Caroline Valerio wins the 100-meter freestyle Friday in a 101-80 home victory over Ridgefield.
After suffering a home loss to Norwalk two weeks ago, the Staples girls swimming team wanted to make a statement Friday.
Staples bounced back Friday with a 101-80 home victory over Ridgefield (1-2) to raise its record to 2-1. Making the Lady Wreckers' victory even more special is that they did it without their best swimmer, sophomore Verity Abel, who missed the meet as well as the loss to Norwalk because she is sick.
"We have a really good team and a lot of depth," Staples coach Mike Laux said. "We're just not as good as some of the best teams in the FCIAC. It was a good meet and I was happy to see six different girls win individual events, which was cool and it highlighted our depth."
The Lady Wreckers also won all three relays and began the meet by finishing one-two in the 200-meter medley relay. Freshman Stacy Kaneko, sophomore Gabby LeBlanc, freshmen Jordan Santarella and Jessi Taets won the relay with a time of 2:15.50, and the relay team of Alexis Teixeira, Anita Vohra, Caroline Valerio and Rebecca Raab (2:16.19) took second, edging Ridgefield's top relay team (2:16.75).
Sarah Cooperman won the 200-meter freestyle (2:20.23).
"I was pretty excited going into the meet because we wanted to come out victorious," Cooperman said. "We have a really good support network, and I received a lot of support from my teammates."
Gabby Wimer (2:22.26) grabbed second, and Emily Greene (2:31.63) took fourth in the 200-free.
Although Staples didn't win the 200-meter individual medley, it outscored the Lady Tigers 9-7 in it. LeBlanc (2:44.16), Santarella (2:46.85) and Maragos (2:51.52) placed second, third and fourth, respectively, in the 200-IM.
Taets won the 50-meter freestyle (31.24) and Raab (31.66) grabbed second.
Michelle Mastrianni (150) won diving and led a sweep in it. Freshman Olivia Crosby (137) took second and sophomore newcomer Anna Violette (135) was third.
"It was a good meet," Mastrianni said. "I didn't expect us to go one-two-three and I'm glad we did. The new girls improved a lot and it's a testament to what we accomplished in a short amount of time. I'm very happy with how the divers did."
Valerio triumphed in the 100-meter butterfly (1:12.26).
"I worked on my stroke the day before in practice," Valerio said. "I saw I was close midway, and I wanted it up and beat her."
Wimer won the 100-meter freestyle (1:04.40).
"It was [a matter of] making sure I picked it up and went faster in the second 50," Wimer said. "I made sure I brought my kick into it."
Kaneko (1:06.15) took second in the 100-free.
Staples didn't win the 400-meter freestyle but ended the event with an 8-8 tie to Ridgefield, courtesy of its depth. Cooperman (4:51.64) and Santarella (5:08.95) took second and third, respectively, and Greene (5:29.16) was fifth.
Wimer, Raab, Taets and Cooperman won the 200-meter freestyle relay (2:03.38).
Kaneko grabbed first in the 100-meter backstroke (1:14.75). Valerio (1:17.55) and Teixeira (1:18.29) were three-four in the 100-back.
Ridgefield won the 100-meter breaststroke and if the Lady Wreckers would have won the event 9-7 if they didn't swim it unofficially. LeBlanc (1:23.81), Vohra (1:26) and Maragos (1:29.38) had the second, third and fourth best times in the 100-breaststroke.
Wimer, Santarella, Cooperman and Kaneko comprised of the fastest 400-meter freestyle relay team (4:29.77).
"It's pretty exciting beating Ridgefield because they are a middle of the pack team and it's a good win for us," Valerio said. "We showed we have a good core and will take a lot from it as a team."
Wimer said, "We had awesome races and we want to be in the top half of FCIACs. We need to beat Ridgefield in order to accomplish this."
Getting the win without Abel lifts the team's spirits. Staples would have had a better chance of defeating Norwalk if Abel was in the lineup.
"I think it's great beating Ridgefield without Verity and it boosts our confidence," Mastrianni said.
Cooperman said, "It's a little daunting losing a key member of the team but it also motivates us because we want to pick up the slack from not having one of our best swimmers in the lineup. We look forward to having Verity back."


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package m3

import (
	"testing"
	"time"
)

const (
	updaters = 10
	updates  = 1000
	numIds   = 10

	testID = "stats.$dc.gauges.m3+" +
		"servers.my-internal-server-$dc.network.eth0_tx_colls+" +
		"dc=$dc,domain=production.$zone,env=production,pipe=$pipe,service=servers,type=gauge"
)

func BenchmarkNewMetric(b *testing.B) {
	r, _ := NewReporter(Options{
		HostPorts:  []string{"127.0.0.1:9052"},
		Service:    "test-service",
		CommonTags: defaultCommonTags,
	})
	defer r.Close()
	benchReporter := r.(*reporter)
	b.ResetTimer()

	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
		benchReporter.newMetric("foo", nil, counterType)
	}
}

func BenchmarkCalulateSize(b *testing.B) {
	r, _ := NewReporter(Options{
		HostPorts:  []string{"127.0.0.1:9052"},
		Service:    "test-service",
		CommonTags: defaultCommonTags,
	})
	defer r.Close()
	benchReporter := r.(*reporter)

	val := int64(123456)
	met := benchReporter.newMetric("foo", nil, counterType)
	met.MetricValue.Count.I64Value = &val

	b.ResetTimer()

	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
		benchReporter.calculateSize(met)
	}
}

func BenchmarkTimer(b *testing.B) {
	r, _ := NewReporter(Options{
		HostPorts:  []string{"127.0.0.1:9052"},
		Service:    "test-service",
		CommonTags: defaultCommonTags,
	})
	defer r.Close()
	benchReporter := r.(*reporter)
	benchReporter.metCh = make(chan sizedMetric, DefaultMaxQueueSize)
	// Close the met ch to end consume metrics loop
	defer close(benchReporter.metCh)

	go func() {
		resourcePool := benchReporter.resourcePool
		// Blindly consume metrics
		for met := range benchReporter.metCh {
			resourcePool.releaseShallowMetric(met.m)
		}
	}()

	timer := benchReporter.AllocateTimer("foo", nil)

	b.ResetTimer()

	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
		timer.ReportTimer(time.Duration(n) * time.Millisecond)
	}

	b.StopTimer()
}

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Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) and holds the Center's Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. He is a mutualist and individualist anarchist whose written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, and The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, all of which are freely available online. Carson has also written for such print publications as The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and a variety of internet-based journals and blogs, including Just Things, The Art of the Possible, the P2P Foundation, and his own Mutualist Blog.
One Cheer — More or Less — For the Green New Deal
By Kevin Carson, P2P Foundation
In framing the alternatives, I start from the assumption that our primary purpose is actually building the post-capitalist society, and that our engagement or lack of engagement with the state is a secondary course of action whose main purpose is to create a more conducive, less harmful environment in which to do the building.
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons
Following an introduction by Gorenflo, in which he summarizes the background of the Sharing Cities movement, states its basic principles and assesses its significance, the book — a collaborative effort by fifteen people — provides over two hundred pages of case studies of local sharing economy projects in dozens of cities.
Omnia Sunt Communia: Review
Hence the commons, by growth, can reduce its need for interaction with the circuit of capital via the cash nexus, and incorporate more and more basic functions of life into itself. The commons are constrained by the fact that they coexist with capital and the state.
Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition
By Kevin Carson, P2P Foundation Blog
As Michel Bauwens puts it, the commons paradigm replaces the traditional Social Democratic paradigm in which value is created in the "private" (i.e. corporate) sector through commodity labor, and a portion of this value is redistributed by the state and by labor unions, to one in which value is co-created within the social commons outside the framework of wage labor and the cash nexus, and the process of value creation is governed by the co-creators themselves.
Book of the Day: The Corruption of Capitalism, by Guy Standing
Rather than a "free market," the neoliberal global economy praised as "free trade" by policy wonks is actually "a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximise their rental income." Standing says 31% of Western corporate profits today, as opposed to 17% in 1999, are in industries where profits are rents on artificial scarcities...
Lessons from the Practice of Basic Income
Brancaglione proposes a very anarchist-sounding agenda of federated local communities bypassing the state to create a counter-economy and appropriate illegitimately enclosed resources to fund a basic income.
No, Capitalism Isn't Making Us All Richer and Richer
If you frequent mainstream right-libertarian publications on anything like a regular basis, you've probably seen more than one of those breathless articles about how capitalism is making the ordinary poor person richer than a medieval king.
Right-to-Repair Activists are Heroes
Everywhere we look, heroes of information freedom are contesting the corporate state's lockdown on the free sharing of knowledge.

