatched by Templeton Peck.
They also have to dodge the determined pursuit of the Army, first led by the officer who was to escort them to prison, Colonel Lynch, then by the Army's best troubleshooter in Vietnam, Roderick Decker, an officer who got the job done irrespective of methods or cost and whose methods earned enmity from Hannibal Smith.
After three years Decker was replaced by Harlan Fulbright, a General whose own lack of success earned him discharge from the Army but which also allowed him to later hire the team to help him find an Amerasian daughter he previously never knew he had.
In 1986 a mysterious freelance intelligence operative, former General Hunt Stockwell, struck a deal with the government whereby he in effect kidnapped the A Team for final court martial and had them executed - a ruse for them to carry out covert missions in exchange for eventual pardon.
Each episode of the first four seasons began with this voiceover introduction:
"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team."
Note: Seasonal broadcast information for the original run of the show on SABC and M-Net Series is not available. The seasonal dates below are only for the rebroadcast of The A-Team on M-Net Series and SABC3.
Season 1 (14 episodes)
Channel: M-Net Series | Premiere: 1 May 2007 | Finale: 31 Jul 2007 | Tuesdays, 22h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 2 Dec 2010 | Finale: 21 Dec 2010 | Weekdays, 12h00
Channel: M-Net Series | Premiere: 7 Aug 2007 | Finale: 8 Jan 2008 | Tuesdays, 22h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 7 Jan 2011 | Finale: 8 Feb 2011 | Weekdays, 12h00
Channel: M-Net Series | Premiere: 21 Apr 2009 | Finale: 6 Oct 2009 | Tuesdays, 22h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 9 Feb 2011 | Finale: 15 Mar 2011 | Weekdays, 12h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 8 Apr 2011 | Finale: 10 May 2011 | Weekdays, 12h00
Dwight Schultz
Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock
George Peppard
Col. John "Hannibal" Smith
Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck
Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus
Army Col. Lynch
Xander Berkeley
Gerrit Graham
Brother Stephen
C.W. Watkins
East-Side Charlie
Tracy Scoggins
Elly Payne
Tim Dunigan
Face (Series Pilot)
Richard Reicheg
Jase Tataro
Alan Fudge
Mr. Perry - State Dept.
Marianne Muellerleile
Nurse Schneider
Officer Collins - SWAT
Elsa Raven
Prison Psychiatrist
Dennis Haysbert
Psych Ward Staff
Reporter Al Massey
Melinda Culea
Reporter Amy Amanda Allen
Jack Ging
SWAT Captain Stark
Priscilla Pointer
Tracy Richter's Mother


