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Shocking. Routine.
Posted by :James Howden On : August 8, 2016
Category: All About Sports
Tags:basketball, Carleton Ravens, CIS, Dave Smart, Fred Van Vleet, Gregg Marshall, NCAA, Ravens Nest, Ron Baker, Stetson University Hatters, upsets, UQAM, Wichita State Shockers, Wisconsin Badgers
[A day late and a 1000 words short, so it's barely a 4-minute read; you can finish it in one Olympic sell-you-stuff competition, but there are HOT LINKS to extend the pleasure!]
Guess they were. Shouldn't have been.
And yes, you're safe. This is NOT more hand-wringing about American gun violence. It's not even about my bride's violent dismay at a quick tour of the TV landscape last night, though her horror at what passes for normalcy was real enough. (Our brief fling with hotel television – mainly Olympic coverage – was a side benefit of our one-night stand anniversary getaway.) This was in another sporting arena, a modest one and far from Rio, where a team known as the Shockers¹ were in for a surprise.
¹And I do know, the Wichita State team name is not about horror movie results or bad interactions with electricity. It's a Kansas thing. It's a wheat thing.
No shock for me, though, especially once I knew that Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker from last year's NCAA Tournament "Sweet 16" team had indeed completed their eligibility² at Wichita State, a strong fixture in recent bouts of March Madness. Surely, too, Coach Gregg Marshall was better prepared than he let on in a pre-trip press conference in Wichita, before heading off to Canada for a four-game pre-season tour. He must have known about the reputation of Ottawa's Carleton University Ravens, not only their twelve Canadian Interuniversity Sport titles in fourteen years, but their tendency to beat NCAA teams when they come north.
²I wish I could more confidently write "graduated" rather than "completed their [athletic] eligibility".
The Shockers' first game was in Montreal, and they dismantled the UQAM Citadins – ostensibly a peer to the Ravens, a CIS squad competing for national honours – 54-18 in the first half on the way to a 50-point win. But surely they'd heard about Wisconsin or Memphis or Indiana (and many others) coming into Ottawa and losing in prior summer junkets by top-drawer Division 1 teams? Of course they had. They weren't driving blind, but it didn't matter a bit. As my buddy Seb grinned as the game got out of hand, "I always like to look at the bench of the D1 teams as it sinks in what's happening to them. Getting rocked by Canadians?" Meanwhile, a less-heralded Stetson University (Fla.) Hatters team had been on the verge of being blown out by the Ravens the previous Friday evening, but managed to keep the score respectable, losing by 9.
Beating the Americans is actually fairly routine for the Ravens. They're used to this WINNING thing – but don't tell me those non-scholarship lads don't take sky-high pleasure in schooling the Americans at the game they've dominated for so long. (They do get financial aid, many of them, but it's no "full-ride" athletic scholarship. And yes, that's an oxymoron, but nobody notices anymore.) And longtime readers of this site will know that I've written this story before. Most recently, the twin killings of Josh Pastner's Memphis Tigers two summers ago made me wonder. Incredible. I watched it. You should read this and then this – they show how the systematic dismantling of a bigger, more "athletic" team by a bunch of Canucks was done. They also tell most of the story, if I do say so myself, about CU's rising dominance of incoming NCAA teams.
NCAA Hoops Lookback: The Fatal Four
Posted by :James Howden On : April 14, 2015
Tags:Archie Miller, Arizona Wildcats, basketball, Bo Ryan, Coach K, Dayton Flyers, Fatal Four, Final Four, Gonzaga, Grantland, Jay Triano, Jerian Grant, John Calipari, John Oliver, Kentucky Wildcats, Kevin Pangos, Kyle Wiltjer, Louisville Cardinals, March Madness, Mark Titus, Michigan State Spartans, Montrezl Harrell, NCAA, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pat Connaughton, Phil Scrubb, Rick Pitino, Sean Miller, short shorts, T.J. McConnell, tears, Tom Izzo, Walton Gang, Wisconsin Badgers, Zach Auguste, ZAGS, Zeus Tarczewski
Due to, in no particular order, the following factors –
a super-concentrated acidic splash by John Oliver, indicting and ridiculing the entire NCAA basketball enterprise (can't hyperlink right now, but it's here: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/john-oliver-ncaa-rant-players/2015/03/18/id/630823/ ),
my own manic attention to the CIS version of March Madness, spent watching the games of the (Ontario University Athletics) Wilson Cup and the following week's Final 8 in Toronto (and a blizzard of hoops-related words that can be accessed just down there),
we don't have a television hook-up, and apparently one of Howdy's Current Foundational Principles (HCFP) is the refusal to pay for live-streaming of games on my laptop,
I don't have many basketball friends,
increasing miles on the spectator-sport odometer, games-related grumpiness, impatience with commercials, crankiness over announcers' clichés, and
(possibly?) growing good sense –
I didn't watch any of the opening weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. (HCFP No. 2: the "play-in games" earlier in the week to decide the last four Cinderellas invited to the Big Dance of 64 do not count. Round 1 of the tournament starts Thursday, not Tuesday. Lines must be drawn. <cough> Ahem. Right. It's not climate-change denial or global terrorism, but from tiny seeds does a mighty apocalypse grow.)
(None of which explains why I'm writing about it so late. I plead lethargy, sloth, intermittent apathy and mild existential angst. And books. I was tired of writing there for a bit — well, my own, anyway. Glad that's all over now!)
Okay, and since truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues, and I do aspire to virtuosity of some kind or another, I clarify: I did invite myself to Bernie and Wendy's living room for the second Gonzaga game in the opening weekend, in case they failed again to make it to the Sweet 16. The Zags did, though CBS had switched to Oklahoma/Dayton, which had very little interest for me even though Dyshawn Pierre is an Ontario kid I liked reading about from China last March, during the Flyers' stirring run ascent to the Sweet 16, to national jock consciousness and, lest we forget, to millions of new dollars flowing to a previously obscure Ohio school. (Well, obscure from an athletic point of view, that is. To me. I know nothing of its standing in biomedical research or the teaching of the humanities. And who would care about THAT?)
Yes, and I waited 'til the actual weekend of the second weekend — also known as The Elite Eight — jimmied the rear door at Wendy and Bernie's (twice), and lingered like an especially blue-cheesy smell in their otherwise pleasant back kitchen. Here's what I saw:
A Canuck Man's March Madness
Posted by :James Howden On : March 13, 2015
Tags:Aaron Best, Alex Campbell, basketball, Ben Baker, Bishop's Gaiters, Caleb Agada, CanAYda, Carleton Ravens, Chris McLauglin, CIS, Dalhousie Tigers, Dave Smart, FIBA, Final 8, Gabriel Gonthier-Dubue, gender equality, Jahmal Jones, James Derouin, Johnny Berhanemeskel, Kashrell Lawrence, Khalid Abdel-Gabar, Kurtis Caro, Maple Leaf Gardens, March Madness, Marcus Tibbs, Mattamy Centre, Michael Grange, Mike Andrews, Mike L'Africain, Mitch Farrell, NCAA, Ottawa GeeGees, Philip Scrubb, Roy Rana, Ryerson Rams, Saskatchewan Huskies, Thomas Scrubb, Toronto Is Basketball, Victoria Vikes, Windsor Lancers
