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Posted on November 13, 2018 by Charlie Bowman
Catalonia can only look on enviously at Kosovo's independence and international recognition
A undoubted esprit de corps binds together Catalonia and Kosovo, who, despite the former's break for freedom having isolated itself from the international community and the latter still polarizing opinion since its 2008 secession from Serbia, share a singleness of purpose predicated on unshackling themselves from parents with whom they seemingly have little in common.
Equally, a defiant solidarity unites Spain and Serbia, unlikely allies who have found themselves embroiled in internecine strife rooted in labyrinthine complexity. Mindful that the disintegration of Yugoslavia didn't conclude until the cleaving of Montenegro and Kosovo from Serbia, Spain will be buoyed by a lack of international recognition of Catalonia's declaration of independence that could also have fueled a new wave of Basque separatism.
Amidst waves of acrimony and international condemnation that again painted Belgrade as the sole aggressor Serbia has long since lost Kosovo, areas of which are sewn within the country's fabric and identity. Although representing slim pickings it is nevertheless some consolation to Serbia that Suriname, Uganda, and Nigeria have either withdrawn recognition of Pristina's declared position of independence or their notes of recognition were never actually received. Either way, the tripartite represent a snapshot of the countries who have so far failed to recognize Kosovo, who itself is apparently unaware of the actual number of nations that acknowledge its right to self-determination.
Although details of Kosovo's recognition or denial of Catalonia's bid for autonomy aren't forthcoming, Spain's refusal to recognize Kosovo's independence is undoubtedly born from a fear of validating situations such as the one that has recently come to pass within its own sovereign borders.
Whilst the motivation of all secessionist states is predicated on a single ideal, each must be classed as sui generis – unique. Comparing Catalonia and Kosovo is ultimately futile, especially when an international community's baseline criteria for recognizing Kosovo appeared to be based on the outcry to, and subsequent intervention against tales of alleged Serbian brutality redolent of the hideous Balkan wars of the early and mid-nineties. An absence of Spanish aggression against defiant Catalans with unilateral declarations of independence in mind has therefore engendered a wholly different, and almost entirely withering attitude to recent events in Spain from the international community. A concern within EU member states that recognition could encourage an avalanche of regions pushing for secession is not without some credence.
Kosovo have perhaps achieved what Catalonia will never, although an appetite for welcoming those intent on self-determination has undoubtedly waned since the brutal breakup of Yugoslavia, which made the Soviet Union's chaotic disintegration seem methodical and neat. Far from sending in the troops that could sway international mood towards Catalonia's independence, Madrid will undoubtedly have learned from Serbia's more 'hands on' approach. If anything, a squeeze on the semi-autonomous powers previously 'enjoyed' by Catalonia could see its position weakened and further away still of achieving its ultimate dream.
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A former banker who stabbed his girlfriend's dog to death and tossed it in a garbage chute was sent to jail for a brief stint on Monday and is expected to be deported.
Zheheng Feng, 25, previously admitted to hacking the tiny mixed-breed pooch belonging to a woman who is now his wife in exchange for 30 days behind bars. He'll likely do about two weeks given factors including time served.
Justice Laura A. Ward cut him the deal knowing that his return to China was a given.
"It's a sad day for you, sir. But it's a sadder day for the animal," the judge said at his sentencing in Manhattan Supreme Court. "You will absolutely, positively be deported from the United States."


Journal of Voice Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 271-278 1994 Raven Press, Ltd., New York Efficacy of Vocal Function Exercises as a Method of Improving Voice Production Joseph C. Stemple, *Linda Lee, 1Beth D'Amico, and SBetsy Pickup Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation, Dayton, *Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of... This preliminary investigation examined the effects of vocal function exercises, a physiologic voice therapy approach, as a primary treatment for presbylaryngis. Methods Nine consecutive elderly patients with presbylaryngis (2 female, 7 male) underwent a 6-week course of voice therapy employing vocal function exercises.
Vocal Function Exercises by Joseph C. Stemple, 9781597561440, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.... Vocal intervention—vocal function exercises Voice therapy is a process of modifying vocal behavior through systematic vocal exercises. The primary goal of voice therapy is to restore optimal levels of voice when possible, one that will be functional for job-related activities, social interactions, and activities of daily living ( 14 Colton R , Casper J , Leonard R .
Vocal Function Exercises by Joseph C. Stemple, 9781597561440, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.... Vocal Function Exercises were developed by speech pathologist Joseph Stemple and colleagues. Dr. Stemple has produced a training DVD on them. You can see an excerpt, where he demonstrates the Dr. Stemple has produced a training DVD on them.
Vocal Function Exercises for Normal Voice: The Effects of Varying Dosage M. Bane, V. Angadi, R. Andreatta, & J. Stemple References 1. Roy N: Optimal dose-response relationships in voice therapy.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of isometric-isotonic vocal function exercises, practiced regularly for 4 weeks, on parameters of voice production in the healthy singer.


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Blackpool sharp shooter Eleanor Cardwell helps England netball team to start new era with triumph in South Africa
England goal shooter Eleanor Cardwell in action for Manchester Thunder Picture: GETTY IMAGES
Published: 16:58 Updated: 17:03 Monday 02 December 2019
Eleanor Cardwell of Blackpool helped the England netball team to start a new era on a highly successful note in South Africa.
The England Roses triumphed in the Test series 2-1 and 25-year-old goal shooter Cardwell was in the starting team as they won the first two games in Cape Town 63-58 (after extra-time) and 59-53 to secure the series.
Manchester Thunder player Cardwell did not start the final match as South Africa gained a consolation win 54-48 in the third Test in successive days.
These were the first competitive matches for England since Jess Thirlby replaced Tracey Neville as head coach.
Blackpool-born Cardwell developed her skills at St Mary's Catholic High School and with Blackpool Netball Club before first joining Superleague club Manchester Thunder in 2012.
She returned to the club this year, following two seasons with Worcester-based Severn Stars.
Cardwell helped Manchester to win the Superleague title for the third time in 2019 and she has signed up for their title defence next year.
Eleanor started as a goalkeeper and defender before developing as one of the country's top shooters.
The England squad in South Africa was much changed from the one which claimed bronze at the World Cup in Liverpool over the summer.
And Cardwell will be hoping to keep her place for the Vitality Nations Cup next month.
Head coach Thirlby told Sky Sports: "The squad will take huge confidence from being able to arrive on an international stage, away from home and get a win.
"To have had a broader base of players out here that achieved that is incredible. With all due respect to those that aren't with us or who are taking rests, it's actually a great thing because these guys know that they have done it without some of those players."
This is when former professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr is coming to Blackpool
Blackpool Paralympian Shelly Woods wins silver in Singapore Marathon
Blackpool superclub Home & HQ confirms shock closure
Couple are fined over mass pub brawl in Blackpool

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Kinzinger: ISIS is 'worst-case scenario' for U.S.
The ongoing Al Qaeda-spurred conflict in Iraq is the "worst-case scenario" for the U.S. after nearly a decade of war in that country, Iraq war veteran Rep. Adam Kinzinger said on Sunday.
Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois who served as an the Air Force pilot, said the Obama administration needs to launch airstrikes to help ward off Islamic State of Iraq and Syria insurgents and give the Iraqi government room to stabilize.
"The base I was stationed at is either surrounded or taken over by now. I don't think [airstrikes are] necessarily the panacea. We are watching right the worst case scenario happen. This is the worst case scenario," Kinzinger said on CNN's "State of the Union. "The U.S. military is not some weak animal...and we have got to in there. Work on a political solution with Iraq and push back this very evil organization, ISIS, and give some breathing space to the Iraqi government to do what it needs to do."
ISIS has taken over a number of cities spanning from Syria to Iraq.


