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Wake Me Up When September Ends....
Today is the last day of September, so....wake up! September is ending!
Whenever I hear of this song, I feel conflicted. I feel sad because I know that it was written by Green Day singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, who dedicated it to his father, who died of cancer when he was only ten years old. I know it speaks of loss and death. Sam Bayer, the director of the video, says it is "all about youth and dreams and bonds that get broken."
And it makes me think of James Dean, who died on September 30, 1955.
And it makes me think of September 11, 2001, and all the lost lives and lost innocence of that time.
However, isn't it at the end an uplifting song? "Wake me up" from the sadness. "Wake me up" from death.
It's October! It's the Autumn. Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner. Shouldn't it be a good thing? Now, I may be biased because my birthday is October 1, but I always end up thinking (hoping?) that this should be a happy song. Still, if I'm already in a sad or melancholy mood, I go straight to "American Idiot" or "Holiday" instead.
Congratulations, we've made it through September; bring on October!
Here's the official Green Day video for this song. It's one of those "story-songs" that I'm not a big fan of. You can skip the non-musical parts if you want, or watch it the way director Sam Bayer and Billie Joe Armstrong meant for it to be. The song itself loses something with this treatment, in my opinion....
This version also includes the lyrics if you would like to read them.
Labels: Music Monday
Citizen Kane (1941)
Is Citizen Kane the greatest film ever made? Well I can't say with conviction that this is true. It's definitely not my favorite movie. It's not a pleasant movie. I am willing to say that it is a classic that every film lover should see, however.
Citizen Kane tells the story of publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane. The film begins with his death, and then through newsreels and flashbacks we gradually learn something about him. He is born into poverty but gold or oil or something is discovered on land owned by his parents when he is about ten years old. So a bank trustee buys the land and pays for Charles' education. On a day he is enjoying sledding in the Colorado snow, the bank trustee Mr. Thatcher (George Coulouris) shows up and suddenly takes him away from his parents (Agnes Moorehead plays his mother in her screen debut). Several years later he is now played by Orson Welles and wants his independence from Mr. Thatcher. He buys a local newspaper and succeeds at publishing by mixing yellow journalism and man-on-the-street populism. He travels the world and becomes more and more famous. He marries the niece of a President. He runs for Governor, but on the eve of his election victory his opponent threatens him with exposure of a mistress. He doesn't give in and drop out, so the scandal is exposed. This destroys his campaign as well as his marriage. He marries his mistress and pushes her to be an opera singer even though she is not driven to succeed. Eventually he builds an opera house where she performs, although critics not affiliated with his his newspapers are harsh in their assessment of her talents (or lack of). When she tries to commit suicide he finally allows her to quit. Then, after years of being cooped up in a mansion called Xanadu, she decides to divorce him. The film ends where it began: the death of Kane.
This is a straight-forward summary of the plot, but the first uniqueness of the film is in the way it tells its story. It starts at the end, with Kane's death. A newsreel is used to summarize his life and background information to the reporters (and we, the audience). One reporter (William Alland) is assigned to find out why Kane's last word was "Rosebud." The rest of the story is told through flashbacks via interviews or diary postings. This means that the story isn't told linearly or chronologically, and that sometimes the same scenes are told from two different points of view. That means that you have to engage with the film to actively pay attention; you just can't sit back and let the story flow over you. Because Welles and his Mercury Theater Company came from radio, it's a different sensibility.
see Kane in the reflection in the window? technically brilliant!
Also, the soundtrack to the film resembles much more closely what modern audiences expect from background music. If you watch (listen?) to other films of this time period the music tends to be used as sweeping opening or closing themes or as crescendos for specifically dramatic moments. In Citizen Kane the music is more like a supporting character; it's there in the background adding a little bit of "feel" to each scene.
And what scenes! There are several that are classics because of how they are staged, or filmed, or lighted. When the reporter goes to read the diaries of Mr. Thatcher, the light hits the table in the reading room in such a way as to keep everything else (including the truth?) in shadow. In fact, throughout the film the lighting and staging is such that the reporters, representing us, are almost always literally in the dark. When Kane as a boy is being dispersed to New York, the scene in his parents' lodge has everybody in the scene in tight focus: not just the figures in the foreground, but Charles, who is outside playing in the snow, as well. When Kane is confronted by his political opponent the Governor, their scene is filmed from below, symbolizing their fall into purgatory or worse? The patterns on the wall an of the staircase also help symbolize his ranting.
However, even with all of these technically wonderful accomplishments for Citizen Kane, I still consider the film to be a flawed classic. I don't want to give too much away if you haven't actually seen this film. Suffice it to say that if you love movies, you should see it. Still, if the emotional core of the film is Kane being given up to Mr. Thatcher by his parents, shouldn't we be shown a little bit more of this? Was handing off your child a customary practice at the turn of the century, so needed no embellishment by Welles? Did his parents never try to get in touch with him after he moved to New York? There's a line by his mother that makes it sound as if his father was beating him, and that's why she wanted Charles shipped away. But if, as one of the characters later says, "All he wanted out of life was love," shouldn't this whole scenario have been more prominent?
scene filmed with everyone in extreme focus
Also, it seems to be established that young Kane is a populist and interested in doing what's right. He writes an editorial to this effect as soon as he takes over his first newspaper. His more cynical friend Leland (Joseph Cotten) chides him about it at the time. Somehow, during the course of the film Kane starts to become a power hungry mogul instead. Eventually he and Leland have a falling out, and Kane fires him. I would have liked to have seen more of this process from populist to egomaniac. The most we get is a series of dinner scenes between Kane and his wife. She is never given any characterization at all, which is also a flaw of the film. She seems socially conscious, telling him, "What will people think?" to which he replies, "Whatever I tell them to think!" For a man who is looking for love, you would think we would be shown more of their courtship and life together. Instead she is suddenly there, and then, just as suddenly, not there. Once she divorces him she and his son end up dying in a car accident, so their voices are not part of the ensemble. I think this was a critical mistake in the story-telling. Instead all we get is the point of view of his second wife, Susie (Dorothy Comingore), who doesn't know who he is when they first meet. They bond because she has just as lonely a heart as he has. Once she is discovered, however, his pride insists that he not only marry her but "make something of her." Her scenes are the best is the film. When she cries, "You never give me anything I really care about!" her sadness and frustration are palpable.
Kane making his editorial oath with Leland
A word about the scandal of the film. At the time it was made there was considerable talk that it was based on the life of real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. He had it banned from being mentioned in any of his newspapers, and fought RKO (the producers) to get it black-listed. Because of this the film was not a financial success at the time of its release. However, looking into the stories Hearst and Kane really don't seem similar to me. They both ran newspapers and they both had mistresses. That's about all that I could find. A different Chicago tycoon divorced his wife and married an opera singer. And another tycoon still built his less-than-talented wife an opera house where she could perform. It seems to me that Welles took a few stories of egocentric millionaires and put together a fictional character. Too bad Hearst didn't see it that way.
Technically, Citizen Kane is a masterpiece because of how it is structured and because it has numerous classically staged scenes. However, much like the man Charles Foster Kane himself, the film is at heart, disappointing. Was it better than How Green Was My Valley, the film the Academy chose as Best Picture of 1941? Hell, yes. Is it the best film ever made? Maybe. The most I'm willing to concede is that it is probably the best-made US film.
"I would have liked to have thanked the Academy...."
Although Citizen Kane was not named Best Picture, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director (Orson Welles), Best Actor (Orson Welles), Best Score (Drama), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, and Best Editing. As a director Welles was beaten by John Ford (How Green Was My Valley) and as an actor Welles was beaten by Gary Cooper in Sgt. York. The film won only one award: Best Screenplay, which Welles shared with Herman J. Mankiewicz.
This trailer from 1940 is obviously written for the radio actors....it's fun and unique, and made mostly independently from the film, as most of the scenes shown here are not in the movie!
Happy Birthday Jim Henson!
Today September 24 would have been Jim Henson's 77th birthday. He was born in 1936 in Mississippi but was raised in Maryland. He worked as a puppeteer off and on for several years after college. In 1963 he and his Muppets, Inc troupe landed a job on The Jimmy Dean Show, where Rowlf The Dog made his public debut. In 1969 Henson and Co. was invited to work on a fledgling children's television show on Public Broadcasting called Sesame Street. From that success they created The Muppet Show, which originally no US network would agree to broadcast. Henson had to go to the UK to film and finance the show that ran for five successful years, from 1976 to 1981. Then Jim Henson made several Muppet movies as well as other television series such as Fraggle Rock and Dinosaurs. He died on May 16, 1990.
Happy Birthday, Jim Henson!
Jim Henson portrayed several Muppets, the most famous of them being Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, and Ernie (of Bert and Ernie fame). My favorite was always Rowlf. Here he is in a tender moment from an episode of The Muppet Show circa 1977.
Labels: Birthdays, My Favorite Things, TV Tuesday
Jim Croce RIP
On September 20, 1973 singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash outside Natchitoches, Louisiana. He had been enjoying a year of huge successes: he had two Top Ten hits in 1972 ("You Don't Mess Around With Bill" and "Operator") and then a Number One hit in July 1973, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." After he finished a concert at Northwestern Louisiana University, he and five other people died in their charted airplane.
He had two posthumous hits, "I Got A Name," and another Number One hit, "Time In A Bottle." Now even more heart-breaking than romantic, it went to the top of the charts in late December 1973.
Here is my favorite Jim Croce song, "Operator." Playing with him is guitarist Maury Muehleisen, who died with him in the airplane accident. Please enjoy these two masters at their best.
Rest in Peace, Jim Croce
Labels: Music Monday, Passages
How Green Was My Valley (Best Picture 1941)
How Green Was My Valley (HGWMV from now on) is a movie that I had absolutely no interest in seeing. I had heard about it for years: it was a romantic love-letter to Wales and its wonderful people, directed by the sentimentalist John Ford, starring the beautiful Maureen O'Hara and the dashing Walter Pidgeon. The reason I didn't particularly want to see it is because I have seen The Quiet Man, also directed by John Ford, also starring the beautiful Maureen O'Hara (and the dashing John Wayne), and set in some beautiful Irish (or was it Scottish?) village. Let me tell you, that is one of the most boring films I ever sat through! Sure, it won John Ford another Best Director Oscar (his fourth) but….why? We'll discuss that when we get to it sometime in the mid-Fifties. For now, I just knew that it made me wary of its older sister, HGWMV.
If you've picked up on the fact that I thought this was a terrible movie, you're right.
First of all, there is no dialogue for the first 17 minutes. All we get is a narrator waxing poetically about how great his childhood was and how he is going to tell us all about his small village in Wales. We get various scenes of the Welsh countryside (actually California) until *finally* the camera comes to land on the Morgan family....
The story of HGWMV revolves around young Huw (pronounced "Hugh"), portrayed by a young Roddy McDowall. He and his five brothers and one sister live with their parents on the hill leading up to the coal-mine. Unfortunately, we never learn anything about any of these siblings, and in fact I couldn't even tell them apart. Huw however is a 12-year old boy looking at his experiences through rose-colored glasses, so maybe that's how it's supposed to be. As an example of what I mean, Huw romanticizes his father and brothers coming home from the mine every night, washing up, and having dinner together. This is a simple life, but somehow he makes it sound wonderful. Huw meets his oldest brother's fiancee and falls madly in love with her. They marry and moves into a small house next door. Huw falls into the icy river and is bed-ridden for months; this is when he begins to cultivate his mind by reading such classics as Treasure Island, and conversing with the new chapel minister, played by Walter Pidgeon.
Most of the story is about the Morgans and their relationship to the mine. When the management lowers the workers' salaries, the workers vote to strike. During the strike the village men turn against the foreman, Mr. Morgan (Donald Crisp, in an Academy Award winning Best Actor performance). They somehow hold him responsible for the conditions, although he is firmly on their side. Mrs. Morgan (Sara Allgood) goes to one of the union meetings to defend her husband. This is where she and Huw fall into the river. She is laid low for a few weeks, but is eventually okay. The town comes together after the strike is over, and the Morgans are welcomed back into the villages' good graces. Soon after, two sons are laid off and decide to go off to America. The other two sons are let go, so they head to London. The eldest son dies in a coal-mine fire just as his son is born. In the end, Mr. Morgan dies in a coal-mine cave-in.
