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Palestinian teen killed by Israeli army during protest in occupied West Bank
RAMALLAH Dec 04, 2020 - 11:37 pm GMT+3
Palestinian demonstrators react from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a protest against Israeli settlements, in Kafr Malik in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Dec. 4, 2020. (AFP Photo)
by French Press Agency - AFP Dec 04, 2020 11:37 pm
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A Palestinian teenager was killed on Friday in clashes with the Israeli army on the sidelines of a protest in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Thirteen-year-old Ali Ayman Nasr Abu Aliya "succumbed to his wounds after he was shot with live rounds in the stomach" during clashes north of Ramallah, the ministry said in a statement.
The teen was hit during a demonstration in the village of Mughayir and was transported in critical condition to a hospital in Ramallah, where he died, it said.
The Israeli army had "violently dispersed" the protest against the establishment of an Israeli settlement in the area, according to Mughayir's mayor, Amin Abu Aliya, quoted by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Four other people were wounded by Israeli army fire, WAFA reported.
The army denied live rounds were used but said it was "aware of reports regarding a number of injured rioters and a Palestinian casualty."
An army spokesperson told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that dozens of protesters had thrown rocks at security forces.
"Rioters attempted to roll boulders and burning tires from ridges above the Allon road, endangering the lives of civilians on the route," she said.
"Security forces prevented the rioters from blocking the road and responded with riot dispersal means."
The Palestinian village of Mughayir is located near several illegal Israeli settlements and has been the site of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the past.
It is also near the Ras al-Teen area, where Israel has threatened to demolish a school, a move condemned in early November by the European Union, which co-funded its construction.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
More than 450,000 Israelis live in settlements in the territory, home to more than 2.8 million Palestinians.
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The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is petitioning President Obama to declare the "gun violence epidemic" a national state of emergency. The group's suggested solution includes, among other things, looking at requirements for concealed carry, holding parents accountable as accomplices when their children cause harm with the parents' guns, and appointing a commission to address this "man-made public health epidemic" … all while excluding members of the "gun lobbies" from participation in the commission.
It's unclear whether NGVAC is aware that a state of national emergency cannot suspend any part of the Constitution (the sole exception being the habeas corpus clause). This Congressional Research Service report (Aug. 30, 2007) provides a definition of national emergency powers and states that such powers must be "permissible constitutionally." But then, NGVAC also knows it has a president who is all too willing to disregard the Constitution and the rights guaranteed within.
While our spirits were buoyed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's costly and embarrassing defeat in Virginia—where voters angrily rejected his attempt to buy his way into state politics—the approximately $3 million that he lost only constitutes a fraction of his recent political spending. According to the New York Post, the ex-mayor has spent $72 million on political causes over the past four years.
Bloomberg's seemingly bottomless coffers have propelled a number of anti-gun candidates to victory, despite setbacks like the one in Virginia. If gun owners are to defeat the influence of a billionaire whose one overriding goal is to undermine the Second Amendment, it is critical that we be able to match his spending.
The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) needs your support to campaign for gun rights across the country. Please consider making a donation to defend the cause of freedom against this billionaire bully. For a one-time political donation, click here.
The Houston Zoo has reversed its earlier position and re-posted the "no guns" signs that it had removed earlier this year in compliance with a new Texas law. That law, which took effect in September, prohibits authorities from barring firearms on most government-owned facilities.
Told of the Houston Zoo's latest reversal, attorney Edwin Walker with Texas Law Shield, who sent demand letters to the zoo to have its "no guns" signs removed in September, told the Houston Chronicle that he plans to take his complaint to the Texas Attorney General.
A new law went into effect today that brings Michigan one step closer to becoming a true shall-issue concealed-carry state. Most notably, the law does away with county gun boards—whose authority to deny permits based on their own discretion created inconsistencies between counties in how permits were issued—as well as the requirement that an applicant submit to an in-person interview. The new process transfers responsibility for issuing licenses to county clerks, and gives state police 45 days to notify the clerks of denials based on factors such as age, criminal history or mental illness. If they fail to do so, the clerks are required to approve the application.
The law also decreases the maximum wait time for renewals from 60 days to 30 days, and requires temporary emergency permits be granted to applicants who have obtained a protection order or are determined by county sheriffs to be in danger.
A concealed-carry permit holder in Tulsa, Okla., used his firearm to save his life when accosted outside a fast food restaurant on Sunday evening.
According to police reports, the man was leaving a Burger King restaurant when another man, armed with a crowbar, attempted to rob him. Realizing the dire threat, the permit holder pulled his handgun and shot his assailant through the shoulder.
The man with the crowbar fled the scene, and was later located by police at a local hospital, where he was seeking treatment for the gunshot wound. At the time of this writing, charges against the attempted armed robber had not yet been filed.


