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Twenty-Four Angry Men
Posted: June 29, 2011 in Uncategorized
Tags: 12, Courtroom Drama, Dog Day AFternoon, Drama, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Fail-Safe, George C. Scott, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Jack Klugman, Jack Lemmon, Jack Warden, Lee J. Cobb, Murder on the Orient Express, Mykelti Williamson, Network, Ossie Davis, Prince of the City, Serpico, Sidney Lumet, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Odd Couple, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Pawnbroker, The Verdict, Twelve Angry Men, William Friedkin
Can we just talk about this a little more? Please?
Twelve Angry Men (1957). Directed by Sidney Lumet. Screenplay by Reginald Rose, from his prior teleplay. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Ed Begley, others. 96 minutes. ****
12 (in Russian with Subtitles Available; 2007). Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Novotsky-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko, based on original screenplay by Reginald Rose. One third of the actors on the jury have the first name Sergei, and two others are named Alexei; it must have been fun whenever one got a phone call. 157 minutes. **
Others Mentioned Here But Not Discussed At Length: Twelve Angry Men (TV-movie directed by William Friedkin, 1997).
Other Known Versions: The original TV production (1954); Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Hindi, 1986); many many other parodies and imitations.
The boy is on trial for his life. He has been accused of the brutal stabbing death of his father, and though he maintains his innocence, almost no exculpatory evidence has been introduced, and he is almost certainly facing a trip upstate. It's a foregone conclusion. For the most part, the all-male jury looks forward to a quick vote, an immediate return to the courtroom, and from there a quick return to their everyday lives. But one juror isn't so sure. He thinks that the matter is too serious for such casual disposal…and as he persuades his resentful fellow jurors to take a second look, more and more cracks appear in the prosecution's case. It begins to look like the boy might be innocent after all. But some members of the jury are emotionally invested in a guilty verdict…and it becomes unclear whether justice, of any kind, is at all possible.
This was the premise of Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay Twelve Angry Men, and of the classic 1957 film directed by Sidney Lumet. A financial disappointment for star and co-producer Henry Fonda, it built its reputation with later TV showings and is now considered a major, influential classic. It was also the first theatrical film of the towering Sidney Lumet, who was among other things one of the great New York City directors and who, over the next fifty years, managed the admirable feat of directing at least one, and sometimes more than one, capital-G Great film per decade. (That list of one great film per decade would, according to this lifelong admirer, include Twelve Angry Men in the 1950s, The Pawnbroker and The Hill in the 1960s, Serpico, Murder On the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network in the 1970s, Prince of the City in the 1980s, Q & A in the 1990s, and his last movie Before The Devil Knows You're Dead in the 2000s…and that's before you start listing films that miss greatness by a hair or those like Fail-Safe or The Verdict that are merely very, very good.) It is part of our culture, and the latest word has it that it's about to be remade again. We therefore take this opportunity to discuss both the original, which can be seen as a dramatization of what's so great about America…and a recent version that can be seen as a dramatization of everything that's gone wrong in Russia.
One point before we continue: readers of these essays always risk being exposed to plot spoilers, but this is especially true of what follows, and particularly in its coverage of the 2007 film. Beware.
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Movie fans who want to know the difference between what a screenwriter does and what a director does could be profitably directed to this film.
The story, essentially a two-hour argument where the jurors supporting a not guilty verdict gradually break down and overcome the opposition of those who want the kid to go to jail, was all on paper long before Sidney Lumet ever got involved; what he added in this, his very first theatrical film, was a superb mastery of the form that over the course of 96 grueling minutes gradually moves the POV of most shots closer and closer to table-level, increasing the tension and the sense that all of the jurors are stuck with one another. He's the one who makes this an astonishingly fluid and stylish film for one largely set all in one room, and it manages the trick long before the days of queasy shakicams and swooping, spinning, 360 degree pans. That is all Lumet, with his cinematographer Boris Kaufman and his editor Carl Lerner. Please note that it is not showy direction; the average moviegoer will never be consciously aware of Lumet's craft. But it's there. It can be felt, and it ratchets up the suspense to the breaking point.
Similarly, movie fans who want a primo demonstration of the importance of star power need look no further than the introduction of Juror #8 (Fonda), initially the only one who even wants to subject the evidence to discussion. He is the last one whose face we see, after the jury files into the room and everybody else expends the next few minutes in idle conversation and joking around; at the moment when he's called to the table for deliberation, having spent the last few minutes gazing out the window in silent contemplation, he turns around and reveals himself for the first time as Fonda, from The Grapes Of Wrath and The Ox-Bow Incident onward an icon of American rectitude, and instantly the guy the movie audience wants to win. (Jack Lemmon, who played the same role in William Friedkin's 1997 TV version, played decent men as often as Fonda did, and for all his talent couldn't match the impact of Fonda's big turn-around.)
The movie also benefits from being superbly cast. Any list of who's superb here will amount to a simple recitation of the entire jury, but special attention should be paid to Lee J. Cobb, as the bullying juror #3, who is just as quickly the guy the audience will want to see lose; and to E.G. Marshall, as Juror #4, another antagonist who happens to be the most level-headed, logically-driven person in the room; he never raises his voice and, until a memorable moment late in the film, never sweats. (There's also Jack Klugman, who just a few years later played tribute to this movie with another deadlocked-jury story on an episode of his sitcom, The Odd Couple.)
The movie is filled with cheer-worthy moments. What audience doesn't feel tremendous satisfaction when the old man changes his vote to support Juror #8? What audience doesn't cheer when Juror #4 interrupts another's bigoted rant by telling him to sit down and not open his mouth again?
One of the best shut-up moments in any movie, ever.
Really. It's like an action movie, with arguments instead of gunfights, so pleasurable with every frame that some viewers, this essayist included, can see it dozens of times with undiminished appreciation.
It's so very terrific, in toto, that just making this next observation is extraordinarily painful.
It is also incredibly contrived.
It has to be. All courtroom dramas are. It's one thing if they're based on actual court cases, where the transcripts exist; but if concocted, they by necessity compress into an hour or two or at most three the high points of what is, in real life, often a mind-numbingly dull process, with testimony given in monotones and long stretches spent in wrangling over evidentiary minutiae. Creating an effective courtroom drama almost always depends on the careful concealment of, and timely unveiling of, straw men: obstacles that seem fatal but aren't, evidence that seems iron-clad but isn't, a closing argument that seems to put the final nails in the opposing side's coffin but nevertheless leaves room for a rhetorical flourish that makes everything before it seem flimsy and stupid. In Twelve Angry Men, it's the pile of evidence implicating a kid in the stabbing-death of his father – a case that Reginald Rose carefully designed to look air-tight at first, but to which he also carefully attached serious reasons to doubt.
Everything depends on the writer's deliberate placement of these straw men; if Henry Fonda's character had not been able to buy an identical switchblade after the police failed, if the elderly witness had not been dragging a leg, if the woman across the street not rubbed the bridge of her nose in court, or even if the jurors had not changed their minds with the regularity that they did, the defendant would be on the first train upstate. In that sense, at least, Twelve Angry Men functions not as an indictment of our legal system, but as a fond tribute to the efficacy of having the case against you designed by an omnipotent screenwriter who wants it to fall apart at the first gust of strong wind. This has been discussed, at length, but Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who as an educator also characterized the independent investigation of Juror #8 as likely grounds for a mistrial. (And, by the way, if you want another case of a courtroom drama artfully hiding the fact that it all depends on a screenwriter carefully hiding straw men – in this case evidence that's been squirreled away by the culprits, that the defense attorney protagonist uncovers at the last minute — look no further than that other Lumet drama, The Verdict.)
None of that matters all that much. The case may be designed to fall apart, but it's designed to fall apart in a suspenseful manner, driven by the characters of the jurors; and it's designed to fall apart in a manner than remains inconclusive at the end, leaving open the possibility that the kid might have killed his Dad after all.
William Friedkin's 1997 version pretty much hits the same story points, with a just-as-impressive cast that included in addition to Lemmon such powerhouses as George C. Scott and Ossie Davis; it is effective enough, but lacks Lumet's brilliant staging. On the plus side, we are no longer talking about Twelve Angry White Men, and indeed one of its more audacious touches is casting a young Black man, Mykelti Williamson, in the role of the film's vengeful bigot. On the negative is the one reason we bring it up, the odd casting glitch that presents us with a large number of elderly men among the jurors, not just Lemmon and Scott but also Ossie Davis and Hume Cronyn. This is only an issue because, as in the original, much is made of Juror # 3 being scolded failing to show the proper amount of respect toward the frail and lonely retiree, Juror # 9. That makes a small degree of sense when Lee. J. Cobb, circa 1957, is being upbraided for the way he treats the "old man," Joseph Sweeney; less so when George C. Scott, circa 1997, is told off for the way he treats old men like Hume Cronyn. They're both old men, and it's downright surreal when another old man, Ossie Davis, makes noises that seem to regard Cronyn, who's admittedly somewhat older, as ancient by comparison. Look around you, people. If you count Armin Mueller-Stahl, who was 67 at the time and the youngest of this group by several years, almost half the jury is eligible for social security.
