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[[Image:Saline-county-1864.jpg|thumb|250px|Saline County in 1864.]]
'''Saline County''' is named for large geologic salt formations found within the county borders. The county was formed in 1835 from portions of Hempstead and Pulaski counties. Neighboring counties include [[Pulaski County]], Grant County, Hot Springs County, Garland County, and [[Perry County]].
'''Saline County''' is named for large geologic salt formations found within the county borders. The county was formed on November 2, 1835, from portions of Hempstead and Pulaski counties. Neighboring counties include [[Pulaski County]], Grant County, Hot Springs County, Garland County, and [[Perry County]].
====History====
The vicinity was made famous for the buffalo salt licks found by members of the [[Hunter-Dunbar Expedition]] of 1804-1805.
Saline County was established on November 2, 1835. The county is famous for its rich mineral resources. Early salt works in the county supplied the precious mineral to places throughout the mid-south. Bauxite was discovered in June 1887 by state geologist [[John C. Branner]], and the [[American Bauxite Company]] quickly bought up ninety percent of the deposits. The company built a large reduction plant at the company town of Bauxite, Arkansas, and shipped the resulting ore out of the state to East St. Louis, Illinois, for further refining into alumina, and eventually to Niagara Falls where the final aluminum product was produced by electrolysis. Other smaller players were [[Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company]] of Little Rock, [[Globe Bauxite Company]] of Chemical Spur, and the [[Du Pont Chemical Company]]. In the 1920s it was thought that seventy percent of the world's supply of the mineral was locked up in geological formations located in Saline and Pulaski counties between Benton and Little Rock.
The county is also famous for its pottery clays, especially kaolin deposits near Benton which are made into [[Niloak pottery]].
The largest employers in the county are the [[Bryant Public School District]], Wal-Mart, the [[State of Arkansas]], [[Saline Memorial Hospital]], [[Benton Public School District]], [[Landers Automotive]], [[Birch Tree Communities]], [[Rineco Chemical]], [[CoorsTek]], [[Rivendell Behavioral Health]], [[Almatis]], Sonic Drive-In, [[RGIS Inventory Specialist]], [[Timber Ridge Ranch Neurorehab]], and the [[Alexander Youth Service Center]].
The largest employers in the county are the [[Bryant Public School District]], [[Wal-Mart]], the [[State of Arkansas]], [[Saline Memorial Hospital]], [[Benton Public School District]], [[Landers Automotive]], [[Birch Tree Communities]], [[Rineco Chemical]], [[CoorsTek]], [[Rivendell Behavioral Health]], [[Almatis]], [[Sonic Drive-In]], [[RGIS Inventory Specialist]], [[Timber Ridge Ranch Neurorehab]], and the [[Alexander Youth Service Center]].
====Law, government, and politics====
*Dallas Tabor Herndon, ''The Highlights of Arkansas History'' (Arkansas History Commission, 1922), 133.
*State of Arkansas, ''Minerals in Arkansas: Including a Review of Oil and Gas Conditions'' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1922), 8, 42-46.
*[http://www.salinecounty.org/ Official Saline County Arkansas website]
*[http://arkansasedc.com/media/38362/Saline_01_2007.pdf Arkansas Economic Development Commission - Largest Employers in Saline County]
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Saline County in 1864.
Saline County is named for large geologic salt formations found within the county borders. The county was formed on November 2, 1835, from portions of Hempstead and Pulaski counties. Neighboring counties include Pulaski County, Grant County, Hot Springs County, Garland County, and Perry County.
The vicinity was made famous for the buffalo salt licks found by members of the Hunter-Dunbar Expedition of 1804-1805.
Saline County was established on November 2, 1835. The county is famous for its rich mineral resources. Early salt works in the county supplied the precious mineral to places throughout the mid-south. Bauxite was discovered in June 1887 by state geologist John C. Branner, and the American Bauxite Company quickly bought up ninety percent of the deposits. The company built a large reduction plant at the company town of Bauxite, Arkansas, and shipped the resulting ore out of the state to East St. Louis, Illinois, for further refining into alumina, and eventually to Niagara Falls where the final aluminum product was produced by electrolysis. Other smaller players were Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company of Little Rock, Globe Bauxite Company of Chemical Spur, and the Du Pont Chemical Company. In the 1920s it was thought that seventy percent of the world's supply of the mineral was locked up in geological formations located in Saline and Pulaski counties between Benton and Little Rock.
The county is also famous for its pottery clays, especially kaolin deposits near Benton which are made into Niloak pottery.
The largest employers in the county are the Bryant Public School District, Wal-Mart, the State of Arkansas, Saline Memorial Hospital, Benton Public School District, Landers Automotive, Birch Tree Communities, Rineco Chemical, CoorsTek, Rivendell Behavioral Health, Almatis, Sonic Drive-In, RGIS Inventory Specialist, Timber Ridge Ranch Neurorehab, and the Alexander Youth Service Center.
Saline County has five high schools: Bauxite High School (Bauxite), Benton High School (Benton), Bryant High School (Bryant), Harmony Grove High School (Benton), and Paron High School (Paron).
Saline County has a number of incorporated cities within its boundaries: Benton, Bryant, and Haskell. Incorporated towns in the county are Alexander, Bauxite, and Traskwood.
Dallas Tabor Herndon, The Highlights of Arkansas History (Arkansas History Commission, 1922), 133.
State of Arkansas, Minerals in Arkansas: Including a Review of Oil and Gas Conditions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1922), 8, 42-46.
Official Saline County Arkansas website
Arkansas Economic Development Commission - Largest Employers in Saline County
Retrieved from "https://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Saline_County&oldid=13952"


Govt offices in Odisha to remain closed on 2nd & 4th Saturdays in August
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Bhubaneswar, Aug 3: The Odisha government today issued guidelines regarding functioning of government offices in August.
As per the new guideline, all the state government offices will remain closed on second and fourth Saturdays in the month of August. However, the offices will function on other Saturdays of the month.
“All Departments of the State Government and Sub-ordinate Offices in the State shall function with full strength of employees with effect from 2nd August, 2021 until further orders. The employees, who are now fully vaccinated, will mandatorily to attend office regularly. The employees who are unable to get vaccinated for medical or some other compelling reasons, may seek exemption from attending Office from the Head of Office, which would be considered on a case-to-case basis. Employees who are neither vaccinated nor exempted would not be permitted to attend office and their absence will be treated as willful,” sated an order issued by General Administration and Public Grievance Department.


https://www.nist.gov/publications/bios-protection-guidelines
BIOS Protection Guidelines
David Cooper, William Polk, Andrew Regenscheid, Murugiah Souppaya
This document provides guidelines for preventing the unauthorized modification of Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware on PC client systems. Unauthorized modification of BIOS firmware by malicious software constitutes a significant threat because of the BIOS's unique and privileged position within the PC architecture. A malicious BIOS modification could be part of a sophisticated, targeted attack on an organization--either a permanent denial of service (if the BIOS is corrupted) or a persistent malware presence (if the BIOS is implanted with malware). As used in this publication, the term BIOS refers to conventional BIOS, Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) BIOS, and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS. This document applies to system BIOS firmware (e.g., conventional BIOS or UEFI BIOS) stored in the system flash memory of computer systems, including portions that may be formatted as Option ROMs. However, it does not apply to Option ROMs, UEFI drivers, and firmware stored elsewhere in a computer system. While this document focuses on current and future x86 and x64 client platforms, the controls and procedures are independent of any particular system design. Likewise, although the guide is oriented toward enterprise-class platforms, the necessary technologies are expected to migrate to consumer-grade systems over time. Future efforts may look at boot firmware security for enterprise server platforms.
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-147
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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-147
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BIOS, firmware, security, firmware updates, basic input/output system, BIOS firmware, system BIOS
Cooper, D. , Polk, W. , Regenscheid, A. and Souppaya, M. (2011), BIOS Protection Guidelines, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-147, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908423 (Accessed January 16, 2022)
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Washington Attorney General Sues Johnson & Johnson Over Opioid Crisis
‘ILLEGAL CONDUCT’
Julia Arciga
Published Jan. 02, 2020 8:01PM ET
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Washington's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday against Johnson & Johnson, claiming the company is one of the largest suppliers of raw materials to make opioids. According to news station KING-TV, Attorney General Bob Ferguson also claimed the company “deceptively” advertised in favor of using opioids over the long term at high doses and ignored the risks of the drugs. Along with civil penalties and damages, Ferguson said he hoped a judge would order the company to relinquish its profits it made in Washington to the state for the firm’s supposedly “illegal conduct.” “Johnson & Johnson has made billions through its sale of opioids and the raw materials it sold to other companies, we expect Washington’s share to at least be in the millions,” he said, adding that the money would go towards opioid treatment, education, and prevention in Washington. Oklahoma also filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and was able to get $572 million from them. In 2017, Ferguson also filed legal action against Purdue Pharma—the Oxycontin maker that has been a major legal target for numerous states. Johnson & Johnson has not commented publicly on the matter.
