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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) — The Palestinian People's Party said in a statement Saturday that it opposes Hamas' attempts to change the penal code in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas movement that governs Gaza is attempting to impose a new penal code on the Strip, one that is inconsistent with basic the Palestinian law that has been applicable in the West Bank and Gaza since 1936, the PPP statement said.
Citing comments from the secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza and the chief of the council's legal committee, the PPP said that Hamas-affiliated lawyers were preparing to replace the 1936 penal code with a new one.
"Hamas and its parliamentarian bloc do not have the right to pass such a law in the name of the Palestinian parliament," the PPP statement said, adding that changing the penal code in Gaza would further divide Fatah and Hamas.
A legal adviser from the Palestinian human rights organization al-Haq said that the new penal code in Gaza would include regulations from Shariah law.
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Thousands of Hamas supporters rally in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters thronged the streets of downtown Gaza City on Sunday, a show of strength at a time when the Islamic militant group faces its deepest crisis since seizing power seven years ago.
Hamas is dealing with a severe financial shortfall, caused by heavy pressure from both Israel and Egypt. But leaders stressed that the group remains opposed to Mideast peace efforts and is ready for battle against Israel at any time.
"The resistance is stronger than you think, and our force has doubled and our arsenal has doubled," Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, told the crowd. "What is hidden from you is bigger than you think."
Hamas staged Sunday's rally to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the death of its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in an Israeli airstrike, and the assassinations of other top figures a decade ago. But a series of events in recent days, including Israel's discovery of a tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israel, presumably to carry out militant attacks, and the killing of a top Hamas operative in the West Bank by Israeli forces, gave the rally an extra sense of defiance.
"From under the ground and above the ground, we say it loud: Occupiers go out. You do not have a place to stay on the land of Palestine," Haniyeh said. Hamas, an armed group committed to the destruction of Israel, took control of Gaza in 2007 after overrunning the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Since then, the Palestinians have been divided between two governments, the Hamas regime in Gaza and Abbas' Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. In contrast to Hamas, Abbas favors a negotiated peace agreement with Israel and has been engaged in U.S.-brokered negotiations for the past eight months.
Hamas has fallen onto hard times since its key ally, Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, was ousted in a coup last July. Egypt's new military government has cracked down on a system of smuggling tunnels along the border with Gaza, robbing Hamas of a lifeline that provided consumer goods, weapons and a key source of tax revenue. Israel has maintained a blockade of Gaza since 2007, restricting imports and exports and controlling the territory's coastline and airspace.
The dual Israel-Egyptian blockade has plunged Hamas into its worst economic crisis since taking power. The group has struggled to pay its thousands of workers and has begun to face some discontent, even among core supporters.
In another setback for the group, Israel on Friday said it had discovered a new sophisticated tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israel. It was the largest in a series of tunnels Israel has found recently that it says are meant to carry out deadly attacks or kidnappings. On Saturday, Israeli forces in the West Bank killed a top Hamas operative after a standoff in the town of Jenin.
The financial crunch forced Hamas to call off its annual anniversary celebration late last year. Sunday's rally was also scaled back due to budget woes. Unlike past rallies, Hamas did not provide buses to bring in supporters, and it refrained from putting up large displays and decorations.
Even so, the rally was meant to send a message that Hamas remains firmly in control. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets, including schoolchildren in military fatigues and women wearing veils. Waving Hamas flags into the air, the crowd turned downtown Gaza City into a sea of green. Hamas security forces carefully maintained order and diverted traffic from the area.
Hamas battled Israel during eight days of intense fighting in November 2012, firing some 1,500 rockets into Israel before Egypt brokered a truce. Since then, the group has largely refrained from direct confrontation with Israel, though smaller armed groups have continued to fire rockets.
Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks emanating from the territory. Top leaders of Islamic Jihad, a smaller group responsible for much of the rocket fire, sat in the front row of Sunday's rally.
It was an unusually high profile role for the radical movement in a Hamas event, signaling that Hamas is at the least turning a blind eye to — if not actually supporting — the rocket attacks. Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas official in Gaza, said Israel should not be fooled by the period of calm.
"We are not interested in an escalation with the occupation," he told Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV station. "However, if they dare to launch aggression on Gaza, our response will be more painful than what we did in 2012."
Chechnya leader inaugurates new mosque in Israel
ABU GHOSH, Israel (AP) — The president of Russia's republic of Chechnya has inaugurated a new, $10 million mosque in an Arab village in Israel.
Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that it was an honor to visit "this good and holy land" during a stop in the village of Abu Ghosh. Isa Jabar, the village's mayor, says Chechnya donated $6 million for the mosque. He says some villagers trace their ancestry to 16th century Chechnya and the Caucus region.
The mosque was built in the Ottoman Turkish style, the favored architectural style in Chechnya. It features four minarets, making it the only mosque of its kind in Israel. Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, enjoys good ties with its Jewish neighbors and is a popular culinary destination for Israelis.
Thousands attend festival organized by Hamas in Gaza
Thousands of Palestinian citizens will attend a festival organized by the Hamas government in Gaza Sunday under the title "loyalty and steadfastness on the path of martyrs".
Hamas is scheduled to hold a mass rally Sunday noon in commemoration of the assassination of the movement's founder Ahmad Yassin, and its leaders Abdel-Aziz Al-Rantisi and Ibrahim Al-Makadima.
Leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian factions, including the Islamic Jihad, will attend the event.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to attend the rally.
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10461-thousands-attend-festival-organised-by-hamas-in-gaza.
Lebanon parliament soon to elect new president
BEIRUT – Lebanon's parliament is to convene on April 23 to elect a new president to succeed Michel Sleiman, whose term ends on May 25, the National News Agency reported Wednesday.
"Parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri has called for a session on Wednesday April 23 to elect a new president of the republic," the official news agency said.
Lebanon's president, who must come from the country's Maronite Christian community, is elected by a vote in the parliament.
Michel Moussa, a member of Berri's parliamentary bloc, said he hoped there would be a quorum for the session.
"In period between now and the end of the president's mandate we need to hold a session and there is near-total agreement that the best time in is the second half of April," he said.
"I hope that the parliamentary blocs will keep their word and there will be a quorum," he added.
Moussa is one of three MPs tasked by Berri with meeting the parliamentary blocs to secure agreement on a date for the presidential vote.
Berri is hoping to avoid a repeat of the situation in 2007, when MPs refused on multiple occasions to attend sessions he called for the presidential vote because of political differences.
Even with a date set for the session, there are no guarantees that a president will be chosen on April 23.
So far just one political figure, Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, has announced his candidacy.
But he is not expected to run unopposed, and other candidates are likely to announce their own campaigns in coming days.
Source: Middle East Online.
Link: http://middle-east-online.com/english/?id=65441.
Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon's missing
BEIRUT (AP) — For 22 years, Mary Mansourati has been waiting for her son, Dani, to come home. His shirts are ironed and hanging in his closet. His trousers, neatly folded, are stacked on the shelves next to his bed in the family's Beirut apartment.
Dani was 30 when he was detained by Syrian intelligence and has not been heard from since. He is among an estimated 17,000 Lebanese still missing from Lebanon's civil war or the years of Syrian domination that followed.
The war in Syria has added new urgency to the plight of their families. Hundreds of Lebanese were detained by the Syrians, and their relatives are convinced they are still alive. Now they fear they will be lost in Syria's labyrinth of overcrowded jails and detention facilities or be killed in the ongoing mayhem.
The war in Syria has also added a new generation of names to the already long rolls of the missing. There are no exact figures, but human rights organizations say tens of thousands of Syrians have vanished in the three years since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began.
