Treat yourself to a relaxing and therapeutic massage at the Health and Recreation Complex! Our experienced massage therapists specialize in therapeutic, sports, stress-relief, and Thai yoga massage therapy. The massage room is located on the lower level of the HRC next to the elevator.
Payment is made directly to the therapists with cash, check, or credit card.
If paying with credit card a service fee of 3% will be added to the transaction.
You may purchase a gift certificate as well.
Cancellations must be made 24 hours prior to appointment or the full price of service will be charged.
Gratuity is not included in the prices listed below.
Appointments must be made during HRC operating hours; note the HRC hours differ during University breaks.
Same-day appointments sometimes can be accommodated, but include a $10 additional charge.
James Jafari has been serving the Butler University campus since the HRC opened its doors in August 2006. James is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, professionally trained and engaged in full-time private massage practice since 1999. He specializes in Advanced Kinetic Sports Therapy (A.K.S.T.), Deep Tissue Therapeutic massage and Myofascial Release. James utilizes the best of these and other modalities as well such as Swedish, Thai, and Hot Stone techniques for his clients, tracks their progress and makes adjustments based on their feedback. Whether his clients are athletes intent upon improved performance or recovering from an injury or individuals who simply realize that the benefits of massage include stress-relief, pain reduction and increased health and well-being, James always devotes his utmost toward the goal of each client's wellness. He is also a dedicated father, outdoorsman and martial artist and has never met a stranger!
Lara finds giving a massage almost as relaxing as receiving it. She has a deep respect for the need to balance activity with rest to allow the body time to heal and return to wellness. Lara is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and a member of the American Massage Therapy Association. She is trained in Swedish, Deep Tissue and Sports Massage. Prior to becoming a massage therapist, Lara spent 12 years working in the corporate insurance industry. She genuinely understands the impact life can have on a person both physically and emotionally. Lara believes that all of us are in need of more positive touch in our lives so she designs her massages to promote healing and relaxation for the body, mind and spirit. Lara also enjoys spending time with her family and friends, gardening, and creating her own natural skin care products, herbal remedies and tea blends.
Ellie is a Licensed Massage Therapist who studied massage at the Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy. She is committed to the notion that therapeutic touch is the missing link in modern, mainstream healthcare. Ellie's bodywork tends toward deep tissue, with a Trigger Point Therapy-based approach to identifying and treating the problem areas that keep you in pain. A session with Ellie promises to address your structural issues and offer a proposed treatment plan to master your chronic pain, all while incorporating the deeply relaxing modalities of Swedish Massage and Craniosacral Therapy. Clients can also expect to gain flexibility and increase joint mobility through active and passive stretching, range-of-motion techniques, and suggested homework. For a performance-enhancing, deeply restorative, "show those knots who's boss" massage, look no further! If you just need to unwind, try her Tropical Swedish and see how Costa Rica influenced Ellie's idea of deep relaxation.
Will graduated in 2003 from the Emerald Coast Massage School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and has been doing what he can to help people feel better ever since. From day one, his focus has been on helping people get to where they want to be in their physical well-being. He has worked with the Purdue University Swim and Dive team, the Indiana Fever WNBA team (including the 2012 championship team), 10 years with the Naptown Rollergirls, several Olympic medalists, and a former world-record holder. When not working as a massage therapist, he is a standup comic, Chaplains Assistant for the Indiana Air National Guard, and stay-at-home dad to a lovely baby girl.
Tracy has been practicing and teaching yoga since 2004. She has been a certified yoga teacher since 2009. She was introduced to Thai Yoga Massage by one of her teachers in 2013. The practice was a natural extension of her passion for yoga and Metta (spirit of loving kindness and meditation). She began studies with several teachers in Indianapolis and continues with Still Light Center in Toronto. She greatly appreciates this ancient healing art form and is eager to share this to her clients.
Purchase a massage gift certificate for someone that you care about - massage is self-care and reduces stress and anxiety as well as releases physical muscle tension.
Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that focuses primarily on the deeper layers of muscles and fascia (the connective tissue that surrounds the muscles). This technique uses slow, deep guided strokes and firm pressure, and usually focuses on a specific problem. Over time, Deep Tissue Massage helps to break up scar tissue and physically break down muscle adhesions (bands of painful, rigid tissue) that can disrupt circulation and cause pain, limited range of motion, and inflammation. The benefits of Deep Tissue Massage include release of muscle tension and stiffness, pain relief, pain management, increased flexibility, improved mobility, and faster and more efficient recovery from injury and surgery.
Thai Yoga Massage came from the temples of Thailand many centuries ago. It is a dynamic bodywork based on yoga principals, ayurveda, and the martial arts. In this unique healing system, the practitioner guides the recipient through a series of hatha yoga postures combined with rhythmic palming and thumbing along energy lines and pressure points to gently stretch and open the body. These actions result in a treatment that relieves muscular tension, improves circulation, boosts the immune system and balances the body energetically. Thai Yoga Massage is done on the floor on a thick mat. The recipient wears loose fitting clothes to allow for ease of movement. Check out YouTube for visuals of Thai Yoga Massage.
Sports Massage is a combination of massage techniques used to treat the muscles and muscle-tendon junctures for an athlete pre-event, post-event, during injury recover, or during a maintenance phase. It often targets an area of the body used in a specific sport, prone to overuse, or an injured area.
Swedish Massage is known for its ability to create a general sense of relaxation through better blood and oxygen circulation, easing of muscular aches and tension, and improving mind alertness and body flexibility. This technique uses five basic strokes and steady manipulation of the muscles and connective tissues. It is designed to interrupt the cycle of stress and internalized muscle tension by stimulating the nervous system and increasing circulation. The goal of Swedish Massage is relaxation, rehabilitation, and a sense of well-being and inner peace.
Trigger Point Massage focuses on releasing trigger points, which are small, tight knots that develop in muscles that may even cause pain in other areas of the body (an effect known as "referral pain"). Trigger point massage involves a more targeted approach with direct pressure being applied to the trigger point(s). Each point may be pressed, massaged, and stretched, sometimes requiring the client to actively participate in stretching or other movements. Trigger point massages release the tightest areas of your body, helping to improve range of motion, posture, and alignment.