Not a lot of "green" on display here. And I don't mean just because the movie is in black and white.
The more interesting part of the film is the romantic relationship between sister Angharad (don't ask me to pronounce it) and Mr. Gryffydd (O'Hara and Pidgeon, respectively). Pidgeon has a strong screen presence as the new minister. He is at first just a friend to the Morgans, then a teacher to young Huw, and then a would-be suitor for Angharad, and finally another brother-father figure for Huw. O'Hara looks lovely in this role, but all she is ever asked to do is stand or sit and look beautiful, smiling blankly as her fellow actors emote to or around her. It is a thankless role and terribly uninteresting. When she confesses her love for the minister, he has the more dramatic scene. He has to explain to her that although he loves her, he won't marry her because that would doom her to a life of poverty. Yes, you read that right. This is the type of sentiment on display in this movie. So she ends up marrying the son of the coal-mine manager and living unhappily ever after.
This is when the movie really begins to falter. Maureen O'Hara ends up coming back from South Africa without her husband. Suddenly there is gossip all over the village about her and the minister, although it appears that they never meet. What exactly is the sin here? The gossip gets so bad that Pidgeon is voted out of the chapel by the ruling council. (By the way, O'Hara in her husband's house reminds me of Joan Fontaine in *her* husband's house in Rebecca; O'Hara is initially shy but then takes command and orders the maid around.) There is talk that she and the manager's son are going through a divorce, but as she is still living in her husband's family's home it seems like it is only talk.
I guess I miss the point of how a village made up of thankless union strikers and shallow gossips is in any way "idyllic"? Symbolically (?) Huw's father dies at this time, so maybe the theme really is that his childhood is over? If that's the case it isn't very clearly presented.
The best part of this film BY FAR is the performance of Roddy McDowall as young Huw. He is wonderful in every one of his scenes. I especially liked when he goes to school to learn and become something, only to face rejection and ridicule. McDowall does a wonderful job handling this sentimental hogwash. Then when he tells his father that he doesn't want to study to be a doctor or lawyer, preferring the life of the coal-mine, you can tell how heart-broken Mr. Morgan is. Crisp definitely deserved his Oscar for this scene. If you are going to watch this movie, watch the scenes with Roddy McDowall and skip the rest of the stuff.
My wife made her own comment on the film: she fell asleeep during the first half hour and woke up to ask, "Which brother is that?" and then gave up. Her rating system is as follows:
stay awake = good
doze off = not so good
actually fall asleep = no good
I'm inclined to agree with her.
How Green Was My Valley
*Academy Award Best Picture 1941*
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Directed by John Ford
Screenplay by Phillip Dunne
based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn
Also Nominated:
Blossoms In The Dust
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back The Dawn
One Foot In Heaven
The Oscar ceremony was held in February 1942, so I guess it's not surprising that after the attack on Pearl Harbor a heart-warming film like HGWMV would win. I know most of these other nominees. Here Comes Mr. Jordan is the story of Robert Montgomery, who is accidentally killed before his time; Claude Rains plays Mr. Jordan, the angel sent down with him to help him take over a murdered man's life. It's a great film. It was later re-made by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait, but the original is better. The Maltese Falcon is, of course, one of the greatest mystery films of all time. It stars Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, directed by John Huston by a story by Dashiell Hammett. By the way, Mary Astor won Best Supporting Actress this year for a film I have never heard of, The Great Lie. Sergeant York was a WWI drama that won Gary Cooper his first Best Actor Oscar. Suspicion starred Joan Fontaine as another put-upon wife; she is the only Alfred Hitchcock directed actor to ever win an Oscar. Her elder sister, Olivia De Haviland, was nominated for Hold Back The Dawn; it is said that when De Haviland lost to her sister they didn't talk for years. I have never even heard of that film. The Little Foxes is a classic Bette Davis film that I have never seen; she, too, was nominated. I don't know two of the last three; the third, Citizen Kane, is supposedly the greatest film ever made. We'll talk about that motion picture NEXT week.
Happy Birthday Ilya and Batman!
Today September 19 is the shared birthday of two pop culture icons:
Adam West was born on September 19, 1928; David McCallum was born on September 19, 1933.
Two great TV "super-heroes" and wonderful actors.
Adam West & David McCallum!
Labels: Batman TV, Birthdays, Man From UNCLE, My Favorite Things
Happy Birthday, Joe Kubert!
Joe Kubert was a master story-teller. He was a professional artist, a writer, an editor, and a teacher. He was a nice guy (I met him at a convention), who was also a good friend and father (so I've read).
He was born on September 18, 1926. Today would have been his 87th birthday.
As far as I can tell, these two issues of All-Star Squadron
are the only time Mr. Kubert ever drew my favorite character.
Joe Kubert died on August 12, 2012.
He is survived by four sons and a daughter...
and a legacy of fine art.
Labels: Birthdays, Wednesday Comics
Mission:Impossible and MASH
You may not think that these two classic TV shows have anything in common. Well, they were not produced by the same studios (Desilu/Paramount and 20th Century Fox, respectively.) They didn't share the same stars (although Larry Linville and Loretta Swit both guest-starred on episodes of M:I before being cast on MASH). They did share the same network, CBS-TV, but that isn't what we're here to celebrate.
No, both of these classic TV shows made their broadcast debuts on the same night: September 17. Mission appeared first, on September 17, 1966. MASH followed six years later on September 17, 1972.
Another coincidence.....both series had casts that were largely different by the time their series ended! Of the four or five leads on Mission: Impossible in its first year, only Greg Morris and Peter Lupus lasted the whole seven years. And on MASH, of course, only Loretta Swit and Alan Alda lasted all eleven years (although Jamie Farr and William Christopher were supporting characters in the first years before becoming regular cast members). And because they both had vast cast changes, neither of their original line-ups are my favorites!
So celebrate Classic Television by watching an episode of Mission:Impossible or MASH. Or both!
the original M:I cast
all-time classic M:I cast (1967-1969)
Larry Linville played an Eastern bloc military man
in a 1968 M:I episode
Loretta Swit played an old girl-friend of Peter Graves
the original MASH cast circa 1974
my favorite MASH cast with BJ, Potter, and Frank (1975-77)
Labels: MASH, Mission:Impossible, TV Tuesday
One Hit Wonder "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
I hear this song every once in awhile. I didn't hear it when it was new (1995) because I was still living in Japan and it didn't get any airplay there. However after I came back to the States I would hear it on the radio sometimes and I finally tracked down a copy for my ipod.
Do you know the song? It's by a group from Texas called Deep Blue Something. That's kind of a stupid name, but I guess bands have the prerogative to call themselves stupid names if they want. The band started out as Leper Messiah, so I guess Deep Blue Something is an improvement.
Two brothers got together with buddies at the University of North Texas and started playing gigs. Todd Pipes wrote the song about the Audrey Hepburn film Roman Holiday, but he didn't think that sounded as good as a title as the film made from the Truman Capote short story. As the song was rising on the charts the brothers and friends were deciding not to continue as a band; they officially broke up in 2001. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" got as high as No. 5 on the US chart, although it went all the way to No. 1 in the United Kingdom.
I like it. I've read that it didn't have a stellar critical reaction when it came out, but somehow the song gets to me. It's at heart about wanting to create or maintain a relationship with another person. If you say we have nothing in common, it's just not true. If we look close enough, there is always *something* we share. Even if it's something that sounds as trivial as liking the same movie or kinds of movies....well that's something, isn't it? If I like comedies and you like action movies, we aren't necessarily going to get along....unless we talk about the stories, and the lighting, and the pace, etcetera. I'm over-thinking this, I know, but only to make a point.
A: He likes comedies, I like action.
B: We have nothing in common.
C: You both like movies, don't you?
Whenever I hear this song, it gives me hope. Hope that we as a nation, or even as a world, can maybe start looking for things we hold in common instead of always looking for things that divide us.
And as an extra bonus both Audrey Hepburn films, Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's, are excellent and you should watch them.
That's my chipper message for this Monday! Enjoy the song and a kinda cute video.
Rebecca (Best Picture 1940)
Rebecca is one of those motion pictures that can't decide what it wants to be. It starts out as a comedy, then becomes a love story, then turns into a suspenseful melodrama. I guess because it manages to do all of these things well that it won the Best Picture Oscar.
The film begins at the ending, with Joan Fontaine saying that she dreamt of her home, now destroyed; she tells us that she can never go back to it....Foreshadowing sufficiently planted, we go back a year or so...
Laurence Olivier is Maxim de Winter, lonesome aristocrat. Joan Fontaine is the paid companion to an egotistical and annoying elderly socialite, Edyth Von Hopper. They meet when she think he is about to throw himself off a cliff in Monte Carlo. He begins to spend time with her and eventually they fall in love. When her employer suddenly decides to leave Monte Carlo, Maxim proposes to her. Her former employer viciously wishes her luck, telling her that there is no way that she could erase the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, from his mind. He takes her home and she becomes the mistress of his castle/mansion known as Mandelay. However, because she is shy, nervous, and timid she is overwhelmed by the house-keeper, Mrs. Danvers (played by Judith Anderson).
Let's stop here for a moment. Identity and appearances play a huge role in this film. For example, the name of the film is Rebecca, although that character never appears (she dies before the film begins and we never see her, even in flashback). Her monogram and name are everywhere in the mansion and on everyone's lips. Worse, we are never given a name for Joan Fontaine's character! Olivier calls her "darling" and the others all call her "Mrs. de Winter." This helps (?) the illusion that she is interchangeable with Rebecca, and has no real identity of her own. I'll refer to her as "Joan" so I don't have to keep calling her "the second Mrs. de Winter."
Up until Joan arrives at Mandelay things have been pretty straight forward. However, things get a bit confusing for her (and thus, for us, atleast the first time we watch the film). Everywhere she turns she runs up against Rebecca....in other words, the first Mrs. de Winter. Everyone tells her that Maxim was devoted to her, and how full of life she was, and what types of things she enjoyed doing, etc etc. Mrs. Danvers is especially creepy in her devotion to the dead woman, and in a dramatic confrontation poor Joan is freaked out something terrible. Finally she cracks; but no, she has actually found her backbone. In a rematch of the dramatic confrontation, Joan puts the house-keeper in her place. "I am Mrs. de Winters now. Do as *I* say." Then she convinces Maxim to have a costume party, but innocently takes a suggestion for a costume from Danvers; it turns out to be a dress that Rebecca wore, and Maxim is furious at her.
After this things get a bit more suspenseful, and I don't want to spoil this film for you if you have never seen it. Just remember, it *is* a Hitchcock film. The last third of the film involves death, plot-twists, and grand juries. George Sanders shows up, dripping villainy. He ends up as a sympathetic character, but only barely. You really do cheer when Laurence Olivier gives him a knuckle sandwich during one of their scenes.
The best thing about this film, I think, is that the first time you watch it you are watching it from Joan's point of view; namely, you don't know what is going on or had been happening before you arrived, i.e. before the film starts. For the second or third viewing, though, you can watch it from Maxim's point of view: you know what happened before and now you can see (better than he) that the whole problem could have been solved by a smile here or a hug there or a different choice of words at inoperative moments. That's what makes this such a tragedy.
I couldn't help thinking, though, that if the heart-to-heart conversation that happens at about the 90 minute mark had happened at the 45 minute mark the movie would have been over. If there was ever a movie that could have been solved by better husband-wife communication, it is this one.
Produced by David O. Selznick
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Robert E. Sherwood & Joan Harrison
Adaptation by
Philip MacDonald & Michael Hogan
based on the book by Daphne du Maurier
the trailer for the re-release of the film
I like this;
it gives you just enough of a hint of something NOT being said
in the spirit of true suspense
All This And Heaven Too
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle
The Long Voyage Home
The Philadelphia Story
In another year with ten nominees for Best Picture, I have only heard of half of these. The Grapes of Wrath won John Ford his second Best Director Oscar, denying Hitchcock what was, in hind-sight, probably his best overall effort (he never won). The Grapes of Wrath also had Henry Fonda, who was nominated for Best Actor but who lost to James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story. TPS is a comedy with real drama, but probably had no real chance of winning. The Great Dictator is Charlie Chaplin's great satire on Adolf Hitler; it was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to openly criticize the then-current German regime. It is a great film. Foreign Correspondent is in the odd position of being another Alfred Hitchcock film; it lost to its sister, Rebecca. The other films I have never seen. Kitty Foyle is evidently a tour de force for Ginger Rogers, who won the Best Actress Oscar. Likewise, The Letter is a tour de force for Bette Davis, who was also nominated.
Happy Birthday, Gerry Conway!
September is the Season for Season Premieres
Happy Birthday, Angela Cartwright!
The Debut of The Super Friends (9-8-73)
Gone With The Wind (Best Picture 1939)
Happy Birthday, Bob May!
"It Was The Third of September...."