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Spying Case Against U.S. Envoy Is Falling Apart, and Following a Pattern
Robin Raphael
(Credit: abcnews.com)
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 — Last fall, federal agents raided the home and office of Robin L. Raphel in search of proof that she, a seasoned member of America's diplomatic corps, was spying for Pakistan. But officials now say the spying investigation has all but fizzled, leaving the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute Ms. Raphel for the far less serious charge of keeping classified information in her home.
The fallout from the investigation has in the meantime seriously damaged Ms. Raphel's reputation, built over decades in some of the world's most volatile countries.
If the Justice Department declines to file spying charges, as several officials said they expected, it will be the latest example of American law enforcement agencies bringing an espionage investigation into the public eye, only to see it dissipate under further scrutiny. Last month, the Justice Department dropped charges against a Temple University physicist who had been accused of sharing sensitive information with China. In May, prosecutors dropped all charges against a government hydrologist who had been under investigation for espionage.
Ms. Raphel, in negotiations with the government, has rejected plea deals and has been adamant that she face no charges, according to current and former government officials, particularly because the Justice Department has been criticized in recent years for handing out inconsistent punishments to American officials who mishandle classified information.
Both the Justice Department and a lawyer for Ms. Raphel, Amy Jeffress, declined to comment.
The Raphel case has also been caught in the crosswinds of America's tempestuous relationship with Pakistan, a strong Cold War alliance that has frayed since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks amid recriminations between Washington and Islamabad. Ms. Raphel has for decades been at the center of shaping American policy toward Pakistan, and she has maintained close ties to Pakistani officials even as many of her colleagues became disenchanted with what they saw as Islamabad's duplicity in the fight against terrorism.
Against that backdrop, the federal investigation has delved into the murky world of international statecraft, where diplomats exert influence through a careful dance of trading, sharing and eliciting information. Some American investigators viewed Ms. Raphel's relationships with deep suspicion.
Those suspicions became a federal investigation last year when American officials, while eavesdropping on a Pakistani government official, intercepted a conversation that seemed to suggest that Ms. Raphel, an adviser at the State Department, was passing American secrets to Pakistan. The reason for the eavesdropping is unclear, but the government routinely listens to the phone calls and reads the emails of foreign officials.
After months of secret surveillance, the investigation into Ms. Raphel spilled into the public when agents searched her home and her State Department office last October. She was quickly stripped of her security clearances and left in the dark about the precise origins of the federal investigation. Her friends said that the investigation had taken a deep emotional toll.
"Sometimes the whiff of scandal can be worse than any actual scandal," said Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistan ambassador to Washington who has known Ms. Raphel for years. "More people hear that you were investigated than care to know you were cleared or never actually charged."
American officials will not discuss what classified information the investigators found in Ms. Raphel's home. The current and former American officials who discussed the case did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about it publicly.
Over the years, the stories of American officials mishandling classified information have at times seemed as peculiar as they were serious. John P. O'Neill, a counterterrorism specialist for the F.B.I., once lost a briefcase full of government secrets in a Florida hotel. Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, stole classified documents from the National Archives and hid them under a construction trailer. As attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales took material about the nation's warrantless wiretapping program home with him.
One C.I.A. director, John M. Deutch, stored classified information on his home computer. Another C.I.A. director, David H. Petraeus, shared his highly classified journals with his mistress, then lied to the F.B.I. about it. Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email system when she was secretary of state that investigators say contained classified information, although Mrs. Clinton and the State Department say the information was not marked as classified.
The punishment for mishandling classified information has varied wildly. Mrs. Clinton has not been charged with wrongdoing. Mr. Berger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Mr. Deutch received a pardon from Mr. Clinton and was never charged. Mr. Gonzales and Mr. O'Neill were not charged. In the most recent case, the Justice Department allowed Mr. Petraeus to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, despite strong objections from investigators. That deal was so contentious that the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, personally appealed to the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., and said that Mr. Petraeus's crimes warranted felony charges, according to two government officials involved in the case. F.B.I. agents are still angry about that decision and say it set a standard that will make it harder to bring cases in the future.
In discussions with prosecutors, according to several government officials, Ms. Raphel and her lawyer have cited the Petraeus case as the vital precedent. If passing secrets — including notes on war strategy and the names of covert officers, which Mr. Petraeus shared — and lying about it amount to a misdemeanor, then, Ms. Raphel says, she should not face any charges.
Some American investigators remain suspicious of Ms. Raphel and are loath to abandon the case entirely. Even if the government cannot mount a case for outright spying, they are pushing for a felony charge related to the classified information in her home. Several officials acknowledged, however, that the case would be difficult to prosecute because it would require intelligence agencies to declassify information and would probably reveal secrets about American surveillance of foreign officials.
Felony charges for improperly taking and storing classified information, while not espionage in the common sense of the word, would be filed under the Espionage Act and could expose Ms. Raphel to years in prison — a far stiffer penalty than Mr. Petraeus and others received.
The news of the investigation has shaken policy circles in Washington, where Ms. Raphel has been a fixture as a diplomat, a South Asia expert in the private sector, and a lobbyist. She began her career as a C.I.A. analyst but moved quickly to the State Department, which sent her to Islamabad in the mid-1970s. It was during this posting that she met and married Arnold L. Raphel, another foreign service officer. In 1988, while he was America's ambassador to Pakistan and after he and Ms. Raphel had divorced, Mr. Raphel was killed in a plane crash with the Pakistani president, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.
During the Clinton administration, Ms. Raphel served as the assistant secretary of state for South Asia, and then ambassador to Tunisia. In the George W. Bush administration, she was the State Department's coordinator for reconstruction in Iraq, where she tried to guide the war-torn country toward a stable government and economy. After retiring from the government in 2005, she joined Cassidy & Associates, a Washington lobbying firm that represents the Pakistani government, among other clients.
At the start of the Obama administration, Richard C. Holbrooke, the State Department's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, reached out to Ms. Raphel to work with him. She quit her lobbying job and was sent as a State Department contractor to the American Embassy in Islamabad, where she helped disburse American aid to Pakistan. Until the F.B.I. investigation, she continued to work on contract as an adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan.
During her long career working on Pakistan issues, Ms. Raphel has seen the country go from being one of America's most steadfast Cold War allies — and a partner in the 1980s effort to train Afghan fighters to expel Soviet troops from Afghanistan — to being something of a pariah to Washington. Although Pakistan pledged support for the campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks, senior members of both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations became convinced that Pakistani soldiers and spies were aiding the Taliban and other militant groups by attacking American troops in Afghanistan.
For their part, Pakistani officials stoked fury in the country about the C.I.A.'s campaign of drone strikes and what they came to see as the agency's expansion operations in Pakistan.
As relations between the two countries deteriorated, Ms. Raphel was considered one of Pakistan's few remaining supporters in the top echelon of American government. This earned her enemies among government officials in India, Pakistan's archrival, but also among colleagues who considered her too sympathetic toward an unreliable ally.
"I don't think it was very fashionable to say, 'I think the Pakistanis have a point,' but Robin did that," said Cameron Munter, the former American ambassador to Pakistan who oversaw Ms. Raphel's work in Islamabad
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Q: Load third party JS without affecting PageSpeed I have trouble getting good PageSpeed score because of two third party JS which are render blocking resources according to PageSpeed. The two services I use are Intercom and Albacross.
I tried to remove them to see how much improvement it could be done and when I removed it the score when up by almost 30 points on mobile!
The website is build in Wordpress by the way.
Any idea how I can load those JS without affecting PageSpeed? I've tried  and  but it doesn't make a difference in PageSpeed.
I also found this website https://peakon.com which doesn't load Intercom and other third-party JS until after you've accepted their cookie policy the first time you visit their page which I think is very clever.
Any idea how they have done it or what I should do?
Thank you!

A: Well if you want, you could wait until the page has loaded and then load the external sources like so:
document.body.onload = function(){
   firstExternalScript = document.createElement("script");
   firstExternalScript.src = "www.linkToIntercom.com";//that would be your script to Intercom or Albacross
   secondExternalScript = document.createElement("script");
   secondExternalScript.src = "www.linkToAlbacross.com";//that would be your script to Intercom or Albacross
   document.body.appendChild(firstExternalScript);
   document.body.appendChild(secondExternalScript);
}

Alternatively you could make that into a seperate function and run it when the user accepts the cookie policy like in the example you mentioned:
HTML
<button class="cookieAcceptBtn" onclick="acceptCookiePolicy();">Accept</button>

JAVASCRIPT
function acceptCookiePolicy(){
   firstExternalScript = document.createElement("script");
   firstExternalScript.src = "www.linkToIntercom.com";//that would be your script to Intercom or Albacross
   secondExternalScript = document.createElement("script");
   secondExternalScript.src = "www.linkToAlbacross.com";//that would be your script to Intercom or Albacross
   document.body.appendChild(firstExternalScript);
   document.body.appendChild(secondExternalScript);
}

I hope this answers your question.

