Lucie Arnaz, 67, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is finally opening up about her parent's marriage and divorce. It has been over 60 years since they split up and both Lucille and Desi have since passed away.
Lucie revealed that when she was growing up, the couple fought all the time. She remembers a lot of anger and screaming between the two of them.
Lucille and Desi met in 1940 on the set of Too Many Girls. Lucille was 28 at the time and was becoming very famous, while Desi was 23 and was a very handsome Cuban nightclub band leader. Their romance was fast and furious and they got married six months after meeting.
As the two began to live different lives, their fighting began due to the separation. Desi toured the country with his band while Lucille had a booming career. It was all too much to handle.
Later, they seemed to want to keep their marriage intact as they played a married couple on television in the hit show I Love Lucy. Lucille insisted that Desi play her husband on the show. It quickly became the most successful comedy on television and it earned the couple millions.
Off-screen, the couple and their two children, Lucie and Desi Jr., were not as happy as they seemed on TV. Before their divorce, alcoholism and infidelity were key factors in their unhappiness.
Lucie does think that they both loved each other until the end, but other factors just couldn't keep them together. After twenty years of marriage, they divorced in 1960 and went on to marry other people before their deaths in the 1980s.
Did you know that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had such hard times and that they had a horrible divorce? What do you think about their daughter talking about it all these years later? There was a TV movie in 1991 about their lives that showed the trials and tribulations of their marriage called Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter. Have you seen it?
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A Chicago restaurant owner stumbled upon a hidden vault in the basement at Harry Caray's restaurant.
He chanced upon something that appeared to be a doorway in the brick wall closed up with newer bricks. "I went to the Chicago History Museum and they got the plans. This was the vault for the building," DePorter said.
He ultimately decided to take his own life the day before his scheduled grand jury appearance. Frank Nitti was an Italian-American gangster. One of Al Capone's top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all money flowing through the operation. Nitti later succeeded Capone as boss of the Chicago Outfit in 1931.
In 1943, many top members of the Chicago Outfit were indicted for extorting the Hollywood film industry. Severely claustrophobic, Nitti dreaded the idea of another prison confinement.


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A Autoridade Internacional dos Fundos Marinhos (ISA) é uma Organização intergovernamental estabelecida pelo Acordo 1982 da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar (CNUDM) e pelo Acordo de Implementação 1994. A Autoridade é composta por 167 estados membros e a União Europeia.

É através da ISA que os Estados Partes da CNUDM organizam e controlam todas as atividades relacionadas aos recursos minerais na área internacional do fundo do mar, conhecida também como "a Área", para o benefício da humanidade como um todo. A Autoridade tem o mandato de garantir a proteção efetiva do ambiente marinho contra efeitos nocivos que possam surgir de atividades relacionadas ao fundo do mar.

Estrutura

Os órgãos principais que estabelecem as políticas e governam o trabalho da ISA são: a Assembleia, onde todos os 168 membros estão representados; e o Conselho de 37 membros eleitos pela Assembleia. O Conselho tem dois órgãos consultivos, a Comissão Jurídica e Técnica (30 membros) que assessora o Conselho em todos os assuntos relacionados à exploração e explotação de recursos marinhos não vivos, como nódulos polimetálicos, sulfetos polimetálicos e crostas de ferromanganês ricas em cobalto, e o Comitê de Finanças (15 membros) que trata de assuntos orçamentários e correlatos.

Assembleia
A Assembleia da ISA é o "órgão supremo" da Organização, composto por todos os membros da ISA, e com poderes para estabelecer as políticas gerais. Todas as Partes da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar (CNUDM) são automaticamente membros da ISA, que compreende 167 Estados e a União Europeia.

A Assembleia também possui como atribuição:

 Elege os membros do Conselho e demais órgãos, bem como o Secretário-Geral, que dirige o Secretariado;
 Estabelece os orçamentos bienais da ISA, bem como as taxas pelas quais os membros contribuem para o orçamento, com base na escala de avaliação estabelecida pela Organização das Nações Unidas para as atividades desse órgão;
 Aprovar (após a aprovação pelo Conselho) as regras, regulamentos e procedimentos que a ISA venha a estabelecer de tempos em tempos no que tange à prospecção, exploração e explotação da Área;
 Examina os relatórios de outros órgãos, nomeadamente o relatório anual do Secretário-Geral sobre o trabalho do ISA.

Conselho
O Conselho é composto por 36 membros eleitos pela Assembleia em grupos que obedecem a critérios de consumo de minerais, investimentos, exportação, interesses especiais e distribuição equitativa.

Mineração
Em junho de 2021, o presidente de Nauru destacou a urgência de finalizar os regulamentos para mineração em águas internacionais à Autoridade Internacional dos Fundos Marinhos. O pedido de Nauru desencadeou uma "regra de 2 anos" que obriga a Autoridade Internacional dos Fundos Marinhos a finalizar as regras até meados de 2023 ou aceitar pedidos de exploração na ausência de diretrizes formais, deixando muitas questões sobre os efeitos a longo prazo da mineração do fundo do mar sem solução.

Ver também

 Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar
 Mineração marinha
 Economia azul
 Zona econômica exclusiva

