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No I don't have a crush on someone in my office but I have someone who has a crush on me, actually make that 2 people but that's not the point. The point is, as an advocate of #teamnoofficeromance , having to deal with such things could be very interesting especially in a society like ours where single ladies are expected to accept the advances of any eligible bachelor.
I know office crushes are quite common and if you're single and your 'crushee or crusher' is as well, then you have almost nothing to worry about right? WRONG! Thing is, it could easily turn into something serious or a disaster. Sometimes these crushes get so bad that one of the parties involved would have to leave the company out of possible embarrassment or humiliation; that's just too much drama to be honest and ain't nobody gat time for that. Anyway, so I have an office crush, however, the problem is this crush is unwanted and I have no clue how to deal with it.
The other day, a colleague walked up to me and said 'Ah Miss Gidi, you know Bode likes you right? That's why he keeps coming around the office?' I replied with a surprised face like I never noticed the constant visits, numerous compliments and the occasional 'accidental' phone calls on the office line. It is pretty clear that Bode has the hots for me but somehow in the middle of his persistence (because Lagos men do not take no for an answer) he fails to realise that I do not want anything personal to do with him.
What irritates me the most is the constant comments from other colleagues; comments such as, 'Miss Gidi, Bode came by', 'Aren't you Bode's wife?', 'Aww see how he is just smiling because you said hello', 'But he's a very nice guy o, just give him a chance' and my favourite 'Bode just told me he likes you, no dull o, so you can collect ring this year' A constant reminder that due to my marital status of being single I am to jump for joy and accept the proposal from someone I do not like.
That being said, I have tried a few tricks I found on google to get rid of this unwanted office crush. My major issue has been trying to get the point across without hurting his feelings especially since there's a high chance of seeing him every now and then. I've ignored his compliments hoping it would work (of course it didn't) and recently, I passively yet intentionally mentioned the package delivered to my office was from a 'boyfriend' (that didn't work either).
I don't want to be mean, I am really trying not to be mean but how do you get rid of an unwanted office crush or unwanted crush in general?
As for Bode, I finally gave him a moment of my time on one of those slow days at work. I watched as he tried to put his thoughts together and suggest different things we could do together like clubbing or watching a football game (-_-) . At some point I found his comportment (or lack of) cute, until I started talking about intellectual blogs I follow and books I've read; I recognised the blank look on his face as I spoke, he knew nothing about the kind of things I spoke about, he didn't even know who Chimamanda Adichie was.
Office crush is just not okay mehn! office relationship sef na work not to talk about a crush! I guess intentionally ignoring and making every encounter with said crusher as officious as possible!
'so you can collect ring this year'…lolol! #this_beautiful_sister_must_marry_this_year! lol.
Lol Bode na mumu? Watch Bode retreat only to attack harder coz he thinks you are playing hard to get. Btw the fact he doesn't know about your literally influences is not the issue but when you engage him on ideologies and philosophy of ya readings, how does he react?
Office crush can be embarrassing. Shebi he's a colleague and a Bachelor….my married boss is on my case…my days are numbered in dat office.
I so totally agree with that. Office relationships bring nothing but unnecessary drama. I tried it once (Cuz my office is pretty okay with dating within the workplace as long as you both are very discreet), and needless to say things didn't go so well. What makes it worse is that now, any time I talk with him, I realize that I sold myself short and this dude is nowhere as brilliant, or 'interesting' as I thought he was. And that is a shame.
Speaking of shame, how on earth can Bode not know who Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is? Seriously? But then again, I can't be surprised. I was chatting with someone who said that his favourite writer was Jordin Sparks. Even after jokingly asking if One step at a time is his favourite 'book' by the author, the dude still didn't get it, or the sarcasm. Some guys are just hopeless. *smh*.
Oh yes he did. Lol. I was so stunned. I actually repeated what he'd said, hoping it was a slip and he would recover and jokingly redeem himself. But nope. He repeated it. When I sarcastically asked which of her 'books' are his favourite and preempted him by saying 'let me guess. One step at a time', he still didn't get it, or hear the sarcasm *rofl.
LOL. I died at Madea's face at the end. How can he not know Chimamanda??? Ugh.