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Neighborhoods near Addicks Reservoir are flooded by rain from Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday. David J. Phillip/AP
Houston's Reservoirs Can't Sustain Any More Rain
"This is something we've never faced before."
One reservoir designed to protect Houston from surging stormwaters has exceeded its capacity, according to a briefing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and another is not far behind. With heavy rainfall still predicted from Tropical Storm Harvey, the reservoirs may contribute to even more destructive flooding in Houston.
Floodwaters rose to record highs in both the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs, located about 20 miles west of downtown. An official with the Army Corps of Engineers said that the pool elevation at Addicks had reached 108 feet—the height of the spillway—as of Tuesday, up from a level of 105 feet recorded at 5 p.m. on Monday.
At the neighboring Barker Reservoir, the pool elevation reached 100 feet, just shy of its 104-foot spillway level, although the official said that this spillway would likely see work as well. The Army Corps of Engineers began controlled flooding to discharge floodwaters from the reservoirs, although the impending rain from Harvey may lead to more uncontrolled flooding, too.
Over the course of Harvey, approximately 34 inches of water have fallen upstream of Addicks and Barker. That's half the expected rainfall for the entire year.
(Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management)
The map above shows ground elevations surrounding Addicks Reservoir. The green outline stretching well into surrounding communities represents elevations of 111–112 feet. Areas shaded in yellow show where reservoir floodwaters stand now (at 108 feet).
"Residents adjacent to the reservoirs, both upstream of Addicks and Barker and downstream along Buffalo Bayou need to be vigilant, because the water in the reservoirs is rising rapidly and has significant potential to cause additional flooding impacts," says Edmond Russo, deputy district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District.
Upward of 3,000 homes near Addicks and several hundred more around nearby Barker have already flooded. More flooding will only add to the suffering of these dam-adjacent communities. But the flooding at the reservoirs has grave repercussions for all of Houston, especially along Buffalo Bayou.
Officials expect to conduct dam releases for months. They foresee spillway overflows for Addicks through nearly the entire month of September. But the uncontrolled discharges—the flooding along the north end Addicks and along both sides of Barker—is a total wild card. Currently, the water levels of Buffalo Bayou are so high that the dam outlets where water is supposed to discharge out into Buffalo Bayou are submerged underneath Buffalo Bayou.
This means that the floodwaters from the reservoirs can't effectively discharge. It also means that Buffalo Bayou will recede back to normal levels more slowly—and it could even rise by inches or even feet. The Army Corps of Engineers can't predict what happens next. This goes to show the strength of this storm: The reservoirs, built 80 years ago and considered so thoroughly unviolable that communities sprang up heedlessly all around the waters' edge, have met their limits.
"This is something we've never faced before," says Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District. "We are trying our best to wrap our [heads] around what exactly this water is going to do as it interacts with subdivisions, road-side ditches, underground drainage systems—that it's all going to be interacting with."


Iconic Italian chocolatier, now catching up to Nestle, gets its first CEO without Ferrero DNA.
Last year was particularly sweet for Italian confectionery maker Ferrero: the company closed the year with consolidated sales of €10.3 billion ($11 billion), an 8.2% increase over 2015, surpassing for the first time the €10 billion mark. The achievement was, to say the least, remarkable. Ferrero not only boosted its market share to 9.5%, right behind Nestlé at 10%, but managed to do so while all its competitors lost ground.
Born in Florence, a graduate of Milan's prestigious Bocconi School of Management, the 56-year-old Civiletti—who currently heads the company's central and eastern European operations—will take up his new job in September.