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Sources: NBA superstars establish united front to resume season on private conference call
12 May 2020, 5:05 pm ·2-min read
Some of the NBA's biggest superstars formed a united front to resume the 2019-20 season during a private conference call Monday, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
Toward the end of the call discussing the ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic, all parties were in agreement to take the court with proper safety measures once the league is given the green light to commence, sources said.
Chris Paul, the president of the players association, arranged the call that included LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, Stephen Curry, Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook, sources said.
The group's decision is expected to hold significant weight in the decision-making process for the rest of the league's players when it's time to deliberate on whether to restart the season.
Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James were part of a private conference call Monday that was arranged by Chris Paul. (Harry How/Getty Images)
ESPN reported that players association reps began informally polling players about resuming the season.
The season has been suspended since March 11.
In a conference call with players on Friday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver stated that he couldn't guarantee the safety of the players if play resumed in a city where they would be quarantined, but assured them the league would do everything in its power to make the safest conditions possible, sources said.
That didn't sit well with some players, sources said, with a vaccine not expected to be available for a year or two.
The majority of players who are essentially eliminated from postseason contention would rather the league start back up with the top eight teams in each conference competing in some sort of playoff, sources said.
For some players out of the playoff picture, there's concern a canceled season could negatively affect the next CBA, sources said.
Silver said he doesn't have to make a decision on the season until some point in June.
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import java.io.Serializable;

import com.jmethods.catatumbo.Identifier;
import com.jmethods.catatumbo.MappedSuperClass;
import com.jmethods.catatumbo.Property;