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Flat Town Music
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Pott FolseApplication X2018-05-09T19:43:34-06:00
Pott Folse began playing music professionally in 1940 with Professor Wilson's twelve piece orchestra, the "Star Serenaders," performing foxtrots and waltzes. After serving in World War II, he came back to Louisiana and formed "The Jolly Rhythm Kings." Later he played with such musicians as Vin Bruce, Leroy Martin, Harry Anselmi and Gene Rodrique. He writes and records in both English and French.
Bluesrag, April-May 2014
THE BEST OF POTT FOLSE
Talk about a whittling project: Try trimming down the essense of Gatewood "Pott" Folse into only one all-seeing retrospective, balancing the many musical sides of this singing Cajun accordionist. Plus, there is the added pressure for his BEST OF to be a tiptop showcase, since his worldwide fan club specifically requested its creation. "Uncle" Pott, you see, is beloved far beyond state lines. Far beyond the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, of which he's a member. Far beyond the Mardi Gras parade routes he has annually brightened for ages. The friendly, universal appeal of his records has quite the long reach. No doubt having originally drummed in Dudley Bernard's formative Southern Serenaders taught the early lesson that postwar Cajun music needn't at all stay beholden to accordion two-steps or fiddle waltzes. So ever since debuting on Jin in 1998, he's a joker (formulation "Rogaine" out of Clapton's "Cocaine"). He's a loafers-and-white-socks rocker (rolling "Lawdy Miss Claudy"). He's an old-old-school nostalgist ("Sunny Side of the Street"). He's a bayou bluesman ("I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town"). He's tres French, straight to the high-stepping core of "Hey La Bas." Heck, he's even a legume's best friend, happily content to sing the joys of "Butterbeans." In other words, "Uncle" Pott (now well into his 80s and reportedly still rust-free) is your life-of-the-downhome-party jukebox, North or South.
~Dennis Rozanski
Pott Folse – Bayou Cajun Music CD
Pott Folse – Everything's Going to Pott CD
Pott Folse – Mixing It Up CD
Pott Folse – Sitting on the Front Porch CD
Pott Folse – The Best of Pott Folse CD
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Open your senses as wide as they will go, immerse yourself into this audiovisual experience-and you will find yourself in the trance-like "Zone" while the Universe is exploding around you and you're dancing in the light!
Needs no explanation Described by Eugene Jarvis as 'insanely difficult'. Not a baad game but somewhat hampered by fancy sprite stylee whereas I think the truer-to-the-original trippy/algorithmic sytle would have been a better direction to go in. Not bad, but not as good a game as T2K.


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Features Nutrition Technical
Healthful Baking for Boomers and Woofers
By Linda Hersey
A Maritime no-sugar, low-fat bakery has found its niche.
When choosing a healthy lifestyle, it's important to find the right bakery.
Landry's Homestyle Bakery, on the corner of Main and Robinson in downtown Moncton, N.B., fits the bill very nicely.
It was in 1996 when owner, Normand Landry, decided to switch careers. Armed with three university degrees (physical education, education and gerontology), he had worked for 15 years in physical conditioning for seniors. After much thought, he purchased the bakery, which had been at that location for some time.
"I was always a really good cook," he says, "so I bought the bakery, watched what was going on, worked and helped."
At the outset, he stayed the course with a traditional product line that included plenty of "one of the best breads in the city." However, there were a number of deciding factors that led him to eliminate bread from his shelves.
"I stopped making bread because it just wasn't profitable," he explains.
"I looked at that, and at the amount of time it took. When I bought the business, the clientele was older, and then [the City] re-did Robinson Street, which took five months, and I lost 75 per cent of my clientele because there was absolutely no parking at all. All the workers parked in front of the bakery, so if you wanted to come here … it was too far for them to walk. We specialize in muffins right now, muffins and cookies — both no-sugar and low-fat products, and regular."
In a definite win-win situation, he sends all bread customers to another bakery in town – which, in turn, sends their customers to Landry's for muffins and cookies.
There's no end to the sweet aromas coming from Normand's 1,000-square-foot bakery on St. George, where daughter Denise also works. The decision was made to cater to diabetics with sugar-free products, and, subsequently, they took it one step further to include low-fat baking (a bit of vegetable oil and a little margarine) for health-conscious consumers. That's where daughter Michelin, a teacher — and an excellent cook — came in.
A university student at the time, she came up with recipes for those unable to have sugar. Splenda® had just come on the market, so she did extensive research, consulting with medical specialists, and all agreed that it was a good product. Satisfied with the results of her study, she began experimenting with various recipes, modifying them until she was pleased with the taste. When she felt the recipes worked, baking for customers began — and they came.
"We started with this no-sugar, low-fat stuff for the (tenant) upstairs, and a few more people came in — people who were watching their weight. They tried it and they really liked it, so then all of a sudden, I had all these clients that were watching their weight and cutting out the sugar. I also supply the main entrance canteens for both hospitals (in Moncton), and they sell a ton of muffins down there.
"I make 2,500 to 3,000 muffins a week, and we still make them all in a bowl, one or two dozen at a time, so it's not machine-made. That way, I maintain my quality, the way I want it. The muffins run around three grams of fat, and very, very, low salt."
Also, since most clients were coming on weekends to purchase their week's supply, Normand found it wasn't feasible to have the shop open Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. On Saturdays, he is a very popular merchant at the Dieppe Farmers Market.
Indeed, customers come from as far away as Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island — even Boston, where a customer travels to Moncton every few months, and "buys a whole lot of stuff."
They have found what works, and they can't bake it fast enough. There are also seasonal goods for Christmas and summertime, but muffins and cookies have become their mainstay.
Their popularity is not surprising, as they continue to offer consumers a delicious healthy option. Even better, it has that special homemade touch that customers at Landry's Homestyle Bakery have come to love.
"I just bake them in an electric oven, the same as you would. We developed all the recipes so that we could use conventional ovens, like you would have in your own home. We thought, well, it's better to develop the recipes for that," he says, "than just for bakery ovens."
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/**
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public class GuiVersion {

