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Garden party raises £1,800 for NSPCC
By Gareth Dunning Deputy Editor
Howard and Wendy Platt
A LYMM summer garden party has raised nearly £1,800 for popular children's charity NSPCC.
The event was hosted by Howard and Wendy Platt at Laskey Farm, a scenic, one and half acre site which is part of the prestigious National Open Garden Scheme.
However, it was Cardiff University student Laura Brookes who was responsible for organising the day, volunteering to help NSPCC fundraiser Lesley Loughbridge set up the party and co-ordinate proceedings.
"I wanted to help the NSPCC as it's such a great charity, and I knew that by organising an event for them, I'd gain some amazing experience," Laura said.
"The fact that the event was so successful for such a good cause is a real bonus.
"Thanks to Lesley, Howard, Wendy and everyone who helped make the day run so smoothly and raise so much money for the NSPCC."
Lucky guests were treated to champagne, wine and a range of other food and drink in the specially-landscaped farm, which is usually only opened for the Lymm Garden Festival last month.
But Howard and Wendy generously offered the site – that features five interconnected ponds – to play a key part in the charity's fundraising initiative this summer.
"It was really terrific of Howard and Wendy to let us use their beautiful gardens, and we're truly grateful to them and to everyone involved," Lesley said.
"Laura's work in the run-up to the event and throughout the day was exemplary, and judging by her voluntary work for the NSPCC, I'm sure she'll go far in events management."
Janette Drew, community fundraising manager, added: "The summer lunch was a wonderful event, organised brilliantly by Lesley and Laura.
"We rely on our volunteers to help raise vital funds for the NSPCC, and their work was amazing.
"We'd love to speak to more students who feel they may be able to give up some of their time to help a good cause, and if Laura's work is anything to go by, I'm sure they'll be a great benefit to the charity."
n For more information about how you can help the NSPCC, you can visit nspcc.org.uk/what-you-can-do, or email janette.drew@nspcc.org.uk.


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How exactly does Green Lantern: The Animated Series fit into Earth 16's continuity. Guy Gardener appeared in the show, and John Stewart was name-dropped, but both were lanterns during Team Year Zero. Razer was also stated to have been looking for Aya for 4 years. Knowing that this season was taking place in 2020, it can be assumed that Razer began searching for Aya in 2016. But this doesn't make much sense as this would take place during the series finale where Razer left to search for Aya and in this same season, Guy and John show up for the first time. The two of them have been stated to only recently become lanterns but in the continuity of Earth-16, Guy and John have been lanterns well before 2016. This is making my brain hurt. Also while I have your attention, would Aya's appearance in Earth-16 match her counterpart in GL:TAS. (Meaning does she look the same)

