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The Walking Dead director teases 'jaw-dropping' season 10 finale amid coronavirus delay
Abigail GillibrandSunday 7 Jun 2020 8:35 am
The Walking Dead director teases 'jaw-dropping' season 10 finale (Picture: HBO)
**Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead. Read at your own risk.**
The Walking Dead's season 10 finale has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn't stopped the cast and crew from teasing what's to come in the hour long installment.
We last saw our heroes on the verge of battling Beta's (Ryan Hurst) horde as he walked them towards the Alexandrian camp.
And the next episode will pick up from where we left off with an epic fight scene, which Daryl Dixon star Norman Reedus promised will be 'Game of Thrones like'.
When giving more clues as to what fans can expect, producer Greg Nicotero told Fandom that the final two minutes are going to be 'jaw-dropping'.
He explained: 'There are a lot of character storylines that are [wrapped up]. You get little bits of information here, here, and here. You want [to] end that chapter and start the next chapter in the finale.
Coronavirus has delayed the final episode of season 10 (Picture: AMC)
'We address lots of stuff with Daryl, we address lots of stuff with Negan, we address lots of stuff with Beta, we address lots of stuff with Carol.'
'It's already been revealed that Maggie's return is in the finale, and it tees us up very well for season 11 that it's a little agonising for me to not be able to talk about,' the director went on.
He added: 'Because the last two minutes of the finale are going to just… People's jaws are going to drop.'
This isn't the first time the season's ending has been hinted at, with Negan star Jeffrey Dean Morgan recently calling it a 'mini-movie'.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan teased the next installment will be a 'mini-movie' (Picture: Jace Downs/AMC)
'It will be cool having a one-off, almost a Walking Dead movie in the middle of the season, I guess,' the 54-year-old told Entertainment Weekly.
'I think obviously things are going to come to some sort of a head with the Beta and his character.'
He continued: 'We know he's coming to wipe everybody out with his zombie horde so hopefully we'll see that come to a head at some point.
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'There has to be some sort of battle. Greg Nicotero directed it, so it's going to be a big massive episode for sure.'
Productions are slowly being given the green-light to continue work as more and more countries ease their Covid-19 lockdowns, meaning it's only a matter of time before we get to watch the final episode of season 10.
The Walking Dead will return to AMC and NOW TV later this year.
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by Upper East Site Staff October 13, 2021, 1:46 pm
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MANHATTAN – You can run, but you cant hide from the long arm of the law— that's the message being sent today with the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a man during what was believed to be a drug deal turned robbery on East 95th Street on the Upper East Side last April.
20-year-old Isaih Atkins of Allentown, Pennsylvania was arrested Tuesday afternoon and slapped with murder, robbery and weapons charges.
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It was the afternoon of April 26th when police say Atkins got in the back seat of a parked Honda HRV and tried to rob the three men inside. One of the robbery victims standing at the back of the car takes off running, surveillance video shows– that's when the suspect gets out and fires into the car.
A 21-year-old Brooklyn man in the back seat was shot in the torso by the suspect, according to police, he was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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After firing the shot, surveillance video shows the suspect try to get back in the car— that's when the panicked driver floors it and crashes into parked cars.
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Including Russia on what will remain a 24-race, 12-weekend schedule for the second year running, has resulted in a change of dates for WTCC Race of Portugal, which will now take place from 24-26 June, two weeks later than originally scheduled, with WTCC Race of Russia occupying the 10-12 June slot at Moscow Raceway.
The minor calendar adjustment will ensure WTCC Race of Portugal in Vila Real retains its status as the final event of the European season prior to the summer break and will ensure that all logistical arrangements to transport the WTCC cars and equipment to South America by sea for WTCC Race of Argentina from 5-7 August will remain unaffected.
Furthermore, the WTCC Art Cars Competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK from 23-26 June will go ahead and further details on this exciting new initiative will be announced in due course.
By scheduling WTCC Race of Russia in June, it means WTCC Race of France will become the championship's new curtain raiser with Circuit Paul Ricard hosting the action from 1-3 April.


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New Hampshire has spoken, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and businessman Donald Trump emerging on top of their parties and setting the tone for upcoming primaries across the nation.
Though the presidential nominations won't be set in stone until late June, analysts and voters alike put disproportionate stock in the New Hampshire race on Tues., Feb. 9 and the preceding Iowa caucuses for their ability to validate — or invalidate — the slew of polls and patterns of favorability assessed by the media in the months leading up to the first votes.
And as it turns out, premonitions prevailed in the Granite State this week. Sanders' lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton widened steadily during the month leading into the primary — from about five to 15 points — and translated to a comfortable win by an even greater margin.
After a humbling loss in Iowa to Sen. Ted Cruz, longtime poll leader Trump blew away his New Hampshire competition with a near 20-point victory in the Republican field. But this early in the game, second place still carries prescient weight as well.
In a tight, four-way contest between Cruz, fellow senator Marco Rubio, Gov. John Kasich and former governor Jeb Bush, Kasich secured the coveted runner-up title by a margin of a few points over his competitors, who each broke into double digits but remained within just a point or two of one another.
California has historically held minimal leverage over presidential nominations as one of the last states to vote on June 7. But that relative disadvantage could still motivate California voters to tune in now, if only to evaluate their general election prospects well in advance.
Clinton's narrow and poll-defying triumph by just two-tenths of one percent of the Iowan vote lit a fire under her campaign in the week before New Hampshire, and an intermediary debate last Thursday featured some of her most pointed exchanges with Sanders to date.
Clinton sees Sanders' agenda as stripping care from those covered by President Obama's Affordable Care Act, which she's repeatedly claimed to be the most feasible path to universal healthcare. Analysts at The Washington Post confirmed a subsequent claim that 18 million Americans have so far been covered by the bill, increasing nationwide coverage to about 90 percent.
Sanders took more than one opportunity to slam Clinton's campaign for repeatedly accepting large contributions from Wall Street banks. The Vermont senator, whose campaign has primarily been powered by individual donations, proposes a regulatory system reminiscent of the Glass-Steagall act, which required separation of commercial banking and securities trading until the end of the twentieth century.
"I think if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today … what he would say is: 'Break them up; they are too powerful economically. They are too powerful politically,'" Sanders said of the banks.
Clinton again upheld a piece of existing legislation: the 2008 Dodd-Frank Act. The complex bill created the Financial Stability Oversight Council to evaluate whether big banks should be broken up if they are "too big to fail," and tightened restrictions on proprietary trading.
The former secretary of state predictably hit her stride when talk turned to foreign policy. Clinton criticized her opponent's plan to combat the Islamic State, which may attempt to establish a Saudi Arabia-Iran alliance to help manage Syrian conflict. She implied the maneuver would be a non-starter due to the nations' hostile relationship, not to mention a waste of time in a such a volatile conflict.
"We cannot be the policeman of the world," Sanders said.
The governor's mockery did not stop Rubio from reiterating the statement twice more as the debate wore on. A still-escalating feud between Trump and Bush emerged as well, with Bush taking aim at the billionaire's exploitative use of eminent domain, and Trump earning widespread boos among audience members for shushing his challenger mid-sentence.
Trump tentatively defended his proposed "Muslim ban," asserting that "we have to have a temporary something, because there's something going on that's not good." Cruz and unlikely second-place challenger Kasich shared their own views on immigration, with varying degrees of friendliness toward undocumented immigrants already living in the United States.
"Federal immigration law provides, if someone is here illegally and is apprehended, they are to be deported," Cruz said.
The Texas senator also endorsed tripled border control, an "e-verify" system for employers and technology for increased visa oversight. Kasich's proposal, by contrast, recommends the approximate 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living on U.S. soil "pay some back taxes, pay a fine, never get on the path to citizenship but get legalization," so long as they have not committed a crime since their entry.
The next chapter in the race for nominations will take place on Sat., Feb. 20, with the Nevada Democratic caucus and the South Carolina Republican primary.