WARNING: Contains basketball. And other things.
But lots of basketball.
The man would be me, and the madness — well, it may be terminal. As an international man of leisure, housework aside, I took in the all-Ontario AA (OFSAA) boys basketball championships Wednesday evening. (Lots to say about that, but not today.) An overnight bus trip and a Holiday Inn morning nap later, I was ragged but ready for Day 1 of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) men's basketball Final 8. Play started at 11 a.m. in the reconfigured shell of dear old Maple Leaf Gardens, now called the Mattamy Centre and enclosing the Ryerson University athletic centre (and a Loblaws grocery store).I look up at the inner
I look up at the inner dome during games and remember the Leafs — and the NBA Buffalo Braves! Bob McAdoo, Randy Smith, Ernie DiGregorio…
I am here because hoops has a hold on me, and especially because of my fascination with the (again!) top-seeded Carleton Ravens. They're pursuing their fifth straight title (for the second time), and looking for their 11th win in 13 seasons. (This has been astounding for years, and too few notice. I notice. Yes, I do feel lonely at times. What makes you ask?)
I took notes. I noted things like this:
Game 1: Carleton Ravens vs. Saskatchewan Huskies
The Mattamy Centre is a great place to watch ball. It's tiny by NCAA standards, seating about 5000, and it's not close to full. There may be 2000 to 2500 here now, and at least a third, maybe half, are school children — judging by the waving "thunderstix" (who is the genius that we thank for this invention?) all around the bowl bopping along to "Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth…". (I wasn't among them, but they made me smile.) The floor is laid over a hockey rink, though it's three storeys above the old MLG's sacred surface. There are four rows of courtside seats opposite the scoring table and team benches.
And Philip Scrubb, the only man ever to be named national Player of the Year three times — and many Ravens faithful are furious he didn't get it this year (what, did he get worse?) — is OFF and running and dealing. It's already 28-10 over the Huskies by quarter time, with Phil driving and firing four three-pointers, including a 4-pt play at the buzzer. Sheesh. Normally impassive on the floor, he's showing emotion early. Nice to see, actually; it's genuine exuberance that he's releasing in his last hurrah, and not Made4TV Emotion. (Heck, this game's on local cable.)
Big brother Thomas hasn't scored much yet as of 31-13, but he's getting the shots he wants.
Some Poor Sap in a Big-Box Store (on mis-education & fear)
Posted by :James Howden On : December 6, 2014
Category: He Said/She Said
Tags:Alan Williams, college basketball, cross-cultural weirdness, diversity, fear, John Ralston Saul, Luke Winn, NCAA, Spanish, Sports Illustrated, UCSB
So there I was, looking for a little brainless recreation, a (slightly) guilty pleasure that doesn't expand the horizons of my waistline. It was the latest edition of Sports Illustrated, which is about sports (and has lots of photos). I thought I'd be reading about football and basketball, and I was, but I wasn't far into a profile on an NCAA hoopster I'd never heard of before I got slapped in the face with a frozen sociocultural mackerel.
Honest, I wasn't planning on extracting any Higher Meaning from this piece. Luke Winn tells the story of Alan Williams, a master of one of the less glamourous aspects of basketball, rebounding. Snaring missed shots is deeply important to successful teams (and even more to unsuccessful ones, like the one I'm trying to coach these days), not to mention under-valued. I thought maybe I'd try to convince a few of my players to read his story and learn from his approach, with no great expectations or hopes even on that lukewarm front.
But then this chunk of backstory happened: Williams, as a nine-year-old, offers himself as a translator for a Hispanic man in a Toys "R" Us. (Deep prejudices leapt forward from the shadows: I used to call the place Toys "R" Satan when my kids were young, because it was a hellish place to take little boys. I swore I'd never enter one again, and so far I'm good, something like 23 straight years.) Alan Williams is black, and his parents are prominent in the legal and law enforcement communities of Phoenix, Arizona.
Ravens Back Tigers Into Corner and Peck Them Into Slump-Shouldered Helplessness
Posted by :James Howden On : August 20, 2014
Tags:basketball, Carleton Ravens, CIS, Connor Wood, Dave Smart, Josh Pastner, Keelon Lawson, Memphis Tigers, NCAA, Ottawa Citizen, Phil Scrubb, Pookie Powell, Thomas Scrubb
They only hit one three-point shot in the first quarter this time, unlike the six bombs they dropped on the startled heads of the young Memphis Tigers last Saturday night, but the Carleton Ravens still led by 11 after a quarter. Memphis, after overwhelming the UOttawa Gee-Gees (and their sad-sack practice jerseys) in the second half Sunday and blitzing the McGill Redmen Monday in Montreal, were back in the Ravens Nest to show that their fourth quarter against Carleton in game one represented the Real Tigers, not the 32 they were down late in the third of their 86-76 loss in the first game of their Canadian tour.
They couldn't do it.
Somebody Won: NCAA Basketball, UConn & Me(aning)
Posted by :James Howden On : April 9, 2014
Tags:"student-athletes", basketball, Connecticut Huskies, fair play and the goodness of sport, fairytales and consumerist myth-making, Final Four, John Calipari, Kentucky Wildcats, Kevin Ollie, NCAA, one shining moment
Shed that dolorous duvet of despair! The world is your oyster! said the Dread Voice of Unrelenting Pomposity. I've heard that voice before.
Me: Umm. What. Where's the. What? I don't even, like, like oysters.
Dread Voice: It's a metaphor. Rise from thy couch, o scribe of the never-ending playground.
Me: I have a bad feeling about this.
DVUP: It is The Tuesday After. Evening has fallen in a hemisphere hungry for wisdom. Awake! Toll the bell! Ease their pain! And so on.
Me: Okay. Go on. I think I know what you're going to say.
DVUP: The Madness has ended. The light is fading on the many Shining Moments. They need your strength and your vision and many, many words.
Me: How about a thousand? And while you're here, why do they still call it March Madness when the Final Four is in April?
DVUP: Marketing. "April Antics" doesn't scan. But enough of your irreverent frippery and procrastinative verbal flatulence, o bleary exile of the hardcourt heavens! Speak, for by Wednesday the Final Four is a dead letter. Speak, for the Madness cannot be said to have ended, truly, without your closing pronouncements. Speak, for the roundball world cannot rest easily, absent the soothing balm of your counsel and insight. And yes, 1000 of your words will nearly give them a picture. Go forth and type-ify.
Me: Dread Voice, I think you're making fun of me again. Alright. I'm going. Do I have to use all those big words?
DVUP: Whatever. Get at it, worm.
The Dread Voice is always so encouraging.