/**
 * Base class for composite index statistics.
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 * @author Sai Pullabhotla
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The Vampire is compatible with all AmigaOS versions intended for 68k Amigas, from 1.1 to 3.9. Of course, to get the most modern features and maximum compatibility with Vampire components, you should use the latest version, which is 3.9. If you do not have access to 3.9, you could try 3.5, 3.1.4 or 3.1 as well. The Vampire is compatible with all AmigaOS versions intended for 68k Amigas, from 1.1 to 3.9. Of course, to get the most modern features and maximum compatibility with Vampire components, you should use the latest version, which is 3.9. If you do not have access to 3.9, you could try 3.5, 3.1.4 or 3.1 as well.
+ <callout type="tip" icon="true">
+ By today's standards, AmigaOS is a tiny, barebones OS. It is extremely fast, but even the latest version lacks many modern features and the appropriate configuration to run optimally on modern hardware like the Vampire.  Therefore, installing a powerful, ready-to-use distribution on top of AmigaOS is strongly recommended.  The most polished distribution for the Vampire is [[https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/vampire|AmiKit XE]].
+ </callout>
+ ===== Kickstart conventions =====
In classic Amigas, the bootstrap firmware (Kickstart) is stored in ROM. The Kickstart contains many core components of AmigaOS, such as the kernel, the windowing environment, basic DOS functionality and critical drivers. Its purpose is to initialize the hardware and boot from disk. Because the Kickstart is stored in ROM, its functionality is available immediately at power-on, without having to load anything from disk. If the user needs any AmigaOS components that are not included in the Kickstart, then they need to be loaded from disk. In classic Amigas, the bootstrap firmware (Kickstart) is stored in ROM. The Kickstart contains many core components of AmigaOS, such as the kernel, the windowing environment, basic DOS functionality and critical drivers. Its purpose is to initialize the hardware and boot from disk. Because the Kickstart is stored in ROM, its functionality is available immediately at power-on, without having to load anything from disk. If the user needs any AmigaOS components that are not included in the Kickstart, then they need to be loaded from disk.
- The Vampire uses this same approach and optimizes it even further. On Vampire boards, a flash memory location in the Core is reserved for a Kickstart ROM. In addition, at power-on, the Kickstart in the Core is copied into fast RAM automatically. Then, using the MMU, the Kickstart's new memory region is protected against writes, and is mapped to the memory region of the real Kickstart ROM chip. Now, thanks to the speed of this RAM, accessing Kickstart functions is much, much faster compared to a Kickstart that remains in ROM. + The Vampire uses this same approach and optimizes it even further. On Vampire boards, a flash memory location in the Core is reserved for a Kickstart ROM. In addition, at power-on, the Kickstart in the Core is copied into Fast RAM automatically. Then, using the MMU, the Kickstart's new memory region is protected against writes, and is mapped to the memory region of the real Kickstart ROM chip. Now, thanks to the speed of this RAM, accessing Kickstart functions is much, much faster compared to a Kickstart that remains in ROM.
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* In a Vampire Standalone, by default, the Core contains an AROS Kickstart ROM. * In a Vampire Standalone, by default, the Core contains an AROS Kickstart ROM.
- * In a Vampire 500 V2+ or a Vampire 600 V2, by default, the Core contains  a licensed Kickstart 3.1 ROM (rev. 40.63). + * In a Vampire accelerator board connected to a classic Amiga, by default, the Core contains a licensed Kickstart 3.10 ROM.
- * In a Vampire 1200, by default, the Core contains a licensed Kickstart 3.1 ROM (rev. 40.68). +
If you want to use a different Kickstart, please see [[system_tools:kickstarts|Installing Kickstarts]]. If you want to use a different Kickstart, please see [[system_tools:kickstarts|Installing Kickstarts]].
If your boot partition is not within the first 4 GB of the hard disk, then you need to use a Kickstart that contains an updated ''scsi.device''. Kickstart 3.1.4 and Cloanto's Kickstart 3.X contain such an updated ''scsi.device''. If your boot partition is not within the first 4 GB of the hard disk, then you need to use a Kickstart that contains an updated ''scsi.device''. Kickstart 3.1.4 and Cloanto's Kickstart 3.X contain such an updated ''scsi.device''.
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* [[.v3.9|Special considerations for AmigaOS 3.5 and AmigaOS 3.9]] * [[.v3.9|Special considerations for AmigaOS 3.5 and AmigaOS 3.9]]
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HomeFood & DrinkThis Is The Year To Embrace 'Jewish Christmas' And Order Chinese Food
This Is The Year To Embrace 'Jewish Christmas' And Order Chinese Food
December 27, 2020 Food & Drink 0
Here's a very modest proposal for the holidays: On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, don't toil over the stove and prepare your usual massive feast for the family. Instead, use the pandemic as an excuse to take a page from Jewish Americans and order some damn good Chinese takeout.
Your local mom-and-pop purveyor of kung pao chicken and sticky rice could probably use the business: Though all restaurants across the U.S. have suffered due to coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions, Chinese restaurants have been hit particularly hard.
According to Womply, a data subscription service, Asian American restaurants have closed at a far higher rate than non-Asian restaurants. And compared with other Asian restaurants, Chinese eateries had the highest rates of closure at 61%.
Some have suggested the dip in business is at least partially due to consumer prejudice toward Asians and Asian Americans in the wake of coronavirus.
In July, Eric Sze, co-owner of the Manhattan-based Taiwanese restaurant 886, talked to HuffPost about how his business had been affected by customers generally avoiding Asian food.
"Come March, business was down 80%, even before the shutdown," he said. "And I don't like to be the one to victimize myself, but March was when Italy had more cases than China, but all the Italian restaurants were still packed. It's hard to ignore that fact when it's presented like that. I think there are definitely factors of xenophobia."
In May, celebrities joined forces with the Asian seasonings and food company Ajinomoto and started the hashtag #TakeOutHate to encourage Asian eatery takeout orders.
"The fact that so many people are avoiding Asian food is just a sneaky new form of racism," comedian Margaret Cho said in a promo video for the campaign. Others featured in the video included actor Harry Shum Jr.
"Can't believe I have to say this, but COVID is not sushi's fault," Shum joked.
Ten months into the pandemic, those same restaurants are still hurting. Plunging your chopsticks into a big, messy bowl of lo mein may be one of the most supportive things you can do for small businesses this season.
Plus, if you're social distancing and downsizing your get-together to stay safe, your dinner really doesn't need to be a huge production. Be honest with yourself: You're sick of cooking, day in and day out, and wholly exhausted from living through a global pandemic. Why not cut yourself a break and let someone else do the cooking for you?
In the process, you'll be self-initiating yourself into the "Jewish Christmas" club. As we mentioned earlier, the love affair between Jewish Americans and Chinese restaurants is long-standing. When nearly everything else is closed, Chinese restaurants are reliably open on Dec. 24 and 25. It may be cliche at this point but "Jewish Christmas" ― Chinese food and a movie ― is definitely a thing.
It doesn't hurt that Chinese recipes can easily be tailored to the kosher diet since dairy products are rarely used, said Johnny Lee, the chef and owner of Pearl River Deli in Los Angeles' Chinatown.
Lee experienced a heightened version of Jewish Christmas every year while working at Genghis Cohen, a popular New York-style Sichuan Chinese restaurant in L.A'.s Fairfax District, a neighborhood with a sizable Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox community.
"Chinese restaurants just make sense because one, they've historically been more numerous than other types of Asian restaurants and two, the menus tend to be accessible for those that don't eat pork or shellfish," he told HuffPost.
"I think it's nice that two minority groups in America can rely on each other for a non-Christmas-y Christmas tradition," Lee added.
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This year, the joys of "Jewish Christmas" should have wide appeal.
Personal finance journalist Lindsay Goldwert has fond memories of Jewish Christmases past. Growing up in Roslyn, New York, a village on Long Island's North Shore, Goldwert figured everyone poured into mom-and-pop Chinese restaurants come Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Every December, the Goldwert family would get their fill of food at Hunan Taste, a no-frills local Chinese spot that's been around since 1989. (Their go-to order? Lemon chicken, shrimp dumplings, vegetable lo mein and orange beef.) After, they'd go see a movie. (This year, for her and so many others, Netflix will have to suffice.)
"In my hometown, getting your order in on Christmas Eve is nearly impossible," Goldwert told HuffPost. "My parents are extra nice to the owners of their local restaurant all year so they can get their order in."
This year, the writer says she'll order a surplus of savory noods and dumplings to do her part to help support the neighborhood restaurant she hopes to again visit on the other side of the pandemic.
"Jewish Christmas sneakily became one of the most widely observed 'Jewish holidays' and one of the most fun, and this year everyone can do it."
– Jeffrey Yoskowitz, the co-author of "The Gefilte Manifesto" and co-owner of The Gefilteria
Jeffrey Yoskowitz, the co-author of "The Gefilte Manifesto" and co-owner of The Gefilteria, doesn't think a pitch to non-Jews on ordering Chinese takeout on Christmas Day is even needed this year.
"My non-Jewish friends regularly ask me during non-pandemic years to celebrate Jewish Christmas with me since it's so exciting to them," he told HuffPost. This year, everyone gets to partake in the joys of Jewish Christmas, he joked.
"Jewish Christmas sneakily became one of the most widely observed 'Jewish holidays' and one of the most fun, and this year you can do it," he said. "What an opportunity!"
If you do decide to go the takeout route, your local Chinese spot is waiting with open arms.
Keegan Fong, owner of Woon, a casual Chinese restaurant in L.A.'s Filipinotown, made the mistake of closing his business on Christmas Day last year. In all fairness, it was his first year in a brick-and-mortar spot and he was in the dark about the Jewish Christmas thing.
This year, he's offering "quarantine specials" for takeout and delivery for larger parties. (Each include choices of mains, sides and bottles of natural wine or sake for parties of two, four, or larger.)
"I talked to some of our Jewish customers and they were so angry that we weren't open on Christmas," he said. "Lucky for me, they all postponed their Chinese meals to the days following the 25th. We were slammed the days after Christmas."
Fong kept his pitch for Chinese takeout on Christmas Day simple: "There's really nothing that says 'family' more than a family-style Chinese meal," he said. "Chinese food is meant to be shared with family ― and when it's takeout it's even better."
Plus, he added, "the re-heat value on Chinese food is probably the best (behind pizza), and it travels well."
Now that the argument has been made for a Jewish Christmas meal, go and get a head start on placing your order of General Tso's chicken and steamed bao buns. Here's hoping your fortune cookie says something along the lines of, "Next year will be better than the hellish one you're currently experiencing."
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Florence © Alan Piper
The principal Tuscan city of Florence (Firenze) nestles below the wooded foothills of the Apennines, along the banks of the Arno River. The works of Botticelli, Michelangelo, Bruneschelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Boccaccio, Alberti, Masaccio, Donatello, Vasari and Fra Angelico imbue the city with the magnificence of their contribution to art and life. The city itself is muse to some and home to many stylish citizens, who enhance the cobbled streets and fashionable piazzas with their inimitable Italian flair.
The heart of the city, where everyone from tourist to tout seems to congregate, is the Piazza de Duomo and the Piazza della Signoria. The statues dominating the Piazza della Signoria commemorate major historical events of the city's life, and the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio still performs its original role as Florence's town hall. The adjacent Uffizi is the oldest art gallery in the world, with a collection of the greatest works of the Renaissance, commissioned largely by the Medici family. The man who founded the great long-ruling Medici dynasty was Cosimo il Vecchio. His legacy is imprinted in the city's northern area, marked by the churches of San Lorenzo, San Marco and the Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
The western stretches of the city are formed by Florence's railway station at one end and the Ponte Vecchio at the other. The quaint Ponte Vecchio bridge was built in 1345, and was one of the few areas to emerge unscathed from the wartime bombs. Little workshops that used to belong to butchers, tanners and blacksmiths peer onto the river from their timber supports. The church of Santa Maria Novella also rises from the city's western boundaries in true gothic splendour, preserving some of the most important works of art in Florence.
The Oltrarno (meaning 'over the Arno') area became the place from which the Medici ruled from the Palazzo Pitti. The magnificent Boboli Gardens were designed and laid out around it. The area surrounding Via Maggio and Piazza di Santo Spirito boasts a collection of other palazzi built during the 16th and 17th-centuries.
Florence has wonders and treasures enough to occupy travellers for many holidays.


