In the final part in her series on how the New York breeding industry has been revitalized in recent years largely because of the lucrative breeder, stallion and owner awards program, Terese Karmel reports on worries over the future of the casino revenue that has made that program possible.
Although at the moment, things seem fairly smooth for the New York breds program, officials and horsemen are quick to point out that the issues of NYRA control and casino VLT (Video Lottery Terminal) distribution leave many important unanswered questions for them.
"Yes I worry about it," said Michael Lischin, co-owner of Dutchess View Farms, in Pine Planes, New York . "The New York breeding program makes us able to make a profit. If we didn't have it, we'd have to go out of business.
The future of the control of NYRA was finally wrapped up over the first weekend in April when, facing a state budget deadline, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed to a compromise that still gives the state powers to oversee NYRA but provides a greater voice to horsemen.
Sixteen members of the new 17-member board, which officially moves NYRA back into private hands, were announced before the Belmont Stakes draw on Wednesday.
Though Cuomo sought to make them ex-officio members, the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and New York Breeders Inc. will each get a seat on the NYRA board with full voting powers.
The Senate and Assembly also changed Cuomo's proposal to greatly strengthen the powers of a state panel that oversees parts of NYRA's budget, a sticking point for horsemen. The governor wanted the Franchise Oversight Board, created in 2008 when NYRA's racing franchise was extended, to be able to impound NYRA's funds, such as money it gets from the Aqueduct casino for operating aid and purses. He also wanted to give the board powers to take "corrective" actions if the board, in its opinion, believes there were "significant" risks to NYRA's finances.
However, lawmakers said the powers sought by the governor were too vague and that the panel could end up serving as a de facto NYRA board. The oversight board is dominated by Cuomo appointees.
Many of the oversight board powers sought by Cuomo are in the final agreement to re-privatize NYRA, but lawmakers restricted potential controls by requiring a unanimous vote by the board's members. That could favor NYRA, because the unanimous votes would have to come from members appointed by the Legislature, which has had its problems with NYRA but tends to look upon the racing corporation more favorably than a long list of New York governors over time.
According to press reports, Senator John Bonacic, chairman of the Senate's racing and wagering committee, whose district includes many horse operations, said it was time the state got out of the business of Thoroughbred racing.
The Republican senator said having representatives from the breeder and horsemen groups will bring other voices with expertise in various aspects of racing to the board.
"I expect greater things from the new board than what we've seen in the past," Bonacic said.
Jeff Cannizzo, executive director of New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc., the major industry lobby group representing more than 300 horse farms, said the reprivatization agreement protects the industry's 33,000 jobs.
"Thanks to Governor Cuomo's ongoing commitment to preserving this diverse agricultural industry that touches every county of New York State, the most prestigious racing in the United States will continue for decades at NYRA," Cannizzo said.
Since 2012, the issue of putting NYRA back in the hands of horsemen has been debated, when mismanagement and losing propositions prompted Cuomo to appoint a state board to take over the $4.2 equine industry, much the biggest proportion of which relates to Thoroughbred racing and breeding, with the provision that his 2017 budget would include funds to return it to private hands.
The revenue issues involving VLTs located at Aqueduct's Resorts World Casino, owned by Genting, a worldwide Malaysian casino company, and terminals owned by the state-approved Nassau OTB, which has yet to find a location for its facility, have been apparently also been resolved.
An agreement was reached, approved by the state Gaming Commission in October 2016 and signed into law the following April, in which Genting agreed to host up to 1,000 VLTS for Nassau OTB while that operation pursues a location. Some 460 are already installed and Nassau has the option of installing 540 more. The revenue from the Nassau terminals does not by law go to NYRA or New York breeders.
As part of that agreement, however, Genting had to commit to a $330 million expansion to include a hotel and other destination amenities. Ground has yet to be broken and there is no deadline.
A spokesman for the Gaming Commission said the intention of the agreement was "if Genting could expand, it could generate more money for NYRA and breeders".
This could be important because the competition for the gambling dollar could become intense since two new casinos are planned for nearby Long Island and the possibility of a Nassau OTB facility also could affect the Aqueduct business.
Finger Lakes casino issues are a more focused example of potential VLT revenue problems, although recent actions by various state and New York bred agencies have helped matters.
"That's reared its ugly head again," said leading owner Michael Dubb, alluding to the recent opening of the glitzy del Lago Resort and Casino. A Las Vegas type operation just 29 miles from the Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack, it is outside the Finger Lakes racing district. Its revenues indicate it is drawing patrons whose gambling dollars are no longer being spent at the racetrack casino, thus cutting revenue for the Thoroughbred industry.
After weeks of haggling, the Finger Lakes horsemen and the state agreed to a compromise solution for the track, which has been losing money for years. The agreement, only good for a year, cuts racing dates from 155 to 145 (April 22 through Nov. 28) and establishes some controls over the number of races per day, especially during the elite Saratoga meet about 200 miles away.
The positive side of the agreement requires the owners to commit between $600,000 and $1 million, depending on VLT yields, to Finger Lakes to guarantee an average purse size of $13,690, about the same as 2016. It also protects 1,200 jobs, Cuomo pointed out in his press release on the agreement.
Finger Lakes racing got a generous surplus in March, when the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund approved awarding any New York bred (sired by a registered New York stallion) that wins a maiden special weight an extra $7,000 in first place purse money, representing a 37 percent increase over previous awards. Purses for state-bred maiden winners will range from $23,000 to $30,000; open company maiden special winners will have added funds.
Fund Executive Director Tracy Egan said the decision was made to encourage New York breeders to look to New York stallions when making breeding plans.
That Fund decision supplements increased contributions from del Lago to offset anticipated declines in VLT revenue at the track casino.
Dubb, who has plenty of New York breds in addition to top-flight Kentucky breds, said the awards program makes it possible for people who own horses to have a good shot with the incentives, creates thousands of jobs across the state and helps New York's horse industry be second only to the dairy industry in terms of the contribution to the state's agricultural economy.
In 2016, 73 percent of the total starts at Finger Lakes were New York breds, who also won 73 percent of the 1,330 races.
"It's a total win situation," said Dubb, whose German-bred 7-year-old colt, Wake Forest, won the G2 Mac Diarmida turf race at Gulfstream Park in March.
Dubb said the uncertainties connected with the New York breeding program are the same that horseracing in general faces, although in New York the privatization issue needed to be settled. With horsemen controlling the board, "people who would run NYRA would be better stewards of the sport," he added.
Dubb, who created and owns Beechwood Organization, a highly successful Long Island construction firm, is very successful on the New York circuit, having won the New York owners' title five of the last seven years with a number of partnerships.
Most recently, he has had New York winners in three different categories, including Fourstarcrook, a 5-year-old turf stakes winner by Freud, Royal Posse, a 6-year-old New York bred, who just passed the $1 million earnings mark that includes the $200,000 Claiming Crown Jewel for a second straight year at Gulfstream Park, Bonita Bianca, and a 3-year-old filly by Curlin from a New York mare, Friendly Michelle, who placed second in the open company Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct in November and has also won two stakes for New York breds.
As does Adam Wachtel, whose NY bred division of his national Thoroughbred operation has been in the family since his late father, Ed Wachtel, started buying New York breds in the late 1980s. Wachtel said the New York program is getting increasingly more traction in the industry.
The first stallion the family boarded in New York was Claramount, successful on the track and even more productive in the breeding shed at Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., where he became one of the leading stallions in the state. When he was retired, the family brought other colts to stud at Keane, including Smokin Mel, One Nice Cat and, most recently, a son of Medaglio d'Oro, Al Khali, whom Wachtel called "a monster of a horse".
A more recent Wachtel 'monster' is Tourist, winner of the 2016 Breeder's Cup Mile on turf. Tourist is currently standing at WinStar in Kentucky for $12,500, but Wachtel and his partners hope to breed a few of their New York mares to him so they can drop their foals in New York. One, a 7-year-old mare, Agawa, is currently bred to Tourist and will breed back to Al Khali next season, according to the plan.
"Even Kentucky breeders when I had conversations with them about Tourist said it would be fun to get some Tourist babies in New York," Wachtel said.