This award-winning Russian remake, which intends to be not just an examination of the elusiveness of justice in a system that depends on the fairness of human beings serving on juries, but also a harsh examination of the current state of Russian society, is a full hour longer – and a slog even for those of us who normally have little problem with lengthy films. Things just take longer they need to, and many of the jurors stop everything in order to regale everybody with long, dramatic soliloquys about their backstories, a number of which end with the jaw-dropping conclusion, "And that's why I'm changing my vote to Not Guilty." (Really? You rip off mourners at the cemetery where you work, use the money to fund schools, and that's why you're changing your mind? Really? That's…um….different.)
Nobody in the film reacts to these extended personal monologues the way human beings would. Oh, sure, the other jurors ask leading questions like, "Why are you telling us this?", but that just gives the speakers an excuse to continue talking. In real life, one or two of these might be tolerated, but as the tension level rose, somebody would react to the latest with an exasperated, "Oh, great. Now he's starting." Instead, everybody always freezes and allows the soliloquys to play out. I can't be any clearer than this: in real life, eventually, they wouldn't.
Also taking up time: a substantial number of flashbacks to the childhood of the young defendant, a Chechen orphan accused of killing his Russian stepfather. It is a past that includes huddling in a dark basement filled with corpses, and for what it's worth these war scenes are both horrific and well-staged…but even the best-staged scenes can be tiresome if they interrupt the story we care about, and these serve to dilute the overpowering narrative momentum of the original, which takes place in something resembling real time. In 12, we leave the jurors regularly to catch up on some more images from the defendant's tragic life, and return to clear indications that substantial time has passed for the members of the jury and that we've missed some of their deliberations. (If what we've missed amounted to more monologues, then this can be counted as a mercy.) As an extra added treat, we are shown a skirmish from the war in Chechnya, where many rounds of automatic weapons fire are exchanged between two buildings while the boy presses himself flat in the rubble-strewn street between them; thus making this the last thing anybody ever expected in this universe, a somewhat defensible remake of Twelve Angry Men with explosions in it.
That deserves repetition. This is a defensible remake of Twelve Angry Men with explosions in it.
Not exactly claustrophobic.
That's a remarkable achievement. I guess.
The sacrifice of the original's claustrophobic setting extends to this film's jury room, the gymnasium of a run-down high school. The jury members have plenty of room to move about, and sometimes wander far from the central table. This, surprisingly, works, and not just because the basketball tossed by one near the beginning, that refuses to fall through the netless rim and instead just lodges against the backboard, as clear a symbol of the belated verdict as anybody could have ever arranged. Much is made of the exposed heating pipe in the ceiling, and the broken window temporarily blocked off by a cement bag that, one juror discovers, has been there for decades. All around them sit manifestations of a nation's crumbling infrastructure, and the widespread corruption that permits it. One juror, screwing around, discovers a hypodermic needle in a kid's locker, while another discovers and oohs over an abandoned brassiere, and yes, both discoveries are part of it. There's another nice touch involving the school's upright piano, which is stored behind iron bars, and which a couple of the jurors manage to play anyway; you couldn't buy more potent symbolism than that.
We must also give props to this film's bailiff, who unlike the glorified prop of the original film is actually a living and breathing personality, who uses the jury's confiscated cell phones to make his own calls, and reacts with open, comic, and a precisely modulated level of confusion to the antics going on in the jury room. We don't get any more of the him than the film needs, just enough. And that is a plus.
The murder, and the means by which the various members of the jury poke holes in what had seemed an airtight case, are similar to the ones originally posited by Reginald Rose. We get the supposedly unique knife used in the crime, the limping old man from downstairs who says he witnessed the boy's flight but couldn't have, the unlikelihood of the boy blithely returning to the scene of the crime hours after the killing, and even the woman with compromised eyesight who claims to have witnessed the murder from across the street. There is no passing elevated train, but that's a difficult story element to translate to Moscow and a loud construction site works just as well. The unlikelihood of a boy used to handling knives stabbing a much taller man with a downward thrust also comes up, and that scene is, here, wonderful; the proper method of knife-handling is demonstrated by a surgeon among the jurors who happens to be a Chechen himself and who turns out to be a frightening wizard with a blade. Some of the dramatics work identically, as well; for instance, the main antagonist is a bully of a juror who has issues involving his relationship with his own son, though the details are very different (and are related in the last and best of the film's many extended monologues).
Some of the character stuff is genuinely hilarious. The cemetery guy is eager to get back to his hot 21 year old wife, who according to him looks like Angelina Jolie. He has had three wet dreams in three consecutive nights, thinking of her. He demands to know of his fellow jurors whether they still have wet dreams at their age. (To the film's credit, this results in helpless laughter on the part of everybody.) The film's bully keeps attacking the film's elderly Jew, who just takes it with a knowing amusement that would infuriate any bigot more than any tirade. This is good stuff.
But that's all before we get to some of the strangest and most extreme departures from Reginald Rose's original story.
You have already been provided with a spoiler warning. Proceed past this sentence at your own risk.
One juror puts together the evidence and comes up with an alternative theory that not only fits the facts, but seems to be the story's objective truth: i.e. the father was murdered, the boy framed, and the elderly witness downstairs paid off, by the construction company working on the building next door, that wanted to force them all out of their homes. The police and the prosecution have been paid off to see to it that the boy is railroaded.
Again, that deserves repetition.
This is a version of Twelve Angry Men where the jurors actually solve the crime.
Subsequently, the foreman, a retired ex-intelligence officer who has said almost nothing during the film, reveals that he put together this theory almost immediately and still intends to vote guilty, as the boy has nowhere to go and will certainly be assassinated by the true culprits if freed. In prison, at least, he will live longer. He asks the others if they'll take responsibility for the boy's future now, knowing what they know. They all demur, as they all have lives to live. He reluctantly joins them in a Not Guilty verdict. At the end, post-trial, he not only tells the defendant that he knows what really happened and that he will not rest until the true killers are exposed…he tells the kid to come home with him.
That also deserves repetition.
This is a version of Twelve Angry Men where the foreman of the jury adopts the defendant.
I can't be any clearer than this. 12 is a well-meaning and in many ways admirable version of the basic story, that tries to adapt the story skeleton for its own entirely defensible purposes. But The film's several cogent observations about life in modern-day Russia notwithstanding, these touches make 12 about as ludicrous a re-imagining as we've seen at any point, even in the age of remakes.
Twelve Angry Men: an incredibly contrived, but brilliantly told film. 12: a lumpy and ludicrous but frequently powerful report on the state of life in Russia today.
And now, the wife produces an identical switchblade from her jacket pocket and stabs it into the table…
Twelve Angry Men (1957). Directed by Sidney Lumet. Screenplay by Reginald Rose, from his prior teleplay. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Ed Begley, others. 96 minutes.****
12 (in Russian with Subtitles Available; 2007). Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Novotsky-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko, based on original screenplay by Reginald Rose. One third of the actors on the jury have the first name Sergei, and two others are named Alexei; it must have been fun whenever one got a phone call. 157 minutes.**1'2
Other Known Versions: The original TV production (1954); the William Friedkin TV-movie remake (1997); Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Hindi, 1986); many many other parodies and imitations.
In my nearly 30 years working in and around court rooms and juries, I could never imagine a juror able to bring a weapon into the jury room. That being said, I have seen many odd bits of evidence in both civil and criminal trials. (OK, for you dying to know, everything from a human leg to a 1960's era VW Beetle, not to mention a life size replica of a male plaintiff's genitalia with removable parts to demonstrate his injuries!) But, after viewing these films, I wonder if screenwriters have a clue how juries really work.
I have seen the group who just want to get it over with, the group who want to sock it to the insurance company, the group who actually care and the jury that can't understand a darn thing! The twelve men in our tales all begin as the primary and in the 1957 actually come full circle back to that with only their verdict changed. The jurists in the Russian film not only want the whole deal over with, they obviously also want group therapy. It seems the 2007 theme was we can heal ourselves by freeing the boy.
The Lumet-directed piece plays tight and tense, the climate in the room mirroring the temperament and tenor of the deliberations. The claustrophobic conditions only add to the exquisite morality play we witness. But, alas, it feels like a play. In my reality, the single hold out would have either been abused verbally and possibly physically, or requested to be excused before the abuse could begin. Seldom will one person be persuasive enough to sway eleven others, and in this case his opening gambit would never have been able to work. This is an idealization of the jury process, not the truth of the fallibility of our justice system.
The Russian piece, while hitting all the salient points, doesn't have the edge to make it work. Again, we are dealing with prejudice and poverty, but this version needs to show us the depravity that the accused boy has lived through and the ongoing horror of his continued existence. Ok, great, but that's not the story of justice served. The added sequences (including the repetition of the wet dog) do nothing to move the story forward and in my opinion bogs it down enough to cause serious breaks in what should have been some decent dramatic scenes. Yes, we are dealing with these twelve guys trying to work out their own problems through this deliberation, but the sense of urgency, the need to get this right, just doesn't feel present here. The very fact that life or death is not only based on the verdict, but what happens afterward, blows the premise of the play to shreds.
I have been the fool left "babysitting" the jury. Hours spent sitting, running questions to the judge, getting evidence and meals. But, I have also been a juror. These idealized versions of courts and juries just don't cut it, but then, truth is much more boring than fiction (in most cases).


