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I had braces for almost five years. By the time I had them removed, they had been on me for more than one third of my life. And this is a few decades ago when braces were clunkier. And yet I can comfortably say I never got them caught on anything or anyone. Remember hearing that urban legend that if you were making out with someone with braces you could get them locked? I don't think that ever actually happened to anyone. Yet this video is proof that braces were at least capable of ensnaring something. Just be glad your brace days are over as you watch that awkward moment when you get your braces stuck to the carpet!
How did this happen? Was she… making out with the floor?
What do you think you'd do if you got your braces caught on the carpet? It's not an ideal circumstance because there isn't much you can do. It's not like you can take a breather and clear your head for a minute. You're gonna be face to face with the ground until you figure out how to get unstuck. That's pretty much what happens here. The video starts with this teen girl face down on the ground. Her braces are stuck on the carpet. Her family is trying to help but they don't really know where to start. Where do you start in a situation like this? Pretty much your only option is yanking the head! Easier said than done, that could result in either loose braces or teeth. Either way, not ideal.
The carpet ensnared her braces like velcro!
I won't give away the ending. But rest assured, she isn't still stuck to the carpet. Her family isn't forced to feed her tiny morsels of food one bit at a time until they figure out how to get her unstuck. It's not like she's fallen down a well and no one knows how to save her. She's just fine. With that said, I'd still like to know how the heck this happened in the first place. I can see putting your face on the carpet, as if you were using it as a pillow. What I can't understand is why you'd have your mouth open such that the carpet can tangle with your braces. I'm guessing we'll never know how this happened. Something tells me this teen girl is eager to turn the chapter on her braces carpet adventure.
Check out her expression at the end!
Thankfully this video has a happy ending. It could've been a lot worse. They have to call the jaws of life to pry her off the floor. Or an emergency home-visit from the orthodontist who painstakingly unweaves the carpet from her braces. Either way, I'm sure this girl is eager for this video not to be seen. So… sorry about that! Do you have a hilarious video that would grossly embarrass your teenage son or daughter? If so, we're dying to see it! Send it HERE!

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- Payment options : Credit Cards and e-wallets.
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Welcome to PlayEuroLotto! The next platform in our online lottery review series. In this case, we are reviewing a completely different type of platform since at PlayEuroLotto you are not buying any real ticket.
This might sounds a bit annoying, but at the platform you will bet in the offered lotteries draws results and the house is the responsible for the payment not the chosen national lottery.
We have our reserves about this method and personally I will not use this platform at all. Why to bet against a company when we can buy real online lottery tickets?
Anyway, we will review the site, just in case this is the betting method you are looking for.
The website was launched back at 2010 and is operating since 2011. The platform is run by Kootac Trading Limited, a company based in Malta and with UKGC license.
When we review each platform at Top10bestonlinelotto we check each feature and functionality of the websites. Below you will find the main aspects we take into account.
Check the regulatory organism controlling the brand procedures and the level of data security.
Lotteries offered online for single buying, syndicates and side games.
We review the site design and user experience level. Languages and navigation of the site.
We don't use the same devices all the time. Check if you can play with your desktop and mobile devices without inconveniences.
Promotions, offers and welcome bonuses both for new and existing customers.
Channels available to contact the customer support department. Quality of the service.
PlayEuroLotto is using the most severe level of encryption SSL 256 bit for data and payment processing. The certification is from Comodo one of the top leading companies in the encryption field.
The brand is also licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission, meaning they must be in fully compliance with all the regulatory laws.
In this aspect, we can say that the security of your personal details is fully protected.
As we mentioned in the introduction you must be aware that PlayEuroLotto platform is not selling lottery tickets, rather allows you to bet on the results against the house. They claimed to pay the real jackpot, but we cannot imagine how they will be able to pay a prize as the offer by PowerBall.
The available lotteries for single betting you can find at the site are: PowerBall US, EuroMillions, MegaMillions, EuroJackpot, German Lotto 6/49 and DinoLotto.
As you can see, also the available lotteries list is small. Finally for syndicate betting, the lotteries at your disposal are the same ones.
You will not find any other type of side games at the site. Rather 100% lottery betting.
The languages available at the PlayEuroLotto site are: English, Aussie, Canada & South Africa English, German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Ukrainian, French, Romanian, Polish, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Danish and Chinese.
Regarding the payment methods, opposite to the languages, the offer is small: Visa, MasterCard, Skrill, Neteller and Karna.
Finally, the site design is very simple and without any great feature. The navigation is easy, while you can find almost all the information at the FAQ section.
You can visit and bet at Play Euro Lotto from your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone.
For mobile devices, the site template is responsive, adapting the theme to the size of your screen. Although mobile navigation and functionality will not be the same as in your computer, you will be able to enjoy all the sites features.
The desktop version of the site is the best one to enjoy the better user experience since the view allows you to control all the elements completely.
The PlayEuroLoto site will adapt itself to your screen size, so the tablet view will not be special. The same as the mobile view but bigger.
Mobile view is quite difficult for the eyes, since you get few elements at once. Anyway, if this your favorite device you will be able to place your bet without further issues.
PlayEuroLotto is offering a Welcome Promotion for new customers base on getting your first bet money back in case of losing.
Finally, you will not find any other promotion, bonus or offer.
Any user when is going to perform a purchase online or is thinking about it, first of all, needs to check the available channels to contact the customer service department. Below, the channels PlayEuroLotto brings up to you:
You can contact them by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com
The customer support can be contact by telephone calling to: +356 3550 0260. The attention hours are not mentioned at the site.
PlayEuroLotto can be contact at their official pages at Facebook (facebook.com/pages/PlayEuroLotto/337393293007359), Twitter (twitter.com/playeurolotto), and Google+ (plus.google.com/106998651722571158938).
We can say for sure that PlayEuroLotto is not a platform of our choice. Why to bet on the biggest lotteries results when you can actually buy tickets online in another platforms?
