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This is the Preface from Gary Hall's new book: Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016). https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy
"We find ourselves in a time of riots wherein a rebirth of History, as opposed to the pure and simple repetition of the worst, is signalled and takes shape" – Alain Badiou
Since the financial crash of 2008, much has been written about the "crisis of capitalism" and the associated series of postcrash political events that are seen as having begun with the Tunisian revolution of 2010: the Arab Spring, the 2011 "August riots" in England, and Occupy Wall Street, together with the movement of the European squares that eventually led to the election of Syriza in Greece and rise to prominence of another left-wing party, Podemos, in Spain. Yet to what extent does our contemporary sociopolitical situation also pose a challenge to those of us who work and study in the university? How can we act not so much for or with the anti-austerity and student protesters, "graduates without a future," and "remainder of capital," demonstrating alongside them, accepting invitations to speak to them and write about them and so on, but rather in terms of them, thus refusing to submit critical thought to "existing political discourses and the formulation of political needs those discourses articulate," and so "defusing" "the trap of the event"? Does the struggle against the neoliberal "corporatization" of higher education not require us to have the courage to transform radically the material practices and social relations of our lives and labor?.
It is these questions that form the starting point for this book's engagement with a range of theorists and philosophers, operating in some of the most exciting areas of the humanities today. They include Lev Manovich (the digital humanities), Rosi Braidotti (new materialism), Bernard Stiegler (posthumanism), and Graham Harman (object-oriented ontology). Drawing critically on phenomena such as the peer-to-peer file-sharing and the anticopyright pro-piracy movements, Pirate Philosophy explores how we can produce not just new ways of thinking about the world, which is what theorists and philosophers have traditionally aspired to do, but new ways of actually being theorists and philosophers in this "time of riots."
The book's opening chapter sets the scene with an account of the politics of online sharing in relation to the struggles against the current intellectual property regime associated with Anonymous, LulzSec, Aaron Swartz and the "academic spring" of 2012. It discusses Creative Commons; the open access, open source and free software movements; and the difficulty of forging a common, oppositional horizon given these struggles and movements do not share a common idea of the Commons. In the chapters that follow Pirate Philosophy proceeds to ask how, when it comes to our own scholarly ways of creating, performing and sharing knowledge and research, can we operate in a manner that is different not just from the neoliberal model of the entrepreneurial academic associated with corporate social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn, but also from the traditional liberal humanist model that comes replete with clichéd, ready-made (some would even say cowardly) ideas of proprietorial authorship, the book, originality, fixity and the finished object?.
Of course, many theorists are currently challenging the tyranny of the human with an emphasis on the nonhuman, the posthuman, the postanthropocentric, along with the crisis of life itself that is expressed by the Anthropocene. Yet such "posttheory theories" continue to remain intricately bound up with humanism and the human in the very performance of their attempt to think beyond them, due to the approaches they have adopted in response to the question of the politics of copying, distributing, selling and (re)using theory. This is to some extent inevitable given the lack of antihumanist alternatives to publishing either on a "copyright… All rights reserved" or open access and Creative Commons basis that are institutionally and professionally recognized. Nevertheless, Pirate Philosophy endeavors to move the analysis of the human and nonhuman on by raising a question that is also an exhortation: How, as theorists and philosophers, can we act differently – to the point where we actually begin to take on board and assume some of the implications of the challenge that is offered by theory and philosophy to fundamental humanities concepts such as the human, the subject, the author, copyright, and the Commons, for the ways in which we live, work, and think? How, in other words, can we act as something like pirate philosophers in the sense of the term's etymological origins with the ancient Greeks, where the pirate is someone who tries, tests, teases, and troubles, as well as attacks? Might doing so be one way for us to try out and put to the test new economic, legal and political models for the creation, publication and circulation of knowledge and ideas, models that are more appropriate for our postcrash sociopolitical situation?
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Gary Hall (2016) Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities. MIT Press. In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to transform their own lives and labor.
Virginia Crisp (2015) Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years
Anthony Luvera (2015) Not Going Shopping. Malmo: Malmo Fotobiennal. 4,000 copies distributed freely to residents of Malmo and Copenhagen to accompany the exhibition of Not Going Shopping, a solo headline exhibition for Malmo Fotobiennal
Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska, eds., Photomediations: An Open Reader (Open Humanities Press 2015). Photomediations: A Reader is part of a larger editorial and curatorial project called Photomediations: An Open Book, whose goal is to redesign a coffee-table book as an online experience.
Open Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014). Book co-authored by Coventry's Open Media Group and Mute Publishing. (Open access version available here.)
Jonathan Shaw, NEWFOTOSCAPES, Library of Birmingham, 2014. NEWFOTOSCAPES seeks to navigate the evolving topography surrounding the image in the 21st century; Shaw advocates a new way of thinking about photographic production & education in a post-digital era.
Forthcoming Talks
Gary Hall. Invited talk at Forms of Criticism symposium, University of Westminster, June 30, 2016.
Gary Hall. Invited talk on the importance of communication, impact and public engagement for academic research, University of Warwick, June 28, 2016.
Gary Hall. Invited talk, Cybernetic Subjectivities and the Mediation of Trust and Empathy, launch event for the Centre for Entangled Media Research, University of Lincoln, May 24-25, 2016.
Anthony Luvera (2016) 'On Yer Bikes Boys: Work with gender by The Department of Cultural Studies at Cockpit Arts Workshop'. Radical Histories / Histories of Radicalism, Raphael Samuel History Centre. 1 – 3 July 2016, Queen Mary University of London, London UK
Gary Hall, Invited talk, University of Birmingham, May 23, 2016.
Kamila Kuc, 13 May 2016, 'Show & Tell & Touch: Digital Culture and Education', panel discussant, with Milena Popova (Europeana), Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision), Prodromos Tsiavos (Onassis Cultural Centre) and Alain Thillay (French Ministry of Education), moderated by Caroline Roelants of the Flemish Canon Cultuurcel (Ministry of Education), Brussels, Belgium.
Kamila Kuc and Michael Brooke in Conversation, 8 May 2016, 'Humour in Experimental Film', Camden Arts Centre. Coupled with 'Lyrical Flight From Reality: Playfulness and Humour in Experimental Film', curated by Kamila Kuc.
Janneke Adema, Invited talk, University of Leuven Open Access event, May 4, 2016
Anthony Luvera (2016) 'Who Empowers Whom? The Powers at Play in a Participatory Photography Practice: Assembly (Brighton 2013-2014) by Anthony Luvera'. Open Engagement. forthcoming 29 April – 1 May 2016, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA
Gary Hall (2016) Charisma of the Book: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century, The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 14-16.
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Memo: please stop being intimidated
"They don't let you do Nativity plays any more, do they?" There is a conviction
– or at any rate a sort of half-formed belief morphing into a conviction – that
"they" have banned Nativity plays from Britain's primary schools. It is rubbish, but
because it represents a well-founded fear that Christianity is being marginalised
from community life, it is fast becoming part of popular mythology.
Priests of the Faith Movement
Every year I attend four national events organised by the Faith Movement (three events for youth and one for my own formation). This is a massive commitment in time, energy and money. It takes me away from my parish for the inside of a week four times a year. Yet, the reason I am absent from the parish for these events is in order that these very events might be harnessed to serve what happens in my parish.
A Year of St Dominic
In April 1215, Fr Dominic Guzmán, with six companions, crossed the threshold of a small house in Toulouse given them by two wealthy citizens. It was the birth of one of the great Orders of the Catholic Church, the Dominicans, or to give them their proper title, the Order of Preachers. Dominic was about forty-five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him for this moment, and the six years before his death saw the Order increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.
Engaging with Muslims
For the majority of people living in Western Europe until thirty or forty years ago
Islam was still seen as an exotic and largely foreign religion. Few would have had
clear knowledge of the tenets of Islam or much social interaction with its adherents.
A Neglected Virtue?
Our Holy Father Pope Francis has given us a wonderful living example of what true humility is, and humility is indeed a central theme of his Pontificate as well as being a central theme of the Year of Mercy. However, humility is not always easy to put into practice. As pointed out by St Benedict, the Father of Western
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thought-provoking productions, with the
accent strongly on contemporary issues. This is
drama that draws the audience in and creates an
environment in which it is impossible to remain
indifferent – no small achievement when the
target audience is adolescents in a school hall or
gym.
"They don't let you do Nativity plays any more, do they?" There is a conviction – or at any rate a sort of half-formed belief morphing into a conviction – that "they" have banned Nativity plays from Britain's primary schools. It is rubbish, but because it represents a well-founded fear that Christianity is being marginalised from community life, it is fast becoming part of popular mythology.
Facts first. There is no law preventing an ordinary primary school in Britain from putting on a Nativity play this Christmas. Naturally, if the school is 90 per cent Moslem, it would be a fairly stupid or – to use the currently fashionable word – an inappropriate thing to do. But where most of the children come from religiously ignorant, incoherent or indifferent households, it could be a most useful exercise, introducing pupils to one of the great narratives (that's another very 'now' word) of our civilisation, and giving them a chance to sing the carols that are a standard part of our annual collective noise. A Nativity play gathers echoes from folk memories – and not just from Britain – and taps into a need to mark the seasons of the year, our sense of community and a recognition that we are not spiritual and cultural orphans.
For a Catholic school, there is no question about it at all. Catholic primary and secondary schools can, do and should, as a matter of course, mark Christmas on a great scale. (In fact, the problem is, at a liturgical level, precisely that: in a laudable desire to encourage a joyful celebration, they inevitably sideline Advent, and pre-empt Christmas as term ends with plays and carols and mince pies galore. But that's a separate issue…) Nevertheless – and this is the important point – there is this sense of worry. An air of "Are we allowed to do this?" pervades discussions about Nativity plays, sometimes accompanied by a sort of coy laugh, an assumption that, officially, we're all meant to be either atheists or adherents of some non-Christian religion now. And sometimes fervent Christians are among the worst at this. It's somehow satisfying to be the bearer of bad tidings: "They'll be banning Christmas outright next", "Mark my words, Catholic schools are doomed", "They'll make it a hate-crime to say prayers in school". Such chat is enjoyable but misses the point. The issues at stake are deeper, and of real importance. "They" are indeed intruding into areas where religious freedom is at stake, and this needs addressing.
No one is stopping Catholic schools from being Catholic in the sense of having Mass and the sacraments, celebrating the feasts and seasons of the Church's year, crowning a statue of Mary in May, praying for the dead in November, celebrating Christmas. Religious Education with a Catholic syllabus is encouraged – if material in a Catholic school is useless or worse, it is the fault of the Church authorities and not that of the State.
But look at what is being urged, through the tax-funded bureaucracy of the education authorities, seeking to impose new ideologies such as "gender diversity" and "anti-homophobia". In Cornwall a document (www.interconmtrust.org.uk?resources/ cornwall schools transgender guidance) concocted by the education authority and various groups including, worryingly, the police, announces that a child who thinks that he or she would like to be a member of the opposite sex, should be urged to succumb to the fantasy and begin the process that will lead to the use of physical mutilation accompanied by hormonal drugs.
No Catholic school need go along with this cruel nonsense. It carries no legal force. The current fashion for announcing that a child is "trans" instead of male or female is just that, a fashion. A troubled child needs help, not an ideology imposed by campaigners paid by public funds.
No Catholic school need invite in any lobby group promoting a lesbian or homosexual lifestyle. No Catholic school need distribute contraceptive materials or drugs or devices to pupils. Catholic schools can and must teach the Catholic faith in ways appropriate to pupils' ages and needs, and use relevant literature including the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its associated materials especially those aimed at the young.
Our Catholic schools are hugely popular and over-subscribed. The faith and values that these schools represent must be allowed to flourish without bullying from officialdom. Education authorities, national and local, must be, if necessary, told that they have no right to intimidate schools by trying to force the use of materials which the school is within its rights to reject as unsuitable and unhelpful.
Things are going to be difficult for Christians in Britain over the next years as an increasingly angry and confused society struggles to make sense of itself. Our model in working within this must be that of saints and heroes of the recent past, who have much to teach us. As Archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wotyla never sought unnecessary confrontation with the authorities, but insisted, again and again, on the rights that the Church had negotiated. And the faithful built up the Church: packed Masses, processions, public pilgrimages, open-air gatherings at the great shrines. It must all have looked at one stage as though the whole ghastly Communist regime might last indefinitely, and the Church would have to struggle on in survival-mode for decades. But things turned out differently.
Poland's story has a message for Christians in the post-Communist Europe that is now succumbing to the ghastly crudity of angry secularism. We need Bishops of courage. We need Catholics who are prepared to give public affirmation of their faith. We need to make it clear that the Christian faith will outlast any and every political slogan and system, and that as Christians we can and will work within whatever nonsense history imposes upon us and will do so with hope and with trust in what is true.
There are many troubled and hurt people in Britain today. Living in a post- Christian country can be fairly wounding: the emphasis on a narcissist "look at me! I'm wonderful" consumerist approach to life, an endless nagging sense of a need to be happy, a leering attitude towards sex. And many children have grown up confused about their identity, unclear about which of the various groupings of adults in their lives they should really regard as being their parents. Who is really in charge? Mum and new boyfriend? Mum's former boyfriend, who was a sort of Dad figure for many years but has now been superseded? Dad, much-loved but now living far away and with a new wife?
Hurt people carry their wounds with them: into politics and lobby groups, into industry and commerce, into professional life in law and medicine and academia. The Church is wounded too, in this culture. But she has access to the cure: Christ can make all things new.
Catholics should not be intimidated. Let us celebrate Christmas with vigour and hope: organise Nativity plays in school and parish, get groups of carol-singers going from house to house. And more: arrange carol-singing at a local railway station (oh yes you can – you need official permission so that different choirs don't all arrive on the same day, and you need to make sure that any funds raised are for a registered charity. That's all). Ditto outside supermarkets. Leaflets through doors with details of Christmas Masses and other services? An outdoor Nativity scene by the church, facing on to the street? Put a Christmas poster in your window. Put up a crib scene in your home, ask a priest in to bless it and invite the neighbours. Buy Christmas cards with a proper Nativity scene on them. Ask for proper Christmas stamps with Mary and Joseph and the Christ-child on them. Wish people a Merry Christmas. And please: stop saying "Oooh...are we allowed to celebrate joyfully the birth of our Saviour?"

