Tabloid photos allegedly show 'skeletal' Steve Jobs outside cancer centre in California Entertainment website RadarOnline today said it confirmed Mr Jobs had been attending the centre, which Patrick Swayze also attended in his final days.
Google joins Apple with online newspaper payment system called One Pass, allows online publishers to set up an easy-to-use payment mechanism.
News organisations will set the price for subscriptions, micropayments for individual articles, or other online content.
Before users can see an article in full, they will first be directed to Google's "Checkout" payment system.
Google plans to take a 10 per cent cut of all sales made through the system.
This is in contrast to Apple, which announced on Tuesday that it will take a 30 per cent share of all subscriptions sold for apps for its devices such as the iPad and iPhone.
Retro gaming looks big in 2011This month's impending "King's Quest III: Redux" for PC, a fan-built update that offers an extreme visual makeover of the 1986 Sierra original, is among the more curious offerings. Unlike official series reboots or re-masters for online shopping services such as PlayStation Network, WiiWare, Xbox Live and iPhone, it's not backed by a professional budget or an officially licensed development team.
a surge in gaming nostalgia is also prompting publishers to not just revisit the past, but rewrite it instead. New versions of popular franchises from "Mortal Kombat" to "Jagged Alliance: Back in Action" are planned for release throughout 2011, with even the legendarily delayed "Duke Nukem: Forever" expected to make a May 3 appearance.
Even the most unlikely candidates, such as Atari 2600 classic "Yar's Revenge," will be getting a face lift soon, following on the heels of high-profile revamps of "Contra," "Rush 'N Attack" and "Bionic Commando." Case in point: New versions of "The Oregon Trail" and "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" just hit popular social network Facebook.
The New South Wales Government has pledged to provide free wireless internet on Sydney's buses and trains if it is re-elected next month.
Sydney Ferries and Metrobuses would be the first to benefit from the service, and a trial is already underway on the Leichhardt to Maroubra Metrobus route.
The government says the remainder of the Sydney bus network and CityRail trains would be equipped with wi-fi from next year.
Labor has also announced a new text message service to be rolled out at the end of the month that will tell commuters when their next bus is arriving.
The Galaxy is expanding: Samsung to introduce larger 10.1 Tab will offer a 10.1-inch screen, significantly larger than the 7-inch screen that ships with the original.
It will run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on a 1GHz dual-core CPU, features dual-surround sound speakers, an 8MP rear-facing camera (2MP front-facing), Flash 10.1 support, and will be available in 16GB and 32GB incarnations. All this at a feather 600g and just 10.9mm thick.
Telstra's major upgrade of wireless network a challenge to NBN plans to usher in the nation's first commercial release of 4G mobile technology, the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard, which is capable of peak download speeds as high as 150Mbps, on par with the National Broadband Network.
In the past six months, Telstra has added 500,000 new mobile broadband subscribers to its customer base as consumers continue to flock to fixed-line alternatives.
According to Mr Thodey, that surge has pushed wireless-only households in Australia to about the 12 per cent mark. Last year, the European Union's Eurobarometer survey found that mobile-only households had reached 20 per cent in Britain and 25 per cent across the EU.
Apple plans a smaller, cheaper iPhone One of the people, who saw a prototype of the phone late last year, said the device is intended for sale alongside Apple's existing line. The new device would be about half the size of the iPhone 4, which is the current model.
The researchers calculated the figure by estimating the amount of data held on 60 technologies from PCs and and DVDs to paper adverts and books.
"If we were to take all that information and store it in books, we could cover the entire area of the US or China in 13 layers of books," Dr Martin Hilbert of the University of Southern California told the BBC's Science in Action.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 web browser goes live it unveiled what is known as the release candidate of IE9.
This is the final test drive for the new browser – a chance to catch any last-minute bugs before its debut.
Privacy and speed are being highlighted as two of the features that set IE9 apart.
At the end of January, the browser hit an historic low with 56% of users using IE.
MOVIE piracy has cost the Australian economy more than $1.3 billion in revenue in just 12 months, a new study has revealed.
The study, by IPSOS and Oxford Economics undertaken on behalf of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) found piracy continued to be widespread and was taking a massive toll on the movie industry.
The report said a third of the adult population had participated in some kind of movie theft, in the form of downloading or streaming content, or, buying, borrowing or burning unauthorised copies of copyrighted materials.
The study also equated the economic losses over 12 months to $193 million in tax revenue, 6,100 full-time equivalent jobs (including nearly 2,300 forgone directly by the movie industry and retailers) and a loss overall to the Australian economy of $551 million of Gross Domestic Product.
"The IPSOS research tells us that movie theft has a destructive impact not just on the film industry, but the economic damage also reverberates through our entire community, threatening all types of jobs and businesses," AFACT executive dirtector Neil Gane said.
The study estimated 92 million pirated movies were viewed or obtained within the 12-month period up to Q3 2010, although not every pirated viewing was considered a lost sale.
Its findings are based on a telephone survey of 3,500 adults aged 18 and over, between July and August 2010.
The study found almost half (45 per cent) of all people consuming pirated movies claim they would have paid to view the movie via an authorised channel had the unauthorised channel not been available, suggesting one of AFACTs next moves will be more stringent pursuit of pirate websites and peer to peer networks through internet providers.
A MAN was stabbed to death by a friend over a text message misunderstanding, a British court has heard.
Neil Brook, of Salford, northern England, was convicted of manslaughter after he "lost it" and killed friend and neighbour Josef Witkowski over a series of misspelled text messages sent between the pair, The Bolton News reported.
Brook, 33, told police he sent 27-year-old Witkowski a joking text message containing the word "mutter," a local colloquialism for a person who behaves in an antisocial or vulgar manner.
Witkowski took offence and went to Brook's apartment with a knife, the court heard, but was instead stabbed by Brook and suffered 104 separate injuries in the attack.
WHAT do you do with a rumbling tummy and a robotic avatar? Go on a virtual snack run.
A California photographer spotted something very strange while walking down a street in Mountain View last week.
On the other side of the road, a tall, thin robot — just a white head on wheels — rolled down the footpath and into a coffee shop.
Stranger still, it was carrying a colourful cloth bag around its neck.
Aaron Blumenstein grabbed his camera, hit record and followed the robot into the store, where it lined up with other customers and ordered a scone.
BARISTA: I'm not giving you coffee.
WAITRESS: I don't want you to short-circuit.
ROBOT: Can you tell me what kind of scones there are? I can't quite read the labels.
WAITRESS: Let's see. We have two berry scones and an almond.
ROBOT: The berry one sounds good.
WAITRESS: Alright. Is that for here or to go?
Cue laughter from the other customers in the store.
The robot then asked the waitress to put the scone in its bag and to keep the change from a five dollar note tucked into the side of its head.
Mr Blumenstein posted the video to his blog, where it remained an intriguing mystery until a local robotics firm took credit.
Trevor Blackwell, a Silicon Valley identity and robotics expert, said the stunt was carried out by a hungry engineer at his robotics company Anybots.
"Thursday started out normally enough. Papers were delivered and cars were in traffic," he wrote on the company's blog.
"That is… until one of our engineers got a monster craving for a scone.
On a whim, the engineer drove the robot — one of the company's QB models — about a mile to the shop to pick up the snack.
"The remarkable thing is that not only did the Anybot make it all the way to the coffee shop on its own (driven by the engineer from the office), but the Anybot was actually given service!" said Mr Blackwell.
"That kind of open-mindedness Anybots certainly appreciates.
Anybots launched the QB, called a "personal avatar", earlier this month. The idea is that people can walk around an office or a factory and talk to people without being there in the flesh, reducing the need for travel.
The robot has a camera on the front, as well as a screen showing the face of the driver. It can be controlled with a web browser like Internet Explorer.
In an interview with Design News, Mr Blackwell, who designed the QB, said he hoped to sell thousands of the robots to businesses for about $US15,000 a pop.
At least one QB is already in action, being used by Carnegie Mellon University lecturer Michael Clark to teach classes.
Mr Clark told Design News that people wanted to pat the QB on the head after they had been introduced to it.
"Speaker phones don't move, but an avatar robot can. It can go out in the hall and allow you to talk to people," he said.
AFTER 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits today, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.
