The Hindi version was released in September 2005.

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Maybe it's because I was famished, and the very idea of a self-styled gourmet chef pulling off great epicurean feats effortlessly appealed to me, but I indulgently smiled through most of Ramji Londonwaley's first half.

The actor was reportedly quite good in the film's Tamil original, Nala Damayanthi, and he shines through this simpleton role with flying colours.

It's a very straight character, a naïve do-gooder country bumpkin struggling to cope with London.

The challenge is in lacing his straight-man with likeability, and this is something Madhavan manages quite deftly.

He is utterly believable, almost always convincing and delightfully restrained -- something our finest leading men seem quite incapable off.

As the chef bumbles through credible difficulties, we're convinced it's a refreshing film.

The premise is predictable to the hilt  cook needs dough for sister's wedding, goes to London, loses everything, and then goes from rags to riches through a series of fortunate filmi events.

But it's 'feel-good' -- which translates to an audience supposed to suspend disbelief and leave our cynic hats at home.

So we're initially okay with the film, as is our Bihari protagonist.

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Except, we notice by the time we're munching interval-bought popcorn, Ramji's accent slips.

From a blissful ignorance of the English tongue, he has oddly enlightened moments when he spouts perfectly comprehensible complete sentences in the language.

This, in a nutshell, is the problem with this initially harmless film  it is tragically inconsistent.

And we aren't talking about the bad direction.

First-time director Sanjay Dayma is totally lost throughout the film, with continuity and factual errors glaringly difficult to miss.

Characters change position between cuts, the editing is shoddy, and the whole package is decidedly amateurish.

Still, we start by settling into Ramji and giving it the benefit of the doubt, because of Madhavan's character, and the script's simplicity.

It is this simplicity that the film starts to lose as it goes on, and this is most unfortunate.

Starting well with Ramji's life in a small Bihar village populated by the residents of Ashutosh Gowariker-Land (yes, the director's regulars), our hero gamely tackles irate flight attendants, travel on the London Underground, and an unexpected funeral.

And  again, because of the way he plays it straight  we're okay with the way things progress.

Then he meets his heroine, Sameera, played by Samita Bangargi.

The girl looks reasonably fine as long as Dayma isn't zooming right into her face  which he likes to do quite a bit  and she's surprisingly not an intolerable (as opposed to, please note, 'a tolerable') actress.

At least she doesn't shriek, or giggle annoyingly.

Anyway, we're still waiting for them to fall in love, and for some mush being garbled by our bumpkin.

Unfortunately, this doesn't happen till the very end of the film, and in between, things go very awry.

The simple film turns very contrived with a dozen little side characters and a lot of very avoidable melodrama.

As things drag needlessly on  the film stretches slowly close to the three-hour mark  Ramji's constant confusion is replaced by his being a man of action, and the director begins to prioritise the wrong subjects in his narrative.

For instance, one of the highlights of the film, his entering a cooking competition, is reduced to tiny little spool-time during a song sequence.

And copious scenes are devoted to a very confusing, totally irrelevant sister-best friend subplot.

It's irritating because this could have been polished into a good film.

Madhavan makes a valiant attempt, and renders the film almost entirely watchable, but that happens to be a big almost, sadly.

And then there's the end, the very end, which feels like a bad Kaun Banega Crorepati promo.

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The film was a moderate success at the box office and performed well in multiplexes across Chennai. Sify gave a verdict that the film was a "comedy caper" and a "clean comedy with some warm moments". The Hindu called the film a "decent offering", adding that "a logical storyline and a well thought out script by Kamal Hassan are definite scoring points that sustain viewers' interest till the end".
 Kamal Haasan stated that he intended of remaking the film in Hindi, with the title of "Maharaj", but the project did not take off. Madhavan wrote and starred in a Hindi version. The Hindi version was "Ramji Londonwaley".


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# Philippa Stroud on family breakdown, welfare reform and Brexit

On the surface, Baroness Stroud has the perfect Westminster CV.

She helped found one think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, and is now running another, the Legatum Institute.

In between, she worked as special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, helping to devise and implement his welfare reforms.

Yet as our conversation in the latest episode of Free Exchange makes clear, her career is rather more interesting – and rather more extraordinary.

She entered politics after a lifetime of working with the homeless and destitute, slowly working out what the root causes of family breakdown were and then attempting to implement those insights on a national level.

You can listen to the full interview here.

Despite the occasional interference from an awkwardly placed phone, it really is worth your while.

Philippa Stroud on… working with addicts in Hong Kong

"If you are an addict in the UK, and you go through a drug rehab centre, and you fall out of it or don't succeed going through it, you may get one other chance, but you won't get many other opportunities.

What [my mentor] was doing was saying was that if this takes 12 times, 15 times, we are committed to seeing you go on your journey through this.

You often find with addiction: people don't make it the first time.

But each time they come back in, they make another choice, and they go a little bit further."

"One day I was coming down to speak to the Conservative Party conference – I wasn't a Conservative Party member then – about the voluntary sector, and I thought I'd better check that I was right about what was driving [addiction] before I took to the platform.

I asked each of my residents, in private, the question: 'If there was something that didn't happen in your life, that had meant that you wouldn't end up in a place like this, what would it have been?'

And they all answered: 'It started when my father walked out' or 'when my stepfather walked in'.

"The disintegration of the family, and the violence in some of these families, and the abuse in some of these families, was such a theme running through what we were doing, but was not being talked about in national politics.

Governments were very happy to pay money to these people, but what they really wanted was strong, stable families."

Philippa Stroud on… changing the Conservative Party (16 mins 30)

Subscribe to Free Exchange, the CapX podcast

"When we first launched the Centre for Social Justice, Tim [Montgomerie] did a picture of a typewriter which only had three keys – Europe, immigration and tax.

The vision of the CSJ was to restore all the others – family, employment, managing our personal finances, modern-day slavery.

It was a hugely exciting agenda to be part of.

'Hug a hoodie' was actually from a day conference the CSJ hosted to bring the players in the early intervention space together.

We actually titled it 'Thugs: Beyond Redemption?', which sounds awful now

Philippa Stroud on… modern slavery (20 mins 30)

"Once the [CSJ] report was published, everybody thought it was completely self-evident that you would do it.

But because there was such a packed legislative programme, it got stuck in No 10.

I remember conversations with advisers where I was told that it wasn't a priority, and I wrote an email saying why I thought it was – why British families didn't want our progress as a nation made on the backs of slavery.

"They said, if you can find a Secretary of State who will take the legislation through, you can do it.

I thought, should I go to William Hague, who'd written a William Wilberforce book, or Theresa May, because it was obviously on her patch.

I knew Fiona Cunningham – now Hill – and she said 'We need to be in this space, and Theresa will definitely want to do this.'

And we met and it was just like an open door."

Philippa Stroud on… battles with the Treasury (32 mins)

"When Iain went back in [after the 2015 election], I knew that he was going to have to take £12 billion out of welfare.

I hadn't thought that I would go back in with him, but… I thought, that's a really, really difficult task.

Do I want to leave it to somebody who doesn't know the welfare budget inside out, and who will do it brutally, or do I want it to be done as carefully as possible?

"They were hugely difficult decisions to make, and behind the scenes I expended a huge amount of energy explaining to people the consequences of doing them, and in fact a good proportion of them never happened.

"I actually didn't believe it was possible to take that amount out only from working-age [benefits]…

As the election went on, more and more was being taken off the table, more and more promises were being made.