    public static final String getVersion() {
	return "" + new PRODUCT();
    }

    public static final String getServerVersion() {
	return "" + new PRODUCT().server();
    }

    public static final String getFullVersion() {
	String CR_LF = System.getProperty("line.separator");

	return PRODUCT.DESCRIPTION + CR_LF + getVersion() + CR_LF + "by : "
		+ new VENDOR();
    }

    public String toString() {
	return getVersion();
    }

    public static final class PRODUCT {

	public static final String NAME = "GUI Manager";
	public static final String VERSION = GuiVersionConstants.VERSION;
	public static final String DESCRIPTION = "Remote SQL access over HTTP";
	public static final String TYPE_OPEN_SOURCE = "Open Source";
	public static final String TYPE_PROFESSIONAL = "Professional";
	public static final String DATE = GuiVersionConstants.DATE;

	public static String TYPE = (isOpenSourceVersion()) ? TYPE_OPEN_SOURCE : TYPE_PROFESSIONAL;

	public String toString() {
	    return NAME + " " +  VERSION + " - " + DATE;
	}

	public String server() {
	    return NAME + " " + TYPE + " " + VERSION + " - " + DATE;
	}
    }

    public static final class VENDOR {
	public static final String NAME = "KawanSoft SAS";
	public static final String WEB = "http://www.kawansoft.com";
	public static final String COPYRIGHT = "Copyright © 2022";
	public static final String EMAIL = "contact@kawansoft.com";

	public String toString() {
	    return VENDOR.NAME + " - " + VENDOR.WEB;
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     * Says if the current AceQL version is Open Source or Professional
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     private static boolean isOpenSourceVersion() {
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	    return false;
	} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
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	}
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     * readObject(ObjectInputStream in) throws java.io.IOException { throw new
     * java.io.IOException("Class cannot be deserialized"); }
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
	System.out.println(getFullVersion());

	System.out.println(GuiVersion.PRODUCT.NAME);
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VizStar, Inc. Average Revenue per Trip Increases 37.3%
Leave a Comment / Airlines / By editor
SOURCE: VizStar, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – September 22, 2010) – VizStar, Inc. (OTCBB: VIZS), an upscale aviation charter transportation broker, today announces a significant uptick in flight revenues following the close of the summer season and the start of the busiest season for jet charter services. The average revenue per trip for the first three weeks of this fall is up 37.3% at $19,051.75 compared to the summer season's average of $14,358.60.
Gary Clyburn Jr., CEO of VizStar, stated, "We anticipate increases in both trip size and frequency to continue. Celestial Jets' unique position in the space is attractive to new customers and is what keeps our frequent flyers flying. We expect our unparalleled service and value to help us further capitalize on this season's demand."
About VizStar, Inc.
VizStar is a premier aviation charter broker focused on delivering a new and unparalleled way to experience private jet travel. The company delivers this unmatched service without monthly membership fees, initiation fees, long-term commitments or capital investment, while delivering typical savings of 20-30% when compared to other charter or fractional companies in the marketplace.
Within as little as four hours' notice, VizStar can make all the travel arrangements for its client's next trip. Whether it is a short hop or an intercontinental journey, business or pleasure, each and every detail is attended to according to the client's specific requirements. With access to nearly 6,000 qualified aircraft, ranging from light, mid, heavy or jumbo jets, Celestial Jets is capable of serving any potential client.
The company adheres to the highest and most up-to-date safety standards of today. Each aircraft, in correspondence with FAA law, is flown by two pilots, each with outstanding credentials and type rated for the aircraft they are flying. VizStar also abides by the strict protocol of the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and all other federal and local law enforcement agencies.
For more information, please visit the Company's website at: www.celestialjets.com.
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With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of the company could differ significantly from those statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as the inability to respond to the evolving technological landscape, inability to finance the Company's operations or expansion, inability to hire and retain qualified personnel, competitive pressure, changes in the general economic climate, including rising interest rates, and unanticipated events such as terrorist activities. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'expect,' 'plan,' 'anticipate,' 'believe,' 'estimate,' 'predict,' 'potential' or 'continue,' the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company, or any other person, that such forward-looking statements will be achieved. We undertake no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of the foregoing, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. For further risk factors associated with our Company, review our SEC filings.


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File #: 21-465 Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Consent Agenda
File created: 9/10/2021 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 10/6/2021 Final action:
Title: Fiscal Year 2023 Operating and Capital Budget Calendar
Attachments: 1. Att.A - Preliminary Budget Calendar
AGENDA DATE: 10/6/2021
Fiscal Year 2023 Operating and Capital Budget Calendar
SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Set dates related to the development of the Fiscal Year 2023 budget
ITEM TYPE: Consent Action Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Kamptner, Birch, Bowman, Vinzant
PRESENTER (S): N/A
LEGAL REVIEW: Yes
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: The process of developing the County's Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 23) and the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) for FY 23-27 is underway. Staff provides a proposed budget calendar on an annual basis.
STRATEGIC PLAN: Mission - To enhance the well-being and quality of life for all community members through the provision of the highest level of public service consistent with the prudent use of public funds.
Attachment A provides a preliminary budget calendar for the FY 23 budget process. The budget development calendar establishes specific dates for Board meetings and public hearings on the tax rate, the budget, and the CIP. Staff will continue to provide the public with as much notice as possible for planned community engagement opportunities, public hearings, and work sessions associated with the development of the upcoming budgets.
There are several dates that are driven by Virginia Code requirements which are reflected in the attached calendar:
* Localities with a first-half tax year collection in June must adopt the tax rate on or before May 15.
* There must be at least seven days between the public advertisement of the budget public hearing and the actual hearing date.
* There must be at least seven days between the budget public hearing and the adoption of the budget.
* Localities must provide at least 30 days' notice of the real estate tax rate public hearing if the reassessment would result in an increase of one percent or more in the total real property tax levied compared to the prior year's real property tax levies.
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Q: Clang: promoting warning for type-casting like id to class? I'm doing some code refactoring but facing a problem that clang has no any warning for this situation:
@protocol CommonProtocol <NSObject>
- (void)common;
@end
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@interface Foo : NSObject <CommonProtocol>
- (void)foo;
@end
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@interface Bar : NSObject <CommonProtocol>
@end
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static id<CommonProtocol> getObject(void) {
    return [Bar new];
}

Foo *casting = getObject(); /// ⚠ there is no warning for this
[casting common];
[casting foo]; ///  crash because the casting object do not respond to '-foo'

I think type 'Foo *' and 'id<CommondProtocol>' are not interchangeable and looking a way to promote this warning. Any compile flag to achieve this?
NOTE: I have try '-Weverything' and it still present no warning for conversion.