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Our Guest Speakers
Dr. Nancy E. Nienhuis holds a doctorate in Religion, Gender, and Culture from the Divinity School at Harvard University. She is the Vice President for Strategic Initia-tives, Dean of Students, and Faculty of Theology at And-over Newton Theological School, where she teaches courses on social justice and intimate partner violence. She has a particular interest in issues of intimate partner violence and sexual assault, particularly as those issues are addressed in the training of clergy. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, The Journal of Pastoral Care, and The Journal of Reli-gion and Abuse. She is currently working on a book comparing theological responses to domestic violence in the lives of medieval saints with contemporary respons-es to such violence, with Harvard Divinity School col-league Prof. Beverly Mayne Kienzle.
Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter has presented and taught locally and nationally about issues related to faith and violence against women since 1990. Rev. Hunter is an ordained United Methodist pastor who received her Masters Degree in Divinity from Harvard University in 1986 and her Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in 1991. From 1992 to1998 she served as pastor of East Saugus United Methodist Church in Sau-gus, Massachusetts. In 1991, Rev. Hunter founded Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence, a grassroots nonprofit that works with diverse religious communities to train clergy and laity to re-spond effectively to domestic violence within their con-gregations and communities. Rev. Hunter is currently the Director of Safe Havens. She also directs Safe Ha-vens National Technical Assistance Projects with the U.S. Department of Justices Office on Violence Against Women. Rev. Hunter has worked at two battered wom-ens service groups: Harbor Me in Chelsea, Massachu-setts and Jersey Battered Womens Services in Morris-town, New Jersey. She has taught at both Drew Uni-versity and Tufts University.
Ms. Claudia Segura has worked in the domestic vio-lence field since 2006 when she started as an intern at Mujeres Latinas En Accion (Latin Women in Action) a DV agency in Chicago, Illinois. where coordinated and facili-tated the 40hr Domestic Violence training, recruited, trained and supervised volunteers, performed individual and group counseling sessions with domestic violence survivors, did community education and outreach through workshops, presentations and health fairs, and supervised the 24hr DV crisis line. In 2011 she moved to Massachusetts to be the Residential Services Coordina-tor at The second Step, Inc. a transitional living program for DV survivors in Newton, MA. At The second Step, she was responsible for the intake and interview process for clients, performed needs assessment and was the residents case manager. Currently, Claudia is the Legal Advocate at Voices Against Violence where she provides direct services to survivors of sexual assault and domes-tic violence, including crisis intervention, hotline and indi-vidual counseling, legal and medical advocacy, infor-mation and referral.
Ms. Carmen Del Rosario has been the Director of the Boston Public Health Commissions Domestic Violence Program for 10 years. Del Rosario was a pioneer in developing strategies to engage boys and men in posi-tive ways to prevent violence and to promote healthy relationships. In the year 2000, under her leadership, de Domestic Violence Program received funding from the CDC to develop , implement and evaluate a five years demonstration project working with men as fa-thers. Over the past five years Carmen has been work-ing in Eastern Congo and Tanzania, developing, imple-menting and evaluating programs to respond to victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) as well as prevention initiatives with men. As a GBV Program Coordinator in Tanzania, Carmen developed intervention and preven-tion programs in seven refugee camps, providing tech-nical support to capacity development of the implement-ing partners in partnership with government, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF and INGO.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:00pm-8:00pm
Boston University School of Theology Room 325 & Muelder Chapel
The Church and Domestic Violence -Forum and Vigil-
To stop permitting the victim to feel at fault. To stop trying so desperately to hold together homes that are void of any kind of shalom. To
ask the victims to forgive us for our silence and indifference which may have discour-
aged their desperate whisper from penetrat-ing our consciousness in their hour of needWe begin healing broken people by speaking
supportively, by opening our arms with a warm embrace to those who feel the sting of
a loved ones betrayal.
- A Yom Kippur Meditation before Al Chet
A Vigil to remember victims and to cele-brate survivors of domestic violence will take place at On Wednesday, October 24th, 7:10pm at the Muelder Chapel at Boston University School of Theology.
Forum Invitation
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. How should pastors and congregations respond to survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence in faith based communities? Boston Uni-versity School of Theology is hosting a forum and vigil service on Wednesday, October 24th, 2012, 5pm-8pm that deals with these vitally important issues. We would like to invite you to this event. Four guest speakers are invited to speak on the following topics.
What is Domestic Violence?, How to respond to Domestic Violence as a pas-tor?, What do service providers do? How to respond to batterers in faith based community?
After the forum we will hold a vigil ser-vice to mourn victims and celebrate sur-vivors of domestic violence. This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information please contact Myung Eun Park, pme208@gmail.com
Sponsored by The Anna Howard Shaw Cen-ter, The Center for Practical Theology, Office of Community Life & Lifelong Learning School of Theology Student Association
5:00-5:20pm Refreshments Welcome and Introduction of Speakers 5:20-6:40pm Presentation What is Domestic Violence? Speaker: Dr. Nancy Nienhuis Dean of Students & Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Faculty of Theology at Andover Newton Theological School How to respond to Domestic Violence as a pastor? Speaker: Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter Director of Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence What do service providers do? Speaker: Claudia Segura Legal Advocate for Voices Against Violence How to respond to batterers in faith based community? Speaker: Carmen Del Risario International Trainer and Consultant 6:40-7:00pm Responses and Discussion
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How deep is the Article Processing Charges market?
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26.8% of academic authors predict that they will have money to cover publication fees in the year 2016. Researchers from the field of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seem to be more pessimistic than their STEM colleagues. Also an army of academic authors who are not paid for conducting research see even smaller possibilities of funding for their publication fees.
In the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author's Survey we have asked researchers if they will have any money to pay publication fees in the year 2016. Among 898 academic authors who answered our survey, only 1 did not respond to this question. 26.8% of the rest (which is equal to 241 respondents) answered "Yes". 42.9% (381) claimed that they will not have any money for this goal in 2016, and 29.9% (265) did not know.
Disciplinary differences have shown a classic pattern, with STEM disciplines seeming to have better access to money than HSS.
Researchers-volunteers with little resources
Academic authors who are not paid for research work are less likely to have access to any publication funds in 2016. This group is quite large and as many as 33% of authors, who responded to our survey, were not paid for doing research in the time of our survey. What is more interesting is that more than half of unpaid authors of academic works claimed to be "established in research career", and to hold a doctorate. Therefore this group may consist of independent researchers, people hired in industry or teachers.
Only 23.1% of them believed that they will be able to pay a publication fee, versus 33.1% of those who are paid for doing research. Among authors hired in the research sector type of contract (permanent vs. temporary) have no significant influence on the dependent variable.
Productive authors get more funding
Authors who published more papers than their average disciplinary colleagues in the last 3 years were more optimistic with regard to the availability of publication funds for them (34% predict to have access to these funds vs. 24% of researchers with average or lower publishing output). This is also quite easy to explain, while those who publish are not perishing. They are benefiting most from the various funding programs.
Career level has no impact on the discussed issue.
Surprisingly, geographical location has not much influence here, which supports my previous conclusions – that researchers from the global periphery pay APCs as frequently as other scholars do. What amounts are available for them? I will answer this question in the end of this week, but my next post will cover the sources of funding available to our respondents. The whole database will also be published soon. Stay tuned!
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A cyberattack on a New England power grid during January's sub-zero temperatures is a nightmare scenario for America's top spy.
"A lot of people are going to suffer and die," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates said during a July event at the Hudson Institute.
But the ensuing chaos may cause even more destruction in the biting cold. A Sept. 4 report from the Intelligence and National Security Agency said questions remain about who is in charge during a cyberattack on critical infrastructure. Despite what government officials say are clear lines of authority during a hack, the report lays out how uncertainty was still rife during a simulated cyberattack.
In the exercise, the group split up more than 70 government officials, critical infrastructure companies and experts to see how they would react in the face of a simulated hack on the Maryland power grid.
"During the response phase, players expressed confusion about whether the state or the federal government was in charge," the report said.
Some state officials thought they were in charge. Some believed that the federal government should be in charge. And some participants in the exercise thought that the Department of Defense should respond if the cyberattack came from a foreign country.
"Beyond issues of capabilities and effectiveness, participants noted a lack of legal clarity regarding state and federal agencies' jurisdictions to intercede in the crisis," the report said.
However, some government officials told Fifth Domain they have not experienced coordination issues when it comes to cyberattacks against critical infrastructure.
The White House is in charge of coordinating the responses to federal cyberattacks, Robert Kolasky, the newly installed head of the Department of Homeland Security's risk management center, told reporters at the Intelligence and National Security summit Sept. 4. He said if the cyberattack took place on a state institution, state officials would be in charge. Kolasky pointed to the December 2016 incident response plan that laid out government responsibilities during a cyberattack.
The state of New Jersey has not had challenges coordinating during a cyberattack on critical infrastructure because it has come to rely on working with other states, Jared Maples, director of New Jersey's office of homeland security and preparedness, told Fifth Domain.
Experts have told Fifth Domain that it is unlikely a cyberattack could take down the entire American power grid. Because the grid system is decentralized and runs on different technology, it is hard to attack at scale. Instead, they say a targeted cyberattack on one city is much more likely.


