Menopause can wreak havoc on your psyche. Initially, you may have trouble sleeping and find yourself feeling unusually tired, moody or irritable. You may also have difficulty concentrating and suffer from memory lapses.
The drop in estrogen can also lead to hot flashes that disturb sleep. This can cause anxiety, fears and mood swings.
If you're having some minor memory problems and difficulty concentrating, this can be a normal part of menopause. Medical providers don't understand why this happens, and there are currently no treatments available to improve your concentration and memory. Regardless, if you are having memory problems, talk to your doctor or provider. He or she can help explain this further and rule out anything more serious.
You may be able to alleviate some of the mental health symptoms associated with menopause by eating well and exercising regularly.
"Diet and exercise play an important role in overall mental health," Ms. Hagan says. Other things that might help include staying actively involved in life, engaging in a creative outlet or hobby, seeking emotional support from friends, staying connected with your family and taking vitamins and minerals as prescribed.
You may also find symptom relief by avoiding triggers of anxiety or depression such as caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes. "Limiting alcohol and hot, spicy foods can also help with hot flashes," says Ms. Hagan.
Activities that stimulate the brain (crossword puzzles, reading) can help rejuvenate memory. Make sure to minimize passive activities, such as watching TV.
"If your anxiety and/or depression become so severe that everyday life is disrupted and your ability to accomplish routine daily activities is impaired, you should seek professional help," Ms. Hagan says.
More specific reasons to seek help include having suicidal thoughts or feelings, having negative feelings that persist for a long time or not having anyone with whom you can share your thoughts and feelings. Although your first step should be a visit to your Ob/Gyn provider, additional resources are available to help you through the menopausal period.
While there is growing evidence suggesting that hormone therapy can relieve emotional symptoms of menopause, hormone therapy alone is not effective in treating more severe depression. Drug therapy and/or psychotherapy may be necessary.


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Wednesday 31st August 2016. Movie review and Canada Report
Movie Review with Andres Clemente.
First of a new segment on this mornings program, Movie Review with Andres Clemente, today's movie "Hands of Stone." A film about the life of Panama boxing legend Roberto Duran. Pretty much slated by the international critics, will if fare any better with Andres?
Wednesday at 8:30 it is that time of the week to catch up on life in Canada with this weeks Canada Report from Michael Droulliard.
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Analida Martinelli, the sister of former President Ricardo Martinelli and partner of businessman Aaron Mizrachi, sent a statement to La Prensa defending her husband against allegations that he accepted a bribe for arranging the German company SAP to receive a $14.5 million contract from the Social Security.
The national government is conducting works exceeding $200 million in the province of Darien.
Prosecutors will have eight months to conclude the investigation into alleged cost overruns in the contract the government signed in 2010 with the company Telespazio Argentina for a digital mapping system for $22 million.
The Association of Professors of the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP) will remain vigilant of the electoral process to choose the new authorities of this university.
The Panamanian Association for Family Planning (APLAFA) expressed its position on the return to the first debate of the bill on sexual education in schools.
The construction of a plant dispensing concrete in Coco del Mar has residents on high alert.
As part of the celebration of its 75 years, the National Symphony Orchestra will give a free concert tomorrow at the Auditorium of San Agustin School (Costa del Este), with four Turkish violinists, who make up the Nemeth Quartet.

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34 seeking two spots on regulation panel
Thirty-four people, including one incumbent, had applied for two Florida Public Service Commission seats through Wednesday -- 24 hours before Thursday's 5 p.m. deadline.
Many are familiar names who also applied for two other vacant seats on the five-member utility regulating panel including five of the eight finalists for the first two openings.
Gov. Charlie Crist has yet to make those appointments.
The PSC Nominating Council on June 10 recommended the eight to replace former Commissioners David Klement and Benjamin "Steve" Stevens after both Crist appointees failed to win Senate confirmation. Opponents argued they were unqualified. Crist, though, said it was payback for voting down big rate increases sought by the state's two largest electric utilities, Florida Power and Light Co. and Progress Energy Florida.
Crist had appointed the pair because they lacked utility connections and he wanted to inject new blood into a commission that was being accused of being too cozy with the companies it regulates.
PSC Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano and Commissioner Nathan Skop, whose terms expire at the end of the year, also voted against the rate increases.
Argenziano, a former Republican legislator, has applied for reappointment. Skop, a lawyer, has not yet submitted an application.
The other applicants for their seats include state Sen. Lee Constantine, R-Altamonte Springs; Jacksonville City Councilman Arthur Graham; Connie Murray of Sun City Center, who served on the Missouri Public Service Commission for 12 years; Tallahassee lawyer Charles Ranson; and Kevin Wiehle, a legislative analyst for the state Senate Committee on Communications, Energy and Public Utilities.
All also are finalists for the Klement and Stevens seats. The other finalists are state Rep. Ronald Brise, D-North Miami, former Republican state Sen. Curt Kiser, now the commission's general counsel, and Mary Bane, the commission's former executive director.
Other repeat applicants include former Florida State University and professional football quarterback Gary Huff, now a Tallahassee accountant, and retired Navy Capt. James Baumstark of Crystal River, who commanded nuclear submarines and then worked for Progress Energy and Consolidated Edison in New York.


The entrepreneur's definition is an individual who organizes, manages, and undertakes the risk of an enterprise. Entrepreneurship is the process of finding new ways of combining resources.
A wannabe entrepreneur, on the other hand, is one who is a self-acclaimed entrepreneur and cannot manage or even undertake risk for their enterprise. Some entrepreneurship definitions tag a wannabe entrepreneur as one who has not successfully made a cent from their idea, while others define them as people who lack innovation and ideas.
A wannabe will obsess about ideas while true entrepreneur obsesses about implementation. We spend an excessive amount of time speaking about our thoughts, aspirations, and dreams. It is easy to be content with ourselves and lofty ideas, and not recognize the sheer excess of these ideas. We have all probably had an idea that could have changed the course of our lives in a revolutionary manner. Unfortunately, such ideas seldom get implemented.
The real entrepreneurs overcome these mental barriers, and move away from their comfort zones and then spring into action. Wannabes pursue a perfect plan, while real entrepreneurs implement and adjust the plan subsequently. Wannabes want consent from family and friends while entrepreneurs embrace criticism.
Few entrepreneurs allow people close to stop them from establishing their own business. If they are aware that their loved ones only want the best for them, know ignorant advice and criticism.
The entrepreneur uses criticism to fix the problems in their business strategy instead of wasting time and energy on being defensive or trying to gain approval from people who cannot be convinced by data.
Wannabes focus on becoming rich while entrepreneurs do it for love. If you think establishing a business is your golden ticket, you should think again. A lot of entrepreneurs who successfully built massive wealth probably didn't go into the firm to get wealthy. They did so for passion and kept finding opportunities to enlarge the way they conveyed that passion, and they realized that they could make a profit doing it.
It has significance for them that they are eager to do whatever it will take. Making money doing what they are passionate about becomes inevitable.
Ever since the Dot-Com era, a lot of entrepreneurs have treated like pop stars, and this has enticed many wannabe entrepreneurs who may be more concerned about the spotlight than running a successful business.
Wannabes concentrate on positive thinking, expecting their big break to come one day, and things will get easier. Entrepreneurs place themselves in a position to become lucky by making the right conditions for success by preparing for multiple contingencies, thus, persevering through the good and bad periods.
Wannabes fear to look stupid in front of others, while entrepreneurs eagerly risk looking foolish, knowing that the long-term success is a great trade-off for any short-term loss of pride.
Entrepreneurs do not view failure as something to dread.
Instead, they see an opportunity to increase their knowledge base and also a path to success. Consequently, real entrepreneurs do not hide their failures and are not afraid to uncover their ideas. Don't Obsess Over your Ideas.
The first step to building a business is to create a plan to satisfy a demand or fill a particular niche. The idea doesn't have to be unique, but it should provide value to consumers in an individual market. For instance, Walmart copied Kmart, but who outlived each other?
Clearly, money is an important part of starting a business, no doubt. However, don't believe that without capital or some "angel investors" your project won't proceed or succeed. Even if you must eat ramen noodles every day, there are ways to save money. Once you've validated the business idea, seeking investors or potential partners becomes easier.
Receiving feedback from your consumers early and frequently is key. Before putting massive amounts of cash and time into a project, validate your concept with a working model or basic prototype.
Don't fixate on your Image.
Wannabe entrepreneurs crave recognition and attention, while serious entrepreneurs are busy working on their enterprise. Fancy logos, social media profiles, business cards, and selfies don't usually boost your bottom line.
Simplify the business model and focus on a single solution to the problem. Focus on your consumers' needs.
Focus on your passion, and also adding value to the world, rather than just "making some money." While it is true that becoming too emotional about the business is sometimes harmful, ultimately it's your passion for that niche that sustains you during tough times. Recognizing your real love vs. the passion you fake is paramount. Eventually, if you create a quality service or product that brings value to the niche, the money will certainly come.
J. K. Rowling, the famous author of the Harry Potter franchise, was rejected twelve times when she first wrote her children's book series, and it eventually had world record sales figures. Similarly, the game developer, Rovio built 52 different apps before he hit the jackpot with the Angry Birds game. You cannot learn without failing, fail as much as possible. It's not an embarrassment; it's an experiment.


