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OWS occupies 'Law & Order: SVU' episode. Where's Benson and Stabler when you need them?
Publié par Aly Semigran dans
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le 09/12/11.
While a large majority of Occupy Wall Street protesters don't seem to take issue with celebrity support, visits, or participation in the movement, filming at their expense might be another thing entirely.
According to the New York Times, the filming of an episode of Law & Order: SVU was interrupted early Friday morning when more than 100 OWS protesters took over the downtown Manhattan Foley Square set, which was transformed to look like the camps in Zuccotti Park, the home base of the OWS movement, for an upcoming episode. (Can't you just picture the scenario in which L&O: SVU gang stumbles upon the crime scene now? In my head the dialogue sounds a little something like this: "It looks like he's occupying… the funeral home.")
The Times reports that unhappy OWS protesters took over the mock Occupy Wall Street ("Mockupy Wall Street") set around midnight. "Some [protestors] crawled into [the set's] tents and lay down," the Times noted, adding, that others "crowded into the middle of the ersatz encampment and danced while pounding drums and waving flags. One man picked up a Twain volume from the library tent. Several others made a beeline for the kitchen, where they helped themselves to muffins and a jar of pickles, among other delicacies." ("It looks like they're occupying… the craft services table." Okay, I'll stop.)
The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment said in a statement released to EW, "Overnight a crowd gathered at Foley Square, where Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was scheduled to begin filming this morning. The production did not have the required rigging permit to begin set up prior to its filming this morning at 8am. For safety reasons, the production was asked to stop their preparations last night while the crowd dispersed. The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment is working with the production as they begin filming today. The City is currently experiencing record levels of productions, and the local entertainment industry employs 100,000 New Yorkers working behind the camera."
But will they be met with resistance once again? Or perhaps the more pressing question: What caused such an uproar in the first place? The OWS movement is certainly no stranger to having cameras on them, from the coverage by the 24-hour media outlets (though Geraldo Rivera was admittedly met with some resistance) to coverage by the half-hour comedy news programs (The Daily Show, The Colbert Report). Some OWS participants even volunteered to share their stories, like the protesters who appeared in MTV's installment of True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street.
But in this instance, it seemed many of the upset OWS activists took issue with the fact that the show appeared to be using the movement for entertainment value. (In response, protesters made signs which read, "We are a political movement not a TV show," "OWS is not for sale.") And with the fact that there were no repercussions for the Law & Order crew, while Zuccotti Park residents had to fight their eviction last month. As one OWS supported argued to the Times, "Why should they be able to put tents up in a public park when we are unable to do that?" (EW reached out to both reps for NBC and Occupy Wall Street for a statement regarding the incident, but neither responded to the requests.)
Maybe it's for the best that Batman didn't turn Zuccotti Park into Gotham City, after all.
What do you think of the OWS protestors anger with Law & Order: SVU filming something about their movement right near their home base? Should NBC have taken the same approach as The Dark Knight Rises cast and crew, who ultimately decided not to use Zuccotti Park or its residents because, as according to Matthew Modine, "We didn't want to trivialize it. It was more important to respect what they're doing than to do anything that could potentially trivialize the political situation"? Or should the OWS protesters have respect for a set that wasn't technically on their turf in the first place? If L&O: SVU wasn't imposing on them, should they have?
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This week, we're joined by Kevin Nyberg, a regular commenter here and on the KCFS forums, and a high school teacher from Garden City. He has taught Latin and Greek at Garden City High School for 23 years (MA, UGA '95), and is an amateur astronomer with 35 years' experience.
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Christian I of Denmark, Christian II of Denmark, Christian IX of Denmark, Christopher of Bavaria., Eric VII of Pomerania, Gorm the Old, King Harald V of Norway, King of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Now we direct our attention to the three Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Like England and Scotland much of the early history of these monarchies are shrouded in myths and legends. We have many names for these per-histtorical kings but many are legendary and may not have existed at all.
Denmark is such a country shrouded in these myths. For example, Gyrd and Gnupa were alleged kings of Denmark and ruled during part of the 10th century according to King Sweyn II of Denmark and Adam of Bremen. They were the sons of the Swedish chieftain Olaf the Brash who was said to have conquered Denmark, ruling jointly, according to Swedish tradition. Did they actually exist?
King Gnupa is mentioned on the two Sigtrygg Runestones found near Schleswig by his wife Asfrid for their son Sigtrygg. Also, a Danish king Chnuba is named by Widukind of Corvey in his Saxon Chronicles as having been defeated and was forced to accept Christian baptism at the hands of King Gnupa in 934. There is a saga by Olav Tryggvasson's that tells of Gnupa's defeat by Gorm the Old. The problem with this claim is that it contradicts the chronology of Adam of Bremen, who places the succession and subsequent defeat of Sigtrygg during the tenure of Archbishop Hoger of Bremen (909-915/7). These conflicting dates influenced Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus who names a nobleman, Ennignup, who allegedly served as a guardian for a young king Canute I at some time prior to accession King Gorm the Old and it has been suggested this may be confused representation of King Gnupa.
With all of that confusion Gorm the Old is the first historically recognized King of Denmark, reigning from c. 936 to his death c. 958. He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the Jelling Stones in honor of his wife Thyra. Gorm was born before 900 and died c. 958. King Gorm is the reported to be the son of semi-legendary Danish king Harthacnut. Chronicler Adam of Bremen says that Harthacnut came from Nortmannia to Denmark and seized power in the early 10th century. He deposed the young king Sigtrygg Gnupasson, reigning over Western Denmark. When Harthacnut died, Gorm ascended the throne.
Conflicting reports mention Gorm taking at least part of the kingdom by force from Gnupa, and Adam himself suggests that the kingdom may have divided prior to Gorm's time. Gorm is first mentioned in extant documents as the host of Archbishop Unni of Hamburg and Bremen in 936. Despite the historical certainty of Gorm as King of Denmark it is recorded that Denmark was not completely unified during his reign. According to the ancient Jelling Stones it was Gorm's son, Harald Bluetooth, brought together the various tribes in Denmark under one rule. This leads historians to speculate that Gorm only ruled Jutland from his seat in Jelling.
As in the other nations in this series I have looked at what the exact titles were in the past and Denmark will be no exception. The monarchs of Denmark have a long history of royal and noble titles. Historically Danish monarchs also used the titles 'King of the Wends' and 'King of the Goths' along with the title King of Denmark. Here is a select list of titles born by the kings of Denmark.
Eric VII of Pomerania: By the Grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Pomerania.
Christopher I of Bavaria: By the Grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria.
The full title of the Danish sovereigns from Christian I to Christian II was: By the Grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. Christian II's successor, Frederik I, didn't style himself King of Norway because he never visited the country. Therefore he was never crowned King of Norway, so he styled himself King of Denmark, the Vends and the Goths, elected King of Norway.
Upon her accession to the throne in 1972, Queen Margrethe II, abandoned all outdated historical titles except the title "Queen of Denmark."


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Terry Collins
Flushing, New York - Workout Day
Terry, I know you've known Joe a long time. Can you tell us a little bit about your relationship with Maddon and going back as far as you do and working together?
TERRY COLLINS: Well, I've known him a long time. I've known him longer than before we worked together. Guys like Joe and I spend as long as we did in the Minor Leagues, you get to know those guys.