Nations Cup: Day Two Maxime Mesnil (FRA) dominated the Open Division during the second day of racing at the 2019 World Sailing Nations Cup Grand Final. In the Women's Division Nicole Breault (USA) and Pauline Courtois (FRA) continued to rack up wins through the afternoon, sailing into a late afternoon face-off with seven wins each; the eighth was Breault's.
Mesnil opened the day winning a tight race against Henrique Haddad (BRA), who's standing at second place after completing Stage 1 of the round robin. In a morning plagued by a delayed start, fluky wind and unpredictable current on the Cityfront course at St. Francis Yacht Club, Mesnil went on to display smooth, economic boat handling skills as he battled with Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZ) and Ettore Botticini (ITA). Mesnil won against the Kiwis, but stallied out in a twist of luck against Botticini, who managed to hang onto the edge of a wind line and finish first, keeping him in the running as they head into day three of racing.
Racing recommences Friday, April 11 with Women's Division skippers competing in the morning and Open Division just after midday.


"Let the Memories Begin" (January 2011) – As part of the new "Let the Memories Begin," Disney guests will become the stars of a nightly spectacular when photos taken in the park during the day become larger-than-life projections on Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World Resort or "it's a small world" at Disneyland Resort. This groundbreaking new experience will celebrate the family vacation memories created in Disney theme parks every day.
And Disney guests will be seen starring on television, too. For the first time, Disney Parks is featuring the home videos and snapshots of real guests in television ads and other marketing that will allow an audience of millions to share in true-life, heartfelt moments. Disney Parks also is asking guests to share their memories by uploading photos and videos at a special "Let the Memories Begin" online hub at DisneyParks.com/Memories.


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"A Love Like War" is a song by American rock band All Time Low for the reissue of their fifth studio album Don't Panic: It's Longer Now! (2013). Written and produced by the band's lead vocalist/guitarist Alex Gaskarth and Mike Green, and featuring the input of Pierce The Veil's lead vocalist Vic Fuentes, the song was released through Hopeless Records on September 2, 2013.

Music video
The music video for "A Love Like War" premiered on September 2, 2013. Directed by Drew Russ, the video features the band and Vic Fuentes in a movie theater watching a black and white film. The music video was nominated for Best Video at the Kerrang! Awards.

Chart performance
"A Love Like War" debuted and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, fueled by its peak positions of 15 and 12 on the Rock Digital Songs and Alternative Digital Songs component charts, respectively.

Certifications

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2013 songs
All Time Low songs
2013 singles
Hopeless Records singles
Songs written by Jack Barakat
Songs written by Rian Dawson
Songs written by Alex Gaskarth
Songs written by Zack Merrick

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Worrying Abuse Allegations in Scicluna's Backyard
There is so much to read and so much information to take in about the devastating Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report into abuse in the Catholic Church.
The harrowing 1,356-page document is the result of the office of the attorney general's investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by priests in the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg and Scranton. Two other Pennsylvanian dioceses — Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown — were spared only because they had been previously investigated.
The numbers speak for themselves: More than 300 priests in the six dioceses sexually abused a large number of minors over the span of seven decades. The number of victims is estimated at 1,000 at least, but it may actually be significantly higher. The report claims that the priest abusers were routinely shielded or moved by bishops and Church officials.
"All of [the victims] were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by Church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institutions above all," the grand jury wrote after reviewing about 1 million documents. "Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible not only did nothing: They hid it all."
Now the word is Archbishop Charles Scicluna will be flown in from Malta to look into the situation in the U.S.
SCOOP: After crisis talks/action plan (https://t.co/n0ZHZ4RgOc ), 2 Whispers ops relay that the gold standard Roman investigator – Malta's +Scicluna (https://t.co/Bu5Kmj5ZvR ) – is USCCB Exec's preferred pick to lead Apostolic Visitation of US church on post-McCarrick questions. pic.twitter.com/kKT7f1zgpr
— Rocco Palmo (@roccopalmo) August 17, 2018
But there are questions closer to home which should merit Scicluna's careful attention:
The prelate on the left with the is Monsignor Joseph Bezzina from the Diocese of Gozo, the man on the right is the bishop of Gozo, Mario Grech.
Bezzina has a string of accusations against him regarding predation on pubescent boys, allegations from which he has been shielded by Grech, indeed the dossier on the allegations has disappeared all together apparently.
Grech has form, he failed to carry out the Vatican's order to defrock Dominic Camilleri – who was found guilty by an administrative and penal tribunal within the Malta diocese in 2003. However as late as September 2015 he was reported to still be saying Mass in a private chapel and presenting himself as a priest.
Bishop Grech's lack of action in this worrying case has led to Gozitan clergy writing to Pope Francis calling for a Vatican investigation of Grech's 'professional misconduct'– and there can be no doubt that the incident raises uncomfortable questions that need to be answered. So far the Gozo Curia has consistently deferred such questions citing "confidentiality"; but this has only flung open the floodgates of speculation, giving rise to rumours that Camilleri may be blackmailing the Gozo bishop with threats of incriminating revelations concerning other priests.
This is a worrying pattern that is very familiar and, the present climate might afford us as a Church the clear-sightedness to look at such reports again with clearer vision and address these shortcomings sooner rather than later!
Archbishop Charles Scicluna Bishop Mario Grech Gozo Joseph Bezzina Malta


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Now i want to use a javascript library and some image resources in my tagfiles.
How can i manage those dependencies ?

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La chiesa della Madonna di Caravaggio, anche nota come chiesetta dei "Perli", è una chiesa sussidiaria a Maso Giovanni, uno dei masi di Grumes, nel comune di Altavalle in Trentino. Risale al XIX secolo.

Storia

Il piccolo luogo di culto ai masi di Grumes venne edificato nel 1885 e fu dedicato all'apparizione mariana di Santa Maria del Fonte. Dalla documentazione presente nell'archivio dell'arcidiocesi di Trento risulta che tale tempio venne costruito senza prima aver ottenuto le necessarie autorizzazioni da parte dell'ordinariato del vescovo e che la benedizione avvenne solo dopo che furono assicurate le opportune rendite.

La benedizione fu impartita il 26 maggio 1885.

Tra gli anni 2001 e 2006 il piccolo tempio fu oggetto di restauro conservativo e in tali lavori vennero riviste la copertura del tetto, la torre campanaria e le strutture murarie. In quell'occasione furono rifatte le intonacature esterne parzialmente deteriorate dalla risalita dell'umidità e contemporaneamente venne realizzata un'opera di contenimento di tale fenomeno. I lavori compresero anche la sistemazione del sagrato anteriormente alla chiesa.

Descrizione
Il tempio si trova nella zona dei Masi alti di Grumes, in località Giovanni, compreso in un piccolo agglomerato di edifici che si trova nel punto più alto tra tutti i masi. Le sue facciate sono imbiancate e quelle laterali presentano aperture a lunetta che portano luce all'unica navata interna. Il prospetto principale è orientato verso ovest ed è semplice, a capanna con due spioventi.