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When you wake up being masturbated by a great big horny gorilla, you'd best look like you're enjoying it. So advises Thundercrack!, a pornographic black comedy horror B-movie, one of many weird fables to pass through London's notorious Scala Cinema during the late 1980s. Another tells of hooligan futuresports, luxurious dungeons, and happenstance worthy of a godlike piston-powered computer. Let's start at the beginning.
Daniel Malone spent his time at Ipswich Art College arguing with all but one of his teachers: the typography tutor who let him draw comicbook characters in class. Not that he didn't like the subject, she understood, but he already had two masters in superhero artists Jack Kirby and John Buscema.
Exposed to American editions of The Fantastic Four by his dad, prolific commercial artist Jerry Malone, Dan's childhood favourite was astronaut-turned-granite-skinned-clobberer the Thing. After Marvel UK launched The Mighty World Of Marvel in 1972, its first British weekly, Malone never missed an issue. He was bemused, though: its characters, once iconic, now lacked charm and definition. Not for another 50 issues did he realise his mistake: MWOM was a reprint, its stories dating back to the 1960s. That's when it clicked.
Neither Marvel nor Britain's own 2000AD were hiring when Malone left college a decade later. A brief stint at underground publisher Knockabout Comics offered work but little pay, and even worse if it was 'a bad month'.
It was his loyal typography tutor who spotted an ad in media digest Campaign. It seemed that someone did need a '2000AD-style artist'.
Up its incongruous fairytale tower he went, to rooms adjacent to its 'cinema of sin'. Malone's roughhouse style satisfied marketing director Pete Stone, and the job of professional artist was his.
The studio proper was on the next floor down, where he was introduced to his new desk, his new colleagues, and— wait, what was with all the keyboards and monitors?
'Oh, so you're doing computer games, then!' realised Malone.
When they weren't making games like Cauldron and the infamous Barbarian, Palace's people would climb the stairs behind the Scala's auditorium and watch its whacked-out panoply of movies and moviegoers.
This was Palace Software in 1985, which, Malone remembers, was just after Live Aid. 'I had no interest in computer games,' says Malone. 'I'd come all the way up to London for a job interview I thought was for comics.' But whatever, he gave it a try, stumbling not only into the game industry's first wave of dedicated artists, but also into one of its true pioneers.
The ill fortune of the studio's parent film company (another war story for when you finish reading this one) meant that despite the considerable success of the Barbarian games, little could stop a bloodbath of active projects. After The Sacred Armour Of Antiriad in 1986, both of Malone's next big games were shelved. ''Super Thief',' reported Games Machine magazine, 'casts the player as a model of unsullied selfishness, robbing the future for all its worth.' 'Astounding Astral Adventures', meanwhile, attempted to fill a whole galaxy with such rogues.
Malone remembers the aftermath: 'No one knew what was going on, whether you'd have a job one day after the next.' The writing was on the wall, and Mitchell and Stone used their contacts to see where people could go.
Weeks later, he was one of them.
The project he worked on was cancelled after six months. He was put in touch with The Bitmap Brothers by his supervisor, and the process started again: '"Let's do a demo and see what you can do."' So, he produced another eight-way scrolling demo, this time for the ST, 'with completely uninteresting graphics, but it showed I could make the hardware do something.' That something just happened to be precisely what Speedball 2 required.
The original document was this four or five-page pamphlet – drawings, a bit of art, and Eric's writing. It wasn't a design, just a flavour. It's got some things that never made the game, like players on hover-boards, but it's perfect … I don't think anyone was going in wondering if Speedball 2 would be any fun.
Now they just had to make it.
'We knew the horizontal scrolling was going to be a challenge because that's why it wasn't done in the first game,' says Trevellyan. 'Vertical scrolling wasn't quite free on the ST but was certainly cheaper than horizontal. We had to adopt some very tricky techniques, and you can really see what's going on if you put the ST and Amiga versions side-by-side.
Malone was plotting all of his pixels by joystick at this point, and there was none better than the TAC-2 (Totally Accurate Controller MK2) by Suncom. 'It was the best joystick I ever used. It was really clean, and it kicked when you used it.' One thing he was keen to change, though, if he could swing it, was the money-minded porting of ST graphics to his more capable dream machine, the Amiga.
This stubbornness, he continues, is why the Amiga version of Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe also has more animation for its ball launchers, and better lighting in its management screens. He couldn't redraw the game from scratch, but the Amiga palette meant he could greatly improve the stippling used to achieve shades of colour.
'People – journalists – often made jokes about palettes back then. I wasn't going to be "monochrome guy". The kids wanted bright and sharp, and I like distinguishing characters, and objects with purpose, by their colours as much as their shape. Speedball 2 was all kinds of blues and cyans, and some purples; that's as close as I could get to a shade, where I'd have to use purple or magenta knocked down a bit.' His signature art style, he explains, a kind of flat-line technique with one flat colour and a few shadow layers, was born on the Amiga. Now he uses it everywhere.
Teams are the backbone of Speedball 2: the way they look and act position the game bang on the halfway line between arcade title and sim. This is a treacherous place, maybe even cursed, strewn with the bodies of competitive online games and EA Sports career modes. This game triumphs, though, for two particular reasons: elegance of progression (save-and-spend has never felt so immediate) and visibility of AI (save-and-spend has never felt so important).
I wanted several female characters – we had a big conversation about drugs, what it would take for a woman to compete in that world – and I got two in, but people thought they were blokes!
Speedball 2 knows that AI doesn't sell itself. With the right presentation and theatrics, however, it's what can turn a game into a sport, and the sportsmen into superstars. Nowhere is this clearer than in the game's management screen, which Malone would rather have had called the 'gymnasium': a place that's more about looks than skills.
Put it all together and, in a blur of matches and management sessions, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe gives the player a 360-degree view of their team that never has time to fade. By acting like their stats and their place in the 3-3-3 formation, the players identify themselves as Garrick, Midia, or whichever other menace you've poached from the transfer market, even when they're just a swarm of identical heads and shoulders.
Speedball 2 is a very handsome kind of ugly, then, and quite loud about its subtleties. It's as far from your average game of ball-meets-face as any Bitmap title is from its arcade idols.
Case in point: its intro.
The first few seconds of most games today are exactly the same: screen after screen of idents and corporate logos; a billboard for the sponsors. This has set a toxic trend, and the power and potential of that moment is wasted. It is easy to forget that once upon a time, it acted as a canvas for the developer, to harness the player's excitement, and to build anticipation.
This was never lost on The Bitmap Brothers.
The show begins in those one or two seconds after the disk stops grinding, when that initial load is done. Everything in RAM is now storyboarded, calculated by man rather than machine. First, we see white letters on black, blinking in like a ticker or a telex: 'IMAGE WORKS PRESENTS… A BITMAP BROTHERS GAME.' Pause, fade to black. Then comes the bull-rush.
Malone's title screen for Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe might be one of the greatest of any videogame: a stadium in a city of endless steel. It's hard to imagine a better debut for the Bitmap raised on comic books than this single low-res panel, suggesting as it does a world of tyranny and intrigue, and a sport in which everything has changed.
From the speakers: a theme tune which may or may not be techno, might not even be music, but is quite perfectly Speedball. The notes, all angular honks and squalls, pile upon each other in a bid to be heard first. They swerve and skid and and outmuscle each other across three sweet minutes of precision pandemonium.
It was a technological revolution and we were all at the start of it. You found yourself there purely by coincidence, by accident. That's how I really like things to happen. It was just like landing in London and punk beginning to happen some years before.
The music was sequenced at Foxx's home. The Bitmaps had given him a 'sound box' programmed with all of the sounds they had available at the time.
As with Simenon and Xenon 2's 'Megablast', though, Nation 12 would need a translator for the new world of code – someone who, as it happened, had only recently learned the language himself.
Now at something of a loose end, Joseph saw an advert in Melody Maker for someone to soundtrack computer games. It was Palace Software, where Joseph would lend his talents to games like Stifflip & Co and Barbarian.
A star performance in the making for the Bitmaps, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe wouldn't have been Speedball without some injuries. Its final months saw Malone tasked with bolstering the art of Cadaver, leaving most of the punishing QA work to designer Matthews and programmer Trevellyan. It was a period famous for killing dozens of Suzo 'The Arcade' joysticks. This was no mean feat: these controllers were so tough that they could probably do a bit of killing themselves if swung at another player.
The game was released in 1990 to a rapturous reception, to the surprise of pretty much no one. 'The entire thing simply oozes a class and quality that is rarely found,' declared C+VG, awarding the initial ST version 95%. 'Dan Malone's graphics are nothing short of spectacular.' Two issues later it would bump that score to 97% for the Amiga version, recognising the new pitch and sound effects. 96% in Zzap!64. 95% in CU Amiga, which found 'absolutely nothing to fault.' 'It's the football game that could only ever exist on a computer screen,' remarked Amiga Power for the budget release, by which time the game had scooped InDin, Gen 4, and Golden Joysticks awards, and been ported to numerous computers and consoles, both 8- and 16-bit.
To the smug satisfaction of Amiga owners, though, it only really belonged on one. Speedball 2 is a definitive Amiga game – some would argue the Amiga game. It's an experience made by and for artists, audiophiles, and those who like their arcade games to have a certain cinematic heft. It's not 'wrong' for other platforms, just off, like so many coin-ops and console games ported the other way. It's not fast like a Hurricane Kick on the SNES, or a Spin Dash on the Mega Drive, but like a fist through an inch of steel. A testament to the Amiga's power, then, but also to its quirks – its identity as a piece of hardware.
This is because The Bitmap Brothers, a team with almost perfect stats – Programming, Vision, Tenacity, Brand – added a good few points to its Fiction when it picked up Dan Malone.
The comicbook artist from Ipswich never did work for 2000AD, but he drew his megacities and his perps as title screens and sprites. Together with Joseph's audio, his work sends the imagination high up into the nosebleeds of the stadium, through the unseen ranks of the transfer market, and out into the slums and boardrooms of Planet Speedball.
We're there – like it really does exist – in a Bitmap Brothers universe.
This excerpt is taken from The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, available to order now exclusively from this site.
2 Palace published Sensible's Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit (1989) and International 3D Tennis (1990), and Cosmic Pirate (1989) by the Pickford brothers' Zippo Games.
3 Joseph came from an influential filmmaking family. His brother, Eddy, is a BAFTA-winning sound supervisor; his brother Pat owns visual effects house The Mill, which won an Oscar for its work on Gladiator; his father, Teddy, was a highly successful producer during the '60s. 'You'll often seen his name on the end of Michael Caine films,' says Michael Burdett.
Duncan Harris is a game industry artist who has worked for companies including Sony, Square Enix, Bethesda and EA. His writing has appeared in such places as Edge, PC Gamer, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
He also runs a website, Dead End Thrills, which explores the art of games through the hobby of taking screenshots. He hasn't played a game properly in years.