The all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese entered a network of modules at a Moscow space research centre last June to imitate the 520-day flight and see how they cope with the constricted, isolating conditions of space travel – minus the weightlessness.
Several participants donned 30-kilogram suits to perform today's mock landing in an adjacent capsule. They planted the flags of Russia, China and the European Space Agency, took "samples" from the ground and conducted faux scientific experiments.
"All systems have been working normally. The crew are feeling fine," said Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency.
Psychologists said long confinement would put the team members under stress as they grow increasingly tired of each other's company. Psychological conditions can even be more challenging on a mock mission than a real flight because the crew won't experience any of the euphoria or dangers of actual space travel.
Mr Davydov described the experiment as an important part of preparation for a flight to Mars and predicted that the real mission could take place in about 20 years, but only with international cooperation.
Martin Zell, a European Space Agency official overseeing the experiment, called the mission a "really strong asset for future undertakings of mankind in space, for its ambition to fly finally to the Red Planet".
The facility in western Moscow includes living compartments the size of a bus connected with several other modules for experiments and exercise. The video footage of the landing was shown on a big screen at Russia's Mission Control Centre in Korolyov outside Moscow, which is used to handle manned missions to the international space stations.
The organisers have said the experiment could be disrupted for medical or technical reasons, or if some of the participants demand it be stopped.
So far the crew has been coping. "After a couple of weeks they were really a team, certainly with some temporary ups and downs of individual crewmembers," Mr Zell told The Associated Press.
The crew communicates with the organisers and their families via the internet – delayed and occasionally disrupted to imitate the effects of space travel. They eat canned food similar to that offered on the International Space Station.
Christer Fuglesang, an ESA astronaut who took part in two shuttle missions and made five real spacewalks, said the 18-month duration of the experiment strongly challenged the participants.
"What they must miss, I'm sure, is the interaction with their families and friends," he told the AP.
The crew comprises Russians Alexey Sitev, 38, Sukhrob Kamolov, 37 and Alexander Smoleyevsky, 33, Frenchman Romain Charles, Italian-Colombian Diego Urbina and Wang Yue from China. The organisers said each crew member will be paid about $US97,000.
The experiment is being conducted by the Moscow-based Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in cooperation with the European Space Agency and China's space training centre. Its director, Igor Ushakov, said crew members are learning each other's languages, watching movies and playing chess in their free time.
Mr Zell said the crew even made makeshift decorations for Christmas, using equipment components. "They are very creative," he said.
A similar experiment in 1999-2000 at the same Moscow institute went awry when a Canadian woman complained of being forcibly kissed by a Russian team captain. She also said two Russian crew members had a fist fight that left blood splattered on the walls. Russian officials downplayed the incidents, attributing them to cultural gaps and stress.
Mr Ushakov denied today that the previously botched experiment prompted organisers to leave women out, saying they will be included into future simulations.
A real flight to Mars is decades away because of huge costs and massive technological challenges, particularly the task of creating a compact shield that will protect the crew from deadly space radiation.
President Barack Obama said last month that he foresaw sending astronauts to orbit Mars by the mid-2030s.
IT'S a concept that's been kicked around spy-fi movies for years.
One day, we here in the digitally-dependent Western world will have to face the fact that the most effective way to cripple us all will not involve suicide bombers, computer viruses or lasers from space.
It could involve nuclear weapons, but not in the vaporise-everything-in-sight sense. The trick is, it's got to explode some way above our heads. Several hundred kilometres, in fact.
Yes, we're talking about electromagnetic pulse. EMP. Or, if you're a Bond fan, GoldenEye.
It's not a new concept. Scientists have noted that nuclear explosions can wipe out electrical systems to varying degrees of effectiveness — depending on such things the strength of the Earth's magnetic field — since the first tests back in 1945.
Those observations have led to experimentation with non-nuclear EMP systems based on microwave technology or the impressively named, but dysfunctional, Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator.
You can find more detail on EPFCG here, but the point is, nobody really knows how far along any nation is toward actually making it a reality yet.
The other point is, it's not 1945 any more and our reliance on the types of technology that could be easily fried is much stronger, which is why EMP seems to be popping up in the news more and more frequently these days.
That's also helped by the appearance of a documentary making its way around North America at the moment called Iranium, creating all sorts of concern about the danger an Iranian nuclear weapon might pose to the US.
This week, it was the Russians' turn to jump on the EMP threat bandwagon, hinting — but not saying it outright — that the Americans just might have such a weapon at their disposal.
And the possibility of them having such a weapon might — amongst a host of other possibilities — have been behind the weirdness displayed in the "space accident" that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites earlier this month.
Russia on February 1 launched a high-tech Geo-IK-2 craft to help the military draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets.
News reports said the satellite was a vital part of Russia's effort to match the US and NATO's ability to target its missiles from space.
But the craft briefly went missing after its launch only to re-emerge in a wrong orbit that left the craft unable to complete its assigned task.
The Russian military and space agency set up a joint task force to probe the accident but it has presented no official results thus far.
However one unnamed space official told news agency Interfax that initial evidence suggested that the craft went off target after one of its booster rockets inexplicably reversed course.
"The probable cause may involve electromagnetic intrusion on the automatic controls," they said.
The official did not identify the country he suspected of trying to derail the Russian military mission.
Particularly not the country which in 2007 awarded a $7.4m contract for "the design, development, integration and production of a form, fit and function, environmentally sealed, state-of-the-art Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Pulser and its associated control system".
Which is expected to be complete in August, 2010.
However Moscow does frequently accuse Washington of attempting to "militarise" space.
The anonymous space official conceded that there may have been other reasons for the launch failure.
These included the wrong operations being programmed into the guidance system and other software mistakes.
But the Russian source stressed that the accident occurred between the first and second burns of the Briz-KM upper-stage booster rocket — an area in which the craft makes no contact with ground control.
The official suggested that the electromagnetic pulse may have been aimed at the Russian craft "from a land, sea, air or space vehicle".
Only suggested, mind. Not pointing any fingers.
FILMMAKERS have been trying to make the perfect 3D movie for more than a century, but not always in Hollywood.
Australian director Philippe Mora has found two Nazi propaganda films shot in 3D while searching through Germany's Federal Archives.
The two black-and-white movies were made in 1936 and referred to as "raum film", or "space film". They each run for half an hour.
"The films are shot on 35mm — apparently with a prism in front of two lenses," Mora told Variety.
Mora was scouring the archives for material for his new documentary on Nazi Germany, and believes more 3D footage will be found.
RESIDENTS of Detroit have raised enough money to build a statue honoring the city's fictional hero RoboCop.
The people of Motor City rallied around the cause and found $US50,000 from private funding when Mayor Dave Bing nixed the idea.
Bing had asked citizens online for ideas on how to revitalise the city but shot down a suggestion that a statue of RoboCop, the titular hero of the 1987 sci-fi satire set in Detroit, would do the job.
Detroit resident John Leonard started a Facebook group called "Build a statue of RoboCop in Detroit", which led to a fund being started on the "crowd-raising" website Kickstarter.com.
Imagination Station, a Detroit nonprofit organisation that cleans up run-down areas of the city, has pledged a spot for the statue in a park it owns if the funds are raised.
As of today, $US51,359 had been raised for the project – the initial goal was $US50,000.
"We're currently discussing how to branch this project and fundraising into bigger and bigger things with a better and better impact on Detroit," the project's homepage creator Brandon Walley wrote.
He said no one in the group had ever made a "giant solid metal permanent sculpture before", but have struck a deal with ironworks company Casey V. Westbrook to take a small figure of RoboCop, have it 3D scanned by lasers and scale its up to a 240cm tall statue.
SECURITY experts worldwide are expected to home in on an investigation into how a computer virus attacked one of the world's most commonly used medical emergency software systems and brought the NSW ambulance computer aided dispatch system to a halt.