Organizações intergovernamentais

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Special Containment Procedures: Worldwide news sources are monitored for events matching the pattern of SCP-2549. In the event of an SCP-2549 incident, elements of MTF Gamma-5 will be mobilized to the location. Any mention of the anomalous circumstances of the incident will be censored from the media, and any non-Foundation witnesses will be administered amnestics and given false memories matching the cover story provided to the media. To prevent a pattern from being established, the cover story for an SCP-2549 incident should not involve an animal attack unless no other explanation is practical.
The SCP-2549-1 involved in an incident is not anomalous and is not a priority for capture. If it has already been captured, it may be surrendered to animal control or euthanized and disposed of.
SCP-2549-2 is stored in the Temporal Anomaly subdivision of Site-77. Testing is disallowed by O5 order.
Description: SCP-2549 is a phenomenon which affects one human being and one wild animal per incident.
The exact criteria for the human subject is unclear, but it appears to invariably target those who have achieved great personal and/or professional success. Notably, an abnormally high percentage of the targets have been Foundation employees or have had contact with the Foundation. This has included 2 individuals once considered for D-Class induction, 3 potential agent and researcher candidates, 6 high ranking researchers, 2 executive administrators, [REDACTED].
The animal, referred to as SCP-2549-1, is an otherwise normal member of the order Carnivora which is native to the area of the human target. It is not known whether SCP-2549-1 is chosen from existing nearby animals, teleported to the area, or generated nearby. There is no record of a GPS tracked animal being chosen as SCP-2549-1.
SCP-2549-1 will proceed towards the target at a walking pace. It will navigate any obstacles, displaying a knowledge of landscape, building layout, and security measures in order to find the shortest path. Security systems will not malfunction, but will be bypassed through mundane means. Any physical implements necessary will be carried by SCP-2549-1 in its jaws or in a clothing item.
Humans other than the target will react to SCP-2549-1 without surprise, and may interact with it as if it is an acquaintance, coworker, or relative. SCP-2549-1 will respond to interaction in as much of a capacity as it can. At no point will any person attempt to interfere with SCP-2549-1's progress towards the target.
Upon reaching the target, SCP-2549-1 will attack and begin to devour them. The target may remain alive and conscious for an extended period of time, but will make no attempt to resist SCP-2549-1.
Upon the target's death, the anomalous effect ends. At this point, individuals not previously exposed to SCP-2549-1 will react as expected to the situation. Those previously exposed to SCP-2549-1 will react normally once given an opportunity to recognize the incongruence of the situation. SCP-2549-1 may lose interest and wander away or become agitated and attack other humans in the area, but all investigation has shown it to be nonanomalous after the death of the target.
SCP-2549-2 is a 10cm diameter steel sphere. [DATA EXPUNGED] See Addendum 2549-A.
Notes: Target was well known high roller. Became wealthy through well timed investment in ███ stock. Death occurred on main casino floor. Largest recorded exposure; all witnesses identified and handled.
Notes: Target had been a Foundation agent candidate in 1936, after which he had a decorated naval officer career. Submarine performed an unscheduled surfacing to allow SCP-2549-1 entrance. Ship crew identified SCP-2549-1 as CPO S. O. Vadas.
Notes: Target had been evaluated for D-Class status in 1963, then was released on parole. Owner of soup kitchen. SCP-2549-1 acquired and consumed a bowl of soup, then pierced target's skull with canine teeth causing instant death. Subsequently startled by crowd and escaped.
Notes: Target was small time criminal, became notorious crime boss after assassinating and deposing previous kingpin. Due to small relative size of SCP-2549-1, attack was prolonged to approximately 15 hours. Multiple shifts of security guards ignored the assault. Witnesses identified SCP-2549-1 as target's lieutenant, Timon M. Vadas.
Notes: Target left police force in 1947 due to stress, subsequently reconciled with estranged spouse. SCP-2549-1 consumed target unusually slowly, incident continued until death 3 days later. Spouse identified SCP-2549-1 as grandson Willy Edgar Vadas. Posthumous package received from target. See Addendum 2549-A.
Notes: Requested retirement in 1995. After withdrawing request, made research breakthrough earning promotion to lead researcher. For details of death, see Incident Log 2549-79.
Notes: Target was successful Foundation researcher candidate in 1954, but declined position. Spouse was prospective agent, met during same Foundation recruitment exercise. After rejection, target had successful academic career.
The following log includes all pertinent information captured by security footage during this incident.
The Foundation security badge used by SCP-2549-1 to access Lab-██.
SCP-2549-1 approaches Site-██ vehicle access gate. SCP-2549-1 proceeds under the gate without incident. The 3 gate guards do not noticeably react.
Guard Stevens: Good morning Dr. Vadas. Late again, huh?
Guard Stevens: I understand. You'll have to fill out Form 83-A again, though. You know how it goes.
The guard provides the required form and a pen. SCP-2549-1 hops onto the counter.
Guard Stevens: I hope Johnny feels better soon. Are those antibiotics helping at all?
SCP-2549-1 grips the pen in its jaws, breaking it and spilling ink over the document and countertop. It then dips a paw into a pool of ink and spreads more ink onto the form, shredding the form and damaging the countertop.
Guard Stevens: Yah, I hear you. Middle school can be tough. She'll handle it, though. Anyway, glad to hear about Johnny. Have a nice day.
The guard opens the outer security door and SCP-2549-1 continues. SCP-2549-1 passes Drs. Drake and Lindholm in the hall.
Dr. Drake: [Laughs] You know it!
SCP-2549-1 continues to Lab-██. It removes its badge (pictured) from its lab coat with its teeth, and proceeds to climb the doorframe. The badge is scanned, opening the door.
Lead Researcher Taylor and Junior Researcher Longstaff turn to face SCP-2549-1 as it enters the lab and approaches Lead Researcher Taylor.
Dr. Taylor: I deserve this.
Dr. Longstaff: You deserve this.
Dr. Taylor: I have lived this life. The price is paid.
Dr. Longstaff turns back to his work. SCP-2549-1 attacks Dr. Taylor, disemboweling him. Target falls to the floor in apparent shock. SCP-2549-1 begins to devour target's entrails, eliciting screams. Dr. Longstaff does not respond.
Approximately 3 minutes later, Dr. Taylor's screams fade in intensity and his vital signs alarm is triggered. It is deactivated by Guard Donahue with the note "FALSE ALARM Dr Vadas eating lunch again."
Approximately 2 minutes later Dr. Taylor expires. Vital signs alarm is triggered again. 14 seconds later Guards Donahue and Franklin enter the lab and neutralize SCP-2549-1. Dr. Longstaff turns around in surprise.
Dr. Longstaff: Oh my Lord, you shot Dr. Vadas!
After the incident, personnel removed all references to Dr. Vadas from security and employment databases. Employment database contained no details beyond employment of SCP-2549-1, and all existing entries had been created at the start of the incident. Those exposed to SCP-2549-1 clearly remembered the encounter, but memory of SCP-2549-1 itself was limited to superficial facts: that there was an employee named Dr. Vadas, his son was ill and his daughter in middle school, and he was a wolverine. This did not cause any cognitive dissonance until recalled after the event. Dr. Longstaff could not answer why he stated Dr. Taylor deserved to be targeted.
While there is no record of Incident 2549-65 target Bradley S. Thompson being a Foundation agent, all signs and countersigns were current and accurate. In light of this and the date of the package, SCP-2549-2 has been identified as a retrocausal hazard. Documentation is sealed and the item is to be placed in permanent storage by order of O5-██.
Your concern is well-founded Director. It is good you brought this to my attention.
I am less concerned than you about the potential impact to the Foundation. While it is clear the anomaly has claimed a number of valuable personnel and will continue to do so, it is also clear that it would be difficult to predict and impossible to mitigate this effect. Fortunately, we can now discount SCP-2549 as a targeted attack on the Foundation, and the pattern you have pointed out indicates it has not decreased and, in some cases, has increased the effectiveness of Foundation assets, in both the past and the future. You cannot be aware of the extent to which O5-█'s actions benefitted your site and you personally, prior to their demise.
Meanwhile, we cannot discount the possibility of a compulsion to seek the aid of SCP-2549, and regardless, the promise of a happier, more successful life may have a corrupting influence despite the price that is exacted. More importantly, it is clear that any testing of the item that has come into your possession will result in a containment breach and, considering the reward provided to Agent Thompson for his perseverance in returning it to our custody, it may prove impossible to reacquire. You have my approval to proceed with your plan of action regarding SCP-2549.
As always, thank you for your dedication. It does not go unnoticed.


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PREMIERE: Duo Cross Atlantic Crafts A Love Letter To Their Childhood Neighborhoods In "Dear Hometown" Video
The clip is filled with personal photos from the duo's childhoods
by Jessica Nicholson 3/4/2021
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The emotional tug between chasing dreams and staying close to home is one so many country songs have been written about, perhaps none as sweetly as Cross Atlantic's "Dear Hometown," a love letter to the places and people that helped raise the duo's Karli Chayne and James Sinclair-Stott.
Missouri native Chayne and England-born Sinclair-Stott met at a Nashville coffee shop in 2015 and soon began writing songs together. Their chemistry worked, creatively, professionally, and personally. Later, they formed Cross Atlantic, and married in 2019.
They penned "Dear Hometown" alongside Porter Howell and Brady Seals (best known as members of the group Little Texas), and today, they premiere the video for the song, which was directed by Jon Karr.
The song is filled with nostalgic lyrics of rocking chairs and old gravel roads where her papa let her drive his truck when she was just nine, while the video is filled with personal photos from the duo's childhoods.
The duo gave cmt.com the details behind the making of the video.
What do you remember most about the day/night you shot this video?
Karli: We remember feeling very excited and lucky to have the team around us that we did to shoot this video. It's hard as an independent duo to have the means to create a great-looking video that will showcase the song you pour your heart into – but we felt really good about the concept/idea and look we were going for and we were very confident in our team. Jon Karr ended up capturing just what we were looking for. I also remember not eating when everyone else did because I was in a very tight dress.
How does the video bring your song to life?
Karli: The video quite literally brings the song to life with our own childhood pictures. Going through old photos for this project was a very emotional and special time for us as a couple. We had seen old pictures here and there but to be able to dive into albums and reminisce about each memory was something we won't forget. I loved seeing James and his little brother Jack in their very English school uniforms. It was so British and made my heart melt.
What message do you hope your fans take away from the video?
James: We hope that they see we are proud of growing up where we did and that they can be proud of their hometown as well, whether they stayed or left. We think it's important for us all to realize that wherever we grew up, those memories, whether mostly good or mostly bad, it made us who we are today. We want the dreamers to be able to chase their dreams without feeling bad about leaving – because just lately we've come to realize that those people you love, who are still there, ARE proud of you if you're doing what YOU love.
How did it feel to see the finished product for the first time?
Karli and James: We were overwhelmingly happy and proud to see the actual memories and pictures in our minds come to life. As we get older we realize how much of where we came from made us who we are and you can see us embrace that in this video.
Jessica Nicholson

