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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Saw this sporadically funny movie last night…and felt that there was a much, much funnier movie lurking in there. Uma Thurman plays “G-Girl”, a superheroine who falls in love with a normal guy (Luke Wilson). The relationship falls apart, and that is, as they say, when the fun begins. Don’t get me wrong…there is much genuine hilarity to be had here. But Uma’s twitchy characterization, of a woman who is plagued by the need to continuously save the world, while her personal life falls to pieces, suggests another, deeper, funnier, more honest film lurking in there. It needed to be crazier, more creative visually. The relationship between “G-Girl” and the villain “Professor Bedlam” needed to be tarted up. We NEVER get to see exactly what villainy Bedlam has been up to, and that creates some problems understanding the characters’ reactions to each other. Is he a Lex Luthor type? Does he kill? Or just steal? We need to know that in order to know what to feel about the rest of the film. And we never do. I’m going to give it a “C+” for a few hysterical scenes, and an all-out performance by Thurman. Director Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”) just didn’t have his comic rhythm fully in hand.
Just got back from the Hurston-Wright writing workshop. It was intense, and I wanted to do a core dump of things I saw there, and thoughts I’ve had in the last week.
1) There are a lot of good writers out there. I was blessed to have several of them in my class. In fact, there wasn’t a loser in the bunch, thank God. And one of them…well, one of them might just be a genius. I’m not sure. Hope so…
2) Women outnumbered men by a wide margin. We had high school students from across the country, and all but two of them were girls. They complained that the boys were so quiet…the girls were brash, funny, confident, and kicked butt. This grew into general discussions of black men and women in America…and some of the discussions weren’t fun. You all know that I straddle a fence that can make me unpopular with people who are strongly to the left or right: One, that we as individuals, especially Black American individuals, must take responsibility for our individual fates—there is no one else to do it. Two, that historically, we were indeed screwed over major league big time. I don’t suggest to “just get over it.” I say that if you want to bring your dreams into existence, you must find a way to move forward despite your wounds and pain. Black women have taken point right now—and the reasons are the same reason you see black and Asian women having sex with white men in movies, but you don’t see non-white men having sex with ANYBODY. If you want to know the core difference, look at the Oscars two years ago. Halle Berry got her Oscar for whoring herself to Billy Bob Thornton. Denzel got his for dying in the street like a mad dog. And that, right there, in the secret greasy heart of men, is the secret: we’d like access to all the females of all groups, and we’d like the men of other groups to…well, to crawl away and die. As men and women, we aren’t terribly attractive. As black or white, we’re less attractive still. As human beings, on the other hand, there is hope. As spirits, there is light itself.
3) Was listening to Michael Savage on the radio yesterday. My sister likes him quite a bit. I don’t. But I wanted to give him a chance. He was saying something positive about an Muslim who wrote a book about the silent Muslim majority, and I kinda liked that. Then he got off on Global Warming. He accused Al Gore of lying without being specific about the lies, which bothered me. He then took note of the current heat wave, and said the “left wing media” was scientifically ignorant, and rattled off the dates for all-time hottest days in various states, many of which were before the invention of the internal combustion engine. I had the terrible feeling that his audience was nodding their heads “yup! Lyin’ Liberals!” like little bobble-head dolls. The problem is that all the facts about cyclic weather and solar fluctuations, which anti-Global Warming folks often quote, are covered quite nicely in the works of various climatologists I’ve seen addressing these issues. Those attacking them seem to be speaking to an audience who thinks this is new data. My other problem is that these guys are starting to sound to me like the Tobacco companies, who set an impossibly high standard for “proof” that tobacco (and now second-hand smoke) causes cancer, and then sat back to see who they had conned into accepting an impossible challenge.
4) He also said that the Liberal Media was attacking Israel horribly. I’ve seen a lot fo news shows on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. It may be ignorance on my part, but it seems to me that they are just as likely to show Islamic extremist attacks on Israel. Does anyone out there have an opinion on this?
5) While I was in Washington D.C. I went on an Afro-Centric tour of the city. I vastly enjoyed most of it, especially talk of Benjamin Banneker, an African-American who was integral to the design of Washington D.C. I was grieved, once again, that I had never even heard of him until after I graduated college. On numerous occasions, I’ve had white Conservatives ask me: “why does there need to be Black History? Why isn’t American History enough?” Because any given group will tend to over-state their own contributions, and minimalize the contributions of others. The ONLY way blacks have gotten into the history books is by voting and thinking as a bloc, and forcing the majority group to change. This has been an horrifically slow and painful process, fighting all the way. Whether that :outsider” group is women, gays, blacks, the disabled, the non-Christian, or whatever—don’t stop fighting, and don’t assume you are morally superior to the oppressing group. Blacks, women, gays, and non-Christians, when holding the reins of power, display the same grasping pathologies. The key to freedom is balance and love.
6) While on the tour, I was disturbed when the tour guide brought up that old wive’s tale about Napoleon shooting off the nose of the Sphinx, supposedly offended at the “Negro-ness” of the features. Sigh. Would anyone with knowledge of the slightest actual original documentation on this please stand up? A diary entry? A letter by a soldier at the time? I understand the need to establish a history that includes black people, but when you get your facts wrong, it gives bigots a chance to reject everything else you are saying.
7) I had only Scott Sonnon’s FlowFit 2 to exercise with while I was there. When I first arrived, my body looked pretty carved—I’d been doing Kettlebells, yoga, and FlowFit for my fitness. After a week of just doing 20 minutes of Flowfit, most of my muscle mass was intact, and I was more flexible. My wind had decreased a bit—I’m not advanced at FF2 yet, still working on the coordination and recovery aspect. But I’ll tell you this…Scott has created a graduated path from couch potato to world-class athlete. NO ONE who can do FF2 for twenty minutes, at one rep per minute, would be anything other than a paragon. I kid you not. And because of his brilliant instinctive training methods, it is really more a mental than a physical system. I am seriously impressed, and can only HOPE that one day I’ll do just that. Twenty minutes. Sixty seconds per rep (right now, it takes me about 2 1/2 minutes per rep.) Mother of God. The first Two-Day Path workshop is at the end of September. I’m going to be talking about every aspect of it, working out how we’re going to handle it. This is the One. This is what I’ve been waiting for for three years. It’s going to be fabulous!
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For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had.
After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life.
After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all. | {
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‘I was an idiot’ - road rage driver with children in back seat banned after ‘racing’ Audi
Mark Nally and Neil Kirk have been banned from driving for a year after an incident on the A10 last September. Picture: Norfolk Police Archant
Two men convicted of dangerous driving in a road rage incident - one who had four children in his car - have been banned from the roads for a year.
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Mark Nally and Neil Kirk have been banned from driving for a year after an incident on the A10 last September. Picture: Norfolk Police Mark Nally and Neil Kirk have been banned from driving for a year after an incident on the A10 last September. Picture: Norfolk Police
Norwich Crown Court heard how the drivers of an Audi and Dodge were engaged in a "urination contest" near the Hardwick Roundabout at King's Lynn on September 7 last year.
Mark Nally and Neil Kirk began "brake checking" and overtaking each other on the A10 after Nally, driving the Audi, cut Kirk off on the roundabout.
Kirk, 48, was convicted of dangerous driving on Thursday after a trial, while Nally, 28, pleaded guilty at magistrates court on May 13.
Kirk, a professional driver with more than 1.5m miles under his belt, had four of his six children in the car at the time.
The incident was captured on the dashcam of a driver following the pair, and passed to police.
Nally is seen "deliberately" cutting Kirk off as the lanes merge coming off the roundabout, before Kirk "slams on the brakes".
The pair then attempt to outmanoeuvre each other along the A10, driving into oncoming traffic.
Danielle O'Donovan, prosecuting Kirk at Norwich Crown Court, said the incident was "machismo".
"It is two men muscling each other out," she said. "The sad thing is these are middle-aged men, not 18-year-old boys, behaving like this on the roads."
She said Kirk admitted he had a moment of road rage.
"He does say I was an idiot, I was silly, I had road rage," she said. "He also says he was trying to protect his children. If that was really the driving factor he could have just pulled over.
"It is not driving to a safe standard or defensively. It is a urination contest."
Philip Farr, for Kirk, said he had been driving perfectly normally before the Audi "quite deliberately and aggressively cut him up".
"It is permissible in those circumstances to be angry," he said."The Audi drives right up his rear end. His kids are in the back and they think he has been clipped.
"Next the Audi decides to simply speed off around him into the oncoming traffic, then brake-checking him five times.
"What do you do in those circumstances? Probably the most sensible option is to drop back altogether. The other option is to overtake that car.
"That is what the defendant chose to do. He was not to know that the Audi was going to drive, frankly, like a lunatic.
"This wasn't perhaps his best bit of driving. He has his children in the back of the car and he is plainly guilty of a moment of hot-headedness."
Mr Farr added Kirk had been "living in the car which was the subject of these proceedings for the last eight months".
Judge Andrew Shaw told Kirk: "There is no doubt in my mind you momentarily reacted badly to the provocation of Mr Nally's aggressive driving."
He said he believed this was a "momentary lapse".
"You had your children in your car. They must have been frightened and intimidated."
Kirk, of Southend Road, Hunstanton, was given a conditional discharge and banned from driving for a year.
Nally, of Sluice Road, Wiggenhall St Mary, was given a 12 month community order, banned for a year and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.
After sentencing, PC Ben Hawkins, based at Swaffham, thanked the member of the public who sent in the dashcam footage.
"We will use it and take action if deemed necessary," he said.
"This shows the importance of merge in turn lanes. All of this has happened, and people's lives put at risk, because of people not respecting the rules of the road and not allowing a merge in turn." | {
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Congrats on your Doctorate
My dear Doctor Akka
Big Kudos for your Doctorate in physics
"PHD" - The top academic degree requires lot of Tenacity, Passion and Discipline.
Definitely you must have faced obstacles in laboratory access and Guide support when you shifted to Malaysia. But you utilized the opportunities you had in Malaysia and work around the challenges and came up with flying colors.
Since I was with you when you were doing the MPhil, I know the amount of hard work, dedication, Motivation (tion, tion, tion) you put in for mastering. For PHD!???? My head swirls
Just wondering, After all with MPhil you achieved 100% results in your teaching career.….with PHD? Your students are gonna rock for sure
All the best Akka, for your new career which is going to kick off in couple of Months. 3 Years of sacrifice for your family and Kid is a brave step any women would step back to take. But you did with all your confidence. You will go heights for your stamina and sacrifice
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Touch of Mist Novel
Reena was all set to swallow the entire bottle of tranquilizers not to just drown her sorrows, but to END her life. She took out her high-end cell phone and scrolled down through her contacts in search of any possible guidance. As it was already 2:00 a.m. she was hesitant to seek out help at this late hour. She stood near the window and gaped at the electrified snaky road which seemed to beckon her towards heaven – the ultimate peace. But, on second thought, it seemed as hollow and dark like her life. She dragged herself inside her master bed-room, slid open the wardrobe door and took out a wooden framed photograph, which was taken about 20 years ago. It was a memorable sight of her family, where her dad was giving her a piggyback ride. She caressed the photo lightly and breathed a morose sigh. Crystal tears rolled down her eyes and fell onto the photo frame. She wiped off the droplet that had blurred out her dad’s picture and started wondering, who would wipe her dad’s tears away after her death. Still, her thoughts selfishly and stubbornly remained in favor of her decision to commit suicide.
About Me
Deepika Muthusamy is an enthusiastic, budding fiction writer who is an ‘outdoorsy’ person by nature. Her debut novel ‘Touch of Mist’, which is a fictional love-story, was published in October 2013. She is a Software Techie by profession and she began her career with the IBM. She is also the co-founder of Bangalore Hikers and loves to travel. She has been participating in the TCS 10K Bangalore run, Coimbatore Marathon and Pinkathon 10K run since 2012. | {
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It finally happened. After over a decade of touching myself; using my own hand to bring myself to orgasm, it finally happened. “J” made me cum without me having to touch myself once. It came as a surprise to both of us in the moment, but I have to say, it was quite the relief and hopefully a step in the right direction? It is ironic that it came – no pun intended – only a few days after I talked about my issue here on this blog. Let me take you through this monumental moment in my sex life while it is still fresh in my mind.
It was like any other night, I arrived at “J’s” place and she was waiting for me in the bathtub; naked and covered in suds. I’ll bet you know what happened next. Well don’t think that because you’re wrong, she dried off and we went into the bedroom – quite anti-climatic I know, but I wanted to get you slightly excited before the good bits happen. We had sex quickly and then snuggled our naked bodies together and watched a movie.
When the movie stopped we screwed around on the iPad before things began to get hot and heavy again. We kissed and she rubbed my cock that was quickly growing hard again. Her thighs looked so inviting, so I made my way down the bed and between her legs. I rolled my tongue over her clit before sucking on it. I took my time teasing her clit with my mouth before sliding two fingers inside her; curling against her pink fleshy entrance as she subtly moaned. I continued doing this with her fingers running through my hair and gripping onto either side of my head. She pushed me off but I kept the pressure on her clit with my fingers as she went through the motions of her orgasm.
We actually took another break after this because we were in no rush. While sitting watching television, I felt “J’s” hand wander over to my thigh before gripping onto my shaft. She began stroking me under the blanket until I rolled onto my back. Once on my back, she stroked even faster. It felt good, but still it felt the same as always. She squeezed and massaged my testicles and again it felt amazing as always, but there was no initial inkling that I was going to cum. “J” got an idea and pulled off the blanket to reveal my throbbing cock.
“Let’s try this,” she said.
“J” stood up, she was topless with tight pink underwear; it was a sexy look on her, but I digress. She grabbed a bottle of lube that I had thought we used up prior. Laying back down beside me she drizzled the lube onto my cock. This is where it started to happen; again it was a surprise because “J” had already jerked me off with lube in the past, but no dice.
I’m lying there with “J” stroking me; she switched back and forth from fast paced to a slow pace. At first she wasn’t gripping hard enough, but suddenly she hit a rhythm and I could feel it. I wanted to say something but I was so amazed by what was happening that I focused solely on my possible orgasm. I tried something I hadn’t prior; I tensed up my legs and ass, forcing my cock further outward and gave into the pleasure. I pushed a little, not too hard, just enough to add a bit of force and my god it worked. The stars were aligning and I felt like I was going to cum twice, but that feeling vanished. Then the third time I felt it, “J” worked me up to the point of no return.
“Here it comes,” I said.
Those words must have surprised “J,” but she didn’t miss a beat and it only encouraged her to stroke faster. Everything tensed up and cum shot up my chest; more spilling onto my stomach. She stroked me until every last drop was out; completely draining my balls. Suddenly she burst out laughing and I did as well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her so happy; she was ecstatic to be the first person other than myself to make me cum. I’ve got to say, it is a far better experience having someone else do it for you; being able to relax and feel the rush of pleasure overcome you and brought on by someone else. It was something I never experienced and thought I never would. I was reminded of the first time I came all over again. The challenge has been successfully completed! I feel like I should get “J” a framed certificate or something to acknowledge this accomplishment.
I’m glad I could share this experience with all of you and this is one of the reasons I started this blog; it was for stories and first time experiences. Let’s hope this won’t be the last time and I look forward to sharing many more first with you all soon!
Until next time… Happy Cumming,
Mike
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I actually had that thought too when I read the article. I hope she just does her little recurring bit and than leaves.
I'm not even sure why she'd want to play a lesbian on 'Two and a Half Men?" Not that I have anything against her playing a lesbian per se, but to do it on this show?
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Was she a lesbian on House?
She was offered full time on House and I thought she said no to do broadway or something. So I find it weird she is doing this dead end dying show (just like House) even for 5 episodes and then maybe more. Weird.
They had to have some reason so that she wouldn't sleep with Waldon without Waldon being unsexy or seeing it as a challenge he must accept.
Hopefully that's the only reason and they're not dusting off their yellowed lesbian joke book.
(The book is yellowed, not the lesbians.)
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I figured that it's more of a reset, with her becoming the new "Charlie" charecter. She's going to be playing a lesbian version of Charlie who has "returned home" to connect with her only remaining family.
That would insinuate that she's there to put Kutcher in line, rather than to pick up the slack left behind by that August kid.
Charlie got away with being a letch because he's old, and doesn't know any better.
Jake got away with it to a degree because he's an idiot, and doesn't know any better.
Alan does not get away with it.
Using a lesbian as a sexual predator allows the old white male writers a loophole which affords them to continue using women as interchangeable sex furniture without falling prey to the complication of their hero being regarded publicly as a vile cretin who should know better. | {
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The union movement launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign on Sunday, its biggest in a decade, with the simple message that big business has too much power and that working people must “change the rules” to get better pay and more secure jobs.
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The TV ads created for the Australian Council of Trade Unions have the tagline: “It’s time to change the rules.”
But the expensive and well-planned campaign to appeal to Australian workers hit a snag when billboard company APN Outdoor changed its mind and refused to carry the ads on the back of buses across the east coast capital cities. The ACTU says the creative had been approved by the company, only to be turned down later. APN Outdoor is now run by James Warburton, who hit the headlines when his very short stint as CEO of Network Ten came to an end. The reason given by APN for cancelling the booking was that the ads were “too negative”.
Canberra airport meanwhile said they were too political. “We were disappointed but not surprised that some bookings were cancelled, even after creative materials had been approved,” ACTU chief of staff Ben Davison told Weekly Beast.
“The notion that working people should have the power to negotiate on an even footing with big business is one that does not necessarily sit comfortably with the owners and senior management of some big media businesses.
“All materials carried an authorisation. The AEC guidelines state that when in doubt material should be authorised and we erred on the side of caution.”
In a swipe at the ACTU’s campaign, the Australian reported on Friday that the woman who plays the single mum struggling to make ends meet in the TV ads, is actually a successful actor, corporate trainer and facilitator.
Ballard to worse
Tom Ballard’s Tonightly show may have had the last word this week on the segment on Seven’s Sunrise show that had critics crying racism.
The ABC comedy show created its own panel which called for the “white media pundits” on Sunrise – host Samantha Armytage, Prue McSween and Ben Davis – to be removed from television for their own good. “They’re clearly distressed, probably in danger,” Ballard said echoing the Sunrise panel’s call for Indigenous kids to be removed from their families.
As it happens, by Thursday the entire Hot Topics segment had been removed from Seven’s social media accounts after the network had been defending it all week. Seven says the clip was taken down for for copyright reasons.
We think the widespread condemnation and a complaint to broadcasting authorities from David Shoebridge, Greens MLA in New South Wales, may have had something to do with it. “Armytage made no attempt condemn or rebuke it. No Aboriginal voice was referred to or given prominence in this unbalanced and one-sided ‘debate’,” Shoebridge wrote to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
The Sunrise segment picked up on front-page reports in the major News Corp tabloids. The federal minister quoted by the News Corp papers, David Gillespie told the Guardian he never used the words “white families”. But reporter Natasha Bita and her editor Sam Weir at the Courier Mail told Weekly Beast on Thursday they had still not received a complaint from the minister about the story.
Cake news
The ABC is under so much pressure to be balanced it appears no story is complete without the opposing view, not even a radio feature on a landmark legal case in the US supreme court. A complaint about the excellent Law Report program on Radio National only presenting one perspective has been upheld by ABC’s independent Audience and Consumer Affairs.
“The program featured an interview with James Esseks, a lawyer who acts for the couple at the centre of the ‘Masterpiece cake’ case, currently before the US supreme court. The case is focussed on the right of a baker to refuse to supply a cake to a homosexual wedding. The segment was timely and newsworthy, as the Australian parliament was then debating the passage of the same-sex marriage bill. However, given the degree of contention, the fact that Mr Esseks was a key protagonist for one side of the Masterpiece cake shop case, and the failure of the program to provide further viewpoints or necessary context, the ABC acknowledged that the interview was not in keeping with the ABC’s editorial standards for impartiality and diversity of perspectives.”
Sunday mourning
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lisa Wilkinson in front of a winning portrait of herself painted by artist Peter Smeeth. Ratings for her new Sunday Project show have been sliding. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images
The negative press is growing for Lisa Wilkinson and her new gig at network Ten. Wilkinson was praised late last year for taking a stand and leaving Today after management refused to give her equal pay with her Today co-host Karl Stefanovic. But Nine CEO, Hugh Marks, denied she was a victim of gender-pay disparity. Nine said she didn’t have equal pay with Stefanovic because he had a bigger role. So Wilkinson inked a deal with Ten to co-host The Sunday Project, a strange fit because it’s aiming for a younger demographic.
But the former Nine breakfast star has been dogged by rumours that her exorbitant Ten salary, reportedly $2m, has angered her co-hosts at the Project, including Carrie Bickmore. Now the ratings are coming in and they aren’t good. When she first appeared on the Sunday Project the show attracted 481,000 viewers in the five capital cities but by last Sunday that had dropped to just 227,000 viewers by 6.30pm. By comparison Married at First Sight on her old network had 1.34 million. Wilkinson has been given a second string to her bow in the new role of executive editor of Ten’s yet to launch Ten Daily, a digital news project.
Double bolt
Jacinta Parsons and Sami Shah, host of the ABC radio breakfast show in Melbourne, have been in Andrew Bolt’s firing line. Photograph: ABC
Hardly a week goes by without Andrew Bolt saying something outrageous and we often try to ignore him, but this week we thought it was worth noting his comments about the ABC’s new radio host Sami Shah.
Shah and co-host Jacinta Parsons replaced veteran Red Symonds on Melbourne Radio’s breakfast show this year and as expected the ratings have dropped for their first survey. Bolt blames it all on the ABC’s political correctness and the replacement of a white man with a brown man.
“And at the end of last year Symons was out, replaced by co-hosts Sami Shah and Jacinta Parsons,” Bolt wrote. “The white bloke with an Australian accent was replaced by a brown one with a thick Pakistani accent and by a woman.
“Shah had the leftist views obligatory at the ABC. He hated Donald Trump, abused immigration minister Peter Dutton and tweeted: ‘Make America Go Away.’ Culturally, he fitted in. But professionally he and Parsons fell short.”
Sami Cyclops Was Right Shah (@samishah) By my estimation, we should have had a ratings drop that was much larger. It always happens when you change hosts. Chances are we’ll have a minor drop again before it even looks like it will level off. Then we’ll build up again. That’s how it happens.
Shah responded on Twitter that he wasn’t hired “because I’m brown or I’m Muslim” and that he was an English major from the University of Virginia, had published four books in English, “spent over a decade in print and broadcast (TV & Radio) journalism, and even worked for BBC Radio 4”. | {
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“Entertaining” has become a euphemism for “crap, but with pretty set-pieces": a pleading entreaty offered by sci-fi apologists to save face when discussing yet another underwhelming summer movie we were foolish enough to get excited about.
It becomes an ever weaker descriptor as the years go by, cheapening in value with every genre movie that doesn’t quite work. The rush of excitement when the BBFC card appears on screen deflates quicker and quicker each time, leaving only a distracted internal voice that gnaws on plot holes and wonders when it will all be over.
Sitting through Prometheus last year, and then World War Z and Star Trek earlier this summer, that voice was as loud as popcorn. I began seriously wondering whether satisfying genre movies were even possible anymore or whether – worse yet – my brain was burnt out on effects-driven movies, jaded to spectacle and doomed to overthink any piece of simple fun.
During the full 132 minutes of Pacific Rim, however, I don’t think I actually had any thoughts.
Before a single critical neuron could fire, the film grabbed my mental wrist like the ancient mariner and gruffly set out its pitch with a relentless opening montage. “Here” it said, “is a story about people getting in huge robots to have fights with monsters, and it’s going to be loud”. Leaving no time for me to digest this, it proceeded to launch into the most astonishing fight between a robot and a monster.
Then there was more, and more, and more. The film stuck with its preposterous internal logic with complete attention to detail, and was paced in such a way as to never really leave time for reflection.
Director Guillermo del Toro has spoken with open passion about this ludicrous, ludicrous film. His single-mindedness triumphed in the finished product. Rather than the lumpen, episodic structure so familiar from the design-by-committee approach to blockbusting, Pacific Rim successfully maintained a constant escalation of pitch.
The visual storytelling was superb, with fights choreographed and shot more in the manner of a sports movie than a typical effects-led effort. There was no shaky-cam, no loss of spatial awareness or sense of scale, and no confusing, staccato smash cuts to flailing metal of the kind that the Transformers movies were so rightly pilloried for.
The world of the film was relentlessly imaginative, from the way city streets were built around the skeletons of fallen monsters, to the alien skin parasites collected and sold by black marketeers, right down to the patches and insignia on the uniforms of the heroes (yes, heroes. Pacific Rim is not the kind of film that has ‘protagonists’).
Everything could have been generic and still have contributed to something that was just as marketable, but instead reeked of hours and hours of careful design.
In fact, the only thing to give my suspension of disbelief a wobble was Burn Gorman’s demented parody of a bookish scientist. Even though his role was written with the same level of operatic lunacy as the rest of the film, it felt awkwardly off-the-shelf in a way that nothing else really did.
In general, the human drama in Pacific Rim was inevitably going to be its weak point. But everyone involved could act, and the attempt to tackle real emotion was far enough in advance of the genre standard to make it seem mean-spirited to make a meal of the issue.
Certainly, Idris Elba bellowing “we are cancelling the apocalypse” came pretty close to unpardonably silly, but after two hours of gigatonne punching, that level of cheesiness seemed genuinely necessary in a way that I can’t honestly explain after the fact.
And that is, essentially, where any conversation on this movie ends for me. I can’t necessarily explain how del Toro got away with it, nor do I feel any real need to understand why. I simply really, really enjoyed how it felt to be watching the film. As I understand it, that’s entertainment. | {
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Has there ever been a bigger dick in the history of dicks than Karl Rove? I mean, really.
Rove, on O'Reilly last night, after President Obama's speech at West Point:
It took him 80-some-odd days to do this, it took us 50-some-odd days to remove the Taliban from power after 9/11, and it took him some 80-odd days to say, 'I'm gonna give McChrystal three-quarters of what he requested in order to get done the job I told him to do on March 27.'
Yeah, and you guys did such a bang-up job keeping the Taliban out of power, didn't you, Karl?
There's a special stomach-churning quality to watching the people who created one of history's great clusterf--ks telling the people saddled with the job of cleaning it up that they're doing a crummy job. | {
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There’s nothing left to say. I’ve read every editorial, every FaceBook post, every HuffPo screaming front page rant. I’m done. I’m done with the election, and I’m done even discussing it, or him. He who shall not be named. I had been calling him the apricot barbarian, but you know what? I love apricots, they’re delicious and pretty and when they’re ripe, they smell how I imagine Eden might have smelled, if Eden had been a real place and not just a setting for a fairy tale. Apricots are an incredible fruit, and they don’t deserve the association with that walking pile of shit. No, you know what? That’s an insult to shit, too. How about we call him…Fake-n-Bake Hitler? I have no problem insulting fake tanning, it’s an abhorrent practice, and nothin’s worse than Hitler, so that’s a good moniker. That works. Fake-n-Bake Hitler. Perfect. FBH for short.
Or Tang-Stained Goon? Or Dehydration-Pee-Color Monster? Fanta-Face?
So here I am this fall season, thinking about color, and there it was, the NY Times Magazine. With their food issue article about how the big industrial food companies, think Kraft, M&M Mars, you know, Foodiness, Inc., are all scrambling to find new ways to color their garbage non-food products with natural colors, because all of a sudden, American consumers are freaking out. Not because a Sunkist-Soda-faced demagogue could be our next president, but because all of the shit food they’ve been cramming into their gaping maws has been artificially colored for years, and now the moms of America are calling on the major food corporations to STOP THE MADNESS?
“GET THE BLUE DYE OUT OF OUR KIDS M&M’s and SQUEEZY YOGURT”. They’re DEMANDING that the big food co’s ditch the color, and replace it with natural colors.
Nobody’s demanding that we label GMO’s, or stop dumping raw sewage on our crops as fertilizer, or stop using what accounts to slave labor to harvest our food, or demanding that we clean up the trillions of tons of plastic in the ocean…no. Just give us our blue food, but please make it less chemically so we can feel better about eating shit.
Wait a second, moms of America, NOW you’re upset? You still haven’t figured out that you’re feeding chemical-sugar crap to your children, but are really upset at the big issue of the COLOR of the foods? Yes, the artificial color is terrible, and made from stuff like coal-tar sludge, but like FBH himself, the artificial color is merely the petrochemical-stained surface of a much, much deeper, larger problem. A tremendous problem, a HUGE problem!
The problem of the fact that we CARE so much about what’s in our SHITTY processed junk food, and don’t give a crap about what’s being done to real food. | {
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One reason a lot of people don’t like Extended Events is because the output is in XML. Let’s face it, XML is a pain in the bottom. However, there are a bunch of ways around dealing with the XML data. The first, and easiest, is to ignore it completely and use the Live Data window built into SQL Server Management Studio.
I’ve written about the Live Data window before, and I’ve been using it throughout this series of posts on Extended Events. There’s a lot more to this tool than is immediately apparent. Today, we’re going to explore the basics around this tool
Live Data
There are two easy ways to get the Live Data window open. The first, for any Extended Event session that’s running, you can right click on that session and select “Watch Live Data” from the context menu. That will open the following:
The other way to get at this is to simply open a *.XEL file. You can even open a file that’s live, being actively used. Either way, you get the events on the top and the details on the bottom. That’s it. Easy.
Now, this is one of those places where everyone starts to hate on Extended Events because, frankly, this looks like crap. You have to click on the event in the top to see the details in the bottom. It’s stupid.
So, don’t do that. Instead, as the link above describes, either right click on values in the details and select “Show Column in Table” from the context menu, or, even easier, open the “Choose Columns” window from the tool bar or the “Extended Events” menu choice in SSMS:
Now we can easily customize what we’re looking at so that the Extended Events information is displayed in a pleasing manner:
This is where things get really fun.
Pausing Live Data
If you have opened a file, this is necessary. On the other hand, if you have a live file, or an active session that you’re watching the data from, in order to do some other fun manipulation, we first have to pause the Life Data window.
Now, understand, this is a huge distinction. We’re going to use the tool bar, or the menu, to “Stop Data Feed”. This does not in any way affect the Extended Event session. It keeps running. All we’re doing is disconnecting from the live feed of the data. The tool bar looks like this:
You’re looking for that little red square. Hover over it and you can see what it will do. Clicking on it, stops the data feed. Just remember, this doesn’t stop the Extended Event session. This is a feature, not a bug.