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Tuesday night: Live from Newark, Delaware
(The Deer Park Tavern, which is kindly letting us set us camp there Tuesday night.)
Oct. 4, 2010, 10:38 PM UTC
By Laura Conaway
(The Deer Park Tavern, which is kindly letting us set us camp there Tuesday night.)Because we live for the intersection of politics and beer, we're going to broadcast Tuesday night's show from the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, Delaware. You're invited.We'll have just spent the day reporting on the Senate race that ate the 2010 elections, and then we'll head for the bar. If you're in the area, drop by and watch the magic happen. From here, we'll just say that the Deer Park Tavern looks great, if it is cursed. From the website:
On December 23, 1843, Edgar Allan Poe lectured at the Academy and visited the inn. As he was attempting to emerge from his carriage at the inn, he was reputed to have fallen in the mud and was so upset that he put a curse on the building.
The show starts at 9 p.m., whether you're in the Deer Park Tavern or in TV Land. Wish us luck, OK? And by all means, if you're a Christine O'Donnell supporter who lives in Delaware and is up for a chat, drop us a line, please.


News Briefs: Miller to Head HC "Studio"
Miller to Head HC “Studio”
Bob Miller, longtime president of Hyperion, is leaving the company to join HarperCollins, where he will head a “publishing studio” that will do 25 titles a year in a variety of print and digital formats. Authors will be paid on a profit-sharing basis, and the division is looking at alternative forms of distribution. Target date for the first books is spring 2009, and Miller will report directly to HC CEO Jane Friedman.
Archer Named Hyperion President
With Bob Miller’s move to HC, Disney named Ellen Archer president of its Hyperion book unit. Archer joined Hyperion in 1999 and in 2005 was named to her most recent post, senior v-p and publisher. In addition to spearheading campaigns for some of Hyperion’s biggest books, Archer founded the Voice imprint in 2006.
Weisbach Leaving Weinstein
After more than two years overseeing the refigured Weinstein Books, Rob Weisbach is stepping down. According to a statement from the Weinstein Company, Weisbach is departing to “pursue other publishing interests.”
Lightning Teams with On Demand
Lightning Source has signed with On Demand Books, proprietor of the Espresso Book Machine, in a deal that will give On Demand access to Lightning’s scanning facilities, as well as access to copyrighted material through an opt-in/opt-out clause that Lightning Source will add to its publisher contracts. At present, the titles available through Espresso fall mainly in the public domain. Currently there are only seven Espresso machines in use, but a new, less expensive printer is expected to be ready by 2009.
Bloomsbury USA Down
Led by sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, revenue at Bloomsbury doubled in 2007, hitting £150.2 million ($300 million), and pretax profit jumped to £15.9 million from £5.2 million. Results in the U.K. publisher’s U.S. subsidiary, however, were off in the year, falling 10.8%, to £13.4 million ($26.8 million). While sales of children’s books at Bloomsbury USA were up, the adult division had a disappointing year. To return the unit to profitability, Bloomsbury cut seven positions earlier this year. To help expand in the post-Potter era, Bloomsbury acquired the elementary school publisher Featherstone Education.
Curtis Brown, ICM in Joint Venture
Curtis Brown and ICM have signed a co-agenting agreement under which Curtis Brown’s London office will work with ICM to handle the sales of U.K. and foreign rights for ICM clients. As part of the deal, four agents who work for ICM in London, under the agency’s ICM Books outpost, will move into Brown’s Haymarket offices.
Patriot Act Revision Urged
In an open letter published last week in the Capitol Hill trade, Roll Call, the AAP, the ABA, ALA and PEN American Center have called on Congress to approve the National Security Letters Reform Act (S. 2088 and H.R. 3189), an alteration to the Patriot Act that, they think, will return reader privacy.


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Rogers-Doherty take momentum into Manhattan Open
Todd Rogers couldn’t have been happier playing on American sand again.
He certainly showed it in the first AVP Tour event of the season last weekend in Utah. Rogers, the former San Marcos High and UCSB star, and 7-foot-1 partner Ryan Doherty finished second to Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal, pushing the top seeds to three sets before falling 21-12, 19-21, 15-10, in the final of the inaugural Salt Lake City Open pro beach volleyball tournament.
It was Rogers and Doherty’s best result together since a runner-up finish in their debut in a FIVB regional event in the Cayman Islands back in March. They struggled on the FIVB World Tour. Their best finish was a ninth in the tournament in Long Beach last month.
The AVP Tour is beginning its second year under owner Donald Sun, who brought the tour back with two events last summer. There are five tour stops this year, including Santa Barbara, Sept. 28-29.
“Awesome!” Rogers replied when asked how nice it was to play on a domestic tour again. “I went past 100,000 miles on the way home from the FIVB event in Berlin. I would much rather have the short flight to Salt Lake or short drive down to Manhattan Beach.”
The next AVP Tour event is this weekend in Manhattan Beach, where Rogers’ name is enshrined in the venerable pier’s Walk of Fame three times for winning “the Wimbledon of beach volleyball.” He won all three Manhattan Opens with Dalhausser, his gold-medal partner at the 2008 Olympics.
After placing 25th in Berlin, Rogers and Doherty regrouped and put together a string of good performances in Salt Lake.
“We played better and better as the weekend progressed, and that is a good sign,” he said.
The highlight for them was a 24-22, 21-18 semifinal win over the “home” team of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson. Gibb is from Bountiful, Utah, and Patterson played collegiately at BYU, so they had the crowd rooting for them.
“I got two red cards, the fans were heckling us big time — par for the course in Utah,” Rogers said. “I used to play vs. BYU, and they were the gnarliest hecklers; no bad words, but they’d be all over us.”
Gibb gave props to Rogers for his play in the semifinal.
“He played really well, the best I’ve seen him play all year,” Gibb told the Deseret News. “You got to give it to him. The guy has a gold medal for a reason. He’s a great player.’
Rogers said it was one of his most satisfying wins in some time.
As for his partner, who is playing his first full season as a professional beach volleyball player, Rogers said Doherty has improved “a ton. The scary part is he still has a long, long way to go as well.”
Doherty had some difficulty adjusting to the level of competition and the lighter ball on the international tour, according to Rogers.
They’ll get their hands on the Wilson AVP ball and be back on a beach this weekend in Manhattan Beach.
So, after a good showing in Salt Lake City, does Rogers feel confident they’ll be able to keep it going at the Manhattan Open?
“Kind of,” he admitted. “The serving wasn’t as tough due to the elevation, and I think that helps us. Plus, the sand was pretty packed and Manhattan is deep. I love the deep stuff but Ryan has said he doesn’t.
“We will see.”
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Dean Hussey, Liberty Bell High School Senior, Receives 2019 Steinebach Award for Outstanding Contribution to Live Theater
The Merc Board of Directors and Missi Smith (Executive Director) unanimously voted to award Dean Hussey with the 2019 Steinebach Award for Outstanding Contribution to Live Theatre. The award was presented to him at the opening night of Charlotte’s Web on Friday, March 15.
The Merc blog states…
It was during our 2014 production of Willy Wonka, Junior that Dean Hussey arrived on the scene to work in our sound booth. He was in 8th grade at the time, and according to Dean his mom signed him up. He wasn’t very excited about it…but by the time the show was over he claims he was “in his element.” We were fortunate that theater hooked him because he has worked on nearly every show since then. He has logged well over 1000 volunteer hours in five years of productions.
To say Dean’s contribution to live theater is outstanding does not even begin to scratch the surface. He has participated on our production team in a number of ways over five years. He’s gone way beyond pushing the “GO” button behind our sound board. Dean has composed music and created sound cues for a number of shows, most notably Bike America, for which he composed the full soundtrack as his senior project. Our 2018 summer production required Dean to commit countless hours of composing, editing, and working with the rest of the cast and tech crew through rehearsals and performances. Missi Smith, the show’s director, was thrilled with Dean’s artistic interpretation through music, and she loved how his work enhanced the production.
Though he has typically remained behind the scenes in the tech booth, Dean recently went in front of the audience in our Reader’s Theater production of A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Adding another whole level of risk, and stepping even further out of his normal comfort zone, he became a strong advocate for those living with autism while teaching his fellow cast members about his own experiences with it. His participation on stage, for the first time ever, greatly enhanced the production. The guy can act, too!
Our founders, Carolanne and Egon Steinebach took huge risks to begin The Merc Playhouse Society. They committed to building a theater that has grown into a community gem over the past 20 years. Without their countless hours of work, their dedication to live performing arts, and their inspired vision, we wouldn’t be the organization we are today. We are happy to honor people in our theater community who show the same type of dedication to live performing arts, and Dean could not be more deserving of the award this year.
