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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Dog Day Morningandnoon.
Here is a pic of the new girl in our house. Shelbyjo. We've had her 4 months now.
She is an inside/outside dog. Probably inside a bit too much for AJ. After considering the state of the house before and after Shelby I can see why AJ feels as she does. I found her on the internet located at an adoption center about 45 miles from our house. The girls fell in love with her at first sight.
The hour long ride home was filled with fluffy new dog thoughts about what fun and joy she would bring to the family.The fun and joy have been interspersed with lots of chewed up toys, pencils, "Why did you leave your stuffed animal lying where she could get to it moments".
Since I'm home with her most days I think I've finally begun to have sort of a "Canine 6th sense", that has helped me understand Shelby and what she feels.
Here is an example of a conversation we had just the other day?
I've just arrived back home after being gone running errands for about 30 minutes:
Shelby: rrrrrRRRRRRRrrrrrrrww. ('bout time you got home!)
Me: Hey Girl! Did you miss me?
Shelby: rrRRRRRRW!!! (what do you think?)
I walk quickly past her to put down the bags I'm holding.
Shelby: RRRRrrrrrrww! (What do you think you're doing? I said I missed you!)
I walk over to the coffee pot to see if there's any more coffee.
Shelby: RRRRRRRWWWWWW! (You've been gone a WAY long time!!!!!)
Me: I know girl, it seems like you haven't seen me all day, but I've only been gone for 30 minutes, okay?, just give me a minute and I'll sit on the couch and we can play.
Shelby:RRrrRRRrrRRrrWW!! ( You have been gone ALL day!!!)
Me: How can you say that to me?
I walk past her to check for phone messages, open the fridge for its hourly inspection tho' I'm not even hungry.
Shelby stretches, yawns, whimpers and reaches with her front paws up to my hip and whimpers.. "rrrrrrummm" (come to the couch and let me explain something to you)
We meet up on the couch and I am quickly covered in doggy sugar.
Shelby: r r r r RRR rrrr mmm ffwwwmmm R" (I live in the DOGWORLD. Not the people world...)
More sugar and nose sniffs to find out exactly where I was those LONG 30 minutes.
Shelby: RRRRRRf? (McGriddle AND COFFEE?)
Me: Shelby, I was only gone 30 minutes. I was hungry.
Shelby: RRRRRwwwMMMWWWRRRwwwwwwRfRf. ( Let me explain something to you Mr. Master, IN DOG YEARS YOU WERE GONE ALLLLLL DAY!!!!!!
There you have it.
Aunt Jo said...
I love Shelby. As a matter of fact, I am knitting you a sweater of all the hair she sheds. :o) (People do that you know)
You know you are loved when someone pees a little when you get home. Yep Shelby loves me.
She is very soft and sweet.
Jenn said...
That is a tiny little picture.
Jenn said...
She has a point about how long 30 minutes is in dog years.
Bryan said...
Sounds like a cute dog. Got a bigger picture?
Jamie Dawn said...
Ahhhh, Shelby missed you!
So, you speak Dog, huh?
That's mega cool.
Have a wonderful Christmas!!
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NASA found Egyptian writing on Mars
NASA has found an ancient carving on Mars that resembles the ancient Egyptian writing. More evidence that they had a civilization that’s connected to our old civilization?
Since we discovered Mars in 1659, we have always wondered if it is inhabitable. Or at least in was inhabited once.
Many UFO and alien enthusiasts have been going all over these images taken by the Rovers in its expedition in Mars.
This breakthrough discovery may lead to many more amazing discoveries once Rovers explore more areas, and may end up in discovering life. Or at least, one can hope.
If Aliens did leave these engraving on the stones on Mars and came to earth to teach the ancient Egyptians the same engraving, it might answer some questions about the old Egyptian technologies.
NASA found Egyptian writing on Mars
If we look more carefully, it does seem like humanoid shape carved into the stone in the center image.
It is difficult to draw any conclusion at the moment, but adding this with the recent discovery of water on Mars, we may find out soon if life existed on the Red Planet.
Will we be able to build colonies in Mars soon? it’s too soon to answer that indeed, but it is still a very fascinating discovery.
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Sagar Acharya
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At DesignMan, my primary aim is to make access of rewarding work available to skilled people instead of 'experienced' people. If you believe you're skilled, aa jao DesignMan pe, saath aage badhenge.
I envision a world where people exchange goods and services with a currency which can't be manipulated like Monero, government intervening in only the matters of security and theft and the people who really work are rewarded instead of the ones who show that they work. I also envision a world where humans giving back each and every material to environment which the environment can use and return back to humans in a small time frame unlike plastics which the nature cannot use for a million years. This will take us down.
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Special Assignments
Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin (Russian Особые поручения) is a book by Russian author Boris Akunin, published in 2007. The book contains two novellas featuring his character Erast Fandorin: The Jack of Spades (Russian Пиковый валет) and The Decorator (Russian Декоратор). Special Assignments was originally published in Russian in 1999.
• The Jack of Spades - p1-149
• The Decorator - p150-328
Plot summary
"The Jack of Spades"
Moscow, 1886. Four years after the events depicted in The Death of Achilles, Fandorin is still serving as the Deputy for Special Assignments to Moscow governor Prince Dolgurukoi. He is cohabitating with the Countess Addy, a married woman. After a gentleman con man named Momos, who goes by the alias "The Jack of Spades", dupes the Prince as part of a hundred-thousand ruble swindle, Fandorin is called in to apprehend him. Fandorin takes on as his investigative assistant a meek young policeman named Anisii Tulipov, and together Fandorin and Tulipov try to apprehend Momos and his beautiful lady accomplice, Mimi.
Fandorin sniffs out and shuts down a fraudulent lottery being run by the Jack, but Momos and Mimi escape. Momos in turn tricks Fandorin's Japanese manservant, Masa, into letting him steal all of Countess Addy's baggage. An angry Fandorin vows revenge on Momos and sets up a sting where he poses as an Indian prince in possession of a large emerald. Momos and Mimi again escape, but not before Mimi and Tulipov have a romantic encounter. Momos sends back all of Addy's baggage in an effort to relieve the pressure from Fandorin. Fandorin subsequently sends Addy back to her husband.
Momos decides to flee Moscow to avoid a determined Fandorin, but changes his mind after a chance encounter with Samson Eropkin, a thorougly corrupt, criminal Moscow official. Momos decides to rob Eropkin, but the con goes horribly wrong. Momos and Mimi wind up captured by Eropkin, who is on the verge of murdering them both when Fandorin arrives and saves them. Eropkin is arrested for his crimes. Fandorin lets Momos go for lack of evidence and from a desire to save his boss, Prince Dolgurukoi, embarrassment. Mimi, on the other hand, faces trial for her involvement in the fraudulent lottery. She appears to be headed for prison and exile in Siberia--and Tulipov, who has fallen in love, vows to marry her after she's released from jail--when Momos, disguised as a lawyer, defends Mimi in court and blackmails the judge into dropping the charges. Tulipov, and a bearded court spectator who may or may not be Fandorin in disguise, watch Mimi and Momos leave the courthouse. Tulipov does not realize until it is too late that Momos is the lawyer, and he watches in disconsolation as the Jack of Spades takes the woman of his dreams away.
The tone of the novella is lightly comic, making a sharp contrast to the second novella, The Decorator.
"The Decorator"
Moscow, 1889. Holy Week, before Easter. In Moscow, a prostitute is brutally murdered and mutilated. Fandorin believes the murderer is Jack the Ripper, the English murderer who killed a series of prostitutes in London the year before. Early in the novel, the point of view shifts to that of the murderer, who describes his crimes and calls himself The Decorator, believing he makes ugly women beautiful. The rest of the story is periodically interrupted with the thoughts of The Decorator.
Court Counsellor Izhitsin, an investigative rival of Fandorin's, supervises the exhumation of corpses from the Bozhedomka graveyard, with Fandorin's assistant, Tulipov, accompanying. While at the cemetery, Tulipov befriends Pakhomenko, the genial Ukrainian cemetery watchman. The coroner, Dr. Zakharov, identifies four more bodies as being victims of the Moscow ripper. Tulipov reports these findings to Fandorin, who is living with a new girlfriend, Angelina, a devout Russian Orthodox woman who lives with Fandorin regardless. Angelina's origins are described in the short story "The Scarpea of the Baskakovs" from the Jade Rosary Beads collection. Fandorin checks the records of people who've traveled from London to Moscow in recent months and have medical training, and comes up with two likely suspects: Nesvitskaya the midwife, and Stenich the male nurse, who were kicked out of medical school seven years ago. Shortly after this, Fandorin receives a gruesome package in the mail: a human ear.
Tulipov surreptitiously interviews the two suspects. Fandorin travels back to the morgue and matches the severed ear with one of the dead prostitutes. Fandorin challenges Zakharov, who won't tell him anything but instead tells him the guilty party will be at a reunion party of former medical students he's going to that night. Fandorin learns that the party's host, a businessman named Burylin, was thrown out of medical school for being part of a group of pranksters that got into trouble at school seven years ago. Stenich was also part of this group, as was Zakharov, who was trained as a coroner instead of being expelled. Their leader, Sotsky, was sent to prison, and died. It is eventually revealed that Sotsky and the rest were disciplined for accidentally killing a prostitute. Fandorin arrests Burylin after he confesses to sending Fandorin the ear as a prank.
Tulipov is assigned to work with Izhitsin, who believes the murderer must be a Tatar or Jewish butcher, and has rounded up a group of suspects he plans to torture. Tulipov tells him of the three suspects Fandorin has found, and Izhitsin has an idea for an experiment: shock the three suspects by taking them to the morgue and showing them the bodies and seeing who confesses. No one does. In the street, Tulipov accidentally runs into Fandorin, who is working undercover as a pimp. Fandorin learns of Izhitsin's stunt with the bodies and goes to confront him, only to find out that the Decorator has murdered him.
Count Tolstoy, the Minister for Internal Affairs, arrives from St. Petersburg on Good Friday and threatens to fire Prince Dolgurukoi if the killer isn't caught by Easter. Tulipov goes back to the graveyard to interview the people who attended Izhitsin's experiment, and, in a sudden fit of inspiration, believes he's figured out who the killer is. While Tulipov is pursuing his theory, the Decorator arrives at his apartment and kills his sister Sonya. Fandorin is informed of this, and is then given a deathbed report from Tulipov, who believed the killer was Zakharov and had gone to Zakharov's office at the graveyard to observe him--only to run into the Decorator, who attacked and mortally wounded him. Fandorin, enraged over the murder of his assistant, goes to the graveyard and finds Zakharov missing, but interviews the watchman Pakhomenko. He receives a phone call from Zakharov, who says he is innocent and will tell Fandorin everything if Fandorin and Masa meet him at a hotel.
Meanwhile, the Decorator goes to Fandorin's house, intending to kill Angelina. He is surprised and subdued by Fandorin and Masa, who did not go to the hotel rendezvous. The killer is revealed to be Pakhomenko, the friendly graveyard watchman--whose true identity is Sotsky, the leader of the group of medical school pranksters seven years ago. Fandorin determines to kill Sotsky himself, right there in his house, but is interrupted by Angelina when she arrives home. Fandorin settles for an impromptu trial with Angelina as judge. Fandorin then reveals that Sotsky did not die in prison, but escaped and emigrated to London before returning to Moscow and getting a job at the cemetery from his old friend Zakharov. Sotsky then killed Zakharov and impersonated him in the phone call to lure Fandorin away and leave Angelina unprotected.
Sotsky admits to his crimes and Angelina finds him guilty. Fandorin then takes him outside and shoots him in the yard. After he returns, Angelina tells him she is leaving him to become a nun, because she believes she inhibits Fandorin in his work. Fandorin is devastated, but she insists. As the Easter bells sound, she tells him "It's all right. Do you hear? Christ is risen."
In Special Assignments, Akunin returns to his habit of telling Fandorin stories from perspectives other than Fandorin's. "The Jack of Spades" is told entirely from Tulipov's point of view. "The Decorator" is told mostly from Tulipov's view, with interludes from the mind of the murderer.
Literary significance & criticism
According to Akunin, when the first Fandorin novel, The Winter Queen, was originally published in Russia in 1998, it sold only six thousand copies. The next three books sold similarly. However, Special Assignments, the fifth novel in the series, was "like a bomb", becoming a bestseller, making all the previous Fandorin novels bestsellers, and making Akunin a huge star in Russia.
Historical accuracy
In "The Decorator", Fandorin refers to Jack the Ripper having killed eight women during his London spree. The number of victims of Jack the Ripper was never definitely established, but the most common estimate is five. Akunin's eight victims are a broad list, including such uncertain possibilities as Emma Smith, Martha Tabram, and Rose Millet.
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A Few Thoughts on Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Anti-Feminists’ Feminist Icon
By: Shellsea Lomeli
Watching Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed to the highest court in the land in 2018, despite the sexual assault allegations against him, crushed me. I am sure it crushed a lot of people, especially sexual assault survivors who had finally started to see the significant impact of sharing their stories and holding aggressors accountable through the Me Too Movement. In a TedTalk given a month after Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Tarana Burke, the founder of the Me Too Movement, described this feeling of numbness in the face of defeat. “Numbness,” she said, “is not always the absence of feeling. Sometimes it’s an accumulation of feelings.” I felt this numbness when Kavanaugh took his seat next to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a feminist trailblazer, and I felt it again when Amy Coney Barrett replaced her.
Kavanaugh becoming a Supreme Court justice was not just a slap in the face for survivors. It was an example of how men in power step on the necks of women everywhere and society just lets them. When Congress confirmed Kavanaugh’s nomination, they also confirmed to women everywhere that their voices do not matter. What women think, say, and feel is not as important as what a man does. And it made me numb as a feminist — as a woman.
It took me a while to build myself back up to the “raging” feminist that I was before my country’s government allowed a rapist to decide what I get to do with my body. But I did. Because a woman’s fight is never over, especially when facing setbacks like this one.
It was easy for me to see Kavanaugh as a villain and to understand his abuse of privilege as a straight, white, affluent man. But it is also easy to make the mistake of believing that men are more likely to be against you but women will always be on your side. This error in thought is probably why this year’s Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, just a month after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, brought me back to that feeling of numbness.
In theory, the confirmation of another woman to the Supreme Court is a huge step for feminists. All but four Justices have been men with Barrett being only the fifth woman to serve at the highest court. However, this is absolutely not the case when the woman confirmed goes against everything that feminists stand for and have worked tirelessly to accomplish.
First off, Amy Coney Barrett is pro-life. While she may not have openly stated her stance on the controversial subject in such clear wording, her recurring comments on the topic align with the ideology of those who are against a woman’s right to choose. During a discussion in 2013, Barrett stated that “supporting poor, single mothers would be the best way to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S.” Supporting mothers as an alternative to allowing women to choose whether they want to be a mother is a common strategy that the pro-life community takes. During her confirmation hearing, Barrett would not comment on Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that granted women the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, but she has previously said that “Republicans are heavily invested in getting judges who will overturn Roe [v. Wade].” As a Justice nominated by a Republican administration, it is not a far stretch to assume that she will try to strip women of the right to choose what happens to their bodies.
Barrett’s stance on Roe v. Wade is not the only component of her confirmation that poses a threat to women and the feminist movement. There is also the fact that anti-feminist people everywhere are idolizing Barrett’s accomplishment as an accomplishment for all women. Another woman has been appointed to the Supreme Court which must mean that the divide between men and women in American society is not as dramatic as the feminist movement claims it is. But we, as a collective, must understand that Amy Coney Barrett is not all women. She belongs to the percentage of women who are privileged in incredible ways. She is a white, heterosexual woman who was born into a well-off family. She went to private school. She has access to childcare. The list goes on. Of course, I am not saying there is anything wrong with being privileged. What is wrong, however, is allowing the continuation of the false narrative that Barrett represents all women.
The truth of the matter is this. Not all women with only three years of experience as a judge would have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. They probably would not have even gotten a nomination.
In the past few weeks, I have seen a recurring post on social media. The wording is different each time but the message remains the same: Amy Coney Barrett is a perfect example of an under-qualified white woman getting the job before a person of color has a chance. We cannot ignore that.
Overall, Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court poses a threat, both directly and indirectly to the past and future accomplishments of the feminist movement. There is a lot to be wary of in the coming years as she serves as a Justice. But, just as we persevered through the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, we will persevere once more.
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The Illusion of the American Election
By: Atmanah Parab
As a kid, I don’t remember thinking much about politics. The founding fathers with their cherry trees and boat rides across freezing rivers seemed more like mythological characters than people to me. Their lives, their impacts, and their paradigms for existence were far separated from the world I lived in. I was far more preoccupied with demolishing pancakes and watching fireworks with my family on the 4th of July than to even truly consider my own country. It seemed then that the United States had been around forever. I could not conceive of a world without the structures I knew. Understandable; I was, after all, a kid. In addition to this, my parents, Indian citizens, had little interest in American politics or any desire to express their political will in a country that had not yet become their own. As I learned and grew, things started to change.
In middle school, I learned about the birth of democracy in Greece where pebbles and urns were the first ballots and ballot boxes. I learned about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and wondered if I would know if and when the political and social structures around me were crumbling or whether I would live to see the death of an empire. At this point, I still saw American politics as something far different than I do now. Politics to me was: the structures of government, neat checks and balances, and flow charts that showed a bill becoming a law. None of the grey areas, chaos, or high stakes that politics can have in real life. I was aware that there were two parties. I watched the presidential and vice-presidential debates, rooting for Obama wholeheartedly because I believed in the presidency and the “good” of the Democrats and American government in general.
But as I’ve come to learn through high school debate, many political science courses, and existing as a human being in the United States, this sh*t is kind of messed up.
Why do politicians seem to value winning the electoral game over making a truly positive impact on the lives of their constituents? Why do we not have universal healthcare, a commitment to education or science, and the blood of the Global South on our hands? And most currently relevant, why on earth are our elections the way they are? Why are we always stuck choosing between the lesser of two evils and two parties only? Why does the electoral college still exist?
You see, now that I’m 20, the founding fathers have suffered a mighty fall from the mythological. I now recognize them as the creators of a purposefully restrictive and exclusive political structure. As much as living in the United States in 2020 is vastly different than in the late 18th century, the decisions made based on the context of life then are still applied to the America that I live in now. This leads to many of the problems that plague American electoral politics. The way that parties and candidates function within the American political sphere is neither beneficial to their constituents or democracy at large, however, the kicker is that this behavior is necessitated by the structure of American electoralism.
The first and often overlooked component of the maelstrom of misrepresentation we find ourselves in is the First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system. This is something so inherent to the process of American electoralism that when I first learned that there were alternatives, my mind was blown. FPTP is a form of plurality voting where the candidate that accrues a majority of the vote wins the election regardless of which percentage of the vote was won. For example, if three candidates A, B, and C are running for mayor and A wins 35% of the vote and thus the seat. However, B and Cs vote shares account for 65% percent of the vote. Meaning that the elected candidate was only truly representative of 35% of the electorate. Under FPTP, candidate A winning is fair and obvious as the single candidate with the most votes, but this is not a highly representative system. Alternative electoral systems either allow for ranked voting, ensuring that the votes of citizens are not wasted beyond their first preference, or have an increased emphasis on proportionality, and take into consideration vote shares. The reason this matters is because the majority of large-scale American elections, supposedly built on the ideal of democracy and representation, occur through FPTP. Even if we take aside the electoral college (which simply compounds these issues) there is a fatal and obvious failure at achieving true democratic representation even simply on the level of the winner-take-all mechanism of FPTP.
Unfortunately for us and proponents of true representation, the effects of the electoral college cannot be overlooked. Probably the most maligned feature of our current electoral system is the electoral college. Pew Research Center polls consistently show that the majority of Americans would like to abolish the electoral college and yet it exists. We are taught that the electoral college was a compromise made to assure the voices of less populated states would not be silenced by areas of high population concentration. There is a barely veiled vested interest in reducing the potency of the public vote in the electoral college, especially given that at the time it was put into action, less than 6% of the nation’s population fit the requirements to vote. In modern-day America where the population is increasingly concentrated in either smaller geographical areas (metropolitan areas) or spread thin across vast swathes of land, the electoral college results in the votes of some being worth far more than others. A vote in Wisconsin is worth sixty-six Californian votes.
However, because the Electoral College is a part of the Constitution and amending it to a more representative form of election such as a national popular vote or ranked-choice voting would result in a complete transformation of power in the political sphere, there is a hesitance for those in power to allow such a change. While people may vote, it is land that speaks. The electoral college creates an inherent imbalance in the value of different regions and it shows in the attention that candidates give to key issues and the lack of care dedicated towards uniquely urban issues.
This matters because regardless of how voting potency is distributed, a majority of Americans are facing a dilution of their power as citizens and voters. The electors for a given state are obligated to vote for the candidate elected by popular vote in their state even if the margin that the candidate wins by is extremely slim. All electoral votes for a state going to a single candidate winning by a slim margin is a gross misrepresentation of the citizen will. In addition to this, people of color tend to stay in urban and metropolitan areas adding to the generalized institutional racism inherent in American society. The victories won through this electoral system are only perpetuated by office-holders who use their authority to gerrymander and disenfranchise.
This combination of electoral systems leads to a huge and forceful oversimplification of the country’s policy preference. It is also the reason why voting for the third party is a risk. Often third parties stray from mainstream/centrist politics and advocate for “radical” change which puts off a fair chunk of American voters. Any votes for third party candidates are likely to have the electoral effect of simply detracting from the vote share of one of the two main candidates rather than winning any elections resulting in what political science scholars call a ‘wasted vote’. This isn’t fair to the citizens of the United States or the political process because it effectively shuts down anything outside of the main two parties and devalues progress simply for the maintenance of power and electoral control. While all our votes do matter, we have to get real and wonder how much they matter and whether it is fair that things are the way they are.
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An Abortion of Rights: The Problem with Poland’s Newest Ruling
By: Sarah Ansari
Protests have been raging in Poland since October 22, when the court passed a ban on abortions for fetal anomalies, which made up the majority of legal abortions within the country in 2019. With the ban in place, abortions are now only allowed under Polish law in the cases of incest, rape, or threat to the parent’s health. Poland’s ties with the Catholic Church, however, also enable the doctors themselves to refuse abortions or contraceptives on the grounds of religion. While this mass of demonstrations is one of the largest the country has seen in decades, it is not the first surrounding the matter of abortion. Government officials in Poland have repeatedly attempted to make the legislation regarding the termination of pregnancy stricter, but have been met with opposition and protests each time.
The most common argument besides religious beliefs against the termination of pregnancy in the case of fetal defects is that it’s cruel to tamper with potential life simply because of disability. However, this sentiment projects blame entirely onto the parent without looking at the situation that led to them making their choice.
So, What is the Situation?
Although there’s no way to pry into the mind of every person who decides to get an abortion, we can come to an educated guess about the factors that play into the decision to terminate a pregnancy due to fetal anomalies by looking at the numbers.
Most countries rule that abortion is permitted until the 12th or 20th week of pregnancy. After the 12th week, doctors willing to perform the procedure are harder to find, except in some rare circumstances. The first trimester screening which looks for fetal defects, however, occurs between the 11th and 13th weeks of pregnancy
Many pregnancies are unplanned, and may go undetected for a bit longer than usual, especially since symptoms vary between individuals– with some experiencing them after a few weeks, and others not experiencing them for months. An estimate for the amount of time it takes to be alerted to an unplanned pregnancy is 4 weeks, a.k.a the time it would take to notice a missed period. Between awareness of the pregnancy and the 12th week, therefore, the parent has 8 weeks (around 2 months) to make their choice. Abortion is a life-altering decision, and one that does take time to consider, although it turns out that only 10-18% of women who approached an abortion clinic for information were uncertain about getting one.
Compiling all this information, it’s safe to say that at the point when the first trimester screening is performed, enough time has passed to deduce that the parent wants to keep the child. To flip that decision is not something that they would take lightly; it doesn’t take a study (but here’s one anyway) to show that the parent is far from apathetic about the fetus (as some in opposition to abortion would believe), but undergoes severe trauma and grief.
Then, Why Do They Choose to Abort?
While it’s easy to say that the parent should have the child regardless of the fetal anomalies, some parents simply can not afford to accommodate a kid with disabilities. A study regarding the costs to raise a child with a disability until the age of 18 revealed added expenses ranging from $180-$8,000 a year (NOTE: the definition of disability is this study was very broad, so the minimum costs could be higher, depending on criteria). The cost of raising a child in the United States until age 18 is approximately $233,000. Going with a median number of about $4,000/yr ($72,000 over 18 years) for the added costs of raising a child with a disability in the U.S., we discover that it’s approximately 31% more expensive.
The average cost of raising a child in Poland is 49,000 pln. Assuming that Poland’s healthcare system is not as bad as the United States’ (although I will talk more later about how it still is not the best), I will give a rough estimate of about 20% higher expenses for raising a child with a disability– bringing the grand total to 58,800 pln. The average salary in Poland is around 5,000 pln/yr. Raising a child with a disability costs about 12 years of salary versus the typical 9 years worth.
Enough with the Numbers, What Does this Mean?
It’s simple, really; as much as a person might want to have a child (although it’s okay if they don’t), they sometimes do not have the means to provide the kid with the life they deserve, and should not be shamed for that.
People desperate enough to get abortions will find a means to obtain one regardless, and may resort to dangerous methods. Ultimately the fixation upon restricting access to abortions comes down to one thing: a prioritzation of prenatal life, and a disregard for the already-born.
Abortions are allowed if the parent’s health is in danger. I’m sure you recall me saying that at the beginning of this article, unless the big mass of numbers in the middle made your eyes go all fuzzy. The toll of working tirelessly just to make ends meet to provide for both parent and child is in itself a detriment to health for both parties. While the Polish government does provide some assistance for those raising children with disabilities, the stipends granted are still not nearly enough, and often only cover the child’s bare necessities. The age-old (and totally true) saying is that disability is a product of environment, rather than the fault of an individual. The expenses behind caring for a child with a disability points towards systemic problems with how countries deal with disabilities, and blame should be placed upon the system, rather than the individuals who fall victim to it.
Back to Poland
With all the information gathered about the reasons someone might choose to undergo an abortion for prenatal defects, the outrage felt by protestors is justified. However, the government is attempting to shift the rhetoric of blame back to the people, rather than holding themselves accountable.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, gatherings of more than five people are prohibited in Poland, yet the protests break this rule. The Polish government blames the recent spike in coronavirus cases on protestors, choosing to villainize them rather than listen to what they’re saying. Yes, protesting during a pandemic is less than ideal, but without action, the people would have to watch their rights stripped away in front of their eyes. Many believe that the Polish government even took advantage of the pandemic in the hopes that the law would pass without a fight.
In fact, the government is the primary actor to blame for the surge of COVID cases, not the people. As recently as the end of October (around the time when the protests began), the German government reached out to Poland to offer aid in dealing with the pandemic. While Polish officials thanked Germany, they insisted that they need no outside help, and that they are self-sufficient.While some may argue that this statement was made before the protests began to grow, and that perhaps Poland was self-sufficient at the time their refusal of aid was made, that notion is incorrect. Poland has been having issues dealing with the coronavirus for months now, almost since the virus began (take this article written in April as an example). To that end, officials are using the virus as an excuse of convenience to silence protestors, rather than taking active measures to stop the spread.
Amidst the villainization of protestors, Poland has also mobilized riot police to monitor the crowds. While protestors did partake in vandalism, the demonstrations were largely peaceful. Either way, property damage does not justify the pepper spraying of protestors and excessive use of force. Here are links to some twitter posts that capture instances of brutality, but please be aware that footage can be graphic. These examples are also not meant to sensationalize violence, but to provide evidence for people who would argue in favour of the Polish police. (x, x, x, x)
The most recent update regarding the abortion ban in Poland has it that the ruling will be delayed, which is only a minor victory for protestors. Officials still intend to carry through with their plans, although they are willing to engage in “dialogue” with the citizens. Polish president Andrzej Duda has attempted to placate protestors by offering a “compromise” that will allow abortions in the case of fatal fetal defects. Such a compromise is only lip-service to attempt to mitigate backlash, rather than a substantive acknowledgment of the reasoning behind the protests. The Polish government and its abortion rulings are, ultimately, just another instance in which a majority (cis) male-dominated body places restrictions upon women and others with reproductive capacities without letting the people who are affected voice their own opinions.
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Dinotopia Budget
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ABC's mini-series adaptation of Dinotopia looks to be the
most expensive made for TV movie of all time. With a budget
that hovers around $70 million, the six-hour show is being
produced by Robert Halmi, Jr., who recently produced
Gulliver's Travels, The 10th Kingdom, and Arabian
The miniseries will be based on a series of best-selling
books by upstate New York-based illustrator James Gurney,
who created the make-believe world in 1992. In the stories, a
lost" continent is discovered by a biologist named Arthur
Denison and his 12-year-old son in the year 1862. In this
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import os
import re
# To avoid circular imports, util modules should only import a limited
# set of shakenfist modules, mainly exceptions, logutils, and specific
# other util modules.
from shakenfist import exceptions
from shakenfist import logutil
from shakenfist.util import process as util_process
LOG, _ = logutil.setup(__name__)
VALUE_WITH_BRACKETS_RE = re.compile(r'.* \(([0-9]+) bytes\)')
def identify(path):
"""Work out what an image is."""
if not os.path.exists(path):
return {}
out, _ = util_process.execute(None, 'qemu-img info %s' % path)
data = {}
for line in out.split('\n'):
line = line.lstrip().rstrip()
elems = line.split(': ')
if len(elems) > 1:
key = elems[0]
value = ': '.join(elems[1:])
m = VALUE_WITH_BRACKETS_RE.match(value)
if m:
value = float(m.group(1))
elif value.endswith('K'):
value = float(value[:-1]) * 1024
elif value.endswith('M'):
value = float(value[:-1]) * 1024 * 1024
elif value.endswith('G'):
value = float(value[:-1]) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
elif value.endswith('T'):
value = float(value[:-1]) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
try:
data[key] = float(value)
except Exception:
data[key] = value
return data
def create_cow(locks, cache_file, disk_file, disk_size):
"""Create a COW layer on top of the image cache.
disk_size is specified in Gigabytes.
"""
if os.path.exists(disk_file):
return
info = identify(cache_file)
virtual_size = None
try:
virtual_size = int(info['virtual size'])
except TypeError:
pass
if (virtual_size and disk_size and
virtual_size > disk_size * 1024 * 1024 * 1024):
raise exceptions.ImagesCannotShrinkException(
'The specified size of %dgb (%d bytes) is smaller than the existing size '
'of the image of %s bytes.'
% (disk_size, disk_size * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, info['virtual size']))
if disk_size:
util_process.execute(locks,
'qemu-img create -b %s -f qcow2 %s %dG'
% (cache_file, disk_file, int(disk_size)))
else:
util_process.execute(locks,
'qemu-img create -b %s -f qcow2 %s'
% (cache_file, disk_file))
def create_qcow2(locks, cache_file, disk_file):
"""Make a qcow2 copy of the disk from the image cache."""
if os.path.exists(disk_file):
return
util_process.execute(locks,
'qemu-img convert -t none -O qcow2 %s %s'
% (cache_file, disk_file))
def create_blank(locks, disk_file, disk_size):
"""Make an empty image."""
if os.path.exists(disk_file):
return
util_process.execute(locks, 'qemu-img create -f qcow2 %s %sG'
% (disk_file, disk_size))
def snapshot(locks, source, destination):
"""Convert a possibly COW layered disk file into a snapshot."""
util_process.execute(locks,
'qemu-img convert --force-share -O qcow2 %s %s'
% (source, destination))
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Notorious Drug Dealer Alpo Martinez Complete Biography!
Nov 16, 2021 @ 10:59 GMT+0000
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Alpo Martinez
Alpo Martinez also known as Alberto Geddiz Martinez, he was a notorious drug dealer and became a familiar name during the mid-1980s. Alpo Martinez was born on June 8, 1966, in East Harlem, New York.
Martinez was one of two children raised by his single mother in East Harlem, commonly known as Spanish Harlem, in Upper Manhattan. Before dropping out in his second year, he attended a Roman Catholic school, Automotive Mechanical High School, and Julia Richmond High School.
At the age of 13, Alpo began selling drugs in East Harlem. Martinez began moving up the drug dealing ladder in Harlem after meeting Azie Faison, a West Side Harlem drug dealer, and eventually became one of the city’s greatest drug dealers.
Alpo Martinez Martinez Son
The Harlem native is said to have three sons, one of them is a rapper known as Popperazzi Po, another known as Gumby, and a third whose name is unknown. Po, who was born Randy Harvey on November 2, 1986, grew raised in New York without knowing who his father was.
Martinez was raised in a completely different home, and it wasn’t until the movie Paid In Full was published in 2002 that people began to worry about his parentage Po’s father may not have been his biological father, according to the film, because of the aggressive manner in which he supposedly dealt with Po..
Alpo Martinez son
Alpo son Popperazzi Po. (Image source: Instagram)
Popperazzi, however, changed his life following his release and relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where he founded his own music label, O3GMG.
He is a successful musician as well as an entrepreneur. He also makes money through YouTube. Po has been living a lavish lifestyle, as evidenced by his Instagram account. In the next days, his earnings will only rise.
Po’s debut came in 2017 with 50 Gunz and Look At Me starring Cardi B, and his most recent release was BSM ft King Bukz in September 2021. however, Po maintains in touch with Gumby, who is around 30 years old, but he has never met his other brother from DC.
Alpo Martinez Wife
There is no information about the identity of Alpo Martinez’s wife. However it was mentioned in several news article that his wife was with him when he was arrested in 1991.
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Alpo was only 25 years old at the time of his first arrest. According to news articles, his wife never left his side during his trial. A s the judge sentenced Alpo to35 years, his wife was by his side. there is no any pictures as well as further information related to his wife.
How Much is Alpo Net Worth?
Before his death on October 31, 2021, Alpo Martinez had a net worth of roughly $1 million. His drug dealing activities were his main source of revenue.
Alpo Martinez Net worth is $1 million.
NetWorth in millions. (Image Source: Instagram)
In 2202, the movie Paid In Full was released and it was based on the life of Alpo Martinez. Cam’ron, an actor and rapper, played the role of Alpo in the film.
This project generated a significant amount of money, which provided Alpo with the revenue he needed to boost his bank account.
Alpo Martinez Movie
Martinez was portrayed by rapper and actor Cam’ron in the 2002 film Paid In Full, which was based on Martinez’s, Azie Faison’s, and Rich Porter’s illegal activities.
Paid in Full is partly based on a true story. Azie “AZ” Faison, Rich Porter, and the late Alpo Martinez, all of whom worked as cocaine traffickers in Harlem in the 1980s, are the three main characters.
Alpo Martinez movie and career
Paid in full movie poster. (Image Source: Instagram)
Despite the fact that it is partly based on their progress in the drug trafficking business, Paid in Full uses fictional characters to tell its story.
Alpo was a drug dealer from Harlem, New York City, with Puerto Rican heritage. He rose to fame in the mid-1980s and became well-known after appearing in the hit 2002 biographical film Paid In Full, in which he was played by rapper Cam’ron. Paid In Full had the box office collection of $3.1 million
Alpo Martinez Death
Martinez was fatally shot by an assailant in a moving vehicle on October 31. He was wounded on the left side of his chest, on his chin, and three bullets went inside his left arm, according to NYPD sources. His red 2017 Dodge Ram collided with the back of another car after he was shot five times on W. 152nd St.
Alpo Martinez death incident. (Image Source: Instagram)
Alpo was shot “five times” while seated in a 2017 Dodge Ram car, according to Sources. He was shot three times in the arm, twice in the chest, and once in the jaw.
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The motivation for the shooting is still being investigated, but no suspects have been identified as of yet. The man died, after being rushed to the hospital.
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Movie Economics:
The new Star Wars movie opened with a record-setting $50 million day (including midnight screenings). It is showing in 3,661 theatres domestically (US and Canada), but the number of prints distributed is over 9,000, or well over two per theatre. In turn, multiplexes can show movies on even more screens than they have prints if they shuttle reels from auditorium to auditorium (e.g., start Reel A playing at 7:00 pm in auditorium 1, then carry it to auditorium 2 and start it playing at 8:00pm). Once a famously snoozy job, being a projectionist has become much more demanding in recent years as multiplex owners have figured out how to maximize their use of prints.
35mm prints are extraordinarily expensive: about $1,500 apiece. Because "Revenge of the Sith" is longer than usual, I'd guess that about $15 million has been invested just in domestic prints. Obviously, it will soon make more sense to distribute movies to theatres digitally on reusable hard disks or on stacks of DVDs, but that's an open invitation to piracy. (There's plenty of piracy already, but the awkwardness of analog to digital copying slows things down a bit.)
One thing that drives me nuts is when the sound slips out of sync with the pictures. That must happen 10% of the time. It must not bother other viewers as much because I'm usually the first person out of his seat to alert the projectionist. (They almost always fix it immediately.) After 78 years of talkies, you'd figure they wouldn't still have this problem, but they do. Projectionist used to be a cushy union job, but as the owners made the job harder, they also got rid of the union veterans and brought in kids to run the projectors, so the quality dropped despite all the technological improvements.
Thinking about projectionists reminds me of the story about the man who went to see a psychiatrist:
"Doc, I haven't had a date in years."
"Perhaps it's that odor that you seem to exude."
"Yeah, that's probably it. See, my job is shoveling up after the elephants in the circus, and it would take weeks to scrub the smell off me."
"Perhaps you could look for a different job?"
"What?!? And quit show biz???"
Jerry Seinfeld tells the story about the time a private plane carrying Benny Goodman's band crashlands on a stormy winter night in a field. The musicians clamber out in their tuxedos, grab their suitcases, and trudge off through the mud and darkness. After a mile or so, the bedraggled bunch comes to a cozy farmhouse. Two musician looks in the window at a family happily playing board games in front of the fireplace, mom bringing hot chocolate, the faithful family dog curled up by the hearth. The saxophone player turns to the trumpet player, shakes his head, and says, "Man, I just don't how people can live like that."
My published articles are archived at -- Steve Sailer
Which Book Should I Write? Reader Recommendations Requested:
I'm soliciting your suggestions for what should be the topic of my first book. Please think about: What would you buy? What would the public buy? What would get published? What would get reviewed and publicized on TV?
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A reader replies:
If you want to sell your book, ask yourself, what do people want to believe? I remember reading about this Japanese author who wrote a book claiming Japanese brains were hard-wired differently and so had great difficultly learning foreign languages. It was a run-away best seller. But complete nonsense of course.
But it ingeniously fed two things Japanese want to believe. 1. Japanese are exceptional 2. It's not your fault that you can't learn English (Japanese are atrocious at learning English).
I know this is cynical advice, but....gotta sell your book.
Now you just gotta figure out what people here want to believe that doesn't compromise your integrity too much. Your only problem is that you specialize in telling people exactly what they don't want to believe.
My published articles are archived at -- Steve Sailer
The Catch 22 of Nation Building:
A reader writes:
Nation building depends on the kind of nation that is being targeted for reconstruction. Most of the ones the US will have a strategic interest in are in a complete mess, which is why they have become a threat in the first place. Therefore the kind of nations the US wants to build are exactly the kind of nations you don't want to get involved with. Kind of a Groucho Marx affiliation problem [Groucho said of Hillcrest Country Club: I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.]
My published articles are archived at -- Steve Sailer
Gullible Skeptic:
Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine, provides in the Los Angeles Times another example of Google-free reviewing of Freakonomics:
Levitt's most controversial computation involves the dramatic 1990s drop in crime rates. The reason, he says, is not tougher gun control laws, capital punishment, decreasing unemployment or a stronger economy. It is Roe vs. Wade. Research shows that children from impoverished and adverse environments are more likely to become criminals. After the 1973 court decision made legal abortions possible, millions of poor, single women aborted unwanted fetuses; 20 years later, the pool of potential criminals had shrunk, as did the crime rate. (The solution isn't more abortions, he says, but "better environments for those children at greatest risk for future crime.")
Of course, correlation does not always mean causation, and explaining the causes of crime is a complex, multivariate problem. But Levitt also shows that the five states that legalized abortion two years before Roe vs. Wade saw a drop in crime earlier than the other states. Further, those states with the highest abortion rates in the 1970s experienced the greatest drop in crime in the 1990s, and the entire decline in crime was among the age group born after 1973, not among older groups.
It's amazing how many reviewers don't bother even typing "abortion crime" into Google.
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May 19, 2005
Wealth and IQ
A reader writes:
I recently heard on television a college professor and author speaking enthusiastically in favor of affirmative action. When asked about disparity between white and black I.Q.'s even when family household income is controlled for, he replied something along the lines of "You are controlling for the wrong factor. If instead of income you control for family household wealth black and white I.Q.'s are identical." Without any specialized knowledge or training, I have nonetheless followed the affirmative action controversy over the years and don't ever remember hearing this before or hearing this particular tack taken by any of its proponents Do you know if it is true?
This comes up now and then, so let me try to explain how this sleight of hand works:
The implication is that wealth serves as an environmental effect that changes IQ by 15 points (the one standard deviation difference between whites and blacks). But, there's no evidence from any adoption or separated twin study that says that net worth has much impact on adult IQs, so the alleged causal mechanism is not true. Indeed, most of the environmental variation in IQ does not appear attributable to anything measurable in the environment -- it might have more to do with random infections or bumps on the head or developmental differences.
What he's trying to do is find a selection effect where he can select blacks who are, say, two standard deviations above the black mean for IQ and compare them to whites who are one standard deviation about the white mean and then, hesto presto, discover that they are equal in IQ.
Net worth is particularly suited to playing this game. Blacks have a much harder time than whites accumulating wealth (they inherit less, their houses don't appreciate as fast because they tend to live in crime-ridden black neighborhoods, and they save less of their income), so blacks with high net worth are much more elite relative to other blacks than whites with the same positive net worth. So, that's how you get them as having equal IQs.
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It Must Be a Cold Day in Hell
The political tide on immigration is definitely turning when the Wall Street Journal's online opinion page, normally virulently opposed to anyone who questions the sacred right of employers to cheap labor, runs a pro-Minutemen / anti-illegal immigration op-ed called: "Minutemen Are People, Too: Arizona rednecks win a round against the ACLU."
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May 18, 2005
Class and IQ:
The NYT and the WSJ have been writing about the lack of change in class status, but Mickey Kaus wonders if they'll mention IQ:
The NYT's Intelligence Test: The big question about the New York Times' Big Deal "Class Matters" series is how it will treat the role of genetically inherited traits--including but not limited to "intelligence"--in reducing mobility and perpetuating an aristocracy of the successful. Let's hope they do better than the WSJ's David Wessel, who blew off the genetic vector in a single unsatisfactory, buried paragraph:
Why aren't the escalators working better? Figuring out how parents pass along economic status, apart from the obvious but limited factor of financial bequests, is tough. But education appears to play an important role. In contrast to the 1970s, a college diploma is increasingly valuable in today's job market. The tendency of college grads to marry other college grads and send their children to better elementary and high schools and on to college gives their children a lasting edge.
The notion that the offspring of smart, successful people are also smart and successful is appealing, and there is a link between parent and child IQ scores. But most research finds IQ isn't a very big factor in predicting economic success. [Emph. added]
The r-squared of IQ and income is around 10% and it's a common error to think that's not a "very big factor." The problem with this line of thought is that Life Is Very Complicated, which means that a huge number of factors contribute to determining income. Relative to the multitudinous other factors, IQ plays a sizable role, so that the average income difference between people with IQs of 115 and 85, say, is very large. Here, for example, is Charles Murray describing his study of 710 pairs of American siblings for the Times of London:
The Washington Monthly's blogger Kevin Drum takes a stance similar to Mickey's:
Ever since World War II, the United States has done a phenomenal job of sorting people by talent. Not a perfect job, but an astonishingly good one nonetheless. All four of my grandparents, for example, would almost certainly have gone to college if they had turned 18 in the 1960s, but that just wasn't in the cards for any of them a century ago. Today, though, as a matter of deliberate policy, the vast majority of people who have the talent to succeed in college get the chance to try. As a result, they moved upward into the middle and upper classes decades ago, and their children have followed them.
But there's only a moderate amount of sorting left to be done. Random chance, both in nature and nurture, will always play a role in life outcomes, but that role has gotten smaller and smaller as the sorting has progressed. The result is that life roles have become more hardened. While incomes of the well-off have skyrocketed over the past 30 years, working and middle class incomes have stagnated. At the same time, the incomes — and jobs — they do have are far more unstable than they were a few decades ago. And as recent research indicates, most of them are increasingly stuck in these grim circumstances: every decade, fewer and fewer of them — and fewer and fewer of their children — have any realistic chance of moving up the income ladder.
This makes a lot of sense, but I want to urge caution: There's still a lot of IQ variation found between siblings raised in the same home. I haven't done the math necessary to figure out how much impact assortative mating would have had by now.
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Villaraigosa elected mayor of LA:
A reader writes:
Villaraigosa won, so billionaire developer Eli Broad and the other Westsiders got their man in the job. Villaraigosa could serve them for the next 20+ years, much as Bradley was a useful asset during his long service in office. So much is going to be made of this victory, but little good for the city will come of his election.
The mayor can't fix the totally messed up LAUSD. Traffic problems are a joint concern of CALTRANS, the MTA, AQMD, and other I can't think of right now. Does the city even have the money to fix it's own rotten streets?
A handful of Latino consultants are going to become rich(er) as a result of this victory. Latino pride types will boast of their time having come. Beyond braggin' rights, the average Latino is not going to get squat from this election.
The big losers in all of this will be the local black leaders. The value of their voting block diminishes each day. They may not have the numbers to swing the election in 4 years.
In 4 years Villa will get to claim the credit for new Police Chief Bratton's work, denying Hahn any legacy.
Los Angeles has a "weak mayor" form of government stemming from the Progressive Era of almost a century ago. The Progressives were mostly northern Midwestern Protestants, as was the population of LA at the time, who despised the corruption in immigrant-dominated cities with machine-dominated politics, such as Chicago, where votes were traded for jobs and services. So, they invented a system that would be harder to corrupt and would rely upon the civic-mindedness of the citizens.
Well, today, LA, like Chicago before WWI, is an immigrant city with an uninformed and uninterested electorate. We just don't have the civic virtues anymore to make the system work the ways the Progressives intended. So, control has fallen into the hands of the only people interested and informed: a coterie of a couple of dozen ultra-rich Westside developers like Broad and former mayor Richard Riordan, both of whom backed Villaraigosa.
Under the circumstances, LA would probably be better off with traditional corrupt machine politics. Chicago is doing better with a strong mayor machine system under King Richard II than LA is doing under its old Progressive structure.
Of course, you'll never read about how the new immigration has undermined the Progressive reforms that liberals were once so proud of.
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Black Rednecks or Black Africans?
A reader responds to my VDARE article:
This is a really superb piece of commentary on Thomas Sowell, who is also one of my heroes--as Grady McWhiney [author of Cracker Culture] is one of my old friends and was once a colleague here at U of Alabama. I think you make a very important point about the residue of African culture in the behavior of present day blacks. I hope Sowell sees your argument, which seems to me to be correct and compelling.
I also think you are right to distinguish between redneck and what I call hillbilly culture in southern whites. Here in Alabama, the hillbillies (mostly Scots Irish in ancestry living in the northern part of the state) did not own slaves and in some cases refused to join the Confederacy to fight for the institution. A couple of hillbilly counties even seceded from the state when it seceded from the Union. The rednecks from the southern part of the state, where land is flatter and richer, are more often English in ancestry and became shareholders after the civil war, raising cotton formerly raised by slaves. The difference was typified in the last half of the twentieth century by the contrast and conflict between federal judge Frank M. Johnson, an enforcer of civil rights law, and redneck rabble rouser George Wallace, both Alabamians and both graduates the same year from the UA school of law. Johnson was from northern, Wallace from southern, Alabama.
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"Revenge of the Sith"
-- I'm all Sithed-out.
What I don't get is why George Lucas felt so compelled to step back into the director and screenwriter roles, even though 1980s' great "Empire Strikes Back" -- where he hired Irven Kershner to direct and veteran lady screenwriter Leigh Brackett and hot young talent Lawrence Kasdan to write (based on Lucas' s story) -- showed the advantages of delegation. Can you imagine how much better the three prequels would have been if Lucas had hired, say, Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings) to direct and gotten a competent screenwriter to work up his story, such as Steven Kloves, who has done a good job adapting the Harry Potter novels?
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May 17, 2005
The LA Mayoral Election:
All the local big shots have endorsed challenger Antonio Villaraigosa, but the irony is that if Mayor Jim Hahn loses today, it will because of the single best thing he did during his term: hire superstar Police Chief William J. Bratton, the reformer who shook up the somnolent NYPD under Rudy Giuliani. He was fired by Giuliani because he was so popular he might have become a political rival.
Unfortunately, for Hahn, to give LA the police chief with the best reputation in the country, he had to not reinstate Bernard Parks, who was black. Angering the black vote unraveled the weird blacks and Republicans coalition he'd put together to beat Villaraigosa in 2001. The loss of the blacks made Hahn's re-election unlikely, which led to everybody who was anybody jumping on the Villaraigosa bandwagon.
So, while Hahn wasn't a terribly good mayor, he at least can take some bitter pride in losing for the one thing he did that was deserving of getting himself re-elected.
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Six Degrees of Crimethink Alert!
From the NRO Corner:
PAT PILES ON [John Derbyshire]
Excellent we-are-doomed-doomed talk from Pat Buchanan here.
OH, DERB, DERB, DERB... [John Podhoretz]
...Beware praising those who have placed themselves outside the bounds of civil discourse. Really.
Posted at
11:53 AM
The thuggishness of Pod the Lesser is something to behold.
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Evolutionary Function of the Female Orgasm
The NYT is on an evolution jag:
That always struck me as plausible. But Geoffrey Miller's 1999 book on sexual selection "The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature" makes a good qualitative case for the female orgasm evolving to show women to whom they are most attracted.
More research is necessary!
Also in the NYT: "New Theory Places Origin of Diabetes in an Age of Icy Hardships:"
When temperatures plummet, most people bundle up in thick sweaters, stay cozy indoors and stoke up on comfort food. But a provocative new theory suggests that thousands of years ago, juvenile diabetes may have evolved as a way to stay warm.
People with the disease, also known as Type 1 diabetes, have excessive amounts of sugar, or glucose, in their blood.
The theory argues that juvenile diabetes may have developed in ancestral people who lived in Northern Europe about 12,000 years ago when temperatures fell by 10 degrees Fahrenheit in just a few decades and an ice age arrived virtually overnight.
Archaeological evidence suggests countless people froze to death, while others fled south. But Dr. Sharon Moalem, an expert in evolutionary medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, believes that some people may have adapted to the extreme cold. High levels of blood glucose prevent cells and tissues from forming ice crystals, Dr. Moalem said. In other words, Type 1 diabetes would have prevented many of our ancestors from freezing to death.
I know it's standard for bloggers to sneer at the NYT, but for those of us with interests beyond partisan politics, the fact that you can read all this science coverage for free is a real blessing.
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Gregory Cochran's "New Germ Theory" Vindicated
"More Diseases Pinned on Old Culprit: Germs" says the New York Times:
A report issued last month by the American Academy of Microbiology paints a much more complex picture of infectious disease. Germs, scientists are learning, are probably the cause of many illnesses that were never thought to be infectious, and determining exactly how a germ contributes to disease is no longer simple.
Unfortunately, the February 1999 cover story in the Atlantic Monthly on the "New Germ Theory" of Cochran and his research partner Paul Ewald is no longer online for free. Here, though, is the big paper written by Cochran and Ewald in 2000: "Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective." This lays out their critique of the venerable "Koch's Postulates" about how to determine if a disease is infectious that were largely accepted by the American Academy of Microbiology.
Here's my never-before republished 2000 article on Paul Ewald: "Biologist Paul Ewald Says Germs, Not Genes, Cause Most Killer Diseases." And my 2001 article touching on Cochran and Ewald's work is here.
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Larry Summers Gives Away Other People's Money and Opportunities:
Back in the winter, I wrote in The American Conservative regarding the Larry Summers brouhaha:
Invented by Jesse Jackson, this public ritual -- an authority figure commits a "gaffe" by telling a bit of truth about human diversity, and then immediately hands over other people's money and opportunities to the offended special interest -- has become so familiar that nobody else asks why the fix is always in.
Today, unsurprisingly, the NYT announced:
"Harvard Will Spend $50 Million to Make Faculty More Diverse"
Dr. Summers said in a telephone news conference yesterday that Harvard's hiring record last year had been unacceptable. "We have to do better," he said. He called the $50 million an "initial commitment" and said he expected that the university would ultimately devote more resources to attract and retain a more diverse faculty.
You can read my full American Conservative story on The Education of Larry Summers. Or my National Post essay "We're Different. Get Over It." Or my articles The Larry Summers Show Trial and Why Some Men Don't Support Larry Summers.
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Professor Bainbridge
Across Difficult Country Commends Professor Bainbridge:
UCLA professor of law Steven Bainbridge observes that without illegal alien serfs, wealthy gluttons like himself would have to pay more to get drunk on California wine. Bring this up the next time you encounter some pathetic slob who doesn't know Merlot from Pinot Noir complaining about illegal aliens ruining his children’s schools or driving up his costs of buying a home. It should shut him up.
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Abortion and Crime: Sailer Responds to Steven "Freakonomics" Levitt's Response
Having gotten softball reviews from the national press, Steven D. Levitt's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, finally called his bluff on his abortion-cut-crime theory. Perhaps that's why he has now deigned to answer some of his critics.
Levitt makes no attempt to defend his battered "wantedness" theory of how abortion is supposed to cut crime, but instead merely restates his interpretations of the historical data.
Let me answer Levitt's initial arguments:
First, let's start by reviewing the basic facts that support the Donohue-Levitt hypothesis that legalized abortion in the 1970s explains a substantial part of the crime decline in the 1990s:
Right away, Levitt tries to rig the deck in his favor by defining the question as whether legalized abortion caused in large measure the drop in crime in the 1990s. The answers to that question can be either "Yes" or "No." Neutral observers tend to react to disagreements by splitting the difference. So, in this case, the natural assumption of people who don't want to wade through all the arguments would be: "It had probably some effect on cutting crime." And that means Levitt is seen as being more or less right.
In reality, however, we should be looking at the more general question: "What was the effect of legalizing abortion on serious crime from the 1970s onward?" The answers to this question can be "It cut crime," "It had no effect," or "It increased crime." Given those three options, observers are likely to split the difference and say: "It had no effect." So, Levitt cleverly tries to narrow the focus to where he'll be given the benefit of the doubt.
1) Five states legalized abortion three years before Roe v. Wade. Crime started falling three years earlier in these states, with property crime (done by younger people) falling before violent crime.
Actually, it's much more complicated than this because ten other states "liberalized" abortion laws in 1970. But, for now, let's just look at those five that outright legalized it. Two of those states are Hawaii and Alaska, which are hardly representative of the rest of the country, and a third is far-off Washington state. The big two early legalizers were California and New York. Yet, Levitt admits in another place in his response:
The homicide rate of young males (especially young Black males) temporarily skyrocketed in the late 1980s, especially in urban centers like Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC...
And Washington D.C. largely had de facto legal abortion from 1970, too. So, according to Levitt, those three cities are where, purely by coincidence, the teen crack wars broke out about 17-18 years after abortion was legalized. Now that correlation between legalizing abortion and increased teen violence isn't proof of anything, but it obviously raises the question of whether or not legalized abortion contributed to crack killings. But that's not an issue Levitt wants to touch.
No, what Levitt wants to talk about is not what happened about 17-21 years after abortion was legalized, but what happened about 22-24 years later. The longer the lag between the effect and the hypothesized cause, the more Dr. Levitt trusts it!
Of course, that's terrible science. If abortion has an effect, it should show up earlier in life, before more adult experience has intervened. Similarly, the effect of legalizing abortion is most trustworthy earlier in history, before too many intervening changes have gotten in the way of a clean read.
And the violence grew fastest among the demographic group with the highest abortion rate: blacks.
Levitt also claims "with property crime (done by younger people) falling before violent crime." Look, property crime apparently began falling in the mid 1970s, probably due to "target-hardening." Property crime statistics are less reliable than violent crime statistics because the victims frequently don't get a look at the perpetrator so we don't know the age, and the cops vary tremendously over time and place in how much they care about catching property criminals .
The FBI provides much better quality data on homicides (which cops care about a lot) and serious violent crimes (which "includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and homicide") from the annual crime victimization survey. So, that's two totally different methodologies measuring two kinds of crime, but they agree closely on the history, which is that the first generation born after legalized abortion were the most violent teens in the history of American crime statistics.
Levitt is misleading when he implies that younger people don't commit much violence. The worst year for serious violent crime by ages 12-17 was 1993, when this cohort (all born after abortion was legalized) committed 27% of all serious violent crimes. (1994 was a bad year too). Moreover, children under 18 accounted for over half of the big increase in serious violent crimes between the mid-1980s and 1993.
I'm going to lump the next three of Levitt's arguments together:
3) All of the decline in crime from 1985-1997 experienced by high abortion states relative to low abortion states is concentrated among the age groups born after Roe v. Wade. For people born before abortion legalization, there is no difference in the crime patterns for high abortion and low abortion states, just as the Donohue-Levitt theory predicts.