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Ilene D. Samuel
Ms. Samuel concentrates her practice in the area of estate planning, trust and estate administration, elder law, and real estate.
In addition to estate planning and trust and estate administration, her experience includes practice in the area of employee benefits.
Ms. Samuel was awarded the designation Accredited Estate Planner (AEP®) by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils in June 2017.
Ms. Samuel received her Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law in 1983 and was admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York.
Ms. Samuel received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at Albany, graduating Summa Cum Laude. While at SUNY Albany, she became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Ms. Samuel served as a Chair of the Tax Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association for the membership years beginning July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010.
Ms. Samuel is a past President and Vice-President of the Estate Planning Council of Nassau County, Inc. She has also served on it's Board of Directors, as well as chairing it's Study Group Committee.
Ms. Samuel has lectured before the Tax Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and participated in the Advanced Institute Program of the Fall 2005 meeting of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She frequently lectures for the Nassau Academy of Law and New York State Bar Association in the area of Trusts and Estates and Planning with Retirement Assets. Ms. Samuel has also lectured at the UJA Federation of New York's Annual Bud Rosner Memorial Long Island Estate Tax & Financial Planning Conference.
Ms. Samuel is a member of the Tax Law, Surrogate's Court Estates and Trust and Social Services & Health Advocacy Committees of the Nassau County Bar Association, and the Trusts and Estates and Elder Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association.
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THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DANNY MONTANA GUERRA, Defendant and Appellant.
Christopher J. Schatz, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant and Petitioner.
George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian and Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, Michael D. Wellington, John W. Carney, Keith I. Motley, Jay M. Bloom and Lillian Lim Quon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) from a judgment of death under the 1978 death penalty law (id., § 190.1 et [40 Cal. 3d 381] seq.). We conclude that the judgment must be affirmed as to guilt (except on the attempted murder count) but that the special circumstance findings must be set aside under compulsion of Carlos v. Superior Court (1983) 35 Cal. 3d 131 [197 Cal. Rptr. 79, 672 P.2d 862], and People v. Garcia (1984) 36 Cal. 3d 539 [205 Cal. Rptr. 265, 684 P.2d 826].
The facts necessary to decide this appeal are undisputed. Warren Birks and Ruben Mesa were employed as guards by a private security firm, and were working the 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift at a store in San Bernardino. About 8 p.m. Birks was stationed in his automobile at one side of the store and Mesa was deployed in his at the other. Birks had in his possession two handguns that had been assigned to the guards who patrolled the store. The weapons had trigger locks on them, however, and were inoperable; the guards on the so-called graveyard shift, who were to receive the guns, had the keys.
Defendant was employed by the same security firm and was scheduled to work the graveyard shift at the store that night. He approached Birks and asked who and where his partner was. After Birks told him, defendant left and later returned driving Mesa's automobile with Mesa locked in the trunk. Defendant asked Birks to hand over the guns and sit on the floor of the front passenger seat of Mesa's car; seeing defendant wearing rubber gloves and armed with a sawed-off shotgun, Birks complied. Defendant drove some distance, stopped at a house, called out to Teyo Quesada, and followed Quesada after the latter set off in his van. Soon Quesada stopped; defendant drove past and also came to a stop. He opened the trunk and ordered Mesa to get out and sit in the front passenger seat. Defendant positioned himself a few feet away from Mesa and Birks across the front seat. He assured the pair he was not going to hurt them, but the shotgun then discharged twice without warning. Birks began to struggle with defendant. Defendant called to Quesada for help, but Birks advised him he would be an accessory to murder and Quesada drove off in his van. After a bloody fight Birks managed to escape and defendant fled. Mesa was dead.
Defendant was charged with the murder of Mesa (Pen. Code, § 187), the attempted murder of Birks (id., §§ 187, 664), the robbery of Birks (id., § 211), and in separate counts the kidnaping of Mesa and of Birks (id., § 207). With respect to the murder count, two special circumstances were alleged: (1) felony-murder robbery (id., § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(i)), and (2) felony-murder kidnaping (id., subd. (a)(17)(ii)).
At trial the prosecution's theory was that defendant killed Mesa in an unsuccessful attempt to commit "the perfect crime" or at the very least in the course of a felony. The defense theory, presented through the testimony [40 Cal. 3d 382] of defendant himself, was altogether different: defendant had assertedly been dissatisfied with the security at the store and had complained about it to his superiors to no avail; he conceived a plan to disarm his fellow guards to show his superiors how poor security was, and enlisted the aid of Quesada; he carried the sawed-off shotgun in case a display of superior force was needed to disarm the guards, and wore rubber gloves because he knew it was illegal to possess such a weapon and did not want it traced to him after he had disposed of it; he did not intend to take the handguns for the purpose of preventing resistance, since he knew they were inoperable; nor did he intend to take them to permanently deprive the security force of them, because if that had been his intent he would simply have waited until he was given the guns on beginning his shift later that night; he did not intend to kill either victim; rather, the shotgun discharged accidentally, once as he attempted to move out of Mesa's automobile and again as he struggled with Mesa and Birks on the front seat.
The jury found defendant guilty as charged and found both special circumstance allegations to be true. In the penalty phase the jury imposed the death sentence.
Defendant raises a number of contentions bearing on the guilt phase. With the exception of his attack on the conviction of attempted murder, none has merit.
He contends the court erred by failing to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on his mental competence pursuant to Penal Code section 1369, even though his counsel, with his agreement, submitted the issue on the basis of psychiatric and psychological reports. Specifically he argues that even if a full evidentiary hearing may generally be waived and the issue submitted on reports alone, that may not be done when substantial evidence of incompetence has been presented. We need not determine whether the contention is sound in the abstract; it fails because its factual premise herein is unsupported.
The record reveals that the court impliedly found there was no substantial evidence of incompetence. When counsel requested a full hearing on defendant's competence, the court evaluated the evidence already before it, including its own questioning of defendant and psychiatric and psychological reports prepared on the issue of sanity at the time of the offenses. The court concluded that the evidence raised no doubt about defendant's competence, and hence denied the request. Later the court changed its ruling and granted the request; it did so, however, not because evidence of incompetence was presented or because it conceived a doubt about defendant's competence, but solely because it concluded that a section 1368 hearing was [40 Cal. 3d 383] mandatory on counsel's request. The court subsequently ordered that defendant be examined by two psychiatrists and one psychologist. These experts agreed that defendant was competent to stand trial, and the court so ruled.
Our independent review of the record convinces us that no substantial evidence of defendant's incompetence was presented to the court. Defendant relies on a single sentence in a psychologist's report on the issue of his sanity at the time of the offenses. The psychologist declined to conclude whether defendant was sane or insane, on the ground that he did not have all the court records available for his review. He did state, however, that defendant's "state of mind indicates now, that he is not fully recovered of his sanity." By this statement he apparently meant that defendant was mentally ill or not totally sane at the time of trial.  But "[i]t is not enough that an expert state that the defendant is mentally ill or insane to satisfy the substantial evidence test. [Citation.] The expert must state with particularity that in his professional opinion the accused is, because of mental illness, incapable of understanding the purpose or nature of the criminal proceedings being taken against him or is incapable of assisting in his defense or cooperating with counsel." (People v. Burney (1981) 115 Cal. App. 3d 497, 503 [171 Cal. Rptr. 329].) The psychologist here made no such statement; hence the substantial evidence test is not satisfied.
 Defendant next contends the court erred by permitting him to withdraw a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. He does not claim that he made his choice otherwise than freely and voluntarily and with adequate comprehension of the consequences. Rather he argues that the court was obligated, but failed, to satisfy the following three formal requirements: to advise him on the record that by withdrawing his insanity plea he was effectively waiving his rights to a jury trial, to confrontation, and against self-incrimination; to declare or establish at the time of withdrawal that he was mentally competent to stand trial; and to obtain defense counsel's express concurrence in the withdrawal of the plea.
Defendant relies on Boykin v. Alabama (1969) 395 U.S. 238 [23 L. Ed. 2d 274, 89 S. Ct. 1709], and In re Tahl (1969) 1 Cal. 3d 122 [81 Cal. Rptr. 577, 460 P.2d 449], for his contention that the trial court was required to expressly advise him on the record of his rights to confrontation, to a jury trial, and against self-incrimination before his withdrawal of an insanity plea could be deemed effective. The contention is unpersuasive.
In any event, a prime purpose of the Boykin-Tahl requirements -- to permit an accused "to take certain fundamental steps ... [only if he is] made aware of their consequences and of the constitutional rights he is waiving by taking them" (People v. Vanley (1974) 41 Cal. App. 3d 846, 857 [116 Cal.Rptr. 446]) -- was satisfied here. The court informed defendant that if he withdrew his insanity plea, his sanity at the time of the crimes charged would be conclusively presumed during the guilt phase and therefore he could not introduce evidence on the issue or submit it to the jury.
Next, for his point that the court must establish or declare the accused's competence to stand trial on the record at the time the insanity plea is withdrawn, defendant again unsuccessfully invokes the Redmond case. Redmond expressly stated, in language we have quoted above, that its analysis was not intended to apply when, as here, the court has no doubt about the defendant's competence to stand trial and expert testimony establishes he was sane at the time of the offense. (16 Cal.App.3d at p. 939.) In any event, such a requirement would evidently amount to little more than an empty formalism here: the court had recently determined that defendant was competent and nothing had transpired in the interim to undermine that determination.
Finally, defendant fails to offer either reason or authority to support his assertion that the court must obtain defense counsel's concurrence in the [40 Cal. 3d 385] withdrawal of an insanity plea on the facts before us. Be that as it may, the record clearly reveals counsel did concur, albeit not expressly, in defendant's withdrawal of his insanity plea.
Defendant next makes a number of contentions relating to the first degree felony-murder rule. First, he attacks the rule on grounds we held invalid in People v. Dillon (1983) 34 Cal. 3d 441, 462-476 [194 Cal. Rptr. 390, 668 P.2d 697]. [3a] Second, he contends the rule was inapplicable because the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that he intended to permanently deprive Birks of the handguns.
 In reviewing the sufficiency of evidence, the question we ask is "'whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'" (People v. Johnson (1980) 26 Cal. 3d 557, 576 [162 Cal. Rptr. 431, 606 P.2d 738, 16 A.L.R.4th 1255], quoting Jackson v. Virginia (1979) 443 U.S. 307, 319 [61 L. Ed. 2d 560, 573, 99 S. Ct. 2781], italics in original.) [3b] The record establishes the following facts as undisputed: defendant, wearing rubber gloves, took the handguns from Birks at gunpoint; he tucked the guns into his waistband and kept them in his possession while driving to the place where Mesa was eventually killed; after the shooting, he and Birks struggled over one of the weapons; that gun was subsequently recovered at the site of the killing, the other at a house to which defendant fled. It is true that defendant testified he merely "confiscated" the guns to take them to his superiors and show how bad security was, and that he explained this intention to Birks; Birks, however, testified he never heard defendant express such an intent. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, we conclude that a rational trier of fact could have found that defendant intended to permanently deprive Birks of the guns, and hence that the evidence was sufficient to support the robbery conviction and application of the felony-murder rule.
 Finally, defendant urges the court erred in defining robbery. The court instructed the jury that one of the elements of that crime was the "specific intent permanently to deprive [a] person of ... property." In response to the jury's request for clarification, the court instructed the jury, with the concurrence of counsel, as follows: "Permanently to deprive ... means to prevent the person from whom the property was taken from acquiring dominion over the property at any time in the future." Defendant asserts the clarifying instruction impermissibly withdrew the issue of intent from the jury's consideration, and invited the jury to decide it adversely to him if it merely found that his conduct resulted in preventing Birks from regaining dominion over the guns. The assertion misreads the record. What [40 Cal. 3d 386] the court clarified by the definition quoted above was not, as defendant implies, the phrase "specific intent permanently to deprive," but rather the phrase "permanently to deprive." The court thus did not withdraw the question of intent from the jury's consideration.
Defendant next contends the court erred by refusing to give an instruction requiring the jurors to agree unanimously on a single theory of first degree murder in order to return a first degree murder conviction.  It is settled, however, that "in a prosecution for first degree murder it is not necessary that all jurors agree on one or more of several theories proposed by the prosecution; it is sufficient that each juror is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of first degree murder as that offense is defined by the statute." (People v. Milan (1973) 9 Cal. 3d 185, 195 [107 Cal. Rptr. 68, 507 P.2d 956].) Defendant provides no compelling reason or authority that would require us to depart from this rule, and we decline to do so.
As to the robbery count, defendant contends the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction. For the reasons given in concluding that the felony-murder rule was applicable to this case, we reject the argument as without merit.
 Defendant correctly contends, moreover, that the special circumstance findings are invalid and hence the judgment must be reversed as to penalty.
Carlos v. Superior Court, supra, 35 Cal.3d at pages 152-154, held that the 1978 death penalty law must be construed to require proof of intent to kill as an element of a felony-murder special circumstance, and that failure to so instruct is error. All cases, such as this, pending when Carlos was decided are subject to the rule. (People v. Garcia, supra, 36 Cal.3d at pp. 547-549.) Garcia declared the error reversible per se (Id. at pp. 549-554), with four narrow exceptions (id. at pp. 554-556).
The court failed to instruct the jury, as defendant requested, that intent to kill was an element of the special circumstance allegations. The Attorney General admits the error. In reliance, however, on the so-called Sedeno and Cantrell-Thornton exceptions, he urges it was harmless. (People v. Sedeno (1974) 10 Cal. 3d 703 [112 Cal. Rptr. 1, 518 P.2d 913]; People v. Cantrell (1973) 8 Cal. 3d 672 [105 Cal. Rptr. 792, 504 P.2d 1256]; People v. Thornton (1974) 11 Cal. 3d 738 [114 Cal. Rptr. 467, 523 P.2d 267].) We cannot agree.
The Sedeno exception, which looks to whether the question of intent to kill "'was necessarily resolved adversely to the defendant under other, properly given instructions'" (Garcia, supra, 36 Cal.3d at p. 555, italics added), is not applicable here.
But in any event the argument must be rejected because the premise on which it is based is untrue: far from "expressly discount[ing]" the felony-murder theory, the prosecutor presented both evidence and argument, and requested and obtained instructions, on that theory.
The Attorney General next urges that in convicting defendant of the attempted murder of Birks, the jury necessarily found he intended to kill Mesa. The thrust of his argument seems to be that the jury found defendant intended to kill Birks when he fired the shotgun and that it necessarily, albeit impliedly, found he intended to kill Mesa as well. But even if the inference is sound, the factual predicate on which it is based is not. We cannot determine whether it was in the firing of the shotgun that the jury found intent to kill or in defendant's subsequent bloody fight with Birks. Hence we must not speculate on the question. fn. 2 Moreover, as we conclude above, the attempted murder conviction does not necessarily resolve the question of the intent to kill Mesa because it cannot be said to necessarily include a finding of intent to kill and for that reason must be reversed.
The Cantrell-Thornton exception is likewise inapplicable on this record. While there is evidence from which the jury could have found defendant intended to kill, there is also evidence from which it could have drawn the opposite conclusion. At no time did defendant admit he intended to kill Mesa; quite the opposite -- he testified the shooting was accidental. Specifically, he stated that his shotgun discharged first as he was sliding out of the automobile on the driver's side with the weapon on his lap pointing in the direction of Mesa, who was sitting in the front passenger seat next to the [40 Cal. 3d 389] door, and Birks, who was sitting on the floor in front of Mesa; and that it discharged again as he struggled with the two men on the seat.
It follows that the special circumstance findings must be set aside under Carlos, and we need not reach defendant's other contentions going to the special circumstance findings or the penalty phase. Because the invalid special circumstance findings were the sole basis for conducting that proceeding, the judgment as to penalty is unsupported as a matter of law and must likewise be set aside.
The judgment is affirmed as to the first degree murder, kidnaping and robbery convictions and reversed as to the attempted murder conviction, the special circumstance findings are set aside, and the judgment is reversed as to penalty. The petition for habeas corpus is denied.
Bird, C. J., Broussard, J., Reynoso, J., Grodin, J., and Kaus, J., concurred.
Although I have in the past concurred in reversals of some capital cases under the compulsion of Carlos/Garcia (see, e.g., People v. Anderson (1985) 38 Cal. 3d 58, 62 [210 Cal. Rptr. 777, 694 P.2d 1149]), I can no longer characterize myself as "concurring" in these reversals. The Carlos and Garcia rulings are responsible for an increasing number of unnecessary reversals and retrials. I would join three of my colleagues in reexamining, and ultimately overruling, those decisions. Accordingly, I cannot join in the judgment of reversal.
FN 2. The Attorney General's assertion that "[u]nder the facts [defendant] could not have intended to kill one victim without having the same intent to kill the other" seems not to be properly relevant to the Sedeno exception, which looks to the conclusion the jury's verdict necessarily implies rather than to an inference the evidence may support. (See People v. Sedeno, supra, 10 Cal.3d at p. 721.) Putting this objection aside, however, we observe that the verdicts do not necessarily imply the jury found defendant intended to kill Mesa: the jury could have found defendant accidentally killed Mesa in the commission of a felony, and accordingly convicted him of first degree murder, and could have found he intended to kill Birks in the bloody fight after the shooting, and convicted him of attempted murder.


