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@Ghost
You are making a mistake the US made at the time. You are confusing a civil war with an ideology war. The North Vietnamese were never idealists when it came to Communism , they simply wanted freedom from a corrupt government and being oppressed by foreign powers. Since those that occupied them in the past , like the French , were "democrats" while infringing the democracy of others , they turned to the only other major world ideology out there at the time - Communism - and I'm sure that Russia was more than willing to fund the flames of revolution.
I think to them Communism was a means to an end rather than the core ideology that drove them on their warpath. I think it was patriotism rather than politics that drove them to suicide bombing.
That's a reasonable enough interpretation of events. I'm not married to the idea of North Vietnamese communist zealots, although I'm sure there were at least a few (I couldn't tell you how influential Hồ Chí Minh was), but isms drive no one to suicide bombing, strategic necessity does. Regardless, what is clear is that they were Atheists; which invalidates the speaker's claim.
Old thread. But to settle this debate once and for all I will suicide bomb something, I know a church. Because I don't believe in gods. That must do it. I mean it can't be that hard. To say that you will never see something sounds fundy.
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -Jim Morrison
Well sure you will likely see suicide bombers that happen to be atheists but I am not sure you will find suicide bombings for the atheist cause.
Its a war of words really. Atheist suicide bomber is easy to argue against. Any suicide bomber without a belief in god wins that argument. But when you start looking at the reason for the suicide bombing it opens an entirely different argument.
As I said earlier, the numbers of atheist suicide bombers is pitifully small, even when used in guerilla warfare by the likes of the viet cong. People are far more willing to kill themselves in the name of religion - for religious reasons - when they believe that there is a heaven, or the ultimate creator everything wishes them to do so. That's what makes religion dangerous. Religion can and does motivate people to do stupid things like kill themselves with a suicide bomb.
I didn't say that there would be no suicide bombers if there was no religion, but I'm convinced there would so a heck of a lot less, and society would function better (as demonstrated by strong correlation of religious vs. non-religious societies) which may also decrease the numbers of suicide bombers further.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo
If an Atheist kills a Theist because they don't like or don't want Theism, then they are killing in the name of Atheism. If they are Atheists who suicide bomb, they are not, but they are still Atheist suicide bombers.
Take the Palestinians. They are Muslim suicide bombers but they are not doing it in the name of Islam. They are trying to end an occupation. They aren't trying to make the Israeli's Muslim.
If an Atheist kills a Theist because they don't like or don't want Theism, then they are killing in the name of Atheism. If they are Atheists who suicide bomb, they are not, but they are still Atheist suicide bombers.
Take the Palestinians. They are Muslim suicide bombers but they are not doing it in the name of Islam. They are trying to end an occupation. They aren't trying to make the Israeli's Muslim.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
Matt
lol no they are trying to drive Israel into the sea.
and the only situations where I can see an atheist killing a theist because they "don't like or don't want" their religion is if the theist is forcing it on them to an extent where the only appropriate action from the atheist is force. Or if its someone with severe mental problems.
The former is self-defense.
The latter should be in an asylum.
You can't kill something in the name of atheism, as it is "the lack of something", killing in the name of the lack of something would not benefit the cause of not believing in something.
There is no ultimate reward for an atheist killing a theist. It would be simple murder of intolerance but not in "the name of atheism".
It is like saying you are killing in the name of "nothing". Atheism is not a belief system as it is not based upon "beliefs" but rather the knowledge of facts.
This is my point of view anyway.
How you say 'Atheist suicide bomber' implies that the the suicide bomber was killing in the name of atheism, semantics aside, you know that.
How you are defending your position of calling them atheist bombers is like me calling America's westward expansion and the violence that it indued a 'Christian war'. After all, many of the pioneers were Christian, and they did indeed kill the natives, hell some of them even used god to justify their means.
Communism was not a war for 'atheism' more than manifest destiny was a war for Christianity.
If a man from Sarnia, Ontario blows up a building in Detroit with a bomb strapped to his back, he's a Canadian suicide bomber, or, put another way, he is a suicide bomber who is Canadian. If someone says, "there's no such thing as Canadian suicide bombers," they'd be incorrect. In fact, you'd be incorrect to say that there can never be an X from cultural group Z, because anyone can be or do anything.
If a man from Sarnia blows up this building because he believes Michigan was stolen from us in the War of 1812, he'd be doing it, say, in the name of Canada. If he did it because he didn't like cities that begun with D and would just as soon have bombed Dallas, Dubai and Dauphin Manitoba, he'd be doing it in the name of, say, a world without D cities.
To do something in the name of something is to do something to advance something. Stalin attacked religion in order to eliminate it. He did it in the name of Atheism. The Viet Cong may have done things in the name of Atheism, I'd need an expert to tell me that, but they for sure were doing it in the name of North Vietnam, or something to that effect. Were they Atheists? Yes. So they were Atheist suicide bombers.
The bottom line is, the statement, there's no such thing as and/or there can never be Atheist suicide bombers is demonstrably false. That's one thing. Can people do things in the name of Atheism? Of course they can.
Either way, the reason I have any issue with this at all is because what is implied by the statement "there are no Atheist suicide bombers" is that suicide bombing is a unique property of religion. The REASON there can never be Atheist suicide bombers is because only the religious can be suicide bombers. That statement is entirely incorrect. Not only is it incorrect, it is nothing more than rank propaganda. Suicide bombing is a legitimate tactic in asymmetrical warfare. ANYONE using asymmetrical warfare can use suicide bombing because it is an effective way to achieve certain objectives, certainly not all, but some, against militarily superior forces.
Even if we went through the historical record with a fine tooth comb and determined that there have never been any instances of suicide bombers who were not just Atheists, which there are, but who were killing in the name of Atheism, the truth is that if, say, the Evangelical right took over the United States and it's army and police forces and judicial system and all her assets and created a totalitarian Evangelical theocracy, you could very easily imagine Atheist suicide bombers blowing up marketplaces in the name of Atheism. The fact that Atheists aren't in a position today where they need to employ suicide bombing, let alone asymmetrical warfare on any level, does not mean that it's an impossible occurrence.
I have huge issue with saying that universal qualities are unique to a specific group. People look at black populations and say that poverty, or low test scores, are a property of being black. Which is horse shit. But people use truly feeble post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning to support it. Same with suicide bombing. The religious used it, therefore religion caused it. It’s horse shit.
Religion has many reasons to be demonised, but suicide bombing is not one of them. And killing civilians sure as hell aint one of them either. And neither is ordering your soldiers to their death. | {
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Mercedes Sosa was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by many Latin American songwriters. Her music made people hail her as the “voice of the voiceless ones”, and “the voice of America”.
Shirley MacLean Beaty, known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She has won one Academy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, one Emmy Award and two BAFTA Awards.
I had the full princess fantasy: the white horse, the whole being saved from my life, which is ridiculous. What do I want to be saved from? My life’s great! But it’s just this weird thing that’s been hammered into my head culturally: that’s the only way to succeed, that’s the only thing that counts for a woman. I’m happy, but the fact that I’m not married and don’t have kids – it’s taken me a long time to get to a place where I actually am OK with that, where I actually don’t feel like I’m some sort of loser. | {
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Ruby
"No, I'm not doing this, Oz," My dad said to Professor Ozpin. I still had no idea what was going on, yet somehow my dad knew what it was.
"It's not for you to decide, Tai," Professor Ozpin rebuked. Jesus, it's like I'm no longer in the room. I bet that if I were to say anything, it wouldn't be heard at all. "Ruby is old enough to make this decision herself."
"I'm not going to go through this again," Dad said.
"Go through what again?" I tried to ask, though from the looks of things, my question was going to fall upon deaf ears.
"I can't be the one to deny someone their true calling, unless they choose it for themselves," Ozpin continued. Seriously, what the hell do I have to do to get their damn attention? Honestly, at this point I'm half tempted to take the dagger that is on display above the fireplace, and stab it into the desk.
"Don't try to tell me that I can't make this decision for my daughter," My dad said. As tempting as the dagger is, I really shouldn't ruin Professor Ozpin's nice desk. It looks like it's made of mahogany or something. "She's too young to be thrown into this life anyway!"
"You and Summer both started this when you were younger than she was," Ozpin said. That's it, fuck the mahogany, I'm getting the knife. As I stand up and walk over to pick up the dagger, the two of them continue to talk about me as if I wasn't there.
"That doesn't mean anything!" My dad shouted. "You and I both know what happens in this line of work, I'm not letting that happen to Ruby!"
By that point I had picked up the knife, walked over to the desk and slammed the blade down into the wood. "Will you two explain to me what the fuck is going on right now?!" I shouted after hearing the slam of the knife embedding itself into the table. That certainly got their attention, as they both finally turned to acknowledge me.
"My mahogany desk," Ozpin mumbled to himself, though I do manage to pick up on what he said since it was so quiet in the room.
"I want to know what the hell is going on!" I shouted. "No more arguing to each other about me, while I'm still in the goddamn room, no more hiding the truth from me. You two are both going to sit down, shut up and tell me what in the absolute fuck is happening!"
I could tell from my dad's expression that the way I'm acting right now is really unnatural according to him. It's rare for me to get mad, I know that already. So far as I knew, this was probably the worst that I've been. Too bad I deserve to get mad right now, all things considered.
"Ruby, please," Professor Ozpin said to me. "If you would sit down, then both myself and your father can explain what is going on. Just give us the chance to."
I take a deep breath and calm myself down, just enough so that I finally can relax and deal with this in a better way than before. "Fine, but the second you two start arguing with each other, I'm walking out, and asking someone else for an explanation. Maybe they would be more willing to help than you would."
"Ruby," Dad said to me. "Look, I don't know how to say this to you without it sounding terrible, but your mother and I, we...well…" What was it that my dad was trying to say to me, and why was it so hard for him?
"Your mother and father work as Huntsmen," Ozpin interrupted.
What?
"Worked, in Summer's case, at least," Dad definitely looked like he was about to lose his mind again. I remembered when Mom died, Dad didn't tell me what was going on, but I somehow I knew, I knew it was because of what was going on in this city. I just knew it. I guess I was right all along.
"Regardless, based off of what happened today, I think it's safe to assume that-" Of course, Professor Ozpin was bound to get cut off thanks to my dad.
"What, what the hell happened today?" Dad questioned.
"There was an, incident, in the city," Professor Ozpin elaborated. "A couple of our Huntsmen were on the scene and Ruby happened to stumble upon it. During the incident, she appeared to have moved at almost lightning speeds. It was by sheer luck that Miss Nikos happened to notice what had happened."
"I was only trying to save that child that was trapped in the middle," I rambled, unsure of what my dad was thinking. "I didn't think that would happen I swea-"
"Ruby," My dad said, interrupting me. "Is this true?"
"Er, well uh, you see," I replied, unsure of what I should say. So, I turned to the one thing I knew best, rambling like an idiot. "I was just walking, and the next thing I know I was in the middle of the fight and there were these guns and the Huntsmen were there and I saw this kid in the middle of the street and I wanted to help him and so I-"
I wasn't expecting to be interrupted by my dad, much less because he decided to give me a hug in response to what I had done. "I'm so proud of you, Ruby," He said to me after a few moments where I finally calmed down.
"What?"
"I know it may not seem like the best idea in my mind," Dad started to say. I knew where this was going, he was going to explain that he was fine with whatever was going on. "But, if you want to join up with the Huntsmen, then I'll support your decision."
HOLY CRAP THIS IS HAPPENING! It's been my dream to help these guys for god knows how long, and now I finally get the chance to do just that! I can't believe this! "Are you serious?" I had to ask, just to be sure he wasn't just yanking me around.
"Yes, as much as I don't like it," Dad mentioned. "Just, promise me that you will take care of yourself, i don't want to lose you like I lost your mother."
"I promise you, Tai," Professor Ozpin said, inserting himself back into the conversation. "She is in good hands. I'll make sure she stays safe."
"I'm holding you to that, Oz," My dad replied before standing up in his chair. As soon as he did however, we hear the door slam open, and in walks none other than my older sister Yang.
"Ruby, what the hell are you doing here?!" Yang said, immediately running over to my side and inspecting me from top to bottom as if I was just thrown into a blender.
"Yang, I'm fine," I replied, grabbing a hold of my sister and shaking her in order to calm her down. My sister works as a mercenary that often joins forces with the Huntsmen, so it was no surprise that she turned up here right now. Somehow, someone must've told her about me being her, and knowing Yang, she probably ran here instantly as soon as she heard the news.
"What do you just mean by, you're fine?!" Yang shouted at me. That's when she noticed Dad standing right next to me. "Dad?! What the fuck are you doing here?!"
"Hey, watch your language!" Dad joked with Yang, helping to cheer my sister up.
"Seriously, what is going on?" Yang asked again. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, Miss Xiao Long," Professor Ozpin said, walking around from his desk and over to our side. "Your sister has unlocked the powers that she most likely held deep within her for all this time."
"Wait, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa," Yang said, shaking her hands in disbelief. "You mean to tell me that Ruby has superpowers? Neither of us had shown any signs of that kind of thing for as long as I can remember! Why does it happen now?"
"I can't tell you why, that's an answer that I do not know," Professor Ozpin elaborated. "However, given this recent development, it is in Miss Rose's best interest that she take up residence here, along with Mister Arc."
"Wait, Jaune's here too?" Yang asked. When I nodded to her, confirming what Professor Ozpin had just said, she just started to laugh. "Oh my god, I can't believe that tall blonde and scraggly managed to figure out that he has superpowers as well. Wait…" Yang must've had the gears in her brain turning, because she figured out that Jaune got powers, while she didn't "Are you kidding me, that idiot has powers and I don't? What kind of bullshit is this?!"
"Yang, you literally have a shotgun that spits out inferno bullets," I said in response.
"Not only that, but your shotgun has a flamethrower attached to the bottom of it," Dad said next.
"As of right now though," Professor Ozpin jumped back in. "Mister Arc has not discovered what his powers entailed, in fact I am under the impression that he hasn't even unlocked them fully yet. With training, it is my hope that he reaches the point where he is capable of doing so."
"He'll be lucky if he can find the bathroom in this place on his tenth try," Yang commented. To be fair though, Yang is right, Jaune certainly is special at times. "He isn't exactly the brightest of people."
"Regardless of his intelligence or skill level, he will receive the training needed to hone him into a proper warrior," Professor Ozpin replied. "Either way, Miss Xiao Long, I will speak with Miss Goodwitch about this, however, I believe that you should help your sister move her belongings into the estate. Tai, if you wish to do the same then feel free to do so."
"Relax, we'll get it done, Ozzie," Dad said to Professor Ozpin. "Come on kids, time for some family bonding."
"Don't family gatherings usually involve someone getting shot?" Yang asked. It isn't that she's wrong, but then again, I can't remember the last family gather where something happened that required Yang to shoot someone for whatever reason.
"Hopefully not this time," Dad said as he walked with the two of us out of Professor Ozpin's office. "Come on squirt, let's get you packed up and ready to move into your new home."
Pyrrha
Well, this past week has certainly been interesting to say the least. Not only did Ruby and Jaune move in, but now they were finally getting started on their training. I'm just glad that I get to watch how things were going, because I certainly didn't want to miss this. Ruby just screamed positivity with everything she did, so watching her fight was sure to be something I would enjoy.
I looked down at the training room floor, seeing Ruby standing there in the traditional training garbs we wear when first testing out our powers. I remember the look on the Headmaster's face, as well as Yatsuhashi's when I ripped his greatsword from his hands and held it as if it were light as a feather. Thank you polarity, you definitely have been extremely useful to me thus far.
Standing across the way from Ruby, was of course, one of the veteran mercenaries we have in our merry band of neerdowells, Coco Adel. She was of course, a heavy weapon specialist, though it's kinda hard to make that claim since her primary firearm was a handheld machine gun. That's the very definition of overkill if you ask me. Fortunately, she was using static rounds right now, the worst they would do is just cause a shock for whoever got caught in the crossfire.
"Miss Rose," I heard the Headmaster say from over the intercom. "Are you ready to begin?"
I could see Ruby smile and nod in his direction, signaling for the match to begin. The rules for this match were simple of course; avoid getting hit from Coco, and then find a way to make a strike on her in some capacity. Simple enough, but that machine gun wasn't going to make things easy for her.
"Begin!" The Headmaster called out.
As soon as she did, the barrel of Coco's minigun started to spin, the all too familiar hum it generated had started to fill the air. Soon afterwards, the hail of bullets started to fire. Ruby was just lucky that she was quick enough to dodge out of the way. Soon afterwards, she started to run in a circle, trying desperately to find out how her powers worked. I could see the struggle on her face as she narrowly dodged shot after shot that trailed just millimeters behind her.
Soon afterwards though, she finally cracked the code and started to run faster and faster. As she zipped across the arena floor, I could tell that Coco was having a much harder time keeping track of where she was. Pretty soon, dust started to kick up and create a cloud across the arena floor. It wasn't enough to help Coco, who was trying to use the dust trail to keep track of where Ruby was. Soon enough, Coco was slammed into from behind, thanks to a charging Ruby.
Unfortunately for Ruby, all of her work appeared to have taken its toll on her body. As soon as she slammed into Coco, she sent herself careening off into the side of the arena, her body propped up against the wall with her feet dangling in the air. Just looking at her, I couldn't help but laugh, and it was really hard to suppress the chuckle that was trying to escape my lips. It just looked so funny, and she really was a great person for being so carefree.
Soon afterwards, the Headmaster reported down to the arena floor and watched as Coco helped Ruby to her feet. "Miss Rose," He said to her. "I see you've made some progress, however, you still need to learn how to control your energy. If this were to happen in an actual combat scenario, you would be in quite a bit of trouble. That being said, well done on your work thus far."
"Thank you, Professor," Ruby said as she stumbled out of the arena. Immediately afterwards, Jaune walked in. Now what he was capable of, I had no idea. To be honest, he had no idea as well, so this was sure to be interesting.
"Are you ready Mister Arc?" The Headmaster asked, walking out of the arena to give the two some space.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Jaune replied. This was going to be good, I could tell.
"Then you may begin."
Immediately, Coco unloaded yet again with her gun. Unfortunately, Jaune failed to dodge any of them, and was struck with an uncountable amount of static rounds. Somehow, he wasn't knocked completely down to the ground immediately, but I could tell that all of the electricity was getting to him.
"Come on kid!" Coco called out to him, taking her finger off the trigger to give the guy some reprieve. "You're gonna just get yourself killed if you don't figure out what the fuck it is you're doing!"
I could tell that Jaune was having a hard time moving his left arm, it looked limp and out of his control. My guess was that it took too much damage and that the muscles in his body were practically paralyzed from the shock. Somehow, he still stood tall and defiant.
"Got to hand it to you kid," Coco said. "You got spirit." I could hear the hum of her gun start to whir again, and I just knew what was coming. "But spirit isn't going to help you win battles."
At that, the gun started to fire once more, but this time, things went differently. Jaune lifted his arm up to block the shots, the same arm that I figured was paralyzed from before. I could see the shock in Jaune's eyes as he just stood there, his arm taking all the shots Coco's gun could send his way, yet not once did he falter this time. With that newfound determination, he slowly started to move forward until he reached Coco and grabbed a hold of her wrist, pulling it from the trigger.
Now that was pretty impressive if you ask me.
"Mister Arc," The Headmaster called out. "I see you started to notice what it is that you're powers are."
"I guess so," Jaune said, his legs giving out on him, forcing the poor boy to fall flat on his back. What's surprising, was that Coco extended a hand out to help him to his feet. "Um, thanks?"
"No problem kid," Coco said to him. "The name's Coco Adel, by the way. I'm sure we'll be working together quite a bit while you're here. You need a lot of work though, but, I think I can manage."
Yep, things were really starting to heat up around here.
Unknown
The city was always a sight to see, yet everywhere I looked, I could only see the faces of people with everything they had kept hidden away. The work of terrorists had torn these people apart, and I am no less responsible for the part I played in their acts. I helped to cause their pain, and while I'm not sorry for my actions, I do feel terrible for the results. We aren't what we used to be when I first started, things are much different.
"Bull to Shadow Fang," I heard over the earpiece that was running into my ear. "You in position?"
Pulling the hood over my head, covering the cat ears that I was born with, I responded in kind. "Shadow Fang to Bull, I'm in position, heading out now." With that, I slinked back into the shadows, disappearing from sight in order to complete my task.
One of these days, I'll find a way out.
AN: One guess who this person at the end is?
Anyway, thanks for tuning in this long, I know it's been an interesting ride, and I really do appreciate all the guesses that you guys have thought of for what Jaune's power was going to be. For reference, his power is what I refer to as, Body Manipulation. This means that he can alter parts of his body to have different aspects than what they normally would be, this could be increased strength, resistance to electricity, etc. THIS IS A LIMITED THING THOUGH, SO HE CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH AT A TIME. If he were to push his powers past that point, well, let's just say you'll have to tune in and find out what happens.
Hope to see you guys again in the next update! | {
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Articles tagged: Kendra Wilkinson
It’s a good thing that Hank Baskett no longer plays in the NFL, because that dude would just be totally ruined if this rumor came out while he were playing. According to both Radar Online and The National Enquirer, Baskett cheated on wife Kendra Wilkinson with a transsexual. If that weren’t enough, Wilkinson was eight…Read More | {
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Collective Targets Trump With The ‘First Protest In Space’
Above Photo: Members of the Autonomous Space Agency Network. ASAN
“Look at that, You son of a bitch”
A Phoenix-based collective of hackers, engineers, scientists and artists have a potent message for the President. But this isn’t an ordinary message. Channeling the lateApollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, they have chosen to send it from Earth’s stratosphere–where the world can be seen against the stark backdrop of the cosmos.
“You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch,’” said Mitchell when remembering his time on the Moon. Calling themselves the Autonomous Space Agency Network (ASAN), the diverse group boasts a rocket scientist among them and are claiming their successful mission is the first protest in space. The Observer reached out to ASAN Director General Laika Valentina via email to find out how the unique project came together.
Why is there a tweet in space?
The Autonomous Space Agency Network flew a tweet to the edge of space to send a message of protest to Donald Trump, who is looking to gut NASA’s earth science program, which is invaluable to understanding climate change. President Trump loves to spout his opinion and policy decisions on Twitter, so we figured the best way to get our message to him was on his platform of choice. The Aphrodite 1 mission was planned as an act of solidarity with the upcoming March for Science.
How did it get there?
The tweet was attached to the Aphrodite launch vehicle, which was created by autonauts at a hackerspace in Phoenix, Arizona. The Aphrodite vehicle was attached to a weather balloon that was filled with helium gas.
How far up did the ‘protest’ get?
We lost our signal at around 90,000 feet. Simulations run before the mission estimated that the balloon would reach a maximum altitude of 97,000 feet, just below the Karman line. The tech on board the Aphrodite 1 mission was minimal but subsequent missions this fall will use radio telemetry rather than a simple GPS device, so we’ll have much more accurate data.
What exactly are you trying to say to Trump?
By refusing to acknowledge the reality of human-fueled climate change, he is putting the lives of all crew members on spaceship Earth at considerably greater risk. When the car’s on fire, that’s not the time to turn up the tunes, roll down the windows and go for a joyride.
Can you tell us a little about your space program?
ASAN is a world-wide network of community-based, DIY space exploration programs. We are overturning the corporate and military monopoly on space exploration by bridging the gap between scientific discovery and artistic expression. One of the fundamental beliefs of ASAN is that everybody is always already an astronaut, or “autonaut.” ASAN is the space program you already belong to. We’re here to show the world that space is not just for generals, autocrats and boy billionaires.
We are inspired by the work of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts. Everything we do is open source, copyleft. ASAN is a network of independent space agencies that is decentralized by design. We believe that we can’t say that we’ve truly entered the ‘space age’ until outer space is demilitarized, democratic and accessible to all autonauts.
What other missions are you guys planning?
Right now we are focusing our efforts on the Aphrodite Balloon Program, which is a new space exploration paradigm focused on love, pleasure, and sexual exploration. This fall we’ll be sending our first yonic payload to the edge of space.
How are you funding this?
As part of ASAN’s commitment to remaining free of corporate or military influence, missions will always be funded through donations. To fund Aphrodite 1, we hosted a punk show in Phoenix and made $10. The rest (about $500 all told) was funded through donations from local autonauts.
Robin Seemangal has been reporting from the newsroom at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the last two years for Observer with bylines also in Popular Science andWired. He does in-depth coverage of SpaceX launches as well as Elon Musk’s mission to send humans to Mars. Robin has appeared on BBC, Russia Today, NPR‘s Are We There Yet Podcast and radio stations around the world to discuss space exploration. | {
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Hello,
This is about my wife Jazz and a birthday gift I gave her. It happened a few weeks ago and the hotel room was booked, I had arrived there in the afternoon so I could set the room up how I wanted it, I pulled out the under the bed wrist and ankle restriants and positioned them carefully under the bed so they were ready to use.
Jazz knocked on the door around 5 o'clock and walked in holding her overnight bag, she was dressed in a pair of tight jeans and a top that showed off her tits very well. I also had jeans and a t shirt on, I was feeling pretty horny knowing what I had set up for Jazz's birthday.
We were kissing pretty passionately, hands roaming everywhere, my cock was bulging against my jeans bursting to get out, within minutes Jazz had her top off and I was playing with her tits, teasing her nipples till they were stiff and needed sucking and gently nibbling, without a second's thought Jazz droppped to her knees and undone my jeans, my cock flopped out right in front of her, Jazz grabbed hold of it and within seconds she using her tongue to tease me before going straight in and sucking me extremely well, I thought I was going to explode there and then, Soon we were both naked and I was giving Jazz a real good birthday teasing too!
We lay on the bed having a drink and chatting, I passed Jazz her birthday presents to open, 1st was a very nice black peek-a-boo bra and thong set, Jazz loved this knowing her nips and pussy would be on show, 2nd was a brand new vibrator which Jazz had asked for and was very happy with I had also got Jazz a 3rd present which I told her she would be getting later.
We had a few more drinks and some room service, bottle of champagne and some fun in the huge bath.
10 o'clock come and I asked Jazz to put on her new underwear, Jazz slipped in to the bathroom and come out a few mins later looking very very sexy, I called her over to the bed and lay her down, pulling out a blindfold from under the bed I put it on her, then I gently cuffed each hand followed by her ankles, Jazz was tied good and proper to the bed, Jazz was horny as hell as I could see her nipples popping through her bra and her pussy was glistening wet.
I texted the guy I had met online and told him to come up as the door was open, Tyler was in the bar downstairs and he made his way up.
I was at the side of the bed gently touching and kissing Jazz as she wriggled round with pleasure, Tyler entered the room and was cleary impressed with what he saw.
Me and Tyler both stood by the bed in only our boxers, both taking turns to kiss and carress Jazz, Jazz was very turned on and eagarly took Tyler's cock in her mouth when he presented it her to her, she stoppped and grabbed a hold of him, then sucked again before saying "James this isn't your cock?"
I got on the bed and ran the tip of my throbbing cock over her slit in her thong, teasing her pussy, Jazz smiled and carried on sucking away at Tyler which surprised me because we had had a threesome once before and that was over 2 years ago.
Soon Jazz was so wet my cock slid inside with great ease, Jazz was really enjoying this and so were me and Tyler, we swapped positions on the bed and Jazz was soon sucking all her juices off my cock while Tyler was pounding away at Jazz's very wet pussy. Jazz told him to fill her up, Tyler obliged and was soon so deep that Jazz stoppped sucking me while Tyler shot his load inside Jazz.
Jazz loved this and was soon cumming herself, Tyler pulled out and moved away allowing me to take my turn, I slid inside a very wet warm pussy, Jazz was so horny she was talking real dirty and telling me exactly how fast and hard she wanted it, it wasn't long before I was going to explode inside her too, Jazz told me to hold on for her, I didn't have to wait long, we both came very hard and I was so deep inside her soaking wet cum filled pussy, it felt great!
When I removed Jazz's blindfold Tyler had already left, that was part of the agreement I had with him, that Jazz never sees him just had him for some fun.
Jazz loved her 3sum and can't wait for her next 1!!
I have never seen Jazz so horny and wet before! That night we ended up having so much sex we both slept in through the room checkout time and got charged for the next night!
Well worth it though!
Ask Jazz x
Me and Jazz
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LEICESTER, England — By Sunday morning, half a dozen bouquets of flowers had been placed against a wall outside King Power Stadium. Leaning next to them was a framed portrait of Ganesha, the god of beginnings, the remover of obstacles. A handful of Leicester City fans stood a few yards from the makeshift shrine, their heads bowed.
They could not quite put into words what had drawn them there. At that stage, they were not certain if they were there to pray and to hope, or simply to mourn. They came in grief, in its cruelest form: grief that offers still a glimmer of a reprieve.
It was not until late Sunday night that Leicester City confirmed what they had all feared: that Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the Thai billionaire who had bought a stuttering team and transformed it into the most remarkable champion in English soccer history, had been among the five people killed in a helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium on Saturday night.
“It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening,” the club said in a statement. “The world has lost a great man. A man of kindness, of generosity, and a man whose life was defined by the love he devoted to his family and those he so successfully led. Leicester City was a family under his leadership.” | {
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The online community hosted on Reddit is where men go to air their toxic views about women. Stephen Marche aims to find out if The Red Pill is perpetuating a culture of hatred – or if it’s just a place to vent
How shitty are men really? The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town. By 2016, a series of catchphrases had come to dominate the chaotic state of gender politics – “male privilege”, “rape culture”, “men’s rights” – but confusion reigned. And in the middle of this confusion, a group of anonymous men retreated to The Red Pill, an online community hosted on Reddit, to revel in their loathing.
The name derives from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, in which Laurence Fishburne offers Keanu Reeves a choice: “You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
The rabbit hole, in this case, is the “reality” that women run the world without taking responsibility for it, and that their male victims are not permitted to complain. This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
The manosphere’s most hateful opinions tend to generate the most attention – like Roosh V’s notion that it should be legal to rape a woman on private property (a bit of hateful stupidity which he later claimed to be parody). In February, Roosh V attempted to organise a meet-up of like-minded men on the grounds of the provincial legislature in Toronto, but he had to cancel the event when a local band of female boxers threatened to disrupt the event with violence.
But judging The Red Pill by the most extreme statements of its members is, if not unfair, then at least inaccurate. There is plenty of vileness, to be sure – elaborate conspiracy theories formed out of pure misogyny and outright hatred of female independence. But the bulk of the comments are much more muted and, frankly, pathetic.