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Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom between 1850 and 1860. Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. Like many slaves, Tubman was often hired out to work for families that lived near her owner. But unlike many slaves, she was allowed to return to her family between jobs. Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831 spread the ideas of escape throughout the slave community, and Tubman began to dream of freedom. As a child, she aided a runaway slave by blocking the path of the overseer pursuing him. The overseer struck her in the head with a two-pound weight, and Tubman experienced sudden blackouts for the rest of her life as a result.
It wasn't until 1849 that her dream of freedom became a reality. She was then married to John Tubman, a free man who did not support her desire to escape slavery. Tubman left him, and with the help of the Underground Railroad made it to Philadelphia. In less than a year, she returned to Maryland to lead her relatives to freedom. But Tubman did not stop there. Over the next decade, she would lead over 300 slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. When the Fugitive Slave Law passed in 1850, Tubman decided to lead her charges all the way to Canada, since they would immediately be free.
In 1857, Tubman moved to Auburn, New York where she became involved with reformers and abolitionists like Susan B. Anthony and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tubman also became involved with John Brown, helping him to plan his raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. During the Civil War, Tubman worked as a Union nurse and spy. After the war, she continued to work for women's rights and the rights of African-Americans. She died in 1913, a resident of the John Brown Home for Aged and Indigent Colored People, which she had founded in 1908.


