(Kitco News) - Gold's move up to $1,323 could mean that a rally towards $1,360 is coming "sooner-than-expected," said TD Securities, citing a possible rate cut by the Federal Reserve as a trigger for the yellow metal.
TD Securities sees gold prices rising to $1,360 within three months and then moving towards $1,400 next year.
"We suspect that current prices will prompt aggressive CTA buying along with additional spec length," TD's strategists stated.
The latest boost to gold prices came from the drop in rates across the yield curve, noted TD Securities.
"Gold jumped to its highest in some three-weeks as the Fed adjusted the dot plots to signal no more interest rate hikes this year, global growth concerns grew, the USD dollar migrated lower and the yield curve inverted, adding upside risk to gold into $1,360/oz territory," the strategists pointed out.
Going forward, gold investors should pay close attention to global macro releases that focus on inflation and growth, the note added.
"A global easing cycle … could risk triggering competitive devaluations. Both PCE inflation and the series of growth prints will be crucial towards gathering additional insights as to whether the market's pricing of cuts is warranted," the commodity strategists wrote.
At the time of writing, April Comex gold futures were trading at $1,321.40, down 0.09% on the day, after hitting a four-week high earlier in the session.
"Some safe-haven buying amid wobbly world stock markets, combined with chart-based buying interest, are lifting the two precious metals markets," wrote Kitco's senior technical analyst Jim Wyckoff.


"So I focus on crimes and drugs. I said, 'I will stop drugs,'" Duterte said in his speech at the inauguration of the Northern Mindanao Wellness and Reintegration Center (NMWRC) in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.
"I have raised the matter of drug contamination as a security threat to the country. It is a security threat to the country," he added.
Chinese-owned Friends of the Philippines Foundation (FPF) has financed the construction of the NMWRC that will serve as rehabilitation and skills training center for drug dependents.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque thanked FPF founder Jose Kho for donating the PHP500-million NMWRC, which can house 500 to 800 drug dependents.
"Now the foundation that built the center not only donated the money but also invested time and energy in the design, quality, construction of the rehabilitation center, making this not only the best in the Philippines but also one of the best in Southeast Asia," Roque said.
Upon completion, he said the FPF will donate PHP13 million yearly to support the wellness center's operation.
Roque also expressed gratitude to the Chinese government for supporting the Philippines' anti-drug campaign.
"We would also like to thank Chinese President Xi Jinping. Under the leadership of President Xi and President Duterte, the relationship between the Philippines and China has now entered the best level in history and will continue to be even better," he said.
He said Philippines-China relations is at its renaissance and at its best.


From the late 1800s to early 1900s, the mass production of consumer goods and the public's fascination with Egypt converged to reshape Western marketing.
At the same time, the development of lithographic printing in the 1870s allowed companies to print eye-catching color advertisements cheaply. Manufacturers used trade cards and other promotional materials to charm potential buyers and set themselves apart from their competition.
European and American businesses enhanced their products' desirability with popular imagery of pyramids, sphinxes, and pharaohs. From candy to medicine and household items, advertisements harnessed Egypt's association with luxury and ancient knowledge to lend an aura of exotic decadence and antique authority to commodities. In so doing, they created a one-note Western fantasy of Egypt, reducing a complex culture to visual enticement.
Helmar Turkish Cigarette Box, c. early 1900s, S. Anargyros Famous Cigarettes, New York, NY, Bequest of Judge John Webb and Ellen McClung Green, 1957.3.398.6.
Java Coffee Trade Card, c. 1890, Printed by C. Busch Du Fallois Soehne for A. Zuntz sel Wwe, Crefeld, Germany, Gift of Elaine Altman Evans, 2009.15.1.
Egyptian Tenexine Glue Trade Card, c. 1890–1900, Tenexine Company, Boston, MA, Gift of Elaine Altman Evans, 2007.33.1.
Curated by Melinda Kay Narro, Curatorial Assistant.


Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: one of the biggest hits of the ten features to have preceded Toy Story 3 in the extraordinary run of masterpieces and near-masterpieces made by Pixar.
It is not popular, and in many cases not in the least wise, to talk of "authorship" in mainstream American animation; though there are certain exceptions. Generally, for example, it's easy to tease out the differences in the films made by each of the five men who have so far directed a movie with Pixar, the shining star of family entertainment in this country in the last 15 years (and, to be fair: probably the shining star of mainstream cinema, period). You've got John Lasseter, whose films tend to feature inanimate objects given life, and who is of all the Pixar folks the one most given to making good old-fashioned "gee whiz, that's cool" entertainment; Pete Docter, the unabashed sentimentalist; Andrew Stanton, a creator of visual tone poems with a strong emotional throughline; and it's early to say what drives Lee Unkrich, though I hope it's more than "doing his level best John Lasseter impersonation".
But most prominently, you have Brad Bird: the only Pixar director (to date) to make a film outside of Pixar, and the mind behind the most uncharacteristic film in the studio's history - the only one to come from a story developed outside Pixar, by Bird himself - 2004's The Incredibles. It was indeed this film's pronounced dissimilarity from the five features the studio had produced before it that first made it clear that Pixar was very much the "directors first" company that it had sometimes claimed to be; especially given how very similar it is in some ways to Bird's feature debut, the disgustingly under-seen masterwork The Iron Giant.
At the same time, it's hard to say exactly what unifies Bird's three film projects (the third is, of course, 2007's Ratatouille, arguably the most flawless of all Pixar films). They're all family stories; two of them take place in a romanticised (but not too romanticised!) version of the pre-'68 Cold War America; they all have, to one degree or another, stylised faux-cinematography. I am tempted to take the lazy man's way out, and say that what unites them most of all is that they're all made with the highest level of craftsmanship - not in terms of animation alone, but as works of classical cinematic language, assembled with an intense amount of care and love so that every cut, every sound, every movement, builds to a euphonious whole.
Not bad for a superhero movie. Though to call The Incredibles a superhero movie, as though it was just another of the glut of men-in-tights adventures of the '00s, would be as crudely reductive as anything you can say. It's about family, and the way that husbands and wives can grow apart by inches without ever falling out of love; it's about being true to yourself; there's a line of thought that calls it Objectivist propaganda, which Bird has always denied was the intention, though when you've got a sympathetic character complaining that if everyone is special, then no-one is special, and the villain echoing and reversing that sentiment, declaring with wicked delight that he's found a way to give everyone a level playing field... it has, at least, the tang of Objectivism. Though if Ayn Rand were one-tenth the artist that Brad Bird is, I suppose that Objectivism would seem like a much better philosophy.
So! In what seems loosely like the 1960s, we have the Parr family: father Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), mother Helen (Holly Hunter), teenage daughter Violet (Sarah Vowell), preteen son Dashiell (Spencer Fox), and baby Jack-Jack. They are like a great many American families of that fuzzy time when the Eisenhower years were mutating into the Space Age: Bob doesn't like his job, but bottles that up because he has to be a good provider; Helen loves her family and children but they're not as fulfilling as her life when she was young and single; and so on. Unlike most American families of that fuzzy time, they're also all superheroes: years ago, Bob was the charismatic, indestructible strongman Mr. Incredible, while Helen was the infinitely stretchable Elastigirl. They still have those powers, and have given a legacy to their kids: Violet has the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, while "Dash" can run faster than the eye can see. They are, in effect, the exact powers of the Fantastic Four of the Marvel universe, though if you stop at the reference, you've missed the way that this is just an extension of their personalities as members of the Parr household: Bob as the strong, infallible protector, Helen as the homemaker who has to be everywhere at once to keep things together , Violet as an easily-embarrassed teenager who just wants to disappear, Dash as a kid with way too much energy for his parents to keep up with.
It's part of the profound genius of the movie that just about every detail has two distinct meanings like that: its function as a superhero trope, and its metaphorical value the film's "real" conflict, about how a middle-class suburban family comes back together after having slowly drifted apart through boredom. At times, this isn't even the subtext, but the text: one of the chief driving elements of the whole plot is Helen's terror that Bob is having an affair (perhaps the most adult theme in all of Pixar; the only competition to my mind is Finding Nemo's theme of "over-protective father learns how to respect his son's independence, though Up's "octogenarian widower is able to find a reason to live without his wife" certainly gives them both a good run for their money). At any rate, to look at The Incredibles and say "what an excellent superhero adventure", while eminently reasonable - besides Nolan's Batman movies, it's readily the best film of the contemporary superhero cycle - deprives the film of much of its meaning and most of its emotional resonance. But I shall harp on this no longer; it's there to be seen by anyone who's looking for it.
Besides, I need some space left over to talk about how incredibly (erm...) well-made it is. From the cheeking opening gag, a vintage interview that introduces our main characters, to the outstandingly fleet, exposition-packed opening sequence, set in whatever period is meant to be 15 years before the rest of the film (it looks like the '30s, but it almost has to be 1949 or 1950 or thereabouts), and onward, Bird's command of pacing and structure is awe-inspiring, propelling us through the movie's generous 115-minute running time (the longest, by 15 minutes, that Pixar had yet essayed; even now it is their second-longest, barely nudged out by Cars) with abandon that stops at exactly the best moments to keep the dramatic elements of the film constantly in play, while devoting plenty of time and energy to making sure that the action sequences are realised with a level of achievement rare even in the best live-action movies. Then too, the constant switching from straight-up superhero pyrotechnics to '60s-style intrigue to goofy comedy is timed with the skill of a master; you'd never once expect that Bird had only a single directorial credit to his name, from the evidence onscreen here. Even if he'd never made his masterpiece, Ratatouille, The Incredibles would still make a good argument that he belongs in the conversation about the most excellent directors of mainstream entertainment now living.
But animation being a collaborative art form, we should probably stop and pay our respects to the many other people responsible for making The Incredibles such a marvel: the film's design, led by Lou Romano and Ralph Eggleston, is an unholy perfect slurry of time-specific designs that at once evoke both the over-the-top spy movies of the period and the physically-impossible look of the period's great pulp comic books (the spirit of Jack Kirby hovers over every frame and every story beat of the whole picture); hell, even the design of the end credits is about as visually appealing as anything else in a mainstream film in 2004. Helping to nail down the sense that we're in an eternal Space Age is Michael Giacchino's ludicrously delightful score (his first collaboration with Pixar, and if I also call it his worst, that is only because his music for Ratatouille and Up is so damn brilliant), sounding for all the world like a lost James Bond score written by John Barry, without ever once directly quoting Barry's work.
The cast is uniformly excellent; long before 2004, it had become clear that Pixar films were noteworthy for their against-the-grain but tremendously effective celebrity voices, but even so, Craig T. Nelson was a left-field choice if ever the company made one: how many people besides rabid fans of CBS's The District even remembered he existed? And yet he embodies the very soul of the certain form of flawed male bravado on display here, just as surely as Tim Allen does in that other Pixar series. Holly Hunter needs no praise from one as lowly as me, but even so, she's an unintuitive pick for an cartoon character, and she carried it off magnificently - my pick for the best performance in the film, finding all the right parts of Helen's worries and frustrations and domestic pride. There are plenty of other wonderful grace notes: Jason Lee seems like a stupidly obvious choice to play a comics-inspired villain, but he did wonderfully nonetheless, and so on and so forth from Samuel L. Jackson's expectedly fine cool badass down to Wallace Shawn nailing the banal manager who makes Bob's life hell, in his only non-Toy Story performance with Pixar.
As saturated with nostalgia as any of Lasseter's films, and as grand in its world-building as any of Stanton's, Bird's first Pixar feature won him not only a legion of fans, but instant elevation to the company's highest echelon of artistic leadership, and for good reason: it's a nigh-perfect entertainment that never lets up and never treats its audience with any condescension, and never lets spectacle overwhelm its humanity. Though it's not, ultimately, anywhere near the most emotionally probing of the studios' work (anecdotally, this and A Bug's Life are the only two Pixar films that have never made once made me tear up even a little bit), and its emphasis on thrills over lower-key narrative delights leave it still the outlier among Pixar's output, it's pretty great altogether: a fantastically fun movie with brains and a heart. Heck, if that's not the very essence of Pixar, I don't know what is.


