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THE WIND PICKS UP when Peyton Manning settles in at linebacker. A mid-October practice has just ended, but Manning is not finished. Something isn't right -- not enough to his liking -- and to make it right, Manning is lined up opposite rookie running back Montee Ball, posing as a linebacker, to show him exactly how he wants Ball to run a simple five-yard out route.
For all the characteristics most often associated with Manning -- his obsessiveness, his penchant for control, his unrelenting capacity for tinkering at the line of scrimmage, his unparalleled fluency in reading defenses -- his ability to teach has always been overlooked. He's a hard-ass who will quiz teammates in the middle of meetings about their assignments on a particular play. But he'll also stay after practice and pretend to be a linebacker to show a rookie how to get open. Manning waves Ball to run toward him, then jams the young back. Yes, Peyton Manning, a 37-year-old with a surgically repaired neck, jams him. As they're engaged, Ball pushes upfield, and Manning tells him what to do: Break outside the instant the defender -- in this case, Manning -- turns his shoulders.
After a few minutes, receiver Wes Welker happens by and relieves Manning at linebacker. Manning slides into his customary spot, in a faux shotgun. He calls the cadence and spins the ball in the air, emulating a snap. Welker jams Ball. Manning drops back, doing Peyton stuff -- shuffling his feet, holding the ball near his chin, standing tall in a fake pocket, releasing the ball high -- a textbook baseline from which he works his trademark artistry.
Welker, locked up on Ball, turns his shoulders, and Ball accelerates into his break. Manning hits him. They practice it again. And again. And again, as the wind picks up and slightly unwinds some of Manning's spirals. What seems like a basic route is really the quintessential Peyton Manning throw as his career nears its close: It's quick. It's precise. It takes a hell of a lot of practice, and it's unstoppable when run correctly.
And most of all, it's short.
IT'S FASCINATING TO watch legends toward the end of their careers. There's a nobility and heroism in their struggle to summon all of their tricks and wisdom and will to re-create the magic of their youth. We've seen Michael Jordan score 43 as a 40-year-old Wizard, Mario Lemieux lead the NHL in points for most of a season at age 37 and Jack Nicklaus win a Masters at age 46. But nothing compares to what Peyton Manning is doing right now. Two years ago, he couldn't throw a football 10 yards. This season he is playing at the highest level of his career -- having completed 68.5 percent of his passes with 36 touchdowns through Week 12 -- and arguably at the highest level of any quarterback ever. He has done this with orthodoxies that would make a younger Peyton sick. His passes sometimes flutter and wobble, especially beyond 15 yards. He's playing on sprained ankles that require regular MRIs. But somehow the most calculating quarterback in history is on track to set nearly every major season passing record, largely because he has stripped the vanity from his game, improvising based not only on what the defense shows him but on what his body, on any given snap, allows him to do.
NOBODY KNOWS HOW Manning does it. John Fox, the Broncos' head coach, says, "Just make up whatever superlative you want about Peyton and put my name on it." Ron Jaworski has been watching film longer than Manning has been alive, and even he admits that Manning sees holes in the defense in real time that Jaws misses on review. The statistics after 11 games contradict logic: The Broncos led the AFC in passes completed of less than 15 yards, yet they ranked first in yards per pass attempt at 8.7. That means they gain a lot by risking little, executing what can only be described as an explosive ball-control offense, which produced 429 points through Week 12, second most in NFL history after 11 games.
Manning's teammates can't explain him either. Zac Dysert, a rookie third-string quarterback out of Miami (Ohio), is two lockers down from Manning. After the Broncos took Dysert in the seventh round, his agent, sensing a huge learning opportunity, told him to write down everything Manning does-from when he arrives in the morning to how he prepares for practices as if they were games. Problem is, Dysert can't fully comprehend what he's jotting down. During one video session, Manning said he recognized a blitz call -- from 1999. Dysert almost dropped his pencil. What's he supposed to take from this? Have a photographic memory. Oh, and have a long NFL career.
The Broncos coaches tend to emphasize the technical aspects of Manning's game, the stuff that, after 16 years of combining players' hours with coaches' hours, only Manning sees. Offensive coordinator Adam Gase says that Manning no longer really reads defenses as much as confirms them. To illustrate what he means, Gase explains a play in the fourth quarter of the season opener against the Ravens. He says Manning saw "something" -- that's often the closest people can get to explaining what's going through Manning's head -- that tipped off a blitz. So Manning began his patented routine of spreading his arms and hunching over and inching toward his linemen, switching to a wide receiver screen pass by yelling "Alley! Alley!" At the snap, Manning fired a short flare left to Demaryius Thomas, who ran 78 yards untouched for six -- the definition of the Broncos' passing game. "There are a lot of things he does that other guys can't do because he's seen so much football," Gase says.
Still, that story doesn't quite do Manning justice. Nor does Broncos executive VP John Elway's explanation that Manning is "trying to separate himself" from the rest of the greatest quarterbacks in history. There's something deeper at work here. It's always been astounding how Manning can at once be an open book, an American icon whose life football fans think they know by heart, yet retain mysteries that go far beyond how he arrives at the perfect audible. He can be robotic in his discipline, yet that discipline has always been rooted in a fascinating and perhaps frightening mix of self-awareness and sensitivity. He knew his weaknesses better than a defensive coordinator, and masking them became fundamental to his excellence.
It's harder to hide them now. A rare glimpse inside Manning's head came in October, in his first game in Indianapolis since he was released in 2012. More than any quarterback in history, Manning can bottle his emotions, but as he warmed up on the field, the Colts honored him with a video tribute, reel after reel of touchdown passes. Manning tried to ignore it by throwing, each pass a little harder as the crowd rose in a thunderous ovation, as if he were trying to bury tears with each heave. Finally, he gave up.
Manning removed his helmet, waved to the crowd and started to cry. He has been honored hundreds of times, but until this moment, he had never been so publicly loved. He patted his heart. The entire scene was striking not just because he showed more emotion than after he had won a Super Bowl but because someone obsessed with controlling his image was, for the first time, vulnerable for the world to see.
I'M STANDING WITH Manning beside the Broncos' practice fields on an October Wednesday. He has just finished a workout and looks as if he could go at it again. He's more muscular than he was only a few years ago, which is somewhat surprising. I always imagined Manning would age ungracefully, like a president, prematurely gray and wrinkled, the tolls of unrelenting stress.
After all, Manning's genius has always been rooted in his willingness to be burdened. It began with the impossible expectations of being a Manning under center. It continued when he carried on the dreams of his older brother, Cooper, whose football career was cut short in college by a spinal condition. And it exploded in the NFL, as he scrolled through his mind before every snap, folding his hands into an alternative form of sign language to find the perfect play, reshaping the game as he dominated it. Which makes it all the more intriguing that Peyton Manning is prospering now because he has learned a simple lesson: how to let go.
That process began in January 2011. Manning, still a Colt, had just finished a tough season. He had a pinched nerve in his neck that was causing weakness in his right arm, sapping its strength like a leaky tire. And what haunted him almost as much as the surgeries that had failed to fix it was the unknown territory he was venturing into. "I'd make some progress but still didn't feel comfortable," he says.
He sought out many opinions from those he respects and one day was talking with Bill Parcells. Manning basically asked the old coach whether he thought he could still play, and if so, what his game would look like. Parcells was simple and blunt: "Can you still get 'em out?"
"What do you mean?" Manning asked.
Look at Jamie Moyer and Greg Maddux, Parcells said. Even as they aged, they could still get guys out, using tricks and smart. Parcells was metaphorically asking: Can you still move the chains? Can you get your team into the end zone? The conversation recalibrated Manning's mind. "It gave me a sense that, hey, maybe that deep comeback throw doesn't look the same as it did before," he says. "But maybe you can still get 18 yards a different way." It would require a level of patience and a suppression of ego that no alpha male quarterback seemed capable of. But Manning realized that letting go of his former self was his only way forward.
Then a third surgery on his neck just before the 2011 season -- causing him to miss the entire year and setting the stage for his release from the Colts -- complicated his plans. That December, he spent a few weeks with Duke head coach David Cutcliffe, the longtime quarterback whisperer to the Manning brothers, to begin his throwing rehab. One night, the two of them went outside and sprayed footballs with cold water to simulate a bad-weather game. As he threw, Manning was more than inaccurate; he was alarmingly inept. He couldn't catch a shotgun snap or grip the ball tightly enough to execute a handoff, which triggered a fear that he'd never contended with before. He wouldn't stop throwing that night, even after miss after miss, even after Cutcliffe implored him to save his strength. "He was afraid that if he stopped throwing, he would lose it," Cutcliffe says.
On the drive to Cutcliffe's house after that practice, Manning turned to him and said: "Am I doing the right thing? Am I going to be able to play effectively?"