So what was difficult but possible when Osborne first announced it became almost almost impossible, because so many areas of the welfare budget had been taken off the table.

Which is why when I came out of government, I spoke and wrote publicly about the fact that the tax credit cuts should not go ahead."

Philippa Stroud on… the triple lock (35 mins)

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"I always thought, why are we protecting universal benefits for people who go right up the income stream?

I genuinely believe there should be a very honest conversation, almost a cross-party commission, on welfare.

Because Labour are known to protect the benefits of the poorest, and rightly so, and Conservatives are known for protecting the universal benefits.

But actually, we should be asking what is a 21st-century welfare system required to do, and what should be the best way of constructing it?

And it shouldn't be providing an income for people who have a decent income."

Philippa Stroud on… her mission with the Legatum Institute

"Even when you look at what's going on in Brexit, you have the 52 per cent of people voted for this – and the reason why they did that was because of job insecurity, lack of access to housing, education challenges, and health challenges.

And some of these things are very much the space I've been in for a very long time."

Philippa Stroud on… why religion matters (45 mins 30)

"Faith is running through the heart of society.

If you push it to the sides, that's when you get extremism.

You need faith running through the warp and weft of society, because that's when it's healthy."

You can listen to the full interview here:

Or catch up with our recent interviews with Frank Field, Nick Cohen, Daniel Hannan, Peter Oborne and Lord Lawson.

To automatically receive the latest episode, just subscribe via iTunes or any other podcast provider – and if you liked the show, please rate, review and leave your comments.

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# Philippa Stroud on family breakdown, welfare reform and Brexit

On the surface, Baroness Stroud has the perfect Westminster CV.

She helped found one think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, and is now running another, the Legatum Institute.

In between, she worked as special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, helping to devise and implement his welfare reforms.

Yet as our conversation in the latest episode of Free Exchange makes clear, her career is rather more interesting – and rather more extraordinary.

She entered politics after a lifetime of working with the homeless and destitute, slowly working out what the root causes of family breakdown were and then attempting to implement those insights on a national level.

You can listen to the full interview here.

Despite the occasional interference from an awkwardly placed phone, it really is worth your while.

Philippa Stroud on… working with addicts in Hong Kong

"If you are an addict in the UK, and you go through a drug rehab centre, and you fall out of it or don't succeed going through it, you may get one other chance, but you won't get many other opportunities.

What [my mentor] was doing was saying was that if this takes 12 times, 15 times, we are committed to seeing you go on your journey through this.

You often find with addiction: people don't make it the first time.

But each time they come back in, they make another choice, and they go a little bit further."

"One day I was coming down to speak to the Conservative Party conference – I wasn't a Conservative Party member then – about the voluntary sector, and I thought I'd better check that I was right about what was driving [addiction] before I took to the platform.

I asked each of my residents, in private, the question: 'If there was something that didn't happen in your life, that had meant that you wouldn't end up in a place like this, what would it have been?'

And they all answered: 'It started when my father walked out' or 'when my stepfather walked in'.

"The disintegration of the family, and the violence in some of these families, and the abuse in some of these families, was such a theme running through what we were doing, but was not being talked about in national politics.

Governments were very happy to pay money to these people, but what they really wanted was strong, stable families."

Philippa Stroud on… changing the Conservative Party (16 mins 30)

Subscribe to Free Exchange, the CapX podcast

"When we first launched the Centre for Social Justice, Tim [Montgomerie] did a picture of a typewriter which only had three keys – Europe, immigration and tax.

The vision of the CSJ was to restore all the others – family, employment, managing our personal finances, modern-day slavery.

It was a hugely exciting agenda to be part of.

'Hug a hoodie' was actually from a day conference the CSJ hosted to bring the players in the early intervention space together.

We actually titled it 'Thugs: Beyond Redemption?', which sounds awful now

Philippa Stroud on… modern slavery (20 mins 30)

"Once the [CSJ] report was published, everybody thought it was completely self-evident that you would do it.

But because there was such a packed legislative programme, it got stuck in No 10.

I remember conversations with advisers where I was told that it wasn't a priority, and I wrote an email saying why I thought it was – why British families didn't want our progress as a nation made on the backs of slavery.

"They said, if you can find a Secretary of State who will take the legislation through, you can do it.

I thought, should I go to William Hague, who'd written a William Wilberforce book, or Theresa May, because it was obviously on her patch.

I knew Fiona Cunningham – now Hill – and she said 'We need to be in this space, and Theresa will definitely want to do this.'

And we met and it was just like an open door."

Philippa Stroud on… battles with the Treasury (32 mins)

"When Iain went back in [after the 2015 election], I knew that he was going to have to take £12 billion out of welfare.

I hadn't thought that I would go back in with him, but… I thought, that's a really, really difficult task.

Do I want to leave it to somebody who doesn't know the welfare budget inside out, and who will do it brutally, or do I want it to be done as carefully as possible?

"They were hugely difficult decisions to make, and behind the scenes I expended a huge amount of energy explaining to people the consequences of doing them, and in fact a good proportion of them never happened.

"I actually didn't believe it was possible to take that amount out only from working-age [benefits]…

As the election went on, more and more was being taken off the table, more and more promises were being made.

So what was difficult but possible when Osborne first announced it became almost almost impossible, because so many areas of the welfare budget had been taken off the table.

Which is why when I came out of government, I spoke and wrote publicly about the fact that the tax credit cuts should not go ahead."

Philippa Stroud on… the triple lock (35 mins)

Come Together: What the Beatles and the Stones can teach the West

It's not just the Tories who should worry about the Brexit Party

Why Greta Thunberg's 'Old World' environmentalism misses the mark

Free Exchange: Robert D Kaplan on the future of a bipolar world

Unionists must finally stop capitulating to Scottish Nationalists

"I always thought, why are we protecting universal benefits for people who go right up the income stream?

I genuinely believe there should be a very honest conversation, almost a cross-party commission, on welfare.

Because Labour are known to protect the benefits of the poorest, and rightly so, and Conservatives are known for protecting the universal benefits.

But actually, we should be asking what is a 21st-century welfare system required to do, and what should be the best way of constructing it?

And it shouldn't be providing an income for people who have a decent income."

Philippa Stroud on… her mission with the Legatum Institute

"Even when you look at what's going on in Brexit, you have the 52 per cent of people voted for this – and the reason why they did that was because of job insecurity, lack of access to housing, education challenges, and health challenges.

And some of these things are very much the space I've been in for a very long time."

Philippa Stroud on… why religion matters (45 mins 30)

"Faith is running through the heart of society.

If you push it to the sides, that's when you get extremism.

You need faith running through the warp and weft of society, because that's when it's healthy."

You can listen to the full interview here:

Or catch up with our recent interviews with Frank Field, Nick Cohen, Daniel Hannan, Peter Oborne and Lord Lawson.

To automatically receive the latest episode, just subscribe via iTunes or any other podcast provider – and if you liked the show, please rate, review and leave your comments.

### Little could boost Boris Johnson more than a 'government of national unity'

### Free Exchange: Sir Malcolm Rifkind on China, Trump and the 'real risk' to the UK

### Innovation is the key to the UK's prosperity - Boris must invest in it

### Let them eat cake: the pointless obsession with food 'reformulation'

### Kashmir: the battleground that will shape the fate of India

## CapX Email BriefingSign up to our popular email briefing to get the most interesting stories from CapX and the wider web delivered direct to your inbox.

Stroud spent seventeen years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book on social injustice. In 1987-89 she worked in Hong Kong.