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Cloud Atlas Coming This Friday October 26 #book2movie
Natalie Portman Reading as Usual
I think how producers come to option books for adaptation is really intriguing. Think of the enormous volume of books out there, both novels and non-fiction; let alone original scripts; how do you possibly choose material? The directors of the upcoming Cloud Atlas, the Wachowski siblings, discovered David Mitchell's book via Natalie Portman, who was reading Cloud Atlas on the set of their 2006 "V for Vendetta." The siblings then recommended the novel to Thomas Tykwer, and the three collaborators spent years and years bringing this sprawling saga to the screen. Funny that Natalie Portman is not even in the movie! Ironic when you consider how many characters there are - at least in the book. The $100 million project condenses that whole slew of characters into just six stories that span about 500 years.
Lana Wachowski (formerly Larry) told the Huffington Post "The book seemed almost like a revolutionary act in and of itself. David has said since that they did have trouble with, do you put it in science fiction, do you put it in drama? Where do you put it on the shelf in the bookstore?"
I'm in the middle of the book and while the concept is fascinating, some of the reading is sheer agony. In addition to creating some absolutely brilliant new words and spellings, Mitchell LOVES writing in dialects and accents. Right now I'm reading Zachry's story which is full of dropped d's and unusual grammatical constructions.
"I was pleased our dammit crookit guest'd teached ev'ryun to step slywise an' not trust her, nay, not a flea, but I din't sleep none that night, 'cos o' the mozzies an' nightbirds an' toads ringin' an' a myst'rous someun what was hushly clatt'rin' thru our dwellin' pickin' up stuff here an' puttin' it down there an' the name o' this myst'rous someun was Change."
I'm exhausted from just typing all those apostrophes! I prefer that kind of thing when it's done subtly as opposed to being every word out of the character's mouths. I get it because ZACHRY is part of the post-apocalyptic future where presumably if you have to start civilization from quasi-scratch, your language may be both basic and creative. Regardless, it is tough to read.
In the movie the actors are playing multiple parts as well as characters in different time periods, even occasionally changing race and gender, as each individual "moves upward, downward or sideways on the karmic plane." On IMDB.com, Tom Hanks is listed as playing six parts: first as Dr. Henry Goose sailing the South Pacific in 1849, a Hotel Manager in the 1930's, Isaac Sachs, a nuclear scientist in California in the 1970's , an angry thuggish writer who throws a critic off a London balcony, a Look-a-Like Actor and Zachry in the post-apocalyptic 24th century.
Halle Berry is likewise playing a sextet of roles: including a Native Woman, a white adulterous in
the 1930's, Luisa Rey - a journalist in the 1970's, and Meronym - part of the elite ruling class of Zachry's post-apocalyptic world. She even plays Asian male medical expert at one point. Having seen Halle Berry's body in a fair amount of films, I can only say this I gotta see! I actually am interested to see what she does with these characters, especially Luisa Rey and Meronym as written in the novel.
I don't even know what to say about Tom Hanks. He looks so odd in these pictures. But maybe I'm just being a Tom Hanks hater due to a couple of, IMHO, bad casting choices ala DaVinci Code, Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud. I can say for certain I'm not looking forward to hearing Hanks spouting Zachary' gobbledegook. In this case, it's not Hanks who's to blame, it's Zachry's dialogue as written in the book, which I imagine will be in the movie. Unless of course I'm totally wrong and Hanks brings Zachry to life which is completely possible when you think about the bulk of Hanks career. An actor, who when properly cast can bring it whether he's a rom-com hero in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail or the man in more serious straits as he was in Philadelphia or Saving Private Ryan. ... Or, or, or they changed it in the movie. Which is also possible when you consider this. Mitchell, the book's author, who also helped script the adaptation said "The book is unfilmable, but they haven't quite adapted the book. They sort of disassembled the book and reassembled it in the form of a filmable film by having actors recurring, and implying, therefore, it's the same soul on this sort of ethical journey – or, no pun intended, a matrix of ethical journeys."
So who knows how much the book and film will compare - beyond the saga spanning time. It's challenging material that I'm finding (yikes, still not finished) sometimes riveting as in Sonmi's transformative tale and sometimes just tedious and sometimes just too murky (for me anyway) to wade through. I'm hoping it will be a little less cloudy when I finish - if I finish. I do think the movie looks promising even if Tom Hanks does look like he's wearing a bunch of bad wigs. It's definitely a very ambitious effort. Practically speaking, the difficulties of shooting a multi-location, multi-period period piece with a core group of actors playing multiple parts, but also as far as the storyline goes which may be a tad too out there for some.
Tom Hanks vigorously defends the film in an LA Times article "There are going to be people out there who are going to say, `Who do they think they are to make this movie like this?' That's been the case with every great film. They said the same thing about `The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' in the silent days," Hanks said. "I think every audience is yearning to be surprised. I am bored when I walk into the theater expecting A, B, and C, and a movie delivers A, B, and C. I want to see something brand new that I never anticipated coming a hundred million miles away. And my God, that happens before the words `Cloud Atlas' appear up on the screen on this one."
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Dr. Irene D'Amico (Physics, York) working with Dr. Dragan Indjin (Engineering, Leeds) on the development of nanoscale quantum information processing with quantum dots. The importance of the network for this research is the use of optics and cavity QED devices to couple the dots to each other in a network.
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Musée 39-45
Over 6000 military objects
Museum, History, Military, Wartime memories in Dinan
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The privately owned 39-45 museum in Léhon is home to an impressive collection of military memorabilia from the Second World War.
Mad about military memorabilia? The 39-45 Museum has more than 6000 pieces on show (mainly artillery), over 30 original uniforms, plus period vehicles as well. You can even visit the reconstruction of a bunker with its 47mm Skoda anti-tank gun, one of the last left in Europe! Boys, both young and old, will simply love it! A large part of the museum is given over to the Resistance (pamphlets, parachute containers, S.A.S artefacts). And for the last twenty years the 39-45 Museum has been lucky... Read more
Mad about military memorabilia? The 39-45 Museum has more than 6000 pieces on show (mainly artillery), over 30 original uniforms, plus period vehicles as well. You can even visit the reconstruction of a bunker with its 47mm Skoda anti-tank gun, one of the last left in Europe! Boys, both young and old, will simply love it! A large part of the museum is given over to the Resistance (pamphlets, parachute containers, S.A.S artefacts). And for the last twenty years the 39-45 Museum has been lucky enough to have an original English aeroplane engine, whose engine number, along with the name of the pilot, and all the history attached to it has been retraced...thanks to collaboration between a Breton association dedicated to aeronautical remembrance and the British Ministry of Defence! A truly fascinating story!
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AJBlogCentral
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
TT: It's funny, but is it art?
October 30, 2009 by Terry Teachout
This was a good week on Broadway. David Cromer's production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the new revival of Finian's Rainbow, both of which I review in this morning's Wall Street Journal, are exceptionally fine and persuasive mountings of deeply flawed shows. Here's an excerpt.
The trouble with "Brighton Beach Memoirs," in which Eugene Jerome (Noah Robbins), the author's fictional mouthpiece, tells us how it felt to be a teenager in Brooklyn on the eve of World War II, is that it's a slice of life with too much frosting on top. As always with Mr. Simon, the characters all talk like stand-up comics, frothing at the mouth with one-liners ("Her windows are so filthy, I thought she had black curtains hanging inside") instead of letting laughter arise naturally from the situations in which they find themselves. Mr. Simon abruptly turns off the wisecrack tap in the second act, thereby signaling that he's Getting Serious. For 20 minutes or so the squabbling members of the Jerome family lob grenades of pent-up rage and frustration at one another. Then they kiss, make up and send everybody home happy, save for those suckers who were briefly fooled into thinking that Mr. Simon's bait-and-switch act is something other than a sentimental portrayal of the splendors and miseries of Jewish family life circa 1937.
What Mr. Cromer has done to "Brighton Beach Memoirs" is stage it for truth, not laughs, as if it were a play by Alan Ayckbourn–or Chekhov. Except for Mr. Robbins, whose squirmingly self-conscious speeches to the audience give him little choice but to be charming, nobody overeggs the pudding, nor is anyone too pretty or too cute. Dennis Boutsikaris and Laurie Metcalf, who play Eugene's parents, carry themselves not like sitcom characters but human beings…
I'm not going to try to tell you that all this effort has turned "Brighton Beach Memoirs" into a theatrical masterpiece. It's still a commercial comedy into which a freshening dollop of vinegar has been stirred. But by steering clear of coarse trickery, David Cromer has made the Jerome family seem immeasurably more real without diminishing the play's still-considerable entertainment value….
I don't think I've ever seen a more musically satisfying Broadway show than "Finian's Rainbow." Not only is the Yip Harburg-Burton Lane score a string of flawlessly cut gems, but everyone involved with the production takes the songs seriously, performing them with love and sensitivity….
Unfortunately, there comes a time in "Finian's Rainbow" when the actors stop singing and start talking, at which point it becomes excruciatingly clear that the book, by Harburg and Fred Saidy, is a heavy-handed mishmash of Irish whimsy-whamsy and smug sanctimony….
Go for the music. It's worth it.
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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]
About "About Last Night"
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]
About My Plays and Opera Libretti
Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]
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Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on "Three on the Aisle," a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]
My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]
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Tables, graphs and summarization of analysis results using Statistical tools as SPSS,MS-Excel, STATA.
Sound knowledge of Basic Statistics, Hypothesis Testing.
Data analysis using advanced statistics like Logistic Regression,Cox proportional Hazard regression, Factor analysis.
Comparing a binary or ordinal variables to predicts factors affecting the response variables.
Using tools for data entry,data extraction and data cleaning.


Acrylic paint, chalk and wax pastels on stretched, raw linen.
It's important for me to leave room to explore in my studio practice. I tend to get bored easily, so trying something new is always important, helpful, and pretty much necessary. Last summer (2016) I started working with pastels (chalk and wax), which, other than in art class as a child, had never done. I thought the wax pastel and raw linen would pair together well. I also loved the idea of being able to incorporate the linen into the composition and serve as something other than a support.


Red Sky Performance is a leading company of contemporary Indigenous performance in Canada and worldwide. Led by Artistic Director Sandra Laronde of the Teme-Augama-Anishinaabe (People of the Deep Water), we are currently in our 18th year of dance, theatre, music, and media. Our mission is to create inspiring experiences of contemporary Indigenous arts and culture that transform society. We create, produce, and disseminate new creations and events that illuminate themes, aesthetics, and values of importance to Indigenous peoples.
An unforgettable story of reconciliation for children and their families, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on her reservation. In many ways they are worlds apart, that is, until a wild horse named Mistatim turns their worlds upside down.