During my last article, we discovered the power of blessing others. We bless others intentionally by smiles, hugs, kindness, prophetic words, and sowing blessings into each other. This is an intentional act that you can cultivate as a lifestyle. Just as Tony and I choose to stop for the divine opportunities God brings our way, we also choose to bless. Sometimes this is done in practical ways, since love looks like something. However, other times it's simpler in forms of touching, hugging, listening as wells as speaking hope and positive encouragement for their future. All of these ways of blessing and validating others involves time. It's important to spend good relational time with people. It's a two way blessing.
Before we spend this valuable time with other people, we need to spend time with God even more so. When Tony and I attended the Iris Global Harvest School, we learned from many local and international speakers. Rolland Baker was among my favourites. He would amaze us with incredible wisdom, and yet sometimes he would simply want to touch downcast hearts with deep joy. I came to love Rolland when I first saw him at a September 2014 conference in in Richmond, Virginia. God has gifted him with a sense of knowing when someone is secretly depressed. During the conference, he followed me around during ministry time; and he did not let up. I was secretly sad and grieving because no job was open to me at the time. I still didn't have a paying job until two years later, shortly after Tony and I returned from our ministry in Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana. Rolland imparted to me a deep trust-joy in my heart through the Holy Spirit. This deep trust laid a foundation so I could spend more time waiting before God.
When I spent time with God, I wasn't as restless before him as I was. I already practiced soaking prayer; which is a devotional time of silently listening to God with your spiritual ears, while also listening to soft worship music with your physical ears. This is a form of contemplation. But now was a time to go even deeper. Heidi Baker says, there is always more, and it's true. She always cries out for more, and God responds. Do we cry out for more time with God? I believe that God wants to spend more time with us. He's very patient for us to come invite him. Hollman Hunt created a series of paintings of Jesus standing at a door knocking. There were a lot of overgrown weeds around the door, and there was no handle on the door. The door could only be opened from the inside – by the person who owns the house. But think, we are the house. The house represents our lives, and Jesus won't come in, unless we open the door. It's amazing how patient Jesus is! This surely shows his mercy and kindness.
Heidi also shared with the All Nations Church in Arizona after a women's conference. I attended this conference in an earlier year. At that time, I had the pleasure of Heidi ministering to me in a special way. Heidi was led to walk towards me with a bouquet of roses. She approached me with the flowers, a hug and a kiss, before she continued on her way to her seat at the front of the church. Basically, she was stopping for the one – and I was the one that she stopped for! It was an incredibly humbling experience – where I felt I was being loved on by Jesus himself. I was! She spends so much time daily with the Lord, despite being incredibly busy. This is her secret. She is so filled with the love of Jesus, that she really does pour out his love. Before she approached me, I stood worshipping in the back row of the church. The only thing that caused me to open my eyes was that I sensed the strong presence of Jesus beside me. It was like Jesus himself was standing right beside me. So I opened my eyes, and there was Heidi! This wasn't the only time that I could clearly and powerfully see Jesus in another person. It happened before with Dennis Bennett, the man who led me to Jesus in 1988. Then it happened again through two of my professors in Tyndale Seminary. Every once and a while, I again get a similar experience.
Could we be filled with Jesus' love that? Could we touch others with the love of God? Perhaps so deeply that you can see the difference it makes? The answer is simple. We can. Spend time with God. We desperately need him, not just for ministry – but for our own needs too. Both Heidi and Rolland speak at length about this essential need. We need God. We really do.
The first commandment is absolutely crucial. You need to spend time loving him, and letting him love you. Loving God with your heart could involve worship and realizing that God is our treasure. He is the pearl of great price. Loving God with your soul would be acts of service just for him in obedience, humility and integrity. Loving God with your mind could involve reading scripture while praying, and actively meditating on him. My Afrikaaner pastor Pieter-Louis says to love God in this way is to actively cultivate your 'dianoia.' This is your active imagination – it is part of how you think. When you give this to God, you allow Holy Spirit to speak to you through pictures, impressions and words. You can also imagine him right with you, which of course, he actually is. Through this practice, your eyes can actually open to see him more and more.
The version of the story I shared is in Matthew 22, but in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Jesus is also quoted as including loving God with all your strength. Jesus was actually quoting Deuteronomy 6:5. What does it look like to love God with all your strength? To love the Lord with all our strength is to love him with reckless abandon out of simple devotion. Heidi and Rolland have a daily devotional book called Reckless Devotion. It captures a taste of being completely wrecked by the love of God, in a way that you become love-sick for him. Here's another example – the woman who broke open an alabaster jar of expensive perfume over Jesus' feet. It's likely she had this jar as a treasure for her wedding night – but instead, she recklessly shared it with Jesus – her spiritual bridegroom. So this greatest commandment is definitely not one we should skip. However, too often, that is exactly what happens. Some of this distraction is by little things that come up in our day, which rob us from our time with God. The most sad distraction is one that has the best of intentions!
Rolland Baker shared with us at Harvest School that even many missionaries skip the first commandment to get to the second commandment. They move too quickly through their devotions because they see the great need of those around them. YES, we need to reach out. But if you reach out without the love, power and leading of God, you have nothing to give them but human sympathy. Human love runs out quickly, and you get exhausted. It's far better to take the time, before you go out to the people. While I'm not a morning person, morning is probably the best time, unless you're working and ministering at night. Without loving God with all of you, you will have no energy to do the commandment of loving your neighbour.
So we need to pursue God with reckless pursuit, and he will fill us with all we need to do life. This is life in ministry, the workplace, family, studies and everything else you can think of. I can honestly say that I was helped by God to excel in university, seminary and radio school. I didn't do as well in art school, before I knew Jesus.
So we need to give God our time – our calendar, and all that is in it. We need to schedule dates with God that can't easily be moved. One of my Afrikaaner pastors and his wife have a date with God every night at 9. You can see the life and love of God in their lives. They shine for Jesus like bright lamps in the darkness. So let's think back of Heidi speaking in that Arizona church. I watched on a webcast and could not tear my eyes away. She was speaking on the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25: 1-13, and she began singing her prophetic wisdom from Holy Spirit.
So I've done some searching on this story. Five of the virgins were prepared and had enough oil while they waited for the bridegroom overnight. Five weren't prepared and didn't have enough oil – they couldn't borrow oil from the others, and had to go buy some. The five wise virgins couldn't even transfer some of their oil. The others had to go get their own. There is a deeper meaning of this story other than the suddenness of the bridegroom's arrival. What is the oil? The Holy Spirit? Yes. But wait, there's more. Yes, the Holy Spirit is often symbolized by oil, fire, water and wind. But there's more. Perhaps grace? Yes, grace is a gift of God but there's more. Perhaps the oil is gained through obedient Christian living? Yes, but there's still more.
So what's the more? The very thing that God sees as our precious gift we give to him. It's TIME. How do you get the oil? By your TIME spent with God. God takes the gift we've given by our lived out space in our calendars – to become the very oil that we need. Not just the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit, but something deep within, so that we shine from the inside. We become like a lamp.
I think I'd like to stay and think on this revelation. I'm thankful that Heidi obeyed Holy Spirit when she shared it. So please, do not hesitate to give God your time. It may not be the hours that Heidi spends – but your own date with God. You can worship, ask questions, read the Bible, and so much more. This is a date journey with God, and he's inviting you right now.
I'd like to pray with you. Sorry Lord, that we've been neglecting you – Christians and non-Christians alike. Thank you for dying for us. We give you our calendars, and our lives. Cleanse us from all we have done wrong, and the tendency to go our own way. Please fill us with your Holy Spirit. Help us to respond to your invitation to spend time with us. Bless my friends who are reading this article. Touch their lives, as they take time for you. In Jesus name.
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The Monkeys: Happy Birthday, Jenn!
Happy Birthday, Jenn! Any bean who is mom to a kitty is pretty special in my book.
Happy birthday to Misha and Pasha'a mom, Jenn! We know the kitties will take good care of her today.
We hope she has a great day!
Happy Birthday, Jenn. May you live a long life and have many more cats.
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Caffe Olivia provides a light, modern seating area and is run by a friendly and caring staff who are always polite and helpful. The cafe offers easy access for wheelchairs etc and is happy to provide table service as required. It offers a choice of freshly made sandwiches, pannini's, baguettes, toasties, wraps and jacket potatoes. There is a selection of freshly roasted Lattes, Cappuchino, Chocolate, Teas, soups and soft drinks plus a delicious range of cakes, gateauxs, fruit pies, biscuits and muffins.
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PA Hospitals Share Opioid Treatment Strategies Under $10-Million Plan
By Brett Sholtis | August 21, 2019
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TRANSFORMING HEALTH – Health systems are known more for competition than working together, but when it comes to treating opioid addiction, that may be changing.
Industry advocacy group Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania is working to get hospitals across the state to share best practices on treating opioid use disorder.
Mike Krafick talks to reporters about approaches to treating opioid addiction at a press event Tues., Aug. 20, 2019. Krafick is a certified recovery specialist supervisor and recovery coach trainer at Armstrong/Indiana/Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
The "opioid learning action network" is a two-year effort that makes use of a $10 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant.
The goal is to share information and increase the number of patients using "evidence-based" treatment for opioid use disorder, said Jennifer Jordan, vice president of regulatory advocacy at HAP.
The network will use webinars, meetings and distance learning to connect doctors around the commonwealth, Jordan said. Some areas of focus include medication-assisted treatment and the transition from emergency care to long-term rehabiliation.
When opioid overdoses first hit Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, staff scrambled to learn how to keep people from relapsing after an overdose, said Dr. David Greenspan, psychiatry department chair at the hospital, at a media event.
Since then, there have been big strides at Einstein, and elsewhere, and he's eager to share best practices with other facilities.
That includes medication-assisted treatment (MAT) through opioid replacements such as buprenorphine, paired with cognitive therapy and help with things like legal issues and employment.
"MAT has worked better than any abstinence program, but by itself medication is not going to solve the opioid problem," Greenspan said.
Improved communication across medical specialties and other "silos" is also important to preventing addiction and relapse, said Dr. Charles Barbera, emergency medicine chair at Tower health. That also includes looking at what a person's options are after they get out of inpatient care.
"We have to look at not sending people back out to the same environment that gave them that addiction in the first place," Barbera said.
The program is open and free to all Pennsylvania hospitals, but they must enroll to participate.
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I am really a lucky person that I received several good and friendly letters to introduce something about Valentine's Day around this festival. Here, I would like to publish the letter from Mr. Johnny Fox (Scotland)and I really think it is helpful to me and maybe to you to know something about Valentine's Day.
Do you celebrate Valentine's Day? What is your next fesitival in your culture?
As you already know St. Valentine's Day was a few days ago and I found some information from a magazine I found which might interest you regarding St. Valentine's Day.
According to legend, St Valentine was a priest who served in Rome in the third century, during the rule of Emperor Claudius II. The Emperor decided single men made better soldiers, so he outlawed marriage for young males. Valentine was outraged and continued to perform secret marriages for young lovers against the emperor's wishes.
Valentine is said to have sent the first Valentine's greeting. While he was in prison, he fell in love with a young girl who may have been his jailer's daughter. Before his death, he wrote a letter which he signed, "From your Valentine". When Valentine's secret weddings were discovered, Claudius ordered that be be put to death. He was executed in 269.
By the fifth century, by which time Christianity was the dominant religion in Europe, Pope Gelasius declared 14 February the feast of St Valentine. This day fell on the eve of an ancient pagan festival honouring Juno, the goddess of women and marriage. For the duration of this springtime festival, young girls and boys, who were usually segregated were paired off. Each boy would select a slip of paper from a bowl or jar on which a girl's name had been written. Today elements of the pagan festival are still evident in the celebration of the fesast of St Valetntine's Day, and he has become the patron saint of lovers.
In medieval times it was commonly thought that 14 February was the mating day for birds. There were also superstitions relating to young maidens and the first bird they might see on that day. For instance, spying a goldfinch meant marrying a wealthy man. The custom of marking this day with the writing of love songs or verses evolved into the sending of Valentine cards, which by the end of the 18th century were being commercially produced. In 1835 Pope Gregory XVI gave some of St Valentine's remains to John Spratt, an Irish Carmelite, then preaching in Rome. The relics were brought to Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, where they remain to this day in a specially built shrine.