It was the first time the NFL's greatest control freak experienced the most paralyzing loss of control that exists for an athlete: losing control over his body. He kept grinding, of course, accepting the reality that there would be good days and bad days, and by his first training camp in Denver, there were more good than bad. He ended up producing a comeback for the ages, resulting in a second-place finish for the league's MVP. But it was also a slog, which Manning now publicly acknowledges. By the end of the year, his arm was tired. He stopped doing his famous route tree before games, putting himself on a pitch count. In the playoffs, the Ravens dared him to throw more than 15 yards, and after losing to Baltimore in double overtime, he realized he needed to stop throwing. "He was more willing to rest his arm," Cutcliffe says.
Manning spent the offseason working on his lower body and core, strengthening his arm by strengthening his legs. Still, working within the confines of his new self is a process, learning to chase mental perfection while letting go of physical perfection, the way Jordan did when he developed his fadeaway. "When you have an injury and you have some things that aren't going to be quite the same," Manning says, "you try to be as strong as you possibly can in the areas that aren't affected."
Two areas weren't affected: his mind and his will.
"WHAT'S THE ANGRIEST you've ever seen Peyton?" I ask Broncos receiver Andre "Bubba" Caldwell at his locker.
"Today's practice," he says with resignation.
Caldwell had run the wrong route, misread something. Bubba knows that Manning won't trust him on Sunday if he doesn't trust him during the week. Manning lobbed a few F-bombs his way. But that's not what hurt, because as running back Ronnie Hillman says, Manning tends to "say a few f- and move on." No, what really hurt was when Manning told the next receiver up, "Do 100 percent the opposite of what Bubba just did."
It's not easy being one of Manning's receivers. Dealing with him throughout the week can be tougher than the game on Sunday. During walk-throughs, he sometimes orders the scout-team defense to show a few wrinkles, just to see how his receivers react. "Get in your playbook" is Manning's weeklong mantra.
That night Caldwell got in his playbook. The next day he ran the right route, and a curious thing happened: Manning came back to him. Yes, he's more demanding now than ever, but he's also more patient. Maybe it's the injury. Maybe it's being a parent to twin toddlers. Maybe it's age. He admits that he takes time to soak in the little things now. Like the plane rides. After the Broncos beat the Cowboys in that wild 51-48 October shootout, Manning sat on the team charter as it took off and looked around. No players were wearing seat belts. Everybody was on a cellphone. He laughed to himself. "When the pilot says we can't take off when those things are happening," Manning says now, "he's lying, because we do it."
Maybe Manning has more patience with his teammates because his teammates need to have more patience with him. He endures moments when something is failing him physically, and he needs everyone to stay with him until he figures it out. That's exactly what happened in the third quarter against the Colts on Oct. 20. Down 33-14, Manning didn't just seem mortal: He looked old. Two sprained ankles and an unrelenting pass rush left him unable to set his feet. Passes that Manning once hit in his sleep were now fluttering to slow deaths.
But he kept throwing. In the fourth quarter, he took a snap and was immediately under siege. Manning dodged the rush, scooting up the pocket, and saw Thomas on a post route, double-teamed but slightly open. He launched himself into the throw, putting his body into it as if starting a somersault. The ball flopped and fluttered, but damn if it didn't land in Thomas' hands for a touchdown.
Manning had cracked his biological code, and he put up 16 points in the final 13 minutes before losing 39-33. After the game, he was asked why the ball wasn't spinning out of his hands. "I throw a lot of wobbly passes," he said, shaking his head. He stared off for a second, and the pain of the past few years seemed to flash through his mind. Then he added, "I throw a lot of wobbly touchdowns too."
THE BEAUTY IS still there, of course. You just have to look harder to find it. Gase says his favorite play from this year was a 22-yard out route against the Raiders in Week 3 that to an outsider seemed unremarkable. But as Gase tells it, that throw was representative of everything Manning has lost and gained. Manning dropped back and saw that his primary target, tight end Julius Thomas, was covered. So was Welker, his second read. The pocket was collapsing, and Manning's only option -- Demaryius Thomas on a deep out route -- was across the field and double-covered.
Manning's game has always been based on timing as much as on audibles. For years, the only way to defend him was to force him off script. Now Manning works harder on his timing because, as he says, "you might not be able to arm that throw" the way he used to. Only he knows the impossible precision this entails. It means lining up at linebacker after practice to teach a rookie how to get open. But it also means perfecting his internal timing, not allowing himself to be tricked into believing that his body can do something that it now can't. Manning has to hit the open receiver not only within the shrinking window of the secondary but also within the shrinking window of his physical capabilities.
So Manning scooted up in the pocket and stepped into the throw with such a pronounced transfer of weight that his back leg kicked up, like a pitcher's. Rather than hum, the ball arched beautifully, the kind of touch that recalled Joe Montana in his prime. It hit Thomas in the palms mere feet from the sideline. "Phenomenal," Gase says.
JOHN ELWAY IS sitting in his office, talking about the aging process for quarterbacks. Elway is perhaps the only other example of a great quarterback whose best years were his last ones. The key, Elway says, is not taking big hits and unnecessary punishment. By the end of his career, Elway would spend all week lifting weights, lying on the massage table, grinding on the treadmill, stretching -- stuff that Manning does now -- just to be able to sell out during the decisive moments, like his helicopter dive in Super Bowl XXXII against the Packers. This is partly why the Broncos throw so many short passes, why Manning releases the ball on average in a league-best 2.33 seconds. "Peyton knows he can't take those hits," Elway says. "He's not afraid to admit the fact that 'I'm not the tough guy that I used to be.'"
But there are times when being a tough guy is the only answer. With 1:55 left against the Chargers on Nov. 10, the Broncos were one first down from clinching the game. Manning faked a handoff and looked to Demaryius Thomas running a comeback. It was a slow-developing route, and Manning had rushers all around him. Nobody would have blamed him if he'd taken a sack and lived to fight another play.
But he stepped into the pass. He was hit, low and from behind. The pass was perfect, icing the game. But Manning had taken another shot to his sore ankles. The next morning, he was back in the MRI machine. The stat sheet read that he had 330 yards and four touchdowns. But really, the only thing that mattered was that he had sold out at the most critical moment. And once again, he survived. Barely.
SO FAR, THE defining moment of Manning's career has been winning Super Bowl XLI. But not for the reason you think. It wasn't because he stood in the Miami rain and held the Lombardi trophy that had eluded him. No, the defining moment was in the news conference afterward. He was asked the cliched question about whether the monkey was finally off his back, and he said: "I don't play that card. I don't play that game."
It was an epic rejection of the storyline that he had instantly become a better quarterback now that he had a ring. Manning has never judged quarterbacks -- including himself -- in the overly simplistic way that most of us do. He considered himself a better quarterback not because he had won a Super Bowl but because he had the experience of one more game under his belt, 60 minutes of added knowledge.
It's almost as if Manning knew then that he would be drawing on that knowledge now, when he finds himself again judged in simplistic ways. Those who compare him to his former self and mock his wobbly passes are missing the point. The point is that Manning is persevering because he no longer compares himself to his former self. He let go. In a very real way, he's no longer a mystery. He is as naked on each play as he was when he stood tearing up before the Colts game, spending everything he has, leaving it out there for the world to see.
THE WIND HAS long died down when Manning lines up in the shotgun. In the slot to his right is Ball. It's the third quarter against the Chiefs, the Broncos up 17-10. Manning has been slightly off tonight, but he's again starting to crack his own code. He's hit two short passes totaling 40 yards, setting up the Broncos at the Chiefs' 14-yard line on a drive that will end in the game's decisive touchdown.
Ball has not caught a pass since Sept. 15, but he has been preparing for this moment, studying and envisioning the out route, not wanting to let Manning down when his number is called. At the snap, Ball lunges upfield, expecting to be jammed by linebacker Justin Houston and to break outside when Houston turns his shoulders, just as he and Manning practiced. But Houston blitzes. Ball, uncovered, thinks, Oh man, this thing is coming to me.
Manning already knows where he's going. Fading to his right, he lofts a pass before Ball cuts, and the ball lands softly in the back's hands. Ball turns upfield for six yards before he's knocked out of bounds. After the catch, Manning is already at the line, calling the next play. Ball jogs back to his quarterback, relieved, having executed a simple out route that's so much harder than anyone will ever know.
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Dir/scr: Cho Se-rae. South Korea. 2013. 113mins
The game of Go is Life as it should be, fair, chivalrous, each player takes his turn and is given a chance to win. On the other hand, Life is chaotic, vile, brutal, unjust and deadly. For his debut feature, Korean director Cho Se-rae imparts this piece of wisdom in a film which consists, in equal parts, of men in suits breaking the bones other men in suits and of Go players confronting each other in countless matches, placing their black and white stones on the board and looking terribly concerned about it.
The one interesting aspect to come through remains the contact between the fatherless young Min-su, still trying hesitatingly to figure out his future, and the middle-aged Nam-hae.
The plot, or whatever there is of it, gets lost in between the violence and the Go matches and short of being addicted to the game or a fan of movie violence for its own sake, there is little chance that an audience will embrace this film.
Because of Go and the particular nature of this game, the film's two main characters are engaged in opposite journeys. Min-su (Cho Dong-in), a sleepy looking adolescent is a graduate of the Korean Go Academy but since he lacks the confidence necessary to become a pro chooses to play the game for money, easily beating every opponent that comes his way.