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package ph.devcon.android.base.module;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;

import com.path.android.jobqueue.BaseJob;
import com.path.android.jobqueue.JobManager;
import com.path.android.jobqueue.config.Configuration;
import com.path.android.jobqueue.di.DependencyInjector;
import com.path.android.jobqueue.log.CustomLogger;
import com.squareup.okhttp.Cache;
import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;

import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import javax.inject.Singleton;

import dagger.Module;
import dagger.Provides;
import ph.devcon.android.DevConApplication;
import ph.devcon.android.base.api.ApiRequestInterceptor;
import retrofit.RestAdapter;
import retrofit.android.AndroidLog;
import retrofit.client.OkClient;

/**
 * Created by lope on 10/28/14.
 */
@Module(library = true)
public class APIModule {
    Context mContext;

    public APIModule(Context context) {
        mContext = context;
    }

    @Provides
    public RestAdapter provideRestAdapter() {
        int SIZE_OF_CACHE = 1024;
        OkHttpClient ok = new OkHttpClient();
        ok.setReadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        ok.setConnectTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        try {
            Cache responseCache = new Cache(DevConApplication.getInstance().getCacheDir(), SIZE_OF_CACHE);
            ok.setCache(responseCache);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("OkHttp", "Unable to set http cache", e);
        }
        Executor executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
        return new RestAdapter.Builder()
                .setExecutors(executor, executor)
                .setClient(new OkClient(ok))
                .setEndpoint(DevConApplication.API_ENDPOINT)
                .setRequestInterceptor(new ApiRequestInterceptor())
//                .setLogLevel(RestAdapter.LogLevel.FULL).setLog(new AndroidLog("RETROFIT"))
                .build();
    }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    public JobManager provideJobManager() {
        Configuration configuration = new Configuration.Builder(mContext)
                .customLogger(new CustomLogger() {
                    private static final String TAG = "JOBS";

                    @Override
                    public boolean isDebugEnabled() {
                        return true;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void d(String text, Object... args) {
                        Log.d(TAG, String.format(text, args));
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void e(Throwable t, String text, Object... args) {
                        Log.e(TAG, String.format(text, args), t);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void e(String text, Object... args) {
                        Log.e(TAG, String.format(text, args));
                    }
                })
                .minConsumerCount(1)//always keep at least one consumer alive
                .maxConsumerCount(3)//up to 3 consumers at a time
                .loadFactor(3)//3 jobs per consumer
                .consumerKeepAlive(120)//wait 2 minute
                .injector(new DependencyInjector() {
                    @Override
                    public void inject(BaseJob job) {
                        DevConApplication.injectMembers(job);
                    }
                })
                .build();
        return new JobManager(mContext, configuration);
    }
}


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What Is Business Operations? 5 Key Components
Rob Browne | July 17, 2019
Vague definitions seem to cloud the business world.
In meetings, emails, and other communication channels, employees with different specializations may not know everything about every aspect of the company. But in the field of business operations, this vagueness might be more of a blessing than a curse. Business operations is an emerging field that serves to fill in the gaps between the processes and responsibilities of operating a business.
What are business operations?
Business operations function as an overarching plan or map for your business. From investors to executives to employees, operations involve every aspect of operating a business.
Operations include many moving parts, from personnel, to physical equipment, to goals.
Business operations: an explanation in 5 different components
To define business operations, we'll go through the many essential company needs it accomplishes. From managing employee specialization and communication to ensuring compliance with key company policies and variables, it can be hard to fit all of the different roles of business operations under a single umbrella. These five key components of business operations show just how wide-ranging and also essential the field of business operations is to a business.
Assigning roles and responsibilities
A role in business operations is like playing point guard on a basketball court. Business operations specialists delegate and distribute roles and responsibilities to other members of their team. When hiring new employees, it becomes clear that different candidates have different skill sets. Business operations encompasses both selecting the right candidates and making sure their individual roles within the company best suit their strengths.
It's one thing to have a company with top-tier talent. However, it's another to make sure that this talent is fitting into roles that maximize their ability to excel. Business operations is the funnel through which roles and responsibilities are delegated to the right employees for the jobs.
Managing internal communication
While the assignment of these roles and responsibilities may be specialized and distinct, business operations also includes making sure that specialization within a company doesn't compromise any qualities of a company's ability to function as a unit.
A key aspect of any company's ability to function is how its employees communicate internally, from the c-suite, to its sales team, to its interns. Business operations facilitates this communication and in turn builds a community from a company's employees.
Maintaining effective relationships with coworkers, from internal communication software, to emails, to establishing the overarching processes through which different teams communicate with each other, is essential to a business of many individuals functioning as a unit. Business operations takes hold of facilitating effective conversation within a company to produce a positive result.
Management of resources
In addition to delegating roles and responsibilities within a business, business operations is also concerned with smartly managing the resources a company owns, from capital to tangible products. In order for a business to function successfully and efficiently, it needs to maintain the right amount and level of equipment and technology.
Business operations is concerned with finding the right balance of cost with the necessary type and quantity of equipment and technology for a business to perform its best. Performance, in this case, is both in producing a product and making money doing so. A business can have great engineers, product managers, and salespeople, but they cannot function well together without a well-constructed business operations plan.
Roadmapping a plan
Business operations are the foundations through which a company executes all of the actions it feels necessary to operate successfully. And very few companies feel they can operate successfully without a detailed plan. Roadmapping this plan falls under business operations.
Continuing with the theme of business operations filling in all of the gaps between teams and specializations, great talent is nothing without a clear-cut purpose and plan for how to use it. Roadmapping a plan for a business is an essential element of business operations that enables companies to find the best uses for their talent and transform many successful workers into a single successful business.
Ensuring compliance
Business operations also measures that employees are complying with a company's key guidelines and values. When a business is in the thick of operating and there are moving parts left and right, compliance with certain regulations such as an expense reimbursement policy or upholding key cultural values can be hard to track. Business operations is the vehicle through which these key company rules and regulations can be implemented sustainably for employees.
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Now that we've gone over key components of business operations, it's clear to see just how essential they are to ensuring that a business functions successfully. As roles become more and more specialized within a company, there needs to be a strong backbone of company values, roadmapping, and management of day-to-day business activities that remains constant.
Business operations is the field in which all of these necessary elements of a well-functioning business live. With all of this in mind, it's easy to see why at the core of every successful business is a well-run business operations team.
Rob Browne
Rob is a Content Marketing Specialist at G2 Crowd writing about all things marketing. Originally from New Jersey, he previously worked at an NYC-based business travel startup. (he/him/his)