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Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year! We are so appreciative of the support we receive from all of you as stakeholders in our educational community and look forward to serving you in 2019 and beyond.
The 2018-2019 school year was a great for the Brawley Union High School District. Test score results from the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Exam continue to be promising. Brawley Union High School was named a U.S. News & World Best High School.
Brawley Union High School won its second consecutive Imperial County Academic Decathlon. Desert Valley High School continues to be designated a California Model Continuation School. Additionally, our students and programs were featured in a number of national magazine articles highlighting their academic achievement.
Our students also excelled in athletics and won many Imperial Valley League Championships. Boys wrestling won their 19th consecutive San Diego Section CIF Championship. Ladies Wrestling and Competitive Cheerleading won their first CIF Championships.
As we begin the 2019-20 school year, we will continue to strive to ensure our students receive a high quality educational experience while being actively involved and personally connected. Our goals remain to increase the educational achievement of all of our students, increase college and career readiness, close achievement gaps, provide a positive school climate, improve communication efforts among stakeholders, and ensure a safe and orderly environment.
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Senator Loren Legarda with Dr. Patrick Flores, director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) and curator of the University of the Philippines' (UP) Vargas Museum. PCAN was launched in December last year with the inaugural project, "Place of Region in the Contemporary," that will run until January 27, 2018 at the Vargas Museum. PCAN, which was made possible by the guidance, vision, and support of Legarda, serves as a venue for research, exhibition, curatorial exchange, public engagement and publication.
Senator Loren Legarda called on the public to support Philippine art and visit the newly-launched Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) at the Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
The PCAN, which was made possible by the guidance, vision, and support of Legarda, serves as a venue for research, exhibition, curatorial exchange, public engagement and publication.
Based in the state university's Vargas Museum, it was launched last December 8, 2017 with its initial project, "Place of Region in the Contemporary," that will run until January 27, 2018.
"It all started with a vision to have our own permanent institute for contemporary art that will fully develop the skills of the country's talented artists and curators. With the help of Dr. Patrick Flores, this vision has finally turned into reality," said Legarda, who has been actively advocating for the development of Philippine art and is the visionary behind the return of the Philippines to the Venice Biennale in 2015 after a 51-year hiatus.
The three nodes were coordinated by Roberto G. Paulino, Renan Laru-an, and Tessa Maria Guanzon, who was a participant of the Curatorial Intensive in Manila last November 2016, a project supported by Legarda with the New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI).
Legarda said she hopes that through PCAN, we can create a vibrant forum for the discussion and development of contemporary art in the Philippines.
"The country has a wealth of talented artists and curators and we are now seeing a renaissance in Philippine art. With sustained government support, as well as initiatives from the private sector, we can do more and we can show that to the world. This is just the beginning of a vision to put the Filipino talent in its rightful place in the world," Legarda concluded.
The PCAN's Place of Region in the Contemporary is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am-5pm, except declared holidays. For more information, please contact Vargas Museum at (+632) 981-8500 loc. 4024 (UP trunkline), (+632) 928-1925 (telefax) or vargasmuseum@gmail.com, or visit their website at http://vargasmuseum.upd.edu.ph.


Gabriel Pascal, the late movie producer who is portrayed in this memoir by his widow Val erie, led a life more bizarre than any of his films. Unknown and impoverished, he obtained screen rights to some of George Bernard Shaw's plays, succeed ing where many moguls had failed. His meteoric career and association with G.B,S., ob served at close hand and through their correspondence, provide the chief elements of an absorbing book.
By Valerie Pascal. Illustrated. 356 pp. New York: The McGraw‐Hill Book Company. $8.95.
Pascal shrouded his origins in mystery, claiming to be an orphan or a foundling, born in Transylvania, raised by gypsies, educated by a Jesuit priest. He saw himself alternately as a Faust, Till Eulenspiegel and Peer Gynt. In World War I he fought as a hussar, then became an actor in Vienna's Hofburg Theatre, and a moviemaker in Italy, Germany (in partnership with Max Reinhardt), and Eng land. He veered from patrons of high life in marble villas and luxury hotels to bouts of bank ruptcy and buoyant comebacks. As a Roman Catholic he wor shiped the Madonna, and was attracted by mysticism, wheth er real or phony. He became a disciple of an Indian holy man, Shri Meher Baba, and made a pilgrimage to his ashrama. Whenever the world palled or his affairs soured he longed to return to Baba and become a monk in India.
The author knew little about him beyond his fame as the producer of "Pygmalion," "Major Barbara" and "Caesar and Cleopatra," when they first met in 1946. While seeking to revive a career interrupted by the war as a Hungarian stage and screen star, Valerie (who fails to mention her surname) received a cable from Pascal summoning her to Paris in 40 days' time. The stipulated date almost expired before she could obtain exit papers in Soviet occupied Budapest. Her per sistence intensified by a desire to escape, even temporarily, from a philandering husband and a jealous mother‐in‐law, she got to the rendezvous at the Paris Ritz just in time.
Instead of the promised screen test Pascal gave her a whirlwind courtship. But this was no casting couch affair. The volatile bachelor who had long resisted matrimony, just as Shaw had, proposed mar riage. And like the old cur mudgeon, the comely young actress was captivated by Pas cal's mesmeric personality. Re turing to Budapest, she ob tained a divorce and again braved red tape to secure an exit permit.
After their marriage the Pas cals settled down at his farm in Buckinghamshire, where the naturalized British subject played the role of a country squire. Neither role nor farm lasted long. Resuming the part of moviemaker, he kept pursu ing elusive financial backers for Shaw films. Mrs. Pascal's devotion was strained by re peated separations, insecurity, temper tantrums, infidelity. Her husband had saving graces, though. A dynamic, tal ented man, he brought some of his schemes to fruition in a way that even pleased G.B.S. Pascal sometimes took her along on his travels. In India they were guests of the Maha rajah of Jaipur, a potential backer of a film about Gandhi which won Nehru's interest, but never materialized. When they were apart, he wrote his wife tender letters that kept her tied to him. Like G.B.S. he was a great lover on paper rather than in person.
A fitting epitaph. Pascal re mained a true disciple to the end; his final scheme, a musical version of "Pygmalion," en riched everyone involved but himself. As he lay dying of cancer in a New York hospital, three women contended over him. He was reunited with his wife whose interlocutary di vorce decree was not yet final. Margaret Scott, a disciple of Baba, who financed a trip to India he was too sick to make, considered him her spir itual mate. A mistress Mrs. Pascal refers to as "the woman of Shanghai" demanded his earthly remains to compensate for her loans. Producing a scribbled will, she brought suit and lost it. His estate became valuable only when "My Fair Lady" poured millions into it, and into the Shaw Trust.