Nam-Hae (Kim Roi-ha, one of the detectives in Memories Of Murder) is a smalltime gangster boss, brought up on the streets and used to using his fists to gain authority. After accidentally meeting, playing and losing to Min-su in a Go club, while his goons were collecting the monthly installment of protection money, his taste for the ancient game is rekindled and he hires the boy to become his instructor.
As he goes deeper into the Go experience, he starts reviewing his own past in the perspective of the rules and requirements of the game and begins to lose interest in the criminal world, becoming far more concerned with the future of his tutor, whom he encourages to face the challenge of a pro tournament and carve a legitimate future for himself.
Devoting most of the time to explore the two separate worlds, on the one hand gambling parlors catering equally to Go and card players, on the other hand, the constant skirmishes between the various gangs seeking control of the illegal businesses in town, Cho indulges in an interminable number of shots showing the Go board from every angle, to the point where it becomes simply tedious, if not worse.
As for the mayhem, erupting every few minutes at the slightest excuse, it rarely offers more than crude, vicious explosions of savagery, with the audience never expected to root for one side or another since apparently they are both equally vile. The one moment when civic responsibility enters into the picture, comes with the attempt of gangsters to forcibly empty a slum of its inhabitants, for the benefit of greedy building contractors.
The one interesting aspect to come through remains the contact between the fatherless young Min-su, still trying hesitatingly to figure out his future, and the middle-aged Nam-hae. Fully supported by the performances of the two actors, it looks very much akin to a father-son relationship, the stern but supportive older man using the lessons of his own tough past to goad his son towards a safer, respectable, legitimate career. It's just like any father, using his life's experience to pull his son through the troubles of adolescence.
Production company: Shine Picture
International sales: Finecut Co., www.finecut.co.kr
Producer: Joe Hyun-woo
Cinematography: Ha Kyung-ho
Editor: Um Jin-hwa
Production designer: Oh Heung-suk
Music: Ro Hyung-woo
Main cast: Cho dong-n, Kim Roi-Ha, Park Won-sang

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"The Spawn" Movie is hellbent and bound to appear on HBO Max
HBO Max reveals Starfire's comic-centric costume for DC's "Titans" Season 3
"Deadpool 3" is back on. And Marvel + Ryan Reynolds have screenwriters attached
"Wonder Woman 1984" is coming for Christmas. With a few asterisks.
Shadow Man is being resurrected for the nex-gen with the announced Remastered 1999 game
CD Projekt Red brings us into the expansive world of "Cyberpunk 2077" with the gameplay trailer
Original voice of Cortana will reprise her role in coming Showtime's "Halo" TV Series
"Assassin's Creed Valhalla" seeks to capture kingdoms in Launch Trailer
"Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness" series is said to be 'canon'
"The Mandalorian" unveils official image of Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano in Season 2
"The Predator" is getting a fifth movie. And a director is already attached.
HBO Max "Justice League" Snyder Cut resurrects Borg Life in new trailer
Netflix announces a new Godzilla anime series
Wacko, Jacko and Dot are back. "The Animaniacs" returns in new clip
"Marvel's M.O.D.O.K." reveals first look at animated series
Robert Kirkman's "Invincible" animated series just dropped its first teaser trailer
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Symbian OS is an operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices and smartphones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, originally developed by Symbian Ltd. It was a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed.
In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia and a new independent non-profit organisation called the Symbian Foundation was established. Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) were contributed by their owners to the foundation with the objective of creating the Symbian platform as a royalty-free, open source software.


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Missing Calif. boy's brother arrested on murder charge
- Police say body of a boy matching Terry Smith%27s description was found
- Brother%2C 16%2C was the last to see the 11-year-old
- Police have not confirmed that the remains found are Terry%27s
MENIFEE, Calif. -- The 16-year-old brother of an 11-year-old autistic boy who disappeared over the weekend from his Southern California home was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge, police said.
During a news conference Wednesday, Capt. John Hill said the body of a boy who fits the description of 11-year-old Terry Smith was found overnight in a "shallow grave containing partially exposed human remains."
Investigators were still working to confirm the identity of the remains found Wednesday afternoon.
The Riverside County District Attorney's Office is waiting for investigators to forward the criminal case to prosecutors for review, spokesman John Hall said. He did not know how quickly that could happen.
The teen, whose name was not released, was the last one to see Terry near his Menifee, Calif., home Saturday, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department previously said.
"The brother was walking away from their residence, turns back, sees that Terry's following him and tells Terry, 'Hey, go home,'" Deputy Albert Martinez told The Desert Sun this week.
The half-brother — who has the same mom as Terry — has been "questioned several times by investigators," Martinez said Tuesday afternoon.
"He's been cooperative throughout the whole time," the deputy said.
Earlier Wednesday, investigators halted their search and returned to Terry's home to search for human remains at about 1:30 a.m.
It was the fourth day of a widespread search for the boy, who was identified by police as an autistic boy who was last seen Saturday.
Investigators found "possible human remains" in the dirt not far from the house, and a search warrant was issued at the house late Wednesday morning, said Sgt. Lisa McConnell.
Investigators initially said that Terry "was discovered missing from his residence" sometime between 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Terry lived on a short stretch of road in a rural area of Menifee, a city of about 80,000 in southwestern Riverside County, Calif., which is about 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
They were "able to verify" Monday that Terry was last seen between 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday outside his home, McConnell said.
As the search went on and temperatures peaked above 100 degrees each day, more than 1,000 law enforcement, search and rescue personnel and volunteers flooded into the city to help search.
Searchers canvassed by ATV, bicycle and foot and distributed thousands of fliers. Coordinators set up a Find Terry Smith page on Facebook that garnered more than 25,000 fans.
The volunteer coordinators initially held out hope they would find Terry but announced they called off the search and would now enter a "time of grieving."
"We want to thank everyone who is following our efforts here and for the thousands of volunteers and businesses that have helped this incredible search effort," the page administrator posted Wednesday.
"PLEASE REMEMBER that our focus has always been on Terry Smith, an 11 year old boy. Our focus is still on that boy and the memory."


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Federer notches 1st-round win at Wimbledon
LONDON (AP) Roger Federer defeated Paolo Lorenzi of Italy 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 Tuesday to begin his quest for a record eighth Wimbledon title.
Lorenzi still has not won a Grand Slam match in 13 appearances at majors. Only Juan-Antonio Marin of Costa Rica has a worse record - no wins in 17 Grand Slam matches.
Federer, also attempting to win his 18th Grand Slam title, lost in the second round here last year, his earliest defeat at Wimbledon since 2002. He finished Tuesday's match with his ninth ace.
It is Federer's 16th consecutive appearance at Wimbledon and his 59th Grand Slam event in a row, extending his record for the longest streak of consecutive majors in the Open Era.


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Business Intelligence #02a: Developing a Query-Driven E-mail Delivery System
This screencast shows how to use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Microsoft's ETL tool, to send conditional email alerts during a load.
This screencast is the first in a series BI Developer screencasts recorded as part of a workshop built on SQL Server 2005 that have been delivered around the globe by Microsoft and Microsoft Partners. This training event takes the student through the Microsoft BI Platform giving a BI Developer the introduction and basic comfort needed to tackle a BI project using Microsoft technology.
If you missed the first screencast in this series I highly recommend that you watch it first as it provides a great overview of Microsoft BI technology. Additional screencasts will be published under the "SQL+Server" tag so subscribe to it now!
The Discussion
We are really interested in your feedback on Developing a Query-Driven E-mail Delivery System.
What would you like to see done differently?
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This is an excellent SSIS demo. I am going to use the ideas to create a billing notification system for clients of my website development business. I will use an SSIS package similar to the one shown in this demo together with SQL Server Agent to schedule package execution. I will automatically send emails letting my customers know when their payments are due, when their payments are late and when their accounts are suspended (hopefully we will never reach that point). Thanks for the demo! I can't wait to watch the rest of the series.
Thanks for the feedback. That's great to hear that this may directly influence your product!
SSIS can be a powerful tool and have uses beyond basic ETL. If your product is something that you sell commercially you may want to update your Channel 9 profile with a link to your web site so other readers can see what you are building.
Enjoy the other screencasts and let us know what suggestions you have for improvement.
There is apparently an issue with the way these videos are encoded and Silverlight player... You can watch these videos by clicking on the "Downloads" link then selecting "WMV". I'll see what I can do to get this fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.