This file contains images of the California Chaparral before and after fires. The plants that burn or the parts of the plants that burn help indicate what particles will be the signature of the fire.
This file contains the charred plant material from these fires. The burnt clay and fire retardant is the same for this wild fire as it is for all other wildfires. California chaparral includes geni of Adenostoma (greasewood), Purshia (bitterbrush), Heteromeles (toyon), Cercocarpus (mountain mahogany), Prunus (cherries), and members of the families Rhamnaceae (buckthorn), Ericaceae (heather), Fagaceae (beech), and Anacrdiaceae (sumac). Quercus (Shrub live oak) is common on north facing slopes and moister areas. Platanus (arizona sycamore) is also present.
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THE NINE CLUB — adidas Skate Copa LA
The Nine Club
The Nine Club went on location at the adidas Skate Copa event in Los Angeles over the weekend. The highlights include interviews with Nora Vasconcellos, Jack Fardell, Na-kel Smith, Paul Shier, and more.
At the 29:26 mark, Na-kel reveals that he's involved Johnah Hill's directorial debut title, Mid '90s. The film utilizes skateboarding in Los Angeles during the '90s as the backdrop and is currently in post production.
Na-kel: "I went to Paris and I was skating. And that was the first time I was skating after the movie."
TNC: "Aren't you working on Jonah Hill's movie?"
Na-Kel: "That's a wrap. We wrapped that. And that was like a six week break from skating, and not from an injury. So it's like, I'm fully capable of skating, but not. And I wanted to skate so bad."
Na-kel has come a long way since our Text Yoself with Odd Future from 2011. Take a trip down memory lane below.
TYS | Odd Future
TYSHAWN JONES — New Era HOME FIELD
Tyshawn Jones talks about coming up skating in New York.
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YOONIVISION — Stephen Lawyer's Recruit
Here are photos, or at least the ones I could shoot in a still, to explain Stephen Lawyer's bag of tricks from his Recruit. If the human brain is having a hard time wrapping its head around...
STEPHEN LAWYER — Recruited
The early '90s signified the biggest change skateboarding has ever gone through and became the defining principle of what it meant to skateboard. Since then, the pros of the early 90s have m...
CONS X CHOCOLATE — Kenny Anderson & Friends
You've seen the collaboration, now check the video.
Last Month, Today
LAST MONTH, TODAY — August 2017

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How can we make the best slime?: Max Graham, Jasmine Hayes and Rebecca Logan (L-R) from Dunclug Primary School in Ballymena prepare for one of the biggest science events on the island of Ireland. The ESB Science Blast is coming to Belfast on June 5th and 6th bringing up to 2000 Key Stage 2 pupils together from all over Ulster to display their creative science investigations at the ICC Belfast (Waterfront Hall).
ONE of the biggest science events on the island of Ireland is coming to Belfast, bringing nearly 2,000 Key Stage 2 pupils together from all over Ulster to display their creative science investigations at the ICC Belfast (Waterfront Hall) on June 5 and 6, 2019.
Managed and delivered by the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and endorsed by CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment), this non-competitive education programme calls on primary school students from across the Province to harness their natural curiosity and register their involvement by Wednesday February 27.
Nurturing 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving and creativity – skills highlighted by the World Economic Forum – ESB Science Blast will make learning STEM skills (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fun for both students and teachers, and will feature amazing science entertainment shows, tailor-made for a 7-12-year-old audience.
Schools can find out more information and register for their place at www.esbscienceblast.com.
Up to 10,000 primary school students and their STEM projects will be involved across three ESB Science Blast showcase events this year in Belfast, Dublin and Limerick. With an underlying ethos of encouragement through whole-class participation, the constructive feedback received from judges who work across science, education and STEM industries will also give students the opportunity to engage with STEM professionals.
Schools can also keep in touch with the event via Instagram, Twitter & Facebook.


Just to add on Kenya birding, There are almost 1087 species and the region has seven endemic bird species.There are also a lot of East Africa endemic found in Kenya.A bird enthusiast should also try visiting the IBA'S [Important bird areas], Most of them fall in unprotected areas hence if one just visit the national parks and reserves, there is a lot to be missed.A good safari company should be able to link visit to the IBA,S in the itinerary.
For a good experience a birder should make sure that his guide is knowledgeable in the field of ornithology, i would personally recommend the Kenya eco-bird guide association GUIDES. They are the "top notched" when it comes to East Africa birdwatching.What a bird paradise called KENYA.
Birding its all about passion and eager to be challenge. Nick over 1080 species has its own challenge, Are guide en up coming ones ready to show what they got. its fascinating to see how Kenya is rich in terms of bird species. just the other day we had 7 Narina Trogon within a radius of 2 kilometer, that count for a good birding day.


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CHHS Scholarship Luncheon Brings Together Students, Donors
On April 1, 2019, the College of Health and Human Services and University Advancement hosted a scholarship and donor appreciation luncheon, bringing together donors and student recipients to celebrate student success. This year, the College awarded more than 80 donor-funded scholarships, fellowships and special awards.
The luncheon gave scholarship recipients and donors the chance to meet each other, and provided students with the opportunity to personally thank many of the people who made their scholarships possible. Donors got to see, firsthand, the kind of impact they've had in the lives of students, and the students had chance to explain how critical the scholarships have been in their educational pursuits.
The program also featured testimonies from donors and students alike, allowing the perspective of both sides of giving to be heard. Offering the students' perspective was Howard Smith, a public health major in the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences, and recipient of the Frenkel Foundation scholarship."With this opportunity, I was able to dedicate more time towards studying for my sciences and volunteering in the community, rather than looking for hourly positions to supplement my education and expenses," Smith said. "In fact, by the end of this year, I will complete over 200 hours of community service under Kevin Briggs, administrative director of pathology and laboratory services at New Hanover Regional Medical Center."
Speaking from the donors' perspective was George Barnes '82, who established a nursing scholarship in honor of his late wife, Leonora, who earned her nursing degree from UNCW. "I decided to help others and started the scholarship. She loved being a nurse. It's always imprinted on my mind – forever."
Dean Hardy praised students within the College and the donors who support them, saying, "You represent the innovative and exciting future that we, as a university, have dedicated ourselves to reaching. Thank you for your engagement in learning, your active participation in campus leadership roles, and your commitment to making a difference on our campus and in this community. Donors, your gifts to the university are priceless. Your support makes education for these students possible, and allows them to flourish at one of the best universities in the nation."
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ALERT: The Psiphon Team has discovered a specific instance of malware disguised as a Psiphon 3 Windows executable. The malware is being distributed as a zip file named "pisphone3.zip" on www.copy.com and may be available from other sources. The zip file contains a malicious binary named "pisphone3.exe" with the properties described at Virus Total. Note the misspelling of the name. This Windows executable is not digitally signed by Psiphon Inc. Never run a fresh download of Psiphon without checking its digital signature, as described here.
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Psiphon 3 is designed to provide you with open access to online content. Psiphon does not increase your online privacy, and should not be considered or used as an online security tool.
Click the link to download the client program for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 (desktop) or Android 2.2+.
Psiphon 3 clients for iOS and Mac OS X are coming soon.
Psiphon 3 for Windows is never distributed as an installable package. Each Psiphon 3 for Windows client is a single executable file (".exe") that is digitally signed by Psiphon Inc. Windows automatically checks this signature when you run the client. You can also manually inspect the signature before running the client by invoking the Properties dialog for the file and inspecting the Digital Signatures tab.
Psiphon 3 for Windows auto-updates itself, and this process automatically verifies that each update is authentic.
Psiphon 3 automatically starts connecting when you run it. While it is connecting, a spinning icon is displayed. You may select one of the following tunnel modes: VPN (L2TP over IPSec), SSH, or SSH+ (SSH plus obfuscation, a randomized layer on top of SSH to avoid protocol fingerprinting).
Connection to the Psiphon server is established when the green icon is displayed. In VPN mode, all of your traffic automatically tunnels through Psiphon 3.
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When you close the program, Psiphon 3 automatically disconnects. You can also click on the icon to toggle the connection.
ALERT: A recently reported vulnerability may cause Android app signature checking to falsely report malicious APKs as valid. We recommend that users turn on the Google Verify Apps feature as documented here.
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Click on a Psiphon APK link from within your Android email or browser to begin the installation.
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User IP addresses and email addresses are never collected; users are not required to create accounts to use the system.
Event logs include timestamps, region codes (GeoIP country code) and non-identifying attributes including sponsor ID (determined by which Psiphon client is used), client version, and protocol type. Page views are aggregated by time and/or session before being logged.
From time to time Psiphon may have to record additional information in order to resolve a problem with our service. When this occurs, we will add an entry here describing what was recorded, how long it was kept, and why.
Psiphon 3 is an open source project. You can find source code and design documents on the project home page.
Psiphon 3 clients use the following open source components.
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Q: Why does my Psiphon 3 IP address frequently change?
A: Your Psiphon 3 client will automatically discover new Psiphon 3 servers. When the last server used is currently unavailable, another one can be used instead.
Q: Why do I see the message "connection failed" repeating over and over?
A: If you see repeated "connection failed" messages, it means that there are no available servers that your client knows about. Try to download a new Psiphon 3 client.
Q: How can I get a new Psiphon 3 client?
A: Send an email to get@psiphon3.com or the email address you used to obtain your current Psiphon 3 client.
Q: How do I check my current version of Psiphon 3?
A: When Psiphon 3 starts, it displays the Client Version on the first line of output.
Q: What is the file "psiphon3.exe.orig"?
A: The automatic update process in Psiphon 3 for Windows renames its old version to "psiphon3.exe.orig". Old files with the ".orig" suffix can safely be deleted.
Q: Does Psiphon 3 for Windows proxy all of my Internet traffic?
A: Only in VPN mode. After a successful connection is established in VPN mode, your entire computer's traffic will pass through the Psiphon 3 network. In SSH modes, only applications that use the local HTTP and SOCKS proxies will be proxied.
Q: Is Psiphon 3 for Windows compatible with IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome web browsers?
A: Yes. In SSH modes, check your browser settings and make sure that it is configured to use the system proxy settings.
Q: Are there any port restrictions in VPN mode? Why can't I send email using my mail client in VPN mode?
A: Outbound connections from the Psiphon 3 for Windows VPN can be made only on the following ports: 53, 80, 443, 554, 1935, 7070, 8000, 8001, 6971-6999. See this discussion for more information. Mail clients cannot establish outbound connections on ports 25 and 587. See this discussion for more information.
Q: What VPN protocol is used by Psiphon 3 for Windows? Why can't I connect?
A: Psiphon uses the L2TP/IPSec VPN protocol. Your network's firewall may not allow the use of VPNs. Your home router may not be configured to pass through this VPN protocol; check your firewall settings to see that IPSec or L2TP pass-through is enabled. Your system's IPSec Services may be disabled; check your service settings and enable this service to start automatically.
Q: I can connect to Psiphon 3 for Windows in VPN mode, but why is it so slow? Sometimes web pages don't load at all.
A: Certain networking hardware or Internet connections may cause performance problems for L2TP/IPSec which is the protocol used by Psiphon 3 in VPN mode. Try using SSH modes instead.
Q: When I connect to Psiphon 3 for Windows in VPN mode, none of my web pages load. I get error messages indicating that a domain lookup failed.
A: Psiphon 3 restricts DNS traffic to white-listed, vetted DNS servers. The Psiphon 3 client automatically configures your VPN DNS server settings. If you're getting errors related to DNS, check that you're not infected by the "DNS Changer" malware, which tries to change your DNS server settings. More info can be found here.
Q: How do I configure applications to use the Psiphon 3 tunnel in SSH modes?
A: Psiphon 3 will automatically configure your system to use a local HTTP/HTTPS proxy at 127.0.0.1:8080 and a local SOCKS proxy at 127.0.0.1:1080. Windows applications that use the System Proxy Settings will automatically be proxied. You may manually configure other applications to use these local proxies. Both Psiphon 3 for Windows (SSH modes) and Psiphon 3 for Android run these local proxies.
Q: What is SSH+ mode?
A: SSH mode with the addition of an obfuscation layer on top of the SSH handshake to defend against protocol fingerprinting. A description of the protocol can be found here.
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A: The local HTTP proxy could not run. You might have another process running that is using the default port. Try using a different port. See the question "Q. Can I run the local HTTP proxy on a different port than 8080?"
Q. Can I run the local HTTP proxy on a different port than 8080?
A: Yes, on Windows. Click Run, and type "regedit" to open the Registry Editor. Find and open "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Psiphon3", and on the right side you will see "UserLocalHTTPProxyPort". Set it's value to the port (in Decimal) that you would like to use.
Q: I use AutoProxy. How can I tell Psiphon 3 for Windows not to configure my system proxy settings?
A: Click Run, and type "regedit" to open the Registry Editor. Find and open "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Psiphon3", and on the right side you will see "UserSkipProxySettings". Set this value to 1 and Psiphon 3 will not automatically configure the system proxy settings.


