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Entrepreneur Aron Govil Launches First Book: A Nation of Sheep Will Believe a Trump
Aron Govil, Chairman & CEO of Ducon Group, has announced the launch of his first book, "A Nation of Sheep Will Believe a Trump." The book was written under his pen name "Arun Govil. The book focuses on the political IQ of American voters and why he believes many U.S. residents have developed a sheep mentality. The book is just the latest accomplishment by Govil, who was named one of the "Top 25 Global Indians Transforming the World." In 2013, Govil was named "Person of the Year" by Global Indian magazine. He possesses numerous other awards for his business acumen and accomplishments.
Aron Govil has his hand in numerous business and entertainment ventures as well as keeping his finger on the pulse of financial markets. Govil came to America when he was 13 from his home in India. He is a serial entrepreneur, is a strong educational background as well as a creative filmmaker. One has to wonder when he had the time to write his first book.
He tackles these issues and concerns in some detail in his new book. No matter what side of the aisle you are on, the book raises some interesting questions about our voting public, their knowledge of those running for political office, and the impact choosing the wrong leader can have on our nation.
Aron Govil's Book Focuses on Lack of Knowledge from U.S. Voters:
A Nation of Sheep Will Believe a Trump takes a long hard look at the 2020 elections. He delves into both the republican and democratic parties and raises many questions. He talks about the impact social media and the news media have on the way Americans vote. With social media becoming more and more impactful, is it swaying voters?
The book provides insight into our political climate, how it may change from the way we knew it, and the effect our elected officials will have on our ever-changing political landscape.
Aron Govil, a True Entrepreneur:
While Govil has provided his strong business skills leading Ducon Group to success, he has delved into many other ventures. Aron Govil made an impressive name for himself by producing, directing, and writing movies geared to the Indian population. Some highly-recognized works include U R My Jaan, Shoot on Sight, and Robber's Roost.
His companies have secured over 30 patents for various industrial technologies and products and have successfully completed over 40,000 industrial projects across the globe. He earned a degree as a Chemical Engineer and uses that background to invest and develop products that reduce the impact on the earth's natural resources and promote positive effects on the environment.
Why Did Aron Govil Decide to Write a Book?
Govil said he never thought he would write a book and is thrilled that he has been able to put his patriotic thoughts on paper. He said the purpose of the book was to build a dialog to advance in society and politics. He said he wanted to write an informative book that would open peoples' eyes to the political world we live in today.


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Magical Cats Mysteries Books In Order
Publication Order of Magical Cats Mystery Books
Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Sleight of Paw (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Copycat Killing (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Cat Trick (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Final Catcall (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Midwinter's Tail (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Faux Paw (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Paws and Effect (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Tale of Two Kitties (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Cats Came Back (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Night's Tail (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Case of Cat and Mouse (2020) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Magical Cats Mysteries is a series of cozy and paranormal mystery novels written by the well known Canadian author named Darlene Ryan aka Sofie Kelly. The series revolves around the life of the main character, Kathleen Paulson as well as her two stray cats named Hercules and Owen. All the novels of the series feature the two cats as the actual protagonists as they are believed to have some special powers that help them to solve the murder cases throughout the series. There is a total of 7 novels published in the series between the years 2011 and 2015. Kathleen Paulson is described by the author as a librarian, who moves into a fictional town of Mayville Heights in Minnesota, United States. She is believed to have moved from Boston into this small town. After settling down in the new town, Kathleen gets acquainted with a couple of stray cats. She later gives them the names as Hercules and Owen. With the passage of time, she comes to know about their special powers and uses them to solve the murder cases that happen around her.
Author Sofie Kelly began writing the series in the year 2011 and published its first novel in the same year. She is currently working on this ongoing series and is about to publish a few more novels in the series very soon. The first novel of the Magical Cats Mysteries was published by the NAL publishing house and was titled 'Curiosity Thrilled the Cat'. The plot of this novel is set in the fictional town of Mayville Heights, Minnesota, United States. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, the main protagonist Kathleen Paulson is introduced as a librarian. The introductory part also shows the situations that force her to move to the new small town in Minnesota from Boston. Kathleen had a preconceived idea that she will be able to meet new people and make some new friends in her new hometown. However, she had no idea that she will be befriending a couple of stray cats. Actually, instead of Kathleen, it was the cats that became friendly with her initially. She named them a Hercules and Owen. The two cats have their own likes and dislikes and are totally different from one another. Owen likes to have an addiction for catnip and is a tabby while Hercules is more of a stocky tuxedo cat, who shares the fondness for Barry Manilow with Kathleen Paulson. The only thing that the two of them have in common is the gifted special power that they possess and use at the time of the investigations. They provide a great deal of support to Kathleen in her attempt to find the reality and catch the real murderers. The three of them get involved in a similar situation at the time of the Mayville Music Festival. No sooner than it gets started, the festival is interrupted by a murder. To everyone's surprise, Kathleen Paulson gets arrested as the prime suspect in the murder. The case comes as a shock to her, but what appears to be more stunning than this is the fact that she considers her cats Owen and Hercules to possess some magical powers. Therefore, she relies on them to use their special skills and help her to clear her name of the crime that she has not committed.
The novel proved to be a fun-filled, cozy and thrilling murder mystery with an intriguing story. Even though it appears to be silly with its title, but it actually has enough magic that keeps it funny and thrilling at the same time. In the beginning, when Kathleen first comes to Mayville Heights, she does not have anyone to give her company. But the two cats make themselves comfortable and get adopted on their own in the house of Kathleen. She does not where they came from and why did they choose only her house to stay. However, she liked their sweet, funny and ornery nature. From then on, Kathleen began to have them in her company all the time and the cats also seemed to love her. During the Mayville Music Festival, her new library was getting renovated and when she arrives on one day to take a look at the work progress, she finds a dead body on the floor of her library. It is revealed that the dead body was of the bus conductor, who was not liked by most of the people of the town. Initially, there does seem any probable cause of the death. But, when the local, elusive detective begins the investigation, some very unexpected secrets about the small town are brought to the surface, which causes the citizens of the town to suspect one another for the death of the bus conductor. The readers liked the charming and likeable characters as well as the interesting story of the novel.
The second novel of the Magical Cats Mysteries was published under the title 'Sleight of Paw'. It was published by the Penguin Books publishing house in the year 2011. Just like the first novel, this novel too continues to depict the mysteries around the life of the main character, Kathleen Paulson and her magical cats, who seem to possess some special magical powers that are used by Kathleen to solve the mysteries. In the opening plot of the novel, she is depicted as a new librarian in the small and the fictional town of Mayville Heights. Initially, Kathleen had never wished to be a crazy lover of cats. But, when Owen and Hercules, the special cats followed her to her home and began staying there permanently, she realized that she actually enjoyed having them in her company. Kathleen also believed that the cats possessed some magical powers and was sure that her mind was not playing any tricks about this belief. After a little while, an elderly woman named Agatha Shepherd is found dead near a local cafe, which is one of the favorites of Kathleen. She gets framed in the murder, but knows that her cats have the ability to turn invisible and access the clues that a normal person cannot. Kathleen knows that someone is hiding behind the dark secrets and she is determined to catch that cold-hearted killer with the help of her cats, Hercules and Owen.
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Prior to joining LAFPC, Amber was a research assistant in the Global Environmental Politics Department at American University and a Teaching and Research Graduate fellow with the Center for Engagement with Communities (CEC) at Whittier College. At the CEC, Amber developed and led the curriculum for the Amy Biehl Foundation Project, a program that prepares high school students to conduct human rights centered research projects. Additionally, Amber brings diverse domestic and international research experiences, collaborating and working with communities in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., South Carolina, Costa Rica, and Kenya. As part of her graduate thesis, Amber interviewed farmers and activists from Southern states and investigated cases of racial discrimination against African-American farmers by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). She was awarded the Mahmoud Hamid Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Global Environmental Politics from American University's School of International Service and a fellowship with Phillips Academy – Institute for Recruitment of Teachers.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Whittier College in Environmental Studies, a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University, and a Masters of Arts in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.