Dean is graduating from Liberty Bell High School in May. He will be greatly missed at The Merc while he bravely ventures out into his future, but we are certain he has many successes ahead of him. We just hope he comes back to see us once in a while, and maybe work on some more shows…
Please join us as we congratulate Dean Hussey and thank the Merc Board of Directors, Executive Director Missi Smith, Merc Playhouse Society Founders Carolanne and Egon Steineback, and the many community partners and volunteers that support live theatre and the performing arts in the Methow!


Ramchand Pakistani
Ramchand Pakistani (Urdu: رام چند پاکستانی) is an Urdu-language Pakistani drama film directed by Mehreen Jabbar and produced by Javed Jabbar.[2] The film features Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazel Hussain, Maria Wasti and Noman Ijaz in lead roles. The film is based on a true story of a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through.[3] Ramchand Pakistani was also released in India.[4][5][6]
Mehreen Jabbar[1]
Javed Jabbar[1]
Javed Jabbar
Screenplay by
Mohammad Ahmed
Rashid Farooqui
Syed Fazal Hussain
Maria Wasti
Nouman Ijaz
Hassan Niazi
Adnan Shah
Shahood Alvi
Zhalay Sarhadi
Saleem Mairaj
Saife Hassan
Sajid Shah
Debojyoti Mishra
Moringo Nusrat Nigam Banerjee
Sarthak Sarkar
Shiraj Hussain
Sofian Khan
Aseem Sinha
Percept Picture Company
Geo Films
2 October 2008 (2008-10-02) (Pakistan)
₨6.0 crore (US$420,000) [1]
Champa (Nandita Das) is a Hindu woman who is left desolate when her young son and husband disappear one day from their village at the India-Pakistan border near Nagarparkar, in the Tharparkar district of the Sindh province. The film depicts the crossing of the India-Pakistan border, during a period (June 2002) of war-like tension between the two countries, by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' dalit caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son.
The film is about a Hindu Dalit family living in Pakistan peacefully. Ramchand, the main protagonist who is 8 years old, is the son of Shankar and Champa. One day, after an altercation with his mother, Ramchand runs away in anger and, accidentally, crosses the Indo-Pakistan border into India. His father follows him and, he too, crosses the border into India.
After being arrested by the border security personnel, they are sent to a prison in India and stay there for a long time. They get a release order soon, but later it turns out to be a mistake and they are sent back to the jail. Ramchand, the 8 years old boy, and his father Shankar are unregistered prisoners during much of their stay in India.[2] Meanwhile, Ramchand’s mother, Champa, leads a life of loneliness and although she takes a temporary job in a faraway place, she returns to her village.
Finally, after 5 years,[2] when Ramchand has grown a few years, he gets released. He returns home to his mother. His father, Shankar, also gets released soon after. They are united and there, the film ends.
The singular theme of the film is how a child from Pakistan aged eight years, learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner, along with his father in the jail of a country (India), which is hostile to his own (Pakistan). Meanwhile, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival.
Nandita Das as Champa[1]
Syed Fazal Hussain as Younger Ramchand[2]
Navaid Jabbar as Older Ramchand[2]
Rashid Farooqui as Shankar[2]
Maria Wasti as Kamla[2]
Nouman Ijaz as Abdullah[2]
Adnan Shah as Sharma
Adarsh Ayaz as Moti
Farooq Pario as Suresh
Shahood Alvi as Asif Hussain
Zhalay Sarhadi as Lakshmi
Atif Badar as Lalu
Saleem Mairaj as Vishesh
Saif-e-Hasan as Murad
Rao Saleem as Interrogator
Karim Bux Baloch as Baloch
Master Yaqub as Baba Gul
Hassan Niazi as Deepak
Kazim Raza as Professor
Muhammad Rafiq as Bengali
Sajid Shah as Inspector
Iqbal Motilani as Maulvi
Anis Chachar as Captain Saleem
Film screenings overseas
This film had six screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2010.[2]
The soundtrack is composed by Debojyoti Mishra[2] and include the following songs:
Track Song Singers Composer Duration
01 Teri Meri Preet Shubha Mudgal Debojyoti Mishra 5:34
02 Allah Megh De Shubha Mudgal & Shafqat Amanat Ali Debojyoti Mishra 4:41
03 Phir Wahi Raste Shafqat Amanat Ali Debojyoti Mishra 5:52
04 Khari Neem Key Neechay Mai Bhagi Debojyoti Mishra 5:24
05 Tarrin Paunda Allan Fakir Debojyoti Mishra 6:09
06 Meri Maat Instrumental Debojyoti Mishra 4:19
This film won the following awards:
FIPRESCI Prize from the International Federation of Film Critics at the Osian Film Festival, July, 2008[7]
Winner of Honourable Mention by the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Award at the 2008 London Film Festival.[7]
Best Actor for Rashid Farooqi at the KaraFilm Festival, Pakistan, 2009
Winner of Audience Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland, March 2009.[7]
Winner of Special Mention by the Eucumenical Jury at the Fribourg International Film Festival March 2009.[7]
Winner of Special Mention by the E-Changer Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in March 2009[7]
Ramchand Pakistani received a silver medal in the feature film category at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.
Rashid Farooqui received the award for best actor in the feature film at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.
Ramchand Pakistani won Best Film Award on Pakistan Media Award in 2010.
Gori temple, the site of Meri Maati song.
Nagarparkar Bhodesar temple: the site of Tarrin Paunda song.
"Pakistani movie to play in India". DAWN (newspaper). 19 July 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
Stephen Holden (20 April 2010). "Ramchand-Pakistani - Directed by Mehreen Jabbar". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
"Ramchand Pakistani Movie Review". The Times of India. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
"Kolkata release of Pak film in limbo".
Ramchand Pakistani (2008 film), film review on Rotten Tomatoes website Retrieved 5 June 2019
Ramchand Pakistani (2008) on IMDb website Retrieved 5 June 2019
Awards for Ramchand Pakistani (2008 film) on IMDb website Retrieved 5 June 2019
Ramchand Pakistani on IMDb
Movie Review Ramchand Pakistani (2008)
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5 Signs That Cruising Is Making a Comeback in California
Brittany Chrusciel
Sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, warm breezes off the Pacific Ocean, a few days in L.A. -- what's not to love about cruising from California? While the region suffered a setback early in the decade, cruise lines have returned, and not only that, the demand for a more robust cruise market in California has kept the ports on their toes.
Major terminal renovations to Long Beach by Carnival shows good faith. San Francisco is planning to infuse art, retail therapy and some food options into terminal facilities to bolster the port experience for passengers. For San Diego's 2017/2018 season, Disney Cruise Line has increased homeport calls to 18 cruises.
So is California "back" to being a true cruising contender? It's tough to say there will never be another repeat of 2010 to 2012 when many cruise ships left the state because of tough economic times and concerns of violence in Mexico. But based on interviews with port officials and looking at where cruise lines are currently sending their ships, California is by all means making a return -- one that might not draw dramatic passenger counts just yet, but should remain rock steady for at least a few seasons.
Here are five signs that cruising is making a comeback in California.
1. Major cruise brands are showing up.
The cruise business, for better or worse, is dictated by the cruise lines, and looking at the 2017 season in California, they are well represented.
Most if not all major cruise brands -- including umbrella organizations Carnival Corp., Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited -- are represented across Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Using Cruise Critic's Find a Cruise tool, we found nearly 160 cruises departing from the state of California from January to December 2017.
Eleven cruise lines and 24 ships will sail from the Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) this year; the Port of San Francisco expects 14 cruise lines and 28 cruise ships, plus 82 ship calls totaling 300,000 passengers. San Diego's season, typically September to May, will see 90 vessels call, with four homeported cruise lines: Holland America Line, Disney Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line and Celebrity Cruises, and visiting ships from nine other cruise lines.
2. No alarms and no surprises.
When asked how 2016 measured up, every port interviewed gave a comforting, if not exciting response: "2016 went as expected."
In this region, where unpleasant headlines in Mexico dominated the news in the early part of the decade, that's good news.
According to Michael Nerney, maritime marketing manager for the Port of San Francisco, "[The] Port of San Francisco cruise business has been steady the past two years, since opening of the new Pier 27 cruise terminal. We expect to maintain current levels of ship calls and passengers with potential incremental growth. The 2016 cruise season was as expected: 80 calls and 290,000 passengers."
Further down the coast, the "Port of [Los Angeles] San Pedro finished where we expected for 2016 and 2017 looks very similar…By the look of things, 2018 will remain similar to 2017 at this point," Phillip Sanfield, director of media relations for the Port of Los Angeles, told Cruise Critic.
"In 2008, which was our most successful cruise year, we had 279 cruise calls," said Marguerite Elicone, a marketing and public relations representative for the Port of San Diego. "After the recession, the numbers dropped dramatically. We are now seeing the numbers slowly climbing back and predict a steady growth rate in passengers of about 6 to 8 percent ... this year's number of cruise calls is up by 30 percent (to 90 calls total in 2017) and the port is confident that the number will increase each year."