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Websites I Liked This Week
No, not for their utility. For the design.
First look at Dragone. I love, love the colours. The blue is otherwordly. The brown, the orange, the purple and the sepia green match it like few things I've seen. The typography is top-notch, although sparing and nothing too fancy (really). I didn't even know you could write blue on blue like that. Yes, you can do things like that with green (more than with any other colour — e.g. look at a dollar bill), brown maybe, but blue I didn't know.
I love the rain (I've seen something similar on one or two other sites recently), and I love the way the slideshow doesn't move. See, slideshows are one of the staple trends in web design these days and have been for a long time. Somewhat recently, with more and more print designers joining the game and client and server bandwidths improving, full-page background pictures have started becoming another. Here, the designer combined both — and removed the most annoying feature of slideshows, i.e. the way they move forward to the next slide. At the same time, he (or she) retained a slideshow's most crucial feature — which is, well, the way they move forward to the next slide.
What else? Look at the 'discover the show' link. Those are called 'ghost buttons'. On the technical side, it simply is a textual link with a border around in, in the appropriate colour. And that's it.
White title text over photos is another popular motif – with or without subtle black shading to make it stand out better (and perhaps blur the edges a little to avoid standing out too hard).
I also like the drodpown menu, the way they managed to make it unobtrusive and elegant, avoiding typical clichés.
Some links retain the old, most classic 'hover' effect (graphical change when you move the mouse cursor over them) — the underline, otherwise switched off. (Yes, by default links are underlined in browsers. Web designers started to play with turning that off the moment it became possible. But it still made for a good navigation effect.)
Look, there is a footer below. The page actually scrolls, in spite of the layout covering all of it. Look what happens at the top. I may be getting paranoid, but I suspect the designer was conscious of how the image would clip if you scrolled to the bottom (at least in the most popular desktop resolution, 1920 * 1080, a.k.a. 'full HD'). Still — text falls on text. The blue gets under the white, or the white gets above the blue. Which is great, because it shows the site was not overdesigned. It doesn't actually look that great when designers assume too much control, it creates a sort of OCD effect.
Individual pages, too, are beautiful. They make use of a certain type noise filter and blur maybe, creating a sort of smoky and a sort of oil-paint-like effect, unique in the scale of teh Interwebz.
Now it's time for LeaderBe — a North Scotland consultancy website made by a South England design studio with a lot of talent.
The design is extra simple, though without crossing the line of austerity or minimalism. If there's any design that's both simple and eloborate, this is it.
I like the retro feel, which is actually a popular motif, even a cliché, but on this site it's only light and certainly isn't overdone.
Part of the reason it just simply looks good (and wonderful even) is how they combined the cool ocean blue in the header pic with the overall peach background. Down at the very bottom there's more of the blue. The red accents (tomato/red brick, if I can tell, though it may be India red) are crucial in avoiding boredom and rounding it all out. The compass contour drawing just simply is pretty.
Now, watch the beautiful contrast between the bold italic off-black font on the testimonial (yup, just one, no overdoing it) against the background.
Another important technique used here is the way this widescreen-fitting site will still look good on narrower screens. This is because only the graphical content extends beyond the limits of a certain fixed width (in this case just shy of 1000 pixels, which is also the width I have used on a vaguely similar design).
Navigation bar uses probably the most standard solution these days on minimalistic classy websites and among designers and creatives: the black bar with white font. Except the black is a grungy off shade, so is the 'white', and the font is Impact — which produces a no-nonsense homely (in the good, BrE sense) feel. This is somewhat similar to what LatAm-themed websites do, which fits the travel-related overall visual theme along with an implicit association with tough, seasoned sea dogs.
And look at the pretty text on text pages. The text is important because it actually gets read. When designing a website you need to make sure that your text is pleasant to read. You can become associated with nice, clean text that reads well and is beautiful or with a site on which the content is a pain to read, and which some of the users probably press the back button on.
On a different note, take a look at their What, Why and How. This is similar to the Golden Circle strategy (the one Marta loves talking about), but it doesn't follow the innovative sequence of why, how and what. Instead, it goes for a blend by retaining a feature basis — it introduces and explains the service briefly before moving on to the ideology etc. Still, the 'What' does actually start from a benefit anyway, the first couple of words.
Since we're already talking about the text, content and message — it's so wonderfully concise. In no way is the website content-poor, but at the same time the quantity is perfectly non-tiring. A reader (visitor) is probably in a better, more positive mood if he's not leaving your website tired. This probably affects the visitor's attitude towards the site owner and ultimately willingness to enter into a transaction or business relationship.
As a bonus, look at the same designers' website made for 11 New Square, a London chamber of tax barristers.
You can probably recognize the navbar, the midsection may ring a bell, and look at how the large eleven stands out out of the footer as a unobtrusive antiboredom device. The design is still somewhat courageous in employing double slashes (//) as separators in the horizontal list of links.
The patterned background removes the glam factor but also relative austerity of solid whitespace. Still, solid colour gets used as background a lot — something probably quite courageous of a professional designer, where the expectation may be to come up with creative textures rather. Colour palette is simple overall, too. Still, the effect is completely professional, you won't mistake it for a quick and wobbly Wordpress job (though I suppose the site uses some form of a content management system).
The source code is very rigorous — XHTML Strict is not a forgiving standard. It's a pain to validate the code sometimes. The coder did a great job under the bonnet.
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Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the house of Trainspotting and such a lot of of his novels considering that, with a brand new novel that includes considered one of his such a lot iconic and loved characters—'Juice' Terry Lawson—that's thick at the Scottish brogue, heavy at the grime and masterful in its comedic timing.
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Sunday Supper is an elegant celebration of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market community and California's rich agricultural bounty. On Sunday October 14th, thirty of San Francisco's best chefs join winemakers, bartenders, and sustainable farmers in the historic Ferry Building for one memorable and decadent evening in support of CUESA's Schoolyard to Market program. Here are just some of the talented chefs who will be participating: Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats, William Werner of Craftsman and Wolves, Craig Stoll of Delfina, Melissa Perello of Frances, and Yigit Pura of the freshly opened Tout Sweet Pâtisserie.
This year the event will commence at 6pm with a Champagne reception featuring an oyster bar, hors d'oeuvres, Napa Valley wine, and artisan cocktails. Guests will witness the action in the kitchen with a special behind-the-scenes preview before ascending the stairs to the Grand Hall for an elegant, four-course, gourmet dining experience. The long tables and family-style service are emblematic of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market community, encouraging guests to interact as they enjoy the unique menus created by six different chef teams. Each menu is paired with premier wines by a distinguished sommelier and features a whole beast carved tableside.
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PM's Literary Awards
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
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On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident?
The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 National Book Council Award, and was adapted for film in 1981.
Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays, and feature journalism. Her screenplay The Last Days of Chez Nous was filmed in 1990.
Garner has won many prizes, among them a Walkley Award for her 1993 article about the murder of two-year-old Daniel Valerio. In 1995 she published The First Stone, a controversial account of a Melbourne University sexual harassment case.
Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004) was a non-fiction study of two murder trials in Canberra.
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The story follows the trials and appeals after three young boys were drowned when the car driven by their father plunged into a dam in Victoria. According to the defence, the driver lost consciousness and only recovered when his oldest son opened the car door and let in water. The prosecution claimed the father acted out of anger and vengeance after his marriage broke up.
Immersed in the high tension and drama of the Supreme Court of Victoria—'this house of grief'—Garner describes the proceedings with perspicacity and empathy. Her moving account penetrates to the heart of our justice system, masterfully exposing a theatre where argument is on display but emotions reign.
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Glacier-Waterton Lakes International Peace Park (Montana)
Two magnificent reserves on the western U.S.–Canadian border combine to make up Glacier- Waterton Lakes International Peace Park with stunning wildlife and scenery in near-total wilderness. It is one of the continent's largest most intact ecosystems, much of it undisturbed by almost two million visitors annually.
Hulking grizzly bears survive unmolested here. Once 10,000 roamed over the western U.S. and Canada. They were largely exterminated along with gray wolves because their presence seemed incompatible with humans, but with protection, populations gradually rebounded. Discussion arose in the early 1980s on the wisdom of reintroducing wolves, which had been completely wiped out—more than 80,000 shot, trapped and poisoned between 1883 and 1918—to restore a full, healthy Glacier ecosystem. Wolves settled the question by reintroducing themselves, walking over the international border in 1985. They are readily at home in these northern climes—wolves can sleep comfortably in the open at –40°F (–40°C).
