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The constitution and the law guarantee freedom of the press, and the government generally respects this right. The press freedom atmosphere in Paraguay in 2010 was dominated by the introduction, debate, and approval of several reforms to the Telecommunications Law, which have been heavily criticized by local and international press freedom groups. The changes for community radio stations include limiting their broadcasting power to 50 watts, prohibiting them from carrying advertising, and empowering the attorney general's office to sanction broadcast violations with punishments including jail time. The Organization of American States' Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression sent a letter to the legislature indicating that most of the reforms violated international standards of freedom of expression in that they "unduly restrict community media" and "establish disproportionate procedures and sanctions" for those outlets. President Fernando Lugo vetoed the bill in November, but an override by Congress was still possible at the end of year.
Paraguay is one of the few countries in the Americas that lacks legislation guaranteeing freedom of access to public information. A right to information bill failed to pass the Senate in 2006, but two courts of appeal have recognized the right and an ongoing Supreme Court case, Vargas Telles v. City of San Lorenzo, provides the first opportunity for the highest court to set a binding precedent on the matter.
Paraguayan journalists continued to be the target of persistent legal harassment by public officials and others. Almost all of those harassed were editors and reporters at ABC Color, one of the country's three major private dailies. There were at least eight instances of criminal defamation cases involving ABC Color staff in 2010, the most extreme of which was the ongoing case against reporters Mabel Rehnfeldt and Nacha Sánchez, who had published a series of articles uncovering alleged corrupt practices by President Juan Carlos Wasmosy's brother. President Wasmosy sued the pair for criminal defamation in 2004 and demanded $10 million in damages. In May 2010, an appeals court rejected charges against ABC Color editor in chief Aldo Zuccolillo, who has been sued for criminal defamation more often than any other journalist in the entire hemisphere. The charges were brought by Hugo González Galeano, who had alleged that his honor was insulted after the paper published a photo showing him being arrested by police. In April, another judge declared a criminal defamation charge against Zuccolillo null and void after the plaintiff failed to show up in court. In June, Camilo Soares, Paraguay's minister of emergency preparedness, pressed charges against reporter Jorge Torres Romero, who had written articles denouncing alleged corruption by Soares. Although some cases end up being dismissed, a constant pattern of judicial harassment and abuse of the court system aimed at silencing the country's most influential media outlet continues to take a very heavy toll on the resources, finances, and morale of the ABC Color staff.
In addition to legal harassment, Paraguayan journalists continued to confront threats and physical attacks in 2010. The most salient case was that of radio and print reporter Gabriel Bustamante, who suffered three attempts on his life by the same individuals. Argentina's Argentine Association of Journalistic Organizations reported that Francisco and Valentín Vera, brothers of Isidro Vera, head of the charity division of an energy company, had been identified as the alleged attackers. On July 22, Francisco Vera showed up at Bustamante's home and told him, "I am here to kill you." Only the intervention of Bustamante's neighbors saved his life. The following day, the same suspect confronted Bustamante at his radio station and told him he was there "to finish the job." The journalist was able to escape. On July 24, Valentín Vera entered the home of one of Bustamante's neighbors by mistake and was later arrested. The attacks stemmed from Bustamante's reports alleging corruption on the part of Isidro Vera. Francisco Vera has been indicted and is a fugitive of justice. Separately, after radio host Rosendo Duarte in August announced on his show the details of a demonstration to protest against the lack of public safety, he received a threatening on-air phone call warning him to "watch his mouth, and his daughter and family," according to the Paraguay Journalists' Syndicate.
In Paraguay, most major newspapers, television stations, and radio stations are privately owned. The government owns and operates a public radio broadcaster, Radio Nacional del Paraguay. Ninety-eight percent of the radio spectrum is controlled by either private or state stations, despite attempts by community stations to gain a bigger presence. There are also a number of unlicensed stations, particularly in the sometimes unstable "tri-border area" where Paraguay borders both Brazil and Argentina. Distribution of official advertising is a major concern. ABC Color reported that in 2009, the government had purchased ads on 51 community radio stations, which are not allowed to air nongovernment commercials, and that only three of these stations are operating with the proper permits. The communications minister acknowledged government support for several broadcasters that were in the process of getting permits, and claimed that such advertising amounted to less than $100 a month per station. Approximately 24 percent of the population used the internet in 2010, and there were no reports of government restrictions on access.


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Kaplan: Gender balance on corporate boards doesn't matter as much as you think
For all his grand talk of facilitating social change and gender parity, Justin Trudeau has become much more concerned with virtue signalling than with finding solutions.
Invoking the now-familiar "business case" for increasing gender diversity in the workplace, the prime minister told a World Economic Forum audience recently that governments and large companies around the world should follow Canada's lead, "not just because it's the right thing to do or the nice thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do." The research, Trudeau was quick to assert, proves this.
If only progress were made from great ambitions alone. In this case, the great ambition is the government's most recent attempt to re-engineer Canada's private sector: the relatively uncontroversial but potentially game-changing Bill C-25. Looking like it will soon bounce back from the Senate to the House of Commons for final passage, Bill C-25 will, among other things, amend the Canada Business Corporations Act to include a greater emphasis on diversity in the senior ranks of corporations.
While the exact meaning of "diversity" is not specified in the bill, it's probably easy to surmise what Trudeau and the Liberals have in mind. And besides, what really matters is that the legislation be aspirational.
The real problem here is not so much Bill C-25 itself – which is a noble (albeit clumsy and top-down) attempt to address a challenging and complex topic – but rather the government's tendency to rely on misleading research in promoting it. Despite Trudeau's claim that there is a clear link between corporate board diversity and firm performance, the actual evidence paints a much more complicated picture. It is a picture the Liberals ignore to the detriment of positive progress on this file.
While there is certainly ample research showing a positive relationship between, for instance, gender diversity on corporate boards and the tendency of firms to improve their "social performance," a group of researchers in Europe suggested recently that, in certain contexts, achieving this does not require a "critical mass of female directors," and that the same results can be achieved with the introduction of only one single woman. In addition to this, there is also empirical evidence suggesting that gender diversity has little influence on the market performance of firms.
And, perhaps most alarmingly, a group of researchers in Scandinavia – a world leader in gender diversity on corporate boards – has highlighted how, in some cases, forcing gender diversity quotas on companies can have the perverse effect of reducing board diversity in other areas, such as cultural, socio-economic and demographic. These are, at best, mixed findings, and they highlight the extent to which Trudeau's claims about the "research" are, at best, misleading. Again, it's those pesky details.
Daniel Ferreira, a researcher at the London School of Economics and an expert on board diversity, has argued strongly against the tendency of politicians to make a business case for gender diversity on boards. Citing the challenging and multifaceted nature of the topic, and the practical impossibility of directly linking one specific cause to one specific effect, Ferreira bluntly states that "current research does not really support a business case for board gender quotas."
Increasing gender diversity in the corporate world is undeniably something our society should be working towards. But if Trudeau truly cares about using government policy to address this issue, then perhaps he might focus less on grand, yet potentially problematic, initiatives such as Bill C-25, and more on the pursuit of policies that are genuinely supported by evidence-based research, such as improving the affordability of childcare services or incentivizing universities and colleges to recruit more women students in fields such as science, technology and engineering. To paraphrase recent argument in the National Post by Kevin Carmichael, it's great that our prime minister cares so much about gender issues: Now if only he would get serious about it.
Mischa Kaplan is chair of the West Ottawa Board of Trade and an instructor in the School of Business at Algonquin College. Twitter: @mischakaplan