– Mr Banana's Tribute to this Latin energy that is so alive sends out a message that can be understood world-wide. He uses physical comedy and miming mixed with circus skills to produce a colourful display of skills. In this show, Mr Banana approaches the theme of Gods and Super Heroes and our relation with them. Funny and Provocative, Who will save the Audience?
El Banano is performed in a never seen before style using physical theatre and miming sending out a message that can be understood worldwide breaking the language barrier.
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If you're only making smoothies in your blender, you're missing out on everything else it can do.
Perhaps you've had the same blender for years and you're eyeing a new one to upgrade, or you're finally looking to get a blender for whipping up healthy smoothies and homemade salad dressings and sauces. Either way—even if you're a smoothie superstar—you're likely making some common blender mistakes and forgetting some of the important features that can make all the difference.
We turned to a few blender buffs for their best tricks to maximize your gadget (and minimize your effort using it). Learn about the blender mistakes everyone makes, and see how you can make the most of this multipurpose machine.
If you're going to get a blender, you'll want to make sure you're getting a good one. Blenders are made up of three main parts, says Tess Masters, author of The Blender Girl: a motor, a blade, and a container. Properly designed appliances will cause these three parts to work together to vortex ingredients toward the blade to blend quickly and easily. Look for high-quality machines that have these three components made with sturdy materials, so your machine can last.
Masters herself uses KitchenAid high-speed blenders because they pack a lot of power at the blade to blend fast, smooth, and efficiently, and because the die-cast metal base also offers stability.
Quality doesn't have to come at a budget-breaking price, according to Morgan Bolling, senior editor for Cook's Country Magazine (a part of America's Test Kitchen) in Boston, Massachusetts.
"There's a big range in what you can do in your blender based on the money you're willing to spend. Here in the test kitchen, we love the Vitamix 5200 [retail price: $450], which is able to crush ice in seconds, slowly incorporate oil to make homemade mayonnaise, make ultra-smooth almond butter, and turn out fine smoothies (even with a fibrous ingredient like kale). Plus, it has a 7-year warranty," she says.
With that in mind, she notes that there are much cheaper models that are still solid for daily use.
"In our testing, they often weren't able to puree kale, a notoriously hard smoothie ingredient, as fine in kale smoothies, nor could they get almond butter as creamy, but we had really great results with the KitchenAid 5-Speed Diamond Blender, which costs $100. It's a very good blender, especially if you're mainly using it for traditional uses like milkshakes, smoothies, soups, and sauces," Bolling says.
One common blender mistake is not realizing you can use it for so much more than just mixing together things to enjoy in the kitchen. There are tons of non-edible blender things you can make, too! Masters likes to use her blender to make items to use all around the house, including the bathroom and laundry room. Pinterest is packed with recipes for homemade skincare products (such as masks, lotions, and hair treatments) and cleaning solutions (including laundry detergents and bathroom cleaners) that you can stir up in a cinch with a blender.
We love enjoying blended smoothies, but when it comes to food, this versatile appliance is good for so much more than just things you can sip from a straw.
"In the test kitchen, we've used blenders to grind seeds and spices, make hollandaise and mayonnaise, and crush ice. The small base of a blender helps it grind seeds and spices more efficiently than a food processor," Bolling says.
Keep it handy for smoother-than-ever batters for crepes and cheesecakes, and for cookies and mousses, too, suggests Rebecca Miller Ffrench, author of The Ultimate Blender Cookbook, food writer, and founder of The Upstate Table in Phoenicia, New York.
You better be-leaf it: Extra fruit and vegetable scraps (think: carrot tops, wilted romaine, and bruised apple pieces) that you don't plan to eat should also go in the blender. Masters has become, well, a master at composting, thanks to her blender and its ability to give the composting process a head start.
Besides the three essential components (a motor, a blade, and a container), Masters advises to take stock of the quality of the jar pad (the piece that cushions the container on the base) and the tamper (the stick-shaped part that assists with pushing ingredients toward the blade). The jar pad should be made of sturdy plastic, and the tamper should have a spatula attached to guide ingredients easily while the machine is running.
For optimal blending speed and ease, add ingredients to your blender in this order: liquids, powders, solids, and frozen.
Last of all is frozen fruit or ice—the heaviest of all ingredients—to press the other ingredients down toward to blade.
Got a blender that's made for individual smoothies or drinks? "Since you fill the container and place it inverted onto the motor for an individual-portion blender, reverse the order," she says.
Just like humans, blenders perform best with a little breathing room, and a big blender mistake is thinking you can fill the container all the way up to the top.
"Don't fill a blender bowl to a brim, especially when blending hot things like creamy soup! Hot things create steam, and if you try to process a full blender bowl of hot soup, the lid is likely to shoot off, giving you a mess of hot soup all over yourself and kitchen," Bolling says.
Avoid the ouch by processing hot ingredients in batches and staying below the capacity line on the container.
It's also wise to take your time.
"Start on low and work your way up to medium, then high. This reduces wear and tear on the motor, and blends everything better," Masters says.
This is especially important for recipes like nut milks, that start with mostly solids that need to turn liquid.
Slice vegetables, mincing and grating the most fibrous of the bunch (such as carrots, ginger, and celery), to help them incorporate easier and to make your appliance's job easier.
"Food measures more accurately in small pieces, too, and you can add tiny amounts to taste as the recipe comes together," Masters says.
Don't just set and forget; add that lid with some power to avoid a flying lid (and a food tornado all around your kitchen), Masters says.
If you can, invest in an appliance with a well-crafted lid that includes a removable center cap to assist with tampering and streaming in the final recipe components.
"Hollandaise and mayonnaise rely on being able to slowly drizzle in oil or melted butter while mixing to emulsify into a sauce. Having a feeding hole in the top of blender lids allows you to slowly drizzle while the blender is running," Bolling says.
Give your chef's knife the night off.
"To chop vegetables such as cabbage or carrots lightning-quick, put the vegetables in the blender, fill it three-quarters full with water, and pulse until the pieces are the size you need," Ffrench says.
Pour the resulting mixture through a sieve or colander, and chop right along to the next step in your recipe. Genius!
The stops and starts are where the magic happen.
"Simply pulse oats or nuts in the processor until finely ground, and you've got flour," Bolling says.
All these homemade hacks can make a big difference in your overall grocery budget.
"If you're into gluten free or Paleo baking, making the flours yourself can save you a lot money," Bolling says.
DIY blender whipped cream, almond butter, and hummus are also way more affordable than their store-bought counterparts.
"With your blender and fresh, wholesome ingredients, you can replace purchased foods like soups and salad dressings that are not only more expensive, but also loaded with unnecessary sugar and sodium," Ffrench says.
It's wise to give the motor a moment during challenging jobs, including pastes, nut butters, and thick dips, Masters says.
"To prevent overheating your machine, process in short intervals of about 30 seconds," she says.
If your blender makes a high-pitched or grinding noise or ingredients are spinning without blending, call a timeout and add more liquid if necessary.
"Press 'stop' and scrape down the sides of the container with a rubber spatula midway through processing. This makes sure that anything that gets stuck on the edges of the blender actually gets incorporated," Bolling says.
A little liquid is useful to soften too-tough ingredients before blending as well. Masters soaks everything from nuts to seeds to dried fruits "to spare the machine undue stress and enhance the texture of your finished dish," she says.
For a vivid example of this strategy at work, blend soaked cashews with a fresh batch of water, a squeeze of lemon, a scoop of nutritional yeast and a clove or two of garlic and season to taste for an ultra-creamy vegan Alfredo swap.
Take off the removable center cap so steam can escape.
Cover open cap hole with a dish towel.
Start on low, then increase to high until at desired consistency.
"Yes, you can whip coffee in a blender! Add 1/8 teaspoon xanthan gum to brewed coffee and blend it in a high-speed blender, and it will get foamy and creamy like a latte without any milk," Bolling says.
Because it's whipping your java with such force, the ingredients will naturally get warm, too. Masters also uses her turbocharged blender for creamy hot chocolate and foamy matcha tea.
Ben and Jerry will find some competition from the blender, too.
Whether you go classic with a no-churn custard made from condensed milk, heavy cream, and vanilla or you lighten things up by using a frozen banana and a spoonful of nut butter, ice cream is easy with a blender in your corner.
You can also create dairy-free "cream" for drizzling over a bowl of fruit or a slice of pie or cake by blending cashews with water and vanilla, Masters says.
Now that you've mastered your blender recipe, follow French's polishing game plan to get your new number-one kitchen tool squeaky clean in no time.
"Fill the container two-thirds of the way to the top with water, then add a few drops of dishwashing liquid. Run the blender on high for a minute or two, then rinse thoroughly, using a sponge to scrub off any food that sticks—although it rarely does if you clean it immediately," Ffrench says.
If necessary, attack the grimiest jobs in all-natural fashion.
"For stubborn stains, soak the container in a solution of vinegar, lemon juice, or baking soda, then wash and rinse again. For residual smells, try rinsing with a mild solution made with water and a bit of vinegar or vanilla extract," Masters says.


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Wrong results for queries with row constructors and information_schema
Valeriy Kravchuk
MySQL Server: Information schema
5.6.29, 5.7.18
columns, IN, information_schema, row constructor
[4 Jul 2017 13:31] Valeriy Kravchuk
It seems row constructors are evaluated somehow wrong for the queries to information_schema.columns table:
openxs@ao756:~/dbs/5.7$ bin/mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --port=3308 -uroot test
Server version: 5.7.18 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
mysql> create table tt1(c1 int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,27 sec)
mysql> select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (('tt1', 'c1'));
+----------+
| count(*) |
|        1 |
1 row in set (0,00 sec)
mysql> select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (('tt1','c1'),('tt2', 'c2'));
If we rewrite the query using subquery it works as expected:
mysql> select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (select 'tt1','c1' from dual union select 'tt2', 'c2' from dual);
If we rewrite it to the equivalent one based on the manual (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/range-optimization.html#row-constructor-range-opti...) it also works as expected:
mysql> select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name='tt1' and column_name='c1') or (table_name='tt2' and column_name='c2');
This is not the case for a normal table where IN expression with row constructors work as expected:
mysql> create table ttt(c1 varchar(10), c2 varchar(10));
mysql> insert into ttt values ('a','b'), ('c', 'd');
Records: 2  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0
mysql> select count(*) from ttt where (c1,c2) in (('a','b'),('c','d'));
create table tt1(c1 int);
select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (('tt1', 'c1'));
-- compare these results with the above
select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (('tt1','c1'),('tt2', 'c2'));
-- and the following results from equivalent queries
select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name, column_name) in (select 'tt1','c1' from dual union select 'tt2', 'c2' from dual);
select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and (table_name='tt1' and column_name='c1') or (table_name='tt2' and column_name='c2');
Process queries with row constructors properly even in the information_schema.
[4 Jul 2017 15:14] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. Verified as described.
[11 Jul 2017 19:14] Erlend Dahl
On 8.0.3, with the new data dictionary
select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema='test' and
(table_name, column_name) in (('tt1','c1'),('tt2','c2'));
returns 2, as expected.


