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Except in Swan Valley, there is no sexual freedom. Pregnancies deemed likely to produce children with low I.Q.s are terminated immediately, and nursing homes that seem welcoming on the outside are in fact crematories. The citizens are happy enough, though. The place is free of bribery, and a young doctor says he does not have to deal with colleagues from his former life — China, in the late 1980s — who sewed up patients’ anuses if they did not receive the requisite payoff.
“I am truly disappointed with present society,” said Ms. Sheng, 41, a petite woman in skinny jeans, a blue T-shirt and black stiletto heels with a sheath of long black hair around a slender face. Over coffee at an outdoor restaurant near her apartment in Lido, one of the cool neighborhoods in Beijing, a mixture of boutiques and bars, with expensive sports cars out front, she added, “When I talk with friends, I reminisce about the ’80s, when everything was not so tainted by the pressure of money, when poets didn’t abandon their work.”
Publishers in China, including Penguin, which released an earlier novel by Ms. Sheng, “Northern Girls,” about the sexual exploits of young women who migrate to the cities, passed on “Death Fugue.” Chinese editors decided the story line was too controversial. Penguin, she said, failed to give her a response. The novel has appeared in Hong Kong and Taiwan in Chinese, and last month, it made its English-translation debut with a small Australian literary imprint, Giramondo.
For Ms. Sheng, being shunned by her publishers at home was hurtful but not surprising. “When I wrote it I knew it couldn’t be published in China,” she said. “I discussed it with a friend — she writes poetry at the university of Chongqing — and she said, ‘You write it because you want to.’ ”
The resolve to tackle a subject as forbidden as the Tiananmen Square crackdown is in character with her tough childhood, and her insistence that she is a storyteller prepared to break taboos. “A novel must have the power to offend,” she says in an author’s note for “Death Fugue.” When it was suggested that some scenes were almost repulsive, she said, “Then I have succeeded.” | positive |
AFC Wimbledon's Tom Elliott celebrates his winner
Former Liverpool striker Adam Morgan hit a hat-trick but it was not enough to save Curzon Ashton from FA Cup heartbreak as League One AFC Wimbledon hit back from three goals down to claim an extraordinary 4-3 win at the Tameside Stadium on Sunday.
The Vanarama National League North strugglers - three divisions and 81 places below their visitors - looked to be coasting to victory from the moment Morgan fired a stunning 35-yard opener with just 30 seconds on the clock in the second-round tie in Ashton-under-Lyne.
Morgan increased Curzon's lead before the break and completed his hat-trick in the 63rd minute - only for the Dons to strike back with three goals in two minutes from Tom Elliott, Dominic Poleon and Tyrone Barnett, before Elliott grabbed the winner deep into injury time.
Curzon Ashton's Adam Morgan celebrates scoring against AFC Wimbledon
It was a shocking ending to the afternoon for the hosts, who had dominated the early exchanges and appeared to have left Wimbledon - whose predecessor club won the 1988 FA Cup - on the brink of an embarrassing defeat before Elliott's 82nd-minute strike dramatically turned the tide.
Curzon's superb start came out of nowhere as Morgan drifted in from a seemingly harmless position on the right before unleashing a spectacular left-foot effort which gave Dons goalkeeper James Shea no chance.
The visitors responded with a Jon Meades effort which was booted off the line by James Baillie, but the non-league side were in the ascendancy and could have increased their lead through Luke Clarke and Iain Howard.
Dominic Poleon holds off James Baillie
The Dons' day did go from bad to worse in the 22nd minute when Joe Guest cut inside the visiting defence and crossed from close to the goal-line, and
Morgan only had to turn into the net from point-blank range.
As the first period progressed, the hosts were increasingly reliant on heroic defending to keep their two-goal lead intact, with Simon Woodford blocking a shot from Elliott and Jonathan Hunt's superb last-ditch interception denying a near-certain goal for Lyle Taylor.
Morgan hit a hat-trick but ended up on the losing side
When Morgan finished off another Guest cross in the 63rd minute, it looked to be the ex-Liverpool man, who almost gave up the game after being released by then Reds boss Brendan Rodgers, who would hog the headlines, but the Dons kept pushing and grabbed what appeared to be a consolation through Elliott eight minutes from time.
Poleon set nerves jangling moments later when he poked home after a goalmouth scramble, and substitute Barnett steered a low shot home through a crowded box to snatch what appeared to be an improbable replay.
The Dons had other ideas, and both Poleon and Meades missed great chances before Elliott crashed in the winner deep into the fourth and final minute of injury time to end one of the FA Cup's more extraordinary afternoons. | positive |
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[[This is Chapter 20(a) from “beta” Volume VI of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested. Beta-testing is intended to improve the quality of the book, and provides free e-copy of the “release” book to those who help with improving; for further details see “ Book Beta Testing “. All the content published during Beta Testing, is subject to change before the book is published.
To navigate through the book, you may want to use Development&Deployment of MOG: Table of Contents.]]
This Chapter XVII is dedicated to databases and related issues – in the context of MOGs, of course.
And in the context of medium- and large-scale MOGs, functionality-wise it is common to have up to four different layers (or types) of the databases:
OLTP Online transaction processing is a class of information systems that facilitate and manage transaction-oriented applications... OLTP applications are high throughout and insert or update-intensive in database management. — Wikipedia — While term “OLTP” can be used to mean many different things, for our purposes we will speak about very small and simple requests – not including anything which can possibly take longer than single-digit milliseconds (not that you will need these things in OLTP). For the sake of clarity – we’ll assume that a typical mix of our OLTP transactions is (give or take) a 50-50 split between INSERT and UPDATE statements (on the other hand, there is some trickery which we can use to adjust this ratio if necessary, see [[TODO]] section below). This 50-50 (or actually anything from 20-80 to 80-20) split usually naturally arises from the very-frequent need to do some changes (such as “change amount of <whatever> user has in USERS table”) – and to add a record about the changes to the audit table; the former is usually implemented by UPDATE, the latter – by INSERT.
[[TODO: State Storing DBs for Asynchronous Games]]
“Real-time reporting” DBs (somewhere in between classical OLTP and OLAP). Real-time reporting DBs are usually used by support team (CSRs, security, payments, etc. etc.). Imagine a room with 100 people answering 10K e-mails per 8-hour shift (and to answer e-mails – they’ll need to run some kind of report against DB, such as “when exactly this user has logged in” etc. etc.) – and you’ll get an idea for the environment where this type of DB is used. On a positive side, information within such databases is not required to be up-to-millisecond, and usually we can live with delays of up-to-1-2-minutes. Real-time reporting DBs are often significantly larger in size that transactional DBs (up to several terabytes for a decently large game); still, as support rarely goes beyond several months back (except for payments etc.), to keep size of these beasts in check, big chunks of information can be moved to archive DBs (see below). We’ll discuss ways to organize “real-time reporting” in Vol. 3 quite a bit; for the time being, it will suffice to say that until you’re large enough, you should be able to run your real-time reporting from your OLTP DB ;-).
Archive DBs. Archive DBs are not routinely used for real-time reporting, but they can be accessed if demand arises (which is usually pretty rare). Archive DBs can be as large as you can imagine (hundreds of terabytes anybody?).
OLAP Online analytical processing is an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly... Databases configured for OLAP use a multidimensional data model, allowing for complex analytical and ad hoc queries with a rapid execution time — Wikipedia —
All of these DB types are different – and often require different approaches to implement.
However, before we can start speaking about implementing these DBs in the context of games, we need to define a few well-known things which we’ll refer to as our discussion goes on. I’m speaking about three abbreviations everybody has heard about – but which still cause quite a bit of confusion. It is ACID, BASE, and CAP.
ACID properties
These days, ACID is often used as a gospel: “hey, our DB supports ACID transactions, so you should be fine!”. Still, consistently with my point of view on pretty much anything else, I strongly suggest to understand what this alphabetical soup is all about, well before starting to rely on it.
Four-letter ACID abbreviation stands (no surprise here) for four properties: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. Let’s take a closer look at them (though in a bit different order).
Atomicity
“Atomicity is an extremely important property for keeping integrity of your dataAtomicity is a critically important property. Transaction being atomic means that if you’re trying to do a DB transaction, it is guaranteed to be all-or-nothing. Atomicity is an extremely important property for keeping integrity of your data;1 to illustrate its importance, let’s consider the following example.
Let’s say that you need to transfer an artifact (which is worth $20k on eBay) from player A to player B. And then, you’re doing two operations: first, you remove the artifact from player A, and second, you add the artifact to player B. Most of the time, it will work fine; however, one gloomy day your app/DB/server/whatever-else will decide to crash right in between these two operations. Which will mean that the artifact has just disappeared 🙁 (and you can be sure that players will complain and will raise hell in forums, etc. etc.). BTW, note that if you do these two operations in reverse order, you’ll still have a problem – if your server crashed at an unfortunate time, then after you re-launch your system, the artifact may appear in your DB twice.2
This problem cannot be resolved in a good way unless you have Atomic transactions. With an atomic transaction – you just put both your operations under the same Atomic transaction – and have a guarantee (from your DB) that whatever-happens, the whole transaction will either succeed, or fail (in the latter case no changes to DB will be made at all).
For our artifact transfer example, it means that if we do both operations above under single atomic transaction, it is guaranteed that there will be exactly one artifact (if the transaction succeeds – with player B, otherwise – with player A). Bingo! We’ve got our cake and ate it too ;-).3
Overall,
to keep integrity of our data, as a Big Fat rule of thumb, ALL the modifications to our transactional processing DBs SHOULD be done under Atomic transactions. Moreover, each single transaction SHOULD leave DB in a consistent state
Note that latter sentence has severe implications on transactions. In particular, we SHOULD NOT have a DB transaction such as “add money to user account” or “remove money from user account”; instead, we should have transactions such as “move money from user account X to user account Y”, or “move money from user account to our account”,4 or “move money from user account to ‘outgoing payments’ table”.
As with any generic statement, exceptions do exist,5 but they’re very rare and far between.
Atomicity over multiple objects
One very important point about atomicity, is that your DB should allow you to have transactions involving multiple objects (such as rows). This is necessary to work when objects interact (and they do interact even in a simple “transfer artifact” scenario above). Moreover, contrary to implications from [MySQL.AtomicOperations], simply using incremental UPDATE statements (while being a Really Good Technique) is NOT sufficient to guarantee data integrity (in particular, if your server or app fails in between the two UPDATEs – you will be in REAL trouble (not to mention that with relying purely on incremental statements, you can easily end up with a negative amount for something inherently positive, such as number of artifacts).
In SQL world, such multi-object transactions are almost-universal (with a notable exception of MySQL-with-MyISAM which is mentioned above); for NoSQL databases (even those which support ACID), multi-object transactions are MUCH more rare; at the very least – don’t take that they exist, for granted until you read the associated documentation.
Durability
Transaction being durable means that after you’ve got a reply from DB that the transaction has succeeded, DB guarantees that it will never go back. You can think about it as of a kind of flush (sync) operation when you’re writing to file – you may write stuff to the file (or within transaction), but only after you’ve got a ‘successful’ notification from flush() (or from transaction) – you can be sure that it is indeed guaranteed to be written.6
“One obvious exception when durability property is not satisfied, is when you’ve used a restore from backup for your DB.One obvious exception when durability property is not satisfied, is when you’ve used a restore from backup for your DB. And well – in real world restoring from backup does happen, so we need to keep it in mind; it becomes quite a headache when multiple DBs are involved.
Consistency
“Consistency” term is heavily overloaded one in the field of databases, and is used to denote very different things depending on the context7 (that’s why I’m trying to avoid using the term myself within this book). In the context of ACID, it means that if you’ve put some constraints on your DB, then DB guarantees that no transaction which violates these constraints, will ever succeed.
In theory, there can be any kind of constraints; in practice, however, the most common ones are related to things such as primary keys and foreign keys in RDBMS (we’ll discuss them later in this Chapter). On the other hand, if your DB doesn’t allow to specify any constraints – it automatically provides Consistency property for ACID (all the constraints are satisfied, and who cares that there can be no constraints at all? 😉 )
Isolation
Probably out of ACID properties, Isolation is the one which is the most difficult to deal with in practice 🙁 . On paper, it looks very simple: isolation guarantees that all your transactions, even if they’re running at the same time, are executed “as if” they’re executed serially. In practice, however, it is MUCH more complicated – having Isolation while keeping reasonable performance, requires quite a few compromises (and brings us to the really ugly topic of transaction isolation levels).
I don’t want to delve into fine details of transaction isolation here (especially as at a certain level, quite a few of them are DB-specific); however, we’ll spend some time discussing them – especially as we’ll need to refer to transaction isolation levels in the future.
“in real world, there are two very different approaches to implementing isolated transactions and concurrency controlFirst of all, let’s note that in real world, there are two very different approaches to implementing isolated transactions and concurrency control – and these approaches have profound effects on isolation levels.
Lock-based Concurrency Control
The first approach to implementing concurrency/isolation is based solely on locking; in other words, if one transaction uses some piece of data (these days – usually row8), a lock is set on this row, and is kept until the transaction succeeds or fails.
Examples of RDBMS which implement lock-based isolation, include DB/2, MS SQL Server, and the ones such as Sybase and Informix.
While from my experience, this approach works reasonably well in OLTP environments (though worse – in mixed OLTP-and-reporting ones), using it requires quite a bit of knowledge about locking – and it has quite a few different isolation levels too. While specifics of isolation levels depend on your DB, the most common ones for lock-based DBMS include (in the order from weakest guarantees to highest, and from best performance/least locks to worst performance/most locks):
Read Uncommitted. At Read Uncommitted transaction isolation level, writing within transaction sets write lock only while the row is being modified, and lifts it immediately afterwards. Reading within transaction sets read lock only while the data is being read. As such, “dirty reads” (i.e. reading data which will never make it into the database), are possible under Read Uncommitted. Let’s note though that “dirty data” in DB-speak doesn’t usually mean that DB can show you a partially-updated data object/row (I’ve never seen such a database myself; however, I’ve got reports that in some of NoSQL DBs reading partially-updated data is possible; beware!); instead, usually “dirty data” is data which has been updated by a transaction – but as modifying transaction is not committed yet, transaction including all the modifications, may be still rolled back (which, unless you’re careful, can cause all kinds of inconsistencies).
Read Committed. At Read Committed transaction isolation level, writing within transaction sets write lock (on the data/rows written) which is kept until the transaction is terminated (either committed or rolled back). As such, “dirty reads” are no longer possible; however, if two exactly the same reads are issued within the same transaction, results may be different. In particular, both so-called non-repeatable reads, i.e. reading of data modified between different queries, and phantom reads, i.e. reading of rows which were added by other transaction after this one was started, are possible. Read Committed (or similar CS level in DB/2) is probably the most popular isolation level for lock-based DBs used for transactional processing, and in most cases provides a very reasonable compromise between isolation guarantees and performance.
Repeatable Reads. At Repeatable Reads transaction isolation level, in addition to locks above, DB also locks data after reading it – and keeps the lock until the transaction is terminated. Repeatable Reads isolation level eliminates both “dirty reads” and “non-repeatable reads”, but is still open to “phantom reads”. Repeatable Reads isolation is rarely used for OLTP-style lock-based databases, due to performance issues it tends to cause 🙁 ; read locks which are kept until the end of transaction, are not a picnic at all.
Serializable. Serializable transaction isolation level eliminates “phantom reads”, at the cost of requiring even more locks than Repeatable Reads;9 as such, is almost-never used (on transaction processing lock-based DBs, that is).
Multi-Versioned Concurrency Control (MVCC)
“MVCC-based DBMS will create a “previous version” (“snapshot”) of that row, and will supply that “previous version” of the row to any other transaction which may try running concurrentlyWith Multi-Versioned Concurrency Control (MVCC), the whole approach is very different. Instead of locking that row for reading when somebody starts working on it, MVCC-based DBMS will create a “previous version” (“snapshot”) of that row, and will supply that “previous version” of the row to any other transaction which may try running concurrently. It makes sense – after all, until the first transaction is committed, the state of DB is not considered to be changed (and might be not changed at all if we have the transaction rolled back).
Examples of RDBMS which support MVCC, include: Oracle, MySQL with InnoDB, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server (the last one – not by default).
With MVCC-based databases, mostly there are only two different isolation levels (which is a Good Thing(tm) BTW 😉 ):
Read Committed. At Read Committed level, MVCC-based DB implements reads using snapshots taken at the moment of the read query issued. Writes still request write (exclusive) lock. At Read Committed level for MVCC-based databases, just like with Read Committed for lock-based DBs, “dirty reads” are not possible, but non-repeatable reads are possible. However, unlike with lock-based DBs, with MVCC-based databases writers do not block readers, and vice versa.