Elsewhere in the region, nearly 70,000 Iraqis are still missing from three wars over the past three decades, including sectarian bloodletting that was unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to government figures.
There's never been any truth or reconciliation process that might uncover the fates of these missing. In both Lebanon and Iraq, few efforts have been made to examine what happened during the countries' wars, mainly because many of those involved in killings and kidnappings have become politicians, some even serving in government.
The 82-year-old Mansourati believes her son is alive in a Syrian prison, despite having no concrete evidence or word that anyone has seen him. A fighter with an anti-Syrian Christian militia, he was arrested in 1992, two years after the civil war ended.
"We need our sons back," she told The Associated Press in an interview at her home in east Beirut, where she cares for her gravely ill husband. Friday marked the ninth anniversary of a permanent protest tent Mansourati and other families of the missing have erected in downtown Beirut. Every day, relatives sit at the tent, sometimes spending the night. Photos of the missing and slogans calling on Assad to explain their fate line the sides of the tent.
"We are tired of going back and forth to the tent. We are getting old," Mansourati said. Like many relatives of the missing, she believes Lebanese officials, some of whom led militias during the civil war and fought on behest of the Syrians, are complicit in covering up their loved ones' fates.
Rights groups speak of a "conspiracy of silence," with officials withholding information out of concern they could be implicated in wartime atrocities. The Taif Accord ended the war in 1990 by enshrining a sectarian-based political system that leaves all major decisions in the hands of a small group of people, many of whom gained political power by commanding a powerful militia during the conflict.
There has been no serious state-led documentation that would produce an official record with the numbers of dead, injured, missing and forcibly displaced. Lebanon went into "collective amnesia" after the war, the International Center for Transitional Justice said in a recent report documenting the country's failure to examine and deal with its complex past.
A year after the Lebanese civil war ended, the government declared there were no detainees being held by rival militias. Four years later, in 1995, the government passed a law declaring any person missing for more than four years legally dead, advising families looking for their vanished loved ones to move on.
Most of the thousands missing likely are dead. They disappeared after being kidnapped by rival Lebanese militias during the war, which saw multiple sectarian massacres, and there's little chance any Lebanese faction could keep someone secretly detained for nearly a quarter century. Still, even uncovering suspected locations of mass graves where the missing might be is considered too politically explosive.
When the families persisted in demanding the truth, the government said it couldn't help because digging too deep into the past could inflame old hostilities and unleash another war. "The official discourse was, if peace is to prevail we need to forget the past and move on into the future," said Lebanese lawyer Nizar Saghieh, who has represented hundreds of families seeking to discover the fate of their missing relatives.
But the families of those who disappeared after being detained by Syria are far less convinced by the government's death declaration. Rights groups estimate they number between 300 and 600 Lebanese. Majida Hassan Bashasha's brother, Ahmed, was picked up by Syrian troops at a checkpoint near Beirut in 1976, the year Syrian forces entered Lebanon to help quell the sectarian fighting. Ahmed was 18 when he vanished, and his sister says he was not a militant.
Like Mary Mansourati, 59-year-old Bashasha believes her brother is alive, languishing in a Syrian prison. She has been campaigning relentlessly to bring him home, attending annual rallies of the families of the disappeared in front of the local U.N. headquarters in Beirut. A few years ago, several former detainees came to the protest tent and recognized her brother from a picture she was holding. They said they shared a cell with him in a Damascus prison.
"I am his big sister and my heart tells me he is still alive," Bashasha said, holding a black-and-white photo of a young man she said was Ahmed. Initially, when the conflict started in Syria she feared that her brother and other Lebanese detainees would be forgotten. But now, as she watches Assad's agents fill Syria's prisons with a new generation of government opponents, she holds out some hope that any Lebanese being held in Syria will be released.
"They don't need them in prison anymore," Bashasha said.
Lebanon registers 1 million Syrian refugees
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Yahya was trapped in his hometown for two years by Syria's civil war, moving from house to house to avoid shells and bullets. His father was killed by a sniper. His family then fled to another town that came under a fierce government offensive.
When the teenager finally made it out of the country with his mother and two sisters, he became the latest sad statistic of the sectarian conflict: the one-millionth refugee to register in Lebanon. The United Nations' refugee agency, which invited reporters to witness Yahya's registration and allowed them to interview the 19-year-old, described the 1 million figure as a "devastating milestone" for Lebanon.
There are many more Syrians inside Lebanon than those officially registered, with the Lebanese government itself estimating that at least a half-million are unregistered. The UNHCR says it is registering an average of more than one refugee a minute in Lebanon, a country of 4.5 million that is seeing its resources strained by the new arrivals.
"I feel sad because this means that 1 million fled here before me to suffer together," Yahya said as he waited to register with the UNHCR in the northern city of Tripoli. "A million is a big number for Syria and a big number for Lebanon," he added. Yahya asked to be identified only by his first name because he feared that Syrian authorities would retaliate against his relatives who are still there.
Yahya told a harrowing story of how his family became caught up in the violence between troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his ouster. Their house in the central city of Homs was on the front line of the conflict that began in March 2011, forcing them out.
They moved frequently for their safety, Yahya said, but his father was shot to death by a sniper in September of that year. They were finally evacuated from Homs earlier this year by the U.N., and traveled to Yabroud, a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border that soon came under government attack.
On March 8, the family crossed into Lebanon, first looking for shelter for a few days in the overcrowded border town of Arsal. They moved farther west to an informal settlement outside Tripoli. "We didn't know where to go. We just wanted to get away from all the shelling and fighting," Yahya said.
The conflict in Syria, which had a population of 23 million before the civil war, has killed more than 150,000 people. The U.N. estimates there are more than 2.5 million Syrians registered in neighboring countries — nearly 670,000 in Turkey, nearly 590,000 in Jordan and about 220,000 in Iraq. More than 47,700 are awaiting registration.
Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees recorded anywhere in the world in recent history, the UNHCR said. "For us, the one-millionth refugee is a devastating marker," said Ninette Kelley, UNHCR representative in Lebanon. She said that in publicizing Thursday's milestone, the U.N. agency wants "the world to see what it means to individuals, being torn apart by the Syrian conflict," but also to "show what a tremendous burden the Lebanese people are bearing."
The Lebanese government provides none of the facilities and land that Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees. Many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farms.
On a casual walk in Beirut, Syrians can be seen sheltering in underground parking garages, under bridges and in old construction sites with no running water, sanitation, electricity or protection from the weather. Nearly half of the refugees are children.
The World Bank estimates that the Syria crisis cost Lebanon $2.5 billion in lost economic activity in 2013 and threatens to push 170,000 Lebanese into poverty by the end of this year, the UNHCR said. Along with the social and economic strain, Syria's sectarian war has also frequently spilled into Lebanon with deadly clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in the fighting.
Militants from Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah are fighting alongside Assad's forces in Syria, while many among Lebanon's Sunni population support the rebels. The U.N. and its partner agencies have mounted an unprecedented appeal to raise funds for both refugees and Lebanese host communities. The U.N. has asked for $1.89 billion in 2014, but only $242 million has been received so far, Kelley said.
For Yahya and his family, there was no place to go but Lebanon. "We were looking around to go somewhere else in Syria, but no place is safe," he said. While he is relieved his family made it out of Syria, the prospect of being dependent on U.N. food aid to survive is daunting for Yahya. After his father's death, he became the sole provider for the family, and jobs are hard to find.
He and his relatives get $30 a month each, which is barely half the $250 rent he has to pay for a shack in an informal settlement in nearby Dinniyeh. "Every day in Lebanon it's going from bad to worse," Yahya said. "We can't even hope that tomorrow will be better."


