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MAIN Travel USA Iowa Iowa State Fair 2019
Iowa State Fair Fast Facts
• Where: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines
• When: Thursday, August 8 - Sunday, August 18, 2019
• Directions: East or West on E University Avenue, then follow signs to the fairgrounds.
From its very humble beginnings in the 19th century, the Iowa State Fair later become the basis for a novel, a motion picture musical (State Fair) and, today, the event by which all other state fairs are measured.
The very first Iowa State Fair, which had a total budget of just $324, was held in Fairfield 1854. It proved too difficult for people to come to the fair from far off, and so the fair moved around to various parts of the state before settling permanently in 1878 in Des Moines.
Today, the Iowa State Fair is a highly-anticipated eleven day event held every year in late summer, attracting over a million people from within the state and across the country.
This year the fair runs from Thursday, August 8 through Sunday, August 18, 2019.
2019 Iowa State Fair concert lineup
And of course, what would a state fair be without the music concert lineup?
The Iowa State Fair has enjoyed great success by sticking to its agricultural roots while also attracting some of the country's most famous entertainers.
Major headliners at the 2018 Iowa State Fair
included Reba McEntire and Sugarland
This year, part of the 2018 concert lineup was announced as early as January, with tickets to all major events going on sale online. Meanwhile, keep it here for the full schedule when it is announced over the summer:
NOTE: Iowa State Fair concerts are usually an instant sell-out every year and tickets go FAST.
What else to see and do at the Fair
And wait, there's more!
One of the most entertaining parts of any state fair is the livestock, and in this the Iowa State Fair never disappoints! Fair-goers can take in blue ribbon contests judging the finest cattle, horses and pigs, along with sheep shearing competitions, pie eating contests, wood chopping contests, and even arm wrestling.
Another mainstay of the Iowa State Fair is the life-size butter cow which has been featured at the Iowa State Fair every year since 1960, (while spawning imitators of the sculpted butter display at practically every other state fair since.)
Every year, more families make it a point to travel to Des Moines to take in the most quintessentially authentic American state fair. If you're one of them, remember to plan early ...and have fun!
DID YOU KNOW? Iowa State Fair fun facts
A star is born.
• How popular is the Iowa State Fair? The largest attendance in Fair history was set in 2017 with 1,130,071.
• Butter sculptures have been a part of the fair since 1911. It takes about 600 pounds of butter and 16 hours of crafting to complete the butter cow. Additional sculptures over the years have included depictions of Elvis Presley, Abe Lincoln, and Harry Potter.
• The record holders for most attended music concert was set in 1972 when Sonny and Cher attracted 26,200 fairgoers over two shows.
• After cancelling last minute in 1990, singer Ricky Van Shelton was replaced with a new kid, Garth Brooks, who returned to the Grandstand in 1991 and 1993 as a country music superstar.
• Over 70 foods are available on-a-stick at the fair. This includes veggie dogs, pork chops, fried pickles, hot bologna, deep fried candy bars, deep fried hot dogs, chocolate covered cheesecakes, pineapples, cornbrats, salads and hard-boiled eggs.
Chowing down at the Fair
Food, glorious food! It's a major attraction at the fair including (from top left) the world-famous life-size butter
sculpture exhibit, a tasty pork chop on a stick, old-fashioned caramel apples, and the ever-popular corn dog
(all images courtesy of the Iowa State Fair.)
also see -> Christmas in Iowa | Iowa Lakes & Beaches
Iowa Wineries | Iowa Fall Foliage
More about the Iowa State Fair around the Web:
Iowa State Fair.com - Check out the official site with information on admission and ticket prices, food, concerts, entertainment, competition, livestock and people watching, with directions, map and photos.
Iowa State Fair - Wikipedia - Get a complete history of the fair including modern highlights and attractions, photos, and related resources.
Iowa State Fair on Iowa Public Television - Here's this year's TV schedule, colorful video coverage and a library of related clips.
A Frugal Guide to the Iowa State Fair - Discover tips, tricks and expert advice on making it affordable for an entire day out with the family.