With the data feed stopped, note the change in the tool bar:
We’ve enabled “Grouping” and “Aggregation”. It’s not just that. The Live Data window can now do all sorts of fun things. I’ll cover how the grouping and aggregation works in another blog post. Today, let’s keep things simple.
What if I wanted to quickly see which query had the longest duration?
Easy. I just click on the Duration column in the upper window. It immediately sorts the data ascending. If you want it descending, easy, click again:
Just like that, I’ve got the longest running query for the time frame that the information I have covers.
There’s a ton more that this window can do for you. I’ll cover more in additional blog posts.
If you decide to restart the live data feed, you can, but know that the window will clear to start capturing more data.
EDIT: I should also mention that SSMS remembers the columns that you selected so that the next time you open that session, it looks the same as the last time you had it open.
You Can’t Do That In Profiler
The Profiler gui will let you watch queries, and you can open a file with the gui. However, the gui can’t sort the data. If you want to sort the data, you must export it into a table and then you can run queries against it. The tool simply doesn’t support the functionality we get with Live Data in Extended Events.
Further, if you’re using Profiler to watch live data, understand, that uses a different caching mechanism on your server that can cause problems. This isn’t so of Extended Events. If you pause the live data in Profiler, you’re actually stopping the Trace event completely. As noted above, this is different in Extended Events.
Yes, Extended Events does capture into XML. That doesn’t mean we ever have to touch that XML. Further, because of all the functionality within the Live Data window, we can do some fun stuff with the data, quickly and easily, in ways that you simply can’t in Profiler.
Are there caveats around the Live Data Explorer? Yes. If you have really big files with millions of events, it doesn’t cope well. You can get around this by filtering data (another post for another day). Also, the SSMS gui can behave oddly at times (by oddly, I mean that literally, odd numbered screen magnification behaves weirdly).
However, for a simple way to quickly consume data and do things like identifying the longest running query, this tool is great!
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Dynein arms are oscillating force generators.
Eukaryotic flagella beat rhythmically. Dynein is a protein that powers flagellar motion, and oscillation may be inherent to this protein. Here we determine whether oscillation is a property of dynein arms themselves or whether oscillation requires an intact axoneme, which is the central core of the flagellum and consists of a regular array of microtubules. Using optical trapping nanometry, we measured the force generated by a few dynein arms on an isolated doublet microtubule. When the dynein arms on the doublet microtubule contact a singlet microtubule and are activated by photolysis of caged ATP8, they generate a peak force of approximately 6pN and move the singlet microtubule over the doublet microtubule in a processive manner. The force and displacement oscillate with a peak-to-peak force and amplitude of approximately 2 pN and approximately 30 nm, respectively. The geometry of the interaction indicates that very few (possibly one) dynein arms are needed to generate the oscillation. The maximum frequency of the oscillation at 0.75 mM ATP is approximately 70 Hz; this frequency decreases as the ATP concentration decreases. A similar oscillatory force is also generated by inner dynein arms alone on doublet microtubules that are depleted of outer dynein arms. The oscillation of the dynein arm may be a basic mechanism underlying flagellar beating. | {
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A while back, I published an article about an East-Indian girl (super sexy and in her early 20’s) whom I’d picked up on Facebook and subsequently f-closed.
What was interesting is that she had over 300 unread messages in her inbox.
Those messages had piled up over the course of days.
She would open the message and skim the guy’s opener then move on once she surmises that it’s so lame-generic shit. So after opening and barely reading over 300 messages, within a matter of 2-3 days, her inbox would’ve been inundated once more with about 350 new messages…and the cycle perpetuates itself.
With all those messages to deal with, how can a guy separate himself from the pack of AFC losers?
Well- firstly- one has to separate himself from the pack of clueless Omegas and Beta-Males, in order to be noticed.
Before I get into it, I just want to point out that my messages are RARELY ever (blatantly) ignored by the women I message.
Even if a girl doesn’t like me, and she’s repulsed by my vibe and my opener (ice-breaker); she’s bound to respond, even if just to state her repulsion and disgust for me. 🙂
Most guys on the other hand, don’t even get the courtesy of having their initial message replied to.
Why not?
Their ice-breaker/opener comes off as:
•Lame
•Boring
•Generic
•Dis-interesting
All of which are synonyms, all of which strikes no reaction within the girl in order to force reciprocation.
Hence, why do your messages go unanswered?
They are fucking lame!
Plain and simple!
I have a theory about this, thanks to the pick-up coach, Todd Valentine: I’d rather get a negative response from the girl, than to get no response at all.
Capiche?
This is why 90% of my openers (online) are either: polarizing, pushy, forward or humorous.
Messages structured that way, almost demand a response from the girl.
Thus, that is how you separate yourself from the 500 losers and become that 1 guy who stands out.
Your initial message must somewhat shock the girl in order to get her attention! Or else, it (your message) just gets buried with the rest of the guy’s messages that don’t spark her interest.
When gaming hot girls on social media, this concept applies even greater.
Your average run-of-the-mill Jane still requires an attention-grabbing text which piques her curiosity. | {
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The inevitable is happening; the Rainbow Coalition, always a myth anyway, and based solely on hating whitey, is falling apart. It’s inevitable since high IQ and high achieving Asians, especially Chinese, have no common interests with low IQ and low achieving blacks. Even more so since blacks are waging a race war
My blog has long documented this race war (which most white and Asian Democrats deny) even though the war is being waged in Democrat cities. Additionally, there is a non-violent war on Asians is being waged especially in university admissions, all to benefit blacks and Hispanics.
But nothing has captured the attention of Asians so much, and brought them into the streets, as the persecution of Officer Peter Liang, who was involved in a shooting in New York City. He accidentally shot a suspicious black man lurking in the stairwell of a high crime welfare housing project. The shooting was clearly accidental, but as in the case of a white police officer, Johannes Mehserle, who accidentally shot the thug Oscar Grant, a ceremonial victim must be produced for the wailing mobs of black thugs.
However, Chinese-Americans and Chinese immigrants appear to not take this lying down. Undoubtedly they are maddened by the previous shooting by a black terrorist thug motivated by #BlackLivesMatter terrorists, the murder of Wenjian Liu.
10,000 rally in New York to support former Chinese American cop Peter Liang, Asia Times, February 20, 2016 Nearly 10,000 protesters — most of them outraged Asian Americans — rallied in Brooklyn Saturday in support of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, charging the rookie cop was a scapegoat for critics of police brutality and was wrongly prosecuted for a tragic accident. The protesters, many waving American flags, are carrying signs that say things like, “No selective jury,” and placards displaying Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” They are also handing out petitions demanding a judge “set aside the illogical verdict handed down by the jury” or sentence the convicted cop to probation only. Liang, 28, faces as much as 5 to 15 years in prison after he was convicted Feb. 11 on manslaughter and official-misconduct charges for the November 2014 shooting of 28-year-old Akai Gurley in a stairwell of the Louis Pink Houses in East New York. Liang fired his weapon while conducting a vertical patrol in the darkened stairwell. The bullet ricocheted off a cinder-block wall and fatally struck the unarmed Gurley in the chest.
#BlackLivesMatters types have been braying for Liang's head, and they got what they want. However, it appears that blacks chose the wrong victim, an alleged member of their Rainbow Coalition. This is similar to the attacks on the innocent Hispanic State Trooper in Texas, Brian T. Encinia , who was charged and fired for arresting the crazy and suicidal Sandra Bland only because Bland was black.
Blacks seen intent on attacking their fellow Rainbow Coalition members. The low intelligence of blacks keeps them from realizing that Asians and Hispanics outnumber them and are higher achievers. Probably the same reason black politicians vote for more and more immigration, but are intent on attacking those same people.
The good news is that Asians are realizing that they are the targets of black crime and racism, but more importantly, their racial interests intersect with whites, not blacks. Is there hope for an Ice People coalition? One hopes. | {
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Introduction
============
Gastric cancer is one of the most common digestive tract malignancies worldwide, and surgical resection is the only therapeutic modality for cure.[@b1-ott-9-6795] The resection method includes total gastrectomy (TG) and subtotal gastrectomy (SG). Since Billroth performed the first SG in 1881 and Schlatter the first TG in 1897, the best surgical procedure for adenocarcinoma of the distal stomach has been a subject of debate for more than a century.[@b2-ott-9-6795]--[@b4-ott-9-6795]
The routine use of TG was accepted for three main reasons:[@b5-ott-9-6795]--[@b7-ott-9-6795] 1) TG could reduce the likelihood of recurrence due to possible inadequate lymph nodes removal; 2) it could remove all multicentric carcinoma foci in the gastric remnant; and 3) it could eliminate the risk of metachronous adenocarcinoma that may develop in the gastric remnant. Additionally, some studies demonstrated that TG was preferable to SG, because patients treated with TG had longer 5-year survival than patients treated with SG.[@b8-ott-9-6795]--[@b10-ott-9-6795] On the other hand, advocates of SG claimed that routine use of TG increased operative morbidity and hospital mortality, and had no advantage over SG in terms of 5-year oncological results.[@b11-ott-9-6795]--[@b13-ott-9-6795]
The debate over the type of curative resection for distal gastric cancer based on a number of retrospective published studies, and patients' criteria of eligibility were different. Therefore, with respect to the trials comparing TG versus SG, well-designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are necessary. Until now, only a few RCTs[@b3-ott-9-6795],[@b8-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795],[@b15-ott-9-6795] have reported the data on the short- and long-term outcomes of TG for distal gastric cancer in comparison to SG, and the results reported in these RCTs were discordant.
Therefore, a more precise estimation of the outcomes of TG in comparison to SG is necessary. To our knowledge, there is no meta-analysis of the evidence gathered from the outcomes of TG and SG surgery for distal gastric cancer. This meta-analysis may give the answer in terms of the best available scientific evidence to date. The postoperative complication rate, anastomotic fistula rate, hospital mortality rate, mortality rate of recurrence, and 5-year survival rate of TG in comparison to SG were estimated in this study.
Methods
=======
Search strategy
---------------
The electronic literature searches were conducted using Cochrane and PubMed (updated on April 10, 2016). Search terms included: "total gastrectomy", "subtotal gastrectomy", "gastric cancer", and "Randomized controlled trials". All titles, abstracts, and full-text articles were evaluated by two reviewers independently. To be eligible, the studies had to meet the following criteria: 1) RCTs of any size that investigated TG versus SG in patients with cancer in distal stomach; 2) reported on relevant short- or long-term outcomes of trial; and 3) published in peer-reviewed journals in English language.
Data extraction
---------------
The data extraction and critical appraisal from all the eligible studies was carried out independently by two investigators. The following variables were extracted from the included studies if available: first author's name, publication year, the number of patients in TG and SG groups, overall complication rate of the two groups, anastomotic fistula rate of the two groups, mortality rate of the two groups, mortality rate of recurrence of the two groups, and 5-year survival rate of the two groups. The extracted data were discussed until consensus was achieved.
Statistical analysis
--------------------
The odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to assess all outcomes.[@b13-ott-9-6795] We assessed the heterogeneity between studies by using the Q statistic, which indicates the presence of heterogeneity when *P*\<0.10. If the results of studies had no heterogeneity, the fixed-effects model (the Mantel--Haenszel method) was used to calculate the pooled ORs. Otherwise, a random-effects model (the DerSimonian and Laird method) was used for meta-analysis. Statistical significance was considered when *P*\<0.05. All statistical analyses were conducted using the Review Manager version 5.1.6 (Cochrane Collaboration, Oxford, UK) software package.
Results
=======
Description of eligible trials
------------------------------
Six clinical trials[@b8-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795]--[@b18-ott-9-6795] published in four articles were considered suitable for this meta-analysis. The study size in two RCTs from Europe was larger than 100 patients except for the Asian trial (including 54 patients). All trials reported an appropriated method of randomization. None of the studies reported the method of blinding. Six studies contained 1,364 pooled patients, of whom 573 were allocated to the TG group, 791 to the SG group. The detailed information of each included study is shown in [Table 1](#t1-ott-9-6795){ref-type="table"}.
The patients were excluded from the study if: 1) curative resection could not be performed and thus conservative surgery was performed; 2) curative resection could not be performed for macroscopic lymph node involvement of the cardioesophageal junction or splenopancreatic region; 3) linitis plastica; 4) lymphoma; 5) suspected superficial carcinoma; and 6) patients with heart failure, renal insufficiency, severe diabetes or arteritis, obesity (\>20% of normal body weight), recent myocardial infarction, and liver cirrhosis, patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery, and patients who died within 30 days after surgery. The inclusion criteria were: 1) cancer of the distal half of the stomach; 2) absence of hepatic or peritoneal spread of the tumor or metastatic deposits in the third nodal level, according to the Japanese classification; and 3) absence of unresectable infiltration of contiguous organs.
The reconstructive methods vary from trial to trial. In Gouzi's paper, TG repair was performed by a standard Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy.[@b8-ott-9-6795] Reconstruction of SG was performed by a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy. Whereas, Robertson et al[@b14-ott-9-6795] restored the intestinal continuity by an end-to-side esophagojejunostomy, using a circular stapler, with a 40 cm jejunal Roux limb.
Pooled efficacy of TG versus SG
-------------------------------
Six clinical trials containing 1,364 patients (TG =573, SG =791) were analyzed. Compared with patients in the SG group, patients in the TG group did not show a higher rate of postoperative complications (OR: 1.46, 95% CI: 0.71--3.03, *P*=0.30) ([Figure 1](#f1-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}). However, patients in the TG group showed a significantly higher rate of anastomotic fistula than patients in the SG group (OR: 3.78, 95% CI: 1.97--7.27, *P*\<0.0001) ([Figure 2](#f2-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}). Furthermore, there was no significant difference in the hospital mortality rate between the two groups (OR: 1.80, 95% CI: 0.85--3.78, *P*=0.12) ([Figure 3](#f3-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}). Importantly, there was no significant difference in the 5-year survival between the two groups (OR: 0.68, 95% CI: 0.39--1.19, *P*=0.18) ([Figure 4](#f4-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}).
Mortality rate of recurrence, which was analyzed in three trials[@b14-ott-9-6795],[@b15-ott-9-6795],[@b18-ott-9-6795] that included 803 pooled patients, of whom 396 TG versus 407 SG patients, showed a significantly higher rate in the TG group (OR: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.01--0.13, *P*=0.03) ([Figure 5](#f5-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}), with no between-study heterogeneity (*P*=0.14, *I*^2^=49%) ([Figure 5](#f5-ott-9-6795){ref-type="fig"}). The detailed information of the pooled data is shown in [Table 2](#t2-ott-9-6795){ref-type="table"}.
Discussion
==========
Six trials[@b8-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795]--[@b18-ott-9-6795] have been undertaken to investigate the issues of efficacy and drawbacks of TG versus SG. This meta-analysis showed that the anastomotic fistula rate and mortality rate of recurrence was higher in the TG group than the SG group. In addition, there was no difference in postoperative complication rate, hospital mortality rate, and 5-year survival rate between TG and SG groups.
Both TG and SG are surgical procedures performed with curative intent. These two surgical procedures are quite effective curative treatments, but also bring a great number of postoperative complications, which include surgical and nonsurgical complications. Two RCTs from Hong Kong[@b14-ott-9-6795] and Italy[@b15-ott-9-6795] revealed that the risk of postoperative complications was found to be higher in the TG group than the SG group. But RCTs from France[@b8-ott-9-6795] and Italy[@b16-ott-9-6795] demonstrated that TG did not increase postoperative complications in comparison with SG. Our meta-analysis showed that there was no significant difference in postoperative complications between the TG and SG groups. The preoperative criteria of eligibility, which excluded patients in poor condition from randomization, might explain the lack of significant differences between TG and SG.[@b15-ott-9-6795]
Anastomotic fistula rate was reported in three trials. The pooled data revealed a statistically significantly higher anastomotic fistula rate in the TG group. In the Hong Kong trial led by Robertson et al,[@b14-ott-9-6795] three anastomotic fistulae were recorded in the TG group, which were at oesophagojejunal junction. In the French trial led by Gouzi et al,[@b8-ott-9-6795] 12 anastomotic fistulae were recorded, of which 7 were in the TG group and 5 in SG group. In Italy, in a trial by De Manzoni et al,[@b16-ott-9-6795] three anastomotic fistulae were recorded, of which one was recorded in the TG group and two in the SG group, and the total numbers of two groups were 40 and 77, respectively. All these anastomotic fistulae were managed conservatively with nutritional support with favorable outcome.[@b8-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795] In the Italian trial led by Bozzetti et al,[@b15-ott-9-6795] 22 anastomotic fistulae were recorded, of which 17 were in the TG and 5 in the SG groups. However, this trial did not provide any information about treatment. According to Gouzi and Robertson, the procedure of TG is more complicated and time consuming. Otherwise, compared to TG, the reconstructive method of SG reflected richer blood supply to the stomach. Large clinical trials should be conducted to confirm this finding about significant difference in anastomotic fistula rate between TG and SG.
There was no significant difference of hospital mortality rate between the two groups in all the trials, although TG surgical procedure was prolonged and more complex.
All trials have revealed that there was a significantly higher mortality rate in the TG group compared with the SG group. Lower mortality rate of recurrence was probably related to the criteria of these two procedures. In addition, high mortality rate in patients undergoing resection of the stomach was usually related to anastomotic fistula.[@b8-ott-9-6795] However, all patients who suffered from anastomotic fistula in two RCTs from Hong Kong and France were medically treated and healed without mortality.[@b8-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795] Fatal complications may increase the mortality rate, but the proportion of fatal complications in the RCT from Italy was not significantly different between the TG and SG groups.[@b15-ott-9-6795] Therefore, the pooled results showed that mortality rates in TG and SG groups were not statistically significantly different, although pooled data showed a statistically significant higher anastomotic fistula rate in the TG group compared with the SG group.
Recurrence rate was not reported in both TG and SG groups. Mortality rate of recurrence in both surgical procedures was reported in two RCTs.[@b3-ott-9-6795],[@b14-ott-9-6795] Our meta-analysis showed statistically significant lower mortality rate of recurrence in the SG group than the TG group. To our knowledge, the TG group has shown higher 5-year survival rate than the SG group in two retrospective studies.[@b9-ott-9-6795],[@b10-ott-9-6795] However, this difference has not been observed in all trials. In contrast, the RCT from Hong Kong[@b14-ott-9-6795] showed that overall survival was significantly better in the SG than the TG group (median survival, 1,511 vs 922 days, *P*\<0.05). For these inconsistent conclusions, it is possible that some unknown prognostic factors were not balanced between the TG and SG groups. In the present meta-analysis, no significant difference in 5-year survival was observed between the TG and SG groups. However, even early gastric cancer was associated with a high frequency of second primaries.[@b19-ott-9-6795] Therefore Bozzetti et al[@b3-ott-9-6795],[@b15-ott-9-6795] suggested that with respect to the procedure of choice for distal gastric cancer, TG should not be rejected in principle.
On the other hand, there are several limitations in this meta-analysis. First, limited number of patients with cancer of the middle one-third of the stomach were randomized to either a TG or a SG group, although a majority of patients in the Italian trial had cancer of the antrum. Second, the SG group with D1 lymphadenectomy was not in line with the TG group with D2 lymphadenectomy in the Hong Kong trial. Third, the inclusion of studies published only in English is another potential limitation of this analysis. Fourth, only two trials mentioned the reconstructive method, so it is hard to assess whether or not the reconstructive method influences the prognosis. Finally, only four RCTs were conducted in the 1990s in some countries, and the sample is small. Further well-designed randomized clinical trials with larger sample size are still needed to get a more precise estimation of the efficacy and drawbacks of TG versus SG for distal gastric cancer.
In conclusion, the present study suggested that postoperative complication rate, mortality rate, and 5-year survival rate in the TG group were similar to that in the SG group. Furthermore, SG was associated with significantly less anastomotic fistula and lower mortality rate of recurrence compared with TG. Therefore, this study demonstrated that TG is not superior to SG. Further well-designed randomized clinical trials with larger sample size are still needed to get a more precise estimation of the short- and long-term results of TG for distal gastric cancer in comparison to SG.
This project was sponsored by the grants from National Science Foundation of China (81372828) and Scientific Research Fund Project of Introduction of Talents of The Yijishan Hospital Affiliated to Wannan Medical College (YR201305).
**Author contributions**
Conception and design: MHW and YSZ. Furthermore, MHW takes full responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Acquisition, compilation, and interpretation of the data: NZY and LLK; LHS and GHZ were responsible for statistical analysis of this article, including writing R codes, interpretation of the results, and computer output of the data. All authors were involved in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content and have given final approval for the version to be published. Furthermore, all authors have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for its content.
**Disclosure**
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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Characteristics of included studies
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Authors Year Country Patients (N) Design Randomization Blinding
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Gouzi et al[@b8-ott-9-6795] 1989 France SG:93\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:76
Robertson et al[@b14-ott-9-6795] 1994 People's Republic of China SG:25\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:29
Bozzetti et al[@b3-ott-9-6795],[@b15-ott-9-6795] 1997, 1999 Italy SG:320\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:304
De Manzoni et al[@b16-ott-9-6795] 2003 Italy SG:77\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:40
Lee et al[@b18-ott-9-6795] 2010 Korea SG:62\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:63
Park et al[@b17-ott-9-6795] 2014 Korea SG:214\ RCT Adequate Not stated
TG:61
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**Abbreviations:** N, numbers; RCT, randomized controlled trial; SG, subtotal gastrectomy; TG, total gastrectomy.
######
Summary statistics of pooled data comparing total gastrectomy versus subtotal gastrectomy
Outcome variables OR (95% CI) Test for overall effect Test for heterogeneity
------------------------------ ------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------ ------ ------ -----
Complication 1.46 (0.71, 3.02) 1.03 0.30 8.18 0.04 63%
Anastomotic fistula 3.78 (1.97, 7.27) 4.00 \<0.0001 5.71 0.13 47%
Hospital mortality 1.80 (0.85, 3.78) 1.54 0.12 2.35 0.67 0%
Mortality rate of recurrence 0.07 (0.01, 0.13) 2.21 0.03 3.91 0.14 49%
Five-year survival 0.68 (0.39, 1.19) 1.35 0.18 9.34 0.03 68%
**Abbreviations:** CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.
[^1]: These authors contributed equally to this work
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* (c) Fabien Potencier <[email protected]>
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When Ecuadorean officials announced last month that they had raised the $100 million needed this year to guarantee an innovative crude-for-conservation program, it sparked accusations of creative accounting and led to speculation about where the money was coming from.
At issue is a proposal to leave more than 900 million barrels worth of oil beneath Yasuní National Park if the international community will cover the revenue shortfall.
This week, the Huffington Post set off a firestorm by suggesting that Chevron was trying to duck an $18 billion judgment against it in Ecuador in exchange for funding the Yasuní-ITT initiative.
According to the article written by Amazon Watch activist Mitch Anderson, Chevron was willing to pay $500 million into the Yasuní Trust Fund and give the Ecuadorean government an equal amount for clean-up efforts. In exchange, it wanted the government to dismiss the lawsuit it’s facing for failing to properly remediate the oil fields left behind by its predecessor.
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History of Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college and "little university" located in Middletown, Connecticut. The now secular institution was founded in 1831 as an all-male Methodist college.
Historian David B. Potts divides the history of Wesleyan into four periods. According to Potts, from its founding until 1870, Wesleyan was a "local evangelical enterprise", an amalgam of local financing and Methodist sponsorship. From 1870 to 1910, it was a "decidedly Methodist" institution. It evolved away from its specifically Methodist character and from 1910 to 1962 was one of many prestigious New England liberal arts colleges. (Ties to Methodism were formally broken in 1937.) Since 1962, capitalizing on the success of its endowment in the prior decade, it began a transformation into a "little university".
Founding
Wesleyan was founded by Methodist leaders and prominent residents of Middletown, and was the first academic institution to be named after John Wesley, the Protestant theologian who was the founder of Methodism. Although sponsored by the Methodist conference, under the leadership of the first President Wilbur Fisk (also written as Willbur Fisk) the college did not have a denominational requirement for admission and in addition to seminarian studies it had an innovative curriculum including electives and modern languages. Fisk also traveled to Europe during his presidency to purchase books and scientific equipment, including one of the first telescopes at a college or university, which is currently conserved at Wesleyan's Van Vleck Observatory. Wesleyan remained a leader in educational progress throughout its history, and erected the first building dedicated to the sciences on any American college campus, Judd Hall. It also has always maintained a much larger library collection than a comparable institution its size.
The campus predates the college. Several prominent citizens of Middletown sought to have a college on High Street, and by subscription raised the funds to build two buildings, today's South College, and the original North College, a Nassau Hall-type building. The first occupant of the buildings was Captain Alden Partridge's American Literary, Scientific, & Military Academy in 1825. That institution had a checkered career and became a center of controversy. In 1829, the military academy moved back to Norwich, Vermont when the Connecticut legislature declined to charter it to grant college degrees, and it later became Norwich University. Afterward, the Methodist Church agreed to buy the vacant campus, then consisting of five buildings, North College, South College, a dormitory that extended across the current campus to High Street, Webb Hall and President's House, (now the Latin American Studies Center).
In the 1840s, Wesleyan was already beginning to make a reputation for itself both for the abolitionist sentiments of its students, and with their ongoing association with the Transcendentalist movement. Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Orestes Brownson were brought to the campus by the student literary societies, especially the Mystical 7. As national affairs moved closer to war, Wesleyan was put in a more awkward position than many other New England colleges; the Methodist Church was very strong in the South, and a significant number of students were from Southern states. These links were severed after 1861. Not every alumnus who served in the Civil War fought for the Union.
The "decidedly Methodist" era
In 1872, the University became one of the first U.S. colleges to experiment with coeducation by allowing a small number of female students to attend, a venture then known as the "Wesleyan Experiment". Because of the preponderance of female students preparing for college in that period, some of Wesleyan's alumni believed that opening the door to coeducation would eventually result in the student body becoming entirely female. Given that concern, Wesleyan ceased to admit women, and from 1912 to 1970 Wesleyan operated again as an all-male college. Wesleyan's decision to stop admitting women subsequently helped lead to the establishment of all-female Connecticut College in nearby New London, founded by Wesleyan alumnae in 1911.
In the days before the invention of the forward pass, Wesleyan was a leader in the development of football as a college sport. For a little more than a decade, Wesleyan fielded teams that played against Yale, Michigan, and Harvard. However these much larger schools eventually were able to far outstrip Wesleyan, and one game, where Wesleyan lost 136 to 0 to Yale (still a record loss in the Northeast), proved that Wesleyan could no longer compete at that level. However, in their only meeting in history in 1883, Wesleyan beat Michigan 14-6.
As detailed by David Potts in his history of Wesleyan, the last decades of the nineteenth century were crucial for Wesleyan. Wesleyan developed the patronage of several prominent families in New York City, (Harriman, Andrus, and to a lesser extent, Vanderbilt), and the institutional ties to those groups markedly increased, while that of the Methodist Church decreased. At the same time, Wesleyan went from being a colorful but minor sectarian educational center to being a well-connected New England college.
Two of the leading faculty members of the period were William North Rice and Caleb T. Winchester. Rice was hired after his graduation in 1865 as the university librarian, and later became a Professor of Mathematics and Geology. In his 51 years on the faculty, he also taught every other subject as needed on an interim basis. His greatest professional success was in his contributions toward completing the first geological survey of Connecticut. He was also named an acting President of the university between two administrations. Some of his carefully hand-written library cards were still in use in the library card catalog until it was retired in the 1990s. Caleb T. Winchester was a Professor of English Literature who began his 50-year career at Wesleyan a year after Rice's. His senior year seminar on 'The English Essayists' won him national attention, and Sir Walter A. Raleigh wryly remarked after his tour of America that Winchester was the only educated American he had met.
Wilbur Olin Atwater, a professor of Chemistry and director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, conducted pioneering tests in human metabolism in the new campus laboratory, the John Bell Scott Memorial, and his work shows the heightened presence of the sciences at Wesleyan in this period compared to some of its peer institutions.
There was a minor building boom on campus in the years just after the turn of the century, which included Fayerweather Gymnasium, (1898), Fisk Hall, (1903), the John Bell Scott Memorial, (1904), Alpha Delta Phi, (1906), Eclectic, (1907). The Van Vleck Observatory, Clark Hall, and the Tomb of the Skull & Serpent Society were designed at this time by the architect Henry Bacon, as was the Hall of the Eclectic Society. Later, starting in the mid-1920s, the Johnstone Quadrangle was created, including Olin Memorial Library, Harriman Hall, Shanklin Hall, and the Hall Chemistry Laboratories. This series of buildings was all designed by the well-known firm of McKim, Mead & White. The completion of these two episodes of building finished the core of the campus and gave Wesleyan its basic layout through to today (although Shanklin Hall is currently threatened with demolition).
From the 1890s until World War II, Wesleyan men were probably most famous for their singing. There were many singing groups and a full men's chorus. There were various tours of singing groups through the early days of radio and especially in the 1920s. At that time, Wesleyan was best known as "The Singing University." Perhaps a culmination of this was a live radio performance at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Woodrow Wilson taught history and political economy at Wesleyan from 1888 to 1890. Before Wesleyan, Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr, where he felt "overworked, underpaid, and much less than enthusiastic about the higher education of women". At Wesleyan, Wilson published, The State, a study of comparative government. This work won him tenure at the University.
In 1909, then U.S. President William Howard Taft and U.S. Vice President James S. Sherman were two of the principal speakers (along with the president of the Wesleyan student body, Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and U.S. Senator and future Nobel Laureate Elihu Root) at the inauguration of William Arnold Shanklin as the ninth president of Wesleyan.
List of Wesleyan Presidents
The secular era
Wesleyan severed its ties with the Methodist Church in 1937. In a further move towards a secular positioning of its academic focus, the administration ceased to define the curriculum as Christian in the 1960s, and also eliminated compulsory chapel at the same time. Today, many regard Wesleyan as a haven for counter-culture intellectuals, social progressives, and political activists.
During World War II, as college-aged men volunteered or were drafted to fight overseas, Wesleyan's enrollment was supplemented by the presence on campus of both the U.S. Navy V-12 officer training program and the U.S. Naval V-5 Flight Preparatory School, which allowed the University to remain open.