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Terry sent me a text message Friday saying she would like to see a movie at the Cinemark Theater at Festival Bay. Festival Bay is a mall that was built a few years ago at the head of International Drive near all the outlet malls. It was built at the height of the real estate boom. Walking through the mall most of the store fronts are shut with giant posters making it look like it will one day be a great place to shop. It has been that way for years as more stores shut. The only reason Terry and I ever go there is for the Cinemark. I arrived early to sketch.
We went to see "The Help" based on a book Terry had read in book club. She joked with me saying it might be a chick flick. In the theater she did a head count and found 5 other men in the half full theater. The row directly in front of us was full of women. The movie was fantastic. A young 23 year old woman decided she wanted to write a book from the vantage point of the black maids in Jackson Mississippi. This was a dangerous proposition for the maids since segregation was the law and the civil rights movement had just begun. The maids raised white babies with love and compassion but they were required to use a separate bathroom. A maid was arrested and beaten when she was accused of stealing a ring. Violence against blacks was the norm. Just talking to a young white journalist was dangerous and against the law.
The movie celebrates the courage required to speak the truth in an age of oppression and prejudice. A scene of people watching the John F. Kennedy funeral on TV sparked one of my earliest memories, reminding me that segregation existed within my lifetime. The story was told with warmth, sincerity and showed the hard truth of bitter prejudice which happened at quaint tea parties as white house wives jockeyed for the power of oppression.
We all have a voice, a story that needs to be told. We can't drift through life, invisible, following the path of least resistance. The movie left me feeling good knowing that a journalist willing to uncover the truth can help bring about change. Change always comes at a cost and it never happens quickly. As Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." I highly encourage you to see "The Help."
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BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox have hired former Detroit Tigers boss Dave Dombrowski as the team's new president.
The Red Sox also said general manager Ben Cherington is leaving the club, two years after building the 2013 World Series champions.
The Red Sox announced during their game against the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night that Dombrowski, who was let go by the Tigers two weeks ago, would take over immediately. Cherington "declined the opportunity to continue as general manager," the ballclub said.
Larry Lucchino announced earlier this month that he would be stepping down as president and CEO.
Despite winning the 2013 World Series — their third in a decade — the Red Sox are on their way to their third last-place finish in four seasons.