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Sony finds selling PlayStation difficult in China as nearly all the games are banned
See article from uk.businessinsider.com
The head of Sony's gaming division said sales of PlayStation 4 in China were challenged by strict censorship rules. Andrew House, a chief executive, said:
We are still challenged somewhat with a censorship regime that we have to work with. This can be time-consuming. The challenge is to work with their censorship constraints.
Sony started selling PlayStation 4 consoles in China in March, hoping to capitalize on the end of the 14-year ban. But repressive censorship rules have limited the number of titles available.
Playing the Suffocation Game...
PEGI classification fees are proving extortionate for small games developers
See article from gamasutra.com
Gamasutra cites small game developers speaking about the PEGI games classification group:
We have to work with them, and they have some crazy policies that are not cool for indies, he told me. You can't put your game on an Xbox or PlayStation without a PEGI rating, and they charge thousands of dollars.
By comparison, getting the game ESRB-rated so the game could be sold in the U.S. costs nothing; the ESRB rolled out a free, streamlined voluntary rating service to digital platforms years ago.
PEGI designed its licensing fee scheme for digital games based on how it's been rating physical video game releases since 2003: with the expectation that publishers would foot the bill. But the rise of self-publishing has created situations where the biggest line item on a small developer's budget may well be ratings board licensing fees. That in turn is putting pressure on indies not to release their games in Europe on platforms that require PEGI ratings, i.e. Xbox Games Store, Sony's PSN and Nintendo's eShop. Indies are paying roughly $300-$1,000 per platform for a PEGI rating
PEGI knows this. It's been taking fire on this front from members of the European game industry for some time (UK game industry trade body TIGA called on PEGI last year to reform what it called unreasonably high and repetitious fees ) and when I sat down with agency communications manager Dirk Bosmans at Gamescom last month, he tried to offer both an explanation and the promise of a near future where no indie will have to pay for a rating on a Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo platform ever again.
But first, he acknowledged PEGI's fees are an outdated relic of the way the video game industry used to operate. They're also the primary thing keeping PEGI in business. PEGI knows this is a problem, but it wants to maintain income
Our money comes from fees that publishers pay to get a ratings license...that's basically our only source of income. When we were at the height of the console cycle, there were lots of games. That's come down in the past few years, so obviously our income is shrinking.
A couple of years ago, if you'd asked me [whether PEGI fees have a chilling effect on European game releases], the answer probably would have been no, because in order to release a game in a box on a shelf you'd need a lot of funds. But because digital is so much more accessible, it's much easier to release a game, but we still charge the same.
Psychologically unconvincing...
American Psychological Association review scientific papers on computer games and violence
See press release from apa.org
Violent video game play is linked to increased aggression in players but insufficient evidence exists about whether the link extends to criminal violence or delinquency, according to a new American Psychological Association task force report.
Mark Appelbaum, the task force chair, commented in the review:
The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behavior, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in prosocial behavior, empathy and sensitivity to aggression
Scientists have investigated the use of violent video games for more than two decades but to date, there is very limited research addressing whether violent video games cause people to commit acts of criminal violence. However, the link between violence in video games and increased aggression in players is one of the most studied and best established in the field.
No single risk factor consistently leads a person to act aggressively or violently, the report states. Rather, it is the accumulation of risk factors that tends to lead to aggressive or violent behavior. The research reviewed here demonstrates that violent video game use is one such risk factor.
In light of the task force's conclusions, APA has called on the industry to design video games that include increased parental control over the amount of violence the games contain. APA's Council of Representatives adopted a resolution encouraging the Entertainment Software Rating Board to refine its video game rating system to reflect the levels and characteristics of violence in games, in addition to the current global ratings. In addition, the resolution urges developers to design games that are appropriate to users' age and psychological development, and voices APA's support for more research to address gaps in the knowledge about the effects of violent video game use.
The task force conducted a comprehensive review of the research literature published between 2005 and 2013 focused on violent video game use. This included four meta-analyses that reviewed more than 150 research reports published before 2009. Task force members then conducted both a systematic evidence review and a quantitative review of the literature published between 2009 and 2013. (A systematic evidence review synthesizes all empirical evidence that meets pre-specified criteria to answer specific research questions) This resulted in 170 articles, 31 of which met all of the most stringent screening criteria.
Update: ESRB responds
18th September 2015.See article from gamepolitics.com
In addition to the report described above, the APA released a declaration:
A Resolution on Violent Video Games - that strongly encourages the Entertainment Software Rating Board to refine the ESRB rating system specifically to reflect the levels and characteristics of violence in games in addition to the current global ratings .
While the ESRB said that it has had an open dialogue with the APA - and will continue to do so, it also said that it doesn't need to make changes to the ratings system. It cited an 8-year-old FTC report on the reliability of the ratings system (compared to other entertainment industry ratings systems) and a Hart Research poll that found parents were familiar with the ESRB.
Censored Until Dawn...
YouTube video reveals cuts to cuts in Japanese version of the game Until Dawn
See article from gamespot.com
See video from YouTube
The YouTube channel Censored Gaming has published its latest video, this one highlighting how the PlayStation 4 horror game, Until Dawn , was amended for its Japanese release.
Josh's death by saw cutscene was crudely censored for Japan by totally blanking out the video.
Until Dawn is rated M for Mature in the United States and features a good amount of blood and gore, including disembowling and decapitations, as well as a scene where a character is forced to cut off parts of his fingers.
PG-18...
Thailand proposes an advisory video games rating system
See article from khaosodenglish.com
A non-binding video game ratings system has been proposed by the Thai Ministry of Culture. Six age-based ratings for games have been mooted by the Ministry of Culture that would be placed on all games released in Thailand but would not be legally binding on retailers to enforce. Pradith Posew of the Film and Video Censors Board said:
There won't be any legal effect in banning kids from playing games. It's merely a guidance for guardians to take care of their kids' video game playing, based on the appropriateness to their age.
He said it was also intended to help internet and gaming cafes to advise kids who play games at their shops.
In addition to a general audience category, the six ratings would include recommendations for minimum ages of 3, 6, 13, 15 and 18.
The ratings system has been sent to the military government for final approval, Pradith said.
On several recent occasions video games have been banned in Thailand. In 2008, the Ministry of Culture banned sales of Grand Theft Auto IV , after a 17-year-old student stabbed a taxi driver dead and blamed the game for his actions.
In August 2014, three months after the military seized power from an elected government, Thai authorities also banned sales of Tropico 5 , which allows players to assume the role of a dictator running a fictitious tropical island nation. The Film and Video Censors Board claimed the game could possibly affect the kingdom's political situation. The game creator hit back at Thailand this past June by launching a new Espionage mission tasking players with crippling the Thai tourism industry.
Offsite Article: Playing the PC censorship game...
Refused-Classification.com catalogues some of the apps being ludicrously banned in Australia
See article from refused-classification.com
Offsite Article: Long time no hear...
Full story: Violent Games in the US...Attempts to restrict video games from minors
US anti-games campaigner, Jack Thompson, talks video game violence and censorship
See article from viralglobalnews.com