Ambulance Service director of control division, Michael Barnett-Connolly said that on Saturday the virus infiltrated the computer system responsible for automatically dispatching and tracking ambulances, known as VisiCAD.
"Our technician picked up the virus as part of scanning tests in the database boxes," Mr Barnett-Connolly said.
"I made the decision to close the CAD (computer-aided dispatch) system down and to revert the centre to manual operations.
"All centres were closed down as a precaution.
All four ambulance control centres at Sydney, Charlestown (Newcastle), Dubbo and Warilla (Wollongong) were back online by yesterday morning, more than a day and a half after the virus struck.
NSW Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt said an ambulance review team would identify the source of the virus, verify whether networks were clear of it, confirm that IT security was adequate, and make any recommendations to strengthen network security. An external security expert would assist the investigation. Ambulance service media manager John Wilson said the service had used VisiCAD for 10 years without incident, and the package had been upgraded in October.
Mr Wilson said the ambulance service did not have a back-up computerised ambulance dispatch back-up system, but that staff were thoroughly trained in manual operations.
"There is no back-up system as such," Mr Wilson said.
International network security expert, Emeritus Professor Bill Caelli, said computer viruses attacked common off-the-shelf operating systems such as Microsoft or Apple operating systems, but not usually specialised ones.
"No application can be any more secure than the basic operating system on which it works," he said.
Professor Caelli, from the Queensland University of Technology's Information Security Institute, said that as a matter of policy, emergency medical and communications systems should use highly secure operating systems.
For example, there was Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), developed by US national security agencies. These operating systems were virus resistant.
The Ambulance Service would not say which operating system VisiCAD used, but on its website, developer TriTech indicated the software was Microsoft based. TriTech could not be contacted last night.
Professor Caelli said an emergency medical response system responsible for "life and limb" should be required by law to have a computerised back-up system in place. A back-up strategy should provided for software failure, and a back-up system should be capable of starting within 10-20 seconds of the initial failure.
At present, strategies tended to be centred around alternative facilities in case of fire, flood, or other natural disasters.
Professor Caelli said the NSW government should audit the software-failure recovery procedures used by all emergency service providers, and utility providers of water and power.
Professor Caelli said there would be global interest in how a computer virus could penetrate and paralyse a computer-aided dispatch system that was used by emergency service organisations around the world.
SAMSUNG unveiled a bigger tablet as well as the high-end Android-based Galaxy S 2 smartphone, the successor to its 2010 blockbuster, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona overnight.
South Korea-based Samsung, the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones behind Nokia, said the new devices would help it maintain double-digit operating profit growth at its mobile division in 2011.
The star product announced by Samsung overnight, just before the official start of Mobile World Congress tonight, was the Galaxy S 2, a super slim smartphone with a 4.3-inch Super Amoled screen, a dual-core chip and an 8-megapixel camera.
The handset can also record and play back video in high definition.
The new handset follows the widespread success of the Galaxy S, launched at last year's event. Samsung shipped 10 million units of the model in 2010.
Samsung on Sunday also announced a new tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which runs on the latest version of Android, called Honeycomb.
This new version of the operating system is built to be better suited to tablets. The Tab 10.1 features surround-sound speakers, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera.
Samsung launched its first tablet to compete with Apple's iPad in the second half of 2010 and sold more than two million units within three months.
Over the same period, however, Apple sold 7.3 million iPads.
"The Galaxy tab was about being first after Apple," Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at research firm Gartner, said.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 will launch in Europe in early March with mobile operator Vodafone Group PLC.
Thanks in part to its latest tablet and the Galaxy S 2, Samsung expects to ship around 60 million smartphones and tablets this year.
The Federal Court has once again hit Optus for misleading advertising for its "unlimited broadband" TV and newspaper advertisements.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took the telco to the Federal Court over the advertising for "unlimited broadband" plans with caps of 15GB and 30GB, where the download speed would be reduced to 256 kilobits per second after the cap was exceeded.
Justice Anthony North ruled on Friday that Optus had breached the Trade Practices Act in failing to sufficiently and prominently disclose that the download speed would be throttled. The penalty has not yet been disclosed.
ACCC chair Graeme Samuel welcomed the ruling.
"Telecommunications providers should think very carefully before claiming that their service offerings are unlimited. If there are any limitations, then they run the risk that the advertisements are misleading and that they will receive unwanted attention from the ACCC," Samuel said in a statement.
In a statement, Optus said that it had accepted Justice North's decision and "has long since ceased advertising 'unlimited broadband'".
The telco copped a three-year ban from the Federal Court last year over misleading advertising for its "Think Bigger" and "Supersonic" broadband advertising campaigns that also failed to sufficiently disclose that download speeds would be capped when the data limit was exceeded.
Optus also took Vodafone to court over its "Infinite" mobile phone plan advertisements; however, initial attempts to have the advertising withdrawn were unsuccessful.
Gartner has released a list of what it believes will be the most important consumer mobile applications next year.
In order to distinguish themselves, mobile apps will have to be more than just an extension of the online world we already use on laptops and PCs, according to the research group. Instead, they'll have to include some element of environment into their function.
Location-based services (LBSs): these apps deliver services to users based on where they are, who they are (age, gender etc) and what they like. Gartner expects the total user base of consumer location-based services to reach 1.4 billion users by 2014.
Social networking: hubs for videos, emails, photos, games and commerce.
Mobile search: to bring mobile search to the next level, Gartner thinks that given users' short time spans, the app needs to allow users to take actions based on the result. For example, they could make a call or reservation, buy a ticket or place an order.
Mobile commerce: unique mobile functions could be checking in to a store to tell a retailer you're there, or adding items into a shopping cart by taking a photo of the item for its barcode in the physical store. Amazon already sports such a function where users can use an iPhone to scan a barcode and order a book via the online retail giant.
Mobile payment: Gartner doesn't think near field communication (NFC) will go mainstream until 2015, despite the fact that NFC payment is slated for inclusion in high-end phones this year (the Nexus S will ship with this functionality). The key will be ease of use, but tough security according to the research firm.
Context-aware service: context-aware applications goes further than location-based services to use information about a person's interests, intentions, history, environment, activities, schedule, priorities, connections and preferences to serve content, products or services.
Object recognition (OR): as sensors get better, phones should recognise a user's surroundings, including objects of interest, according to Gartner, which will improve search and entertainment on phones.
Mobile instant messaging (MIM): Gartner thinks that instant messaging will join with Skype in a unified communications love-fest, which will threaten traditional carrier revenues.
Mobile email: use of email on phones is expected to boom from 354 million users in 2009 to 713 million users in 2014, according to Gartner.
Mobile video: large-screened smartphones and tablets offer a great platform to watch videos in Gartner's eyes. It sees partnerships between carriers and YouTube, allowing users to keep their video addiction going while on the run. Preloaded HD and 3D content will differentiate phones.
Aussie airline Qantas has added another Boeing 737-800 aircraft to its trans-Tasman fleet, boasting in-seat USB plugs, 240-volt power sockets and a comprehensive entertainment system across all classes.
The airline has already received one of the Boeing 737-800 aircrafts, and it will receive another two in March.
Seats in economy class on Qantas' new 737-800 include access to a 9-inch in-seat screen with access to 300 on-demand TV shows, movies, music and books, chat capabilities, games and Lonely Planet guides. The seats also include built-in power and USB ports.
Business class seats boast similar power options and media access with a larger 10.6-inch touchscreen.
The new aircraft, named after famous mountaineer Sir Edmund Hilary, is the first aircraft to be delivered, with two more 737-800 series aircraft set to be delivered in March.
Qantas' fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft travel the Sydney to Wellington route daily.