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Release Date: November 19th, 2013
Tokyo Story
Review Date November 19th, 2013 by Steven Cohen
Overview - A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director's customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director's recurring themes of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema's mightiest masterpieces.
Technical Specs: 3-Disc Set (Blu-ray + 2 DVDs)
English Descriptive Audio: Japanese Uncompressed Monaural
Subtitles/Captions: English
Special Features: Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu's "Tokyo Story"
I Lived, But . . . , a two-hour documentary from 1953 about Ozu's life and career, featuring interviews with critics and former cast and crew members
Talking with Ozu, a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell
What is art? It seems like a simple question at first, but try as we might, it's nearly impossible to truly define. Sure, there are many different opinions and ideas about what various artistic mediums are supposed to achieve, but a clear set of guidelines is essentially irrelevant. After all, something as limitless and inexplicable as human expression can't ever be fully classified. And so, we continue to ask ourselves again and again… what is art? To be honest, I don't know the answer. Or at least, I certainly can't put it into words. But, I think I know where it can be found. Layered with delicate texture and peerless insight, Yasujiro Ozu's 'Tokyo Story' is a shining, understated example of the power of artistic expression. Locked within its humble images and tearful emotion is the very rhythm and heartbeat of cinema itself, revealing the full scope of what the medium is capable of. Stripped away of needless flash and overwrought drama, Ozu cuts to the very soul of filmmaking, providing as pure an example of art as any movie ever made.
Set in Japan during the 1950s, the movie tells the story of an elderly couple, Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama (Chishû Ryû & Chieko Higashiyama), as they leave their small village behind to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Once they reach the big city they soon discover that their son and daughter don't have much time for them, and instead often treat them like a burden. Thankfully, their widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko (Setsuko Hara), greets them enthusiastically and shows them great kindness. Eventually, Tomi's health starts to decline, and the family is forced to face potential tragedy, further revealing each member's true colors.
Though there are certainly instances of classic drama peppered throughout the runtime, Ozu's approach mostly avoids traditional narrative structure and conflicts. Instead, the film follows an episodic format that focuses on various interactions between the family, revealing the daily rituals of ordinary life while chronicling a greater tale about change, aging, compassion, and familial bonds. Throughout it all, the director gradually unveils the harrowing rift between generations, spotlighting our propensity toward selfishness and the tragic inevitability of loneliness. Ozu's view of humanity is far from merely pessimistic, however, and to the contrary, the director offers a deceptively complex and multifaceted view on life, providing examples that run the full gamut of human emotion and behavior.
Through the Hirayama family we bear witness to callousness, forced social niceties, precarious cordiality, bitter spite, youthful frustration, sincere love, growing disappointment, unfortunate guilt, lingering grief, and life-affirming kindness. While Ozu's story is irrevocably tied to Japanese culture, his overarching themes and insights somehow remain wholly universal. The emotions and concepts that he so effortlessly taps into go beyond nationality or geographic borders. In his characters we can see ourselves, and in their struggles, pains, and joys, we can see our own lives reflected back with a kind of precision so sensitive and delicate in execution, that it has rarely been rivaled by any other artist in any medium.
As Shukishi and Tomi's adult children display increasingly indifferent and irritated reactions to their visiting parents, Ozu heartbreakingly exposes the tragic toll that time and change can have on relationships. Those who were once invaluable are now viewed as nothing more than a nuisance, exposing a reprehensible but often all too accurate reality. Watching the couple be handed off from household to household with little regard is genuinely upsetting, and though it's understandable that their son and daughter have their own lives with their own problems, their frequent lack of respect and compassion is frustrating.
Thankfully, Ozu chooses to contrast this unsavory behavior with the selfless kindness of Noriko. While she is just their daughter-in-law, and her husband has been dead for eight years, Noriko treats the Hariyami's as if they were her own flesh and blood, going out of her way to make sure that they are taken care of and comfortable. She becomes the film's shining beacon of hope, illustrating mankind's potential for affection and compassion -- but not in some grand, operatic, or messianic manner. Her good deeds are of the simplest order, but the pure thoughtfulness of each understated gesture is inspiring and heartwarming.
As a quintessential example of Ozu's unique and unassuming visual style, the camera here becomes a quiet and gentle observer. The director is known for his low angle shots which capture the action from close to the ground and his frequent use of cutaways featuring landscapes, and all these trademarks are clearly evident throughout 'Tokyo Story,' giving it a subtle but deliberate aesthetic. Cuts are mostly functional, taking us from room to room as characters move through their homes, once again emphasizing the simple nuances of daily life. Likewise, camera movements are extremely rare, with the director instead employing static shots to capture all that needs to be seen with little fuss and fanfare. With that said, Ozu's framing and compositions are impeccable, and his attention to detail is second to none, giving each individual shot a rare sense of authenticity. All of cinema's most overt tricks and techniques are basically put aside, whittling away filmmaking style until only the very essentials are left, creating an air of palpable, undiluted truth.
A real definition of art might forever elude us, but 'Tokyo Story' is as enduring and affecting an example as any. Ozu's masterpiece is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, and the director has become the source of nearly fanatical adoration from many subsequent filmmakers who continue to herald his work -- and it's really not hard to see why. Through its universal story of family, the film becomes a quiet symphony of life, offering gentle and often bittersweet musings on everyday existence. A devastating chronicle of mankind's "natural" progression toward selfishness, and an uplifting testament toward our similarly innate ability to love and sacrifice, Ozu's tale links youth and old age, cruelty and kindness, life and death. Through contrasts, tragedy, and simple truths, 'Tokyo Story' reminds us that all things are connected, that every piece is but a part of a larger, cyclical story. Like any truly indelible piece of art, its insights are timeless. It might sound incredibly hyperbolic, but in many ways, all that ever needs to be said about humanity can be found here, and even generations from now viewers will be able to watch this film and know: This is who we were. This is what we felt. Good and bad.
Criterion presents 'Tokyo Story' in a Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. A BD-50 Region A disc and two DVDs come packaged in a foldout case housed in a cardboard slipcover with spine number 217. A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell is also included.
3-Disc Set (Blu-ray + 2 DVDs)
Japanese Uncompressed Monaural
Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu's "Tokyo Story"
The movie is provided with a black and white 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 transfer in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Though not perfect and somewhat limited by the source materials, this is a pleasing image that gives the film a very worthy presentation.
Sadly, the film's original negative no longer exists and the transfer was instead sourced from a new 35 mm interpositive made from an internegative. The results are good, but not quite exceptional. A light to moderate layer of course grain is visible throughout, but the grain lacks some of the rich texture found on other classic releases. The print itself has been cleaned up well, but there are faint vertical lines and other small blemishes apparent from time to time. Clarity is pretty good, revealing nice details in the film's production design and costumes, and while the image is on the flat side, Ozu's impeccable framing is rendered well. The movie's grayscale is also nicely balanced with good contrast, though black levels can look a little elevated in some shots. Though mostly problem free, I did detect what looked like some extremely subtle signs of compression in dark backgrounds.
Given the lack of an original negative, this is likely as good as 'Tokyo Story' can look, and thankfully the results are quite good. Detail is a little on the soft side in some scenes, but Ozu's distinct style is preserved respectfully.
The audio is presented in a Japanese LPCM mono track with optional English subtitles. There are some minor age-related issues, but the mix sounds quite good and the subtle sound design is very effective.
Dialogue is comparatively thin and a little muffled at times, revealing the limitations of the source recordings and their age. Likewise, music sounds a tad strained and in the main titles sequence a bit distorted with relatively flat range. The mono mix actually features some interesting sound design work, however, and Ozu's use of specific sounds to further the ambiance and thematic core of his story can be quite striking. Trains, wind, crickets, passing boats, and ticking clocks all become important pieces of the film's overall mood, and the simple sounds come through well. Some slight background hissing is audible in some scenes, but other major technical issues are thankfully absent.
The audio does show some age, but that's understandable. The delicate sound design itself is strong, and the mono mix is faithful to the director's intentions.
Criterion has put together an exceptional collection of supplements including several documentaries about the director. All of the special features are presented in upscaled 1080i with Dolby Digital 1.0 audio and optional English subtitles for the foreign language portions (unless noted otherwise).
Commentary with David Desser - Recorded in 2003, this is an informative but fairly dry track. Desser offers a steady, often shot by shot analysis of Ozu's visual and narrative style. He also addresses the movie's larger themes and lasting impact, and shares some production trivia. It's not exactly essential listening, but there's a lot good information here for Ozu fans.
Talking with Ozu (HD, 40 min) - Here we get a 1993 documentary that features several filmmakers, including Stanley Kwan, Claire Denis, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders, reflecting on Ozu's importance and impact on their own work.
I Lived, But… (HD, 2 hrs & 3 min) - Presented in 1080p, this is a 1983 documentary about Yasujiro Ozu that features interviews with several actors he worked with, as well as critics and other filmmakers. The director's early life and path to filmmaking are all traced, and the doc goes through many milestones in his filmography with clips. The participants all share interesting insights into Ozu's very meticulous and occasionally demanding directing process, and some fun anecdotes about his drinking habits are also revealed (apparently he and his co-writer went through about 100 bottles of sake per script). Well produced and full of worthwhile stories and facts, this is a great inclusion.
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (HD, 45 min) - Presented in 1080p, this is a 1988 documentary about actor Chishu Ryu and his films for Shochiku Studios, including his many Ozu collaborations. Ryu shares many stories about his work himself, and we are treated to many clips from his films. The doc also chronicles the demolition of Shochiku's Ofuna studio where Ryu made many of his movies, bringing a rather bittersweet tone to the whole piece. Like the previous doc, this is well worth a look.
Trailer (HD, 4 min) - The film's trailer is included in 1080p.
Yasujiro Ozu's 'Tokyo Story' is a bittersweet examination of family, life, and death. Through its delicate style and effortlessly complex themes, Ozu taps into the very heart of humanity and cinema, creating a lasting masterpiece that continues to be one of the greatest movies ever made. The video and audio show some age and limitations, but are very solid. Criterion has included a fantastic collection of supplements that offer many worthwhile insights into the director and his unique style. This is truly an essential piece of filmmaking, and thankfully it has been given the Blu-ray treatment that it deserves. A peerless example of cinema as art, this disc belongs on every classic film fan's shelf.


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This is a particularly nice cologne in that it has straight sides and is cylindrical. Draping from diamonds of cane are swirling clear tusks-the patterns main draw. The base is covered in a rayed star and the entire piece is wonderfully wood polished. Beautiful, simple and early, this pattern always remains on the top of major collector's lists.
The cologne measures 7 1/2″ tall and 3 1/2″ wide. It's in near perfect condition with a tiny, tiny interior stain in the corner of the base. Most people would not notice the stain, but I'm mentioning it for accuracy's sake.