In 1987-89 she worked amongst the addict community.

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# Philippa Stroud on family breakdown, welfare reform and Brexit

On the surface, Baroness Stroud has the perfect Westminster CV.

She helped found one think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, and is now running another, the Legatum Institute.

In between, she worked as special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, helping to devise and implement his welfare reforms.

Yet as our conversation in the latest episode of Free Exchange makes clear, her career is rather more interesting – and rather more extraordinary.

She entered politics after a lifetime of working with the homeless and destitute, slowly working out what the root causes of family breakdown were and then attempting to implement those insights on a national level.

You can listen to the full interview here.

Despite the occasional interference from an awkwardly placed phone, it really is worth your while.

Philippa Stroud on… working with addicts in Hong Kong

"If you are an addict in the UK, and you go through a drug rehab centre, and you fall out of it or don't succeed going through it, you may get one other chance, but you won't get many other opportunities.

What [my mentor] was doing was saying was that if this takes 12 times, 15 times, we are committed to seeing you go on your journey through this.

You often find with addiction: people don't make it the first time.

But each time they come back in, they make another choice, and they go a little bit further."

"One day I was coming down to speak to the Conservative Party conference – I wasn't a Conservative Party member then – about the voluntary sector, and I thought I'd better check that I was right about what was driving [addiction] before I took to the platform.

I asked each of my residents, in private, the question: 'If there was something that didn't happen in your life, that had meant that you wouldn't end up in a place like this, what would it have been?'

And they all answered: 'It started when my father walked out' or 'when my stepfather walked in'.

"The disintegration of the family, and the violence in some of these families, and the abuse in some of these families, was such a theme running through what we were doing, but was not being talked about in national politics.

Governments were very happy to pay money to these people, but what they really wanted was strong, stable families."

Philippa Stroud on… changing the Conservative Party (16 mins 30)

Subscribe to Free Exchange, the CapX podcast

"When we first launched the Centre for Social Justice, Tim [Montgomerie] did a picture of a typewriter which only had three keys – Europe, immigration and tax.

The vision of the CSJ was to restore all the others – family, employment, managing our personal finances, modern-day slavery.

It was a hugely exciting agenda to be part of.

'Hug a hoodie' was actually from a day conference the CSJ hosted to bring the players in the early intervention space together.

We actually titled it 'Thugs: Beyond Redemption?', which sounds awful now

Philippa Stroud on… modern slavery (20 mins 30)

"Once the [CSJ] report was published, everybody thought it was completely self-evident that you would do it.

But because there was such a packed legislative programme, it got stuck in No 10.

I remember conversations with advisers where I was told that it wasn't a priority, and I wrote an email saying why I thought it was – why British families didn't want our progress as a nation made on the backs of slavery.

"They said, if you can find a Secretary of State who will take the legislation through, you can do it.

I thought, should I go to William Hague, who'd written a William Wilberforce book, or Theresa May, because it was obviously on her patch.

I knew Fiona Cunningham – now Hill – and she said 'We need to be in this space, and Theresa will definitely want to do this.'

And we met and it was just like an open door."

Philippa Stroud on… battles with the Treasury (32 mins)

"When Iain went back in [after the 2015 election], I knew that he was going to have to take £12 billion out of welfare.

I hadn't thought that I would go back in with him, but… I thought, that's a really, really difficult task.

Do I want to leave it to somebody who doesn't know the welfare budget inside out, and who will do it brutally, or do I want it to be done as carefully as possible?

"They were hugely difficult decisions to make, and behind the scenes I expended a huge amount of energy explaining to people the consequences of doing them, and in fact a good proportion of them never happened.

"I actually didn't believe it was possible to take that amount out only from working-age [benefits]…

As the election went on, more and more was being taken off the table, more and more promises were being made.

So what was difficult but possible when Osborne first announced it became almost almost impossible, because so many areas of the welfare budget had been taken off the table.

Which is why when I came out of government, I spoke and wrote publicly about the fact that the tax credit cuts should not go ahead."

Philippa Stroud on… the triple lock (35 mins)

Come Together: What the Beatles and the Stones can teach the West

It's not just the Tories who should worry about the Brexit Party

Why Greta Thunberg's 'Old World' environmentalism misses the mark

Free Exchange: Robert D Kaplan on the future of a bipolar world

Unionists must finally stop capitulating to Scottish Nationalists

"I always thought, why are we protecting universal benefits for people who go right up the income stream?

I genuinely believe there should be a very honest conversation, almost a cross-party commission, on welfare.

Because Labour are known to protect the benefits of the poorest, and rightly so, and Conservatives are known for protecting the universal benefits.

But actually, we should be asking what is a 21st-century welfare system required to do, and what should be the best way of constructing it?

And it shouldn't be providing an income for people who have a decent income."

Philippa Stroud on… her mission with the Legatum Institute

"Even when you look at what's going on in Brexit, you have the 52 per cent of people voted for this – and the reason why they did that was because of job insecurity, lack of access to housing, education challenges, and health challenges.

And some of these things are very much the space I've been in for a very long time."

Philippa Stroud on… why religion matters (45 mins 30)

"Faith is running through the heart of society.

If you push it to the sides, that's when you get extremism.

You need faith running through the warp and weft of society, because that's when it's healthy."

You can listen to the full interview here:

Or catch up with our recent interviews with Frank Field, Nick Cohen, Daniel Hannan, Peter Oborne and Lord Lawson.

To automatically receive the latest episode, just subscribe via iTunes or any other podcast provider – and if you liked the show, please rate, review and leave your comments.

### Little could boost Boris Johnson more than a 'government of national unity'

### Free Exchange: Sir Malcolm Rifkind on China, Trump and the 'real risk' to the UK

### Innovation is the key to the UK's prosperity - Boris must invest in it

### Let them eat cake: the pointless obsession with food 'reformulation'

### Kashmir: the battleground that will shape the fate of India

## CapX Email BriefingSign up to our popular email briefing to get the most interesting stories from CapX and the wider web delivered direct to your inbox.

Stroud spent seventeen years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book on social injustice. In 1987-89 she worked in Hong Kong. In 1987-89 she worked in Macau.


Active citizenship was granted to men who were French.

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# Thouret, "Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility" (29 September 1789)

Jacques–Guillaume Thouret (1746–94), a lawyer from Rouen, spoke for the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly that included, among others, Sieyès and Rabaut Saint–Etienne.

His report formed the basis for the subsequent legislation on qualifications for voting and officeholding.

The materials listed below appeared originally in The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt (Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), 82.

The number of individuals in France is about 26 million; but according to calculations that seem to be very definite, the number of active citizens, with deductions made for women, minors, and all those who are deprived of political rights for legitimate reasons, is reduced to one-sixth of the total population.

One must only count therefore about 4,400,000 citizens qualifying to vote in the primary assemblies of their canton [local administrative unit]. . . .

The Committee proposes that the necessary qualifications for the title of active citizen in the primary assembly of the canton be: (1) to be French or to have become French; (2) to have reached one's majority [be a legal adult; the age was set at 25]; (3) to have resided in the canton for at least one year; (4) to pay direct taxes at a rate equal to the local value of three days of work, a value that will be assessed in monetary terms by the provincial assemblies; (5) to not be at the moment a servant, that is to say, in personal relationships that are all too incompatible with the independence necessary to the exercise of political rights.

To be eligible for office, either at the town or departmental level, one must have fulfilled all the conditions cited above with the sole difference that instead of paying a direct tax equal to the local value of three days of work, one must pay one equal to the value of ten days of work.