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Scottish granite sculptor marks role of dogs in First World War
Exclusive by Greg Russell @MediaNetScot Journalist
Sculptor Bruce Walker has transformed a 30-tonne block of granite into a 22-tonne sculpture
A MEMORIAL is being unveiled today to the unsung, four-legged heroes of the First World War – 20,000 Airedale Terriers who became vital links in the trenches after they underwent training in Scotland.
And the sculptor who has created the monument, transforming a 30-tonne block of granite into a 22-tonne sculpture, has said it will be his "last big job" after more than five decades using the same skills as stonemasons utilised a century ago. Aberdeenshire-born Bruce Walker, now 73, was trained in carving granite in Aberdeen, which has enabled him to turn his skills to any kind of stone. Late last year, he was commissioned by the Airedale Terrier Club of Scotland to create the memorial to the breed's wartime exploits.
The dogs were trained at the Barry Buddon camp near Carnoustie before being sent into the wartime theatre, where they initially worked for the Red Cross locating casualties. Until now, there has never been a memorial to them, and Walker's monument will take pride of place in the Angus village of East Haven.
As preparations were under way yesterday to move the sculpture from his "big shed" on an industrial estate in Kirriemuir, he told The National: "I've been doing this for about 60 years using the same methods they used 100 years ago.
"I'll carry on doing smaller work, but this will be my last big job.
"The block of Aberdeen granite was about 30 tonnes when it came in, but I reckon it must be down to about 22 tonnes now, so it's still massive."
The memorial features carvings of the terriers – some carrying their Red Cross panniers, others pigeon baskets – and their soldier handlers, but Walker said that apart from doing a bit of homework, there was no waiting for inspiration.
"I just do it," he said.
Kevin Hill, from Forfar, has been working with Walker for five years on a craft fellowship through Historic Scotland.
The 41-year-old said his boss was one of the original "Granite Men".
"My involvement started with an open day and just developed when I was awarded the fellowship," he said.
"Jim Fiddes wrote a book called The Granite Men, looking at the history of the industry in Aberdeen and Bruce is the last of them using traditional skills."
The two men were yesterday dusting down the memorial in preparation for its move to its new home at East Haven.
Wendy Turner, secretary of the Airedale Terrier Club of Scotland, said she had been watching progress on the monument.
"I've been going along to see how it's coming along all the time," she said. "It is a memorial to Airedales – 20,000 of them were used during the First World War and there's never been a memorial to them.
"So this is especially good being so close to where they were first trained.
"What started off as a 30-tonne block of Aberdeen granite is now a 22-tonne sculpture. Airedales are carved into it along with the pigeon baskets they carried and the red Cross panniers they started off carrying."
She said dog-lover and Army Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Hautenville Richardson became interested in training the terriers at Panbride House in the early 1900s after he saw how foreign forces were using them.
"He'd been watching the Russians and the Germans training the Airedales for war and when he came back he started training them here," she said.
"The Airedales are the king of terriers, they're not small and with their tenacity and intelligence they were just what he was looking for, they had the power, the brains and the agility he needed."
The dogs were initially trained for service in the Red Cross, where they were used to identify casualties.
If they found a body that still showed signs of life, they lifted an item such as a cap and took it back to the stretcher-bearers and guided them to where the person was.
"Then the Army got interested and had them trained up for sentry duty, putting messages through the trenches," said Turner. "They even worked with crates on their backs for carrier pigeons."
She said locals from East Haven and Barry all joined in to help with their training, and were rewarded with the miniatures of brandy in the first aid boxes. Turner added that the memorial had attracted thousands of pounds in world-wide donations: "As well as local donations, we've had contributions coming in from all over the world – from Finland, Australia, the USA, Canada and elsewhere, all from Airedale people."