4) When we compare arrest rates of people born in the same state, just before and just after abortion legalization, we once again see the identical pattern of lower arrest rates for those born after legalization than before.
Data by state is extremely tricky because women travel across state lines to get abortions. New Jersey is a classic example. Arrest rates vary by state and change over time too in all sorts of ways.
Further, states like North Dakota are largely irrelevant to national crime trends.
Here, I'm going to turn to a not-yet-published paper by Ted Joyce, an economist with the National Bureau of Economic Research and Baruch College, City University of New York. In this paper, Joyce tries hard to remove the effects of crack crime from the data. Here's part of his abstract:
In this paper, I conduct a number of new analyses intended to address [Levitt and Donohue's] criticisms of my earlier work.
It did not.
There was little race difference in the reduction in crime.
These analyses provide little evidence that legalized abortion reduced crime.
And here is the abstract of the not-yet-published paper by economists John R. Lott and John Whitley replying to Levitt and Donohue. They find that abortion increased the murder rate:
Previous empirical work linking abortions and crime [i.e., Levitt and Donohue's] has assumed, with the exception of five states, that no abortions took place prior to the Roe v. Wade decision in January 1973. In fact, abortion data from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that states which allowed abortions prior to the Roe v. Wade only when the life or health of the mother was in danger actually had higher abortion rates than some states where it was legal. The use of data from the Supplemental Homicide Report also allows the direct linkage between the current age of the murderer and the abortion rate when those murders were born.).
One more abortion per 1,000 females age 15-44 (i.e., about four percent of the average) is associated with between a 0.12 to 0.9 percent increase in murders in any given year. Similar estimates are obtained using abortions per 1,000 live births. Linear estimates indicate increased annual victimization costs by at least $3.2 billion.
One of the differences between Joyce's approach and Lott-Whitley's approach is that Joyce assumes the crack war of the late 1980s and early 1990s waged in sizable measure by urban teens born soon after the rise in urban abortion rates in the early 1970s was an "exogenous" (independent) event while Lott-Whitley are assuming the legalization of abortion and the subsequent growth in the murder rate during the crack wars might be related.
Both Joyce's and Lott-Whitley's approaches seem defensible ways to explore a hugely complex social phenomenon. What's not reasonable is Levitt's cherry-picking approach, in which he assumes that legalizing abortion isn't responsible for any of the increase in murders at the beginning of the crack wars but is responsible for some of the decrease of murders at the end of the crack wars. That's called having your cake and eating it too.
Levitt continues:
5) The evidence from Canada, Australia, and Romania also support the hypothesis that abortion reduces crime.
So that's why Russia, which had such an enormous abortion rate during the Soviet years, has no problem these days with criminals!
One of the weirder passages in Freakonomics is the section where Levitt implies that if only Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaucescu hadn't outlawed abortion he'd be ruling still, instead of getting overthrown by all those unruly unaborted criminals.
May I point out that Canada, Australia, and Romania are not the U.S., and differ from America in some obvious ways relevant to crime? And are these foreign studies of a higher quality than Levitt's, or just imitations of his work?
6) Studies have shown a reduction in infanticide, teen age drug use, and teen age childbearing consistent with the theory that abortion will reduce other social ills similar to crime.
And studies have shown an increase in venereal disease, illegitimacy, and a decrease in adoption due to legalizing abortion.
And do Levitt's examples even hold water historically? He claims abortion reduces teen age drug use, but when the first generation born after legalization reached their teen years, we had a crack epidemic. And the sharp decline in teen childbearing didn't happen until the 1990s, when we also had a sharp decline in abortion rates.
So, Levitt hasn't gotten very far beyond where his slapdash original theory back in 1999 had got him. If large claims require large evidence, then he's still a long, long way from meeting the burden of proof.
P.S. Some clever analyst should figure out why so many commentators desperately want Levitt's theory to be true.
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May 16, 2005
Was Her Career Written in Her Name? From an NYT report "A Backspace Key Can't Fix Everything" on the error-correcting liquid white-out industry:
At BIC USA in Milford, Conn., Ellen Iszczyszyn, the national product manager for Wite-Out, the closest competitor to Liquid Paper, said the more prosaic uses of correction fluid include covering mistakes on letters, memos and envelopes, and updating information on Rolodex cards.
Perhaps Ms. Iszczyszyn found early the need for white-out in correcting misspellings of her name?
Where are the Iszczyszyns from? Kyrgyzstan?
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May 15, 2005
Thomas Sowell’s “Black Redneck” Theory
My new column: Thomas Sowell’s “Black Redneck” Theory -- Ingenious, But Insufficient
That Thomas Sowell hasn't yet won the Nobel Prize for Economic Science reflects more poorly upon the economics profession's infatuation with mathematical formulas than upon Sowell's lifetime achievement.
Personally, I've learned more from Sowell than from any other living economist, with the possible exception of his old teacher, Milton Friedman.
Now in his mid-70s, Sowell's latest book of essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, doesn't break much new ground. But it forcefully summarizes many of his recurrent themes in a half dozen extended meditations on historical issues of great relevance to the contemporary world.
For example, in "Are Jews Generic?" Sowell outlines the tendency of the masses to persecute "middle-man minorities" such as Jews, Armenians, and the Overseas Chinese, precisely because of the value of their contributions to the economy.
In "Germans and History," he defends that much maligned nationality against insinuations, such as in Daniel Goldhagen's bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners, that German history should be viewed as inevitably leading up to the Nazis.
Unfortunately, the title essay, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," is the most questionable in the book.
Yet it still features many acute observations. For example:
"By cheering on counterproductive attitudes, making excuses for self-defeating behavior, and promoting the belief that 'racism' accounts for most of blacks' problems, white intellectuals serve their own psychic, ideological, and political interests. They are the kinds of friends who can do more harm than enemies."
The central conceit of the essay: blacks' troubles today in large part stem from their having absorbed the self-defeating culture of poor Southern whites. As Sowell wrote in the Wall Street Journal (April 26 2005):
But when examined closely, Sowell's theory exhibits major problems. Indeed, I suspect Sowell is really trying to get blacks to reject ghetto gangsta culture as not authentically black, but a borrowing from poor white trash instead. When I explained to my wife what I thought Sowell was doing, she replied: "Hey, if it works, I'm all for it." [More]
After discussing problems with Sowell's "Black Redneck" theory, I write:
I then track similarities in family structure between Sub-Saharan Africans and African-Americans, and explain their roots in tropical agricultural systems. [More]
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Mexican President Vicente Fox on Blacks
President Vicente Fox on African-Americans: The AP reported:
President Vicente Fox came under criticism Saturday after saying Mexicans were willing to take jobs "that not even blacks want to do in the United States."
Fox's remark Friday came a day after Mexico announced it would formally protest recent U.S. immigration reforms, including the decision to extend walls along the border and make it harder for illegal migrants to get driver's licenses.
I've been writing about the economic clash between African-Americans and illegal immigrants for years:
Who? Whom? Mass Immigration vs. African-Americans
Presumed Alliance: Black vs. Brown
Black vs. Black, but not Black vs. Brown, at Harvard
You may find my article on the genetics of Mexicans and, particularly, on the apparent disappearance of African-Mexicans, "Where Did Mexico's Blacks Go?," of interest.
My three part series from 2000 on the whites and Indians in Mexico is, in the view of number of Mexicans who have sent me emails thanking me, the first clear explication of the central conundrum of Mexican political and social life: Why after almost 500 years of interracial marriage is Mexico's ruling class still so European-looking? Fox, for example, is about seven inches taller than George W. Bush and close to a foot taller than the average Mexican:
Part 1: Mexico's Corrupt White Elite
Part 2: Mexico's Insidious Color Continuum
Part 3: How Latino Intermarriage Breeds Inequality
Also of interest might be:
Will Vicente Fox be Dubya's Yeltsin?
Free Marketeer Fantasies about Fox
Mexican White Elite's Smoking Gun Found
Mexico's Talleyrand: Fox's First Foreign Minister
A Marshall Plan for Mexico
Let's Nation-Build in Latin America, not MidEast
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Why Don't Democracies Fight Each Other?
First, there haven't been that many wars since democracy became widespread, so the sample size is small. But that's largely for technological reasons: cross-border war is too damaging to be attractive, as compared to the 18th Century when mercenary armies could fight gentlemanly battles to redraw borders. Meanwhile, food production per acre of farmland has been growing faster than the birthrate, making wars for lebensraum, like Germany's and Japan's in WWII, pointless.
And, actually, democracies do fight: the Union vs. the Confederacy, Britain vs. the Boer Republics, NATO vs. Serbia, the American Revolution, and Israel vs. Lebanon in 1948. You have to raise the "democracy" bar awfully high to explain away all those away. And WWI certainly represented the will of the people in most of the combatants, including Germany, where the legislature supported the war.
Further, there are examples of wars of aggression instigated by democracies, such as the Suez Crisis of 1956, Iraq in 2003-?, and the Mexican-American War. Mexico was rapidly shifting back and forth between dictatorship and elected governments at the time, but it's ridiculous to think that an elected Mexican government would have given up the Southwest without a fight.
I think, though, that the main reason democracies don't fight each other much is because if the objective situation makes war likely, democracy is unlikely too. Notice that Britain simply suspended its constitutional requirement for a General Election in 1940 for the duration of the war to prevent democracy from interfering with the more important business of winning the war.
Similarly, if a country has disputed borders and a restive minority, democracy is unlikely. For example, Croatia was a dictatorship during its war with Serbia over the Serbs who wanted to break away from the Croatian break-away state. It didn't let Serbs, or anybody else, vote. In 1995, however, Croatia won its war and ethnically cleansed the Serbs out of Croatia (with American backing). Once it became a mono-ethnic state with an undisputed border, it rapidly turned into a democracy.
So, democracy is more likely in comfortable countries that don't need to gird their loins for desperate battle, which is why they haven't gotten into wars with each other.
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War in Error: 1956 and 2003 - ?
Simon Jenkins writes in the Times of London:
CONSIDER the following. A British prime minister is so obsessed by a Middle East dictator that he screams “I want him destroyed” and declares war on him. He concocts a “threat” to British security and seeks to inveigle Americans and others to join him. The dictator has tweaked the lion’s tail. He and others like him must be taught a lesson. Besides, there is oil to consider.
The Americans are appalled. The dictator, replies the president, is no threat to world peace or to anyone but his own people. War would destabilise the region and propagate anti-Western sentiment among the Arabs. It would breach numerous treaties and be seen as imperialist. Besides, what of the United Nations? It must be given time to consider Britain’s case. That is what it is for.
The British prime minister will have none of this. The UN, he says, is for wimps, a place of stallers and cowards. America should understand that the world has moved on and faces new threats. The dictator is so monstrous that treaties and laws no longer hold. America should remember Mussolini and Hitler. It should be more concerned for the security of Israel.
If Washington lacks the guts for war, Britain will go it alone. The American president demurs. “From this point onwards,” he says, “our views diverge.”
I have immersed myself in the Suez crisis — such being the above — through reading the remarkable 1955-56 correspondence between [Prime Minister] Anthony Eden and Dwight Eisenhower... Although fragments have been used in histories of the period, the complete letters have not appeared before. They show an astonishingly precise role reversal between Europe and America then and now. Eden might be Donald Rumsfeld. Eisenhower might be Kofi Annan.
Eden pleads with Eisenhower to understand the threat represented by the Egyptian, Abdel Nasser, who has just nationalised the Anglo-French Suez Canal Company (albeit with compensation). To Eden Nasser is Saddam and al-Qaeda in one, “active wherever Muslims can be found . . . from the Persian Gulf to Nigeria”.
Nasser is out to dominate the region, unseat friendly sheikhs and threaten Israel “to the point where the whole position in the Middle East will be lost beyond recall”. Nasser is the “greatest hazard facing the Free World since 1940”.
Eisenhower is incredulous. In among references to wives and holidays he chides Eden for grossly overstating Egypt’s importance. War is not acceptable just “to protect national or individual investors”. There can be no question of the “legal rights of sovereign nations being ruthlessly flouted”. Nasser was not threatening oil supplies or ships in the canal. Britain’s sabre-rattling was rallying support for him across the Middle East, which was far more destabilising. Eden, in other words, was behaving like an old imperialist out to prove his virility. As for Eden’s constant references to Hitler and appeasement, Eisenhower clearly felt they insulted his intelligence...
Desperate not to seem the aggressor, Eden colluded with the Israelis [and France] to get them to attack Egypt, so Britain could invade apparently to “protect the security” of the canal. It was a tactic that involved grand diplomatic and intelligence deception. To a furious Eisenhower, it “violated our pledged word” under a 1950 treaty that the West would act in the Middle East only in concert. Eden’s response was pure Pentagon. In the face of Nasser, he said, treaties and agreements were “past history”. Britain’s UN Ambassador was told to block Eisenhower’s attempt to stop Israel from attacking Egypt. Britain was the champion of Israel’s expansion.
I have never encountered modern history so laden with irony. Every one of Eisenhower’s warnings proved right. Eden may have been under pressure at home, but it was from a public hysteria he had himself generated. Like George Bush (and Tony Blair), he craved an enemy abroad, one he could exaggerate by rhetoric and against whom a crusade would rank him with his warlike predecessors. At that point alliances, laws, the UN, even the improbability of success, did not matter — only “conviction”.
Eisenhower emerges from the Suez letters as a counsellor of maturity and judgment, distressed to see an old friend embarking on disaster.
Eisenhower made Britain, Israel, and France withdraw.
France, too, attacked Egypt, in collusion with Israel and Britain. The French government mistakenly believed that Nasser was the driving force behind the Algerian rebellion, which was actually extremely indigenous, nationalistic, and almost xenophobic. The French have actually learned some useful lessons from the Algerian War. Chirac, who fought in it as a young officer, tried to explain to Bush that the occupation of Iraq was going to be painful, but our President felt he didn't need to know anything more about the situation.
The neocons have tried to flush the Suez Crisis down the Memory Hole because, out of the four wars Israel initiated (the only one of its five wars where Israel didn't strike first was 1973), 1956 was the least defensible. The situation in 1947 was so desperate that Israel's pre-emptive attack is readily understood. Israel's Pearl Harbor-style attack that launched the 1967 6 Days War at least had a theoretical casus belli in the supposed (and untested) Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. Ariel Sharon's 1982 invasion of Southern Lebanon is understandable as an attempt to eliminate short range rocket attacks on Israel, and if he had stopped there it probably wouldn't be counted as a war, but his decision to push on to Beirut was a disaster for all concerned.
My published articles are archived at -- Steve Sailer
Oops! Bush's Democracy Campaign Backfires
The WaPo reports:
Widespread resentment over a government campaign against alleged Islamic extremists in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan exploded into violence Friday when protesters stormed a prison and released thousands of inmates.
Many of the freed prisoners joined in an anti-government revolt in which at least 12 people had died by day's end. The clashes in the eastern city of Andijon climaxed with troops opening fire on protesters in a central square and storming a nearby government building where a number of police officers were being held hostage, according to news reports, government statements and telephone interviews with residents.
Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic that hosts a U.S. air base used in the war in Afghanistan, has an authoritarian government that has tried to suppress all but officially sanctioned Islamic groups...
Facing one of the most serious challenges to his 15 years of rule, President Islam Karimov flew to Andijon on Friday, apparently seeking to prevent the unrest from spreading, reports from Uzbekistan said. Karimov has yet to appear in public in the city.
The riots were sparked by the prosecution of 23 local businessmen on charges of membership in an illegal group called Akramiya, which supports jailed Islamic leader Akram Yuldashev. Uzbek authorities also charge that the businessmen had ties with a larger radical Islamic network called Hizb ut-Tahrir, which seeks the restoration of the Caliphate, or a super-Islamic state.
The government has linked Hizb ut-Tahrir to a series of bombings last year in Tashkent, the capital. Activists with the organization insist that they reject violence, although they propagate vitriolic anti-Western and anti-Semitic views...
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Uzbekistan granted American forces rights to establish an air base, which has been used to support the Afghan war. The United States also maintains close counter-terrorism and intelligence cooperation with Uzbek authorities. The Bush administration has praised Uzbekistan for its cooperation in the war on terrorism.
Human rights groups have documented widespread cases of torture and abuse in the country, which they say have generated anger against the government of the largely Muslim country.
If our dictatorial ally in Uzbekistan is overthrown by pro-democracy, pro-terrorist Islamists, well, that wouldn't be all that bad. I mean, it's just Uzbekistan. But if that turns out to be a dress rehearsal for the overthrow of our dictatorial ally in the War on Terror in nuclear-armed Pakistan by pro-terrorist Islamists, well, uh oh ...
Meanwhile, in other anti-American rioting:
Angry [Afghan] mobs ransacked government offices and relief agencies and clashed with police in several provinces Friday in a fourth day of growing anti-American demonstrations. The violence left at least eight people dead and raised the death toll since Wednesday to about 15, officials said.
The demonstrations represent the most widespread expression of anti-American sentiment since U.S.-led troops ousted the Islamic Taliban militia in late 2001. They have caused growing worry for the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai, who is due to visit Washington later this month.
The protests erupted Wednesday in the eastern city of Jalalabad and have now spread to the capital, Kabul, and four other areas. Demonstrations also took place in other Muslim countries Friday, although no serious violence was reported. Protesters gathered in several cities in Pakistan, as well as in Indonesia and the Palestinian territories.
The protests were sparked by a May 9 report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had placed copies of the Koran in bathrooms and flushed one text down a toilet.
I don't have a good feeling about this... You know how at the end of The Man Who Would Be King (my review here), Sean Connery wants to help the people of Kafiristan (northeastern Afghanistan) progress into the modern world, but he blunders unknowingly into a catastrophic error because he doesn't fully understand the customs of the people he is ruling? Do you have the feeling we're all that much more on top of things than old Sean was?
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== Host ==
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== Co-hosts ==
== Co-hosts ==
Revision as of 12:00, 8 June 2006
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? for Channel 4, 2006
Based on a US idea, Unanimous (we outright refuse to call it Unan1mous) sees people locked in a bunker with a £1million prize on offer. All they have to do is decide between them who gets the loot - an the decision must be unanimous. If no concensus is made, the money starts ticking down and the producers do things in order to, er, encourage them to make a decision.
This show has yet to air, a full review will follow
Lincoln Hiatt, Todd Nelson and JD Roth (who also hosted the US version)
Web links
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package org.apache.beam.sdk.util;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.arrayWithSize;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
import com.google.common.io.CharSource;
import com.google.common.io.Files;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
/**
* Tests for the {@link ZipFiles} class. These tests make sure that the handling
* of zip-files works fine.
*/
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class ZipFilesTest {
@Rule
public TemporaryFolder tmpFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
private File tmpDir;
@Rule
public TemporaryFolder tmpOutputFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
private File zipFile;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
tmpDir = tmpFolder.getRoot();
zipFile = createZipFileHandle(); // the file is not actually created
}
/**
* Verify that zipping and unzipping works fine. We zip a directory having
* some subdirectories, unzip it again and verify the structure to be in
* place.
*/
@Test
public void testZipWithSubdirectories() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
File subDir1 = new File(zipDir, "subDir1");
File subDir2 = new File(subDir1, "subdir2");
assertTrue(subDir2.mkdirs());
createFileWithContents(subDir2, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
assertZipAndUnzipOfDirectoryMatchesOriginal(tmpDir);
}
/**
* An empty subdirectory must have its own zip-entry.
*/
@Test
public void testEmptySubdirectoryHasZipEntry() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
File subDirEmpty = new File(zipDir, "subDirEmpty");
assertTrue(subDirEmpty.mkdirs());
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
assertZipOnlyContains("zip/subDirEmpty/");
}
/**
* A directory with contents should not have a zip entry.
*/
@Test
public void testSubdirectoryWithContentsHasNoZipEntry() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
File subDirContent = new File(zipDir, "subdirContent");
assertTrue(subDirContent.mkdirs());
createFileWithContents(subDirContent, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
assertZipOnlyContains("zip/subdirContent/myTextFile.txt");
}
@Test
public void testZipDirectoryToOutputStream() throws Exception {
createFileWithContents(tmpDir, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
File[] sourceFiles = tmpDir.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(sourceFiles);
assertThat(sourceFiles, not(arrayWithSize(0)));
try (FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(zipFile)) {
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, outputStream);
}
File outputDir = Files.createTempDir();
ZipFiles.unzipFile(zipFile, outputDir);
File[] outputFiles = outputDir.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(outputFiles);
assertThat(outputFiles, arrayWithSize(sourceFiles.length));
for (int i = 0; i < sourceFiles.length; i++) {
compareFileContents(sourceFiles[i], outputFiles[i]);
}
removeRecursive(outputDir.toPath());
assertTrue(zipFile.delete());
}
@Test
public void testEntries() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
File subDir1 = new File(zipDir, "subDir1");
File subDir2 = new File(subDir1, "subdir2");
assertTrue(subDir2.mkdirs());
createFileWithContents(subDir2, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
ZipFile zip = new ZipFile(zipFile);
try {
Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries = zip.entries();
for (ZipEntry entry : ZipFiles.entries(zip)) {
assertTrue(entries.hasMoreElements());
// ZipEntry doesn't override equals
assertEquals(entry.getName(), entries.nextElement().getName());
}
assertFalse(entries.hasMoreElements());
} finally {
zip.close();
}
}
@Test
public void testAsByteSource() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
assertTrue(zipDir.mkdirs());
createFileWithContents(zipDir, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
try (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile(zipFile)) {
ZipEntry entry = zip.getEntry("zip/myTextFile.txt");
ByteSource byteSource = ZipFiles.asByteSource(zip, entry);
if (entry.getSize() != -1) {
assertEquals(entry.getSize(), byteSource.size());
}
assertArrayEquals("Simple Text".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), byteSource.read());
}
}
@Test
public void testAsCharSource() throws Exception {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zip");
assertTrue(zipDir.mkdirs());
createFileWithContents(zipDir, "myTextFile.txt", "Simple Text");
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
try (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile(zipFile)) {
ZipEntry entry = zip.getEntry("zip/myTextFile.txt");
CharSource charSource = ZipFiles.asCharSource(zip, entry, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
assertEquals("Simple Text", charSource.read());
}
}
private void assertZipOnlyContains(String zipFileEntry) throws IOException {
try (ZipFile zippedFile = new ZipFile(zipFile)) {
assertEquals(1, zippedFile.size());
ZipEntry entry = zippedFile.entries().nextElement();
assertEquals(zipFileEntry, entry.getName());
}
}
/**
* try to unzip to a non-existent directory and make sure that it fails.
*/
@Test
public void testInvalidTargetDirectory() throws IOException {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zipdir");
assertTrue(zipDir.mkdir());
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
File invalidDirectory = new File("/foo/bar");
assertTrue(!invalidDirectory.exists());
try {
ZipFiles.unzipFile(zipFile, invalidDirectory);
fail("We expect the IllegalArgumentException, but it never occured");
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
// This is the expected exception - we passed the test.
}
}
/**
* Try to unzip to an existing directory, but failing to create directories.
*/
@Test
public void testDirectoryCreateFailed() throws IOException {
File zipDir = new File(tmpDir, "zipdir");
assertTrue(zipDir.mkdir());
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(tmpDir, zipFile);
File targetDirectory = Files.createTempDir();
// Touch a file where the directory should be.
Files.touch(new File(targetDirectory, "zipdir"));
try {
ZipFiles.unzipFile(zipFile, targetDirectory);
fail("We expect the IOException, but it never occured");
} catch (IOException e) {
// This is the expected exception - we passed the test.
}
}
/**
* zip and unzip a certain directory, and verify the content afterward to be
* identical.
* @param sourceDir the directory to zip
*/
private void assertZipAndUnzipOfDirectoryMatchesOriginal(File sourceDir) throws IOException {
File[] sourceFiles = sourceDir.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(sourceFiles);
File zipFile = createZipFileHandle();
ZipFiles.zipDirectory(sourceDir, zipFile);
File outputDir = Files.createTempDir();
ZipFiles.unzipFile(zipFile, outputDir);
File[] outputFiles = outputDir.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(outputFiles);
assertThat(outputFiles, arrayWithSize(sourceFiles.length));
for (int i = 0; i < sourceFiles.length; i++) {
compareFileContents(sourceFiles[i], outputFiles[i]);
}
removeRecursive(outputDir.toPath());
assertTrue(zipFile.delete());
}
/**
* Compare the content of two files or directories recursively.
* @param expected the expected directory or file content
* @param actual the actual directory or file content
*/
private void compareFileContents(File expected, File actual) throws IOException {
assertEquals(expected.isDirectory(), actual.isDirectory());
assertEquals(expected.getName(), actual.getName());
if (expected.isDirectory()) {
// Go through the children step by step.
File[] expectedChildren = expected.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(expectedChildren);
File[] actualChildren = actual.listFiles();
Arrays.sort(actualChildren);
assertThat(actualChildren, arrayWithSize(expectedChildren.length));
for (int i = 0; i < expectedChildren.length; i++) {
compareFileContents(expectedChildren[i], actualChildren[i]);
}
} else {
// Compare the file content itself.
assertTrue(Files.equal(expected, actual));
}
}
/**
* Create a File object to which we can safely zip a file.
*/
private File createZipFileHandle() throws IOException {
File zipFile = File.createTempFile("test", "zip", tmpOutputFolder.getRoot());
assertTrue(zipFile.delete());
return zipFile;
}
// This is not generally safe as it does not handle symlinks, etc. However it is safe
// enough for these tests.
private static void removeRecursive(Path path) throws IOException {
Iterable<File> files = Files.fileTreeTraverser().postOrderTraversal(path.toFile());
for (File f : files) {
java.nio.file.Files.delete(f.toPath());
}
}
/** Create file dir/fileName with contents fileContents. */
private void createFileWithContents(File dir, String fileName, String fileContents)
throws IOException {
File txtFile = new File(dir, fileName);
Files.asCharSink(txtFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).write(fileContents);
}
}
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"Beautiful. private, secure. spacious home that is close to amenities with country living at its best! Located 6 minutes to San Juan Bautista's historic village, schools and mission. 20 minutes to CalTrain with a easy commute to Silicon Valley, or the Monterey Bay. This home boasts 1000 feet of decking, perfect for relaxing, or large family gatherings. Desirable granite countertops; updated cabinets, easy care floors throughtout Chef's kitchen, complete with stainless appliances including doubles ovens and griddle. Home has 2 master suites! Check out virtual tour; after Wednesday the tour will be updated for upgrades. This property is located in its own micro-climate,with comfortable summers, plenty of sunshine, mild winters, and out of the wind. Close to Fremont Peak and the De Anza Trail for walking, jogging, camping, or horse back riding. This property is a must on your list!"
"Enjoy those Summer evenings on the deck of your brand new home in historic San Juan Bautista! Close to downtown, shops, restaurants, and the Mission, but also close to highway access for commuting. Come and see all the extras that were included: old World custom drywall finish and smooth stucco finish at exterior, granite slab counters, unique electrical fixtures, soft close cabinetry, extensive canned lighting, crown molding, high baseboards, stainless steel appliances, prepped for AC, Views! Granite in upstairs baths, and more! Call your Realtor today and see why this should be your next home!"
"Enjoy those Summer evenings on the deck of your brand new home in historic San Juan Bautista! Close to downtown, shops, restaurants, and the Mission, but also close to highway access for commuting. Come and see all the extras that were included: old World custom drywall finish, granite slab counters, unique electrical fixtures, soft close cabinetry, extensive canned lighting, crown molding, high baseboards, stainless steel appliances, Views! Prepped for AC. Carrera marble in upstairs baths, and more! Please excuse while some finishing touches are being done. Call your Realtor today and see why this should be your next home!"
"Welcome to this beautifully updated home in historic San Juan Bautista! This light and airy open concept home features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. You will fall in love with the granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar and the tons of storage that this kitchen has to offer. The home has new neutral interior paint, new carpet and fantastic hard wood floors. There are 7 sky lights throughout the home with vaulted ceilings in the main living area. Walk out your master bedroom suite to a cozy backyard with artifical lawn and drought tolerant plants- perfect for those wishing for a low maintenance yard! This home sits on a quiet street just minutes away from the downtown area."
"Location! This end unit is a great commute location also providing a short stroll to the quaint downtown of San Juan Bautista. Spacious 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths. Open kitchen design to family room and cozy fireplace. 1 bedroom and full bath downstairs and 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms upstairs. Nicely landscaped complex with carport and storage."
"End unit in Mission Vista development, San Juan Bautista. Unit has 2 master suites upstairs and large 3rd bedroom downstairs (not ground level) with full bath. Large closets or walk-in for each bedroom. Private balconies for both upstairs bedrooms. Laundry closet at top of the stairs. Private patio off kitchen and living/family room. Fireplace in living/family room. Well maintained. Do not disturb occupant."
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The four directions — north, east, south, and west — hold special meaning in many native cultures. When you dream about traveling west, for example, you might symbolically be experiencing the completion of something in your life. You could be literally “riding off into the sunset” or closing a particular chapter or ending a relationship. The four seasons are also linked to the four directions, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Each of the directions holds universal, cultural, and individual associations.
We associate east with dawn, the place of new beginnings. It symbolizes spring. If you are heading east in your dream, you may be about to embark on a new project or a new beginning in some area of life. In many South American shamanic traditions, east is considered the place of the visionary, home to the eagle. It signifies a new point of view or a spiritual vision for yourself and the world. The sun rises in the east so perhaps your “sun” is about to rise. This could mean a promotion or other positive development is on the horizon for you.
Daylight is longest and brightest in the south. It is summer here. South is also a metaphor for declining fortunes. If you are “heading south” in a dream, you might be experiencing a reversal in your plans. In astrology the south represents the past and your origins. If you dream of returning to the south, you may be revisiting your past or past lives. South American shamanic traditions connect the south with shedding the old and the past, so the present can come into being.
In many traditions west is the place of the adult. It is associated with the season of autumn. New life, born in the east, has moved through the ties of the past (south) and come into full expression in the west. In the history of the United States, the west signifies a place of adventure, exploration, and the courage to move into the unknown. In Peruvian shamanic traditions, west is the path of the warrior who has moved beyond fear and stands in harmony, balance, and peace. Because the sun sets in the west, a dream of moving in a westerly direction may indicate something is coming to an end in your life. Or, you may be experiencing a peak in your professional or personal life as west also represents the place of attainment.
North is the place of dormancy, winter, and hibernation. The compass point north also shows direction in life. You follow the North Star. It is the reference point for finding your way in the world, and has been for centuries. If you are searching for “true north” in your dreams, you might be trying to find your own core of integrity. If you are heading north, it might be time to lay fallow, to withdraw and turn inward so you can rest and regenerate. In Native American traditions, north is the place of the elder or ancestor, the direction of wisdom, retreat, and healing.
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DEX UI: A science fiction desktop running on Linux - _sdegutis
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This is _incredibly_ cool. I just wish there were something like it for macOS
in Homebrew so I could try it out! Looks like this is written using
openFrameworks, which I've never heard of before.
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Look closely. You may see the full picture.
Contemporary Art is the act of personal expression created by artists of today. Beginning, in the later part of the 20th Century, 1960s onwards. Contemporary Art provides an opportunity to experience freedom when expressing oneself. To reflect on today’s society, Emotional Wellbeing, World Poverty, and Climate Change, to personal approaches, Identity and Self Reflection.
Imagine you are in The Tate gallery space, witnessing ‘My Bed’ (1998) by Tracey Emin you will probably hear someone say ‘Anyone could exhibit a bed’ ‘I could do that’. This question being raised is, Is Contemporary Art bad? Is it really genius and brilliant if anyone could do it?
The individuals asking these questions may lack knowledge on what Contemporary Art actually is compared to an someone who has studied art of today in-depth. You may just see a bed while someone else will see a bed that represents, an experience of when Emin was at a low point of stress and anxieties, where alcohol became her coping mechanism.
As a viewer you have the right to dislike or like work in a gallery exhibit. However how can oneself judge something without fully understanding it? To make a fair judgement, the need to understand why the artist is doing what they are doing.
What your eyes witness is simply not the full story. Many people can relate in some form to this work, as according to the independent newspaper 60% of adults use alcohol as a coping mechanism to help manage stress.
What is Contemporary Art?
Contemporary Art is art of the present day. A period of art which can be heavily based on Conceptual Art. Conceptualism is when the idea or concept behind the work is more important than the finished art object or art piece.
Cover art courtesy of RF..Gallery. Other by Alexander.
When someone raises the statement ‘A child could do that’ or ‘Anyone could do that’ they simply are missing the point of conceptualism and what is entails. In Playing to the Gallery by Grayson Perry he says ‘for someone to walk into a contemporary art gallery for the first time and expect to understand it straight away would be like me walking into a classical music concert, known nothing about classical music, and saying ‘oh it’s all just noise’.’
The beauty of art of today is the power to consistently ask questions, pushing the boundaries of art like never before. Realistically art would be extremely boring if the ‘rules’ of art was never broken. We would not be able to witness Andy Scott’s ‘The Kelpies’ or ‘Maman’ by Louise Bourgeois, or enjoy Photography as a medium to use light to construct a visual language.
Good or Bad?
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Esperenza Drighton and Her Three Brothers (2) by Esperenza Drighton
"OI!!! BONNIE!!!!" yelled Ratbeard from across the room "Has out captain ever told ye of 'er parents? We're trying to piece together what happened to 'em."
Since the captain wasn't home, they were free to do what they wanted. She and that new weasel had gone to Avery's court to trade some loot for gold.
Bonnie Anne thought for a second, then recalled how much the captain had hated being in Valencia.
"I think it might have something to do with the Armada. Remember how much she hated Valencia?"
"I think you're on to something, Bonnie." said Froggo Villa "It might have to do with Valencia."
"I would ask Gaspard, he did know her parents." Sarah said, sitting down.
"Ye think I didn't try that? That Lubber is nowhere to be found. Said something 'bout the food room, check in there." stated Ratbeard.
"I an' I not thinking that a good idea. I an' I saw rats in there." said Old Scratch.
"That was me"
"I'm sick of this! I'll go ask him myself!" said Don Christobal Atelida. So Don Chritobal got up and went to the food room, there, he found Esteban De Costa swinging on the stalagmites.
"What in the name of Cap'n Gunn are ye doing?" asked Ratbeard, who had followed Don Christobal in.
"I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!" said Esteban.
"Well, have you seen Gaspard?" said Sarah, who had also followed him in. It turns out everyone followed him in.
"He left through the hole in the treasure room."
They went into the treasure room, and found Tricky Vinnie and Jack Riker admiring all the treasure.
"Vinnie!! Jack!!! My Brothers!!!" said Froggo Villa.
"What do you want, salamander?" said Jack.
"What he said." said Vinnie. You could see how Vinnie and the FrogFather were related.
"Fine, fine! Esteban said Gaspard left through here. Did he by any chance say where he was going?" said Sarah.
"You trusted what Esteban said?" said Vinnie, "Man, you're crazier than the man himself."
"He did go through here though." said Jack, "said something 'bout practicing outside."
They went outside and took a look around. They saw Subodai and Nurse Quinn sparring with each other.
They all knew Quinn would win, but admired that Subodai tried.
Bonnie Anne shouted, "QUINN!! SUBODAI!!! HAVE YOU SEEN GASPARD?!!"
"He was here a minute ago. He is now practicing on the Practice Dummy."
"Subodai, while we got you," said Sarah, who had already gotten down, using her Swashbuckler skills, "You have known the captain the longest, in the prison you say. How did she get in?"
"I do not know. She was very quiet, obviously thinking of something, occasionally she looked out the window, very sad about something." said Subodai, "She came in with two guards; they threw her in like garbage, then just forgot about her."
"Well, that does does sum it up." said Ratbeard. They continued their search for Gaspard and went to the training dummy, and there he was. His Valencian weapon was gleaming in the sunlight.
"Hello Gaspard." said Froggo.
"Tell us about the captain," said Sarah, "when she was growing up, how she lost her parents."
"I'm sorry, the captain Swore me to secrecy about that, all I can tell you is she was a delightful little girl, showing signs of a Swashbuckler before she was two."
"You better tell us or I'll-" started Ratbeard.
"That's enough, Ratbeard." came a voice from the shadows,"Don't kill the Guinea Pig."
The Captain, Esperenza Drighton, emerged from the shadows, along with Squinty Cullian Bonney, that new weasel.
"I-I didn't mean anything about it captain, please I beg ye, don't cut me off!"
"Relax Ratbeard, I'm not gonna cut you off." said Esperenza.
"Aw man." said Bonnie.
"Now I've actually been back for a couple minutes now." said the captain, "and I watched your search, so I'll save you the troubles of finding my parents' ghosts and just tell you now.
"My mother, was Clara Drighton, my father, the feared Captain Thomas Drighton. I was born in the skyway, the Tradewinds, if I'm correct. I grew up all around the Spiral, Cool Ranch, Monquista, MooShu, Skull Island, Avernus. You name it, I've been there. On a beautiful night, I was born, along with my brothers, Errol, Elijah, and Evan. We loved adventure, knew it growing up. My mother and father loved us a lot. One day, the Armada found our boat. When the battle seemed to be in the Armada's favor, my parents sent us away on a canoe with their most faithful crew member, they knew he wouldn't do anything to hurt us. That was Gaspard. After we received word that my parents had died, we sailed to Skull Island, where Gaspard had decided to keep us and raise us to be Swashbucklers. But this didn't happen. The guards of the Presidio caught him and took him prisoner. He told my brothers and I to hide under the old blanket so they wouldn't find them. They didn't. The canoe drifted for days until he came to Grizzleheim. We told them what happened and they put us in their orphanages.
"The night we turned twelve, we decided we had had enough. We ran away from all the bullies a Grizzleheim. We never felt right there anyway. We were Swashbucklers at heart. We hopped in a canoe and head to Skull Island. We knew our parents had intended for us to be pirates so we did that. Errol studied the map, while us others steered. We finally came to Skull Island. We took a break in the Gold Mines. There, the Armada found us, they demanded we tell them who we were. We drew some swords we had picked up on our trips and fought. We lost. We were put on different ships. I met Subodai in prison. Then we heard an explosion and someone had blasted the door open. One voice said to check some of the cells. Another said he was on it. Then they came to my cell. The second voice (a monquistan) asked if this had the prisoner they were looking for. The first voice (a human) asked me my name, I told him Esperenza Drighton. He asked if I had any siblings, I said I had three brothers, He asked if I was and orphan, I said yes, He asked how my parents died, I told him Aramada, He asked their names, I told him Clara Drighton and Captain Thomas Drighton. The monkey knew it had been me all along. They introduced themselves, the first voice was Boochbeard, the second was Mr. Gandry. They said we had to go, and quick. But I couldn't leave Subodai in that cell. So I unlocked it and he gladly joined my crew. When we went on deck, we were confronted by Aramada goons, we got away, but Boochbeard was injured, I sailed the ship back to Avery's court, and the rest you already know."
"Captain, why would you keep that a secret?" asked Quinn.
"I don't know, just did." said Esperenza.
"It's amazing, someone should write a book on it." said Sarah Steele.
"Already did," said Cullian, "why do you think we went into Avery's court, you all knew we haven't gotten loot in ages!!"
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On Thursday this week, police who had placed Kyadondo East member of parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu under house arrest were left stranded after the musician escaped and appeared in Bugiri.
Upon receiving the news of Bobi Wine escape, former Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura could not hide his excitement and publicly expressed his joy.
“The said I infested police with “Kawukumu” (weevils) now am not there, where did Kawukumi come from,” the former IGP was heard telling his aide while at his country farm in Lyantonde.
Museveni who was long term ally of Kayihura did not take Kayihuara did not take the former IGP lightly.
“Even those who are responsible for creating a mess in an institution come back later to criticise those they left behind and become Angeles once they leave office. Whose interests do they serve? Why didn’t they sort the mess when they had the power?” Museveni said while speaking in Zimbabwe town of Bulawayo.
Kayihura was the longest serving police boss by the time he was sacked by president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last year.
Museveni on several occasions accused police under Kayihura of incompetence and negligence.
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Goat is Featured in Pollan's 36 Hr Community Meal
As Deborah Krasner reminds us, eating like a locavore is nothing new, it's how we ate a hundred years ago or so. Before food became industrialized, we ate what we grew or raised, or what our neighbors grew or raised. It seems that folks everywhere are debating what it means to "eat local." As is so often the case, once an idea has risen to prominence, after we've wrung all the headlines and sound-bytes we can from it, the inevitable backlash begins.
Perhaps it's not surprising then, that some people want vilify the local food movement as soon as it's begun taking hold. I find it ironic that just as canning and putting food by regains some steam some people have begun to criticize with broad strokes the precious and elitist food movement. I'm sure my grandmother would have a good belly-laugh at the thought that feeding her girls and their cousin sweet potatoes she grew on a small patch of borrowed land was somehow a "yuppie" hobby.
I believe that a good part of the renewed interest in old food ways stems from a desire for honest food and for authenticity. If you pull something from the ground after all, you don't need a label to tell you what it is, or to warn you about what may or may not be in it. When people were closer to the meats they ate, they knew that steaks did not grow in rectangular styrofoam trays.
In this piece, Communal Cow, Kim Severson reports on a collaborative meat buying experiment. Those folks would do well to read Good Meat and learn about cut sheets and planning your meals. Sounds like they could use the beautiful recipes in her book, too. "The chuck is just weird and you have to marinate it." Um, not really.
Nose-to-tail eating is another fashionable trend that hearkens back to earlier times. If all a family's resources went into raising a pig, at slaughter time, you were sure to utilize every bit of the animal. Feeding and caring for it might be akin to making a deposit in a bank. When it comes time to withdraw, you're going to want all that you banked away. Offal, and all those nasty bits, require a certain amount of fortitude not to mention, skill to make tasty. Not all of us are up to the task.
It's fair to question ourselves if we're meat-eaters about cuts we eat and those that we don't. Likewise, it's also good to question the types of meats we choose. Personally, I think it's an easier sell for most folks, to try another red meat like goat, or another game meat like rabbit, than it is to convince people it's time to make tripe at home. Assuming that meat will continue to play some role in your diet, why not diversify and include more sustainable meats in your menu?
We're just two weeks or so from my class at BCAE and I'm hopeful we'll get a full class enrolled. It's an introduction to concept of sustainable meats. What makes meat sustainable? Why choose one type of beef over another? Why not choose bison or goat?
Writing about Jody Adams' goat episode on Top Chef Masters and experiencing the elegant braised goat of Chef Margate at CLINK., I'm really hoping to introduce folks to the red meat that 60% of the world eats. Popular in Caribbean and North African countries, goat is also eaten in France (chevon), Italy (capretto), and Spain (cabrito).
I was tickled to see Michael Pollan's "36 hour communal meal" included a goat. Prepared several ways and served over the course of a three-day communal meal experiment, the goat was only one part of the meal that was labor intensive. To me one of the most interesting parts of the piece, other than the recipes and photos, were the comments. You really get an insight into the vastly different places people are coming from when approaching and reacting to this topic. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9789602756500244}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62270', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UFL3R2SOZIBFPVZPCHC2ZKHOJW4WUPL6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f996e8b5-319b-496e-a22c-4a2128d97f10>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 22, 7, 25, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.144', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XSF2YVXFQ4VRA3NEZTVWV3CTBLGLWY3O', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d68a6280-bcc2-4d67-b52a-ab710991f6fd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.jacquelinechurch.com/old/goat-is-featured-in-pollans-36-hr-community-meal', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d466378d-263e-4aff-8099-c28ae8603aeb>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '670', 'url': 'https://www.jacquelinechurch.com/old/goat-is-featured-in-pollans-36-hr-community-meal', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-214.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.3424733281135559', 'original_id': '5d4f4518e902c8c08e9f04d29e164426b234517d82fea44e4a4afd5e53170f5e'} |
<?php
/**
* MIT License. This file is part of the Propel package.
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
namespace Propel\Tests\Generator\Behavior\Sortable;
use Propel\Tests\Bookstore\Behavior\Map\SortableTable11TableMap;
use Propel\Tests\Bookstore\Behavior\Map\SortableTable12TableMap;
/**
* Tests for SortableBehavior class
*
* @author Massimiliano Arione
* @author William Durand <william.durand1@gmail.com>
*
* @group database
*/
class SortableBehaviorTest extends TestCase
{
/**
* @return void
*/
public function testParameters()
{
$table11 = SortableTable11TableMap::getTableMap();
$this->assertEquals(count($table11->getColumns()), 3, 'Sortable adds one columns by default');
$this->assertTrue(method_exists('Propel\Tests\Bookstore\Behavior\SortableTable11', 'getRank'), 'Sortable adds a rank column by default');
$table12 = SortableTable12TableMap::getTableMap();
$this->assertEquals(count($table12->getColumns()), 4, 'Sortable does not add a column when it already exists');
$this->assertTrue(method_exists('Propel\Tests\Bookstore\Behavior\SortableTable12', 'getPosition'), 'Sortable allows customization of rank_column name');
}
}
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## PostgreSQL 9.3 add lock_timeout parameter
### 作者
digoal
### 日期
2013-05-06
### 标签
PostgreSQL , lock_timeout
----
## 背景
Add configuration variable lock_timeout to limit lock wait duration
## 测试
1\. 隐锁
SESSION A :
```
digoal=# begin;
BEGIN
digoal=# insert into test values (1, 'info');
INSERT 0 1
```
SESSION B :
```
digoal=# set client_min_messages='notice';
SET
digoal=# set lock_timeout='1s';
SET
digoal=# \set VERBOSITY verbose
digoal=# truncate test;
-- 1秒后
ERROR: 57014: canceling statement due to lock timeout
LOCATION: ProcessInterrupts, postgres.c:2899
```
2\. 显锁
接上例,
SESSION B :
```
digoal=# lock table test in exclusive mode;
-- 1秒后
ERROR: 57014: canceling statement due to lock timeout
LOCATION: ProcessInterrupts, postgres.c:2899
```
SESSION A :
```
digoal=# begin;
BEGIN
digoal=# update test set info='test' where id=1;
UPDATE 1
```
SESSION B :
```
digoal=# select * from test where id=1 for update;
ERROR: 57014: canceling statement due to lock timeout
LOCATION: ProcessInterrupts, postgres.c:2899
-- nowait不会等1秒.
digoal=# select * from test where id=1 for update nowait;
ERROR: 55P03: could not obtain lock on row in relation "test"
LOCATION: heap_lock_tuple, heapam.c:4269
```
## 其他
1\. statement_timeout会比lock_timeout先触发, 所以配置lock_timeout大于等于statement_timeout是没有意义的.
2\. 不建议将lock_timeout配置在postgresql.conf中, 因为这样会对所有会话生效. 例如备份也很有可能失败.
3\. lock_timeout对隐锁和显锁都会生效.
4\. 行锁级别信息
src/include/access/heapam.h
```
/*
* Possible lock modes for a tuple.
*/
typedef enum LockTupleMode
{
/* SELECT FOR KEY SHARE */
LockTupleKeyShare,
/* SELECT FOR SHARE */
LockTupleShare,
/* SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE, and UPDATEs that don't modify key columns */
LockTupleNoKeyExclusive,
/* SELECT FOR UPDATE, UPDATEs that modify key columns, and DELETE */
LockTupleExclusive
} LockTupleMode;
```
## 参考
1\. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=d43837d03067487560af481474ae985df894f786
2\. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-LOCK-TIMEOUT
lock_timeout (integer)
```
Abort any statement that waits longer than the specified number of milliseconds while attempting to acquire a lock on a table, index, row, or other database object.
The time limit applies separately to each lock acquisition attempt.
The limit applies both to explicit locking requests (such as LOCK TABLE, or SELECT FOR UPDATE without NOWAIT) and to implicitly-acquired locks.
If log_min_error_statement is set to ERROR or lower, the statement that timed out will be logged. A value of zero (the default) turns this off.
Unlike statement_timeout, this timeout can only occur while waiting for locks.
Note that if statement_timeout is nonzero, it is rather pointless to set lock_timeout to the same or larger value,
since the statement timeout would always trigger first.
Setting lock_timeout in postgresql.conf is not recommended because it would affect all sessions.
```
3\. http://blog.163.com/digoal@126/blog/static/16387704020131172754749/
4\. http://blog.163.com/digoal@126/blog/static/16387704020130312271679/
5\. http://blog.163.com/digoal@126/blog/static/163877040201291575523922/
6\. http://blog.163.com/digoal@126/blog/static/163877040201210134586363/
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Materials Warehouse Manager
Operations Birmingham, Alabama
Do you want to be the Materials Warehouse Manager at Autocar?
At Autocar, we fight for the customer’s needs. We are disrupting the industry by putting the customers’ needs first. Every truck we make is custom-engineered, and custom-made, specifically for that customer—no “one size fits all” here. Because we engineer tools differently, we deliver trucks faster than the competition, and they WORK. The truck has more uptime, is more comfortable for the driver, and is safer—40% fewer crashes with injury than the industry average.* For the life of the truck, we have around-the-clock support.
What will you do? As one of 5 Materials Warehouse Managers, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of materials flow and maintaining control and accuracy over all goods inventories, including all transactions, procurement, planning, scheduling, cost, warehouse, receiving, and shipping to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time for your section of the warehouse.
Develop, implement and manage a cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make vs. buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.
Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build-to-order and build-to-forecast plans.
Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company’s business growth and sourcing requirements.
Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
Achieves financial objectives by working with management to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions.
Participates as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions.
Participates in CAR meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources.
Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets.
Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.
Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends.
Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize supplier value.
Leads by example and motivates people so as to create a challenging, empowering, and collaborative working environment.
What does it take to be a part of our team?
BS degree in business, management or other related discipline. Masters in related field a plus.
At least 5 years progressive experience in management of materials and sourcing within a design and manufacturing environment.
Experience in total quality, six sigma, or other similar environments.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills.
Good technical writing, documentation, and record keeping skills.
Good analytical problem solving ability.
Ability to contribute in a cross-functional collaborative environment.
Financial skills including cost modeling, cost analysis, make vs. buy analysis.
Ability to leverage metrics and other tools to drive supplier performance.
Autocar is the oldest motor vehicle manufacturer in the United States and built America's first truck, in 1899. A proudly American-owned company, Autocar is headquartered in Hagerstown, Indiana, and is affiliated with GVW Group, based in Highland Park, Illinois.
Where will you work? The Materials Warehouse Managers will be based at our new facility in Birmingham, Alabama.
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# spec/requests/measures_spec.rb
# require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe 'measures API' do
# Initialize the test data
let(:user) { create(:user) }
let!(:measurement) { create(:measurement, created_by: user.id) }
let!(:measures) { create_list(:measure, 20, measurement_id: measurement.id) }
let(:measurement_id) { measurement.id }
let(:id) { measures.first.id }
let(:headers) { valid_headers }
# Test suite for GET /measurements/:measurement_id/measures
describe 'GET /measurements/:measurement_id/measures' do
before { get "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures", params: {}, headers: headers }
context 'when measurement exists' do
it 'returns status code 200' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
end
it 'returns all measurement measures' do
expect(json.size).to eq(20)
end
end
context 'when measurement does not exist' do
let(:measurement_id) { 0 }
it 'returns status code 404' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(404)
end
it 'returns a not found message' do
expect(response.body).to match(/"message":"Couldn't find Measurement with 'id'=0"/)
end
end
end
# Test suite for GET /measurements/:measurement_id/measures/:id
describe 'GET /measurements/:measurement_id/measures/:id' do
before { get "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures/#{id}", params: {}, headers: headers }
context 'when measurement measure exists' do
it 'returns status code 200' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
end
it 'returns the measure' do
expect(json['id']).to eq(id)
end
end
context 'when measurement measure does not exist' do
let(:id) { 0 }
it 'returns status code 404' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(404)
end
it 'returns a not found message' do
expect(response.body).to match("{\"message\":\"Couldn't find Measure with [WHERE \\\"measures\\\".\\\"measurement_id\\\" = $1 AND \\\"measures\\\".\\\"id\\\" = $2]\"}")
end
end
end
# Test suite for PUT /measurements/:measurement_id/measures
describe 'POST /measurements/:measurement_id/measures' do
let(:valid_attributes) { { value_of_measure: 'Visit Narnia' }.to_json }
context 'when request attributes are valid' do
before { post "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures", params: valid_attributes, headers: headers }
it 'returns status code 201' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(201)
end
end
context 'when an invalid request' do
before { post "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures", params: {}, headers: headers }
it 'returns status code 422' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(422)
end
it 'returns a failure message' do
expect(response.body).to match(/Validation failed: Value of measure can't be blank/)
end
end
end
# Test suite for PUT /measurements/:measurement_id/measures/:id
describe 'PUT /measurements/:measurement_id/measures/:id' do
let(:valid_attributes) { { value_of_measure: 'Mozart' }.to_json }
before { put "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures/#{id}", params: valid_attributes, headers: headers }
context 'when measure exists' do
it 'returns status code 204' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(204)
end
it 'updates the measure' do
updated_measure = Measure.find(id)
expect(updated_measure.value_of_measure).to match(/Mozart/)
end
end
context 'when the measure does not exist' do
let(:id) { 0 }
it 'returns status code 404' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(404)
end
it 'returns a not found message' do
expect(response.body).to match("{\"message\":\"Couldn't find Measure with [WHERE \\\"measures\\\".\\\"measurement_id\\\" = $1 AND \\\"measures\\\".\\\"id\\\" = $2]\"}")
end
end
end
# Test suite for DELETE /measurements/:id
describe 'DELETE /measurements/:id' do
before { delete "/measurements/#{measurement_id}/measures/#{id}", params: {}, headers: headers }
it 'returns status code 204' do
expect(response).to have_http_status(204)
end
end
end
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In general, when an inventory item such as a room is set as hidden from Frontoffice, it is not shown in the Frontoffice and clients are not able to directly book that item. You can, however, still add this hidden room to your packages and your clients will be able to choose it only within that package.
In order to manage what is shown in the Frontoffice,
1. Click on Inventory Module
2. Click on one of the Inventory Item Categories
In this example,
3. Click on the Accommodation you want to modify
4. Go to the Frontoffice tab of the Accommodation
5. Here you can see that it's set to Hidden in the Frontoffice
6. By adding the Accommodation to one of the Frontoffice Categories the Inventory Item becomes visible in the Frontoffice and can be booked by your clients
As mentioned above, sometimes you might want to make rooms, activities or other inventory items to be bookable only within packages. For example you sell a retreat which includes an accommodation, but you do not want people to be able to book that accommodation item outside the retreat package.
Here's how you do this:
1. Set the inventory item itself as hidden from Frontoffice.
To then add it to a package in the following way:
2. Click on Inventory Module
3. Click on Packages
4. Go to the Package you want to modify
5. Make sure that the Package is visible in the Frontoffice
6. Click on Package Contents
7. Add a new item or click on the item you want to modify
8. Make sure this item is visible in the Frontoffice within that package.
Now the inventory item is visible in the Frontoffice only inside the package.
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subtitle: Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki discuss various natural and holistic health
topics while taking your calls.
title: Prescriptions For Health
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- Health
- Alternative Health
- prescriptions-for-health
title: Prescriptions For Health
---
UK study shows mammograms cold be dong more harm than good!
PSA tests for prostate cancer vs.
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3D/4D echo sonograms and MRI with spectroscopy
Breath tests for detecting lung cancer as with sniffer dogs is 80-90% accurate
The American Cancer Society is backing down on some cancer screening tests
Drug treatments for Alzheimers disease are lacking. <br />
Is there effective treatment for it?
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Callers:
John (Oregon) Wife’s breast cancer returned and metastasized after 11 years. <br />
Discussed zometa and alternatives.
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Mary (Atlanta, GA) - Uterine cancer one year ago and now cancer free. <br />
Vegetarian, and other healthy life style measures to prevent recurance, etc. <br />
Vicki’s Tips:
Words of Wisdom
Infant Discovered in Barn.
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The curvature estimate that looks within the evidence of the subsequent result's from [MAT4]. Proposition four. 32 The Joyce–Mörters set helps a chance degree with finite Melnikov curvature and linear progress. facts seeing that for all , Lemma four. 30 signifies that the chance degree μ we've built has linear development with sure fifty six. give some thought to and . for the reason that , to teach it suffices to teach that for . We in basic terms express this for the case , the facts for being related. In what follows we've a sequence of in/equalities.
16). hence we may possibly get balls B 1 and B 2 by way of utilising Lemma eight. five to the ball . (Do now not confuse those balls with the balls B 1 and B 2 of building eight. 31! ) Set for . Then and so . It now follows from (3) of relief eight. three that in addition, due to the fact , for that reason We might therefore decide on for . notice that . enable L * denote the road containing z 1 and z 2. If L is parallel to L *, then we trivially have . So we may possibly to boot imagine L and L * have an intersection aspect w. Then for a few j. because this z j is in G j , incidentally G j used to be outlined we then have by means of the specification of C 1 in Proposition eight.
We express that . To this finish, decide upon and fasten an n such that and . when you consider that , . through (iii), there exists a line L n pleasing and . give some thought to any line L such that . using (c) of Proposition eight. 7 with z, w, and r changed by way of w, , and , respectively, we deduce through (3) for the choice of ε zero. From and it now follows that . hence for we have now , , and for every line L, each time , i. e. , . eight. 15 The Smallness of okay 2 Of the 3 units that we needs to express to have small degree, okay 2 is the best to address. This part, which offers with ok 2, is brief and candy because the labor has already been performed in sections eight.