Repeatable Read/Serializable. At Repeatable Read isolation level (which usually – though not always – coincides with Serializable isolation level), MVCC-based DB implements reads using shapshots taken at the moment of beginning of the transaction. As a result, none of “dirty reads”, “non-repeatable reads”, and “phantom reads” are possible (at the cost of keeping more snapshots, especially if the longest of your transactions is long enough). Writes still request write lock. In addition, there is a special kind of failure which is specific for this isolation level with MVCC: the failure happens if our current transaction is trying to modify a row which has already been modified by another transaction after current transaction started. This phenomenon is known as a “serialization failure”; for further discussion, see, for example, [Oracle] or [Postgre].
There are some other types of isolation as it applies to MVCC , for example, Serializable isolation level in Postgre 9.1 and up (providing even stricter guarantees than avoiding artifacts above, see [Postgre]); however, I have my doubts that you’ll realistically need them for your game DB servers.
SELECT FOR UPDATE
In addition to isolation levels (which are usually set for the whole connection and don’t normally change per-transaction), for SQL-based DBs you can use SELECT FOR UPDATE statement to ensure proper locking even if you’re running at a lower isolation level. Most of the time, SELECT FOR UPDATE simply issues a write lock on all the rows in the SELECT (which lock, as all write locks, will stand until the transaction is completed). An example use case for SELECT FOR UPDATE goes as follows:
We’re running under Read Committed isolation level
We need to SELECT a list of items to be manipulated, and then to work on items there one by one
As we’re operating under Read Committed level, we cannot be sure that the items we’ve selected, won’t be modified by another transaction
To make sure it won’t happen, we can add FOR UDPATE to that original SELECT of list of items
“note that SELECT FOR UPDATE, while useful to avoid problems described above, can easily cause LOTS of problems with concurrency and deadlocks.Let’s note that SELECT FOR UPDATE, while useful to avoid problems described above, can easily cause LOTS of problems with concurrency and deadlocks.
Locking and Concurrency under Lock-based and MVCC-based DBs
Ok, all those lists of isolation levels are nice and everything, but what does it really mean for us as developers? There are several Big Fat Caveats with DB development, which tend to cause severe problems as soon as your DB becomes at least somehow loaded. These problems are quite similar to those problems with synchronization which we routinely experience with multi-threaded programs, so while discussing them, I will provide analogies from multi-threaded world.
Concurrency Problems are Non-Testable, Big Ouch!
One thing which needs to be mentioned with regards to concurrency problems, is that
you cannot possibly test them 🙁 🙁 10
Which means that a typical pattern for a concurrency problem on the Server-Side (either with multi-threading, or with DB concurrency) goes as follows:
A bug is introduced
Then, it sits quietly for many months, or even years
Then, as server load goes up – it starts to manifest itself At this point, if it is a multi-threaded problem, it usually crashes/hangs the whole thing, so at least it gets noticed “ For DB-related problems, however, you just start seeing deadlocks – or even worse, things quietly go not as supposed (like some of those people who’re entitled for bonuses, cannot get ones, or money is lost in transit, or a dog appears out of thin air and eats all your homework). As the problem is very evasive, it may take quite a while (and you can take quite a hit in terms of how-much-players-like-your-game too), until you realize that the problem does exist Then, you’re finally at the stage of admitting that the problem exists, and starting to hunt it down. However, 99% of the time you won’t be able to reproduce the problem in lab, so it will take quite a while (and even more hit on player disposition towards you) until you realize what is going on.
I’ve been in these shoes myself much more than once, and should say that
Concurrency Problems Are By Far The Worst Ones Out There
This, of course, means that the best would be to avoid them altogether, but we’ll come to it a bit later ;-). For the time being, let’s discuss some specific concurrency problems.
Dirty Reads, forgotten SELECT FOR UPDATEs, etc.
“no DB I know allows reading partially updated rowsWhenever we have an option to read dirty data, it can cause problems; those coming from multi-threaded world, know what can happen if we forget to acquire a lock before writing (or reading) share data – it is pretty much everything, up to a Boojum (or CEO) coming out of the sky and eating our program (or salary slip). With DBs, it is a little bit better (as no DB I know allows reading partially updated rows), but still can cause all kinds of trouble, including (depending on your app specifics) such things as money going missing 🙁 . The same goes for missing SELECT FOR UPDATEs.
Unfortunately, the only way to ensure that you never ever read dirty data – is to review your code; and then to review more, and then to pray that none of your reviewers has missed something important 🙁 .
Deadlocks
“At this point, we have transaction TA holding resource RA and waiting for resource RB, and transaction TB - holding resource RB and waiting for resource RA. In this state, unless something external happens, both transactions will stay forever 🙁 .Deadlocks occur whenever DB transaction TA has obtained lock on one object/row RA, and another DB transaction TB has obtained lock on another object/row RB, and then TA needs a lock on RB, and TB needs a lock on RA. At this point, we have TA holding RA and waiting for RB, and TB – holding RB and waiting for RA. In this state, unless something external happens, both transactions will stay forever 🙁 .
In multi-threading, this problem is non-recoverable; in DB world, deadlocks are routinely detected by RDBMS, and one of the transactions is rolled back forcefully (and application can get an error, and re-try the transaction using new version of the data involved).
However, even with this in mind (and with correct handling of such rollbacks, which may be non-trivial, though such handling may be generalized with Reactors at the cost of processing “fairness”, see [[TODO]] section below), the impact of deadlocks can be quite severe; deadlock detection normally takes seconds (which is already Damn Large for quite a few games out there), and forced rollbacks, if not kept in check, can be devastating for performance.
To deal with deadlocks, it is common to establish one common order of obtaining locks; if everybody follows this order – there can be possibly no deadlocks. On the other hand, ensuring that all the transactions follow the same lock order – is also a thing which is usually found only by code review 🙁 (however, detecting lock order violations at least CAN be implemented in a testable manner).
MVCC-based vs Lock-based DBs
Armed with all this information, now we’re ready to start answering the question which of the approaches (MVCC-based or Lock-based) is better for our DBs (specifically – for a transactional-based one).
“both MVCC-based and Lock-based DBMS issue locks (and therefore, both can cause all kinds of trouble such as deadlocks etc.); however, the difference lies with the number of locks issued by them.As noted above, both MVCC-based and Lock-based DBMS issue locks (and therefore, both can cause all kinds of trouble such as deadlocks etc.); however, the difference lies with the number of locks issued by them.
The main advantage of the MVCC-based DBs lies with the fact that with MVCC writers don’t block readers and vice versa. In practice, it means that Lock-based DBMS tend to issue MUCH more locks than MVCC-based ones; this, in turn, has substantial implications:
For a decently-loaded lock-based DB, you’re usually stuck with Read Committed isolation level; for MVCC-based one you might be able to get away with Repeatable Read/Serializable one This in turn means that, as a rule of thumb, you need to be MUCH more careful when writing code for a Lock-based DB 🙁
Usually, MVCC-based DBs do NOT suffer from problems with so-called “lock escalation” (which results from having too many locks, increase chances for deadlocks dramatically)
On the other hand, MVCC has a price tag attached: there is a cost of keeping all these versions (and a cost of reading old versions from the “rollback/undo segment” where they’re stored). Still, for a concurrent DB app – I would prefer MVCC-based DB.
What about Avoiding Concurrency Completely?
In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away—
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. — Lewis Carroll —
With all that being said, usually for transactional DB I prefer to avoid concurrency completely (see [[TODO]] section below).
“I know that this is highly controversial (=”I will be pounded Really Hard just for saying it” ;-( ). However, I’ve seen it working extremely well in real-world games, and at the moment it is my preferred way of doing things.”]I know that this is highly controversial (=”I will be pounded Really Hard just for saying it” ;-(). However, I’ve seen it working extremely well in real-world games, and at the moment it is my preferred way of doing things. Also, apparently, I am not the only person in the game world successfully using this approach. Once upon a time, I had a friendly chat with a CTO of another game, with both our games running hundreds of thousands concurrent users at the moment. At some point, the dialog took the following turn:
Me: you know, we’re handling all the database load from one single DB connection (and are able to handle like 50M DB transactions/day on a single box).
Him: (looking around to make sure nobody can hear him except for me): Don’t tell anybody (I don’t want to become a laughing stock), but we’re doing the same thing…
I will save all my arguments on the merits of this approach for later (until section [[TODO]]); for the time being I should just mention that in case of no-concurrent DBs, all the arguments above against lock-based DBs tend to (softly and suddenly) vanish away, and in fact I had very good experiences with lock-based DB/2 in such non-concurrent highly loaded environments.
[[To Be Continued…
This concludes beta Chapter 20(a) from the upcoming book “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games (from social games to MMOFPS, with social games in between)”. Stay tuned for beta Chapter 20(b), where we’ll discuss distributed databases, CAP theorem, and NoSQL databases.]]
Acknowledgement
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In recent years Malta has challenged its conservative image legalising divorce and same-sex partnerships. Now the spirit of reform has also breached the imposing walls of the capital, Valletta.
Entering Valletta, the tiny fortified capital of Malta, always gives me a buzz. It's a 16th Century city built in the local honey-coloured limestone, by the Knights of St John.
They had nearly lost this Mediterranean island to the Ottoman Turks in the great siege of 1565 and their new capital was built for impregnability, its awe-inspiring fortifications breached only by a single bridge and City Gate.
As I arrived in Valletta this time, however, the buzz was a little different.
As I crossed the bridge over the deep defensive ditch, the bastion walls on either side glowed with newly-restored freshness. Ahead of me, having emerged from a couple of years of dust and hoardings, stood City Gate - tall, smooth, proud and unquestionably 21st Century.
The entrance to Valletta and the square just inside it - degraded by wartime bombing and post-war neglect - have been dramatically redesigned by Renzo Piano, the innovative Italian architect of the London Shard. A controversial choice for a Unesco World Heritage City.
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When the project was first made public, I have to admit that I thought it would never happen. Malta is - or just possibly was - instinctively conservative.
The Maltese are exceptionally politically engaged, the turnout at general elections here is around 90%, and they love a good argument - this project has provided plenty of material for that - but innovation is another matter.
The Maltese are not generally known for speedy forward motion - except behind the wheel of their beloved cars. I fully expected this audacious project to remain a footnote in Valletta's architectural history.
There is no doubt, however, about what I see before me. The great limestone slabs of Valletta's modern entrance give out on to two broad new monumental stairways leading up to the ancient fortifications.
In the square, a modern open-air theatre sits within the remains of the nation's 19th Century opera house, and, nearing completion, held aloft on stone stilts, stands Malta's first purpose-built parliament.
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This is certainly statement architecture - and that is exactly what former prime minister, and driving force behind the project, Lawrence Gonzi intended.
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I meet the besuited Gonzi at the legal practice to which he has returned since leaving politics, and we sit in its appropriately modern interior within an historic Valletta townhouse.
Gonzi led Malta into the EU and the euro and tells me he wanted to show that while his country was rooted in its history, it was also, as he puts it "transforming the historical inheritance into a modern outlook in an island ambitious for the future".
Even he, though, has been taken by surprise by how far that change in outlook has already swept.
As a Nationalist - in British terms, conservative - Gonzi never expected to oversee a social revolution.
When a private member's bill pushed him into calling a referendum on the legalisation of divorce, he promised to vote against, fully expecting the Maltese people to do the same.
To his amazement this 98% Catholic country, for centuries held in the tight embrace of the Church of Rome, voted to allow divorce.
What is more, this year, under Gonzi's Labour Party successor, Joseph Muscat, same-sex civil partnerships have been introduced - something quite unthinkable just a few years ago - and official statistics now show the proportion of Malta's babies born out of wedlock has reached one in four.
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Over coffee with a Maltese friend, I ask what he thinks about this. "Having a child outside marriage is something my parents' generation and even my generation would disapprove of, but once the baby is born, the family always rallies round the mother and child," he says.
An island hospital Why did Malta become one of WW1's biggest hospitals?
"At the end of the day the Maltese are more interested in the fertility goddess than the Virgin Mary," he adds.
EU membership, EU money, increased travel and most of all, internet connectivity are driving a shift towards more liberal values.
What about abortion, I ask Gonzi, could that too be legalised? "No," he says firmly, then pauses, "But then I would have said that about divorce less than five years ago."
So is Malta turning into Sweden or the UK?
"Absolutely not," insists Gonzi, "Malta was a mini-EU even 500 years ago."
"The Knights came from every part of Europe, and were followed by Napoleon and the British. The Maltese took the best of what each had to offer but always remained Maltese and they will now too," he adds.
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As I walk back to City Gate, the facades to either side of me are both of local limestone. A traditional Valletta palazzo, its characteristic wooden balconies freshly painted, now looks across at the 21st Century geometry of the new parliament.
The modern building's detractors call it "the pigeon roost" or "the cheese grater", but others are impressed by the way that by and large the development manages to be quite different from its historic surroundings and yet respectful of them.
If Malta can follow that as a model for social change it will be doing better than most.
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Last weekend, I spent several hours in front of a laptop introducing my nephew to the first season of “The A-Team.” It was fitting in its to-everything-turn-turn-turn way, as when the show debuted in 1983, when I was every bit as much an eight-year-old as Max is now. And there are many ways that “The A-Team,” despite being a one-hour “drama” originally aired in prime time, is custom made for the eight-year old’s imagination. There is virtually no way in which it is anything but that: the team builds stuff, dress up in costumes and lay excruciatingly bare the outer reaches of their limits as actors every week, as Hannibal wince-inducingly plays an Asian laundry owner or Face tacks on a couldn’t-possibly-ever-be-mistaken-for-Texas accent in his con as an oil baron. Also, as viewers will know, “The A-Team” features Howlin' Mad Murdock and Mr. T. “The A-Team” is fantastic. This is not news.
But watching “The A-Team” isn’t so simple these days. The show seems so patently ridiculous now, although there is a chance that it always—or always intended to—seemed that way. To enjoy an episode of “The A-Team” now is a struggle, primarily because virtually every thing about it, from the costumes to the central conceit—bad-asses in a custom van, driving around icing local bad guys—is absolutely contrary to everything you and I and everyone else regard as quality television. I mention all of this only because the sensation of watching an episode of "The A-Team" happens to be what it feels like watching Dion Waiters play professional basketball.
So much of what Waiters does on the court is counter to what I have come to believe is truest and best and most valuable in the game of basketball. Some of this is simply and inevitably the product of Waiters' youth, and his presence in a grown-man's game. So of course at this point in his career, Waiters is practically Sisyphean in his efficiency; think about how crisp your execution was at age 20. In the three games before his recent ankle sprain—though exacerbated, one might argue, by an even greater share of the offensive burden than he had before Kyrie Irving’s finger injury and a relative invisibility to the officials’ whistles when he drives to the basket—Waiters had managed to shoot 24, 38 and 35 percent, which is all horrifyingly right around the 36% he’s shooting from the floor this year. He is (how to put this politely?) subject to consistent failure on defense. The reason I’ve taken to calling my new favorite Cavalier “Bulletproof,” not because he seems indestructible, but because it invariably looks as if he has been hit in mid-air by a sniper’s bullet every time he takes a jump shot. He is young and unfinished and plays like it. So, yes, there are problems. There are a lot of problems.
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But Waiters is also a rookie playing a ton of minutes—10 more per night than he did during his sole season at Syracuse, where, it’s further worth noting, he would have already played nearly a full season’s worth of games. So it's no surprise that Waiters is still figuring out how his game translates to the NBA on a team missing its closer (Irving) if not its anchor (the brilliant, brilliant, so brilliant Anderson Varejao) and playing in front of a fan base that, while bereft of ultimate successes, has also been spoiled by two rookies in the past decade that made the transition to the pros look as simple as putting on differently colored clothing. Waiters will also have games like he did against the Clippers or (my favorite) recently against the Atlanta Hawks in which he is something else and entirely more exhilarating: a young player who is very, very good at basketball, and getting better in real time, and experiencing that getting-better himself, and growing for that experience.
Figuring out how to enjoy watching Waiters, though—and how to watch most rookies and young, developing players—is thus like coming to terms with finding pleasure in watching “The A-Team.” It's like a lot of things about growing up, actually: learning to accept and embrace things that are doofy and dumb, while also drawing lines demarcating what is too-doofy and too-dumb. But because he is so fun to watch—and, also, because he could be great—Dion Waiters makes imperfect basketball perfectly acceptable and enjoyable. “The A-Team” is, accounting for the taste of the viewer, put together in such a way to make it enjoyable, if not quite great. Waiters’ game right now is, accounting for the taste of the viewer, the same thing.