It's hard to believe that 1991 was a full 25 years ago, when artists now in the Country Music Hall of Fame were still in the early stages of their hitmaking careers.
1991 was the biggest commercial year of country music yet, and the advent of Soundscan would soon demonstrate just how popular the genre was. It was the year that a country album entered at #1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time (Garth Brooks' Ropin' the Wind), and the year that longtime stars Reba McEntire and Tanya Tucker released their biggest-selling studio albums ever.
But as this list demonstrates, even the impressive quantity of sales took a backseat to the overall quality of releases, and in many cases, those quality releases sold impressive quantities. Such was 1991, when a best-of list could include the year's radio favorites alongside undiscovered gems, and even the most cynical critics could be impressed by what radio was willing to embrace.
Vince Gill refines the winning formula he established on When I Call Your Name, balancing pure country weepers like the title track with revved-up country rockers like "Liza Jane" and "I Quit." The album also features the anniversary standard, "Look at Us," which won him his second of four CMA Song of the Year trophies.
Tempted is certainly not one of the most commercially successful albums of the nineties, or even just 1991. In fact, it only reached gold status and only the title track reached the top five, which is still enough to make it the highest charting solo song of his career.
Garth Brooks' third album did not suffer from any sort of slump. In fact, it broke sales records, not to mention that some of his best loved singles, including "The River," "Papa Loved Mama," "Shameless," "Rodeo," and "What She's Doing Now," come from this impressive, 17x platinum album. Moreover, some of his best album tracks, such as "Burning Bridges," "Which One of Them," and "In Lonesome Dove" help round out the collection.
Re Suzy B, always liked "Part of Me", written by Tony "The Dance" Arata.
Hal K – "Old Soldiers", written by HK & Dave Mallett, with Kathy Mattea on background vocals.
What I find so telling about your list is just how mainstream the vast majority of the albums were. It was no effort at the time ( I realize I am showing my hand)to populate your cd racks with the best albums because that is what was airing on CMT, playing on the radio, and being covered by publications like "Country Music" magazine. Any music retailer stocked those artists. I have often argued with a good friend that the years from the late 80's through the early 90's were as important to Nashville and country music as the late 40's through the 60's. Your list is evidence of that.
I don't necessarily agree with the order (I would have PLANET OF LOVE at #1) , but these were all good albums, and the list could have expanded to fifty albums without any diminution of quality.
I have circled back to two albums from 1991 that are so worthy of being remembered and shared with younger listeners. Aaron Tippin's "You've Got to Stand for Something" out-twanged even Marty Brown for the most hard-core sounding album of the year. I remember being stunned by how urgent and raw his vocals were. Hearing Tippin for the first time reminded me of the first time I listened to my mom's Hank Williams album. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So plaintive and feral. His photo on the album cover was equally as jarring. In this era of young studs in cowboy hats and western wear, Tippin posed, albeit with HUGE forearms, in high-collared button up sweater tucked into jeans belted with a non-WWF sized buckle. He didn't wear a hat but did sport a mustache. Who else other than Joe Diffie debuted with a mustache? Everything was so wonderfully unexpected about that album. It stands out as the most memorable and wonderfully surprising listening experience of 1991 for me. "I Wonder How Far it is Over You" will forever be seared into my brain.
Mark Collie's "Born and Raised in Black and White" was similarly stunning. Again, there was Collie looking like a 1950's greaser in the early 90's. The music was just as refreshingly influenced by rawer and rougher sounds from the past; Collie was drawing from a different well than his fellow New Traditional peers. He was a traditionalist by his own measures and standards in a similar vein to Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle. His balladry was tender without pandering while his up-temp material rumbled and roared more than rocked. Collie was obviously listening to Johnny Cash before Rick Rubin reminded the rest of us that Cash still had currency. "Country Music" magazine's critic Rich Kienzle said, "Collie has created a major work and one of 1991's genuine masterpieces. It will endure long after the work of many of his peers is forgotten." Collie, in appearance and sound, was cool and charismatic as hell. As evidence, The Highwaymen, would include a cover of the title track on their second album.


We created these special savings accounts to help you save throughout the year so you are more financially prepared for whatever you may need. They pay a bit higher interest than the regular share savings accounts and have no early withdrawal penalty, so you will have access to your money whenever you need it. Christmas Club will move what you've saved throughout the year to your checking in October.


My client require an experienced individual on a contract basis who offers experience as an IT Trainer. They are now changing their legacy system and are looking for an IT trainer who has experience training employees during this process. You will be required to Develop training materials including hand outs, classroom training and videos. TThey are looking for an innovative IT Trainer / Project Manager who can really come up with some creative ideas.
This successful candidate will demonstrate the following.
This role will require the expertise of an individual who has past experience of delivery of large IT transformation projects. Drawing on this past experience you will provide training, development and advice to the team and the business. My client are currently working on a large scale systems migration -you will provide training on this process and guide them through.
Your knowledge will be invaluable to the already established team in this transitions early stages.
Desired experience would be providing training from a Legacy System to a cloud based system.
For more information please send in your CV for consideration and I will be in touch to discuss the role in more detail.


In light of the 2030 Agenda, inclusive multi-stakeholder partnerships are perceived and promoted as key instruments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: partnership platforms are surfacing and new instruments are being set-up. Yet, not enough is known about how they work in practice. The overall picture of multi-stakeholder partnerships is rather sobering.
View the presentation from this event.
Here the podcast of this event. Due to technical difficulties, it is divided into two parts.
Building on its work on partnerships, ECDPM took a closer look at the main characteristics and institutional factors that drive and constrain the process of establishing and maintaining effective CSO-business partnerships, and is currently conducting specific case studies from the dairy (Tanzania and Kenya) and mining sector in (Madagascar and Ghana).
To stimulate an open discussion on the dynamics of partnerships processes, and the implications for key stakeholders, ECDPM organised a lunch seminar at its Brussels office.
To register for this event, please use this form.
For more information see ECDPM Briefing Note 86, ECDPM Discussion Paper 182, and our GREAT Insights magazine issue on 'Partnerships with business for development'.
Photo courtesy of UN Photo/Mark Garten via Flickr.