Wildlife now moves freely between the two parks which were established in 1932 as the world's first International Peace Park, joining Glacier National Park in the U.S. and Waterton Lakes in Canada. A joint U.N. World Heritage Site, they share aims and an ecosystem and are administered separately but cooperatively.
Mountain goats, bighorn sheep, bears, coyotes, and mountain lions are at home in both, along with black bears, badgers, snowshoe hares, mink, martens—even a few lynx, wolverines, and fishers—and 250 kinds of birds, including both bald and golden eagles.
Elk with antlers spreading five feet or more (1.5+ m) graze the meadows, along with more delicate mule and white-tailed deer. Shy half-ton moose prefer marshes and edges of hundreds of jewel-like lakes.
The highway through Glacier has been called the most spectacular 50-mile drive in the world, and most visitors travel it more than once, seeing different wildlife and vistas every time. Much of the rest of the combined Glacier-Waterton Lakes 1,802 square miles (4,667 km2) remains a wilderness solitude for animals, the more than 900 miles (1,500 km) of trails traversed by relatively few hikers and backpackers. They can find the splendid solitude that moved naturalist John Muir a century ago to say that time spent in Glacier "will not be taken from the sum of your life. It will indefinitely lengthen it, making you in that way truly immortal."
Glacier National Park is the third largest U.S. national park, 1,600 square miles (4,144 km2) in northwestern Montana, with stunning Rocky Mountain scenery. Grandeur of 10,466-foot (3,220-m) glacier-scoured Mount Cleveland descends to deep woods, cascading waterfalls and wildflower-strewn valley meadows, with elk, moose, grizzly and black bears, and smaller golden-mantled ground squirrels, pine martens, badgers, and coyotes. Higher elevations are home to mountain goats and bighorn sheep, wolverines, lynx, mountain lions and, rarely, gray wolves—altogether some 60 mammal species. Bald and golden eagles—altogether more than 250 bird species—soar overhead. In woods are pine siskins, flickers, red-naped sapsuckers, Clark's nutcrackers, and Steller's jays which join picnics. Water ouzels (aka dippers) forage on stream bottoms. More than 400 glaciers cling to high mountain cirques.
Best times are mid-May–September—best weather, most visible wildlife, most park facilities available. Temperatures range from hot in low valleys in midsummer to windy and bitterly cold with snow anytime at high elevations—a foot (30 cm) fell in August, 1992. Five lodges and hotels include two historic chalets (recently under reconstruction) with many campgrounds in the park. Glacier is open all year but only limited facilities are available off-season.
To get there, drive to park entrances on U.S. Highway 2 from east or west—or Amtrak trains stop at East Glacier and Belton (West Glacier). In the park drive the Going-to-the-Sun road (size limits on large vehicles). Glacier also has bus tours, boat transport to glaciers and trails, 900 miles (1,500 km) of foot trails, backpacking; river-rafting. Snowshoeing in winter.
Nearest airports are in Kalispell and Great Falls, Montana, also Glacier International Airport, halfway between, 30 miles (48 km) southwest. Car rentals are available.
Waterton Lakes International Peace Park, 200 square miles (525 km2) adjoining Glacier north of the U.S.–Canadian border, has nine inns/lodges/hotels in or close by, including magnificent but aging Prince of Wales Hotel; also three campgrounds. Nearest airport is at Lethbridge, 90 miles (128 km) northeast, about 1.5-hour drive to park, approachable from the east by Provincial Road 6; from U.S. by US 89 to State/Provincial Road 17, known as ChiefMountain International Highway, linking the two parks (visitors may need a visa, passport, or driver's license to enter from U.S.). See the park by horseback, boat, hiking trails, or driving tours on Chief Mountain Highway, Red Rock and Alkamine Parkways. More than 114 miles (183 km) of backcountry trails.
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Located 20 kilometers from the town of Denizli, Pamukkale is one of the most interesting places in the world, justly famous not only for the entrancing beauty of its unique geological formations but also for its historical remains. The calcium oxide-rich waters flowing down the southern slope of Caldag located north of the ruins have, over the millennia, built up deposits of white travertine on the plateau thus fully justifying both the site's ancient name of Hierapolis-Holy City-and its modern one of Pamukkale-Cotton Castle. -Let us now take a tour of this supernal spot.
Ancient Hierapolis appears to have been founded by King Eumenes II of Pergamon and its name is derived from Hiera, the wife of King Telephos, the legendary founder of Pergamon. The city became subject to Rome in 133 B.C. In 17 B.C. during the reign of Tiberius it suffered a heavy earthquake that substantially destroyed the city, requiring it to be rebuilt.
Preliminary excavations at Hierapolis were undertaken by a German team towards the end of the last century. Since 1957, excavation and restoration work has been going on under the direction of an Italian group of archaeologists.
The ancient city was strung out on either side of a long colonnaded street called the Plateia. Measuring 13 meters in width, this street ran north and south from the southern gateway to the Arch of Domitian in the north. It is paved with huge blocks of limestone. The first structure one encounters on reaching the plateau is the city baths, which are in a very good state of preservation. The baths are Roman and from the 2nd century A.D. In the eastern part of the baths is a palaestra measuring 36.13 by 52.25 meters. Immediately to the north and south of the palaestra are two big rooms that were reserved for the emperor and ceremonial use. A large hall stretches the length of the western side of the palaestra and this was the gymnasium used by athletes. This salon led into the frigidarium from which one proceeded to the barrel-vaulted rooms of the caldarium. A small room adjacent to the large hall now serves as a museum in which works discovered in the Hierapolis excavations are on display. Since Hierapolis was principally a luxury resort town it was richly adorned with magnificent sculptures showing the influence of the Aphrodisias (q.v.) school and is well worth a visit.
The well preserved theater of Hierapolis commands magnificent view of the plain below. The original theater was located above the northern gate, but when the city was rebuilt during the reign of the Flavian emperors (60 A.D.) the theater was relocated here, and the seats from the old structure were used in the work.
During the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.) the theater's skene was modified and richly decorated with reliefs. In 532 it was discovered that the sekene had been weakened by age and the almost daily seismic activity that takes place here and had to be reinforced. Since the theater has been restored, it is now possible to see the friezes of mythological scenes depicting Apollo and Artemis in their original positions. Thirty rows of the seats of this theater resting against the slope have survived. Originally there were 20 rows in the lower part and 25 in the upper separated by a diazoma. The cavea was divided by eight aisles.
Passing through the city walls above the theater we proceed to the Martyrion of St Philip. This is an octagonal building erected on a square measuring 20 by 20 meters. It was built in the early 5th century. Even in its present state of ruin it is an impressive structure. Retracing our footsteps to the theater we may now examine the ruins below the theater.
Near the road is the Temple of Apollo, the principal deity of the city. While the foundations of this temple go back to late Hellenistic times, the present remains of the upper structure are from the 3rd century A.D. Next to it is a cave (called the Plutonion) from which poisonous gases emerge. (According to Strabo, an ox thrust into this cave would keel over and die. He himself experimented with doves.) The temple measures 20 by 15 meters and sat on a platform that was 2.5 meters high. Before the temple is a monumental fountain. Built during the late 3rd century A.D., the walls of this rectangular fountain are very well preserved. There was also a pool located before the fountain and the structure was richly adorned with statues and columns. The water for this fountain was brought here by aqueducts, remains of which may be seen in the vicinity of Guzelpinar and between Pamukkale and Karahayit. East of the present museum is a Christian basilica consisting of a nave and two aisles. It dates from the 6th century A.D. Walking along the route of the Plateia (which now passes through the modern swimming pool and motel) reminds us that this main street dividing the ancient city was once decorated with colonnades, porticos, and important buildings located on either side. The street runs directly toward the city walls passing through a gateway built in Byzantine times atop an earlier fountain. On the way is a basilical structure with two aisles and a nave whose eastern end terminates in an apse. The city walls were built in 396 A.D. and were reinforced by twenty-eight towers. Passing through Byzantine gate we come to a rather well preserved section of the Plateia. This part was built during the reign of Domitian (81-96 A.D.) and terminates with the Arch of Domitian. This monumental gateway was actually erected by Julius Frontinus, who was proconsul of the Roman province of Asia (middle western Anatolia) in 82 and 83 A.D., and dedicated to the emperor. The gate has two round towers and three portals. Excavations are now in progress to reveal the remains of shops and houses that once lined both sides of this street.
Northeast of the street between the Byzantine and Domitian gates was the agora of ancient Hierapolis. The traces of the city's original theater may be seen above. As we follow the road in the direction of the necropolis we pass by the imposing walls of a building originally erected as baths around the end of the 2nd century A.D. It was converted to a church in the 5th century. The huge necropolis of Hierapolis spreads out on either side of the road for a distance of two kilometers. It contains tumuli, sarcophagi, and house-shaped tombs that range in date from the late Hellenistic period to early Christian times. It is one of the most extensive and best preserved ancient cemeteries in Anatolia and a stroll through it leaves a deep and mystical impression upon the visitor, particularly on a moonlit night. The road proceeds on to the hot springs of Karahayit located 4 kilometers away.
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Q: localization of module of constant rank is again of constant rank
Let $A$ be commutative ring with unit and $M$ module over $A$ such that rank (the smallest number of generators) of $M_{P}$ over $A_{P}$  is constant for every $P \in \mathrm{Spec}(A) $. Does this property holds for module $M_{P}$ over $A_{P}$?