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The Last Undelivered Speech of President
Lech Aleksander Kaczynski
b. June 18, 1949 - d. April 10, 2010 in Smolensk, Russia
KATYN 1940 - SMOLENSK 2010
that never was
Dear Representatives of the Katyn Families. Ladies and Gentlemen.
In April 1940 over twenty-one thousand Polish prisoners from the NKVD camps and prisons were killed. The genocide was committed at Stalin's will and at the Soviet Union's highest authority's command.
The alliance between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and the Soviet attack on Poland on 17 September 1939 reached a terrifying climax in the Katyn massacre. Not only in the Katyn forest, but also in Tver, Kcharkiv and other known, and unknown, execution sites citizens of the Second Republic of Poland, people who formed the foundation of our statehood, who adamantly served the motherland, were killed.
At the same time families of the murdered and thousands of citizens of the eastern territory of the pre-war Poland were sent into exile deep into the Soviet Union, where their indescribable suffering marked the path of the Polish Golgotha of the East.
The most tragic station on that path was Katyn. Polish officers, priests, officials, police officers, border and prison guards were killed without a trial or sentence. They fell victims to an unspeakable war. Their murder was a violation of the rights and conventions of the civilized world. Their dignity as soldiers, Poles and people, was insulted. Pits of death were supposed to hide the bodies of the murdered and the truth about the crime forever.
The world was supposed to never find out. The families of the victims were deprived of the right to mourn publicly, to proudly commemorate their relatives. Ground covered the traces of crime and the lie was supposed to erase it from people's memory. An attempt to hide the truth about Katyn – a result of a decision taken by those who masterminded the crime – became one of the foundations of the communists' policy in an after-war Poland: a founding lie of the People's Republic of Poland.
It was the time when people had to pay a high price for knowing and remembering the truth about Katyn. However, the relatives of the murdered and other courageous people kept the memory, defended it and passed it on to next generations of Poles. They managed to preserve the memory of Katyn in the times of communism and spread it in the times of free and independent Poland. Therefore, we owe respect and gratitude to all of them, especially to the Katyn Families. On behalf of the Polish state, I offer sincere thanks to you, that by defending the memory of your relatives you managed to save a highly important dimension of our Polish consciousness and identity.
Katyn became a painful wound of Polish history, which poisoned relations between Poles and Russians for decades. Let's make the Katyn wound finally heal and cicatrize. We are already on the way to do it. We, Poles, appreciate what Russians have done in the past years. We should follow the path which brings our nations closer, we should not stop or go back.
All circumstances of the Katyn crime need to be investigated and revealed. It is important that innocence of the victims is officially confirmed and that all files concerning the crime are open so that the Katyn lie could disappear for ever. We demand it, first of all, for the sake of the memory of the victims and respect for their families' suffering. We also demand it in the name of common values, which are necessary to form a foundation of trust and partnership between the neighboring nations in the whole Europe.
Let's pay homage to the murdered and pray upon their bodies. Glory to the Heroes! May they rest in peace!
[President of the Republic of Poland]
On 10 April 2010 on the way to commemoration ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre the President of the Republic of Poland Mr Lech Kaczynski, the First Lady Mrs Maria Kaczynska, members of the Polish delegation and crew lost their lives.
President Lech Kaczynski's trip to Smolensk was expected to highlight Russia finally admitting culpability in the massacre, after long having blamed it on the Germans, an atrocity they had tried to conceal for over 70 years. As for the reception committee, it had different ideas. Putin wasn't looking forward to such an occasion. Into this poisonous reception brew was President Kaczynski's well-known public criticism of Moscow and Putin, a habit that has ended the lives of others within Russia – and abroad. A few discouraging Russian requirements – that Kaczynski could not attend in any official capacity – did not halt the Poles. Kaczynski would go anyway on non-official, "personal" business. To Russians, such a distinction would be meaningless, not lessening the possible international excoriation of such an event. A problem ripe for a modern, Russian solution: a tragic, 'natural' accident.
The Disinformation
Within minutes of the crash the Russian government, with the acquiescence of the Polish government, newly headed by Bronislaw Komorowski of the opposition Civic Platform party, stated that the crash was due to "bad weather", "pilot error", lack of training, and poor communication skills... Specifically, the Polish government refused to consider any help from NATO, and did not attempt to gather any support from other European Union countries. All public protests and demands for a thorough investigation and explanation of the "catastrophe" are being refused, blocked and prevented by both the Russian and Polish governments. The Polish people want to know what happened to that aircraft: the last minutes of the flight, the crash ("emergency landing"), the mysterious loss and restoration of communications - everything that occurred, up until the public was informed about the crash and President's death.
In any large undertaking, even one that is administered by the best in the business, mistakes happen. One correction, that the Russian regime under Putin surely did not intend to make, was the unexpected new evidence of samples with detectors that revealed the presence of the TNT. This naturally raises suspicion that an explosive device entered into the crash events. Was this insurance that the pilots would have no recourse to a flight correction? After all, it is not even necessary that such a device would have the power to damage the structure of the plane. A simple flash and shock wave would suffice to be disorienting to the crew and disruptive of the flight path. So far, no official story has emerged to account for the TNT and we expect that another "rewrite" is in the works.
important Investigation updates
2015 Explosives Update Offers Clues
Newly released 2015 "Evidence of Explosions" Report offers new clues about the crash of the Polish presidential jet in Russia in 2010.
Russian Spetsnaz in Smolensk
Why were Russian "Black Ops" Spetsnaz, Special-Forces units, at the crash site of the Polish President's plane, on April 10, 2010, in Smolensk, Russia?
2014 Smolensk Conference
Two prominent Canadian scientists, Dr. Andreas Wielgosz, MD, Ph.D., and Dr. Bogdan Gajewski, Ph.D., examine the official Polish and Russian government reports on the April 10, 2010 crash of the Polish Air Force One, Tupolev TU-154M, in Smolensk, Russia.
The Last Speech
Smolensk crash investigation resources


19.00 h Farewell party with buffet.
Excursions: to the Wadden Sea close to Wilhelmshaven (Wadden Sea ecology, migrating and staging waders and other birds), all day; Rieselfelder (former sewage farm) near Münster, about 5 hrs (waders and other water birds, nature conservancy problems); Dummer lake, 45 km north of Osnabrück. About 5 hrs. (Waterbirds, marshland, nature conservancy problems).


Residential air-conditioning and heating systems San Antonio are comprised of many components, such as compressors, capacitors, contactors, evaporator coils and more, working together to provide a way to control the indoor climate or temperature.These components all must be working correctly and efficiently to provide the best heating and cooling that that particular ac system can provide. Eventually some components fail during normal heating and cooling operations which cause your heating and air-conditioning system San Antonio to fail or not work as efficiently.
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Osteopathy is a complete system of medicine offering a distinct, recognised therapy for all stages of life, from newborn through to the elderly. Osteopathic treatment can vary from osteopath to osteopath using a variety of techniques to restore function and health to all structures of the body. This may include dietary advice, exercise programmes or ergonomic advice related to your work environment.
A typical consultation will begin with a detailed case history of the presenting complaint. Also the past medical history involving illness, operations, injuries, accidents and medication can often be relevant to current problems and may be discussed. The osteopath will examine the area assessing range and quality of movement, tissue texture changes, asymmetry of tissues and tenderness. The osteopath is also qualified to medically screen patients and may take your blood pressure, reflexes etc. Sometimes further tests may be required, e.g. x-rays or MRI scans. In these situations the osteopath may liaise with the patient's GP or can privately refer directly to an x-ray department.
The osteopathic musculoskeletal examination provides information of other systems and the general health status of the patient. Supported by an in depth knowledge of functional anatomy and physiology enables the osteopath to diagnose safely and choose the right treatment to address the causes of the patients symptoms.
Osteopaths are regulated by a statutory register. The GOSC (General Osteopathic Council) and Osteopath is a protected title by law. All osteopaths have graduated with a degree in osteopathy and have passed an External Clinical Competence Assessment set by the GOSC. Osteopaths are required to maintain practice skills and knowledge with compulsory courses. Most osteopaths use CPD (Continuing Professional Development) to expand knowledge in areas of interests and can specialise in a chosen field ie paediatrics, obstetrics, naturopathy and sports medicine.