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When you have invited the boys, planned the pranks and chosen the venue, there are a few things to remember on the stag night to make sure everyone has a good time, except maybe the groom!
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hen party Information - Hen ideas, useful tips and articles about hen nights.
The organisational responsibility for a stag party usually falls to the best man. As such, make sure all of the boys have put money into a 'kitty'. This pays for each round of drinks which ensures that no one skips out on that responsibility and that the group stays together to get their next round and doesn't go into the pub down the road instead.
The best man will also have to make sure that any games or pranks are on schedule and that the stag is sufficiently docile (drunk) to allow them to happen.
There are few clubs who will welcome a large group of drunken men on a stag night and if you have your heart set on a particular pub, you don't want to be barred entrance. Therefore, try to split into smaller groups when approaching the next venue and do your best to appear sober(ish) to the bouncer on the door. You will then be able to meet up inside and recommence your celebrations.
Also, try not to loose your head completely and start a fight, smash a chair or generally make a git of yourself. It is this behaviour that is traditionally associated with stag nights, so much so that many bars have introduced a no stag night policy for their patrons. You don't want to end the night in handcuffs - not all of you anyway.
The next morning, the details may be slightly foggy and you may not want to remember some of the things you got up to. Having sad that, try to impress upon all of the boys the credo of 'what happened on the stag night stays on the stag night'. This is less embarrassing for everyone involved and is especially helpful for keeping the groom out of trouble.
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Useful stag party information. When you have invited the boys, planned the pranks and chosen the venue, there are a few things to remember on the stag night to make sure everyone has a good time.


My training in acting has been intense. I have a Post graduate degree from the Webber Duuglass Academy which was in London. It is the same school Ben Kinglsey, Minnie Driver and Julia Armond went to, I attended Penn State and was studying Acting while Keegan-Michael Key and Ty Burrel were there and I went to New World School of the Arts, whose graduates are all over Broadway. My name is Susie K Taylor and just to be clear...you have never heard of me.
I have trained for many many years to learn the skill of acting, to learn what it means to fully inhabit another a ROLE. How they talk, how they walk, what they think, how they feel. What is always fascinating to me is that most of the my personal human condition can be manipulated to allow for this transformation. I can be altered and changed and eventually, ideally, where the role starts and I stop begins to blur.
As I said, I am not famous, so I can't say all actors have this experience, maybe because I have this experience I am not famous? Ahh.. the insecure mind of an actor, another hazard.
But the truth is, I will find myself starting to say my characters lines inside a normal conversation with my family. I will start to actually use my characters words to describe things in my day and I will even begin to see thing through their eyes and not my own.
This is called getting into character. For an actor this is a total high. You are possessed in a way and willing to be so. I guess it is a really vamped up way of how when you hang out with someone for any extended amount of time you start to take on their mannerisms. That is what acting can be like. But there is a danger to acting that no one really admits.
Well, I saw one interview about it with Sally Field and a few others talking about going in to character and what you have to open up as far as wounds and memories you paid a therapist a lot of money to get over.
You have to open those feelings back up, dive back into them and remember exactly how it felt to feel that way. This is called AS IF. You are acting in your scene AS IF it was what actually happened or could have very easily happen to you. So you have to pull on your own experiences and that is where things get messy. Your mind at some point is being played with. The ability for an actor to go through feelings and emotions on a dime is a wonderful skill but to close those feeling down again, turn the emotional journey switchboard off when the play ends. That is the real talent.
There was a technique I learned when I was studying acting in camp Bucks Rock. I was 13 and had just finished playing the role of the Imaginary Invalid. After the play closed, I found myself in the camp's infirmary every two days. The acting coach heard about it and took me into the woods and did this "grounding out" technique with me. At first it felt like a joke. I stood there and dropped my head to my feet and pounded my feet into the ground and evetually I released this ROLE, this energy, this character. It was weird, I stood up and I felt totally fine.
That is when I knew I was a method actor. I delved into the roles I played with vengeance and I stayed there even when I would leave rehearsal. I would walk though the city with them on me, eat dinner as they would and slowly we were intertwined and then the play would end and I would be left. The role would be left. Where exactly?
I honestly have to say it goes into my psyche and sets up shop like a habit until you ask or rather demand for it to leave, You ever wonder about the lives of actors and why they can be so volatile or even deadly? I would venture to say it has to do with the high-risk aspect of messing around with their psyche...in my experience acting is like race car driving...skillful, intense and exciting and in the end...you hope you get out of it without too much collateral damage.


We received a terms sheet from them on favorable terms causing us to terminate advanced negotiations with other VCs. Several weeks later they had still not started due diligence. Finally I chased and they bombed out. We found another VC and survived but my perspective was this was a speculative terms sheet. We had some internal issues with an Irishman we didn't know about and not sure if that was anything to do with it but anyway, watch out!
Atlantic Bridge is one of the better Irish VCs. They have their own money (rare in Ireland where about 80% of VC funds are from Enterprise Ireland in one way or another) and give quick answers.
We are too small for them, they are more in the $3m+ range. But they followed up with lots of useful information and pushed us in the right direction.