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TechWatch editor Emily McDaid talks to entrepreneur Jess Dornan Lynas about Afterbook, an alternative platform to Facebook where people can express grief after the loss of a loved one.
Afterbook is more than just "Facebook for the deceased", says founder Jess Dornan Lynas, from her base at the Catalyst Belfast Fintech Hub.
The design of Afterbook has been critical to its success. "It's about providing a beautiful space to celebrate a life, where curators can be meaningful and mindful with their sensitive content. I'd love to see people curating their own pages, for posterity, so their children don't have to," Dornan Lynas says.
When Dornan Lynas was just 19, her mother passed away tragically from cancer. "Her life was cut short," she says. But, while Afterbook was founded with an emotional element, it's important not to discount its huge business potential.
In Northern Ireland, more than 16,000 people died in 2017 (the last year for which statistics were published), while a funeral can cost anything from £3,000 to £9,000. The UK funeral industry is worth £2bn to the economy; $20bn in the US. There's a big market opportunity for Afterbook to partner with large funeral providers – funerals, often sold in packages, could include an Afterbook memorial. Geographically, the Americas and Europe are big markets for the site.
"We're using a freemium model," says Dornan Lynas, "and launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to build those premium features." To date, the company has been bootstrapped with help from grants.
When asked about price, Dornan Lynas said she envisions it "being around £5 per month". There will always be a free, basic version of Afterbook, she notes.
Dornan Lynas is wholly against advertising on the platform. With her previous career as a fashion stylist (she's on Instagram as @TheStyleBalance), she knows good design.
For Dornan Lynas, the modernisation of the funeral industry is necessary – not just with technology, but with our mindset towards grief.
I share with Dornan Lynas that I feel the concept of 'closure' is foolhardy and potentially dangerous. It suggests to people that if they're still in mourning years later, there is something wrong with them.
Connecting with others is central to Afterbook. Visitors can light a candle for your loved one each day. They can leave messages and add text or media files to a 'memory jar'.
Culturally, we seem to be on a groundswell in vocalising our losses. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and founder of Lean In, has spoken extensively about the sudden loss of her husband. Dornan Lynas says: "Her book, called Option B, has sparked this whole community of people dealing with loss and building resilience.
"Princes William and Harry have also been very open about their grief. This represents a huge change from the past when grief was something no one discussed," she continues.
From my standpoint, I see more and more examples of online memorials. I remark to Dornan Lynas that not only is she on the crest of a movement, she's come to it at a crucial moment: when people are starting to realise change is necessary.
Ireland may be the best country in the world for this kind of revolution. "We are storytellers on this island – it's the fabric of our existence," Dornan Lynas concludes.