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Flesh-burrowing nearing end in South Sudan
Published : Jan 11, 2016, 5:13 am IST
Updated : Jan 11, 2016, 5:13 am IST
Health workers on Friday celebrated a key step towards eradicating the flesh-burrowing guinea worm after South Sudan, once by far the worst-affected country, recorded a massive drop in infections.
An NGO worker teaches children about the ways to fight the water-born parasite — Guinea worm.
"South Sudan is on the verge of eliminating guinea worm disease," South Sudan Minister of Health Riek Gai Kok said in a statement, after workers recorded just five cases last year, a more than 90 per cent drop from 2014, when 70 cases were recorded — the highest number globally.
Guinea worm is a debilitating parasite that digs out the body — including even eyes and sexual organs — but is close to being stamped out for good following a two-decade campaign by the Carter Center, a not-for-profit organisation founded by former US president Jimmy Carter.
Last year there were 22 cases in just four nations across Africa, compared to 3.5 million in 20 countries in 1986 when the Carter Centre began its massive push began to stop the water-borne parasite.
If the campaign succeeds, guinea worm will become the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and only the second human disease to wiped out worldwide after smallpox in 1979.
"Eradication of this painful and debilitating disease is within our reach," Kok said of the progress which occurred despite a civil war which has gripped South Sudan for the past two years.
Aside from South Sudan, guinea worms exist only in Chad, Ethiopia and Mali. In 2015, Chad recorded nine cases, Mali had five and Ethiopia just three, the Center said.
"As we get closer to zero, each case takes on increasing importance," Jimmy Carter said in a statement Friday.
"Full surveillance must continue in the few remaining endemic nations and neighbouring countries until no cases remain."
Also known as dracunculiasis, from the Latin for "little dragons", the long white worms dig through the body towards the skin, releasing chemicals to burn the flesh and then spewing thousands of larvae as they exit.
The breeding cycle can be broken by making sure people do not wash in sources of drinking water while the worm is emerging from the skin.
They must be teased out by wrapping the wriggling worm around a stick — the reported origin for the medical symbol of a snake coiled around a staff.
Location: Sudan, Bahr al-Jabal, Juba


Super Water Sympathy calls their music "water pop." The self-invented genre invites at least as many—if not more—questions about the band's sound as it was meant to answer. A quick definition: The Louisiana five-piece sounds like Regina Spektor mixed in the wash with Florence and the Machine.
After several previous attempts in college, brother duo Billy and Clyde Hargrove—the former on rhythm guitar, the latter on bass—decided to try forming band one last time. When they found and added charming lead singer Ansely Hughes, that decision to preserve proved to be the right one.
"We decided that if we do [form a band]," Billy Hargrove told the blog Absolute Punk in 2012, "we must have a female singer to make it different and interesting [...] our cousin told us about a girl that he remembered from high school that was always singing and putting up YouTube videos. So we checked out her videos and stalked her on Facebook."
According to Hargrove, after seeing a picture of Hughes with a snake on her head, the deal was sealed and they sent her a message.
Now, two albums later, and after the departure of Billy Hargrove, Super Water Sympathy—a name the members came up with after realizing they had all dreamed about water during the same night—are trading largely off of Hughes' immensely strong vocals. She has all the windpipe strength of Sallie Ford and all the fancy of Colbie Caillat.
Songs such as "Purple Poppies" and "Sunday School Dress" off their sophomore album Hydrogen Child feature handclap inducing pop-rock melodies and cloyingly sweet "oh we ohs" and "ba ba bas," all aimed at fulfilling the band's vision of creating a semi-concept album with an—at times—ironically morose direction.
"[Hydrogen Child] is a lot about birth and death, and what goes on after that, and what goes on in between that," said Hughes, rather generally, to the online music magazine My Spilt Milk this past summer. As if to clarify this ambiguity, she told The Daily Mississippian Online: "It's about the end of infinity."
The band reached perhaps its highest profile when touring with the Vans Warped Tour in 2012 and 2013. But those looking to experience a bit of the Vans Warped Tour's famed hard edged music should be prepared for sappy pop—albeit with mighty female vocals—lest punk fans find themselves, well, punked.


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10 Best movies, 10 Highest Grossing Movies Worldwide, 10 Worst movies, 2016, 2017, Disney, International Box Office, Marvel, Posters, Review
If 2016 had to be summed up in one word, that word would be: Nooooooooo!!
Time and time again we were led up the proverbial garden path, promised so much, and by studios and production companies who must have known that their promises were emptier than the mind of a Republican voter on November 8. Sequels and remakes and reboots that nobody wanted clogged up our multiplexes and taught us to run for the hills in search of movies that didn't play to the common denominator, and which wouldn't treat us like sheep.
But luckily there were enough movies that fit that particular bill, and so 2016 wasn't a total bust, and even though there are many who feel that 2016 was a good year for movies, the negative reaction that surrounded releases such as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Ghostbusters (to name but two) was a clear indication that the public wasn't buying everything they were being told or sold. Inevitably, there was the battle between fans of Marvel and DC about whose product was the best, but it was a waste of time and data bytes: the problem for DC is that Marvel know exactly what they're doing, and Warner Bros. (who are overseeing the DC Extended Universe) absolutely and positively don't.
But aside from the continuing glut of superhero movies we were "treated" to, it was Disney's year, with the top four highest grossing movies worldwide all being Disney-backed productions. The House of Mouse, in acquiring Pixar, and Marvel, and Lucasfilm, has put itself firmly on top of the pile in Hollywood, and there's no likelihood of anyone toppling them anytime soon. That's not necessarily a good thing, perhaps, but fortunately for Disney – and for us – they seem to know what they're doing, and the high ranking for Zootopia is a perfect example.
10 Highest Grossing Movies Worldwide in 2016
10 – Rogue One – $706,054,705
9 – Suicide Squad – $745,600,054
8 – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – $772,540,251
7 – Deadpool – $783,112,979
6 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – $873,260,194
5 – The Secret Life of Pets – $875,457,937
4 – The Jungle Book – $966,550,600
3 – Zootopia – $1,023,784,195
2 – Finding Dory – $1,027,771,569
1 – Captain America: Civil War – $1,153,304,495
There were some surprise successes in 2016, with perhaps the top honours going to The Conjuring 2, a muddled, middling sequel that somehow managed to rake in over $300 million at the worldwide box office. Then there was Sully, Clint Eastwood's under-rated re-telling of the Miracle on the Hudson, starring Tom Hanks and profitable to the tune of over $200 million. And also there was Don't Breathe – made on a budget of $9.9 million and finding enough favour to bring in over $150 million. Conversely, there were several movies that proved unable to recoup even their production budgets, movies such as Snowden, Free State of Jones, and Keeping Up With the Joneses (though that shouldn't be a surprise with the last one).
Looking ahead to 2017, there are enough superhero movies on the horizon for one of them to claim the top spot again, though which one is more open to debate than in 2016. Away from all the spandex, it's even harder to predict which movies might break free of any box office preconceptions, though it would be hard to bet against the likes of War for the Planet of the Apes, or Dunkirk.
If there was one area where 2016 did excel, it was with its movie posters. There were some great examples seen throughout the year, and sometimes they were the best thing about the movies they were promoting (Alice Through the Looking Glass, for example). Here are six of the best:
If 2016 reminded us of any one thing it was that when movies are bad, they're really bad. It was one thing to realise that the reboot of Ghostbusters was unlikely to work, but it was also unlikely anyone realised in advance just how unfunny it would be (except for maybe the cast and crew). Time and again, movies that were hyped to the skies and back again proved disappointing at best, and cruelly exposed at worst. Three sequels did their best to ride roughshod over their predecessors – even Ride Along (2014) is a far better movie in comparison with its sequel – and Anthony Hopkins appeared in a brace of "thrillers" that gave new meaning to the phrase "overwrought". Elsewhere, Sacha Baron Cohen appeared contemptuous of his fans, the Earl of Greystoke was tasked with looking realistic against a constant backdrop of CGI vistas and jungle foliage, Blue Steel was shown to be a tired relic from fifteen years ago, Jackie Chan made one of the most poorly edited and assembled movies of the year, the Ghostbusters reboot had to rely on overseas ticket sales to recoup its budget, and the worst movie of the year – by a huge distance – trampled repeatedly over the legacy of one of British TV's finest comedy series. What a year, indeed.
10 Worst Movies of 2016
10 – The Legend of Tarzan
9 – Ghostbusters
8 – Misconduct
7 – Zoolander 2
6 – Skiptrace
5 – Grimsby
4 – Ride Along 2
3 – Solace
2 – Independence Day: Resurgence
1 – Dad's Army
To be fair, there were worse movies made and released in 2016, but it's equally unfair to pick on the likes of, say, Steven Seagal – seven movies released, all of them bad – because his movies are made on modest budgets, with modest ambitions, and with a minimum of effort. They're never going to be anything more than what they are, and weirdly, there's a strange "nobility" in that. But the movie's on the 10 Worst list aren't made by the likes of Seagal or his direct-to-video compatriots, they're made by people and studios with resources and actors and crews that should be able to make better movies. And the most annoying thing about it all? That they just don't care, as long as we pay to see their movies.
Thank heavens then, that there were plenty of movies to shout about in 2016. All were varied, distinctive, and most importantly, able to connect with audiences on an emotional level – yes, even Captain America: Civil War. They were all beautifully shot, edited and assembled, provided enough thrills, laughs and teary-eyed moments for another twenty movies, and featured some amazing performances – step forward Amy Adams, Paula Beer, Julian Dennison, Kate Beckinsale, and Géza Röhrig. And if all that wasn't impressive enough, the movie at Number One created its own visual and aural languages in order to tell its story, an incredible achievement at a time when the majority of movies made won't take even the smallest of risks on their way to the screen.
10 Best Movies of 2016
10 – Love & Friendship
9 – Everybody Wants Some!!
8 – Kubo and the Two Strings
7 – Zootopia
6 – Captain America: Civil War
5 – Life, Animated
4 – Frantz
3 – Arrival
2 – Hunt for the Wilderpeople
1 – Son of Saul
Of course, Son of Saul was released in 2015, but with release dates as they are in the UK, it was never going to be seen back then. It's likely that 2017 will see the same thing happen, and a movie (or maybe more) making their way into the Top 10. With the likes of Toni Erdmann and Elle still to be caught up with, as well as A Monster Calls and Silence newly arrived at UK cinemas, it's encouraging that 2017 looks promising already.
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All Things Movies said:
Great little review there – Son of Saul was one of the best shot films of the year by far! I understand your pain though, 2016 was a poor year in terms of box office releases, the summer was particularly poor! Thankfully we got some decent independent films – did you manage to see Embrace of the Serpent? Fingers crossed for a decent 2017!
dullwood68 said:
Thanks for the feedback! Son of Saul was just really special – I knew as soon as I saw it that it would be my number one, I just couldn't see anything else coming along to better it. And alas, Embrace of the Serpent is still on my list of Must-Watch Movies (along with too many others) – I'm aiming to get to it sometime this month.
It's a great little film – really would recommend it! I was surprised to not see any DC films on the list – they were bloody terrible!
Ha ha! Just goes to show you how bad the ones on the list were!