It seems to be true but I can't find any way of proving it without getting my hands dirty i.e. referring to  construction of localization instead of using universal property of localization. Any hints greatly appreciated.

A: The fact that would make this easy is that $\mathrm{Spec}(A_P) \subseteq \mathrm{Spec}(A)$.
Algebraically, the prime ideals of $A_P$ are in one-to-one correspondence with the ideals of $A$ contained in $P$.  Furthermore, if $Q \subseteq P$, there is a natural isomorphism $(A_P)_{Q_P} \cong A_{Q}$.

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Michael Curtiz's The Walking Dead is never going to be genuine classic of the horror genre (though some have made that claim). Rather, it's an intriguing little B movie from the final days of the first wave of horror (1931-36), made just before the moratorium on horror pictures. (Ultimately, commerce won out over this "decency" campaign.) It is by no means in the same league as Curtiz's horror classics — Doctor X (1932) and Mystery of the Wax Museim (1933) — and not even as interesting as his quasi-horror The Mad Genius (1931), a film in which Boris Karloff had a minor role. Well, this was 1936 and Karloff no longer was a minor player, but a bonafide above-the-title star. So what WB wanted for him was a vehicle — and what five credited writers came up with was a mix of gangsters (well, it was WB) and Frankenstein with some pretty preachy religious overtones. It misses greatness on nearly every level, but it is unfailingly interesting, and it has good performances.
Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-con — and supposedly great musician who, on the evidence, only knows one piece of music — who is framed by racketeers for a murder they committed. As luck would have it, he goes to the chair just as his innocence is established, but waiting in the wings is kindly Dr. Beaumont — played by Kris Kringle himself, Edmund Gwenn — who has the ability to bring him back from the dead. As usual in these movies, this isn't the best plan. Not only is the revived Ellman pretty darn listless, but he's gained a white streak in his hair (recalling the "Bride of Frankenstein") and a cadaverous look. That look was achieved the same way Karloff's Frankenstein Monster was — by removing his bridgework. Of course, that was the whole point — to make Karloff look as close as possible to the Monster without inviting litigation from Universal.
More than just looking creepy, Ellman is creepy, since he has returned from the dead in a strange state of apparent omniscience. He knows who his friends are and more to the point who his enemies are — even those he's never seen. This, of course, means he will exact his revenge on them, but the film handles this in an unusual manner where Ellman never touches his victims, but causes them to panic and manage to get themselves killed — a kind of divine retribution. It works more than it doesn't, but it ultimately makes the film curiously muted. The film's single best sequence is where Ellman sees all the men responsible for his death at a gathering where he plays the piano. Curtiz stages this as pure theater, employing lighting effects that are more dramatic than realistic. The ending is effective, too, but if, like Dr. Beaument, you're hoping to find out what happens after death, forget it. You're going to be fed some guff about God being a jealous God.
The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Walking Dead Thursday, May 29 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.


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Io la conoscevo bene è un film del 1965 diretto da Antonio Pietrangeli.

Il film è stato selezionato tra i 100 film italiani da salvare.

Trama
Adriana è una ragazza molto giovane, bella e di umili origini della provincia di Pistoia che si trasferisce a Roma, dove cerca di farsi strada nell'ambiente dello spettacolo in tanti modi. La sua ricerca, talora faticosa e umiliante, la porterà a conoscere numerosi personaggi che, con maggiore o minore fortuna, fanno parte di quel mondo, apparentemente sfavillante. I quali, chi più chi meno, si approfitteranno anche sessualmente di lei senza mantenere le promesse fatte e lasciandola, da sola, al suo tragico destino.

Produzione
Prodotto da Turi Vasile e Mario Ferrari per la ULTRA Film e progettato sin dal 1961, la pellicola venne girata tra Roma, Faleria, Mazzano Romano (precisamente alle cascate del fiume Treja), Orvieto (presso il duomo, nel Teatro Mancinelli e nella stazione ferroviaria) e gli studi della Titanus alla Circonvallazione Appia a Roma.

Per la parte della sfortunata Adriana Astarelli i tre sceneggiatori e la produzione, per lanciare commercialmente il film, pensarono inizialmente a Natalie Wood, Silvana Mangano e Brigitte Bardot. Pietrangeli però si impose e scelse Stefania Sandrelli, che nonostante la giovane età e la poca esperienza compariva per la prima volta in un ruolo da vera protagonista ed interpretando un personaggio, complesso e articolato, che è rimasto assolutamente memorabile.

Nel film appare per la prima volta al cinema una quindicenne (e doppiata) Loretta Goggi che, pur non essendo accreditata nei titoli del film, interpreta il fugace ruolo della imbarazzata figlia della titolare di uno stabilimento balneare denominato "Calypso". Tra i tanti comprimari, in un ruolo particolarmente riuscito ed incisivo appare anche Ugo Tognazzi, con cui il regista aveva appena lavorato (1964) in il magnifico cornuto. Compare, infine, pure non accreditato, il gruppo dei Flippers (si riconoscono chiaramente Franco Bracardi e Massimo Catalano) nella scena dell'ultima festa alla quale Adriana partecipa.

Colonna sonora
Il commento musicale è opera di Piero Piccioni, tuttavia nel sonoro hanno un ruolo fondamentale anche numerose canzoni dell'epoca, eseguite rispettivamente da: Mina (Eclisse twist, Addio e E se domani), Peppino di Capri (Le stelle d'oro e Roberta), Sergio Endrigo (Oggi è domenica per noi, Mani bucate e Dimmi la verità), Millie (Sweet William e What Am I Living For?), Gilbert Bécaud (More e Toi), Mia Gemberg (Ogni giorno che passa), Gino Marinacci e i suoi solisti (Surf della frusta), le Gemelle Kessler (Lasciati baciare col letkiss), Ornella Vanoni (Abbracciami forte) e Yvar Sauna e la sua Orchestra (Letkiss).