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Duchess of Cornwall to attend dinner at RAF Henlow tonight to meet ex-prisoners of war
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THE Duchess of Cornwall will attend the RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association dinner and reception at RAF Henlow tonight and meet former RAF prisoners of war and serving RAF Henlow personnel. Over 10,000 RAF airmen became prisoners of war during World War I
THE Duchess of Cornwall will attend the RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association dinner and reception at RAF Henlow tonight and meet former RAF prisoners of war and serving RAF Henlow personnel.
Over 10,000 RAF airmen became prisoners of war during World War II, including naval and other service flyers. The RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association evolved in the 1950s from a small group who met occasionally at a pub in Holborn, London. They were later joined by prisoners of war from later conflicts.
After World War II the treatment of prisoners in Europe was largely in accordance with the Geneva Convention, but in the confused period towards the end of the war many suffered on forced marches as the Germans retreated. Some ex-POWs still suffer today from the effects of being captured and from the condition of their imprisonment.

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Q: When i post a long running Runnable to the main thread why isn't it blocked for that time? If i post a Runnable with Thread.sleep(10000) command, why is the system behaving normally if the UI Thread can only execute one message at a time?
I made this thread in the main activity. Button clicks are processed by the main thread from the MessageQueue, then if the runnable in h.post() is currently active on the main thread then how are the button clicks being processed? shouldn't they wait in the MessageQueue?
new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                for(int ii=0;ii<9;ii++){
                    i++;
                    try
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                        Thread.sleep(1000);
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                                @Override
                                public void run()
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                                    t();
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                                }
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A: final Runnable r = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
       Thread.sleep(10000);
       //the thread stoped/sleeped is the thread of Runnable belongs to,
       //but not the Main UI thread
    }
};