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Södergran now North America-bound this season; refresher on Bjornfot, Fagemo
LA Kings Insider August 15, 2019 0 CommentsOntario ReignProspects and ScoutingVideo
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August! A time to unwind, take stock, to look reflectively towards a sunset amidst summer's fading twilight. It is also a slower time when the news that Johan Södergran will play in North America rather than Sweden this season requires its own stand-alone story atop the page.
Södergran, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound power forward, had been ticketed for SHL-Linköping in 2019-20, where he'd fulfill the final year of his contract before making the jump to North America. The plan has changed, and that would appear to be good news for Ontario Reign fans interested in keeping close tabs on the 2018 sixth round pick who has been a clear standout during his two appearances at development camp. This was first reported by Sixten Funqvist of Vimmerby Tidning, passed along by Finland-based LAKI user Use, and confirmed by hockey operations.
"I always dreamed about playing here in the U.S., so when we talked about the contract [earlier this summer], I felt like it was the right thing to do, to sign," Södergran said at development camp about signing his entry-level contract. "I don't know if I'm going to get this chance again. There was no doubt about it."
If you're checking this site in August, you're probably pretty aware of Södergran by now. (Click here for a large archive of Linköping video interviews.) He's got good size, he's strong on the puck and is known for protecting it well even when reaching away from his body. His power game allows him to drive amidst resistance to the net, where he's good at getting sticks on loose pucks and capitalizing on secondary opportunities. He profiles as a power forward capable of finding both the hard and soft areas who showed off a crisp wristshot several times at development camp in addition to getting his touches around the net.
He's also still a teenager. Södergran, who got off to a torrid start and ended the season with eight goals and 13 points in 42 SHL games last season, turns 20 on November 20, so he'll enter the year among the youngest players in the AHL. He'll compete for an NHL job, of course, but even in the interview with Funqvist he essentially acknowledged that he's not exactly penciled in for a role on the Kings as someone with a late birthday taking part in his first North American training camp. There's ample work to address and Södergran is by no means a sure thing, but rather an interesting member of a young but emerging Los Angeles prospect group that continues to draw notice.
Along with 2019 draft picks Samuel Fagemo – a teammate at world juniors and a player Södergran knew well before he was drafted by the Kings this summer – and Tobias Björnfot, Södergran was one of three Swedish prospects to sign with the Kings this off-season. "[Samuel is] a really nice person outside [of hockey] and really good at hockey. Tobias, I've talked to him some times," Södergran said. "I've always known that they're really good players and good people, too."
Fagemo will play for Frolunda in 2019-20 – though he will still attend training camp, per John Hoven of Mayor's Manor – while a check-in on Björnfot last month revealed that the defenseman's 2019-20 club is "still undecided." By signing him to an ELC, the team retains the ability to dictate where he goes – though as of last month SHL-Djurgårdens was still the most probable destination.
"Wanted him here for camp and to control the situation. One of the reasons we signed him," General Manager Rob Blake shared via email at the time.
Considering Södergran was a player who had been held scoreless in 21 SHL games when Los Angeles chose him at the 2018 NHL Draft, that he was a world juniors selection and will make the jump to the AHL within 16 months of getting drafted represents encouraging returns from the 165th overall pick.
And, because using Google Translate on hockey stories will never stop being fun, here's the bastardized transcript of Funqvist's report and interview:
Soon, the adventure really begins
After a successful season in SHL, Johan Södergran is a pro in North America this fall. Whether it becomes AHL or NHL remains to be seen. – Kings have said they want a change in the team, he says.
Johan Södergran is no longer an LHC player. This fall, the 19-year-old will play in North America for the Los Angeles King's organization. Kings is in a generational exchange and since they drafted Södergran last summer, the parties have had close contact – a contact that intensified significantly during the spring.
– After JVM it became more concrete and they wanted me over. It got a little hard, it got a little much in the skull then, he explains when we see you. I wanted to tell you, but at the same time I wanted to focus on the season.
Södergran was at various development camps already last summer and already then you could see that Kings liked what they saw. From California came reports of how the then 18-year-old forward impressed in his physical play along the sidelines and in front of goals.
– They are happy with that. It will be a big factor over there and they are focusing a lot on development camps. There is a lot about how to cover the puck properly, how to get out of the coffin and into the finish. How to challenge correctly and get off the slopes in front of goal. "If you want to take a seat here, you have to be good at the coffins," they said.
He says that during JVM he noticed the difference in playing on the smaller, North American rink.
– I had less time. It goes much straighter on target. A lot of it is about knowing what to do with the puck before you get it.
Contact during the past season was close. There was little surprise about his development:
– I got regular advice. Much of the contact was with Niklas Andersson, the European scout. But also Mike O'Connell (development manager) and Nelson Emerson (player director).
– They had lots of stuff with what I did. Some of it was what I did worse and then it is not directly "You are wrong", it is very detailed.
Johan Södergran has been over to Los Angeles once this summer and before he left for that time a meeting was held where representatives from the club and some young players – not all – were present.
– Kings have said they want a change in the team and that they want younger players and that now is a golden opportunity. "Now it's up to you," in principle, he says.
But he keeps his feet on the ground: – Realistically, it will be AHL for me.
Not SHL?
– No, then it will be AHL, he says emphatically.
The AHL team Ontario Reign also plays their matches in Los Angeles where Ontario is a neighborhood. For this season, Reign has a dressing room next door with Kings and thus lives in the same arena. If all goes well, he will not be the only Swedish in the team. Samuel Fagemo is also going to California, but also the Finnish talent Rasmus Kupari, whom Kings drafted in the first round last summer.
– Fagemo and I are pretty good friends. We hung out together a lot during the World Cup, it was fun. And it would have been nice to have someone to split the rent with, haha!
– You have to choose whether you want to live with someone or not. Therefore, it would have been fun if someone you knew came over.
On August 11, he next raises California. A five-day shooting camp awaits. However, Södergran is not entirely sure what it means:
– I haven't received very much information about it. I think a lot is about technology. That's me and Rasmus Kupari and then there are some NHL players there, we are six in total. Most forwards. It will be fine.
– But they have said that they want me to come over and it is clear that I am going then.
After that, it will be a few weeks at home in Sweden again before everything gets going really well. In early September, the team's rookie camp begins. From the start of the success of last year's SHL, Johan Södergran has been fast. In the fall, he plays in North America. Whether it will be NHL or not remains to be seen. It's up to him, as Kings himself put it.
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PH Web3 Festival donates P1 million to Apl.de.Ap Foundation
Philippine Web3 Festival co-hosts Yield Guild Games (YGG) and BlockchainSpace donated P1,000,000 to the Apl.de.Ap Foundation to support Filipinos in uncovering earning opportunities in web3 while advancing education, art, and technology in the Philippines.
The funds will be used for training programs that will allow individuals to find work in the creative industry, whether in music, audio engineering, podcasts, design, or illustration.
Filipino artist Allan Pineda, popularly known as Apl.de.Ap of the multi-Grammy Award-winning music group Black Eyed Peas (BEP), founded the Apl.de.Ap Foundation in 2012 to empower Filipino youth and communities.
Pineda accepted the donation last November 17 following a fireside chat with Director of Emfarsis, Leah Callon-Butler, titled "How Filipino Creators Will Take on the World." During the talk, Pineda discussed the importance of pursuing creativity and how he sees the Philippines now being primed to support such passion economically.
"I heard horrible stories about Filipinos creating logos for companies but they only get paid US$20 to US$30 because they're not known as artists," said Pineda, who traveled across the Philippines in 2018 to meet with local creators and launched a scholarship program to teach them about entrepreneurship and business. "I realized that Filipinos weren't being judged by their creative talent, they were judged by where they're from," said Pineda.
"Web3 protects creators' work from being copied or stolen, and gives them access to the global economy, so they can explore much more," said Pineda. "The possibilities are endless with technology and we have to grow this industry in the Philippines because it is a new era for us."
As an advocate for Filipino creativity, Pineda has consistently used his global personal brand to showcase Filipino culture to the world. In 2021, he collaborated with Filipino artist AJ Dimarucot to launch an NFT collection, donating a portion of the proceeds to the First Mint Fund, which provides finance and education to Southeast Asian creators to help them mint their first NFT.
"Apl's efforts in charity and empowering artists resonates with what web3 is doing for creators here in the Philippines and all over the world. Our donation to the Apl.de.ap Foundation is just one step to enable more talent to discover web3 and benefit from the possibilities of this digital economy," said Gabby Dizon, co-founder of YGG.
"This week has been a celebration of talent and creativity for web3. We are glad that Apl.de.Ap understands and supports the vision that we have for web3, especially on how it can empower creatives," said Peter Ing, founder of BlockchainSpace.
The festival was the first and biggest week-long event showcasing the future of web3 in the country. Co-hosted by Yield Guild Games and BlockchainSpace with support from Infinity Ventures Crypto and Emfarsis, a variety of crypto projects, web3 games, guilds and VCs from all over the world convened to the epicenter of web3 adoption, the Philippines.
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French football body investigates internal tensions
Paris (AFP) –
The French Football Federation (FFF) has commissioned an external report into repeated complaints from staff about alleged bullying and harassment in its senior administrative management.
The FFF told AFP on Wednesday that the investigation was commissioned by federation president Noel Le Graet and launched at the end of September.
This confirmed a New York Times report earlier on Wednesday that talked of a "toxic corporate culture".
Le Graet responded to questions from the New York Times with an email that said "there is no 'civil war' in the FFF".
The New York Times said Le Graet had been concerned for a while about "dysfunction and tense working relationships within the leadership team."
The newspaper listed persistent complaints of bullying, tensions and sexist behaviour within the FFF management.
The management style of director general Florence Hardouin, a former fencer, has been a particular target of internal criticism. Le Graet told the AFP that she had his support.
The New York Times also named a financial director accused of harassment and attempted sexual assault by a female employee. It said he was warned about his behaviour after an internal inquiry.
The FFF told AFP that the police investigated but decided against charges.
The audit is being conducted by a French company, Plein Sens, that specialises in "nurturing cohesion" and preventing "psycho-social risks and social breakdowns" in organisations.
It has interviewed 20 or so FFF senior staff to discuss the "dysfunctions" and try to find a solution, the FFF told AFP, without specifying when the results would be known.


