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What does “thrifty” mean?
The word thrifty and the word thriving actually share the same root. Thrift can be defined as
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The words both come from the Old Norse word thrfask, meaning to seize. When applied to personal finance, it normally means the wise use of what economic resources you have, a healthy robust scepticism towards consumerism and an interest in prospering financially, emotionally and physically.
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– Benjamin Franklin
– Orison Swett Marden
-S.W. Straus
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Michael Goodman robbed Claude Soffel 34 years ago outside of the American Museum of Natural History, and took his bus pass. Goodman was then arrested by an undercover cop, and was sentenced to buff out subway graffiti for his crime, never seeing his victim again. Then, just a few days ago, Goodman, 53, was on Facebook and saw a posting that mentioned his favorite bagel shop was closing. While checking out the comments, he noticed one name sticking out: Claude Soffel.
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Randall is a rare find in our world, he is both open-minded and deeply devout. His life has been marked by experiences that most of us will never truly understand, hardships unlike any others, experienced joys that cannot be expressed fully, and continues to face life with a smile and overwhelming gratitude for it all.
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Randall recently celebrated his 100th birthday, but seems like a young 81 year-old. Attempting to encapsulate an entire century of life would be a foolhardy experiment, so let us focus on moments throughout that century.
Being fervent Protestants, he and his wife became missionaries just before World War II. The organization they worked for sent them to Indonesia, then known as the East Indies. During this time, Japan invaded Indonesia and Randall was removed from both his wife and their infant daughter when they were sent to different internment camps. They spent the next three and a half years apart from each other. In his camp, Randall used his sharp business-oriented mind to smuggle goods to and from local villages so that he and his fellows prisoners could have comforts like duck eggs and coffee. In his memoirs he calls the skills he learned while in the internment camps a “tuition-free college education”.
After the war, Randall and his wife and daughter were reunited and returned to the US only to return to Indonesia three years later. Randall worked in a plethora of capacities, including missions, business ventures, and humanitarian efforts. One of the accomplishments he is most proud of, however, is establishing a banking program to benefit widows in Cambodia who lived under Pol Pot’s regime; the program still exists to this day.
Randall has an admirably open and curious mind. He spent roughly 40 years in Indonesia, many of which as a Christian missionary, yet he recalls Indonesia’s Islam fondly. He respects that two religions can work together for the benefit of their neighbors. “Learn as you go” is a mantra that he holds so near to his heart that he once toyed with the idea of changing his middle name to “Laygo”. Randall’s life has indeed been marked by learning. He has learned skills in marketing, to play the violin, mastered three languages (English, Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch), and earned a pilot’s license so that he could fly planes in Indonesia.
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What stands out throughout all of these experiences is Randall’s gratitude. He is thankful for every memory, each challenge, and all of the good that has come from them. A century of life has shaped him into an explorer, a risk taker and father; truly a man unlike any other.
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Do you think about the connection between the earth and your feet when you wake up and put your feet on the ground? Well you should, especially if you are going to be working in someone else’s energy field. You are an electromagnetic being and you ground energy, just like an appliance that is plugged into an electrical outlet.
Grounding has to do with living inside your body and having a connection with the earth. Think of grounding as being anchored to the ground. Grounding allows for an inflow of energy to feed your bodily systems and an outflow of energy to release excessive charge in your body. Assessing the energy of the earth is essential when working with other people’s energy.
As a bodyworker, you should find a connection with the earth and feel the energy in your feet. Your feet have minor chakras that bring in and distribute energy in your body. In the morning, rotate your ankles 50 times in each direction. When you put your feet on the ground, imagine energy flowing up through the inner arches of your feet. Direct the energy up to your core and take three deep breaths. Pay attention to your connection with the ground as you go through your day.
Some ways to ground yourself include:
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In most cases, descaling need only two home appliance. It's a kettle and iron. As you know, scale in the kettle, slows down boiling water. Moreover, in a Cup from the kettle along with the water can get a piece of scale.
To clean limescale from an electric kettle, you can use the easiest way. This requires the use of citric acid. To do this in kettle pour cold water. Now you can pour one sachet of citric acid and boil. Once the water is boiling, the kettle can be turned off and give it a cool. Drain the water, you need to see if there is still scale in the kettle. In that case, if the scale remains, repeat this procedure. If you were able to remove the limescale, the kettle should be thoroughly washed under running water. Should be boiled in the kettle with clean water and then rinse it again under cold water.
In order to get rid of the scum, you can use a powder descaler. Its chemical composition contains components that also contribute to the destruction of scale.
If the scum need to remove with an ordinary kettle is not electric, it has to be prepared plain baking soda. Filling the kettle with water, it is necessary to add a few teaspoons of baking soda and boil it. The boiling process should be about half an hour, then you need to pour water and see if there is any scum on the walls of the kettle. If the scale layer is large, do not need to use the baking soda and vinegar. It is poured into a teapot 100-150 ml and also boiled for 30 minutes. After the scum is removed, rinse the kettle with clean water.
In addition to the kettle there is a need to clean scale and with a home iron. If the iron has self-cleaning function, then, of course, you need to use it. Iron in this case has a special button, clicking on which the descaling is performed independently. For this a special capacity is filled with water and set the maximum temperature. Once the iron is heated, it will turn off automatically. The procedure must be repeated, waiting until the kettle has cooled. Now you need to turn off the iron and take it to the bathroom where I press the button descaling. If steam is released all the water came out, then iron should gently shake while holding down the cleaning button descaling.
If such function is not provided, you can use any store-bought limescale remover.
In the deepest form I have to put a few slats (wooden) and put them in the iron. Its sole should not touch the bottom. This form is filled with poured boiling water and remove limescale. The water level should be about 1-1,5 cm higher than the sole of the iron. This will protect from wetting the electrical parts of the iron. Iron in this state should be left for 10 minutes. To keep the water warm and clean from scale failed, the form of iron can be put on weak fire.
Advice 2: How to clean the kettle from scale
Limescale is the deposition of salts of iron, calcium, lime and sediment, present in unfiltered water. Gradually the kettle formed a thick layer, which complicates the device, increases the heating time and may also damage the heating element. How to remove limescale?
You will need
• the descaler in powder form or solution;
• - citric acid in tea bags;
• - 70% of vinegar;
• the brine from the cabbage, tomatoes or cucumbers;
• - potato peelings.
Now in stores represented a huge range of equipment specifically designed to remove limescale from kettles. They are sold in powder form or in liquid form. To use drugs read the instructions from the manufacturer, pour or fill the kettle with the specified dosage, boil, cool, pour the solution, thoroughly rinse device. If the scum went not fully due to the fact that her coat is very thick, repeat the procedure.
From improvised household agents to remove limescale, you can use 70% vinegar, citric acid, potato peelings, cabbage juice, tomato and cucumber brine from the pickled vegetables.
To use vinegar fill the kettle with water by one third, add 4 tablespoons of vinegar, and heat the resulting solution, but not to a boil. Leave to stand overnight. In the morning drain the solution and rinse the device.
For descaling with citric acid, pour into the kettle four bags of pineapples (packing in 25 grams). Pour water up to maximum level, boil and leave for 12 hours, drain the solution, rinse the kettle.
Descaling with potato peels, fold them into the kettle to the maximum level, pour water, boil, let cool, then rinse thoroughly.
Cucumber, cabbage, tomato and pickle or pour undiluted, boil, leave for night, drain the brine, then wash the kettle.
All means are equally well remove scale as they contain in their composition the acid, and purification of potato – starch, contributing to the loosening of a dense layer of scale. As the means at hand, special, store-bought, safe to use and do not spoil the kettle.
For the prevention of scale formation use filtered water. The purest water is obtained using the triple filter deep cleaning of the type "Aquaphor".
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In drug trials, a control group is given a placebo while another group is given the drug being studied. That way, researchers can compare the drug's effectiveness against the placebo's effectiveness.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, neither the patients nor the researchers know who is getting a placebo and who is getting the treatment. Because patients don't know what they're getting, their belief about what will happen doesn't taint the results. Because the researchers don't know either, they can't hint to patients about what they're getting, and they also won't taint results through their own biased expectations about what the results will be.
Also Known As: DBRCT (for double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial)
Early studies of this drug are promising, but a double-blind, placebo-controlled clical trial is needed to determine how effective it is.
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Film Review: Resistance
Directed by Amit Gupta
Starring Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha and Michael Sheen
Director Amit Gupta takes us on a journey to an alternate Britain where the Nazis won the Second World War in his debut film Resistance, an unsettling portrait of Wales under German occupation as well as being a haunting evocation of love and patriotism. Based on an award-winning novel by poet-turned-playwright-turned-novelist Owen Sheers, the story was inspired by the author’s discovery that in World War 2 there were meticulously laid out plans for a resistance movement in the event of a possible German victory.
The film imagines the upheaval in an isolated Welsh valley when overnight all the men disappear and shortly afterwards are replaced by a small patrol of German soldiers on a mysterious mission. As the two disparate groups (the abandoned wives and the German Soldiers) attempt to co-exist over a harsh winter, loyalty, frustrated passion and the futility of war come under close scrutiny.
The film’s concept isn’t new, Sci-Fi legend Phillip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle also imagines an alternate history where World War 2 went the other way but co-screenwriters Sheers and Gupta side-stepped PKD’s bleak existentialism and instead deliver a movie. The film is something of a mash up between Never Let Me Go and the lyricism of The Thin Red Line.
If I had one gripe it was that in Sheers novel the valleys themselves are a mystical force of nature, stirring up and unlocking lost memories and emotions in the German soldiers, piercing through ideology into the human hearts beneath the combat uniform. Gupta doesn’t fully pull off communicating visually the overpowering beauty of the valley. If you compare it to, say, Andrea Arnold’s recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights where through Robbie Ryan’s camerawork you truly are swept under the elemental, desolate and untamed power of the Yorkshire moors. Whereas the landscape in Resistance is very much a backdrop and not a character as it is in the novel.
Gupta succeeds in getting across the meditative quality of the novel as well as characters confined and grappling with questions of conflicting allegiances to their land, nation and own humanity itself.
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The repertoire of the Eastergoa Skotsers has several types of dances. Acquaintance names of dancing are ‘Skots’, ‘Mazurka’, ‘Rolling mill’ and ‘Formationdances'. Also we know the term `Suite’; this is a complete programme of a number of dances, without discontinuances. In sum we have approximately 50 dancing on our repertoire.
A special point of our repertoire is a collection dances such as that was danced in the period of end 18de, beginning 19de centuries.
For the origin of music and dances we can appeal to the remained material. Particularly the musicians Michiels Visser (1801 - 1886) and Andries Kiers (1856 - 1897) have made a large contributien to collect and keep material useful for dancing and music.
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Emotion Chocolate
Emotion Chocolate is a conceptual company that strips chocolate–and the experience of eating it–down to its essence. Embodying simplicity across all touch points, the identity makes thoughtful use of space. Inspired by the universal idea that chocolate acts as both salve and celebration, flavors are designed to go hand-in-hand with feelings. Minimal packaging emphasizes breathing room, with soft hues denoting each "emotional" ingredient.
year: 2018
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Untitled Hymn I
F* the 'dead' Lord,
Whose mythical blind misogynistic harbinger's fringe sanity church's greed trafficked imps roam as if each hording hell bound orc born of dust is worth the torment sentence forced upon everyone else for their souvenir memorial prayer bound existence is but a reprieve from the requiem narrative the congregation of their dying religion is running neglectful of everyone else from: One love, one mirror... Death to every other, For thou hast unfortunately miscalculated G-d's derelict reprieve of wrath to those who seek avidity's excess!
In lieu of our (dreadful) participation in,
Watching the 3rd and every world burn,
Let it all blaze... By land or by sea!
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Friday, 14 May 2021 13:56
Written by Priscilla K. Garatti
"It" Photo by agsandrew
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.~Frederick Buechner (From When The Stars Go Dark)
I adore Paula McLain's writing. I read her most recent novel, When The Stars Go Dark, this week. As I read, I kept thinking, "This book does not sound like her other books." It almost seemed like a different author. I loved the writing, yet it was stripped back, entirely vulnerable, almost like she stood before the reader with no ornamentation, bare of make-up. No mascara, no lipstick. Work boots and a torn T-shirt. The plot was compelling, her protagonist working out grief and a traumatized childhood. Then an "author's note" at the end of the book explained my observation about the changed dynamic in the writing. Ms. McLain states, "Writing a novel is such an interesting mix of effort and surrender, of control and vulnerability. It wasn't until late in the stages of drafting that it fully dawned on me just why I was so drawn to tell this particular story and not any other. My troubled detective, Anna Hart, is obsessed with trauma and healing, with intimate violence and the complex hidden connection between victims and predators, because I'm obsessed with those things, and long have been. I've given her other parts of me too--a version of my childhood spent in foster care, and my abiding love of the natural world as deep medicine. What Anna knows and thinks about the hidden scars of sexual abuse, I know as a sexual abuse survivor."
I won't spoil the story for you by disclosing the end. I will tell you this, though. There is a thread of mercy that runs through the plot line as Anna finds her way. The themes in the book caused me to think about all the ways this character attempted to "fix" her life. "Fix" herself. "Fix" her past. I could identify with Anna, thinking about all my striving to make things better on my own, refusing to surrender to life's paradox, its symbiotic nature of both terrible and beautiful. Perhaps this is why I kept reading hour after hour until I reached the end. To see if Anna had figured "it" out.
Surrender Blessing
We've tried everything--the apps, the meditation, the breathing, the yoga. The therapist, the spiritual director. Even the pastor.
We've watched a million YouTube DIY videos. Still we struggle with "it."
It's not that apps and therapists and pastors and breathing and meditation and yoga and spiritual directors aren't helpful. Even all the DIY videos increase learning.
What is it, though, that makes us believe it's all about, and sometimes only about, changing "it" ourselves? Our only option to rely on our own competence. Our doing. Our striving. Our self-effort.
Might we consider adopting the art of receiving as well?
May we imagine ourselves walking into the stillness of an empty chapel. Sunlight streams through a stain-glassed window.
We sit alone, gazing at the window's beauty, our palms open and resting on our laps.
The glass emits smoldering hues of cobalt and rose. Golden orbs of light dance before us.
May we drink in the array of radiant colors, receiving the mercy of God. May we absorb His goodness, His acceptance, His peace. Like a child leans into his mother's embrace, knowing that inside her warmth, he is enough.
Knowing that the "it" is not up to him to change. Knowing that he is the beloved, relieved of self-effort and striving to be better. To be enough.
Knowing that divine grace is the antidote to "it." Whatever "it" is.
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Certain additives confer resistance to heat, sunlight, oxygen, and ozone. Amines, particularly paraphenylene diamines, are powerful retarders of oxidation, or antioxidants.Rubber additive suppliers add to rubber compounds in small amounts (1–2 percent), to disrupt the free-radical oxidation reactions that lead either to molecular rupture and softening or to increased interlinking and hardening as rubber ages.
Water-Based Dispersions
When processing natural and synthetic latex, the additives, which are distributed particles need to be dispersed in an efficient and continuous manner through out the application. For this to occur the additives should be in a pre-dispersed form before compounding into the latex. As the end quality of the product needs to be maintained, many companies outsource the preparation of water-based dispersions and emulsions to specialists.
The dispersions contain solid particles dispersed into the liquid (water) phase. Mostly the solid particles, especially additives like sulphur, accelerators, pigment and zinc oxide have a significantly higher density than water. As a result, there is a strong natural tendency for these materials to settle down due to the forces of gravity. This can result in the dispersion being un-usable due to heavy sedimentation, and of course after compounding the dispersion into latex, the same natural forces apply to the solid additives now inside the compounded latex. That is where development of the right formulation of active ingredients, water content and auxiliary ingredients (e.g. surfactants & dispersing agents) is necessary to achieve the best quality which can be consistently reproduced batch after batch. It is well known that such consistency of dispersion quality is one key factor of success for producing top quality dipped latex goods.
The application of water-based dispersions has been widely developed in gloves, condoms, textile, paint and construction industries. It’s superior properties, such as impact strength, abrasion resistance and low temperature flexibility, continuously expand its usage in many applications. Most importantly, since water is the primary solvent, water-based dispersions can effectively reduce or eliminate the use of fugitive organic solvents during the operation process.
Plasticisers for Rubber
Plasticisers are necessary in rubber formulations for improving the processing of the rubber by lowering the compound’s viscosity. Plasticisers for Rubber also aid in lowering the temperature and help in the flexibility of the formulated rubber.
Processing rubber for products is complicated. So, processing aids that can act as softeners, extenders, lubricants, stabilizers, and strengtheners, depending on the needs of the manufacturer, are used. Because there is a wide range of chemicals used as processing aids and plasticisers, the individual properties of each compounding material can differ greatly. Depending on a customer’s specific compound, process requirements and chemical compatibility, the correct additive must be selected to ensure proper performance.
More recently, organic plasticisers for rubber like rice bran oil and rice oil, castor oil, soybean oil have been used as processing aids. Some experimentation when adding palm oil in an NBR matrix improved the aging resistance and plasticizing efficiency. However, because processing aids, such as natural oils, have a higher molecular weight, the hydrophobic characteristic of the oil greatly hinders its dispersion and reactions with the silica and rubber matrices in the tread compound.
Frequently Asked Questions
1) Do you have anything to improve adhesion?
Yes we have tackifiers for e.g. Deotack RS, Deotack 1100 and others.
2) How can you prevent bloom in rubber?
By using accelerators at the correct solubility level of the polymer. We have accelerator blends which solve this problem for you.
3) Do you have any very low temperature plasticisers for rubber?
Yes. Edenol DOZ
4) Do you have any co-agents for use in peroxide cured rubbers?
Yes. We have HVA2, TAC, TAIC
5) Do you have any non-staining antioxidants for rubber?
Yes we do have. We have equivalents for 2246, Wingstay L, and Naugard 45
6) What is an Elastomer?
An Elastomer is a material that has the property of being elastic with resilience to return to its initial shape after distortion within a reasonably short amount of time. This attribute allows rubber materials to be used for sealing applications where its flexibility is incredibly important.IR Tube is Elastomer(Rubber Chemical )Suppliers
7) What Is Natural Rubber?
Natural rubber is the rubber material derived directly from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. The sap/latex of the tree is collected then through the addition of ammonia with formic acid., Natural rubber, which chemically known as Polyisoprene, is processed into end produced using both latex liquid form and a dry gum form.
8) Are all Synthetic rubbers natural?
No. Though natural rubber has many outstanding properties, mainly high strength and toughness, there are plenty of synthetic rubber types which can easily stand up to the same tasks, as well as provide added benefits such as improved aging resistance or chemical resistance.
9) How do I properly store rubber products to maximize shelf life?
Ultra-violet light & Ozone cause the most damage to rubber parts in storage. Molded rubber products, whether in bulk or in assemblies, should be placed in sealed bags and kept in boxes out of direct sunlight, excessive temperatures and humidity. They should be stored in cool, dark & dry places to maximize shelf life.
10) Why is rubber used to produce industrial products?
Rubber has certain unique properties which makes it suitable to produce rubber products which are widely used in various industrial applications. Rubber is water repellent. It is resistant to alkalies and weak acids. Rubber has elasticity, toughness, impermeability, adhesiveness, and electrical resistance. These properties make rubber useful as an adhesive, a coating composition, a fiber, a molding compound, as well as an electrical insulator.
11) How is synthetic rubber superior to natural rubber?
Synthetic rubber has the following advantages over natural rubber:
• better aging and weathering
• more resistance to oil
• resistance to solvents, oxygen, ozone, and certain chemicals
• resilience over a wider temperature range
12) What are the advantages of using water-based dispersions?
In the most practical sense by using water-based dispersions, over solvent based dispersions, companies can adhere to environmental legislations such as clean air due to advanced technology and also
• Avoid the handling of dusty material
• Make the handling of any hazardous chemicals much safer
• Significantly reduce process operator exposure to the chemicals
• Avoid the cost of dust abatement & filtration equipment
• Reduced chemical effluent & waste, saving both the environment and costs
13) Which plasticisers is Phthalate free?
Plasticisers such as Edenol 111, Edenol 181, Edenol DOZ, Edenol 1208 are Phthalate free. All products are REACH and ROHS compliant.
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America’s new opportunity cities
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When the going gets tough, Americans move around.
That’s been the pattern, at least, for much of the nation’s history, with workers heading for greener pastures when prospects near home dry up.
The rate of “internal migration,” as such movement is called, has slowed considerably during the past decade, largely because jobs have been scarce in most parts of the country and a housing bust made it particularly difficult for homeowners to sell without bearing a loss. On top of that, many recent college grads have $20,000 or more in student loans, and living with their parents is an easier way to pay it off than moving away and starting an uncertain job, if they can even find one.
But people have been moving all the same, which is extremely important for the economy, since labor mobility draws people out of stagnant areas to places with better jobs and a brighter economic outlook. Demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution has analyzed Census Bureau data to determine internal migration trends among big metropolitan areas with more than 1 million residents. His data exclude population growth due to birth or death rates or the immigration of foreigners, so they reveal which big cities working-age Americans are leaving and flocking to. Here are the 10 newest opportunity cities drawing workers looking for better jobs and a higher standard of living:
Source: Demographer William Frey, Brookings Insitution, Census Bureau, Dept. of Labor
(Note: Annual population gains are three-year averages encompassing 2010, 2011 and 2012; the above list excludes cities in which people aged 55 or older account for the majority of all net migration, to factor out retirement as a prime reason for moving.)
The 10 cities attracting the most people have a few basic commonalities. All but Charlotte have an unemployment rate below the national average of 6.7%, usually because local industries are doing well. In Austin, Seattle, and Portland that industry is technology or related to technology. Houston, Oklahoma City and San Antonio are benefiting from the resurgence of oil and gas drilling and transportation. Charlotte, Columbus, Raleigh and Denver are luring businesses with lower costs than they’d bear in other big cities plus a more easy-going lifestyle than typical in the Northeast or on the West Coast.
On the other end of the scale, big, costly cities are losing people as old industrial companies clear out and residents get tired of expensive living and, often, cold winters. Here are the 10 cities losing the most people to internal migration:
Source: William Frey, Brookings Institution, Census Bureau, Dept. of Labor
To some extent, one city’s gain is another’s loss, yet there is economic revitalization that comes with people shunning places of declining opportunity for places with more. Cities that are losing people have a choice: Either come up new ways to reverse the brain and people drain, or decline indefinitely and suffer the dilapidation that comes with it. Some cities, inevitably, will never reverse their decline. But cities that do recover will once again compete with other opportunity cities for the best companies, most rewarding jobs and most engaged citizens, forcing everybody to raise their game.
What forecasters don’t know is whether overall migration rates, which are far below typical levels, will pick up as more home owners list their homes and workers begin to perceive better job opportunities, whether nearby or farther away. What we do know is that moving around generally helps create more opportunity and economic activity. The trick these days may simply be figuring out where to go.
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~ Book Review: Star Cursed by Jessica Spotswood ~
Star Cursed (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, #2)Title: Star Cursed (The Cahill Witch Chronicles)
Author: Jessica Spotswood
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover
Source: Bought
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy
It should be known that I love anything that has to do with witchcraft. I swear I think I was a witch in my past life lol! Let's add to the fact that I've been dying to read something with a historical feel. When you blend those two together you get the incredible story that is The Cahill Witch Chronicles.
Star Crused picks up right where Born Wicked left off so I highly recommend reading it if you haven't already or re reading Born Wicked just so it's still fresh on your mind. Cate is living in New England with the Sisterhood. She still feels like an outcast, but really it's her own doing. She doesn't necessarily feel the need to reach out to the other girls. Can you blame her though? The Sisterhood pretty much stole her entire life. Having to sacrifice the love of her life as well as leaving her sisters behind. You can't really expect her to be all happy and jolly. The Brotherhood has started to get crueler and it seems as though they just want to arrest women for no apparent reason. With the prophecy looming in the distance The Sisterhood is divided on how to move forward. Many want to wait it out until Cate comes of age and is ready to lead, but others want to take control and overthrow the Brotherhood now.
First and foremost I have to applaud Spotswood for the incredible writing that she did. I love the relationship between Finn and Cate not only are the wonderful together, but they truly understand one another. Spotswood hit the nail on the head when it came to their relationship. I love the fact that they both voice their opinions and come to a mutual understanding. We don't see that a lot in the YA world nowadays. It's either the girl has to do what she wants or the guy contradicts her and they butt heads. In any meaningful relationship you don't always agree on stuff, but you always find a way to make things work. That is exactly what I gathered from Cate and Finn's relationship.
Star Crused is a sequel that does not disappoint. If you have high expectations for it Spotswood takes them and throws them out the door! It's a fast paced story that you won't be able to put down. Loyalties will be tested, betrayals that will break your heart and secrets at every turn. Star Crused will literally leave you spellbound. Fair warning: That ending will literally break your heart and you'll never see it coming. Be prepared!
1. This sounds like an exciting series. I am a fan of witch stories too!
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Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the "Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department"; either way, it represented one of the many acts of desperate improvisation borne of the Great War, which had overwhelmed all conventional strategies for dealing with trauma to body, mind and soul. On every front—political, economic, technological, social, spiritual—World War I was changing Europe forever, while claiming the lives of 8 million of her fighting men and wounding 21 million more.
The large-caliber guns of artillery warfare with their power to atomize bodies into unrecoverable fragments and the mangling, deadly fallout of shrapnel had made clear, at the war's outset, that mankind's military technology wildly outpaced its medical: "Every fracture in this war is a huge open wound," one American doctor reported, "with a not merely broken but shattered bone at the bottom of it." The very nature of trench warfare, moreover, proved diabolically conducive to facial injuries: "[T]he...soldiers failed to understand the menace of the machine gun," recalled Dr. Fred Albee, an American surgeon working in France. "They seemed to think they could pop their heads up over a trench and move quickly enough to dodge the hail of bullets."
Writing in the 1950s, Sir Harold Gillies, a pioneer in the art of facial reconstruction and modern plastic surgery, recalled his war service: "Unlike the student of today, who is weaned on small scar excisions and graduates to harelips, we were suddenly asked to produce half a face." A New Zealander by birth, Gillies was 32 and working as a surgeon in London when the war began, but he left shortly afterward to serve in field ambulances in Belgium and France. In Paris, the opportunity to observe a celebrated facial surgeon at work, together with the field experience that had revealed the shocking physical toll of this new war, led to his determination to specialize in facial reconstruction. Plastic surgery, which aims to restore both function and form to deformities, was, at the war's outset, crudely practiced, with little real attention given to aesthetics. Gillies, working with artists who created likenesses and sculptures of what the men had looked like before their injuries, strove to restore, as much as possible, a mutilated man's original face. Kathleen Scott, a noted sculptress and the widow of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott of Antarctica fame, volunteered to help Gillies, declaring with characteristic aplomb that the "men without noses are very beautiful, like antique marbles."
While pioneering work in skin grafting had been done in Germany and the Soviet Union, it was Gillies who refined and then mass-produced critical techniques, many of which are still important to modern plastic surgery: on a single day in early July 1916, following the first engagement of the Battle of the Somme—a day for which the London Times casualty list covered not columns, but pages—Gillies and his colleagues were sent some 2,000 patients. The clinically honest before-and-after photographs published by Gillies shortly after the war in his landmark Plastic Surgery of the Face reveal how remarkably—at times almost unimaginably—successful he and his team could be; but the gallery of seamed and shattered faces, with their brave patchwork of missing parts, also demonstrates the surgeons' limitations. It was for those soldiers—too disfigured to qualify for before-and-after documentation—that the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department had been established.