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package ariba.ui.aribaweb.core;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWEncodedString;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWResourceManager;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWResourceManagerDictionary;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWSingleLocaleResourceManager;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWUtil;
import ariba.util.core.ListUtil;
import ariba.util.core.MapUtil;
import ariba.util.core.MultiKeyHashtable;

public final class AWLocal extends AWContainerElement
{
    public static boolean IsDebuggingEnabled = false;
    private static MultiKeyHashtable HasLoggedFlags;
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    public static AWSingleLocaleResourceManager resourceManager (AWRequestContext requestContext)
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        }

        return AWSingleLocaleResourceManager.ensureSingleLocale(resourceManager);
    }

    public static String localizedJavaString (int key, String originalString, Class cls, AWRequestContext requestContext)
    {
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            component = component.parent();
        }

        AWStringLocalizer localizer = AWConcreteApplication.SharedInstance.getStringLocalizer();
        return localizer.getLocalizedAWLStrings(component);
    }

    protected static Map loadLocalizedJavaStrings (AWComponent component)
    {
        if (component instanceof AWIncludeBlock) {
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There were 705 new listings on The International Stock Exchange (TISE) during 2017.
This represents an increase of 203 (40%) on the previous year and took the total number of listed securities on the Exchange to 2,511 at the end of December.
Growth areas for new listings last year included debt products, such as high yield bonds and convertible bonds and investment vehicles, including Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
Fiona Le Poidevin, CEO of The International Stock Exchange Group Limited (TISEG), said: "It is fantastic that we have built on our success of previous years by substantially increasing new business during 2017. This significant rise in the number of new listings at the Exchange reflects the growing recognition from issuers and their advisers that TISE provides the most appropriate listing venue for their securities.
During 2017, financial services business PraxisIFM Group Limited became the latest trading company to be listed on TISE. It listed to widen the group's visibility internationally, provide access to the capital markets and to give shareholders a market for their holdings.
Upon listing it also entered the Channel Islands segment which, along with an Isle of Man segment, was established when the Exchange was rebranded – from the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) – and opened an office in the Isle of Man in early 2017.
Last year, TISE also received recognition from the German financial services regulator, BaFin, which means that German funds established under the European Union's Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive can now invest into securities listed on TISE.
More recently, Mark Nicol joined as the new head of the regulatory arm of the Exchange, The International Stock Exchange Authority Limited (TISEA) and a new service was launched to assist companies in obtaining, maintaining and renewing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).
Mrs Le Poidevin said: "There were a number of significant developments at the Exchange during 2017 of which our team should be very proud. I look forward to working with all our stakeholders as we take further strides forward in 2018.


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Het Nationaal Canadees Bevrijdingsmonument is een oorlogsmonument in Apeldoorn, dat werd gemaakt door Henk Visch. Het monument werd door prinses Margriet op 2 mei 2000 onthuld en staat in een rechte lijn richting Ottawa, (Canada). In Ottawa staat een tweede exemplaar, in een rechte lijn naar Apeldoorn. Het monument in Canada werd in 2002 door prinses Margriet onthuld.

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Het gedenkteken verbeeldt de bevrijding van Nederland door de Canadezen. De twee hoeden geven uitdrukking aan de vriendschappelijke band die is ontstaan tussen Nederland en Canada. De 'Maple Leaf' is het nationale symbool van Canada. Henk Visch - de ontwerper van het monument - wilde met het beeld een aantal tegenpolen uitdrukken: de vreugde over de bevrijding tegenover het verdriet over het verlies van zoveel levens, vrede tegenover oorlog, verwelkomen tegenover afscheid, het verleden tegenover de toekomst en Canada tegenover Nederland.

In Canada bevindt zich in Dow's Lake een bronzen replica van het monument. De twee beelden vormen als het ware één monument dat de verbondenheid van de twee landen uitdrukt.

Het beeld in Apeldoorn staat op een plateau van tegels met in reliëf een esdoornblad. Achter het beeld liggen twee betonnen blokken met de tekst "Canada" en "Nederland". In Ottawa staat het beeld op een klinkerplateau. Op het informatiebord in Nederland staat er informatie in het Nederlands, Engels en Frans. In Ottawa staat het in het Engels en Frans.

Zie ook
 Lijst van oorlogsmonumenten in Apeldoorn

Beeld in Apeldoorn
Oorlogsmonument in Gelderland
Werk van Henk Visch
Tweede Wereldoorlog in Apeldoorn

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Q: How to disable is_email() in wordpress? The issue is that I keep recieving false negative from the is_email wordpress function on multiple plugins I have. I've been looking for a while and I cannot seem to find out how to deal with this issue without altering the core files. I would rather not do so because the website owner doesn't want to re-patch after every update.
the troublesome function is :
is_email ( string $email, bool $deprecated = false )
My modification to the core would be to make the function look like this (Having valid emails or not isn't a problematic compared to having these "Your email is invalid" messages.):
function is_email ( string $email, bool $deprecated = false ){
    return $email;
}

A: could modify the behavior of the function "is_email()" with some of the functions of PHP. To modify an existing works.
Look at the following documentation in PHP and you will see that it is simple.
I think it might be a trick to your problem created a new function that returns void.
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override-function
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rename-function
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runkit-function-redefine