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Трисвя́тье — деревня  в  Смоленской области России,  в Кардымовском районе. Население — 1 житель (2007 год) . Расположена в центральной части области  в 3,5 км к северо-востоку от Кардымова, в 1,5 км к юго-востоку от железнодорожной станции о.п. 376-й км на ветке Москва – Минск. Входит в состав Берёзкинского сельского поселения.

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В списке населённых мест Смоленской губернии 1859 года Трисвятье упоминается как деревня Духовщинского уезда, в которой проводился базар. 4 августа 1941 года в районе деревни попала в окружение 13-я танковая дивизия. Прикрывая отход советских частей к Соловьёвой переправе, дивизия была полностью уничтожена немецкими войсками.

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Sam's Club Releases 'Merry Like This' Movie Trailer Starring Kevin Hart and Holiday Single with Singer, Songwriter Kirby
Merry Like This Trailer Poster
Kirby with Album Photo
Merry Like This Logo
The warehouse retailer is wrapping the holidays in more creativity to reach its target member
BENTONVILLE, Ark. Nov. 17, 2022 – Sam's Club is ringing in the holidays in theaters across the country this year as it introduces new ways to reach shoppers across media channels and social platforms throughout the season. The warehouse retailer is distributing the movie trailer "Merry Like This" starring actor and comedian Kevin Hart beginning Friday, Nov. 18. The two-minute film will run in 1,700 theaters across the country including AMC, Cinemark, Regal and Skylight.
Produced by Hart's global, multi-platform media company, Hartbeat, the trailer is set in the holidays and depicts Hart being faced with unexpected house guests, including his daughter's new boyfriend (played by Marcus Scribner) who brings a new appreciation for the word 'merry'. The movie kicks off the brand's "Merry Like This" campaign created by agency VMLY&R, which also includes the release of a holiday song written and recorded by singer, songwriter Kirby. The single, which is also the music track for the movie trailer, is available across digital music platforms.
Our members tell us that they rely on Sam's Club to deliver the moments that make their holidays meaningful. With "Merry Like This" we're celebrating our members and their favorite ways to spread joy this season – whether they're decorating, hosting, cooking, or gifting. Our 360-degree campaign amplifies their holiday celebrations and brings the content to them in new and different channels.
Ciara Anfield, SVP and Chief Membership and Marketing Officer, Sam's Club.
Expanded Live Shopping Events
Complementing the film and music single is Sam's Club's expansion of its live shopping events. While Sam's Club has hosted live shopping in the past, this marks the first time it's taking a multi-channel approach across social media. The brand also launched a live shopping platform, samsclubshoplive.com, to support its streamed shopping strategy. Its first seasonal shopping event was filmed in Salt Lake City, tapping influencers from the area and outside of the state to connect with members and attract the attention of prospective shoppers. Sam's Club will host an additional live shopping event to support Black Friday beginning at 11pm CT on Thursday, Nov. 24.
"We know our members love the treasure hunt of coming into our clubs and discovering new items, but also understand that shopping is a social experience as well," said Ashley Gibbs, Vice President, Marketing, Sam's Club. "Our motivation to ramp up our shopping events and social strategy is built around interaction and inspiration. We know that when shoppers see our products outside of the club environment they come to life in an entirely new way, and it's been exciting to see the positive reaction."
Holiday Hub Showcases Savings Events & Holiday Inspiration
Sam's Club is making it easier than ever for members to take advantage of its savings events while also giving them gifting inspiration. The brand launched a Holiday Hub in October that gives visitors an easy roadmap to plan their holiday shopping. The digital experience showcases its savings events each month through December, highlights holiday hours, shipping cutoff and sweepstakes, and provides quick links to entertaining, décor and gifting pages.
Sam's Club has six more savings events planned for November and December, giving its members access to more deals on its Member's Mark private label items and name brand products. While Sam's Club is always focused on providing quality products at incredible value, helping members do more for less during the holidays is another way it can help ease stress on shoppers' wallets. Savings events include:
November Instant Savings: Now through Nov. 23
Black Friday ThanksSavings: Nov. 24-27
Cyber Savings: Nov. 27-30
December Instant Savings: Nov. 30 – Dec. 24
December Savings Event: Dec. 3-7
Curbside Savings Event: Dec. 10-23
Seasonal Sweepstakes
The retailer hopes to bring merry moments to its members who are engaging with its shopping app with its first Scan & Go holiday sweepstakes. Not only does the app allow you to skip the traditional checkout, but when you use Scan & Go during the holidays it also gives you a chance to win. One winner per club will be announced each week, winning the amount of their transaction up to $500. One grand prize winner, one first prize winner and one second prize winner will also each be awarded prizes of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 plus a lifetime membership to Sam's Club.*
Sam's Club is giving "Merry Like This" moviegoers a chance to literally ring in the holidays through its Merry Like This sweepstakes. Playing into the trailer's storyline that includes a surprising proposal, the sweepstakes gives someone a chance to win a ring and Sam's Club Plus membership. Information about the sweepstakes will be available where the movie is playing and via http://www.merrylikethis.com. The contest ends on Dec. 22.*
Sam's Club will be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, giving members time to celebrate with their families. It will have extended shopping hours from Nov. 20 through Dec. 24, staying open on Sundays until 8 p.m. It will be open on Christmas Eve until 6 p.m. Sam's Club's shipping cutoff deadline is Dec. 18.
*SWEEPSTAKES ABBREVIATED RULES: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Void outside the 50 U.S./D.C./Puerto Rico and where prohibited.
The Scan & Go Holiday Sweepstakes starts 10/20/22 at 12:00 a.m. PT and ends on 12/7/22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. and is open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. and D.C. and Puerto Rico, age 18+ or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where they live. To enter with a Sam's Club membership using the Scan & Go app, download the Sam's Club app, go to Sam's Club and, shop, then use the Scan & Go app to pay and check out. Or, to enter without making a purchase through the app, hand write your name, home address, phone number, email and birth date on a 3x5 card and mail it to Sam's Club Scan and Go Giveaway, c/o Merkle Inc., P.O. Box 5161 Department 855031, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5161, USA. Total ARV of all prizes: $2,189,500. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. Limit 1 entry per day. For full rules, visit samsclub.com/sweeps. Sponsor: Sam's West, Inc.
The Merry Like This Sweepstakes starts 11/18/22 at 12:00 a.m. PT; ends on 12/22/22 at 11:59 p.m. PT and is open to legal residents of the 48 Contiguous U.S. and D.C., age 18+ or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where they live. To enter, scan the sweepstakes QR code on the "Merry Like This" Kevin Hart movie standee; you will be directed to a mobile web page where you can follow the instructions to enter. Or, to enter without scanning a QR code, visit http://www.merrylikethis.com and follow the instructions. One grand prize: a ring and a Sam's Club Plus membership for one year. ARV: $8,715. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. Limit 1 entry per day. For full rules, visit http://www.merrylikethis.com. Sponsor: Sam's West, Inc.
About Sam's Club
Sam's Club®, a division of Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), is a leading membership warehouse club offering superior products, savings and services to millions of members in nearly 600 clubs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Now in its 39th year, Sam's Club continues to redefine warehouse shopping with its highly curated assortment of high-quality fresh food and Member's Mark items, in addition to market leading technologies and services like Scan & Go, Curbside Pickup and home delivery service in select markets. To learn more about Sam's Club, visit the Sam's Club Newsroom, shop at SamsClub.com, and interact with Sam's Club on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and TikTok.
About Hartbeat
Founded by Kevin Hart, Hartbeat is the global, multi-platform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture with a mission to keep the world laughing together. HARTBEAT delivers comedy through its three divisions: Hartbeat Studios, which finances, develops and produces innovative content; Hartbeat Media, which connects with consumers around the world through events and the company's expansive distribution network; and PULSE, the company's branded entertainment studio that serves as a creative and cultural consultancy to brand. Hartbeat's flagship consumer brand, the LOL! Network, reaches audiences across its O&O social media, audio, and OTT partners.
Led by an award-winning team, Hartbeat is a valuable partner to the biggest entertainment companies, platforms and brands in the world, driving cultural currency and generating sales, subscriptions, buzz, and conversation with some of the most coveted audiences.
John Godsey, CCO, North America
Sherman Winfield, Executive Creative Director
James Beikmohamadi, Executive Creative Director
Anna Taylor, Creative Director
Daniel Sanders, Creative Director
Alice Jankowski (Group Creative Director)
Erin Fillingim, Associate Creative Director
Evan Miguel, Associate Creative Director
Kara Nelson, Managing Director Client Engagement
Heather Chappell, Group Director Client Engagement
Megan Bartolac, Senior Account Manager
Tatyana Burtman, Business Affairs
Nicole Friesema, Senior Campaign Program Manager
Theresa Notartomaso, Executive Music Producer
Karli James - Music Production Assistant
Pam Pietrowski, Executive Producer
Tyler Smith, Executive Producer
Gordon Corte, Senior Talent Manager
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Jack Ormandy - Co-Founder Milk & Honey Silo
Lucas Keller - Co-Founder Milk & Honey Silo
Meirav Savyon - Head Of Creative Licensing
AJ Jiron - Creative & Licensing Manager
"Merry Like This" Performed by KIRBY. Written by KIRBY and ALLISTER X. Produced by ALLISTER X.
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Thai Randolph - CEO
Brian Price - SVP, Head of Branded Content and Creative Strategy
Steve Loguidice - SVP, Head of Partnerships
Ty Walker - SVP, Head of Physical Production
Tina Maher - VP, Integrated Marketing and Monetization
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There are tax benefits connected with a purchase of a "plug-in electric vehicle" (a vehicle propelled to at least a significant extent by an electric motor propelled by a battery capable of being recharged from an external source of electricity). Can you get this tax credit with Tesla or a Nissan Lead?
What is the NQPEDMV tax credit for Electric Vehicles?
There is available a tax credit called the "new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle" credit (NQPEDMV credit). Two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicles aren't eligible for the NQPEDMV credit, but, for those vehicles, acquired before Jan. 1, 2014, there is available a separate credit for qualified 2- or 3-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles.
A vehicle eligible for the NQPEDMV credit must have battery capacity of at least four kilowatt hours, and the base amount of the NQPEDMV credit is $2,500 per vehicle. The allowable credit increases to $5,000 per vehicle based on a formula which increases the credit by $417 for every kilowatt hour of battery capacity in excess of five. Many of the newer electric cars are eligible for this tax credit.
The credit is allowed in the year you place the vehicle in service.
The original use of an eligible vehicle must begin with you, the purchaser, i.e. the vehicle must be new.
An eligible vehicle must be used predominantly in the U.S., and have a gross weight of less than 14,000 pounds.
The credit is allowed if you buy a vehicle for lease to another, but, generally, not allowed if you buy a vehicle for resale.
The tax benefits otherwise available for an eligible vehicle are reduced unless you make an election not to apply the credit to the eligible vehicle.
Rules that might limit the application of the credit against regular and alternative minimum taxes are different for the portion (if any) of the credit attributable to personal use and the portion (if any) attributable for business or other for-profit use.