Hey everybody, we are back and we are once again talking sci-fi! We are going to talk about a movie that as soon as it hit my radar, I was really excited for. I of course mean Annihilation, a movie based on a novel of the same name which was the first of a trilogy of books. So, without further ado, let's have a look at the movie. As usual, no spoilers.
Hey everyone we are back again with another movie review. I was originally going to talk about Superbowl trailers but one of those trailers was for The Cloverfield Paradox, called The God Particle when it was on my list of anticipated movies for 2017. And not only that, we also got a release date, it was coming out on Netflix that night after the game. And I finally got a chance to see it. So let's see what all that waiting is for. I have tried to write this as a non-spoiler review. I really have. That's part of the reason this is later than anticipated. But unfortunately, this is one of those movies you can't talk about without talking about the movie. So, out of the ordinary and spoilers ahead.
Hey everyone, we are back with a new movie review! Today we are taking a look at Toho's 30th Godzilla feature (and the first animated one) with Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters. Now this film was originally released in November 2017 in Japan, but only got a worldwide release this month via Netflix. We watched the English dubbed version for this review and as usual, no spoilers ahead.
Hey, everyone, we're back with numbers 11-1 of my movies of 2017. It's all up from here folks, as we count down to my favorite movie of the year. Let's get right to it!
Hello everyone, it's that time of the year again. We're now in 2018 so let's give 2017 one final send-off by talking about the movies of the year. I waited a little bit to write this because there was one movie that I really needed to see again before I put everything in the final order. Now that I've taken care of that we can get down to this. I didn't see that many movies this year (I have a list of 22) for a variety of reasons such as distance from theater, releases that don't release wide enough for us to get them, general time/life/work, etc. things. There are some big releases that I haven't seen that I wish I could have put on here but unfortunately can't, so sorry to It, Thor: Ragnarok, Blade Runner 2049, Geostorm, and Justice League, but you don't get to be on the list. I will be seeing them once they hit home release but I just didn't get to them theatrically. With that said, let's get part one started!
So, I've just got back from seeing the new Star Wars film, which can only mean one thing. Review time.
And we were biding our time.
Waiting and hoping it would be a goody.


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Q: Rails file location and access My root is site/home/ubuntu/workspace/

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*Is it possible to access file (from browser by HTTP request) located inside workspace/ without configuring routes and controllers?

*Does the question on 1) depend on file extension?

A: I have this structure:
# /home/username/Workspace/rails_project/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
require "#{Rails.root}/../test.rb

And
# /home/username/Workspace/test.rb
# Some ruby code

As you can see, test.rbfile is outside RubyOnRails Project.
For security reason, you can not access a file outside project rails from URL without defining a route. What you can do, is point a route to controller that, based on file name provided at url, require a file outside rails project.
# /home/username/Workspace/rails_project/config/routes.rb
get '/get_file/:file_name', to: 'files#show'

# /home/username/Workspace/rails_project/app/controllers/files_controller.rb
class FilesController < ApplicationController
    def show
        document = params[:file_name]
        send_data "#{Rails.root}/../#{document}, filename: document
    end
end

For more info, see:
  http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/DataStreaming.html#method-i-send_data

A: you can access path to your file like this:
File.expand_path("somestuff.rb", "~/workspace")

for me this code produces path as follows:
"/home/foodie/workspace/somestuff.rb"

A: Without configuring routes and controllers, client can only access files in the public/ directory (it doesn't matter what the extension is).   Bare in mind this: when your Rails app is run by webserver, its webroot will be the public directory, consequently to access public/file.ext you request should be webroot/file.ext