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Hallmark Star Trek Ornament Predictions for 2021
Update: See what made the 6th Annual Predictions.
Well, we meet again. This time to predict the 2021 Hallmark Star Trek ornament that will be announced in July. The Storyteller announcement for 2020 really through last year's predictions for a loop. Fortunately, it should make the 2021 predictions much easier. First prediction…look for a Star Trek tree skirt coming in 2020. In 2019 Hallmark debuted tree skirts for Star Wars and Peanuts and I fully expect them to follow those up for the Trek universe.
If you would like to see our past predictions click below.
Winner: Tribble, Odds 7:1 (2020)
Winner: None
Winner: Saru & Burham, Odds: 2:1 (2019)
Winner: U.S.S. Discovery, (2018)
Winner: Arex & M'Ress, (2018)
Winner: "The Naked Time" Odds: 3:1 (2018)
2021 Character Contenders
Mirror Mirror Spock is a slam dunk for 2021. I expect to see at least two Mirror Mirror ornaments next year and Spock is the front runner after Kirk's release last year. Odds: 1:9
Mirror Mirror Scotty is a bigger draw than Chekhov so it is likely that pairing him up with Spock in the second year of Storytellers to keep the line rolling would make good business sense. Odds: 1:1
Mirror Mirror Chekov is my guess for 2022. Chekov was the last to be released in the Legends series so it stands to reason he'll get released at the end of the Storytellers run in 2022. Odds: 2:1.
Mirror Mirror McCoy will always be the third banana so it makes sense his ornament will come out in 2022, the third of a three year Storyteller release. Odds: 5:1
Lower Decks premiered in 2020 with Ensign Mariner, Ensign Tendi, Ensign Boimler and Ensign Rutherford. They will be cheap kid-friendly sculpts. Expect an announcement in 2021 for a 2022 release. Odds: 19:1
Spock returned to the Star Trek universe in Discovery and Hallmark could produce a scene with Michael Burnham. Odds: 28:1
Captain Philippa Georgiou is due to get her own Star Trek spinoff but 2021 is way too soon for her. Odds: 55:1
Captain Christopher Pike debuted in second season of Discovery with generally positive reactions. He is already a staple in the Star Trek universe and is a prime candidate. Odds: 14:1
Michael Burnham as the lead of the two year old series Discovery is portrayed in a 2019 scene ornament so the likelihood she'll get a second in two years is not too likely unless it is with the new Spock. Odds: 23:1
2021 Ship Contenders
The Phoenix achieved light speed using warp drive when First Contact was released 25 years ago. Let's celebrate! Odds: 22:1
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2021. Could we get the Cetacean Probe that was in a quest for whale songs? Odds: 85:1
The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B has been mysteriously absent from the Hallmark lineup for years. I still believe it is a strong contender for a Event Exclusive ornament. It has a narrow fan base but will be sought after by the biggest of fans. Odds: 5:1
At some point we should expect Discovery's design of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 to fill the Enterprise ornament slot. Odds: 7:1
Star Trek: Discovery's other ship, U.S.S. Shenzhou may be another angle at promoting Star Trek's latest series. Odds: 90:1
Is the V'Ger likely to show up next season? Odds: 174:1
2021 Scene Contenders
Picard, from the show of the same name, debuts this month (January 2020) and has also been picked up for a second season in 2021. A scene with Picard and Data or Riker or Troi or Hugh is a lock. Odds: 3:1
How cool would it be to see Zefram Cochrane meeting a Vulcan for Star Trek: First Contact's 25th anniversary. Odds: 15:1
The Talosians from the highly praised second season episode of Discovery, If Memory Serves, is very likely to get a scene ornament. This would also be a great opportunity to include new Spock. Odds: 16:1
Nothing would be better than a Kirk ornament shouting "Khaaaaan!". The Star Trek II scene has become a staple in the public lexicon. More likely for 2022 when Star Trek II celebrates its 40th. Odds: 35:1
Another year. Another Spock ornament. "Spock's Brain" should please the fans. Odds: 20:1
America needs a "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" ornamen. Odds: 14:1
"The Enemy Within" is screaming for an evil-Kirk ornament. Odds: 26:1
Hallmark was under fire this year when they banned a same sex kiss ad on their channel. They quickly reversed the decision but look for them to compensate with the famous interracial kiss from "Plato's Stepchildren". Odds: 8:1
A "Space Seed" ornament could revisit the popular Khan character that was first ornamentalized in 2005. Odds: 10:1
"Plato's Stepchildren" gave us many iconic scenes (Spock laughing) but everyone would love to ring in the holidays with Kirk and Spock dancing a little jig. Odds: 14:1
The Kirk Death from the movie Star Trek: Generations is not very Christmasy but look no further than 2015's "The Needs of the Many" ornament. Odds: 28:1
"The Corbomite Maneuver" would be favorite among diehard fans but lost on the general public. Odds: 250:1
2021 Prop Contenders
This may be a bit of a surprise but don't count out another Tribble to follow 2019's Tribble release. It seemed to sell out online faster than the other 2019 releases and I expect it is very cheap to manufacturer. Considering there are other color Tribbles and the fact that it makes for a good generic Star Trek stocking stuffer I don't think we've seen the last of the hairy critters. Odds: 7:1
A three dimensional chess ornament? Check and mate! Odds: 7:1
Just sci-fi looking enough to possibly sneak in as a Christmas weapon ornament, the Phaser Rifle has a decent shot. Odds: 30:1
The Laser Pistol is more modern day sidearm than futuristic weapon. Odds: 40:1
Hallmark has given us the phaser, the communicator, the tricorder and even the transporter chamber, so what is left? Maybe a scene from the Next Generation Holodeck. Odds: 32:1
2021 Star Trek Anniversaries
Star Trek: The Original Series – 1966
Star Trek: The Animated Series – 1973
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – 1979
42nd Anniversary
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan – 1982
Star Trek: The Search for Spock – 1984
Star Trek: The Voyage Home – 1986
Star Trek: The Next Generation – 1987
Star Trek: The Final Frontier – 1989
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country – 1991
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – 1993
Star Trek: Generations – 1994
Star Trek: Voyager – 1995
Star Trek: First Contact – 1996
Star Trek: Insurrection – 1998
23rd Anniversary
Star Trek: Enterprise – 2001
Star Trek: Nemesis – 2002
Star Trek – 2009
Star Trek: Into Darkness – 2013
Star Trek: Beyond – 2016
Star Trek: Discovery – 2017
Star Trek: Short Treks – 2018
3rd Anniversary
Star Trek: Picard – 2020
2020: 1st Anniversary
Star Trek: Lower Decks – 2020
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Joe Herring March 30, 2020 at 9:40 pm
Discover USS Enterprise
Jim Fansett December 10, 2020 at 2:47 pm
I have every ship since1991 original enterprise, I hate character ointments, don't even bother, let's get back to basics How about considering, theDoomsday Machine from the original series, with light and sound, it would be an excellent addition to my collection of ships
David Lomax March 19, 2021 at 12:29 pm
I was hoping the Mirror Mirror storyteller ornaments would include Marlena Morrou(sic).
skidoopostcards Post author March 19, 2021 at 12:50 pm
Unfortunately, I haven't even heard a whisper of Marlena Moreau ornament and with the series being Storytellers the odds of them tossing her in as a surprise seems impossible.


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Q: Using tkinter to display a txt file line by line Hi I am currently writing a program that pulls tweets form twitter using tweepys stream class. I am trying to display this in a GUI using tkinter, I am having trouble displaying more than more than one tweet with in the label. I am new to programming so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
import json
from tweepy import Stream
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
import time
from tkinter import*
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_secret = ''

class listener(StreamListener):
    def __init__(self,time_limit=30):
        self.start_time = time.time()
        self.limit = time_limit
        self.saveFile = open('TwitterStream.json','a')
        self.newFile = open('FilteredStream.txt','a')
        super(StreamListener, self).__init__()

    def on_data(self, data):
        if (time.time() - self.start_time) < self.limit:
            filtered = json.loads(data)
            print (filtered['user']['screen_name'], filtered['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'),('\n'))
            filteredFile =(filtered['user']['screen_name'], filtered['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'),('\n'))

            root = Tk()
            theLabel  = Label(root, text = (filtered['user']['screen_name'], filtered['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'),('\n')))
            theLabel.pack()
            frame = Frame(root, width = 1000, height= 50)
            frame.pack()
            def close_window():
                root.destroy()
            frame = Frame(root, width = 400, height = 400)
            frame.pack()
            button = Button(frame, text="next", command=close_window)
            button.pack()
            root.mainloop()

            self.saveFile.write(data)
            self.saveFile.write('\n')
            self.newFile.write(str(filteredFile))
            self.newFile.write('\n')
            return True
        else:
            self.saveFile.close()
            self.newFile.close()
            return False
    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)

auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
twitterStream = Stream(auth, listener())
twitterStream.filter(languages=["en"], track=["Russia"])

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After maxed caldari recon/HAC, what?
I have a great set of caldari skills for gang support (esp. ECM, missiles, shields), including maxed rook/falcon/cerberus/drake, and good drones. I also have some solid bs skills, caldari bs5 and cruise missile specialization 4, etc. I am weak though in guns, logi, propulsion jamming, RR and especially armor.
I am wondering what to pursue next, for the purpose of solo/gang wh, solo/gang low sec skirmishes, and also 0.0 fleet warfare: T3? Different races for Gila, Rattlesnake, non-caldari? Armor BS? Black ops? Onyx? Nighthawk? Golem? Cap ships????
I am basically looking to maximize fun. Cost is somewhat of a factor. I don't do a lot of fleet ops but may move in that direction if I join a 0.0 alliance. Right now I love soloing wh and low sec; it's convenient!


The Zurich-based studio Okomotive won the Main Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Swiss Game Awards. The company was able to impress the jury with its game FAR: Lone Sails.
The Swiss Game Developers Association (SGDA) conferred the SGDA Swiss Game Awards for the sixth time this year. The main prize went to the Zurich based studio Okomotive, which impressed the judges with the game FAR: Lone Sails. The game also won the Audience Choice Award.
Okomotive was founded in 2017 by Goran Saric and Don Schmocker. However, as stated in a Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) article, FAR: Lone Sails first saw the light of day in 2015 in a bachelor thesis by Don Schmocker. Subsequently it was further developed by the two founders in the course of a Master's degree and launched in 2018.
The Swiss industry prize was awarded this year on 1 February at the Ludicious Game Festival in Zurich. In addition to Okomotive, the studio Momo-π from French-speaking Switzerland also won an award for the game Persephone. It received the accolade "Excellence in Gameplay".
Ludicious has become an important meeting place for game developers. The best digital games are presented and awarded prizes. One of the aims of the event is also to make Swiss developers known internationally.
Our handbook contains 168 pages of information setting out the key advantages of Switzerland as a business location as well as the current investment climate, production costs, taxes, infrastructure and new technologies, financing and legal matters.