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UK Fellow, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, elected in 2000
Professor Peter Kornicki FBA
Oriental and African Studies East Asia China, Japan, Korea South-East Asia Vietnam
Peter Kornicki retired in 2014 as Professor of Japanese after 30 years at the University of Cambridge. Most of his work has been on the cultural history of Japan, but since 2005 he has also been working on Korea and Vietnam and in 2018 completed a major study of the impact of Chinese textual culture on East Asia. Also in 2018 he published in Japanese a study of the export of Japanese books to Europe up to the 19th century. He was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize in 1992 and the Yamagata Banto Prize in 2013, and in 2017 was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan. He is an elected member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, and Academia Europaea. He was President of the European Association for Japanese Studies in 1997-2000. Currently he is editor in chief of the journal East Asian Publishing and Society and is leader of a research group at the National Institute for Japanese Literature. He continues his research and lecturing activities relating to Japan and East Asia.
Website: http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/japanese/Kornicki.htm
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
Past Appointments
University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1985 - 1995
Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, 2002 - 2014
Fellow, Robinson College University of Cambridge, 1986
Reader, Professor in Japanese History and Bibliography, University of Cambridge, 1995
Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, 2007
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge, 2014
The female as subject: Women and the book in Japan 2010, University of Michigan
F. V. Dickins' letters to Ernest M. Satow, Kumagusu Minakata and others 2011, Edition Synapse, Tokyo
The history of the book in East Asia 2013, Farnham, Ashgate
Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections 1991, Cambridge University Press
The reform of fiction in Meiji Japan 1982
The book in Japan: a cultural history 1998
Early Japanese books in the Russian State Library 1999
Other Africa, Asia and the Middle East Fellows
Professor Michael Cook
The history of the Islamic world; the formation & development of traditional Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic history in comparative perspective.
Professor Hugh Kennedy
The History and Archaeology of the early Islamic Middle-East, North Africa and Spain c.600-1000 AD
Professor Jean-Pierre Mahé
Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
Professor Charles Tripp
Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.


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Review: Calvary
by Ann • January 27, 2015 • 1 Comment
Father Lavelle is a good priest. He is honest, humble, hardworking. He is also going to be killed in seven days. The man on the other side of the confessional says that he was raped by a priest as a child. That priest has long since died, but, says the man, he is going to kill Father Lavelle instead – not because he is a bad priest, but because he is a good one. Killing a good priest, he explains, will really make a statement. It is from this startling revelation that John Michael McDonagh's film Calvary builds a tale of faith, pain, betrayal and forgiveness that is a beautiful challenge to believers and nonbelievers alike.
Our priest (Brendan Gleeson) knows who his potential assassin is, but refuses to tell anyone. He doesn't go to the police, and he doesn't at first seem tempted to flee. Over the next week, Sunday to Sunday, we see him tend his flock as usual. And this flock requires a great deal of tending. Lavelle says Mass, and makes his rounds in the small Irish village. He speaks to an impenitent adulteress, to a depressed millionaire, to a hermitic writer and an imprisoned serial killer. He speaks to his bishop about the threats, and to his fellow (less-than-competent) village priest. He also connects with his adult daughter, Fiona (he was a widower before joining the priesthood) who is recovering from a suicide attempt. Most of the townsfolk make a routine out of jabbing the man for his vocation. They taunt him with their skepticism, flaunt their sins, and mock his supposed lack of power in their community. He is the whipping boy for their every complaint against the Catholic Church. They claim indifference, and yet can't leave him alone. As the week progresses and his appointment with death approaches, Lavelle's faith is battered on all sides by callous remarks and acts of cruelty. And yet he remains. At times it seems his main duty as a priest is to stand still and let the waves of their anger crash against him. Stoic but not superhuman, Father Lavelle feels every slap, whether verbal or physical. His faith in God is in less danger than his faith in humanity.
His landscape, however, is not entirely bleak. He is given respite in a beautiful scene in which he administers last rites to a man killed randomly and too young. The widow seems surprised when told that such a tragedy would make many people curse God and lose their faith. "It must not have been much of a faith to begin with," she remarks. She does not feel that her husband's death is unfair. "Many people do not live good lives, and they do not feel love. That is what is unfair. I feel sorry for them." Gleeson's mere presence onscreen is enough to assure us that this priest is living a good life, and does indeed feel love. He speaks to people on their own terms, dealing with them as they are, not as they ought to be. No problem or confession he hears would be met with a rote recitation of doctrine. He toils with people, listens to them, and doesn't judge their brokenness. This stands in stark contrast to the other local clergymen. His co-curate is a man small of spirit, venal and mediocre, who treats the priesthood like just another job. The bishop, though sympathetic, peers academically over his glasses and strolls through his manicured garden in a way that raises doubts he's ventured outside the rectory walls in his life. Father Lavelle, however, is the kind of priest the world needs most – unlikely to ever achieve fame or be honored, just quietly reiterating news of God's mercy until the day he dies.
Calvary is a striking film, tough to watch but thoroughly rewarding. It is framed not as a whodunit but as a parable, one desperately needed by a Church so bruised and jeered at. We are shown an Ireland stinging with injustice, roiling with anger over decades of abuse, denial, and indifference from the religion so integral to its identity. Before Father Lavelle is ever told he will die to atone for sins that aren't his, he is already a scapegoat. But he has the humility to bear every insult without rebuttal. People don't need a Church that considers itself impervious to its own mistakes. Too many Catholics have made excuses in the face of the abuse scandal, detached themselves from feeling its horror, rationalized and ignored the gravity of what happened. The only true integrity can be a Church howling in pain alongside the abuse victims, taking their hands and refusing to avert its eyes from their wounds.
This film is brooding but not dour, and John Michael McDonagh shares his brother Martin's talent for whimsical pitch-black wit. Laughs are rare, however, and brittle. The performances are all excellent, with Brendon Gleeson (whose son Domhnall, a rising star himself, plays the convicted killer) sterling as usual. His presence in this film radiates such grounded decency that it's a shame he was overlooked for most major awards this year. Gleeson is long overdue for recognition, and creating a character whose goodness is neither trite nor boring is no easy accomplishment. Perhaps the only notable flaw is the film's occasional self-referentiality; characters make a few meta comments about their "opening lines" and "act-three revelations" that threaten to distract from Calvary's sincerity.
This movie is not for the faint of heart, as its shocking opening line may drive sensitive viewers away right at the start. But this is as it should be. It is refreshing to see a religious film whose roughness hasn't been sanded down to be palatable to the masses, and Calvary earns its moments of transcendence by the raw reality it's unafraid to depict. Audiences don't need sanitized stories with Hallmark-card sentiments about hope and faith; they need honest grappling with uncomfortable truths. There is fullness to this movie, a warmth underneath its jagged edges, that makes Calvary a pleasure akin to a well-done Good Friday service. McDonagh hasn't set out to pillory the Catholic Church for its failures. After all, as Father Lavelle tells his daughter, "There's too much talk about sins, and not enough talk about virtues… Forgiveness has been highly underrated."
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Ian Smithson
Lashing out against someone who had no part in harm done is not a good way to address the harm.
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but I'll always say I am not.
Love is my whole being, for love is all I've got.
and that we belong together, and not apart.
would you hold my hand and kiss me?
would you let our love be?
and explore our love's new Sea?
a romance between us, would you still see?
to go on that date, would you still agree?
but with this poem. I give you my heart's key.


Referencing images of a space ship, the futuristic looking Jet Capsule by Italian designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini was developed in collaboration with Luca Solla from S3, ship supply side. Produced in Naples, Italy the egg-shaped boat features a powerboat hull constructed entirely from fiberglass and also stainless steel handrails. The fun water craft measures 7.5 meters and is powered by a 325-hp Yanmar diesel with a Hamilton waterjet – allowing propulsion speeds of up to 25 knots. The capsule accommodates enough room to seat four people on each side, with alternate arrangements available. Offering a fully customizable interior, there are a wide range of soft finishes and exterior gelcoat colors.