Not block Main UI thred is exactly what Runnable want to achieve.

A: Aw that was a very trivial question. The inner Runnable is on the main thread while the outer one is time consuming. So the inner Runnable won't block the UI Thread. Thanks!

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Tomorrow at the Hollywood Farmers Market: Buy Local Challenge Ending Soon..
The Buy Local Challenge will be finishing this weekend. Hope you've been successful in the challenge.
Sunday, August 5th starts the National Farmers Market week. We'll be handing out I love Farmers Market Tattoos. If you want to participate in the National Farmers Market Coalition Instagram contest please check out the directions here (https://farmersmarketcoalition.org/national-farmers-market-week/instagram-contest/) .
Check out the bottom of the newsletter for more info in regards to the benefit of shopping at a farmers market.
The Animal Welfare Committee will be here this weekend for free microchipping for all College Park resident's pets. A $20.00 fee for non College Park residents. If you have not had your pet microchipped, please consider doing so. This system has helped reunite animals to their owners.
Calvert Farm's selection for this week looks amazing! We are loving all the summer fruits and veggies!
Local resident, Carol Macknis, will be at the market on August 5th representing the College Park Aviation Museum. August 12th marks the 100th anniversary of the first airmail delivery by the U.S. Postal Office Service between Washington, DC and New York. The flight originated from the College Park Airport. The museum will be hosting a three day event from August 10-12th. Ms. Macknis will have information regarding the event.


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The Kootenay Ice, in collaboration with the Western Hockey League, announced their seven-game 2018 preseason schedule on Wednesday afternoon.
The lineup of preparation games for the 2017-18 season is highlighted by a matchup against their division rivals, the Calgary Hitmen, at the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena in nearby Invermere on September 14 at 7:00 p.m.
"We are excited to host the Kootenay Ice in the heart of the Kootenays and on the shores of Lake Windermere," said the mayor of Invermere, Gerry Taft, in a team press release. "Our community is full of hockey fans, many who passionately cheer for our local teams, including the Kootenay Ice. It's exciting to have our community showcased and be part of the pre-season WHL schedule."
Here it is.. our 2018 pre-season schedule, which includes a game against the @WHLHitmen at Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena in Invermere!
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The Ice formed a partnership with the Invermere-based Columbia Valley Rockies of the Kootenay International Hockey League during the summer of 2017, ensuring fans of both teams had the opportunity to watch great hockey at a discounted price. In January, the Ice held a hockey festival on Lake Windermere in partnership with the Rockies.
"It is a terrific opportunity for the youth of the Columbia Valley to witness and aspire to play for the WHL," said Brett Holt, President of the Columbia Valley Rockies. "It will be a wonderful opportunity for our Junior 'B' team and minor hockey to be part of this experience and I know they will be looking forward to watching their favourite players."
Prior to the game in Invermere, the Ice will play a pair of games at the Enmax Centrium in Red Deer against the Hitmen and the Edmonton Oil Kings on August 31 and September 1. The team will then participate in the annual Tri-City Americans pre-season tournament in Kennewick, Washington, playing games against the hosts, the Seattle Thunderbirds and the Portland Winterhawks from September 6 to 8.
The Ice wrap up their preseason play on September 15 in Calgary at the Saddledome for a third meeting with the Hitmen.
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American Impressionist oil painting on board - signed - circa 1895s
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Alexis Jean Fournier (1865 - 1948) was active/lived in Minnesota, Indiana. He is known for Impressionist seasonal landscape, still life, genre painting.
Born on the fourth of July, 1865 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Alexis Jean Fournier was one of the most flamboyant and enduring figures of the Arts and Crafts Movement and was also an Impressionist painter of major importance in Minneapolis from 1883 to 1893. Fournier, a Barbizon-style artist, whose career as the "Roycroft Court Painter" spanned over forty-five years, has been lauded as one of the most prolific artists of the Arts and Crafts period as well as an influential force in Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft community in East Aurora, New York. Although the photography career of his son Paul was comparatively less impressive in terms of longevity and notoriety, the works of both the elder and the younger Fournier helped diversify and change American art history as well as contribute to the progressive thinking of the Roycrofts. Had photography been considered an art form on the level of Barbizon and Impressionist painting during the Arts and Crafts era, perhaps the younger Fournier would have enjoyed a career as successful and praised as that of the elder. Alexis Fournier was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota to French Canadian parents. By age 14, he was working as a sign painter and scenery artist for vaudeville and, although he had virtually no formal artistic training, had sold several pieces, mostly landscapes, by the time he was 16. In 1886 he became a student of Douglas Volk, ultimately setting up a professional studio in Minneapolis. One of Fournier's patrons was J.J. Smith, who hired Fournier to be the staff artist on an archaeological trip to the Southwest. Following this trip, Fournier painted a 50 x 12 foot panoramic mural called The Cliff Dwellers. The painting was intended for exhibit at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, where it is likely, but not documented, that Fournier met Elbert Hubbard for the first time.Hubbard, the beloved spiritual guide and business leader of the Roycroft community of artisans and craftspeople, would eventually become one of Fournier's greatest patrons and admirers. The Cliff Dwellers ultimately disappeared, having been sold without record, and its location is still unknown. In addition to his activities with Roycroft, Fournier painted at the artist colonies in Woodstock, New York; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Brown County, Indiana.
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If you want to know how to say I think of you as more than a friend in Swedish, you will find the translation here. We hope this will help you to understand Swedish better. We hope this will help you to understand Swedish better.... You my heart, my love, my joy, I tell you these word while i�m thinking of you, I love you and I can not live without you, I think of you all day long, one minute without you and I miss you already, i want to be bei in your arms and that you kiss me one last time.
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package fr.sii.ogham.sample.springboot.email;

import static fr.sii.ogham.testing.assertion.OghamAssertions.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import com.icegreen.greenmail.junit4.GreenMailRule;

import fr.sii.ogham.core.service.MessagingService;
import fr.sii.ogham.email.message.Email;
import fr.sii.ogham.testing.extension.spring.GreenMailInitializer;
import mock.MockApplication;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = MockApplication.class, properties = {
	"mail.smtp.host=127.0.0.1",
	"mail.smtp.port=${greenmail.smtp.port}"                              // <1>
})
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = GreenMailInitializer.class)         // <2>
public class RandomSmtpPortJUnit4TestSample {
	@Rule @Autowired public GreenMailRule greenMail;                     // <3>
	@Autowired MessagingService messagingService;

	@Test
	public void foo() throws Exception {
		// some code to test your application here
		// that sends email through SMTP
		messagingService.send(new Email()
				.subject("Random port")
				.from("foo@yopmail.com")
				.to("bar@yopmail.com")
				.body().string("Random port sample"));
		// make assertions
		assertThat(greenMail).receivedMessages()                         // <4>
			.count(is(1));
	}
}