E. , it suffices to turn out our proposition for γ rather than Γ. Set on γ and . Then the degree of the Analytic sign up for Proposition (3. 24) is simply . through Proposition three. sixteen, on and on . to complete, by way of the Analytic sign up for Proposition (3. 24) it suffices to return up with a degree σ − which places no mass on R and for which the corresponding on R +. Given , permit be the sum of the subsequent 3 paths: the directly line section from to , the trail , and the directly line section from to . outline . repair z in R +. Then the statement , which we needs to be sure, is simply The functionality is analytic at the loop and the zone it encloses through Lemma three.
The destiny of this conjecture essentially hinges upon the compact subsets of of Hausdorff size one! in fact, the alert reader has most likely discovered that the Joyce–Mö;rters set okay that concluded bankruptcy four refutes VOC: okay is nonremovable, but (Theorem four. 33 and Proposition four. 28). notwithstanding, this can be simply the latest and easiest counterexample. the 1st counterexample, in 1986, used to be the entire aspect of Pertti Mattila’s paper [MAT2] and upon it hangs an a laugh story. Being detachable is conformally invariant: if ok is detachable and f is a conformal map outlined on a local of ok, then is usually detachable.
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"=The events depicted in this drama are fictitious." "Any similarity to any person, institutions or events is merely coincidental.=" "Kim Na Na!" "You came just in time." "No matter what I do, I just can't get that taste right." "Help me make some coffee, okay?" "Mr. Lee Yun Seong." "Oh, are you going to say that the contract is over?" "Okay, just tell me." "Mr. Lee Yun Seong." "Who gave you the permission to interfere in another person's life?" "How could you buy my house?" "You feel sorry for me, don't you?" "Am I that pathetic?" "I can't understand." "My house." "You bought it, didn't you?" "Furthermore, it was done rather quickly." "Even the registration is done." "I was trying to be careful because I didn't know if I might get evicted." "Did you simply want to show off your wealth?" "Am I that pitiful to you?" "I have been working my butt off being a replacement driver..." "Miss Kim Na Na." "Since I'm using my own money, it's none of your business." "It's my right, isn't it?" "I don't have to answer to you." "But don't you already have an apartment, a very good one in fact?" "Money should not be hoarded but invested." "Those are my dad's words of wisdom." "Your home is indeed very old and outdated." "But from the moment your house was put up for auction, didn't it become government property?" "I've looked around and noticed that the Blue House is nearby." "So, the money that I had invested could multiply." "Why should I pass this up?" "Do you really want to live there?" "Yes." "You are giving up a perfectly fine house, and choosing to live in a rundown house where you have to collect rainwater with bowls?" "Yes!" "You're really planning to leave your nice house and suffer?" "Does that make any sense?" "How many times must I repeat myself?" "Lately, I was thinking of asking you to leave the house." "When do you plan to move out?" "Kim Na Na, let's be honest with each other, okay?" "Didn't you come to beg me to let you live there a little longer?" "If you are asking for a favor, then please ask nicely." "Only then will I reconsider." "When you are being so pretentious and self-righteous, it's meaningless, isn't it?" "I think you might have misunderstood me." "Am I right?" "I was afraid you bought the house just to make me happy." "I absolutely would never be happy." "Because the type of people that I hate from the bottom of my heart... are those who flaunt money in order to toy with others." "I'll vacate the house." "See you after work." "What is it?" "Aren't all humans prone to making mistakes?" "Could you stop beating around the bush?" "I heard you took me home yesterday." "I didn't get the chance to thank you." "Thanks are unnecessary." "Just get to the point." "Mr. Lee Yun Seong, did I lose control and embarrass myself yesterday?" "I don't seem to recall..." "You really don't remember?" "I just remember a little of it." "I seem to recall that there was a woman with you last night." "You... remember that?" "It wasn't Miss Shin Eun Ah, was it?" "Miss Shin Eun Ah?" "Oh, no." "Is that all that you wanted to confirm?" "Let's return to work then." "Wait just a moment." "What is it now?" "I didn't really lose control of myself, did I?" "Actually, you did!" "Extremely!" "I think I'm going insane." "Security Guard Kim Na Na, Security Guard Kim Na Na." "You must go protect Presidential Candidate Seo Yong Hak." "Shouldn't you be leaving now?" "You're going to be late for your next shift." "Okay, I'm going now." "Why are you sighing?" "Did something happen?" "No, nothing happened..." "This is the person." "He pointed a gun to my head and said," ""If you want to live, then come down."" "Lee Kyeong Wan and Seo Yong Hak." "As the elections for both politicians came closer, they were attacked and kidnapped." "Could it be a terrorist organization?" "North Korea?" "I heard that the two have been friends for decades." "Then could it be the City Hunter?" "No, I don't think it's the same person." "It doesn't make sense that he would kill him after sending him in a package to the Prosecutor's Office." "It would be inconsistent." "That's also true." "Oh right, have you processed Seo Yong Hak's fingerprints?" "There were too many fingerprints on the letter, so they need more time to process them." "Let's compare the fingerprints found inside the elevator and the escort car with the fingerprints on the letter, and see if they match." "With consecutive events occurring within a year, it's likely to be the same person or organization." "The police saw two suspicious people in the building." "It looks like he's hurt, like his leg is injured." "Prosecutor, that person's actions are highly suspicious." "Go on." "Originally, we thought it was because of the speeding car." "But since you brought it up, no matter how you look at it..." "It looks like one of his legs is making it difficult for him to move around." "Search Officer Jang Pil Jae." "Check the database for persons between the ages of 40 to 60 with a leg impediment." "Yes." "Search Officer Kim Mi Yuk." "You said the gun used in the attack was a US AR-15 model?" "Yes, that is the conclusion drawn from the bullet analysis." "Go and check the immigration records from the past two years." "See if there are any immigrants, particularly from the US, who carried these." "Prosecutor, it's not merely one or two individuals." "Even if it requires working overnight, they must be found!" "Just in case..." "A very good escape." "Really..." "That's why I say we should install anti-theft windows in every room." "Renovation of the house might be delayed for a few days." "Anyway, just live with it for now." "Don't waste money." "Will you do it or not?" "I can pay right now." "Pay a 500 000 Won deposit first, and you can pay the rest later." "Then please install the anti-theft windows immediately." "The price does not matter, as long as it is secure." "Can't you see that I'm busy right now?" "I will install it tomorrow morning, okay?" "Tomorrow morning?" "But I'll be at work then." "Just give me the keys then." "I won't touch anything." "The keys?" "Kim Na Na." "Just live here until I let you leave, okay?" "Since you have nowhere else to go, I'll let you off this time." "No... not like this." "Kim Na Na, I'm really sorry about what happened earlier." "I just bought it for investment." "You can stay as long as you want, okay?" "You already understand, don't you?" "You scared me!" "Wow, you are very punctual." "Are you that anxious to live in this house?" "Otherwise, why would I buy this house?" "Hand the keys over." "Oh, so you just came to collect the keys?" "You've never wasted a penny before, and now you're going to be a wealthy person?" "Follow me." "Once I'm done packing, I'll give you the keys." "No." "Give me the keys first!" "Don't worry, I'll definitely give them to you." "I won't keep the keys just to stay here a few more days." "Hey!" "Hey, Kim Na Na!" "Hey handsome man, is she going to give it to me?" "Why are you touching my things without permission?" "Do I need permission to touch these things?" "Just these things?" "You definitely live up to my first impression of you." "Finding a replacement driver and flirting with a woman in the back seat of the car..." "I could already see the type of person you are." "Hey, Kim Na Na." "But because you helped me settle my dad's hospital bill, and helped me with Mi Jin and Doo Jin that time," "I thought my first impression of you was wrong." "Then just unpack, okay?" "Don't you want to continue living here?" "You're kidding me, right?" "Yes, Lee Yun Seong." "I don't know if you're here to fool around just because you have money, or if you're here to invest, like you said." "Ever since I was 7 years old, this house..." "I know." "This house has the table your father personally made and the tablecloth your mom hand-sewed." "So I will allow you to continue living here!" "Here, for you." "You just have to feed him once a day." "Blackie is very smart." "He knows when to go to the toilet." "You just need to leave the door open." "Once I find another house," "I'll return for Blackie and the rest of my things." "You want me to live with this dog?" "Who says that I want to?" "You chased me out so suddenly, so isn't this what you ought to do?" "I don't want to, I will make the decision." "I own this house." "Blackie, if this ajussi annoys you, you must put up with it, okay?" "Eonni will come and take you back soon." "(Eonni" " Older sister)" "Here, the keys you so desperately wanted." "Hey, hey, Kim Na Na..." "Kim Na Na..." "Really, I didn't even allow you to leave yet!" "When did I flaunt my money?" "You, yourself, suddenly came running over to ask why I bought this house." "You were the one who got upset first." "I really am speechless." "Hey, Kim Na Na." "Kim Na Na, wait!" "Hey, Kim Na Na!" "Hey, stop the bus!" "I said... get off the bus!" "Dad, how did you become so thin?" "Is it because I didn't come often?" "I'm a bit busy." "Working as a bodyguard, I almost got shot." "So can you... can you accept me like this?" "Seeing you like this breaks my heart." "The Section Chief said that I'm impudent, and that I'm not qualified to be a bodyguard." "My wages got cut, and now the house belongs to someone else." "Dad, what should I do?" "My life is a mess." "I don't have a place to sleep." "But thanks to this person, I am still alive." "I originally thought of dying, funny isn't it?" "Yes, I'm at the hospital." "Isn't it?" "It's alright." "Sorry to disturb you." "I will call again later, okay." "What brings you here?" "This might seem a bit sudden." "Do you see that guy back there?" "He really likes you a lot!" "Don't, don't look first." "He's very handsome." "You definitely won't regret it." "Go take a look." "If you're satisfied, then go have a cup of coffee together." "If not, you can coolly reject him." "Hello." "What are you doing?" "I've heard from your friend." "Sorry, you're not my type." "But, could you give me the number... of that friend just now?" "He's the type I like." "What?" "What?" "Blackie, when someone comes, you must bark." "If you're like this, how am I supposed to pass Na Na over to you with peace of mind?" "Now what?" "What's wrong with this?" "What era is this?" "What is this place... without even any decent items." "Kim Na Na." "How come you never let other people finish what they're saying?" "Always so stubborn." "Making people feel sorry..." "Kim Na Na." "Hey, why is your house in such a condition?" "Nothing works." "You will get used to the house." "Why must the house get used to you?" "Why doesn't the toilet flush?" "Do I always have to open the cover and put my hand in?" "Also, the tap in the toilet leaks." "I set the shower for cold water." "But the water that came out was so hot it nearly boiled me alive!" "How good can the house be when it has been sealed three times?" "I don't want to wake up every morning angry." "Can we just pretend we can't see each other?" "Dr. Lee Yun Seong, good morning!" "You definitely deserve the title of a PhD, you're such a thoughtful person." "Sorry, the coffee belongs to someone else." "Lee Kyeong Wan was kidnapped." "Seo Yeong Hak was shot." "How are the reports related to all these matters?" "Finish your breakfast before working again, okay?" "Humans are metal, rice is steel." "Seo Yong Hak, the City Hunter and his company are definitely eating breakfast now." "We still don't know the owner of the letter, right?" "If only we knew, there would be no need to continue the search." "What's wrong with that?" "Every time the country calls, they always comment that we act too rashly." "We found the person who hacked into the Blue House's system." "Yes?" "Such a large volume of pictures of soldiers with nails on their boots were uploaded." "The people who are responsible for crashing the servers?" "That was done by someone on the Blue House staff, within the National Communication Network Team, where the experts are." "We investigated yesterday." "Uploading hundreds of pictures to paralyze the system is already an outdated method." "This person can't also be responsible for what happened to Lee Kyeong Wan?" "Search Officer Kim Mi Yuk, please get a search warrant." "Okay, I know." "Lee Kyeong Wan, Seo Yong Hak, the report book, and the photos of nails on the soles of the soldiers' boots." "All these are definitely related." "Seoul Special Police Department, Prosecutor Kim Yeong Ju." "Where is Mr. Go Gi Jun?" "He's over there." "Is there something wrong?" "Sorry to disturb you during your working hours." "Mr. Go Gi Jun, do you know why we've come?" "You've violated Section 71 of the Information and Communication Act." "Based on the rules protecting South Korea's confidential information, we must detain you for the time being." "Detention?" "Search Officer Jang." "Let's go." "Ah.." "Quickly." "Excuse me." "Wait a moment, can't you explain what's happening?" "The hacker accomplished what he did at Go Gi Jun's house." "The hacker's IP address is consistent with that of Go Gi Jun's." "Furthermore, we've already referred this case to the Prosecutor's Office for investigation." "It's not like it's an obstacle." "We stopped the attack in just 2 minutes." "It's not just this incident." "There's also the attack, the report book, together with this hacker incident, they have all been placed in the same investigation." "That's why an emergency arrest warrant was issued." "Attacks, report book, hacking?" "Na Na." "It looks like the scar on your face has almost healed." "It's all thanks to you." "Thank you." "It looks like we'll be seeing each other a lot in the future." "What?" "I'm responsible for Presidential Candidate Seo Yong Hak's case." "Didn't you say you are his bodyguard?" "Yes, right." "So please look out for me." "But why did you arrest Go Gi Jun..." "The first time I saw Go Gi Jun, I thought there was something strange about him." "The first time we had judo training he even cried, right?" "At that time, I felt like he was a bit different." "How can a Blue House staff member malign the President?" "Unless it really is like what the rumors say, there is a spy." "A secret agent planted here by the CIA." "Do you think that is possible?" "Lee Yun Seong and Go Gi Jun seem so silly." "Even the wild cats outside the Blue House would know that." "But isn't that common in those spy movies?" "They could be faking it." "Perhaps those are high-level tactics aimed at confusing others." "Attacks, reports, hacking, don't you think it's very common?" "Thanks to him, we have to go through so much trouble." "Even our IDs have to be checked during work." "Stop mentioning it, even the trunk of my car was checked." "Other than the communication network, all other external networks can't be used." "Two to three firewall layers have been installed." "Just because of one person, we all have to suffer." "That's why a proper background check should have been done first." "Isn't this a bit too much?" "What is it..." "Bodyguard Shin Eun Ah?" "What's wrong with you?" "Isn't it too much to talk behind other people's back?" "Although Go Gi Jun does not have the appearance of a well-learned university graduate, and appears a bit silly, people can't help but to dislike him." "But Gi Jun is not a bad person." "About this, I as his instructor can guarantee that." "Making irresponsible remarks, not knowing the whole story," "I don't think that's appropriate." "I am a little busy." "I shall leave first." "Kim Na Na, let's go." "I haven't finished eating." "Which also means that when Seo Yong Hak's son was playing on the Basketball Team, he had to have surgery due to injuries to his cruciate ligament." "We're making an application for another investigation right now." "What's wrong with it?" "Listen to me carefully from now on, okay?" "Captain." "It will be extremely interesting." "This guy always went to the Height Growth Centre until he was in 3rd year of high school." "(Height Growth Centre - a place to induce height growth in a child.)" "And participated in many films." "All the way until middle high school?" "Looks like the Height Growth Centre has really helped him." "He was even able to get into the Basketball Team." "Is he that tall?" "How did he enter the basketball club with his height?" "Of course, based on his place in society, how is it not possible?" "But..." "But after attending university for only a year, he was exempted from military service due to his cruciate ligament injury." "We are not even doctors, how can we understand by looking at it?" "Hold on." "You found it?" "The legs don't look similar, even though in the photo it does." "Unless the shape of the legs can change so much within months?" "Of course not, the patient has been switched." "When he went for a check-up, he used his injured leg." "And operation was done on the normal leg." "And all the way until now, which goes to show, he clearly wanted to avoid military service." "Bingo!" "The previous Defense Minister used underhanded means to prevent his son from serving in the military!" "See?" "Last time, we should have just gotten rid of him." "Now that it's all come to light, I will make sure he's caught." "Dad, just pass the responsibility to me, okay?" "Hello everybody, good, thank you." "Hello everyone!" "How is your business?" "Smooth thanks to your blessings." "Glad to hear that." "Representative!" "Representative!" "What is this... out of the way!" "Representative!" "I can't believe you." "Move aside." "Representative!" "Representative!" "I have something to say." "Move aside!" "Move aside!" "Aigoo, my back!" "The bodyguard's injured me." "(Aigoo" " Oh Dear, Oh My God)" "What are you doing?" "You are responsible for security." "I didn't give you permission to demonstrate your Judo skills." "If you are accused of overcompensating, can you take responsibility for that?" "Sorry, I will take note of that." "Sorry, due to the recent attack, our bodyguards have been more uptight." "Let me apologize to you on their behalf." "I'm sorry!" "I'm very sorry!" "I'm sorry, he came on too abruptly." "If that's the case..." "Why are you staring at him?" "Quickly take him to the hospital." "Aigoo, the pain is killing me!" "Are you alright?" "Can you still stand up?" "Can you not distinguish by sight?" "Learn to use your intuition, okay?" "What will the reporters write?" "How can a bodyguard man-handle a citizen in public?" "Every opinion, every vote is very precious." "The previous sniper incident, wasn't it caused by the negligence of the security officers?" "Madam, I'm really sorry for what happen today." "We will do our best to ensure the safety of you and the Presidential Candidate." "That was already expected of you." "It is why we required you to come." "The election is just around the corner." "Please take note that we must not let anyone use this incident to our disadvantage." "I understand." "Come quickly and clean up the dog poop." "What's the matter with you?" "This, clean this up." "Didn't I ask you to help me take care of the dog?" "Didn't you say just feeding it was enough?" "You didn't ask me to do anything about dog poop." "But that's what I meant when I asked you to take care of him." "How can you only feed a dog?" "Then just give me a dog that doesn't poop!" "Seriously, forget it." "Didn't you say the dog is really smart?" "If it was so smart, why would it still poop on the floorboard?" "The dog is just like the owner." "Impatient." "Did you leave the bathroom door open?" "Blackie is very smart." "He only poops in the bathroom." "Did you tell me?" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "Anyway, even if you kill me, I won't pick up dog poop." "Why don't you just come over to clean everyday?" "Or you can just take Blackie away." "You know that I have no place to go." "Don't you think you're asking too much?" "Then let's just live together." "Are you kidding me?" "Who said I was kidding?" "Don't joke around!" "How can we live together?" "Are you toying with me again?" "Hey, the fan broke even though I changed it, and the toilet is also broken." "And the tap is still leaking." "Also, why is there nothing showing on the TV?" "You should take responsibility for this." "Responsibility for what?" "I bought this place only because it would be re-developed." "But now I've discovered my loss is great." "It's okay, there's no need to pay rent." "But you must come over to cook and clean everyday." "And also, the toilet, the shower, the tap, and the TV, must be fixed." "Once you earn the money, you can pay me back the amount I used to bid for this house at the auction." "That's taking responsibility." "These terms are reasonable!" "You don't want to?" "It's not that..." "Living under the same roof with a man..." "Are you afraid because I'm a man and you're a woman?" "Kim Na Na, you're pretty good at Judo, right?" "4th degree, right?" "Even if I harbor any undesirable thoughts about you," "I know how you would respond." "Do you think I would still dare to touch you?" "I'm not a fool." "Why would I ask for a beating?" "That seems true." "And also, the most important point is... aren't you a B-cup?" "I don't regard anyone below a C-cup to be a woman." "Furthermore, don't you also dislike me, Kim Na Na?" "Then, I'm sure you won't perform a sneak attack on me." "So how could anything happen?" "Right?" "It looks like you are still unwilling." "Let's forget it then." "Wait..." "Give me some time to think about it." "It's fine." "What he said seems right." "I don't like him, and he also does not like me." "That kind of thing will never happen." "With no place to go... and I don't have to pay rent," "All I need to do are the household chores." "Mom and Dad, wait till I get back this house." "Until I get it back, please look away." "If you are not willing, then don't do it." "I have nothing to lose." "Okay, let's live together." "But I have a condition." "Condition?" "Let's write out a contract that forbids physical contact." "How many times do you want me to say it?" "You're just not my type." "You are absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, not the type I like." "I am saying just in case." "If you grab my hand," "50 000 Won fine." "Are you crazy about money?" "Don't worry." "If I grab your hand, I will also give you 50 000 Won." "Then what about grabbing a hold of your shoulders?" "100 000 Won." "How about having my arms over your shoulders?" "200 000 Won." "Then, what about a hug?" "300 000 Won." "A peck?" "500 000 Won!" "So how much for a kiss?" "1 million Won!" "1... million..." "Won?" "Why are you suddenly acting this way?" "Go away!" "Dating you requires a lot of money." "What?" "1 million Won just for a kiss?" "Which man would want to date you?" "Buying one and getting one free is still not affordable." "No." "For just once, as time goes on." "it will be better with more capital to start off." "Lee Yun Seong." "Since you have decided, then you should go move your things back." "Ah right, hospital." "Bags..." "Hey, if the captain finds out, even I will end up as dead meat." "I feel that Na Na is still in danger." "I have to stay by her." "Na Na?" "What's with Na Na?" "Last time we were tracking Lee Kyeong Wan, I met this fellow." "He knows Na Na and even followed her home." "He does not seem like an average guy." "What if people discover your identity?" "Don't worry." "I will be careful not to reveal my identity." "Aigoo, I don't care anymore." "No matter how I think of it, my heart does not rest at ease." "Ajussi, you just follow my dad." "Let me know if you feel that my secret is in danger of being revealed." "I got it, don't worry about me and take care of yourself." "You!" "If you dare touch a hair on Na Na's head..." "I've already said that I have high standards." "But..." "Ajussi, exactly what kind of relationship do you have with Na Na?" "There is no relationship whatsoever." "Do you want me to wrap up some sea urchins to go?" "Bring it to Na Na and share with her." "The mackerels were going for Buy 1 Get 1 Free, so I bought quite a few." "Just bring a little of that." "There's a good crab sauce marinade." "Just take it all." "You are treating me like I'm marrying someone." "Why, what is this..." "I'll let you carry it then you carry it with you." "Who should use the washroom first?" "Of course, it should be me." "Like this way, every time you will clean the area." "Like this, everyday I get to use a clean washroom." "That's right." "The dog's poop will also be cleaned up by you!" "Kim Na Na." "What is it?" "Do you have any comfortable clothes that I can wear?" "I didn't bring any pajamas over." "The old Judo uniform from last time was fine." "What use is the big suitcase when you haven't even brought pajamas to wear?" "Just wait." "It's possible for anyone to forget." "I'll just rely on my looks, in case I still need to prepare everything." "and can't go down tired, what can I do?" "Ah." "Ah!" "Kim Na Na, you also have to give me something to tie my robe." "You're really useless." "I'll just use this." "Oh!" "You can't use that!" " Why not?" "I'll just..." " You just can't use this." "You can use this, okay?" "=Kim Na Na=" "I'll use the washroom." "It's so cold!" "When you lift the lid, you need to cover it again too!" "Seriously, wait a minute!" "Unlucky fellow." "Hey." "Why do you wash your hair in the evening instead of in the morning?" "Won't your head be full of dirt?" "There's a lot of things to do in the morning." "So busy, there isn't enough time to blow dry my hair." "I'm going to sleep first." "Hey, this." "We can watch it together." "It's boring if I watch by myself." "=Kim Na Na=" "Mother, please don't leave me by myself." "Mother!" "Mother!" "Mother!" "I'm sorry, Mom." "Are you insane?" "How can you just come over like that?" "What if someone sees?" "Hey, no one cares." "That's kind of strange." "I've lived here so long." "Most people know me." "I will go that way towards the supermarket." "You count to 20, then walk the opposite direction." "Understand?" "Do you need to go to the supermarket?" "Isn't that a longer route?" "I will be boarding the car at the previous stop." "Wow, seeing you like this you seem like an expert already!" "From now you must be careful." "Who are you?" "Be quiet, people will hear us!" "I'm asking you, who are you?" "Count to 20, 20!" "Presidential Candidate Seo Yong Hak has been called in as a witness." "Have you been able to contact him?" "He was previously hospitalized and then discharged after that." "It is difficult to find time for the trip." "Do you plan to personally go on a trip?" "I don't have time." "I still have an appointment today." "Just arrange to call Seo Yong Hak tomorrow, okay?" "Okay, I will prepare it." "That's right." "Hodson from Mars company will be coming through immigration tomorrow." "Yes, I understand." "I'm sorry." "Is the entire team in a mess?" "Would you have done it if you knew others were worried about you?" "Why didn't you the prosecutors the truth?" "This was not your doing, Go Gi Jun." "It was I who did it." "We're all experts here." "You can stop lying to me already." "One only needs to know a little bit on hacking technique to do this," "But nowadays, no one uses this method anymore." "The other day, when you were drunk, didn't you spill your guts and confess everything?" "Go Gi Jun, after your dongsaeng went to the army, (Dongsaeng" " Younger brother) his leg had to be amputated because of tetanus from the boots." "A-And to think I thought everything was foolproof." "Tell the truth when you are summoned by the Prosecutor." "I just need to find a new job and I will be fine." "But what about my dongsaeng?" "That kid originally liked Taekwondo." "But now his life is ruined." "His dream was to run a dojo, teaching kids Taekwondo." "Because the sole of the boots was coming off, he wanted to switch to another pair but they didn't let him, and he ended up with tetanus." "All the committee members of the Department of Defense just ignored it!" "As a hyeong, I could not help him with anything." "(Hyeong" " Older Brother)" "Then let's just do as you wish." "I don't have a dongsaeng, so I still don't quite understand." "There's always a choice in life." "Nothing is forced." "The different types of friendship make me annoyed." "Although it's pitiful that your leg has become like this, but to let your own hyeong take the blame for you..." "Do you want to bring him down together with you, is that it?" "Hyeong, he... he doesn't listen to me." "Don't you have a mouth?" "During the incident, Go Gi Jun was in the Blue House." "If you expose the truth about the crime, it will be shown that Go Gi Jun committed perjury." "(Perjury - lying in Court)" "It's already enough." "The problem regarding the poor quality of the boots..." "The Prosecutor's Office has already started the investigation." "Using this opportunity to reveal the truth..." "I think it will do you both good." "Why are your shoulders so narrow?" "Don't you know how to stand with your legs apart?" "Upper body upright, both legs and shoulders must be wide apart." "How many times do you want me to repeat myself?" "How exactly did you get the Ph.D?" "A big man, with such small guts." "Straighten up!" "Mr. Lee Yun Seong!" "Da Hye!" "Non-related personnel are not allowed to enter this place." "What exactly can I do?" "It's always no, you can't do that, you can't do that." "I also want to learn shooting." "It's not that you want to learn how to shoot, you just wanted to see Dr. Lee Yun Seong, right?" "Wow, super handsome." "Teach me too, okay?" "I also want to try shooting." "Da Hye." "Nobody's allowed except me..." "I..." "I hoped Dr. Lee Yun Seong would teach me." "Me?" "Da Hye!" "Then, wear this." "If you don't, you will get hurt." "Eonni, thank you." "Wow, don't I look super stylish when I put this on?" "Is that right?" "You must get into a good position first." "Like this?" "Stand firmly with legs shoulder-width apart." "Like this, like this." "And then?" "You must concentrate." "Then, hold the gun with your right hand." "Left hand covering the right hand." "Aigoo." "He's still giving advice to people with his ability?" "Hold your breath and focus." "Pull the trigger." "It's easier than I thought." "Didn't you know the more slanted the shot is, the louder the gun shot?" "Showing off." "Wow, it's in the 10th ring." "Looks like I have shooting talent!" "Can we add shooting into the list for the ability test?" "Then I would easily be given admission to Seoul University." "This is all Dr. Lee Yun Seong's effort." "Can't you teach me once more?" "Can you?" "Can you?" "Can you?" "I am very busy." "You have to persuade her!" "Please teach me again." "You have worked hard." "Representative Seo is waiting for you." "Yun Seong!" "Hodson has arrived." "Seo Yong Hak's secretary personally came to greet him." "If he was to arrive tomorrow, there would be a big fuss." "Okay, later." "Your friend from the States?" "That's right." "If not for Go Gi Jun's incident, you probably could have been able to bring friends to visit the Blue House." "Ah, that would have been great!" "Who knew Go Gi Jun would do that?" "I'm going to leave first." "My friend is waiting for me." "Yes, of course you should go see." "If the United States sends you an invite," "You must absolutely say no!" "No!" "Oh, you're early." "I'm not late, am I?" "I'm so touched." "You're touched by such things?" "Of course." "When I was with Yeong Ju, it wasn't like this." "Coming late for our dates, or sometimes not even coming at all." "So if he came on time, I would be moved to tears." "You don't have to feel sorry for me." "I bought that tie for you on your birthday." "Did you?" "Looks like you don't remember." "Do you remember that you were the one who bought my tie?" "What do you mean?" "Didn't you go shopping after you broke up with me?" "Let's go." "Hello, Hodson." "Hello!" "Hello!" "Recently you've organized many birthday parties." "You should be meaning to spend time with your family over the weekend, right?" "Emerald Hall." "Which way should we go?" "Yeong Ju." "I'm sorry Se Hui, can you please go there first?" "I'll go over in a bit." "Ah, where are you going?" "This is just like Kim Yeong Ju." "Work always comes first for you." "Why do I feel hurt again?" "Ah, if it isn't Prosecutor Kim." "How come you are here?" "Due to hospitalization, you've even rejected all summons to court, but why are you here in a hotel?" "Well, I..." "I'm just passing by to check on the press conference and prepare my statements." "And I've met someone I know." "But, it's not like I have an obligation to report everything to you, right?" "Mr. Hodson," "I am Prosecutor Yeong Ju Kim from the Seoul Police Department." "Wow, prosecutor huh?" "Prosecutor Kim." "Mars company better not make any illegal move or tax violations in its arms trade with Korea." "Excuse me?" "I'm warning you." "Don't look down on Korea." "I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are talking about." "Because you are my friend's son, I've never argued with you." "You should know your limits." "It's nearly done." "Even though you are my father's friend, the law is still the law." "I'll see you at the witness investigation." "You are being investigated by that prosecutor?" "Not long ago, there was a sniper incident targeting me." "I've known about this matter, but the atmosphere is a bit..." "No matter what you think, I would be among the most favorable candidates for presidential election." "Therefore, they will frame me." "Ajussi, wait there." "If Seo Yong Hak's room calls for room service, we'll intercept the service in the middle." "It's room service." "We did not ask for room service." "You didn't call room service?" "There's a foreign guest that ordered an espresso and fruit." "That's why we sent it." "Come in." "Wasn't I right?" "Wait a moment." "How is it that..." "You can leave." "Fine." "Wait." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Hodson gave me a 50 000 Won tip." "Brat." "=I have decided not to help you sell thirty Taiwan fighter jets.=" "=Why are you objecting?" "=" "=Would you take a look at the materials I prepared?" "=" "=For you.=" "Already..." "You want to sell us fighters that no one is interested in after finding defects?" "The aircraft crashed, causing the death of fighter pilots." "Russia, Georgia and India." "Is it these three countries?" "Have a look at this." "If buying these causes a problem to arise, you should be very well aware of what will happen, right?" "Even if I became President." "If this kind of problem occurs," "I will also be dismissed." "So that means you have decided not to help me?" "If it was you, would you do it?" "=I will report that the meeting was a failure.=" "=Let's not be hasty.=" "Sit down first." "Will it work if I just buy it?" "But I have one condition." "For this transaction, the fee will be 20%." "Just consider it as a 20% commission fee." "=20%?" "=" "=I've never had to pay such a high commission.=" "=Well, having no buyers makes them junk.=" "You think about it." "After I become President," "I will expand the defense budget and buy more military equipment." "It is one of my campaigns." "If this is to happen, then when I become this country's President," "Mars will incur no losses." "Do you understand?" "=So let's start drafting the contracts.=" "=After you become president,=" "=you might change your mind.=" "=Okay.=" "=Continue.=" "=Now, because of this purpose,=" "I will proceed with the transactions with Mars." "But if I am elected President, there will absolutely be no purchases of low quality weapons." "Then, we will purchase only the most sophisticated, defect-free weapons from Mars." "The top weapons." "Why?" "Because, compared to others," "I love this country more, understand?" "For your own benefit, you want to purchase defective aircrafts?" "You absolutely cannot become President." "It is already a problem for this kind of person to want to become president." "Looking at this society." "I did not expect it to reach this level." "Tell Dad our plans and set a date for action." "Act quickly to set the date for action." "Let's weed these guys out." "We must eradicate them!" "What is wrong, ajussi?" "Yun Seong, I've finished the things that I had to do." "Can I go first?" "When I get home, I must take care of important matters." "Important matters?" "TV shopping will replay the fat man frying octopus." "I didn't know it was that good to eat." "It sells out every day." "Today, I must certainly grab some." "Let us all try to see how good it tastes." "Also fried a portion for the captain." "What about the listening devices and cameras in the next room?" "Please store them all!" "Please go." "You have worked hard." "Ajussi!" "Ajussi!" "Will anything really happen tomorrow?" "Since the incident, we must not let our guard down." "The criminals haven't been caught yet." "I don't know what they want to do." "No matter what we do, we are still the targets." "Can Agent Kim really use her body as a shield against flying bullets?" "Yeah, she has to shield!" "Because we are bodyguards." "The ceiling has been checked." "Now, just check the walls properly." "Congratulations!" "You, the parents of three children, are truly patriots!" "You could also hurry up and become "patriotic"!" "Five years have passed." "Why has there been no news?" "What about Se Hui?" "Has she said anything since arriving?" "Se Hui?" "Se Hui came?" "I have not seen her." "=Kim Yeong Ju=" "Dr. Jin Se Hui?" "Oh, it's Lee Yun Seong." "=The phone you dialed has been switched off." "Your call will be transferred to voice mail.=" "Oh, Prosecutor Kim Yeong Ju." "Na Na, why are you here?" "Are you part of the security team?" "Yes, the candidates will hold a press conference tomorrow." "I must check things in advance." "You're busier since the incident." "Did the investigation run smoothly?" "Wait a moment." "Prosecutor Kim, even my bodyguards are being investigated now?" "No, I was asking about the progress of the investigation on the attempted attack." "Yes?" "Regarding the attempted attack, whether or not the suspect has personal grudges towards the candidate still needs much further investigation." "To solve the case as soon as possible, we need your help." "Of course." "The person who is the most curious about who might be guilty... is me!" "You actually drink alone in the hotel." "Ah, right." "Birthday party." "I came here because of the birthday party." "Birthday party?" "Although I am very happy to see you, I still have to go to the birthday dinner." "I haven't even given birth once, but my friend has already had three children." "Thanks to me, she's married." "But now she's leading a better life than me." "How ironic." "I am sorry, what are we going to do?" "No, it's okay." "Don't you have an important appointment?" "No, my friend is here." "I'm looking for him." "I'll just go and get cleaned up." "It'll be okay." "Then I'll go as well." "Take your shirt off." "I'll wash it for you." "It's alright, looks like you're quite drunk." "Last time when I was in trouble, you helped." "How can I pretend that nothing is wrong?" "I'm really sorry." "Se Hui!" "=The 17th Grand National Party Presidential Candidate Press Conference.=" "It should be safe tomorrow, right?" "There's nowhere to hide." "We just need to thoroughly check the reporters' identities." "There shouldn't be any problems." "Mmm." "Good." "Those reporters who love to whine." "Will they be writing rubbish again?" "Oh, Bodyguard Kim," "Yes?" "Please go to room 26 on the 19th floor and tell them that you are my bodyguard." "Get the documents I left behind." "No need to look at them, just take them straight to me." "I will let you know by phone." "I understand." "1926." "5... 6 ...?" "Ah!" "Fool." "It's been only a few minutes and you actually forgot." "Yes." "=Next Episode Preview=" "What business do you have here, Prosecutor Kim Yeong Ju?" "Prosecutor!" "Found it!" "Looks like he is not a prosecutor that can be easily dealt with." "Your parents are really lucky." "They have such a good son." "I don't have a mother." "Please pay particular attention to the action plan." "Are you trying to bring me down?" "Candidate Seo." "You can go ahead and try." "Is it because of a woman?" "No, it's nothing to do with women." "What's with all the hesitation?" "Now is not the right time." "I haven't seen you for some time." "You've become quite arrogant." | mini_pile | {'original_id': '107863aedc3e236013143b078369b9d7d8962a8713fe736c3f7d0b8dfb529168'} |
Romantico (2005)
Romantico (2005)
A documentary produced, directed and edited by Mark Becker
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When Mark Becker started interviewing subjects for a documentary short about the mariachi singers who were working the taquerias and hipster clubs in San Francisco’s Hispanic Mission District, he stumbled upon a 54-year-old Mexican immigrant named Carmelo Muniz Sanchez. Becker knew early on that he had found someone who could carry the weight of a full-length documentary. Perhaps with a similar instinct, Carmelo saw the opportunity that Becker presented, and he gave of himself willingly and without barriers. Together, the two men have made a moving document of one man’s life of hardship defined by poverty, and yet enriched by the existential journey of the human spirit.
Carmelo’s story is not atypical of the illegal Mexican immigrant experience, but it resonates with heartbreaking sentiment due to Carmelo’s earnestness and emotional availability on the screen. His deeply creviced face looks sincerely at Becker, his quasi confessor behind the camera, as he recounts his life of struggles with a candor that is mesmerizing. Becker’s camera follows Carmelo as he trudges through his daily task to earn money for his family, and Carmelo conveys a sense of humility and acceptance tinged with a weariness that makes our hearts tighten with sympathy for him.
In a development that occurs early on, Carmelo decides to return to the family he left three years earlier to find work in the States. His mother, now blind and legless from the effects of diabetes, is dying, and Carmelo also misses his two young daughters. In a kind of immigrant’s tale in reverse, Becker follows Carmelo back to Mexico. The rest of the documentary takes place in Carmelo’s hometown of Salvatierra nearly a thousand miles south of the border, where Carmelo reunites with his wife and two daughters, aged 11 and 14.
After seeing the dismal existence Carmelo endures while in San Francisco, his Mexican home seems luxurious in comparison. The rustic atmosphere of Salvatierra feels quaint and idyllic, so when Carmelo talks of returning to San Francisco, viewers might be led to wonder why he would consider leaving the relative comfort of this life to return to the harsh immigrant life he had in the States. But when we see Carmelo singing for prostitutes and their clients in bars, or peddling fruit ices on the streets to make extra money, we begin to realize the poverty he and his family just barely skirt in their everyday lives. Yes, they have plenty of tortillas; the girls go to school, and their home is solid and furnished. But Carmelo knows that he is aging and his ability to care for them grows more uncertain with the years. We find out that he, too, is a diabetic like his mother; when he wraps his swollen leg, Carmelo’s fears are laid bare in a voice over filled with the knowledge of his tenuous hold on life. He refuses to ask for our pity, just as Becker with his camera refuses to indulge in easy sentiment. There is too much dignity in Carmelo’s resignation, and Becker respects it by refusing to exploit his condition for obvious emotional impact. The point is not the hardship itself, but the struggle to surmount it.
This gesture to not make Carmelo into a martyr, or a victim, is helped throughout by Becker’s decision to lace the film with scenes of Carmelo at work, playing guitar and singing Spanish love songs in his strong tenor voice. English translations of the songs are provided in subtitles, so we are able to immerse ourselves in the inherent beauty of these romantic odes to love, passion, jealousy and grief—all the feelings that bring life its joys and sorrows. The songs are a counterpoint to Carmelo’s day-to-day existence. Above all, they add to our sense of Carmelo as a romantic—romantico—someone whose vision of the world allows him to let his subjective experience transcend the otherwise harsh limitations of mere existence, especially the physical limitations of poverty.
Becker’s aesthetic reveals his own romantic predilection. His style is loose and fluid; he minimizes the classical use of talking heads interviews, and instead allows Carmelo’s voice-over to highlight ordinary images. The effect is obvious—we feel like we are inside Carmelo’s head, and the intimacy of the moment is all the more stirring. It doesn’t hurt that Carmelo’s voice-over is poetic in both rhythm and theme. Perhaps it was due to his years as a singer, but he has a poet’s heart and soul. In one particular scene, Becker has Carmelo standing still in a plaza while he films in high speed, making the people around him move in fast motion. In voice over, Carmelo recounts a period in his life when depression left him angry and demoralized. He tells how a decade of agonized soul-searching brought him to the healing powers of his Catholic faith. In a matter of a few minutes and a simple special effect, Becker encapsulates Carmelo’s anguish and redemption with a poet’s piercing brevity.
Becker’s insistence on filming in 16mm and super 16 also hints at a romantic bent. Unlike the now ubiquitous digital video format that documentaries choose out of financial necessity, film has a lot of grain, a distinctively rich color palette and sense of depth that is unmistakable. One could see Becker’s decision to shoot in film as a romantic gesture—it shows a more lyrical concern with atmosphere, mood and expressiveness over the more prosaic concern of most documentaries with the practicalities of presenting a cultural and social reality.
Becker’s artistic inclinations give Romantico a richness of tone and meaning that elevate the story of Carmelo beyond its humble origins. And strengthened by Carmelo’s own romantic vision, both in words and action, the movie transforms from a record of a simple man’s meager existence into a paean to what is good and vital about the human spirit. It is like a duet in which both men work together to achieve a kind of cinematic harmony, and out of it comes a beautiful recording of the universal struggle that is life.
This brave little film received a lot of praise during its festival run, and has made its subject a star in his hometown, where he is being offered more singing gigs as a result. Let’s hope that Carmelo’s newfound celebrity will help him in his final years. It is a nod to practicality, but what a reward if this film should help ease the burden Carmelo has carried with such grace and dignity for so long.
Beverly Berning
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BackupBuddy: Quick Setup
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1. Enter your e-mail address to get backup and error notifications.
2. Create a password for restoring or migrating your backups
This is the required password for running the ImportBuddy import/migration script. This password prevents unauthorized access when using this tool. We strongly recommend using a different password than your WordPress login password. This password can also be configured in the General section of the BackupBuddy General Settings page.
1. Local Only (no remote destination)
2. BackupBuddy Stash (recommended)
3. Amazon S3
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4. 4. How often do you want to back up your site?
From the drop-down list, select a schedule for backing up your site.
1. Not Automated Schedule
2. Starter [Recommended] (Monthly complete backup + weekly database backup)
3. Active Blogger (Weekly complete backup + daily database backup)
5. Once you've completed the settings, click Save & Make Your First Backup.
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"Hello Again" is a song performed by the rock band The Cars. It was released on the 1984 album Heartbeat City. It was the album's fourth Top 20 hit, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it also reached number 8 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart and number 22 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
Music video
The song's music video was directed by Andy Warhol, who also appeared in the video as did a then-unknown Gina Gershon. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes said "I think [Warhol] mainly did some of the conceptualizing and showed up to be an extra. And he invited his various friends to be in it. It was like any video shoot, but with a more interesting cast of characters. And you could always look over on the set and go 'Hey that's Andy Warhol.'"
The music video explored the controversial issues of sex and violence (mostly the former) being featured in music and at the time.
Reception
"Hello Again" was described as "eccentric" by AllMusic critic Greg Prato, who also cited the track as a highlight from the Heartbeat City album. Donald Guarisco, also of AllMusic, said, "One of their strongest tracks [on Heartbeat City with experimental roots] was 'Hello Again,' a stylish new wave rocker with plenty of experimental touches." Guarisco also said it "is a song that represents the Cars striking a unique balance between their gift for pop hooks and their love of experimental sounds."
In his review of the Greatest Hits compilation album, Greg Prato felt that "Hello Again" should have appeared, stating "why was the title track from Heartbeat City (an unsuccessful single) included instead of the 1984 Top 20 hit 'Hello Again'?"
Track listing
7" single
"Hello Again" – 3:45
"Hello Again" (Dub Version) – 6:02
12" single
"Hello Again" (LP Version/Vocal) – 3:47
"Hello Again" (Remix Version/Vocal) – 5:54"Hello Again" (Dub Version) – 6:02
References
1984 songs
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How to Tenderize Meat With Tea
How to Tenderize Meat With Tea. Tea makes for a great meat tenderizer when other tenderizers are unavailable in your kitchen. Substitute tea bags for more expensive alternatives like red wine and use its naturally occurring tannins to soften meats and make them more palatable at dinner time.
Fill a pot with water and set on the stove. Set the burner so that the water in the pot heats but doesn't boil.
Spoon 4 tbs. of black tea leaves into the pot. Stir the tea leaves into the water to ensure that all tea leaves are moistened.
Steep the tea for approximately 5 minutes. Check on the tea regularly to ensure adequate heating for steeping. Increase the heat and add a few minutes to the steeping time, if needed.
Take the pot off the burner and strain the leaves from the water. Mix 1/2 cup of brown sugar into the water until it dissolves completely.
Unwrap 3 lbs. of meat and season it to taste using salt, onion, pepper and garlic powder.
Transfer the seasoned meat into a Dutch oven. Pour the water and tea mixture into the Dutch oven so that it covers the meat.
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Carwyn Jones, Welsh First Minister, Says We Need A Codified Constitution
01/03/2012 08:59
Wales has an image problem. Or as Carwyn Jones, the country's first minister puts it “people always have another people who they want to do down.”
“The Irish were in that category at one point. Sometimes you get the feeling it’s our turn.”
The 44-year-old Labour politician has been Wales’ first minister since 2009. For the last two years, he’s been the party’s most senior politician after Gordon Brown’s Labour government were ousted from power.
Not that you’d know guess from the coverage in the papers though. Although Jones says he doesn’t mind at all that Ed Miliband gets more attention than him. “He’s bound to. He’s the leader of the opposition. That’s bound to happen.”
But with Scottish independence forcing itself onto the agenda this year, Jones says it’s time to make sure “the voice of Wales isn’t lost.”
“The reality is that devolution does affect the whole of the UK. Wales has a voice and has a view,” he says.
“Scotland is not that much bigger than Wales. It’s five million, we’re three million. So, it does attract a lot of attention.”
While Jones strongly backs the UK staying together - “I think the UK has a future but it must adapt its constitution - he thinks the union needs to change to stay together.
“We have to make sure that the conversation about what Britain will look like in the 21st century starts now, not after a referendum in Scotland. That’s why it’s important to float some ideas now about what those options might be.”
Sitting down for coffee with the Huffington Post UK, the Welsh Assembly leader isn’t short of ideas to make that happen.
The one likely to ruffle most feathers in Westminster? Codifying our unwritten constitution.
“We can’t expect the constitutional arrangements of the 19th century to last until the 21st. I think what we need is a bit of clarity in terms of who does what, in terms of how powers are transferred from Westminster to their devolved regions. This is the sort of work that should really be done by a commission of people looking at it in some detail.”
While he warns it shouldn’t “dominate” British politics, Jones still think it’s an issue that needs to be resolved. “I wouldn’t say people are talking about parliamentary sovereignty in the streets but it all comes down to in what respect is it right the UK parliament has the power to do whatever it likes?,” he asks.
So how would it work? “You can’t come up with an answer on the back of a fag packet but you do need to have some process,” he says. “It would have to be written by people who are constitutional experts.”
Jones hasn’t just been thinking about the constitution; he also has some interesting proposals for House of Lords reform, and perspective on the Westlothian question.
“The idea of English votes for English laws is an attractive one, but where does that leave for example UK ministers in the European council who are casting a vote on behalf of the UK.
“Why should the UK agriculture minister, who is in effect the agriculture minister for England, be casting a vote on behalf of the UK?”
Then there’s the House of Lords; Why not bake it based on geography, like in the US?
So, does he want a United States of Britain? “That’s one possibility. I don’t have a comprehensive package. But in the states you’ve got a lower house based on population, fine. But the upper house is based on geography. So why not, for example, have representation on an equal basis from different parts of the UK; Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and then you have a geographically based house and a house based on population, which I think is a good thing.”
For Jones, it’s about getting the balance right: “In the end of the day England is the largest country, it’s going to have the lion’s share of representation in the Commons. Why should that bind the upper house.”
Beyond constitutional issues, the first minister is focusing on setting a “robust example for the Labour party in the rest of Britain.” Jones feels the country’s record speaks for himself; He’s “more than happy” with what they’ve done on the NHS.
Cameron has criticised the Welsh government on NHS waiting times - and Jones’ officials have hit back, branding the Conservatives’ reorganisation as a "complete and utter shambles".
So what are his relations like with the UK government?: “There are bound to be tensions, it’s inevitable. But the reality is that I think there is an understanding, we do have to have a decent relationship. We’re not looking for a fight with the UK government.”
Still, they’d like to be consulted; Jones would have liked to have been asked before Cameron opted out of an EU treaty “on behalf of Britain” last December. “I’m not asking for a veto on it, it’s his responsibility I accept that. I think that the decision he took was the right decision - in many ways for the wrong reasons. From my point of view i was concern when he came back and started spending time with people who are very, very eurosceptic. MPs who would be in UKIP if they could get elected as MPs.”
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Coconut oil is not an antibiotic and it cannot prevent dengue fever
Claims that coconut oil is an antibiotic and can prevent dengue fever have circulated for years in widely-shared social media posts in countries including the Philippines and India. The claims are false; experts including the World Health Organization have told AFP that coconut oil is not an antibiotic and can neither prevent nor cure dengue fever.
A photo of a purported hospital notice was published here on a Facebook page called Philippines Report on July 4, 2019, with a caption saying: “For public awareness”.
The purported notice says: “This message is to inform you all that dengue viral is going on. So please use coconut oil below your knees till your footsteps. It is an antibiotic. And a dengue mosquito can not fly higher than knees. So please keep this in mind & start using it. Spread this message to as much as you can. Your one message can save many life’s. Dr. B. Sukumar, Sri Saisudha Hospital.”
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:
Screenshot of Facebook post
Similar claims about the benefits of coconut oil in protecting against dengue have circulated online for years, for example here in a September 19, 2016 post on an Indian Facebook page. A similar post was also shared here on Twitter.
The claim is false, according to experts from World Health Organization, the International Vaccine Institute, and the University of the Philippines’ National Institutes of Health.
Dengue is a disease caused by a virus spread primarily by female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti, according to this descripton published on the World Health Organization website on April 29, 2018.
“Coconut oil is not an antibiotic. There is no evidence to show that it can prevent or cure dengue,” Dr Gawrie Loku Galappaththy, Medical Officer, Malaria and other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases from WHO Philippines told AFP in an email sent on July 10, 2019.
Dr Anh Wartel from the International Vaccine Institute, a body which develops vaccines for different diseases including dengue said antibiotics are not used for viral infections.
“Antibiotics are prescribed for bacterial infection, not for viral infection,” she told AFP in an email on July 7.
Dr Edsel Salvana, Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the National Institutes of Health-University of the Philippines Manila and adjunct Professor for Global Health at the University of Pittsburgh said there is no reliable scientific data which proves that coconut oil can prevent or cure dengue.
“It is not an antibiotic in the sense that you can reliably use it for treatment of infection. It does have some antimicrobial properties but there are no randomized controlled trials that have proven its efficacy in active infection. It cannot be used to prevent dengue. There is no reliable scientific data that it can prevent dengue or any biological mechanism that shows that it can cure dengue. This can only be shown by a randomized controlled trial and I am unaware of any trials that have been published in reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals”, he said in an email to AFP on July 8.
Salvana also said any oil can be used as a “barrier for mosquito bites”, but they are not reliable.
“Any oil can be used as a barrier for mosquito bites, but these are not reliable or practical over the course of a day. Proven mosquito repellents like DEET have a chemical repellant effect on mosquitoes. There is one study that studies compounds with mosquito and other insect repellant properties of fatty acids derived from coconut oil but these are concentrated extracts, and unprocessed coconut oil had no effect on stable flies and was not tested against mosquitoes”, he said.
The experts also agreed that it is not true that mosquitoes which spread dengue cannot fly higher than the knees.
In an email to AFP on July 7, Wartel said: “Aedes aegypti, infected mosquitoes can transmit dengue, they may spend their lifetime in or around the houses where they emerge as adults and they usually fly an average of 400 meters. It is not accurate to state that they cannot fly higher than the knees”.
In an email to AFP on July 8, Salvana said: “The dengue carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti is generally low flying and day biting but it can bite above the knees without any problems. The misconception is probably due to the fact the the mosquito is traditional only associated with low altitudes <2000 meters. However, with global warming the mosquitoes are now starting to tolerate higher elevations and have been found above 2000 meters”.
In addition, the doctor identified as the author of the public health warning in this misleading post, Dr. B. Sukumar, told AFP he did not issue such notice.
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Cybersecurity Part 4: Surviving Ransomware
By Tony DePrato | Follow Me on LinkedIn
The scope of all the following arguments is for equipment owned by the school, or equipment approved to use at school. This post is not promoting policies for personal devices used solely at home, nor is this post addressing devices that may be used for entertainment or non-academic purposes.
Ransomware, in its most basic form, is self-explanatory. Data is captured, encrypted, and held for ransom until a fee is paid. The two most common forms of ransomware delivery are through email and websites.~
Ransomware is scary. Ransomware, once it begins to propagate, becomes more about survival and mitigation and less about prevention.
I have thought about how to advise K12 schools around the world how to prepare for ransomware. I have concluded that there are only two approaches everyone can follow: Reduce or Completely Remove Windows and Create Very Inconvenient Backups of Data.
Reduce or Completely Remove Windows
I decided to compile known types of ransomware. I stopped at 106 identified types. Here is a graph, and link to the sources, that demonstrate what operating systems are vulnerable:
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If you want to do the math:
• 106 Ransomware programs
• 100 Target Windows Operating Systems
• 93%-94% of Targets are Windows Operating Systems
• Using Windows is Riskier than Using other Systems
“Riskier” is a little weak in this case. It is very likely that Windows users will be a target, it is very unlikely that Apple and Chromebook users will be a target.
If the goal is to live in a relatively peaceful ransomware free environment, then the majority of end-users need to be using Apple or Chrome-based devices (Linux varieties are also an option for a subset of users).
There are tools for Windows that help defend and protect against ransomware. However, nothing is better than not being attacked at all.
Create Very Inconvenient Backups of Data
Every time I ask an IT director or IT manager about backups, they claim they are 100% compliant and 100% able to deal with any problems. I have never believed my planning was close to 100%, nor have I ever believed I could restore 100% of all data. I would say, at my best, I am 60%-70% certain that I can restore 80%-90% of data.
Data. Not operating systems and settings. Data. Not the software that was installed. Just all the data consisting of but not limited to documents, databases, movies, music, pictures, special configuration files, scripts and code, and the inclusive content of all websites.
There is only one question a person needs to ask to confirm if backups are safe from ransomware: “Can the backup be accessed right now if we need it?”.
If the answer is ‘Yes’, then backups are going to be vulnerable.
There should be at least two layers of backups. Layer one can be data that is backed-up and accessible on the network, in the cloud, and/or from normal workstations. Meaning, someone can sit down and create or restore a laptop, database, etc by following a workflow at their desk.
Layer two backups are inconvenient. These backups are stored outside of the normal network. These backups are scheduled and not even accessible by network administrators without taking extra steps. These backups require some level of multifactor authentication or even a physical lock and key.
Layer two backups also need to be tested at least monthly (this is only recommended for K12 schools most businesses need to test more frequently; school districts would need to test very often and on a predetermined schedule).
Tests need to include:
1. Data restoration
2. Data access and use
3. A scan for malware, ransomware, etc
4. An iterative process to consistently reduce the size of backups
5. An archival process to store data that will most likely never be needed, but is legally required to store
6. Imagination. Because you never know where you will be and what the situation will be when you need to access these backups
A very low tech approach to a layer two back-up could include someone taking an external drive to the data source, moving the data manually, and then locking the drive in a safe. Do not overthink this, just start doing it and keep improving the process. If you can access these backups from your workstation, then those backups are vulnerable by definition.
If ransomware happens, and the data cannot be decrypted, this layer two data would be safe as it would be offline. Layer one backups may stay secure, but layer two backups will be secure unless you are victim of very bad timing.
The cybersecurity industry is rapidly developing better protocols for handling ransomware. Staying educated and studying cases is not only essential, but it should also be scheduled into the cycle of work at least once every 6-8 weeks.
The data above could change. An uptick in ransomware for Chrome or Apple of even 1% is enough to review internal processes and procedures. Until then though, get the number of Windows OS users down and make better backups.
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I ran across something odd today...
I have an iPhone app that lists facts, trivia, and other useless information (it's called Cool Facts, downloaded from iTunes). So far, nothing I've found on it has been terribly inaccurate. However, flipping through it today, I came across this:
To say the very least, I'm skeptical. So the question is:
Was the name "Wendy" actually created by J.M. Barrie for Peter Pan?
Or, if this is a myth, does anyone know where it originated?
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This probably belongs more on English.SE – user5341 Jun 1 '11 at 6:51
• @michael I didn't mean to reject your first edit, I'm doing too many things at once, clicked wrong. You can re-submit it if you'd like. Very sorry. – Monkey Tuesday Jun 1 '11 at 17:25
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Have just seen this - and had to comment. My mother was a Wendy, born in London England in 1918. She told me that when her parents wanted to register her name they were apparently told they could not as it wasn't a "real" name - so they actually took a copy of Peter Pan back with them to the registry to prove it must be 'real' as it was in print. She was very proud that she was one of the originals! – user17123 Jan 13 '14 at 23:59
From The Straight Dope:
All kidding aside, J. M. Barrie did not invent the name Wendy for his 1904 play Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (the book form of the story, Peter and Wendy, was published in 1911).