There are windows like this for most players. Think of them, if you like, as the George Peppard/Chris Grant Honorary Window of Loving-It-When-A-Plan-Comes-Together. Based on the player's age and perceived bucket of talent—and on our own patience and sense of humor and emotional stakes—we as basketball viewers can find great and complicated and undeniable enjoyment in watching that not-yet-figured-out player figuring things out.
We can, but we often don't. From the moment a player suits up, we itch to shut that window. The games we are watching are happening, and piling up there in the standings, right now—not next season, not three years from now, not in some hazy realm in which good intentions or capital-p Progress translate into wins or playoff games. I, for one, do not even want to think about how old I’ll be when Waiters is playing at his peak. The answer, of course, is older. Maybe much older.
But in our rush to slam the GPCGHWOLIWAPCT shut sometimes we catch fingers. We shut it on LeBron James, for instance, assuming that a player with his vast talent and less vast experience should have somehow learned how to do what we saw him finally do last season. We were wrong, but mostly we were impatient. There have been other high picks—Michael Beasley, Evan Turner, Jonny Flynn, Derrick Williams—about whom we have been disappointed, or expect to be disappointed, or are currently sort of disappointed.
But in the case of Dion Waiters, who can play so goofily his age and then play like something so brilliantly different, in this case, we…wait, I know this episode. This is the one where they have to knock out Mr. T to get him on a plane! Man, is he gonna be ticked off when he wakes up! I bet he’ll say “fool” and “sucker” a lot! He and Murdock will have pretend to hate each other at some point. The team will be trapped in a barn and have to turn a go-cart into a tank. Yeah, I’m pretty sure I've seen this one. It's going to be awesome.
Illustration by Scott Henkle. | positive |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump is deploying an outside and inside strategy to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” seeking support beyond Washington before making an in-person pitch on Capitol Hill. Top House Republicans unveiled proposed changes in their legislation in hopes of winning support, three days before the big House vote.
Trump rallied supporters Monday night in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., after meetings and phone calls in Washington aimed at steadying the troubled legislation designed to erase President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. He planned to court House Republicans on Tuesday.
“We want a very big tax cut, but cannot do that until we keep our promise to repeal and replace the disaster known as ‘Obamacare,‘” Trump told the crowd of thousands in Louisville. “This is our long-awaited chance to finally get rid of ‘Obamacare.’ It’s a long-awaited chance. We’re going to do it,” he said.
With their showpiece bill revamping the 2010 health care law at stake, House GOP leaders released 43 pages of revisions to the legislation in hopes of rounding up votes.
The measure would pave the way for the Senate, if it chooses, to make the bill’s tax credit more generous for people age 50 to 65. Details in the documents released were unclear, but one GOP lawmaker and an aide said the language sets aside $85 billion over 10 years for that purpose.
The measure would also accelerate the repeal of tax increases on higher earners, the medical industry and others to this year instead of 2018. It would be easier for people to deduct expenses from their taxes, and older and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries would get larger benefits.
It would also curb future Medicaid growth and let states impose work requirements on some recipients.
Many GOP opponents were unhappy that nonpartisan analysts said their party’s legislation would drive up costs for older people. The leaders’ changes were aimed at addressing those concerns.
Trump resumed his campaign-style events at the start of a consequential week for his young presidency. Confirmation hearings for his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, opened Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The House was expected to vote Thursday on the GOP-backed health care bill.
Trump’s Louisville rally, his third since his inauguration, followed a daylong congressional hearing in which FBI Director James Comey acknowledged for the first time that the agency was investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian officials seeking to influence the 2016 campaign.
Many hard-line conservatives have pushed for a more complete repeal of Obama’s law, including its requirement that policies cover a long list of services, which they say drives up premiums. They also complain that the GOP bill’s tax credits create an overly generous benefit the federal government cannot afford.
Moderate Republicans, meanwhile, have said the tax credits are too limited and would hurt low earners and older patients. They also worry the plan would leave too many people uninsured, pointing to a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis that estimated 24 million people would lose coverage over 10 years.
At the rally, Trump suggested he wasn’t wedded to the current version of bill. “We’re going to negotiate. And it’s going to go to the Senate and back and forth,” he said, assuring that the “end result is going to be wonderful and it’s going to work great.”
The White House was trying to win over conservatives who are part of the House Freedom Caucus, including the group’s chairman, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C. Meadows joined two Senate conservatives, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, for a weekend meeting at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, with top White House aide Steve Bannon and other White House officials.
The rally Monday night was the Trump administration’s second high-profile event in Kentucky in 10 days and took the president to the home state of one of the most outspoken critics of the plan, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Vice President Mike Pence was in Louisville earlier this month to build support for the Trump-backed bill.
Paul said Monday to a group of Louisville business leaders that he hoped the Republican bill would fail so that “true negotiations” could begin. The senator, who was re-elected last year, has dismissed it as “Obamacare lite” and asserted that the bill had no chance of becoming law.
Paul was not attending the rally, saying he planned to fly back to Washington to continue building a coalition to defeat the plan.
But Trump called him out nonetheless, saying he hoped Paul would come onboard.
“I happen to like a lot Sen. Rand Paul. I do,” Trump said. “He’s a good guy. And I look forward to working with him so we can get this bill passed, in some form, so that we can pass massive tax reform, which we can’t do until this happens. So we gotta get this done.”
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Thomas reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed to this report. | positive |
Although the medical marijuana bill has stalled at the Minnesota Legislature, state representatives could face a vote on the drug later this session.
Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, wants to place the issue in an overall health bill as an amendment. Originally scheduled for debate Wednesday, the health bill was postponed by House leaders.
A medical marijuana bill by Rep. Carly Melin, D-Hibbing, is stuck in a committee, and Gov. Mark Dayton opposes it until law enforcement and medical groups support the concept.
“Support for effective medical marijuana legislation clearly spans the political spectrum,” said Heather Azzi of Minnesotans for Compassionate Care. “It is time to move forward with this compassionate and common-sense proposal. Seriously ill Minnesotans and their families have waited long enough.”
Medical marijuana supporters say it can help ease the pain of seriously ill patients and prevent seizures in children with certain diseases.
Opponents say that marijuana has not been studied as medicines have and that using it can be a gateway to using harder drugs. The federal government outlaws marijuana.
Dayton said he supports the concept but cannot back Melin’s bill until doctors and law enforcement officers remove their opposition. The governor has proposed an extensive medical study of marijuana by the Mayo Clinic and a separate study about how medical marijuana has worked in other states.
The Garofalo proposal differs from Melin’s in that he would ban smoking the drug and Minnesotans growing the plant. Marijuana extracts could be used as medicine.
Minnesotans could have up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana to deal with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, glaucoma and AIDS. A doctor or physician assistant would be required to authorize marijuana use.
Organizations wishing to grow marijuana would need state approval and to follow state regulations.
While legislators prepare for a possible marijuana vote, the Compassionate Care organization returned to the airwaves with television commercials featuring Patrick McClellan, a Bloomington man who suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
“I don’t understand why Governor Dayton is blocking a bill that would allow (medical marijuana) for people like me,” McClellan says in the commercial. “I am a patient, not a criminal. We deserve better; Minnesota deserves better.”
Dayton said Tuesday that lawmakers “have hidden behind their desks” and allowed him to take the brunt of criticism on the topic.
The governor urged legislators to take a vote on the issue. | positive |
Story highlights Dieudonne M'bala M'bala has been widely associated with the "quenelle" gesture
Many people say his trademark gesture is a Nazi salute in reverse
Comedian has voiced support for soccer player penalized for gesture
The French comedian at the center of the controversy over the "quenelle" gesture has been banned from entering Britain, UK authorities said Monday.
Dieudonne M'bala M'bala has been widely associated with the gesture -- which involves pointing the right arm straight down and touching that arm with the left hand -- that many believe is a Nazi salute in reverse.
Dieudonne counters that it is anti-establishment but not anti-Semitic.
"We can confirm that Mr. Dieudonne is subject to an exclusion order," Britain's Home Office said.
"The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so."
The comedian has voiced his support for controversial French soccer star Nicolas Anelka, who faces a possible five-match suspension after being charged by the English Football Association for making a "quenelle" gesture in December.
The 34-year-old striker made the sign after scoring for his Premier League team, West Bromwich Albion, against West Ham on December 28.
Anelka has insisted that the gesture was a dedication to his friend Dieudonne.
The 46-year-old Dieudonne, who ran in the European elections as an anti-Zionist, has been fined several times in France for anti-Semitic commentary. The French government said last month that it wanted to ban his live performances. | positive |
President Barack Obama has insisted he should not get involved in the current political fight between his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Senate’s intelligence committee over documents related to the CIA’s former detention and interrogation program. But the fact is Obama has been directly involved all along, beginning long before the disagreements and accusations began to fly between the CIA and the committee.
It turns out that the White House has been withholding thousands of CIA documents that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has sought to examine as part its investigation into the CIA’s torture of terrorism suspects during the George W. Bush administration.
About 9,400 classified documents have been locked away by Obama since 2009—the year that the committee, led by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), began probing CIA records of the controversial program, according to McClatchy news.
Feinstein has known about the records and asked the White House repeatedly for them. But Obama has refused to agree to any compromise that would allow the committee to examine these papers.
“These documents certainly raise the specter that the White House has been involved in stonewalling the investigation,” Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program at the New York University Law School, told McClatchy.
Obama has not exercised a claim of executive privilege, under which presidents can cloister executive branch communications, to keep the documents hidden. Instead, the White House has just sat on them while rejecting all of Feinstein’s entreaties.
Publicly, Obama has claimed that his administration has worked with the committee so it is “well informed.” But he has refused to comment on the battle between the CIA and Feinstein.
Another example of the White House’s involvement in this controversy came just before the CIA decided to file a criminal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging that Feinstein’s aides had broken the law during their investigation.
That complaint, filed by the CIA’s top lawyer, was first discussed with Obama’s legal advisors who did not object to this maneuver—which Feinstein has characterized as an attempt to intimidate her staff.
“There was no comment, there was no weighing in, there was no judgment,” Obama press secretary Jay Carney told the media about the White House legal review of the CIA going to the Justice Department.
It is also noteworthy that the CIA acting general counsel who filed the complaint with the DOJ had served as a lawyer in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center beginning in 2004. That suggests that he was directly involved in fashioning the legal justifications for the agency’s torture program under Bush.
“And now this individual is sending a crimes report to the Department of Justice on the actions of congressional staff,” Feinstein pointed out. “The same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how CIA officers—including the acting general counsel himself—provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice about the [torture] program.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
To Learn More:
White House Withholds Thousands of Documents from Senate CIA Probe, Despite Vows of Help (by Jonathan Landay, Ali Watkins and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy)
Obama: White House Won't Wade into CIA Torture Report Dispute at This Point (by Paul Lewis, The Guardian)
Senate Investigation of Bush-Era Torture Erupts Into Constitutional Crisis (by George Zornick, The Nation)
Why is Obama Hiding 6,000-Page Report on Bush-Era Torture and Why is Torture Still Allowed? (by Matt Bewig, AllGov) | positive |
As the finale of True Detective approaches, the fan theorizing about the show has only intensified—theorizing that, by and large, has mostly been debunked point for point in this BuzzFeed interview with creator Nic Pizzolatto. The theory that either or Rust or Marty may end up being culpable in the murders? “Such a revelation would be terrible, obvious writing,” Pizzolatto says. The belief that the show will have some sort of Twin Peaks-evoking revelation of supernatural forces at work? “All I can offer is that to date there hasn’t been a single thing in our show that’s supernatural, so why would that suddenly manifest in the last episode?” Pizzolatto replies. Your suspicions about who might be the Yellow King? Already solved.
So, with all of those out of the way, there really remains only one pervasive fan theory to address: the idea that, because Nic Pizzolatto was partly responsible for The Killing’s first season finale, the end of True Detective might also be terrible. But fortunately, Pizzolatto has debunked that one as well with an interview in The Wrap, in which he was asked—presumably in deadpan—whether he “learned anything” from The Killing about how to resolve a murder mystery. “No, not really,” Pizzolatto said, obviously, taking pains to point out that he was only serving The Killing showrunner Veena Sud’s “vision” there, that he’d already plotted all of True Detective well before joining that AMC show, and that furthermore, he’s not a fan of pissing everyone off.
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“One of the reasons I wanted to do an anthology format is I like stories with endings. I like a good third act,” Pizzolatto said, definitely severing ties with Sud there. So, whatever else happens, you can rest assured Sunday’s finale won’t end with some ludicrous plot twist meant to elucidate the subjectivity of truth and the “holistic journey” of jerking people around, and that it will put a satisfying close on the story… unless it’s revealed that the Yellow King eventually relocated to Seattle, and that Pizzolatto and Sud had been conspiring to link the two shows all along. Time, after all, is a flat circle—not unlike the opening of a turtleneck. | positive |
April 22, 2013 – 10,000 Birds About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Conservation Bicknell’s Thrush in Trouble on Wintering Grounds April 22, 2013 by Mike 1 Comment Any birder who has committed to accumulating an impressive ABA-area... Share: Reading time: 1 min Trips Catalonian Spring by a Guest No Comments Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan... Share: Reading time: 6 min Birds Photographing Northern Rough-winged Swallows by Corey 2 Comments As Redgannet has pointed out, photographing high-flying, quick-moving, and extremely... Share: Reading time: 2 min Birding Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2013) by Mike 15 Comments One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to... Share: Reading time: 1 min Load more posts Welcome to 10,000 Birds, the world’s favorite birding blog! Learn more about our site, Mike, Corey, or our awesome team of Beat Writers. Be sure to browse our extensive galleries, species accounts, and book and product reviews. Feel free to contact us and don’t forget to subscribe! Latest Destinations The World Before – Lake Karla, Greece Another Bird Surprise for Costa Rica- Buff-collared Nightjar! Beljarica Backwaters are finally protected!! Thoughts on Redstarts, an Early Fall Migrant in Costa Rica, 2022 Birding in Costa Rica, August, 2022- News and Recommendations Follow on Instagram © 2019 10,000 Birds // All rights reserved All words, images, and opinions are the property of their respective authors unless stated otherwise. | negative |
Fringe 18 - Show And Tell at The Queen's Hall - Show And Tell Menu Home What’s On Past Events About Us Jobs News The Gift Shop Fringe 18 – Show And Tell at The Queen’s Hall We’re taking over Edinburgh’s mighty concert venue, The Queen’s Hall, for two nights of the biggest laughs at this year’s Fringe. Featuring the pioneering, cutting-edge comedy from Edinburgh Comedy award-nominated stars of the Show And Tell stable – plus some of the Fringe’s biggest stars and household names. On August 11: The Radio 4 star and BBC2’s Rev star, MILES JUPP hosts and introduces Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and BBC2’s Mash Report star NISH KUMAR, the world-renowned, Live at the Apollo star NINA CONTI, the only ever two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award winner JOHN KEARNS, perennial Fringe legend SIMON MUNNERY, and the superbly talented rising star KIRI PRITCHARD-McLEAN. On August 20: The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Live at the Apollo star, the Lidl Enya, the broken Bublé… DAVID O’DOHERTY headlines. Plus Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Chortle Award winner and Radio 4 star JOSEPH MORPURGO makes his only Fringe appearance. Plus! two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee KIERAN HODGSON, Mock The Week’s ED GAMBLE, Live at the Apollo’s IVO GRAHAM – and more, to be announced! Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, John Kearns, Joseph Morpurgo, Mae Martin, Simon Munnery Reviews This Event Has Passed Dates / Venues AUG 11, 9PM; The Queen’s Hall – SOLD OUT AUG 20, 9PM; The Queen’s Hall – Book Tickets Or book with The Queen’s Hall box office if you have a discount code. Running time: 120 mins The Queen’s Hall 85 – 89 Clerk St Edinburgh EH8 9JG Select a date 'Add a mobile venue and tickets to the event, please'; Search Event Categories SelectWhat’s OnPast Events Artists Select Artist100 Club Presents2 NorthdownAbandomanAdam HessAdam RichesAlistair GreenAmy AnnetteAndrew MaxwellAthena KugblenuAtsuko OkatsukaAustentatiousAutumn SeasonBen MoorBloomsbury TheatreBlue Tick festivalBridget ChristieBush Hall PresentsCelya ABChris GethardChris ReddChristmas 2017 SeasonChristmas SeasonDan AntopolskiDaniel KitsonDiane ChorleyDigital Gift CardDJ DouggpoundEdinburgh Festival Fringe 2012Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022Emmy BlotnickFin TaylorFortune FeimsterFringe 16Fylm SchoolGarry StarrGary McNairHOME Comedy ClubJaboukie Young-WhiteJack BarryJacqueline NovakJames AcasterJaneane GarofaloJanine HarouniJessica FostekewJohn KearnsJohn OsborneJordan BrookesJoseph MorpurgoJosie LongKieran HodgsonKieran HurleyLeicester Comedy Festival 2017Live at Brighton DomeLive At Bristol Old VicLive at Colston HallLive at the Alban ArenaLive at the EmpireLive at The HawthLive At The MarloweLive at the Old VicLive at the WorksLou SandersMae MartinMargateMaria BamfordMarlowe Comedy FestivalMary Beth BaroneMonkey and RoyMoonNew YorkNina ContiNish KumarOn The RunOn TourOtto & AstridOxford PlayhousePhil WangPreviewsRhys JamesRichard GaddRob AutonRomesh RanganathanRory ScovelRoss SutherlandSabrina JaleesSam FletcherSara BarronSara PascoeSh!t TheatreShapel LaceyShow And Tell at BACShow And Tell at homeShow And Tell at SummerhallShow And Tell liveShow And Tell NYCSimon MunnerySindhu VeeSoho TheatreStand-up Under The StarsStand-up Under The Stars - LondonStewart LeeStuff And ThingsTez IlyasThe Courtyard CollectionThe Grade Cricketer PodcastThe Guilty FeministTim KeyTim VineTom BasdenTom WardTony LawTortoise In A NutshellUNIONWater Rats PresentsWells Comedy FestivalWilson DixonWork-in-progressYve Blake Events Calendar << Jul 2022 >> M T W T F S S 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Connect What's On Live at Bristol Old Vic with James Acaster Read more… Fin Taylor: Daddy Self-Care Read more… Live at the Empire with Stewart Lee Read more… Bush Hall Presents with Mike Wozniak Read more… Emmy Blotnick: The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez Read more… Contact Us UK: Show And Tell Productions Ltd 82 Southwark Bridge Rd London SE1 0EX 0207 183 5875 hello@showandtelluk.com US: Show And Tell LLC 244 Fifth Ave Suite S223 New York NY 10001 929 313 7875 hello@showandtelluk.com Connect With Us Get notified with priority booking, show announcements and exclusive ticket offers: Leave this field empty if you're human: Show And Tell is the trading style of Show And Tell Productions Ltd a company registered in England & Wales (Company Number 10447346), and Show And Tell LLC a company registered in New York, United States of America (5540320). Your data will never be shared, and we will only use it for the described purposes. You may unsubscribe at any time. We are fully GDPR-compliant. Read our Privacy Policy in full. | negative |
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This 1961 Kellison J-6 (chassis DRF50785) was ordered by the original owner, builder and seller on April 20th, 1963. Built around a then-two year-old Corvette frame, the car was finished and first registered as a SPCNS (special construction) in summer of 1964. Still licensed and insured, the seller replaced its original 327/4-speed with a ’70 350 SBC and automatic combination a few years ago, and sale includes all documentation as well as a build card. Find it here on Craigslist in Walnut Creek, California for $35k. Special thanks to BaT reader Brian F. for this submission.