"My work begins where the work of the surgeon is completed," said Francis Derwent Wood, the program's founder. Born in England's Lake District in 1871, of an American father and British mother, Wood had been educated in Switzerland and Germany, as well as England. Following his family's return to England, he trained at various art institutes, cultivating a talent for sculpture he had exhibited as a youth. Too old for active duty when war broke out, he had enlisted, at age 44, as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Upon being assigned as an orderly to the 3rd London General Hospital, he at first performed the usual "errand-boy-housewife" chores. Eventually, however, he took upon himself the task of devising sophisticated splints for patients, and the realization that his abilities as an artist could be medically useful inspired him to construct masks for the irreparably facially disfigured. His new metallic masks, lightweight and more permanent than the rubber prosthetics previously issued, were custom designed to bear the prewar portrait of each wearer. Within the surgical and convalescent wards, it was grimly accepted that facial disfigurement was the most traumatic of the multitude of horrific damages the war inflicted. "Always look a man straight in the face," one resolute nun told her nurses. "Remember he's watching your face to see how you're going to react."
Wood established his mask-making unit in March 1916, and by June 1917, his work had warranted an article in The Lancet, the British medical journal. "I endeavour by means of the skill I happen to possess as a sculptor to make a man's face as near as possible to what it looked like before he was wounded," Wood wrote. "My cases are generally extreme cases that plastic surgery has, perforce, had to abandon; but, as in plastic surgery, the psychological effect is the same. The patient acquires his old self-respect, self assurance, self-reliance,...takes once more to a pride in his personal appearance. His presence is no longer a source of melancholy to himself nor of sadness to his relatives and friends."
Toward the end of 1917, Wood's work was brought to the attention of a Boston-based American sculptor, inevitably described in articles about her as a "socialite." Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Anna Coleman Watts had been educated in Paris and Rome, where she began her sculptural studies. In 1905, at the age of 26, she had married Maynard Ladd, a physician in Boston, and it was here that she continued her work. Her sculptural subjects were mostly decorative fountains—nymphs abounding, sprites dancing—as well as portrait busts that, by today's tastes, appear characterless and bland: vaguely generic portraits of vaguely generic faces. The possibility of furthering the work by making masks for wounded soldiers in France might not have been broached to Ladd but for the fact that her husband had been appointed to direct the Children's Bureau of the American Red Cross in Toul and serve as its medical adviser in the dangerous French advance zones.
In late 1917, after consultation with Wood, now promoted to captain, Ladd opened the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, administered by the American Red Cross. "Mrs. Ladd is a little hard to handle as is so often the case with people of great talent," one colleague tactfully cautioned, but she seems to have run the studio with efficiency and verve. Situated in the city's Latin Quarter, it was described by an American visitor as "a large bright studio" on upper floors, reached by way of an "attractive courtyard overgrown with ivy and peopled with statues." Ladd and her four assistants had made a determined effort to create a cheery, welcoming space for her patients; the rooms were filled with flowers, the walls hung with "posters, French and American flags" and rows of plaster casts of masks in progress.
The journey that led a soldier from the field or trench to Wood's department, or Ladd's studio, was lengthy, disjointed and full of dread. For some, it began with a crash: "It sounded to me like some one had dropped a glass bottle into a porcelain bathtub," an American soldier recalled of the day in June 1918 on which a German bullet smashed into his skull in the Bois de Belleau. "A barrel of whitewash tipped over and it seemed that everything in the world turned white."
Stage by stage, from the mud of the trenches or field to first-aid station; to overstrained field hospital; to evacuation, whether to Paris, or, by way of a lurching passage across the Channel, to England, the wounded men were carried, jolted, shuffled and left unattended in long drafty corridors before coming to rest under the care of surgeons. Multiple operations inevitably followed. "He lay with his profile to me," wrote Enid Bagnold, a volunteer nurse (and later the author of National Velvet), of a badly wounded patient. "Only he has no profile, as we know a man's. Like an ape, he has only his bumpy forehead and his protruding lips—the nose, the left eye, gone."
Those patients who could be successfully treated were, after lengthy convalescence, sent on their way; the less fortunate remained in hospitals and convalescent units nursing the broken faces with which they were unprepared to confront the world—or with which the world was unprepared to confront them. In Sidcup, England, the town that was home to Gillies' special facial hospital, some park benches were painted blue; a code that warned townspeople that any man sitting on one would be distressful to view. A more upsetting encounter, however, was often between the disfigured man and his own image. Mirrors were banned in most wards, and men who somehow managed an illicit peek had been known to collapse in shock. "The psychological effect on a man who must go through life, an object of horror to himself as well as to others, is beyond description," wrote Dr. Albee. "...It is a fairly common experience for the maladjusted person to feel like a stranger to his world. It must be unmitigated hell to feel like a stranger to yourself."
The pains taken by both Wood and Ladd to produce masks that bore the closest possible resemblance to the prewar soldier's uninjured face were enormous. In Ladd's studio, which was credited with better artistic results, a single mask required a month of close attention. Once the patient was wholly healed from both the original injury and the restorative operations, plaster casts were taken of his face, in itself a suffocating ordeal, from which clay or plasticine squeezes were made. "The squeeze, as it stands, is a literal portrait of the patient, with his eyeless socket, his cheek partly gone, the bridge of the nose missing, and also with his good eye and a portion of his good cheek," wrote Ward Muir, a British journalist who had worked as an orderly with Wood. "The shut eye must be opened, so that the other eye, the eye-to-be, can be matched to it. With dexterous strokes the sculptor opens the eye. The squeeze, hitherto representing a face asleep, seems to awaken. The eye looks forth at the world with intelligence."
This plasticine likeness was the basis of all subsequent portraits. The mask itself would be fashioned of galvanized copper one thirty-second of an inch thick—or as a lady visitor to Ladd's studio remarked, "the thinness of a visiting card." Depending upon whether it covered the entire face, or as was often the case, only the upper or lower half, the mask weighed between four and nine ounces and was generally held on by spectacles. The greatest artistic challenge lay in painting the metallic surface the color of skin. After experiments with oil paint, which chipped, Ladd began using a hard enamel that was washable and had a dull, flesh-like finish. She painted the mask while the man himself was wearing it, so as to match as closely as possible his own coloring. "Skin hues, which look bright on a dull day, show pallid and gray in bright sunshine, and somehow an average has to be struck," wrote Grace Harper, the Chief of the Bureau for the Reeducation of Mutilés, as the disfigured French soldiers were called. The artist has to pitch her tone for both bright and cloudy weather, and has to imitate the bluish tinge of shaven cheeks." Details such as eyebrows, eyelashes and mustaches were made from real hair, or, in Wood's studio, from slivered tinfoil, in the manner of ancient Greek statues.
Today, the only images of these men in their masks come from black-and-white photographs which, with their forgiving lack of color and movement, make it impossible to judge the masks's true effect. Static, set for all time in a single expression modeled on what was often a single prewar photograph, the masks were at once lifelike and lifeless: Gillies reports how the children of one mask-wearing veteran fled in terror at the sight of their father's expressionless face. Nor were the masks able to restore lost functions of the face, such as the ability to chew or swallow. The voices of the disfigured men who wore the masks are for the most part known only from meager correspondence with Ladd, but as she herself recorded, "The letters of gratitude from the soldiers and their families hurt, they are so grateful." "Thanks to you, I will have a home," one soldier had written her. "...The woman I love no longer finds me repulsive, as she had a right to do."
By the end of 1919, Ladd's studio had produced 185 masks; the number produced by Wood is not known, but was presumably greater, given that his department was open longer and his masks were produced more quickly. These admirable figures pale only when held against the war's estimated 20,000 facial casualties.
By 1920, the Paris studio had begun to falter; Wood's department had been disbanded in 1919. Almost no record of the men who wore the masks survives, but even within Ladd's one-year tenure it was clear that a mask had a life of only a few years. "He had worn his mask constantly and was still wearing it in spite of the fact that it was very battered and looked awful," Ladd had written of one of her studio's early patients.
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Afraid of Being Alone but Unhappily Married
People who are unhappy with themselves and afraid of being alone are alone even if they are married. Due to their fear of being alone they make poor decisions and most of the time decisions are made from a feeling of desperation. Childhood abuse or chaotic family situations can cause a child grief and self loathing. This does not go away. They choose a partner that represents how they feel about themselves. Part of the reason parenting is so important is because you are giving your child not only a loving environment to grow up in, but also you are helping form their relationships as an adult for years to come.
One of the more common predicaments I see with couples therapy is one of the partners has fallen out of love, but is afraid to leave because they don’t want to be alone. Due to their fear and lost connection with their spouse they reach for another person to comfort them. This threesome usually leads to the demise of the couple’s marriage, and the children involved carry that legacy on. People who tell me they no longer love their spouse, but have found a friend or perfect partner in someone else are people who don’t love themselves. In truth, the person who is married but seeking another for comfort and connection doesn’t love anyone. They are correct when they say they no longer love their spouse; they may never have loved their spouse. You cannot love someone when you don’t like yourself, because you attract someone who loves you at the level you are at. What is difficult for them to see is when you are unhappy and attract a new friend or lover, when you are at perhaps your lowest level of self-esteem. This is not a good time to be choosing partners and very rarely do you make a wise choice. When you love someone, you want to protect them and therefore you would never put them in the middle of a triangle that you constructed. The only person protected in the triangle is you, and that will only be a short time, because the chances are high that both your spouse and lover will leave you once they find out what happened. This question came to me last week after a Fox 26 segment. This was so apparent and real from the question, that I had to answer the viewer frankly. This viewer was so clouded by the triangle they had constructed that they could no longer see.
Dear Mary Jo,
I was watching Fox TV 26 this morning and it was like you were talking to me. I’m in a marriage that I don’t want to be in, but I’m scared to be alone. I have a friend on the side that doesn’t understand why I stay and loves me as well. I’m stuck in a relationship that I don’t want, and in love with someone who I’m scared might leave me. Thank you! P.T.
3. Most likely, you are projecting a savior image on to your friend, and this is not reality. Your friend is waiting around because they are at your level of self-love. Two halves can never create a whole in relationships. It takes two whole people to create a healthy relationship.
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Art and Artisans
• Artisans were important people in ancient Mesopotamia as the objects they created were not only useful for the everyday lives of ordinary people and the upper classes, but they were often very beautiful and help us better understand our ancient history.
• In today’s society we make a distinction between artisans who make craft items usually with a practical purpose and artists whose work involves a much higher level of skill. In Mesopotamia there was no such distinction.
• Sculpture was an important form of art, especially in work done for the kings. Mesopotamian palaces often had sculptures of animals, such as lions, at the entrances. Sometimes there were sculptures of kings themselves made in bronze.
• Another form of art that was used to make kings look impressive was the relief, which was a flat slab with images of people carved into the clay. In Mesopotamia these reliefs often showed the story of great battles and conquests.
• The development of pottery was of great value to the Mesopotamian people as it led to the production of many everyday practical items.
• The clay needed for pottery was in ready supply near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In the early days, potters would make pots entirely with their bare hands pushing a hole into a ball of clay.
• Later the potter’s wheel was developed. This was a turntable that sped up the production process. They also learned how to harden the clay using high-temperature ovens.
• This allowed for the mass production of pots, bowls, dishes and so on. Fine vases were also produced for the rich to display in their homes. The pots were glazed and had a range of patterns on them.
• Mesopotamia artisans became highly skilled jewellery makers. They worked with gold and silver and learned how to hammer it into a flat shape. The precious blue gemstone lapis lazuli was especially popular. They could engrave and make hinges and clasps. They made rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces among other items.
• Both men and women wore jewellery in Mesopotamia. It was often used as a gift between a married couple. Kings liked to exchange jewellery too as it was seen as prestigious.
• British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered the graves of 16 kings and queens at the city of Ur between 1926 and 1932. He discovered jewellery of highest level in these graves. Among the finds were an elaborate headdress of golden flowers and a spool of silver hair ribbon.
• Metalwork was an especially important craft for the Mesopotamians because it helped them develop in many ways.
• It was used for farming as metal plows were created which allowed farmers to do their work more efficiently.
• Another important use of metal was in warfare. Metalworkers learned how to make bronze by mixing copper and tin. This was used to make swords, helmets and armour, as was iron later on. These objects were made by heating metals until they turned into liquid and then pouring that liquid into moulds where the object was shaped.
• Weaving is a process whereby long, thin materials, such as thread, are woven together to make clothing or baskets.
• In Ancient Mesopotamia weaving was a major industry and the weaving was usually done by women and children.
• People would use the hair or wool from sheep and goats to make a wide variety of textiles. First the weavers would clean and untangle the wool. Then the threads were wound onto wooden spindles and the threads were laced together.
• When the weavers had finished the material was passed on to fullers who cleaned and dyed the fabrics. The most popular textile colour was purple because it was seen as a royal colour.
• Carpenters were also very important in ancient Mesopotamia. Unlike weavers, carpenters were usually men.
• Wood, such as cedar and beech, was often not available locally so huge tree trunks were floated down the river on rafts from forested areas such as Syria.
• Carpenters then cut up the tree trunks to make and shape a wide range of objects. They made ships, bridges, chariots, but also smaller items. Carpenters were required for building temples and palaces to make grand doors or special furniture adorned with gold, silver and ivory.
• All these artisans along with others, such as stone masons, glassmakers, leatherworkers, basket makers and blacksmiths, were pioneers. Later civilisations learned these skills and developed them.
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US election put into perspective by Toblerone crisis
THE US election has been put into perspective by Britons reeling from a life-changing alteration to Toblerone bars.
Across Britain all election-watching has been immediately curtailed by a nation struggling to understand why their chocolate has changed and who allowed it to happen.
Nathan Muir of Dumfries said: “Give Trump the nuclear codes now, I don’t give a shit.
“Have you seen what they’ve done? The vast, barren plain of chocolate between each delicious honey-and-nougat peak?
“Not only are we losing chocolate, how can that be fairly broken and shared? Someone’s always going to get too much. This will destroy marriages.
“I suppose sometimes you need to be reminded of what’s really important. I remember that from when Cadbury relaunched the Snowflake in September 2001.”
Toblerone manufacturer Mondelez said: “We have no control over the frequency of Toblerone chunks, which occur naturally according to the rhythms of the cosmos.
“These new Toblerones show that the universe is slowing to a halt. It’s deep stuff.”
Woman working hard on winter body
A WOMAN who ate a doughnut in the middle of the night is making her body an appropriate shape for the season.
Emma Bradford is aiming for the perfect ‘winter body’ in time for the colder weather by eating a shit-ton of fatty things and getting nice and chubby.
Bradford said: “It stands to reason that if you’re meant to have slim body for the summer, then you need to have a warm layer of blubber for when it’s chilly.
“It has meant changing the way I eat, but I’ve made a handy menu planner that tells me when to replace lettuce with a sausage or quinoa with two packets of Space Raiders.
“My aim is to outgrow my clothes by Christmas and realise my dream of wearing a slanket to the office party.”
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Avengers #675 (Premiere Cover)
AVENGERS goes WEEKLY for the stunning sixteen-part saga that will write the end of an era!
The Earth has been STOLEN! The sky burns while mysterious cosmic objects crash down from above, wreaking havoc across the world! The Avengers are the last line of defense between Earth and the mysterious forces threatening to tear it apart. It's time to ASSEMBLE! The teams you know and love from AVENGERS, UNCANNY AVENGERS, U.S.AVENGERS and OCCUPY AVENGERS come together to face a threat beyond any they've faced before in a weekly epic adventure that will define the future of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
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Verses from Surah 26: Al-Shu`ara’ (The Poets) [ 192 – 209 ]
[192] This indeed is a Revelation of the Lord of the worlds.
[193] Brought down by the Trustworthy Spirit.138
138. Authorities like Ibn `Abbas, Qatadah, Ibn Jurayj and Dahhak have explained the textual Ruh al-Ameen as alluding to Jibril (Ibn Jarir). In fact, there is no difference in opinion among the scholars that Ruh al-Ameen is Jibril (Ibn Kathir).
Asad, who has his point to add, however, sums up the classical view: “According to almost all the classical commentators, the expression ar-ruh al-amin (lit., ‘the faithful [or ‘trustworthy’] spirit’) is a designation of Gabriel, the Angel of Revelation, who, by virtue of his purely spiritual, functional nature, is incapable of sinning and cannot, therefore, be other than utterly faithful to the trust reposed in him by God.”
[194] Upon your heart,139 so that you might be of the warners.
[195] In a clear, Arabic tongue.
139. What is the difference between sadr, fu’ad and qalb. Imam Razi writes: Sadr is obvious. It is the chest that houses the fu’ad and qalb. Fu’ad is for the whole of the heart: its main part, arteries and all. Qalb in contrast is that part which can be called as the seat of emotions, affections, memory and understanding.
The point is, the Qur’an was first revealed to a trustworthy angel Jibril. He brought it down to reveal and leave an imprint directly on the heart of Prophet Muhammad, so that there was never a chance of corruption during the process of revelation (Au.).
[196] Truly, it is in the (revealed) Books of the earlier (peoples).140
140. What is in the revealed Books of the ancients? Imam Razi answers that the allusion could be to any of the following: the news, the Qur’an, the Prophet’s mention, as well as, the warning.
How could the Qur’an be in the holy writ of the ancients, seeing that it is in the language of the Arabs, Arabic? It will be surprising to those who have been carried away by the Jewish propaganda that as against the propaganda, Hebrew is actually of a later origin than Arabic, and has its root in Arabic (Au.).
Majid writes, “Which (i.e., Arabic) has also been the language of the holy patriarchs and of the ancient Hebrews. ‘One might, assume, as some scholars have done, that the Israelites’ language in patriarchal times was Aramaic. Hommet maintains that Aramaic was but an Arabic dialect; and that originally the Israelites spoke Arabic.’ (JE.VI. p. 307). ‘The Arabic language is upon the whole nearest the primitive Semitic speech as it is by far the oldest and purest of all living tongues and its speakers in Arabia belong to the oldest and purest of races.’ (DB. V. p. 87)
Asad adds: “That the message of the Qur’an is, nevertheless, universal and has been stressed in many of its verses (e.g., 7: 128 or 25: 1). The other prophets mentioned in the Qur’an who ‘preached in the Arabic tongue’ were Ishmael, Hud, Salih and Shu`ayb, all of them Arabians. In addition, if we bear in mind that Hebrew and Aramaic are but ancient Arabic dialects, all the Hebrew prophets may be included among ‘those who preached in the Arabic tongue.’”
Some commentators, such as Zamakhshari, Alusi, and others have pointed that Imam Abu Hanifah used this verse to adduce that recitation of the translation of the Qur’an in the Prayers, by someone who does not know Arabic should suffice in lieu of its obligatory recitation in Arabic. But there seems to be some confusion over the issue. At all events, it is reported that the Imam faced the question of tens of thousands of men and women (especially in the Persian region) who had become Muslims but neither knew Arabic, nor any part of the Qur’an. What were they to do in their Prayers? So, he allowed it as a temporary measure, but withdrew when Arabic learning caught on (Au.).
[197] And, has it not been a sign to them that the learned among the Children of Israel recognize it?141
[198] And, had We sent it down upon one of the non-Arabs,
141. According to Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid and others, the allusion by “the learned of the Children of Israel” was to scholars such as `Abdullah b. Salam and others (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Kathir).
Yusuf Ali offers the rejoinder that Mukhayriq was also a Jewish scholar and a man of property who left his wealth for Islam.
Asad adds: “..for instance, ‘Abd Allah ibn Salam, Ka`b ibn Malik and other learned Jews of Medina in the lifetime of the Prophet. Ka`b al-Ahbar the Yemenite and a number of his compatriots during the reign of `Umar, and countless others throughout the world who embraced Islam in the course of centuries.”
A great enemy of Islam and the Prophet, Muir admits that the scholars of the Children of Israel knew that Muhammad could not have been but a Prophet. Majid comments and quotes him: “Some amongst the Jews not only encouraged the Prophet ‘in the idea that he might be’ but ‘even affirmed that he was that Prophet whom the Lord their God should raise up unto them of their brethren.’ (Muir, op. cit. p. 98)”
One might ask: Does the drawing of evidence from the Scriptures of old mean that they are authentic and trustworthy? Thanwi answers that the fact that mention of this Scripture and he who brought it remains in their Scriptures, despite their alterations, only strengthens the argument.
The statement here that the “learned of the Children of Israel know it” is a self-evident and unconditional one. The learned of the Children of Israel were mentioned in particular because it is they alone in those times who knew the holy writs. Their own common folk were as ignorant of their literature as the Arabs were of Judeo-Christian literature. With the dawn of the modern times, the holy literature that was so carefully concealed from the masses for centuries has come to be exposed through mass publication. Today, anyone can gain mastery over them and be referred to as the learned of the Scriptures of the Children of Israel. Any and any such person will testify that the Qur’an adds on to the good things stated in the holy writs, but is without any of the foul, and even filthy, material that adorn them (Au.).
[199] And he recited it upon them, they would not have been believers in it.142
142. That is, had this Qur’an, which is at the highest level of eloquence, been revealed to one of the non-Arabs, and so a self-evident miracle in that a non-Arab should be able to recite a highly rhetoric and eloquent Qur’an, even then the Makkans would not have believed in it. Such was the level of their intransigence (Thanwi, Shabbir).
Another possible meaning is that had the Qur’an been revealed in the tongue of one of the non-Arabs, the Makkans would have rejected it outright, no matter what qualities it bore. Another hidden implication is that a non-Arab would have only conveyed the voice, that is, the words and sentences as pronounced. But you, O Prophet, you are able to appreciate it fully, being an eloquent Arab yourself and at the same wave-length, so to say, at the heart-level, as your countrymen. (Razi)
Who is an `ajamiyy anyway? Is it any non-Arab? The answer is, generally speaking yes. But strictly speaking it is for anyone who does not have proficiency in the Arabic language, even if he is an Arab (Ibn Jarir). Qurtubi states that an Arab who does not speak pure Arabic can be referred to as an `ajamiyy, while a non-Arab is always an `ajamiyy, even if he can speak pure Arabic. (In all cases, it is not a derogatory term, although many of the `ajam among the Arabs use it that way: Au.).
Another meaning of a`jamiyy is animal. Hence `Abdullah b. Muti` once pointed to his camel and said, “Had it come down upon this camel of mine, and, had it recited it upon the Quraysh, they would have still not believed in it because of their extreme aversion to Islam” (Ibn Jarir). According to other reports, it was `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud who said that pointing to his camel (Alusi).
[200] That is how We have threaded it into the hearts of the criminals.143
[201] They will not believe in it, until they see have seen a painful chastisement.
[202] But it will come upon them suddenly, while they perceive not.
[203] Then they will say, ‘Shall we be respited?’
[204] What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement?
[205] Do you see then? If We gave them enjoyment for years!
[206] Then came to them that which they were promised!
143. What does the article “it” stand for? The answer is, it is for denial. In other words Allah means to say, “That is how We have made the denial (disbelief, or polytheism) enter into the hearts of the criminals.” That is how Hasan explained it (Ibn Jarir, Qurtubi). That is, when those people made a firm decision about never acknowledging the truth, then, in consequence, Allah drove it down their heart to reside there for good (Au.). In Asad’s words, “As regards God’s ‘causing’ this to happen, see Surah 2, note 7…” And which we reproduce herewith, “a reference to the natural law instituted by God, whereby a person who persistently adheres to false beliefs and refuses to listen to the voice of truth gradually loses the ability to perceive the truth, ‘so that finally, as it were, a seal is set upon his heart.’”
[207] Of what avail144 to them the enjoyment that they were given?145
[208] And never did We destroy a town but it had warners.
[209] A reminder! And never have We been unjust.
144. A few have understood the “maa” at the start of the verse as negative. But the majority understood it as interrogative.
145. That is, if Allah extended them with all the luxuries of life, but followed them up with a chastisement, will those luxuries be of any profit? Would they be able to prevent the chastisement from descending, or allowed respite to enjoy the bestowals? A hadith in Musnad Ahmed says,
“The most luxurious man of the world – destined to be in the Fire – will be brought on the Day of Judgment and said, ‘Dip him a single dip in the Fire.’ Then he will be asked, ‘Son of Adam. Have you ever experienced any good? Did any blessing pass by you?’ He will reply, ‘No, my Lord, I have never experienced any good, nor any cool of the eyes.’ And a believer who had left a most miserable life in the world will be brought and said, ‘Dip him into Paradise once.’ So he will be given a single dip into it and asked, ‘Son of Adam. Did you experience any hardship? Did any misery pass by you?’ He will reply, ‘No by my Lord. No misery ever pass by me, nor have I ever experienced any hardship.’” (Ibn Kathir)
A version close to this is in Muslim also (Au.).
It is said that Maymun b. Mahran longed to see Hasan (al-Busri). He chanced upon him during a Tawaf. He requested him for admonition. Hasan recited these verses to him, “Do you see then? If We gave them enjoyment for years, then came to them that which they were promised; of what avail to them the enjoyment that they were given?” Maymun told him, “You couldn’t have advised me in better words (Zamakhshari). It is reported that every morning `Umar b. `Abdul `Aziz would hold his beard and recite these lines.
(To be continued)
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Hundreds of Afghans fleeing Kabul pictured tightly packed in a US Air Force cargo plane
A US official told news site Defense One the crew of the military cargo plane made the decision to go instead of removing anyone from the aircraft. Credit: US Department of Defense/ Defense One
Hundreds of Afghans can be seen tightly packed in a US military plane after they were evacuated from the turmoiled capital Kabul late on Sunday, desperate to escaped their now Taliban-controlled country.
The photo from the US defence department and obtained by news site Defense One shows roughly 640 citizens on board the US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from Kabul to Qatar, according to the site.
It was a much larger number than expected and came near the record for the most people ever flown in the Boeing airlifter.
The full picture showing Afghans on board the US military plane. Credit: US Department of Defense/ Defense One
A defence official told Defense One the plane was not intending to take on so many passengers but the panicked Afghans clambered on board the plane via its half-open ramp.
The official said instead of forcing the fleeing citizens off the military cargo plane, “the crew made the decision to go”.
“Approximately 640 Afghan civilians disembarked the aircraft when it arrived at its destination,” one defence official said.
Several other flights also took off with hundreds more people on board, some with even larger numbers than 640, the official said.
Afghans are fleeing the Taliban's extreme ultraconservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as stonings, amputations and public executions
On Tuesday the Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed.Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission said: “The Islamic Emirate doesn’t want women to be victims.
CNN reporter Clarissa Ward spoke to one woman in Kabul in hiding from the Taliban
“They should be in the government structure according to Shariah law.”
But CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, who is in Kabul, said people there were "desperately afraid" and, despite Taliban assurances, were trying all avenues to get out of the country. She spoke to one woman who had worked for several international organisations, including US companies, who so afraid for her life that she is hiding.
None of the organisations she had worked for had offered to help her escape and she was increasingly afraid. "I'm thinking of my future, of my daughters, what will happen to them if they kill me, two daughters with out their mother," she said.