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Just before Christmas David Cameron's former speechwriter, Ian Birrell, wrote in praise of private sector involvement in the delivery of healthcare (NHS privatisation fears? Grow up). It is no secret that many members of the current government see the NHS, along with the BBC and the Royal Mail, as ripe for privatisation (or what you and I might describe as untapped opportunities for profiteering by their friends and supporters in large corporations). Yet Birrell's enthusiasm for privatising the NHS overlooks two fundamental characteristics of private companies. They hate uncertainty (as their advocates tell us again and again) and they will invest their capital wherever they can be sure of making the greatest profits.
For health care to be attractive to them it is necessary to distort the delivery of care so much as to make it almost unrecognisable. As Margaret McCartney has set out in detail in her excellent book, The Patient Paradox, it must exclude anyone whose condition cannot be put into a tidy box and costed. Hence, the concern he voices for elderly and disabled patients seems at odds with the profit imperative to get rid of them, ideally to the social care sector where their care will be means tested. As we have shown in a recent paper, this is only part of a multipronged attachment on older people (or as certain politicians would say, sotto voce, those who have outlived their usefulness). Consequently, while no-one wants to see older people stuck inappropriately in hospital, we must consider the motives of those now suggesting that they should never be in a hospital at all. Recall that, in many cases, it is only possible to know that someone is entering the final few months of life in retrospect. The exclusion of old people from the health system will free space needed to screen the worried well until some harmless anomaly can be found and treated at a guaranteed profit.
Private providers will only contract with the NHS if the market isrigged in their favour, for example by capping their losses as happened in the deal with Hinchingbrooke Hospital, since condemned by the Public Accounts Committee. He invokes Germany as an example of a country where the private sector is heavily involved in health care delivery but seems unaware of the very different model of Rhineland capitalism in force there, with trade unions represented on supervisory boards of firms. The benefits of this approach over the Anglo-Saxon model we use have been set out at length by Will Hutton. The situation in our two countries is entirely different.
Birrell's claim that "competition works in health, just as it works elsewhere" displays an ignorance of a literature stretching back fifty years. The theory was set out in 1963 by the Economics Nobel Laureate Ken Arrow and the empirical evidence gathered since then. He must surely know that the research he cites has generated results that are medically implausible and have been heavily criticised.
People with complex disorders, cannot be commodified. The abject failure of the market-based health system in the USA to improve health outcomes, despite spending vast sums of money, should give him pause for thought. On a whole range of measures, the NHS in the UK outperforms those in other industrialised countries. When someone is proposing something so completely at odds with the evidence, it is only reasonable to ask why and who will benefit?


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Kotoko banned from Baba Yara Stadium
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Self-contained, tethered, and aircraft-deployable, the Jack in the Box drone system provides real-time visual data and pinpoints locations to assist EMERGENCY SERVICES and DISASTER RELIEF in remote or inaccessible areas. It monitors up to 300 square kilometres from a fixed position and supports flight times of up to 500 hours. It can also operate in adverse environments without risking lives.
Jack in the Box can provide reliable positioning data to support emergency services, environmental protection, government bodies, civil defence, and border control on land, at sea, and in remote locations. To do so while supplying live, high-quality streaming video, it deploys a self-contained drone "package" that is affixed to a tether and fuel supply.
The customer benefits include reliable real-time data, extended flight times, re-usable hardware, the ability to network multiple devices, variable payload options, and cost-efficiency compared to standard aircraft. Jack in the Box also presents no threat to other aircraft. The system uses GNSS data to compute the precise location of individuals and assets at risk while real-time video footage of events is relayed to a command centre via communications satellite.
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It's tempting to imagine this means that the first humans called their parents mama and dada, and that those two warm, hearty words have survived the slings and arrows of human history to remain in use today. But the notion is too good to be true. Over time in language, sounds smush along their way to becoming new ones, and even the meanings people assign to a word drift all over the place.
The answer lies with babies and how they start to talk. The pioneering linguist Roman Jakobson figured it out. If you're a baby making a random sound, the easiest vowel is ah because you can make it without doing anything with your tongue or lips. Then, if you are going to vary things at all, the first impulse is to break up the stream of ahhh by closing your lips for a spell, especially since you've been doing that to nurse. Hence, mmmm, such that you get a string of mahs as you keep the sound going while breaking it up at intervals.
Papa and dada happened for a similar pan-human reason. After babies begin making m with their lips, they pick up making a sound that involves a little more than just putting their lips together—namely, putting them together, holding them that way for a second, and then blowing out a puff of air. That's p—or, depending on your mood, b. Alternatively, babies also start playing with their mouths a little further back from the lips—on that ridge behind the upper teeth that we burn inconveniently by sipping soup when it's too hot. That's where we make a t or a d. The order in which babies learn to make sounds explains why the next closest usual caretaker to mom is so often called papa or baba (or tata or dada).
Yes, it is tempting to imagine that the first humans called their parents mama and dada. You can believe that evolution made babies start with two sound groups and emotions immediately tie them to people, or you can believe that God designed us to know what to call our parents from the get go. Simplest answer is likely correct.


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First 'Frenemies,' Now 'Coopertition'
By Cablefax Staff | April 5, 2012
The concept of "coopertition," or cooperative competition, long has been an element of many different industrial sectors and certainly is not a trend unknown in the satellite industry. While Northern Sky Research (NSR) long has predicted an increase in partnerships and cooperative deals between fixed satellite service (FSS) operators as an alternative to outright consolidation in the industry, a recent string of deals in Asia underscores this trend.??
One of the interesting issues driving increased cooperation, as pointed out during the Asia session recently moderated by NSR at Satellite 2012 (for more Satellite 2012 coverage, click here), is that the simple physics of frequency allocation is driving operators to reach deals together. The crowding of the frequency bands in much of the orbital arc, especially in the Ku-band, has made it difficult for any single operator to develop a new "clean" slot. This is especially true of small- to mid-sized as well as new FSS operators that might not have the "storehouse" of orbital filings that older and larger FSS operators typically have.??
Another issue is that small- to mid-sized operators would like to enjoy some of the benefits that come from the economies of scale enjoyed by larger operators. These types of cooperative agreements will aid the bottom line for the small- to mid-sized operators without the conundrum of how to grow large enough to benefit from deals normally reserved for the top four biggest operators.??
Finally, the typical new satellite business case often is comprised of three key elements: access to a slot/frequencies, availability of a satellite (or financing for one), and a relationship with a key client (or clients). In the increasingly competitive satellite industry, it is becoming more and more challenging to pull together these three elements in a timely manner, thereby opening up avenues for growth for individual operators.
Again, coopertition can benefit two partners in a deal where combined they are able to bring together all three elements and, thereby, successfully launch a new satellite. Whereas, individually, they may have lacked one or more of the critical pieces of the business plan, joining in cooperation to launch a new satellite allows growth for both, even if it means they compete in other areas.
Every FSS operator seeks to grow its business, and key to that is increasing its supply of commercialized satellite capacity. In the past, that meant launching more and larger satellites both to meet expanding demand for satellite services, and to nurture the emergence of new markets and applications. However, the severe crowding of the GEO orbital arc combined with the political/financial hurdles that the industry faces that block consolidation implies that the best opportunities these days for expansion are often through partnerships, especially for the small- to mid-sized operators.
While Asia certainly has led the way in the last 12 months, partnerships are by no means limited to this region with other examples existing in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. NSR fully expects the number of alliances and deals will accelerate in the coming years to form a regular feature of the industry.
"Coopertition" will become an ever more dominant element of the FSS sector, and those who best succeeding at artfully merging the elements of "cooperation" and "competition" likely will become the industry leaders of tomorrow.
— Patrick French, Northern Sky Research


Toronto, Canada – CLEVELAND (Reuters) - LeBron James would not let the Atlanta Hawks spoil his 25th birthday, scoring a season-best 48 points to rally the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 106-101 victory on Wednesday.
Anderson Varejao gift-wrapped the win on a tie-breaking three-pointer with 17.2 seconds to play. Varejao's first career three-pointer gave Cleveland the lead for good at 104-101 after they had trailed by as many as 17 early in the third quarter.
It also helped complete back-to-back wins over the Hawks for the Cavaliers, who won 95-84 in Atlanta on Tuesday.
The Central Division leaders have now won six in a row and beaten Atlanta eight consecutive times.
James also had 10 rebounds and six assists as Cleveland won an 11th successive game at home.
Joe Johnson had 35 for Atlanta and Mike Bibby added 20.