When I got the job in Anaheim, Bill Bavasi, who was the general manager said, you hire whoever you want to hire, and I said, well, I always thought it was important to interviews guys within the organization. I think as a longtime Minor League guy it was one of the things I thought was important, to show the guys in the Minor Leagues, hey, look, there's a future. So I asked Billy to give me names of guys that were in the organization, and Joe had been on the Major League staff the year before, Eddie Rodriguez, a couple guys. So when I went through the interviewing process with those guys, I was extremely impressed with his organization, his preparation, his thoughts.
Back then bench coaches were kind of just guys you'd run an idea by. They really didn't have a huge input. It was also the start of the computer age in baseball, and Joe was into the computers. So when I interviewed him, his organization and his preparation and his personality, I said, this is the guy.
I talked to some of the players at my press conference when I got the job, and his name was brought up by players, which means a lot to me at the Major League level, because again, here's a guy who wasn't a Major League player but got the respect of the players on the team.
So I hired him as the bench guy, and I used him like I think bench coaches should be used, and they should be used today. Always had an idea, always had a thought, and obviously nobody is more thrilled than I was when he finally got his chance in Tampa Bay because we became very good friends, and I relied on him a lot, and obviously he's become extremely successful, and I'm real, real happy for him and real proud of him.
I'm hoping you can take me through, back in 1969 --
TERRY COLLINS: 1969? People in this room weren't even born in 1969.
But you were at Eastern Michigan playing ball at that time, and I'm just wondering what you remember from that time of the Mets and the Cubs, as a baseball fan at that time, if you remember that race and you remember the Mets specifically --
TERRY COLLINS: I was trying to graduate from college. I don't remember any races at that particular time.
Do you see parallels between those two teams?
TERRY COLLINS: I have no idea, believe me. That was the '60s (laughter). I was worried about going to war more than anything else.
No, I'm sorry, I've got to tell you, I was a baseball fan but I was probably a Tigers fan way back then. I'm sorry I can't answer that one.
With what Harvey has gone through all season, how do you think he's weathered it with the recuperating from the Tommy John and all the stuff that he's gone through to get to this point where he's starting the NLCS for you?
TERRY COLLINS: Well, I mean, physically I think he's fine, and I think right now mentally I think he's fine.
Obviously what he went through in the last month has been difficult for him because deep inside, this guy is a tremendous competitor, and he loves to be -- he loves to be in the big games. And so when it worked out the other day, when we knew we were going to have to play Game 5 against the Dodgers, he was the first guy in my office wanting to pitch in Game 5. I told him that was probably not going to happen unless we went to extra innings or we needed somebody to give us a couple innings in a game that we had to win. But I said, right now I have you pitching the first game of the NLCS if we get there. Big smile on his face, and he said, okay, I'll be ready.
So I think it's the right choice. I think he's ready for it. I know physically his arm is fine, and hopefully, again, a little bit more consistent routine, I think he'll pitch well.
Terry, the lack of success you guys had against the Cubs obviously came earlier in the year. Does the fact that two teams have changed so much since then, does that kind of nullify the 0-7 record you have against them or is there any concern that you guys have --
TERRY COLLINS: No, we played good -- I think we're a different team for sure. I think we're a different team. But they've got a good club. They've had a good club. They play very well. They played us extremely well. They have for two years.
We've got a lot of work ahead. I mean, their team has changed. They've got a few new guys, but we're still going to see John Lester and Jake Arrieta, who are two very, very good pitchers. We just went through that with the Dodgers, so we've got to get ourselves ready, but we're a different lineup, too. We're looking forward to it. Again, I think postseason is a whole different game than it is in the regular season, you know, just by the way you work some guys.
We'll hopefully play better than we did during the season.
Beyond Harvey Game 1, is the correct order Syndergaard, deGrom, Matz?
TERRY COLLINS: No.
Can you share the correct order?
TERRY COLLINS: No, I don't have a Game 2 guy yet.
I think you said yesterday you didn't think Juan Uribe was available. Is that correct he's not available?
TERRY COLLINS: I have not had one report that Juan Uribe has done any baseball, physical activities at all. He's been getting therapy, but I have not gotten one report where he has taken any batting practice or any ground balls, so my guess is he's not ready to play.
For those of us on the East Coast last night, can you kind of just take us through your emotions immediately after the last out and kind of what inspired you to do the slapping hands and hugging fans along the Mets' dugout there?
TERRY COLLINS: Well, first of all, I'll start with the second part. One of the things that I saw when I first came to the New York Mets, we have a fan base everywhere. Everywhere. And so you're at Dodger Stadium last night with 56,000 people, and about 2,000 Mets fans, who when that game was over, came down behind our dugout and cheered everything these guys did. I thought they deserved a little recognition.
You know, I thought it was -- but we had just won Game 5. I was pretty happy. I know for a lot of guys in here that happens all the time. It doesn't happen a lot to me. So I was pretty excited about it. To see the looks on some of those guys' faces, and you walk out on the field, and I mean, you couldn't have been happier for Jeurys Familia, and the job that Jake deGrom did was incredible. So I was happy. You know, unfortunately once in a while, you let the emotions get out, and I'll try to behave better next time. (Laughter.)
Terry, your team has come back numerous times when things looked dark, at their darkest. When you talked to your players, they say in Spring Training you guys talked about the ups and downs of a baseball season, both the young guys and the vets. Do you remember those conversations, and do you guys tap back into what those conversations actually meant?
TERRY COLLINS: I don't know if we tapped back into them, but the conversations were pretty plain and simple: You've got to have great character to play this game. I think the teams that are -- that have the most success, there's tremendous character in the clubhouse because you've got to have that to be able to deal with the ups and downs here. You know, and I think that's why it was talked about, we feel we had it. Obviously during the season when you lose the likes of David for a period and you lose Cuddyer and you lose some of the big pieces, someone else has to step up and take those roles, and we had them. We had those guys.
And I think, again, when Juan Uribe came in, I think the character, his presence in our clubhouse lightened it up, and even though we played better because he helped us offensively, I think his presence in there emotionally helped us a little bit.
For me, you know, it was a matter of the tremendous leadership that took place in that clubhouse to keep us on an even keel because I'll go back, if we couldn't have kept this thing afloat in June, we wouldn't have got those guys in July. But I think that was, to me, the turning point of the season is when things looked the gloomiest in June, those guys rose up and kept their head above water because of the leadership.
Looking towards Game 1, you guys haven't stolen that many bases this year. It hasn't been part of your makeup very much, but Lester's struggles with runners on base are no secret. I was wondering if you would think about changing your approach, either.
TERRY COLLINS: Koufax didn't do a good job, either, with guys on base because nobody ever got on, and Jon Lester is a similar guy. You've got to get on to steal, and we don't have a lot of speed. Again, you get on against Jon Lester and you start stealing with guys who aren't real good at stealing, you run yourself out of innings. So we'll pick and choose our moments if we get anybody on to decide how we want to handle it. But we are not a base-stealing team by any means.
You guys have made three cross-country trips in a very short period of time. The Cubs finished up Wednesday; they've rested. Are you concerned about a fatigue factor and perhaps the opposition having an advantage based on logistics?
TERRY COLLINS: We're tired. I mean, I put my head on the pillow this morning at 9:30 and got to be here now. So that's hard. But we've got a night off, and this place is going to be fueled with a lot of energy tomorrow night. I think we'll be able to use that as a little medicine to find some extra adrenaline for sure.