Accoglienza

Critica
«... Nulla da eccepire sulle intenzioni letterarie di questo ritratto, che forse ripetendo vecchi temi, mirava a polemiche più profonde di quelle sin qua tentate da Pietrangeli, nell'ambito soprattutto di un'osservazione acuta e dolorosa del nostro costume contemporaneo. Purtroppo queste intenzioni non sono state adeguatamente servite né dal testo, né in molti casi dalla regia. Fra gli interpreti merita lodi Stefania Sandrelli, le si alternano a fianco anche se spesso fugacemente Nino Manfredi nella caricatura di un talent scout, Ugo Tognazzi umanissimo e persino patetico...» Gianluigi Rondi ne Il Tempo del 4 dicembre 1965.

Riconoscimenti
 1966 – Nastro d'argento
Miglior regista a Antonio Pietrangeli
Migliore sceneggiatura a Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli e Ruggero Maccari
Miglior attore non protagonista a Ugo Tognazzi
 1966 – Mar del Plata Film Festival
Miglior regista a Antonio Pietrangeli

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici
Film diretti da Antonio Pietrangeli
Film ambientati a Roma
Film girati all'Eur

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The Rock and Roll hall of Fame has become one of Cleveland's most recognizable landmarks and a must see for out of town visitors. Here is a little information about the history of the Rock hall from the official website:
More than 25 years ago, leaders in the music industry joined together to establish the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in New York City to celebrate the music and musicians that changed the world. With that, one of the Foundation's many functions is to recognize the contributions of those who have had a significant impact on the evolution, development and perpetuation of rock and roll by inducting them into the Hall of Fame.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its doors in 1995 on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that exists to engage, teach and inspire through the power of rock and roll. It carries out this mission through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
Officials from Cleveland and the state of Ohio approached the Foundation in 1985 and suggested the construction of a major museum. "We originally planned to purchase a brownstone in New York City in which to house the Hall of Fame, as well as an archive, library and museum," said Suzan Evans. In November, the city sent a delegation to New York.
"They had these wonderful diagrams for a museum that would be much larger than any town house we had originally thought of," said Evans. "Our eyebrows were raised, and somebody at the meeting actually passed me a note that said, 'Pack your bags.'"
As the Foundation considered the offer, several other cities, including New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Memphis and Chicago, also made offers. The board members visited each city and were greeted with police escorts, public rallies and marching bands.
The first induction dinner was held at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in January 1986. Inductees include Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Little Richard. Robert Johnson, Jimmie Rodgers and Jimmy Yancey were honored as early influences. The first non-performers honored were producer Sam Phillips and disc jockey Alan Freed. Talent scout/producer John Hammond was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award.
Meanwhile, Cleveland ranked first in a public poll conducted by USA Today asking where the Hall of Fame should be located. After much competition and many visits to potential sites by Foundation members, Cleveland is chosen as the permanent home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in May of 1986.
Following an extensive search throughout 1987, world-renowned architect I.M. Pei was chosen to design the Museum. Pei had a lot of learning to do. "I didn't know a thing about rock and roll," he confessed.
Not to be discouraged the board members took Pei on trips to Memphis and New Orleans and to concerts in New York. "We heard a lot of music, and I finally got it: rock and roll is about energy," said Pei. He accepted the challenge of designing the world's first museum dedicated to rock and roll.
On June 7, 1993, ground was broken for the Museum in Cleveland. On hand were I.M. Pei and various board members, including Ahmet Ertegun, Suzan Evans and Jann Wenner. Inductees and other artists present at the ceremony included Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum.
Townshend made one of the museum's significant donations on this occasion – the Gibson J-200 guitar used to compose Tommy, including the classic "Pinball Wizard."
A year later, under a hot summer sun and Ruby, a larger-than-life inflatable from the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels tour, the Museum was topped off with the last steel beam in its structure. First-year inductee Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as several Cleveland musicians, performed for a crowd that includes Pei, Wenner, Evans and Ertegun.
On October 13, 1994, Yoko Ono presented a major collection of John Lennon artifacts to the Museum. The collection included lyrics, Lennon's guitar from the 1965 Beatles concert at Shea Stadium, a pair of eyeglasses and the leather jacket Lennon wore while in Hamburg.
In September of 1995 and after 12 years in the making, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened with a full schedule of events.
On the first day, September 1, the celebration began with a playful parade through the streets of Cleveland, followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the Museum. Present for the ceremony were Pei, Ertegun, Wenner, Evans, Ohio Governor George Voinovich, Cleveland Mayor Michael White, Little Richard and Yoko Ono, as well as press from around the world. A gala private dinner attended by board members, celebrities and many Cleveland residents ended the evening in grand style.
The Museum officially opened to the public on Saturday, September 2, which kicked off with a ceremony presenting the Ahmet M. Ertegun Exhibition Hall, the Museum's main exhibit space named in recognition of the founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The evening culminated with a benefit concert at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. An incredible roster of the rock and roll greats performed– Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, the Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, the Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Booker T. and the MGs, Eric Burdon and Martha Reeves.
Since the Museum's opening, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has welcomed nearly eight million visitors from around the world and reaches more than 50,000 students and educators each year through its education programs on site and at great distances.
– Take a moment to find out more about this cool museum: http://www.rockhall.com/
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Q: I am merging two Vector analogs together by appending the second to the first, and getting an exception. Why? I am creating a Vector analog to learn a little bit more about one-dimensional data structures.
The problem is this: my merge() method (which is basically an extension of my append() method) is throwing an ArrayOutOfBoundsException.
The MyVector class itself is lengthy, so I'll post the relevant parts.
Class/Object fields:
public class MyVector implements Cloneable
{
   private Object[] data;
   private static final int INITIAL_CAPACITY = 100;
   private int size;

The default (only one currently) constructor, along with the append() method:
public MyVector()
{
    data = new Object[INITIAL_CAPACITY];
    size = 0;
}
public void append(Object element)
{
    if (size == data.length)
        expand();
    data[size++] = element;
}

The merge() method:
public void merge(MyVector vector2)
{
    for(int i = this.size; i < (this.size + vector2.size()); ++i)
        this.append(vector2.data[i]);
    this.size += vector2.size();
}

The place where it's called:
vec.merge(vecCopy);

vec is created as a MyVector object earlier in the class, while vecCopy is a copy of the references to the data in vec.
That's all of the relevant code. I imagine the answer is obvious, but for whatever reason I can't see it.

A: for(int i = this.size; i < (this.size + vector2.size()); ++i)
The index i can get over vector2.size(), i.e, index out of bounds.


