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I can think of a situation or two in which it is your civic duty to send something back. If you truly believe you've discovered a threat to the public health, then alert the staff as discreetly as possible. |
My experience at tables where I'm not reviewing is that food is usually sent back by nitpickers who are disappointed with their own choice, or scammers who hope to have their bill automatically reduced by a preemptive complaint. And this is the light in which most restaurant staff sees the complaint, because they belie... |
Badly prepared food is the best reason I can think of to never visit a restaurant again. It's not your duty to rehabilitate the place, or offer free advice. As I tell my guests, I get my revenge in print. |
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Samuel L. Jackson |
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One of the busiest performers in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson's prolific list of credits reflected a career born out of turbulent life experiences and shaped by theater and cinema, ultimately making him one of America's leading actors. An active participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Jackson redirected ... |
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Samuel Leroy Jackson on December 21, 1948 in United States |
One of the busiest performers in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson's prolific list of credits reflected a career born out of turbulent life experiences and shaped by theater and cinema, ultimately making him one of America's leading actors. An active participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Jackson redirected ... |
Born in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 21, 1948, Samuel Leroy Jackson grew up in segregated Chattanooga, TN. The only child of a former factory worker-turned-state institutional supply buyer Elizabeth Jackson, young Sam grew up estranged from his father. Raised collectively by his mother, her sister and his maternal grandpar... |
In the late 1980s, Jackson's impressive turn in playwright Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece "A Soldier's Play" so impressed Spike Lee, that the film auteur eventually cast Jackson in a bit part as a local yokel in "School Daze" (1988). The collaboration proved so successful, that Lee enlisted Jackson... |
Jackson nearly got a chance to work with his wife, actress LaTanya Richardson, for the first time onscreen in Lee's epic biopic, "Malcolm X" (1992), but reportedly balked at the director's request that he work for scale. Instead, Jackson rode his triumph as Gator to a torrent of small roles in a rapid succession of tit... |
Hedging his bets, the workaholic actor appeared in at least three other films in 1994 including "The New Age" and "Fresh" and also appeared in the high-minded made-for-cable movies "Assault at West Point" (Showtime, 1994) and "Against the Wall" (HBO, 1994). Jackson's choice of roles post-"Pulp Fiction" yielded mixed cr... |
The Jackson juggernaut pressed on at full throttle with starring roles in three 1997 movies. As Trevor Garfield, the dedicated teacher driven over the edge into violence in "187" - cop speak for a homicide - he found himself in a vehicle that for all its good intentions, was little more than "Death Wish" visits the pub... |
In 1998, Jackson shared the spotlight with Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone, playing a brainy mathematician in Barry Levinson's lackluster sci-fi thriller "Sphere." He next appeared as a violin expert in "The Red Violin," an absorbing tale involving the centuries-long travels of a violin made by a 17th century violin ma... |
In 2002, Jackson was at a high-water mark, willing to tackle a variety of challenging roles, both large and small. As a leading man, he co-starred with Ben Affleck in the effective sociological thriller "Changing Lanes," in which he turned in a nuanced, commanding performance as recovering alcoholic Doyle Gipson, fight... |
In the lackluster military potboiler "Basic" (2003), Jackson employed his hard-as-nails persona to play a feared, often hated Special Forces sergeant, who mysteriously disappears along with the team of Army Rangers he commands during a training exercise during a hurricane in the jungles of Panama. Spinning that persona... |
Jackson kicked of 2005 with "Coach Carter," playing a familiar onscreen archetype - the inspirational coach who helps his students achieve - playing the controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999. Despite its seemingly clich... |
Jackson's next vehicle was the hackneyed, derivative action/buddy flick, "The Man" (2005), which attempted to drive laughs by pairing Jackson's hard-edged cop with an awkward dentist (Eugene Levy) drawn into a crime scheme. He next starred opposite Julianne Moore in Joe Roth's "Freedomland" (2006), a crime drama that d... |
Jackson continued to work on film after film, as had been his wont over the years. Also in 2006, he starred in "Home of the Brave," a drama about three soldiers trying to readjust to civilian life after a lengthy tour in the second Iraq war; "Farce of the Penguins," a mockumentary inspired by the award-winning document... |
It was a busy year for Jackson, who also appeared as one-half of the toughest police duo in Manhattan - his partner being Dwayne Johnson - in the action comedy "The Other Guys" (2010), starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as the eponymous second-stringers. That same year, Jackson turned in yet another performance th... |
Continuing to balance blockbusters with micro-budget projects, Jackson next played an ex-con reluctantly forced into the role of hero in the indie feature "The Samaritan" (2012). And after recruiting an unlikely team of superheroes over the course of numerous cameo appearances, Nick Fury was at last ready to assume lea... |
