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I think we all have better things to do on Family Day than reading your links. Why not do the harder work and provide a synopsis of each link. You are a hair above spam. | 0 | en |
Well said. This gigantic fiscal nightmare should stop now. The taxpayers cannot afford to sink more money into this. | 0 | en |
ADN, this article has been here filling up wasted space since August 13. Isn't there something else you could use this space on. | 0 | en |
` :I'm going through your posts because you are adding unsourced, controversial WP:OR and personal opinion into articles. Can you seriously not see what is wrong with what you posted? ` | 0 | en |
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== Concerning the song ""Headset"" ==
Why is the song ""Headset"" appearing twice in the list of original songs?
== Concerning the song ""Get over it"" ==
Why is the song ""Get over it"" appearing in two lines? Is it really appearing both as a b-side of Sk8er Boi and on the Let Go Demo CD? If yes, the two lines should be combined, as it is e. g. done with ""Keep holding on"".
== Concerning the ""Let Go Demo CD"" ==
It should be clarified, what is understood by the ""Let Go Demo CD"". Is it identical with the ""Angus Drive"", which is mentioned in the Avril Lavigne discography
== Concerning the song ""Take me away"" ==
Perhaps it would be helpful for novices, if it was emphasised that the title ""Take me away"" is used for two different songs.
== Concerning the song ""I will be"" ==
Perhaps it would be helpful for novices, if it was emphasised that the song ""I will be"" is not appearing in the common ""The best damn thing""-album but in a limited edition of ""The best damn thing"", according to http://www.amazon.de/The-Best-Damn-Thing-Ltd-ed/dp/samples/B000WZ8RGC/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1.
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I bet sicko Keaukaha loves this article. | 0 | en |
Reimer had injury problems. Seems Anderson has been able to avoid this injury bug that consistently hampered Mr. Reimer whenever he took a prolonged starter role. | 0 | en |
Excellent column,a good explanation why we are always in the cycle of taking one step forward and two steps back. Government's reluctance to properly fund anything provincial , is that after the initial announcement of funding, the credit invariably goes to the provinces, and the feds want their credit. The fact that its our tax dollars never seems to enter into the equation. This of course will never change, we pay in, and then if the provinces ask nicely we will get some back. | 0 | en |
As far as 'decarbonisation' goes (to get rid of a gas that is essential to plant life, and is a VERY small fraction of the atmosphere), one must look at the human costs involved. The countries that have taken this farthest (Germany, UK, and the State of South Australia) have found out that 'decarbonisation' results in much higher energy bills, hitting the poor who have to pay the most, and destabilising the electricity grid itself. In Germany and Scotland, it also looks as if it's a case of "In order to save the environment, we had to destroy it". Please, THINK about ALL of the effects of trying to go for too much "renewable" power. | 0 | en |
Why are you so obsessed with other people's sexuality? You won't have to worry when our planet becomes unable to sustain human life. But go ahead and rant away about other people's sex lives. | 0 | en |
Cell growth with trans fatty acids is affected by adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate and membrane fluidity.
Two positional isomers (9 and 11) of trans octadecenoates did not support growth on glucose of an Escherichia coli mutant that requires unsaturated fatty acids. However, the trans fatty acids provided sufficient fluidity to produce much higher cell yields when the concentration of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate was raised. The effectiveness of the trans acids rose from 0 to 1 cell per femtomole to 15 to 20 cells per femtomole as the concentration of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate was increased. The corresponding cis positional isomers supported high yields (35 to 40 cells per femtomole) independent of supplementation. The enhanced growth with adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate supplementation is not due to an increased uptake and incorporation of the trans isomers relative to the cis isomers, since the 9-trans isomer was incorporated more rapidly than the 9-cis isomer into the membrane phospholipids under all growth conditions and represented 21 +/- 2 mole percent of the acids. The finding that cells growing with trans fatty acid isomers have a higher requirement for adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate may indicate that some fatty acids can alter the metabolic regulation normally exerted by the cyclic nucleotide. | 0 | en |
I went ahead and added this material. 14:02, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) | 0 | en |
I\u2019ve never seen a story so overhyped as this Jamal Khashoggi bullshit. Americans don\u2019t care if some raghead reporte\u2026 @URL | 1 | en |
बारामती मर्चंट असोसिएशनच्या वतीने दिवाळी निमित्ताने आयोजित स्नेहमेळाव्यात आदरणीय @PawarSpeaks साहेबांनी उपस्थित व्यापारी व सदस्यांशी संवाद साधला. pic.twitter.com/sDfmdGAwHK
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== Ownership == Who owns Taransay? | 0 | en |
The Permanent Fund itself will be drained dry in less than a decade if the Corrupt Bastards Club is given any way into it. It's that simple. They have been trying to break that bank since the piggy-pot was created. They want it all, and their Oil Masters Demand It. That is ALL they will hear. They don't give a damn about Alaska, it's people, or their future.
The Permanent Fund should not be utilized to fill the hole left by SB21 and the sell-out legislators who have pillaged the state in the last decade and more. They should ALL be fired if this all they can do, steal the entire PF to feed their bloated guts.
I have seen NO cuts of ANY significance. Pushing a few small piles of cash from one agency to another while Walker hires special 'consultants' at 5 figures and the CBC buys a new palace while cutting Troopers does NOTHING but hurt us all.
Stop the Raid. Cut the Budget. Fix SB21. Change the Credit System. My dog could beat you at at this point and she's only 4. Get on it! | 0 | en |
My guess is they will not say a word about the missing info. Here's my assumption as to how that ended up on the form originally: if your pet had a terrible accident or illness costing more in treatment than you can pay, and if they extended credit and you didn't pay and it went to collections, they need that info to send you to collections and/or report the debt to credit reporting agencies. Also, in the olden days when people wrote checks, if the check bounced and they needed to submit it to the local DA for collection and judgment, those are the 3 pieces of information get DA's office required to track you down.
Times have changed, but forms live forever. Even a Vet who opened their doors last week will get their intake form from an industry Web page. No one looks at it to see if it's relevant or might be a pain to fill out. Don't get me started on intake forms...I have some legislation in mind...lol | 0 | en |
My deepest ALOHA to her ohana. Sooo sad... | 0 | en |
"best to ensure that police don’t use the new restrictions to single out the homeless or service workers on their smoke breaks."