The desperation to leave a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was brought to the world's attention by chaotic scenes at Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people were seen crowding onto the tarmac and clinging onto moving planes in dangerous bids to to flee.
Afghans run alongside and cling onto the side of a US military plane as it begins to take off from Kabul
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Gunshots could be heard at times.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said US forces killed two people he described as carrying weapons in the melee. He said 1,000 more US troops would be deployed to secure the airfield and back up the 2,500 already there.
Late on Monday night, hundreds of people remained trapped between American forces trying to push them out of the airport and Taliban forces trying to keep them in, witnesses told the Associated Press.
A US defence official said the United States temporarily halted all evacuation flights from Kabul in order to clear the crowds on the runway, according to Reuters. The Taliban are still negotiating with political leaders of the country’s fallen government and no formal handover deal has been announced.
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Homeobox protein Hox-B6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXB6 gene.[1][2][3]
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HOXB6 is a structural protein that has been shown to influence the growth and differentiation of the different blood lineages. This gene has also been shown to encourage the growth of granulocytes and monocytes, but at the cost of other blood cells. HOXB6 has the ability to cause the indefinite proliferation of murine marrow cells, as well as expand hematopoietic stem cells. When expressed abnormally, HOXB6 displays many characteristics of a potent oncoprotein. An oncoprotein can cause the transformation of a normal cell into a tumor cell. Overexpression of HOXB6, along with the addition of MEIS1 protein, has been implicated in the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Acute myeloid leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells, specifically the leukocytes. The chromosomal irregularity most frequently seen in HOXB6 AML is a reappearing interstitial deletion of chromosome 2. Fundamental HOXB6 expression stops myeloid differentiation and debilitates erythropoiesis, megakaryopoiesis, and lymphopoiesis.[6]
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3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: HOXB6 homeobox B6".
6. Fischbach NA, Rozenfeld S, Shen W, Fong S, Chrobak D, Ginzinger D, Kogan SC, Radhakrishnan A, Le Beau MM, Largman C, Lawrence HJ (2005). "HOXB6 overexpression in murine bone marrow immortalizes a myelomonocytic precursor in vitro and causes hematopoietic stem cell expansion and acute myeloid leukemia in vivo". Blood. 105 (4): 1456–66. doi:10.1182/blood-2004-04-1583. PMID 15522959.
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What is a balance transfer credit card?
Consumers who want to move the amounts owed to a credit card, with a significantly lower promotional interest rate and better benefits, usually make credit card balance transfers. A balance transfer card is an actual credit card that offers a very low introductory interest rate for an already fixed promotional or introductory period (1.99% for example and six months respectively, for example).
Once the transfer is made, you will only be charged for the low interest rate set during the promotional period. After the latter ends, your card’s interest bounces back to its initial levels, that’s the main reason why you need to pay off most of your debt, if not all of it, before that happens. Balance transfer cards can allow you to consolidate other personal loans and lines of credit as well.
The best balance transfer offers available in Canada vary between 0% (which is very rare) and 3.99%. If used correctly, a balance transfer can allow you to save several hundred dollars in interest payments. Find below what those numbers look like for three different credit cards, paid off over 9 months.
Credit Card Balance Interest rate Monthly payment Time to pay off Interest paid
Travel credit card $1,000 19.99% $130 9 months $60.23
Rewards credit card $1,500 21.99% $180 9 months $110.57
Balance transfer credit card $2,500 1.99% $310 ($130 + $180) 9 months $14.78
As you can see, taking advantage of a low interest 1.99% offered by balance transfer will allow you to put the same amount of money on your debt each month, while saving up over $150 in the process. That’s how powerful a low interest balance transfer credit card can be!
What’s the catch? Transferring a balance requires carrying a monthly balance (even with a 0% interest rate), which still involves making on-time payments of at least the minimum due on the transfer, and for any new purchases. Fail to do so, and you might end up losing the credit card’s introductory Annual Percentage Rates (APR) on your transferred balances as well as the grace period while suffering from surprise interest charges -and probably penalty APR- on your next acquisitions.
You need to study your options and avoid high interest rates while paying down debt. In case you’re not familiar with it, a balance transfer APR is the annual percentage rate or interest rate charged to balance transfers. This is a different rate from the ones traced on to purchases, cash advances, and foreign transactions; your cardholder agreement lists the different APR for the different types of transactions.
As it is recommended, always read the fine print before making a decision! You might need to consider the following parameters before getting a balance transfer credit card:
• The rate of the Balance Transfer: You need to start by knowing the introductory rate offered, the closer to zero the better. Compared to the standard 19.99% APR, anything between 0% to 3.99% can be worthwhile. You might need to be aware if the card issuer charges a balance transfer fee, which is usually between 1% and 3%.
• Promotional Period: The longer the duration of the interest-free period, the better. This way, you will be allowed to pay off your entire balance during the promotional period if you can. However, the regular interest rate rises back to its initial after right after the end of this period.
• Annual Fees and Other Benefits: Does the balance transfer card have an annual fee? Are the benefits worth the cost if it does? For an informed decision, verify if the card offers any kind of rewards, like extended warranty, travel insurance, cash back, purchase protection, etc.
During the pandemic, credit card companies are assisting cardholders experiencing financial distress. Card issuers encourage struggling cardholders to reach out and ask about options such as lowering their interest rate, deferring payments, or avoiding late fees.
How do balance transfers affect my credit score?
Balance transfers can affect the credit score positively as well as negatively! It depends on several factors; someone with already good credit can be eligible for some of the best balance transfer cards available.
In general, if you follow a successful strategy regarding balance transfer and you end up paying off the amounts you owe on time, your credit score won’t be harmed. Paying your balance transfer bill on time every month can also boost credit because payment history is the key to have a positive impact on your credit score, and you will be eliminating the debt you’re carrying around while building a great payment history.
The amount of credit allowance offered by the issuer of the balance transfer card may determine how much a credit score improves, the higher the amount available, the more improvement possible.
At worst, the credit score won’t be highly impacted because the overall effect is neutral. But – there is always a but when it comes to Finance – a balance transfer consolidation strategy can hurt your credit score in some cases.
Find below some examples:
• If you charge on your other cards and increase your debt instead of getting rid of it, your credit utilization ratio will naturally go up, which means your credit score will eventually decrease.
• In case you miss payments because you can’t afford the monthly minimum requirements for one reason or another, or your debt is too big to handle within the period initially set, it will stain the credit history, decreasing your score.
• Your score will also decrease if you request several lines of credit within a six-month period. Be aware of applying for a balance transfer credit card around the same time you requested other loans and credit cards! Don’t forget that credit card applications are not grouped together, and each application counts as an individual one with its own credit check. This is not the same case as mortgages and auto loans applications for example, because they can get grouped together if they’re within a small window of time, so it doesn’t impact your credit score negatively as you work to find the best deal. Do your homework and choose the best option before you apply! To minimize the potential negative effect on your credit score, only apply for one card.
• The length of credit use isn’t a major factor in credit score calculation and evaluation, but it remains a factor! If you decide to terminate your credit card accounts after the balances’ transfer, it can impact the “age” of your credit history and closing older accounts will cause a decrease in your score. You don’t have to close a credit card just because you eliminated the balance, be strategic about using credit, keep your oldest account open and active, and use it to make a purchase occasionally before paying off the balance in full at the end of the month to skip interest charges. The account will remain in good standing without having debt hanging around.
Pros and Cons of Balance transfers
Credit card balance transfers can be helpful for the right person and scenario, but detrimental otherwise.
Take a step back and evaluate the pros and cons before you ask for a credit card balance transfer, depending on your financial situation! Your credit card must suit your lifestyle.
Advantages of balance transfers
Consolidate Debt
With a credit card balance transfer, you are allowed to combine multiple credit card balances by transferring them to the desired card. Putting all of your credit card debt into one balance through a transfer helps you focus on one payment with one due date, and tackle your debt faster by making single, monthly payments toward the same balance.
Handling one debt is easier to manage several ones, and you won’t have to manage multiple payments and due dates in the case of having multiple credit card balances.
Lower Interest Rates
Credit card balance transfers are mainly interesting because they offer the possibility of saving money on interest. What does it mean?
For instance, by consolidating your debt balances into one, you will improve your interest rate thanks to the credit card balance transfer. Many transfers also offer low introductory interest rates that can go all the way down to 0% APR during the first year, which can help you focus more your payments on your principal rather than interest.
If you can, do your best to pay off your debt before the introductory interest rate period lapses, because it will allow you to save on interest charges.
Move your debt to a different credit card
If you feel trapped with your current credit cards, or you are dealing with high interest rates and terms that don’t suit your needs anymore, you can always move your debt to a credit card that has a lower interest rate and more favorable terms (depending on your approved card), even a balance transfer card offering you rewards exists.
Nevertheless, wait until your transferred balance is completely paid off before you take on new credit card debt.
Disadvantages of balance transfers
While credit card balance transfers help individuals save significant amounts of money in many ways, it’s still crucial to identify and stay away from terms and details that may hold you back in the future.
Make sure you already have a clear plan on how you can pay off your debt with a credit card balance transfer, because it may cost you otherwise.
Balance transfer fee
Most good things are anything but free, which is the case for balance transfers!
Balance transfer fees can be charged any time you move one credit card balance to another, and these fees need to be considered before deciding whether you should transfer any balances or not. Consider that added cost before you transfer your balance to make sure you’re still saving money. Often between 3% and 5% of your transfer balance, this fee must be considered and evaluated before deciding to transfer any balances; for example, if you want to transfer a balance of $10,000 to another credit card, and the balance transfer fee is 2%, you will need to pay $200 upfront.
There are, however, some balance transfer cards that may waive this transfer fee if you complete your balance transaction within an already set period.
The low interest rate is for a limited time
While a low, introductory interest rate is an advantage of a credit card balance transfer, it can be a disadvantage because it doesn’t last forever. Balance transfer cards may offer a 0% intro APR, but only for a specific amount of time, anywhere from 6 to 21 months.
That means in case you’re using this card to pay off your debt, you should be aware of the expiration date of the promotional period, and at what level the APR will be after that.
You may not be eligible
To qualify for a credit card balance transfer, you typically need a good credit score. If not, you can still be considered but with a higher interest rate! which can make you question and reconsider the credit card balance transfer option altogether.
Replacing current debt with more debt
If you’re looking for a balance transfer, you must be hoping to get back on track, pay off your debt, and save money on interest. Credit card balance transfer agreements seduce customers with low interest rates and minimal fees in the beginning, but if you haven’t resolved the source and origin of the issue, having another credit card could easily lead to more debt.
Be conscious of the temptation to make more purchases with the new card’s appealing interest rates, and if you have chosen this method as a way to buy more items, you will end up with more debt than before!
Balance transfer fee explained
Intuitively, the term refers to the amount of money charged to transfer existing debt from one financial institution to another, and this fee -usually a percentage of the total amount- is usually charged by credit card companies when balances are moved from one card to another. New customers may be offered no to low balance transfer fees as introductory offers.
As a cardholder, you should know all the fees and costs involved, and you’re the only one responsible for any charges that may occur, balance transfer fees, interests on outstanding balances, late payment fees, over-limit fees, etc.
If you want to initiate a balance transfer transaction, you need to contact the card company to where the balance will be transferred. You will be asked to share the following details:
• your name
• the amount transferred
• your card’s account number
As mentioned before, customers often use balance transfers to move high interest debt to cards with lower interest rates, especially when there is an introductory offer involved. However, balance transfer checks can also be used for transfers or other purchases.
For example, a credit card balance of $10,000 at a 15% interest rate results in an annual interest expense of $1,500. If the credit card issuer offers a promotional interest rate of 2% for an introductory period of 12 months, with a balance transfer fee of 1%, and the deal ends up being accepted, the total cost of moving the entire amount will be around $300 (the transfer fee of $100 plus interest payments of $200). This way, $1,200 can be saved over the year.
Steps you need to come out ahead with a Balance Transfer
In order to make the most out of a credit card balance transfer, make sure to consider the following steps:
• Can You Qualify? Check your credit score to ensure you qualify. You risk higher interest rates with a low credit score (less than 560), even if you manage to qualify eventually.
• Review your Finances: assess your current financial situation before deciding to do a balance transfer and ask yourself the following questions: how much credit card debt you need to be transferred? What’s your current interest rate(s) and what will the transfer card interest rate be? How long do you need to pay off the balance?
• Don’t forget to read the Fine Print: Always pay attention to the terms and conditions of your credit card balance transfer agreement, because some transfers –if not all- have hidden fees, lower credit limits and card restrictions, as well as and higher interest rates on new purchases.
• Pay off your debt: You need to have all of your information ready for your application process, including your personal information, bank account information, and the amount of debt you are looking to transfer. Once approved, your old balance will be added to the new credit card (including the balance transfer fee).
• Pay on time: If it hasn’t been stressed enough, make sure you keep track of your history payments and pay on time. Late payments will compromise your low introductory rate.
How to choose the right credit card for a balance transfer?
Before applying for a balance transfer, try to keep an eye on:
• Promotions: If you want to pay your debt off rapidly, search for promotions; the lower the interest rate, the better!
• Promotional period: Verify if the offer in front of you is long enough for you to be able to pay off the balance. Once the promotion ends, the interest rate goes back to normal, and you will need to pay higher interest rates.
• Card issuer: You can’t transfer a balance to a card that’s from your same issuer. Do your research and look for the right one for you.
• Credit limit: The amount you are willing to transfer depends on the card you’re moving your debt to. For some cards in Canada, the maximum amount is the actual card’s credit limit, while it can only be 50% for other cards.
• Credit score: Your credit history will guarantee your qualification for the best balance transfer offers.
• No interest-free grace period: Unless you managed to use a 0% interest rate offer, you will be charged interest right after the balance transfer is posted to your account
• New purchases: The promotional rate agreed upon only applies to the balance you transferred, which means new purchases equal higher rates. Any payments you decide to make will go toward your balance transfer first. This means you will be charged on new purchases, which will keep adding up until you pay off your entire balance transfer
Before applying for a credit card balance transfer, find a plan that will help you pay your debt as soon as possible. Remember these three things; balance transfer fee, interest rate, and annual fee (always aim for the lowest).
To sum up, keep in mind that credit card companies make great offers to new and valued customers, like low-percentage introductory or teaser interest rates, which encourages new consumers to apply for cards, or to existing customers with good history track to transfer balances to them.
You are advised to look carefully at the terms before going through with an offer; the teaser rate and how long it lasts are two important things to consider.
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Laura Rizzotto
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From recording vocals in multiple languages, writing melodies & lyrics, to top lining for your beats, playing keys and diving into the world of soundtrack composing... I'm your girl.
I'm a 24 year-old Latvian/Brazilian singer, songwriter, composer and pianist.
I'm a Berklee Alumni, have a BFA in Musical Arts from CalArts and a Masters Degree from Columbia University in Music.
My specialities are singing, songwriting and performing. I have 2 all-original song albums out: "Made in Rio", released in 2012 by Universal Music Brazil, and "Reason to stay", released in 2014 independently. My latest project is my EP "RUBY", the first pop driven chapter of my new "Precious Stones" EP collection.
I'm a versatile writer who is experienced in navigating different genres and top lining for producers as well. This year I was chosen to represent Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest music festival in the world, with my original song, "Funny Girl".
I've collaborated with Grammy Award winners such as composer and jazz legend Eumir Deodato (Al Jarreau, Earth Wind and Fire & more), as well as co-written with Grammy Award Winner songwriter Mike Campbell (A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera, Daya). I've also worked as a Portuguese vocal coach for global superstar Jennifer Lopez.
I can sing in multiple languages, including English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian. I'm also a classically trained pianist.
I recently composed my first official soundtrack for an award winning VR app Where Thoughts Go featured on the Tribeca Film Festival.
Interview with Laura Rizzotto
2. A: Recording vocals, top lining, performing, vocal arrangements as well as writing English versions for songs in different languages.
4. A: Jessie J, John Mayer, Miguel, Kimbra, Frank Ocean, Marian Hill, Kehlani and Max Martin.
5. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
6. A: I have a CV12 Avantone mic, a condenser Shure Beta 57C mic,Yamaha HS5 monitor speakers for mixing, AKG headphones, a Nord Stage 2 keyboard, focusrite interface a Taylor 810 CE acoustic guitar, Logic/Abbleton and a cozy recording environment. : )
7. Q: What do you bring to a song?
8. A: A unique personality, interesting well thought out lyrics and catchy melodies.
9. Q: What's your strongest skill?
10. A: Using my vocals in different ways.
12. A: Singer/Songwriter, Pop.
13. Q: Can you share one music production tip?
14. A: Experiment a LOT.
16. A: Frank Ocean. He has such a unique sound to his work and point of view to his lyrics.
17. Q: How would you describe your style?
18. A: Singer/Songwriter, soulful, edgy and at times etherial.
20. A: I've been singing, writing and performing professionally for nearly 10 years. I started performing my original work as an artist when I was 15 years old in Brazil and shortly after got signed to Universal Music Brazil. I released my first album with them with 15 self-written original tracks: 12 in English and 3 Portuguese versions of my songs. I got to perform all around Rio and São Paulo and even opened for Demi Lovato at the time. Then, I got a scholarship to attend Berklee for a Bachelors Degree and moved to the US on my own at 17. I later on transferred to CalArts, where I graduated from with BFA, and moved to LA to release my second album independently. After that I got a scholarship for a Masters Degree in Music at Columbia and moved to NYC to work on my third project as an artist: the "Precious Stones" EP Collection. I graduated from my Masters on May 2017 and shortly after released my EP "RUBY", the first chapter of the EP Collection. I've collaborated with many artists I admire on the way, such as Grammy Award winner Eumir Deodato, Portuguese vocal coaching for superstar Jennifer Lopez and co-writing with Grammy Award winner Mike Campbell. I also was chosen to represent Latvia (I'm a double citizen of Brazil and Latvia) in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, the biggest music festival in the world with over 200 million viewers, with my original song "Funny Girl". This year I got to perform all over Europe and it's been an amazing journey. I've recently moved to LA where I'm working on my next EP and exploring new possibilities for my career.
22. A: My laptop, my focus rite interface, my condenser shure beta 57c mic, my midi controller and AKG headphones (but like if I could sneak in my acoustic guitar... I definitely would).
24. A: Contact me! :)
25. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
26. A: - What's your timeline/ deadline for the project? - Payment options - References for the work they'd like to have me execute
28. A: That it isn't possible to make a living off of it or doing it full-time... but it most definitely is.
30. A: Creating.
32. A: My new EP, "AMBER", which will be an homage to my Latvian roots.
34. A: Composing, recording and co-producing the soundtrack for the award winning Where Thoughts Go virtual reality experience. It was my first time diving into the world of soundtrack and I am very proud of the final outcome. It definitely woke up a new passion in me and is something I want to pursue more in the future.
Funny Girl
I was the singer, songwriter, vocal arranger in this production
Terms Of Service
For any songwriting, lyric writing and top line writing, a 33% minimum rate of the royalties and copyright is also required. Revisions are flexible, yet limited on a case by case basis.
GenresSounds Like
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Gear Highlights
• Yamaha HS5 Monitor Speakers
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Much of the Eastern United States is just now emerging from a historic two week cold snap. In much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the temperature stayed below freezing for 15 days straight. Cities recorded the lowest temperatures in a quarter century. Winter Storm Grayson reeked havoc along the Eastern Coast bringing snow to places like Charleston and a crippling blizzard to Boston.
The record cold snap also impacted the construction industry. Delivery delays, the inability to apply weather sensitive applications (like cast in place concrete), and the unavailability of labor are just a few things that extreme weather can cause on a construction project. If they happen at the wrong time, delays can destroy project schedules and make previous delays even worse. Delays cost money and can mean the difference between a profitable project from both the owner and contractors perspective.
In order to determine what relief you are entitled to because of the Little Ice Age’s impacts to your project, you need to determine three things. First, is the delay compensable. Second, is the delay excusable. Third, is the delay critical.
Is it compensable?
Many contractors contain so called “no damages for delay” clauses that limit a contractor’s right to recover for project delays to an extension of time only. That means a contractor will be entitled to relief from the agreed upon substantial completion date but is not entitled to additional money for the delay. There are exceptions to no damages for delay clause, as I discussed in this blog post, back in the day. But, you need to prove those exceptions first.
Is it excusable?
Weather related delay are rooted in the common law rule of impracticability or impossibility of performance. This means that the weather delays are only compensable when they are so unusual that neither party could have reasonably anticipated them at the time of contract. Of course, it is reasonable to assume that one should expect cold weather in the Northeast during the winter. However, what about extreme cold weather for two weeks, like we just had. Better yet, what about the extreme cold in the Southeastern Conference portion of the United States?
Where weather related delays often become an issue is when they compound other delays. For example, a general contractor may have anticipated cold weather in the winter when it agreed to the schedule. However, it did not anticipate that other project delays would cause its ready mix contractor to have to pour in the winter rather than the fall, as it was anticipated. In that situation, the delay because an issue both for the general contractor and the subcontractor.
Is it critical?
From the prime contractor’s perspective, the delay must be on the critical path for it to matter. For example, a delay by an interior painting contractor will probably not impact the schedule to a large extent. However, a contractor whose completion is critical to multiple follow trades, like a structural steel contractor, is almost certainly on the critical path.
What about notice?
Assuming the delay is excusable and it is critical, you need to assure that you are giving proper notice to your counter party. Even if your contract contains a no damages for delay clause, you still want to seek an extension of time to avoid a liquidated damage claim. Many contract, however, require you to give notice within a certain amount of time of first learning about the delay. That means if the weather has impacted your schedule and you believe you will require additional time to perform YOU NEED TO GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE IMMEDIATELY. Otherwise, you will end up waiving your right to claim additional time or additional compensation.
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03:05, May 31 52 0 theguardian.com
2019-05-31 03:05:06
Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert
Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture, is expected to make his appeal to the UK government on Friday. It comes after Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, was said by his lawyers to be too ill to appear by video link for the latest court hearing of the case on Thursday.
Assange has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison, London, where he has been serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail while fighting extradition to the US. He is accused of violating the Espionage Act by publishing secret documents containing the names of confidential US military and diplomatic sources.
After meeting Assange earlier this month in the company of medical experts who examined him, Melzer will say on Friday that he fears the Australian’s human rights could be seriously violated if he is extradited to the US and will condemn what he describes as the “deliberate and concerted abuse inflicted for years” on him.
Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says Assange has been 'arbitrarily detained' and should be able to claim compensation from Britain and Sweden. Britain and Sweden rebuff the non-binding ruling.
Nigel Farage is spotted visiting the Ecuadorian embassy.
He loses a bid to have his British arrest warrant cancelled on health grounds.
Police arrest Assange at the embassy after his asylum was withdrawn. Scotland Yard confirmed that Assange was arrested on behalf of the US after receiving a request for his extradition. Assange has been charged by the US with 'a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer.'
He is jailed for 50 weeks in the UK for breaching his bail conditions back in 2012. An apology letter from Assange is read out in court, but the judge rules that he had engaged in a “deliberate attempt to evade justice”. On the following day the US extradition proceedings were formally started.
Assange was arrested in April after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and invited police inside the country’s Knightsbridge diplomatic premises, where he had sought refuge in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault, which he has denied.
“Physically there were ailments but that side of things are being addressed by the prison health service and there was nothing urgent or dangerous in that way,” Melzer said.
“What was worrying was the psychological side and his constant anxiety. It was perceptible that he had a sense of being under threat from everyone. He understood what my function was but it’s more that he was extremely agitated and busy with his own thoughts. It was difficult to have a very structured conversation with him.”
Melzer said that Belmarsh was an old prison and had issues about that but he described it as well maintained, adding that characterisations of it as a “supermax” or “the Guantanamo of Britain” were unhelpful. While it does have a high-security wing Melzer said that Assange was not in that section.
The lawyer, who receives 10 to 15 requests each day from sources asking for him to get involved, said that his office had been approached by Assange’s lawyers in December. But he said that he was initially reluctant to do so, admitting he was affected by what he called the “prejudice” around the case.
However, he began looking into the case again in March and, earlier this week, wrote letters to the foreign ministers of the US, the UK and Sweden.
He added the UK authorities had contacted his Geneva office to indicate that the British government would be issuing a point-by-point rebuttal of the assertions made in his letter.
Melzer, who is urging the UK government not to extradite Assange to the US or to any other state failing to provide reliable guarantees against his onward transfer to the US, criticised the way in which Assange’s case was handled after police took him from the embassy.
“I was surprised, for example, to see that on the date he was arrested he was immediately brought to court after six years in the embassy and then convicted. Under the normal rule of law you would expect someone to be arrested and then given a couple of weeks to prepare his defence at least.”
The former legal adviser to the Red Cross will say on Friday: “In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.”
Prosecutors earlier this month announced 17 additional charges against him for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The 47-year-old was previously charged with working to hack a Pentagon computer system, in a secret indictment that was unveiled soon after his arrest at Ecuador’s embassy in London.
“He’s in fact far from well,” Assange’s lawyer, Gareth Peirce told the hearing on Thursday at the Westminster magistrates court. The next hearing on the extradition request was set for 12 June.
A UK government spokesperson said: “The UK has a close working relationship with UN bodies and is committed to upholding the rule of law. We support the important work of the special rapporteur’s mandate and will respond to his letter in due course, but we disagree with a number of his observations.
“Judges are impartial and independent from government, with any judgment based solely on the facts of the case and the applicable law. The law provides all those convicted with a right of appeal.”
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I'm in love with the Charlie Bone series, so I just HAD to write this story! I've read all the books, so now I have nothing to read, so I can write one, because I am up to date! I'm addicted to listening to 'The Power of Love' from Sailor Moon, episode 81 English dubbed. Well, I guess I owe you a description…
Description: Something evil is coming out of Uncle Paton. Will he be forever lost to this evil? Manfred has lost his endowment and this time its forever. When a new girl comes to Bloor's Academy, Manfred is a victim of her hypnotising stare, and soon after, so is almost everyone else. Will the endowed children be able to work together to save the entire country, and defeat Charlie's Uncle Paton before someone gets killed?
Disclaimer: I don't own Charlie Bone, or the Children of the Red King series.
Charlie Bone and the Hypnotiser.
The Endowed Children/Prologue
The children of the Red King,
Called the endowed.
Naren Bloor: Adopted daughter of Bartholomew Bloor, Naren can send shadow words over great distances. She is descended from the Red King's grandson who was abducted by pirates and taken to China.
Asa Pike: A were-beast. He is descended from a tribe who lived in Northern forests and kept strange beasts. Asa can change shape at dusk.
Billy Raven: Billy can communicate with animals. One of his ancestors conversed with ravens that sat on a gibber where dead men hung. For this talent he was banished from his village.
Lysander Sage: Descended from an African wise man. He can call up his spirit ancestors.
Tancred Torsson: A storm-bringer. His Scandinavian ancestor was named after the thunder god, Thor. Tancred can bring, rain, wind, thunder, lighting, and now snow.
Gabriel Silk: Gabriel can feel scenes and emotions through the clothes of others. He comes from a line of psychics.
Emma Tolly: Emma can fly. Her surname derives from the Spanish swordsman from Toledo, whose daughter married the Red King. He is therefore an ancestor to all the endowed children.
Charlie Bone: Charlie can travel into photographs and pictures. Through his father he is descended from the Red King, and through his mother, from Mathonwy, a Welsh magician and a friend of the Red King.