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Q: How to move Google Cloud DNS entries between 2 projects? I want to do something really simple, but it looks like it's almost impossible to do.
I have different Projects inside my Google Cloud DNS account.
I want to move (migrate?) some of the entries (domains) from one project to another. I don't want to go the delete / recreate path since all domains are live and I don't want any downtime. It also looks like this process creates new NS entries that need changes at the registrar ...
Is this possible?

A: Yes this is possible. Let's assume project-a is the project you want to migrate from and project-b is where you want to migrate to.
Export your record sets:

gcloud dns record-sets export $FILENAME --zone $YOUR_ZONE --project project-a

Create a managed zone in project-b

gcloud dns managed-zones create $NAME --dns-name=your.com. --description $DESC --project project-b

Import the record sets.
Before you do this you will need to remove to standard records (maybe someone knows how to do this better).
Edit the $FILENAME that was created above when you exported the record-sets and remove two items that look exactly like the following:
---
kind: dns#resourceRecordSet
name: clevar.cloud.
rrdatas:
- ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com.
- ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com.
- ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com.
- ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com.
ttl: 21600
type: NS
---
kind: dns#resourceRecordSet
name: clevar.cloud.
rrdatas:
- ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com. cloud-dns-hostmaster.google.com. 14 21600 3600 259200
  300
ttl: 21600
type: SOA

After you've saved the file import it to your new managed zone in project-b

gcloud dns record-sets import $FILENAME --zone $YOUR_ZONE --project project-b

Finally, when you are looking at the managed zone in the Cloud Console (e.g. https://console.cloud.google.com/net-services/dns/zones/$YOUR_ZONE/details?project=project-b) you'll see text in the upper right next to your login that says "REGISTRAR SETUP"
Click that and make sure that your domain nameserver records match what is in that box.
When I went through this the two projects had different nameservers so I did not have to worry about conflicts from the two projects trying to manage my DNS. If they are the same you can disable the DNS API on project-a without losing any data.
After you confirmed you have all your record sets in project-b and you've set the NS records properly with your domain registrar you should create a test record and use that as a way to confirm that everything is working / has propagated.
**Note: I ran through the above and I had my zone moved over within an hour propagation and all, however, you may not be as lucky so give it some time before you assume it isn't working.

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This report provides the latest annual overview of the key trends in health expenditure in Australia. It is the latest in the 33 years of the AIHW's health expenditure series, and examines health expenditure according to who paid (the source of funds) and the types of health goods and services purchased (area of expenditure) between 2005–06 and 2015–16.
Growth in total health expenditure in Australia continued to be relatively low in 2015–16 compared with the 10-year average. However, this was not the case for all sources of funds and it did not result in a reduction in the ratio of health expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP).
Total health expenditure (recurrent and capital expenditure combined) in 2015–16 was $170.4 billion—$6.0 billion (3.6%) higher in real terms than in 2014–15. This was the fourth consecutive year that growth in health expenditure was below the 10-year average (4.7% between 2005–06 and 2015–16).
Growth in real health expenditure per Australian ($7,096 in 2015–16) was also relatively low, at about two-thirds the average annual growth rate over the decade (2.2% compared with 3.0%).
Despite the relatively low growth, the share of the economy (GDP) represented by health (10.3%) increased 0.3 percentage points due to a slower increase in GDP. The increase in the health to GDP ratio was driven more by price rises in the health sector than by the volume of goods and services provided.
Total government health expenditure ($114.6 billion)—about two-thirds (67.3%) of all health expenditure—grew by 4.1% in real terms in 2015–16. This was lower than the average annual growth rate for the decade (4.4%).
Government expenditure on public hospital services was $46.9 billion (40.9% of total government expenditure) in 2015–16. This was up from $44.3 billion the previous year—a real growth of 5.7%. State and territory expenditure accounted for 52.5% of all sources of expenditure on public hospital services in 2015–16.
In 2015–16, primary health care accounted for almost one-third ($34.6 billion or 30.2%) of all government expenditure—three-quarters of this was Australian Government expenditure (74.0%).
Non-government sources (individuals, private health insurance funds and other non-government sources) spent $55.8 billion on health in 2015–16 (32.7% of total health spending, down from 33.1% the previous year). Growth in non-government expenditure in 2015–16 (2.7%) was half the average annual growth over the decade (5.4%).
Expenditure by individuals accounted for 52.7% of non-government expenditure—down from 53.4% the previous year—and represented 17.3% of total health expenditure, down from 17.7% in 2014–15. In 2015–16, 68.0% of individual expenditure was spent on primary health care and 19.5% of individual expenditure was on dental services.