Do you plan on pitching Matt more than Game 1 this series?
TERRY COLLINS: Absolutely.
Saying you don't have a Game 2 starter, is it really how Syndergaard feels in the next day or two?
TERRY COLLINS: Yeah, that is exactly what's happened. His last time he pitched, the second day he was still pretty sore. You know, of all the guys, I'm certainly well aware that I got him up four times last night. You could almost say he got ready four times. That could have almost been five innings of work because I knew he threw over 100 pitches warming up. So if he's still tender tomorrow, he's probably not going to be Game 2 guy. That's why I say I don't have one at the moment.
You've talked about him all year, how impressed you are with him, but when a guy has his first postseason series, faces 16 batters and retires every one of them, does that even surprise you that a first-time guy can have that kind of success in such a spot?
TERRY COLLINS: It does, it really is, and that's why, again, you look at all the things we went through, and some of them guys went up above and beyond what you expected. He was one of those guys.
I went to him yesterday in the outfield during batting practice and said if we have a one-run lead in the eighth inning, you're in the game, and Bartolo Colon was standing with hi as he always is, and he goes, by all means, he'll be ready, and he was, and that was the game plan from the start. And you know, those guys and the way they execute make you look real smart, but he was ready to go from the middle of the afternoon on.
But he was outstanding the whole series.
Am I correct that Tejada was not at Dodger Stadium and would you expect him at the home games and not the road games this series?
TERRY COLLINS: Yeah, I would expect him to be here. He was not in Los Angeles, no.
Just the home games throughout the series?
TERRY COLLINS: I would think so, yeah.
What are your options if not Syndergaard?
TERRY COLLINS: Steven Matz.
You were careful all year with the young pitchers, and I'm sure you still are, but is there any worry about as good as their arms might feel, just how they physically can withstand pitching more than they're used to, whether it's Harvey or any of the other younger guys kind of in these uncharted waters?
TERRY COLLINS: Well, that's been the whole concern all summer. I mean, we took a lot of heat all summer long because of the way we handled some of these young pitchers and their workloads. We've been planning on playing in the postseason since March, and so it was all about making sure they're going to be okay, and that's why we skipped them, that's why we rested them, that's why we took them out of games with lower pitch counts because we knew that down the line we were going to need that extra energy. So yes, there's concerns, but this is who we've got, and those are still our best options.
So I think that, you know what, if we decide tomorrow that if Noah comes in and he says, look, I feel great, I'm ready to go, we've got to decide are we overdoing it by pitching him or should we just say, look, listen to him, believe in him and pitch him. Those are all the decisions that make it hard when you try to take care of your pitching the way we think we've tried to take care of ours.
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We've received some of the biggest news to hit newsstands in quite some time and it barely made the spotlight! News that the Treasury Dept has plans to purchase roughly $600 Billion in mortgage-backed securities should be posted on the front page of every news giant across the nation, but instead we see Somali Pirates & OJ's sentencing... Granted, pirates & OJ do have a knack for capturing our attention on a celebrity level BUT...the Treasury news is news that truly has the potential to start a boom like no other! Let's decipher the $600 Billion... Under this proposal, the Treasury buys mortgage-backed securities...why? Because by purchasing the securities, it pushes rates down. Right now, interest rates on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage are hovering around 6% and the goal is to drive...
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text: Responsibilities change as we go throughout our life. When blending a family new guidelines need to be set. Responsibilities can set the tone for the home and its so important to make sure we are all on board. Our mind is a powerful tool when blending families or with any new relationship. The life you once had is forever changed and you feel over burdened. I remember being a new single mom and I had a lot of responsibilities and even more was added to my plate. Many times it was overwhelming and I felt like I was drowning. Todays episode we talk with, "The Transformed Couple" we talk about responsibilities and get a female and male perspective. They are an amazing couple ( from Canada) and I think you will enjoy this episode. Now lets listen to this podcast


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It is easy to reach agreement if you only discuss things on which you agree.
Trusting Medvedev
By Asher Embry
"I trust President Medvedev," Barack firmly states.
And we've seen O's a great judge of character traits.
As with Bill Ayers and Rezko and Reverend Wright, too,
Can we doubt O's assessment of Dmitri rings true?
It's scary indeed what they haven't discussed
In the midst of this orgy of friendship and trust.
While he lectures at Putin, O's fans must acknowledge,
He's as green and naïve as he was when in college.
As he's boosting the Russians to leadership roles
He abandons our allies, the Czechs and the Poles.
Our nukes, and the Russians', reduced just on whims,
But there's barely a peep 'bout Iranians' or Kim's.
And, perchance, might he harness his awesome persuasion
To shift the talks back to the Georgia invasion?
"Reset" our relations? There's a rule O must heed:
Address only things to which Putin's agreed.
(You can read more of Asher Embry's Political Verse at www.politicalverse.com.)


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Closing the Award
In addition to the Uniform Guidance requirements, the Grants Oversight and New Efficiency (GONE) Act became Public Law No. 114-117 on January 28, 2016. This act was implemented by Congress to ensure the timeliness of agency closeout for expired grants. Agencies are now required to annually submit a report to Congress that includes a list of the 30 oldest Federal grants that have not been closed. Institutions identified on this delinquency report could experience adverse funding impacts, so it is essential the University of Memphis remain in compliance with all reporting requirements.
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PW 3.0.184 – New master/main version!
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsCongratulations Ryan and everyone involved! It's always amazing to see these blog posts that gather all changes from longer timeline.
strange wiremail duplicate sending
apeisa replied to benbyf's topic in General SupportWhere is that code? Template or module?
Community GamersI get shivers when I hear Monkey Island tune. That is epic ?
Forum Upgrades
apeisa replied to Pete's topic in Site AnnouncementsLooks and works great, thanks @Pete!
PW 3.0.178 – Core updates
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsGreat to see pull requests merged. This will help community and pw greatly!
advanced files field
apeisa replied to fruid's topic in Wishlist & RoadmapNot exactly what you are looking for, but similar solution (to a certain level) can be achieved by using a repeater field which then has title ("folder name") and files -fields.
Weekly update – 29 January 2021
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsSame here. This is probably windows specific problem - at least in our company it is.
PW 3.0.172 – Find faster and more efficiently
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsJust my 2 cents: it should throw an exception here - this current logic is not good in my opinion.
PW 3.0.172 – Find faster and more efficiently
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsGreat additions - many of these are things that we have setup our own solutions when hitting performance issues on large scale (10 000+ pages with lots of fields) so it is great to see core supporting this kind of things. Thank you Ryan! Quick note on findRaw - it looks like it doesn't support parent? It would be very powerful to be using parent just like any normal field based page relation.
PW 3.0.170 – Core updates
apeisa replied to ryan's topic in News & AnnouncementsYes, thumbs up from here also to focus on bard/editorjs level of "content blocks" instead of full layout editor.
I actually do like the functions api, although using it in one project only. But it doesn't help with selectors, which is where I type most of my tempaltes...
I think this is probably because in Finnish it is pretty rare to see L after P - I think probably only in words that come directly from foreign languages, like application => applikaatio etc. Very frustrating, maybe we should have a module that adds tempalte as an alias for template... ?
Tempalte, tempalte, tempalte...After 9 years using ProcessWire I still do multiple times a day a typo writing template as tempalte (probably write it wrong more often than right). I know few of my co-workers does the same. Is this curse for us Finnish people, or is tempalte thing in other parts of the world also?