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A face shield manufacturer recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for turning his home into a production line said he was inundated during the pandemic.
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Lloyd Creaney and his wife Ruth, from Hillsborough in Co Down, with their children. The face shield manufacturer recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for turning his home into a production line said he was inundated during the pandemic. PA Photo. Issue date: Sunday October 11, 2020. They have received British Empire Medals for their charitable efforts. See PA story ULSTER Shields. Photo credit should read: Michael McHugh/PA Wire
Lloyd Creaney and his wife Ruth, from Hillsborough in Co Down, have received British Empire Medals for their charitable efforts.
The graphic designers began making the clear plastic visors from their home during the shortage of personal protective equipment in spring.
Because they both have underlying health conditions, a group of biker volunteers picked up the completed shields from their doorstep and delivered them to hospitals and care homes across NI.
Mr Creaney said: "We started a GoFundMe page to cover the cost of materials. I thought if we made one or two hundred pounds that would cover the cost of it."
In total they raised around £4,000.
He said: "That enabled me to buy a few more printers to get as many out, somewhere in the order of 3,500 to 4,000.
"It was unexpected. We did not set out to make as many face masks but it just grew.
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Mr Creaney felt it was not right to ask people to pay for the basic personal protective kit they needed.
He said: "Covid-19 has put such strain on our NHS and I applaud all the frontline staff whether that's nurses, doctors, police, delivery men and anyone who is working hard to keep everything going."
He added: "If you had of told me at the beginning of this that I would have six printers running 24/7 making nearly 4,000 shields I would not have believed you.
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Then into bowl - much improved bowling from some, a lovely catch by Felix, great fielding by Oli once again, Charlie as Wicky is coming on leaps and bounds only 1 bye the whole game, too many wides and no balls unfortunately saw Yoxford rack up a total of 280 with only 25 runs off the bat!
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package backend.distributor

import akka.actor.{ActorRef, ActorSelection, Terminated}
import akka.stream.scaladsl.Flow
import akka.stream.stage.GraphStageLogic.StageActorRef
import akka.stream.stage.{GraphStage, GraphStageLogic, InHandler, OutHandler}
import akka.stream.{Attributes, FlowShape, Inlet, Outlet}
import backend.PricerMsg
import com.typesafe.scalalogging.StrictLogging

import scala.annotation.tailrec
import scala.collection.immutable.Queue
import scala.language.postfixOps
import backend.PricerMsg._

object DistributorEndpointStage {
  def apply(connectionId: Int, registryRef: ActorSelection) = Flow.fromGraph(new DistributorEndpointStage(connectionId, registryRef))
}

