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Dear Emily Post-Avant,
Could you tell me what happened to Flarf? It was all the rage just a few short years ago and then it just disappeared. I mean, totally. I have tried submitting my Flarf poems to magazines and they are all getting rejected, and with form slips. I have about five hundred poems on my computer and they seem destined for the virtual Trash Can of History. Help!
–Flarfist Come Lately
Dear Flarfist Come Lately,
Yours is a very good question. Usually, pop-fads do hang around for a while, in some form of drawn-out senescence. And archeological remains of them will typically be found for a spell, in flea markets and vintage shops (think of the lava lamp, for example, of which still many examples can be found). But you are right. Flarf seems to have vanished into total oblivion in a wink, to have just gone vamoosh and extinct, like the Dodo, with nary a whimper. *Yo, hello, Flarf? Anyone there?? Listen, still plenty of subaltern types out there to poach from and mock if you decide to come back for a second go!*
–Emily Post-Avant
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
I am the Chair of the Department of Modern American Literature, at Gudan University, in Shanghai, China. My book, published in 2012, is concerning the intimate relationship of the center-liberal poet Charles Bernstein and the far right-wing critic Marjorie Perloff, in its aesthetic, cultural, gender, and political implications. I have never heard of this dead Liu Xiaobo, who is a person you keep talking about at the website Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, nor of his wife (under house arrest, you say? Where, please?). What is all this talk and gossip by your website about Liu Xiaobo, who sounds like a traitor to the Communist Party of China, in any case. No one here in our Department knows anything about him.
–Chair of Department of Modern American Literature of Gudan University
Dear Chair of Department of Modern American Literature of Gudan University,
What a fascinating letter! Thank you for sending it. Please give our warm regards to Comrades Bernstein and Perloff, next time they are over there, which would be next year, like every year. We (and history) might still forgive them, but they'd better hurry up and self-criticize.
–Emily Post-Avant
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
I'm a high-school student in Gloucester, Mass. I've heard of the poet Charles Olson, who lived around here, but I don't like to read, esp. fiction and poetry. I like to play computer games, especially World of Warcraft. The other day in the hallway at school I heard my teacher talking to the school principal about the new Olson library across the harbor near Zeke's Place. He said he thought it was "Borgheezian." What does that mean? Sounds like a cool name for an avatar.
Yours, Metrophobius of Glousta
Dear Metrophobius of Glousta,
If you like the World of Warcraft, you may also like the World of Poetry. For it, too, has not a little to do with war, even though the people in the Castle of Metropole who have the Army and the Navy pretend that peace and tranquility reign in the colonized zones, overseen from its ivory towers. Here's how the World of Poetry game more or less sets up: The people with the Army and the Navy control the po-airwaves and the po-presses, and they mercilessly stamp out and blacklist any dissenters. Actually, the people with the Army and Navy have a coterie of bureaucrats in the po-presses and other institutions who carry out their wishes so efficiently that the bureaucrats, as with the invisible hand of the market, hardly ever need to be told what to do. The tiny number of scruffy malcontents in the colonies who do dissent end up getting exiled to the dark hills, far beyond the Metropole, sometimes disappearing entirely, and this terror cowers the general citizenry to such an extent that self-supervision operates willingly and on greased wheels, as if being a Good Citizen of Metropole were merely natural, some inescapable horizon of the possible, and beyond which, of course, there is only the void and oblivion. The people with the Army and the Navy, therefore, are able to pretend that all is hunky-dory and democratic in the World of Poetry, and that they control the Army and the Navy because the greater and inevitable forces of material history deemed it should be so. Still, the strange barbarians roam the dark hills beyond the Castle gates, which are adorned with sirens and fluorescent searchlights. The small tribe of these brigands is very quirky and proud of its pedigree. Among their forces, too (and you will appreciate this), are some weird avatars, who pop up and jump back and forth through the border walls of Metropole at will, and this makes the people with the Army and the Navy very upset, because these avatars don't have Official Identity Cards, and can't be easily managed. Yes, now and then the brigands come down from the hills, cloaked in animal skins and with golden masks in the mad visage of Blake, and they exact provisional justice against this target or that, and then retreat, back into the dark, without a sound. No one dies, because those are the rules of this relatively harmless game. Of course, these hit and run raids are never reported by the presses of the people with the Army and the Navy, because the people in the Castle and suburbs have become very adept at playing said game—their careers and professional identities depend on knowing how to expertly perform it. But one day, my dear young Metrophobius, things will change, as they always do. Empires rise and fall, as you well know from the World of Warcraft, in both the real worlds and in the imaginary ones. Who knows, perhaps you will live to see it happen. Perhaps you will see poetry freed from the Castle and released, as in the times of old, into the wilds of the hills… Oh, and I almost forgot: "Borgheezian" is, properly, "Borgesian." It referrers to the Magus Jorge Luis Borges, who is a great hidden Warlock of Time-Space in the World of Poetry dimension. But take your time. There is no rush, and easy as she goes. Try starting with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, or Gary Snyder, say, instead. A phenomenon called Language Poetry is on an introductory level, too. This is easier stuff that might whet your appetite. You may like them. They, too, once came down out of the hills and set fire to the Castle. Though the fire was cold and not hot, and thus quickly contained. Thus, the Castle didn't burn down. And now there are statues to them inside it.
–Emily Post-Avant
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
I am a male poet, writing you in advance of the next AWP conference, which is soon approaching. I am a handsome twenty-six-year old, charismatic, six-packed, hung, holder of my MFA program's non-teaching stipend. I have published in three magazines, and one of those poems was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, by my thesis advisor, with whom, in full disclosure, I did have an affair, but the nomination had absolutely nothing to do with that. If anything, it was despite that! My question is an uncomfortable one. Usually, when I hang out with straight women poets at the AWP (I've been to six or seven of them), a good number of them seem to want (after a couple hours of talking and flirting have elapsed) to have sex with me. Or two or three of them, anyway, I don't want to exaggerate. I know it sounds egocentric to say something like that, but it's true, swear to God. And the sex is very good and perfectly gentlemanly, I assure you, inasmuch as I only ever do what I am asked to do (though sometimes what I am asked to do embarrasses even me!). My question, knowing that things have become a bit "fraught" of late in regards sex in the world of academia, especially if the consenting parties have each had even one single drink of alcohol together: Should sex be avoided at all costs at the AWP, where so many academic institutions are represented, or do you think it is OK to just go ahead and do it, so long as both (or more) partners are still coherent, sane, and really want to?
–Handsome and Six-Packed Poet
Dear Handsome and Six-Packed Poet,
Consensual sex is consensual sex. Non-consensual sex is rape. That's pretty simple. It sounds to me like you are the consensual (and consenting!) kind. Not only that, it sounds to me like you are a gentleman. Given the circumstances, however, my recommendation to you is to just masturbate in your room before going down to the hotel lobby. Can you send me your phone number, though? Mine is 922-557-2121.