Future of Padloper - New Project Lead AnnouncementIt was Kongondo doing maintenance release to old one. But I know Kongondo is working hard to get v2 released.
module ProcessWire Dashboard
apeisa replied to d'Hinnisdaël's topic in Module/Plugin DevelopmentYes, I think you are probably right with both of your reasons. I did try to make pagelist work with pagination (it does, but couldn't get limit to be set dynamically, so it follows whatever is set on pagelist module which defaults to 50). It seems that I wont need pagination at all on dashboard (more proof for your point 1), but if the need arises I will definitely take a closer look into it.
Unit test for modules, hooks or pages
apeisa replied to rmenu's topic in Module/Plugin DevelopmentUnfortunately I believe there is no best practice and very little tools and helpers regarding testing. I have some experience with Laravel and there testing is first class citizen and is very easy to get started. I think @teppo has done some testing with few of his modules if I remember correctly?
I generally prefer modules not to "pollute" anything with fields and templates. I believe it is also quite a rare need for modules to really to create pages, templates and fields. Of course you generally don't get "turnkey solutions" this way, but more lower level modules and building blocks. For simple example: any modules related to event calendars are just tools to help you build event calendars (render helpers, fieldtypes etc) until they actually create templates and fields for you.
How to approach this feat in ProcesswireSound quality is strange ? But your English and articulation is very good, clear and easy to understand! Keep up with the videos!
Ajax upload is not possibility here. I tried to find a cleaner solution than downloading, extracting and filtering json files myself, but final method wasn't that messy so I think it goes (just worried about the edge cases though).
Thanks @kongondo! Never actually used WireUpload - is there way to "attach" it to certain field in a page? If I do $language->language_files->add($urltozip) it just adds the zip without unzipping it.
Updated the original PR.
Will add deleteLanguage as well, will add new PR soon(ish).
@bernhard just created a new PR for basic language support (creating new languages and setting translation files for a language). Usage inside migrations is simple: $finnish = $rm->addNewLanguage("finnish", "Finnish"); $rm->setTranslationsToLanguage( "https://github.com/apeisa/Finnish-ProcessWire/archive/master.zip", $finnish->name, ); Or if you just want to set translations to default language: $rm->setTranslationsToLanguage("https://github.com/apeisa/Finnish-ProcessWire/archive/master.zip");
Thanks @teppo Those links you added come handy if the need is add new language instead of update default one. EDIT: I realize that adding new languages was exactly what I asked for in first post. But actually needed only updating the current default. Anyways, I think adding new languages is trivial to this.
Ok, it was "fairly" simple. I didn't find a way to use WireUpload to handle unzipping, so had to do it manually. But this seems to work: <?php namespace ProcessWire; $upgrade = function (RockMigrations $rm) { // Install lang support module modules('LanguageSupport'); // get default language $default = languages()->get('default'); // Download lang pack from github to cache folder, unzip and loop and add .json files to language_files field for the language $http = new WireHttp(); $zipUrl = "https://github.com/apeisa/Finnish-ProcessWire/archive/master.zip"; $zipLocal = config()->paths->cache . "language.zip"; $http->download($zipUrl, $zipLocal); $items = files()->unzip($zipLocal, config()->paths->cache); if(count($items)) { foreach($items as $item) { if (strpos($item, ".json") === false) continue; // Yeah, there could be more proper check here... $default->language_files->add(config()->paths->cache . $item); } } // finally save the language $default->save(); // UI update needs still logout/login or modules => refresh modules()->refresh(); }; Not sure what part of that could be part of RM and how? Also - in this level uninstall of LanguageSupport works nicely - I think it might be a lot more complex when multilang fields are involved.


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Menopause: Mind the Gap: The value of supporting women's wellness in the workplace (Paperback)
The fastest growing demographic in the workplace is women over 50. Valuing them means understanding the unique challenges facing women at work in this stage of life.
Menopause: Mind the Gap will help businesses and organisations appreciate the potential impact on performance of menopause symptoms and the positive effects of providing support.
Whether you want to boost performance, increase profits, or create an inclusive working environment, this concise guide for managers, HR professionals and anyone involved in workplace wellbeing will teach you:
- An understanding of menopause
- Why menopause is a workplace issue
- How to have sensitive conversations
- Simple steps to comply with legal requirements
- A strategic approach to menopause
Pat's years of working in the voluntary and public sectors combined with her decade as a therapist and coach specialising in menopause has equipped her to advise organisations on this sensitive issue. She makes this subject accessible and sets out simple steps to help you take care of your biggest asset - your people.
Most employers understand that their biggest asset is their people. How businesses look after all aspects of their employees will have a direct effect on their output and bottom line. This includes considering their wellbeing - physical, mental and emotional.
The workplace is changing dramatically but what motivates employees to give their best performance at work has stayed the same. People want to use their skills and be valued for their contribution. This book enables employers to support employees at menopause so that they can perform optimally.


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The controversial abortion biopic UNPLANNED defied expectations at the box office during opening weekend in Canada, garnering $352,510 CDN in ticket sales, with a per-screen-average of $7,194, at 49 Canadian theaters – independents, Cineplex and Landmark locations. It was the second-highest per-screen-average in North America for July 12-14.
It was an impressive and surprising opening for UNPLANNED, despite the numerous obstacles it faced in Canada, including death threats and harassment against movie theaters that showed the movie, protests and fierce opposition from the country's secular media outlets. The movie was distributed throughout Canada in theaters and other venues by Cinedicom, an independent distribution firm.
UNPLANNED was written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the writers/co-producers of God's Not Dead and God's Not Dead 2.
"Canada wanted UNPLANNED and Canada got UNPLANNED," said Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, co-directors. "We are grateful to the people of Canada for their bold witness for life. What Abby saw is what Canada is now able to see firsthand. Canadians are seeing the reality of abortion and the power of redemption. Hearts and minds are changing."
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"It's overwhelming to be a part of this international movement," said BJ McKelvie, pastor and president of Cinedicom, the film's Canadian distributor. "Against all odds, we successfully brought UNPLANNED to the people of Canada."
UNPLANNED is the dramatic account of a former Planned Parenthood superstar, Abby Johnson. In eight years, she rose from college volunteer, to one of the youngest clinic directors, to Employee of the Year … then she assisted with an abortion. The inspiring film traces Johnson's journey from staunch abortion advocate to standing side-by-side with the people who prayed for her spiritual transformation and facing the full, head-on attack of one of the most powerful organizations on Earth.


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A Rather Remarkable Homecoming
SUMMARY of the novel:
American heiress Penny Nichols and her English hero Jeremy Laidley are returning to London from their honeymoon, only to be greeted by emissaries of Prince Charles, who has a special assignment for them. His Royal Highness wants the eccentric firm of Nichols & Laidley Ltd. to solve an historical mystery in Cornwall, England in the hopes of rescuing the charming village where Penny and Jeremy first met as kids. A property developer is bulldozing his way across the seacoast's countryside, leaving no stone--nor favorite landmark--unturned. Now the only hope for rescuing their own personal Camelot is for our adventurous duo to solve an Elizabethan riddle, leading to a far greater quest than they bargained for.