In the hours upon hours I spent wandering this online neighbourhood, I saw mostly feral boys wandering the digital ruins of exploded masculinity, howling their misery, concocting vast nonsense about women, and craving the tiniest crumb of self-confidence and fellow-feeling. The discussion threads are a mixed bag of rage and curiosity: screeds against feminists, advice on how to masturbate less, theories on why women fantasize about rape, descriptions of arguments with girlfriends, guides to going up to strangers on the street, and, most of all, workout schedules and diet regimes.
Reading The Red Pill, then, offers two possible answers to the question “how shitty are men really?”
The first situates The Red Pill as another toxic technoculture on a spectrum of digital misogyny: on Twitter, any woman who says anything even moderately controversial will receive torrents of direct physical threats as a matter of course. Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent. Gamers on Xbox Live will be sexually harassed, inevitably.
The answer to the question of how shitty men are, from this perspective, is “really pretty shitty”.
But an entirely different approach emerges with a slight shift in emphasis: how shitty are men really? That is, how does these men’s behaviour online translate into non-digital life ? The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not?
•••
The head moderator of The Red Pill goes by the handle Morpheus Manfred, and when he agreed to give me an interview it was only by online chat. Anonymity is sacred; facelessness is the sacrifice it demands. He moderates the community’s 141,966 (and counting) members, and like most of them, describes himself as white, early 30s, male and conservative (he would have preferred Rand Paul to Donald Trump, but he likes Trump’s “watch-it-burn” style).
I ask him what event led him to The Red Pill (his answers have been edited for length).
Morpheus Manfred: Having spent my 20s looking for female companionship, I noticed that the dating game wasn’t what I was taught – what my parents prepared me for, and what I learned from movies. It was stacked against guys, and it was a very unpleasant experience. Me: Can you give me an example? Morpheus Manfred: Over the past 10 years, the flakiness of women has gotten worse. You’d meet a girl, hit it off, get her number and agree to a date. And either she’d no-show, or cancel right before. I found myself putting in all this effort for nothing, it was very defeating. It’s not the way courting worked when my parents met.
What I saw in movies – where having a good heart and being yourself is all you need – that’s not what happens now. Good and nice aren’t attractive any more. The manosphere fundamentally became a surrogate father for the life lessons I never got. We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity. It’s a big topic that has become taboo in our culture. Me: But surely there’s a line somewhere. I mean, the real feelings being expressed here are hostility to women. Morpheus Manfred: We’re accused of misogyny almost daily. I won’t deny that the language is colorful and there’s a lot of emotion expressed by the men on the forum. But [before The Red Pill] there wasn’t really a way for guys to express these feelings. Let’s say there’s a guy who just says “I hate women” – I think that’s textbook misogyny. We let them say that. Because there’s nowhere else for a man to blow off steam. But they stay, they learn, they vent, they get advice, they get back on the horse. The endgame of our advice isn’t to hate women. It’s to understand them so you can stop being so darn frustrated by them.
Morpheus claims that The Red Pill helped him find a longtime girlfriend, and that The Red Pill is ultimately little more than an online version of locker-room talk.
•••
It’s funny, because Jessica, my editor at the Guardian, had the same idea. Wasn’t The Red Pill just an updated version of locker-room talk? No, I said, it’s nothing like locker-room talk. Well, she asked, what’s locker-room talk like, then?
Locker-room talk goes like this: you say to your friend, my God, did you see the tits on that yoga instructor, and your friend says, it hurts you, doesn’t it, and you say it does, it does, and he says you know I’ve sucked tits like that before, and you say yeah right and he says really and you say who and he says in Brazil and you say of course it would be an unverifiable claim, and he shrugs and you laugh and he laughs.
The quantity of locker-room talk is inversely proportional to familiarity with women. So, as you fall in love, maybe even get married, it no longer becomes feasible to talk with friends about women’s bodies in such specific detail because, say, your friend works for your wife, and you don’t want him thinking about her cleavage when she’s firing him.
But very quickly – mid-30s, really – a new locker-room talk emerges. The new locker-room talk goes like this: you ask your friend what summer programming do you have your daughters in, and your friend says I’m trying to find something with science in it, and you say, yeah, you gotta fight those cultural assumptions about girls and STEM, and he says totally, and you say I’m just trying to do little things like nature walks and trips to the science center, and he says we should go together some time, and you say totally.
And then you’re taking your daughters to the science center and a gorgeous woman walks by, and you look at your friend, and your friend looks at you, and you don’t have to say a thing.
I’m not saying this is the way it should be. Frankly, it’s humiliating for everybody involved. But there is a truth there: if you have a working dick and a working soul, you’d better get used to living with contradictions.
It is exactly this capacity for contradiction that the boys of The Red Pill lack so utterly. Their humourlessness is impressive, given that they mostly post comments about the minutiae of sexual dynamics, which is the substance of almost all comedy.
•••
Under “I fucked up. How to fix?” Red Pill member AspireToBeGreater requested some advice from the group. He had met a girl. She was all smiley during their initial conversation. But then “I horribly botched an attempt to ask her out for drinks because I got nervous. I pulled back and tried to rebuild my frame over a couple weeks.” She was still giving off signs of interest, notably showing him pictures of her dogs. “I have since asked her to get coffee in a much more casual way, she had a legit excuse and I couldn’t read much from her response.” Should he keep pushing?
The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not?
The replies came to a rapid consensus. A commenter noted: “She’s turned you down twice, which means she’s almost certainly not interested.” Another added: “Most likely she’s just not that into you if she doesn’t even suggest an alternative date.”
The above is a fairly typical post. The Red Pill grinds away at the confusions of contemporary masculinity, both real and imagined. The intellectual foundation of The Red Pill is its glossary – a shared language of complaint and insight. So we have, for example:
Alpha – Socially dominant. Somebody who displays high value, or traits that are sexually attractive to women. SMV – Sexual Market Value. A shorthand statement for “what you bring to the table”, whether for a one-night stand or for a longer relationship. HB – Hot Babe (often followed by a ranking on a 1-10 scale). AF/BB - Alpha Fucks/Beta Bucks. AF/BB, as an idea, is closely related to AWALT (“All Women Are Like That”). All women, in this argument, divide men into two types: alpha males they want to fuck, and beta males they use for financial and emotional support in exchange for sex.
Definitions like these run into the dozens. Their primary purpose is clarity, obviously. More than lust or hatred, the boys of The Red Pill hunger for clarity. They desire escape from confusion. They desire a system with which to comprehend desire itself.
Don’t we all?
•••
In real life, I knew a man once who was the exact opposite of The Red Pill in every regard, and he shattered everything that I believed I knew about men.
Never did he say the least inappropriate thing, at least around me. No locker room talk for him. He had graduated from York University, the most politically correct university in Canada, with a minor in women’s studies. He proudly called himself a feminist, and he was called a feminist proudly by others. In his job as the most prominent radio host at the CBC, the national broadcaster, he had become an icon of the new multicultural and egalitarian Toronto.
That man was Jian Ghomeshi, who was on 25 March acquitted in three cases of sexual assault and choking after the testimony of the complainants collapsed.
Before Ghomeshi, I thought I knew more or less how men worked. I thought – it’s embarrassing to say – I thought I was a close observer of people.
I liked Jian; I cannot deny it. We weren’t close – we met during the time in life when you don’t form new friendships so much as respectful allegiances – but he was fun, pleasant.
And yet I remember a lovely spring wedding in Toronto where the guests, mostly media people, sat around bitching and gossiping as media people do. I made some flip remark about Jian dyeing his hair. Then I saw The Face pass over one of the young women at my table.
I would see The Face several times with several different women when the subject of Jian came up – a half-suppressed deflation, a furtive darkening. The other women told me nothing; The Face simply came and went. But at this wedding, the young woman with The Face did not let her suffering fade into the general background; she leaned in and told me the story of how he had said to her “I just want to hate-fuck you to wake you up” while at work.
I certainly remained friendly with Jian after I heard this story. Why? I have no good answer. The best answer I have is that I have been trained not to judge people on the basis of their sexual tastes. That’s my inclination but it’s also been my education. I refrained from judging him, half-consciously.
Throughout Ghomeshi’s trial, as his lawyer Marie Heinen ripped apart the accusers, I found myself recalling a line from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, set during the halcyon years when America’s biggest problem was the president’s joint taste for cigars and interns.
More than lust or hatred, the boys of The Red Pill hunger for clarity
“I myself dreamed of a mammoth banner,” Roth wrote, “draped dadaistically like a Christo wrapping from one end of the White House to the other and bearing the legend A HUMAN BEING LIVES HERE.”
That phrase should have been draped over the Toronto courtroom. The accusers responded like human beings, so they forgot to tell things to the police. They forgot their Hotmail passwords. They communicated with each other and with Jian. One of them wrote: “You have beautiful hands.” They responded in a way consistent with the inconsistency of human sexuality, caught in the mess of desire and its justification.
Much has been written about how the Ghomeshi trial has revealed various aspects of our culture and society – the failures of the criminal justice system, or the reality of rape culture, or the impotence of fourth-wave feminism. The Ghomeshi trial has revealed nothing. It has only obscured.
•••
“Rape culture” is a nebulous term, but it remains that men who want to treat women as if they are nothing have ample scope to express that desire – online and offline both. Culture, insofar as it is popular, poses the same question over and over: how cool does a guy have to be before he can treat women like they’re nothing?
When Kesha tried to escape her contract with Doctor Luke, the producer whom she claims raped her, the judge gave the ruling which applies to the music industry as a whole in 2016: “My instinct is to do the commercially reasonable thing.”
Kanye West was able proclaim Bill Cosby’s innocence and release The Life of Pablo with the line “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous.” And it didn’t matter; Kanye was way too cool. It was performance. Or it was subversion. It was something, anyway, that made it totally different than some ordinary guy saying that Taylor Swift was a bitch he made famous and so could have sex with her. A critic for the New Yorker described the Swift line as “a throwaway boast on an otherwise good song”.
The Weeknd is cool enough to treat women like nothing, too, at least for now. Sure, he has videos in which he shoots his girlfriend, and yes, his song Initiation is a hymn to using the promise of social acceptance to gangbang vulnerable young women. But the man is friends with Drake. He won two Grammys, and the same people in Toronto who loathed Ghomeshi cheered on the victory.
Not that this was in any way a new arrangement, the deal by which cool men treat women like they’re nothing. The Rolling Stones? Led Zeppelin and the mudshark?
David Bowie faced rape allegations in the 1980s, but we’ve all forgotten about that. One of his fans, Lori Maddox, has claimed in interviews that she lost her virginity to him after he gave her champagne and hash when she was about to turn 15. But before we ask ourselves what ought to happen to a grown man in a position of power who gave an underage girl drugs and alcohol and then took her virginity, we should just remember that he dressed really neat and wore makeup and stuff. Bowie was Ghomeshi’s idol, the man he most wanted to interview.
A few years before Morpheus Manfred started up The Red Pill, Ghomeshi blurbed the Guy’s Guide to Feminism. He wrote:
“An admirably accessible guide for guys to understand and embrace the other (often more incendiary) F-word. And it’s even funny. Quite remarkable. Everyone knows feminists have no sense of humour!”
Jian appeared on the back of the book alongside Gloria Steinem and the editor of the online feminist site Feministing.
Where are Morpheus and Ghomeshi now? Morpheus is in a long-term relationship, and developing a sense of humour about himself and his project. Ghomeshi is currently awaiting his second trial. Who is really shitty here?
Again to return to the our conundrum: are we our real selves online or off? Is the screen the place where we indulge the fantasies that our offline selves would never dare? Or is the screen where we perform the truth of our being that that world of faces and consequences does not permit?
Among men today, there is violence hidden under the virtue, and virtue hidden under the violence.
The only constant is the hiding.
•••
In The Red Pill’s glossary, you can find those two entries:
Oneitis – When a guy has fallen in love with a woman in the same way a boy loves his mother. He obsesses about her, but she does not reciprocate. The Unicorn – Mystical creature that doesn’t fucking exist, aka The Girl of Your Dreams.
If you dig through the misogyny and the bravado, the boys of The Red Pill want The One. They are as lost in that pursuit as every generation of men has been before them.
The Red Pill is hatred of women in the context of men who want nothing more than to please women, and who are living in a world with a sexual marketplace they find deeply anxiety-provoking. Briffaut’s Law, another of the key concepts of The Red Pill, encapsulates male powerlessness as an eternal truth: “The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.”
But Redpillers are responding to a much more novel and contemporary reality that such biological imperatives: they are responding to women having financial and sexual power over their own lives and bodies. And they haven’t dealt with it yet. The term “manosphere” is really a misnomer. “Not-quite-a-manosphere” would be better.
What the boys of The Red Pill need, in all honesty, is a massive dose of Romantic poetry. They need a dedicated course of treatment in the novels of Jane Austen and Dostoevsky, combined with significant therapy in negative capability.
They need to learn that love is awful, in the both the ancient and modern senses of the world – that love is infinitely more powerful and real than any marketplace, sexual or otherwise.
They need to read Freud, who wrote that every man wants to murder his father and sleep with his mother and that the only way to be civilized is to recognize that everyone is barbaric way down deep inside.
They need to know that desire is a mess, and that everyone suffers from its mess.
Instead of culture, the world offers the boys of The Red Pill contempt. Instead of education, outrage.
But it’s not just the boys of The Red Pill who need to begin again to learn from the fiasco that is men and women. It’s everybody. It’s the whole world. | {
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I've liked that there either hasn't been as much, or they aren't showing as much of the ridiculousness in the house too..
But it would be much better if we had less of that AND more footage of training/fighting by some of the guys in the last few seasons, rather than this one. These guys suck!
And Michael Bisping has proven himself to be what I have always thought he was. | {
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wANT A REALLY SOOTHING SHOWER? pUT YOUR WASH RAG OVER YOUR FACE AND THEN PUT YOUR FACE UNDER THE SHOWER HEAD.
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Q:
Write elements to a Linkedlist
I have such a ListNode
# Definition for singly-linked list.
class ListNode:
def __init__(self, x):
self.val = x
self.next = None
and a linkedlist
Input: l1: 1->2->4, ll2:1->3->4
How could add the numbers to list?
I tried
head = ListNode(0)
node1 = ListNode(head)
node1.next = node2 #but node2 has not been declared
node2 = ListNode(2)
node2.next = node3 #node3 has not been declared
node3 = ListNode(4)
node3.next = null
I think I need some Listnode thing like d = defaultdict(int). then I can use d[] before assignment.
A:
This will run:
head = ListNode(0)
node1 = ListNode(head) # <-- is this really what you want
node2 = ListNode(2)
node3 = ListNode(4)
node1.next = node2
node2.next = node3
node3.next = null # <-- or maybe it won't
but isn't this what you want:
head = ListNode(0)
node1 = ListNode(1)
node2 = ListNode(2)
node3 = ListNode(4)
head.next = node1
node1.next = node2
node2.next = node3
# node3.next = None # <-- this is redundant
If you defined your class like this:
# Definition for singly-linked list.
class ListNode:
def __init__(self, x, next=None):
self.val = x
self.next = next
You could do:
head = ListNode(0, ListNode(1, ListNode(2, ListNode(4))))
but maybe you want all the intermediate references to the nodes
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OK, I should have pulled my finger out and posted this on Friday while it was still kinda relevant. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an outrageous story debunked so quickly. Mind you, you won’t have to go far to find some right wing nutjob or overly-impressionable simpleton who will still wear blind it’s true.
I’m talking of course about the mildly wacky McCain supporter who invented an absurd story about being attacked by some black dude who supposedly carved a “B” into her face because he was a “B”arack Obama supporter and she was a John McCain supporter. Not that it’s inconceivable in general terms for an attack of that type to occur. White Republicans hardly have a monopoly on being cowardly bullies. It was the specifics that were so absurd.
The story was, in fact, so absurd that for a while I could have been easily convinced that it was a prank and/or satire staged by an Obama supporter. But it appears she really was a McCain campaign worker. By the way, I don’t think the McCain campaign had anything to do with this. Their stoking of racist fears is hardly subtle but even they are slightly less insane than this. My personal favourite touch was that the “B” was reversed… kind of what you might do if you were really stupid and looking in a mirror while carving a “B” into your own face.
I believe in mental health circles this is known as “a cry for help”.
I found this story on Friday night and couldn’t believe the absurdity of it. There was too much material there for me to *not* run with it so I decided to go for a totally overblown satire. Knowing full well some morons would take it at face value. Even though I led the description of the video with “Stupid people don’t get satire.”
And I was also amused by the number of people who rushed to comment in the ensuing hours that the story was untrue. Really? Lucky I had those internet commenters to save me from thinking for myself.
Last year when an American friend was visiting, he was appalled at how expensive and limited internet access in Australia is. That’s OK, I’m appalled too. Because of my YouTube obsession I’ve gone for basically the fastest service available. It’s cable access but the broadband speeds are capped at 25GB. When you’re on YouTube and other video sites as much as I am (all right, fine – when you download as much porn as I do) it’s dead easy to go over that limit. So much so that I’m constantly monitoring usage so that my connection doesn’t get strangled down to dialup speeds.
Oh, and it costs $99 per month.
In other words it sucks. But the new(ish) federal government had promised to go ahead with some much overdue investment in infrastructure so the future was looking brighter. So I was delighted to learn of the government’s first major internet initiative. No, wait a minute. Not delighted. What’s that other thing I always feel? Oh yeah. Really fucking angry.
Outraged in fact. It seem the government has decided that nobody in Australia is enough of a grownup to deal with all the naughtiness on the internet and so plans to force a mandatory filtering/censorship program on the entire internet.
This is bad on so many level it simply boggles the mind. It’s a disturbing level of censorship. It won’t work. It will cripple internet speeds that are already shit. And it will be absurdly expensive. And they can talk all the shit they want about “protecting children” and “illegal” content. Any filter they put in place will be trivially easy to get around. But at least they’ll have fucked up the internet for law-abiding citizens. Not one iota of difference to criminals but we can’t have everything, can we?
This has been my venting topic of the week on YouTube. Here’s the ranty version of my thoughts:
And here’s my more rational take on the topic:
I’ve been recommending concerned Australians support the EFA and make some noise themselves. It might be an horrific Big Brother/nanny state/police state nightmare we facing but at least we can have a laugh about it as well.
I am totally over the idiocy, paranoia and hatred being spewed by the anti-Obama camp. And not that I feel like giving any ground to the fucwits who have been drooling this shit but I will clarify the “racist” remark. Of course not everyone who isn’t voting for Obama is a racist. But everyone pushing the “terrorist” innuendo and outright smears is either an ignorant, racist fuck or is an evil, soulless, lying sack of shit who is pandering to ignorant, racist fucks.
And speaking of pandering, I don’t think people are cutting John McCain enough slack for the way he’s tried to calm down the rhetoric at his rallies recently. I saw the video and he seemed to be suffering actual physical pain at the way he had to repeatedly tell people Obama was trustworthy and decent and not some baby eating demon or, worse, an arab. He knows he fucked up and he’s decided to take some responsibility for it. Maybe a little late but not near as late as he could have left it.
The big question for me is why did he do it? He’s clearly done a 180 degree flip from what he was doing only a week earlier. My theory is that he’s looked at the numbers and realised he’s going to lose the election. He followed the advice of the evil, ruthless bastards in the GOP machine and gave up all of his standards and sank into the gutter. He followed the advice of the same people who fucked him over with their lies in the 2000 primary race. And it didn’t work.
I think he’s changed course just so he can live with himself. He spent months abandoning any principles he had in his lust to win. He gave up his soul and got nothing in return. And who knows, this last ditch decency strategy might win him back a few moderates. But given that is really is nothing but the barest standards of decency after months of lies, smears and hate mongering it’s almost certainly too little, too late.
At least it shows he hasn’t totally passed over into the dark side. He has at least vestigal remnants of human decency. He never deserved to be fucked over by his own party – his time was in 2000. It’s too late now. He’s too old, too unwell, his judgement is clearly shot and the choice of Sarah Palin as VP is a disgusting insult to the American people. Given the chances of him dying in office are about 110% (with a 10% margin of error in that figure) Palin has to be seen as a Presidential nomination. And neither America nor the world would survive that.
What was I thinking? I decided to tell a story of the worst injury I ever received – way back in the dark ages when I was in school:
Telling a story like that is nothing unusual but I asked people to tell their injury story in return. So now I’ve spent a few hours being grossed out by people’s comments. If you have a strong stomach, check them out yourself:
Well, it looks another presidential debate passed by without changing much. From what I’ve read, these debates rarely have an influence on election outcomes but these ones seem even less likely to as nothing decisive seems to be happening in them.
Interestingly, I’ve seen a few commentators being fascinated by CNN’s use of real time reaction measurement by giving “undecided” voters a box with a dial to twiddle and translating the results into a moving line. It’s isn’t that I want to deride CNN’s cutting edge widgets but we’ve had that crap for ages in Australia – over a decade, I think. We call it the worm.
The most interesting thing I read about the debate was that McCain apparently deigned to look at Obama this time. I personally think Obama should have punked him as they went to shake hands. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would have laugh if, at the critical point, instead of shaking hands Obama suddenly lunged at McCain as if he was going to hit him just to see McCain flinch.
White guys ALWAYS jump when black guys do that – even if the black guy is a lifelong friend. I’m not saying I find it inherently funny when obnoxious old men shriek like a little girl, fall over and shit their pants. OK, I am saying that’s funny. Comedy gold. | {
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Grantoo lets college students earn tuition by playing games - thegarside
http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/04/grantoo-lets-college-students-earn-tuition-by-playing-games-exclusive/
======
vitno
as a college student, I say the games really suck...
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Fuck Lettuce
Fuck Lettuce Lyrics
Big girls big girls I must confess
Skinny chicks okay, but big girls the best
Girl you look just like a bulletproof vest
Chillin' in the club with the crumbs on ya breast
More on Genius
About “Fuck Lettuce”
(Unreviewed)
A true lyrical masterpiece, comedian Mike Epps dropped this fire song from his still upcoming album, “Fuck Lettuce.” While we are still waiting for this album years later, we can forever ponder over the true infallibly genius work that is this song. | {
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Hey I am inviting you all to a big party.
The Hunter's Weiner bawl.
A big celebration to show off their new manhood.
Walls covered with newly decapitated heads.
Trophies" of their shame.
Remnants of their gutless efforts to be men.
Now to start things off right,
We need music.
Today who else but the????????
"BUCKSHOTS"
Hit it fellas!!!
Come on everyone lets shake them some ass.
Right foot, left foot.
"Shake your bounty-shake, shake, shake!
Shake your bounty-shake, shake, shake!"
And what is music without the song............keep moving it everyone!!!
HEY NOW, HEY HOW?
CAN THEY BE SO MEAN?
CAUSE THEY HAVE NO HEARTS
IT MAKES THEIR EGOS KEEN.
HEY NOW, HEY HOW?
IT'S HEAD TROPHIES TIME?
THESE MEN CAN SHOOT A GUN
AND IT'S KILLING CRIME.
HEY NOW, HEY HOW?
DO YOU MOUNT THE HEAD?
AND THE EYES ARE GLASS
BUT THEY STILL LOOK DEAD.
HEY NOW, HEY HOW?
WHO, WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE.
IT IS TIME TO TALK
AND I'M A GONNA TO GO THERE!
Hey now
Hey how............
Hey that was great, you really worked it out.
Sit down. Take a rest.
I have been doing some perplexing reflecting.
In my spare ticky-tock time.
Been thinkin about you huntin men.
Especially you men of the "decapitated animal head fame."
Yeah, you over there, under the moose head.
Got some questions for ya all.
I wanna go to that "we don't ever talk about it zone."
The place where you reinvent your murders.
Like what is with those glass eyes in those heads you got hangin all around?
Where's their real eyes?
Where's their eyes?
Gotta an answer big man with a gun???
Can't leave the real eyes there can you?
Letting them ooze, crack ,rot and then dry.
They would look dead, the head would be morbid.
Even you would have known you had killed.
The horror and pain you created would stare back at you.
Reflecting your own fetid soul.
THE EYES MUST BE PLUCKED OUT!!
What dark hole do you crawl into?
Do you have a special eye removal place?
A room where you go elbow deep in blood and brains,
Where you trade sticky eyes for glass eyes?
Eyes that never saw their mother, never watched a sunset,
Nor saw their loved ones.
Hard rock eyes that that know not of life nor of you,
But glisten outward in silly happy glances of endearment.
Eyes that reflect back your lies.
"I didn't die, I didn't suffer, I didn't care that you killed me."
Yeah the trigger happy fingers of your wasted hands
Do not want the blood stains pointing back to them.
So you pretend, you lie, you take away their death.
Your shameful acts replace their dignity.
You can't leave the sticky accusing traces of your massacre.
The peaceful head must gleam from the wall.
Less all know the extent of your thoughtless vain acts.
So now you preen, enjoying your own invisible valor.
And there you stand, under the moose.
Smug, the bearer of death In the First Degree.
But while you laugh, can't you feel them??
The eyes?
THE EYES, STARING AT YOU!
WATCHING YOU..
Waiting....waiting....waiting for you.
Watching and waiting--the "eye bawls."
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???? | {
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Q:
What am I supposed to do to get the most out of my Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 graphics card?
I am running a fresh installed 32-bit lubuntu on an old desktop machine with Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 graphics card. I have no idea if the graphics card driver is correct or not, how can I get the most out of my graphics card?
user@user-System-Name:~$ sudo lshw -c display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
resources: irq:16 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:c0000-dffff
I have tried to solve my issue with this answer but I am neither understanding if it fits my situation nor do I have the knowledge to install the proposed package.
A:
Based on mikehatever's comment:
Nvidia legacy driver 173 is not available in 17.10. The only currently supported Ubuntu release that has it is 14.04. It is supported until April 2019, and if you wish to try it, go with Xubuntu 14.04.1. Other than that, you probably can't do much more with 14 years old hardware.
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Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a ceramic-coated product, in particular a ceramic coated component, for use in a hot gas duct, especially in industrial gas turbines. The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing a product having a thermal barrier layer.
A product of that type has a base body of a metal alloy based on nickel, cobalt or iron. Products of this type are primarily used as a component of a gas turbine, in particular as gas turbine blades or heat shields. The components are exposed to a hot gaseous flow of aggressive combustion gases. They must therefore be capable of withstanding very heavy thermal stresses. It is furthermore necessary for those components to be resistant to oxidation and corrosion. Primarily for moving components, e.g. gas turbine blades, but also for static components, there are also mechanical requirements. The power and the efficiency of a gas turbine in which components that can be subjected to hot gas are used, rise with increasing operating temperature. In order to achieve high efficiency and high power, those parts of the gas turbines which are especially subjected to the high temperatures are coated with a ceramic material. The latter acts as a thermal barrier layer between the hot gas flow and the metallic substrate.
The metallic base body is protected from the aggressive hot gas flow by coatings. That being the case, modern components usually have a plurality of coatings, each of which fulfils specific requirements. A multilayer system is thus involved.
Since the power and efficiency of gas turbines rise with increasing operating temperature, efforts are constantly being made to achieve higher gas turbine performance by improving the coating system.
A first approach with a view to this improvement is in optimizing the adhesion layer. U.S. Pat. No. 4,321,310 discloses the application of an MCrAlY adhesion layer in such a way that it has a low degree of surface roughness. A layer of aluminum oxide is then formed thereon in order to achieve thereby a substantial improvement in the adhesion of the thermal barrier layer
U.S. Pat. No. 4,880,614 discloses incorporation of a high-purity aluminum layer between the MCrAlY adhesion layer and the metallic base body. This aluminum is used to form a dense Al2O3 layer on the adhesion layer in order to increase the life of the coated component.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,238,752 discloses an adhesion layer of nickel aluminides or platinum aluminides. A layer of aluminum oxide is formed on this adhesion layer. The thermal barrier layer is applied thereon.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,262,245 discloses that the aluminum oxide layer is formed as an oxidation layer from the material of the base body. For that purpose, the base body has a nickel-based alloy which has strongly oxide-forming alloy constituents.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,676,994 discloses the application of a layer that forms aluminum oxide to a base body. Aluminum oxide is formed on the surface of this layer. A dense ceramic layer is applied thereon by evaporation coating.
This ceramic layer is formed of a dense substoichiometric ceramic material. It may be an oxide, nitride, carbide, boride, silicide or a different refractory ceramic material. A thermal barrier layer is applied to that ceramic layer.
The great majority of the above U.S. patents indicate that the thermal barrier layer has a columnar microstructure in which the crystallite columns of the columnar microstructure extend perpendicular to the surface of the base body. Stabilized zirconium oxide is indicated as the ceramic material. Suitable stabilizers include calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, cerium oxide and, preferably, yttrium oxide. The stabilizer is needed in order to prevent a phase transition from the cubic to the tetragonal and then monoclinic crystal structure. In essence, the tetragonal phase is stabilized to about 90%.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,321,311, voluminous defects are provided in the thermal barrier layer in order to reduce stresses which are produced in the thermal barrier layer when the temperature changes, as a result of the fact that the base body and the thermal barrier layer have different coefficients of thermal expansion. The thermal barrier layer has a columnar structure with gaps between the individual columns of the coating of zirconium oxide stabilized with yttrium oxide.
Another proposal for solving the problem of stress when confronted with temperature variation is indicated in U.S. Pat. No. 5,236,787. Here, an intermediate layer of a metal/ceramic mixture is interposed between the base body and the thermal barrier, in which the metallic proportion of this intermediate layer increases in the direction of the base body and to decrease in the direction of the thermal barrier layer. Conversely, the ceramic proportion should be low close to the base body and high close to the thermal barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer proposed is a zirconium oxide stabilized with yttrium oxide and having some proportion of cerium oxide. The thermal barrier layers are deposited on the base body by plasma spraying or PVD methods. The proportion of the yttrium oxide stabilizer is from 8 to 20% by weight.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,764,341 discloses the bonding of a thin metal layer to a ceramic. Nickel, cobalt, copper and alloys of these metals are used for the metal layer. In order to bond the metal layer to the ceramic substrate, an intermediate oxide such as aluminum oxide, chromium oxide, titanium oxide or zirconium oxide is applied to the ceramic substrate. At a sufficiently high temperature, this intermediate oxide forms a ternary oxide through oxidation by incorporating an element from the metallic coating.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a product to be exposed to a hot gas and having a base body of metal and bonded thereto a thermal barrier layer, and a process for producing the same, which overcome the disadvantages of the heretofore-known products and processes of this general type.
With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a product to be exposed to a hot gas and having a metallic base body to which a ceramic thermal barrier layer formed with a ternary or pseudoternary oxide, is bonded, in which said oxide has a pyrochlore crystal structure of the structure formula A2B2O7.
With the objects of the invention in view, there is also provided, a product to be exposed to a hot gas and having a metallic base body to which a ceramic thermal barrier layer formed with a ternary or pseudoternary oxide, is bonded, in which said oxide has a perovskite crystal structure of the structure formula ABO3 in which A is calcium or ytterbium, and when A is calcium B is hafnium and when A is ytterbium B is at least one of zirconium and hafnium.