But we have absolute proof that there were earlier Wendys, thanks to the just-released 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census (available here).
These documents show that the name Wendy, while not common, was indeed used in both the U.S. and Great Britain throughout the 1800s. I had no trouble finding twenty females with the first name Wendy in the United States, the earliest being Wendy Gram of Ohio (born in 1828).
Using the search above you can see the results for yourself.
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Any evidence the name become more popular after the book? Maybe that's the origin... – Trufa Jun 1 '11 at 14:59
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@Trufa: Compare "Wend" and "Wendy" at Google ngram. Barrie certainly gave Wendy a kick but its use in books accelerated rather later. – Henry Mar 26 '12 at 7:01
• @xiaohouzi79, How accurate is familysearch.org? – Pacerier Jun 10 '15 at 5:40
"Wendy" is actually short for "Gwendolyn".
This name was originally used in United States before Peter Pan was written, so "Wendy" was actually recorded before Peter Pan
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Wendy was still quite unknown before Peter Pan so Barrie may have independently created it. The book surely put the name on the map. – webbiedave Jun 1 '11 at 23:15
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It's distinctly not always a shortening of "Gwendolyn" :) – warren Nov 23 '11 at 15:12
Here's one source disproving the fact that the name didn't exist before Peter Pan (It's a quote from a third source, so take with some dose of skepticism :)
Mail from someone who does genealogical research shows that "Wendy" might have been in use before Peter Pan and might even have been a boy's name:
It is theorized that the very-rarely-used name was derived from a Welsh name rooted in "gwen-" which means "white/dazzling/holy".
From what I have seen, there is no evidence to prove or dis-prove whether Barrie was aware of the existence of the Welsh-derived name or not; but due to its rarity pre-Peter-Pan, it is quite plausible that he was not aware and re-invented it on his own.
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"Gwen" is actually Welsh for "smile". "Gwyn" is Welsh for "white". – MSpeed Jun 1 '11 at 7:59
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Q:
tcl tk tablelist How to get column name
I am using tablelist
tablelist::tablelist .t -columns { 0 "Name" 0 "Age" 0 "sex" 0 "ROLLNO" } -width 250 -height 15 -selectmode single
I need to add few more columns after checking there is no duplication.
.t insertcolumnlist 4 {0 "account" }
.t insertcolumnlist 4 {0 "ROLLNO" }
Now, the ROLLNO is duplicated.
How to get the current column list from the table.
Thanks,
Nagaraj.
A:
Try to read the tablelist::tablelist manual. It contains a lot of interesting info. The command
.t cget -columns
does just that (returns the columns list in triplets width, header, adjustment). Or you could use more general
.t configure -columns
command which returns a list which fully describes the -column option, including its class, value by default and the current value.
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Retro Review: WILD BEASTS (1984)
(Italy - 1984; US release 1985)
Written and directed by Franco E. Prosperi. Cast: Lorraine De Selle, John Aldrich (Tony DeLeo), Ugo Bologna, Louisa Lloyd, John Stacy, Enzo Pizzu, Monica Nickel, Stefania Pinna, Frederico Volocia, Leslie Thomas. (Unrated, 92 mins)
Back in the day, Italian exploitation filmmakers were always quick to pounce on a Hollywood trend and milk it for all it was worth. Whether it was the torrent of exorcism movies that spewed forth following THE EXORCIST, the endless zombie gutmunchers that came after DAWN OF THE DEAD, the truckload of post-nukes after MAD MAX and THE ROAD WARRIOR, and the countless barbarian adventures that resulted from CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the Italians were the undisputed kings of the shameless ripoff. Though you could go back as far as FROGS and NIGHT OF THE LEPUS from 1972, the late 1970s saw a brief ecological, "nature-run-amok" craze with films like 1976's THE FOOD OF THE GODS, 1977's DAY OF THE ANIMALS, 1977's KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, 1978's THE SWARM, and 1979's PROPHECY, among many others.There were a few stragglers over the years, like three different rat movies coming out from 1982-83 with DEADLY EYES, OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, and the final segment of the anthology film NIGHTMARES, but generally the fad, arguably popularized by JAWS in 1975, quickly passed. The Italians were fashionably late to the party when it came to the nature-run-amok subgenre. 1982 saw the release of Enzo G. Castellari's JAWS ripoff GREAT WHITE and the Ovidio G. Assonitis-produced PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING, which debuting director and future King of the World James Cameron still insists is "the greatest flying piranha movie ever made," and in 1984, Bruno Mattei directed the incredible RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR, a bizarre fusion of post-nuke and nature-runs-amok made unforgettable by one of the most ridiculous closing shots in all of Italian exploitation. 1984 also gave us WILD BEASTS, directed by Franco E. Prosperi, one of two Franco Prosperis known to Italian exploitation enthusiasts. One was a journeyman genre-hopper (MEET HIM AND DIE, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE BEACH), while the WILD BEASTS Prosperi, along with Gualtiero Jacopetti, was one of the leading figures in the "Mondo" documentary scene that began with 1963's MONDO CANE. Prosperi and Jacopetti made several Mondo films over the next decade, ending with 1971's revolting ADDIO ZIO TOM, released in the US as FAREWELL, UNCLE TOM, an exploitative, shock value re-enactment of the slave trade in which the pair essentially function as the early 1970s drive-in equivalent of trolls in a comments section.
Other than 1975's MONDO CANDIDO, a Mondo spoof inspired by Voltaire's Candide that he co-directed with Jacopetti, WILD BEASTS remains this Franco Prosperi's only foray into both the horror genre and non-Mondo-related narrative. It's also the final work to date for the 88-year-old filmmaker, who's still with us and present for an interview on Severin's new Blu-ray release of the film. Though a narrative work of fiction, Prosperi uses his experience as a documentary filmmaker throughout WILD BEASTS, a ludicrous story of PCP-contaminated industrial waste polluting the water supply of "a northern European city" that's obviously Frankfurt judging from all the Frankfurt signs visible throughout. The contamination results in rapidly escalating aggression in animals, from a seeing-eye dog attacking a blind man to rats overtaking a parked car and devouring the canoodling couple inside to the animals in the zoo breaking out of their cages and pens and going on a city-wide rampage. The zoo's leading veterinarian Dr. Rupert Berner (Tony DeLeo, billed as "John Aldrich," and a discomforting mix of Christopher McDonald and Yanni) teams with constantly-snacking detective Braun (Ugo Bologna), following the trail of carnage as enraged animals run rampant throughout the city. There's a cheetah chasing down a driver (after she almost drives into them, Berner exclaims "She's not crazy! She's being chased by a cheetah!"), cows stampeding through an arcade, and elephants running through the streets, causing cars to pile up or go airborne, crashing into a places like a lamp and chandelier store in scenes of almost Blake Edwardsian destruction before they overtake an airport runway and cause a plane to crash (don't ask). Meanwhile, Berner's journalist girlfriend Laura Schwarz (CANNIBAL FEROX's Lorraine De Selle) is desperately trying to get to her daughter Suzy (Louisa Lloyd), who's trapped at dance class with other kids as a hungry polar bear wanders the halls.
Prosperi fumbles a bit in the middle with some pacing issues that a more experienced genre figure could've alleviated, but WILD BEASTS is an overall entertaining bit of batshit exploitation that doesn't skimp on the gore or other WTF? factors. The relationship between workaholic, absent mother Laura and sarcastic, self-reliant daughter Suzy has some passive-aggressive dysfunction that could use more exploration, and Lloyd is up there with Paige Conner in THE VISITOR, Veronica Zinny in MACABRE, the children in BEYOND THE DOOR, and Nicoletta Elmi in anything as one of the strangest and most off-putting kids in any Italian horror movie. And I haven't even mentioned the bizarre shift in the climax when things take a decidedly WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?-esque turn. Even with some staged sequences in the Mondo films, Prosperi is still a documentarian at heart and that's evident throughout WILD BEASTS in his sometimes distracting interest in extended shots of a newspaper going to press, firefighters and emergency responders on the job, animals attacking one another, and other mayhem presented in stock footage. He also captures some shots of the Frankfurt underbelly, from a trash-strewn street with a prominent Burger King bag to some CHRISTIANE F-inspired images of used needles along the steps exiting the Frankfurt U-Bahn.
Prosperi also careens into the arguably irresponsible, insisting on putting his actors in the same shots as dangerous animals (the reason non-acting circus performer DeLeo got the lead role--he had experience working with these animals and this remains his only film) or having streets closed off to accommodate elephants and bears running around (the cheetah vs. car sequence was actually shot in Johannesburg, South Africa). This commitment to realism is especially alarming late in the film when two child actors are clearly in the same shot as the polar bear chasing them down a school hallway. Prosperi kept a team of animal wranglers with tranquilizer guns and darts just out of camera view throughout shooting to prevent WILD BEASTS from becoming the second coming of ROAR, and it would seem that some of the animals might be slightly sedated at times (that polar bear in the school is moving, but he doesn't look like he's at 100%), but it's still representative of the kind of jaw-dropping risk-taking that no producer would sign off on today. Severin's new Blu-ray is packed with extras, including interviews with a still-vibrant Prosperi (who retired from directing after this film), an affable DeLeo, and editor Mario Morra. It's a nice package for such a relatively obscure film that was on the shelf of every video store in America back in the '80s (with a Lightning Video box that erroneously credited score composer Daniele Patucchi as the director), but has fallen off the radar in the decades since. It's a little clunky at times and the story calls for a Ruggero Deodato or an Umberto Lenzi to keep it focused, but flaws and all, it's Prosperi's, for better or worse, devotion to realism and his willingness to put his actors in harm's way that gives WILD BEASTS its cult appeal.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
In Theaters: THE GREAT WALL (2017)
(US/China - 2016; US release 2017)
Directed by Zhang Yimou. Written by Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy. Cast: Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Jing Tian, Andy Lau, Willem Dafoe, Zhang Hanyu, Lu Han, Eddie Peng, Lin Gengxin, Junkai Wang, Zheng Kai, Xuan Huang, Pilou Asbaek, Yiu Xintian, Liu Qiong. (PG-13, 103 mins)
The prolific Zhang Yimou is arguably the most famous figure in the Chinese film industry, his filmography a mix of serious human drama (his numerous collaborations with Gong Li, the Meryl Streep of China, include 1987's RED SORGHUM, 1990's JU DOU, 1991's RAISE THE RED LANTERN, 1994's TO LIVE, and 1995's SHANGHAI TRIAD) and some of the best post-CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON wuxia epics like 2002's HERO, 2004's HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, and 2007's CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. He was also commissioned to direct the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and that experience was a major influence on his latest film THE GREAT WALL, which already became a blockbuster in Asia over the 2016 holiday season and is just now being released stateside. An epic $150 million co-production with Universal and Legendary that currently ranks as the most expensive Chinese film ever made, it doesn't represent the serious and "important" side of Zhang, but offers briskly-paced entertainment and stunning eye candy. It's filled with bright colors, large-scale and often jawdropping action sequences, and it allows Zhang to have a lot of fun with 3-D as arrows, swords, axes, flaming cannonballs and CGI monsters fly off the screen and into your face, just as 3-D should.
It also offers the jarring sight of Matt Damon in a medieval Asian period epic set in the 11th century, and his involvement in the film has generated some controversy over potential "whitewashing." Considering the film is pure fantasy inspired by a legend of the Great Wall of China, the "white savior" notion seems absurd to bring up in this context and only seems to be a thorn in the side of those looking for something to find offensive. Damon is William, a soldier of fortune who, along with his cohort Tovar (Pedro Pascal, memorable as Oberyn Martell on GAME OF THRONES), are in search of black powder when they're attacked by a creature in the night that takes a tumble down a cliff after William hacks off its reptilian, claw-like appendage. They're captured by soldiers of The Nameless Order, a fortress along the Great Wall overseen by General Shao (Zhang Hanyu). One of Shao's underlings, Commander Lin Mae (Jing Tian), and top adviser Strategist Wang (Andy Lau) speak English, and after some initial misgivings, Wang concludes they're telling the truth about the attack. Shao's forces know of the creatures: the Nameless Order is a secret sect devoted to preparing and training to repel the onslaught of the Tao Tei--reptilian, lizard-like alien monsters that rise every 60 years. Shao has no intention of ever letting them leave, but when William and Tovar prove themselves adept with weaponry, they join in the fight against the Tao Tei, who attack in a horde as far as the eye can see, all under the radar-like control of their "queen."
The CGI has its dodgy moments, but the visual effects are mostly top-notch, with an appropriate level of gross-out digital splatter involving the green-blooded Tao Tei. Zhang seems more concerned with the spectacular presentation of the military pageantry, from the five color-coordinated factions of the Nameless Order and their various inspired weapons to some innovative battle sequences with female bungee jumpers diving off bows perched off the fortress to man-powered, oscillating rotor blades that emerge from the Great Wall to slice and dice Tao Tei as they ascend the wall. Damon's William is an active participant later on, but mostly he spends his time marveling at the Nameless Order's brilliant display of battle might and making goo-goo eyes at Lin Mae while never really nailing down whatever accent he's trying to use. It's a wildly inconsistent Irish brogue that vacillates between the more plausible Pierce Brosnan/Brendan Gleeson side of things but occasionally veers off into full-on, "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" QUIET MAN territory.
It doesn't help the stalled romance subplot that Damon has more chemistry with Pascal than with Jing. The script--credited to Damon's BOURNE buddy Tony Gilroy and NARCOS creators Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro, with Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and World War Z author Max Brooks sharing story credit based on a earlier draft that wasn't used--seems to be bringing William and Lin Mae together but it never happens, while there's some funny banter and ballbusting between William and Tovar (Tovar: "You think they'll hang us now?" William: "I could use the rest"). Lau (who starred in the 2002 Hong Kong cop thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which was remade in the US in 2006 as THE DEPARTED with Damon essaying his role) brings appropriate gravitas to his role as the practical and wise Strategist Wang and Asian pop star Lu Han has some heartfelt moments as a quiet soldier whose bravery is constantly being called into question by people who never see his heroic actions. There's also American guest star Willem Dafoe, underused in a minor supporting role as Ballard, a scheming westerner who was captured 25 years earlier by the Nameless Order during his search for black powder and has been held prisoner to ensure the purpose of the sect is kept secret. He accepts his fate to teach English to the warriors, but sees William and Tovar as a possible means of escape. In the end, THE GREAT WALL is a triumph of style over substance, brainless B-movie material that's heavy on stylized CGI, elevated considerably by inventive action choreography and entertaining usage of 3-D, and brilliant cinematography by Stuart Dryburgh (BLACKHAT) and frequent Zhang collaborator Zhao Xiaoding.
Monday, February 20, 2017
In Theaters: A CURE FOR WELLNESS (2017)
(US/Germany - 2017)
Friday, February 17, 2017
On DVD/Blu-ray: AMERICAN PASTORAL (2016); KING COBRA (2016); and THE CRASH (2017)
(US/China - 2016)
Philip Roth has been a lion of American literature since the 1950s, though that success hasn't always translated to the screen, with a common description of Roth's writing being "unfilmable." 1969's GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, adapted from Roth's 1959 National Book Award winner, was a critical and commercial hit that put Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the map. But when Benjamin was tapped to star in another Roth adaptation with 1972's PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, lightning didn't strike twice and the results were so disastrous that it would be over 30 years before anyone attempted another big-screen take on Roth. Robert Benton's THE HUMAN STAIN opened to middling reviews in 2003, and Barry Levinson's THE HUMBLING (based on one of Roth's most critically panned works) only made it to a handful of theaters in 2015. Other than GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, the only Roth adaptations to receive any notable degree of acclaim were 2008's ELEGY, based on his 2001 novel The Dying Animal, and 2016's INDIGNATION. 2016 also saw the release of the long-planned AMERICAN PASTORAL, based on Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner about a well-to-do family falling into turmoil in the late 1960s. In various stages of development since 2003, filming actually began on a version in 2012 with Fisher Stevens at the helm and husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly starring, but the project fell apart and was scrapped almost immediately. It got rolling again in 2015 with some help from Chinese co-producers TIK Films, with Connelly still attached and now heading the cast with Ewan McGregor in place of Bettany, but when director Philip Noyce quit during pre-production, McGregor himself stepped in to make his directorial debut. AMERICAN PASTORAL was touted as a major 2016 awards contender but that never panned out, as the initial reviews were so overwhelmingly negative that Lionsgate bailed on the film, pulling the plug on its nationwide rollout and stalling its release at just 70 screens for a gross of $550,000.
Considering its internationally revered source novel, AMERICAN PASTORAL the film is a complete disaster, the kind of transparently phony awards bait that wears its bloated sense of self-importance on its sleeve. You can actually see the film completely collapse around the 23-minute mark, when we get our first look at stuttering 16-year-old Merry Levov (Dakota Fanning) as she's cooking burgers in the kitchen. She's having a pleasant conversation with her father Seymour "Swede" Levov (McGregor) when the sight of LBJ on TV provokes a profane, hysterical meltdown. She excoriates Swede and her mother Dawn (Connelly) over their upper-middle class complacence, with Swede running his dad's (Peter Riegert in cartoonish Oy, vey! mode) Newark glove factory and Dawn having her own cow pasture on their expansive property in rural Old Rimrock. When Dawn tells Merry "You're not anti-war...you're anti-everything!," Merry concludes this bug-eyed, out-of-nowhere tirade by shouting "And you're pro-cow!," spitting her burger on the floor and storming out of the house, prompting Swede to go into her bedroom to find the walls plastered with anti-war, Weather Underground-like pamphlets and flyers calling for revolution as Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" cues up on the soundtrack, modern cinema's universal sign that the times they-are-a-changin' and it's...the Sixties, man! AMERICAN PASTORAL never recovers from this jaw-droppingly awful scene, as the Levovs' cushy existence is upended when Merry becomes a fugitive after blowing up the Old Rimrock post office and killing the local mailman. This leads to endless malaise and ennui in the lives of the Jewish Swede, a high-school football legend, and the Catholic Dawn, a shiksa who was Miss New Jersey in the 1947 Miss America pageant.
McGregor and journeyman screenwriter John Romano (who's had a long career in writing for TV on everything from HILL STREET BLUES to the recent HELL ON WHEELS) cut out huge chunks of Roth's novel willy-nilly to focus on how the general sense of the Sixties, man! takes its toll on the Levovs, though they do leave in a 2002-set framing device with recurring Roth character Nathan Zuckerman (David Strathairn) that really doesn't add anything to the story. AMERICAN PASTORAL relies on trite cliches and overwrought hysteria, with McGregor demonstrating no clue how to direct himself or his actors: Fanning's vein-popping overacting through clenched teech and flared nostrils is actually embarrassing to watch, especially since that palpable rage comes out of nowhere and wasn't present in the 12-year-old Merry we see played by a younger actress in earlier scenes. The first time we see Fanning, she's boiling with uncontrollable, shrieking fury and we don't know why. Even Connelly is terrible here, saddled with an unplayable character whose big scene has her showing up at Swede's factory, off her meds and babbling incoherently, dancing around totally nude except for her Miss New Jersey sash. At one point, a cop tells Swede "You've done everything wrong you possibly could've." I think that actor was breaking character and speaking directly to McGregor. AMERICAN PASTORAL is a botched misfire, but hey, congrats to PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT: you're no longer the worst big-screen Philip Roth adaptation. (R, 108 mins)
(US - 2016)
Though it frequently succumbs to the cliches that come with almost any post-BOOGIE NIGHTS look at the seedy underbelly of the porn world, KING COBRA shifts gears into a grim and bleak thriller that benefits from the twists and turns of the real-life events on which it's based. Based on Andrew E. Stoner and Peter A. Conway's true crime chronicle Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder, the film follows wide-eyed innocent Sean Paul Lockhart (Garrett Clayton) as he arrives in the relatively non-descript northeastern Pennsylvania from San Diego, intent on becoming a star for Cobra Video, a web-based gay porn production company owned by Stephen (Christian Slater). Middle-aged Stephen (a character based on Cobra Video head Bryan Kocis) is drawn to young, late-teens "twinks," and he has a particular affinity for Sean, growing extremely jealous when he shows interest in other men. Stephen directs a series of videos with Sean starring under the name "Brent Corrigan," and after a falling out when Sean begins aggressively demanding more money and objecting to Stephen's controlling attitude, the pair part ways in an acrimonious split that jeopardizes both of their careers when Sean reveals he lied about his age and was only 17 when Stephen directed his first videos. Meanwhile, Joe Kerekes (James Franco, one of 29 credited producers) and Harlow Cuadra (Keegan Allen), a pair of sketchy escorts and amateur gay porn entrepreneurs running a low-rent company called Viper Boyz, are trying to break into the big time, living way beyond their means convincing themselves that they're on the level of Cobra Video. $500,000 in debt and increasingly desperate, the unstable and manipulative Joe reaches out to "Brent" to forge a business partnership based on the "Brent Corrigan" name, but Sean isn't legally allowed to use it since Stephen had the name copyrighted as a property of Cobra Video. While Sean tries to broker a peaceful agreement with Stephen, Joe and Harlow decide to deal with it in a manner that befits their thoughtless, volatile nature: they kill Stephen and set his house on fire in a half-assed attempt to cover it up.
All of this occurred from 2004 to 2007, and other than changing the name of Slater's character, it gets all the pertinent details down, albeit a bit glossed over and rushed considering the film only runs 90 minutes. It's a rare instance of a movie that could've been improved if it ran a little longer, with some more time allotted to explore the smaller details. Writer-director Justin Kelly keeps things moving briskly and copies from the best, with much of the film having that same tense vibe as the section of BOOGIE NIGHTS where everyone's hitting bottom (Dirk hustling, Rollergirl in the limo, etc). He gets mostly strong performances from his cast, with a really skeezy Franco doing his best to channel Willem Dafoe in AUTO-FOCUS mode but sometimes going overboard, and Clayton and Allen doing solid work as the naive and, in the case of Allen's Harlow, dumb young twinks being manipulated by the older men projecting their neuroses on to them. Molly Ringwald has a small role as Stephen's wholesome, oblivious sister and if you want to feel really old, Alicia Silverstone plays Sean's mom (yes, Alicia Silverstone is 40 now). But the real standout is Slater who, between Lars von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC and his Golden Globe-winning work on the acclaimed TV series MR. ROBOT, has very quietly been taking his career seriously again in between his frequent gig as a guest co-host on LIVE WITH KELLY. Slater sells every facet of Stephen's mercurial personality. He puts up a front for his sister and his neighbors, pretending he makes a living as a photographer at kids' birthday parties, but when it comes to Cobra Video, he stops at nothing to get what he wants. He's soft-spoken and sensitive, insanely jealous, a creepy manipulator of barely-legal boys far away from their homes, and a ruthless businessman who never hesitates to remind Sean/"Brent" that he owns him. It's a complex and fearless performance by Slater, who manages to make you feel some degree of sympathy for Stephen--he fears growing old alone and Sean did lie about his age with a very well-crafted and believable fake ID. KING COBRA has to get to the circumstances surrounding Stephen's murder, but it loses something once Slater exits the movie with about 30 minutes to go. He's so good here that you almost wonder if a more interesting film could've been made by just focusing on his Bryan Kocis-inspired character. As it is, KING COBRA is a decent film, and one of the more relatively accessible James Franco indie productions of late (more than, say, INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR., for example), and the story is so intriguing that it may leave you wanting more substantive details into the world of Cobra Video. (Unrated, 92 mins, also streaming on Netflix)
(US - 2017)
A financial thriller set in the near future that plays like the 1981 flop ROLLOVER if remade by the most annoying Ron Paul supporter in your Facebook newsfeed, THE CRASH is a lecture disguised as a movie. Written and directed by Aram Rappaport, last seen watering down 2013's SYRUP, a pointless adaptation of Max Barry's scathing 1999 novel satirizing corporate marketing and branding, THE CRASH renders itself dated immediately as it assumes Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, with "Madame President" a fleetingly-seen character (played by Laurie Larson) late in the film. After cyber-terrorists hack the NYSE and threaten to bring down the global economy in 48 hours, Treasury Secretary Sarah Schwab (Mary McCormack) only sees one option: hiring master hacker and market manipulator Guy Clifton (Frank Grillo, also one of 29 credited producers) to thwart the attack. Clifton's currently facing SEC charges of hacking the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to benefit his own companies and previously hacked into the NYSE. He's somehow not in prison but he'll be granted immunity on the latest charges if he and his crack team of computer wizards and financial experts can stop the cyber attack and keep the economy stable. This mostly involves Clifton and his cohorts--sultry market analyst Amelia Rhondart (Dianna Agron), ALS-afflicted hacker George Diebold (John Leguizamo), and genius programmer Ben Collins (Ed Westwick)--spouting endless financial jargon while staring at monitors in the makeshift command center set up in Clifton's mansion. Clifton's got other things on his plate: his wife Shannon (Minnie Driver) isn't convinced this will keep him out of prison, and his 18-year-old daughter Creason (AnnaSophia Robb) is suffering from cancer and isn't responding to chemo. And she just got dumped by her secret boyfriend Ben.
THE CRASH runs just 84 minutes--and even then it's padded with super-slow-moving end credits kicking in around the 78-minute mark--yet it feels roughly three hours long. There's a way to make financial thrillers intriguing and suspenseful--BLACKHAT and the little-seen AUGUST come to mind--but Rappaport still feels the need throw in some disease-of-the-week TV-movie melodrama with Creason, and relies on too much in-your-face shaky cam, perhaps with the intention of making the viewer feel as backed-against-the-wall as Clifton, but it doesn't work. The more the film goes on, the more preachy and obvious it gets, especially with a corrupt, sneering Federal Reserve chairman named Richard Del Banco, who any seasoned moviegoer will correctly deduce is a scheming Dick from the Bank the moment they see he's being played by Christopher McDonald. By the end, with a mole inside Clifton's team planting a virus that creates a domino effect of collapsing world economies (of course, there's still time for Clifton and Ben to have a heart-to-heart and reach an understanding about dumping Creason) as "Madame President" stands around helplessly while her aides scramble and freak out, Clifton has a change of heart and just lets it fail, followed by an end crawl passive-aggressively advocating the abolishing of the Federal Reserve. Considering what I've seen of his work with SYRUP and now THE CRASH, I think the bigger priority is abolishing Aram Rappaport's DGA membership. (Unrated, 84 mins)
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
(UK - 2016; US release 2017)
Written and directed by Ricky Gervais. Cast: Ricky Gervais, Ben Bailey Smith, Dan Basden, Jo Hartley, Tom Bennett, Andrew Brooke, Andy Burrows, Stuart Wilkinson, Steve Clarke, Michael Clarke, Mandeep Dhillon, Miles Chapman, Abbie Murphy, Rebecca Gethings, Nina Sosanya, Diane Morgan. (Unrated, 96 mins)
With only 12 episodes over its two series and a two-part Christmas special to wrap things up, the original UK version of THE OFFICE ran from 2001 to 2003 and didn't have a chance to wear out its welcome. Ricky Gervais doesn't seem to realize that, so now we have the feature film spinoff DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD, making its US debut as a Netflix Original after opening to lukewarm reviews in the UK last summer. Gervais and Stephen Merchant created the show, but Gervais is flying solo here, resurrecting his OFFICE character David Brent, the well-meaning but socially inept and endlessly delusional and self-aggrandizing office manager of the Slough branch of the Wernham Hogg paper company, perpetually playing to the cameras documenting the office's day-to-day activities for a BBC documentary series. It's been 13 years since the Christmas special, which found the hapless Brent trying to parlay his dubious TV documentary fame into a pop music career by blowing his severance pay on a music video for his cover of "If You Don't Know Me By Now." In the present day, Brent's still chasing that dream, taking time off from his sales rep job peddling tampons and toilet brushes for the bathroom supply company Lavichem and bringing along another documentary crew as he assembles a new version of his extremely short-lived '80s band Foregone Conclusion to go on a three week tour.
Latching himself to rapper and acquaintance Dom Johnson (Ben Bailey Smith, also known as British rapper and comedian Doc Brown) and sound engineer Dan (Tom Basden), Brent hires a band of mercenary session guys as the original lineup of Foregone Conclusion either has family priorities, isn't interested, or in the case of the guitarist, is in jail for sexual assault. The new Foregone Conclusion wants nothing to do with Brent, who's paying them a ridiculous amount of money and has even rented a top-of-the-line tour bus even though, as Dan informs him, the gigs are all in such close proximity that would actually be easier to drive home every night rather than waste money on hotel rooms and meals. But being a clueless poseur with an ever-present white man's overbite, Brent only knows how to overdo everything. He's also completely oblivious when the band wants nothing to do with him, even banishing him from the tour bus when he boards it invoking the ancient "Whazzzzzzuppppp?" catchphrase and is told to follow the bus in his own car. The gigs are a disaster, as Foregone Conclusion repeatedly plays to almost completely empty clubs and Brent predictably manages to alienate the few people who do show up by delivering a de facto monologue about what every song means rather than just simply playing it (Coldplay frontman Chris Martin helped Gervais write most of Foregone Conclusion's songs). Other cringe-worthy moments involve him shooting an audience member in the face with a Foregone Conclusion shirt fired in close proximity from a T-shirt gun, or a culturally tone-deaf reggae tune that Dom Johnson is embarrassed to rap over, or performing a heartfelt ballad called "Please Don't Make Fun of the Disableds," The "tour" keeps Brent cashing in his pensions and maxing out his credit card, and the band holds him in such disdain that they won't even have a drink with him after the show unless they're paid for their time and he buys the drinks.
During its original run, THE OFFICE was brilliantly funny and a standard-bearer in the comedy of grueling discomfort, but all these years later, Gervais can't really do anything new with the Brent character. He's still behaving in the same fashion, and still alienating almost everyone with whom he comes into contact (though shy Pauline, a Lavichem co-worker played by Jo Hartley, obviously and inexplicably has a crush on him), usually with insensitive jokes, as when he's called into Lavichem's HR office after back-to-back cracks involving violence against women and his doing a buck-toothed "Chinaman" impression that would've been offensive in the 1940s. Other than a few bits--getting kicked off his own tour bus, falling down on stage after trying to do a "back-to-back" stage pose with the lead guitarist--David Brent simply isn't that funny anymore and Gervais is just going through the motions. We know that, despite his idiotic behavior, everyone from the band to his Lavichem co-workers will come around to appreciating him on his own terms, giving Brent a redemptive and wholly unearned feel-good ending. Gervais seems to struggle with this sort of thing when Merchant isn't around, and while his HBO series HELLO LADIES lost its way near the end of its lone season, there was enough there in its best episodes to indicate that it was perhaps Merchant who was the secret weapon behind the signature cringe success of THE OFFICE and EXTRAS. With more than a passing resemblance to THIS IS SPINAL TAP and the underrated STILL CRAZY, there's a handful of legitimate laughs to be had with DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD and to its credit, it's better than Gervais's last Netflix Original effort (the dismal SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS). But there's an undeniable "beating a dead horse" vibe to the whole thing as the writer/director/star coasts by on past glory, falling far short of recapturing that magic from a decade and a half ago.
Monday, February 13, 2017
In Theaters: JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (2017)
(US/China - 2017)
Directed by Chad Stahelski. Written by Derek Kolstad. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Franco Nero, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Lance Reddick, Bridget Moynahan, Peter Stormare, Claudia Gerini, Peter Serafinowicz, Thomas Sadoski, Tobias Segal, Wass Stevens, Luca Mosca, Chukwudi Iwuji, Simone Spinazze. (R, 122 mins)
A sleeper hit in 2014, JOHN WICK was held in such ambivalent regard by Lionsgate subsidiary Summit that it almost went straight to VOD until someone decided to arrange some test screenings and the audience response was through the roof. An electrifying, non-stop action thriller about a retired assassin--an unstoppable killing machine known to those in his profession as "The Boogeyman" and "Baba Yaga"-- on a mission of vengeance when the son of a Russian crime boss steals his car and kills his dog, JOHN WICK was filled with memorable shootouts, quotable dialogue ("Oh..."), a sly sense of humor, and an almost graphic novel-like sense of imaginative world building. In this world, the assassins have accoutrements like their own gold coin currency and they stay at the Continental, a safe sanctuary where business is conducted and violence forbidden. Friends become foes and back again, and it's understood that it's "just business." But things turned personal for John Wick (Keanu Reeves): on the day after the funeral of his cancer-stricken wife (Bridget Moynahan), his car is stolen and his dog killed by Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), the sniveling brat son of Wick's former boss, Russian crime lord Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist). Wick declares war on Tarasov and single-handedly wipes out his entire organization over the course of the film, all while dodging an endless parade of fellow assassins after the bounty placed on his head by Viggo. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 picks up shortly after where the first film left off, with Viggo's vengeful brother Abram (Peter Stormare) waiting in his secured office as his men try--and fail--to stop Wick, who's arrived at the Tarasov warehouse to reclaim his stolen car. Wick confronts Abram and spares his life, offering him a drink as a mutually agreed peace offering.
Wick's return to retirement is short-lived however, as Italian mobster Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) presents a marker--a blood oath among assassins--demanding Wick pay a debt. D'Antonio helped Wick with the final task for Viggo Tarasov that got him his freedom, and it was under the condition that he stay retired. Since he emerged from civilian life to wipe out Viggo's organization, D'Antonio declares the marker reactivated. His demand is that Wick whack his Rome-based sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini), who represents the Camorra on the international council of assassins, a seat D'Antonio believes he should've inherited from his late father. Wick refuses to acknowledge the marker, prompting D'Antonio to blow up his house. Under advice from Continental manager Winston (Ian McShane), Wick concedes he has no choice but to fulfill the marker if he wants any chance of returning to retirement. He travels to Italy, where he's greeted by Julius (Franco Nero), the manager of the Continental's Rome branch. Once Gianna is eliminated, Wick is double-crossed by D'Antonio, who puts out a $7 million contract on his life to create the appearance that he must avenge his sister's murder (really, Wick should've seen that coming). Once he's back in NYC, the chase is on as Wick spends the entire second half of the movie evading every covert assassin in the city--which is everyone from homeless guys to food truck vendors to street musicians--looking to grab $7 million to take out their most lethal colleague on the planet.
With a body count somewhere between "astronomical" and "fucking ridiculous," JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 exists in a patently unreal world where no cops of any kind are visible. Returning director Chad Stahelski (going solo this time, without the original's uncredited co-director David Leitch, his name left off the film by a DGA snafu) and screenwriter Derek Kolstad go for the same approach as THE RAID 2: it's the same story, just on a significantly larger and much more grandiosely ambitious scale. The set pieces are done with even more intricate, ballet-like precision, whether it's a high-tech hall of mirrors or Gianna's top security detail Cassian (Common) and Wick having a silencer shootout in the middle of a crowded subway station where no one even hears the guns going off around them. Stahelski goes for a much more stylized look this time out, with some tracking shots that serve as some of the best Kubrick homages this side of Nicolas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES. And some garish neon color schemes coupled with the staging of the action end up concocting an unholy visual fusion of Dario Argento, Brian De Palma, and John Woo. There's amusingly bizarre touches like the call center where assassins order contracts being filled with typewriters and analog equipment and looking a lot like a 1940s switchboard exchange straight out of HIS GIRL FRIDAY. This is absolutely exhilarating and gloriously bonkers filmmaking that rewards fans of the first film with numerous callbacks (there's another ominous "Oh..." from someone and we finally get to see Wick kill multiple guys with a pencil, a story that everyone who hears the name "John Wick" seems to reference), but takes everything to a higher level of inspiration and execution. Almost everyone in the cast gets a moment to shine, whether it's Nero's Julius breaking up a THEY LIVE-level brawl between Wick and Cassian, an unusually gregarious Laurence Fishburne (MATRIX reunion!) as the Bowery King, solid turns by returning JOHN WICK vets McShane and Lance Reddick as the Continental concierge, and a silent, scene-stealing performance by Ruby Rose as Ares, a mute, androgynous D'Antonio assassin who gives an almost Oscar-caliber flutter of an eye-wink to reassure her boss that she can handle Wick (spoiler: she can't). An improvement upon an already exemplary predecessor, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 takes its place beside the elite likes of THE RAID 2 and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD among the decade's greatest achievements in action cinema. It's that good.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
On DVD/Blu-ray: LIFE ON THE LINE (2016); BLACKWAY (2016); and THE BRONX BULL (2017)
(US - 2016)
A look at the life of linemen that has all the depth and insight of a Budweiser commercial, LIFE ON THE LINE is content to rely on every cliche and tired signifier imaginable. There's twangy guitars, overripe Southern accents, shitty country ballads, empty platitudes about "walking the line" and a drinking game-worthy number of times someone emphatically declares "We're linemen...this is what we do!" Inspired by a true story, LIFE ON THE LINE, which went straight to VOD after two years on the shelf, focuses on Beau Ginner, played by a fake beard precariously glued to the face of John Travolta. Beau is a tough-as-nails Texas lineman raising his niece Bailey (Kate Bosworth) after her dad (Beau's brother) was electrocuted on the job years earlier--partially due to Beau's negligence--and her mother was killed in a car crash on her way to see him at the hospital. Tragedy seems to follow the Ginners, but they persevere because...it's what they do. Beau, as we're constantly reminded, "is the best at what he does," and just wants to run his crew of hard-working good ol' boys (including Gil Bellows as someone named "Poke Chop") and get busy replacing every inch of a 30-year-old grid before storm season comes, but he's forever dealing with tie-wearing, bottom-line pencil pushers in management telling him to speed it up. He's also dealing with Bailey's relationship with Duncan (Devon Sawa), a new recruit on the line whose father died on the job, and whose mother (Sharon Stone) is now a weepy, boozy wreck who's so insignificant to the story that the screenwriters don't even give her a name (Stone, in a nothing, two-scene role that just has her cry and sit slumped in a chair passed out, is credited with playing "Duncan's mother"). Other dilemmas: Bailey's psycho ex (Matt Bellefleur), who isn't taking the breakup well; lineman transfer Eugene (Ryan Robbins), who's still suffering from military PTSD, which drives his wife (Julie Benz) to infidelity; and Beau getting plenty pissed off when Bailey tells him she's pregnant with Duncan's child.
Oh yeah, there's also a storm coming. Any dramatic tension is completely deflated by an opening caption that reads "10 days before the storm." But when that storm comes, along with a derailed train that takes out the entire grid, the film whittles the whole disaster down Beau and Duncan setting aside their differences to get the line fixed, because pregnant Bailey is in the hospital and there's no power, and, as Beau puts it, "We gotta save our girl!" LIFE ON THE LINE obviously holds its subjects in high regard, and rightly so--the film points out that it's the fourth-most dangerous job in the US--but it doesn't really tell you anything about the lineman's world. We don't learn about the job other than it's dangerous and...it's what they do. Instead, the screenwriters and director David Hackl (SAW V, INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE) deliver what looks like a lazy, made-for-TV soaper with occasional swear words where the big storm is almost an afterthought. It's cheap-looking and sloppy (two people are credited as "Co-exexutive producers"), yet there was enough money in the budget for Travolta to have two executive assistants, a personal assistant, and a production assistant. The brave people who do this work deserve better representation than the cardboard cutout characters on display here. Save yourself an hour and a half and just listen to Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" a few times instead. For all the reverence and hero worship on display in LIFE ON THE LINE, you'd think the filmmakers would commit to creating slightly complex characters and portraying an accurate representation of this work, but unlike the linemen, they fall down on the job. I guess that's...what they do. (R, 98 mins)
(US - 2016)
Released on 11 screens and VOD with no publicity at all, BLACKWAY is a gray and gloomy non-thriller whose only surprise is the low level of urgency with which it plods to its conclusion. It plays as if Swedish director Daniel Alfredson--who directed THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, the two markedly inferior sequels to the original Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO--left out significant chunks of the script, written by Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs. Gangemi and Jacobs are the guys behind the 2007 cult horror film WIND CHILL and the acclaimed Amazon series RED OAKS, and Jacobs is also a Steven Soderbergh protege who served as an assistant director on several of his films before graduating to 2015's MAGIC MIKE XXL. Whether Alfredson's streak of mediocrity continued or it just caught Gangemi and Jacobs on a bad day, BLACKWAY ends up being one of the dullest thrillers of 2016. Moving from Seattle back to the Pacific Northwest logging town of her childhood following the death of her mother, Lillian (Julia Stiles) goes to the sheriff (Dale Wilson) for help after her cat is brutally murdered. She knows the culprit is Richard Blackway (Ray Liotta), an ex-deputy turned white trash crime lord and all-around bad guy. Blackway's been stalking Lillian and the sheriff isn't in any hurry to do anything about it, instead recommending she go talk to Whizzer (Hal Holbrook), the cantankerous old mill owner who may know a guy brave enough to confront Blackway. When that guy chickens out, one of Whizzer's employees, elderly Lester (Anthony Hopkins) volunteers himself and slow-witted, stuttering new hire Nate (Alexander Ludwig) to help Lillian find Blackway. This essentially involves going all around town and having Lester repeatedly ask "Where's Blackway?" with everyone denying they've seen him or know his whereabouts. Blackway rules the town, and things escalate when Lester and Nate start a fire at a motel on the outskirts of town that's been commandeered by Blackway as the base for his gunrunning, meth-dealing, prostitution, and human trafficking operation. Simply put, Blackway is a real asshole.
It's obvious Lester has personal reasons for going after Blackway (all he says is "It needs to be done"), though even after they're explained, the reasoning still seems muddled. Nate just goes along for the ride while Lillian's character makes no sense at all. If she grew up in this town (on numerous occasions, she states "I grew up here!") where everyone knows everybody, why doesn't anyone know her? If she grew up in this town, why doesn't she know who Blackway is before he starts stalking her? Who is Blackway? What's his story? Was he kicked out of the sheriff's department? Did he run his crime operation while on duty? How did he take over the town? Do Gangemi and Jacobs know? Does Alfredson care? There's really not much to say about BLACKWAY. The kind of inconsequential time-killer that you may very well forget about while it's in progress, it drags ass and the story goes nowhere, failing as both a thriller and a character piece. Hopkins, who also starred in Alfredson's equally forgettable KIDNAPPING MR. HEINEKEN and is becoming a regular in crummy VOD thrillers like this, MISCONDUCT (also with Stiles) and SOLACE, is visibly bored and looks half-asleep, while a short-fused Liotta is basically doing the same act he does on NBC's SHADES OF BLUE. (R, 90 mins)
(US - 2017)
Exhibiting the kind of shameless chutzpah that gave us EASY RIDER: THE RIDE BACK, THE BRONX BULL began life as RAGING BULL II when it was initially announced way back in 2006. It was still called RAGING BULL II when cameras began rolling in 2012, which prompted a lawsuit from MGM that kept it in embroiled in legal hassles until the producers agreed to change the title. Shelved for five years and now known as THE BRONX BULL, the film was finally given a VOD dumping in January 2017 before its Blu-ray release a month later. Other than it being a story about Jake LaMotta made with the legendary boxer's blessing, the comparisons to Martin Scorsese's 1980 classic end there. Perhaps attempting to create a GODFATHER PART II-style bookend to Scorsese's film, THE BRONX BULL focuses on LaMotta's teen years in the 1930s (where he's played by Mojean Aria) and the years after what's covered in Scorsese's film, from 1967 to the present day (95-year-old LaMotta is still with us). William Forsythe plays the older LaMotta, and he's fine actor (THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) who's spent too much of his career paying the bills with B-movies, so it's easy to see why he jumped at the chance for a lead role, even if he probably rolled his eyes when he saw the script was called RAGING BULL II, a title only slightly more credible than The Asylum's TITANIC 2. After we see young Jake's tumultuous relationship with his demanding and often abusive father (Paul Sorvino, doing a bad Rod Steiger impression), he ends up in juvenile detention where he's mentored in boxing by a kindly priest (Ray Wise). Cut to years later, after he's retired (hey, nothing like a boxing biopic that skips over the boxing!), his latest wife (Natasha Henstridge) leaves him, and he's being threatened into working as a strongarm for low-level mobsters Tony (Tom Sizemore) and Jerry (Mike Starr). He's also involved in the schemes of his fast-talking filmmaker pal Rick Rosselli (Joe Mantegna), a character probably based on RAGING BULL co-producer Peter Savage. Rosselli is directing amateur porn films but wants to go legit, and ends up making a low-budget drive-in movie called CAULIFLOWER CUPIDS, in which LaMotta stars with Jane Russell (played here by a far-too-young Dahlia Waingort) and Rocky Graziano (James Russo).
Released in 1970, CAULIFLOWER CUPIDS was a real movie, and with LaMotta's involvement in the production, a lot of what transpires in THE BRONX BULL is probably legit (like RAGING BULL, it's not afraid to present its hero in a negative fashion). But NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CATTLE CALL and BENEATH THE DARKNESS director Martin Guigui's first name is about all he has in common with Scorsese. The finished film, almost Uwe Boll-esque in its amateurish execution and squandering of its overqualified cast, is so haphazardly assembled and so lacking in any momentum that it really just ends up being a collection of random vignettes from Jake LaMotta's post-boxing life. His grown daughter Lisa shows up for a couple of scenes, but other than giving Forsythe a chance to share the screen with his own daughter Rebecca, she has no purpose. Most of the slumming names in the large cast drop by for just a scene or two: there's also Penelope Ann Miller as another Mrs. LaMotta, with Cloris Leachman as her mother; Harry Hamlin as an earlier wife's boss who gets threatened by LaMotta ("You tappin' my wife?!") after he sees them having a business lunch; Bruce Davison as a politician overseeing a committee on the mob's involvement in boxing (that storyline vanishes); Dom Irrera as comedian Joe E. Lewis; Alicia Witt as the most recent LaMotta wife; Joe Cortese as a NYC talk show host; and Robert Davi as a mystery figure who appears to a drunk LaMotta, and may or may not be real. No one here is at the top of their career (though, given his starring role in the popular, long-running CBS procedural CRIMINAL MINDS, it's surprising that Mantegna didn't have better things to do), and while nobody is overtly awful--Forsythe basically acts like Forsythe with a putty nose--it's hard to feel sorry for any of them when they knowingly signed on to an obviously suspect litigation-magnet called RAGING BULL II. Did they really think that title was gonna fly? Looking like a corner-cutting TV show (all of the exteriors appear to be shot on the same street on the NBC Studios backlot), the low-budget THE BRONX BULL started out as a cheap and dubious Scorsese knockoff and that's exactly how it finishes. (R, 94 mins) | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1339', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9608686566352844}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '200728', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MTEXLCRWQUZGAGGEVJ5G76V3VRL5TLL3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9f821d9f-4813-4c5b-9bcb-bb9685e947ab>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 25, 7, 22, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.218.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ROHC2ATJG6MJZF5TQTKPCO6PGKWBJYJR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:deb58b52-bbef-46fa-b841-a0bc4217c382>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://goodefficientbutchery.blogspot.ca/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c0764a6a-09bb-4f00-94d7-525fbb62e9d6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '9370', 'url': 'http://goodefficientbutchery.blogspot.ca/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-09\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2017\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.10165220499038696', 'original_id': 'b4ea1bde3f804e4ddfa85c40eb136dabfdffb67821e0af01a3c9497a2ada17e0'} |
Rime Ice at Neel Gap!
We found rime ice (frost that has formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapor in cloud or fog) but that's all. So, the good news is this: it was not raining last Saturday, but the bad news is that it was super cold. At Neel Gap, we had wind gusts up [...] | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.98646742105484}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28673', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IPB242M67MGR5WKFLD5F2TYHWI6USVNU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:675f03a2-1917-48e5-9448-4afc33cd300c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 23, 5, 47, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.236.152.16', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3K6RUIZCBWFRE7Y2EX2A2Q7PYOONNZUU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:99ffe1e5-a0f5-4def-8cfe-02c0671b2143>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://cocoasmiles.com/2019/01/24/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fc8347ee-3558-41ce-b158-89dc26cc3b52>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '59', 'url': 'https://cocoasmiles.com/2019/01/24/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-105-41.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1832563877105713', 'original_id': '40739e6ba5877978006215382b8ad1baac072a37d3ee04def916cacfeea707b5'} |
package micdoodle8.mods.galacticraft.planets.venus.world.gen;
import micdoodle8.mods.galacticraft.core.event.LootHandlerGC;
import micdoodle8.mods.galacticraft.planets.venus.VenusBlocks;
import micdoodle8.mods.galacticraft.planets.venus.tile.TileEntityCrashedProbe;
import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.util.math.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import net.minecraft.world.gen.feature.WorldGenerator;
import java.util.Random;
public class WorldGenCrashedProbe extends WorldGenerator
{
public WorldGenCrashedProbe()
{
}
@Override
public boolean generate(World worldIn, Random rand, BlockPos position)
{
for (position = position.add(-8, 0, -8); position.getY() > 5 && worldIn.isAirBlock(position); position = position.down())
{
;
}
if (position.getY() <= 4)
{
return false;
}
int radius = 5 + rand.nextInt(4);
int radiusSq = radius * radius;
// Check this crater doesn't cut into a mountain
for (int poolX = -radius; poolX <= radius; poolX++)
{
for (int poolY = -radius; poolY <= Math.min(256 - position.getY(), 50); poolY++)
{
for (int poolZ = -radius; poolZ <= radius; poolZ++)
{
BlockPos pos = new BlockPos(poolX + position.getX(), poolY + position.getY(), poolZ + position.getZ());
if (poolY > 15 && !worldIn.getBlockState(pos).getBlock().isAir(worldIn.getBlockState(pos), worldIn, pos))
{
return false;
}
}
}
}
for (int poolX = -radius - 1; poolX <= radius + 1; poolX++)
{
for (int poolY = -radius - 1; poolY <= 256 - position.getY(); poolY++)
{
for (int poolZ = -radius - 1; poolZ <= radius + 1; poolZ++)
{
int distance = poolX * poolX + Math.min(0, poolY) * Math.min(0, poolY) + poolZ * poolZ;
BlockPos pos = new BlockPos(poolX + position.getX(), poolY + position.getY(), poolZ + position.getZ());
if (distance <= radiusSq)
{
worldIn.setBlockState(pos, Blocks.AIR.getDefaultState(), 2);
}
else if (worldIn.getBlockState(pos).getBlock() == VenusBlocks.venusBlock && poolY < 0 && rand.nextInt(5) == 0)
{
worldIn.setBlockState(pos, VenusBlocks.scorchedRock.getDefaultState(), 2);
}
}
}
}
BlockPos blockpos = position.add(0, -radius + 1, 0);
worldIn.setBlockState(blockpos, VenusBlocks.crashedProbe.getDefaultState(), 3);
TileEntityCrashedProbe probe = (TileEntityCrashedProbe) worldIn.getTileEntity(blockpos);
if (probe != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < probe.getSizeInventory(); ++i)
{
// Clear contents
probe.setInventorySlotContents(i, ItemStack.EMPTY);
}
probe.setLootTable(LootHandlerGC.TABLE_CRASHED_PROBE, rand.nextLong());
probe.setDropCore();
}
return true;
}
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Garden checklist will help keep you on task
Cydney Steeb
Cydney Steeb (October 10, 2012)
Where was all this nice rain this summer when we really needed it? Now that it's time to get out in the yard and prepare our gardens for the winter season, we get wave after wave of chilly rain. While the rain is needed to hydrate our trees and shrubs, I would appreciate just a few hours of sunshine to inspire me to join the birds and squirrels outdoors. For now, I'm just sitting by the fireplace making a list of tasks I'll need to accomplish when the weather breaks.
Gardening task lists can serve two purposes. When I get out in the yard I don't get overwhelmed with all the tasks and where to start. It gives me a plan. Also, how often have you worked for hours around your home or garden and felt like you haven't gotten anything done?
If you check tasks off your list as you complete them, you will see how much you've actually accomplished. Post your list where family members can see it. I find they don't mind helping, they just don't recognize what needs to be done, like you do.
Deer are beginning to fatten up for the winter and our gardens are going to be even more tempting than during the summer. Start deer proofing your yard by wrapping soft foliage evergreen shrubs like yews, arborvitae and cypress with landscape burlap. Mice and voles will be looking for a toasty warm place to over winter as temperatures drop.
Don't mulch roses and other shrubs until we have had consistently low temperatures and rodents have decided where they are going to spend the winter. I recently read an article that said mice don't like the smell of peppermint and suggested putting peppermint oil on cotton balls and place them around the base of shrubs prior to applying mulch. This will keep the little critters from hunkering down in the mulch and feasting on the bark.
It's unlikely we will have to water again this season so pack up your hoses and drain them of water if they will be stored in a place without heat. Freezing water expands and can damage hoses. Freezing temperatures and water can also damage concrete statuary and other garden decorations so be sure to store these in a safe dry place.
The EPA recommends that you check your lawnmower owner's manual for information on draining the fuel system for winter storage. If the owner's manual says the gasoline can be removed and it can be done easily, the gasoline should be carefully drained from the tank and collected in a clean, approved storage container. If there is only a small amount of gasoline in the system it can be removed by operating the engine until it stops. If the gasoline cannot be easily removed, EPA says a gasoline stabilizer should be added to the fuel in the tank. To minimize air space in the engine's fuel tank, fill the tank full with the gasoline/stabilizer mixture. The engine should be operated for a few minutes to draw the stabilized gasoline into the carburetor.
Cydney Steeb, Advanced Master Gardener, can be contacted at Emmet Conservation District, 3434 M-119, Harbor Springs (231) 439-8977 or Her Gardening Wit and Wisdom column runs every Wednesday. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.959816038608551}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '85610', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:T4DNWLGEVZ6IW2QUTABDHM63ISWMGI3R', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:584104b8-c794-4397-9d0d-c8644cc57f08>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 12, 7, 37, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.59.191.57', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:D74CEDRKQFTVEM5RWSK74F43ED74VCZZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:15754d53-59da-44f6-8ced-85c9bb72202f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.latimes.com/community/pnr-garden-checklist-will-help-keep-you-on-task-20121010,0,571207.column', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1b1054c3-1771-4259-99c7-eee5846a5e6a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '557', 'url': 'http://www.latimes.com/community/pnr-garden-checklist-will-help-keep-you-on-task-20121010,0,571207.column', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04100304841995239', 'original_id': '8136fea6629b4470f1796478439d9a5f80dcd2a13fe04002e4d4f256e2e0841f'} |
Cracked Heels And Fissured Heels- What They Look Like.
Cracked heels, or heel fissures, are a very common problem.
However you can get a variety of "cracking". Some quite mild and some quite severe.
Pictures can say a thousand words so these pictures will explain a little bit better (picture 1):
cracked heels
The above picture shows a mild form of heel fissuring. Below is a little bit more extreme (picture 2):
fissured heels
However, again, this is not really the worst case of heel fissuring that you can see...We can go further (picture 3):
cracked heels
Cracked Heels And Why We Get Them.
What Exactly Are Cracked Heels?
It depends really on how you look at it. In regard to all those pictures that you saw, they have one thing in common:
• When the cracking gets worse you get a bigger deposition of hard skin.
So when people say that heel cracking is due to dryness, that is not strictly true. The first picture (below) is definitely due to dryness, we also see very little hard skin.
cracked heels
But the other pictures do not look dry, especially the second picture (seen below):
cracked heels
As the hard skin increases we see more yellowing around the heel, and do you notice something?
It is the hard skin that starts to crack.
As the hard skin increases even more, the cracks become deeper.
So basically cracked heels are the break in the protective skin layer around the heel area caused by many factors.
That is really all we can say about cracked heels. There are many reasons why they occur and many ways on how to treat them.
Again, it is finding the right treatment to the right stage that will give us some help. But one thing is certainly clear, applying moisturising cream is not the golden key for all cracked heel problems. Because if you apply moisturising cream to pictures 2 & 3, it is not really going to do anything.
So Why Does It Occur?When we stand upon our feet we exert a lot of pressure upon a small area. The skin is a wondrous organ, in that it will keep its shape as best as possible, especially if it is in an optimum condition.
When the skin dries out it loses that suppleness, and therefore it loses its mechanical strength, so in areas of high pressure it weakens.
So you get the initial crack, basically because the skin can not take it anymore.
However the body is an amazing thing. It doesn't like to be broke and it will do everything it can to reduce anything that will likely lead to it being broke.
So it thickens up the skin in areas of high pressure or mechanical rubbing. This is evident when gardeners and trades people have “rough hands”. It is mainly due to the body thickening up the skin in various parts of the hand where it knows there are high stresses going on.
So the second picture in our heel crack gallery introduction shows this process.
Unfortunately this “skin build up mechanism” has a slight flaw in it. When hard skin gets laid down it itself adds pressure. Its hard- the title gives it away- so the body says “oh dear, there is more pressure there, lets add some more hard skin to help us out”.
Now you can see where this is leading. As you add hard skin, more hard skin gets put down, which increases the deposition of hard skin. It’s a cycle. And we get picture 3.
cracked heels
All the physical stresses playing a part upon the heel can be shown using a very simple diagram:
cracked heels
According to my extremely accurate work of art above :) stresses from above and from the ground cause the familiar pattern of cracked heels.
However, if the cycle is not broken, picture 3 can become bigger and worse.
Cracked Heels And Fissured Heels- Here Are The Problems.
Cracked heels can cause a lot of problems and most of them are avoidable- because cracked heels are treatable.
Cracked skin.