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How Washington's Top Taiwan Specialist Embraced Separatist Party Leader and Opened New Cross-Strait Crisis
Known as "America's leading Taiwan hand," Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Washington moved toward conflict, he suddenly shifted his position.
by Gareth Porter Posted on July 29, 2021 July 30, 2021
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission.
Why did the top think tank Taiwan specialist ignore a longstanding U.S. policy that blocked any move by the Taiwanese leader that might have disrupted the political basis for China-Taiwan cooperation? And why did he give a free pass to the leader of Taiwan's separatist party?
An investigation into that turnabout by Richard C. Bush of the Brookings Institution reveals a previously unknown story of an Obama administration policy shift away from one of the bedrock principles that guided US policy toward Taiwan.
The historic understanding between the United States and China over the status of Taiwan initiated by President Richard Nixon and every subsequent US administration was based on the one China principle which China has insisted upon, along with the recognition of People's Republic of China and the de-recognition of the anti-Communist regime on Taiwan.
Beginning in the 1990s, the US government had urged the Taiwanese government stop publicly flouting the one China principle. But President Tsai-Ing wen, first elected 2016 as the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), consistently refused to accept the demands.
Her obstinate stance seriously eroded the stability in cross-Strait relations that prevailed under the Nationalist government of Ma Ying-jeou from 2008 to 2016. As a result, Taiwan has turned from a source of US-China cooperation into a dangerous geopolitical friction point.
Described by former Brookings President Strobe Talbott as "quite simply America's leading Taiwan hand," Richard C. Bush played a key role in legitimizing this quiet US shift in Taiwan policy. The story of how Bush accepted Tsai as a serious interlocutor for cross-Strait relations, despite the Taiwanese leader's ties with a firmly established separatist wing of the DPP, helps explain dramatic rise in Sino-US tensions over Taiwan since in 2016.
As this previously untold story reveals, Bush was encouraged to do so by Obama administration officials.
US officials deterred Taiwanese leaders from a blow-up with China
Before joining Brookings in 2002, Bush was one of the US government's leading hands on China and Taiwan. He served as the CIA's "National Intelligence Officer" for East Asia from 1995 to 1997, then became the Director of the American institute in Taiwan (AIT) – the unofficial US government representation in Taiwan created in 1979 after the US de-recognition of the Republic of China.
In his 2005 book, Untying the Knot, Bush acknowledged the fact that unofficial delegations from Taiwan and China had agreed on the concept of "one China, two systems" as the political basis for discussion of cross-Strait cooperation. They called it "the 1992 Consensus."
US officials were concerned, however, that top Taiwanese officials were taking provocative positions on Taiwan's political-legal status that risked a blowup with China, knowing they could count on the United States to protect the island from China.
Those worries prompted the US to issue a policy called "dual deterrence" designed to deter Beijing from attacking Taiwan, while reassuring China that Washington would not support any moves toward Taiwanese independence.
The policy also cautioned Taipei against moves that would "unnecessarily provoke a Chinese military response," as Bush put it, while promising Taiwan that it would not have to sacrifice its interests in order to ensure good relations with Beijing.
Bush revealed in December 2015 that the United States had applied the policy on three occasions over positions taken by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidates.
The first time came in 2003, when President Chen Shui-bian's statements and actions indicated to US officials that he might unilaterally "change the status quo" by moving toward Taiwanese independence. In response, a State Department official warned Chen in 2008 against policies that would unnecessarily put Taiwan's security at risk.
Next, in 2011, when Tsai Ing-wen was running for the first time as DPP candidate for president, the Obama administration expressed "distinct doubts" that cross-Strait stability would continue under a DPP government.
Bush did not mention another instance in which he was personally involved as Director of the AIT: in a 1999 interview, then-President Lee Teng-hui had given presented his "state to state" theory of Taiwan-China relations. Beijing was outraged, immediately branding his rhetoric as "separatist". Bush was dispatched to Taipei from Washington with a stern US warning against such talk, promptly shutting down Lee's separatist concept.
An Obama policy shift threatens future war over Taiwan
Richard C. Bush suggested in December 2015 that the Obama administration would likely have to implement the same "dual deterrence" policy once the likely winner of the 2016 Presidential election, DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen, took power.
During her campaign, Tsai had avoided taking a clear stance on the 1992 Consensus and the "one country" principle. Instead, she expressed support for the "status quo" while refusing explain what that meant in practice.
Bush noted that she had good reason to obscure her real policy toward the PRC. After all, a 2014 DPP-sponsored poll revealed that 60 percent of Taiwanese who had a position on cross-Strait policy favored the KMT's status quo position and only 40 percent supported the DPP policy.
Furthermore, China's PRC had attacked her as early as 2000 as "Taiwan separatist Tsai," noting that she had openly supported Chen's "one country on each side" of the Taiwan Strait, and had attacked then President Ma Ying-jeou's policy as "selling Taiwan to China."