In the mid-1950s, Wesleyan, under the presidency of Victor Lloyd Butterfield, began an ambitious program to reorganize itself into seven residential colleges. Three buildings were built as one complex west of the campus, and three more as a complex to the south of the campus. The programs were never fully developed, but the buildings of the residential colleges still serve as the Foss Hill and Butterfield dormitories. Two colleges still remain as academic programs: the College of Letters (COL) and the College of Social Studies (CSS); although they are not true colleges and do not have residential facilities or resident scholars. Nevertheless, both are considered exceptionally intensive study programs and are considered excellent preparation for later graduate work. Fund raising proved highly effective and by 1960 Wesleyan had the largest endowment, per student, of any college or university in America, and a student-faculty ratio of 7:1.<ref>Albert E. Van Dusen, Connecticut" (1961) p 365</ref>
In 1956 Wesleyan attempted to acquire much of the property of Long Lane School, the state juvenile correctional facility, to expand its campus. By 1957 the university canceled the deal as the cost to acquire the land would be too great; instead the university acquired other property.
The composer John Cage was affiliated with Wesleyan from the 1950s until his death in 1993. Cage collaborated with members of the Wesleyan music faculty, composed and performed on campus, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in 1960–61 and 1969–70. Several of his books were published by the Wesleyan University Press.
On June 7, 1964, The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the baccalaureate service from Denison Terrace and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. King spoke at the University on four other occasions at campus rallies, church services, and colloquia. A number of Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students were active with Dr. King in the civil rights movement.
The student body became prominent in the political and counter-culture movement of the 1960s and '70s. In the tumultuous spring of 1970, which saw the Bobby Seale murder case in nearby New Haven, Connecticut and the killings at Kent State, Wesleyan undergraduates played a central role in organizing a nationwide boycott of classes. The college was closed down early for the summer as many students canvassed the community to protest racism and the Vietnam War, but not before the Grateful Dead played a free open-air concert in the middle of Andrus Field (on May 3, 1970.){fact}
Wesleyan was one of the first highly selective schools to actively recruit black and other minority students, and in the class entering in 1965 had the first substantial group of minority students, 14 young men—13 blacks and one Latino. In ensuing years, much press attention was directed to race relations at Wesleyan, leading to a much publicized 1968 article in the New York Times Magazine entitled "Two Nations at Wesleyan" which used a photo of a round table at which 8 black students were seated to argue that blacks and whites did not eat together or interact otherwise. Students responded that the article ignored the photo of an adjacent table at which four black and four white students were seated.
In the 1990s Weslayan chose to pay $15 million to purchase the Long Lane campus to avoid having a facility with an obvious prison appearance on the boundary of the university, as the state was planning to erect a security fence; area residents disliked the perception of favoritism towards the university.
Wesleyan owns a publishing concern, Wesleyan University Press. For several decades a division of the Press, American Educational Publications, produced a series called My Weekly Reader which was a subscription service to elementary schools used across the country. It was sold in 1965 to Xerox Corporation for 400,000 shares of Xerox stock worth $56 million. The sale of AEP helped to finance Wesleyan's graduate programs and the Center for Advanced Study (now the Center for the Humanities). The sale of AEP marked Wesleyan's entry into the stock market, and the next year in 1966, Edwin Deacon Etherington, president of the American Stock Exchange, was named president of the college. Wesleyan since that time has been investing its endowment, with various degrees of success. Wesleyan's endowment more than doubled from 1995 to 2005. At of the end of fiscal year 2008, it was worth approximately $720,000,000.
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I wanted to make an album that hopefully speaks to the issues of the day, many of which, sadly, are issues we have been dealing with since the beginning of time. Most of what I think about right now is how so many things in the world are SO fucked up- our political system is broken and corrupt...our earth is being destroyed by climate change...people are not treating each other with equality and respect... and I think- are we going to make it? Are we going to figure it out and fix it before it’s too late? Can we ever truly open our hearts and embrace love in all its beautiful forms? I think it’s still possible. I still have hope in humanity. I’m just trying to be a part of the discussion and encourage people to speak out for equality, to not be afraid to speak out for peace and love. All of us feel afraid at times in these absolutely insane times, but its important we speak our minds, cast our votes, and do not give in to fear and hatred. | {
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Robert G. Card
Robert Gordon Card (born February 1953) is the former CEO of SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest engineering and construction firm and the builder of many iconic projects worldwide.
Early life, family and education
Card was born to engineer and farmer Brad and Dorothy Card in California, but grew up on a farm in Yakima, Washington. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington and Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Stanford. His spouse, Nancy, is also an engineer and after she obtained her MBA from Harvard, he followed her there to complete the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.
Career
CH2M Hill
Card's career began in the summer of 1975 as an intern at CH2M Hill, where he became a Group CEO, board member and the largest shareholder of the Denver, Colorado-based global engineering firm. At CH2M Hill, he was the sponsoring executive and deputy project director for the delivery partner for the London 2012 Olympics.
United States Department of Energy
From 2001 to 2004, Card served as the Under Secretary of Energy in the United States Department of Energy, where he was responsible for the Department's energy, environment and science portfolios with an annual budget of $14 billion and 65,000 federal and contractor employees. This tenure saw what was at the time record funding for renewable and carbon-free energy and research, accelerated progress in the environmental remediation of the Department's legacy sites and the completion of the original Human Genome Project, setting the stage for the next wave of major science projects.
SNC-Lavalin
From October 2012 to October 2015, Card served as the CEO of Montreal, Canada-based SNC-Lavalin to lead a recovery effort after the firm identified and reported ethics issues from the previous decade. Card managed over 40,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenues, and initiated a revamp of the firm's governance, ethics and compliance program and transformed initiatives in health and safety, environment, sustainability and other aspects of corporate social responsibility. He also developed a strategy to maintain the firm's position at the top of the rapidly consolidating engineering and construction sector by selling interests in the firm's substantial infrastructure, power and mining assets to create global Tier-1 engineering and construction capability in oil and gas, mining, power and infrastructure.
Card was the CEO of joint venture Kaiser-Hill in the decommissioning of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.
He was ranked among Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs in 2015.
Card was appointed a member of the board of AMEC Foster Wheeler in 2017.
Personal life
Card's wife, Nancy, is an engineer who earned her MBA from Harvard. The Cards focus their charitable work on the poor and underprivileged with an emphasis on water and the environment.
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things.
In a lengthy interview with New York Magazine, the controversial lawman addresses everything from Seinfeld to where the heck the Devil ever got off to on the even of a brand new Supreme Court session.
It’s a very candid, off-the-cuff and at-times bizarre interview. Just so you don’t have to pluck through eight 700-word pages of a Supreme Court Justice’s deep dark (unless you really want to), you can check out some of the highlights below:
On Streamlining Constitutional Interpretation:
“A lot of stuff that’s stupid is not unconstitutional. I gave a talk once where I said they ought to pass out to all federal judges a stamp, and the stamp says—Whack! [Pounds his fist.]—STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL.Whack! [Pounds again.] STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL! Whack! STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL … [Laughs.] And then somebody sent me one.”
On Shredding His Invitations To State Of The Union Addresses:
“Because it is a childish spectacle. And we are trucked in just to give some dignity to the occasion. I mean, there are all these punch lines, and one side jumps up—Hooray! And they all cheer, and then another punch line, and the others stand up, Hooray! It is juvenile! And we have to sit there like bumps on a log. We can clap if somebody says, “The United States is the greatest country in the world.” Yay! But anything else, we have to look to the chief justice. Gee, is the chief gonna clap? It didn’t used to be that bad.”
On Why He’ll Never Accept Your Friend Request:
“I’m nervous about our civic culture. I’m not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It’s certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers. And some things I don’t understand about it. For example, I don’t know why anyone would like to be “friended” on the network. I mean, what kind of a narcissistic society is it that people want to put out there, This is my life, and this is what I did yesterday? I mean … good grief. Doesn’t that strike you as strange? I think it’s strange.”
On Minding Your Manners, Ladies:
“One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie—or watch a television show for that matter—without hearing the constant use of the F-word—including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that! But if you portray it a lot, the society’s going to become that way. It’s very sad.”
On His Gaydar:
“I have friends that I know, or very much suspect, are homosexual. Everybody does.”
On The Devil:
“You know, it is curious. In the Gospels, the Devil is doing all sorts of things. He’s making pigs run off cliffs, he’s possessing people and whatnot. And that doesn’t happen very much anymore. It’s because he’s smart. What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way.”
On TV, Seinfeld:
“I watched The Sopranos, I saw a couple of episodes of Mad Men. I loved Seinfeld. In fact, I got some CDs of Seinfeld. Seinfeld was hilarious. Oh, boy. The Nazi soup kitchen? No soup for you!”
On Why He Doesn’t Give A Crap What We Think Of Him:
“You know, for all I know, 50 years from now I may be the Justice Sutherland of the late-twentieth and early-21st century, who’s regarded as: ‘He was on the losing side of everything, an old fogey, the old view.’ And I don’t care.”
Like we said, Judge Antonin Scalia is definitely a polarizing and often divisive figure, but his straightforward and honest interview with Jennifer Senior might earn him a modicum of your respect. The engrossing read can he found in full at NY Mag.
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The best dog. He was our first puppy and our best puppy. It’s still too hard to write or talk much about our sweet boy. He had the biggest heart, a gentle old soul, and a total goofball. One of his many nicknames was “space cadet”. He was super smart so I taught him a bunch of tricks over the years. Anytime someone would get him a cookie (to see a trick), he would get so excited that he would do every trick he knew in 5 seconds flat. He made everyone laugh.
Frosty
Frosty joined us when Dewey was a year old. They bonded pretty quickly and spent the next 7 years together without any other dog-siblings. But they couldn’t be more different. Strong-willed, fierce, badass, and a bit crazy-Frosty has been the most challenging dog I’ve ever had. That would then make him my “heart dog” too. There’s something about that crazy boy that melts my heart; his sweet little kisses, his deep desire to please, that little forever puppy face, his take no shit attitude. I want to be Frosty when I grow up.
Snow
The little border collie that broke our fostering streak. We had been fostering a few years without ever adopting. THEN this little nugget was born in foster care (our home) and returned to rescue after adoption. Clearly we weren’t giving her up again. She’s fun, super smaht, and always up to go somewhere or do ANYTHING. I frequently tell people that “she’s alright” but really, she’s brilliant. Her little brain could power a small town…going and going…thinking and plotting. She’s actually the devil. She looks cute but it’s all part of her evil plan.
Dewey, Frosty, Snow, and Ava
People ask me all the time how I got this photo. When this session started, they were all sitting. But, when you take 1,279 photos, dogs get over it. And slowly they started to fall. I think Ava went first. She’s blind and deaf and gets over things quickly. And then one by one they all fell.And then I dropped to the ground and they all started to close their eyes. It was not magic. I took 1,279 photos and this is what I have to show for it. *Dewey, of course, was the holdout. But I think that’s perfect.
Ava Belle
Also returning to the island, is Ava Belle. We fostered Ava and she wa adopted and then returned a year later to rescue. Basically, don’t return our foster dogs because I can’t afford any more dogs. Ava is a double merle and as such, she is blind and deaf. Don’t feel bad for her though, she is living her best life. She doesn’t miss a beat. She runs up and down the stairs and navigates our yard like a champ – always finding the stinkiest things to roll in. She can be difficult to live with sometimes but she’s super easy to love.
Peach (with a side of Frosty)
Peach came to use as a foster (pattern, much?) BUT she never left. I’m not sure that’s better, but I am sure our life would be a lot quietier without her. I love her but she barks at all the things. So, Miss Princess Peach is a pretty happy go lucky chick now, but it wasn’t always that way. When she arrived at our home she wouldn’t walk on any surface or come near us at all. Things have clearly changed a lot for Peach and now she has blossomed into a little spitfire and cuddle bug.
Winter
Winter joined our family in the fall of 2017 as a wee little 8 week old puppy. It took awhile to be ready for another dog after losing Dewey, and Winter came along at the perfect time. Like Ava, Winter is also a double merle but she has full sight and is deaf only in her right ear. She is an amazing puppy (way too easy!) and makes every day silly! She loves playing with her sisters and she looks up to her big brother Frosty (who has been especially patient). She loves to go for rides in the car, playing tug, and sleeping in the big bed at night. | {
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Tissue distribution, molecular profile, and shedding of a cytoplasmic antigen identified by the monoclonal antibody 465.12S to human melanoma cells.
The mouse immunoglobulin G2 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) 465.12S reacts with a cytoplasmic antigen present in human melanoma cells but not detectable in melanocytes. Indirect immunofluorescent staining of a large number of surgically removed normal adult and fetal tissues with the MoAb 465.12S detected the cytoplasmic antigen in epithelial cells from several organs. The intensity of staining was greater in adult tissues than in the corresponding fetal tissues. Furthermore, the MoAb 465.12S stained nearly all of the surgically removed tumors tested but did not stain many of the normal tissues from which they originated. In almost all cases, the intensity and frequency of staining wa greater for tumor cells than for corresponding normal tissues. From cultured carcinoma and melanoma cells, the MoAb 465.12S immunoprecipitated four glycopolypeptides with molecular weights of 94,000, 75,000, 70,000, and 25,000. Incorporation of 3H-labeled sugars into the various components of the cytoplasmic antigen revealed that the M.W. 75,000 component was unusual in that it contained only glucosamine and mannose. The antigenic determinant defined by the MoAb 465.12S appears to be protein rather than carbohydrate in nature since it is heat sensitive and is expressed on the antigens synthesized by cells in presence of tunicamycin. Analysis of the spent culture medium of carcinoma and melanoma cell lines revealed that the cytoplasmic antigen is readily shed by these cells and consists of a major M.W. 94,000 and a minor M.W. 72,000 component. Treatment of cultured melanoma cells with the antibiotic tunicamycin showed that glycosylation of the cytoplasmic antigen is required for its shedding and/or stability in the spent culture medium. | {
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Band bio's are stupid by nature. The idea of writing a short paragraph about a band, and then expecting anyone to have any idea what they are about, is rather silly.
This is especially true for HEERNT.
New York based HEERNT was created in 2004 by drummer Mark Guiliana. Loosely described as “experimental garage jazz,” HEERNT has managed to combine the finest aspects of jazz, rock, and electronic music and fuse them into a unique sound that explores the relationship between chaos and order.
One word, however, that seems to stick is energy.
Adding to this difficulty of "categorization" is the ever-expanding sonic palette presented at any given show. HEERNT can quickly shift from a standard saxophone/bass/drum trio, to a complex chorus of sounds which might include electric guitar, keyboards, trombone, or any number of musical or spoken samples. The mixed media presentation is rounded out by a television onstage projecting homemade images, designed to support the evolving arrangements.
Those witnessing a HEERNT show might be surprised by where the emphasis is placed in this band. Though the band is comprised of three technically accomplished musicians, the music is not "playercentric". Rather, the emphasis seems to be placed on the compositions coupled with an enthusiasm to experiment within the music. The balance between discipline and complete freedom creates an ever-changing landscape.
And while each show is as varied as it is quirky, these themes of experimentation, exploration, and joy are always present.
HEERNT is a party and you're invited.
Drummer/composer Mark Guiliana, a graduate of William Paterson University, has been around the world and in the studio with Avishai Cohen since 2001. In addition, Mark has enjoyed appearances at Carnegie Hall, the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott's in London, and has recorded and performed with Bobby McFerrin, Branford Marsalis, The Jazz Mandolin Project, James Williams, Jason Lindner, and many others. | {
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First published on Thursday 30 July 2009 06.50 EDT
Channel 4 and Endemol, the producers of Big Brother, are facing renewed questions about contestants' mental health after a recently evicted participant was taken to hospital after apparently self-harming while watching the programme.
Sree Dasari, 25, was admitted to hospital in the early hours of Friday after cutting his wrists in his room at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is an overseas student. Reports suggested he had become upset while watching the programme from which he was evicted on 3 July, the fourth contestant to be voted out of the current series. He was treated for minor lacerations at the QEII hospital in Welwyn Garden City and discharged shortly afterwards.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said it had made a psychologist available over the weekend to the Indian contestant, who was booed on his exit from the Big Brother house.
He had not been popular with viewers and had been mocked after falling for a fellow housemate, Noirin Kelly, who spurned his advances. Another contestant, Markus Akin, received an official warning after making fun of his thick Indian accent, an incident which prompted more than 100 complaints to Ofcom.
Dasari told his local paper yesterday: "I'm fine. I'm very, very fine and very happy. It was nothing, it's just a small cut."
He was well enough to attend filming of the spin-off show, Big Brother's Big Mouth, on Friday night.
In a statement, Channel 4 said that housemates' welfare was of "paramount importance". "As well as being assessed by both a psychologist and psychiatrist prior to being accepted as a housemate, all potential housemates are given detailed and realistic information about what they can expect from their time in the house and upon leaving it, including all the negatives, in a series of interviews with senior producers.
"This is a thorough and well-established system and there is also an extensive aftercare system in place for all housemates. Sree continues to be given ongoing support by the production team and regular access to the show psychologist."
But Dr Andrew McCulloch, a psychologist and chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: "We have had concerns about this programme for a number of years and have written to Channel 4 about it in the past. Channel 4 have never been able to explain what the safety procedures are, in terms of screening people and then the support available to them through the show and after eviction, and in the absence of that information we remain concerned."
The incident is the latest in a number which have raised repeated questions about the welfare of contestants on the programme, currently in its 10th series in the UK.
The programme was criticised by the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 2006, after that series's lineup included a man with Tourette's syndrome and another contestant who admitted to having an eating disorder.
The BPS said it had met the programme's producers to discuss the inclusion of "vulnerable people" but that "it didn't appear that some of the areas we discussed were necessarily being applied".
Another contestant, Shahbaz Choudhary, left the programme early in that series after threatening to kill himself on air.
The programme was heavily censured in 2007 by Ofcom for breaching its own code of conduct and making "serious editorial misjudgments" after the Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty was racially bullied by fellow contestants, including Jade Goody, who has since died.
Last summer's series received nearly 5,000 complaints about bullying and voting problems, most of which were dismissed by the regulator.
Sue Gardner, president of the BPS, said: "We are aware of the debate surrounding the ethics of reality television and the potential impact on the psychological wellbeing of people who take part, some of whom may be chosen for their potential entertainment value."
The programme presented a dilemma for psychologists, she said, over whether to avoid controversy or to "take part and hopefully protect participants". | {
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Architectural design of a data warehouse to support operational and analytical queries across disparate clinical databases.
As the clinical data warehouse of the New York Presbyterian Hospital has evolved innovative methods of integrating new data sources and providing more effective and efficient data reporting and analysis need to be explored. We designed and implemented a new clinical data warehouse architecture to handle the integration of disparate clinical databases in the institution. By examining the way downstream systems are populated and streamlining the way data is stored we create a virtual clinical data warehouse that is adaptable to future needs of the organization. | {
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Risk analysis is a tool that can be used when determining an amount of risk associated with using or performing a particular process to quantify some end result. For example, a risk analysis algorithm can be used to quantify an amount of computational risk when using one type of computer processing architecture to perform a particular function as compared to a different type of computer processing architecture to perform the same function. Each computer processing architecture may have operational trade-offs such as processing efficiency versus processing power that may affect the risk analysis outcome.
Risk analysis can also be used to assess actions, behaviors, and adherence to both State and Federal laws employed by a collection agency to collect on debts for another party, such as a healthcare provider for example, to quantify potential financial and reputational risk for the healthcare provider. Unfortunately, healthcare providers have limited resources to screen or audit collection agencies for various compliance matters. Experts are typically employed to look into the compliance matters. There is a need in the healthcare industry to more professionally select, regulate, and manage quality vendors without having to hire an expert who may employ outdated and expensive risk assessment techniques. In many cases, the healthcare providers are unaware of risks involved with available debt collection vendors and how to tell if a particular vendor operates using the proper standards. | {
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If else statement - how to skip past else?
My code below works great, however, if I select '1', the code will run the if statement and print "success" but it will also run the else statement and exit. How can I stop the else statement running if the user selects 1,2 or 3?
Thanks!
print "\nWelcome to the tool suite.\nWhich tool would you like to use?\n"
print "SPIES - press 1"
print "SPADE - press 2"
print "SPKF - press 3"
print "For information on tools - press i\n"
choice = raw_input("")
if choice == "1":
execfile("lot.py")
print ("success")
if choice == "2":
#execfile("spade.py")
print ("success")
if choice == "3":
#execfile("spkf.py")
print ("success")
if choice == "i":
print "Google Maps is awesome.\n"
print "SPADE\n"
print "SPKF\n\n"
else:
print "Error, exiting to terminal"
exit(1)
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You want the elif construct.
if choice == "1":
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...
Otherwise, the different if statements are disconnected from each other. I've added a blank line for emphasis:
if choice == "1":
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if choice == "2":
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else: # choice != 2
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Tissue diagnosis of pancreas graft dysfunction is desirable. Bladder-drained pancreaticoduodenal transplants allow tissue diagnosis by cytoscopic biopsy procedures of the pancreas and duodenum. To assess the diagnostic utility of duodenal biopsies, we reviewed all cystoscopically obtained pancreas and duodenal biopsy tissues at our institution (July 1, 1989 through September 30, 1993). Adequate tissue for histologic examination was obtained from 75 biopsies in 58 recipients. Indications for cytoscopic biopsies were relative hypoamylasuria in 85%, hematuria in 6%, hyperamylasemia in 3%, and other causes in 6%. Duodenal specimens were available from 52 biopsies (25 with, and 27 without, concurrent pancreas biopsies). Of the 27 duodenal biopsies alone, 3 were diagnostic of rejection, 15 had features consistent with rejection, 6 were normal, 1 showed fibrosis, 1 showed necrosis, and 1 was ulcerated. Thus, two-thirds of the duodenal biopsies alone yielded clinically relevant information resulting in antirejection treatment. In 25 of the duodenal biopsies, pancreas tissue was also available (11 simultaneous pancreas-kidney, 9 pancreas transplant alone, and 5 pancreas after kidney recipients). Findings in both organs completely agreed in 9 (36%) of the biopsies. In 7 (28%), rejection was suggested or diagnosed in both organs, although the organs were discrepant with regard to the presence of vascular rejection (6 pancreas, 1 duodenum). In 2 (11%), minor nonrejection discrepant findings were present. Therefore, in 18 of 25 (72%) pancreas-duodenal biopsies, treatment would not have been different if only one graft had been biopsied. But in the other 7 (28%), treatment would have been different if only the organ with negative findings had been biopsied. In 6 cases (4 duodenal, 2 pancreas), rejection was seen in one organ but not the other. In 1 case, cytomegalovirus (CMV) inclusions were present in the duodenum, but the pancreas was normal. We conclude that (1) the duodenum and pancreas can reject independently of each other, and a negative biopsy does not preclude rejection of the other organ; (2) duodenal biopsies determined therapeutic decisions one-fifth of the time when both tissues were available for examination, and two-thirds of the time when only duodenal tissue was available; and (3) since cystoscopy allows easy access to the duodenum, both the pancreas and duodenum should be biopsied whenever possible; tissue samples of one organ alone are sufficient only with positive findings. | {
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama 's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's ...
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<quoted text>Look at your sorry azz dancing about. You do call people names. You know it and I know it. Anyone, and I do mean anyone, who reads this thread will also know it. Extremely childish of you. But, I'm not one bit surprised! LMAO
Okay, here is an offer you surely cannot turn down, as you seem so sure of what you advance. Let's each draw a list. A name-calling list. I'll list those names you call posters and you list the names I call posters. Then we'll compare. Fair enough?
<quoted text>That's right white boy! That is what you are aside from being a liar. Anyone reading your post can attest to your name calling and hey ...it doesn't bother me. Hell, I have a choice word list that longer than Santas so spit em on out. Now don't go punkish on me now little man. Next thing I know you'll be in the corner sniffing and I am fresh out of Puffs!
White boy? Is that any better than slaveboi? And Liar? You're very generous with the name-calling, aren't you?
I just gave two samples of YOUR brand of name-calling. Would you be courteous enough to tell me what pejorative names I have called you since we started these exchanges? Should be easy, as you wrote that I did.
Maude wrote:<quoted text>Of thoes 55% how many voted 6 times like the women in OHIO and when you see her on tv shes proud that she done it.WRONG WRONG WRONG OBAMA IS O=ne B=ig A=ss M=istake A=merica
Jacques Ottawa wrote:
<quoted text>Do you think they polled the same person 6 times?Sour grapes, you cannot abide by the people's choice, but mainly you cannot abide by Obama being president. As to why, well, just look inwards.
Well dah, NO! She used multiple ID's. And do you really think she was the only person doing so? At least 9-% of all crimes committed in America are Liberals because Liberals always justify their misconduct.
Oh goody, the Taxi that blew up in Las Vegas this morning belonged to the same company which has the largest fleet of propane powered cabs. When I was in SKorea thirty years ago I was warned to avoid propane powered Taxis as then tended to blow up when involved in an accident.
Las Vegas' Largest Taxi Company Relies on Propane to Keep Up with the City of Lights
Maude wrote:<quoted text>Of thoes 55% how many voted 6 times like the women in OHIO and when you see her on tv shes proud that she done it.WRONG WRONG WRONG OBAMA IS O=ne B=ig A=ss M=istake A=merica<quoted text>Well dah, NO! She used multiple ID's. And do you really think she was the only person doing so? At least 9-% of all crimes committed in America are Liberals because Liberals always justify their misconduct.
1. I spoke about the polling, not the voting.DOH!
2. You wrote "At least 9-% of all crimes committed in America are Liberals because Liberals always justify their misconduct".Just how many times do I have to ask you to prove those fabrications of yours?
Oh goody, the Taxi that blew up in Las Vegas this morning belonged to the same company which has the largest fleet of propane powered cabs. When I was in SKorea thirty years ago I was warned to avoid propane powered Taxis as then tended to blow up when involved in an accident.Las Vegas' Largest Taxi Company Relies on Propane to Keep Up with the City of Lightshttp://voices.yahoo.com/las-vegas-largest-tax...Here is a propane-powered p/u, going upPropane Tank Explodes in Back of Pickuphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v =f1HdA02FRc8XX
No regular normal petrol-driven car has ever exploded?
BTW, and please do come back with a few examples of propane-driven vehicles that have explosed. More than two, please, with dates and places.
<quoted text>Of course you don't recall . You never do when you're proven wrong after making a 180 deg change.You condemned Obama for selling F-16s to Egypt. I retorted it was not a bad thing at all, reminded you that Morsi had negotiated the peace treaty between Palestine and Israel, further reminded you that since the downfall of Mubarak, peace with Israel was still enduring. Told you that Egypt was second only to Israel as receiver of US foreign aid, particularly as it pertains to military matters. Told you that aid was much cheaper than having a full-scale war in the middle east. You started to change your mind when you stated that the F-16s sold to Egypt were earlier models and did not have sophisticated armaments.You don't remember any of the above? Who are you kidding? You know zilch about foreign lands and your own foreign policies.
Yes, I did say were were giving the Egyptians 1998-model F-16 nor were we giving the latest models of the missiles. I also stated that Israel gave Iran their old, out of date Hawk missiles that would be replaced with the latest versions from the U.S.But if I said I disagreed with Obama giving the Egyptians those F-16, you should have no problem pointing the post out to me!
I have asked Jacques three times already to clarify why guns sold in other states had anything to do with the gun violence in Shitcago especially that Wash. DC is at it's gun violence rate is at a %50 YEAR LOW!!!
<quoted text>White boy? Is that any better than slaveboi? And Liar? You're very generous with the name-calling, aren't you?I just gave two samples of YOUR brand of name-calling. Would you be courteous enough to tell me what pejorative names I have called you since we started these exchanges? Should be easy, as you wrote that I did.
<quoted text>White boy? Is that any better than slaveboi? And Liar? You're very generous with the name-calling, aren't you?I just gave two samples of YOUR brand of name-calling. Would you be courteous enough to tell me what pejorative names I have called you since we started these exchanges? Should be easy, as you wrote that I did.
<quoted text>No regular normal petrol-driven car has ever exploded?BTW, and please do come back with a few examples of propane-driven vehicles that have explosed. More than two, please, with dates and places.
<quoted text>1. I spoke about the polling, not the voting.DOH!2. You wrote "At least 9-% of all crimes committed in America are Liberals because Liberals always justify their misconduct".Just how many times do I have to ask you to prove those fabrications of yours?
Just go to any prison or jail and that will answer your question. I would also say that 90% of all people who use or abuse alcohol and drugs also use tobacco. Case in point is Rush Limbaugh who smokes cigars.If I was a business own, I would not hire anyone who uses tobacco products. Not that I object to the use of a lawful substance but, like I said, people who use tobacco are much more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.
Oh Jacques, I did find something that you challenged me on some months ago about Owl Gore not wanting to many black people around him in public.
From Wiki: Criticism of Al GoreDuring the 2000 presidential campaign,[Rep. Cynthia] McKinney wrote that "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time."
I am still looking for the complaint filed by black members of the Secret Service that they were not allow to be with in ten feet of Owl Gore and no two black SS agents were allowed to stand next to each other in his presence.Google and other search engines tend to hide things that show Liberals in a bad light.
I have asked Jacques three times already to clarify why guns sold in other states had anything to do with the gun violence in Shitcago especially that Wash. DC is at it's gun violence rate is at a %50 YEAR LOW!!!
And I have already answered that. There seems to be something wrong with your readng un-skills and/or comprehension. I said yesterday that Chicago (hell, I said it last week and the week before that) was surrounded by cities and states that had lax gun purchase laws, they just brought them into Chicago, is all. I even said to you that Toronto had the same problem wiht gun smuggling across the border. As to Washngton, I never brought it up,YOU did. But seeing as you did, I did give my explanation as to why I THOUGHT gun crimes were down, namely that Washington surroundings are more affluent than Chicago surroundings, therefore probably fewer guns are sold, and people who are well off, and there are more there, don't commit as many crimes.
Okay, thick-skulled fabricator. I just wrote from memory what I posted on this subject yesterday. You know darn well I replied, and what's most amazing, even after yesterday's and days before replies, and today's repetitious reply, you will say in a week, innocently, and your birfoon birther friends will have multiple orgasms, that I did not reply.
Where is your reply to the 4 I asked you 2 days ago, the one the day after and, once more, the one I asked a few minutes ago on Democrats being more corrupt? Your kind of poorly-executed "coyness", much like LRS's, is not intelligent nor is it mature and certainly not productive.
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The Pennsylvania supreme court handed down an important decision on Friday in the case of Commonwealth v. Hicks. The court ruled that the mere possession of a firearm — carried either openly or concealed — does not constitute reasonable suspicion of a crime. That’s something that should go without saying, but that’s not the world in which we live.
The ruling invalidated justifications police departments were using for “stop-and-frisk” checks of individuals based solely on the fact that they were in possession of a firearm.