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S Amdt 3760 - Federal Reserve Audit - National Key Vote
- Senate Amendment Rejected
- May 11, 2010
- Introduced
- May 11, 2010
Related Legislation
- S Amdt 3826 - Consumer Financial Protection Division Within The FDIC
- S Amdt 3839 - Termination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships
- S Amdt 3938 - Study on Ending the Conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- S Amdt 3816 - Derivatives Regulation Modifications
- S Amdt 3962 - Home Loan Regulation Modifications
- S Amdt 3955 - Establishing New Mortgage Underwriting Requirements and Eliminating a Risk Retention Requirement
- S Amdt 3991 - Credit Rating Agency Board
- S Amdt 3832 - Establishing Bankruptcy Process for Non-bank Financial Institutions
- S Amdt 3989 - Debit Card Fee Regulations
- S Amdt 3987 - Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Termination
- S Amdt 4051 - Prohibiting Funding of State and Local Governments to Prevent Defaulting on Debt
- S Amdt 4034 - Federal Preemption Over State Consumer Financial Laws
- S Amdt 4071 - Amending State Authority to Enforce Consumer Financial Regulations
- S Amdt 4114 - Credit Default Swap Regulations
- S Amdt 4072 - Inspector General Appointment Modification
- S Amdt 3746 - Allowing States to Limit Credit Card Interest Rates
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Title: Federal Reserve Audit
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Vote to adopt an amendment to S Amdt 3739 to S 3217 that amends regulations related to auditing the Federal Reserve Board and federal reserve banks and requires an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks to be completed within 1 year of the date of enactment.
- Repeals a provision of existing law that prohibits audits of the Federal Reserve Board and federal reserve banks from including the following (Sec. 1159):
- Transactions for or with a foreign central bank, government of a foreign country, or non-private international financing organization;
- Deliberations, decisions, or actions on monetary policy matters, including discount window operations, reserves of member banks, securities credit, interest on deposits, and open market operations;
- Transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee; and
- Any part of a discussion between Board of Governors members and officers and employees of the Federal Reserve System relating to the 3 aforementioned sub-highlights.
- Specifies that the mandatory audit shall not be construed to limit the ability of the Government Accountability Office to complete additional audits of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or federal reserve banks (Sec. 1159).
- Prohibits audits of the Federal Reserve Board and federal reserve banks from including unreleased transcripts or minutes of meetings of the Board of Governors or of the Federal Open Market Committee (Sec. 1159).
Title: Federal Reserve Audit


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Groggy, caffeine-deficient citizens got a jolt of 21st-century reality this morning as Jay Mariotti debuted at his new home, AOL Sports. Yes, he's no longer just Chicago's problem; Jay belongs to the world.
How did the initial effort go? I have to say, I've never before seen The Great Wall of China, Richard M. Daley and animal penis combined so seamlessly in an opening paragraph. But then I don't read as much as I should. I'll sum it up by saying this: Jay is still all class. He wastes no time in lobbing Holy Hand Grenades at his old employers, even taking a swipe at them with the name of his column: Sign of the Times.
Just what were the circumstances of Jay leaving the Chicago Sun-Times, you might ask? In his accounting of events, Jay of course plays the victim, like always. Let's get right to the most interesting portion.
A week into the Olympics, I was inside The Water Cube That Phelps Built when a voice-mail popped in. It was from the sports editor of the ailing Chicago Sun-Times, asking me to accommodate the newspaper's Paleozoic-era deadlines by doing something the readers wouldn't appreciate. He wanted me to write one column that had Michael Phelps winning that day's race and another column that had him losing. Both would be filed long before the event, which, in some quarters, would be considered an editorial directive to cook up fiction.
I would insert blanks for the finishing times, which a copy editor would fill in, and the bulk would be a lot of jibber-jabber that worked regardless of the result. The editors would decide which column ran based on the outcome. In other words, processed lunch meat for your 50 cents — and it wasn't the first time. I usually just dealt with these hideous requests. This time, I balked.
Jay, stop! I must shield my eyes ... I can barely see you through the reflection off your shining armor!
Also there's this; read into it what you will:
I'm working for a company, AOL, that attracted 54 million unique visitors to its programming content sites in November and ranks fourth in traffic among Internet news sites. As established writers keep moving Web-ward, it will cause consternation among a few members of the sports blogosphere, some of whom think they own the Internet when, as everyone knows, Bill Kurtis owns the Internet. I've never bought into this "mainstream media vs. bloggers" blood war because, in my mind, we're all writers. The best young writers provide compelling takes on sports. The losers wake up each day and attack (choose your ESPN target), an approach that can't attract much audience beyond a few neurotic souls in sports media. Now hear this: I'm a bit too busy to hate bloggers or, really, anyone but terrorists and certain Illinois politicians. I just think they should be writing about Steve Smith, not Stephen A. Smith.
Then, later, this horrifying graph:
Know how nutty it got? AOL rated me 14th on its Most Controversial Sports Figures list, between Chad Ocho Cinco and the Steinbrenners. If my eventual new bosses knew about my torrid fling with Madonna, I'd have cracked the top five, I betcha.
I can forgive you for a lot, Jay Mariotti. But for placing that mental image in my brain, may you rot in Hades.
Others mentioned in Jay's first column: Bill Plaschke, Woody Paige, bloggers, Mark Cuban, Glenn Close. Oh, it's a fun read, which includes nothing of the Rick Tealander-Barack Obama controversy. Come on Jay, shouldn't a reporter include all the facts?
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For a visitor to Scotland, it can be difficult to understand the local passion for a neon orange soda that locals call "the brew." The drink is Irn Bru (pronounced "iron brew").
You can find it from McDonald's to corner stores and pubs across Scotland. It is such a powerful force that it may even outsell Coca-Cola here — making it one of the few places on the globe where Coke isn't the leading brand.
"This stuff runs in my blood," says Chris Young, as he walks through downtown Glasgow carrying a bottle.
Perhaps he's not a fair sample, though, since he is actually drinking the stuff. The woman with him, Gayle Fergus, has no such bottle. So is she as devoted a fan?
"Probably more," she says.
This seems impossible, given that her buddy claims the soda courses through his veins. But she insists.
"I've got the pens, I've got the merchandise as well." Fergus even speaks longingly of Irn Bru kilts, in bright orange and blue.
These people are not outliers. Even the first person we stop at random on a Glasgow street professes a seemingly unnatural passion for the brew.
"For my wedding toast, I had Irn Bru in champagne glasses instead of champagne," says Laura Calgie.
For the sake of journalistic integrity, it's important to confirm that she has no family connection to the company. She insists she does not, then pauses.
"I was brought up about 10 minutes away from the factory, so maybe they put something in the water," she says.
As Scots prepare to vote on independence next month, the fizzy fervor for this fluorescent fluid may offer some insights into Scottish nationalistic tendencies. When asked why they're so crazy for this Scottish soda, people most often reply, "Because it's Scottish."
"We're proud of what we have. That's why it outsells Coca-Cola," says Fergus. "Because we're so proud of our own products."
At a nearby old-fashioned candy store, shop worker Agnes Plunkett has shelves of Irn Bru-flavored sweets, from sticky taffy to translucent lollipops. Though since these are not officially licensed products, they're spelled "Iron Brew."
"This is the chews. This is Iron Brew humbugs. Orange flavored as well, orange colored," she says, walking down the shelf of candies. Every thing Iron Brew flavored is a great seller, she says. "Very popular."
Plunkett lets a visitor sample one of the hard candies. It starts out sweet, followed by a burst of acidity. And, of course, it's bright orange.
Much of the world treats Scottish icons as kitsch. Kilts. Haggis. Bagpipes. But for Scots, these are potent symbols of national pride. One of Irn Bru's advertising slogans is "Made in Scotland, from girders." Girders, as in the steel beams that hold up buildings.
"People call Irn Bru Scotland's other national drink, after whisky," says Sara Grady of the market research firm Datamonitor Consumer. "Whereas I think Coke prides itself on being a brand that's the same all over the world, Irn Bru appeals to people because it's so Scottish."
Grady explains that she's English, "and so everything I see of English culture, we're kind of shy about it. Whereas they're just loud and proud."
"In some ways, I guess you could say that while Coca-Cola embodies the American dream, Irn Bru could be the Scottish version of that," she says.
At the Irn Bru factory just outside Glasgow, visitors must wear protective earphones. The rattling sound is constant as 96,000 cans an hour fly down the line.
"We'll sell about the equivalent of 17 cans a second, which is a huge volume to keep up with," says brand manager Martin Steele, who's serving as our tour guide.
When the tour is done, I tell Steele that I have a confession.
I still have not actually tasted Irn Bru soda.
"Shall we do that? Shall I get you a can and you can try it?" he says. "Give me two seconds. I'll nip into the factory and get you a can."
He brings back an ice-cold bottle, straight off the factory floor. The contents are the color of a sunset in a hazy sky.
I take a sip. And it tastes like ... soda. Sweet. Fizzy. A bit bubble-gummy.
To me, it seems like nothing special. Then again, I'm not Scottish.
Coca-Cola is the number one selling soft drink in almost every country, but depending on what statistics you use, one rare exception may be Scotland. There, a florescent orange soda rules the land - a symbol of Scottish identity. In just a few weeks Scotland will vote on whether to break from the United Kingdom, and NPR's Ari Shapiro wondered whether the Scots's love of that fizzy drink can offer any insight into their nationalism.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: The drink is called Irn-Bru - I, R, N, B, R, U. For outsiders, Scotland's passion for this drink can be difficult to understand. In Glasgow, Laura Calgie was the very first person we stopped on the street at random to ask about it.