Amid Celtic lore and tales of Shakespeare, smugglers and shipwrecks, Penny and Jeremy contend with an eccentric cast of locals: a posh restauranteur, a bird-watching earl, a vain actor, a New Age farmer, a rebel rock-and-roller, and a band of determined "eco-warriors". Tracing the history of the area, our intrepid pair follows the trail to the lush island of Madeira and the legends of Tintagel, in a race against time to find the astounding truth . . . before the wrecking ball strikes.


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Beautiful Santorini and the Myth of Atlantis
On one of my educational tours, we stopped in Amsterdam and visited the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family during World War II.
Visiting Santorini
One of the great adventures which my wife and I have taken in our travels was a three week multiple train ride beginning in Warsaw, continuing through Prague, Budapest, Sophia, and Thessaloniki to Athens, where we spent about a week, with a couple of days in Santorini, then back to Athens and then on to Istanbul.
Santorini, of course, was as different from the other places that we visited as it could have been. The others were mostly landlocked, big cities and countryside beside the railroad tracks that we traveled along, including the one through Romania where our crusty train conductor warned us to beware of "bandits" during the night through Romania. Fortunately, we encountered none.
Santorini is a partially circular island in the Aegean, about 120 miles southeast of Athens, shaped much like a backward facing C from where we stayed on the island at Oai, with gaps between parts of it, left by the volcanic eruption which blew its top and most of its substance away, in the same way that we we also find Crater Lake in Oregon. This eruption of Thera, as the island was originally called before the huge eruption of its destructive volcano about 1500 BCE.
Ours was a lovely place to stay at Oai, at the west end of the island, with ample places to eat and to buy jewelry and other souvenirs, food, and other such items. The buildings were almost all bright white walled, with brilliant blue roofs and doors, absolutely picturesque, and where we had a peacefully, wonderful time.
I discussed the name of Santorini with our innkeeper, noting that Santorini did not sound Greek to me. He told me that the island received its present name at a time when it was under the control of Rome and was named after the Catholic, Saint Irene.
To me, the really interesting question relating to Santorini is if the island was the original place of the fabled city of Atlantis. After research in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, I have gone with the research's conclusion, in the words of Encyclopedia Britannica, "Atlantis is probably a mere legend." Plato mentioned Atlantic as an island in the Atlantic, beyond Gibraltar, not in the Aegean Sea, and, according to the discussions that I read, he seems to have mentioned it as as a discussion of a mythical place, not an actual one. According to my research, later writers, including Sir Thomas More's in Utopia, he took Plato literally, not mythically.
The ferry port for the island is in the south. Our internet-found small hotel was at Oai, high on a high cliff looking toward the center of the backward C, and toward the ferry port to our southeast, all the way across the island from where we stayed, costing us a 30 euro taxi ride each way, plus tip.
Source: Personal experience and Wikipedia, Encyclopedia.
Aegean Air Pollution
The first time that I was in the Mediterranean, about 1990, I noticed considerable haze in Athens and on the sea.nearby The second time that I was there more than a decade later, l thought that the pollution may have been worse. In the picture above, a great deal of pollution can be seen in the sunset as a black haze, apparently partially causing the red sunset. I was told by a tour guide at Athens that the acid rain from human activity caused the pollution which is damaging the marble stonework in Greece at a ten to one rate in comparison to the damage which would be done without the pollution. Assuming that this is true, which I do, this is a terrible waste of beautiful stone and of magnificent architecture in this cradle of much of our Western Culture's heritage, a terrible tragedy, as far as I am concerned.
To me, Santorini is a singularly beautiful place, like no other that I have seen, and a place that I would advise anyone to visit if they could.
Source, personal experience and information from Greek tour guides as well as Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
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The Question Isn't Why I'm Vaccine Hesitant; The Question Is Why Aren't You?
In the last few weeks, there has been a confluence of evidence against the efficacy of vaccines as well as several thoroughly discredited attempts to mislead the American public on alternative treatments for Covid. It is beyond a doubt that corruption within the highest levels of medical and political circles has made a mockery of both truth and science. Similarly, a mockery has been made of millions of naive Americans simply looking for protection and guidance from supposed experts in their fields.
From the beginning, I was hesitant to take this vaccine because:
- The FDA, CDC, and Big Pharma all ignored seeking cheaper and readily available treatments. This suggests motivation beyond saving lives.
- The narrative surrounding hydroxychloroquine made no sense at the time, just as the argument against Ivermectin does not make sense. Basically, the thinking goes that it's better to try an experimental vaccine because it might work and might be safe, but at the same time it's not okay to try a treatment that has decades of safe use and has shown success in small settings.
- We knew early on that the survival rate of Covid was on par with the flu, as were its symptoms.
- It's actually okay to get sick; in fact, regular exposure to viruses can help develop a stronger immunity.
- It was hard to take Covid seriously as soon as Trump was called a xenophobe for shutting down air travel from China. From the moment it was conveniently identified in an election year, it became a political weapon of the left. By extension, therefore, any response to it was also political (masks, lockdowns, distancing, quarantining, vaccines, and even the timing of the announcement of the vaccines days after the election).
- The BLM Riots and Biden victory celebrations showed that Covid was only scary if conservatives tried to organize.
I am now resistant to taking this vaccine because:
- I had Covid and survived, which also means I have natural immunity and therefore better protection from reinfection and further transmission.
- There is ample data to show that serious side effects can develop from the vaccine.
- Whatever protection the vaccine allegedly offers wanes significantly after just a few months. Moreover, additional boosters presumably mean additional problems.
- What do I gain by doing it? Masks are still required. People are still insane. The amount of brain melting that has occurred essentially means Covid panic porn, like Covid itself, will always exist. So, having said everything else, then why?
- As with the BLM Riots of 2020, continued hypocrisy and elitism of violating rules shows only that Covid is a scare tactic to control the peons (Obama's 60th birthday comes to mind, as do the horrific mayors in Chicago and D.C.).
- The focus of vaccination over immunity, including the redefinition of herd immunity, should give everyone pause. Why is natural immunity suddenly undesirable?
- The handling of Ivermectin proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that money and power are driving the medical response to the so-called pandemic. If saving lives were truly the goal, cheap generics would have been prescribed like candy since March of 2020. Recently, despite it being a decades-old, life-saving, Nobel Prize-winning treatment, the FDA called it a horse dewormer and multiple stories invented stories of hospitals being overwhelmed with Ivermectin overdoses. The fact that people were mad at Joe Rogan for recovering from Covid using Ivermectin reveals that dying by vaccine is more important than surviving with alternative therapeutics.
I am not sure why any of these bullet points are controversial. I am also not sure why more people aren't laying out matter-of-fact, common-sense arguments against Covid public health policies.
On the other side of the debate, one of the primary selling points is that we should all get the vaccine for the greater good. The other is that we don't want to knowingly kill the elderly and vulnerable in our lives. This is upside down. I have a simple response to these communist talking points: Instead of me sacrificing freedoms and injecting my body with unknown substances, why can't the people that are afraid sit out?
It has never made sense to me why I owe anybody anything. I drive safely on the highway not to keep other people alive, but to keep myself alive. I avoid cigarettes not to keep secondhand smoke out of my kid's lungs, but to keep myself from developing cancer. As it pertains to Covid, I make choices in my holistic best interest – as opposed to a narrow-minded, unifactorial response – not to keep from spreading an alleged virus but to keep myself as well as possible. I won't be stupid and go out of my way infecting people, but I also don't need to keep my kid home from daycare for two weeks after a potential exposure while also sending them back the next day once their RSV fever breaks. Is that science?