The court wrote:
Although the carrying of a concealed firearm is unlawful for a person statutorily prohibited from firearm ownership or for a person not licensed to do so, see 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 6105-06, there is no way to ascertain an individual’s licensing status, or status as a prohibited person, merely by his outward appearance. As a matter of law and common sense, a police officer observing an unknown individual can no more identify whether that individual has a license in his wallet than discern whether he is a criminal. Unless a police officer has prior knowledge that a specific individual is not permitted to carry a concealed firearm, and absent articulable facts supporting reasonable suspicion that a firearm is being used or intended to be used in a criminal manner, there simply is no justification for the conclusion that the mere possession of a firearm, where it lawfully may be carried, is alone suggestive of criminal activity.
The Firearms Policy Coalition, which wrote an amicus brief in the case, issued this press release . . .
HARRISBURG, PA (May 31, 2019) — Today, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court issued a significant 53-page majority opinion in the criminal appeal of Commonwealth v. Hicks. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) filed an important coalition amicus brief cited by the Court supporting Hicks in December of 2017, alongside Firearms Owners Against Crime (FOAC) and seven Members of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly. The Court’s decision, concurring opinions, and the FPC/FPF amicus brief can be viewed at www.firearmspolicy.org/legal. At issue was whether someone’s carrying of a firearm could be used as reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct, and thus justification for police to conduct a “stop-and-frisk” of the gun owner. The court ruled in Hicks that such searches and seizures, in the absence of other evidence are completely unlawful. The coalition’s brief, which was relied on heavily in the majority opinion, argued that the Pennsylvania and federal constitutions prohibit searches and seizures based on a suspicion of criminal activity due to carrying a firearm. According to the brief, “As protected by the Second and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution and [] the Pennsylvania Constitution . . . the mere open or conceal carrying of a firearm cannot establish reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal conduct, in the absence of additional indicia of unlawful activity.” The Court agreed, noting “that the government may not target and seize specific individuals without any particular suspicion of wrongdoing, then force them to prove that they are not committing crimes.” “Hicks’ position is supported by several amici curiae, including Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Firearms Owners Against Crime, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and the Firearms Policy Foundation. Hicks’ amici argue that the Robinson rule is contrary to this Court’s precedent and to the general teachings of the Supreme Court of the United States’ Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Amici further point to numerous decisions of the courts of other states and federal appellate courts that have addressed the specific question at issue here, and which have held that mere possession of a concealed firearm provides no basis for an investigative detention,” Supreme Court Justice Wecht wrote for the majority. FPC President and FPF Chairman Brandon Combs hailed the decision. “Stop-and-frisk practices that harass gun owners who carry for lawful purposes including self-defense, like the one at the core of this case, are unconstitutional, bad public policy, and dangerous,” explained Combs. “We are thrilled that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania agreed with these fundamental principles and issued such an incredibly positive decision in favor of constitutional rights.” Kim Stolfer, president of FOAC, was also delighted with the ruling. “We are thrilled to have participated in this case. The Commonwealth’s position, that the ‘mere sight’ of a firearm, with no criminal act, ‘justifies’ arrest and detention at gunpoint, is constitutionally repugnant and unjustified. Today the Court rightly held as much.” Joshua Prince, author of the coalition’s brief, said that “the Court, in dismissing the Commonwealth’s position, declared that to permit investigative detention solely to determine whether someone is properly licensed is ‘ultimately untenable, because it would allow a manifestly unacceptable range of ordinary activity to, by itself, justify Terry stops.’” “This ruling rightly puts an end to abusive, non-justifiable searches of law-abiding gun owners, and it should be relished by all those who support the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution,” Prince concluded.
But there’s more to the ruling than the Fourth Amendment implications of the ruling.
As a post at the Prince Law blog notes, the Court appeared to reaffirm the state’s preemption law here:
Consistent with the General Assembly’s reservation of the exclusive prerogative to regulate firearms in this Commonwealth, codified at 18 Pa.C.S. § 6120, the additional requirement that an individual possess a license in order to carry a firearm openly within the City of Philadelphia is prescribed by statute, not by municipal ordinance. See 18 Pa.C.S. § 6108; see generally Ortiz v. Commonwealth, 681 A.2d 152 (Pa. 1996).
That would seem to be bad news for the city of Pittsburgh and Mayor Bill Peduto’s crusade to invalidate the state’s preemption law, allowing him to enforce the gun control ordinances he signed following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
As TTAG’s favorite attorney, LKB, told us . . .
This ruling is especially significant in light of the Pittsburgh ordinances — the mayor et al. acknowledge that Pennsylvania state law prohibits their activities, but they are pushing anyway on the hope that the state Supreme Court will overrule the state law precluding cities from passing such ordinances. This opinion indicates that the state Supreme Court isn’t reflexively anti-gun.
And that could make things uncomfortable for Hizzoner. As LKB told us, the mayor and city council’s reckless disregard for state law . . .
…might even be bad enough to knock out somebody’s qualified immunity.
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Fernando Girón de Salcedo
Don Fernando Girón de Salcedo y Briviesca, First Marques of Sofraga, born 1562, died 1630, was a Member of the Council of War for Flanders, and Maestre de Gampo General for Aragon with the Castellany of the Aljafería de Zaragoza, as well as Grand Chancellor and Bailiff of the Holy Sepulcher of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Philip III and Philip IV of Spain. As governor he successfully defended Cádiz against the English in 1625, which led him to be immortalized in a painting of Francisco de Zurbaran, The Defence of Cadiz against the English.
Career
Don Fernando Girón was the son of Sancho Hurtado Girón de Salcedo, Lord of Casalegas, and of Juana de Bribiesca; both being descendants of an important lineage of regidors of Talavera de la Reina. Don Fernando served as captain in the Army of Flanders, as maestro de campo of the Navy of the Ocean, and castellan of Jaca in Aragon. In 1608 he became a member of the supreme council of war. He served as an ambassador to France 1618-1620.
Back from France, Don Fernando resumed his duties as counsellor of war, and became a member of Spanish Council of State in 1622. As governor he successfully defended Cádiz against the English in 1625, which led him to be immortalized in a painting of Francisco de Zurbaran, The Defence of Cadiz against the English. In 1626 the King made him the first marquess of Sofraga, for his services to the Realm and to His Majesty personally.
Philip IV appointed Don Fernando governor-general of the Duchy of Milan in 1626, and viceroy of Navarra in 1629, but he rejected both honors due to illness, retiring to his native town, where he died in 1630. He is buried in the burial chapel of the apse of the Collegiate Church of Santa María de Talavera de la Reina. Since he died single, the title of Marquis de Sofraga fell to his nephew Sancho Girón.
References
Notes
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Alain, Hugo (2004). Au service du roi catholique. Madrid: Casa de Velasques.
Blue, William R. (2013). "Versions of the Battle of Cadiz, 1525." in: Mujica, Bárbara (ed.), Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1895-1903). Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y de León. Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
Gálvez-Cañero, Enrique (1963). "El marquesado de Sotraga." Estudio genealógico. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
Williams, Patrick (2001). "Don Diego de Brochero de Paz y Anaya (c. 1535-1625)." Jornadas de Historia Marítima, XXI (37): 7-14. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
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What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers? - programminggeek
http://brianknapp.me/best-kept-secrets-of-great-programmers/
======
gravypod
This is something more people need to see since it's obvious most people, at
least that I have met at university, don't get.
They ask me how I got good at this and I just tell them that I kept
programming. They don't understand that concept, I get a strange look back
every time.
------
k__
This is totally true, the more I built the more I learned and stuff I never
got in university just came to me after simply trying it in a small project.
You also have to know, what you can't do that takes looong time to learn.
Stuff like distributed systems and cryptography is hard, so don't think it
comes as easy as writing you first CRUD-app.
------
ankurdhama
One more thing, they reflect upon what they do. It is not just constant
practice, it is also about reflecting upon that.
~~~
edoceo
Right. Not just building your own but MAINTAINING your old code.
Me in 2014: This seems like a good idea.
Me in 2016: What idiot wrote this crap!
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A new technique for repair of exstrophy-epispadias complex.
We report a new method of repair of exstrophy-epispadias complex (EEC) at a second stage by using flaps from the skin between the penis and scrotum (the clitoris and labia majora in females) used in seven patients. The non-pigmented skin between the penis and scrotum in males or a band of skin between the clitoris and labia majora in female is mobilized in two flaps, which are rotated superiorly. Five patients were treated primarily by this method and two patients at the time of secondary reconstruction. There were six boys and one girl. Two patients were post-pubertal, one male and one female. Follow-up (6-12 months) revealed good cosmetic and functional results. If EEC is repaired in a single stage, the entire pelvic diaphragm is visualized from inside and the sphincters can be reconstructed around the bladder neck. This procedure gives better exposure of attachments of the corporal bodies to the pubic rami, allowing easier mobilization. The bulbospongiosus muscle can be reconstructed. A normal penoscrotal relation is achieved in male patients. The root of the scrotum, which is splayed out and wide, narrows. Rotation of the flaps superiorly normalizes the symphyseal area. In female patients the appearance of the mons pubis is satisfactory. In post-pubertal children the pubic hair distribution appears normal. | {
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**Specifications Table**TableSubject areaBiologyMore specific subject areaProteomics analysis of sea urchin adhesive organs and secreted adhesives.Type of dataFigure, tableHow data was acquiredMass spectrometry, LC-MS/MS using a Orbitrap Q-exactive mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific).Data formatRaw, processed/analyzedExperimental factorsDissected tube feet to separate discs from stems, and collected adhesive footprints.Experimental featuresTo perform the differential proteome of the sea urchin *Paracentrotus lividus* adhesive organs, tube feet were dissected to separate discs (adhesive part) from stems (non-adhesive part). Then both samples were in-solution digested with Lys-C and trypsin and. The resulting peptides were pre-fractionated by Strong Cation Exchange chromatography and the resulting fractions analyzed by LC-MS/MS, followed by database searching (UniProt/SwissProt for SEA_URCHINS) using the Mascot search algorithm. Adhesive footprints were also collected, followed by protein purification by SDS-PAGE and in-gel digestion of the obtained concentrated protein bands with the above-mentioned proteases. The obtained peptides were analyzed by LC-MS/MS and database searching.Data source locationNetherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, NetherlandsData accessibilityData is within this article and have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium [@bib2] via the PRIDE partner repository with the dataset identifier PRIDE: PXD003122.
**Value of the data**•The expression levels of 1384 sea urchin tube feet proteins as well as their functional annotation can be useful to compare with lists of proteins identified in other adhesive organs.•The methodology used to obtain the differential proteome of an adhesive organ that allowed us to reveal 163 key proteins specifically involved in sea urchin reversible adhesion can be of interest to be applied by other laboratories focusing on other attaching organisms and/or types of biological adhesion.•Data present also a list of 611 annotated proteins present in the adhesive secreted by sea urchins and can be useful for laboratories working on the identification of biological adhesives.•Present data can be further explored in other to find key functionalities in sea urchin adhesive proteins and by comparison with other marine adhesive proteins, significantly simplify the development of bio-inspired adhesives.
1. Data {#s0005}
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This dataset provides a comprehensive list of non-redundant proteins, their fragmented peptides and expression levels, resultant from the analysis of the tube feet differential proteome. In addition, the comparison of protein expression levels in the adhesive (disc) versus the non-adhesive (stem) part of sea urchin tube feet, allowed the selection of highly over-expressed tube feet disc proteins (\>3-fold), likely representing the most relevant proteins for sea urchin reversible adhesion, which were further annotated in order to determine the potential functions. In addition, we provide a list of non-redundant annotated proteins identified in the sea urchin secreted adhesive (glue). This list was further analyzed to identify the most abundant protein groups and pinpoint putative adhesive proteins.
2. Experimental design, materials and methods {#s0010}
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2.1. Sample preparation {#s0015}
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Sea urchins from the species *Paracentrotus lividus* (Lamarck 1816) were collected at low tide on the west coast of Portugal (Estoril, Portugal). Tube feet and the secreted glue for proteomics analysis were collected as elsewhere described [@bib1].
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After collection, tube feet (disc and stem) and glue proteins were extracted and subsequently digested with Lys-C and trypsin as described in [@bib1]. The digests from tube feet disks and stems were fractioned using SCX prior to mass spectrometry analysis [@bib1]. A total of 50 SCX fractions ([Fig. 1](#f0005){ref-type="fig"}) were collected and the 25 most peptide-rich fractions used for subsequent LC--MS/MS analysis.
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Nanoscale liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC--MS/MS) was performed for each SCX fractions on a reversed-phase easy nano-LC 1000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Odense, Denmark) coupled to an Orbitrap Q-exactive mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, Bremen, Germany) using higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) fragmentation [@bib1]. RAW output files were submitted to Mascot (version 2.5.1) via Proteome Discoverer (version 1.3, Thermo Fisher Scientific) and searched against UniProt/SwissProt database for sea urchin (taxonomic Identifier: 7656) joined with the protein sequence encoded by the recently discovered Nectin mRNA variant [@bib2] (GenBank KT351732) which was manually added. The mass spectrometry proteomics raw data as well as search results have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium [@bib3] via the PRIDE partner repository with the dataset identifier PRIDE: PXD003122. The obtained protein dynamic range is presented in [Fig. 2](#f0010){ref-type="fig"} and the list of identified proteins is presented in Supplementary file [S1](#s0045){ref-type="sec"}.
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Tube feet disc and stem differential proteome PSMs were normalized using the cytoplasmic actin of *Lytechinus variegatus* (O18548; Σ coverage: 85,19%) as a reference protein, while the adhesive proteome PSMs were normalized using the MW of each identified protein. Since a high percentage of the identified proteins were uncharacterized, Blast2GO 3.0.7 was used for functional analysis of the identified proteins [@bib4]. The annotation output for the tube feet differential proteome and the secreted adhesive proteome are presented in [Fig. 3](#f0015){ref-type="fig"}.
To group all identified proteins in selected subgroups of GO categories (biological process, molecular function and cellular compartment) the analysis tool of combined graph was used using a sequence filter of 20 for a more compacted view of the data. The GO protein distribution for the tube feet differential proteome and the secreted adhesive proteome are presented in [Fig. 4](#f0020){ref-type="fig"}.
3. Multiple sequence alignment {#s0035}
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CLUSTAL 2.1 software was used to perform multiple sequence alignments of the recently identified *Nectin*-like protein variants (Q70JA0, KT351732, W4ZF96, W4Z4Y0) [@bib1]. A comparison of the identified *Nectin* variants is presented in Supplementary file [S2](#s0045){ref-type="sec"}. Two of these new putative *Nectin* variants (W4ZF96, W4Z4Y0) were identified both in tube feet disks and the secreted adhesive, but based on one unique peptide each ([Fig. 5](#f0025){ref-type="fig"}), although one of the variants (W4Z4Y0) presented two more peptides in common with the previously know *Nectin* variants (Q70JA0, KT351732).
Appendix A. Supplementary material {#s0045}
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Supplementary material
Supplementary material: **Supplementary file S1**. Comprehensive lists of non-redundant proteins, fragmented peptides, expression levels and functional annotation, resultant from the analysis of the tube feet differential proteome and the secreted adhesive proteome.
Supplementary material: **Supplementary file S2**. Multiple sequence alignment of the Nectin variants identified in Paracentrotus lividus tube foot differential proteome and in the secreted adhesive material proteome. Identic amino acids among the different variants relatively to Nectin Q70JA0 are in green, peptides identified by MS/MS are in bold, repetitive domains are highlighted in yellow.
RS was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through a Ciência 2008 research contract, a post-doctoral grant (SFRH/BPD/109081/2015) and a project grant (PTDC/MAR/117360/2010). GC was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through a research contract (IF/00359/2014). The proteomics part of this research was performed within the framework of the PRIME-XS project, Grant number 262067, funded by the European Union 7th Framework Program and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) supported large scale proteomics facility *Proteins\@Work* (project 184.032.201). The authors wish to acknowledge Dr. Fátima Gil and Miguel Cadete for sea urchin maintenance, Francesca Zito for antibodies and Jamila Bouradaa for technical assistance.
Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version at [doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.002](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.002){#ir0005}.
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Q:
jpa entity not found exception
I have the following problems:
The class Foo is an EntityBean with a List of Item.
public class Foo {
@OneToMany(cascade = {}, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private List<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>()
At some point in my application I do the following:
remove item with id 3 from the lsit of foo
call updateFoo()
@Override
@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
public void updateFoo(Foo foo){
if(item has been removed from the list of foo){
//item is from the List of the parameter foo
entityManager.remove(item);
}
entityManager.flush();
//update remaining items
for(Item item: foo.getItems()){
//set some field values on item
...
entityManager.merge(item);
}
//here occurs the exception
entityManager.merge(foo);
}
Everything does work fine until the last line is executed. Then the exception
javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException: Unable to find Item with id 3.
Best regards
Edmond
A:
I had to make the relation bidirectional, comment out the call to flush and finally add merge, persist and remove as cascade type.
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As a piano teacher, you work with a lot of spoiled teen brats that don’t want to be in class. Bella Rose is one of them but she is sexy ass hell with those perky tits and small ass, and she knows it. You have been paid by her parents to give her piano lessons, but she has a different idea what she wants to play, and it’s not the piano. She is too young for you to fuck but you can watch all you want. Get your VR Headset and watch a beautiful VR Teen Voyeur scene with the petite blonde Bella Rose.
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Oliver’s Pizza & Pub North! I love the way the outside of this place looks like a southern mansion!
Up on the front porch are tables for outside dining, but with the chilly fall air breezing in, everyone’s dining inside tonight, so let’s go on in and check out what’s happening on this wonderful Saturday night!
The first thing I see upon entering is the featured Beer of the Month at Oliver’s. This is a deal where you pay $6.50 for a featured pint, you get to keep the glass and then it’s $5.50 pint refills after that for the entire month! Such a deal! Okay, the dining room is over here, let’s head on in, I’m starving like you know who over here!
We got a table in the back of the comfortable dining room and I took a shot from where we’re seated back there. Here’s our waiter, Sean with a beer and it turns out we’ve met when I did a post over at Hangovers! So of course we must cue this up and then we checked out the menu and ordered our meatless meal for the evening. And then I took off with the MBIP Camera to get some photos while the dinner is being prepared.
The Cubs are playing tonight and if they win, they’ll be in the 2016 World Series, this is enough to make even a non-sports fan like myself kind of excited, so there’ll be an update at the end of this post about the game, even though by the time you read this it’ll be yesterday’s news, but what are you going to do? I love some of these Peoria shots hanging in the dining room.
There’s a spacious bar area right next door to the dining room, so I wandered in there and met Frank, who was busy behind the bar, but still took time to pose for the MBIP Camera. Thanks Frank! Nice to meet you!
As you can see, they have a decent amount of beers on tap and that’s Rosemary and Stan taking a break. I met Rosemary at this year’s Peoria Wingfest and it was great to see her again. Stan told me he lurks in the darkness often and I can tell he’s a seasoned pro! He also does bartending duty here at Oliver’s.
Meanwhile, back at our table, there’s Ben and I think it’s just about appetizer time...
Yep, here’s our pre-pizza snacks we ordered. We got an order of the Buffalo Fries and an order of the Onion Rings and they look and smell fantastic!
There’s Ben digging in and as great as they look and smell, they taste even better! I’ve had the onion rings here before and knew they were great, but these Buffalo Fries are really a taste treat! You can read more about them in the review below!
Here’s Sean with the main course, a pizza pie!
Its easy having a veggie meal here at Oliver’s! We got a split pizza, half veggie and half cheese. The pizza here is really tasty and it was delicious as always!
There’s party rooms available to rent out upstairs and Sean told us that there was a birthday party going on up there, so I went up with the MBIP Camera and investigated this claim and Sean was right! There was a party for Matt Gibson, who turned 27-years-old on Saturday and they let me take a photo of the entire party! Matt’s a Sales Consultant for Uftring Automall, so feel free to get hold of him @ 309-427-7908 if you’re looking for a vehicle! Happy birthday, Matt!
And here’s the update on that Cubs game: Cubs Win! They’re going to the World Series this week and as you can see, lots of excitement happened in Chicago after the win!
Back at our table, a lone onion ring sits in the basket as we hit the road. I know that’s a little sad, but that’s life in the fast onion ring lane! We’ll see you all tomorrow!
We got two appetizers to start out this veggie meal: Onion Rings and Buffalo Fries and they were an outstanding way to start our fourth vegetarian dinner. I’ve had the onion rings before and they are some of the best in town in my opinion. They’re big rings, but they’re flaky rings covered in homemade PBR Batter and the onions are a wonderful combination of sweet, salty and tasty. I’ve never had the Buffalo Fries and they are something I’ll definitely get again on my next trip here. The fries are hand cut, medium size and they’re covered in rich blue cheese crumbles and then drizzled with a generous slathering of spicy buffalo sauce. If you’re a vegetarian who’s been jonesing for buffalo wings, try these out and your craving will be cured!
Our pizza was a no-brainer for this meatless night, we got half cheese and half veggie and it was really delicious! The pizza recipe at Oliver’s is over six decades old and the sauce is homemade and really tasty. The crust is thin and crispy and it was so satisfying and I didn’t even miss not having any meat on it at all.
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Three and a half Galloping Gourmets—It’s easy to go vegetarian here and there’s lots of tasty meatless options. A wonderful vegetarian meal was had! If you do want meat though, there's plenty of choices on that side of the menu as well! | {
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The argument proceeding from clownfish.
The argument proceeding from strawberries.
The argument proceeding from seahorses.
“Intersex people are as common as redheads, so sex does not exist.”
“Sex is a spectrum, so males are female.”
“Bio-essentialism!” (Is that like thinking horses and carrots exist?)
“It’s SO COMPLICATED.”
“Thinking women exist is like thinking women are livestock,” aka “Stop reducing women to their genitals!”
“Everything is a social construct.”
“Because women are Black, disabled, poor, gay, etc,. women do not exist.”
“Everyone who says they are trans is trans. Except destransitioners. And evil witches. (Ask Owen Jones. He decides. With his sorting hat.).”
“Men would never bother identifying as woman to abuse women and children.”
“Sex is assigned at birth based on arbitrary genital configurations.”
“Women can’t beat men at sports because they just aren’t trying hard enough.”
“Michael Phelps has got big feet so sport is never fair.”
“Cis women are not oppressed as such.”
‘Cis womanhood is threatened by trans women.”
“I earned my womanhood. So I’m more of a woman than you.”
“I feel like a woman and I have biology therefore I have female biology.”
“Some women don’t have uteruses, so males can be women.”
“Mythical biological females.”
“But my gold lame pocketbook!”
“Sometimes a male brain grows a woman’s body by mistake.”
“Women are not oppressed on the basis of their sex. They’re oppressed because they wear lipstick.”
“Sex is an outdated concept.”
“Woman is a palimpsest.”
“Woman is Frankenstein’s Monster.”
“Woman is a loose shifting constellation of biological, political and cultural phenomena that varies according to context, time and space.”
“Woman is a void to be filled by other people’s desire.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”
“It’s like gay rights.”
“Women excluding males is the same as white people excluding Black people.”
“Women excluding males is like us excluding immigrants.”
“Women excluding males is like Nazis persecuting Jews.”
“Rad fem ideas about gender are the same as right-wing Christian ideas.”
“If Black women are women then trans women are women.”
“Trans women are to natal women as adoptive parents are to biological parents.”
“But you might be assaulted by a lesbian.”
“But they do it in Iran which is like, really progressive.”
“Colonialism invented the gender binary.”
“The Stonewall riot was started by trans women.”
“Here is a skeleton of an Anglo-Saxon trans warrior.”
“However, women had no skeleton pre-Enlightenment.”
“Historical cross dressers were appropriating trans identity.”
“Every gender non-conforming person in history was trans. (Yeah, I know we said it’s based on self ID but whatever).”
“Trans women have been using women’s loos for ages so it doesn’t matter if we totally change the legal and social criteria for being trans so big dudes with beards are women.”
“Kaitlyn Jenner was a woman when she won men’s Olympic gold.”
“Trans women are women.”
“Trans men are men.”
“Non-binary is valid.”
“Trans rights are human rights.”
“Sex work is work.”
“Sisters not cis-ters.”
“No debate!”
“It’s descriptive.”
“It’s inclusive.”
“It’s LATIN.”
“It just means ‘the opposite of.”
“Folx”
“Womxn.”
“Bleeders.”
“Menstruators.”
“Cervix/Uterus/Vagina-Havers.”
“Language evolves. *Shrug*”
“Animals eat humans. Gerbils are an animal. Therefore, gerbils eat humans.”
“Tut. And Move Away.”
“But you have gender neutral toilets in your home, don’t you?
“Rights are not a pie.”
“They’re gonna rape you anyway.”
“Women are violent too.”
“How you gonna tell without looking in their pants?”
“Your biology is so high school.”
“It’s SCIENCE!”
“You’re just a vagina fetishist!”
“Why are you so obsessed with genitals?”
“What if a woman lost her vagina in an accident?”
“But you can’t see your chromosomes, can you?”
“If I removed your brain and put it in a man’s body you’d still be a woman tho, wouldn’t you?”
“You are denying my right to exist.”
‘You are debating my right to exist.”
“If you say that you’ll make us unsafe.”
“If you say that we’ll kill ourselves.”
“If you say that it will make men kill trans women.”
“If you don’t give us what we want we’ll be murdered.”
“If you don’t affirm a child, they’ll commit suicide.”
“Genital preferences are transphobic.”
“Dog-whistle!”
“Gatekeeping Womanhood!”
“Misgendering!”
“Literal Violence!”
“Transphobia!”
“BIGOT!”
“Do better!”
“Educate Yourself!”
“Listen and learn!”
“Wrong Side of History.” (My arse)
“Fuck you TERF!”
“Why can’t you just be nice YOU NASTY SWARM OF WITCHES???” | {
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When it comes to must-see virtuosity in Internet video, pornographers, VFX wizards, and even box-loving cats have nothing on a man and his bike. At least when it’s the street trials rider Danny MacAskill, who has appeared in a series of videos literally bouncing off walls, hopping across rooftops, and generally doing things that human bodies and bikes just weren’t meant to do. The 2010 video, Way Back Home, produced via Red Bull, was viewed some 13 million times online.
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Team MacAskill released a new video last week, Industrial Revolutions, depicting yet more death-defying feats. The obstacle course is a derelict iron works and rail yard where, in one stunning shot, we see MacAskill walking along a rope suspended between two cars; the next shot has the trickster traversing the tightrope on two wheels. The action is set to the track The Wolves by Ben Howard. There’s a lifetime of skill that accounts for the most of the genius at work in the videos; the rest is some clever camera work by Stu Thomson, a longtime friend of MacAskill and competitive mountain bike rider-turned director. What’s involved in capturing such insanity? Thomson’s setup was remarkably minimal–he filmed for eight days, mostly with one camera. Here, Thomson takes us through some of the highlights of the video, which was shot for a Channel 4 documentary called Concrete Circus. There were three big challenges during this shoot: MacAskill’s fitness, the mental challenges of riding, and the difficulty in getting that one shot when he finally pulls a trick. It doesn’t show in such a short video, says Thomson, but these tricks often take 20, 50 or even up to 100 attempts to pull so the strain on MacAskill’s body is huge. “He has struggled with injury a lot this year, and on this shoot in particular he’s had a lot of pain in his knee — there was just a lot of painkillers involved,” says Thomson. Occasionally they had to take a day or afternoon off to give his body a rest. “The mental challenge is that when you are doing a back flip drop of two meters onto concrete or riding on a cable 4 meters off the ground it’s a scary thing. Some of the bigger tricks take a lot of focus and bravery to do and sometimes that barrier takes Danny a long time to overcome. That’s why it’s crucial to get the shot when he finally lands the trick” (for the hardest tricks that would afford only one take, Thomson recruited a second director for additional angles). “It’s easy to lose concentration when you’ve done the same shot 100 times,” says Thomson. “You have to make sure that you are 100% focused on the filming all the time!”
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“My favorite shot is the long shot of Danny riding along the top of the trains,” says Thomson. “We knew that was so important to the feel of the whole video. All the trains lined up, the stunning colors of them and the beautiful green backdrop were so important and it really makes the film. That day the weather was lovely (another challenge of filming in Scotland) and that shot is everything I love about filming, stunning colors, beautiful scenery and an amazingly talented athlete.” In one shot, MacAskill “walks” across the ribs of a decayed rail car. Thomson says: “For Danny that’s one of the easier parts of the video. He was happy to do that over and over to get different shots. That’s the reason why we had the jib shot moving up between the bars on the carriage. Its a more difficult shot as we had the jib/crane setup on the top of the train bridging over two carriages. It was a pretty precarious position to film from and a difficult shot to get right but you can do that when its an easier trick for Danny as you get more than one attempt at the shot.”
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Another stunner: MacAskill rides along a single rail track, flips around and rides along the other track in the opposite direction. “Again, Danny finds that relatively easy,” says Thomson. “The main focus was to do it without taking a foot off the pedal to balance. He pulled it after a few attempts and we actually tried to get some more complex tricks done on the rails (a tailwhip between them for those who have some BMX/trials knowledge!) but it wasn’t to be.” And then there’s the rope. “We didn’t even discover that part of the location until we had been filming for 4 days,” says Thomson. “We took a break from filming to give Danny a rest at one point and we went off exploring. As soon as we saw it Danny said straight away he would ride along it. To be honest both myself and our assistant Nash were pretty doubtful, and I’d like to think we know fairly well what Danny is capable of.” It took around 25 attempts for MacAskill to pull it off. “That was a bit of a turning point on the whole project,” Thomson says, “as from that point on Danny grew in confidence and we knew we had something great in the can.”
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Is this product placement? “Not really,” says Thomson. “The project was for a TV documentary without sponsors or corporate backing. However I’d say Danny’s shoe sponsor (5Ten) and helmet sponsor (Red Bull) did very well out of the video.” We see MacAskill flub a trick for the first time here. “It was always my aim with the video to make Danny more human than in his previous videos,” says Thomson. “He works so hard at what he does and falls off all the time because that’s the only way to get better. In this video you see far more of Danny’s personality and drive than you have seen before.” The end result of this shoot for Thomson was the formation of a new company, Cut Media. After producing mountain bike-focused videos for the past three years out of his MTBcut shop, he’s expanding his scope to include a broader range of work including advertising campaigns and music videos. | {
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Modern societies depend on the ready availability of energy. As the demand for energy increases, devices capable of efficiently storing energy become increasingly important. As a result, energy storage devices, including batteries, capacitors, electrochemical capacitors (ECs), (including pseudocapacitors and electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs)—also known as ultracapacitors, among other names), hybrid ECs, and the like are being extensively used in the electronics realm and beyond. In particular, capacitors are widely used for applications ranging from electrical circuitry and power delivery to voltage regulation and battery replacement. Electrochemical capacitors are characterized by high energy storage capacity as well as other desirable characteristics including high power density, small size, and low weight, and have thus become promising candidates for use in several energy storage applications.