The homeless get breaks? | 0 | en |
Oh and what is pisspoor is the cuban healthcare system, not you...I wasnt clear, just thought you might need that clarified. (Gibby ) | 0 | en |
Oh no, Davis, not "we believe," but we have evidence which include cyber HACKER NAMES. What part of hard evidence don't you understand? Never mind. None of it will acceptable because your a CONservative. Even one of Russia's top administrators admitted that they had conversations with some of tRump's campaign staff during the campaign. Or are you going to call that Russian spokesperson a liar. Google this fact. | 0 | en |
....... maybe that sentence makes sense in Russian | 0 | en |
Yvette Lundy
Yvette Lundy (22 April 1916 – 3 November 2019) was a French resistance fighter during the French Resistance of World War II. She provided the inspiration for the character of Mademoiselle Lise Lundi in the 2009 film Korkoro, written and directed by Tony Gatlif.
Early life
She was born on 22 April 1916 in Oger, France; she was the youngest of seven siblings in a family of agricultural workers originating from the Reims area. In 1938 she began working as a teacher at Gionges, and as secretary to the mayor there. During May 1940, as the Battle of France began, she fled the area, but returned two months later.
Wartime activities
As a Resistance worker in occupied France, Lundy began supplying forged official documents to escapees from the camp at Bazancourt and to Jewish families. She assisted the Communist Marcel Nautré, and others involved in the Possum network, in avoiding detection by the authorities, as well as providing shelter at her brother Georges' farm for Free French fighters parachuted into the region.
Lundy was arrested on 19 June 1944 in her classroom at Gionges and was interrogated by the Gestapo at Châlons-sur-Marne, where she was subsequently imprisoned. During the interrogation, to protect her brothers and sister (René, Lucien, Georges and Berthe) who were also working for the resistance, she pretended to be an only child. From there she was taken to Romainville, and, on 18 July 1944, was deported, first to Saarbrücken Neue Bremm, and then to the Ravensbrück concentration camp (prisoner number 47360). On 16 November of the same year, she was transferred to the Schlieben subcamp of Buchenwald. Her sister Berthe was also imprisoned in Germany and her elder brother Lucien was interned at Auschwitz concentration camp; they both survived, but her other brother, Georges, did not and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.
Yvette Lundy was freed from Schlieben by the Red Army on 20 or 21 April 1945 and, after a march of some 200 kilometres to Halle, was flown back to France, arriving at le Bourget on 8 May 1945.
Post-war
Lundy remained silent about her war experiences until 1959, for her family's sake. After that date, she began going into schools to share her testimony. Her visits proved extremely popular with pupils.
Lundy's memoir Le Fil de l'araignée (), co-written with Laurence Barbarot-Boisson, was published in 2012.
At the age of 101, she was awarded the honour of Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur.
She died on 3 November 2019 at Epernay, aged 103.
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Category:Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
Category:Recipients of the Resistance Medal
Category:Women centenarians | 0 | en |
Cassy and the Liberal war room don't like pesky facts that get in the way of their agenda | 0 | en |
As someone who has been attended many government body meetings with invocations, and is not a "nasty atheist or leftist" I disagree. These unnecessary rituals take up the public's valuable time and are very irritating and annoying, especially when the person giving the invocation is some local pastor whom you do not respect, and whose command to pray you don't want to obey.
People attending a government meeting of any kind should not be forced to pray - and if you think you are not being forced to pray or stand up while others pray, try sitting down next time and see how it feels to have people around you and up front glaring at you.
Assembly members who want to pray can have their own private prayer session right before the meeting - leave us in the public out of it. | 0 | en |
The question is, do any of them believe his threats any more. And is he ready to carry them out knowing that he'll be wrecking any chance he has of keeping a republican majority in both houses of congress.I'm sure the dems have learned from the repubs that you can just block everything and still win elections | 0 | en |
كم مليون مرة قلتم رح ترجعوا لكوباني و تكريت؟ وينكم يا جحا؟ نسيتوها بسرعة ها ؟ وبعدها يقلك الحرب كر و فر ...ههههه | 1 | ar |
Scared to death by a figment of his imagination. One wonders what he believes lurks in his closets at home. | 0 | en |
Give it a rest Ireland. You know what you did is harmful to society at large but you opted to act in a greedy manner that befits a company that has turned into a leach under Tim Cook. | 0 | en |
:You may be right about this being an inaccurate view of Kant, but keep in mind that Rand has often been considered to have an inaccurate view of Kant. In other words, this may accurately reflect Rand's beliefs about Kant. | 0 | en |
Canada's not insufferably smug, John. We're just smugly right. | 0 | en |
The devil is in the details or in your comment, the lack of details. | 0 | en |
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OK, thanks again Alpha. I sign off now. imacowboy " | 0 | en |
::::::Done! Glad we got this straightened out. | 0 | en |
Roman: You of all people should understand that there are a LOT of things in the bush that are hard for people from outside to "adjust to". The climate is just the one that people can mention and still feel PC. | 0 | en |
Pre-PFD we used to have a small income tax as a percent of our federal income tax, and we also had a larger percentage than now of rural subsistence residents who - then as now- had little paid work other than fishing and trapping. It did not break us - nor would a small income tax now.
Also it would capture income from rural residents and from non-residents who earn here on the Slope, in fishing in tourism.
The PFD could offset part of it.
We could add a a three sunset renewal review attached to it, and we could include a more aggressive offset of personal taxes by taking more from the more wasteful pieces of the exploration tax credits.
We could encourage early retirement savings with one-time retirement incentives to senioe State employees..C'mon people! Lets hitch up our pants, and take care of ourselves!! | 0 | en |
Bütün arapların ve hain Kürtlerin amına damına yatağına karısına kızına en sevdiği halısına arabasına başına koluna yararına makatına vajinasına ammmına yırttırarak kanırtarak kannnnaaaata kanataaa goyayyyııımmmm | 1 | tr |
You are insulting someone who doesn't deserve it. She is not stupid, clingy or a nag. She is strong and helps other people at the drop of a hat. You don't know any of the story so quit reading between the lines. Instead of getting a pat on the back, hopefully he will get several years in prison. | 0 | en |
Order from off shore pharmacies. They dispense from Germany.
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Unfortunately we can not order our houses, food from off shore. There is ebay for cloths and other goods. We do get our cheap labour from off shore in the form of immigration.