Dorcas Loom: Dorcas can bewitch items of clothing. Her ancestor, Lola Defarge, knitted a shrivelling shawl whilst enjoying the execution of the Queen of France in 1793.
Idith and Inez Branko: Telekinetic twins, distantly related to Zelda Dobinsky, who has left Bloor's Academy.
Joshua Tilpin: Joshua has magnetism. He is the son of Matthew Tilpin and Miss Chrystal, who works at Bloor's Academy, and has been discovered to be an evil witch.
Una Onimous: Mr Onimous's niece. Una is five years old, and can turn herself invisible at any time she feels like it. The Bloor's do not know her endowment, yet. Her endowment is being kept secret until is has fully developed.
Olivia Vertigo: Descended from Guanhamara, who fled the Red King's castle and married an Italian Prince. Olivia is an illusionist.
Dana Matherson: Dana is a hypnotist. Orphaned at the age of 10, she mysteriously turned up at Bloor's door, asking to be let in. The Bloor's know of her power, but they do not know how strong it is.
Benjamin Brown: At the age of 12, Benjamin and his parents discovered he was endowed. After taking him to Charlie Bone's Uncle Paton, they have discovered that Benjamin could work with fire. A descendant of Borlath, Benjamin is not evil.
Stephanie Sezelle: Stephanie can bring inanimate objects to life. Her endowment was discovered when she was 6, and since she has been transferred to many academies. A descendent of Amoris's youngest child. No one yet knows who Amoris's children are.
The endowed are all descended from the ten children of the Red King: a magician-king who left Africa in the twelfth century, accompanied by three leopards.
The Red King's branches swayed gently. His leaves had all fallen off, and soon his branches shrunk. A face appeared, and then two arms, and soon, the Red King was back.
Walking proudly out of the ruin, he was met by snow. Sniffing the snow, the King's face cheered up. My children are around. Walking over to a large building, the king spotted a mirror, and noticed that his appearance had changed.
The Red King had shoulder length neat brown hair, friendly brown eyes, and thin lips. His body was muscly, and he wore a red jacket, with a yellow shirt underneath, and baize pants.
His reflexes had weakened, and before he noticed someone was behind him, he was knocked over the head, unconscious. His Queen, a white horse, whinnied in protest as his body was dragged away.
The person doing the dragging knocked the Queen over the head, too. Soon, she changed shape, and turned into a beautiful woman. Her hair was a light shade of blonde, and she had bright blue eyes, and thin lips. She was skinny, and wore a long, black skirt, and a pink buttoned top.
After a minute of being dragged towards a garden door, the two changed shapes until they resembled 12 year olds, in exactly the same clothes that they were wearing, and exactly the same feats. The garden door was slammed shut, and then bolted.
Alright, so I had this chapter written up, right? And I had the authors note and everything, and then suddenly, half of it gets deleted! I then reset the computer, hoping that word will recover the whole thing. Well, it recovered most of it, but that last paragraph I had to write again, but it is better than the first time, I guess. Well, hope you enjoyed it! I am so saving it!
Love Kirst…
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SADC extends Mozambique troop deployment
Thursday January 13 2022
Cabo Delgado
Mozambican soldiers in Pemba, Cabo Delgado province. SADC forces on September 25, 2021 killed 17 terrorists operating in Cabo Delgado province.
By Kitsepile Nyathi
Southern African leaders on Wednesday agreed to extend the mandate of a regional troop deployment to fight insurgents in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado, providing certainty to combat violence that threatened to rip through the country.
The countries from the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) block met in Malawi's capital Lilongwe where they agreed to extend the intervention for an unspecified period to fight the Islamic State-linked insurgents.
"Summit noted the good progress made once the deployment of the SADC Mission in Mozambique and extended its mandate," read the communique at the end of a two day extraordinary summit.
SADC agreed in June 2021 to send troops to help Mozambique to counter the insurgency in the northern parts of the country, which began in 2017.
The conflict has claimed thousands of lives and displaced tens of thousands of people. On Tuesday, Mozambique had inked another deal to extend the stay of Rwandan troops in the country for a further six months, to ensure liberated areas are not retaken by the group calling itself al-Shabaab, but which has no known ties to the Somali militants known by the same name.
The violence put a chokehold on Mozambique’s economy, disrupting the oil and gas projects worth billions of dollars after international companies were targeted and forced to halt operations.
The regional leaders said the military intervention has been a success and commended Mozambique's neighbours for contributing their own resources to fight the insurgency.
"Summit noted the good progress made since the deployment of the SADC Mission in Mozambique and extended its mandate with associated budgetary implications, and that it will continue to monitor the situation going forwards," the communique added.
"Summit commended the SADC Region for its unwavering commitment to peace and security, and for using its own resources in addressing and combating terrorism in Cabo Delgado, which is a unique precedent on the African continent."
It added: "Summit commended Member States that have provided personnel, equipment and financial support, as well as making additional pledges towards the deployment of the SADC Mission in Mozambique for their commitment to regional peace and security and especially the enormous sacrifice made despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economies."
SADC’s troop deployment that was initially scheduled to run for three months was due to end on October 15 last year before it was extended until the end of 2021.
The Southern African troops are fighting alongside those from Rwanda, which were deployed mid last year to help Mozambique’s poorly resourced security forces that had been struggling to end the insurgency.
SADC countries were pushed to intervene by fears that the insurgency will spread to their territories if left unchecked.
Mozambique has also been fighting armed bandits in the central parts of the country.
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Health Law Gives Medicare Fraud Fighters New Weapons 04:53Download
Fighting health care fraud in the U.S. can seem like an endless game of Whack-a-Mole. When government fraud squads crack down on one scheme, another pops up close by.
But the fraud squads that look for scams in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs have some new weapons: tools and funding provided by the Affordable Care Act.
Medicare and Medicaid pay out some $750 billion each year to more than 1.5 million doctors, hospitals and medical suppliers. By many estimates, about $65 billion a year is lost to fraud.
Lou Saccoccio, head of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, said the aggressive computer systems and the government's new authority to suspend payments signal an important change at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
"What the Affordable Care Act does and what CMS, I think, is doing now is really a shift of focus of the 'pay and chase' mentality," said Saccoccio. "[That's] where the fraud is committed, you've paid the money, now you have to go out and get it back and prosecute the individual."
Pay and chase has given way to a prevention of fraud model, he said.
Over the next decade, Congress will direct some $340 million in additional funding for government anti-fraud efforts. Still, Saccoccio expects that the aggressive new efforts, which he applauds, will yield far more leads than the current team of investigators and analysts can handle.
"There has not been historically, in health care, enough ground truth-ing," Burns said. "What I mean by ground truth-ing is: You go to Miami, you get 100 bills, and you go and actually see, is there a doctor's office where you're sending the money?"
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Cyberattack monitoring
Website Shows Cyberattacks As They Happen In Real-Time
Deutsche Telekom, owners of US based T-Mobile Wireless, has developed a new website that displays cyberattacks as they happen in real-time.
The free website allows users to monitor when and where in the world cyberattacks are occurring.
While the average users will not find value in simply starring at a map while they are potentially under attack, the company is using the website to collect valuable data.
Deutsche Telekom compiles data for thousands of incidents daily with Russia far and away the worst attacker. According to Deutsche Telekom, Russian has experienced 2.4 million cyberattacks since February 2012.
In a distant second place, Taiwan racked up 900,000 attacks followed by Germany at 780,000 attacks. The Ukraine also received more than half a million hits with 566,000 attacks.
The United States also make the top 10 list with a sixth place finish of 355,000 attacks launched from US soil.
Some countries results might surprise viewers; for example, India wasn’t even in the top 15 cyberattacking countries. India has a very strong tech background, which apparently is used more for largely legitimate reasons.
Deutsche Telekom says the most common method of harassment arrives from server message block (SMB) protocols. That specific threat accounts for 27 million attempts per month. SMB attacks make sense since they allow for file sharing between systems which in turn allows for further attacks following exploits.
The monitoring system has found that attacks on operating systems and communication ports were less common with just thousands of attacks per month.
Deutsche Telekom collects its mapping information from a network of 97 “honeypots” which provide information about ‘hacking tripwires.”
Honeypots only monitor systems where they are installed, but the information still provides a decent look at how attacks are occurring around the world.
You can check out the full system here:
Are you surprised by the number of cyber attacks from the countries listed in the top six?
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Things that have been making me think
Why is there a regular aroma of French Toast in the stairwell of my tenement? Almost every day this last week at all sorts of different times I’ve sniffed the distinct smell of someone cooking French Toast. I like French Toast but obviously one of my neighbours really loves it. Or they have a really unusual air freshner.
Why have I had a recurring short dream where the theme to Bonanza is being played on an electric guitar with a Wah Wah pedal?
Why has the theme for Hawaii Five-O been going through my head during the waking times, along with the urge to imitate the native canoeists in the opening credit through the medium of mime?
Is it too late to stage a one-man show at the Fringe about a man trying to create his own graphic novel based upon a musician who plays Bonanza on an electric guitar with a Wah Wah pedal while secretly worrying he should be miming canoeing to the theme fromHawaii Five-O? Hey, I’ve seen worse at the Fringe! And maybe I could sell the idea to Fantagraphics. Or if I add a schoolgirl who turns into a super-powered kitten when she wears magic panties to the mix I could make a Manga of it.
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Homicide suspect
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Tucson police have identified a suspect in connection with one of the three homicides that happened New Year's day, the shooting at the intersection of East Alturas Street and North Estrella Ave near Grant and Stone. His name is Victor Pulido. He's being charged with first degree murder in connection to the death of 24-year-old Hector Garcia. If you know anything, call 911 or 88-crime.
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Hello, My Name is Victoria (Tori) Zuza. I am Married to a Marine named Josh. The Marine Corps has changed my whole life even though I don't wear the uniform. I'm proud of what the Corps has thought my husband and what it as thought me.
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The Marine Corps not only changes and shaped my Husband, but has shaped me.
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She liked the attention the man gave her, no matter how bawdy their insults. She made a dollar a night for her starring role, which allowed her to reside in an elegant house and to purchase for herself lovely clothes. She was living high for a college student and having the time of her young life in the process. Her parents and more youthful sibling knew nothing of her debasing work. They were back on their little cattle ranch, working hard to earn money while sending whatever they could spare to Cassandra to help with her schooling.
The outrageous college woman brazen attitude and bold stood out even in an establishment like this. It was her outrageous manner that captured Duke’s attention. He was looking for a woman with her outrageous approach to sex. Duke used the bartender 5 silver dollars to have the lovely eighteen-year-old bury a whiskey bottle in her cum-slicked womb. He kicked back and viewed the bartender talk with her, and noted with satisfaction that the woman held out for two of the coins before she agreed to attempt the challenging and debasing task.
Duke was very happy to see the woman had a cost, and that she was video game to deteriorate herself prior to a crowd of drooling drunks for the price of a pair of trendy boots. She got the bottle into her womb, totally buried in her love nest, but as Duke prepared for, had actually put the stubby neck in initially, and when she tried to remove it, she found the power of a vacuum. With the tight rim of her vaginal area grasping the end of the bottle, she had difficulty acquiring the smooth damp glass, and when she finally got a grip on it, she was only able to get it out 3 inches.
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After nearly twenty minutes of struggle with the mysteriously stuck bottle, when Duke figured she had suffered enough of the most excruciating discomfort and anxiety, he stepped around the bar to assist the maiden entertaining the men with her wonderful misfortune. Utilizing the barrel of his pistol as a mallet, he smashed the end of the bottle, breaking the vacuum, within. The nude entertainer gingerly moved the fractured glass out of her tightly grasping vaginal area.
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Potassium (pronounced /pɵˈtæsiəm/) is the chemical element with the symbol K (Latin: kalium, from Arabic: القَلْيَه al-qalyah “plant ashes”, cf. Alkali from the same root), atomic number 19, and atomic mass 39.0983. Potassium was first isolated from potash. Elemental potassium is a soft silvery-white metallic alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite the evolved hydrogen.
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A musical journey through Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, music reflects the Balkanic soul with its specific rhythm and its color: rough and sensitive, moving and lively at the same time.
Bulgaria has spent 500 years under Ottoman domination. During this period, Bulgarian culture was silenced but remained vivid through folklore. In 1887, the country became independent and the first Bulgarian composers began to express their own culture: Dobri Khristov is considered as the pioneer of the country’s composition tradition. Lubomir Pipkov, Marin Petrov Goleminov among others enriched this tradition.
What characterizes Bulgarian musical style is its specific rhythm called “Aksak” by Béla Bartók, which signifies “to limp”. It refers to a rhythmical structure, mostly binary but alternating long beats and short beats. This structure reflects the traditional Bulgarian dances which correspond to the first role of music in the country: to gather people through dances.
The Musical journeys explore European countries and meet with their musical traditions, past and present. A director wanders and stumbles upon celebrities of the classical world, students or amateurs who carry a passion for music. He draws a portrait of a musical culture and juxtaposes interviews with performances or concert excerpts: a delightful excursion!
Movie director : Arthur Cemin
Collection : The musical journeys
Duration : 52 min
Production date : 2004
Production : © LGM
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Cheyenne to Wheatland
The first day back on the bikes was another detour fest which eventually ended on Telephone “road”, a tractor path through some beautiful rolling hills. We found a random Calf who was stuck on the wrong side of the fence and he was so scared of us that he jumped through a barbed wire fence to get back on the other side. Eventually, we decided to camp on the road in some beautiful country and had the howling wind and phenominal stars to keep us company.
Canned tuna and rice… standard dinner.
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The next day was a big day of riding, 69miles total! We don’t typically do a lot of miles per day, we are more in it for the experiences and serendipitous events like spending the night at a winery.
After rolling to Chugwater, WY pop 212, we grabbed some chili dogs at the only place in town and met some less than kind locals who made it a point to speak loudly about how people travelling for the eclipse better stay the hell off their land. We originally planned to stay in Chugwater but instead rode another 30 miles to Wheatland. Along the way, we finally learned what the mystery fences were… Snowdrift fences.
The ride from Chugwater to Wheatland was tough, there was some serious wind and not much in the way of scenery. We passed some interesting compounds that were a mystery. Originally we thought they were old rodeo rings, but then realized they were old underground bunkers for ICBMs. There were constant Huey helicopters flying around taking the crews to the remote locations to sit alert waiting for WWIII! We were dead tired and got caught in a big wind storm that knocked Lauren off her bike. Also it caused a giant coal cloud to blow in front of us from the power plant.
Eventually we rolled into town and had some great dinner and brews at Windy Peaks. Our bartender Stevie was awesome. We talked all night and decided to go back the next day to get some more info from her and plan the trip up the mountain. We camped for free in the local town park which had a few spots for RVs and a couple of tent sites too. The next day we found out the park was closed for camping so they could charge for the eclipse, but the guy who took care of the park was cool and said we could stay for free. We hung out in the park and hit up the public pool that was 200 yards away. We did cannonballs off the high dive and rode the water slides because, why not!?! It was a pretty relaxing few days. By the time we left Wheatland, we were the talk of the town. At breakfast on the way out of town, the waitress asked if we were the folks riding bicycles up to the eclipse.
There were a few bad apples who clearly were not interested in people visiting their town from out of state. One guy at the liquor store said “I heard folks from Colorado were emailing ranchers saying, we are gonna camp on your land and there is nothing you can do about it!” No… no that never happened. There were some dipshits, but we met kind folks as well. Stevie offered to drive us up the mountain but we politely declined and explained that the whole point of the trip was to ride. When we got to the summit we realized why she offered.
P8130664.JPGAfter the run in with the Ranger, we were not in the highest spirits. The singletrack at red canyon was HARD! We climbed literally the entire way which included a deep sand arroyo for over a mile and several miles of switchbacks going straight up the side of a mountain. It was amazing scenery but challenging riding (walking).
Eventually we made it to some railroad tracks which had an access road running next to them. We did have to jump a fence that was locked but it was locked to keep people out of where we were so we figured it was ok. Lauren started talking about hamburgers and we decided a detour to Cheyenne was in order. We started heading east and discovered what rolling hills in Wyoming really means.
We learned that railroad tracks are a great option for bikepacking and were not worried about getting yelled at because all of the train engineers tooted the horn and waved at us. We saw tons of pronghorn and wondered what the hell these giant random 8 foot tall fences were for miles.
There were ant attacks and debates about the route and it eventually ended with a glorious 8 mile downhill on a calm pavement road straight into Cheyenne. For the first time we spun out our highest gear. We stopped at a hotel and took a Lyft into town to Sanford’s which had phenominal burgers and some well deserved beers. We met a nice guy from Ohio who was travelling to Utah to help his son move into his dorm at college and proceeded to solve all the worlds problems right there at the bar.
One rest day turned into two due to an 80% chance of severe thunderstorms and we layed around and watched bad TV, ate at chain restaurants, and lived the American Dream for 48 hours.
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Sunsets are a spectacularly nightly feature here in Southwest Florida. And sometimes they are so amazing that groups of tourists and residents, enjoying the warm weather, break out into applause when our life-giving star sinks below the horizon. Here are five things you should know to add a little education to your next sunset:
Colorful: The vibrant colors of the sunset are often the result of something called “scattering.” Molecules and other particles can change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter, according to Science Daily. When the sun is low on the horizon, sunlight passes through more air. More atmosphere means more molecules to scatter the violet and blue light away from your eyes, said Steven Ackerman, a profesor of meteorology, on the Science Daily website.
Flatten it out: As the sun goes “lower,” the air gets denser and that makes the sun look flatter.
Bend it like ...: We actually see the sun after it is below the horizon, since the rays are bent down toward us by the atmosphere.
The green flash: Sometimes when there is little turbulence in the air, green light is bent more than red, resulting in a green flash. This phenomenon is usually not seen because people don’t look for it, but if you watch enough sunsets you should eventually see the green flash.
A silver lining? Pollution is never a good thing, but some believe it makes a sunset have more colors, although some scientists say that’s still up for debate. Still, more dust and debris can reflect the light.
— The News-Press archives, Science Daily
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Norman 2013, geb., 320 Seiten, 87 Abb.?This midsize mammal that looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the nocturnal, burrowing insectivore was for centuries mistaken for a cross between a hedgehog and a turtle, but it actually belongs to the mammalian superorder Xenarthra that includes sloths and anteaters. Biologists W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough have studied the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) for more than twenty years. Their richly illustrated book offers the first comprehensive review of everything scientists know about this unique animal. Armadillos reproduce in a unique and puzzling manner: females always give birth to litters of genetically identical quadruplets, a strategy not found in any other vertebrates. Nine-banded armadillos are also the only vertebrates except for humans known to contract leprosy naturally. And what about habitat expansion??
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AI could soon replace psychiatrists
After sex, football and even art, could artificial intelligence soon replace our doctor? The idea is not new. It appears in many science fiction films, but tends to democratize IRL. This time, it is our psyche that the robots want to attack. Invented in 1966, the first conversational chatbot dedicated to psychiatry has come a long way since the 2000s, and the idea of an AI capable of maintaining our mental health is no longer as dystopian a prospect as it seems.
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According to several recent studies, human patients are no longer as reluctant as before to confide their moods to a robot. Mental health is an increasingly popular topic, and AI could provide several significant benefits. First, the absence of a real therapist could ensure patients a greater freedom of speech, without fear of human judgment. Then report some works, AI would be the only one able to make truly objective decisions, while remaining available at any time of the day and night.
Note, however, that if the future of psychiatry refers to robot therapists, it is for the moment above all a question of chatbots, and more rarely interactive videos. The absence of a physical interface with a human appearance could therefore constitute a real obstacle to the creation of a link between the patient and his “practitioner”. In addition, several health professionals are already worried about the inability of an AI to detect certain warning behaviors, especially in the case of a suicide attempt for example.
For the moment, and despite all the progress in AI in recent years (to the point that a former Google employee considers a chatbot as a real colleague), robots are still far from equaling humans, both in terms of empathy, but also of internal models. For a healthcare professional in particular, these unconscious mental patterns integrate all past experiences and acquired knowledge to make it possible to establish a human diagnosis.
Especially since the objectivity announced by the defenders of AI has yet to be demonstrated. Robots remain programmed by fallible humans, and therefore do not escape certain biases, whether sexist, racist or social. Recall that Tay, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence launched in 2016, only took a few hours to utter Nazi insults after spending some time on Twitter.
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Futuristic architecture: its fact and characteristics
futuristic architecture
Written by Dhrubajyoti Roy
Architecture is something that we always grow with like a part of our human life, like every other technology or things in this world get updated regularly like Whatsapp by adding something better and removing something which is not necessary to keep, futuristic architecture is a highly upgraded version of architecture to create an architecture not for the present but for the future.
The concept of futurism came to light at the early 19th century from Italy when a poet finds it as a concept for the future, architecture very soon adapted the concept into its one of style and today we are witnessing the effect of the adaptation and Antonio Sant’elia and peter cook are some of the most famous futuristic architecture in the world.
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The modern and futuristic architecture is almost similar but futuristic is just like out of the boundary, from elements used in the architecture to design concept everything seems highly advanced like quantum theories, current world architectures highly engaged with the futuristic building and believe that the world will be full of futuristic architectures in the near future.
Futuristic architecture is the concept of letting the generation build their own cities, let them create what is best suitable for them that’s where the core philosophy of futuristic architecture lies in, to create sustainable buildings for the present and future rather than just adapting the past architectures and designs.
Highly creative in design and usage of unusual materials are some of the common features of futuristic architecture, the Guggenheim museum is built with titanium which is an odd material in the world of architecture.
Architecture philosophy:
To build something which has less or no connection to the past or ancestral architecture, we are not eating foods that are thousand years old but why do we live in the style which found thousands and thousands of years before? so they came up with the concept of futuristic to build for the current with a short span.
The usage of glass and steels were seen in the modern architecture itself but making the same element in a very creative and un usual way is what futurism gave us, futuristic architecture let the dream of the architecture to go any extend until it matches the creativity, today we see a lot of buildings in the shape of fish or chocolate and much more, buildings like these were not possible before the birth of the futuristic architecture.
When it comes to materials used in the building though steels and glasses are common, they used some other materials which are new to the entire architectural world like translucent concrete and bacteria building blocks, from bending concrete to aerogel they used every possible combination of materials to make it sustainable.
The design concept of futuristic architecture is one thing to amaze at with no proper principle because it let the architects have their own principles in designing and construction without any pre manual, simply it gave the entire freedom to the architects.
Burj Khalifa:
Burj Khalifa in Dubai is one of the most popular futuristic architecture and highest skyscraper in the world, who build something which is 829 meters high? that’s where the futurism lies for the craziest creativity and to make it possible one.
The concrete building is an example of making buildings which are adaptable and sustainable at the same time, Burj Khalifa probably saved more spaces in Dubai than any other building that is an additional benefit of futuristic architecture.
futuristic architecture
Shanghai tower, the theme building in Los Angeles, and the crystal in London are some of the famous futuristic architecture buildings in the world.
“Why not staying with the old methods and styles when we can create our own with our own creativity and freedom.”
About the author
Dhrubajyoti Roy
I am a 5th-year student pursuing a bachelor's course in Architecture. I partake in freelancing work in the field of Architecture range from buildings in Autocad to 3D Rendering and work through in Lumion.
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What is reflective writing?
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1. reporting and responding to a critical issue or experience;
2. relating this issue or experience to your own knowledge in this field;
3. reasoning about causes and effects of this issue/experience according to relevant theories or literature and/or similarities or differences with other experiences you've had; and
4. reconstructing your thinking to plan new ways to approach the issue or engage in similar experiences in the future
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Blockchain will disempower banks, make energy grids far more efficient, fix the music industry, and save journalism
“Blockchain technology represents the second generation of the internet.”
If that sounds like a hyperbole, it wasn’t the biggest one that Alex Tapscott unleashed on the executives and managers at the Digital Business World Congress in Madrid on Wednesday.
He argued that Blockchain will disempower banks, make the energy grid far more efficient, fix the music industry, and save journalism. Tapscott is the co-author of the book Blockchain Revolution and he gave the opening keynote on day two of DES 2017.
“It’s good to have a printing press for information,” said Tapscott. “But, it’s not good to have a printing press for money or assets.”
That’s where Blockchain comes in.
What is Blockchain?
SEE: Blockchain: The smart person’s guide (TechRepublic)
How can Blockchain disrupt society?
The key to Blockchain is trust.
These intermediaries do a fairly good job but they have their limitations, said Tapscott. “They take cost and slow things down,” he said, and “anything that’s centralized is vulnerable.”
But above all, they “capture an asynchronous benefit” for what they provide. In other words, they take too much money while adding little value. Their main commodity is trust, and it’s based on the perception that they aren’t going anywhere.
Blockchain has a different kind of trust, based on the fact that it’s decentralized and managed by the public so that no one entity can manipulate or control it. That’s ultimately made it even more trustworthy, leading The Economist to label it “The trust machine” and The Wall Street Journal to refer to it as the “democratization of trust.”
That trust can be used to establish a form of currency, verify a document, record a vote, or transfer a digital asset–with no middleman needed in between.
SEE: Executive’s guide to implementing blockchain technology
Tapscott calls it the second generation of the internet because it evolves “from an internet of information to an internet of value.”
Since a lot companies make money by sitting in the middle of transactions between consumers and products, this is going to change the equation for a lot of industries. “Blockchain is going to have a profound impact on businesses everywhere in the world,” said Tapscott.
And it’s not just the lumbering dinosaurs of industry that will be affected. “Blockchain disrupts the disrupters,” Tapscott said. “It disrupts business models that are only 4 or 5 years old.”
Image: Jason Hiner/TechRepublic
For more on how this could work in practice, let’s look at the four examples we started with at the beginning of this article.
Energy grid
Music industry
Similar to the music industry, Tapscott said Blockchain-verified micropayments could also change the equation for journalism. Stories could have their rights embedded in each file and readers could be charged tenths of a penny for each piece of content they actually consume, for example. The result could be that readers think about which stuff is worth consuming and the best journalism could get funded “This could be the payment system we need to let journalism fight back against fake news,” he said. As a media professional, I’d have to say that the challenge, of course, is that slideshows of celebrities get far more visits than investigative pieces about terrorists and social issues. But, this would be a worthy experiment.
Final word
Make no mistake, a lot of work still needs to be done to make Blockchain a technology that will be used by average citizens. Using it today often involves jumping through a lot of very technical hoops. And it likely won’t be Blockchain itself, but the services built on top of it that will become household names in the years to come.
Also, the Blockchain revolution doesn’t mean there won’t be businesses to be built and money to be made, but it’s likely to reset the equation and require that companies provide a lot more value than simply conveying a transaction. By not concentrating so much power and wealth into a few trusted entities, it will likely allow for a lot more competition and let a lot more flowers bloom.
Nevertheless, as Tapscott said, “The opportunity to re-engineer the economic power grid is enormous.”
We have to consider the fact that Blockchain could rewrite some of the rules of capitalism, which naturally favors concentrations of wealth. Tapscott thinks of it not so much as redistributing wealth as “pre-distributing” it by opening up more opportunities to more people, by default.
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Self-Defense for Claims Stemming from Domestic Violence
Meldon Law has helped protect both victims and the accused of Domestic Violence for over 30 years. While Domestic Violence (“DV”) is more often associated with criminal charges, those brought by the State of Florida in a criminal prosecution, it is important to remember for both victims and the accused that civil claims, those brought by a Plaintiff in a civil case which typically seeks monetary damages and/or injunctive relief can still be viable even if a criminal charge exists against the Defendant.