The invention is based on the fact that, until now, materials for thermal barrier layers have predominantly been pseudobinary ceramics, that is ceramic materials having a general structural formula which can be represented as AB2 or A2B3. In this case, a material based on zirconium oxide has proved most advantageous. However, from as little as 900xc2x0 C., zirconium oxide displays evidence of aging. This is caused by the zirconium oxide thermal barrier layer sintering. As a result, the pores and the voluminous defects in the thermal barrier layer undergo are progressive diminishment, and the stresses caused by the different thermal expansion coefficients of the material forming the thermal barrier layer and the material forming the base body are reduced less and less well. This sintering process is reinforced by material impurities. It is further reinforced by the interaction of the thermal barrier layer with hot gas constituents, with materials in the base body and the material of the adhesion layer. Above all, the yttrium oxide used as a stabilizer promotes aging. Since it is desirable to have a long service life of gas turbines operating under full load, for example 10,000 hours, the permissible surface temperature of components having thermal barrier layers made of zirconium oxide is limited to 1250xc2x0 C. This maximum permissible surface temperature dictates and limits the power and efficiency of gas turbines.
According to the invention, in contrast thereto, the product has a ceramic thermal barrier layer with a ternary or pseudoternary oxide. The oxide preferably has a pyrochlore or perovskite structure as defined. The material of the thermal barrier layer preferably has no phase transition from room temperature to its melting temperature. It is then not necessary to add a stabilizer. The melting temperature depends on the respective chemical compound and is preferably above 2150xc2x0 C.
According to a particular feature of the invention, a bonding layer having a bonding oxide is disposed between the base body and the thermal barrier layer. This layer can, for example, be produced by applying an oxide. Preferably, however, the bonding layer forms an adhesion promoter layer by oxidation, which adhesion promoter layer is disposed between the thermal barrier layer and the base body. The oxidation of the adhesion promoter layer can take place before application of the thermal barrier layer, or alternatively during use of the product in an oxygen-containing atmosphere. In this case, the adhesion promoter layer preferably contains a metallic element that forms an oxide. It is likewise possible for the bonding layer to be formed directly by oxidation of the alloy of the metallic base body. For this purpose, the alloy of the base body has a corresponding metallic element. The bonding oxide is preferably chromium oxide and/or aluminum oxide.
According to a further feature of the invention, the product is preferably a component of a heat engine, for example a gas turbine blade, a heat shield part of a combustion chamber of a gas turbine or a component of a combustion engine. Such gas turbine components, e.g. turbine blades or heat shields, preferably have a base body which is formed of a superalloy based on nickel, chromium or iron. On this base body there is, in particular, an MCrAlY adhesion promoter layer. It also serves as an oxidation protection layer since, in air or virtually any other oxygen-containing environment (i.e. at least when the component is used, if not earlier) part of the aluminum and/or chromium is converted into oxide. On this adhesion promoter layer is the thermal barrier layer which is formed of a ternary or pseudoternary oxide having a pyrochlore or perovskite structure. The term ternary oxide defines a substance which is formed of atoms of three different chemical elements. The term pseudoternary oxide defines a substance which contains atoms of more than three different chemical elements, but these atoms belong to only three different element groups, the atoms of the individual elements in each of the three different element groups being equivalent in terms of crystallography.
These ceramic substances have the low thermal conductivity required of thermal barrier layers. The thermal conductivity is, in particular at higher temperatures, comparable with that of zirconium oxide. Furthermore, the ceramic substances of the thermal barrier layer have a coefficient of thermal expansion which is compatible with the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the base body. The coefficient of thermal expansion is about 9xc3x9710xe2x88x926/K. The ceramic substances of the thermal barrier layer which contain ternary oxides are preferably phase stable between room temperature and melting temperature. This obviates the need for a stabilizer, whose presence promotes aging. They are furthermore sure to adhere stably to the base body through the use of the MCrAlY adhesion promoter layer. It should furthermore be emphasized that the rates of evaporation of the ceramic substances of the thermal barrier layer are very low. As an order of magnitude, for example, the evaporation rate of lanthanum hafnate is 0.4 xcexcm per 1000 hours at 1600xc2x0 C.
With the objects of the invention in view, there is additionally provided a process for applying the thermal barrier layers in which the coating takes place with a ternary oxide, in particular a pyrochlore ceramic through atmospheric plasma spraying or a PVD method, for example an EB-PVD (Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition) method. In the case of both methods, a layer having the desired porosity can be introduced by suitable choice of the process parameters. It is also possible to produce a columnar microstructure. It is in this case not absolutely necessary for the starting material used for the coating to already have the same chemical and crystallographic composition as the material of the finished coating. Above all in the case of the lanthanum hafnate, it is possible to use a powder mixture, being formed of two binary oxides, for the starting material of the coating process. The mass ratio of the two powders corresponds in this case to the stoichiometric composition of the thermal barrier layer then formed on the component by the coating process. By way of example, a thermal barrier layer made of lanthanum hafnate can be produced by using a mixture of hafnium oxide and lanthanum oxide as starting material in an EB-PVD process. In this case, the molar ratio of hafnium oxide to lanthanum oxide is 1.29.
Another object of the invention involves a device operable in a temperature environment in excess of about 1000xc2x0 C. The device comprises a substrate and a ceramic thermal barrier layer deposited on at least a portion of the substrate. The layer is formed with a ternary or pseudoternary oxide having a pyrochlore or perovskite structure and a fugitive material and having pores or other voluminous defects. This thermal barrier layer advantageously is abradable.
Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in a product to be exposed to a hot gas and having a thermal barrier layer, and a process for producing the same, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
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Q:
c++ Overload operator bool() gives an ambiguous overload error with operator+
I'm compiling some c++ code of a class MegaInt which is a positive decimal type class that allows arithmetic operations on huge numbers.
I want to overload operator bool to allow code like this:
MegaInt m(45646578676547676);
if(m)
cout << "YaY!" << endl;
This is what I did:
header:
class MegaInt
{
public:
...
operator bool() const;
};
const MegaInt operator+(const MegaInt & left, const MegaInt & right);
const MegaInt operator*(const MegaInt & left, const MegaInt & right);
implementation:
MegaInt::operator bool() const
{
return *this != 0;
}
const MegaInt operator+(const MegaInt & left, const MegaInt & right)
{
MegaInt ret = left;
ret += right;
return ret;
}
Now, the problem is if I do:
MegaInt(3424324234234342) + 5;
It gives me this error:
ambiguous overload for 'operator+' in 'operator+(const MegaInt&, const MegaInt&)
note: candidates are: operator+(int, int) |
note: const MegaInt operator+(const MegaInt&, const MegaInt&)|
I don't know why. How is the overloaded bool() causing operator+ to become ambiguous?¸
Thank You.
Well, everyone gave me great answers, unfortunately, none of them seem to solve my problem entirely.
Both void* or the Safe Bool Idiom works. Except for one tiny problem, I hope has a workaround:
When comparing with 0 like:
if (aMegaInt == 0)
The compiler gives an ambiguous overload error again. I understand why: it doesn't know if we're comparing to false or to MegaInt of value 0. None the less, in that case, I'd want it to cast to MegaInt(0). Is there a way to force this?
Thank You Again.
A:
The C++ compiler is allowed to automatically convert bool into int for you, and that's what it wants to do here.
The way to solve this problem is to employ the safe bool idiom.
Technically, creating an operator void* is not an example of the safe bool idiom, but it's safe enough in practice, because the bool/int problem you're running into is a common error, and messes up some perfectly reasonable and otherwise correct code (as you see from your question), but misuses of the void* conversion are not so common.
A:
The wikipedia entry on explicit conversion operators for C++0x has a decent summary of why you see this error pre-C++0x. Basically, the bool conversion operator is an integral conversion type, so it will be used in an integral arithmetic expression. The pre-C++0x fix is to instead use void * as the conversion operator; void * can be converted to a boolean expression, but not to an integral expression.
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The Art of Blowjob – Afterglow Blowjob in Bed – Piper
Piper cuddles against your stomach, her soft hair tickling your belly. She lets her head sink into you, feeling comfortable. Slowly she moves down, you feel her naked skin rubbing against your legs, it’s a huge turn on. She takes her time, taking the tip of your cock inside her mouth, then letting it slip out.
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You grab a handful of her hair, and place the other hand on your shaft. You’re in control. She takes you in deeper, holding you there for a few seconds as you can’t help but thrust into her mouth. She wants you to cum on her face, she’s ready and craves it. She holds you tight, you aim for her mouth, and shoot her load all on her. Some enters her mouth, the rest falls on her cheeks, and she greedily licks it all up. | {
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Q:
Does the tryLock method call go in the try block?
ReentrantReadWriteLock.ReadLock
ReentrantReadWriteLock.WriteLock
For the two above classes do I call lock like this
try {
readLock.tryLock(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
[...]
} finally {
readLock.unlock();
}
OR
readLock.tryLock(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
try {
[...]
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readLock.unlock();
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Which is safer, and does the same apply to the lock() method versus the tryLock() method?
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It has to go in the conditional section, You can't attempt to use the data if you failed to get the lock.
if (readLock.tryLock(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
try {
[...]
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readLock.unlock();
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} else {
// failed to get lock
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In the melee of yesterday’s announcements of the major changes coming for the FIA WEC some details of the 2018 ELMS have as yet gone largely unreported.
The first is that the intention is to publish the calendar for the 2018 season during the weekend of the next ELMS meeting at Spa Francorchamps.
We already know though what look set to be the opening two rounds for the coming season are already set.
The opening race will take place on the weekend after the revised WEC Prologue test at Paul Ricard with the ELMS runners likely to benefit from extended testing in the days prior to the race meeting proper. Some guest entries from the WEC ranks are very likely with Mike Wainwright confirming to DSC yesterday that he intends to race his newly acquired 911 RSR in the ELMS event with other WEC GTE and LMP2 teams telling DSC that they too are considering adding at least the Paul Ricard race to their schedules.
The WEC race at Silverstone is gone for now but senior sources have confirmed that the ELMS race will continue in 2018 at Silverstone though with the date not yet confirmed publicly.
Beyond that, and the calendar rejig that the switch for Ricard entails, there is unlikely to be any fundamental change.
All ELMS events this season so far have been successful, and with LMEM extended elsewhere with the transition, some steady state will be a welcome relief! | {
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AUDIO: From Gilbert & Sullivan to the Notorious B.I.G.- Learn All of the Musical References in HAMILTON!
Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Mirandarecently revealed in a Vulture article some of his influences for the musical that has been taking New York City by storm. His inspirations for the new hip-hop musical range from everthing from Jay-Z to Les Miz. Now, he just revealed in a recent tweet some of the musical references from songs in the show.
Below, check out some of the music that makes an appearance in Hamilton, and if you've seen the show, take a stab at figuring out where they were featured!
"Going Back to Cali"
"Juicy (It's All Good)"
"Nobody Needs to Know"
Paty Up (Up in Here)"
"Shook Ones, Part II"
"Ten Crack Commanments"
"The Message"
"The Modern Major General"
"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"
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HAMILTON which recently transferred to Broadway following a sold-out run at The Public Theater in NYC is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellowFounding Fathers and shot to death by Aaron Burr in their legendary duel. | {
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Le fondateur de WikiLeaks Julian Assange vit reclus dans l’ambassade équatorienne à Londres depuis quatre ans. Peter Nicholls / Reuters / REUTERS
« Merci Julian. On n’y serait pas arrivés sans toi. » Ce militant pro-Trump est l’un des nombreux internautes à avoir exprimé sa gratitude, après l’élection du candidat américain à la Maison Blanche, envers Julian Assange, le fondateur de WikiLeaks. Le mot-clé #ThankYouJulian était ainsi largement partagé sur Twitter mercredi 9 novembre, souvent accompagné du hashtag #FreeJulian, appelant à la « libération » de l’Australien, qui vit reclus dans l’ambassade équatorienne à Londres depuis quatre ans.
Id like to take a moment and thank #wikileaks for showing #Americans how corrupt and distrustful the #Clintons are. #thankyouJulian — Jatcorrupted (@Alan Quatermain)
« J’aimerais prendre un moment pour remercier WikiLeaks qui a montré aux Américains à quel point les Clinton sont corrompus et ne méritent pas notre confiance », peut-on lire sur le réseau social. D’autres le qualifient de « héros », qui a permis de « sauver » l’Amérique. Certains messages lui promettent même qu’il « rentrera à la maison dès que Trump sera investi ».
A l’inverse, certains internautes, bien moins nombreux, ont fait part de leur amertume envers l’organisation et son fondateur. « Au fait, WikiLeaks, tu es mort à mes yeux », peut-on lire ici. « Vous devriez avoir honte » de « faire de la pub à un raciste », lit-on là.
@wikileaks @NewRepublic you should be ashamed. Shilling for a racist scumbag. Go fuck yourself. — bonkers67 (@fergus lynch)
Acharnement
Ce qui vaut tant de louanges de la part des pro-Trump à Julian Assange, et tant de ressentiment de la part de pro-Clinton, est l’acharnement dont il a fait preuve, ces derniers mois, à l’encontre de la candidate républicaine. WikiLeaks a ainsi publié sur son site des milliers d’e-mails de John Podesta, son directeur de campagne, mais aussi des couriels internes du Parti démocrate. Des publications en série, savamment étalées, qui ont souvent mis la candidate dans l’embarras.
Article réservé à nos abonnés Lire aussi La campagne d’Hillary Clinton perturbée par les révélations de WikiLeaks
Mais WikiLeaks ne s’est pas limité aux révélations de documents dont il est coutumier. Le site a aussi régulièrement relayé des messages anti-Clinton, en appuyant le discours de Donald Trump sur les « médias corrompus » et en cherchant sans relâche les erreurs et les mensonges dans les propos des soutiens de la candidate.
Initialement favorable à Bernie Sanders, candidat malheureux à la nomination du Parti démocrate, Julian Assange n’a pas digéré la nomination d’Hillary Clinton. Et pour cause : c’est elle qui dirigeait la diplomatie américaine quand WikiLeaks a publié, avec plusieurs médias dont Le Monde, ses révélations sur les télégrammes diplomatiques américains. Depuis, il ne cache pas son hostilité à son égard.
Lire aussi Pourquoi WikiLeaks soutient Trump ?
Pas de « désir personnel d’influencer l’élection »
Le jour de l’élection, bien avant les résultats, Julian Assange a publié un communiqué pour expliquer la démarche de WikiLeaks tout au long de cette campagne, assurant qu’elle n’était « pas liée à un désir personnel d’influencer le résultat de l’élection ».
« Personne ne remet en question l’intérêt public de ces publications. Il serait impensable, pour WikiLeaks, de retenir une telle archive loin du public durant une élection. En même temps, nous ne pouvons pas publier ce que nous n’avons pas. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, nous n’avons pas reçu d’informations sur la campagne de Donald Trump. (…) Publier, c’est ce que nous faisons. Retenir la publication de telles informations jusqu’à la fin de l’élection aurait été une manière de placer l’intérêt d’un candidat avant celui du public. »
Ce qui n’a pas empêché Julian Assange d’enfoncer le clou contre Hillary Clinton, dénonçant dans les premières lignes de son texte, à quelques heures de la fermeture des bureaux de vote, les « énormes pressions » subies par WikiLeaks « venues des alliés de la campagne, y compris de l’administration Obama ».
A l’heure où nous écrivons ces lignes, l’organisation et son fondateur se sont abstenus de tout commentaire sur le résultat de l’élection… Mais WikiLeaks a publié mercredi, vers 18 heures, une nouvelle série d’e-mails de John Podesta – la 36e en date. Comme si de rien n’était.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 36 #PodestaEmails #PodestaEmails36 #HillaryClinton #imWithHer… https://t.co/5h5UZMdNKb — wikileaks (@WikiLeaks)
Deux heures plus tard, l’organisation a tout de même décidé de profiter de cette ovation post-électorale pour faire passer, peu subtilement, un message : elle a republié quelques anciens tweets rappelant qu’en février un groupe de travail de l’ONU avait estimé que Julian Assange était « détenu arbitrairement » et qu’il devait retrouver sa liberté de mouvement. | {
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602 N.W.2d 818 (1999)
STATE of Iowa, Appellee,
v.
Robert James CARTER, Appellant.
No. 97-2069.
Supreme Court of Iowa.
November 17, 1999.
*819 Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Dennis D. Hendrickson, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Sheryl A. Soich, Assistant Attorney General, Paul L. Martin, County Attorney, and Steven D. Tynan, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.
Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, CARTER, CADY, and ANDREASEN,[*] JJ.
ANDREASEN, Senior Judge.
The defendant claims his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the trial court's response to a jury's question and in failing to move for a judgment of *820 acquittal on the charge of first-degree sexual abuse. Finding no error, we affirm.
I. Background Facts and Proceedings.
A review of the record reveals substantial evidence from which the jury could have found the following facts. On August 25, 1996, a young woman asked an acquaintance, the defendant, Robert Carter, for a ride to a lounge. The defendant agreed; however, during the car ride he turned off of the main road and stopped the vehicle near a cornfield. He struck the woman in the head with a metal bar that was approximately twelve inches long. Attached to the bar were log-type chains and hooks.
The defendant forcibly removed the victim from the car and pulled her by the hair into the cornfield. He continued to strike her with the metal bar. The defendant made the victim remove her pants and he vaginally penetrated her. The defendant then made the victim perform oral sex.
After the sex acts had been completed, the defendant grabbed the victim by the hair and made her walk back to the car. He continued to hit her in the back of the head. The defendant retrieved something from the vehicle and forced the victim to return to the cornfield. There he stabbed the victim in the neck with a utility knife, cutting her trachea nearly in half. The victim pretended to be dead and the defendant left the scene. The victim then made her way to a nearby house and help was summoned.
The defendant was arrested later that night at his motel room. Shortly before his arrest, the defendant had washed his shirt, using vinegar in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence. Evidence implicating the defendant in the crime was found in a search of his motel room.
The defendant was charged with first-degree sexual assault in violation of Iowa Code section 709.2 (1995) and attempted murder in violation of Iowa Code section 707.11. At trial the State presented a considerable amount of direct and circumstantial evidence of the defendant's guilt. In addition to the victim's identification of the defendant as her assailant, there was DNA evidence linking the defendant, the victim, and the weapons, as well as physical evidence tying the defendant to the crime scene.
After the case was submitted to the jury, the jury sent the court a note inquiring as to when sexual abuse ends. The State had no objection to the court's proposed response. Defense counsel indicated he was not entirely satisfied with the answer, but he would not object because he could not think of a better response.
The jury found the defendant guilty on both counts, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment on the sexual abuse charge and an indeterminate term not to exceed twenty-five years on the attempted murder charge. The defendant appeals only from his conviction on the sexual abuse charge.
II. Error Preservation and Scope of Review.
Recognizing that error was not preserved below, the defendant argues on appeal that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the court's response to the jury's question and in failing to move for a judgment of acquittal on the sexual abuse charge. To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance, a defendant must show that his counsel failed to perform an essential duty and that prejudice resulted from this failure. State v. Greene, 592 N.W.2d 24, 29 (Iowa 1999). We may affirm if either element is lacking. Id.
Since the defendant's claim of ineffective assistance arises from his Sixth Amendment right to counsel, our review is de novo. See State v. Westeen, 591 N.W.2d 203, 207 (Iowa 1999). Such claims are usually preserved for postconviction relief actions; but where the record is adequate, we will consider them on direct appeal. Id. The present record is sufficient *821 to allow us to determine whether defense counsel was ineffective.
III. Serious Injury.
The defendant claims his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to move for a judgment of acquittal on the sexual abuse charge because there was insufficient evidence the victim sustained a serious injury. Iowa Code § 709.2. A "serious injury" means a bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death. See Iowa Code § 702.18.[1] "[A] substantial risk of death means more than just any risk of death but does not mean that death was likely." State v. Anderson, 308 N.W.2d 42, 47 (Iowa 1981). If there is a real hazard or danger of death, a "serious injury" is established. Id.
The record in this case reveals that Dr. Kathleen Haverkamp treated the victim when she was first admitted to the hospital. She testified the victim had extensive injuries, including multiple head and hand lacerations, and the victim's trachea had been cut in half. The doctor considered the victim's injuries to be serious and characterized the trachea injury as life-threatening because it could compromise the victim's airway.
Dr. Allgood, the surgeon who operated on the victim, testified that the laceration to her neck had partially transected her airway and there was a life-threatening possibility that she could lose the ability to breathe. It was his opinion that the victim needed emergency surgical intervention to save her life. The victim required a tracheostomy tube while in the hospital.
The defendant argues no witness gave an opinion as to the victim's "percentage chance of death" or what "possibility of death was certain." He alleges this case lacks the medical detail of past cases in which we have found a serious injury. We disagree. We have previously held that each case must be judged on its own facts when deciding if there has been a serious injury. State v. Coburn, 315 N.W.2d 742, 748 (Iowa 1982). There was sufficient evidence to establish that the injury to the victim's trachea created a substantial risk of death, and trial counsel did not breach an essential duty in declining to move for a judgment of acquittal on this element of the sexual abuse offense.
IV. Iowa Code Section 709.2"In the Course of."
The defendant claims that even if the victim did sustain a serious injury to her trachea, his counsel was ineffective in failing to move for a judgment of acquittal based upon the State's failure to prove that the victim sustained the serious injury "during the commission of" the sexual abuse.[2] The defendant contends the injury occurred after the completion of the alleged sex acts and therefore could not elevate his offense to first-degree sexual abuse under Iowa Code section 709.2. In response, the State argues the requirement that the serious injury occur "in the course of" the sexual abuse is satisfied when the injury is sustained immediately before or after the sex act.
Our analysis begins with the statutory language. Section 709.2 provides:
A person commits sexual abuse in the first degree when in the course of committing sexual abuse the person causes another serious injury.
It does not appear we have previously addressed whether the phrase "in the course of" requires that the actual infliction of a serious injury occur simultaneous with the commission of the sexual abuse. However, a review of our prior interpretations of similar phrases provides some assistance. For example, we have previously *822 recognized that the phrase "during the commission of" in Iowa's statute prohibiting the nonconsenual termination of a pregnancy requires that there be a temporal nexus or link between the underling felony and the termination of the pregnancy. See State v. Hippler, 545 N.W.2d 568, 570-71 (Iowa 1996). We similarly conclude that the words "in the course of" in section 709.2 require that there be a temporal nexus or link between the serious injury and the sexual abuse.
Even though we have determined that there must be a nexus between the serious injury and the sexual abuse, the question still remains whether the serious injury must occur simultaneously with the infliction of the sexual abuse. For guidance on this issue we look to our prior interpretations of an earlier version of Iowa's felony-murder rule. In Conner v. State, 362 N.W.2d 449, 452 (Iowa 1985), we observed that a murder occurred "in the perpetration" of a felony if it was incident to and associated with the felony "as part of an unbroken chain of events or as part of one continuous series of acts connected with each another." We also have rejected the argument that the murder had to be contemporaneous with the felony. State v. Conner, 241 N.W.2d 447, 464 (Iowa 1976).
Reviewing the entirety of a sequence of events is not new. For example, we have previously declined to impose rigid time or geographic limitations when determining if a defendant's subsequent assaultive behavior was in the furtherance of an escape and therefor elevated a theft to the offense of robbery. See State v. Terry, 544 N.W.2d 449, 452 (Iowa 1996); State v. Jordan, 409 N.W.2d 184, 186 (Iowa 1987). Such an approach is consistent with Iowa Code section 702.13 which provides that a crime commences with the first act directed toward the commission of the crime and ends with the perpetrator's capture or elusion of pursuers. See State v. Tillman, 514 N.W.2d 105, 109 (Iowa 1994).
Other jurisdictions have rejected arguments similar to those made by the defendant. For example, the North Carolina Supreme Court has held the serious injury element is sufficiently established if there is "a series of incidents forming one continuous transaction between the rape or sexual offense and the infliction of the serious personal injury." State v. Blackstock, 314 N.C. 232, 333 S.E.2d 245, 252 (1985). Such incidents include injuries inflicted to overcome a victim's resistance and to obtain submission, injuries inflicted in an attempt to commit or further a sexual offense, and injuries inflicted for the purpose of concealing the crime or to aid in an assailant's escape. Id.
The Missouri Court of Appeals has held the display of a dangerous weapon "in the course of" rape or sodomy need not occur simultaneously with the sexual offense. State v. Gray, 895 S.W.2d 241, 244 (Mo.Ct. App.1995). As long as the use of the weapon "was part of the whole single transaction" which constituted the aggravated form of rape or sodomy, the elevation of the offense to a class A felony was appropriate. Id. The Missouri court held that it was "[t]he totality, and not the piecemeal, of the transaction or occurrence" which must be viewed to determine the issue. Id. at 245.
We think the analysis in these cases and in our prior felony-murder cases is persuasive. We hold that under Iowa Code section 709.2 the serious injury need not occur simultaneously with the commission of the sexual abuse in order to constitute first-degree sexual abuse under Iowa Code section 709.2. It is sufficient if the serious injury precedes or follows the sexual abuse as long as the injury and sexual abuse occur as part of an unbroken chain of events or as part of one continuous series of acts connected with one another. There was substantial evidence in the record that the defendant's act of cutting the victim's throat occurred as part of the entirety of a continuous series of acts involving the sexual abuse. Trial counsel breached no duty in declining to move for a judgment of acquittal on this basis.
*823 V. Response to Jury Question.
In his final argument the defendant claims his counsel should have objected to the trial court's response to the question the jury sent to the judge. During its deliberations the jury sent a note to the judge with the question: "Does sexual abuse end when the sex act ends?" The court responded: "Not necessarily. It depends if the subsequent actions occur as part of a continuing course of action." The defendant contends the jury's question indicates it was troubled by its responsibility to determine whether a serious injury was caused by the sexual abuse, and he claims the court's response allowed the jury to find there was a serious injury without requiring it to find a causal connection between the injury and the sex act.
The court's answer directed the jury to consider whether there was a "continuing course of action." This response was sufficiently consistent with our holding in this opinion. Counsel did not err in acquiescing in the trial court's response to the jury's question.
AFFIRMED.
NOTES
[*] Senior judge assigned by order pursuant to Iowa Code section 602.9206 (1999).
[1] The State concedes it did not attempt to prove any of the alternative definitions of "serious injury" found in section 702.18.
[2] The trial court, using Iowa's Uniform Criminal Jury Instruction 900.1, instructed the jury that the State must prove that "during the commission of sexual abuse, the defendant caused [the victim] a serious injury."
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by
“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying effects of standard schooling; the psychopathologizing and medicating of noncompliance; surveillance; television; and fundamentalist religion and fundamentalist consumerism. Over the last seven years, many young people have told me that they appreciate that article, but they have urged me to detail a hugely important pacifying source which I had not included.
First, to be clear, not all young people are completely broken. The general state of acquiescence by young people was recently interrupted by their short-lived burst of dissent in the form of large rallies for gun control, in reaction to fears of being murdered in their classrooms. But that was an exception to the general rule of resignation to eating shit.
A longer period of dissent occurred during Occupy, in which many young people protested against their financial subjugation by the 1%. However, one lesson that young people learned from Occupy is that their rulers only pay lip service to democracy—and so mere dissent has little impact. Young people today are correct to recognize the impotence of mere dissent if it is unaccompanied by a withdrawal of cooperation with the ruling class’s capacity to turn a profit. But because young people have been broken in so many ways, decreasing numbers of them havethe individual strength, class consciousness, and group cohesiveness that is required to move beyond dissent to the kind of constructive disobedience (for example, a labor strike) that can create greater justice for them.
It’s not that young people in the United States are ignorant of the reality that they are being financially screwed; they know they have been screwed, they expect to be screwed even worse, and most of them passively accept this reality.
Young people are not ignorant of their increasingly crippling student-loan debt. At last look, 70% of college students graduate with significant debt; the average student-loan debt at $37,172, and the average monthly payment at $393 (and this doesn’t include their credit card debt). Add this to the reality that many young people with student-loan debt never even graduate college; and even among those who do graduate, many of them find only low-paying jobs.
The majority of young people feel so beaten down that they have also passively accepted that they will get screwed out of Social Security benefits. A 2015 Gallup poll asked “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” Among those 18 to 29 years of age, 64% said no. Yet, most are resigned to having money deducted from their paychecks for benefits that they believe they will never receive.
Since my 2011 article was published, many millennials have informed me that they are being broken by something that I hadn’t originally included: the Internet, which many of them tell me is the most important aspect of their lives. From these young people, I have learned how the Internet creates fears, lowers self-esteem, and divides them—all of which weakens their capacity to resist injustices.
Fear is a great way to break people, and the Internet—similar to other areas that I had previously detailed—creates fear. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, and other so-called “social media” create the fear of permanent shame and shunning. Millennials repeatedly see how a single error in judgment on social media will not be forgotten and can haunt forever—and destroy lives. While many young students voice concern about a shooting in their school, my experience is that they are more viscerally terrified of something being posted on social media by them or about them that can damage their attractiveness to their peers or to future employers. For young people, denial over their life being ruined on social media is impossible—most never unplug from it.
The Internet heightens a fear-based consciousness. People have different private fears and, as George Orwell detailed, their greatest fears can be exploited to break them. For many young people, their greatest fear is being “doxxed”—having private information about them published on the Internet so as to hurt them. For other young people, their greatest fear is “FoMo”—the fear of missing out—which is intensified on social media where they are constantly bombarded with images of others doing “cool” stuff. One young woman recently told me, “You don’t know how crazy we are. I saw a party on Instagram that looked really cool, and I had FoMo over it, even though I know the guy who posted it always makes parties look cooler than they really are.”
Many young people tell me that the constant barrage of their peers’ self-promotions on social media makes them feel inferior; and low self-esteem—like fear—debilitates the strength to resist. One young man recently explained to me that millennials are always aware of their “digital selves” which can be measured in metrics such as “likes”; and that comparing themselves to others routinely results in low self-esteem. Of course, some young people do attempt rebellion, but effective rebellion, they tell me, requires completely extricating from social media, which would be an extremely radical action.
Not only does the Internet create fear and low self-esteem but also divides, which of course allows the 1% to more easily conquer the 99%. The Gilded Age robber barron Jay Gould reportedly bragged, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Millenials have educated me on the various divides among the 99% that have been created and perpetuated on the Internet.
Every millennial young man tells be about the Internet war between “social justice warriors” and “red pillers.” Young people who care about justice for historically oppressed groups (such as women, people of color, and LGBT folks) are mocked as social justice warriors by those who call themselves red pillers who feel that, today, white males are the oppressed group. In an Internet world absent of face-to-face contact, there is only mutual venom. Absent is a mutual grasping that each side is in the 99%, that each side cares about injustice, and that the financial hell for all of them has been created by the 1%—not by each other.