The opening day of the recreational year was a success, with celebrations all over Norway. In Tøyenparken in Oslo, H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon marked the official opening, to the excitement of 2000 kids. In Bergen, Prime Minister Erna Solberg held a short speech due to heavy wind, at Fløyen, a very popular area for hiking with the people of Bergen.
Outdoors activity gives you good experiences, improved quality of life, better health and a richer life. The Outdoor Recreation Year 2015 is a national celebration of Norwegian outdoor life. H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon is the patron of the celebration year.The main goal is to promote a healthier lifestyle for more people.
One of the activities in connection with the opening was the national campaign #nattinaturen (night in nature).193 mayors in Norway slept outdoors the night of January 13th. Across the country, people responded to the appeal from the Minister of Climate and Environment Tine Sundtoft, and spent a night in nature.
Sleeping outside can be both comfortable and enjoyable, as long as you prepare well.
Be sure to wear wool as the innermost layer to your body, including your feet. Wool keeps you warm, and breathes.
Remember to keep your head warm.
Light a fire. It's cozy and keeps you warm.
Bring a thermos with warm beverage, and plenty of food.
Invest in a good sleeping bag.
Bring a good quality sleeping pad.
Be sure that you are warm when you go to sleep.
Learn how to work your tent in advance.
Put some of your clothes for the next day in the sleeping bag, so they are warm when you wake up.
Everyone in Norway enjoys the right of access to, and passage through, uncultivated land in the countryside. Hiking in the woods and on the mountains, walking and skiing, swimming, camping, anchoring of boats, harvesting of wild berries and flowers, and lake fishing are examples of public rights, which are reserved mainly in outlying areas.


The north end of Bainbridge Island has Seabold Hall; central Bainbridge has Island Center Hall and the Filipino American Community Hall; Winslow has the Camp Yeomalt scout cabin. Every Bainbridge Island ward has a historic building restored for use as a community hall – except the south end.
Now the Fort Ward bakery building offers the perfect opportunity to give south Bainbridge a historic hall of its own.
The bakery building was constructed with the rest of Fort Ward around 1910. The original plans from the National Archives show rooms devoted to flour and other baking supplies, with the central area home to large ovens where soldiers on kitchen duty baked the bread that would keep the fort's garrison well fed.
The Bakery Building after World War II, when it was converted into a power station. Some of the windows were bricked over, but the distinctive rooftop cupola was retained.
Later, during World War II, the building was converted into a power station to supply elec tricity to the fort's many buildings.
Some of the windows were bricked over and various changes were made to the interior, including a raised floor and reconfigured rooms.
The bakery was sold off when the fort was surplussed by the federal government around 1960. It eventually became a private residence.
Configured as a community hall, the building would have an occupancy of around 50 people.
A local architect volunteered his services and drew up plans for community uses including meetings and neighborhood celebrations.
The Bainbridge Park District is partnering on the project, and will manage the community hall through an interlocal agreement with KCSD7 once the restoration is complete.
The Fort Ward Youth Advisory Committee, comprised of high school students in the Fort Ward neighborhood, is leading the outreach campaign, and earned the City of Bainbridge Island's 2015 Blakely Award for Historic preservation for their efforts.
The bakery building is now listed on the federal, state and local historic registers, and the restoration project will ensure that it carries the story of Fort Ward history into the future, and gives Bainbridge youths, families and community groups a place to gather and hold events for years to come.
We are also developing partnerships with local schools to bring students into the Fort Ward neighborhood to learn about local history in this dynamic environment. The Fort Ward Community Hall and its interpretive displays will be the centerpiece of this interactive setting, a district that includes many historic buildings, abandoned fortifications, archival photographs, artifacts and rich lore.
For decades, Fort Ward defended our country. Now it's our turn to defend Fort Ward. We're counting on you to help.


The Berks County sheriff's office say these people are wanted for failure to appear in family court.
The Berks County sheriff's office has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court. Included on this list are those who are delinquent in child-support payments and for whom bench warrants had been issued as of the close of business Wednesday.
If no total is listed for an individual, that person failed to appear at an initial hearing to set an amount for monthly support payments. A list of outstanding domestic relations bench warrants can be found at www.co.berks.pa.us/Dept/Courts/DRS/Pages/default.aspx.
Anyone with information about the individuals being sought is asked to contact the sheriff's fugitive/warrant unit at 610-375-2599 or anonymously through the website.
Angel E. Alvarez, 600 block Mulberry Street, $17,532.
Manuel O. Cook Sr., Allentown, $27,329.
Damion M. Cruz, 200 block Reading Avenue, West Reading, $9,336.
Anthony Diaz, 1000 block Carsonia Avenue, $3,042.
Shaun M. Esser, 200 block North Waverly Street, Shillington, $12,456.
Drew A. Farrar, 800 block Pear Street, $7,877.
Richard E. Frymyer, 500 block Overview Drive, Tilden Township, $5,238.
Felix R. Garcia, 500 block North 12th Street, $5,984.
Jonathan Garcia, 400 block Bingaman Street, $6,844.
Ernest Gonzalez Jr., 200 block North 10th Street, $5,024.
Daniel S. Harris, 400 block South Wyomissing Avenue, Shillington, $8,299.
Benjamin L. Kachel, Schubert Road, Bethel Township, $6,141.
James L. Key, 200 block North Front Street, $4,459.
Shandel A. Little, 100 block Douglass Street, $1,344.
Edward L. Miller Jr., Newmanstown, $8,924.
Ashley Ogin, Quarry Road, Maxatawny Township, $6,992.
Gaby Ortiz Jr., 100 block Pear Street, $6,225.
Nicole D. Riedel, 600 block Kenhorst Boulevard, $1,546.
Johnathon Rivera, 300 block North Fifth Street, $1,626.
Jonathan Rivera, 300 block Midland Avenue, Exeter Township, $3,334.
Joseph Sanchez, 500 block Schuylkill Avenue, $4,653.
David G. Singlar, 1100 block Franklin Street, $31,100.
Nickolas E. Wampole, 500 block Wunder Street, $2,374.
Dupree L. Workman, 1700 block Cotton Street, $21,320.


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Q: Ionic/React - How to get value from input item when it is auto-filled by the browser? I'm making an Ionic React app and am using Firebase to authenticate my user. One issue I'm facing is that on login/registration pages, if the user's username(email) or password is autofilled, that input item's onChange event doesn't get triggered, and the user's information won't get saved to my component's state. Is there a better way that I can accomplish this without being completely hacky?
const LoginPage: React.FC = () => {
  const [username, setUsername] = useState("");
  const [password, setPassword] = useState("");

  async function login() {
    const res = await loginUser(username, password);
    if(!res) {
      toast('There was an error logging in.')
    }else {
      toast('You are logged in!');
    }
  }

...

            <IonItem>
              <IonLabel position="stacked">
                Email <IonText color="danger">*</IonText>
              </IonLabel>
              <IonInput
                required
                type="email"
                onIonChange={(e: any) => setUsername(e.target.value)}
              ></IonInput>
            </IonItem>
            <IonItem>
              <IonLabel position="stacked">
                Password <IonText color="danger">*</IonText>
              </IonLabel>
              <IonInput
                required
                type="password"
                value={password}
                onIonChange={(e: any) => setPassword(e.target.value)}
              ></IonInput>
            </IonItem>
          </IonList>
          <div className="ion-padding">
            <IonButton
              expand="block"
              onClick={login}
              class="ion-no-margin"
            >
              Login
            </IonButton>
          </div>
      </IonContent>
    </IonPage>

A: Did you find a solution to your problem?
I had the same issue and worked around it by using the onIonInput event instead.
onIonInput={(e: any) => setPassword(e.target.value)}


Gamid Ibadullayev graduated from Ceramics Department at Academy of Fine Arts in Baku, Azerbaijan (2000). He received his diploma in Art History from the same Academy in 2002. In 1999-2000 he worked as a stage designer in Studio Theatre in Baku. He became a member of Society of Azerbaijani Photographers in 2000 and of Society of Azerbaijani Artists in 2005. Since 2005 he lives and works in Poland. In 2006 he cofounded a music and artistic group 'Untitled' with which he creates experimental music for his own video works and also as accompaniment for silent films. In 2008 he graduated from Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw (Faculty of Cinematography). One of his paintings was bought by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Baku. He works in several artistic fields like painting, photography, sculpture, music, film, and multimedia projects.