As a preliminary matter, it is important for the reader to understanding that the burdens of proof are starkly different in a criminal matter as opposed to a civil case. In a criminal case, the State must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt each “element” of a domestic battery. The jury instructions for a domestic violence case often reads similar to the following as it pertains to “Reasonable Doubt”:
You must presume or believe the defendant is innocent. The presumption stays with the defendant as to each material allegation in the information or indictment through each stage of the trial unless it has been overcome by the evidence to the exclusion of and beyond a reasonable doubt….
Whenever The Words “Reasonable Doubt” Are Used You Must Consider The Following:
A reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt, a speculative, imaginary or forced doubt. Such a doubt must not influence you to return a verdict of not guilty if you have an abiding conviction of guilt. On the other hand, if, after carefully considering, comparing and weighing all the evidence, there is not an abiding conviction of guilt, or, if, having a conviction, it is one which is not stable but one which wavers and vacillates, then the charge is not proved beyond every reasonable doubt and you must find the defendant not guilty because the doubt is reasonable
For a civil case, however, the Plaintiff must prove their case by the, “Greater weight of the Evidence” or often referred to as the, “Preponderance of Evidence.” Florida Jury instructions read will define greater weight of the evidence often by “more persuasive and convincing force and effect of the entire evidence in the case.” Stated differently, for the Plaintiff to win at trial they must “tilt the scales” in their favor or if you can imagine a perfectly balanced scale, all Plaintiff must do is tilt the scales a little in his favor or 51% vs. 49% of the weight of the evidence. These burdens are radically different and for a good reason. Criminal cases can be life altering and the State may take away the accused freedom whereas most often, the end result of a civil case (generally speaking) in favor of a plaintiff seeks monetary compensation.
In both criminal and civil cases, the Defendant may plea “Self-Defense,” which is an affirmative defense to a battery (domestic or otherwise). What this essentially says to the court is, “Yes, I touched him/her, but I was lawfully permitted to do so.” In a civil action for damages resulting from an assault and battery, a plea of self-defense, if proven, is an absolute bar to liability. Etcher v. Blitch, 381 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979). Dating all the way back to 1914 as referenced in Price v. Gray’s Guard Service, Inc., 298 So. 2d 461 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974), civil courts have held that a person unlawfully assaulted is entitled to repel force with force to the extent it seems reasonably necessary to protect from injury. That is to say, a person who has no reason to believe that there exists a safe way avoid the necessity of defense is privileged to defend against another by force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily harm when the person reasonably believes that the other is about to inflict on the person an intentional bodily harm or death.
The conduct of a person acting in self-defense is measured by an objective standard that must be applied to the facts and circumstances as they appeared at the time of the altercation to the one acting in self-defense. Additionally, one who acts in self-defense is not held to the same course of conduct that might have been expected had the person been afforded an opportunity to “cool down” or cool thought as to possibilities, probabilities, and alternatives. While often applied and associated as a defense in criminal proceedings, Florida, “Stand Your Ground Statutes” by their language provide immunity from civil action to a person who uses or threatens to use force as permitted by the act and therefore may be applied to grant immunity to civil prosecution from an assault/battery-defendant under certain circumstances.
By way of example, under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Laws,” a person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another; or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. Notably, a person who uses or threatens to use deadly force in accordance with the applicable provision does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be. Furthermore, a provision of the Stand Your Ground Law provides that a person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force, and a person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with the provision does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force. Entire cases often turn on this “immanency” component of the Stand Your Ground Laws which is why it is so important to have a lawyer well-versed in both civil and criminal cases to help assist you in battery related charges or claims.
As eluded to in the beginning of this article, Court that it has been held that neither res judicata nor collateral estoppel applied to preclude a victim’s civil prosecution suit alleging assault even though the alleged assailant was previously found to be immune from criminal assault prosecution pursuant to the Stand Your Ground Law since the critical element that was missing as to both doctrines was mutuality of the parties because the State, not the victim, was the opposing party to the assailant in the criminal prosecution. If you have been charged by the State with Battery or believe you have a claim against another as a Plaintiff or have had a claim brought against you as a Defendant, call Meldon Law today for a free consultation at 800-373-8000.
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Detroit man, who sparked a massive search for his missing daughter, says she is still alive - calls judge a "liar".
19:46, UK, Monday 03 December 2012
From FOX 2 Detroit (Roop Raj) - posted on site and Raj's Twitter account
A Detroit father who inspired dozens of people to look for his missing two-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison for her murder.
D'Andre Lane, 32, received his sentence on Monday while repeatedly insisting he did not harm her and that she is still alive.
Lane claimed Bianca Jones was abducted during a carjacking a year ago - a tragic, emotional story that led police and volunteers to scour the city's most depressed neighbourhoods to look for her near the holidays.
But investigators soon became skeptical and questioned Lane's credibility.
Prosecutors told a jury that the carjacking was a lie to cover up Bianca's death, alleging she was killed with a stick, partly because she wet herself and was not potty-trained.
Lane was convicted of first-degree murder in October.
Bianca's body has never been found.
"You controlled her dead body like a rag doll. ... You figured that a city plagued with violence, understaffed by police - who would care? But you were wrong," Wayne County Circuit Judge Vonda Evans said.
Lane repeatedly professed his innocence and blamed police for an incomplete investigation.
"Vonda, you're a liar," Lane told Judge Evans as sheriff's deputies escorted him past her.
Lane told police that Bianca was in the back seat of his car when a carjacker took the vehicle at gunpoint on December 2, 2011.
The car was found less than an hour later but the girl was no longer inside.
Bianca's mother, who continues to support Lane, stood in the courtroom gallery on Monday and declared: "The justice system cheated us."
He said there is no evidence that Bianca is dead, only that she is missing.
Lane has an automatic right to appeal his conviction.
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"Whose streets? CIA's streets!.." Al Qaeda database members from the UK, EU and Libya gather in Syria to terrorise it on behalf of their paymasters in Washington, London and Tel Aviv.
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Germany's federal government is being criticized by its left faction over its stance regarding the violence in Syria. The cause was a parliamentary enquiry to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Houla massacre. Furthermore, German intelligence agents are involved in Syria.
The left faction has strongly criticized the federal government's position regarding what it knows about the Syrian Hula massacre on May 25th. Representative Sevim Dagdelen criticised how on the one hand the federal government repeated the view of an international investigative commission that "powers close to regime", i.e. militia close to president Assad, were "responsible" for the majority of victims' deaths, but on the other hand the government stated it doesn't have "incriminating information" when asked about the details of the massacre's circumstances.
The representative referred to replies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a parliamentary enquiry. The federal government's reply stated: "From the point of view of the federal government, the primary threat to the civilian population comes through the continued military violence of the Syrian regime." Over the period July 5th until 15th July the government has been repeatedly briefed about the massacre in Houla by the Federal Intelligence Service.
With regard to the reports of the Federal Intelligence Service, it was stated: "The preparation of this report is classified after being registered as confidential for reasons of public interest and has been deposited in the Security of Information Office of the German Bundestag."
At the same time, on being questioned about the details of the incidents in May, the wording used was that there was no "corresponding incriminating information" on the issue.
Inaccurate numbers on "armed resistance"
The federal government's reply notes that Syria's armed resistance consists of various groupings. There was no "incriminating information" as to the forces of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA), whose numbers of up to 40,000 people as publicized on the internet seemed "significantly inflated". The armed resistance was equipped "mainly with small arms and anti-tank defense small arms".
On the question of what information the federal government has on the type and extent of the weapons, which has been delivered to the Syrian regime as well as to the opposition, the reply states: "Answering this question is not possible for the federal government for reasons of nondisclosure pertaining to the publicly viewable part of the reply to the minor interpellation." It must be classified as "secret". The answer could be inspected in the Bundestag's Security of Information Office.
The federal government's reply also stated that from the end of December 2011 to the beginning of July 2012 there have been around 90 terrorist attacks, "which can be attributed to organizations close to al-Qaida or jihadist groupings".
In a statement Mrs. Dagdelen reproached federal governement of state intelligence involvement. In doing so, they were "blindly" participating in the propaganda of the allies and thereby working on escalating the conflict and "precluding avoidance of military participation in due course".
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[BLANK_AUDIO] We're doing a simple easy dish. Okay, I see peppers. Yeah so at my house we also have rice left over. Okay. If you have rice left over, you made it the day before you're going to take your rice. Already ready. And you're going to stuff peppers. Okay. And make it super simple and easy. So the rice is cooked that's going in. Put that in there. Okay. And I'm going to Add in. I'm a have you chop. Ok I know your knife skills. I'm hurting. I heard they were pretty good. Yeah, you know I know a few things. [LAUGH] A few things. I think I can do this. So you're literally just gonna rough-chop some of the collard greens. I know what that is. Yes, and you're literally just running your knife over it. [LAUGH] Okay. And we're gonna rough chop. Yep. How's that? I'm not on TV here, guys, but I mean I'm doing it. You're gonna add those into those rice. Now do you just scoop it up? Yeah, absolutely. You can use your knife, you can use your hands, completely up to you. We're gonna add in our favorite again, parmesan cheese. Cheese, please. So I'm gonna let you say when when we stop. There's no wrong way. [LAUGH] [LAUGH] There is no wrong or right way. That looks like a good amount to me. That looks good. And we're literally just going to mix everything together. Easy, that's really simple. Today we're using a brown rice. Okay. Super-healthy dish. So right here, we have our peppers. Okay. We had them on 375 for 15 minutes A quick roast. Cleaning inside the pepper. Just want to soften them up. Because everything else is cooked, you don't need to cook everything together, like you would if you were doing it from scratch. Okay. So we're going to stuff the peppers. And we're going to take it, we can get a little messy with it, and stuff it in. Stuff it in. Now, if you had mashed potatoes instead of rice left over, you could use that as well. So there's lots of substitution. Absolutely. That's simple! And so, whatever's in your fridge? Absolutely, and if you wanna do a portobello mushroom instead of the peppers, do that too. All right. Yeah, you're doing great, see! And how long are we gonna cook this for? Look, I'm loading mine up. I love it! [LAUGH] Can't you tell I'm ready? Okay, okay. That'll work. Cheese. Cheese. A little more cheese. Never mad at that. Yeah. So, you're gonna top it with a little cheese. Okay. And how long is this gonna go in the oven for? So, you're gonna bake it for about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on your temperature. You're really just looking for the cheese to melt. Okay. And the rice and the collard greens to get friendly, cuz everything's already in there. And then we have some toasted Bread crumbs here that I just added some dry parsley to. So you are just loading all of the goodness on [INAUDIBLE] This is all things that I'd already used the day before and it's really simple and easy. And you're gonna have all of this handy the day after Thanksgiving, you're winning already. Yes, so we literally take that, stick it in the oven 15 minutes, or until the cheese melts. Yes, absolutely. And what is the finished product going to look like? I think you're going to like this. So the finished product looks like this. Drumroll please. That looks amazing. Isn't that beautiful? That looks really good. So, the collards with pepper and then literally We're adding a little to you. A little extra? If you want to get a little fancy. To show off. Who doesn't? I like to show off every once in a while. Do it for the gram. Make it gram worthy. Exactly, do it for the gram guys. Before you eat it, make it pretty. And now I'm going to taste because I really can't wait, I'm excited. I can't wait for you to taste this. So, simple, easy Be under 20 minutes, you're back on the couch with your family and loved ones. Everyone's happy, everyone's fed. And you had all these left overs? Mm hm, everyone's happy. Mm. What do you think? Gil, you know what I think. Winner? It's delicious. Yes. [LAUGH] It was so simple, thank you so much.
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TSA Taser Bracelet for Airline Passengers (Video)
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They need a whole string of
They need a whole string of testimonials from brainwashed everyday citizens to sell it. The problem is it would be practically mandatory for SNL or somebody to do a comedy skit with everyone getting zapped for stupid reasons and by mistake.
That can't sell
Part of selling us on giving up our rights is the illusion that concessions make us safer. It's so obvious this doesn't fit that illusion at all.
It's obvious it's going to go off on the wrong people. If it can incapacitate, it can kill. It's obvious no one would have the time to look up the right code when a situation arises. It's so obvious this will set off people with anxiety issues on a regular basis.
There's lots of money out there for charlatans who want to get paid government money for helping them put on their show, but this guy needs to go back to the drawing board to get it.
Defend Liberty!
First off, no way in hell I
First off, no way in hell I would put a taser on myself or my child. Secondly, this sounds a lot like this administration thinking that a terrorist would keep on the bracelet while hijacking a plane just like banning guns would stop criminals from owning one. Thank the Lord this didn't go anywhere.
Lol I can already see it...
Lol I can already see it...
Terrorist:"die infidels!"
Airline crew: "wait he can't take that off its against the law!"
deacon's picture
setting your expectations to high,can cause depressiuon
deacon's picture
this won't fly
sorry for the pun
wait until they implement the last line of their defense
it will be a gurney to strap all passengers down,don't demand or ask for such as a glass of water or something to eat,that will be
seen as an act of aggression,and you might get a shot in the arm
you know,just to calm you down,no telling where you will end up upon awakening
setting your expectations to high,can cause depressiuon
I recall
this from a few years ago. But I thought the device was placed around the neck ;)
Well you got to hand it to
Well you got to hand it to them. Hell of a sales pitch ay? Surprised our boys and girls in Washington didn't adopt this right away. Must have been a least favored lobbyist behind it. I'm sure if they sold it to Lockheed or GE we would all be wearing them now...
Well shoot that system is fool proof
...rubber sleeves? perhaps simply cutting it off before proceeding with activities? a good soak in water? Nah that wouldnt work.
I wonder how the flight crew would know which bracelet to activate? Kindly ask the gentleman or lady for their shock id # before proceeding with the festivities? Or just hit everyone in the general area and hope for the best? Sounds wonderful!
I tell you the hairbrain ideas people come up with to add to the already bloated security theater for a lousy buck... not to mention the incompetence that actually gives them the buck. sheesh
Obviously the bracelet was never implemented. The video sounds like it was from pre 2003. So Im wondering why it was posted? Is someone actually thinking of going ahead with such foolish idea or what? crazy stuff
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quit bumping your own posts
let me do it for you :)
oops BUMP
setting your expectations to high,can cause depressiuon
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Me too
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How to Sandboard
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Enjoyed since the times of the Ancient Egyptians, and revived in the 1940s, sandboarding is combination of snowboarding, surfing, and skating, only it's on the sand dunes instead of the wave, snow, or streets.[1] Yet, even if you've never snowboarded, surfed, or skateboarded, you'll pick up sandboarding easily enough with some know-how, determination, and plenty of practice.
One of the great things about sandboarding is how it can be used when the surf's poor, the snow's gone, or the skateboarding areas are crowded, and even better, it's a sport that can take you around the world to find suitable places for sand boarding, so it's a great excuse for traveling! In this article, you'll learn a few methods for getting started in sandboarding, but naturally, nothing beats getting out there and trying.
1. 1
Get a sandboard. A sandboard is similar to a snowboard. It has a specially waxed base and has bindings attached to it which attach to your feet so that you can't lose it as you sand board down the hill. The sandboards come in a variety of designs (twin tips, square tails, and swallow tails) and waxes aimed at increasing speed, so it's a good idea to discuss the options with the retailer. You will also need to decide between a terrain board (cheaper, perfect for shorter, less steep runs) and a full-size board (more expensive, for larger dunes and greater speeds).[2]Whatever board you choose, it should come up to about your mouth in height. The sorts of places that might sell a sandboard include surfboard and snowboard retailers, and outdoor recreation outfitters; perhaps call them before visiting to check they have stock. It is also possible to make your own sandboard using instructions found online; just search for "sandboard instructions".[3]
• It's a good idea to get a helmet for safety, and some knee and elbow pads for buffeting when you fall, although this is personal preference; if you do fall, sand is pretty soft and forgiving although speed can make a difference as to how you land and it's always possible to break something or get a concussion.
• Get some wax. This will need to be reapplied according to the instructions provided with your board and/or the relevant wax product.
• In terms of clothing, shorts and a t-shirt are perfect![4]
• You could also use a normal snowboard if you have one; however, be aware that purpose-built sandboards come with different wax styles matched to different sand types and climate for best performance. You can certainly swap the straps and boots between both sports.
• Consider hiring a sandboard before purchasing one. That way, if you don't like it, you haven't outlaid too much money.
2. 2
Choose sand dunes or sand hills that are open for recreation. There are plenty of places with sand dunes, probably even in a landlocked country because sand is plentiful. Look for dunes near beaches, rivers, and in arid zones such as deserts. Also check that the sport is authorized for the dunes you're using, as some dunes are protected by law to prevent erosion or scaring off species nesting or feeding in the dunes. Find out about the state of protection before using the sand dunes; you can ask at local ranger stations or government land/environment offices.
• Don't use dunes or hills with dune grass growing on them because the boarding will damage their fragile roots. Choose only hills or dunes that have just sand.[5]
• Most sandboarding locations are currently free, apart from a few specific parks set up for sandboarding. This is part of the attraction of sandboarding for many – low start-up costs, and a lot of free places often not filled with people.
3. 3
Try almost flat terrain and skating exercises if you're a beginner. If you're already experienced with snowboarding or skateboarding, proceed to the next step. For the beginner, try the following suggestions to help you "get a feel" for the board on the sand and a sense of balance.
• Spend some time "skating". Simply strap in only one foot, and use the other foot to propel you and the board around the sand. Try this on flat terrain and on very small sand humps.
• Now, strap both feet in. Have someone push you slowly along the almost flat terrain first off. This will help you get a "feel" for the sand.
• In general, as a total beginner it should take about one day of practicing with a sandboard before you start to feel confident enough to stay on your feet, ride, and make a few turns.[6]
4. 4
Practice on a small sand hill with very little drop. If you've already snowboarded or skateboarded, you'll probably already find the balancing easy enough and the feel won't be so strange for you as it will be for a beginner.[7] (Nevertheless, even if you're a beginner, don't fret, as you'll soon pick up the technique.) Find a small sand dune or sand hill and make sure it's not too steep, as you'll likely have to spend some time just getting used to the maneuvering the sandboard before you can cope with steeper gradients and drops.
• The best type of dune is one covered with dry sand. Wet sand will stick to the board, either causing it to stop or to slow down considerably, which defeats the purpose of going down fast!
• If at any point you feel yourself getting into trouble, try sitting down.[8]
5. 5
On the small hill, try the following drill to improve your ability to board on your heels:
• Strap both feet in.
• Go down the hill on your heels. You do this by pulling up on your toes. Don’t pull up to much or you're going to fall on your butt.
• Now let up on your heels so you can go down the hill. If you pick up too much speed or want to stop pull up on your toes again.
• At the bottom of the hill, unstrap one of your straps. Preferably the one that you strapped up at the top of the hill. Now make your way back up to the top of the hill.
6. 6
Repeat the above exercise, but this time working your toes, rather than your heels:
• After you have strapped yourself in, turn yourself around and put pressure on your toes, to stabilize yourself at the top of the hill. Remember not too much pressure, or you will fall. Let the pressure off your toes to start going down the hill. If you start going too fast, put pressure on your toes to slow down or stop.
7. 7
Continue going down the hill, each time increasing your skill in different areas. For example, start pushing towards more aggressive turns and stances:
• Go back to the top of the hill. You're going to go down again on your heels. Put pressure on your right foot so you can weave to the right of the hill. Then put pressure on your left foot so you can weave to the left of the hill. Continue doing this until you reach the bottom.
• Try the above again, but on your toes instead of your heels.
• Repeat the above drills, but put more pressure on your right foot so your board is facing straight down the hill. Then start to put pressure on your toes. Now you should be on your toes going to the left part of the hill.
• If you want to get back to your heels, put pressure on your front foot until your board is facing straight down the hill. Now put pressure on your heels.
8. 8
Practice the above steps till you are comfortable with your skills. Then move up to a large or steeper sand hill. Master steeper hills gradually until you feel completely comfortable with what you're doing. And don't forget to have fun!
9. 9
Learn sandboarding tricks. As you improve with your balance, gradient, and general sense of control with the sandboard, start learning to do sandboard tricks. There are a number of different tricks possible, and some of these can end up getting you into competition level at such events as the Rail Jam. You can do many of the tricks you'd do on a snowboard with the sand board, such as 360s, 720s, back flips, rodeos, and switch blind 180s, once you're good enough with the board and get the speed right.[9]
10. 10
Join a club or association that promotes sandboarding. If one doesn't exist in your local area, consider starting one up to attract like-minded people to share your fun times with. From here, you can also consider entering competitions including the Sandboarding World Championship, the Pan-American Sandboarding Challenge, and the Sand Sports Super Show.
• Yearly sandboarding championships are held in Oregon, California, and Nevada, with most being held between June and September, although some competitions are held during winter in warmer states such as Nevada. Competitions include drag races and slalom events.
• Internationally, countries like Australia and Chile hold sandboarding competitions each year.
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This video shows a guy trying sandboarding for the first time; it will give you an idea of the sandboards and initial technique.
• If sand boarding isn't feeling so great, consider sand tobogganing; you can lie or sit on it and simply enjoy an easy ride down the sand dune!
• If you're a surfer or a bodyboarder, throw the sandboards into the car at the same time. If the surf turns out to be less than optimal, take out the sandboard and play on the dunes instead!
• Wear clothes that can get dirty, ruined or wet. Be prepared to get wet because at the bottom of most sand hills there is water.
• Dune buggies are sometimes used for large sand hills to get you back up easily. If not, get ready to climb back up that sand dune!
• A first aid kit might be helpful if you cut yourself. Also, bring water, sunscreen, a hat, and some snacks.
• Places where sandboarding is hot include the United States, Peru (and other South American countries), France, Australia, Germany, and Japan. There are a lot of excuses to travel in just this range of countries!
• Advanced sandboarders sometimes don't use bindings, which increases the risk. Until you know what you're doing, don't try this as it can be dangerous.
• Wear a helmet. You will fall. It will hurt, so be prepared for some cuts and scrapes at best.
• It's likely that you'll be sore the next day or two.
• Do not sandboard on fragile dunes under protection. Find out first!
• Only use recommended waxes for waxing your sandboard. The sand dune environment is fragile and leaving behind residues like CFCs (chlorinated fluoro-carbons) and other chemicals on the sand is not only frowned upon by those maintaining the dunes but it disrespects the environmental ethics maintained by most sandboarders.[10]
Things You'll Need
• Sandboard or snowboard
• Suitable clothes for sandboarding
• Dunes or sand hills
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Hey peeps! Semacam ja kan tajuk entri ni? Haha! IKR! Entah apa laa yang sampuk sampai tetiba terbitnya ilham nak tulis entri macam ni.
Well, it's a natural feeling maa. It's kinda weird since the last time, maybe dah 7 years ago kot. Then I officially declared tak nak lagi. Yes, tak nak! I wanna be a freak single lady who devote my entire life saving animals. Can I?
I've read somewhere that love has no reason. Well yeah I kinda agree with that. Because I don't have a reason to like that guy. No reason at all! Love? I don't know, it's too early but the feeling that I have towards him memang not the same feeling yang ada towards other guys. Even though there are a few guys yang treat me nicely, but why him? could that happened?
Honestly, I don't know. It's really really weird. The more I tried to forget him, the more likely for me to remember him. I think about him all the time, even when I was driving! He drives me crazy indeed. LOL!
I don't know what makes me like him that much. He's rough, he did hurt my feelings couple of times, he is unpredictable & may act spontaneously which may lead to silly & stupid consequences at times. His words, alahai, can make my heart shrink.
Why does he can't just get out off my head? Why? Why? Why?
But, one of the things about him that touched my heart is that, he loves cats. He has these beautiful photos of him with his cat. Very cute!
To be honest, it's very hard for me to like someone that much. VERY. I don't fall in love that easy. But if I did, that's iNt.
Sadly, he doesn't have the same feeling as I do. He did tell me that. I respect his decision. Hey, we can't force someone to give something in return, right? That is why I am trying very hard to dump that feeling far far away...please wish me luck. Haha!
But, I do feel grateful about something. Yes , I do! At least I know that I'm a normal person with feelings & emotions towards human being with the opposite gender. Yay!!!
And this song tells pretty much about how I feel right now...
Maybe he doesn't know that I care, but I do. I just don't show it. He may not read this. But I do wish the best in his life.
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. . . is an almost interesting documentary about "internationally acclaimed choreographer Ohad Naharin, who created the daring form of dance and 'movement language,' Gaga." It's fairly interesting, but some of his life story is dwelt on Euro-style in interminable sequences that you "get" a minute and a half before they are over. There's one where his newish wife (one of his dancers) gets upset because he had the au pair take their toddler home to get him/her out of the studio so that the rest of them could work. The kid is screaming all the way down the hall and the wife finally walks out, pissed. This creates an uncomfortable scene several minutes long which the documentarians felt it was necessary to share with us in its entirety. "Whoopty damn doopty," was all I had to say. It had me checking my watch.
The best parts of the film are filmed excerpts of performances he has choreographed in the past. He really is a talented choreographer and once he gets everyone rehearsed and on the same page, the results can be spectacular. I just didn't find the nitty-gritty behind the scenes all that enjoyable. In a piece called "Last Work" there is a woman at the back of the stage in a long blue dress running on a treadmill for the entire performance. You wouldn't think it would add anything to (or subtract from) the performance but it turns out to be a stroke of genius akin to the slice of cheese on a McDonald's filet of fish sandwich: it just works. Who'da thunk?
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According to the latest SEC filings, insiders at Altisource Residential Corporation (NYSE:RESI) have increased their position in the stock by 8.57% over the past 6 months. Insiders now own 0.60% of total outstanding shares.
Altisource Residential Corporation (NYSE:RESI) stands 14.06% away from its 50-day simple moving average and also 18.34% away from the 200-day average. Recently, the equity stands -8.31% away from the 52-week high and 56.98% from the 52-week low. The RSI (Relative Strength Index), an indicator that shows price strength by comparing upward and downward close-to-close movements is 80.07.
Wall Street analysts on the sell-side covering shares of Altisource Residential Corporation (NYSE:RESI) have a mean recommendation of 2.40 on the shares. This is based on a numerical chart where each stock recommendation (Buy,Sell,Hold) is translated into a numerical equivalent. A low number indicates a Buy and a higher number a Sell. In terms of where analysts see the stock headed, they have a consensus price target of $13.64 on the shares.
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How to fight darkness
Do not fight darkness; just don't.
You have to know one thing about darkness: darkness is tough, especially if it's inside you.
Anyone who has had darkness within knows about feeling exhausted, as if you have sticky tar-like tentacles emerging from all around you, slowing your every step, consuming your entire body and soul ... Everything is an effort, every action, every thought ...
And the rational part of your brain sends you a warning that something is wrong. You can feel that something is wrong, so instinctively you will try to fight that.
But every time you try, it's like sinking further into mud - every struggle makes things worse. The more you try, the more you sink ... and eventually you do not see any point of doing anything anymore ...
So the question is: how do you fight something that becomes stronger the more you fight it?
The first step is to acknowledge that it is there and then ... put it aside. Do not talk to it, do not think about it and do not engage with it in any way.