Screen addiction subverts the in-person contact necessary for face-to-face dialogue and solidarity, and the Internet is even more addictive than television, as young people are virtually never away from their smart phones, laptops, or other screens. Walk into any coffee shop, and you’ll often see many young people in close proximity with one another but locked into their own screens and not looking at each other.
Several of my millennial young male informants tell me that they are afraid to risk face-to-face contact, afraid to be seen as violating a woman’s privacy, afraid to be viewed as a creep. I joked with one young guy, “Are you afraid that if you walk over to some pretty young woman in a coffee shop and tell her that you like her shoes, then you’ll be accused of ‘rape-staring’ and have your life ruined on the Internet, and end up being falsely labeled all over the Internet as a sex offender?” The young man laughed and said, “I know that you are exaggerating, but that’s the kind of shit that many of us millennial guys think about, as we have become pathetic.”
Having young men and young women in the 99% being afraid of one another may be even more of a coup for the 1% than their historical successes at getting ethnic and racial groups to hate one another. With this fear and hate among the 99%, it is impossible to have the solidarity and strength necessary to effectively revolt in an organized way against the 1%.
The Internet technology need not necessarily be a pacifying force as, for example, the Internet was effectively utilized during the Arab spring to foment rebellion and organize resistance. Similarly, some of the other pacifying forces that I originally detailed need not be pacifying. Teachers could inspire resistance against illegitimate authorities rather than indoctrinate compliance to any and all authorities. And my fellow mental health professionals could embrace liberation psychology rather than pathologize and medicate rebellion.
My experience is that young people, in general, are becoming increasingly pained and weakened by multiple oppressive forces, and older people who give a damn about them can help. The 1% will always attempt to seize powerful technologies and institutions to pacify all of us—especially young people. To manage these technologies and institutions, the 1% needs technocrats, administrators, and guards; thus, what would help is what Howard Zinn called a “revolt of the guards.” However, if technicians, teachers, mental health professionals, and other guards never even admit to ourselves our societal role—as guards who maintain the status quo—then we guards will never consider a revolt. Many older people are guards, and they can choose to revolt and help young people gain the strength necessary to resist injustices. | {
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Free online course: All you ever wanted to know about SDN
Georgia Tech this spring will offer a comprehensive free, 6-week online course about software-defined networking, one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT.
The MOOC (massive open online course) is being offered via Coursera and is being led by Nick Feamster, an associate professor at Georgia Techs College of Computing and a participant in past SDN events such as the Open Networking Summit.
(Last year we also wrote about Google, in the wake of Internet blackouts in Egypt and Libya, awarding at least $1 million to Feamster and other Georgia Tech researchers working on tools that will immediately reveal when governments are trying to shut down or censor use of the Internet.)
The free SDN course starts on May 27th and will entail roughly 6-8 hours of work per week. You should know Python and have taken at least a basic networking course.
In a nutshell, heres the SDN course focus:
This course introduces software defined networking, an emerging paradigm in computer networking that allows a logically centralized software program to control the behavior of an entire network.
Separating a network's control logic from the underlying physical routers and switches that forward traffic allows network operators to write high-level control programs that specify the behavior of an entire network, in contrast to conventional networks, whereby network operators must codify functionality in terms of low-level device configuration.
Logically centralized network control makes it possible for operators to specify more complex tasks that involve integrating many disjoint network functions (e.g., security, resource control, prioritization) into a single control framework, allowing network operators to create more sophisticated policies, and making network configurations easier to configure, manage, troubleshoot, and debug.
The course stretches back to the 1980s and AT&Ts Network Control Point and finishes with a section on SDN in data centers, wireless and enterprise environments.
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Last week, I was in The Bull & Bear office recounting an epic summer hookup story (it’s really good, but too long to share here) to my fellow editors when one of them pointed out that I seemed “way too proud about it.” Apparently, a woman parading her wild sexual accomplishments like a bro in the motherland of Carnival and at the headquarters of sex, drugs and party surveys is still a shocking concept worthy of a double take. While some girls would have recoiled in shame and taken a vow of chastity until they were six feet underground, I only stood a little taller. Why? Because I’m secure enough with myself and my choices to not care what others think. I’ve been called a slut before. It didn’t make me cry or flinch, much less change.
From a very young age, women are taught that there are two main categories in which we can fit: the pure, doe-eyed cutie also known as “wife material,” or the evil temptress condemned to a life of misery and a string of married unavailable lovers. The truth is that most us stand somewhere in the middle. While growing up, we are conditioned to feel awkward about sex and ashamed for wanting to experience it, terrorized into believing that it is morally wrong. We are constantly told that the first time is “special,” that you can only “give it away once,” and even that “you should wait until marriage.” We become paranoid that people can tell when we pop our cherries as if the sound of our breathing will start sounding like the melody to “I just had sex.” But after doing the deed, we quickly realize how foolish our previous fears were. No physical traits will give away our secrets, but maybe our astoundingly good mood will.
Boys, on the other hand, are often introduced to porn by their older brothers, celebrate when they finally swipe their V-cards and are encouraged to keep things casual. Sex is seen as fun, dirty and exciting: an adventure to go on multiple times with as many partners as possible. And while these men talk about their hookups like notches on a never-ending bedpost, women are supposed to bury theirs at the back of their closet like a pair of particularly ugly pumps or run the risk of being slut-shamed into social exclusion.
That’s right, our greatest critics are not males; they are our best friends, sisters and mothers. The former will feign outrage for five minutes and then try to get with us because we might have magic powers (aka the ability to do that thing we sometimes practice with a popsicle). The latter will gossip about us behind our backs, leave our names off the invite list and blackball us to infinity and beyond.
So why is it that our own gender reels us back into the pre-feminist era whenever things get a little too graphic? Well, that’s a question I still don’t have a perfect answer for. In the post-Fifty Shades of Grey world, one would expect this kind of judgment to be obsolete. Then again, half of the women who read the series did it on a Kindle so that others around them would be blissfully ignorant of their little adventure into the realm of erotica (#guiltypleasure). If the popularity of those novels taught us anything, it’s that there are millions of interested females. Why can’t we all just be honest and end the perpetual game of hide and seek? As women, we have certain basic carnal needs and our choosing to satisfy them does not prevent us from being fully functioning responsible adults.
We have to flush the ridiculous, usually hypocritical, bullying that is slut-shaming down the drain where it belongs. We need to create a safe space within society where women’s fantasies and sexual experiences are embraced and normalized. Whether we are in a relationship, casually dating or trying out the one night stand, we deserve respect not only from our partners, but from everyone.
If you happen to be a woman holding out for “the one,” I applaud your convictions and wish you the best of luck. For those of you who crave the physical and emotional connection that sex can provide, subtlety remains an important tool in retaining a pristine female reputation. But, if you are ready to dip your toes in the pool of social change, maybe you should join me in re-appropriating the word slut and turning it into a sex-positive label.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Bull & Bear. | {
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Turkish:
Ya seni öldüreceğiz ya da gitmene izin vereceğiz
Bu yerden canlı çıkıp çıkamayacağın...
...tamamen sana bağlı.
Yolun biraz ilerisinde bir meyve bahçesi var.
Bunun yanında, ortalarda dolaşan bir Alman devriyesi olduğunu da biliyoruz.
Eğer o devriyede bir keskin nişancı varsa...
...o meyve bahçesi onun için tam bir eğlence olur.
Şimdi , eğer bir daha lahana turşulu sandviç yemek istiyorsan...
...onların nerede olduğunu bu harita üzerinde göstermek zorundasın.
Bana kaç kişiler...
...ve ne tür ağır silahlar taşıyorlar anlatacaksın.
Benden Almanların hayatını tehlikeye atacak bilgiler vermemi bekleyemezsin.
Werner, yanılıyorsun. Senden beklediğim şey tam olarak da bu.
Almanların içinde saklandığı ağaçların yerini öğrenmeliyim.
English:
Either kill you or let you go.
Whether or not you're going
to leave this ditch alive
depends entirely on you.
Up the road a piece, there's an orchard.
Besides you, we know there's another
Kraut patrol fucking around here somewhere.
If that patrol were to
have any crack shots,
that orchard would be a
goddamn sniper's delight.
So if you ever want to eat
a sauerkraut sandwich again,
you got to show me on this
here map where they are.
You got to tell me how many
they are, and you got to tell me
what kind of artillery
they're carrying with them.
You can't expect me to divulge information
that would put German lives in danger.
Well, now, Werner, that's where you're
wrong, because that's exactly what I expect.
I need to know about
Germans hiding in trees.
Italian:
Ucciderti, o lasciarti andare
Che tu lasci questo fosso
vivo o morto
dipende tutto da te
Più avanti sulla strada,
c'è un frutteto
Oltre a voi, sappiamo
che c'è un altra fottuta pattuglia
di mangiacrauti qua intorno
da qualche parte
Se quella pattuglia si mettesse a sparare
Quel frutteto diventerebbe una
dannata delizia del cecchino
Quindi se vorrai mai mangiare un
panino ai crauti di nuovo
Devi mostrarmi su questa mappa dove si trovano
Devi dirmi quanti sono
e devi dirmi
che tipo di artiglieria hanno a disposizione
Non puoi aspettarti che io divulghi
informazioni che metterebbero vite tedesche
in pericolo
Bene,ora..Werner, è proprio questo che sbagli,
perchè era proprio ciò che mi aspettavo da te.
Devo sapere se ci sono tedeschi nascosti tra gli alberi,
Turkish:
Bana söylemen gerekiyor. Bana hemen söylemen gerekiyor.
Şimdi parmağını doğrult ve...
...bütün olayın nerede döndüğünü...
...kaç kişi olduklarını ve yanlarında neler taşıdıklarını göster.
Saygıyla reddediyorum, efendim.
[SOPA SESİ]
Duydun mu?
Evet.
Bu çavuş Donny Donowitz.
Onu takma ismiyle biliyor olabilirsiniz...
...Yahudi Ayısı.
Apaçi Aldo'yu duyduysan, Yahudi Ayısını da duymuşsundur.
Yahudi Ayısını duydum.
Ne duydun?
Alman askerlerini sopasıyla dövdüğünü.
Beyinlerini beyzbol sopasıyla parçalıyor. Yaptığı bu.
Werner, sana bir kez daha soracağım...
...ve bir daha saygıyla reddedersen...
Yahudi Ayısını çağıracağım...
...haşmetli sopasını alacak...
English:
And you need to tell me. And
you need to tell me right now.
Now, just take that finger of yours
and point out on this here map
where this party is being held,
how many is coming and what
they brought to play with.
I respectfully refuse, sir.
[ BAT TAPPING ]
Hear that?
Yes.
That's Sergeant Donny Donowitz.
You might know him
better by his nickname.
The Bear Jew.
Now, if you heard of Aldo the Apache,
you got to have heard about The Bear Jew.
I heard of The Bear Jew.
What did you hear?
Beats German soldiers with a club.
He bashes their brains in with
a baseball bat, what he does.
And, Werner, I'm going to
ask you one last goddamn time,
and if you still respectfully refuse,
I'm calling The Bear Jew over.
He's going to take that big bat of his,
Italian:
E tu devi dirmelo.
Tutto ciò che devi fare è dirmelo ora.
Adesso, devi solo prendre quel tuo dito
e indicarmi su questa mappa dove
si tiene la festa,
Il numero di invitati e che tipo di giochi hanno portato
Con rispetto signore, rifiuto.
[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
Lo senti?
Si.
È il sergente Donny Donowitz.
Forse lo conosci meglio con il suo soprannome
L'Orso Ebreo
Ora, se hai sentito di Aldo l'Apache, devi aver
sentito anche dell'Orso Ebreo
Ho sentito dell'Orso Ebreo
Che cosa hai sentito?
Che picchia is soldati tedeschi con un bastone
Gli fracassa il cervello con una
mazza da baseball, questo fa.
E, Werner, Telo chiedo per l'ultima volta,
e se il tuo è sempre un no...
Farò venire l'Orso Ebreo qui.
Prenderà quella grossa mazza
English:
and he's going to beat
your ass to death with it.
Now, take your
Wiener-schnitzel-licking finger,
and point out on this
map what I want to know.
Fuck you.
And your Jew dogs.
[ BASTERDS LAUGHING ]
Actually, Werner, we're all
tickled to hear you say that.
Quite frankly, watching
Donny beat Nazis to death
is the closest we ever get
to going to the movies. Donny!
DONNY: Yeah?
Got us a German here who
wants to die for country.
Oblige him.
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
Turkish:
...ve seni ölene kadar dövecek.
Şimdi o şnitzel yaladığın parmağını al ve...
haritadaki bilmek istediğim yeri göster.
Seni de sikeyim...
... Yahudi köpeklerini de.
[SOYSUZLAR GÜLÜYOR]
Werner, aslında bu dediğin hepimizin hoşuna gitti.
Açıkçası Donny'nin bir Naziyi öldürene...
...kadar dövmesi filmlerdeki gibi olacak. Donny!
Evet?
Burada ülkesi için ölmek isteyen bir Alman var.
Ona bir iyilik yap.
Italian:
e ti spaccherà il culo a morte
Ora, prendi quel dito,
e punta su questa mappa quello che ti ho detto.
Vaffanculo!
Anche ai tuoi cani ebrei
[ BASTARDI RIDONO ]
Vedi, Werner, in realtà aspettavamo tutti che dicessi ciò
Molto francamente, guardare Donny picchiare Nazisti a morte
è molto vicino a guardare un film. Donny!
DONNY: Si?
Abbiamo qui un tedesco che vuole morire per la patria
Accontentalo.
[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
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Italian:
[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
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[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
[ MAZZA CHE SBATTE ]
[ BASTARDI ACCLAMANO ]
Hai ricevuto questo per aver ucciso gli Ebrei?
Per il coraggio.
English:
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BAT TAPPING ]
[ BASTERDS CHEERING ]
Did you get that for killing Jews?
Bravery.
Turkish:
Bunu sana Yahudilerini öldürdüğün için mi verdiler?
Cesaretimden dolayı.
Italian:
[ BASTARDI ACCLAMANO ]
Si!
BASTARDO 1:Oh,no!
BASTARDO 2:Oh,no!
[ BASTARDI ACCLAMANO ]
E adesso mi cacherei addosso se fossi in voi
[ RISATE ]
Teddy Williams è il capo dello stadio!
L'arena Fenway è tutta in piedi per la fottuta
giocata di Teddy
Ho fatto un fuoricampo,
la palla è finita sulla fottuta Lansowne Street!
Tu!
Diamine, Hirschberg!
Donnyy porta qui quell'altro...Vivo!
Alzati cazzo! In piedi!
Due colpi. Io ti colpisco, tu colpisci per terra.
Inglese?
[ PARLANDO TEDESCO ]
ALDO: Wicki.
Turkish:
Evet!
Yerinizde olsam şuan altıma sıçıyordum.
Teddy Williams topu stadın dışına gönderiyor!
Fenway Park maçı kazandıran Teddy için ayakta!
Şampiyon topu Lansdowne Sokağına kadar gönderdi!
Sen!
Kahretsin, Hirschberg!
Donny, diğerini buraya getir... canlı olarak!
Ayağa kalk! Sırada sen varsın.
İki vuruş, ben sana vururum sen de toprağa
İngilizcen var mı?
Nein
Wicki.
English:
[ BASTERDS EXCLAIMING ]
Yeah!
BASTERD 1: Oh, no!
BASTERD 2: Oh, no!
[ BASTERDS EXCLAIMING ]
About now I'd be shitting
my pants if I was you.
[ LAUGHING ]
Teddy Fucking Williams
knocks it out of the park!
Fenway Park is on its feet
for Teddy Fucking Ballgame!
He went yard on that one, on
to fucking Lansdowne Street!
You!
Damn it, Hirschberg!
Donny, bring that other
one over here. Alive!
Get the fuck up! Batter
up. You're on deck!
Two hits. I hit you,
you hit the ground.
English?
[ SPEAKING GERMAN ]
ALDO: Wicki.
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Lyme Disease is a multi-systemic bacterial infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, most commonly transmitted to humans by the bite of a tick.
In 2009, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 38,000 new cases of Lyme Disease, three times more than in 1991. Four years later, in 2013, the CDC released a new report estimating that 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme Disease annually- a number ten times greater than their 2009 estimate- rendering Lyme Disease the leading cause of all insect-borne illnesses in the U.S. today.
Despite this, the majority of people suffering from Lyme disease struggle to find adequate medical care. Faulty testing leads many of them go misdiagnosed for years, allowing the infection to progress until it becomes almost impossible to undo the damage caused to the various organ systems involved. For this reason, a large portion of those diagnosed with Lyme Disease experience debilitating symptoms long after the recommended course of treatment which can include persistent musculoskeletal pain, chronic fatigue, inflammation of joints (arthritis), cognitive impairment leading to difficulties with speech, memory, and concentration, impaired motor-function leading to difficulties with walking and self-care, as well as a host of other symptoms that drastically reduce the quality of life of those suffering from Lyme Disease or Post Lyme Disease Syndrome (PLDS).
To make matters worse, there is still much debate within the medical community around almost every aspect of this infectious disease. Some argue that it can progress to a chronic infection requiring longterm antibiotic-treatment while others deny any possibility of this and reject the idea that persistent symptoms following a short-course of antibiotics are related to the spirochetal infection.
Meanwhile, the patients are the ones paying the price for this ongoing dispute as this lack of consensus within the medical community leaves them to navigate a labyrinth of conflicting information while baring the financial burden of ongoing treatments not currently covered by the majority of insurance plans. Moreover, the lack of public awareness for this complicated illness has created a riff between those within and those outside of the Lyme Disease community, often leading to tension amongst family members and friends as loved ones struggle to understand the day-to-day difficulties faced by those suffering.
Just recently, Lyme advocates held a “silent vigil” outside of the New York Times building under the banner, “Lyme Disease Is A Pandemic, Where’s The Coverage?” These advocates were protesting the media’s silence on Lyme disease, calling for more and better coverage on the subject in hopes of raising public awareness and encouraging the medical community to address this growing epidemic. Unfortunately, the media’s response was underwhelming.
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The documentary portion of our campaign will chronicle our journey as we travel throughout the country and meet with people who have been diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Through a series of interviews we hope to foster a greater level of understanding for the day-to-day struggles of those battling this often invisible illness, showing that Lyme Disease affects people within every age, race, and gender category.
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On Tuesday, Daily Kos founder and publisher Markos Moulitsas instructed Democrats that the first rule of Impeachment Club is that you do not talk about Impeachment Club, at least in mixed company.
"The signs are clear we are headed for a massive Democratic wave" in the midterm elections, exulted Kos, who believes Dems will pull it off if they emphasize health care ("voters strongly back the Democratic approach") and taxes (the recently passed GOP bill "poll[s] like absolute shit") and "avoid issues that energize conservatives," most of all one mega-issue:
Talking about impeachment in campaign settings effectively puts Trump on the ballot. And if Trump is on the ballot? His supporters will turn out. We don’t want his supporters to turn out. We want them home, sulking about the swamp and how McConnell and Ryan have stood in the way of Trump’s efforts to Make America Great… …Impeachment [will be] implicitly on the table. Everyone knows a Democratic Congress’s first act will be to investigate the fuck out of that Orange Asshole… …Republicans are doing a good job of demoralizing and suppressing their own base vote. Let’s give them an assist by staying quiet on their hottest-button, most-motivating issues, and keeping Trump off the ballot by avoiding impeachment talk. Except here at Daily Kos. Amongst ourselves, we can talk impeachment all we want!
On Wednesday, Salon's Matthew Sheffield dampened Democratic impeachment enthusiasm by noting a mid-December NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey finding that the public decisively opposes impeachment proceedings against Trump (54 percent anti to 41 percent in favor). Sheffield thinks those numbers aren't likely to change much: | {
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From the laboratory to the therapy room: National dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Despite their established efficacy and recommendation--often as first-line treatments--in clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) have largely failed to make their way into mainstream clinical settings. Numerous attempts over the years to promote the translation of EBPs from science to practice, typically relying on one-dimensional dissemination approaches, have yielded limited success. As part of the transformation of its mental health care system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is working to disseminate and implement a number of EBPs for various mental and behavioral health conditions throughout the VA health care system. This article examines VHA's multidimensional model and specific strategies, involving policy, provider, local systems, patient, and accountability levels, for promoting the national dissemination and implementation of EBPs in VHA. In addition, the article identifies key lessons learned and next steps for further promoting EBP delivery and sustainability in the VA health care system. Beyond promoting the availability of effective treatments for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and for veterans of previous combat eras, VHA's EBP dissemination and implementation model and key lessons learned may help to inform other private and public health care systems interested in disseminating and implementing EBPs. | {
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Audience analysis
Audience analysis is a task that is often performed by technical writers in a project's early stages. It consists of assessing the audience to make sure the information provided to them is at the appropriate level. The audience is often referred to as the end-user, and all communications need to be targeted towards the defined audience. Defining an audience requires the consideration of many factors, such as age, culture and knowledge of the subject. After considering all the known factors, a profile of the intended audience can be created, allowing writers to write in a manner that is understood by the intended audience.
Process
Audience analysis involves gathering and interpreting information about the recipients of oral, written, or visual communication.
There are numerous methods that a technical communicator can use to conduct the analysis. Because the task of completing an audience analysis can be overwhelming, using a multi-pronged approach to conduct the analysis is recommended by most professors, often yielding improved accuracy and efficiency. Michael Albers suggests that an analysis use several independent guestofaguest that work together, such as reader knowledge of the topic and reader cognitive comprehension.
Writers can also use conversation, in-depth interviews or focus groups to help them to complete an audience analysis. Conversation as well as other qualitative research techniques will allow the communicator to consider the multiple cultural, disciplinary, and institutional contexts of their target audience, producing a valuable audience analysis.
David L. Carson of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute asserted that technical communicators most often perform their jobs with little or no knowledge about their audience. Carson states that the analysis should include a reader's level of comprehension of the technical vocabulary and motivation, as well as reading level. Indicators of a reader's high level of motivation include high interest in the subject matter, relatively high knowledge of the content, and high personal stakes in mastering the information.
Another technique used to conduct an audience analysis is the "bottom-up" approach. Leon de Stadler and Sarah van der Land explore this type of approach in reference to a document produced by an organization that develops different kinds of interventions in the field of HIV/AIDS education. This particular document focused on the use of contraception and targeted the black youth of South Africa. The initial document was created by document designers in the United States who did not base their design on an extensive audience analysis. As a result, the document, which used the informal slang of black South African youth, did not effectively communicate with its target audience. After the dissemination of the document, Van der Land used focus groups and interviews of a sample of the target audience to discover what improvements should be made. Upon considering the audience's perspective, she found that the initial document's use of the hip-style language backfired. The interviewees indicated that the use of the popular language was not effective because it was not used correctly or consistently throughout the document. Additionally, to the target audience, the informal language did not fit the seriousness of the topic being discussed. The suggested "bottom-up" approach should have incorporated the target audience during the design process instead of as an afterthought.
Marjorie Rush Hovde provides even more tactics that can be implemented in the process of an audience analysis in relation to one's organization. She suggests talking with users during phone support calls, interacting with users face-to-face, drawing on the writer's own experiences with the software and documentation, interacting with use-contact people within the organization, studying responses sent from users after the documentation is released, and conducting internal user-testing. Like Michael Albers, Hovde asserts that the use of a combination of tactics proves to produce a more accurate audience analysis than using one tactic alone.
Karen D. Holl discusses what writers should consider when writing papers that address an international audience. She focuses on those writers who attempt to publish studies in publications that are circulated abroad. She suggests that these writers consider the following questions when framing their papers: What conclusions from my study would be relevant and novel to land managers and scientists working in other ecosystems and socio-economic contexts?, What is the geographic scope of the literature I am citing?, To which ecological and socio-economic systems do my world view and results apply?, Is my study sufficiently well replicated to generalize my results?, and Are my conclusions supported by my data and, conversely, are all my data necessary to support my conclusions?. Although she focuses her suggestions on scientific studies, she acknowledges that "what is critical to effectively communicate the results of any study is to consider what conclusions will be of most interest to the target audience." Holl concludes that knowing how to address an international audience is a vital skill that successful scientists, as well as technical communicators, must possess.
Depth of analysis
There are often a large number of factors to consider, thus making it hard for the writer to completely assess the target audience within a reasonable amount of time. Therefore, an attempt to reach the most accurate and effective audience analysis, in a timely manner, is vital to the technical communication process. The depth of the audience analysis also depends of the size of the intended audience.
Because people constantly change in terms of technological exposure, the audience to be analyzed constantly changes. As a result, the technical communicator must consider the possibility that their audience changes over time. An article in the European Journal of Communication examined the change audience research has experienced due to the growing range of information and communication technologies. The article pointed out that there are three main challenges that drive the search for methodological rigor: the difference between what people say they do and what they do in practice, the interpretation of the text by the reader, and why the received meanings of television matter in everyday life. An absolutely perfect audience analysis is generally impossible to create, and it is similarly difficult to create an analysis that is relevant for a long period of time. Revising and rewriting an audience analysis is often required in order to maintain the relevance of the analysis.
Specific applications of audience analysis
R. C. Goldworthy, C. B. Mayhorn and A. W. Meade, dealt with the hazard mitigation, including warning development, validation, and dissemination as an important aspect of product safety and workplace and consumer protection in their article "Warnings in Manufacturing: Improving Hazard-Mitigation Messaging through Audience Analysis". In this study, they focused on the potential role of latent class analysis in regards to the audience analysis performed in hazard communication and warning messages. Their qualitative study involved 700 adult and adolescent participants who answered a structured questionnaire about prescription medication history, prescription medication loaning/borrowing history, and likelihood of sharing/borrowing medication. With this information, four latent classes were identified: Abstainers, Pragmatic frequent sharers, At-risk sharers, and Emergency sharers. The identification of latent classes based on behaviors of interest facilitated tailoring hazard-mitigation efforts to specific groups. Although their study is limited, in that all participants were between the ages of twelve and forty-four and were from heavily populated urban area (so the generalizability of the data to rural settings has not been generated), this study establishes that latent class analysis can play a vital role. They conclude that latent analysis is a worthwhile addition to the analytical toolbox because it allows, in this case, risk reduction and hazard-mitigation efforts to tailor interventions to a diverse target audience. For the technical writer, analyzing latent classes would enable them to better identify homogenous groups within the broader population of readers and across many variables to tailor messages to these better-specified groups.
The population of older adults is growing, and Gail Lippincott asserts that technical communicators have not accounted for the needs of these audiences, nor drawn from the wide range of research on aging. In her article "Gray Matters: Where are the Technical Communicator in Research and Design for Aging Audiences?", Lippincott suggests four challenges that practitioners, educators, and researchers must undertake to accommodate older adults' physical, cognitive, and emotional needs: They must refine the demographic variable of age, operationalize age to enrich current methods of audience analysis, investigate multidisciplinary sources of aging research, and participate in research on aging by offering our expertise in document design and communication strategies. Lippincott acknowledges that there is so much more research that must be done in this area, for "the body of literature on older adults and computer use is relatively small." Lippincott provides insight into an often overlooked audience that technical communicators must learn to address.
Teresa Lipus argues that devoting company resources to produce adequate instructions for international users is both practical and ethical. She also provides a brief overview of the consumer protection measures that leading U.S. trade partners have implemented. She also presents the following guidelines for developing adequate instructions for international audiences: 1) define the scope of the instructions, 2) identify the audience, 3) describe the product's functions and limitations, 4) identify the constraints, and 5) use durable materials. She offers tips for getting and keeping the attention of the audience. These tips are 1) organize the information, 2) structure the information, and 3) design the page layout. For aiding the comprehension of the readers, Lipus suggests that technical communicators write readable texts and design effective graphics. In an effort to motivate compliance, she says to make the instructions relevant and credible and to improve user recall of the information by organizing the information into small meaningful groups and providing concise summaries and on-product reminders. When presenting safety information, Lipus says to not only include the necessary safety messages but to also design effective safety messages. Before distributing instructions, they must be evaluated. She recommends testing the product and the accuracy of the instructions, communicating using means that reach users, and continuing to test and to inform users even after marketing. She explains that because the potential for making subtle but offensive errors is so high in international dealings, a language-sensitive native speaker from the target culture should always review the instructions before they are distributed to consumers. Although Lipus provides information in analyzing and writing for an international audience regarding consumer protection, the strategies offered can be applied to document preparation in general.
Jenni Swenson, Helen Constantinides, and Laura Gurak, in their case study, address the problem of defining medical web site credibility and identifying the gap in web design research that fails to recognize or address specific audience needs in web site design. The information they gathered assisted the researchers in identifying and fulfilling specific audience needs, describing a framework, and presenting a case study in audience-driven Web design. The researchers used the qualitative method of conducting a survey to find the audience of the Algenix, Inc. Web site. Algenix is a biomedical liver disease management company. The study showed that an audience-driven design would do more to reassure the audience that personal information would not be collected without consent as well as provide clear policies of security, privacy, and data collection. The survey informed the researchers that the audience would also like to experience a site with minimal graphics and short download times and one that is intuitive and easy to navigate. This study illustrates how an audience analysis should not only address what the users are able to do but also what they, as the users, would prefer.
In the article "Real Readers, Implied Readers, and Professional Writers: Suggested Research", Charlotte Thralls, Nancy Ror, and Helen Rothschild Ewald of Iowa State University define "real readers" versus "implied readers". The real reader is a concrete reality and determines the writer's purpose and persona. A writer who perceives an audience as real tends to conceive of readers as living persons with specific attitudes and demographic characteristics. Therefore, the writer's task is to accommodate the real reader by analyzing this reader's needs and deferring to them. The implied reader, on the other hand, is a mental construct or role which the actual reader is invited to enter, even though the characteristics embodied in that role may not perfectly fit his or her attitudes or reactions. When the reader is implied, the writer invents and determines the audience within the text. The researchers assert that writers must appreciate the complex interplay that may take place between the real and implied representations of the reader in every document. The researchers discuss how their study was conducted for the sole purpose of developing a hypothesis for further study: Are professional writers aware of real and implied readers; does a writer's way of perceiving a reader affect contextual development; do shifts occur in writers' conceptions of readers; are writers' perceptions of readers linked to a sense of genre and explained by principles of cognitive processing?