The site is well design, is regulated and offers many languages. While payment methods and available lotteries are pretty limited.
We gave to PlayEuroLotto the minimum score of 1 over 5. As we mentioned, why to bet against the platform when you can get the real thing online.
If the brand decides to change their operations and selling real tickets online, the rating will improve radically.
We always need to ask ourselves if the sites we are playing at are legit. In this case, most noteworthy when a brand claims to be able of paying multi millionaire figures, asking if PlayEuroLotto is a scam comes naturally.
The site is licensed by the UKGC and the level of encryption is great. Anyway, we cannot say for sure they can be able to pay a winning as big as the jackpots they are publishing.
We recommend you to look for another platform in order to get a real lottery ticket.
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I'm more hopeful about politics than I've been in a long time. I pray that hope grow into fruitful dialogue.
My prayer is that this hope can be rewarded with a substantive discourse on ideas and not devolve into the politics of name-calling and fear. I want to say up front that I mean that in both directions, both the left and the right.
Two snippets give me hope (maybe I'm just looking for a half-full glass).
- Barack Obama's description of John McCain as 'a good man' when talking about his impending nomination as the Republican Presidential Candidate
- John McCain's congratulatory message to the Illinois Senator the day following Obama's nomination
I believe that regardless of our politics, we as people of faith should really pray for, to borrow from the Apostle Paul, "a more excellent way" to emerge as part of this important time in our country and for the life of the world as God's creation.
To that end I am going to commit myself to praying for God to sustain all of the candidates and not just 'my' candidate. Will you join me in a commitment to such a prayer discipline?
In closing I offer this from the Book of Common Prayer as template for such a discipline.
Almighty God, giver of all good things:
We thank you for the natural majesty and beauty of this land.
They restore us, though we often destroy them.
Heal us.
We thank you for the great resources of this nation. They
make us rich, though we often exploit them.
Forgive us.
We thank you for the men and women who have made this
country strong. They are models for us, though we often fall
short of them.
Inspire us.
We thank you for the torch of liberty which has been lit in
this land. It has drawn people from every nation, though we
have often hidden from its light.
Enlighten us.
We thank you for the faith we have inherited in all its rich
variety. It sustains our life, though we have been faithless
again and again.
Renew us.
Help us, O Lord, to finish the good work here begun.
Strengthen our efforts to blot out ignorance and prejudice,
and to abolish poverty and crime. And hasten the day when
all our people, with many voices in one united chorus, will
glorify your holy Name. Amen.
The all too short New England summer is fleeing quickly from experience into memory. It simply is, it's neither good nor bad. It, like most everything else in life has its upside as well as its drawbacks. The change of the seasons is as God created things.
It has been said that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you deal with it. I think there's a great deal of wisdom in that view.
I recently read a book by a man named Alan Roxburgh called, The Sky is Falling!?! Leaders Lost in Transition. It is about, among other things, the nature of transition that the Church in the modern world finds itself in. We can lament the passing away of a predominantly Christian culture in our world, but at the end of the day that passing away is a change. A change that we cannot undo, but a change with which we must deal with all the imagination, prayer, obedience and creativity at our disposal if we are to continue doing the Mission of God here in Worcester.
Mr. Roxburgh says that change is inevitable and what we do with it, the 90% of faith is in how we respond. He calls the response transition. He says that transition is what we do in the face of change. He says change happens to us, we can't stop it, but what we can do is manage our response as we transition from one reality to another.
It's in what we do that we begin to walk upon the kind of Holy Ground that Moses experienced when he heard God in a burning bush. Change for the people of Israel was on the horizon. They were a threat to the Egyptians and the Egyptians were acting out of fear to oppress God's people. God took this change and called a people into one of the great transitions in all of human history, the Exodus.
That 40 year pilgrimage continues to serve as an example to God's people about how we can depend upon God to move us from one circumstance should we have the courage, wisdom and faith to depend on Him regardless of what change comes our way.
One of the common phrases in the our current culture is, "it's all good!" Well we know that it's not all good. That being said the Apostle Paul in the Romans says, "we know that all things work together for those who love God." (Romans 8:28). What Paul is reminding the Romans and us of is that God's love, power, compassion and guidance can bring good from almost any change if we trust him to help us make transitions.
Whatever change befalls us, I pray that God will lead us through Holy Transition more deeply in relationship to Him and a deeper commitment to His Mission for the world.


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February is my favourite month. I know it's March already, trying to catch up my happy posto on February 2015.
I received my first February mail from my pen pal, Chanae of California. As usual, she would spoilt me with those fancy stuff. I liked them very much. She also sent me a photo of some flowers from her garden. Lovely! 🌻
A birthday card from Akma. Luckily it didn't lost since my last parcel for her had lost somewhere. Very frustrating with the post office services, especially at Peninsular Malaysia. Well thank you Ama, a very cute card. 🐸🐸
Last but not least,at the end of February I received a postcard from Thailand. It was from my blog friend Angela. It was a very thoughtful of her to send me the card during her short vacation at Patong Island. Thank you Angela! 😻


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Asheville police investigating 'suspicious' death
Asheville in 2016 saw more incidents of serious violent crime committed than in any year since at least 2011. Here's a by-the-numbers look at the crime rates in Asheville. Bobby Shipman
ASHEVILLE -- Asheville police are searching for information after finding a man dead under the Interstate 240 overpass earlier this month.
Officers found Ryan Michael Rast just before 2 a.m. on Aug. 19 along Tunnel Road under the overpass between South Tunnel Road and Crockett Avenue. Rast had been the victim of "serious traumatic injuries," the department said in a news release Wednesday.
The department is working with the North Carolina Office of the Medical Examiner to determine the cause of Rast's death.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Asheville Police Department at 828-252-1110 or CrimeStoppers at 828-255-5050.


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Post-Convention Wrap-Up!