The related case mentioned above (International Application No. PCT/US2010/029821) discloses three-dimensional structures for forming high energy density electrochemical capacitors using, for example, porous silicon. In some of the disclosed embodiments, an electrochemical process was used to etch pores deep into a silicon structure and the pores were filled with an electrolyte or with a high-k dielectric material and/or a thin conductive film in combination with an electrolyte.
For simplicity and clarity of illustration, the drawing figures illustrate the general manner of construction, and descriptions and details of well-known features and techniques may be omitted to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the discussion of the described embodiments of the invention. Additionally, elements in the drawing figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the figures may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help improve understanding of embodiments of the present invention. Certain figures may be shown in an idealized fashion in order to aid understanding, such as when structures are shown having straight lines, sharp angles, and/or parallel planes or the like that under real-world conditions would likely be significantly less symmetric and orderly. The same reference numerals in different figures denote the same elements, while similar reference numerals may, but do not necessarily, denote similar elements.
The terms “first,” “second,” “third,” “fourth,” and the like in the description and in the claims, if any, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Similarly, if a method is described herein as comprising a series of steps or operations, the order of such steps or operations as presented herein is not necessarily the only order in which such steps or operations may be performed, and certain of the stated steps or operations may possibly be omitted and/or certain other steps or operations not described herein may possibly be added to the method. Furthermore, the terms “comprise.” “include,” “have,” and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to those elements, but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
The terms “left,” “right,” “front,” “back,” “top,” “bottom,” “over,” “under,” and the like in the description and in the claims, if any, are used for descriptive purposes and not necessarily for describing permanent relative positions unless otherwise indicated either specifically or by context. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are, for example, capable of operation in other orientations than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. The term “coupled,” as used herein, is defined as directly or indirectly connected in an electrical or non-electrical manner. Objects described herein as being “adjacent to” each other may be in physical contact with each other, in close proximity to each other, or in the same general region or area as each other, as appropriate for the context in which the phrase is used. Occurrences of the phrase “in one embodiment” herein do not necessarily all refer to the same embodiment. | {
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Q:
ninject create NHibernate UnitOfWork only one time, every subsequent instantiation return previous UoW with closed session
iam using ninject.web in my aspx page in this way
my problem is with Nhibernate session management.
this is my ninject module:
public override void Load()
{
Bind<IUnitOfWork>().To<UnitOfWork>();
Bind<IAttivitaRepository>().To<AttivitaRepository>();
}
the page_load and quite every button in a single page create and dispose a unit of work at this way:
using (iuow)
{
iuow.DoSomething();
iuow.SaveAll();
}
in pageLoad works, but every other attempt in the page to use iuow with a new Using block, return that session is closed
this is my UoW impl:
public UnitOfWork()
{
_nhHelper = new SessionFactory();
InizializzaSessione();
_transaction = _session.BeginTransaction();
}
private void InizializzaSessione()
{
if (_session == null)
{
_session = _nhHelper.OpenSession();
}
Area = new AreaRepository(this._session);
Attivita = new AttivitaRepository(this._session);
Societa = new SocietaRepository(this._session);
Persona = new PersonaRepository(this._session);
}
/// <summary>
/// Salva le modifiche sulla base dati
/// </summary>
public void SaveAll()
{
if (_transaction != null)
{
_transaction.Commit();
_transaction = null;
}
}
it seems to me that iuow is resolved (whith a call to New) only at page load, so every new attempt to create Uow return last used one with session disposed.
before attimpting to use ninject what i do is simply:
using (Iuow = new UnitOfWork())
{
....
}
and all works fine
p.s.
i have to remove InRequestScope from binding since it prevent even the page load to work
A:
replace
using (iuow)
{
...
}
by
using (IResolutionRoot.Get<IUnitOfWork>())
{
...
}
Whereas you can inject IResolutionRoot into your classes. No extra bindings necessary (it's a Ninject type).
Caveat: this is service locator.
Alternatively you can hide the IResolutionRoot.Get<IUnitOfWork>() behind an IUnitOfWorkFactory which you can either implement manually or use Ninject.Extensions.Factory to do it for you.
Example
using Ninject;
using Ninject.Syntax;
namespace NinjectTest.SO38013150
{
public interface IUnitOfWork { }
internal class UnitOfWork : IUnitOfWork { }
public interface IUnitOfWorkFactory
{
IUnitOfWork Create();
}
internal class UnitOfWorkFactory : IUnitOfWorkFactory
{
private readonly IResolutionRoot resolutionRoot;
public UnitOfWorkFactory(IResolutionRoot resolutionRoot)
{
this.resolutionRoot = resolutionRoot;
}
public IUnitOfWork Create()
{
return this.resolutionRoot.Get<IUnitOfWork>();
}
}
}
with a test showing that it works (this uses xunit for testing and FluentAssertions for assertions.. they are nuget packages):
using FluentAssertions;
using Ninject;
using Xunit;
namespace NinjectTest.SO38013150
{
public class Test
{
[Fact]
public void Foo()
{
var kernel = new StandardKernel();
kernel.Bind<IUnitOfWork>().To<UnitOfWork>();
kernel.Bind<IUnitOfWorkFactory>().To<UnitOfWorkFactory>();
var factory = kernel.Get<IUnitOfWorkFactory>();
var unitOfWork1 = factory.Create();
var unitOfWork2 = factory.Create();
unitOfWork1.Should().NotBeSameAs(unitOfWork2);
}
}
}
The code is also available as part of my examples collection, here
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I don’t own a TV. I get my fix from internet TV providers – HuluPlus, some network sites, and until recently, Aereo.
Yesterday, in an effort to while away a couple hours, I tried pulling up the latest episodes of HELIX, a SyFy original show about some kind of contagion at the North Pole. I’d seen the first few episodes and it looked pretty cool, plus I follow/occasionally tweet with one of the guys responsible for making it.
I went to the Hulu page for HELIX and loaded it up, and added episodes four and five – which aired in January – to my queue.
Imagine my surprise when, instead of an opening commercial (because yes, even when you pay for HuluPlus, you get commercials) I got this:
I sent a couple annoyed tweets to both Hulu and SyFy, but figured I’d give it a day to resolve. So I went back this morning, clicked, and got…
Um.
A few problems with this.
1) Feb 6 is hardly “immediately after broadcast” for an episode that aired on 1/24.
2) The biggest selling point for using HuluPlus is that you can access shows the day after they air. Here we are almost two weeks later and episode 4 isn’t available yet? So I’m paying a monthly fee to access hundreds of hours of Korean soap operas and still have commercials in between acts, now? Er, no.
3) Why the HELL would Hulu Plus let me put this and a subsequent episode into my queue when they’re not available for viewing?
I could go on. But essentially this is some kind of bait-and-switch bullshit. I don’t subscribe to a cable provider because I watch my TV online. If I have to link a cable account to my already-fee-based Hulu Plus account, you know what suddenly becomes a lot less attractive? Paying for Hulu Plus.
Up to now I’ve been a defender of Hulu Plus, but with this kind of development I’m seriously considering cancelling.
This problem isn’t happening in a vacuum. If everyone will think back a week or two ago, you’ll remember the courts striking down net neutrality. You remember net neutrality, it was that thing that said that the companies that own the infrastructure of the Internet couldn’t slow down information sent from their competitors. You’d have to be an idiot not to see the connection between that ruling and the sudden lack of availability of quality programming via previously available channels (particulary in the case of Aereo, which suddenly started buffering every two seconds despite speed tests showing 10-14MBps download speeds and the lowest possible playback quality),.
Either way, I’m not wasting anymore time trying to get access. This is sad, because HELIX seems cool and I know these shows live or die depending on their audience numbers, but I’d rather watch independent web series or something on Netflix then have to keep checking back and being disappointed. If it makes the whole season and that goes to Netflix, maybe I’ll be able to watch it then. In the meantime, it’s time to seriously reconsider my subscription to HuluPlus and consider going with the unpaid version of the site: I may have to wait a week to see new episodes of shows I like, but at I’ll still be able to see them, and it won’t cost me 10 bucks a month.
While I hate to reward bad behavior, it may be that this sounds the death knell on my dedication to watching TV via the Internet. Then again, given that my alternative is Time Warner Cable, maybe it’s simply time to get out more. | {
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Welcome to the dark side, Mr. Bannon. Enjoy your cookies.
Looks like in addition to being the "Law and Order" president who appeals to the "Silent Majority," Donald Trump is making yet another bid to imitate Richard Nixon: The Daily Beast reports that with his precious ACA repeal potentially going tits-up (but let's not get our hopes or our tits up just yet), Donald Trump is being told by Steve Bannon that he should start keeping a "shit list" of Republicans who got in the way of his first major legislative initiative. It's a tough call -- will the list mostly include people who voted against it, or, since Trump never actually had a plan of his own, will it also include Paul Ryan, who instead of actually writing a plan anyone wanted, simply threw together a mess of rightwing pipe dreams and Ayn Rand-inflected floor sweepings and called it a "replacement" for the ACA? And perhaps Bannon's former based home, Dead Breitbart's Home For Rightwing Screaming, which hated the bill and called it "Obamacare Lite" from the start?
The big differences between Trump's shit list and Nixon's enemies list, of course, are that Nixon's list was secret, and that he mostly focused his paranoia on perceived enemies outside his own party, while Trump, ever aware that his greatest challenge isn't the other party but the traitors who may have held their noses and voted for him but don't love him enough, is out to destroy people who might occasionally be on his side. Gotta do something with that inauguration gift Bannon gave him, a lovely set of matching Long Knives. Also, Trump's list doesn't have anyone on it half as cool as Paul Newman (yes, really!).
We're also unlikely to have any moment as astonishing as then-CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr reading the list of names on live TV and finding his own name on it (at about the 55-second point below):
Now, it's anybody's guess how Trump will use his shit list; he's always struck us as the person who never needed notes to keep track of whom he hates. It may be more of a Bannon thing, anyway, as part of his ongoing effort to divide the world into Trump loyalists and those who must be purged with fire when the Time of Purification is at hand:
Two senior Trump administration officials with direct knowledge of the process told The Daily Beast that Bannon and Trump have taken a “you’re either with us or against us” approach at this point, and that Bannon wants the tally of “against” versus “with us” mounted in his so-called West Wing “war room.” “Burn the boats,” Bannon (in his typical, pugnacious style) advised Trump, according to one official involved. Burning one’s boats is a reference to when military commanders in hostile territories order his or her troops to destroy their own ships, so that they have to win or die trying.
Huh. We guess Bannon is allowed an occasional military metaphor, since he was in the Navy, unlike Trump with his disabling heel spurs that magically went away.
So we guess Republicans who oppose the ACA repeal bill because it's not rightwing enough are simply shaking in their jackboots? Maybe not so much:
Freedom Caucus aides said they were similarly unperturbed on Friday. One simply responded to The Daily Beast’s question regarding potentially getting on Trump and Bannon’s “shit list” with one word: “Meh.”
It's not quite Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe at Bastogne replying to the German demand to surrender with "NUTS!" But Donald Trump isn't exactly a Panzer division, either.
Of course, we also hear Donald Trump now thinks signing onto Ryan's plan was a terrible idea, too, so maybe he needs to get "Trump, D." on that list. Considering Bannon was calling Ryan and the Republican leadership "all cunts" just a short two years back, Trump had better watch his step to make sure he stays off Bannon's shit list.
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Mate selection is part of a growing interest in the study of processes by which couples are established, consolidated and/or separated. Similarity in psychological traits has been related to the well-being of couples, but given the possible effect of temporal convergence, it is necessary to control for the relationship length and whether or not both members of the couple live together. The aim of this study was to analyse the association between Morningness/Eveningness (M/E) similarity and relationship satisfaction in young-dating-non-cohabiting, young-married-cohabiting and old-married-cohabiting couples. Participants included 357 heterosexual couples (357 women and 357 men) with a mean age of 38.42 years old (SD = 13.11; age range between 19 and 69) who completed M/E (Composite Scale of Morningness) and relationship satisfaction measures (Comprehensive Marital Satisfaction Scale). Similarity in M/E was positively related to greater relationship satisfaction in both young cohabiting and non-cohabiting couples. In women, their own M/E was related to their own relationship satisfaction, whereas the level of relationship satisfaction in men was related to their partner's M/E. This relationship was observed in young-married-cohabiting couples. M/E similarity may operate differently as a function of the relationship stage. | {
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Ken Livingstone has backtracked on his apology for suggesting shadow defence minister Kevan Jones “might need psychiatric help”, after he was accused of being forced by the Labour leadership to say sorry.
The former London mayor re-ignited a row just hours after tweeting that he “unreservedly apologised” to Jones for telling the Mirror: “I think he might need some psychiatric help. He’s obviously very depressed and disturbed … He should pop off and see his GP before he makes these offensive comments.”
Livingstone made the remarks after Jones, who experienced depression in 1996, questioned his appointment as co-chair of Labour’s review of Trident.
The veteran Labour politician initially refused to retract his comments, accusing Jones of “wimping around”, telling him to “get over it” and blaming his own south London background for the fact he is rude back when someone is rude to him. But after speaking on the phone to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Livingstone publicly apologised, saying the comments should “not have been made at all, let alone in that context.
“I also make this apology because Jeremy is right to insist on a more civil politics and as a party we should take this seriously,” he added.
Corbyn, a long-time campaigner against stigmatisation of those with mental health problems, is said to be angry and upset about the comments but believed Livingstone’s remorse was “sincere”. But before long, Livingstone was back on the television air waves for a fresh confrontation with Jones on Channel 4 News.
Appearing from his home, he said the apology was made because Corbyn had told him that Jones was “actually quite a decent guy and reminded me that Jeremy’s strategy is that we don’t do all the offensive backstabbing and rows and I just got on board with that”.
He then watered down his apology by saying: “If I’ve upset anyone, I’m really sorry. But this row isn’t something I started. It’s because I was attacked as not fit for this job.”
Livingstone, who got Jones’s name wrong three times by calling him “Jeremy”, added: “You provoked this row. You questioned my ability to do this job. Why didn’t you just pick up the phone and ask me what I knew and understood about it? I’ve been debating military and defence issues for 45 years both in our party and in the media.”
Jones, who was in the Channel 4 studio, responded by accusing Livingstone of having been forced into an apology after causing offence.
“You were somehow excusing it because of your background, when other people had posh educations, which I did not, can I remind you. That does not excuse what you’ve done ... You were not going to unless Jeremy told you to,” he said.
The shadow defence minister also revealed that neither he nor shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle had been told that Livingstone, an opponent of Trident, was to co-chair Labour’s defence review.
“Why announce it on Twitter and use grossly offensive language to myself and millions of other sufferers of mental health [problems] to get over your point?” Jones said. Livingstone countered that he thought Jones’s attack on his fitness for office was “grossly offensive”.
The continuation of the row is likely to make it more difficult for Livingstone to work together with Eagle and Jones, who are both supporters of Trident, on the defence review that will have to come to a conclusion about whether to back renewal of the nuclear deterrent.
There may also be wider foreign policy differences between some of the parliamentary Labour party and Livingstone, who has said western interventions have “come back to haunt us” and told Channel 4 that Britain and America are “totally discredited” because of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Eagle, who recently backed Gen Sir Nicholas Houghton’s criticism of Corbyn’s anti-Trident stance, is said to be furious about the appointment but a source close to the shadow cabinet minister denied suggestions that she was poised to resign.
The source said: “Maria and Ken are co-convening the review and Maria will still be leading it, as was outlined by Jeremy at conference. Trident will be just one of many issues the review will look at; there isn’t a separate review.”
Their working relationship is likely to be made even more difficult by the fact Livingston said Eagle was “being very silly” if she felt aggrieved by an older man being brought in to supervise her work.
Corbyn had hoped to push Labour towards dropping support for Trident at this year’s party conference, but a bid to hold a vote failed after he could not win the support of the major trade unions.
He is hoping the defence review will lead to a change of policy at Labour’s national policy forum, with the appointment of Livingstone creating a balanced ticket on the issue of Trident. | {
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I seriously don't even know what you're talking about, it seems you have some reading comprehension issues. You most certainly have some attitude issues.
I'm not crying and I don't advocate anyone dropping out of law school, first or last semester. I just wanted to give my opinion to people who are about to commit to law school. It's a serious life choice and people should know what it's really like out there. The situation is dire out there, for LEGAL JOBS. No poo you can join the Army. You can do that without law school and save a bunch of money. But don't for a second think that someone will want to hire you after you just spent three years after law school doing nothing law-related. How is that a good investment?
And I don't even understand why you're being so angry and obnoxious about it.
Nowhere in the original post does the OP say that law school will ruin your life or that the schools are out to get you. All she said was that the job market is not good even for graduates of top schools and that people should be wary, and that schools are trying to keep their employment statistics up. There's nothing wrong with providing people with a word of caution. If you don't need the message, then just ignore it.
Also, the bar analogy isn't at all applicable because the bartender doesn't have much control over whether or not you get laid at the end of the night. Where you go to law school has some effect on how well you fare, even if it's not 100% determinative.
I have the inside view from a T14. MOST of my fellow graduating 3Ls do not have job offers. ANY offers. This is not simply a lack of BigLaw jobs but a structural problem in the legal community in general. Don't be fooled into thinking, "Well, I never wanted to be making $160k working at a stifling corporate law firm anyway." The job market is pure crap across the board. There is stunningly high unemployment at these elite schools.
However, the school is rehiring many of us to work at the library or in part-time research assistant positions so that we do not drag down the employment rate.
You are a fool if you think law school is a decent place to "ride out the recession."
Even Harvard Law grads are having problems finding jobs. So if the T14 grads are in danger, then what about the rest of the schools (from first tier to TTT to fourth tier)?
I hope this post is not deleted. It could save people hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you got into a law school and paid a deposit, you must still think about what I am saying and make a wise decision.
That is just what gets me is people just say these things like it only applies to law school. I am pretty sure every type of school tries to manipulate their stats as best they can.
But it's a law school discussion forum. It would be a strange thing if the focus of the discussion was not on law school, wouldn't it? I haven't heard anyone say anything to the effect of, "law school is more of a scam than anything else."
I want to be a lawyer, my mother was a lawyer and I've worked as a teacher and I enjoyed my internships in law much more, you can't take the bar without having gone to law school so the Do NOT go to law school trolls are pointless. For those going to law school because they have nothing else to do or a worthless UG degree i understand, but for those who have a strong desire to become a lawyer, there isn't any other way to pursue that goal (unless you want to be a paralegal).
I didn't say it was a permanent job. It is a summer position. If there are summer positions available, does that not indicate there are jobs in general. I'm also not saying that every person who goes to law school will get a job. I was saying that perhaps you didn't network enough.
Again, unless there's some nepotism at work here, I still don't believe you. I've sort of explained in detail below why I don't believe you. Not that I really give a rats ass, even assuming you are telling the truth, that would simply mean you've found a lawyer/law firm that should be committed to some psychiatric facility.
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Also, if it's so unbelievable that I have a summer job before beginning school, I guess that speaks pretty well for me. What is so difficult to believe about it, really?
Why would that speak well about you? You have no idea how well or bad you're going to do in law school, and neither does that employer. It speaks nothing about you, but it speaks extremely poorly about that employer who's willing to hand out a job to someone that for all he knows could be expelled from school, or fail half his exams before the time comes.
Again, the reason I replied the way I did is that I've simply never, ever, heard about any legal employer making an offer to someone who hasn't even started law school, that's simply beyond ridiculous.
Again, if you're offered a job at your fathers office or your uncle's or something like that, yeah, of course they're going to give you a job. But if you're telling me you sent an application to random law firms and pretty much said "Hey, I'm gonna go to law school, got a job for me?" and they actually said yes, then yeah, there's something seriously wrong.
I'm still leaning towards not believing you though. Mainly considering just how incredibly far away this is from the experiences of every currently in law school or the legal business. It's literally unheard of.
you can't take the bar without having gone to law school so the Do NOT go to law school trolls are pointless.
Well, this is in fact not true. Several jurisdictions allow you to sit for the bar without actually going to law school. And yes, that includes the two most "important" states; California and New York. Of the top of my head I can also think of Washington and Virginia that allows you to take the bar without going to law school. I know there are other states too, but I'm just too damn lazy to google it.
I want to be a lawyer, my mother was a lawyer and I've worked as a teacher and I enjoyed my internships in law much more, you can't take the bar without having gone to law school so the Do NOT go to law school trolls are pointless. For those going to law school because they have nothing else to do or a worthless UG degree i understand, but for those who have a strong desire to become a lawyer, there isn't any other way to pursue that goal (unless you want to be a paralegal).
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Kobe Bryant has consistently suggested he’ll play just one or two more seasons before retiring.
Currently on a trip to Brazil, the Lakers guard may have revealed a different plan altogether.
“I could easily see myself playing another three or four years,” he said on Brazilian television in a segment produced by Glenda Carqueijo (2:30 in the video).
The All-Star guard is currently recovering from a torn Achilles’ tendon, suffered April 12. He’s expected to return to the court by November or December.
Bryant is headed into the final year of his contract and will be 35 before next season. He’s confident he’ll fully recover from what was a devastating injury.
The television clip, narrated in Portuguese, describes Bryant as an “NBA superstar in Brazil.”
Bryant was able to spend time with Hall-of-Famer Oscar Schmidt, who is recovering from brain surgery. Bryant and Schmidt were also joined by Brazilian NBA players Anderson Varejao and Leandro Barbosa, judging a local dunk contest.
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That's not even remotely relevant. If a law was passed giving the government the legal right to rape anyone they wanted to, would you be any less opposed to it if, after a year, they hadn't actually raped anyone? Such powers should never have been granted in the first place.
Besides, it's not unreasonable not to trust the British government with such powers given their track record in Northern Ireland.
You can't trust any government with powers like that.
I would actually prefer a Jumbo flying into a skyscraper every decade or so to the Big Brother legislation passed left, right and centre on the waferthin excuse of preventing such acts of terrorism.
That's not even remotely relevant. If a law was passed giving the government the legal right to rape anyone they wanted to, would you be any less opposed to it if, after a year, they hadn't actually raped anyone? Such powers should never have been granted in the first place.
Besides, it's not unreasonable not to trust the British government with such powers given their track record in Northern Ireland.
I guess it becomes VERY relevant if you don't answer the third part of the question AND if you don't assume that the people against whom these laws are enacted are always going to be innocent.
Whereas in your counter example the test of there being some form of reasonable grounds (as in the realistic threat of mass murder) for enacting the law is absent. Seems like a bit of a straw-man tbh.
Originally Posted by Irfan
We may not like you, your filthy rich coffers or your ratbag scum of supporters but by god do we respect you as a football team
I would actually prefer a Jumbo flying into a skyscraper every decade or so to the Big Brother legislation passed left, right and centre on the waferthin excuse of preventing such acts of terrorism.
I'm pretty certain that you can say that because no-one you know has been killed by said jumbo jet flying into tower, and because you haven't seen what a society would look like if mass attacks did occur so regularly.
I'm pretty certain that you can say that because no-one you know has been killed by said jumbo jet flying into tower, and because you haven't seen what a society would look like if mass attacks did occur so regularly.
Obviously I'm not in favour of terrorist attacks, HOWEVER I feel quite strongly that the legislation passed based on the fear for such attacks is the greater evil of the two.
Freedom of thought and expression is the greatest good we have and will never be taken away by a mullah sitting in a cave. It will, however, be erased without second thought by western politicians backed by a frigthened electorate
I guess it becomes VERY relevant if you don't answer the third part of the question AND if you don't assume that the people against whom these laws are enacted are always going to be innocent.
The third part of the question is impossible to answer, to do so would be to speculate.
And the people being imprisoned are always innocent, not literally, but legally, given that the basis of any judiciary has to be that a person is innocent until it is proved otherwise. In any case, if you have any solid reason to suspect that someone is involved in conspiracy to kill millions of people then you should really be able to find something to charge them with inside 40 days.
Originally Posted by Matt79
I'm pretty certain that you can say that because no-one you know has been killed by said jumbo jet flying into tower, and because you haven't seen what a society would look like if mass attacks did occur so regularly.
Haha, well there's barely anyone over 25 in my extended family who hasn't been shot at, threatened or been severely beaten as the result of terrorism. One was killed, but it was before I was born. Can you take my views on internment seriously?
It's ridiculous that anti-terrorism laws have been used for things not at all to do with terrorism. For example, against Iceland in the banking crisis, the planned use during the olympics of the emergency stop-and-search without suspicion, and the surveilance of whether people use their wheely-bins correctly - and many many more things too. No wonder people are worried when they bring in more.
Looks like we will have a government before the end of the day, is going to be interesting to see how exactly how this coalition works out.
Thank goodness. It will be very interesting to see the cabinet. I hope Cameron hasn't had to put too many right-wingers into the cabinet to pull the deal off, because I'm sure people like Howard, Davis and IDS would have been nowhere near it if he'd got a majority.
Thank goodness. It will be very interesting to see the cabinet. I hope Cameron hasn't had to put too many right-wingers into the cabinet to pull the deal off, because I'm sure people like Howard, Davis and IDS would have been nowhere near it if he'd got a majority.
Cameron will not be happy about it either, bound to cause him some trouble if things are not going right.
This was always the most likely result, Cameron has got one hell of a job on his hands, relationships are already strained between Conservatives and the Lib dems after these talks with Labour.
I just hope Labour get behind a new leader and get ready for the next election.
Aye, the BNP completely failed in the election. When a student in my school asked a teacher did she vote for the BNP, the teacher replied with "Never in a million years."
Btw, The Times has a great pull-ou of the election with the results in all of the constituencies if you're interested
That's one reason to stick to first-past-the-post over PR....It ensures that fringe parties like the BNP and UKIP don't win seats in the HOuse of Commons. However, they'll always get MEP seats in Europe, because of PR.....
That's one reason to stick to first-past-the-post over PR....It ensures that fringe parties like the BNP and UKIP don't win seats in the HOuse of Commons. However, they'll always get MEP seats in Europe, because of PR.....
I got a good pullout in the IoS....
You could set a minimum proportion of the vote that you would have to achieve before you are entitled to have MP's. Germany sets it at 5% and this keeps out all of the fringe lunatics.
In the Netherlands, there's no such threshold and as a result, parties who poll roughly 0.8% of the vote get a seat in the 150-seat Second Chamber. There's some proper lunatics among them, from ultra-orthodox Christians who refuse to allow women to vote to animal-rights activists.
In NZ, we have an MMP proportional representation system. Seats still exist, but you get two votes - a vote for your local MP to represent your local needs and a second vote for a Party.
If you're an Independent, you can still get into Parliament by winning a seat, but only (half? - not sure) seats represent specific constituencies whilst the remaining number of seats are distributed on a percentage share of the vote basis.
HOWEVER, an adjustment is made if you win a seat. If you don't win a constituency seat, you need to get (I think) 3.4% of the party vote nationwide to gain a 'list' seat. However, if you win a constituency vote too (for example Rodney Hide of the ACT party) the percentage of the vote at which you first gain list MPs is a lot lower.
Hence, we had a situation in NZ where the New Zealand First party gained about 3.0% of the vote and earned Zero seats in parliament whilst the ACT Party gained a similar amount of the vote, but earned 3 seats.
Anyway, my point was you don't have to lose local representation in a Proportional Representation world.
Also, in NZ, you've had quite a lot of hung parliaments, haven't you?
And you have a referendum coming up next year to decide whether you're going to keep PR, or go back to the first-past-the-post system....
I've spoken to a couple of Kiwis who're really looking forward to voting in this referendum, and getting back to the old Westminster style! | {
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By Bilal Aziz –
In the 21st century, the emphasis on creativity has birthed a new way of thinking in a generation that is often directionless. Finding a voice that fills the void in one’s life is more difficult as it seems if you have not discovered the medium in which you are able to do so. At times, the inner voice that traps the rage, passion and frustration within needs a form of release. Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy” is the guide which people should follow to achieve this.
Set in Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest slums in Asia (also the setting for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire), the narrative of the film focuses on the plight of Murad (played by Ranveer Singh), a nervous and quietly perceptive individual who is used as a device to represent a wider community that has had its values shaped by the unfortunate circumstances they find themselves in. The movie is just as focused on the quality of life of individuals and families in deprived areas as it is on the hip-hop scene that was birthed as a result of it.
The rise of hip-hop in Mumbai coincidentally mirrors the inception of the culture in the Bronx in the 1970s. A rebellious genre of music born out of the cultural and social struggle of a group of people who use their anger and hidden talents to make a statement to the world that their voices will no longer be ignored.
Within the first 15 minutes of Gully Boy, the audience are exposed to theft, drugs and broken homes, all elements that have come to define slum-life in the mainstream and indeed the exact same themes that traditional hip-hop artists have always put to the fore of their artistry. The cinematography captures the claustrophobic and the lack of comfortability of day to day life in such areas. Not afraid to portray the harsh realities of the lives of struggling human beings and the expressive nature of urban customs, the movie itself is a form of hip-hop. Stripped bare and exposed in its rawest form.
The most telling scene of these minutes however was the introduction to Murad’s appreciation of hip-hop. We see the character’s eyes change from confusion, as a group of poverty tourists invade the privacy of his cramped home, to hope, as he sees one of the men wearing a t-shirt with a picture of American rapper Nas emblazed on the front of it. He begins to rap Nas’ infamous “NY State of Mind”, a track about the troublesome struggles of life in New York, while his voice becomes struck with conviction as he recites words that relate to his sorrow.
Hip-hop breaks boundaries. It transcends the particularity of who it really belongs to and opens up doors to people who have it shut in their faces every day through the poetry at the heart of the culture. It is unsurprising that young South Asians have used poetry as a device to share their stories.
Allama Iqbal, a philosophical poet, widely appreciated by literature enthusiasts in the Indian subcontinent played a significant role in embedding poetry deep into the roots of South Asian culture. His rhetoric was laced with socially conscious undertones while directly addressing political systems and spirituality under the guise of reawakening people who felt detached from their roots during British rule in India.