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It's been a little over two years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH 370) disappeared during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It is the greatest aviation mystery of our time, and we still have no answers about what happened onboard the Boeing 777-200ER carrying 239 people.
Though MH370 is the biggest mystery to date, if we look back over the last century, there exist multiple aviation mysteries that still remain unsolved. For example, in March of 1956, three U.S. Air Force personnel disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea while flying a Boeing B-47 'Stratojet' long-range bomber. The plane was traveling from the MacDill Air Force Base in Florida en route to the Ben Guerir Air Force Base in Morocco as part of a four-plane flight. While three planes showed up at their aerial refueling point, one went missing and no wreckage was ever found. The scary thing is—the plane was carrying two nuclear weapon cores that seemingly disappeared into the air, along with the plane and three people.
Aviation mysteries are baffling and one cannot help but wonder: how is it possible for an airplane to just disappear? And secondly, why do such tragedies happen? In the case of MH370, there have been many speculations: maybe there was a terrorist attack, or one of the pilots decided to commit suicide, or maybe everyone is alive and the plane was landed on a remote island for some unknown purpose—and so the theories are ongoing.
But the first question poses a different set of concerns: how is what happened to MH370 even possible in the 21st century? We live in a world where technology has already removed so many elements of mystery from our lives: before we had caller ID, we never knew who was calling until we answered the phone; before we had GPS in our cars, we used physical roadmaps to drive ourselves around; before we had the Internet, we couldn't just Google any question or idea to find an answer. Yet, why hasn't technology solved these mind-boggling mysteries of huge airplanes just disappearing into the airwaves?
Now, if this were an X-Files episode, Agent Mulder might be the one to assume aliens are abducting planes that appear to vanish out of the air (which, by the way, there are some people who believe a UFO beamed MH370 right out of the sky) but we have to wonder what Agent Scully would think and how she'd go about solving the mysterious disappearance of an airplane. So is there a way for technology to solve these aviation mysteries? Moreover, how will we advance our technology so planes can no longer disappear into the airwaves?
The unfortunate truth is that it is possible for an airplane to disappear. The technology does exist but, sadly, it's not as easy to implement as we think it is. "Why," you ask? The ocean.
The standard practice for monitoring airspace is by using two radar systems: primary and secondary. Primary radar detects and measures an estimate of a plane's position using reflected radio signals. Secondary radar relies on targets equipped with a transponder that asks for the plane's identity and altitude. All commercial airlines have a transponder, which automatically sends a transmission with a unique four-digit code when it receives a radio signal sent by radar. This is the data sent to air traffic controllers, who monitor the airspace.
Think of it this way: when you are flying across the United States, there is always someone watching because there is radar coverage over land. As a plane makes its way from say, New York City to Los Angeles, pilots check in about every 45 minutes to an hour because they are switched to the next air traffic controller.
When traveling over the ocean, there is no radar coverage when you're about 150 miles away from land because, well, oceans are incredibly vast and that's why we have gaps in radar coverage. When flying overseas, pilots switch to a high frequency (HF) radio for long-range communication.
Overseas, pilots are required to check in at fixed location points through what's called "oceanic communications." Or, depending on the airline, a plane might be equipped with a flight management computer (FMC) that will automatically make a transmission report with the plane's speed, altitude and position. Pilots connect the autopilot to the route programmed in the FMC and the airplane will follow the programmed course and make check-ins at fixed location points. But you can very easily change the route by hitting the "heading select button," meaning, if MH370 was equipped with an FMC, all someone had to do was turn it off and manually turn the plane 90 degrees, changing the route in a different direction.
Though planes are equipped with GPS to track their location, it only lets the plane know where it is, not air traffic controllers, whose network is almost entirely radar-based. If a plane goes off course over the ocean, there isn't a way for air traffic control to know its exact location. Some new, modern and expensive planes can utilize the black box on an aircraft (computerized equipment that records all of the planes data) and send back real time engine data to the company that operates it. Though black boxes are not currently equipped with any form of a GPS location transmitter, the capability is there, but it's a very advanced, high-tech system.
"The technology is there to track an airplane across the ocean, but it's expensive and there wasn't a need until now," says Lon Lowe, captain at Alaska Airlines.
It would cost the aviation industry billions of dollars to implement satellite technology, and Lowe explains part of the issue is deciding who pays for that.
Reports indicate that, over the next decade, the aviation industry is looking to replace radar technology with a new system called ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) as the primary system for air traffic control. This would use GPS technology to send data to found controllers and other planes for tracking purposes. If you've ever used a flight-tracking website or app, this is information made available to the public and is how you're able to track a flight from your phone. However, this would still not resolve the issue of tracking over water because the system's coverage does not extend that far.
However, the aviation industry is currently working to make sure a plane cannot disappear over the ocean again. Airlines and governments worldwide are coming together to determine how to improve flight tracking. In February 2015, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) met to start negotiating standards that governments will have to require for flight tracking with a goal of determining the rule by next year.
But is human error or technology to blame?
When it comes down to it, aviation accidents occur from multiple issues, but the majority of recent mysteries appear to most likely have been caused by the flight crew, a technological issue, or weather.
Take, for example, the case of Helios Airways Flight 522, often referred to as the "ghost plane." In August 2005, during a short route from Athens to Cyprus, the Greek aircraft lost contact with air traffic controllers and held its pattern around the airport for an hour, before fighter jets were scrambled to see what was going on. What they found was a rather grim sight: the pilot was slumped over the controls, oxygen masks were dangling and all 121 passengers appeared to be dead. It reads like an episode of the X-Files: Agent Mulder might have concluded aliens had overtaken the flight, whereas Agent Scully would have to agree with what officials determined as the cause: gradual cabin pressure loss.
Though Helios Airways Flight 522 appears to have been resolved, one has to wonder how such an error, whether caused by a human or technical glitch, could happen. Lowe doesn't think this situation was so much a technology issue as it was a human error.
Another rather perplexing aviation mystery occurred in 1968 when Aer Lingus Flight 712 was traveling from Cork, Ireland to London. Not long after taking off, the plane crashed into the sea. Reports indicate the last communication with the plane was a call was made from the aircraft saying, "twelve thousand feet descending spinning rapidly" which prompted a search over the flight path.
Despite a two-year investigation, authorities were never able to determine a cause for the crash, which killed 61 people. While some witnesses believe a British experimental missile shot down the plane (the British government was operating an experimental missile station in West Wales) but such reports have been denied and the crash remains a mystery.
Sure—it's still hard to stomach the idea of an airplane disappearing, or even enduring a fatal crash in this day an age. But, the future does hold some positivity as airlines look toward changing policies and investing in the necessary technology to improve taking flights over oceans. So while it is possible for an airliner to disappear, whether due to technical problems, human error, extreme weather or even by pure randomness, the hopeful outcome the aviation industry has learned from MH370 is that we should not see another tragic aviation mystery.