These pages include information about the Definitive Map, the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions, and other legal information that may be useful. This area of work is very detailed and involves legal work. So, if you need further information that can't be answered by looking at these pages, don't hesitate to get in touch.


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Building Legacies: Lee Drain
SHSU Media Contact: Campbell Atkins
The following is part of a Today@Sam series highlighting the individuals who have SHSU buildings dedicated to them on campus. Special thanks to Barbara Kievit-Mason and University Archives for their assistance.
The Lee Drain Building, a four-story building constructed from 1984-85, was originally dubbed the General Purpose Classroom Building before being renamed in 1990 for a prestigious Bearkat who sought to better the education system at its highest level.
Lee Drain was born in McKinney, Texas on April 18, 1925, to Denver Lee and Mary Mae Drain. He established his dedication to serving others early and often in his life and even devoted nearly three years to the United State Air Force after graduating SHSU, where he rose to the rank of captain.
Drain distinguished himself throughout his life in military, educational and banking pursuits. While he had many moments to choose from, he called the dedication of the Lee Drain Building on Aug. 18, 1990, one of the highlights.
"This is a great moment in my life and I am grateful to you for having made it possible," Drain said of the honor.
Drain's journey in higher education began at SHSU, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950. He served as president of the Student Council during his senior year and was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.
The following blurb was written in the university's 1949-50 yearbook:
"Under the direction of President Lee Drain, the Student Council has enjoyed a most successful year. Among their more notable achievements was the painting pact, which was signed between Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin College in August…"
That same year, he graduated with distinction from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University (SMU). In 1953, he received a Master of Science degree from East Texas State University (modern day Texas A&M University-Commerce).
He also served as president of SHSU's Ex-Student Association. He was named a Distinguished Alumni by SHSU and East Texas State in 1983.
Drain's professional career included over 30 years in the banking industry, where he worked his way up the ranks. His many positions with the Republic Bank Corporation, later NationsBank, included assistant cashier, assistant vice president, vice president, assistant secretary of the board of directors, senior vice president and corporate secretary. In 1988, he was named a consultant to NCNB-Texas after 46 years of service to the industry.
In 1971, Drain was appointed to the Texas State University System Board of Regents by former Gov. Preston Smith. In his 18 years on the board, Drain missed just two meetings: one for a relative's funeral and another for his wedding day, when he married Lynett Craddock in 1974.
"I wanted to go to the meeting the day I got married, but my wife put her foot down," Drain told the Courier-Gazette newspaper in McKinney in May of 1990.
The Courier-Gazette story was released for the announcement to rename the General Purpose Classroom Building in Drain's honor after he had left the board. He was reappointed to the board twice during his tenure, in 1977 by Gov. Dolph Briscoe and again in 1983 by Gov. Mark White. He was chairman of the board from 1978-81.
Once the board made the decision to honor Drain with the building dedication, they released the following statement explaining why, which ran in the Houstonian in June of 1990:
"…for countless contributions to the Texas State University System, and to the state of Texas, as well as for his faithful and dedicated service to education, and for the exceptional leadership and public service he has shown of his fellow man."
In that same Houstonian article, Drain stated the following on the university that now houses a building with his name on it:
"My emotions for Sam Houston run very deep. That school has given me a lot more than I've been able to give it."
Drain also often engaged in various civic affairs, mainly in the Dallas area. While too exhaustive to list, his contributions in all fields truly highlight SHSU's motto: "The measure of a Life is its Service."
Drain passed away on Feb. 7, 2019 at the age of 93. He is buried at Ridgeview Memorial Park in Allen.


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Bill Bynner (1900-1984)
Atheism Peace & Pacifism Politics Secularism
Bill Bynner was a humanist, socialist, and civil servant. As the editor of South Place Ethical Society's Ethical Record wrote in 1984, his example provides 'a vignette of a humanist life': a compassionate and practical humanism, manifested in his daily life as well as in his wider efforts for peace and social welfare. Bynner was closely involved with the Humanist Housing Association, as well as with the Socialist Secular Association (founded in 1981 'to unite ethical, humanist, secularist, rationalist and freethinking socialists').
The below is reproduced from the Ethical Record, April 1984.
Bill Bynner—Humanist, Secular Socialist
(His daughter, Sheila, sends us the following from the ceremony conducted by Arthur Atkins at Putney Vale Cemetery for Bill's funeral, with some 20 people present. The text she sent is given in full because it not only tells a brief story of Bill's life, but is a vignette of a humanist life: with its involvement in the day to day at the levels of family, country, world and concerns—Editor.)
William Bynner was born in Birmingham in 1900 into a poor working class family. He used to say he was a Victorian, having been born at the very end of Queen Victoria's reign. His father was a cabinet maker/joiner who died when Bill was 13. He left school soon after his father died and his first permanent job was as a Boy Clerk in the Post Office. For most of his working life he was a civil servant (with interruptions for two World Wars). He was very fit and active and at the age of 17 cycled from Birmingham to London (he said the last 30 miles were quite easy—downhill all the way!). He was called up in 1918 and fortunately was a fortnight too young to go into the trenches. He used to say Prime Minister Lloyd George saved his life because he held back the batch of young conscripts to which Bill belonged.
In the years between the wars he married and brought up a family in Mitcham. He played cricket, rugby, football and in the 1930s mainly tennis. He worked on the outdoor staff of the Ministry of Health, inspecting insurance stamps (which in those days employers had by law to stick on their employee's cards). This was a tough job in the East End of London. He joined the Territorial Army in 1938 after Munich and in September 1939 he was called back to camp from a summer holiday on the south coast (where he was with his wife and three daughters). During the blitz he manned the guns in an anti-aircraft unit on gun sites all round the perimeter of London. He was demobilized in 1944, when the health of his dear wife Nan became increasingly poor. She died in 1950.
He retired from the Civil Service in 1960 and for the last 20 years of his life (perhaps as a reaction to the demand for political and social conformity in those days) he came increasingly to take an anti-establishment line in religion and politics.
He joined CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], taking part in the Aldermaston marches of the 1960s. He became a Humanist and a member of the National Secular Society and helped to start the Socialist Secular Association. During these years he wrote a novel and some poetry. Another of his interests was the Humanist Housing Association, where he worked as a volunteer with Lindsay Burnet buying up large old houses which were then refurbished and split up into flats for needy tenants. He took pride in helping to establish this Association.
He himself lived in Blackham House in Wimbledon for some years before going to live with his daughter. He remained fit and active until his mid-70s. In the last four years of his life, although increasingly frail, he never complained or felt sorry for himself. He was honest, fiercely independent, anti-establishment, socialist and anti-religion. In spite of this his oldest friend, whom he knew since 1922 was Clerk of the Parish Council in Panham (where he lived for a few years). He was unfailingly generous to his family and friends and the causes he supported, but could be witheringly sarcastic about aspects of life or government he disliked.
He valued the friendship of so many people in the humanist and secular movement, while at the same time he kept the friendships of his earlier years and reconciled them all because he valued people. He will be greatly missed.
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Rose Bush
Nicolas Walter
South Place Ethical Society
Education Philosophy Science
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The standing stones represent the letter punches which he cut to make his type, and the word virgil was Baskerville's […]
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From the archives: 'A Few Words to Freethinkers'
This article appeared in The Secular Chronicle (Vol. V, No. 1), 2 January 1876. It marked the first issue edited […]
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Twice a year the natural tranquility of Lake Dora is briefly interrupted with exciting blasts from the past.
The Central Florida lake will come alive this weekend as vintage and classic race boats return to Wooton Park in Tavares for the Spring Thunder Regatta.
Boating enthusiasts can view the over seventy fully restored vintage race boats that will run demonstration laps on a one-mile oval course or view them close-up in the pit area. The regatta features large heats of all vintage classes, including outboards, small hydros, mid-hydros, large hydros, flatbottoms, skiffs, speedsters, gold cuppers, and grand prix hydros.
The event is held at Wooton Park at downtown Tavares' lake front on Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 9am-2pm. Admission is free. For more local news and events, click here.
Above photo by Pete Boden.