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Famous and infamous
The Festival of Speed has put Goodwood in the World map as the home of one of the most important annual automotive happeningsand it has given the UK a motor show which is not only relevant in the global scene – 20 world debuts this year – but also unique.
Where else can you chew a burger next to Nico Rosberg, open the VIP lounge to give way to Valentino Rossi or even take a leak facing the wall next to Jochen Mass (and the only reason why it is not possible to do it next to Sir Stirling Moss is because the living legends finds it easier today to drive vintage F1 than to stand on his feet).
Encounters like these any dozens of others which happen to a car journalist during the 3 days of the Goodwood Festival of Speed are priceless and are craved into anyone´s soul for a lifetime... anyone who does not prefer a smartphone to a car, that is...
Goodwood has seen it's share of EV's and phevs. This year we had the Regera, the Morgan Ev 3-wheeler, the Peugeot 308 R-Hybrid and a few others, but my best experiences have still been in gasoline powered cars.
I have had very unique experiences in my 25 years doing this job and many will be told to my grandchildren in front of the fireplace on a cold winter night. The Renault F1 drive in Paul Ricard, chasing Bernd Schneider in Hockenheim on a Mercedes SLS AMG under pouring rain or entering the Siena central piazza sitting next to Mika Hakkinen on a 1955 Mercedes SL waving to the roaring crowd will definitely be among the chapters of my memoirs. But my Goodwood moment will also deserve it's a little over 15 minutes of fame.
In 2010 I was given a chance to drive up the Goodwood hill in a Ford GT tuned by Roush. The idea was thrilling but little did I know it would be quite so dramatic. It is not unusual to rain in the UK, not even in June and for the sake of Murphy´s Law there it was that morning, raising the anxiety levels and the blood pressure of this writer turned celebrity during a momentary lapse of reason. Still I walked with a positive attitude to the Driver´s Club to sign in for the drive and got a bit startled by the name of the driver who had signed on the line just above mine: a certain Mr. Coulthard. When I join Ford´s team at the supercar paddock things didn't´ get any easier as just before sitting on the metal blue shinny and wet GT I was introduced to a Russian tycoon – naturally in the company of a few cement built chaps looking over his shoulders - who had just purchased the $ 150 000 plusFord I was going to control during what would clearly be the most defying 1,86 km of asphalt I had ever driven.
At no point would Nick Heidfeld´s 1999 hill record of 41,60 seconds - in a McLaren MP4/13 – in risk but after so many signs that I should follow a "Driving Miss Daisy" pace when going up the hill it became clear that being conservative would be the best strategy to get the job done... and live to tell. And a certain stage I got the feeling the fans were booing me for slowing down the weekend´s program, but still I did not abandon my turtle speed, after all there was a reputation – and a life – to be saved...
Joaquim Oliveira
European Car of the Year Jury Member
more by Joaquim Oliveira
Aug. 12, 2015 Columns › Joaquim Oliveira
Autonomous Mustang passed its first Goodwood hill-climb…sort of
During the racecar steered of the road few times and needed a bit of assistance from the driver.
Goodwood Festival of speed to host first autonomous hillclimb racecar
As a donnor car they have used a classic Ford Mustang 1965.
Special feature 96th Pikes Peak International Ramp: interview with Romain Dumas
An interview with Volkswagen I.D. R's driver, this year's overall winner of Pikes Peak international hillclimb race and new ovner of the track record.