The biggest of the hydraulic doors at the new Vikings stadium opened for the first time Monday, according to a tweet from the official account of U.S. Bank Stadium. The tweet included a photo of the massive door.
The Gophers women's basketball team is 5-3 in Big Ten play and has been scoring in bunches — in three of its five league wins, Minnesota has scored at least 95 points. The Gophers will try to keep it going Tuesday against Illinois (7 p.m., BTN).
"Richard Pitino's 2015 recruiting class (freshmen now) has 3 Top-150 prospects. And Pitino's 2016 class is even better. Haters better enjoy it while they can."
— opie12 commenting on startribune.com.
"Gostkowski is one of the best in the league. It's a TEAM game! Credit to Denver for the great win."
— Blair Walsh, who knows what it feels like.


I love potatoes. They are one of the most versatile foods out there. I can think of dozens of way to prepare them. I feel like Bubba from Forest Gump talking about shrip! Here's a new way I found to fix red potatoes and I'll talk you why I love it! Smashed Red Potatoes!
First off this recipe is easy. I'm not even sure I would classify this as a recipe, it's more of a how to. Red potatoes are my favorite potato to work with. I think I like them the most because I don't mind eating the skin and that save me the work of peeling…which I hate peeling potatoes! I also love how you can dress these up to your liking. Keep it simple with salt and pepper or add some more seasonings and cheese.
My kids like to help make these Smashed Potatoes. They are in charge of the smashing part, the best part! I find that any time my kids get involved with helping make it they are more likely to eat it!
I like the texture of these smashes potatoes. I'm really picky when it comes to the texture of my food…a little strange I know! I love a crispy crunchy texture. These potatoes have the prefect combination of soft fluffy potato inside and a nice crunchiness on the outside edges.
Next time you are looking for a new side for you meal try these Smashed Red Potatoes! The family is sure to love them!
You will need smaller red potatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper. You can also add cheese, butter, minced garlic and your favorite seasonings.
Boil potatoes for about 20 min until fork tender. Drain.
Spray a cookie sheet with oil or rub with olive oil. Place the potatoes on the sheet and spread about 2-3 inches apart.
Press down on them with the bottom of a glass to smash them.


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From Korea to the Mideast, No Good Options If War Happens
Posted to Politics April 12, 2018 by Donald Kirk
SEOUL — In our obsession over prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, it is easy to forget what may be a more immediate, more serious clash of regional and great powers 5,000 miles away.
That's the rising confrontation between the United States, Russia and Iran over Syria. That oft-used phrase, "There are no good options," applies perfectly to all the ways suggested for resolving that terrible war, in which hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and millions more have fled their homes, forced to seek shelter elsewhere in Syria or across the Mediterranean on journeys in which thousands have perished.
Now the use of chemical weapons by the hideous Bashar Assad regime has again taken the war to horrifying levels. The sight of hundreds dying or maimed or writhing in pain and terror from this evil form of warfare is a reminder of what the North Koreans might consider in a no-holds-barred conflict for the Korean peninsula.
We know North Korea has both chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction though they don't seem to have come up as an issue while the United States and South Korea demand complete, verifiable, irreversible, denuclearization of the North's nuclear program. Nor has Kim Jong-un threatened to annihilate his foes with them though he did plot the use of VX nerve agent to snuff out his brother-in-law Kim Jong-nam last year in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur airport.
If the Korean confrontation is on hold in the run-up to the summit between Kim and President Moon Jae-in on April 27 and maybe, just maybe, between Kim and President Trump next month, the one in Syria is on the verge of exploding. The Russians are making dire threats while Iran, a nascent nuclear power, backs the Assad regime like a blood brother in a contest for control of the Middle East.
It's easy to say that punitive strike on Assad's forces would be what he deserves to avenge the horror of the latest chemical attack and dissuade him from trying again. The fact is, however, that he's got the Russians and Iranians firmly on his side, and there's no telling what they might do after their bluster and bombast is said and done.
No two wars or crises are alike, but there's an easy comparison between the standoff in the Middle East and that on the Korean peninsula. The North Koreans know they have China on their side. Yes, China's President Xi Jinping, unlike Russia's President Vladimir Putin, does not want conflict in Korea to escalate into another Korean War. The Chinese yearn for stability as Xi made clear to Kim during their great meeting in Beijing. It's reasonable to assume, in fact, that Kim expressed his "willingness" to talk over his nuclear program with Moon and then Trump on the strong advice if not pressure from China.
Against this background, Trump and John Bolton, having just assumed his formal title of Trump's national security adviser, have to forget a "military option" in the form of a quick strike against North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities. Trump may not be happy with whatever deal Moon strikes with Kim, and he may not get what he wants from Kim, but we may be pretty sure he will be in no position to order an attack on the North that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would oppose.
The Middle East is another matter. Trump has denounced the carefully negotiated multilateral deal under which Iran agreed to hold off on developing nuclear warheads, and he's got Israel, a nuclear power in its own right, firmly on his side. He's also got those heart-rending images of Syrians, young and old, writhing in unspeakable agony while attempting to wash off the terrible chemicals that Assad ordered used against them to wrest back territory that he's lost in years of civil war against his cruel dictatorship.
The United States, however, faces another fear in the Middle East, a renascent Russia, anxious under Putin to revive the strength of the old Soviet empire that crashed nearly 30 years ago. Russia can make trouble for the United States and its NATO allies in eastern Europe, notably the Ukraine, and let us not forget Stalin's Soviet Union was a prime supplier of weapons for the North Koreans in the Korean War. Russia under Putin can just as easily sidle up to the North Korean regime with promises of stuff to replace its Soviet-era planes and tanks.
For the United States, the worst nightmare would be a two-front war extending from the Middle East to northeast Asia. That's a nightmare that Trump has to consider while embroiled in a trade war with China and one scandal after another in his own backyard.
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It's getting tougher for MBAs to get into investment banking. Firms are curtailing the number of people admitted on to their associate programmes, preferring instead to focus on fresh undergraduate recruits and train them up. The feeling is mutual, however, with more MBAs shunning banking careers for jobs on the buy-side or within tech firms.
Junior recruits are hot stuff in investment banking currently, but the focus more recently has been on in-house training of technical skills over the recruitment of often more expensive MBAs with less knowledge of the fundamentals of the finance industry, according to Jacques Olivier, finance professor and director of finance programs at HEC Paris. "MBAs are not as technically competent as those trained in-house and in the era of cost-cutting, banks are favouring analyst recruits over associate programmes," he said.
Oliver was speaking at the launch of HEC's dual MBA and Masters in Finance course earlier this month, which aims to offer the best of both worlds – equipping MBAs with in-depth industry knowledge. However, assuming you're just embarking on an MBA, is it really likely to bolster your employment prospects in the financial sector?
Nonetheless, the number of MBAs being hired by large investment banks is on the decline. The proportion of students going from London Business School into investment banking has shrunk from 23% in 2010 to 13% last year, at INSEAD 14% of its latest class went in finance – half the figure of 2008. Even in US schools, where MBA recruitment has held up, the proportion of students going into investment banking is falling – nearly 21% of students at Wharton went into the industry in 2010, compared to 15% in 2013, while at Columbia the figure has shrunk from 26.3% in 2010 to 14% last year.
Despite the fact that most investment banks have pulled away from hiring MBAs for their markets businesses, associate programmes are definitely not going to go away, suggested a number of senior investment bankers speaking at HEC. Instead, they're looking for different skill-sets.
In other words, the range of opportunities an MBA opens up is worth the investment, or at least that's the argument of a panel of business school graduates now working in investment banking. This, of course, is handy in the current climate where banks are retreating from certain business areas – an MBA theoretically offers the versatility to move on elsewhere if you suddenly find yourself exposed.
"An MBA is your get out of jail free card," said Pacini.