For those of you keeping score, I picked none of the Final Four, but neither did you. I only got one right after the NCAA men's basketball tourney got down to sixteen teams, and then went oh-fer again in picking the semifinal winners. I had Wisconsin, whom I'd configured as the Purehearted Badgers of the Right Student-Athlete Way, slaying the Evil Wildcats, they of the temporary study-vacation in Lexington, Kentucky and by the way what in the world were they majoring in, anyway? Billy Donovan, whom I'm old enough to remember as the dogged, over-achieving, once-was-chubby, sweaty Providence College whippet in an early VHS coaching video by Rick Pitino – c'mon Billy, that's right, Billy, quickquickquickBilly, attaboyBilly! – was going to lead a plucky crew of talented (but not disgustingly so) Florida Gators over the 10%-graduating, barred-from-the-2013-tournament-due-to-academic-under-achieving, beat-my-Blue-Devils-in-the-'99-title-game Connecticut Huskies. Wrong again, and usually.
More (NCAA) Canada: 16 Teams, 8 Maple-Sweet Predictions
Tags:Andrew Wiggins, basketball, Brady Heslip, Butler-Duke, Donovan, Dwight Powell, Dyshawn Pierre, Fisher, GTA, Izzo, Kenny Chery, March Madness, Melvin Ejim, Naz Long, NCAA, Nick Wiggins, Nik Stauskas, Stefan Nastic, Tyler Ennis
A rough day, and he was so honest/heartbroken/humble afterward. Barely 19, and the hype's not his fault. (Stay, Andrew. Stay, my idealism urges, but it ain't happenin'.) That's Dwight Powell with the block.
So, okay. It's not called the Nearly Canadian Athletic Association, but the 2014 men's HoopMadness tournament has been unusually big news way north of Kentucky. We're down to the Sweet 16, the semi-finals of the four regions. There will be no Wiggins tale of the family tape looming in the finals, because Andrew peed the bed and scored all of four points against Stanford; mind you, the Cardinal started two Canadians, so you can understand his anxiety. (Older, nearly anonymous Nick outshone – or at least, didn't so notoriously wilt in front of the basketball world – his kid brother, hitting five points off the bench in Wichita State's gripping loss to Kentucky. Well, I read that it was gripping; I'll try to download it and other notable games from the opening rounds, as there's no live watching from Dalian.) There's also no Tyler Ennis, the rising star who'd formerly played in Wiggins's shadow on that killer AAU team from Toronto (CIA Bounce) and Canada's national youth teams, as Syracuse was knocked out by Dyshawn Pierre and Dayton, a still-less heralded Canuck player and small-time school. The Perfect Little PG, Kevin Pangos, didn't have enough help to lead Gonzaga past a loaded Arizona team. Yeah. So, my fairytale – Once upon a time there were two big Wigginses, and one lived high in a basketball palace, while the other lived in the basement of a modest apartment building in Wichita, Kansas…— didn't end the way it was meant to, and Cinderella and her slippers had nothing to do with it.
(Hey, enough about me – how's your bracket?)
Never Mind Obama's Bracket: MINE's Got More Canada!
Tags:Andrew Wiggins, bracketology, Brady Heslip, Canada Basketball, James Naismith, March Madness, Melvin Ejim, NCAA, Nick Wiggins, Nik Stauskas, Shockers, Tyler Ennis
Happy Spring, lovers of green and newness and absurd levels of attention to American college sports! That's me, and maybe you, too.) My mind has been mainly not thinking much about Madness south of the border – or way way west of the West Regional, in Dalian, China – what with jobs and obligations of spirit and a sweet little community that thinks March is a heavenuva good time to celebrate New Year's. (Happy to you!) The Thursday night games of the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament are all in the books, and I accidentally know a couple of results. I also know that I (again) won't likely be able to watch anything on-line. But I'm in.
The True North, deep and talented.
My bracket is done. (Like yours, it's likely already wrecked, but I'm not sure yet.) It's an impulsive, ill-informed, laundry-biased, ancient-loyalty-skewed and tremendously Canuck-friendly set of predictions. I'll spare you the details, but I do have a shocking winner, a fair slew of upsets, and a quality of analysis you'll not likely see anywhere else. So let's get right to it!
In round one, I have mild upsets: Stanford (10) gets through because its players really are students who play great ball (in many sports), and I know nothing about New Mexico except for gorgeous sunsets and the Navajo.
Madness, Seen and Read
Tags:basketball, Buzz Williams, Coach K, Duke, Elite Eight, FGCU, Final Four, Gonzaga, Hoosiers, Kelly Olynyk, Kevin Pangos, live streaming, March Madness, Michigan, Nate Wolters, NCAA, Rick Majerus, Shockers, South Dakota State, Sweet Sixteen, Trey Burke, Wichita State
I didn't watch a single regular-season NCAA basketball game this year. Some college hoops purists would snort that this puts me in the same category as (Sir) Charles Barkley, the NBA opinionator who parachutes down to see what higher (basketball) education has to offer to the pros, when national tournament frenzy grips the upper Americas. It puts me in the same boat as lots of people, actually, who join me in filling out a bracket — after ignoring the game all year — for all the unpredictable agony and ecstasy that reduce 64 hopeful squads to four, in two four-day weekends.
Sometimes, I can get some good video from here in Dalian. Often, though, madness takes its toll…
Unlike most late-March bandwagon-jumpers, though, I care about the college game, though I can't watch any of it here in China. (I suppose I could try to stream games on my computer, but that's not a hassle I volunteer for easily. It reminds me of my youth, when college games were hard to find on Canadian TVs, when even The Tournament was only partly available in the early rounds. That was before March Madness became a Brand.) I did see the UNLV Runnin' Rebels live, minus their likely one-and-done Canadian star, Anthony Bennett, when they edged the Carleton Ravens in Ottawa last summer on a northern exhibition tour.
It's Been Quiet, but JH Lives
Category: At First Glance
Tags:basketball, Ben, CIS, Halifax, IA, NCAA, TGIF
Actually, it's been a little wild: I've been suddenly getting lots of supply teaching dates, and in between that and busy family-ness and travel and keeping up with other writing, I've been neglectful of my floating blue CyberPresence. I'm grabbing a quick scribble on a hotel lobby machine in Halifax, where I am taking in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball championship. The pleasure is all mine; I'm travelling with eldest son Ben, the Itinerant Artist, and it has been great so far. You'll start finding my notes on the trip to the CIS with the IA, where we also take in the NCAA tournament on TV, in the IAAS (It's All About Sports!) section of this site PDQ. TGIF! (Thank Goodness Initials are Finished.)
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Boys in My 'Hood: "Talkin' 'Bout TRAINING?"
Rebuttal: Face Painters, Spectators and Couch Potaters. (*Should* We All Be Witnesses?)
Ignoring Excellence: Sport At Its Best, Barely Noticed
O Coach, Coach, wherefore art thou Coaching?
James Naismith (on the Requirements)
Marilynne Robinson (on civilization)
Joan Didion (and Company: on writing and encouragement)
Kris McDivitt Tompkins (on getting out of bed and doing something)
Hugh Kenner (on taking the best stuff for granted)
On Second Thought...
Paradise Is Always a Garden: The Baha'i Thing, From Then to Nearly Now
Home Visit (A K'wow Story)
Electric Boy Meets Conductor Girl: A Short Story
HimBits: Poems on a Man I Never Knew
STRICTLY MID-LIFE: Crisis? What Crisis?
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Kaplna (Hongaars:Erzsébetkápolna) is een Slowaakse gemeente in de regio Bratislava, en maakt deel uit van het district Senec.
Kaplna telt 719 inwoners.