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An Azure Virtual Machine is a simulated computer (also known as a guest) hosted within a physical computer (also known as the host). Virtual machines have been around for decades but the technical capabilities have advanced greatly over recent years and they are now a significant commodity in hosted infrastructures. A virtual machine behaves like an actual physical computer but it shares the physical pool of resources, the memory, buses, processing power and storage, with other virtualised infrastructure. The end user can connect to their virtual machine and it will have the same look and feel as if it was a physical computer. The host computer runs a very specialised, reduced operating system (called the hypervisor) which takes care of the security, sharing and scheduling of all the guest operating systems on top of it.
The Azure Virtual Machine allows IT architects to create a network that will build success for the business. It means that the organization can easily set up temporary and therefore cost-effective environments for development and testing or they can transfer business-critical applications from on-premises servers to more advanced, reliable and economic hardware. It allows organizations to try new ventures in a safe way; trying out new operating systems such as Linux or open-source application software. It allows businesses to stretch and flex in a 'fail fast' way; if the business project or need is no longer relevant, then it can be switched off or even deleted without leaving redundant hardware.
Azure Virtual Machines are created through the Azure portal, which can be found at https://portal.azure.com or through programming interfaces such as PowerShell. The simplest way to create an Azure Virtual Machine is using the portal; a browser-based user interface for interacting with Azure. It's a straightforward process to create and configure Azure Virtual Machines and there's even a Quick Start so that your Virtual Machine is up and running within minutes.
The difference between an Azure Virtual Machine and an on-premises Virtual Machine is that, in Azure, the IT architect does not control the host machine or its operating system. All of the configuration is done through the cloud operating system, whether through the browser or the portal. In this example, we will create a new SQL Server Virtual Machine in Azure, using an image from the Azure gallery.
Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com using your Azure subscription account.
On the Azure portal, click New.
The portal opens the New window. Select the Compute option and then select the option See all.
In the search field, type SQL Server 2017, and press ENTER.
To see the relevant options, click the Filter icon, and select the image for Windows SQL Server, which will be published by Microsoft.
Select the image named SQL Server 2017 Developer on Windows Server 2016.
Under Select a deployment model, ensure that Resource Manager is selected.
There will be a number of options for configuring the Virtual Machine, such as its size, location, and security information. Once you have selected the relevant options, select Deploy. The Virtual Machine will take a few moments to deploy.
Once the deployment has completed, you can connect to the VM remotely using Remote Desktop Connection on your PC or in the case of our SQL Server installation, through the SQL enterprise tools.
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When creating an Azure Virtual Machine, you will be presented with a wide choice of codes from A0 to M128s. These represent the intended use and configuration of your virtual machine; basically, how many cores, RAM and storage it includes but there are other intricacies to this as well. Your choice depends on the workloads you want to run on the virtual machine. The most important thing is that you understand what the virtual machine will be used for. Once this decision is made, the IT architect can select the series and the size of virtual machine.
How does the process of Virtual Machine selection differ from sizing on premise Virtual Machines? The machine will need as much RAM, CPU and disk as your operating system and applications will consume and in this respect, the selection of Azure Virtual Machine is identical to the process of selecting the sizes and configuration of on-premises physical or virtual machines currently.
One key aspect of Virtual Machine selection that is different, however, is that the Azure cloud environment allows the IT architect to scale. With some restrictions, you can scale your virtual machine up to a more powerful instance or down to a less powerful and cheaper virtual machine. Azure Virtual Machines also offer high availability (HA) via scale-out. For the on-premises architecture, this would require densely packed hardware and the IT team would have to take care of the Virtual Machine hosts, networks and storage whilst also thinking about redundancy and ensuring that the virtual machines were running at all times. Azure is different because the cloud takes care of that work for the IT team and offers high availability as part of that process.
Azure allows organizations to be cost-effective by setting up a group of smaller machines which share workloads and can be turned on or off according to demand or on a timed schedule. Effectively, Azure charges for the compute power you are using when the virtual machines are turned on and doesn't charge for virtual machines that are turned off. The organization is only paying for any persistent storage or networking of the virtual machines when they are powered off, but not for unused compute power.
Once the series has been selected, the IT architect can choose the virtual machine size.
One key piece of advice to note is that if the organization believes that they may need to move up to another larger virtual machine in the future, then it is best to check that the larger machine is available in the same hosting region (e.g. UK South, West US) as the original virtual machine. Otherwise, the organization will have to move the virtual machine to the new region. Although it's not an onerous task to move a virtual machine from one region to another, it is best to avoid if possible.
The following table will help the IT architect to identify the correct size of virtual machine for the requirements.
To summarise, choosing an Azure Virtual Machine is a crucial part of the transition to cloud. There is a good choice available and you have the ability, with some restrictions, to switch in the future as your needs change.
Posted on Friday, April 27th, 2018 at 10:43 am.
The Azure Pricing Calculator, located at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator helps you to predict the estimated monthly Azure bill for any Azure workload. Once you have Azure services running, the Azure Portal helps you to monitor actual costs that you have incurred.
The Azure Pricing Calculator helps you understand the costs of moving your technical estate to Azure, and to estimate pricing once your data and applications are in Azure. The calculator allows you to view the price for different sizes and configurations of your Azure Virtual Machines in terms of the machine's CPU, memory, storage, location and hours in use. You can add any combination of Azure services to the calculator and view the pricing for complete solution. This allows you to make better decisions on your move to the cloud by expediting the cost component of the decision.
The calculator is also useful in determining if you have all of the crucial resources in place for a successful migration to the cloud as relevant Azure services will be suggested when you add a component. For example, if you add a virtual machine, you will typically require storage so the calculator helpfully adds that component into the pricing.
Since the Azure Pricing Calculator allows you the mix your configurations before you make your purchase, the cloud migration process becomes clearer. This facility is particularly critical when the technical estate of the cloud infrastructure is in a constant state of change. Microsoft Azure has monthly releases of new updates and new features. This flexibility means there are a lot of different choices that can be made and the calculator not only helps you plan for your costs but can even reduce them altogether by helping to overcome the challenge of comparing your existing costs with the impact on cost of moving to Azure.
Azure has a great deal of choice but, in some ways, too much choice can be a difficult problem to have! The Azure Pricing Calculator helps navigate the complexities of the Azure migration and choose the optimal configuration and pricing for your environment. By proactively playing with the Azure Pricing Calculator, you can simulate various scenarios amongst the various Azure instances, types and features that are available.
Often, it can be perceived that organisations need to move all of their estate to the cloud but in reality, this is not always the case. When onboarding your technical and data infrastructure to the cloud, it can be a good idea to start small in order to set yourself up for success. The Azure Pricing calculator can help you to price up different scenarios to help you to navigate hybrid architectures as well as full cloud architectures.
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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft and the Azure Portal is one way for administrators to work with the cloud-based services and resources that are held in Azure. It's extremely straightforward and as it's browser based, doesn't require any new client software to be installed.
The portal can be found at portal.azure.com and it is sometimes known as the Azure Resource Manager or ARM for short. The Azure Portal allows users to conduct a range of activities in Azure including creating and browsing resources, configuring settings for services such as Virtual Machines and monitoring the resources while they are in operation.
Due to the range of activities available on the portal, a detailed description is beyond the scope of a brief article but the main activities of the portal are very easy to use. To log in to the Microsoft Azure portal, open a browser and navigate to https://portal.azure.com. Log in with your Azure subscription account or if you don't have one yet, you can set one up using the link on the portal page.
Once you are logged in, you can see the Azure dashboard. There is a good search facility, which means that developers and IT architects can find what they need quickly. You can also see your account information at the top right-hand corner. The portal itself is free to access and does not incur any cost to use.
It's possible to bring your existing knowledge to bear on Azure. For example, the portal has its own Bash functionality and you can deploy JSON templates and your existing web apps via the portal. Azure offers a wide range of varied services on the portal but everything is located in one place. This unified approach means that people can find what they want quickly, rather than having to use different interfaces or applications for different things.
Like most administrative tasks, once your Azure deployments are established, well-known and documented, it's more likely the Azure API or PowerShell interface will be used to provide ongoing automated operations and functions. For example, a PowerShell script to spin up a new instance of a pre-configured virtual machine with SQL Server for the marketing team who want to store some results of a campaign. This is straightforward to include as part of your operations workflow rather than expect an IT administrator to log into the portal and create the virtual machine.
From the Finance perspective, you can access billing information through the portal so that it's possible to keep an eye on costs for each service. User rights can be set to allow IT administrators access to the Azure services but not the subscription or billing information and vice versa for finance users. The Azure portal uses Power BI to provide context and clarity to the billing information as well as other types of data such as service and maintenance information. From the users' point of view, this means it is easy to port experience from the Azure portal onto Power BI, which is another interesting and useful data visualisation and reporting technology from Microsoft.
To summarize, the Azure portal is a unified window into Microsoft Azure. It's an easy, one-stop-shop to everything Azure.