SVH Executive Director Keri Baker recently spent three weeks attending the Global Health Effectiveness Program at Harvard University. She is now back in Ollanta, bringing her new knowledge and skills to our program. Congratulations on completing this intensive program, Keri!


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Katie Hopkins leaves LBC radio "effective immediately" station announces
Cliff Richard settles police privacy action but still in dispute with BBC
Journalists from around the UK volunteer to provide relief cover for Manchester Evening News
By Freddy Mayhew Twitter
Thirty journalists from across Trinity Mirror's regional newspapers have volunteered to help relieve staff at the Manchester Evening News who have been working "round the clock" since the bomb attack in the city.
Journalists in newsrooms across the country owned by the publisher were asked if they would like to shift at the daily title so their colleagues could "take a break after working round the clock", said a spokesperson.
Reporters from Cambridge, Liverpool, Teesside, Derby, Cardiff, Bath, Grimsby and Cheltenham have answered the call and will provide cover in the paper's newsroom over the next ten days.
Most are said to be reporters, with some digital production staff also involved. The Irish Mirror team in Northern Ireland is also helping out with subbing work for the Manchester Evening News (MEN) paper.
Children were among 22 people killed and dozens injured when a terrorist exploded a bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena after a pop concert on Monday evening.
Neil Benson, Trinity Mirror's editorial director for regionals, said: "It has been a very dark week for Manchester but the MEN team has won praise from around the world for their reporting of the arena bomb attack.
"The response to our request for staff from other Trinity Mirror newsrooms to go to Manchester was instant and truly heartwarming.
"They will be working on the many follow-up angles, which gives them an opportunity to be involved in a once-in-a-generation story, and will enable the MEN to maintain the outstanding quality of its coverage."
Rob Irvine, MEN editor-in-chief said: "The first of our colleagues have arrived and they are already making a massive contribution to our coverage.
"We have some critically important events taking place this weekend in Greater Manchester, including a range of memorial services, vigils and culminating on Sunday with thousands of runners taking part in the Great Manchester Run.
"And with our colleagues' support we can continue to ensure the very best of reporting across our region."
The newspaper's appeal, raising money for the families of the bombing victims, has so far raised more than £1.6m. You can donate here.
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F. Harvey says:
It may have arisen for tragic reasons, but hopefully this editorial assistance will help restore the once-great MEN to a half-decent paper. In recent years, it has deteriorated to an appallingly mediocre, insubstantial shadow of a paper – a bland, meagre, syndicated-feature-filled, thrown-together rag unworthy of a small town, let alone a major city.
However, a drawback of this arrangement is that the similarly substandard Trinity papers in other cities will become even more under-staffed/-resourced than at present if editorial staff decamp to Manchester.

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Kangana Ranaut recently threw a party celebrating the success of her magnus opus Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi at the box office. While interacting with media at the event, the actress praised Kareena Kapoor Khan.
"Kareena is absolutely lovely. I think she is one of those graceful, dignified people. I always see her and feel that if you have to be an actress, wife or mother, it should be like her. She is the epitome of a perfect woman. She always encourages me and sends me positive messages. She is a very inspiring woman," said Kangana, reports News18.
Kareena had confessed to being Kangana's fan and had said that she was one of the most intelligent actresses of her times.
Kangana had spoken out against not having enough support from her contemporaries and other actors in the film industry, including Alia Bhatt and Aamir Khan. She had said while she had turned up for the screenings of Dangal, Secret Superstar and Raazi, Alia and Aamir failed to respond during the release of her film.
Kangana had recently condemned fellow actor Ranbir Kapoor, dubbing him as an irresponsible citizen of the country for refusing to comment on political issues.
Kangana will be next seen in Mental Hai Kya opposite Rajkummar Rao. She is a part of Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Panga, also starring Richa Chadha, Neena Gupta, Pankaj Tripathi and Jassie Gill. The Tanu Weds Manu actress is also developing a biopic on her own life along with Baahubali scriptwriter KV Vijayendra Prasad.


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Clearly the most important thing when someone has had a brain injury is receiving the best possible outcome. This is more than just a financial settlement it is also ensuring an appropriate care and treatment package is in place. Rehabilitation from a brain injury is not always a quick process. We work with medical professionals and with the insurers (of the person who injured you), to ensure an early rehabilitation package is put in place as well as an early compensation payment (or interim payment), both of which are essential to get your life back on track.
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You will find that SharePoint makes it real easy to upload, save, store, track, and manage files, documents, images etc. You could store a logo on SharePoint and call it to your homepage, to have it placed just above the project description. Of course, this is just the standard position and you can have it placed as creatively as you wish. What's more, you could even get the standard template image replaced with any other unique image that you choose. All of which means, your SharePoint site can be as individualistic as you want it to be.
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MLB Baseball Betting: Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays
As of 11 PM Eastern on Monday night, the Toronto Blue Jays are 1/2 game back of the AL East leading Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles are tied with the Oakland A's 1-1 at this hour while the Jays beat Tampa Bay to open this series earlier on Monday. With the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees idle on Monday here's how the standings shake out: Baltimore will either lead Toronto by 1 game at the end of play on Monday with a win or the teams will be tied atop the division should the Orioles lose. Boston is currently 3 games out of first place with the Yankees 7.5 games out of first. The Rays are at the bottom of the AL East 18.5 games back and they currently have the worst record in the American League at 45-66.
Tampa Bay will start lefthander Drew Smyly and the Rays have won his last two starts. For the year, Smyly's numbers are unimpressive–a 5.14 ERA overall with a 1.295 WHIP, and a 5.83 road ERA with a 1.532 WHIP. He's looked good in his last three starts–an ERA of 2.37 and a 0.947 WHIP with the Jays winning 2 of his last 3 starts. He could have another good game here as the Jays are nothing spectacular against left handed pitching (15-17 YTD).
Toronto will counter with the capable and consistent Marco Estrada. For the year, the Jays have won 11 of Estrada's 19 starts including 6 of 10 at the Rogers Centre and 2 of his last three. He's got a 2.92 ERA overall with a 0.989 WHIP, a 2.69 home ERA with a 0.958 WHIP and a 2.84 ERA and a 1.000 WHIP in his last three starts. Toronto may have some minor issues with left handed pitching but the Rays are awful against right handers and have lost a ton of money. Against righties, Tampa Bay is 33-52 -25.2 units. They've also had a hard time stepping up in class with a record of 16-36 -23.3 units against opponents with winning records.
The Blue Jays dropped 2 of 3 at Kansas City over the weekend and need to win to keep pace with Baltimore atop the AL East. Tampa has played better in the second half of the year but this is just a bad matchup for them.
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East Carolina closed out fall camp on Saturday with the team's second scrimmage.
From all accounts, as the media is not allowed to watch the scrimmages, the offense and the running game fared much better than they did in the first scrimmage.
The Pirates appear to be settled at the quarterback position, at least for the starter.
Reid Herring is going into the season as the clear cut starter at QB.
While we are all getting ready for the 2018 football season I got a glimpse at the future on Friday.
The high school football season kicked off on Friday night. I had the chance to check out a pair of high profile ECU recruits in D.H. Conley's C.J. Johnson and Elizabeth City Northeastern's Traveon Freshwater.
Both recruits were team captains and they embraced with a hug before the game. They smiled at one another, knowing the next time they met on the gridiron they would wear the same uniform.
Johnson put Conley on the board early, taking a screen pass 78 yards for a touchdown. He also would score on an 80-yard reception later in the game.
Freshwater, who is coming to ECU as a defensive lineman, scored three touchdowns in the first quarter. He was an absolute load running the football. He reminds me of former Pirate star C.J. Wilson. Wilson was a star running back out of Northside High School in Beaufort County. He came to ECU as a linebacker and then got bigger and stronger and was a standout on the defensive line. C.J. would bring home a Super Bowl ring with the Packers during his NFL career.
Credit former D.H. Conley star Ahlers for helping to lure many of these Eastern North Carolina recruits to ECU. Head coach Scottie Montgomery and the Pirates couldn't have a better young person helping them recruit the state of North Carolina.
The Pirates get back to work Tuesday morning with classes starting this week. This year the Pirates are going to an early practice schedule, with classes now in the afternoon.
I know it's going to be much better for this reporter. The only time I can't get anywhere is between 5:30 and 6:30. That's when practice ended and media availability was before the change. So, I am looking forward to it.
ECU enters its "in-season" mode of practice with the start of classes.
Next week, it's game week as the Pirates get set for the season opener with North Carolina A&T.
The long summer is finally behind us and it will soon be time for Pirate football.