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The glorious year-round weather is just one reason why a wedding in Brisbane is a marvellous idea. If you live in Queensland or are planning the perfect destination wedding, then we have the ultimate list of wedding venues in this area for you.
Choosing the ideal wedding venue can be a difficult decision just because there are so many to choose between. There are lots of little details that can make the venue the right one for you and your partner, but not everyone has time to research every venue to find all those little details out.
Is the place big or small? Is it flexible in terms of space and rooms? Do you want an all-in-one space where your ceremony, photos and reception are all in one place? Do you want modern or vintage? Do you want to decorate it yourself, or not even have to think about that bit? Do you want luxury and attentive service, or a totally unique place that is completely surprising and new?
Fortunately, we are here to do some of the leg work (and the boring bits) by narrowing down a list of our favourite wedding venues for a Brisbane wedding.
Now you just need to pick a few from this list, then take a tour, eat some of their delicious food, sample the wine and get a feel for the atmosphere. You will know when you have found the right one for you.
There is no other place like Bundaleer Rainforest Gardens.
Four acres of gorgeous gardens just 20 minutes from Brisbane, you can choose from a garden or deck ceremony, followed by a reception in the Treetops room or the luxurious silk-lined marquee. From rustic to elegant and everything in between, fantasy weddings come to life here.
The Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre offers a number of incredible rooms to host your glamorous wedding day. Our favourite pick is the Sky Room and Terrace, perched right at the very top of the city and overlooking the glimmering lights, making your entire day a magical occasion.
The space hosts up to 150 guests banquet style and 300 for a cocktail soiree. The staff are friendly and on hand to serve all your guests anything they need, while the food is beyond compare.
In the south Queensland hinterland, you will find the historic property of Glengariff. An award-winning venue and one of the oldest exclusive estates in Queensland, you have to see this place to believe it. The dedicated wedding coordinator will see to your every wish and ensure your personal love story is expressed in every detail.
With over 30 stunning photo, ceremony and reception locations, including the lake and jetty, historic barn, waterfall, stone arbours and a variety of beautifully outfitted rooms.
Hidden on South Stradbroke Island, this elegant tropical wedding venue has become famous as one of the very best places to wed in Australia. Brimming with both charm and luxury, this place will need a minimum of decoration to look perfect for your big day, because it is stunning even in its natural state.
Crafting fairytale reception packages for all styles, sizes,and budgets.
If you want to fall in love at first sight with your wedding venue, you must take a wander through their gallery online. As a setting, it is simply sublime.
This is a stunning posh 1920s hotel with a refined restaurant and pool area. Offering luxurious rooms and suites, if style and pizazz are your calling cards, you must check out Ovolo Inchcolm. They hold only the most fabulous events here.
From the smallest detail, to the grandest event, you will feel like you have stepped into a storybook when you come to Mirra. A converted warehouse that you have to simply see to believe, the interior has a vintage Paris meets Shanghai design. With hand-painted screens and touches of bronze and gold, this boutique and versatile space will delight your family and friends.
With wonderful food, friendly staff and a range of indoor and outdoor spaces for every aspect of your complete wedding day, talk to the events team at Mirra today.
We talk about reception venues that are different and unique, but Villa Botanica is something completely extraordinary. This exclusive venue in the Whitsundays with outstanding views across the Coral Sea, this is the ideal set up for a wedding with a difference.
Specialising in stress-free weddings that are chic, classy and contemporary, this venue is for discerning couples and those who want the finest in life.
One of the most stunning things about Queensland is the rainforest. At Cherbon Waters you are nestled in the lush green rainforest, and with water views out in front of you, could feel as though your wedding is the only thing happening on earth.
Specialising in exclusive garden ceremonies and marquee receptions, you also have extensive grounds for plentiful photo backdrops. Their complete wedding service will help plan every step and design a wedding day tailored just for you.
This is an exclusive colonial style garden wedding venue and luxurious event space and bed and breakfast. With a lovely chapel to exchange your vows, and accommodation for the bridal party, this place is dedicated to making your whole wedding an event to cherish forever.
For an extra special reception touch, why not try high tea in the glorious fountain courtyard?
A little outside the city, but well worth the day trip into the hinterland, you will come upon this winery, brewery,and restaurant. Renowned for its breathtaking views across hills, vines,and the ocean, as well as being a place of incomparable gourmet food and boutique crafted beverages.
Thousands of happy couples wed here before highly recommend this venue, and when you see it, you will understand why.