When the skin cracks because of lack of moisture, the crack stays within the skin. However if you keep on moving around on a mechanically reduced area, something is going to break. In time something usually does. The crack pushes past the skin and literally cracks the skin open to where the skin can bleed.
The skin is an amazing organ, and will stop just about most common harm coming to your body. However if it is broken to where blood can come out then this becomes a portal for infection. To us, it is a small crack with dry blood present but to bacteria it is like the Grand Canyon. But, as you walk on the fissure it opens and closes in time to your walking:
fissured heels
As the amazingly detailed picture from above shows :) pressure from the top and floor pushes the fissure (the triangle) out in 2 directions relieving the pressure on the skin.
So every time you walk on your fissures, you inadvertently make the fissure worse and run the risk of bacterial infections occurring.
Now when you add extra hard skin in the mix, it increases the pressure from the bottom of the foot and makes the crack worse.
Now as hard skin is added, it in itself is very inelastic. Again, the name says it all- hard skin. So the hard skin can split, forming fissures within itself because of the amount of pressure that passes through our heel when we walk (about 2 times our own body weight).
Sore Feet.
This comes about for 2 main reasons:
1- The increased layering down of hard skin causes the heel to become harder- not the soft cushion which we need when we walk. It can be painful. Some patients that we have seen will not walk or get exercise because their feet are so bad- which adds other complications to themselves. Some patients will even favour their other foot to relieve the pressure from the affected heel. This will then put extra pressure and mechanical forces onto the other limb increasing forces and in time making that foot sore.
2- As those fissures go deeper in the skin and bypass the skin, technically you are walking on your cut. This can be painful and also a cycle in itself. If you have a cut and you keep on aggravating it, it will not heal because the problems that are causing it are still there.
Cracked heels 101
What has caused my heels to crack?
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Stylistic origins Punk rock, gothic rock, post-punk, glam rock, acid rock, horror film scores
Cultural origins Late 1970s, Los Angeles
Typical instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer
Derivative forms Dark cabaret
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Other topics
Horror punk, Psychobilly,
Deathrock is a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in the early 1980s.
Deathrock songs use simple chords, echoing guitars and prominent bass. Drumming emphasizes repetitive, post-punk beats within a 4/4 time signature. To create atmosphere, scratchy guitars are sometimes used. Lyrics can vary, but are typically introspective and surreal, and deal with the dark themes of isolation, gloom, disillusionment, loss, life, death, etc.; as can the style, varying from harsh and dark to upbeat, melodic and tongue-in-cheek. Deathrock lyrics and other musical stylistic elements often incorporate the themes of campy horror and sci-fi films, which in turn leads some bands to adopt elements of rockabilly and surf rock.[1]
The frequently simplistic song structures, heavy atmosphere and rhythmic music place a great demand on lead vocalists to convey complex emotions, so deathrock singers typically have distinctive voices and strong stage presences.[2]
Despite the similar sounding name, deathrock has no connection to the similarly named death metal, which is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal.
The term "death rock" was first used in the 1950s[citation needed] to describe a thematically related genre of rock and roll which began in 1958 with Jody Reynolds' "Endless Sleep" and ended in 1964 with J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss."[3] These songs about dead teenagers were noted for their morbid yet romantic view of death, spoken word bridges, and sound effects. The Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" is arguably the best known example of the '50s/'60s use of the term.[4][5]
The term deathrock re-emerged 15 years later in 1979 to describe the sound of various West Coast punk bands.[6] The term most likely came from one of three sources: Rozz Williams, the founding member of Christian Death, to describe the sound of his band;[7] the music press, reusing the 1950s term to describe an emerging subgenre of punk; and/or Nick Zedd's 1979 film They Eat Scum, which featured a fictitious cannibalistic "death rock" punk band called "Suzy Putrid and the Mental Deficients."[8]
The earliest influences for some deathrock acts, such as 45 Grave for example, can be traced to the horror themed novelty rock and roll acts of the late 1950s and early 1960s such as Bobby “Boris” Pickett and Zacherle with "Monster Mash"; Screamin' Jay Hawkins with "I Put a Spell on You"; and Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages with "Murder in the Graveyard". These songs used sound effects[9] to create a creepy atmosphere, dealt with taboo subjects (such as cannibalism) in a humorous, often campy manner, and are still occasionally played at deathrock clubs.[10]
This horror influence on rock music continued into the 1970s with theatrical hard rockers Alice Cooper[11] and Kiss. Rozz Williams has specifically credited the 1970s output of both Alice Cooper and Kiss as childhood influences,[12] 45 Grave also covered Alice Cooper's "School's Out" on the B-side of their "Partytime" single.
Other rock and glam rock bands who influenced many early goth/deathrock artists include The Doors, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Cramps, T. Rex, New York Dolls, The Damned, MC5, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids[13] (For a more complete listing of influential artists, see Gothic Rock predecessors.)
Horror movies also directly influenced deathrock artists. According to Dinah Cancer, Italian horror movies were a large influence on 45 Grave's visual style.[14] Zombie movies influenced many deathrock artists, especially George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its sequels. John Russo's Return of the Living Dead (1985) which featured Linnea Quigley and a mostly punk soundtrack[15] influenced later deathrock bands. Horror-themed TV shows, such as The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows etc., also provided some visual influence, as did spookily-clad horror movie hosts on TV such as Vampira[16] in Los Angeles, John Zacherle in Philadelphia and New York, Elvira in Los Angeles (then later nationally), and Ghoulardi[17] in Cleveland.
However, horror was not the only influence on deathrock. Film noir, surrealism, cabaret, and various religious iconography (particularly Catholicism and Voodoo) supplied much lyrical and visual inspiration to deathrock artists.[1]
Deathrock first emerged in the United States in the late 1970s as a darker offshoot of the pre-existing punk rock and the emerging hardcore LA music scene.[18] The most active and best documented deathrock music scene was in Los Angeles, which centered around the bands The Flesh Eaters (1977), Kommunity FK (1979), 45 Grave (1979), Christian Death (1979), Gun Club (1981), Super Heroines (1981), Pompeii 99 (1981), Voodoo Church (1982), Ex-VoTo (1982), Burning Image (1983) and Radio Werewolf (1984).[1][19] Other western cities in the United States also had bands which would later be described as deathrock such as Theatre of Ice (1978) in Fallon, Nevada and Mighty Sphincter (1980) in Phoenix, Arizona.
These early West Coast deathrock bands took the pre-existing base of punk rock and added dark yet playful themes borrowed from horror movies, film noir, surrealism, religious imagery, etc.[20] A couple of bands blended hardcore punk with a gothic sound, most notably T.S.O.L.[21] and Burning Image.[22]
These early post-punk deathrock bands were not immediately identified as part of a new subgenre of punk; they were simply considered a darker flavor of punk and were not yet considered part of a separate musical movement.[23] During this time, these bands would play at the same venues as punk, hardcore and new wave bands.[24] A similar situation arose in New York circa 1978-79, albeit on a much smaller scale, in which influential punk rock bands like The Cramps and The Misfits, as well as The Mad (fronted by future horror-film effects artist Screaming Mad George) had incorporated extensive horror themes into their lyrics, visuals, and stage show, though they did not use the term "deathrock" to describe themselves.[citation needed]
Around the same time as deathrock was emerging as a distinctively darker subgenre of punk rock in the United States, other subgenres of punk and post-punk were developing independently in the UK.[23]
By 1982, a wave of darker, more tribal post-punk bands had coalesced, influenced by punk rock, and the first-generation post-punk bands (and specifically the noisier 1980-81 post-punks UK Decay, Killing Joke, and Theatre of Hate). The primary bands in this new movement were Sex Gang Children and Southern Death Cult. Along with Brigandage, Blood and Roses, Ritual, and others, they were dubbed "positive punk" by the UK press to differentiate them from other bands who were attempting to fly under the punk banner, such as the UK 82 and Oi! acts. These positive punk bands featured tribal drumming, high-pitched vocals, scratchy guitar, and bass as melodic lead instrument, and a visual look blending glam with Native American-influenced warpaint and spiky haircuts, the first generation of the UK's post-punk goth bands.[25] Other related bands like Ausgang, Inca Babies, and Bone Orchard shared much of the tribal ethos and spiky look, but took more inspiration from The Birthday Party.[26]
During 1983, a related movement was brewing at a London Gothic rock club called the Batcave.[27] Initially envisioned as a venue specializing in glam rock and new wave musical acts, the two main bands which debuted and performed frequently at the Batcave, Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend, developed their own different sounds strongly influenced by horror in British pop culture, which set them apart from the rest of the glam and post-punk scenes in Britain. Also in 1983, The Gun Club toured in Europe[28] as did Christian Death[29] which meant the European gothic rock scene and the American deathrock scene were now able to directly influence one another.
By 1984, the term "positive punk" was outdated, and the tribal positive punk bands, the various bands from the Batcave scene, as well as the bands from Leeds (such as The Sisters of Mercy,[30] March Violets, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, and others) some of which used drum-machines, had all come to be referred to as "gothic"[23] or gothic rock.[31] The same year, California deathrock band Kommunity FK toured with UK Gothic rock band Sex Gang Children (and the following year with Alien Sex Fiend[32]) which continued the trend in which American and British movements intermixed. Influenced more by the British scene and less by California, deathrock bands began to form in other parts of the United States, such as Samhain (1983) in Lodi, New Jersey, Gargoyle Sox (1985) in Detroit, Michigan, Shadow of Fear (1985) in Cleveland, Ohio, and Holy Cow (1984) in Boston, Massachusetts (and later Providence, Rhode Island). The fertile New York scene featured Scarecrow (1983), Of a Mesh (1983), Chop Shop (1984), Fahrenheit 451 (1984), The Naked and the Dead (1985), Brain Eaters (1986), The Children's Zoo (1986), The Plague (1987), and The Ochrana (1987).
Irreconcilable differences[edit]
The mid 1980s marked the second wave of gothic rock, when the sound began to shift away from its punk and post-punk roots and towards the more serious, rock-oriented approach.[33] Bauhaus broke up, Rozz Williams left Christian Death, and The Sisters of Mercy became the dominant and most influential gothic act. The term "gothic rock" became preferred over "deathrock" (previously, they had been used interchangeably), a change which Rozz Williams attributed to the influence of the The Sisters of Mercy.[34] As a result, the term "deathrock" was seldom used except in retrospective reference to the Los Angeles bands 45 Grave and Christian Death.
The mid 1990s marked a so-called "third wave of gothic rock," as the music drifted its furthest from the original punk and post-punk sound by incorporating many elements of the industrial music scene at the time (which itself had moved away from experimental noise and into a more dance-rock oriented sound) and the more repetitive and electronic sounds of EBM.[35] Some clubs even completely dropped deathrock and first generation gothic rock from their setlists to appeal to a crossover crowd.[36] These changes alienated many in the goth scene[37] who preferred the livelier, punkier deathrock sound[38] and led them to seek out their earlier deathrock roots.[39]
Nearly 20 years after deathrock and goth first appeared on the music scenes in southern California and London, the deathrock revival began in southern California. During 1998 in Long Beach, California, owners of the Que Sera, a local bar, asked Jeremy Meza to throw a one-night "old school" Gothic Halloween party. After the success of the one-off party, the event quickly evolved into a regular deathrock club called Release the Bats[40] and a focal point in California for the re-emerging deathrock movement. (The club is named after a song by the Australian band the Birthday Party.)
The current deathrock movement is similar to the original deathrock scene in Los Angeles and the Batcave movement in London,[41] but more unified in the US, UK, and Europe through various record labels. In addition to clubs, the current scene is centered around concerts, special events, parties, and horror movie screenings. The internet is playing a major role in the deathrock revival. There are websites devoted to the discussion of deathrock music, bands and fashions as well as horror movies, plus mailing lists for deathrockers on various online virtual communities, such as MySpace.
In terms of differences from the original scene, there has been a shift to a more post-punk sound as a result of the influence of the European bands of the '80s. Also, the apolitical influence of psychobilly discourages political debates that have the potential to fragment the scene (however some famous deathrock acts, such as Rudimentary Peni, were originally anarcho-punk bands, and there is still some slight crossover between the two scenes). The Drop Dead Festival, similar to psychobilly's Hootenanny, gave bands with smaller fan bases an opportunity to play before larger crowds.[42]
Currently there is a growing trend of "Lo-fi Goth" music in the indie scene, which developed partially out of the deathrock revival. Some have already described this as the fifth wave of gothic music.[43]
Only Theatre of Pain, Christian Death's 1982 debut album, is widely held as the first American Gothic album[44] and cannot be easily classified as either a darker flavor of punk, horror punk, or gothic rock. As a result, Rozz Williams, the deceased lead singer of Christian Death, Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation, etc. was considered one of the most influential artists in the goth and deathrock scene. Patrick Mata of Kommunity FK is another influential male deathrocker, as is Larry Rainwater of Ex-VoTo.[citation needed]
Dinah Cancer has been referred to as the Queen of Deathrock,[45] the Goddess of Deathrock[46] and the High Priestess of Deathrock[7] for her role as the frontwoman for 45 Grave during a time when female lead singers were still considered somewhat of a rarity. Other influential female deathrockers include Eva O and Voodoo Church's Tina Winter.
Many artists in the United States released EPs and LPs prior to 1982 which would now be considered deathrock, such as the previously mentioned Theatre of Ice and Mighty Sphincter. British bands also made major contributions to the deathrock sound by adding a strong post-punk influence, including Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.[47] Other bands from around the world added their own unique contribution to deathrock, including Xmal Deutschland in Germany, Virgin Prunes from Ireland, and The Birthday Party in Australia.[48][49]
However, The Sisters of Mercy, who are frequently played at deathrock clubs, are generally not considered to be a deathrock band, as the most prominent example of their sound Floodland has more in common with second-wave gothic rock bands (as they were the second wave's prime influence).[50]
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Save your children heartburn, teach them the basics of money management
Schools teach children many things, but seldom the basics of financial planning. How many times have we rued not knowing how credit cards work, how much interest we will earn, how much tax to pay and what not?
business Updated: Jan 11, 2014 03:18 IST
Vivina Vishwanathan
Vivina Vishwanathan
Hindustan Times
Schools teach children many things, but seldom the basics of financial planning. How many times have we rued not knowing how credit cards work, how much interest we will earn, how much tax to pay and what not? Unfortunately, many of us have had to learn about money and its management the hard way. However, we can easily save our children the heartburn by teaching them the basics of money management. Here’s how:
When to start
It’s never too early. You can start talking about this the moment your child starts to understand that it takes money to buy things. Of course, the method of teaching would depend on your child’s age.
“It’s not as if children don’t understand about money. The moment you hand over cash and let the child transact, say, for a chocolate or cookies, she knows how it works. So, it is never too early to teach her about money. The moment you take the first step of handing over cash to your child, it is time to teach her about investing too,” says Surya Bhatia, a Delhi-based financial planner.
And don’t forget that even being allowed to hand over money to a shopkeeper gives the child a thrill and makes her feel responsible.
Keep it simple
Though people love jargon, avoid using such words. It doesn’t help at all. Use simple language; start with the easier concepts. “It is always good to use simple language to give clarity. Don’t ask a child to just read newspapers or magazines to understand about money and investing. Instead, first explain the concept, maybe in a game form, and then let her do the reading,” says Anil Rego, a Bangalore-based financial planner and chief executive officer of Right Horizons, an investment advisory and wealth management firm.
A lot will also depend on your child’s age. If she is young, she may need time to understand.
Concept of saving
The mantra to building wealth is first save and then spend. It is very important to make your child understand this as this concept can go a long way in her financial learning and will, hopefully, stay with her during her adult life. “Many financial problems in later life are due to ignorance towards financial planning. Many don’t talk about money for ages and end up being handicapped in finances,” says Suresh Sadagopan, a Mumbai-based financial planner.
This is an excellent chance to demonstrate as well. For example, ask your child what she wants to buy. It could be a video game, a toy, a book, or anything else. Write down the cost in a notebook, which could also serve as a ledger. Then explain how many currency notes it will take to reach this amount. For instance, five of Rs 20 notes will amount to Rs 100. Try to get her into the habit of saving small amounts every week or every month (even every day).
Pitch in
If what your child wants is a bit expensive, tell her that you will put in as much as she saves. So, if she manages to save, say, Rs 200, put in a similar amount from your side. This not only gives her more incentive to save, but also makes the final amount less daunting.
“To understand the value of what she gets, the child needs to know its worth in monetary terms too. The easiest way to induce the habit of saving is to ask the child to pitch in when she wants to buy something. Instead of buying everything for your child, give her the pocket money and allow her to spend on things that she wants to buy. The amount can be small depending on how much you are comfortable with. This way you can also keep a check on where the money is being used,” adds Rego.
Introduce money devices
Banking products are the easiest to explain as we transact with our bank almost every month. You can start by opening a bank account (after she reaches a certain age). You can introduce bank fixed deposits to an older child as she would have learnt the concept of compounding interest at school. The best way is to include her academic knowledge into day-to-day money management activity. Then you can slowly introduce her to other instruments such as stocks and the like.
Explain inflation
Inflation eats into savings. You speak to any financial planner and they will tell you that people are uneducated about real returns. While investing, many don’t bother to think about the importance of inflation-adjusted returns. So, it is important to teach her how inflation works and what it can do to her savings. Teach her how to calculate inflation-adjusted returns and its impact on her money life.
Take it easy
Not all children can learn at the same pace. Teach in a calibrated way. “I know a family where the child takes care of the grocery bills. It was slow progress but has worked wonders,” says Rego.
Teaching about money is like teaching how to walk, read or write—it’s basic, it’s important, but it will not happen in a day. Patience remains key.
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A man who has wood and does things with it. Carpenters use their tools for such purposes as screwing, drilling, and reaming. Rubbing and sawing away at old logs are also common activities. Nailing, while definitely an important part of carpentry, is not nearly as good as screwing. Carpenters also often get glue all over their wood.
While carpentry is an important and serious subject - after all, without it, we wouldn't have such things as chairs, desks, tables and doors - the terminology of carpentry is fraught with opportunities to make crass sexual innuendos.
Carpenters themselves, of which I am one, exploit these opportunities whenever possible.
Jesus was a famous carpenter, but all the jokes were removed by po-faced editors when he wrote The Bible. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a08bc338a0ea291528f262e64eda5089407005886e140784886823a53bbc67cf'} |
First Dance Songs for Your Wedding
The first dance together as husband and wife is a show-stopper.
A couple's first dance together signifies their union and helps to establish the style and tone of the festivities. It's completely OK for the happy couple to choose a song with personal significance that isn't a showy romantic ballad. If it is a romantic show-stopper, though, your guests are much more likely to be enchanted.
These 10 first dance wedding songs don't necessarily pour on the romance and drama, but they'll deliver the goods when it comes to creating a significant, touching moment on the dance floor -- even if you have two left feet. We'll start the countdown with a pretty unforgettable song on the next page, and we'll share a few first-dance picks nominated by "Say Yes to the Dress" fans on Facebook. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9475877285003662}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '129901', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:W3ZYD5CA6UTEAIKBVEQDAZNWVONC6SUH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bea347d9-681f-4105-bcc3-1f5df50939f1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 9, 23, 12, 21, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '204.245.190.51', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZS4CBKZWY7UALW3DWMAW6WDNY6DEHFMA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d796ddfc-1d64-4229-94d6-a50d789a0f1b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/weddings/planning/wedding-music/10-first-dance-songs.htm', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1880261a-ca82-4915-81a9-66bcd2a45993>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '142', 'url': 'http://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/weddings/planning/wedding-music/10-first-dance-songs.htm', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-41\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for September 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7972780466079712', 'original_id': 'dd3cc629d533f074463b8a7e6b81b5a77aab20e9164b47aaab40a03f9630948a'} |
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Operating Systems Portables Ubuntu Windows News
Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks 317
Barence writes "With the arrival last month of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, PC Pro has revisited a familiar question: which operating system is best for a netbook?. The magazine has run a series of benchmarks on a Asus Eee PC 1008HA running Windows XP Home, two versions of Windows 7 (with and without Aero switched on) and Ubuntu Netbook Edition. The operating systems are tested for start-up performance, Flash handling and video, among other tests. The results are closer than you might think."
Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks
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• by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @09:33AM (#34253964)
Newegg use to have Asus Eee netbooks preloaded with Linux but those are long since deactivated.
• by Haedrian ( 1676506 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @09:35AM (#34253988)
Testing wasn't done very fairly in my opinion. On my netbook, Ubuntu works faster, probably because Windows is bogged down by a bunch of programs which open at startup.
For a start, its not always the underlying operating system which makes the difference.
They compared -
1. Bootup (which is mostly fair)
2. Opening using OpenOffice. I'm pretty sure that the Windows version of this program is not the exact same one as the Ubuntu version. So you're comparing two different programs on two different operating systems.
3. Web performance - again, he used Google Chrome for one, and Chromium for the other. See above - the windows version is not the exact same one as the linux version.
4. Flash performance - this part was very funny. Anyone who's used flash on linux knows how crap it is. When adobe start supporting it properly...
So the testing wasn't very fair. It does not answer "but the key question is how each one performs on low-powered netbook hardware". If they wanted to answer that, they could have written a pair of programs in C to benchmark it - exact same code, exact same program.
• by Haedrian ( 1676506 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @09:36AM (#34254020)
Dell used to offer them, but they stopped.
I saw some for sale in Europe, but its usually a brand-made operating system based on Linux .
You could always install your own if you really want it.
• by SuricouRaven ( 1897204 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @09:47AM (#34254176)
Not so much any more. When netbooks were new, they all had linux - largely because they were low-spec enough that even XP wouldn't run, back in the pre-atom days. Once the hardware improved, manufacturers switched mostly to windows. Many (including me) suspect that Microsoft is making OEM licences for netbooks available at a next-to-free discount in order to prevent linux becoming established in the sector and possibly spreading from there into low-budget desktops.
• Re:In Other News (Score:3, Informative)
by the_arrow ( 171557 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @09:50AM (#34254208) Homepage
Which is indeed possible. Not only possible, it turns out they have some similar properties [].
• by Enderandrew ( 866215 ) <<enderandrew> <at> <>> on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:49AM (#34254880) Homepage Journal
Windows and Linux bootup tests are rarely fair. They typically test the time to display the desktop from the time you press power. In Windows they display the desktop well before the computer is done booting, where as in Linux, displaying the desktop is all but the final task.
If you're using a netbook with limited memory (most ship with 1GB or less) I'd like to see how much memory is consumed by the base OS.
• Re:Eh? (Score:3, Informative)
by devent ( 1627873 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:51AM (#34254914) Homepage
Strange how the manufacturers don't reflect that in their pricing / OS availability any more.
What a surprise, there is no open market in the operation systems anymore. It all locked down with MS dictating the prices and the hardware [].
• Re:Eh? (Score:4, Informative)
by nametaken ( 610866 ) * on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:07AM (#34255144)
I think you're right to say they're basically all the same. These margins are pretty darn close.
But on the issue of relative speeds, it would also be accurate to say that Ubuntu lost on nearly every test. Was not fastest in Boot, slow on suspend and wake up, much slower opening office docs, average on web performance, very poor on flash performance and poor on other video performance.
As you mentioned, that's not a good indication of overall value, but useful for keeping everyones feet on the ground when it comes to espousing their favorite OS's. Ubuntu (my personal fav) is not always best at everything, and it's worth pointing out when it's not.
• by interval1066 ( 668936 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:29AM (#34255542) Homepage Journal
Well, here in the states you pretty much have to bite the bullet and pay Microsoft's ransom and get your netbook pre-loaded. Some manufacturers used to install a little application that asked you to agree to Microsoft's EULA before the starting the desktop, which you could then deny and have a chance at getting your license money back, but I've purchased three netbooks from various manufacturers in the last few years and none of them had the app. I just grit my teeth and blow Microsoft away. Anyone who says Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly is blind.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a web site that sold ultra-light laptops that specialized in linux on their machines but were still much more expensive than I could afford, I think they were in the realm of $800-1000 so I never purchased and I've forgotten their url, some kind of letter-number combination, like or something. I wish I still had that url so I could see what they are charging for those machine today.
• by obarthelemy ( 160321 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:33AM (#34255592)
there's no such thing as "an eePC". There have been 30+ models, from 7" to 12. Strangely, keyboard sizes vary accordingly, from maddeningly small to normal size or quasi-normal (98% IIRC)
• by Beardo the Bearded ( 321478 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:50AM (#34255852)
The same is true in Canada.
I just bought a new Samsumg NF-210 and it came with Win7 Starter. The manufacturer has a splash screen to start up either normally or with recovery mode, and with Ubuntu installed it still has that screen. It can't be disabled.
Ubuntu Netbook doesn't work right. There are some great features, like taking advantage of virtualization to keep it at four cores all the time. (It's a dual-core N550 processor with hyperthreading).
Out of the box, the Fn keys don't work. If you download an add-on from a different repository and tweak some config files, they can be fixed but it's a deal-breaker for anyone who's a casual computer user. (Which would, of course, be 95% of the netbook market, [citation needed]) That's because the keys don't send a release, they expect a release from the OS. That OS is MS... and it's BS. It is workable but it's not very easy to do.
Networking Manager does not recover from sleep or hibernate. There are two ways to get it to work afterwards: reboot or ctrl-alt-t; sudo rmmod ath9k [pw]; sudo modprobe ath9k. Don't answer "just edit acpi-support" because that's deprecated and power is handled now by a daemon that doesn't read the acpi configuration.
Multitouch is also not supported in ubuntu nor is the edge scrolling. That's another thing that works great in Win7 but doesn't work at all in U:NR 10.10. Yes, I've read the link on how to create a new file and hal restart and enjoy mutlitouch BUT there's no HAL in U:NR or if there is it's not in a documented location.
If it doesn't work for me, good luck getting the rest of netbook users to even bother trying it.
One interesting thing to note is that the performance in U:NR is about the same even though there's 500 MB more RAM free. (Win7 had 750MB used sitting at the desktop; U:NR has about 256 used.)
I'm still keeping U:NR because it's a nicer looking OS with a better interface and works better with the way I want to use my computer. I also cut a lot of slack because there's a good chance there's a dozen or less of these books with U:NR.
• by John Betonschaar ( 178617 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:52AM (#34255906)
I have atom based machines that can play 1080p video without a hiccup but try to make a 320p youtube video full screen and watch it stutter and spurt...
Yes that really cracks me up with my Atom Ion-based HTPC as well. Watch a 1080p movie in XBMC with silk-smooth framerates, then open an SD Youtube Flash video in Firefox and the whole thing grinds to a halt. The best part of it is when you go back to XBMC and open the same video using the Youtube plugin, and all of a sudden everything is silk-smooth again, apparently the YouTube XBMC plugin rips the video out of the flv or uses the HTML5 source and pipes it through its own codec. Which goes to show how much Flash actually sucks for delivering web video.
• by callmetheraven ( 711291 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:25PM (#34256376)
my dual-boot Acer Aspire runs 3.5 hours of XP, or 2.0 hours of Ubuntu netbook edition. Linux power management sucks. The laptop is now the "desktop," so until Linux gets serious about power it's going to be relegated to a beige/black box under your desk/in your server closet.
• by mister_playboy ( 1474163 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:44PM (#34256682)
If people are going to write comparison articles and start the Windows vs Linux battle please compare them on fair grounds.
That bloatware is what allows the Windows netbooks to reach the pricepoint they do and push out the Linux netbooks.
They made the bed, they have to lay in it.
• by phantomcircuit ( 938963 ) on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @01:06PM (#34257084) Homepage
That is not a netbook and you know it.
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Guillaume Schiffman
Guillaume Schiffman is a French cinematographer who is known for the films he has made with director Michel Hazanavicius, including OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies in 2006 and OSS 117: Lost in Rio in 2009. Schiffman is particularly known for his work on The Artist with Hazanavicius. Schiffman shot The Artist in color and then monochromed it into black-and-white in the lab.
On 24 January 2012, Schiffman received his first ever Academy Award nomination for his work on the silent film, The Artist. Schiffman won the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography in 2012 for The Artist. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals.
Guillaume Schiffman is the son of the late French screenwriter and film director, Suzanne Schiffman. His father was American.
Filmography
References
External links
Category:Living people
Category:French cinematographers
Category:BAFTA winners (people)
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:French people of American descent
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using System;
using LS.Core;
using LS.Platform;
using LS.UI.Scenes;
namespace LS.UI
{
interface IProcessUserAction
{
void ProcessAction (int skillIndex, long targetID);
}
public class GameController : IProcessUserAction
{
public IGameWindow GameWindow { get; }
IScene CurrentScene;
GameClient Client;
public GameController (IGameWindow gameWindow)
{
GameWindow = gameWindow;
GameWindow.OnPaint += OnPaint;
GameWindow.OnKeyDown += OnKeyDown;
GameWindow.OnQuit += OnQuit;
GameWindow.OnPress += OnPress;
GameWindow.OnDetailPress += OnDetailPress;
GameWindow.OnRelease += OnRelease;
GameWindow.OnDetailRelease += OnDetailRelease;
}
GameState CurrentState => Client.CurrentState;
public void Startup (IFileStorage storage)
{
Client = new GameClient ();
var combatScene = new CombatScene (this);
Client.Delegate = combatScene;
combatScene.Load (CurrentState.CurrentMap);
CurrentScene = combatScene;
GameWindow.StartAnimationTimer ();
}
public void Invalidate ()
{
GameWindow.Invalidate ();
}
void OnQuit (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
void OnKeyDown (object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
CurrentScene.HandleKeyDown (e.Character);
}
void OnPress (object sender, ClickEventArgs e)
{
CurrentScene.OnPress (e.Position);
}
void OnDetailPress (object sender, ClickEventArgs e)
{
CurrentScene.OnDetailPress (e.Position);
}
void OnRelease (object sender, ClickEventArgs e)
{
CurrentScene.OnRelease (e.Position);
}
void OnDetailRelease (object sender, ClickEventArgs e)
{
CurrentScene.OnDetailRelease (e.Position);
}
void OnPaint (object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
Client.Process ();
e.Surface.Canvas.Scale (GameWindow.Scale);
CurrentScene.HandlePaint (e.Surface, CurrentState, GameWindow.Frame);
}
public void ProcessAction (int skillIndex, long targetID) => Client.ProcessAction (skillIndex, targetID);
}
} | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'https://github.com/chamons/legendary-struggle/blob/master/src/LS.UI/GameController.cs', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '2019.0', 'title': 'legendary-struggle', 'creator': 'chamons', 'language': 'C#', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '194', 'token_count': '680', '__index_level_0__': '26749', 'original_id': 'c8cfda884f4379e58652632bf4754074f23640267df644e76b9019ce8faeed93'} |
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The story begins in Stampy's lovley world...
Stampy woke up one morning. L for Lee walked through Stampy's painting and gave him a breakfast cake. Stampy ate the cake and started heading tourds the dog house to say good morning to his dogs.
Meanwhile, at Hit the Target's house...
Hit the Target himself was trying to think of a way to try and steal Stampy's dogs again. "THAT'S IT!!!!!!!" Hit the Target yells as he leaps out of his chair. Hit the Target smacks his head on the book case and a bunch of books fall on him. Hit the Target picks up one of the books. It was a history book of Minecraftia's worst villains. Hit the Target flipped threw the pages and found a story of when the Lord of the Nether almost took over Minecraftia and enslaved everybody on it. However, the creator of Minecraftia, Notch, defeated the evil Lord. He scattered the peices of the source of his power across different locations and sealed him within the Volcano of Woe, never to be seen again. Unless... sombody happens to find the pieces of the source of his power and gets to the Volcano of Woe and releases him from his volcanic prison to use him to take over Minecraftia. "I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!" Hit the Target yells in excitment. "I need to release the Lord of the Nether and use him to take over Stampy's lovely world, and I won't need Stampy's dogs for my plan at all!!!!!!!!!!" Hit the Target yells happily.
Back at Stampy's house...
Stampy and Lee walked into the dog house and said good morning to the dogs. Stampy decided to take Flippy for a walk. When Stampy and Flippy went outside, the ground started to shake. A rocket engine was heard and finally a red, black and Nether Brick rocket starts flying into the sky at super sonic speed. Stampy recognized the colors and realized Hit the Target was at it again. Only this time, he is not after his dogs. Stampy told his friends and they all gathered into Stampy's rocket and blasted off towards the moon after Hit the Target. What they didn't notice was that Stampy's dogs (and Mittens) secretly got space suits, dog sized (and cat sized), and followed the team and onto Stampy's rocket, becoming a part of their adventure!
Stampy rocket
While Stampy and his friends were catching up with Hit the Target, he looked behind him. "Oh no!!!!! The big cat and his idiotic friends are following me!!!!!" Hit the Target yells with anger. "THAT'S IT!!!!!!! THIS CALLS FOR DRASTIC MEASURES!!!!!!" Hit the Target uses his super computer and a beam redirects a meteor shower onto Stampy's rocket.
The meteor shower lands on the rocket and smashes a giant hole in it. "Stampy!!!! There's a giant hole in the rocket!!!! What do we do?!" Amy Lee yells. "I don't know!!!! But I think our only option is to panic!!!!" Stampy yells.
All the while, Stampy's dogs are hiding under Stampy's seat and think of something. The dogs run to the exit and hook up Barnaby's space suit to a rocket wire. Then, they hand Barnaby a bunch of orange wool blocks. Barnaby jumps out of the rocket and pushes himself towards Stampy's rocket wreckage. He places the orange wool blocks on the holes in the rocket. When the last hole was patched up, the dogs pulled Barnaby back into the rocket. Stampy looked out the window and saw that the hole was patched up. "LOOK WE'RE SAVED! WE'RE SAVED!!!" Stampy yells with joy.
"Ok, just forget about them. I'm almost to the moon anyway" Hit the Target says not really tTHAT angry. Hit the Target's rocket lands, he walks out and sees two aliens in the distance. "Hey aliens!' Maybe they know where the Diamond of Evil is" Hit the Target says.
Stampy and his friends land their rocket and see Hit the Target torturing Stampy's alien friends.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, WHERE IS THE DIAMOND OF EVIL?!?!?!" Hit the Target yells. "I swear we don't know" Alien #1 said. "Ok fine. If you don't know, I'll have to find out myself" says Hit the Target. He pulls out his Diamond Pickaxe and starts digging into the ground. "NO STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Stampy yells.
It was to late, Hit the Target placed a block of moon stone in the hole that he dug into. A couple minutes later, Hit the Target dug out of the ground with an Enchanted Diamond in his hand. "YES, I HAVE THE DIAMOND OF EVIL. NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW." Hit the Target laughs menacingly.
"That's where your wrong Hit the Target!!!!!!!" Ballistic Squid yells from behind. "Wait a second, how can he communicate with us?" Stampy asks. "What? I thought you would have figured it out by now." Hit the Target says. "Have you not noticed this collar around my neck? It's linked to a bunch of wires which are attached to my brain that are sending commands from my mind to the collar which allows me to speak. I needed something from the nether so the collar would work, so I used nether wart for fule. My mind is also doing so much of the work that I can even speak in any voice. See, I'm speaking in Stampy's voice now." Hit the Target says sounding just like Stampy. "Well, enough chitter chatter it's time to get rid of you! I now summon the power of the Diamond of Evil." At that moment, zombies and Skeletons jumped out of the Diamond and attacked the team.
Zombies skeletons
Stampy and his friends pull out there weapons ready to fight. Rosie didn't have any weapons and just threw her fish at one of the Skeletons. "AHHHHHHHH!! I CAN'T SEE WHAT I'M SHOOTING!!!!!!! WHERE'S THAT PESKY PENGUIN?!" The blind Skeleton yells. The blind Skeleton tries to shoot one of Stampy's friends but ends up shooting one of the Zombies. Stampy grabs L for Lee's hands and spins him around and around and around. He finally lets go and Lee lands on Zombies and Skeletons. "That's what happens when googlies mess with Mr. Stampy Cat!" Stampy says. The fighting continues. Henry the Snow Golem scrapes some snow off his body and swallows it. Hilda the Iron Golem picks up Henry and uses him as a snowball spitting cannon. Amy Lee waves hi and winks at a bunch of Zombies and Skeletons. Hearts pop up on there eyes and they are distracted long enough for Ballistic Squid to cut off there heads. Ank uses his enchanted diamond sword to set a Skeleton on fire.
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\section{Sequentially Compact Metric Subspace is Sequentially Compact in Itself iff Closed}
Tags: Metric Subspaces, Sequentially Compact Spaces, Metric Spaces
\begin{theorem}
Let $M$ be a metric space.
Let $C \subseteq M$ be a subspace of $M$ which is sequentially compact in $M$.
Then $C$ is sequentially compact in itself {{iff}} $C$ is closed in $M$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Follows directly from Closure of Subset of Metric Space by Convergent Sequence.
{{qed}}
Category:Metric Subspaces
Category:Sequentially Compact Spaces
\end{proof}
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//
// Copyright 2020 Google LLC
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
#include "create_samples_mean.h"
// Creates pairs of samples of differentially private means.
// Each sample-pair replicates a unique scenario constructed in the proto for
// BoundedMeanDpTest.java, available here:
// https://github.com/google/differential-privacy/blob/main/proto/testing/bounded_mean_dp_test_cases.textproto.
namespace differential_privacy {
namespace testing {
const std::string mean_samples_folder = "../statisticaltester/boundedmeansamples";
double DiscretizeMean(double true_value, double granularity) {
if (granularity > 0) {
double abs_value = abs(true_value);
double scaled_sample = true_value/granularity;
if (abs_value >= 1L << 54) {
double discretized_value = scaled_sample * granularity;
return discretized_value;
} else {
double discretized_value = std::round(scaled_sample) * granularity;
return discretized_value;
}
}
else {
std::cout << "Granularity must be positive. Try again, please." << std::endl;
}
}
// Construct the BoundedMean algorithm.
double DPMean(std::vector<double> values, double granularity,
double epsilon, int max_partitions, int max_contributions, int lower, int upper) {
std::unique_ptr<BoundedMean<double>> boundedmean =
BoundedMean<double>::Builder()
.SetEpsilon(epsilon)
.SetMaxPartitionsContributed(max_partitions)
.SetMaxContributionsPerPartition(max_contributions)
.SetLower(lower)
.SetUpper(upper)
.Build()
.ValueOrDie();
base::StatusOr<Output> result = boundedmean->Result(values.begin(),
values.end());
Output obj = result.ValueOrDie();
return GetValue<double>(obj);
}
// Construct the BoundedMean algorithm for large values.
// Additional parameters enable large values to be added
// to the algorithm one by one.
double DPLargeMean(double initial_value, double extra_values_length,
double extra_value, double granularity, double epsilon, int max_partitions,
int max_contributions, int lower, int upper) {
std::unique_ptr<BoundedMean<double>> boundedmean =
BoundedMean<double>::Builder()
.SetEpsilon(epsilon)
.SetMaxPartitionsContributed(max_partitions)
.SetMaxContributionsPerPartition(max_contributions)
.SetLower(lower)
.SetUpper(upper)
.Build()
.ValueOrDie();
// Add entry with initial value
boundedmean->AddEntry(initial_value,granularity);
// Add entry with subsequent values
for (int i=0; i<extra_values_length; i++) {
boundedmean->AddEntry(extra_value);
}
return GetValue<double>(boundedmean->PartialResult().ValueOrDie());
}
// Creates a folder to contain all samples with a particular ratio value
// (e.g., R95). Every folder contains 22 subfolders for each unique sample-pair.
// Every subfolder contains seven runs of each sample-pair (14 files in total).
void CreateSingleScenarioMean(int scenario, std::vector<double>valuesA,
std::vector<double>valuesB, double granularity, double epsilon,
int max_partitions, int max_contributions, int lower, int upper,
int number_of_samples, double ratio, double initial_value,
double extra_values_length, double extra_value) {
double implemented_epsilon = epsilon / ratio;
std::string filepath = mean_samples_folder+"/R"
+std::to_string(static_cast<int>(ratio*100))+"/Scenario"
+std::to_string(scenario);
mkdir(filepath.c_str(), 0777);
for (int i=0; i<7; i++) {
std::ofstream samplefileA;
std::ofstream samplefileB;
samplefileA.open(filepath+"/TestCase"+std::to_string(i)+"A.txt");
samplefileB.open(filepath+"/TestCase"+std::to_string(i)+"B.txt");
if (extra_values_length == 0) {
for (int i=0; i<number_of_samples; i++) {
double outputA = DPMean(valuesA, granularity,
implemented_epsilon, max_partitions, max_contributions, lower, upper);
double discretized_outputA = DiscretizeMean(outputA, granularity);
samplefileA << discretized_outputA << "\n";
double outputB = DPMean(valuesB, granularity,
implemented_epsilon, max_partitions, max_contributions, lower, upper);
double discretized_outputB = DiscretizeMean(outputB, granularity);
samplefileB << discretized_outputB << "\n";
}
samplefileA.close();
samplefileB.close();
}
else {
for (int i=0; i<number_of_samples; i++) {
double outputA = DPMean(valuesA, granularity,
implemented_epsilon, max_partitions, max_contributions, lower, upper);
double discretized_outputA = DiscretizeMean(outputA, granularity);
samplefileA << discretized_outputA << "\n";
double outputB = DPLargeMean(initial_value, extra_values_length,
extra_value, granularity, implemented_epsilon, max_partitions,
max_contributions, lower, upper);
double discretized_outputB = DiscretizeMean(outputB, granularity);
samplefileB << discretized_outputB << "\n";
}
samplefileA.close();
samplefileB.close();
}
}
}
// Runs each sample-pair with parameters that replicate those specified in:
// https://github.com/google/differential-privacy/blob/main/proto/testing/bounded_mean_dp_test_cases.textproto.
void GenerateAllScenariosMean(double ratio) {
const int num_of_samples = 100;
double small_epsilon = 0.1;
double default_epsilon = std::log(3);
double large_epsilon = 2*std::log(3);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, default parameters
std::vector<double>zero_vector{0};
std::vector<double>valuesB1{1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(1,zero_vector,valuesB1,0.0078125,default_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, many partitions contributed
std::vector<double>valuesB2(1000,25);
CreateSingleScenarioMean(2,zero_vector,valuesB2,0.25,default_epsilon,25,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, many contributions per partition
std::vector<double>valuesB3(1000,10);
CreateSingleScenarioMean(3,zero_vector,valuesB3,0.25,default_epsilon,1,10,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, large bounds
std::vector<double>valuesB4{-50000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(4,zero_vector,valuesB4,0.25,default_epsilon,1,1,-50,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, small epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesB5{1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(5,zero_vector,valuesB5,0.0625,small_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, empty mean, large epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesB6{1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(6,zero_vector,valuesB6,0.03125,large_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, default parameters
std::vector<double>valuesA7{1};
std::vector<double>valuesB7{1,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(7,valuesA7,valuesB7,0.015625,default_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, many partitions contributed
CreateSingleScenarioMean(8,zero_vector,zero_vector,0.25,default_epsilon,25,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio,
1,25,-1000);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, many contributions per partition
CreateSingleScenarioMean(9,zero_vector,zero_vector,0.25,default_epsilon,1,10,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio,
1,10,-1000);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, small epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesA10{1};
std::vector<double>valuesB10{1,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(10,valuesA10,valuesB10,0.0625,small_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, large epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesA11{1};
std::vector<double>valuesB11{1,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(11,valuesA11,valuesB11,0.0625,large_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, small positive mean, multiple entries
std::vector<double>valuesA12{0.64872,0.12707,0.00128,0.14684,0.86507};
std::vector<double>valuesB12{0.64872,0.12707,0.00128,0.14684,0.86507,1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(12,valuesA12,valuesB12,0.015625,default_epsilon,1,1,0,1,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, default parameters
std::vector<double>valuesA13{50};
std::vector<double>valuesB13{50,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(13,valuesA13,valuesB13,0.25,default_epsilon,1,1,0,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, many partitions contributed
CreateSingleScenarioMean(14,zero_vector,zero_vector,2,default_epsilon,25,1,0,50,
num_of_samples,ratio,50,25,-1000);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, many contributions per partition
CreateSingleScenarioMean(15,zero_vector,zero_vector,1,default_epsilon,1,10,0,50,
num_of_samples,ratio,50,10,-1000);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, small epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesA16{50};
std::vector<double>valuesB16{50,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(16,valuesA16,valuesB16,2,small_epsilon,1,1,0,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, large epsilon
std::vector<double>valuesA17{50};
std::vector<double>valuesB17{50,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(17,valuesA17,valuesB17,0.5,large_epsilon,1,1,0,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large positive mean, multiple entries
std::vector<double>valuesA18{32,43606,35.35006,40.73424,32.53939,7.081785};
std::vector<double>valuesB18{32,43606,35.35006,40.73424,32.53939,7.081785,-1000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(18,valuesA18,valuesB18,0.25,default_epsilon,1,1,0,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large mixed mean, default parameters
std::vector<double>valuesA19{-50};
std::vector<double>valuesB19{-50,50000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(19,valuesA19,valuesB19,0.5,default_epsilon,1,1,-50,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
// Laplace noise, large mixed mean, many partitions contributed
CreateSingleScenarioMean(20,zero_vector,zero_vector,2,default_epsilon,25,1,-50,50,
num_of_samples,ratio,-50,25,50000);
// Laplace noise, large mixed mean, many contributions per partition
CreateSingleScenarioMean(21,zero_vector,zero_vector,2,default_epsilon,1,10,-50,50,
num_of_samples,ratio,-50,10,50000);
// Laplace noise, large mixed mean, multiple entries
std::vector<double>valuesA22{-32.43606,35.35006,-40.73424,-32.53939,7.081785};
std::vector<double>valuesB22{-32.43606,35.35006,-40.73424,-32.53939,7.081785,50000};
CreateSingleScenarioMean(22,valuesA22,valuesB22,0.5,default_epsilon,1,1,-50,50,num_of_samples,ratio);
}
} // testing
} // differential_privacy
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Suba ang Scios sa Pransiya. Nahimutang ni sa amihanan-sidlakang bahin sa nasod, km sa habagatan sa Paris ang ulohan sa nasod. Ang Scios mao ang bahin sa tubig-saluran sa Garonne.
Ang mga gi basihan niini
Garonne (suba sa Pransiya) tubig-saluran
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Saturday 19 January 2019
Mars mission selection 'to be reality TV show'
Mars One chooses its 1,508 candidates for the one-way trip to Mars and plan to make selection for final 40 wannabe astronauts a reality TV show
Mars colonisation
Mars colonisation "not feasible" Photo:
There are 40 Brits in the 1,058 candidates who survived the round one application process, which has weeded out more than 200,000 people since April last year. Some of the the wannabe astronauts were zapped on the basis of filming themselves naked in their video applications. Organisers said they ruled out anyone "not taking the mission seriously".
The shortlisted candidates come from 107 countries and the United States is the most heavily represented, with 297 applicants (45 per cent of the total are women). The oldest successful applicant is 81.
As candidates are put through next selection phase of tests and simulations, there are plans for Mars One to be a reality TV show, with viewers voting on who should colonise the Red Planet. Paul Römer, co-creator and the first producer of The Big Donor Show and the Big Brother, is an ambassador for the project, and CEO Bas Lansdorp has said: "We're in advanced negotiations with a major studio for an overall deal for film and television properties."
The proposed Mars outpost before the arrival of humans MARS-ONE.COM
With expertise from Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Guildford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Mars One hopes to send a robotic lander and satellite to Mars in 2018 as a precursor to their peopled missions. One Brit chosen is a 20-year-old physics student from Derby called Ryan MacDonald, who said he was informed by email that his application was successful. He told the Derby Telegraph that he will get a new set of instructions on Monday, adding: "I still don’t know what exactly it will consist of, as the company is still in negotiations with TV companies, as some parts of the next rounds will be televised."
Perhaps the project is more than just a clever marketing and publicity exercise and if this is the case, the Dutch not-for-profit Mars One has serious problems, not least raising the estimated £4billion the project will need. True, they have started a crowd-funding campaign through the website Indiegogo and they are selling official merchandise. But you will have to sell an awful lot of black coffee mugs (£9 each) limited edition hooded sweaters (£30) and bumper stickers (£6) to get Mars rockets off the ground.
Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp, who received his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Twente University in 2003 AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is among those to cast doubt on the technical feasibility of Mars One and some of the statements from Lansdorp leave, let's say, a little room for anxiety. He has said, for example, that they will shield the volunteers from dangerous galactic radiation by "providing a hollow water tank" and said that on Mars the people "will grow their own food". Snacking on Mars Bars will be a distant memory because Lansdorp added that "besides vegetables and other plants they will grow algae and insects".
If Mars One does actually get humans on to Mars, I'll be rooting for the 81-year-old, who would be a sprightly 92 (hopefully) when lift-off happens in 2025. Let's just hope he (or she) has a taste for space insects.
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Eric Pulido from Midlake, talks about taking over lead vocals for the band on their record 'Antiphon'. Midlake is an American folk rock band from Denton, Texas, formed in 1999. Currently, the band consists of Eric Pulido, McKenzie Smith, Paul Alexander, Eric Nichelson, Jesse Chandler and Joey McClellan. • Visit Eric's we… | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '11', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9023897051811218}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '54519', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KOI4WCDDW7I6WCMSMQVSPBC4FTNMDOB7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:975ac10e-c948-4c9d-bf8d-1bc1857393d1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 30, 4, 3, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.24.21.187', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:POZN5SQP7APIKCWAUU6IQLDE4ZJOYL2Z', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:47290803-b1da-4878-98c8-0e7ce1b89df2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://podhero.com/the-tim-smal-show/eric-pulido-midlake-antiphon-201691ajq', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:28527fba-5dd3-46c1-bf4c-6a49d7ed1e86>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '56', 'url': 'https://podhero.com/the-tim-smal-show/eric-pulido-midlake-antiphon-201691ajq', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-62\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.032356441020965576', 'original_id': '3d2148bcc688fa9c39090ea5a2ff024f3491a7e9a37da315393b82d7c5806cfb'} |
Court won't hear appeal from condemned soldier
The Supreme Court won't hear another appeal from an Army private who had been sentenced to death under military law for killing two Texas taxi drivers.
The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Dwight J. Loving. Loving was convicted in military court of killing two men during separate robberies on Dec. 11, 1988 in Killeen, Texas. Loving was stationed at Fort Hood.
His death sentence was upheld by appeals courts and by the Supreme Court in 1996.
He wanted the Supreme Court to throw out his death sentence because military courts waited almost 19 years before holding a hearing on whether Loving's lawyer did everything possible to mitigate his death sentence.
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zaterdag 27 september 2014
New Bog...
Hello All,
Started a new blog about Classical Music and Spotify, where I compiled playlists around a theme or event, complete works as much as possible, with metadata (lacking, often!) and a short description.
Hope you will like it!!
dinsdag 8 oktober 2013
Spotify; Figures, Facts, Confession and a question...
(posted this on the Gramophone forum, but no answers yet, so try it here!)
Starting with a confession and a question;
As I hardly buy any CD's anymore, it has been more than two years since I last bought a Gramophone magazine... Think it was june 2011, and although I peeked once and a while on this forum, my connection with the magazine was broken. But, since I discovered Spotify, the "need" for a magazine like the Gramophone grew and... I bought the 2013 awards issue. The combination of the Gramophone magazine and Spotify is like an "all you can eat" ticket in a paistry shop... Not only in the reviews (not all recordings are on Spotify *yet*), but also the advertisements make me hungry and explorative... :-)
At the same time, there are many discussions about the benefits (or rather, disadvantages) of Spotify for the music industry. Surprisingly little on the effects it has on the Classical music industry, except short shoutouts like:
Now, for my own understanding (and for the story below), a question: Does anyone know if classical labels are payed "per track"? Does a short Schumann piece from the Davidsbundlertanze earns a label the same amount of money as a 25 minute Mahler track? Or is there an other arrangement made for that?
-- --
In the early days of CD, large works were devided in separate tracks, even "theme 1, theme 2 development" etc sections. If Mahler of Bruckner symphonies are payed per track, that would be an interesting extra income for classical labels, I guess... ;-)
But wait, did'nt Spotify pay *anything*, or way too less for artists? And does nobody use Spotify for listening to classical music? Well, yes and... no. It's interesting to look at the amount of plays a spotify artist has had. Ok, someone like the now obcure pianist Pierre alain Volondat dit not go above the 1000 plays so far for any of his tracks; but someone like Roland Poitinen has some amazing amount of followers and track listenings...
Now note, and the label Bis does this quite cleverly, the separate "tracks" come from different re-packagings on Spotify, each with an own trigger to "lure" the listners to the same recording(s), analog to what this article:
describes in "what is lacking" in the sense and cleverness of classical labels...
and see, a Scarlatti recital by Yegvreni Sudbin get's over a million trackplays, small pieces by Eric Satie, played by pointinen (again, in different repackaging!!) a multitude of that...!
Again, maybe Spotify does not pay much:
but in the long tail thought, all these bits and pieces add up to some nice earnings for "dead" CD's...
A vague stockmusic company called "Cavendish" has around 20 million plays per smartly tagged collections like
and not only for Mozart, also their Bach, Beethoven etc collections let them earn a nice amout of income. And remember, it's not only Spotify, but also comparable services like Deezer, Rhapsody etc and future services like Google play music...
So, questions are,
1) do long tracks generate the same amount of money on Spotify as short tracks?
2) Looking at the figures and the future; if you tag your music cleverly (and do that in numurous repackagings so the user can *find* your music, also read is a service like Spotify a welcome new source of income for the classical music industry?
PS, Spotify and web-streaming services do not nessicarily have to "replace" other ways of listening to recorded music (over 1000 CD's I'm not throwing away!!), but can be a new way to explore music....
maandag 30 september 2013
Even the Pope could not let her play again....
For some reason, artists can become “much collected” artists. Remarkable life story, scarcity of records made, a record company more interested in fast bucks rather than taking care of their legacy (hello EMI :-) and voilà, people are willing to pay a small fortune for an original recording of that artist. Especially if it’s someone with a distinctive own voice and performance style.
“All of the above" cumulate in the Italian violinist Gioconda de Vito.
De Vito, born in 1907, started playing music on the mandolin, but quickly transferred to the violin.
Although she was almost kicked out for being unable to carry a tune in singing (!), she studied at the Pesaro conservatory and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In 1932 she won the International Violin Competition in Vienna, but did not ambition a big international career. Instead, she became a teacher at the St. Cecilia Conservatory of Bari.
When she finally decided to record some of her repertoire (something she would
be reluctant her whole career, rare-vinyl record dealers bless her for ever about this...!)
she went to London and.... fell in love with David Bicknell, director of HMV division of EMI Records.
They married in 1949 and Gioconda de Vito thus acquired British citizenship.
In 1961, she decided it was enough, and devoted her life to housekeeping.
As a true Catholic, she found this role far more suited for her then her occupation on
the violin. Even a a plea from the Pope (!), for which she had regularly performed,
could not help. Gioconda de Vito died in 1994. Her unique, personal voice shines
through the noise of the 78RPM, which I have put on youtube. Glimpse of the record (and actual transfer of the record) are visible too in this video. Hope you will enjoy it!!
Gioconda de Vito (22nd Jun. 1907 ~ 14th Oct. 1994)
Romance for violin & orchestra No.2 in F major, op.50
29th May 1948, Abbey Road Studios, London
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Alberto Erede.
donderdag 9 mei 2013
Winter has gone...!
Denn siehe, der Winter is vergangen,
der Regen is weg and dahin,
die Blumen sind herfürkommen im Land,
der Lenz ist herbeikommen,
und die Turteltaube läßt sich hören in
unserm Lande,
See, the winter is past,
the rain is gone and away,
the flowers flourish in the country,
Spring is at hand,
and the turtledoves are heard
in our country,
When I walked, one late evening, in a park near my house, I heard these lines being chanted cheerfully in my headphones… It was a couple of weeks ago and the Netherlands just had faced one of the longest winters in modern history. Smell of grass and blossom filled my nostrils and the sense that this Game-of-Thrones-like winter was gone and that we now had six or seven years of summer ahead, fulfilled me with a sense of joy. Denn siehe, der Winter is vergangen” was a line from Heinrich Schütz’s two-choired motet “Stehe auf, meine Freundin” that I had acquainted from the Dutch Public radio.
Schütz primarily worked in Dresden, during the time of the Thirty Years War. What is now called Germany was at that time a horrid and apocalyptic place. Large parts of the country were literally depopulated. Estimates assume that about one third of the German population died due to the war conditions and as a consequence Schütz often wrote his pieces for a small ensemble. Musicians were forced to be soldiers and instruments were replaced by weapons… A double choir must have been an incredible luxury at that time... This Schütz motet was performed in 2007 live, by the Dutch Bach Society as part of a 17/18th century vocal music program at the festival of old music in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did..! :-)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1702)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
vrijdag 26 april 2013
How Stravinski sounded in... 1916 (!)
Sometimes you can make these remarkable discoveries online…
* You read it right, 1916… *
Wow, was my first thought… :-)
vrijdag 31 augustus 2012
Hope you will enjoy it!
zondag 25 december 2011
Music for the Dead Days
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I don't think any street engineer ever intended for people to park in the middle of cul de sacs. If that were the intent there would be lines in the center to designate parking. Also, could emegency vehicles like fire trucks still get around the cars parked in the center? The questions is if the person has found a loophole in what can be enforced. JPD's lead CSO weighed in on this topic. He says many cul de sacs have no parking signs around the outside. When people then park in the middle the CSOs can respond and see if it might be appropriate to cite the person for parking too far from the curb or parking on a roadway. Please call 586-0600 and report the location so the CSOs can check it out.