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Rachel Hutchinson was unable to see her mother for two months before she passed away due to coronavirus restrictions
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A woman who was unable to see her mother for months before she died of coronavirus has spoken of her traumatic experience.
Rachel Hutchinson of Frome, lost her 79-year-old mother on May 23 to the virus last year.
When her mother died, Ms Hutchinson was unable to be with her and had not seen her since mid-March, except for a Mother's Day Zoom call.
In early 2020, Ms Hutchinson's mother was suffering from dementia as well as a recurrence of oesophageal cancer, having been in remission since 2013.
She was in and out of hospital as her condition began to worsen , meanwhile the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold in the UK.
Ms Hutchinson and her sister began working with the council to find their mother a permanent care home, which they did.
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She said: "We were very very excited about it. It was kind of local because my sister lives in Trowbridge and the care home was based on Trowbridge. We were thrilled to bits about it.
After only a couple of weeks at the new care home, Ms Hutchinson received a call to say her mother had tested positive for Covid.
"I asked, have you had a lot of it there? They said no, she's the only one and that she was in an annexe away from the main building of that care home," she said.
Once her mother had tested positive, care home staff members refused to let Ms Hutchinson speak to her on the phone, for fear of staff members catching the virus.
She said: "We weren't able to visit because of Covid and we didn't get to talk to her at all.
"She didn't have her own mobile because she didn't know how to use it so we had no communication with her.
"We were trying to find out how she was, and we even had difficulty with that."
Ms Hutchinson described how difficult this period of being in the dark as to her mother's condition and not being able to see her was.
"The horrible thing for us was, because she had dementia, my sister and I were always worrying: did she know why she was in the home, did she know why we couldn't go see her, did she think we had abandoned her?
"That was just going around our heads and made us really anxious and still does now to be perfectly honest.
"We didn't expect that we would never actually see her again after that weekend in March.
"It definitely still impacts me and my sister. Did we do the right things in supporting her leading up to that? It just goes constantly over and over in both our minds all the time. It's horrible."
On May 23, Ms Hutchinson received a call at two o'clock in the morning.
She said: "They said she's slipping away. We agreed with them that we could go say goodbye to her, if we isolated for 14 days afterwards.
"So we got in the car, but on the way over I phoned and she'd already passed away.
"We hadn't seen her for a couple of months. We certainly hadn't spoken to her for about six weeks at least before she died."
Coronavirus was cited on their mother's death certificate as the cause of death.
Ms Hutchinson said: "We weren't made aware by the care home if anything else got worse but because we weren't going to see, we don't know how badly she had progressed with the cancer and the dementia."
At her mother's funeral, they were only allowed a dozen people to attend with strict social distancing measures in place.
Ms Hutchinson said: "It was very basic and very strange and very, very distressing to be honest.
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"Then after the service when we went outside the building, there was family there and some of them were obviously in tears, but you couldn't actually go and hug them because of Covid. You couldn't get close to them. That was really tough."
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She said: "People who deny it infuriate me. I was out for a walk the day after mom died and I saw this group of about 12 kids in the field playing around and, obviously we were not supposed to do that, so I reported them to the police.
"I've not got much tolerance for people who say they don't believe it or say it's a conspiracy, because I've actually seen it. When you know what it's like to lose a family member and be at that funeral with your relatives and not be able to talk to them or reassure them, it's really difficult."
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Chapter 30: Legal Issues
Marshall B. Kapp
Kapp MB. Kapp M.B. Kapp, Marshall B.Legal Issues. In: Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, Supiano MA, Ritchie C. Halter J.B., & Ouslander J.G., & Studenski S, & High K.P., & Asthana S, & Supiano M.A., & Ritchie C(Eds.),Eds. Jeffrey B. Halter, et al.eds. Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 17, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1923&sectionid=144519839
Kapp MB. Kapp M.B. Kapp, Marshall B. (2017). Legal issues. Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, Supiano MA, Ritchie C. Halter J.B., & Ouslander J.G., & Studenski S, & High K.P., & Asthana S, & Supiano M.A., & Ritchie C(Eds.),Eds. Jeffrey B. Halter, et al. Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1923&sectionid=144519839
Kapp MB. Kapp M.B. Kapp, Marshall B. "Legal Issues." Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, Supiano MA, Ritchie C. Halter J.B., & Ouslander J.G., & Studenski S, & High K.P., & Asthana S, & Supiano M.A., & Ritchie C(Eds.),Eds. Jeffrey B. Halter, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2017, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1923&sectionid=144519839.
OVERVIEW OF HEALTH CARE REGULATION
STANDARDS OF CARE AND PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY IN GERIATRICS
This chapter addresses the following Geriatric Fellowship Curriculum Milestones: #1, #4, #5
Appreciate the general legal environment within which physicians function when providing medical care to older patients.
Understand the elements of a medical malpractice claim brought against a health care provider.
Engage in the process of shared decision making and informed consent with older patients in a legally appropriate manner.
Advise patients and families about available tools to facilitate advance health care planning.
Apply in clinical practice the legal requirements for confidentiality of patient information and permissible exceptions to those requirements.
Key Clinical Points
Maintain and apply in clinical practice an acceptable level of knowledge and skill for your specialty (ie, keep up with your field).
Engage in the process of informed and voluntary shared decision making with your patients or their decision-making surrogates.
Discuss the topic of advance health care planning in a timely and supportive manner with patients, ascertaining the patient's relevant values and treatment preferences in various contingencies.
Respect and safeguard the confidentiality of patients' medical information, but understand the circumstances under which it is legally permissible or even mandatory to reveal what would otherwise be confidential information.
The law regulates human relationships, both prospectively and retrospectively, in a wide variety of ways. To a large extent, the legal implications of medical practice are generic, in the sense that these apply to patients of all ages. Rules developed to deal with the care of younger adults apply with full force to older persons, whose rights do not diminish just because of advanced chronological age. However, a patient's advanced years may sometimes raise issues demanding particular attention by the involved participants in the professional/patient relationship. This chapter concentrates on several selected aspects in which the law influences the delivery of geriatric services through its impact on the recognition and enforcement of the respective rights and responsibilities of the parties, within the specific dynamics of an older patient/health care provider relationship.
The US Constitution establishes a federal system of government, under which health care delivery and other matters are regulated at the national (federal), state, and local levels. Under separation of powers principles, such regulation takes the form of constitutional (federal, state, and local) provisions, statutes enacted by elected legislatures, rules or regulations promulgated by executive branch administrative agencies like health or social service departments on the basis of authority conferred on the agency by the legislature via a statute, and common law doctrines created by the courts as a matter of public policy and prior case precedent. These various forms of regulation may impose specific or general duties on parties, may authorize but not require parties to act in specific ways, or may prohibit parties from engaging in particular conduct. Health care regulation may be directed at individual ...