–Emily Post-Avant
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
I am a 55-year-old male POC poet. Through no fault of my own, and as a high percentage of American men my age do, I have man boobs. They are quite large and protrude in ways that cause me quite a bit of embarrassment. In particular, and as part of this condition, my nipples are usually puffy and erect, and they show prominently through my vestment. When I gave a reading two weeks ago in Buffalo, some of the grad students in the audience, male and female, began to giggle and whisper. I thought that in the poetry world, at least, people would be mature and tolerant enough to not laugh at someone for what is, in fact, a fairly common medical condition. But apparently not, as I have begun to realize more and more, especially in the classroom, much to my distress. Last week, in fact, I had to call off class and leave the room. I cried in my office for fifteen minutes. Do you have any advice for me? My career depends on teaching, giving readings, and making semi-regular appearances at conferences and summer writing retreats. But, increasingly, my "moobs" are getting in the way of doing this without a discomforting amount of self-consciousness.
–Poet Concerned About His Man Breasts
Dear Poet Concerned About His Man Breasts,
As you suggest, there is nothing wrong with having man boobs. I just looked at Google, and I see that most men after fifty will be affected by this condition, for some period of time, to some extent or another. Next time you are reading and you see that these young careerist MFA types are giggling at you from inside the high school adolescence they have not grown out of (and likely never will, especially after they become Assistant Professors), why not just dramatically take off your shirt, hold your handsome Moobs in your hands, and ask them to suck on your nipples, bitches? Seriously. I'll bet that will shut the little shits up. Other than that, I sympathize with your predicament. I'd say I empathize with your predicament, but fact is that my problem, as a woman, is the opposite of yours. I'm flat as a cedar 2X4! And with much higher than normal testosterone levels, I actually have to shave my chin and upper lip three times a week. I've been laughed at, too, by poets of all colors. Most poets are people who were unpopular as teens, and these types tend to become competitive, backstabbing assholes, when they get older. To hell with them, I say, and just be proud of your Man tits, you know?
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
I'm writing a paper and I was wondering if you could help me. How can you really know when to scan a pyrrhic or a spondee? Do they even properly exist? That is, so long as traditional prosody freely allows for the substitution of a trochee for an iamb at the head of the line (in rarer cases vice-versa), or, for that matter, for elisions, in which case a foot can be scanned as headless (missing its first syllable, unstressed or stressed), how does one "read" a subsequently "appearing" pyrrhic or spondee with any level of certainty, given that substitution or elision at the head of the verse essentially turns all "objective" metrical pattern into arbitrary subjective interpretation?
–Metrically Challenged in Cincinnati
Dear Metrically Challenged in Cincinnati,
Smart question, but so what, you know? I mean, don't get your underwear into knots about it. No one really knows or knew, not even the Greeks or the Romans. Poetry is a bottomless pit, a suck hole, an ontological death-trap posing as an epistemological riddle. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If they do, they are enemies of it.
–Emily Post-Avant
Dear Emily Post-Avant,
Does poetry tell the truth or does poetry lie?
–Trans in Slippery Rock, NY
Dear Trans in Slippery Rock, NY,
Full fathom five, dear. For poetry's indifferent to the difference, with her solemn, now laughing mask. It is like a boy turning into a girl, or a girl turning into a boy. Or it is like the two in their difference turning and then joining in joy. Or it is like two of the same, yet not joining. Or it is like two of one lying with one of the other, or vice versa. Or it is like two in their difference not joining. Or it is like two of the same joining in joy. Or it is like all of these together, joyful, in a second-best bed. Or it is like one standing alone, and weeping for the other who is dead. Or it is like the dead one haunting the other, the latter who then goes down and has breakfast, in a hotel in London. And then the dead one appears in front of him or her, and sits down, and says, "Why did you lie to me in what you said? Tell me why, whether you lie again, or not, because I won't be able to rest in the truth of my death until so." And that living person choking on his or her bacon and eggs is the poet.


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With all the major server vendors planning to incorporate ESB capabilities into their core offerings within a few years, IT managers are wondering whether to jump in now with major ESB upgrades, or wait for the capability to show up in their new Microsoft or IBM servers with only the incremental cost to pay.
As for ESB vendors, Gartner analyst Roy Schulte predicts that, just as the browser became a subsystem within the operating system, the ESB will become a subsystem within the application server. Some of the smaller players with novel technologies will be acquisition candidates, while the products of others will grow into successful full-blown integration backbones.
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text: Mark Kraemer Earns Certified School Risk Managers Designation Written by Mark Kraemer on 6/1/2016 3:00 AM in certifications, Mark Kraemer. It has 0 Comments. At Minnesota Comp Advisor, we're not just focused on the present, but on the future. To that end, we're constantly striving to expand our knowledge and resources to the betterment of our business, as well as the betterment of the world around us. To help us meet those goals, Mark Kraemer, one of our longstanding and trusted workman's comp advisors, has successfully completed the necessary requirements to earn his Certified School Risk Managers (CSRM) designation. This new designation will allow him to better help area school districts and better protect students and staff. Working hard to support the community To become a CSRM, Mark attended training in five advanced courses spanning all aspects of school risk management, as well as completed rigorous exams. As part of his long-term career commitment, Mark must also continue his education each year to update his knowledge and skills in the school risk management arena. A cut above A long time speaker and educator on the subject of workman's comp, Mark is honored to join the ranks of CSRMs in Minnesota, of which there are only 33. "The designation was an obvious choice for me to pursue," says Mark, "the more we help school districts, the more I need to understand what kind of issues they face on a daily basis with their risk management program." Looking for a workman's comp solution that always has the bigger picture in mind? The certified and caring experts at Minnesota Comp Advisor are here to meet the complex needs of your business and your employees. Find out how we can make a difference to you, too. Contact us today.


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Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010
By Aggrey Sam
DETROITBulls television analyst Stacey King will not be in attendance at Sundays game against the Pistons, after the death of his mother, Lois Jean King, Saturday evening. She was 75. Bulls radio analyst Bill Wennington will join play-by-play man Neil Funk in Kings absence, while Chuck Swirsky will handle radio duties alone Sunday. CSNChicago.com expresses its condolences.
1. In the wake of Derrick Roses three free-throw attemptsdespite repeatedly getting hitSaturday against the Knicks, Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau discussed the All-Star point guards lack of whistles going to the hole prior to Sundays game. We want him to get to the line more and we dont want him to not drive because hes not getting the calls. We want him to continue to attack and hes got to drive with force, which he does. I think he drives with speed and when he gets hit, he should be getting the calls. The one thing that he doesnt do is he doesnt exaggerate contact and sometimes in this league, thats what you have to do. Thats probably something that he can work on, butI dont want him to change anything that hes doing. I think a big part of who he is and what makes him so special is when hes attacking in transition. When hes coming at you with a head of steam, I want him to get to the rim as quickly as he can and then make his decision at the rim. I think as time goes on, he will get more and more calls, said Thibodeau. Hes got a great way about him. His demeanor is excellent and hes very respectful of the officials. I think at the appropriate time, he has to make his points to the officials, which I think hes getting better at. Sometimes its hard because of his speed, quickness and strength because its happening so quick, sometimes its not being recognized. But I think, in time, hell get calls.