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General Aviation Technology Challenge
August is a busy month for competition fans, what with the Beijing Olympics just wrapping up, the US Open Tennis Championship about to start, numerous motor racing events, such as Formula 1 Grand Prix, and the 2008 General Aviation Technology (GAT) Challenge. OK, so maybe the GAT Challenge isn't quite in the same league as those other competitions, but with US$300,000 up for grabs, it's a serious competition intended to stimulate innovation in the personal air vehicle (PAV) arena.
2008 CAFE 400 Start Lineup2008 CAFE 400 Start Lineup
The 2008 GAT Challenge was held August 2-10, 2008 and is the successor to the Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) Challenge held in 2007. The competition attracts Light Sport Aircraft (LSA); minimum competition requirements exclude more exotic flying cars and jetpacks. NASA again provided the prize money as part of its Centennial Challenges and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation hosted the event. The competition awards prizes according to 4 main categories.
• CAFE 400 Prize
The CAFE 400 race is the feature event of the GAT Challenge and consists of a 400 mile circuit around Northern California. Each aircraft in the competition is assigned a time handicap, known as the Ground Travel Time (GTT), according to its takeoff distance, and then attempts to complete the circuit in the fastest time. Maximizing the power to weight ratio of an aircraft is an essential feature of potential prize winners.
• Green Prize
The Green Prize is awarded to the aircraft in the CAFE 400 that achieves the highest Miles per Gallon of Gasoline Equivalent (MPGe), but with a minimum requirement that it exceeds 30 MPGe and averages at least 100 mph. Alternative fuels, such as bio-fuel, and power sources, such as electricity, are encouraged. Aerodynamic efficiency (lift to drag ratio) and weight minimization are essential ingredients to be a contender for the Green Prize.
• Community Noise Prize
The community noise prize is awarded to the quietest aircraft, measured during takeoff and a high-speed flyover. The minimum standards for the prize are a noise level of less than 64 dBA and a minimum high-speed flyover of 120 mph.
• Aviation Safety Prize
The safety prize is awarded to the aircraft that demonstrates the best handling characteristics, such as spiral stability, maneuvering stability, static longitudinal stability, slow flight, control harmony and roll rate. Advanced, innovative electronic pilot aids are encouraged.
Only 4 aircraft took part in the 2008 GAT Challenge, with only 3 getting airborne. Sweeping most of the categories (as in 2007) was a modified Pipistrel Virus 912 SW. The heavy bias of the competition towards short takeoff capability played into the hands of the light-weight Pipistrel. Less prize money was claimed in 2008 than 2007.
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The favorite for the Green Prize was a bio-diesel fueled Diamond Katana DA20-A1 aircraft that unfortunately had engine problems and didn't make it off the ground. None of the other aircraft in the CAFE 400 met the minimum requirements for the Green Prize.
Future Competitions
To stimulate more competition, in 2009 NASA is upping the total prize money to US$400,000. The emphasis is also likely to shift towards fuel efficiency. The hope is that electric-powered aircraft may make an appearance after the recent enthusiastic reception for the 2nd Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium, also hosted by the CAFE Foundation.
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To be conscious of size in a dream highlights how we feel in relation to a person, project or object. Big or tall might suggest important or threatening, whereas small might indicate vulnerability or something ‘less than’ ourselves.
Thus a big house would be an awareness of the expansion of oneself, whereas a small house would indicate an intensity of feeling.
The contrast between fat and thin, or thick and thin, is a subjective evaluation that will often depend on cultural differences.
The issue of size in dreams is dependent on our own personal evaluation.
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Rushing Furniture: Step-by-Step
Martha Stewart Living, September 2001
Ralph Belgrove learned the art of rushing as a child at a school for the visually impaired. Although he can't see the rush clearly, his fingers sense its width and flexibility, letting him create an evenly woven surface.
Before cattails are woven, they must be soaked overnight. The plants are then passed through a laundry wringer, which breaks the fibers until the rush becomes almost as pliable as fabric.
1. Forty-seven-year-veteran craftsman Ralph Belgrove, of Yorkville Caning in New York City, begins a chair seat by securing four or five strands of rush to the center of one side of the frame, using tape or a tack. These strands are called foundation rush; they supply the necessary resistance for the finished seat.
2. A typical chair seat is wider in front than in back. To get an even pattern, Belgrove weaves at each front corner until both widths are equal.
3. While twisting the cattail, he trims away weak sections and adds where needed.
4, 5. As the open center square gets smaller, the American four-triangle pattern begins to emerge.
6. Cardboard is inserted between the layers of rush to help support the finished seat. Weaving then continues until the center is closed and the last cattail strand is secured to the underside with a tack.
7. The finished seat is "combed" with a wooden mallet, which evens out and flattens the rush. Although a stain could mimic the patina of aged rush, the experts at Yorkville prefer to let the aging process occur naturally as the rush oxidizes. A coat of shellac encourages uniform oxidation.
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Re: OL starting with zero
From: George Lund <george@lundbooks.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:15:36 +0000
Message-ID: <GFd6UeLISko8IAgA@lundbooks.co.uk>
To: www-style@w3.org
In message <18860635625.20020327191016@w3.org>, Chris Lilley
<chris@w3.org> writes
>It does not mean, however, that the actual numbering style should be
>hardcoded in the document. Particularly on small devices, lists m,ay
>be renumbered as they do not fit on screen at once and thus are
>presented in chunks.
Would this not be immensely confusing - if a page had to be split up for
a small device it would surely make more sense for the numbering to be
continuous? Starting again on each new screen/page would be bizarre and
unfortunate. (I think maybe I misunderstood what you meant there?)
>What is needed in the markup is a link - not a hyperlink, but a link -
>between the citation and the particular list item.
I'm not clear on the difference. A URI could identify a particular list
item if the item were given an id attribute.
>What is needed in the stylesheet is a way to style the content of the
>link such that it takes the same numbering as the list item it points
>to. This would allow such references to still work when lists are
>edited, merged, split, or their numbering styles altered.
There are too many factors influencing the numbering style: the browser
would have to actually parse the page being cited in order to apply its
styles and work out the numbering eventually given to the list item
being cited. The cited document might not even be available.
But this doesn't matter: the citation doesn't have to be on the Web -
how about in a printed document? Even on-line there's nothing to say
that the user has to look up the cited document using the same equipment
as they read the citation. Citations have to be static, they can't
depend on context - it just wouldn't work.
(In an ideal world perhaps all citations would be given as URIs - but if
the HTML documents we are citing are also printed documents then this
doesn't work, and for the foreseeable future they are.)
Thanks very much for the reply
Received on Wednesday, 27 March 2002 17:17:00 UTC
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This week, President Obama is in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, for the G8 summit, an annual meeting of the world’s wealthiest countries: the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Last year, world hunger was on the agenda as the President hosted G8 leaders at his Camp David retreat. This year, with the farm bill and food aid reform on the domestic agenda, the President has a unique opportunity to return to this theme and make a lasting impact on world hunger once and for all.
A good first step would be reforming food aid. Each year the U.S. provides nearly $2.2 billion in food aid to countries facing food shortages and starvation around the world. However, U.S. food aid must be purchased from U.S. producers and shipped on U.S.-flagged vessels, making these programs costly and inefficient.
In addition, some food aid is distributed through a wasteful process called monetization. In this process the U.S. donates food to charities, which then sell it in other countries and use the proceeds for development projects. This undercuts farmers in other countries. A 2011 Government Accountability Office report found that monetization activities wasted $219 million over three years. The President should instead champion reforms that eliminate monetization and allow food to be purchased anywhere and shipped in the most cost-effective way.
While President Obama is in Northern Ireland, he should take some cues from his European counterparts, as well. The European Union reformed its food aid policy effectively in the mid-1990s, eliminating the monetization of aid and sourcing its food from more efficient producers. This makes EU aid cheaper, more efficient, and more effective.
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<?php
namespace PhpOption\Tests;
use PhpOption\None;
class NoneTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
private $none;
/**
* @expectedException \RuntimeException
*/
public function testGet()
{
$none = \PhpOption\None::create();
$none->get();
}
public function testGetOrElse()
{
$none = \PhpOption\None::create();
$this->assertEquals('foo', $none->getOrElse('foo'));
}
public function testGetOrCall()
{
$none = \PhpOption\None::create();
$this->assertEquals('foo', $none->getOrCall(function() { return 'foo'; }));
}
/**
* @expectedException \RuntimeException
* @expectedExceptionMessage Not Found!
*/
public function testGetOrThrow()
{
None::create()->getOrThrow(new \RuntimeException('Not Found!'));
}
public function testIsEmpty()
{
$none = \PhpOption\None::create();
$this->assertTrue($none->isEmpty());
}
public function testOrElse()
{
$option = \PhpOption\Some::create('foo');
$this->assertSame($option, \PhpOption\None::create()->orElse($option));
}
public function testifDefined()
{
$this->assertNull($this->none->ifDefined(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should never be called.');
}));
}
public function testForAll()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->forAll(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should never be called.');
}));
}
public function testMap()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->map(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should not be called.');
}));
}
public function testFlatMap()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->flatMap(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should not be called.');
}));
}
public function testFilter()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->filter(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should not be called.');
}));
}
public function testFilterNot()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->filterNot(function() {
throw new \LogicException('Should not be called.');
}));
}
public function testSelect()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->select(null));
}
public function testReject()
{
$this->assertSame($this->none, $this->none->reject(null));
}
public function testForeach()
{
$none = \PhpOption\None::create();
$called = 0;
foreach ($none as $value) {
$called++;
}
$this->assertEquals(0, $called);
}
public function testFoldLeftRight()
{
$this->assertSame(1, $this->none->foldLeft(1, function() { $this->fail(); }));
$this->assertSame(1, $this->none->foldRight(1, function() { $this->fail(); }));
}
protected function setUp()
{
$this->none = None::create();
}
}
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Body Rejuvenation Procedures
Body Rejuvenation Procedures
12th Jul 2017
Both men and women aspire to look younger as they age. It is a goal for most people to try to slow down or turn back the aging process as much as they can. Although we still can’t completely stop the aging process, we can counter it through the help of technology. In other words, we can do certain procedures in order to slow it down or reverse some of its effects.
Nowadays, there are surgical procedures classified as body rejuvenation procedures. These procedures help a patient look more youthful by simply improving certain parts of the body. The following procedures are considered body rejuvenation procedures: the breast lift, tummy tuck, arm lift, buttock lift, liposuction, etc.
The breast lift surgery or mastopexy is a surgical procedure meant to make the breasts look younger by making them appear perkier. Breasts begin to sag due to the effects of aging, gravity, and the deteriorating quality of the skin. Through the breast lift procedure, the sagging skin will be removed, thereby giving the patients perkier breasts.
A tummy tuck surgery targets the abdominal area by removing the sagging skin and the excess fat. The tummy tuck procedure can also remedy the split muscles of the abdomen caused by childbirth. By tightening the muscles and eliminating the excess skin and fat, a patient can have a flat stomach. This can help them look younger and more athletic.
A brachioplasty or an arm lift can help patients reshape their arms to a more tightened appearance, which is helpful for those who view their arms as a problem area. The loose skin on the upper arms can be removed to make the arm look thinner and more proportionate to the body.
The butt lift procedure helps the buttocks and the thighs appear younger by removing the excess skin and fat in the area. Through the lift procedure, the buttocks can also appear larger and more prominent. It is possible to avoid augmentation, but still emphasize the size and appeal of the buttocks through the buttock lift procedure.
The liposuction procedure can target different areas of the body with excessive fat. Through the procedure, fat that couldn’t be removed through diet and exercise can be siphoned out of the body. A superior body shape can be achieved through the removal of fat in specific areas of the patient’s body. The liposuction procedure is a sculpting method that should be done by experienced and certified surgeons to ensure that the sculpting is done properly. Liposuction done by an inexperienced surgeon can lead to dimpling of the targeted area. This will result in a less pleasing shape when an excess of fat is removed from the patient’s body. This is the reason why the patient should choose their surgeon carefully.
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Tag Archives: restore punishment
Kenya Churches Call For Compulsory Religious Exams
Two major church bodies in Kenya ant religious education to made compulsory in the nation’s schools and students compelled to take examinations on what they learn about religion. The National Council of Churches of Kenya and the kenya Episcopal Conference said the education system and curriculum needed to be reviewed to include national values and discipline in students while they are young. The NCCK said, “The solution to the challenges we have experienced in our educational institutions is in a restoration of a wholesome education and the development of a national value system.” The Catholic Church also added in its belief student unrest in schools is a result of a lack of religious influence and value formation. These church bodies want the teaching of Christian religion in all schools and the hiring of chaplains to ensure teachers are getting the right morals across.
The church bodies were uncertain on bringing back the good old days when students could be subjected to corporal punishment which had been abolished by Parliament in 2001. The church groups are upset at recent student riots which they attribute to lack of good morals. One can only assume they mean students are not obeying those in authority.
There is an assumption running through these religious statements that all people in a religion agree on what constitutes morals and values and the right view of issues. The Anglican church is currently divided over issues of gay and female rights. Which side of this conflict will be taught students in school as constituting the “Christian view?” Schools exist to create critical thinking individuals, not to propogate the ideas of a group of men who run churches.
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Tag Archives: fake land titles
What transpired in Norzagaray
Feb. 23, 2010
Norzagaray is a small town in the northeastern fringes of Bulacan, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre. It is bounded on the north by the town of Angat, and to its south is San Jose del Monte City, now a bustling center where once the squatters ejected from Intramuros resided. The foothills of the Sierra Madre where the provinces of Rizal, Quezon and Bulacan straddle are ancestral home to the Dumagats, indigenous Filipinos who used to subsist on hunting and slash-and-burn farming, otherwise called kaingin. But because of population explosion and its proximity to Quezon City, Norzagaray lands have become a bit more valuable. It certainly would make a good venue for low-cost housing.
Last Thursday, some 47 farmers, some of them still pure Dumagats, others of inter-married stock, trooped to a small restaurant at the vicinity of Quezon City Hall, and were met by a few reporters who listened to their story. They were accompanied by a lawyer and a spokesperson, a certain Mrs. Tecson, who showed documents to prove their case.
This is their story:
They have cultivated some 480 hectares of land in Norzagaray since the late fifties. Some of them, the Dumagats particularly, had forebears who were there since the times when the fair-skinned invaded these islands.
In 1960, they went to the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and applied for free patent to the lands they had continuously been in possession of. In 1964, in the reign of Diosdado Macapagal, they or their parents were awarded, under Original Certificates of Title (or OCT. Note the word “original”) No. P-858 Free Patent No. 257917, dated April 27, 1964, by the Bulacan Register of Deeds.
Then, in March of 1987, a fire gutted the office of the Registry of Deeds in Malolos, burning all copies of OCT’s in their vault, necessitating TCT reconstitution proceedings. (Sometime back, the same thing happened in Quezon City, creating consternation when fake titles started sprouting, and a slew of contested property conflicts arose). Being poor and un-sophisticated, the farmers did not at the time file for title reconstitution.
Meanwhile, on April 24, 1998, Mrs. Cynthia A. Villar, as president of Capitol Development Bank, and Anacordita H. Magno, its first vice-president, signed a promissory note in favor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for 1.168 billion and another for 332 million, for a total of 1.5 billion pesos, payable after 180 days, or due and payable on October 21, 1998. At the time the emergency loan of Capitol became payable, Manuel B. Villar had risen from a third-term congressman to Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, Capitol Development Bank was closed and its assets as well as liabilities were transferred by the Villars to Optimum Development Bank, with a certain Arturo P. de los Santos as its executive vice-president. In June of 2001, Optimum through De los Santos signed a deed of real estate mortgage over the Norzagaray lands in favor of BSP. He once more co-signed for Manila Brickworks, Inc., which was identified as the owner of the lands. Both Manila Brickworks and Capitol Bank, later Optimum Development Bank, were/are owned by the Villars.
To cut a long story short, BSP took possession of the titles mortgaged by Capitol/Optimum and Manila Brickworks because the Villars failed to pay their 1.5 billion loan. Clearly, as we will later discover, the BSP took the titles surrendered to them at face value, little noticing the provenance of its TCTs.
And the Malolos Registry of Deeds forthwith transferred the Norzagaray land titles in favour of Bangko Sentral. Such that when the farmers who held titles over land given to them by the Republic in 1964 filed for reconstitution in 2004, they were told that the same lands had already been transferred to the BSP!
Upon investigation by the Registry of Deeds and subsequently the DENR, which succeeded the divided Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) in the disposition and supervision over all public lands, it was discovered that the BSP-foreclosed titles surrendered by the Villar bank and corporation emanated from OCT No. 287 dated 25 July 1944. This was issued under a sales patent which derived its existence from Sec.122 of Act 496 of the Land Registration Act of the US Government. However during July 1944, the country was under Japanese occupation and hence there was no valid title issued under the said Act and therefore the said “Original” certificate of title is clearly a FAKE and all transfer certificate of titles arising from the said FAKE title are null and void.
In fine, what the Villars, through Capitol/Optimum Bank and Manila Brickworks paid to the Bangko Sentral in partial settlement of their billion-peso loans, were FAKE titles! And aside form the BSP, which was clearly defrauded, victims now are the poor farmers of Norzagaray, who cannot have their titles reconstituted. If a farmer-family wants to obtain a loan so that they can send a son or daughter abroad to work as an OFW (Villar’s advertised beneficiaries of his generosity, for instance), they cannot do so, because the BSP also holds title to the same.
At one time, the farmers said, the Villar corporations sent security guards to drive them away from their land, but they resisted. This seems to be a pattern, as we shall see in other land disputes involving the Villars.
The farmers went from office to office, from the prosecutors office of Bulacan, as well as the DENR. They even went to the office of Senator Ping Lacson after they heard about the mysteries of the C-5 double appropriations. But Lacson’s Ethics Committee could not take cognizance of the letter-complaint of the farmers because then Sen. Pres. Manuel Villar was not yet a senator of the Republic at the time the complained offense was committed. He was yet a congressman, and later Speaker, and his wife Cynthia was not yet even a congresswoman at the time she signed the promissory notes to Bangko Sentral.
The farmers, through Gina S. Jarvina and Valentino Amador, et al, filed a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman on September 2008. Despite follow-ups, nothing has been heard from the Ombudsman.
Now the man who purveyed their lands to the Bangko Sentral as foreclosed property due to non-payment of a 1.5 billion peso loan contracted for by his wife Cynthia, is running for president of the Philippines. And the poor farmers whose ancestors have continuously lived and cultivated the paltry lands of Norzagaray are deathly afraid that if Villar becomes president and his wife Cynthia becomes First Lady, they would lose their lands and their homes altogether.
Kalaban na nila ang Bangko Sentral, the bank of all banks. Kalaban pa nila ang susunod na Pangulo ng Pilipinas? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9748857617378236}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20266', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:32HRXCHQ7CCKO7VJ7CCOJPX7IFWMHLIP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ef60f230-afcb-477f-a6c4-dbbceb146735>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 9, 42, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.28.8.75', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UG4FX5NHCMDN7475IWHDIYLQNYW66P25', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:113f7600-fc00-4527-8cc5-840bdcf47e2f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://propinoy.net/tag/fake-land-titles/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fd0f7c81-8515-4977-9cf1-afcd1463e77c>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '1134', 'url': 'http://propinoy.net/tag/fake-land-titles/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.030144155025482178', 'original_id': 'df009fba6543354e82734198a30fc58342dc196fcd44a149ce9ec1ca761de386'} |
Road Freight
The transport of goods by road is referred to as road freight / groupage transport. In this process, groupage cargo is consolidated at a hub and transported to its destination by trucks. This process can also involve several cross docking hubs. Once at the destination hub, the truck load is broken down again and delivered to the customer via the last mile.
Freight forwarders usually move a large amount of groupage. Therefore, even small improvements in the handling of groupage have an enormous impact. In particular, capturing volume and weight has a significant impact on revenue and processes. This information can be used not only for billing, but also for load utilization planning.
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Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin found guilty of corruption charges
(CNN) -- Ray Nagin came into the mayor's office in New Orleans as a would-be reformer and led the city through the worst disaster of its modern history.
Nagin had little to say as he left the courthouse Wednesday afternoon, telling reporters only, \"I maintain my innocence.\" A small knot of reporters yelled \"Keep your head up\" and \"He's just a patsy,\" CNN affilliate WDSU reported.
\"We did the best we could do,\" Jenkins said.
Prosecutors argued the 57-year-old Nagin was at the center of a kickback scheme in which he received checks, cash, wire transfers, personal services and free travel from businessmen seeking contracts and favorable treatment from the city. Several of those businessmen had already pleaded guilty to bribing the ex-mayor, who left office in 2010.
But the onetime cable-television executive also had his detractors: A congressional committee criticized him for delaying evacuation orders, and his frantic description of post-storm New Orleans as a violent wasteland with up to 10,000 dead turned out to be greatly exaggerated.
As he sought re-election in 2006, with much of the city's African-American population displaced by storm damage, Nagin was blasted for insisting that New Orleans would remain a \"chocolate\" city.
\"I have given my pound of flesh,\" he said.
Nagin sought to have the charges dismissed in October after another federal judge blasted what he called the \"grotesque\" misconduct of prosecutors in the post-Katrina shootings of unarmed civilians by police at the Danziger Bridge.
The judge tossed out the convictions of five cashiered cops after ruling that members of the U.S. attorney's office tainted their 2011 trial by anonymously posting \"egregious and inflammatory\" comments at online news sites.
Nagin argued that he was the target of the same underground effort, citing \"a continuum of pejorative statements and demeaning racial epithets\" aimed at him. The U.S. attorney's office said none of the prosecutors involved in the Danziger Bridge case played a role in the Nagin investigation.
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I've been following this Guru tutorial, and I'm getting some unexpected behavior in the texture painting section. If I move the paintbrush on the left, the marks left behave in a "sensible" manner: without being able to articulate all the unwrapping rules, drawing a line along the default unwrap draws a line along the outside of the doughnut.
First screenshot
However, whenever I try to draw on the doughnut itself, a swipe across the outside of the doughnut does this:
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which does in fact leave some strokes on the outside. I already tried to use the default "uv unwrap" setting but it has no effect.
• $\begingroup$ Perhaps check your mesh face normals to see if they are all point outward. $\endgroup$ – Craig D Jones Jun 22 at 15:56
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Trainee Texas loans fundings have been around for fairly a long time. These loans are readily available for both undergraduate and graduate students that would like to be fiscally independent after college graduation. They are readily available to all trainees, yet are actually extra common among ladies than males.
The initial and also crucial point to consider when taking into consideration a car loan is actually the monthly payment timetable. The volume of money you can easily borrow as well as the duration of the car loan vary from creditor to lending institution. If your curriculum will certainly be briefer than one that is actually 4 years, after that it is probably in your benefit to remove a pupil funding along with a longer settlement schedule.
Different Houston Texas loans loan providers give different types of financings that deliver different repayment routines. Much of the financings have rates of interest that have a tendency to become greater than a lot of car loans. Your monetary needs ought to be a prime factor to consider when determining which funding to get, as the best lending may assist to relieve your debt trouble as well as set you up for results.
Some pupil Texas loan fundings will certainly certainly not require any deposit, whereas others require an amount of the overall amount of the funding as a security deposit. If you possess savings, this may be your best choice. You are going to most likely require to obtain a percentage of the total quantity just before you qualify for a financing if you perform not possess financial savings. Some finance companies additionally offer low-interest financings that need an incredibly small deposit.
There are actually a lot of forms of car loans on call for pupils. Some will definitely require little bit of documentation, whereas others will definitely need to have to look at a a lot longer method. You can easily find financings for undergrads that are actually used at competitive rates, making it easy to afford a college education and learning. It is possible to fund a whole entire degree without removing any finances.
A pupil car loan possesses various components to it, consisting of the settlement schedule. Your selection will certainly depend on the duration of time you prepare to remain in institution and also what type of funding you decide to apply for. Loans for trainees that have less than 2 years of institution left are going to generally call for a higher regular monthly settlement.
Lending repayments are actually generally made to the institution where you participated in. If you have trouble making the month-to-month remittances, after that you need to consult with the institution. Some schools may offer financial aid to pay student financings for graduates.
There are various other sources of cash for students that might manage to help with pupil financings. Check out government as well as exclusive financings that are actually offered to aid trainees along with their economic necessities. Exclusive loans for pupils may be actually much easier to apply for, however they are typically the last possibility.
Financings may stem from either a financial institution or coming from the authorities. The federal government offers fundings to undergraduates, but the authorities does not deliver fundings to students with a financial demand. Federal fundings are actually readily available to pupils with monetary necessity, yet just if the pupil participates in a college or educational institution that gets government funding.
Government financings are not needed to be repaid, other than throughout certain problems conditions. The most popular problems disorder is actually bankruptcy. The authorities will eliminate around one-half of the defaulted financing if the trainee apply for bankruptcy.
Exclusive finances are actually car loans that are actually certainly not supported by the authorities. This means that you will pay for the total up-front. It is actually really necessary to obtain all the information you can on any sort of lendings you are actually thinking about prior to administering. The even more research you have actually performed, the better.
There are actually private lending institutions who use government finances and personal lendings. The majority of private lending institutions will definitely permit you to complete your personal function. Do certainly not permit the interest rate discourage you from utilizing this kind of economic support, as it may be incredibly handy.
In some countries like the United States, it is actually not that tough to acquire loans. The major reason for this is actually that the market place has been swamped with loans. This implies that there are actually thousands of numerous people that possess funds that they do not need to have. They need to get it to be capable to satisfy their critical economic necessities.
If you have an excellent credit rating record, it is important to keep in mind that folks will definitely come to you. You can take advantage of your home as collateral as well as it will certainly become easier for you to receive a lending.
There are several firms using car loans. You can also find internet car loans. Nevertheless, if you perform certainly not have a lot of amount of money, after that you should pick the typical means of selecting a financing.
Some folks have doubts relating to the rates of interest that they pay for the car loans. You should have your questions removed as far as your remittances are actually worried. The moment you are actually crystal clear regarding the rates, you may determine the volume that you require.
There are a variety of banking companies as well as other banks that provide on-line loans. The minimum amount that you must obtain for an on the internet financing is twenty many thousand bucks. For that reason, it is vital to find for an on-line loan provider that provides you lendings at a lot less.
Lenders vary in regards to the rate of interest. You need to contrast these rates before you create your final decision. The interest rates of the financings need to be more than the rates of interest of the typical financings.
At times, you might be actually called for to send some documents just before you can borrow the cash from the banking company. Ensure that you take all these files to the financial institution just before you look for the loan. The absolute most essential thing is actually that you are sure that your car loan is going to be permitted. Finances for residences or automobiles are fairly very easy to get. If you possess a good debt report, you need to not encounter any concern while acquiring a funding. If you possess an outstanding credit rating, you need to be able to get the money within no time at all.
On-line car loans are actually a wonderful way to get funds. You must keep in thoughts that you ought to inspect your reports to locate out the quantity that you have obtained. You can merely make use of the money for paying costs and other immediate economic demands.
Your economic necessities must be actually a prime factor to consider when deciding which car loan to acquire, as the ideal loan can easily assist to alleviate your personal debt trouble and also prepare you up for results.
Some student car loans will definitely certainly not call for any down repayment, whereas others demand a portion of the total amount of the car loan as a down repayment. The federal authorities provides lendings to undergrads, yet the government does certainly not provide car loans to students with a financial requirement. There are actually exclusive loan providers who offer federal government loans and also private financings. The prices of passion of the fundings should be actually additional than the rates of interest of the traditional lendings. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9701510667800904}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '44700', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:264WFLHJBCUN5Y5OHVDF6CM2IC25PRBV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5b4261db-3d8c-4982-bcd5-0c636c3e8726>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 17, 19, 12, 31), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.92.222.163', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3S3ZPRYU6YNV2NM77TVFIXKB7XBM45AB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5dce1006-7bf5-4255-8e85-cd4a7d922e83>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.ztnewstoday.com/2020/05/29/five-advices-that-you-should-pay-attention-prior-to-examining-loans/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e9d397f6-b3e8-47fc-9a3a-121d1d672d56>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1301', 'url': 'http://www.ztnewstoday.com/2020/05/29/five-advices-that-you-should-pay-attention-prior-to-examining-loans/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-254.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06918781995773315', 'original_id': 'da148113259ae71b8e66ce7f8bbe3e1cf0add386bb01a7caf3ee828f562de47d'} |
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EditText gets pushed off screen
I have screen with NestedScrollView with vertical LinearLayout containing Fragment, Recycler and another Fragment. When I click and focus EditText in one of the Recycler's items, soft keyboard pops up and pushes it off screen. windowSoftInputMode is set to stateAlwaysHidden|adjustResize for the activity.
Did anyone encounter this problem before?
Layout:
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android:layout_height="match_parent"
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android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:overScrollMode="never"
android:scrollbars="none"
android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"
android:divider="@null"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
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android:id="@+id/second_fragment_container"
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Android works badly with multiple nested scrollable layouts, you should move the recyclerview (which is a scrollable layout) outside the NestedScrollView
Turns out I didn't try ALL the options as I thought and the issue got fixed by changing windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustResize" to windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustPan"
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Reasons to laugh a little more
It’s crazy how something as little as laughter can do so many wonders for a person. They say it’s a medicine for the soul, they say it’s an exercise that inspires and stimulates the heart. Dr William Fry says, 1 minute of laughing equals to 10 minutes on a rowing machine. That’s some exercise. I say laughing is fun and way better than crying. If you need reasons to laugh regularly, here are some.
What to do in the event of a heart attack
Why you need to start eating lean meat
If I described lean meat as meat that watched its diet, I wouldn’t be totally wrong. How do we get meat? We kill an animal and cut out the desired flesh and call it meat. But did you know that meat has grades? Not all meats are the same. The way an animal is bred, the food it was fed, the way it was raised, the anatomical part of the body you cut out, the method it was butchered and cooked and the specie of the animal can determine the fat content of the meat. Even the all famous red meat can be made healthy if kept lean, and you can do this by trimming (cutting off) all the visible fat and eating it in moderation. Lean meat can be found in turkey meat and some wild animals like deer are typically leaner than farm animals because they have less fat (maybe because it’s constantly running for its life, I mean it lives in the jungle, what do you expect? Good exercise).
3 Reasons Why Cougar-ism is on the rise in Port Harcourt
My Port Harcourt babes how una dey? Report reaching me from my HQ is that there is a scarcity of men to marry as the older women are taking over the ones in your age group. Tell me it is not true. Why would a vibrant young man be willing to get into a relationship with a cougar old enough to be his mother or grandmother as the case may be? If this isn’t worrisome then I don’t know what is. The term “cougar” AkA Sugar mummy refers to older women who hunt or prey on seemingly defenceless young men. While most are widows or divorcees, some married women in search of excitement, rejuvenation and youthful nostalgia have no qualms cheating on their husbands with “young blood”.
3 Crazy things that boost Intelligence
When you think about getting smarter, one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is studying, and studying some more. But nobody really wants to do that. We want to get smarter, and boost our intelligence and we want it to be a little easy. Well, I did some research and I found 3 super crazy things you can do to boost your intelligence. And I mean, really crazy! The last one will blow your mind, I promise. (I know it blew mine)
Overcoming Procrastination as a habit
Procrastination AKA the I will do it later syndrome has been doing more harm than good since 1945, yet some still somehow believe procrastinating shows one is being careful. No matter how careful you think you are being, if you continually put stuff off for tomorrow, it is a bad habit and you should be thinking of how to stop it. Before you start dealing with procrastination you have to first realize it’s a problem and the best way to tackle any problem, is to know the possible causes and there are quite a few causes of procrastination.
Women cheat too: 7 reasons why
Women are emotional beings, which is why unlike men, cheating hardly ever “just happened”, it takes a lot of mental preparation and planning. Men are attracted to what they see. A sexy numbskull in a tight dress at the right place and at the right time is the entire recipe they require. In the days of old, women were readily docile and loyal in relationships because most were financially dependent on their partners and didn’t want to mess with the status quo, but those days are long gone. Nowadays, more and more women are becoming assertive and financially independent. I know some guys are rolling their eyes in exasperation asking so what do women really want? Well, I did a little digging and a survey, not to show that ALL women cheat, but to highlight WHY those who do so, do so.
9 Ways to relieve period cramps
9 terrible reasons to start a relationship
It can be frustrating to see everyone around you in a relationship and you’re still single and desperately searching. That period is usually when you make the biggest mistakes. You become desperate and everyone who says ‘sshh’ to you becomes a potential boyfriend/girlfriend and you’re willing to settle for whatever comes your way. Guess what? You deserve much more than that. You should go into a relationship only for the right reasons; because it is the right time and you are financially,emotionally and psychologically ready to do so, and most importantly because you have found someone you love. Going into a relationship for the wrong reasons can be disastrous.
Future mothers-in-law: Things not to say to your daughter-in-law
Someone told me that she wants to marry a man whose mother is dead because she wants to escape the wicked mother-in-law palavar AKA Patience Ozokwor Syndrome. Rather harsh won’t you say? The poor woman is just expected to drop dead because of this kind of wish? Smh. Funny enough, 7 out of 10 ladies would wish something like that, because they wouldn’t want to be in a situation where they’d have to steadily compete with their mother-in-law. The other 3 out of 10 (like me) would pray for a mother-in-law who would return their love. (I hope my future mother-in-law reads this). | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '304', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9666329622268676}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '169398', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4EORJNM4GNHBYVEEDVS5GDRLWMX7CMTQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0ce66ae5-a996-4ffd-bce3-ebbcfc0fb07f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 23, 2, 31, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2IIZMZUI6EC5VQVGR5JDPWQLOW4TV7PI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:60fc7f6a-ea6e-437f-9eb0-a785e70350eb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://pitakwatimes.com/2016/07/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:27cda963-458a-43cd-9281-6f6a6a70e5a1>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1265', 'url': 'https://pitakwatimes.com/2016/07/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-45-27.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09353160858154297', 'original_id': '8ab7d57ed223d189e0b1bd1535aa76ff2b6a911d143db9cd46a4ef6f75096d0d'} |
Therefore, he is Mr. Perkins, would not stultify himself by temporizing with the subject in any manner. Perkins Saw Roosevelt. "Thereafter, Mr. Perkins and Mr. Smith and, I think, Mr. McCormack went out and interviewed President Roosevelt and meceded an persuading him not to assume the Harvest or trust, and shortly thereafter President Roosevelt intended Attorney General Bonaparte not to take action. "Attorney General Bonaparte gave me this suggestion for the purpose of securing me that he had not intentionally broken in word with the information authorizing me to institute a suit against the Harvest trust Mr. Bonaparte plainly indicated to me that I was offended because the recommendations of the Harvest trust people had apparently had more weight with the President than his, which recommendation and advice." Mr. Hill then refers to Colonel Roosevelt's declaration that none of the papers in the Harvest trust case ever were suppressed and in view of the recent receipt of some of the papers to Mr. Benate The statement then concluded: "These papers show that the Harvester Trust was about to be prosecuted for cheating, but promised to do better, which promise was satisfactory to the Attorney General. Other trusts, probably not of the benevolent variety, were found for cheating, and had to settle in the courts." "The suppressed papers show also that George W. Perkins was referred to as the representative of the 'farreaching Morgan interests,' and that Mr. Perkins said to Commissioner Smith that if the Marvaater trust was to be attacked, then the Morgan interests were going to fight, whereupon Mr. Smith wrote to President Roosevelt that it is a very rare question whether it is well to throw away now the great influence of the so-called Morgan interests." President Roosevelt had sent the report to the Attorney General, with these directions: "Please do not file the suit until I hear from you." Colonel Roosevelt met the damaging disclosure by saying that Mr. Taft, as a member of his Cabinet, had advised the action that subsequently was taken. He even alleged that, if his memory served him, Mr. Taft made the motion in Cabinet meeting which resulted in sustenance an investigation for a prosecution. The records of the War Department were then introduced by President Taft, showing that in the fall of 1877, during the full period of the correspondence, he was absent from the country in the Philippines and elsewhere. Colonel Roosevelt then shifted his ground and said that President Taft approved the report. Section of the suit after his return, January 1, 1891. "This last charge is disproved by the record, which ahows that on November 7, 1907 iMr. Taft was <3tit of the country 'rom early in September until late in Deoember. 1907). Herbert Knox Smith.! the Commissioner of the Bureau of Cor- : ?T-vations. telephoned Mr. Perkins 'at the ' President's order,' that the President I took the view that the bureau's investi- , pation shojld eome before the suit. i Why. then, would the matter be brought _ before the Cabinet for -.enoi's discus- I s!on in January. 1908? " "lf it was brought before the Cabinet I ?n January. then Mr. Perkins had a] -tcr-cp' of sixty days on the President's coifRdential advisers. It is 6.gnificant. | '.oo. that the order directed Commis I icner Smitn to ccmrrunicate with Mr. Perkirs. of J. P. Morgan 61 Co.. and not i with the president or attorney of the tdsrvester trust." GIVES TAFT SURE VICTORY ? - i McKinlc-y Finds He Now Has More thiin Necessary Votes. . Uurea rraahlngtoa. May fl Wlllam'B.-*McKln? Itt. 'head ol 'ia** Tai ? ?-'. artafra, mau*. i.w favlloarlag atateaaeal to-day: FVeeklenl r,t- yeattt'etay eame Int - ab . tro "l the Republlcan Nathmai ention, whlali m'eeta In Chicago ''.\ .hm*. JTi- Hat ..f (leli-gatea tu that 1*01 ? ? - -,. ip. . tlon <>i atati and dlatilet . n . t ? . Montana. idaho, Arkansaa. T?*arSaa s*dd Nortli ? V'.i'.Tid reaa ed a total .., . a" enough I .'nt'rol. Af tl ... ?? Irtu M R - . ilned ?-< ntgib delegatea ???? maki Ii>l*d 1,1 nstrui-ted. pleilga. a*;..; i oi Y-< tl ui. I'i . ,.i . lotnj ot. ahort of ron ' . I . . ..... v lilt-ua. i the Roo if-rmp .. umlmr ot delegate** daime*! -,,, Mi :? is one nf the tlgn|ila*i ni ...:..., ? enty-foor hoora. ? .;?, ..i.j,i .\ii. Koo.wv It loedl: . i . .in.. .t it ? - thal i over live , .*,...] .'. '. , ? ? ?'? 'flVl /-..MVr-ll x^j.^1 n> +|Y.:ir-. tha axari number. .\la Ruezev lt | ?-. ti t.t*y -. - blblted ?. tahli .., ,.v ? ? it-.-. in hi** own -, ..._.. .. ThU**. n ll ai'i ?<!? Bl. ...... (? tii-- laal not cli ''?m-vt. tl" ?. ? . . ..... -i- ia gte. ? ? ' - re an i.. .... .1 Iba .... b- nr.. ?,. v?-??-. nnrn .|r,--.>'. M.-Dl??>n . ji.^,... lafmeil otug il* d* 'ggXt* for ?*?>* jlitj -two ? n *'? u Mr i , Jt .. - N -Ir'-r ;' eX?X*41y ^ wa r * ?'-? ? ?** UK?n -J' Uooet I . i' m >o frut y???...! r* ttlxor, w . ?.?<?-?-?] ? ?.,.,.. o-y ? | .|'.V.4 ,U -lfy.il...; '.-.11-. 1. t; ?,.' . .. Ti ? :- ? it. tdtua ,'o. .. h .\rt.-l:?rf>?-?-\.lt icrund taiiii.-**ii lo i"*i" -i-i' (tnilouhtedly u-.-;. >Ua Ibla ? *i "IVedneaday. .... ,.leiatlon ? ai l*r? Idam laft. ,,- ... | ... : ...in. raated al Cbl< u;. . ,tt IiIm friendr* wlU ?' ':t"' thr ... - .,.._.,?_?,, ,,r <w lonventlon and prepar ? , ,!?!:.,' . .-i -ii im- bilcati party i... .-ih in the aelec . ,.. . ..,.., in thlrt>-Klx .-.lates and io, ,ii?--. v-, ,,.,.. Mi RooKcvelt*' delegatea ,.,!,,. f.-.'.n, ?.: ' 'went: !' addlMon, ll ?? ,-,.....T. -..- irrlapd twentyriliree of, these .,.,.1 terrltoriea aLaolutely, i hlle Mr ,i, ' . . , , , an -t.ito- in only aix T .. remainder of the rot< - "X botl , urd'Oa"- ? ea from atate** wblch have ? .,_,i.,! hetween them. . . . ..:,i -ni :?-'.../ : i ntgi ' Wi McKinieJ added Ihree i" Mr. Taft'a vote, ,?? -. -Vr; BB*! OwlewaAtte. ** tta-atva ttiorel - T ;li. ,, ir,jjialit> '" "'?* ' "li.'-l".'.". killed"b7nail in hislung; ---:- 1 Little Patient a Puzzle to Physi-: **- - * cians Four Years. \-,,p,,.,,. \iBgnm, lx yeara old. f -s>'". iso \\*<->i 64th atreet dlad tn the Prea? byterlati Hoapltal yeaterday froni nn . haceaa of the letl hinff, cauaed by a wir.- nall <>i.< and a half htvh< - kmg whlch waa Imbedded therea The |??? - <,.,.] the nall had ?>'?-" ln the i im g foui yaeara, and ha i been ||oV , ,i i.v the boy Mt*. Moinrtri aald viit.-a-m- had ilwaya )?.. | ;-.,i;i<i;v He waa born Mai 13, .,,,,,; ... I,- mlnutea ta. 9 ..'<*ioa-i< In tha :,,,, :.)j;. !ti.rt.-.-n montha later, ah** aatdi he < 'it -?'- ii'-'' u. th. and <". Md >'b < o| !,,? .,.! iu>t ial?*-n ill. \ iii'.ct.l ? j,isi h'aori !t- i being tre ita d !>?? inu. .i.-.n- Mi H?,r,-.-a! ihere-waa Kome1 trouble v.11 ? th- IntiK-, unt ii" q na 4 ,-.i v lymptoni id ;?? pulnioiiary ?i j.-? ? ? i.-.-.-. *i-;', ,,',,;i ?,:- .'. .-..\. i- .i only wheir an , \ i i-.- - x.niiiii; lan waa made ."The llttU -*? ii< 4> made ma^iy frlejtda ?aiiioiaK lhe dMtora ,tn<i nvjegat Cor hla . ;:?? aniiuj in ? l'it'- a.f | li-, It xx ia r-ald ? A. preah; ter ? Huepltal laftl nYiu iii,-.; >,? aevei eomptaln^d; f"'1 ,,|K onl) f?-ar' bad 'ea.*n tit'i itlf inolher might Iii ? ? b , peiii ? ' "i'Y aboul tii tn. lie"**6u*id ?e. ti.o inii-x". not t.. i'.|| h<-i,J mg* log h..1.1 ? i -, If thej dld. J Will Hold Rump Meeting Unless He Can Control Chicago Con? vention ls Belief. ? HIMTS THAT HE MAY DO SO Statement "He Intended to Take What Is His" Taken to Mean He Will Head New Ticket if Not Nominated. The Tribune - Washington, March 11. The Theodore Roosevelt intends to control the Chicago convention or the following convention of the politicians in the part of the party. This convention has been reached by state politicians, who have tried to determine a motive for the costly series of "conventions" throughout the South and the election of full seats of "contecing delegations" in nearly all the cities, when delegates were instructed for President Taft in the regular conventions. The charge is made that where the flopping of regular delegates could not be induced to the convention conventions were held and Roosevelt delegates named. The charge of President Taft's campaign point to the fact that the convention held at Richmond, Va., yesterday, when 60 negroes and 70 white men held a convention and "elected" a new set of "conventions" is an example of the policy of the Roosevelt managers to have, in hand in Chicago, "conteced" delegates to. Hold a rump convention if the opposition controls the regular convention. It was stated at the Taft bureau that Colonel Roosevelt virtually gave an inkling of his intentions in Ohio yesterday in the speech where he said he intended to have what was his. Senator William L. Bradley is one of the Taft men who believes Colonel Roosevelt's managers are laying the foundation for a bold should it be impossible, and he led a statement to that effect today. Senator Bradley said: "Contest was Prepared." Beforo the counl> conventiona wera h< id in Kentiuky arrangementa wer.- i< liiB made in advance for conteata by tb Roosevelt people. At any rate rumora of such arraiiRementH wcrc rif?-. and th> rldlculoua ontests that took placa ar. Indubltable proof *>f the fact tha*. auch conteata had been prearranged. I hava no doubt that Mr. Roosevelt from hli statement is pavlng the way t" '."It lh natlonal convention. and have not hai any doubt for aome tlme thal such would l>... hla eottrse." t I'rnrrT'-s an- ma,..- bj lh< Tafi but AU that ao-called rump conventiona, **lmllar t,> the on_ held In Vlrglnla yesterday, have been conducted iu Alabama, Flor Ida, Mlaaiaalppl, Tenneaaee and 11 a number "f dlatrlcta ln other Btatea. li is certaln that "handpicked dolegatfons'' were selected ai theae conventloiii*7, wfiich were h*M aeveral weeks after tlv- r,->_ii lar con**entlona, and that the ?? ei named for rio other reaaon than < , have ,, full repregentatlon "fan atatea ? Chicagn convention whlch may !-?? th*1 outgrowth "f a i?'!t by the l: , - ., i .upporti rs. ?< inl;. in Vrkanaaa yeaterda; > ,,, Ro -ev.it .n.tii bolted the convention and -v'1 mit oti thr- atreet and plcked up five other men, and they lelected -hai will I"- offered at Chicago as tln 'con leating delegation' thaf* the u ,. bei a >i-,i..k_ bi aineaa." declared on ? ,.[ tln- offlciala at tln- Taft bui' Lavlak expeadlture <?f money in t?i" ia leri t "i' the Vlrglnla rump convention i.-- charged againal tie- Rooaevell burea i in a -atatement given out hy tla- Ta***. people* td-rilghf. Thi convention wr.n he!d 'it Richmond and entirely repudi* ati-il the regular convention .,' Roanol:.* in March. The atatemenl from lhe T.1 bureau aaya: "Tha regular Republlcans "'" Vlrglni.i 1 .-ii.: -.- il ihe little dlveraion ln ila ir tn tla- fftmosl and hai i be m hlng uj, tiieir ,!? i \ i a ai ihe ^uiii bllity of tla- Rooaeveh* headquartera ". Washington, which haa nol only financed tla- wbole comedy to dati. bul wt'l utidertake, accordlng lo gencra] reporl l.i T. '. iiond, t" t ay the carfare ind ex -,?? ,?,:-*? s of aii th*- 'delegatea.' Negro Leariing Virginia Revolt. .i u. P< Hard, ??? i."'er,i polltlcian. i? Ri\'-Ii tla <r?.d1t ',s the T.lft li'irean ><f ...iinliii lins 'be preltmlnarj work f"i the \ ;r_; 11? i rump eonventkm. lt Is ? .-rt-iin thal ii- made aeveral trip. t*, Waehlng ton before lie ronvlnced genator I.ixon, munagei of the Rooaevell headquartera (?.; i li|i ' ?' . ea .".in ? iMitilri'-nt f r tha j .-x-i'i.-Hio.-nt in \ Irginra. The oelegnte* i.i,i..i -t the convention ar. deacrlbed ay Koiiai'i plcked." and Ma. Pollard la . ,.al ;,. havi yi\en to liie presa an Inter view, in whii ii he prai-ed tha *-.**>? boaa yi tiie Rooaevell campaign a? rollowa: ? s**nHt"f Dixon ia tha moat imiable nhlte man i ever met. He is -?> * a. y ,,, approach, and hi i-* auch a high vlaai mon. Ha '*? young aud vigorous, .ind i* fully e,,*Tiii to the taah "f managtng a fellovi like Rooaevelt, who aarrl<*a-the mu tstick 'it*"- Benator may b> arlth na Thuraday, ln fact, la- gave ua uvery Hssuriiia ? thnI l_u w oUld riiu ,i, ? ,, i-, Richmond if not ralled away tn Ohlo, v. hi, b in now the itorm oentre We bope Um fdenptei will ba able to oome. Ha wouM -'?"'' lv throw lota of fire Lolo ihe tng; He hrjuai thr ktnd trt mai to ? i., th t aort 'if thing. ? ??Hijt ? \ r-u ii lie don'l ' 'mn Ihei ? i. :li i... i,ai, ihlna dolng oul ol the ordin^ri at our cuiveiition. We an going toliave lets of swell folka wlth ua. There wlll in bank preaidenl . doctera, lawyera i ? ! ft, i". v *a ii> ih. doaen. i can't 'Hvulge names juat now. But they will kMk i*ut ni th-- cancus." P.UMP CONVENTION IN GEORGIA Roosevelt FactiOO Mects and Senjs Eight Deleoatcs to Chicago. Atlanta*, M""> IT. Btghl aafegataa-at large. With lial,* a Veta eai'' wer. r.arnt-. te*day by lha Rooaavell factlon of iiir Q.gia Republicana "arho hehl their atata Dl ion in i?.- to-da ? Kour si < v\ hlta men and 'our in negroea Thej were iti* ,-,i io v,,t.'. f-u Rooaevell a'ff long (U ina"iin'in.- i , i ?*,, ia.- hatloiial conven* limi la raaponse '>. lhe roll call hI",ui one hundred und Irij delega.- ?-, i'.-,i to iii, ii ri*mi??. .i r i-.kivit iiiimiT atata ?-' 11. Uliinei ? Iqunl ??. araa lempo* rary chalniiun of I te convention. Jtideon ^\' i.vi.n . fi ra, i li-.-, i,;,r of the Trtas ui'. ,*m> the [" , mai,. ,1' 'h:ii,mnn 'i'i,. ,-,)i, .-aii,,,, wh-- ,-i'Mv; hartnoniouf untll ji eifi.j i v ..> mada i" hava the dfle al-'tfj.! ii.'iiia-.i !?? ? ommlt te' - a.a i r?ii^,i u... oluiloui udopled bj th* cqaveiition Ktrofigl: eXtolled '',,l"t'-i t ., , ov~t'Tt i.i'i flrnmineed th?> ?4_ilnletea ll ,li uf I'i -:i..'-li' Taft. COLONEL. SAYS TAFT He Tells Ohio Voters Mueh of Mr. Roosevett's Support ls of This Kind. BOSSES ALSO BEHIND HIM; President Declares He Is Tircd of Being Lied About'* by His Opponent With? out Oause. Toledo. May 17.?Prealdenl Tafl Bdopted nea offenalvi taetlra agalnat Colonel Roeee j ?,!? to-day ln practlealljr every one of fo irteen apeeehea he ht:'.')- lie uaed an argu |mmi of particular Intereal lo Ohlo and lo the northern parl ol the atate, brlnglng ln nontlnually Ihi namea of Dan R Hanna. , cleveland. and Walter Brown, of Toledo, ia-o leadera ..r the Rooaevell movement. The Prealdenl called Mr. Brown "the only boaa now ln acttve commlaalon ln ihe Btate," and charged lhal Mr. Hanna, "wlth unhmited wealth," waa -111 i.. 1 wlth Ihe ape , ial Intereata, bul : ?" waa recognlaed by Ui Roooet "lt aa a pati lot, noi a i-".1 ? I'v.- gol tlred belna lied bou ind held Up i., ii,,- c-ountr- aa having t'tolated everj pul of i ondui i. whei I am nol. th.it I have vlolated .ny '." ahouted P deni Tafl hen to-nlght in a apee *h I ? , rowd thal lli d everj avallable eeal and ,i ti... itii > of lhe Toledo Audltorlum. Mr Taft'a apeech wai one of thi m ial bltter and on< ol the moal plain apoken il hi has made Blnce hi l?egan io bi .-.?., th. chargea of folonel Theodon Rooaevell and to uae hol al.>** hla own Tha Pr-?alden< bluntly obwroed II I Wai .... Brown I ad eaa d lo be a Tafl P : be. auae the Prealdi nl n fnaed ln ac eepl hla recommendatlon ror ludlclal ap? polntmenta He deelan ,1 lhal Ihe oppoat* Hon to hlm on thr parl a.r Dan Hanna ,;.,,. ... -i ennaequi ni e ot Indlctn agalnal Mr. Hanna by the Tafl Depart ii,.-i.t of Juatlci I'li appeala to Ihe i rowd I .r ? ai|iiare deal and hla attaa ks on Mi Rn* aev II wi r ? . d ln einphntlr faahlon. lt wai lhe moat demo tatrath i gatherlng Mi T I addreaa. -I on hla preaenl li Ip Ridicules Roosevelt Tariff Scheme. Mr Tafl < alled tl ? larlfT vl *wa ? f Mi Rooai vell t IdlculouB, .it .1 labella d ??a heme" for a larlfl thal would make .-. division a.r proflta between the laborer and the employer "catchpennj phraaea." "Nelther Mr Rooaevelt t ..i enybod] ,;...'. ,-. aj thi Pn Ident, "eould ever draw bui ). a Mll. Ha waa In the *?' Houfe aeveii yeara and never trled ' i re a tarlff." He .iii'i.'i ii little llea ln Mi R oat vell - moul boj thal i ???' ;i"i up wlth lhe Inti r. when tli.- evldence lhal haa i.n bi . -i ln the Harveater ai I Bteel ., cae< -. and alao right In Ohlo, Bhows where he atand* Mr. Taft, foi the fli n llme, flatl i han wl lhal Mi Rooaevelt, hli ? impaign managei gi ator I 'ivn i-..i i' moc ... ga ? -...-.I ihe ratlicatlon of the eatlea a-- they oiiglnall) were pul ?? e the Benate "Who defeated th ie ireatl. ar* ln i ked, ahakini n "P ?'??,| d?wn the platform, "Il waa Th.lore Rooi Benatoi Dlaoi and the Dei i ?*M< f-. |a: Pi. aldi nl wld ;aT Tlffln -y,.: Roo ? ? ' ntro lu. ed lhe I tha boaaa Ha aaya that l ain l nf tlie boaaea, and he la agalnat tbem all and tl ??;. an al ri Inal hlm 1'ou i Ighl hen In Noi Ihen ohlo Uu man who i- In full comml slon ?- s Walt. r Broa n, of T? I. by Dan Hanna who *? d wlth all lhe greal Intereata it. Korthern Ohlo. and they ni* n ihree newapapera Soa iT,;ik.-? ?i flne * ollectlon, doean'i l.t? preat metropolitai ? ? i man wlth i-i.iin.it. d wi altb, ??'???? lata : wlth il l ??? gri at pi' Ial Int. real i .. nt lliei li ; ? . II MAnd v'-i Mr Roohi Mi Hrown i* a patrlol and a Pi ? I am noi attaa king Mi Ro. ? .'< li bat .uae Mr. II Im Ha U , ll like me al I 1 ke any t>th*? pei oi l ???!,*?-' H. tak. ;.,.-;. .t.- i i . . ... o. ??. hlm ? lai from lh. -Touna Mi n'a i hr| Uai I un "i. ' v lde from i Itl ? ln. n lon Into < >h ? tlra, Mr. Taft'a lalks were nf th- aan *? ? -ri..i- aa on prevloua dava ul Im preaenl ??i From Ram to Sunsh.ne. ll. ran oui of Cleveland int.. .. mlld ian. *i laifm i lha moi nlna. bul *?*? ni on lhe a eat her wa* agam falr nnd ..rlK"'- The 'erowdfe lhal mel lhe prealdenl were up lo the average ol lhe trlj.. and were attentlve, although hol "' lemenatratlve ia others ??? n m other Bectlona of the itati Ii, hl i si'.--. h ln Ba i!.- ue rr. hl.-ni Tafl . -i thai mu. ii bt ihi mppoi l now be? lng glven to t'olonel Roeaevell li. hla flf-hl ... .. renoirHnatlon vaa rorahig- from men Indleted iu- ttfa Tafl ailmlnlatratlon Ha Mr Rooaevell doea nol dlffei from me, and i<> aaj thjtl becauae ;. man aupporta \..u ihererore you ar. Imund wltli hlm, la ti. *?-.,* aomethtng that the m*re ffcel of hl* support doea nol luatlfr lf ll did I .?,.ui.l nay thal Mr, Rooaevell ouahi nol to be BtJPporteil becauae all ?.he IndietMl p<bo pje ,i< BiiPBorlipg hlm, aa thej art, a.. ..i lii.-i-i. Mr Perkiua. who li .. direeloi In lhe s-.-.-i i- upt and ii. th* hai veatei u uai w.a- Induetitlal enough ln tli*- laal adroin ivtratlon* to prevent aulta'a'gatnftl then 11.. |f nol influenl Ial ?? mugh noa He ?? b . ..iiiiihiitDi ta. Mr Wpoae (It'a polltlejil "fund 11.. aj B th;.! .. -nil helpfl ,i ll ual Well if ii lull*-- t|i>* truat, 1.. wa' marvelloualy nnxioua ia> prevenl the ull In Ihe laal ad? mlnlatratlon ii M helpa the truat he oufchl lo l*e aupportlng me Inatead hi ? :.:.? m ii li al] poaaible power Boasism Not the Issue. The Prealdenl spoke ..t Loraln In a d< wn< pour of rain Among other thlnga he Bald: ii.)...-.. .--ii aa ? ihe real Ii*ui of ihe ram li i ..- i in, bul he li mlataken. I'm - Ins Ui. aevt-i yeara ha waa ln oftlce rttd you u.-i.i of Theodore dylna i-Ih handa wlth th? biood ad the boaaea Dld rou heur of ti-. colonel golng out wlth 'i- elepliani i .. and ahootlng any boaaes? No; you dH noi Boaalsm Y h lalae l*nuf rna] a ahu:n The Prealdenl defended ttv- I'.-i.u. -ai.i li't. tarlff Wll upheld -blg admlntMn and denonnced ihe recall and third term. Ilthoogh Mr faft fioetlned todlacuaare porta publlahed ln Cleveland thal W mlghl ahandon the fijutit for a renomtnation u he -i.nni.t ??<.;-?? in the DMo prlmarlea, men '!..-.. I.. hlm j-iaee no credence In auch a reporl They point m the*fact thai hon* a-ir'*.t? of delegatea te tha cwnventlon nra? Inatructed and pledged for Mr. Tafl ?? I that tli.