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Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe ist ein deutsches Ehe- und Kriminalfilmmelodram aus den Jahren 1954/55. Unter der Regie von Volker von Collande spielen Willy Birgel, Maria Holst, Annemarie Düringer und Willi Forst die Hauptrollen.

Handlung
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Rudolf Kadenberg geht ganz und gar in seinem Beruf auf. Er zeigt sehr viel mehr Interesse an Fachsimpeleien mit seiner jungen Kollegin Dr. Patricia Kresse als an seiner Gattin Brigitte. Immer häufiger bleibt er in seinem Büro und vergisst darüber die Liebe. Die vernachlässigte Ehefrau findet daraufhin bald Trost in dem charmanten Adeligen Alexander von Barender, einem eleganten Mann von Welt, der weiß, wie man Damen von Welt tröstet und beglückt. Eines Tages geschieht ein Mord an dem alten Geldverleiher Stein, und der Verdacht fällt augenblicklich auf den noblen Hausfreund, denn Barender, der einst einer sehr vermögender Gutsbesitzer war, befindet sich nunmehr in beträchtlichen Nöten, da er finanziell notorisch klamm ist.

Obwohl in Dr. Kadenberg allmählich Zweifel an der ehelichen Treue seiner Brigitte erwachsen und er allen Grund hätte, vor Gericht die Verteidigung des mutmaßlichen Liebhabers Barender abzulehnen, gibt er alles, um dem Rivalen um die Gunst der Gattin zu helfen. Für Barender wäre es ein leichtes, seinen Kopf aus der Schlinge zu ziehen, denn eigentlich hat er ein Alibi. Dazu müsste er aber Brigitte Kadenberg kompromittieren, da er mit ihr zum mutmaßlichen Tatzeitpunkt zusammen war. Mit Kadenbergs Hilfe wird der wahre Täter entlarvt, und der Rechtsanwalt kann sich nun endlich wieder intensiver seiner Gattin widmen.

Produktionsnotizen
Die Dreharbeiten fanden zum Jahresende 1954 in Berlin-Tempelhof (Atelieraufnahmen) und in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden und Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Außenaufnahmen) statt. Die Uraufführung war am 17. März 1955, die Berliner Premiere am 29. März desselben Jahres.

Fritz Hoppe übernahm die Produktionsleitung, Fritz Maurischat entwarf die Filmbauten, die Paul Markwitz ausführte. Gerhard Krüger assistierte Chefkameramann Werner Krien.

Es sang Lys Assia.

Für den Schauspielveteran Aribert Wäscher, der hier das Mordopfer spielte, war dies die letzte Filmrolle.

Kritiken
Der Spiegel urteilte: "Ein Kriminal- und Ehefilm, naturfern und kunstlos wie der Hauptdarsteller (…) Das Selbstlos-Unkonventionelle dieses Sonderlings drückt Birgel einzig mit dem Smoking aus, den er statt eines Fracks zum Ball in seiner mondänen Villa anlegt."

Bei Filmdienst heißt es: "Die in den Gesellschaftsfilm eingeflochtene Kriminalgeschichte wirkt profilierter als der zentrale Ehekonflikt."

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Filmtitel 1955
Filmdrama
Deutscher Film
Schwarzweißfilm
Kriminalfilm

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I just get an email of Google which was interesting to say the least... and I wish I could tell the people we develop Oracle APEX apps for the same! Developing web applications that are browser compliant (especially older browsers) is just taking so much time! It would be really nice if it was common to only need to support the last 3 versions.
After August 1, you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites with these older browsers, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely.
To give users the best experience with Google Apps, we need the capabilities of modern browsers to deliver features such as desktop notifications for Gmail and drag-and-drop file upload in Google Docs.
Ready for the Weekly APEX QUIZ?
With the growing popularity and usage of Oracle Application Express, we are very excited to announce a new weekly Oracle APEX quiz launching on Saturday, 18th June. Weekly quizzes start on Saturday and end on Friday at midnight (UTC).
APEX Evangelists is now sponsoring a weekly APEX quiz, so you can now look forward to APEX Evangelists challenging you with some interesting quizzes. If you're already a seasoned APEX developer or you are only just beginning your journey with APEX, then this is the perfect time to start competing in the APEX Quiz to help to deepen and broaden your knowledge about one of Oracle's most exciting application development tools.
To play the APEX quiz starting 18 June, simply visit http://www.plsqlchallenge.com and choose the quiz in the Play a Quiz table. We also encourage you to submit your own ideas for APEX quizzes – and to volunteer as a reviewer (which you can do through the Feedback page).
We made a bet with Steven Feuerstein that more developers will be playing the APEX quiz than the daily PL/SQL quiz in no time! So help us spread the word! Let your friends co-workers know about the APEX quiz and start playing now!
The Oracle Application Express (APEX) development team hit the ball out the park again with some of the new features you find in APEX 4.1 Early Adopter 2!
tryapexnow.com got updated last night with a new version of APEX and I just played a little bit with it. Two new features caught my eye: the data load wizard and the drag/drop in the calendar.
I followed the wizard to create a new page of type Calendar and it now asks if you want to enable Drag and Drop.
The drag and drop features uses an On Demand Page Process which you have to select in the Calendar Attributes. If you click on the Process label you see an example how such a Process needs to look like.
You want to allow people to upload data in your application (using copy/paste or a csv file)? Now you just have to follow the Data Loading wizard and it does everything for you. It even includes a mechanism that detects if it needs to do an update or an insert, it allows you to add data transformations and validations and it just flows well.
Many features that come with this wizard, really nice. And it's just an APEX page, so you can still customise it like you want.
If you didn't try APEX 4.1 yet, give it a go, it's worth to see what's coming... and remember to use the Feedback link to give the APEX development team feedback.


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Aml Ameen Chats To SPIN About Working With Leigh-Anne Pinnock On 'Boxing Day'
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Aml Ameen talks Boxing Day
SPIN's Sarina Bellissimo caught up with Aml Ameen for a chat about his new Christmas movie Boxing Day.
Among other things, he spoke about what it was like working with his co-star, Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock.
Before we get to that interview, you might be wondering what Boxing Day is all about.
Well, it follows Melvin (Ameen), a British author living in America, who returns home to London for the holidays to introduce his American fiancé (Aja Naomi King) to his eccentric British-Caribbean family.
Their relationship is put to the test, as she discovers the world Melvin left behind revolves around his ex-girlfriend (Pinnock), who is now an international pop star.
This movie is not only Aml's directorial debut, but it's also Leigh-Anne's feature film debut.
Sarina asked him what it was like working with the Little Mix pop-sensation, and he gushed over her.
"Leigh-Anne worked her socks off. Like properly worked her socks off during the course of making this movie."
Aml continued, "She delivered an actor's performance and she did that by really, really focusing on the craft first."
"She's an incredibly hard worker, and I understand why she's successful."
"I love what she did in the movie. She was great, my supporting cast is phenomenal..."
Listen back to Sarina's interview with Aml here:
Boxing Day drops in cinemas this Friday, December 3rd.
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GIRL ORB | UK Fashion & Beauty Blog: Tie me, Twist me, Knot me… Anyway way you want me.
Tie me, Twist me, Knot me… Anyway way you want me.
Just came across this wonderful useful website, www.texeresilk.com/cms-scarf_tying_guide.html which is a scarf tying guide. I have been lusting after the Hermes Pour Liberty collection since they came out earlier this year, and this website just adds to my reasons for buying one! (Might add it to my Christmas wish list).
It's a great way to dress up a work your work outfit, or brighten up your outfit on those grey winter days.
I shall be having a go at some of they styles over the next few weeks and will post you some photos of the outcomes!