The car looks complete and in good condition for its age, but close inspection reveals some worn paint and a few relatively minor looking battle scars. Though no engine or interior shots are provided, the seller says that the car has always been reliable and never required a tow home. Note what look to be original black and yellow California license plates.
Here’s what looks like a period shot from when the car and seller where still young. The handsome silver and blue paint scheme it currently wears appears to be original.
Though the missing 327 and 4-speed are somewhat unfortunate, it wouldn’t be too costly or complicated to revert back to a similar setup. These cars look amazing in person, and this one’s remarkable, single-owner history and apparently good condition make it worth a closer look. | positive |
THE ATTACK on Monday came even as extra security was provided for the Amarnath Yatra this year. But, sources said, the bus and its passengers had not followed a single security advisory issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF.
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“These yatris had not registered themselves, as is advised, and did not even become part of the yatra convoy, which is escorted by security forces, both to and from Amarnath, everyday. They also violated the 7 pm curfew on movement of yatris,” said CRPF DG R R Bhatnagar.
“This time, we had deployed more forces and made extra arrangements for their security. It can become very difficult to protect the yatris if they do not follow security advisories,” he said.
CRPF sources in Kashmir said that according to the advisory, yatris are supposed to register themselves and become part of the yatra convoy. This convoy is protected by security forces and led by a road-opening party. Movement is not allowed after 7 pm.
Read | Amarnath Yatra terror attack: Protest in Jammu today, alert sounded on Vaishno Devi route
“The information we have is that these yatris visited Amarnath shrine two days ago and started for Jammu today. The information is yet to be verified. Why they decided to move after 7 pm needs to be investigated,” said a CRPF officer from Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Patel of Umiya travels, the original owner of the bus, who is based in Idar, Sabarkantha, said he had sold the bus to Jawahar Desai of Om Travels in Valsad. But since the payment was yet to be made, the paper work was yet to be done.
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“I obtained the permit for the tour (July 2-23) since I still own the bus, but the tour was organised by Jawaharbhai and his son Harsh,” Patel told The Indian Express.
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Asked why the bus was not part of the yatra convoy, Patel said: “The bus was registered with the Amarnath Yatra board. I have no other detail.” He said he had not been able to contact Jawahar Desai. | positive |
It's not easy to keep a lid on something when the whole world is clamouring to see it. When Apple chief executive Tim Cook finally unveiled the Apple Watch to the world in September 2014, it ushered in an entire new era for the company as it made its first strides into the fledgling smartwatch/wearables market.
The weight of the expectation heaped upon Cook's shoulders in the years since he appointed chief executive in the wake of Steve Jobs' death was huge. The public was restless for a brand new product.
But, as ever with the world's most valuable company, this was no overnight project. The genesis for what would emerge from the internet rumour quagmire as the iWatch, then the iTime, before Cook put paid to the seemingly endless speculation, began around a decade ago in British designer Sir Jony Ive's lab in Apple's Californian campus.
2002 - 2004 Apple design chief Ive and other design team members request boxes of high-end sportswatches from Nike. Nike Presto Digital Bracelets and the aluminum Oregon Series Alti-Compass watches were sent to the company, Scott Wilson, who was then Nike's creative director told Bloomberg some 10 years later.
"[I] was flattered that they were requesting them. Thought they were only personal requests but their materials guy followed up with many questions on the materials and processes," Wilson told Business Insider . "They definitely drew upon watch industry techniques and manufacturing in their products since the first iPhone. Interesting that it may come full circle to an actual iWatch at some point."
August 2011
Apple files a patent for a wristband which harnesses kinetic energy from everyday wrist movements in order to recharge its battery. It's suggested the device could include a curved touchscreen made from a flexible glass composite, alongside numerous sensors for monitoring exercise patterns and heart rate. Other features include a ‘simple virtual keyboard’. Details emerge in February 2013, when the patent is granted.
An image from the patent filing demonstrating how it could be paired with an iPhone
Around this time, Apple filed details of a second patent for an 'iTime' smartwatch similar in appearance to an iPod nano. The application is for an electronic wristband featuring a dock section for a media player, such as the 6th generation iPod nano.
The wristband could have the capacity to contain an accelerometer, GPS receiver or haptic device (which produces vibrations), and is labelled as 'iTime'
The wristband could have the capacity to contain an accelerometer, GPS receiver or haptic device (which produces vibrations), the patent explains. It could also operate within its own 'personal wireless environment', through which it could interact with a partnered iPhone, iPad or Mac. The patent was granted in July 2014.
A secondary view of the patent illustration
November 2011
The Apple Watch project was conceived in head designer Jony Ive's lab shortly after Steve Jobs' death in 2011, Ive tells Business Week in 2014. The company invited a series of watch historians to visit the Apple campus in Cupertino to speak, including French author and antique timepiece expert Dominique Fléchon.
December 2012
Chinese news site quotes suppliers as saying that Apple is working on a device using Intel chips and new low-power Bluetooth technology. A 1.5-inch touchscreen would be used to control the phone, and would also allow users to control the watch using voice commands. It claims the device could launch within the next six months.
Around this time, Ive and his team start playing with what would become the Watch's digital crown, allowing the user to return to the home screen, scroll or zoom in and out after experiments with the iPhone's pinch-to-zoom touchscreen technology proved too obfuscating for the small screen.
February 2013
Unnamed insiders claim a team of 100 Apple staff - headed by senior executives, including Apple's senior director of engineering James Foster - had been assembled to work on the product, implying that the iWatch was “beyond the experimentation phase” and potentially heading into production.
Features under consideration include letting users make calls, see the identity of incoming callers and check map coordinates, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. It would also house a pedometer for counting steps and sensors for monitoring health-related data, such as heart rates, a source said.
It is claimed that Apple has held discussions with manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry regarding the manufacture of an non-smartphone or tablet product.
One of the many pieces of concept art imagining the 'iWatch'
March 2013
Apple supplier Corning, maker of flexible material Willow Glass, say their product is not ready for use in a complicated wristband/watch-style design. "People are not accustomed to glass you roll up," Corning boss James Clappin told Bloomberg. "The ability of people to take is and use it to make a product is limited."
Apple has filed at least 79 patents applications including the word 'wrist' by this date.
May 2013
Tim Cook hints at the possibility of Apple developing a wearable during a speech at the AllThingsD conference. "It's an area that's ripe for exploration, it's ripe for us to get excited about," he said. "Lots of companies will play in this space."
Cook was, however, less generous about Google Glass. "I'm interested in a great product. I wear glasses because I have to," he added. "I don't know a lot of people who wear them because they don't have to."
Tim Cook: wearing glasses because he has to
June 2013
Apple applies to register the term 'iWatch' in Japan, under the product category for a computer or watch device. Russian newspaper Izvestia also reports that Apple has filed for a trademark on the term in Russia.
Around this time, Cook appoints Jeff Williams, the company's senior vice president for operations, as head of the Watch programme. Williams is tasked with overseeing logistics and planning with suppliers, including Foxconn.
October 2013
It's announced that Angela Ahrendts, chief executive of British luxury retailer Burberry, is to join Apple as head of retail of online. Ms Ahrendts is responsible for the operation and expansion of the company's retail and online stores, and is believed to want to focus on the company's growth within China.
January 2014
Two medical technology experts are reportedly the latest recruits to join the company. Nancy Dougherty from startup Sano Intelligence and Ravi Narasimhan from general medical devices firm Vital Connect are rumoured to have begun work on incorporating health features into the rumoured smartwatch.
February 2014
Apple hires a sleep expert from Philips Research, sparking speculating the iWatch will carry sleep-monitoring capabilities, as rival products FitBit Force, Nike FuelBand and Jawbone Up do.
June 2014
The company's worldwide developers' conference (WWDC) comes and goes without mention of the Apple Watch.
Cook addresses the crowd of 5,000 developers at WWDC 2014
July 2014
Apple hires luxury watch manufacturer TAG Heuer vice president for sales Patrick Pruniaux, joining former head of French fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent Paul Deneve, who was hired to work on special projects for the company in 2013.
Production on the watches is rumoured to begin after numerous sources state the Californian company's much-rumoured first smartwatch, dubbed the iWatch by fans, will sport a 2.5-inch arched rectangular display supplied by LG.
The device is said to contain more than 10 sensors for purposes including monitoring the user's pulse, and will need to be paired with an iPhone in order to send messages and voice chat with others.
The iOS-compatible-only smartwatch is currently in trial production at Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc ahead of the start of mass production and a potential October launch date, it is alleged. While Quanta is expected be the main manufacturer, Singaporean sensor maker Heptagon is also said to appear on a list of suppliers.
September 2014
The wait is over - Apple finally reveals the Apple Watch (not the iWatch) as Cook's "One More Thing..." towards the end of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, California.
Apple Watch Sport (L)., Apple Watch (C) and Apple Watch Edition (R)
The Watch will come in three versions - the Apple Watch Sport in grey or silver anodized aluminium, the standard Apple Watch in polished or black stainless steel, and the luxury Watch Edition, available in rose or yellow 18 carat gold developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold. Each model will be available in two sizes - 38 mm and 42 mm.
Users will navigate the interface using a traditional looking side-winder, called a Digital Crown, instead of Apple’s favoured pinch-to-display technology made famous by the iPhone. Rotating the Crown allows the wearer to zoom in and out, as well as scroll and navigate. It will also serve as a form of home button, and point of activation for digital assistant Siri.
The device aims to change the way we communicate by sending and receiving messages, answering calls made to your iPhone, and sharing personalised health information.
No specified launch date is given, only a vague 'early 2015'.
Post launch, Cook gives a revealing interview to Bloomberg Business Week, in which Ive admits the Apple Watch is "one of the most difficult projects I have ever worked on."
"We want to make the best product in the world," he told Business Week. "One of our competitors is on their fourth or fifth attempt, but nobody is wearing them."
"We could have done the watch much earlier, honestly, but not at the fit and finish and quality and integration of these products," he added. "And so, we are willing to wait."
Cook himself is pictured wearing a white Sport Watch.
November 2014
Angela Ahrendts tells Apple retail staff to prepare for "a new watch launch in the spring", indicating the product will be ready within the first three months of 2015.
Apple releases WatchKit, its software for developing third-party apps for the Watch. The new toolbox allows third party developers to use many of the Apple Watch’s features such as Force Touch, Digital Crown and Taptic Engine - just like Apple’s own software. Apps are already in production, with American Airlines, Instagram and ESPN already developing their own respective ports.
How Instagram on the Apple Watch will appear
February 2015
The luxury version of the Apple Watch, made from 18-carat rose or yellow gold, will be kept in safes within stores, sources allege. The safes will come equipped with Apple's patented MagSafe magnetic chargers to recharge demo models, as well as boxed stock. Given the expensive nature of the materials, the Edition could retail for thousands of pounds.
The Edition in yellow gold could be kept in safes within Apple Stores, according to reports
Apple sends out media invitations to an event in San Francisco on March 9 where it is expected to reveal further Watch details, including release date, pricing and more specific information on battery life.
Cook tells the Telegraph that the Apple Watch could replace car keys in the future.
March 2015
During the event, Tim Cook confirms the Watch will boast a battery life averaging 18 hours, and that UK pricing will begin at £299. At the other end of the 38mm yellow gold Watch Edition with bright red modern buckle will be priced at £13,500.
One Watch to rule them all: the Watch Edition
UK consumers will be able to test out the Watch in Selfridges and at Dover Street Market in London, as well as Apple stores across the country, from April 10. The Watch will go on full sale on April 24.
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Bollywood actor Lisa Haydon became a household name in India after her performance in the 2013 film Queen. Haydon played an independent, single mother in France in the Hindi film, which won accolades for its feminist plot.
But the actress, who is half Indian and half Australian, has recently said that she does not “like the word feminist.”
“Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason,” the model-turned-actress told Times of India in a recent interview. She went on to add that she does not want to be a “career feminist” but looks “forward to making dinner for my husband and children.”
With these statements, Haydon has joined a long list of Bollywood actresses who have absolutely no idea what feminism means, and are quick to distance themselves from the term. Leading Bollywood stars, like Priyanka Chopra, Madhuri Dixit and Parineeti Chopra, have all shunned the F-word. Ironically, they all seem to believe in gender equality and are vocal advocates for equal pay in the film industry and girls’ education efforts in India.
Here are some reasons given by Bollywood actresses for not being feminists:
Perhaps it would help if these celebrities look up the meaning of the word “feminism” before denouncing it. Here is how Oxford Dictionaries defines it:
The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
A helpful guide has also been put together by Buzzfeed India.
It is really not that hard. Women who are feminist do not hate men, do not despise children, have and enjoy sex if and when they want to, get married if and when they want to, cook if and when they want to, and expect to be rewarded fairly for their professional work.
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They didn't like that one bit. No sirree. Not one bit. That's when they pulled out the big guns (metaphorically) and asked if I knew anyone in Houston. The sweat started to pour. I knew what they were after. I said "yes, I have a friend out there". They asked what I thought happened when the box I shipped never made it and I said "I figured UPS confiscated it for improper packaging but when I called about it they said they had no record of the shipment so then I figured it was just lost." Then they asked the killer question, the one that made me give up because I knew I was busted.
"Do you know [blank]?"
I said, "yes, she's an ex-girlfriend of mine."
"Well we have [blank] in custody right now."
"Oh."
"So I'll repeat my earlier question, did you ever use this to make crystal, crank, meth, whatever?"
"No, I never made crystal meth, I think it's a horrible drug."
"Then what did you make with it, [blank] said ' ---- ' "
"Alright, alright. I made MDMA."