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Several years ago, this Johnston eatery was home to neighborhood favorite Café Andiamo. Staff of the former restaurant reopened the space as Café Vino after its predecessor closed. The restaurant was completely full when we went, including several large parties, but the small staff was efficient and the dishes came out of the kitchen quickly.
Once we were seated, our server – who also happened to be one of the owners – welcomed us with a bread basket and a generous swirl of spicy olive oil (regular is available for the heat-averse). We started with the Pasticcio appetizer: a casserole with grilled eggplant, prosciutto, mozzarella and tomato sauce. It was a large appetizer for the two of us, but we didn't complain, each greedily cutting off pieces until the plate was clean.
Café Vino has a quirky casual vibe that isn't typical of an Italian restaurant with such a classic menu. Despite the decidedly Tuscan maroon and mustard color scheme and wine-themed chalkboard illustration, quirks like mismatched dinner plates and the hilarious bathroom decor provide the type of whimsy you wouldn't be surprised to find in a funky college-town coffee shop.
Next, we ordered a Caesar salad. This, too, had a touch of quirk, with a giant slice of parmesan and garlic crusted bread in place of croutons. It was liberally dressed and had a great anchovy flavor.
The entrees at Café Vino are total classics, from Marsala to Picatta to Milanese, available with a variety of meats. My husband had the Veal Parmigiana: standard but delicious, with a generous piece of veal, ample breading and plenty of tomato sauce and cheese. I had to have the Chicken Saltimbocca, a dish close to my heart because my mother has made it since my childhood. Three large pieces of chicken breast were pounded thin and topped with prosciutto and melted provolone, garnished with several plump roasted mushrooms. The brothy white wine sauce was full of flavor, and we couldn't resist asking for more bread to soak up the sauce. This may have been the best version of Saltimbocca I've ever had (apologies to Mom), with incredibly tender chicken and so many complementary flavors.
With both of our dishes, we had a side of pasta. We liked the homemade linguine, and next time I plan to order it with aglio e olio, or olive oil and garlic. The restaurant also regularly makes their own gnocchi, and lists any other homemade pasta options on the chalkboard.
We brought a bottle of wine, but noted that many of the tables around us were taking BYOB to the next level with large coolers and even cocktails. The restaurant was correspondingly lively, with plenty of laughter and animated conversation. I doubt there was a diner there who would have rather been somewhere else.
We finished the evening with two desserts. A rotating dessert menu includes at least one homemade selection and several sourced options, like the wonderful lemon sorbet in a lemon. We had the Chocolate Lava Cake, which was oozing the way it should be, and the Chocolate Chip Crème Brûlée, a fun version of the standard. The dishes at Café Vino are well worth a visit. If you're going on a Friday or Saturday, a reservation is a must. And so is your cooler.


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by Anthony Vargas // Friday, January 14th, 2022 – 12:30 am
Since Newsweek revamped its digital business in 2019, the publication grew its readership to more than 100 million unique visitors a month and increased digital ad revenue by 166%.
Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad attributes this growth to the implementation of an objectives and key results (OKR) framework that completely changed how the publication approached its content and revenue goals and led to a close partnership with Google Cloud.
Pragad's inspiration for the new framework came from an executive course he took at Harvard Business School in September 2019 taught by economist Suraj Srinivasan. This course introduced Pragad to the concept of OKRs. An OKR framework sets a stake in the ground, encouraging teams to set ambitious, measurable goals and outlining the results they would like to see. OKRs also emphasize collaboration across an entire organization to meet targeted goals.
While learning about OKRs, Pragad was especially impressed by the story in "Measure What Matters" of how Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used an OKR framework to build Google Chrome and grow it into the internet's most successful web browser.
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Pragad then decided to institute a pilot OKR for Newsweek's Q4 2020 ad revenue. With the COVID-19 pandemic having a negative impact on revenues across industries at the time, Pragad initially decided to set the goal marker at 35% of total ad revenue for Q4 2020 compared to Q4 2019. However, after reading more about the concept of OKR stretch goals, he decided to change the target to 50% of total ad revenue for Q4 2020 compared to Q4 2019. Newsweek managed to exceed this stretch goal thanks to a collaborative effort across multiple teams, which convinced Pragad to set more ambitious goals for 2021.
The OKR framework also allowed for major improvements in Newsweek's programmatic ad business. Pragad brought together multiple teams to evaluate the total ad revenue of various traffic sources. Because of the new framework, a weakness in one traffic source that had been ignored was finally addressed. Though regularly yielding a few million monthly page views, its revenue numbers were subpar. After Newsweek optimized the page layout for articles coming from that traffic source, total revenue for those pages increased by a factor of four.
"A small optimization of 2x, 3x or 4x, when you're dealing with large volumes, can be monumental" in programmatic, Pragad said. "So that [change] was absolutely transformational. And we would not have been able to achieve that without a powerful OKR framework."
Partnership With Google Cloud
After seeing early success with the OKR framework, Pragad decided to pursue a partnership with Google Cloud to further refine Newsweek's approach to OKRs. In early 2021, Pragad reached out to his contacts at Google to see if the company would be interested in sharing some of its institutional OKR expertise with Newsweek as it embarked on expanding its OKR framework and adopting Google Cloud services to help the publication achieve its goals.
Pragad cited David Feuer, senior product manager at Google Cloud, as being instrumental in the partnership. Feuer also reached out to his colleague Greg Felice, Google's senior principal for customer value and transformation, to add his expertise.
"We use OKR practices inside Google to manage Google's business. So we wanted to bring that to Newsweek," Feuer said. "I wanted to see firsthand how investing in [Dev] and his team would work, to know if this is something that we can scale across other businesses in the future."
Journalism Impact Index
Pragad and the editorial team worked with Google Cloud to extend the OKR framework to Newsweek's approach to content, leading to the creation of the High Impact Journalism OKR, which measures Newsweek's articles according to an Impact Index that divides stories into AAA, AA and A rankings.
An AAA story tends to be a high-profile exclusive report that has a measurable impact in terms of government or corporate action and is covered extensively in other publications. These stories also tend to drive a large amount of traffic and ad impressions back to Newsweek, although the Impact Index is centered on a story's real-world impact rather than the number of impressions it draws. Pragad pointed to Newsweek breaking the news of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death as an example of a story with an AAA Impact Index.
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As a result of the partnership, Newsweek implemented Google Cloud's Recommendations AI – designed for ecommerce – into its digital properties.
Google worked with Newsweek to adopt the AI-based recommendation model for Newsweek's use case. The approach was simple: Identify new audience members who are engaging deeply with Newsweek's content, then target them with tailored story recommendations. Eventually, Newsweek would pitch them a subscription using the AI's cues.
To gauge how well the recommendation engine was working, Newsweek conducted A/B testing in which only a certain segment of online traffic would receive recommendations from the Google AI service.
The A/B test focused on three metrics: clickthrough rate, subscription conversion rate and total revenue per visit. With the recommendation engine in place, clickthrough rate increased by 50% to 75%, subscription conversion rate increased by 10% and total revenue per visit also increased by 10%.
The recommendation engine gave Newsweek a way to more effectively monetize the increased audience numbers that resulted from the early success of the OKR framework, with the ultimate goal of using Google's AI to encourage readers to sign up for a paid subscription.
"Until the audience engages with you deeply, you can't sell subscriptions," Pragad said. "So we are taking a classic sales funnel approach."
Following the success of Newsweek's first-of-its-kind implementation, this new use case model for Google Cloud's Recommendations AI can be used by other publishers.
Institutional Change
In addition to the recommendation engine integration, Newsweek's OKR-based partnership with Google also prompted changes in how the publisher approaches problem solving on the operational level. For example, Pragad was considering a tech-based model for evaluating the fairness of political coverage. Newsweek and its partners at Google looked at a quantified approach to measuring fairness, but ultimately decided on a panel-based approach instead that would incorporate the knowledge and expertise of Newsweek's editorial team. Pragad found this to be a much more workable solution. Newsweek is now working on developing its panel-based Fairness Index, although it is still in the experimental phase.
"It's not just the technology per se, but also how you approach solving a problem," Pragad said. "The area where Dave and his team at Google added so much value was in the implementation of processes, and allowing us to think of ways in which we can approach measurement itself."
Also, as part of the partnership, Feuer and Felice led an OKR workshop for Newsweek's employees on how Google Cloud's services could be adopted into the publisher's OKR framework. The workshop was attended by Pragad's former teacher Srinivasan, who got to see how his lessons on OKRs had led Pragad to the tools he needed to institute real change at Newsweek. Srinivasan plans to add a case study on Newsweek that includes its collaboration with Google Cloud to his course curriculum.
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Q: Getting Shopify order data with asp.net c# via JSON I'm working on trying to build a really simple web application that grabs order data from Shopify's API and displays it in a pretty format.
I'm a front-end developer by day, and back in the day I wrote lots of classic asp, but asp.net and JSON are both new to me.
I spent the past weekend scouring the web for any articles that could give me a quick tutorial, or some really simple sample code for how to do the following:

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*Make a call to the Shopify API (http://docs.shopify.com/api/order#show) to retrieve an order record

*Convert the JSON response to grab the customer's first name and last name, and make a list of the line items on their order. Then, nicely formatting it and displaying it in html.

I found json.net and I read a bit about the httpclient in asp.net.
Does anyone have any really simple sample code, or any links to tutorials, that a beginner like me could use to learn how to use asp.net c# to pull shopify data and display it?
Thanks!

A: I recently did an integration with shopify. I found the best approach was to use RestSharp. I believe there might be an open source projects around the Shopify API, but I found that they did a lot of questionable things with the calls/responses.
I created a basic execute wrapper around the RestSharp execute method
public T Execute<T>(RestRequest request) where T : new()
{
    var client = new RestClient(GetHost());
    if (AuthToken != null)
        client.Authenticator = new ShopifyAuthenticator(AuthToken);

    var result = client.Execute<T>(request);

    if(result.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
        throw new ShopifyUnauthorizedException(result.StatusDescription);

    if (result.ErrorException != null)
    {
        const string message = "Error retrieving response.  Check inner details for more information.";
        throw new ShopifyException(message, result.ErrorException);
    }

    return result.Data;
}

public string GetHost()
{
    return Uri.UriSchemeHttps + Uri.SchemeDelimiter + Store + _shopifyHost;
}

AuthToken is the Authtoken for your store.
Store is the sub domain of shopify.
You can cut out the exception propagating stuff, until you have a better understanding.
Also created a basic RestSharp OAuth2Authenticator.
class ShopifyAuthenticator : OAuth2Authenticator
{
    public ShopifyAuthenticator(string accessToken)
        : base(accessToken)
    {

    }

    public override void Authenticate(IRestClient client, IRestRequest request)
    {
        // only add the Authorization parameter if it hasn't been added.
        if (!request.Parameters.Any(p => p.Name.Equals("X-Shopify-Access-Token", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))
        {
            request.AddParameter("X-Shopify-Access-Token", AccessToken, ParameterType.HttpHeader);
        }
    }
}

Then all you have to call is the wrapper method.
RestRequest request = new RestRequest(_shopEndpoint);
return _client.Execute<ShopResult>(request, parameters).Shop;

Classes and constants:
const string _shopEndpoint = "/admin/shop.json";
const string _shopifyHost = ".myshopify.com";