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Watch Bruce Springsteen's Emotional 'My Hometown' at the Tonys
Nick DeRiso Published: June 11, 2018
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Bruce Springsteen won a special award and then delivered a moving performance of "My Hometown" during the 72nd annual Tony Awards last night.
Billy Joel presented the honor, which recognized Bruce's critically acclaimed stage hit Springsteen on Broadway.
Springsteen offered a brief message of thanks. "This is deeply appreciated," he said. "Thank you for making me feel so welcome on the block. Being part of the Broadway community has been a great thrill and an honor and one of the most exciting things I have ever experienced."
You can watch the performance below.
Watch Bruce Springsteen Perform 'My Hometown' at the 2018 Tony Awards
Springsteen later prefaced his take on "My Hometown," the record-tying seventh Top 10 single from 1984's Born in the U.S.A., with an adaptation from his one-man show where he discusses growing up near the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in New Jersey's Freehold Borough. There, "surrounded by God and all my relatives," Springsteen recalled witnessing his neighbors' career-sparking efforts to "hold off the demons, outside and inside, that sought to destroy them."
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, a former Tonys host, later took Springsteen to task for not speaking more extemporaneously during his acceptance speech. "[Springsteen] won, and he uses teleprompters. I don't get the logic," Harris said, before adding, "Using a teleprompter is just not being willing to memorize your lines. The director should have said something."
Springsteen on Broadway debuted in October 2017 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, with an initial announced run of about a month. Joel noted that the show has since been extended into December 2018, with more than 200 scheduled performances. "The Boss," Joel quipped, "is working hard."
The concert residency's spoken-word segments combine elements of Springsteen's 2016 memoir Born to Run with new thoughts. Springsteen on Broadway is rounded out with a career-spanning set list that includes hits like "My Hometown" and choice deeper cuts.
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currentMood > Fashion > interviews > currentMood Interviews Pooja Mor, The Indian Model Who's Taking The World By Storm
currentMood Interviews Pooja Mor, The Indian Model Who's Taking The World By Storm
Feb 22, 2018 @ 10:23
"Growing up in Bareilly, I was excited about what the future holds and what I'd become."
+Photographed by Ace Amir
Name: Pooja Mor
Occupation: Model
Instagram: @poojamor
currentMood: From Bareilly to New York, tell us about the journey.
Pooja Mor: When I was growing up in Bareilly, I was excited about what the future holds and what I'd become. I never had a specific goal in mind, only felt that everything would be great and things would work out. Modelling happened by chance. While studying engineering at Nirma University in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, I was also the creative head of a club that was organising a beauty contest on campus. When the competition started, I suddenly heard my name called out on stage..I honestly thought it was a joke!
Only to later find out that my friends had signed me up. I didn't know anything about beauty contests. So when I went up on stage and was asked what I was going to do for my talent round, I replied saying,"I think I'm just going to walk back and forth." There were obviously many rounds in the competition and I ended up becoming the 1st runner up. And when I saw a picture of myself in the papers the next day, I realised that I could do this, and that's how it all began. I decided to give modelling a shot and went to Delhi to try and figure out how to go about it. That's when Anima scouted me and the rest is history.
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currentMood: Tell us about your first casting?
Pooja Mor: I remember going for casting a day after I landed in New York. It was for Club Monaco, and when I saw the casting line, I was like "Woah!" I realised that from now on every time I go for casting, I'd have to endure long lines. I told myself that I am who I am, and would always try my best..so let's see how things pan out. I still think the same way before shoots, castings or interviews!
currentMood: The fashion world is like a whirlwind, with the travelling, work schedules, etc.. how do you manage to stay grounded?
Pooja Mor: Meditation. At the end of each day, I try and connect with myself. I also go for walks, read and exercise. It makes me feel energised.
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currentMood: What's been you most memorable shoot so far?
Pooja Mor: Every shoot is memorable. I end up working with so many talented people from all walks of life and that's truly inspiring. We create new pictures as a team and it's amazing. I love it! But if I had to select one shoot, it would be the one which is yet to be published. I also love the Vogue Italia one which was shot by Peter Lindbergh. It was so beautiful..he let me be as natural as possible. And all I had to do was roam around in beautiful clothes on a beach in Avignon, France.
currentMood: You signed up with Anima, your mother agency in 2014, and by the end of the year you were walking at PFW, in such a short span of time. How did that came about?
Pooja Mor: I think that the agency plays a really important role in a models career specially for someone like me, someone who's not from the industry. I didn't know anyone. Once I signed up with Anima, they trained me for fashion week, and groomed me. Mark and Gunita were always there if I needed them. They are amazing and still my mother agency.
Thanks to 📖 @vogueitalia 📸 @therealpeterlindbergh 👗@kjeldgaard1💄 @audetzadig 👌 @pg_dmcasting 💆#valentin 👭( @samantha.ellsworth @kenzafourati @elisasednaoui ) ❤
A post shared by Pooja Mor (@poojamor) on Apr 11, 2016 at 9:19am PDT
currentMood: What advise would you give aspiring Indian models?
Pooja Mor: Sign up with an agency that takes care of you and believes in you.
You also need to take care of your mental and physical health because only then will you be able to live up the expectations that models have to bear. Be confident!
Interviewed by: currentMood
All images courtesy: Anima Creative Management (Pooja Mor's mother agency)
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Q: how to apply two different queries in different dates php i have a table like this
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                              seeker                             |
+----+-------+----------+---------------+-------------------------+
| id | name  | password | register_date | login_date | limit_date |
+----+-------+----------+---------------+------------+------------+
| 01 | ali   |   ****   |  2012-02-08   | 2012-02-09 | 2012-03-09 |
| 02 | hamza |   ****   |  2012-04-10   | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 |
| 03 | sam   |   ****   |  2012-04-15   | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 |
+----+-------+----------+---------------+------------+------------+