3. When construction is complete in 2017, Long Beach will be one of Carnival's largest homeports.
And that's saying something. Carnival Cruise Line ships homeport in 15 U.S. cities, and are widely considered a great drive-to option for that reason. When expansion of the Long Beach cruise terminal outside Los Angeles is complete in 2017, the current facilities will expand from around 66,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet, more than doubling its initial size. Carnival is the only cruise line that homeports in Long Beach.
Part of the issues with Long Beach in the past centered on the limitations of the port structure, which occupies a portion of a geodesic dome that once housed Howard Hughes' historic Spruce Goose plane.
"Our embarkation/debarkation operations in Long Beach were not as guest friendly and efficient as they could be based on the constraints imposed by space limitations with the geodesic dome," Jennifer de la Cruz, vice president of corporate communications for Carnival Cruise Line, told Cruise Critic. "We've had a desire for a long time to expand our footprint within the dome to enable the improvement of the guest experience and also allow us to bring larger ships into Long Beach."
Carnival currently has three ships homeported year-round in Long Beach (Miracle, Inspiration and Imagination); just over 12 percent of its fleet. With the addition of Carnival Splendor in 2018, the line will carry upward of 700,000 passengers annually from Long Beach on nearly 250 voyages ranging from three to 14 days in length. "The capacity increase via Carnival Splendor moving to Long Beach is based on strong demand for that program and the cruise terminal operational improvements we will gain from having full use of the geodesic dome," said de la Cruz.
If that wasn't enough of an investment, Carnival plans to improve infrastructure in order to welcome mega-ships down the line. "We are also expanding shore power capability to accommodate Carnival Splendor and potentially larger ships in the future," de la Cruz said.
4. The Mexican Riviera is on the rebound.
Once the reason why cruise ships were being pulled from California, the ports along the Mexican Riviera now have improved safety, desirability and demand.
Carnival's move to reposition Splendor in Long Beach, according to the line, comes from that demand. "Based on the particularly strong popularity of our weeklong Mexican Riviera cruises, we had a desire to increase capacity on that program," de la Cruz said. "As a result, we are moving Carnival Splendor to Long Beach in January 2018 to take over the weeklong Mexican Riviera cruises currently operated on Carnival Miracle. That will represent a capacity increase of 41 percent on that program."
(If a bigger ship on its own isn't convincing, Carrie Underwood will be performing as part of the line's Carnival Live! concert series on a Baja Mexico itinerary out of L.A.)
"The Mexico product is rebounding and it will continue to do so," Sanfield of the Port of Los Angeles said. "The climate in Mexico has improved and the ability for a large population to access warm water year-round contributes to a continued interest in our market."
Likewise, sailings to the Mexican Riviera make up most of the cruise itineraries departing from San Diego. "As tourism continues to grow in Mexico on both the land and water sides, the Port of San Diego can expect to see a positive effect on the number of Mexico sailings," said Elicone for the Port of San Diego.
5. Domestic destination interest is on the rise.
Apart from its stake in the Mexican Riviera (California cruising's bread and butter), the West Coast accommodates itineraries to Hawaii, Alaska and along the Pacific Coast -- all places that stay within the confines of the U.S. With international unease, particularly in Europe, American travelers are opting for vacations closer to home. California's cruise market serves them well, with sailings to the most exotic of the 50 states -- Alaska and Hawaii -- and scenic sweeps of the Golden State.
Princess Cruises offers a couple of Alaska cruises round trip from the Port of Los Angeles. Itinerary options that remain from San Francisco include Alaska, coastal California, Mexico and Hawaii, ranging in duration from a week to 15 days. California homeports also serve as ports of call for transcanal and world cruises.
It helps that the sunny cities by the sea draw large amounts of land-based tourists each year, providing built-in pre- and post-cruise options for cruisers who might have traveled to California to sail.
Adjacent to the Pier 27 Cruise Terminal in San Francisco, the Pier 29 Bulkhead Building is being developed as a retail facility "offering sales of arts and crafts, cultural and exhibit space, and food service," said Nerney for the Port of San Francisco.
Much like the construction to Carnival's facility, the Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro will look to expand its terminals "as the business warrants additional or expanded facilities," Sanfield said.
From Carnival in Long Beach to luxury lines like Regent or Seabourn, if they bring cruise ships, passengers will come.


John Marshall and the need for judicial transparency
David Adler
Whatever you think about the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial, 5-4 midnight ruling on the Texas statute forbidding most abortions in the state, one thing is clear: the Court bears, in the name of accountability, the great responsibility of explaining its reasoning to the American people.
The Court’s reliance on the “shadow docket,” a historic practice of ruling on emergency petitions, to uphold a novel law that greatly diminishes Roe v. Wade and converts every Texan into a law enforcement official, constituted a sharp departure from the usual process. The Court spent less than three days on the case. There was no oral argument. The opinion was unsigned and a mere paragraph long. Given the Court’s weighty impact on a constitutional battle that has been raging since at least 1973, when the Court held that women possess a fundamental right to obtain an abortion, the citizenry had every right to expect more transparency from the nation’s highest tribunal.
Justice Hugo Black was fond of reminding his colleagues of the Court’s duty to explain its reasoning in terms that average Americans could understand. “The Constitution was written for the people, not the government,” he often said. For Justice Black, this meant that the Court’s opinions sorting out the meaning of constitutional provisions and language should be clearly written in the name of transparency and accountability.
Justice Black’s view of the responsibility of the Court to explain its reasoning was shared by Chief Justice John Marshall, who served as Chief from 1801-1835, and is universally regarded by scholars as the greatest Chief Justice in American history. Marshall took this duty so seriously that, in response to what he regarded as stinging, but confused, criticism of his landmark opinion in 1819, in McCulloch v. Maryland, he picked up his pen and wrote a pseudonymous defense of it under the name, “A Friend to the Union”
in a series of op-ed pieces. He wrote these newspaper columns in the name of transparency and accountability.
McCulloch v. Maryland, one of the most important Supreme Court rulings in our history — for its treatment of fundamental constitutional principles and resolution of historic arguments about federalism, the scope of congressional authority and the exercise of judicial power in the interpretation of the Constitution — generated immediate and heated criticism. Suffice it to say that critics, including James Madison and Virginia’s leading Judge, Spencer Roane, thought Marshall’s opinion declared that Congress possessed authority to increase its constitutionally limited powers.
Chief Justice Marshall was alarmed by these criticisms, precisely because he believed nothing of the sort. Nor did he believe that his opinion for the Court had intimated any such conclusion. The point of his opinion was to state that Congress enjoyed considerable latitude in choosing the means by which it could exercise its enumerated powers, not that Congress could invent new powers for itself. In sum, no branch of government possessed authority to revise its constitutionally granted authority.
Marshall fretted. What could he do, given the Court’s institutional understanding that its opinions alone speak for the Court? But Marshall found the public confusion so disturbing, so threatening to the constitutional system and particularly harmful to the Court’s reputation, that he decided to engage in an extra-judicial measure by further explaining the Court’s reasoning in newspaper columns. These were the only newspaper replies in his storied judicial career.
Marshall’s pseudonymous newspaper explanations, so knowledgeable of the Court’s discussion of foundational constitutional issues, and so thorough in their explanations of the Court’s reasoning, inspired speculation about their author. Who could possibly know so much about the Court’s reasoning and conclusions? At the time, nobody guessed that it was none other than Chief Justice Marshall himself.
Indeed, nobody knew the identity of the author of the op-ed pieces signed under the name, “A Friend to the Union,” until Gerald Gunther, a renowned constitutional scholar then teaching in the Stanford Law School, stumbled upon them in 1967 while conducting research for his biography of the legendary federal judge, Learned Hand. While working through the collection of Hand’s papers, Gunther found Marshall’s essays sandwiched between some documents that had nothing to do with McCulloch v. Maryland. In 1968, Gunther published the essays in his book, “John Marshall’s Defense of McCulloch v. Maryland.”
For all of you who have ever experienced the great joy and surprise of finding a delightful book on the shelves of a library or in a bookstore, imagine Professor Gunther’s jubilation in finding Marshall’s op-ed pieces. Talk about a library coup!
Marshall’s extraordinary efforts to inform the public of the Court’s reasoning in McCulloch, to bring a halt to the misunderstanding of its rulings on fundamental constitutional issues, represents a fulfillment of the judicial duty, in the name of transparency and accountability, to explain its opinions to the American people.
Marshall’s extra-judicial elaboration of the Court’s reasoning, however, is not without criticism. After all, if individual members of the Court decide to comment on the Court’s opinions, perhaps bringing a different version of the Court’s legal conclusions than those printed on paper, the result might well be confusion. More than that, if Justices offer competing views of the Court’s reasoning, what happens to the meaning of the “authoritative” Supreme Court opinion? Indeed, what happens to the principle that the Court’s opinions speak for the Court? Those are issues for another time, but it is clear that the citizenry is better off with a full explanation of how and why the Court resolves the legal issues before it.