/**
  * This is the last stage of the stream attached to the websocket connection. This stage links with the Price stream endpoint to form end-to-end flow.
  */
private class DistributorEndpointStage(connectionId: Int, registryRef: ActorSelection) extends GraphStage[FlowShape[PricerMsg, PricerMsg]] {
  spec =>
  val in: Inlet[PricerMsg] = Inlet("RequestsIn")
  val out: Outlet[PricerMsg] = Outlet("UpdatesOut")
  override val shape: FlowShape[PricerMsg, PricerMsg] = FlowShape(in, out)

  override def createLogic(inheritedAttributes: Attributes): GraphStageLogic =
    new GraphStageLogic(shape) with ManuallyControlledStreamProducer with FastStreamConsumer {
      override def selfRef = getStageActorRef(onMessage)
      override def in: Inlet[PricerMsg] = spec.in
      override def out: Outlet[PricerMsg] = spec.out
      override def preStart(): Unit = {
        // publish this endpoint' location
        registryRef ! StreamLinkApi.DistributorStreamRef(selfRef)
        super.preStart()
      }

      def onMessage(x: (ActorRef, Any)): Unit = handlePricerBoundMessage orElse clientBoundMessage apply x._2
    }

}

/**
  * Producing side of the stage - one that consumes from the fast producer (Pricer stream) and pushes messages into the websocket stream
  */
private trait FastStreamConsumer {
  _: GraphStageLogic =>

  def out: Outlet[PricerMsg]

  private var pendingPing: Option[Ping] = None                        // indicates a pending ping request
  private var clientUpdatesQueue: Queue[Short] = Queue()              // pending price updates (currency ids)
  private var pendingClientUpdates: Map[Short, PriceUpdate] = Map()   // latest price ticks for all pending updates

  setHandler(out, new OutHandler {
    // this method is called every time downstream is ready for the next element
    override def onPull(): Unit = {
      forwardPingToClient()
      forwardUpdateToClient()
    }
  })

  protected val clientBoundMessage: PartialFunction[Any, Unit] = {
    case u: PriceUpdate =>
      // if we receive a price update, update the snapshot, schedule the update and attempt to push an element downstream
      if (!pendingClientUpdates.contains(u.ccyPairId)) clientUpdatesQueue = clientUpdatesQueue enqueue u.ccyPairId
      pendingClientUpdates += u.ccyPairId -> u
      forwardUpdateToClient()
    case u: Ping if pendingPing.isEmpty =>
      // schedule a ping request if not scheduled already
      pendingPing = Some(u)
      forwardPingToClient()
    case u: Ping => // otherwise ignore
  }

  private def forwardPingToClient() = if (isAvailable(out)) pendingPing foreach { ping =>
    push(out, ping)
    pendingPing = None
  }

  private def forwardUpdateToClient() = if (isAvailable(out)) clientUpdatesQueue.dequeueOption foreach {
    case (key, queue) =>
      clientUpdatesQueue = queue
      pendingClientUpdates.get(key) foreach (push(out, _))
      pendingClientUpdates -= key
  }
}

/**
  * Consuming side of the stage - one that takes requests coming from the websocket connection and pushes to the Pricer
  */
private trait ManuallyControlledStreamProducer extends StrictLogging {
  _: GraphStageLogic =>

  def in: Inlet[PricerMsg]
  def selfRef: StageActorRef

  private var pricerStreamRef: Option[ActorRef] = None        // current location of the pricer stream
  private var demand  = 0                                     // current demand
  private var pricerMessageQueue: Queue[PricerMsg] = Queue()  // messages scheduled for Pricer

  private var openSubscriptions: Set[Short] = Set()           // all currently open subscriptions by the client

  override def preStart(): Unit = pull(in)                    // pull first element

  setHandler(in, new InHandler {
    // this method is called every time next element is available for consumption
    override def onPush(): Unit = forwardRequestToPriceEngine()
  })

  @tailrec private def forwardRequestToPriceEngine(): Unit =
    if (hasDemand) pricerStreamRef match {                    // if there is demand ..
      case Some(target) =>                                    // and pricer location is known ..
        takeQueueHead() orElse takeStreamHead() match {       // drain queue first, then take stream head ..
          case Some(msg) =>                                   // and if there is an element available ..
            target ! StreamLinkApi.Payload(selfRef, msg)      // send to pricer
            demand -= 1                                       // and consume a demand point
            forwardRequestToPriceEngine()                     // and repeat
          case _ =>
        }
      case _ =>
    }

  def hasDemand = demand > 0
  def takeQueueHead(): Option[PricerMsg] =
    pricerMessageQueue.dequeueOption.map {
      case (msg, remainder) =>
        pricerMessageQueue = remainder
        msg
    }
  def takeStreamHead(): Option[PricerMsg] =
    if (isAvailable(in)) {                                    // If there is an element available in the stream ..
      val next = grab(in)                                     // take it ..
      next match {
        case StreamRequest(id) => openSubscriptions += id     // if it's a subscription request - remember it
        case _ =>
      }
      pull(in)                                                // pull next element
      Some(next)
    } else None

  protected val handlePricerBoundMessage: PartialFunction[Any, Unit] = {
    case StreamLinkApi.Demand(sender) =>                      // if we receive a demand signal
      if (pricerStreamRef.isEmpty) {                          // and pricer location is currently unknown
        logger.info(s"Linked with pricer stream at $sender, re-opening ${openSubscriptions.size} subscription(s)")
        selfRef.watch(sender)                                 // watch it - so we know when it terminates
        pricerStreamRef = Some(sender)                        // and remember it
        pricerMessageQueue = Queue(openSubscriptions.map(x => StreamRequest(x)).toSeq: _*) // re-open all subscriptions
      }
      demand = 1                                              // account the demand
      forwardRequestToPriceEngine()                           // attempt to push message to Pricer
    case Terminated(ref) =>                                   // when pricer terminates ...
      logger.info(s"Broken link with $ref")
      pricerMessageQueue = Queue()                            // clean the pending queue
      pricerStreamRef = None                                  // clean the location
      demand = 0                                              // reset the demand
  }

}

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Congratulations on your Walt Disney World vacation! In 2013, my family visited the Walt Disney World Resort the week of Thanksgiving. We actually arrived the weekend prior to Thanksgiving and left the Saturday following the holiday. We found the parks to be moderately crowded during the beginning of our vacation with higher crowd levels starting the day before Thanksgiving. We experienced warm weather at the beginning and end of the trip, in which we were able to wear shorts; however, we did need jackets and jeans during the middle of our vacation. That being said, the average high temperature for Orlando in November is traditionally in the upper 70s with an average low temperature in the mid to upper 50s. I would definitely recommend checking the local forecast in the days leading up to your trip, so that you can pack accordingly.
I hope this information is helpful to you. Please don't hesitate to stop by again with any additional questions that you may have as your vacation draws closer. Best wishes for a magical trip, Sharon!


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Een zakelijk zekerheidsrecht of zakelijke zekerheid is in het Belgisch recht een zakelijk recht. Hiertoe behoren sommige bijzondere voorrechten, pand, hypotheek en het retentierecht. Het is steeds een accessoir recht, verbonden aan een schuldvordering en wordt op andermans goed gevestigd. Als een schuldvordering met een zakelijke zekerheid is uitgerust, betekent dat dat de schuldeiser het recht heeft om met voorrang te worden betaald met de opbrengsten van het goed waarop de zekerheid is gevestigd indien de schuldenaar niet spontaan betaalt.