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Tag Archives: Straight-to-video
Review of 200 M.P.H. (2011)
200 M.P.H. (2011) is a straight-to-video action/sports/drama movie by The Asylum, a film company specializing primarily in mockbusters.
Directed by Cole S. McKay (Star Hunter (1996), 3 Musketeers (2011)).
Written by Thunder Levin (Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood! (2008), American Warship (2012)).
Starring: Jaz Martin, Hennely Jimenez, Darren Anthony Thomas, Paul Logan, AnnaMaria Demara, Tommy Nash, Janet Tracy Keijser and others.
So here's The Asylum trying their luck in recreating the magic of the Fast & Furious series. Great, a bad knock-off of movies that I really don't like in the first place.
A guy parks in a driveway and his brother comes out and says "it's like an 80,000 dollar car", no, please be more specific and then he proceeds to list exact specifics of the car. This happens a lot, if a character knows shit about cars, he better list some specs from Wikipedia. This doesn't make the guys look cool at all, they seem more like nerds. They are less the guy with a greasy engine in his hand and more the guy telling you Star Trek trivia.
I don't know shit about cars, so I relied on this movie to educate me. Now I know that I would be considered a cool person if my car could do "0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds". I am willing to bet half of the shit they're saying is total rubbish.
Ok, so finally we get to some racing. What's going on? Why is it on fast forward? Oh, god, no, they sped up the footage. They could've put it in at normal speed and put like a little note to pop up on screen, that says "now use fast forward x2, because we didn't know we were supposed to shoot at lower framerate".
The characters are something. Our main guy is… well… uh, if you found Paul Walker bland, you haven't seen this guy. His mother is a stripper, but you know who else is a stripper? His girlfriend. Yeah, talk about Oedipal syndrome, huh? At one point he walks into a strip-club and his mother just greets him topless and he's like "geez, mom", like it's some kind of twisted sitcom called "Mom's a Stripper!" There's also this corrupt cop, spouting macho lines like "Did I stutter?" and homoerotic poetry like "No, this is me, the man with your balls in my hand!", which sort of left me feeling unsure if it was meant as a metaphor. Then there's a chick who does her best Michelle Rodriguez, which made me cringe. I like my Michelle Rodriguez done by Michelle Rodriguez.
No Asylum movie is complete without bad CGI, so here we get a CG car crash. So the main guy's brother dies during a race and you know what? Boo-fucking-hoo, should I really feel sorry for an illegal street-racer dying? You go out at night and drive like a madman with you're douchy sports-car, you're kind of asking for it. The only reason why I felt a bit sorry, was because he was the only character, that I didn't hate,
At one point a chick crashes her motorbike off-screen, does a roll on the ground and just keeps running. That's some Catwoman trick right there. The car chases are at times pretty decent, but then they're destroyed by some sped-up shots and cut-aways to CG-cars. I must also mention a scene, where the corrupt cop is chasing the main guy, suddenly there's a CG helicopter after those two cars and it's not even in the air, it's like 10 meters of the ground and then it disappears and is never refered to.
This movie is shit, which I totally didn't expect from a movie produced by The Asylum, directed by some stunt-man and written by a guy, who's name is Thunder. Sounded like this is going to be some quality material.
Overall, this is one of the worst The Asylum movies I've seen, it has its over-the-top moments, that are unintentionally hilarious, but mostly it just drags. I hated it, not recommended.
Pictured: A review from Rotten Tomatoes, which is written by a guy, who sounds like every character from this movie. A dorky douchebag.
Tags: 2011, Action, Cars, Drama, Movies, Racing, Reviews, Straight-to-video, The Asylum
Review of Hellraiser: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser: Deader (2005) is a straight-to-video mystery/thriller/horror film and the seventh film in the Hellraiser film franchise.
Directed by Rick Bota (Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), Harper's Island (2009 TV)).
Written by Benjamin Carr (Super Hybrid (2010), Zarkorr! The Invader (1996)) and Tim Day (Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)).
Starring: Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys Doug Bradley, Marc Warren, Georgina Rylance, Simon Kunz and others.
We open up to some chick waking up in a crack-den, then just walking out. Turns out she's a well-known journalist. Obviously not well-known amongst crack-heads. She goes to some office and her boss shows her a snuff film of sorts, where a chick shoots herself in the head and then comes back to life. The journalist says "tell me it's some kind of special effect", but then, of course, she instantly abandons this idea and goes to Romania to investigate.
During her investigation she gets her hands on the puzzle box and soon bad shit starts happening, mostly to the viewer of this film. We are once again subjected to pointless hallucination/dream sequences, as she tries to find out more about this cultist sect called "deaders".
She visits some guy who gives her various information, which he has acquired by being a leader of a gang that is an insult to Romania's subway system. Because there is a whole metro train, he and other subculture euro-trash people are living in. I suppose you can have your own train, if you keep up with the schedule. However, it compliments the educational system by having everyone in Romania speak good English.
At first I thought that the movie was going for a certain tone, but then I realised that the tone is created by the combined blandness of digital video and a boring script.
It seems Rick Bota had chosen to make the Hellraiser series about people seeing things and nothing actually happening, because the previous one was like that, this one is like that and the next one is in a way also like that. Why did they let him do three movies? Why can't they write scripts for the series and not rewrite unrelated ones? Why?
There is one cool scene, where a character wakes up in the night, to find a knife stuck in her back and tries to get it out. That was the only interesting scene in the whole movie. Pinhead appears a couple of times and delivers some words of wisdom and I was grateful that at least they didn't make him the villain.
Overall, there's some flashes of interesting choices, but it doesn't hide it being a total mess, it's really bad. Not recommended.
"Ahh! It sucks that I can't bend my neck, otherwise I could just let these chains slip over my head!"
Tags: 2005, Hellraiser franchise, Horror, Movies, Mystery, Rated R, Reviews, Sequel, Straight-to-video, Thriller
Review of Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)
Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) is a straight-to-video thriller/mystery/horror film and the sixth film in the Hellraiser film franchise.
Directed by Rick Bota (Hellraiser: Deader (2005), Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)).
Written by Carl V. Dupre (Detroit Rock City (1999), The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)) and Tim Day (Hellraiser: Deader (2005), Roulette (2003 Short)).
Starring: Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Trevor White, Rachel Hayward, Michael Rogers and others.
The movie starts and we see that Ashley Laurence is back, that's great, Hellraiser was at its best with her. She is in a car with her husband and they crash into the water. Why? Because they start kissing while driving a car, that's not an accident, that's suicide. Laurence drowns.
You start thinking "Oh, it's a dream, no way they would just use her for five minutes and then her character dies. Right?" Wrong. During the whole movie she appears for like 10 minutes total.
After the crash, the husband wakes up in the hospital, gets sedated, wakes up during a brain surgery and then wakes up again, so the brain surgery was a dream. Or was it? It's less than 10 minutes into the movie and I'm already confused, a great sign.
What is cool about the movie, is that it looks like it's shot in the early 90's and except for the scenes in the office, where the guy works, there's not much that would make it seem like it's not. Ok, there's a CG eel that crawls out of the guy's mouth at one point, but the CG is bad enough to not disrupt the 90's feel.
Then this guy starts getting hallucinations every couple of minutes, so if anything weird happens, I instantly doubt if that's real. And as the movie goes on it gets even more fucking confusing. 30 minutes into the movie, the guy just wakes up at work and I'm not sure if I'm just thrown back to the last time I saw him at work, like 15 minutes ago. Did I just spend 15 minutes watching him dreaming?
You gradually understand that our hero is a cheating bastard and, as we know, in Hellraiser movies these don't have the best of fates. Even more, the guy is just this total asshole and the only reason you sympathise with him, is that you're forced to, since everyone around him are even bigger assholes.
Seriously, the movie is so fractured that when at one point the guy wakes up from a hallucination that turns into a dream, from which he wakes up to have another hallucination, I just gave up and stopped caring. How am I supposed to feel any suspense when I know that the movie spends a minute in reality and then it sinks into five minutes of some nightmare jumpscare world. All the scene transitions are him waking up.
However, for an unrelated script, just like Inferno, this does play on the pleasure/lust/whatever else aspect of the series and the tone is even more similar to Inferno than the previous ones, but it's still ridiculously hard to watch. It's a psychological thriller both for the main character and the viewer trying to make sense of this mess.
Pinhead and some cenobites do appear briefly, but they're both unimpressive and unimportant. Just thrown in there. Ashley Laurence appears again at the end in a plot twist, that isn't awful, but I just didn't care at that point.
Overall, visually decent, but terribly annoying to watch. It's torture on your brain that is used to more or less cohesive films. It's a stupid movie, not recommended.
Pictured: The influence of Hentai on Hollywood('s straight-to-video section).
Review of Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) is a straight to video mystery/thriller/horror film and the fifth film in the Hellraiser film franchise.
Directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)).
Written by Paul Harris Boardman (Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)) and Scott Derrickson (Land of Plenty (2004), Sinister (2012)).
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Nicholas Turturro, Doug Bradley, James Remar, Nicholas Sadler, Lindsay Taylor and others.
With this one the Hellraiser series dropped into the almost guaranteed shittiness, that the straight-to-video format brings. However, sometimes horror movies benefit from the lack of restraints of theatrical releases. Is it the case with this one? Yes and no.
We follow a crooked cop, who snorts coke and is good at chess. A three-dimensional character if there ever was one. He goes to a crime scene where a guy is ripped apart. He is not as familiar with a scene like that as we are. Of course there's the puzzle box somewhere lying around.
The cop goes home and he has a wife and a young daughter. Oh, he's a family man, that's nice. Then he leaves and fucks a prostitute in a motel room. Him being this total sleazebag helps to create this mood of dreariness, lust, perversion. After banging the hooker, the bad lieutenant goes into the bathroom and opens the box.
I don't get why every time the box works differently. This time the Pinhead doesn't instantly come, he's transported to a weird house, where there's some cenobite chicks, and the upper body half version of Chatterer. The cenobite effects are really good, they look creepy. He runs into Pinhead and… wakes up on the bathroom floor.
From then on various shit starts happening to the cop. People he knows start dying and by their dead bodies fingers of a child are left. He must investigate, because that's what he does. That and being a dick.
Craig Sheffer is really good as the cop, you feel him slowly descending into paranoia and madness and his untrustworthy face is suited for the role, because he's a good guy, who is also a total asshole. James Remar has an interesting role as a priest/psychiatrist.
Here the tone of the series also shifted dramatically, it's not so much a horror movie, than a psychological thriller, although, both of the terms are kind of loose and often interchangeable. I didn't mind it much, because at least this dark thriller encapsulates the themes of rage, sex, pain, pleasure and nightmares a lot better than Bloodline or even Hell On Earth. Also at some parts the detective starts talking in voice over, so the movie feels like film noir.
People have complained that Pinhead barely appears, but come on, he's not a slasher movie villain, he's this mysterious figure who does what he is told and not some one-liner whore. He is basically an angel of death, just a messenger.
There's a peculiar scene, where the cop sees various people attacking him and one of them is his partner, who repeats "I trusted you!" and throws knives at him. Guess where he gets the knives from? His back! Clever or cheesy? I think both. The ending is really cool, although, a bit predictable.
It doesn't feel like a Hellraiser movie, but for an unrelated script, it certainly hits most of the right themes and offers a lot more satisfying use of the mythos than the previous two movies.
Overall, a very atmospheric thriller, I enjoyed it quite a bit, definitely my favourite Hellraiser sequel, although Hellraiser II is very close. Recommended.
"Ah, yes, that's the spot, yeah, scratch it, look, my leg is shaking!"