It is why South Asian music is lyrically meaningful at its heart. Poetry has become an intrinsic part of the culture and the understanding of it has given young writers a space to feel comfortable in pursuing careers outside the generic offerings by their elders.
Rappers Divine and Naezy, whose lives the film is loosely based on and who have contributed to a bulk of the MCing on the soundtrack, have given a voice to the people who have dared to dream in the strict, confined spaces they are unable to wither out of. They birthed a new culture on the streets of Mumbai where rebellious youth have evolved into confident men who articulate their situations through a medium that is easily accessible and will be even more so after the inevitable success of this film. With Nas being credited as an executive producer alongside Ranveer Singh effortlessly rapping every bar his character spits, the scene is destined to thrive, and it will be impossible to hinder the momentum it is currently gathering.
Gully Boy’s pulse is its poetic nature. It unassumingly weaves snippets of the soundtrack into scenes that would seem out of place without them. The intricate lyrics become part of the screenplay, aiding the progression of the story. In a scene where Murad is forced to take on his father’s job as a driver to a rich family and absorb their first world problems, the spoken word form of “Doori”, plays alongside a melancholic backing track, conveying his inner thoughts while effortlessly showing the division of class in Indian society. The reality of the words takes the audience away from their comfortable lives and invests their emotions into a character who has been written in a way that you cannot help but root for him to succeed.
Audiences flock to the cinemas when the story of the underdog takes centre stage. Will Smith starrer “The Pursuit of Happiness” gained critical acclaim for the emotive message it presented to Americans who failed to make ends meet to keep their families afloat. Gully Boy is on par with it. The message of hope, freedom and self-growth patch the few cracks the film has and brings to the fore the heart shattering impact it provides.
This movie signals the shift in narrative of mainstream entertainment in the South Asian industry. Where once the audience would be forced to sit through a three-hour display from egotistically superstars with no intention to act properly alongside predictable conflicts, generic songs and intelligence insulting narratives, the coming of age element of Gully Boy’s story will inevitably sway audiences to choose movies that reflect the state of society rather than take them on an endless journey of mediocrity.
And as the end credits start rolling, you feel like there’s still so much to explore of the underground hip-hop scene in Mumbai. The abrupt ending is more like a mic-drop than a definitive end to a story. As you see Murad going back to his gully in Dharavi after his triumphant rise to the top, you begin to realise that life is all about appreciating where you came from as it moulds you as a person. It is who you are and who you always will be. Modern day hip-hop fans don’t appreciate the fact that authenticity is key. Gully Boy planted this idea and now we hope for the seeds to grow as quickly as the scene has. | {
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A gay man was beaten with fists, tables and chairs at a migrant asylum home in in Sweden this week.
The gay man was living with his boyfriend at the center. When the man sat at the wrong table in the dining hall at least 10 Afghan migrants beat the gay man with fists, tables and chairs.
The staff was forced to rescue the gay man who was being hit with chairs as he lay on the floor.
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[UPDATE 9/26] Obama's nerds realized the bad idea was bad..
The US has four destroyers in the Mediterranean right now each packing 90 Tomahawks apiece plus the British have a Trafalgar class submarine offshore and a Rapid Reaction force setting up shop at Akrotiri in Cyprus. It's hard to figure the real justification here (outside of the details I gave in my
Such is the madness of war. Looks like NATO and Obama's tech geeks are going ahead with a 'limited' attack on Syria.[UPDATE 9/26] Obama's nerds realized the bad idea was bad..The US has four destroyers in the Mediterranean right now each packing 90 Tomahawks apiece plus the British have a Trafalgar class submarine offshore and a Rapid Reaction force setting up shop at Akrotiri in Cyprus. It's hard to figure the real justification here (outside of the details I gave in my previous post ) but the international media play here seems to be: "Assad unleashed his chemical weaponry and wasted civilians so now it's time for the West to bring some kinetic blast energy into the mix to punish Assad for killing people in an unapproved way." Yep, it seems the reasoning behind the attack is going to be that retarded. You kill your people via asphyxiation so we'll kill more of your people via high explosive and that'll teach you a lesson for your "moral obscenity".Such is the madness of war.
Of course, this can't be the only reason for the attack and the above reason is just the bullshit they're going to print in the newspapers. A recent poll indicated 60% of the American public are against any intervention in Syria (because they're smart) but modern proxy resource war is never a game of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" so there is no 'ask the audience' option. The corporate oligarchy are just gonna go ahead and blow shit up and continue with the wider plan of gobbling up the entire energy riches of the Middle East.
Syria will be first on the permanently destabilized list, followed later by Iran.
This attack, for the moment, is being advertised as merely a 'one off strike' to punish Assad for using chemical weapons (if he used them, more on that later). It's the "poke the hornets nest with a stick and see what happens" theory of war. If Assad reacts and does something stupid like launching missiles at Israel (highly unlikely) then NATO will pounce and bring on the real war, armed with the excuse to retaliate they can feed to their surveillance state nominal 'democracies' back home. If Assad is smart and he sure seems to be, then the correct reaction to the NATO attack will be to do nothing and instead offer up the usual parade of dead babies to world TV cameras.
And this is where the story gets real shady for me.
Assad by all accounts is not a stupid man. He attended Western universities. He's a trained eye doctor. This at least must mean he's not a total idiot, right? Why then would he use nerve gas at a time when the rebel factions aligned against him are fracturing, fighting amongst themselves and losing control of towns? Assad's forces seem to have gained a slight initiative in this war and now suddenly, just as he begins winning, he breaks out chemical weapons and hands NATO the golden invitation to walk into his country?
common sense.
The things is, who these days is gonna trust the US or UK when they say WMDs are a legit reason to enter a war? It is a fact that chemical weapons exist in Syria but the real issue here is, who used them? It may be hard to believe Assad is that stupid but of course, that does not mean he isn't that stupid. War is not a logical environment and the common sense I mentioned above may not be applicable at all. Maybe Assad felt that by using a terror weapon and getting away with it, that act alone would be a morale shatterer for the rebels and allow his forces to go on the full offensive; knowing that pesky entrenched rebel holdouts could be gassed out of their positions with ease. Maybe Assad was testing the waters to bring about an offensive chemical game changer to end the war decisively? We just can't know and no side in any of this as of this writing seems inclined to deliver definitive proof of who is responsible. Still, none of it passes the smell test does it?
Do not watch the video below if you would prefer to avoid the horrors of nerve gas (NSFL).
It just doesn't make sense on the very fundamental level known asThe things is, who these days is gonna trust the US or UK when they say WMDs are a legit reason to enter a war? It is a fact that chemical weapons exist in Syria but the real issue here is, who used them? It may be hard to believe Assad is that stupid but of course, that. War is not a logical environment and theI mentioned above may not be applicable at all. Maybe Assad felt that by using a terror weapon and getting away with it, that act alone would be a morale shatterer for the rebels and allow his forces to go on the full offensive; knowing that pesky entrenched rebel holdouts could be gassed out of their positions with ease. Maybe Assad was testing the waters to bring about an offensive chemical game changer to end the war decisively? We just can't know and no side in any of this as of this writing seems inclined to deliver definitive proof of who is responsible. Still, none of it passes the smell test does it?Do not watch the video below if you would prefer to avoid the horrors of nerve gas (NSFL).
Assad's actions after the chemical story broke are telling too. He immediately offered to let UN inspectors in to examine the sites where the chemicals were allegedly used. Obviously, he's studied the West's WMD playbook in Iraq and learned from Saddam that stalling on this issue provides the West with justification for an invasion. Sure, that could be a bluff too, designed to play well with a foreign anti war public; the logic being that he at least tried to prove his innocence but the damn rebels prevented the UN convoy from getting through to the chemical sites. Maybe, he's like the shark in Jaws, either very dumb or very smart... he's gone under the media.
Even the mainstream media are asking these questions now but it is testimony to our times that the precedent for wars without Congressional approval, without UN approval, wars that are illegal under international law; all can happen anyway because of the precedents set in Iraq 2003. Even the will of the majority of the public can be set aside by those in power. Hope and Change was all just a slick marketing campaign. Now we see why Obama didn't go after the Bush Administration and instead made them all immune from prosecution. Another precedent was set... that of total freedom from liability for those who would run the empire and its global proxy resource wars. A freedom from liability the Noble Peace Prize winner himself will avail of when he himself presses the red button on Syria later this week. If he does because deep down I still don't get where victory lies here. Obama's defenders will say that the White House did warn that chemical usage was a "redline" moment and the US will look weak if they do not strike punitively as a matter of proving the US point. One thing is for sure though and that's that any overt foreign involvement in Syria just leads to more clusterfuck. Unfortunately, this is the only truth you will find in the Syrian Regional War.
Meanwhile, yesterday in Syria, shit got even more shady. Suddenly, on their way to the nerve gas attack sites, the investigating UN convoy took incoming fire and was forced to retreat before inspecting anything. Let's look at the possibilities here in the absence of cold hard facts.
A) The snipers were Assad's forces trying to stop the UN from discovering the truth behind the usage of nerve gas. Assad invited the UN team in as a ruse, just to seem like an honest broker and then had his snipers shoot up the convoy knowing they would flee. He then blamed the shooting on the rebels and appealed to world anti war sentiment under the idea that he did all he could to try to prove his forces innocent of chemical weapons usage.
B) The snipers were in fact rebel factions trying to prevent the UN from discovering that the rebels themselves were responsible for the gas attack either using stolen chemical artillery shells looted from Assad's arsenals or, worse still, chemical weapons supplied from outside Syria by a foreign menagerie of sleazy enemies with an interest in watching Syria burn.
C) The snipers were foreign CIA/Mossad/Turkish agents running a covert mission to interdict the UN convoy to stop the inspectors from discovering that the chemical weapons came from foreign sources, were not part of Assad's arsenal and that the rebels perpetrated the attack themselves; all this with the added bonus of confirming the fact that Assad is a callous killer who would fire on unarmed UN inspectors.
D) The snipers are just random assholes. It's a war zone after all. Some dick shot at the convoy because he hates white SUVs, hates his job, hates the war and the guy banging his wife drives a white car so he fired shots and it's all just random mad shit.
One of the above is the truth. But which one is it?
They say truth is the first casualty in any war so here we go again...
Those blast points, too accurate for sand people?
The impending NATO strike is being presented as a sort of 'slap on the wrist' attack in world media.
To know if this is true, all we will have to do is wait to see what the primary targets for the initial Tomahawk cruise missile strikes will be. The targets designated here will be crucial in figuring out where NATO is planning on taking this war. If most of the targets are X band strikes against Syria's air defense radars than we can be pretty sure this is just the opening salvo and NATO intends to take air superiority over Syria and fill the skies later on with ground support aircraft for the rebels, a Libya part II if you like. However, if the strikes are primarily against Assad himself, his house, his swimming pool, his Bentley, government buildings and some military bases and command and control centers then, that might fit the advertising as a "punitive measure" type attack. Obviously, limited strikes against all of the above will keep NATO intentions muddled for now and will be the probable course of action. But we will still learn a lot from the extent of strikes against Assad's air defense systems. And we'd be foolish to think that the US doesn't have a whole bunch of follow up contingency options waiting in the wings.
Next up, what are the wider geopolitics of this crazy war.
And, by wider geopolitics, I am of course talking Russia and Iran here. I talked a lot about this last time but it's worth repeating. Russia currently has an undisclosed number of assets inside Syria. They have that Mediterranean base at Tartus which they would dearly like to hold. Losing it would be a serious blow to Russian prestige but I'm sure NATO have offered assurances that they have no designs here. The Russians have some Soviet era warships off the coast, some Spetsnaz and paratroopers in country and also an unknown number of technicians helping with the air defense systems. Has the S-300 SAM system been deployed yet? This is a huge question and we don't yet know. Some batteries could be operational and will be operated by Russian technicians. Obviously, the S-300 getting its first combat test v NATO would be popcorn overdose time but most likely the initial strike will involve cruise missiles and maybe, if the US goes exotic, some B2 stealth bombers from mainland US bases.
How will Russia react?
There'll be complaints at the UN and fist waving along with the Chinese. But at this stage of the 21st century everyone knows the Western modus operandi and the juggernaut that is US military power. The corporate empire cannot be deterred by conventional forces and nukes remain off the table because it's just not worth bringing on Armageddon. Yet.
The real question here is what the NATO plan for Syria is.
Is it perpetual chaos in the heart of the Arab world? Because if the West were truly interested in stability in Syria than the dirty little secret of this war might be that Assad would be the best option for that. Let the Arab strongman continue his authoritarian dictatorship not because it's expedient or moral or even right, but because the alternatives are far worse. Just look at Egypt in the aftermath of Mubarak as an object lesson on how things can go wrong without a bad guy on the payroll. The Arabs just don't do democracy and voting booths. In the wake of Assad's demise, what would a post war Syria look like? It would look like another Civil War but this time on bath salts with multiple factions fighting each other, Druze, Alawites, Christians, FSA, Al-Nusra Islamic radicals, Kurds, Al-Qaeda franchise elements, Hezbollah, Iranian militias, Sunni factions, ex Assad Syrian Army hold-ons all clawing each other's faces off for power. The civilian slaughter and genocide could go off the charts.
But here's the dark side for Western war planners. Once you ditch the morality of fomenting a failed state you also by default neuter it. Its teeth are gone. Its ability to project power evaporates from its neighbor's borders. All this chaos would mean the end of Syria as a contiguous state and would remove it as a threat to Israel, Turkey and Jordan and end its alliance with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran to the East. It would knock Russian influence out of the Middle East. Hezbollah would find itself with a far more difficult supply chain for rocketry to aim at Israel and Iran would find itself fully isolated and surely the next domino to fall.
So now perhaps the benefits of attack emerge however tenuously. Total destabilization. Chaos. A very scary course of action surely with many unforeseeable outcomes but obviously viewed as containable from Western war planner's madcap Dr Strangelove rooms.
In fact, examined on these terms, NATO's impending intervention in Syria starts to make some kind of strategic sense when you take in the big picture... total Western hegemony of the last easily extractable oil on the planet. Lessening reliance on tar sands and its low EROEI numbers and high costs-to-refine, nothing but sweet crude sitting just under desert sands in Iraq and Iran and the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. Syria barely has any oil but it is a linchpin state in the region. Damascus is the historic heart of Arabia. Maybe we've reached the stage where such chaos is desirable and that's a very scary place to be just 13 years into the new century. Hegemony via chaos is a risky game.
This is a big war and it's happening live on your TV for reasons far removed from a whiff of nerve gas. If Assad takes his medicine and does not retaliate (his best move) we have the possibility of continued stalemate. The fire could all die down and be forgotten in a week or it could flare up and consume more forest. It's been a long hot summer. And the desert is dry and ripe for flames.
If NATO are smart, they back down on this one. They already have all the chaos they need.
Grab popcorn. And stay tuned.
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a convertible with a roof which can be opened and lowered into a rear roof storage space, with a trunk lid which can be swung up to clear a through opening for the roof which is to be lowered at its forward edge, and which has a covering which is movably supported on the trunk lid so that it can be moved between a front covering position in front of the trunk lid with the roof opened and a rear lowered position under the trunk lid with the roof closed.
2. Description of Related Art
U.S. Pat. No. 6,145,915 discloses a convertible with a hinged roof which can be opened, in which the covering is supported on the front edge of the trunk lid to be able to pivot around a transverse axis, so that its top, which faces upward in the front covered position, faces downward in the lowered position in which it has been swung-back under the trunk lid. When the roof is to be opened and lowered, before the front of the trunk lid is swung up, first the covering is pivoted to the rear, out of its front position as a shelf under the rear roof part, to under the trunk lid, for which considerable space is necessary in the stowage space under the shelf and in the roof storage space to enable this movement to be performed. The required swinging path must be kept open and is not available for other vehicle parts or for cargo.
U.S. Pat No. 6,030,023 discloses a convertible with an openable hinged roof, in which a shelf is pivotally supported on a partition which borders the trunk or the front of the roof storage space for clearing the path of motion for the roof which is to be lowered. The shelf can be moved between covering position, in which the shelf covers the opening between the front edge of the trunk lid and the partition, and an essentially vertical lowered position on the partition. The shelf contains a bearing arm which projects downward and which is supported on the support mounted on the partition to be able to pivot around a transverse axis such that the shelf is swung out of its upper covered position, forward and downward to the partition. The shelf is coupled to the trunk lid, for example, by means of a Bowden cable, so that the shelf is swung at the same time as when the trunk lid is swung up for lowering the roof. However, since the rear edge of the swinging shelf moves up, and thus, against the rear roof part, the structural layout of the roof and shelf is limited.
Published German Patent Application DE 199 43 860 A1 discloses a convertible with a covering device in which a cover part, which covers the convertible top storage space, is movably supported for clearing a through opening for the roof. Furthermore, there is a flat widened area which can be adjusted by means of a four-bar mechanism, between a lowered position under the cover part with the roof closed and a covered position in front of the cover with the roof opened. The four-bar mechanism, on either side, contains a quadruple hinge with two pivot rods which are supported to be able to pivot around pivot axes which are stationary on the cover part and which adjust the widened area in a combined swinging-pushing motion, so that the top of the widened area faces upward in each position. The possible displacement path of the widened area between its two end positions is limited by the length of the two connecting rods of the quadruple hinge, long rods requiring a large swinging path. The flat widened area with the roof closed adjoins the rear roof part from underneath.
A primary object of the present invention is to devise a convertible of the the initially mentioned type which has an improved covering for the through opening for the lowerable roof.
This object is achieved in accordance with the invention in that there is a movably supported shelf which, with the roof closed, occupies an operating position as a shelf, and with the roof opened, a lowered position in front of the roof storage space. Thus, the shelf is moved into its operating position with the roof closed when the roof storage space or convertible top compartment is not occupied by roof parts so that the path of motion of the shelf is not limited.
Preferably, the shelf in its lowered position is located adjacent to a partition in front of the roof storage space. The partition, for example, can be located directly behind the seats of the convertible or behind a stowage space behind the seats. In a simple configuration, the shelf is supported to be able to swing down around a front pivot axis in its lowered position. Thus, a simple pivot drive is enough to picot the shelf at its rear edge into its roughly horizontal operating position and into its roughly vertical or steeply inclined lowered position on the back of the partition.
Preferably, the covering with the bearing means is supported on the trunk lid such that it can be displaced, with the top facing upward, between its covered position in front of the trunk lid and its lowered position under the trunk lid. Due to this parallel swinging, a smaller space is sufficient for the swinging motion of the covering, which is also called the cover of the convertible top compartment. Feasibly, the bearing means contains a quadruple joint which has two pivot rods which swing in the lengthwise direction and which pivot on the trunk lid and the covering, each around pivot bearing axes which are stationary on the components.
In an alternative configuration, the bearing means comprises a pivoting and sliding mechanism with a front pivot lever which pivotally supports the front section of the covering on the trunk lid, and with a lengthwise guide which is located under the trunk lid and on which a support arm which projects from the rear section of the covering is supported to be able to pivot and slide. The covering can also be guided at its front edge on the lengthwise guide and can be supported at its rear edge with the pivot rod.
When feasible, the shelf and the covering have essentially the same size, the through opening to be covered can be closed alternately by the shelf and the covering, without other components.
A drive means for the shelf or for the covering preferably contains a hydraulic unit, a hydraulic rotary drive or an electric motor. Furthermore, to move the covering, there can be a drive means with a drive motor and tension/compression cables or a rack. On the other hand, the drive for displacing the covering or the shelf can be derived from the bearing mechanism of the trunk lid. In this case, there is no need for its own additional drive.
The convertible is explained in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings using two embodiments for supporting the covering. | {
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Tag Archives: Don’t Go in the Woods
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A feral man who lives out in the wilderness kills anyone stupid enough to enter his woods. REVIEW: I am a connoisseur of 1980’s slasher films and take pride in the fact that I have almost seen every single one of them. However, from time to time some of them manage to slip through the cracks …
In director James Bryan’s 1981 cult classic, a group of obnoxious campers venture into the wilderness for what they assume will be a fun filled weekend. Unknown to them, a bloodthirsty maniac is hiding in the woods, watching their every move, and violently killing them, one by one, every chance he gets… Filled with low-fi gore effects and black humor, …
I found it hard to choose just ten films that would cause enough fear to keep people away from densely wooded areas. As I was organizing a list, digging through the hundreds of films that send their protagonists into the woods, I wondered: Are films that are based out of camps really films that take place in the woods, or …
Trailer: Don’t Go in the Woods (2011) Red Band Clip A young band heads to the woods in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to emerge with new music that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension.
Trailer: Don’t Go in the Woods (2010) A young band heads to the woods in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to emerge with new music that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension. | {
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Beginning with Balloon Fight this week, Nintendo is releasing NES and SNES console classics over a new Virtual Console for the Wii U. Eurogamer noticed that the NES version of Balloon Fight in the EU runs slower—50 Hz compared to 60 Hz for the NTSC version of the game we get here in the U.S.. The slower speed accounts for the slower refresh rates of PAL TVs in the 1980s. (That video of F-Zero, uploaded in 2011, gives you an idea of the difference.)
Naturally, everyone over there has noticed. Now, I see two ways to look on this:
• How the fuck dare Nintendo release us a version inferior to the United States?! This is 2013, and if I can't play a 25-year-old Balloon Fight at 60 Hz my Wii U experience is ruined and I want my money back. What's that? It cost 30p? I want treble damages!
• Wow! Nintendo is so committed to authenticity it even re-releases the game playing at the same speed it did when I was but a lad! Thanks Nintendo!. | {
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Stochastic Dynamic Models of Response Time and Accuracy: A Foundational Primer.
A large class of statistical decision models for performance in simple information processing tasks can be described by linear, first-order, stochastic differential equations (SDEs), whose solutions are diffusion processes. In such models, the first passage time for the diffusion process through a response criterion determines the time at which an observer makes a decision about the identity of a stimulus. Because the assumptions of many cognitive models lead to SDEs that are time inhomogeneous, classical methods for solving such first passage time problems are usually inapplicable. In contrast, recent integral equation methods often yield solutions to both the one-sided and the two-sided first passage time problems, even in the presence of time inhomogeneity. These methods, which are of particular relevance to the cognitive modeler, are described in detail, together with illustrative applications. Copyright 2000 Academic Press. | {
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Wow!
I'm blown away by that dragon fight!
That fire physics are amazing!
I can't believe what they showed us in February was actual gameplay, amazing!
I can't wait to play this game. It's still early too, so it's only gonna get better by release.
That dragon fight was really cool. I loved how he stopped time in the end of the clip. This certainly looks good, but I really wish there would be a single player option. It would be nice if I could choose to play with other people or not.
Cool the videos are two different playthroughs.
The imbedded video, the guy playing gets kinda lost so you get a tour of the whole level, which is quite small IMO.
But, it may be a lot bigger since there is teleporting
Man I would love to see the HD version of this. It's too amzing to watch in such a low res.
Maybe since we all want a SP experience with Deep Down, Capcom can give us some really cool tools to make our own levels.
It does randomly generate each level before you play online, so they should just flip that switch to manual (yeah right, lol) and let us do whatever with the level creating tools.
I think building dungeons, placing enemies, and setting up the boss battle would be so much fun.
You could then save your level, play it in SP or upload it and ply it in MP, or make another and link them together, rinse repeat until you've made your own game, so to speak.
Hopefully theres some different scenery other than dungeons and caves.
Would be nice to have a nice variety in level locations. That Panta Rei engine is just to damn beautiful to be just rendering dungeon walls.
If fire is that sexy looking, I really want to see water and smoke, the trees and grass, the sun flares and shadows.
I can't wait for more games to start using this engine. Capcom did good with Panta Rei!
Obviously everything I've said is my opinion and is just speculation. So do get on my ass for anything you don't like, lol.
I was pretty impressed by what I saw, it really looks like it's shaping up to be a game I'd play the $#@! outta. I'll wait to see more before I fully commit to getting hyped and all, but so far I'm excited.
No need to program any AI or a create story and hire voice overs and whatever else is needed.
Levels as well would take less time to develop, everything is dropped randomly in MP games unlike SP which has specific drop points for enemies and objects to interact with etc. (Even more so for Deep Down since the levels make themselves)
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INTRODUCTION
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The drastic increase of atopic dermatitis in developed countries implies that environmental factors are important in the pathogenesis of the disease[@B1],[@B2]. The most accepted theory is a hygiene hypothesis: fewer exposures to microbial compounds and fewer infections during early childhood result in a defect of innate immunity and Th2 skewing[@B1]. Another explanation for the increase of atopic dermatitis is increased exposure to irritants such as traffic-related air pollution and indoor air irritants[@B1]. However, this has not been thoroughly studied yet and has attracted less attention by researchers. Nevertheless, the results of several epidemiologic studies indicate a strong relation between exposure to irritants and the development of atopic dermatitis[@B3],[@B4],[@B5],[@B6],[@B7].
Many patients with atopic dermatitis report the aggravation of eczema after remodeling of their house or moving into a newly built house. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including formaldehyde (FA) are considered among the main causes of atopic aggravation[@B8], and the main sources of these compounds include paints, adhesives, wallpapers, and flooring materials. Only a few prospective studies have evaluated the effect of air quality on atopic eczema. In those studies, air purifier[@B9] and polyurushiol paint[@B10] improved both the indoor air quality and atopic dermatitis. This study tested the change of indoor air quality and the severity of atopic eczema after replacing the flooring and wallpaper of the subjects\' houses with an environmentally friendly product. To our best knowledge, this is the first study to show the beneficial effect of environmentally friendly flooring and wallpaper material on atopic dermatitis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Thirty patients with atopic dermatitis were enrolled in this study. The enrolled subjects met the major and minor diagnostic criteria of the Korean Atopic Dermatitis Association. Patients with severe atopic dermatitis who require systemic corticosteroid, systemic immunosuppressant, or phototherapy were excluded because they are usually sensitized to aeroallergens and greatly influenced by various aggravating factors. As a result, most subjects were children with mild atopic dermatitis. This study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (IRB Approval No. B-1007-105-002), and all subjects gave written informed consent. To improve the ambient air quality, the wallpaper and flooring of the subjects\' houses were replaced with plantor silica-based paper and plant-based flooring material, respectively. The remodeling took place from August to September 2010. Indoor air from the subjects\' houses was collected, and the concentration of FA and total VOCs (TVOCs) was measured before remodeling and 2, 6, and 10 weeks thereafter. To measure FA, 30 L of room air was collected in a 2, 4-dinitrophenylhydralazine cartridge and high-performance liquid chromatography was performed. For TVOC measurement, 3 L of room air was collected in a tube filled with 200 mg Tenax-TA (Scientific Instrument Services Inc., Ringoes, NJ, USA) and gas chromatography was performed.
The subjects were followed before and at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after remodeling. Pruritus and the severity of atopic eczema were evaluated, and clinical photographs were taken at each visit. Pruritus was rated on a four-point scale (0=none, 1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=very severe) by using a questionnaire. The severity of eczema was evaluated with the eczema area and severity index (EASI) score[@B11]. The subjects were instructed to continue their ongoing therapy, including topical corticosteroid, topical calcineurin inhibitors, oral antihistamine, and moisturizer, for atopic dermatitis. Those who started systemic corticosteroid, systemic immunosuppressant, or phototherapy during the study period were dropped from the study. Each measurement at follow-up visit was compared with baseline score using paired t-tests. SPSS ver. 15.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used to analyze the data with *p*-values of \<0.05 to be the statistically significant.
RESULTS
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Among the 30 subjects, the houses of 24 of them were remodeled. All of the 24 subjects completed the study; 6 subjects did not participate in house remodeling for personal reasons. The characteristics of the subjects are summarized in [Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}. The baseline EASI score was between 0.5 and 31.6 (mean±standard deviation \[SD\], 4.81±7.18). In the 24 subjects, the baseline EASI score was \<3 in 14 (58%) subjects and -3 in 10 (42%) subjects. The baseline pruritus score was between 2 (moderate) and 4 (very severe) (mean±SD, 2.6±0.6) ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}).
FA in ambient air significantly decreased within 2 weeks after remodeling (*p*=0.003). The FA level slowly decreased thereafter and reached 63% of its initial level at week 10 ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). The TVOCs decreased at week 2. However, at weeks 6 and 10, an elevation of TVOCs was observed ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). We performed a Pearson correlation test, which found no significant correlation between indoor air quality and EASI score or pruritus. However, subjects whose indoor FA concentration decreased greater than the mean (-41.9 µg/m^3^) showed a greater reduction of EASI score (-2.69 vs. -1.48).
The mean level of pruritus significantly decreased at week 4 and showed a further decrease at weeks 8 and 12. The mean EASI score also decreased; however, the reduction was not significant ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). To check if there is a different response according to the baseline severity of atopic dermatitis, subjects whose initial EASI score was \<3 (very mild atopic dermatitis) were compared with the others. In patients whose initial EASI score was \<3, both pruritus and the EASI score showed a statistically insignificant change. In contrast, the reduction of pruritus and EASI score was statistically significant in patients whose baseline EASI score was \>3 ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}).
DISCUSSION
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VOCs including FA are organic chemicals that have a low boiling point and tend to evaporate at room temperature. They include both man-made and naturally occurring chemical compounds. The major sources of man-made VOCs are latex paints, flooring materials, wall covers, new furnishings, and office equipment such as photocopy machines[@B12],[@B13]. Indoor VOCs are especially high in newly built houses because of the abundant new materials generating VOC particles simultaneously in a short period[@B14]. Many patients with atopic dermatitis are concerned about the harmful effect of VOCs, and there are several epidemiologic studies that support those concerns. In a Japanese study, the ambient FA levels during pregnancy and the prevalence of infantile atopic eczema showed a positive, although not statistically significant, correlation[@B5]. In a study performed for 20,687 pairs of mothers and babies, renovation/painting of the house during pregnancy was significantly associated with infantile eczema, with an odds ratio of 1.99[@B6]. Because of the growing concerns, many patients with atopic dermatitis seek environmentally friendly housing materials; however, the effect of replacing housing materials with environmentally friendly ones has never been investigated.
FA is a representative VOC. In our study, FA in ambient air significantly decreased within 2 weeks after remodeling and reached 63% of its initial level at week 10. The level of pruritus and the EASI score also decreased accordingly. However, the reduction was significant only in patients whose initial EASI score was \>3. This finding is consistent with a previous *in vivo* study; Eberlein-König et al.[@B15] tested the effect of exposure to low concentrations of NO~2~ or FA on epidermal barrier function. In their study, patients with atopic dermatitis showed increased transepidermal water loss after airborne FA exposure, while the barrier function of normal controls was not affected. In our study, changing to environmentally friendly housing materials did not benefit patients with very mild atopic dermatitis. Patients with very mild atopic dermatitis, whose barrier function is relatively intact, seemed to be less affected by indoor air quality.