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Above: A mosaic of Kolby Kirk's Pacific Crest Trail hiking journals. ©Kolby Kirk. See details below to view this and other images from his journals. If you click on this image you'll go to Kirk's Flickr site.
My friend Heather sent me a link to an inspiring site for hikers and visual journal keepers: The Hike Guy. You can read about Kolby Kirk in his own words at the site and you can look into his Pacific Crest Trail journals here.
Kirk has a lot of interesting posts on his site but one that caught my eye was his DIY Ultra-Light Watercolor Pencil Palette. For me this looks like a complicated way to carry a pan palette and it looks bigger than any of the palettes I carry around at any time. But he also gets more colors—and that matters to him and how he works. I love his post on this because it shows how if you love an art supply and have a creative turn of mind you'll find a way to take it into the field with you.
I still content myself with reading passages from the book in the evenings, and then during the day, walking about my own city. It will have to do. But if you like hiking, like illustrations of architecture and landscapes, and like reading about parts of England I suggest you check out Wainright's book(s) after you enjoy Kolby's journals.
Thanks to Kolby and Wainwright we can enjoy the view while staying at home!
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What a great find! I also enjoyed his travel set. Alter anything to work for your art, right?
Liz, that's right. It reminds me of the 36 color pan set I took out into the field long ago, before I had shoulder problems. But he gets more colors in than that! I wish he would use "real" paint since he isn't using the pencils as pencils, but I wish that about everyone don't I?
Karen, makes you want to leap up and go for a hike doesn't it!
yay! great new journalers to follow.
Wainrights' books are amazing. all those lovely line drawings. They look so artistic, but each and everyone is accurate. You can go stand in just the right place and match the drawing to the location. He not only wanted to write a guide book, he wanted the beauty he saw to be on every page for everyone to discover. BBC have filmed twelve of the walks, and the Coast To Coast walk, and every single one is a joy to see. I'm lucky, fields with wild deer and mad March hares, patches of Caledonian like forest, and your actual flowing stream with wild brown trout are 50 foot and one barbed wire fence away from the front door. And if I take a few bananas I can bring a field of Tamworth pigs, hiding in gorse bushes down to the river to squeal for fruit.
Leslie I love knowing that at least some stuff is still how he drew it. Your area sounds delightful as well! Especially the pigs coming to eat bananas!
Marta, glad you enjoy Kirk and Wainwright! Looking at both makes me think I should plan a hike!
E-J I'm so glad that you use your Wainwright books! These sound like wonderful trips. I went to the Derwent Pencil Factory in the Lake District for my honeymoon!
If you go back please, please let me know how it all is! And sketch.
Since I like both hiking and sketching I bought the book "Coast to Coast" and have fallen in love. What a find! I am trying now to copy a few of his drawings so I can learn how to expand my use of marks to indicate different textures. This is a book I enjoy dipping into a little at a time.
And if you are ever in need of a hiking/sketching companion in the future let me know!!
Diane, I'm glad you got a copy of "Coast to Coast" which really is an education in using a pen! And thank you for offering to go along. I will keep it in mind if the idea ever comes back up to the top of the project list!


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'use strict';

import {TPromise} from 'vs/base/common/winjs.base';
import {createDecorator, ServiceIdentifier} from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiation';

export const IConfigurationEditingService = createDecorator<IConfigurationEditingService>('configurationEditingService');

export enum ConfigurationEditingErrorCode {

	/**
	 * Error when trying to write a configuration key that is not registered.
	 */
	ERROR_UNKNOWN_KEY,

	/**
	 * Error when trying to write to the workspace configuration without having a workspace opened.
	 */
	ERROR_NO_WORKSPACE_OPENED,

	/**
	 * Error when trying to write to the configuration file while it is dirty in the editor.
	 */
	ERROR_CONFIGURATION_FILE_DIRTY,

	/**
	 * Error when trying to write to a configuration file that contains JSON errors.
	 */
	ERROR_INVALID_CONFIGURATION
}

export interface IConfigurationEditingError {
	code: ConfigurationEditingErrorCode;
	message: string;
}

export enum ConfigurationTarget {

	/**
	 * Targets the user configuration file for writing.
	 */
	USER,

	/**
	 * Targets the workspace configuration file for writing. This only works if a workspace is opened.
	 */
	WORKSPACE
}

export interface IConfigurationValue {
	key: string;
	value: any;
}

export interface IConfigurationEditingService {

	_serviceBrand: ServiceIdentifier<any>;

	/**
	 * Allows to write to either the user or workspace configuration file. The returned promise will be
	 * in error state in any of the error cases from [ConfigurationEditingErrorCode](#ConfigurationEditingErrorCode)
	 */
	writeConfiguration(target: ConfigurationTarget, values: IConfigurationValue[]): TPromise<void>;
}

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Is it possible to check BIOS Options, from Windows, based on version?
Is there any way to check if a computers bios has a "power on automatically on a schedule" option based on its System Model alone? I cant get to the physical computer in question to check for myself because its in another county, and I wouldn't want to go there and find out there is no "power on automatically" option in bios.
But I can access the windows desktop of that computer, and see its System Information, so is there any way I can check bios options solely based on the system information?
The ability to view most BIOS settings from Windows is vendor specific.
And then for each vendor the ability to view is available by model.
So if you communicate with the computer or motherboard manufacturer they may have this information.
HP has software that can be installed on some business models where the end user can view many BIOS settings and then modify the settings without having to open the BIOS.
so in other words "get the version info first, then ask" ?
Both HP and Lenovo have the information by model.
Lenovo has administrative command prompt commands.
There is a log collector in the Ten Forums BSOD forum.
If BIOS information was readily available it could be part of the log collection.
Since it is vendor and model specific it could not become part of the log collection.
So for each computer or motherboard manufacturer use the respective forum or contact information.
For Dell it is likely that there are commands or software by model.
Dell's UEFI setup utility is called CCTK, part of the "Command | Configure" package. It might only work on Dell's business models. I've also never seen a "power on automatically on a schedule" option.
I'm using a VM but it shows all the BIOS info -- works on a real Machine too. Don't be scarec of using the command line when you need to !!!!
I prefer using command line but take your choce !!!!
Some of the BIOS information can be viewed and modified using HP software.
For example: modify legacy or UEFI boot order, enable or disable secure boot, etc.
The get-computerinfo command didn't display any BIOS information using Windows 10 without VM.
We use a log collector in another forum and it would be useful to have a command to collect BIOS settings that are not already displayed in msinfo32 or dxdiag.
The commands in the log collector are using powershell.
If there is a method to use powershell to display other BIOS settings using each Windows and/or Windows RE please comment.
Can't install cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3197954) Failed to install several time, any help thx.