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New safety test predicts reactions to novel drugs and cosmetics
by Newcastle University
A simple lab-based skin test which eliminates the risk of adverse reactions to new drugs, cosmetics and household chemicals has been developed by a Newcastle University, UK team.
It uses real human skin and immune cells to show any reaction such as a rash or blistering indicating a wider immune response within the body.
The development is timely as it offers a reliable alternative for the cosmetic industry as a ban on the sale of any cosmetic product tested on animals came into effect across Europe in March.
Professor Anne Dickinson from the Institute of Cellular Medicine recently presented the technology at the In-Vitro Testing Industrial Platform (IVTIP) conference in Brussels. She said: "This skin assay offers an accurate and rapid alternative to animal testing and provides the bridge between the laboratory tests for novel drugs and the first stage of clinical trials in humans.
"It is accurate and faster than anything currently around and can save companies time and resources. The test identifies drugs or products which are likely to cause a reaction or just not work effectively in humans."
The test called Skimune, which is trademarked and has a patent pending, has been successfully tested by a number of large pharmaceutical companies on drugs in development and provides a reliable result within two weeks.
By revealing skin sensitisation or an adverse reaction that may not be identified by use of an animal or computer model, the assay can provide vital information which will allow a drug company to make informed decisions earlier saving significant development costs.
Professor Dickinson said: "We've already shown this works as a way of testing new drugs for adverse immune reactions that can't be identified when tested in animal models."
Working with the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) the Newcastle team have been testing monoclonal antibodies for adverse responses. Professor Dickinson added: "Our Skimune test would have predicted the terrible outcome at Northwick Park in 2006. Then six men taking part in a clinical trial had severe reactions to a monoclonal antibody resulting in organ failure. Previous laboratory and animal research gave no indication that this was likely to occur.
"Our test would have picked up the risk because it is a skin-based model of the human immune response."
The skin assay has been developed using cells isolated from blood samples from a range of healthy volunteers. Differentiated into dendritic cells which activate the T-cells, these in turn create a cytokine storm. Useful for fighting infection, if this immune response goes unchecked it can be extremely harmful to the individual. Skimune provides a histology skin damage read out enabling the severity and potency of reaction to be gauged.
Professor Richard Stebbings, principle scientist at NIBSC welcomed the development adding: "This assay offers a valuable alternative to animal models, used for safety testing of biological medicines and which are often poorly predictive of human responses."
Professor Anne Dickinson has spent 20 years working to understand how we prevent the body rejecting donor tissue such as bone marrow. This technology has been developed from a skin explant model for predicting a potentially serious complication of bone marrow transplantation, 'graft versus host' disease - a common complication following the transplant.
It has been supported by the UK's innovation agency with a Technology Strategy Board grant for the development of a prototype.
As well as patent pending the Skimune test, the Newcastle University team have set up a company Alcyomics Limited which aims to take the technology forward to offer personalised medicine, enabling an individual to be tested for drug responses.
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Q: ASP.Net Website Analytics - What Data to Capture? I am looking to capture a set of data in ASP.Net and send it to a service for processing.  To start with, I will only be interested in a small amount of the data available to the HttpRequest class.  For example: IP Address, URL, etc.  My first thought, was to send these specific values to the service for processing.  This will all be stored in a SQL Server database.
However, I began thinking of ways to "future proof" this and started toying with the idea of capturing all Headers and save them as name/value pairs.  I quickly realized that it might also be handy to have access to ServerVariables as well.  For example, if URL Rewrite was used, I would want to access  HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL to determine what URL was in the browser.  If I had not thought to capture this value to start with, I would have no way to go back and re-process the data.
As you can see, what started out as a relatively small amount of data is turning out to be a lot more than I had anticipated.  These websites have relatively small amount of traffic, so I probably could save ServerVariables for all requests if I had to, but it just seems like overkill.
I know there are services out there like Google Analytics that offer all of this and more, but one important requirement I have is to associate this data with an authenticated user which is strictly against Google's TOS.
Does anybody have suggestions on how to hand-roll your own analytics service?  Is there data outside outside ServerVariables that I may need access to?
Appreciate any help :)

A: Main question you need to ask yourself is what is the goal of this additional logging?
If it's to give additional data to sales guys then you'll most probably need a very small amount of data (which pages were visited and when)
If the purpose is to improve performance then it's some other set of parameters.
But you need to start with what is the outcome.
I was working on a project where similar system needs to be implemented. Website was based on one main master page and other child pages. I took the Page_Load of the main master page and added all logic in there.
I would have one database table for visitors (tracking id, referring website, created date, authentication ID,  and couple more) one table for each page visit (full page url (with query string, short page url, visit time). There were also two additional tables that help us in scoring how much visit to each page is valuable from marketing perspective.
I'd avoid parsing log files because these contain info on all requests (such as request for image, javascript file, video and more).  Also, log files by default do not contain any login info you can use to associate activities with authenticated users.


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Bills LB Reggie Ragland still 'getting his legs back under him,' working with 2nd team
When the Buffalo Bills selected Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland in the second round of the 2017 NFL draft, he was expected to make a big impact alongside Preston Brown in Rex Ryan's 3-4 defense. However, he missed his entire rookie season after tearing his ACL during last year's training camp.
With new head coach Sean McDermott and defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier implementing a 4-3 scheme, there was expected to be a heated competition for the starting middle linebacker job between Ragland and Brown. However, through Buffalo's first four days of training camp, Ragland has exclusively worked with the second-team defense, despite fellow linebackers Ramon Humber, Gerald Hodges and even rookie sixth-round draft pick Tanner Vallejo seeing time with the first-team.
Bills rookies Zay Jones, Tre'Davious White working together, 'preparing for the ultimate goal'
Frazier spoke to the media on Sunday and was asked about Ragland, explaining that while he's healthy, it's still a long process to recover from ACL injuries but noted that he's aware of the former SEC Defensive Player of the Year's talent.
"You can see him kind of getting his legs back under him. He got a chance to get a little work at the end of OTA's and [it's been] a long road coming back from the type of injury that he had – and it may take a little while – but every day he gets a little more confidence," Frazier said. "You can see the burst beginning to come back, but it's a process when you're coming back from that type of an injury so we'll just watch and progress over the next few weeks and hopefully, he'll have no setbacks."
Ragland played in a 3-4 defense throughout his collegiate career and that was expected to continue when he joined the Bills. However, the responsibilities and assignments for linebackers in a 4-3 defense are different than what's asked in a 3-4.
Bills' Micah Hyde praises Tre'Davious White, compares him to Sam Shields
Frazier didn't sound too concerned with how Ragland would adapt from the scheme switch, stating that there would be similarities in what the role would include.
"The things that we ask him to do are not overly different than what he actually did in college," Frazier said. "He's a good enough athlete, he's a smart enough football player that he can adapt to whatever system you have in place and he's doing a good job in that regard. I don't think there are any concerns, system-wise."
The Bills have only had two padded practices thus far so the fact that Ragland has been working with the second-team defense may not be much of a concern, but it certainly will be something to monitor as training camp progresses.
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Home » EE increasing the costs of contracts from as early as 2014, is this fair?
EE, among other major mobile network providers, will be raising the costs of their contracts, for customers that have taken contracts out from March 2014! This isn't the only sector of society that change contractual agreements at the cost of the consumer. Increases to student finance agreements mid-contract have already stung many students and graduates, and this leads to the question of whether it is ethical for businesses to be able to operate in this way.
EE states that the potential to increase their rates 'in line with the RPI' is outlined within their terms and conditions when customers take out contracts with the provider. This is surely a bit of a grey area, as OfCom states that consumers have the right to cancel contracts if price increases were not made clear to the customer at the point of sale. They even provide guidance to providers on how to outline this without 'material detriment' to the customer or business they are providing a service to.
Their belief is customers should be given one month's notice of the increase and be allowed to exit the contract without penalty, if a provider wishes introduce any subscription increase to an already-agreed contract. The grey area is that by placing this information in small-print, providers can defend themselves with the notion that this information was put to the customer at the point of sale.
Should it not be made explicitly clear?
In the culture of privacy agreements and T&Cs, the amount of information that is 'provided' to the customer, versus how informed the customer actually is about the terms of their agreement has always been subject of controversy.
A statistics once came out that highlighted the length of time it would take the average reader to complete Apple's privacy agreement. It would take the average reader around three months to complete, which is already 12.5% of the contract itself! If the terms within the agreement were something providers wished to make explicitly clear to consumers, there are many ways in which they could do this.
As it stands, unfortunately consumers can do very little. At most you can write a strongly worded letter to your provider, and consider withdrawing yourself from their services down the line. You will not be able to leave your contract without early termination fees however, as on paper the provider in question has operated within the brackets of the law.
Although regulators are fighting to change this, the key advice here is to ask your provider at the point of sale about any potential increase to fees mid-contract. Finding this out years down the line will mean that for those who budget to live pay-to-pay each month, even a small variation in their bills could send them into negative equity, arguably only decreasing their ability to maintain future payments.


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Адријан Муту (; 8. јануар 1979) је бивши румунски фудбалер.

У каријери је наступао за Аргес Питешти, Динамо Букурешт (освојио једну титулу првака Румуније), Интер, Верону, Парму, Челси, Јувентус (освојио две титуле првака Италије), Фиорентину, Чезену, Ајачио. Петролул и Пуна Сити.

Мутуа сматрају за једног од најбољих фудбалера Румуније свих времена. Муту је познат и по допинг скандалима и више пута је суспендован због тога.

Трофеји

Динамо Букурешт
 Првенство Румуније (1) : 1999/00.

Јувентус
 Првенство Италије (2) : 2004/05 и 2005/06. (титуле одузете у афери Калчополи)

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Рођени 1979.
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Solid 4 bedroom/ 2 bath ranch with a huge Family of the Dinning Room. Hardwood under the carpet. 2 fireplaces. Master bedroom has walk in Closet and full bath. Newer Furnace. 2 car garage attached in a great neighborhood. Some sweat equity will make this a real gem.