How to Make Money with Youtube
September 3, 2021 April 4, 2021 by Veneta Lusk
If you’re looking to make money with YouTube, you’re not alone. Each minute, YouTubers upload 400 hours of content. That’s the equivalent of more than 16 days worth of video added to the platform every minute.
YouTube is the second largest search engine on the planet, garnering more than a billion views daily.
For people looking to make money on the internet, YouTube offers an opportunity to connect their content with the right audience and cash in.
But how much money can you really make on YouTube?
The highest-paid YouTube star is a British gamer named Daniel Middleton who goes by the name DanTDM and makes a reported $16.5 million a year by posting videos of himself playing Minecraft.
While you may not be able to earn millions right off the bat, there are a few ways you can make money with YouTube.
5 Ways to Make Money with YouTube
1. Make Money From Ads as a YouTube Partner
2. Sell Products or Merchandise
3. Land Sponsorships for Your Channel
4. Work With Brands as an Influencer or Affiliate
5. License Your Content to the Media
Tips for Making Money on YouTube
Know Your Demographics
Get Targeted with Keywords
Create Other Avenues to Direct to Your Channel
Go Full-Time When You’re Ready
The good news about monetizing your YouTube channel is that your earning potential is not determined solely by the number of subscribers and views you have. It’s far more important to have an engaged audience in a targeted niche.
We talked about million-dollar video earner Daniel Middleton above, however, a more realistic but equally engaging YouTube success story is that of Ryan Scribner.
In October of 2016, Ryan started the Ryan Scribner YouTube channel
In less than a year, Ryan was able to quit his full-time job and focus solely on his YouTube channel and the blog he would eventually partner with it. Today he makes $6,000 a month from his YouTube channel alone.
Just like making money with blogging, you can earn revenue even with a small YouTube channel by creating multiple revenue streams. Finding the right audience and targeting them with the right type of content can skyrocket your earning potential.
If you have what it takes to build a big following and gain subscribers quickly, becoming a YouTube Partner will be an easy way to cash in on your content. As a partner, you’ll earn revenue from companies that place ads throughout your videos.
This is a relatively passive income generating method that relies on getting enough traffic to your channel.
To join the YouTube Partner Program, you’ll need 4,000 hours of watch time in a 12-month period and 1,000 subscribers. When you’re just getting started, it can take a while to build up a loyal viewership.
Once you have, the average rate for a YouTube content creator is $7.60 per 1,000 views. That means that if you have a video that receives 2,000 views, it’ll earn $15.20. For a video to make $1,000, it’d need to get more than 130,000 views.
Niche Matters
The amount of money you’ll make from your ads does vary by niche as well. Ryan says that some niches, such as personal finance, pay more than other niches–even with the same number of views.
Keep that in mind as you choose your niche and try and grow your channel.
As a YouTube ad partner, you’ll need to open an AdSense account so you can opt in to Google’s advertising network and get paid. Once you’ve met the requirements, the setup is easy.
However, this is far from the most lucrative way to earn money on this platform. YouTube can still refuse to show ads on your videos if they believe you don’t produce “advertiser-friendly” content.
In the past, the platform has been known to demonetize content without the knowledge of the content creator.
While creators now get notified when their content gets excluded from YouTube’s advertising network, this is still not the best revenue stream. The platform gets to keep a 45 percent share of ad revenue, leaving creators with 55 percent.
Fortunately, there are other ways you can leverage your channel to cash in, some of which don’t require a huge audience.
Selling products is a quick way to monetize your YouTube channel, even if you don’t have a large audience. There are a few different ways to go about doing this and making money in the process.
Some people sell physical products such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags, etc. that represent their online brand and personality.
You can commission affordable designs tailored specifically to the products you’re looking to sell through freelance sites such as Fiverr.
Another option is to sell digital products such as exercise routines, ebooks or online courses. You can direct customers to your website or an online store where they can purchase the products.
What you sell really depends on your niche and what resonates with your audience.
The big advantage of selling digital products is that you don’t need to worry about taking care of shipping and handling for the orders.
If you have a very targeted or niche audience that resonates with certain brands, getting a sponsorship deal may be a good way to cash in. This is where having an engaged audience can really pay off when trying to make money with YouTube.
Sponsors pay creators to promote or mention their products in their videos. This can be in the form of a lump sum, clicks on the company’s website, or on a per-view basis.
Keep in mind that sponsors will want to know where their products will be featured, for how long, in what context, and so on.
Ryan Scribner says that sponsorship opportunities will probably come your way automatically once your channel starts gaining serious success. However, he says it doesn’t hurt to approach companies you’re passionate about to inquire about potential sponsorship opportunities either.
Becoming a brand influencer or an affiliate is a great way to make money with YouTube, even without millions of views. Influencer marketing is gaining traction and many YouTube creators use this income stream to support their channel.
If your brand is a good fit for a company, you can negotiate a good deal with a brand to promote them in front of your audience. Mid-level influencers with 50,000 to 100,000 subscribers charge brands on average $500 to $1,000 per post.
However, it’s important to be transparent with your audience and only endorse products that you believe in and support.
Another option is to become an affiliate for select brands. You’ll make money through commissions from sales you generate from your channel. This works especially well if you review products on your channel.
Ryan says one key to his success regarding affiliate income is that he’s very transparent about the affiliate connection in his videos. He’ll mention the opportunity to get a product or service by clicking on a link in the description of his video.
Ryan says that he chooses transparency in this area for two reasons: First, he wants to be entirely honest with his viewers in order to build authentic relationships with them.
Second, he finds that if he tells people they can support him by clicking on affiliate links, they’re much more likely to buy through the links because of the human nature we all have to want to help others. Especially when those “others” are providing valuable information to viewers.
Did you upload a video of your dog howling “Merry Christmas” and it went viral? You can license your content in exchange for money to TV news outlets, morning shows, online news sites, and so on.
If your video goes viral, other content creators may reach out to you to use it as part of a compilation. Alternatively, you can also list your videos in a marketplace such as Jukin Media where they will be easier for the right people to find and purchase.
Just like with other platforms, as your following grows and you gain a loyal audience, you’ll have more options to monetize. Learning how to make money with YouTube takes trial and error.
It’s important to take the time to figure out what works and what doesn’t for your specific audience.
However, here are a few pointers that will accelerate your growth and make it easier to monetize your content.
Growing your audience on YouTube is extremely important. If you’ve got great content, you will find growing your audience easier. But Ryan suggests some other tips for growing your audience as well.
Ryan started growing his audience by reaching out to family, friends, and acquaintances and asking them to subscribe to his channel. After that, he created a Twitter account.
He’d post links to his videos on Twitter, and then he’d seek out followers of popular experts in his niche–personal finance.
He’d follow other experts’ followers, and then when they’d follow back, he’d send them a private message. Ryan would thank them for following him and share his YouTube channel link, asking them to subscribe.
Growth was slow at first. But eventually, his channel’s growth started to snowball. He had 100 subscribers after 7 weeks, 10,000 subscribers after six months and 100,000 subscribers after 14 months. Today he has over 400,000 subscribers.
Building a loyal audience who’s interested in your content puts you in a great position to monetize in a variety of ways. However, you need to understand the makeup of your audience so you can be very targeted in the content you create.
Advertisers are looking to reach a specific audience so the more niche your channel is, the better you’ll be able to make money down the road. Videos that appeal to someone in their 20s will likely not resonate with someone in their 50s.
Think about what the ideal person watching your videos looks like, wears, and does on a daily basis. Give them a name, face, profession, hobbies, etc.
This is your customer avatar, the person you’ll be targeting with your content. Identifying your avatar will help you monetize your channel faster and make it easier to create content that resonates with your viewers.
Since YouTube is a search engine, keep in mind that it relies on keywords to rank content just like Google does. Certain keywords are more valuable than others and demand a premium in terms of advertising dollars.
This is why it’s important to do your research and find keywords that are high in demand but lower in competition. Use keyword research tools like KeywordTool.io specifically targeted to YouTube to find the keywords in your niche that will resonate with your audience and are also valuable to advertisers.
The more valuable the keyword, the fewer views you’ll need to cash in on advertising dollars.
Eventually, Ryan started a blog called Investing Simple. He and his business partner started the blog to share powerful investing tips. Ryan also includes YouTube videos with many of his blog posts.
This technique helps drive traffic to his YouTube channel and thereby increase his income.
Ryan quit his job to focus on his YouTube business full-time in June of 2017, just eight months after he started. He was only making $1,000 on his channel at the time, however, he had some safety measures in place before he quit.
For instance, he had $10,000 in an emergency savings fund. And he made himself a promise: If he blew through $5,000 of his emergency fund, he’d go get a job to supplement his income while he continued working on growing his channel.