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Welcome to Blog Paper: Unclogged! All the movie news you can use!
The headlines are real, some of the details may well not be.
Star Wars fans were excited this week when a description of Luke Skywalker's costume for Episode VIII made it online. Details simply suggest he will be wearing dark colours in training scenes of the movie not the slinky off the shoulder number with matching accessories some where hoping for.
Sherlock 3 is finally in development with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law to reprise their roles from the hit franchise directed by Guy Ritchie. The movie has created a writer's room to bash the story and script into shape. It is expected that the plot will involve Holmes and Watson falling out and parting ways only to build separate crime fighting teams of ace detectives. Casting for Charlie Chan and Miss Marple has yet to be confirmed.
Kate Beckinsale, soon to be seen in Underworld: Blood Wars, was interviewed on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" this week where she admitted to enjoying arranging fruit into amusing phallic positions and doodling penises, thousands of male viewers complained as hey thought she had said "Diddling"
This Halloween the stars were dressing up for all the swankiest horror based parties. Taylor Swift wins the prize for best costume as she got to borrow a genuine Deadpool outfit from friend Ryan Reynolds. Apparently it was a bit of a tight fit, it took a lot of baby powder and three friends to help shake it off.
In a comic book you never heard of being developed into a movie news, Image "Huge in the early 90's" Comics "Enormous" is to be turned into a possible franchise. The book, which features giant monsters running riot in the city, will be transformed into a movie with possible virtual reality elements. Watching the movie with V.R. technology will giver the viewer the impression they are looking up at a giant, slobbering, gnashing maniac that wants to eat you alive - an experience not dissimilar to watching footage of the Trump campaign trail.
In more technical news. James Cameron has announced that he hopes to bring 3D technology forward with his up coming four Avatar sequels by developing a system that will not require glasses. The new movies are to be sponsored by Anadin and Nurofen.
It seems that unlikely sequel Escape Plan 2 has been given the green light with Sylvester Stallone attached to make a supporting appearance. It has not been confirmed if Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved this time around. The story will revolve around Sly having to escape from a maximum security rest home before wardens come to give him his bedtime coco.
Girl on the Train writer Erin Cressida is in talks to write the planned live action version of Disney's Snow White. Possible title could be Girl in the Forrest. This follows the trend for live action remakes of The Little Mermaid (Girl n the Water), Beauty and the Beast (Girl and the Hairy Fella) and Mulan (Girl that Pretends to be a Boy but is Actually a Girl). Also in development is the story of Rose Red, sister of Snow White, who after finding out that Snow has fallen under the wicked witches spell, sets off with the seven dwarfs to save her sister. If this is to be an action movie controversy will ensue as the dwarfs carry out their mission of rampant, blood soaked revenge. In keeping with the change of tone the seven dwarves will change their names to Mad Dog, Frenzy, Rampage, The Douche, Muscles, Buzzsaw and Doris.
No news on casting for the role of Snow White but maybe the Disney big wigs could throw the role towards poor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who is in the midst of the second week of a project announcement drought. Desperate measures maybe taken and if no announcements are made soon we will be hearing about The Tooth Fairy 3 and Snitch 2: Still Snitchin' just to keep Dwayne ticking over.
Tune in next week for more slightly tweeked movie news with Blog Paper: Unclogged!


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Memorial Day weekend at my parents' cottage:
After a rainy Saturday morning, my dad hangs the bird feeders (on the squirrel-proof line).
The pier was power washed by my brother on Friday,
and now my niece power washes the flagstone wall.
What a difference.
Rocking chairs dry in the sun
after my sister-in-law gives them a good cleaning.
Garden beds weeded by my mom and multiple others.
Native plants are nibbled by rabbits and deer...
...so a new but unobtrusive barrier is erected.
Fingers crossed it works.
If not, hardware cloth is next.
A perfect bird's nest on the ground.
Fallen from where, we wonder?
And in between chores, lots of catching up, laughter, games of euchre, and great meals.
There was pier painting, too, but my brother took those pics.
I'll share them later if I get them from him.


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Every few months Alberta's social entrepreneurs come together to pitch the best of their ideas to a panel of discerning judges, in the hopes of winning $1,000.00. It's called BoostR Stage, and on Dec. 2 it was hosted by the Theatre Grand, and featured local non-profits and social companies.
What sets BoostR apart from other live-pitch-events is the degree of audience participation. In addition to food and drink, every guest's ticket gives them $20 to 'boost' their favourite business. Interactive, social, and locally supported, BoostR is a great opportunity to invest in those who are changing lives and our society for the better, through the core of their business operations. "Through day-to-day business operations, they inevitably create positive social impact locally or globally – the social and financial outcomes of their organization are tied together."
From a production perspective, we can't help but love an experience like BoostR. It brings together so many of the elements we look for in an event: entrepreneurship, community-centered, and interactivity.
The face that it's all hosted under the theatrical and historic Theatre Grande roof is just the icing on a production cake.
On Dec. 2, after an inspiring evening of passionate pitches, Mindful Mental Training took home the grand prize, which they will use to further their work on reducing the financial and personal cost of stigma, stress and depression in the workplace.
Want to pitch? Want to boost? Excited? Consider yourself invited. BoostR wants you– the influencer, innovator, community builder, entrepreneur, philanthropist – to join them in celebrating Alberta's social entrepreneurs. Follow their Facebook page for regular updates on how you can get involved!


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If a divorcing couple cannot agree on how their property should be divided, the court steps in. Pennsylvania is an equitable distribution state, which means that the Court of Common Pleas will disburse marital assets in an equitable manner. You may think that this means a fifty-fifty distribution, but that might not be what the court deems to be fair.
Factors affecting property division
The distribution of marital property is usually the most important consideration in a divorce, especially for wealthy couples. Property usually refers to items such as the marital home, pensions and retirement accounts that were acquired by the spouses during their marriage. Any property transfers are subject to income taxes and, in some cases, gift taxes. When considering property division, the court will take into account factors such as the length of the marriage, the earning power of each spouse, the separate responsibilities they have with regard to child rearing, the need for retraining to make one of the parties employable and whether a prenuptial agreement exists. Other factors may include the age and health of each spouse, the standard of living established during their marriage, their separate economic circumstances and whether either party will have custody of minor children.
The procedure followed by the court
The court will first divide property by classifications: assets and liabilities, property and debt, marital or separate. A monetary value will then be assigned to marital property and marital debt. Once this has been established, the court will make a distribution. In general, assets will be valued at the time they are divided between the spouses; however, the court has the final say in selecting a fair valuation date.
Disposition of the biggest marital asset
Equity in the family home is usually the biggest asset to be divided during a divorce. The first step is to determine market value at the time of separation by the couple, minus any debts or liens. A real estate agent or appraiser may be of assistance in preparing a market analysis. Once the current market value is agreed upon, the couple can choose the way forward from among several options. They can sell the home and divide the proceeds, one of the spouses may refinance and buy the other spouse out, or it will be agreed that one spouse, usually the custodial parent, will remain in the home for a certain period of time; for example, until a child graduates from high school.
Seeking legal help
If you are contemplating divorce, you no doubt have many questions and concerns, including how the distribution of your marital assets will be handled. This is the time to turn to an attorney who practices family law. An experienced lawyer is standing by to offer advice, support and guidance to help make the transition you are considering as smooth as possible.