Well, the Big Event is over, and the artwork was really a sight to behold! Here are some of the drawings I did during the week: And here is the FULL ALBUM of photos I took at the Convention….nearly 400 images…on my Facebook page! Just click the link below and ENJOY!! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.727006590701817.1073741834.125336317535517&type=1
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Still not excited about the 2014 ISCA Convention? Then check out THIS link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1t3HPhCFqY
It's Coming…SOON!!!
The 23rd ANNUAL ISCA CONVENTION is almost here!!! Featuring THIS guy… As well as THIS guy…There will be seminars galore…like THIS… And don't forget the highly anticipated opening ceremony event… DON'T MISS IT!! Register NOW!!!
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Hi there! I'm Lorin, and I draw caricatures for a living. Been doing this for over 20 years now, and it's become my life. This unique art form has taken me to quite a few places around the United States, and even overseas! Being a member of ISCA (the International Society of Caricature Artists) has gained … Continue reading


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CDA | 2005 N Lakewood Dr. Suite 201 | Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
SANDPOINT | 1218 N. Division Ave. St. 101 | Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
At Integrated Personnel, we take pride in having a team that is hardworking, devoted, and honest. We strive to go the extra mile in all we do and to make sure we give everyone the quality service they deserve. Read below to learn more about our team.
Ford "Spike" Dunton
Spike founded Integrated Personnel with the dream of providing employers in the Northwest hardworking and honest members of the workforce.
He came up with the concept of creating a centralized "extra board" for all the local sawmills and Industrial Personnel (now Integrated Personnel) launched in 1979. His first-hand experience of spending years working directly for local mills as a laborer, plant manager, and ending up in human resources gave Integrated the firm foundation it needed to be the extension of companies HR departments that makes a difference in their day-to-day operations.
Spike enjoys playing tennis, driving his 1972 Mustang "Blue Baby", volunteering his time in Prison Ministry programs, and sharing many laughs with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Clyde Montgomery
Vice President
Clyde is fulfilled at the end of every day knowing that Integrated Personnel helped someone better themselves by providing gainful employment opportunities to hardworking and deserving employees. On the flip side, he also knows that we have made a positive impact for the local businesses we serve by making quality employees readily available.
He has led our team by example, treating everyone with respect as they walk through our doors since coming on board in 1989. He knows the inside out of how we operate, why we do what we do, and what it's going to take to continue to thrive moving forward, which makes him the Vice President our team deserves.
Clyde loves God, his family, weight lifting, hunting, fishing, and hiking.
Cody Montgomery
Operations Manager
Cody began his career with Integrated Personnel in 2007. Since then, he has gained a thorough understanding of what it takes to recruit for companies through years of working on the front lines within the company. He is now the company's Operations Manager.
In the office, you will see him working with our team to satisfy the needs our clients and get job seekers working in the jobs they need as soon as possible.
In his off time, you will see Cody hunting, hiking and enjoying the North Idaho life.
Cameron Montgomery
Business Relations Manager
Originally starting with Integrated Personnel in 2007, Cameron has served in multiple roles with the primary focus in recruiting, management and client relations. He believes that when it comes to fulfilling employment needs, both companies and job seekers should have a smooth, seamless, and positive experience.
You can count on him to be working with our clients and internal team to continually strengthen our processes to fulfill the employment needs of North Idaho.
When Cameron is not at the office, you will probably catch him outdoors. Most likely hiking, swimming, fishing, hunting, or simply just enjoying the fresh air of North Idaho.
Gary Lalanne
Business Development Manager
Gary see's value and enjoys helping our team leave their footprint and help impact lives of thousands of employees in our North Idaho communities.
Since 2013, he has been a valued member of our team serving in multiple positions ranging from recruitment, management, business development, and now today servicing as our Compliance Manager. His role is important to us because makes sure we keep excellence as top priority by doing our jobs the right way. He stays up to date with employment law, oversees employee benefits, manages workers compensation claims, amongst other human resources responsibilities.
Gary is a graduate of the River City Leadership Academy through the Post Falls Chamber and a board member for local non-profits. In his free time, he enjoys serving the church body, cooking (especially on his Traeger), and spending time in the great outdoors of Idaho with his family.
Cindy Thompson
Cindy began her career with Integrated Personnel in 1990 and now serves as the Payroll Manager for both offices. She is every employee's favorite person every two weeks because she responsible for all aspects of payroll.
During her time with Integrated Personnel she has been a valued team member who has worked in nearly all our departments prior to overseeing the payroll department. What she enjoys most about her job is all the relationships she has been able to build with the staff, employees, and clients.
When Cindy isn't writing your paycheck, she loves to spend time with her family on their boat.
Chris Cragun
Lead Recruiter - CDA Office
Chris knows the importance of matching the right candidate to the right job and that's why he takes pride in being the Lead Recruiter for our Coeur d'Alene office.
He joined our team in 2016 and since then he has been a pivotal member of our team the relationships he builds with both businesses and employees. When you work with Chris you can trust that he will do everything he can to make sure you are being heard and that job offers are being made. His favorite part of his job is the satisfaction of filling the needs of our clients and helping our applicants start their careers with some of our areas top employers.
In his free time, Chris enjoys 4-wheeling, reading, writing, kayaking, and spending time with his family.
Barb Avery
Staffing Assistant - CDA Office
Barb began her career with Integrated Personnel in 1990 and is now the Staffing Assistant for the Coeur d'Alene office. A day doesn't go by where you are not greeted by her with a with a smile and friendly hello.
Barb has contributed to our team in many capacities over the years but spent most of her career in recruiting and interviewing. Today, she uses that experience to help streamline our recruiting process by helping screen candidates and on-boarding all new hires. Her favorite aspects of her position include interacting with the applicants, the reward of helping them finding them full-time employment, and building relationships with our clients.
In her free time, she enjoys all that the northwest has to offer especially spending time out on the rivers.