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Événements
 Parution du troisième volume du Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes d'Antoine-Alexandre Barbier.

Presse
 Le Messager russe, périodique de Glinka (1808-1824).

Essais
 Dictionnaire raisonné des onomatopées françaises, de Charles Nodier.
 Tableau de la littérature française de 1789 à 1808 de Marie-Joseph Chénier.
 Les Discours à la nation allemande de Fichte, où sont formulées les bases idéologiques du nationalisme allemand.
Grammaire slovène de Kopitar.
 Specimens des poètes dramatiques anglais au temps de Shakespeare de Lamb.
 Premier dictionnaire de S. B. Linde (Pologne, 1808-1814).

Poésie
 Faust, première partie, poème dramatique de Goethe.

Théâtre
 La Bataille d'Arminius, pièce de Von Kleist.

Romans
 Lioudmila de Joukovski.

Récompenses
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Principales naissances
 22 mai : Gérard de Nerval, écrivain, poète et traducteur français († 1855)
 8 septembre : Wendela Hebbe (ou Vendela Hebbe), traductrice, journaliste, poète et romancière suédoise († 1899)
 2 novembre : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, écrivain français († 1889)

Principaux décès
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Chronologie de la littérature
XIXe siècle en littérature

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The second primitive accumulation
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One of the more memorable parts of Capital is Marx's description of the "so-called primitive accumulation of capital" — the historical process where rural people were dispossessed of access to land and forced into industrial employment in cities like Birmingham and Manchester (link). It seems as though we've seen another kind of primitive accumulation in the past thirty years — the ruin of well-paid manufacturing jobs based on unionized labor, the disappearance of local retail stores, the extinction of bookstores and locally owned hardware stores, all of which offered a large number of satisfying jobs. We've seen a new set of bad choices for displaced workers — McDonald's servers, Walmart greeters, and Amazon fulfillment workers. And this structural economic change threatens to create a permanent under-class of workers earning just enough to get by.
So what is the future of work and class in advanced economies? Scott Shane's major investigative story in the New York Times describing Amazon's operations in Baltimore (link) makes for sobering reading on this question. The story describes work conditions in an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore that documents the intensity, pressure, and stress created for Amazon workers by Amazon's system of work control. This system depends on real-time monitoring of worker performance, with automatic firings coming to workers who fall short on speed and accuracy after two warnings. Other outlets have highlighted the health and safety problems created by the Amazon system, including this piece on worker safety in the Atlantic by Will Evans; link. It is a nightmarish description of a work environment, and hundreds of thousands of workers are employed under these conditions.
Imagine the difference you would experience as a worker in the hardware store mentioned in the New York Times story (driven out of business by online competition) and as a worker in an Amazon fulfillment center. In the hardware store you provide value to the business and the customers; you have social interaction with your fellow workers, your boss, and the customers; you work in a human-scale enterprise that actually cares whether you live or die, whether you are sick or well; and to a reasonable degree you have a degree of self-direction in your work. Your expertise in home improvement, tools, and materials is valuable to the customers, which brings them back for the next project, and it is valuable to you as well. You have the satisfaction of having knowledge and skills that make a difference in other people's lives. In the fulfillment center your every move is digitally monitored over the course of your 10-hour shift, and if you fall short in productivity or quality after two warnings, you are fired. You have no meaningful relationships with fellow workers — how can you, with the digital quotas you must fulfill every minute, every hour, every day? And you have no — literally no — satisfaction and fulfillment as a human being in your work. The only value of the work is the $15 per hour that you are paid; and yet it is not enough to support you or your family (about $30,000 per year). As technology writer Amy Webb of the Future Today Institute is quoted in the Times article, [It's not that we may be replaced by robots,] "it's that we've been relegated to robot status."
What kind of company is that? It is hard to avoid the idea that it is the purest expression that we have ever seen of the ideal type of a capitalist enterprise: devoted to growth, cost avoidance, process efficiency, use of technology, labor control, rational management, and strategic and tactical reasoning based solely on business growth and profit-maximizing calculations. It is a Leviathan that neither Hobbes nor Marx could really have visualized. And social wellbeing — of workers, of communities, of country, of the global future — appears to have no role whatsoever in these calculations. The only affirmative values expressed by the company are "serving the consumer" and being a super-efficient business entity.
What is most worrisome about the Amazon employment philosophy is its single-minded focus on "worker efficiency" at every level, using strict monitoring techniques and quotas to enforce efficient work. And the ability to monitor is increased asymptotically by the use of technology — sensors, cameras, and software that monitor the worker's every movement. It is the apotheosis of F.W. Taylor's theories from the 1900s of "scientific management" and time-motion studies. Fundamentally Taylor regarded the worker as a machine-like component of the manufacturing process, whose motions needed to be specified and monitored so as to bring about the most efficient possible process. And, as commentators of many ideological stripes have observed, this is a fundamentally dehumanizing view of labor and the worker. This seems to be precisely the ideal model adopted by Amazon, not only in its fulfillment centers but its delivery drivers, its professional staff, and every other segment of the workforce Amazon can capture.
Business and technology historian David Hounshell presciently noticed the resurgence of Taylorism in a 1988 Harvard Business Review article on "modern manufacturing"; link. (This was well before the advent of online business and technology-based mega-companies.) Here are a few relevant paragraphs from his piece:
Rather than seeing workers as assets to be nurtured and developed, manufacturing companies have often viewed them as objects to be manipulated or as burdens to be borne. And the science of manufacturing has taken its toll. Where workers were not deskilled through extreme divisions of labor, they were often displaced by machinery. For many companies, the ideal factory has been — and continues to be — a totally automated, workerless facility.
Now in the wake of the eroding competitive position of U.S. manufacturing companies, is it time for an end to Taylor's management tradition? The books answer in the affirmative, calling for the institution of a less mechanistic, less authoritarian, less functionally divided approach to manufacturing. Dynamic Manufacturing focuses explicitly on repudiating Taylorism, which it takes to be a system of "command and control." American Business: A Two-Minute Warning is written in a more popular vein, but characterizes U.S. manufacturing methods and the underlying mind-set of manufacturing managers in unmistakably similar ways. Taylorism is the villain and the anachronism.