See also
Technical communication tools
Technical writing
Footnotes
External links
Wikiversity Technical Writing course
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"In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man." "His name..." "Merlin!" "It's time." "Sire, we're under attack." "They're within the city walls." "All quarters of Camelot are now under our control." "Agravaine?" "They're coming for Arthur, if they find him they'll kill him." "We have to make it across the border." "Find sanctuary anywhere we can." "You're smugglers?" "If you're caught you could be killed." "Tristan and Isolde?" "I don't think so." "Who the hell are you?" "My name is Arthur Pendragon." "We had a deal, partners for life remember?" "Guinevere?" "Hello, Arthur." "Make sure the village is surrounded." "No-one must escape." "Agravaine." "He's found us." "I'll cover our tracks." "You keep going." "O drakon, fthengomai au se kalon su katerkheo deuro!" "Take cover!" "Did you lose them?" "We're safe." "You're sure?" "Do I look like an idiot?" "Yes." "He doesn't change, does he?" "Which way now?" "I thought you said you grew up in these tunnels?" "!" "I did!" "It's just it could be that way." "Or it could be that way." "Yes." "That's very reassuring(!" ")" "Run!" "So you know Arthur?" "I was a servant in Camelot." "To Arthur?" "No." "So why are you here?" "He's my King." "Can't say I've detected many kingly qualities so far." "Well, maybe you don't know him." "Shhh!" "I thought you said we'd lost them." "I thought I had." "It won't take long for them to catch us." "I'll go back." "What are YOU going to do?" "Create a diversion." "Too risky." "I know these tunnels, Agravaine doesn't." "You keep going." "Merlin." "Don't do anything stupid." "Me?" "Oh, hello!" "Merlin!" "Merlin?" "Where's Arthur?" "Be careful." "What' are you talking about?" "Where's Arthur?" "Tell me." "Now!" "Or I'll have to kill you." "I don't think so." "HE WHEEZES" "You have magic." "I was born with it." "So it's you." "You're Emrys." "That is what the druids call me." "And you've been at court all this time, eh?" "At Arthur's side." "How you've managed to deceive him." "I am impressed, Merlin." "Perhaps we are more alike than you think." "What are you doing?" "Shhh." "Merlin?" "He knows the tunnels." "He'll find his way." "I'm going back." "For a servant?" "You're wrong about him." "Merlin!" "Where have you been?" "Were you worried about me?" "No." "I was making sure we weren't being followed." "You came back to look for me." "All right it's true." "I came back because you're the only friend" "I have, and I couldn't bear to lose you." "Really?" "Don't be stupid!" "So where now?" "To the plains beyond the mountain." "You sure?" "That's Lot's Kingdom." "He's no friend of the Pendragons." "Maybe we could find somewhere here, a house where we could rest." "We're fugitives, a danger to anyone who harbours us." "He's right." "We must travel back towards Camelot." "We need to keep going." "If we hole up in the Forest of Ascetir we'll be safe." "No." "If anyone's survived that's where they'll be hiding." "I know which I'd do." "But you're the King, Arthur." "You're our leader." "All right." "The Forest of Ascetir it is." "Come on, Gaius." "Hold fast." "Don't worry." "Least we'll get to eat!" "So you've another chance to sing for your supper." "I thought I might make it a little harder this time." "Seems fair." "Oh, but you can't fight with your bare hands." "Never mind." "You're a Knight of Camelot, you'll be fine." "AGGRESSIVE CLAMOURING" "What the hell." "Well, well, well." "Look at you." "First you go back to rescue your servant, now you're getting your hands dirty." "But then again, why shouldn't you?" "You're just like everyone else." "There's nothing special about you, is there?" "Maybe I don't deserve to be king." "Well, that's all right, because you're not." "Not any more." "Arthur." "Arthur?" "Don't." "What happened in Ealdor was a moment's weakness." "What you did to me..." "Everything I cherished between us." "Everything we had." "It's gone." "That will never change." "I'm sorry." "Enjoy your supper." "I fear it will be your last." "You need to eat." "Whether I eat or not, I am not long for this world." "Come on, Gaius." "I am a physician, Elyan." "I have spent my days watching the cycle of life." "If there is one thing I am not afraid of, it is death." "Don't waste your food." "If Gwaine has to fight again he will need all the strength he can get." "Come on." "I'll take watch." "Arthur, what's the matter?" "Don't listen to Tristan." "He doesn't know you." "I trusted the wrong people." "They betrayed you." "That wasn't your fault." "I was a fool." "I've misjudged everyone." "My uncle, Morgana..." "Every decision I've made has been wrong." "You're being too hard on yourself." "I should be discerning, wise." "A statesman." "A king!" "Tristan's right, there's nothing special about me," "I'm just like everyone else." "You're not!" "You're a worthy king." "I'm good with a sword, that's all." "Your people love you." "Most of them are dead, thanks to me." "No." "Most of them escaped." "And they'll be here, in the forest, I'm sure of that." "If they are they'll have to find themselves a new king." "Arthur..." "Arthur!" "O drakon, e male so ftengometta tesd'hup'anankes!" "Well, thank you." "You saved us all." "The land of Albion and the future we have all fought for was in peril." "What is troubling you, young warlock?" "It's Arthur." "He's lost the will to fight." "He feels he's failed his people." "He believes no longer deserves to be king." "The fate of Camelot rests in your hands, young warlock." "For you, and you alone, can restore the king's faith." "How?" "!" "You must make him believe that he can be king once more." "I wish I could be of more help, Merlin." "No." "I know how." "The people who fled Camelot, do you know where they're hiding?" "I am a dragon." "I can cover many leagues in the blink of an eye." "They shouldn't be too hard to find." "Then we've no time to lose." "What?" "There's something I need to show you." "This had better be good, because this really isn't the time for one of your ridiculous games." "I was thinking about last night and how you'd given up all hope, how you were a poor leader and a shoddy king." "Shoddy?" "All right, shabby." "Thanks(!" ")" "Well, it reminded me of a tale Gaius once told me." "Merlin, I'm really not interested in your favourite bedtime stories." "For once in your life, just listen." "Many years ago, before the birth of the five kingdoms," "This land was in an endless cycle of bloodshed, war." "But one man was determined to end all that." "He gathered together the elders of each tribe and drew up plans for the lands to be divided." "Each would rule over the land as they saw fit." "That man was Camelot's first king." "Ancestor to all that followed, including you, Arthur." "Bruta." "You know the story?" "Yes, every child in Camelot does." "Can I go back to bed now?" "No!" "Because there's another part of the story that you haven't heard." "Really?" "When Bruta was on his deathbed, he asked to be taken deep into the forest." "There, with the last of his strength, he thrust his sword into a rock." "If his lineage was ever questioned, this would form a test, for only a true King of Camelot could pull the weapon free." "Are you making this up?" "Of course not." "All right." "If it's true, why haven't I heard this story?" "Well, history isn't really your strong point, is it?" "Then where is this rock?" "It was lost many years ago during the Great Purge." "But I have managed to find it." "I've never heard so much rubbish in my entire life." "Are you calling Gaius a liar?" "No, I'm calling you an idiot." "What's that then?" "What the hell are you playing at?" "I'm proving you're their leader and king." "That sword is stuck fast in solid rock!" "And you're going to pull it out." "Merlin!" "It's impossible!" "Arthur, you're the true king of Camelot." 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# Home Assistant Community Add-on: Traccar
[Traccar][traccar] is a modern GPS Tracking Platform, which is now available
as an Hass.io add-on and allows you to run your GPS Tracking software
without any cloud.
Traccar supports more protocols and device models than any other GPS tracking
system on the market, straight from your Hass.io instance. You can select GPS
trackers from a variety of vendors from low-cost Chinese models to high-end
quality brands.
Traccar also has native mobile apps available for Android and iOS platforms
so that you can track those as well. AND! With the Home Assistant `traccar`
integration (introduced in 0.83) the data in Traccar will be sent back into
your Home Assistant instance as well.
## Installation
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in
comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.
1. Ensure you have the official "MariaDB" add-on installed and running!
1. Search for the "Traccar" add-on in the Supervisor add-on store
and install it.
1. Start the "Traccar" add-on
1. Check the logs of the "Traccar" add-on to see if everything went well.
1. Click the "OPEN WEB UI" button and log in using `admin`/`admin`.
1. Be sure to change the username, email, and password!
## Configuration
**Note**: _Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed._
Example add-on configuration:
```yaml
log_level: info
ssl: true
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem
```
**Note**: _This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!_
### Option: `log_level`
The `log_level` option controls the level of log output by the addon and can
be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are
dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:
- `trace`: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
- `debug`: Shows detailed debug information.
- `info`: Normal (usually) interesting events.
- `warning`: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
- `error`: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
- `fatal`: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.
Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a
more severe level, e.g., `debug` also shows `info` messages. By default,
the `log_level` is set to `info`, which is the recommended setting unless
you are troubleshooting.
### Option: `ssl`
Enables/Disables SSL (HTTPS) on the web interface.
Set it `true` to enable it, `false` otherwise.
### Option: `certfile`
The certificate file to use for SSL.
**Note**: _The file MUST be stored in `/ssl/`, which is the default_
### Option: `keyfile`
The private key file to use for SSL.
**Note**: _The file MUST be stored in `/ssl/`, which is the default_
## Integrating into Home Assistant
The `traccar` integration of Home Assistant makes it possible to transfer all
assets tracked by Traccar to appear in Home Assistant as a tracked device.
Add the following snippet to your Home Assistant `configuration.yaml` file.
```yaml
device_tracker:
- platform: traccar
host: localhost
port: 18682
username: TRACCAR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
password: TRACCAR_PASSWORD
```
Restart Home Assistant.
## Enabling more protocols
By default, this add-on has disabled most of the GPS protocols. This has
been done to reduce the number of open ports the add-on would create.
By default, only the OsmAnd protocol (used by the Traccar Apps) and the API
are enabled. If you want more protocols, you can do so, by adding entries
to your `/config/traccar.xml` file.
A list if all entries can be found here:
<https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-traccar/blob/master/traccar/rootfs/etc/traccar/traccar.xml#L22>
To find out which protocol your device uses, please refer to the Traccar
website: <https://www.traccar.org/devices/>
## Changelog & Releases
This repository keeps a change log using [GitHub's releases][releases]
functionality. The format of the log is based on
[Keep a Changelog][keepchangelog].
Releases are based on [Semantic Versioning][semver], and use the format
of ``MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH``. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented
based on the following:
- ``MAJOR``: Incompatible or major changes.
- ``MINOR``: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
- ``PATCH``: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.
## Support
Got questions?
You have several options to get them answered:
- The [Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server][discord] for add-on
support and feature requests.
- The [Home Assistant Discord chat server][discord-ha] for general Home
Assistant discussions and questions.
- The Home Assistant [Community Forum][forum].
- Join the [Reddit subreddit][reddit] in [/r/homeassistant][reddit]
You could also [open an issue here][issue] GitHub.
## Authors & contributors
The original setup of this repository is by [Franck Nijhof][frenck].
For a full list of all authors and contributors,
check [the contributor's page][contributors].
## License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Franck Nijhof
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
[contributors]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-traccar/graphs/contributors
[discord-ha]: https://discord.gg/c5DvZ4e
[discord]: https://discord.me/hassioaddons
[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-traccar/81407?u=frenck
[frenck]: https://github.com/frenck
[issue]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-traccar/issues
[keepchangelog]: http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
[reddit]: https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant
[releases]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-traccar/releases
[semver]: http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
[traccar]: https://www.traccar.org
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life, death, love and other forms of poetry by alcoholic poet
tutorials in skin. the slash. the tumble. electric with confession. the climb. the breach of attics. timid and dark. more echo than substance. rockets. and spoons. thick with heroin. soft and hot and eager to surrender.
tiles cracking. the animals absolved to hunger. a deep abyss that drives the wild into the heart of the city.
questions weep like forgotten fountains. choking on wishes. primates in their tuxedos. shitting on maps. places to go. like needles. and the veins that trust their madness.
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law school cocksucker.
I raise my hand just to tell my life experiences.
I think I am smart but really have no life skills besides being a bigot and asshole.
My opinion is the only one that counts.
I am pretty sure I have been everywhere in the world.
I am smarter and know more than my professors.
I am in the bottom of my class.
For some reason the teachers still call on me even though they know only my stupid fucking opinion is going to come out.
A law school gunner would say things like:
"I feel like that isn't right because ya know freedom of contract"
"In New York..."
"I am from Massachusetts and there the law is..."
2. Noun:
Someone who attempts, usually (and repeatedly) failing, to demonstrate his or her intellectual prowess by asking questions "out side the box." These questions, and the answers/discussion they force the professor to entertain, are never tested and rarely add positively to the lecture.
3. Someone who repeatedly asks questions during lectures that would be more appropriately discussed after class.
1. During discussion of a case in criminal law, one notorious law school gunner once proclaimed: "Professor, the holding of this case reminds me of a Klingon proverb, you know, 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.'"
2. A law school gunner would preface a question with, "Well, in the bible it says x." Prof. would answer, "Well in the Constitution it says Y. And it's the Constitution that will be tested on my exam."
3.
After asking a dozen questions in the span of 45 minutes, the following exchange may occur:
Gunner: "Professor, I have another question."
Prof: "Ok, but this is the last one for this lecture, we have to move on."
Gunner: "Well, I have several more, and I'd like to ask them." (The gunner then proceeds to ask them).
1. Gunners do not have the first clue.
2. They try to sound smart.
3. They probably are the class "anvil" in a law school with a tight curve.
4. And finally, they end up dropping out or just come to accept that their classmates get their above qualities and so they stop trying to fool everyone else, including themselves.
These gunners wither away and become normal, despite having gone to law school, and they become replaced.
However, sometimes gunners go into hibernation, or some latent gunners who never had the audacity to be a gunner in law school, become your stereotypical lawyer when they manage to stumble their way into a job after law school.
Do not be fooled with people in the legal profession, or any other profession, who try hard to sound smart by using, for example, "par excellence" and "since time immemorial" in the same sentenced stuffed with legalese. It's OK if every now and then people get "rewarded" for no merit if that means they will shut up, as long as they know that we are in on their game, and that they'll have to change eventually into mature adults.
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Elle Varner Releases Resentful New Single, “Cold Case”
Image Courtesy Elle Varner via InstagramElle Varner vents about a failed relationship and an unfaithful boyfriend on her newest single “Cold Case,” lifted from her sophomore album, Four Letter Word.
“Love is such a beautiful thing, it’s so f**king beautiful especially in the beginning when everyone is so happy and so honest,” she says in the intro with birds chirping in the background. “And loving and affectionate and there for you and not cheat on you and not f**king some other bitch.”
As the hook comes in, Elle sings, “I’m going to find the answer to this mystery/ Boy you ain’t heard the last from me.” The bass-heavy track was posted on her official SoundCloud page.
Fans can expect her upcoming disc to include the Wale-assisted single “Rover” and production from Pop & Oak, Eric Hudson, Da Internz, and Hit-Boy. The set will serve as the follow-up to her debut, Perfectly Imperfect. | {
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Serb Stud Gets Serviced
Serbian native Milan is here to shoot for his debut with 18 year old Melody Foxx. The camera is all on HIM, as we watch this European stud takes charge the entire time. Milan shows off his body, gets oiled up, has his feet licked & toes sucked (including all 5 at one time), she eats his ass, swallows his big prick, and takes it balls deep in her teen pussy before he unloads on her stomach. This is a scene you do not want to miss! Also bonus shower footage at the end 😉 | {
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929 P.2d 1178 (1997)
84 Wash.App. 696
The STATE of Washington, Respondent,
v.
Manuel Tom TOLIAS, Appellant.
No. 14581-6-III.
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3, Panel Nine.
January 23, 1997.
Reconsideration Denied March 6, 1997.
*1179 John A. Moore, Jr., Yakima, for Appellant.
Lauri M. Boyd, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Yakima, for Respondent.
SWEENEY, Chief Judge.
Shortly after Manuel Tolias and Sylvia Strang purchased a home in Tieton in 1990, they began to have trouble with their neighbors, Ben and Earlene Barnes. Mr. Barnes plowed their land, graffitied their garage, and toilet papered their house. He strung barbed wire, dumped a load of lime and placed a leaking drum on the property; put tire spin marks in their yard; destroyed their garden; directed insults at them; and directed video surveillance cameras at their residence. Mr. Tolias contacted the Yakima County Prosecutor's Office on several occasions, but no action was taken. A deputy prosecutor put him in contact with Beverly and Gary Fernelius, the Barneses' neighbors to the north. They told Mr. Tolias about their extensive history of confrontation with the Barneses, including the Barneses' stalking of Mrs. Fernelius, threatening to shoot them, attempting to run Mrs. Fernelius's son off the road, and shooting their dog and cat. Mr. Tolias believed the Barneses were "dangerous ... violent, [and] would stop at nothing."
Two days after his discussion with the Ferneliuses, Mr. Tolias was at home when he saw the headlights of two all-terrain vehicles cross his property line at about 9 P.M. He believed the Barneses were coming to create problems. Mr. Tolias admitted at trial that he pulled Mr. Barnes off his vehicle and said, "Do you want a piece of me, you son of a bitch? Come and get it." A physical brawl resulted.
After the incident, the Yakima County Prosecutor intervened as a mediator. When mediation efforts failed, the Prosecutor personally prosecuted Mr. Tolias for assault. The trial court denied Mr. Tolias's motion to recuse the Yakima County Prosecutor's Office. *1180 The jury convicted Mr. Tolias of one count of second degree assault against Mr. Barnes. This appeal follows.
The dispositive issue is whether the court erred in denying Mr. Tolias's motion to recuse the Yakima County Prosecutor's Office. Because the prosecution violated the appearance of fairness doctrine, we conclude it did. We, therefore, reverse the conviction and remand for a new trial.
DISCUSSION
Appearance of Fairness Doctrine. A judicial proceeding is valid under the appearance of fairness doctrine "only if a reasonably prudent and disinterested observer would conclude that all parties obtained a fair, impartial, and neutral hearing." State v. Ladenburg, 67 Wash.App. 749, 754-55, 840 P.2d 228 (1992); State v. Post, 118 Wash.2d 596, 618, 826 P.2d 172, 837 P.2d 599 (1992). The doctrine is "directed at the evil of a biased or potentially interested judge or quasi-judicial decisionmaker." Post, 118 Wash.2d at 619, 837 P.2d 599; see also State v. Perez, 77 Wash. App. 372, 378, 891 P.2d 42 (Sweeney, J., dissenting), review denied, 127 Wash.2d 1014, 902 P.2d 164 (1995). A prosecutor is a quasi-judicial officer, and "`in the interest of justice must act impartially.'" Ladenburg, 67 Wash.App. at 751, 840 P.2d 228. The appearance of fairness doctrine, therefore, applies to a prosecutor, at least up to and including the decision to file criminal charges against a defendant. Id. at 754, 840 P.2d 228.
Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) 1.12(a) provides in pertinent part:
[A] lawyer shall not represent anyone in connection with a matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially as a judge or other adjudicative officer, arbitrator, mediator[1] or law clerk to such a person, unless all parties to the proceeding consent after disclosure.
The concern with a lawyer's prior mediation role is based on the confidential nature of a mediator's activities:
[T]he mediator is not merely charged with being impartial, but with receiving and preserving confidences in much the same manner as the client's attorney. In fact, the success of mediation depends largely on the willingness of the parties to freely disclose their intentions, desires, and the strengths and weaknesses of their case; and upon the ability of the mediator to maintain a neutral position while carefully preserving the confidences that have been revealed.
Poly Software Int'l, Inc. v. Su, 880 F.Supp. 1487, 1494 (D.Utah 1995). For these reasons, when a mediator learns of confidential information during a mediation, the mediator should not thereafter represent "anyone in connection with the same or a substantially factually related matter unless all parties to the mediation proceeding consent after disclosure." Poly Software, 880 F.Supp. at 1494; see American Arbitration Ass'n, Standards of Conduct for Mediators, 50 J. Disp. Resol. 78, Standard III, at 79 (1995). By preserving the confidences that arise as a natural and necessary part of the mediation process, this rule serves the important policy of encouraging free disclosure of parties' positions during mediation, and thus increasing the opportunity for settlement. Poly Software, 880 F.Supp. at 1494.
The record here does not reflect to what extent the Yakima County Prosecutor was involved in the mediation between Mr. Tolias, the Ferneliuses and the Barneses after the assault incident. Mr. Tolias notes, however, in his pro se brief that the Prosecutor met with each family at their homes to familiarize himself with the issues. He then "convened the three families with counsel in the courthouse County Commissioners' hearing room. There he sat up on the bench, acting as a judge, after hearing all sides, and made his recommendations known." Pro Se Brief at 15.
*1181 We hold that the actions of the Yakima County Prosecutor, while motivated by the laudable intention of defusing a volatile situation, created an appearance of unfairness.[2] We must next decide whether Mr. Tolias was required to demonstrate specific prejudice. Perez, 77 Wash.App. at 377, 891 P.2d 42.
Confidences may be used against a former client in subtle ways that may be impossible for the aggrieved party to identify:
Even the most rigorous self-discipline might not prevent a lawyer from unconsciously using or manipulating a confidence acquired in the earlier representation and transforming it into a telling advantage in the subsequent litigation.... The dynamics of litigation are far too subtle, the attorney's role in that process is far too critical, and the public's interest in the outcome is far too great to leave room for even the slightest doubt concerning the ethical propriety of a lawyer's representation in a given case.
Emle Indus., Inc. v. Patentex, Inc., 478 F.2d 562, 571 (2d Cir.1973).
Some Washington cases have declined to require disqualification of an attorney, despite a potential conflict, because the attorney's previous role had no clear relationship to the matter currently at issue. In Ladenburg, the defendant was the prosecuting attorney's nephew. The court declined to require disqualification because there was "no suggestion that the prosecutor ... had any prior professional relationship with [the defendant] wherein he obtained confidential information that he could use to [the defendant's] disadvantage." Ladenburg, 67 Wash. App. at 753, 840 P.2d 228. In Perez, the prosecutor had a personal relationship with the crime victim's second cousin. We declined to require disqualification because "there is no showing, other than that these two women were friends and that they met on a regular basis, that there was any influence brought by the victim's second cousin or her family on the prosecutor in bringing these charges." Perez, 77 Wash.App. at 377, 891 P.2d 42; see also State v. Hunsaker, 74 Wash.App. 38, 46, 873 P.2d 540 (1994) (record insufficient to establish that Public Defender's Association's representation of witness was "substantially related" to current prosecution); State v. Greco, 57 Wash.App. 196, 200-01, 787 P.2d 940 (prosecutor represented county auditor in official capacity, unrelated to offenses charged), review denied, 114 Wash.2d 1027, 793 P.2d 974 (1990).
In this case, however, the Yakima County Prosecutor's roles as mediator and prosecutor related to, and arose directly from, the same controversy. See RPC 1.11(d)(1); RPC 1.12(a). Although a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct may not require reversal of a conviction in the absence of prejudice, see Teja v. Saran, 68 Wash.App. 793, 800-02, 846 P.2d 1375, review denied, 122 Wash.2d 1008, 859 P.2d 604 (1993), such a violation by a quasi-judicial officer, like the Prosecutor here, creates an appearance of unfairness, which requires reversal. Perez, 77 Wash.App. at 378-79, 891 P.2d 42 (Sweeney, J., dissenting).
Our holding is not intended to suggest that a prosecutor may not in appropriate circumstances engage in mediation as an alternative to prosecution. Nor do we suggest that a prosecuting attorney's role in mediation will inevitably preclude a subsequent prosecution arising from the same controversy. When a prosecuting attorney engages in mediation, however, his or her entire office should be disqualified from participating in subsequent prosecution unless "that prosecuting attorney separates himself or herself from all connection with the case and delegates full authority and control over the case to a deputy prosecuting attorney...." State v. Stenger, 111 Wash.2d 516, *1182 522, 760 P.2d 357 (1988).[3] Mr. Tolias is entitled to a new trial.
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.
A majority of the panel having determined that only the foregoing portion of this opinion will be printed in the Washington Appellate Reports and that the remainder, having no precedential value, shall be filed for public record pursuant to RCW 2.06.040, it is so ordered.
THOMPSON and KURTZ, JJ., concur.
NOTES
[1] The Washington Supreme Court, in adopting the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, added the word "mediator" to the model rule. See MODEL RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT Rule 1.12(a). At least one court has interpreted even the model rule to apply to lawyers acting as mediators. Poly Software Int'l, Inc. v. Su, 880 F.Supp. 1487, 1491-95 (D.Utah 1995).
[2] As prosecutor in this case, the Yakima County Prosecutor represented the State, which was not a party to the earlier mediation process. However, the purpose of the rule is to prevent subsequent use of confidential information against a party to the earlier mediation; it therefore is of no consequence that the Prosecutor represented a third party, when that third party's interests obviously are adverse to Mr. Tolias's and that representation related to the same matter as the mediation. See Michael Moffitt, Comment, Loyalty, Confidentiality and Attorney-Mediators: Professional Responsibility in Cross-Profession Practice, 1 Harv. Negotiation L.Rev. 203, 209-10 (1996).
[3] Similarly, if a deputy prosecutor acts as a mediator, the entire office should be disqualified from prosecution unless that deputy is "effectively screened and separated from any participation [in] or discussion of matters concerning which the deputy prosecuting attorney is disqualified...." Stenger, 111 Wash.2d at 523, 760 P.2d 357.
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TEMPE, Ariz. – In the immediate aftermath of the Arizona Cardinals' loss in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, one specific need for 2016 was addressed.
The Cardinals needed to improve their pass rush. In a hurry.
Carl Nassib notched 15.5 sacks in his final season at Penn State. Abby Drey/Getty Images
The process to get more pressure on the quarterback began this week when Arizona’s front office and scouting personnel descended upon Mobile, Alabama for the Senior Bowl.
With the combine less than a month away, here are five defensive prospects to keep an eye on during Saturday’s Senior Bowl:
Deiondre' Hall, CB, Northern Iowa: He’s basically what Cardinals coach Bruce Arians described in his end of year news conference: a defensive back with length and speed. Hall, who is 6-foot-2 had six interceptions at UNI last season while being named the Missouri Valley Conference defensive player of the year, played a safety-cornerback combination.
Carl Nassib, DE, Penn State: At 6-foot-7, Nassib is tall and long, and that can translate in the NFL. He led the NCAA with 15.5 sacks so he knows how to get to the quarterback. He also led all linebackers and defensive linemen in disrupted drop backs, according to ESPN Stats & Information. What he doesn’t know in technique, he’ll learn quickly in the NFL.
Bronson Kaufusi, DE, BYU: A former college basketball player, Kaufusi has the length at 6-7 to be disruptive off the edge. The Cardinals have experience with developing former basketball players (Read: Darren Fells) and their patience has paid off. If Arizona needs Kaufusi to drop into coverage regularly, he may not be a good fit but he steadily improved while at BYU.
Kyler Fackrell, OLB, BYU: He’ll enter the NFL at 25 years old, which could be a blessing and a curse, depending on how the Cardinals want to look at it. He has the maturity -- mentally, emotionally and physically -- but his body could be at a point where it’s not as fresh as it was a couple years ago. He missed 2014 with an ACL injury and as Arizona has learned with Tyrann Mathieu, recurring knee injuries could be a concern. Fackrell, an Arizona native, would need to fine tune a few technique issues but at 6-5, he could develop quickly.
Joe Schobert, OLB, Wisconsin: The one noticeable trait Schobert is lacking is size. He’s 6-2, 236 pounds but he’s in the 25 nationally in disrupted drop backs, according to ESPN Stats & Information, which is an ideal complement to his 9.5 sacks. As the Cardinals learned last season with Markus Golden, to be an effective pass-rusher doesn’t necessarily require size. | {
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As members of Congress and others demand the White House release nothing less than the full whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump as required by law, the New York Times reported Tuesday night that the administration is only planning to release a "redacted version" of the document that the intelligence community's inspector general deemed credible and urgent.
According to the Times, the White House is "putting the complaint through a declassification process" and plans to release a redacted document to Congress "within days."
Oh. Trump wants to released a REDACTED version of the whistle-blower complaint. pic.twitter.com/n7cWtEMbuL — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 25, 2019
"Fuck that," responded one anonymous Trump critic on Twitter. "Not only do we need an unredacted report. We need testimony of the whistleblower."
The whistleblower complaint reportedly involves multiple instances of possible misconduct by Trump, including his alleged effort to pressure Ukraine's leader to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
In an interview on CNN Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy said the whistleblower complaint "needs to be unredacted."
"I don't want the administration deciding what parts of that whistleblower complaint get to us and what don't," said Murphy.
"It needs to be unredacted. I don't want the [Trump] administration deciding what parts of that whistleblower complaint get to us and what don't." The Ukraine call transcript isn't nearly enough. Congress must see the full whistleblower complaint. @ChrisMurphyCT explains: pic.twitter.com/0OWMOppa0R — CAP Action (@CAPAction) September 25, 2019
Esquire's Jack Holmes echoed Murphy, writing in a column Tuesday that "Congress must be allowed to view the whistleblower report and assess the situation in totality, not in terms that Trump decides on—and which he obviously finds favorable."
Holmes went on to urge the media not to credulously parrot the Trump administration's assertions about what the complaint shows, as many did after Attorney General William Barr released his letter on the Mueller report.
"The political media in particular must not make the same mistakes that many made when Barr released his letter, taking its claims at face value and producing headlines and news cycles that wrongly acceded to the Trumpian narrative that he was COMPLETELY EXONERATED!" wrote Holmes. "In fact, the report detailed numerous instances where the president obstructed justice."
The White House previously advised Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress, leading House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to publicly confirm the existence of the complaint and accuse the Trump administration of breaking the law by not turning it over as statute explicitly requires.
In her address announcing a formal Trump impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said "the law is unequivocal."
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Live in Concert (video)
Live in Concert is the second live music video title by singer and actress Cher. Released by HBO in 1999, it contained footage from Cher's Do You Believe? Tour specials filmed at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada in 1999. It featured tracks from her many of studio albums, such as Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves and Believe album, alongside various covers.
The video was certified Platinum in the UK and Brazil, and 2× Platinum in Australia.
Formats
It was released on VHS and DVD. The special features on the DVD include a photo gallery, a little Cher biography, the costume designs and the full stage projections.
Track listing
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
"All or Nothing"
"The Power"
"We All Sleep Alone"
"I Found Someone"
"The Way of Love"
"Half-Breed"
"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"
"Dark Lady"
"Take Me Home"
"After All"
"Walking in Memphis"
"Just Like Jesse James"
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"
"Dov'è L'Amore"
"Strong Enough"
"If I Could Turn Back Time"
"Believe"
Promotional video
The music video of "All or Nothing" was released by Warner Bros. Records to promote the DVD. This video is a montage of a newly recorded performance of the song (with straight red wig) and clips of various other performances from the DVD recorded at the MGM, but the audio is the "All or Nothing" (Metro Radio Mix).