Gemeente in Senec

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I just wanted to let you know Georgie that my session today was marvellous. I was very calm and felt good inside when I left you and this carried on into my walk with my dog . I found myself walking slowly ( and this is the woman who rushes everywhere!) with shoulders down feeling on top of the world. This is down to my yoga with you so thank you. Just wanted to say I'm loving my sessions.
Just to say how much I have enjoyed all your classes and last night had a good nights sleep which is not usual for me so it was great. Thank you very much take care and see you next week .
I really liked the class. Afterwards I felt very good, relaxed and comfortable.


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>> Sports
>> Poker
Venetian poker room preparing to reopen June 5
The casino will offer four-handed games, as required by the state Gaming Control Board, with a reduced rake (house cut) taken from each hand.
By Jim Barnes / Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Venetian on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
The Venetian plans to reopen its poker room June 5 with reduced hours and with four players to a table, as required by the state Gaming Control Board.
That start date is contingent, a Venetian spokeswoman said, on the approval of Gov. Steve Sisolak, who said Thursday that casinos could reopen June 4.
The poker room will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m., the spokeswoman said via email. Games will be played four-handed with a reduced rake (house cut) taken from each hand, she said.
Players will not be required to wear masks, but the poker room will have them available for patrons. Masks that obscure a person's entire face are prohibited, she said.
Extra cleaning protocols will be used, including the sanitizing of the table rails, chairs and chips every two hours, she said. Plexiglass dividers will not be used at the tables.
The Venetian's DeepStack tournament series will not run while these guidelines are in place, the spokeswoman said. The poker room will offer $100 buy-in, winner-take-all, single-table tournaments that start as soon as four players have registered.
The Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson. Las Vegas Sands Corp. operates The Venetian and Palazzo.
Posted on: Poker, Sports
Tagged: mc-sports, Reopening Las Vegas
Greg Maddux makes pitch for celebrity poker tournament at Circa
By David Schoen / RJ
Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux will host the Baller Dream Celebrity Poker Tournament as part of a three-day charity experience April 28 to 30 at Circa.
Canadian poker pro wins WPT World Championship for $4.1M
Eliot Hudon of Montreal defeated British pro Benny Glaser in a brief heads-up match to win the WPT World Championship for $4.1 million.
Investigation into controversial poker hand finds no wrongdoing
The controversial hand between Robbi Jade Lew and Garrett Adelstein took place Sept. 29 at Hustler Casino in Gardena, California, during a high-stakes cash game.
World Series of Poker announces dates for 2023 event
The 54th annual World Series of Poker opens May 30 at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Jason Koon beats Phil Hellmuth in $1.6M poker match
December 7, 2022 - 7:38 pm December 7, 2022 - 9:33 pm
High-stakes poker pro Jason Koon defeated Phil Hellmuth in their heads-up No-limit Hold 'em match Wednesday to earn the $1.6 million prize.
WPT series brings record poker tournament to Wynn Las Vegas
The World Poker Tour's World Championship Festival runs through Dec. 20 at Wynn Las Vegas and features the largest live tournament guarantee in poker history.
Phil Hellmuth's opponent set for 'High Stakes Duel' match
November 30, 2022 - 10:28 am November 30, 2022 - 10:28 am
Phil Hellmuth will meet professional poker player Jason Koon on Dec. 7 for a $1.6 million winner-take-all prize in Round 5 of "High Stakes Duel III."
Daniel Negreanu wins prestigious poker tourney for $3.3M payday
October 7, 2022 - 10:31 pm October 7, 2022 - 10:31 pm
Daniel Negreanu won the Super High Roller Bowl VII on Friday at the PokerGO studio at Aria, securing the second-largest prize of his Hall of Fame career.
Poker cheating scandal sparks debate about math, sexism
October 7, 2022 - 4:56 pm October 7, 2022 - 4:56 pm
The high-stakes, cash-game showdown between Robbi Jade Lew and Garrett Adelstein that took place during a "Hustler Casino Live" stream remains a trending topic online.
2 poker pros accused of cheating suspended by PokerGO
September 23, 2022 - 10:25 am September 23, 2022 - 10:25 am
Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler were suspended from all PokerGO events through the 2022 season, the poker content company said.
Bettor wagers $540K on Cowboys-Bucs 'MNF' playoff game
Graney: Pete DeBoer all smiles after victory at T-Mobile Arena
Rebels looking for 'desperate' defense to break out of slump
Freshman steps up, but Rebels still lose 3rd straight
Raiders report: DJ Turner prays for friend Damar Hamlin

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"Young and the Restless" spoilers for Monday, April 15, tease that Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) will open up to her mom. At home, Victoria shares how she conquered her fears and got some help from Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson) in Las Vegas. Nikki finds out they're back together, but Victoria promises they're taking it slow. They eventually settle on the topic of Victor Newman's (Eric Braeden) lies.
Nikki fumes when she learns Victor deceived her about being in New Zealand. Victoria reveals that he's been having mysterious meetings in Vegas instead. After leaving Victor an enraged voicemail, Nikki joins Victoria in Victor's office. They snoop until Nikki locates a doctor bill from somewhere near Las Vegas.
After searching online, they realize it's for a shrink and determine that Victor would never go to one. Nikki and Victoria are left to wonder why Victor's paying this psychiatrist out in Nevada. Over with Cane Ashby (Daniel Goddard), he tracks down Billy and apologizes for playing the blame game. Cane accepts responsibility for his crumbling marriage and pushes Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland) to help him.
Traci and Cane head to the park, where Cane talks about how he believes he doesn't deserve Lily Ashby (Christel Khalil). He thinks that's why he tends to lie and make so many mistakes. Traci sees hope for redemption in Cane. She feels like his admission is a good first step toward that.
At Devon Hamilton's (Bryton James) penthouse, he hears Jett Slade (Gilbert Glenn Brown) singing and wants to sign him at LP. Jett believes his heyday is over, but Devon counters that some voices are timeless. Elena Dawson (Brytni Sarpy) looks pleased by Devon's praise for Jett.
Later, Abby Newman (Melissa Ordway) is thrilled over her upcoming restaurant opening. She shows Devon the stage that she plans to have LP artists perform on. When Devon returns to Jett, he asks him to play at the opening along with Ana Hamilton (Loren Lott). They're in thanks to an assist from Elena, who also agrees to be Devon's date for the opening.
Back with Abby, she gets a visit from Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman). He pitches the idea of unveiling Jabot Collective on the same night as Abby's restaurant debut. She declines since she doesn't want to get stuck in Jack and Ashley Abbott's (Eileen Davidson) feud. After Jack leaves, Arturo Rosales (Jason Canela) stops by and pushes Abby to talk to him.
Jack also speaks with Billy on Monday and gets updates on the "Villy" reunion. He's concerned to hear that Billy already has plans to move in with Victoria. Jack warns Billy about not being on the same page with her, but Billy doesn't listen. He heads over to Victoria's house and waits for her with an engagement ring.
Next, Traci shows Jack an advertisement for Jack of Hearts. Ashley made sure Dominique Caroll (Alice Hunter) was part of the ad, which features her with a handsome male model. Jack calls Ashley to admit that was well-played, but something tells us he'll find a way to get back at her.
"The Young and the Restless" spoilers say the drama will continue to heat up, so don't miss all the action. We'll keep you posted as other Y&R news and rumors emerge. Stay tuned to see what's ahead on the CBS soap.