This year I decided to head to the West Coast to celebrate my birthday. I was my first time visiting the Golden State and I love every moment of it. While there I got the chance to visit Mulholland Drive, the Hollywood walk of fame; I even get a chance to breeze by the Capitol Building. With all of the glitz and excitement of Hollywood, it's easy to forget to admire the architecture of the LA. I stayed at the Ritz Milner, a hotel located in the middle of downtown LA. The ghost of 40's LA whispers through the halls.
I was visited by the other Donovan from Charleston for a old fashioned welcome complete with party favors and a tour of the city. Once we parted ways I took the opportunity to explore the city some more. I can definitely come back to visit as LA has many hidden jewels.


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Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is On Top: St. Louis To Liverpool Numbered Limited Edition Gold CD
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TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 3.5/5 Sonics in the November 2008 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
This recording pairs up two spectacular Chuck Berry collections resulting in a miniature jukebox with some of the biggest hits in music.
Format: Mobile Fidelity Mini LP Sleeve, Numbered Limited Edition Ultradisc II™ 24kt Gold CD
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Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances For Large Symphony Orchestra, Op. 45 CD (Long Box)
Factory Sealed RARE Long Box!
Out Of Print! Only 1 Available!
Vladimir Fedoseyev conducting the USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances!
Format: Mobile Fidelity CD Long Box
Humble Pie Rock On CD (Long Box)
One of the many rock/blues groups spurned by the British Revolution of music in the 1960s, this quartet evolved from The Small Faces when Steve Marriott decided upon a harsher sound.
The Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel CD
Considered by many to be one of the Grateful Dead's more imaginative recordings, From the Mars Hotel features the stand-out track "Unbroken Chain" and the off-beat gem "Scarlet Begonias".
Format: Mobile Fidelity CD
Joe Walsh Barnstorm CD (Long Box)
With this release, Walsh ventured into folk acoustic music with influences by James Taylor and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
The Firesign Theatre Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him CD
Waiting For the Electrician... preceded the stage and radio shows TFT was to create over the next few years.
The Firesign Theatre Dear Friends CD
Dear Friends is a compilation album, collecting some of the best from their avant-garde radio religious series from September 1970 to February 1971.


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Accessibility Guide for Salcey Forest
Salcey@forestryengland.uk 01604 863630 https://www.forestryengland.uk/salcey-forest
Guide last updated: 18 December 2019
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Salcey Forest is a Forestry England woodland. We have walking, running, cycling and horse trails to be explored in an abundance of history and wildlife. Salcey Forest is located 7 miles from Northampton and 15 miles from Milton Keynes and is an ideal place for visitors of all ages and abilities to enjoy and discover this ancient semi-natural woodland accredited by the Visitor attraction Quality Assurance Scheme.
Additionally, there is an on-site cafe, disabled and family toilet facilities and a visitor information centre. (open 7 days a week 9am til 4pm)
Level access icon Level Access
Hearing icon Hearing
Visual icon Visual
General icon General
The main entrance has level access.
There is level access from the main entrance to:
Information Point (Visitor Hub)Unisex Accessible ToiletsUnisex Accessable ToiletsMale ToiletsFemale ToiletsGrounds CafeChildrens Play Area
There is level access from the car park to:
Visitor Hub
The fire alarm has flashing lights.
We have a hearing loop in In the Information Point..
Some staff have disability awareness training.
Some parts of the venue have low lighting.
There is a public toilet for disabled visitors.
We have emergency evacuation procedures for disabled visitors.
Wotton Road
Nr Hartwell
NN7 2HX
Travel by public transport
You can get to Salcey Forest by bus.
The nearest bus stop is in Hartwell. The bus stop is 1.3 miles / 2.1 km from Salcey Forest.
Travel by taxi
You can get a taxi with Skyline by calling 01604 222111. The taxi company has a wheelchair accessible vehicle.
We have a car park. There are accessible parking spaces. Parking is not free.
There is a drop-off point at the main entrance. The drop-off point has a dropped kerb.
From the car park to the entrance, there is level access. The route is 940mm wide, or more.
We have a transport service, to take visitors from the car park to the main entrance. Our transport service is wheelchair accessible.
The site has level access with a large car park (including 6 Blue Badge spaces) in front of the Main Visitor Hub.
Path to main entrance
From the street to the main entrance, there is level access.
The path is 940mm wide, or more.
Visual Impairment - General Information
Ticket/ information desk
Information Point (Visitor Hub)
From the main entrance to the desk, there is level access. The route is 940mm wide, or more.
The desk has a low section.
There is a hearing loop in the Information Point.
Unisex Accessible Toilets
You need a RADAR key to open the public toilet.
From the main entrance to the public toilet, there is level access. The route is 940mm wide, or more.
The toilet door is 940mm wide.
The direction of transfer onto the toilet is to the right.
There is 860mm at the side of the toilet. There is 1600mm in front of the toilet. The toilet seat is 470mm high. The toilets have handrails.
There is a radar key available in the Information Point.
Unisex Accessable Toilets
The toilet is a Changing Places toilet.
Male Toilets
The direction of transfer onto the toilet is to the front only.
There is 230mm at the side of the toilet. There is 370mm in front of the toilet. The toilet seat is 470mm high.
The male toilets have five urinals and 3 toilet cubicles. There are three sinks at 800mm high and one at 680mm high and 2 hand-driers.
Female Toilets
The female toilets comprise of 7 cubicles, 6 sinks and 2 hand-driers.
Place to eat and drink
Grounds Cafe
From the main entrance to the dining area, there is level access. The route is 1100mm wide, or more. The door is 1500mm wide.
To get to a table, there are no steps.
The dining area is self-service. If you need table service, staff can help you.
The route through the dining area is 800mm wide, or more.
There is no background music.
The table and plates have high colour contrast.
We cater for sugar free (diabetic), vegetarian, gluten free (celiacs), lactose free (dairy free), nut free, low fat and vegan specific diets.
Grounds Cafe is located within the main Visitor Hub and has two indoor seating areas and an external brick patio area. It has seating for 48 customers inside and seating for approximately 50 more outside. Two of the outside tables have space for wheelchair users.
Designated Walking Trail
Elephant Walk
The trail is 1200metres long. The trail has a hard surface. The trail has seats.
Trails are clearly signposted and the Elephant Walk waymarkers are purple.
Church Path Walk
The trail is 2500metres long. The trail has a hard surface. Some of the trail has a loose surface. The trail has seats.
All trails are clearly signposted and the Church Path Walk waymarkers are yellow.
Woodpecker Trail
The trail is 10000metres long. Some of the trail has a loose surface. The trail has seats.
All trails are clearly signposted and the Woodpecker Trail waymarkers are pink. This trail starts with a firm compressed surface which changes to grass and is undulating and uneven in places. There are two road crossing points. This trail can become very wet and soft underfoot particularly after heavy rain.
Horse Trail
The trail is 8000metres long. Some of the trail has a loose surface. The trail has seats.
All trails are clearly signposted and the Horse Trail waymarkers are brown in colour. It is undulating with sections of compressed stone surface and a grass/soil surface. There are four road crossing points.
Family Cycle Trail
All trails are clearly signposted and the Cycle Trail waymarkers are grey. It is undulating with a firm compressed stone surface and there are 2 road crossings.
From the car park to the picnic area, there is level access. The path is 940mm wide, or more.
The entrance is 940mm wide.
Some tables have space for wheelchair users. You can bring your own food to the picnic area.
There are also other picnic benches along the trails in the forest and around the car park.
From the main entrance to this area, there is level access. The route is 940mm wide, or more. The entrance is 810mm wide.
The play area is suitable for children of age five and upwards and has a level bark covered surface. It comprises of mainly wooden and rope climping equipment as well as a slide. There are three benches within the play area and the adjacent picnic area has a clear view of the play area.
Accessibility equipment
In the case of emergency we can charge batteries in the Information Point if the correct cables are provided.
You can hire mobility equipment from Oakley Healthcare by calling 01604 602000.
Emergency evacuation procedures
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Ana Cecilia Flores
Co-Founder & CMO , Webee Corporation
Mountain View, United States
About Ana Cecilia:
Ana Cecilia is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Webee Corporation, a tech company focused on streamlining knowledge through data automation. Their unique management software and cutting-edge hardware are designed for businesses of all sizes and industries to help them modernize operations by reducing manual work and the inefficiencies caused by human error. By accessing data, gaining insights and improving critical processes, businesses can take advantage of technology. Webee's patented solution democratizes the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), while breaking down barriers of entry for technology adoption in industrial and commercial markets, thereby guaranteeing an immediate return on investment. Their core product is an intuitive software that allows the onboarding of sensors and controllers to create rules, actions, trigger alerts, reporting, etc. They currently serve clients in Latin America, Asia, the United States and Europe. Ana Cecilia would like to grow Weebee as a global, innovative solution for businesses. Ana Cecilia's areas of expertise are marketing, corporate communications, startup-tech entrepreneurship, strategic planning, corporate social responsibility and design thinking. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Corporate Communications from Blas Pascal University, a degree in Advertising from IES Siglo 21, a Master's in Strategic Communications and Postgraduate in Business Management from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ana Cecilia has been part of the Vital Voices network since 2010 when she participated in a Vital Voices Argentina mentoring program and has since participated in mentoring walks in three different continents. She mentors women in technology in the Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Initiative, the Cherie Blair Foundation and others. She also currently mentors various women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
What Ana Cecilia hopes to gain from the VV GROW Fellowship:
Ana Cecilia hopes to learn about the critical aspects of how to scale her business and gather ideas about how to grow her business and help the community. She would like to strengthen her skills in conducting business as she grows in her leadership role within a male dominated industry and to grow her network as her business scales globally.
What Ana Cecilia can offer other fellows:
Ana Cecilia can offer help with the do's and do-not's in technology innovation including how to add efficiency to a business through simple implementations, how to manage and create solid communications, best practices for outreach plans and social media management as well as how to put together a marketing plan allocating resources wisely when resources are scarce.
Connect with Ana Cecilia on Social Media:
Website: https://www.webee.io/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaceciliaflores/
Facebook Page (business): https://www.facebook.com/webeeuniverse/
Facebook Page (personal): https://www.facebook.com/ana.cecilia.flores.triboli
Twitter: (business): @WebeeLife
Twitter (personal): @ancef
Instagram (business): @webeelife
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Q: jqGrid: Column resize triggers click event First of all, these are the versions I am currently using:

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*jqGrid 4.3.2 with the fix for Chrome (posted by "Oleg" in jqGrid does not render correctly in Chrome/Chrome Frame). For some reason 4.3.2 and 4.4.0 did not solve the width issue for me as described in the post. The issue just popped up in IE in addition to Chrome.

*jQuery 1.7.2

*jQuery UI 1.8.9

The problem I am having is that when I try to resize one of the columns in the grid by dragging the mouse it seems to trigger the click event on the header to the left of the separator when I let go of the mouse button. This event then triggers reordering of the rows, so it is not very nice.
It only happens in IE (9), it works fine in Firefox and Chrome.
I think this is very strange, since I have not found anyone else who describes the same issue with jqgrid, and I don't think I do any "hacks" that would potentially give this behaviour.
Hope someone could point me in a direction here.

A: I did not find exactly what the root cause for my problem was, but managed to solved it by suspending the click handler in jqgrid for 10 milliseconds after the mouseup event on the column resize action. The click handler allready had a check for a variable called ts.p.disableClick, so I figured I might as well use this one. The only thing I needed to change was from this:
 $(document).mouseup(function () {
    if (grid.resizing) { grid.dragEnd(); return false;}
    return true;
 });

, to this:
 $(document).mouseup(function () {
        if (grid.resizing) {

            // Disabling the click handler for 10 millisec.
            ts.p.disableClick = true;
            setTimeout(function() {
                 ts.p.disableClick = false;
            }, 10);

            grid.dragEnd(); return false;
        }
    return true;
 });

You may call this a hack, but suspending the click handler for just 10 ms should not affect the user in any way, so I think it should be safe.
Hopefully this could be helpful if someone encounters a similar problem.

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This post was written by AHMC cataloger Miranda Schwartz.
The correspondence of three women in the American Historical Manuscript Collection (AHMC) provides an enlightening look at political and public engagement by nineteenth-century American women activists.
Foster lectured widely against slavery in the 1830s and 1840s, working as an agent and fund-raiser for the American Anti-Slavery Society and for women's suffrage and equal rights. She was condemned by some for speaking to male groups, and criticized by her fellow Quakers for joining the American Anti-Slavery Society. She left the Friends as a result.
Jenkins was active in the women's rights movement, and was possibly the first woman ordained as a Universalist minister.
Child was a prolific writer on behalf of the many causes that interested her, most notably the abolition of slavery and the rights of women, as well as rights for Native peoples and religious tolerance. She served in the early 1840s as the editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, the journal published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, and as an executive member of the organization's board. She was an advocate of total emancipation of enslaved people without compensation for slave owners. Child edited the first edition of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl for publication in 1861.