Sotto il frontone triangolare classicheggiante si legge la scritta che richiama alla sua dedicazione: "AVE MARIA". Il piccolo campanile al culmine della copertura del tetto in posizione leggeremente avanzata è in legno con una copertura a piramide sormontata dalla croce.
La navata interna è unica ed il presbiterio è leggermente rialzato.

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Voci correlate
 Grumes
 Altavalle

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Altavalle
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Tax Sword Looms Large On Cross-Border Acquisitions
| Income Tax - News
Since August last year, the world has been watching. It all began with a show cause notice issued to Vodafone BV (based in the Netherlands), holding it to be an "assessee in default" for not withholding tax at source when it made payments to a Hutchison Group company (based in Cayman Islands) for acquiring shares of another Cayman Island company.
Such change in shareholding resulted in a change in the controlling interest of an operating Indian cellular services company. True, the tax demands raised ran into several millions, $2 billion approximately. But this is not the reason for the attention that this case has attracted.
The main reason is that the very foundation of international tax norms appeared shaken. It has been a well accepted view that while gains arising to a non-resident from transfer of shares in an Indian company are liable to tax in India (subject to tax treaty provisions as in some tax treaties, the gain is not taxable in the source country), the gain arising to a non-resident from transfer outside India of shares of a foreign company to another non-resident would normally not be chargeable to tax in India. This is the case, even if the underlying value is derived from assets belonging to an Indian subsidiary of the company, whose shares are transferred.
Vodafone BV (Vodafone NL), a Dutch subsidiary of Vodafone UK, entered into an agreement with Hutchison Telecommunications Cayman Island (HTIL) for acquiring share capital of CGP Investments (CGP), which is a company incorporated in Cayman Islands.
Through CGP, HTIL — the seller — owned 67% controlling interest in Hutch Essar (HEL, now 'Vodafone Essar' — a JV between the Hutch and Essar group), engaged in cellular services business in India.
When it got the show cause notice, Vodafone NL filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court, which now stands dismissed. The HC made several observations while dismissing it. It did not accept the argument of Vodafone that the transaction was between two foreign companies, involving transfer of shares of another foreign company, and had no nexus or tax implications in India.
In the view of the high court, prima facie, the transaction attracted capital gains tax liability in India as the sole consideration and the predominant object of the transaction was transfer of business or economic interest or controlling interest in the telecom company in India.
According to the high court, post transfer, the Vodafone group acquired interest in the telecom licence, brand and goodwill, right to appoint board of directors, apart from acquiring entry into the telecom business segment in India.
The transaction was regarded as achieving effective substitution of Vodafone Group in the place of Hutch Group in the joint venture/partnership, which the Hutch Group had with Essar Group in India. The transfer of shares of a foreign company was held to be mode of achieving the transfer of valuable assets in India, attracting tax implications.
The high court remarked: "In the instant case, the subject matter of transfer as contracted between the parties is not actually the shares of a Cayman Island company, but the assets situated in India".
The high court also emphasised that representations made before FIPB and regulatory authorities in the US and Hong Kong made it clear that the Hutch Group was transferring its controlling interest in the Indian companies.
The high court has made fairly strong observations on the petitioner having failed to furnish agreements relating to the transaction, either to the tax department or to the court, despite repeated requests — in the absence of which it was not possible to appreciate the true nature of the transaction and it was left with no option, but to draw an adverse inference against Vodafone NL.
The high court emphasised that the writ jurisdiction is discretionary and that, only in extraordinary cases a mere show cause notice, seeking explanations can be struck down as invalid.
In the light of the developments, the question that now arises is: merely because the Indian company is held by a special purpose vehicle, could such parent company be regarded as the owner of assets belonging to the underlying Indian company?
Reference may also be made to the Supreme Court decision in the case of Mrs Bacha F Guzdar (27 ITR 1), which held that the company is a legal entity, separate and distinct from its shareholders and there is nothing in the Indian law to warrant the assumption that a shareholder who buys shares buys any interest in the property of the company.
In the course of its submissions, Vodafone NL did point out on the absurdity of the views of the revenue authorities. To illustrate — would purchase of 1,000 shares of XYZ Inc, a multinational company, with global operations, on the New York Stock Exchange be tantamount to transfer of assets (underlying value) of the Indian subsidiary?
The high court appears to have been guided by cumulative appreciation of the facts of the case viz that, in the facts on hand, there was acquisition of a business presence. But, even assuming that what was transferred was "controlling interest", the term does not find any reference in tax law pertaining to capital gains and is not an asset separate from shares.
In the absence of a specific provision in the Indian law, taxation in respect of such a transaction should ordinarily not arise in India, when shares of a foreign company are transferred between two non-residents, merely because on such transfer there is an indirect shareholding in an Indian business entity.
It should be noted that, even today, transfer of shares in an Indian company by a Mauritius company — which submits tax residency certificate — does enjoy exemption from capital gains in India, as in this case the treaty provides that the taxing rights of the capital gains vest with the country of residence and not the source country (where capital gains arise).
The SC, in Azadi Bachao Andolan case (263 ITR 706), has held that an Act, which is otherwise valid in law, cannot be treated as non est (non-tenable) on the basis of the underlying motive.
While the high court has not given any definite conclusion, it has made observations that may be followed by the revenue authorities in assessing similar transactions. Such actions, if any, could spell uncertainty for and cause anxiety in respect of all genuine international takeovers merely because there may be a change in controlling or business interest in the underlying Indian subsidiary.
(The author is tax partner, Ernst & Young)
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America and Iran are Allies in Iraq. Muqtada Al Sadr is defeating both.
Do people really change?
Maliki's Wild Surge
By LithiumCola in Iraq
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This is a second diary (first here) in my attempt to understand the most farcical aspect of the current battle in Basra: Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's vow that he will personally stay in Basra until order is restored, and the Sadrists surrender their weapons. Maliki originally laid down a 3-day deadline for the surrender of weapons — and then extended it to 10 days when the first deadline fell flat. And he is still — rather hilariously — in Basra.
One of the reasons Maliki made his strange vow was, apparently, because earlier in the week Sadr asked Maliki to leave Basra as a way to reduce tensions. It appears Maliki is taking lessons from Bush: the single best way to get Bush to do something is to tell him that doing the opposite would "reduce tensions."
Let's go back to the March 27 Telegraph:
Mr Maliki gave followers of Sadr and other Shi'ite gunmen 72 hours to surrender their weapons and renounce violence or bear the brunt of a military crackdown.
"We are not going to chase those who hand over their weapons within 72 hours," said Mr Maliki. "If they do not surrender their arms, the law will follow its course."
A spokesman for Sadr said his movement had appealed to Mr Maliki to reduce tensions in the city by returning to Baghdad and sending a parliamentary delegation to seek an end to fighting.
Liwa Sumaysim, a spokesman for Sadr said: "Sadr has asked prime minister Maliki to leave Basra and to send a parliamentary delegation to resolve the crisis in the city."
So of course Maliki decides that his response should be to call Basra a "decisive and final battle" and to assert that he will not goddamn leave.
March 29 McClatchy:
Maliki again promised not to leave Basra until he completed the job, and reiterated his demand that armed militia members turn over their weapons to the state, withdraw and sign a vow to never violate the law again.
Unfortunately for Maliki, it appears that this isn't going to work.
After failing to break the resistance of Shiite militias in the five-day siege of oil rich Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki sent a top general to hold talks with his Shiite rival, Muqtada al Sadr, Saturday night only to be rebuffed by the firebrand cleric, an Iraqi official close to the negotiations said.
Maliki denounced Shia militants in Basra as the equivalent of Al Qaida, and Sadr told his supporters not to hand over their arms to a puppet state of the United States.
The diplomatic initiative and the harsh rebuff further eroded expectations for a successful outcome to the offensive, which Maliki is personally directing from the presidential palace in the southern port city. It was not the only sign of problems.
Patrick Cockburn, writing in the Independent, says that Maliki controls less than a quarter of Basra after 5 days of fighting. Cockburn adds:
Mr Maliki's confident prediction that he would crush the Mehdi Army is turning out to be a dangerous gamble that is fast eroding his authority. It is damaging to President Bush, who had claimed the US "surge" had brought about a turning point in America's five-year-old war to pacify Iraq. Mr Bush had praised the offensive as showing that the Iraqi security forces, trained and supported by the US, could at last stand and fight on their own. So far, the gun battles in Baghdad and the Shia south of Iraq are providing evidence that exactly the opposite is true.
Additionally, Cockburn, like Juan Cole previously, speculates that Maliki's bizzare and unnecessary ultimatumism is due to orders from Cheney. Cockburn:
The timing of this week's attack may also be explained by the decision this month, at the prompting of US Vice-President Dick Cheney, on a visit to Baghdad, to hold provincial elections. The US aim was to allow the Sunnis, who boycotted the last polls in January 2005, to win control of their provinces. But elections also threatened the SIIC's grip on councils in southern Iraq because the party has become increasingly unpopular and the Sadrists were expected to win at the polls.
The upshot of this pissing match is that Maliki is in trouble, and knows it. Associated Press:
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki acknowledged that he might have miscalculated by failing to foresee the strong backlash that his offensive, which began Tuesday, provoked in areas of Baghdad and other cities where Shiite militias wield power.
What can I say? Another successful surge from a Bush man.
LithiumCola on March 30, 2008 at 4:24 pm
at Daily Kos.
H/T Chuckie for this breaking MSNBC story:
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Sunday to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge…
Al-Sadr demanded that the government issue a general amnesty and release all detainees. The statement said he also "disavows" anyone who carries weapons and targets government institutions, charities and political party offices.
I would add that this is not new from Sadr, but rather appears to be a repeat of a standard demand.
creeper on March 30, 2008 at 9:21 pm
It's difficult not to support Maliki in this. We've been after him for ages to take responsibility for his own country.
Thanks for explaining why this is not the way to do it, LC.
RUKind on March 31, 2008 at 4:45 am
and he has no hand to back it up. Sadr is magnanimous in letting him off the hook, asking only for the release of detainees. There's a lot more here than meets the eye.
Dick's visit to Iraq seems to have had one purpose overall: April 8-9.
Petraeus, 10 Sep 2007, from the Guardian:
The Bush administration's most senior advisers on Iraq, the commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, and the ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, will launch a new drive today to defer any exit of troops until April 2008 amid growing doubts about their credibility in Congress and among the public.
In two days of testimony before Congress, Gen Petraeus and Mr Crocker will make the case for the White House that America should maintain the current strategy and force levels in Iraq.
The appearance of Gen Petraeus has drawn comparisons with General William Westmoreland's bullish assessment in 1967 of progress in the Vietnam war, a note underlined by Democratic senators yesterday who said they doubted that the general's testimony would be free of influence from the Bush administration.
"I don't think General Petraeus has an independent view," Dianne Feinstein, a prominent Democratic senator from California, told Fox television.
Well, it's April 2008. A little over a week before the next pack of lies gets trotted out. Dick most likely ordered the Ass-Kissing Little Chicken Shit (comment by Adm. Fallon, recently ret.) and Ambassador CrockO'Shit to toe the party line during their testimony. Dick also probably wanted some good press coverage of how great The Surge is working. What better news than to see Maliki's Iraqi army standing up? Oops. Sliding sideways? Backing down? Whatever. They'll find some other bullshit reason for why it's a great victory.
Maliki's surging was Cheney's urging in my opinion.
Shanti.