Chapter 3, Middle Classes – Bourgeoisie, Nobility, Peasants, Popular Politics, Text

"Thouret, "Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility" (29 September 1789)," Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, accessed August 24, 2019, http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/282.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Substance.:Active and passive citizenship.

While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not. Those who were deemed to hold these political rights were called active citizens.


The men had to be at least 25 years old.

While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not. Those who were deemed to hold these political rights were called active citizens. Active citizenship was granted to men who were French.


The men had to have paid taxes equal to three days work.

While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not. Those who were deemed to hold these political rights were called active citizens. Active citizenship was granted to men who were French. The men had to be at least 25 years old.


The men could not be defined as servants.

While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not. Those who were deemed to hold these political rights were called active citizens. Active citizenship was granted to men who were French. The men had to be at least 25 years old. The men had to have paid taxes equal to three days work.


On 1 September 2009, Gmail suffered an outage.

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It is not the first time Gmail has hit difficulties

Google has issued an apology after a "miscalculation" caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users.

The firm described Tuesday's two-hour outage as a "big deal" and said it was investigating ways to ensure it did not happen again.

The disruption was caused by an error during "routine upgrades" to the company's web servers, it said.

It follows outages of the Gmail service in February and March.

"We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there's a problem with the service," said the firm's Ben Treynor in a blog post.

"Thus, right up front, I'd like to apologise to all of you - today's outage was a big deal, and we're treating it as such."

He said the problem occurred when engineers took some of Gmail's servers offline to perform routine upgrades.

"This isn't in itself a problem - we do this all the time, and Gmail's web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline," he said.

However, said Mr Treynor, engineers "slightly underestimated" the increased load put on other parts of the system during the upgrades, causing the "widespread outage" of its webmail.

Other ways of accessing the service - such as through desktop email programs - were unaffected, the firm said.

Google's last major technical problem happened in May, with millions of people unable to use its main search page, as well as Gmail and Google News.

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It is not the first time Gmail has hit difficulties

Google has issued an apology after a "miscalculation" caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users.

The firm described Tuesday's two-hour outage as a "big deal" and said it was investigating ways to ensure it did not happen again.

The disruption was caused by an error during "routine upgrades" to the company's web servers, it said.

It follows outages of the Gmail service in February and March.

"We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there's a problem with the service," said the firm's Ben Treynor in a blog post.

"Thus, right up front, I'd like to apologise to all of you - today's outage was a big deal, and we're treating it as such."

He said the problem occurred when engineers took some of Gmail's servers offline to perform routine upgrades.

"This isn't in itself a problem - we do this all the time, and Gmail's web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline," he said.

However, said Mr Treynor, engineers "slightly underestimated" the increased load put on other parts of the system during the upgrades, causing the "widespread outage" of its webmail.

Other ways of accessing the service - such as through desktop email programs - were unaffected, the firm said.

Google's last major technical problem happened in May, with millions of people unable to use its main search page, as well as Gmail and Google News.

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He co-sponsored the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act.

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# Nevada Expands Protections for Pregnant Workers

Nevada first included sex as a protected category in 1967.

That year, the legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 7, which included for the first time sex discrimination as an unlawful employment practice.

Twenty-one years later, in 1989, Nevada passed legislation that required employers to provide pregnant employees the same benefits provided to other employees due to sickness or disability related to a medical condition.

On June 2, 2017, Governor Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill No. 253, which greatly expands the legal protections for pregnant employees.

The new law, the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act, is actually much broader than the name implies.

The Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to provide a reasonable accommodation to a female employee or applicant for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition.

It is also an unlawful employment practice to take adverse action against, or deny an employment opportunity to, an otherwise qualified female employee or applicant due to a request for, or use of, a reasonable accommodation.

An employer, however, may take action in relation to the employee or applicant based on a bona fide occupational qualification.

The terms "condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition" are defined to include a "physical or mental condition intrinsic to pregnancy or childbirth."

This specifically includes lactation and the need to express milk for a nursing child.

As such, it arguably provides broader protections for lactating employees and imposes potentially greater requirements on the employer than the Affordable Care Act's amendments to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

"Related medical condition" is also defined to mean "any medically recognized physical or mental condition related to the pregnancy, childbirth or recovery" from the same.

The Act states that this includes: mastitis or other lactation-related medical condition, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, and post-partum depression.

It also includes the loss or end of pregnancy and the subsequent recovery.

Similar to requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 6 of the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act requires the employer and employee to engage in a "good faith and interactive process" to determine an effective and reasonable accommodation.

This process is triggered when a female employee or applicant "requests an accommodation" for a protected condition.

The employer is permitted to require a statement from the employee's physician concerning the specific accommodation recommended.

Section 6 gives examples of some possible reasonable accommodations: modifying equipment, revising break schedules, and providing space other than restrooms for the expressing of milk.

It also provides examples of job modifications that may be reasonable, such as assistance with manual labor (if manual labor is incidental to the employee's primary work duties), light duty, and temporary transfer to less strenuous or hazardous positions.

Other reasonable accommodation examples include restructuring the position and providing a modified work schedule.

The Act clarifies that, in accommodating the employer, the employer is not required to create a new position or discharge or transfer any employee with more seniority unless the employer has or would take similar action to accommodate other classes of employees.

In addition, an employer may not require a female employee or applicant affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to accept an accommodation that she did not request or choose.

While the employer clearly cannot force an unwanted accommodation on the employee, both have a duty under the Act to engage in "good faith" in the interactive process.

Exactly what this means is unclear and will probably be the subject of future litigation.

In addition, the accommodation must be reasonable.

Section 7 of the Act creates a burden-shifting test.

If the employee or applicant makes a prima facie showing that she requested a reasonable accommodation, the burden shifts to the employer to prove undue hardship.

The bottom line is if the accommodation requested by the employee or applicant is reasonable, the employer will have to accept it.

Employers are also prohibited from requiring female employees who are affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to take leave from employment if there is a reasonable accommodation that would allow the employee to continue to work.

That said, it is clear the Act contemplates leave as a reasonable accommodation.

In fact, Section 5 of the Act includes in its definition of adverse employment action "refusing to reinstate the employee to the same or equivalent position upon return to work."

The Nevada Pregnant Worker's Fairness Act applies to employers with 15 or more employees.

Employers who are contractors licensed under Chapter 624 of the Nevada Revised Statutes have a partial exempt from the Act's requirements.

Such employers are not required to provide a place other than a restroom to express milk if the employee is performing work at a construction job site that is located more than three miles from its regular place of business.

Contractors are also exempt from the prohibitions against requiring an employee whose work duties include manual labor to accept an accommodation or take leave from employment.

Employers subject to the Act are required to provide employees three distinct written or electronic notices.

The notices must inform employees that they have the right to be free from discriminatory or unlawful employment practices pursuant to the NRS 613.335 and Sections 2 - 8 of the Act.

The notice must also include a statement that a female employee has the right to a reasonable accommodation for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition.

The first notice must be provided to new employees on commencement of employment.

The employer must provide a second notice within 10 days after the employee notifies her immediate supervisor that she is pregnant.

Finally, the employer is required to post notice of these rights in a conspicuous place at its place of business and in an area accessible to employees.

The notice provisions of the Act are effective June 2, 2017.

The Act is effective October 1, 2017, for all other purposes.

Information contained in this publication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor is it a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney.