Everyone seems to have a system when it comes to shopping. Some have the swift skill of negotiating. Others look for sales with flyers and stock up. Some have a shopping blowout at the dollar store. Some grumble under their collective breath about the state of prices at the supermarket, about the fact that everything is getting higher and hope for a revolution by the people. The rest of the folks track coupons.
Coupon stacking is taking multiple coupons for the same product with different UPC codes and use them towards the purchase of one item in a single transaction. A lot of retailers and stores are not going out of their way to go after their way to advertise the use of coupons at their locations. The practice is so popular that in 2010 the government then wanted to quash the practice because of the complications they had figuring out how to see the amount designated to GST (HST).
I honestly admit I haven't got a clue on how to use coupons and how to transact them.
With a short internet search you can find websites like mrsjanuary.com discuss the etiquette of how to become an extreme couponer and where to find coupons to save you money for months at a time. I recently found a seasoned Canadian couponer who gives online classes on the Internet to learn how to become and talk like a real a coupon expert.
Many stores like Zellers, Metro, Giant Tiger, Shoppers, Loblaws and Sobeys (and their stores that come under their umbrella) allow usage of coupons. If you find that things or brands you like are not on sale on a regular basis you still have some hope.
Also many retailers allow for price matching if you have a flyer from the retailer with a low price. Walmart, Loblaws, Zellers, Price Chopper, Superstore and No Frills will allow consumers to price match on the lowest advertised price of the same item. While Giant Tiger and Walmart will allow consumers to use coupons that are more than the products being purchased. This allows consumers to get some money back.
When Retailers have "Buy one get one free" sales, coupons of the same type like the "Buy one get one free" can be used for the sales, allowing a consumer to get two items for free.
Dollar stores are popping up everywhere allowing you to stop overspending on groceries. This will allow you to put your money where it belongs --- back in your pocket.


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Miroglio and Workplace keep collaboration in fashion
Contributor January 8, 2019
Source : Workplace
Miroglio Fashion is the women's clothing arm of Miroglio Group – a 71-year-old Italian conglomerate operating in 22 countries. The group joined Workplace in 2016. Since then, says CEO Hans Hoegstedt, it has "revolutionized our way of working."
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"Over the last few years, the role of the CEO has changed. It is crucial for a CEO today to create culture, to remove filters and blockers so there can be a transparent and constructive dialogue between everyone. I was confident that Workplace was a platform that would help us achieve this," he explains.
"We chose Workplace because everyone in the company knows how to use Facebook. And they just instinctively 'got it'. Right from the first day, people began to spontaneously interact with each other in a genuine way with no training required. We launched Workplace at our annual convention two years ago. Over 1,100 stores in our various brands swung into action along with the head office. We set up all the Workplace groups that we use for various parts of the business, like visual merchandising, product, innovation, communication and so on".
The result was instant. Within a short space of time, barriers and distances disappeared. People who had found it difficult to make themselves heard by head office suddenly had a direct, filter-free channel. It has given the company a more innovative and efficient way of working.
"A clear example is the visual merchandising team. Before Workplace, the team would create a model window and send it out to all the stores by email. With Workplace, the VM team now posts the image of the model window into a group. All the shops reply with their versions, comments, and suggestions. The VM team then provides instant feedback for the stores.
This allows to have hundreds of examples of how to dress the window instead of just one, and people can take ideas and inspiration from the others. There is a better dialogue and smarter collaboration that results in better window displays.
Hoegstedt continues "There are functions we did not use at the outset that have now become core features for us. Auto Translate was crucial when we extended the platform to our colleagues in Russia. Everyone posts in their own language and Workplace auto translates. Simple and effective. It's a powerful way to create a vast international network, and we'll be relying on the translations as we deploy Workplace in Romania, Spain, and France. We also now use Live Video whenever we present a new collection".
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"For me, as a CEO, it is also a way of 'taking the pulse' of the company. Of getting a quick sense of how people are feeling. It's a kind of mass collective intelligence."
From frontline to back office to HQ, Workplace connects entire retail organisations so they can share, collaborate and transform the customer experience with next-generation technology.
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Villarreal's next opponents, Steaua Bucharest
Thirty years ago, Steaua Bucharest won the European Cup over Barcelona. Those days are gone--transfermarkt puts the value of the players in the ENTIRE Romanian first division at about 80% of Villarreal's roster. On paper, this is a rather weak team, but a trip to their stadium can be full of incident.
By Allen Dodson Sep 26, 2016, 3:59pm CEST
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Steaua Bucharest...
A few quick facts
(1) They were founded in 1947 as an Army team, and in 2014 the Romanian Army successfully sued them, claiming the Army, not the soccer team, was the owner of the club badge....so, Steaua had to come up with a new one.
(2) Steaua were victims of one of the more amusing pranks in recent soccer, when fans of their big rival Dinamo Bucharest engineered a tifo in favor of their club before Steaua took on Manchester City in a Champions League playoff. The Daily Mail reported on it here.
(3) Their owner, George Bacali, is not popular with Steaua fans. The fans themselves have amassed an impressive number of citations for racial chants and banners, fighting, and flares in recent years, with UEFA and the Romanian league fining them and ordering them to play matches behind closed doors. Wonderful.
(4) Steaua won the 1986 European Cup final, defeating Barcelona on penalties in Sevilla. (In those days, only national champions entered, of course, so it took only four rounds of two matches each to get to the final). They also got to the final in 1989, but lost to Milan.
Fast forward to today....
(1) Steaua finished second in last year's Romanian league so came in to the Champions League playoffs in the 3rd qualifying round. They defeated Sparta Prague 3-1 on aggregate, which might be a useful barometer since we played Sparta last season.
They then were drawn against Manchester City; they lost 5-0 at home and 1-0 away.
(2) They are coached by Laurentiu Reghecampf, who used to play for Steaua. He likes to play a 4-2-3-1, so that should be something Villarreal is used to seeing.
(3) Their danger players seem to be two Brazilians, Fernando Boldrin (midfielder), William (left winger), and Romanian Adrian Popa, a right winger. They will be without a starting defender, Enache, who was sent off in their loss against Osmanlispor in their first EL match.
(4) The main player responsible for their success, Nicolae Stanciu, was sold to Andelecht in August.
On paper, Steaua looks to be the weakest of the four teams in their group, especially when you consider the weakness of the Romanian league these days...three Romanian clubs were barred from participating in Europe as a result of bankruptcy or financial instability. Still, Bucharest can be a difficult place to play, and this will be their first home match in the EL. Villarreal should win this, but it may not be as straightforward as we'd like.


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Artist, Country and Western
Tammy Wynette born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers.
Wynette was called the "First Lady of Country Music", and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", is one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 number-one songs. Along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s.
Wynette's marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a country music "couple", following the earlier success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s and early '80s.
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GOLDEN RING - GEORGE JONES TAMMY WYNETTE
Golden Ring – with George Jones
I DON'T WANNA PLAY HOUSE - TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
I Don't Wanna Play House
I'LL SEE HIM THROUGH - TAMMY WYNETTE
I'll See Him Through
JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT - KLF TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
Justified and Ancient with KLF
KIDS SAY THE DAMDEST THINGS - TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
Kids Say The Damdest Things
NEAR YOU - GEORGE JONES TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
STAND BY YOUR MAN - TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
Stand By Your Man
TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN - DOLLY PARTON - TAMMY WYNETTE
Talking To Myself Again- with Dolly Parton
TWO STORY HOUSE - GEORGE JONES
Two Story House – with George Jones
WE'RE GONNA HOLD ON - GEORGE JONES TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
We're Gonna Hold On with George Jones
YOU AND ME - TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
YOUR GOOD GIRL'S GONNA GO BAD - TAMMY WYNETTE (SK)
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
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Fewer people, more space at Baltimore theatre amid pandemic
Entertainment_Culture
By MARY CAROLE MCCAULEY and The Baltimore Sun - Associated Press - Sunday, September 13, 2020
BALTIMORE (AP) - On the first weekend in six months that a Baltimore movie theater was open to the public, the Senator Theatre's massive marquee bellied over York Road, big black letters spelling out the greeting: "Welcome back to the movies, Baltimore!"
The message was as much a question - or perhaps multiple questions - as a statement.
Would people come back to movie theaters? Would customers follow the rules? How would it feel?
The movies have always been a communal experience. A bunch of people sit in the dark and watch events unfold on a brightly lit, larger-than-life-size screen. The murmured voices, creaking chairs and shuffling feet can weave together into a subliminal group conversation. Would social distancing measures aimed at eliminating contact between strangers ruin the magic?
A Sun reporter visited the Senator during its opening weekend to find some answers.
"It's exciting to open the theater again after we've been closed for so long," said Chris Lyon, whose wife, Kathleen, owns the Senator and Charles theaters with her father, James "Buzz" Cusack.
"But getting going again also comes with anxiety. We have spent the last six months working for this day. We have done all the upgrades and updated all the systems, but until you open, you don't know how things will go. We just want people to feel safe."
For now, the Senator seems to be the only movie theater inside the city limits offering in-person screenings. The Parkway Theatre and the Landmark Theatre at Harbor East remain closed. So is the Charles, though Kathleen Lyon expects to resume live showings in a few weeks.
However, some theaters have reopened in surrounding communities (including Towson and Pikesville), where capacity limits are less restrictive than in Baltimore.
"Some theater owners would say that it's not worth opening for 25 people, and that's a valid financial argument," Kathleen Lyon said. "But we are doing it anyway, because we want to turn the lights back on."
Evidence of COVID-19 precautions was evident throughout the 1939 Art Deco movie palace. Displayed prominently in the lobby is a sign indicating that the Senator adheres to CinemaSafe guidelines, which were developed by a nationwide consortium of theater owners in consultation with epidemiologists to promote safe movie-going.
Even the first image viewers see once the house lights dim - the black-and-white "Welcome to the Senator Theatre!" screen written in old-timey script - has been altered to include a COVID-19 safety message.
The Senator's capacity has been reduced from 736 before the pandemic to no more than 80 now (25 movie-goers apiece in the two large auditoriums and 15 each in the two small theaters).
One result is a change most movie-goers will welcome: lines in front of the box office, concession stand and even in the under-sized women's washroom (the plague of female movie-lovers everywhere) have disappeared.
Now customers purchase tickets in advance for specific seats. After patrons arrive, employees behind plexiglass shields scan a bar code from either a paper ticket or mobile phone.
Chris Lyon acknowledged that he prefers to talk to customers face to face instead of behind a sheet of glass. For him, the shield will require a mental adjustment.
"It's going to take me a while get used to it," he said.
Customers seduced by the familiar smell of popping corn - nutty, steamy, faintly sweet - can now march right up to the concession stand and place their order, no waiting required. But now, a gloved server salts and butters the popcorn for them, minimizing how many surfaces moviegoers touch. That's the same rationale behind a less felicitous change, the elimination of low-cost drink refills. (Passing a cup back and forth seems unsanitary, so the thirstiest patrons must cough up enough bucks to buy a second drink.)
With relatively few people in the audience for even sold-out screenings, the Senator seems vaster and more echo-ey. But, people still whisper to one another during the coming attractions. Audience members still sat spellbound while watching Christopher Nolan's "Tenet," a movie about the ancient human desire to undo present disaster by discovering a trick to reverse time. And yes - when they weren't eating and drinking, the mostly twentysomething audience members wore face masks.
Dan Hunt, 28, of Baltimore attended a screening with a close group of buddies: his brother, a cousin, friends. He had missed the movies, and the risks inherent in seeing "Tenet" at the Senator seemed acceptably low.
"There are things I won't do," Hunt said.
"I won't hang out with people I don't know. I won't walk around downtown Towson at 10 p.m. on a weekend night. But here people are wearing masks. They're following the rules. As long as people are responsible, I think we'll be O.K."