First it was Capcom locking DLC behind Marvel vs Capcom 3. Then Sega with Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. Both moves were received with some heated debate as to their worth. Finally Tekken has shown up on the field to try something truly revolutionary. They are going to go free to play on June 11th with Tekken Revolution.
This newest iteration will be a PS3 exclusive. Why you ask? "Ask Microsoft yourself. I already asked them about free to play of the console last year" tweeted the always entertaining Katsuhiro Harada. Well whatever the reason Microsoft passed on this game, Sony has acquire another exclusive Tekken game. With an upgrade system that works by leveling power, endurance and vigor, it will be interesting to see how this game really balances out in the fighting game world.


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Aniah Patterson (22) led the Ravens with 21 points.
MAGNOLIA – The opening tip in the girls' basketball game between St. Thomas More and visiting Salisbury School (Md.) on Dec. 5 went to the Ravens' Jessica Simmons, who streaked down the court and laid it in for two points. That was just a sample of what was to come as St. Thomas More opened its season with a 62-29 win over Salisbury.
The Ravens, who return three starters from last year's team that advanced to the state semifinals, were too fast and too experienced for the Dragons, who play with St. Thomas More in the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference. Their pressure defense resulted in several steals and easy transition buckets. Olivia Lynch and Aniah Patterson, the other returning starters, each scored six points in the first quarter, nearly all on layups.
Six Ravens scored in the second quarter, including Kira Manuszak, a freshman. Her points came after she had rebounded five or six missed shots. Salisbury was held to two field goals in the stanza, although they were consecutive three-pointers that reduced the Ravens' advantage to 26-13. St. Thomas More led at the break, 32-15.
The pesky defense continued into the third quarter, as the Ravens held the Dragons to one field goal and three total points. Patterson, meanwhile, who had spent the final minutes of the second quarter on the bench with three fouls, resumed her offensive ways in the third. She scored eight on three short-range jump shots and two free throws.
Olivia Lynch looks for a teammate with a pass.
The game was well in hand by the beginning of the fourth quarter. All of the Ravens – who have just eight players on the roster – saw plenty of playing time. The home team also made its lone three-point shots, from Patterson and Glennyce James, although they were matched by the Dragons Elsa Quillin, who had four triples in the contest.
Patterson finished with 21, leading three Ravens (1-0) in double figures. The others were Lynch, who had 14, and Simmons, with 10. They have little time to rest, however, as they travel to Glasgow to face Hodgson on Thursday at 4:15 p.m.
Kira Manuszak puts up a shot amid heavy pressure.
For the Dragons, Quillin had 14, and Wes Schoellkopf added eight. Salisbury dropped to 0-2.