register_date = when user ger registered
login-date= when user attempt to login
limit date= login-date + 1 month

now i have to apply two different delete query
one for user who register and login "ali"
one for user who only register but didnot attempt to login "hamza, sam" and have login-date='0000-00-00'
i am using if-statment like this
 $qry="select * from seeker where login_date='0000-00-00'";
    $rs= mysql_query($qry, $con);
    $res=mysql_fetch_array($rs);

    if($res==0)
    {
      //query to delete user who has login date
      $q= "delete from seeker where current_date = limit_date'";
      if($rq=mysql_query($q, $con));
      echo "$q";

    }

   else if($res!=0)
    {
        //query to delete user who didnot login and has login-date='0000-00-00'
        $qry1="delete from seeker where '$days' >= 30";
            $rs1= mysql_query($qry1, $con);
            echo $qry1;
    }

i am very confused and making some mistake in if-statment i guess.
when i run this code it executes only else if . it should also execute first if because both conditions occurs according to my database

A: i guess u wanted to retrieve the number of rows so :
 $qry="select * from seeker where login_date='0000-00-00'";
    $rs= mysql_query($qry, $con);
    $res=mysql_num_rows($rs);

    if($res==0)
    {
      //query to delete user who has login date
      $q= "delete from seeker where current_date = limit_date'";
      if($rq=mysql_query($q, $con));
      echo "$q";

    }

   else if($res!=0)
    {
        //query to delete user who didnot login and has login-date='0000-00-00'
        $qry1="delete from seeker where '$days' >= 30";
            $rs1= mysql_query($qry1, $con);
            echo $qry1;
    }

EDIT :
<?php

    $qry="select * from seeker where login_date='0000-00-00'";
    $rs= mysql_query($qry, $con);
    $res=mysql_num_rows($rs);

    if($res!=0)
    {
        $qry1="delete from seeker where '$days' >= 30";
            $rs1= mysql_query($qry1, $con);
            echo $qry1;
    }

    $qry="select * from seeker where current_date = limit_date";
    $rs= mysql_query($qry, $con);
    $res=mysql_num_rows($rs);

    if($res!=0)
    {
         $q= "delete from seeker where current_date = limit_date";
            $rs1= mysql_query($qry1, $con);
            echo $qry1;
    }