David Freitas
Recruiter - Sandpoint
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California Pizza Kitchen Case
California Pizza Kitchen has been operating since 1985 predominantly in California. As of June 2007, they had 213 retail locations in the US and abroad. Analysts have put estimates on the potential of 500 full service locations. CPK's strategy includes the opening of 16 to 18 new locations this year including the closing of one location. In the second quarter of 2007, revenue increased 16% while comparable restaurant sales grew by 5%. Performing comparatively well against its competitors, CPK's stock has been depressed recently falling to $22.10 in June making their P/E equal to 31.9 time current earnings. In comparison with BJ's Restaurants with a P/E of 48.9, ...view middle of the document...
The interest tax shield will reduce taxable income so that when debt is used to repurchase shares outstanding, there will be a subsequent increase in EPS. A similar effect happens with ROE. Because less of the company is being financed with equity, earnings are spread out over less equity and therefore increase ROE.
Cost of Capital
CPK has an equity cost of capital of 5.03% and a debt financing rate of 6.16%.
Rf=5.2% 30 year rate
Rm=5% (S&P SmallCap 600 Restaurants)
5.03% = 0.052 + 0.85(0.05-0.052)
10% Debt scenario
30% Debt scenario
5.37% = .70.0503+.30.0616
Based on our WACC calculations neglecting tax, we found that as CPK acquires debt, their cost of capital increases. Based on this finding, it is not sensible for CPK to take on debt. If their cost of capital increases, it will affect every project they take on by lowering their returns on every capital project. This can be seen in the graph below.
Because the cost of debt is higher than the firm's unlevered cost of capital and their cost of equity, adding debt to the business does not add value to California Pizza from a cost of capital perspective.
Return on Equity
The Return on Equity is rising as the firm takes on more debt, becoming more leveraged. This is true as interest payments to creditors are tax deductible and therefore the company is able to generate a higher return on fewer shares outstanding because of the repurchase. The result is that a higher proportion of debt in the firm's capital structure leads to higher ROE as earnings are spread over a reduced amount of equity.
Share Price
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0% Debt |
Share Price = E/CSO |
Share Price = 643 773 000/29 130 000 |
Share Price = 22.10$ |
10% Debt |
Share Price = E/CSO |
Share Price = 628 516 000/28 108 000 |
Share Price = 22.36$ |
20% Debt |
Share Price = E/CSO |
Share Price = 613 259 000/27 086 000 |
Share Price = 22.64$ |
30% Debt |
Share Price = E/CSO |
Share Price = 598 002 000/26 064 000 |
Share Price = 22.94$ |
The share price of the firm's stock rises as it increases its debt. Share price being determined by the Total Market Value of Equity divided by the current number of shares outstanding. As the firm increases its leverage, it buys back shares, as well as reduces its equity. The rate that equity decreases is smaller than that of shares being bought back, thus causing an increase in share price.
Shares Outstanding
Shares outstanding decrease as the firm takes on more debt. The reason being is that the firm buys back shares with the newly acquired cash from issuing debt.
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Excuse my lack of a post yesterday. I had a very busy afternoon because I escorted Zanny to her maternity paddock over at Becky, the specialist equine reproduction vet's house. She went in the big horse truck, and needed two horse cubicles to accommodate her big tummy. She wasn't too pleased about the whole business until she disembarked and saw the lovely grass in her paddock. I am so glad that she is safely at Becky's house now because she will have the best of care. Becky said she has a few days to go, so I'll be popping in to visit during the week because she is five minutes from here.
Delivering Zanny was only part of my interesting afternoon. We drove to Astek Stud after the drop off to check out an extremely handsome 3 year old gelding. This photo is off the Astek website.
He was having a nap lying down when we arrived, and was super friendly when we went to catch him. Astek is a very posh operation. They have three amazing Warmblood stallions, and produce top quality horses. The owner was absolutely lovely, and obviously loves her horses. She took Wilbur, as he is called (Gemtime is his show name), to a huge rectangular arena where he was let loose to do his own thing so Emily could check out his paces. And he certainly put on a show. He is unbroken and was rather desperate to get back to where he could see the other horses, so thundered up and down calling, spinning around, and generally looked extremely handsome and powerful. I think Emily would have written out a cheque immediately if she had the money. He is certainly a gorgeous boy. I'd love it if Em buys him, but one of my other horse friends might have to go first.
Mousie has been enjoying life, as usual. He likes to lie on Miss Dog's various beds.
The Crafty Family came over yesterday and helped clear part of my garden and The Crafty Neighbour cleaned out my pots ready for summer planting. What wonderful friends we have! Look, due to reminders from The Crafty Neighbour, I finally got my fence pots planted and the petunias are peeking out now. Exciting. I must keep them fed and watered.
- Johnny. The best husband in the world.
- My family - I can't wait to see them at Christmas time.
- Friends. It is lovely to work with my friends and to see friends every weekend. We've got wonderful friends.
- Our lovely house and garden. My favourite place to be.
- My dear animal family- Miss Dog, Mousie and Zanny. Plus all of my other animal friends.
- Being interested in so many things.
- Being able to create and learn new things.
- Having a job that is usually interesting and worthwhile. Plus it pays for the above.
There are so many things to be thankful for. No need to stuff and cook a turkey to remember that.


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TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX: TVI) (OTCQX: TVIPF) ("TVI" or the "Company") announces that shareholders approved all resolutions brought before them at the Annual & Special Meeting of Shareholders held on May 26, 2011. A total of 194,630,014 shares were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting, representing approximately 31.31% of the Company's outstanding shares.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was re-appointed as the external auditor of TVI and will hold office until the next annual meeting at such remuneration as may be determined by the directors of the Company. Approximately 93.10% of the votes cast supported the appointment of the auditors, while 6.90% were withheld.
Shareholders also approved fixing the number of directors to be elected at the meeting to eight. Of the votes cast, 91.78% were in favour of the resolution, while 8.22% were against.