Ryan also worked hard to minimize expenses by living with his mom. He cut costs where he could and lived frugally as he worked to grow and market his channel.
Luckily, his hard work and smart planning paid off. Today, Ryan Scribner works about 15 hours a week on his YouTube channel and marketing it, and another five hours a week on his blog. And he makes several thousand dollars a month working part-time.
If you’re looking to make money with YouTube, don’t rely on advertising as your sole monetization strategy. Making money with a small channel is possible but it does require that you explore multiple earning opportunities.
Take the time to create quality, targeted content that speaks to your audience, and focus on building your brand.
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Veneta Lusk
Veneta Lusk is an award-winning writer with nearly 14 years of experience. She holds a BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Her expertise includes personal finance, making money, frugal living, saving money, and building a freelance career.
She has been featured in MSN, The Penny Hoarder, Debt.com and more.
She loves empowering people to get smart about their finances so they can live their dreams.


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Brands Bet Millions That Apple's iTunes Radio Scales Quickly
Apple's Device and OS Infrastructure Gives it Chance to Be the Biggest
By John McDermott. Published on September 18, 2013.
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Like any new service, iTunes Radio will have zero users when it launches on Wednesday. More important, one of the key platforms for Apple's highly-anticipated streaming music service, the iOS 7 mobile platform necessary to run iTunes Radio on iPhones and iPads, is also being released for the first time today.
But that doesn't seem to concern advertisers.
Several big brands have shelled out upwards of $10 million to be iTunes Radio launch partners, a large bet that iTunes Radio will quickly become a force in the already crowded Internet radio industry.
"We've worked with all of them," said Frank Cooper, PepsiCo's CMO for global consumer engagement, "We looked at the the devices Apple has and the number of subscribers that they have overall on iTunes. Just in terms of infrastructure, we think they have the chance to be the biggest."
Apple's iTunes has already been receiving more Internet traffic than most streaming music services, and that was without its new radio product. iTunes received 26.6 million unique U.S. visitors in July 2013, more than streaming music providers Spotify (20.19 million), Rdio (4 million) and Rhapsody (2.89 million), according to comScore. iTunes has the advantage of coming preloaded on all Apple products and being available for free download on Windows as well.
Mr. Cooper thinks iTunes will be so popular that he helped make Pepsi one of the handful of brands to advertise on the service shortly after it launches. Other marketers in on the launch include Macy's, McDonald's, Nissan and Procter & Gamble. Each brand will be the exclusive advertiser on iTunes Radio within its respective category through the end of 2013. Pepsi will be the only brand with a branded radio station at launch.
The nature of iTunes Radio -- serving songs (and ads) to users based upon their listening habits rather than allowing them to play songs on demand -- makes Pandora its closest competitor. At the moment, Pandora is by far the industry leader in streaming music with nearly 65 million uniques in July alone, per comScore.
Tony Giannini, senior VP-media strategy and marketing effectiveness at Macy's, said he will continue buying ads on Pandora despite Macy's being an iTunes Radio launch partner.
"Audio has for us always done very, very well. It's something we use to support most if not all of our campaigns," he said.
Pandora's main advantage over its competition is its mobile presence. Eighty percent of people who visited Pandora in July 2013 did so from a mobile device, according to comScore. Apple will compete by making iTunes Radio built into all iPhones, iPods and iPads that run iOS 7, Apple's latest iteration of its mobile operating system.
Phil O'Connor, Nissan's senior manager of media, said he plans to use iTunes Radio's location-targeting capabilities for Nissan's traveling Heisman House campaign. The installation goes to a different college football stadium each week, so Mr. O'Connor plans to serve ads to iTunes Radio users near its weekly location.
Targeting only matters if there is a substantial user base, and in order for this to happen, Apple needs its users to upgrade their software. Apple has a good track of record of getting its mobile users to update to subsequent OSs. When Apple CEO Tim Cook announced iOS 7 this summer, he said 93% of Apple mobile users were using iOS 6, the latest version at the time.
Disregarding iTunes Radio's scale, launch partners still stand to benefit from being associated with a high-profile Apple product.
"We'd never shy away from the positive PR of an Apple launch, but we've found that those things fade out," Mr. Cooper said. "What's left is the substantive aspects of that partnership."
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story, Tony Giannini's name was spelled incorrectly.
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Britain’s walking hero, Captain Tom, awarded knighthood by the queen
Capt. Tom Moore became a national hero in Britain after raising more than $40 million for the National Health Service ahead of his 100th birthday in April. (Reuters)
By Jennifer Hassan
LONDON — Capt. Tom Moore, the beloved British war veteran who walked the length of his garden 100 times to raise money ahead of his 100th birthday in April, has received a knighthood for his fundraising initiative, which brought in about $40 million for Britain’s National Health Service charities.
Last month, more than half a million people signed a petition asking for Moore to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts. Now, it appears their wish has been granted.
Reacting to news he was to be knighted on Wednesday, Moore, who served in India during World War II, told BBC Breakfast it was an “outstanding honor” and said he was “delighted.” On social media, many used the hashtag #SirCaptainTomMoore to celebrate his new title and achievement.
Widely hailed as a “legend,” Moore has become a national and international treasure in recent weeks, with many branding him Britain’s light amid the darkness of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has so far claimed at least 35,000 lives in the United Kingdom.
On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said of Moore: “You have inspired us all with your fantastic fundraising efforts. On behalf of the whole country, I want to say a huge thank you.”
Moore’s rise to fame began in April, when he set out to raise £1,000 (nearly $1,250) for the health service and its staff during the health crisis by walking the 82-foot length of his garden back and forth 100 times, using his walker for support. He sought to complete the laps ahead of his birthday on April 30.
But just 24 hours after Moore started, he had shattered his target, raising the equivalent of $8,750. From then on, donations poured in from all corners of the world, even causing his online fundraising page to crash repeatedly. Moore continued to increase his goal and vowed to keep walking.
Moore completed his final lap two weeks ahead of schedule, as the figure hit $15 million. On April 30, his fundraising page closed, with the final total at a staggering £32,796,510 ($40 million) pledged from more than 1 million donors worldwide.
The veteran’s life and achievements were widely celebrated on his milestone 100th birthday last month with a flyby above his home in Bedfordshire, 50 miles north of London, and an honorary promotion from captain to colonel as tributes around the world flooded in.
Celebrities including champion boxer Anthony Joshua and racecar driver Lewis Hamilton have praised his actions, while Britain’s royals have also hailed his story as “incredible.”
Prince William, who is second in line to the British throne after his father, Prince Charles, called Moore a “one-man fundraising machine.”
“Arise #SirTomMoore! Congratulations to @captaintommoore, on being knighted following his fundraising efforts for #NHS Charities,” the British Army tweeted Wednesday along with many others who took to social media to congratulate the 100-year-old.
Capt. Tom’s 100th birthday: 150,000 cards, a promotion and a fundraiser worth $39 million
“I really do thank you from the bottom of my heart,” Moore said Wednesday in a message to those who have supported his journey.
On Wednesday morning, many of Britain’s tabloid newspapers ran photos of Moore on their front pages.
“Arise Sir Tom,” read the cover of the Telegraph, as The Sun declared him a “hero.”


Phil Cooper
Our friend Phil is a contemporary singer/songwriter who has earned excellent reviews from the national press, with his thought provoking songwriting and energetic live performances drawing comparisons to Neil Finn, Glenn Tilbrook and Ben Folds. He is also a member of the folk trio “The Lost Trades” who have been making a noise on that scene recently.
During his solo shows, he makes a real connection with the crowd, whether it’s handing out dozens of egg shakers, or passing around his “doodle book” for the audience to draw in. Every now and then you’ll catch him unplugging his guitar and shunning the stage to stand right in among the captivated audience.
Phil has three albums on CD or download available via the Infinite Hive Shop: “Things I’ll Never Say“, “Thoughts & Observations“, which is also on 12″ vinyl, and the new, darker, edgier more rock-based album “These Revelation Games” which we published for him during the lockdown period of 2020.
Check out his videos for “House of Mirrors” and “Over My Head” on YouTube, to give you a taste of what to expect.
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A Review Of “THE Trouble With Hillary Clinton’s Free Tuition Plan”
BackgroundKevin Carey’s “The Trouble with Hillary Clinton’s Free Tuition Plan” appeared in the New York Times on July 19, 2016. Carey’s writing on this subject is significant because he serves as the director or the Education Policy Program at the influential New America Think Tank. Carey’s writing is also worth reading, because he has lectured on education policy at Johns Hopkins University and was the Assistant State Budget Director for Education in Indiana.
"A Review Of “THE Trouble With Hillary Clinton’s Free Tuition Plan”"
In this article, Carey addresses the feasibility of creating a free tuition system in America. This subject is particularly important because Hillary Clinton, one of the two major contenders for United States president has proposed making tuition free for students whose parents earn less than $125,000 a year. This could affect the country’s budget, debt and rates of taxation. It also has the potential to affect the worth of college degrees and the finances of different states. Because making college tuition free has the potential to affect the well-being of every American, it is important for Americans to understand how feasible such a program is and how it might change their lives.