Certifications
!scope="row"|Argentina (CAPIF)
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|align="left"|16,000
|-
References
External links
Cher Live in Concert The New York Post Review.
See also
Do You Believe? Tour
Category:Cher video albums
Category:1999 live albums
Category:1999 video albums
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Q:
What is wrong with this belay setup?
This is a follow on from my answer here. I took this photo of my belay and shared it on Facebook, where I friend of mine (A qualified climbing instructor) pulled me up on it as I'd made one or two minor mistakes. There is nothing "dangerous" here. It's just not 100% optimal from a safety point of view.
Probably worth noting this is UK trad ethics, I know other countries will often do this kind of set up differently. Hopefully the "issue" is global but I'm not an expert on non-uk belays so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Question
So the question is, can anyone pull me up on this belay stance? What (if anything) is wrong with this set up?
Additional information
The white arrows indicate the gear placements position (Trad placements in rock). the Black arrow is the load from the climber. The bottom carabiner is passed though both rope loops and attached to the second using a belay plate. I will stand to one side when belaying lining up the load between the gear and the second. Gear is placed above me and there is space to sit away from the rope so I'm not under any loaded ropes should a fall happen.
The bottom biner is not cross loaded, it's just not loaded at the moment so when the second starts climbing it will all pull straight. The HMS carbiner can take two knots easily.
A:
I see what is essentially an direct belay but rigged off the harness serving as a pseudo indirect/body belay, you also have a direct clip-in to a third piece as a personal backup.
The good.
You are on a climbing rope anchor and on a dedicated personal anchor, doubly redundant bomber systems.
You have what appears to be a properly rigged two point primary rope anchor, assuming the hardware up top is safe, and you are using some kind of fixed hitch and not just passing it through loose it is good to go
You are using a rope primary anchor so any slack in the system as you shift stances is OK as the rope is dynamic.
The bad.
Escaping the belay in case the second is incapacitated would be difficult (major)
The belay hitch is in an orientation suitable for top-rope or leader belay, For a seconding climber with load below you it is on the wrong side of the carabiner. A bad fall may cause the belay hitch to slide down the carabiner into your harness, this will invert the braking orientation and may cause confusion (moderate/major)
The way you are rigged up, drawing rope would cause a mess (minor)
Your backup anchor will need to be adjusted constantly or will be slack as you move to adjust load of second. (minor)
Direct belay off harness means you are always part of the system, This can be convenient on moderate terrain/good stance or poor rock because you have the option of absorbing a fall with your feet/body. But it makes escaping the belay to assist an injured follower a bit more complicated.
My approach is generally to belay directly off the anchor unless there is good reason not to. This essentially is an identical system but the anchor carabiner will be unclipped from your harness. This will allow you to move the hitch to the bottom of the caribiner and ready for a fall There are also dedicated devices that make this a little easier than a hitch.
A:
Your belay is freaking complex. I spent some minutes looking at it and I have a hard time to grasp it in its entirety. A complex belay in itself violates 2 important rules:
A belay needs to be fast to set up.
It needs to be obviously error-free to allow any trust in it.
The aspect of not being able to escape the belay in any way was already mentioned by others. But judging by a number of youtube videos, it may be a common practice in the UK to tie oneself completely into the belay. (Something that is discouraged in Germany where is is recommended to always create a proper central point that is not your harness).
Another issue is that you belay your second directly from the harness. This is a practice that I personally would avoid (not only for even harder escaping of the belay but also because of the potential pull) but seems to be quite common in the UK. This is especially true when not using a device with a guide loop (as far as I can see) to belay your second, which makes you lose the auto-blocking functionality. Again, this is something that I cannot understand at all but seems to be quite common in the UK.
Edit:
Two more issues came to my mind that are problematic with this belay
If I came to this belay as a second I would not know where to clip myself in during the handover of gear. This can be attributed to the lack of a clear central point.
Another aspect of making yourself the central point of the belay is that it forces you to alternate leads. There is no way to change the leader if a pitch turns out to be too hard for the designated leader
A:
There have been some interesting answers here but no one has mentioned what had been pointed out to me by my friend. Reading some of these though does make me think that there is a degree of cultural differences here. Just to re-iterate this is UK traditional climbing, this is setting up a belay on a single pitch Very Severe traditionally protected climb.
The one glaring point in this belay (to me at least) is that the carabiners are both clipped into the central belay loop. Ideally these should be clipped off individually onto the loop of each figure of eight. In this photo, the belay loop is a single point of failure, this is unnecessary, using the rope loops allows the addition of extra redundancy into the system:
So the large HMS carabiner should be clipped into the loop behind the figure eight of the red rope:
And the smaller crab should be clipped into the knot loop of the blue rope:
Both ropes are then totally independent. Any failure at any point would result in a backup, e.g.:
red rope fails, blue is totally isolated
blue fails, red is isolated
belay loop not used so is no longer a single failure point
Any individual (or as this is a 3 point system it'll take 2 failures) anchor failure is backed up
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The decision-makers at the Federal Office are part of the general, non-technical administrative service.
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Specially-commissioned case-officers are specially-trained decision-makers for interview procedures among particularly vulnerable groups of individuals. These include unaccompanied minors, victims of torture, victims of trauma and persons persecuted because of their gender, as well as victims of trafficking in human beings. The specially-commissioned case-officers are at the disposal of their superiors and colleagues as contacts over and above their own tasks in processing applications.
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Congress shall make no law… but they shall erect a “free speech cage.”
Yeah, this really looks like freedom. Look at these people. Is this a zoo, you might ask?
No. It’s protesters exercising their First Amendment rights to shout “Hell no, DNC! We won’t vote for Hillary!” over and over outside the corrupt dog and pony show that is the Democratic National Convention — in a rusty metal cage that looks like something out of the horror film Silent Hill .
What a sad, pathetic testament to modern American “freedom” this is.
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Q:
Should I use a table here or hard code values in a config file?
I need to set up different user roles i.e:
1-administrator
2-writer
3-member
I was wondering whether I should make a dedicated table for user roles i.e just to store the names and ids i.e:
USER ROLES
ID | NAME
Or would it be ok if I were to just put the values in a config file as an associative array i.e:
$config['roles'] = array(1=>'Administrator'...);
Considering that I just need to store an id and a name here?
A:
Absolutely use the database table if this is a production app. You will thank yourself later if you want to turn over administration to someone else.
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The geology of London comprises various differing layers of sedimentary rock upon which London, England is built.
Oldest rocks
The oldest rocks proved through boreholes to exist below London are the old, hard rocks of the Palaeozoic. These consist of Silurian mudstones and sandstones, generally overlain by Devonian strata which are largely of Old Red Sandstone. The Devonian rocks are absent in parts of South London. The Palaeozoic rocks dip southwards and are more than 1,000 metres below the English Channel. Above this is a 60-metre thick layer of impermeable Gault clays. These clays are relatively young, only going back to the early Cretaceous which began around 144 million years ago.
On top of these clays is a non-contiguous layer of Upper Greensand above which lies a rolling bed of white chalk about 200 metres thick. In the Lower Chalk and in the lower region of the Middle Chalk there are abundant fossilized shell fragments, especially Inoceramus clams. In places these form the greater part of the rock but they decrease in amount upwards in the succession. Flints are abundant in the Upper Chalk.
These bands of chalk form the basis of the London Basin, a syncline the outcrop of which is v-shaped opening to the east and bounded by chalk outcrops forming hills: the North Downs to the south of London, and the Chilterns to the north. The chalk is a soft white limestone that is different in appearance to other limestones because it is porous and earthy whilst others are compact and crystalline.
Tertiary period
The chalk basin has been infilled with a sequence of clays and sands of the more recent Paleogene Period, then Neogene Period (1.6 to 66.4 million years old). Most significant is the stiff, grey-blue London Clay, a marine deposit which is well known for the fossils it contains and can be over 150 metres thick beneath the city. This supports most of the deep foundations and tunnels that exist under London.
Also in this area are the Lambeth Group (formerly known as the Woolwich and Reading Beds, though those beds have been recently deprecated in 1994 in favour of the Lambeth Group by the British Geological Survey to conform with new standards and to allow scope for more detailed subdivisions) and Thanet Sands. Most of these sand and clays were deposited 60-50 million years ago during the Eocene. Southern England at this time was covered by a warm tropical sea: this is shown by the fossil evidence. The sands contain animals that lived in both estuaries and freshwater. Some species burrowed into the underlying chalk.
Quaternary Period
Above this is the subsoil which consists of deposits of gravel up to 10 metres deep. This was deposited during the last ice-age ½ million years ago when the River Thames was diverted to its present position. While establishing its new path, the river eroded its valley, creating a series of sand and gravel terraces. These terraces are named after the area they are best known in, for example: Dartford Heath Gravel, Swanscombe, Orsett Heath, Corbets Tey, Mucking, West Thurrock, Kempton Park, Shepperton, Staines and Tilbury Gravels.
The sand and gravel terraces are made up of pebbles with flint, quartz and quartzite. In places, there are deposits of brickearth, which is a mixture of clay and sand that has supported London's long-standing brick-making industry. On top of these natural layers are the deposits of hundreds of years of human occupation. In the oldest parts the City of London and the City of Westminster this layer can be up to 6 metres deep.
See also
Geology of the United Kingdom
Geology of England
Ancestral Thames
References
External links
British Geological Survey - SE England
Nature - Bagshot Beds
Category:Sedimentary rocks
Category:Stratigraphy of the United Kingdom
Category:Geography of London
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Thoros may refer to:
Historical figures
Thoros of Edessa (died 9 March 1098)
Thoros I of Armenia (ruling 1102–1129)
Thoros II of Armenia (ruling 1140–1169)
Thoros III of Armenia (ruling 1293–1298)
Thoros the Younger, alternate term for Leo II, King of Armenia, son of Thoros III
Thoros of Marash also known as Tatoul, an Armenian leader who dealt with the early Crusader states
Theodoros Rshtuni (590–655)
Fiction
Thoros of Myr is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
See also
Toros Roslin - Armenian miniature painter
Theodore (disambiguation)
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I’ve written before, but addressed you differently. In my first letter, I wrote “young sexually active heterosexual women.” In my second letter, I addressed “young sexually active women” to be more inclusive. Well, I’m back and changing my terminology again. Let me explain.
I have a new book, Becoming Cliterate, which is in stores as of yesterday. I’m passionately committed to the goal of this book, which is closing the -based orgasm gap (the research finding that women are having fewer orgasms than men) and empowering people-with-clits (who I call women in the book) to . I’m thrilled that the book has gotten beautiful endorsements (from notables such as Ian Kerner, Paul Joannides, and Eve Ensler) and praise in media outlets I respect greatly, such as the New York Times and Bustle. I’ve also gotten very positive reviews in the respected feminist magazines Bust and Feministing. Yet, both point out I shouldn’t have equated having a clitoris with being a woman. They’re right—gender isn’t dichotomous. Making an error isn’t always pain-free, yet one of the things I cherish about being human is the ability to learn from each other. So, in all future letters, I’m going to be as clear as possible about who I am addressing. Sometimes it will be “people-with-vaginas,” such as when I’m talking about the ins-and-outs (pun intended) of . Sometimes it’ll be “women” (as in the third to last paragraph below) when I’m referencing studies that use this language or talking about societal gender roles. Feel free to call me out if I get it wrong but please be nice. It’s hard for anyone to grow when hiding in a hole of .
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The solution, then, is straightforward. As I say in Becoming Cliterate, “The most crucial action needed to orgasm with a partner is to get the same type of stimulation you use when pleasuring yourself.” The Feministing review called the idea of asking your partner to touch you the way you touch yourself “brilliant and weirdly under-utilized advice.”
Why is this advice so under-utilized? A lot of reasons. Studies show that women think it will be perceived as pushy to say what they need in bed. Interestingly, though, another study showed that men found this to be a turn-on. Still, two other reason women don’t ask for what they want sexually is lack of training in sexual communication and socialization to care more about being sexually desirable for others’ than on our own desires (i.e., the whole “if it’s good for him, it’s good for me” mentality that Peggy Orenstein describes). All of these reasons help explain why, in another study, women’s knowledge of their clitoris increased their orgasm rate in masturbation but not when having sex with a partner.
So, dear people-with-clits, I highly recommend you get to know what you need and then show/tell/ask your partner to touch you this way during a sexual encounter (or do it yourself). This is the most essential step to orgasm equality.
Still, if it was that easy, there wouldn’t be an orgasm gap. That’s why I’ve written a book with strategies on how to get the job done, so to speak. I’ll also write a few more of these letters to get you started.
With care and concern for your pleasure,
Laurie Mintz | {
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“That’s what Conor McGregor is. He’s a freak athlete. There’s a guy named FirasZahabi, who’s one of the best trainers in MMA, Georges St-Pierre’s trainer — he calls it the touch of death.”
The last man to share an octagon with McGregor, Eddie Alvarez, stated similar thoughts regarding McGregor’s punching power.
“I don’t know if it was after I got hit that I kind of went into fight or flight mode,” Alvarez said of their encounter.
“To be honest with you, that first shot, I had no clue what it was. I had no clue, and my butt was on the ground, and I remember in my head going ‘what the fuck was that?’”
Comparatively, McGregor is the bigger than Mayweather regarding physical size.
The Irishman has a one-inch height advantage and a two-inch reach advantage. With longer arms working to McGregor’s favor, as he enjoys utilizing his advantage as he likes to strike opponents from the outside.
Another physical factor favoring McGregor is he is in his twenties and eleven years younger than the 40-year-old Mayweather.
This is where the physical advantages for McGregor end.
Even at the advanced age of 40, Mayweather looks faster than McGregor and if we compare professional fight history between the two, Mayweather has the edge in regards to stamina.
Aside from showing slight fatigue in his last bout against Andre Berto, it’s a rare sight to see Mayweather tired in a fight. McGregor however displayed exhaustion against Nate Diaz in both encounters, falling to submission in their first fight.
McGregor may possess explosive speed, power and athleticism by mixed martial arts standards, but the application of these traits is applied differently within the realm of boxing.
If the Irishman tires out after two, five-minute rounds in the Octagon, it’s fair to suggest he will tire out over the course of an accelerated pace of 12, three-minute rounds via boxing.
Which may have prompted McGregor to suggest he will stop Mayweather within four rounds of action.
According to UFC President Dana White regarding McGregor’s claims, “He [McGregor] gets off the flight from Ireland, looks like he was just fitted at Armani. Walks off the plane and he says, ‘I will knock this man [Mayweather] out within four rounds.’”
McGregor figures he won’t outpoint the boxer and win on the score cards and he knows his body more than anyone else; meaning he knows his gas tank is limited.
Regarding punching and power in boxing, there are two famous phrases or mantras that hold true.
“All it takes is one punch,” and the famous, “Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth,” – via Mike Tyson.
These adages provecorrect over time and they actually point towards Mayweather’s favor.
McGregor is southpaw and as a mixed martial arts stylized-fighter, his style and rhythm will probably throw Mayweather off – he is not accustomed to facing mixed martial artists.
But that goes against McGregor too. He is not used to fighting boxers with superior hand-striking ability. Eddie Alvarez is not going to cut it.
No disrespect to Nate Diaz, but Mayweather is in a different solar system skill-wise comparatively speaking.
Mayweather will not stand squared up and lunge in with his arms down like Jose Aldo. The same openings McGregor is accustomed to seeing fighting his UFC contemporaries will not be there against Mayweather.
A quick comparison to what McGregor faces regarding Mayweather and Diaz.
Diaz doesn’t make his opponents miss punches. Diaz doesn’tevade strikes or necessarily force the opponent to move all that much. Diaz stands in front of his opposition and essentially lets opponents hit him.
Mayweather is the polar opposite;the pursuit of Mayweatherrequires great footwork, feinting him out of position, cutting the ring off instead of chasing a great jab helps along with a wonderful sense of timing.
Mayweather fights utilizing different angles and stances, each with a specific purpose and as the opponent is chasing, missing punches, while consistently eating counter punches, Mayweather also attacks the body; wearing opponents down, making the chase that much more problematic.
Regarding the adage of all it takes is one punch to end anyone’s night, yes that is true.
Sure, one punch can end the fight for Mayweather. Applying a certain amount of pressure across the temple or chin can even put to sleep the most iron-chinned competitors.
The most damaging punch however, is the punch you don’t see coming. Mayweather is a master of landing those types of punches; accurate, precise, deceptive and damaging.
Sonnen stated on his podcast, “Floyd is throwing punches at guys that are great at slipping and rolling with and dealing with punches.”
“Conor is throwing punches at guys who aren’t great at –they’re very good… but they have to focus some of their time on the grappling, on the submission, on the conditioning, on the strength, on the weight cutting… they’re not great at it in comparison to what Floyd is throwing punches at,” Sonnen said.
“Floyd throws harder and punches significantly harder than Conor does. And he’s also used to throwing it at harder targets.”
While there are more nuances to boxing than what was mentioned in regards to punching, imagine the various nuances mixed martial artists have to learn – those trying to absorb multiple disciplines of fighting.
It makes sense a boxer generally possesses greater punching power and why should that be different with Mayweather?
Concerning form and technique, Mayweather is a boxing savant, considered a prodigy at a young age. While his knockouts decreased over time, we must take into consideration he moved up four weight classes and fought bigger opponents.
Emphasizing a point Sonnen touched on, the opponents he faced are trained to take punches; many of these boxers know how to roll their chins to mitigate the impact of incoming punches. Something McGregor lacks experience with.
Another thing to consider, contrary to White, Rogan and McGregor’s narrative, Mayweather is accustomed to fighter bigger guys.
Regarding opponents of the past, Marcos Maidana weighed around 175 lbs. after weigh-ins for a welterweight bout (147 lb. limit) against Mayweather.
Oscar De La Hoya weighed in the upper 160 lbs. range, same with Miguel Cotto. Canelo Alvarez weighed in the lower 170 lbs. range and these aforementioned fighters punch harder than McGregor. These are three Hall of Famers and De La Hoya is also an Olympic Gold Medalist.
Body punching is another thing McGregor has to worry about. While observing sparring and training footage, can’t help but notice McGregor keeps his cup/protector high; above the navel area.
Mayweather is an underrated body puncher. He utilizes his patented jab to the solar plexus or jab to the pit of an opponent’s stomach, essentially sapping strength from oncoming opponents.
Facing a southpaw we’ll more likely see straight right hands towards McGregor’s body, as the distance between an orthodox fighter’s right hand and a southpaw fighter’s chin and body is closer in distance.
And for a guy with questionable endurance issues, deposits to the body only makes sense for Mayweather.
McGregor is not used to defending his body from attacks like that; a subtle nuance of the boxing that is yet again underestimated.
Whether Mayweather can deal with McGregor’s punching power remains to be seen. Wonder what big punchers such as Ricky Hatton, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz, De La Hoya, Cotto,Maidana, Alvarez and Manny Pacquiao think?
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We love Madison!
A couple weeks ago our friends Cass and Liz and Chris and I all piled into our Jetta wagon and headed on an epic road trip to Madison Wisconsin. Why Madison you say? Well. Wisconsin only has some of the best craft beer in the world. And we had a plan to get our hands on it.
Farmers' Market around the capitol buildingGorgeous garlic
Said beer is from a special brewery that will, for now, go unnamed. That will be saved for another post for in say, a month from now. After a certain wedding takes place. You see, this beer is so famous among true beer geeks that we need to keep it top secret until after the fact. Or risk crashers. Seriously.
Let me also add that our little party of four went through some harrowing experiences to get said beer. And that I’m lucky to be sitting here bragging about it. Again. A story for about a month from now.
Sunflowers for sale
So back to Madison. Besides it’s amazing beer, it’s also a beautiful city — sitting on an isthmus between two lakes. The city is centred around its stately capitol building, which is itself a thing of beauty. One of the most amazing things we experienced was the Saturday morning farmers’ market, which sets up around the edges of the capital square, with what I estimate was a few hundred vendors — that’s right, a few hundred. There was a lot of repetition among vendors but clearly, they get the business to support it. And everyone walks around the square in the same, clockwise direction, as the sidewalk is pretty tight once you have the vendors in there. This was the most impressive non-permanent farmers’ market I’ve ever seen.
Community veg garden in the squareI want to find me some of these jars
But sadly, we couldn’t really buy much of anything, because we weren’t equipped to cook it. We did have some cheese curds of course though. And we ogled everything! Wisconsin is also known as the cheese state, and we sampled so much cheese. Every restaurant and pub serves local cheese. And beer-battered deep fried cheese curds. Chris even had a burger with them on it (thinking when he ordered it that it was just topped with regular, unfried cheese curds). And also sadly, we cannot bring cheese or produce across the border so we had to leave it all behind. So eat we did, but shop at the farmers’ market we didn’t.
Great Dane tapsGreat Dane casksTaps at Brasserie V
And maybe because there is so much cheese (and so much good beer?) the city is full of very active people. Runners, walkers, and cyclists. Toronto could learn a thing or two about being a bike friendly city from Madison. They had just gotten their own version of the bike rental system (like Toronto and Montreal’s Bixi system), only launched a few days before we got there but already well in use. So many streets have bike-only lanes. Everyone bikes everywhere.
At Brasserie V; I don't even remember what this was (it had been a long full day of drinking by then) and I don't think the name on the glass is right, but it was divine.Chris with his sampler at Great Dane
Now Madison wasn’t all perfect — there is a lot of labour unrest in Wisconsin and there were a few protests, all very polite, going on. And a lot of homeless people sleeping in the very well-manicured gardens and on benches all around the capitol building. It was often disturbing to happen across groups of homeless (mostly men) lying about in places that I think in Toronto they would have been run out of. I’m used to seeing homeless people — Toronto has plenty — but it was as if there were no shelters for them to go to at night in Madison. In Toronto at night, I think homeless people tend to either find a shelter or go to rough encampments or other places that tend to be out of sight. I don’t really know for sure but it seemed different somehow, and it made me sad to see.
Succulents for sale at the market
We did a lot of drinking of course, checking out places like The Old Fashioned, Great Dane Brewpub, Brasserie V (where the bartender was unbelievably kind, buying us drinks after waiting 20 mins in the sweltering heat for a cab — just a note that cabs are not easy to obtain in Madison, likely because most people bike!), Alchemy, Brickhouse BBQ, and The Cooper’s Tavern. We had great food at most of these places, as well as at Graze, which specializes in locally produced food. I didn’t find their atmosphere terribly spectacular but their menu was incredible. I know Cass is planning a full review for either Free Our Beer or The Bar Towel, so I’ll let him tell the story of the beer and rate the pubs. I liked them all.
Inside the capitol buildingInside the capitol building
It was blisteringly hot there, as much as it was here, and I was about ready to die of dehydration when we happened upon a street festival late on the Saturday, where — yes — they had a mobile beer trailer serving right from the side of the vehicle. By this point however I opted for a water break.
We also did some driving in the countryside, but this is where I have to leave the story and tell the rest of the tale another time. In the meantime, enjoy some photos (there are some hints in the photos of the story yet to be told)!
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Glad you had a great visit to Madison! It looks like you were either drinking a Wittekerke or a Blanche de Bruxelles. We had both on tap while you were visiting, and serve both out of that glass. Either way, a great beer! Especially on a hot hot hot summer day.
Hope all goes well with a certain wedding, and everyone enjoys the special beer. 🙂
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services edited its mission statement Thursday in a move that seems to reflect the current administration’s approach to immigration. The agency’s mission statement formerly read, “USCIS secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system.”
Now, the mission statement developed by the agency’s new director, L. Francis Cissna, reads, “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”
Cissna said in a press release, “I believe this simple, straightforward statement clearly defines the agency’s role in our country’s lawful immigration system and the commitment we have to the American people. … In particular, referring to applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits, and the beneficiaries of such applications and petitions, as ‘customers’ promotes an institutional culture that emphasizes the ultimate satisfaction of applicants and petitioners, rather than the correct adjudication of such applications and petitions according to the law.”
Read Cissna’s full statement here.
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A need exists for an improved means of dispensing particulate food products or ingredients from their containers. Many spices, for example, are commonly supplied in jars with screw-on caps. In the absence of a dispensing feature on the cap, it must be unscrewed and removed to enable insertion of a measuring spoon for removal of the amount desired. This procedure is inconvenient, particularly where several spices are required for use in a given recipe, and it is difficult to level off the contents of the spoon in a precise manner without spilling some of the contents. These problems can be avoided by use of a cap that has a built-in metering and dispensing rotor disposed across the mouth of the jar. Such a dispensing cap may be operated by holding the jar upside down and turning the rotor, whereby the quantity that fills the cavity in the rotor is dispensed downward by gravity when the cavity is aligned with an external aperture.
Various types of dispensing devices, including metering dispenser caps, are disclosed in prior art patents. U.S. Pat. No. 4,162,751, issued July 31, 1979, to Hetland et al., discloses a dispenser cap including a housing defining a vertically extending discharge spout and having an inlet opening and an outlet opening with a rotor disposed across the spout between the openings. The rotor has a single, axially disposed chamber that is movable from a loading position to a dispensing position upon rotation. The chamber in this device is adjustable in volume by means of a rack-and-pinion actuated member that varies the location of the chamber bottom or by means of movable segments making up the sides of the chamber. U.S. Pat. No. 3,122,278, issued Feb. 25, 1964, to Crozier, also discloses a dispenser with a metering rotor disposed across the opening of a dispensing spout, the rotor having only one measured cavity that is adjustable by insertion or removal of reducer elements. Other approaches are shown by U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,674,660, issued June 23, 1987, to Botto; 4,071,171, issued Jan. 31, 1978, to Bassignani; 3,130,874, issued Apr. 28, 1964, to Bulmer; 3,018,924, issued Jan. 30, 1962, to Reed; and 2,710,118, issued June 7, 1955, to Stoddard. These patents do not disclose a dispenser having a metering rotor disposed on an axis across the mouth or spout of a container but rather make use of elements that are movable on the same axis as the mouth of the container or employ plungers and tabs to actuate compartments of varying sizes. A dispenser that has a horizontal mounted shaft provided with spaced-apart blades operating on a shaft spanning a dispenser opening is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,740,562, issued Apr. 3, 1956, to Bello. This patent, however, is not concerned with dispensing a measured volume but with agitating the material being dispensed, and the rotary valve moves only within limits defined by stop pins.
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Suddenly I realized it was not strange for a rabbit to fish with radish as baits, because rabbits just eat radish. Thus they think fish eats radish too. But fish will regard rabbits as fools.
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Background of these words:
> A rabbit was fishing in a river on the 1st day but got no fish... The rabbit was fishing in the river on the 2nd day but got no fish... 3rd day... nth day... And on the evening of this day, when the rabbit was just about to leave the river and go home, a fish jumped out of the river angrily, "YOU FOOL! Don't feed me with radish again! Or I'll beat you!"
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Normative values for testicular volume measured by ultrasonography in a normal population from infancy to adolescence.
We obtained reference data for testicular volume measured by ultrasound in asymptomatic boys aged 0.5-18 years. In addition, we assessed the validity of the Prader orchidometer per age group by correlating it with the volume measurement by ultrasound. The study only included healthy boys with two scrotal testes at birth and at the time of the examination. For each boy the testicular volume of both testes was measured by ultrasound and the Prader orchidometer. Testicular volumes were measured for boys aged from 1 to 18 years. The boys' ages were rounded down to the last birthday if it had occurred less than 6 months previously or rounded up to the next birthday if it was going to be within 6 months. The volume measurement by the Prader orchidometer according to reference curves showed a statistically significant correlation. Moreover, the testicular volumes measured by the Prader orchidometer showed an accurate goodness of fit with US measurements (R(2) = 0.956). Normative values are provided for testicular volume measured by ultrasound in boys aged 0.5-18 years. An accurate correlation was found between volume measurements by ultrasound and by the Prader orchidometer (R(2) = 0.956). Therefore, volume measurement by the Prader orchidometer, as generally used in the practice by doctors, can be used as a valid parameter for monitoring testicular growth. | {
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A veces se escuchan historias y todo queda ahí. Y a veces se viven experiencias que terminan certificando lo que muchos comentan. Una pesadilla al final del verano, justo cuando termina el tiempo sagrado y breve de las vacaciones. La terminal de micros de Retiro recibe por estos días a miles de argentinos que vuelven de centros turísticos de todo el país. Aún en el verano del boom de las Low Cost, muchísimas personas siguen eligiendo el micro como medio de transporte. Llegan 1.500 servicios diarios en temporada, que transportan a miles de personas.
Por precio, por comodidad, porque es la única opción. El micro de larga distancia no se extinguió de la carta de variantes que baraja el argentino promedio antes de decidir dónde descansar. Lo que parece extinguida, lo que parece un agujero negro, es la terminal de Retiro. Fue fagocitada por la Villa 31, y si quedaba algún callejón de fuga en dirección al río o a Comodoro Py, ese conducto se vio también obstaculizado por la megaobra de la Paseo del Bajo. Es una trampa.
La Terminal de micros de Retiro de noche. /Guillermo Rodriguez Adami
Madrugada del lunes. 1.30 AM. El coche semicama proveniente del Partido de la Costa trae de regreso a un puñado de pasajeros variados, entre ellos al cronista de Clarín. Hay familias con hijos, parejas, grupos de amigos, pasajeros solos, personas que vienen con el tiempo del sosiego dibujado en la expresión. Atesoran los recuerdos de ese período que lograron concretar a pesar de lo caro que está todo. Sus rutinas los esperan para volver a meterlos en la realidad de cada día. No saben que el desembarco en esa realidad será, justamente, abrupto.
El micro atraviesa Costanera Sur, pega dos vueltas y gira para adentrarse en la oscuridad. Avanza por la calle Carlos Perette hasta llegar al cruce con Rodolfo Walsh. Es una L que se forma al final del recorrido, antes de entrar formalmente en el playón de estacionamiento. El tramo luce macabro. Se ven puestos de feriantes como en estado de abandono y figuras que deambulan entre los árboles. No hay patrulleros. Sólo personas aisladas que asoman desde los pasillos de la villa.
Las terminales de ómnibus Infografía: Clarín
Días atrás el actor Juan Gil Navarro denunció que su sobrina había sido víctima de un robo al llegar a este mismo lugar. El micro estaba detenido en medio del tráfico. Apareció gente y comenzaron a barretear las bodegas de equipaje. Lograron abrirlas y huyeron con pertenencias de los pasajeros. "Le roban a todos", le contestó por Twitter un usuario. "Son frecuentes, no hay empresa que se salve", agregó uno más. La denuncia de Gil Navarro tiene alerta a este puñado de pasajeros con el que viaja Clarín. Todos quieren bajar rápido y salir de ahí sin estrés, pero nadie sabe cómo.