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The 1966 season was the Minnesota Vikings' sixth in the National Football League. Sixth-year head coach Norm Van Brocklin resigned at the end of the season, after the team finished with a 4–9–1 record.

Offseason

1966 Draft

 The Vikings traded OG Palmer Pyle to the Chicago Bears in exchange for Chicago's fifth-round selection (76th overall).
 The Vikings trade LB Bill Swain to the New York Giants in exchange for the sixth-round selection the Giants acquired from the Pittsburgh Steelers (83rd overall).
 The Vikings traded their sixth-round selection (87th overall) and 1965 seventh-round selection (92nd overall) to the Detroit Lions in exchange for DT Mike Bundra and E Larry Vargo.
 The Vikings traded their eighth-round selection (120th overall) and LB John Campbell to the Baltimore Colts in exchange for OT Larry Kramer.
 The Vikings traded their 10th-round selection (148th overall) to the Detroit Lions in exchange for DB Gary Lowe.
 The Vikings traded their 20th-round selection (298th overall) to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for HB Billy Ray Barnes.

Roster

Preseason

Regular season

Schedule

 A bye week was necessary as the league had expanded to an odd number (15) of teams (Atlanta); one team was idle each week.

Standings

Statistics

Team leaders

League rankings

References

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"It's much more than a course or a training. This was a life experience for me. I learned new and different approaches of public health practice," said one of the seventy-plus participants commenting about the Behavioral Communication Strategies for Global Epidemics Course.
This pioneering initiative was organized by the Center for Public Health Practice (CPHP) at the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), in partnership with New York University's College for Global Public Health, and with support from UNICEF Headquarters.
"This course focuses on the integration of three public health disciplines for emergency action: epidemiology, behavioral health/intervention research, and public health communication to provide students with a knowledge base and foundation of skills to be able to design and implement strategies in disease prevention and response in outbreak and humanitarian situations," explained Dr. Chris Dickey, professor at NYU-GPH.
From March 16 to 23, more than 70 students and professionals from NYU, UNICEF, FHS alumni, and officials from ministries of health in the Arab region gathered at AUB for an eight-day training course where they developed a complex model of disease in the context of geography, culture, economics, epidemiology, human physiology, environmental science, and policy.
During this unique training, participants coming from 26 different countries discussed how social and cultural practices, processes, and interactions shape the population distribution of health and disease and produce social inequalities in health. Participants were also provided with an overview of theories of behavior change and public health communication. Sessions covered areas such as risk management operation, perception of risk, health literacy, and community engagement, with the aim to enable participants to critically evaluate the information in the field and articulate strengths and weaknesses of these strategies.
"The exchange between students and practitioners is what makes this course unique as it allows for rich discussions and input from the field as well as from academia," stated Instructor of Public Health Practice at the CPHP Martine Najem.
In addition to the theoretical component, the course included field visits to informal refugee settlements in the Beqaa region which was an eye opener to participants as it helped familiarize them with the context of the humanitarian crisis in general, and in Lebanon and the region in particular," stated Najem. "This trip is essential for participants to better understand the value of human centered design in responding to epidemics," she added.
The overall approach is to include both case studies and skills building especially with regard to the use of communication to engage communities in both a prevention as well as an acute response mode. There was a focus on platforms for information dissemination and community engagement including innovation and the use of technologies.
By the end of the course students were able to understand the theoretical, operational, and methodological parameters needed to communicate and change behaviors to mitigate the spread of communicable diseases, as demonstrated by participants who were distributed into ten different projects who created, designed and evaluated communication programs to help addressing health epidemics like Ebola virus disease, dengue, Zika, cholera, measles, and polio, throughout various regions in the world.
The training was concluded by a closing ceremony featuring speeches form representatives of NYU, UNICEF, FHS, and CPHP, and the attendance of officials from different ministries in Lebanon, including public health, education and higher education, and social affairs. All ten teams presented their projects drawing detailed communication strategies and programs frameworks analyzing different components of the matter in question and suggesting a clear roadmap to address it.
After the speeches and presentations, the winning team was announced and participants received their certificates.
"We would like to see this course as a first step in a long-term partnership with NYU and UNICEF, and we aim, as FHS, to have it on a more regular basis," stated FHS Dean Iman Nuwayhid.


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Polk Schools Seeking Bus Drivers to Prevent Shortage Next School Year
No Longer Requiring High School Diploma
Polk County Public Schools
The Polk County Public Schools district is recruiting bus drivers and attendants for the next school year, hoping to prevent the driver shortage that resulted in bus delays at the start of last year.
The district operates a fleet of 511 buses traveling about 61,000 miles per day, transporting about 50,000 students to 121 schools, making 9,200 bus stops along 2,700 routes, according to the transportation department's website. That travel totals nearly 11 million miles per year.
Three driver recruitment events were held in February. The next bus driver hiring events have been scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon Friday, May 24 at the Auburndale Public Library, 100 W. Bridgers Ave. and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 at the Dundee Community Center.
In material promoting the hiring events, bus driver Narissa Peterson is quoted: "I love working for Polk County Public Schools because I get to be the first face the kids see in the morning and the last one they see in the afternoon. I get to listen to them, guide them and be their friend."
After their training, school bus drivers make $13.40 per hour and have opportunities to earn extra pay. They also receive paid Commercial Driver's License training and after 90 days they are eligible for full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life insurance and participation in the Florida Retirement System. The school district says drivers also enjoy winter and spring breaks and summer vacation.
Potential drivers need a valid driver's license with at least five years' driving experience, a clean driving record and completion all PCPS hiring requirements. In addition to attending the hiring events, interested persons may call 863-534-7298 or apply online at https://polkschoolsfl.com/careers
To address the driver shortage, the School Board this year increased driver pay and eliminated the requirement of a high school diploma.
Senior Coordinator of Transportation Services George Millar said being a bus driver comes with numerous other benefits as well. He's heard stories of bus drivers being recognized for the difference they make in students' lives.
"Bus drivers are the individuals who get up very early in the morning and ensure our students get to school on time and safely each morning and are returned home in the evening," Millar said. "Because of our drivers and other transportation personnel, our children have the opportunity to obtain a first-class education here in Polk County."
Lake Wales Wins State Title in Heart-stopping Finish


Daisy Christ enjoying the snow.
Many people think that animals fare better in the cold than humans do. While they do sport fur coats, they aren't immune to harsh weather conditions and get just as cold as you and I.
Here are a few tips on how to keep your pets safe and healthy during this lovely season, courtesy of the Nassau County SPCA.
If your cat or dog is an "outdoor" pet, bring them inside to warm up, and keep them there. Abrupt temperature contrast can be just as harmful as keeping them out in the cold all the time.
Dogs obviously need to go outside at some point to use the bathroom. Keep these potty breaks short and sweet: have them do their business and let them right back in. If you can, stay out with them so you can properly judge when it's time to go back inside. Make sure you always stay outside with your animal if you live near a lake or a pond so you can make sure that they don't fall through thin ice.
During snow or sub-zero temperatures, wipe your pet's paws and underside when they come in from outside. Ice balls can cling between the toes or on the sole of the foot. Pets that walk on pavement can also pick up rock salt and other substances in their paw pads. They can become sick from the chemicals if they lick their paws before they've been wiped thoroughly.
Take extra care of your senior dogs when they go outside in the snow and ice. Like people, their arthritic bones can make them more likely to fall and injure themselves.
Don't be afraid to get stylish with your pup. Stores everywhere sell sweaters, jackets, raincoats and even boots that you can use to protect your pet from the elements. That being said, you can't slap a sweater on a dog and leave them out for hours. If the clothing gets wet it will actually start to take away heat and make things worse.
Not everyone is going to keep their cat indoors during the cold weather, and stray cats unfortunately have no place to go. Many times they will seek warmth near or on a car engine, and can be seriously injured or killed when you start your car. The people I rescued Herbie from actually thought that that could have been what happened to him. So please, rap on the hood of your car a couple of times to chase off any cold kitties before you start the engine. For my little man.