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A committed doctor to Vancouver's inner city, nothing fazes Sophie Monroe - until a pregnant teenager shows up at her clinic on Christmas Eve requesting sanctuary and claiming the baby's father is one of the city's most influential businessmen. Sophie is in over her head and thankful when aid shows up in the form of an attorney who's a little too confident and a lot too sexy.
Aspen Lake Series, Book 3
Ever since a devastating family tragedy 17 years ago, Grace Bighill has struggled to keep her remaining family from falling apart. Then the discovery of her mother's body in the woods unearths a connection to a decades-old murder case, and Grace is dragged into a politician's bitter bid for revenge.
Series: Aspen Lake Series, Book 3
Narrated by: Stacey Melotte
When dedicated teacher Lily Wheeler interrupts a vicious gang attack on one of her students, she vows it won't happen again. But her rash interference puts her in the path of a cold-blooded killer and the constable tracking him - a man she has little reason to trust, but can never forget. Constable Chase Porter returned to Aspen Lake to see justice done, not renew old acquaintances. But when he rescues the woman he once loved from a volatile situation, he realizes his feelings for Lily haven't lessened over the years.
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Kate Logan needs a safe haven, a place to start over after her modeling career disintegrates in scandal. But her hometown of Aspen Lake isn't the sanctuary she hoped. Her life is disrupted by a break-in and other strange happenings at her boutique. Kate is up to her stilettos in drama and intrigue including one sexy carpenter who's determined to get in her way. Seth Stone is seeking inspiration and solitude to concentrate on his art. Short on funds, he agrees to take on a job restoring the damage to Kate's Closet. Trouble erupts along with the desire to get to know Kate better.
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Seoul Design Festival is a design-specialized exhibition based on contents accumulated by Monthly since 1976 and networks of domestic and foreign designers. The first Seoul Design Festival was held in 2002.
Seoul Design Festival is designed to enhance design competitiveness of domestic and foreign brands by showing design trends along with corporate brands with the motto "Designer Promotion." Also, it has been grown into a place of exchange to support domestic designers' expansion to the world and introduce world designers to the domestic market.


In preparation for Memorial Day, I made this card in red, white and blue. In used a sketch from Splitcoast, SC139. I really like this layout. I'll be using it again for sure. The star is cut out of foil cardstock, but the photo doesn't show how it shines like a mirror.
You can shop even over the holiday weekend by visiting my Demonstrator Website. Thanks for stopping by. Have a safe, fun weekend.


No refund will apply for cancellations within 42 days of arrival.
The deposit and cancellation policy will apply from the website you booked through, as you have agreed to those terms when making your reservation.
Arrival 2.00pm. Departure 10am at the latest.
If you anticipate arriving outside office hours, please contact reception to organise this.
These are payable on arrival. Payment must be made for the full time booked. NO reduction for early departure, so please don't ask as the answer will be no.
One vehicle per unit. All other vehicles to be parked out in the visitors' car park. Please make sure you are parked in your allocated park, not the neighbour's park.
Walking pace only. We do have children running around. Speeding will not be tolerated.
Quiet between 10.00pm – 7am. Reasonable behaviour and dress at all times. Excessive drinking and parties are forbidden. No liquor to be consumed in park except on your site or unit. Consideration must be shown at all times to other guests. Damage to property or accommodation units will be recovered.
Children are to be controlled by parents at all times and supervised while using facilities. We love to hear them having a great time around the park, playing and biking.
We understand that you may like to share your experience with family and friends, however in order to comply with our health and safety regulations ALL VISITORS are required to register at reception. There is a small fee of $3.50 per visitor, subject to availablility and management discretion. Any charges for visitors, if not paid by them, will be your responsibility. Visitors' vehicles are to be left outside or in visitors' car park, not outside your unit. Visitors must leave before 9pm.
Please use our recycling are as we are environmentally friendly. Any surplus food you don't want, you can put in the free food box located in the communal kitchen. Please make sure all lights, heaters, air cons, towel rails and TVs are turned off when you leave.
Our laundry facility is located under the 2 storey building. The washing machine takes $2 and $1 coins. The dryer is a $2 coin only. There are clothes lines located around the units, and pegs are sold in the reception shop if you need them.
Our BBQs are free to use, however we do ask that you clean them up when you have finished ready for the next person. We have spare gas bottles, cleaning gear and utensils for use in the reception.
These are free to use for paying guests only. NOT for visitor use. The pool is heated to 31 – 34 degrees (depending on the time of year). The spa is 39 degrees. Operating times are 8am – 9.30pm (unless otherwise arranged). Please be considerate of our guests in pools, especially the spa. ½ hour each if busy. Under 14 yrs must be supervised (see pool rules).
The playground is lovely to play in, so please be considerate of other children and have turns on the trampoline. The trampoline is 2 at a time. Park closes at 9pm in consideration for other guests in units.
We love having pets here, but are under no circumstances are they allowed in the units. They must be either kept either in cars or kennels outside units. They must be on a leash at all times. If they are caught in the units please expect a $150.00 cleaning fee on your credit card. All pets must be registered.
The camp has wireless internet available for a small fee, which can be purchased from reception. You can also enter credit card details online.
Vehicles using powered sites must have a current electrical warrant of fitness & be certified. You must also have the correct tent RCD lead.
Management will charge additional costs for damaged sustained to camp property and/or additional cleaning required.
These are also known as trout flies and are a pest during our warmer months. They are attracted to the light, so please keep the windows and doors closed near dark. They do not bite.
There is a local bus that stops across the road from 7.07am – 6.10pm. This is $2.70 per ride, children under 5 are free. The bus goes every half hour and is the Route 10 Rotorua Airport bus.
There are a lot of things to do in Rotorua. We are happy to help you book tours for no charge. Please call in the reception for enquiries.
We hope you enjoy your stay here at the All Seasons Holiday Park, and if you do need anything we just a few feet away.