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Eventually you can sell your house and you too can move off shore. Isn't globalization great? | 0 | en |
He is so free to spend taxpayer money on people that don't pay any tax. When something bad happens will he take responsibility no of course not. He just wanted to feel important for the up coming conference on the taxpayer's dime. This case will cost way over the $150,000 budgeted, while many programs for the taxpayers of this state experience cuts way to go Ige administration. | 0 | en |
@user caralho casquei kkkkkkkk | 0 | no |
Do you feel the same way about beach apparel? Or Melania Trumps obvious lack of clothing in her modeling years? Why I bet she even puts on an undignified, fleshy bikini show for Putrumpski. | 0 | en |
Indeed, we all must be wary of 80-year-old United Church ladies, and Anglicans and Baptists, committing war crimes like this. Brilliant post, 34DD. | 0 | en |
Adrenergic modulation of interdigestive pancreatic secretion in humans.
Whether the adrenergic pathways participate in the control of interdigestive pancreatic function in humans is uncertain. To determine if changes in alpha- or beta-adrenergic tone modulate interdigestive pancreatic enzyme output, 16 healthy subjects were intubated with an orojejunal tube to collect and quantify pancreatic trypsin secretion and record motility. After observation of a complete interdigestive cycle (control period), eight groups of two subjects each received 2-hour intravenous infusions of the alpha- and beta-agonist epinephrine (50 ng.kg-1.min-1), the alpha-antagonist phentolamine (5 mg/2 min followed by 500 micrograms/min), the beta-antagonist propranolol (5 mg/2 min followed by 80 micrograms/min), or saline as control, alone or in combination. Drugs were assigned in a random mode according to a 2(3) factorial design. Analysis of variance showed that epinephrine decreased trypsin output by 43% (P less than 0.05). By contrast, trypsin output was increased fourfold in the presence of phentolamine (P less than 0.01), whereas propranolol had no effect. These data suggest that an inhibitory alpha-adrenergic tone modulates human interdigestive pancreatic enzyme secretion whereas beta inputs are less important. | 0 | en |
Still no evidence of promised Trump donation to Harvey disaster. Takes credit for donations not done.
This is not normal. | 0 | en |
"Sounds to me like Mr. Ripp is a complete dick who deserves any ""bias"" thrown his way, based on clear factual evidence.
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power hungry little boy trying to please his Daddy too stupid to realize psychopath Putin played him. Yup. Donny IS a stupid, insecure, immature, greedy, angry, foolish LOSER #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder oh... and... Happy Birthday, Mother Fucker. #FuckTrump #ImpeachTrump | 1 | en |
Maybe if we agree that it is acceptable to toot your horn at anyone using their cell phone in the crosswalk is all that is necessary. | 0 | en |
Corporate influence goes beyond lobbyists. Several corporations have been caught funding social-media campaigns designed to influence public opinion by posting fake-news and fake-comments online. | 0 | en |
How about the woman at the well who went and proclaimed to the Samaritans that she had met the Messiah. That is quite apostolic and evangelical. John 4: 28, 39-42. The Greek Orthodox Church's tradition says her name was "Photine". | 0 | en |
Just outlaw Oxybenzone and be done with it. | 0 | en |
Outsider, you make an excellent case that there was no reason for Assad to use chemical weapons on civilians, so we have no reason to believe he did-- it must mean this was a false flag attack, which the rebels (oops, "killer rebels") carried out hoping the world would blame Syria , as some have.
However, Outsider, this means it could be what we call a "double false flag" attack-- meaning Assad did carry out this attack, knowing clever fellows like Dresser would assert that that Assad would not do such a thing --so he could get away with it as a win-win situation! He killed his enemy's civilians and gets the blame shifted to the rebel victims themselves!
Now, Outsider, with this "double false flag" attack, it brings up the rare possibility of what we in intelligence call a "triple false flag" attack....! | 0 | en |
"Schumer: Dems, not Russia, are to blame for loss to Trump"
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says that Democrats, not Russia, are to blame for Hillary Clinton's loss to President Trump.
"When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don't blame other things - [James] Comey, Russia - you blame yourself," Schumer said in an interview Saturday with The Washington Post.
"So what did we do wrong? People didn't know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-dems-not-russia-are-to-blame-for-loss-to-trump/ar-AAoD77n?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartanntp
At last! A voice of sanity at the leadership levels of the Democratic Party!
Now that the problem has been identified, can they find a solution?
I hope so.
This "Kill everyone who disagrees with my position!" by both Democrats and Republicans is insane. | 0 | en |
It's called budgeting; in this case your resources. Government is always beat up for not budgeting money. If you have finite resources you can't do everything. Spending valuable police and court time for no end result is wasteful. I don't believe this case justifies taking valuable resources away from serious person crimes just because of $3000 worth of trees. The DA already has too little funding to prosecute many serious crimes; wasting her office's time is also silly. Re-plant the trees and get over it. | 0 | en |
eres una verdadera cagada, puto, mierda entre la mierda, por eso a los putos argentos, sudakas miserables, se le aborrece, por escorias como mico sorete mal parido | 1 | es |
As a former military officer, I'm embarrassed this took priority over my mates being taken care of.
As a great grandson of someone who helped move the Treaty 8 to successful completion, I'm embarrassed my first nation brothers and sisters had to wait for this instead their concerns being addressed
As someone who wants responsible development of our resources to assist every Canadian, I'm embarrassed this took priority in developing (and not just talking) our resources.
I'm embarrassed as a Canadian my leadership was hiding in Europe when this was done. | 0 | en |
Did you say the same after Gifford was shot? No, so don't try to turn this into some moral issue. The Republicans refuse to have any common sense gun control and this is the result. Every single day in America, there are mass shootings. Get off you high horse and face reality. | 0 | en |
How about 80% of players and coaches on the team who are non-local? What has "local" got anything to do with cheering on the players and the team? | 0 | en |
Smooth muscle does not contain either troponin or tropomyosin. I can rewrite the smooth muscle mechanism if no one else wants to do it. SteveD 12th November 2008. 09:58 pm. | 0 | en |
“there are far more important things that we ought to be focusing on”
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Yeah, like how many rounds of golf have been played by our part-time President. It doesn't matter what the previous Presidents have done because we judge men on their own behavior, right? If he wasn't so busy fooling around, he might be able to focus on the economy, the deficit, the debt, and the tiny tyro in North Korea. | 0 | en |
Repugs trying to save their puppet. See, we create this bill, then puppets signs it. Then puppet tweets "See I don't like russian,I sign the bill!MAGA". Then repugs whisper to puppet "shhhhh.,line 45 057 states, "Pres.can recind after 365 days." Shhh. don't tell. | 0 | en |
Agreed! The Hollomans' seeming concern about the 'educational process' is a transparent ruse for seeking personal revenge on Parent, even though she was exonerated after an $8K investigation. If this pair really wants to help the 'educational process' there are better ways to do it. I agree with the editorial. | 0 | en |
Any reference? | 0 | en |
When is our state going to get rid of the gang problem? We have better things to spend money on than the gas pipeline! | 0 | en |
Also, the fact this was done with involvement of the foreign minister shows recklessness, and a will to sabotage relations. Isn't a foreign minister supposed to be improving relations, and not destroying them? But Freeland's mission from before she was foreign minister has been to destroy relations with Russia any way that she can. She is comprehensively unfit for any diplomatic position, and I would say that her actions that sabotage Canadian relations with other nations is like treason against Canada, and a betrayal of Canadians' trust, and of her title. There perhaps has been no poorer judgment from the Trudeau government than the appointment of Freeland to an important diplomatic position.