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By Najib RazakJanuari 16, 2012 Press Statement
Flights Between Sandakan and Kuala Lumpur
1. Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak today met with Malaysia Airlines senior management to discuss various issues relating to the operations of the National Carrier including moves affecting consumers in Sabah and Sarawak.
2. Among the issues discussed was the re-introduction of direct flights between Sandakan and Kuala Lumpur in recognition of existing and growing demand for premium direct full service connectivity between Sandakan, Sabah's second largest city, and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport's (KLIA) main terminal at Kuala Lumpur.
3. The flights are expected to resume February 18th 2012, bringing the frequency of direct flights between KLIA Main Terminal and Sandakan to 11 times weekly.
4. Malaysia Airlines is expected to issue a statement on this matter soon.
5. The Prime Minister applauded Malaysia Airlines for taking into consideration the requests of consumers in Sabah, especially the residents of Sandakan.
Mesyuarat Majlis Kewangan Negara 2012 – Kementerian Kewangan
Semakan Pelaksanaan Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam
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Q: Change orientation without loading again I want to change the orientation, but i have two different xml, one for portrait and the other one for landscape. The same information appear in the screen, except that it's moved to use some space. If i do :
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"

It will only change from portrait to landscape in the same xml.
How can i change that ?

A: Set your view as a class variable:
private TextView yourView;

Add the following to the onCreate() method:
if (savedInstanceState != null) {
    ((TextView)findViewById(R.id.yourview)).restoreState(savedInstanceState);
}

And add an override on the saving of the instance state to save the state
@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    yourView.saveState(outState);
}

Finally:
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}

You should be able to manage config changes with this...

A: In your Activity, override this method:
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

}

This will be triggered when orientation is changed. You can find out in what orientation you are using the parameter.

A: That's not how android works. If you want a different layout for portrait/landscape you must let the system handle the configuration change for you and load the appropriate layout xml.

A: Override the onConfigurationChanged() method in your activity. Check the current orientation and set appropriate content view using setContentView().
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    if (newConfig.getConfiguration() == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        setContentView(landscape_layout);
    } else {
        setContentView(portrait_layout);
    }
    initViews();
}

A: Put this in your manifest
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize|uiMode"

It solves mine and your problem :)


A group of n people wish to cross a bridge at night. At most two people may cross at any time, and each group must have a flashlight. Only one flashlight is available among the n people, so some sort of shuttle arrangement must be arranged in order to return the flashlight so that more people may cross. Each person has a different crossing speed; the speed of a group is determined by the speed of the slower member. Your job is to determine a strategy that gets all n people across the bridge in the minimum time.
The first line of each case contains n, followed by n lines giving the crossing times for each of the people. There are not more than 1,000 people and nobody takes more than 100 seconds to cross the bridge.
For each test case, the first line of output must report the total number of seconds required for all n people to cross the bridge. Subsequent lines give a strategy for achieving this time. Each line contains either one or two integers, indicating which person or people form the next group to cross. Each person is indicated by the crossing time specified in the input. Although many people may have the same crossing time, this ambiguity is of no consequence. Note that the crossings alternate directions, as it is necessary to return the flashlight so that more may cross. If more than one strategy yields the minimal time, any one will do.


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College of Communication > Faculty & Staff > Faculty A-Z > Christina Steed
Christina Steed
csteed@depaul.edu
2022-2023 Center for Communication Engagement Faculty Fellow, Adjunct Faculty
MA (University of Missouri at Columbia)
Public Relations and Advertising
Areas of Expertise: Public Relations, Marketing, Multicultural Communications, Diversity and Inclusion, Global Communications
Christina Steed is an award-winning marketing communication expert whose experience includes previously serving as executive vice president of client relations for a boutique agency in Chicago. Her expertise includes business development, client relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, and internal and external marketing communications. She is also a consultant for global companies and agencies with Agents & Strategies (A&S), a Black-owned, women-led communications and cultural consultancy company. Her brand experience includes Cox Communications, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Nielsen, Dow Chemical, Nike Chicago, City of Chicago, and several more in various industries. Additionally, she provided strategic issues management and counsel for companies including Ferrara USA, McDonald's, AT&T, Poetry Foundation, Bimbo Bakery, Commonwealth Edison, and several others.
Christina's background includes a mix of journalism, consumer, and business-to-business (B2B) public relations and marketing communications, social media, content marketing, stakeholder
engagement, trade show marketing, and international communications. She has previously held management positions with Golin; a small B2B marcom agency focused on global trade show
marketing; and an international food service packaging manufacturer.
With a lifelong commitment to quality storytelling, she began her career in broadcast journalism after receiving her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her M.A. in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism.
Christina has been featured in PR Week, PR News, PR Newswire, and Rolling Out. She is also a podcaster with her podcast Firsts Over Forty and a host/producer of CAN-TV's show For the Culture with Christina Steed. She is an adjunct professor and the 2022-2023 Center for Communication Engagement Faculty Fellow in the College of Communication with a focus on multicultural marketing communications at DePaul University, as well as serves on the dean's advisory board.
Christina enjoys reading, writing, traveling, attending live concerts, yoga, and social media surfing. She is a former board member and treasurer of the Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC), the Black Public Relations Society (BPRS), ColorComm, and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She currently serves as chair on the board of Chicago State University Foundation and is a board member of Girls Like Me Project and Open Books. She previously served on the board of the South Side Community Art Center and on the Executive Committee for the American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk. She has been recognized as one of PR Week's 40 under 40 Rising Stars, Ariel Investments and WVON's 1690 40 Game Changers in Chicago and has received numerous awards for her marketing communications campaigns from Bulldog Reporter, PCC, NABJ, and other organizations. A native of Chicago's south suburbs, she is married and currently resides in Chicago and Atlanta.
Visit Christina's website at www.christinasteed.com and follow her on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.