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Here are some samples of my writing. If you are interested in using any of the full works in a production, please contact me.
Flop, clomp, flop, clomp, flop, clomp. The sole of Samson's shoe flapped against the cement of the littered sidewalk. He kept his head bowed against the whistling icy wind and plodded along in silence. Flop, clomp, flop, clomp, flop, clomp, clomp.
It was Christmas time again. As usual the shops were decorated with greenery and ribbon, but the luster was missing this year. Samson knew it. Everyone knew it. He thought of Christmases when he was young. His family would tell stories by the fire, sipping hot cocoa until he and his brothers and sisters fell asleep. The next day they would awaken to a present or two. Samson did not know they were poor at the time; he only knew that some families were richer. Now Samson knew that he was poor. Now everyone was poor.
Samson paused for a moment and raised his head. Across the street, a long line of people stretched all the way down to the corner and wrapped around a building. The end of the line was not even visible. Anxious, hungry, wrinkled young faces stared and waited and waited. They were staring at one small green door which blocked out all but a thin streak of warm light escaping onto the snowy stoop.
Samson quickly began to walk toward the end of the line, when the door opened and a woman with a floral apron poked her head out. She said something to the man at the front of the line. He yelled back at her, but the woman only shook her head and closed the door. Kicking the doorstep and yelling more loudly, the man stormed away and Samson's heart sank.
Note: the full script is about half an hour long. There is a small violin solo that can be learned relatively quickly.
It is nighttime at GRANDMA'S house. The living room is a cluttered storage space, stacked with piles of records, books, magazines, and papers. Broken-down baskets, overflowing with trinkets and household objects, burry the couch and several chairs. Even the bookshelf is bursting at the seams with knickknacks, picture frames, and unfinished knitting projects. The coffee table in the center of the room is clear except for a plate with a stale bagel and a half-empty teacup. A trash can stands by the couch. Packing boxes, the most recent addition to the collection, stand strewn around the room. Cocooned in this chaos, GRANDMA sits in the only piece of furniture that isn't serving as a shelf, her rocking chair. She is dressed in a nightgown and fingers a dog tag and engagement ring hanging on a chain around her neck. She is facing the audience like she is staring out of a window. A kitchen area stands on stage left. It is cluttered as well, the sink and table overflowing with dishes. The refrigerator is buried in newspaper clippings and photographs.
MARY. Hello, Mrs. Kline. (Pause.) May I come in?
MARY. (Whisks off DIANA'S headphones.) This is my daughter, Diana.
KLINE. (Looks at MARY'S bare left hand.) I see.
MARY. (To KLINE) Where is she?
KLINE. In her living room, and she had a panic attack when I started packing her things.
MARY. You started packing right in front of her?
KLINE. It is her house. What did you expect me to do? I told you this move would cause nothing but trouble.
MARY. I'm sure that the people at Clark Haven know exactly how to take care of her. (More to herself.) This whole thing would have gone more smoothly if I had been told earlier.
KLINE. Well, I'm sorry, if I just didn't find the time, Mary, but I didn't know what your last name was supposed to be now. And while you've been out fooling around, someone had to be here taking care of your responsibilities.
MARY. Well . . . I thank you for all you've done. I can handle it from here.
KLINE. Handle it?! She's not a problem, Mary; she's a person, and more than that she's your mother, and you owe her better than this. Where have you been all this time anyway?
MARY. Passing my bar exam and working for a law firm in Denver. And my name is still Mary Smith. Perhaps you would have found me sooner if you weren't busy looking in the gutter. (Opens the door.) Thank you for your help.
MARY. Mom? (No response. MARY walks around the rocking chair and sees her MOTHER'S face for the first time. She is taken aback by the sight of the distant-looking old woman but quickly composes herself, crouches down to eye level, and clears her throat.) Mom?
GRANDMA. Didn't come back. Why didn't . . . come back.
GRANDMA. (Looks at MARY.) Henry? . . . didn't come back.
GRANDMA. (Angrily.) Who are you?!
MARY. I'm . . .
Who are you?! Who are you?!
MARY. (Reaches toward GRANDMA.) It's all right.
GRANDMA. (Shirks away from MARY'S hand.) Who are you?! WHO ARE YOU?!
GRANDMA. (No break. Backs up again.) No. No! Who are you!
MARY. Mom . . .
GRANDMA. (No break.) Who are you!
GRANDMA. (Weakening as she is led offstage.) No . . . no.
The following story has also been converted into a 15 minute play by Alicia Joy LeBlanc and Amanda Gonzalez. All rights reserved.
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess. She loved horses, dancing, and running in the fields. She had long, full, curly, glossy hair, autumn sky blue eyes, and blemishless skin that you can only find in a princess who is filthy rich and was bathed in beauty treatments since birth.
One day the princess's mother and father, the king and queen, as it were, told the princess that it was time that she was married to a prince.
So suitors came from far and wide, and long and deep, and over and under, and through and in between, to win the hand of the princess. But the princess didn't want to marry just any prince. It had to be a real prince. She took a single pea, and placed it on a pedestal and said that a real prince would be able to divide it into a million equal pieces.
So the first prince came. He wore a dorky black robe with huge sleeves because he had studied with the most learn'ed men in the kingdom's monasteries. He could tell the princess the name of every star in the heavens, and could calculate the exact trajectory of a boulder launched from a catapult, which was a cool trick, I guess. Then came the fateful day when he was given the pea. And the prince took it and studied it for a month. He measured it, and sliced it with many different instruments that he had fashioned, but he could not divide the pea into a million equal pieces. So it was discovered that he was not a real prince, only one who had studied to look like a prince. But, there really was never any doubt about that. What was worse, he was a monastery dropout. So he left the castle in a huff.
The second prince had pure white teeth that were perfectly aligned, a tan that never faded, and perfect brown hair that never moved out of place. He used phrases like "Hey doll!" and would bring bouquets of flowers to the princess everyday. Then came the fateful day when he was given the pea. After a thorough search through the indoor flower garden that used to be the Great Hall, the pea was found and held out to the prince. He stared at it for a moment, looked at the princess and said, "Do you eat one pea because you think you're fat, 'cause you could eat like, ten peas, or even a potato." Obviously, this too was an impostor prince. It was later discovered that he was actually a Ken doll, animated by a mad scientist who lived on a lonely island off the coast of the kingdom. It is believed that he is still trying to perfect his creation to this day.
The third prince came. He was a strong knight and well practiced in swordplay. He had blonde shoulder length hair and a British accent. He looked like Sean Bean in a suit of armor. He impressed the royal family with his expert swordsmanship, and amazingly accurate archery skills. Alas, though, the fateful day never came for him to divide the pea into a million pieces, because he tripped over a stray stone and tumbled over an embankment to a death that deeply affected all who saw it. We never did find out if he was a real prince or not.
The king and queen and princess were pretty discouraged. "Where will we ever find a real prince," they lamented. And it began to rain, hard, in a very dramatic example of pathetic fallacy. Then there was a knock at the door.
The royal family leaned forward in their thrones, could this be, a real prince? The footman led into the Great Hall a dripping wet man, with a strong build, blue eyes, and dark hair.
"Are you a prince?" the queen asked anxiously.
"Me? Oh no, I was just wondering if you could give me directions to Ye Olde smithy? My horse threw a shoe," the soaking stranger explained.
The king, queen, and princess let out a sigh of disappointment and sank back into their seats. It was raining far too hard for them to allow the man to continue travel, so he stayed in the palace for a little while and was able to talk with the princess. They talked about horses, and dancing, and . . . fields and stuff.
Then the man saw the pea and asked what it was for.
The princess was so discouraged over the last lot of princes that she acquiesced readily enough.
"Sure, here you are" she said handing him the pea. After all, all she had to do was get another pea from the castle kitchen.
"I shall return" said the man, and as it had stopped raining, the man left.
"What was his name?" asked the king of the princess.
But he didn't return. The princess, waited for days, weeks, months, years, and the mysterious man, never returned.
Meanwhile, fake prince after fake prince tried to divide pea after pea into a million pieces. They used various methods, chopping it with a sword, shooting it with an arrow, boiling it in oil, even chewing it and spitting it out, (can I tell you how quickly that suitor was rejected). Again, the king, queen, and princess lapsed into despondency. Then there came knock at the door.
"Who is it?" sighed the king.
And in came the tall, dark, handsome stranger, though he was dry this time.
"I've been a little busy," said the man.
"I was hoping you would ask," the man replied with a twinkle in his eye. And he led the princess outside to a pair of horses. They rode together to a field on the far side of the kingdom.
"I asked every farmer I could find, and then I searched the whole kingdom until I found just the right field," the man explained.
"What are you talking about?" asked the princess.
And the two paraded to the palace, presented their pathetic present of peas, and parted . . . forever.
"WAIT A SECOND!!!!!!!!" comes a yell from across the moat.
It's the monastery dropout, rudely sticking his head back into the story when he had been banned from the palace forevermore on pain of death and . . .
"Yeah, yeah, know all that, but before your majesties behead me, I have to make a complaint here. This story it, it just isn't logical." He comes bursting into the castle, dragging the still unnamed suitor behind him.
"And what do you mean?" roars the annoyed king.
The royal family nods stupidly.
"But there hasn't been one prince named in this entire story. What's up with that? And for another thing, and this is the real kicker, look at what the princess says in paragraph three. Look!
"She took a single pea, and placed it on a pedestal and said that a real prince would be able to divide it into a million equal pieces.
"He has a point there" says the queen.
"What is your name lad?" asks the King of the man.
"Claude?!" All present story characters, and a few who are not present, gasp the name so loudly that is shakes the walls of the Great Hall.
"Yes, C. . .Claude" stammers the helpless man.
"Well, years ago the Prince Claude was kidnapped from the neighboring kingdom, it was never discovered what became of him," the king relates.
"Hmmm. I wonder if there could be a connection," ponders the queen.
"Obviously" says the learn'ed man rolling his eyes.
"Prince Claude!" says the princess rushing to embrace him.
"Princess I-don't-know-your-name!" exclaims the prince.
"My Bonnie Princess!" beams the prince and gives her a passionate kiss. And there is a romantic swell in the music, and bells ringing, and cartoon birds chirping, and single tears being wiped off of cheeks.
And so Bonnie and Claude were married and they lived happily ever after.
"SHUT UP! Or I'll have thee boiled in oil!" bellows the king.
© 2006 Alicia Joy LeBlanc, all rights reserved.