Subsequent to this first legislative session, Ford was named Freshman Senator of the Year by both the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Reno Gazette Journal. Ford was named Senator of the Year by Nevada Political Action for Animals and the Nevada Conservation League.
 During the 2016 interim, Ford serves on the Legislative Commission, the Advisory Committee to Develop a Plan to Reorganize the Clark County School District, and the Legislative Commission's Subcommittee to Study Water. He also sits by designation on the Interim Finance Committee.
 During the 2014 interim, Ford served as a Member of the Council to Establish Academic Standards; Technological Crime Advisory Board; Legislative Committee on Public Lands; Legislative Committee on Education; Legislative Commission on Energy; and the Advisory Council on Parental Involvement and Family Engagement.
 During the 2017 Nevada Legislative session, Ford led the efforts requiring law enforcement agencies to turn over rape kits for testing within 30 days and require labs to test them within 120 days. The bill mandated the creation of a Nevada-wide sexual assault kit tracking program, which would allow victims to follow the status of their rape kits as they go through the criminal justice system.


The Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act provides protections to female employees and applicants for employment from discriminatory or unlawful employment practices based on pregnancy, childbirth, or any related medical conditions.

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# Nevada Expands Protections for Pregnant Workers

Nevada first included sex as a protected category in 1967.

That year, the legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 7, which included for the first time sex discrimination as an unlawful employment practice.

Twenty-one years later, in 1989, Nevada passed legislation that required employers to provide pregnant employees the same benefits provided to other employees due to sickness or disability related to a medical condition.

On June 2, 2017, Governor Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill No. 253, which greatly expands the legal protections for pregnant employees.

The new law, the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act, is actually much broader than the name implies.

The Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to provide a reasonable accommodation to a female employee or applicant for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition.

It is also an unlawful employment practice to take adverse action against, or deny an employment opportunity to, an otherwise qualified female employee or applicant due to a request for, or use of, a reasonable accommodation.

An employer, however, may take action in relation to the employee or applicant based on a bona fide occupational qualification.

The terms "condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition" are defined to include a "physical or mental condition intrinsic to pregnancy or childbirth."

This specifically includes lactation and the need to express milk for a nursing child.

As such, it arguably provides broader protections for lactating employees and imposes potentially greater requirements on the employer than the Affordable Care Act's amendments to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

"Related medical condition" is also defined to mean "any medically recognized physical or mental condition related to the pregnancy, childbirth or recovery" from the same.

The Act states that this includes: mastitis or other lactation-related medical condition, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, and post-partum depression.

It also includes the loss or end of pregnancy and the subsequent recovery.

Similar to requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 6 of the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act requires the employer and employee to engage in a "good faith and interactive process" to determine an effective and reasonable accommodation.

This process is triggered when a female employee or applicant "requests an accommodation" for a protected condition.

The employer is permitted to require a statement from the employee's physician concerning the specific accommodation recommended.

Section 6 gives examples of some possible reasonable accommodations: modifying equipment, revising break schedules, and providing space other than restrooms for the expressing of milk.

It also provides examples of job modifications that may be reasonable, such as assistance with manual labor (if manual labor is incidental to the employee's primary work duties), light duty, and temporary transfer to less strenuous or hazardous positions.

Other reasonable accommodation examples include restructuring the position and providing a modified work schedule.

The Act clarifies that, in accommodating the employer, the employer is not required to create a new position or discharge or transfer any employee with more seniority unless the employer has or would take similar action to accommodate other classes of employees.

In addition, an employer may not require a female employee or applicant affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to accept an accommodation that she did not request or choose.

While the employer clearly cannot force an unwanted accommodation on the employee, both have a duty under the Act to engage in "good faith" in the interactive process.

Exactly what this means is unclear and will probably be the subject of future litigation.

In addition, the accommodation must be reasonable.

Section 7 of the Act creates a burden-shifting test.

If the employee or applicant makes a prima facie showing that she requested a reasonable accommodation, the burden shifts to the employer to prove undue hardship.

The bottom line is if the accommodation requested by the employee or applicant is reasonable, the employer will have to accept it.

Employers are also prohibited from requiring female employees who are affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to take leave from employment if there is a reasonable accommodation that would allow the employee to continue to work.

That said, it is clear the Act contemplates leave as a reasonable accommodation.

In fact, Section 5 of the Act includes in its definition of adverse employment action "refusing to reinstate the employee to the same or equivalent position upon return to work."

The Nevada Pregnant Worker's Fairness Act applies to employers with 15 or more employees.

Employers who are contractors licensed under Chapter 624 of the Nevada Revised Statutes have a partial exempt from the Act's requirements.

Such employers are not required to provide a place other than a restroom to express milk if the employee is performing work at a construction job site that is located more than three miles from its regular place of business.

Contractors are also exempt from the prohibitions against requiring an employee whose work duties include manual labor to accept an accommodation or take leave from employment.

Employers subject to the Act are required to provide employees three distinct written or electronic notices.

The notices must inform employees that they have the right to be free from discriminatory or unlawful employment practices pursuant to the NRS 613.335 and Sections 2 - 8 of the Act.

The notice must also include a statement that a female employee has the right to a reasonable accommodation for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition.

The first notice must be provided to new employees on commencement of employment.

The employer must provide a second notice within 10 days after the employee notifies her immediate supervisor that she is pregnant.

Finally, the employer is required to post notice of these rights in a conspicuous place at its place of business and in an area accessible to employees.

The notice provisions of the Act are effective June 2, 2017.

The Act is effective October 1, 2017, for all other purposes.

Information contained in this publication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor is it a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney.

Subsequent to this first legislative session, Ford was named Freshman Senator of the Year by both the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Reno Gazette Journal. Ford was named Senator of the Year by Nevada Political Action for Animals and the Nevada Conservation League.
 During the 2016 interim, Ford serves on the Legislative Commission, the Advisory Committee to Develop a Plan to Reorganize the Clark County School District, and the Legislative Commission's Subcommittee to Study Water. He also sits by designation on the Interim Finance Committee.
 During the 2014 interim, Ford served as a Member of the Council to Establish Academic Standards; Technological Crime Advisory Board; Legislative Committee on Public Lands; Legislative Committee on Education; Legislative Commission on Energy; and the Advisory Council on Parental Involvement and Family Engagement.
 During the 2017 Nevada Legislative session, Ford led the efforts requiring law enforcement agencies to turn over rape kits for testing within 30 days and require labs to test them within 120 days. The bill mandated the creation of a Nevada-wide sexual assault kit tracking program, which would allow victims to follow the status of their rape kits as they go through the criminal justice system. He co-sponsored the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act.


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# Roy Hilton, longtime Baltimore Colts defensive end who was on Super Bowl-winning team, dies at age 75

Roy Hilton played for the Baltimore Colts from 1965 to 1973.

In Super Bowl V, Baltimore Colts defensive end Roy Hilton played the game of his life: four tackles, two sacks and a fearsome fourth-quarter rush of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback that forced a hurried pass, a Colts interception and the tying touchdown.

After the game, celebrating a 16-13 victory in Baltimore's locker room, head coach Don McCafferty approached Hilton, embraced the leggy defensive end and whispered, "Thanks."

"That [moment] was the highlight of my entire career," Hilton said later.

An 11-year NFL veteran, Roy Lee Hilton died Sunday at Gilchrist Center Towson.

The Randallstown resident, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, was 75.

Hilton played for the Colts from 1965 to 1973.

Roy held on for a long, long time," said Marie Hilton, his wife of 53 years.