2. Pistons center Ben Wallace talked about Chicago, his former team, before Sundays game. I think they made a lot of good changes. They got a lot of good pieces with the addition of Carlos Boozer, Brewer. Those guys know how to play and theyve been playing in a structured system where they got a lot of discipline, and you can tell it definitely helps that team out. When they get Joakim back, I only think theyre going to get that much better, Wallace told CSNChicago.com.
3. Wallace also discussed former teammate Luol Deng with CSNChicago.com. Lus a true professional. It doesnt matter what you say, what situation you put him in, you know hes going to find a way to make the best out of the situation. He got criticized when I was there, he still catches some criticism right now, but all he does is go out there and play hard and thats all you can ask, said Wallace. Sometimes, people find somebody they can pick on and thats all they do. But hes always been a professional. He just goes out, plays hard, plays his game, plays within himself and makes the most out of his opportunities.
4. Injured Bulls center Joakim Noah was mentored by Wallace upon entering the NBA, and Big Ben expressed pride in his former protgs development. Joakims not one of those guys whos happy to be out there. Hes out there making a difference. You could see the upside as a rookie. He had that drive, he had that hunger and he had that potential. Now, hes developed into a contender in this league. If he continues to play like that, hes going to be an All-Star in this league.
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This episode sees the controls of the Time Sofa hijacked by our own Simon Price, who force-lands it smack in the middle of 1981. He's been saying for ages that '81 is the greatest Pop year ever, forcing us to throw down the frilly, fingerless gauntlet.
Things start weirdly with Simon Bates looking like a supply teacher and the return of Slade and Alvin, but then it's wave after wave of 'bands' that don't even have proper drums and make records by just pressing a button, don't you know, interspersed with black men slinking about and even getting skinheads to wave their hands in the air.
Any Brexiteers who can stomach Leee John being all sexually threatening and David Sylvian looking like Lady Di will be trapping a creased-up England flag in their bedroom windows in unrestrained joy to see a practically all-British line-up, and Madness have dropped another video, but it's not all good news: Barbara Gaskin comes on like a glammed-up Candice-Marie in Nuts In May, and a soon-to-be-on-the-dole Legs & Co look on as Lulu scabs out and dances with someone called Jeremy.
Al Needham, Taylor Parkes and Simon Price pick through the dress-up box that is 1981, veering off to discuss dog auto-fellatio, throwing Molotov cocktails into Welsh churches, whether people in Birmingham are proud of Crossroads (or not), cousins who get pissed up at your auntie's do and accuse you of being gay, and why it's a bad idea to do an Ant Stripe with Tipp-Ex. The usual swearing, and edited dead fast in order to get it out before the end of the month, so if it's shonkier than usual, soz.


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Villa boss David O'Leary has fast-tracked the player who broke Darius Vassell's youth goalscoring record into his senior squad.
Prolific striker Gabriel Agbonlahor was included in the party that travelled to Portsmouth last weekend.
Amazingly the local-born under-18 and reserve striker has only been playing the game seriously for four years.
The 18-year-old, who is involved in negotiations to put him on a lengthy first professional contract, is being given a taste of the big-time because of a lack of senior strikers.
Carlton Cole is struggling with a hip injury, Vassell made his first appearance for the reserves in a month last night while Stefan Moore is out of favour.
It means there is precious little back-up to first-team starters Juan Pablo Angel and Luke Moore.
Academy director Bryan Jones believes Agbonlahor can make just as dramatic an impact on the first team as Vassell did when he broke through over six years ago.
He said: "Gabriel can be as good in the game as he wants to be."
Agbonlahor scored 40 goals for the under-17s last year, 35 of which came in just 28 starts in their league title and play-off winning league campaign which saw them humble Everton 6-2 in a two-leg final.
His other five goals came in successive games in the club's march to the final of the FA Youth Cup which saw them fall to Middlesbrough.
It broke Vassell's all-time record of 39 goals achieved in 1997/98, the year before he broke into John Gregory's first team.
Agbonlahor is back in the youth side for tonight's FA Youth Cup fifth-round trip to Ipswich Town (7pm), having scored the only goal in the last round win over Port Vale.
Jones believes O'Leary deserves credit for promoting yet another youngster from the Academy.
He said: "Gabriel has blistering pace. He arrived quite late, as an under-14, so he has only been playing the game four years.
"He was spotted playing Sunday League because of his raw pace but he could hardly kick a ball.
"What he has done is continue to score goals at a prolific rate and develop into what he is now. "He broke Darius's goalscoring record in his first year as a scholar and has broken into the reserves this season.
"With the first team being short of strikers he has been given the chance to play at the highest level and he is definitely capable of making the grade.
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How to Enter BIOS on an Asus Motherboard
The basic input/output system, stored to a flash memory chip embedded in the ASUS motherboard, tests, detects and configures the hardware devices connected to the PC. Administrators can access the BIOS at startup to change how the hardware operates as needed; businesses that make use of legacy devices, for example, can alter the BIOS to enable the motherboard to detect and utilize older hardware. You can access the BIOS from the boot screen using a specific keyboard combination.
Turn on the computer or click "Start," point to "Shut Down" and then click "Restart."
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Can Cameras Replace Cops?
No one can say for sure why murders and violent crimes are on the rise in Chicago. But some criminologists are questioning why the new police superintendent, Jody Weis, is moving away from proven community policing strategies.
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In fact, Chicago's cybersleuth plan was launched nearly a decade ago. It began, in part, with the creation of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) and the million-dollar buildout of a network of underground fiberoptic cables designed to allow the sharing of surveillance among its police, fire, and other departments. After 9/11, federal funding bolstered the city's defense and surveillance strategies.
Today, Chicago's surveillance network is widely regarded as among the finest in the nation, if not the world. Inside the command center at OEMC at 1411 West Madison Street, the main control room is designed like the hull of a ship with dedicated sections for police, fire, and other city services. A staffer tracking, say, the route of a fire truck can follow its path on monitors as long as there's a camera within 150 feet of the vehicle. The picture quality is almost as good as a household television. (The police department has the smaller but similar control room, the Crime Prevention and Information Center, or CPIC.)
Besides being less expensive, cameras are believed to have several other benefits. First, there's the general idea that the very sight of the machines will deter crime because people are less likely to misbehave when they feel as though they're being watched. Criminologists believe that the overall effect is to transform once blighted corners, alleys, and the like into safe spots where law-abiding behavior can take over. Second, cameras can be used to move crime away from certain areas, and funnel it toward spots where police might have an easier time making an arrest: forcing drug dealers, for instance, toward a dead-end street where they'd have a tough time making a getaway. Surveillance video can also make for solid evidence in court. "Rather than having the guys do surveillance on the street, they are sitting back and watching it on the cameras," Weis says. "They've got the cars identified, they know who to go after, and they can arrest the people."
So much surveillance raises serious privacy issues, of course, and every technological development seems to push society closer to the dreaded Big Brother universe. But from a strictly law enforcement perspective, the criticism of camera surveillance starts with an obvious but essential fact: A camera cannot make an arrest. Beyond that, how often does a camera prevent a crime? On some streets, criminals are confident that, even though they're being recorded, their crimes will go unpunished. "In some parts of my ward the guys are so bold they'll commit crimes right underneath the cameras," says Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. (27th). "They know where the blind spots are."