This is the trick of it: "You cannot beat darkness with darkness ... you have to find a light."
Let's imagine the darkness. Let's imagine you have found yourself in a very dark tunnel in the middle of the night; you are scared, and of course panic sets in after a while.
Sooner or later, you will ask yourself: where am I? Where am I going? What is this place?
Everything is so terribly dark and you cannot see anything. The floor is muddy and sticky. Every step you make leaves you more tired, more confused ...
So you will try to fight aggressively, you will run in one direction or another, you will struggle and flail your arms to try to repel these tentacles emerging all around you, and bit by bit you will lose your strength, you will become weaker and weaker.
The more you fight the darkness, the darker it becomes ...
So, how to get out of this stalemate situation then?
The only way to get out of this perpetual state, out of this prison, out of this tunnel is this:
The first step is to calm down; this will help to conserve energy.
The next step is to observe and think.
Ask yourself: what is the way out?
Sometimes, there will be a chink of distant light; sometimes there will be the gentlest breeze or a muffled sound. If we want to get out, we have to attend to and follow that sign. We have to start moving towards the light, the breeze, the sound.
And with every step, the light will become stronger, and slowly the darkness will release its grip on you.
"You cannot resolve the problem by focusing on the problem;
you have to focus on the solution!"
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Ctrl-Alt-Del: learning to love legacy code
Day 2 / / Track 1 / EN / Introduction to technology
The world runs on legacy code. For every greenfield progressive web app with 100% test coverage, there are literally hundreds of archaic line-of-business applications running in production — systems with no tests, no documentation, built using out-of-date tools, languages and platforms. It's the code developers love to hate: it's not exciting, it's not shiny, and it won't look good on your CV — but the world runs on legacy code, and, as developers, if we're going to work on anything that actually matters, we're going to end up dealing with legacy. To work effectively with this kind of system, we need to answer some fundamental questions: why was it built this way in the first place? What's happened over the years it's been running in production? And, most importantly, how can we develop our understanding of legacy codebases to the point where we're confident that we can add features, fix bugs and improve performance without making things worse?
Dylan worked on the web application stack at Spotlight (www.spotlight.com) from 2000 until 2018 — first as a supplier, then as webmaster, then as systems architect. Working on the same codebase for nearly two decades has given him an unusual perspective on how applications go from being cutting-edge to being "legacy".
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Ariadne was a Zemarian courtesan and the lover of King John Flynn. She killed him while he slept, stabbing him. Her motives for murdering him are unclear, with many suggesting that she may have been part of a terrorist faction. Others have suggested they may have gotten into an argument, or that Ariadne was simply mad.
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Changsha, China
Guoliang Tunnel
A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China
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The village of Guoliang had a problem. High in the Taihang Mountains of the Henan Province, the only access to civilization were some steep, narrow stairs embedded in the mountainside called the “Sky Ladder”, a treacherous, slippery climb even for the most nimble and sure-footed of the villagers or their rare company callers.
For several years, the 350 inhabitants of this isolated location beseeched the government for a roadway to connect them to the outside world, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Undeterred, they decided that if the officials refused to help them, they would do it themselves.
Selling their animals and other necessities for supplies, the people of Guoliang sent down 13 of their strongest workers. The team of men, not an engineer among them, set about carving a roadway inch by inch, using nothing but hand tools, patience, and determination.
In 1977, 5 years after beginning their colossal undertaking, the villagers had managed to dig out 0.75 mi. of tunnel, 16 ft. tall and 13 ft. wide. While quite the amazing feat, a do-it-yourself mountain tunnel dug by hand is obviously not the pillar of safety, in fact in many spots of the tunnel, roughly carved pillars are the only thing keeping you from plunging to your death.
Several villagers died during construction, and the road itself is only wide enough for the very slow, careful passing of oncoming cars. This is made terrifying by the fact that the road was built on the path of least resistance. The tunnel twists, turns and dips in unpredictable places, enough to leave any driver white-knuckled in terror at what could be coming at them around the slippery blind spot of a bend.
Originally intentioned to provide the Guoliang residents with some convenience, the tunnel has become quite the tourist attraction, giving the village a little too much unwanted attention, but some very welcome revenue. There are now hotels and bridges that have been built for hikers and travelers, but access isn't always granted, so make sure to check the internet for updates on the current visiting status.
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Eminem - 'Till I Collapse (Eminem's Biography)
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Eminem - Curtains Up (Early Life)
On October 17, 1972, the great Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in Saint Joesph, Missouri. Marshall Mathers will later become the amazingly talented Eminem. Eminem has not died yet and is still living a healthy life, as of now. But at age 17, Marshall dropped out of high school and started joining underground rap battles for fun. He found no point in education, at the time, so he decided to end it for him.
Eminem - On Fire (Early Rap Career)
Eminem was really discovered by Dr. Dre in 1999. But three years before he came out with his Infinite album which wasn't very good, so he wanted a bigger contract with a better recording company. So, he recorded a demo for Dr. Dre and he loved it. But since there weren't many other white rappers at the time, Dr. Dre was taking a huge risk by signing Eminem. But Dr. Dre believed in Eminem, he knew that he would do good. Eminem's first album, which was "The Slim Shady LP," was released February 23,1999. Then, later that year, he won his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Now, Dr. Dre was happy, he knew that if Eminem kept this up, he would go far in life. Which he did.
Eminem - Insane (Later Rap Career)
Eminem's rap career took off from here. In total, so far, Eminem has won 191 different rewards for his music and movie, 8 Mile, which is about his life when he was writing the song, "Lose Yourself." Included in those 191 awards, thirteen of them where Grammy Awards and nine where American Music Awards. On top of that, Eminem has sold over 86.5 million albums worldwide. He is loved my many countries. In the UK alone, he has sold over 12.5 million records. He also has had thirteen number one singles, worldwide. Furthermore, Eminem's Vevo channel on Youtube has over one billion views.
Eminem - Nobody's Perfect (Right now)
Eminem is actually a very inspirational person whose songs have meaning to them and are not just about girls and drugs. If you were to look at the lyrics of an Eminem song, and read them aloud, instead of singing them. You would notice that it sounds like a story about a part of Eminem's life, or it would have a message that relates to his daughter or a friend. Eminem is a respected American rapper who likes to rap in a secretive way. He likes to incorporate themes and messages into his lyrics. He would a sing a loud and scary rap, but he would actually be rapping a lullaby to one of his daughters. He is a nice, caring, loving father, who will do anything for his daughters. He is a good man.
Eminem - Curtains Close (The End)
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2 – Question Presented
The question presented is considered the most important part of a writ of certiorari as it is the first thing that is looked at. It is the very next page after the cover page.
A check on the government’s power to prosecute its own citizens minus no check does not equal zero.
A check on the government’s power to prosecute its own citizens minus viable means to hold the government accountable equals zero.
Petitioner Webb, a 44-year-old noncriminal, made formal accusations of multiple violations after Webb was indicted on a felony. It was then dropped but lasted 84 days and Webb suffered significant damage as this occurred in Arizona and Webb’s home state was Kentucky.
This Court has stated that a Grand Jury is “a primary security to the innocent against hasty, malicious, and oppressive persecution; it serves the invaluable function in our society of standing between the accuser and the accused…to determine whether a charge is founded upon reason or was dictated by an intimidating power or by malice or ill will.” Wood v. Georgia, 370 U.S. 375, 390 (1962)
This is contradictory. The grand jury system is very important to the criminal justice process to protect the innocent from being damaged but then again it is not important enough for consequences if it fails.
Is this approach inherently flawed as it allows the government to damage citizens at will while subsequently denying citizens their fundamental right to seek legal justice if there is probable cause of Constitutional violations?
My question stems from what is written by the pima county attorney’s office on their own website when describing the criminal justice process. A small portion states – “For a case to go forward, the Grand Jury must make an independent determination that probable cause exists. This is a check on the power of the government to prosecute its citizens.”
I called foul at the grand jury hearing for constitutional rights violations by the prosecutor’s office and the pima county sheriff’s department that resulted in a false indictment by submitting a motion to remand to grand jury for redetermination of probable cause.
My opponents backed down after the formal accusations and dismissed the case two weeks later at the first available opportunity thereby not defending these accusations but this still lasted 12 weeks destroying my life in the process.
My opponents made a conscious decision to attack my liberty and freedom with the intent of putting me in prison for 3.5 years. If they are going to do it then do it. Don’t back down.
Once my opponents backed down, I moved in to implement the consequences of failing the check as fast as I was capable of doing but I was forced to represent myself and it was held against me even though my opponents put me in that position.
The united states, as well as the state of arizona, expects a self-represented litigant to be just as familiar with the law as someone that has graduated from law school and has relevant experience. They both say it is not held against someone for not being a lawyer but that is a straight up lie as I have seen cases that expressly state that. Furthermore, I am living proof that it is held against someone because both arizona and the united states did just that.
The united states is condoning this abhorrent behavior as this is a major issue affecting an untold number of citizens. There are no statistics on how big of an issue this really is but especially vulnerable are poorer people who cannot defend themselves against unwarranted attacks. We should be the people that the united states are going out of their way to protect but instead they turn their backs on us because we are poor.
It is unbelievable how stacked the deck is against poorer people and the way this is functioning is as unfair and unjust as it can possibly be. There must be consequences. There is no other way to establish balance between unwarranted prosecutions with probable cause of constitutional violations than for the citizen to hold the violators accountable via a trial, either judge or jury, to determine if a citizens constitutional rights were violated during the criminal justice process.
The united states has 100% dropped the ball on this one.
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Staying Active Over 40 Is Key – Overweight Muscular vs. Underweight Low Muscle Mass
Is My Weight Gain Caused by Slowed Metabolism While Aging?
Metabolism is the process through which your body converts food into energy. Even when at rest, you need some energy to aid in breathing, repairing cells, and circulating blood.
You’ve probably heard that when you hit 40, it’s downhill for your weight. The inexplicable force on the metabolism rate begins to grind slower each year from 30 years onwards. Is slowed metabolism the cause of weight gain at old age?
Here’s what you should know: studies show that the rate of metabolism slowdown in older age is rather minimal. Additionally, weight gain in midlife is not due to slower metabolism. The reality is that, as we age, we get less active.
Regardless of whether you have a slow or fast metabolic rate, our bodies are synchronized to store excess energy in fat cells. Taking in more calories with reduced body activity (older people are lesser active) expands your body for weight gain.
Generally, you don’t have any control over your body’s metabolism. However, to keep a healthy weight, you should reduce and control your calorie intake. Additionally, you need to be more active. Engage in regular physical activity to burn your calories. In fact, people with fast metabolism are more active.
Metabolic Adaptation: The Undiagnosed Epidemic
The weight loss formula is simple: burn calories as much as you can consume, and you will probably drop pounds in no time. Metabolism is the energy-producing force that runs faster than Usain Bolt!
Metabolic adaptation is the slowing of the metabolism rate despite several efforts exerted for one to lose weight. This slowing of metabolism causes people to regain weight if they fail to keep up with high levels of exercise and restrictions of major calorie intake.
Metabolic adaptation is a biological response process to starvation. For example, in the availability of plentiful food, the body doesn’t see it necessary to store calories in the form of fat. However, in times of famine, the body’s metabolism process uses the minimum number of calories to maintain the biological homeostasis. The rest is stored as fat for later use to avoid starvation.
Ultimately, metabolic adaptation is one part of dieting and metabolism. Weight loss or weight gain depend on the collection of metabolic adaptation traits.
The takeaway: your body metabolism will adapt to weight loss; however, that doesn’t mean that you will gain it all back or stop shedding pounds. Getting enough sleep, upgrading cardio workouts, and managing stress will help you in overcoming metabolic adaptation.
Overweight and Muscular Rather Than Thin and With Low Muscle Mass
“There are two certainties in life: taxes and death.” However, people should also add loss of muscle mass to that list.
Don’t get worried about sarcopenia. It’s an age-related muscle loss condition, a natural part of aging. Remember that you should rather become overweight and muscular than thin and low in muscle weight.
The reason being, low muscle weight means that you’ve less mobility and greater weakness. These two results of low muscle weight increase your risk of falls and fractures. Research by the American Society showed that people with sarcopenia are 2.3 times more prone to low-trauma fractures from a slight fall (broken hip, leg, arm, collarbone or wrist).
However, losing your muscle mass doesn’t mean that it’s all gone forever. You can still increase your muscle mass despite the aging consequences. It takes work, planning and dedication to rebuild the muscles and maintain them.
To lose weight and also maintain your muscles mass at the same time, you need the right type of exercise and the appropriate diet. Muscle mass is the biggest contributor to resting metabolism. It helps in burning more calories than fat.
Being underweight presents more health concerns as you age than being overweight with muscle suprisingly!
Let’s Talk Stretching And Post Workout
How To Know If You Are Stretching Wrong?
You’re stretching, which is excellent, but are you doing it correctly? Peek below to learn how to do it and if you’re stretching wrong.
Common Ways You May Be Stretching Wrong
-You Might Be Only Stretching Post-Workout.
Many people stretch at the end of their workout but forget to do it at the beginning. You shouldn’t only limit stretching exercises to after weights or a run. Do it beforehand to loosen your muscles and increase your range of motion.
-You Don’t Warm Up First.
Jumping (literally) into the pre-workout stretches without a proper warm-up can set you up for more pain than gain. Before you get into your mini stretch set, always include a warm-up.
-You’re doing the Wrong Type of Stretch
Doing the wrong stretch at the wrong time can result in injury during either your stretch or workout.
-You Hold Your Stretches Too Long (Or Not Long Enough).
Not holding a stretch long enough can render it ineffective, but too long can actually make you stiffer, putting you at risk of injury. The safest bet is 30 seconds per stretch, which will work to lengthen your tissue and muscle fibers.
Recap: Warm-up and do dynamic stretching before your workout, and prepare your mind and body for the exercise ahead. After you’ve finished and cooled down, implement some static or moving stretching to jump-start muscle recovery. Doing both will do you big favors by making you less stiff and prone to injury. Ready, set, stretch!
Afterburn effect
Its important to be mindful of this and make sure you supplement yourself after a workout. Consuming too little will lead to cravings to overeat later in the day due to your body burning more calories then normal. 20 grams of protein with one serving of carbs is recommended after a workout.
When and how does the afterburn effect occur?
Salt, Carbs, Fibers Info And Eating Healthy Doesn’t Have To Be Expensive
Salt – Should I avoid it?
Salt is commonly thought of as something to avoid entirely, as too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. And while it is true that an excess of salt in the diet increases the risk of high blood pressure and heart failure, it turns out that salt is actually necessary for the human body for a myriad of reasons. You need salt to maintain a healthy blood pressure, a proper balance of fluids in the blood and optimum muscle and nerve function. That being said, most of us already get plenty of salt in our diets that we needn’t be worried about adding more. Additionally, when it comes to the nutritional value of salt, both sea salt and pink himalayan salt are commonly seen as the healthier alternative to plain old table salt, but that just isn’t the case. Although salts do vary somewhat in their mineral content, pink himalayan salt and sea salt are both nutritionally very similar to table salt in how much sodium they contain. It’s a good idea to keep an eye on your salt intake, but no, you don’t need to avoid it altogether.
Do Carbs Make Me Fat and Ill?
No, you don’t have to eliminate carbs from your diet entirely in order to lose weight, no matter what your friend doing the Keto diet tells you. We need carbohydrates to function at our best in the long-term. Here’s the catch, though: refined carbs like white bread and pasta have literally been stripped of all their nutritious elements. So not only do these types of carbs spike your blood sugar, but they are linked to inflammation in the body, and they really aren’t adding any value to your diet either. So, choose your carbs wisely! Instead of refined carbs, opt for high-quality carbohydrates like quinoa, oats, sweet potatoes, bananas or legumes and skip the processed grains and sugars. And remember: any food can cause weight gain if you eat too much.
Types of Fiber and Where to Get Them, Benefits
Nutrition and healthy eating needs more fibers. You’ve probably heard this before. However, do you know why fiber is essential for your health, and which one in particular?
Dietary fiber is a roughage or bulk that includes parts of the plant foods that your body cannot digest or absorb. Fiber is not digested.
Fibers are commonly classified into the following.
Soluble fiber: This kind of fiber dissolves in water, forming a gel-like material. It lowers the blood glucose and cholesterol levels. Soluble fiber is found in peas, apples, oats, citrus fruits, barely, psyllium and carrots.
Insoluble fiber: This category of fiber promotes movement of food materials through the digestive tract. It increases the stool bulk. It is of great benefit to those struggling with constipation or the irregular stools. Wheat bran, whole-wheat flour, beans, vegetables and nuts are good sources of insoluble fiber.
Benefits of High-Fiber Diet
Dietary fiber:
· Normalizes the bowel movements making it easier to pass stool as well as decrease the chances of constipation.
· Helps in maintaining the bowel health; the high-fiber diet lowers the risk of developing small pouches in the colon and hemorrhoids
· Lowers the cholesterol levels.
· Controls the blood sugar levels
· Helps in achieving the desired weight
· Lengthens one’s life; it reduces the chance of cardiovascular disease and all cancers.
“Eating Healthy Is Sooo Expensive” (Or Is It?)
Many people believe that eating healthy is so expensive, but that is not the case: eating healthy might cost you money but eating unhealthy can cost you your life!
Eating healthy is possible if you are on a budget. Eating healthy can be cheaper sometimes, so choose wisely the foods you are eating. There are many nutritious foods and they can be stocked easily on a flexible budget.
The following tips will enable you to get your grocery on a low bill while your family enjoys a healthier diet.
· Pay attention to portion sizes and compare your options: a bag of apples cost less than a big bag of chips, a bag of apples can last for more than one week, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
· Plan before purchase: avoid impulse purchase; plan your meals before shopping.
· Buy cheaper proteins: protein products are the most expensive food in the shopping list, so choose the cheapest ones.
· Buy in season: know what is in season; the cost will be lower and the vegetables will be fresher.
Finally, remember that however more expensive the product is, you cannot equalize it with your health. Choosing healthier food is not a luxury no matter your budget.
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Faith Isn't Knowing
From Melinda at the Stand to Reason blog:
There are at least two things wrong about Paul Pardi's analysis of Christianity in this article. He claims that Christianity should be kept private by those who believe it because it's known by an irrational method - faith - that isn't accessible by everyone.
First, we don't know about Christianity by faith. Everyone knows about the claims of Christianity and the Bible in the same ways other things are known. Faith isn't a way of knowing. It's trusting in what we have come to know to be true. Faith is laying hold personally of what is true in the Bible. Knowledge is the first step and it's no different than coming to know about anything else. So it can be discussed between those who have faith and those who don't because they're both operating in the same way to evaluate truth claims. Faith comes after knowing.
Second, Christianity isn't a private topic. This is a way to subjectivize Christianity - to relativize what Christians believe. But essential to the what the Bible teaches is that it's not subjective or relative. It's true for all people. Things happened in history that were witnessed and reported. And what the Bible teaches is for all people. So engage in consideration of the truth claims of Christianity, but don't dismiss them as private, subjective beliefs.
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Are You Feeling Pig-Headed Today?
If you want something, have you done everything you need to get it? It can be easy to let things just go by. What I mean by that is what if you didn’t. So therefore how do we know that it’s not enough if we believe that it is.
Well it’s actually quite easy, we ask someone.
No matter where or what you do there is someone who you can ask. It’s actually a great way to get fresh eyes on something. There does lie a problem with that and that comes from people wanting to please you. This may be because of peer pressure or even a novice in what you need help with. This can be a problem so the easy option is find someone else.
The thing is that you in theory shouldn’t call on a second or even third person for advice just because the fist didn’t live up to expectations but more of getting an average value.
We all believe were educated enough to complete something competently but just calling on someone else can make all the difference. It doesn’t mean you are any less of a person.
An appreciation of outsourcing
I wrote a book a few years back and the content in my eyes was good. But to get feedback from others showed me areas that needed improving. I had a habit of writing short sentences which then led to a punchy and fragmented style that didn’t help in making a smooth flow. I would never have questioned that at all and so the end product would have suffered.
The first state was no pig-headed approach as I wanted to let people give me feedback on it before release but even so there will be time when that will happen. If you’re at that point then you definitely need advice.
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Trial Marriage Husband: Need to Work Hard Chapter 946 Go Ahead And Suppress Me, Superstar Media!
Li Jin didn't like the way that Lin Qian ridiculed herself, so he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and said, "Everything's pa.s.sed now. I will protect you."
Lin Qian nodded her head. It was already the night before their wedding, so Li Jin's return at least gave her a peace of mind.
"Since this is the current situation, then I think it's time for us to strike back..."
The Gu Family had said that they'd provide their unconditional support.
Father Gu's wife came from a well-educated family, so she took good care of him after she heard what he had been through and even accepted the existence of Lin Qian. But, of course, she wasn't about to let Feng Jing off easily.
Feng Jing needed to face her retribution!
Later that day, Li Jin gave Tangning a phone call. At this time, Tangning had already prepared a statement; since Feng Jing wanted to create news, then she was going to give her big news!
So, soon after the various negative articles towards Lin Qian started circulating, Superstar Media finally released their first response, "Firstly, after careful investigation, Superstar Media has discovered that Lin Qian's 'childhood' photo was posted up by her own mother, Feng Jing."
"Secondly, during the time that Feng Jing was the a.s.sistant of Superstar Media's Luo Yinghong, it was discovered that she partook in illegal gambling and her private life was a mess. This was before she abandoned Lin Qian. So, the photos were from the time that Feng Jing frequented the clubs and not from after she went missing."
"Thirdly, Feng Jing fell pregnant out of wedlock, so she hid the fact that she had a daughter because she didn't want to be exposed. The only reason she frequented the police station was in fear that her daughter would reappear and slander her. However, she couldn't prevent Lin Qian from reappearing in the end, so she instead put on a pity act to manipulate everyone. The truth was, she abandoned her daughter and didn't just simply lose her."
"Fourthly, Feng Jing failed to blackmail her daughter into helping her, so, in order to get revenge, she used despicable methods to get back at her. Superstar Media will hold Feng Jing liable for all this."
"Superstar Media has evidence for all the above claims and hereby wish Ms. Feng Jing the best of luck."
As soon as this statement was released, the entertainment industry broke out in an uproar because it exposed way too much.
Many of the people that saw it had to read it over a few times to understand the full meaning. Especially when they heard that Superstar Media had a voice recording of Feng Jing selling Lin Qian's photo to the reporters and photos of Lin Qian from their other investigations. Although their four claims weren't enough to completely destroy Feng Jing, it was enough to make most people believe how cruel she was.
Tangning had endured for so long and collected evidence for quite some time. So, it was about time that she made a move.
Otherwise, it would be a waste of Feng Jing's arrogance.
Of course, now that Feng Jing had been exposed, she couldn't rush into proving Lin Qian's innocence straight away. She still had other things to do.
A good show needed to play out one scene at a time.
"So, is Superstar Media trying to say that Feng Jing's private life was a mess, so she abandoned Lin Qian after giving birth to her? As a result, she was afraid that Lin Qian would come looking for her, so she bribed the police? And now that Lin Qian showed up, not only did she put on a pity act, she also tried to blackmail Lin Qian into working for her, but slandered her when she refused to cooperate? Please correct me if I'm wrong."
"You're spot on! Amazing!"
"You understood perfectly!"
"Judging by the evidence, this is indeed the case. That's why Lin Qian's treatment of Feng Jing is reasonable."
"I never thought that the actress I supported for so many years is such a piece of trash."
"I must have been blind."
"Is Superstar Media really telling the truth? They're not just attacking each other with baseless claims, right?"
"Oh please, firstly, Superstar Media never tried to conceal Lin Qian's true ident.i.ty. Secondly, according to Superstar Media's style, do they have any reason to slander an innocent actress? And lastly, don't you think the evidence speaks for itself?"
As a result, the internet quickly filled with scolding towards Feng Jing.
Even Feng Jing's management agency didn't expect her to have so many dark secrets; it was beyond belief. She was actually lucky that Luo Yinghong didn't tread on her while she was down, or her fate would have been even worse.
Although her management agency didn't know what to do, it was only natural for them to side with their own artist. So, it didn't take long before they reb.u.t.ted against Superstar Media, "We've always been aware of Superstar Media's capabilities and know that they are great at manipulating the truth. Go ahead and bully a small agency like ours, we can handle it."
The agency put on a pity act to point out that Tangning had the ability to make anything into the truth.
However, Tangning didn't mind as she swiftly replied, "I've only revealed half of what we know. There's still more to come. Don't be too quick at trying to claim your innocence."
These words were much more intimidating.
After all, no one knew what else Tangning had up her sleeves.
So, the agency suddenly fell into a panic.
If they had known, they would have just surrendered, admitted defeat and sacrificed Feng Jing instead of putting themselves in a difficult position.
Feng Jing never expected that Superstar Media would directly attack her over a mere manager.
How much did Tangning treasure Lin Qian?
Worst of all, she didn't expect that Hai Rui had already dug up her past and knew everything about her. Yet, here she was, thinking that everything was going steady.
Superstar Media mentioned that there was more to come.
Meanwhile, Feng Jing's management agency were so helpless that they couldn't even do some PR to manage the situation. Because they didn't know what else Tangning had planned, all they could do was leave Feng Jing to save herself.
Initially, Feng Jing stood a high chance of winning a Fei Tian Award, but Tangning stood in her way. But now, not only did she not win an award, she even caused such a huge piece of news. Hence, as an artist, she no longer held any value for her agency. So, it was important for them to get rid of her as soon as possible.
"Jing Jie, hurry and think of something. Superstar Media threw such a ruthless attack; you need to fight back or the agency will give up on you," Feng Jing's manager said anxiously. She was already worried enough, yet this woman was sitting at home drinking wine at a time like this.
"What else can I do?" Feng Jing answered as she pretended to remain calm and elegant.
"If you give up like this, no one can help you."
"Hahaha, help me? No matter what they do, they can't change Lin Qian's background and family history."
Seeing the look on Feng Jing's face, her manager gave up negotiating with her.
This was perhaps her retribution!
"Lin Qian is a sl*t and a little b*tch! Haha..."
Since they had gotten to this point, Feng Jing no longer had to hide her true self. So, she began to complain, "They're saying that I abandoned my daughter? I'm truly regretful to have ever given birth to her. I'm her mother, yet look what she did to me. My daughter is treading all over me even though I was the one that gave her life!"
"Hahaha, even though things have gotten to this point, there is one thing I must admit: Lin Qian was born into a bad background. How could she dream of marrying a rich family with a background like hers. What a joke! This will forever be her fate."
"Go ahead and suppress me Superstar Media. After all, you're already used to bullying people..."
"Superstar Media are the best at creating news..."
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If new Attorney General Eric Holder really means what he said in his oath--that he will "support and defend the Constitution of the United States"--then he must give serious consideration to prosecuting crimes committed by the Bush administration, including its torturing of detainees.
And Holder might be advised to begin the process at his own agency, the Department of Justice. To paraphrase Shakespeare, Holder might start by first jailing all of George W. Bush's lawyers.
The logic of targeting former Justice Department lawyers--the likes of John Yoo and Jay Bybee--is that they were the linchpin for justifying acts that were clearly illegal; they provided the paper cover for both the interrogators in the field and the senior officials back in Washington.
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have repeatedly cited this legal guidance when insisting that the harsh interrogation of "war on terror" detainees--as well as other prisoners from the Iraq and Afghan wars--did not cross the line into torture.