Carey argues that Clinton’s plan for free tuition s infeasible. He suggests that if Clinton were to present a plan that would allow students to send their bills to government for it to pay that colleges would bump up their tuition rates. This, he says, could create an unsustainable financial burden on the country. He also suggests that if Clinton were to promise to subsidize tuition only at the current prices, she would penalize states which had provided for the most education spending and reward states which spent too little on education. He argues that if Clinton were to implement a plan which would provide the same subsidy to each student based on a formula which would take into account income, poverty levels in certain areas that certain states would still have difficulties charging $0 for tuition and would force states that have often been reluctant to raise taxes to have to raise them in order to subsidize tuition enough to make it free. This would, he says, cause some states to opt out of the program.
Carey suggests that instead of trying to create an entirely free college system that Clinton should return to the policies that she supported before the election. These policies, he says, would allow states to administer grants to colleges which reduce their tuition costs, so that students could pay for their educations without assuming debt.
Carey speaks in plain language and does not define any keywords or technical terms. His presentation of the topic is even-handed. While he finds Clinton’s plan unfeasible, he does not attack her personally. Instead, he suggests that some of the plans she supported in the past would work well. He points out the specific flaws in Clinton’s proposal and offers an alternative. His information seems sound. He points out the differences in tuition costs in Wyoming, New Hampshire and Alaska and explains why these differences would matter if the government were to subsidize each equally.
This article has many strengths. Carey explains the possible problems which could arise if Clinton were to create a free tuition system. He makes these problems easy to understand and his information seems credible, as he speaks from his own knowledge and experience in the world of education policy. He does not seem particularly biased. His organization is non-partisan and non-profit. He offers Clinton praise as well as criticism. Yet he does omit some information which would be useful. He does not, for instance, explain that the problem with Clinton’s plan is that driving tuition costs higher might adversely affect the very people it was designed to help. Taxpayers would have to foot the bill when universities raised the cost of tuition in response to government subsidies. This would mean higher taxation for some and could mean lower wages or lost jobs for others as employers, taxed more, looked for ways to cut their costs. Carey does not mention these things.
Nevertheless, Carey’s article is largely unbiased, lacks distortion and is not at all sensational. It is far less biased than many of the other articles that have been written on the same topic. For instance, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, declared unequivocally that “Making college ‘free’ will only make it worse.” Jacoby denounced the idea of free tuition as a fantasy akin to a belief in Santa Clause or time travel. Other writers, like NBC’s Martha C. White emphasized the fact that two-thirds of Americans have a favorable opinion of free tuition, but largely ignored the problems with costs and sustainability Carey mentions. Some articles contradicted Carey’s claim of infeasibility. They suggested that schools could opt into the tuition free system, but could continue to raise extra money though out-of-state premiums or by charging more for room and board. The fact that Carey provides both praise and criticism for the program – and that he explains why he believes that Clinton’s program would not work – makes his article more useful than many other articles, which simply aim to criticize or support Clinton as a candidate. The most impressive aspect of Carey’s article is its simplicity. Carey’s straightforward language makes it very easy to follow his arguments and to understand the complexities of creating a free tuition system. Although I originally found the idea of free college tuition attractive, I had not realized that schools might be tempted to raise their tuition prices exorbitantly in response and could make such a system hard for the economy to support.
Carey’s simple, straightforward language, along with his relative lack of bias and his ability to explain both the pros and cons of ideas in a rational manner make his observations about Clinton’s tuition-free college plan well worth reading. His reliance on facts rather than personal attacks or idol worship make his article far more useful than many of the partisan articles written on the same subject.
Jacoby, J. (2016, July 13). Making college ‘free’ will only make it worse. Retrieved from Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/12/making-college-free-will-only-make-worse/YVonfawas70nG1CPZy8ctJ/story.html
Kamanetz, A. (2016, July 28). Clinton’s Free-Tuition Promise: What Would It Cost? How Would It Work? Retrieved from NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/28/487794394/hillary-s-free-tuition-promise-what-would-it-cost-how-would-it-work
New America. (2016, June). Kevin Carey: Director, Education Policy Program. Retrieved from New America: https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/kevin-carey/
White, M. C. (2016, August 1). Two-Thirds of Americans Support Free College Tuition. Retrieved from NBC: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/two-thirds-americans-support-free-college-tuition-n620856
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UK band HURTS submit song to Russian broadcaster
After the BBC’s recent announcements on the United Kingdom’s entrant at Eurovision 2011, British band “HURTS”, have instead submitted a song to the Russian broadcaster C1R, for the opportunity to represent the country at Eurovision 2011. According to a tweet made by the duo’s singer, Theo Hutchcraft, the band “have decided to submit our song to the good, good people of Russia.”
The band are known to be fans of the contest, and attended the final of the 2010 contest in Oslo. They have also expressed in the past in interviews that they would like to be given the chance to take part in the contest; although not mentioning whether they would go for their home country (the UK), or not. However, the comment may be a backlash against the group “Blue” who were recently chosen to represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2011.
HURTS is a duo that consist of vocalist Theo Hutchcraft and synth player Adam Anderson. The group originates from Manchester, England and was formed in 2009. They have released their debut album “Happiness” throughout Europe at the end of August 2010, and have released three singles in the UK. However, the group has received significantly more success on mainland Europe as opposed to in the United Kingdom, being part of Russian airplay charts for 41 weeks now, with the song “Wonderful Life” (peaking at #4). They have recently completed a string of concerts in Russia, and have returned to England for a set of concerts over the next week.
It is still unknown how Eurovision 2009 host broadcaster C1R will select their entrant for the 2011 contest – whether it be by a national final or an internally selected artist. ESCDaily will hopefully be able to give more information about this in the next few days.
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Jason Priestly and Cindy Sampson team up as a pair of private investigators in Canadian drama Private Eyes. Michael Pickard tracks them down.
They’ve teamed up to play a pair of private investigators who carry out covert operations at the request of their clients.
But when DQ finds Jason Priestly and Cindy Sampson sitting together on a beachside sofa in Cannes, they’re anything but undercover. Laughing loudly at each other’s jokes, they’re supremely at ease and riotously enjoying one another’s company – a quality that also comes across on camera in the early teaser trailers for their new crime drama Private Eyes.
The series follows ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade (Priestly) who partners with PI Angie Everett (Sampson) to form an unlikely duo.
On the ice, Shade learned how to hustle, read people and anticipate their moves. Working with Angie, he’s found a new home where his skills still matter. Meanwhile, Everett – straightforward and clever – has taken over her father’s PI business after his death and strives to keep his legacy alive.
The show sees Priestly’s ex-pro hockey player partner with PI Angie Everett, played by Sampson
“He’s the flashy ex-hockey player with the celebrity status,” Sampson explains. “Angie doesn’t suffer fools, she has no time for that and is a workaholic so there’s some friction in the beginning but eventually she opens up her life and her business and they become partners by the end of the first season.”
Traditional crime procedurals – from which Private Eyes takes its cue – have fallen out of favour in the US over recent years as serialised stories have taken priority for broadcast and cable networks and streaming platforms. But Priestley believes there’s still a place for case-of-the-week series, with demand for episodic content particularly high across Europe.
“Detective shows have been around for a long time and people always seem to respond well to them,” he says. “We grew up on a steady diet of shows like Moonlighting and Heart to Heart (both of which feature male and female co-leads) and this show is a homage to programmes like that – just with a much more modern storytelling technique.”
Priestly needs no introduction. Growing up on camera in various bit-part roles, he shot to fame as Brandon Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 – the Aaron Spelling-produced soap that ran on Fox for 10 seasons until 2000. More recent credits include Canadian comedy Call Me Fitz and a recurring role on Syfy’s Haven, among numerous cameo appearances in shows produced on both sides of the US/Canada border.
“I was attached to the show from the very beginning of the development process,” Priestly says of Private Eyes, which launches on Global TV today. “I was involved right from the get-go and it’s been about three years. We had an exhaustive search to find our Angie and luckily we found Cindy in Toronto. We looked everywhere – New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver; we looked everywhere and found Cindy in Toronto, which was very lucky for us. We clicked right away.”
Sampson, who came onboard in August 2015, continues: “I did a screen test, a chemistry test, so I read with (Priestly) in a room of 40 people. We had a good laugh and then it all happened really quickly. We went into fittings and started shooting in the middle of September. We wrapped 10 episodes in February.
Jason Priestly is best known for his long stint on Beverly Hills, 90210
“There are a lot of lines to learn. We did a lot of talking! And being in every scene… It was amazing though. We had so much fun doing it. It didn’t feel like work.”