A: This is a natural consequence of the weak type system of Objective-C, where id can be virtually downcasted to any kind of object. Specializing id with a given protocol doesn't help much in this direction, this is why you can easily run into unexpected situations, like the current one.
If you want to force the casting, one solution would be to change the signature of getObject to return NSObject instead of id:
static NSObject<CommonProtocol> *getObject(void) {
    return [Bar new];
}

With this setup in place the naive Foo *casting = getObject(); will generate a clear warning:

Incompatible pointer types initializing 'Foo *' with an expression of type 'NSObject *'

, and the person writing the code will have to explicitly cast:
Foo *casting = (Foo *)getObject();

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June 9, 2017 by SPEdit Team
When majority of smartphone manufacturers were prioritising the rear camera over front, companies like Oppo focused on selfies. The bet worked in favour of the Chinese smartphone maker when they introduced the F1 series devices. Now pushing the selfie strategy further is Oppo's latest - F3 Plus. Design and Build Quality The F3 Plus is a device that can be classified as a … [Read more...]
Fujifilm launches X-A2 for better selfies
January 16, 2015 by editor
Fujifilm has announced the X-A2 in its X series, a new version of its X-A1 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. The X-A2 is quite similar to its predecessor, with only minor changes. But the special feature of this camera is the 175 degree tilting LCD screen with face and eye detection, which makes it easier to take selfies. … [Read more...]


I wish I were there. Short of being part of the audience, today I will go to my local library to check out the CD. I need some "Old Testament fierceness" in my music.
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Dan Abrams and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s First Lawyer Co-Author New Book on Historic Criminal Trial Alabama v. King
Law & Crime StaffJan 14th, 2022, 8:00 am
The coming new book Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement takes a look at the "forgotten" criminal trial of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the wake of Rosa Parks' refusal in 1955 to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Law&Crime founder Dan Abrams is co-authoring the book on the historic case with Fred Gray, attorney for both Parks and Dr. King.
The book from publisher HarperCollins, scheduled to hit shelves on May 24, provides relevant context about the lead-up to the protest, both about Parks and the broader and burgeoning civil rights movement. A book excerpt recounts key events this way:
At about 9:15 pm on January 30, 1956, 27-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. was advocating non-violent protest to approximately two thousand people at the cavernous First Baptist Church. Dr. King told the enthralled audience, "If all I have to pay is going to jail a few times and getting about 20 threatening calls a day. . . I think that is a very small price to pay for what we are fighting for." Little could he know that as he spoke, that price was becoming significantly higher.
A white supremacist had driven to his home that night, walked up half the steps of his white clapboard house in a quiet neighborhood, and tossed a live stick of dynamite onto the front porch. His wife, Coretta Scott King, and a friend had been in the living room and their newborn daughter, Yolanda, asleep in a back room. When the dynamite exploded a few moments later, windows were blown out and portions of the house destroyed or in shambles.
Upon hearing of the incident, King immediately rushed home and was relieved to find his wife, her friend and his daughter all uninjured. A furious and fearful crowd of about three hundred quickly gathered to support the King family and with the remnant smell of explosives still wafting through the night air, Dr. King stepped out onto his only partially standing porch and declared: "We believe in law and order. Don't get your weapons. . . We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies." With those words, a potentially volatile situation had been diffused.
The local authorities never arrested the perpetrator of the crime, but less than two months later they did arrest Dr. King for organizing the peaceful protests he was championing the night his house was bombed. The trial that followed would introduce the young minister to America.
It had required an extraordinary, unexpected and fortuitous chain of events to place the young Dr. King in the spotlight of history. It was not a role he had pursued. "When Martin Luther King came to Montgomery in 1953," Fred Gray, his friend and first defense attorney remembers, "He didn't have civil rights on his mind. In fact, the preacher before him had gotten run out of town because he was too liberal."
But after civil right activist Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for violating a city statute by refusing to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white person, a small group of Montgomery's leading Black citizens and ministers had urged a one-day bus boycott to protest the way Black Americans were being treated on public transit. The protest was scheduled for December 5th, the day of Parks' trial. "This was a long time coming," explained Fred Gray. "This wasn't just an isolated incident. We had been complaining about the way Black people were treated on the buses for a long time. But the bus company had done nothing at all about it. We would have settled for minor changes; instead, they just ignored us. They treated us like we had no rights. So when Mrs. Parks was arrested the community just said, this is it. We're going to do something about it right now. They are going to give us respect or we are not going to continue riding their buses."
At her 30-minute trial on December 5th, Rosa Parks pled not guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local statute. Fred Gray defended her. She was convicted and fined $10, plus $4 in court costs. Gray immediately appealed the conviction. But by that time the protest had begun.
Parks' arrest and conviction inspired the "Montgomery Bus Boycott" and a speech Dr. King gave which animated protests against segregation in the Deep South.
"Mrs. Rosa Parks is a fine person. And, since it had to happen, I'm happy that it happened to a person like Mrs. Parks, for nobody can doubt the boundless outreach of her integrity. Nobody can doubt the height of her character nobody can doubt the depth of her Christian commitment and devotion to the teachings of Jesus," he said in the speech. "And I'm happy since it had to happen, it happened to a person that nobody can call a disturbing factor in the community. Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person, unassuming, and yet there is integrity and character there. And just because she refused to get up, she was arrested."
"And you know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression," he added.
Dr. King, then a 27-year-old minister, would soon be in legal trouble himself as prosecutors blamed him for being the leader of the bus boycott in violation of an anti-boycott statute.
As King's first lawyer Fred Gray remembers it, this moment in history was what plucked Dr. King from relative anonymity and set him on the path to becoming a civil rights icon.
"It certainly is accurate to say that none of the people who picked him thought of him as someone who would lead Black folks all over the country. We were just dealing with the situation on the buses in Montgomery. It was only later that we understood that this sort of casual selection had made all the difference in the world," Gray said.
Fred Gray mugshot, Montgomery County Archives
Gray was 25 years old at the time and described having "legal problems almost every day," with Dr. King "in the middle of every one of them."
Then came Dr. King's trial and eventual conviction.
Eighty-nine were arrested, but Dr. King was prosecuted as the leader of the "Montgomery Bus Boycott." And yet Gray didn't have concerns about King testifying in his own defense at trial. He described a client who would accept legal advice, who was knowledgeable of the law, who was wary of prosecutorial traps, and who had an ability to be authentic and confident on the stand.
"During the trial we would discuss legal strategy and he would state his opinions but generally he accepted advice. Our primary goal was that whatever the outcome of the case, that Martin Luther King would come out of it a winner. He had never testified in a trial before, but I had great confidence in him," Gray said. "We had prepared him well for both his direct testimony and cross-examination: Dr. King understood what the law was, what the facts were, what our theory of the case was and what the prosecution would try to do. Their goal was to prove that he was the leader, the man making decisions, rather than the spokesman for all of the others."
"He was aware of the legal traps that Mr. Thetford would set for him and how to avoid them. He sat quietly through all the testimony, listening attentively. After each day we would all get together in my office to review the day's proceedings and plan for the following day. And while we never told him how to respond or what to say, we never rehearsed. But Dr. King understood that sometimes there was a difference between the law and justice, and he had spent his whole life believing in justice for our community," he added. "He was firm about that, and that made him completely confident. He wasn't the slightest bit nervous as he took the stand. He knew what they were going to try to get him to say and he knew what we wanted him to say. I suspect many of the people in that courtroom were far more nervous for him than he felt."
In addition to Gray's firsthand insight and accounts, the book accesses primary sources, such as transcripts of Dr. King's trial testimony, as well as testimony of Black witnesses, to bring readers in 2022 back to the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama.
Joining Abrams and Gray as co-author is David Fisher. Abrams and Fisher have also co-authored several other books, New York Times bestsellers among them, on John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jack Ruby.
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Now that the weather has been heating up and the outdoor bars have officially entered full swing, what better way to enjoy your summer afternoons than with a refreshing cocktail in hand? For those in the New York area, choosing just where to go to break away from the monotony of a work day and relax with an ice-cold beverage can be difficult, given the sheer number of bars around. To help ease that burden, here are some of the best bars New York has to offer where you can either sit in the sun, or stay within the realm of air conditioned rooms.
This luxury hotel designed by Ian Schrager houses several bars throughout its quarters, including a rooftop hangout perfect for enjoying the sunset with drinks. Should the temperature be a little too high, there is a bar on the ground floor, and the Diego bar just one floor up, both of which serving high-end cocktails with perfect flavors for summer. Schrager's idea was to give New York City an affordable luxury hotel, which also happens to have some of the most creative cocktail recipes you can imagine.
This Mexican cafe has some of the best agave distillates in the city, and serves a wide range of modernized traditional Mexican recipes. Started by chef Enrique Olvera, Atla serves everything from margaritas, to Micheladas, to Oaxacan coffee, embodying Mexican cuisine with a New York twist. The bar itself has enormous windows, so while you may not be sitting outside, you are still able to enjoy the sun in the comfort of a much cooler room.
A newer seafood restaurant located in the very fitting East Village, Out East's menu is themed after coastal New York, and features a California-inspired wine selection, as well as seasonal cocktails crafted to compliment each meal. The quaint restaurant is perfect for a summer afternoon of lightly-flavored drinks with plenty of citrus.
Just as the name implies, Roof at Park South is a casual rooftop restaurant and bar with a touch of elegance, serving expertly crafted cocktails and upscale bar food created by Tim Cushman. As an added bonus, the view from the restaurant's rooftop is entirely unobstructed, displaying the New York City skyline in all its glory. Should the drinks flow a little more heavily than planned, the Park South Hotel is located just on the other side of the building.