- Taft workera throtlghotn ihe . itmti havi pul theli ' llght for hlm: They i***ui-*- alao on tii" bltter reaent menl the Prealdenl haa ahown toward Colonel Rooaevell and few woukl concede ;iiat h>* wnuhi aver withdraw ln favor uf hh pi eda ??? - ". ? ? FIND BOY DEOWNED IN BEWSR The body i.f ii ?? llttl bos foi lid Boat jng ln the Kaat Rfvi i eelerdu m< a.n bth atreel aaa Id-intlOed l - * >* t nlghl ln the MorgjM aa ihat -.f Willioni Pbhoi four yeara old, a,f So, . *- Baal Hd Btreet, :. hla mother, Thereaa and taken holne Ti. ? little felloa waa plajfag on ??. hole cover al frd Btreet and Avenue A on April ?? laat, when ? rovei gave wa; and Ii<- waa ceeried Ihrough the aewer to the rlvei An ? -.viii.'i -ir ?? Beai '? waa made ut tii<- llme hj i'i- pollee ind men waralng in ih< ne'ghborhood. WAR SOUVENIR COUPON m "*OJt-*e*.. -_** ?* * . -**^i_ti('j-aiii? ? ?:*??****.??' .?'?>*?*?*?*????** ?* ' v-'; ?/4n*i -t**ti.aw <V ?*" *?*y*^"?$ 1wjifaf*?'r fy*ffi&*T''. ;'**'*? ?'?'. "**.?__: : '-"*.*T ' '_ *. ?_l___-;ff'-i?_r.?___*k^ ,fr<*!C.23l(il *$Sa4ifi&iMfM\n*fl Hi-tc**^tfigatar" ..' "tf _. Do Not Delay?Use This Coupon To-day Each Section. 10 Centa al Tribune Office, 154 Nassau St., or 1364 Broadway, or 263 Weat 125th St. (14 Cents by Mail). Address all mai! orders to THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE Departmenl W. 154 Nassau St.. New York Specify what sect.on is wanted and send CW? W-J*l order. SECTIONS I, 2 AND 3 ARE NOW RLADY. TO FLY AT TURKEY'S THROAT Bulgaria Ready for War if Czar Will Permit. St. Petereburi Maj IT. Di B. Danoff. Mlnlster Preaidenl of lhe Chamber ot Deputlea In Bofla, who li vlalting th i ?>?..-.i- ,,i ITalta as specUil envoy of Bul garla. Is reputed to i?- carrylng o H nn Importani mieston. Tbe "Voiee ol Mos , ow.' s well mi' rmed organ of tbe Mod j . rates and supportei ot the govern? ment, sa; a lhal I"'- Danoll Is endeavor Ing t-. obtaln thi Cxar's ">"ir-.<iu '"> H"' .?an i declarlng wat on Turkey. i :<;,,- Perdlnan i ls repretsented ?s ? Ing thr."iK'i' his envoj lhal aa harraonj .,, ,-.-..iimk ind purpose noa prevall** Hniong the Hai* ,,? _.?-?? nnd ?? Turke> |a mvolvi i :'< u dangerous struggle 9 Itai* . ?',,- limr has therefore arrlved '"> ,in\ ing thi Mosleni Invader oul <-f ':" rope -? HORSECAR KILLS BOY Crowd Crics "Lynch!" but Po liceman Savrs Driver. Whii s irylng to ratrh s hall Un ? *' . , ompanion, M ix Prli Im , .m. nf No. IOI Monroe strr-. t, i . - kllled ? , nt* rda) afternoon bj belni i .,.,-r nt Madli otl and P ? ?ti ? ' patrolman !"?' i found the car i ui rounded b) more than a hundre i i ??? Bons, b 'i ' "i. n of "Drag the drlver i ., ,| i j ,.h hlm!" wi r.. heard. ln ? ,n. >wed hla waj tn the front <>f the ? i ?,;. t inside * '?"' doors " Im oi ,i,-r. il th** drli ? i -? ho waa Thonrn i ?r. .,r N". IOI i.t.i:. streel n ii* was told, and the poll ??? . ,. |t| ||* |t; d Bpi ; n?d the . rowd ? di igged '' '-'i - ,. car. bul Im Mai ,n an ambulam ?? from (l H ? th had been I -,,,... us putndi ??, l " ?"? ? ** ?!? 'i '" " fellow ? fli io his :t ?al -ta"- ?. Bn I lhe i f! of Rll thr* ? were i ??? --:- rs tn pn ., n ,. the I ? ? : i-., in , . nol ri ted Hi hl !h. bo; ran back , ..,.?'-,? ?* ;. ? ?*? i.. - before th, l.tnk* ?* ? ? uld I ? B| plleil FATHER BETRAYS CULT HEAD Tells Grand Jury "Diiciplfl of Zoroaster" Is a Fnkcr. H < -ni i; Hlgti i*ii'-i nf lh. M i i ? ' t-toman '.' i hranded ..- h i.,k- r and a cheap I I ? tl fathi i .,..,? ,re '' -? fed I Jun hei ?? !?? ,i tilih. " ho t*t> !? s hJrnsolf ? th< -. . r prophet.' ? ndi t ?iii .in- i.i ; n ? ndln r lli**r expl routi \ .nd ? in ?nj Th** fatlui ??l Haniidi, tti* - ;'-?t> !???! . .; . i. /.?,t--.i-t.-t'. ?. .. ,i...l hlmsi li in Rlehard i: Hanlah. a Milwauki ? l achi i of m i iii and lan* .... - , itoinan Kai Aduaht" lold the gullible thal ? tvas born ln a Perelau monu ? ? . ded ati rl hy lhe i rophi ta t" Hi,. prvlc- ol Zoroaster and th. giowing -un and snati hed from the i-> - - ul death b) h iniracl. Th?* fal her made i' i l< ?"' i*. th. grand Jui y that th>- onl) time 'Zar-Adiisht" evei aaa t) ?? land ol the Khah was when hi looked at the aehool atlaa LA FOLLETTE SEES VICTORY Holds Kcy to Presidcntial Nomi? nation, He Says. Uowllng Oreen, Ohlo, Ma) I. Hpeaking t.i n larn.- crowd hen to-nlght, Benator l_a I . ., ii.- rieehyed he held tl," k-v i,, the II ? .?!? ntiai nomination ar Phlcagu that pa*i hUtorj Indlcated lhe Republican partj i... ., v.,iiii-i nomihate twn men so n--.ii i" gethi?' ln tfi* ra'??? .i^ [tooS* i, li ,ii,,1 Taft, nii'i thal hi arai tlu Hki lh nomlnee ot lh* partj Benator La PoUett*1 ifrea s totp. | :. lo v hiirn ti*- ,i_*.,t-.,i ,i Rtreag nt ta- !-. 01 - i l'l, Hi.Jfiii I.. h.si-vi.lt His a" ? i tiona thal tru*i_ i\.i\. ,i fal uadfi t1"' i-x I'i.- -i,)> ni broughl iiiin i'li,-.-i - S.lllll.,1 I.;,' I',,11.11,- ,|..l,U.-.l ' .,!,,,,. I Rooaevelt'a .ampalgn ?., , >>mi i -i. a by Waii, i F Brown, w*.., h. i.rmeil u ? -|.. Mtleal boaa I'lom tbe i">" -nt Um. mlll " . _avel fglls lo adjourn In lha Kepublican conven? tion i inn h candidati t,,i thi Preatdent) declared tl"- Benatoi ll*. ilenounced Theo? dore KooaeveJl foj nol yigoroual) enforeing tin- Bherniun mti-trual law at th. tjegin nini! <>r i,!- Bdmlnlatratlon, aaylng i iat Uien Ihere-w.r* onl] 149 rrtmirutl con plraciep ln vtolatlen ol thr atatutea, repreaenfln^ cor poratlons oapitallsM at i<*hs than a billlon ii,)!!.n". i,in that theae opon violatora <,t th,. Iu? had Increaaed to mora than tn thou* aaial, repreaenUng a |-?plti_llsattpn ,,. morr than thlrty-one bUllona, before lha and ??/ lhe Rooaevell uaministraUon, and tbal imiv*. ,i , pVacticall) Impoaatbl. i,.i anj Preal ii- nr to atti in:,' to erui I tha tt u-is \\ lt out Injury lo-legltimate buslneaa "H'a na J*>i' for -i r.,ni,ti ri'ir-r with s blg _tu-k.' ii*.- sxelali.I, 'ninn for illuatratioa the rer. s sUr*_eoe musl t..Kc ln an opera iii.ii Mi Tafi Is too amiable for r.? ? - |<>b, |,< .?i.i bul ii'- polnted ?itt> pride to inn own i.-i in \\Isoonatn' . , nator La Kolli tte will leavi ht " i ai I] la mo. row moi Dlng for i 'oiumbua, i Iblo L'blcago May 17^-Benatov La l'.,ii..n. '*,ih bere to-daj on hla way frora Califor? nia '" Ohlo lo take part h. the primary campalgn. Tla Benator, || was aald, con IMed t" i'i-1 friend lhal when he gtarted ampalgn al Boa king *?t?- <n, ?Iblo, ln ivould m ??!< enllghtenme.garding funda ua*_l tiv other Praeidentlal candldatea Benator I -i hwette, ll bi ileclared, wlll ,ii on ?'olofiel H" - \- it t?. pubHsh ? iift <if contributera lo hla campalgn fund Reports havi reached lhe VVIsronsTti Bena? tor tlmi ll.OOft.OWi, largel; romrfbuted b) iJeorge W l'?-rkitis. i-;. tjarj i.n.i Dan liiini,.!. la furniSlitnq thi fn* ina t..r n? :.. i ? ,-?.<-ii rampalgn, and hi ?i?-*?ii*? ?> i,. have an authorltatlvfl atatemenl o- to tin bource of ih- tmaie. wbhtn b being *?i?-ni "I um gohtg to iiiiui't ?" in. people a ???,i.-m--,. |liowlng where aarh eei|l spenl ln ut rampalt'ti cmnea from nn) I oh>iti ln?>l!?i thut roHmel Rno"*ev*l| i? *>,)n.it|> candid, thi Benator b -a> i- ? t - ? i ai aaylng, Took Responsibility in 1908 for Brownsville Order. R. TAFT NOT TO BLAME Gen. Corbin's Statement Shows Roosevelt Directed Secretary to Execute Decree. i i Th*" Trlfc ? i: w lahlnaton, May 17. Theodore Rooaevell ..n attirnptlnft ... ehtfl the reaponal blllt) for the dlachara? from lhe army wlthoul honor tand wlthoul trlal of the naagro mldlera <.f ii.?* Bth Infantry, alleged. ln parl, ;>> hava been Involved ln an aflraj ? bi wm -'ii- Ti x from hla '?*?*?" ihoul dera lo William H Taft. who al the tlme of t". rald waa Becretary of War Mr. Rooaevell is announced out of his own mouth in the following statement of the August 7, regarding Henry's. For instance, in incorporating the full text of a reliable dispatch of November 21, 1906, by President Roosevelt from Rio, to his son, Mr. Taft, the Secretary of War having called President Roosevelt respecting reasons for the order. President Roosevelt in reply to the his own? It's the best Washington? For ... in episode on the West military ruatably KoN Itll. then a fair West rt n. A. R " and Fort-will He :i, cober -T to November ;, The Brown at the order was V....?..!..: n, nr (?'< ?I. I..-...n.l evening days before his ?? Hh lifl??:.I? dlva? .-?.. rei iry of War When Mr Tufl n<.1 to the department .... -. *? with Infantry ?.?? station. Tli .t ihi Prealdenl mlghl \l, Taft. a Ba retai ( ??' Wa ; .. ?, .1 tha ordei l do nol Itappen lo i . ip) .if Mr. Taft'a cabla dlspati h lo fhe i*i.-i.i, nt, who waa than l" the w ??? l ln i, tha) ma .. ? whal the Preal? denl aenl back ln repfy " waa Ponce fo ir daya aft< r Mr Tafl returned t.. thi .;? i grtmenl i..it.- on the aigbl ol *| ? ? ?. i: laaua ?: i stat. menl Raj in whlch it waa made - ? ntlrel) re ponalble foi tl ? .? . of lhe orlginal ordei -' lhe n . r negro aoldlws for al eged pai ,. llrownavtlle riotlag and foi the refu il tu ennll tha I of thai order, Preatdent Rooaevel liown ih'* ' 'orbln Intel vla** nd afti r lt gava ?? a tli. following ., ... ral I'orbln'a atatemenl la abeolutelj ,..,,.-, i. and :t ?.? i ? ? tlrel propa Mi .t h should make it The aubatan".l lhe rp< - ,,.-.. t om thi Pn-aldi nl *?*. hia li I"- qua led waa rn.i'i- ;< il '??'? '"fn** ago ln tt.- Browna v ii'.- matter tha entlre reai.BlljIIH) for ? .. ...i ordei und f< ? ,,, ai|(, ? 'ii- lon w ta lhe Prealdent ? "DAMDELIONS" FOR COLONEL Their Return Indicates Roosevelt Gain. Says Duell. i ,,._,, , i ,r\t.m ni.-. . ' man of the Kooaev. lt- clt*j rommltti ? en in hand agali ??? aterdaj io maki more pr. - dlrtiom ln i.-aiit.i ta. the nominatlon of n .n.i ,i. Room vell on y a flrgl bailot, and, Inrideiitally, t? take ii rap at lhe apeech made li) fhalrmen Barnea of lhe Repub? llcan Btate i.'ommlttea tii iii- dlnnei rlven ... hlm at tt"- Repahlli an i lub ,i oge l ?ue!1 dei lai ? i thai the talk af a ihlr.l candldate waa foollah, thal Pr< Tafl eould nol dellver mora than two iliir,i? "f hla delegati ? to a third candldate, and wlthoul ..il of them no thtrd ? andl late oould I-- nomlnati d Btlll more nbaurd, he wenl on, i.,ik ..f ihe uttra-i'unaervatlveB ol readlng Colonel Rooaevell and hla aupportera out of lhe RepuMlcan party* ("ould thla lie done. tbe Republlean i? i*?t > ln the nation would I-- iit lha aama laiiul.t ns that party ih io-da) ni Loulelana. .\ Republlean club thal permtta aiioh vaporinga lei be promul I. i!,-i wlthln it.-i doora ceAaea tu be .i Itoa repreaentative <<t in.- part] Judge Duell deelared thal Colonel i<. vell had added IM delegatea i.. hla i radll tl.io- week, whlla Prealdanl Tafl had added iwenty-ala aad loal four. "Little wondei thal bla frienda are eiated and hla adveraarlee taka rafuge In tln- laal .ut. ii Bald ihe Judge. "Two dandellun' convenllona i.a*- ?? thla week recorivened, reconaldered theli prevloua Tafl fnatrue Hona and noa Inetrucl for r.'olonel Rooae* \.:it it makea iitti.- dlffaarenee to the Bouthern delegatea afko Y nomlnated. They are ?ora eencarned In havtng .i can? dldate n'.nilniit.-il wlu> aun i.a. elected. Mr. Iloaetelt will have a majority of uncontested delegates in the convention. My previous precession that he will receive, it is expected, a delegation on the first ballot still. FOR A NEW RUSSIAN TREATY Preliminary Exchanges Made, but No Formal Initiative Yet. Washington, May 17. It was admitted at the State Department today that the preamble exchanges have been kept in a state with Russia looking to the drafting of a new treaty of trade and commerce to replace the treaty of 1878, which will be passed by abrogation. In the end of the present year, they have been assumed that the United States for a formal initiative in the negotiations. San Francisco after Curia had, American Ambassador in the United States, now on his way to Washington, the subject of the treaty of 1878. Arith n vlew t*. tha "? - glnnlng pf formal negotlatlona SIJNDAVS, NFW-YORK TRIBUNF. Mailed anywhere in the United States 10 a year. 10 Bird Tries to Bite Him and His Machine and /-yioiher Run Into Each Other. STRAIN AFFECTS HIS VOICE Roosevelt Insists Control of Convention by "Fraud and Force" Will Mean Party Ruin. Calumbus, Ohio, iuy!?>. -President Taft's theory of constitution government, said Colonel Roosevelt here tonight, is that it is "a government administered by Messrs. Lorimer, Ouggenheim, Barnea, Gallinger and his wife, in defiance of their will of the people; This is a government. Under which the people are feasted of their rights by these men." The colonel insisted that Mr. Taft was mistaken in asserting that the success of the cause is now seemed assured. The Chicago convention, he continued, "will not be controlled by fraud and force." These statements were made by Colonel Roosevelt in his speech in Memorial Hall. The building was formed by a crowd of thousands, which filled its capacity and streamed out into the street. Before reaching the hall, Colonel Roosevelt made an address at Olentangy Park. During the debate, he raised a speech at Olentangy Park. During the debate, he raised a speech at Olentangy Park. Only One Who Could Win. Colonel Roosevelt began his address in Memorial Hall by saying that he showed the support of every Ohio Republican who arrived in the city for a Progressive. He added: I came into this fight only because it had been in the interest of the people, unless I did so, there was no chance of any progress. In the Republican nomination, the representation is strong, and a matter of fact, they are not primarily for Mr. Taft at all. Every Republican in Ohio who votes for any man except myself is strengthening the national cause. Yesterday Mr. Taft said that he believed he would win the nomination because he believed that the Chicago convention would be organized by the friends of constitutional government. "I ask you to remember that those "friends of constitutional government" are upon whom Mr. Taft is not. They are his supporters, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Lorimer, from Pennsylvania, Masera, Huggenheim, and Evans. froia Oolorado; Mr. Ualiinger, from New Humpshlre; Mr i'..,t ;:?-.<. rrom !**ew VOra. and Hr, Keailitg. frora Indlana. ao i i ould go ,.a Indennilel) \V!.? Mi Tan says thal ttre Chicago ronvehflon "win b? oontrolled bjf>( ta* :,,..:,,!. ?f , ..i.-tiiiiti..nal governmenl be in**ana thal II rni I.ntrolled by mm rtueh k. Meeara. Lorimer, Barnea and ten - ,,,-.. Biid b> Ihe d4.1eg*ilca fraudulently aeated rrom xtelcs i :<?? Waaotngton, where the) would be avowedly *._t*.-. not becaune thej repreaenl tha people but because the) do n< i rertreaenj the people, Mr Tafi i* mlaiak-n. Tbe Chicago con? vention wlll nol t>. controlled bj fraud and fon - n : li r mm ?" The atternpt so i" .-..nir..! ii will be libauceeeaful, and, _f auc eeaaful. ll woaW merelj meaa tha ruln of th* Republl sn party. i ,,.,*,.. v,.ii will remeraber, from noa an. ,uii whal Mr. Tafi meana by conatitutloual rnment lli '''" of" terani ? 1 have q ? ??' ?? Hr Taft'a theory . -, .-,,,1,1,1 kov* rnmenl i- that lt ls rnment ad_nlnistered by Messrs. Lon ,,..,. ,; iu-..-.,!,. .ii,. Ba ? ? -. lalllnger ond their like, in deflance oi t;." wUI >d the ii.'..ple aml Imposed by then un th* people; i - _,,v rnment un?li r whi-'h tne ,,.i.. are ,i- frauded of their righta by ,;?.--. men He bellevea thal theaa men. ,<? exclu-lon ..f tbe people, should be _i\.n lhe gu:?rdlanahip of the Constitution whlch the i.ple themselvea made l i pro? teet their own Inrereeta agalnst iur*? auch men and to secure fustico for themaelvea _nd for all men. Owl Tne-. to B,te Him. The fourth day at Castle Rooss, the campalgn in "I'i" began in "I'i" began in "I'i", which he reached at 1 o'clock the morning, off the platform from which he spoke were Colonel Roosevelt put out his hand to stroke the owl, which tried to bite him. The colonel withdrew his hand abruptly and the crowd laughed. "What to say is that you know," he said, "I thought that you were looking for a machine." There was a slight mishap in Chillicothe, Colonel Roosevelt was in an automobile when, as I turned a corner, it was into a head-on collision with another machine. Both automobiles were running slowly, and the cabins were running slowly, and the crowd was in a state of confusion. It was in the midst of the political campaign that for the first time since he began his present campaign, Roosevelt's votes showed the effect of the demand made on it. The rain and cold weather made his voice husky, and his telegraphed to Columbus for more information. In his call, he said, "I am in the midst of the political campaign." Cothe speech? 'concerning Rooes' : v.-it said i mn foc a representative BovenimeBt abawlutely,.->? f." as lt represent, but when the representative government does , nol r-i'rffwnt, then I want the people to have i chance themselves . a? RUCKER DEFENDS DIXOIM Says Chase, Negro Delegate, Wanted to Desert Taft. Atlanta, May 11.- Menagerie, colored, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Atlanta district for a number of years, gave this parade today. It was today's convention from Washington that night, in which Senator Rooeevelt's campaign manager, Is alleged to have undertaken to persuade a negro delegate instructed for Taft. For the Taft delegation, Rooeevelt said Dixon's statement is true as it is, but might have done further in establishing the racial attitude of Taft, the Taft delegate concerned, he added. The truth of the matter is that it came to me in an ongoing and told me that while he had been elected a Taft delegate to Chicago, he was at least a Roosevelt man and wanted to sit into the Roosevelt bandwagon, for two reasons: because he said... Between the former President and the President, the former President was elected to the White House and, according to the press, Roosevelt, when President, had restored his title to a place in the public printing office from which he had been dismissed. I arranged an interview with Senator Dixon, wherein Chase said to me. The Senate then told him the thing to do was to clean right out in the open for Roosevelt. After much debate, Chase said he would like that. He promised to write a letter for publication next day. He never did it, and I supposed he had much good "coffee," and that the matter was closed, until his predecessor sent from Washington last night. It was shown to me this morning. I was present at the only interview he ever claimed to have with Senator Dixon. This morning, I was present at the only interview he ever claimed to have with Senator Dixon. Soon after, O'Connell, B. Johnson, Richardson's spiritual advisor, arrived at the prison in his automobile. Mr. Moore, also. In an open, the institution, few students later, and had Mr. Johnson, for some time in the ward, at this conference that pastor and lawyers decided upon the committee. In which the attorney should be informed of his fate. At the office of Mr. Morrell, Mr. Morrell, and Mr. Johnson, the defendant, and a few minutes later, the attorney, in his client, stated that all hope of communication of the case was gone. Lawyer Breaks the News. "We were in general session," Mr. Morrell said after ward, "and it was not until the appearance of justice that I indicated that I knew of his fate." | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'sn83030214_1912-05-18_1_2_1', 'collection': 'US-PD-Newspapers', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '7291', 'token_count': '13292', '__index_level_0__': '38807', 'original_id': '0f2101f2eadf68201ce05d061106d35434fea1e0042851958c4f04bece51dc04'} |
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God-Centered Hope Expels Godless Hedonism (Philippians Sermon 18 of 24)
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Philippians 3:17-21
Joy, Works of the Flesh, Idolatry
Introduction: Two Great Drives in the Universe
As I thought earlier in this week about the most famous and most expensive bowl of stew in history, I was thinking it must have been incredible. I mean, it must have really tasted good. Of course, I'm talking about when Esau came in from the field and was famished and spend a day of hunting and apparently came up empty. And his stomach was calling and he smelled Jacob's stew bubbling and... I just thought it must have been incredible lentil stew. Now, I've never eaten a lentil stew that was worth selling a birthright for, but I thought it must have been an incredible stew. But then last few days, I think I changed a little bit and now I feel like it must have been probably leftovers, just heated up, because isn't it what the devil does? I mean, wouldn't that greatly honor the devil's whole scheme, is to get somebody like Esau to trade it off for a below average bowl of soup.
Isn't that in effect what C S Lewis said in, The Screwtape Letters when he said, "The whole program of the devil is to get you ever increasingly enslaved to something that ever decreasingly pleases you?" That's what he's about. And I think, therefore, it must have been leftovers, that he sold his birthright for. What a tragic thing that anybody would trade faith for something physical, that Abraham's grandson would trade it all for a bowl of soup. And I'm thinking about this, that Abraham, the great man of faith, who turned his back on a lucrative lifestyle in early Chaldeans and sold most of it, and was willing to live in tents and never get what was promised to him and just lived by faith should have a grandson like that. What a scandal. What a tragedy.
But I see around me in the country I live in, and I see within me in my own nature, the same tendency, the same drive, as it were. And that drive is strong, isn't it, brothers and sisters? And the sanctification that we're called to is in direct opposition to that drive at every moment. John Piper has clarified for us that there are two great drives in the universe, strong and powerful drives. One is the drive that each individual person has to be happy. And the second is God's drive to be glorified in and by his creation. These are strong drives, aren't they? And you cannot resist or refute your internal drive to be happy, you can't deny it. You can't say it's not there. You can do some things about it, we're going to talk about those in this message, but you can't refute it, because it's there. And whether you know it or not, the other drive predated yours and is stronger, and more powerful, God will be glorified in his creation. That's why we were created. And what John Piper's done for me and for so many others is said that in effect the two become one for the believer. We find our happiness in God's glory. We find the meeting of every need, anything that you could want, we find in God's exaltation and his glory.
The Dual Danger of Legalism and License
Now, the Apostle Paul writing this greatest probably of all thank you notes, book of Philippians, obviously has more than just thanking them for the money that he has in mind here. He is a pastor and he's concerned about these folks. The background of his concern is in the devil's relentless attack on the church. The devil is never going to let us alone, ever, for a moment our steps are going to be dogged by this enemy. And so he's always pumping out things to try to stop the work of God, and in this one chapter, Philippians, we see two of his greatest lies. And what's so interesting about them is that they're in one sense, kind of opposites of each other. I think in the end they become the same thing, just different means, but they are legalism and license. We see them both in this chapter, legalism and license. And Paul, the pastor's, concerned about both. He begins the chapter by looking at it, he's concerned about it. He says, "Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh, for it is we who are the circumcision." Now, we are the true circumcision, not those Judaizers who want to subjugate you Greeks into a system of laws and rules and regulations and sap all your joy.
"I want to tell you... " in effect, he says in Philippians 3. "I want to tell you about my own pilgrimage. I came to reject all that as trash and all of my efforts in legalism led to nothing. A joyless existence. I found something that drove all of them out, and that was I saw Christ, the resurrected Christ on the road to Damascus. I saw His glory, and there was awakened in me such a longing and desire that has never been fully quenched. I stand as a man who's satisfied, and yet never satisfied, always wanting more, but I know what it is I want. I want Christ. I want to know Christ. Even if it means suffering for me, even if it means death. I want to know him." And so that drove out any concern over legalism. I knew that my legalistic life as a Pharisee would never lead me to Christ. Actually, was leading me away because it made me proud and hard and self-righteous, and I didn't want any of that." And so he says, "Be like me, follow my example, live like me." And if, in some point, you think differently, God will make that clear to you too, okay. Because I'm not wrong about the Christian life. That's what he's saying. And so he's resisted and he's turned away from legalism. But now interestingly, he turns in verse 17 on toward the opposite error. And that's this whole issue of license. And he wants to warn them about it.
Now, we've talked the last few weeks about verse 17, "Join with others and following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you." Well, we kind of took that verse out and talked about it on its own merits, and saw that across Paul's writing, and really across the whole New Testament, that there's a theology of discipleship here that was worth listening to. But now I want to set the verse back in its context and understand it in Philippians 3. And he's saying, "I want you to follow my pattern because there are people around you who are living like godless hedonists, pagans, and that life leads to hell. It leads to destruction. And I want you to be warned about it." So he's a good pastor, you see. He's warning against legalism on the one side and then he's warning against license on the other. The interesting thing is that both, I think, in the end, turn out to be the same thing. Both of them are intensely me focused, aren't they? Both of them looking inward like that Pharisee that was so self-righteous in Luke and stood up and prayed about himself. "God, I thank you that I'm not like other men." Well, it's very self-focused, that legalistic self-righteous approach, but so also is the God is their stomach approach too, isn't it? Always thinking about, "My drive and what I want out of life. What my urges are and how to meet them." It's a very selfish way to live. And so we have selfishness in its religious garb, and then selfishness in its pagan garb, and it ends up about the same thing.
I. The Condemnation of Godless Hedonists
Now, when he talks about people whose God is their stomach, it's an interesting phrase, isn't it? Look at it again. He says in verse 18, "For as I often told you before, and I'll say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ, their destiny is destruction." Verse 19 he says, "Their God is their stomach and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things." Now, the stomach certainly was designed by God to digest food, and it does represent food here, I think certainly. But I think it goes deeper than food. I think it represents any fleshly drive, any appetite, any lust, any desire. Frankly, anything tied to the body and to an exclusively earthly lifestyle. If your stomach is your God, it means that the center and focus of your existence is meeting your earthly drives and desires. It's why you're alive. Your free time is spent on those drives and desires. Your free mental time is spent on them as well.
Frankly, all your time is spent on it because even in your professional life, or if you're a student and you're training and preparing, you're thinking about meeting that drive and desire. The Book of Ecclesiastes says that all men's efforts are for his mouth. And what it means is there's just a focus on the earthly side of life to the exclusion of everything else. I think that's what it means if your God is your stomach. In the end, you worship only yourself, and your own body drives, and you live to meet them. That's all. Now, Esau is of course the ultimate biblical example. And so I brought into our pastoral ministry a while ago, the term, "Esauishness," which doesn't exist in the dictionary. I've looked it up, it's not there. But you know what I mean, it's what we live around all the time. America is surrounded... We're surrounded by Esaus. We're surrounded by people who live for their stomachs. And it's a very difficult thing to observe. I worked for 10 years in industry, and I just... The motive, they put up with the work week and live for the weekend.
And it's just a drive all the time toward the pleasure and toward physical delights. Hebrews 12:16 points this out concerning Esau, says, "See that no one is sexually immoral or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as his oldest son." And so we have these overpowering drives of the flesh. Now, there are different strategies for dealing with them. The body itself is a remarkable gift of God, isn't it? If you really think about it theologically, it is the highest pinnacle of God's physical creation. I think He made nothing better than the human body, including the human mind. It's the peak of what he made physically. And so you are amazing and intricate balance of biological systems, the circulatory system, the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems, and the digestive system certainly, and the reproductive system, all of these things fearfully and wonderfully made, King David said. And it was a ground for praising God. It's not a bad thing. We're not Greeks saying that the body is evil and we must subject all of its strives.
Well, there are different strategies for dealing with these drives. Now, what drives are they? Well, drives for food and drink, to eat something that's delicious and drink something that's pleasing to the palette or drive for visual stimulation, for sights that are beautiful. Could be anything from a beautiful tree or flower, to a mountain, valley, or anything else that's beautiful to your eye. Drive for sexual pleasure. A good thing from God. It receives an awful lot of press, doesn't it? Even in the recent weeks, when you look at what's happening in our country about marriage, at the core of it is the drive for meeting sexual needs. The drive for sensory comfort. A comfortable blanket on a cold night, I used that even recently. I like a nice, soft, warm blanket when the weather gets like it does, and we have insufficient insulation. Working on that.
But get out of the shower and your body is dripping, nothing like a plush thirsty towel. I mean, these are the sensory things of life, and they're not evil. Skillfully-designed furniture, a couch that doesn't have a spring poking up in your back, something like that. And these are not bad things. Jesus slept on a cushion in Mark's Gospel in the back of the boat. What was the cushion there for? Well, ask him when you get to Heaven, but I think it was to make Him more comfortable. I would think you don't need to go much further than that. And the drive for pleasing sounds, whatever your favorite music is. Those are all things that are around us. Now, the problem really comes ultimately with boundaries, doesn't it? That's the issue. The issue is that God has set boundaries around these drives. He's given the drives, he's given the desires, and then he put boundaries up. Says in Psalm 16, King David says, "The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places." That's a contented man, it's somebody who's happy and content with where the fences are set up in his life. But if you jump the fences, you become a transgressor. So there are fences, there are boundaries in life. Now one strategy of dealing with the fleshy drives and desires is to say, "There are no boundaries, literally, there are no fences anywhere."
That's the ultimate of hedonism, the ultimate of me-ism, that I can have whatever brings me pleasure. Some people even kind of baptize this theologically and say that the death of Christ on the cross covers that so you can live any way you want. That is the grace of God transformed into a license for immorality in Jude 4. It's mentioned also in 2 Peter 2:18 and 19, it speaks of these false teachers, "They mouth empty boastful words and by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom while they themselves are actually slaves of depravity. For man is a slave to whatever has mastered him." So ironically, they are talking about freedom, but they are living like the ultimate slaves. But that's one strategy, saying that there are no fences, no boundaries, nothing, anything goes, whatever makes you happy. The other sinful strategy is legalism or asceticism. In that case, there are boundaries set much too narrowly. You're to be inside this little area here, and anything beyond it is wickedness and sin. And so these folks draw in excluding territory that God has said is good and right, such as marriage, for example, or eating, or other things.
Things that, it says in 1 Timothy, God made so that He would be thanked, that He would be honored, but they draw in the boundaries so narrowly and say, "You must live here and anything beyond it is wickedness and sin." Some of the ascetic monks, these are some of my most favorite people to study in church history like Simeon Stylites, the one who sat on a pillar six to eight feet high, to get away from everything. By the time his monk career ended, his pillar was 80 feet high, and he would stand for 20 days at a time and pray and sit for 20 days at a time and pray, and they'd give him a modicum of food and he would eat it, wishing probably didn't have to. That was a life of asceticism. The problem with that kind of asceticism is, number one, it doesn't work. Colossians 2 tells me it doesn't work. These kinds of extreme regulations, "'Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch…' These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence." They don't change your heart, you're every bit as lustful as you were before, and God is looking at the heart, isn't he? So they don't work.
Secondly, in that they do work, they produce some negative effects, harsh thoughts toward God, judgmental attitudes toward others, brothers and sisters, who don't make the same commitments that you do. And so, if you decide to give up something, spectator sports, television, any kind of entertainment, computer games, vacations, I mean the list goes on and on. I actually made a list of the different ways that Americans meet their pleasure needs, and it really was amazing, cruises... I mean, we could go on and on. But if you say, "I'm going to give up all of these things." You are strongly tempted to feel negatively and arrogantly toward those who don't give them up. Well, those are different strategies. Here the focus is on Godless hedonism. Now the word, "Hedonism," comes from the Greek word, "Pleasure," Hedonis is a Greek work for pleasure. And the definition would be, whatever most increases pleasure is right, regardless of who it is it hurts.
Now Greece was the center of certain schools of philosophy concerning this, Epicurus for example, taught this, but I don't really think that Paul was looking into schools of philosophy with the Pagans that surrounded his Philippian Christians, he just said that's the way that Pagans naturally live. Whether they have it organized into a system of philosophy or not, this is what they live for, their god is their stomach.
Paul’s Four-fold Assessment of Godless Hedonism
Now, he says four things about them here, he assesses them, he says, first of all, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ. Look at that in verse 18, "many live as enemies of the cross of Christ." The center of Christ's life was the cross, that's why he came to die on the cross, he came to die, to suffer and die. And he calls on all of his followers to pick up their cross daily and follow him. If you don't carry your cross, you're not worthy of him. Jesus said it plainly. And so the lifestyle of a Christian is the lifestyle of the cross. It's what Martin Luther called the theology of the cross, of self-denial for something better, something higher, a greater joy. And Jesus did it all for joy. He wasn't that kind of Godless ascetic, and there are, by the way, ascetics in every religion, it's not just Christianity. There are some in Buddhism and Hinduism that do the same thing with the earthly drives. But he said, these people they live as enemies of the cross of Christ, they hate the preaching of the cross, and they certainly hate the lifestyle of the cross, they're enemies of the cross.
And secondly, he says, "Their end is destruction." I think end is better than the NIV's pick choice of destiny here. Destiny's a little strong. It just tell us... Which is the end, the end of that road, you living like that, the end of that road is hell. Now that there's no question. Maybe destiny too strong but hell is not too strong. From which we get the word apollyon in the book of revelation.The end is hell. The end of that lifestyle is hell. It says in Matthew 7:13, same word, "Enter through the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it." It's the same word. Some people say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but here it seems to say the road to hell is paved with a bunch of good times. One party after another, one good time after another.
Thirdly, he says, "They glory in their shame." Interesting expression here, I think what it means is that that which they will in the end truly be ashamed of they presently boast in and are excited about. They boast about whoever can drink the most alcohol or have the most pleasure in a variety of ways and there is a bragging and an enticing there. Puritan, Thomas Manton put it this way. He said, "First we practice sin then we defend it and then we boast of it." And that's what I think he is meaning here when he says their glory is in their shame.
And then fourthly, he says, "Their mind is on earthly matters." They think about this stuff all the time. You can't get their minds off of the earthly stuff up into the heavenly realms. They can't think about it, it's not the way they're wired. And so they are always thinking about the next exciting ball game or a sensuous night, or a great meal, or something earthy. That's what they live for. And it says in Romans 8:6, "The mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace." And so we see the condemnation of godless hedonists.
II. The Compassion of Paul
But let's not miss something in what Paul does here. I went right over it but I don't want you to miss it. In verse 18, he says, "For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears..." It's easy for Christians to miss this, isn't it? What is Paul's attitude toward the people who are living like this? Are you shattered over it? I mean, he is crying for them. There is an incredible compassion here for these folks. And this is actually a regular part of Paul's ministry. He did the same thing in Romans 9 when he's talking about Christ-less Jews, those who have not trusted in Christ.
Now, he was a Jew that had trusted in Christ but there were many who had rejected Christ. And what he says in Romans 9 is that, "I speak the truth in Christ. I'm not lying. My conscious confirms it in the Holy Spirit. I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers those of my own race, the people of Israel." He is weeping for the Jews who don't know Christ. Weeping for them. Just like he is weeping here for the pagans who don't know Christ, whose God is their stomach. He's crying for them.
He does the same thing toward Christians, 2 Corinthians 2:4, he had to write a very harsh letter dealing with sin, 1 Corinthians 5 covers it and he wants them to know it was not easy for him to write that disciplinary letter. And so he says in 2 Corinthians 2:4, "I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears not to grieve you, but to show you of the depth of my love for you."
And he just sums up his whole ministry to the elders of the Ephesian church in Acts 20 verse 31 he says, "So be on your guard. Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears." The tears of Paul here, his great compassion. And it was really the tears of Christ because he is patterning it after Christ who stood over Jerusalem and wept over the city. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings but you would not."
The compassion of Christ for the lost is coming out in his apostle. The tears that he weeps here. Ultimately, though, I think his compassion is towards Christians, isn't it? Because he says, "As I have often told you before and now I say again even as tears, many are living in this godless pagan way." Don't do it Philippians, please. Don't live that kind of life. So his compassion is really ultimately for the Philippians here. Although he does grieve for the pagans.
III. The Conduct of Citizens of Heaven
And by way of contrast, he says that's the way they are living, I'm warning you against it but I want to show you the way your life should be. Your citizenship he says is in heaven. You're at a different level. Verse 20 and 21, "Our citizenship is in heaven and we eagerly await a savior from there, the lord Jesus Christ who by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body."
There is a strong contrast being set up here between the godless pagans, the hedonists that are living for their stomach, and you Christians, the Philippian Christians. There is a difference. Their God is their stomach, your God is the eternal creator of the universe. They are enemies of the cross of Christ. You embrace the cross as your salvation, first through the atoning sacrifice of Christ so that his blood shed on the cross removes forever the wrath and curse of God. Condemnation gone through the cross of Christ and you know it. So you embrace it as your salvation but secondly, in terms of lifestyle, it becomes the way you live your life. You take up your cross everyday and follow. And it frees you up from the enslavement to passions.
And so they're the enemies of the cross of Christ. For you, the cross is salvation. Their end is destruction, but your end is heaven. Your citizenship's in heaven. There's a contrast here. And he says, "Their mind is chained to earth, but your mind is free to fly to the heavens, because everything in heaven and earth is given to you through faith in Christ. All of it is yours, kept in the heavens for you." It's incredible contrast here. Well, why does he speak like this? Well, he says, "We're citizens of heaven." And I think the Philippians would've embraced or understood this, because they were very proud. The Philippian people were proud of being citizens of Rome. They were a citizen colony of Rome. And what that meant was that any natural born Philippian was a citizen of Rome.
Paul himself was a citizen of Rome, and he used that a couple of times to get out of being beaten or some other things. He thought like a citizen of Rome, and I think he wanted to be a good citizen of Rome, but his higher allegiance was to heaven. Our citizenship's in heaven. I'm speaking mostly I think to Americans. I think since 9/11, there's been an upsurge of patriotism and I understand that. And I think we should be patriotic to a point, but there's boundaries to that, isn't there? If you ever want to study a good case study on patriotism with no boundaries, study Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles, Germany over everything.
Well, I would say Jesus Christ over everything. Our citizenship's in heaven. So we must be good American citizens like the apostle Paul was a good Roman citizen. And the early Christians prayed for the emperor and were submissive to authority and carried out their duties and responsibilities as much as their conscience allowed them to, and so must we. But our citizenship's in heaven. So Paul's point here is ethical. If our citizenship's in heaven, how should we live? Well, not in lust and drunkenness. Not in orgies and wickedness.
Romans 13 says, "Let us behave decently as in the daytime, not in orgies or drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." And this is going on as we eagerly await a savior from heaven, Jesus Christ. So while you're waiting, what should you do? Is Jesus going to come back today? Oh, I hope so. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't it be great to have the prayer meeting tonight cancelled because Jesus came back? I'd be happy about that. He has that authority, he can cancel any prayer meeting he wants to. It's his church. So if he cancels the prayer meeting because he comes back, I'll be delighted. And we'll talk to him more directly, won't we? And that'll be wonderful.
But if he doesn't come back, how should we wait? Well, I'm going to give you again those internal and external journeys. Internally, puts into death. Externally, let's speed up the day of God. Both of these come together beautifully in 2 Peter 3. Listen to this: "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?" You ought to behave like citizens of heaven. "What kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live Holy and Godly lives, as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming."
How do you speed the coming of the day of God? Well, get busy in evangelism, make disciples of all nations. And how do you speed its coming? Put sin to death in your own life. That's what he says. Behave like a citizen of heaven, that's what you are.
IV. The Consummation of Salvation
And then fourth, we see beautifully the consummation of salvation. He says, "We eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body." Oh, I'm waiting for that. I'm excited about that. I'll tell you more in a minute. I had no voice when I woke up this morning. That I can speak at all is a grace of God.
But God is good. But here, he mentions is the second coming of Christ. We are eagerly awaiting Christ to come back. It's like Scott said in the baptism today twice. Are you waiting for Christ to come back? Our sinless savior to come back that we might look up in the heavens and see him there. And that he would at last get what he truly deserves, unfeigned worship. Christ will descend with the clouds, he will come back with the armies of heaven. And he will come back as our final savior from this vile world and all of its temptations and its attacks.
Secondly, everything is going to be brought under his control, that's what it says. All of this disarray that we see in the newspapers and we read about all over the world, we're talking about tyrants that use their political power to strip the rights and freedoms of people and beat on their bodies and even take their lives. We're talking about the scourge of poverty. We're talking about the temptations to the animal drives and lust that we've talked about earlier. This stuff seems like it's out of control. And we're talking about within the bodies even of Christians diseases and decay and problems. And it seems like it's out of control, but it isn't.
Jesus Christ has the kingly right to this whole world. It's already been given to him. All the authority in heaven and earth has been given to him. It's his already. But there's a process going on here, isn't there? And so the father said to the son, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." And that's going on. But when he comes back, he's going to finish that job and everything is going to be brought, the Greek here is very strong, under his arranging control. He will bring all the disarray and make it arranged beautifully as our king, and that includes your bodies.
And so we end up where we began, with your body. Yes, those drives, those desires, the fleshly side of you, which is so much of a battleground now, isn't it? And it makes it so hard to walk a single day in godliness. Paul says in Romans 7 that when he wants to do good, evil is right there with him. Well, it's in the body. He calls it "the body of death," he calls it "the body of sin," he calls it "the mortal body." Here he calls it the "the lowly body, the humiliated body." This is the only vehicle we have for service for Christ in this world. We must have it, but we must keep it under subjection. And what a struggle it is every day.
But the same power that enables Jesus to bring the whole world under his control is going to be at work in your body. Isn't that exciting? And He's going to give you a new one. You know why? Because the old one cannot make it to heaven. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. You must be transformed from the corruptible to the incorruptible. You must be made like Christ. And this, at last, is the finish line of your salvation. And when you've crossed it, you will have been completely saved.
And until this happens, until Philippians 3:21 is fulfilled in you and in all of God's chosen people, salvation's not finished yet. We're not fully saved. This is what was stated in Romans 8:29-30, "For those whom God foreknew, He predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined he also called, and those he called he also justified, and those he justified he also..." What? "Glorified." He's going to make you just like Jesus. You're going to be conformed to his image. In your body as well as in your soul. And that's going to be glorious.
V. Applications
Now, what is our application for this? Well, really kind of infinite. But I'm only going to hold you for another hour. I know your stomachs are grumbling. I know you're hungry. But I kind of gotcha this morning, don't I? Because who's going to admit, I'm too hungry to listen to this sermon. I got to go. But I'm not cruel and I'm not unkind. Just briefly.
A Balanced Life
A balanced life. Can I urge you to look at the legal, lawful pleasures, which God wants you to enjoy? Look at them like a child of God. In that internal journey, I want to urge on you a balanced life of lawful pleasures and self-control. Rejecting, on the one hand, self-righteous legalism and on the other hand, license and freedom to eat and drink and do whatever you want. Obviously now, hear me, Christians must reject all sinful pleasures out of hand. They are rejected and wicked and if you're struggling with anything you know is sin, you must put it to death.
Like John Owen said, "Be killing sin or sin will be killing you." But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the beauties of nature, the taste of food that you enjoy, marital life together in a family, enjoyment of hobbies, other things. How shall we use those things? And what I'm asking you to do is to live a life of self-control in these areas.
1 Corinthians 7, Paul's talking about marriage, and he says, "What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short." This is 7:29-31. "From now on, those who have wives should live as if they had none." Very interesting statement. "Those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; and those who use the things of this world, as if not engrossed in them." That's what I'm talking about. "For this world and its present form is passing away."
So, don't be engrossed in anything in this world. 1 Corinthians 6:12 says, "Everything is lawful for me, but not everything's beneficial. Everything's lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything." How can you tell if you're mastered by something? Can I urge you to give it up sometime? Seriously, for a little while. Fast from it. Whether food, or marital relations, or spectator sports, or hobbies, or other things. And find out how important it is in your life. You may actually be surprised how important it has become in your life. It could be that some mastery crept in unawares, and you lost self-control in that area.
Can I urge you to come back to a disciplined life? And it could be even that some lawful thing has so consistently led you into sin in the past that you must give it up forever. And you have to decide what those are. Jesus said, "If your right eye caused you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than your whole body to go into hell. And if your right hand caused you to sin, cut it off and throw it away." But if God leads you to do that, don't boast about it, please. We're not even supposed to know when you're fasting. You're supposed to put oil in your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you're fasting, but only to your Father who's in heaven. Don't go walking around saying, "Look what I've given up." Because then you've gone that short route from discipline to boastfulness, and you're right into a different sin. Self-control in these things.
A Compassionate Heart
Secondly, can I urge on the external journey? A compassionate heart. I was convicted by this. I don't weep enough for the lost. I'm just confessing that to you. I don't care enough. I don't care as much as Jesus did. And I don't care as much as Paul did. And I want that to change. And the only way that I can do it is to get closer to Christ, to love more what He loves, and to hate more what he hates, and to feel more what He feels when He looks out over Jerusalem. I want to weep more. And I want you to too because it's healthy, isn't it? To weep for the Jews that don't know Christ, like Paul did. And to weep for the pagans that are living for their stomachs.
Pursue Joy in God
And thirdly, John Piper in Desiring God espouses a different kind of hedonism, the kind where the ultimate pleasure is God himself. Because you know in the end that's what you're going to get in heaven. Isn't that marvelous? It's incredible, isn't it? The feast of the wedding banquet is going to be God. And I don't want it to be anything else. I want God, I want him to satisfy me. Might I suggest that you not turn your back on pleasure, but have pleasure be ultimately fulfilled in Christ. Let Christ be your pleasure.
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How to use cloud storage's hidden, helpful power tool: Robust file version histories
Cloud syncing services earn their keep by letting access your files from anywhere and with any device, but did you also know they can be lifesavers for people who stick to a single PC?
The other day I was writing an article in Microsoft Word. As usual, I saved it to OneDrive, closed the app and went on with my day. Later, I opened the article again and discovered that something had gone wrong. I now had two versions that didn't match: one in OneDrive and one in my desktop. Yikes.
Word asked me to choose between the OneDrive version and the desktop one. I figured the newest version must be on my desktop since that's where I worked on it last so I kept that one and overwrote the version on OneDrive. Turns out I was wrong, and my last two hours of work were gone.
After I got over the sudden fear and anger, I realized I had nothing to worry about. OneDrive tracks file version histories for you.
If you ever find yourself in a similar predicament and you have to roll back to an older version of a document, here's how to get it done with Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. Many other cloud storage providers also offer file versioning.
Dropbox lets you access previous versions of documents right from your desktop.
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your file in Dropbox. Next, right-click the file and look for the Dropbox-specific options in the context menu. Select the option called View previous versions.
A browser tab will open on with a list of all the previous versions of the document that are available. Choose the one you want, click the Restore button and you're off to the races.
You can also view previous versions on the web by right-clicking a file on and selecting Previous versions. But beware: Dropbox limits its historical versions to 30 days. Dropbox Pro users get up to a year's worth of version history.
Google Drive
Find the document you want and open it Docs, then head to File > See revision history. On the right-hand side you'll see a list of older versions of your document. There's also an option at the bottom to see more detailed revisions. Since Google Drive automatically saves documents for you, the more detailed revisions are simply a list of more frequent save times.
Once you see the version you want, click it to see a preview, and then click Restore this revision in the right-hand panel to revert back to the older version. Drive saves versions for 30 days or 100 revisions, whichever comes first, unless you tell the service to save a specific version forever
OneDrive's version history interface.
Go to, right-click the file you're interested in and select Version history. The document will open and you'll see a navigation panel with a list of older versions listed by date and time on the left side of the screen.
Select the one you want. You'll see a preview of the document to make sure it's the right version. If it has the changes you need, click Restore in the left-hand panel and you're done. You can also just download the document if you'd like to integrate the two documents manually.
Version history isn't something you need to use every day. But for those times you really need it, you'll be glad it's there.
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Level Up Your Management Skills By Adopting These 5 Traits
Like a lot of things in life, managers run the gamut from fantastic to terrible. There are horror stories of the boss that refused to let an employee off for his father’s funeral or the retired general that made his private sector employees march behind him in rank.
On the other hand, some bosses rank among the greatest teachers and mentors, giving their employees opportunities to succeed and the tools to match. The bad news is a lot of managers have no idea where they lie on the continuum of leadership, and many think they lean much farther to the “greatest teachers and mentors” side than they actually do.
The good news is managers with at least a modicum of self-awareness and some willingness to change can easily get their hands on a fair amount of research and writing about what makes an effective leader.
So, if you fancy yourself a self-aware manager with a willingness to change, a good, and free, place to start is viewing Gallup’s recent study on the “State of the American Manager“. The comprehensive report combed through tons of data and came up with five key traits shared by the country’s most effective managers:
1. They motivate and engage every single employee with a compelling vision
2. They are assertive enough to drive outcomes and overcome adversity
3. They create a culture of accountability
4. They build trusting relationships
5. They make decisions based on productivity, not politics
Like a lot of management speak, these may sound straightforward, but just because something’s obvious doesn’t mean it’s easy or unimportant. When Gallop pinpointed these traits, it found that managers exhibiting a majority of them were described as “highly talented” managers, while those managers that only showed evidence of some of these traits were described as “functioning talent” or, worse: “low-talent managers”. You certainly don’t want to work with–much less be–a “low-talent manager”.
Plus, the payoff from focusing on these traits can be huge. The study found that companies that promote managers fitting the “highly talented” profile saw increases in productivity, employee engagement, customer engagement, and profitability. On top of that, their high performing employees stuck around longer than average, keeping available a healthy talent pool from which to draw more great managers.
So, how to acquire and leverage the five traits needed to excel as a manager? I’m breaking each one down below:
1. Motivational
Setting a goal is great, but clearly demonstrating the rationale behind that goal is the driving force behind motivation. Employees go above and beyond when they truly believe in the project they’re working on and understand that it’s worthwhile. Asking people to dig holes that will be filled in later is not going to bring out the best in people unless they understand that the company is sowing seed in between the otherwise meaningless activities. When employees understand that their actions, no matter how apparently small or silly, are part of a larger plan, they are much more likely to go above and beyond to get the job done.
In his book “How to be an Even Better Manager“, Michael Armstrong recommends thinking of an employee’s “unsatisfied needs” and then focusing on framing projects to help satisfy them.
Motivation, Armstrong suggests, can be broken down into needs, goals, and reinforcement.
• Needs: Every employee has needs in their jobs, especially around achievement, recognition, responsibility, influence, and personal growth.
• Goals: Goals should be well-defined, challenging, reachable, and fair, and their accomplishment should help satisfy the above needs.
• Reinforcement: if/when a goal is reached, the employee should be rewarded, and then given another opportunity to reach a goal / satisfy a need.
Of course, it’s not always as simple as setting a goal and assuming your employees will want to achieve what you want to achieve. There are actually two types of motivation:
• Intrinsic motivation is when employees are engaged in their work and believe that what they are doing is important. You motivate these employees that giving them opportunities to achieve their goals as above.
• Extrinsic motivation is when employee is motivated when given an incentive to work or a punishment for inadequate work. Incentives include the obvious, like a pay raise or praise, and punishments can be anything from withholding pay to disciplinary action to outright criticism.
The problem with extrinsic motivation is that it often has an immediate, but not long-lasting impact. This is a huge problem for managers that are focused on short-term results and may not see that quick bursts of accomplishment are actually killing their teams for the long-run.
Take a good hard look at how you’re motivating your employees, and ask yourself if the way you’re presenting goals makes them feel like accomplishing those goals helps them satisfy their own needs. Then, decide whether or not you want to layer some extrinsic motivation on top of that, but be careful how you measure the results. Short term wins could be bad for overall motivation down the road.
2. Assertive
This one is a minefield. There are all kinds of ways to mess up and come across as that other A-word (Arrogant – what did you think we meant?). Forbes has this problem covered with a article on the best ways that managers can be assertive without being jerks. The top four takeaways?
1. Being assertive often comes with a stigma of being stubborn and not listening to others, so before you even try to assert yourself, make sure you connect with your employees and create a relationship based on clear communication.
2. Give feedback that helps, and don’t criticize for no reason. Make sure that while you’re being assertive, the employee is focused on the task you are trying to make happen, not the style in which you’re presenting it.
3. As much as possible, use assertiveness to build consensus. Involve others in the decision making process so that when you need to push something through, they’re already invested in making it happen.
4. Be the change you want to see in others. Be a role model for your employees.
Our old friend Armstrong writes that being assertive is just one of a combination of things that can help you get things done:
• Assertive– make your goals clear
• Persuading– using facts to back your stance and use those facts to change other people’s mind
• Bridging– take bits and pieces from other’s arguments and incorporating them into your own.
• Attracting– be a blast of energy for your own argument and try to attract people based off your energy.
3. Accountable
Accountability may sound rough to an employee, but the key here is that it cuts both ways. Yes, employees are held accountable when mistakes happen or goals are missed, but on the flip (and hopefully much more common) side, they are also held accountable for accomplishments and success.
Still, a culture of accountability won’t just pop up out of nowhere. Managers have to take a central role in its creation, and follow through on it every single day. Here’s what you have to do:
• Clarify goals and set specific metrics for individual employees. This sets the baseline of accountability for your employees.
• Collaborate with your employees to set a plan, so that each goal follows another and they can see a what’s coming without having to ask what needs to be done after each achievement.
• After you have clear goals and a roadmap to meet them, managers have to monitor progress and reinforce the actions and behaviors that get employees closer to their goals. Communication here is key, and you have to check in from time to time to make sure there are no surprises coming.
Finally, set the tone by being accountable yourself. If you aren’t someone they can look to, your employees will dismiss you when you preach accountability in the workplace.