In 2011, when Tsai was running for DPP chair, she declared flatly, "There is no 1992 Consensus." Instead, she proposed a "Taiwan Consensus" – a position viewed by the Obama administration as unacceptably risky.
But in April 2016, just before Tsai's inauguration, Bush abruptly reversed his position of a few months earlier and supported Tsai's refusal to clarify her stance on the 1992 Consensus.
There was no ambiguity about where the Taiwanese leader stood. As Bush explained, Tsai could not accept the 1992 Consensus on which China had long insisted as the basis cross-Strait cooperation, because to do so would alienate the "true believers" in the DPP and split the party.
That, of course, was exactly the kind of internal Taiwanese political threat to the stability of cross-Strait relations that the "dual deterrence" policy had been created to deal with. Nevertheless, Bush blamed the impasse on Beijing.
In calling for Tsai's adherence to the 1992 Consensus and the "one China" principle, Bush wrote, China was demanding "a high degree of clarity from her." Further, he suggested, "Perhaps [China's] strategy is to set the bar so high that she can't clear it."
In fact, Beijing was applying the same criterion to Tsai as it had to Taiwanese governments in the past. The difference now was that Tsai had rejected what previous governments had accepted.
The military pushes for "great power competition" to justify budget hike
In a series of responses to e-mail queries from Grayzone, Bush attributed his April 2016 rejection of the "dual deterrence" policy to Tsai to a shift by Obama officials. "Obama administration officials were more confident about Tsai's intentions in 2015-16, than they had been in 2011-12, when Tsai also ran for president," Bush wrote.
Behind that Obama administration decision to tolerate Tsai 's refusal to honor the 1992 Consensus lies a larger story: the Obama administration adopted its position just when domestic US political and bureaucratic inertia was shifting towards a confrontation with Beijing over military issues. Indeed, Obama's shift came during a period of growing pressure on the White House from the US military, the Pentagon and Republicans in Congress to take a harder line on China.
In mid-2015, the Commander of the US Pacific Command, Adm. Harry Harris began pushing publicly for a tough US response to Chinese military construction on artificial islands the PRC claimed in the South China Sea. Adm. Harris argued for US "freedom of navigation" operations within the 12-mile limit claimed by Beijing. That demand was supported by the Pentagon and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, who was complaining of Obama administration "de facto recognition" of those Chinese claims.
The White House remained silent on the issue, resisting such operations until October 2015, when Obama approved the first of several more over the following year.
Meanwhile, another conflict was brewing between the White House and then-Defense Secretary Ashton Carter over whether to identify China as a strategic competitor with the United States. Privately, Obama argued against publicly declaring "strategic competition," but for the Pentagon, the designation was necessary to generate congressional support for more defense spending.
In February 2016, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter foreshadowed a "return to great power competition", and vowed to counter the "rising" Chinese power. Though the White House had ordered the Pentagon not to use such provocative rhetoric, the political ground had already shifted in favor of the military's position.
In an email to The Grayzone, Bush said, "I don't know everything that went into the thinking of Obama officials on Tsai, specifically the nature and degree of Pentagon or congressional pressure." He added that he did not recall whether pressure from the military was a factor in the decision not to intervene.
Yet it is hard to believe that big ticket issues like the defense budget did not impinge on the narrower decision not remain passive in the face of Tsai's separatism.
The consequences of that fateful decision have continued to accumulate, especially since Tsai's reelection in 2020. China has made it clear that it plans to impose higher economic and psychological costs on Taiwan over Tsai's rejection of the one China principle.
It has begun a campaign of frequent intrusions by PLAF fighter planes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), aimed at underlining Taiwan's vulnerability and forcing the Taiwanese population to whether the DPP's flirtation with an independent Taiwanese state is worth the cost.
A new Taiwan crisis looms in 2023-2025 in the likely scenario that Tsai's Vice-President William Lai – the leader of the separatist wing of the DPP – becomes the DPP presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
The question of "dual deterrence" will be raised again, but with much higher stakes.
Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specializing in US national security policy, received the UK-based Gellhorn Prize for journalism for 2011 for articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. His new book is Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. He can be contacted at porter.gareth50@gmail.com.
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On now at the Project Space at RMIT, Skypetrait Transcontinental Faces uses skype to assist to pair artists from Australia and Germany to draw each other.
I know what that sounds like but the result was great, not only because of the artistic connection between digital media via Sykpe and portraiture, but because of the clear human connections made between the arrtists.
It is really fascinating to see how they combined artistic expression with communication technology.