Of course Russia will probe Canada's violation of their laws within their territory - just as Canada would probe another nation's violation of Canada's laws. If that surprises anyone, then they don't have even one foot in reality. And now Canada has signaled that its own laws can be disregarded. | 0 | en |
Actually you are partly correct. He did teach the subjects you've named but he also did teach drama when required to do so. Also, most of his teaching was as a sub when the regular teacher was absent. A sub has to be able to handle a wide range of subjects rather than be identified with any one subject area. I think that's where the fog surrounding what Trudeau taught/didn't teach comes from. | 0 | en |
Really, you probably still think we owe the Indians because they were here first, and guess what. We trappers were here long before you and you are taking our wilderness. :::??????? I find your comments lame and UnAmerican
God Bless America
Trap | 0 | en |
`It is not ``his article`` either. Thanks for your condescending attitude by the way. Your GED had gotten you far in life. ` | 0 | en |
Maybe you should just go shopping. There must be some great Memorial Day sales! | 0 | en |
That's the before shot. Here is the actual reclamation that takes place on BLM.
https://www.ntc.blm.gov/krc/uploads/627/BLM_JanelleGonzales_Powder-River-Basin-sage-grouse-habitat.pdf | 0 | en |
What makes you think I don't care when the President mentions an incorrect statistic? Also, it is not good to jump to the conclusion that he is lying, when in fact he may simply have more information than you do at the moment. Or he may have poor information that he believes, which is not lying. Or he is using selective statistics, which all politicians are guilty of, and maybe you and me, too. Take some time and vet the statement, and not from a partisan viewpoint. Sometimes Trump has turned out to be right, or at least has a reasonable argument, though he rarely presents it well.
Yes, the states should be doing more. They aren't, and would be just as partisan, plus would not get an overall sense which the federal commission might. | 0 | en |
Other varity show hosts have a team of writers to, but at least they make the host funny. To call rove funny is the same as calling stalin compassionate. | 0 | en |
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Do you understand the difference between an illustrative hypothetical and a prediction?
The small difference in the popular vote, and the fact that in most of the states the popular vote and the electoral coincided, are data for consideration.
Btw, the topic appeared to be the Catholic Church's role in the healing of the nation and not assessments of the election. | 0 | en |
I'm not dictating what you should say. I'm commenting on your odd choice of words. "Crowded city block" came out of nowhere.
And really? 'Urban music', for instance is a new one on you?
"The Urban Music Awards (UMA) is a hip-hop, R&B, dance and soul music awards ceremony launched by Jordan Kensington in 2003 and now held in six countries annually by Invincible Media Group. The US version of the award ceremony, the Urban Music Awards USA, was launched on 7 July 2007"
And had you written 'Park Ave' I would have just shrugged it off as another meaningless comment. But you didn't. Not a big surprise, since Park Avenue is noted for many things, but being crowded is not one that springs to mind. Reading your actual comment, however, a dig at African Americans comes to mind.
Look, I didn't care for the original comment either, but yours was no better - or at least that's the clear impression that it created. | 0 | en |
One day there will be an Islamic University in Canada with the same moral values as Trinity Western
then the anti-religion folks will appease and surrender
if only in the name of Diversity | 0 | en |
Business proprietors shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation. Jack Phillips is wrong. | 0 | en |
Bill: I honor your decision to boycott the NFL. It's your right as an American. regards, Gary Crum | 0 | en |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease in patients with lung cancer.
Although lung cancer is frequently accompanied by COPD and interstitial lung disease (ILD), the precise coincidence of these diseases with lung cancer is not well understood. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of abnormal CT and spirometric findings suggestive of COPD or ILD in a population of patients with untreated lung cancer, and to estimate the lung cancer risk in this population. The study population consisted of 256 patients with untreated lung cancer and 947 subjects participating in a CT screening programme for lung cancer. Semi-quantitative analysis of low attenuation area (LAA), fibrosis and ground glass attenuation (GGA) on CT was performed by scoring. Gender- and age-matched subpopulations, with stratification by smoking status, were compared using the Mantel-Haenszel projection method. Inter-observer consistency was excellent for LAA, but not as good for fibrosis or GGA scores. Pooled odds ratios for lung cancer risk using LAA, fibrosis, GGA scores and reduced FEV(1)/FVC and %VC were 3.63, 5.10, 2.71, 7.17 and 4.73, respectively (P < 0.0001 for all parameters). Multivariate regression analyses confirmed these results. Abnormal CT and spirometric parameters suggestive of COPD and ILD were strong risk factors for lung cancer, even after adjusting for gender, age and smoking status. | 0 | en |
A cephalometric comparative study of the soft tissue airway dimensions in persons with hyperdivergent and normodivergent facial patterns.