Dave Kuhn is a founder and owner of Indiana Physical Therapy. Dave obtained his Bachelor of Science, Biology and a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Indianapolis. With an impressive educational background, Dave has earned the titles of Physical Therapist, Athletic Trainer, Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Post graduation, he furthered his knowledge through a multitude of education courses such as Maitland Manual Therapy Techniques, McKenzie Treatment Techniques, Mulligan Concepts, Augmented Soft Tissue Mobilization, Functional Movement Screening, and Gary Gray Functional Rehabilitation, just to name a few. Not only has he furthered his education through continued class training but Dave has also been a part of many Olympic games such as the 1996 games in Atlanta, USA, 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was also awarded the 2006 USA Swimming Gold Standard Award and contributed in many other world championship and national level sporting events.


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Dent Stop is a patented product invented by Frank Melia managing director of Metal Cross Body Shop Ltd.
Frank with over 40 years' experience within the body repair and paint industry has dealt with more car park dents and scrapes than he cares to remember equating to hundreds of pounds of unnecessary repair bills for the unsuspecting motorist receiving these car park scars, this led him into the quest to research a cost effective solution, that not only works, but also looks great fitted to your vehicle.
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Tarragona city boasts a history spanning thousands of years, once the capital city of the Roman Empire making it one of the most important cities in the Mediterranean and it certainly doesn't disappoint.
The cities tourist attractions are second to none and are complemented by its idyllic sandy beaches that stretch along the coast line.
Metal Cross Body Shop are approved community dealers for Body repair and paint for the Pinner and Ruislip areas.


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Q: "Incorrect integer value" when inserting data [Eloquent] My controller
        $this->validate($request, [
            'master_item_id.*' => ['required'],
            'quantity.*' => ['required', 'numeric', 'gt:0']
        ]);

        $master_item_id = array_map('intval', $request->master_item_id);
        $quantity = array_map('intval', $request->quantity);
        $price = MasterItem::whereIn('id',$master_item_id)->get('price');

        $transaction = Transaction::create([
            'total_price' => 1,
            'last_edited_by' => Auth::user()->name
        ]);

        foreach ($master_item_id as $key => $no) {
            $input['transaction'] = $transaction->id;
            $input['master_item_id'] = $no;
            $input['quantity'] = $quantity[$key];
            $input['price'] = $price[$key];
            TransactionItem::create($input);
        }

My model
    protected $table = 'transaction_item';
    protected $guarded = [];
    public $timestamps = false;

    public function transaction()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Transaction::class, 'transaction_id');
    }
    public function item()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(MasterItem::class, 'master_item_id');
    }

When I create, this error popped up.
SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1366 Incorrect integer value: '{"price":1000000}' for column `myDatabase`.`transaction_item`.`price` at row 1

I know the problem is because my $price, but I don't know how to fix this, Is there a better and easier method to fix my problem? Thanks!

A: Pretty sure the problem is
$input['price'] = $price[$key];

because MasterItem::whereIn('id',$master_item_id)->get('price'); will return something like this:
[{price: X}, {price: Y} ...]

and not something like
[X, Y]

try with this:
$input['price'] = $price[$key]['price'];


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GOP Candidate Faces Possible Fines Over 'Let's Go Brandon' Holiday Display
Free speech isn't really a thing anymore in the United States as seen by multiple instances including a Florida GOP candidate being possibly fined over associating with the phrase "Let's Go Brandon."
GOP Candidate in Hot Water
Martin Hyde is a Republican who is trying to primary another GOP candidate in the Sarasota area.
Hyde is facing Rep. Vern Buchanan who has the endorsement of Donald Trump and the race is for Florida's 16th Congressional District.
The GOP candidate put up a Christmas display on December 12th, 2021 where it spelled out "Let's Go Brandon" which was on the balcony of his house.
This got people riled up and his homeowners' association sent him a demanding letter that told him that his sign isn't permitted. He is facing $150 fines every day that he keeps the sign up.
LGB Still Going Strong
The now-famous phrase of "Let's Go Brandon" first came about in October when people were chanting " F**k Joe Biden" at a Superspeedway race. The first-place driver was named Brandon and when the broadcaster was interviewing him she tried to explain away the chants against Biden by saying that the people were actually chanting "Let's Go Brandon."
When asked if the phrase was appropriate with the Christmas spirit, Hyde said agreed it was.
"It's fully in keeping with my personality and my campaign," Hyde said. "Anybody who doesn't like it, it's one street … don't come.
"Did I know it was provocative? Absolutely. Did I expect it to take on this level? No."
Not Backing Off
Instead of giving in to the threats, the Republicans upped the game and put out an even larger sign the showed the letters #FJB.
"When you poke the bear, there are outcomes and circumstances," Hyde said.
Hyde said that he wasn't breaking any rules with his tiny, 9 inches tall "Let's Go Brandon" display and said it should not be considered a sign.
"They are individual letters that light up, that's lights where I come from," he said.
"If I put a message up there they liked, they'd be slapping me on the back," Hyde told the Herald-Tribune. "It's got everything to do with they don't like what it says."
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Music Review: Glen Phillips – Secrets of the New Explorers EP
by fitz	| Posted on October 26, 2008
When I saw a chance to review a new album from Glen Phillips, a former member of Toad the Wet Sprocket which is still one of my favorite groups, I jumped at it. Secrets of the New Explorers did not disappoint.
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This is not Glen Phillips first solo album. Immediately after Toad broke up in 1998, he began working on his solo career. In 2000, he released the album Abulum in 2000, Winter Pays for Summer in 2005, and Mr Lemons in 2006, along with the live album Live at Largo in 2003.
Beyond his solo career and touring, he's been active with other groups, including Nickel Creek and Works Progress Administration. And he has a new EP in the works for release in 2009 and another full album in 2010. So he's definitely kept busy in the wake of Toad the Wet Sprocket's demise.
Funny enough, the members of Toad get together from time to time, including a tour in 2006 and many single concerts across the United States.
Secrets of the New Explorers is a 6 song EP that features songs inspired by space travel. As the son of two scientists, the thought of space and space travel is familiar to Phillips. He says "I grew up reading Heinlein, Herbert, Asimov, and my dad's collection of Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction Magazines. The cover art for Secrets pays homage to those magazines from the '50s."
And the love for Phillips' music has even had an effect at NASA. Harlan Spence at NASA had his Cosmic Ray Telescope featured in the song "Solar Flare." He says "My NASA colleagues shared your song with me and I nearly died and went to heaven from its excellence and brilliance and relevance. 'Solar Flare' is awesome! I never thought I'd say it, but radiation poisoning rocks." He goes on to say that "to discover that someone far afield cares about the research I do, and that it was THE Glen Phillips. Incredible."
Of the six songs on the EP, I have to say that "They'll Find Me," "Solar Flare", and "The Spirit of Shackleton" are great, but "Space Elevator" and "A Dream" were my favorites.
"Space Elevator" talks about traveling up a space elevator to orbit, which is a long-term goal for space programs around the world. A long cable stretching from the ground to a geo-stationary object in orbit that could be used to transport goods and people into orbit more safely and cost effective than the standard rockets used today, the space elevator has been a concept discussed in scientific circles since 1895. The concept has also been featured in science fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Sheffield and Robert Heinlein.
Not only does "Space Elevator" have a great message, but it's upbeat, educational, and just plain fun!
Meanwhile, "A Dream" has a chorus that haunts me. "They're not gonna take it all away…" calls to something inside all of us. Keep your dreams safe, for they are that is truly yours.
This EP from Phillips was inspiring. Be sure to pick up Secrets of the New Explorers online at Glen Phillips' site or at iTunes. It's rare to find science-fiction themed rock or pop, and Philips knocked this one into orbit. I look forward to hearing his projects in 2009 and 2010!
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from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import logging
import time

import redis

import ray

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Cluster(object):
    def __init__(self,
                 initialize_head=False,
                 connect=False,
                 head_node_args=None,
                 shutdown_at_exit=True):
        """Initializes the cluster.

        Args:
            initialize_head (bool): Automatically start a Ray cluster
                by initializing the head node. Defaults to False.
            connect (bool): If `initialize_head=True` and `connect=True`,
                ray.init will be called with the redis address of this cluster
                passed in.
            head_node_args (dict): Arguments to be passed into
                `start_ray_head` via `self.add_node`.
            shutdown_at_exit (bool): If True, registers an exit hook
                for shutting down all started processes.
        """
        self.head_node = None
        self.worker_nodes = set()
        self.redis_address = None
        self.connected = False
        self._shutdown_at_exit = shutdown_at_exit
        if not initialize_head and connect:
            raise RuntimeError("Cannot connect to uninitialized cluster.")

        if initialize_head:
            head_node_args = head_node_args or {}
            self.add_node(**head_node_args)
            if connect:
                self.connect()

    @property
    def address(self):
        return self.redis_address

    def connect(self):
        """Connect the driver to the cluster."""
        assert self.redis_address is not None
        assert not self.connected
        output_info = ray.init(
            ignore_reinit_error=True,
            address=self.redis_address,
            redis_password=self.redis_password)
        logger.info(output_info)
        self.connected = True

    def add_node(self, **node_args):
        """Adds a node to the local Ray Cluster.