This Easter we invite you to celebrate with us at one of our special Sunday services, looking at the life and teachings of Jesus from the book of Matthew.
Whether you've been in church your whole life or have never stepped foot in one, wherever you find yourself when this invitation finds you, we'd love for you to join us this Easter.
Bring the whole family (and your neighbours' family), and we'll see you there.
Join us for pancakes from Three Stack and an Easter egg hunt for the kids.
Join us for hot cross buns, jungle run bouncy castle and an Easter egg hunt.
Join us for breakfast from 9.30am, a morning Easter service including baptisms, a full range of kids activities including games, craft and an Easter egg hunt and food after the service too.
At our evening service, we will also be putting on post-service food for everyone.


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The views across the valley from this hillside location are wonderful, and the gardens are beautifully designed and well-tended. These gardens are award-winning as a showcase of the Central Valley's biodiversity, featuring important crops from Costa Rica that have historically impacted development, a variety of different kinds of bromeliads, and of course the signature flower of the hotel, the bougainvilleas.
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Guests can also make use of colorfully-tiled pool, the sauna and fitness center (complete with both cardio and strength-building athletic machines), and two tennis courts, which can be lit upon request if you're craving a game late at night!
Rooms at Bougainvillea Heredia give guests a number of options. All rooms have a private balcony for stunning views and incomparable sunsets, a flat-screen TV, telephone, safety deposit box, Wi-Fi, and ceiling fan. Guests can choose between Mountain or Garden views in both the guest rooms and the junior suites. The junior suites at Bougainvillea Heredia are perfect for larger groups – unlike the standard guest rooms, they also contain a living room. All rooms can contain either two full-size beds or one King-size bed.


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Harper's Bazaar Art Holds Ad Campaign
Harper's Bazaar Art has launched an ad campaign in support of its latest issue. The top story in the newest release is art, Russian-style.
The month-long ad campaign includes rotating commercials on the TNT and World Fashion Channel television channels as well as the Serebryany Dozhd (Silver Rain), Jazz FM, Romantika and Best FM radio stations. Weekly and monthly print publications throughout Russia will include advertising spreads promoting the magazine and banners and announcements will appear on social networks and informational and lifestyle websites.
Shoppers will find priority displays featuring the magazine in supermarkets and hypermarkets, including the Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain. The Akademia restaurant chain will also have Harper's Bazaar stands in its outlets. A targeted mailing campaign will also reach every art gallery and art venue in Moscow.
The magazine will also be at Art Basel in Switzerland – the art world's main event – with a promotional stand this year.


Here are the latest syllabus issued by Kerala Public Service Commission for the upcoming psc exams conduct in February, March, April months. Syllabus based study preparation is the key factor for success in every competitive exam. The chances of winning those exams depend on how you plan for your study and how well you prepared for each subject. So it is important to have a thorough knowledge of your exam syllabus before starting to study. After getting complete idea about topics you should plan yourself for maximum results. Here are upcoming Kerala psc exam syllabus 2018 based on earlier notifications issued by kpsc.
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Susan Klostermann All Obituaries
Tue., January 05, 2021
SUSAN KAY KLOSTERMANN
Susan Kay Klostermann, 61, of Manchester, Iowa, passed away peacefully Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, at the Cedar Valley Hospice House in Waterloo with her husband at her bedside
Survivors include her husband of 41 years, Gary of Manchester; three children, Angie (Jeff) Lay of Plainfield, Ill., Todd (Natashia) Klostermann of Bennington, Neb., and Amy (Jason) Underwood of Highlands Ranch, Colo.; eight grandchildren; one brother, Ken (Julie) Burkle of Manchester; her sister, Cindy Crock of Marion; and many friends and co-workers.
In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network in memory of Sue Klostermann.
Because of COVID-19, masks are required at the funeral home and required at the church.
Online condolences may be sent to www.leonard-mullerfh.com.
Mass of Christian Burial: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Manchester with the Rev. Gabriel Anderson officiating. Visitation: 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at Leonard-Muller Funeral Home in Manchester. Friends may also call from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, at the funeral home.


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2014 Mitacs Awards Reception celebrates emerging Canadian researchers
Held on November 18, 2014, the 4th Annual Mitacs Awards Reception celebrated the contributions of five emerging researchers and two exceptional leaders in the academic and business communities who are participating in Mitacs programs aimed at fostering research and innovation in Canada.
Winners at a glance
Mitacs & NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization: Rafael Falcon from the University of Ottawa for a research project with Larus Technologies
Mitacs Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Innovation: Pragya Chawla, hosted in the summer of 2014 by the University of Lethbridge
Mitacs Master's Award for Outstanding Innovation: Daniela Tuchel from Royal Roads University for a research project with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Mitacs PhD Award for Outstanding Innovation: Stephen Dugdale from INRS–Centre Eau Terre Environnement for a research project with Confluence Aquatic Ecosystems
Mitacs Post-Doctoral Award for Outstanding Innovation: Ricardo Jota from the University of Toronto for a research project with Tactual Labs
Mitacs Industry Award for Exceptional Leadership: Trojan Technologies
Mitacs Professor Award for Leadership: Dr. Alan Fung from Ryerson University
Speakers included Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Minister of National Revenue, Hon. Bal Gosal, Minister of State for Sport, Hon. Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Pam Bjornson, Executive Vice President of the National Research Council, and Hon. Ed Holder, Minister of State for Science and Technology.
Mitacs gratefully acknowledges the Government of Canada, the Networks of Centres of Excellence's Industrial Research and Development Internship program, Western Economic Diversification, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and the governments of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec through Le Fonds de recherche du Québec and le Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, Recherche, Science et Technologie, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador through its Research and Development Corporation for their support of Mitacs Accelerate.
Mitacs would like to thank Industry Canada, Western Economic Diversification, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, the China Scholarship Council, le Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior of Brazil, the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and the National Autonomous University of Mexico for their support of Globalink.