Consent was then asked for to search my apartment, under the threat that I would be arrested if I said no and they would get a warrant anyway. I knew this would happen because of what POP-I had told me so I signed my life away. Agents were standing by at my apartment and busted in the door as soon as my pen hit the paper. I was cuffed and taken to my apartment to identify the contents as mine (a formality) and then I was taken to DEA Holding. Apparently seconds after I was taken away the reporters arrived. My driver's license picture was on the 6:00 news. The entire block I lived on was evacuated. Rumors started flying and all of my friends, of which only a very few knew what I did, started calling each other.
At DEA Holding I received the good cop/bad cop treatment. It's just like the movies, kids. Just like it. One was threatening to kick in my balls if I didn't tell the truth, the other was saying "there, there, he's *trying* to tell the truth, give him a chance." It was sickening (apparently, [blank] actually did get sick because they asked "you're not going to puke all over the floor like [blank], are you?")
I later received the background documentation on the DEA's "setup" of the sting against my co-conspirators and me. What was extremely interesting to note from this was that the DEA conducted "three trash pickups at [my parent's] residence and 1 trash pickup at [blank]' s. "Of course they didn't find anything because I didn't live with my parents, but I always assumed that they would be able to tell that I didn't live there. Funny thing is, they were limited to investigating *where the chemicals were actually sent*.
Fourth, if you are caught, try to find out what the agents know/don't know before you start spilling the beans. In my case I played very innocent with them until I found out that [blank] was arrested with 50 capsules of my product (they told her that they already had me in custody and that I said blah-blah-blah, they do that sort of thing, btw). If it does seem like they've got a pretty solid lock on you, *be cooperative* - tell them the truth but don\rquote t get too detailed, all of the details will be debated during sentencing anyway, but being consistent from the moment you are arrested to the moment you are sentenced looks very good, indeed. As well, plead guilty but don't sign the plea agreement unless you are getting a good deal out of it (and you'll only be getting something good if you turn in other people, in which case you deserve to spend eternity in Cocytus (c.f. -Dante's Inferno)).
?", etc. I think it's probably fine to admit that you know someone, but if they start asking about specific dates you should always say "i don't remember" even if it was last week. If someone asks you about your involvement with online groups just say "i don't know what you are talking about." Be really fucking unco-operative, you have *nothing* to lose. Don't help the cops in putting together times, dates, places, locations, etc. It goes without saying that you should never, ever admit to any illegal activities with a cop. Don't even admit to something minor like smoking pot to try to cover up something more major. Even in the face of evidence to the contrary, you should take the position that you are an upstanding member of the community who doesn't even jaywalk -- don't pull a "well, sometimes I..." to try to gain "credibility" -- it won't and you'll risk opening doors that the cops want opened: warrants, etc. Also, you should realize that you may not know how much risk someone else is at, and that your statement that you've gotten stoned with them on occasion could wind up with them getting busted for the meth lab in their basement that you didn't know about. *Always* operate under the assumption that your friends have much more to lose than you know about and that you're going to protect them from that.
Anyway, that's my rant on the cops. And I'm just ranting. Nothing in here is anything other than general, aimed at everyone. Its just that there will always be people who have cats and other pets that occasionally smoke some pot and do a little E on occasion, and those people need to recognize the risks that their pets are in and how to deal with damage control. Even the people at negligible risk need to realize how to deal with damage control to keep our pets safe. Got it?
Its time to talk about cops again.Currently, a friend of mine is in work release for 6 months for selling 500 hits of E in a controlled buy. It turns out that Washington state is a very good state to be in to get busted with E or other hallucinogens -- they have their own sentencing guidelines seperate from the other schedules. If he had been busted with a similar amount of methamphetamine he would currently be doing a minimum of 18 months in real prison, and not in work-release.There is, of course, a story behind all of that, but what I wanted to write about was the fact that due to the nature of his experiences we had discussed what do to about cops a lot. There was always the very real possibility that cops could get involved, and eventually they did get involved. He wanted to be ready to deal with them and know what to say to them which pretty much amounts to one word: nothing.And I expect that this is harder than you might think, because cops are masters of trying to get you to cave in and spill shit. For example, the cops could have taken his friends in for questioning and starting hammering them on the fact that they were accusing him of having been bringing million of dollars of heroin into the country or something, or accusing him of doing something much, much worse until they broke them down the point where they just said "no, he never does stuff like that, all he did was sell pot and a little bit of E."Oops. Of course the cops in this scenario would have been lying through their asses trying to work an angle on his friends until they got them to confess to precisely what they were trying to make them confess to. The cops will then, of course, also say to the person under arrest that their friends spilled everything in order to try to get the suspect to confess. And they'll claim that they're trying to "help you."Never, ever trust the cops.If you have any kind of ongoing 'relationship' where thing could get legally ugly, you must arrange ahead of time the fact that neither one of you will ever, under any circumstances talk to a cop and establish the groundwork of trust so that when the cop tells you that your friend has spilled everything that you *know* that the cop is lying. If a cop says something to you which makes your stomach turn and makes you think "everything is up" and lose hope you have to realize that the cop is saying that *precisely* to get that reaction out of you. Cops are *trained* to do that.A really good article to read is lycaeum.org/~chemist/ . Its the story of an alt.drugs.chemistry'er from way back who eventually wound up getting busted. A good excersise is to go through and spot all the mistakes that Eleusis made in talking to the cops, because he made a bunch.Two mistakes were made here and the first comes from the second. The first is that he let the fact that the cops new some information get to him. You can't ever do that. The cops can spell out in detail every damn second of your life for the past 3 years and show you videotape and you *have* to believe that some procedural fuck up will get you off and cling to that and just say "i want to talk to a lawyer." You can't let them get to you. And Eleusis should never have admitted to making MDMA. Let the cops do the work, never do anything to help them out, particularly confessing to a crime. Cops are not there to help you, they're there to bust you.Also, a third mistake is that Eleusis should never have been as co-operative with the cops. He should have refused to answer *any* questions, he should have asked the cops if he was being arrested and if he could speak to a lawyer and be completely un-cooperative. He didn't have to tell them that he made photographic chemicals, or offered any information about the UPS package. When questioned about the UPS package he should have taken the Ronald Reagan defense "I don't recall." Not remembering something -- even when it's painful obvious to everyone around that you're lying -- is great, because later you can suddenly "remember" it when it comes time to talk to the judge if your *lawyer* indicates that it might be in your best interests to remember it."I don't recall""I don't know what you're talking about""Am I being arrested?""Can I talk to a lawyer?"In some states, i believe if you ask to talk to a lawyer, the cops are legally obliged to stop questioning you. This can be a good tactic if there are non-cop witnesses around.Then he goes on:Always make them get the warrant. If they asked him for consent, they probably couldn't have gotten a warrant to search it. In the case of my friend that was busted, since the drugs were acquired en route to the controlled buy they could *not* get a warrant to search my friend's apartment. Even though you'd think a judge would go "well, duh, he probably has evidence there" they still couldn't get a warrant for his apartment. We're talking the law here, and common sense rarely has anything to do with it.Then they took Eleusis to the holding cell:Okay, a healthy reaction here is to realize that the officer is trying to get a reaction out of you by telling you about [blank] puking. Ideally you should distrust everything that the officer is saying. Maybe [blank] really did puke all over the floor in interrogation. It doesn't matter. The reaction that will likely save you is to think to yourself that the cop is making it up. If you believe the cop is making it up, then it only follows logically that the cop is trying to get a reaction out of you, and that can give you the ability to resist.Down the page a bit Elusis writes:Pair this statement with the statement about the warrant, and I bet you that Eleusis signed about 5 years of his life away (i think that's what he got) when he signed the consent form for them to go into his lab. If "they were limited to investigating *where the chemicals were actually sent*" then they couldn't have gotten a warrant and they would have had almost nothing to go on. If "[blank]" had kept her mounth shut, then she probably would have gotten a few months for whatever they had on her and Eleusis would have gotten off.Down at the bottom of this page Eleusis gives some advice that I completely disagree with:If you play this game, you lose and the cops win. Don't worry about what the cops do and don't know. And don't "spill the beans." It wins you precisely *zero*. Really, my friend said *nothing* to the cops and was entirely unco-operative right up until the point where he had to accept that the cops had a rock solid case and was forced to plead guilty -- about a year after he was busted. The system did not "punish" him for being unco-operative -- instead he still got the absolute lowest sentence the judge could give him. The cops will, of course, tell you differently and tell you to save yourself. They, of course, lie.Just to reiterate you should never, ever talk to the cops if they take you in for interrogation. This goes for all circumstances and not just drug cases. If your friend might have _killed someone_, the appropriate time to notify the police is after you've sat down and thought about it and arrived at your own conclusions and when you come under your own power to the cop shop and tell them. The same thing goes for your kids. Talking to the cops will not help your kids if they're getting busted for something. I don't know how I would deal with cops as a parent, but I know that I would never trust that a cop is empathizing with me as a parent and trying to work with me to help my kids -- I would always assume that they are trying to *work me* and screw my kids. At least not until after they've left or let me go would I sit down (preferably with a lawyer) and decide what to tell them. Making decisions that can affect other people lives should not be made, ever, under the conditions that cops place on someone when they are interrogating or questioning them.Anyway, I hope that everyone realizes that this shit is real and stops and takes a few moments to think about how much risk they are in and how much risk the people around them are in, and figure out what they would do if the roof caved in. A cop could knock on your door tomorrow asking you "do you know XXX?" "have you had correspondence with XXX?" "have you ever received any drugs from XXX?" "were you at location YYY on X/Y/Z?" 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The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Originally published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has always been a popular target for censors. The brilliant coming-of-age novel details two days in the life of an angst-ridden 16-year-old, Holden Caulfield, who has been kicked out of prep school. Holden despises phony people, uses foul language, makes sexual references, and seems on the brink of a breakdown. His character is unique yet universal and offers amazing insights into human nature.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is frequently challenged and has actually been removed from several schools. It has been called 'filthy,' 'trashy,' and 'profane' among other things. The story follows the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch and her family and explores several big themes, including race, class, justice, and childhood innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird is arguably among the most readable classics and touches almost everyone who checks it out in some way.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who sets sail down the Mississippi accompanied by Jim, a runaway slave. Although this book is considered by many to be the best work Mark Twain ever produced, it is frequently banned from schools and challenged by concerned parties who condemn the racial slur that's peppered in with the text. In certain districts, teachers are required to participate in racial seminars before adding the book to required reading lists.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The fantastic Of Mice and Men focuses on the complex bond between George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant ranch hands. The 1937 novella from John Steinbeck has been banned in communities all over the world for 'blasphemous language,' 'excessive profanity' and 'morbid and depressing themes.'
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway combines love and war to create an unforgettable plot in For Whom the Bell Tolls. The book was banned in a number of countries because some people viewed it as pro-communist. However, it is still considered to be one of the 20th century's best war novels. | positive |
Earlier this year, Randall Rader, then Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, called a group of administrative patent judges “death squads.” What had these judges done to deserve such savage criticism? They had done exactly what Congress intended: found some bad patents invalid. This week EFF filed comments with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) supporting the work of its administrative trial judges and urging the agency to make review of issued patents as affordable and efficient as possible.
When Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, we predicted that the law would not be enough to stop the rampant abuse of patent trolls. We were right. But the AIA did include some good provisions allowing the challenge of bad patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the PTO. These administrative proceedings (known as covered business method review, inter partes review, and post grant review) are important because fighting a patent in court is ruinously expensive. For smaller companies, an administrative proceeding may be the only way it can afford to contest a patent. Indeed, with help from our supporters, EFF filed an inter partes review to challenge Personal Audio’s podcasting patent.
In our comments to the PTO, we make a number of suggestions about how to improve trials before the PTAB. For example, we urge the PTO to lower application fees for small businesses. Currently, fees for an instituted inter partes review are at least $23,000. This is far too high for many of the small businesses that have been targeted by patent trolls. We also argue that the PTAB should continue to construe patents broadly when comparing them to the prior art. The public notice function of patents is best served by applying the broadest reasonable construction. If a patent owner is concerned that his or her patent will be found invalid under a broad construction, he or she can add narrowing language to the claims. This protects the interests of both the patentee and the public by promoting clearer claim language.
We also respond to the hyperbolic criticism of the PTAB from Rader and others. The PTAB should not be vilified for doing its job. Congress intended for it be a place where companies could efficiently remove bad patents from the system. Since companies have a choice about whether to spend money on a challenge, it is no surprise that they have tended to challenge the worst patents. This explains why the PTAB has found so many patents invalid. Blaming the PTAB for invalidating patents that should be invalidated is like blaming critical care for having the sickest patients in a hospital.
On the whole, the PTO has done a reasonable job managing the new trial procedures created by the AIA. These procedures don’t solve all problems with the patent system, but they at least provide a cheaper alternative to litigation. We hope the PTO will continue to make administrative review effective and do even more to make it accessible. | positive |
NEW YORK -- This season’s flu vaccine seems to be working pretty well, weakening the punch of a nasty bug that’s going around, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Preliminary figures suggest the vaccine is 48 percent effective. That’s not bad since the strain that’s making most people sick is one of the worst. Experts consider it a good year when a flu vaccine is 50 to 60 percent effective.
Peak flu season hits 43 states
“We’re happy” so far this year, said Dr. Alicia Fry, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The flu vaccine is changed each year based on the best guess at which three or four strains will be the biggest problem for the next season. The current vaccine is a good match, and includes a strain of Type A H3N2 flu virus that is causing most illnesses.
That wasn’t the case with the vaccine two years ago when the same bug dominated and caused a very bad flu season.
CDC reports 14,000 new cases of flu per week
Flu usually peaks in midwinter. Cases are escalating in some parts of the country, like the Midwest, but already receding in others, like the Northwest.
CBS News chief medical correspondent Jonathan LaPook reported on Feb. 10 that Missouri was one of 23 states with high activity this season. In Illinois, there was an uptick in flu activity at the beginning of the month.
As of Feb. 10, the CDC shipped out 145 million doses of the flu vaccine.
Fry characterized the current flu season as moderate.
Flu shots are recommended for virtually all Americans age 6 months or older. Health officials were worried that fewer kids would get vaccinated this season after they stopped endorsing a popular nasal spray version. Research showed it didn’t work well for another common type of flu. But vaccination rates for kids by November were about the same as the year before, Fry said.
Among infectious diseases, flu is considered one of the U.S.’s leading killers. CDC estimates suggest that in an average year, about 35,000 Americans die from flu-related causes. The CDC calculates effectiveness from a sample of flu tests done in five states. | positive |
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A Corvette parked outside the county coroner’s office yesterday matches the description of one sold to a sheriff’s deputy from the estate of Fred Hawkins. | Ryan Burns
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Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming has sought the involvement of the FBI and State Attorney General in the ongoing investigation into the practices of the county public administrator’s office, a division of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.
The Outpost sent Fleming an email Thursday asking whether she has a conflict of interest given that key subjects in the investigation, including Sheriff William Honsal, former county coroner and current Eureka Mayor Frank Jager and attorney Dennis Reinholtsen were all supporters of her 2014 election campaign.
She responded this morning with an email saying that while she has “the willingness and ability to impartially investigate and prosecute people who supported [her] campaign,” she understands that “some people might have greater confidence” in the investigation if outside agencies were involved.
She went on to say that she will encourage the FBI and State Attorney General to take over the investigation, though a DA investigator will continue to be involved.
It’s been a week since the Sheriff’s Office announced the investigation, which is focused on the public administrator’s handling of estates during the probate process. Records obtained by the Outpost reveal that sheriff’s deputies were allowed to purchase automobiles, electronics and other property being handled by the office, a violation of state law.
Sheriff Honsal later ordered department employees to return all property purchased in this manner. Yesterday, several cars matching records of those sales were parked in the parking lot outside the coroner/public administrator’s office, including a 1976 Corvette, a 2001 Toyota 4-Runner and a Ford F150 pickup.
Below is the email from Fleming: | positive |
A black man driving a Mercedes says he was pulled over and handcuffed, then detained in the back of a Montreal police squad car while a video recording of the incident was erased.
"They willfully, and wrongly, arrested me," Kenrick McRae told a news conference on Sunday alongside Fo Niemi, the executive director of the Center on Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR).
In a news release issued Sunday, Niemi called the incident "one of the most egregious cases of racial profiling we've seen."
The release goes on to detail what allegedly happened to the 45-year-old father of two, who works at Trudeau airport and has no criminal record.
McRae said he was waiting for his female companion to withdraw money from an RBC branch on Westminster Avenue in Montreal West on March 3 when a police car stopped parallel to his car on the other side of the road.
I've been stopped so often as a black man driving a Mercedes, and getting a cam recorder is one way for me to protect myself from the police. - Kenrick McRae
The squad car then made a U-turn and stopped directly behind him, and an officer asked for his licence and registration.