Predictably, both books arrive at their diagnoses and prescriptions through their respective evaluations of the "Japanese miracle." Whereas U.S. manufacturing is rigid and hierarchical, Japanese manufacturing is flexible, agile, organic, and holistic. In the new competitive environment — which favors the company that can continually generate new, high-quality products — the Japanese are more responsive. They will continue to dominate until U.S. manufacturers develop manufacturing units that are, in Hayes, Wheelwright, and Clark's words, "dynamic learning organizations." Their book is intended as a primer. (link)
Plainly the more positive ideas associated with positive human resources theory about worker motivation, knowledge, and creativity play no role in Amazon's thinking about the workplace. And this implies a grim future for work — not only in this company, but in many others who emulate the workplace model pioneered by Amazon.
The abuses of the first fifty years of industrial capitalism eventually came to an end through a powerful union movement. Workers in railroads, textiles, steel, and the automobile industry eventually succeeded in creating union organizations that were able to effectively represent their interests in the workplace. So where is the Amazon worker's ability to resist? The New York Times story (link) makes it clear that individual workers have almost no ability to influence Amazon's practices. They can choose not to work for Amazon, but they can't join a union, because Amazon has effectively resisted unionization. And in places like Baltimore and other cities where Amazon is hiring, the other job choices are even worse (even lower paid, if they exist at all). Amazon makes a great deal of money on their work, and it manages its great initiatives based on their Chaplin-esque speed of completion (one-day delivery). But there is very little ability to change the workplace towards a more human-scale one, and a workplace where the worker's positive human capacities find fulfillment. An Amazon fulfillment center is anything but that when it comes to the lives of the workers who make it run.
Is there a better philosophy that Amazon might adopt for its work environments? Yes. It is a framework that places worker wellbeing at the same level as efficiency, "1-day delivery" and profitability. It is an approach that gives greater flexibility to shop-floor-level workers, and relaxes to some degree the ever-rising quotas for piece work per minute. It is an approach that sets workplace expectations in a way that fully considers the safety, stress, and health of the workers. It is an approach that embodies genuine respect and concern for its workers — not as public relations initiative, but as a guiding philosophy of the workplace.
There is a hard question and a harder question posed by this idea, however. Is there any reason to think that Amazon will ever evolve in this more humane direction? And harder, is there any reason to think that any large modern corporation can embody these values? Based on the current behavior of Amazon as a company, from top to bottom, the answer to the first question is "no, not unless workers gain real power in the workplace through unionization or some other form of representation in production decisions." And to the second question, a qualified yes: "yes, a more humane workplace is possible, if there is broad involvement in business decisions by workers as well as shareholders and top executives." But this too requires a resurgence of some form of organized labor — which our politics of the past 20 years have discouraged at every turn.
Or to quote Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770):
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
So where did the dispossessed wind up in nineteenth century Britain? Here is how Engels described the social consequences of this "primitive accumulation" for the working people of Britain in his book, The Condition of the Working Class in England:
It is only when [the observer] has visited the slums of this great city that it dawns upon him that the inhabitants of modern London have had to sacrifice so much that is best in human nature in order to create those wonders of civilisation with which their city teems. The vast majority of Londoners have had to let so many of their potential creative faculties lie dormant, stunted and unused in order that a small, closely-knit group of their fellow citizens could develop to the full the qualities with which nature has endowed them. (30)
This passage, written in 1845, could with minor changes of detail describe the situation of Amazon workers today. "The vast majority … have had to let so many of their potential creative faculties lie dormant, stunted and unused in order that a small, closely-knit group of their fellow citizens could develop to the full the qualities with which nature has endowed them."
And what about income and standard of living? The graph of median US income by quintile above in constant 2018 dollars tells a very stark story. Since 1967 only the top quintile of household income has demonstrated significant growth (in a timeframe of more than fifty years); and the top 5% of households shows the greatest increase of any group. 80% of US households are barely better off today than they were in 1967; whereas the top 5% of households have increased their incomes by almost 250% in real terms. This has a very clear, unmistakeable implication: that working people, including service workers, industrial workers, and most professionals have received a declining share of the economic product of the nation. Amazon warehouse workers fall in the 2nd-lowest quintile (poorest 21-40%). (It would be very interesting to have a time series of Amazon's wage bill for blue-collar and white-collar wages excluding top management as a fraction of company revenues and net revenues since 2005.)
Here is a relevant post on the possibilities created for a more fair industrial society by the institution of worker-owned enterprises (link), and here is a post on the European system of workers councils (link), a system that gives workers greater input into decisions about operations and work conditions on the shop floor.
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Peer Review has always been an important part of group work. Group work is often used in HE context as a vehicle for learning how to work, sustain efforts, compromise, negotiate and deliver. Nevertheless group work is a source of distress and thus individual behaviour in a group is of great importance as well as the reaction of that group to an individual. This work reports on the transition between the historical peer-review models towards an authentic peer learning journey that utilises a critical incident method. The method educates students through story telling of past peer interactions (i.e. critical incidents, trivial or detrimental) in order to prepare them for the stressful experience of group work aiming to improve reflective performance, peer acknowledgement and credibility of their experience. In traditional Peer Review paradigms the process would often relegate into a blame or a narcissistic self-praise. This work describes a five factor Peer Review process that benchmarks and maps out the assessment evolution over 4 years in Higher Education practice of students undertaking a Group Business Project activity.