She called him "a good guy, in his way, and a very giving person."

A grandson, Brandon Copeland, attended Gilman and is now a linebacker for the New York Jets.

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"Roy was a dear, dear friend," said Lenny Moore, 85, the Colts' Hall of Fame running back and wide receiver who played with Hilton for the latter's first three years in the NFL.

"All our lives, we could talk and relate.

You could trust him, on and off the field.

He was a beautiful guy who took care of business; I'm still going through the loss."

In a statement, the Ravens mourned the passing of Hilton, "a mainstay on a defense that helped the Colts earn two Super Bowl appearances …

We remember Roy for the lasting contributions he made to Baltimore's rich football history, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family."

Hilton parlayed his humble beginnings — picking cotton as a kid in Hazlehurst, Miss. — into a pro football career.

At 6 feet 6 and 240 pounds, he starred at Jackson State and was selected by the Colts in the 15th round of the 1965 draft (No. 210 overall).

Four years later, he became a starter but was overshadowed by the Colts' other defensive end, Bubba Smith (6-7 and 265 pounds), the No. 1 pick overall in the 1967 NFL draft.

Teammates admired Hilton for his work ethic and consistency, traits they said Smith sometimes lacked.

"I saw Roy last year, walked up and gave him a big hug," said Bob Vogel, the Colts' All-Pro offensive tackle who squared off against Hilton in practice.

"I said, 'I want to thank you for playing a part in whatever success I had.

As the league's smallest tackle, my technique had to be good, and I attribute that to you.

You stayed out there and worked with me, and I am grateful.' "

NFL Sixty years on, Gino Marchetti recalls key tackle, Colts takedown of Giants in NFL's 'Greatest Game' Dec 26, 2018 | 5:00 AM

Hilton peaked in the playoffs in 1970, totaling 4 ½ sacks as the Colts ran the table.

In the Super Bowl, he harried Dallas quarterback Craig Morton all day.

With 8 ½ minutes to play and the the Cowboys leading 13-6, Hilton dismissed All-Pro tackle Ralph Neely with a head slap and charged Morton, who threw a rainbow pass over Hilton's outstretched arms.

The ball grazed a receiver's fingertips and was nabbed by safety Rick Volk, who returned it 30 yards to Dallas' 3-yard line.

Two plays later, the Colts tied the game before winning on Jim O'Brien's 32-yard field goal with 9 seconds left.

Retiring in 1975, Hilton settled in Baltimore and worked as a security officer at Johns Hopkins University, a job he held for 20 years.

In 2011, having dealt with three knee replacements plus gout and arthritis, he reminisced with a Baltimore Sun reporter.

"I've been blessed," said Hilton who, despite multiple aches, took brisk walks daily.

"When I go out in the rain, my wife tells me what a goof I am.

I may drop dead, working out, but I feel like I've got to do it."

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Jets' Brandon Copeland, former Ravens LB and Gilman graduate, suspended by NFL for PED violation Aug 21, 2019

A public viewing for Hilton will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.

A wake is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. there, with the funeral to follow.

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During that span he appeared in Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts. He played college football at Jackson State University.


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# Roy Hilton, longtime Baltimore Colts defensive end who was on Super Bowl-winning team, dies at age 75

Roy Hilton played for the Baltimore Colts from 1965 to 1973.

In Super Bowl V, Baltimore Colts defensive end Roy Hilton played the game of his life: four tackles, two sacks and a fearsome fourth-quarter rush of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback that forced a hurried pass, a Colts interception and the tying touchdown.

After the game, celebrating a 16-13 victory in Baltimore's locker room, head coach Don McCafferty approached Hilton, embraced the leggy defensive end and whispered, "Thanks."

"That [moment] was the highlight of my entire career," Hilton said later.

An 11-year NFL veteran, Roy Lee Hilton died Sunday at Gilchrist Center Towson.

The Randallstown resident, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, was 75.

Hilton played for the Colts from 1965 to 1973.

Roy held on for a long, long time," said Marie Hilton, his wife of 53 years.

She called him "a good guy, in his way, and a very giving person."

A grandson, Brandon Copeland, attended Gilman and is now a linebacker for the New York Jets.

[More from sports] Schmuck: MLB's 'Players' Weekend' uniforms doing the opposite of rocking the fashion world »

"Roy was a dear, dear friend," said Lenny Moore, 85, the Colts' Hall of Fame running back and wide receiver who played with Hilton for the latter's first three years in the NFL.

"All our lives, we could talk and relate.

You could trust him, on and off the field.

He was a beautiful guy who took care of business; I'm still going through the loss."

In a statement, the Ravens mourned the passing of Hilton, "a mainstay on a defense that helped the Colts earn two Super Bowl appearances …

We remember Roy for the lasting contributions he made to Baltimore's rich football history, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family."

Hilton parlayed his humble beginnings — picking cotton as a kid in Hazlehurst, Miss. — into a pro football career.

At 6 feet 6 and 240 pounds, he starred at Jackson State and was selected by the Colts in the 15th round of the 1965 draft (No. 210 overall).

Four years later, he became a starter but was overshadowed by the Colts' other defensive end, Bubba Smith (6-7 and 265 pounds), the No. 1 pick overall in the 1967 NFL draft.

Teammates admired Hilton for his work ethic and consistency, traits they said Smith sometimes lacked.

"I saw Roy last year, walked up and gave him a big hug," said Bob Vogel, the Colts' All-Pro offensive tackle who squared off against Hilton in practice.

"I said, 'I want to thank you for playing a part in whatever success I had.

As the league's smallest tackle, my technique had to be good, and I attribute that to you.

You stayed out there and worked with me, and I am grateful.' "

NFL Sixty years on, Gino Marchetti recalls key tackle, Colts takedown of Giants in NFL's 'Greatest Game' Dec 26, 2018 | 5:00 AM

Hilton peaked in the playoffs in 1970, totaling 4 ½ sacks as the Colts ran the table.

In the Super Bowl, he harried Dallas quarterback Craig Morton all day.

With 8 ½ minutes to play and the the Cowboys leading 13-6, Hilton dismissed All-Pro tackle Ralph Neely with a head slap and charged Morton, who threw a rainbow pass over Hilton's outstretched arms.

The ball grazed a receiver's fingertips and was nabbed by safety Rick Volk, who returned it 30 yards to Dallas' 3-yard line.

Two plays later, the Colts tied the game before winning on Jim O'Brien's 32-yard field goal with 9 seconds left.

Retiring in 1975, Hilton settled in Baltimore and worked as a security officer at Johns Hopkins University, a job he held for 20 years.

In 2011, having dealt with three knee replacements plus gout and arthritis, he reminisced with a Baltimore Sun reporter.

"I've been blessed," said Hilton who, despite multiple aches, took brisk walks daily.

"When I go out in the rain, my wife tells me what a goof I am.

I may drop dead, working out, but I feel like I've got to do it."

[More from sports] Jonathan Villar surging toward Orioles' first 20-20 season since Manny Machado's in 2015 »

NFL Colts quarterback Andrew Luck walking away from game at age 29 4h XFL reveals logos and names for eight teams competing in February Aug 21, 2019

Jets' Brandon Copeland, former Ravens LB and Gilman graduate, suspended by NFL for PED violation Aug 21, 2019

A public viewing for Hilton will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.

A wake is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. there, with the funeral to follow.

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During that span he appeared in Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts. He played college football at Jackson State University. Hilton died in 2019.