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Me and Shakespeare: Adventures With the Bard
Somewhat past the middle of the journey, my life had taken an unexpected turn. On a golden day in October 1997, I found myself driving to Caldwell College, a small Catholic school in New Jersey operated by Dominican nuns, where I would be teaching an eight-week, two-hours-per-week course on Shakespeare to adults over fifty.
This would be my first experience as a teacher. I was not a Shakespeare scholar. At the age of sixty-seven, I was embarking on what might turn out to be a new career, a reinvention of myself.
The thrills and chills accompanying a journey into the unpredictable were escalating into the queasiness and near-panic of that primal terror, stage fright. I felt I had to bedazzle the audience that awaited me; I needed to prove myself as someone capable of bringing the work of Shakespeare dramatically alive for mature students, filling his plays with an immediacy that would make them resonate in the hearts and minds of the class as it had in mine during a recent period of obsessive self-instruction. Moreover, I wanted these people to adore me.
I'd been rehearsing the introductory lecture for two weeks, day and night, to the point where I knew much of it from memory, and I began reciting it aloud as I drove west on Bloomfield Avenue, through the town of Verona, no less, toward another beginning: "I'm Herman Gollob, and I'll be your guide for the next two months on a magical mystery tour of what Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the Planet Shakespeare."
The noted and notably idiosyncratic twentieth-century man of letters Ford Madox Ford once referred to himself as an old man made mad by a love of writing. I'd become an old man made mad by a love of Shakespeare.
How had it happened?
Early in the spring of 1995, I decided to retire in July, when I turned sixty-five. For more than thirty-five years I'd been editing books for a variety of publishers in various capacities, some of them managerial, and I'd ultimately maneuvered myself into the executive hierarchy as a senior vice-president.
A certain weariness had begun to overtake me. In fact, I'd begun to resemble my briefcase: outside, battered and worn; inside, musty and cluttered. In a short story by the singularly gifted and, alas, recently deceased American writer Andre Dubus, an editor is haunted by the idea that he carries around an author's dreams in his briefcase. But in reality he also carries, all too often, evidence of an author's unfulfilled promise, unrealized expectations, and irremediable incompetence. T. S. Eliot, in one of his Four Quartets, "East Coker," described writing as "a raid on the inarticulate / With shabby equipment always deteriorating," and I discovered that in my case Eliot could just as well have been describing the editorial process.
For some time the fun had gone out of publishing. My competitive fires were banked; the hunger to acquire new books, the thrill at discovering new authors and championing them inside the company and in the Darwinian world of commerce, had subsided. Worse, I'd begun to greet submissions from agents not with a sense of expectancy but with resentment: why was I being asked to consider yet another lame and halt manuscript that would have been better served had it been placed into the hands of a faith healer? My career was no longer an adventure in the exciting and political New York literary scene, crackling with suspense, but a recurring cycle of the predictable and familiar. Again, T. S. Eliot seemed to be speaking to me, in yet another of his quartets, "Little Gidding":
Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age
To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort.
First, the cold friction of expiring sense
Without enchantment, offering no promise
But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit. . . .
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment
Of all that you have done. . . .
In compensation, I'd entered what Erik Erikson terms "the stage of generativity," the concern for guiding the next generation. I'd become the tribal elder, fifteen years older than the next oldest colleague and old enough to be the father of many of the rest. I'd evolved into something of a mentor, and this I did relish. But it wasn't enough to fill the day, or the spirit, and I didn't want to find myself changing from Jethro, Moses' sage counselor and father-in-law, into Falstaff, an old reprobate roistering with young bloods and recalling the chimes at midnight.
Publishing was no longer a country for old men? Was it ever?
It was time to retire.
My decision coincided with Passover. At our Seder, my wife, Barbara, asked our guests to describe how they were released from some form of bondage during the past year. I said I'd been delivered from bondage to a career, and someone at the table quipped, "Yes, and now it's time for those forty years in the desert."
But I didn't envision retirement as a sojourn, lonely and afraid, in a sterile and forbidden realm. It would be my very own Messianic Age, a time of peace and contentment and goodwill to all, my career not extinct but resurrected in a Higher Form. I would avoid the grind of indiscriminate freelancing and hire out as a samurai editor exclusively for manuscripts I thought worth the effort, some of which I'd acquired on the basis of prospectuses while still on the job and which had yet to be completed. I would spend more time as a hospice volunteer, a community service I'd undertaken three years previously, hoping to give the kind of comfort to those in the final stages of cancer that I'd been unable to devote to my proud and stubborn old father, who, when stricken with prostate cancer at the age of eighty-one, remained by his own choice in Houston, Texas, where he'd lived most of his life, too far for any regular hands-on care and comfort from me.
Mainly, though, I would loaf and invite my soul. I would read that library of books, watch that hoard of videotapes, listen to that cache of CDs I'd amassed for this paradisiacal era.
It would be a time of self-enlightenment, self-enlargement. "A lot of 'selfs' in there," Barbara noted when I described this Grand Design to her. "Yes," I replied, "I'm going to think only of myself." Her answer: a raised eyebrow, implying, "So what's new?" She had once observed that I was at once the most self-absorbed and least introspective person she'd ever known. In truth, I constantly thought about myself: what I was doing, where I was going, who was with me, who was against me, how did I look, how did I feel, etc., etc. But rarely did I give a thought to the who of me, the why of me. Years ago, in my forties, a friend of mine who'd been in analysis for decades asked me why I'd never been curious about taking a guided tour of my psyche. "A therapist named Karen Horney wrote a book titled The Neurotic Personality of Our Time. She could have had you in mind, Herm." He suggested I make an appointment with his therapist, a woman whom he described as pragmatic and hard-nosed. Suspending my profound skepticism about psychoanalysis, which too often, it seemed to me, kept self-indulgent narcissists locked in perpetual and fruitless treatment, I decided at least to test the waters.
At my first session, the doctor, middle-aged, with short brown hair cut in bangs, and a faint Teutonic accent (perfect!), asked me to tell her about my mother and father. "That's personal," I said.
"I beg your pardon?" she replied, with a slight smile; surely I jested.
But I was deadly serious, irked that someone I'd just met, psychiatrist or no, expected me to open up with guns blazing at my parents. "I said that's personal. Private. I don't talk to strangers about my mama and daddy."
"But psychiatry is all about the personal and private. It's about reaching those areas you've kept personal and private all too long. If you resist doing this, we're wasting our time, and your money. And I won't be a stranger to you for long."
That's where you're wrong, lady, I thought. You'll always be a stranger to me. But I said, "Thanks, but I'm not ready for this." So ended my brief interlude on the couch.
And here I was, sixty-five, self-absorbed and nonintrospective. Was it too late to reverse this trait? Appropriately enough, the process had begun when I encountered, a few weeks before retiring, that enduringly fascinating and enigmatic soul-searcher Prince Hamlet of Denmark, portrayed on the New York stage by Ralph Fiennes in a production that had become all the rage in London and now on Broadway. Swept up in the excitement generated by the press, I actually stood in line for over an hour to buy tickets at the box office a few days after the play opened. Waiting for my turn at the window, I realized with a certain shock that I'd never seen a stage performance of Hamlet, not even Richard Burton's in the mid-sixties. Why had I missed that one? I couldn't recall. Of course there were the film Hamlets: Laurence Olivier, Nicol Williamson, Mel Gibson. Gibson's I'd avoided--perhaps out of snobbery (I mean, after all, he's not a classic actor) or just plain indifference. Williamson's mercurial prince I'd seen in the 1970s, in the gripping production directed by Tony Richardson, with Anthony Hopkins as an energetic, youthful, and not unlikable Claudius. And Olivier's, the first of the movie Hamlets, was one of the monumental artistic and commercial triumphs of the 1940s, creating a sensation which exceeded that enjoyed by the recent Shakespeare in Love, and catapulted Olivier onto the cover of Time.
So pervasive had been the success of Olivier's Hamlet, which he also directed, that it even managed to infiltrate the rural precincts of College Station, home of Texas A&M, in those days a military college, where I was a sophomore. It drew long lines at the campus theatre, called the Campus Theatre (no-nonsense nomenclature prevailing in a military environment).
The night I saw Hamlet, I returned to my quarters to find my roommate at the time, Sam Tom Stackhouse, swilling a Coke (he consumed about a dozen a day) and poring over an encyclopedia published in 1879, a gift from his grandmother, a family heirloom, I imagined, which he used largely to the exclusion of his textbooks and which may have contributed to his failing several of his courses. Sam Tom hailed from a small town in central Texas. Sam Tom was six feet two inches tall and athletic. He'd rejected a basketball scholarship to Texas A&M because he no longer enjoyed the discipline and demand of organized sports. He wanted to play games just for the fun of it all, much to the displeasure of his daddy, who'd been a guard on the Aggie football team back in the twenties, and of the coaches, who constantly pressured him to change his mind. He was inherently smart but essentially uneducated: the academic standards at his high school were not taxing, however, and he'd graduated as class valedictorian. When I entered our room, he looked up from his book of wisdom and asked where I'd been. I replied that I'd just seen Hamlet. "What's that?" he said, not a question you might anticipate from a class valedictorian in most schools. I explained that it was the story of a young guy whose uncle had murdered his father, prompting the guy to seek revenge. Also, the uncle had married the guy's mother and had probably been fucking her before the murder. "Does the guy get killed in the end?" asked Sam Tom.
This was not an idle question. Sam Tom avoided any movie in which the hero was slain; he could not endure the deaths of good guys--it was not the way the world was supposed to be.
I thought for a moment before answering Sam Tom. Then I said no, Hamlet does not get killed. It was a white lie: I didn't want to deprive him of a significant cultural experience. I only hoped he wouldn't search for a reference to Hamlet in his trusty encyclopedia, but then again, the editors of that volume might have considered Hamlet too esoteric for their readership.
So off went Sam Tom to the Campus Theatre, returning in a few hours in a tearful rage. "Goddamn you, roommate, you told me the fucking guy didn't get killed!" He had experienced pure catharsis. Unlike those of us who have read the play long before seeing it for the first time, Sam Tom had been the naive spectator, unaware of what was going to happen next, held in suspense until those final heartrending moments, expecting that any second a doctor would rush in with an antidote for the poison: "Here, son, take a swig of this and you'll feel better in no time." More to the point, he had a better reason to identify with Hamlet than most adolescents.
When I'd first met Sam Tom, he'd told me that his father was the mailman in town, and I concluded that despite his Aggie education, or perhaps because of it, Daddy was some dog-ass sharecropper who needed to earn the extra pennies by toting Sears catalogs to his equally dog-ass neighbors. Then I discovered that he was a prosperous farmer who simply dropped off the mail as a favor to his tenants, who constituted most of the town's population. Sam Tom very likely saw in Hamlet an image of himself, a teenager enduring the rites of passage, pressured by his powerful father and the macho ethos of the state to do something against his nature--play college sports.
Standing in line at a New York theatre, recalling that episode at Aggieland almost fifty years in the past, I considered myself not that far removed from old Sam Tom in my innocence about things Shakespearean. An English major, I'd taken the obligatory Shakespeare course, but it was only a semester, and there was much we'd neglected, especially the so-called romances--Cymbeline, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale, which I'd yet to read. Ditto Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, and Coriolanus. I could count on the fingers of one hand the Shakespeare dramas I'd seen onstage: Antony and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in their acclaimed 1951 New York production; Much Ado About Nothing with John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton, in a tent theatre on the banks of the Charles River in Boston; Romeo and Juliet, starring John Barrymore, Jr., and of all people Margaret O'Brien (still pronouncing r as w: Womeo, Womeo) at the Pasadena Playhouse; Macbeth, directed by and starring Nicol Williamson at Circle in the Square, New York, a fiasco of almost farcical proportions; and Othello, starring James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer at the American Festival Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut. Not once had I ventured to the New York Shakespeare Festival, indoors or in Central Park, which means I'd missed among other treats George C. Scott's Richard III, an exuberant Much Ado set in late-nineteenth-century America and starring Sam Waterston, and a production of Hamlet also starring Mr. Waterston. I scored higher when it came to Shakespeare on film: the Olivier productions, Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear; Franco Zefferelli's peerless Romeo and Juliet; Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar, with matchless performances by John Gielgud as Cassius and a much-underrated Marlon Brando as Mark Antony; Trevor Nunn's made-for-TV Antony and Cleopatra, surely the most perfect rendition attainable, with Richard Johnson, Janet Suzman, Patrick Stewart, and Corin Redgrave. And oh yes, years ago I'd seen the Hallmark Hall of Fame's televised Macbeth, starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson.
Me and Shakespeare: Adventures With the Bard
- Genres: Literature
- hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday


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Got home at about 4pm, after Colin and his mom dropped me off, and I just crashed out onto the couch immediately! Basically slept there till 2am. Dad woke me up for dinner and stuff, but I immediately went back to sleep after I was done eating. Dad left to his usual Monday night meeting and got back at 2am. So I slept real well! Then I chatted with dad for a bit and went into my own bed at about 3:30am and woke up at 6:30am this morning. Not good waking up that late, but whatever.
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1) Group size, both in the classroom and on the playground (CDHS rules and regs)
2) CPP funding and class size (CPP)
3) Waivers for chokables and glass - seems like there are new confusions about whether waivers allow schools to include children under 3 in EC classrooms. There are also questions about now long waivers are good for. Sounds like all waivers written before the news rules package much be renewed. (CDHS - rules and regs) It sounds like all waivers moving forward will have an expiration date on them, meaning that programs will have to write for waivers over and over again, a costly and time consuming process which will certainly deter some schools from even bothering with it.
4) Shaken Baby Training - schools feel the training is for the wrong teachers, and some don't like that it is only available online through Colorado Shines It seems like there may be an issue some schools have with the PDIS system but that didn't come up directly.
5) There are definitely issues with the PDIS system: concerns about privacy (have to enter a lot of personal data online), difficulty getting all staff to participate This adds a huge administrative headache both getting staff set up initially and also keeping up with the school information on the flip side. This is just another layer of administrative tasks that directors (especially of small schools) don't have time to add to their plates.
6) Starting a child in an EC classroom the day he/she turns three is developmentally unsound - we know how to do it better but can't currently use developmental guidelines without breaking law) This really affects schools that don't have a waiver for 2 1/2 - 3 year olds using breakables and choke-ables. But, here again, even if you do have a waiver you have to re-apply for the waiver each time it expires.
7) The "Sponge Thing", which is seen as an example of over-regulation.
8) Many directors believe the subjectivity of various licensing specialists is a big issue, as well as an over-dependence on rules and regs instead of common sense judgments.
9) Directors who are in the classroom must hire office help to cover them during that time. It's very difficult for a small school to manage that financially.
10) Staff vaccinations required (no personal exemptions allowed). There seems to be some confusion about this.
11) New nutritional guidelines that are not based on current scientific research (particularly whole-milk vs non-fat milk regulations are out of date).
12) There is a lot of sadness about the chicken in schools issue.
13) We were surprised that the Colorado Shines tiered system didn't come up. That seems like a core issue.
14) DOL issues - use of volunteers in schools and how early childhood and toddler teachers are categorized by the DOL. (Some employment attorney have advised that this just applies to infant-toddler teachers.)
The common theme seems to be extreme and over-reaching regulation from multiple agencies that has become an impossible burden on the schools. In many cases he oversight is really extreme and somewhat random (like the sponges and the non-fat milk). Small schools can't succeed at it, and even schools like ours struggle to keep up.