Myron Floren, an accordion virtuoso whose televised solos with the Lawrence Welk band became a staple of the cheerful folksiness that was the Welk show's hallmark, died on Saturday at his home in Rolling Hills, Calif., said Margaret Heron, syndication manager for the show. He was 85.
Largely self-taught, Mr. Floren was one of the country's most famous accordionists, certainly the only one featured weekly by a big band with a coast-to-coast television audience. A farmer's son from South Dakota, he was a quintessential part of the Welk musical family -- a wholesome and amiable company of singers, dancers and musicians adored by nostalgic viewers for their easygoing take on big-band music.
His serene smile earned him the moniker "the happy Norwegian," and he liked to make a song hum by trilling each note. During his renditions of "Lady of Spain," his showpiece, he would place a leg against his sequined accordion and furrow his brow in concentration.
Welk, a farm boy turned bandleader, described the band's sentimental and danceable arrangements as "Champagne music."
"Keep it simple so the audience can feel like they can do it, too," Welk would say. And, "You have to play what the people understand."
Despite the disdain of highbrow critics, "The Lawrence Welk Show" became one of the most enduring programs in television history, and its weekly reruns still attract millions of viewers. At its heart was a folksy familiarity that Welk attributed to his and Mr. Floren's Midwestern roots. Both were sons of immigrant farmers in the Dakotas (Welk in Strasburg, N.D., Mr. Floren in Roslyn, S.D.), and both took up the accordion, whose tremulous music reminded their families and immigrant neighbors of home.
Then and now, it was a peculiar instrument to feature in a big band. In his autobiography, "Accordion Man" (Stephen Greene Press, 1981), written with his daughter Randee, Mr. Floren relates that the director of his college orchestra coolly informed him there was no place for an accordionist. "I thought to myself, 'Maybe not now, but just wait!"' Mr. Floren recalled.
The oldest of seven children, Mr. Floren was born on Nov. 5, 1919, in Roslyn to Ole and Tillie Floren, Norwegian immigrants. He began playing the accordion when he was 7, and he later said he had honed his technique by milking cows on the family's farm. He took piano lessons to learn to read music, and he paid for them with eggs from the family's chickens.
After attending Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., he performed as the Melody Man on a radio station in Sioux Falls, and he entertained troops in Europe during World War II. He then joined the Buckeye Four, a country music group in St. Louis.
His audition for Welk was an impromptu performance with the Welk band at a ballroom in St. Louis. Welk, an acquaintance, had spotted him with his wife on the dance floor and invited him to play. During his solo, Welk crawled under the band's grand piano and waved a white handkerchief in surrender.
Mr. Floren was offered a job during intermission and held onto it for the next 32 years, making several solo albums on the Welk Music Group's record label. He collaborated with Welk on a popular compilation of the world's greatest polkas, and he worked as backup conductor, assistant band director and stage manager -- "my right-hand man for over 30 years," Welk later called him.
"The Lawrence Welk Show," first broadcast in Los Angeles in 1953, regaled a national audience on Saturday evenings for 16 years starting in 1955. When network executives dropped it in 1971 in favor of hipper programming, more than 200 independent stations chose to keep it on the air for 11 more years. Reruns began appearing in 1987, and the show now has the highest ratings of any syndicated program on public television, reaching three million households each Sunday afternoon.
After the Welk show stopped filming, Mr. Floren continued playing with big bands across the country, making roughly 150 appearances a year before suffering a stroke and discovering that he had colon cancer. He also directed several productions featuring the show's former stars.
Mr. Floren is survived by his wife, Berdyne; five daughters, Randee, Robin, Heidi, Holly and Kristie; and seven grandchildren.