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Resurrecting dinosaurs with medical scanners and 3D printers
Accurate copies of fossilised bones can now be made from the combined use of computed tomography (CT) scans and 3D printers, according to a paper published today in the journal Radiology.
The technique offers scientists a non-destructive way of transporting and handling rare or fragile fossils.
To protect such specimens from damage during transportation, the fossils are often stored in plaster jackets or casts. These jackets must be strong enough to protect the fossils, but should also separate easily from the specimen when removed.
It is during the removal of the plaster and surrounding sediment that the fossil is in danger of material loss or even destruction. This typically occurs when the plaster is stuck fast to the bone.
A 3D print of a fossil (right) next to the original still inside a plaster jacket. Courtesy of Radiology and RSNA
A group of German researchers found that, by using CT and 3D printers, they could separate fossilised bone from its surrounding sediment matrix in a way that would not harm the specimen, then produce a 3D copy of it.
Applying this method to an unidentified fossil from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the researchers scanned the bone with a 320-slice multi-detector system to show up the different attenuation (absorption of radiation) through the bone and the surrounding sediment matrix, depicting clearly the fossilised vertebra.
The scan also provided information on the condition and integrity of the specimen, like otherwise unknown fractures, and helped the researchers build an accurate reconstruction of the fossil.
Then using a laser sintering system – a process which uses high-powered lasers to fuse materials by adding thin horizontal layers of plastic – an accurate 3D copy of the fossil was produced.
A 3D copy of a 400 million-year-old placoderm skull found in Taemas, New South Wales. John Long
The impact on palaeontology
According to Richard Brian Gunderman, a professor of radiology at Indiana University who was not involved in the study, CT scanners are able to determine the exact structural dimensions of an object, down to fractions of a millimetre.
This data can then be used to construct a replica so precise that objects of great historical interest, like Stradivarius violins, have been created to sound remarkably similar to the originals.
"Such a technology has been a boon to palaeontologists in the past few years," said John Long, strategic professor in palaeontology at Flinders University.
"Once we relied on meticulous time-consuming methods to prepare delicate fossils out of the rock and, even then, we could only see their external features. Now, using high-resolution micro-CT scanners and synchrotrons [particle accelerators], we can investigate every nook and cranny of the fossil right down to individual cells and tissue structures without having to risk damaging the specimen.
"Combined with advanced 3D printing, we can now slice though the ancient fossil skulls and print them in halves showing the full anatomy in clear definition. This will no doubt revitalise palaeontology."
A 3D scan of a 380 million-year-old Gogonasus fish skull by Tim Senden and ANU Vizlab.
Ahi Sema Issever, from the Charité Campus Mitte in Berlin and one of the study's authors, explained: "The most important benefit of this method is that it is non-destructive so the risk of harming the fossil is minimal. In addition, not only does this method allow for a global exchange of rare fossils in any quantity, data on the specimens can also be digitally shared between research institutes, museums and schools while protecting the original fossil."
Darren Curnoe, associate professor at the University of New South Wales, agreed, saying: "Famous fossils like the Taung Child in South Africa – the very first ancient ape-like creature found in our human evolutionary tree – has been quite badly damaged following almost 90 years of study by scientists.
"Almost everyone who sees the fossil wants to take a couple of measurements of their own, and by doing so, is damaging these priceless pieces of our collective heritage. We need to do better, and such technology might just be the answer."
Although supportive of the technological breakthrough in this study, Professor Long warned that researchers must not rely too heavily on tomographic imagery and 3D printing to draw their conclusions.
"It is important to carefully study the preservational biases of the original fossil first to determine how reliable a computer-generated image will be. In some cases, replacement of bone by other minerals or the presence of solid inclusions can effect the quality of CT images and affect 3D printing results.
"Scientists still need to study the original specimens in detail first, and then make interpretations using CT tomography and 3D printing."
A scanned 400 million-year-old placoderm eye capsule found in Taemas near Canberra. Tim Senden
Associate Professor Curnoe agreed, saying: "Any model made from CT scans must properly distinguish actual bone from missing bone, or even from materials like plaster, that had been used in the past to reconstruct missing bones in the fossils. This is particularly important since most fossils found are incomplete or distorted.
"In the end, there is nothing like seeing the real thing to fully understanding the anatomy and the state of preservation of a fossil. But, for the sort of work many scientists do, especially postgraduate students, 3D models would be incredibly useful at a time when funding can be very hard to get."
Beyond fossils
Some experts speculate that the findings from this study will benefit the medical field, like building and fitting implants in orthopaedic surgery. Others feel that the technique could be used to model real bones and other tissues, such as cadavers that have been preserved in ice or peat bogs.
Martin Baumers, a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, would like to see the implementation of a virtual library and data infrastructure for such 3D data and designs. He believes that it would aid collaborative research, allowing experts from different disciplines to share and retrieve 3D models for 3D printing or other scientific, even commercial, usage.
For Professor Long, the biggest breakthrough will come when palaeontologists possess the ability to make portable machines to take into the field and scan fossils, still buried under the rock layers, to determine the full extent of the fossil before excavating it.
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CCNP Exam Cram: Extending IP Addresses
By Michael J. Shannon
Review of TCP/IP Subnetting
Classless Interdomain Routing
Using VLSM to Extend the IP Addresses Scheme
Configuring IP Helper to Manage Broadcasts
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CCNP BSCI Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 642-801)
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) is referenced in RFCs 1518, 1519, and 2050, which were developed for Internet service providers (ISPs) so they could aggregate contiguous blocks for efficient addressing schemes. With the classful system of allocating IP addresses, anyone who needed more than 254 host addresses was often forced into a public Class B address, providing more than 65,500 host addresses. Many companies and organizations wasted even more addresses by using only a fraction of their 16 million host Class A addresses. As a matter of fact, only a small percentage of the allocated Class A and Class B address space has been actually assigned to host computers on the Internet.
It became clear that by circumventing the class system, you could actually allocate just the amount of address space needed. In a large network, you want to avoid the situation where routers are maintaining a large number of routes in the routing tables and the IP address pool is used up. The process of route summarization, also known as aggregation or supernetting, allows you to represent a string of network numbers is a single summary address. By implementing CIDR, an ISP can embody a block of addresses with a single summarized route or supernet.
For example, if you needed around 1,000 addresses, four Class C networks of 250+ hosts each could be supernetted to represent 1000 hosts with a single summarized address. Figure 3.1 shows four Class C routers with a 24-bit mask summarized at the ISP router with a 22-bit mask:
RouterA: 192.168.128.0 (11000000.10101000.10000000.00000000)