In addition, shareholders approved a special resolution respecting an amendment of the Company's articles. The resolution allows for the appointment of additional directors between annual meetings, providing that the number of additional directors shall not, at any time, exceed one-third of the number of directors who held office at the expiration of the last annual meeting of the Company. 88.98% of the votes cast supported the resolution, while 11.02% were against.
The following Board members stood for election and were duly re-elected: Clifford M. James, Robert C. Armstrong, C. Brian Cramm, Jan R. Horejsi, and Peter C.G. Richards. In addition, nominees David Moscovitz, Wayne G. Thomson and Aloysius B. Colayco were elected to Board. These Directors will hold office until the next TVI annual meeting. Of the votes cast, 89.88% were in favour of the election of the directors, while 10.12% were withheld.
Mr. Moscovitz is a lawyer and consultant at Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP with over 30 years of extensive experience in acquisitions, divestments, dispositions, financings, joint ventures and other general business law. Prior to this, he was a Lawyer and Partner at Goodman and Carr LLP.
Mr. Thomson currently serves as a Director for Cenovus Energy Inc. and Orion Oil and Gas Corp. and is the Chairman and President of EnviroValve Inc. Previously, Mr. Thomson was President of Hadrian Energy Corp. and Gardiner Oil and Gas Limited, both public companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Prior to these appointments, Mr. Thomson held the role of President of Petrocorp Exploration and spent the previous six years at the Alberta Energy Company. Mr. Thomson holds a BSc. in engineering.
Mr. Colayco is Managing Director of Argosy Partners, Inc., a private investment and advisory firm, and a Senior Partner of Argosy Advisors, Inc. He also serves as President for Level Up! Holdings, Country Chairman for Jardine Matheson, Philippines, Member of the JM Asia Pacific Regional Board, Chairman for Republic Cement (an affiliate of Lafarge), Chairman for Colliers Philippines, Member of the Advisory Board for JG Summit Holdings, Inc. and Senior Advisor for Asia Strategic Capital Fund and Asia Environmental Partners Fund.
For shareholders who were not able to attend the meeting, a video of the presentation will be available on TVI's website at tvi2014.q4web.com in the coming days.
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Introducing: Simian Cyborg
Hey man it's Austin, so are you really surprised at this point when we find yet another new band worthy of sharing with the masses? My new band smell find of the day comes from Austin based musician Brian Cyborg and his musical project known as Simian Cyborg. Based out of Austin, Cyborg has been working recently on recording a bunch of tunes in his own home late at night when the kids are asleep. A sampling of his tracks can be heard below with "staring intently at the stars". I was immediately drawn into the music because it reminds me of the late emo, or even post-emo stylings of a band like American Football or The Promise Ring. It's a melodic, repetitive number worthy of standing next to some of the best songs in the genre.
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A bit like the war between the vampires and werewolves in Underworld, the battle between plotters and pantsers has been going on since time immemorial…well at least since blogs and twitter and all this messy social media stuff was invented. And it's not really a battle, more a divergence of views on the writing process.
For those of you who don't know:
A plotter…plots. The book or story is mapped out. 'A' happens in chapter one, 'Z' in the final chapter and in between B happens, C happens, D happens and so on. The writer has considered all the pitfalls, knows where he or she is going, is confident the story works and is able to build suspense effectively.
The pantser…well the pantser flies by the seat of his or her pants. They get up one morning, sit down at their writing desk, have an idea, start at 'A' and dive headlong in. The creative juices flow, the coffee cups pile up as the flames of creativity ignite the keyboard.
A plotter can follow the plot
A plotter can take a break, get interrupted, without losing the thread. Plotters can afford to take their time because they have their map, they know where they are going.
A pantser must keep going at all costs
They can't stop. If they stop, the muse will be gone.
Then what will happen?
The unfinished tome, the greatest novel in history, will languish there, somewhere on the hard drive. So they keep rushing on, panicked by the fall of night, alarmed that their fingers are beginning to ache. They must keep the muse there…must keep the magic flowing…
But they must stop…they must…and so they come back the next day, but the muse is not quite the same. It's had a few different ideas and it's got a blinding hangover…Now the pantser has to fight the muse, wrestle it back from semi-consciousness, regain the flow that kept them going all through the day before…the muse resists, it doesn't want to play today…and before you know it you've killed off your main character by the end of page 40 and sit their weeping till your better half comes in, tuts and says:
Maybe you should plot it next time.
Okay, so I'm exaggerating. Having been a pantser at one time, I feel I've earned the right to go slightly over the top. There's enough lonely manuscripts lying at the bottom of my closet courtesy of my ill-advised pantsing regime.
You see, I used to believe the myth which most pantsers roll out when you challenge them on the way they write.
Plotting destroys the creativity. It limits the writer. It's not as much fun. Better to free the muse, let your characters roam like organic chickens in the fertile corridors of your keenly artistic mind. You see, what pantsers think is that there's a whole story magically stored in their heads that, if given enough encouragement, will find its way onto the page. They have characters and a situation and they let them loose together without regard to the consequences. The story will decide itself.
It's a beautiful, true creativity.
Alas, this is writer's hokum. I've lost count of the number of failed novels where the muse has led the writer astray halfway through, the characters that just pop up out of nowhere for no other reason than the muse dictated it at the time, the dead ends crashed through with reckless abandon until the story, and often the main character, fall over the literary cliff face down into the dark, oily pit of plot despair.
Plotting keeps your novel on level ground. It isn't some chore to be got through before you get down to the really enjoyable bit of writing.
It is part of the creative process.
And, it will save you time. If your plot is already sound then all you have to worry about when you come to editing and proofing your novel is the actual words and passages that make it up.
If you finish a pantsed novel then you have to leave it a considerable amount of time to come back to it as new. Then you have to twist and change the plot so that it makes sense, all without having a nervous breakdown. You have to rewrite huge tracts that don't work, resisting the temptation to squeeze square pegs into round holes.