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Henlow
High Street, Henlow c.1910 [Z1306/58/2/8]
We have not yet been able to compile comprehensive history pages for Henlow. If you would like to carry out research and contribute to this site we would be delighted to hear from you.
Henlow is an ancient parish located 11 miles south east of Bedford with a hamlet at New Town. Bedfordshire Archives holds many documents relating to the parish; a search of our online catalogue with Henlow as the subject returns over 2700 items. Significant collections for researching people or places in Henlow include:
P39: Records for the parish of St Mary the Virgin, including: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; records relating to church property; account books of overseers of the poor; parish magazines
PCHenlow: Parish council records, including: minutes; financial records
QSR: Quarter Sessions Records for Bedfordshire from 1714-1900. A search combining Henlow as the subject and QSR as the reference will find criminal cases in which the parish is mentioned.
SDHenlow Records of Henlow School [Boys, Girls, VC CP. VC CPI, Raynsford VC Lower]
Z1130/58: Postcards with pictures of Henlow
Other useful sources for information about Henlow include:
Victoria County History entry for Henlow, available through British History Online. Although published in 1908 most of the information is still relevant.
The National Archives' Manorial Documents Register lists all manorial documents known to survive for the manors of Henlow Grey, Henlow Warden, Henlow Zouches and Henlow Lanthony.
Open Domesday lists 5 entries for Henlow in the Domesday Book of 1086


1 Ordinary Income per Share is non-qualified dividend income.
Stockholders are encouraged to consult with their personal tax advisors as to their specific tax treatment of ROIC's distributions.
Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ:ROIC), is a fully-integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in the acquisition, ownership and management of grocery-anchored shopping centers located in densely-populated, metropolitan markets across the West Coast. As of September 30, 2017, ROIC owned 87 shopping centers encompassing approximately 10.0 million square feet. ROIC is the largest publicly-traded, grocery-anchored shopping center REIT focused exclusively on the West Coast. ROIC is a member of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index and has investment-grade corporate debt ratings from Moody's Investor Services and Standard & Poor's Global Ratings. Additional information is available at: www.roireit.net.


An investment program of about 3 million euro was launched on late 2017 and is being implemented during 2018 by Sipol. The main aims of this program include: a new 2,400 square meter warehouse dedicated to finished goods and powder-raw material storage increase; 6 new tanks for liquid monomer storage; dedicated software for the timely and flexible management of inventory and production schedules; packaging quality enhancements to facilitate handling and maximize the finished goods shelf-life.
The company creates "tailor made" products designed to match application requirements with an high production flexibility and a close collaboration with the customers, implementing a fast and efficient approach to the development of its brands. A business based on cornerstones such as research and development, process and product quality, price stability, and fast and timely deliveries, Sipol has been able to double its turnover in the last 5 years. The enhancement of logistics functions as well as the increase of the raw materials and finished goods storage – although financially affecting a company – have proved a necessary, fundamental steps in order to ensure maximum stability to its customers, plants, employees, and shareholders.
Located in Mortara, Sipol is a chemical company whose core business consists in the polymerisation of co-polyesters and co-polyamides dedicated to both the hotmelt adhesives and the high-performance engineering polymers domains. The company is present in the market of engineering polymers with a family of thermoplastic ether-ester elastomers (TPC-ET) that, with the Sipolprene brand has achieved, in over 15 years of activity, a worldwide visibility in a niche market. Sipolprene engineering polymers have a macromolecular structure that combines rigid blocks of polyester and long-chain polyether blocks, giving the polymer intermediate properties between thermoplastics and elastomers. In addition to engineering polymers Sipol also covers the copolyamide and copolyester-based hotmelt adhesives market, where it operates globally with the Technipol and Sipoltex brands in the footwear, leather goods, car filters and textile industries.


William Roberts, the son of a carpenter, was born in London in 1895. He studied at the Slade School (1910-13) and became a close friend of Percy Wyndham Lewis and worked with him on Blast and signed the Vorticist Manifesto.
In 1916 Roberts enlisted in the Royal Artillery as a gunner. The following year he was recruited as an official war artist. Paintings produced during the war included The First German Gas Attack, Burying the Dead, A Group of British Generals and A Shell Dump.
After the war he taught at the Central School of Art. Roberts also worked as an official war artist in the Second World War. William Roberts died in 1980.


The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port said Saturday that about 17,670 b/d of LOOP Sour was delivered ex-cavern from the US Gulf Coast crude terminal in November, which was over a 40% increase from the month before.
LOOP said 530,000 barrels of the medium sour crude blend were pulled from the Louisiana cavern last month. That was an increase from the 370,000 barrels delivered in October, which marked a more-than-one-year low. Deliveries dipped in October as the market shifted from backwardation to contango, making storing crude more attractive. However, that contango has eased and the market has become slightly backwardated, a trend that would make crude storage less favorable.
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry's recent claim that energy independence is within reach overlooks a fundamental principle of interconnected global trade: Producing countries need security of demand as much as consuming countries need security of supply.
While the US Energy Information Administration projects the US will become a net energy exporter within the next few years, as it already is for natural gas, the country will still need to buy heavier and sourer crude to blend with its lighter sweet grades and will be reliant on the political and economic relations it fosters with other energy suppliers.
The Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town got a taste of Texas or even a little slice of Hollywood this month, as the presence of US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry as guest of honor, perplexed yet impressed the conference delegates.


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Sorry, Indiana Jones, But I'm Sick Of Games For Boomer Dads
Today, MachineGames announced a new Indiana Jones game. The teaser was a bit scant, but it showed all the bits you'd expect – map, whip, hat, etc. It's a natural fit, isn't it? The first few of their Wolfenstein games are some of the best times you can have killing Nazis, which makes them the perfect studio to handle the preeminent Third Reich puncher.
Yet I couldn't help to be reminded of the other Indiana Jones game – the one from the mid-aughts that got cancelled prematurely, mind you, not the whiz-bang Tomb Raider clone or the decent adventure game. Announced in 2005, the PS3 and 360 title was pretty hotly anticipated at the time, and marketed as yet another instance of, "games are so serious now, they can tie into your favorite movies."
And as much as I'd like to say that mentality died with that generation of consoles, that just isn't true. Licensed games are still a constant – they just don't exist in such multitude anymore. With video games being the big business they are, companies put more time into licensed releases now (for the most part,) and more thought is given to preserving the integrity of whatever brand is being tied into. Other than that, they're still as much of a threat as they have been in the past. In the past few weeks alone, we've gotten promises of new games from Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Star Wars, to name a few.
Yes – fifteen years later, and we're still supposed to be excited for an Indiana Jones teaser.
My issue with this is that it's 2021, and every single franchise I just mentioned is at least four decades years old – Raiders of the Lost Ark celebrates its 40th this June, Star Wars is 44, and James Bond is a borderline geriatric at 68. These are not things that most of today's youth would organically discover on their own. This isn't to say old things are bad and not worth updating – many of my favorite movies, albums, and games came out before I was born.
But the way in which these particular IPs have been immortalized is stifling, to say the least. They're quintessential dad favorites – stuff that my generation's fathers rented from Blockbuster, put on the TV and said, "this is important." Movies like The Last Crusade, Empire Strikes Back, and practically any James Bond flick are dad classics. They're the kind of movies that our dads preached like scripture, and the kind of stories that made them feel a little more important in their ordinary lives.
Because that's what they were designed to do. They're stories designed to make boys feel powerful and convince them of their importance in the world, then mold them into independent, take-charge men. They espouse a particular set of values and ideals that are quintessentially post-WWII America and Europe. Men are cocky and rude but righteous and well-meaning, women are nagging and frigid yet always succumb to rugged masculine charm, and evil dictators and seductive femme fatales exist purely to disrupt the "normal" way of life. Women and nonbinary folks can (and do, myself included,) like these franchises, of course, but there's no denying that they were originally created for the explicit purpose of making men feel good about themselves.
There's nothing wrong with men feeling good about themselves, of course – everyone should! But the way that men's self-importance has been codified by popular art is toxic and self-repeating. Instead of focusing on the parts of James Bond, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones that maybe don't hold up, we're not allowed to criticize them because they're big, important franchises for big, important boys. And because we're not allowed to criticize them, and because they continue to be shared and taught uncritically, capitalism does what it does best and sells them to us again in new wrapping.
That's how we get to 2021 and are expected to be excited about expensive new takes on Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and James Bond. Just like we were supposed to be excited about expensive games based on The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and Dirty Harry. Because these are important. They're things our dad showed to us. They're classics. But instead of letting them be classics, and allowing them to exist as just that, companies have to remind younger generations that they exist and keep making money off of them as long as possible.
Unfortunately, the consequence of this is that millions upon millions of dollars are lavished upon old movies that old men like. As smaller devs struggle and scrap to tell stories that are actually pertinent and relevant to their lives, companies allocate vital resources to glitzy retellings of and fauning homages to the same shit we've seen before. It goes beyond licensed games, too – titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and series like Borderlands are ornate tapestries stitched together by patchwork pieces of this multi-million dollar big boy art. As an industry, we're in this perpetual state of finding the prettiest and cruelest ways to make expensive homages to old movies. It's sad.
I'll probably play the new Indy game, of course. It's Machine Games, and I love everything they've done (we don't talk about Youngblood.) Hell, I'll probably play that new James Bond thing, too, and I'll check out any Star Wars thing they slap a Twi'lek or Ahsoka in. These aren't franchises I hate, and in the right hands, they can still fill me with the same wonder they once did.
But also, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of seeing the same things get rehabilitated for the sole purpose of making money off of nostalgic boomer dads. I'm tired of being told monolithic blockbusters made before I was born are worth continuing to invest in, when some devs don't make enough cash to put food in their mouth. It's a lavish and tacky display of wealth being funneled into unchallenging opiates, and truly, this medium is capable of so much more.
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using System.Xml.Serialization;
using PlanetbaseSaveGameEditor.Core.Models.Enums;
using PlanetbaseSaveGameEditor.Core.Models.SaveGameModels.Attributes;