class ShopResult
{
    public Shop Shop { get; set; }
}

/// <summary>
/// The Shopify API's shop object is a collection of the general settings and information about the shop.
/// </summary>
public class Shop
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's street address.
    /// </summary>
    public string Address1 { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The city in which the shop is located.
    /// </summary>
    public string City { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's country (by default equal to the two-letter country code).
    /// </summary>
    public string Country { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The two-letter country code corresponding to the shop's country.
    /// </summary>
    public string CountryCode { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's normalized country name.
    /// </summary>
    public string CountryName { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The date and time when the shop was created.
    /// </summary>
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The customer's email.
    /// </summary>
    public string CustomerEmail { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The three-letter code for the currency that the shop accepts.
    /// </summary>
    public string Currency { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's domain.
    /// </summary>
    public string Domain { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The contact email address for the shop.
    /// </summary>
    public string Email { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Feature is present when a shop has a google app domain. It will be returned as a URL. If
    /// the shop does not have this feature enabled it will default to "null."
    /// </summary>
    public string GoogleAppsDomain { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Feature is present if a shop has google apps enabled. Those shops with this feature
    /// will be able to login to the google apps login. Shops without this feature enabled will default to "null."
    /// </summary>
    public string GoogleAppsLoginEnabled { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// A unique numeric identifier for the shop.
    /// </summary>
    public int Id { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Geographic coordinate specifying the north/south location of a shop.
    /// </summary>
    public string Latitude { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Geographic coordinate specifying the east/west location of a shop.
    /// </summary>
    public string Logitude { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// A string representing the way currency is formatted when the currency isn't specified.
    /// </summary>
    public string MoneyFormat { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// A string representing the way currency is formatted when the currency is specified.
    /// </summary>
    public string MoneyWithCurrencyFormat { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's 'myshopify.com' domain.
    /// </summary>
    public string MyshopifyDomain { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The name of the shop.
    /// </summary>
    public string Name { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The name of the Shopify plan the shop is on.
    /// </summary>
    public string PlanName { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The display name of the Shopify plan the shop is on.
    /// </summary>
    public string DisplayPlanName { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Indicates whether the Storefront password protection is enabled.
    /// </summary>
    public string PasswordEnabled { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The contact phone number for the shop.
    /// </summary>
    public string Phone { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The shop's normalized province or state name.
    /// </summary>
    public string Province { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The two-letter code for the shop's province or state.
    /// </summary>
    public string ProvinceCode { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The username of the shop owner.
    /// </summary>
    public string ShopOwner { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The setting for whether applicable taxes are included in product prices: Valid values are: "true" or "null."
    /// </summary>
    public string TaxShipping { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The setting for whether applicable taxes are included in product prices. Valid values are: "true" or "null."
    /// </summary>
    public string TaxesIncluded { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The setting for whether the shop is applying taxes on a per-county basis or not (US-only). Valid values are: "true" or "null."
    /// </summary>
    public string CountyTaxes { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The name of the timezone the shop is in.
    /// </summary>
    public string Timezone { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// The zip or postal code of the shop's address.
    /// </summary>
    public string Zip { get; set; }
}

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"Election of 1800" is a song from the Broadway musical Hamilton performed by Daveed Diggs (Jefferson), Okieriete Onaodowan (Madison), Leslie Odom Jr. (Burr), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton).
You used to work on the same staff.
It's 1800; ladies, tell your husbands, vote for Burr!
I don't like Adams! Well, he's gonna lose, that's just defeatist.
And Jefferson? In love with France! Yeah, he's so elitist!
I like that Aaron Burr! I can't believe we're here with him!
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But if you had to choose!
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I did give you a fight.
I look forward to our partnership.
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Chillaxin underground at Red Rocks – First show of the 2013 season. Grant Burhans and the Wild Girls invades Red Rocks.
After checking out the lighting and observing the clearing of the late season snow the group was ushered underground so they could inspect the conditions of the guest quarters. Senior tech and super great guy "Ricko" lead the tour and all band members commented on what an excellent fellow he is and how they wish he'd join the tour.
All of us with Grant and the Wild Girls would like to thank the team at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre for their great hospitality and professionalism and a special shout out to our friend Ricko for making our visit unforgettable.
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There is no such thing as normal. How can abnormal be judged in any meaningful way when normal isn't well-defined. What is biopsychiatry actually treating? The method of treatment is medication. But, what is the medication actually treating? Dispensing psychiatric medication to patients – mental health consumers – is treating the very diagnostic pathology whose criteria are defined and categorized in the DSM by a very select group from the very same profession. Who is regulating this? Any governing body other than the psychiatric profession supposedly regulating itself? Biopsychiatry is in bed with Big Pharma. Who can this possibly benefit? How can it be more about the well-being of patients than about the making of money?
Blowing a hole in the purported "science" of biopsychiatry is simple. The first premise you need to re-frame is that of mental illness and mental health. If they are constructs that don't actually translate the way that psychiatry claims they do, then how do all of these categories of pathological mental illnesses even hold water?
There is no such thing as normal. Mental Illness is not the opposite of mental health or visa versa. All human experience is on a spectrum. There is balance toward the center of that spectrum and lack of balance at either end of it. The rest is arbitrary really. In the up-coming next version of the bible of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) psychiatry is adding some 20 new disorders. Everything will soon be thought to be a disorder, that guess what, Big Pharma will pass along their funded studies to biopsychiatry to market its pathology to the public in the name of selling more and more medications.
This is not treatment. It is abuse. Abuse of power. It is self-serving. It is "treatment" in the guise of the making of money off the backs of people who do need real human solutions to their real human problems and challenges.
If you've been treated by a psychiatrist where therapy is absent but prescriptions are routinely given I'd be interested in hearing from you as to whether you think you are getting any help or not. Are you feeling better? Are you making progress? Are you getting well? Can you feel anything with the meds you are on?
You can email me by clicking on the link in the footer below this post at the bottom of the site.
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Ideas of Normalcy vs Mental Illness, Psychiatric Oppression, Big Pharma – Interview with Dr. John Breeding Ph.D.
DSM 5 – Psychiatry Out of Control Is Everything Mental Illness?
psychiatry – a perverted instrument to control YOU?
Is Psychiatry an Industry of Death?
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Q: How to retrieve data from Forecast API with type xml in C#? I have to get the temperature data from an XML API store it in a variable and output it to my form . The problem is that I am getting this error and I don't know why.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Is it because I am not getting the data correctly ?
This is my code :
string url = string.Format("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?weather?&units=metric&APPID=afa249f4910321115afd8ab0b29c3f8d&mode=xml&q=" + city);

XDocument Document = XDocument.Load(url);

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();

Temperature = (string)Document.Root.Element("forecast").Element("temperature").Attribute("value").Value;

I am getting this error in the variable Temperature.
And this is from where I want to retrieve the data .
<forecast>
  <time from="2020-06-14T09:00:00" to="2020-06-14T12:00:00">
    <symbol number="500" name="light rain" var="10d"/>
    <precipitation unit="3h" value="1.21" type="rain"/>
    <windDirection deg="81" code="E" name="East"/>
    <windSpeed mps="2.48" unit="m/s" name="Light breeze"/>
    <temperature unit="celsius" value="21.73" min="20.77" max="21.73"/>
    <feels_like value="23.53" unit="celsius"/>
    <pressure unit="hPa" value="1013"/>
    <humidity value="88" unit="%"/>
    <clouds value="overcast clouds" all="99" unit="%"/>
  </time>

A: I got the temp using the code below:
 public string Get(string city="London")
    {
        IList<XElement> tempList;
        string temp;

        string url = string.Format("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?weather?&units=metric&APPID=afa249f4910321115afd8ab0b29c3f8d&mode=xml&q=" + city);

        XDocument Document = XDocument.Load(url);

       // WebClient webClient = new WebClient();

        var rootElement = XElement.Parse(Document.Root.ToString());
        tempList = rootElement.Element("forecast").Descendants("temperature").ToList();
        temp = tempList[0].Attribute("value").ToString();

        return temp;

    }


text: Q: Can i clear only the AEM level SAML Assertion and not the IDP SAML session.? i have a use case requirement where i required to clear only the AEM related SAML Assertion and not the IDP level SAML session. is there any OOB way to achieve it. I have tried /system/sling/logout.html which shows only "session_timeout" output, but when i access any page of AEM in the same browser i can see the SAML authenticated user is still logged in.