LAURA CALGIE: For my wedding toast I had Irn-Bru in champagne glasses instead of champagne.
SHAPIRO: You're kidding. You had Irn-Bru in champagne glasses.
CALGIE: Yes.
SHAPIRO: And you don't have a family connection to the company or anything like that?
CALGIE: I was brought up about 10 minutes away from the factory, so maybe they put something in the water.
SHAPIRO: I figured she must be an outlier, so we stopped Chris Young next. He was walking down the street carrying a bottle of Irn-Bru.
CHRIS YOUNG: The stuff runs in my blood.
SHAPIRO: OK, but he was actually drinking the stuff when we stopped him, so that's not a fair sample. What about the woman he was walking with, Gayle Fergus?
Are you as devoted a fan of Irn-Bru?
GAYLE FERGUS: Probably more.
SHAPIRO: How is that possible? He said it runs in his blood.
FERGUS: Yeah, well, I've got pins. I've got all the merchandise as well.
SHAPIRO: I asked everyone where this fervor comes from - why they're so crazy about this Scottish soda. And the most common answer was we love it because it's Scottish.
FERGUS: We're proud of what we have. I think that's, like, a really Scottish - I think that's why it outsells Coca-Cola, because we're so proud of our own products.
SHAPIRO: At a nearby old-fashioned candy store, shop worker Agnes Plunkett has shelves of Irn-Bru flavored sweets from sticky taffy to fluorescent orange lollipops. She offers us a sample of the Irn-Bru hard candies.
Oh, it's really nice.
AGNES PLUNKETT: It is. Very nice.
SHAPIRO: That's very nice.
PLUNKETT: This is chews. This is Irn-Bru humbugs - orange flavor as well - orange color.
SHAPIRO: How popular are all of these Irn-Bru candies?
PLUNKETT: Very popular.
SHAPIRO: Much of the world treats Scottish icons as kitch - kilts, haggis, bagpipes. But for Scots, these are potent symbols of national pride. One of Irn-Bru's advertising slogans is, made in Scotland from girders - as in the steel beams that hold up buildings.
SARA GRADY: People call Irn-Bru Scotland's other national drink after whiskey whereas I think the Coke prides itself on being a brand that is the same all over the world. Irn-Bru appeals to people because it is so Scottish.
SHAPIRO: Sara Grady works for Data Monitor Consumer, a market research firm in London.
GRADY: I'm English, and so everything I see oh English culture, we're kind of shy about it, whereas they're just loud and proud. It's - in some ways I guess you could say that while Coca-Cola embodies the American dream, Irn-Bru can be the Scottish version of that.
SHAPIRO: At the Irn-Bru factory just outside of Glasgow, 96,000 cans an hour fly through the line. Brand manager Martin Steele is our tour guide.
MARTIN STEELE: We sell about the equivalent of 17 pounds a second, which is a huge volume to keep up with.
SHAPIRO: When we finish the tour, I tell Martin Steele I have something to confess.
I still have not actually tasted an Iron Bru.
STEELE: Shall we do that? Shall I get you a can and then you can try live on the air...
SHAPIRO: May I?
STEELE: ...And see what you think?
SHAPIRO: May I have a taste?
STEELE: Yeah, give me two seconds and I'll nip into the factory and get you a can.
SHAPIRO: He brings back an ice-cold bottle straight off the factory floor. I take a sip and it tastes like soda - sweet, fizzy, a bit bubble-gummy - to me it seems like nothing special. Then again, I'm not Scottish. Ari Shapiro, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The very first image from the sequel to The Smurfs is out. You have now acquired this information. And are these...albino Smurfs?
The girl is called Vexy, and will be voiced by Christina Ricci. The boy is voiced by J.B. Smoove, and his character name is Hackus. These beings were created by Gargamel and his terrible CG-faced cat. Their official species name is The Naughties. Sure, why not.
According to Entertainment Weekly they're going to cause a lot of trouble for the Smurfs in the sequel. What's happening with Gargamel these days? The villain has been stranded in the real world and got a gig as an entertainer in Paris. His big bad plan is to use the Eiffel Tower as a conductor to get himself back home, but he needs more Smurf magic first. This is inarguably a movie that is being made.


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Happy New Year!
I did spend my holiday weekend binge-reading and researching to learn more about Mary Lisiecka's possible remarriage and I have since come to the conclusion that she hadn't remarried. Almost three years ago, there were long, involved email conversations with several individuals and had obtained more than a handful of LDS film scans through the Sobieskis.
In one of these conversations, we were discussing the death of Joseph Plenzler, my great-great grandfather (born 1823 in Wiorek and died in 1873 in Wiorek). I had started working back in 2012 or early 2013 to read all of that documentation sent and "connect some of the dots" and I had dropped the issue and never updated my tree. I realized that I hadn't updated Joseph's death date and started to work some more on his life this weekend when I realized there was a record of Mary's death in the same email. Mary, who was born in Wiorek in 1825, died in Wiorek in 1875.
Records for Joseph's death are here and here (two pages to document).
Records for Mary's death are here and here (two pages to document).
Mary's record is quite clear in identifying who she is–the daughter of Aldabertus Lisiecki and Barbara Nachengast. So, there goes my theory Mary was re-married after Joseph's death but not for naught. From reviewing this marriage record of a Mary to Joannes Olejniczak, I realized that this Mary is the daughter of Joseph and Anna Maria Bajerlein, who would be my 3rd-great-grandparents (the record does state this); however, her age is given as 45 years old and the marriage occurred in 1884, placing her birth as 1839. The eldest sibling that I can locate of the family is Martin, born 1815. This marriage was witnessed by Bartholomeus Plenzler and Martin Lisiecki. So this does give some implied knowledge: Joseph Plenzler (father of Joseph Plenzler born in 1832) and his wife, Anna Maria Bajerlein, were alive through at least 1839. I have had difficulty locating data on my 3rd great-grandparents so far beyond dates and names. There are two pages to this record: here and here. (I neglected to include both pages on the previous post.)
Regarding Martin Lisiecki, with that email exchange that I had reviewed more in-depth this weekend, he is a brother to Mary. There was a marriage record of Martin to an Antonia Melingier contained in that discussion that indicates he is the son of Adalbertus and Barbara. That record is here and here (two pages).
As a follow up to the mention I had made in the last post regarding Bartholomeus Plenzler (brother to the Joseph born in Wiorek in 1823), here's the data that I've found. He was originally discovered while research my great-great grandmother, Mary Lisiecka. See these posts from July 12, 2012 and September 30, 2012.
Bartholomeus was an interesting character to trace because like Martin Lisiecki, I had come across references to him earlier as witnesses to events such as marriages or deaths. I knew that Bartholomeus had married a Barbara Hirsch in 1850, but I had not located any children from this marriage until I started mining the Basia database. Barbara and Bartholomeus had two children that I have been able to locate: Kunegunda, born in 1853 and died in 1883. I located this child through her death record. Interestingly, she married a man named Felix Lesiecki. Also note that this record indicates that the death was reported by an Adam Plenzler. I have not identified who Adam is yet.
(Note: I have noticed Lesiecki surname spelled as Lisiecki in many documents, many sources. I'm not sure if this is due to transcription issues, whether there are two separate surnames, or other matters that I don't understand or know yet. I realized that I have used both versions. I do not have any connection of Felix to my great-grandmother's (Mary) family. It's possible but I have not found one yet. I also have never standardized on the spelling of the surname as I have with my Plenzler family's surname.)
The second child I've located from the marriage of Bartholomeus and Barbara Hirsch was Eva, born in 1862. I've identified Eva via a marriage record to Johann Teszner. Record is located here and here (two pages to document).
I was completely stunned to see that he as well married a Lisiecki family member: Cunegunda, who was also a daughter of Adalbertus Lisiecki and Barbara Nachengast. She was a sister to my great-great grandmother, Mary Lisiecki. I have not located the marriage record yet for Bartholomeus and Cunegunda, but have found a birth record for a daughter from the marriage, Barbara, who was born 9 September 1878. Cunegunda died 5 June 1882.
Bartholomeus married a third time, to Antonie Kolinska in 1882. The marriage record is here and here (again, two pages to the document).


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NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 - HISTORY(R) continues its ratings success with the season 2 premiere of COUNTING CARS and premiere episodes of AMERICAN RESTORATION on Tuesday, April 9.
The season 2 premiere of COUNTING CARS, from 9-10pm, delivered 2.9 million total viewers, 1.4 million Adults 25-54 and 1.3 million Adults 18-49.
From 10-11pm, AMERICAN RESTORATIONS delivered 2.6 million total viewers, 1.2 million Adults 25-54 and 1.1 million Adults 18-49.
COUNTING CARS is produced for HISTORY by Leftfield Pictures. Zachary Behr and Julian Hobbs are Executive Producers for HISTORY. Executive Producers for Leftfield Pictures are Brent Montgomery, David George, and Shawn Witt. Joel Patterson is Co-Executive Producer for Leftfield Pictures.