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Alex, 27, lives in a working-class Paris neighborhood and sells drugs for a living, continuously paying off the debts of his brother Isaac (played by French auteur Cedric Kahn), who's becoming a real burden. When his cousin,...
Alex, 27, lives in a working-class Paris neighborhood and sells drugs for a living, continuously paying off the debts of his brother Isaac (played by French auteur Cedric Kahn), who's becoming a real burden. When his cousin, who has just returned from completing his military service in Israel, tells him he's opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex thinks that joining him might be the life-changing opportunity he was waiting for. But in order to leave, Alex must quickly find enough money and accomplish his "aliyah" (the term for Jews emigrating to Israel) which involves, among other things, Hebrew lessons and connecting with his Jewish roots. He also has to leave behind his beloved city of Paris, his former lover Esther, his lifelong friend Mathias, and Jeanne, a woman whom he's just met but has the potential of becoming someone important in his life. Torn between making his aliyah, his drug selling, his complicated love life and a destructive brother, Alex will have to find his own way and make a final decision.
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Deniz Yücel held in prison for a year
Deniz Yücel has been held for a year in a Turkish prison without charge. The German government is continuing to push at all levels for the release of the journalist, stressed federal government spokesperson Steffen Seibert in Berlin.
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Deniz Yücel has now been held for precisely one year in a Turkish prison. "The German government is still doing everything in its power at political and diplomatic level to ensure his release," said government spokesperson Steffen Seibert at the government press conference on Wednesday.
He also commented on the fate of the other German nationals imprisoned in Turkey for political reasons. "We have always said that we are working at all levels within the options open to us to secure the release of Deniz Yücel and the others." On Monday, Steffen Seibert declared that the long period of Deniz Yücel's detention without proper court proceedings being initiated is putting a strain on German-Turkish relations.
On Thursday Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with Turkish President Binaldi Yildirim at the Federal Chancellery. Steffen Seibert pointed out that the German side seeks dialogue even where opinions diverge.
Swift trial in accordance with the rule of law
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel also stressed that the German government is working for the release of Deniz Yücel and the other Germans held for political reasons in Turkey. "We are continuing to push for a swift trial in accordance with the rule of law," he said.
In dialogue, he said, much has already been achieved. German citizens have been released from prison and allowed to leave the country on the basis of decisions taken by Turkish courts in accordance with the rule of law. "We will do everything in our power to ensure that this can also be achieved with respect to the court's decision for Deniz Yücel."
Proceedings in front of the European Court of Human Rights
The German Embassy in Turkey is providing consular services to Deniz Yücel. He has so far received eight visits from Embassy staff, reported a Federal Foreign Office spokesperson on Monday at the government press conference.
The spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Justice added that the German government had pointed to the long period of detention of Deniz Yücel in its statement to the European Court of Human Rights. The German side considers that his human rights, as laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights, have been violated as a result of the excessively long period of detention without charge.
Both the Turkish government and Deniz Yücel's lawyers now have the opportunity to respond by 22 February to the statement made by the German government to the court, he explained. The European Court of Human Rights will then decide whether to grant a hearing or continue with the written procedure.
A total of six German citizens are currently being held in Turkey for reasons that are not apparent. Four of them hold dual citizenship.
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Keillor brings "Prairie" to movie theaters…
Keillor brings "Prairie" to movie theaters nationwide
By Jon Bream |
PUBLISHED: February 5, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
One thousand, two-hundred- thirty-nine shows. Over 36 years. And Garrison Keillor has never watched himself as host of "A Prairie Home Companion."
"I"ve seen it backstage on what I assume is a fixed security camera at (New York"s) Town Hall," he averred.
That doesn"t count.
After all these years and all those shows, the founder and voice of all things "Prairie Home" can now view No. 1,240 from the comfort of a movie theater seat when an encore of a live broadcast Thursday from St. Paul"s Fitzgerald Theater is shown to more than 500 theaters across the United States and Canada. It was beamed live to theaters on Thurdsay, and will air on the radio Saturday in its usual time slot. If all goes well, "Prairie" fans should expect future live theater showings.
Keillor did not concoct this scenario so he could finally watch himself in action. NCM Fathom/Cinecast, a Colorado company that does live-to-theater broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, approached "PHC."
"They besieged us. They surrounded us. They beat on our door. Our phone did not stop ringing," Keillor said. "We were accosted everywhere by Cinecast representatives, people in sharkskin suits, beautiful women bearing expensive gifts. We couldn"t say no."
The courtship lasted a year. What persuaded Keillor was seeing the Metropolitan Opera"s "Eugene Onegin" at a theater in Maplewood, Minn. "It was the most gorgeous experience," he said. "The camerawork was just exemplary. It was a model for how a live event should be."
With more than 4 million listeners on 590 radio stations, Keillor knows that Lake Wobegon and its above-average citizens play well outside Minnesota.
Two weeks ago in San Francisco, he told a "PHC" audience that "people harbor a secret urge to move to the Midwest," which the audience found "highly amusing," he said from his Bay Area hotel. "The show purports to come from the Midwest, which is the great invisible part of America. When I talk to people afterward and I ask if they"ve ever been to Minnesota, it"s surprising that the vast majority of people say, "No. I"ve always meant to or I"ve always wanted to." But unless they have relatives, they don"t."
Keillor originally planned a lineup of regulars for this special broadcast: Twin Cities singers Jearlyn Steele and Jevetta Steele as well as vocalists Heather Masse from New York and Robin and Linda Williams from Virginia.
Exhibitors hoped for bigger names, though, so last week Keillor gave them one: Elvis Costello, the British songman, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and TV talk-show host.
"We needed some more intensity," Keillor explained via e-mail from Oregon. "Especially after I realized that I would be in the show."
Of course Keillor is going to be in the show. But, at age 67, he is talking about finding a new host, something he first mentioned last fall after suffering a stroke on Labor Day. That wasn"t foggy-headed, post-stroke babble. He"s serious.
"I think about it a lot," he said. "I do want the show to continue. It needn"t replicate what has gone before."
As executive producer, he envisions more of a music show that would appeal to a younger audience, with a younger host.
"We wouldn"t replace me with somebody else in the twilight of life. You would pick somebody in their 20s. It would be wonderfully different. I think it would still need to be a live show and have some Midwestern identity and incorporate some comic elements. They could change the theme song if they wanted. I"m going to change my life in a year or two."
He"s looking and listening. He already has attributes in mind — "a terrific musician who can talk onstage," for one — but says, "I haven"t started the seduction process."
Motivated by a "permanent sense of failure," Keillor — who published four books last year as well as writing his weekly show and a syndicated column — likes to work hard but he can get distracted.
"My mind goes into a passive mode very, very easily, especially when I"m with other people. I become rather silent. I"m not a great guest for dinner. I listen pretty hard to people. I think that"s what writers are supposed to do and we file everything away.
"The show is the easiest thing to write. The column is just one of the hardest. Of course, you don"t earn any money writing a newspaper column, but I like it because it"s really hard working in a 750-word form and writing to a noon-on-Tuesday deadline.
A December column generated flak after Keillor expressed consternation over Jewish songwriters penning Christmas carols.
"The problem with the column was that I wrote it in New York," he reflected. "When you get in New York, you get into this sort of mouth-off mode where you dare to talk out of the side of your mouth and say all sorts of things that people in Minnesota would never say."
Now he"s trying his hand at writing a Christmas play, but he becomes a shy Midwesterner when he talks about a Los Angeles theater that wants it. "Just a place with a stage and some lights," he said.
Why won"t he premiere it in Minnesota?
"The hometown audience is the toughest audience, as everybody knows," he demurs.
Keillor also is working on a screenplay and a memoir of the summer of 1966, when he applied for a job at the New Yorker magazine, then decided he"d rather be poor in Minnesota and returned to work in radio.
Right now, he"s just trying to make it through his discombobulated week, with the show two days earlier than usual.
"What am I going to do with Saturday?" he asked. "I should take my wife out on Saturday night."
At least he knows what he"s doing Tuesday. He"s going to a movie theater for the "PHC" rebroadcast: "I intend to force myself to sit and watch it."
WHO ARE KEILLOR"S DREAM GUESTS FOR "PHC"?
"I think they"re probably all dead now," he said, then proceeded to name some living heroes — a few who have been on the show, others who haven"t.
"I regret not having had Merle Haggard on the show. He doesn"t always look like he"s alive, but he is. He"s just one of the great singers. For some reason, I"ve just never been able to catch up with him."
"One of the performers I wish we could have on more often is k.d. lang — one of the great people I"ve ever seen onstage."
"I think Randy Newman is always good. He"s very busy, not always easy to get."
"I thought Wynton Marsalis was the soul of performance. A very brave man."
"Of course, Yo-Yo Ma is sort of a god."
"Bonnie Raitt was a lot of fun to have on. She was really pleased when we gave her a dramatic part and when we had her sing "Wouldn"t It Be Loverly" from "My Fair Lady." She never gets the chance to sing Broadway stuff, and that"s the music she grew up with."
Any dramatic stars? "We"ve had Martin Sheen on. I like Martin playing small cheesy characters — grifters and small con men. He"s good at that. Having been president of the United States (in the NBC-TV series "The West Wing"), he knows how to go into the other realm."
"Prairie" in theaters
·What: HD broadcast to movie theaters
·Guests: Elvis Costello, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, Robin and Linda Williams, Heather Masse
·When: 5 p.m. Tuesday, Century Cinemas at Del Monte, Monterey
·Tickets: $18-$22. http://prairiehome.publicradio.org.
Jon Bream