Meet us on Thursday, February 19th at Just Add Honey for Happy Hour Yoga – an hour long session led by ZahraAla guaranteed to help you unwind and recenter. Afterwards, we'll crank up the music and share some fun tea cocktails. And as promised, Team ABB will offer a flight of local brews, too. It's a unique twist on a few of my favorite things.


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Q: How to create an extendable software model for different hardware drivers in Python? I have to conceptualize a software model for different hardware drivers. The hardware in question are measurement instruments with the same core functionality but different additional features. The drivers and also the scripts where the drivers are used are programmed in Python. It should be easy to replace the used hardware by keeping almost the same script. The necessary changes to the script should be minimal when replacing the hardware.
The core model must therefore be the same for all different hardware drivers, so that scripts that only use the core functionality of the hardware are independent of the actually connected hardware. This is easily solvable with inheritance.
But how can this be solved for functionality that are only supported by some instruments and not by others? Let's take the following code as example:
class BaseDriver:
   def coreFunctionA(self):
      pass
   def coreFunctionB(self):
      pass

class DriverModelA(BaseDriver):
   def coreFunctionA(self):
      pass
   def coreFunctionB(self):
      pass

   def additionalFunctionX(self):
      pass
   def additionalFunctionY(self):
      pass

class DriverModelB(BaseDriver):
   def coreFunctionA(self):
      pass
   def coreFunctionB(self):
      pass

   def additionalFunctionX(self):
      pass

class DriverModelC(BaseDriver):
   def coreFunctionA(self):
      pass
   def coreFunctionB(self):
      pass

   def additionalFunctionY(self):
      pass

The core functionality that is the same for all instrument models is summarized in the BaseDriver. But how to handle functions that are only supported by some drivers (like "additionalFunctionX" and "additionalFunctionY")? If the functions additionalFunctionX in DriverModelA and in DriverModelB do the same thing, they should have the same signature, so that the interface is easier to understand by the users. I could put those functions also into the base class and throw an exception for all drivers that don't support this feature. But that would be very ugly code in my opinion.
So do you guys have any idea how to bring these additional functions together? I want to avoid that the same functionality is implemented in different ways for each driver. If a driver supports a certain functionality that is also supported by some other drivers, this functionality should also have the same call semantics or the same interface for all drivers.

A: You can create multiple "mixin" classes:
class Base():
    def base_func(self):
        print('Base func')

class Speedometer():
    def read_speedometer(self):
        print('Speedometer')

class Gyroscope():
    def read_gyroscope(self):
        print('Gyroscope')

And add them in whereever you need:
class Implementation1(Base):
    pass

class Implementation2(Base, Speedometer):
    pass

class Implementation3(Base, Speedometer, Gyroscope):
    pass

impl1 = Implementation1()
impl2 = Implementation2()
impl3 = Implementation3()

impl1.base_func()
impl2.read_speedometer()
impl3.read_speedometer()
impl3.read_gyroscope()

You do have to be careful about creating mixins with duplicate functions, but there are work arounds:
class Duplicate():
    def read_speedometer(self):
        print('duplicate')

class Implementation4(Base, Speedometer, Duplicate):
    def read_duplicate(self):
        Duplicate.read_speedometer(self)

impl4 = Implementation4()
impl4.read_speedometer()  # >>> 'speedometer'
impl4.read_duplicate()  # >>> 'duplicate'

A: It's generally recommended to favor composition over inheritance, as many books starting with GoF recommend.
I'd say:
class YDriver:
    def additionalFunctionX(self):
        pass

class Driver:
   def coreFunctionA(self):
      pass
   def coreFunctionB(self):
      pass
   def asYDriver() -> YDriver:
      return None

class DriverModelC(Driver):
   def asYDriver() -> YDriver:
      return ModelC_YDriver(self)

Then you check your Driver object for feature Y with asYDriver().
If the system needs many more different features, you can make it more flexible (and thus less safe) and add Driver.asFeatureByName(name: str).

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Gideon Mendel: Selections from Drowning World was organized by the Anderson Gallery, VCU School of the Arts, Richmond, and originally presented as part of the group exhibition, Forecast (September 5–December 7, 2014).
Gideon Mendel is widely regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary photographers. His intimate style of committed image making, and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s during the final years of apartheid. It was his work as a 'struggle photographer' at this time that first brought his work to global attention.
In the early 1990s he moved to London, from where he has continued to respond to social issues globally. One of the major focuses of his work soon became the issue of HIV/AIDS. This journey began in Africa and has expanded to many parts of the world over the last twenty years. The concluding and ongoing chapter, Through Positive Eyes, is a collaborative project in which Mendel's role has shifted from photographer to enabler, handing the camera over to HIV positive people.
Since 2007, Mendel has been working on Drowning World, an art and advocacy project about flooding that is his personal response to climate change. This work has drawn particular attention for its unusual use of portraiture, as well as its combination of photography with video pieces.


fantail flo: Camel Coat Obsessions- Gamiss haul + review!
Camel Coat Obsessions- Gamiss haul + review!
What can get more French than a Camel Coat? This exam season (yes, it's exams and I'm still blogging, woe and behold) I've decided to get myself a cute little camel coat from Gamiss, a really large retailer which I've been seeing a lot of on Instagram lately. I think they're known for having lots of cool coats, dresses and clothing to choose from, and they're really popular with style bloggers.
Anyway, my little coat was from a brand called Lilith Paris, which as the name sounds has French-styled clothing which is super cute and trendy. My coat was chosen because I've always wanted a camel coat like those French girls, and this one caught my eye. It also had an unusual belt at the front, and you have to wrap it all the way around the back for it to come to the side. I know it doesn't make sense, but you'll know it if you get it!
Khaki Studded Wrap Pockets Coat - only $40!
As to the quality, I'm super pleased with it. It's quite warm, but not overly so, so it's perfect for Spring and Fall, and it's just perfect for the exam season as I'm in the cold library all day. I need a coat, and this one's soft, comfy and oversized so I can hide my pyjamas underneath!
The buckle detail is my favourite- it's so unique and cute. It's a really good fit too- I got a size M and it's perfect. Gamiss has lots of other coats and tops too, so definitely check them out!