And who is actually watching the video feeds? "As the camera network continues to grow and grow and grow, you're faced with that concern: How do you view so many cameras with a limited amount of resources?" says Ray Orozco, commissioner of the OEMC. "The answer to that is simple: We use technology to review technology."
Beginning late last year, Emergency Management began a slow rollout of a $550,000 federally funded program called video analytics, a form of artificial intelligence that searches the video surveillance system for specific video cues. In real time, the system can now set up a perimeter around a portion of the city, an "electronic fence," and sound an alert when, say, a red truck passes through. On a more local level, a camera on a street corner can be programmed to look for signs of a fight—perhaps by focusing on images of a group moving together. The system can also troll through thousands of hours of archived footage. As an example, Orozco described how authorities were trying to determine whether someone had buried something in a popular city park. Using video analytics, they gave the camera system an "inject," the image of a shovel, and had the system troll through months of prerecorded footage. (Nothing was found.)
City officials won't reveal the exact number of surveillance cameras in place in the city's 234 square miles, claiming they don't want to reveal blind spots in coverage. Nor is it easy to determine how much the city spends on surveillance. Much of the network has been paid for with federal money or tucked into various city department budgets. On a neighborhood level, for instance, aldermen can set up cameras with money from their ward budgets, and there doesn't seem to be anyone specifically accounting for these local expenditures.
What's more, the city's network is being bolstered by various city departments and entities: the Chicago Transit Authority, Navy Pier, McCormick Place, Soldier Field, and so on. And Orozco says the police department has started linking the system with private security cameras, those owned and operated by businesses, schools, and even everyday citizens. Last fall, Charles Hill, who has lived in West Chatham with his wife and three boys for the past 13 years, became the first homeowner to connect to the OEMC's system. His six cameras—installed at a total cost of about $3,000—are trained on his treelined sidewalk, the alley to the west, the industrial street to the south, and the vacant lot to the north. Each camera can capture footage up to 200 yards away. "It's going to serve the block far greater than it will serve me," Hill says. "This block can be too damn quiet. Things happen and no one sees them. Now we've got a chance to identify anything illegal."
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At the next month's CAPS meeting in South Chicago, about 20 people gathered, once again, in the basement of Immaculate Conception Church. A cool October breeze blew in from a set of open doors, and this time the room was arranged differently, as if someone was hosting a banquet. The residents sat in circles around two small tables and four police officers, all of them from the third watch, gathered behind a larger table at the front of the room.
Officer Juana Cuadrado began by announcing another court appearance for the men charged in the Nequiel Fowler shooting. If enough people were interested in going, Cuadrado said, the alderman's office might pay for a school bus to take everyone to the courthouse. The discussion then moved to another staple of CAPS meetings, a rundown of arrests and the number of calls made to police. Since the last meeting, there had been 46 arrests, 19 juvenile arrests, and 2,522 calls for service.
The numbers didn't sound right. The residents looked at Cuadrado in disbelief. "I know you guys are frustrated with police not being there," Cuadrado said quietly.
"What's going on?" one man asked. "We used to have over 100 arrests a month."
"The budget's been cut," one of the beat officers replied. "There was a newspaper article about it. Jody Weis is cutting the budget again; they're retiring officers and only hiring 200 new ones. We're going to be short 800 officers. But why don't you come and look at the nice camera I have in my car?"
The second beat officer added: "They have a GPS system so they can know where we are. So any incident that anyone has a complaint about, if it happens in front of the car, the whole incident will be videotaped."
The residents shook their heads in disgust. "You think they can pawn that bean we have downtown?" one resident asked sarcastically, referring to the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park. "So they could pay for more officers?"
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Let me start off with this from the Guardian: "Right now, the Earth's average surface temperature is hotter than it's been in thousands of years; potentially even longer." Wow! Thousands of years! I have directly lifted the following copy - "Stunning," "wow," "shocker," "bombshell," "astronomical," "insane," "unprecedented"– these are some of the words climate scientists have used to describe the record-shattering global surface temperatures in February 2016. The story goes on: " It's difficult to see any 'pause' or slowdown in the global warming over the past 50 years. To put the current temperatures into context, prior to last October, monthly global surface temperatures had not been more than 0.96°C hotter than the 1951–1980 average, according to Nasa. The past 5 months have been 1.06°C, 1.03°C, 1.10°C, 1.14°C, and 1.35°C hotter than that average, absolutely destroying previous records." Again Wow.
Then I saw these two graphs pop up on Twitter this week. They are the sea water temperatures in Sydney and Melbourne. Just look at the black line - that's this year. You can work the rest out for yourself.
No wonder then the UK's leading health institutions have this week launched a new alliance, calling on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to urgently strengthen the National Health Servcies' ability to respond to worsening climate-related health impacts. According to Business Green, the group, which includes the British Medical Association, the Lancet, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the Royal College of General Practitioners, and the Climate and Health Council, said its aim was to "encourage stronger, smarter approaches to tackling climate change that protect and promote public health, whilst also reducing the burden on health services". The group said it was "united by a shared understanding that climate change poses an unacceptable threat to the well-being of our patients and the British public and risks undermining the broader social determinants of health".
There was some good news this week. The President of the United States of America and China announced another significant step in their joint climate efforts, the White House said in a statement. The United States and China will sign the Paris Agreement on April 22nd and take their respective domestic steps in order to join the Agreement as early as possible this year. They encourage other Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to do the same, with a view to bringing the Paris Agreement into force as early as possible. The Presidents further express their commitment to work together and with others to promote the full implementation of the Paris Agreement to win the fight against the climate threat.
Over in the UK, green financing and cash for climate-friendly infrastructure projects will be a priority for September's G20 meeting in China, the governor of the Bank of England said on Wednesday. Climate Change News said Mark Carney told a gathering of leading bankers in London 2016 was the year to "mainstream" finance tools like green bonds, a market that grew to US$65 billion in 2015. "It's a fundamental issue that will go straight up to leaders this year," said Carney, who surprised many analysts with his strong call for climate action last year. Later this year, a taskforce set up by the Financial Stability Board, which Carney chairs, is primed to recommend companies offer more details about their exposure to oil, gas and coal assets.
The BBC reported global investment in renewable energy hit a record US$285.9bn (£202.3bn) in 2015, beating the previous high of $278.5bn set in 2011, a study shows. "The 10th Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment also showed that investment in developing nations exceeded that in developed countries. In another first, more new renewables capacity than fossil-fuel generation came online during 2015. But it warned that much more had to be done to avoid dangerous climate change." Meanwhile, China is planning to increase total wind power capacity by 22 per cent this year, reiterating the government's plans to keep renewable energy development high. The news was published on the country's (Mandarin) National Energy Administration website. Bloomberg Business, which translated the statement, said that the Chinese Government is aiming to develop 30.83 GW of wind power this year, which is relatively in line with the 33 GW the country developed in 2015. Reporting on the story out of China came from Clean Technica.