What does the Google knows about the places that I've visited recently ?
How are my interests seen by Google ?
Where does Google keeps the data of each and every word that I had ever typed in search box ?
How I'm getting the Google ads which are interest of me ?
Well believe me this Internet Giant makes every effort so that you can say "I'm feeling lucky" !
So in this post I'll cover best google urls 2016. These google urls will be really helpful in your day to day life.
Now lets see the complete list URLs.
Google stores everything about you that you have ever searched for. But at the same time it respect your privacy too. It stores every data privately on its own servers only and any other third party won't have access to that.
Everything you type is secretly saved on your Google Account Dashboard.
So Google has the data that can surprise you, help you or even blow you out of the water. Only thing to get there is that you have to find right Google URLs.
1) Your account will get terminate if you haven't logged in once in 9 months as per policies of Google. This may create problem for a multi-account user.
This problem can be solved by making one main account as trusted contact for your other accounts. After that google will reminds you after the span of few months to login to other accounts.
For that you need to check on following Google URL.
2) Want to make sure that someone isn't using your smart phone to get access to their account or want to make sure that your private things are fully secured.
Google has also a way for that. It saves every password that has been ever typed on Google chrome or Andriod for logging into various websites.
3) Want to know how everytime Google surprises you by showing the ads of your age, gender & interest.
Then use the following URL to know how Google Sees you.
4) Want to know who else has used your account. Well if the account has been used from any other device then you are getting security mail from Google, but if its from save device then ?
Google has provision for this also. Google security feature helps you to track all the misconducting activity happened it also gives you the IP Address of the particular device as well approx geographical location.
5) Ever wonder that some Apps have access to your Google Data?
Well here is the thing from the Google that helps you to track down each and every App that has permission to read/write on your Google Data.
6) Your smartphone is silently sending data on Google Servers if you are logged in from your Android device in any of Google Product whether you wish or not.
It also include data about your location and activity for eg. Are you moving (if yes then how fast) . you can have access to all your location history on Google Maps also you can use this history for viewing on Google Earth by exporting location history data as KML files.
7) Lost the Smartphone ? Google has a way to track it down.
By using Google Device Manager you can track, Ring the device and even remotely erase the data from it.
Not only this you can even find IMEI number of your lost phone, but the only catch is that the device should be On and Connected to Internet.
8) Found your content copied by other website or Blog? Want that to removed ?
All you need to do is lodge the DMCA complaint with google against that site.
Google has a legal way to help you to claim that particular content and also can help you to remove the entire website from Google search result that are scrapping your personal/wrong content.
9) Google and YouTube keep the data of every data/query you have fired ever. That also includes the ads you have clicked upon or the videos that you watched on YouTube or even the voice seach queries fired on Google Now by "OK GOOGLE" (if you are a user).
10) Want to copy all your Google Data ?
Google helps you to make a copy of all your Data which includes data from all the products of Google like Google Photos, Contacts, Gmail messages, YouTube videos etc.
All you need is to head toward the Takeout page of Google. Following is the link to get there.
11) Google lets you to make use of any email-address as your user name for your Google Account.
It means you can create new Google Account by using existing Email Address.
12) Want alerts about some company or product ?
Just fill one simple form on Google Alerts and leave it all on Google and it will do it for You.
13) Most of peoples don't know that you can use Image instead of keyword to find your search result on Google.
Till now you might have always used keyword for your search queries but you can also use image to find similar kind of images in your search result.
All you need is to upload image on Google Reverse Search and you will get your results.
14) We see many of the URL that are to long that they can't be shared easily. But don't worry Google has a tool which helps you to make the URL short.
Google URL Shortener is tool which helps to make short URLS which on clicking reaches on same result as reaching by original URLS.
15) Here by this tool (Google App Learning Centre) you can find many tricks and tips about various Apps of Google which we generally miss during general surfing.
So these were the best 15 google urls list 2016. Now, we can say that internet giant takes out every care for the service of people.
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No confidence: Obama plummets in the eyes of Americans
By David Sherfinski The Washington Times - July 23, 2013, 07:46AM
President Obama's job approval rating has plunged nine points since April to 41 percent, according to a new poll from McClatchy/Marist — his worst mark since hitting 39 percent in September 2011.
Mr. Obama, though, still enjoys a higher approval rating than lawmakers at the other end of of Pennsylvania Avenue. Twenty-two percent approve of Congressional Republicans and one-third of registered voters approve of Congressional Democrats' job performance.
Mr. Obama is slated to kick off a series of speeches on the economy Wednesday; 37 percent of respondents approve of his handling of the economy, while 56 percent disapprove.
Mr. Obama's disapproval rating is at 48 percent in the poll, up slightly from April's 46 percent.
"Clearly six months into his second term there's been falloff across the board. It's not like one group bailed on him," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York. "When [Obama] gets away from talking about the economy, numbers have a tendency to slide."
A Real Clear Politics average of polls from June 28 to July 21 puts Mr. Obama's approval rating at 45.6 percent and his disapproval rating at 49.2 percent. On Christmas Eve last year, he was safely above water; he had an average 53.8 percent approval rating and 41.8 percent disapproval average.
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David Sherfinski covers politics for The Washington Times. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Pete Buttigieg has Douglass Plan to combat systemic racism, Elizabeth Warren tackles immigration
Tom Steyer says Donald Trump impeachment question answered
Elizabeth Warren releases plan to overhaul immigration laws
Tom Steyer: We've won the argument on impeaching Donald Trump
Pete Buttigieg fills in more details on plan to combat racial injustice


Kharitonov, S.P., Volkov, A.E., Willems, F., van Kleef, H., Klaassen, R.H.G., Nowak, D.J., Nowak, A.I., Bublichenko, A.G. (2008). Brent goose colonies near snowy owls: Internest distances in relation to abundance of lemmings and arctic foxes. Biology Bulletin. Volume 35-3: pp 270-278.


Professor Mary Grey will be in Sarum College Bookshop on Friday 6 March at 5.30pm to launch the third book in her trilogy on peace in the Middle East.
She will be addressing the question 'Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring?
Mary Grey is a Roman Catholic liberation theologian, until recently D.J.James Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter and formerly Professor of Contemporary Theology at the University of Southampton, based at La Sainte Union (1993-7). Before that she was Professor of Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is now professorial research fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London, and Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester.


To visualize track structure of heavy ions with 8-OHdG distribution, DNA-lipid complex sheet were irradiated in parallel with vertical ion beam path, then 8-OHdG were stained immunohistologically. The generation of 8-OHdG along a beam path were observed in proton beam irradiated sheet. Although several ion beams in addition to proton were irradiated including C, Ne and Ar, we have not been able to observe such an image showing linearly generated damage, probably due to the very low probability to imping into very thin film in a parallel direction.