Burgerlijk recht


In our active addiction many of us were constantly looking for an easy way to relieve pain or stress. In active recovery, we can choose to alleviate that stress with a much healthier alternative. Studies have found that exercise can curb cravings and reduce the appeal to use again, preventing a possible slip. Not only does regular exercise help with the phenomenon of craving but it also can reduce many other addiction related health issues. Daily exercise can give you the extra pep in your step to help you deal with everyday life.
Few things are more highly recommended for a healthy lifestyle than regular exercise and good nutrition. It improves flexibility, cardiovascular health strength, coordination and much more. Whether you are doing simple cardio exercises or engaging in a challenging weight lifting routine, all forms of exercise can be beneficial. Occasionally health concerns could lead to a recommendation to avoid major exercise. But these are extreme cases and not very typical.
Medical studies have proven time again the ability for regular exercise to reduce stress and clear the mind. It helps establish focus and progress oriented actions. All of these characteristics can be beneficial to those going through an addiction treatment program. We look to get the same benefits of exercise in addiction recovery at The Last Resort. For this reason, we offer many exercise based therapies and strongly recommend them as a great addition to a mens rehab experience.
There are many benefits of exercise in addiction therapy. Combining an enjoyable but challenging exercise routine can help the body adjust to sobriety, fight cravings, and help to establish new healthy habits. Addiction can often form bad habits, by creating habits that focus on personal health and progress you create a more positive personal environment and mindset.
The Mayo Clinic describes exercise as "meditation in motion." Through movement, we can refocus our thoughts on our own well-being and shift away from thinking about the negative aspects of our lives. After a workout, many say they feel rejuvenated and have clearer thoughts. The benefits of exercise in addiction recovery are both physical and mental.
A key element of this is to do something you love. If you are new to working out, joining a local gym or exercise class can be a great way to be introduced to the activity while staying motivated with the help of others. Maybe you don't have access to work out equipment or a trainer, but even a simple jogging regimen can be a perfect option for you. The more you enjoy the particular form of exercise, the easier it will be to make it a regular part of your life. Also, do not trade one addiction for another. Though uncommon, there are cases of exercise addiction. Over exercising can have equally harmful effects on the mind and body.
Start slow, then build up to a routine. Maybe begin by taking long walks then build up to a run. Especially if you choose to begin a high intensity activity, like weightlifting, start slowly and with proper instruction. Health is the name of the game, don't overdo it and hurt yourself in the process. Enlist a workout buddy to keep you motivated. Before long you will see the benefits of exercise in addiction recovery. You will feel better, sleep more soundly and feel capable to take on the challenges you will face in recovery.


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I hope its amazing! I am so really looking forward to Emma Watson as Belle in Beauty and the Beast!!
Me too!!! Another Disney Masterpiece brought to life!
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It WAS a masterpiece! Never doubt the Jackie.


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Q: How to avoid duplicate entries when making a post request? I am having trouble when posting an object with a nested object in ASP.NET. I have a Status class that has a User object (the User that posted the Status). When posting the Status in JSON form, it has the user object as well. The problem is, instead of adding the Status with that User, it adds the Status AND a new User, which is obviously not what I want.
Here is what the JSON looks like. The User with the id 2 already exists in the database, but when this is posted, another user is created.
{
    "User": {
        "Id": 2,
        "First": "Tobin",
        "Last": "Brown",
        "Email": null,
        "Profile": null,
        "Height": 75,
        "Weight": 165,
        "BirthDate": "1991-04-24T00:00:00"
    },
    "Id": 2,
    "Type": 0,
    "Time": "2015-03-08T11:01:48"
}

User class:
public class User
{
    [Key]
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string First { get; set; }
    public string Last { get; set; }
    [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
    public string Email { get; set; }
    public Profile Profile { get; set; }
    public double Height { get; set; }
    public double Weight { get; set; }
    public DateTime BirthDate { get; set; }
    public virtual List<TeamUser> Teams { get; set; }
    [JsonIgnore]
    public virtual List<Status> Statuses { get; set; }
}

Status class:
public class Status
{
    [Key]
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public StatusType Type { get; set; }
    public DateTime Time { get; set; }
    public virtual User User { get; set; }
    public virtual Activity Activity { get; set; }
}

Finally here is my controller method that handles the addition of the status to the database using the entity framework:
[ResponseType(typeof(Status))]
public IHttpActionResult PostStatus(Status status)
{
    if (!ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        return BadRequest(ModelState);
    }
    db.Statuses.Add(Status);
    db.SaveChanges();
    return Ok(status);
}

Why would it be creating a new User if I am passing it the User Id in the JSON?

A: Since status entry is new, entity framework treats all its associated objects as new. Your example above could be modified as below
1) Add UserId property to Status class
2) Set UserId property with the corresponding user object's ID in JSON. It will now look like this
{
    "Id": 2,
    "Type": 0,
    "UserId": 2,
    "Time": "2015-03-08T11:01:48"
}

3) In your controller, set status.User = null
The Status table in your database should have the UserId foreign key mapped to ID column of User.

A: I think you need to set EntityState to Unchanged before you call db.SaveChanges().
Something like below:
db.Entry<User>(status.User).State = EntityState.Unchanged;

for more detail visit this MSDN article.

A: You may need to re-attach the existing user to the db context (if setting status.User=null doesn't work)
if (status.User!=null)
{
    db.Users.Attach(status.User)
    db.Entry<User>(status.User).State = EntityState.Unchanged;
}

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All of Piper's talent and hard work has paid off; next fall, she will be attending the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she will study interior design and accessory design.