namespace PlanetbaseSaveGameEditor.Core.Models.SaveGameModels
{
	[XmlRoot(ElementName = "construction")]
	public class ConstructionCore
	{
		[XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "type")]
		public string Type { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "enabled")]
		public BoolValueAttribute Enabled { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "state")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> State { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "build-progress")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> BuildProgress { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "condition")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> Condition { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "oxygen")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> Oxygen { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "id")]
		public ValueAttribute<Int32> Id { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "position")]
		public CoordinatesCore Position { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "orientation")]
		public CoordinatesCore Orientation { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "time-built")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> TimeBuilt { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "locked")]
		public BoolValueAttribute Locked { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "high-priority")]
		public BoolValueAttribute HighPriority { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "module-type")]
		public ValueAttribute<ModuleType> ModuleType { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "size-index")]
		public ValueAttribute<Int32> SizeIndex { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "mobile-rotation")]
		public CoordinatesCore MobileRotation { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "components")]
		public ComponentsCore Components { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "power-storage")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> PowerStorage { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "production-progress")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> ProductionProgress { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "water-storage")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> WaterStorage { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "resource-storage")]
		public ResourceStorageCore ResourceStorage { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "laser-charge")]
		public ValueAttribute<Double> Lasercharge { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "links")]
		public LinksCore Links { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "construction-materials")]
		public ConstructionMaterialsCore ConstructionMaterials { get; set; }

		[XmlElement(ElementName = "pending-construction-costs")]
		public PendingConstructionCostsCore PendingConstructionCosts { get; set; }
	}
}

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As industrial waste water treatment requirements become more stringent, effective filtration increases in importance. Precious Metal Recovery, Oily Sludge Dewatering, Refinery Waste Lagoon Sludge, and Municipal Waste Water Treatment are just some examples of the applications the hard-working EA Series line of Recessed Chamber Filter Press systems can tackle.
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Lawrence Julian Schiller (born December 28, 1936) is an American photojournalist, film producer, director and screenwriter.

Career

Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to Jewish parents and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern, and The Saturday Evening Post as a freelance photojournalist.  He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then Schiller has published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's book Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. Having produced and directed the 1967 Capitol Records audio documentary album Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?, he collaborated with Albert Goldman on the bestseller in 1974 Ladies and Gentleman--Lenny Bruce!!, and also with Norman Mailer on the 1980 New York Times bestseller and the made-for-television motion picture of The Executioner's Song as well as in 1995 Oswald's Tale. His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror.

He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys. American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror were made into television mini-series for CBS, all of which Schiller produced and directed. In 2008, after the death of the writer Norman Mailer, he was named Senior Advisor to the Norman Mailer Estate. Schiller was a close friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works. Schiller also serves on the executive board of the Norman Mailer Society.

Following the June 12, 1994 stabbing deaths of O.J Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Schiller collaborated with Simpson, who was in jail awaiting his famous murder trial at the time, on a book called I Want to Tell You, which was billed as the former football star answering questions from fans about his life and the incident.  Following Simpson's acquittal on murder charges, Schiller and former Time magazine journalist Jim Willwerth co-wrote American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, considered one of the best books about the case. Dan Whitcomb, who covered the sensational trial for Reuters, worked for Schiller as a researcher on the book.

In 1999 Schiller published a book on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth, based on an article he had published in The New Yorker on the same subject.

Schiller served as a consultant to political campaigns and major corporations on such issues as crisis management, branding, public imaging and the use of social networking. Schiller has been an on-air analyst to NBC news, a consultant to Taschen Publishing, The John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation, The Ray Bradbury Estate, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Photographers Annie Leibovitz Studio and Steven Klein and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and other publications.

In 2005, Schiller traveled to China and over two years built a collection of Chinese contemporary art, which numbers over 80 paintings and photographs. In 2007, he showed his own photographs for the first time in the US at the exhibition Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s. It is for these photographs of Marilyn that Schiller is perhaps best known as a photographer. Schiller first photographed Monroe in May 1960 on the set of Let's Make Love, and then again in 1962 when he was hired to photograph the star on the set of what would become the last film she would ever work on, the unfinished Something's Got To Give. Marilyn & Me, Schiller's 11th book, commemorates his experience photographing the Hollywood legend, complete with 131 color and black-and-white photographs.  In 2017 Schiller curated the John F. Kennedy Centennial for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. and the New York Historical Society in New York City. He also now represents the Jacques Lowe Estate of historical photographs of the Kennedy family and the Lisl Steiner photographic archives. In 2018 he curated the Robert Kennedy - Martin Luther King, Jr. exhibition for the New York Historical Society. He also managed the 2020 Centennial of Ray Bradbury.

Schiller resides in Newtown, Pennsylvania with his wife Nina Wiener, the Editor in Chief of The Mayo Clinic Press.