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21 Adventures for Thrill-Seeking Senior Travelers
Elizabeth Sheer
For many, 70 is the new 50, and boomers who have been pushing the envelope — and themselves — since they were kids are not willing to stop just because they're older. For these hardy souls, many adventures await. Some require physical stamina; some require courage; and some just a sense of wonder. Here are 21 thrills throughout North America that range in price from about $25 a day to once-in-a-lifetime splurges.
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HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
One of the most famous trails in the world, the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail runs from Georgia to Maine. Very fit hikers may be able to conquer it in a season, but others can opt for shorter treks. Although there's no fee or permit required, a few state and national parks and forests along the way charge for permits or campsites and the average cost of "thru-hiking" the trail is estimated at about $2 a mile, plus gear. The Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association has a directory of hikers who can offer advice, and it sells an invaluable guide (free to members).
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BEAR-WATCHING IN ALASKA
With a population of about 2,200 grizzlies, Katmai National Park in Alaska offers some of the best bear-watching anywhere. The Brooks Camp area has three viewing platforms where visitors can safely watch bears fish for salmon along the Brooks River. Peak viewing times are July and September. Admission to the park is free, and Senior Pass holders enjoy a 50 percent discount on camping fees.
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Paddlers can find delightful treks along waterways throughout the country, and parks in just about every state offer someplace to dip an oar for a day or days on end. Canoe rental costs vary by park, and many parks have camping areas, cabins, or lodges also at reasonable prices. For those who are more ambitious, Row Adventures provides an opportunity to travel the Missouri River in long canoes the way Lewis and Clark did. Five-day trips include meals and tent accommodations for $1,400. For grandparents, there's a 20 percent discount.
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MAMMOTH CAVE TOUR
A subterranean adventure awaits in the Bluegrass State. Kentucky is home to Mammoth Cave National Park, the most extensive cave network in the world — 400 miles have been explored and many more have not. Descend into its depths on a variety of guided tours starting at $7 for adults and $5 for children, with more challenging excursions at higher prices. For Senior Pass holders, however, tickets are half price.
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WILDLIFE SWAMP TOUR
For folks visiting New Orleans, bayou tours offer an up-close look at a unique ecosystem with a wide swath of wildlife, including water snakes, minks, egrets, eagles, and, of course, alligators. The trips are taken in swamp boats, which are flat, open vessels seating about 22 people. Tours through companies like Cajun Encounters are usually two hours long and generally cost $25 to $30 a person, or $56 with hotel pickup. Cajun Encounters offers a $2 discount for seniors.
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WHALE-WATCHING TRIPS
Definitely a bucket-list experience, whale-watching cruises are one way to get up close and personal with the Earth's biggest mammals. But the trips don't necessarily have behemoth-sized price tags. For example, tour provider Oceanside Adventures in California charges $39 for adults and offers a $5 discount for seniors.
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Thrill-seekers can get an adrenaline rush and unparalleled views at the same time with zip lining. It's scary but safe. River Riders Family Adventure Resort in West Virginia offers an easy "canopy" tour where the zip line is only 65 feet off the ground and there are two guides on every line. The outfit also has a self-guided aerial adventure park for more-adept zip liners who want a more challenging experience. Canopy tours start at $69, and two-hour stints at the adventure park start at $44.
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Many people consider whitewater rafting the ultimate thrill. Lewis and Clark River Expeditions in Jackson, Wyoming, offers four-hour trips on the Snake River in rafts that generally hold eight to 14 people. The cost is $84 for each adult. The company also guides multi-day trips.
Tropical reefs are far from the only destinations for scuba diving. Experienced divers can rent a charter boat and explore several underwater sites off North Carolina, including the wreck of the tanker Papoose, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1942. Full-day charters cost about $130 a person, and equipment rental is also available.
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STEAMBOAT CRUISE
The American Queen Steamboat Co. offers Mississippi River cruises focused on topics like Mark Twain and the popular music of the '50s and '60s. Nine-day trips start at $2,000, and prices include pre-cruise hotel stays, wine and beer with dinner, and shore excursions.
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Hot air ballooning is popular in the West, where there is a lot of sky and not a lot of trees, but it's possible to find balloon rides in most states. Trips are perhaps most spectacular at sunrise and sunset. Rainbow Ryders in Albuquerque, New Mexico, offers a three- to four-hour sunrise tour for $149 per person. In Michigan, Sky Adventures celebrates with champagne at the end of each one-hour flight, which costs about $190 per person.
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SEA CAVE KAYAK TOURS
A few hours from Chicago and Minneapolis is a natural wonder reminiscent of Pacific Coast rock formations — in Wisconsin. Even beginners can tour the sea caves of the Apostle Islands by kayak, paddling through tunnels and watching the sunset from the water under sandstone archways after emerging from hidden wraparound caves. Tours start at $55 per person.
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Former President George H.W. Bush went skydiving for his 90th birthday, so age alone doesn't determine whether someone can take such a leap of faith. It's simply a question of nerve, and there is someplace to skydive in every state. Tandem skydives — where an instructor jumps with a beginner — cost $209 per jump on weekdays. Skydive Twin Cities near Minneapolis offers a second jump for $150 for those who didn't get enough excitement the first time.
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CAPE COD DUCKMOBILES
Can't decide between land and sea? You don't have to with the Cape Cod Duckmobiles in Hyannis. The tourist attraction employs authentic military amphibious vehicles that tour downtown Hyannis (with historic commentary), then proceed to view a Cape Cod lighthouse, beaches, and waterfront properties. Tickets are $15 for seniors.
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ADVENTURE TOURS WITH GRANDCHILDREN
Nature and history buffs up for a very active vacation with their grandchildren can join an excursion organized by the not-for-profit Road Scholar. Participants can explore the Northwoods of Wisconsin, dig for dinosaur fossils in Wyoming, or find out about life in Colonial Virginia. Trips start at $649 for adults.
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SKIING THE ROCKIES
For people who like to ski, the Rocky Mountains have a unique allure. The season is long, the snow is ideal, and some resorts have special deals for seniors.
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ROUTE 66 ON A MOTORCYCLE
Anybody can make this iconic road trip in a car or RV, but doing it on a motorcycle adds a "Born to Be Wild" feel. For about $300 a day, the tour company EagleRider rents out motorcycles, takes care of hotels, carries luggage, and even provides a guide. The full trip takes 15 days, but it's possible to do parts of it rather than the whole thing.
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GRAND CANYON MULE RIDES
Introduce your grandchildren to the majesty of the Grand Canyon with a North Rim excursion that won't break the budget. Grand Canyon Trail Rides offers a one-hour mule ride for ages 7 and older ($45). Longer and more elaborate tours are also available for kids 10 and up ($90).
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CANADIAN ROCKIES BIKE TOUR
A bike tour is a wonderful way to see a new place. Traveling at a slow pace makes it easy to savor the scenery. The travel company Backroads offers a six-day bike trip in the Canadian Rockies that includes exquisite views and easy riding options for those who are not avid cyclists. The cost is about $3,200 and includes meals, accommodations, and use of a bike.
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ELDERTREKS TOUR
A touring company specifically for active seniors, ElderTreks provides small-group adventures all over the world. The trips don't come cheap, but contact with locals and wildlife can make them once-in-a-lifetime experiences. In North America, the company offers a tour circumnavigating Newfoundland (starting at $5,000 for 11 days) and a heli-hiking trip in the Canadian Rockies (starting around $3,900 for seven days).
RAILROAD TRIP
A scenic railroad trip can be an adventure all it own. Breathtaking scenery in remote areas you can't see from an interstate can be a wonderful eyeopener highlighting the country's vast beauty. With a dining car available, it isn't exactly roughing it, but it can still be exciting and romantic. One big plus: Seniors get a 10 percent discount on Amtrak.
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Q: Why is multiple arrays being printed out? So as the title suggest, I'm having some trouble figuring out why there are 3 arrays being printed instead of them all appending to the same array. My goal is to check all the numbers in x is less than 10, if they are, append them to y. This is the code I wrote
x = [7, 13, 11, 2, 53, 95, 0.05]
y = []

for num in x:
  if(num<10):
    y.append(num)
     print(y)

And this is the result I'm getting...
[7]
[7,2]
[7,2,0.05]

How do i get them the values to append to the same array?
And why are they even splitting up in different arrays and showing only one number per line?

A: You're getting more than one because your print statement is inside the loop. Try this:
x = [7, 13, 11, 2, 53, 95, 0.05]
y = []

for num in x:
  if(num<10):
    y.append(num)

print(y) # outside of loop


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Rolls-Royce Wraith to Debut in Geneva
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Rolls-Royce just informed us about the upcoming release of the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever: the Rolls-Royce Wraith. The new Rolls-Royce Wraith is set to debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The launch will revive one of the most famous Rolls-Royce names, Wraith was first used in 1938.
Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös stated at a global dealer meeting this morning:
Expect the boldest design, the most dramatic performance and the most powerful Rolls-Royce that has ever played host to the famous Spirit of Ecstasy figurine. We will present a model whose starting point is luxury, refinement and exclusivity, traits that have made Rolls-Royce the world's pinnacle luxury good for the last 108 years. This is a car not only defined by a timeless elegance, but one that encapsulates a sense of power, style and drama.
Following the success of the Phantom and the Ghost, the Wraith will be the third model in the Rolls-Royce lineup. Customer deliveries are expected for the fourth quarter of 2013.
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Launched in 1938, Rolls-Royce Wraith featured a marriage of dynamic power delivery and hallmark Rolls-Royce luxury. We at GTspirit can't wait to see the new Rolls-Royce Wraith!
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Wassail (,  , most likely from Old Norse "ves heill") is a beverage made from hot mulled cider, ale, or wine and spices, drunk traditionally as an integral part of wassailing, an ancient English Yuletide drinking ritual and salutation either involved in door-to-door charity-giving or used to ensure a good harvest the following year.

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "wassail" originated as a borrowing from the Old Norse salutation ves heill, corresponding to Old English hál wes þú or wes hál – literally meaning 'be in good health' or 'be fortunate'. It was initially used in the sense of 'hail' or 'farewell', without any drinking connotation. The English interjection "" is a cognate of the etymon of the second part of "wassail", and was probably influenced by the Old English phrase.

The expression later became part of the drinking formula "wassail...drinkhail" which, the OED suggests, initially arose in England among the Anglo-Danes, and from there spread to the native population, being considered a specifically Anglo Saxon characteristic by the 12th century. The earliest record is of around 1140, in Geoffrey of Monmouth's telling of the Rowena story, which has wes heil..drinc heil (or, in a variant reading, was heil). Later Middle English manuscripts have a variety of spellings, including  and .

The second expression, "drinkhail", may derive either from Old Norse or Old English, again with a variety of spellings including  and .

The earliest example of the drinking phrases in a specifically English context comes from a manuscript of 1275, preserving a 12th-century text which has . [That friend said to [the other] friend...,"beloved friend, wassail!"; the other said, "drinkhail!"]