McRae said that, after checking his papers, the officer told him his lights above in his licence plate weren't working.
He got out of the car with a video camera to record that the lights were, in fact, fully functional.
At that point, one officer asked him to hand over the recorder and, when McRae asked why, he was arrested for what the officer called "disturbance," he said.
McRae was then placed in the back of the police car while his camera was seized and the video erased, he said. Family videos were also deleted, he said.
He was released after the two arresting officers told him they did not find anything to charge him with, he said. The incident ended up involving a total of four police cars and up to eight officers, according to CRARR.
'Stopped so often as a black man driving a Mercedes'
McRae said he tried to bring up the issue with a supervisor at the scene, who ignored his complaint. It was only after he later called 911 and was able to speak to a different supervisor that he was able to file his complaint.
McRae said he keeps the camera in the car because he is stopped by police every month or two and wants to ensure any wrongdoing is documented.
Kenrick McRae, seen here alongside Fo Niemi of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations, says he was "willfully and wrongly" arrested by police in Montreal West earlier this month. (Matt D'Amours/CBC)
"I've been stopped so often as a black man driving a Mercedes, and getting a cam recorder is one way for me to protect myself from the police," McRae said in the news release.
"But never in my life did I imagine the police would arrest me for filing what I consider to be evidence of racial profiling, seize my cam recorder and erase my recordings."
Plans to file formal complaint
CRARR's executive director, Fo Niemi, said McRae was arrested for "no clear reason."
Niemi said CRARR plans to help McRae file a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission and the police ethics commissioner.
Montreal police commented on the case Monday.
The police force has been dogged by accusations of racial discrimination for years.
A 2011 report by Quebec Human Rights Commission found that ethnic minorities in Quebec are subject to "police surveillance that is targeted and disproportionate."
Former chief Marc Parent acknowledged in 2014 that racial profiling was an ongoing issue within his department.
"We do have a racial profiling problem… It's not the majority, but we have to work on that every day," Parent told Daybreak at the time. | positive |
A detailed introduction to the healthcare system of Arunachal Pradesh You don't have javascript enabled. Please Enabled javascript for better performance. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA A- A A+ White to Black Standard Social share Home MyGov Updates Winner Announcements E-Books Editorials About Us MyGov Updates E-Books Editorials A detailed introduction to the healthcare system of Arunachal Pradesh 23 May 2022 The health care system in Arunachal Pradesh delivers healthcare utilities and services through both public and private parties, as well as from various NGOs. The health ministry in Arunachal Pradesh is presently headed by Hon’ble Minister Shri Alo Libang, followed by Hon’ble MLA Shri Goruk Pordung as Adviser to Health Minister and Shri P. Parthiban, IAS as Secretary (H&FW), Government of Arunachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Arunachal Pradesh is responsible for administrating and corresponding to the functions of the five Directorates under its wing. Directorates under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Arunachal Pradesh 1- Directorate of Health Services (DHS) The Directorate of Health Services oversees the provision, institution, administration, regulation and monitoring of medical and health institutions in the state as well as dealing with the infrastructure, medical education, food safety and drug control, monitoring and implementation of various programs related to public health and disease control. Dr. Moromor Lego Director of Health Services 0360-2244248 2- Directorate of Family Welfare (DFW) It deals with matters related to all family welfare programs, coordination with NRHM/NHM, executing Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI), Reproductive & Child Health (RCH), Maternal & Child Health Programs and other national programs being carried out by Family Welfare Division of Government of India. Directorate of Health Services, MCH&FW (Maternal and Child Health and Family Welfare), Government of Arunachal Pradesh became an independent body in 2012 to focus exclusively on the issues relating to Health Programmes, Women’s Programmes and Child Development Programmes. It is responsible for monitoring and commissioning of the centrally sponsored schemes carried out in the state that caters to the health requirements of women and children. Dr. Emi Rumi Director (Family Welfare) 0360-2351036 FAX 0360-2244178 3- Directorate of Medical Education(T&R) The Directorate of Medical Education, Training & Research under the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Arunachal Pradesh has been functioning since 2013. It is liable for addressing the matters relating to medical education, such as medical colleges, regional pharmacy colleges, paramedical education, nursing institutes under government and private sector, etc. Under this directorate, the combined counseling for admission in MBBS, BDS seats of state quota and different paramedical courses, GNM and ANM are also conducted. Dr. R. D Khrimey Director (Medical Education) 0360-2350267 4- Directorate of (TRIHMS) Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Science is the first full-pleged medical college under the Government of Arunachal Pradesh. It aims to train and produce skilled and qualified physicians through quality education, teaching medical ethics, patient care and advancing medical research. It is responsible for creating the highest quality of comprehensive healthcare at an affordable cost and an outstanding integrated healthcare system in the state. Dr. Moji Jini Director (TRIHMS) 0360-2350204 5- Mission Directorate (National Health Mission) The National Health Mission (NHM) is a National effort at ensuring a positive healthcare system through a spectrum of interventions at grassroots levels. This Mission is an attempt to deliver immediate and effective health care to the people, especially to the rural population. Its responsibility is to create universal and easy access to quality public health services such as Women’s health, child’s health and development, water, sanitation & hygiene, immunization, and Nutrition for all the poor and disadvantaged groups. Sh. C. R Khampa, APCS (AG) Mission Director (NHM) md-ar-nrhm@nic.in 0360-2350129 In an attempt to ease the general public from various ailments and money-related issues associated with health, the government of India has constituted a myriad of strategies and initiatives to generate benefits for the distressed citizens. However, many denizens have never heard of the benefits that the Central and the State government is offering. We have put up a list of important schemes that one can easily avail and have access to. Here are some of the active government-mandated benefits that one can avail of. Central and State-sponsored initiatives Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana & Chief Minister Arogya Arunachal Yojana Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) & Chief Minister Arogya Arunachal Yojana (CMAAY) are the initiatives of Central & State Govt. respectively. PMJAY was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi envisaging universal healthcare for all by 2030. It is the world’s largest health insurance scheme that aims to provide an amount of Rs 5 Lakhs per year/per member to poor and destitute families. CMAAY was implemented by the Chief Minister Arogya Arunachal Society with the idea to provide quality and cashless healthcare services to poor tribal citizens of the state upto a limit of Rs 5 lakh. Citizens can avail up to Rs 1 lakh for secondary treatment and Rs 4 lakh for tertiary treatment. Around 23 different treatment processes will be covered under this scheme. All the beneficiaries of CMAAY can avail the benefit of cashless treatment from any empanelled hospital under this scheme. Dulari Kanya Yojana This scheme aims to facilitate the birth of a girl child. Under this scheme, an amount of Rs. 20,000/- shall be deposited in the fixed deposit Bank Account ( Minor Account) of the girl child born in any government hospital or government-recognised private hospital. The maturity amount can then be withdrawn by the beneficiary on attaining the age of 18 years, which will be verified and disbursed by the concerned DMO of the respective areas. Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) SNP is aimed at ensuring wholesome nutrition for pregnant mothers and children. Under this scheme, nutritious food is served to vulnerable children (0-6 years) and pregnant and lactating mothers at Anganwadi Centres, assisted by Anganwadi workers & helpers under the supervision of Gram-Sevikas and Supervisors/ Extension officers. INTENSIFIED MISSION INDRADHANUSH-2.0 Intensified Mission Indradhanush-2.0 under the Health and Family Welfare Department was launched on 2nd December 2019 and continued upto March 2nd, 2020. The objective was to reach the unreached by assuring immunization to children & pregnant women across the state. Under this initiative, 90%-97% of full-immunization coverage for children between 0-2 years of age and pregnant women was covered in four rounds at 18 identified districts in Arunachal Pradesh. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) To ensure the safety and well being of the families affected, PMGKP was launched as an insurance scheme that covered loss of life due to COVID-19 and accidental death on account of COVID-19 related duty. Under the PMGKP scheme, Rs 50 lakh has been disbursed as compensation to the families of deceased healthcare workers who lost their precious lives while attending to patients during the pandemic. Healthcare Centres and Education Institutions As of 2018, the state consisted of some 122 Primary Health Centers, 62 Community Health Centers, 15 Sub-District/Divisional Hospitals, and 199 District Hospitals according to the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of India. Check out the list of healthcare centres compiled by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Arunachal Pradesh We have 1 government-mandated medical institute TRIHMS, established in the year 2018 providing full-time MBBS courses since. Apart from that, Arunachal Pradesh has various institutions providing medical studies aside from MBBS. Check the lists of institutions in the health sector curated by the Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Also, there are several NGOs that voluntarily provide aid to the distress, such as the renowned AVYS (Arunachal Pradesh Vivekananda Yuva Shakti) for blood donation. Here’s a list of NGOs in the health sector of Arunachal Pradesh one can look for assistance. Conclusion – The Department of Health and Family Welfare Department, Government Of Arunachal Pradesh is committed to providing easy, affordable, accessible and quality health services to the citizens of Arunachal Pradesh. In order to attain the goal, the state is actively taking measures to elevate the health and welfare of the people of Arunachal Pradesh with their active participation, and by building partnerships between the public, private and voluntary health institutions, and other developmental sectors. The state government is continuously working towards preparing better measures and implementing initiatives for immediate effects and positive outcomes in the Health and Welfare sector of Arunachal Pradesh. Total Comments - 0 Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. 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As some of you may remember I am compiling a criminal dossier on the western powers concerning, among other things, their preparations for Operation Barbarossa II, the term that I use for NATO’s build-up of forces in Eastern Europe threatening the security of Russia.
In June, the BALTOPS 2017 NATO naval and air exercises were conducted in the Baltic Sea near Kaliningrad and the approaches to St. Petersburg simultaneously with the Saber Strike military ground exercises in Latvia and Lithuania.On July 11th NATO’s Sea Breeze naval exercises began in the Black Sea, threatening Russia’s southern flank. The NATO exercises are conducted every year and every year they become more menacing.
An indication of the level of the threat to Russia was the use in the BALTOPS exercises, for the first time, of the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, (AWACS), an aircraft that can “look down” on and “shoot down” targeted low and high flying aircraft. It is used to gain and maintain control of a battle and to detect enemy planes and ships at great distances, direct planes to attack them, and coordinate air support for ground battles. E-3 Sentry aircraft were used in the NATO attack on Yugoslavia in 1999, were in the air near New York City when the unexplained attack on New York was carried on in September, 2001, were used in the US attack and invasion of Iraq in 2003, theNATO attack on Libya in 2011, and have been used for US bombing attacks on Syria. When this plane appears war happens. Its sinister presence in the on-going military exercises means that the NATO forces are rehearsing for coordinated operations against Russia.
At the same time as the entry of E-3 AWACS aircraft into the battlefield scene the USA also sent strategic B-1 bombers to the BALTOPS exercises. These aircraft have been used to drop bombs on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan and recently threatened North Korea. They can fly fast and drop a lot of bombs.
During the Saber Strike exercises NATO forces practiced amphibious assaults on beaches resembling those around Kaliningrad. The threat is clear. So are NATO intentions in the Black Sea. A US military analyst, commenting on the presence of two additional ships over last year’s exercises, wrote that this “sends a powerful message-one that is firmly directed at the Russians.”
The evidence for criminal charges is there. We havethe vow of Mr. Tillerson, the American foreign minister, to help the Kiev regime in Ukraine crush the Donbas republics, producing the reaction of the Donetsk Republic;the announcement ofthe creation of a new state, to be renamed Malororossia, little Russia,thereby directly challenging the legitimacy and existence of the Kiev regime. We havethe attempts to bring Cyprus, a strategic island, necessary to dominate the Middle East, under NATO control.We havethe intense propaganda campaign against Russia in the west focussed on allegations of undermining western democracy and the phony witch-hunt in the USA against anyone who has anything to do with Russia. A reasonable person has to conclude that conditions are being prepared for war, an aggressive war against Russia, therefore charges of aggression and conspiracy to commit aggression are more than justified.
China is also threatened. In reaction China has now sent its ships to the Mediterranean and the Baltic,joining Russia military exercises there and in the Black Sea, a remarkable historical event. Itcontinues to build up its defences in the China Sea, and has just opened a base in Somalia for its ships that will be manned by 10,000 men. These tensions, plus the threats against North Korea,the continued wars in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, where US planes, in one of their routine “mistakes” killed 16 Afghan policemen, raise the fear of a general world war conducted by the United States against those nations and peoples. As if the people of the world don’t have enough to deal with in the threat of abrupt climate change, the ravages of capitalism, the hardship of daily life, we also have to endure daily anxiety about The Bomb, a quick annihilation instead of a slow one. Where is the diplomacy that people expect from their leaders to find peaceful ways of getting on in the world?
The Russians and Chinese still attempt it but diplomacy has been completely rejected by the United States. Its interactions with the Russian government in particular are openly aggressive, insulting, and dangerous. The American presidency, now stripped of any dignity, has been revealed as another Oz, the creation of those hiding behind the curtain, about which we know little in reality though we are inundated with names, scandals, and power plays all serving to misdirect and misinform us as to what is really going on, who is doing it and what their real objectives are.
An example of this is the intention by the US Congress to adopt legislation termed the “Russian Sanctions Review Act of 2017”, that requires the American president to obtain permission to rescind any “sanctions” imposed by Presidential Executive Orders. Reports state Trump may have reluctantly agreed to this. I leave it to American constitutional lawyers to explain how that is legally possible because it appears on the face of it that this is an attempt to limit the executive authority of the presidency and transfer executive authority to the Congress, a violation of the Constitution. But I stand to be corrected. If the American President can make an executive order imposing “sanctions” then it follows he has the power to rescind them. But with this proposed legislation the power to impose is left intact while the power to remove sanctions, once imposed, is taken away unless Congress permits it.
The legislation, another arrow from their quiver of war propaganda, assumes that Russia is undermining peace and security in Ukraine and assumes as a given that Russia engaged in cyber attacks on the USA and its citizens. It requires that the President certify that Russia has stopped these alleged activities before “sanctions” can be lifted. Since none of the assumptions are correct, there can be no lifting of American “sanctions” on Russia. They are meant to be permanent and as we see with the cases of Iran and North Korea, continually tightened to create maximum pain for the victim.
“Sanctions” are a euphemism for illegal economic warfare and are a part of the hybrid war being carried out by the NATO powers against Russia and the other victims of this form of warfare. The military exercises that are carried out by the NATO powers are also clearly illegal under international law; they are violations of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles that make planning and preparation for aggressive war the fundamental war crime and are another form of the hybrid warfare taking place.
Hybrid warfare is warfare that uses all techniques across all spheres of society to undermine and destroy an enemy.In their famous 1999 paper, “Unrestricted Warfare”, Chinese Army colonels,Qiao Liang and Wang Xiansui, discussed the multitude of means that can be used to strike at a country, both military and non-military, including hacking into websites, targeting financial institutions, terrorism, use of the media and information, and urban warfare.
Qiao stated “the first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules. With nothing forbidden. This iswarfare which transcends all boundaries and limits, in short: unrestricted warfare. This kind of war means that all means will be in readiness, thatinformation will be omnipresent, and the battlefield will be everywhere. It means that all weapons and technology can be superimposed at will, it means that all the boundaries lyingbetween the two worlds of war and non-war, of military and non-military, will be totallydestroyed, and it also means that many of the current principles of combat will be modified, andeven that the rules of war may need to be rewritten”
It seems American strategists have studied the Chinese paper thoroughly. They are engaging in most of those forms of warfare against Russia and are planning to use other forms as well, including legal, social, psychological,and cultural as well as military and economic means. The various “sanctions” laws against Russia are examples of the use of quasi-legal methods as a form of warfare. The scandal concocted out of whole cloth about Russia undermining western ‘democracy” and President Trump’s dealings with Russians are another aspect of this warfare.
In one sense the adoption of these methods means that some in the US military leadership recognise that whenever something reaches an ultimate point, it will turn inthe opposite direction, that there is always a reaction. The invention of nuclear weapons, the “ultra-lethal weapon” whichcan wipe out all mankind, has plunged mankind into an existential trap of its own making. To escape that trap and the moral arguments against the use of mass destruction weapons as a crime against mankind, the reality of interlocking of economic systems, and concern for the destruction of the earth’s environment leads logically to the conclusion that the way to victory is not through killing but through control.
However, the USleadership also contains factions that are clearly prepared to use the ultimate lethal weapons of mass destruction. Theuse of hybrid warfare methods against Russia are doomed to failure. Therefore, control cannot be achieved. This will inevitably drive that faction to push for the use of the ultimate weapon despite its dangers to humanity.