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The Whiteboys (Irish: Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which used violent tactics to defend tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming. Their name derives from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids, but the Whiteboys were usually referred to at... |
First outbreak, 1761–63[edit] |
The first major outbreak occurred in County Limerick in November 1761 and quickly spread to counties Tipperary, Cork, and Waterford. A great deal of organisation and planning seems to have been put into the outbreak, including the holding of regular assemblies. Initial activities were limited to specific grievances and... |
March 1762 saw a further escalation of Whiteboy activities, with marches to "disaffected and treasonable tunes"[citation needed] about the countryside, entering towns at night to fire guns and taunt garrisoned troops. At Cappoquin they fired guns and marched by the military barracks playing the Jacobite tune "The lad w... |
Reaction of the authorities[edit] |
Whiteboy disturbances had occurred prior to 1761 but were largely restricted to isolated areas and local grievances, so that the response of local authorities had been limited, either through passive sympathy or, more likely, because of the exposed nature of their position in the largely Roman Catholic countryside. The... |
On 2 April 1761 a force of 50 militia men and 40 soldiers set out for Tallow, "where they took (mostly in their beds) eleven Levellers, against whom Information on Oath was given." Other raids took 17 Whiteboys west of Fruff, in County Limerick and by mid April at least 150 suspected Whiteboys had been arrested. Cloghe... |
In the cities, suspected Whiteboy sympathisers were arrested and in Cork loyal citizens formed an association of about 2,000 strong which offered rewards of £300 for capture of the chief Whiteboy and £50 for the first five sub-chiefs arrested and often accompanied the military on their rampages. The leading Catholics i... |
However, Lord Halifax was soon expressing concern that the repression was going too far: "so many People are directly or indirectly concerned in these illegal Practices and so many have been seized on Information or Suspicion, that in several Places, the Majority of the Inhabitants have been struck with the utmost Cons... |
Later history[edit] |
In Thomas Flanagan's novel The Year of the French, the "Whiteboys of Killala" are referenced many times. Many of the Whiteboys are central characters within the story. Led by Malachi Duggan, the Whiteboys attempt to reverse their oppressed state through guerrilla acts in County Mayo. Following the landing of a French f... |
• Kenney, Kevin (1998). Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-19-511631-3. |
• Richardson, W. Augustus (1979). "Levellers in their White Uniforms;" Whiteboyism in southern Ireland, 1760–1790. University of Essex, MA Thesis Social History. p. 151. |
1. ^ Flanagan, Thomas. The Year of the French |
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how can I get a mysteriy gift in platinum? |
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VS your answer is a little wrong its different for platinum |
To get the Mystery Gift in Pokemon Platinum, follow these steps: |
1. Go to the Jubilife TV Station in Jubilife City |
2. Go to the 3rd floor. |
3. Talk to the man in the lower room (the guy on the left) |
4. The first two words you tell him are "everyone" and "happy" |
5. The second two words you tell him are "Wi-Fi" and "Connection." |
6. Finally, you will be able to access Mystery Gift in the Main Menu. |
At Jubilife TV, there is a man that will ask for your opinion on tv. For the first 2 words, say EVERYONE and HAPPY. For the last 2 words, say WIFI and CONNECTION. |
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Tribune bondholders sue over 2007 buyout |
— Bondholders in the Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case are suing the banks that financed the media company's 2007 leveraged buyout, claiming they knew that the resulting debt load would leave Tribune insolvent. |
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington by Wilmington Trust Co., agent for holders of $1.2 billion in bonds sold by the company before real estate mogul Sam Zell led Tribune's $8.2 billion buyout. |
The bondholders argue that the deal was fraudulent because it loaded up the company with too much new debt that was used to cash out Tribune stockholders. They want a bankruptcy judge overseeing Tribune's Chapter 11 case to reject the banks' secured claims, or at least have them paid only after the bondholders' unsecur... |
Defendants in the lawsuit include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and its Merrill Lynch subsidiary, the lead banks involved in the leveraged buyout, or LBO. Representatives of Tribune and the banks declined to comment Friday. |
Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The (Baltimore) Sun and other dailies, along with 23 TV stations, filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2008. It cited dwindling advertising revenues and a debt load of $13 billion, much of which was amassed when Zell took the Chicago-based company priva... |
The 2007 buyout also led to a separate federal lawsuit in Illinois. Former Tribune employees claim that Zell, other Tribune officials and the trustee of an employee stock ownership plan that was the vehicle for the buyout breached their fiduciary duties. The plaintiffs are seeking to recover losses to the ESOP stemming... |