Look, maybe it makes sense for some people to get the vaccine. That's their calculation to make and that's fine. It's why some people drive the speed limit and others go five over; they do what they're comfortable doing. But don't pretend you're doing anyone a favor or being a hero by getting poked. Consider the following three reports.
Israel is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world. A chart from CNN shows that other than the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay, the tiny Jewish state has administered more shots as a ratio of its population than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Israel is under extreme pressure as it deals with the greatest surge seen throughout the entire pandemic.
Measured differently, Iceland is actually outpacing Israel in terms of the total population being vaccinated. Whereas Israel tops the chart in doses per 100 people, Iceland does significantly better in terms of the percentage of fully vaccinated citizens. Again, despite 77% of its population being considered fully vaccinated and another 5% partially vaccinated, it too is seeing a rise in cases.
A third news report that has been circulating over the weekend came out of Cornell, which despite its 95%+ vaccination rate among students and faculty is nonetheless experiencing a surge of cases of its own and has five times more Covid than this same time last year – when no vaccines were available.
I have been vaccine-hesitant from the beginning. Common sense suggested that a rushed vaccine would have limits. Isn't that why every other vaccine takes several years – at best – to be fully approved? On top of that, history has shown that coronaviruses are particularly stubborn when it comes to preventative measures; there has never been a successful coronavirus vaccine for this precise reason. Moreover, this was allegedly a novel, man-made virus. Certainly, the characteristics of a lab-created super virus would require further study.
My fear is that if people were going to wake up to the lies (have their red-pill moment, as it were), they would have done so by now. The fact that so many people continue to fear Covid and push vaccines doesn't bode well for society.
But it's still worth asking them: Why are you still supportive of this? At least make them hear how stupid they sound.
Content syndicated from TheBlueStateConservative.com with permission.


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Former Ruff Ryder rapper Eve announced on Friday that she and her husband, Maximillion Cooper, were expecting their first baby together.
A very pregnant Eve, 42, shared photos of her baby bump with a sweet smile on her face."Can you believe it @mrgumball3000 we finally get to tell everyone!!!!! You all know how long we'v [sic] been waiting for this blessing!!! We get to meet our lil human February 2022," Eve captioned her post.
Her husband also reposted the photos sharing the happy news. "Very excited to share this news… we have a lil human on the way!"
Meanwhile, the rapper received congratulatory comments from a number of her friends in the music industry, including Missy Elliott, Trina, Fat Joe, and others.
Eve has been transparent in the past about her desire to become a mother, but her journey to conception was fraught with doubts.
Last year she announced that she was leaving her position on The Talk to focus on her family. At that time, she had disclosed to her co-hosts that she wanted to grow her family but was experiencing challenges in conceiving.
"Obviously, I've talked about my struggle with getting pregnant and I didn't talk about it for a long time because I felt shameful," she said in 2019. "As a woman, you just think things happen naturally and I felt like I was damaged. I felt like I was broken. I felt like, oh maybe I wasn't good enough… it's a very sad hurtful thing, but the more I held onto it the worse I actually felt about it about myself."
She disclosed that she and her husband tried several ways to conceive, but as she grew older, she became disenchanted. However, she says that speaking to other women helped, particularly her co-host Sharon Osbourne, who welcomed her first child at 50.
"Hearing that for me Mrs. [Sharon Osbourne], that gives me so much hope. I think as women we're always told when you reach a certain age, 'You're too old. You should have done this then,'" Eve, 42, shared.
She also updated her fans about her journey disclosing months later that she had undergone myomectomy surgery to remove fibroids to help increase her chances of getting pregnant.
Meanwhile, Even is becoming a biological mom for the first time, but she was a bonus mom to Cooper's four other children from a previous relationship. The couple got married in June 2014.


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Hyderabad, Jan 20 (IANS) Biophore India Pharmaceuticals on Thursday announced that it has received license from Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of originator company MSD, a trade name of Merck to manufacture and market Molnupiravir API and finished product in capsule form.
The Hyderabad-based company said that the development of the product is complete and is gearing up for launch based on this licence within the next one week. The licence received by Biophore enables the company to launch the product within India as well as export to 104 other countries around the world, the company said in a statement.
For the Indian market, the company has already received the relevant regulatory approvals from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and will be launching the product next week at one of the lowest prices currently in the market – Rs 1,500 for a pack of 40 capsules.
Molnupiravir is an oral antiviral approved through the emergency use authorization route by the US Food and Drug Administration and UK authorities for treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19. Its effectiveness has been established through studies conducted across the world and is expected to significantly reduce hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients, if taken at an early stage. In India too, the DCGI has approved this product for the treatment of Covid-19 based on the review of clinical data available.
"Biophore has been at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 and we are extremely proud of this fact. During the earlier wave, we had successfully scaled up and commercialised Favipiravir, the antiviral approved during that time for Covid treatment, in record time. We are also the largest Indian manufacturers of SBECD, a vital ingredient for Remdesivir injection manufacturing and have also developed Nirmatrelvir, which is the active ingredient in the other US FDA approved oral Covid antiviral," said CEO Dr Jagadeesh Babu Rangisetty.
"Similarly, we are committed to bring Molnupiravir to the market in the shortest time possible complying to all quality and regulatory requirements – all our products are manufactured in US FDA approved facilities," he added.


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If you are newer to the concept of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) you might be wondering what all the fuss is about. However if you have been running a website for a while you have probably noticed the necessity for this practice which is essentially the fine art of making your website easier to find for people searching it using "niche language".
Niche language simply means using terms and phrases in your website or blog copy that are most commonly used by people when they type what they are looking for into a search engine. These phrases are also noted and collected by the search engine bots and spiders that belong to the search engines. The more friendly the copy in your web site is to the search engine spiders, the more likely people are to find you (which of course increases your sales.) In addition, the more hits you get from people searching for your products or services the higher your web site will be indexed on the search engine pages.
Remember how web pages work! It is basically one big popularity contest. Essentially the more hits you have, the higher your ranking is in the search engines. This leads to more business and more hits and a website that is the equivalent of a wealthy rising cyber star!
To use a metaphor - let's say that the launching of your web site is like a launch party. Launching a website without any type of SEO is like throwing a party and forgetting to invite people.
Or you can also compare it to a party where the invitations are sent out in a language that is not recognized by the guests.
Launching your website should be an exciting event. The reasons events (and the launches of new web sites) often fail is because:
1. You fail to list your website's URL properly in search engines or when you completely ignore the section in URL submission sites that ask you to fill out keywords.
2.Your customers can't find the party. This can happen when you decide to go the cheap route and opt for a free hosted domain instead of your own domain name. This is a case where customers can't find your address. A good example is the person who opts for a split domain, which very often leads a visitor to your host's site and not to your's. The free bravenet.com and freeserver.com sites are notorious examples of free websites that offer split domain names for nothing.
3. They have found your website address but are greeted with 404 message that informs you that a site has mysteriously disappeared or been removed. This can also happen because you opted for a free domain name or a host with limited bandwidth.
In a nutshell, Search Engine Optimization is the process of making your web site as identifiable as possible to both people and search engines. If this sounds like it might be difficult and schizophrenic thing to accomplish it is.