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An attractive and unmistakable species of cockatoo, the galah is a familiar sight across much of Australia. The galah is a very easy bird to identify from other cockatoo species by its very distinctive pink and grey plumage.
This pretty bird typically forages on the ground, where it is fond upon a range of seeds, including cereals and grasses. This species of parrot makes its nests within the holes of eucalyptus trees and will use the leaves of this tree to line its nest. Although this species may potentially help to control certain weeds, it can also do considerable damage to agricultural crops. This bird is a very widespread cockatoo species, covering vast swathes of Australia, including some offshore islands. It has also been introduced to Tasmania, where the first recorded breeding attempt was in 1925.
IUCN Red List Category– Least Concern
The orange-winged amazon, or as it is known locally, the loro guaro, is a large amazon parrot. It is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America, from Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. Its predominant habitat is thick, lush forests but it can also be found in more open areas.
Although common, it is facing threats due to its classification as an agricultural pest and also by overexploitation for the pet trade as well as being hunted as a source of food. The orange-winged amazons are noisy birds and make loud, high-pitched calls as you are probably aware by now. This bird is fond of fruit and seeds, including the fruit of palm trees and sometimes cocoa. It roosts communally in trees often in large numbers where they can be seen at both dawn and dusk. Thanks to escapees the species is now becoming common as a feral bird in the Miami, Florida area and there are also colonies in London too.
IUCN Red List Category– Least concern
The African grey parrot is famous for its intelligence and ability to mimic human speech, making it one of the most popular of all avian pets. One of the largest parrots in Africa, the African grey parrot has pale grey plumage, with whitish edges to the feathers on the head and neck, which give a lacy or 'scalloped' appearance.
The diet of the African Grey consists of seeds, fruit and grains. The species has a wide distribution across tropical Africa, from south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire east to Kenya and Tanzania, and south to Angola, including populations on the islands of Príncipe and São Tomé. African Greys reside within primary and secondary forests but can occasionally be found on woodland edges, mangrove forests and even out on the savannah grasslands.
IUCN Red List Category– Vulnerable
The superb parrot is a brilliant green parrot with a distinctively long, slender, graduated tail and a swift and graceful flight. Male birds have a fantastic yellow face with a red throat patch whilst the female is duller in appearance.
The green body is duller than the male with the face being a bluish-green. The superb parrot is mostly active in the early morning and late afternoon, when it feeds on the seeds of grasses and plants, fruits, berries, nectar, flowers and occasionally insects. It finds this food whilst foraging on the ground, in shrubs, the understorey and high up in the trees. These social birds often feed in pairs or small flocks.
IUCN Red List Category– Least Concern
The smallest species of cockatoo, the cockatiel is most familiar to many as a popular cage bird. The cockatiel is the only species in its genus, and in its native range of Australia it is one of the most widespread of all cockatoos.
The diet of this charismatic bird consists primarily of seeds, although it will also take berries, other fruits and sometimes even nectar. This chirpy species also feeds on crops such as sorghum, wheat and sunflowers, and, as a result, is considered an agricultural pest in some areas. The cockatiel occurs in a variety of open habitats, although it generally prefers those that are lightly wooded and close to a source of freshwater.
IUCN Red List Category– Least Concern
The Blue and Yellow Macaw as its name would suggest has blue wings and tail, a black chin, golden underparts and a green forehead. Their beaks are extremely strong, a design that helps massively in crushing nuts and seeds.
In the wild, Blue and Yellow Macaws eat palm fruit and the fruits of many other trees but one of their favorite foods is the seeds of the Hura crepitans tree. They usually gather at communal roosts which is often some distance from where the birds forage for food throughout the day. These macaws regularly gather at clay licks to eat mineral and salt bearing clay, which is found on river banks. This is thought to neutralize the toxins found within the fruit and seeds that they eat and may also act as a source of sodium.
IUCN Red List Category– Least Concern
With its large size, vibrant plumage and raucous calls, the scarlet macaw is one of the most colourful and charismatic of all birds. Most feeding takes place high up in the canopy of this birds' rainforest habitat.
The diet consists of a range of fruits, seeds, nuts and even nectar. Often the food that they eat contain toxins which are more than capable of causing death and at the very least cause the bird to become very ill. To prevent this, the Macaws visit exposed river banks, or 'clay licks', to actively ingest clay, a behaviour known as geophagy. The clay they ingest neutralises the toxic compounds present in the diet and may also provide a sodium supplement (a nutrient in short supply in the wild). The scarlet macaw is potentially long-lived, with a lifespan of up to 60 years or more.
IUCN Red List Category– Least Concern
A popular cage bird, the military macaw's wild population is rapidly diminishing as more and more birds are being captured for this exact reason.
Military macaws have bright green plumage, with vibrant red head feathers and a black beak, with blue and red tail feathers and bright blue flight feathers this bird makes for a very colourful appearance. It is this bright and colourful appearance that is also its downfall. Usually found in pairs or in small flocks, the military macaw feeds on seeds, nuts, berries and fruit. The military macaw's range is widespread but sporadic, occupying small areas of Central and South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
IUCN Red List Category– Vulnerable
Ethereal and ghost-like, the barn owl (Tyto alba) has golden-grey coloured upperparts, and pure white underparts. The heart-shaped facial disc is made up of robust feathers that act as a funnel for sound, filtering it towards the ears.
The birds flight is completely silent thanks to the serrated edges, these break up the airflow over the birds wing and aloow the bird to flap its wings without making a sound. Studies have shown that the Barn Owl is able to capture prey even in complete darkness. This remarkable ability is due to the birds fantastic hearing. The ears are placed asymmetrically on the head so that sounds reach the ears at slightly different times, allowing pinpoint accuracy through hearing alone. Barns owl are birds of open country, flying low along field edges, riverbanks and roadside verges where it hunts for animals such as mice, voles and shrews.
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This article Copyright 1996, 2000, 2002, Ann Ferrar. Adapted from Hear Me Roar. All rights reserved.
The life and times of African-American motorcycling pioneer Bessie B. Stringfield seem like the stuff of which legends are made. In 1990, when the AMA opened the first Motorcycle Heritage Museum, Bessie was featured in its inaugural exhibit on Women in Motorcycling. A decade later, the AMA instituted the Bessie Stringfield Award to honor women who are leaders in motorcycling. And in 2002, she was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Bessie – BB as she was known among friends – would probably be amused and yet proud of all the attention. Referring to her adventures and her 60-plus years of riding, she once quipped: "I was somethin'! What I did was fun and I loved it."
In the 1930s and 1940s, Bessie took eight long-distance, solo rides across the United States. Speaking to a reporter, she dismissed the notion that "nice girls didn't go around riding motorcycles in those days." Further, she was apparently fearless at riding through the Deep South when racial prejudice was a tangible threat. Was Bessie consciously championing the rights of women and African-Americans? Bessie would most likely have said she was simply living her life in her own way.
In interviews for Hear Me Roar, Bessie revealed how she drew courage from two things: Her Catholic faith in Jesus Christ, whom she called "The Man Upstairs," and the values she learned from her adoptive mother.
Early on, Bessie had to steel herself against life's disappointments. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1911, as a child she was brought to Boston but was orphaned by age 5.
"An Irish lady raised me," she recalled. "I'm not allowed to use her name. She gave me whatever I wanted. When I was in high school I wanted a motorcycle. And even though good girls didn't ride motorcycles, I got one."
She was 16 when she climbed aboard her first bike, a 1928 Indian Scout. With no prior knowledge of how to operate the controls, Bessie proved to be a natural. She insisted that the Man Upstairs gave her the skills.
"My [Irish] mother said if I wanted anything I had to ask Our Lord Jesus Christ, and so I did," she said. "He taught me and He's with me at all times, even now. When I get on the motorcycle I put the Man Upstairs on the front. I'm very happy on two wheels."
She was especially happy on Milwaukee iron. Her one Indian notwithstanding, Bessie said of the 27 Harleys she owned in her lifetime, "To me, a Harley is the only motorcycle ever made."
At 19, she began tossing a penny over a map and riding to wherever it landed. Bessie covered the 48 lower states. Using her natural skills and can-do attitude, she did hill climbing and trick riding in carnival stunt shows. But it was her faith that got her through many nights.
"If you had black skin you couldn't get a place to stay," she said. "I knew the Lord would take care of me and He did. If I found black folks, I'd stay with them. If not, I'd sleep at filling stations on my motorcycle." She laid her jacket on the handlebars as a pillow and rested her feet on the rear fender.
In between her travels, Bessie wed and divorced six times, declaring, "If you kissed, you got married." After she and her first husband were deeply saddened by the loss of three babies, Bessie had no more children. Upon divorcing her third husband, Arthur Stringfield, she said, "He asked me to keep his name because I'd made it famous!"
During World War II, Bessie worked for the army as a civilian motorcycle dispatch rider. The only woman in her unit, she completed rigorous training maneuvers. She learned how to weave a makeshift bridge from rope and tree limbs to cross swamps, though she never had to do so in the line of duty. With a military crest on the front of her own blue Harley, a "61," she carried documents between domestic bases.
Bessie encountered racial prejudice on the road. One time she was followed by a man in a pickup truck who ran her off the road, knocking her off her bike. She downplayed her courage in coping with such incidents. "I had my ups and downs," she shrugged.
In the 1950s, Bessie bought a house in a Miami, Florida suburb. She became a licensed practical nurse and founded the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club. Disguised as a man, Bessie won a flat track race but was denied the prize money when she took off her helmet. Her other antics – such as riding while standing in the saddle of her Harley – attracted the local press. Reporters called her the "Negro Motorcycle Queen" and later the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami." In the absence of children, Bessie found joy in her pet dogs, some of whom paraded with her on her motorcycle.
Late in life, Bessie suffered from symptoms caused by an enlarged heart. "Years ago the doctor wanted to stop me from riding," she recalled. "I told him if I don't ride, I won't live long. And so I never did quit."
Before she died in 1993 at the age of 82, Bessie said, "They tell me my heart is three times the size it's supposed to be." An apt metaphor for this unconventional woman whose heart and spirited determination have touched so many lives. She was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2002. – Ann Ferrar


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The UK's most senior police officer arrived at Scotland Yard to find the Metropolitan police in an "unstable state" and "wary" about its relationship with the media following the phone-hacking scandal and two high-profile departures, the Leveson inquiry has heard.
Bernard Hogan-Howe, who was appointed Met commissioner last September, said he found clear concerns over the force's handling of the phone-hacking affair as he began the job.
"The whole team at the top was in quite a lot of flux," he said, adding that the departures of his predecessor, Sir Paul Stephenson, and assistant commissioner John Yates – the man who led the 2009 hacking review – had affected the organisation.
Hogan-Howe also admitted he had been surprised by the extent of the some officers' relationships with the press.
"I was probably unsurprised by the fact that there was some contact and some of it was social – I think probably in many organisations it would have been something that people might have expected. But probably the frequency of it and the extent, I think that's the thing that's been a surprise," he told Lord Justice Leveson.
As a result, he said, the Met had re-examined its dealings with the press and amended its behaviour accordingly. He acknowledged that there was now less socialising with members of the Crime Reporters' Association, but said he did not accept journalists' suggestions that the relationship between Scotland Yard and Fleet Street had become "more austere" or that "the flow of informal information" had dried up. He pointed to regular press briefings and the work officers did around court cases and with the local press.
"What I don't want to encourage is leaks," he said. "It's about trying to make sure that inappropriate relationships don't develop. That's what we're trying to stop."
For too long, he said, the focus had been on human interest stories rather than stories that served the public interest. Although most journalists knew there was no point in pushing police so hard that it interfered with the criminal justice process, he said, there was inevitable tension between reporters and officers about how much information should be released. While he said a good "adult debate" over the flow of information was welcome and necessary, he said detectives should never identify suspects or brief about them unless there was a real possibility that such information would help the police catch them and stop them committing further crimes.
Hogan-Howe said it was normal for police and journalists to meet and share a coffee or a meal, but warned that the presence of alcohol on such occasions raised questions.
"The question is around their social interaction and if complicated by alcohol, it seems to me there is a risk that in fact their judgment is clouded and the relationship develops in a different way," he said.
He said he would never argue for every leak to be investigated – "I think you can drive yourself barmy, if we did that" – but said serious information breaches had to be dealt with.
The commissioner also said that people needed to remember that the police were fallible and had to balance their investigations with their relationships with the organisations – be they newspapers, local authorities, or the security services – that they found themselves compelled to investigate.
"It's not an easy line to draw and we try hard to get that right," he said. "I can't sit here and say it's an easy line to draw … We have to make our way through it quite carefully."
Hogan-Howe concluded his evidence by saying he hoped the inquiry would help the police and the press find a mutually beneficial way to work together.
"I want a good, challenging relationship with the press," he said. "But I do not want us to be left in a position where our integrity is perceived to be compromised."
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Red Hat Inc. RHT, +0.00% shares jumped more than 9% in after-hours trading Tuesday following a quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and raised projections for the year, sending prices to levels unseen since the dot-com boom went bust. The open-source tech-infrastructure company reported net income of $73.2 million, or 40 cents a share, on sales of $676.8 million for the first quarter of its 2018 fiscal year. After adjustments for stock-based compensation and other effects, Red Hat claimed profit of 56 cents a share. Analysts on average expected Red Hat to report adjusted earnings of 53 cents a share on sales of $648 million, according to FactSet, and the company had guided for adjusted profit of 52 cents to 53 cents a share. Red Hat also increased its guidance for profit and revenue for the full fiscal year; adjusted earnings are now expected to fall in a range of $2.66 to $2.70 a share, up from a previous range of $2.60 to $2.64 a share, and sales are expected to finish the fiscal year at $2.785 billion to $2.825 billion, increased from a previous range of $2.72 billion to $2.76 billion. Red Hat stock rocketed to more than $98.50 after closing with a 0.4% decline at $89.96; shares have not topped $92.49 in regular trading since early 2000.
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These folding clothes rails are useful for everything from exhibitions to regular storage in the home thanks to their portability and ease-of-use. They simply fold away into a neat carry bag.
Quick to fold down and put up, and easily stored inside special clothes rail carry bags, these rails are ideal for trade exhibitions and shows because they are easy to set up, pack away, and don't take up too much floor space. These clothes rails have side extension arms and castors with brakes on them, and come in chrome as standard, but can also be sprayed a bespoke colour if needed.