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How to Protect Yourself from Scam Emails, Letters and Phone Calls
Written by Will from Holland
Remember scam emails? They would offer you a big commission if you let a total stranger in a foreign country deposit ten million dollars in your bank account for a few weeks! Or, they told you that you won the lottery and they'd like to deposit a big check into your account, and all you have to do is wire back the taxes!
That has "Scam!" written all over it, right?
Unfortunately, scammers have become smarter and more believable since then. The scammers behind major data hacks like Target, iCloud, JP Morgan, and Home Depot may be some of the smartest we've seen.
If you receive an email, letter or phone call from these scammers, their message can seem believable and legitimate. For instance, an email could have the subject line "Attached is your new insurance policy" and the email mentions your insurance company. Or, "Visa card ending in 1234 has been compromised" and you have a card ending with that number. How about this one: "Someone ran a criminal background check on you" and included four digits of your Social Security number, your full name and your address.
Sure, it's a bit unnerving that scammers have certain information about you already. Perhaps they got it through the hacks mentioned above, or maybe you were careless with your personal information on social networks. A lot of information is readily available for anyone to collect, but, if scammers are reaching out to you, it means they don't know enough about you to hurt you... yet.
So here's a plan to help protect yourself—and help to prevent you from inadvertently sharing your personal information with the wrong person or company—Stop and think before you react to any emails, letters and phone calls.
If it's an email: Do not click on anything in any email without questioning it. If you have any suspicions, simply call or email the company the sender claims they are by using contact details you already know.
If it's a phone call: Tell the person you'll call them back, but make sure to call the company's number that you have in your own records to find out if the person is actually a representative of that company.
If it's a letter asking for you to give your personal information: Call the institution to get clarification. And don't use the phone number in the letter!
There are many other ways scammers are trying to get you to reveal your personal information with them, too. Follow the simple tips on our site to help you avoid being scammed.
What to do now: Check out the related posts right now. We have tons of articles and videos that will help you protect yourself from identity theft, phishing scams, hacks and much more.
Good luck and stay safe!
Cheers, Will
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Dee Barnes On Life After Dr. Dre Assault: 'I Was Too Busy Trying to Survive
Barnes spoke at length to The Huffington Post about Dr. Dre's assault—and how it impacted her career and well-being—in her first interview about the attack in nearly 25 years.
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Almost a quarter century after Dr. Dre brutally assaulted Dee Barnes at a record release party—in which time Barnes's media career and public image took serious hits while Dre's successes only grew—Barnes made her first on-air statements about the assault in an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post.
In Monday's interview, which you can see here, Barnes spoke to The Huffington Post's Kevin Powell about the night of the assault, saying that she still endures migranes from the "painful and traumatic experience." She also talked about the aftershocks of the assault, including the emotional grief she feels when she hears songs like Dre and Eminem's "Guilty Conscience," which make light of the situation:
Somehow [the assault] was reduced to a joke, I ain't no joke. I'm not. And domestic violence is no joke. It's a serious issue.
Speaking on the immediate affect on her career, she talked about girls who would reach out to her after watching Barnes's show "Pump It Up" and seeing her wear makeup to cover her bruises and use sedatives to deal with the pain:
I had young girls watching, [ages] 13 and 14 so I got emails from young girls saying, "You were my first experience with domestic violence."… I was too busy trying to survive. It was vicious.
Dre's assault on Barnes, as well as his abuse of ex-girlfriend Michel'le, re-entered national headlines in the run-up to the record-breaking N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton," which Dre co-produced. Barnes wrote pieces for Gawker on how the film omitted that history, which eventually prompted an apology from Dre generally aimed at women he had hurt when he was younger—an apology that Barnes accepted, but Michel'le didn't.
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Any celebrations at Google after the company achieved a victory in the UK Supreme Court were tempered yesterday by a legal setback in Europe over a a multibillion-euro competition fine.
While the Supreme Court blocked a planned £3.2 billion lawsuit against Google over allegations that the group had unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users, a branch of the European Court of Justice rejected the company's appeal in a separate case.
Three years ago the European Commission fined Google €4.34 billion after deciding that the company had favoured its price-comparison shopping service to give it an unfair advantage against smaller European rivals.
The court in Luxembourg dismissed Google's appeal and ruled that the commission had been correct in finding that the company's "practices harmed competition". It also rejected Google's argument that the presence of merchant platforms showed there was strong competition. As part of its ruling, the court upheld the fine, with the judges noting the seriousness of the breach and the fact that "the conduct in question was adopted intentionally, not negligently".
Google said that it would review the judgment and noted that it had complied with the commission's order to ensure a level playing field for rivals. The company did not comment on whether it would appeal against the ruling to the full Court of Justice.
The commission welcomed the ruling, saying that it would provide legal clarity for the market. In a statement, it said that it would "continue to use all tools at its disposal to address the role of big digital platforms on which businesses and users depend to, respectively, access end users and access digital services".
The judgment could revive dormant investigations in Brussels that have been triggered by complaints from Google's rivals, such as Yelp, another American search engine, and websites that specialise in the travel, restaurant and accommodation fields. Margrethe Vestager, the European competition commissioner, has opened similar investigations into the activities of Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Thomas Vinje, a partner at Clifford Chance, a City law firm, who advises several of Google's rivals, said that Vestager should expand her investigation into other areas. He said that yesterday's judgment had given the European Commission "the ammunition it needs to tighten the screws on Google in other areas where it is throwing its weight around, like in online advertising, app stores and video streaming".
Google has incurred about €8.25 billion in European competition fines over the past decade.