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Usage(s)
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Kathleen Hanna's the Julie Ruin Added to Pitchfork Showcase Tomorrow at Brooklyn's Northside Festival
The Julie Ruin: "Oh Come On" on SoundCloud . We're happy to announce that Kathleen Hanna 's new band the Julie Ruin will perform at Pitchfork's Northside Festival showcase tomorrow at St. Vitus in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The group joins a lineup that also features Body/Head (Kim Gordon and Bill Nace), Majical Cloudz , and Foreplay . Tickets are still available here . The Julie Ruin is Hanna's full ...
June 12, 2013 - Pitchfork
Danny Boome in IT News Online
It doesn't matter if you're an expert Chef or barely know how to boil water, being in the kitchen is foreplay,explains Boome. "You're in a confined, hot space, handling produce, moving carefully around each other and feeding one another...
Ehud Barak in AFP
The time has come to engage in negotiations ...... I say, instead of the foreplay, instead of speculation, what is needed is to climb off the ladders and get into the negotiations room and talk about the real issues,Barak said at an annual...
Anna Friel in News-Leader.com
It makes it more exciting not to be able to touch,said Anna Friel, who plays the object of his affections. "The longest foreplay ever in existence."
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Peter Tomlinson (ITV)
Susan Rae (BBC 2)
Dan Strauss (Sky One)
Question-setters:
Ann Meo (1983-1987)
Hilary Murphy (1987-1993)
Buzzing in and answering the question correctly meant that space would be turned your colour. One player had the white spaces, and a team of two players had blue. The idea of the game was to fill in as many spaces as necessary so that a contiguous line of your colour went across the board horizontally (for the blue team) or vertically (for the white player, who could make the journey in one less space than the blues to compensate for their single-ness). The 'two against one' concept proved rather contentious, with many viewers being of the opinion that the double team had an unfair advantage (even if they did have to answer more questions correctly to win), but the format was clearly such a winning one that the whole issue never really mattered that much and it certainly didn't affect the show's popularity or reputation. In any case, there were certainly plenty of single player-victories over all the series.
The side who won the best of three matches went on to play the Gold Run. In this game, the participant (either the white player, or a nominated player from the blue team) had to work their way across the board from left to right within 60 seconds (or "within that magic minute", as Bob often put it). The hexagons had letter combinations such as "MTOC" and the contestants had to guess what these stood for using clues given by the host. e.g. "Famous humanitarian from India" would be "Mother Theresa of Calcutta".
The gold run from the Gameshow Marathon version of the show
Regardless of whether the player won the Gold Run or not, the champion(s) went on to play another team or single player. Winning successive matches earned a chance at further Gold Runs with increasingly impressive prizes. A fourth Gold Run tended to be a holiday break somewhere in Europe, while winning the fifth and final Gold Run led to an excellent adventure holiday somewhere in the world. A failed Gold Run meant that the contestant(s) would get £10 for every correct answer. Correct answers during the main game were worth £5. Oh, and during the main game, there was always the chance that a letter chosen would emit a special noise, indicating that the contestant who got it right would win a prize for his/her school. This was usually something along the lines of a computer or science or sports equipment. Although a fair number of contestants achieved this, very few actually won more than one school-prize.
In the later series of the ITV version of Blockbusters they made an effort to cut costs, err... we mean, of course, get through more contestants by limiting players to three rounds only. In fact, one UKGS correspondent reports that when he was a contestant in 1989, he was told that the reason they changed the structure was because they wanted more people to win the big prizes. Even though it would cost more money, it was reckoned that this was a good move as it would lead to more "grand finals" and more instances of what viewers (apparently) wanted to see - kids winning the cool holidays.
All contestants, successful or otherwise, took away the (apparently much-coveted) 'Blockbusters' sweatshirt (or rugby shirt, depending on the year), dictionary and personal organiser. The latter item varied over the Holness-years (and possibly wasn't even part of the package in the early years), but there was certainly always an item of clothing and a dictionary for everyone to take away. Pictures of the previous contestants wearing the sweatshirt/rugby shirt were invariably shown when Bob referred to the prizes.
Slides used by the projectors of the original Blockbusters board
The show was dropped by ITV after ten years, only to be snapped up by Sky (with Holness still at the helm) shortly afterwards, though these episodes were also shown in some ITV regions. During this series, a new Bonus Question feature was introduced. The regular question was asked and if the person who picked the letter got it correct, they were asked a related question for them only for the chance to win an additional £5. This question didn't affect the board in any way and was simply a general knowledge question linked to the first one.
An enjoyable spin-off ITV series, Champion Blockbusters, invited former winners back to play again. This time, the money was for charity (with the 'mystery letter' boosting the funds considerably when answered correctly), but the contestants still won the Gold Run prizes, all of which were relevant in some way to whatever they were now doing. BBC 2 experimented with a cheaper afternoon version for adults, which did not have the charm of the original show. Michael Aspel seemed very wooden and ill-at-ease as the new host - and bizarrely so, given that he was no stranger to hosting quizzes.
The famous out-take (below) where a contestant answered a biology question with the response "Orgasm" instead of "Organism", and the lesser-known one where another student offered the answer "Kama Sutra" instead of "Kowtow". On another occasion, a highly unusual answer to a question relating to London was 'Prostitutes' when in fact the answer was 'Parks'.
A lesser-known out-take goes as follows:
Bob: What W are made from plastic or card for carrying papers, and from leather for...
Contestant buzzes
Bob: Yes, Wallet?
Perhaps not an out-take as such, but two unusual answers were given when Bob asked the question, "What 'N' is meant by the phrase, 'Hit him on the Boko?'" One member of the double team buzzed and said, "Nob". The question was duly passed to the single player, who said' "Nag". The answer was in fact "Nose", so it could be argued that 'Nob' (not in the rude sense, obviously) was actually on the right lines.
On one edition, the contestants were asked, "What 'D' is a rag, usually yellow in colour, that's used for polishing furniture and ornaments?" and one unfortunate young man buzzed in and answered "Dishcloth" (the correct answer was 'Duster', of course). True, the former answer wasn't exactly a brilliant one (although, let's face it, we've all come out with wrong and embarrassing responses in the heat of the moment, whether on TV or not), but Bob, if anything, laughed rather too much at it, to the extent that the whole thing seemed unnecessarily silly and embarrassing for the contestant. Even sillier was the fact that when the latter's younger brother appeared in a later series (and fared considerably better), Bob insisted on showing the clip again - surely it would have been better not to have bothered?
One occasion when Bob couldn't help chuckling a little (more out of surprise than anything, one would suspect) was when he had to ask the question, "What 'H' is the name of the man who hosts 'Blockbusters' - cue a mad rush for the buzzers.
Probably the most unusual question, which the contestants (understandably) failed to answer on the night, was, "What 'C' has four stiff-standers, four dilly-danders, two lookers, two crookers and a wig-wag?" The answer was 'Cow' (four legs, four teats, two eyes, two horns and a tail).
Many questions were of the 'trick' variety, ie there was a twist in the second half, leading to the downfall of contestants who interrupted them too early (a self-confessed speciality of the show's original question-setter, Ann Meo). Two such examples were, "What 'M' was the mouse created by Disney as a girlfriend for Mickey?" and, "What 'D' is a camel that isn't alive?" Not that the contestants to whom the questions were offered following the incorrect answer always managed to capitalise, however - one example of this was when Bob asked, "What 'J' sits in a box...?", at which point one member of the double team buzzed in and answered, 'Jack'. Bob then offered the full question to the single player: "What 'J' sits in a box and decides on the outcome of a court case" and she answered 'Judge' - the answer was, in fact, 'Jury'.
The oh-aren't-we-wacky-students (and Bob as well, of course!) always did the weird clappy-wavy dance thing (technical term: "hand jive") that ended each fifth programme. This is because five programmes were recorded during one day, and the producers let them do it as the final thing before they went home. After extensive analysis of the tapes, we bring you the dance in full:
Knee-clap
Hand-clap
Hand-over-hand (x2)
Potato-hands (x2)
Elbow-point-twirl (x2)
Repeat x3
Clap in the air.
At the beginning of the show on the original version: "And here is the host of Blockbusters - Bob Holness!" which later became: "And now - please welcome the host of Blockbusters - Bob Holness!"
"Put yourself on the Hot Spot, please!" (In earlier series, Bob used to either say that or, "Take your place on the Hot Spot, please!" but as time went on, the "Put yourself" version was the one that stuck).
"Gold to gold in 60 seconds or less", followed by either, "Tell us where you want to start on the left and we'll start the clock" or, "We'll start the clock when you tell us where you want to start on the left".
"£10 for every correct answer if you don't make it".
"Congratulations, and this is your prize - take a look at this!"
"Retake your seat and we'll carry on with the game - thank you very much!" This was often followed by, "Well, there we are!"
After a winning correct answer in the main game: "....And that's Blockbusters!" Michael Aspel tried to do the same, but somehow his, "....And that is Blockbusters!" never had the same ring to it, but then neither did his version of the show.
There was a lot of joking around with the way in which contestants nominated the next hexagon to play for. It started with "Can I have a P please, Bob?" - the nation's favourite game show catchphrase, if a 2008 survey on behalf of Churchill Insurance is to be believed - and progressed to "I want U, Bob" (which only the girls said, strangely enough). The 80s druggies got their kicks with "I want an E, Bob." One enterprising "rave" group, Skin Up, actually released a single called "Blockbuster" which revolved around this phrase (plus someone impersonating Bob Holness incredibly badly). Bob apparently found this rather amusing but the bigwigs at Central didn't agree and got it withdrawn. Booo!
Contestants also quite often asked for a "B for Bob", to which Bob usually responded, "If this is the answer to the question, you're in trouble, mate!" or words to that effect - but it never was!
"Quiz Wizard" composed by Ed Welch.
The original theme
The 2000 Sky revival
One of the contestants for the pilot show was David Elias, a quiz-setter by profession who won a series of Countdown. However, when the series was commissioned it was decided that teenagers at sixth form or in college should take part. Hence, he was the oldest ever contestant on Blockbusters - the Holness-version, anyway!
Blockbusters was notable for being the first game show on British TV to run five times a week (Countdown was still only on four nights at this stage, only expanding to five in October 1984, more than a year after Blockbusters). Many thought this was overkill, but this was subsequently shown to be wrong as the show ideally slotted into the invariably tricky 5.15pm slot, this being in the days when Home and Away was a purely Australian institution. Indeed, throughout most of the 1980s, the show ran for 6 days a week, being shown at 5.05pm on Saturdays in addition to the weekday broadcasts. However, in 1990, it was only shown 3 days a week and then at the rather less convenient time of 6.30pm, which clashed with the BBC's regional news programmes. Later still, it became a daytime show, which resulted in a considerable drop in ratings and the show was axed as a result. Different regions also lagged behind in broadcasting the show, and if you lived somewhere where you could get more than one ITV region, it was not uncommon to be able to switch from one to another and see a completely episode. As a result of this, some regions finished airing the show before others - while Carlton and UTV (and presumably the originating company, Central) aired the final "networked" episodes in June 1993, most regions ran the series over the summer to finish in September. Grampian had such a backlog that it didn't finish airing the show until November.
Bob once revealed that the young man who had famously said 'Orgasm' instead of 'Organism' had not had such a rough deal as one might think. Of course, he would have been horribly embarrassed at the time, especially with the whole studio cracking up laughing - and no doubt he also took a lot of flak from his friends back at school - but apparently, every time the outtake is shown on 'Alright On The Night', 'TV Nightmares' or any other outtake show, he gets a small repeat fee. Not bad going really!
Although the letter-sequences in Gold Runs usually made up phrases, a notable exception occurred in an early edition of the show when a contestant chose the combination 'ZZZ' and was asked to name 3 African countries. She managed to name two of them (Zimbabwe and Zambia), but was unable to get the third, which was Zaire.
Mathematically speaking, it doesn't make any difference which space a contestant picks at any point in a game. Since whoever selects a space, it is decided by an equal race to the buzzer (so that whenever in the game a space is chosen, the same team should theoretically win it), and because a completed game board can only have one winner on it, the process of playing can be thought of as uncovering the final grid to "see" who wins. Therefore, the best tactic is arguably to simply choose the spaces that will delay the ending of the game and hence accrue a player the most cash (or, of course, to choose the letters with the most potential for hilarious innuendo). Former contestant Stuart Langley writes: "Interested to read the point about the best tactic being to fill the board and take the money as that is exactly what Anita Garrad and I did when we were on the show (many years ago). We were apparently the first and only people to do this. However, at the next ad break we were taken to one side by the producer and told not to do it again. I guess they were worried it would catch on and bankrupt the show." And Tim Allison observes: "While it may not make any mathematical difference what space is picked, I am sure that it makes a psychological difference. There seemed little benefit to me going round the board on the 1984 series when it might increase opponents' confidence. The gold run prizes were far better than the cash and not worth the risk - not that I was much good at gold runs."
During the Sky/Holness era, the item of clothing given away was a t-shirt designed by a viewer. On it was the famous Zeus figurehead with a speech bubble saying "Can I Have A P Please, Bob?". The fan in question was interviewed by Bob in front of the gameboard after the first Gold Run of the series.
The actions for the Blockbusters hand-jive are in fact the secret forbidden arm movements for Riverdance. Admittedly this may not be literally true, but wouldn't you love to see someone try it?
Twelve Blockbusters quiz books were published by Sphere, plus five "Gold Run" books. A very successful board game was also made, which became the British Association of Toy Retailers' Game of the Year for 1986. There was a "Gold Run" travel card game as well. In 1989, an annual was printed although this was the only one to be published to our knowledge.
Andy Walmsley's set design from the BBC/Sky versions.
That hand jive didn't make its televisual debut until three years later...
A later version of the set - and yes, that infamous 'Orgasm' question was just about to be asked.
Blockbusters Theme
Categories: Academic Quiz | Long-Running | Central Productions