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# Roy Hilton, longtime Baltimore Colts defensive end who was on Super Bowl-winning team, dies at age 75

Roy Hilton played for the Baltimore Colts from 1965 to 1973.

In Super Bowl V, Baltimore Colts defensive end Roy Hilton played the game of his life: four tackles, two sacks and a fearsome fourth-quarter rush of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback that forced a hurried pass, a Colts interception and the tying touchdown.

After the game, celebrating a 16-13 victory in Baltimore's locker room, head coach Don McCafferty approached Hilton, embraced the leggy defensive end and whispered, "Thanks."

"That [moment] was the highlight of my entire career," Hilton said later.

An 11-year NFL veteran, Roy Lee Hilton died Sunday at Gilchrist Center Towson.

The Randallstown resident, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, was 75.

Hilton played for the Colts from 1965 to 1973.

Roy held on for a long, long time," said Marie Hilton, his wife of 53 years.

She called him "a good guy, in his way, and a very giving person."

A grandson, Brandon Copeland, attended Gilman and is now a linebacker for the New York Jets.

[More from sports] Schmuck: MLB's 'Players' Weekend' uniforms doing the opposite of rocking the fashion world »

"Roy was a dear, dear friend," said Lenny Moore, 85, the Colts' Hall of Fame running back and wide receiver who played with Hilton for the latter's first three years in the NFL.

"All our lives, we could talk and relate.

You could trust him, on and off the field.

He was a beautiful guy who took care of business; I'm still going through the loss."

In a statement, the Ravens mourned the passing of Hilton, "a mainstay on a defense that helped the Colts earn two Super Bowl appearances …

We remember Roy for the lasting contributions he made to Baltimore's rich football history, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family."

Hilton parlayed his humble beginnings — picking cotton as a kid in Hazlehurst, Miss. — into a pro football career.

At 6 feet 6 and 240 pounds, he starred at Jackson State and was selected by the Colts in the 15th round of the 1965 draft (No. 210 overall).

Four years later, he became a starter but was overshadowed by the Colts' other defensive end, Bubba Smith (6-7 and 265 pounds), the No. 1 pick overall in the 1967 NFL draft.

Teammates admired Hilton for his work ethic and consistency, traits they said Smith sometimes lacked.

"I saw Roy last year, walked up and gave him a big hug," said Bob Vogel, the Colts' All-Pro offensive tackle who squared off against Hilton in practice.

"I said, 'I want to thank you for playing a part in whatever success I had.

As the league's smallest tackle, my technique had to be good, and I attribute that to you.

You stayed out there and worked with me, and I am grateful.' "

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Hilton peaked in the playoffs in 1970, totaling 4 ½ sacks as the Colts ran the table.

In the Super Bowl, he harried Dallas quarterback Craig Morton all day.

With 8 ½ minutes to play and the the Cowboys leading 13-6, Hilton dismissed All-Pro tackle Ralph Neely with a head slap and charged Morton, who threw a rainbow pass over Hilton's outstretched arms.

The ball grazed a receiver's fingertips and was nabbed by safety Rick Volk, who returned it 30 yards to Dallas' 3-yard line.

Two plays later, the Colts tied the game before winning on Jim O'Brien's 32-yard field goal with 9 seconds left.

Retiring in 1975, Hilton settled in Baltimore and worked as a security officer at Johns Hopkins University, a job he held for 20 years.

In 2011, having dealt with three knee replacements plus gout and arthritis, he reminisced with a Baltimore Sun reporter.

"I've been blessed," said Hilton who, despite multiple aches, took brisk walks daily.

"When I go out in the rain, my wife tells me what a goof I am.

I may drop dead, working out, but I feel like I've got to do it."

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A public viewing for Hilton will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.

A wake is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. there, with the funeral to follow.

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During that span he appeared in Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts. He played college football at Jackson State University. Hilton died in 2019. Hilton was 75 years old when he died.


(meta data) TITLE: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary awkward but ultimately fulfilling for fans | Ars Technica

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there.

With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside.

Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials.

Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed.

Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire.

If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop.

Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: The Archive Team Just In Time Grabs

The hardest part about our transient, shallow world wide web is the terrifying swiftness in which data disappears.

To this end, Archive Team members have often bravely strapped on miner's helmets and flashlights, dove into the flaming wreckage of a dying site, and grabbed a copy for all of time.

Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

Please Note: Some of these items were not burning as brightly or recently as others - they might be merely considered "off-site backups" of sites or collections, but in most cases the original data is now gone.

# Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment

# Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary awkward but ultimately fulfilling for fans

## This $40 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved brings updated graphics, sound, and …

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary shows how far we've come in a decade—and it's not always a pretty picture.

This release celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Halo by bringing back the classic campaign with updated graphics and sound, along with a passable replication of the game's multiplayer.

While Microsoft made a big deal about the game's Kinect support, that feature isn't listed anywhere on the box and you have to add it to the game via a day-one patch.

By using the Kinect, you can say things like "grenade," and Master Chief will throw a grenade.

You can say "flashlight" and your flashlight will turn on.

You can say "pause game," "resume game," and "change weapon," and it all does what you expect it to do (with a little bit of a pause).

It's a neat trick, but using the buttons is faster and easier.

This is a bullet point and, if you don't have a Kinect, you're not missing anything.

When you install it, the game also asks if you'd like to redeem the code to add the game's classic maps to your copy of Reach as a map pack.

It's a nice way to add value, but just once I'd like to play a game without a series of updates and five minutes of inputting codes and unlocking features that "reward" me for buying the game new.

Maybe so, but the rest of the Anniversary package is more than worth the annoyances of setup and the almost useless Kinect features.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Campaign Trailer

Very little has been added to the game itself; this is the Halo you remember.

You can find hidden skulls that change how the game is played (my copy came with the "Grunt Funeral" skull that causes grunts to explode like plasma grenades).

You'll also find terminals that give you some background information on the world of Halo, and there may even be a few hints about what's coming next.

The new content is certainly fine, but the real thrill is being able to play the classic Halo with remastered graphics.

The graphical updates are extensive, and they make everything look like a contemporary game.

You can hit the select button at any time to flip between the new graphics and the game's original look, and the changes are startling; a lot of work has been done to make this look as good as it possibly can.

The ability to switch between the two versions of the game at will also proves that the new textures and character models are all running on top of the original engine, so you don't lose any of the of the game's feel.

Everything acts just how you remember it, and for fans of a series that has gone through so many changes, it's great to go back to the original style that made Halo so popular.

The magnum is still incredibly overpowered at both close and long range, and it's great to have it back.

The Flood sections of the game are still annoying as hell.

While there might have been some temptations to adjust the game here and there, the decision was made to keep everything as you remember, for good or bad.

The updates are purely cosmetic, although the sound and music have also been completely redone.

In fact, the changes to the game's sound effects and music need more love than they've gotten in the press so far; the game sounds just as good as it looks.

You can play the entire game through in co-op with another person over Xbox Live, which is amazing, but the ability to play local four-player splitscreen is gone, which is madness.

The game brings you into the Halo: Reach engine to play the six included classic multiplayer maps:

Each map can be played in a state close to its original design, or updated to fit in with the other Reach maps.

You can also enjoy the classical loadouts and playlists to replicate the original experience.

There's also a brand new firefight mission and, if you don't care about the single-player game, all this content can be purchased separately as a Reach map pack for 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15).

New copies of the game come with a voucher that provides the map pack free of charge.

(As a side-note, on Twitter I'll be giving away all the codes that came with the game, so follow @BenKuchera if you want a chance for some free Halo content.)