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George Tobias
New York City, New York, USA:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Tobias (July 14, 1901 – February 27, 1980) was an American character actor. Born to a Jewish family in New York, he began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. He then spent several years in theater groups before moving on to Broadway and, eventually, Hollywood. In 1939, Tobias signed with Warner Brothers, where he played in supporting roles, many times along with James Cagney, in such movies as Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as well as with Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941). Tobias later achieved fame in the 1960s by playing long-suffering neighbor Abner Kravitz on the TV sitcom Bewitched. George Tobias never married and retired from acting in 1977 after a guest role in the Bewitched sequel Tabitha. On February 27, 1980, Tobias died of bladder cancer at the age of 78 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The hearse containing his body was stolen on the way to the mortuary. The driver got out to speak to someone, and vandals stole the car. After driving about a mile, they realized that Tobias' body was in the back and fled the car. He is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens County, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Tobias, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
James Stewart's Wonderful Life (1988)
as (archive footage)
The Phynx (1970)
as Markevitch
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
as Norman Fenimore
Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
as Gideon
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Bullet for a Badman (1964)
as Diggs
A New Kind of Love (1963)
as Joe Bergner
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
as Maxwell Greech
Silk Stockings (1957)
as Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
The Tattered Dress (1957)
as Billy Giles
The Seven Little Foys (1955)
as Barney Green
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
as Si Schribman
Desert Pursuit (1952)
as Ghazili
Ten Tall Men (1951)
as Londos
The Magic Carpet (1951)
as Razi
The Mark of the Renegade (1951)
as Captain Bardoso
Rawhide (1951)
as Gratz
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
as Reggie
Everybody Does It (1949)
as Rossi
The Set-Up (1949)
as Tiny
Adventures of Casanova (1948)
as Jacopo
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
as Nick Popolis
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Mike
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
as Abbu
Gallant Bess (1946)
as Lug Johnson
as Al Doyle
Her Kind of Man (1946)
as Joe Marino
Mildred Pierce (1945)
as Mr. Chris (uncredited)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
as Cpl. Gabby Gordon
Make Your Own Bed (1944)
as Boris Fenilise
Between Two Worlds (1944)
as Pete Musick
Passage to Marseille (1944)
as Petit
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
This Is the Army (1943)
as Maxie Twardofsky
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Freddie
Stars on Horseback (1943)
Air Force (1943)
as Asst. Crew Chief
My Sister Eileen (1942)
as Appopolous
Wings for the Eagle (1942)
as Jake Hanso
Juke Girl (1942)
as Nick Garcos, the Greek
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
as Dietz
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
as Blimp Lebec (bush pilot)
The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
as Malowski
Sergeant York (1941)
as "Pusher" Ross
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
as Peewee Defoe
Out of the Fog (1941)
as Igor Propotkin
Affectionately Yours (1941)
as Pasha
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
as Nicholas Pappalas
South of Suez (1940)
as Eli Snedeker
East of the River (1940)
as Tony Scaduto
City for Conquest (1940)
as 'Pinky'
Calling All Husbands (1940)
as Oscar Armstrong
River's End (1940)
as Andy Dijon
They Drive by Night (1940)
as George Rondolos
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
as Slug McNutt
Torrid Zone (1940)
as Rosario La Mata
Saturday's Children (1940)
as Herbert 'Herbie' Smith
Music in My Heart (1940)
as Sascha Bolitov
as Beggar
Balalaika (1939)
as Slaski
Ninotchka (1939)
as Russian Visa Official (uncredited)
They All Come Out (1939)
as Sloppy Joe
Maisie (1939)
as Rico
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
as Dock Worker
as Edith Colby


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Dimensions to szósty album niemieckich power metalowców z Freedom Call. Jest to również pierwsze wydawnictwo z nowymi członkami: Lars'em Rettkowitz'em i Armin'em Donderer'em. Muzyka Niemców wiele się nie zmieniła w porównaniu z wcześniejszymi albumami, choć pojawia się kilka mrocziejszych utworów. Są one oparte głównie na instrumentach klawiszowych (np. "Blackened Sky", "Magic Moments"), przypominających zespoły pokroju Ultravox, czy Alphaville. Jednak większość utworów to szybki, bardzo melodyjny i przebojowy metal.

Lista utworów
 Demon's Dance (2:02)
 Innocent World (4:04)
 United Ulliance (4:08)
 Mr. Evil (3:41)
 The Queen Of My World (4:25)
 Light Up The Efy (5:24)
 Words Of Endeavour (3:48)
 Blackened Sun (4:38)
 Dimensions (3:57)
 My Dying Paradise (4:46)
 Magic Moments (4:34)
 Far Away (3:19)
Wszystkie utwory napisali Chris Bay i Daniel Zimmermann, oprócz "My Dying Paradise" (Bay, Zimmermann i Donderer) oraz "Innocent World", "Dimensions" i  "Magic Moments" (Bay, Zimmermann i Rettkowitz.

Twórcy

Główni muzycy
 Chris Bay - wokal, gitara
 Armin Donderer - bas
 Lars Rettkowitz - gitara
 Daniel Zimmermann - perkusja
instrumenty klawiszowe zarejestrował Chris Bay

Muzycy dodatkowi
 narracja w "Demon's Dance": Gerald Doe
 chórki: Mitch Schmitt, Oliver Hartmann, Sabine Schmidt, Lisa Neumann, Katharina Neumann, Laura Karls, Elisa Darnstedt, Victoria Janek, Anne Dasbach, Laura Richter oraz Freedom Call.

Informacje o albumie
Dimension został nagrany pomiędzy sierpniem 2006, a styczniem 2007 w FC Studio (Norymberga). Perkusja została nagrana w AREA 51 Studio. Mixy i mastering należą do Tommy'ego Newtona w AREA 51 Studio. Produkcja należy do Dana Zimmermanna i Chrisa Baya dla Freedom Call Productions. Okładka albumu to dzieło Paula Raymonda, zaś fotografie muzyków zamieszczone w książeczce: Niny Kohler i Raffaeli Lehnbeuter. Płyta została wydana przez SPV Records.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Dimensions na Encyclopaedia Metallum

Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2007
Albumy Freedom Call
Albumy koncepcyjne
Albumy SPV


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Q: Paste image, convert to base64 tag directly onto  friendly notice: this question is a bit long.
codepen
The following is a tool which converts image into base64 markdown image tag.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<textarea id="input"></textarea>
<textarea readonly placeholder="Base64 data" id="b64" rows="1" style="width:110px"></textarea>
<button onclick="enterBase64()">enter</button>

*

*When a user pastes an image onto a certain location (where the cursor is blinking) in the <textinput id="input">, the image's data gets converted into base64 data and is shown in <textinput id="b64">,

*and by clicking the <button>,  ![]( and ) gets added to the back and front of the entire base64 data and gets pasted into <textinput id="input"> at the previously selected location.

now here are the scripts;
 $(document).ready(function() {
  $('#input').on('paste', function(e) {
    var orgEvent = e.originalEvent;
    for (var i = 0; i < orgEvent.clipboardData.items.length; i++) {
      if (orgEvent.clipboardData.items[i].kind == "file" && orgEvent.clipboardData.items[i].type == "image/png") {
        var imageFile = orgEvent.clipboardData.items[i].getAsFile();
        var fileReader = new FileReader();
        fileReader.onloadend = function() {
          $('#b64').html(fileReader.result);
        }
        fileReader.readAsDataURL(imageFile); break;
      }
    }
  });
});