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Room 237 (2013) - Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED)
directed by Rodney Ascher
"A story of the supernatural cannot be taken apart and analyzed too closely. The ultimate test of its rationale is whether it is good enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. If you submit it to a completely logical and detailed analysis it will eventually appear absurd."
--Stanley Kubrick, interviewed by Michel Ciment, Kubrick: The Definitive Edition, Part 4
by Bryant Frazer Did director Stanley Kubrick encode The Shining with an admission that he helped create phony footage of the Apollo moon-landing in 1969? Well, of course not. That's nuts. It's a cockamamie argument. And it's one of several cockamamie arguments advanced by viewers given a platform for their unconventional theories in Room 237, an odd duck of a documentary about the conclusions reached by five different Kubrick fans upon very close analysis of The Shining.
English 5.1 DTS-HD MA
English 2.0 LPCM (Stereo)
Dismiss this business about the fake moonwalk and Room 237 has more questions to be answered. Is The Shining really about the genocide of the Native American people? Has the geography of the Overlook Hotel been distorted to create impossible spaces and views? Did Kubrick sneak visual clues to subtext (a minotaur, a boner, a Hitler moustache) into his shots? Does the German-made typewriter favoured by Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) signal that the film is about the Holocaust? And why is Jack hanging out in the lobby reading an issue of PLAYGIRL, anyway?
OK, that last one is a legitimate question. Torrance is definitely reading PLAYGIRL in one scene, and--assuming you read that as a message demanding interpretive consideration rather than, say, as an unscripted joke--it brings into play questions about Torrance's sexuality that could be apropos of something, conceivably. Maybe. Much of the evidence floated for the Holocaust interpretation is unconvincing, ranging from dubious symbolism (eagles=Nazis) to dubious juxtapositions (a pile of suitcases is briefly superimposed over a group of tourists as part of a dissolve) to dubious numerology (2x3x7=42, as in 1942, as in the Wannsee Conference). Never mind the fact that the film isn't set anywhere near Germany (or Europe), nor does it have any story elements that call out to the atrocities of World War II. But the Native American genocide theory is at least superficially attractive. Owing to the movie's Colorado setting, the Overlook hotel is replete with Native American iconography, and it's said to be built on an "Indian burial ground." The rivers of blood gushing from the elevator bays and through the halls of the hotel itself would be a majestic and disturbing memorial.
Yet surely only a special kind of conspiracy theorist still believes the moon-landing footage was faked, and within that small group it's only the cinephiles who insist that Stanley Kubrick must have been involved in engineering it. Still, if we can say, reasonably, given what we know about the director's interests, that an interpretation of The Shining invoking the extermination of indigenous American peoples is not completely without merit, while an interpretation that invokes the Apollo 11 mission is preposterous on its face, it makes one wonder: Where do we draw the line? Where does interpretation give way to obsession, and criticism devolve into masturbatory twaddle?
Room 237 director Rodney Ascher studiously avoids those questions. Rather, he's designed his film as a platform. Five theorists make their arguments about what The Shining actually means, and we never see these people--a decision some reviewers have noted as a stroke of genius on Ascher's part, but one that I suspect is more rooted in financial reality: Instead of flying out to meet his subjects, Ascher spoke to them long-distance and had them make a local recording of their sides of the conversations. (Thus, Ascher's voice is never heard.) The movie's visuals consist largely of excerpts from The Shining itself, most of them time-stretched into a weird, sluggish flip-book motion in post, supplemented by shots from other Kubrick films and a few inserts from unrelated movie titles (All the President's Men, Lamberto Bava's stuck-in-the-movie-theatre horror opus Demons, the faked-Mars-landing thriller Capricorn One, and even An American Werewolf in London make appearances). Too, there are occasional maps and diagrams that are meant to follow little Danny's Big Wheel trajectory through the hotel in those famous Steadicam shots, illustrating the geography of the set. Mostly it's an essay film along the lines of Thom Andersen's great Los Angeles Plays Itself, with the crucial difference that the speaking voice belongs not to the filmmaker himself, but to an assembled chorus of essayists offering different but weirdly complementary readings of the footage on screen.
Because we're given no background information on the contributors, we have no extratextual information by which to judge their credibility. We're left to sort out the arguments on their own merits, or (and especially) lack thereof. That's where the film starts to get a little mind-bending, particularly as Ascher cuts fluidly among the weird theories and the different points of view start to blur, the disembodied monologues taking on the slightly disturbing quality of voices in your head. The title starts to take on a metaphorical significance. Like the TARDIS, or the massively labyrinthine dwelling in the appropriately post-modern novel House of Leaves, Room 237 is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It's the place where you sit with this film--any film, really--and evaluate its images and sound, story and characters, symbols and metaphors and secret histories, through the filter of your own experience and expectations. A movie may have as many different meanings as there are viewers to interpret it, and one of the joys of reading criticism is discovering the unexpected insights you never would have devised on your own.
I want to say that Barthes would have loved Room 237, since it presents an array of conflicting and contradictory interpretations that seem cleanly divorced from what Kubrick intended, never mind what the story's original Author-God, Stephen King, had in mind. But even though the Room 237 theorists barely engage with the realities of moviemaking, they all seem to feel that the mere presence of Kubrick behind the camera is their trump card. Kubrick was a genius. Kubrick was a perfectionist. Nothing caught within the view of a camera rolling on the set of one of Kubrick's productions could be out of place, nothing within the frame less than premeditated. Kubrick moved in ways mere mortals cannot begin to comprehend. Therefore, they seem to argue, it follows that deeply crazypants interpretations of the placement of cans of Tang and Calumet Baking Powder, the number of cars parked in front of the hotel in an exterior shot, or shot-to-shot inconsistencies--all of which would be regarded as continuity errors and coincidences in the works of lesser artists--are, in the case of a Kubrick film, fundamentally sound expressions of hidden meaning. Room 237's theorists haven't killed the author; they worship him outright, singing hosannas to his glory. One of them even imagines Kubrick had his face "airbrushed" into the sky during The Shining's opening credits as an enduring monument, I guess, to his own greatness. Barthes would be annoyed. As am I.
Does that make Room 237 easy to dismiss? Hell no. This movie is creepy--nearly as creepy as The Shining itself. Arguably more so. If you asked me what The Shining was really about, I'd tell you it is, as King billed his novel, a realistic look at writer's block, as well as a distorted and hallucinatory depiction of mental illness. What's Room 237 about? It's about losing yourself in art--and not necessarily in a good way. I wouldn't suggest that anyone involved with the film is mentally ill (least of all Ascher himself, who assumes a detached and slightly bemused authorial stance, inasmuch as one can be gleaned from his editorial choices), but some of them seem a little bit obsessed with The Shining, maybe to the point where they've lost the ability to think rationally about it. And Room 237 has garnered a lot of positive response (why, it's 93% fresh!), because it spotlights enthusiastic and boundlessly imaginative readings of a film that was once dismissed as a Kubrick turkey.
More than that, I think Room 237 resonates because all of us--especially those of who came of age as cinephiles after the arrival of VCRs and endless reruns on cable TV--have at one time or another been inside Room 237, a place where we're so taken by a film that we return again and again and eventually lose track of ourselves as we work to interpret it, synthesizing an entirely new meaning from its components. That doesn't make it good criticism, mind you, it just makes it something avid movie buffs, above all, can relate to on an intimate level. There but for the grace of God, you know?
Blu-ray is the perfect format for Room 237, the high resolution of the 1.78:1, 1080p image offering plenty of opportunity to still and step your way through the picture with a clarity undreamed of when most of these theories were hatched. I assume the imagery from The Shining itself is swiped from Blu-ray copies, given that Room 237 was made without the cooperation of Warner Bros., and the scenes from The Shining look pretty much identical to the imagery on the official release, just a mite softer and with the brightness kicked up a couple of notches. However, much of the footage was treated with digital time-stretching techniques for an artificial slow-motion effect, and this creates its own distracting brand of temporal artifact--ghosting, ha ha. A few of the clips are from lower-quality sources and the worst of them exhibit YouTube-style macroblocking and colour banding, while some archival behind-the-scenes footage wasn't deinterlaced before being integrated into the documentary. Still, there's no knocking IFC's Blu-ray, which I'm sure represents Ascher's finished digital version. Although the audio is a bit of a mish-mash by necessity, the 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack admirably brings everything into focus, smoothing out differences among the various vocal tracks and making sure they pop nicely on top of the compelling score, a sort of pastiche of Wendy Carlos music that thrums with its own Kubrickian life.
For real Room 237 fans, the key extra here is the audio commentary by Kevin McLeod, the Internet's enigmatic "mstrmnd," whose epic online analysis of The Shining is made up of webpage after webpage of nearly unreadable blocks of tiny white text in which he waxes on about the groundbreaking neuroscientific foundations of Kubrick's storytelling technique. (Sample: "Once neurophenomenologically decrypted, The Shining can be seen as a beginning to a new form of post-Western visual guidance. Perhaps even a new facet of language.") While I'm quite sure McLeod is barking up the wrong tree in his insistence, for example, that one key to the film is the fact that the letter T on the original poster design by Saul Bass is a direct and deliberate reference to T-shaped windows found in the ancient Mayan city of Palenque*, when he sticks to imaginative and purely visual analysis he can be entertaining, and his comments definitely jibe with Ascher's overall project. Let's just hope that not too many budding young critics think of this guy's writing as a model for their own blogs.
Next up is "Secrets of The Shining: Live from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival" (50 mins.), a videotaped panel discussion from May 2013, moderated by Devin Faraci of BADASS DIGEST, that featured Stanley Kubrick's longtime personal assistant Leon Vitali along with Room 237 director Rodney Ascher, faked-moon-landing theorist Jay Weidner, and The Shining TV miniseries director Mick Garris, functioning more or less as a Stephen King surrogate. It goes on a bit long for the wee tidbits of Shining information it contains, most of it rehashed from other sources and much of it irrelevant to Room 237 itself, but it's kind of fun to watch Vitali--who called Room 237 "pure gibberish" in THE NEW YORK TIMES--get progressively more annoyed over the questions about Kubrick's intentions. "Composition was everything," he says of Kubrick's artistic mindset. "Continuity had to take second place. That's how he worked."
"Room 237: The Making of the Original Motion Picture Score" (3 mins.) collects grungy B-roll footage (letterboxed to 1.95:1 for some reason) from studio recording sessions that show some of the instruments and equipment that were used to perform and record the score, which mixes traditional wind and percussion instruments with vintage synthesizer sounds. Another, untitled, three-minute short has artist Aled Lewis speaking in tinny voiceover about his work embedding sexual imagery and other nutty subtext into an illustration for a limited-edition Mondo poster. Meh.
A total of 11 "deleted scenes" totalling 24 minutes are really just edited audio snippets set against a moving screenshot (slightly out of sync, oddly enough) of Ascher's Final Cut Pro software in playback mode. The highlight comes when Weidner reveals that a small cabal of top-tier filmmakers, all of whom "are working for larger powers," are aware that Kubrick was involved in the fake moon-landing footage, citing as evidence the filmmaker character "Stanley Motss" in Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog. (Never mind that Wag the Dog's screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet; are they in on it, too?) Who else is in the secret club? Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Ridley Scott. "Every film nowadays has an agenda," says Weidner, who sees hidden meanings not only in Kubrick's movie, but in every movie.
Topping off the HiDef extras are a theatrical trailer with critics' quotes plus three different "alternate trailers" that replace the usual laudatory scrolling text with other types of criticism: a dense, tongue-twisting essay by writer Gerry Fialka, some YouTube comments about the theatrical trailer, and quotes from critics Jim Emerson, Girish Shambu, and Jonathan Rosenbaum, all of whom find Ascher's project somewhat dubious. Unfortunately, none of those guys were invited to contribute to this particular package--that might have livened things up a bit.
*Mstrmnd has asked that a correction be appended to this review, offering a letter from anthropologist and Mesoamerican scholar Allan L. Maca, PhD that he says confirms his assertion that the large letter T in the poster design for The Shining was clearly and deliberately modelled by Stanley Kubrick on the 'IK symbol of Mayan antiquity--specifically the 'IK-shaped windows in the city of Palenque. Permission to reprint his emailed message was denied, but in a tweet reproduced below, he complained that his "data" related to the matter was being questioned here inappropriately. In response, I can say that we disagree on what constitutes "data." It's certainly a colourful interpretation, and Mstrmnd is welcome to it. For my part, while I was writing I went so far as to Google up some of the preliminary Saul Bass sketches for the poster art and saw no indication that the T shape was an integral part of the design process for either Bass or Kubrick. Rather, it seemed like a convenient way for Bass to keep his dots in the picture in the face of Kubrick's objections that his pointillistic title treatments were rendering the words too difficult to read. At any rate, absent some kind of affirmation from associates of either the late Kubrick or the late Bass (and it was Bass, not Kubrick himself, who designed this poster), to declare that they intended to reference Mayan hieroglyphs here strikes me as a fundamentally unprovable assertion. I can understand that it might look that way to an anthropologist specializing in Mayan studies, in the same way that a history professor specializing in German studies might read deliberate references to the Holocaust into the film itself. But, especially in light of Bass's long history of creating similarly unusual type treatments for movie titles, I find the argument unconvincing. return
@deep_focus Making fun of the site is cool, but questioning the data means you know what you're talking about. And you don't.
— mstrmnd.com (@mstrmndcom) December 19, 2013
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i think i get what he's saying- Kubrick trying to show us how we're all locked up inside our own heads (like the characters in the movie) projecting it outward in patterns particular to us? Rorshach movie making, 'managing the gaps'? Bah
Posted by: Jocko | January 2, 2014 at 05:41 PM