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set -ex

export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=
source /app/deploy/scripts/hdfs_common.sh || true
source /app/deploy/scripts/pre_start_hook.sh || true
source /app/deploy/scripts/env_to_args.sh

MASTER_POD_NAMES=`python -c 'import json, os; print(json.loads(os.environ["CLUSTER_SPEC"])["clusterSpec"]["Master"][0])'`

raw_data_iter=$(normalize_env_to_args "--raw_data_iter" $RAW_DATA_ITER)
compressed_type=$(normalize_env_to_args "--compressed_type" $COMPRESSED_TYPE)
read_ahead_size=$(normalize_env_to_args "--read_ahead_size" $READ_AHEAD_SIZE)
read_batch_size=$(normalize_env_to_args "--read_batch_size" $READ_BATCH_SIZE)
example_joiner=$(normalize_env_to_args "--example_joiner" $EXAMPLE_JOINER)
min_matching_window=$(normalize_env_to_args "--min_matching_window" $MIN_MATCHING_WINDOW)
max_matching_window=$(normalize_env_to_args "--max_matching_window" $MAX_MATCHING_WINDOW)
data_block_dump_interval=$(normalize_env_to_args "--data_block_dump_interval" $DATA_BLOCK_DUMP_INTERVAL)
data_block_dump_threshold=$(normalize_env_to_args "--data_block_dump_threshold" $DATA_BLOCK_DUMP_THRESHOLD)
example_id_dump_interval=$(normalize_env_to_args "--example_id_dump_interval" $EXAMPLE_ID_DUMP_INTERVAL)
example_id_dump_threshold=$(normalize_env_to_args "--example_id_dump_threshold" $EXAMPLE_ID_DUMP_THRESHOLD)
data_block_builder=$(normalize_env_to_args "--data_block_builder" $DATA_BLOCK_BUILDER)
data_block_compressed_type=$(normalize_env_to_args "--data_block_compressed_type" $DATA_BLOCK_COMPRESSED_TYPE)
kvstore_type=$(normalize_env_to_args '--kvstore_type' $KVSTORE_TYPE)
max_conversion_delay=$(normalize_env_to_args '--max_conversion_delay' $MAX_CONVERSION_DELAY)
enable_negative_example_generator=$(normalize_env_to_args '--enable_negative_example_generator' $ENABLE_NEGATIVE_EXAMPLE_GENERATOR)
negative_sampling_rate=$(normalize_env_to_args '--negative_sampling_rate' $NEGATIVE_SAMPLING_RATE)
optional_fields=$(normalize_env_to_args '--optional_fields' $OPTIONAL_FIELDS)

join_expr=$(normalize_env_to_args '--join_expr' ${JOIN_EXPR})
negative_sampling_filter_expr=$(normalize_env_to_args '--negative_sampling_filter_expr' ${NEGATIVE_SAMPLING_FILTER_EXPR})
raw_data_cache_type=$(normalize_env_to_args '--raw_data_cache_type' ${RAW_DATA_CACHE_TYPE})
join_key_mapper=$(normalize_env_to_args '--join_key_mapper' ${JOIN_KEY_MAPPER})

if [ -n "$JOIN_KEY_MAPPER" ]; then
    IFS='=' read -r -a mapper <<< "$JOIN_KEY_MAPPER"
    echo "${mapper[0]}"
    pull_code "${mapper[1]}" /app/fedlearner/data_join/key_mapper/impl
    join_key_mapper=$(normalize_env_to_args '--join_key_mapper' "${mapper[0]}")
fi

LISTEN_PORT=50051
if [[ -n "${PORT0}" ]]; then
  LISTEN_PORT=${PORT0}
fi

python -m fedlearner.data_join.cmd.data_join_worker_service \
    $PEER_ADDR \
    $MASTER_POD_NAMES \
    $INDEX \
    --listen_port=${LISTEN_PORT} \
    $raw_data_iter $compressed_type $read_ahead_size $read_batch_size \
    $example_joiner $min_matching_window $max_matching_window \
    $data_block_dump_interval $data_block_dump_threshold \
    $example_id_dump_interval $example_id_dump_threshold \
    $data_block_builder $data_block_compressed_type \
    $kvstore_type $max_conversion_delay \
    $enable_negative_example_generator $negative_sampling_rate \
    $join_expr $join_key_mapper $optional_fields $raw_data_cache_type $negative_sampling_filter_expr

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Video: CBS All Access Reveals First Look Trailer and Key Art for "Strange Angel"
Based on George Pendle's book of the same name, the series is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons and explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.
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CBS ALL ACCESS REVEALS FIRST LOOK TRAILER AND KEY ART FOR "STRANGE ANGEL"
STRANGE ANGEL Premieres Thursday, June 14th on CBS All Access
New Episodes Will Be Released Weekly on Thursdays Exclusively for CBS All Access Subscribers
STRANGE ANGEL, a drama series created by Mark Heyman ("Black Swan," "The Skeleton Twins") and based on George Pendle's book of the same name, is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons and explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.
Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker in 1930s Los Angeles, works as a janitor at a chemical factory but dreams of building rockets that will take mankind to the moon. As he helps pioneer the unknown discipline of rocket science by day, by night, Parsons is pulled into a new occult religion created by Aleister Crowley, performing sex magick rituals to bend the world to his will and make his fantastical dreams a reality.
The cast of STRANGE ANGEL includes star Jack Reynor, Rupert Friend, Bella Heathcote, Peter Mark Kendall, Michael Gaston, Greg Wise, Rade �erbed�ija, Zack Pearlman and Keye Chen.
STRANGE ANGEL is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions. Mark Heyman, David DiGilio, Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker serve as executive producers. Clayton Krueger serves as co-executive producer, and David Lowery ("A Ghost Story," "Pete's Dragon") directs and executive produces.
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We're in the Oval Office, and Nixon is meeting with John Ehrlichman. It's going to cover a lot of ground, with the Plumbers, the IRS, the Jews...all your favorite subjects.
The transcript here is partially provided by Kutler, and partially from the Miller Center (which also means that if you're curious you can click through and listen to the audio there). Ready?
Segment 1
President Nixon: Where does Krogh stand now? He's still in charge of the --
Ehrlichman: He's doing the (unintelligible) the narcotics thing. But he's also spending most of his time on the Ellsberg, declassifications, and the dirty tricks business on getting stuff out...
Echrlichman: We had one little operation. It's been aborted out in Los Angeles which, I think, is better that you don't know about. But we've got some dirty tricks underway. It may pay off...
President Nixon: John, but we have the power but are we using it to investigate contributors to Hubert Humphrey, contributors to Muskie, the Jews, you know, that are stealing every -- You know, they have really tried to crucify Ho[bart] Lewis, Rob[ert] Abplanalp, I mean, while we've been in office even.
Ehrlichman: I know.
President Nixon: And John Wayne...
President Nixon: You see, we have a new man over there. I know the other guy didn't do anything, but--
Ehrlichman: Oh, you mean at IRS?
President Nixon: Yeah!
Ehrlichman: Yeah.
President Nixon: Why are--are we going after their tax returns? I--you know what I mean? There's a lot of gold in them thar hills.
Ehrlichman: It worries people, [unclear]--
President Nixon: You remember in 1962, do you remember what they did to me in California? Now that was a crock. Those sons of bitches came out [unclear] and I find out they owe me more money, in fact, my returns had been so circumspect. I was furious. I don't know.
Ehrlichman: That's something I better talk to [John] Mitchell about. That fellow is Mitchell's guy.
President Nixon: Yeah.
Ehrlichman: And when I see Mitchell tomorrow or the next day, I'll take it up with him.
President Nixon: I can only hope that we are, frankly, doing a little persecuting. Right? We ought to persecute them [unclear] we can.
Ehrlichman: That's right.
President Nixon: And on the IRS, if you could—are we looking into [Senator Edmund] Muskie's [D-Maine] returns? Does he have any? [Senator] Hubert's [Humphrey, D-Minnesota] been in a lot of funny deals.
Ehrlichman: Yes, he has.
President Nixon: [Senator Edward] Teddy [Kennedy]? Who knows about the Kennedys? Shouldn't they be investigated?
Ehrlichman: [Unclear] personally. But IRS-wise, I don't know the answer. Teddy, we are covering--
President Nixon: Are you?
Ehrlichman: --personally.
President Nixon: [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: When he goes on holidays. When he stopped in Hawaii on his way back from Pakistan [unclear].
President Nixon: Did he do anything?
Ehrlichman: No. No, he's very clean. Very clean.
President Nixon: He's being careful now.
Ehrlichman: Exactly. And he was in Hawaii on his own. He was staying at some guy's villa. And we had a guy on him every night [unclear interjection by Nixon]. And he was just as nice as he could be the whole time.
President Nixon: The thing to do is just watch him, because what happens to fellows like that, who have that kind of problem, is that they go for quite a while and then they go [unclear].
Ehrlichman: Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for.
President Nixon: I don't think he would break really while he was, you know, trying for the big thing. Generally, they don't. Although Jack [Kennedy] was damn careless.
A few things...Ehrlichman didn't, at this point, explain to Nixon what the aborted California operation had been and claimed that he had only told Nixon a year later. But Colson knew, and Emery believes that meant Nixon knew. As we shall see, Nixon didn't always let on that he already knew what his men did (or didn't tell him).
John Mitchell called all of this the "White House horrors" (or at least it's attributed to him). It's just worth stepping back and realizing, again, that this is the President of the United States along with (in this case) the second-ranking person on the White House staff...this is the guy in charge of domestic policy. At other times, it's the Chief of Staff or other senior White House officials. And, you know, this is what they're up to, right there in the Oval Office.
I'll also remind you that Nixon knows that the tapes are running, so make of that what you will (and recall that he repeatedly incriminated himself, so who knows if and to what extent he was careful about it), but the only other player in all of this who knows about the taping system was Haldeman.
And the final reminder: from this point on, Ehrlichman at least is certainly a felon (for authorizing the Fielding break-in), and there's every possibility that they all are already, here in September 1971.
Jonathan Bernstein at 11:52 PM