It was no wonder then when the ANZ announced it is absorbing a bigger than expected loss as a result of lending to the mining industry. According to Guardian, this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg as coal and other fossil fuels go into structural decline, based on their discussions with some financial analysts. "ANZ announced to the Australian stock exchange on Thursday that over the past month, conditions have changed such that expected costs associated with lending to the mining and resources sector would increase from a projected $800m to more than $900m.
That's just the beginning.
Note: Andrew Woodward is the endorsed Australian Labor Party Candidate for Warringah but contributes this column as a Climate Reality Leader and as such its content is strictly politically non-partisan.


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The University of Texas at Austin, 1993, BFA
My work pulls from a multitude of experiences and perspectives that often result in seemingly inconsequential interactions between object and space. The imagery employed can be as disjunctive as modern life while at times struggling to point to the latest breaking sound bite that is forgotten by days end. I cannot always predict where visual information is going to bear its head, so I continue to search and question the things I see and experience. Some days it's the visual imagery swirled from a novel or conversation, others it's a science illustration from elementary school and still others could come running from an open garage. No matter the source I am eager to attempt the conjunction of actions, objects and places. Configuration and design are at the heart of these equations and are exercised in an attempt to provide the spin between the fragmented stories and the spaces they inhabit. While I have employed simultaneity affording multiple possibilities I must say I'm most content with the disjuncture of daily life. - J. Todd Allison
J. Todd Allison received a B.F.A. in Art History and Studio Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and then he received a M.A. in Painting from the University of Wyoming in Laramie and a M.F.A. in Art and Design from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He then moved to the Houston area where he has lived and regularly exhibited for the last sixteen years. His work has exhibited throughout Houston and across Texas in venues such as the Arlington Museum of Art, Cardozier Gallery at the University of Texas Permian Basin, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, Old Fort Russell Building in Marfa and the Jones Center for the Arts in Austin. Nationally, he has shown in venues such as I-Space Chicago, Illinois, the Kauffman Gallery at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, RPS Gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Shift Gallery in Seattle, Washington and the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. Most recently he participated in an exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Trujillo, Peru. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections from the east to west coast and is included in many publications.
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Guys, I have to be honest. I hate the phrase "get your body back". Specifically I hate this phrase when used to describe what postpartum women's apparent goal is supposed to be. And I've even said it before! More than words, it's been a way of thinking. Getting "back" to a certain weight. Getting "back" to a certain feeling. And it's usually motivational, right? Like, rah rah, lets all get our bodies back! And I'm not coming at this from the viewpoint of someone who is super thin and only has to lose that last 5lbs. Haha no…this girl gained a full 40lbs being pregnant (technically 39 but who's counting? Oh yeah, I am). So clearly there's work that needs to be done.
But the term "get back" implies that you lost something. Or that something was stolen from you. Either way, it implies we're somehow lacking something. But when I look at my little boy, I don't think I've lost anything. I may have gained weight but I gained so much more than that. And I think I'm just tired of a society that makes us feel like in having a baby we've somehow lost something important. This is how I feel about that.
So in solidarity, let's give up shitty terms that make us feel bad about ourselves. Be happy, be healthy, be well. Rock that belly, or stretch marks, or whatever else you might try and hide about your bod. There's nothing wrong with wanting to get in shape, and I think that's an awesome goal I'm working on myself; but lets not lose sight of the fact that our bodies did something amazing and will never actually be the same. And that's pretty cool.


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Light-colored shirts go nicely with purple pants. Shorts aren't a summer essential!
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The AtmosAware™ built environment monitoring system monitors concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5), Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC), measuring temperature, and relative humidity. Check current measurements or analyze historical levels to detect important changes — conveniently, quickly and on the go.
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New disability physical activity sessions launch in Norfolk
PUBLISHED: 20:24 12 September 2018 | UPDATED: 20:24 12 September 2018
Young disabled people will be able to get more active in their local day centres thanks to the newly launched On the Move programme.
The initiative aims to deliver activity sessions to an estimated 1,500 disabled young adults in Norfolk over the next four years.
Phase one of the programme will begin with a series of 10-week activity sessions at five locations.
They include the Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Holt Independence Matters day centres, the NANSA centre in Norwich and the Headway day centre in Great Yarmouth.
Active Norfolk secured almost £290,000 of Sport England Core Markets funding for the On the Move programme.
It is the most significant level of disability sport funding to be brought into the county in the past 10 years, and will provide much-needed support to cash-strapped adult social care services.
The first phase of the four-year project began on Tuesday, with another 10 locations coming in 2019, including day centres in Breckland and South Norfolk.
Almost 100 day centres, sports clubs and leisure centres will be taking part in the county-wide project.
Active Norfolk has commissioned Norwich-based social enterprise EPIC (Exercising People in Communities) to deliver the first round of sessions.
Trainers from EPIC will first conduct taster sessions and service user consultations, then deliver a tailored 10-week package of physical activity sessions.
After that, the activity sessions will be continued in-house through upskilling identified Sporting Champions within each centre.
A web-based mapping directory has been created to help disabled people identify centres with available activities.
The directory can be found at www.activenorfolk.org/onthemove
Ellen Vanlint, disability project officer at Active Norfolk, said: "On the Move will have a real impact on local sporting opportunities and the awareness of their locations, whilst supporting some of the adult care providers in Norfolk to offer more active opportunities to the benefit of their customers."
Disability organisations interested in being part of On The Move can contact Ellen Vanlint on 01603 731 566 or at email@example.com
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Some lawmakers who toured a migrant facility in Texas have reported disturbing details on what they saw inside. On Tuesday, images of overcrowding in the detention facilities were released by the office of the inspector general.
News 8's Heather Hope looked to separate the truth from fiction when it comes to treatment in the facilities in this VERIFY report.
As members of Congress toured Texas border detention facilities, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made this startling claim: "These women were being told by CBP officers to drink out of the toilet."
So, we looked to verify: is border patrol forcing immigrants to drink from the toilet?
Customs Border Protection says that claim is FALSE. In a statement CBP wrote: "they're drinking potable water from the sink attached to the toilet."
An image shows, it is a 2-in-1 setup with a stainless-steel toilet bowl right at the bottom, connected to a sink directly on top of it.
San Diegans shouted to shut down the shelters at the Otay Mesa detention center on Tuesday with complaints of overcrowding.
We wanted to verify: how crowded are some U.S. detention facilities?
The inspector general says claims of packed shelters are true with the pictures to prove it showing overcrowded families inside the Texas shelters in June wearing aluminum foil blankets.
Border Patrol statistics show the Rio Grande Valley has the highest volume on the southwest border, with over 223,000 apprehensions in the first eight months of 2019. This total number marking a 124% increase compared to the same time last year.
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Feelin' Green in Margheritaville
This refreshing summer cocktail is always a hit when we serve it to guests. It's inspired by Fernando's Pub's famous avocado margarita.
- 1 tray Ice Cubes (about 2 cups) crushed
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1 cup fresh Cucumbers peeled
- 2 tablespoons Sugar
- 1/4 cup juice from fresh Lime
- 2 tablespoons fresh Cilantro
- 4 ounces Tequila, Vodka or Rum (choose one!)