?>

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Urban Meyer's easy decision
Posted on October 1, 2009 by Sandlapper Spike
You may have heard that Tim Tebow suffered a concussion against Kentucky on Saturday. (If you hadn't heard it, it's probably because you suffered a concussion yourself.) There has been a lot of debate in the media about whether Tebow should play at LSU on October 10 (the Gators don't play this Saturday).
The discussion is likely to be amplified after the NFL released a report suggesting that:
Alzheimer's disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league's former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.
Even if that doesn't have anything to do with Tebow's case, a connection will be made in some (if not many) quarters.
At any rate, everyone has an opinion, from professional contrarian Gregg Doyel to Orson Swindle at Every Day Should Be Saturday. Josh Levin at Slate also opines on the matter (lots of good links in that piece). I have a slightly different take on the Tebow situation, or at least I hope it's a little different.
The Gators are 4-0, with wins over Charleston Southern, Troy, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Florida's next three games are:
at LSU, October 10
Arkansas, October 17 (Homecoming in Gainesville)
at Mississippi State, October 24
The goal for Florida, obviously, is to win the BCS title. To do that, Florida has to finish #1 or #2 in the BCS standings after the conclusion of the regular season.
Let's say Tebow doesn't play against LSU and the Gators lose. Does that end UF's chances of winning the BCS title? Of course not. After all, last season Florida was 3-0 before losing (at home, no less) to unranked Mississippi. After that loss, the Gators fell from #4 in both major polls to #12 (AP Poll) and #13 (USA Today Coaches' Poll). Florida still managed to advance to the championship game anyway.
Florida is currently ranked #1 in both polls, and would be unlikely to fall further than #5 if it lost to LSU (which is currently ranked #4) in a game played in Baton Rouge, and a game in which its All-World quarterback did not play. There would be plenty of time for the Gators to make their way back up the rankings, particularly since two of the teams that would be above them (Alabama and LSU) play each other, and Florida would then presumably get to play the winner of that contest in the SEC Championship game.
A one-loss Florida team (with the one loss coming without Tebow) would almost certainly get the BCS title game nod over an undefeated Boise State squad or any other one-loss team from a major conference (like Southern California, Ohio State, Penn State, Virginia Tech, or Oklahoma).
Undefeated BCS teams would be a trickier proposition, but other than Texas (which is already #2 and wouldn't have to move past the Gators in the rankings anyway), I don't see any other team that would jump over Florida in the polls/computer rankings. That would include teams like Iowa, Michigan, and Cincinnati.
If Tebow actually suffered a "severe concussion", which seems possible, as he reportedly lost consciousness for about two minutes after getting hit, then he is probably better off not returning for three or four weeks. That would mean in addition to not playing against LSU, he could miss the Arkansas game and the Mississippi State game. After traveling to Starkville, the Gators then play Georgia in Jacksonville.
Assuming a one-loss Florida team would play for the BCS title, it stands to reason that if the Gators can handle at least two of their next three opponents without Tebow, then there is no urgency for his return to the field, at least not until the game against UGA. The question becomes, can Florida win those games without its talismanic quarterback?
Of course it can. Tebow's replacement would be backup QB John Brantley, a redshirt sophomore who was a major high school star. Brantley originally committed to Texas before changing his mind and signing with the Gators. His father was a quarterback at UF, and his uncle was an All-American linebacker there as well, so he has something of a pedigree.
In limited time last season, Brantley averaged over eight yards per pass attempt and threw three TDs. Obviously almost all of that came in mop-up duty, but he definitely has potential. Basically, there is a better than even chance that Brantley is a college quarterback stud-in-waiting.
Not only that, but I suspect a few of Florida's players would like to prove that there is a little more to the team than just Tim Tebow. Urban Meyer could use an extended Tebow absence to challenge his squad.
Florida without Tebow should be good enough to beat Arkansas in Gainesville, and a trip the following week to Starkville will hold no terrors, other than the incessant ringing of cowbells. LSU in Baton Rouge is a different story, but I'm not sure how good the Bayou Bengals really are, particularly after watching them escape Mississippi State last week. LSU will probably have its hands full with Georgia on Saturday.
(Note: LSU may or may not be that good, but Chad Jones is that good, and at apparently just about anything, from playing the outfield to pitching to roaming the secondary to returning punts. With or without Tebow, the Gators better keep a close watch on Mr. Jones.)
The only danger to UF in holding out Tebow that long is if the Gators A) lose two of the three games (or all three of them), or B) lose one of the three games, and then lose again later in the season. However, even if Florida were undefeated after that stretch, losing late in the season may cost the Gators a shot at the BCS title game regardless. A late-season loss to Vanderbilt or South Carolina (to say nothing of Florida International) would be costly no matter if UF had one loss or no losses, and losing to Florida State (in the regular-season finale) or in the SEC title game would almost certainly rule the Gators out of championship consideration.
Semi-tangent: Another potential issue is the effect missing multiple games would have on Tebow's Heisman candidacy. To be honest, I think he's playing from behind this season already as far as that award is concerned. I get the sense that it's Colt McCoy's "turn" this year.
Of course, Urban Meyer technically isn't the one making the call on Tebow's availability; that would be the Florida medical staff (and Tebow himself). However, he could make a statement by telling Tebow to relax for a few weeks and wait until he's completely ready (another factor in all this is that Tebow was apparently struggling with flu-like symptoms before he suffered the concussion). Meyer would get major kudos from just about everyone in the media for putting Tebow's health above Florida's title considerations, without actually risking much in the way of those considerations.
I don't think Meyer really cares about those types of plaudits. Meyer cares about winning; his job is to win games. That's fine, but I think he has an opportunity here to look good with no real downside. Also, parents of potential recruits would probably look favorably on the decision (as in "he'll do what's right for my kid"), although Florida certainly has few worries when it comes to recruiting anyway. My guess is the university's administration would also appreciate the school being cast in a "non-troglodyte" light.
What do I think will happen? I believe Tebow will start in Baton Rouge on October 10. I think he'll play well, and Florida will win, whether or not it really needs Tebow to win the game.
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Felling of trees in name of Lord Krishna can't be allowed, observes SC
New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) Felling of of trees "in the name of Lord Krishna" cannot be allowed, the Supreme Court Wednesday orally said and asked Uttar Pradesh government to evaluate the plants proposed to be cut for its Krishna-Govardhan road project at Mathura.
The evaluation has to be done not in terms of their "timber value" but by taking into account factors like their "oxygen producing capacity," said the apex court.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian noted in the order that the state government was not in a position to "to make a statement as to how the Forest Department" intended to evaluate the trees in question and granted four week time to the authorities to inform it about the method of evaluation it wanted to adopt.
The state government and its authorities including the Public Works Department have filed an application seeking nod for felling of 2,940 trees for the Krishna-Govardhan road project at Mathura.
"You can't fell thousands of trees that too in the name of Lord Krishna," the bench observed orally when a lawyer for the state PWD said that the project also included widening of a road leading to the temple at the birthplace of Lord Krishna at Mathura.
"Clearly they cannot do so (evaluation) in terms of the timber but must adopt a method of evaluation which takes into account the oxygen producing capacity of a particular tree over its remaining life span, assuming that it may be cut now," the bench said.
It took note of the statement of lawyer A D N Rao, assisting it as an amicus curiae, that there was a system of evaluation called Net Present Value (NPV) which takes note of the oxygen producing capacity of a plant also "The State of Uttar Pradesh is expected to look at the NPV method of evaluation also. In any case, at the request of Aishwarya Bhati, ASG, we adjourn the matter(s) for a period of four weeks so that the State of Uttar Pradesh may inform the court about the method of evaluation it intends to adopt," it said in the order.
It also said the state government may also consider the reduction in the number of trees proposed to be fell for the purposes of building the road.
"It is to be kept in mind that the only effect that is likely to arise if the trees are retained would be that the roads may not be straight and therefore, not capable of accommodating high speed traffic. Such an effect may not necessary be deleterious particularly since high speed on the highways is known to cause serious accidents and cause of innumerable deaths on Indian roads," the order said.
At the outset of the hearing of a PIL, filed by environmentalist M C Mehta on protection of Taj Mahal and several applications, the bench asked state government as to how many trees it proposed to cut for its project and on being told that several banyan and neem trees were to be felled, it reacted sharply.
"Why cannot the road take a turn around the tree. That will only mean that speed will be slow. If the speed is slow, it will lower accidents and will be more safer, " the bench said.
The bench suggested that instead of cutting trees, roads may be built in a zig-zag manner which will reduce the traffic speed and accidents as well.
The bench said that it was not possible for it to accept a compensation in merely arithmetical terms "particularly since there is no statement forthcoming from the State of Uttar Pradesh or the PWD as to the nature of the trees that is to say whether they are classified as shrubs or large trees." "Moreover, there is no information available to us regarding the age of the trees since it is obvious that there cannot be compensatory reforestation if a sampling is planted after one hundred year old tree is cut down," it noted in the order.
It was not prima facie in agreement with the submission that the state authorities would undertake compensatory afforestation by planting the same trees at some other place in and around Mathura, which falls under the Taj trapezium zone.
The tree loss will be compensated by afforestation and by payment to the tree fund of the forest department, a lawyer said.
"You want to cut 90-year old trees and plant a few week old saplings in lieu of that," the bench asked, adding that it was not satisfied with this submission.
'Living trees cannot be evaluated simply on the basis of timber value. Living trees give oxygen. That should be considered in valuation. Oxygen producing capacity of the tree must be evaluated over its remaining life span,' it said.
The apex court's nod is needed if any activity, having a repercussion on the flora and fauna of Taz trapezium zone, is proposed by the government authorities and private parties.
Meanwhile, the top court granted M.C. Mehta three months' time to undertake further visits and carry out sampling and analysis of major drains and water bodies and the proposed leather parks and also discuss with the local authorities so that the final report may be submitted before it. PTI SJK ABA MNL RKS RKS
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The British Royal Family attended the fifth and last day of races at the Ascot Racecourse on June 24th. Click HERE to keep updated on our Royal Ascot coverage.
For the fifth and last day of Royal Ascot 2017, the Queen was accompanied by the Duke of York, Mr. Stephen Knott, Mr. John Warren, Sir Micheal & Lady Rake, Mr. & Mrs. Mark Davies, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kantor, Mr & Mrs. Charles Hill, Mr. & Mrs. Micheal Bell, and Mr. & Mrs. Edward Walker in the carriage procession from Windsor Castle to the Ascot Racecourse. Princess Beatrice was also present. The Royal Family and their guests spent the day in the Royal Enclosure. The Queen also presented prizes. On Day 5, the races were the Chesham Stakes, Wolferton Rated Stakes, Hardwicke Stakes, Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Wokingham Stakes, Queen Alexandra Stakes.
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Those Landscape ones are pretty awesome.
What are you planning on doing with that? You should have contact info or something if you're looking for work, or you trying to sell them to stock libraries?
May I also recommend using a font like Verdana or Trebuchet, the one you're using now looks pixell-y. One of these will be more smooth.
Chris, so nice to see you created this. I've always loved your photos. The florals are so vivid. I thoroughly enjoyed the On the Move gallery and the Inhabitants gallery. You've captured so many moments that people just pass by. Hope you are well.