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Running out of tomorrows
Glen Moss	- Contributor
This is my shot at winning an A-League grand final. I won't be able to dismiss it with a 'There's always next year' if we lose. Not at this stage of my career.
I'm 35 years old. I'm not saying I couldn't get this chance again, but let's be realistic. I aim to play on for as long as I can, but there can't be a lot of next years left.
And grand finals are hard enough to get to in the first place. I've played in the A-League since it began and this is the first time I've made it this far.
So I'm going in with the Newcastle Jets thinking this is the chance of a lifetime.
I'd be sitting on the bench against Melbourne Victory if Jack Duncan hadn't torn his quad in our semi-final win over Melbourne City. I went on in about the 25th minute and the game seemed to go by so fast it was a blur. I was kind of in shock at the end, after we won. Everyone went crazy and I was just standing there.
Then I started hugging the boys and it was like, 'How good's this?'.
I pretty much knew on the night that I'd be backing up for the grand final. Jack wouldn't have come off unless it was serious.
He's devastated at missing out, but he's not sulking in a corner. He's been great at training this week, pushing past his own disappointment to encourage everyone else.
Injuries are a part of football and their timing can be awful.
It's not just Jack. Ben Kantarovski has been at the Jets for a decade, but he has struggled with a hammy recently and couldn't make it back. Same with Wayne Brown and his calf.
Those guys aren't sitting around with the long face either. They're jogging around the outside of the field at training and joining in on the gym sessions.
This is the first year I've had in the A-League where I wasn't the first-choice goalkeeper at the start, but I accepted that and vowed I would be ready if needed.
My mentality was simple.
From the first pre-season training session onwards, I still presumed I was the number one and acted and trained like that, so that if I was called up I'd be physically and mentally able to do the job as required.
I didn't allow myself to get into a slump by thinking 'I'm just the back-up, I'm never going to play', because then I wouldn't have enjoyed my work and my standards would've slipped.
I maintained good habits, basically.
AN UNLUCKY (AND LUCKY) BREAK
As it turned out, I was needed. Jack broke his toe and I came in a for a couple of months, and then when he returned, it was good timing for me because I'd been playing with a fractured rib for a couple of weeks.
But you don't expect what happened last week. One minute you're sitting on the bench giving the linesman a bit of grief and cheering on the boys, and the next minute you're out there.
I'd call it surreal, but there was no time for it to be like that. I had to slip straight into gear in case a shot came my way.
Jack Duncan is devastated at missing out, but he's not sulking in a corner.
The next day I had a sore throat and no voice from screaming to try to be heard over 20,000 fans in the wind and pouring rain, pushing 'Topa' and 'Boogs' up from the centre of the defence or pulling them back.
But this is why you battle away every year, do all that gut-busting pre-season work and maintain that belief, for moments like these.
You have to keep telling yourself it's all for a reason and there will be a payoff, the reward's going to come.
And now, after all that hard grind going back to when I was a teenager, well before the A-League even began, I'll finally get to go out there and play in the biggest club game in Australia.
The week has been so enjoyable. That feeling of satisfaction has lifted me to a place of calm, of quiet confidence.
I'm contracted next year at the Jets. It will be back to supporting Jack for me, I'm under no illusions about that, but I'll keep battling hard every day in case I'm needed.
I'm happy with that role and it's often rewarding to put others in front of yourself.
Beyond that, who knows what will happen? I've enjoyed my switch to the Jets and at the moment I see no end in sight for my career.
The good thing about our coach, Ernie Merrick, is that we've known each other for so long and have such a good relationship that he'll tell me when it's time.
One day, he'll say, 'Mossy, see this season out and then we'll find something else for you to do'. But right now I've got a grand final to play.
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
My attitude my whole career has been that being a good person, a good club man, is at least as important as being a good player. Probably more so.
It has always stood me in good stead.
I was at Victory under Ernie in the 2009-10 season. I began it as the number one 'keeper, but Ernie dropped me midway through the season and put Mitch Langerak in instead.
I didn't throw the toys out of the cot.
Ernie explained to me that I was still the senior 'keeper and that he needed me to support Mitch because of his inexperience and I stayed true to my values and did that.
Mitch was amazing. He had a big say in getting us to the grand final, which we unfortunately lost on penalties to Sydney FC, and then he got a big move to Borussia Dortmund.
Imagine if I hadn't had the right attitude and I'd just gone through the motions and let Mitch find his way on his own.
Where would that have put me in Ernie's mind when I was at Wellington Phoenix and he took over as coach there in 2013? Or before the start of this season, when I'd been talking to the Jets and then Ernie was appointed coach before any deal had been done?
How you react to decisions that might negatively affect you but which the coach makes for what he sees as the good of the team can change the course of your career.
The reason I was talking to the Jets in the first place is that Joel Griffiths approached me. He played at the Phoenix for a short time in 2015 and we got on well. I did my best to make him feel welcome at the club and I'm sure he appreciated that.
But what if we hadn't got on well and he didn't rate me as a bloke? I probably wouldn't have gotten the call in the first place.
I'm proud of my character and how I present myself. I believe you treat people with respect and have a good work ethic.
Good things happen to good people and if you're not a good person you hold yourself back in this game. I could name you plenty of good-quality players who haven't gone as far as they should because they're not good people.
Everyone needs to be selfish to a degree in football, but there's a limit and managers like Ernie don't tolerate players stepping over the line.
How you react to decisions that might negatively affect you … can change the course of your career.
I'm not sure he's ever referred to it as a 'No Dickhead Policy', but that's what he's got. He doesn't care if you're the best player in the league, if you're not a good person and you won't work as part of a team, he won't sign you.
My relationship with Ernie has always been really tight.
He has always put the interests of the players first. He never tried to hold anyone back at Wellington when we used to lose half the team to the All Whites for an international.
He resigned as coach of the Phoenix because he felt he couldn't do any more to help us and that it was time to give someone else a go. How many coaches would be prepared to give up their job like that?
Ernie rang me in the pre-season and said, 'Have you been talking to the Jets?' I didn't quite know how to answer and then he laughed and said, 'I'm coming on-board too' and that he'd love to have me.
I was comfortable signing after that because I knew the sort of positive environment he'd create at the club.
One of the great trivia questions
I got a letter from Sepp Blatter once. But it wasn't good news.
Apart from winning an A-League title the other main goal I've really chased hard was to play in a World Cup and I thought I was going to get there in 2010, but I got sent off in New Zealand's last Oceania qualifying game.
One of our boys had been thumped almost into row Z and I used the F-bomb in telling the ref where to go because I was frustrated at his decision.
You'd probably get away with it in the A-League because the refs would use more common sense, but it was in the islands and maybe an inexperienced ref, and I was shown a red card.
It was a game in the November international window. The decision was handed down in December, close to Christmas, and it came through on the fax machine at New Zealand Football – a four-match ban. But the office had been closed down for the holidays and nobody saw it until it re-opened in January, and by then the window for an appeal had shut.
I was screwed.
I went to the New Zealand PFA for help and I've still got the signed letter from Sepp Blatter at FIFA that said he understood my situation and felt for me but couldn't reopen the appeal window.
I had to cop it on the chin.
I missed the two playoff games against Bahrain in which we qualified for the World Cup with Mark Paston doing a great job in goal and I was lucky Ricki Herbert still took me to the World Cup in South Africa because I wasn't going to be able to play in the first two group games.
Nine out of 10 managers wouldn't have done that, so I was really grateful to him. He was so supportive.
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We drew our first two matches and 'Pasto' ended up playing in all three group games. I sat on the bench for the third against Paraguay. We drew 0-0 and as it turned out a win would have qualified us for the knockout stage.
Being a part of the squad was still a huge career highlight for me.
We were the only team that finished unbeaten at that World Cup. Even Spain, who went on to win the final, lost a group game.
The young blokes at the Jets don't believe me when I tell them. It's one of the great trivia questions.
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Photo: Sea Shepherd / Marianna BaldoAt a press conference held this afternoon at the well known Hotel Foroyar in Torshavn and live streamed worldwide, actress and activist Pamela Anderson joined Sea Shepherd Global, Sea Shepherd USA and Sea Shepherd France to show her support for Sea Shepherd's Operation GrindStop 2014 campaign and to shine a spotlight on the brutal and archaic mass slaughter of pilot whales and other cetaceans known as the 'grindadrap' or 'grind'.
Present with Anderson to represent Sea Shepherd were Lamya Essemlali, President, Sea Shepherd France and GrindStop2014 Offshore Campaign Leader; and Rosie Kunneke, Chapter Coordinator for South Africa, GrindStop 2014 Onshore Campaign Leader for Sea Shepherd USA.
A long-time animal protection advocate, Anderson emphasized that though the Faroese people once needed to kill pilot whales for food, there is no longer any need in the modern world to kill cetaceans.
Sea Shepherd has led the opposition to the grind slaughter in the Faroe Islands since the 1980s. Operation GrindStop 2014 is Sea Shepherd's largest Faroese campaign to date, with approximately 500 volunteers set to patrol the land and waters of the Faroes over the course of the campaign. Sea Shepherd's on- and offshore teams will be present in the Faroe Islands throughout the traditionally bloodiest months of the hunt season – from June until October 1st.
The only grind to take place this year occurred on May 18, before Sea Shepherd arrived in the Faroe Islands in June, claiming 13 pilot whales. The year before, the same Faroese town, Fuglafjørður, killed a staggering 267 pilot whales in one grind.
Should a hunt commence during the course of the campaign, Sea Shepherd will take direct action to intervene and stop the grind from taking place using land, sea and air tactics. This week, Sea Shepherd's crew was able to spot a pod of pilot whales and guide them back out to sea, safely away from the Faroese killing bays. As no preparations for a grind had begun, Sea Shepherd acted within Faroese law by chasing the pod away from shore.
For hundreds of years, the people of the Danish Faroe Islands have been herding migrating pilot whales and other small cetaceans into shallow water and slaughtering them. Entire family units are destroyed, wiping out several generations of animals at a time. The Faroese claim that without the meat from these cetaceans, the people would starve. Whether or not people would have starved in the past without eating pilot whale is irrelevant. There is certainly no one in the Danish Faroe Islands who would go hungry today, much less starve, if no more cetaceans were killed.
Today, the 'grindadrap' (whale slaughter) or 'grind' is a barbaric and cruel relic of history that has no place in modern civilization. The wholesale slaughter of entire families and the unimaginable horror inflicted upon these sentient, intelligent beings is unconscionable. The continued pillage of the oceans is causing disastrous consequences. Even the meat of these creatures is dangerous to consume. The European Union does not allow such activity, but the Danish Faroe Islands manage to side-step EU restrictions with their overfishing and harm to marine mammals. Sea Shepherd has taken action against the grind in years past and will do so again for GrindStop 2014.
"I have traveled to the beautiful Faroe Islands today to publicly oppose the needless killing of intelligent, sentient pilot whales and other dolphins and to support Sea Shepherd¹s Operation GrindStop 2014 campaign.
It is important to understand we are NOT AGAINST the Faroese. WE ARE FOR the whales and dolphins. We are their voice. But the eyes of the world are upon the Faroese today and it is now time to end this archaic abomination called the Grind. I support Sea Shepherd¹s efforts to end this cruel and ruthless massacre of defenseless whales and dolphins who are highly intelligent and so much like us. They have families like we do, they love them and care for them like we do, they have their own language and individual names for one another like we do, and a very complex social structure like we do.
The killing is a stain on this pristine country which no longer needs the meat of these animals to survive. When we know better, we do better. And we now know that these are sentient creatures who suffer greatly not only during the slaughter but during the very stressful drive itself. They are very socially complex animals and their entire families are being killed in front of them in a manner that would never be permitted in any slaughterhouse in the world. In addition, the meat of these animals is tainted with toxic contaminants including mercury, which is particularly harmful to pregnant women and young children.