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 (11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000)
RouterB: 192.168.129.0 (11000000.10101000.10000001.00000000)
RouterC: 192.168.130.0 (11000000.10101000.10000010.00000000)
RouterD: 192.168.131.0 (11000000.10101000.10000011.00000000)
Figure 3.1 Major ISPs use CIDR addressing schemes to summarize multiple Class C addresses.
In this example, the subnet 192.168.128.0 includes all the addresses from 192.168.128.0 to 192.168.131.255; therefore, by supernetting the subnet address to be 22 bits instead of 24 bits, it will look like this:
Supernet: 192.168.128.0 (11000000.10101000.10000000.00000000)
Broadcast: 192.168.131.255 (11000000.10101000.10000011.11111111)
As seen in the binary version of the subnet mask, the network is represented by 22 bits and the host portion is made up of 10 bits, resulting in 210 – 2 = 1022. This offers the "around 1000" hosts that are needed in this scenario.
With the CIDR system, the subnet mask notation is expressed with a simplified shorthand. In the previous example, instead of writing the address and subnet mask as
192.168.128.0, subnet mask 255.255.252.0
the CIDR network address is simply written as
CIDR notation is also used with classful addresses and can be written as /8 for Class A, /16 for Class B, and /24 for Class C. With CIDR, the largest ISPs are given large portions of address space, typically with a subnet mask of /19 or smaller. The ISP's customers are then provided networks from the resulting large pool of addresses. As a conversion guide, Table 3.2 displays the CIDR conversions for standard Class B network and the various subnets masks. The table also includes the number of subnet bits, the subnet mask and CIDR mapping, the number of subnets, and the number of hosts per subnet.
Table 3.2 Class B-to-CIDR Conversion Table
Number of Bits
Subnet Mask
Number of Subnets
Number of Hosts per Subnet
It is imperative that you know how to express the various networks and subnets with their CIDR implementations.
IP Version 6
CIDR will most likely serve the Internet well for the next few years. However, waiting in the wings for its moment in the sun is the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with a 128-bit address. With IPv6, every person could receive one billion unique IP addresses.
The goals of IPv6 are to enhance the existing IPv4 protocol by providing much more address space, easier configuration, and more security for the next-generation Internet. ISPs, corporate enterprises, and government organizations are looking to IPv6 for help in supporting cutting-edge applications, such as IP telephony, and new networking services, as well as emerging IP-aware devices. The demands for increased address space and plug-and-play networking capabilities are answered by the implementation of IPv6. According to Cisco, the threefold benefits of IPv6 are the expansion of network addressing to service future growth in IP devices and users, the autoconfiguration capability of IP addressing, and integrated support for IP Security (IPSec) and mobile IP.
The extended IPv6 address goes from a 32-bit to a 128-bit addressing scheme with the colon (:) being used as a delimiter instead of the dot (.). IPv6 also introduces newer unicast and broadcasting methods, including anycast. Anycast is a communication link between a single sender and the single closest interface (in terms of routing distance) that is identified by the anycast address. An anycast address is assigned to multiple interfaces. To facilitate delivery, the routing system must know about the interfaces that have anycast addresses assigned to them and their distance as measured by routing metrics. A multicast address is implemented for one-to-many communications with transport to multiple interfaces. An anycast address, on the other hand, is used for one-to-one-of-many communication, with delivery to a single interface that represents a list of interfaces.
The IPv6 address is a hexadecimal-formatted, eight-part address, separated by colons. Because each part can equal a 16-bit number and is 8 parts long, the address length is 128 bits (16x8=128). IPv6 addresses are n:n:n:n:n:n:n:n, which equals a 4-digit hexadecimal integer. Here is an example IPv6 address:
FE80:0000:0000:0001:0200:F6FF:Fe75:50CE
IPv6 addresses can also be further simplified by suppressing the leading zeros within each 16-bit part. Realize that each block must have at least a single digit. Look at how the previous address can be further simplified in the following example:
FE80:0:0:1:200:F6FF:Fe75:50CE
Because some IPv6 addresses end up having long sets of zeros, you can further simplify the depiction of an IPv6 address by compressing the ad- dress to "::" (also known as a double colon). For example, the IPv6 ad- dress FE80:0:0:0:3BB:FF:ED9A:4CB3 could be compressed to FE80::3BB:FF:ED9A:4CB3. The multicast address FF0A:0:0:0:0:0:0:4 could be further compressed to FF0A::4. To determine how many 0 bits are expressed by the double colon, simply count the number of parts in the compressed address, subtract this number from 8, and then multiply the result by 16. For example, in the address FF0A::4, there are two parts (FF0A and 4.) The number of bits expressed by the double colon is then (8–2)x16=96. You can use zero compression only one time in a particular IPv6 address.
An IP version 4 interface normally has only one IPv4 address assigned to it (excluding subinterface configuration). IPv6 nodes, on the other hand, typically have multiple assigned IPv6 addresses (multihomed). These include the link-local address, additional unicast addresses, and the loopback address (::1). In addition, every IPv6 interface is listening for traffic on several standard multicast addresses as well. A link-local address enables a node to communicate with other nodes on the link and can be used to configure the node even further.
The link-local address is typically autoconfigured from a combination of the interface identifier and the link-local prefix FE80::0. The autoconfiguration feature enables nodes to connect to a network and automatically generate IPv6 addresses without needing manual configuration or a DHCP server. IPv6-enabled routers can advertise prefixes in router advertisement messages, as well as function as default routers for the link. Router advertisements are transmitted occasionally and in response to router solicitations sent by hosts at system startup. A node automatically configures an IPv6 address by simply appending its 64-bit interface ID to the 64-bit prefixes (see next paragraph) included in the router advertisements. These subsequent 128-bit IPv6 addresses generated by the node are then tested for duplicates to make sure that they are unique on the network. Hosts send router solicitation packets at system startup so that they can immediately autoconfigure without having to wait for the next scheduled router advertisement.
IPv6 prefixes for identifying subnets and routes are expressed in the same way as CIDR notation for IPv4. An IPv6 prefix is expressed in the address/prefix-length notation. For example, 24EB:D3::/48 is a route prefix and 24EB:D3:0:2F3B::/64 is a subnet prefix. The 64-bit prefix is used for discrete subnets and all subnets have a 64-bit prefix. Any prefix that is less than 64 bits is a summarized route or address range portion of the IPv6 address.
Using static routes in IPv6 is similar to configuring static routes for IPv4, with a few differences. The ipv6 route command is used to configure IPv6 static routes. Some of the IPv4 keywords, such as tag and permanent, are not yet supported. The syntax for a static Ipv6 command is
Router(config)# ipv6 route ipv6-prefix/prefix-length {ipv6-address |
interface-type interface-number [ipv6-address]} [administrative-distance]
For example, the following is a sample static route that is being configured to a specified next hop address, with no interface:
Router(config)# ipv6 route 2001:0BD6::/422022:808B:F0FE::1
For detailed information on Cisco's efforts with IPv6, go to http://www.cisco.com/ipv6. The specifications for IPv6 can be found in RFC 1519 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1519.html). For the current list of permanently assigned IPv6 multicast addresses, visit http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses.
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I premi della 18ª edizione dei Satellite Awards sono stati consegnati il 23 febbraio 2014 a Los Angeles, California.