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I've read in other posts on the forum that users have attempted to use JQuery and custom code to accomplish this, but I'm unsure of how/where to implement this. I'm assuming there should be a mix of embed code and custom code, but I'm unsure where to start.
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Q: Wait for async data to load before rendering component view I'm struggling with the async pipe, I need to wait for the async data to finish loading before trying to render the view of the component.
I tried looking at this question where the elvis operator is mentioned:
Wait for Angular 2 to load/resolve model before rendering view/template
I tried it like {{model?['name']}} but it doesn't seem to do anything because angular stills throws an error complaining about not being able to read name of undefined.
I initialize the model on ngOnInit but the data hasn't finished loading at this point (I think):
ngOnInit() {

  // If no model is set and the select shouldn't be allowed empty, set the model to the first option
  if (!this.model && !this.allowEmpty) {
    this.model = this.options[0];
  }
  // If it should be allowed empty, set it to null which will add an empty class in the markup
  else if (this.allowEmpty) {
    this.model = null;
  }

  this.onModelChange.emit(this.model);
}

Then it tries to render this bit prematurely:

{{model?['name']}}

{{option['name']}}

So what would be the correct way of achieving this? Can I set something in the component class to allow async data to finish loading before rendering the view?

A: You can't use ? with []
If you use
*ngFor="let option of options | async">

then option in
{{option.name}}

always has a value because no <li ... is rendered when options hasn't yet emitted data.
{{option?.name}}

would be a valid use and do what you seemed to intend to do but as mentioned above, it shouldn't be necessary.


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Carolina campaign, 1780–81, of the American Revolution. After Sir Henry Clinton had captured Charleston , he returned to New York, leaving a British force under Cornwallis to subordinate the Carolinas to British control. Cornwallis swept north and capped his success in the battle of Camden on Aug. 16, 1780. The American force was completely routed, the gallant Baron de Kalb was mortally wounded, and the American commander, Horatio Gates , fled from the field, outdistancing officers and men in retreat. Patriot defense was broken in the Carolinas, where only the swift and secretly moving guerrilla bands of Francis Marion , Thomas Sumter , and Andrew Pickens harassed the invaders. The American cause was advanced, however, with the remarkable battle of Kings Mt. (Oct. 7, 1780), where bands of frontier riflemen under Isaac Shelby , John Sevier , and William Campbell surrounded a British raiding party under Patrick Ferguson; the British commander fell, and his men surrendered. This victory prefaced the campaign fought in North Carolina by Gen. Nathanael Greene (who had been appointed to succeed Gates) and his lieutenants, notably Light-Horse Harry Lee and Daniel Morgan. It was Morgan who at the head of a raiding party met and all but annihilated Cornwallis's raiders under Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (Jan. 17, 1781). Cornwallis pushed north and at Guilford Courthouse (Mar. 15, 1781) won a Pyrrhic victory over Greene; the British had technically won but had to retreat to British-held Wilmington, N.C., and then to Virginia. Greene then joined the guerrilla leaders in freeing South Carolina. Again the Americans were defeated—by Lord Rawdon at Hobkirks Hill (Apr. 25, 1781) and by Col. Alexander Stewart at Eutaw Springs (Sept. 8, 1781)—and again the British had to retreat, returning to Charleston. The campaign was a British failure and was, moreover, a triumph for the patriots because it set the stage for the Yorktown campaign .