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[[File:Stephen Daldry (Berlin Film Festival 2009).jpg|thumb|Stephen Daldry at the Berlin Film Festival 2009]]'''Stephen Daldry''', CBE (Stephen David Daldry, born 2 May 1960) is a theatre and film director and producer. ==Early years== Daldry was born in [[Dorset]].<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/92/Stephen-Daldry.html "Stephen Daldry Biography (1960-)" ''Filmreference.com'''</ref> The family later moved to [[Taunton]], [[Somerset]], where he joined a youth theatre group in [[Taunton]],<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/dec/08/features.review Kate Kellaway "Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything", ''The Guardian'' 8 December 2002</ref> and took the part of as Sandy Tyrell in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''Hay Fever'' for local amateur society Taunton Thespians<ref>http://www.tauntonthespians.org.uk/archive/plays/h/Hay_Fever_78.html</ref>. Aged 18 he won a Royal Air Force scholarship to the [[University of Sheffield]] to study English, where he became chairman of SuTCo (Sheffield University Theatre Company). After graduation, he spent a year travelling through Italy, where he became a clown's apprentice. Returning to Sheffield, he became an apprentice at the Crucible Theatre from 1985 to 1988. He then trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, [[London]]. ==Career== Daldry began his career at the Sheffield Crucible with Artistic Director where he directed many productions. He also headed many productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1992-8, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London (1989–92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-6). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was the [[Cameron Mackintosh]] Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]]. He directed ''Billy Elliot'' (2000), ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'' (2002), ''The Reader'' (2008) and ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' (2011), all of which have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture or Best Director. He has also directed a stage musical adaptation of ''Billy Elliot'', which earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. ==Personal life== Although Daldry has been married since 2001 to American performance artist and magazine editor Lucy Sexton, with whom he has a daughter, Annabel Clare (born 2003),<ref name=Advocate>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228 Michael Giltz "The golden Hours" ''The Advocate''18 March 2003 archived at the [[Internet Archive]]: version as at 20 January 2008, http://web.archive.org/web/20080120182627/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228</ref><ref>http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biod1/daldry01.html "Stephen Daldry" [[Matt & Andrej Koymasky]] - The Living Room - Biographies</ref> he describes himself simply as a gay man because people prefer it ("they don't like the confusion").<ref name=Guardian2009>http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/14/stephen-daldry-billy-elliot-tonys Gaby Wood, "How Britain became the toast of Broadway: Last week Billy Elliot won 10 Tony awards in New York, crowning a glorious year for British theatre at home and abroad. The following morning we caught up with Stephen Daldry, the award-winning musical's director, to talk about this theatrical renaissance, juggling stage and film projects - and his complex love life" ''The Observer'' 14 June 2009</ref> He was previously in a relationship with set designer [[Ian MacNeil]] for 13 years.<ref>http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=14547 The Broadway League"Stephen Daldry" ''IBDB''</ref> They met at an outdoor production of ''Alice in Wonderland'' in [[Lancaster]] in 1988, and after settling in a bedsit in [[Camberwell]], began collaborating on theatrical productions.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-stephen-daldry-and-ian-macneil-1306112.html ''The Independent'' interview, April 21, 1996</ref><ref>http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=24963 Ian MacNeil at the Internet Broadway Database</ref> He was ranked number 48 in the [[Pink List 2010]] and 78 in the [[Pink List 2011]]. The Pink List 2011 citation said: :"Daldrey is beavering away ahead of a big 2012: his version of Jonathan Safran Foer's ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' will be released; he part of the team devising the Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies, and there are rumours he's working on a Broadway version of Disney's ''Dumbo''."<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2011-2374595.html</ref> ==References== Adapted from a Wikipedia article. <references> [[Category:Film directors]] [[Category:1995 list of 40]] [[Category:Pink List 2000]] [[Category:Pink List 2010|48]] [[Category:Pink List 2011|78]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1960 births]]
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Dizzy Working Mom: Des Makes Ben Sick!!!
We start the show LIVE with Hare. He is with a studio audience, and they are all going to watch the finale together. They started doing this a couple of seasons ago, I think. I don't mind so much, but I fill like the "questions & answer" part is filler I can basically fast forward through.
Back in Antigua, Des is having to ask herself the tough questions. Actually, Hare is. Is she going to go on? She weakly decides to continue on because "her spirit" isn't broken. Brooks may take her life, but he'll never take her freedom! Anyways, she proceeds to look over the balcony in a silk maxi number that clearly shows her black thong underneath. Look, a girl can't bother to remember to wear a flesh colored thong when her world is falling apart. Back. Off.
She has a sad rose ceremony with Swimfan and Drew. When she explains about Brooks leavings, she makes it sound like she was so sad because it was just so late in the game. They both accept her roses and vow to the camera to stick by her through the long haul. Swimfan may regret this promise later when they play back the tapes.
Des reveals that she needs another date with each guy before they can meet her fams. Her date with Drew is first. They hop on a couple of horses and begin to mosey over to a nearby beach. They have an awkward convo on the way that is basically a series of yes/no questions about what they have each been up to for the last day. During this convo, Des is thinking - geez, this is awkward. There is clearly no spark, and we have nothing to say to each other. Meanwhile, Drew is thinking. Geez! This is awesome! We are so madly in love, we don't need to have interesting conversation! It's totally cool that we have nothing to say to each other!
When Drew starts eagerly toasting to be madly in love, Des knows she needs to nip it in the bud. I know that I have been vocal about not really liking Drew for some reason, but I really felt badly for him here. It was the first time that I really liked him. Maybe because he was showing emotion, and it really came through as genuine. Poor guy. He was so sweet about it though, reassuring her that she didn't need to feel guilty for not loving him. I couldn't help but compare that to Des' and Brooks' convo from the last episode. I also kept wondering if he would have to ride the horse back.
So with Drew out of the picture, Des began the long, weird charade of pretending with Swimfan that there were two guys still in the race. I just found this so strange. I felt like she couldn't tell him he was the only one left, because then she would have to admit right then whether she loved him or not, and she needed more time. So by not mentioning that Drew left, she was able to wait until the last possible moment, Proposal Platform, to say LOVE YA TOO.
Anyways, they have an awesome date, and Des agrees to have Swimfan meet the fam. The family meeting was basically just Des' brother asking a bunch of questions, and Swimfan asking Des' dad for her hand in marriage. Swimfan weathered the questions from the bro well. Des and her bro had a heart to heart, and Des made the sweeping statement that she loved Swimfan and wanted to spend her life with him...at this point in time. This qualifier reminded me of that ep of How I Met Your Mother, where you keep someone "on the line" by telling them that you couldn't be with them...right now.
Swimfan picked out a shiny sparkler from Neil Lane. We knew that he was going to propose, but would Des accept? Would Brooks come back??? At this point, I thought the only way for Swimfan to save face later was for Brooks to come back and for Des to deny him and say that she loved Swimfan. That did not happen. Instead, she "came clean" to Swimfan before he proposed, saying that she "loved Brooks," and that she was "torn" between the two before. I feel like this is sort of a lie. It never seemed like she was "torn" between them. It always seemed that she would definitely pick Brooks, even though she like Swimfan a lot. Anyways, Swimfan accepts it all, and still proposes. And for the record, he does not seem to care that Des led him to believe that Drew was still around for that last week.
AFTR: I really didn't see much of this. But it seems like Des and Swimfan are happy. And I really hope they are! The romantic in me always hopes that the "winners" stay together and stay happy. I am always a little sad when they inevitably break up. (Um, set the date already Sean, stop making me nervous). I am happy that Jason and Molly are still happily married and now have a new kiddo, even though he did that switcheroo back in the day. (Molly has a blog by the way! Did you know?). And really, Des' actions can't be worse than actually picking Brooks for real and then changing her mind, right? Swimfan seems like a sweet, stand-up guy.
Ha-wan Pah-blo. It's your time to shine! I can't wait to see how his season goes. I'm a little nervous that the reason we all like him so much was *because* he didn't have much screen time this season. Guess we will see!
My only other comment is this: That blonde chick from Sean's season looked like she should be singing Like a Virgin and writhing on the floor of the MTV awards circa 1982.