Vincitori e candidati
I vincitori verranno indicati in grassetto

Cinema

Miglior film
12 anni schiavo (12 Years Slave)
A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Philomena
American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Gravity
The Wolf of Wall Street
Saving Mr. Banks
All Is Lost - Tutto è perduto (All Is Lost)
Blue Jasmine

Miglior attore
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips - Attacco in mare aperto (Captain Phillips)
Robert Redford - All Is Lost - Tutto è perduto (All Is Lost)
Christian Bale - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years Slave)
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Forest Whitaker – The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca (The Butler)

Miglior attrice
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Meryl Streep - I segreti di Osage County (August: Osage County)
Judi Dench - Philomena
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
Adèle Exarchopoulos - La vita di Adele (La Vie d'Adèle)
Amy Adams - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Non dico altro (Enough Said)

Miglior attore non protagonista
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Jake Gyllenhaal - Prisoners
Harrison Ford - 42 - La vera storia di una leggenda americana (42)
Casey Affleck - Il fuoco della vendetta - Out of the Furnace (Out of the Furnace)
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Ryan Gosling - Come un tuono (The Place Beyond the Pines)
Michael Fassbender - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years Slave)
Tom Hanks - Saving Mr. Banks

Miglior attrice non protagonista
June Squibb - Nebraska
Julia Roberts - I segreti di Osage County (August: Osage County)
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Léa Seydoux - La vita di Adele (La Vie d'Adèle)
Oprah Winfrey - The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca (The Butler)
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years Slave)
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Emily Watson - Storia di una ladra di libri (The Book Thief)

Miglior regista
Steve McQueen - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
Ethan Coen e Joel Coen - A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Ron Howard - Rush
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips - Attacco in mare aperto (Captain Phillips)
David O. Russell - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

Miglior sceneggiatura originale
David O. Russell e Eric Singer - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
Nicole Holofcener - Non dico altro (Enough Said)
Ethan Coen e Joel Coen - A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Spike Jonze - Lei (Her)
Kelly Marcel e Sue Smith - Saving Mr. Banks

Miglior sceneggiatura non originale
Jeff Pope e Steve Coogan - Philomena
Billy Ray - Captain Phillips - Attacco in mare aperto (Captain Phillips)
Peter Berg - Lone Survivor
John Ridley - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
Terence Winter - The Wolf of Wall Street
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy e Richard Linklater - Before Midnight

Miglior film d'animazione o a tecnica mista

I Croods (The Croods)
Epic - Il mondo segreto (Epic)
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen - Il regno di ghiaccio (Frozen)
Monsters University
Piovono polpette 2 - La rivincita degli avanzi (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2)
Turbo

Miglior fotografia
 Bruno Delbonnel - A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
 Roger Deakins - Prisoners
 Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity
 Sean Bobbitt - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
 Stuart Dryburgh - I sogni segreti di Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
 Anthony Dod Mantle - Rush

Miglior costumi
 Michael O'Connor - The Invisible Woman
 Julian Day - Rush
 Catherine Martin - Il grande Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
 Daniel Orlandi - Saving Mr. Banks
 Patricia Norris - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
 Gary Jones - Il grande e potente Oz (Oz the Great and Powerful)

Miglior montaggio
 Crispin Struthers e Jay Cassidy - American Hustle - L'apparenza inganna (American Hustle)
 Thelma Schoonmaker - The Wolf of Wall Street
 Gary D. Roach e Joel Cox - Prisoners
 Alfonso Cuarón e Mark Sanger - Gravity
 Daniel P. Hanley e Mike Hill - Rush
 Joe Walker - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)

Miglior colonna sonora
Steven Price - Gravity
Alexandre Desplat - Philomena
Hans Zimmer - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years Slave)
Arcade Fire - Lei (Her)
Theodore Shapiro - I sogni segreti di Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
John Williams - Storia di una ladra di libri (The Book Thief)