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NEWCAST 2015 Specialist Article
Foundries manufacture high-tech products with good prospects
January 13, 2015 - NEWCAST 2015 - International Trade Fair for Precision Castings - will present innovative solutions for the foundry industry from June 16 – 20, 2015.
Foundry manufactured products are in great demand in all technical areas thanks to the many different ways in which workpieces can be formed and the different physical properties that can be combined in them. Small parts like bone implants, vehicle components for such products as engine blocks, pistons, housings, shafts and chassis parts as well as enormous diesel engines for ships, for example, are manufactured by casting. Foundries are therefore a key high-tech industrial sector with good prospects. According to the European Foundry Association (CAEF), the central association of the European Foundry Trade Associations, there are more than 4,000 foundries that process ferrous materials or non-ferrous metals with over 200,000 employees in Europe alone. Global casting production is likely to reach about 100 million tons in 2015.
The following article covers casting materials, the special features of the main casting processes and the ways in which foundries design and manufacture customized parts for other industries. Development times are, in general, becoming shorter, while production batches are becoming smaller. Many products are required to be lightweight structures and efficient use of energy and raw materials is on the agenda. For a long time, it has been standard procedure to use computer-based processes to develop, optimize and manufacture castings and the molds and cores needed to produce them and to control, synchronize and monitor the many different processes that are carried out at foundries. Development is continuing on an ongoing basis in the areas of casting materials, molding materials and casting processes, too.
NEWCAST 2015, the International Trade Fair for Precision Castings, taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany from June 16 – 20, 2015, will give insights into the castings sector, including ideas for the use of castings in technical structures and the prospects for future technical developments in foundry production technology.
Long tradition
Parts with any required shape, including internal cavities, can be manufactured in a single operation by casting. Forming is done by pouring molten metal into a mold, where it adapts to the shape of the mold and solidifies. At the process engineering level, a distinction is made between lost mold casting, which is also called sand casting, and permanent mold casting, including die-casting. Cores fitted in the mold create cavities inside castings. In sand casting, the mold and cores are generally made from special sand to which bonding agents have been added and can only be used for one casting operation. The mold and the cores break when the casting is removed from the mold. The sand can be reprocessed and 95% of it can be used again. In the other processes, which are used primarily for casting non-ferrous metals, the molds consist of cast iron or heat-resistant steel and are used over and over again. Permanent metal molds have the advantage over lost molds that the heat transmission capacity is considerably higher, which helps to cool the molten metal down faser. This in turn gives the casting a finer structure with favorable mechanical properties.
Metal casting materials
Castable metals are traditionally divided into ferrous casting materials and non-ferrous casting materials. The first group includes cast iron materials such as cast iron with lamellar graphite, cast iron with spheroidal graphite, black and white malleable iron and casting steel. The non-ferrous metal casting materials include aluminum, magnesium, copper, titanium, lead, tin, zinc, nickel and other non-ferrous metals as well as castable alloys of them.
Innovative – with an exciting future
The automotive industry is the biggest customer of the foundry industry and its most important innovation driver. According to data collected by the Association of the German Foundry Industry (BDG), more than 75 percent of the castings manufactured from non-ferrous metals and more than 50 percent of the castings manufactured from ferrous materials are supplied to the automotive industry. Automotive engineering applications account for almost 60 percent of total casting production volume, followed by machine manufacturing (25 to 30 percent). Other major industrial customers are power plant construction and electrical engineering, railways and rail manufacturing, aerospace, building, shipbuilding, marine engineering and medical engineering. Progress in these industries is attributable to a large extent to the developments made by the companies in the foundry industry. The know-how acquired in this context is a stable basis for satisfying the growing requirements of customers and for enabling them to operate successfully in an increasingly fierce competitive environment.
State of the art and trends
Like companies in other industrial sectors, foundries need to keep their operating costs low, with a particularly close watch on energy consumption. Foundries require very large amounts of energy to smelt casting materials and keep them warm, to pour castings and, sometimes, to give castings heat treatment. This means that energy is a very important cost factor. Foundries must also be in a position to manufacture sophisticated products with shorter and shorter development times. Production batches are becoming smaller and many products are required to be lightweight structures. It has been standard procedure to use electronic systems for a long time. They are essential to control and coordinate the many different process operations, such as production planning, casting preparation, temperature control of the molten material, casting process procedure and treatment of the castings. Sand casting also involves production of the molds and cores, emptying of the molding boxes after casting, "cleaning" of the castings and reprocessing of the mold and core sands. Computer-aided (CA) systems also help in designing castings, molds and cores. With CA systems, it is possible to simulate all the processes in a casting during casting and solidification. Information about filling of the mold, the structure created when the molten material solidifies and the mechanical properties influenced as a result, internal tension, defects and their impact on casting quality is obtained in this way. It is also possible for foundries and customers to cooperate on the development and optimization of castings via CA systems.
The production of sand casting molds, which used to be very labor intensive is being replaced to an increasing extent by computer-aided 3D printing processes, with which sand molds and cores bonded with synthetic resins can be manufactured relatively quickly. 3D printers help to reduce production costs and minimize storage requirements.
Development is continuing on an ongoing basis in the areas of casting materials, mold materials and casting processes. For example, research scientists are working on cast iron with spheroidal graphite that has a high silicon content. Castings made from it have more consistent hardness and strength distribution and can be processed more effectively. These materials make it possible to reduce the wall thicknesses of castings, which helps to meet demands for energy and raw material savings and lightweight structures. Promising efforts are also being made to combine different materials, such as steel and aluminum, with each other during or immediately after casting, in order to take optimum advantage of their properties. Special die-casting processes known as squeezing processes, in which the castings, non-ferrous metals with relatively low melting temperatures, are subsequently compacted before final solidification, are a relatively new development.
The NEWCAST 2015 trade fair
With their products, foundries help the development in such innovative sectors as energy, lightweight structures and mobility. At NEWCAST 2015, the International Trade Fair for Precision Castings, foundries will present their technical skills in the manufacturing field. The range of exhibits includes iron, steel, grey and malleable castings, products from non-ferrous metal foundries and various services. NEWCAST 2015 is geared primarily towards designers, production managers and buyers from the automotive sector and other areas of industry that need castings for their products or supply an alternative to workpieces manufactured by other processes. NEWCAST will be held concurrently with the trade fairs GIFA, METEC and THERMPROCESS, focusing on associated fields. All four events take place with the motto "The Bright World of Metals" from June 16 – 20, 2015 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The four international technology trade fairs GIFA (International Foundry Trade Fair), METEC (International Metallurgical Trade Fair), THERMPROCESS (International Trade Fair for Thermo Process Technology) and NEWCAST (International Trade Fair for Precision Castings) will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany from June 16 – 20, 2015. Visitors from all over the world will attend to get the latest information about castings, foundry, and metallurgy and thermo process technology. A program of high-quality ancillary events - consisting of seminars, international congresses and lecture series - will again complement the exhibits. All four trade fairs and their programs will concentrate on the issue of resource optimization and energy efficiency. A total of 79,000 attendees from 83 countries visited the stands of the 1,958 exhibitors at the trade fairs' last staging in 2011. Further information is available at www.gifa.com, www.metec-tradefair.com, www.thermprocess-online.com and www.newcast.com.
Messed Düsseldorf organizes not only GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST but also other first-class trade fairs for the metallurgy and foundry industries all over the world. They include FOND-EX (International Foundry Fair) and Stainless in the Czech Republic, Metallurgy India, Metallurgy-Lit mash (International Trade Fair for Metallurgy Machinery, Plant Technology and Products) and Aluminum Non-Ferrous in Russia, indomitable in Indonesia, metals middle east in Dubai, ITPS (International Thermprocess Summit) Americas and Asia and the aluminum trade fairs in China, India, the United Arab Emirates and Brazil. The range of events for the metal industries at the Düsseldorf location is rounded off by Valve World Expo (International Trade Fair and Congress for Industrial Valves and Fittings) and ITPS Düsseldorf as well as the international trade fair ALUMINIUM organized by Reed Exhibitions and Composites Europe.