Do you think you know what it takes to become a professional athlete? The grind and grit that it takes is wildly underestimated.
"Last Chance U" is a Netflix documentary series that describes a little known stage, that of becoming a professional football player.
The six one-hour-long episodes are based on the 2015 season of the East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) football team.
The stakes are high for the team, as they have had a reputation of winning, after being National Junior College champions in 2011, 2013, and 2014.
The Coach, Buddy Stephens, expects the most out of his players, for a valid reason.
The main reason players come to EMCC and play football, is to get recruited by the best Division 1 football teams.
After being the backup quarterback or sitting on the bench at a good Division 1 school, many players come to EMCC for a year just to get recruited and actually play at another DI school the year after.
Others struggle with their grades to go to DI schools. These players attend EMCC for a year or two, in order to get recruited and to earn a scholarship to a DI school.
Each player comes from a different background and has his own individual struggles throughout the season. Each player, however, has one goal: to make it to the NFL.
"Last Chance U" focuses on four players throughout the season. Star running back DJ Law intends to dominate as a player, while struggling in the classroom.
Like Law, defensive lineman, Ronald Ollie also struggles in the classroom, despite his hard work on the field. The last two players are quarterbacks John Franklin III and Wyatt Roberts.
The two quarterbacks playfully fight for the starting job at EMCC. Both are rotated in throughout games, before one breaks through.
The football team and the viewers learn many lessons in this series. Throughout the season, the team must overcome obstacles and face their critics, proving they have the resilience it takes to make it to the NFL.
The team loses one of their regular season games in a shameful, disastrous fashion. They must overcome the loss by moving forward and learning from their mistakes.
The bittersweet ending shows how realistic the show is. It teaches about the ways of life and how your actions define who you are.
For fans of football and athletics, this series is for you, because it gives a little taste of what it takes to become a professional athlete and have success in life. For non-athletes, what will appeal to you is the portrayal of the players and their struggles.
The players' attitudes and past struggles that have led them to EMCC open viewers' eyes to show us how each and every one of us has a different path in life.


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'Manifest destiny': the inspirational mantra with a sinister history and modern-day political clout
If you type "how do I manifest..." into your Google search bar, your hit will come back with 138,000,000 different articles, news stories, and literature. Every celebrity from Oprah to HuffPost can tell you the exact steps to manifest your destiny (or your wealth, health, or happiness). Every wannabe Instagram influencer can tell you the 5 different ways they have manifested something in their lives and how they can teach you to do the same (for $349.99, of course).
The term "manifest destiny" has recently captured our attention after hearing it in the Scene on Radio 'The Land That Never Has Been Yet' series. We wanted to dive deeper into this concept. What's the history behind this very new age, enlightened concept? It seems so fluffy and harmless. However, we've discovered this phrase is something deeper and much more sinister. Let's explore it from a historical viewpoint.
In 1845, in an American journal- the Democratic Review- colonizers called for more American expansionism; basically, to expand west. In the article, the journal declared that the expansion was the "fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." This term, "manifest destiny", was a Christian claim that America had a destiny, a manifest, that was self-evident from God to occupy the North American continent south of Canada.
(Read more about the religious origins of manifest destiny)
In order to manifest their destiny, the colonizers had to use violence and dishonest treaties to force the indigenous people (Native Americans) off their lands. This was solving the 'Indian Problem' that white Americans encountered. The indigenous people, with their strange looks, beliefs, and ways of living, occupied land the white settlers wanted and believed they deserved, because it was their destiny. The more humane white colonizers tried a 'civilization campaign' to encourage the indigenous people to convert to Christianity, learn to speak and read English, and adopt European style economic and political practices in hopes that Native Americans would integrate nicely and not put up much of a fuss as their lands were taken from them.
(Learn more about the relationship between white settlers and U.S. indigenous groups)
However, many of the state governments, particularly in the southern states, passed laws that limited the indigenous people's sovereignty and allowed white settlers to encroach, usually violently, upon their land. For centuries, the racial dominance of the white colonists actively purported the oppression of non-white people in America. The edict to "manifest destiny" was a continuous theme throughout American history. The phrase has been enacted over and over again by many leaders who claim that God chose America to be a special nation that would lead the way for democracy.
'MANIFEST DESTINY' = MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?
Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, was the most recent President to use this phrase. In his February 2020 State of the Union address, he stated: "In reaffirming our heritage as a free nation, we must remember that America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier: America's manifest destiny in the stars." While there was much poking fun at this initiative, what Trump is referring to is the $738 billion defense bill he signed in 2019 that will provide financial backing to military systems to provide defense intel via satellites and other space technology. But to invoke "manifest destiny", a term that is clearly grounded in expansion via "whatever means necessary" and historically implies violence as part of that takeover, was a gross misuse of the phrase.
(Learn more about Donald Trump's Space Force)
Discussing "manifest destiny" in our current culture wouldn't be complete without examining it's implications in the Republican Party's manifesto to 'Make America Great Again.' In light of the social movements taking place across the nation throughout the summer of 2020, it's important to understand the impacts that "manifest destiny" continues to have today. In our country's history, we have seen white individuals manifesting destiny through force and violence for the sake of furthering their own power, their own positions, for ownership of land and resources, and for the sake of expansion and capitalism. Today, the systems set in place long ago through "manifest destiny" continue to give privilege to white people while at the same time disenfranchising marginalized populations. One quick example of this is the clear and evident racist practices by the USDA that led many Black U.S. farmers to go bankrupt and lose their land in the 21st century.
(Read more about the Black farmers' lawsuit against the USDA)
Because non-white groups and communities continue to fight for justice against systems of oppression, and victories come in the form of equal rights, or even reparations in some cases (note in the example above the $1.25 billion payout to Black farmers from the federal government), we are also now seeing the push-back from primarily white groups of people. The slogan 'Make America Great Again' is a dog whistle meant to invoke support to smother the efforts of oppressed groups in the U.S. It also serves as a reminder to marginalized people that white individuals are superior, and that (based off our country's history) it is God's will for white people to retain certain political, economic, social, educational, and other privileges. Once those privileges are "threatened" by other groups fighting for equal access, the mantra 'Make America Great Again', is pushed to the swells, and gains the unwavering support of at least half of the United States.
Manifest destiny, the long time justification for American imperialism, is certainly not just a thing of the past. We must understand it's sinister history so that we can better understand where we see it impact groups of people today.
Listen to our full discussion in our most recent podcast episode: Buzzwords Busted: The History Behind "Manifest Destiny":
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Odisha reach 96/2 against Bengal on Day 1
Odisha managed to post 96/2 in 35 overs against Bengal at stumps on Day 1 in the Elite Group A clash at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
Akash Deep and Ishan Porel bagged a wicket each for Bengal.
Put into bat, Odisha began the proceedings on a cautious note as openers Shantanu Mishra (41 not out) and Anurag Sarangi (15) weren't troubled much by the Bengal bowlers.
The home side were in search of much-needed breakthrough and were finally rewarded in the 15th over when Akash Deep dismissed Sarangi to reduce Odisha to 26/1.
From there on, Shantanu and Sandeep Pattanaik (30) combined well to add crucial 57 runs for the second wicket.
Much to the delight of the home side, Sandeep played a loose shot off the bowling of Ishan in the 32nd over to reduce Odisha to 83/2.
But Shantanu and skipper Subhransu Senapati (9) stood firm to remain unbeaten at the end of the day's play.
The match commenced at 1pm in place of the scheduled start at 8.45 am due to damp conditions. A total of 35 overs were played today.
"We as a team are focused only on what's happening in the match. We focus on our abilities and how we can perform well. Our bowlers tried their best on the day. We will continue to do so and look to grab wickets early tomorrow," head coach Laxmi Ratan Shukla said after the day's play.