Ayer, volviendo de Miramar en micro de @PlusmarOk (Empresa Condor/Estrella) asaltaron a mi sobrina. Frenaron el micro en Villa 31 lo sacudieron hasta abrir puertas y saquearlo. Ella es fotógrafa y perdió su cámara y su valija Hizo denuncia y nadie responde @CNRT @Guillodietrich ? — Juan Gil Navarro (@juangil_navarro) 28 de enero de 2019
Hace 20 años, cuando se esperaba un micro en la terminal de Retiro se podían ver una sucesión de árboles -álamos parecían- y más atrás los edificios porteños recortados. Siluetas de una ciudad que se insinuaba en el horizonte. Siluetas de una ciudad que ya no se ve.
La misma zona que recibe a los veraneantes, justo cuando terminan el tiempo feliz de las vacaciones, y que en cuanto bajan del micro y pisan la ciudad de la furia no tienen idea de qué hacer. /Guillermo Rodriguez Adami
Hoy, las casas del barrio Mugica parecen a punto de desplomarse sobre la plataforma donde el Plusmar toca destino. La gente comienza a bajar y arranca otra odisea. ¿Cómo salir de un lugar que se ve oscuro? ¿Por dónde salir? ¿Dónde tomar un taxi en un horario sin trenes ni subtes? ¿Conviene ir a las paradas de colectivo? Un cartel indica que bajando las escaleras se llega a las paradas de taxis. Pero al final de la escalera no hay taxis, sino silencio y abandono.
Chistan unos pibes. "Amigo, vení que te indico”, ofrecen. Huele mal. Hay que desandar el camino. Otra vez en el punto de llegada. Ya no se ven pasajeros. Todos desaparecieron. La confitería está llena de gente. Son viajeros que están a punto de partir y que no quieren salir a los espacios comunes. Por allí desfilan más pibes desafiantes. También borrachos que piden plata.
La Terminal de micros de Retiro de noche. /Guillermo Rodriguez Adami
La única que queda es enfilar hacia la entrada principal, una rampa oscura, sin luces, donde más pibes fuman y relojean a los recién llegados. La mole de la terminal queda atrás. Pero la sensación de estar a salvo sigue ausente. Hay dos taxis esperando pasajeros y una mujer con un chaleco amarillo que ofrece subir. Antes pregunta a dónde va. Se le comunica el destino y ella se lo comenta a un hombre que está cerca. "Barracas", le dice. "No, decile que no", responde el chofer. La mafia de los taxis en plena operación. Deciden a quién llevan y a quién no. -Le paro un taxi, jefe, espere- dice la mujer.
Dan ganas de huir. Decisión tomada. La villa se asoma en la esquina de la terminal del tren San Martín y desde adentro vuelven a gritarle al recién llegado, que tiene la sensación de novato en la gran urbe. No hay policías. No hay seguridad. Hay gente debajo de la luz de las paradas de colectivo, como no queriendo salir de ahí. Es una Buenos Aires que no se ve, de desamparados y evadidos. Otro taxi parado a la marchanta. “No flaco, voy para el otro lado”. La caminata sigue, a paso intenso. Pibes fumando paco pasan como zombies. Aún en Libertador, que parece ser un oasis de luz, lo inquietante no cede.
Una bandita baja la barranca de la Plaza San Martín y por suerte encaran para otro lado. Los sin techo se preparan para dormir, en una noche de calor, sobre una vereda sucia. Al fin un taxi se detiene. "El peor lugar para estar. Madrugada del lunes, madrugada sin policías, pibe -dice el conocedor de la noche-, algún día les tienen que dar franco a los canas y esto entonces es una zona liberada". La misma zona que recibe a los veraneantes, justo cuando terminan el tiempo feliz de las vacaciones, y que en cuanto bajan del micro y pisan la ciudad de la furia no tienen idea de qué hacer.
La Terminal de micros de Retiro de noche. /Guillermo Rodriguez Adami
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When you're feeling horny with your friends and you've got a full bottle of Vodka you know the afternoon is going to turn sexy! Since this is Bimaxx the action can only go BI, and lucky for us some liquid courage gets the party started with an MMF staircase fuck (they can't even make it up tot he bedroom!) that'll leave one dude's ass and a sexy pink pussy fucked raw!! This Eurobabe is in ecstasy as she watched her two buddies get it on, and of course soon enough she pulls off her pretty purple dress and goes for a ride on the MMF train! MMF means two pop-shots, and both guy and girl are taking one!! | {
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Q:
Incomplete type not allowed
I am trying to create a queue by allocating memory to a pointer to a queue, yet I get this error when I write the name of the struct in the size slot. I really don't know how to explain this, so code:
structs, defined in queue.c:
struct queue {
Node front;
Node back;
int num;
int (*e_func)(Elem,Elem);
};
typedef struct node* Node;
struct node {
Elem e;
Node next;
Node prev;
};
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#define QUEUE_H
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#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct queue* Queue;
typedef void* Elem;
Queue CreateQ(int (*equals)(Elem,Elem));
void Enqueue(Queue Q, Elem e);
Elem Dequeue();
Elem front(Queue Q);
Elem back(Queue Q);
int size(Queue Q);
int isIn(Queue Q, Elem e);
#endif
Usage of queue, in funcs.c:
Queue Q = (Queue)malloc(sizeof(struct queue));
The error is shown when mousing over the struct in the sizeof() argument. What the hell did I do wrong? I remember doing something similar in the past and it worked. I believe it might have something to do with the void pointer in node, but how do I solve this?
A:
Define the typedef 'Node' first, so that it will be available for the next structure definition.
However, now within the struct 'node', the 'next' and 'prev' elements cannot be of type 'Node' due to it being defined only after finishing the typedef. Nevertheless, 'struct node *' may be used to define 'next' and 'prev', due to 'struct node' is sufficiently defined.
typedef struct node {
Elem e;
struct node *next;
struct node *prev;
} *Node;
Later, you will find that you can reference 'next' and 'prev' just as though they had been defined as type 'Node'; since type 'Node' and type 'struct node *' (to the compiler) are equivalent.
struct queue {
Node front;
Node back;
int num;
int (*e_func)(Elem,Elem);
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Characters.....
OK, so there are a couple of characters who are starting to appear pretty regularly on this blog who have not yet been anointed with an official nickname and it's time for that to change....
For those of you who might not read this nonsense regularly (and who could blame you!) the regular characters all have nicknames. These are allocated by me (although I take suggestions) and are not meant to be insulting, but are also certainly not meant to be exactly kind either! They often arise from some stupid activity, an idiosyncracy (did I spell that correctly?) or character quirk. By way of example, Coach Stacey is "The Puppeteer"; my lovely wife is "She Who Must Be Obeyed" (or SWMBO) and we have numerous others such as Compass, Snitch, The Dominatirx, The Rabbit, The Beast etc....
So now it's time to announce names for Brian and Beth....
First up in Brian. Man this was a hard one. How do you come up with a nickname for Mr. Wonderful? :-) (actually, maybe it should have been "Mr. Wonderful"!). He's a great guy; a speedy fast triathlete (and getting faster by the day); he's a good looking single dude (have you ever seen him and Tom Brady in the same room?), my kids love him (he spent hours helping my eldest to surf earlier this year).... God I hate him!
The nickname suggestions have poured-in for Brian, but somehow I couldn't bring myself to bring-up his personal grooming habits (thanks for the laughs though Compass!) or base his nickname on his Adonis-like chiseled body (thanks to the rest of the swooning ladies), so instead this one is based on his relative youth compared to the rest of us; his single guy lifestyle and the fact that he probaly only changes his underwear once a week (surely he must have some faults?). Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you...
Fratboy!
Fratboy in his natural element.....
....and slaying the Mahi Mahi!
Now it's on to Beth. What can you say? She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but she has a wickedly dry sense of humor and a great "potty mouth" while pounding the pedals for 50 miles. Part Southern bell, part Texas redneck! :-) I probably shouldn't say too much as she's much fitter than me and will probably kick my tail next time we get to train together!
Beth was, for a while, under the grave misapprehension that she could lobby for he own nickname.... "Fashionstar"?... yeah, like that'sgoing to happen!
So what to call a fast, coffee-loving, salmon burger pounding, funny, potty-mouthed lawyer?
It all became clear the evening before the White Lake International race a few weeks back as everyone was sitting around the grill telling stories.....
.... I felt for sure that we were being invaded by a herd of wild pigs or that, perhaps, White Lake was hosting an international cocaine sniffing convention, but no..... that weird noise permeating the still lakeside air was Beth laughing, so, ladies and gentlemen, I give you.... | {
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The man who sold space
Ever since he was a child, he’d wanted to sell space. But as an adult, he realized there was an infinity of it, in fact several infinities, and such abundance was bad for business.
So he and three friends came to Earth and began promoting the absurd idea that space was at a premium. They said it was hard to get, and going fast.
Earth was a good place for his business, because most people had no idea they had, in addition to physical space, their own. Meaning, the space they invented, the space of interior visions, which could be made into reality.
Interior territory, in fact, was one of those infinities.
But if you asked people about this, they usually said: “Huh?”
Smith and his pals prospered. They won contracts from governments. Politicians were dedicated, in every possible way, to shrinking the concept of space. For others.
After a few thousand years, Smith and Co. had engineered human consciousness to regard space as an illusion.
Smith would tell a client, “Look, there isn’t any. But I know a guy. He lives on top of a mountain. He’s got a line on a small piece of black market space. It’s very, very expensive, but if you’re serious, I might be able to lay my hands on it for you. His stuff is pure. It isn’t the delusional crap, it’s the genuine article. One square inch of it runs about six million, delivered.”
Turned out the man on the mountain was the high priest of a church. His own church. He held secret services. His religion was ultra-exclusive. Invitation only.
Eventually, Smith took to selling atoms.
“Hey,” he said. “I’m offering you the only thing that’s available. A square inch? No one can afford that anymore. Maybe an atom. Possibly a neutron or a quark. Most likely a quark.”
He was the man behind the curtain. Governments consulted him frequently. When he spoke, they listened and obeyed.
One night, Smith was having supper at a little joint in Lower Manhattan. He could move about anonymously.
It was late and the restaurant was empty.
A man walked in and went over to Smith and sat down.
He said, “Aren’t you the lunatic who conned everybody into developing amnesia about space? Yeah, it’s you. Well, I’m putting it back on the market. Cheap. A whole lot of it. As much as people want.”
Smith smiled. “Oh, you must be one of those of crazy artists,” he said. “I thought we wiped all of you out, or put you away in institutions.”
“We’re slippery,” the man said. And he reached out his hand and gestured in the air, and the little restaurant fell away like an old dream and there appeared a huge black sky full of stars…
“You see?” he said. “It’s easy.”
Smith screamed like he’d been hit with a bolt of lightning. He fell on the floor and writhed and wriggled.
“Infinity,” the man said. “Maybe you can sentence fifty people to live together in one room, but you can’t outlaw infinity. It pops back up.”
Smith tried to think about something else. But he couldn’t. He saw rooms and corridors and lobbies and streets and roads and fields and mountains and valleys, and each one of those separate spaces revealed itself as endless.
He saw symbols, which had been put in place to plant “shrinking ideas” in people’s minds, and now the symbols shattered like crockery and blew out into the universe and universes beyond.
He fought to maintain his position, but it was no use. Now, the worst thing happened. He felt his own endless space and knew he was infinite—and that this was true for every soul.
The con of cons was done. Over.
Paintings miles wide appeared before him, and these paintings were worlds. The Centrality of coagulated illusion was going away.
A fresh wind was blowing.
Earth was still there, but it was a stage, a platform, on which billions of souls were rising out of deep narcosis.
“Eternity!” Smith shouted. “There goes my career!”
Coda: In 1591, Giordano Bruno wrote: “…and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.”
On February 17, 1600, in the Campo de Fiori, in Rome, the Church burned Bruno at the stake.
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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3 comments on “The man who sold space”
See, I knew deep down somewhere that I was not the crazy one. It is all of the constraints and generalizations of society that creates the perception of crazy. They need to all just open their minds a bot wider. Thanks. I enjoyed the post. | {
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Q:
How do you exclude an object from picking up the default Resource Dictionary?
I am using a 3rd party resource dictionary and it is conflicting with another usercontrol that I need to use. How do I exclude this usercontrol from picking up the default resource dictionary?
Thanks
Dave
A:
dont know if you can explicity exclude it but you could create your own resource dictionary and create a style for your control within it.
Reference the style specifically with a key and use that key for you user control. Should override the default resource dictionary. You may have to merge resource dictionaries into a shared resource.
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same here, i cant believe dell has the audacity to charge that much anywho
the apple product deserves the 2000+ tag
im sure that one is niec and all.....but apple displays > *
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you people are such stupid mac zealots, the quality of dell displays is great and is euqal to apple in my experience
sure it may have a price tag of $2200, but does that mean you have to pay anywhere near that? no, i paid $340 less than msrp on my 2405fp the week it came out just by calling them up and asking what the best price they could give me on it was.
you people are such stupid mac zealots, the quality of dell displays is great and is euqal to apple in my experience
sure it may have a price tag of $2200, but does that mean you have to pay anywhere near that? no, i paid $340 less than msrp on my 2405fp the week it came out just by calling them up and asking what the best price they could give me on it was.
Inside, both the macs and the dells are using LG panels, so other then the casing, the Dell is the better sale as it comes with 2 more USBs, a compsite video in, s-video in and an audio out port.
Anyone here that doesn't think the Dell Cinemas are the better value have no clue what in the hell they are talking about. The ACDs are thinner and do look nicer on the outside, but let's face it, no one really cares. Would you spend an extra $500 on a big screen TV that was exactly the same display with less features just so it would match the DVD player?
I have both the 20" ACD and the Dell 2005 FPW and can tell you that the ACD's aluminum shell looks nicer, but the Dell is the much better buy.
personally I think the dell display casings are ugly as shit, and they definitely take up a larger desk footprint than the apple equivalent. also, if more firewire ports are important to you then there is an advantage in getting the apple 30". The dell is a newer version of the panel, though, and has a higher contrast ratio and more ports, etc.
Some people would pay to clutter their desk less, match the computer, etc. If you're dropping 2.5k on a display already you probably don't care about $300 difference. I can't afford either
really? so is having money a direct reflection of the amount of brains I have?
your argument is quite stereotypical with no basis. there are a few mac users here that have ACD's but you'll find that more than not have a Dell or other brand. the only reason why I have mine is because of an inheritance. so because of this, I have no brains. thank you for clarifying.
I bought the 23" ACD because I got a good discount from a friend who works at Apple. He gave me the choice of the 23" or 2 20" displays for the same price and I chose the larger because of desktop space.
I know it doesn't happen to everyone, but I hear more complaints on dead pixels on the Dell's more than I hear on the Apple's (which is none on Apple's side btw). And since Dell is picky on replacing the screen depending on the placement or number of dead pixels that tells me the extra money I pay for the Apple is for that quality control. The Dell's, again, from what I read here mostly, have more light-bleed on the edges than the same Apple screen. Why? Maybe the case is too tight/loose, who knows.
And since they both use the same display maybe someone would be brave enough to crack open both and see about adding Component inputs to the Apple model.
You are truly comparing apples to oranges, as they are two different monitors for two different market segments. The Dell is massed produced at a lower quality, with lower quality parts and manufacturing. The Apple is produced with some of the highest quality assurance, and top shelf components.
The reason they share the same LG panel, is that LGPhilips makes 90% of all 15" > Panels available.
You are truly comparing apples to oranges, as they are two different monitors for two different market segments. The Dell is massed produced at a lower quality, with lower quality parts and manufacturing. The Apple is produced with some of the highest quality assurance, and top shelf components.
The reason they share the same LG panel, is that LGPhilips makes 90% of all 15" > Panels available.
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ive owned 2 dell lcds and both have been absolutely flawless, i doubt apple is that much better with quality control | {
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Kitchen Confidential wasn’t the first book to dissect a chef, peeling back the skin to reveal the intelligence and destructiveness of the creative personality, its blistered ego and addictions. In White Heat (1990), ten years before Bourdain’s book, Marco Pierre White thrashed like Sid Vicious with a brooding streak, showing off the kitchen as a place where violence and self-inflicted wounds could seem beautiful.
But White was British and mostly obscure, except to chefs. Americans in the ‘90s were opening their newspaper food sections to find chefs pursuing trends and wholesome passions, nice guys or noble perfectionists. In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain flipped that ideal on its head, instead presenting a picture of the restaurant cook as a personally troubled maker of food with the power of pure, animal joy. Cooks were fuck-ups with heart, sometimes dicks, sometimes generous and self-effacing, but always both transcendent and defeated, subverting almost everything else in their lives to the craft of cooking. They were the compromised agents of uncompromised pleasure.
Getting Bourdain to acknowledge that he broke the code on rendering the chef as a complex being is like trying to turn a doorknob using a hand slicked with Astroglide: It doesn’t happen with the ease or the grace you’d expect. It makes me think of something Lucky Peach editor Peter Meehan told me about Bourdain, about how thinking of himself as an outsider fuels Bourdain. “He feels fortunate to be there and tries to do the good work to keep his place at the table,” Meehan said, “and that sets him apart. There is a moment in most people’s careers that’s like, ‘I belong here.’ I’ve never gotten that from Tony.”
Everything any serious food writer now is trying to do, you accomplished in Kitchen Confidential, and later in Medium Raw. Where did that come from?
I had an empathy for my subjects which most food writers don’t have. Most food writers despise their subjects; they don’t want to be food writers. They’re either over it; they’re pissed off; they never liked these dirty chefs in the first place—all of that attention and all of that pussy. They don’t fucking like it and it shows. You smell it on their prose. They just don’t like [chefs] doing well, and they will hurt them if they feel they’ve overstepped. And to be fair, if you’re writing about describing meals, year after year, it ruins people. I’ve described it jokingly as like writing the Penthouse letters for 20 years. I sympathize.
I was asked to roast Alan Richman and the expectation was I would go up there and destroy him. I don’t find that interesting at all. No, I went after his editors: These bastards who’ve taken this very accomplished, very distinguished food reviewer—we may have had some major differences on things he’s written*, but this is a distinguished food writer and they put him on top ten lists and “Get Out to Brooklyn!” and hipster fucking diner trend pieces on the next big thing. So I went after them. But that's where we are now, the age of listicles and ten bests. People ask me, “Where would you eat in New York if you came back after a long time?” And I name five restaurants and it’s like Tony’s Five Best Restaurants in New York! How the fuck did we get from there to here?
*Bourdain wrote an essay for Medium Raw titled “Alan Richman Is a Douchebag.” Since then, Bourdain says, they’ve reconciled.
On Challenging Food Media “I think one of the reasons that we initially bonded is that he called bullshit on food media early on—when I left the New York Times early on I realized that. It’s all lying to promote the next hot restaurant and the next trend. It was never what food was really about.” Regina Schrambling, former New York Times Food Deputy Editor
Do you feel you changed the voice of food writing? Shifted the point of view?
I don’t feel that I’ve accomplished that. I feel that I’m working in an existing tradition. People before me have written about the things that interest me in a similar style, a similar point of view, a similar attitude. George Orwell, Down and Out. Nicolas Freeling in The Kitchen. Bemelmans. They were all there earlier, better, and I don’t feel I broke any ground. I’m not reinventing the wheel here. I wrote Kitchen Confidential very quickly. It reads like I talked at the time; it’s what I do. It’s often hyperbolic. I like language. It’s pleasurable to me to listen to somebody: a dialect, a jargon, colloquialisms. Action Bronson and Eddie Huang, they’re not following in my footsteps. That’s who they are and they sound like that. That’s not a style I came up with.
When you have this machine-pounding of people on laptops in Starbucks all over town to come up with content, you’re not going to get a lot of A. J. Lieblings, people just passionate about life and eating. It’s not all about food. Food in and of itself is pretty fucking uninteresting after a certain point. Who’s cooking this is much more interesting to me than what’s cooking. Who’s cooking and why are they cooking it this way? Who are they reading? What’s on the radio? Is there a dog? Those are the things that make a meal interesting, and this is why Liebling is so awesome. Any good writer who really wants to bring home the pleasure of a meal is going to picture the room.
Writers just writing about the food, you can only eroticize it so long. It’s all about other stuff. And I don’t think you can properly appreciate food if you’re not having some kind of sex, you know—occasionally. It doesn’t even have to be acrobatic, but other pleasures are important. It’s counterproductive, in fact: creepy food writing by people who are not having any sex, that can barely remember having sex.
In order to write well about food you need to eat well, and you cannot eat well if you’re analyzing the food. It’s not fun for the people you’re eating with and I don’t see how it can be fun for you. I spent 30 years in the restaurant business and I do not want to be thinking about if the bus boy’s doing his job. I don’t want to hear the bell in the kitchen. I don’t want to be thinking about what’s in that dressing. I want to be lost in the meal. I want to be a romantic fool.
By picking at the scabs of his psyche in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain opened up a raw and sometimes ugly place in the terrain of food. In the new Bourdain era, writers and editors seemed to champion the culture of misogyny and homophobia that lurked in the shadow of dude drinking and extreme-food stunts, chewing goat testicles or dare-downing ghost peppers.
In 2012, The New Yorker published Tamar E. Adler’s “When Meals Get Macho,” an essay in decorous prose that recoils from Bourdain’s dick-lugging swagger. Adler writes, “Anthony Bourdain has turned a sort of belligerent gluttony into a talisman for insecure men.”
“Kitchen Confidential changed both food writing and food culture,” Adler says. And while Bourdain himself seems perfectly smart and charming, “the problem,” she says, “is when the behavior is enacted by somebody less smart and less charming you get aggression: Guy Fieri's hugeness and loudness, the entire idea of 'bizarre foods,' the exoticizing of that which is normal to much of the world, which is a kind of cultural aggressiveness.”
Once Bourdain discovered travel for A Cook’s Tour, his two-season Food Network series that premiered in 2002, TV changed him. His point of view expanded, from the kitchen of the subterranean prep hole and crowded pass, to the hazy view down Dong Khoi Street in Ho Chi Minh City, where he navigated past scooters and cyclos to find release in a bowl of pho.
In his TV work, from A Cook’s Tour through season seven of Parts Unknown, Bourdain replays this single act of discovery, over and over again. It’s the shiver of innocence reprised hundreds of times, a single assertion of delight with the replay button clicked, never getting old.
Do you ever feel guilt for being a white male gatekeeping the food of other cultures?
I’m aware of the sort of destructive aspects of what I do. I understand I’m altering the world by putting it on TV. I’m aware that I am fetishizing what is seen as a birthright to millions of people around the world. Do I feel guilty? I am who I am. I’m a white boy from New Jersey in the suburbs. I can live with that. I’m not conflicted about it.
Eddie [Huang], he’s someone who grew up in that generation. The kids at school would make fun of his lunches. That’s something I really respond to: Guys like Eddie who find themselves in this weird place where no one wanted their food when they were a kid and now everyone wants it, the cultural appropriation issue. Even when Eddie is wrong—his article on Marcus* was as wrong as it could be, but it was a valuable, painful—unfair, but valuable—discussion, he always knows how to put his thumb in the wound: What is cultural appropriation, what is authentic? That’s interesting to me. We've all been having sex with each other and mashing up cultures for centuries.
*In 2012, Huang blasted Marcus Samuelsson for appropriating African-American food culture at Red Rooster, his restaurant in Harlem, and for being patronizing about it in his memoir Yes, Chef.
Do you write as well as you’d like?
No. When I’m writing, most of the writers I love I will not read. I will keep away from fissionable material. So no. I wish I could write like Don DeLillo, Nabokov, Martin Amis—I mean, if I read those guys when I’m writing I will just crawl under the bed and curl into a fetal ball and be blocked for a month. So no. But on the other hand, I can live with that. Clint Eastwood said a man should be aware of his limitations, and I’m aware of my limitations. Once I tell people something, it’s not the content that's embarrassing to me. If I write bad sentences, that's embarrassing to me. Bad sentences are mortifying. And there are plenty of examples. But look, I talk about everything. My dick has been on TMZ, so what’s left? | {
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Summary
Scrummy Club is a mobile app replacement for those annoying paper loyalty stamp cards that are so often lost or unused.
We are working with over 100 independent merchants in the UK and will be introducing a host of amazing add-ons that will enable these merchants to attract new customers, reduce queues and manage payments.
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Białosuknia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Goniądz, within Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Goniądz, north of Mońki, and north-west of the regional capital Białystok.
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Q:
Does Microsoft Exchange 2010 have two kinds of Distribution Groups?
I was told to add someone to a Distribution Group and when I ran:
Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
from Exchange Management Shell I didn't the desired distribution group in the list.
A:
I'm still running Exchange 2007, but I don't believe this part has changed... There are two different types of Distribution Groups in Exchange:
"Standard" Distribution Groups
Dynamic Distribution Groups
A "Standard" Distribution Group is basically just a group where you've added either other groups (Dynamic or "Standard") or individual users (Mailboxes, Contacts, etc.). The powershell cmdlet Get-DistributionGroup will work on these types of groups.
A Dynamic Distribution Group is built using rules so that it basically generates the recipient list every time a message is sent. You need to use the Get-DynamicDistributionGroup powershell cmdlet to work with these groups.
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Keos: It’s Pronounced ‘Chaos’
So I was going to go off to Keos (why do I think we’re going to be starting a lot of days like that?) but there were side quests in Attika and, you know, side quests.
So I did the side quests. They all involved Socrates, who I wish would just shut up and have some hemlock already. I take it you haven’t done them. But you will someday, because you’ll have to cuz cultists.
So remember that guy with the mine I was trying to track down? The slave guy? Well, in the middle of the last damn quest, the guy is all “I want you to kill so and so” and I say “Why?” and he’s all “The Cult of Kosmos needs her dead,” and IT’S THE GUY! After all that, he just TELLS YOU! Then, after banter ensued, the quest ended, and he was JUST STANDING THERE with his back to me. So I killed him.
You’ll get there. We’ll talk. It’s something we shall have thoughts upon. But, after all the searching, talk about an anticlimax.
AND! AND! Guess where he was? Go ahead. Guess. C’mon guess HE WAS RIGHT BY THAT FUCKING SILVER MINE IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO GET INTO! So if I had NOT magpied, just followed the way the game was guiding me, I’d’ve found him, then BOOM cultist clue nearby, THEN done the mine.
This game, you see, does not want us to magpie. It wants us to follow the breadcrumbs.
We should just go to fucking Keos. Where I’ve already been cuz I magpied.
Also, regarding the magpie and the game’s desire that we knock it the fuck off, we really should get on with getting on with things because the more I see fall approaching, and the more I see gameplay from the Outer Worlds, and the more I hear it has great companions, and the more I think that Death Stranding is coming out in the fall as well, the more I think maybe I don’t want to be assassinating dudes too far into the fall. Not that I’m not liking this game, but DAMN when was the last time we had three AAA games that we’ve been into dropping in a six month span?
Cuz I also lose a week, you know. Soon it’s once again time to TRAVEL BLOG WITH BUTCH! The readers will thrill to Butch’s adventures as BUTCH TAKES SOUTH BEACH, BABY!
They’ll love it. It’s gonna be great.
Feminina:
I also did side quests in Attika! Went after that guy Kleon wanted me to find in the quarry. Remembered I’d already cleared out the quarry a week ago (although of course it had been restaffed in the meantime), so at least I didn’t have to bother with killing the captain and finding the treasure. (I actually quite enjoyed that quarry at the time. Lots of interesting levels and hiding places.)
Found the guy, who was a TOTALLY different H-name guy than the Heitor you were looking for, although while in that general area I did pick up the Heitor quest. Did pick up a clue about a cultist once I went back to my ship, which I did because of ship-related reasons that only Kleon’s dude can tell you about. Probably not in any way related to the cultist you were looking for clues about, who turned out to actually just be standing there.
Was randomly attacked by a shipfaring mercenary known, counterintuitively, as “The Terror of the Land.” (I suppose he swoops in on his ship to terrorize coastal cities? Still. Odd choice of name.)
Now I have to go back to Athens to talk to Kleon and Allie. And probably Sokrates because that dude does talk.
And man, it’s true, we do have a lot of stuff on the horizon that we potentially want to play. Including what’s-his-name-Cage’s latest, which we got for free last month and haven’t looked at!
At least nothing new in August. It’s just Wipeout Omega and Sniper Elite 4, neither of which interest me.
Butch:
Shit forgot about that! And we never did play Life is Strange two.
Better get going here.
Not that I can right now. Spending yet more money on junior. School is expensive.
Feminina:
And Divinity: Original Sin 2!
There’s a lot going on.
You know, with the time we spent on Red Dead Redemption 2’s epilogue, we probably could have played at least LiS2.
I will never really forgive that epilogue.
Butch:
Shit I had forgotten that one! Jeez. We better go to Keos.
I wasn’t going to forgive that epilogue anyway, but when you put it that way, I’m even less likely to forgive it.
Ok! Now that I’m out of money, back to blogging!
So which Attika quests? I did the ones where I had to forge name, that led to “get me a witness,” then “break into the playwright’s house” popped by the statue of Athena, did that, that made another Socrates quest pop in the port place (this one was about a horse thief), and then the quest where you help a slave popped by the silver mine.
Much more efficient to chase exclamation points than question marks.
Probably a T SHIRT!!!!! that.
I haven’t done fuck all for Kleon. I kinda forget what I’m supposed to do for Kleon. What am I supposed to do for Kleon? I thought it was “Hey, man, if you see a Spartan fort, kill the polemarch and tell me, m’kay?” So I was just waiting to magpie in Sparta.
Feminina:
That’s what I was thinking too, re: Kleon, but it turns out he’s specifically interested in the polemarch in one particular Spartan camp, which is right outside Athens. So you’re in the general area already.
It leads to a moderately involved bit with a ship, if you’re in the mood for that. Though I seem to recall that everyone involved was about level 29, so maybe come back to it later.
Chasing exclamation points is all very well, except then how are you going to hit all the question marks? WHAT IF YOU MISS SOMETHING?!
And I know many rational people would say “if I don’t get to it through exclamation points, I’ll just go back for it later on,” but what if you never do? What if you finish the game without getting back to that lion cave to kill that Alpha Animal?
The horror. THE HORROR.
And sure, rational people would point out that if you didn’t get around to doing it during the course of the entire game it probably isn’t that important, but THEY CAN’T BE SURE OF THAT.
What if we miss story? Romance? A statue of Naked Zeus being naked?
The soul quails in terror.
In short: I’ll never give up the magpie. You can’t make me.
Butch:
Oh THAT place. Yeah, I know the place. When I was running the fuck away from killing the cultist in downtown Athens (let’s just say I wasn’t really at my best stealth wise), I ran like holy hell and, when I stopped, it was all “You are by an untracked target,” to which I said “I am?” and boom. Fort.