VOC concentration is known to fluctuate with changing seasons. VOC concentration in indoor air during winter is known to be three to four times higher than that during summer, owing to the low air exchange rate and the use of humidifiers[@B16]. In our study, the TVOCs decreased at week 2; however, at weeks 6 and 10, a re-increase of TVOCs was observed. This study was performed from fall to winter, and the re-increase was considered to be caused by increased VOC emission from other sources such as furnishings and adhesives. Despite the increase of TVOCs at weeks 6 and 10, the EASI score and the level of pruritus were improved. VOCs include FA, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and styrene. In this study, the increase of TVOC was mainly due to an increased concentration of toluene (data not shown). Saito et al.[@B17] reported that FA induces severe inflammatory reaction in mouse ear at low concentrations (2%\~10%), whereas toluene and xylan do not induce inflammatory reaction even at high concentrations (50% or 100%). From our results and that of a previous report, FA seems to play a more important role in eczema aggravation than other VOCs do.
This was only a pilot study and there was no control group. However, this study showed that changing to environmentally friendly housing material could reduce the ambient FA level, and improve pruritus and the severity of eczema in some patients. In addition, we observed that subjects with very mild atopic dermatitis were less affected by indoor air quality than those with more severe eczema, which implies that these airborne irritants are more relevant to patients with a more impaired barrier function.
This study was supported by the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (Seongnam, Korea), a public organization. There is no competing interest with any financial organization.
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Characteristics of the subjects (n=24)
Values are presented as range (mean±standard deviation) or number (%). EASI: eczema area and severity index. ^\*^0\~4; 0=none, 1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=very severe.
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Scène surréaliste qui s’est déroulée hier midi dans un café de l’enseigne américaine aux abords de la gare Saint-Lazare à Paris. Alors qu’il avait commandé un macchiato taille « grande », un client s’est vu recaler par une serveuse. Motif : celui-ci disposait d’un simple Asus en guise d’ordinateur et non d’un Macbook comme le veut la coutume.
Michel Rubens se souviendra longtemps de cet épisode. 24 heures après les événements, sa voix tremble encore lorsqu’il raconte ce qu’il a vécu : « Je suis rentré. Je suis allé à la caisse et j’ai demandé un macchiato « grande ». La serveuse m’a demandé mon prénom. J’ai dit Michel, car je m’appelle Michel. Puis elle m’a demandé de présenter mon Mac. Là j’ai pas compris… »
Le quadragénaire, qui était de passage à Paris pour le travail, explique alors qu’il ne possède par d’ordinateur portable de marque Macintosh. Il transporte sur lui un Asus 13 pouces muni de 2 giga de RAM. « Quand je lui ai montré mon ordi, la serveuse m’a jeté un regard noir. Elle a rangé le gobelet avec mon prénom dessus et elle a appelé un vigile. » explique Michel.
Le vigile se pose alors devant Michel. Il le regarde puis le saisit violemment pour le reconduire dehors à l’aide d’une clé de bras. « Il avait sans doute appris ça dans un cours de self-défense ou dans la rue. Mais c’est pas la question. Le truc, c’est que j’ai été brutalisé sans aucune raison à part ne pas avoir de Mac » nous raconte l’homme encore traumatisé.
La direction de Starbucks se défend
Contactée par nos soins, la chaîne de cafés se dit désolée par la tournure des événements mais tient toutefois à préciser Alain Garriles, porte-parole de la marque. : « Starbucks a toujours eu une politique d’ouverture auprès des plus démunis. Mais c’est déjà difficile pour nous d’accepter quelqu’un avec un simple Macbook Pro et non un Macbook Air Retina. Alors imaginez un client qui entre avec un Asus. »
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Madame Petit
Madame Petit was the most luxurious and probably the most famous brothel in the city of Barcelona. Its origins date back to the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition and it was at its peak around the time of World War I until the Spanish Civil War. It was located in the historic Barrio Chino area of Barcelona, at the entrance of carrer Arc del Teatre, specifically at number 6.
In the same street, carrer Arc del Teatre, in the section to the corner of the carrer Migdia (now Avinguda de les Drassanes), there were several brothels. The area was well-known for it brothels and referred to as de quatre cantons.
History
The brothel opened around 1888 when the Universal Exhibition brought a lot of visitors to Barcelona. In the following year it was recorded by the Sección Especial de Higiene (Special Section of Hygiene) for its non-compliance with the regulations for bars.
Many of the women there were foreign, especially French, fleeing from the First World War, because Barcelona, like the rest of Spain, was neutral during the war. There were people from all over the Port who promoted this business especially during the years that war broke out. Other prostitutes were Germans, Arabs and Poles and numbered about 100. There was one Cuban who, because of her dark colouring, had patrons queuing to see her.
There is no evidence to show the existence of a "Madame Petit" the French madame who supposedly ran the brothel initially. Francisco Madrid names Josep Urgarte as running the brothel in his 1926 book Sangre en Atarazanas.
Facilities
The decorations of the Madame Petit brothel were luxurious and included columns with engraved nude figures and a ceiling painted with sexual motifs. There were also stained glass windows decorated with exotic dancers and other suitable subjects, which are preserved in the Barcelona City History Museum. There was also a pornographic cinema. In 1910 a restaurant was added.
The brothel catered for most sexual fantasies. A Polish mother and daughter catered to those who enjoyed sado-masochism. A goat and a lamb catered for those with bestiality tendencies. Trios were also catered for. One room has a bed big enough for six people, and another contained a coffin.
The brothel was known for its hygiene. Towels and bedding were changed after every client and it was the first building in the city to have bidets installed.
Closure
Madame Petit declined after the Civil War and eventually closed in 1956, following the law abolishing prostitution. By that time, the Madame Petit had already lost most of its former splendour. The building became a pension called "Pensión Los Arcos", which also functioned as a brothel, after the closure of Madame Petit. It was demolished in the 1990s as part of an urban regeneration scheme in El Raval. , the lot still remains empty.
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Disulfiram, an alcohol dependence therapy, can inhibit the in vitro growth of Francisella tularensis.
Disulfiram (DSF) can help treat alcohol dependency by inhibiting aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). Genomic analysis revealed that Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, has lost all but one ALDH-like domain and that this domain retains the target of DSF. In this study, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) assays demonstrated that both DSF and its primary metabolite diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC) have strong antimicrobial activity against F. tularensis strain SCHU S4, with the MIC of DSF determined as 2 µg/mL in comparison with 8 µg/mL for DDC. The activity of DSF was further confirmed using an in vitro human macrophage infection assay. Francisella tularensis bacteria in DSF-treated cells were reduced in comparison with untreated and DDC-treated cells, comparable with that observed in doxycycline-treated cells. This suggests that DSF may be suitable for further investigation as an in vivo therapy for tularemia. | {
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This is either some what smart, weird, or the writer just has way too much time on his hands.H/T New Advent
The outrageous but bizarrely supportable thesis statement that I lay before you is this: the Star Wars saga symbolizes the history of Vatican II. For those unschooled in the ways of Star Wars and recent Church History, this may not interest you … or will just be incoherent. But without further ado, let me start at the beginning, a long time ago, in an Ecumenical Council far, far away …
The discovery of Anakin (the “Chosen One”) by the Jedi and the convening of the Council by the Clergy are both surprising and seem to come out of nowhere, although at the same time everyone knew they had to come, as alluded to by the historical memoirs of Pius XII and the Jedi Prophecy. The Ecumenical Council was to “bring the Church into the Modern World,” as the Chosen One is to “bring balance to the Force.” Both of them go completely awry.
Jar-Jar Binks is a Stupid Catholic
Jar-Jar Binks represents the really annoying, naive, wild, and even ethnic influences that drizzled into the liturgy and minds of Catholics and consequently empowered modernism to take more control, which is what happens in Episode II, when Jar-Jar is put in charge of Naboo Representation in the Senate and explicitly gives power over to the Supreme Chancellor, which enables Palpatine to secure his reign. Jar-Jar is evil.
And:
Darth Vader is the Spirit of Vatican II
Despite his grievous sins during his padawan years, the point at which Anakin takes a knee before the Dark Lord and says, “I submit myself to your teachings,” comes to us as rather unbelievable and insufficiently transitioned. Yet, in an eerie way, isn’t this what suddenly happened to our beloved Council after its closing in the late 1960′s? Didn’t it immediately become the very tool of Satan to destroy the Church, as the Emperor implemented Anakin to destroy the Galactic Republic?
The answer is: yes. Vatican II was seduced by the dark side. In the council’s name, the liberals destroyed the seminaries and gutted the churches. What is the first thing Palpatine commands Anakin to do? Purge the Jedi Temple. Slaughter the padawans in training. The Jedi nearly become extinct, as do the priests. Vatican II’s name will live in infamy in the hearts and minds of a lot of faithful Catholics henceforth, just as Vader’s name will live in the rebels, who sought to restore the old ways, before the dark times … before the Empire.
Obi-Wan, upon seeing the ruins of his fallen apprentice after their duel, breaks his stoic mood and pours out his soul, hopeless, confused, shouting, “You were the Chosen One! You were suppose to bring balance to the Force! Not leave it in darkness!” Paul VI, likewise, in the midst of the aftermath, at a papal audience, suddenly broke with his character, threw down his prepared notes, and cried out, “Where is the love for the Church?!” Where was it indeed? What had happened?
And:
The Death Star is the Culture of Death
The Death Star symbolizes the Culture of Death, a whole world bent on universal conquest and purposed for the murder of millions of innocent lives, as it senselessly destroys Alderaan, a planet that is completely defenseless, without any weapons. Paul VI, when the Culture of Death began to take shape, as it were, heard the “millions of voices [that] suddenly cried out, and were suddenly silenced” as Obi-Wan said when he sensed the planet’s destruction — a perfect image of abortion. Alderaan, furthermore, is Leia’s planet, and thus, symbolically, the Church’s people, and the loss of so many lives on it represents the loss of so many souls in the Church because of abortion.
The heroes involved with saving the Church from the Culture of Death, i.e. rescuing Leia from the Death Star, was Paul VI, John Paul II, and the faithful Catholic laity … that is, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo.
I just gave you snippets . Catholic Star Wars fans go here for the entire essay.
May the force be with you.
Response: And with your spirit.
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Despite of what the left-wing media wants you to believe, there is not an epidemic of mass shootings, or an epidemic of gun violence in general, in the United States. The data make this clear.
In fact -- and again, in spite of what many in the media would have us believe -- by many accounts, mass shootings are not even on the rise. Definitions of what constitutes a “mass shooting” vary, but using “standard definitions,” a recent piece in The Conversation -- an academic and research journal -- declares that “Mass shootings aren’t growing more common.”
In support of this conclusion, The Conversation article references data presented in USA Today:
Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, a leading expert with decades of experience on such matters, has long held that “There is no evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of mass shootings.” This was true five years ago, as the graphic below, using Professor Fox’s data, reveals:
And it’s true today, as Fox recently revealed in a lengthy interview with Reason’s Nick Gillespie: “There is no evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of mass shootings.” Even the liberals at Politico agree. There, Grant Duwe, a research director for the Minnesota Department of Corrections and author of Mass Murder in the United States: A History, concludes that mass shootings are “roughly as common now as they were in the 1980s and ’90s.”
Not only are mass shootings still very rare, but they represent an extremely small portion of overall gun murders in the U.S. Even a leftist publication like Vox makes note of this. While using a variety of data, including Professor Fox’s, Vox’s Dylan Matthews rightly reveals that “while tragic,” deaths as a result of mass shooting “are a tiny sliver of America’s gun homicide problem.”
What’s more, though we comprise about four-and-a-half percent of the world’s population, and though we own about half of the world’s privately owned guns, America accounts for less than half of one percent of the world’s murders. Likewise, across the U.S., this trend is similar: the presence of guns does not correlate to more gun murders. As this piece points out, many of the safest areas in America have the highest rates of gun-ownership.
Of course, in spite of these facts, after the most recent mass shooting -- after any mass shooting -- liberals in the media and the Democrat Party do what they always do. The media hypes the event, blames Republicans and conservatives, paints America as awash in gun violence -- especially mass shootings -- and demands that politicians “Do something.” Of course, Democrats couldn’t be happier to continue the script and pretend to have the answers for our so-called mass shooting “epidemic.”
Just days ago, Nancy Pelosi thundered, “Enough is enough!” She added, “The Republican Senate must end its obstruction and finally pass the common-sense, bipartisan, House-passed gun violence prevention legislation that the country is demanding.” As if gun violence -- or any violence -- can be prevented by mere legislation. This is what happens when one puts his or her hope and faith in the things of this world. We should expect no less from those who lustily applauded Obama’s egocentric exclamation “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!”
Of course, the Screwball Score -- otherwise known as the 20 Democrats hoping to replace Donald Trump -- eagerly joined in the “Do Something!” chorus on “gun control.” Desperate to get the media’s attention, Beto O’Rourke devolved into vulgarity -- and even tried to profit from it. Sleepy-Creepy Uncle Joe stuck to the fake “end the epidemic” narrative. Fauxcahontas said that “Congress must act” to end gun violence. After all, she does know a bit about “acting.”
Julian Castro, formerly of the Obama administration, wondered “What is the number?” He then asked, “How many Americans are you willing to sacrifice to the NRA?” Castro and his ilk are the ones who should have to defend politics that results in death and violence because, guess what’s not a “tiny sliver of America’s gun homicide problem”? Urban violence.
In his new book, Bleeding Out, criminal justice scholar Thomas Abt reveals that, “Since October 2001, 410 people have died in domestic terrorist attacks & 520 have died in mass shootings. During that same period, at least 100,000 lost their lives to urban violence.” This should come as little surprise to those who are aware of the weekly events in Baltimore, Chicago, Ferguson, St. Louis, and the like.
In other words, the real problem with gun violence in the U.S. is the murder and mayhem that often plague Democratic enclaves in urban America. Where are the cries of “Do something!” when it comes to the weekly gun violence in America’s cities? The silence is deafening.
Of course, we have virtual silence on the violence in urban America because the poverty, crime, violence, trash, rats, bad schools, etc. that infest urban America are the result of the rotten fruit of liberalism. After decades of almost complete Democratic control, thousands of government “programs,” and trillions of taxpayer dollars, liberal politics and policies have solved none of the problems that plague America’s cities.
Yet we’re supposed to believe that Democrats have the solution to mass shootings in America? Along with having no real solutions to mass shootings, more often than not, mass shooters in America are a direct product of liberalism.
Again, how ironic and backward is it that those who tell us that children in the womb aren’t really human, that humans with a penis and the Y-chromosome aren’t really men, that men who are criminals are the good guys and the police the bad guys, that marriage is not the union of one man and one woman, that student loans don’t have to be repaid, that blizzards are evidence of global warming, that blasphemous art should be taxpayer funded, that school prayer should not be allowed, and so on, now tell us it’s the right’s fault when young men bent on evil go on a killing spree?
Everything that might truly keep young men from such evil -- fathers, family, faith, and the like -- the modern left despises and has targeted. Because they have made a god of government, instead of looking to what is really required to solve the problems of urban America, the left would much rather make an enemy of firearms and seek legislation to restrict them.
Additionally, liberals in the United States have been directly complicit in the breakdown of the family. Whether divorce, fornication, marriage, prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, and so on, for decades now, in the name of “sexual freedom,” liberals have called what is evil good and what is good evil. They have preached, promoted, and even passed legislation in defense of these perverse “values.” Thus, it is little wonder that where Democratic rule is absolute, America is ugliest and most dangerous.
Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to digital signal processing. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel and improved method and apparatus for decoding a frame of digital data that contains redundant check bits or any other side information which is known about the data.
2. Description of the Related Art
As wireless communication technology has advanced, users have come to demand higher transmission quality in the services provided. One means of providing higher transmission quality to provide that service involves the use of digital transmission techniques. Several digital modulation techniques are known in the art including code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), and frequency division multiple access (FDMA).
The spread spectrum modulation technique of CDMA has significant advantages over other digital modulation techniques. The use of CDMA techniques in a multiple access communication system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,901,307, entitled "SPREAD SPECTRUM MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SATELLITE OR TERRESTRIAL REPEATERS", assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated by reference herein. The use of CDMA techniques in a multiple access communication system is further disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,103,459, entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SIGNAL WAVEFORMS IN A CDMA CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM", assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated by reference herein. The method for providing digital wireless communications using CDMA was standardized by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) in TIA/EIA/IS-95-A Mobile Station-Base Station Compatibility Standard for Dual-Mode Wideband Spread Spectrum Cellular System (hereafter IS-95).
Because each user's transmission contributes incrementally to the noise to other user's in a CDMA communication system, the capacity of a CDMA system is maximized by having each user transmit only as much data as necessary. A very effective means of reducing the user's burden on capacity without reducing the quality of service to that user is by means of variable rate data transmission, where the data rate of transmissions by the user varies with time. A method for providing variable rate encoding of speech data is described in detail in U.S. Pat. No. 5,414,796, issued entitled "VARIABLE RATE VOCODER", assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated by reference herein.
In order to protect against channel induced errors, digital error correction techniques are employed in wireless communication systems. One method for detecting and correcting channel induced errors is through the employment of trellis decoding. A Viterbi decoder is a specific type of trellis decoder which has shown significant advantages over other error correction systems. A method and apparatus for performing Viterbi decoding of variable rate data are described in detail in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/126,477, filed Sep. 24, 1993, entitled "MULTI-RATE SERIAL VITERBI DECODER FOR CDMA SYSTEM APPLICATIONS", which is assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated by reference herein.
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Uncle Put & the American Paradox of Individualism & Community
The last clear memory I have of my great-uncle Atwood Putnam (yes, his ancestors were those Putnams, including “Old Wolf” Israel, but we never got any of the money—well, more about that later) was of him chasing several of his great-grandchildren down the gravel driveway that led to his shack, barefoot, floppy red felt hat trying to get off his head, growling and making the kids tremble with laughter, no shirt, at the age of ninety-three. He died at ninety-seven, having told me quite a few years earlier when I was twelve, as he was admiring the sixteen-ounce mug of home-brew with three raw eggs in it that was his usual breakfast, “John, I think I’ve been drunk for sixty-five years.” If he had had better habits, who knows how long he would have lived?
He could build things, lord, how he could build things! A log cabin at our family lake place in New York’s Finger Lakes lasted more than thirty years without replacing the chinking, because he matched the logs so well. Most of one end of the building (it sat on a bluff more than a hundred feet above Canandaigua Lake, and looking out of that cabin was where I wrote much of my doctoral dissertation) was a stone fireplace. No mortar. He believed that whatever God there was (he was ambivalent about that) intended stones to be laid as they came out of hillsides, or lakes, and they defeated you if you had to use sticky stuff to hold them together. About bricks he held a different opinion, and with wood he used nails (many of which he made himself), but he preferred tongue and groove, mortise and tenon. There were true ways to build things. They were supposed to last.
Uncle Put’s architectural legacy was a rambling society of buildings, pathways, stone walls and steps, bridges, woodsheds, and outhouses. They were arranged so that everything led upward from and downward to a shale beach, and presided over by the Big House, a ramshackle three-story that Uncle Put put together over the course of about twenty years. He dug the shale and stone hillside out by hand, carried the structural stone and fireplace stone up the hill from the lake, and built rafts to push down the shoreline to bring back loads of salvage lumber. As far as we know, he never paid a dime for building materials. The under structure of the boathouse he fashioned from 12” x 12” hand-hewn oak beams from a nearby farmer’s barn. The Big House featured a massive eating/sleeping/card-playing screened-in porch. There were two outhouses, one of which we later converted to a flush toilet for the sake of convenience and curiosity. Power tools never appeared at what we called “The Lake” until long after Put was gone.
He lived for many years in a shack, terribly uncharacteristic of his normal building standards, that had three rooms: what we would today call a “mudroom,” where he threw off whatever he had on that day; a kitchen/bedroom, where over his bed were side-by-side pictures of Pope Pius XII and Joe Stalin, symbols to him of complementary types of tyranny, and over his eating table were dozens of pictures of young children, mostly of family or cut out from Life Magazine; and the brew room, a wonderful combination of completely illegal ways of making homemade liquid delights. Outside was a smaller shack, which was strung with a hammock, equipped with a jug of kerosene, and painted on the outside, “Satan, Here I Come!” None of his old friends whom he had recruited to put him in the hammock and light the kerosene survived him. He is laid in the family plot in Colegrove, Pennsylvania, amongst several generations of people who knew that Satan would never have accepted him, anyway.
Uncle Put was most at home in the woods and the lakes and hills and rivers of western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. He hunted and fished and trapped. A story that I believed for almost as long as my father’s bragging about going over Niagara Falls in a barrel was Put’s telling me that one of his traps had been pulled partially loose by some critter, and he traced to a hole that he could only see into by crawling right up to it. Well, he said, it turned out to be a skunk, and that varmint caught him full in the eyes. “I was blind for three days,” he told me when I was on his lap, “but after that I never needed glasses the rest of my life!” He took most of us into the Pennsylvania woods at one time or another, usually in the dead of winter, to show us how to find shelter and look for game and figure out directions and the weather. Like James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, he was capable of living without the society of another single person, although he could be the most social of men when he wanted to.
He was married, but the institution didn’t take. He and Aunt Belle rarely lived together, yet their two children turned out well. In one of those peculiarly American ironies, his son became a game warden in the county where his father was easily the most persistent poacher. About religion, as we have seen, he was ambivalent. His brother-in-law, my grandfather, was an Episcopalian priest and his sister, my grandmother, a Christian mystic. He seemed to get along well with both of them, but Uncle Put’s church was probably the Church of the Woods. He cared little for politics, although there is a family story that he joined the Communist Party in 1932 as a protest against a bloated system that could, as Will Rogers said, give us “bread lines knee deep in wheat.” Economics was not even a dismal science; to Put, who didn’t wash his clothes in machines because it “wore them out,” his cabin and the few tools it took to build things right were the only possessions he needed. What he didn’t need he didn’t want. He could grow corn that grew twelve feet high, but “cash crop” would have been to Put an oxymoron (and yes, he could use such words, and he did read books). As a neighbor he might fix your shed and refuse any pay; but he was just as likely to fail to show up for a paying job because he was enjoying his spirits or distracted by a trout stream.
This is one great paradox of the American Republic, when we had a republic. Stable families, a variety of enthusiastic Christian churches, vital towns and counties and states were the foundation, yet our heroes so often have been like Uncle Put, from Daniel Boone to John Wayne; individualists to whom the towns and churches and often even the women seemed dull and confining, sometimes dangerous. It is easily argued that from James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L’Amour the literary character that Uncle Put defines in real life is the authentic American literary character. This cultural contradiction is not unique in the history of the West; one thinks, for example, of the Greek’s love of the polis while at the same time learning so many of his virtues from the travels of the wily loner, Odysseus.
Uncle Put, I am certain, did not think of himself as a literary character. But he was a character for sure, and not one that Americans of this post-republican era appreciate quite as much as when we were confident and strong.
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Enjoyed your story Mr. Willson. Your great-uncle was a true American character in the best sense of the word. Your story put me in mind of my great-grandfather who had a large farm in Pennsylvania and also made and built everything he had. These possessed the character that built this country, and as you say it is little appreciated in our milieu wherein it seems everything must come quick and easy and if not then just give it to us.
Thank you, Professor Wilson. Your essay has given me needed insight as I work on study guides using classic movies to inspire the moral imagination of the rising generation — Overcoming the radical individualism to cultivate anew civic friendship and community in our common life together. It’s a Wonderful Life and Shane and all the rest I have piloted with young people since 1999. Thank you, Onalee McGraw, Educational Guidance Institute.
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Why her? Why here? Why any of it?
The only way to make the Lido look beautiful is to add lots of sky. That is, something non-Lido. But it looked like the perfect place to resolve their little evidence problem, even if they did have to travel 167 miles (269 km) to get there.
Let’s admit that “Death in Venice” is — I’m sorry to say — one of the greatest titles ever. It’s better than “Catch-22” or “Atlas Shrugged,” and it’s probably better even than “Of Human Bondage” or “Naked Lunch.”
You can see why. If sadness and Venice appear to be destined for each other, like Victorian lovers, death and Venice seem doomed to be linked forever, thanks to a genius title that connects two of the most emotion-laden words that exist. If the book had been called “Farewell, My Lovely” — which would have been kind of cool, though it would have put Raymond Chandler in a fix — at least Venice could have escaped the “death” search term.
Enough musing. A recent tragedy has shown that there’s nothing romantic about either death or Venice, even when you put them together. And you don’t have to actually die here to benefit from the Venetian element. It’s enough to be discovered to be dead here for the whole affair to seem even worse than it is. Whatever that means.
Here’s what happened. And I warn you that the tragic element, which is real, will play a relatively small part in a story which is made up of idiocy of a magnitude to dwarf even the ten most idiotic things that have ever happened here.
At about 1:40 AM on January 28, a water-taxi driver went home to the Lido and was tying up his boat at its usual place in the canal that flanks via Antonio Loredan. It was dark, obviously, and this street isn’t especially well-lighted. But he saw something floating in the water.
The “something” was the body of a woman, who was clad only in a single necklace.
But the necklace wasn’t the important clue.
It was the fact that a young Indian couple in Milan had reported her missing.
That turned out to be a huge technicolor clue, because they were the ones who killed her. This is the first indication of the level of intelligence at work here (idiocy, as mentioned). If I had murdered someone, I don’t think I’d feel like trotting over to the police to say, “She’s disappeared and I don’t know anything about it” if, in fact, I knew all about it. I’d feel like getting on a plane back to India, which is what exactly what they’d had in mind, but they didn’t do it fast enough.
Her name was Mahtab Ahad Savoji, and she was a 31-year-old Iranian student who had gone to Milan two years ago to study art. She moved into an apartment at #5 via Pericle with Rajeshwar Singh (29), a hotel night porter, and his girlfriend, Gagandeep Kaur (30), a chambermaid.
Life was not tranquil. Contrary to her supposition of sharing the apartment with only Gagandeep, she found herself living with her boyfriend too. The place was so small that Mahtab slept on a cot next to the sofabed where the couple had no second thoughts about getting it on whenever they felt like it. She told her friends that Rajeshwar had begun hitting on her, that Gagandeep wanted to involve her in a menage. Strife escalated.
Fed up, Mahtab packed her bag and told them she was moving out. Then she asked to be reimbursed for her part of the security deposit. As far as I can tell, this is when things went south, possibly aggravated by their feelings of rejection regarding the missed menage. In any case, they killed her.
It was 2:00 PM on January 27. The autopsy revealed that she died of “atypical strangulation,” which has yet to be further elucidated. However, her demise was not caused by a cord, as Gagandeep claimed, nor was it caused by drinking herself to death, as Rajeshwar maintained.
It’s now about 2:30 and the two Indians have a dead body they need to get rid of. They strip her, fold her up, and put her in a big rolling suitcase. Then they head to Lecco, a town 31 miles (50 km) away. The plan was to dump her body in beautiful Lake Como, but they decided against it because “there were too many people around.”
An aerial view of Lecco. All that water would be perfect for disposing of a body, but there is that little problem about the thousands of people living there. (Pawel Kierzkowski)
People? The town has 47,760 inhabitants, plus tourists, and it was still daylight, too. Sharp.
So they dragged the big suitcase back to Milan (presumably by train — it’s less than an hour from Lecco), and took a train for Venice.
Why? you ask. Why Venice? The Po River is much closer to Milan than Venice, and I doubt that they were impelled by the well-known romantic connection between the Queen of the Seas and the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
They went to Venice simply because Rajeshwar had worked in a hotel on the Lido for a brief period, so apparently it came to his mind that all that water would be just the place to leave her remains. Or some sort of reasoning like that. If he had worked in a hotel in Geneva, maybe he’d have lugged the girl’s corpse to Geneva.
They got off the vaporetto at 8:04 PM under a pounding rain; the video surveillance cameras filmed two people pulling a big suitcase. They walked a third of a mile (595 meters) to the first canal to the left, and found a nice dark spot to unburden themselves of their naked former friend.
The pair left the Lido at 9:56 PM (I can’t understand how it took them two hours to accomplish their task, but the video doesn’t lie). But when they got to the station, it was past 11:00 PM, and the last train for Milan was gone. So too was the now-empty suitcase.
Undismayed, they walked over the Calatrava Bridge and asked a taxi driver how much he’d charge to drive them to Milan, because they had to be at work the next day. (First rule of escape: Be as inconspicuous as possible.) (Second rule: Evaluate seriously how important it is to show up on time for work, when you are shortly going to be sought by the police.)
The driver said 650 euros, they said fine, and off they went. The video cameras at Piazzale Roma filmed this also.
At 2:30 AM they were back in Milan. And by now the body had surfaced.
It didn’t take the police all that long to find their way to via Pericle to ask the couple a few questions about their former roommate, thanks to their having reported her missing. At which point they began to just throw remarks every which way, like Eddie Izzard on lying: “I was on the moon. With Steve.”
First, they told the police that they’d gone out for a walk at 10:30 on the day of her disappearance, and when they returned at 6:00 PM, she wasn’t there.
Then they said that they had awakened suddenly at 8:00 AM to find her naked and dead lying on the sofabed next to him; they assumed she had drunk herself to death the night before. (So then they went out for a walk?)
The autopsy hasn’t found any evidence of this yet. On the contrary — the Indians stated that Mahtab had been eating potato chips and chickpeas with her bottomless bottle of whiskey, forgetting that the autopsy would easily reveal what she had really consumed. For the record, it was rice and vegetables, her lunch on the day of her death.
Then Rajeshwar said they hadn’t killed her, they’d only disposed of her body. (Don’t try to make sense of this. “Our friend is inexplicably dead! Gosh, let’s take her clothes off, haul her body to Venice and throw her in the lagoon so nobody thinks we did it.”)
Then Gagandeep said “Rajeshwar killed her with a cord which he threw away.” Then she said, “No, he didn’t kill her, I killed her.”
Then the police found that Rajeshwar had booked a direct flight to India for February 2, and that 5,500 euros were stashed in the sofabed.
Just think; Instead of going all the way back to Milan, they could have gotten on a plane at Marco Polo airport at 6:20 AM and been somewhere in India by 11:40 that night. I’m all for showing up for work, but I think they got their priorities slightly scrambled.