That's if you actually get round to finishing it in the first place. I have no evidence for this, but I suspect that more plotted novels get completed that pantsed novels. The reason is that pantsed novels can so easily go off the rails. If you're a pantsers whose novel has never, ever, cross your heart and hope to die, gone off the rails, I salute you.
With two fingers. I think you're a big fat liar.
So from now on, I'm going to be a plotter. I'm gonna plot that damn thing till it's nice and straight and perfect and…my hair falls out and my nails are all chewed because that damn plot…it's a tricky old devil…
And one more thing, before I go: Pantsers, pantsed, pantsing…I guess word has underlined them in red because they don't exist.


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Texas Tech Red Raiders
Final Four participants have followed Big Ten blueprints
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A sixteen-year-old male and three friends were swimming nude and saw a fourteen-year-old boy on the opposite bank fellate a fifteen-year-old boy. The parties joined forces and finally all males were fellated by the youth. There was some horseplay, but the extent of force was questionable.
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A homosexual party at the twenty-nine-year-old offender's home led to heavy drinking and excessive noise. Neighbors complained and the four men and the host were arrested. It was claimed by the offender that there was no overt sexual behavior prior to the arrest. Thus, four of the cases involved three copartners, three of them included four males in addition to the offender, and there was one offense in each of the highest categories of five, six, and seven copartners. The ten accounts given above do not appear, however, to portray generally planned behavior. On the contrary, one feels it to be very much a matter of chance and accident that the particular situation built up. The offenses are typified by the picture of young, aimless males driving around in a car, with an eye out for a potentially willing female if they can find one. A lone male of these ages might well have lacked confidence to attempt a pickup and a sexual approach, but numbers often breed a sense of courage. It will be noted that in these ten cases of group behavior the young offender is in strong evidence. This is understandable, since such group social patterns are typical of younger males.
In fact, if one records the ages of the 92 males at the time they committed the offenses involving copartners, and compares their median age with that of the remaining males at the time of their offenses, it is clear that the offenders who operate in pairs or in larger units are consistently younger than the other offenders in their group. This is no real surprise, since studies of nonsex offenses tabulated on the basis of age and multiparticipation show the same trend, but it is of interest to find here a consistent pattern.
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Wikimedia Resource Center. Education/News. Wiki Camp 2014 Vanadzor Wiki Camp 2014 at Vanadzor By Lilitik22 Following the success of their Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia Armenia will be hosting a Wiki Camp this summer at in Armenia (July 6-20, August 12-26).
Participants in the camp program will be 14 -20 years old and will have shown active participation in the Wikipedia Education Program. The goal of the camp is to introduce them to tools and capabilities they are currently not familiar with and to help them improve the quality of their output on Wikipedia. EduWiki Conference in Belgrade 2014 By Ivan25 On March 24, first EduWiki Conference in Serbia was held in Belgrade. Learning Day - group photo EduWiki Conference 2014 - Belgrade was the first conference organized by Wikimedia Serbia, whose aim was cooperation between Wikimedia and educational and scientific institutions, as well as mutual cooperation between Wikimedia chapters on educational projects.
Learning Day was held on March 23, at the Wikimedia Serbia office. 1. 2. Should You Share Your Research on Academia.edu? Academia.edu's motto, "share research," may sound like a godsend to scholars who want to do everything possible to make sure their work echoes far beyond the ivory tower.
The pared-down social network lets users connect with colleagues, post their own publications, and track the readership of their work—all without having to dig through photographs of people's cats and reactions to whatever is on TV. It's a message with resonance, as the site's growth bears out. More than 7 million people have created academic profiles on the site, says Richard Price, the company's founder and CEO, with more than 800,000 joining each month. "Around 25 percent come back each month," he says, "which is a return rate comparable to Twitter's." Teaching with Wikipedia: the Why, What, and How. WHY should you teach with Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit but not everyone does. You and your students can dramatically affect the most popular and important reference work in the world.90% of Wikipedia's editors are male.There are only 3,000 very active Wikipedians on the English Wikipedia. 3,000 people are controlling the world's knowledge. That's the size of a small town.Wikipedia is the most popular reference work in the world.If you want your students to learn about how a small community is influenced by demographics and how they can change that community by participating in it, Wikipedia is the place to go. Google takes information from Wikipedia, as do many other sites, because it is licensed through a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Training/For students/My sandbox. Student editors in the US and Canada add more content than ever in fall 2013. In the seven terms of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada, students have added 55 million bytes of content to the English Wikipedia, much of it high quality.
The Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada recently wrapped up its seventh term. The program, where students edit Wikipedia as a part of their coursework, began in the fall 2010 term in the U.S. and expanded to Canada in fall 2011. In 3.5 years, student editors have added 55 million bytes to English Wikipedia. For some perspective, that's about 36,000 printed pages, 73 reams of paper, or 12.1 million words. Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf. British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuse. Talk:Welcome to Wikipedia (Bookshelf)/2013 edition/draft - Outreach Wiki. One of the goals of Wikimedia is diversity.
I think we can reach this goal if we inform possible contributers not only about wikipedia, but also about sisterprojects like WikiJourney, Wikiversity, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timboliu (talk • contribs) 18:02, 26 July 2014 Manual of Style/Words to watch. There are no forbidden words or expressions on Wikipedia, but certain expressions should be used with care, because they may introduce bias.
Strive to eliminate expressions that are flattering, disparaging, vague, or clichéd, or that endorse a particular point of view. The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly.[1] What matters is that articles should be well-written and consistent with the core content policies—Neutral point of view, No original research, and Verifiability. The guideline does not apply to quotations, which should be faithfully reproduced from the original sources; see the section on quotations in the main Manual of Style. Words that may introduce bias. It Will Take a Village to Keep Wikipedia From Failing - Kevin Evers. By Kevin Evers | 3:00 AM November 4, 2013 Wikipedia is in the mature phase of its development, but there may be some trouble ahead.