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BlueBucksClan Flex Their Lavish Lifestyle in New "Want Me To" Visuals
As the year is wrapping up, it's always interesting to see who's on pace to blow up in the music world the following year. In 2020, the west coast killed the local scene, and it's only a matter of time that the rest of the world taps in. BlueBucksClan is a group to be on the lookout for in 2021.
The Los Angeles duo has been on fire all year, and they're capping off their 2020 with a brand new music video for their track "Want Me To".
The Baby E produced track is the duo's warmest love song to date. The track also illustrates the pair's chemistry and the enduring appeal of their casual boasts. After DJ says he'll gift a woman Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Cartier, Jeeezy sounds unfazed and ups the ante: "I could put you in Off-White if you want me to / I could put you on a flight if you want me to.
BlueBucksClan is celebrating their successful 2020, and this music video is an example of the lifestyle they live. The duo is seen flaunting buss-down jewelry, riding around in foreign whips, and flying women out of state in their private jet. The music video for "Want Me To" is out now on YouTube, and stream BlueBucksClan's music on all streaming platforms.


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MyFantasyLeague.com
MyFantasyLeague.com (MFL) is one of the oldest players in the fantasy football service industry. For the past 24+ years, MyFantasyLeague has been providing users with live scoring and a comprehensive draft client. It allows users to play in either public/site-managed leagues or private leagues with custom scoring options.
The company motto is "Beyond League Management" and has won a number of industry awards from FSTA (Fantasy Sports Trade Association). MyFantasyLeague offers a 4-week free trial wherein prospective team and league managers can try out the system before paying for a fantasy football season.
League Size Flexibility
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MyFantastyLeague offers a number paid league options that fit any budget. On occasion the company has teamed up with RealTime Fantasy Sports to produce the Fantasy Championship League, where for just $250 per team, users could compete for a grand prize total of $200,000.
Furthermore, MFL leagues are customizable: users can organize their own leagues and set their own scoring rules if they so desire. This company also grants users more flexibility than other providers, particularly in terms of number of teams. For example, while ESPN and Yahoo! Sports only permit up to 20 teams per league, MFL leagues can go as high as 200 teams. For your NFL playoff season, you can set up as many brackets as you want.
This management system boasts a detailed and comprehensive league history, fantasy league previews and recaps, blind bidding, auctions, extensive keeper/salary features, and more positions and scoring options than some other fantasy sites.
MFL supports both live online drafts and email drafts. Every team/league manager can also conduct a draft off-line and later enter the results.
MyFantasyLeague offers a free 5-week trial. You can start setting up your mock drafts anytime and start playing for free for the first 4 weeks of the NFL season. At that point, the company claims that its affordable price is comparable to the cost of "a beer or two for a season's worth of entertainment."
MyFantasyLeague offers discounts for early pre-season purchases and prices are all-inclusive with no hidden fees. Users have year-round access to their team management and histories, even when it's not football season.
MyFantasyLeague's live scoring app, called GameDay, gives quick and accurate in-game scoring. Using GameDay, you can track all your leagues in one place. The app also has an audio announcing feature with voice-enhanced live scoring.
MyFantasyLeague uses Twitter integration and users can interact socially with other players in a variety of ways. This includes videoconferencing and video trash-talking, as described in the company intro video. MFL also has a Facebook page for communication as well as an online forum with message boards.
With MyFantasyLeague, you can choose the appearance of your fantasy football league pages by customizing:
Franchise and league logos
Standings icons
Custom colors, fonts, and font sizes
950+ pre-made helmets (or create your own)
Pre-made skins (or create your own)
Add or remove menus or tabs
Customize the content of each tab with home page modules
Create your own home page modules with custom HTML
Move modules around the page or expand/contract them
Exclusively Football
This aspect is seen as good by some and bad by others. The company's league management system is exclusively football, which won't bother football-only fans. While MyFantasyLeague claims to spend the off season utilizing customer input to improving its fantasy football system and users can access their accounts year round, other fantasy sites offer a variety of sports to keep fantasy sports fans engaged with whatever sport is current in that season.
Despite MFL's extensive experience in the field, it has had plenty of complaints over the years. One of these complaints involved MFL's violation of its own privacy policy in distributing private user information (i.e. message board conversations, trade offers, etc.) to other users not directly involved with private league operations.
It's a possibility that these claims, which are not substantiated by evidence, are inaccurate. However, the fact that MFL has not elected to respond to these complaints is perplexing.
MyFantasyLeague measures up to what fans want to see for their fantasy team. With number of teams and league flexibility, social opportunities, mobile app, a competitive price, and live scoring updates, this company knows what fantasy football should look like. Users will also find a competitive draft client in MFL, which has made provisions for participants to conduct an online draft, email draft, or offline draft.
MyFantasyLeague recently published integrated player rankings from pros at FantasyShark.com and continues to inform users of injuries to players in their lineups to give partipants the best chance of success. Overall, MFL is a great choice for fantasy football season.
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Been using this site for nearly 15 years. Yes, it is a little obtuse at times. But it is the most customizable site out there, and their customer service is easy to contact and very responsive. If I ever have issues, I use their contact form and receive a response within an hour or so. If you want to create your own rule and make your league whatever you want, this is the site to use.
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When I was a little girl, aged around 5, our teacher asked our small class to write down what we wanted to be when we were older. It was a simple task, but I hadn't given it any thought before that time. I can remember this moment vividly because it caused me so much distress. I chewed my pencil, I got really, really upset, and I cried.
The world was so vast. While my classmates were scribbling down Fireman, Astronaut, Teacher, and the like, I stared at my blank page. I remember the teacher walking around the room, stopping by each child, chatting happily. This was supposed to be a light, easy task. There seemed to be so much pressure to choose right in that moment.
The teacher stopped by my desk, to help console me, "Why don't you be a writer? You're very good at that", she said and patted my head. It was the days when teachers could pat your head. It was also the days when the Headteacher would give you a Cola Cube if you were sent to his office for good work. Incidentally, if the famous Cola Cube jar was empty, he would give you 20p and send you off to the local shops to replenish his supply. Being sent to the shops by Mr Dennington, was better than getting a gold star. It showed he trusted you, not only with the money, but the responsibly of leaving the school and picking up the sweets. These were such important life lessons, and for a scrappy little thing like me, cheeky to a fault, being entrusted with anything was a really big deal.
Anyway, the writer suggestion fell on deaf ears. I did not want to be a writer. Writing was boring. I could fly in spaceships, aeroplanes, travel the world, see the world, I was hardly likely to be a writer. Not when there were so many fabulous careers to choose from. As I couldn't pick, and time was pressing on, I had to reluctantly write down "Writer", but I did it with the heavy heart of a 5 year old. The same kind of heavy heart you got when the ice-cream van merrily scooted off down the road, just as you'd come back out into the streets with your 25p.
Now, years, ( yeah, okay, and years), later, I am a writer, I earn my living being paid to write and it is AWESOME! The world of blogging opened up writing to me, remember this post? Seems like yesterday.
Blogging has opened up writing for so many people, so many voices are heard through blogging and I think it's wonderful! Writing has introduced me to so many different people and places, and I am so grateful to have finally succumbed to it.
Now I am writing films, as I said I would way back when I started my education in film. Wowee!