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Q: Using SessionWindows on aggregated data in KafkaStreams (0.11) i'm trying to use SessionWindows in my aggregation function in Kafka (0.11) but can not comprehend, why i get errors.
Here is my code-snippet:
// defining some values:
public static final Integer SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS = 6000000;
public static final String INTOPIC = "input";
public static final String HOST = "host";

// setting up serdes:
final Serializer<JsonNode> jsonSerializer = new JsonSerializer();
final Deserializer<JsonNode> jsonDeserializer = new JsonDeserializer();
final Serde<JsonNode> jsonSerde = Serdes.serdeFrom(jsonSerializer, jsonDeserializer);

// some more code to build up the streams
KStreamBuilder builder = new KStreamBuilder();
KStream<String, JsonNode> dataStream = builder.stream(Serdes.String(), jsonSerde, INTOPIC);

// constructing the initalMessage ObjectNode:
ObjectNode initialMessage = JsonNodeFactory.instance.objectNode();
initialMessage.put("count", 0);
initialMessage.put("endTime", "");

// transforming data to KGroupedStream<String,JsonNode>
KGroupedStream<String, JsonNode> data = dataStream.map((key, value) ->{return new KeyValue<>(value.get(HOST).asText(), value);  }).groupByKey(Serdes.String(), jsonSerde);

// finally aggregate the data usind SessionWindows
KTable<Windowed<String>, JsonNode> aggregatedData = data.aggregate(
            () -> initialMessage,

            (key, incomingMessage, initialMessage) -> countData(incomingMessage, initialMessage),

            SessionWindows.with(SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS),

            jsonSerde,

            "aggregated-data");

 private static JsonNode countData(JsonNode incomingMessage, JsonNode initialMessage){
 // some dataprocessing
 }

When i change
 KTable<Windowed<String>,JsonNode>

to
 KTable<String, JsonNode>

and remove
 SessionWindows.with(SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS)

from the aggregate function, everything is ok.
If i don't, eclipse tells me for line
 KTable<Windowed<String>, JsonNode> aggregatedData = data.aggregate( [...])

The method aggregate(Initializer, Aggregator, Windows, Serde, String) in the type KGroupedStream is not applicable for the arguments (() -> {}, ( key,  incomingMessage,  initialMessage) -> {}, SessionWindows, Serde, String)

and for the line
() -> initialMessage

Type mismatch: cannot convert from ObjectNode to VR

and:
 (key, incomingMessage, initialMessage) -> countData(incomingMessage, initialMessage),

The method countData(JsonNode, JsonNode) in the type DataWindowed is not applicable for the arguments (JsonNode, VR)

I realy don't see, where the types get lost!
Any hint would be great!
Thx :D

A: I realy needed to implement a Merger:
Merger<? super String, JsonNode>tmpMerger = new MergerClass<String, JsonNode>();

and add it to the aggregate function:
KTable<Windowed<String>, JsonNode> aggregatedData = data.aggregate(
        () -> initialMessage,

        (key, incomingMessage, initialMessage) -> countData(incomingMessage, initialMessage),

        tmpMerger,

        SessionWindows.with(SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS),

        jsonSerde,

        "aggregated-data");


This is the greatest motorcycle rally just south of the border in Mexico. Four days of sun, fun, bikes, music and fiestas in Puerto Peñasco. More than 8,000 motorcycles and more than 25,000 people came from Arizona, California, Las Vegas, Chiuahua, Baja California and other places in the U.S and Mexico. This was one of the best Rally´s in years. This year the event raised more than $30,000 which will help 7 different institutions in our community. Thank you Bikers for your support.! We look forward to seeing you again next year.


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Is there any other UFO LECTURES available by Anthony Dodd.
It is good. I might have but I'll have to check. Will take a few weeks though. Glad you enjoyed it.
I was wondering whether you'd had a chance to listen to any of the interviews with WilliamTompkin?
I"m not an avid listener of her interviews these days as I find her ego and the constant interrupting her interviewees a tad overwhelming but out of all the Tompkin interviews I've listened to so far I thought Kerry did a wonderful job with this interview as she rarely interrupted and as for her ego…I was quite proud of her as she only picked up her trumpet a couple of times. Though we've heard much of it before I found it extremely informative.
What i wanted was your insightful opinion, if you do have the time to watch it…is he fair dinkum or has he been programmed by the reptilian dracos to lead us up the garden path.
Hi Shelley, haha. You're bang on about KC, made me smile. Yes, I watched the interview last night. He never got fazed, seemed very informed, and lots of what he said made sense. However, I was still left wondering whether he was legit too. Maybe it was the dodgy syrup he wore. I honestly don't know Shelley, sorry.


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Renier Baaken (* 1949) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur sowie Hörspiel- und Hörbuchsprecher.

Leben und Wirken
Renier Baaken studierte in Düsseldorf englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft, Psychologie, Philosophie und Theaterwissenschaft. Theaterauftritte hatte er in der Folge unter anderem am Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus und am Schlosstheater Moers, wo er auch als Regieassistent tätig war. Daneben wirkte er in mehreren Fernsehspielen und -serien wie Achtung Zoll oder MS Franziska mit. Ab 1980 arbeitete er als Theaterregisseur am Theater Lüneburg, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Theater Hildesheim, Stadttheater Hof, an der Goethe-Freilichtbühne Porta Westfalica und als Chefdramaturg und Hausregisseur am Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.

Er schrieb zahlreiche Kinderstücke, darunter das preisgekrönte Was für´n Zirkus. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre widmet sich Renier Baaken verstärkt dem Bereich Hörspiel und Synchronisation. Beispielsweise gibt es zahllose Hörbücher und Hörspiele der deutschen Science-Fiction-Serie Perry Rhodan mit seiner Beteiligung. Als Synchronsprecher wirkte er in nahezu 400 Filmproduktionen mit. Häufig hört man seine Stimme auch in Zeichentrickserien, Videospielen oder Werbespots. Seit 1990 arbeitet er als Stückautor und ist  Künstlerischer Leiter des Freilichttheaters Giebelstadt (Florian-Geyer-Spiele).