This study was performed to compare the dimensions of the nasopharynx, oropharnynx, and hypopharynx of persons with hyperdivergent and normodivergent facial types, and to determine whether any variations exist. Lateral cephalometric records of a population with a normodivergent facial pattern (n = 23) and a group with a hyperdivergent facial pattern (n = 27) as evidenced by increased mandibular plane angle were used to compare the soft tissue airway dimensions. Statistical analysis consisted of Student's t-tests, Wilcoxon rank sums, and chi2. Statistical significance was set .05. Overall the hyperdivergent group had a narrower anteroposterior pharyngeal dimension than the normodivergent control group. This narrowing was specifically noted in the nasopharynx at the level of the hard palate and in the oropharynx at the level of the tip of the soft palate and the mandible. In addition, the posterior pharyngeal wall had a thinning at the level of the inferior border of the third cervical vertebrae, and there was a more obtuse palatal angle. The tongue was also positioned more inferiorly and posteriorly in the hyperdivergent group, as evidenced by the increased distance between the hyoid bone and the mandibular plane and the increased distance between the soft palate tip and the epiglottis. The hyperdivergent group had more retruded maxillary and mandibular apical bases and a higher Class II skeletal discrepancy. The narrower anteroposterior dimension of the airway in hyperdivergent patients may be attributable to skeletal features common to such patients, that is, retrusion of the maxilla and the mandible and vertical maxillary excess. Other features, such as an obtuse soft palate and low-set hyoid, also may be contributory factors. The relatively thin posterior pharyngeal wall observed in hyperdivergent patients might be a compensatory mechanism. | 0 | en |
Suicides always go up during GOP administrations. It's the hopelessness they bring with them. That and the complete lack of tolerance. Obama had one of the largest drops in suicide on his watch, no doubt his acceptance of the LBGT community was a part of it. Part of our country is so regressive they don't understand what causes anything, it's just a mystery that keeps happening to them. Grow up USA! | 0 | en |
Q:
SQL Server: drop table cascade equivalent?
In oracle, to drop all tables and constraints you would type something like
DROP TABLE myTable CASCADE CONSTRAINTS PURGE;
and this would completely delete the tables and their dependencies. What's the SQL server equivalent??
A:
In SQL Server Management Studio, go to Options / SQL Server Object Explorer / Scripting, and enable 'Generate script for dependent objects'. Then right click the table, script > drop to > new query window and it will generate it for you.
A:
I don't believe SQL has a similarly elegant solution. You have to drop any related constraints first before you can drop the table.
Fortunately, this is all stored in the information schema and you can access that to get your whack list.
This blog post should be able to get you what you need:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/04/12/442616.aspx
-- t-sql scriptlet to drop all constraints on a table
DECLARE @database nvarchar(50)
DECLARE @table nvarchar(50)
set @database = 'DatabaseName'
set @table = 'TableName'
DECLARE @sql nvarchar(255)
WHILE EXISTS(select * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS where constraint_catalog = @database and table_name = @table)
BEGIN
select @sql = 'ALTER TABLE ' + @table + ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + CONSTRAINT_NAME
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS
where constraint_catalog = @database and
table_name = @table
exec sp_executesql @sql
END
A:
This might be a horrible solution, but I find it's quick. It is similar to Vinnie's answer, but the product of the SQL statement is another series of SQL statements that will delete all constraints and tables.
(
select
'ALTER TABLE ' + tc.table_name + ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + tc.constraint_name + ';'
from
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t
,INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS tc
where
t.table_name = tc.table_name
and tc.constraint_name not like '%_pk'
and tc.constraint_name not like 'pk_%'
and t.table_catalog='<schema>'
) UNION (
select
'DROP TABLE ' + t.table_name + ';'
from
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t
where
t.table_catalog='<schema>'
)
| 0 | en |
Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection in dogs in South Korea.
Ehrlichia chaffeensis is one of the causative agents of canine ehrlichiosis and human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME). Canine ehrlichiosis caused by E. chaffeensis was diagnosed in two dogs in South Korea based on clinical findings, and the diagnosis was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing. A 5-year-old intact male American Pit bull terrier allowed outdoors was found to be concurrently infected with Babesia gibsoni and E. chaffeensis. The major clinical findings were lethargy and reddish urine, and laboratory analysis revealed severe hematuria and thrombocytopenia. In addition, a 3-year-old neutered male Shih-tzu was also found to be infected with E. chaffeensis. Although this dog was an indoor companion animal, he was frequently allowed outside for exercise. The clinical signs observed in this dog included generalized purpura with petechiae and ecchymoses due to thrombocytopenia. A 390-bp partial portion of E. chaffeensis 16S rRNA gene was amplified in both cases, and nucleotide sequence analysis revealed 99% homology of this fragment with other E. chaffeensis isolates. These findings demonstrate the presence of E. chaffeensis infection in dogs in South Korea, and this is the first report to confirm clinical cases of E. chaffeensis infection in dogs. | 0 | en |
How was this person apprehended with this electronic device? What and how can women protect themselves from this sneaky invasion of privacy? | 0 | en |
"Hmmm. I added ""cateegory: india"" and it displayed a heap of unexpected stuff. Specifically, the ""see main article about..."" is nonsense cos there is no main article AFAIK. Is there a problem with the tag?" | 0 | en |
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Assessment in the K-12 Visual Arts Classroom
This course will examine various theories and methods of assessment for gathering information about preK-12 student learning in art. Participants will work together to identify a range of assessment dilemmas relevant to art teachers. We will work in response to our own teaching experiences and in relation to provocative readings. The aim of this institute is to support teachers to construct practical tools that are immediately applicable in PreK-12 art classroom settings. In this weeklong experience, we nurture a vibrant learning community for art educators to explore challenging assessment issues.
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Dr. Gates joined the Art Department in 2012. Dr. Gates has taught visual art in public schools located in both urban and rural contexts, and has experience at both the high school and elementary levels. In 2007, the Pennsylvania Art Education Association named Leslie the Outstanding Elementary Art Educator of the Year. Leslie has served as a curriculum consultant to public school districts, given invited lectures, and facilitated opportunities for professional learning at various conferences, seminars, and workshops. In addition to her position at Millersville, she serves as Pennsylvania Art Education Association's Conference Administrator and on the editorial board of Art Education, published by the National Art Education Association.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Meier
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Tuition/Fees: Institutes are unique 3 credit graduate courses, that highlight renowned experts in the field. Institutes include breakfast and lunch throughout the day, as well as handouts and materials. Books may be required courses, please check with the university bookstore. Millersville University graduate tuition and fees can be found on the Office of Student Accounts page. In addition, a $165 institute fee is required.
Note: If you have not taken any graduate-level course or workshop at Millersville University within the past 5 years, you must complete the online non-degree admission form; this information is necessary to admit you to the university. | 0 | en |
HCM City to open bidding for advertising on fare-subsidised buses
Update:
September, 18/2017 - 09:00
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Bus No 27 on the Bến Thành-An Sương route has advertisements on its sides. An auction for advertising on the sides of the city’s public buses will be organised at the end of this month. — Photo voh.com.vn
HCM CITY — HCM City Department of Transport and the Department of Justice’s auction centre has unanimously approved an auction for advertising on the sides of the city’s public buses at the end of this month.