Throw everything in a blender or food processor and mix until smooth. Rub rim of glass with lime wedge, then rub over a plate of fine salt or sugar (whatever you prefer- I do half and half). Pour over ice and garnish with a cucumber wedge. I was too lazy to peel the cucumber and it still tasted great, but was a little bit chunkier than if I had removed the skin. Serves 2-3.


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When moving out of an area that we service, we will need you to fill out a move out form.
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On the second half of your bill under Account Number and Name is a chart, the chart states "Read Dates" the "Previous" is the start of the bill date, and the "Present" is the end of the bill date (i.e. Previous- 2017-04-03/Present-2017-05-01).
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Job creation and youth employment
"Developing sustainable youth employment policies in an era of fiscal constraints"by Anna Dalosi
Presidency Conference on job creation and youth employment: "Developing sustainable youth employment policies in an era of fiscal constraints" was held in "Filoxenia" Conference Centre, Nicosia, 22-23 October 2012.
Joint Conference of the Employment Committee (EMCO) and the Heads of Public Employment Services (HoPES) of Member States, Ministry of Labour & Social Insurance - Department of Labour.
The Presidency Conference on Employment Priorities took place with the participation of members of the Employment Committee and the Public Employment Services together with representatives of Social Partners, educational training institutions, the EU Commission, and other European Institutions and stakeholders. The objectives of the conference were: to review the problems and barriers in employment, to encourage the EU Member States to initiate strategic activities in employment, and to establish proposals for new employment policies. The theme of the Conference was Youth Employment and some of the topics addressed were: training opportunities (apprenticeships, traineeships), matching the qualifications and expectations of young people with the needs of the market, and working conditions. Youth Employment was linked to the Youth Opportunities Initiative and the forthcoming Employment Package.
László ANDOR, European Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Consolidating Europe's Single Market, will launch Skills Panorama in December 2012. Skills Panorama is expected to analyse skills mismatches across the EU, to provide foresight on skills needs and to provide information on sector-specific skill demand and supply, including green skills, and labour market dynamics.
All of us working in the fields of Youth and/ or Life-long Learning and Training are anticipating Skills Panorama trying to guess the level of correlation between this initiative and the eight well- known key competences for lifelong learning introduced by EU in 2006 (communication in the mother tongue, communication in foreign languages, mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology, digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness and expression).
Anna Dalosi participated in the Workshop: "Fostering youth employment by exploiting new job creation opportunities". Here is a short account of the workshop.
Mr. Sandiago Lorance Garcia from the EU Commission spoke on the challenges of the three sectors which are expected to gather the larger number of jobs created (Green Jobs, Health Care & Social Welfare, and ICT) and the actions undertaken so far in EU.
Prof. Anne Green from the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, U.K. spoke on the role of employment strategies and presented an experiment which took place in U.K in order to study the experiences of young disadvantaged job seekers. She also argued the general acknowledgment that entering the job markets equals escaping poverty and social exclusion and she made a point that employability does not necessarily ensure employment.
In his presentation "Supporting youth integration into the labour market using skills intelligence and Vocational Education and Training (VET)", Mr. Konstantinos Pouliakas, from Cedefop spoke on the difficulty in matching skills with jobs, the Europe 2020 Employment Package, the establishment of Sector Skills Councils and the Skills Panorama. The speaker stressed the importance of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in meeting labour market needs. He also referred to the study "the entry of young people into the labour market" conducted in 2009 and the typical pathways for young people in Europe. Mr. Pouliakas suggested that it is not certain that VET can ensure jobs more than higher education nd for this reason encouraging people to follow VET needs to be taken under serious consideration before designing new employment policies.
The workshop was chaired by prof. Gabriel Amitsis, member of the Presidency Conference Scientific Committee.


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I am trying to remember back four years to the morning after Obama's first inauguration. Was I this excited and expectant? I don't think so. In fact this morning isn't like any other- even the mornings after his elections. Today is the best morning ever to wake up gay. Yesterday marks the moment in history when gay rights became truly mainstream America. Sure, gay rights had been a political party platform item; progress continued on legislative efforts; and presidents had used then"G" word in positive ways. Even this president had evolved personally, and supported Marriage Equality. But this morning is the first morning ever, when our rights to life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness, became inseparable from a liberal view of the American Dream.
On Sunday evening my partner Brad, and I went and saw the movie Lincoln. It wasn't intentional going the night before the inauguration- it just happened that way. The movie is amazing, and a must see for anyone especially activists of any stripe. But especially in relation to Obama and this morning in 2013, one scene stands out so clearly. Lincoln is talking, and asks if people know about the triangle: the mathematical equation that if one thing equals another and that equals something other, then the first equals the latter. I remember it well:
If A = B, and B = C, then A= C.
These laws of mathematics are not theory or opinion, but proven out. Perhaps Obama had seen the movie too, and this had struck him as well, for he used the same thinking to name the love of a committed gay couple as equal too. I suppose this could be called merely semantics, but for me, what Obama did was call gay men and women equal rather than merely say we deserved to be treated as equal. I do not only deserve Equality, but I am equal. I am one of "we the people." I don't believe it is just semantics. Obama gave us, gay and lesbian people, a place within the whole of the American Dream in a way that had never been articulated so clearly before.
Do I feel any different? Not really. I have always believed that I belong- that I was part of we the people. However this was the very first time I heard the Leader of the Free World, say it so clearly.
Profound is the word that comes to mind. As the tea baggers, obstructionists, second amen dentists, and secessionists portray Liberal ideas as anti -American, Obama placed these ideas within the pre-constitutional beginnings of our country. Not so unlike the other President from Illinois. While jurists may argue about the interpretation of the Constitution, Obama linked gay rights and other rights directly to the thinking of our founding fathers. We hold these truths to be self evident.
Now is when the truly hard work begins. Words are only words unless we become willing to go the distance to bring them to fruition. Democracy is difficult and messy and perfecting democracy is a challenging task. Equal or not, we have not experienced the end of our frustrations and ill treatment. In fact, the most hard work ay be ahead of us still. But we are not on this journey alone, nor are we outside of the mainstream any longer. My gay brothers and sisters are we the people in a new way; a self evident way, and we can never be put outside the whole again. .


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This dress and coat have definitely been my go-to items this week. I love smock style dresses lately and this simple one from Boohoo is no exception. It comes in lots of colours so I'm very tempted to get more! I did have to take it up because it was too long for me but I love this dress with tights and boots.
I am totally in love with these new cut out boots that I got from BANK. You can't see them that well in these photos but I'm sure I'll be wearing them in more outfit posts to come! If you want to see them in more detail check out my September Favourites video and I talk a bit about them.
This coat is really going to be a staple for this winter, it's super warm and really easy to wear. I especially love to wear my fur stole with it but I think it would look better with a black one so I may have to try and find one!
So the reason for the title of today's post is that I start my first full time tomorrow as a Marketing Assistant, ahhhhh! I'm very excited but also feeling very nervous. It will be quite a shock to the system, going from being a
lazy student to working 9-5.30, but I'm looking forward to a routine and having a challenge. I have a lot to owe to my blog and YouTube as I know I probably wouldn't have got the job if it wasn't for them! I am going to continue my blog and I've got posts planned so it should all be fine!