Its contributor base is shrinking, and the recruitment of new editors has proven difficult at best. These aren't reasons to sound the alarm bells as of yet — in fact, a moderate amount of turnover in an online community can be good thing — but the managers of the crowd-sourced encyclopedia should make a few changes. A good place to start is with more openness to outsiders. Wikipedia, like any mature community, has developed a sophisticated set of norms and best practices that can be daunting to navigate for new members. SOURCE: What to Do When an Online Community Starts to Fail by Walter Frick. Category:Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. Why the student learning aspect matters in the Wikipedia Education Program.
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Jami Mathewson I've been working with the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada for almost two years. In the program, university professors assign their students to edit Wikipedia as a part of the coursework. Typically, professors do away with a traditional research paper and instead train students to complete the same research and summarize it into a Wikipedia article. Education Portal/Projects and Programs. Webcast. 7 Excellent Resources for Public Domain Pictures Every Teacher should Know about. As the start of a new school year draws closer Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is diligently engaged in posting a series of posts featuring interesting digital resources to help teachers get better equipped for school re-entry.
Arabic Wikipedia grows thanks to Wikipedia Education Program students. In English Bytes added by students in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt over the first two terms With more than 280 million native speakers, Arabic is one of the world's most spoken languages, but the Arabic Wikipedia has lagged behind other language Wikipedias in terms of the amount of articles.
The Arabic Wikipedia has only 205,000 articles — a tiny fraction in comparison to the English Wikipedia, which has 4.2 million articles. But the Arabic Wikipedia has been steadily growing over the last year, thanks in part to the efforts of college students in Egypt participating in the Wikipedia Education Program. The Wikipedia Education Program kicked off in Egypt with a Cairo pilot at two universities, Ain Shams University and Cairo University.
Participants in the 2nd Celebration Conference in Egypt, February 2013. GLAM/GLAMout. Introducing Wikispaces Classroom. We spend most of our time talking to and thinking about teachers. But recently we've gotten involved in a different conversation. A conversation about the education technology industry. We've always considered ourselves fortunate that we found a calling and a business model that works for us. Teachers came to us when we started Wikispaces, we figured out we could give them something they needed, and we built a great business by selling our services to the schools, districts, and universities that teachers work for. So we just focused on building great products and delivering great service and everything we've accomplished has flowed from that. In the last couple of years, investment in education technology has experienced a resurgence as people see big opportunities to disrupt a large and sometimes archaic industry.
Public library, not public domain. The launch of the Digital Public Library of America Yesterday saw the launch of one of the best initiatives for researchers the United States has ever seen: the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Watch out for rights issues As described by the DPLA itself, the project has three key elements: • First, an easy-to-use portal where anyone can access America's collections and search through them using novel and powerful techniques, including by place and time. • Second, a sophisticated technical platform that will make those millions of items available in ways so that others can build creative and transformative applications upon them, such as smartphone apps that magically reveal the history around you. • Third, along with like-minded institutions and individuals the DPLA will seek innovative means to make more cultural and scientific content openly available, and it will advocate for a strong public option for reading and research in the twenty-first century.
Wikipedia as a School Project - Society - The Ukrainian Week. University curricula demand that students be given creative individual assignments. Open Culture Data: Opening GLAM Data Bottom-up. Lotte Belice Baltussen, Netherlands , Maarten Brinkerink, Netherlands, Maarten Zeinstra, Netherlands, Johan Oomen, The Netherlands, Nikki Timmermans, The Netherlands Abstract Open Culture Data started as a grassroots movement at the end of 2011, with the aim to open up data in the cultural sector and stimulate (creative) reuse. In this context, we organised a hackathon, which resulted in the creation of 13 Open Culture Data apps. After this successful first half year, a solid network of cultural heritage professionals, copyright and open data experts and developers was formed.
MW2013 notes on OPEN-GLAM. User:LauraHale/Wikinews Review Analysis. Principles. V.1.0. Note: This is the fourth version of the OpenGLAM principles which we have drafted together with the OpenGLAM Working Group. We would like this to be a community effort so please give feedback on the OpenGLAM mailing list! Galleries, libraries, archives and museums have a fundamental role in supporting the advance of humanity's knowledge. They are the custodians of our cultural heritage and in their collections they hold the record of humankind. The internet presents cultural heritage institutions with an unprecedented opportunity to engage global audiences and make their collections more discoverable and connected than ever, allowing users not only to enjoy the riches of the world's memory institutions, but also to contribute, participate and share.
We believe that cultural institutions that take steps to open up their collections and metadata stand to benefit from these opportunities. An OpenGLAM institution champions these principles: 1. Authoring platform for OpenCourseWare. Teaching rural teachers in Namibia how to edit Wikipedia. Notes from the 1st US OpenGLAM Workshop. Last week, twenty U.S. GLAM professionals met at U.C.
Berkeley to learn about openness, culture, and how we could become evangelists for a movement already gaining traction in Europe and elsewhere. Wikipedia Education Program/News. Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz. Moby-Dick. Wikikids/Relation to the Rights of the Child.
Online training for newcomers. In-person trainings are effective — but they do not scale. Education Program. Education. Welcome to the School of Open, Class of 2013. Happy Open Education Week! Student assigned to read a Wikipedia article that she wrote. Every graduate student gets assigned a lot of reading, but not every graduate student gets assigned to read something they've written. Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis? Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads. Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets. D-Lib Magazine March/April 2013 Volume 19, Number 3/4Table of Contents. Case Study: Europeana & Partners on Pinterest. Dutch National Library gives full access to in copyright material.