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Select Media and Cultural Communication Presentations
Some of these have been published, but usually in shorter forms. These papers are the full-length versions. Many of the papers revisit the same argument about the history and structure of visual media in northern Nigeria. This is understandable as requests were repeatedly made by conference organizers for this information, although tailored to specific conferences.
[2015] Youth and Popular Culture in northern Nigeria. Paper delivered at the Hausa der Kulturen der Welt/House of World Cultures, Berlin Germany, on Thursday 6th September, 2015.
[2015] The Influence of Hindi Film Music on Muslim Hausa Popular and Religious Music. Paper delivered at the Hausa der Kulturen der Welt/House of World Cultures, Berlin Germany, on Thursday 6th September, 2015.
[2015] The City at the Edge of Forever – Archiving and Digitizing Arabic Sources on the History of Kano, Nigeria. Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, Germany, 13th August 2015.
[2013] Veiled Voices: Islam, Women and Degrees of Visibility in Muslim Hausa Popular Singing. Paper presented at the International Conference on Testing and Contesting Regimes of Visibility, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology/Institute for African Studies University of Cologne, Germany, 3-5 July 2013.
[2013] Prophetic Wrath: Prophet, Visuality and Power Control in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture. Paper presented at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa on 4th March 2013.
[2013] Poetic Barbs: Angst, Voter Mobilization and Urban Musics in Kano State 2011 Elections. Paper presented at the 1st National Conference on Perspectives on Elections and the Challenges for Democracy in Nigeria, organized by the Department of Political Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria on 9th January 2013. Download
[2013] An Ethnographic History of Kanywood – The Hausa Video Film Industry. Paper presented at the Kano State Film Festival, 18th March 2013, Kano, Nigeria. Download
[2012] Al-Hausawi, Al-Hindawi: Media Contraflow, Urban Communication and Translinguistic Onomatopoeia Among Hausa of Northern Nigeria. European Union Visiting Professor Guest Paper Presented to the University of Warsaw, 10th May, 2012, Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland.
[2011] The Beggar's Opera: Muslim Beggar-Minstrels and Street Oral Poetry Theater in Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at West African Research Agency's International Conference, Saharan Crossroads: Views from the South, held at Hotel Tenere, in Niamey, Niger Republic from July 7 to July 10, 2011.
[2011] Muslim Religious Extremism, Radicalization and Militancy in Northern Nigeria – Analysis of Insurgency Video Texts. Presented at Roundtable Methodology Workshop on Religion, Conflict and Democracy in Northern Nigeria, organized by Centre for Peace Initiative and Development (CPID), Jos, held at Nevilla Hotel, Kaduna, 12th November 2011, Download
[2011] Interdicting Images in the Islamicate Public Sphere: Sensuality and Spirituality in Figurative Representation in northern Nigerian Popular Culture. Commissioned paper presented at the Scientific Dahlem Conference Freie Universität Berlin, Germany from March 19th to 27th, 2011.
[2009] Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at the Conference on Nollywood and Beyond: Transnational Dimensions of the African Video Industry held at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, May 13-16, 2009.
[2009] Short-Circuited: Traditional Muslim Hausa Music and the Threats of Transnational Technopop in Northern Nigeria—Strategies for Survival and Preservation. Paper presented at the conference, «Why safeguard our musical heritage for the future? » an academic and cultural conference, under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Abu Dhabi, October 3rd and 4th, 2009.
[2009] Hell on Earth: Media-Mediated Urban Sexuality and Islamicate Popular Culture in Northern Nigeria. Guest Lecture presented at the Center of Competence on Africa, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, on 18th February 2009.
[2009] Hausa Video Films – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Intellectualizing Hausa Video Films in Retrospect. Discussion/lead paper presented at the International Workshop on Hausa Home Video Films with the theme of Controversies, Sanity and Solutions in the Hausa Home Video Industry, held at Kongo Conference Center, Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from 13th to 15th August, 2009. Download
[2009] "Bosho" War: 9/11, Global Media and Local Visual Re-Interpretations in Muslim Northern Nigeria, Paper presented for "Remedializations of Global Events" workshop/conference, the University of Cologne, Germany, November 19-21, 2009,
[2008] North of Nollywood, South of the Sahara: Cultural Dynamics in the Marketing of Hausa Video Films. Discussion Paper for Presentation at the 2-day conference on Nollywood: Challenges of Production, Entertainment Value and International Marketing Strategies, held at the Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria from Friday 18th to Saturday 19th July 2008. Download
[2008] Media Technologies and Literary Transformations in Hausa Oral Literature. International Workshop on "Transporting Oral Literatures Between Media, Cultures and Languages", at Afrika-Asien Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany, 29th November, 2008.
[2008] Eastward Ho! Cultural Proximity and Eastern Focus in the Hausa Literature. International Workshop on "Transporting Oral Literatures Between Media, Cultures and Languages" Afrika-Asien Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany, 30th November, 2008.
[2007] Transnational Influences and National Appropriations: The Influence of Hindi Film Music on Muslim Hausa Popular and Religious Music. Paper presented at the Congres des Musiques dan le monde de l'islam, World Conference on Music in the world of Islam, Assilah, Morocco, 10th August 2007.Download
[2007] The Transnational Express: Moving Images, Cultural Resonance and Popular Culture in Muslim Northern Nigeria. Public Lecture Presented at Barnard Forum on Migration, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, United States, November 7, 2007. Download
[2007] Arab Images in African School Curricula – A Study of the History of Learning and Contemporary Schooling Systems in Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at the Symposium on Mutual Perceptions Between Africans and Arabs in School Curricula held at Arewa House, Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna, from 21- 23 May 2007, and sponsored by Institute Culturel Afro-Arabe (Afro-Arab Cultural Institute), Bamako, Mali. Download
[2005] Read to Reel: Transformation of Hausa Popular Literature from Orality to Visuality. Paper presented at the 24th International Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, held on 11th-12th November, 2005 at the Murtala Muhammad Library Complex, Kano. Download
[2005] Divergent Similarities: Culture, Globalization and Hausa Creative and Performing Arts. A Paper presented at the International Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria, Department of English and French, Bayero University, Kano, 5th-6th December, 2005. Download
[2004] Loud Bubbles from A Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Prose Fiction. Paper presented at "Janheinz Jahn Symposium on African Language Literatures: Production, Mediation, Reception", held at the Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Universität Mainz (Johannes Guttenberg University), Mainz, Germany, 18th November 2004. Download
[2004] Enter the Dragon: Shari'a, Popular Culture and Film Censorship in Northern Nigeria. Guest Paper presented at the Institute für Afrinkanishe, University of Köln, Germany, 15th November, 2004. Download
[2001] Tarbiyar Bahaushe, Mutumin Kirki and Hausa Prose Fiction: Towards an Analytical Framework. Department of English and European Languages Seminar, 23rd January 2001.
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When a receivership order is received, do we need to review the deposit activity to identify protected funds from a government agency?
Regarding payment of wages to employees of a bank, the bank has decided (after years of allowing direct deposit to any account at any bank) to either allow direct deposit to an account at their bank or payment by check, meaning anyone with direct deposit of their wages to another institution must decide on opening an account at the bank where we work or get paid by check (not desirable choices). I have a few questions regarding this change. Although it is in compliance with Reg E, since we work in Florida, I was wondering if Florida Statute from chapter 532 applies, specifically 532.04 PAYMENT BY DIRECT DEPOSIT OF FUNDS (1) reads as follows "None of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed or construed to prohibit the payor of wages or salary from causing the amount of such wages or salary to be deposited directly to the account of the payee in a financial institution by electronic or other medium if such direct deposit has been authorized in writing by the payee and if the payee has designated in writing the financial institution of her or his choice in which such deposit is to be made." I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that the statute is stating that if an employee gets paid by direct deposit, the financial institution for that direct deposit is of the employee's choosing. I believe the bank policy for payment of its employees violates the Florida statute and I would appreciate it if someone could let me know their opinion or interpretation. Also, one more question, if the employee had to complete a direct deposit authorization form, can the bank just cancel those instructions and change to a check or would the bank need each employee to sign another form authorizing the change or cancellation of a direct deposit order already on file? Obviously most employees are not happy with the change but are somewhat nervous about speaking up. Dissent with this current policy is not popular with upper management. I would like to keep this inquiry discrete for obvious reasons, feel free to share, in a general way, this issue but please do not mention my name.
We are going to offer a DDA tiered rate paying 2.75% on the first $10,000 if qualifications are met (10 debit card transactions - 1 direct deposit or debit - access Internet banking once during the monthly cycle),.25% on balances over $10,000 if qualifications are met and .05% on all balances if qualifications are not met. It has a $100 to open minimum but interest will be paid on all positive balances. How do I disclose the APY? On the top tier do I use the $100 (min to open) to disclose the amt used to obtain the APY or can I use $1? On the middle tier - do I have to take into consideration the first $10,000 earned the higher rate?
If we intend to close a checking account due to suspicious activity (SAR has been filed), how many days notice must we give the customer when they have direct deposit to the account?
We have several accounts that are set up to receive their Checking Account Statement (Paper) Annually. Are we out of compliance by not sending them a statement monthly when our disclosures state that they have 30 days from the date the statement was made available to us to notify us of any errors?
On page 13 of the handout for the new federal regulations, the 7th paragraph states "...the claim may serve as a continuing lien against future deposits that do not involve "benefit payments...". <i>Federal Register</i> Volume 76 Issue 36 page 18 paragraph 4 states "A small number of States authorize the issuance of a "continuing" garnishment order, i.e., an order requiring the garnishee to monitor, preserve and remit funds coming into the garnishees custody on an ongoing basis. The rule operates to prohibit a financial institution that is served with a continuing garnishment from complying with the order's ongoing requirements." My questions are: Do we monitor the account for 30 days as the garnishment states for deposits that are not protected funds? On page 9 of the same volume in the 8th(?) paragraph it states "The Agencies intend ... to ensure that after a garnishment order is received, the account holder continues to have the same degree of access to the protected funds that was provided prior to the receipt of the order." Does that mean that we cannot leave a hold on the account to avoid withdrawal of unprotected funds, still covering checks with protected funds? Also, would suspending the customer's debit card be against this?
Looking at Accounts Individually "Protected Funds"
I attended the 2011 webinar, "New Requirements for Identifying Exempt Funds When Processing Garnishments: Final Regulations." Do we look at each account individually? A savings account has no "protected funds" going into it, however, the funds are from a checking account that is "protected." Does this matter or do I just take the savings account and not look back?
Gift Card Reported as 1099 Int. or 1099 Misc?
We are having the following Anniversary Special for one of our Branches. "Open a new "Totally Free Checking Account" (non interest bearing) with a minimum deposit of $100, direct deposit of paycheck and free debit card and we will give you a $25 gift card." Would the $25 gift card be reported as a 1099 Int. or 1099 misc? Why?
Custodian Direct Deposit into ILUTMA Account?
On ILUTMA accounts, can the custodian have their paycheck direct deposited into the account?
The FDIC and the OCC encourage banks to make small-dollar loans as an alternative to payday lending. But they want banks to offer such products carefully.
Staff on the front line and in the back room have received plenty of training on BSA compliance.