So Rajeshwar and Gagandeep are in jail in Milan, and Mahtab is in the morgue in Venice. Her aunt has come to identify her remains, and when the coroner has clarified all the remaining unclear points in the attempt to establish the definite cause of death, Mahtab will go back to Teheran.
And Rajeshwar and Gagandeep will be going back and forth from their cells to the court for quite a while.
And the good people of the Lido can go back to thinking of how to induce tourists to come to the beach and the golf course. God knows nobody wants the Golden Isle to start being known for a new kind of tourism.
My brain couldn’t stand the strain of limiting a list of idiotic things to a mere ten. I’ll be more careful about how I express myself in future. Besides, there are so many different kinds of idiocy, roughly divided into two categories: malice aforethought and sheer blind bad luck.
When you began with an allusion to my least-favorite Thomas Mann story, I had a moment of anxiety. Was this going to be a serious and depressing post? After the next paragraph, I thought maybe it would be something worthy to be the plot of Donna Leon’s next Commissario Brunetti novel.
But no. Il Commissario would surely have been laughing as hard as I was after reading the whole tale. I can almost see him pulling out his hankie and wiping his eyes while he tries to catch his breath. Mamma mia, but that was the funniest crime story I’ve heard in many years.
I like to make people laugh — in fact, I probably try too hard sometimes. But I was certainly not trying to do so this time. If this story made you laugh then I didn’t tell it right. Stupid crazy people present some potential for humor, but when they turn homicidal, particularly against a helpless victim who never did anything to harm them, the merriment stops, at least in my world. But thanks for writing. Always glad to get reactions from the world out there. | {
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Enterococci are gram-positive bacteria that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of healthy individuals. These bacteria have been identified as opportunistic pathogens for humans. Diseases caused by Enterococci include endocarditis, enterococcal bacteremia, urinary tract infections, neonatal infections, central nervous system infections (rare), intraabdominal and pelvic infections. Enterococci have emerged as one of the leading causes of nosocomial infections, responsible for 10% of all infections acquired in the hospital (Emori, T. G. and Gaynes, R. P. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 6:428–42, 1993).
Recent alert about Enterococci is caused not only by their increasing role in nosocomial infections, but also by their resistance to vancomycin, an antibiotic that has been used treating infection caused by gram positive cocci. Vancomycin resistant Enterococci, emerged as the nosocomial pathogen of the 1990s, have only been discovered in the late 1980s. From 1989 through 1993, the percentage of nosocomial infections reported by the United States Center or Disease Control's National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system that were caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococci increased from 0.3% to 7.9% (CDC, MMWR Report 1995). Vancomycin resistant Enterococci have raised the public's anxieties and prompt intense infection control measures in hospitals around the world because no known effective therapy exists for life-threatening vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections.
Statistics based on the United States Center for Disease Control indicated that 10% of the enterococcal infections are caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococci with an approximate 60% of mortality rate. The World Health Organization acknowledged that vancomycin-resistant Enterococci are one of the most serious threats to human health. Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance have been extensively discussed in Infectious Disease Alert. vol. 14, 185, 189, 1995; 44 MMWR, RR-12, 1995; Edmond et al., Clin. Inf. Dis. 20:1125, 1995; 59 Federal Register 25758, 1994; and 16 Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology, 105, 1995.
Prompt detection and reporting of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci isolates are critical for preventing endemic spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and allowing proper treatment once the right drug becomes available.
Currently, numerous vancomycin-containing selective media are used in the surveillance of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci. There is, however, not a commercially available method which allows accurate, easy, and rapid detection of this important nosocomial pathogen. Recently, Landman et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. (1996) 34:751-752, described the use of five selective media for identifying fecal carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci.
A common procedure for detecting vancomycin resistant Enterococci by all these available methods involves adding a suspect specimen into a sterile culture medium containing all the necessary elements for bacterial growth. The media may be a liquid medium or a solid agar medium. The sample may be natural or pretreated, as by transporting the sample in a preservative medium before adding it to the selective culture medium and the medium often contain vancomycin to selective for vancomycin-resistant Enterococci. Usually, these culture media are sterilized to prevent interference from contaminating microbes, and an incubation period of from 48 to 72 hours are required for detection or vancomycin-resistant Enterococci.
One major problem for using these types of selective media is that many bacteria are intrisically resistant to vancomycin. Examples include almost all of the gram negative bacteria and some gram positive bacteria (Lactobacillus spp. Pediococcus spp., and Lauconostoc spp.). Once growth is observed in these culture media, the target microbes must be isolated and confirmed through selective isolation and one or more tests specific for a variety of physiological and biochemical characteristics. Often, a number of specific colonies must be sequentially tested. In some cases, the overgrown gram negative bacteria (such as the swarming Proteus spp.) on the culture plates prevent accurate identification of specific colonies for subsequent tests. Additionally, the isolated cultures must be confirmed through antibiotic susceptibility tests for vancomycin resistance.
These methods are labor intensive, time consuming, and require highly skilled medical technologists or microbiologists to perform the tests. The above described methods usually take at least 2–3 days to complete, and are suspectible to false positives and false negatives.
The use of chromogenic or fluorogenic enzyme substrates have been widely used in microbial diagnostic methods. For example, Edberg (U.S. Pat. No. 4,925,789) described using a nutrient indicator which not only serves as a nutrient indicator, but also changes color upon being metabolized. This patent, herein incorporated by reference, provides a medium containing a nutrient indicator which, when metabolized by target bacteria, releases a moiety which imparts a color or other detectable change to the medium. The procedure takes advantage of enzyme specificity unique to particular speciies of groups of bacteria. It describes using antibiotics to select for growth of the target microorganisms and provides a specific example of liquid based assay.
Kilian et al. Acta Path. Microbiol. Scand. Sec. B δ 7 271–276 (1979) and Demare et al., J. Food Science 50:1736 (1985) report use of agar-based media without antibiotics. Chen and Gu, U.S. Ser. No. 08/335,149, filed Nov. 4, 1994, incorporated by reference herein, described the use of a fluorogenic nutrient indicator, 4-methylumbelifery-β-D-glucopyranoside, in a microbe-specific medium for detecting Enterococci. Each of the above described methods, however, is not suitable for detecting vancomycin-resistant Enterococci.
The above discussion is not an admission that any of the references discussed is prior art to this invention. | {
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2Pac- High Speed Lyrics
[E.D.I Amin] I speak For all my ni**az livin’ in the rush Slow it down just a notch baby It’s goin’ be alright, it’s goin’ be alright
[2Pac + E.D.I Amin] Life in High Speed f**k the punishment, tie weed I gonna buy me a gun f**k doin’ time
[2Pac] I live life High Speed Slightly disillusioned by weed I breed thug muthaf**kas even worse than me When I bleed, my enemies best to flee quickly, on me My army, ni**az decieve swiftly Look at you now, why you wanna hang out? I pull the hammer back Strike wit’ a cannon and blow your muthaf**kin’ back out They blast but I’m still standin’ Slightly scarred deep Questions for the lord, why he don’t like me, guard my soul Though my life was hard with no remorse I absorb bomb less provide protection for the boss Rollin’ in my double, raw, rugged, and ruthless Keep a vest through these hard times, knowin’ it’s useless And my crew, who could should be mistaken for Jews We all about our past, blast if he break the rules Fools done snitched for the D.A., be heavensent Switched like a stone-bi**h, turned str8 severed then, why? Then they wonder why ni**az die Put your family in danger just to get high Now, what the hell can we get from jail? More tricks for the crime rate, this is hell Bail out, a thug ni**a fresh out the jailhouse Open your safe count and take all your mail out Whatever happens happens Whoever falls dies We fresh out of time, livin blind, so we all ride In times like these, chronic and tie weed Puffin’ through these High Speedz And people say
[Chorus (2Pac):]
Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna buy me a gun Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna buy me a gun Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night
[Yaki Kadafi] Verbal a*sa*sin, I hit the corner fast, blastin’ I plan to stretch your chest plate back like elastic No need to push me to slippin’ I love beef, like pussy and pistols For all you pussies that’s soft as tissue I ride plottin’ like the fall guy out the roof Bustin’ at you wise guy, gettin’ high, sippin’ hundred proof Gettin’ your neck joints low to verdict wit’ mine Get that a*s attacked, murdered, and robbed, blind from behind Grab your shots’, callin’ Catchin ni**az while they stormin’ Kickin’ his door in And get your whole f**kin’ family a’ mournin’ Plus all you itchy-bi**hy types can’t touch me Frontin’ like your hard I’ll play your f**kin’ yard like a trussel
[Chorus (2Pac):]
Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna buy me a gun Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna buy me a gun Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night
[E.D.I Amin] At times, I look through times wit’ so much anger Wonderin’ why it keeps on pa*sin’ bringin’ me the danger No singal hard time is a good one At times I’m amazed Now what the mutha f**k a hood done What we do to get paid All day, for the almighty, dollar Don’t even bother to holla We all destined to be swallowed By the same thing we lust for Threw away our morals in bags of dust, more ni**az is dying tommorrow We, bet on all time ni**a the clocks tickin’ Approachin’ is the day you only know your glocks spittin Cops sittin’, politicians pa*sin’ laws you ain’t knowin’ Soon that money goin’ be illegal when you got it Keep your dough up But I ain’t goin’ tell you, what?, to stop chasin’ paper Man, I’m just like ya’ll, I worry ’bout that s**t later Put the metal to the pedal, slash up ni**a, blaze Lets get blowed out High Speed til the end of my dayz Now my people say
[Chorus (2Pac): repeat 5X]
Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna buy me a gun Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night
[2Pac] High Speedz (we goin’ all night) Life of an Outlaw, ghetto starz (we goin’ all night) (Yes) I’m gonna buy me a gun Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail? (I’m gonna buy me a gun) For my ni**az on the WestSide and the EastSide And the NorthSide and the SouthSide (I’m gonna buy me a gun) (Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?) From Compton to Jersey (I’m gonna buy me a gun) Gettin’ it real hard ni**az in Michigan, (M.O.B ni**a, M.O.B) From Atlanta, Georgia to Utah (Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?) From St. Louis to Alabama (I’m gonna buy me a gun) From Mississippi to Oakland, from San Francisco to San Diego Seattle to Florida (Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?) Maine to Ma*s, haha (I’m gonna buy me a gun) Food and Sex (Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (I’m gonna buy me a gun) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (I’m gonna buy me a gun) Then what’s next? Food and Sex, house parties in the projects We goin’ all night High Speedz And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (We goin’ all night) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (We goin’ all night) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (We goin’ all night) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (I’m gonna buy me a gun) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit (I’m gonna buy me a gun) And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit And it don’t stop, and it won’t quit Outlawz with that rough s**t, baby! | {
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import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { stringify } from 'qs'
import './Form.css'
import './FormControlled.css'
const fetch = window.fetch
class Form extends Component {
static defaultProps = {
name: 'Controlled Form'
}
initialState = {
name: '',
email: '',
message: '',
subject: `New Submission from ${this.props.siteTitle}!`,
_gotcha: '',
disabled: false,
alert: '',
action: '/contact/',
'form-name': this.props.name
}
state = {
...this.initialState
}
form = null
inputs = []
componentDidMount () {
if (!this.form) return
this.inputs = [...this.form.querySelectorAll('input, textarea')]
this.addListeners()
}
addListeners = () => {
this.inputs.forEach(input => {
input.addEventListener('invalid', () => {
input.dataset.touched = true
})
input.addEventListener('blur', () => {
if (input.value !== '') input.dataset.touched = true
})
})
}
resetForm = customState => {
this.setState({ ...this.initialState, ...customState })
this.inputs.forEach(input => {
delete input.dataset.touched
})
}
handleSubmit = e => {
e.preventDefault()
const data = {
name: this.state.name,
email: this.state.email,
message: this.state.message,
subject: this.state.subject,
_gotcha: this.state._gotcha,
'form-name': this.state['form-name']
}
this.setState({ disabled: true })
fetch(this.state.action + '?' + stringify(data), {
method: 'POST'
})
.then(res => {
if (res.ok) {
return res
} else {
throw new Error('Network error')
}
})
.then(
this.resetForm({
alert: 'Thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you soon.'
})
)
.catch(err => {
console.log(err)
this.setState({
disabled: false,
alert:
'❗️ There is a problem, your message has not been sent, please try contacting us via email'
})
})
}
handleChange = e =>
this.setState({
[e.target.name]: e.target.value
})
render () {
return (
<form
className='Form Form-controlled'
name={this.state['form-name']}
ref={form => {
this.form = form
}}
action={this.state.action}
onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}
data-netlify=''
data-netlify-honeypot='_gotcha'
>
{this.state.alert && (
<div className='Form--Alert'>{this.state.alert}</div>
)}
<label className='Form--Label'>
<input
className='Form--Input'
value={this.state.name}
onChange={this.handleChange}
type='text'
placeholder='Your Name'
name='name'
required
disabled={this.state.disabled ? 'disabled' : ''}
/>
<LineGroup />
</label>
<label className='Form--Label'>
<input
className='Form--Input'
value={this.state.email}
onChange={this.handleChange}
type='email'
placeholder='Your Email'
name='email'
required
disabled={this.state.disabled ? 'disabled' : ''}
/>
<LineGroup />
</label>
<label className='Form--Label'>
<textarea
className='Form--Input Form--Textarea'
value={this.state.message}
onChange={this.handleChange}
placeholder='Message'
name='message'
rows='10'
required
disabled={this.state.disabled ? 'disabled' : ''}
/>
<LineGroup />
</label>
<input
className='Form--Input'
type='text'
name='_gotcha'
style={{ display: 'none' }}
value={this.state._gotcha}
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
<input
className='Form--Input'
type='hidden'
name='subject'
value={this.state.subject}
/>
<input
className='Form--Input'
type='hidden'
name='form-name'
value={this.state['form-name']}
/>
<button
className='Button Form--SubmitButton'
type='submit'
value='Send'
disabled={this.state.disabled ? 'disabled' : ''}
>
Enquire
</button>
</form>
)
}
}
const LineGroup = () => (
<svg
className='Form--Line'
viewBox='0 0 40 2'
preserveAspectRatio='none'
>
<path d='M0 1 L40 1' />
<path d='M0 1 L40 1' className='focus' />
<path d='M0 1 L40 1' className='invalid' />
<path d='M0 1 L40 1' className='valid' />
</svg>
)
export default Form
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Q:
Traffic spikes - elastic beanstalk
What is the best way to deal with traffic spikes on elastic beanstalk? In my experience this does not seem to scale quickly enough i.e. the new instances take a few minutes to get going.
Should I be doing some more calculations to optimise the scaling process?
Is there a formula for working these thing out?
A:
Yeah, it takes 5-10 minutes (depending on the stack you're using; not counting Windows instances) to launch a new Beanstalk instance via CloudFormation, install and configure the environment software, add the instance to the load balanced cluster, deploy your application code, and run any of your .ebextensions. (All of which you can follow along with by watching the event log for the environment, or the log for the CloudFormation template executing in the background.)
There are a couple of ways to handle this:
Use larger instances that won't need to scale-out so quickly.
Tweak your Auto Scaling triggers for your environment (via the AWS Console, web service API, or CLI tools) so that scale-up happens sooner. That way you'll have the extra capacity by the time the existing servers get maxed-out.
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Lamborghini just too much car for this guy. Wrecks it while driving like fast and furious
I am not a car guy at all. Like when this blog blows up and I become a celebrity I will buy a baller car. Probably just like a Jaguar or something. Just something that has brand recognition that will melt chicks. Just a total status thing and then pay someone out the nose to take care of it for me because I don’t know shit about cars. Having said that…I don’t hate this Lambo guy. Like if fancy cars is your thing, more power to you bro. Here is the thing though…if you have a Lamborghini…no need to drive it like a douchebag. None. Like…you’re driving a Lambo…you’ve already won. You don’t need to peel out in the Chicago suburbs and wreck it. Act like you’ve been there before so you don’t have loser kids on their way to occupy something filming you and putting your crash all over YouTube. | {
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FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager – Sex Toy Review
Confession: sometimes I agree to do a toy review for a toy I am pretty sure I am going to hate. It’s not because I am a hoarder, greedy for more sex toys (okay, maybe its a little bit of that), it is mostly because if I hate something I want to be able to explain to you guys why I hate it, why something doesn’t work for me, because I am sure some of you are like me. We might have the same tastes, needs, wants, and desires when it comes to sex toys… so I agree to toys I’m pretty sure I will hate so I can save you money and frustration and help you find something perfect for you! I am a goddamn sex toy super hero! ALL HAIL KITTEN BOHEME!
Second Confession: sometimes I am completely surprised. Sometimes I want to hate a toy and then… I don’t. Sometimes I am 100% surprised by something and I really enjoy it. That is what has happened with the FummeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager… a complete surprise! When Peepshow Toys offered me the chance to review the FemmeFunn Bullet I took one look at it and laughed, there was no way that stupid looking thing was going to be anywhere near strong enough to bring me to a decent orgasm. But, I agreed to it. I wanted to try this out and save anyone I could from purchasing something stupid (I’m a goddamn hero, remember?).
Jokes on me. I really enjoyed this stupid looking thing. UGH. I hate it when I’m wrong.
Besides having a kind of long, stupid name the FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager (must I keep writing that out? SEO says yes.) is a 100% silicone bullet vibrator with 20 different vibrations modes. Yep, 20. I really think that is a bit excessive. Ain’t no one got time to scroll through 20 vibration settings. The FemmeFunn is controlled via a single button at the base of the toy. To power the FemmeFunn Bullet on just hold down on the button for three seconds until the LED light glows and the toy starts to vibrate. The FemmeFunn has three constant speed modes – a low, medium, and high. After cycling through those three steady vibrations it’s time to pack a lunch and begin the long journey of cycling through the other 17 modes – all various patterns. Turning the FemmFunn off again is pretty much the same as turning it on, just hold the button down for another three seconds and the toy will power down. My advice for manufacturers, if you are going to have an excessive amount of modes for me to choose from, for the love of all that is good, give me an up and down button option. I don’t want to have found something I liked, accidentally click the button, then have to through the horror of cycling back through all the settings looking for that one setting that was doing it for me. This is what nightmares are made of. It isn’t all terrible though, there is one nifty little feature of the FemmFunn’s controls and that is it’s memory function. Say you found a mode that you absolutely love and are in the middle of masturbating when all of a sudden you start wondering if all the band members of Duran Duran are dead or alive and it’s driving you absolutely crackers, so you need to pause what you are doing to google this real quick… but then you think to yourself “man, this toy has 20 modes, do I really want to cycle through all of them just to get back to this one?” FEAR NOT MORTAL FOR I HAVE THE ANSWER! The memory function will remember which mode you were using when you turned the toy off and when you turn it back on again, TA-DA you are right back to enjoying yourself! Hit the button again and the FemmFunn begins its cycle back at the beginning with the first of the constant speed modes. So, at least there’s that.
The FemmeFunn is made from 100% silicone. Like, completely… unlike a lot of vibes that are ABS plastic coated in silicone, the FemmeFunn is pretty much all squishy, wiggly, flexible silicone. If you are going to use lube with the FemmeFunn bullet I highly recommend avoiding silicone based lubes, otherwise you run the risk of disfiguring your toy in a most gruesome, my-vibrator-looks-like-Sandor-Clegane sort of way. What happens is that the silicone lube can bond with your silicone toy, thus damaging it. I’ve been there, I’ve done that, I don’t recommend it, it’s a disappointing way to lose a toy.
The FemmeFunn Bullet definitely has some power behind it. I easily achieved a quick and frustration free orgasm using the FemmeFunn’s top speed (mode three). I was pretty surprised, like I said earlier, I really thought I would hate this vibrator, I thought for sure it would be weak and buzzy… but it’s not… which I find totally cray-cray. Most of the patterns I could do without, there are only 3 or 4 that I really like and bother using (although I have to cycle through so many other settings just to find them). The rounded, soft silicone tip is perfect for applying pressure down onto my clit and directing pin-point stimulation right where I want it. The vibrations are not deep and rumbly (when compared to my We-Vibe toys at least), but they do not disappoint either. Maybe we can call it moderately rumbly? Very nearly rumbly? Rumble-esque? Whatever we call it, I’m pretty satisfied with the vibrations the FemmeFunn possesses. Like I said earlier, I really was expecting the FemmeFunn Bullet to be weak, buzzy and a total waste of my precious time, but overall I am a pretty happy masturbatory camper.
Another nice feature of the FemmeFunn is the fact that this toy is rechargeable! There is no need to rob your tv remote to run your vibrator! The FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet charges via a USB cable that can plug into most smart phone wall charging units or the USB ports on your computer. It takes about an hour or so to reach full charge and I’ve yet to run down it’s battery life. While charging a light will glow and blink around the button and when it has finished charging the light will stay lit. Pretty straight forward, I have faith you can figure out how to charge it up all by yourself.
Now for the negative. One thing I really don’t care for pops up in the user manual. There is a list of specifications, mostly normal stuff; weight, battery type, materials, etc. But what irks me is under “user” it says “female.” Why? WHY?! Will this toy instantly shut down if it touches a penis? Does it explode if someone who doesn’t identify as female puts it anywhere near their genitalia? What is the point of gendering the user of the this external vibrator? It’s stupid. Stop doing this. A vibrator is a vibrator and it works for anyone who likes vibrations. It is worth pointing out that it is not anal safe, but it is totally safe for a male user, or a non-binary user, or whatever…. “female” user my ass. Humph. So, if I have one harsh criticism of the FemmeFunn Bullet, this is it.
P.S. I pushed the FemmeFunn vibe against my Stunt Cock’s scrotum, he did not die nor combust, nor implode. I’ve done my due diligence and have tested the safety of this toy on non-female gendered peoples. Also safe to use against nipples. Keep out of buttholes.
It definitely exceeded any expectations I had about it. The FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager didn’t dethrone my current go-to favorite bullet vibe (which is still the We-Vibe Tango), but it did do a great job of giving me a more than satisfactory orgasm. It is a vibe I could see traveling with (it comes with a handy storage bag!) or using when I’m feeling too sensitive for the hard plastic of the Tango. I also think that the price is pretty budget friendly, I frequently get asked to recommend a toys that are $50 or less, so I’m always pretty ecstatic when I find a quality toy in that price range. So, If you don’t have a ton of money to throw at your next sex toy, but still want a decent, body-safe, external vibrator, the FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager is a great choice and one that I do recommend with two thumbs up. Also, I think it totally looks like one of those quiz show clicker-buzzer thingies, so buy a few of these and make your next trivia night extra fun!
Can’t wait to try the FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager for your self? Peepshow Toys hooked me up with this nice little vibe, they are super folks who have been amazingly supportive of my blog and I totally, 100% recommend purchasing your FemmFunn Ultra Bullet Massager from these awesome peeps! Bonus, use the coupon code KITTEN at checkout and snag a sweet 10% off your purchase! Who doesn’t love saving a little bit of their sweet, sweet cheddar?
The FemmeFunn Ultra Bullet Massager was provided to me free of charge by Peepshow Toys in exchange for my honest review.
-2 Comments-
This is the review that really piqued my interest in this toy. Initially, I’d been turned off by the name, like as trans masc person I was very unimpressed. Frankly, the whole gendered naming convention with sex toys is total BS. But if it’s as decent as you say I’m definitely a lot more curious about getting one. The silicone body seems like my kind of thing!
For a fairly budget friendly vibe, it really is great. If you are at all curious, I would say it’s worth a try, if you hate it you really aren’t out too much money (unlike buying a $100+ vibrator and hating it! Been there… done that… it’s not cool). Even though I’ve already reviewed it, I still find myself using the bullet… if that counts for anything! I would be even more excited about recommending it if they would drop the gendering crap. | {
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Added November 30, 2018 at 3:44 am
There is nothing hotter than seeing hot Japanese nurses messing around with their patients and here you will see this hot to scoreing nurse making sure to cure this guy from whatever he has by giving him the full works. You will see her dick licking his wang like a huge lollipop, enjoying every suck and making sure to get her hot fanny bearded lady to get a pieceed like no tomorrow with some wild doggy style action. | {
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The city spends about $200,000 a year of taxpayer money to pick up garbage at unsanctioned encampments, but it looks like a lot of that garbage is being generated by people who aren’t even homeless.
According to KIRO 7, businesses and individuals are illegally dumping their garbage at encampments across the city. It’s up 193 percent over the last few years.
For KIRO Radio’s John Curley, the proliferation of illegal dumping is partially a result of the trash that’s already there.
“Hey if you can leave garbage, I’m going to leave some garbage, too,” he said.
“It’s the broken window theory,” he said. “A psychologist from 1969 took a car and left it in the streets in New York City. And then he took a car and put it in Palo Alto, California. Within 10 minutes, the one in New York was completely destroyed. The Palo Alto one sat there for a week.”
“So then he takes a sledgehammer to the car in Palo Alto, and within 20 minutes, the car is torn to pieces. A little bit of garbage, a little bit of graffiti leads to more problems.”
RELATED: Homeless site Camp Second Chance gets extension on city permit
City workers received multiple reports from people living in the encampments that big trucks featuring contractor stickers have been coming at night and leaving raw materials behind. Last year there were 17,500 reports of illegal dumping, more than doubling the 6,000 four years ago.
“It’s human nature. Is it criminal? Yeah,” Curley said. “Hey it looks like the homeless people can leave all their crap out, I’m going to leave my crap out. I mean I don’t even think twice about public urination anymore,” joked Curley.
Are homeless camps being used as scapegoats?
But KIRO Radio’s Tom Tangney thinks people are just using the homeless encampments and the people living there as scapegoats for their own immoral and illegal dumping.
“They’re using the bad rep of the homeless as cover for them. It’s bad enough that the homeless have this bad reputation as criminals,” Tom said. “And now we’re having supposedly law-abiding types dumping on them, saying, ‘Oh look at the homeless, they’re so terrible.”
The city is considering installing cameras at the encampments in an attempt to curb the increase in citizens and businesses illegally dumping their trash on the grounds. For Curley, though, merely having these sites in the first place is sending a message that it’s OK to leave garbage behind.
“If we got the homeless out of there,” he said. “And we actually enforce the laws on the book, and you cleaned up the junk left behind by the homeless, whether it be needles or feces or broken garbage cans, do you think the contractor would come along and just throw his garbage on the road?” | {
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Vinicius Konchinski Do UOL, no Rio de Janeiro 05/07/2013 - 19h48
A associação Educafro (Educação e Cidadania de Afrodescendentes e Carentes) decidiu cobrar da Fifa a inclusão de negros em estádios da Copa do Mundo. A entidade vai solicitar formalmente à entidade máxima do futebol a criação de cotas de ingressos para afrodescendentes no Mundial de 2014.
Para a Educafro, 30% dos ingressos de cada jogo da Copa devem ser destinados a negros. Nos jogos do Brasil no torneio, devido à alta procura pelas entradas, a associação informou que aceita que essa cota seja de 20% dos ingressos.
O pedido da criação das cotas já foi elaborado pela Educafro e, desde esta sexta-feira, está sendo encaminhado a vários membros da Fifa no Brasil. O documento é assinado por um dos diretores da associação, frei David Santos.
Em entrevista ao UOL Esporte, frei David disse estar "perplexo" com a "falta de diversidade" nos estádios na Copa das Confederações. Segundo ele, apesar de o Brasil ter mais da metade de sua população preta ou parda, a presença de negros em estádio é quase nula.
"Os estádios de futebol eram uns dos poucos locais em que a pluralidade de raças podia ser vista no Brasil. Agora, nem isso", reclamou frei David. "Já não temos negros em grandes empresas, na política, na televisão. Agora, não temos negro nem no futebol."
David ressaltou que o Estatuto da Igualdade Racial, em vigor no Brasil desde 2010, já prevê a adoção de medidas que garantam aos negros acessos ao lazer, por exemplo. Por isso, seria de bom tom que a Fifa criasse formas de garantir a presença de negros nos estádios.
"O governo brasileiro já foi humilhado pela Fifa. Não peço mais nada a eles", complementou frei David. "Vou direito a Fifa e quero saber o que eles têm a dizer."
O diretor da Educafro afirmou ainda que o pedido de criação das cotas também serve de alerta. Caso a Fifa se recuse a discutir o assunto, o frei afirmou que a ONG está disposta a cobrar a inclusão de negros em estádios na Justiça.
Procurada para comentar e questão, a Fifa informou que deseja que a "mistura de raças" característica do Brasil esteja representada nos estádios. Por isso, aceitou a criação da categoria 4 de ingressos (mais barata que as demais) para que brasileiros, independentemente de sua condição social, possam frequentar os jogos da Copa.
A entidade ressaltou que não pretende priorizar a destinação de ingressos para uma determinada raça já que isso poderia prejudicar uma outra.
O Ministério do Esporte também foi procurado. Disse que não recebeu solicitação alguma da Educafro. Confirmou, porém, que está preocupado com a questão.
Informou, inclusive, que já discutiu o tema com a Fifa, que doou 50 mil ingressos para beneficiários do Bolsa-Família e para população indígena. Além disso, todos os operários que trabalharam na construção de estádios receberam dois ingressos. | {
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fbi/police at war here, dod over there
Why do people not ask themselves the cause for so much violence in our culture? Well, because they don't want to know the awful truth that fbi,cia,dod, police benefit & profit from the global carnage that they often *cause on both battlefields (over there & here on our streets). These fools constitute the heart of USA 's death cult.
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best," Trump said. "They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."
On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president.In his speech, he proceeded to bash Mexico and its people.Actor Rob Schneider took to Twitter to defend Mexico against Trump.Schneider is married to Mexican television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce.Just a few months ago, Trump expressed his disdain over Mexican director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu winning Best Picture for 'Birdman' at the 87th Academy Awards.Maybe someone should remind Trump that Latina beauty Paulina Vega , is the reigning Miss Universe; of the very pageant that he patronizes. | {
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Hunger Again
Hunger Again is a radio-play written by Dermot Bolger. It was first performed on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. The play deals is set in contemporary Republic of Ireland and deals with the after effects of large-scale radioactive contamination.
Plot synopsis
The play revolves around mother Helen Curtayne and her daughter Millie. The father is terminally ill with cancer.
One night the television news broadcasts reports that there has been an accident in a nuclear power station in the United Kingdom. (The station is not named but it is likely a reference to Sellafield.) The rain contaminates most of Ireland leaving only parts of Munster unharmed. Helen and her daughter fight against civil unrest to get to safety.
Performance
The play was first performed at 9:00PM March 21, 2005 on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.
The cast included Cathy Belton, Owen Roe, and Hannah R. Gordon.
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