We see an example of the failure of the attempts to secure control with the reaction by the European Union to the news of new “sanctions” proposed by the US against Russia that will negatively affect European businesses. The European Union leadership is talking openly of retaliation, both legal and economic if these further trade embargoes are imposed. A clash is developing between the members of the Atlantic alliance, with the USA diminishing in both prestige and power while Chinese trains and naval ships now arrive in European cities and ports along with their “win-win” ideas.
So, in this context, the escalation of the propaganda inside the United States against Russia, a propaganda that even risks the coherence of the American state itself, indicates that the worst of the criminals are in charge and are capable of anything. The Operation Barbarossa II criminal file is open. The evidence mounts. But who will prosecute?
Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer based in Toronto. He is known for a number of high-profile war crimes cases and recently published his novel “Beneath the Clouds. He writes essays on international law, politics and world events, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.” | positive |
Here's how it goes. Masjid organization wants to be relevant.
They see that all the kids are on that Facebook thing. And a few of them are even on that Tweeter thing.
Well if that's what the kids are doing, that's what we need to do to be relevant.
Turns out most of these kids show up to events they hear about on Facebook. Fantastic. Now we know how to reach them.
So what's the solution? Just get one of these kids to manage the masjid social media accounts because they're experts! First foolproof solution to anything in the history of running a masjid.
Unfortunately, the same logic also justifies the following conclusions: I own a car, therefore I can be a mechanic. I use Netflix all day, they should just hire me because I'm an expert. And with all the money I've spent on Apple products, they should just let me replace Tim Cook.
Being an avid user of something does not an expert make. Nor does being 18 automatically make someone hip and relevant. Do kids still say "hip" nowadays?
Your masjid's social media is an important communication tool. The vocabulary, tone, and photos all reflect the culture of the masjid. The way that the social media manager replies to comments becomes indicative of what kind of people run the masjid.
It's okay to let someone young manage these outlets for you. Just make sure that they properly understand:
How to manage social media to build engagement
What type of message(s) should be conveyed from the Masjid platform
The appropriate decorum or replying to comments and questions
What type of content to share on which social media platforms
Technical details of how to promote events, set up campaigns or ads, and how to properly share different types of media
An understanding of how to move people to an intended action (e.g. attending an event, donating, or just signing up for the email newsletter)
Good writing skills
Ability to read and understand analytics data to see what works and what doesn't
Creative enough to properly maintain and update cover photos and profile photos, and do basic editing of event photos uploaded to page
Almost sounds like a job description. This is not something irrelevant you can pawn off. The masjid's online presence is often the first impression people get of a community. A website that hasn't been updated since Ramadan 2003, or low quality YouTube recordings of weekly khutbahs (that stopped 3 years ago), and unanswered posts on the Facebook page all scream that this is a community that just doesn't care.
Find someone qualified to handle your digital presence. In fact - "Director of First Impressions" is not a bad job title. Find someone qualified and empower them. And if your community is big enough, consider making it a paid position and invest in someone talented. | positive |
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“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose...”
Seething anger at the dire economic situation, political corruption, mass unemployment and poverty has boiled over in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In three days of lightening-speed struggle by workers and youth, the government has been shaken to its foundations.
DAY 1 Wednesday, February 5th
Laid-off workers from the privatised and now closed chemical works DITA, in northern Bosnia, and three other firms demonstrated. They accused the government of standing idly by as several state firms collapsed after privatisation.
“Elections will change nothing and only actions like this, and I’m afraid, even more radical actions, can force our politicians to step down,” said one protester.
Football fans joined the workers, as well as the unemployed. Stones were thrown and tyres set on fire. At least 20 people were injured and over 20 arrests made.
DAY 2 Thursday, February 6th
Workers continued to demonstrate in Tuzla. A ferocious battle took place as 130 people, including 104 police officers, were injured.
Teargas was used as thousands tried to storm government buildings in the town.
But Tuzla was only the spark which ignited deep discontent in the whole of Bosnia. Solidarity protests were held in the capital Sarajevo and the towns of Zenica, Bihac and Mostar.
Prime Minister Nermin Niksic held a security meeting and inevitably blamed hooligans for the unrest.
In reality, it was workers who led the way. The protesters were initially made up mainly of workers laid off when state-owned companies that were sold and then collapsed under private ownership. Later thousands of jobless people and youths joined in. Bosnia has an unemployment rate of 44% and one in five people are living below the poverty line. Even those in work are getting by on €250 - €450 a month. Many workers in DITA had not been paid for over two years!
"It was our government that sold state assets for peanuts and left the people without pensions, jobs or health insurance," said 24-year-old Hana Obradovic, an unemployed graduate from Sarajevo.
The government ordered schools to close on Friday.
DAY 3 Friday, February 7th
By Friday, protests had spread to over 30 cities in Bosnia and with it the anger at the corrupt politicians. Demonstrators set fire to government buildings in Sarajevo. One hundred and forty five people were injured in the capital, including 93 policemen.
Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protestors as demonstrators stormed a presidential office, which was set on fire.
In the ex-mining area of Zenica thousands demonstrated and 50 were wounded. Facebook was used to organise the protest. The people chanted: “Thieves!” and “Revolution!”
Sakib Kopic, one of the workers’ representatives, said they were "the people’s answer" to the government’s failure to address the ongoing economic decline.
"This is the shout of rage, hunger and hopelessness about the future that has accumulated for years since the conflict and is exploding right now," local newspaper Dnevni Avaz said in an editorial.
Several thousand protesters in Mostar stormed two local government buildings and also set fire to the city hall. Police did not intervene.
A young demonstrator in Bihac joked and summed up the distain Bosnians have for the corrupt political class and their nepotism: ‘Why is there no sex in Bosnian government institutions? Because they are all family!’
A homemade placard in Tuzla simply: ‘I don’t work. I’ve come here to destroy the government.’
On Friday, people finally burnt down government buildings in Tuzla. Eyewitnesses have told us that the special riot police took off their helmets and protective clothing and let the demonstrators get on with what they had come to do. Later the police were applauded and handshakes were exchanged with demonstrators.
“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose. There will be more and more of us in the streets, there are around 550,000 unemployed people in Bosnia,” said Almir Arnaut, an unemployed economist and activist from Tuzla.
In Zenica and Tuzla the politicians in charge of privatisations were forced to resign by the protestors.
Why now? And where now?
Bosnian workers have endured 20 years of misery since the civil war. Twenty years of mass unemployment. Power sharing quotas along ethnic lines has enabled corrupt politicians to enrich themselves in the poorest country in Europe. Workers have been reluctant to struggle for fear of provoking ethnic tensions again. But there is a limit. The privatisations and closures have been the last straw.
There is a yearning for working class unity in Bosnia, which is reflected in the placards and on Facebook. One placard read: ‘ARISE TITO! SEE WHAT YOUR PIONEERS ARE DOING!’ (The ‘Pioniri’ were the Young Communists in the time of Tito).
Also on Facebook there is a photo doing the rounds. Tito is looking at his watch and the caption says: ‘Time to return.’
It is understandable that there is a certain nostalgia for Tito even amongst the youth. Parents tell their kids of the times when everyone had a job, a home and a future to look forward to, despite the dictatorial one-party Stalinist regime which presided over the Yugoslavian planned economy. Capitalism was born in Bosnia through a horrific ethnic civil war and has offered nothing to the Bosnian working class except poverty, corrupt politicians and the threat of further ethnic conflicts.
These are early days in the Bosnian uprising but already the workers and youth are striving for unity. They are united in their utter contempt and hatred for the corrupt government and their hangers on. No political party represents the working class in Bosnia at this time.
It is significant that in Banja Luka, the capital of Bosnia’s Serb half, some 300 activists and citizens staged a peaceful march to call for unity among all Bosnia’s ethnicities.
They said: ‘We are all citizens of Bosnia and we all have the same difficult lives here.”
Activists also demanded:
•Abolition of cantons
•Parliamentarians to give up 50% of their salaries
•Dismissal of the director of PIO FB&H (Government department of pensions and social security)
•An increase pensions to 1.000 BAM (500 Euros)
•Provide work and benefits for the unemployed
•Abolish illegal work and the black market economy
Protesters have also called for re-nationalisation of privatised firms, limiting salaries of officials, against nepotism, and the right to life and education. There are also statements from the police and army veterans.
Workers and socialists around the world salute the Bosnian workers and youth in their struggle against privatisation and corruption and for a better life. This struggle can only be consequently waged with the perspective of a break with capitalism and a struggle for socialist policies based on workers’ democracy. SOLIDARNOST I REVOLUJICA! | positive |
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The Berkeley City Council voted in favor of a campaign to impeach President Trump. The Berkeley City Council voted in favor of a campaign to impeach President Trump. Photo: Emilie Raguso, Berkeleyside Photo: Emilie Raguso, Berkeleyside Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Berkeley calls for Trump impeachment 1 / 1 Back to Gallery
Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council became the third, and largest, Bay Area city to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
"Every day there's a new ethical problem that warrants impeachment," said Mayor Jesse Arreguín, who co-sponsored the resolution, with Councilwoman Sophie Hahn, calling for the federal investigation into Trump. Council members Ben Bartlett and Cheryl Davila asked to be added as co-sponsors during Tuesday night's meeting.
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Hi there guys. I hope you are fine. In this post I am going to tell you how you can make a twitter auto favouriter or a.k.a Twitter Bot. I am not going to make a twitter follower as it will get you banned quickly if you use it a lot. This post is going to help you to increase your twitter followers organically. By organically I mean that your followers will be those who really want to listen to your content. You can either use services on the web to increase your followers inorganically or else you can use this script 😉 . So what affect does favouriting has on the user who’s post you favourite ? When you favourite someone’s post he will get curious as who favourited his post. Then he will visit your profile and will follow you if he likes your tweets. So without wasting any time lets begin.
The basic mechanism or the way of working of our bot will be that you will give it a keyword like “python” and it will search twitter for that keyword. After searching it will start favouriting the tweets from top to bottom.
First of all I am going to use “twitter” module for this project. There are a lot of twitter related modules on PyPI but this module did the trick so I thought to use it (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter/1.10.0) . Secondly in order to follow along you will have to make a dev account on twitter and register an application with any name (https://dev.twitter.com/apps). Lets begin by importing the twitter module and initiating connection with twitter using the OAUTH tokens. :
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError OAUTH_TOKEN = 'your oauth token' OAUTH_SECRET = 'your oauth secret' CONSUMER_KEY = 'your consumer key' CONSUMER_SECRET = 'your consumer secret' t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
So now we have initiated connection with twitter. This is the basic structure of our twitter auto favouriter or a.k.a twitter bot. Now lets move on and define a method which will search for tweets on twitter.
def search_tweets(q, count=100): return t.search.tweets(q=q, result_type='recent', count=count)
So now we have to define a method which will favourite a tweet:
def fav_tweet(tweet): try: result = t.favorites.create(_id=tweet['id']) print "Favorited: %s" % (result['text']) return result # when you have already favourited a tweet # this error is thrown except TwitterHTTPError as e: print "Error: ", e return None
So now we have a searching method and a favouriting method. Now tell me what is left ? Obviously the main code that will drive our whole program is left. So here you go:
def auto_fav(q, count=100): result = search_tweets(q, count) a = result['statuses'][0]['user']['screen_name'] print a success = 0 for tweet in result['statuses']: if fav_tweet(tweet) is not None: success += 1 print "We Favorited a total of %i out of %i tweets" % (success, len(result['statuses']))
So thats it! We have a complete bot for twitter. This bot currently only favourites tweets based on a keyword. Save this code in a file called twitter_bot.py . Now you can use this bot by typing this in the terminal:
$ python >>> import twitter_bot >>> twitter_bot.auto_fav('#python','20')
The above command will search for 20 latest tweets containing the hashtag “python”. After that it will favourite all of those tweets. This bot itself works but I can not gurantee that you will get followers quickly and I can not even gurantee that you will not get banned by twitter for using this a lot. You can use this once in a day. Hopefully I will write a twitter follower bot in the future as well but till then this script is your best bet.
This is the complete script:
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError OAUTH_TOKEN = 'your oauth token' OAUTH_SECRET = 'your oauth secret' CONSUMER_KEY = 'your consumer key' CONSUMER_SECRET = 'your consumer secret' t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)) def search_tweets(q, count=100): return t.search.tweets(q=q, result_type='recent', count=count) def fav_tweet(tweet): try: result = t.favorites.create(_id=tweet['id']) print "Favorited: %s" % (result['text']) return result # when you have already favourited a tweet # this error is thrown except TwitterHTTPError as e: print "Error: ", e return None def auto_fav(q, count=100): result = search_tweets(q, count) a = result['statuses'][0]['user']['screen_name'] print a success = 0 for tweet in result['statuses']: if fav_tweet(tweet) is not None: success += 1 print "We Favorited a total of %i out of %i tweets" % (success, len(result['statuses']))
This is the final result of running this sript:
yasoob@yasoob:~/Desktop$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 06:20:15) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import twitter_bot as bot >>> bot.auto_fav('django',1) Favorited: Enjoying @freakboy3742’s discussion of cultural naming patterns vis a vis Django users at #DjangoCon We Favorited a total of 1 out of 1 tweets >>>
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The unemployment rate in the Greater Toronto Area hit the double-digits last month as a strong Canadian dollar and cool, wet weather took its toll on the tourism industry.
The city's jobless rate reached 10 per cent last month - its highest level since November, 1994, according to the latest figures released by Statistics Canada today.
That's up from 9.6 per cent for June.
"Toronto is important for the tourism sector, and tourism has been hammered by this downturn. We rely on visitors from abroad and the strong currency isn't helping," said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
"The weakness in construction, too, has weighed very heavily on Toronto."
Toronto now has the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the province — and the country — behind Windsor, London, and St. Catharines-Niagara, all communities that have been devastated by the recent turmoil in the automotive industry.
Nationally, Canada's unemployment rate didn't change last month. It held steady at 8.6 per cent as the economy shed 45,000 jobs in July.
Students were the hardest hit last month. The jobless rate for those trying to earn money during the summer break rose sharply to 20.9 per cent - that the highest level since StatsCan began keeping this data in 1977.
StatsCan defines students as those "who attended school full-time in March and who are planning to return to school in the fall."
For others ages 15 to 24, the unemployment rate is substantially lower — 13.4 per cent.
"It gives you a taste of just how awful the market was for summer students," Porter said.
Another sign the dismal state of the job market: the participation rate has declined to 67.2 per cent, down 0.3 per cent from June, and an indication that many job-seekers have simply thrown in the towel.
While most of July's job losses were in Quebec, there were also losses in Saskatchewan, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador, Statistics Canada said.
Employment fell last month in accommodating and food services and construction while there were increases in retail and wholesale trade.
Windsor has the highest unemployment rate in the country - 15.2 per cent, followed by London at 10.9 per cent. Both communities depend on the vehicle and automotive parts manufacturing sectors, which have suffered from plant closures and heavy job losses.
The jobless rate in St. Catharines-Niagara was 10.5 per cent.
Statscan measures unemployment for what it calls the Toronto CMA, or census metropolitan area, which extends from Milton in the west to Ajax on the east side, and north to Georgina.
Ottawa has the unemployment in the province, 5.9 per cent, thanks to hiring by the federal government. | positive |
A 30-year-old Toronto man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting four women in the Greater Toronto Area and police believe there may be more victims.
Police say three assaults took place in Toronto and one in Vaughan between March and June. Authorities were able to link the attacks to one suspect.
“When we’re dealing with this nature of offence, we reach out to all police services to see if there are similar attacks,” York police Det. Const. Mike Mulville told reporters on Friday.
“When Toronto started to link theirs together, and some of the specifics in the case and the attacks, we quickly learned this is the similar guy.”
The first attack happened on March 24 when a 39-year-old woman was approached from behind and sexually assaulted around 8 p.m. in the area of Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West in Toronto.
Police said the second reported incident took place when an 18-year-old woman was attacked in front of her home around 1 p.m. on May 26 in Vaughan after getting off a bus in the Keele Street and Rutherford Road area.
Police say the suspect ran towards her and sexually assaulted her before fleeing the scene.
Someone knows who this guy is. We need your help to ID him. Wanted for sex assault in Vaughan 866-876-5423 x7071 pic.twitter.com/EdwYrfhy2L — York Regional Police (@YRP) May 31, 2016
The third attack happened on June 8 around 11 p.m. when a 33-year-old woman was approached from behind in the area of Whitmore Avenue and Fairleigh Crescent in Toronto and sexually assaulted.
The fourth incident took place on June 21 at 11:15 p.m. when a 29-year-old woman was also approached from behind in the area of Brooke Avenue and Yonge Boulevard in Toronto.
Police say she was dragged on a driveway, pinned to a fence and sexually assaulted.