Bidding for advertising on a total of 2,084 fare-subsidised buses, including buses with 40 seats and above and two double-decker buses, will start at VNĐ693 billion (US$30.5 million) for three years.
This is the first time the city has officially opened bidding for advertising on public buses in order to offset bus subsidies that amount to around VNĐ1 trillion ($44 million) this year.
Last year, Japanese firm Koa Sha Media Vietnam won an auction with a bid of VNĐ14.6 billion ($643,000) a year for the city’s pilot project to put ads on the sides of 171 buses, exceeding the bidding’s starting price of VNĐ10.3 billion ($453,000) a year. —VNS | 0 | en |
Seems 14 Repuglithings with any real guts still have yet to be found.... looks like it's gonna take a while yet...
"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such oter body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." | 0 | en |
::The article needed expansion somehow. The Vales case, which caused a huge public outcry and about which tens and tens of newspaper articles and thousands of talkbacks were written, is definitely noteworthy. If it does not belong here, it should get its own article. I propose leaving it here and adding other materials also. And it is not a negative thing, it is completely positive. I, for one, think the Edah was much too lax. The protests should have been much stronger. Call me a kanoi, I guess I am. Please add more information instead of removing the information present. The article needs to be expanded somehow. It's shameful that we only have so little information on it here. | '''' | 0 | en |
la voce fa schifo non è qualcosa che puoi permetterti di dire. A nessuno. leggi prima di scrivere Brokenradio (msg) dov è che ti cerco sul personale? ho detto che caso mai farà schifo il tuo commento. La differenza la conosco, direi meglio di te. La prossima volta evita di ficcarti nell equivoco, se pensi che stiamo equivocando: non disprezzare il lavoro degli altri, chiunque essi siano . Brokenradio (msg) ho letto voci in cui hai messo mano di cui avrei potuto dire lo stesso, ma non l ho mai fatto. E adesso torniamo al lavoro. Con rispetto veros il lavoro degli altri. Chiunque essi siano . se sei in grado di stabilire che una voce fa schifo , non ti manca niente per scoprirlo da solo. E ora ci diamo un taglio Brokenradio (msg) | 1 | it |
Claiming single payer does not "reward anyone for cutting costs. Not the insurance companies . . ." suggest you're still striking out majestically.
But more to the point, the US currently is projected to spend more than three trillion dollars this year on healthcare. So a national single payer system costing over a trillion would pump *two trillion dollars* back into the US economy that employers could use to expand operations and grow the economy on the supply side, employees could spend in the economy to grow it on the demand side, etc. | 0 | en |
Ulan biz küçükken şut çekerken bile reyeees diye bağırıyorduk :( çok üzüldüm huzur içinde yat üstad | 0 | tr |
John McTiernan
John Campbell McTiernan Jr. (born January 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his action films, especially Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and The Hunt for Red October (1990). His later well-known films include the action-comedy-fantasy film Last Action Hero (1993), the action film sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), the heist film-remake The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), and The 13th Warrior (1999). His last completed feature film was the mystery-thriller Basic, released in 2003.
He pleaded guilty to perjury and lying to an FBI investigator in regard to his hiring of the private investigator Anthony Pellicano in late 2000 to illegally wiretap the phone calls of two people, one of whom was Charles Roven, a co-producer of his dystopian science-fiction action film remake Rollerball (2002). He was incarcerated in federal prison from April 2013 to February 2014. During his imprisonment, he filed for bankruptcy amidst foreclosure proceedings for his ranch residence.
Early life and education
McTiernan was born in Albany, New York, the son of Myra and John Campbell McTiernan Sr., a lawyer and actor. He attended the Juilliard School before graduating with a Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory in 1975.
Career
In 1986, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Nomads, starring Pierce Brosnan (which was Brosnan's first lead role in a film), which was not well received by critics, receiving only one positive review out of eight according to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 1.5 stars out of four and said that even if viewers cared about the characters, the film is too confusing to understand. However, Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail described it as "a breathlessly unself-conscious film (there is none of the self-congratulatory stylization of Blood Simple), the tone alternates maniacally between scaring the audience and making it giggle. Until the end. And then, via one of the funniest, cleverest and most unexpected conclusions to any movie in history, Nomads comes off the fence it has been sitting on with a bravura jump." Scott credited McTiernan, saying "he has brought to his project a staggeringly resourceful technique. The sharply unpredictable editing, the hypnotic use of slow motion and rack focus (that's when the background and foreground reverse in clarity), the ominous rock music – everything adds up to a debut of singular confidence, full of fun and creepiness." Variety wrote, "Nomads avoids the more obvious ripped-guts devices in favor of dramatic visual scares. [...] In fact, everything seems to come naturally in a tale that even has the supernatural ring true." Walter Goodman of The New York Times called the Innuat "as menacing as the chorus from West Side Story". In his memoir, Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was so impressed by the film's tense atmosphere made with a low budget that he hired John McTiernan to direct Predator.
The budget for Predator was around $15 million, but it opened as #1 at the U.S. box office with a gross of $12 million on its opening weekend, and went on to gross nearly $100 million overall. For the calendar year 1987, it was second only to Beverly Hills Cop II. Initial critical reaction to Predator was negative, with criticism focusing on the thin plot. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, rates the film with an average score of 36 based on 11 reviews from 1987, with the review opinions summarized as "generally unfavorable". However, in subsequent years critics' attitudes toward the film warmed, and it has appeared on a number of "best of" lists. The review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 78% of 40 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times described it as "grisly and dull, with few surprises". Dean Lamanna wrote in Cinefantastique that "the militarized monster movie tires under its own derivative weight." Variety wrote that the film was a "slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects."
Made on a $28 million budget, Die Hard went on to gross over $140 million theatrically worldwide. The film's success spawned a Die Hard franchise, which has included four sequels, video games, and a comic book. It received very high ratings from critics overall. English film critic Mark Kermode expressed admiration for the film, calling it an exciting setup of "Cowboys and Indians in The Towering Inferno". The film has been included in various top-ten lists of best Christmas movies, including those by Digital Spy (rating it #5), Empire (rating it #1), Entertainment Weekly (rating it #4), Forbes (rating it #1), The Guardian (rating it #8), The Hollywood Reporter (rating it #4), and San Francisco Gate (rating it #1). However, not every critic praised it. Roger Ebert gave it a mere two stars out of four and criticized the stupidity of the deputy police chief character, saying that "all by himself he successfully undermines the last half of the movie".