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US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) speaks to a large crowd at the state capitol for the third annual Women's March on January 19, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kirsten Gillibrand is making a perhaps not-unwise bet in an era dominated by Democratic women: that her paid family leave proposal can distinguish her in a crowded 2020 Democratic field.
Gillibrand, alongside Rep. Rosa DeLauro, has reintroduced the FAMILY Act, a plan that would guarantee new parents and other caregivers 12 weeks of paid leave. She's been talking about this idea for more than five years, and it's one that would be especially helpful for lower-income families, who often don't have jobs with paid maternity leave.
Economist Heather Boushey, a paid leave expert who served as a policy adviser for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, says the plan is a "big idea," but the larger question is whether voters will treat it as one. During the 2016 campaign, paid family leave was a key plank of Clinton's policy portfolio, but it wasn't necessarily one of voters' top issues.
Of course, there's always the problem of competing priorities. The national issue conversations in 2020 so far have focused on everything from reparations to Medicare-for-all — but it's still early, and that could change.
Gillibrand's paid family leave plan would provide all workers the ability to take three months of paid leave whether they were a new parent, a caregiver for another family member, or ill themselves.
It would pay out 66 percent of workers' salaries, including at least $250 per month to each worker, capped at $4,000 per month per person.
Gillibrand proposes paying for it with a 0.2 percent tax on each worker's wages, which would be split between employers and employees. According to Gillibrand and DeLauro, that would amount to slightly under $4 a week in total for the average worker, a cost the senator has frequently compared to no more than a "cup of coffee." Employers would split this $4 cost with the worker.
The proposal has broad Democratic support: Gillibrand's plan has since been backed by every other declared Democratic senator in the 2020 field, and was actually the bill that Bernie Sanders based his paid leave platform on in 2016.
This widespread agreement is in contrast to the last election, when Hillary Clinton introduced a paid leave proposal that relied on a different payment mechanism: Unlike Gillibrand's plan, which uses a payroll tax, Clinton's was funded via a wealth tax.
Although Clinton, at the time, lambasted the idea of adding more taxes on workers, the implementation of a payroll tax could have the upside of improving people's buy-in to the program. "People feel like they have a stake in something they are paying into," Boushey says.
Republicans, meanwhile, are loath to add an additional tax burden for companies. As an alternative, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) have introduced an option that would provide up to three months of paid leave limited solely to new parents, which would be funded by dipping into individual Social Security benefits.
This plan would delay employees' Social Security benefits by up to six months per child, however, effectively forcing employees to choose between benefits they can use now versus ones they may need in the future.
This plan, which is based heavily on a policy proposal form the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative nonprofit, is designed to offer more flexibility for workers since only those who use the program would have to cover its cost, says IWF's Hadley Heath Manning.
"It's completely voluntary. There's no effect on people who don't opt in," she told Vox, amplifying a common conservative critique of paid family leave programs from those who don't feel supporting families is a broader societal need but rather up to individual families to figure out. Manning also expressed concern at the cost of the FAMILY Act.
Currently, the Family and Medical Leave Act, which became law in 1993, only goes so far as to guarantee workers three months of unpaid leave. Without a federal law establishing paid leave, only a small proportion of workers, 17 percent, have access to such benefits from their employers. That number goes down even further for low-wage workers, just 6 percent of whom have access to such programs, according to the advocacy group Paid Leave for the United States.
As is frequently cited, the US is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have a federal paid leave program.
Several states, including California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, have already implemented a version of paid family leave, and the effects in these places hint at the potential impact of a larger federal program.
In California — where caregivers can apply for up to six weeks of paid leave — the implementation of the program, which went into effect in 2004, has increased the rate at which men and women take leave and improved children's health outcomes. Paid leave programs have also been found to increase worker retention rates in low-wage jobs, and reduce new parents' use of public assistance.
One key difference between the California program and the federal one proposed by Gillibrand is that the state's program is paid in full by an employee tax and does not add an additional cost for the employer. The family leave offerings in New Jersey and New York are also covered by the employee, though the states' disability insurance programs include payments from employers.
There are some key caveats that come with the possible implementation of a federal paid leave program including the concern that it could actually widen the gender wage gap.
As a 2013 Pew Research study noted when evaluating paid family leave across different countries, countries that have more weeks of paid parental leave also happen to have wider gender wage gaps, potentially because women are more likely to take advantage of the leave. Employers could also discriminate against women workers under the assumption that they would be more likely to use leave benefits.
To counteract this effect, places like Iceland have instituted "use it or lose it" paternity leave, which has helped increase the number of fathers who capitalize on the benefit. Under this policy, both parents are allocated a set amount of leave that's non-transferable. If fathers don't take advantage of their dedicated paternity leave, it effectively goes to waste.
"If you look at places that have more generous paid family leave programs, they have higher gender wage gaps," says IWF's Heath Manning. "They encourage discrimination against women when it comes to hiring." By adjusting the way leave benefits are structured, it's possible the U.S. could factor this imbalance in as well.
Questions have also been raised about the cost a smaller business would incur from establishing family leave programs. While many companies that already employ such programs have noted that it increases employee retention, covering potential worker absences would be an additional cost when workers take leave, writes Harry Holzer for Brookings. Companies may pass on this cost — along with the added payroll tax they would need to pay — to workers in the form of lower wages.
Advocates for paid leave benefits note that companies save money on reduced turnover in the wake of a program's implementation and that these savings help neutralize potential costs.
According to a 2016 study from economists Kelly Bedard and Maya Rossin-Slater, the majority of California employers did not detect any cost losses in the wake of the implementation of the program. Companies that have implemented paid leave programs on their own have seen wins as well when it comes to holding on to talent. In 2007, Google began offering new parents 18 weeks of paid leave instead of 12 weeks, and it was able to curb the attrition of new-mom employees by 50 percent as a result.
Another issue a paid leave program will need to address is whether it serves as a benefit even for workers who may not use it. Unlike Social Security and Medicare, paid family leave may be a program that's only relevant for a portion of all Americans, even though everyone will be paying into it.
Because of how broad the benefit provided by the FAMILY Act is, however, lawmakers argue that workers can use it in various situations, including instances when they are ill themselves.
Finally, the length of paid family leave is also a key factor in how successful that policy could be. As the Gates Foundation discovered, a one-year paid leave offering ultimately proved too burdensome for the organization to sustain and made it tough for work to be effectively continued uninterrupted.
Three months is still widely viewed as potentially too short and not enough time for parents to properly recover and build their relationship with their child, the New York Times's Claire Caine Miller reports. Researchers have signaled that six months could be closer to the ideal time frame for both workers and companies, because longer paid leave programs have also been observed to have negative effects on women's likelihood to return to work.
Gillibrand wants to make paid leave her signature issue — but will it be enough?
Gillibrand has made it clear she intends to focus on the power of women and families as a central component of her campaign.
Whether this approach resonates with voters, and fuels a larger discussion among 2020 candidates, remains to be seen. As of a weekly Morning Consult poll conducted in March, Gillibrand was trailing the current frontrunner and garnering just 1 percent of voter support.
Family leave — which Clinton, Sanders, and Trump all addressed in 2016 — has evolved from a peripheral topic to a central one as more candidates raised the issue during the 2018 midterms.
In addition to being a policy Gillibrand can highlight on the campaign trail, it's also one that's widely welcomed by the broader American electorate, with 84 percent of Americans across both parties supporting a federal paid family leave program, according to a recent survey from the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Given the overwhelming support for a paid leave program, it could even be a motivating topic for voters as they try to decide among an incredibly crowded Democratic field.
"Paid leave is a very powerful issue for voters. It taps into economics, equity, and family. It can help reinforce [Gillibrand's] family theme. It helps mobilize and persuade women," says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake.
Correction: This piece previously listed the payroll tax as 0.002 percent. It is 0.2 percent.
Beto O'Rourke's border cred is genuine. It's not the same as an immigration platform.