In essence, the Bush-Cheney defense is that independent lawyers at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and elsewhere gave honest opinions--and that everyone from the President and Vice President, who approved specific interrogation techniques, to the interrogators, who carried out these acts, operated in good faith.
If, however, that narrative is false--if the lawyers colluded with policymakers in creating legal excuses for criminal acts--then the Bush-Cheney defense collapses. Rather than diligent lawyers providing professional advice, the picture is of consiglieres counseling crime bosses how to skirt the law.
The evidence supports the conspiratorial interpretation. For instance, in his 2006 book War by Other Means, Yoo describes his involvement in frequent White House meetings regarding what "other means" should receive a legal stamp of approval.
Yoo, who was a deputy assistant attorney general assigned to the powerful Office of Legal Counsel, wrote:
"We sat at a large round table in a room in the ornate, Empire-style Old Executive Office Building where secretaries of state once conducted business. "This group of lawyers would meet repeatedly over the next months to develop policy on the war on terrorism. We certainly did not all agree, nor did we always get along, but we all believed that we were doing what was best for the nation and its citizens.
"Meetings were usually chaired by Alberto Gonzales," who was then White House counsel and later became Bush's second Attorney General.
Yoo's Account
In his book, Yoo describes a give-and-take among participants at the meeting with the State Department's Taft challenging Yoo's OLC view that Bush could waive the Geneva Conventions regarding the invasion of Afghanistan (by labeling it a "failed state"). Taft noted that the Taliban was the recognized government of the country.
"We thought Taft's memo represented the typically conservative thinking of foreign ministries, which places a priority on stabilizing relations with other states "" even if it means creating or maintaining fictions "" rather than adapting to new circumstances," Yoo wrote.
Regarding objections from the Pentagon's judge advocate generals--who feared that waiving the Geneva Conventions would endanger American soldiers--Yoo again stressed policy concerns, not legal logic.
They were the lawyerly equivalents of those U.S. intelligence analysts, who--in the words of the British "Downing Street Memo"--"fixed" the facts around Bush's desire to justify invading Iraq.
Yoo and other OLC lawyers looked to be Bush's consiglieres on both brutal interrogation and aggressive war. They floated novel legal theories, looked for loopholes or--in Yoo's phrase--they were "adapting to new circumstances."
Congressional Probe
The importance of this question--whether the OLC lawyers were honest brokers or criminal conspirators--has not been missed by some of the congressional leaders pressing for a serious investigation of Bush's use of torture and other war crimes.
A year ago, Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, wrote a letter to the Justice Department's watchdog agencies requesting an investigation into the role that "Justice Department officials [played] in authorizing and/or overseeing the use of waterboarding by the Central Intelligence Agency... and whether those who authorized it violated the law."-
In the Feb. 12, 2008, letter, the senators questioned whether the OLC lawyers were "insulated from outside pressure to reach a particular conclusion" and whether Bush's White House and the CIA played any role in influencing "deliberations about the lawfulness of waterboarding," a technique that creates the sensation of drowning and has been deemed torture since the Inquisition.
Whitehouse, a former federal prosecutor, said those questions were designed to get to the point that having in-house lawyers dream up a legal argument doesn't make an action legal, especially if the lawyers were somehow induced to produce the opinion.
In the case of waterboarding and other abusive interrogation tactics, Yoo and his OLC boss Jay Bybee generated a memo, dated Aug. 1, 2002, that came up with a novel and narrow definition of torture, essentially lifting the language from an unrelated law regarding health benefits.
The Yoo-Bybee legal opinion stated that unless the amount of pain administered to a detainee results in injuries that might result in "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions" then the interrogation technique could not be defined as torture.
Since waterboarding is not intended to cause death or organ failure--only the panicked gag reflex associated with drowning--it was deemed not to be torture.
The "torture memo" and related legal opinions were considered so sloppy and unprofessional that Bybee's replacement to head the OLC, Jack Goldsmith, himself a conservative Republican, took the extraordinary step of withdrawing them after he was appointed in October 2003.
Whitehouse said the Bybee-Yoo memo was "beyond malpractice" and "raises the specter that these things were overlooked" just to advance policy. [For more on Whitehouse's recent comments, see Consortiumnews.com's "More Pressure for Bush Torture Probe."-]
Pending Probe
In response to the Durbin-Whitehouse letter, H. Marshall Jarrett, head of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, disclosed that OPR was examining the genesis of the Aug. 1, 2002, legal opinion, an inquiry that might be completed within the next month or two.
OPR's findings could give Attorney General Holder an opening to question Bybee, Yoo and other lawyers in the torture debate about whether they were pressured to come up with a legal opinion that would justify the abusive tactics that Bush and Cheney already wanted to use against detainees.
Did Bush and Cheney, in effect, lawyer-shop for the answers they wanted?
By concentrating on the lawyers first, Holder could likely build a stronger case than he could against CIA and other interrogators who executed the orders from above to abuse and torture detainees.
While the interrogators might reasonably be able to claim uncertainty about the legality (because they had orders from the Attorney General or the White House), Yoo, Bybee and other lawyers who crafted the legal arguments could make no such claim.
Bybee is now a federal appeals court judge in San Francisco. Yoo is a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley
Yoo also has shown no remorse over his role in putting the United States on the path to torture. Yoo even took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 29 to chastise President Barack Obama for ordering the phased close-down of the Guantanamo Bay prison and for ending the CIA's authority to harshly interrogate detainees.
"While these actions will certainly please his base--gone are the cries of an "imperial presidency"--they will also seriously handicap our intelligence agencies from preventing future terrorist attacks," Yoo wrote.
"Eliminating the Bush system will mean that we will get no more information from captured al-Qaeda terrorists," Yoo wrote. "In his decisions taken so precipitously just two days after the Inauguration, Mr. Obama may have opened the door to further terrorist acts on U.S. soil by shattering some of the nation's most critical defenses."
While Yoo's rhetoric is typical of what came out of the Bush administration for eight years, it glosses over the basic fact that this approach leaves to one person--the U.S. President--the power to determine who is an "enemy combatant" and to subject that human being to barbaric practices.
It assumes that the President and his intelligence agencies are infallible in making those judgments even for a person apprehended far from any battlefield and with no apparent capacity to wage war, even U.S. citizens or legal residents pulled from their homes or off the street by government agents. [For details, see our book, Neck Deep.]
For many Americans, the question during Bush's presidency was whether his imperial theories and their defenders represented a greater threat to the American constitutional Republic than did a scattered band of terrorists halfway around the world.
Yoo's Wall Street Journal column also is further evidence of his criminal intent. He is stating clearly that he is all about achieving an outcome (i.e. extracting information from suspected terrorists by any means that the President orders), rather than about protecting the sanctity of the law.
It is the ends, not the means, that matter to John Yoo.
If Holder takes seriously his sworn commitment to protect the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, he has little choice but to examine how political and ideological operatives, like Yoo, twisted the law to fit a President's criminal proclivities.
If the rule of law means anything, it can't be that simply making a legal argument--no matter how baseless and absurd--permits the nation's top executive to break any law and commit any crime.
Possibly after some time behind bars or at least before a grand jury, lawyers, who put their ambitions and policy interests first, might have some heartfelt second thoughts--and might be willing to point the finger at which of their higher-ups got them to write these disreputable legal opinions.
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As far as I can remember, my big brother Dan has been an exhibitionist.
Right from when we were young, he'd never miss up an opportunity
to get naked in front of me, or show me his dick or make out with
a girl while I was around. Mind you, I'm not complaining... Dan is
handsome as hell, and the sight of his naked body, especially his cock
made me really hard. I guess I am a bit of a voyeur, and enjoyed
this little game we played. It was always a private, spontaneous sort
of thing, and no one else was involved, except for the girls he was
with if they were OK baby brother hanging around.
I am 3 years younger than Dan, and have followed his physical development very closely. We are both 6 ft tall, have broad shoulders and slender 30-inch waists, are naturally well defined and athletic. Smooth chests and abs, and hairy legs. And are both very well endowed. Dan's cock is
9 inches long, stands straight out and is thick. Just like mine. I admit
I was worried when he hit puberty and I hadn't yet, and felt completely
left out. That was years ago. We're both in our mid 20's now, and
are often mistaken as twins. One big difference... he is straight,
and I am gay. We're both very comfortable with and supportive of each
other's relationships and partners.
I was heading to NYC to spend 2 weeks with him on vacation. I wasn't
the least bit surprised when he called me to tell me that his new
girlfriend would be spending a few nights with us while I was there.
"sorry bud.. it's going to be a bit cramped in my studio with the 3 of
us, but we'll just have to adjust."
"No problem. If it gets to cramped I can always stay at the Y" I said,
feeling mildly irritated, but admittedly a bit turned on. I knew what
was in store.
As soon as I arrived at his studio, he gave me a big hug and invited me in. God, he was looking better than ever. He wasn't wearing anything except for a pair of boxer shorts. I could tell he'd been working out,
his chest was really well defined as were his abs and legs.
"Feel free to get comfortable.. it can get pretty hot in here in the summer" he said as he tossed me a pair of shorts, identical to the ones he was wearing.
"Don't mind if I do!" And took off my jeans & shirt and put on the shorts
he gave me. It did feel comfortable.
Dan offered me a beer, and we sat and got caught up on each
other's lives. His career was taking off, and he was adjusting to life
in Manhattan, meeting people and having an overall good time. I was
just finishing up my graduate work back home, and planned to move
to New York as soon as I was done.
As he was talking, he stretched out on his futon (which doubled as
a sofa), put his arms behind his head, and lay back. There weren't too
many pieces of furniture to sit on, so I just sat on the futon near
his feet, watching him. It felt very familiar... being near him while
he was near naked.
"You've been working out, huh?" I said casually.
"Yep... I hit the gym thrice a week", He flexed his arms, then sort of
rubbed his chest... "I've been focusing on my chest recently. Pretty
nice, huh?"
"Yeah.. you look great, Dan!" I said, feeling vaguely turned on.
"Check out my abs, bud..." he said as he grabbed my hand and placed
them on his abs. They were rock hard, and had defined ridges on them.
"My lower abs are pretty awesome too" he continued, pulling his shorts
down to his thighs, and moving my hand down to his lower abs, to where
his pubic hair patch just started.
"wow... pretty solid" I said, totally turned on & erect now.
He casually held my hand in it's position above his pubic region, and
continued to chat. We stayed like that, him with his shorts pulled
down and otherwise naked, me with my hand on his abs.
After a while, he showed me around the neighborhood, promising we'd do
sight seeing tomorrow as it was already getting pretty late that day, and
his girlfriend Jen was going to show up later that evening. We went out
to dinner, then went to a bar for a drink. When we got home, Jen was
waiting for us at the entrance.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, babe" Dan said as he kissed her.
"Mmm.. no problem" as she passionately kissed him back while
her hands grabbed his ass.
Wow. Jen was all over my brother. Apart from a brief hello, she
completely ignored me, and was focused on Dan. She was very
attractive, petite, had a nice, tight waist and really nice
legs. She was very short, barely 5'3'', but that was true to
Dan's type. He liked petite girls.
We went inside, the 2 of them pretty much joined in embrace.
When we got inside, Jen went into the bathroom. The first thing Dan
did was strip down to his boxers. "Whew, it's hot in here" he said, as
he handed me his clothes and sat on the futon, switching on the TV.
"could you grab me a beer, bud?"
"Sure", I said, feeling vaguely stupid holding his clothes. I dropped his
clothes in a pile in the corner, shed mine, dropped them in a pile,
and got us both beers.
"She's pretty hot, huh?" Dan said, his eyes filled with lust.
"Oh yeah" I said. "She seems pretty nice", I continued, even though
I hadn't said more than 2 words to her.
Jen emerged from the bathroom wearing a silk shirt and panties, and went
and sat beside Dan. I got her a beer... which she took and continued
watching TV.
The 2 of them were sitting on the futon, while I was sitting
on the floor nearby. We pretended to watch TV but in reality, the 2 of
them were getting very comfortable with each other.. holding hands,
kissing, feeling each other up, while I had a really nice view of them.
God, Dan was hot. He kept smiling at her while they kissed and talked..
she laughed and joked while her hands roamed over his chest & legs.
He was completely erect under his boxers, and watching him, so was I.
His body was gorgeous... and he was totally reacting to both cuddling
with Jen and having me around watching him. I could tell he was in
total ecstasy.
"Hey Bud" Dan said between kisses "could you get us another beer?"
So I'd get them another beer, and continue watching TV.
By this time, Jen's shirt was off and she was only wearing a skimpy
bra and panties. She didn't seem to mind at all ahving me watch. In
truth I was only watching Dan. I must admit they made a fine couple.
Suddenly Jen said "hey would you guys like to share a joint with
Dan started laughing and nodding his head. I politely declined. So.
the 2 of them got stoned, and continued making out while I watched.
The higher they got, the more giggly and less coherent they started
getting... making jokes and conversation that only they understood.
They also started getting touchier and hornier.
I was amused by the whole situation, but also rock hard.
Jen was kissing Dan's chest Dan was moaning, looking down towards me,
groaning "fuck, yeah" while she sucked his nipples.
"bud she's awesome, man" he said, just as she started on the other
nipple. He raised his hands and put them behind his head. For some
reason she found that very funny and started giggling really hard.
The joint was getting to her and she was getting pretty high.
"Hey, it's all right, babe", he said and lifted her onto his lap,
facing him. they started making out... her legs were spread on
either side of him, and I could see his erect cock pointing straight
up her belly. They kissed passionately, while with one hand he slipped
her panties off.
"whoa, you're wet, babe" he said. I could make out wet spots on Dan's
boxers... probably both hers and his. "bud, you gotta come and feel
how wet she is"
I was getting pretty wet myself watching this. My bro and I had never
quite gone this far before... and I'd never seen him this aroused.
The sight was totally turning me on, I felt like I was a few strokes
away from orgasm.
"bud, could you get us more beer?" Dan said. I took a trip to the fridge.
When I returned, Jen and Dan were both giggling wildly... he was
trying with one hand to get her bra off, and was using his other hand to
finger her pussy. Meanwhile she was trying to slip his boxers off while
holding onto him without falling.
Dan looked up at me hopefully, and started giggling hysterically.
God, he was gorgeous and helpless. I put down the beers, and undid
her bra for him.
"thanks, man, I really appreciate it" he said as he removed it.
Then, Jen, who was losing her balance at this point was still trying
to take Dan's shorts off. I grabbed onto his waistband, and patted
his side to say lift your ass. He complied, and I slipped them off
for him. Dan let out a soft, long groan. Out of the confines of his
boxers it was like he was a free man. His long shaft stood up and
erect at full mast, throbbing steadily, while he kissed Jen and held
her above him. He was right...she was totally wet, and her juices
were dripping all over his fingers and his leg. I noticed she shaved
her pubic hair completely. Now for some strange reason, that made
me feel less hot, as I had a full forest of pubic hair.
"bud, do me a favor..." Dan said as he looked at me, "turn off the
goddamn TV" So I did. Not sure why that was important... but he
wanted it off so I turned it off. Now, with nothing else to do,
not even the pretense of watching TV, I sat directly in front of
them and watched.
They took a quick break to get smoke more of their joint. He held
her close and his cock pointed at her like a long sword. She was
completely high and seemed to be floating on a cloud.
He sat down again, and this time, lifted her on his lap with her
back facing him. his cock was right at the entrance of her pussy,
and getting coated with her juices, as he kissed the back of her
neck and played with her tits. she moaned, laughed and continued
to float. she held his head with her hands, and spread her legs
up & out as far as they would go.
what a sight... my big brother's cock & balls and studly hairy legs,
with a cute girl sitting on his lap, her pussy wet & waiting to be
He started fingering her again, this time with both hands. "Bud,
she's completely smooth, man... completely. that's so fucking
awesome, bud. No hair... just wet, warm pussy."
She moaned and leaked more juices all over the place as he talked.
"Bud, come and feel man... your bro is about to fuck this wet, smooth
I just sat and watched. His balls were tight up against his body,
a sign he was ready to go. When he did start fucking her, I could
tell it wouldn't be long before he exploded. I wanted to reach out
and lick his balls so desperately... I wanted his sex to be the
best experience it could be.
Meanwhile, I think I was close to cumming too... Dan looked at me
and said "bud, take your shorts off, man... be free like us" So I
took my shorts off.
Jen noticed me naked and mumbled, between giggles "you guys are
twins... like twin brothers" and started giggling more. Dan found
this funny too, and started laughing.
Then, slowly, gently, he lifted her waist up, and moved slightly
forward. Flexing his cock muscles, he tried to position himself
to enter her. She was too stoned to help, and her hands were reaching
backwards to Dan's head. He held her up like that, helplessly,
trying to get his dick positioned to enter her. By now, he was
leaking precum which was dribbling down his shaft and on his
balls. I saw this and knew what he wanted. He looked at me
I moved in closer, took a hold of his throbbing cock, and positioned
it at her entrance. It slid in easily & gently. Dan let out a loud
moan. So did Jen.
It didn't take much. After a few thrusts of his pelvis, I saw his
balls tighten, and his whole body started jerking. So did Jens,
followed quickly by mine. we were all cumming together... in one
single instant.
I was engulfed in wave after wave of pleasure, as was Dan. There
was cum everywhere. Jen collapsed on Dan's sweaty body. After a
few minutes, she got up and went to the bathroom. Dan and I looked
at each other, naked and spent in our own ways, and smiled.
"Glad you're here, bud"
"Me too, Dan"
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Related to points: Weight Watchers points
1. specific parts of the conformation.
2. restricted areas of color. In dogs this refers to contrasting coloring over the eyes, on the face, legs and feet. In cats it is the face, ears, feet and tail and is used to describe the pigmentation pattern seen in Siamese, e.g. seal-point, blue-point, tabby-point, etc.
points of the horse
a list of the outstanding anatomical landmarks of the animal which are used as guiding points when judging the quality of the animal's conformation. This is used mostly in show judging. The list is usually expressed in lay terms such as muzzle, pastern, hock.
Patient discussion about points
Q. what is the difference between tender points and trigger points. I read somewhere in the net that there are two points called tender and trigger points which are one of the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Is that true? If so what is the difference between tender points and trigger points?
A. What you have read about tender and trigger points are true. A tender point hurts to the touch and causes some degree of pain in that area, while a trigger point may not necessarily be painful to the touch but causes a degree of pain to be felt in another area. Fibromyalgia patients typically have a number of tender points and, according to the American College of Rheumatology, the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia stipulates that an FMS sufferer should have pain upon palpation (i.e. touch) in eleven of the generally accepted eighteen tender points. A tender point is verified in a physical examination in which approximately nine pounds of pressure are applied by touch and the patient acknowledges that pain is felt.
Q. can Autism appears in any point in life?
A. not really no, ether you diagnose it at the age of 3 or it's not there.
Q. My aunty who is suffering from fibromyalgia feels the position of painful tender/trigger points moves. My aunty who is suffering from fibromyalgia feels the position of painful tender points /trigger points moves. The pain moves. For this reason, pain cannot be bound to specific points. Can anybody help?
A. It’s a usual feeling faced by most. Really you will get more help from this community. We recommend you to consider neurophysiology and neuropsychology which can help you to understand the problem and the quality of pathological inference and its central representation.
More discussions about points
References in classic literature ?
in reaching the point where the attraction of the earth and moon will be
It was hot and stifling work, but at last I reached a point where the fire lit up the corridor sufficiently for me to see that no soldier of Helium lay between me and the conflagration--what was in it or upon the far side I could not know, nor could any man have passed through that seething hell of chemicals and lived to learn.
It is a point of cunning, to let fall those words in a man's own name, which he would have another man learn, and use, and thereupon take advantage.
Yellow Handkerchief approached me, and, pointing out his village on the Point Pedro beach, gave me to understand that if I turned the Reindeer in that direction and put them ashore, they, in turn, would go to bailing.
From the highest point which I attained, there was a good view of the distant island of Eimeo, dependent on the same sovereign with Tahiti.
From Genoa the run to Leghorn will be made along the coast in one night, and time appropriated to this point in which to visit Florence, its palaces and galleries; Pisa, its cathedral and "Leaning Tower," and Lucca and its baths, and Roman amphitheater; Florence, the most remote, being distant by rail about sixty miles.
In the fifteenth century, the Seine bathed five islands within the walls of Paris: Louviers island, where there were then trees, and where there is no longer anything but wood; l'ile aux Vaches, and l'ile Notre-Dame, both deserted, with the exception of one house, both fiefs of the bishop--in the seventeenth century, a single island was formed out of these two, which was built upon and named l'ile Saint-Louis--, lastly the City, and at its point, the little islet of the cow tender, which was afterwards engulfed beneath the platform of the Pont-Neuf.
From Point Vancouver the river turned towards the northeast, and became more contracted and rapid, with occasional islands and frequent sand-banks.
At this point, a body having no principle of speed or displacement in itself, would remain immovable forever, being attracted equally by both orbs, and not being drawn more toward one than toward the other.
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Ethically Dubious Conduct
Ethically Dubious Conduct
Case 10.5 Ethically Dubious Conduct
Brenda Franklin has worked at Allied Tech for nearly eight years. It’s a large company, but she likes it
and enjoys the friendly work environment. When she tacked her list onto the bulletin board outside her
office, she didn’t intend to make things less friendly. In fact, she didn’t expect her list to attract much
attention at all. It had all started the week before when she joined a group of coworkers for their weekly
lunch get- together, where they always talked about all sorts of things. This time they had gotten into a
long political discussion, with several people at the table going on at great length about dishonesty,
conflicts of interest, and shady dealings among politicians and corporate leaders. “ If this country is
going to get on the right track, we need people whose integrity is above reproach,” Harry Benton had
said to nods of approval around the table, fol-lowed by a further round of complaints about corruption
and corner- cutting by the powerful. Brenda hadn’t said much at the time, but she thought she sniffed a
whiff of hypocrisy. Later that night, after pondering the group’s discussion, she typed up her list of “
Ethically Dubious Employee Conduct.” The next day she posted it outside her door. Harry Benton was
the first one to stick his head in the office. “ My, my, aren’t we smug?” was all he said before he disap-
peared. Later that morning, her friend Karen dropped by. “ You don’t really think it’s immoral to take a
pad of paper home, do you?” she asked. Brenda said no, but she didn’t think one could just take it for
granted that it was okay to take company property. She and Karen chat-ted more about the list. On and
off that week, almost everyone she spoke with alluded to the list or commented on some of its items.
They didn’t object to her posting it, although they seemed to think it was a little strange. One day
outside the building, however, an employee she knew only by sight asked Brenda sarcastically whether
she was planning on turning people in for “ moral violations.” Brenda ignored him. Now she was
anticipating her group’s weekly lunch. She had little doubt about what the topic of discussion would be,
as she again glanced over her list: Ethically Dubious Employee Conduct 1. Taking office supplies home for
your personal use. 2. Using the telephone for personal, long- distance phone calls. 3. Making personal
copies on the office machine. 4. Charging the postage on your personal mail to the company. 5. Making
nonbusiness trips in a company car. 6. On a company business trip: staying in the most expen-sive hotel,
taking taxis when you could walk, including wine as food on your expense tab, taking your spouse along
at company expense. 7. Using your office computer to shop online, trade stocks, view pornography, or
e- mail friends on company time. 8. Calling in sick when you need personal time. 9. Taking half the
afternoon off when you’re supposedly on business outside the office. 10. Directing company business to
vendors who are friends or relatives. 11. Providing preferential service to corporate customers who have
taken you out to lunch.
Discussion Questions
1. Review each item on Brenda’s list and assess the conduct in question. Do you find it morally
acceptable, morally unacceptable, or somewhere in between? Explain.
2. Examine Brenda’s list from both the utilitarian and the Kantian perspectives. What arguments can be
given for and against the conduct on her list? Is the rightness or wrongness of some items a matter of
degree? Can an action ( such as taking a pad of paper) be both trivial and wrong?
3. Someone might argue that some of the things listed as ethically dubious are really employee
entitlements. Assess this contention.
4. How would you respond to the argument that if the company doesn’t do anything to stop the
conduct on Brenda’s list, then it has only itself to blame? What about the argument that none of the
things on the list is wrong unless the company has an explicit rule against it?
5. What obligations do employees have to their employers? Do companies have moral rights that
employees can violate? What moral difference, if any, is there between taking something that belongs to
an individual and taking something that belongs to a company?
6. What, if anything, can we learn about an employee’s character based on whether he or she does or
does not do the things on Brenda’s list? Would you admire someone who scrupulously avoids doing any
of these ethically dubious things, or would you think the person is a prig?
7. What should Brenda do when she finds a fellow employee engaging in what she considers ethically
dubious conduct?
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1. This, golden goal was supposed to encourage attacking play but teams preferred not to cop the goal, rather than score one themselves, so in practice golden goal was even more defensive. Personally I like penalties. It's a pure battle of wills, who will hold their nerve, who will blink first? (To be fair it probably helps that I'm a goalkeeper and get all the glory if I save even one, and none of the criticism if I don't get to any.)
2. Exonerates JVS too much but otherwise bang on.
3. Press F to pay your respects to Thomas Sorensen, who has now retired. Last season voted Goalkeeper of the Season, this season lost his spot in round one due to someone else's mistake and was thereafter kept out of the side by a bloke who couldn't save a word document. Tommy, you didn't deserve this.
4. Reddy is doing diving save drills. Bouzanis is doing distribution drills.
5. I'm being generous in interpreting it that way. The fact is everything he's said is wrong on so many levels it's not going to make a lot of sense.
6. My reading of the first part is him criticising Australian football media/culture, the "we" being Australians in general, where the expectation is, presumably, to defend well, remain structured, have an idea of what you're doing from game to game, win the league (ok I added the winning part). The second part is him admitting we are not that kind of team.
7. That part was misquoted, he actually said the score could have been 12-5. And I could have played for Australia but that didn't fucking happen either. The more I read the more horrified I get. The excuses. I know journos take things out of context but I can't even imagine a context in which these quotes aren't fucked in the head.
8. Defend this shit. Pro tip: you can't. What the actual fuck.
9. Fuck i accidentally voted for Bouzanis. I actually didnt want to vote at all
10. We mathematically cannot miss finals now, which is a shame because the misery will be dragged out for at least another week.
11. They stuck with Sorensen. I was actually getting ready to unlike the page and throw all my toys out of the pram if they didn't.
12. Next week... will he stay or will he go?
13. Is there an illegal stream anywhere? I'm outside Aus so can't use foxtel go.
14. Other teams have lifted their game significantly too.
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Q&A: The Guardian’s Gabriel Dance on new tools for story and cultivating interactive journalism
“I really look forward to the day where the types of people we have in our newsrooms, and the roles they play, aren’t defined by the medium in which they present their work.”
gabrielddance thinks a lot about tools. Specifically, what tools does he have at his disposal, and what tools can he and others on the interactive team build to help them better tell a story? Dance, the interactive editor for The Guardian U.S., spent a good chunk of the last several months working on , a multimedia examination of all the information revealed so far about how the U.S. government conducts surveillance on people in America and abroad.