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package com.communote.server.core.user.listener;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

import com.communote.server.api.ServiceLocator;
import com.communote.server.api.core.application.CommunoteRuntime;
import com.communote.server.api.core.config.ClientConfigurationPropertyConstant;
import com.communote.server.api.core.config.ConfigurationManager;
import com.communote.server.api.core.config.type.ClientProperty;
import com.communote.server.api.core.event.EventListener;
import com.communote.server.core.common.LimitHelper;
import com.communote.server.core.mail.MailSender;
import com.communote.server.core.mail.messages.user.NotifyUserCountLimitReachedMailMessage;
import com.communote.server.core.user.UserManagement;
import com.communote.server.core.user.UserManagementHelper;
import com.communote.server.core.user.events.UserStatusChangedEvent;
import com.communote.server.model.user.User;
import com.communote.server.model.user.UserRole;
import com.communote.server.model.user.UserStatus;
import com.communote.server.persistence.user.client.ClientHelper;

/**
 * Notifies client managers if the user limit was reached or is about to be reached after user
 * activations.
 *
 * @author Communote GmbH - http://www.communote.com/
 */
public class UserLimitNotificationOnUserActivation implements EventListener<UserStatusChangedEvent> {

    private UserManagement userMangement;
    private MailSender mailSender;

    /**
     * An active user was removed, resets the user limit flags
     */
    private void activeUserWasRemoved() {
        long activeUserCountLimit = UserManagementHelper.getCountLimit();
        if (activeUserCountLimit > 0) {
            long activeUserCount = getUserMangement().getActiveUserCount();
            if (activeUserCount < activeUserCountLimit) {
                Map<ClientConfigurationPropertyConstant, String> settings = new HashMap<>();
                if (isAutomaticUserActivationChanged()) {
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_ACTIVATION_CHANGED,
                            Boolean.FALSE.toString());
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.AUTOMATIC_USER_ACTIVATION,
                            String.valueOf(Boolean.TRUE.toString()));
                }
                if (activeUserCount < activeUserCountLimit) {
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_100_MAIL_SENT,
                            Boolean.FALSE.toString());
                }
                if (activeUserCount < activeUserCountLimit * 0.9F) {
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_90_MAIL_SENT,
                            Boolean.FALSE.toString());
                }
                CommunoteRuntime.getInstance().getConfigurationManager()
                .updateClientConfigurationProperties(settings);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Check if the user limit is reached or nearly reached (90%). If so send specific emails.
     */
    private synchronized void checkUserLimitReached() {
        long activeUserCountLimit = UserManagementHelper.getCountLimit();
        if (activeUserCountLimit <= 0) { // 0 or less means no limit
            return;
        }

        ConfigurationManager propertiesManager = CommunoteRuntime.getInstance()
                .getConfigurationManager();
        long activeUserCount = getUserMangement().getActiveUserCount();
        if (activeUserCount >= activeUserCountLimit) {
            boolean mail100Send = ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_100_MAIL_SENT
                    .getValue(false);
            Map<ClientConfigurationPropertyConstant, String> settings = new HashMap<>();
            if (!mail100Send) {
                if (UserManagementHelper.isAutomaticUserActivation()) {
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_ACTIVATION_CHANGED,
                            Boolean.TRUE.toString());
                    settings.put(ClientProperty.AUTOMATIC_USER_ACTIVATION, Boolean.FALSE.toString());
                }
                settings.put(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_100_MAIL_SENT,
                        Boolean.TRUE.toString());
                propertiesManager.updateClientConfigurationProperties(settings);
                sendLimitReachedMail(activeUserCount, activeUserCountLimit);
            }
        } else if (activeUserCount >= activeUserCountLimit * 0.9F) {
            boolean count90mail = ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_90_MAIL_SENT
                    .getValue(false);
            if (!count90mail) {
                propertiesManager.updateClientConfigurationProperty(
                        ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_90_MAIL_SENT,
                        Boolean.TRUE.toString());
                sendLimitReachedMail(activeUserCount, activeUserCountLimit);
            }
        }
    }

    private MailSender getMailSender() {
        if (mailSender == null) {
            mailSender = ServiceLocator.findService(MailSender.class);
        }
        return mailSender;
    }

    @Override
    public Class<UserStatusChangedEvent> getObservedEvent() {
        return UserStatusChangedEvent.class;
    }

    private UserManagement getUserMangement() {
        if (userMangement == null) {
            userMangement = ServiceLocator.findService(UserManagement.class);
        }
        return userMangement;
    }

    @Override
    public void handle(UserStatusChangedEvent event) {
        if (UserStatus.ACTIVE.equals(event.getNewStatus())) {
            checkUserLimitReached();
        } else if (UserStatus.ACTIVE.equals(event.getOldStatus())) {
            activeUserWasRemoved();
        }

    }

    /**
     * Checks if is automatic user activation was changed by the user limit controller.
     *
     * @return true, if is automatic user activation was changed
     */
    private boolean isAutomaticUserActivationChanged() {
        return CommunoteRuntime.getInstance().getConfigurationManager()
                .getClientConfigurationProperties()
                .getProperty(ClientProperty.USER_MANAGEMENT_USER_LIMIT_ACTIVATION_CHANGED, false);
    }

    /**
     * Send "Limit reached" email to all client manager, where they are also informed, if the
     * automatic user activation has been change due to reaching this limit.
     *
     * @param count
     *            the user count
     * @param limit
     *            the user limit
     */
    private void sendLimitReachedMail(long count, long limit) {
        List<User> clientManager = getUserMangement().findUsersByRole(
                UserRole.ROLE_KENMEI_CLIENT_MANAGER, UserStatus.ACTIVE);
        Map<Locale, Collection<User>> localizedUsers = UserManagementHelper
                .getUserByLocale(clientManager);
        for (Locale locale : localizedUsers.keySet()) {
            NotifyUserCountLimitReachedMailMessage message = new NotifyUserCountLimitReachedMailMessage(
                    localizedUsers.get(locale), locale, ClientHelper.getCurrentClient().getName(),
                    isAutomaticUserActivationChanged(), Math.round(LimitHelper.getCountPercent(
                            count, limit)), LimitHelper.getCountLimitAsString(limit));
            getMailSender().send(message);
        }
    }

}

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What Is Potassium Iodide?
Posted on June 5, 2016 by Ask Deb in Health
Should I Take Potassium Iodide due to Japanese Radiation?
Potassium Iodide is a chemical compound used in industry, as an additive to salt for health reasons, for pharmaceutical applications, and for the protection of the Thyroid during medical treatment and nuclear accidents.
This last application is why so many people on the American and Canadian west coast have begun buying potassium iodide from stores, in fear that radiation from the leaking radiation plant in Japan might cause radiation poisoning in them and their families.
On March 11, 2011, a rare megathrust earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. The earthquake, measured at around 9.0 on the Richter Scale, caused massive flooding and devastation due to tsunami conditions.
These are the rarest of tremors, and this particular earthquake is said to have moved the Earth off its axis by 4 inches. One of the disasters produced by this massive release of force was to cause damage at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, known in the media as the Fukushima I Nuclear Plant.
Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Fears were immediately aroused that the Fukushima Plant, among others, might experience a meltdown, because the emergency generators that cool the reactor core of a nuclear plant were knocked offline by the earthquake. With only four hours of so of emergency coolant, emergency procedures were taken to see the plant's core did not overheat. The plant engineers decided to flood one reactor room (Unit 3) with sea-water, which eliminated the threat of the reactor core melting down.
Authorities knew this was likely to bring with it less dangerous side effects, but they decided eliminating any threat of core meltdown was worth the trade-off. That's exactly what's happened, as two explosions at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Plant have released radiation into the atmosphere, causing evacuations in the immediate vicinity of the plant. Radiation has leaked into the atmosphere, but nowhere near the dangerous levels that would occur if a reactor meltdown were to happen.
Panic in the United States
The continuing problems at the nuclear plants are what have touched off the potassium iodide panic in the Western United States and British Columbia, Canada. As the areas in North America closest to Japan, fear spread that radiation poisoning might occur due to radiation.
Officials have stated it would take 5 or 6 days for the radiation to reach the West Coast, by which time it would long since have dissipated into the atmosphere. Therefore, there is no need to use potassium iodide. In fact, it would be dangerous to take this compound, if you don't have a medical condition and haven't been exposed to radiation.
Side Effects of Potassium Iodide
Taking potassium iodide has numerous side effects on the human body, including irregular heartbeat, swelling of the lymph glands and other body tissue, numbness, fever, weakness, tingling of the hands and feet, unusual fatigue, stomach pains, nausea (including vomiting), a metallic taste in the mouth, mouth sores, and swelling in the neck and feet. Less severe side effects include loss of appetite, upset stomach, hives, pain in the joints, and acne.
Long term side effects include lack of mental clarity, severe headaches, arrhythmia, and skin lesions, along with ongoing fatigue, numbness, and weakness. Also, you may cause permanent damage to your thyroid by taking potassium iodide, especially if you have a history of goiter, hyperthyroidism, thyroiditis, or Graves' disease. Also, all the side effects have a greater frequency in people over 40.
Potassium Iodide and Radiation Sickness
This is why no one should take potassium iodide, unless that person is in immediate danger of radiation poisoning and your doctor or an emergency care physician instructs you to take the compound. Most inorganic compounds, no matter what their benefits to the human body, are going to cause side effects. Taking a cure for a condition that isn't there is unhealthy.
In the end, you have to listen to the officials and experts whose full-time job it is to know about these dangers and warn others of these dangers. Don't listen to the neighbor down the street, the voice on the radio, or the co-worker who doesn't even seem to know his own job. No matter what they might say or how convincing they sound, they haven't studied the subject as much as experts in the field, who are a great deal less likely to make reckless statements for the sake of drawing attention to themselves.