        All nodes are by default started with the following settings:
            cleanup=True,
            num_cpus=1,
            object_store_memory=150 * 1024 * 1024  # 150 MiB

        Args:
            node_args: Keyword arguments used in `start_ray_head` and
                `start_ray_node`. Overrides defaults.

        Returns:
            Node object of the added Ray node.
        """
        default_kwargs = {
            "num_cpus": 1,
            "num_gpus": 0,
            "object_store_memory": 150 * 1024 * 1024,  # 150 MiB
        }
        ray_params = ray.parameter.RayParams(**node_args)
        ray_params.update_if_absent(**default_kwargs)
        if self.head_node is None:
            node = ray.node.Node(
                ray_params, head=True, shutdown_at_exit=self._shutdown_at_exit)
            self.head_node = node
            self.redis_address = self.head_node.redis_address
            self.redis_password = node_args.get("redis_password")
            self.webui_url = self.head_node.webui_url
        else:
            ray_params.update_if_absent(redis_address=self.redis_address)
            node = ray.node.Node(
                ray_params,
                head=False,
                shutdown_at_exit=self._shutdown_at_exit)
            self.worker_nodes.add(node)

        # Wait for the node to appear in the client table. We do this so that
        # the nodes appears in the client table in the order that the
        # corresponding calls to add_node were made. We do this because in the
        # tests we assume that the driver is connected to the first node that
        # is added.
        self._wait_for_node(node)

        return node

    def remove_node(self, node, allow_graceful=False):
        """Kills all processes associated with worker node.

        Args:
            node (Node): Worker node of which all associated processes
                will be removed.
        """
        if self.head_node == node:
            self.head_node.kill_all_processes(
                check_alive=False, allow_graceful=allow_graceful)
            self.head_node = None
            # TODO(rliaw): Do we need to kill all worker processes?
        else:
            node.kill_all_processes(
                check_alive=False, allow_graceful=allow_graceful)
            self.worker_nodes.remove(node)

        assert not node.any_processes_alive(), (
            "There are zombie processes left over after killing.")

    def _wait_for_node(self, node, timeout=30):
        """Wait until this node has appeared in the client table.

        Args:
            node (ray.node.Node): The node to wait for.
            timeout: The amount of time in seconds to wait before raising an
                exception.

        Raises:
            Exception: An exception is raised if the timeout expires before the
                node appears in the client table.
        """
        ip_address, port = self.redis_address.split(":")
        redis_client = redis.StrictRedis(
            host=ip_address, port=int(port), password=self.redis_password)

        start_time = time.time()
        while time.time() - start_time < timeout:
            clients = ray.state._parse_client_table(redis_client)
            object_store_socket_names = [
                client["ObjectStoreSocketName"] for client in clients
            ]
            if node.plasma_store_socket_name in object_store_socket_names:
                return
            else:
                time.sleep(0.1)
        raise Exception("Timed out while waiting for nodes to join.")

    def wait_for_nodes(self, timeout=30):
        """Waits for correct number of nodes to be registered.

        This will wait until the number of live nodes in the client table
        exactly matches the number of "add_node" calls minus the number of
        "remove_node" calls that have been made on this cluster. This means
        that if a node dies without "remove_node" having been called, this will
        raise an exception.

        Args:
            timeout (float): The number of seconds to wait for nodes to join
                before failing.

        Raises:
            Exception: An exception is raised if we time out while waiting for
                nodes to join.
        """
        ip_address, port = self.address.split(":")
        redis_client = redis.StrictRedis(
            host=ip_address, port=int(port), password=self.redis_password)

        start_time = time.time()
        while time.time() - start_time < timeout:
            clients = ray.state._parse_client_table(redis_client)
            live_clients = [client for client in clients if client["Alive"]]

            expected = len(self.list_all_nodes())
            if len(live_clients) == expected:
                logger.debug("All nodes registered as expected.")
                return
            else:
                logger.debug(
                    "{} nodes are currently registered, but we are expecting "
                    "{}".format(len(live_clients), expected))
                time.sleep(0.1)
        raise Exception("Timed out while waiting for nodes to join.")

    def list_all_nodes(self):
        """Lists all nodes.

        TODO(rliaw): What is the desired behavior if a head node
        dies before worker nodes die?

        Returns:
            List of all nodes, including the head node.
        """
        nodes = list(self.worker_nodes)
        if self.head_node:
            nodes = [self.head_node] + nodes
        return nodes

    def remaining_processes_alive(self):
        """Returns a bool indicating whether all processes are alive or not.

        Note that this ignores processes that have been explicitly killed,
        e.g., via a command like node.kill_raylet().

        Returns:
            True if all processes are alive and false otherwise.
        """
        return all(
            node.remaining_processes_alive() for node in self.list_all_nodes())

    def shutdown(self):
        """Removes all nodes."""

        # We create a list here as a copy because `remove_node`
        # modifies `self.worker_nodes`.
        all_nodes = list(self.worker_nodes)
        for node in all_nodes:
            self.remove_node(node)

        if self.head_node is not None:
            self.remove_node(self.head_node)

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No matter how much we wish there was some kind of foolproof strategy we could apply when playing keno, the fact remains that keno is a game of chance, pure and simple. While there may not be anything you can do to influence the outcome of a keno draw, there are a couple of handy hints to consider which may increase your chances of winning. Using these tactics combined with good old fashioned luck we hope you can maximise your keno wins.
Did you know that the house edge in online keno is significantly lower than offline keno?
When playing real money keno on the Internet the house edge usually sits around the 5 to 10% mark whereas playing offline has a house edge of up to a staggering 40%. That makes offline keno a casino game with one of the highest house edges of all.
The house edge in keno varies because each venue offers different variations on the game and different rules as to the minimum and maximum numbers you can pick. Playing online allows you to be selective about which game you play, finding one that suits your budget and comes with a lower house edge. This one's a no brainer really; play online for better odds and therefore a higher chance of winning.
Picking more numbers in keno means you have a higher chance of winning, but the more numbers you choose, the lower the payouts are. For example, if you pick only one number and you're lucky enough to land that digit, your payout is typically one to three. Pick five numbers and landing one of those numbers will only pay one to 0.5, so you wouldn't even break even. This one really comes down to your personal choice, but keep in mind that picking less numbers doesn't mean you'll win less money.
Like the lottery, keno players can access databases that will tell them the previous numbers that have been drawn on a keno game. Some players employ the strategy of looking over the recent lucky numbers and using these to make their picks. It sounds like a decent enough idea, but the reality is that there is absolutely no formula or predictability to what keno numbers will be drawn.
Just because the number 21 has been drawn in the last three games it doesn't at all mean that 21 is more likely to be drawn on the next keno game. Our advice is to avoid picking these "lucky" numbers; it'll just add more time and energy to gameplay without increasing your chances of winning in any way.
One widely recommended strategy is to have a pre-determined set of numbers that you use for your picks in every keno game. This will save you time trying to think of which numbers to bet on and given that the results of each game are 100% random, you've got just as good chance as any that some of these numbers will eventually show. Some people pick special dates like birthdays or anniversaries but every number has equal chance of making you a winner.
Not only is the house edge better when playing online keno, but you also have the ability to control the speed of the game. Unlike playing in a real keno venue where you have to wait for results to be drawn every five to 10 minutes or so, online keno is available when you want it.
You can use the auto-pick function which will select numbers on your behalf with the click of a button, with results appearing within seconds. Quicker games means you can place more picks in a shorter amount of time, maximalising your chances of a win.
These sites give you the option of playing keno for free in demo mode before committing to any real money wagers, which is a great chance to try out some of our suggested strategies and also the best way to realise that ultimately there is nothing you can do to control the outcome of a keno game.


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Q: Организация таблиц в бд Подскажите как организовать стуктуру таблиц для данного примера.Есть пакеты,для каждого пакета есть опции, которые можно будет менять из админ панели,то есть название иконку и так далее,то же самое можно делать с пакетами,менять иконку цену название.Думал по началу сделать все в одной таблице пакетов,и поля с опциями,но в таком случае не смогу менять название их,а так же добавлять какие то новые.

A:
Один из способов хранения небольших структур с изменяемым составом свойств - сделать вот так.


"To make the Hollandaise, add two egg yolks to your blender, add the lemon juice and give it a whirl. Add the mascarpone, salt pepper and lemon zest and blend until incorporated. It will be thick but should be of pourable consistency. You can adjust the seasoning to your taste."
So this is a RAW EGG recipe right? Can the eggs be cooked a bit over hot simmering water first for FOOD SAFETY?
Thank you ChefOno, I appreciate your expertise.
The current estimate of salmonella contamination is only 1 out of every 20,000 eggs in the U.S.
Whisk the lemon juice into the yolk and bring the mixture to 160F in a double boiler setup. The acid in the lemon will raise the yolk's curdling point above the pasteurization temperature. Cool in an ice bath.