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Covid: Government close to closing pubs and restaurants in much of northern England as cases soar
Wednesday October 7, 2020, 7:19 PM
Robert Peston
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We are at a critical moment in the second surge of coronavirus.
Ministers, scientists and officials are deeply concerned about the rate at which Covid-19 is increasing in the north west, north east and Yorkshire/Humberside: they believe the daily quantum of infection is doubling every five to seven days in large chunks of northern England.
They see the course of the virus as very similar to what happened in Italy in the first phase of the illness, where infections were concentrated in the north.
Ministers are therefore feeling their way towards imposing more severe restrictions on socialising in those areas.
They are likely to impose closure of all hospitality venues - pubs and restaurants - for a period.
These new restrictions are most likely to be announced on Monday, although they could come earlier.
Pubs and restaurants in Manchester have stayed open through local coronavirus restrictions. Credit: PA
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Attorney Mike Phillips, who was initially asked to file the appeal, says he has provided input, but the case will be filed by Kirkland and Ellis, not him.
Today is the deadline for the government of Guam to file the 9th Circuit's decision overturning the Guam political status plebiscite law which concluded that it was unconstitutional because it is race-based and in violation of the 15th Amendment.
Kirkland and Ellis, an international law firm that bills itself as the largest law firm in the United States, has taken over the appeal of the Davis plebiscite case. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said last week that they've agreed to do the work for free.
"I'm informed that the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis will be filing the petition. And also informed that they will file it timely. And as far as the contends and everything like that, I've been assured that everything will be done in accordance with the requirement of filing a case like that with the Supreme Court," Phillips said.
The first step for the Supreme Court is to decide whether or not they will accept the appeal.
If they agree to take the case, arguments will be heard sometime next year.
If they decide not to hear it, then the case is over.
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IU Olympians looking to find gold in the pool | Full list of Hoosiers in Tokyo and their schedules
July 23, 2021 Dustin Dopirak IU Swim & Dive, Olympics 1
Bailey Andison had to go somewhere else first. She wasn't quite fast enough of a swimmer at Smiths Falls Collegiate Institute in Smiths Falls, Ontario to be able to start her college career at the sort of program that produces international champions.
So she spent three years at Denver University to build herself up, then transferred to Indiana for her senior year in 2018 when she believed she had a real opportunity to become an Olympian.
"A big part of my decision to transfer to IU was to pursue an Olympic dream," Andison said on a Zoom press conference last month. "Denver as a program built me. I was not fast enough to be recruited by Indiana coming out of high school. … But getting to IU is what was a catalyst on my Olympic process."
Indiana's swimming and diving program — and its pool in general — is still the type of place where athletes come from around the nation and even around the world to become Olympians, even though its been 48 years since Indiana's last men's NCAA team championship under Doc Counsilman. Indiana is sending a combined 15 current and former student-athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, which formally begin with the opening ceremonies on Friday. They will represent six different countries, and all but one of them will be playing a sport that occurs in a swimming pool.
There will be nine swimmers, three divers, two women's water polo players and one women's soccer player from Indiana heading to Tokyo, and the Hoosiers will also be sending diving coach Drew Johansen to be the head diving coach for Team USA and swimming and diving program director Ray Looze to be an assistant swimming coach.
Andison will be one of the swimmers representing Team Canada, having qualified in the 200 individual medley. She's been out of collegiate competition for two years, but she can still train in Bloomington as a professional as part of the post-graduate program. That is the engine, she said, that keeps IU competitive and keeps Olympic quality talent coming into the Indiana pool.
"A huge asset that Indiana has that, at the time Denver didn't have, was that Indiana had a post-grad, professional group that was pursuing athletic careers as their main focus," Andison said. "When I got to Indiana, there was just a heightened training environment just because there were already Olympians and professionals who were there solely for the swimming experience. Having those people there to push me and also have that Olympic mindset always around me is what helped me get to this point."
The Hoosiers are sending so many athletes to Tokyo in spite of the fact that they couldn't use the pool for an extended period last spring and summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them trained in a pond in a Bloomington subdivision last summer and in a community pool in Seymour.
"I can't thank that community enough," Looze said. "Specifically Dave Boggs, the high school coach there. All year long I was worried, did we do enough? We did everything we could, and I guess when you look back at who we've qualified for the Olympic games, it was better than most. But really, we're going to be judged at what we do in the games."
Indiana has every reason to expect big things from its headliner, Lilly King. King won gold medals in the 100 meter breaststroke and as part of the 4×100 meter medley relay in Rio de Janeiro in the 2016 Olympic games. She won a combined eight NCAA championships in the 100 and 200 breaststroke at Indiana from 2016-19 and has 11 gold medals in world championships. Now she's back gunning for more Olympic gold. She's qualified in both the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke and likely to swim relays as well. She holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 4.13 seconds at the 2017 world championships, and her best time at the U.S. Olympic trials, 1:04.72, is the best time by anyone in the world since that world record.
Looze says he believes King is in the best shape she's ever been in, and she's not inclined to disagree.
"I'm glad Ray is saying I'm in the best shape ever," King said. "That's definitely reassuring. I'm ready to go. I feel much more experienced at this point. I feel like going in in 2016, I was deer in the headlights, had no idea what was going on. I'm feeling a lot more at ease, but also prepared."
Indiana and Team USA also have high hopes for Michael Brinegar, a long-distance swimmer who won the Big Ten title in the 1,650 freestyle this year and earned All-America honors in the event this year and in 2019, when he finished second in the NCAA championships. He finished second in both the 8000meter freestyle and 1500-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials to qualify in both races.
"When I watched him swim in Omaha (at trials) that's the best his stroke has looked," Looze said. "I think the collegiate season really played a big role in setting him up for his success."
Hoosier athletes are also well set up to make an impact on the diving board. Andrew Capobianco, the Big Ten Diver of the Year and two-time 3-meter NCAA champion, qualified individually in the 3-meter springboard event and also qualified with former Indiana NCAA champion Mike Hixon in the 3-meter synchronized springboard. Hixon won a silver medal in the 2016 Olympics in the event.
"The experience has been a dream," Capobianco said. "I definitely saw it coming a little bit. … I think that Drew (Johansen) has done such a great job with me physically but also mentally. I've become a much more strong competitor and confident competitor. I think my first few years I was a little bit doubtful of myself. Now I definitely see how I can be one of the best in the world. I'm excited."
The coaches going over are also more confident. Johansen is heading into his third straight Olympics and has a good sense of how he wants to function in his role.
"The team has a really nice mixture of experienced divers, medalists, with some of the new talent that's going to take us through Tokyo," Johansen said, "so we're really excited."
Looze admits that he wasn't thrilled with his performance as a coach the first time around in Rio de Janeiro, especially while working with athletes who had multiple events and had to follow up great performances with more. He said he feels more ready for that this time around.
"I felt like in Rio the last few days we were running on fumes," Looze said. "I wasn't really happy with how we performed on the relays. I've learned a lot after being on two world championship staffs on how to work through eight days better. … It's just knowing what's coming, especially after great performances."
That being said, Looze is also making a point to enjoy the experience and appreciate that both he and Johansen get to help Indiana by being part of the U.S. team.
"It's incredibly important and it is so hard to be a coach for Team USA," Looze said. "I didn't ever think that would happen to me. Drew is on his third time, I'm on my second. I'm just humbled and grateful. We have really good coaches here and awesome swimmers and that's what makes it all possible. I'm humbled by the opportunity. We just want to do a good job for those kids that are going."
Full list of IU Olympians, as compiled by IU athletics
Bailey Andison – Team Canada – Women's Swimming
Zach Apple – Team USA – Men's Swimming
Michael Brinegar – Team USA – Men's Swimming
Andrew Capobianco – Team USA – Men's Diving
Marwan Elkamash – Team Egypt – Men's Swimming
Tomer Frankel – Team Israel – Men's Swimming
Jessica Gaudreault — Team Canada – Women's Water Polo
Mike Hixon – Team USA – Men's Diving
Ali Khalafalla – Team Egypt – Men's Swimming
Lilly King – Team USA – Women's Swimming
Vini Lanza – Team Brazil – Men's Swimming
Shae (Fournier) La Roche – Team Canada – Women's Water Polo
Jessica Parratto – Team USA – Women's Diving
Blake Pieroni – Team USA – Men's Swimming
Gabi Rennie – Team Australia – Women's Soccer
Jorge Campillo – Team Spain – Men's Golf
Drew Johansen – Team USA – Head Diving Coach
Ray Looze – Team USA – Assistant Swimming Coach
Full schedule for IU Olympic athletes compiled by IU athletics
Gabi Rennie (New Zealand, women's soccer), vs. Australia, 7:30 a.m. ET, USA