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In episode 80 of the COWS, Jan 19, 2010 (Solo # 2) Mr Renegade, aka, Victim, makes reference to John Henryism. Quoting an article, Gus explains that John Henryism refers to "a style of strong coping behaviours… to deal with psycho-social and environmental stressors… [the] classical traits are seen among …[those] extremely pre-occupied with success particularly in new environments in which they have little experience. Most commonly, people with John Henryism are extremely goal-orientated but often lack the resources they need for success, such as financial or emotional support… people with high levels of John Henryism and inadequate resources have a much higher prevalence of health disorders … because they drive themselves towards reaching specific goals at the expense o their health often without realising they are doing so." [*Gus completed some 217 shows without a phone or a laptop.]
Over the past few years, engaging in capacity building and field research – in addition to personal, artist/brand development – I have been working with very limited resources. In fact, I've had to use laptops lent to me by a European for one, and a "same-sex practitioner" for another. At first, I was using the domestic desktop, until I "migrated", and then came to use another laptop "appropriated" from another family member, before I was "evicted", and had to turn to some odd choices for "sponsorship." In short, having NO savings, and little disposable income, the eventual publication of Making Malone Volume 1 was incredible. Having done this, essentially sacrificing myself, I feel compelled to compensate with self-congratulations. I used to wonder why the "Rappers" did this ungracious boasting, and yet, having endured, with so little recognition, I finally realise why they do it.
About Carter Woodson, it has been said that he "kept to one great goal, worked at it stubbornly and with unwavering application and died knowing that he accomplished much if not all that he planned." (Likewise, Auguste Comte devoted himself, monastically, to a similar fate, with a vision of results and outcomes.) I myself have given my time to these 3000 pages guided by the pretentious ideal of contributing something significant to the cause of non-whites, and yet, operating with the context of denial, deception and domination, I realise that this was vain. Maybe I should have traded in intellectual achievement for physical intimacy. Maybe I should have traded thinking for feeling. Maybe I should have traded PAGES for PAPERS… and yet, coming towards the final phases of this project, I concede that I've had to pay this cost, for as Baldwin divulged, this is truly, the price of the ticket.


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Bonnaroo is still one of kind, 15 years later
Four days. 80,000 fans, 150 musical acts, including giants Pearl Jam and Dead and Company (featuring members of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer).
It's strange to think that over 14 years, Bonnaroo has become an annual event that Manchester, Tenn., could set its watch to. But as the town prepares for the 15th annual festival, it seems like a fitting time to turn back the clock — to June 20, 2002.
That was the day "Bonnaroo" became a household name among Middle Tennesseans. But it wasn't because of the music. It was because no one could get to work on time.
On the eve of the first Bonnaroo, Interstate 24 effectively became a parking lot for nearly 30 miles, as cars and campers waited for hours to file into the grounds of Great Stage Park.
Traffic planners weren't the only people that Bonnaroo caught by surprise with its success. In 2002 putting on a massive music and camping festival was seen as bucking the trend — tempting fate, even. It was just three years after Woodstock '99, which descended into rioting, arson and reports of sexual assaults. To many, producing another large-scale event like that was a dangerous proposition.
Bonnaroo 2016: 15 unforgettable performances
Bonnaroo's producers had a different perspective. They took inspiration from annual events held by "jam band" rockers Phish, as well as European festivals that had run successfully for decades. They booked Phish frontman Trey Anastasio and dozens of other like-minded acts, and hoped that those bands' grassroots fanbases would spread the word.
It worked. Bonnaroo sold 60,000 festival passes in 19 days, before they'd spent a cent on advertising. As Anastasio closed the festival on its final day, he was one of many marveling at what they'd accomplished.
"While the world is thinking that good, positive gatherings of people in the form of live music is something that's going the way of the wind, I actually feel quite the opposite," he said on stage. "I mean, look at this ... the fact that media and people are not noticing, maybe that's a good thing."
Of course Bonnaroo's success didn't go unnoticed for long. Fourteen years later, it's one of dozens of multi-day, outdoor music festivals that spring up in the U.S. every year.
And these days, Bonnaroo's musical identity is tougher to pin down, as its lineup aims to appeal to everyone, not just jam-band fans. You'll see big names from the worlds of rock , rap and roots music.
Bonnaroo 2016: 5 acts that might steal the show
And you'll see many of those performers on the lineups of other festivals — 2016 headliners LCD Soundsystem, for example, are also performing at this year's Coachella and Lollapalooza. Still, Bonnaroo co-founder Rick Farman believes the festival continues to set itself apart from the pack.
"I still think that Bonnaroo is one of those places that the top acts and emerging acts really feel a need to play," he said. "We still have more people wanting to the play the festival than we can possibly program. We consider ourselves fortunate in that regard, and sometimes, there's an aspect that's a little easier. Some acts aren't going to Europe (to play festivals) when they were in the past. They can actually stay in America and play a festival season."
Even when the acts on the bill don't set Bonnaroo apart, the people who are buying tickets do.
Almost all of Bonnaroo's attendees — which reaches 80,000 in sell-out years — make the festival's campground their home for four days and nights, and are either taking in live music or partying back at their camp at all hours of the day. It's also a pilgrimage, as roughly 85 percent of attendees come to Bonnaroo from outside of Tennessee. Compare that to Lollapalooza, which gets much of its audience from the Chicago area and sends attendees home at 10 p.m. each night.
Bonnaroo's audience, on the other hand, is a captive one — and committed to having a good time. The festival now has an official code for attendees, and one of its key tenets is to "Radiate Positivity" in the form of "smiles, high fives, and random acts of kindness."
Bonnaroo blunders: 5 moments we'd rather forget
That's an ethos that people such as Bryan Blake from Henderson, Ky., have taken to heart. This year will mark his ninth consecutive Bonnaroo.
"As soon as I pull in to the campgrounds, I feel like I have come back to such a warm, familiar place," he said. "I have made many friends that have become like family to me at Roo."
Positivity seems to radiate through Bonnaroo's concert audiences, too. Countless performers have sung the praises of its crowd.It even seemed to get through to the seen-it-all likes of Sir Paul McCartney, who told his 2013 audience, "You are something, Bonnaroo."
And though carefree vibes permeate the grounds throughout the weekend, Bonnaroo is big business, too, of course. A general admission ticket for this year's fest ran from $324.50 to $349.50, with additional charges for parking, camping and VIP options. For each ticket sold, $3 goes directly to Coffee County. Another $2 goes to the Bonnaroo Works Fund, which has donated $7 million to various arts, education and environmental causes, with a focus on local organizations.
Bonnaroo had a $51 million economic impact in 2012, the last time a study was conducted. That included $36 million in direct local spending. That kind of business eventually attracted Live Nation, which last year purchased a controlling stake in the festival. The massive entertainment company also owns Ticketmaster and controls more than 60 festivals around the world.
Bonnaroo's grind is what makes it great
The new partnership has already led to new developments on the festival grounds, including the most talked-about addition this year: permanent bathrooms.
Farman is also looking forward to future, unnamed developments on the Bonnaroo property. Even as they celebrate festival No. 15, he says he and his co-founders are keeping their focus on the future, not the past.
"I think all of us personally feel grateful that this thing has been as successful as it has been," he said. "And it's been such a special thing for all of the people who've been a part of it."
Contact Dave Paulson at 615-664-2278 or on Twitter at @ItsDavePaulson.