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Lady Gaga, NFL attack Texas bill keeping men out of women's bathrooms
The Lone Star State is committed to enacting a bill to prevent biological men from going into women's bathrooms.
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February 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The National Football League may have met its match in Texas as it again interjects itself into a state legislative battle between big business and grassroots pro-family activists fighting to keep biological men out of female restrooms.
Celebrities are also getting involved, with Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys and dozens of others signing a letter against the proposed Texas Privacy Act, SB6. Under the bill, a citizen could incur a civil penalty if he or she enters an opposite-sex public restroom in government schools, building and universities.
It also would protect companies from having "transgender" bathroom policies imposed on them by local LGBTQ laws.
Homosexual activists led by the Human Rights Campaign are engaged in a massive blitz against SB6, working with pro-LGBT corporations like American Airlines to replicate their crusade against similar legislation in North Carolina.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Houston Chronicle last week that enactment of the Texas Privacy Act could keep future Super Bowls out of the Lone Star State.
"If a proposal that is discriminatory or inconsistent with our values were to become law (in Texas), that would certainly be a factor considered when thinking about awarding future events," McCarthy said in an email to the Chronicle on SB 6 reported Feb. 9.
"The NFL embraces inclusiveness," McCarthy said. "We want all fans to feel welcomed at our events, and NFL policies prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard."
Those comments infuriated Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who responded to the NFL pullout threat by posting this biting tweet Feb. 11:
NFL decision makers also benched Tom Brady last season. It ended with NFL handing the Super Bowl trophy to Brady. https://t.co/Qg06jT9RDp
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) February 11, 2017
Tom Brady is the NFL superstar and quarterback of the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell benched Brady for the first four games of the 2016 season for his role in the "Deflate-gate" scandal involving alleged tampering with the air pressure of game-day footballs.
In an interview Tuesday with national conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, Abbott kept up his taunts against the NFL's meddling.
"The NFL is walking on thin ice right here. The NFL needs to concentrate on playing football and get the heck out of politics," Abbott told Beck. "We don't care what the NFL thinks, and certainly what their political policies are, because they are not a political arm of the state of Texas or the United States of America."
Lt. Governor decries "misinformation"
In introducing the Privacy Act at a packed press conference on Jan. 5, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick similarly blasted major corporate opponents of the bill for their distortions.
"I've never seen so much misinformation, so much hand-wringing, so much 'fake news' about a bill as this," Patrick said.
"The people of Texas elected us to stand up for common sense, common decency, and public safety," he said, noting that "this legislation is supported by an overwhelming majority, in every poll, of Texans."
He said it is myth that passage of SB6 would cost the state of Texas billions in lost investments, pointing to Super Bowl-hosting Houston, where in 2015 voters in a 61-39 landslide overturned a "HERO" pro-transgender city ordinance backed by then-Mayor Annise Parker, a lesbian.
"I'm not aware of any business that didn't move to Houston because of that" referendum against the LGBT ordinance, Patrick said.
He also cited pro-LGBT hysteria over North Carolina — targeted by the Left and corporate leaders over a similar transgender bathroom law.
"They have the second strongest economy in the country, by Forbes Magazine and other indicators," Patrick said. "They're doing just fine."
The Texas Association of Business (TAB), with such member corporations as IBM, Apple, Dow, Intel, Salesforce and HP, is leading the corporate lobby effort against SB6. Major corporations like AT&T (and the NFL) are now the juggernauts that are helping LGBTQ activists kill pro-family and religious liberty bills in Arizona, Indiana, Georgia, and other states.
The pro-family group Texas Values attacked the methodology of a TAB study that claims that the Lone Stare State would lose $8.5 billion if the Privacy Act becomes law.
What SB6 does and doesn't do
Texas state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, a longtime privacy advocate and SB6's lead sponsor, joined Lt. Gov. Patrick at the January press briefing and said, "I never imagined we would need legislation to protect our privacy in dressing rooms, locker rooms, showers or restrooms. With this bill, we are codifying the common decency the general public has always expected."
She said, "Every Texan has the right to personal privacy."
Kolkhorst said Privacy Act would protect businesses by "prohibiting any local government from adopting an ordinance preventing a business from adopting their own policy for dressing rooms, showers and restrooms."
Patrick plainly summed up SB6: "This bill stops local … governments from passing policies that allow men in ladies rooms. That's what this bill does."
Kolkhorst added that the bill also bans local governments from considering corporate privacy policies when awarding government contracts. In other words, a company could not be punished for failing to have a "transgender" policy allowing males into female restrooms.
School districts that do not adopt "personal privacy protections" as outlined by SB6 would be subject to fines by the Attorney General, according to Kolkhorst. And private businesses that lease government buildings, like convention centers, would be free to set their own policies.
Furthermore, she and Patrick said, the bill gives schools the freedom to make special accommodations for "transgender" individuals, which Patrick said school principals have been doing already for years.
Citing the landslide vote in Houston rejecting Mayor Parker's HERO "transgender rights" ordinance, Kolkhorst said, "The public has a way of getting it right. … Common assumptions about decency and intimacy in those most intimate settings cannot be ignored, nor can our need for safety."
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We work with a lot of SaaS (Software as a Service) clients, and the inclination for those companies is to offer a free trial or download of their product. As we discussed at length in this earlier post, the problem with free trial offers is they eliminate the subset of prospects for whom a free trial is simply too much of a commitment as an initial response.
2. a trial offer is of limited appeal to the majority of search traffic, namely those prospects only conducting cursory research and seeking solutions to a particular business problem.
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With 43 of the top dirt modified drivers in America rolling through the gates at the Deer Creek Speedway on Saturday, Dustin Sorensen led all 40 laps of the main event to register the first USMTS victory of his young career.