In trying to provide context around the story, Dance and his team used a blend of data visualizations, videos, social media integration, documents, and animated GIFs. Dance doesn’t see it as a collection of bells and whistles, but as a way to take advantage of the tools the web provides to help make stories more engaging. “I’m not above the idea of saying the Internet is a competitive place — there’s a lot of cats and babies on the Internet,” Dance said. “It’s our challenge to engage our readers in a way that captivates them. And the idea I can captivate them while telling them this incredible story, there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to captivate them with such an insanely interesting story.”
Dance has been building these type of stories for a while, having worked at places like The New York Times and The Daily. Recently we spoke about how the Guardian U.S. built NSA Files: Decoded, as well as the state of online storytelling and how to create a culture of interactive journalism inside a news organization. And yes, we talked about that Times story with the avalanche. Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.
Justin Ellis: Give me a sense of how you guys went about building the NSA Files: Decoded and how you got involved with the story.
Gabriel Dance: As soon as the story broke on June 5, with the Verizon story, and then the 7th, 8th, and 9th followed up with some pretty major revelations. We also knew they were extremely complicated. Some of these things were technically complicated — computers and hacking and Internet taps. Some of these things were legally complicated, like the FISA courts and the Patriot Act. So immediately we knew that not only was there an opportunity, but there was a need.
I have a good idea of how it works in some other newsrooms, but there’s not any sort of editorial or reporting divide between my team and the rest of the newsroom. I know at The New York Times it works very similarly, same at The Washington Post. The people on my team, I call them “interactive journalists.” But I’m looking forward to the day we can drop some of the prefixes and leave it as “reporter” or “journalist.”
But the simple answer is, I can go to someone on my team, give them a topic, and ask them to report on that topic and the process is very similar to how that might work with a more traditional print reporter. They go out, they explore it, they see what information is available. They schedule some interviews, they gather data, and they come back and we work on what form it might take.
Are we producing articles with strictly text? No. But I think what we are producing is much closer to what you saw in Decoded, which is what I guess I’d call web-first journalism.
When people talk about this as new and different, it only really is if you’re looking at the old things as the status quo. The way I see it, the web has evolved and changed the way we have the ability to tell stories. What we’re doing is simply adapting to all these new ways we have to tell stories.
A comparison I like to draw a lot is photographers. Nobody ever questions whether a photojournalist is a journalist. I don’t see anyone asking if Tyler Hicks is a journalist. This bizarre notion that because we’re doing this — what is, because of technology and the Internet, a new form of storytelling — there’s this natural, human trait to be defensive of what it was before.
Ellis: For the NSA Files, what’s interesting to me is the combination of text, interactive, and video. You’ve got this whole cast of people talking directly to readers. How did you decide on that?
Dance: That fundamentally goes back to the goal of this project as a whole. I know we’ll get to the point where we’ll discuss this and and things like that, but NSA Files Decoded is explanatory reporting. The goal of NSA Files Decoded is to engage and interact with our readers while making a very complicated series of stories accessible and relatable.
So when you’re doing explanatory reporting, obviously the goal is to explain a rather complicated or in-depth process to our readers in a way they can understand. So what better way, when we were conceiving of this, then to have them be able to hear the words exactly from the experts? More to that point, I had this vision of this stark page where the interviews are being done, but give credit to Bob Sacha, the freelance videographer who we hired to work with us. Bob and I were talking, I was explaining to Bob the concept and he said “why don’t we sit right behind the camera and have them speak directly into the camera?” As soon as he said that, it was perfect.
We want them to talk directly to our readers, because we wanted this to be like an intimate conversation between our readers and the experts. I have themes I’ve had all throughout my work, and one of those themes is transparency. So this idea that you’re not just getting a quote in a story, you’re not getting part of a quote: You’re getting the actual expert answering a question relevant to the thing.
It kind of removes us from the process in a way where we’re still doing our job of facilitating journalism, but we allow this really interesting, intimate connection between the reader and the content. And that’s actually one place in Decoded we really have tried — and why I call my team an interactive team and not a graphics team or visualization team — to engage and involve the reader in the storytelling in a way that makes them feel as if they, themselves, are part of the story.
Ellis: With shooting all the videos and building the project, how much time went into making this interactive?
Dance: There are a lot of subtleties that go into it. One of which is the idea that content gathering and production went on at the same time. But the interviews were somewhat difficult to schedule and took a while.
I would say there were three full-time people, including me, on this for two full months. Then, in the middle of the project we had a little bit of turnover in my team. I hired two people, and , and they jumped in. It’s difficult to estimate how much time they spent, but maybe we’ll say they spent three weeks to a month each on it. It was the full team, for a month, and three of us for another month. It was a lot.
It’s a fair question. But it’s such a difficult question to answer. Some people write me and say, “How many hours does it take to build this?” And it’s like, I don’t know. If we sat down with the exact idea that we wanted and all the functionality, everything, in line…who knows? Potentially you could build that in a couple weeks. But these things are a constant evolution. It probably took over a month before we even had any kind of working prototype with actual content in it. Until you put actual content in it, it’s really hard for other people to understand what you’re getting at.
It’s the subtleties, because the time also includes a lot of discussion, changing course, seeing what works, seeing what doesn’t work.
Ellis: What are some of the challenges you had, specifically on the layout or bringing everything together? There are a lot of moving parts there.
Dance: One of the most difficult things was the initial planning for it. I sat down with a couple other people and made an outline of the entire project. This was an outline of the story, not an outline of what copy we were going to write or what video we were going to do or what interactives.
Then I went through the outline of the story and I started to say, “Okay, what’s the best way to tell this bit of this story?” And the “best way” is flexible term — that could mean most engaging, that could mean most illuminating. There’s a lot of different things “best” could be.
There was this whole planning process because we wanted everything to work in concert. The challenge is none of those things can be done outside the concept of the entire story. That’s why, fundamentally, starting from the story and then deciding which parts are best for which mediums was both very challenging and, I think, in the end extremely rewarding and part of the reason why I think Decoded did so well.
But some of the other challenges — all the interview clips you see are one-shot takes. We did do two-camera interviews, but we never once used the second camera. And we never used any jump cuts. Every single quote is a full-on quote. That’s why some of the quotes, they stumble a little, or they say “um.” But it would have broken with our paradigm of speaking directly to the reader to have cuts in it.
For every single bit of it, I could go through and say the challenges of all these things working in concert to tell a larger narrative. And I think that’s actually what distinguishes Decoded. What I told somebody the other day was: This is a web-only project, wherein we’re using all the Internet mediums available. GIFs, video, interactives, maps — all of that, hopefully seamlessly throughout.
That’s where I think the difference between it and any other projects lie. This piece was designed to be read, or consumed, as a whole. You can’t take the writing out of it and have it work the same. You can’t take the videos out of it and have it work. You can’t take out the graphics and have it work. It’s meant to be consumed as an entire project, with all these different parts being seen, seamlessly, to one another. It’s actually a giant fucking metaphor for what we were talking about before with journalism. It’s all journalism. It’s just being told in different methods.
Ellis: How do you think about keeping people’s attention in a story like this? What have you been able to learn about the ways people engage with interactives like Decoded?
Dance: I think with Decoded we’re definitely trying to evolve the method of storytelling on the web. It’s a total package. Some of the other things we do are different ways to tell individual stories.
I’ll just speak to Decoded, because I do see it as a culmination of a lot of what we’ve been working to. But, I’m just gonna address some of this Snow Fall stuff, OK?
Ellis: Please do.
Dance: It just has to get out the way. I thought [former Times Design Director Khoi Vinh’s] . Let me rip off a few ways this is different from Snow Fall.
Snow Fall is over 15,000 words; ours is barely over 4,000. Let me be really clear: I think Snow Fall was an amazing advancement of multimedia storytelling. On the other hand, it didn’t have any interactive graphics in it. Their interactive team is fucking outstanding — so it’s only because they haven’t decided to do this yet. But it still remains a huge difference. Essentially what they had were words with videos, and these videos had amazing renderings, obviously, of avalanches. They’re infographic videos, I guess you could say.
Like I said, we’re an interactive team, so we’re trying to engage our audience. So that absolutely goes into our thinking of how we did this. We knew the words had to be concise, brief, and clear. I’d say the fundamental difference between Decoded and Snow Fall, is that we’re doing explanatory reporting and they were doing feature reporting.
That doesn’t mean one is better or worse, at all. Both are critically important, but they’re extremely different types of reporting. You wouldn’t compare somebody’s article about the health care rollout and the website failures with a feature story about the pitfalls of maybe one family’s plight in a state without Medicaid.
But I do recognize captivating people means something different with the new technologies of the web. That means allowing people to engage with it; that means allowing them to connect it to their social network. It means making it seamless, and having videos automatically play. Some people hated that. But imagine how annoying our piece would have been if you had to click play on each one of those things?
So this idea of having videos automatically play when they’re centered in your window, and all those things, those are all to engage the reader, to keep their attention. To bring them further into the story. It seems like a lot of people feel like you’re selling out when you say, “I want to entertain and engage and inform and interact with our readers.” That’s our goal.
I haven’t checked the stats, but just over the first two days there was over 10,000 people spending more than 30 minutes on the site. That kind of blows my mind. Those aren’t people I know, even. My mom loves me and I don’t think she’s spending 30 minutes going through this.
Honestly, it’s because of these interactives and these different mediums. If this was all just copy, they’d probably do what I do, which is either print it off or Read It Later or something. Or if the whole thing was a video, I have no idea what it would have been.
None of these things are easy. People want a template for them. There is no template yet.
Ellis: You guys are still a relatively new entrant here in the U.S., and you don’t have the print legacy that the Times or the Post or the Journal does. How can these type or projects create more awareness of what the Guardian does?
Dance: One of the main differences between what we’re able to do, and, say, Snow Fall, or , is they do have to design a project with the idea that this is running in a newspaper. By definition, they’re creating something for two mediums. We don’t have to do that at all. Which is really a fantastic freedom and independence to have.
Now, obviously, the entire Guardian doesn’t have that. There’s a very healthy newspaper in London. But in the United States, we’re a web-only publication. I don’t have to worry about speaking with a copy editor about what the print product’s gonna look like, because there won’t be a print product.
We have this enormous hunger for information about the United States from international people. So we have this really cool opportunity to explain stories from the United States in a way that is accessible to internationals and to American citizens themselves.
In our interactives, we try to express that as creatively as we can. Whether that’s with a that looks like a huge multi-colored rainbow, or a choose your election game where . Or it’s a spin the debate, where you can reorder people’s words. We’re taking these really different, creative approaches because we’re quite aware of the media landscape and where other people fit into it.
So we’re trying to create this niche, that I think fits with the Guardian brand. It’s news, but you know you’re going to get a breath-of-fresh-air kind of thing. It’s also creative. Oftentimes, there’s entertainment and it’s fun. But it’s also, fundamentally, extremely well reported, extremely thorough, and accurate storytelling.
Ellis: One question that comes up with interactives is how to make them a part of everyday storytelling. Is it having people who see things both ways, interactive journalists like those on your team?
Dance: Working with more traditional reporters is fundamental to creating interactive projects. That’s true here at The Guardian, that’s true when I was at the Times — I think it’s true, period.
But the answer to your question is tools. I created a lot of tools when I was at The New York Times, some of which they still use, some of which they don’t. Tools can be extremely helpful; you see them at the Times, the Guardian.
I think Quartz does a fabulous job of . Quartz has obviously made the decision that they’re not going to be creating, for the most part, interactive charts and elements and things like that. We can turn around quick charts and quick data, and quick contextual elements. But we can’t make them into these really whiz-bang interesting interactive social hook-ins. That just takes time.
The second part of that is something , which is the idea that you don’t have templates for stories. John Branch writes 16,000 words on Snow Fall, or — that’s not a template. I don’t see people saying “where’s the template for longform investigative?” You know what I mean?
This idea there’s going to be a template that does interactive longform web journalism? I don’t know if that’s ever going to be the case. Now there’s certainly best practices that are being developed, and things you see people like The Verge, and ESPN, and The New York Times, and The Guardian, which are templates that really highlight visual journalism, that have huge images and huge videos.
Again, I would just say where’s the templates for any longform writing? It doesn’t exist because each story needs to be told on its own terms.
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Getting other maps and charcters into SFM
So ive been wondering, how exactly do I get additional maps and characters into Sfm?
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EmperorFaiz (Sick As Hell) 29. huhti 20.52
U can check out SFMBox and SFM Steam Workshop
•• 29. huhti 20.59
So those have worked for you fully?
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Yeahhh not really seeing anything much in the workshop...
Pte Jack 29. huhti 21.24
ummm, SeaBass, You've been around long enough in this group to have seen all the posts on getting content, adding maps, how to import the stuff, etc... You're almost an old hat like me...
But one more time... IF you own Garry's Mod check Garry'sMod.org or the Garry's Mod group workshop. If you own valve games, check their GCF (Game Cache Files). If you don't, then try http://www.SFMBox.com or http://www.gamebanana.com, or create them yourself and import them to SFM.
For Maps, Check your valve content, copy them to usermod/Maps (better find the models and materials for them and copy them to the usermod/models and usermod/materials folders. If they give you an HDR error, search this discussion group for recommended fixes. If you don't own any valve content then you have to create your own if you want custom maps.
Once you find your custom content, I have a few video tuts on my Youtube channel to tell you how to get them in to SFM.
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A Machine Learning Guide for Redditors
A guide for redditors who want to get started with machine learning, including a discussion of various machine learning models, tools, and resources.
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Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine learning is a process of teaching computers to make predictions or recommendations based on data. It’s a field of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention.
Machine learning is used in a variety of industries, from retail to healthcare, and it’s becoming increasingly popular on Reddit. If you’re looking to get started with machine learning, there are a few things you should know.
First, machine learning is not the same as statistics or data science. It’s a subset of artificial intelligence that focused specifically on teaching computers to learn from data.
Second, there are different types of machine learning. Supervised learning is the most common type, and it’s what we will be focusing on in this guide. Supervised learning algorithms are given a set of training data, which includes both inputs (like images or text) and outputs (like labels or classifications). The algorithm then learns to map the inputs to the outputs.
Third, machine learning can be used for both classification and regression tasks. Classification tasks are those where the output is a class label (like “cat” or “dog”). Regression tasks are those where the output is a numerical value (like “price” or “ temperature”).
Finally, there are different types of supervised learning algorithms. Some of the most popular include support vector machines, decision trees, and k-nearest neighbors. We won’t be covering all of these in this guide, but we will touch on some of the most commonly used ones.
What is Machine Learning?
The process of machine learning is similar to that of data mining: both processes search through data to look for patterns. However, machine learning goes beyond this simple task; it also involves making predictions based on the data. Once a program has been trained to make predictions, it can then be used to make decisions, such as which products to recommend to customers or which loans to approve.
Machine learning is based on algorithms that are able to automatically improve given more data. These algorithms are able to learn without being explicitly programmed because they are able extract patterns from data. For example, a machine learning algorithm might be able to figure out how to identify cats in pictures by looking at a set of labeled images. Once the algorithm has learned how to do this, it can then be applied to other pictures, even ones that were not part of the training set.
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Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that allows software to get better at some task through experience. Just as humans learn from experience, machine learning algorithms learn by processing data and making predictions. The more data the algorithm processes, the better it gets at making predictions.
There are two main types of machine learning: supervised and unsupervised. Supervised learning is where the algorithm is given a dataset with known answers (labels) and learns to make predictions for new data. Unsupervised learning is where the algorithm is given a dataset without any labels and has to find structure in the data itself.
Supervised learning is further divided into two types: regression and classification. Regression is where the output variable is continuous (e.g. price of a stock on any given day). Classification is where the output variable is discrete (e.g. spam or not spam).
Unsupervised learning can be divided into two types: clustering and dimensionality reduction. Clustering is where the algorithm groups similar data points together (e.g. grouping customers by buying habits). Dimensionality reduction is where the algorithm finds structure in high-dimensional data (e.g. identifying features that best describe a dataset).
Applications of Machine Learning
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. These algorithms are used in a variety of ways, including for predictive maintenance, detecting fraud, recommendations, and computer vision.
Machine Learning Algorithms
Machine learning algorithms are a type of artificial intelligence that can learn from data and make predictions. There are many different types of machine learning algorithms, but some of the most popular include linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, and neural networks.
machine learning algorithms can be used for a variety of tasks, such as classification (predicting whether an article is about politics or sports), regression (predicting how many upvotes an article will get), and clustering ( grouping articles by topic).
In order to use machine learning algorithms, you need to have a dataset that you can use to train the algorithm. This dataset should be labeled with the correct answers (known as ground truth) so that the algorithm can learn from it. Once the algorithm has been trained, you can then use it to make predictions on new data.
There are many different ways to apply machine learning algorithms to data, and the best approach will depend on the type of data you have and the question you want to answer. If you’re just getting started with machine learning, it’s important to experiment with different methods and see what works best for your data and your problem.
Supervised Learning
Supervised learning is a type of machine learning where the computer is given a set of training data, and the desired output, and it then searches for patterns to generate a model that can be used to map new input data to the desired output. The most common type of supervised learning is regression, where the output is a continuous value, such as a price ora probability. Classification, where the output is a category, such as “positive” or “negative”, is another common type of supervised learning.
Unsupervised Learning
Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning that looks for previously unseen patterns in data. Unsupervised learning is used to cluster groups of similar items together, and to find new items that are similar to ones that have already been found. This can be used to find new products that are similar to ones that a customer has already bought, or to group customers together based on their buying habits.
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that is concerned with how software agents ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of cumulative reward.
Reinforcement learning is characterized by trial-and-error search and delayed reward. That is, the agent tries different actions and learns from the results to find the best action for each state. In contrast, supervised learning has well-defined input/output pairs, and thus the training process can be completely deterministic.
The key difference between reinforcement learning and other types of machine learning is that in reinforcement learning, the “teacher” provides only partial feedback; it does not tell the agent which actions are good or bad, only whether its total reward is increasing or decreasing. This makes reinforcement learning very difficult compared to other types of machine learning; most algorithms require a lot of data in order to converge on good solutions.
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Machine Learning Tools
If you’re a Redditor interested in learning more about machine learning, this guide is for you. Below, you’ll find a list of resources that will help you get started, including:
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-A list of conferences and meetups
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Muslim man sues Virgin Atlantic after being ordered off flight for 'casually mentioning 9/11'
Mohammad Khan claimed he was 'racially and religious profiled' by cabin crew over 'completely innocent and harmless comments'
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Friday 11 August 2017 13:19
The airlines says ‘multiple customers and crew reported hearing highly inappropriate comments’ by the passenger
A Muslim man is suing an airline over claims he was marched off a plane by police after "innocently" mentioning 9/11.
Mohammad Khan, from north London, alleged Virgin Atlantic staff "racially and religiously profiled" him over a "harmless" conversation with a flight stewardess and another passenger. The 26-year-old said he was escorted off his flight from London Heathrow to Atlanta, Georgia, following a "massive overaction" by cabin crew.
The Middlesex University graduate was travelling to the US for an interview for a business internship in Medellin, Colombia.
He said another passenger, who he had not met before, had complained about the length of airport security queues as the plane taxied on the runway. Mr Khan told the London Evening Standard: "I totally innocently said ‘there’s been more security since 9/11’, then asked the stewardess 'I bet your job has changed since 9/11', but she looked stunned."
The plane was turned around and taxied back the terminal where he was led off by police officers.
Mohammad Khan said he 'harmlessly' mentioned 9/11 after another passenger complained about security checks
Mr Khan said: "I was racially and religiously profiled. It was a complete overreaction to completely innocent and harmless comments. I know this would not have happened if I was a white man in his sixties who had done the same thing.
“It totally ruined my trip and I felt humiliated. I was made to feel like a criminal."
He said he was not formally interviewed by police, who accepted there had been a "misunderstanding". But Virgin Atlantic would not allow him back in the flight, on 8 January last year.
Mr Khan was denied a refund on his £560 ticket and was forced to spend £817 on flights with another airline.
He has since been battling for compensation and his solicitors recently submitted a final claim for £5,000 plus legal costs. Mr Khan said he would sue in the county court for breach of contract and racial discrimination if the airline did not meet the demand.
A Virgin Atlantic spokesman said Mr Khan was removed from the flight after "multiple customers and crew reported hearing highly inappropriate comments concerning security".
He added: "This is not a decision we take lightly and although such security events are rare, we have a responsibility to report them to the relevant authorities to ensure the safety and security of our aircraft, customers and crew.
"Our team has been in regular contact with Mr Khan and his lawyers, and we have offered to refund his flights."
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Netflix has announced it will continue to film some of its original productions, such as Stranger Things, in Georgia as other entertainment companies are pulling out of the state due to its recent abortion bill.
The streaming giant, however, added they would ‘rethink’ its presence in Georgia if the bill goes into effect.
Earlier this month on 7 May, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law in the country.
The bill bans abortions in most cases when doctors detect a ‘fetal heartbeat’. This is typically around six weeks, before many women are aware they’re pregnant. It allows exemptions for rape and incest if the woman files a police report, and if the mother’s life is in danger.
The bill is part of a new trend of abortion bills, the most restrictive of which is in .
‘We have many women working on productions in Georgia, whose rights, along with millions of others, will be severely restricted by this law,’ Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a .
Several other production companies announced days after the bill became law they would . They added they would return to the state if it overturns the law.
In recent years, Georgia has become a popular location for filming. It offers a variety of sceneries, ample space for sound studios, and cheaper tax incentives.
Several Southern and Midwestern states have passed restrictive abortion bills in recent months.
Women’s and LGBTI rights groups immediately condemned the bills and organized protests across the country. Organizations like the ACLU and more are preparing to challenge the laws in court.
Republicans, however, are prepared for and expecting the legal challenges.
The ultimate goal of these laws is for them to be taken up in court and ultimately reach the Supreme Court with an end goal of overturning Roe v Wade. It is unclear if the matter will get to that point, but the Supreme Court currently has a 5-4 conservative majority.
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Building Resilient Supply Chains Won’t Be Easy 弹性供应链谈何容易！
来源：球探篮球即时比分直播 发布时间：2020-07-20 点击数：314
by David Simchi-Levi and Edith Simchi-Levi
2020 JUNE
The pandemic has exposed one of the major weaknesses of many supply chains: the inability to react to sudden, large-scale disruptions. This lack of resiliency has been especially notable in the supply chains of the life sciences, health care, and food industries. The resulting turmoil has generated calls for companies that had offshored production to Asia (and China, in particular) to bring it back home. But this approach is no panacea.
这一流行病暴露了许多供应链的主要弱点之一：无法对突然的大规模中断作出反应。 这种缺乏弹性的现象在以下供应链方面尤为明显 ：生命科学、医疗保健和食品业的供应链。 由此引发的动荡引发了要求将生产外包给亚洲（尤其是中国）的公司将其外包回家的呼声。 但这种方法不是万能的。
For one thing, given the huge size of the Chinese market, most global companies will need to keep a presence there to serve it. For another, since China is now a dominant, if not sole, source, for thousands of items, reducing dependence on it in many cases will take considerable investment and time.
The best way to make supply chains more resilient is by mapping the layers of suppliers, manufacturing plants, distributors, and other elements of the logistics network and applying a stress test to evaluate the ability to recover from the disruption of these sites. Once there is an understanding of where bottlenecks are located, various mitigation strategies can be considered, including adding manufacturing capabilities or suppliers or creating buffer stocks.
使供应链更具弹性的最好方法是绘制供应商、制造工厂、分销商和物流网络的分布图，并对其进行压力测试评估从这些节点的中断中恢复的能力。 一旦了解瓶颈所在位置，就可以考虑各种缓解战略，包括增加制造能力或供应商或创建缓冲库存。
Reshoring alone does not necessarily create resiliency. Consider the recent meat shortage in the United States. This industry’s supply chain is entirely domestic. In order to reduce cost, many companies focused on consolidating manufacturing activities. The result: A relatively small number of slaughter plants now process much of the beef and pork consumed in the United States. Shutting down one plant, even for a few weeks, has a major impact throughout the country: It crushes the prices paid to farmers and leads to months of meat shortages.
单靠脱离海外采购不一定能产生弹性。 想想最近美国的肉类短缺。 这个行业的供应链完全是国内的。 为了降低成本，许多公司侧重于巩固自身的制造活动。 结果：相对较少的屠宰厂现在加工了美国消费的大部分牛肉和猪肉。即使关掉一个 工厂，即使是几个星期，也对全国产生了重大影响：它降低了支付给农民的价格，导致了几个月的肉类短缺。
Mapping and stress testing are a much more effective approach. Our experience is that companies using this approach often find that risk is hidden in unexpected places. Work that one of us (David) did with the Ford Motor Company found unexpected high risk associated with small suppliers, including many local suppliers. One part it identified that fell into this category was a low-cost sensor widely used in its vehicles: If the supply of it were disrupted, the carmaker would need to shut down its manufacturing operations. Because of the total amount spent on this item was low, Ford’s procurement group had not paid much attention to it.
供应链网络分布图和压力测试是一种更有效的方法。我们的经验是，使用这种方法的公司经常发现风险隐藏在意想不到的地方。 我们中的一个人（大卫）与福特汽车公司所做的调研工作发现：许多当地供应商有关的意外高风险在小供应商中。 其中一部分是一种广泛用于其车辆的低成本传感器：如果其供应中断，该汽车制造商将需要关闭其制造业务。 因为花在这便宜的传感器上面的成本很低，福特的采购小组没有太多关注它。
For industries that are essential to the country, such as pharmaceuticals and health care, there needs to be government involvement to ensure that supply chains are resilient. There is a precedent: In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. government and European Union instituted astress test for banks to guarantee that major institutions whose failure could cause the entire financial system to collapse had the wherewithal to survive a future crisis. Based on our experience in supply chain risk, we suggest that similarly critical supply chains should be required to pass stress tests.
对于对国家至关重要的行业，如药品和医疗保健，需要政府参与，以确保供应链具有复原力。 有先例：我 2008年金融危机之后，美国政府和欧盟对银行进行了一次令人震惊的测试，以保证其失败可能导致整个金融系统的主要机构崩溃有足够的资金来度过未来的危机。根据我们在供应链风险方面的经验，我们建议类似的关键供应链应该被要求通过压力测试。
Increasing supply chain resiliency for essential products and services may indeed require local manufacturing capabilities. But this is not necessarily a cheap or simple matter. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, more than 80% of chemicals used to make drugs sold in Europe now originate from China and India. The chemical production is environmentally damaging, so increasing resiliency of drug supply chains requires the development of clean technology, which may take up to 10 years and would require a significant financial investment.
增加对基本产品和服务的供应链弹性可能确实需要当地的制造能力。 但这不一定是一件廉价或简单的事情。 在药物方面 例如，在欧洲销售的药品中，80%以上的化学品来自中国和印度。化学生产对环境有害，因此增加了弹性 药物供应链需要开发清洁技术，这可能需要长达10年的时间，并需要大量的财政投资。
But without understanding the vulnerabilities that currently exist, such decisions can’t be made. Companies need to act now to uncover the weaknesses that exist in their supply networks, and governments must decide which industries are essential to their countries. Only then can they begin to take steps that will ensure that the turmoil generated by the pandemic doesn’t happen again.
但如果不了解目前存在的漏洞，就无法做出这样的决定。 公司现在需要采取行动，以发现其供应网络中存在的弱点，并进行治理。 国家统计局必须决定哪些行业对其国家至关重要。 只有到那时，他们才能开始采取措施，确保大流行病造成的动荡不再发生。
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