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As part of the Diocesan Marian Year and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church in Leeds will be hosting a one-day conference on the message of Our Lady of Fatima on Saturday, July 8. The guest speakers will be Sister Rita Marie of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word and author and EWTN host Donna Marie Cooper-O'Boyle.
The day will begin at 9 a.m. and will conclude with a celebration of the anticipated Sunday Mass at 5 p.m. Lunch will be provided. There will also be opportunities for prayer and confession. To register call 205-352-3741. The event is free of charge but an offering will be collected. The church is located at 1394 Ashville Court, Leeds.


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'What the Hell Are You Doing with Your Car?'
George Lucas: Started in Ships Management in the Fall of 1953
Because of my position, I was allowed to drive my car into the shipyard and park it. But the fellas down there –
You know a Volkswagen is a small thing. They'd roll it someplace where it shouldn't be and lock it with chains. And then they'd call the yard superintendent and say, "We can't get this job done because there's a car parked where we need to go."
I can still remember hearing over the speaker, "Lucas, come up to the office!" I'd go up and it would be, "What the hell are you doing with your car?"
Another time they put it on the roof of the sheet metal shop with the crane and left it there. I couldn't find the car when I left work. Then they hung it right over the river so the tires were just touching on the surface of the water. When the shift ended they left it there. The crane operator walked out and went home.
Then a bunch of guys lifted it and put it over by the cranes in the North Yard. They jacked it up with some blocks under the axles so that the car looked like it was sitting on the ground. I got in it at the end of the shift. They were upstairs in the North Yard Pipe Shop, all staring out the window watching.
I put it in gear, I pushed the accelerator and nothing happened. I got out of the car, looked around and everything looked alright. Finally I had the car in gear and stepped out of it. The wheels were turning. They were in hysterics up above watching me.


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The Biggest Reason For NCIS Phenomenal Success That Lasts Through Season 17
You know that feeling you get when a show you've been keeping up with for years has come to an end? We know - it's almost unbearable. Some of our favorite television series ends up becoming a part of our lives, and it's hard to say goodbye when they get canceled. Alas, this is a problem that NCIS fans don't have to worry about. In fact, fans were ecstatic to hear that the show's been recently renewed for season 17. With an amazing, award-winning cast, and a plot that always keeps its viewers on their toes, the series has become legendary.
So, what is it that makes it so popular? It seems so real most of the time, that viewers begin to question whether the show is inspired by real events or not. Does the NCIS really exist? We're going to answer some of the most popular questions asked about the infamous television series.
This is NOT a DRILL! Season 17.. OFFICIALLY a GO. So proud of our family and crew.. and to you the fans and supporters! We LOVE you! #NCIS— Wilmer Valderrama (@WValderrama) April 11, 2019
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According to CBS president, Kelly Kahl, it was the fans' dedication that fuelled the renewal of a new season:
"NCIS has been a global juggernaut for almost two decades," said Kelly Kahl, President, CBS Entertainment. "Its viewers are clearly the most loyal of any drama on television. They are passionate about the characters, the plot lines, and the storytelling.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the gifted production team, and the cast, led by the extraordinary Mark Harmon. We are delighted that the show will remain a lynchpin of the CBS schedule this coming season."
And there's a good reason for the fans' addiction. NCIS' does an amazing job at portraying military investigations in a realistic manner. On top of that, the characters in the show are super interesting to keep up with, too, so the show has plenty to offer to it fans. In fact, the series has even been praised by agents at the NCIS in Washington D.C. for being very realistic and portraying their work well. Of course, as with most true-crime shows, some parts have been changed for dramatic effect. Real or not, people are looking for their fix of entertainment when turning on the TV.
Two words that are used to describe the characters and cast of the show are 'well-developed' and 'multi-dimensional.' Some of our OG characters, such as Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by Mark Harmon and Timothy McGee played by Sean Murray, have been a part of the project since the very beginning. Being such a long-running show, many other characters have been added to the crew as well - such as Nick Torres played by Wilmer Valderrama. Despite the fact that they're a new addition, fans have welcomed the characters with open arms. Every character has something unique to offer.
And trust us, the cast of the show is just as excited as the fans are. Posted on the official NCIS Twitter account, the crew decided to share a special message with its fans, sharing a couple of short (but important) words:
Wilmer Valderrama: Hey, a little video from the set here with the agents. Officially, next year coming back. Mark, a few words for the fans....
Mark Harmon: Thank you.
Emily Wickersham [points at Mark]: What he said.
Wilmer: Sean?
Sean Murray: Thank you very much!
Wilmer: We love you guys!
Clearly, the cast wants to acknowledge the NCIS fans' support, loyalty, and ongoing viewership as well.
A question that almost every viewer begins to ask, is whether the NCIS agency actually exists. As a matter of fact, it does! Its found within the Department of the Navy. The agency's website states that the department consists of about two-thousand personnel and more than one thousand Special Agents. The agency operates in over forty-one countries and constantly works to pioneer information-sharing between governments organizations and departments.
If we're getting into the specifics, the real NCIS is actually a civilian agency, that contains four areas of expertise. These four areas include criminal investigations, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and cyber. From what we've gathered, it seems like the show does a great job in playing it close to real life - at least, judging from the way the agents process criminal investigations.
Some rules are meant to be broken. #NCIS pic.twitter.com/G1HytcrAMx— NCIS (@NCIS_CBS) February 13, 2019
Overall, the series perfectly combines true stories with excitement, creating a fast-paced nature within the show. Documentaries on their own aren't the most entertaining to watch, and producers know that. Which is exactly why the show has been one of the most successful series', year after year.
When you wish #NCIS Tuesdays were everyday... pic.twitter.com/cwUSkpxSs4— NCIS (@NCIS_CBS) February 20, 2019
Read more: The Most Famous 'NCIS' Guest Stars Throughout The Show That Many Of Us Are Likely To Have Missed
As we've mentioned before, fans were pumped to find out that the show was renewed for a seventeenth season. However, it hasn't been smooth sailing. The series has gone through a number of ups and downs, including recent departures of some of our favorite characters - such as Pauley Perrette and Duane Henry. Despite the fact, fans have remained loyal and are still tuning in to watch.
Since the premiere in September 2003, NCIS has won multiple awards and earned numerous nominations. This includes several Emmy Awards, People's Choice Awards, and ALMA Awards. And when we look at the ratings and reviews of the show, nothing else needs to be explained - they speak for themselves. It doesn't look like NCIS will be going anywhere anytime soon.
When someone says #NCIS is their favorite show: pic.twitter.com/F3WdyMnQ7I— NCIS (@NCIS_CBS) February 20, 2019
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After running for so many years, it's become a part of people's lives and has allowed them to delve into a world they wouldn't be able to otherwise. Unlike many other cheesy and overly dramatic shows, NCIS gives us the perfect amount of drama and intrigue. It is truly unique from everything else that's currently airing. And, the fact that it's based on a real-life agency just makes it that much better.
For crime fans, there's no doubt whatsoever that NCIS has it all and millions of fans are rejoicing at the news of the renewal. And, honestly, if you haven't given the series a shot - it really seems like now's the time. With 16 million viewers tuning in to per episode, it seems like NCIS has a lot to offer. Are you a fan of the show? Which show renewals were you most excited about? Let us know in the comments below! And make sure to check out our related articles for the latest updates.
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Over on VirtualDreamcast.com (my website all about Dreamcast emulation) I've just added a tutorial that covers transferring save games from a real Dreamcast console to a PC.
If you owned a Dreamcast back in the day or if you still play on yours now, chances are you have filled a VMU memory unit or two with save games. There are lots of reasons why you might want to transfer this data to the PC. Having a backup of your save games on your PC is never a bad idea, older memory cards can and do fail, after all. Furthermore, wouldn't it be great to revisit some of those save games on the emulator? You could revisit your favourite titles in HD without the need to unlock all the extra levels or features you played so hard to unlock back when the Dreamcast was new.
To transfer save games you need a working Dreamcast console, a SD card reader and a copy of Dreamshell. Once you have all of those things, the process is fairly easy. Check out the full tutorial here for details of what to do.