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David Booth Returns; Panthers Offense Still MIA
June 7, 2019 February 2, 2010 by Karl Selvig
My last article centered around the fact that the Panthers were somehow finding ways to win despite an extraordinarily anemic offense.Tomas Vokoun was coming off of a 3-shutout-in-8-game streak.Fast forward 4 more games, and the story remains the same.No offense to speak of, add one shutout to Vokoun's NHL leading tally.
There has been something that Panther fans can rally around, however.David Booth returned to the ice Sunday after missing 45 games due to a concussion.He registered 1 assist in his first game back, and looked like he hadn't missed a day.Booth led the team in shots on goal in his second night back, and was inserted back on the top line before game's end.With Nathan Horton still missing and probably out another 3-5 weeks, Booth's return could not have been more perfectly scheduled.
Regardless of the good news, the problem hasn't gone away. The count is now 9 goals in the Panthers last 8 games. One of those came on a penalty shot. Two of the 9 goals have come from defensemen. Clearly, something is not working up front for the Cats. What might be even more astounding is that despite the horrible production, the Panthers managed to post a 4-3-1 record during this 8 game stretch. It's safe to say that a run like this in late January would put any thoughts of the postseason out of most team's collective minds. And yet the Panthers sit in the 8th and final playoff spot. The eastern conference has its elite teams at the top, and then a plethora of mediocre teams who have been moving between 6th and 13th in the standings all year, and will most likely do so up through the final day.Unless someone else puts together a run like Ottawa's 9-1-0 in their last 10, or a funk like Boston's 2-7-1, things will remain extremely claustrophobic.
The feeling around Pantherland is that if this team can lean on Vokoun through the final 5 games before the Olympic break and grab a handful of points, say 6 of a possible 10, then there is a good chance when Horton returns and everyone is finally healthy and gelling, the Cats can make a solid run.4 of their next 5 are against teams that are in the same boat that Florida is.Calgary and the return of Jay Bouwmeester is up next, and the Flames have made their headlines over the weekend, and who knows where they will be come Friday.Atlanta, Carolina, and Boston have all been struggling lately.It's not absurd to think the Panthers can enter the break on a good feeling, despite the offensive woes.It's post-break that worries me.
Tomas Vokoun will be the starting netminder for the Czech Republic. He's already started 16 straight games, as he should have. T-Vo was named the 3rd star for the month of January, posting a 8-4-2 record, 1.49 GAA, .956 SP, and 4 shutouts. It's hard to bench a guy, even for rest, when he's playing at that kind of level. But assuming he continues to play up to and through the Olympics, that's a lot of hockey for anyone. If this team is going to make the playoffs, it will be on the very weary shoulders of its goaltender.
So what about the offense? Does Randy Sexton have any moves in store? This team is heavy on prospects and AHL talent. Is there a seller out there who has a top level scorer on the blocks? There are some veteran scoring names out there rumored to be up for discussion. Someone like former Panther Ray Whitney makes a lot of sense, as Carolina is in search of picks and prospects. Or do the returns of David Booth and (eventually) Nathan Horton act as a "trade" and the Panthers hold still, banking on the fact that a fully healthy roster can qualify.
Personally, my feeling is that this team is still missing pieces. When healthy, the top line of Stephen Weiss, Nathan Horton, and David Booth is as formidable as any (OK, maybe not any, but certainly most). The problem doesn't lie there, it's in the other 3 lines. Secondary scoring is non-existent. Players that the team was counting on to chip in the 15-20 goals have disappeared. Steven Reinprecht had 9 goals in the first month of the season. He has 4 since. Dominic Moore has just 8 goals this season. Greg Campbell chipped in with 13 last season. He currently sits at 2. There is no second line. There's the top line, and then three good 3rd lines. There are a bunch of hard workers, grinders, checkers, muckers, good character guys on this team. It's been a long time since you felt like this team forgot to show up. They work the boards, forecheck, and do the little things. It's the big things, like scoring, that the Panthers have trouble with. And I think when they figure out how to score more goals than the other team, they'll have a much better chance of winning.
There are some veteran scoring names out there rumored to be on the blocks, someone like former Panther Ray Whitney makes a lot of sense, as Carolina is in search of picks and prospects.
Karl Selvig
Karl Selvig was born and raised in south Florida, and was introduced to hockey when the NHL came to Miami in 1993. It was love at first sight. After playing through college, he turned to the media side of the sport and has enjoyed writing about his beloved Panthers since 2007.
Categories Florida Panthers Tags David Booth, Gregory Campbell, Jay Bouwmeester, Nathan Horton, Stephen Weiss, Steven Reinprecht, Tomas Vokoun


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Michigan House to Remove Unconstitutional Sodomy Provision from Animal Cruelty Bill
February 10, 2016 by John Wright Leave a Comment
The Michigan House is expected to remove an unconstitutional provision banning sodomy from an animal cruelty bill before it becomes law, the executive director of the LGBT group Equality Michigan said Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, we told you how the Michigan Senate passed SB 291, which includes a provision stating that oral and anal sex – whether straight or gay — is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. SB 291 is part of Logan's Law, a legislative package aimed at curtailing animal abuse in the state.
The unconstitutional sodomy provision appeared in the bill because the provision is intertwined with the state's ban on bestiality. Michigan is one of at least a dozen states with sodomy bans still on the books, 13 years after they were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas.
GOP Sen. Rick Jones (above), the author of the bill, said he chose not to remove the unconstitutional sodomy language form the bill because such an amendment would be so controversial that it could kill the entire animal-cruelty law. In other words, in 2016, the subject of gay sex is still so taboo in Michigan that lawmakers are afraid to go anywhere near it.
Steph White (right), executive director of Equality Michigan, said Tuesday that since learning the unconstitutional sodomy ban appeared in the bill, the group has had conversations with Democratic and Republican lawmakers about finding a "sensible solution" to the problem.
"I wouldn't say it 's a done deal until it's actually done, but we definitely have commitments from people on all sides of this debate saying we're going to address this," White told Towleroad.
Equality Michigan wrote on Facebook Tuesday that the group had "gotten word that the unconstitutional language in Logan's Law will not move forward in the House as it appears in SB 219."
However, White made clear that the solution won't include removing the unconstitutional sodomy law from the books entirely — which would ensure that this embarrassing episode doesn't repeat itself.
"I don't see them going backward and addressing other laws," White told Towleroad. "There's not much appetite for that generally. They obviously flubbed this up and should have addressed it. They thought it would be better not to, but obviously they are now."
Sen. Jones blamed the whole debacle on some sort of "misunderstanding of the legislative process."
"This (controversy) is being fueled by people who are not from the state," Jones told Michigan LGBT publication Outside the Lines. "They do not know the legislative process here and they do not know the players. As a result they have simply got the facts wrong on what was approved."
Just to clear up any confusion, here's the unconstitutional provision that was included in the bill authored by Jones and approved by the Senate:
And here's what another in-state LGBT publication, OutPost, had to say about the ordeal:
What the episode lays bare is a complete lack of will on the part of many lawmakers in Lansing — even some of our friends — to go to bat for LGBT Michiganders even when they have bullet-proof political cover in the form of a ruling from the highest court in the land.
And while the slight is largely symbolic — there's been no reports of prosecutors trying to use the sodomy law in nearly a decade — it does highlight where Michigan's LGBT community stands in Lansing.
The fact that even some of our friends in the Democratic Party don't feel it necessary to stand up for their LGBT constituents tells you everything you need to know about the gay community's political clout in this state.
I mean, really? Lawmakers are more willing to improve protections for animals than they are to include LGBT people in the state's civil rights and hate crime laws? It's pathetic, really.
(It also underscores the absurdity of believing that Lansing will amend the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act anytime soon.)
OutPost also shed light on Equality Michigan's reaction of the situation:
Meanwhile, some have questioned how Equality Michigan has handled the "Logan's Law" legislation.
It appeared that those at the advocacy organization found out about the bill when everyone else did, when an online report went viral Feb. 6, nine days after the vote. The first response on Equality Michigan's Facebook page around 8 p.m. that day was flippant and dismissive of the legislation, calling it "batshit crazy" and "unconstitutional foolishness." However, the post did not indicate the organization was planning to intervene in the matter in any way.
Ridicule about the bill continued online throughout the weekend and one Democratic Party activist even publicly questioned whether Equality Michigan and others were going to do anything about it. Then on Feb. 7, less than twenty-four hours after the initial post, Equality Michigan Executive Director Stephanie White gave a new response, deleting the initial comments and calling the senators' refusal to remove the sodomy ban "a missed opportunity." White then said that "staff and board members" spent the day "talking with lawmakers and legislative staff to discuss the ways that it may be addressed in House as it moves forward."
(As an aside, Equality Michigan board member Mira Krishnan also posted about the legislation Saturday, directly addressing lawmakers when she wrote, "I would call you animals, but that does injustice to the dogs and cats you are pretending to protect." Maybe she hasn't met her fellow board member Sen. Warren yet.)
Lastly, in case anyone's wondering why it even matters that sodomy laws are still on the books, or why we should bother to try to remove them, check out this piece by Carlos Maza of Media Matters.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Animal Cruelty, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Michigan, Rick Jones, sodomy
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