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Fender initiates wellness partnership strategy with Zappos to promote workplace guitar playing
By Kyle O'Brien - August 27, 2019
Zappos partners with Fender Play to bring music education to the workplace / Zappos.com
Fender, the legendary guitar-maker, has joined forces with online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com in an effort to engage with new guitar players and to promote wellness to the retailer's staff, the first partnership in a potential line of pairings.
Through the 'Strum for the Sole' program, a first-of-its-kind wellness benefit that promotes a work-life balance through the power of music learning, Zappos employees will have the opportunity to learn an instrument using Fender Play, a digital learning app for guitar, bass and ukulele, as a means to reduce stress, promote increased creativity, self-expression and confidence, among other benefits.
Fender hopes the pilot will not only benefit Zappos employees and make them lifelong guitar players and devotees to the brand, but also will help raise awareness of Fender Play and make the program a major online music education destination.
Evan Jones, chief marketing officer at Fender, said that the partnership with Zappos came about through connections Fender employees had with the company, but that working with "like-minded partners who are committed to wellness and health" makes sense for both brands.
"They've got a really good reputation from an employee perspective in terms of how they take care of their employees," he told The Drum.
Jones cited research that had shown that 90% of the people who picked up the guitar and learned how to play quit after the first year. Fender Play was designed to help aspiring guitar players find a way in and hopefully stick with the guitar most of their lives.
Added Mary Keenan, Fender Play director of product: "Looking for other opportunities to extend the benefits of music learning is a top priority for us. When Fender Play first started it wasn't just about creating another online learning program, our mission was really to try and address the very high dropout rate we had of people who attempt to play an instrument and then give it up because life gets in the way."
The 'Strum for the Sole' program is available to all Zappos employees on an opt-in basis and includes access to Fender Play. Zappos has even dedicated a jam room on its corporate campus in Las Vegas where employees can go to relax during the workday. In support of employees taking their musical journey to the next level, or simply taking a break to de-stress, Fender is outfitting Zappos' jam room exclusively with Fender instruments, amps and accessories, namely guitars and basses from it's Player, Vintera and California Series. Zappos employees will also receive a discount on select gear and instruments on Fender.com, should they wish to purchase for at-home or personal use.
Bhawna Provenzano, director of employee benefits and diversity at Zappos, has helped grow the wellness program at the company over the last nine years, and one thing the company focuses on is mental wellbeing.
"There's so much research out there that shows how music therapy can reduce stress, help people slow down and help people express their creativity. We thought that would be really great to bring that to Zappos and have a jam room, have people come in, slow down and learn a new skill set," she told The Drum.
She added that music is instrumental in helping people build creativity, which develops confidence. "All those things can help you in your personal life and at Zappos as well. At the end of the day, this is a fun benefit that we think will just be nice for people to just get away from their desk every once in a while and learn something new. It's something you can take with you and it also helps build social connections, which is really important for us. I feel there are so many positive benefits."
'Strum for the Sole' – the name came from Zappos' original role of selling shoes, and the strumming of a guitar – may be a pilot program for Fender, but it is one that has many business possibilities moving forward.
Fender Play and Zappos
"If it's successful, and we hope it will be, we can then extend to multiple other corporate partners who might also want to make music available to their employee base as part of their own health and wellness programs," Jones stated, adding that it also hopes to grow Fender Play, which has been around for two years and has over 100,000 users.
For Zappos, they would like to see their workforce get behind the program and help it succeed and grow, taking the skills to their families, creating bonds, and possibly even start a Zappos band.
"We're a work hard-play hard environment, so to be able to do whatever we can to help decrease stress and help people slow down and expand on their creativity, that's all we can hope for," said Provenzano.
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The Drum took part in its own music education effort recently, partnering with music school The Guitar Social to enter the Guinness World Records books for the longest guitar lesson held to raise funds to help blind and partially sighted people learn how to play the guitar.
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Now, Hollywood movies may have multi-million dollar budgets—surely we should be happy with the high-quality portrayals we get (that 3-D version of The Three Musketeers excluded)—but we're book-lovers. We're a patient breed. We enjoy the little moments in between moments that make a good story flow. Leave the cutting and action sequences for Michael Bay. Needless to say, we're always a little disappointed when our favorite part gets cut from a 90-minute screen portrayal of War and Peace. The solution? Miniseries!
Miniseries, an astounding number of which seem to be based on books, take our favorite stories and fit them into more comfortable time slots. Instead of mercilessly slashing away at Great Expectations to shove it between TNT or FX-ready timeframes, we get 300 minutes of uninterrupted storytime. Don't discount the miniseries, friends, because they aren't counting the minutes and seconds.
This BBC period drama aired stateside on PBS in September of 2012. Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked as a district nurse and midwife in the East End of London during the 1950s, Call the Midwife, like its Downton predecessor, is a riveting portrayal of the everyday interactions and routines of a select wedge of English society. Jessica Raine enchants as the affable protagonist, Nurse Jenny Lee, but Call the Midwife's true star is comedic great Miranda Hart as the clumsy but loveable Nurse Chummy Brown. Call the Midwife, like Downton, gets off to a slow start, but if you put in the effort, you'll quickly tap into the absorbing urgency that rushes through the show's veins.