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Contact information
- Dr Mairéad McAuley
- Admissions Tutor
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- +44 (0)20 7679 4571
Students on this flexible three-year programme may choose from a vast range of modules covering ancient history, literature, languages and archaeology. It offers great flexibility in the possible combination of modules and provides an entry to the classics for those who have not studied Greek or Latin at school.
For entry requirements with other UK qualifications accepted by UCL, choose your qualification from the list below:
Not acceptable for entrance to this programme
Pass in Access to HE Diploma, with a minimum of 18 credits awarded with Distinction in the Level 3 units, the remainder of the Level 3 units awarded with Merit.
D3,D3,M1 in three Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects
A,A,B at Advanced Highers (or A,A at Advanced Higher and B,B,B at Higher)
Successful completion of the WBQ Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate plus 2 GCE A-Levels at grades AAB.
In addition to A level and International Baccalaureate, UCL considers a wide range of international qualifications for entry to its undergraduate degree programmes.
UCL Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are intensive one-year foundation courses for international students of high academic potential who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree programmes at UCL and other top UK universities.
Typical UPC students will be high achievers in a 12-year school system which does not meet the standard required for direct entry to UCL.
For more information see: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc.
If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency. Information about the evidence required, acceptable qualifications and test providers can be found on our English language requirements page.
The English language level for this programme is: Advanced
A variety of English language programmes are offered at the UCL Centre for Languages & International Education.
UCL is ranked in the top three universities in the UK for Classics by the Guardian University Guide 2018.
You will have access to an unparalleled range of course options, from Roman Love Poetry to Greek Palaeography, from Ancient Greek Religion to Roman Epic.
UCL has excellent library facilities, and is ideally situated close to world-renowned resources such as the British Museum, the British Library, and the Institute of Classical Studies.
The lively student-run Classical Society organises an annual Classics play (a Greek or Latin drama in translation) shown at the nearby Bloomsbury Theatre, as well as other events.
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
This flexible programme offers an almost entirely free choice of modules covering classical literature, history and archaeology, and does not require prior knowledge of Greek or Latin. In the first year, all students must take at least 1.0 credit of either Latin or Greek – they continue with this same language in the next year to complete the 1.5 credit requirement. All students must take one history module and one archaeology module in their first year and there is also a compulsory module on the ancient world. In the third year, students must take an Extended Essay module.
An indicative guide to the structure of this programme, year by year.
Approaches to the Ancient World
1.0 credit of Latin or Greek
You will select 2.5 credits from a wide range of optional modules, to include:
at least one archaeology module
at least one history module.
0.5 credits of the Ancient Language chosen in the first year.
You will select 3.5 credits from a wide range of optional modules.
Essay on an approved subject.
You will select 3.5 credits from a wide range of optional modules.
You will be taught through lectures, seminars and small-group work. Some sessions involve direct study of artefacts, including access to the collections of the British Museum.
Most modules combine both continuous assessment and end-of-year written examinations, although a few modules are assessed solely by one or other of these methods.
Detailed course descriptions are available on the department website: Ancient World BA.
Knowledge of languages such as Latin and Greek will allow you to develop mental agility and versatility, equipping you with the ability (amongst other things) to learn modern languages with comparative ease, opening up a wider range of possibilities in the future.
The Ancient World BA is a rigorous and broad-ranging degree which qualifies you for a remarkably wide variety of jobs. The Classical Society hosts regular talks from former students, which may help guide you in your future career choices.
Career destinations in recent years have included: graduate study, teaching, law, computing, accountancy, marketing, banking, music (classical and popular), acting, the media, business, the voluntary sector, local government and politics.
UCL is commited to helping you get the best start after graduation. Read more about how UCL Careers and UCL Innovation and Enterprise can help you find employment or learn about entrepreneurship.
"UCL Greek and Latin had the flexibility and range of modules that I was looking for, which allowed me to integrate the study of ancient languages with classical literature, ancient history, philosophy, and archaeology. Assisting at alumni panel sessions also enabled me to get professional and personalised advice on career choices and application strategies."Jorge Daniel Díaz - Ancient World BA 2014
The fees indicated are for undergraduate entry in the 2019/20 academic year. The UK/EU fees shown are for the first year of the programme at UCL only. Fees for future years may be subject to an inflationary increase. The Overseas fees shown are the fees that will be charged to 2019/20 entrants for each year of study on the programme, unless otherwise indicated below.
Full details of UCL's tuition fees, tuition fee policy and potential increases to fees can be found on the UCL Students website.
If you are concerned by potential additional costs for books, equipment, etc. on this programme, please get in touch with the relevant departmental contact (details given on this page).
Various funding options are available, including student loans, scholarships and bursaries. UK students whose household income falls below a certain level may also be eligible for a non-repayable bursary or for certain scholarships. Please see the Fees and funding pages for more details.
Funding opportunities relevant to the department may appear in this section when they are available. Please check carefully or confirm with the programme contact to ensure they apply to this degree programme.
The Scholarships and Funding website lists scholarships and funding schemes available to UCL students. These may be open to all students, or restricted to specific nationalities, regions or academic department.
Entry to the degree is competitive so it is important you highlight your interest in and passion for the subject in your application. In addition to meeting the academic standards stated, we look for dedication and self-motivation, good communication skills and a real enthusiasm for your chosen area of study.
Application for admission should be made through UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Applicants currently at school or college will be provided with advice on the process; however, applicants who have left school or who are based outside the United Kingdom may obtain information directly from UCAS.
Application deadline: 15 January 2019
Each application is carefully assessed. Those candidates being considered for an offer will be invited to an applicant open day, which will include a lunch with staff and current students where you can discuss the degree programme, living in London and studying at UCL, and take a tour of the campus.
For further information on UCL's selection process see: Selection of students.