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Should be fun for those who get picked. Good luck everyone!
You too mate, wicked excited!
I been really interested in testing phones and would like to know how to get into testing I can't find anything anywhere on how to get started.
Very excited, if I can get one. My general testing experiences will go up on my You Tube channel.
Beta testing an awesome way to discover new technology, not only by individuals getting the opportunity to use the tech, but by others who have the chance to view honest assessments of the tech in question. Excellent reviews also help the company make informed decisions regarding updates to increase user satisfaction. It's certainly a job to take seriously, and this ZTE community shows the company's commitment to a great user experience. I'm looking forward to putting the Axon 7 through it's paces, if I'm lucky enough to be chosen... hint, hint.
Would love to be one of the Verizon people to try it out. All the guys in tech support would be jelly
I would love an opportunity to beta test to help with feedback. I'm on T-Mobile in Minnesota.
I so want to try this phone on my Verizon too ...I sure sure hope I get one....
I am looking forward to testing whatever it may be.
I've not had the chance to officially be a beta tester either (although I might as well have been one for the Dell XPS 12 I bought well before there were any reviews out for the device)
I've never been a beta tester, but it sounds like a lot of fun!
Welcome to the ZTE community, Mossy! Beta testing can be quite fun and
very informative. Enjoy your time here!
I am ready and willing to Beta test anything you feel I would be a good fit for. I can guarantee an honest thorough review with multiple age groups and opinions from my household if need be. I am currently using AT&T as my provider. All of my free time daily is devoted to tech related items. Beta testing ZTE products would be an amazing experience and journey. Please don't hesitate to ask and my answer is already Yes lol
Can't wait for it.
Ohhhh, excitement, thanks peter.
Aweosme to see ZTE has a beta testing program. I did beta testing for oppo on the find 5. It was a great experience! would be awesome to beta test ZTE devices on T-Mobile (I also work for T-Mobile USA now).
Hoping that ZTE will become my first beta testing experience.
Currently have zero experience with beta testing, but do a lot of research online regarding everything i purchase. I am the opposite of an impulse buyer
Beta testing is a lot of fun, but also requires a commitment to the device. I have yet to hear anyone, ever, tell me they hated, or were disappointed with beta testing. You are going to love it! Stick around
I have been doing it for approx 6-7 yrs, and love it. You just have to remember to be active with the device, and site your working within daily. Having fun using the device is only part of it, you also have to be willing to push through, even when some devices get quirky. Just be open, honest, and willing, and you will be a great tester, and enjoy doing it.
A beta test model would not be the full on official model release for sale would it?
Depends upon what stage in development they are in, but typically Beta Tests are the final Model, just not usually the perfect software and or may at times have some left over hardware issues to be ironed out.
I can not answer for ZTE, however many times it appears to be a full release model(you can not tell any difference) other times it is very clear you have a beta model. I have also seen companies send a device ready for release, and after beta ditch it all together. So it really depends on the company, and their needs for the device at the time of beta. Hope this helped a little
Interesting, would be really cool to be a part of development from the consumers point of view
Yeah, I love beta testing. Only did it once though since it seems like a rare chance to come by. The product I tested (still in testing phrase) was a dashcam called Viofo A119. It is nice for a manufacturer to provide sample units to consumers and help them iron out some bugs and provide feedback on what they should improve. It feels great being involved in the production of a product.
Being as active, and honest during a beta test as you can be, can go a long way into getting invited into other tests. This of course is not the only thing that is looked at, your profile plays a large role, and many companies have an application that factors in. Also don't give up. I hear all the time people say they applied to 2-3 and never get a spot, most times 1000's of people apply. Keep trying, you are going to fit into a beta at some point. It isn't as rare as you would think
Also don't ever, ever forget you signed legal docs agreeing to not disclose information regarding the beta and or device. This not only can get you in trouble, it will for sure keep you from getting into another beta.


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Brandy Branch Reservoir, which is also known as Hallsville or Pirkey Lake, is located southwest of Marshall in Harrison County. The reservoir is an impoundment of Brandy Branch Creek. The 1,242-acre reservoir was constructed in 1983 to serve as a cooling pond for a steam-electric power plant. The reservoir is a popular recreational area for boating and fishing.
In 1992, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS; then known as TDH) issued an advisory restricting the consumption of fish from the reservoir because selenium concentrations in the fish posed a risk to consumers. The goal of this project was to determine whether the consumption of fish from the reservoir still posed a threat to human health. The TCEQ worked with the DSHS to collect fish samples, conduct laboratory analyses, and characterize the risks to consumers from all contaminants found in fish-tissue samples.
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During their 25 years of service, the Kirkpatricks watched China change and the church boom. The Christian workers say the number of believers in the country is "staggering."
"The day where we arrive in a city and we go for months and months and never find a Christian are really gone," Maggie said. "That is a major, major God-thing.
" would pray that the Gospel would take root in the far reaches," Maggie, recalling their first years on the field, said.
"We would be disappointed, if after 25 years, we couldn't find any trace of the Gospel in any of the places we've been," she said. "But God hasn't disappointed. We can find the results of evangelism and discipleship, even in some of the most far-flung places."
The Kirkpatricks moved to Asia to work in an unengaged and unreached city in western China. In the late 80s and early 90s, western China was the "wild west" -- uncharted territory for many Westerners.
"Twenty five years ago, we came here to be the Christians in those cities and to be a presence of Christ in some of those unreached places," Maggie said.
As the nation and church were still recovering from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, "it was very difficult to even find anyone who believed," she added.
" were there; they were the remnants of the church prior to the Cultural Revolution. It took time and relationships to find some of those people.
"In the meantime, we set about breaking new ground and winning the lost," Maggie recalled. "It is many of those people who believed in the early days who are now taking the Gospel forward in China."
Stories and historical tapestries began to unfold as Christian workers in China led people to Christ.
"Interestingly, as we've won new people, we began to discover more and more about the church that was left here after the Communist takeover," Maggie said. "A number of those networks from prior to 1950 are still alive and well and spreading the Gospel not just in China but all over the world."
Believers from 20-30 years ago began new house church streams, sharing the Gospel domestically and internationally.
"It is all a God thing; it wasn't our doing that caused a wave of change," Alexander said. "We were just there on the front row, or second row, participating in the joy."
The change of a nation
Politician and reformer Deng Xiao Ping's economic reforms ushered in a new era for the nation, the couple noted. China's economy went from being state-run, to foreign companies being encouraged to joint venture with Chinese companies.
"The younger generation is quickly forgetting what their grandparents' generation went through during the Cultural Revolution," Maggie said. "That era in China, to them, is long ago and far away. Their China is connected to the world."
The Kirkpatricks at first had to travel in and out of China from neighboring countries. "It's gone from us not even knowing if we could live in country for long periods, to being here long-term," she said, recalling they even had to use special currency.
The city where they first served is now a major hub for expatriates. Western amenities are abundant such as Starbucks, Dolce and Gabbana, Mexican food and Walmart.
The couple remembers when Chinese people lived in work units called a "danwei." People of the same profession would live in the same building.
Under the old socialist system, food, housing and health care were all provided. Now, people are free to live wherever they choose and provide for themselves.
The Kirkpatricks remember big Russian trucks and no private cars. Bicycles were the main form of transportation in the late 80s and early 90s.
Now, Lamborghinis, Maseratis and Ferraris tear through the empty night streets, revving their high-dollar engines. "China has so many millionaires -- that was unheard of back then," Maggie said.
However, a recent World Bank listed China among the five nations housing the world's poorest people.
Freedom of travel has also been a major change. The couple recalled when only the Communist Party could get a passport and visa.
"From Paris, to Munich to Rio de Janeiro, to Mogadishu; pick a city, are there," Maggie pointed out.
If there is a sizable population of Chinese people in a city, virtually in every nation in the world, the Gospel is as well, she added.
"If they take the Good News with them," Alexander said, "it will be a way to get the Good News out faster."
As the Chinese moved into various cities to find work, cities became a prime place for seeing the Gospel spread.
" Paul was relating to people in the cities," he said. "Cities are still strategic because of … migrants coming to the city to find work."
Migrant workers move frequently. And many of them who are new believers often return to their hometowns and begin spreading the Good News. " travels back with them to their homes and families," Alexander said.
Alexander said he's partnering with a seminary in the U.S. to provide theological education for believers.
The role of the Western Christian worker in China has changed, he added. Now, their role is "primarily to come alongside workers, provide training, equipping, encouragement … and eventually finish the task, the Great Commission."
Growth of a nation
Alexander said he sees parallels between the growth of his own son and daughter and the growth of the church in China.
"At first, you need a lot of information on what to do and how to do… As you grow in your walk, you need someone to come along and encourage and work alongside … not as much directive but more supportive," Alexander said.
In addition to training, Alexander counsels pastors and leaders on small group dynamics, investing time into building up the church and helping believers learn how to cast vision. He challenges Chinese believers to take the Gospel to unreached areas.