Renier Baaken lebt in Bamberg.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1978: Vorsicht! Frisch gewachst! (Fernsehserie, 1 Folge)
 1978: Medienklinik (Fernsehserie, 1 Folge)
 1978: MS Franziska (Fernsehserie, 2 Folgen)
 1980–1981: Achtung Zoll! (Fernsehreihe)

Synchronrollen (Auswahl)
 1999–2000: Dragon Ball als Turnieransager
 2009–2010: Bleach als Sajin Komamura
 2009–2010: Trigun als Earl Bastalk
 2009–2010: Fullmetal Alchemist als Gluttony
 2013: Tenkai Knights: Die Tenkai Ritter als Mr. White
 2014–2015: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood als Gluttony
 2017: Blue Exorcist als Hoshino
 2018: Ein Mops zum Verlieben als Mr. Peters
 2019: Death Note: Relight - Visions of a God als Arayoshi Hatori
 2020: Bleach: Fade to Black (Animefilm, als Sajin Komamura)

Hörspiele (Auswahl)
 1979: Peter Wagner: Der Leichenträger – Regie: Eaghor E. Kostetzky
 2005: Thilo Reffert: Tom und die anderen – Regie: Susanne Krings
 2005: Caroline Gawn: Betrug – Regie: Angeli Backhausen
 2005: Pierre-Jean Bouyer: Nichts als ein Bild – Regie: Thomas Werner
 2018: Liu Cixin: Der dunkle Wald (2 Teile) – Regie: Martin Zylka

Videospiele (Auswahl)
 Gothic II – Rollen: Lares, Dexter, Canthar, Matteo, Lehmar, Alrik u. a.
 Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood – Rolle: Sergeant Kelly
 Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway – Rolle: Samuel Corrion
 Assassin's Creed
 Death Stranding – Rolle: Deadman
 Risen – Rollen: Henson, Enrico, Phil, Leto, Yoki, Maliko
 Risen 2: Dark Waters – Rollen: Morris, Foster, Digger, Spencer, Miles, Cordobar

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
Theaterschauspieler
Hörspielsprecher
Synchronsprecher
Theaterregisseur
Deutscher
Geboren 1949
Mann

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New Drug Used for Some COVID-19 Patients Scheduled to Arrive in Florida
On Tuesday afternoon, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state will receive one million doses of hydroxychloroquine on Wednesday, which will then be administered to hospitals across the state
By Marissa Bagg	• Published April 7, 2020 • Updated on April 8, 2020 at 6:30 am
NBC Universal, Inc.
It's nearly impossible to get your hands on hydroxychloroquine these days. That's devastating news for those who depend on the drug, like Eddie Sabatini, from southwest Miami-Dade.
"Immediately I started panicking because I've been taking this medication for three years now, it's the only thing that helps me be free of pain and live a normal life," said Sabatini, who was diagnosed with Lupus three years ago.
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Sabatini said he needs hydroxychloroquine to function without pain.
"In my case it's not life or death, it's functioning or not functioning," he said. "Without the medication I'm in agonizing pain, my hands basically become useless. I can't open doors or hold a coffee mug because of the inflammation and swelling in my hands. It's a quality of life issue."
When he went to fill his last prescription in March, he was told it wasn't available, and he only has a few weeks left of it on hand.
Fort Lauderdale Pharmacist Marc Leach said last week, in a matter of hours, there was a run on his supply of hydroxychloroquine.
A drug that is being used for some coronavirus patients is now in short supply for those who rely on it for other illnesses. NBC 6's Marissa Bagg reports.
"The big concern is, is there enough medication for those patients who have very serious and debilitating diseases. The truth of the matter is next to none is available right now," said Leach.
Tuesday afternoon, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state will receive one million doses of hydroxychloroquine on Wednesday, which will then be administered to hospitals across the state. Critical care doctors at Broward Health Medical Center are already giving it to patients.
But the shipment the governor referred to is for COVID-19 patients, not for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. Those patients fear they'll be left behind.
"In the eventuality that it is determined to be effective against COVID-19, they need to carefully think about how they are going to roll this out, without impacting negatively the lives of those people who are already on this medicine for other reasons," Sabatini said.
Hydroxychloroquine isn't the only medicine doctors are experimenting with when it comes to treating COVID-19 patients, but it is getting a lot of attention during this pandemic because it's been used since the 1950's and is considered low risk. But doctors caution, until its properly tested it's unknown how well it may work.
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The Ageless Authors Anthology proves that while old age may rob you of some function, Father Time doesn't necessarily take away your creativity. This volume is an extraordinary collection of poetry, essays and short stories from the Ageless Authors Writing Contest exclusively for writers age 65 and older from across the country. A second contest is now underway at agelessauthors.com/current-contests/ and the best writings will comprise the next edition of Ageless Authors Anthology in the fall. For this book, 52 senior writers contributed work that showcases the experience inherent in this older group. Some of the writers are widely published, while others have been toiling away in relative obscurity and this is the first time they've published their work. These writings are entertaining and memorable. From writer and composer Michael Coolen in Corvallis, Oregon comes the opening sentence you can't forget, "Dad was killed by whales." The late John Garzone of Lenox, Massachusetts tells the story of the female pool shark who stole a young man's heart in "Smooth Sheila." And Shirley K. Wright of Coppell, Texas weaves a suspenseful tale of a home invasion in the expanses of the Texas Hill Country in "No Thanks For the Memory." Ageless Authors is the brainchild of Dallas writers Ginnie Bivona and Larry Upshaw, who compiled the work for this collection. Bivona is an 86-year-old novelist and poet who started writing in her fifties. Upshaw is a 70-year-old former journalist, ghostwriter, and marketing executive. They set out to prove that no one has to shut off their brain when they reach a certain age. "Ageless Authors captures the best offered by seasoned writers," says Vermont essayist Jean Yeager. "I'm grateful to be judged against my peers. We may be the fine aged wines of the writing world." Ageless Authors Anthology makes a great present for family, friends and especially seniors who are struggling to keep the creative fires burning.


Clothing store Superdry has confirmed an opening date for its Teesside Park store.
The fashion label is opening its latest branch at River Island's old unit near Superdrug and Laura Ashley on December 6, creating 19 jobs.
The shop will stock both menswear and womenswear and also Superdry Sport clothing.
Superdry is known for its distinctive "vintage Americana style" clothing with Japanese inspired graphics and also has stores in Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle.
It's the latest big name to sign up for the busy park, after owners British Land announced a £42m makeover for the 25-year-old development .
They want to create a "day out" experience for shoppers at the park to encourage the "premium brands" they believe are currently overlooking Teesside because they don't see its town centre locations as suitable.
Plans include five times more space for eating and drinking but shopping space won't increase.
Most of the work will see the park's "eastern terrace" - which stretches from Thomas Cook to Asda Living - revamped and reconfigured for shopping and eating.
The other two terraces, which include stores such as Marks and Spencer and Next, will remain untouched.
The work will take place while the park remains open for business.
Improving the traffic situation at Teesside Park is also one of the main priorities for improvement.
A new car park layout has been designed to create an "intuitive one-way circulation system" that is more efficient and easier for motorists to read.
If successful, it should "reduce conflict" and "improve the customer experience".