TORONTO, ONTARIO (March 23, 2010) – Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX: MPT.UN; MPT.DB.A – "MPT" or the "Fund") and Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation ("Leisureworld") today announced the closing of Leisureworld's initial public offering ("IPO") of 19,020,000 common shares at a price of $10 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $190 million.
Leisureworld used the proceeds from the offering to pay offering-related expenses, including underwriting commissions, of approximately $15 million, repay approximately $62 million of Leisureworld's debt, and to acquire approximately 95% of the ownership interests in Leisureworld Senior Care LP and Leisureworld Senior Care GP Inc. (collectively, "LSCLP") from their current owner, Macquarie Long Term Care LP ("MLTCLP"). The balance of the ownership interests in LSCLP were concurrently acquired by Leisureworld in consideration for the issuance of a promissory note to MLTCLP. Prior to the sale to Leisureworld, MPT and Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund Limited ("MIIFL") indirectly owned approximately 45% and 55%, respectively, of the economic interest of MLTCLP.
The underwriters have also been granted an over-allotment option, exercisable in whole or in part for a period of 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 958,649 common shares of Leisureworld. Leisureworld will use the net proceeds from the exercise of the over-allotment option to repay the promissory note issued to MLTCLP. In the event that the over-allotment option is not exercised in full by the underwriters, MLTCLP will be issued a specified number of common shares of Leisureworld based on the IPO price in satisfaction of Leisureworld's remaining obligations under the promissory note. Assuming the over-allotment option is exercised in full, MPT expects to receive net proceeds from the sale of its indirect interest in LSCLP of approximately $55 million.
Under the acquisition agreement between MLTCLP and Leisureworld, MLTCLP will be required to retain approximately $12 million as a holdback amount, covering MLTCLP's indemnification obligations under the agreement, until March 31, 2011.
The offering was made through a syndicate of underwriters led by TD Securities Inc., Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd.1 and RBC Capital Markets, and including BMO capital Markets Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Brookfield Financial Corp., and Genuity Capital Markets. Further information regarding the offering is contained in Leisureworld's final prospectus, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Fund's distribution level of $0.055 per unit monthly, or $0.66 per unit on an annualized basis, is currently expected to be sustainable through 2014. This distribution level is expected to result in an average payout ratio of approximately 70 to 75% of distributable cash2 over a five-year period based on the Fund's current portfolio. As a result of the divestment of Leisureworld, the Fund currently anticipates that the 2010 payout ratio will be slightly above this range. The Fund currently anticipates that approximately 15% of the distributions paid to Canadian investors in 2010 will be a return of capital, reflecting revised assumptions including the divestment of Leisureworld. The Fund previously expected that approximately 40% of these distributions would be considered a return of capital.
2 Distributable cash is defined as cash flows from operating activities after removing changes in working capital. Distributable cash also reflects the impacts of: cash taxes; releases from maintenance reserves; allocations to major maintenance and capital expenditure reserves; and non-discretionary payments and receipts.
Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund invests in essential infrastructure assets in with an emphasis on power infrastructure. MPT's strategy is to acquire and actively manage a diverse, high quality portfolio of infrastructure assets to improve their financial performance and provide sustainable and growing distributions to unitholders. MPT's portfolio currently includes investments in gas cogeneration, wind, hydro and biomass power generation facilities, representing approximately 350 MW of installed capacity. MPT is managed by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Macquarie Group Limited. Please visit www.macquarie.com/mpt for additional information.
Certain of the statements contained in this news release are forward-looking statements and are provided for the purpose of presenting information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future and readers are cautioned that such statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. These statements use forward-looking words, such as "anticipate", "continue", "could", "expect", "may", "will", "estimate", "believe" or other similar words and include, among other things, statements related to the size and use of proceeds of the IPO and related over-allotment option granted to the underwriters, structuring and payment for the balance of the ownership interests in LSCLP, funds to be received by MPT in connection with the IPO and MPT's financial performance. These statements are subject to significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements and, accordingly, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such results will be achieved. The forward-looking statements in this news release are based on information currently available and what the Fund currently believes are reasonable assumptions, including the material assumptions for each of the Fund's assets set out in the Fund's 2009 Annual Report under the heading "Outlook" on page 42, as updated in subsequently filed Quarterly Financial Reports of the Fund and other filings with the Canadian Securities Administrators' System for Electronic Document Analysis and Review (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com. Other material factors or assumptions that were applied in formulating the forward-looking statements contained herein include the assumption that the business and economic conditions affecting the Fund's operations will continue substantially in their current state, including, with respect to industry conditions, general levels of economic activity, regulations, weather, taxes and interest rates and that there will be no unplanned material changes to the Fund's facilities, equipment and contractual arrangements.


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US Air Force to explore navigating with magnetism
June 16, 2020 - By Tracy Cozzens
Two F-16 Fighting Falcons fly over Edwards AFB during a 2009 air show. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Chad Bellay)
The U.S. Air Force in September will begin testing on F-16's an alternative position, navigation and timing (PNT) solution that uses the Earth's magnetic anomalies.
The navigation technique, dubbed MAGNAV, is being researched at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), reports Forbes.
Air Force Major Aaron J. Canciani, an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at AFIT, designed algorithms for MAGNAV flight testing on F-16s. Testing has already taken place using private survey aircraft.
MAGNAV sensors and software will be flown on Air Force Test Pilot School (AFTPS) F-16s over a special test range adjacent to Edwards Air Force Base in Nevada.
Magnetic anomaly navigation uses scalar magnetometer sensors that measure differences in the magnitude of magnetic fields when traveling past them. These variations can be compared with known features in magnetic field maps and be interpreted to determine position.
The four pillars of MAGNAV are magnetic maps, sensors, algorithms and calibration. The magnetic maps already exist within industry, the military and government agencies including NOAA, NASA, NGA and more.
NOAA's EMAG2 (v3) World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map. (Image: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center)
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Senior Editor Tracy Cozzens joined GPS World magazine in 2006. She also is editor of GPS World's newsletters and the sister website Geospatial Solutions. She has worked in government, for non-profits, and in corporate communications, editing a variety of publications for audiences ranging from federal government contractors to teachers.
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One of These Foods Does Not Belong – Thrifty Foods Knows Which One!
A big bouquet to Thrifty Foods for featuring four Gluten-Free Guiltless Snacks out of five!
But what about hemp seed? Isn't hemp gluten free? Yes and no. See below!
While hemp seeds do not contain the gluten-protein that triggers an immune response in celiacs, growers often crop-rotate hemp fields with gluten-containing grains. One season hemp seeds may be planted and harvested; the next season, wheat seeds may be planted and harvested. Stray wheat seeds remaining in the soil may inadvertently cross contaminate subsequent hemp harvests with gluten in excess of levels that Health Canada has set as allowable for celiacs: 20 parts per million. Therefore, even (pure) hemp products can still test as high as 60 parts gluten per million. Products that incorporate cross-contaminated hemp as an ingredient may also exceed levels of gluten not recommended for those on a gluten-free diet.
Consumers following a gluten-free diet should look for the words 'gluten free' on hemp products – or products containing hemp as an ingredient. A second bouquet to Thrifty Foods for the care and attention they show their gluten-free shoppers! View their Gluten-Free Product List. Can you name a brand of hemp seed that carries a gluten-free label?
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Born in 1985, she has completed her BFA & MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
She has exhibited in many group shows like "Group Show" at Exhibit 320 Art Gallery in New Delhi in 2012, "Three man show" at David Hall, Kerala Fort in Cochin 2012, "En Gender Group Show" at CIMA Art Gallery in Kolkata in 2011, "Her Work is Never Done" Part – II, curated by Bose Krishnamachari at BMB Art Gallery in Mumbai in 2010, "Group Exhibition" at Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata in 2009 etc.
Sudipta has also participated in various workshops like "Female Artists Camp" in Bangalore in 2011, "Bengal Talent Artist Camp" in Jodhpur in 2011, "Second International Artist Camp" in Puri in 2010, "Censorship Workshop" organised by Kala Bhavan in 2007 etc. She has also received scholarships like "Visva Bharati Merit Scholarship" in 2010, "Central Government BSNL Merit Scholarships" in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
She has worked at the SSAVAD Art Centre in Santiniketan under Jogen Chowdhury in 2011-2012 and at the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahmedabad in 2011. She currently lives and works in Baroda.