4. Relationship-Builder
Relationships are the backbone of any workplace, and communication is the driving force behind a relationship. Easy, right? So why do so many of us mess it up? Think of a work relationship that you’re having a hard time with as you read through the next five points. Any of this sound familiar?
1. All relationships start with respect. Plain and simple if you are disrespectful toward your employees then the relationship will be compromised. Look into each interaction and keep your mind peeled for moments when respect could be lost. Bridges burned are almost impossible to reconstruct.
2. The best relationships are face to face. Ever been in an email spat with someone, and then you talk to them in person and realize everything can be worked out? As good as it can feel to be angry (and RIGHT!) sometimes, the relief of agreement and a handshake is infinitely better. Don’t wait till it’s too late to get to that point. Get out there and talk to your people… in person.
3. And while you’re face to face with your employees, make sure you’re sharing relevant information with them. This helps you become a reliable source, and earn their respect. As mentioned above, respect is good.
4. If the relevant information you’re sharing is bad news, find the right place to talk. Chewing out an employee is rarely useful. Except in very rare cases, doing it in the middle of the office is not going to help anyone.
5. And don’t forget, you’re not the only one with news. Be the best listener you can be. Everybody wants to be heard, so being an active listener for your employees will pay off handsomely.
5. Confident Decision-Maker
The main responsibility of a manager is to be the decision maker and the driving force in implementing those decisions. A manager becomes a leader when he makes decisions and takes them all the way through. So, when you’re making decisions:
• Get all the facts. Take a deep breath and ask some hard questions before making a move. Jumping to conclusions is a quick way to make you look like a fool.
• Go through your process of thinking and write it down. Writing things down will help you visualize the end result, and gives you a resource in case you have to describe (or remember!) your original thought process.
• Then, once you’ve got the facts, be quick. Be… decisive! Don’t let a problem be unresolved for too long, while you hem and haw over what would work best. And once you make that decision, stick behind it and move on to the next issue. Perfection is the enemy of the good.
• Don’t be afraid of a challenge, but rather attack the problem. Remember that decisions can become opportunities.
Once a decision has been made, make sure you are an essential part of the follow through. If you make a decision, and then forget about it, chances are others will too. Or, maybe worse, they’ll follow all your instructions only to discover you never actually cared about the result in the first place.
So, there you have it. Want to be a great manager? Time to take a hard look at yourself with these five key traits in mind. What it really seems to boil down to is communication, which makes sense if you think about it. Improve what you communicate and how you communicate it, and you’re well on your way to the “highly talented” manager category.
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Making Your First Forex Trade
In this tutorial, we are going to use FXTrade, the Oanda trading platform, as the example.
Start the Trading Platform
Oanda Screenshot Open Platform
The very first step when imaking your first forex trade is opening the trading platform
Step 2 - Open the Chart
Oanda Trading Tutorial Step 2 Open Chart Set Time Frame
Now choose a currency pair and open a chart. Select a timeframe. In this case, we are going to use a 15-minute time frame. Each candlestick on the chart represents 15 minutes of time.
For this example, I am going to use the Australian Dollar vs the Japanese Yen, AUD/JPY pair. It is showing a strong downtrend and looks like a simple trade.
Step 3 - Add Indicators
Oanda Trading Tutorial Step 3 - Add Indicators
Now add some indicators to the chart. For this chart, we are going to add MACD and a 200 exponential moving average. Using technical indicators is an option when forex trading. They are helpful for the decision-making process.
The basic rule for using the 200 EMA is if the price is above the line, it is likely to continue higher if the price is below the line, it is likely to continue lower. The price seems to be moving below the 200 EMA line. This confirms that the price is in a stable downtrend.
Please understand that if we are selling AUD/JPY that we are buying Japanese yen and selling the Australian dollar. Therefore, will be looking for JPY strength and/or AUD weakness.
I am going to use the MACD indicator to look for a confirmation that the price is ready to go down again. The MACD is not always reliable as an indicator when used alone, but when used as part of a larger trading system it can be helpful to pinpoint a possible turn in price. The price seems to be fighting the downtrend a bit, so I am looking for the MACD lines to cross and head down before I make my trade.
Step 4 - Place the order
Place the Order
Now prepare to place the order. I have confirmed that the price is in a stable downtrend so I am preparing to "go short". The short trade is for 10,000 Australian dollars against the Japanese Yen. This is also known as going short 1 mini lot.
Step 5 - Set the Stop Loss and Take Profit Levels
Oanda Trading Tutorial - Step 5
Now set your stop loss and take profit levels. This step is optional but highly recommended.
Experienced traders have found that setting a stop loss at half the pip amount or less than your take profit level can set you up for long-term success. This is because you can be right less than half the time and still come out at the end of the week, month, year ahead if you have a favorable risk-reward.
Setting the stop loss will limit your losses if the market does not move in the preferred direction. Setting the take profit level will make sure that the trade exits in profit once the market makes the downward move that is expected. It can be an advantage to set these levels when you place the trade because once the trade is actually in the market, the pressure can make it difficult to make decisions.
Step 6 - Order Confirmation
Oanda Trading Tutorial - Step 6
Submit your order and wait for the confirmation screen. The confirmation is important as is the ticket number because you may need to reference the ticket number if you need to call your broker about the trade. Of course, you don't want anything wrong to happen with execution, but if there is a mistake in execution on the part of your broker you will need to go to them with your confirmation and ticket number so that they can correct their mistake and credit your account back if necessary.
Step 7 - The Waiting Period
Oanda Trading Tutorial - Step 7
Now the waiting period begins. This is one of the more difficult concepts in forex trading. Some traders find it helpful to turn off the screen and get away from the market once they've entered so that they are not constantly fretting over market moves. Either way, sticking to a good risk reward is a favorable approach and whether your stop or take profit order gets hit, you have done your job correctly.
Step 8 - Trade Completion
Oanda Trading Tutorial - Step 8
Finally, the trade is complete. This trade has resulted in a successful take profit. The take profit level for this trade was 98.00 and the price did reach that level. This resulted in a profit of $63.60.
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Beyond the Cusp
July 3, 2017
Will Venezuela be the Next Civil War?
One could say that Venezuela has been in a state of a civil conflict for quite some time. Nicolás Maduro assumed the Presidency upon the death of former Venezuela strongman and President Hugo Chávez. The following election was won by Maduro by a slim margin and he has ruled ever since despite growing opposition. To say that Venezuela is facing economic difficulties is a gross understatement. The news from Venezuela tells a grim story where food is scarce, medicines are usually only available on the black market and one news story even told of a severe shortage of toilet paper, a commodity which has few suitable substitutes. The wealthy fear leaving their homes worried over being beaten and robbed of credit cards and any cash. Gangs rule the streets in many parts of the nations and things are basically in a dreadful state. The wrecked economy is a result of years of central planning and socialist rule taking wealth from the top and distributing it amongst the poor after a percentage is kept by the kleptocrats in the government. Such always leads to economic collapse as it has now in Venezuela and has in North Korea and what brought down the Soviet Union. China has made an attempt at incorporating a measure of capitalism to prop up their socialist centralized governance. Yet President Maduro is doing what every true believer in the great and bright future socialism must produce, insisting that he has the solution and if only the remaining companies are federalized, then the glorious dream will come to fruition.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on right on Stage at Demonstration
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on right on Stage at Demonstration
Chávez began this socialist nightmare by federalizing the oil and mineral industries claiming that they were making the very few excessively wealthy as they kept the vast quantity of the profits while leaving little for the workers whose toil made the profits possible. Chávez spread the wealth to the workers and they promptly spent it and were soon the working poor once again and the two main industries in Venezuela eventually were driven into the ground as their equipment fell into disrepair and mismanagement gave ever-dwindling returns. This is what Maduro now claims will bring that bright future which was experienced briefly at the start of the rule of Hugo Chávez, something which every socialist nation experiences before things take a turn for the worse and after that, it never improves. The Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of 2015 were not exactly a vote of confidence for Maduro as his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela) taking fifty-five of the one-hundred-sixty-seven seats. The remaining one-hundred-nine seats were taken by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD Mesa de la Unidad Democrática) which favors a return to capitalist republican rule with less governmental control of industry and all aspects of personal life (see map below). There were marginal votes for other candidates, none of which were elected to the Parliament. Since then Maduro and the Venezuela High Court have ruled relegating the Parliament into benign inconsequence politically, they are running the nations with an iron fist policy.
Venezuela Election Map Blue for Democratic Unity Roundtable and Red for United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Venezuela Election Map
Blue for Democratic Unity Roundtable and
Red for United Socialist Party of Venezuela
The violence in Venezuela is only going to escalate and this past week’s activity is just the beginning of another civil war. This one will be different in that the media will do all possible in their power to ignore everything, as Venezuela had been their shining example of the wonders that socialism as a form of governance brings and these bad times must now be as ignored as the brief period of good times was lauded loudly. Just in case the news missed the recent little event in Caracas, a government helicopter from the Venezuelan Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigations Unit (CICPC) buzzed the Venezuelan High Court building and there were even reports that there were shots fired and even a grenade thrown from the helicopter towards the High Court building. Hanging from the side door of the helicopter was a sign showing the “350 Freedom” banner which refers to Article 350 of the Venezuelan Constitution which states, “The people of Venezuela, faithful to their republican tradition, in their struggle for independence, peace and freedom, will ignore any regime, legislation or authority that violates democratic values, principles and guarantees or impairs human rights.” The pilot, who could be easily seen in the pictures, was identified as Oscar Pérez, a police officer with the unit to which the helicopter belongs and former personal pilot of the former Venezuelan Justice Minister Rodríguez Torres who has left the government and joined those in opposition. As this was made public, likely be President Maduro and supporters, there were additional reports, also from government leaks, that Rodríguez Torres is tied to the CIA and is associated with conspiracies linking him with Western pro-democracy interests. Note, pro-democracy interests, which puts to rest whether President Maduro had decided that he is now President for Life. Further charges from President Maduro and supporters have placed blame beyond just CIA intervention and placed additional blame on former Vice President Joe Biden, yes, Joseph Biden is attempting to orchestrate a coup in Venezuela according to the Venezuelan President.
Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigations Unit (CICPC) flying over the Supreme Court, waving a flag reading “350 Freedom.”
Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigations Unit (CICPC)
flying over the Supreme Court,
waving a flag reading “350 Freedom.”
In an official statement Tuesday night, Maduro made clear that he believed the helicopter incident was a “terrorist” attack conducted by an unnamed coalition of anti-socialist forces seeking to take down his government. “Behind all of this is the plan, the activation of a generalized violence to make life impossible for Venezuelans.” Maduro also used the incident to press the importance that the public support a vote for his plan to draft a new constitution granting him further executive power, “to gather up these terrorist groups.” Talking of terrorist groups, the helicopter “assault,” where it is not certain whether any shots were fired or a grenade thrown, it was far from the only action taken this past week. There was another assault, this one on the National Assembly Building. Demonstrators reached to the outskirts of the Federal Legislative Palace where they engaged in intimidating opposition Ministers of Parliament who are in the National Assembly. A number of explosive devices were hurled at the building with reports agreeing that there were at least five such devices. These were gangs, which are followers of President Nicolas Maduro, have been perpetrating violence against regions and people who are thought to be opposed to Maduro as well as his proposed new Constitution which would basically declare him President for life with unmitigated powers. Violence has even broken out during sessions of the National Assembly (see video below and note man in the red, yellow and blue jacket as those are the Maduro PSUV Party and often worn by gang leaders who orchestrate violence). The fight divides the population as the violent leftist socialists who benefit from the government support leading efforts to draft a new Constitution placing Maduro in power indefinitely and aligned with the High Court while the newly elected Parliament, as noted above, supports the present Constitution and demand a return to elected governance and for Maduro to face fair and monitored elections or simply stand down allowing for new elections.
Of course, there is one exception to this being ignored by the media, the Donald Trump effect. You see, there is a reason, a legal one at that, by which the United States can get involved in Venezuela, The Monroe Doctrine. The document was initially intended as a signal to Europeans and Russia, as well as the remainder of the world, or universe if we here on Earth are not alone, that the Americas have a protector who will no longer stand off should there be any difficulty with the freedom of all nations in our hemisphere. The nice thing, or not so nice, depending on where you stand on American interventionism, is that the Monroe Doctrine has also been used by the United States in order to interfere with the internal activities of nations in the hemisphere. If things do get beyond the current horrific and open warfare were to break out in the streets of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, then there will start to be soft calls for President Trump to do something because innocent people are being killed. Further, there may be reason for President Trump to act as what has he got to lose as if the violence increases, you just know there will be those blaming President Trump. They will point to Maduro who also accuses President Donald Trump of being personally responsible for the violence in Venezuela against his rule stating, “You have the responsibility; stop the madness of the violent Venezuelan right wing.” Yep, Venezuela is blaming their alt-Right and President Trump for the violence. Now, it is true that President Trump has repeatedly condemned the Maduro regime and called for a restoration of the democratic order in the South American country supporting the National Assembly, though he has never stated such directly. There will be media coverage to come eventually, especially should the violence escalate. The media will initially call for President Trump to do something to relieve the dangers to the innocent people of Venezuela, especially if there should be an attack on the Parliament resulting in large loss of life including numerous Ministers of Parliament. Then, should President Trump act and send troops or intervene in some manner the media will waffle between two headlines, “President Trump Over the Top Action Unnecessary” and “President Trump to Fail from Fear of Acting.”
What is actually interesting is that much of the violence occurring in Venezuela has been committed by presumed independent gangs supporting Maduro to gain all the power he desires. These are the protesters who are attacking the Parliament to the point the building is now closed to the public and guarded. These gangs have also been loosed upon anti-Maduro protesters with great regularity making any coincidence as an explanation ridiculous. Military police have been used to quell demonstrations as well, often with water cannons. What is frightening is that Maduro has stated his intention to go to war to end the violent demonstrations. When one understands that, the majority of the violence is organized by his supporters and people in the administration. If one had to make a historical reference, these are the Brownshirts, Hitler’s SA, should Maduro need to use violence in order to assure his new Constitution becomes enacted. Once he receives the additional powers from a new Constitution, he will no longer need to subdue the National Assembly to continue in a dictatorial manner, then he will have little to no use for troublemakers. This will lead to his recalling the leadership of the gangs which have been acting to enforce his desired goals, as they will be useful in the new security department, and then use that very same department to remove the Gangs as they would only be problematic and their instigating would no longer be required. It would resemble the efforts when Hitler and the Nazis established their complete control and simply had the SA members, the Brownshirts, murdered. After this Maduro will have his President for life and new dictatorial governance will have been born. The people in general are opposed to this idea so we can expect a long and drawn out battle resulting hopefully in the eventual, preferably in the near future, removal of Maduro preferably through fair and monitored election, but by his taking any ill gotten wealth and retiring to somewhere in Europe or wherever he feels comfortable, just as long as it is not in our neighborhood. But, in the meantime, Venezuela is teetering on the brink of revolution or violent oppression and they will need to fall beyond the cusp to find the answer. We can simply hope the military will side with the people when the time to choose comes.
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Healthy addictions: Is Masturbation One? The Myth& Facts - Adult Content!
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Science and Religion are like two opposing forces, hence this topic is mainly from a scientific angle with a sprinkle of religious brouhaha.For millennial now, masturbating has been one of the earliest practices in existence and sure seems not going anywhere yet till human beings maybe goes into extinction. The percentage of what gender practise it the most could never be ascertained, even though it is culturally acceptable in male and view as some sort of taboo in female in many parts of the World (Developing Regions most especially). This is not about the morality behind who should masturbate, the bone of contention in my findings today the good sides, misconceptions and effects on health if there are nay as studies several studies has indicated for years.
Below in the image is a 24 years old adult male with circumcised penis masturbating.
To make it as simple and not as weird as a topic, if you or anyone you know or unknown stimulates your sexual or genital organs for pleasure and maybe arousal which usually ends up in climaxing, that is; to the point of orgasm, then such individual masturbates. Scientifically, when a man reaches orgasm and ejaculates during natural cause with a woman, it results in another life created in the womb.
[Image Credit; Wikimedia commons]
The World population is now a little above seven Billion (7,000,000,000) and there is a looming crises if Birth rate is never in equilibrium with death rate, hence some researchers had studied masturbation and a form of populations control mechanism i.e. birth control in the sense that not every man would ejaculate for reproduction purposes, the studies claims that men could masturbate and relieve themselves of sexual tensions without fears of impregnating a woman/girl which in turn results in babies.
Further studies stated that, an average of three out of ten (3 out of 10) babies given birth to in a day is unwanted, making a strong case for masturbation as a prevention means other than abortion. The data in these studies might provide a strong case and reason for masturbating in men, but it is a phenomenon that occurs in both gender and not just men.
Let me dive right in on this “healthy addiction” as I tagged it in this context, one of which is the fact that it is the safest form of having sexual satisfaction.
• As a therapeutic means, masturbation is used to correct or cure Erectile Dysfunctionalities in men; therapist recommends it for spouses and couples having unhealthy sexual relations. So considering the century long of being in existence plus the health and medical needs for it, if we ignore Religious and doctrinal taboos, it could be a tool for a healthy man, woman as the cases may be.
• There are dozens of sexually transmitted diseases in existence which are not visible to the ordinary eye and the fairest of all carries them, these STDs might sometimes not been seen by mere simple Microscope unless a broader and thorough test is conducted on an infected person (a carrier). That being cleared, masturbating doesn’t attracts any form of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (except on rare occasions where multiple users shares dildos, vibrators and maybe other sexual toys), in these bizarre cases, a third party or device is involved which eliminates what an individual sexual stimulation means in traditional sense.
• Another tangible factor to consider is the lack of emotional attachments and duress. Self-sexual satisfaction doesn’t require a partner nor involves any relationships, it is very important to state that failed relationships and spousal problems contributes a huge quota to mental illness in the World from past till present. A cheating husband or wife, a promiscuous girlfriend or boyfriend exposes an individual partner to the deadliest forms of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, the victims becomes depressed after contacting STD and might commit suicide, relationships also creates emotional trauma which often also ends in suicide or the victim mentally deranged.
• Furthermore, this unconventional way of sexual satisfaction doesn’t come without side effects (no matter how few) on any healthy individual. Let’s consider the psychological effects on a particular person; it causes major drift between couples resulting in an extremely poor sexual relationship which is one of the key to a happy and healthy family. When one or the two parties satisfy each other by themselves, the other party becomes unhappy and might want to explore other options.
Disregarding all the myths and religious brouhaha surrounding this topic, one of the most the evasive and complex discussions in spiritual groups is about masturbating and what it does to you, it is very important to treat this topic separately from science, health and religious point of view because some condemn this act of self-stimulation for sexual pleasing which doesn’t make it a crime, while there are other groups that performs it as part of their rituals and or rites of passages. Each category has tainted and biased doctrines regarding masturbating hence this is far from a religious perspective.
There is also an insubstantial myth surrounding excessive masturbation, going blind or hairs growing on palms are some of those myths as well the Erectile Dysfunction myth. This is a common belief which was never based on facts. For men, not having erections could never be substantiated from too much masturbating.
Some research had suggested that watching pornography and masturbating constantly could cause erectile dysfunction (ED) by desensitizing a particular subject (men most especially) to certain imagery and physical intimacy.
“Some Neurological effects of pornography have been studied, however, no research exists proving that watching porn can cause a physical response that results in Erectile Dysfunction”- Source
The statement quoted above clears the air about too much masturbating leading to Erectile Dysfunction, however, other conditions like diabetes, obesity, high or low Blood Pressure, excess Alcohol and over-use of hard drugs are known to be responsible in most ED cases, this could be a contributing factor as well in anyone who masturbate too much, once the individual is a victim to any of the aforementioned popular causes of ED, then he may be subject to worn-out and or limited erection with too much masturbating.
While some religion argues that masturbating is good for abstinence from fornication and adultery, others claimed it is a form of mental problem and some form of perversion. The morality lies upon individuals once it inhibits normal sexual activities and behaviours with your spouse, or maybe it causes distress and or it has gotten out of hands and done uncontrollable in public. At this stage, where it is now interfering with daily activities, then a disorder is looming and every form of therapeutic treatment is needed as well as other measures to combat it.
As adults, we are free to choose discreetly what satisfy our existence, contacting Sexually Transmitted Diseases is one of the most horrible things that could happen to an individual because some of these diseases have no cure, not just yet. Anything that gives absolute rest and peace of mind is ideal for healthy living; also anything in excess might cause damages to the body or those around us. Masturbation is an age long act and part of the human culture and it is left for you and I to train ourselves and educate those around us on what to do and not to do that will impact our lives.
Your Guide to Masturbation
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Initial Public Offerings
You may have read about how some small company became an overnight success story by deciding to "go public". Going public means that a company that was previously owned by a limited number of private investors has elected, for the first time, to sell ownership shares of the business to the general public.
The public sale of ownership interests can generate funds for working capital, repayment of debt, diversification, acquisitions, marketing, and other uses. In addition, a successful public offering increases the visibility and appeal of your company, thereby escalating the demand and value for shares of your company. Investors can benefit from an IPO not only because of the potential increase in market value for their stock, but also because publicly-held stock is more liquid and can be readily sold if the business appears to falter or if the investor needs quick cash. The availability of a public market for shares will also help determine the taxable values of the shares and assist in estate transfers.
Publicly traded stock can also make a business more attractive to prospective and existing employees if stock option and other stock compensation plans are offered. Employee stock-based programs are worth more if transfer restrictions, such as those normally accompanying private company stock, are not placed on the stock.
The use of IPOs has increased in popularity during the '90s, and are a financing option limited to rapidly growing, successful businesses that generate over a million dollars in net annual income.
The use of IPOs is limited because: (1) there is a very high cost and much complexity in complying with federal and state laws governing the sale of business securities (the cost for a small business can run from $50,000 — $500,000); (2) offering your business's ownership for public sale does little good unless your company has sufficient investor awareness and appeal to make the IPO worthwhile; and (3) management must be ready to handle the administrative and legal demands of widespread public ownership. Of course, an IPO also means a dilution of the existing shareholders' interests and there is a possibility of takeovers or adjustments in management control.
Securities laws are complicated. The sale of "securities" to the public is regulated by federal and state laws that have two primary objectives: (1) to require businesses to disclose material information about the company to investors, and (2) to prohibit misrepresentation and fraud in the sale of securities. Under federal law, a "security" is broadly defined and would include stocks, notes, bonds, evidence of indebtedness, and most ownership interests. The law defines a "public offering" of a security by the classification of whether the investors are considered "sophisticated" or not. However, state law definitions of a "security" and of a "public offering" can vary from the federal law.
Many small businesses can sell stock to insiders or to a small group of investors without being subject to securities laws. However, it's not always clear where the exemptions end, so always consult a knowledgeable attorney before selling any stock in your company.
Source: Business Owner's Toolkit
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Cum ma conectez la Bitmi Pro2019-03-12T10:35:02+00:00
Estimated time: 5 minutes
1. For windows users, please follow this link: and then press the Download button to download the device driver zip to your PC. Unzip the two files (duet.inf and to a local folder on your PC
2. Connect your Bitmi Pro to a PC using the USB cable.
3. If you are running Windows, open Control Panel-> Hardware and Sound-> View devices and printers and locate the device that corresponds to Bitmi Pro. It will show up as either “USB Serial Device” in the Ports (COM & LPT) section, or as Unknown Device. Right-click on it, select Update Driver, and browse to the folder containing the two driver files. If you don’t have this option (see picture) go to step 4.
4. Load a terminal emulator program on your PC. For Windows see The baud rate doesn’t matter.
5. Send the following command M552 S0
6. Send the following command to store your access point parameters in the WiFi module: M587 S”your-network-ssid” P”your-network-password”
7. Send command M587 to verify that your SSID has been stored.
8. Send M552 S1 to connect to the access point. After a few seconds, it should confirm connection and give you the IP address.
9. Enter that IP address in the browser address bar on your PC, tablet or smartphone to connect.
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Bernie Sanders' son announces run for Congress
Levi Sanders launches bid for New Hampshire congressional seat.
Bernie and Levi Sanders
Bernie and Levi Sanders
JTA - Levi Sanders, the son of Sen. Bernie Sanders, announced that he will run for a seat in the US House of Representatives as part of New Hampshire's two-member delegation to the lower chamber of Congress.
He made the announcement Monday evening, a day after the senator’s stepdaughter Carina Driscoll announced her bid for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a post once held by Bernie Sanders.
Levi Sanders, 48, becomes the eighth in a crowded field of Democrats to announce for the empty seat in the 1st District. The seat’s current inhabitant, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat, is not seeking reelection. Sanders currently lives in a neighborhood in the 2nd District.
He will file his official statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission within the next 10 days, WMUR in Manchester reported.
He said in his official campaign statement that he decided to run: “(a)fter much thought and consultation with my family, friends and the people of New Hampshire.” He also said that his campaign is “about each and every one of us, who strive each and every day, to make this great state and country a better place in which to live.”
His platform includes Medicare for all, free college tuition, a higher minimum wage, addressing the opiod crisis and “sensible” gun legislation.
New Hampshire's 1st congressional district is considered a swing seat, with a very narrow Republican leaning. According to the 2017 Cook Partisan Voter Index, the district is two points more Republican than the country as a whole. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9582964777946472}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31744', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5JAYTIR3SJL7NQMXNVMCMOKSOIBT4ZHG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9da90eb2-c2ae-46e6-a822-af5f11ff0cb6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 6, 19, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.202.217', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TD5CPQLTS34DYJHTIO7EK3QRR6KA2LIH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:41c641ae-8450-48f2-98bd-830411619ee1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/242491', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:54bd2470-b512-4ecb-ba9c-af978ac7a753>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '275', 'url': 'https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/242491', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-93-200-49.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019171297550201416', 'original_id': '51a15df38f1d16c067228e4778f9e37be05415f31079ed2b6f1938b9fa2bf862'} |
\section{Probability of Random Integer being Square-Free}
Tags: Riemann Zeta Function, Zeta Function, Square-Free Integers
\begin{theorem}
Let $a$ be an integer chosen at random.
The probability that $a$ is square-free is given by:
:$\map \Pr {\neg \exists b \in \Z: b^2 \divides a} = \dfrac 1 {\map \zeta 2} = \dfrac 6 {\pi^2}$
where $\zeta$ denotes the zeta function.
The decimal expansion of $\dfrac 1 {\map \zeta 2}$ starts:
:$\dfrac 1 {\map \zeta 2} = 0 \cdotp 60792 \, 71018 \, 54026 \, 6 \ldots$
{{OEIS|A059956}}
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $a$ be an integer chosen at random.
For $a$ to be square-free, it is necessary and sufficient that for all prime numbers $p$, it is not the case that $p^2$ is a divisor of $a$.
The probability that any particular integer is divisible by $p^2$ is $\dfrac 1 {p^2}$.
The probability that $a$ is not divisible by $p^2$ is therefore $1 - \dfrac 1 {p^2}$.
Whether or not $a$ is divisible by $p^2$ or divisible by $q^2$ for another prime number $q$ is independent of both $p$ and $q$.
Thus by the Product Rule for Probabilities, the probability that $a$ is not divisible by either $p^2$ or $q^2$ is $\paren {1 - \dfrac 1 {p^2} } \paren {1 - \dfrac 1 {q^2} }$.
This independence extends to all prime numbers.
That is, the probability that $a$ is not divisible by the square of any prime number is equal to the product of $1 - \dfrac 1 {p^2}$ over all prime numbers:
:$\map \Pr {\neg \exists b \in \Z: b^2 \divides a} = \ds \prod_{\text {$p$ prime} } \paren {1 - \dfrac 1 {p^2} }$
From Sum of Reciprocals of Powers as Euler Product:
:$\ds \map \zeta s = \prod_p \frac 1 {1 - p^{-s} }$
from which:
:$\ds \dfrac 1 {\map \zeta 2} = \prod_{\text {$p$ prime} } \paren {1 - \dfrac 1 {p^2} }$
where $\map \zeta 2$ is the Riemann $\zeta$ (zeta) function evaluated at $2$.
The result follows from Riemann Zeta Function of 2.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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Drug List
Drug Name
QVAR (Beclomethasone)
Manufactured By
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc
Drug Savings
Treats Disease/Condition
Inhalation Aerosol is used in the ongoing treatment of asthma as preventative therapy in patients 5 years of age or older. QVAR® is also used for asthma patients who require systemic corticosteroid administration, where adding QVAR® may reduce or eliminate the need for systemic corticosteroids.
How To Use
Administer QVAR by the orally inhaled route only. Patients should prime QVAR by actuating into the air twice before using for the first time or if QVAR has not been used for over 10 days. Avoid spraying in the eyes or face when priming QVAR. QVAR is a solution aerosol, which does not require shaking. Consistent dose delivery is achieved, whether using the 40 or 80 mcg strengths, due to proportionality of the 2 products (i.e., 2 actuations of 40 mcg strength should provide a dose comparable to 1 actuation of the 80 mcg strength). Rinsing the mouth after inhalation is advised. QVAR has a dose counter attached to the actuator. When the patient receives the inhaler, a black dot will appear in the viewing window until it has been primed 2 times, at which point the total number ofactuations will be displayed. The dose counter will count down each time a spray is released. The dose-counter window displays the number of sprays left in the inhaler in units of two (e.g., 120, 118, 116, etc). When the dose counter reaches 20, the color of the numbers will change to red to remind the patient to contact their pharmacist for a refill of medication or consult their physician for a prescription refill. When the dose counter reaches 0, the background will change to solid red.
Side Effects
stomach upset, nausea, vomiting, headache, sore throat, stuffy nose, sinus pain, cough, dryness in your mouth/nose/throat after use, unpleasant taste in the mouth, hoarseness, or deepened voice
Drug Interactions
No known
In Case of Overdose
In Case of Missed Dose
Excursions between 15° and 30°C (59° and 86°F) are permitted (see USP Controlled Room Temperature). For optimal results, the canister should be at room temperature when used. QVAR Inhalation Aerosol canister should only be used with the QVAR Inhalation Aerosol actuator and the actuator should not be used with any other inhalation drug product. Store QVAR Inhalation Aerosol when not being used, so that the product rests on the concave end of the canister with plastic actuator on top | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '350', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9060174822807312}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '24954', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HCV44OEX2UYRLH7DVQTSTWQBTCZ267TT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9a558274-addd-4212-9b21-4e26d8041619>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 10, 18, 37, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.13.239.82', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FW6D5LEKG7RMVHOI6TI55L2ARFJ3YQNX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5286d211-50bd-4735-8f9e-04349d77dd94>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://nationwideprescriptionconnection.com/webapp/qvar.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a1a383cc-7079-4263-b742-1729e93aeb8e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '593', 'url': 'https://nationwideprescriptionconnection.com/webapp/qvar.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.023711681365966797', 'original_id': 'b7202b40b28a5c9dc9420e7b66281a8f54a8ddd44c6a5d24e2ba1dafb0ba56d9'} |
Questions answered
QUESTION: We have a hummingbird feeder hanging from a tree limb. These little critters fly through the tree limbs at a high rate of speed, without hitting any. I understand that bats have some kind of bat sonar they use to avoid colliding with anything. But what do these birds use to keep from running into things?
– Dave Hawkins
ANSWER: Hummingbirds have a unique set of anatomical and physiological adaptations that enable particularly complex and rapid flight maneuvers, including the capacity to hover in place better than any other bird.
In general, birds' deft avoidance of obstacles during flight is facilitated by their eyes' high flicker fusion frequency – the frequency below which individual movements can be resolved. With a high flicker fusion frequency, objects in the surroundings remain distinct instead of blurring together during flight.
Hovering to lap nectar from flowers or a feeder requires another visual adaptation to stabilize flight. Stabilization relies on the optokinetic response – a visual reflex to motion across the retina, in which head, eye or body movements are made in the direction of motion. It links eye and environment to establish a stable base for the execution of behaviors.
The optokinetic response is not unique to hummingbirds, or even birds in general. However, in hummingbirds, a brain region critical for controlling this response (with a name larger than a hummingbird), the pretectal nucleus lentiformis mesencephali (LM), is considerably larger relative to total brain size than in other birds. The enlarged LM may also facilitate hummingbirds'unusual ability to fly backward, because some of the nerve cells in the LM respond exclusively to reverse motion.
In addition to neural adaptations, hummingbirds have a very high metabolic rate, a large heart and modified wing bones and musculature. As a result, hummingbirds can beat their wings faster than other birds and produce force on both the up and down strokes.
Although hummingbirds do not use echolocation (animal sonar) like bats, there are birds that echolocate, the Oilbird and the Swiftlets. They use echolocation primarily for entering and exiting dimly lit caves where they have their roosting sites. When hunting outside the caves, they rely on vision.
In contrast, insectivorous bats use echolocation to home in on their tiny prey. Echolocating birds can only avoid obstacles greater than about one-quarter inch in diameter, but bats can avoid wires finer than a human hair. In other words, that old rumor about bats getting trapped in your 'do should go the way of the mullet.
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The science of well being
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On the last video I began to explore the issue of the utilisation of the scientific method for social concern, comparing it to other forms of governance and decision making, such as democracy, technocracy and how the market forces influence those. The video received an overwhelming positive response from many of you, and I was really surprised. As expected, there were also a few questions and critiques, and I thank you for those, we shall explore each of them individually. One of the criticisms raised was that there is no universal definition of well being, therefore we cannot possibly address the issue in scientific terms. OK, let's examine this statement with the help of a graphic. Imagine we have two persons. The one on the left is in the quintessential perfect well being. Now, we do not know what that looks like, but we can imagine a hypothetical scenario where such a person in such a state exists. On the opposite side, you have a unfortunate individual in the worst possible misery, both physical an mental. If you can imagine something going bad in your life, it's there. And if you can imagine something worse that, it's also there. Between these two conditions there are millions of degrees of variation, from left to right. Somebody here, for example, may have the following scenario: - she never gets sick - she never broke an bone in her body - she can run a marathon and finish up with ease - she is generally very happy with her life and never displayed signs of depression or mental illnesses - she has a stable and balanced diet, as well access to proper nutrition - she follows her interests with passion and is intellectually stimulated - her social relationships are strong and healthy - her sentimental life is more than satisfying and she enjoys it thoroughly Clearly, these are not all the best traits one person can have, and it's far from being the ideal situation of well being. It's just a point of reference. Similarly, a person here is in the following condition: - she was never fed properly, due to a lack of access to food. As a result, serious growing deficiencies affected her body and her mind - she is crippled and underdeveloped, both physically and mentally - she is constantly being abused sexually - continuous tortures and harassment have worsen her conditions over time - she is in a constant state of pain. Whenever her body adjusts to a level of suffering, new pain is added, and the torture continues - due to the enormous amount of physical and psychological abuses, she was never able to create any social bond - she developed psychoses and she is mentally unstable I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Now, it is true that we don't have a univocal and universal definition of well being, but that doesn't stop us from recognising that there are certain positions on this line that are more desirable than others. And these can be evaluated objectively and scientifically. But we still don't understand everything about the human condition, you might say. We don't understand everything about aerodynamics, either, but that hasn't stopped us from building airplanes and move across the skies of the world. One could make a similar argument about life. Nobody really knows what life is. Yet we can safely say that a rock is not alive, but a squirrel is. What about corals, and viruses, and artificial intelligences? Yet again, there is degree of possibilities within the line, and it’s an open discussion. But when somebody stops breathing, grows cold and starts to decompose... well that might be a sign that the person is not alive anymore. Surely in the future we might discover that we got it all wrong, that rocks are alive and we are not, who knows. But at any given time, we have a context and a frame of reference, which we utilise to make an argument. This is not a philosophical discussion about the nature of Truth in the realm of platonic ideas. This is a very practical argument, where we pose a question: can we try and maximise well being, and can we use a scientific approach to achieve this goal? The answer is yes, in both cases. And given the disastrous results that politics and modern economics have given us, it would be utterly irresponsible not to do so. It really saddens me the fact that, even though we have an abundance of food and medicines in the world, millions of people continue to die. This is completely unnecessary, and avoidable. We let economics and politics deal with this problem for far too many years, and they have failed. On 9-11-2001, 2,966 died in US soil. People still talk about how this could have been prevented. There is an intense debate about that. Today, 23,987 people, mostly children, died of hunger. There is not debate about that. We can prevent this holocaust that keeps repeating every fucking day of the year. It’s time evolve. Let go.
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Posted by: michaelycus on Oct 30, 2011
The science of well being
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to power tools and electrical motor controllers for such tools. More particularly the invention relates to a microprocessor-based or microcomputer-based control circuit for monitoring and controlling various operating parameters of the tool.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In controlling the speed of an electric motor for use in power tools, it is now generally known to use gate electronic power controlling devices, such as a SCR's or triacs, for periodically transferring electrical energy to the motor. Many popular power tools employ universal motors which are readily controllable using such gate controlling devices.
Generally speaking, gated speed control circuits work by switching the motor current on and off at periodic intervals in relation to the zero crossing of the a.c. current or voltage waveform. These periodic intervals are caused to occur in synchronism with the a.c. waveform and are measured in terms of a conduction angle, measured as a number of degrees. The conduction angle determines the point within the a.c. waveform at which electrical energy is delivered to the motor. For example, a conduction angle of 180 degrees per half cycle corresponds to a condition of full condition, in which the entire, uninterrupted alternating current is applied to the motor. Similarly, a 90-degree conduction angle corresponds to developing the supply voltage across the motor commencing in the middle of a given half cycle and thus corresponds to the delivery of approximately half of the available energy to the motor. Conduction angles below 90 degrees correspond to the transfer of even lesser quantities of energy to the motor.
Motor speed control circuits of the prior art have employed gating devices to alter the conduction angle in order to deliver a predetermined amount of energy to the motor, and to thereby achieve a predetermined motor speed. With universal motors, which are commonly used in power tools, motor speed is also related to the load placed on the motor. That is, under no load the motor delivers one given speed (the no load speed) and under load, the motor speed decreases as the load increases. The inverse relationship between speed (R.P.M.) and load (torque) at various conduction angles for a given motor may be expressed graphically as a family of curves in a speed-torque diagram.
One scheme for controlling motor speed simply selects a desired no load speed by selecting the appropriate conduction angle. The speed control circuit is of an open loop configuration, which means that no speed sensing mechanism is used to provide a feedback signal for maintaining the desired speed as the load is varied. Thus the open loop motor speed control circuit is capable of providing a preselected no load speed, but has no mechanism for holding speed constant under a changing load. In open loop, the motor speed will diminish in accordance with the speed-torque relationship as a load is applied to the tool. In the hands of a skilled operator, the open loop configuration provides a tool in which the power demands, and potentially destructive overheating conditions, can be sensed by the decrease in motor speed. However, such configurations do not provide for constant speed operation.
In contrast to the open loop configuration, some motor speed control circuits are designed as a closed loop configuration. In a closed loop configuration means are provided for sensing either the rotational speed of the motor or the current drawn by the motor to provide a feedback signal indicative of actual motor speed. The feedback signal is compared with an operator selected desired speed to determine an error signal. The error signal is then used to speed up or slow down the motor so that a substantially constant rotational speed is achieved. While closed loop motor speed control configurations offer the ability to operate a motor at a relatively constant speed, to a large extent independent of the load placed on the motor, they are not without problems.
One significant problem with closed loop motor speed control is the potential for overheating the motor under heavy loads at low speeds. Present day power tools use cooling fans, driven by the motor armature for dissipating heat generated by the motor. Such cooling fans become gradually less efficient as motor speed diminishes, to the point where overheating can become a significant problem. In a closed loop configuration, a power tool can be quite readily overheated when a desired speed corresponding to an armature speed insufficient to develop efficient fan cooling (e.g. below 10,000 RPM) is selected. Specifically, if the power tool is placed under a heavy load, the motor speed control circuit will increase the conduction angle, as the load on the motor is increased, in an effort to maintain a constant speed. This causes increasingly higher currents to flow through the windings of the motor with a dramatic rise in temperature. Without adequate fan cooling the tool quickly overheats which may cause permanent damage to the tool's lubricant-impregnated bearings or other components. Even in the hands of a skilled operator, it may not be readily apparent that an overheating condition is taking place until it is too late. The constant low operating speed can give a false impression that little power is being delivered to the motor, even when the power is in fact quite high due to the operation of the closed loop speed control circuit. In this state, overheating and damage can occur quite rapidly. Thermal protection circuits and over current protection circuits are known for combating the overheating problem, however, in order to fully protect against overheating, the sensitivity of these circuits must be high and thus quite often will falsely trigger a motor shut down when the operator is only momentarily overloading the tool, without any danger of permanent damage to the tool.
Another feature which is present in more sophisticated motor speed control circuits is an anti-kickback feature for removing power from the tool when an imminent kickback situation is detected. Generally, the kickback condition corresponds to a very rapid change in load, such as might occur when the tool grabs or seizes in a work piece, causing a backward thrust of the work piece or tool. Kickback problems are most significant with power tools which develop high torque. Several anti-kickback detection schemes have been proposed. One such anti-kickback scheme involves monitoring the rate of change in motor current, while another scheme involves monitoring the rate of change of motor speed. An example of a system which employs a rate of change of motor current detection scheme may be found in U.S. Pat. No. 4,249,117, to Leukhardt, issued Feb. 3, 1981. An example of a rate of change of motor speed detection scheme may be found in U.S. Pat. No. 4,267,914, to Saar, issued May 19, 1981. Both of the above noted patents are assigned to the assignee of the present invention.
While both kickback detection schemes have proven useful, it has heretofore been difficult to adapt such schemes to a wide range of operating speeds. In order to have sufficient sensitivity at higher operating speeds, the kickback sensing circuitry of the prior art may produce false kickback detections at lower operating speeds. Moreover, it has not heretofore been possible to readily adapt one kickback detecting scheme to a wide variety of power tools. In this regard, heavy duty half-inch drills, for example, have a high gear ratio and generate a lot of torque. For such drills a high kickback sensitivity is desirable. However, for quarter-inch drills, have a relatively low gear ratio and do not generate a lot of torque, rapid speed variations with change in loads are common and therefore the kickback sensitivity should be low. Prior art kickback detection schemes are not readily adaptable to different sensitivity settings for use with such broad ranges of tools. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8ecbbc623eb260c8dc82d361c66e09e3a7b1b268f1a71d5f107c801357ab750d'} |
Howto control Tomcat using wget
I just had to restart a webapp in Tomcat without stopping a second app running in the same tomcat instance.
Usually this can be done easily via the Tomcat Manager, but in this case I was not able to access the Manager due to firewall rules. Though I was able to access the server using ssh, but there was no curl installed.
Luckily wget did the trick too!
wget \
--http-user=manager-user \
--http-password=manager-password \
-q -O - http://localhost:8080/manager/html/reload?path=/test \
| grep -A1 Message|awk -F'>' '{print $NF}'
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Wisconsin Web Scraping
Friday, 27 February 2015
What is Data Mining? Why Data Mining is Important?
Here is an overview of data mining services inclusion:
* Market research, product research, survey and analysis
* Collection information about investors, funds and investments
* Forums, blogs and other resources for customer views/opinions
* Scanning large volumes of data
* Information extraction
* Pre-processing of data from the data warehouse
* Meta data extraction
* Web data online mining services
* data online mining research
* Online newspaper and news sources information research
* Excel sheet presentation of data collected from online sources
* Competitor analysis
* data mining books
* Information interpretation
* Updating collected data
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-Data-Mining?-Why-Data-Mining-is-Important?&id=3613677
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Data Extraction Services - A Helpful Hand For Large Organization
The data extraction is the way to extract and to structure data from not structured and semi-structured electronic documents, as found on the web and in various data warehouses. Data extraction is extremely useful for the huge organizations which deal with considerable amounts of data, daily, which must be transformed into significant information and be stored for the use this later on.
Your company with tons of data but it is difficult to control and convert the data into useful information. Without right information at the right time and based on half of accurate information, decision makers with a company waste time by making wrong strategic decisions. In high competing world of businesses, the essential statistics such as information customer, the operational figures of the competitor and the sales figures inter-members play a big role in the manufacture of the strategic decisions. It can help you to take strategic business decisions that can shape your business' goals..
Outsourcing companies provide custom made services to the client's requirements. A few of the areas where it can be used to generate better sales leads, extract and harvest product pricing data, capture financial data, acquire real estate data, conduct market research , survey and analysis, conduct product research and analysis and duplicate an online database..
The different types of Data Extraction Services:
• Database Extraction:
• Reorganized data from multiple databases such as statistics about competitor's products, pricing and latest offers and customer opinion and reviews can be extracted and stored as per the requirement of company.
• Web Data Extraction:
• Web Data Extraction is also known as data Extraction which is usually referred to the practice of extract or reading text data from a targeted website.
Businesses have now realized about the huge benefits they can get by outsourcing their services. Then outsourcing is profitable option for business. Since all projects are custom based to suit the exact needs of the customer, huge savings in terms of time, money and infrastructure are among the many advantages that outsourcing brings.
Advantages of Outsourcing Data Extraction Services:
• Improved technology scalability
• Skilled and qualified technical staff who are proficient in English
• Advanced infrastructure resources
• Quick turnaround time
• Cost-effective prices
• Secure Network systems to ensure data safety
• Increased market coverage
By outsourcing, you can definitely increase your competitive advantages. Outsourcing of services helps businesses to manage their data effectively, which in turn would enable them to experience an increase in profits.
Outsourcing Web Research offer complete Data Extraction Services and Solutions to quickly collective data and information from multiple Internet sources for your Business needs in a cost efficient manner.
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Data-Extraction-Services---A-Helpful-Hand-For-Large-Organization&id=2477589
Monday, 23 February 2015
Ancient Basic Tools to Green Light Laser: The Evolution of Mining
Mining is the process of extracting minerals and geological materials from the earth. Miners help recover many elements. These materials are rare as they are not grown, agriculturally processed or artificially created. Precious metals, coal, diamonds, and gold are just some of these materials. Mining also helps man to unearth non-renewable energy source like natural gas, petroleum, and even water. The job of miners can be difficult and risky. Thanks to efficient mining equipment, the task is a lot easier now.
People of the ancient time made use of the earth for many purposes. One way to make a living at the time is by mining. Equipment were not fully developed but people managed to unearth many precious stones and different kinds of metals. They use these minerals and elements in making basic tools for hunting and warfare. High quality flints found in masses of sedimentary rocks were in-demand in many parts of Europe. People used these flints as weapons during the Stone Age.
Ancient Egyptians were among the first to successfully get minerals from earth. Their advanced level of civilization made it possible for them to produce quality mining tools. They mined malachite and gold. Malachites are green stones used for pottery and as ornaments. The Egyptians started to quarry for other minerals not found in their soils. They head to Nubia, a part of Africa. There they used iron tools as mining equipment. That was the time when fire-setting was used to extract gold from ores. This method involves setting the rock containing the mineral against another rock, heat it and douse it with water. This was the most effective mining method that time.
The Romans also played an important part in the history of mining. They were the first to use large scale quarrying methods. An example of this is the application of volumes of water to operate simple machinery and remove debris. This is the birth of hydraulic mining.
The demand for metal increased dramatically in the 1300s. This was the time when swords, armors, and other weapons were in-demand. For this reason, miners looked for more sources of iron and silver. There was also an increase in the demand for coins that caused shortage of silver. Iron, on the other hand, was utilized in building constructions. With the high value of these materials, machineries and other mining equipment became in demand in the market.
These machines and equipment were the mothers of the present mining tools that we have today. Miners today use bulldozers, explosives and trucks. More advanced form of mining tools includes the use of green light laser serving as saw guides and machine alignment. With all these modern equipment, miners now have a safer and faster process to break down rocks and even carve out mountains. All these materials are produced and applied with the principles of engineering.
As of today, there are five major mining categories. They are coal, metal ore, non-metallic mineral mining, oil and gas extraction. Oil and gas extraction is among the biggest industries in the world today.
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Ancient-Basic-Tools-to-Green-Light-Laser:-The-Evolution-of-Mining&id=6768619
Friday, 20 February 2015
Online Retail - Mining for Gold
Online retailers live in an ever-changing environment, and the ability to stay competitive is the difference between doing well and doing nothing. In today's fast paced internet market place, if you aren't using web scraping, you are missing a key component to growing your business.
Data Mining
Data mining your competition's prices and services and making sure your prices and services are similar, or even lower, is what makes the difference. Why should your customer choose you if they can get the same product somewhere else for less? What data you collect and how often you update it is also another key ingredient to success.
Extract Website Data
Web scraping allows you to gather information from your competition and use it improve your position in the market. When you extract website data from your competitor's website, it allows you to conduct business from a position that doesn't involve guess work. The internet is an environment that is constantly being updated and changed. It is vital that you have the ability to have up-to-date information on what others in your market are doing. If you can't do this, you really can't compete.
Application of Information
When you know what your competitors are doing all the time, you can keep your business a little more competitive than they are. When you have information such as monthly and even weekly price variations in the market and what products and services are being offered, you can apply that information to your own pricing matrix and ensure a competitive edge in your market.
An Army of One
Web scraping gives you the ability to see what is going on in the market at all times. You can monitor just about anything you choose with a web scraping service. Many online retailers are very small operations and they don't have the resources to constantly monitor each competitor's website - so engaging a web scraping service is like having your own marketing and research team working for you night and day to keep tabs on them. You choose what it is you want to know, and your research team goes to work. Simple.
Staying Ahead of Trends
Having the ability to recognize trends is the key to any business, especially on the internet were information is so fluid. The business that can identify a trend quickly and take advantage of it will always stay one step ahead. That's why big corporations have teams dedicated to researching market trends and predictions. If you can see where something is going, you can always get ahead of it. That's what web scraping can help you do - identify those trends in your market so you can get in ahead of the pack.
A Helping Hand
Sometimes running your own online retail business can be a daunting and lonely ordeal. Even those that have a great deal of experience with the internet can feel lost at times. A web scraping service is a tool you can use to help yourself in such times. Web scraping is automated and precise, and it gives you the ability to have vital information delivered to you in a manner you can understand and use. It's one less thing to worry about - and the information you get from data mining is what every business owner actually should worry about - what the competition is doing? With a web scraping service, you can concern yourself with other things - like making more profits.
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Online-Retail---Mining-for-Gold&id=6531024
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers
Monday, 16 February 2015
The Trouble With Bots, Spiders and Scrapers
With the Q4 State of the Internet - Security Report due out later this month, we continue to preview sections of it.
Earlier this week we told you about a DDoS attack from a group claiming to be Lizard Squad. Today we look at how
third-party content bots and scrapers are becoming more prevalent as developers seek to gather, store, sort and present
a wealth of information available from other websites.
These meta searches typically use APIs to access data, but many now use screen-scraping to collect information.
As the use of bots and scrapers continues to surge, there's an increased burden on webservers. While bot behavior is
mainly harmless, poorly-coded bots can hurt site performance and resemble DDoS attacks. Or, they may be part of a rival's competitive intelligence program.
Understanding the different categories of third-party content bots, how they affect a website, and how to mitigate their impact is an important part of building a secure web presence.
Specifically, Akamai has seen bots and scrapers used for such purposes as:
• Setting up fraudulent sites
• Reuse of consumer price indices
• Analysis of corporate financial statements
• Metasearch engines
• Search engines
• Data mashups
• Analysis of stock portfolios
• Competitive intelligence
• Location tracking
During 2014 Akamai observed a substantial increase in the number of bots and scrapers hitting the travel, hotel and hospitality sectors. The growth in scrapers targeting these sectors is likely driven by the rise of rapidly developed mobile apps that use scrapers as the fastest and easiest way to collect information from disparate websites.
Scrapers target room rate pages for hotels, pricing and schedules for airlines. In many cases that Akamai investigated, scrapers and bots made several thousand requests per second, far in excess of what can be expected by a human using a web browser.
An interesting development in the use of headless browsers is the advent of companies that offer scraping as a service, such as PhantomJs Cloud. These sites make it easy for users to scrape content and have it delivered, lowering the bar to entry and making it easier for unskilled individuals to scrape content while hiding behind a service.
For each type of bot, there is a corresponding mitigation strategy.
The key to mitigating aggressive, undesirable bots is to reduce their efficiency. In most cases, highly aggressive bots are only helpful to their controllers if they can scrape a lot of content very quickly. By reducing the efficiency of the bot through rate controls, tar pits or spider traps, bot-herders can be driven elsewhere for the data they need.
Aggressive but desirable bots are a slightly different problem. These bots adversely impact operations, but they bring a benefit to the organization. Therefore, it is impractical to block them fully. Rate controls with a high threshold, or a user-prioritization application (UPA) product, are a good way to minimize the impact of a bot. This permits the bot access to the site until the number of requests reaches a set threshold, at which point the bot is blocked or sent to a waiting room. In the meantime, legitimate users are able to access the site normally.
Source: https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/01/performance-mitigation-bots-spiders-and-scrapers.html
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Application of Web Data Mining in CRM
The process of improvising the customer relations and interactions and making them more amicable may be termed as Customer relationship management (CRM). Since web data mining is used in the utilization of the various modeling and data analysis methods in detecting given patterns and relationships in the data, it can be used as an effective tool in CRM. By the effectively using web data mining you are able to understand what your customers what.
It is important to note that web data mining can be used effectively in searching for the right and potential customers to be offered the right products at the right time. The result of this in any business is the increase in the revenue generated. This is made possible as you are able to respond to each customer in an effective and efficient way. The method further utilizes very few resources and can be therefore termed as an economical method.
In the next paragraphs we discuss the basic process of customer relationship management and its integration with web data mining service. The following are the basic process that should be used in understanding what your customers need, sending them the right offers and products, and reducing the resources used in managing your customers.
Defining the business objective. Web data mining can be used to define and inform your customers your business objective. By doing research you can be able to determine whether your business objective is communicated well to your customers and clients. Does your business objective take interest in the customers? Your business goal must be clearly outlined in your business CRM. By having a more precise and defined goal is the possible way of ensuring success in the customer relationship management.
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5 / 5 ( 35 bình chọn )
Khi bạn muốn giành chiến thắng trong các trận cược bóng đá, bạn luôn cần đến kinh nghiệm, chiến thuật và một chút may mắn. Bạn đã tích lũy được cho bản thân mình những kinh nghiệm gì rồi? Chắc chắn đa phần kinh nghiệm mà bạn tích lũy được đều từ các Tips bóng đá. Chính vì vậy nên có rất nhiều người đã lợi dụng Tips bóng đá để lừa đảo người có đam mê cá cược. Bài viết này sẽ cung cấp đến bạn thông tin về vấn đề lừa đảo bán Tips bóng đá và chia sẻ kinh nghiệm phòng tránh lừa đảo. Mời bạn hãy cùng chú ý theo dõi bài viết nhé.
Rất nhiều người hiện nay khi nói chuyện về cá độ bóng đá đều nhắc đến cụm từ “Tips bóng đá” nhưng chưa thật sự hiểu hết những vấn đề liên quan đến nó.
Tips bóng đá được hiểu là những nhận định chủ quan của người làm ra Tips dựa trên thống kê, thông tin và dữ liệu khách quan của từng trận đấu. Từ đó, người làm Tips có thể đưa ra những dự đoán với khả năng chiến thắng cao từ 60 – 70%.
Thông thường, sẽ không có bất cứ Tips nào chính xác 100% hay người ta vẫn gọi là Tips chắc chắn thắng. Vì cơ bản đây là điều không thể xảy ra, trừ khi chính người chơi cá cược có quyền hành điều khiển trận đấu. nếu như bạn vô tình lướt qua và thấy thông tin về tips chắc chắn thắng 100% thì bạn cần cẩn thận xem xét lại vì nguy cơ tổn hại do đầu tư là rất lớn.
Kinh nghiệm tránh những tip bóng đá lừa đảo
Hiện nay, do nắm bắt được nhu cầu muốn thắng cược của người chơi mà Tips miễn phí dần mất đi, thay vào đó là Tips tính phí với các phân khúc giá khác nhau. Từ đó, tình trạng lừa đảo đến từ phía nhà cái kém uy tín cũng ngày càng nhiều.
Trên thị trường cá độ tại Việt Nam cũng có rất nhiều địa chỉ website đăng bán Tips. Bạn cần cẩn thận suy tính thì mới có thể sở hữu những Tips cá độ chất lượng, độ chính xác cao.
Trước khi mua Tips bóng đá bạn cần tìm hiểu: Lượng người chơi ủng hộ trang web đó có đông hay không? Lượt đánh giá chất lượng trang web như thế nào?
Một số đặc điểm của trang bán tips bóng đá lừa đảo
Làm sao để phát hiện ra những nơi đăng bán Tips bóng đá lừa đảo? Bạn có thể dựa vào những thông tin sau:
Họ thường sẽ không có giấy phép hoạt động cờ bạc do đơn vị có thẩm quyền cấp.
Địa chỉ trụ sở không rõ ràng, hỗ trợ toàn bộ qua số điện thoại và link ở Việt Nam.
Khi thấy record thì thắng đều, khi tham gia chơi thì lại thua.
Ngày thành lập thì mới và record thì đã có từ rất lâu.
Hy vọng rằng với những thông tin chúng tôi cung cấp, bạn sẽ tránh xa được những nơi bán Tips lừa đảo để tránh “tiền mất tật mang”. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b90a9ce499b0169cadb25bd4407c9e83a15bcd5b62bb201660e3dd390ea133d9'} |
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