Maggie said, "The local brothers and sisters are doing the work. Some of the things they need to accomplish what God is asking them to do are things we can provide."
The Chinese church sends its own workers to countries Westerners cannot enter. Chinese believers also founded the Back to Jerusalem movement -- a commitment to take the Gospel to unreached areas.
"In 25 years, we've gone from seeing people come to faith, to training them, to seeing them do it themselves," Maggie said.
Even with the rapid changes and developments in China, the Kirkpatricks said there are many places in China that are the "old China."
"There are places where the future and past coincide," Alexander said.
The next 25 years are an open book for China, The Kirkpatricks say. They pray it will be 25 years saturated with the Bible.
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KITTERY, Maine — The U.S. Navy is investigating the cause of a small fire that broke out at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard over the weekend.
The fire erupted Saturday, June 16, outside the USS Miami (SSN 755), the same nuclear submarine ravaged by flames last month in a separate incident.
A shipyard worker used a fire extinguisher to put out Saturday's fire, which was reported at approximately 7:13 p.m. It was already extinguished when shipyard firefighters arrived on scene, according to information provided Monday by a shipyard spokeswoman.
No one was injured during the episode.
The Miami's nuclear reactor was never in any danger, and no radioactive material was involved, according to the shipyard's announcement.
Last month, more than 100 firefighters traveled to Kittery, Maine, to help combat a separate fire that broke out inside the Miami. The May 23 fire spread through the forward area of the submarine and continued to burn for more than 10 hours before it was extinguished.
Investigators believe the fire was started by a "heat source" that was sucked into a shop vacuum, igniting the debris within.
Seven people suffered minor injuries while helping to push back flames inside the cramped quarters of the ship.
The Navy has approximated the damage at $400 million, plus another $40 million for so-called "secondary effects," such as disruption to other planned work across all Navy shipyards and the potential need to hire private contractors.
Navy engineers are still conducting a thorough damage assessment of the submarine, including surveying the interior and exterior of the hull.
Built for $900 million, the ship was scheduled to remain in service for another nine or so years. It is among the older boats in a fleet of about 54 U.S. attack submarines, which are used to launch missiles, gather intelligence and support other Navy vessels.
Navy officials have indicated the Miami can be salvaged, but have not decided whether to carry out the costly repairs.
The Navy has launched separate Judge Advocate General Manual (JAGMAN) and safety investigations, and intends to focus those efforts on "lessons learned" that could prevent a similar fire in the future, according to information provided last month by the Navy. Those investigations were expected to yield initial conclusions and recommendations this month.
Shipyard representatives could not be reached for comment on the status of the investigation Monday.
The Miami arrived at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for a scheduled 20-month overhaul on March 1. The submarine's nuclear plant had been powered down for two months prior to the fire, and the unit was not operating when the fire broke out, naval officials said in May.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Fire erupts at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard dry dock
KITTERY, Maine — The U.S. Navy is investigating the cause of a small fire that broke out at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard over the weekend.


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Messages to Fort Worth
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson sent messages to the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on the historic ordination of Susan Slaughter.
From Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori:
November 12, 2009
To the faithful gathered for the ordination of Susan Slaughter:
I give thanks to God for this sign of resurrection in the Diocese of Fort Worth. Many thought this day would never arrive, but you have all been faithful, hopeful, and highly persistent not unlike the importunate widow. May the Rev. Slaughter be a living witness to the ministry of such seekers after justice, and may the widow"s gifts spread abroad throughout the Diocese of Fort Worth. There are many of the least of these who are in abundant need of those gifts.
Susan, may you bear lightly the symbol you become, knowing that it is Christ within you who bears all such burdens. May his light shine through you, and may those whom you help to gather around his table become his light-bearers as well.
With abundant gratitude for all the people of Fort Worth, I remain
Your servant in Christ,
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop
The Episcopal Church
From President Anderson:
To: The faithful, hopeful and persevering people of the
Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
The Rt. Rev. Ted Gulick, Jr.
St. Luke"s in the Meadow Episcopal Church
The Rev. Susan Slaughter
Today certainly makes the case for hope. Today is the day that many people have hoped for, prayed for, worked for, cried over, and lost sleep over. Today is the day when we see hope realized in God"s time.
Today is the day that we will conjure up in our mind"s eye when we are looking for reason to keep pressing on.
Today is the day we will recall when we seek inspiration and courage during difficult times.
After thirty-three years of struggle and prayer, confusion and angst, here we are, the Holy people of God, gathered together in the midst of Holy worship on Holy ground to give thanks to our beloved God who did not leave us alone.
The Episcopal Church is truly blessed by the commitment of the lay people, bishop and clergy of this diocese. You show us how God is working through all the baptized. You are an example of deep faithfulness.
Giving of gifts:
In the House of Deputies at the 76th General Convention in Anaheim in 2009, small wooden crosses were given to all the deputies, made by an artist from Eastern Oregon. Near the close of convention, the Diocese of Eastern Oregon presented me with a larger wooden cross made by the same artist. In their presentation they asked me to keep the cross until I felt the appropriate time to pass it on. Today is the time.
Susan and the Sr. Warden: This cross is passed to you and the people of St. Luke"s in the Meadow. Please know it comes to you in peace and thanksgiving for your courage and your ministry. When you feel it is the appropriate time to pass it on, please do.
Bishop Gulick and Chair of the Standing Committee::
To the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth I present the official seal of the General Convention, inscribed from the House of Deputies. You are valued and beloved by the Episcopal Church as we all are one in the Body of Christ.
Bonnie Anderson, D.D.
President, The House of Deputies
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Dodgers recall Dee Gordon, option Stephen Fife to Triple-A Albuquerque
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers today recalled shortstop Dee Gordon from Triple-A Albuquerque and optioned right-handed pitcher Stephen Fife to Albuquerque.
Gordon, 25, has hit safely in his last 17 games with Albuquerque, batting .366 (26-for-71) since July 14, and overall is batting .307 with a Pacific Coast League-leading 44 steals to go along with 16 doubles, eight triples and a .398 on-base percentage in 80 games. With the Isotopes, Gordon has hit .299 (23-for-77) with runners in scoring position. Gordon batted .175 with a home run and five RBI in 19 games during his previous call-up May 4-26.
Fife, 26, was reinstated from the disabled list yesterday (right shoulder bursitis) and picked up the win with 5.1 scoreless innings against the Cubs. Fife has gone 4-3 with a 2.47 ERA in nine big league starts this season.


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February 17th, 2011 started off just like any other day for 'Firefly' fans around the world; little did they know what was about to transpire. That day Entertainment Weekly interviewed our favorite Captain. During that interview EW asked Mr. Fillion, "If Castle had its series finale tomorrow, and Fox said to you and Joss, 'We screwed up; let's try doing Firefly again' would you do it?" His response is what started it all!
Nathan Fillion:
"Yes. Yes. I would examine very closely Fox's reasoning — I'm a little gun-shy. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet."
A fan thought, "Hey, why take the chances with the lottery; I'd be willing to put a few bucks in support of Nathan buying the rights." The next day, with the help of a good friend, HelpNathanBuyFirefly.com was born:
"The Plan:
Phase 1) Generate momentum. We're going to setup a way people can pledge funding towards the mission of putting the rights to Firefly back into the hands of people who care about it. Since Nathan said he'd be game to be those hands, we're going to watch for …
Phase 2) Nathan chimes in towards us and approves the effort. At that point, it's a real mission and we'll switch into….
Phase 3) We'll setup a way for the funding to be collected into a Non-Profit Organization. We'll then want everyone to make good on their pledge and contribute."
The founders were not alone. Support started flowing in from all corners of the web; the initial Word press site crashed with all the traffic and the Facebook wall moved so fast it was almost impossible to keep up with.
In the week that followed, everyone waited with eager anticipation for the pledge system to be set up, all the while ideas of how to get our beloved show back on the air were suggested one after another. Mr. Fillion and the rest of the cast were bombarded with tweets asking their thoughts on HNBF. Jane Espensen, Jose Molina, and Jewel Staite all tweeted support towards Nathan Fillion, saying they'd all be on board if Serenity flew once more.
On day seven, which seemed like weeks for the 70K+ fans that were refreshing the page every couple seconds, in hopes of some news on the plan. Soon, an update was posted. This update made it clear that Nathan was most likely joking. The concept being that when a dollar amount of what fans are ready to spend in support of 'Firefly', HNBF would become serious and hopefully attract Mr. Whedon and Mr. Fillion to re think fan-funded projects. The final part of the update was that with the pledge system, there would be an option to give a percentage of your pledge to charity, should the project fail to bring 'Firefly' back. This did not go over well with a few vocal fans. To make matters worse, Mr. Fillion's comment on the campaign came.
"It's beautiful to dream of more Firefly, but PLEASE DON'T SEND ANY MONEY. Just keep being great Browncoats, which you are!"
Some fans took that as a direct message to stop the plan all together, others took it as a coded message to "misbehave", citing the episode 'Out of Gas'.