Miglior canzone originale
Young and Beautiful - Il grande Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Let It Go - Frozen - Il regno di ghiaccio (Frozen)
I See Fire - Lo Hobbit - La desolazione di Smaug (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)
So You Know What It's Like - Short Term 12
Happy - Cattivissimo me 2 (Despicable Me 2)
Please Mr. Kennedy - A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Miglior scenografia
Beverly Dunn e Catherine Martin - Il grande Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Maria Djurkovic e Tatiana Macdonald - The Invisible Woman
Lauren E. Polizzi e Michael Corenblith - Saving Mr. Banks
Diane Lederman e Tim Galvin - The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca (The Butler)
Mark Digby e Patrick Rolfe - Rush
Nancy Haigh e Robert Stromberg - Il grande e potente Oz (Oz the Great and Powerful)

Miglior suono
Glenn Freemantle, Niv Adiri, Skip Lievsay - Gravity
Christopher Scarabosio, Craig Berkey, Dave Whitehead, David Husby - Elysium
Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker - All Is Lost - Tutto è perduto (All Is Lost)
Danny Hambrook, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler - Rush
Greg Orloff, Paul Urmson, Peter Kurland, Skip Lievsay - A proposito di Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Oliver Tarney	- Captain Phillips - Attacco in mare aperto (Captain Phillips)

Migliori effetti visivi
Charles Howell, Chris Lawrence, Tim Webber - Gravity
Andrew R. Jones, Jessica Norman, Matt Johnson, Scott Farrar - World War Z
Markus Manninen, Matt Baer - I Croods (The Croods)
James Schwalm, Scott Stokdyk, Troy Saliba - Il grande e potente Oz (Oz the Great and Powerful)
Antoine Moulineau, Jody Johnson, Mark Hodgkins - Rush
Brendon O'Dell, Colin Davies, Robert Munroe - All Is Lost - Tutto è perduto (All Is Lost)

Miglior film straniero
Alabama Monroe - Una storia d'amore • Belgio
Il sospetto (Jagten) • Danimarca
La vita di Adele (La Vie d'Adèle) • Francia
Four Corners • Sudafrica
La bicicletta verde (Wadjda) • Arabia Saudita
Circles • Serbia
Il passato (Le Passé) • Iran
La grande bellezza • Italia
Metro Manila • Regno Unito
Bethlehem • Israele

Miglior documentario
Blackfish
Twenty Feet from Stardom
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Al Midan
American Promise
The Act of Killing
Stories We Tell
Sound City
Tim's Vermeer
After Tiller

Televisione

Miglior serie drammatica
Breaking Bad
The Americans
Downton Abbey
The Good Wife
Homeland - Caccia alla spia
House of Cards
Last Tango in Halifax
Mad Men
Masters of Sex
Rectify

Miglior serie commedia o musicale
Orange Is the New Black
Alpha House
The Big Bang Theory
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Enlightened
Louie
Modern Family
C'era una volta (Once Upon a Time)
The Wrong Mans
Appunti di un giovane medico (A Young Doctor's Notebook)

Miglior serie tv di genere
Il Trono di Spade (Game of Thrones)
American Horror Story: Coven
Arrow
Grimm
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Orphan Black
Les Revenants
Supernatural
The Walking Dead

Miglior miniserie o film per la televisione
Dancing on the Edge
Dietro i candelabri (Behind the Candelabra)
The Big C: Hereafter
Burton & Taylor
Generation War
Mob City
Parade's End
Phil Spector
Top of the Lake - Il mistero del lago
The White Queen

Miglior attore in una serie drammatica
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom
Jon Hamm – Mad Men
Freddie Highmore – Bates Motel
Derek Jacobi – Last Tango in Halifax
Michael Sheen – Masters of Sex
Kevin Spacey – House of Cards
Aden Young – Rectify

Miglior attore in una serie commedia o musicale
John Goodman – Alpha House
Mathew Baynton – The Wrong Mans
Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Don Cheadle – House of Lies
Louis C.K. – Louie
James Corden – The Wrong Mans
Jake Johnson – New Girl
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

Miglior attore in una miniserie o film per la televisione
Michael Douglas – Dietro i candelabri (Behind the Candelabra)
Matt Damon – Dietro i candelabri (Behind the Candelabra)
Benedict Cumberbatch – Parade's End
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Dancing on the Edge
Matthew Goode – Dancing on the Edge
Peter Mullan – Top of the Lake
Al Pacino – Phil Spector
Dominic West – Burton & Taylor

Miglior attrice in una serie drammatica
Robin Wright – House of Cards
Lizzy Caplan – Masters of Sex
Olivia Colman – Broadchurch
Vera Farmiga – Bates Motel
Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black
Anne Reid – Last Tango in Halifax
Keri Russell – The Americans
Abigail Spencer – Rectify

Miglior attrice in una serie commedia o musicale
Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black
Laura Dern – Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel – New Girl
Lena Dunham – Girls
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie - Terapia d'urto (Nurse Jackie)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation
Jessica Walter – Arrested Development

Miglior attrice in una miniserie o film per la televisione
Elisabeth Moss – Top of the Lake
Helena Bonham Carter – Burton & Taylor
Holliday Grainger – Bonnie & Clyde
Rebecca Hall – Parade's End
Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Coven
Melissa Leo – Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Helen Mirren – Phil Spector

Miglior attore non protagonista in una serie, miniserie o film per la televisione
Aaron Paul – Breaking Bad
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Il Trono di Spade (Game of Thrones)
William Hurt – Bonnie & Clyde
Peter Sarsgaard – The Killing
Jimmy Smits – Sons of Anarchy
Corey Stoll – House of Cards
Jon Voight – Ray Donovan
James Wolk – Mad Men

Miglior attrice non protagonista in una serie, miniserie o film per la televisione
Laura Prepon – Orange Is the New Black
Uzo Aduba – Orange Is the New Black
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Coven
Emilia Clarke – Il Trono di Spade (Game of Thrones)
Anna Gunn – Breaking Bad
Margo Martindale – The Americans
Judy Parfitt – L'amore e la vita - Call the Midwife
Merritt Wever – Nurse Jackie - Terapia d'urto (Nurse Jackie)

Riconoscimenti speciali

Mary Pickford Award
Mike Medavoy

Auteur Award
Guillermo del Toro

Nikola Tesla Award
Garrett Brown

Independent Producer of the Year Award
Gabrielle Tana

Honorary Satellite Award
Ryan Coogler per Prossima fermata Fruitvale Station (Fruitvale Station)

Newcomer Award
Michael B. Jordan per Prossima fermata Fruitvale Station (Fruitvale Station)
Sophie Nélisse per Storia di una ladra di libri (The Book Thief)

Miglior cast in un film
Nebraska

Miglior cast in una serie televisiva
Orange Is the New Black

Collegamenti esterni

Cinema nel 2014
Televisione nel 2014
Satellite Awards

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Just a heads up on Saturday, October 6 there will be a parade kicking off from Norton HS at 10am. Please come into the school off of Easton, so you can avoid all of it. You will definitely want to get there early so you don't get stuck on Cleveland-Massillon while its closed down.
There is map attached if you have any questions!