Gabi Rennie (New Zealand, women's soccer), vs. Australia Replay, 2:15 p.m. ET, NBCSN
Live Opening Ceremony, 6:55 a.m. ET, NBC
Primetime Opening Ceremony, 7:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Gabi Rennie (New Zealand, women's soccer), vs. USA, 7:30 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Gabi Rennie (New Zealand, women's soccer), vs. USA Replay, 6:00 p.m. ET, USA
Shae La Roche (Canada, water polo), vs. Australia – preliminary round game 2, 2:30 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Lilly King (USA, women's swimming, 100m breaststroke – heats, 6:59 a.m. ET, USA
Zach Apple and Blake Pieroni (USA, 400m freestyle relay – heats, 8:10 a.m. ET, USA
Lilly King (USA, women's swimming, 100m breaststroke – semifinal, 9:50 p.m. ET, NBC
Zach Apple and Blake Pieroni (USA, 400m freestyle relay – final, 11:05 p.m. ET, NBC
Shae La Roche (Canada, water polo), vs. Spain – preliminary round game 8, 6:50 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Bailey Andison (Canada, women's swimming, 200m im – heats), 6:56 a.m. ET, USA
Lilly King (USA, women's swimming, 100m breaststroke – final, 10:17 p.m. ET, NBC
Bailey Andison (Canada, women's swimming, 200m im – final), 10:58 p.m. ET, NBC
Jessica Parratto (USA, women's diving, 10m synchro – final), 2:00 a.m. ET, CNBC
Gabi Rennie (New Zealand, women's soccer), vs. Sweden, 4:00 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Zach Apple (USA, men's swimming, 100m freestyle – heats), 6:02 a.m. ET, USA
Michael Brineger and Marwan Elkamash (USA and Egypt, men's swimming, 800m freestyle – heats), 7:37 a.m. ET, USA
Zach Apple (USA, men's swimming, 100m freestyle – final), 9:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Andrew Capobianco and Michael Hixon (USA, men's diving, 3m synchro), 2:00 a.m. ET, USA
Shae La Roche (Canada, water polo), vs. Russia – preliminary round game 10, 2:30 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Lilly King and Annie Lazor (USA, women's swimming, 200m breaststroke – heats), 6:52 a.m. ET, USA
Vini Lanza (Brazil, men's swimming, 200m im – heats), 7:15 a.m. ET, USA
Michael Brineger and Marwan Elkamash (USA and Egypt, men's swimming, 800m freestyle – final), 9:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Zach Apple (USA, men's swimming, 100m freestyle – final), 10:37 p.m. ET, NBC
Lilly King and Annie Lazor (USA, women's swimming, 200m breaststroke – semifinal), 10:54 p.m. ET, NBC
Vini Lanza (Brazil, men's swimming, 200m im – semifinal), 11:08 p.m. ET, NBC
Tomer Frankel (Israel, men's swimming, 100m butterfly – heats), 6:50 a.m. ET, USA
Tomer Frankel (Israel, men's swimming, 100m butterfly – semifinal), 9:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Vini Lanza (Brazil, men's swimming, 200m im – final), 10:16 p.m. ET, NBC
Jorge Campillo (Spain, men's golf stroke play round 1)
Ali Khalafalla (Egypt, men's swimming, 50m freestyle – heats), 6:02 a.m. ET, USA
Michael Brineger (USA, men's swimming, 1500m freestyle – heats), 6:48 a.m. ET, USA
Tomer Frankel (Israel, men's swimming, 100m butterfly – final), 9:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Ali Khalafalla (Egypt, men's swimming, 50m freestyle – semifinal), 10:11 p.m. ET, NBC
Ali Khalafalla (Egypt, men's swimming, 50m freestyle – final), 9:30 p.m. ET, NBC
Michael Brineger (USA, men's swimming, 1500m freestyle – final), 9:44 p.m.. ET, NBC
Shae La Roche (Canada, water polo), vs. Netherlands – preliminary round game 18, 2:30 a.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Shae La Roche (Canada, water polo), vs. Netherlands, 12:45 p.m. ET, USA
Andrew Capobianco (USA, men's diving, 3m springboard – preliminary), 2:00 a.m. ET, CNBC
Andrew Capobianco (USA, men's diving, 3m springboard – semifinal), 9:00 p.m. ET, NBCOlympics.com
Andrew Capobianco (USA, men's diving, 3m springboard – final), 2:00 a.m. ET, CNBC
Andrew Capobianco
Drew Johansen
Lilly King
Michael Brinegar
Mike Hixon
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Confusion grows at John Paul II Institute after scholars' open letter
Christopher Altieri
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, chancellor of the John Paul II Institute (CNS)
It is unclear whether the Institute will respond publicly to the letter
The debate over the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences has entered a new phase, after nearly 50 academics wrote an open letter asking the leadership to reconsider their reforms.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia and Mgr Pierangelo Sequeri, respectively Grand Chancellor and President of the JPII Institute, say they are aiming at "renewal in continuity". But some of the changes they have introduced have appeared to former and current faculty and students alike as a radical departure from the theologically-oriented ethos that had been the core of the Institute.
There are also concerns over the manner in which those responsible have gone about the founding of the new Institute.
"It is with great distress," the signatories write, "that we learned the news about the sudden dismissals of two full professors, José Noriega and Livio Melina, together with other colleagues: Maria Luisa Di Pietro, Stanisław Grygiel, Monika Grygiel, Przemysław Kwiatkowski, and Vittorina Marini." The letter goes on to say, "We cannot see any convincing reason – academic, doctrinal or disciplinary – which justifies their dismissal."
"If your institute wants to maintain its high academic profile and international reputation," the letter says, "we ask you to revoke these dismissals and to reassume the aforementioned scholars among the faculty of your Institute."
Two faculty members in particular are at the centre of the controversy: Prof Livio Melina and Prof José Noriega, who held respectively the chairs of fundamental and special moral theology in the old Institute. Prof Melina also served as president of the Institute in Rome for more than a decade before the Institute was suppressed and re-formed in 2017.
When the new charter and by-laws appeared in July, the two men found that their chairs had been eliminated, sparking several rounds of back-and-forth in the press that ended in the JPII Institute's request for a few weeks in August to respond to the flood of queries.
Technically, the men were not dismissed from the Institute. When Pope Francis juridically suppressed the old Institute in 2017, professors' contracts and rights of tenure ceased with it. Francis founded the new Institute in the same Apostolic Letter motu proprio by which he suppressed the old one, naming at the same time Archbishop Paglia Grand Chancellor, and Mgr Sequeri as President of the new Institute, and charged them with crafting and implementing the Institute's new structure and curriculum.
As reported by The Catholic Herald, the leadership said that Melina and Noriega would be excluded from the new Institute merely because fundamental and special moral theology would no longer be taught. They also explained that Noriega's current role as head of the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary (DCJM) make him ineligible for tenure. Noriega, however, had held both positions – superior general of the DCJM and stable professor in the chair of special moral theology – since 2008, and has only a few months left in the leadership of his congregation.
Those explanations led to further questions. On August 2, Archbishop Paglia's office said the new JPII Institute was not prepared to answer them. Paglia's secretary, Fr Riccardo Mensuali, told The Herald, "The institute remains desirous of giving exhaustive responses, but asks a few weeks' time in the month of August in order to formulate adequate responses," to questions raised with the Institute.
Prof Stanisław Grygiel's inclusion among the list of those dismissed, however, has caused some confusion. Though his courses have been eliminated and his role in the life of the institution apparently attenuated, Prof Grygiel nevertheless retains his research position in the new Institute, as director of the Karol Wojtyla Chair in Philosophical Anthropology – an endowed chair without teaching responsibilities attached to it.
Since achieving emeritus status many years ago, Prof Grygiel has not only retained the directorship of the chair, but has until now been invited regularly to teach at the Institute.
A source close to the letter told the Catholic Herald the mention of Prof Grygiel was meant to highlight his effective sidelining, and to beg reconsideration of it. One of the signatories, Prof John C McCarthy, of the Catholic University of America, told the Herald he joined the letter August 3rd, without "having sought independent confirmation of every claim made in the letter," and noting that the substance of the complaint remains despite the possibly imprecise statement regarding Grygiel's status.
"I myself would in no way blame the original author or authors of the letter for not having rendered every particular with the utmost exactness, if indeed he or they were at any point inexact," McCarthy said. "[F]rom what I have seen from various Italian and English-language reports in the media, it is hardly the case Archbishop Paglia and Prof Sequeri have even yet provided a clear and thorough account of the changes they have in mind, much less have they offered a persuasive rationale for what changes they have clearly announced," he continued.
The Catholic Herald has not yet determined the identity of the letter's principal draftsman or draftsmen. The signatories are contributors to an 11 hundred-page scholarly work curated by Prof. Noriega, titled Dizionario su sesso, amore e fecondità (Dictionary on Sex, Love, and Fecundity) released this year by the Sienese publishing house, Cantagalli. (Find the full text of the letter and a list of signatories here.)
"In the past three years, we, the undersigned members of ecclesiastical and secular academic institutions throughout the world, have had the privilege to participate at the recent great international scientific enterprise of your Institute," they write.
They describe the project as "a very fruitful and professional scientific collaboration" that "has highlighted to us the outstanding academic profile of your institute as well as the great scientific and editorial competence of the main curator of the Dizionario, Professor José Noriega."
One of Archbishop Paglia's priest-secretaries in the Pontifical Academy for Life – which Paglia also heads – told The Herald on Friday that the Institute would be issuing a response to the open letter in a matter of days, perhaps as early as Monday of the coming week. A spokesperson for the JPII Institute, however, told the Herald that Paglia and Sequeri would "respond directly to the signatories, and not through the media."
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