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 Ranunculus geraniifolius proles gracilis Rouy & Foucaud
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City of Katy receives clean financial review, gets drainage update and fireworks announcement at June 8 meeting
By R. Hans Miller | Times Senior Reporter
Whitley Penn consultant Lupe Pena delivered a clean bill of financial health for Katy at the city's July 8 City Council meeting in the form of an unmodified finding of the city's 2019 …
Fortuna Drive (pictured above) and Patna Drive are slated to have curb and gutter systems and other drainage improvements installed to reduce flooding on the north side of Katy in Riceland Terrace. Work is expected to be completed in 2022.
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Whitley Penn consultant Lupe Pena delivered a clean bill of financial health for Katy at the city's July 8 City Council meeting in the form of an unmodified finding of the city's 2019 annual financial report – commonly referred to as a CAFR.
"This Audit was conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, so a very clean report in regards to the city's financial statement," Pena said.
As of Sept. 30 of 2019, the report indicates total revenues for the city of more than $43 million with total expenditures of about $50 million which accounts for items such as bonds for drainage and other city projects approved by voters.
The city also received an update from Costello Engineering regarding drainage projects on Patna and Fortuna drives in the Riceland Terrace subdivision. Ralph Sadana, a senior partner with Costello, said the projects were out for bid or being engineered and are expected to be completed around May 2022 with a cost of about $4.25 million.
City Administrator Byron Hebert said funding was in place for the projects on the two drives after city council unanimously approved an agreement with Harris County to assist with funding. Hebert previously told the Katy Times the city is working to secure funds for drainage projects through partnerships with Harris County and the General Land Office.
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Saldana said Costello is expecting to finish the bid process in June and will likely have a recommendation to award the drainage improvement contract to a vendor by July 13.
Mayor Bill Hastings announced that, despite an announcement on the city's Facebook page earlier in the day, Katy would be having its annual fireworks show near Katy Mills. Hastings said the fireworks show would be smaller than previous years because only the city's deposit and some of the donations received for the event would be used. He explained that the reason it had initially been cancelled was due to a lack of guidance on the issue from the state level.
"Please understand that at the time the decision to cancel was made there was no option to even conduct a public gathering like the fireworks show," Hastings said in a written statement dated June 8. "After reviewing the Governor's Order and speaking with the Katy City Council I've overturned the plan to cancel the event entirely."
The city's Freedom Celebration festival and Katy Summer Nights events remain cancelled out of concern for the increased spread of COVID-19.
According to the city's website, Katy has seen 70 cases of COVID-19 within its limits with 40 of those recovered as of June 8.
Correction: The agreement to help fund drainage projects is solely with Harris County.
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The chic Lowry Hotel was the venue for a celebration to mark the launch of the new vintage of Laurent-Perrier champagne, the 2006.
David Hesketh, Laurent-Perrier UK managing director and master of wine hosted a tasting of not only the 2006 Vintage but the 2002 and 2004 in the hotel's Laurent-Perrier private dining room.
David Green, Laurent-Perrier's regional account manager who, along with colleagues was delighted last year when their house won the prestigious Alderley Edge Hotel/Cheshire Life Champagne Oscar accolade, said the occasion at the Lowry was one of several to celebrate the delightful 2006 Vintage. Restaurateurs and hoteliers were among the guests who enjoyed the bubbly.
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NetApp's FAS and EMC's VNX are probably the most talked-about and most popular of all unified storage systems available in the market today. For sure, there are other layers in the space, but you only have to concern yourself with FAS and VNX to ensure that you have the best systems now available.
The other companies in the unified storage systems space are not unknown. So far, IBM and HP both have products in this space. Other companies offering unified storage include Fujitsu, Dell, Synology, Huawei, BlueArc, Oracle, Overland, Symantec, and Quantum.
Yet, experts and observers invariably pit NetApp and EMC against each other.
If you are a business owner, which one should you choose? Here is a comparison of NetApp FAS and EMC VNX as they're applied to small and medium sized businesses and bigger enterprises.
EMC is the current market leader in unified storage systems. For the whole year of 2012, the company raked in $6.3 billion in operating cash flow on the strength of its network storage and storage products. In 2013, EMC is expected to gain $23.5 billion in consolidated revenues.
The EMC VNXe Series is ideal for a SMB. It offers solution-focused software that you can easily allocate, secure and manage. For small businesses that are looking to have a storage system that can readily support their commercial applications, this is the perfect choice. You don't have to constantly monitor it, and you can scale from six to 150 disk drives and get 450 TB of capacity.
The EMC VNX Series is good for larger operations. Corporations and big companies can have a high performance storage system, which can also run virtual applications. The VNX series can unify your storage needs for all types of blocks, objects and files. You can utilize the VNX series for data warehousing and it works with both Hyper-V and VMware. It supports SAS, Flash and near-line SAS drives.
The EMC VNX Series Gateways, on the other hand, allows for network-attached storage for EMC SANs.
No matter how big or small your organization, you can scale with NetApp's FAS series.
The FAS2200 series allows you to have a simple, flexible and affordable storage system. It can give you a maximum number of total disk drives ranging from 60 for the FAS2220 to 84 for the FAS2240-2. What's more, you can set it up for less than $8,000 and it comes fully integrated with VMware and Windows to allow for simpler management. The FAS2200 is also cluster-ready, meaning it can grow as your small business grows.
For big business needs, however, NetApp offers the FAS6200 Series. More than just performance, the FAS6200 series promises superior availability by making use of non-disruptive operations. This means that even if you have to upgrade or undergo system modifications, you can still access your storage. It also allows you to detect risks that affect your system's availability, and NetApp also guarantees well-protected data on its systems.
Just to give you an idea, Netapp's FAS6200 Series can have a maximum of 1,440 disk drives available for your storage needs. Also, its FAS6290 has a maximum capacity of close to 6,000 terabytes. You could get up to 192 gigabytes of RAM, 16TB Flash cache, eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectors and 24 PCIe expansion slots.
All FAS series products run on the Data ONTAP operating system, which already has all the software you need for efficient storage, management and better performance.
Both NetApp and EMC have a centralized storage management solution. NetApp has OnCommand management software that uses Operations Manager for multiple storage systems and System Manager for single storage systems. On the other hand, EMC has Unisphere that allows for single sign-on for its web interface.
EMC uses solid-state drives and automates storage tiering via its Fully Automated Storage Tiering program. NetApp, meanwhile, creates a virtual storage layer. It does not use any software.
Other than these two points it would seem that EMC and NetApp are on equal footing. But it might be instructive to see how NetApp is very competitive. Take a look at the prices. In 2011, EMC came out with VNXe and promised that the cheapest product would retail at $10,000. Not a bad investment for SMBs who are looking for a unified storage systems solution. However, just 11 months later, NetApp introduced the FAS2240, with a price tag of around $7,500.
Why get a unified storage system?
A unified storage system allows you to access, manage, store and run files and blocks from a single point. It allows you to do away with expensive hardware acquisition. For example, instead of having a network-attached storage (NAS) for your files and then having a separate RAID disk array to handle block-based storage, you can have both in a unified storage system.
Also, a unified storage system is your first step to solving performance and capacity problems without having to spend a lot of time tweaking it or administering it.
To choose the best unified storage system for your business, it is important to know what you and your organization needs first. Then you should test to see whether NetApp or EMC has the products that best address these needs. It could also be products from another vendor, just as long as you think it is the best solution for your business.
Also, make sure that the solution you are looking at allows you to scale up or down, depending on what you might or might not need in the future. Also, don't forget about high availability.
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The study of Hispanic heritage offers you the chance to explore many diverse and rich cultures with your class during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15). These lesson plans, printables, activities, and references will enrich your classroom study. Read the book The House on Mango Street and Shadow of a Bull, learn about Mexico's Day of the Dead, play mariachi music, practice Spanish vocabulary, discover the customs and traditions of Hispanic heritage, play Puerto Rico's circle game, create your own musical instruments, learn about the Spanish-language influence on English, and much more.
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Teach your students about Hispanic heritage and increase their learning with these printables. Includes student activities such as making a pinata, maracas, panpipes, and learning about Mariachi music.
Our Lesson Plans will help students understand about Hispanic heritage with multicultural activities such as learning a dance and song in Spanish, different cultures' views on life and death, in particular the Day of the Dead, and more.
Help students learn about speaking Spanish with these resources. Includes a picture-word book and flash cards, printable mathematics and vocabulary exercises in Spanish, along with well-known children's stories.
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Music is an international language. Use our resources to enhance your lessons and teach students about Hispanic culture by making musical instruments such as a tunable drum, maracas, a guiro, and more.
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Explore Hispanic heritage connections using these social studies resources. Includes a study of Mexico's Day of the Dead origins and traditions, a quiz on the Aztec culture, and making musical instruments.