(copied and edited from How do i get base64 encoded image from clipboard in internet explorer?
)
this converts the pasted image into base64 data,
function enterBase64() {
insertAtCaret('input', "![](" + document.getElementById("b64").value + ")");return false;
}

this adds ![]( and ) at the front and back and then pastes the result to <textinput id="input">,
function insertAtCaret(areaId, text) {
  var txtarea = document.getElementById(areaId);
  if (!txtarea) {
    return;
  }
  var scrollPos = txtarea.scrollTop;
  var strPos = 0;
  var br = ((txtarea.selectionStart || txtarea.selectionStart == '0') ?
    "ff" : (document.selection ? "ie" : false));
  if (br == "ie") {
    txtarea.focus();
    var range = document.selection.createRange();
    range.moveStart('character', -txtarea.value.length);
    strPos = range.text.length;
  } else if (br == "ff") {
    strPos = txtarea.selectionStart;
  }
  var front = (txtarea.value).substring(0, strPos);
  var back = (txtarea.value).substring(strPos, txtarea.value.length);
  txtarea.value = front + text + back;
  strPos = strPos + text.length;
  if (br == "ie") {
    txtarea.focus();
    var ieRange = document.selection.createRange();
    ieRange.moveStart('character', -txtarea.value.length);
    ieRange.moveStart('character', strPos);
    ieRange.moveEnd('character', 0);
    ieRange.select();
  } else if (br == "ff") {
    txtarea.selectionStart = strPos;
    txtarea.selectionEnd = strPos;
    txtarea.focus();
  }
  txtarea.scrollTop = scrollPos;
}

(copied and edited from Enter text into textinput by clicking button into where the cursor is
)
and this enables a desired text pasted onto the desired location in <textinput id="input"> by clicking the button.
Basically, the tool works fine, but it requires two steps as stated above. My aim here is to make this process into one: To paste an image onto <textinput id="input"> and have its base64 markdown image data tag onto the cursor's location. <textinput id="b64"> and the button is no longer needed this way.
So how can I combine the second and third chunks of javascript into one and achieve this function?


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Transcript Theater SpecialEdition: Off Camera Moments from Charlie Sheen's ABC Interview
Charlie Sheen: I'm totally aware of my tongue right now.
Andrea Canning: I'm sorry?
Charlie Sheen: Like…. I want to taste an orange, ya know? Not just consume it. Bleed the citrus from my eyes as I cry like a babe in the woods.
Andrea Canning: Mr.Sheen, I…. I don't really know what you're trying to say. You want to cry orange juice?
Charlie Sheen: Hold on a second, I gotta answer this. (picks up phone from table)
Andrea Canning: It wasn't ringing…..
Charlie Sheen: Just a second, Hello?…. HEY! C- DOG! I'm glad you called!
Cthulhu: ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Charlie Sheen: No, totally. I have seen the infinite in the collapsing eye of GOD. But Tuesday is good.
Charlie Sheen: Totally,bro. Winning!… Yeah…. Well, I gotta give you a a shout later C-Note. PEACE!!! (puts down phone) I love that guy. He's so single minded, like the Sheen machine. I'm geared to destroy like the fucking Terminator, baby. I am high on Charlie!
Andrea Canning: I'm not sure I want to start this interview. Are you SURE you're prepared to answer my questions on camera? Once it's over, there is no taking it back.
Charlie Sheen: Well, now that you mention it. I'd like to make a quick bathroom trip to do a little more Charlie.
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I'm all for the media backing away from the car wreck or whatever it might be that is Charlie Sheen. (I applaud individual uniqueness.)
But I loved your off camera moments with Charlie and ABC!
There's a book (or certainly a 'weekly', right here) waiting for you in that format, Adonai. And a field ripe with characters and subject matter that is endless and renewing daily.
Very nice job.
A perfect read for morning coffee….and bringing in Cthulhu…well…a stroke of illumination.
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Is Andrea Canning dense or what? No doubt she will get her wake up call in the form of a high powered producer or hedge fund banker, "hey this condom is broken!"
Hmmm…. I need to work on the photo spacing.
I thought it was subtext, leave it perfect.
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Capital Beverage Corporation (Nasdaq: CBEV) today announced that it had signed a letter of intent to merge with Stocktalklive.com, Inc. (STL), a Florida-based company. Stocktalklive.com, Inc. is a newly established, rapidly expanding e-finance portal that provides free live, dynamically streaming stock quotes and live financial information powered by Standard & Poor's. Stocktalklive.com will also offer live professional financial radio and television broadcasts, free Internet access and free membership to an online shopping community where members earn cash back rewards.
After the completion of the intended transaction, the merged company, hereinafter referred to as "New Cap," will change its name to "Stocktalklive.com, Inc." The existing operations of Capital Beverage Corporation, which includes the beer and soda business and the phone card business, will be transferred into a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Cap, which will retain the name, "Capital Beverage Corporation" (CBC).
The management of New Cap and the management of CBC will use their best efforts to attempt to sell the business of CBC to a third party, merge CBC with another company or arrange a purchase from New Cap of CBC by the management of CBC or a management led group.
"This transaction is another initiative to further expand our Company to benefit our shareholders," said Carmine Stella, President of Capital Beverage.
All holders of STL common stock will receive one share of Capital Common Stock for each share of STL Common Stock they hold. New Cap, upon completion of the merger, will issue to each of the holders of Capital Common Stock one warrant for each share of Capital Common Stock owned by Capital shareholders at an exercise price to be determined and an additional one-half share of common stock for each share owned by Capital shareholders. It is anticipated that the former Capital shareholders will own approximately 15% of New Cap, the merged company, and that the former shareholders of STL will own approximately 85% of the common stock of New Cap. These percentages are subject to due diligence review by Capital and STL and to an independent fairness evaluation. This transaction will be subject to the completion of a definitive merger agreement and shareholder approval by the shareholders of Capital Beverage Corporation and by the shareholders of Stocktalklive.com, Inc. There can be no assurance that these conditions will be satisfied or that the merger will be completed.
Stocktalklive.com President & COO Eric Barash commented, "This merger will give us flexibility as a publicly-traded company in accessing the capital markets to most effectively and rapidly carry-out our business objectives and growth strategies. We believe we will be the only free e-finance portal to offer such a broad array of services and we anticipate strong future growth in our user base."
If all of the above listed conditions are satisfied, it is anticipated the merger will be completed in the Fourth Quarter of 2000.
About Stocktalklive.com
Stocktalklive.com is establishing itself as "The Future of Interactive e-FINANCE," providing a free platform that to-date has been unavailable to the more than 100 million online Internet users. With its aggressive business model and its significant worldwide footprint potential, Stocktalklive.com is positioning itself within the e-FINANCE space by offering free live, streaming, professional financial radio and television broadcasts and free live dynamically streaming stock quotes powered by Standard & Poor's, all on the Company's "Live Page." In addition, Stocktalklive.com provides an online shopping community where members earn cash back rewards on Stocktalklive.com's "Marketplace" and free Internet access.
Standard & Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), provides independent financial information, analytical services, advice and credit ratings to the world's financial markets. With more than 4,000 employees located in 21 countries, Standard & Poor's is an integral part of the global financial infrastructure.
Statements in this release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unknown facts that could cause the actual results of the company to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements that explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes," "belief," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," or "plans," to be uncertain and forward-looking. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the Company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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