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text: 'Breakup Buddies' ('Xin Hua Lu Fang'): Film Review 12:04 AM PDT 10/6/2014 by Clarence Tsui FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME A loud and brash piece of broken-up farce. TWITTER 'No Man's Land' stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng reunite with director Ning Hao in a road movie about two men seeking easy sex Boasting two of China's most bankable A-listers as principals, Ning Hao's road-movie - his second in 12 months, after the long-gestated Berlin competition entry No Man's Land - has proved to be the unsurprising hit during the country's week-long National Day festive break: the film, which bowed at Toronto before its domestic opening on Sept. 30, has already generated takings of over a whopping $100 million. Beyond the ringing tills, however, Breakup Buddies is perhaps banking too much on its star-power, with Lost in Thailand duo Huang Bo and Xu Zheng's on-screen charisma motoring a vehicle bogged down by its wafer-thin premise, incoherent structure and big dollops of cringe-worthy humor justified by a hackneyed moral about the power of real love. While the film's blockbuster performance would consolidate Ning's standing as one of China's most successful directors of his generation, it also signals the end of his erstwhile audacious abilities in subverting long-established generic tropes. There's still a subversive, censor-baiting spirit running through Breakup Buddies - but only in the sense of its flirtation with the risque in the shape of warped representations of women, dated jokes on homosexuality, and freewheeling deployment of potty language. Well, that's where Ning and his army of six screenwriters intend to draw blood during the first two-thirds of the film, at least, as the freshly divorced ex-singer-songwriter Geng Hao (Huang, last seen in the straight-faced child-abduction drama Dearest) is coerced by his film-producer friend Hao Yi (Xu, making a return to comedy after the thriller The Great Hypnotist) into leaving Beijing and getting laid with the "thousands of women" they would encounter on the way to the southwestern Chinese city of Dali. Read More Toronto: 'Breakup Buddies' Director on the Absurdity of Modern China Thus cue a string of encounters between the pair and, among others, a provincial punk, a mobster's moll and a short-skirted, long-legged beauty whose sexuality renders her beyond the men's grasp. Just as many a gross-out comedy, of course, the film suggests there's always a warm human heart beating beneath the most chauvinist veneer - and all these ill-fated adventures in these seedy, smalltown locations are seemingly designed to bring out the good men in Geng and Hao. But these disjointed episodes hardly provide a coherent and full-fledged fabric of a narrative. Instead, these rumbles in rural backwaters are there as if Ning is trying to lampoon the po-faced realism espoused by more serious and socially aware work of Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai - or, for that matter, his younger self, when China's underclass woes still featured prominently even in the heist caper Crazy Stone (2006) or the noir-meets-western No Man's Land (with its nihilist perspective of human nature leading to a three-year censorship limbo, before finally getting official approval for release last November). Read More 'The Golden Era' ('Huangjin Shidai'): Venice Review While there are flickers of humanity - and the director has Huang to thank for conjuring a stellar turn, including a stunning solo take of Geng's phone conversation with his ex-wife, from such haphazard material - Breakup Buddies resembles more like a mishmash of pastiches - of the road movie, of Hong Kong gangster films (complete with a drunken Geng delivering Cantonese lines found frequently in scenes of blood brothers falling out) and even of Park Chan-wook's aestheticized violence (the spirit of Oldboy is evoked as baroque music - mainly Vivaldi's Winter - soundtracks a tracking shot of a fight between Geng and a group of thugs). There's even an imitation of the warped-timeline trick common to romance drama these days, as Geng's wife Xiaoyu (Yuan Quan, The Golden Era) appears both down the line in calls with Geng and Hao, and also as a heartbroken, young woman recuperating in Dali. While Yuan also delivers a decent performance here, the room for her to maneuver is limited as she struggles with caricatured, ominous men around her and also a spectre of some unspecified past. This vagueness in characterization, however, is a general trait in a film as much about break ups as it is a piece of broken-up storytelling. Production companies: Injo Films Limited, in a presentation by China Film Co. Ltd., Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co. Ltd., Beijing Asian Union Culture & Media Investment, Ltd., Beijing Shine Land Culture, Beijing Talent International Film Company Limited, Beijing Skywheel Entertainment Co. Ltd., HuangBo Studio, Dirty Monkey Cast: Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, Yuan Quan, Zhou Dongyu Director: Ning Hao Screenwriters: Yue Xiaojun, Xing Aina, Sun Xiaohang, Dong Yunnian, Zhang Disha, Zhang Yifan Producers: Wang Yibing, Ling Hong Executive producers: Anwar Wufuer, Yin Zhe, Deng Sheng Director of photography: Song Xiaofei Production designer: Hao Yi Editor: Du Yuan Casting directors: Zhang Lian, Fan Xinshu, Xu Tiesheng, Wang Feng Music: Nathan Wang, Dong Dongdong International Sales: IM Global US distributor: China Lion In Mandarin No rating; 116 minutes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Clarence Tsui email@example.com @thr


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|Mr. Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neighbourhood, and were but two in number, even if a closet with a single pane of glass in it might be counted as one. But they were very decently kept. Early as it was, on the windy March morning, the room in which he lay abed was already scrubbed throughout; and between the cups and saucers arranged for breakfast, and the lumbering deal table, a very clean white cloth was spread.
|Mr. Cruncher's apartment was not in a very good neighborhood. It had only two rooms, and only if a closet with a tiny window counted as one of them. He kept his apartment clean, though. As early as it was this windy March morning, his bedroom was already scrubbed clean, and the cups and saucers were set out for breakfast on a clean white tablecloth.
|Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home. At fast, he slept heavily, but, by degrees, began to roll and surge in bed, until he rose above the surface, with his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons. At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation:
Mr. Cruncher was asleep under a patchwork quilt, like a
a clown from Italian comedy that wore a costume made up of multicolored patchesHarlequin at home. He was sleeping heavily, but little by little he began to toss and turn in bed, with his spiky hair looking like it would tear his sheets to shreds. Finally he sat up and yelled out in frustration:
|"Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!"
|"Bust me, if she isn't at it again!"
|A woman of orderly and industrious appearance rose from her knees in a corner, with sufficient haste and trepidation to show that she was the person referred to.
|A neatly dressed woman quickly got up off her knees in the corner, with enough speed and fear to show that she was the woman he referred to.
|"What!" said Mr. Cruncher, looking out of bed for a boot. "You're at it agin, are you?"
|"What!" said Mr. Cruncher, looking around the bed for his boot. "You're at it again, are you?"
|After hailing the mom with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third. It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
|After shouting at her a second time, her threw his boot at her. His boot was covered in mud, and that mud said a lot about Mr. Cruncher's other ways of making money. While he usually came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often went out again at night, and when he woke up the next morning his boots would be covered with clay.
|"What," said Mr. Cruncher, varying his apostrophe after missing his mark—"what are you up to, Aggerawayter?"
|"What," said Mr. Cruncher, after he missed her with the boot. "What are you up to, you aggravator?"
|"I was only saying my prayers."
|"I was only praying."
|"Saying your prayers! You're a nice woman! What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me?"