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The Eleventh Circuit Finally Breaks Its Silence on Website Accessibility – but Was Its Decision Worth the Wait?
By Joshua A. Stein & Shira M. Blank on April 8, 2021
Posted in Hospitality, Retail
After keeping us waiting with baited breath for several years, the Eleventh Circuit finally broke its silence – issuing its long-anticipated ruling in Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, holding that websites are not covered as places of public accommodation under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("Title III" or "ADA"). In doing so, the Court reversed and vacated the district court's decision finding that defendant, Winn-Dixie Stores, violated Title III by failing to maintain a website that is accessible to individuals, who are blind or have low vision.
Unfortunately, to the extent that businesses, individuals, and disability rights advocates were hoping that this decision would help provide some much needed definitive guidance in this area of the law, they are all undoubtedly disappointed. While the decision should diminish plaintiffs' abilities to successfully mount website accessibility challenges against certain types of businesses/websites in the Eleventh Circuit, it does little to immediately change the current state of the law at the national level.
Notwithstanding, the collective 61-page majority and dissenting opinions, do contain additional analysis into this ever-developing area. Below are three critical takeaways from this long-awaited decision, as well as our thoughts in looking ahead.
Takeaway #1: According to the Eleventh Circuit, Websites Are Not Places of Public Accommodation Under The ADA
The majority opinion reached its decision by adopting an extremely strict interpretation of the ADA – diverging from many district and appeals courts in other circuits – holding that websites do not qualify as "places of public accommodation" ("PPA") under Title III, and accordingly, the plaintiff's inability to access the site, in and of itself, is not a Title III violation.
As drafted, Title III applies to PPA, which, as the Court correctly notes, are expressly defined as physical, tangible, places, like retail stores, hotels, restaurants, and theaters. Notwithstanding the ADA's examples of PPA, to date, a number of courts in other Circuits have nevertheless found that businesses must make their websites accessible under Title III, by utilizing one of two theories:
the "spirit of the law" theory, which posits that, because the ADA is a broad-reaching civil rights law meant to provide individuals with disabilities with full and equal access to various facets of society, it follows that the ADA must be read to evolve as society and technology evolve, and websites offering goods and services to the public are the modern equivalents of many of the brick and mortar PPA defined in the original text and regulations governing the ADA and, therefore, access must be provided; or
the "nexus" theory, which provides that websites that have a "nexus" to physical PPA, must be accessible to individuals with disabilities, because they are an extension of the goods/services/amenities being offered by the clearly-covered PPA.
Here, the majority outright rejected the "spirit of the law" approach as being contrary to the plain and unambiguous text of the ADA and, moreover, chose not to adopt the "nexus" theory (prevalent in the Ninth Circuit's decision in Robles v. Domino's), noting it was not something that had been previously followed in the Eleventh Circuit.
Instead, the Eleventh Circuit held that the impetus is on Congress to amend the ADA if its protections should be extended to websites, and absent Congress broadening the definition of PPA to include websites, it declined to "extend ADA liability to the facts presented to [it] here."
Takeaway #2: The Eleventh Circuit Entertains an Alternative Theory of Potential Liability Under Title III, But Finds That It Still Doesn't Result in Winn-Dixie's Website Violating Title III
Having rejected the two theories noted above, the Appellate Court adopted an alternative, "third" theory of liability – the "intangible barrier" theory. Specifically, the Court held that if a website is inaccessible to individuals with disabilities, that website would violate Title III only where it creates an "intangible barrier" to accessing goods/services in a physical, brick and mortar location. The Court found that the inaccessibility of Winn-Dixie's website did not present an "intangible barrier," because it has a "limited use;" it is not the sole access point to the company's stores, and it does not prevent the plaintiff from enjoying or accessing the goods/services that Winn-Dixie offers in its stores. (Indeed, the Court noted that the plaintiff had admittedly shopped at one of Winn-Dixie's stores for years before he brought his lawsuit). Critically, the Court noted that Winn-Dixie's website does not allow users to make purchases on the site; to the contrary, any purchases are made at the stores, and it held that anything a user could do on the website, it could also do at the stores.
Importantly, the majority was not swayed by the plaintiff's arguments that the website's inaccessibility forced him to confront additional inconveniences that individuals without disabilities, who could use the website, would not encounter (e.g., longer in-person wait times to pick up medications; inability to independently access coupons at home), and rejected his contention that these inequities denied him full and equal enjoyment of the grocery store or met the "intangible barrier" test.
Takeaway #3: This Decision's Implications Are Limited
Ultimately, while this decision is sure to garner a significant amount of coverage, and does certainly make it harder to bring website accessibility claims under the ADA in the Eleventh Circuit, for the near-term future, it is unlikely to have a significant impact on this area of the law at a national level.
Although the majority held that Winn-Dixie did not violate Title III by maintaining an inaccessible website, it took great care to mention more than once that the fact that the website did not contain an e-commerce component linked to the store was a factor in reaching its decision.
Undoubtedly, the decision provides businesses with ammunition to aggressively fight back against cases filed in the Eleventh Circuit where: (i) a business is cyber-only and entirely unconnected to a physical PPA; or (ii) the website in question is predominantly informational and does not contain an e-commerce component. Given that a significant number of website accessibility lawsuits and demand letters continue to emanate from Florida, this should provide relief to Florida businesses that fit into one of these two categories.
As noted above, the Eleventh Circuit's decision is inconsistent with those in several other circuits and district courts, and accordingly, is unlikely to deter plaintiffs from simply switching forums and asserting claims in jurisdictions that have adopted more pro-plaintiff theories of the law, such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, or California, where Title III and/or state/local law currently require accessible websites.
Plaintiff's counsel in this case has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. While the Supreme Court previously rejected Domino's efforts to seek review of its case in the Ninth Circuit, it is possible that the tension between the two cases will finally be enough for the Court to grant certiorari.
Separately, while recent efforts over the past six months have proven unsuccessful, there is bipartisan interest among some members of Congress to amend the ADA to expressly address digital accessibility. Similarly, we anticipate that if Congress confirms Kristen Clarke to serve as the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Right Division ("DOJ"), DOJ's Disability Rights Section is apt to work with the U.S. Access Board to reignite prior efforts under the Obama Administration to promulgate and adopt federal regulations governing website and mobile application accessibility. Interested parties should keep an eye out for announcements of such developments this July around the anniversary of the ADA and will, of course, report on any such announcements.
In the interim, as we've noted for years, the best way to currently avoid falling prey to website accessibility lawsuits like Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores and Robles v. Domino's's is to achieve substantial conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ("WCAG") 2.1 Levels A and AA (as confirmed via human-based auditing from both the code and user perspectives), maintain internal digital accessibility policies and corporate governance procedures, include website accessibility obligations in all contracts with third-party vendors, provide training to relevant employees regarding developing, operating, and maintaining an accessible website, and ensure that these efforts are ongoing, and not simply one-time efforts.
Tags: Accommodation, ADA, Joshua A. Stein, Shira M. Blank