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Albert Fuchet, Cluster President for Schneider Electric Anglophone Africa will participate at the French-South African Business Forum on Thursday 4 October 2018, where he will take part in the panel discussion 'A New Approach: Building skills for the Future', with the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Buti Manamela.
The F'SASEC Network was established by Schneider Electric, in conjunction with the Schneider Electric Foundation and the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, at five tertiary education institutions across South Africa. The French Ministry made a large contribution to F'SASEC, as it deployed French expert Professor Alexander Sebastiani, who was based in South Africa from 2011-108. The primary role of Sebastiani was to transfer best practices from the French education system to the partners that form part of the F'SASEC network. The impact of this approach has been considerable, as the F'SASEC network has incorporated practical training, digitisation to teaching methods, with a key focus on vocational training and life skills training to prepare artisans for industry.
Throughout the F'SASEC network, Schneider Electric promotes and supports voluntary commitment from its employees and retirees through its Teachers' programme. Teachers are invited to South Africa to teach on subject matters of interest for student training as well as train the trainer courses.
"This week, there is currently a teachers' mission at CPUT, which showcases our commitment to training trainers and demonstrates the strong collaboration between CPUT and the College of Cape Town (two of our partners) to bridge levels of education in South Africa as trainers from both institutions are participating in the train the trainer teachers mission," explains Zanelle Dalglish, Schneider Electric's Head of Sustainable Development for Anglophone Africa.
"With the approach of Industry 4.0, South African industry needs to upskill its workforce and invest in integrated IT systems to handle the increased speed of change. Attracting the right digital talent and training and developing the existing workforce to understand and operate these new and smart technologies is equally important," concludes Dalglish.


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Q: Website content scrolling over a fading header Trying to do this on my website; content scrolling over header while header image is fading out (of course I want the header image to show up again while returning at the top of the page). I've managed to do this with Javascript;
<script>
var divs = $('.head');
$(window).scroll(function () {
    if ($(window).scrollTop() < 20) {
        divs.stop(true, true).fadeIn("slow");
    } else {
        divs.stop(true, true).fadeOut("slow");
    }
});
</script>

This script just makes my image to go away with one single scroll - I'd like to have at least 3 different opacity levels before my image fades away completely. And at the same time content scrolls over the image (image position: fixed). Can I do this with this script? Or should I use some CSS -trick (with opacity) to do this?
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Okay, so here are we now (Thanks to Capricorn!):
        <script>
            var div = $('.head');
            $(window).scroll(function(){
               if($(window).scrollTop()>10) {
                     div.stop(true,true).fadeTo("slow", 0.75);
               } if($(window).scrollTop()>150){
                     div.stop(true,true).fadeTo("slow", 0.4);
               } if($(window).scrollTop()>200){
                 div.stop(true,true).fadeTo("slow", 0);
               }
            });
        </script>

I've managed to fade my header image with 3 scrolls. But got three new problems.. My image keeps flashing (from opacity 0.4 to 0) while scrolling beneath 200px, and I cannot figure out how I'm supposed to add this to my script (yep, new with Java). And also, when I scroll back to top, my image stays at opacity 0.75 (want it back with no opacity = 1).
And in addition, is the problem with CSS or Javascript that when I scroll, the content doesn't replace the header image, and they're there at the same time. It's like with this script it changes 's opacity, and only with fadeTo("slow", 0); -option my content is shown perfectly.

A: Try to set the duration in numbers.
fadeOut(2000)

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A: You may do it with your current script.
Add two more if branches for different scrolling positions, eg scrollTop() < 50 and scrollTop() < 80 and instead of fading in or out the header completely use jQuery's fadeTo function.


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I am preping to get back on stage this weekend. Monday night I shall audition for Noël Coward's Design For Living which is an interesting production. Rather risqué for it's day, and some might say, even so today, it follows the peculiar life of a three way love affair. The interactions of the three main characters, while utterly deplorable in its day, are still conceptually challenging for modern audiences.
So I find it utterly refreshing that a local theatre company is prepared to put on such a production. This being the same company on that put on another controversial production I was in last year, Closer.
Both of these shows have come at an interesting time in my life where I have been reviewing who I am, and where I want to be. Closer tested my emotional acting to extremes. This play, if I manage to land a role, will test my ideas on relationships and how I perceive them.
I am hopeful, but from past experiences, I have no expectations. I shall update my progress successful or not.


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Have You Seen What's on TV-Shirt Today?
By Roger Vincent
Americans falling short of the daily average of three hours spent watching TV have a new opportunity to catch up.
Starting today, a San Francisco marketer is sending models out in public in T-shirts with built-in television sets.
"People of my generation and younger are so used to moving images on TV that if it's not a moving image, it doesn't move them," said 30-year-old pitchman Adam Hollander, who created the Adver-Wear shirts.
His company, Brand Marketers, will debut the T-shirts today at theaters, malls and elsewhere to promote the Fox movie "I, Robot."
An 11-inch flat screen is mounted at chest level in each shirt, and four hidden speakers deliver sound. A shirt weighs about 6 1/2 pounds and costs about $1,000 to make.
Adver-Wear isn't for sale, however. "I don't want to lose my shirt," Hollander said.
For other clients, Hollander has created more low-tech advertising vehicles -- a billboard tricycle in one instance -- and national marketing campaigns for Toyota Motor Corp., Qwest Communications International Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co.
With Adver-Wear, wired-up male and female models wear T-shirts customized to help spread clients' messages. Today and Saturday, the ambling advertisers will be showing a trailer for the futuristic thriller about technology run amok. They'll appear in the 10 largest U.S. urban areas, including Southern California, where they'll parade outside theaters in Irvine, Westwood, Santa Monica and Ontario.
The concept is "really brilliant" because it grabs attention without the artifice of some guerrilla marketing tactics that pretend to be something besides advertising, said Peter Sealey, an adjunct professor of marketing at UC Berkeley and a former president of marketing at Columbia Pictures.
"A person walking by with a TV is not trying to slip one by you." The shirts are the latest in a lifetime of experiments with electronics, said Hollander's mother, Debra Hollander of Bethesda, Md., who watched her son take apart motorized toys, phones and other gadgets and reassemble them into "Frankenstein-like" creations.
"He wasn't malicious," she said in a phone interview, "just trying to figure out things."
Rapid improvements in television and miniaturization suggest that the TV T-shirts are a pale prototype of what is to come. "Soon screens will be flexible and larger," Adam Hollander said. "The whole shirt will be a screen."
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Q: Why GestureOverlayView is so slow? I detect swipe gesture on 2 views with different methods: first is via GestureDetector, and the second is GestureOverlayView (I need this because the 2nd view is the GridView and GestureDetector does not work properly on this).
The first is almost instant, but the second has delay about 1 second (Nexus S, ICS). Why, and how can I fix it?
I can not change the method, because I'll need to recognize more complicated gestures later, but I want it to work instantly.

A: I found the solution:
android:fadeOffset="0"
android:fadeDuration="0"

And it works instantly :)

A: Because of its nature GestureOverlayView relies on timings before it starts recognizing a shape. It's not a matter of performance.
EDIT
Sorry, but i do not think it is possible to change the reaction time of the GestureOverlayView :(
EDIT-END

A: If you don't have the GestureOverlayView set in the xml but directly in the code you can use the following which do the same as RankoR solution :
mGestureOverlayView.setFadeEnabled(false);
mGestureOverlayView.setFadeOffset(0);

The method onGesturePerformed is then called instantly after onGesturingEnded (8 ms after in my case)


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Q: Why does Eclipse load all plugins in a workspace? I'm using Eclipse 3.6 for developing Eclipse plug-in. In the same workspace, I have 2 Plug-in projects: projA and projB. No mater which project was run, both two projects will be loaded in the new Eclipse instance. If I only want to load projA, I have to close projB, why?
I run the project like this: right click the project and "Run as--- Eclipse Application".

A: Have you defined the target platfom?
You can also edit your Run Configuration and choose the plugins to launch with.

A: The way you debug your project will start a new instance of Eclipse with all existing plugins installed(in your case,both project A and B are installed).This is typically called self-hosting in PDE.
If project A has no dependent package,just close other projects.