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Several Reported Dead As Fire Guts Borno IDP Camp
A photo of the IDP camp gutted by fire in Borno State. Photo: [email protected]_Norway
Several people are feared killed in a fire that broke out in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Gajiram, Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State.
The incident, which occurred on Thursday, claimed the lives of four people – two children and two elderly persons — according to the media officer of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Ibrahim Uba.
He disclosed that no fewer than 4,000 households were affected by the fire while the only hospital in the community was also razed down.
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Uba added that a high-level delegation constituted by SEMA had visited Gajiram to assess the extent of damage and get first-hand information from those affected.
Meanwhile, a humanitarian organisation, Norwegian Refugee Council, said it gathered that eight people died and two others critically injured at the affected hospital.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, it noted that more than 10,000 homes were destroyed while about 15,000 people were displaced as a result of the inferno.
According to the organisation, the fire started as a result of a spark from a cooking stove used by a child preparing her food.
But an eye witness told Channels Television that the inferno was fuelled by a whirlwind, which made it spread fast, burning down shelters in the camp.
It said the victims of the incident were dispersed and seeking shelter under trees and many of them exposed to direct sunlight.
Three persons had died in a similar fire outbreak which occurred in February at an IDP camp in Monguno Local Government Area of the state.
Read the tweets below:
NIGERIA – Fire outbreak in a displacement site in Gajiram destroyed 10,000+ homes & left 15,000 displaced persons without shelter and with no other option but to flee again. Our team on the ground witnessed the fire and is currently assessing the damage (1) pic.twitter.com/FJJAEep6vg
— NRC (@NRC_Norway) March 16, 2019
NIGERIA – A hospital was caught in the fire, resulting in the death of 8 patients, while 2 remain seriously injured, according to our latest info.
Stock of grains and food are gone & the main water point in town collapsed, including the power house and reservoirs. (2) pic.twitter.com/vgrgENYUjc
NIGERIA – The source of the fire was a spark from a cooking stove, used by a child preparing her food. Immediately, the family shelter, made of dry vegetation, was ablaze. During the dry season, fire is a serious threat to 1,8M displaced people in North East Nigeria (3) pic.twitter.com/HdXsdIIBCN
The survivors of the fire are now left without shelters & clean water to drink & cook. They are dispersed, desperately seeking shelters under trees or under the direct sunlight. 6,000 children are reported to be among the affected as well as 4,000+ nursing or pregnant women. (4) pic.twitter.com/xI6rymJWwi
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