By  1300, the sense had extended from a toast to the drink itself, especially to the spiced ale used in Twelfth-night and Christmas Eve celebrations. By 1598 it was being applied to the custom of drinking healths on those nights. Shakespeare's 1603 use of "Keep wassel" in Hamlet i. iv. 10 was the first record of the term's use in a more general sense of "carousal" or "revelling".

Beverage

Wassail is a hot, mulled punch often associated with Yuletide, often drunk from a 'wassail bowl'. The earliest versions were warmed mead into which roasted crab apples were dropped and burst to create a drink called 'lambswool' drunk on Lammas day, still known in Shakespeare's time. Later, the drink evolved to become a mulled cider made with sugar, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, topped with slices of toast as sops and drunk from a large communal bowl. Modern recipes begin with a base of wine, fruit juice or mulled ale, sometimes with brandy or sherry added. Apples or oranges are often added to the mix, and some recipes also call for beaten eggs to be tempered into the drink. Great bowls turned from wood, pottery or tin often had many handles for shared drinking and highly decorated lids; antique examples can still be found in traditional pubs. Hence the first stanza of the traditional carol Gloucestershire Wassail; variations of which were known to have been sung as far back as the 1700s, and possibly earlier:

At Carhampton, near Minehead, the Apple Orchard Wassailing is held on Old Twelfth Night (17 January) as a ritual to ask the gods for a good apple harvest. The villagers form a circle around the largest apple tree, hang pieces of toast soaked in cider in the branches for the robins, who represent the 'good spirits' of the tree. A shotgun is fired overhead to scare away evil spirits, and the group sings the following being the (last verse):

Lamb's wool
"Lamb's wool" or "lambswool" is an early variety of wassail, brewed from ale, baked apples, sugar and various spices.

British-Irish antiquarian Charles Vallancey proposed that the term "lambswool" is a corruption of the name of a pagan Irish festival, "Lamas Ubhal", during which a similar drink was had. Alternatively, the name may derive from the drink's similar appearance to the wool of lambs. Ale is occasionally replaced by ginger ale for children, especially around Halloween and New Year.

Culture

Wassailing

In the cider-producing counties in the South West of England (primarily Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire) or South East England (Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Suffolk), as well as Jersey, wassailing refers to a traditional ceremony that involves singing and drinking to the health of trees on Twelfth Night in the hopes that they might better thrive. The purpose of wassailing is to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in the Autumn. The ceremonies of each wassail vary from village to village but they generally all have the same core elements. A wassail King and Queen lead the song or a processional tune to be played/sung from one orchard to the next; the wassail Queen is then lifted into the boughs of the tree where she places toast soaked in wassail from the clayen cup as a gift to the tree spirits (and to show the fruits created the previous year). In some counties, the youngest boy or "Tom Tit" will stand in for the Queen and hang the cider-soaked toast in the tree. Then an incantation is usually recited.

A folktale from Somerset reflecting this custom tells of the Apple Tree Man, the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. In the tale a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard and is rewarded by the Apple Tree Man who reveals to him the location of buried gold.

Popular culture

Modern music
British folk rock band Steeleye Span opened their third album Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1971) with an extended, minor-key version of "Gower Wassail", Tim Hart singing the traditional verses and the others joining the chorus.

The British rock band Blur released a song titled "The Wassailing Song", with each member taking a verse. The release was limited to 500 7-inch pressings, given out at a concert in 1992. The version of "The Wassailing Song" performed by Blur was later adapted in a recording by The Grizzly Folk, who have stated that the arrangement bears a close resemblance to the "Gloucestershire Wassail".

In her song "Oh England My Lionheart", on the 1978 album Lionheart, Kate Bush sings, "Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing in the orchard, my English rose."

The alternative rock band Half Man Half Biscuit from Tranmere, England, included a song named "Uffington Wassail" on their 2000 album Trouble over Bridgwater. With its references to the Israeli Eurovision contestant Dana International, the Sealed Knot English Civil War re-enactment society, and also to the skier Vreni Schneider, the meaning of the song's title in this context is a little obscure.

In 2013 Folk Rock musician Wojtek Godzisz created an arrangement of the traditional Gloucestershire Wassail words with original music for the Pentacle Drummers' first Annual Wassail festival (2013), called "Wassail".

For the Pentacle Drummers' second Wassail festival (2014), the pagan rock band Roxircle also wrote a Wassail song especially for the event called "Wassail (Give Thanks to the Earth)". The Pentacle Drummers encourage their headline acts to write a song centered around wassailing, a way to keep the tradition alive.

The English progressive rock band Big Big Train released an EP entitled "Wassail" in 2015, named for the title track.

Yorkshire-based folk singer Kate Rusby included the track "Cornish Wassail" on her 2015 album, The Frost Is All Over.

Television
Wassail was mentioned in the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo ask Mike Nelson to provide some. When asked to explain further what exactly wassail is, they admit to having no idea. However, they offer a guess that it might be an "anti-inflammatory". Upon actually getting some, they describe it as "skunky", discovering it to be a 500-year-old batch.

It was mentioned and explained to Bing Crosby by Frank Sinatra in a special episode of the Frank Sinatra Show entitled "Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank" released 20 December 1957.

In 2004, the alternative Christmas message was presented by The Simpsons who close out with a cup of "traditional British wassail". When the director cuts, they spit it out in disgust, with Bart remarking that it tasted "like hurl".

Wassail was featured on the BBC Two special Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas, aired in December 2009. Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis sampled the drink and the wassailing party in Southwest England as part of their challenge to find Britain's best Christmas drinks.

During the episode "We Two Kings" on the NBC sitcom Frasier, the title character's brother Niles asks to borrow his wassail bowl; when Frasier's father Martin asks why they can't just use a punch bowl, Niles retorts, "Then it wouldn't be Wassail then would it?" In response, Martin looks up 'wassail' in the dictionary, defined as 'a Christmas punch'.

In the Good Eats holiday special episode "The Night Before Good Eats", Alton Brown is given a wassail recipe by St. Nicholas which he then must make to appease a mob of angry carolers.

In Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration, which originally aired December 21, 1987, the main characters of the special Rex and Herb talk about the term "wassail" regarding a specific Christmas carol, which is comically mis-sung by varying groups that show up throughout the show.

See also
 Apple Day
 Apple Wassail
 Here We Come A-wassailing
 List of hot beverages
 Mari Lwyd (a related tradition in Wales)

References

Bibliography
 Bladey, Conrad Jay (2002). Do the Wassail: A Short Guide to Wassail, Songs, Customs, Recipes and Traditions: How to Have a Fine Geegaw of a Wassail!, Hutman Productions, .
 Gayre, Robert (1948). Wassail! In Mazers of Mead: an account of mead, metheglin, sack and other ancient liquors, and of the mazer cups out of which they were drunk, with some comment upon the drinking customs of our forebears, Phillimore & Co. Ltd., London.

External links

 Authentic Lambswool Recipe
 Quick Lambswool Recipe
 The Whimple Wassail (Whimple History Society)
 Making a wassail bowl
 Wassailing history and examples

Mixed drinks
Christmas food
Drinking culture
Hot drinks
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Student teacher charged with sexual relations with teen students
EUREKA, Kan. -- An elementary school student teacher has been arrested after police say she had inappropriate relations with minors, including messages sent over Snapchat.
Kourtnie A. Sanchez, a 25-year-old student teacher, is charged with unlawful sexual relations, promoting obscenity to a minor and solicitation of unlawful sexual relations with students ages 15-17. ABC affiliate KAKE reports that Sanchez was a student teacher at an elementary school and also coached basketball and volleyball to older students in the district.
Snapchat records were listed in the complaint, which includes three felonies. In her first court appearance Tuesday, Sanchez' lawyer had no comment. Her preliminary hearing is set for May 8.
Eureka residents expressed their disgust that this was happening in their city.
"I don't think you can put that on TV, what I think about it," said Andrew Bratton. "Anybody who would mess with kids I have a pretty low opinion of. If there's a word lower than low that would be my opinion of it."
Sanchez was fired by the school district when the allegations came to light in December, the superintendent said.
KAKE reported that Sanchez is one of four school employees in that area facing similar charges in a recent string of allegations.
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