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Q: error of "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" from osfmount when opening \users\user from a raw file produced by dd I'm getting an error of "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" from osfmount when opening \users\user(or whatever user profile folder), from a raw file produced by dd (or ddrescue).
When trying to open c:\user\usera , it takes a while, then I get "You don't currently have permission to access this folder"
If I choose continue then after a while, it says "You have been denied permission to access this folder"   and "To gain access you will need to use the security tab".
If I then click the blue text where it says security tab, it opens the properties for the usera folder.  Has an button" continue, and says permissions for usera

Then I get messages like this "An error occurred while applying security information to:....  The media is write protected"

If I keep clicking "continue", it just keeps flashing up about more files

A: This solution works  https://forums.passmark.com/osforensics-osfmount-osfclone/3834-osfmount-access-denied-to-parts-of-disk-image
There's an option in this screen

Have "Read only" not ticked.
Then it works.
It does seem to take a while(maybe a minute), to open %userprofile% of the image, but once it's open then it opens quickly.
Possibly TestDisk could also do it as that can read a dd image, and people use that to open it read only and copy files from it.
Also https://forums.passmark.com/osforensics-osfmount-osfclone/3834-osfmount-access-denied-to-parts-of-disk-image  mentions that they have a program called osforensics that can be used.


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Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act Signed into Law / Massachusetts Attorney General Issues Guidelines on Enforcement of Independent Contractor Law
NEW FEDERAL LAW WILL BAN MISUSE OF GENETIC INFORMATION BY EMPLOYERS
On May 21, President Bush officially signed into law the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act ("GINA") which is designed to protect the privacy of individuals' genetic information. This legislation imposes new obligations and restrictions on employers that will become effective 18 months after Enactment and will affect health insurance providers 12 months after its passage.
The legislation has widespread support and approval. It passed the House by a 414-1 margin and received 95-0 approval in the Senate.
Under this new law, employers, unions and employment agencies will be prohibited from:
Using genetic information in hiring, firing, assignment or promotion decisions; or
Demanding or even requesting any genetic testing.
Employers who violate the Act can be fined as much as $300,000.
Health insurers will similarly be prohibited by GINA from:
Using genetic information to set premiums, reduce coverage benefits or determine enrollment eligibility; or
Legal observers have suggested that some provisions of GINA are still open to interpretation and could raise troubling questions and issues for employers, such as:
Whether statutory limits on collection of medical information will prohibit employers from following
certain routine practices, such as recording a request by an employee for family medical leave to care for a parent with a genetically-related disease;
Whether use of Section 102(d) of the ADA, which permits an employer to require an authorization to release all medical records after an offer of employment, could be construed in some circumstances as an unlawful request for genetic information if it is provided.
Employers should also be aware that many states have their own genetic information statutes, and passage of the federal law may spur more initiatives. The Human Genome Research Institute cites that 31 states have laws regarding the access or misuse of genetic information by employers, and 41 states have genetic information statutes affecting insurers.
The Massachusetts anti-discrimination law includes a broad prohibition against the use of or collection of genetic information in connection with the employment relationship and employment decisions. This law makes it unlawful for an employer to refuse to hire or terminate employment based on genetic information, or to collect, solicit, require, encourage, or induce disclosure of genetic information from any person as a condition of employment.
Under the broad protections of Massachusetts law and that of other states, employers need to be leery of making any request for information that is not narrowly and strictly job-related. Thus, employers may wish to consider whether requests to doctors for any medical information should be crafted to specifically state that "no genetic testing information should be provided in response to this request."
MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUES GUIDANCE ON ENFORCEMENT OF INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LAW
The Fair Labor Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has recently issued new guidelines to help employers understand how and when the Attorney General enforces the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Law, M.G.L. c. 149, section 148B, which provides severe penalties for the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.
The Division reiterated and emphasized that employers must pass a three-prong test for workers who are classified as independent contractors. Under that test:
Workers classified as contractors must be "free from control and direction in connection with the performance of the service" that they are contracted to perform;
The service provided by the contractors must be "outside the usual course of business of the employer-contractor"; and
The contractor must be "customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business of the same nature as that involved in the service performed [for hire]."
In its advisory, the AG's Office emphasizes that the independent contractor must be a distinct business or corporate entity that provides services separate from the contracting entity. The AG's Office identified the following "strong indications of misclassification that warrant further investigation" if revealed:
The lack of any business records pertaining to the service provided by the "contractor";
The practice of paying the "contractor" in cash, "off the books" or "under the table" with no documents reflecting payment;
The insufficiency or total lack of any workers compensation coverage for the "contractor";
The failure to provide 1099 or W-2 statements to the "contractor";
The provision of equipment, tools and supplies to the "contractor"; and
The "contractor" fails to pay income taxes or employer contributions to the Division of Unemployment Assistance.
Noting that there is a lack of judicial precedent interpreting Prong Two of the independent contractor test, the AG's Office offered employers a few examples of how the Attorney General views that prong. Two examples follow:
A drywall company classifies an individual who is installing drywall as an independent contractor. This violates prong two because the individual installing the drywall is performing an essential part of the employer's business.
An accounting firm hires an individual to move office furniture. Prong two is not applicable here because the moving of furniture is only incidental to the accounting firm's essential business.
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Growing up in Watchung, it was clear that Brad and Dana Chernock's interests and aptitudes gravitated toward "different sides of the brain."
PEAPACK - Growing up in Watchung, it was clear that Brad and Dana Chernock's interests and aptitudes gravitated toward "different sides of the brain." Brad Chernock was drawn toward medicine and science and his younger sister's passion was the arts. Through the years, Dana Chernock said that, "Brad and I often shared articles and events with each other that combined science/technology with the arts."
But even they are surprised at where this collaborative approach has recently taken them.
Brad Chernock is currently a fourth-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark. During his third year pediatrics rotation last year, his class spent one day at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center, a special hospital and educational facility for children and adults with developmental disabilities. It was an experience that included exposure to issues in caring for individuals with complex developmental disabilities. As part of the day's agenda, the students were given a tour of the Robert Schonhorn Arts Center, home of Matheny's Arts Access Program, which, through the use of innovative systems and techniques, empowers individuals with disabilities to create fine art.
Brad Chernock found the experience enlightening and breathtaking.
"I thought the art they produced was incredible," he said, "And they were treated like professional artists. The method in which the art is created was fascinating to me and has so many complex dimensions that it was truly unique and remarkable."
The artists — most of whom do not have use of their arms and, in many cases, are non-verbal — work with professional artists who act as their facilitators. The facilitators are working professionals who have been trained to be the arms of the disabled artists, following their instructions and providing a process for them to create works that are purely their own.
Since Dana Chernock works in the Old Masters Paintings Department at Sotheby's, the prestigious international auction house in New York, Brad Chernock had a natural connection to that bigger stage.
Andrew Edge, Arts Access Visual Arts Coordinator, gave the tour that day and said that he remembered that, "Brad was definitely the most interested and had the most questions. He asked if we displayed the art outside of Matheny, and I remember he did mention that his sister worked at Sotheby's."
"When Brad told me about his tour at Matheny and explained the arts program, I was immediately interested in learning more and seeing how Sotheby's might be able to offer a collaboration in some capacity," Dana Chernock said.
She arranged for herself and a colleague, Jennifer Burns, to visit the Arts Access Program last summer.
"I had the chance to view firsthand the inspiring, thoughtful process through which each piece of artwork is made," Dana Chernock said. "The fact that art, as a form of self-expression, has been patiently and carefully broken down into each and every possible choice for the artists was incredibly impressive."
At first, Dana Chernock was thinking about an exchange of tours between Sotheby's and Arts Access. But, after seeing the artwork and discussing it with her colleagues, the concept changed.
"We were able to coordinate a three-day exhibition to take place at Sotheby's," Dana Chernock said. "This will include a gallery walk led by Arts Access' team and a 'facilitator role-play' as an employee engagement opportunity to deepen the understanding of the creative process that formed the works on view."
The Sotheby's exhibit, entitled "The Art of Choice," will be held for three days from Feb. 9 to 11 and will showcase the work of five Arts Access artists — Chet Cheesman, Ellen Kane, James Lane, Mike Martin and Cindy Shanks.
Although the Sotheby's exhibit will display paintings and digital art, the Arts Access Program encompasses several other arts disciplines including choreography, creative writing, and drama.
Dana Chernock grew up as a dancer "with movement as expression playing a crucial role in my own life."
"I was particularly struck by the method through which Heather Williams, Arts Access' Performing Arts and Outreach Coordinator, explained how the facilitation process translated across mediums into exploring every possible conscious choice for movement and motion," she said.
During their visit, Dana Chernock and Burns were shown dance charts on an iPad that is used by facilitators in the choreography program.
"The charts are a combination of video and static images that are used in our line of questioning when presenting movement options to our choreographers," Williams said. "I remember Dana being fascinated at the idea of breaking dance down into its simplest form since dance is often viewed as a complicated, multi-layer process."
The Chernocks are graduates of Newark Academy, an independent middle and upper school in Livingston. In October 2018, Dana received NA's "Woman of Distinction" award. She earned an Arts Merit Scholarship to Bucknell University for dance and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor's of Arts in Art History and English. After graduation, Dana started her career at Sotheby's New York where she has held senior roles in Operations and currently manages high profile collections, projects, and important auctions in the global Old Master Paintings department.
Brad Chernock is looking forward to a general surgery residency next year with plans to complete an acute care surgery fellowship in the future. He has a bachelor's degree in emergency medicine from the University of Pittsburgh and is a graduate of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Surgical Physician Assistant program. He is particularly passionate about improving patient safety through teamwork and has given several talks on this topic.
Dana Chernock said the team at Arts Access "has been so wonderful to work with, informative about the program and creative in their approaches to the collaboration and opportunities for both sides."
"By its very nature, 'art' as human expression through creativity is and should be accessible to all — the Arts Access Program at Matheny fully embraces and embodies this notion through its facilitator program," Dana Chernock said.
Sotheby's is located at 1334 York Avenue in New York. Exhibition hours for "The Art of Choice" will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9; 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11. It is free and open to the public.