To be absolutely clear: if you don't like Halo, you will still not like it now that it's prettier.

For fans of the original, however, this is a great way to revisit a game that remains fun to play, and it adds some great new content to your multiplayer rotation.

The visuals and sound are impressive without taking away from your fond memories, and the Kinect features are safely ignored.

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IGN's Steven Hopper felt that the level design was dated, the repetitious environments making it easy for players to lose their bearings, and that vehicles handled poorly. Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker wrote that while the best aspects of the game remained, other aspects—such as the level design and fighting the Flood—were no less frustrating after ten years; Digital Spy's Matthew Reynolds echoed the sentiment, praising the game for presenting situations unsurpassed in later titles while faulting irregular checkpoints with increasing frustration.
 The remastered visuals were positively received; reviewers such as "The Inquirer"'s Chris Martin and "The Escapist"'s Russ Pitts singled out the graphics-switch button for praise. "The Guardian"'s Steve Boxer called the feature "utterly fascinating—a bit like ... archaeology on your console", and said that the visual overhaul improved areas where the original game engine was weak, such as rendering outdoor environments. While praising most of the game's refinements, Watters singled out the Flood as enemies he thought the original game envisioned better, saying "the simplicity of the classic look feels more sinister and alien". Hamza Aziz of Destructoid appreciated the visual updates, but not some of the resulting audio–animation syncing issues.
 Critics had split opinions on "Anniversary"'s additional features. The stereoscopic 3D effect was alternately praised and dismissed: Matt Miller of "Game Informer" wrote that the feature "doesn't add anything to the experience", while Aziz described the feature as "fantastic", considering its use in "Anniversary" to be more subtle and pleasing than in other games. Aziz also applauded the narrative terminals, although he criticized the Kinect voice command support for being slower in combat than pressing buttons.


Kuchera enjoyed the improvements of the "Halo" maps in "Anniversary"s multiplayer mode.

(meta data) TITLE: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary awkward but ultimately fulfilling for fans | Ars Technica

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there.

With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside.

Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials.

Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed.

Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire.

If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop.

Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: The Archive Team Just In Time Grabs

The hardest part about our transient, shallow world wide web is the terrifying swiftness in which data disappears.

To this end, Archive Team members have often bravely strapped on miner's helmets and flashlights, dove into the flaming wreckage of a dying site, and grabbed a copy for all of time.

Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

Please Note: Some of these items were not burning as brightly or recently as others - they might be merely considered "off-site backups" of sites or collections, but in most cases the original data is now gone.

# Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment

# Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary awkward but ultimately fulfilling for fans

## This $40 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved brings updated graphics, sound, and …

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary shows how far we've come in a decade—and it's not always a pretty picture.

This release celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Halo by bringing back the classic campaign with updated graphics and sound, along with a passable replication of the game's multiplayer.

While Microsoft made a big deal about the game's Kinect support, that feature isn't listed anywhere on the box and you have to add it to the game via a day-one patch.

By using the Kinect, you can say things like "grenade," and Master Chief will throw a grenade.

You can say "flashlight" and your flashlight will turn on.

You can say "pause game," "resume game," and "change weapon," and it all does what you expect it to do (with a little bit of a pause).

It's a neat trick, but using the buttons is faster and easier.

This is a bullet point and, if you don't have a Kinect, you're not missing anything.

When you install it, the game also asks if you'd like to redeem the code to add the game's classic maps to your copy of Reach as a map pack.

It's a nice way to add value, but just once I'd like to play a game without a series of updates and five minutes of inputting codes and unlocking features that "reward" me for buying the game new.

Maybe so, but the rest of the Anniversary package is more than worth the annoyances of setup and the almost useless Kinect features.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Campaign Trailer

Very little has been added to the game itself; this is the Halo you remember.

You can find hidden skulls that change how the game is played (my copy came with the "Grunt Funeral" skull that causes grunts to explode like plasma grenades).

You'll also find terminals that give you some background information on the world of Halo, and there may even be a few hints about what's coming next.

The new content is certainly fine, but the real thrill is being able to play the classic Halo with remastered graphics.

The graphical updates are extensive, and they make everything look like a contemporary game.

You can hit the select button at any time to flip between the new graphics and the game's original look, and the changes are startling; a lot of work has been done to make this look as good as it possibly can.

The ability to switch between the two versions of the game at will also proves that the new textures and character models are all running on top of the original engine, so you don't lose any of the of the game's feel.

Everything acts just how you remember it, and for fans of a series that has gone through so many changes, it's great to go back to the original style that made Halo so popular.

The magnum is still incredibly overpowered at both close and long range, and it's great to have it back.

The Flood sections of the game are still annoying as hell.

While there might have been some temptations to adjust the game here and there, the decision was made to keep everything as you remember, for good or bad.

The updates are purely cosmetic, although the sound and music have also been completely redone.

In fact, the changes to the game's sound effects and music need more love than they've gotten in the press so far; the game sounds just as good as it looks.

You can play the entire game through in co-op with another person over Xbox Live, which is amazing, but the ability to play local four-player splitscreen is gone, which is madness.

The game brings you into the Halo: Reach engine to play the six included classic multiplayer maps:

Each map can be played in a state close to its original design, or updated to fit in with the other Reach maps.

You can also enjoy the classical loadouts and playlists to replicate the original experience.

There's also a brand new firefight mission and, if you don't care about the single-player game, all this content can be purchased separately as a Reach map pack for 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15).

New copies of the game come with a voucher that provides the map pack free of charge.

(As a side-note, on Twitter I'll be giving away all the codes that came with the game, so follow @BenKuchera if you want a chance for some free Halo content.)

To be absolutely clear: if you don't like Halo, you will still not like it now that it's prettier.

For fans of the original, however, this is a great way to revisit a game that remains fun to play, and it adds some great new content to your multiplayer rotation.

The visuals and sound are impressive without taking away from your fond memories, and the Kinect features are safely ignored.

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IGN's Steven Hopper felt that the level design was dated, the repetitious environments making it easy for players to lose their bearings, and that vehicles handled poorly. Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker wrote that while the best aspects of the game remained, other aspects—such as the level design and fighting the Flood—were no less frustrating after ten years; Digital Spy's Matthew Reynolds echoed the sentiment, praising the game for presenting situations unsurpassed in later titles while faulting irregular checkpoints with increasing frustration.
 The remastered visuals were positively received; reviewers such as "The Inquirer"'s Chris Martin and "The Escapist"'s Russ Pitts singled out the graphics-switch button for praise. "The Guardian"'s Steve Boxer called the feature "utterly fascinating—a bit like ... archaeology on your console", and said that the visual overhaul improved areas where the original game engine was weak, such as rendering outdoor environments. While praising most of the game's refinements, Watters singled out the Flood as enemies he thought the original game envisioned better, saying "the simplicity of the classic look feels more sinister and alien". Hamza Aziz of Destructoid appreciated the visual updates, but not some of the resulting audio–animation syncing issues.
 Critics had split opinions on "Anniversary"'s additional features. The stereoscopic 3D effect was alternately praised and dismissed: Matt Miller of "Game Informer" wrote that the feature "doesn't add anything to the experience", while Aziz described the feature as "fantastic", considering its use in "Anniversary" to be more subtle and pleasing than in other games. Aziz also applauded the narrative terminals, although he criticized the Kinect voice command support for being slower in combat than pressing buttons. Ben Kuchera is of "Ars Technica".