The pair didn’t know each other before partnering for Private Eyes but Sampson – whose credits include Rookie Blue, Supernatural and Rogue – says they instantly connected through their shared sense of humour.
“That helps when you spend 24 hours a day with someone for six months,” she says. “It really helps when you have to eat three meals a day with the same person. We hear that other people don’t get along so well but we’ve been pretty fortunate. We had a good time. So many times you work on projects and the finished result is great but the experience maybe wasn’t great.”
Priestly adds: “We’ve been having a really good time and hopefully it comes through in the show and people enjoy watching it.”
The 10-episode season, produced and distributed by Entertainment One, has been written by showrunners Shelley Eriksen (Continuum) and Alan McCullough (Rookie Blue), who gave their stars plenty of room to embody their characters beyond the lines on the script.
“We had quite a bit of latitude (with the characters), which is good because things would change on a daily basis,” Priestly reveals. “Things would evolve while we were shooting, so it was exciting. A lot of those changes came out of the fact that everyone was always working to make the show better.”
Sampson adds: “And once we got into the groove of our characters, things were evolving because of that too. It was like a living, breathing thing.”
The production wasn’t without its challenges, however, and both Sampson and Priestly recall one particularly cold day shooting on board a ferry.
Cindy Sampson says she and Priestly hit it off from the start
“The day on the ferry was coldest I have been in my entire life,” Sampson says. “There were tears rolling down our faces and we’re trying to pretend it’s a nice fall day. There were tears non-stop!”
Priestly adds: “We shot an episode on Toronto Island – it’s not a place many people go or know about. It’s a beautiful island just in Lake Ontario and you have to take a ferry to get there (from the main city of Toronto). They shut down the ferry in the winter, and we were on it on the last day it was in operation before winter. And there’s a reason they shut it down – because it’s so fucking cold. It was the coldest I’ve been in a long time.”
Priestly now splits his time in front of and behind the camera, having first climbed into the director’s chair more than 20 years ago for episodes of 90210. More recently, he’s helmed episodes of medical drama Saving Hope and forthcoming horror Van Helsing – and he says the new opportunities that emerging streaming services provide mean it’s an exciting time to be working in television.
“There’s been a lot of qualitative improvements in television, certainly since I started my career in the 1980s, like the way we shoot television now,” he notes. “When I started, we shot on film. Film is dead. The way we light television now is different. We use LED lights as opposed to the old acetylene lights.
“The technology has impacted the way we do it in myriad ways. But also the fact the special effects are so readily available now. The use of green screens and the things you can do without green screens, the opportunities to be creative are so much greater now than they were even 10 years ago. The landscape has evolved and continues to evolve every day.”
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Former WWE Writer Matt Mazany Reflects On Trying To Change WWE Culture From The Inside Out
A former WWE screenwriter reflects on his time in the business, including a firsthand account of Vince McMahon ripping a script in two.
Being a WWE writer is a job that can be kind of a revolving door. Bringing together TV creation, character storytelling, and the occasional TV script, writing for WWE is a job that takes a lot of flexibility and patience.
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Matt Mazany was a WWE writer in the second half of the past decade. Now he talks about his experience, the good and the bad, in a new appearance on Reconcile the Aisle on Radio Misfits.
Matt recalls a time when Vince McMahon ripped a script in half at 11 a.m. on a Monday Night Raw and recounts how he tried to change the culture of WWE slightly while he was there – low.
“Oh, that was a weird, fun, wild, miserable, cool, crazy, intense time in my life. It was great. It was a great experience. I’m glad I did. It was like a childhood dreamer type thing. But, my boy, the reality of this place is very wild. There are a lot of stories about it. They are all half true. It was fun, man. It’s cool,” Matt said. “You’re there to sort of control the show, because it’s three hours of TV on Monday, it’s two hours of TV on Friday, it’s one hour of TV on Wednesday. So you file, and then there are other specials like pay-per-view. So at any given time you are doing about seven to ten hours of television. So you just have to write the script of the long-term scenarios that go from month to month, the short-term scenarios that go from the start of the series to the end of this series. But the only thing is when they get in the ring, it’s the wrestlers, it’s their performances, they have producers there to help work with the camera team. But it’s a whole, it’s a huge, huge undertaking. You just need a lot of people to get everything in order. Otherwise, you know, these shows go to chaos, because it’s live too. It’s a live broadcast.
“We had scripts there and you know, Vince McMahon is kind of an interesting guy. We had 8pm, the show goes live on TV, a three hour show, and I saw it. The 11 o “Clock production meeting, just tear the script in half and say,” Oh we have to start over, guys, my God “and you just gotta start, you just gotta go and you just have to find a new show and write it and put it together. So it’s a crazy time, but it’s a lot of good. If there weren’t any good people there, this would never be done. There are a lot of good people who bring it all together. “
Speaking of the corporate culture, Matt would say there were times when working for WWE caused internal turmoil in him, but ultimately he felt he had better be there to try. to change the culture from within.
“It is happening there, there is a culture there that has in some ways improved, in some ways has never changed. But there is a culture there that looks a bit like the bullying and that has happened before there. Personally, I haven’t encountered too many of them, some but not in a different way than others. So I can only speak from my experience. In the scenarios, you kind of have to run into that stuff. The only thing about the storylines in wrestling is there’s, you know, a lot of archetypes and you just think that this person is bad. person is good Sometimes the reasons why someone is bad or why someone is good maybe a little out of date.
He continued, “So those old school ideas like what makes a bad guy bad are still around so I mean there were times out there where I had to go like you know” Hey that’s the reason they are laughing at you do you know that person is because they are, you know a tall person is or is it because they are bad? You’ve got to kind of play the motives of Moses over there. I think wrestling is basically – at its best, wrestling is kind of a moral game-building. So you want to make sure that the bad guys are bad for the right reasons and the good ones are good for the right reasons.
“There was enough space where I could get the things I wanted to do and I didn’t have to be on top of the things I didn’t want to do that way. There were other writers who were fine with the writing if the storylines were so. But I think it’s worth talking about. Because like, that’s the only way cultures change in these places. I think like, you kind of got to do it, and it’s hard to do, because it’s like, there was a time when I was there, that was when Charlottesville happened and there was nothing in the room that we were doing anything that or anything like that against. But it was just the fact that I knew Vince McMahon had given Donald Trump about $ 6 million, personal money, at the time. All of these things tied together. I said, “Should I even work for this company?” »Do I feel good working for this company? I told my partner about it at the time. She told me it was like, “Yeah, it’s bad that you’re with this business, but it’s probably better that you’re in the business so you can influence how certain things have turned out. ”
“I did my best to watch out for the fat-shaming in the gym, because that’s something that in wrestling culture Vince grows up like, guys have amazing bodies, right? they’re all in amazing shape. But every once in a while you’ll have an athlete who just happens to be a bit portly, but they’re still amazing athletes. But then one of the things they have like, Oh he eat a sandwich all the time or something. So I could do influences in that by trying to push things a certain way. But it’s hard because nobody likes being the squeaky wheel. No one likes to stand out that way. But I tried to do that. There was a story someone told me after the fact, where someone was saying things they shouldn’t have said. whatever it was, and me and I jumped in and started tearing them up for it. Then they told this story . I was like, ‘I forgot I did this.’ But I was glad I did. I was like, okay, fine. I’m glad I got up at times and said the right things.
These days, Matt Mazany continues his involvement in the wrestling industry with his Get It Again podcast, taking an exclusive look at WCW Thunder with former Raw and NXT writer Stephen Loh. You can view the podcast here.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2019: Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman – Look away (Finland)
Finland in Tel Aviv will be represented by Darude and Sebastian Rejman, whose performance of the song “Look away” won the national competion UMK19.
Darude is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Finland. His first single “Sandstorm”, released in 1999, was an instant success. Another well-known single is “Feel the beat”, which reached number one on the singles charts in Finland for 2 weeks and number five on the UK singles chart.
Both tracks were included in Darude’s debut album “Before the storm” in 2000.
A few years later, the techno artist released his second album “Rush” followed by “Label this!” (2007) and “Moments” (2015).
Darude is not the only one we will see on stage. He will bring his friend Sebastian Rejman, a Finnish singer, actor, and television host.
Rejman is known as singer and guitarist of the band The Giant Leap.
Written by the artists themselves, “Look away” is a catchy dance track. The music video was directed by Jaakko Manninen, who also directed the previous two music videos for UMK19 competing songs “Release me” and “Superman”.
There is something you should know
I can’t sing a love song anymore
There’s something going on
And I can’t turn my back on it anymore
How can we go to sleep at night
And lay there in our beds?
When we know what’s going on
With the world today
Is it in my head?
Am I the only one?
When the war has just began
We look away, look away, look away, look away
Look away, look away, look away, look away
Look away, look away, no
There’s something in the air at night
That feels so different
And I don’t understand
I didn’t see this one coming
Am I the only the one?
Look away, look away, look away, look away, no
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