|"Praying! You're a nice woman! What are you doing throwing yourself down on your knees and praying against me?"
|"I was not praying against you; I was praying for you."
|"I'm not praying against you. I was praying for you."
|"You weren't. And if you were, I won't be took the liberty with. Here! your mother's a nice woman, young Jerry, going a praying agin your father's prosperity. You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my son. You've got a religious mother, you have, my boy: going and flopping herself down, and praying that the bread-and-butter may be snatched out of the mouth of her only child."
|"No, you weren't. And if you were, I won't be made a fool of." Cruncher then spoke to their son. "Your mother's a nice woman, Young Jerry," he said sarcastically, "praying that your father will fail. You've got a devoted mother, very religious, kneeling down and praying that the food will be taken away from her only child."
|Master Cruncher (who was in his shirt) took this very ill, and, turning to his mother, strongly deprecated any praying away of his personal board.
|Mr. Cruncher's son, who hadn't gotten dressed yet, turned away from his mother. He did not like the fact that his mother was praying that his food be taken away.
|"And what do you suppose, you conceited female," said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, "that the worth of YOUR prayers may be? Name the price that you put YOUR prayers at!"
|"And how important do you think your prayers are, you arrogant woman?" asked Mr. Cruncher. "How much do you think they're worth?"
|"They only come from the heart, Jerry. They are worth no more than that."
|"They come from the heart, Jerry. They're only worth what they mean to me."
|"Worth no more than that," repeated Mr. Cruncher. "They ain't worth much, then. Whether or no, I won't be prayed agin, I tell you. I can't afford it. I'm not a going to be made unlucky by YOUR sneaking. If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em. If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck. B-u-u-ust me!" said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, "if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with! Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call. For, I tell you," here he addressed his wife once more, "I won't be gone agin, in this manner. I am as rickety as a hackney-coach, I'm as sleepy as laudanum, my lines is strained to that degree that I shouldn't know, if it wasn't for the pain in 'em, which was me and which somebody else, yet I'm none the better for it in pocket; and it's my suspicion that you've been at it from morning to night to prevent me from being the better for it in pocket, and I won't put up with it, Aggerawayter, and what do you say now!"
|"They're not worth much, then," said Mr. Cruncher. "No matter what they're worth, I won't have you praying against me. I can't afford it. I'm not going to be made unlucky by your sneaking around. If you must throw yourself down on your knees and pray, pray for your husband and child, not against them. If my wife and this boy's mother didn't know how to use magic, I might have made some money last week instead of being cursed into having the worst of luck. B-u-u-ust me!" said Mr. Cruncher, who had been getting dressed all this time. "If I haven't had the worst luck this week that any honest businessman ever had. Get dressed, Young Jerry, and watch your mother while I clean my boots. If you see her get down on her knees to pray again, let me know. I'm warning you," he said to his wife, "I won't be abused this way. I'm weak, I'm tired, I'm sore, and yet I haven't made any money for all my troubles. I suspect that you've been praying all day and night to keep me from making any money, and I won't put up with it, you aggravator! What do you say about that?"


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1. See three major sights in one square
Standing in the middle of the magnificent piazza San Marco is an experience in itself: Napoleon referred to it as the 'drawing room of Europe', apt today as, at times, it appears that much of Europe's population is crammed into this great square. But it's St Mark's basilica (Basilica di San Marco), often seen as the living testimony of Venice's links with Byzantium; Doge's Palace, once Venice's political and judicial hub; and Torre dell'Orologio, a clock tower built between 1496 and 1506, that are, not just the square's, but some of the city's main attractions.
2. Get around in a gondola
No trip to Venice would be complete without a punt down one of the city's picturesque waterways in an iconic gondola.
3. Tour the Venetian masters of art
Venice is a unique and precious repository of art. From the late Middle Ages until the mid 18th century, artists of the highest caliber left their mark all over the city and works by Venice's grand masters Titian (c1488-1576), Tintoretto (c 1518-94), Canaletto (1697-1768) and Tiepolo (1727-1804) can still be viewed in situ today. See Titian's glorious 'Assumption' above the high altar at I Frari, Tintoretto's epic masterpiece 'Crucifixion' at Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and Tiepolo's monumental frescos at the Pietà and Ca' Rezzonico.
4. Drink like a Venetian – and go on a secret wine tour
To the usual Italian breakfast, light snacks, pastries and alcoholic beverages routine, Venice contributes its own specialities: the ombra and the spritz. The former is a tiny glass of wine – bianco or rosso – which is knocked back in no time and is often the whole point of a giro di ombre – an ombra-crawl around selected bacari (the accent is on the first 'a'). A spritz is an aperitivo of white wine, Campari and a shot of seltzer or sparkling water; a sweeter version is made with low-alcohol Aperol. Also flowing freely into Venetian glasses are prosecco, the bubbly white made in the hills of the Veneto region, and spento, a bubble-free version of the same wine.
5.Walk in James Bond's footsteps
To the east of campo Santo Stefano, campiello Pisani is overlooked by the impressive 17th-century Palazzo Pisani, now the music conservatory. The palace was used for the shoot-out at the end of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. An earlier Bond came to blows in the Torre dell'Orologio. Film buffs should also recognise the church of San Nicolo dei Mendicoli from Nicolas Roeg's dwarf-in-Venice movie Don't Look Now.
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Thursday 12th November the "Silk – This is my night" party is taking place at club Mascotte. Join the STUNET community to enjoy an unforgettable night!
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Our recommendation for this Saturday's STUEAT is a fancy new fast food restaurant in the Europaallee, Jack & Jo! It's not your typical fast food joint.
November 5th: STUEAT @ Frau Gerolds Garten & STUMEET @ Hive
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Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday.
The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously scientists only had been able to discover the bones of cave bears that became extinct 15,000 years ago.
Scientists of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, the premier center for research into woolly mammoths and other prehistoric species, hailed the find as groundbreaking.
In a statement issued by the university, researcher Lena Grigorieva emphasized that "this is the first and only find of its kind — a whole bear carcass with soft tissues."
"It is completely preserved, with all internal organs in place, including even its nose," Grigorieva said. "This find is of great importance for the whole world."
A preliminary analysis indicated that the adult bear lived 22,000 to 39,500 years ago.
"It is necessary to carry out radiocarbon analysis to determine the precise age of the bear," the university quoted researcher Maxim Cheprasov as saying.
The bear carcass was found by reindeer herders on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island. It is the largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands, which are part of the New Siberian Islands archipelago that lies between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea.
At about the same time, a well-preserved carcass of a cave bear cub has also been found in another area in Yakutia's mainland, the university said. It didn't describe its condition in detail but noted that scientists are hopeful of obtaining its DNA.
Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foal, several puppies and cave lion cubs as the permafrost melts across vast areas in Russia's region of Siberia.
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I agree, but what is then consequently the meaning of the empty string in base n with n > 0 ?
If one thinks it through its obvious that emptiness is a notation for skipped zeros ...
...i.e 42 is in reality 0...042 with an infinite number of leading zeros. With the exception of the number 0 itself which isn't reduced to an empty string.
... well o_O ...
Lets talk about base 0 now ;)
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