You do know you’re going to end up playing the game twice, right? The first time you kill everything everywhere, and then the second time you kill everything everywhere.
Probably for the best I’m going to strut my stuff on South Beach. Let you catch up while I’m KILLING IT with the beautiful people.
Feminina:
Naw, because the second time I go back, I sometimes don’t even bother to kill anyone! I’ll sneak in, do whatever I need to do, and bolt out again.
Doesn’t always work. I’ll admit that. Sometimes you do wind up having to kill everyone all over again. But many times, you can say “OK, I don’t have any location objectives here, don’t have to kill any captains or burn any war supplies, so I’m out. Later losers!”
I’m not ashamed to run like hell away from a fight if it will save me the time and annoyance of having to fight a bunch of dudes for no reason.
Butch:
We’ve been differing in this game more than usual, and here’s another difference: “No reason” means different things to us at this juncture.
I mean, dude, why do you need boots that are obsolete the minute you loot them? What did that alpha animal do to you?
I guess I read the word “practical” between “no” and “reason.” Silly me.
Feminina:
Yeah, you did. Don’t do that.
My reason is: “it says so in the location objections, and I must get that checkmark on the map that says I completed this location.”
Also, I promptly dismantle those boots and use the soft leather to upgrade my ship, so don’t scorn loot you can’t wear. It’s still useful, man.
Butch:
It’s funny though, as you aren’t a completionist in any game that doesn’t have “Assassin’s” or “Creed” in its title. Before you go all “But I didn’t like RDR2 enough to collect all that shit,” I point out you didn’t do every hunting ground in HZD, you didn’t get every moldy flag in DAI (a lot of them, but not all), etc. You don’t have platinums in your trophy case. And yet, in these games, you are all “MUST. HAVE. CHECKMARK.”
It’s very unlike you.
Because, ok, fine. You like AC. But I have been blogging with you a very long time, and I can tell you have played games, we have played games together, that you like more than this one. This game is fun but neither of us are gonna put it on our “top games I’ve ever played ever ever” list. And yet….here you are, doing the complete thing you don’t even do in games that are on your “top games I’ve ever played ever ever” list.
It’s weird, dude. Weird.
Feminina:
I don’t know, man. Consider Fallout. Or the Elder Scrolls games I’ve played. Like this game, they are full of question marks, and as with this game, I compulsively sought out every single one. Did I actually get to every single question mark in FO4? Maybe not. Because they didn’t necessarily show up until you got kind of close to them, and some of them I may have missed. But not for lack of trying. And did I get to every single one I actually saw? I’m pretty sure I did.
I think it’s the question mark itself, to be honest. There’s something about its curling shape, its hint of wonder, its suggestion of mysteries to be solved, that I cannot resist.
Because there are non-question mark things in this game that I’m not going after. I’m not obsessing about killing every single mercenary. I’ll only kill every single cultist if, as we suspect, you have to do it to finish the game. I’m ignoring conquest battles on every side.
Apparently there’s an arena somewhere that at some point you can go to and fight other mercenaries in, and I’m not going anywhere near that unless it’s absolutely required.
And take Mafia III: I didn’t bother to drive in a single race at the racetrack, but did I seek out every point on the map in every single territory? You better believe I did.
So I don’t know, I don’t think I’m doing anything especially out of the ordinary for me.
Question marks. On the map. They cannot be allowed to stand.
If you have found a way to make peace with leaving question marks on a map unexplored, I salute you, but your path to contentment is not mine.
Butch:
Dude, I left playboys undiscovered. I left NUDITY undiscovered.
I suppose you are, at heart, a discoverer. A wonderer. An optimist. You always have hope that next question mark will be something great…something other than a bandit camp or a wolf den, despite the fact it always is one.
Wait until your kids are older. Then your soul will be crushed. You’ll run by all the question marks cuz you’ll know the truth: They just cost money.
Feminina:
It’s up to Future Us to look back upon this day in a few years and see how that turns out. You could be right.
You are the one with the crushed soul, after all.
Speaking of crushed souls, that’s another thing that’s coming out someday…more The Last of Us. There’s a lot to get to. Fortunately, much of it not released yet, but still a lot.
Butch:
I think that one’s a while off. I can’t imagine it’s coming out before the PS5, which is, what, MAYBE Xmas 2020? But Outer Worlds is October, Death Stranding is November, Cyberpunk is April. AND Divinity and Detroit? I mean….
Maybe it will all give us excuses to procrastinate when it comes to playing TLOU2, which I’m not necessarily sure I’m looking forward to…..
Feminina:
Yeah. We will have many opportunities to put off that bit of soul-crushing. Maybe we’ll get around to it when the actual world is less apocalyptic.
So never.
Damn, TLOU turns everything dark really fast.
Butch:
I know. It’s a game I feel I should play, but not a game I want to play. The other games we’ve mentioned today? Want to play.
You know….we don’t HAVE to play it…..
Feminina:
It’s true. We don’t, do we? We might just never get around to it. Even if it’s totally amazing and everyone says it’s the best game ever.
It could happen. Let’s leave our options open there. It’s a comforting thought.
Butch:
Indeed it is. We must remember that this is our hobby. Despite our lengthy complaints about the games we play, we do this for fun. Fun, I say! And, while blogging is as much fun, and TLOU2 is probably going to be bloggage from here to there, we can blog about pretty much anything. ANYTHING.
We have limited time, after all. It’s a precious resource. We wouldn’t waste precious drinking time on booze we didn’t like, now would we?
Well, we would. But only if there was no other booze to be had. But there is other game booze to imbibe, so imbibe we can. Shall. Will. Must!
Feminina:
Yes! We drink soul-crushing booze only when all the other booze is gone!
We don’t HAVE to play soul-crushing games until all the other games are played.
So, never.
Butch:
Indeed, never.
Especially as we’re never going to finish the game we are currently playing.
However, the booze I currently have in my house is doomed.
But dude I usually say this sarcastically but this time I’m serious.
You’re gonna love Keos.
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As a woman, Feminina O'Ladybrain loves skimpy armor, the Smurfette Principle, and being rescued. She also enjoys setting things on fire, and is unusually fond of shotguns.
She likes lady games, such as 'Lady: The Game,' but since that doesn't exist, she plays a lot of series, like 'Dragon Age,' 'Mass Effect,' and 'Assassin's Creed.' | {
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//! You should not rely on it, and consider it an implementation detail.
pub mod geometry;
pub mod node;
pub mod number;
pub mod result;
pub mod style;
mod algo;
mod id;
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pub enum Error {
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Measure(Box<Any>),
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fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
match *self {
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Error::Measure(_) => write!(f, "Error during measurement"),
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Richard B. Carter
Richard B. Carter (1877–1949), ink manufacturer, was president of the Carter's Ink Company, in Boston and later Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1903-1949.
Early life and education
Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of John W. Carter, the head of Careter's Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife. He attended Harvard, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received an A.B. in 1898 and an M.A. in 1899.
Career with Carter's Ink
Richard B. Carter was still in college when his father died and was not ready to take the reins of Carter's Ink. He finished his education at Harvard and went to work for the company in 1900 and became its president in 1903 and remained so the rest of his life.
Marriages
On June 28, 1906, Richard B. Carter married Annie I. Waterhouse. She died September 4, 1908.
On December 28, 1914, he married Elsie Hobart.
Death
Richard B. Carter died June 8, 1949, a resident of West Newton where he had lived for many years in a large redbrick Georgian mansion at 11 Forest Avenue on the corner of Mt. Vernon Street,
References
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Category:1949 deaths
Category:Fountain pen and ink manufacturers
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Around 11:30 on Tuesday night, I left CBS News studios in New York City to take a walk and call my wife. We talked about the election. We talked about the very real chance of President Donald Trump. We talked, just to talk. But we didn’t talk long. We had to do work. I had to write. And she had to figure out what she would say to her students, many of them Hispanic, most of them young children of immigrants.
Heading back, I walked past a conversation between two cops. They were outside the building, on duty. They were black. And out of some need to keep talking, I walked over and jumped into their conversation. Neither officer questioned me or shooed me away. Instead, they invited me to commiserate with them.
“I can’t believe this. I just can’t believe it,” said one of the officers, the younger of the two. The other just shook his head. I asked the younger officer what he thought about all of this—about President Donald Trump. “This is deep, man. This is deep. Who am I supposed to be protecting now?” He looked down at his uniform. “Why am I wearing this?” He didn’t need to explain. The Donald Trump who won the presidency on Tuesday is the Donald Trump who demanded execution for five boys, wrongly accused of a crime. He is the Trump who ran on a platform of “law and order.” The age of Trump will be an age in which police can act with impunity. And as an officer of color, he knew, perhaps better than anyone, that it’s people who look like us—who are brown and black—who will face the brunt of that impunity.
Pundits and observers will attribute Trump’s win to “populism” or his “anti-elite” message. This is nonsense. Trump ran for president as a nationalist fighter for white America. He promised to deport Hispanic immigrants. He promised to ban Muslims from the United States. He refused to acknowledge Barack Obama’s legitimacy, casting him—until the end—as a kind of usurper of rightful authority. When faced with the fetid swamps of white reaction—of white supremacists and white nationalists and anti-Semites—he winked, and they cheered in response. And for good reason.
More than anything, Trump promises a restoration of white authority. After eight years of a black president—after eight years in which cosmopolitan America asserted its power and its influence, eight years in which women leaned in and blacks declared that their lives mattered—millions of white Americans said enough. They had their fill of this world and wanted the old one back. And although it’s tempting to treat this as a function of some colorblind anti-elitism, that cannot explain the unity of white voters in this election. Trump didn’t just win working-class whites—he won the college-educated and the affluent. He even won young whites. Seventeen months after he announced his candidacy, millions of white Americans flocked to the ballot box to put Trump into the White House. And they did so as a white herrenvolk, racialized and radicalized by Trump.
There’s an easy rejoinder here: How can this be about race when Trump won some Obama voters? There’s an equally easy answer: John McCain indulged racial fears, and Mitt Romney played on racial resentment, but they refused to go further. To borrow from George Wallace, they refused to cry “nigger.” This is important. By rejecting the politics of explicit racism and white backlash, they moved the political battleground to nominally colorblind concerns. Race was still a part of these clashes—it’s unavoidable—but neither liberals nor conservatives would litigate the idea of a pluralistic, multiracial democracy. Looking back, I thought this meant we had a consensus. It appears, instead, that we had a detente. And Trump shattered it. With his jeremiads against Hispanics and Muslims—with his visions of dystopian cities and radicalized refugees—Trump told white Americans that their fears and anger were justified. And that this fear and anger should drive their politics. Trump forged a politics of white tribalism, and white people embraced it.
Here’s what we need to understand: This has happened before. For 10 brief years after the Civil War, a coalition of ex-slaves and white farmers worked to forge democracy in the former Confederacy. With the help of the federal government, they scored real victories and made significant gains. But their success spurred a backlash of angry whites, furious at sharing power with blacks and their Northern allies, murderous at the very idea of social equality. Those whites fought a war against Reconstruction governments, and when they won, they declared the South redeemed.
Decades later, another group of blacks and whites—this time in North Carolina—banded together to topple reactionaries and establish democracy. For a short moment, they succeeded. Working together as “fusionists,” they built schools, brought relief, and established true representative government in the South. And the backlash came. Some whites would relinquish white supremacy. Most wouldn’t. Using violence and terrorism, they toppled the fusionists and established a rigid white rule that would last into the 20th century, eventually dismantled during our Second Reconstruction, the civil rights movement.
As soon as that Reconstruction ended, there was a backlash. But it wasn’t as strong as previous ones. It brought leaders who nodded to problems of racism and racial discrimination, even as they played on white fears and white anxieties. After years of struggle, we had come to some agreement: We believed in equality. And when a black man won the presidency—the symbolic pinnacle of white power and white prerogative—we celebrated as a nation.
Fifty years after the black freedom movement forced the United States to honor its ideals, at least on paper, it’s clear this was premature. Like clockwork, white Americans embraced a man who promised a kind of supremacy. We haven’t left our long cycle of progress and backlash. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.
Americans are stubbornly, congenitally optimistic. And the millions who backed Trump see something in his visage. Something that gives them hope. Here’s what I see. I see a man who empowered white nationalists and won. I see a man who demanded the removal of nonwhite immigrants and won. I see a man who pledged war crimes against foreign enemies and won. I see a man who empowers the likes of Rudy Giuliani and others who see blacks as potential criminals to control, not citizens to respect.
After the redemption of the South, black Americans—and nonwhites around the country—faced the nadir. Whites imposed new kinds of discrimination and turned a blind eye to the pogroms and racial terrorism that was scarring the American landscape.
In a few hours, millions of Americans will wake up in the age of Trump. I, and millions who look like me, will open our eyes to a second redemption. We can only hope—we can only pray—that we won’t reach a new nadir.
Read more Slate coverage of the 2016 campaign. | {
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Gonorrhea
Topic Overview
What is gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is
an infection spread through sexual contact. In men, it most often infects the
urethra. In women, it usually infects the urethra,
cervix, or both. It also can infect the rectum, anus,
throat, and pelvic organs. In rare cases, it can infect the eyes.
Gonorrhea does not cause problems if you treat it right away. But if it's
left untreated, it can lead to serious problems.
What causes gonorrhea?
A certain kind of bacteria
causes gonorrhea. Gonorrhea is a
sexually transmitted infection, or STI. This means it
can spread from one partner to another during vaginal, anal, or oral
sex.
A woman who is pregnant can pass the infection to her newborn
during delivery.
What are the symptoms?
Many people have no
symptoms, so they can pass gonorrhea to their sex partners without knowing
it.
If there are symptoms, they may include:
Pain when you urinate.
Abnormal discharge from the penis or
vagina.
Gonorrhea infection in the throat also usually does not
cause symptoms.
Symptoms in men usually are easier to notice than
symptoms in women. But some men have mild or no symptoms.
In women,
the early symptoms may be so mild that they are mistaken for a
bladder infection or a vaginal infection. When an
untreated infection moves into a woman's pelvic organs, symptoms can include
lower belly pain, pain during sex, vaginal bleeding, and a fever.
The time from exposure to gonorrhea until symptoms begin usually is 2 to
5 days. But it may take as long as 30 days before symptoms start.
You can spread gonorrhea even if you don't have symptoms. You are
contagious until you have been treated.
How is gonorrhea diagnosed?
Your doctor will ask
you questions about your past health and your sexual history, such as how many
partners you have. Your doctor may also do a physical exam to look for signs of
infection.
Urine or fluid from the infected area will be tested for
gonorrhea. You may also be tested for other sexually transmitted infections
(STIs) at the same time. Testing can be done with a Pap test.
As soon as you find out you have
gonorrhea, be sure to let your sex partners know. Experts recommend that you
notify everyone you've had sex with in the past 60 days. If you have not had
sex in the past 60 days, contact the last person you had sex with.
How is it treated?
Antibiotics are
used to treat gonorrhea. It's important to take all of the medicine as
directed. Otherwise the medicine may not work. Both sex partners need treatment
to keep from passing the infection back and forth.
Getting
treatment as soon as possible helps prevent the spread of the infection and
lowers your risk for other problems, such as pelvic inflammatory
disease.
Many people who have gonorrhea also have
chlamydia, another STI. If you have gonorrhea and
chlamydia, you will get medicine that treats both infections.
Avoid
all sexual contact while you are being treated for an STI. If your treatment is
a single dose of medicine, you should not have any sexual contact for 7 days
after treatment so the medicine will have time to work.
Having a
gonorrhea infection that was cured does not protect you from getting it again.
If you are treated and your sex partner is not, you probably will get it
again.
Finding out that you have an STI may make you feel bad about
yourself or about sex. Counseling or a support group may help you feel
better.
How can you prevent gonorrhea?
It's easier to
prevent an STI like gonorrhea than it is to treat it.
Use a condom every time you have sex. Latex
and polyurethane condoms keep out the viruses and bacteria that cause
STIs.
Don't have more than one sex partner at a time. The safest
sex is with one partner who has sex only with you. Every time you add a new sex
partner, you are being exposed to all of the diseases that all of that person's
partners may have.
Be responsible. Don't have sex if you have
symptoms of an infection or if you are being treated for an
STI.
Wait to have sex with a new partner until both of you have
been tested for STIs.
Cause
Gonorrhea is spread during vaginal, anal, or oral sex with an infected
partner. A pregnant woman may pass the infection to her newborn during
delivery.
Gonorrhea can be transmitted at any time by a person who is
infected with the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae,
whether or not symptoms are present. A person who is infected with gonorrhea is
always contagious until he or she has been treated.
Having a
gonorrhea infection once does not protect you from getting another infection in
the future. A new exposure to gonorrhea will cause reinfection, even if you
were previously treated and cured.
Symptoms
It is fairly common for
gonorrhea to cause no symptoms, especially in women.
The incubation period, the time from exposure to the bacteria until symptoms
develop, is usually 2 to 5 days. But sometimes symptoms may not develop for up
to 30 days.
Gonorrhea may not cause symptoms until the infection
has spread to other areas of the body.
Symptoms in women
In women, the early symptoms are
sometimes so mild that they are mistaken for a
bladder infection or vaginal infection. Symptoms may
include:
Symptoms in men
In men, symptoms are usually
obvious enough that they will cause a man to seek medical treatment before
complications occur. But some men have mild or no symptoms and can unknowingly
transmit gonorrhea infections to their sex partners. Symptoms may
include:
Abnormal discharge from the penis (clear or
milky at first, and then yellow, creamy, and excessive, sometimes
blood-tinged).
Complications of untreated gonorrhea in other areas of the body
Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) occurs when the
gonorrhea infection spreads to sites other than the
genitals, such as the joints, skin, heart, or blood. Complications of
DGI
include:
Fever.
Skin infection (cellulitis).
An infection in the
bloodstream (sepsis).
Inflammation of a joint (arthritis). It most often affects the knees and
hands.
An infection and inflammation of the heart valves and the
chambers of the heart (endocarditis).
An infection
of the fluid and tissues that surround the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).
Because many women do not have early symptoms of
gonorrhea that cause them to seek treatment, they are more likely than men to
have more serious complications from gonorrhea spreading to other parts of the
body.
Having a gonorrhea infection once does not protect you
from getting another infection in the future. A new exposure to gonorrhea will
cause reinfection, even if you were previously treated and
cured.
What Increases Your Risk
Risk factors for getting
gonorrhea include:
Having multiple sex partners (more than one sex
partner in the past year).
Having a high-risk partner (partner has
other sex partners, unprotected sex, or gonorrhea-infected sex
partners).
Having unprotected sexual contact (not using condoms).
Any child with gonorrhea needs to be evaluated by a doctor
to find out the cause and to assess for possible sexual abuse.
When To Call a Doctor
Gonorrhea
causes no long-term problems if it is treated early in the course of the
infection before any complications develop. Untreated gonorrhea can lead to
many complications.
In women:
Call your doctor immediately if you have the following symptoms.
Sudden, severe pain in the lower
belly
Lower belly pain with vaginal bleeding or discharge and a
fever of 100°F (38°C) or
higher
Urinary burning, frequent urination, or inability to
urinate and a fever of
100°F (38°C) or higher
Call your doctor to find out when an evaluation is
needed if you have the following symptoms.
Vaginal discharge that has become yellowish,
thicker, or bad-smelling
Bleeding between periods that occurs more
than once when periods are usually regular
Pain during sexual
intercourse
Bleeding after sexual intercourse
Sores, bumps, rashes, blisters, or warts on or around the
genital or anal area
Call your doctor or clinic if you have unprotected sex
with someone who has, or who you think may have, a sexually transmitted
infection.
Watchful waiting
Watchful waiting is a period of time during
which you and your doctor observe your symptoms or condition without using
medical treatment. Watchful waiting is not appropriate for a gonorrhea
infection. Gonorrhea causes no long-term problems if it is treated early in the
course of the infection before any complications develop. But untreated
gonorrhea can lead to many complications. Avoid sexual contact until you have
been examined by your doctor so that you will not infect someone else.
If you know you have been exposed to gonorrhea, both you and your sex
partner(s) must be treated. You need treatment even if you don't have symptoms.
As soon as you find out you have
gonorrhea, be sure to let your sex partners know. Experts recommend that you
notify everyone you've had sex with in the past 60 days. If you have not had
sex in the past 60 days, contact the last person you had sex with.
If you are unable to contact your sex partners or you are uncomfortable
doing so, health departments and sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics can
help with this process.
Who to see
Low-cost diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea is usually
available at local health departments and family planning clinics, such as
Planned Parenthood.
Some people are not
comfortable seeing their usual doctor for sexually transmitted infection
treatment. Most counties have confidential clinics for diagnosing and treating
gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections.
Exams and Tests
Diagnosis of
gonorrhea includes a medical history and a physical
exam. Your doctor may ask you the following questions.
Do you think you have been exposed to any
sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? How do you know?
Did your partner tell you?
What are your symptoms?
Do you have any discharge? If you have
discharge from your vagina or penis, it is important to note any smell or
color.
Do you have sores in your genital area or anywhere else on
your body?
Do you have any urinary symptoms, including frequent
urination, burning or stinging with urination, or urinating in small
amounts?
Do you have any unusual belly or pelvic pain?
What method of birth control do you use? Do you
use a condom to protect against STIs every time you have sex?
Do
you or your partner engage in
certain sexual behaviors that may put you at risk, such as having multiple sex partners or having sex without using a condom (except if you're in a long-term relationship)?
Several
gonorrhea tests can be used to detect or confirm an
infection. Your doctor will collect a sample of body fluid or urine to be
tested for gonorrhea bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae).
Most tests give results within a few days.
Other sexually
transmitted infections may be present with a gonorrhea infection. Your doctor may
recommend testing for:
Chlamydia, a
bacterial infection of the
urethra in men, and the urethra, the
cervix, or the upper reproductive organs (or all
three) in women. Up to 40% of people who have gonorrhea also have
chlamydia.1
Syphilis, a bacterial infection in which the most
common symptom is a painless sore called a chancre (say "SHANK-er") that
develops on the genitals.
Hepatitis B, a
viral infection that causes the liver to become swollen and tender
(inflamed).
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a
virus that attacks the immune system, making it difficult for the body to fight
off infection and some diseases.
In the United States, your doctor must report to the state health
department that you have gonorrhea.
Early detection
You may want to consider
being tested once a year for gonorrhea even though you don't have symptoms if you have increased risks for STIs. These include having multiple sex partners or having sex without using a condom (except if you're in a long-term relationship). Testing will allow gonorrhea to be quickly diagnosed and treated. This helps
reduce the risk of transmitting gonorrhea and avoid complications of the
infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also
recommends screening for pregnant women who engage in high-risk sexual
behaviors to prevent them from transmitting gonorrhea to their babies. If a
pregnant woman is at high risk for gonorrhea, she may be tested again during
the third trimester before delivery, to prevent transmitting the infection to
her newborn.3
Treatment Overview
Gonorrhea
causes no long-term problems if it is treated early in the course of the
infection before any complications develop. Untreated gonorrhea can lead to
many complications.
Initial treatment
Gonorrhea is
treated with
antibiotics. Treatment is
recommended for:
A person who has a positive gonorrhea
test.
Anyone who has had sexual contact in the past 60 days with a
person diagnosed with gonorrhea, whether or not they have symptoms or used
condoms.
A newborn whose mother has gonorrhea at the time of
delivery.
If you are prescribed more than one dose of an
antibiotic, be sure to take your antibiotic exactly as directed. If you miss
doses or don't take the full course of medicine, the gonorrhea infection may
not be cured.
Do not have sexual contact with anyone:
While you are being
treated.
Until both you and your partner(s) have been tested and
treated. If you are treated for gonorrhea and your sex partner is not, you will
probably become infected again.
If your treatment is a single dose of antibiotic, wait at
least 7 days after taking the dose before having any sexual contact.
Always use a
condom when you have sex. This helps protect you from
sexually transmitted infections.
Treatment if the condition does not get better
Symptoms that do not go away after treatment may be caused by another
gonorrhea infection or treatment failure.
Certain strains of the gonorrhea bacteria have become
resistant to some antibiotics, including quinolones,
penicillin, tetracycline, and sulfa drugs. When bacteria become resistant to an
antibiotic, they no longer can be killed by that medicine.3
If you have been treated for gonorrhea and
don't get better, you may be retested with a
gonorrhea culture to see if there is bacterial
resistance to the antibiotic you were taking. If there is bacterial resistance,
you will need another antibiotic to cure the infection.
What to think about
To prevent reinfection, don't
have sex until any partner that might be infected is tested and
treated.
Some people who have
gonorrhea also have
chlamydia. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that drug treatment for
gonorrhea also include antibiotics that are effective in treating chlamydia.
For more information, see the topic
Chlamydia.
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a serious
complication of gonorrhea that can lead to
infertility, chronic pelvic pain, and
ectopic pregnancy. To prevent PID, prompt treatment of
gonorrhea is important. For more information, see the topic
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).
Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) occurs when the
gonorrhea infection spreads to sites other than the
genitals, such as the joints, skin, heart, or blood. Treatment of
DGI usually
requires hospitalization and antibiotic treatment given
intravenously (IV) or into a muscle (intramuscularly,
IM).
In the United States, your doctor must report to the state health
department that you have gonorrhea.
Prevention
You can take measures to reduce your risk
of becoming infected with
gonorrhea or another
sexually transmitted infection (STI). You can also
reduce the risk of transmitting gonorrhea to your sex partner(s).
Practice safer sex
Talk with your partner about STIs before
beginning a sexual relationship. Find out whether he or she is at risk for an
STI. Remember that it is quite possible to be infected with an STI without
knowing it. Some STIs, such as
HIV, can take up to 6 months before they can be
detected in the blood.
Be responsible.
Avoid sexual contact if you have symptoms
of an STI or are being treated for an STI.
Avoid sexual contact
with anyone who has symptoms of an STI or who may have been exposed to an
STI.
Don't have more than one sexual relationship at a time. Your
risk for an STI increases if you have several sex partners at the same
time.
If you or your partner have had several sex partners
within the past year, or you are a man who has unprotected sex with men, talk
to your doctor about screening for gonorrhea and other STIs even if you don't
have symptoms.
Condom use
Condom use reduces the risk of becoming
infected with an STI, especially gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV. Condoms must be
in place before beginning any sexual contact. Use condoms with a new partner
every time you have sex, until you know from test results that he or she does
not have an STI. You can use either
male or female condoms.
Even if you are
using another birth control method to prevent pregnancy, you can use condoms to
reduce your risk of getting an STI. Female condoms are available for women
whose male partners do not have or will not use a male condom.
Home Treatment
There is no home treatment for
gonorrhea. It requires medicine prescribed by a doctor.
Prescription antibiotic medicine normally cures
gonorrhea infections. Gonorrhea does not cause
long-term problems if it is treated before any complications develop. But
gonorrhea can lead to many complications if it is not treated.
If
you have been diagnosed with gonorrhea:
Take the full course of antibiotics as
prescribed by your doctor. If you skip doses or do not complete the treatment,
the infection may not be cured.
Do not have sexual contact with
anyone while you are being treated. If your treatment is a single dose of
antibiotics, wait at least 7 days after taking the dose before having any
sexual contact.
Make sure your partner knows that he or she needs
to be treated even if there are no symptoms. You can spread the infection to
others even if you do not have symptoms.
Call your doctor if your
symptoms continue or reappear after treatment or if new symptoms develop. You
may need a different antibiotic medicine or further tests.
Finding out that you have gonorrhea may cause you to have
negative thoughts or feelings about yourself or about sex. Talking to a
counselor or joining a support group for people who have sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) may be helpful.
Medications
Antibiotics, if taken exactly as directed,
normally cure
gonorrhea infections. If antibiotics are not taken
properly, the infection will not be cured. Prompt antibiotic treatment also
prevents the spread of the infection and decreases complications, such as
pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
Avoid
all sexual contact while you are being treated for a sexually transmitted
infection (STI). People taking a single dose of medicine should not have any
sexual contact for 7 days after treatment to give the medicine time to work.
Exposed sex partners need treatment whether they have symptoms or not.
What to think about
There is an increasing number of strains of gonorrhea that can't be killed by (are resistant to) certain antibiotics. If your doctor finds that your gonorrhea is resistant to
the drug you are taking, he or she might prescribe another antibiotic to cure
the infection. If you continue to have symptoms after you have been treated for
gonorrhea, you will need to be retested with a
gonorrhea culture to find out whether there is
bacterial resistance to the antibiotic you were taking.
Call your
doctor if symptoms continue or new symptoms develop 3 to 4 weeks after
treatment.
Treatment in a hospital with
intravenous (IV) medicines may be needed for women who
have pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and men who have
epididymitis. In many cases, these conditions can be
treated outside of the hospital with oral antibiotics and close follow-up by
your doctor. For more information, see the topic
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.
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PLACENTIA – The Yorba Linda Water District board on Thursday held firm in maintaining a $25 monthly water-rate increase.
Nearly 300 people packed the board room and filled the lobby holding signs that read, “Do the right thing. Rescind the rates!”
More than 40 customers expressed their opposition to the increase that went into effect Oct. 1.
District officials say a rate increase is necessary because water conservation mandated by the state during the next year would result in a projected $9 million loss in revenue and district reserves would empty by 2018. The district serves most of Yorba Linda and parts of Placentia and Brea.
The meeting was called after the Yorba Linda Taxpayers Association collected more than 5,500 signatures in an effort to overturn the increase, which was approved by the board Sept. 17. The county Registrar of Voters certified that there was a sufficient number of signatures, which the Taxpayers Association said meant the district had to eliminate the increase or present the issue to voters.
But the board rejected the petition because, according to a staff recommendation, the referendum process is not allowed by the law that applies to the water rate resolution. Those laws are governed by California’s Proposition 218, which deals with local government finance.
“Yorba Linda taxpayers chose the wrong avenue,” Yorba Linda Water District President Ric Collett said.
Jeff Decker, the taxpayers association’s co-founder, said the fight isn’t over.
“We expected it,” Decker said of Thursday’s decision, adding the association will take the next legal steps. “They had a chance to act as leaders, and they acted like bureaucrats.”
Denise Salcido, a part-time college professor who has lived in Yorba Linda for five years, said she was charged the rate increase prior to the effective date of Oct. 1 and asked for an audit to look into the issue.
“We had to cut back, but I’m not seeing anything where you guys are asked to cut back,” Salcido said during a public comment period of the special meeting.
Others also asked the district to look at cutting costs.
“I do believe that we should have a fair, short-term increase,” Marshall Burke said. “You guys need to be transparent.”
Since the increase went into effect, the basic service charge increased to $41.57.
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