From the outside of the front row—and from the drop of the green flag—the 17-year-old pro hockey prospect from Rochester, Minn., led fellow Gopher State youngster Lucas Schott to the checkered flag in a repeat 1-2 finish of last Saturday's USRA Modified feature during the North Star Nationals at the 3/8-mile high-banked clay oval in Spring Valley, Minn.
The USMTS Hunt for the Casey's Cup win was worth $3,000 to Sorensen whose father, Mike Sorensen, has five career USMTS triumphs to his credit.
It also established him as the youngest to ever grace USMTS victory lane. In August of 2008, Ryan Gustin captured the first of his 94 career USMTS victories at the Highway 3 Raceway in Allison, Iowa, to become the youngest winner in series history at 17 years, 10 months and 13 days old.
At 17 years, 6 months and 25 days, Sorensen now holds the honor.
Schott, 21, was able to challenge Sorensen after a late-race caution and got alongside the leader on a couple of occasions, but Sorensen held the high groove and drove away for the win while Schott held off a hard-charging Johnny Scott who clawed his way forward to finish third after starting 16th on the grid.
Zack VanderBeek—who raced from 14th to third in last Saturday's Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series event—started 14th again on Saturday and followed Scott across the finish line to claim fourth.
Two-time USMTS national champion Rodney Sanders has collected eight checkered flags at 'The Creek' during his short career, but settled for a fifth-place finish in Saturday's nightcap for the 16th Annual A&A Electric Southern Minnesota Spring Challenge.
Terry Phillips, Stormy Scott, 25th-starting Jake O'Neil, Cory Crapser and Dereck Ramirez rounded out the top 10.
Dustin Sorensen (19) had to fight off several challenges from Lucas Schott (69) to capture Saturday night's USMTS win.
On Sunday, the 11th Annual Nordic Nationals presented by Weis Buick GMC takes place at the Upper Iowa Speedway in Decorah, Iowa, and will see the Iron Man Challenge featuring Holley USRA Stock Cars and Out-Pace USRA B-Mods plus Cook Racing Supplies USRA Hobby Stocks on the card.
2. (2) 23b Brett Bumgardner (R), Hawkeye, Iowa.
3. (6) 23 Logan Robertson, Shamrock, Texas.
5. (5) 111jr Keith Tourville (R), Janesville, Minn.
6. (9) 44 Adam Hensel, Baldwin, Wis.
7. (4) 51 Blake Arndt (R), Brownsdale, Minn.
8. (3) 21 Troy Gudmonson, Savage, Minn.
9. (8) 1a Dwaine Hanson, Lakefield, Minn.
1. (2) 49jr Jake Timm, Minnesota City, Minn.
4. (8) 1st Johnny Scott, Cameron, Mo.
5. (3) 83 Kylie Kath (R), Owatonna, Minn.
6. (7) 24 Brad Waits, Rochester, Minn.
7. (6) 11x Rich Lofthus, Bloomer, Wis.
9. (9) 00 Robby Bunkelman, Abbotsford, Wis.
2. (6) 19 Dustin Sorensen (R), Rochester, Minn.
3. (8) 75 Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo.
4. (1) 92 Tyler Droste (R), Waterloo, Iowa.
5. (7) 90 Brandon Davis, Medford, Minn.
6. (3) 56h Brandon Hare (R), Elma, Iowa.
7. (2) 91 Shawn Ryan (R), Waterloo, Iowa.
8. (5) 02 Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn.
9. (9) 00 Owen Grube, Cambridge, Minn.
1. (2) 52w Nate Wasmund, Rochester, Minn.
4. (1) 18 Mick Glenn, Minnesota City, Minn.
5. (4) 33 Joe Ludemann, Grand Meadow, Minn.
6. (7) 96 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn.
7. (8) 61T Tammy Clark, Rochester, Minn.
4. (7) 55 Cory Mahder, Eau Claire, Wis.
5. (6) 73jr Greg Pfeifer.
6. (8) 23k Erik Kanz, Winona, Minn.
7. (1) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
DQ – (2) 95 Keith Foss, Winona, Minn.
2. (5) 90 Brandon Davis, Medford, Minn.
3. (4) 92 Tyler Droste (R), Waterloo, Iowa.
4. (6) 44 Adam Hensel, Baldwin, Wis.
5. (3) 55 Cory Mahder, Eau Claire, Wis.
6. (7) 83 Kylie Kath (R), Owatonna, Minn.
7. (11) 11x Rich Lofthus, Bloomer, Wis., Hughes/Tim's, $90.
8. (8) 23k Erik Kanz, Winona, Minn., Shaw/Action, $75.
9. (9) 96 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn., DirtDueler/ChevPerf, $75.
10. (14) 8c Chris Clark, Jackson, Wyo., GRT/Cornett, $90.
12. (16) 00 Owen Grube, Cambridge, Minn., SSR/KSE, $90.
13. (10) 61T Tammy Clark, Rochester, Minn., Skyrocket/Sput's, $75.
14. (2) 0 Jake O'Neil (R), Tucson, Ariz.
15. (13) 4a Joel Alberts, Kasson, Minn., Rocket/Action, $90.
16. (15) 1a Dwaine Hanson, Lakefield, Minn., Skyrocket/KSE, $75.
3. (6) 111jr Keith Tourville (R), Janesville, Minn.
4. (3) 99 Josh Angst, Winona, Minn.
5. (8) 24 Brad Waits, Rochester, Minn.
6. (11) 91 Shawn Ryan (R), Waterloo, Iowa.
7. (5) 73jr Greg Pfeifer, Hughes/KSE, $75.
8. (7) 33 Joe Ludemann, Grand Meadow, Minn., LG2/Baier's, $75.
9. (13) 02 Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn., Hughes/Sput's, $75.
10. (14) 95 Keith Foss, Winona, Minn.
11. (4) 18 Mick Glenn, Minnesota City, Minn., Skyrocket/JRM, $75.
12. (15) 00 Robby Bunkelman, Abbotsford, Wis., Rocket/Baxter, $75.
13. (10) 51 Blake Arndt (R), Brownsdale, Minn., GRT/KSE, $90.
14. (9) 56h Brandon Hare (R), Elma, Iowa, Skyrocket/ChevPerf, $90.
15. (12) 21 Troy Gudmonson, Savage, Minn., Hughes/ChevPerf, $75.
1. (2) 19 Dustin Sorensen (R), Rochester, Minn., MBCustoms/Action, $3000.
2. (3) 69 Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn., MBCustoms/Hill, $2150.
3. (16) 1st Johnny Scott, Cameron, Mo., VanderBuilt/Durham, $1625.
4. (14) 33z Zack VanderBeek, New Sharon, Iowa, VanderBuilt/Sput's, $1400.
5. (4) 20 Rodney Sanders, Worthington, Minn., MBCustoms/Hatfield, $1195.
6. (5) 75 Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo., GRT/Durham, $1090.
7. (7) 2s Stormy Scott, Las Cruces, N.M., VanderBuilt/Mullins, $985.
8. (25) 0 Jake O'Neil (R), Tucson, Ariz., LG2/Cornett, $880.
9. (9) 07 Cory Crapser, Chippewa Falls, Wis., MBCustoms/Troy's, $450.
10. (13) 4r Dereck Ramirez, Woodward, Okla., Hughes/Cornett, $775.
11. (6) 21 Jacob Bleess, Chatfield, Minn., MBCustoms/Sput's, $375.
12. (1) 52w Nate Wasmund, Rochester, Minn., DirtDueler/Baier's, $350.
13. (22) 24 Brad Waits, Rochester, Minn., VanderBuilt/Sput's, $325.
14. (18) 111jr Keith Tourville (R), Janesville, Minn., Player/MAS, $300.
15. (10) 23 Logan Robertson, Shamrock, Texas, MBCustoms/Knowles, $375.
16. (26) 95 Keith Foss, Winona, Minn., Longhorn/Foss, $300.
17. (20) 99 Josh Angst, Winona, Minn., MBCustoms/Sput's, $300.
18. (24) 91 Shawn Ryan (R), Waterloo, Iowa, Dirt Hustler/King, $300.
19. (8) 49jr Jake Timm, Minnesota City, Minn., MBCustoms/Sput's, $675.
20. (11) 23 Adam Kates, Tonganoxie, Kan., VanderBuilt/Speedway, $300.
21. (12) 23b Brett Bumgardner (R), Hawkeye, Iowa, SSR/Midnight, $300.
22. (19) 44 Adam Hensel, Baldwin, Wis., DirtDueler/ChevPerf, $300.
23. (15) 90 Brandon Davis, Medford, Minn., MBCustoms/Sput's, $300.
24. (21) 55 Cory Mahder, Eau Claire, Wis., MBCustoms/PowerLine, $300.
25. (23) 83 Kylie Kath (R), Owatonna, Minn., $300.
26. (17) 92 Tyler Droste (R), Waterloo, Iowa, LG2/AEM, $300.
Total Laps Led: Sorensen 40.
Margin of Victory: 2.067 seconds.
Time of Race: 17 minutes, 10 seconds.
Eibach Spring Forward Award: J. Scott (advanced 14 positions).
FK Rod Ends Hard Charger: J. Scott (started 16th, finished 3rd).
Next Race: Sunday, May 27, Upper Iowa Speedway, Decorah, Iowa.
USMTS Hunt for the Casey's Cup Points: O'Neil 1210, J. Scott 1162, Schott 1119, Sanders 1117, S. Scott 1111, Ramirez 1094, VanderBeek 1089, Phillips 1068, Timm 897, Duvall 874.
Grant Junghans USMTS Rookie of the Year Points: O'Neil 1210, Carlos Ahumada Jr. 760, Zane Ferrell 692, Billy Vogel 610, Lance Mari 529.
USMTS Engine Builder of the Year Points: Durham 130, Cornett 114, Sput's 110, Hatfield 94, Mullins 93.
USMTS Manufacturers Championship Points: VanderBuilt 150, MBCustoms 148, GRT 112, Hughes 107, LG2 106.
Beyea Custom Headers – Angst.
Casey's General Stores – Dahle, J. Scott.
GRT Race Cars – Arndt.
KSE Racing Products – Crapser.
Maxima Racing Oils – Sorensen.
Swift Springs – Sorensen, Bleess.
VP Racing Fuels – Sorensen.
Wilwood Disc Brakes – S. Scott.