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It's not uncommon for me to hear stories of regret or disappointment when talking with people about their investment history. The reasons for this vary widely but a frequent one relates to what people feel are missed opportunities. It often sounds like this:
"I wish I would have bought Amazon 20 years ago"
"I owned Apple years ago but sold it"
"I almost bought Microsoft"
These reactions are natural and in hindsight these decisions are easy to criticize, but let's look a little deeper at the ride that the three largest companies in the world by market cap have had.
- Initial public offering on 5/15/1997
- Amazon went up over 900% in 1998
- The stock price fell more than 94% in 2000-2001 and it took over 8 years for the stock to rebound to its prior high
- Its first profitable year was 2004
- An investment of $1,000 would be worth over $1.3M today
- Initial public offering on 12/12/1980
- Apple stock went down over 81% when the tech bubble burst and fell 51.9% on September 29, 2000 alone
- An initial investment of $1,000 would be worth over $800K today
- Microsoft was profitable well before the IPO but Bill Gates wanted to retain more control before going public
- During the "lost decade" of 2000-2010 when the S&P 500 was down about 9% over that period, Microsoft fared even worse, down over 36% in that decade. The S&P 500 suffered a dip of over 55% while Microsoft dipped almost 69%
- Microsoft stock had a period of over 9 years from a peak price to a bottom price and it took more than 5 additional years for it to get back to that prior peak, for a painfully slow 14+ year ride
- An initial investment of $1,000 would be worth over $2.5M today
As you can see, all of these companies have dealt with major ups and downs which can explain why many people who may have owned them at one point didn't stick around for the entire ride as the future is impossible to know.
In my experience as a financial advisor, I've never met someone who's wealth came from buying that one lucky stock that made them into a multi-millionaire. I'm sure it happens (so does winning the lottery), but it's not very common. The closest thing I do see as it relates to benefitting from one specific stock are employees who had the good fortune of working at companies like these before they became the companies they are today, and received stock options as part of their compensation. I attribute this success to people being fortunate in their career, not due to their investment genius. Being in San Diego, the most common example I see is those who started working at Qualcomm years ago and have benefited from that company's significant growth.
So, while I haven't met anyone personally who became rich from investing in the right company at the right time, I have met many people in which the stock market has played a key role in helping them become millionaires. Their success can be attributed to their discipline of being consistent, long-term investors.
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Phil Hughes Undergoes TOS Revision Surgery
By Connor Byrne | August 10, 2017 at 6:56pm CDT
Twins right-hander Phil Hughes underwent thoracic outlet syndrome revision surgery on Thursday, tweets Mike Berardino of the Pioneer Press. Hughes has been on the 60-day disabled list since July 18 thanks to a recurrence of thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms, but the hope was that he'd avoid having to go under the knife.
This will go down as the second injury-marred campaign in a row for Hughes, who underwent TOS surgery in June 2016. That concluded a rough year for Hughes, who also struggled in his return this season. The 31-year-old tossed 53 2/3 innings before his DL placement and logged a 5.87 ERA, 6.37 K/9 and 2.18 BB/9. And while Hughes has historically had difficulty generating ground balls, he posted a career-low 30.4 percent mark this year.
In all, it has been an ugly stretch for Hughes since what looked like a breakout 2014 campaign for the ex-Yankee. That year, his first with the Twins, Hughes racked up 209 2/3 innings of 3.52 ERA pitching, ranked sixth among starters in FIP (2.65) and set an all-time record with an 11.63 K/BB ratio, striking out 188 hitters and walking only 16. The Twins awarded Hughes an extension after that season, but he has since recorded an unsightly 5.04 ERA in 268 frames. He's due to make $13.2MM per year through 2019, the last season of his deal.
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TOS is like the last frontier in pitching injuries. Very few successes.
MrReit03
TOS is not an injury. It's a condition that exacerbates arm fatigue. Don't paint it to be something it's not.
The point is that it doesn't appear to be treatable, at least not currently.
mattdsmith
MrReit03 just got hostile really quickly. That seems rather pedantic to say it isn't an injury when it's caused by repeatedly throwing and is a physical ailment which causes you to be unable to perform. You're not wrong, but it's pointless to say that.
SimplyAmazin91
Maybe he can transition to be a serviceable reliever. I think that's where Matt Harvey, who had the same procedure, should go.
Matt Harvey should go to another club. The mets used and abused him through overuse after the first TJ. They should release him and eat the contract so he can find a situation where he can try to rebuild his career with whatever he has left.
Don't hold your breath on the CHEAP WILPONS doing the right thing.
gocincy
How is it "the right thing to do" to release a capable young pitcher under contract? It's a business, not a charity. By your logic, teams should release any backup who might start for another team because it's wrong to hold a guy back just for the good of your team.
Don't worry about the money being paid for nothing due to the contract extension, Terry Ryan, who signed Hughes to the extension, is forking over the dough from his retirement package….