Big names at Bonnaroo 2016
Pearl Jam
Dead & Company (two sets)
LCD Soundsystem
J. Cole
Ellie Goulding
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tame Impala (Late Night)
Death Cab for Cutie
Jason Isbell
Chris Stapleton
Judd Apatow & Friends
Bonnaroo by the numbers
When: June 9-12 in Manchester, Tenn
Who: More than 150 acts, including big names and indie favorites from the worlds of rock (Pearl Jam, Dead & Company), rap (J. Cole, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) roots music (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton) and more.
Stages: 10, including the massive "What" stage for headliners, "Which" for other big names and three tent stages that mostly host indie and club-level acts.
Attendance: Bonnaroo doesn't release attendance numbers until after the festival, but typically has 80,000 attendees each year.
Where they stay: Almost all Bonnaroo attendees stay on the festival campgrounds, in tents and RVs.
How much money do they spend?: $51 million in 2012, the last time a study was conducted.
How to get tickets: General admission passes granting admission to all four days of the festival are $349.50 at www.bonnaroo.com. VIP passes are $1,598.50 per pair.


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Anjanette Albert Speaks
(If you would like to cut to the chase to see Derrion's mother, start the video at 2:44.)
There are few, if any, words.
No mother should have to bury her son, as I read from a disgusted brother, over some "foolishness."
I also read how Anjanette and the family had struggled to buy Derrion a computer to use at home, to help him in his studies. I know how important that was.
It was like my stepfather buying me a fenced typewriter in the early Seventies; the Jewish family with a rag and bone business who presented their ward, street orphan Louis Armstrong, with his first horn; my teacher Mrs. Jackson sternly admonishing my family to never let that girl out of your sight without her having a book; Mary Kate Waymon, a Methodist minister–and maid for the white folks–bringing her three-year-old daughter Eunice (not yet Nina Simone) to piano lessons and to the attention of those same white folks who later got up the money for even more lessons to develop that talent; and my parsimonious great-uncle shocking my mother several weeks before his death with his mailing me–out of the blue–a pair of shoes.
All of this means, we love you like nobody else does–or ever will. Go out and do good with what you have, and make us proud.
If anything, Derrion would have made his family proud. I do believe that. But now, he is gone.
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Derrion was the sacrificial lamb who needed to be bloodied for the country to see that something must be done to stop the senseless violence against our children. How long has the violence continued in Chicago? We the people, needed a horrific death, like what happened to Derrion, to be "in our face" before realizing this is of all our making, and all of us, together can, stop it. Unfortunately, it took the death of a good kid, to get our attention! We need to support the family and the community where Derrion lived to make it safe for all.


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Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane. Surface area is its analog on the two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat.<ref name=MathWorld>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is the two-dimensional analog of the length of a curve (a one-dimensional concept) or the volume of a solid (a three-dimensional concept).
The area of a shape can be measured by comparing the shape to squares of a fixed size.<ref name=AF/> In the International System of Units (SI), the standard unit of area is the square metre (written as m2), which is the area of a square whose sides are one metre long.<ref name=B>Bureau International des Poids et Mesures Resolution 12 of the 11th meeting of the CGPM (1960), retrieved 15 July 2012</ref> A shape with an area of three square metres would have the same area as three such squares. In mathematics, the unit square is defined to have area one, and the area of any other shape or surface is a dimensionless real number.
There are several well-known formulas for the areas of simple shapes such as triangles, rectangles, and circles. Using these formulas, the area of any polygon can be found by dividing the polygon into triangles.<ref name=bkos>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=book }}</ref> For shapes with curved boundary, calculus is usually required to compute the area. Indeed, the problem of determining the area of plane figures was a major motivation for the historical development of calculus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=book }}</ref>
For a solid shape such as a sphere, cone, or cylinder, the area of its boundary surface is called the surface area.<ref name=MathWorld/><ref name=MathWorldSurfaceArea>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Formulas for the surface areas of simple shapes were computed by the ancient Greeks, but computing the surface area of a more complicated shape usually requires multivariable calculus.
Area plays an important role in modern mathematics. In addition to its obvious importance in geometry and calculus, area is related to the definition of determinants in linear algebra, and is a basic property of surfaces in differential geometry.<ref name="doCarmo">do Carmo, Manfredo. Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Prentice-Hall, 1976. Page 98, ISBN 978-0-13-212589-5</ref> In analysis, the area of a subset of the plane is defined using Lebesgue measure,<ref name="Rudin">Walter Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1966, ISBN 0-07-100276-6.</ref> though not every subset is measurable.<ref>Gerald Folland, Real Analysis: modern techniques and their applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999,Page 20,ISBN 0-471-31716-0</ref> In general, area in higher mathematics is seen as a special case of volume for two-dimensional regions.<ref name=MathWorld/>
Area can be defined through the use of axioms, defining it as a function of a collection of certain plane figures to the set of real numbers. It can be proved that such a function exists.
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Single Lady Living In Lagos Episode I
So I wake up this fine morning, it's Friday and I am just very happy to see the end of this day. My enemies were not going to have it, I come out of my house by 6:15 am and who do I see standing outside my gate?
Abraham! Yes Abraham! The same Abraham that told me I would die alone because my standards were too high. Some men just don't have any chill pill. Chaaaiiiii!!!
'What do you want?' I ask as Musa closes the gate behind me
'Don't be like that, I just felt you might need a ride to your office', he moves towards me
'No thank you' I move to create space between us 'the staff bus would be here in a minute'
'Ada naaaa!!' he smiles, how I love his perfect dentition and those pink lips, they look like they should be bruised, by my lips of course. I gather composure and step aside. This one would not kill me abeg.
'Look, I was wrong, I'm sorry' he moves closer and holds my shoulder.
'Mo ti gbo' I shrug so his hands move ' Unlike some people I do not own my company so if you do not mind……' I move and start walking to my bus stop
'Ada this your attitude is bad, you are not Miss Independent, be submissive and just maybe.…..' he stops talking as I stop walking.
' You are obviously not Ne-yo and no Abraham, I won't apologize for wanting to have stability and security for myself before I demand it from any man' I look at the bus stop as the staff bus driver parks ' Make sure this is the last time you get to my house by 6 am to tell me rubbish.'
I get to the bus and I manage to smile at the driver, as I sit, I stare out of the window wondering if my standards would truly be the end of me. Mama is in Enugu telling me I should come and do introduction this year. With a mannequin perhaps. Papa would have understood, he taught me not to lower my standards, he showed me through his marriage how men were supposed to love, cherish and honour their wives. They can only do that if the women had standards. Abraham is the second guy this year telling me to lower my standards.
Maybe I should define what I call standards………..
'Ada you have been quiet, kilode?' Temi scatters my braids from behind. I turn to smile at him, but he has switched seats. I rest my head on his shoulder and make sure my face doesn't stain his white shirt (makeup struggles)
' Abraham was at my house this morning, apparently I have high standards and that would be the end of me' I try to sound sarcastic, Temi isn't fooled as he looks down at me.
' If I wasn't playing for the other team, you would be my IT-girl, no man wants to chase a woman with no standards. Only weak men'. He puts his hands around me and we remain quiet till the bus pulls up at the office.
As we make our way to our ridiculously tall building, I dread the long flight of stairs and do not ask me why I wouldn't take the elevator . Temi holds my hand as we start our long trip to our office floor. He doesn't have to but he does it everyday.
I look at our hands, why are all the good men, gay, married or still being formed in their mother's womb?
'Temi!!!!' he holds my hand tighter, then he let go of my hand………………………..