Sweden's LSH publishes 40,000 images under open licenses. Quebec school project improves French Wikipedia. WikiProject North Carolina. Engaging the local community in a school project on Commons. Egyptian student creates 68 new articles on the Arabic Wikipedia in less than a year. Lori Byrd Phillips. Pick of the Week: Indian School Journal and the records of the Chilocco Indian School. Open Data For GLAMs. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
School of Open will launch during Open Education Week. Metrics matter: Open Images releases media usage metrics. Open Images » blog archive » Impact metrics: Increase in reach and reuse of Open Images. Doaa Seif helps drive the growth of the Arabic Wikipedia. Creative Commons for K-12 Educators. Essays. Piotr Konieczny on Prezi. Understanding Wikipedia: 6.1-6.2 Culture, collaboration, civility by Piotr Konieczny on Prezi.
Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond. Wikipedia Backstage Pass Tour and Scanathon. Governance reform. Virtual Learning Environment - Wikimedia UK. Grants:IEG/Wikipedia Massive Open Online Courses. GLAM/Newsletter/January 2013. Pick of the Week: "A Fashionable Melange of English Words" Creating local content for Wikipedia. Walters Art Museum: A case study in sharing. Can beginners write high-quality articles? Czech students prove yes again! Open Collections. Category:Files from content partnerships. Category:Images from libraries.
Category:Images from archives. Category:Images from museums. Commons:Partnerships. Wikipedia Education Program/Education Program Leaders Workshop 2013. Recline Timeliner - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast! Open Culture Data - overview of open culture milestones. Improving evolution articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia through class: Professor Yuri Leite. Education/Case Studies. Keep it free: National Gallery of Art (US) creates open access policy. MSI student is first Wikipedian in Residence at Ford Presidential Library. WikiLayer. The world of — and in — Wikipedia. Tutorial. High profile keynote speakers confirmed for GLAM-Wiki 2013.
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Ever since a watch has been given more purpose than just telling time in 1900's film, our imagination has run rampant with what wrist-based technology could actually do. Let's just take a second to analyse the positive things out there. There is a $2.5 billion market for wrist-worn tech that is currently being used by smart fitness bracelets and certain smart watches like the Kickstarter-funded Pebble. The biggest problem facing the wearable smart tech movement is a plague that affects all new technologies: price. I mean, if you think about it, the first smartphones were extremely expensive and not all that powerful. Now, we have options like the Nexus 5 that gives you a crazy amount of bang for your buck. I honestly believe that eventually, smart watches and other wearable techs will soon be in the latter category and will start to sell.
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text: Christina Choe, left, and Andrea Riseborough pose for a portrait to promote the film "Nancy," at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP) by Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press Posted Jan 25, 2018 6:04 am PDT Last Updated Jan 25, 2018 at 6:40 am PDT AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to RedditRedditShare to 電子郵件Email English actress Andrea Riseborough ("Birdman," "Battle of the Sexes") may be the MVP of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with four films playing in Park City, Utah.There's "Mandy," a revenge actioner in where she plays Nicolas Cage's object of affection; "The Death of Stalin," from "Veep" creator Armando Iannucci where Riseborough is the dictator's daughter; "Burden," where she makes a Ku Klux Klan member (Garrett Hedlund) start to question his beliefs; And one that is especially dear to her heart, the psychological thriller "Nancy" from filmmaker Christina Choe, about a woman who begins to believe that perhaps she was kidnapped as a child. All of the films are seeking distribution.Riseborough spoke to The Associated Press about "Nancy," which she also produced, and making it "without compromise."___AP: What did you like about the story Christina Choe tells in "Nancy"?RISEBOROUGH: She created a whole person and that's painfully rare as a woman to find a character that is not passively penned, you know? She's an anti-hero. Christina's voice is really strong and very funny as well. We have a similar dark and dry sense of humour.AP: How did you go about getting it made?RISEBOROUGH: We didn't want to have to bend along the way to any kind of preconceived ideas that sales companies might have before the movie is even made — for her to narrow the character. Often the message of the film gets lost and certainly with female voices there are so few that I wanted to be part of preserving hers as a producer. And letting her have whoever she wanted and give her the platform to create this strange, very real, disenfranchised character, who I totally identify with as well. We see anti-heroes in men all the time in cinema. Most of them are anti-heroes: The flawed genius, the broken superhero, the divorced detective. But so rarely do we see females, real females in film. My relationship to being a woman has changed greatly over the last few years in lots of positive ways. And "Nancy" doesn't adhere to any of those preconceived ideas as to who a woman is.AP: How have you found yourself changing?RISEBOROUGH: I think just growing up. I think I came out fighting. I came out of the womb fighting. It always seemed a little odd to me, the double standard. I always felt ill at ease with it. The majority of us are being told we're the minority. It can get quite tiresome. After many years of being patronized in taxi cabs, I sort of put my foot down and said (expletive) this, it's not me. It was never me. I wasn't doing anything wrong. I was just going about my daily life with a vagina and I'm sorry for that, to all who it offends.AP: So you do think it's changing for the better?RISEBOROUGH: Well I bloody well hope so.AP: You mentioned preconceived ideas of sales companies, can you expand on how producing it yourself gives a film more freedom?RISEBOROUGH: When Christina originally approached people, before she approached me, maybe five years ago, she was trying to sell a project that had a half black cast and basically everybody she went to for financing said, "Good luck with that." That was the response, which was totally expected up until now in my industry. And it's a part of my industry that has really sat so badly with me that I almost stopped doing it. Quite a few times, I've almost stopped wanting to be part of it. Because YOU can be part of perpetuating such negative stereotypes. I feel like with "Nancy," we managed to make the film without compromise. I know a lot of people had a very beautiful experience making it. It was an incredibly efficient set. We had an extraordinary female crew — predominantly female.AP: A predominantly female set is pretty rare too.RISEBOROUGH: I think the older I get the more I need more women around me. It just gets, the hunger for wanting women around me gets greater and greater as I get older. And especially on set and to have a safe work environment. Sometimes it's irritating walking onto a set and being one of three women out of 120 people. But I think it's the beginning of something really, really hopeful. I truly believe that only we can close the door, we are the majority.___Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr Q&A: Andrea Riseborough finds a female anti-hero in 'Nancy'


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