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U.S. Current Trend: Right to Boycott
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In the past several years, activists who are part of the BDS movement have called for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) aimed at Israel over its policy towards Palestine. In response, at least 27 U.S. states have enacted so-called "anti-BDS" bills. The content of the bills vary, but many include provisions that require anyone seeking to contract with the state government to certify that they are not participating in a boycott of Israel. The contractors covered by these bills might be a large company building state highway infrastructure or a graduate student who has contracted with the government to judge a high school debate competition. Palestine Legal maintains a map that details the status of anti-BDS legislation around the country and provides information about the bills' key provisions.
The Right to Engage in Politically Motivated Boycotts
ICNL takes no position on boycotts of Israel or any foreign country, but we have long defended civic freedom in the United States, including the right of individuals to engage in politically motivated boycotts, which is protected under the First Amendment.
Several of the state anti-BDS bills have been challenged in court as unconstitutional. For example, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has challenged anti-boycott bills in Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has challenged bills in Maryland and Texas. In addition, several prominent First Amendment scholars have written that laws that restrict contractors from participating in politically motivated boycotts are unconstitutional.
To date, three federal courts have ruled that anti-BDS bills are unconstitutional. In 2018 a federal court in Arizona blocked the state from enforcing its anti-BDS law, which required government contractors to certify that they were not engaging in a boycott of Israel. In response, the state amended its law so that it would only apply to companies with more than ten employees, thus eliminating the standing of the litigants who originally brought the challenge. A federal court in 2018 also blocked a Kansas anti-boycott law. The law was challenged by a schoolteacher who had been told she had to certify that she would not participate in a boycott of Israel in order to participate in a state program to train math teachers. In April 2019, a federal judge in Texas struck down as facially unconstitutional the state's anti-BDS law, which required state contractors certify they do not boycott Israel.
In each of these three rulings, the courts relied heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court's 1982 decision in NAACP v. Clairborne Hardware to argue that politically motivated boycotts were protected by the First Amendment (boycotts meant to suppress competition or target companies involved in a labor dispute do not receive the same protection). In Clairborne, civil rights activists had called for a boycott of all white merchants in the county after presenting local white elected officials with a list of racial justice demands that were not met. The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision found that the boycott was constitutionally protected activity that involved "speech, assembly, and petition." The Court argued that "the practice of persons sharing common views banding together to achieve a common end is deeply embedded in the American political process."
In the anti-BDS cases referenced above, the respective courts found that the plaintiffs expressed a desire, and often took steps, to band together with others to express their dissatisfaction with Israel. For example, the petitioner in Kansas was a member of the Mennonite church, which had called for a boycott of Israel over its policy in Palestine in the hope of changing not only public opinion, but also U.S. government policy towards Israel. As such, the courts in these three cases argued the boycotts were protected expressive activity.
Under longstanding jurisprudence, the regulation of protected expressive activity is constitutional only if such regulation fulfills a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored. In all three cases, the courts found anti-BDS bills did not meet this high standard. In Arizona, the Court found that the goal of the Act "is to penalize the efforts of those engaged in political boycotts of Israel." Similarly, the Kansas court found that the "legislative history [of the anti-BDS Act] reveals that its goal is to undermine the message of those participating in a boycott of Israel." While the Texas court found that the law was "intended not to combat discrimination on the basis of national origin, but to silence speech with which Texas disagrees." Even if the state had potentially legitimate goals for such legislation, such as fighting discrimination based on national identity, the courts found that the legislation was not narrowly tailored. Instead, the legislation was underinclusive because it allowed for boycotts of Israelis outside of Israel and also allowed for boycotts of other countries.
Not all legal challenges to anti-BDS laws though have been successful. A federal district court in Arkansas rejected a challenge to the state's anti-BDS law in February 2019 and found that boycotts were not constitutionally protected expressive conduct. Civil liberties advocates criticized the Arkansas decision as significantly limiting the scope of the First Amendment and the decision is being appealed.
Instead of relying on Clairborne, the Arkansas court turned to Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) , 547 U.S. 47 (2006). In FAIR the U.S. Supreme Court had found that the decision of law schools to bar military recruiters on campus to protest the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards gay, bisexual, and lesbian soldiers was not constitutionally protected speech. Drawing on FAIR, the Arkansas court argued, "a refusal to deal, or particular commercial purchasing decisions, do not communicate ideas through words or other expressive media" and so are also not protected speech. The federal courts in Kansas, Arizona, and Texas had all rejected the analogy of boycotts of Israel to the facts in FAIR. For example, the Kansas court argued that a boycott of Israel was "inherently expressive" and that an anti-BDS law required the petitioner to accommodate the state's pro-Israel message. The Texas court pointed out that the Supreme Court in FAIR was not considering boycotts at all (the word is not mentioned once in the opinion) and so could not be used to claim that the Supreme Court had overturned Clairborne's holding that politically motivated boycotts are constitutionally protected.
In polarizing political debates, it is often easy to lose sight of the importance of protecting constitutional values, like the right to engage in politically motivated boycotts. Yet, it is these very values that allow Americans to organize together to have their voice heard on issues important to them both now and in the future.
For more information contact: Nick Robinson at nrobinson@icnl.org
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The UW-Green Bay Theatre and Dance program is a community of professional artists, educators and students. The program offers high-impact learning practices that cultivate creativity, critical thinking, communication skills and collaboration. The program delivers a rigorous academic and problem-focused environment that seeks to produce work that challenges the mind, engages the heart and delights the senses.
Theatre students are encouraged to take advantage of the four mainstage productions offered each year and to become active in the student Alternate Theatre organization that annually creates several productions. An annual season of performances are selected to expose students and audiences to a wide range of theatre genres that include classics, contemporary and new works, musical theatre and plays of relevance to societal and world issues. The Theatre program is continually involved with the Kennedy Center's American Theatre Festival, which aims to identify and promote quality in university theatrical production. Think New York Spring Break Theatre trips and portfolio-building recognition!
The UW-Green Bay campus has excellent facilities for Theatre students to practice their art. This includes the 450-seat University Theatre, an experimental theatre space, acting and dance studios, and scene and costume shops. The University owns the Midwest's crown jewel — the 2,000-seat Weidner Center for the Performing Arts — and its featured spaces including Studio One, used for theatre, dance, and voice classes and the Jean Weidner Studio, a flexible studio performance space solely for Theatre and Music programs.
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The Theatre & Dance department has an exciting, diverse lineup of Performing Arts every year. The 2019-2020 season includes The Rocky Horror Show; the cult classic - live, onstage! This rock-n-roll, sci-fi musical encourages audience participation and out-of-this-world fun.
The Theatre & Dance Program offers a number of scholarships for both incoming and returning students. Scholarships are granted for a single year, with half of the amount applied to each semester. Students may reapply each year for scholarship assistance.
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Visit the Calendar of Mainstage & Studio Events to keep up with the present and future productions. For students interested in auditioning for productions, visit the Callboard page to view casting results.
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ANSON, Lady Elizabeth Georgiana (1941-2020)
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A friend has just called me to say Liza Anson died this morning 1 November 2020. No doubt the media will pick this up at some point.
She was d of Lt-Col Viscount ANSON (1913-58, s of 4th Earl of LICHFIELD (1883-1960)) and (as her 1st h) Anne Ferelith Fenella (1917-80) d of Hon John Herbert BOWES-LYON (1886-1930, s of 14th Earl of STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE (1855-1944) and brother of Queen ELIZABETH The Queen Mother (1900-2002)) and Hon Fenella HEPBURN-STUART-FORBES-TREFUSIS (1889-1966, d of 21st Baron CLINTON (1863-1957)). She m 1972 (as his 2nd of 3 wives, div 2009) Sir Geoffrey Adam SHAKERLEY 6th Bt (1932-2012) and had a dau.
www.lordmountbattenofburma.com
Nov 1, 2020, 10:23:08 AM11/1/20
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8902859/Queen-s-cousin-Lady-Elizabeth-Shakerley-dies-aged-79.html
Her Party Planners website also have a memorial page -
https://www.party-planners.co.uk/
Daily Telegraph 3 November 2020 - EXTRACT
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, party-planner to royalty and the international jet set – obituary
Elizabeth Anson was the Queen's cousin, but she had to work for a living and staged parties for Prince William, Mick Jagger and many others
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, who has died aged 79, was better known as Lady Elizabeth Anson, the founder of Party Planners, a company specialising in organising extravagant bashes for, as she herself put it, "the very rich, the very idle, the very busy and the ones who simply haven't got a clue what to do".
…She presided over Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's wedding reception in Vienna and organised parties at Claridge's following the weddings of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
In 2000 she staged a huge party for Prince William's 18th, the Princess Royal's 50th and Princess Margaret's 70th birthdays, and a week later helped Princess Michael of Kent throw a joint birthday party for her children, Frederick and Gabriella. In 2006 she organised the Queen's 80th birthday party at the Ritz and Lady Thatcher's 80th birthday party at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
…In newspaper articles Lady Elizabeth Anson was always described as "the Queen's cousin", which was true – they both had Bowes-Lyon mothers – but the description gave a misleading picture of her life.
..The daughter of Lt-Col Viscount Anson (elder son of the 4th Earl of Lichfield) and Anne Bowes-Lyon, a cousin of the Queen, Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Anson was born in Windsor Castle on June 7 1941. Her godfather was George VI.
She and her brother Patrick (the photographer Patrick Lichfield) had a difficult childhood. Their parents divorced when Elizabeth was seven and their mother subsequently married Prince Georg Valdemar of Denmark, a diplomat, and moved to Paris.
…Patrick inherited the family seat of Shugborough aged 18. Elizabeth was then 16 and was soon pressed into service cooking for house parties, though she had no formal training.
…She was appointed CVO earlier this year.
In 1972 she married Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, 6th Bt, in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey attended by the Queen, the Queen Mother, and the then Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. Princess Anne was her bridesmaid. The marriage was dissolved in 2009.
Her daughter survives her.
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, born June 7 1941, died November 1 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/11/02/lady-elizabeth-shakerley-party-planner-royalty-international/
The Times 3 November 2020 - EXTRACT
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley obituary
Socialite and cousin of the Queen who ran a thriving party planning business, organising bashes for royalty and rock stars
… That she was born at Windsor Castle and was the Queen's first cousin once removed did her no harm and whenever Buckingham Palace was throwing a bash, her services were regarded as indispensable. Among the many events she organised for the royal family were a supper party at Claridge's for the Queen and Prince Philip on the day of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana; Prince Andrew's 21st birthday bash at Windsor Castle; a dazzling triple-header to celebrate Prince William's 18th birthday; the Princess Royal's 50th and Princess Margaret's 70th; and the Queen's 80th birthday party at the Ritz.
… Her own wedding to the baronet and royal photographer Sir Geoffrey Shakerley in Westminster Abbey in 1972 was a suitably august affair, attended by the Queen and the Queen Mother, and Princess Anne was a bridesmaid. She separated from Sir Geoffrey (obituary December 22, 2012) in 1986 and they divorced in 2009. She is survived by their daughter, Fiona, who lives in Suffolk, and by her two stepsons, Nicholas, who succeeded to the baronetcy, and Joth, a photographer. She once remarked on the marriage: "The minute he got his daughter he didn't want any more, I wanted to have lots and lots."
She never remarried, living for many years on her own in a 22-room house in Ladbroke Grove…
… Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Anson was born in 1941, the daughter of Viscount Anson, who was the son of the fourth Earl of Lichfield. Her mother, Lady Anne Bowes-Lyon, was the daughter of the Hon John Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. King George Vl was her godfather.
Her parents divorced when she was seven and her mother married Prince George of Denmark, taking the title Princess Anne of Denmark…
… Her father died in 1958, before he could succeed to the earldom. After her grandfather's death two years later, her brother Patrick became the fifth Earl of Lichfield and she was raised to the rank of an earl's daughter, even though her father had never held the title.
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, socialite and party planner, was born on June 7, 1941. She died of emphysema on November 1, 2020, aged 79
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/lady-elizabeth-shakerley-obituary-0hv7s6txm