The Hunt for Red October also received positive reviews from critics. Nick Schager, for Slant Magazine, called the film "a thrilling edge-of-your-seat trifle that has admirably withstood the test of time". Ebert called it "a skillful, efficient film that involves us in the clever and deceptive game being played", while Gene Siskel commented on the film's technical achievement and Baldwin's convincing portrayal of the character Jack Ryan.
He directed Medicine Man (1992), about a medical researcher in a rainforest, starring Sean Connery. Medicine Man was poorly received. Roger Ebert gave it one-and-a-half stars, saying that although the film had "some beautiful moments", it never really came together and had "a cornball conclusion". Entertainment Weekly said the story was "built around some very tired devices" and especially criticized the performance of the female lead.
He directed and co-produced Last Action Hero, a 1993 action-comedy vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Entertainment Weekly said it was "a stupid, generic slab of action bombast that keeps reminding us it's a stupid, generic slab of action bombast" and called it "a lead balloon of a movie". Variety called it a "a joyless, soulless machine of a movie, an $80 million-plus mishmash". Vincent Canby likened the film to "a two-hour Saturday Night Live sketch" and called it "something of a mess, but a frequently enjoyable one". Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, writing that despite some entertaining moments Last Action Hero more often "plays more like a bright idea than like a movie that was thought through".
In 1995, he rebounded with Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third installment of the Die Hard film series. It was highly successful – garnering $366M in box office receipts and becoming the highest-grossing film of the year, although the film had mixed reviews by critics. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that while "McTiernan stages individual sequences with great finesse... they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole." James Berardinelli said the explosions and fights were "filmed with consummate skill, and are thrilling in their own right." Desson Howe of The Washington Post said "the best thing about the movie is the relationship between McClane and Zeus", saying that Samuel L. Jackson was "almost as good as he was in Pulp Fiction". Ebert gave the film a positive review, praising the action sequences and the performances of Willis, Jackson, and Jeremy Irons, concluding: "Die Hard with a Vengeance is basically a wind-up action toy, cleverly made, and delivered with high energy. It delivers just what it advertises, with a vengeance." Empire Magazines Ian Nathan gave the film a 3/5 star review stating that "Die Hard With A Vengeance is better than Die Hard 2, but not as good as the peerless original. Though it's breathless fun, the film runs out of steam in the last act. And Jeremy Irons' villain isn't fit to tie Alan Rickman's shoelaces."
During 1995–97, McTiernan was a producer for several smaller projects, including at least three films that were not major releases – The Right to Remain Silent (a made-for-television film), Amanda, and Quicksilver Highway (a made-for-television film).
He directed The 13th Warrior (1999), a loose retelling of the tale of Beowulf starring Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora and Omar Sharif that was adapted from the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. The film did poorly at the box office, with a total loss estimated at $70–130 million. It received generally mixed-to-poor reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying that it "lumber[s] from one expensive set-piece to the next without taking the time to tell a story that might make us care." Conversely, James Berardinelli gave it three stars out of four, calling it "a solid offering" that "delivers an exhilarating 100 minutes". The outcome disappointed Sharif so much that he temporarily retired from film acting, saying "After my small role in The 13th Warrior, I said to myself, 'Let us stop this nonsense, these meal tickets that we do because it pays well. Sharif said it was "terrifying to have to do the dialogue from bad scripts, to face a director who does not know what he is doing, in a film so bad that it is not even worth exploring." The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by McTiernan – a heist film remake starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, which opened to solid reviews and strong box office results was released later the same year.
McTiernan then directed the 2002 film Rollerball, a science fiction remake starring Chris Klein, Jean Reno, and LL Cool J. Rollerball was heavily panned by critics. Time Out'''s Trevor Johnson described it as "a checklist shaped by a 15-year-old mallrat: thrashing metal track, skateboards, motorbikes, cracked heads and Rebecca Romijn with her top off", and Ebert called it "an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense". The film was a box-office flop, earning a worldwide total of $25.9 million compared to a production budget of $70 million. In 2014, the Los Angeles Times listed the film as one of the most expensive box office flops of all time.
His most recent feature film project (as of January 2019) was the 2003 thriller Basic with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. Reviews for Basic were mostly negative. Roger Ebert gave it one star out of four, saying it was "not a film that could be understood" and that "If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to extract an underlying logic from it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through." Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide gave it two stars out of four and said the film "keeps adding layers of confusion so that it becomes less interesting as it goes along! The final 'twist' seems to negate the entire story, like a bad shaggy-dog joke."
His career was derailed in 2006 because of legal problems which saw McTiernan spend time in prison (see below). As a result of his conviction, The Hollywood Reporter called McTiernan one of Hollywood's most "despised" people.
His short film, The Red Dot, was released by Ubisoft to advertise the 2017 video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. It was the first of several action-oriented shorts to support the video game. The Red Dot was his first film project in 14 years.
Personal life
Criminal charges, felony conviction, and incarceration
On April 3, 2006, McTiernan was charged in federal court with making a false statement to an FBI investigator in February 2006 about his hiring the private investigator Anthony Pellicano to illegally wiretap Charles Roven, the producer of his film Rollerball, around August 2000. McTiernan had been in a disagreement with Roven about what type of film Rollerball should be, and had hired Pellicano to investigate Roven's intentions and actions. He had asked Pellicano to try to find instances where Roven made negative remarks about the studio executives or said things to others that were inconsistent with what he said to the studio.
He was arraigned and pleaded guilty on April 17, 2006, as part of an initial plea bargain agreement to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for lenient treatment. Prosecutors said they then became convinced that he was continuing to lie to them, and that he had also hired Pellicano to wiretap someone else (probably his estranged wife Donna Dubrow during their 1997 divorce), prompting them to seek a prison sentence. He then hired new counsel and tried to withdraw his guilty plea, saying that his prior counsel had not conducted a proper discovery in the case and had not presented him with the available defense approach of suppressing as evidence the conversation with him that Pellicano had recorded on August 17, 2000. However, this bid was denied by the Federal District Judge, Dale S. Fischer, who immediately proceeded to sentence him to four months in prison and $100,000 in fines. The judge characterized McTiernan as someone who thought he was "above the law", had shown no remorse, and "lived a privileged life and simply wants to continue that". He was ordered to surrender for incarceration by January 15, 2008, but was allowed to remain out of prison on bail pending an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In October 2008, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated McTiernan's four-month sentence and ruled that Judge Fischer had erred and he was entitled to a hearing as to whether his plea could be withdrawn. The prosecution (and the judge) then agreed to allow McTiernan to withdraw his plea rather than proceed with such a hearing, and his plea was withdrawn on February 24, 2009.