Works

Filmography
Double Jeopardy (1992) Producer/Director
I Love My Friends (1985 Kris Kardashian music video) Director
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975 documentary) USA Director
Lenny (1974) Material supplier
Soon There Will Be No More Me (1972 documentary) Producer/Director
Lady Sings The Blues (1972) Titles/Still montage director
The American Dreamer (1971 documentary) Producer/Co-director/Writer
The Lexington Experience (1971 documentary) Producer/Director
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Still montage director

Books
Books - as author or in collaboration with:
LSD  (WS Press, 2023) Commemorative Edition by Richard Alpert aka Rom Dass, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller
All of Me Is Illustrated (RosettaBooks/Inked 2020) With stories by Ray Bradbury, tattoos by today's artists. Conceived and directed by Lawrence Schiller
The Fire Next Time (Taschen Books 2018) By James Baldwin with photos by Steve Schapiro and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
The Promise and the Dream, The Untold Story of MLK and RFK (RosettaBooks 2018) By David Margolick and produced by Lawrence Schiller
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (Taschen 2017) By Tom Wolfe and photos by Lawrence Schiller
JFK: A Vision for America (HarperCollins 2017) Produced by Lawrence Schiller, Edited by Stephen Kennedy Smith & Douglas Brinkley
Around the World in 125 Years (Taschen/National Geographic 2017) Photos by various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
Barbra Streisand (Taschen Books 2014) by Steve Schapiro & Lawrence Schiller
Marilyn & Me, A Photographer's Memories (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2012) by Lawrence Schiller
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (Taschen Books 2012) By Norman Mailer with various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
Moonfire (Taschen Books 2009) By Norman Mailer with various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen (HarperCollins 2002) by Lawrence Schiller
Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night (HarperCollins 2002) by Lawrence Schiller
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder (HarperCollins 1999) by Lawrence Schiller
American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense (Random House 1996) by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth
I Want to Tell You — My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions (Little Brown 1995) by O. J. Simpson with Lawrence Schiller
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1996) by Norman Mailer
The Executioner's Song (Hutchinson & Co. 1979) by Norman Mailer
The Faith of Graffiti (HarperCollins 2009) by Norman Mailer and Jon Naar
Marilyn: A Biography (Grosset and Dunlap 1973) by Norman Mailer and the world's foremost photographers
Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny Bruce!! (Random House 1974) by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller
The Killing of Sharon Tate (New American Library 1970) by Susan Atkins and Lawrence Schiller
LSD (New American Library 1966) by Richard Alpert, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller

Television
Dead Man Talking The Gary Gilmore story, (Reelz Network) Executive Producer
Overkill The JonBenet Story (Reelz Network) Executive Producer
The Secret Tapes of the O. J. Case: The Untold Story, O. J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (LMN & A&E Networks, 2015) Executive Producer
JonBenet: Anatomy of a Cold Case (Court TV, 2006) Executive Producer/Director
Trace Evidence: The Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee (Court TV, 2004, 2005) Executive Producer/Director
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (CBS, 2002) Producer/Director
American Tragedy (CBS, 2000) Producer/Director/Writer (based on Schiller's book American Tragedy)
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (CBS, 2000) Producer/Director (based on Schiller's book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town)
The Plot to Kill Hitler (Warner Bros./CBS, 1990) Director
Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White (TNT, 1989) Producer/Director
Peter the Great (NBC, 1986) Executive Producer/Co-director
Recipient of 3 Emmy Awards, Writers Guild of America Award
The Executioner's Song (NBC, 1982) Producer/Director
Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards, Time Magazine, Best of the Year, Hollywood Reporter, Best of the Decade
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (CBS, 1985) Producer
Her Life as a Man (NBC, 1986) Executive Producer
The Patricia Neal Story (CBS, 1982) Executive Producer
Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
Child Bride of Short Creek (NBC, 1982) Co-Producer
Marilyn, The Untold Story (ABC, 1980) Producer/Co-director
Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
The Winds of Kitty Hawk (NBC, 1978) Producer/Flying sequences and montages director
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (ABC, 1976) Producer
Hey, I'm Alive (ABC, 1975) Producer/Director

Selected awards and recognitions
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award Winner for Peter the Great
The Christopher Award for The Patricia Neal Story
Representative of the US in the USA/USSR bilateral talks in Moscow and Washington, drafted and signed treaties with the Government of the USSR
Representative from the United States to the Moscow International Peace Forum
Numerous National Press Photographers Association Photographic Awards

References

External links
Norman Mailer Center Homepage
Lawrence Schiller Homepage
Lawrence Schiller App

1936 births
Living people
People from Brooklyn
American male journalists
Jewish American artists
20th-century American Jews
Film producers from New York (state)
American male screenwriters
Mountaineering film directors
Journalists from New York City
Film directors from New York City
Screenwriters from New York (state)
21st-century American Jews


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Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, School of
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures PhD thesis collection
History and memory: Khārijism in Early Islamic historiography
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Hagemann, Hannah-Lena
The Khārijites are usually regarded as the first faction to separate from the early Islamic community. They are viewed as rebels and heretics, constituting the first sect within early Islam. This thesis seeks to examine the narrative role and function of Khārijism in the historiographical tradition of the formative period of Islam. To that end, it looks at the major Islamic chronicles of the 3rd and 4th centuries AH/9th and 10th centuries CE and investigates their portrayal of Khārijite history. The analysis covers the period from the apparent emergence of the Khārijites at the Battle of Ṣiffīn in 37 AH/657 CE until the death of the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān in 86 AH/705 CE. The thesis' methodological approach is based on the premise that the historiographical works under study need to be approached as literary artefacts, as texts rather than databanks that can be mined for hard facts in order to reconstruct early Islamic and thus Khārijite history 'as it really was'. This literary analysis of the source material on Khārijism leads to two major conclusions: first, there is hardly any narrative substance to the Khārijites as presented in the sources. Instead, the reports on Khārijite activities are mostly made up of structural components such as names and dates on the one hand, and topoi and schemata on the other. Consequently, no distinct and tangible identity, literary or otherwise, emerges from the material, pointing out the pitfalls of positivist approaches to Khārijite history and by extension early Islamic history in general. This phenomenon is directly connected to the second conclusion: the historiographical sources approach Khārijism not as an end in itself, but as a narrative tool with which to illustrate, discuss and criticize other actors and subject matters. The thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapters One and Two address those characteristics of and topoi in the representation of Khārijism that pervade the source material across the entire period investigated here. It emerges that the historiographers' major concern in the depiction of Khārijism is the discussion of the perils of the rebels' militant piety that threatens the unity and stability of the Islamic community. Chapters Three to Five look at the periods of ʿAlī's caliphate, Muʿāwiya's rule and the second fitna as well as t he reign of ʿAbd al-Malik, respectively, and identify the specific narrative purposes of Khārijism in the portrayal of each period. Chapter Six offers a number of observations on the early historiographical tradition as derived from the analysis over the preceding five chapters, addressing issues such as whether it makes sense to distinguish between proto-Sunnī and proto-Shīʿī sources. The Conclusion summarizes the main findings of this thesis and provides some suggestions regarding future research on Khārijite history and thought as well as early Islamic history in general.


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