Wilmington Trust's lawsuit, filed late Thursday, came six months after the bondholders asked Judge Kevin Carey for authorization to investigate the buyout, which they said pushed Tribune into insolvency without giving it "equivalent value" in return for taking on the debt. |
"Neither Tribune, its creditors nor the guarantors benefited from incurring the LBO debt," the bondholders said in their 56-page lawsuit, which was submitted under seal and heavily redacted. |
The lawsuit claims that in addition to more than $8 billion in loans used to buy out Tribune shareholders, an additional $2.8 billion in loans was used to refinance Tribune's existing bank debt at a higher interest rate. Much of that existing debt was held by JPMorgan and the other LBO lenders, the lawsuit said, and an... |
"Motives of self-interest and greed led the lead banks to press ahead with the LBO notwithstanding that their own analysis led the lead banks to conclude that there was a significant risk of Tribune not being able to shoulder the debts incurred in the LBO and therefore not being able to avoid bankruptcy," the lawsuit a... |
In addition to trying to disallow the claims of the lenders, the bondholders allege that Citibank, which was trustee under the bond indenture, breached its fiduciary duty, aided and abetted by the banks and other financial firms. |
Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nokia Lumia 900 is a fair comparison |
Discussion Counterpoint. Colleague Tim Conneally and I got into a heated debate about smartphone comparisons this morning. He has the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone for review (and I -- whaaaaa -- don't). I suggested Tim do a comparison with Google-branded Galaxy Nexus, which we both have. He refused. Tim was quite adam... |
We bantered back and forth over group chat, with neither of our positions changing. "Buyers make these product comparisons all the time", I expressed late in our debate. "I can see we won't agree. If I had the Lumia 900, I would compare them". But I don't, and Tim won't. So I suggested: "Let's ask the readers...somethi... |
I had planned on one story with both our perspectives, but Tim smartly wrote something longer -- hence we have a separate point and counterpoint. Please read his "Stop comparing unlike objects. RIGHT. NOW." Tim makes the case for why we shouldn't write a post/review comparing the two smartphones, while I advocate such ... |
It's Our Job |
Reporters aren't analysts or marketers. Our job isn't to divide the products we write about into tidy little demographic groups. So what if grandmas living on social security in Cleveland are more likely to get free iPhone 3GS, while their grandchildren soaking up sunny Malibu cough up $399 for 64GB iPhone 4S. |
Market researchers live for this crap. We aren't Mad Men. We're the last visage of the Fourth Estate, before the Huffington Posts of the world extinguish our breed forever. We write for our readers, who love gadgets and compare many different products by measures that defy demographic modeling. Aggregators and marketer... |
Helicopters and Motorcycles |
Tim contends that from the demographic perspective, the two smartphones aren't comparable -- that they appeal to different people. "Comparing them would be like comparing a |
helicopter to a motorcycle because they both run on gasoline", he writes. Price is one reason ($299.99 for Galaxy Nexus and $99.99 for Lumia 900) and segmentation another (the Android handset appeals to bleeding-edge enthusiasts and the Windows Phone to the mass-market). That reasoning is a bunch of Android apologist h... |
Galaxy Nexus and Lumia 900 is a fair comparison, because many BetaNews readers will do so in choosing one over the other. Google "Galaxy Nexus vs Lumia 900" or "Which is better Galaxy Nexus or Lumia 900?" There are comparisons out there already and for a reason. People want them, which is good enough for me. |
Tim contends that in part because of price Galaxy Nexus "was not --and is still not-- a mass market device". Really? So what, Google, Samsung and Verizon partnered to sell the smartphone to 100 people? This is Google's flagship phone -- of course, the goal is to sell many of them. |
By Any Other Name a Smartphone |
Galaxy Nexus isn't a helicopter and Lumia 900 a motorcycle. They are LTE smartphones sold nearby one another in stores like Best Buy. They would be in a carrier's store if AT&T or Verizon sold both. Falling back to hollow out the market position thing, the segment that matters most here is smartphone -- people shopping... |
Best Buy also sells many different televisions alongside one another. By the no-comparison reasoning, no budget shopper would ever consider the $1,200 big-screen TV over a $500 model. People make product decisions every day based on all kinds of different criteria. A friend of mine recently compared the Fuji X10 and X1... |
My other reasons for comparing the phones have little to do with product segmentation or buyer demographics: |
• Pitting flagship phones -- Google's and Nokia's -- against one another |
• Platform vs platform -- Ice Cream Sandwich, Windows Phone 7.5 Commercial Release 2 |
• Nokia vs Samsung -- the old smartphone market share leader takes on the rising upstart |
• Google vs Microsoft, which offer radically different philosophies on mobile digital lifestyles |
Those are enough reasons for now. But are they reason enough? I say Galaxy Nexus and Lumia 900 is a fair comparison. Tim disagrees. What do you say? |
I Disagree With Clipper Steve |
Yes, the Clippers lost again. Yes, they shot for less than 40% again. Yes, they let their opponents go on a huge run to waste a decent first half or even three quarters. |
But I see positives. Maybe it's my rosy Clipper fan glasses but I disagree with Clipper Steve - just slightly in verbage - but I do disagree. |
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