With the case reopened, the prosecution was no longer bound by the prior plea agreement, and filed additional charges against McTiernan, charging him with two counts of lying to the FBI (one count for claiming he had hired Pellicano only in connection with his divorce proceedings and another for denying he had ever discussed wiretapping with Pellicano) and one count of committing perjury during the previous court proceedings by denying he had been coached by his attorney on what to say during his previous guilty plea hearing (a denial that he later stated in a declaration was false). After some adverse rulings on his attempted defense arguments, and facing the possibility of a prison sentence of more than five years on the various charges, McTiernan eventually entered another guilty plea (on all three counts) in a second plea bargain in 2010, conditioned on his plan to appeal the earlier rulings against his defense approach, and Judge Fischer sentenced him to one year in prison, three years of supervised probation, and a fine of $100,000. The judge said that the increased length of the prison sentence was related to the additional, more serious charge of perjury before her court, that McTiernan's crimes were more than just a momentary lapse of judgment, that he still did not seem to have really accepted responsibility for his actions, and that she would have issued an even more lengthy prison sentence if the prosecution had not recommended less. McTiernan was then released on bail pending an appeal of the adverse rulings.
On August 20, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court judgment, but allowed McTiernan to address the U.S. Supreme Court regarding his attempt to suppress the recorded conversation before being required to report to prison. His defense tried to argue that Pellicano had made the recording for an unlawful purpose and that this made it inadmissible, but the district and appeals courts disagreed with that interpretation of the rules of evidence. On January 14, 2013, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
McTiernan surrendered to federal prison on April 3, 2013, to serve a stated 12-month sentence in the Federal Prison Camp, Yankton, in Yankton, South Dakota, a minimum-security former college campus holding about 800 male mainly white-collar criminal offenders. His Bureau of Prisons registration number was 43029-112.43029-112 Find an Inmate, Federal Bureau of Prisons. Although the Yankton facility was rated by Forbes magazine as one of "America's 10 cushiest prisons", during his incarceration his wife said it was very hard for him and that he had lost and was suffering from depression and completely emotionally "disintegrating" there. While in the prison he managed to write a possible sequel for The Thomas Crown Affair, with the working title Thomas Crown And The Missing Lioness. His supporters created a "Free John McTiernan" campaign page on Facebook, including expressions of support from Samuel L. Jackson, Alec Baldwin and Brad Bird. He was released from prison on February 25, 2014, after 328 days of incarceration, to serve the remainder of his 12-month prison sentence under house arrest at his ranch home in Wyoming until April 3, 2014.
Invasion of privacy civil suit
On July 3, 2006, McTiernan's former wife, film producer Donna Dubrow, filed suit against him for invasion of privacy and other claims arising from her belief that he hired Pellicano to wiretap her telephone during their divorce negotiations. The lawsuit continued over time, and was still pending as of October 2015.
Debts and bankruptcy
In October 2013, while in prison, McTiernan filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy amidst foreclosure proceedings for his 3,254-acre (1,317 hectare) ranch residence in central Wyoming (valued at $8–10M), struggles to pay his past legal bills and IRS tax debts, and ongoing expensive disputes including the lawsuit by his ex-wife, a $5M claim against him of liability in a 2011 automobile accident, and his ongoing effort to reverse his felony conviction.
The bank holding the mortgage on the ranch said the filing was a bad-faith tactic only intended to stall the foreclosure proceedings, and requested the presiding judge to convert the case to a chapter 7 bankruptcy – a more drastic form of bankruptcy that would give the bank the power to demand the liquidation of assets rather than requiring them to negotiate with McTiernan.
McTiernan's lawyers countered by saying that his potential for generating additional future income from new projects could enable him to eventually repay his debts, so a rapid liquidation of assets would be unnecessary and unjustified. In the bankruptcy proceedings, he identified two likely future film projects with Hannibal Pictures, with working titles Red Squad and Warbirds, with large budgets and significant likely future income and planned to star major well-known actors. On December 8, 2015, a judge ruled against McTiernan – agreeing with his creditors that his assets should be liquidated. It was reported that his ranch was likely to be sold and that an administrator would take over the management of his future film royalty payments.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Special awards
References
External links
Finke, Nikki, "Film Director Accused of Lying to FBI in Pellicano Scandal" Deadline Hollywood (LA Weekly), Penske Media Corporation, April 3, 2006.
"Filmmaker Says He Lied in FBI Probe" The Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2006.
"Links Between Pellicano, Director Come Into Focus" The Los Angeles Times'', April 5, 2006.
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Category:Science fiction film directors | 0 | en |
I said that both Harper and Trump are/were unable to grasp that both law and policy must conform to constitutional norms. I stand by that claim and the evidence supports me. | 0 | en |
I have news for you. No legal contract is able to negate common rights. | 0 | en |
The trouble started when twitter fanatics were upset over one beach boy (as if that is the first time a child had a tragic death), and MSM pumped the story again and again. | 0 | en |
He could have named said island, Devil's Island Redux. | 0 | en |
Pretty much only Mars, as far as a manned flight goes.
On "Nature of Things" they did a trip to Mars show recently. I liked the comment of a US space station long duration record holder regarding the 5 month trip to Mars. He said, "wait until there is a faster space ship".
I'm all for unmanned trips, but the allure of manned trips and inhabitants is nuts, and what for? Even if there were diamonds up there it wouldn't be cost effective to get them and bring them back.
I like the vertical rockets too, and thought it hilarious the notion of a crane and pulley lifting a pallet out of or into the rocket. Definitely a comic book graphic. And the pipe supported liquid oxygen & hydrogen tanks are utterly silly.
They did what they could. It's fun. | 0 | en |
I'm afraid to see it. | 0 | en |
Waiting for an appointment for a gastro test. 6 months!. There are many good things about the Cdn System (affordability) but, many poor things also (long waits). We should allow a private/public hybrid like in the scandanavian countries. The dogma of no private care and Quoting Tommy Douglas every time we try to modernize our system is harmful, disingenuous and propapaged by vested interests in the status quo such as Nurses unions. | 0 | en |
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