Rinse dried beans then cowl with many inches of water. Soak beans over night then rinse once more.
Heat oil in massive dutch kitchen appliance pot over high heat. Saute onion, carrots and celery 4-5 minutes whereas stirring. Add garlic and saute 30-60 seconds.
Add beans, broth, tomatoes, bay leaf, garlic powder, Italian herbs and pepper. wake a boil then scale back heat to simmer. Cover, going away lid slightly unfastened. Cook for ninety minutes. Check consistency of beans. If the beans ar still quite firm, cook for half-hour longer.
take away lid and add ham and cabbage. Cook for 15-20 additional minutes. Salt to style (This can vary reckoning on the saltiness of the ham. The soup might not even would like salt.) Discard herb and serve.
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Bristow Public Schools Adds New Security Systems
Friday, August 9th 2019, 5:47 PM CDT
By: Taylor Newcomb
BRISTOW, Oklahoma - Students in Bristow head back to school on Monday, and should be safer than ever. District leaders said they spent the last two months installing new security systems in every building.
"We feel safe here in our community, but we want to make sure we don't have one or two unfortunate things," Assistant Safety Director Lawrence Seachris said.
Seachris said their new visitor verification system is called School Safe I.D.
"Any visitors that we have check in to these vestibules, they'll use a state-issued I.D.," he said.
After you scan your I.D., the system automatically checks a national database for sex offenders. If and only when you're cleared, the double doors to the school will unlock.
"It ensures that we know who's coming in and out of our building to ensure all our students are safe," Seachris said.
Seachris admitted the system takes a little more time than a sign-in sheet, but after the first time, he said you can add your visitor pass to your phone and skip the checkpoint next time.
"It takes a little more time the first time, but after that, it gets better," he said. "And it's worth the time because it ensures safety."
Seachris said in a time where there is so much fear surrounding school safety, the extra few minutes are worth it to the district, and to parents, if it means stopping someone who isn't welcome.
"If we can do anything we can to ensure that everybody's safe, any extra measure is welcome," he said.
As another safety measure, Seachris said the district asking parents and students to download an app called "Stop It" that allows them to anonymously report anything they see that's suspicious.


Question: What is the ruling regarding hijacking planes and kidnapping?
Answer: From that which is known to everyone who has the slightest bit of common sense is that hijacking airplanes and kidnapping children and the like are extremely great crimes, the world over. Their evil effects are far and wide, as is the great harm and inconvenience caused to the innocent; the total effect of which none can comprehend except Allaah.
There is no doubt about the effect of these crimes; so it is obligatory upon the governments and those responsible from amongst the scholars and other than them to afford these issues great concern, and to exert themselves as much as possible in ending this evil.