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Austin Aries – Scotts Blog of Doom!
It's the second half of the Best of 2018 after last week's show was about as easy of a sit as you could find. There's enough stuff from the year to fill in four hours but I didn't see anything all that great last week. There's enough solid stuff to fill out the card though and that's enough for something like this. Let's get to it.
It's the end of the year and therefore it's time for something a little different. For the next two weeks we'll be looking at the Best Of 2018, which could be an interesting collection. I'm not sure what to expect from this as Impact's definition of best could be all over the place. There's good stuff in there though and this could be entertaining. Let's get to it.
It's the biggest night of the year and the card is looking pretty good this time around. The main event is fairly lackluster with Johnny Impact challenging Austin Aries for the World Title, but the better built match is LAX vs. the OGz, in a match that could go either way. You never can tell with this company though so let's get to it.
It's the go home show for Bound For Glory and that means we're needing to add some stuff to the card. You should probably have more than six matches (with one participant not being announced) set for the show with three days to go. There's a lot going on at the moment but I'd expect a good deal of talking this time around. Let's get to it.
We're less than two weeks away from Bound For Glory and things are already starting to clear up. The big matches don't have the best build and you could argue that the (presumably non-title) match between LAX and the OGz is the biggest thing on the card. That's not a bad thing, but it makes for a kind of odd build. Let's get to it.
After all the weeks of telling us multiple times a night that the show was going to Mexico City, the show is now in Mexico City! Odds are these tapings will take us up to Bound For Glory next month and that means we should be seeing some big stuff taking place over the next four weeks. Let's get to it.
The very slow build towards Bound For Glory continues, which should be the case given how far away the show really is. We now have a main event of World Champion Austin Aries defending against Johnny Impact, which was announced in the most low key way possible. You can probably guess what we'll be getting this week so let's get to it.
Things are getting interesting around here again as we now have a three headed monster on top of the promotion. Last week Moose joined forces with Austin Aries and Killer Kross as the trio beat down Eddie Edwards. That means that Eddie is going to need some help in this fight and that could be anyone. Let's get to it.
Tonight is the Redefined show, which could mean several things. We'll be getting a few title matches, including Su Yung defending the Knockouts Title against Tessa Blanchard and Allie, along with Fenix challenging for the X-Division Title. I'm sure there will be some more with Eddie Edwards/Moose vs. Austin Aries/Killer Kross as well. Let's get to it.
This is all about the violence with a Mexican death match between Sami Callihan and Pentagon Jr. These two have been feuding for weeks now and it's actually been one of the best things about the promotion. Sometimes it's just about beating the heck out of each other and when you have the representative lackeys to help move things along. Let's get to it.
The main event scene took a surprising turn last week with Killer Kross revealing himself to be working for/with Austin Aries. I'm not sure what the point of that is when Kross has been one of the better villains for a few weeks now and really doesn't need to be affiliated with Aries. You can imagine Eddie Edwards won't be happy about what went down last week. Let's get to it.
We're already at a big night with the World Title on the line. This time around it's Eddie Edwards getting the title shot against Austin Aries, who is in need of a next major challenger. There's a ton of time before Bound For Glory so this probably just a one off match. Let's get to it.
Things are still fresh off of Slammiversary but at the same time we don't really have anything big going on yet. Austin Aries' next challenger seems to be Eddie Edwards, but I'd assume that's more of a one off TV match than a major pay per view story. Still though, there's enough interesting stuff going on around here to keep me entertained. Let's get to it.
Believe it or not this actually looks like a great show. Impact Wrestling has been on a roll as of late with one very good show after another, but now they need to pay that off with a strong pay per view. It's not impossible either as nothing on the card looks bad. Just please deliver for once. Let's get to it.
It's the go home show for Slammiversary and for once I'm actually interested in where we're going. The build for the show has been rather good so far and that could make for a solid pay per view. They can still hammer in a few more things tonight but really, Sunday is all that matters at this point. Let's get to it.
We're getting closer and closer to Slammiversary and the card is really starting to take shape. One of the matches though appears to be Eddie Edwards vs. Tommy Dreamer, which means more of Dreamer talking about stuff that happened twenty years ago and how much he loves wrestling. That's all well and good, if you ignore the fact that he's done it for more than half of his career. Let's get to it.
It's a big night tonight with the Under Pressure special, headlined by Austin Aries challenging Pentagon Jr. for the Impact Wrestling World Title. Pentagon won the title last month at Redemption in a three way but Aries is getting his rematch in a singles match. Other than that, Allie is defending the Knockouts Title against Su Yung in a casket match. Let's get to it.
Last week's main event wasn't the most interesting as it left us without many places to go in the World Title scene. Pentagon Jr. easily dispatched Eli Drake and likely only has a rematch with Austin Aries to go. Other than that, it's hard to say where things are going to go around here. Let's get to it.
We're past Redemption and that means it's time to get ready for Slammiversary. What that means is kind of up in the air at this point but it really could go in a variety of directions. Above all else though, we have a new World Champion as Pentagon Jr. defeated Austin Aries and Fenix in a triple threat match on Sunday. Let's get to it.
It's the first pay per view in nearly six months (Not counting the nothing One Night Only shows because….well who does really?) and the main event as changed about ten days ago due to Alberto El Patron having high levels of Alberto El Patron. Now it's Austin Aries defending the World Title against Pentagon Jr. and Fenix in a rematch from Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground. Let's get to it.
It's the go home show for Redemption and I'm really struggling to think of what's going to be on the card. There's the three way for the World Title with Austin Aries suddenly needing two more opponents because Alberto El Patron reverted to his high standards of bailing. Other than that though, I'm not sure what there is on the show, save for Scott Steiner getting a pay per view title shot in 2018. Let's get to it.
We're about a month away from the next pay per view (with the well thought out REDEMPTION moniker) and that means it's time to start filling in the card. Last week saw the Feast or Fired briefcases opened up, meaning we could be having title matches soon. Let's get to it.
It's time to find out what happened last week in Feast or Fired. Tonight is the opening of the briefcases and that means three people are getting title shots while a fourth is getting fired. The firing isn't the biggest surprise in the world but there's still some interest elsewhere. Let's get to it.
Things are entering a new phase here as we're done with Crossroads, meaning it's time to get ready for the next big show. While that hasn't been announced yet, there is at least a hint of the upcoming World Title feud with Alberto El Patron staring down Austin Aries last week. Let's get to it.
It's a big show tonight with Crossroads. The name doesn't really mean anything but it's a stacked card with Austin Aries defending the World Title against Johnny Impact as the main event. Last week's show saw Sami Callihan crush Eddie Edwards' face with a baseball bat so you can almost guarantee some fallout there. Let's get to it.


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Members of UAW Local 216 and their Women's Auxiliary demonstrate their concern with the slowness in the change from civilian production to defense work in their General Motors plant, Southgate, California. Walter P. Reuther Library (11497)
Urban historian Becky Nicolaides will give a lecture titled "Exploring Social and Civic Engagement in Postwar Los Angeles Suburbia" at the Chicago History Museum on Thursday, May 10. The lecture is part of the museum's ongoing Urban History Seminars series. A reception and dinner precede the lecture. The reception begins at 5:45pm, followed by dinner at 6:15pm and the lecture at 7:00pm. Tickets cost $20 and may be purchased online or by phone. The price includes dinner. As in the series' other seminar sessions, urban scholars from Chicago and the surrounding area will be in attendance.
Becky Nicolaides is a preeminent scholar of new suburban history. She received her PhD in American History from Columbia University in 1993 and presently serves as co-editor for the Historical Studies of Urban America series from University of Chicago Press. She works as an independent scholar, historical consultant, and instructor at UCLA. She is the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) and co-editor with Andrew Wiese of The Suburb Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006). Her current work, On the Ground in Suburbia: A Chronicle of Social and Civic Transformation in Los Angeles since 1945 explores the relationship between the post-war suburban built environment and patterns of social and civic engagement.
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