What better day to launch an awesome update than on the day Rovio releases Angry Birds Space. The paid-version of Fruit Ninja has been updated in the Google Play Store to allow for multiplayer action. Once you find a foe, you go head-to-head swiping at fruit that matches your color. It's a ton of fun and as you can see from the screenie above, this guy had no idea how to play and kept swiping my fruit resulting in many penalties.
If you're a ninja, then be sure to pick up this update.


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This video really represents myself and all the underdogs. It symbolizes standing toe to toe taking hit after hit, never giving up and going the distance in life. Then prevailing and overcoming the odds by Heart, Fire, Passion and pure Determination. This video can be applied to a lot of people's life and struggles.
Rocky's words say it all in these two videos.
Sound advice from filmmaking rebel Robert Rodriguez that is just as valuable and applicable today as it was back in the day.
Movie Trailer to the heartfelt, uplifting, inspirational and spirtiual film "Peaceful Warrior" based on the bestselling novel "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman.
An amazing clip from the film "Peaceful Warrior."
The Hurricane directed by Norman Jewison is based on the true story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter based off his book The 16th Round. Denzel Washington is brillant as Rubin Carter and falls deep into this character. Every scene with Denzel is filled with emotion and presence that puts the viewers right their with what Rubin is going through and feeling. A truly uplifiting and inspirational film with an amazing Director behind the camera and a great message, that good or bad, we can all change for the better and transcend in life.
Here is a fantastic clip from an audience Q & A with these brilliant directors: Sam Raimi, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Guillermo Del Toro. This video is filled with valuable information for those serious about film making.
Here is a list of some really great books, I have gained a world of knowledge from them. Very highly recommended:
-Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmaker/dp/0452271878/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199325463&sr=1-1
- The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide For The Digital Age 2008 Edition by Steven Ascher & Edward Pincus http://www.amazon.com/Filmmakers-Handbook-Comprehensive-Guide-Digital/dp/0452286786/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199325598&sr=1-1
- What They Don't Teach You at Film School: 161 Strategies for Making Your Own Movie No Matter What by Camille Landau and Tiare White http://www.amazon.com/What-They-Dont-Teach-School/dp/B000S6NBU2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199325653&sr=1-1
-On the Warrior's Path: Philosophy, Fighting and Martial Arts Mythology. A wonderful Martial Arts Philospical book that helps the human spirit and those looking to be at peace with ones self and body. A lot of what this book teaches about the warrior spirit can be applied to anyone who is looking to live a life of virtue, honor, peace, strength and happiness even if you are not a Martial Artist. http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Path-Philosophy-Fighting-Mythology/dp/1583940669/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199510648&sr=8-1
-Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives by Dan Millman. During his junior year at the University of California, while training to become a world-champion gymnast, Dan Millman stumbled on a 94-year-old mentor nicknamed Socrates, a powerful, unpredictable, and elusive character. He taught a way to maximize performance using a unique blend of Eastern philosophy and Western fitness to cultivate the true essence of a champion - the "way of the peaceful warrior." Millman's first-person account of his odyssey into realms of light, darkness, mind, body, and spirit has since become an international bestseller about the universal quest for happiness. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780915811892&itm=1
The 16th Round is an autobiography written by the former boxer himself, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongly accused of murder back in the 60's. This book tells his life story and why he was wrongly imprisoned. What's really wonderful about this book is to see how one flawed man, so full of hate and anger, transcended into a wonderful philosophical human being during his 19+ years wrongfully imprisoned. This book is gritty and in your face as Carter reveals himself to the reader but one can't help to come away from this book inspired. This book is out of print and hard to find but well worth it if you ever come across a copy. http://www.amazon.com/Sixteenth-Round-Number-Contender-45472/dp/0140149295/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226882402&sr=1-1
Something So Strong by Jim Capaldi from the cult classic Martial Arts movie Best of the Best.
Best of the Best by Stubblefield & Hall from the cult classic Martial Arts movie Best of the Best.
God Gave me a Reason by Hypnautic from his Album God Gave Me A Reason, this amazing song is also featured in my first movie, "Betrayed Heart."
Hurricane by the amazing singer song writer, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan wrote this song for Rubin "Hurricane" Carter who was falsely accused and thrown in jail for a murder he didn't commit.
Here is a very touching and beautiful song by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. I fell in love with this song and the lyrics. It talks about a man who has fought for everything in his life but when he looses it all, his life starts to fall apart and he loses faith in himself. However, he has an amazing woman by his side that believes in him and encourages him not to give up in life. A powerful message is delivered in this amazing song by music legend Peter Gabriel.
My favorite movies ever. These amazing movies will inspire and motivate all those who watch and take them to heart. It is a rags to riches story that shows the struggles in life of all the underdogs of the world. Rocky also proves that if you have the Heart and Fire and go for it in life, you can make all your dreams come true. http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Complete-Saga-Collection-Rocky-Complete/dp/B000WC3A0S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1199510268&sr=1-1
One of the best Martial Arts movies made. It really captures the human spirit as well as the importance of coming together as a team when it is most called for. Like the tag line says "A team is not a team, if you don't give a damn about each other." http://www.amazon.com/Best-Eric-Roberts/dp/B0002O7XUE/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1199510244&sr=1-1
Words can't even begin to describe how powerful and meaningful this movie is. Based off the novel "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman. It's about finding peace and happiness within ones self, enjoying the journey in your life and to not be so focused on the past and so worrisome about what the future will bring, it's about being in the moment and loving the Journey in life along the way, not whatever prize their may be at the end, if at all of the Journey. A very spiritual and uplifting film, that is simply a must see. http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=025195009126&itm=1
The Hurricane directed by Norman Jewison is based on the true story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter based off his book The 16th Round. Denzel Washington is brillant as Rubin Carter and falls deep into this character. Every scene with Denzel is filled with emotion and presence that puts the viewers right their with what Rubin is going through and feeling while fighting for his innocence. A truly uplifiting and inspirational film with an amazing Director behind the camera and a great message, that good or bad, we can all change for the better and transcend in life.