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This beautiful hand painted teapot in cerise pink and green would be the talk of any tea party.
This teapot would look stunning on its own or as part of the set, which we also stock.
We have the three tier cake stand, a sandwich stand, a creamer and sugar bowl, set of six cups and large jug in the same set.


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Excel Property Management in Jersey specialise in property management services & lettings for residential investment property based in the island.
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Unlike Estate Agents, who also often offer property management services, Excel focus only on the property management side so that they can offer the absolute best service in this sector, giving their clients and tenants all of their attention and complete peace of mind.
Excel Property Management will advertise your property, then will screen and filter potential tenants for you using background checks to find the most appropriate and credible tenants to live in your property. Excel can also arrange and attend viewings to the property by potential tenants.
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The Artist, che in lingua inglese significa L'artista, può riferirsi a:

Cinema
The Artist – cortometraggio del 1923 diretto da Slim Summerville
The Artist – film francese del 2011 diretto da Michel Hazanavicius

Editoria
The Artist – rivista di fumetti italiana
The Artist – rivista britannica pubblicata tra il 1880 e il 1902

Musica
 The Artist – pseudonimo usato per alcuni anni dal cantante e musicista Prince
 The Artist – singolo dei Silverstein del 2010, dall'album Rescue

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Gary Callander: Roger Baird pays tribute to Kelso's architect and enforcer in brilliant 1980s team
The sad passing of Gary Callander at the age of 62 after cancer has brought into sharp focus the remarkable achievements of the Kelso team of the 1980s and how a club representing a town with a population of around 5,500 could rule the roost in Scottish rugby.
By Graham Bean
6th Dec 2021, 8:52pm
Gary Callander, third from right, with Kelso's triumphant team after the 1984 Melrose Sevens. From left: Roger Baird, Andrew Ker, John Jeffrey, Eric Paxton, Callander, Bob Hogarth and Euan Common. Picture: Hamish Campbell
Roger Baird, their elegant winger, remembers Callander as "the architect" of their many successes, a captain whose brilliant rugby brain meant he was also de facto coach.
Their successes on the sevens circuit were beyond compare but they were able to translate it into the 15-a-side game and in season 1987-88 Kelso broke Hawick's stranglehold on the league by becoming champions of Scotland, with Callander, playing at hooker, at the helm. The title was retained the following season.
Such was Kelso's success that the club supplied five players to the national side during the 1988 Five Nations. Calendar captained Scotland and had alongside him Baird, John Jeffrey, Alan Tait and Andrew Ker.
Gary Callander captained Scotland on five occasions.
Baird was only 18 when he won his first Borders sevens medal at Melrose in 1978 and Kelso went on to dominate the tournament, a catalyst for their successes in 15-a-sides.
"We got a lot of success early in the sevens with what was a very young side," recalls Baird. "When we first won at Melrose there were four or five of us under 20, with bags of enthusiasm. We were quite lucky in that we then formed into a decent 15s unit as the Eighties went on culminating in those two championships towards the end of the decade.
"Gary was the architect. He was captain but unofficially the coach. He put the forwards together. Charlie Stewart, who was an ex-Scotland player himself and a fantastic man, was the actual coach but he knew that Gary was his general on the field.
"Technically, Gary was a phenomenal coach. In the set-piece, body position, ball presentation… all the really important things, he was a master of that and as good as any I've worked with, and I include the fantastic Jim Telfer and Ian McGeechan in that. Gary had a phenomenal rugby brain."
Gary Callander, second from left, with Gavin Hastings, Roy Laidlaw, Matt Duncan and Scott Hastings before the Wales v Scotland match at Cardiff Arms Park in February 1988. Picture: Alan Macdonald
Callander combined his tactical nous with an abrasive edge.
"He was hard as nails," said Baird. "When you play in the front row with all the shenanigans that go on in there you've got to be able to handle yourself and Gary was a bit of an enforcer too. He led from the front and demanded a lot from his forwards. He was pretty uncompromising."
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He was capped six times by Scotland, with the imposing figure of Hawick hooker Colin Deans denying him more opportunities. But it is a mark of Callander's leadership skills that he captained his country on five of those occasions.
More success for Kelso at the Melrose Sevens as captain Eric Paxton lifts the trophy with Bob Hogarth, Euan Common, Jim Hewitt, Gary Callander, Roger Baird and Andrew Ker. Picture: Hamish Campbell
"Colin Deans said it was Gary who made him work as hard as he did at his game because he knew if he fell away for a minute there was that quality of hooker chasing him for his place," explained Baird.
"If he played today he would have had 40 caps, given the number of games Scotland play and the use of replacements."
Alongside his half dozen caps and two Scottish titles, Callander also led Kelso to their first Border League title in 50 years, in 1985-86, and won five Melrose Sevens medals.
His prowess in the abbreviated game was such that he twice played in the final of the prestigious Hong Kong Sevens, once for the Co-optimists and once for the Scottish Border Club when he was one of five Kelso players in the side that beat the All Blacks in the semi-final before losing to Australia in the final.
After his playing days ended Callander went on to coach Haddington, Gala, Watsonians and Kelso. Baird says he should have coached at a higher level but believes his tendency to speak his mind was not always appreciated.
"He railed against establishment a bit and they were wary of Gary. He'd quite often say it how it was and he perhaps wasn't a natural diplomat."
Nevertheless, he was the cornerstone of Kelso's greatest team and for that Baird is grateful.
"It was amazing and we were very lucky," said the former British & Irish Lion. "But that was what the Borders were like. If you came from the town you played for the local team.
"It was a town of 5,500 and the championship had been ruled for years by fantastic Hawick sides, so to get one over them was amazing.
"They were good days, pretty uncomplicated. It was amateur but I sometimes think we were the lucky ones. In fact, I know we were the lucky ones."
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