Two days later came the next update, to let every one know that the Big Damn Plan was being worked on by the new team and the pledge system would soon be up. Along with that update was the info for Browncoats:Redemption (BC:R) and the suggestion that while everyone waits, they should check them out and support another fan run 'Firefly' project. Overnight. over 340 fans donated towards the project and raised $10,000+ in a single day (total, as of this writing, has expanded to over $17,000). Many fans felt they were being scammed at this point, as if they were being given the 'ole switcher-woo'. An update to address these concerns and those about the anonymity was posted a few days later, albeit a tad to late; the comment battles had already waged.
Amidst the waging war over BC:R in the previous post the pledge system was finally up, in line with Day 10 and 100,000 fans on the Facebook page. The pledge numbers rose like clockwork, with the occasional phony pledge that was quickly removed.
Two weeks into the campaign, another interview with Nathan Fillion is done. He clearly states to the fans do not send money to a website and that 'Firefly' was a very expensive show costing over a million dollars an episode. Soon after an update was posted to acknowledge Mr. Fillion's comments, and stating that it is understood that this is a massive undertaking that will take determination, perseverance, and faith to accomplish.
On March 6th, The Big Damn plan was revealed!
"1. The idea here is to create a limited partnership to be owned by the fans. Anyone who invests in the company has a voice.
2. The purpose of this partnership will be to enable what everyone has been hoping for all these years: the production and distribution of more of our favorite show. Obviously, there are a lot of things to figure out before we actually get to that point.
3. We're going to create a system through which anyone can invest in the organization. If we can't raise enough money, or if we can't acquire the rights we're after, we return the remaining funds. No hassle, no questions, no worries. There might be expenses like hiring a veteran negotiator, but we're going to keep expenses minimal. We're fans and will be investing too, so we will make it as safe an investment as we can for all involved. "
The Plan was well received by most of the Fans and the pledge numbers continued to rise. Then late March 7th, over 100,000 hearts sank with one tweet. Through Joss Whedon's sister in-law, the Whedon team expressed that they did not support HNBF (later clarified to express uninvolvement).
As promised since the start, the plan would not move ahead without support from Mr. Fillion or Mr. Whedon, the Big Damn Plan was shutdown. HelpNathanBuyFirefly.com was locked down and all continued communication was directed over to the Facebook page. Once the Pledge hit over $1,000,000 dollars at an average of just over $85 per pledge it was also locked down.
In an amazing show of selflessness many fans donated all or a portion of what they would have pledged to Kids Need to Read in honor of Nathan Fillion. In the next few weeks over $3000 was raised! The days following at the Facebook page made it clear that the fans were not ready to give up on their dream. Many pleasant conversations arose, and the Facebook page came to be a peaceful place for 'Firefly' to gather and discuss ways to show their support.
The final act of HNBF (as a page) was to create a design contest for Unstoppable Signals. The winning designs have been placed on various "Signal Gear". The proceeds of all merchandise sold is donated to Kids Need to Read and can be ordered right here through the new home of Unstoppable Signals.


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
today's quotes
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
meditation for today
The Light Has Come
Christ's eyes are open, and He will look on whatever you
see with love if you accept His vision as yours.
— A Course in Miracles
Today is a precious and holy day on Planet Earth. It is a day when the world calls a halt to insanity and acknowledges the presence of divinity It is a day of joy and appreciation and celebration. It is a day to be happy
The birth of the Christ as a human being bears tremendous meta–physical import. It means that humanity is ready to accept its own divin–ity. Jesus brought God to Earth; he discovered his divine identity, he had the courage to live it, and the world has never been the same.
The image of Christ being born in a manger symbolizes that God comes forth in a place of humility. Spirit seeks not fanfare, human riches, or accolades, but the simplicity of an open heart.
The most important message of Christmas is that the Christ is born in you, through you, as you. When interpreting a dream, we must recognize ourselves as all the characters; the same is true for events that occur in the outer dream we call life. The birth of Christ is the emergence of a new con–sciousness of your own holiness.
Today is your birthday, and every day is Christmas. Thank God that you have remembered your divine nature. Throw off the cloak of small-ness, and claim the truth about you: You are an expression of a perfect God, and everything God is, you are. You are the holy one. Jesus seeks not our worship, but our equality. He is our elder brother who came to remind us who we really are. We are one with the son of God.
Thank You for bringing Jesus to life, that I may walk
the path of divinity with him.
Christ is born in me today.
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Monday quotes
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
weekly roundup
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Monday quotes
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
back online
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The "little river band" has a song titled reminiscing, and for me, reminiscing and romanticizing has always been a
stumbling block. I wish it didn't have to be that way and it takes a concerted effort to think it all the way through,
and also remember the pain, misery and feelings of regret that came along with my drinking career
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King Theatre
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The King Theatre was opened on April 27, 1950 with Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride in "Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town". All seating was on a single floor. The facade and marquee of the King Theatre survive, although the interior has been converted to residences.
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Does anyone remember when the King Theatre was retrofitted to show the movie "Windjammer" in Cinemiracle?? It opened on Oct. 26, 1960 and played until Dec. 21, 1960, which – at the time – was probably one of the longest film engagements in Lancaster's history. I have been trying to get more information on this showing. Anyone of the Cinema Treasure members remember this? Thanks
I lived in Harrisburg and my parents took me to Lancaster to see WINDJAMMER at the King Theater. It probably had the largest screen in Lancaster until it was twined.
Actually there was a new theater, the Eric? – in the new Lancaster Square on the second block of N. Queen St. It probably had the largest new screen in the city until it too was split in half and it was like watching a movie in a long shoe box.
Before the split I saw DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER on the huge Eric Panavision screen about six times.
The King outlasted most of the old theaters in Lancaster, most of which were razed in the "redevelopment" of the '60s, after which the Eric rose out of the ashes.
Boxoffice of April 22, 1950, named John and Drew Eberson as architects of the King Theatre, which was then being rushed to completion.
The Eric rose out of the ashes, but could never replace the Capital (formerly called the Hippodrome), the Hamilton, the Boyd (formerly called the Colonial), and the Grand located on the other side of the street. The Boyd had two balcony's and the Capital had one balcony. The Hamilton and Grand were both one floor theatres. When the King Theatre opened it had one of those curtains only on a smaller scale that was like the Radio City Music Hall curtain. However, when the screen was made larger for Cinemascope presentations that curtain was replaced with the standed center opening traverse curtain. The King was still a palatial theatre for being built in the 1950's. The slope of the floor to the screen was very steep. If they put snow in the aisles, it would have been a good sledding hill!
No, DennisZ, I very much agree about the Eric.
I lived on the 2nd block of North Queen for a short period and saw all of these great theaters torn down around me. It was like living in a war zone!
I was the last one in my apartment building, "The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots"…. :)
I also remember the nights the wrecking ball hit the Brunswick. It was a sturdy old building and did not go down easily.
I had a second floor apartment right down from the Grand and remember seeing several Preminger films, "The Cardinal," "In Harm's Way," there. Also some of the Corman/Poe films. I remember it had a good wide screen.
I was only able to attend all of those theaters for a short time after moving to Lancaster, then came the blitz! What an incredible waste.
Do you know when the Hamilton closed? I remember the entrance, a kind of shadowy exterior vestibule, and it always fascinated me. I never got to see the interior.
I'd like to add some of these theaters to CT but I don't have a lot of details.
I add to this album of vintage movie theaters and memorabilia from time to time:
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Thanks Penway.
Thank you. I set it up as a kind of still photo documentary moving from the Pa. theaters I grew up with through to the vintage theaters that managed to survive out here in LA and California.
I wish I had more Pa. photos. It's especially difficult to find photos of neighborhood theaters it seems.
I do include some newspaper ads from some Harrisburg theaters which for me is a vivid reminder of their era.
A bit belated comment, but yes I remember when "THE KING" was equipped to show "Windjammer" in Cinemiracle. Reserved seat show like all the big screen attractions, and was just glorious that this attraction had come come to Lancaster (certainly more available than the Boyd in Philadelphia or the Town in Baltimore) Remember it was Saturday night and so exciting to be there. Don't know that they ever had any other 3 strip attractions there. Shortly thereafter Harrisburg opened the Trans-Lux with 70mm Cinerama and the big shows went there.
This opened on April 27th, 1950. Grand opening ad posted.
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Northwest Folklife invites musicians, dancers, community groups, artists, storytellers, and instructors to participate in the 43rd annual Northwest Folklife Festival, which will take place May 23-26, 2014, at Seattle Center.
If you or your group is based in the Northwest region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana, this is a great opportunity to share your music and traditions!
The annual Northwest Folklife Festival is the largest FREE community arts festival in the United States. It is presented each year in Seattle by Northwest Folklife, a year-round nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for all people to appreciate, share, and participate in the evolving traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
Last year Northwest Folklife programmed over 6,000 performers in 65 different genres of music, from Hawaiian to hip-hop. We presented dance performances representing cultures from Ireland to India. We believe everyone is a bearer of folk arts, and we encourage communities to share their cultural traditions, in the hope that interaction with new audiences will enrich the community as much as the audience.
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