Based on a 2008 spy novel by Alan Furst, Spies of Warsaw follows the exploits of a French military attaché operating in Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War II. Set in an area undeniably pregnant with geopolitical tensions, Spies of Warsaw vacillates between moments of breakneck exhilaration and heart-stopping silence. It's a definitive spy story, and Scottish favorite David Tennant is (predictably) magnificent as agent Jean François Mercier.
North and South is a monolith of miniseries engineering. Adapted from the trilogy of the same name by American novelist John Jakes, the tripartite series broadcasted in 1985, 1986, and nearly a decade later in 1994. All three chapters recount the friendship of Orry Main, a South Carolinian soldier in the Confederate army played by Patrick Swayze, and George Hazard (great name), a Union soldier from Pennsylvania played by James Read. Both became fast friends during their time and West Point, but found themselves fighting on opposite sides of the battlefield once the South started seceding, or the North started aggressing, or however you like to characterize it. But North and South isn't just special for the size of its story—the series is a treasure trove of late '80s and early '90s dramatic (and musical?) talent. David Carradine, Kirstie Alley, Robert Guillaume, Hal Holbrook, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor, Forest Whitaker, Erica Gimpel, Gene Kelley, and weirdly, Johnny Cash all make an appearance.
Based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Roots is considered the greatest American miniseries of all time. In 1977, the year the finale aired, it set an all-time high precedent for Nielsen ratings, and still holds the record for the third-highest rated television program in American history. The series follows the (now iconic) Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a man born in the Gambia in 1750, who is enslaved and brought to America, and his descendants as they navigate interracial relations and identity politics in antebellum and postbellum America.
NBC's The 10th Kingdom isn't so much based on a single book, but rather a folkloric compendium. New York City waitress Virginia Lewis (Kimberly Williams Paisley) stumbles upon a portal in Central Park that takes her and her bumbling father (John Larroquette) into an amalgamated fantasy world inhabited by characters from Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, as well as Celtic and Germanic mythology and even Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The result is a cheesy, albeit generally pleasant and distracting escape for those still in touch with their inner child. The cast is pretty great too. Besides Williams-Paisley and Larroquette, you have Dianne West, Ed O'Neill, Warwick Davis, Lucy Punch, and Camryn Mannheim.
Starz's 2010 miniseries The Pillars of the Earth is Downton Abbey… rewound about 800 years. Based on the 1989 historical novel by Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth explores the lives of the inhabitants of the fictional medieval city of Kingsbridge during the Anarchy, a civil war fought between the English and Norman factions of King Stephen's reign. On top of war, the people of Kingsbridge must cope with other medieval nuisances: religious violence, plague, and general despair. That being said, the cast looks mighty fit for a bunch of disease-stricken, constantly-under-attack medieval Britons: Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Alison Pill, and Sarah Parish, to name a few.
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel of the same name, Brideshead Revisited is considered by many to be a veritable artifact of televisual history. Broadcast in 1981, it set a precedent from which all other modern miniseries take cues. The British Film Institute considers it one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of all time. The series follows Charles Ryder, a man of little family money, and Sebastian Flyte, a typical British aristocrat, during their studies at Oxford. Ryder spends significant amount of time at Flyte's family home, called Brideshead. It's all recounted in the form of a flashback, as Ryder, an officer in the British Army, takes up residency in a country home he soon discovers to be Brideshead. The part of Charles Ryder is often considered the breakout role for British dramatic superstar Jeremy Irons—just another reason to be thankful for the advent of Brideshead.
This 2008 HBO miniseries won four Golden Globe awards and an astonishing thirteen Emmys for its chronicling of the life of U.S. President John Adams (played by Paul Giamatti). Based on the book John Adams by David McCullough, the biopic-gone-serial is a seven-part retelling of Adams' life, includes an unbelievable soundtrack composed by Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli, and boasts and outstanding cast of dramatic greats portraying some of our most famous historical figures. Laura Linney as Abigail Adams, David Morse as George Washington, Rufus Sewell as Alexander Hamilton, Justin Theroux as John Hancock, Danny Huston as Samuel Adams, Mamie Gummer as Sally Smith Adams, Tom Hollander as King George III, and Tom Wilkinson as Ben Franklin.
The 2001 HBO miniseries is the story of the Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101 Airborne Division. It follows their movements and missions in World War II Europe from D-Day through V-J Day. Executive produced by Tome Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gene Kelly, and author of the book Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers is highproduction value meets excellent writing in this stellar portray of soldier life in wartime Europe. A pre-Homeland Damian Lewis leads a stellar cast along with Scott Grimes, Ron Livingston, Donnie Wahlberg, and others. Band of Brothers is a great way for millennials to experience one of the most impactful periods of American (and world) history in a well researched, unpretentious, but vivid and believable setting.
The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was the miniseries that took Colin Firth from handsome, bumbling, lovable Englishman into the object of nearly every woman's desire on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. While Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation à la Keira Knightley was certainly well-done, its chief criticism seemed to be "WHERE IS COLIN FIRTH???" But in all seriousness, this BBC rendition of the Austen classic is a far better representation of the author's work. While Wright managed to shrink down the story into a bite-sized 127 minutes, the miniseries runs at 300 minutes long—plenty of time to fit in all of the social subtleties and casually dropped handkerchiefs of a true Austen story.
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Q: How to get array from dropdown and input box values to loop over total number in JQuery I have multiple drop down and corresponding number input fields like this:

        <select class="form-control category-select" name="category[]">
            <option>A</option>
            <option>B</option>
            <option>C</option>
        </select>

        <input class="form-control category-number" name="no_of_category[]">

        <select class="form-control category-select" name="category[]">
            <option>A</option>
            <option>B</option>
            <option>C</option>
        </select>

        <input class="form-control category-number" name="no_of_category[]">

If user selects

*

*option A and 2 as number

*option B and 3 as number

Then I want Array something like following so that I can loop over total no of category with name.
A -> 1
A -> 1
B -> 1
B -> 1
B -> 1

Since Array can't have same index, This is not possible. But, What I actually want is loop over total number of category along with category name. Is there any way to achieve something similar to loop similar to above ?
Any kind of suggestion appreciated.

A: You're "Wanted" result don't look like an array in jquery, but maybe this will help you create what you want.

$('.category-select, .category-number').change(function() {
  var rowParent = $(this).closest(".row").parent();
  var obj = [];
  $(rowParent).children(".row").each(function() {
    var row = $(this)
    var selectVal = $(row).find("select").val();
    var inputVal = $(row).find("input").val();

    if (inputVal !== "") {
      for (i = 0; i < inputVal; i++){
        obj.push(selectVal)
      }
    }
  });
  if (obj.length > 0) console.log(obj)
})

      <select class="form-control category-select" name="category[]">
            <option>A</option>
            <option>B</option>
            <option>C</option>
        </select>

      <input class="form-control category-number" type="number" name="no_of_category[]">

      <select class="form-control category-select" name="category[]">
            <option>A</option>
            <option>B</option>
            <option>C</option>
        </select>

      <input class="form-control category-number" type="number" name="no_of_category[]">

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I hope everyone has been well in my absence.
snkmchnb beautiful work as ever, auto. nice to see you around.


I live in a Quechua indian village in the mountains of Ecuador with my family on a small farm. I published It Girl Knits with Potter Craft when I was 16, and published patterns online and in books and magazines for several years. Now I publish pattern downloads thru Ravelry, and my recent additions include patterns with lace and cables.


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LG Optimus L5 Dual E615 equips 800 MHz Cortex-A5 processor with Qualcomm MSM7225A Snapdragon Chipset.
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When we give negative out into the world we tend to attract negative. When we give positive out into the world we tend to attract positive. This Core Concept class offers help in shifting from negative to positive.


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In 2018, LEGO is celebrating 60 years of the classic LEGO brick and to help us celebrate along with them, they're releasing a special commemorative set.
40290 is going to be given away free with a minimum $125 purchase in the US retail stores and online from January 28 to February 14. It's a nice 421 piece set with a classic LEGO box design and includes micro scale versions of four classic LEGO sets – 6399 Airport Shuttle, 375 Castle, 6285 Black Seas Barracuda and 928 Space Cruiser And Moonbase.
The set also includes a special 60 Years anniversary brick that will likely only appear in this set.


After I found a fix for the vc sounds, I flew it all over the Caribbean, but then I got side tracked with testing the DA-60. I'm glad so many other users are able to enjoy one of my favorite twins in FSX and now P3d v4. I forgot to mention that you can easily substitute the GPS for the F1 GTN650 by editing a few lines in the panel.
Looks good. Keep us informed.
Are those default taxi signs I see? PM me if you want the fix.
This nice guy named DJJose @avsim made an updated afcad that not only eradicates the default objects, but he even found a way to bring back the bridges. He's such a great guy.
Which sim? T2G KMCO has not been updated to P3D v4.4. Thanks.
Had to sign in just to say, congrats!
Looking forward to some really nice looking ORBX addons in 2019. Thanks for the update!
Thanks for the link. I'd like to install the full Oz freeware package into P3D v4.4. Can the installers be pointed to the P3D v4 folder or do I use a dummy folder? Do I need to install Libs 1.2 or do I use the latest update and just activate the Libs Scenery? What's the order in the scenery library? Thanks in advance. Jose BTW, if the Mods prefer that I start a new thread, please let me know.
You sir, with that display of carelessness, have just forfeited your insurance policy.