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Berberis amoena is a shrub native to the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. It is found at elevations of 1600–3100 m.

The species was initially described in 1905 and given the name Berberis elegans. It was later discovered that this name had already been used twice before, so the plant was renamed Berberis amoena in 1911.

Berberis amoena is a deciduous shrub up to 100 cm tall, with spines up to 12 mm long along the smaller branches. Leaves are elliptical, up to 16 mm long. Flowers are borne in groups of 4-8. Berries are red and oblong, growing up to 6 mm long.

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Q: Table Column Animation in Beamer not showing table lines and notes I'm trying to animate a table in beamer. I want to reveal the table column-by-column. I am using \onslide following other examples, but the \midrules and \bottomrules of the table are not appearing until the final slide. If I animate by specifying \onlide for each element of the table instead of for the entire column this is not an issue, but that is much more time consuming to write for larger tables. Is there an easier way to get the table structure lines to appear?
This is my first post (after years of reading others' Q's and A's), so please let me know if I'm messing something up or being unclear. Thank you!
\documentclass[10pt, xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

%The example that I am struggling with
\begin{frame}
\begin{tabular}{>{\onslide<1->}l >{\onslide<1->}c  >{\onslide<2->}c }
\toprule
& Col A & Col B \\
\cmidrule{2-3}
1 & a & b \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{frame}

%This looks like I want it to, but requires specifying which slide each and every element should appear on.
\begin{frame}
\begin{tabular}{lcc }
\toprule
&\onslide<1->{Col A} & \onslide<2->{Col B} \\
       \cmidrule{2-3}
\onslide<1->{1} & \onslide<1->{a} & \onslide<2->{b} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

A: Here an option which consist of saving column element in a savebox then you can apply \onslide on this box, you can change the sequence of appearance as you like
\documentclass[10pt, xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\newsavebox{\mybox}

\newcolumntype{M}[2]{>{\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}}#1<{\end{lrbox}
  \onslide<#2>{\unhbox\mybox}}}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{tabular}{M{l}{1-} M{c}{1-} M{c}{2-}}
\toprule
  & Col A & Col B \\
\cmidrule{2-3}
1 &   a   &   b   \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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In our society everything is given patronage except learning and research. Praises are showered on worthless ideas, meaningless concepts are applauded and sensless thoughts extoled but, sadly enough, true knowledge is forsaken and condemned. Ignorance is garlanded with an ignorance profound. Scholarly research in religious issues, in particular, is considered high treason and inevitably rewarded with bricks and battons.
In this regard, the greatest malady is Taqlid1. Every opinion which has once been adopted is never thought over again. Every idea which has once been formed is regarded with a sanctity which renders it eternal. Every view which has remained undisputed in the past has become no less than the Word of God. Emotional attachment to traditional concepts and conventional thoughts, however foolish they may be and however much they might distort the truth, has given rise to prejudice and intolerance. Sincere words of criticism are anticipated with fire and fury from these quarters. A person who does so is degraded and disgraced in the society, even if his arguments are based on the Qur'ān and Sunnah.
But then, this attitude is not even worth complaining. Irrespective of all consequences, a person should always uphold the voice of his conscience. He should remain steadfast in the cause of truth and face every adverse current of the society with grit and endurance. Any increase in the intensity of opposition should only increase his patience. The more the going gets tough, the tougher he should become---for expending even the last drop of blood in the cause of truth will make this path easier for others to tread. Like a lighthouse all his struggles and sacrifices will gleam as a source of guidance for humanity. He would then redifine the meaning of courage. He would then extend the frontiers of valor. He would then add new dimensions to dare and defiance. In the heavens, the angels will pray for his success and upon the earth success itself would yearn to waylay him.
He should, also, never forget that since the earliest stroke of his intellectual voyage, he has remained the most besought target of traditionalists---the worst enemies of true knowledge. They have always challenged the torrent of his intellectual advancement. In all times of known history they have obstructed his progress, but then, with no avail. Everytime that their claws have closed on the champions of truth, a new episode of man's loftiness has been scribed by the historians pen. Ibni-Taimiyiah and Ibni-Hazm, Abu-Hanifa and Maalik, Socrates and Copernicus all have written with their own blood, stories of man's resolve against oppression and persecution. They did die fighting but with their death the torch of truth shone even more brightly and is held high to this day by the successors of these giants, by no means any less in stature.
1. Blind acceptance of a jurist's verdict.