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Get Dell Warranty Status within ConfigMgr 2012 console
NOTE! A new version of this tool has been released, check it out
When dealing with Dell systems in ConfigMgr 2012, you may want an easy way to get the warranty status of a particular system. Instead of browsing to Dell's support website and entering the service tag, wouldn't it be cool if you could get that same information just by right-clicking on the system in the ConfigMgr 2012 console? I think so and because of that I created the Dell Warranty Console Extension Tool, also known as DWCET!
- Download link
- About DWCET
- Installing DWCET
- Using DWCET in your environment
Download link
About DWCET
The DWCET will extend the capabilities of the ConfigMgr 2012 console allowing you to easily get the warranty status of any system. I've written this tool in PowerShell and it has been tested on Windows Server 2012 with a ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 console installed. Running the setup file will do the following:
1. Create two new folders called:
in the following location:
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions
2. Copy the DellWarranty.xml file to both of the newly created folders above.
3. Create the following folder:
4. Finally, it will copy the Get-DellWarrantyGUI.ps1 and uninst.exe to the DWCET program folder.
There are two ways that the tool can operate. The default mode is to query WMI for the service tag. In an enterprise environment, I think it's a good practice to automate the naming of your Dell systems. And an easy way of doing so is to use the service tag followed by a prefix, e.g. 123456J-XXX. The second way the tool can operate is by enumerating the service tag from the computer name, where the first 7 characters are treated as the service tag.
If you'd like to change the way the tool operates, edit the DellWarranty.xml created by the installer and change the following row:
<Parameters>-windowstyle hidden -executionpolicy bypass -file "C:\Program Files (x86)\DWCET\Get-DellWarrantyGUI.ps1" -Name "##SUB:Name##" -Method "WMI"</Parameters>
to the following:
<Parameters>-windowstyle hidden -executionpolicy bypass -file "C:\Program Files (x86)\DWCET\Get-DellWarrantyGUI.ps1" -Name "##SUB:Name##"</Parameters>
Basically you're removing a switch and it's value from the PowerShell script.
Installing DWCET
Download the ZIP file from the link above, extrax the DWCET_setup.exe from the archive and run it. It will require administrative permissions to perform the installation.
When the installation is completed, you'll have to relaunch all open ConfigMgr 2012 consoles for this tool to work.
Using DWCET in your environment
In order to get the warranty status for a system, go to Assets and Compliance -> Overview -> Devices and select a device. You'll now have two options to launch the tool, either from the context menu or from the ribbon menu. See the pictures below:
Context menu
Ribbon menu
1. Once you've launched the tool, a window will appear.
2. Click on Get Warranty and wait for a couple of seconds. The warranty status for the selected device will now be shown, see the picture below:
3. Click on Close.
If DWCET was not able to connect through WMI to the selected device, an error will be shown.
I hope this tool will be of value to anyone out there and as always, please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions for improvements.
Chief Technical Architect and Enterprise Mobility MVP since 2016. Nickolaj has been in the IT industry for the past 10 years specializing in Enterprise Mobility and Security, Windows devices and deployments including automation. Awarded as PowerShell Hero in 2015 by the community for his script and tools contributions. Creator of ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool, ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd, ConfigMgr WebService to name a few. Frequent speaker at conferences and user groups.
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Ståle Askerød Johansen
Do you use screen scraping or SOAP ?
Dustin Hedges
Any idea on why it would run the warranty info on my system 4 times (I only pressed the button once)?
StartDate : 7/6/2013 1
EndDate : 7/6/2015 1
DaysLeft : 629
Status : Active
StartDate : 7/6/2013 1
EndDate : 7/6/2015 1
DaysLeft : 629
Status : Active
StartDate : 7/5/2012 1
EndDate : 7/6/2013 1
DaysLeft : 0
Status : Expired
StartDate : 7/5/2012 1
EndDate : 7/6/2013 1
DaysLeft : 0
Status : Expired
I like this Info, I really like the fact that I would still be able to check the a machine with a skew "computername" and still be able to pull the service tag and gather info.
Two Questions I have:
1 – Would I be able to edit the script to add identify the Model of the Machine?
2 – Would we be able to use this to create a collection in SCCM to report all machines that is currently Active or Expired?
My configuration manager console is installed to D:, therefore I had to manually copy 3fd01cd1-9e01-461e-92cd-94866b8d1f39 and ed9dee86-eadd-4ac8-82a1-7234a4646e62 folders to D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions to get the script to work.
We're using a proxy for internet access. Is it possible to define a proxy for the warranty requests?
If you add a couple more fields you can see which warranties each entry is for:
Write-Output "ServiceLvl: $($_.ServiceLevelCode)"
Write-Output "ServiceDsc: $($_.ServiceLevelDescription)"
Write-Output "Provider : $($_.Provider)"
Special thanks to my source:
When i run the tool it pulls the service tag but the warranty window is always blank.
Same problem as Steve. The tool finds the service tag but the windows is always blank.
Mike D
The latest version of the tool works like a champ on SCCM 2012 R2 CU4. Pulls all the info as described. I do wonder how I can make this work on a device collection. Hmmm Helpful tool. Thank You!
Ayman Dwedar
Hi Nickolaj Andersen,
Is this configuration is compatible with SCCM 1902


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3PAR fattens its thin provisioning arsenal
3PAR adds applications to solve thin provisioning problems by converting fat volumes to thin, and keeping thin volumes thin over time.
PHOENIX – Thin provisioning pioneer 3PAR Inc. today moved to extend the technology, rolling out 3PAR Thin Conversion, 3PAR Thin Persistence and 3PAR Thin Copy Reclamation at Storage Networking World Fall 2009.
3PAR has used thin provisioning in its storage arrays for seven years, but larger storage vendors such as EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and NetApp have since added thin technology. Now 3PAR is try to staying a step ahead by solving some problems of thin provisioning with these three new applications that are designed to take advantage of 3PAR'S Gen3 ASIC and a Thin API developed with Symantec Corp. last year.
The goal of thin provisioning is to optimize capacity utilization by allocating disk storage only as it's needed. 3PAR's new applications are designed to make fat volumes thin and keep thin volumes thin over time.
Thin Conversion converts legacy fat volumes to thin while migrating them to 3PAR InServ T-Class and F-Class Series arrays. 3PAR claims Thin Conversion can eliminate 60% of existing capacity on the average system. The vendor is targeting organizations looking to replace aging arrays with 3PAR storage.
Craig Nunes, 3PAR's vice president of marketing, said fat to thin conversions without the Gen3 ASIC would take "days or even weeks, and probably would've disrupted other application volumes on the array." The ASIC identifies free space in fat volumes as they're migrated to 3PAR arrays, and the software returns the blocks to the free volume pool.
3PAR Thin Persistence helps keep thin volumes thin over time by stopping them from using more capacity over time as application data is written. 3PAR claims Thin Persistence can save between 60% and 70% of capacity on these volumes.
3PAR Thin Copy Reclamation reclaims unused space from virtual copy snapshots and remote copy volumes on InServ arrays, and 3PAR Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation restores capacity for Symantec file systems attached to 3PAR arrays.
Thin Conversion, Thin Persistence and Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation are additional licensed products, with licenses starting at approximately $700 per system for the three combined. Thin Copy Reclamation is part of 3PAR's InForm 2.3.1 operating system.
Nate Amsden, operations engineer at Bellevue, Wash.-based online marketing site AudienceScience, said he expects 3PAR Thin Persistence will help him reclaim approximately 29 TB of space on the 150 TB InServ T400 array he bought about a year ago.
"That will help us out a lot," said Amsden, who currently has approximately 28 TB of free space on his array. "We make heavy use of read-write snapshots, so Thin Copy Reclamation will let us reclaim more space."
Amsden said fat-to-thin conversation wasn't available when he acquired his 3PAR array and migrated from a 518-drive BlueArc NAS system to a 200-drive T400 to improve performance and cut floor space used by the array in half. "It was a manual process, which we were happy to do because we had three years of crust built up and weren't interested in blanket copying data," he said.
Jeff Boles, a senior analyst and director, validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, said he expects 3PAR and others to continue to advance thin technologies.
"Overall, thin provisioning is still in its infancy," Boles said. "Just about everybody's doing thin now, but it's kind of a thin foundation, not applied thin technology where you can manage your business and keep it thin. That's what 3PAR wants to get to."
He added: "This is step two – reclaiming and zeroing stuff out after it's freed up. It's still out of band. Step three will turn thin provisioning into a more dynamic creature. That's when it becomes interactive and in-band."


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Archive for January, 2007
Peak ShavingThursday, January 25th, 2007
Toronto Hydro had an interesting program for shaving peak usage last summer. They issued wireless devices that could be installed on your home air conditioner, to cut your air conditioner when the system had especially high demand. (It
Greener Than ThouSaturday, January 20th, 2007
I listened to CBC Radio's "The House" this morning, a weekly show about the week in politics. The show was dominated by the environment, and climate change in particular.
Stephan Dion on NuclearFriday, January 19th, 2007
Stephan Dion, Canada's new leader of the Liberal party called a spade a spade. He said that so long as he can't look Canadians in the eye, and tell them we have a solution to the problem of nuclear waste, he cannot recommend its further use.
CANDU for Tar Sands?Sunday, January 14th, 2007
There have been several news stories lately about the possibility of building a CANDU reactor to make steam to extract the oil from the tar sands. Do two wrongs make a right?
Spinning ReserveFriday, January 12th, 2007
In order to ensure reliability, electricity grids need a certain amount of "spinning reserve". This is a source of generation that can be turned up quickly, to accomodate unexpected surges in demand, or loss of generation or transmission.
Energy StorageThursday, January 11th, 2007
A reader asked a question on compressed air storage the other day, and pointed to a web site that had some information.
GM Announces Plug in HybridSunday, January 7th, 2007
GM is scheduled to announce their Chevy Volt today. While details are still scarce, early information looks very promising.
Integrating Wind – a Theoretical ExampleFriday, January 5th, 2007
Wind is a variable resource, and its output varies depending on the winds. But consumers demand the services of electricity at their convenience, not just when the wind blows. So how can an electrical grid accept wind power, and what is the effect of wind power on emissions from fossil generating plants?
John Baird Appointed Environment Minister??Thursday, January 4th, 2007
The Toronto Star reports that John Baird is to be appointed as Environment Minister, replacing the hapless Rona Ambrose. Surely we jest.


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Photography is the science, art and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure.
With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing.
The result with photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically "developed" into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing.
A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.
Photography is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography) and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purpoDses, hobby, and mass communication.
Color photography was explored beginning in the 1840s. Early experiments in color required extremely long exposures (hours or days for camera images) and could not "fix" the photograph to prevent the color from quickly fading when exposed to white light.
The first permanent color photograph was taken in 1861 using the three-color-separation principle first published by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1855.
Maxwell's idea was to take three separate black-and-white photographs through red, green and blue filters. This provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image.