“When he did attack, it was getting more and more aggressive,” said Toronto police Det. Raj Patel. “In most cases, they start off with a threshold that is pretty low and then it increases.”
Surveillance video of the suspect was recorded in the sexual assault in Vaughan and released to the public last month. The footage also showed a white sedan in the area which police say was used to track his victim before the assault.
The accused, identified as Le Roi Saul of Toronto, was detained by Canada Border Service Agency officers at the Ambassador Bridge border on July 7 as he was crossing into Windsor.
He has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment.
Anyone with information is asked to call the York Regional Police Special Victims Unit – Sexual Assault Section at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7071, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS.
30-year-old Le Roi Saul charged with four counts of sexual assault, including three in #Toronto and one in #Vaughan pic.twitter.com/cb3QYpMKoY — York Regional Police (@YRP) July 15, 2016
Saul was not known to police, but there may be more victims. Call @YRP or @TorontoPolice if you have more info. pic.twitter.com/Ff5WGT6bs2 — York Regional Police (@YRP) July 15, 2016 | positive |
There may be more habitable planets out there than we once thought. Astronomers have discovered that cloud behavior on planets orbiting red dwarfs actually doubles how many are habitable. The finding means that in the Milky Way galaxy alone, there are approximately 60 billion planets that may be orbiting red dwarf stars in the habitable zone.
In order to better study planets that orbit red dwarfs and their clouds, the researchers used computer simulations of cloud behavior on alien worlds. Because red dwarfs are smaller and cooler than our own sun, planets need to have a closer orbit in order to be able to support life. In fact, these worlds orbit their stars about once every two months in order to receive the same amount of sunlight as Earth. This, in turn, means that these planets eventually become tidally locked with their sun; the worlds always keep the same side facing the sun, like the moon does toward the Earth. This, in turn, would mean that the star-facing side would experience vigorous convection and highly reflective clouds.
So what does this mean exactly? With the models, the scientists found out the effects of these clouds on the planet. In fact, they found that if there is any surface water on the planet, water clouds result. This, in turn, has a significant cooling effect on the inner portion of the habitable zone, which allows planets to sustain water on their surfaces much closer to their sun. The findings have exciting implications for further studies.
"Most of the planets in the Milky Way orbit red dwarfs," said Nicolas Cowan, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, in a news release. "A thermostat that makes such planets more clement means we don't have to look as far to find a habitable planet."
The astronomers can also test these simulations. By using the James Webb Telescope, they'll be able to measure the temperature of planets at different points in its orbit. If a tidally locked exoplanet lacks significant cloud cover, they will measure the highest temperatures when the dayside of the exoplanet is facing the telescope. Yet if clouds are present, they would measure the coldest temperatures when the planet is on the opposite side and the warmest temperatures when looking at the night side.
"Clouds cause warming, and they cause cooling on Earth," said Dorian Abbot of UChicago in a news release. "They reflect sunlight to cool things off, and they absorb infrared radiation from the surface to make a greenhouse effect. That's part of what keeps the planet warm enough to sustain life."
The findings are crucial for better understanding exoplanets and finding habitable ones nearby. They could mean that habitable planets are in our very own Milky Way, just waiting to be discovered.
The findings are published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. | positive |
'Swamp Thing: The Root of All Evil' recollects a classic story arc by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison previously unavailable as a trade until now. Any fan of Swamp Thing, Millar or Morrison would do well to pick up a copy.
Unavailable as a trade until now, Swamp Thing: The Root of All Evil collects Mark Millar and Grant Morrison’s collaborated run on issues #140 to 150 from Vol. 2 of Swamp Thing (1982-1996).
Vol. 2 was the period during which Alan Moore had his legendary and groundbreaking run from 1984 to 1987. After Moore’s run a string of writers had short stints on the title until horror author Nancy A. Collins’ run from 1991 to 1993 which is when DC Comics started its Vertigo imprint and a number of DC titles, whose more mature aesthetic didn’t quite mesh well with the rest of the mainstream DC universe (like Hellblazer, Animal Man, Sandman and of course Swamp Thing), were moved over to Vertigo. It was just before the formation of Vertigo that I myself started reading Swamp Thing along with an array of other kindred titles like Sandman and Hellblazer, finding that they suited my evolving tastes in comics quite well.
Millar and Morrison came aboard the series in the spring of ’94, but this was during my first semester in college when I pretty much stopped reading comics temporarily due to being overwhelmed by my studies and a stressful part-time job. I had heard good things about Millar’s run but by the time I had come back to reading comics a few years later I was no longer keen about shelling out all that extra cash for back issues and, unfortunately, there wasn’t a trade paperback available.
But now, after all these years, Vertigo has finally published The Root of All Evil story arc in a beautiful new trade, and if you’re a fan of Mark Millar or Grant Morrison this is most certainly a volume you’re going to want to pick up. It’s especially of interesting historical note for Millar fans as it was his first major American superhero title (no, Swamp Thing isn’t a typical kind of superhero but if we’re to be practical about it he is a superhero nonetheless).
The volume begins boldly with what seems to be another reinvention of the character’s origins that effectively negates his previous origin. Alec Holland, a.k.a Swamp Thing, wakes up in bed, feverish, everything that had occurred before in previous Swamp Thing issues now seeming to be one epic hallucination. He is told that he had fallen into a coma while researching (and ingesting) native Amazonian entheogens. But rather than swear off from tripping forever, the visions in the dream compel him to seek out a legendary Amazonian vine said to be the most powerful psychedelic in the world, which is when things really start getting trippy in a classic Morrison-esque way. And complicating matters is a crazed, rampaging Swamp Thing roaming the Louisiana countryside, killing people without rhyme or reason. “But… Alec Holland is Swamp Thing,” you might say. Precisely, and therein lies the surreal mystery that drives the early part of the narrative and makes it compelling since we want to know what the heck is going on.
Morrison actually only co-wrote the first four issues of this story arc, with the then-23-year-old Mark Millar taking over as solo writer for the remaining six issues. What I like in particular about this volume is how it weaves in the horror and mystical elements of Swamp Thing and keeps it within the more mature storytelling framework of Vertigo while also making Swamp Thing feel like more of a traditional superhero by having him engage in action-packed battles with various foes. That’s not an easy task but the young Millar pulls it off quite deftly, building up to an ambitious climax.
It’s also interesting to see Millar incorporate other characters from the DC universe like Spectre and Sargon the Sorcerer at a time when Vertigo was trying to set itself and its titles apart from the mainstream DC universe. Ergo, John Constantine appears in early issues of both Sandman and Swamp Thing back when those titles were still being published directly through DC, but once the Vertigo imprint was founded things like guest appearances and crossovers became virtually nonexistent. And given that even Vertigo characters almost never appeared in other Vertigo titles, it’s quite surprising (and even thrilling, in a way) to see Millar bring in Golden Age DC characters like Spectre and Sargon into the mix – almost makes me wonder how well that went down with then-Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger.
Like Millar, artist Phil Hester was young and just getting his start on a major superhero title but his work here is terrific, balancing a classically Vertigo-esque realism and grittiness with nightmarish surrealism. These surreal sequences in particular are well aided by some eerie coloring by Tatjana Wood. And the Simon Bisley-inspired covers by John Mueller are a nice visual bonus.
Thanks to Vertigo for finally putting this arc out as a trade. If you’re a fan of Swamp Thing, Mark Millar or Grant Morrison, this is a book you’ll want to add to your collection. | positive |
August 5, 2013
DOMA trials LGBT Legal Cases Marriage equality Marriage Equality Trials
Since the Supreme Court issued its ruling striking down Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) inin June, House Republicans have steadily backed out of their legal defense for the statute. They have also withdrawn arguments in favor of the constitutionality of similarly-worded statutes that use the opposite-sex definition of “marriage” and “spouse” for purposes of military benefits and immigration.
However, until last week, House Republicans – through the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) – had remained involved in a longstanding challenge to DOMA and Oklahoma’s ban on marriage equality. A federal district court is hearing Bishop v. United States (formerly Bishop v. Oklahoma) where the plaintiffs are making broad constitutional arguments challenging Section 2 of DOMA and Oklahoma’s marriage ban. Because of Windsor, there is no longer a dispute over the constitutionality of DOMA Section 3. In a new filing, BLAG requests withdrawal from the case. The filing suggests that Windsor resolves the question of Section 3’s constitutionality, but then cites its past briefs on the question of whether the district court has jurisdiction in this case.
In another DOMA challenge now taking place in the Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims, BLAG is also seeking withdrawal. In Cardona v. Shinseki, challenging Section 3 of DOMA as well as other military-related statutes, BLAG suggests that while Windsor resolves the question of Section 3’s constitutionality, the constitutionality of those other statues related to military benefits for spouses is still in debate. BLAG questions whether this specialized court can review the constitutionality of those statutes even as it notes it will refuse to defend them in light of Windsor.
In addition to these, there has been a new development in Dragovich v. Department of Treasury, which has been on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Kathleen Perrin writes:
Both the federal government (“DOJ”) and intervenor-defendant House Republicans (“BLAG”) appealed to the 9th Circuit a district court judgment in plaintiffs’ favor. On July 19, parties filed a joint request to dismiss the BLAG appeal and have BLAG withdraw from the DOJ appeal. That request was granted July 22. In the remaining DOJ appeal, the DOJ has submitted a motion which acknowledges that Windsor “conclusively resolves the claims of plaintiffs in same-sex marriages, and the federal government has no further intent of pursuing that issue on appeal.” However, as relates to unmarried domestic partners, the DOJ points to changed circumstances – namely that these couples can now get married in California – and asks the 9th Circuit to “vacate the district court’s judgment with regard to unmarried plaintiffs in domestic partnerships” and remand the case back to the district court to consider the impact of the new circumstances on the case. (Document #18 attached) The DOJ motion states that plaintiffs agree to the motion, but plaintiffs have filed a clarification that, while agreeing to remand, they do not agree with the feds’ statement that [all] “domestic-partner plaintiffs in this case now can get married, should they choose to do so.”
That filing is here
BLAG does not appear to be involved in anymore challenges to Section 3 of DOMA, so these motions for withdrawal formally wrap up their defense, since February 2011, of DOMA.
Thanks to Kathleen Perrin for these filings
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It is (read: should be) well known that Burgoo is THE food of Kentucky, whether people who live here readily know that or not. Owensboro claims itself as the “Center of the Burgoo Universe.” It was ranked #12 by Deadspin in “Foods of the States Ranked” where they said:
Kentucky’s signature food, a whatever-you-got stew that never tastes the same twice, gets a million imaginary bonus points for its wonderful communal nature: People just bring whatever ingredients they can, and everybody puts what they’ve got into the stew, and out comes burgoo, and that is just f****** beautiful, even though in reality probably 78 percent of its ingredients were scraped off I-64 with a snow shovel.
Outside of that last half sentence, Burgoo is awesome because it is a communal food. People bring what ingredients they have and combine them with the ingredients of others to make one unique stew. That communal aspect is also at the heart of Tasty Minstrel Games’ microgame: Burgoo.
Burgoo is a microgame for 2-5 “chefs” and says it plays in 15-20 minutes, but the more you play it, that play time might be shorter once you get used to it. The game was made by Dan Manfredini, with art by Rob Lundy. Burgoo is a reskinning of a game that Manfredini had previously made called “Chains of Fenir” with a theme from Norse mythology, but in its current state, Burgoo fits the microgame theme much better.
Here’s how Burgoo is played:
Each player takes two each of the following ingredients: meat, carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, and spices, and randomly places them on the table in front of them in a long column, making their “batch”. Each player will then take one of each ingredient and place those tiles hidden in their hand. The remaining ingredient tiles go back into the middle to form the “pot” of Burgoo.
On a player’s turn, they will do one of three actions: 1) Add an Ingredient, 2) Sample the Burgoo, 3) Split a Batch. That’s it, turns are pretty simple. If you add an ingredient, you choose one ingredient from your hand say what type it is and then either top or bottom. You would then take that ingredient from your hand and throw it in the pot. If you choose top, you and every player that has that ingredient at the top of their batch column will also remove it from that spot in their batch and place it in the pot. If you call bottom, the same happens, except from the bottom of the column.
If you start running out of ingredient tiles in your hand, you might want to Sample the Burgoo. To do this, you simply say what ingredient you’re taking from the pot (so everyone knows), and put it in your hand.
If you Split a Batch, you take an ingredient from your hand and add it to the pot. You can then split your batch above or below that ingredient in the line. This allows you to have two columns to work with, and might be able to put multiple ingredients into the pot at once. You can split your batch as many times as you want, but only once per turn. The batches can also be any length.
If you call an ingredient, and it happens to be the last ingredient in one of your neighbor’s batches, you capture that ingredient and put it in your hand instead of it going into the pot. Why is this important? Because the winner of the game is the first person to put their entire batch into the pot, and if there’s a tie, the winner is the person with the most ingredients remaining in their hand when they go out. If there’s a tie there, the player who made the final play wins the game.
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I’ll be honest, about halfway through my first play of Burgoo I thought, “How is this a game?” Players were quiet, just picking an ingredient and placing it in the pot from their batch, seemingly kind of bored with the game. BUT – there was a moment as we were playing, when people started splitting batches and running out of ingredients, where it got tense and exciting. The strategy of the game kicked in, paying attention to the batches of the other players around you, trying to figure how to split your batch in a way that doesn’t benefit your opponents. My initial reaction had quickly changed, as now I wanted to play it again, seeing exactly how this was a game. Drawing tiles from the pot, trying to figure out if I played certain ones, if it would allow one of my opponents to win. Eventually it did, but I was excited to see it all play out. I would recommend, if you’re bringing this game to a group for the first time, express that you need to play it twice, as the second play through is much more tense as people start to figure out the game.
I have kept going back to Burgoo in my mind since the first time we got to play it. I keep trying to figure out some amazing strategy to the game where I can win every time, but it’s not possible. Because the tiles are randomized at the beginning of the game, you’re looking at an all new puzzle every time you play. I think the next time our group plays it, there is going to be about a minute or so of everyone looking at the table to everyone else’s batches before someone makes the first move.
Burgoo was initially put out through Kickstarter, in Tasty Minstrel’s “pay what you want” model for the game. People could pay $3 for one copy, $6 for two, and so on and so forth. The game did well, selling making over $20,000 on its original $5,000 goal. Coming in an envelope (as shown in the first picture above), the game consists of 96 ingredient tiles and a rulebook. The tiles thick enough that you’re not going to accidentally bend them over the course of play or if you keep them just in the baggie they come in. I really like the artwork for the ingredient tiles, it’s easy to tell what everything is. For some reason though, and it might be that I play games on a fairly brown table, when I’m pulling ingredients from the pot, I have the hardest time finding the brown potato tiles. They just seem to blend in, while the brighter colors of all the other tiles seem to pop a little more.
The two player game works well, and in fact, it’s a whole new puzzle all in its own. Each player gets two batches instead of one, and the game becomes a struggle (albeit enjoyable) to try and outplay your opponent. You pretty much know what each other has at all times, and if you can split your batches just right, you can take advantage of plays that they MUST make unless they sample the pot. I almost liked the two player experience more that the four player.
This is not going to be a game that you center your game night around, but it’s a good game to play if you’re waiting on someone to get there. Or, it would serve as a good opener game for a small group of people. The setup time is minimal, (“If only I could just find the potato”) and it plays in 8-12 minutes. I would certainly recommend this to people, if you can find a copy. You’ll only be able to get a copy through Tasty Minstrel Games’ website, once it’s updated (via Gen Con). Edit: You can get a copy at the Board Game Geek Store for $5. Oh, I almost forgot. There’s also a Burgoo recipe in the game manual so you can make Burgoo during your game night. Although, every Burgoo enthusiast knows that you should always keep your personal recipe held tight to your chest, despite it being a communal food. Now I’m hungry…
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Can’t find a copy? Well you’re in luck! Thanks to Tasty Minstrel Games, as they have given us THREE copies to give away here on Funkhouser. All you have to do is leave us a comment in the section below. When you leave a comment, let me know “What is your favorite game to play on game night?” I will pick three people at random who will each win one (1) copy of Burgoo. You have until 10/28/14 to leave a comment to enter for a chance to win. | positive |
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Buy Photo Michelle Garand Deputy director of housing and homeless prevention, Community Partnership of the Ozarks. (Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)Buy Photo
Community Partnership of the Ozarks is hosting four community conversations next week focusing on how to end homelessness in the local Continuum of Care’s service area, which includes Greene, Christian and Webster Counties.
Everyone is invited to attend and participate in the "Every Voice Counts" discussions — residents, consumers, funders, advocates and others interested in helping create a locally-based plan to end homelessness. No RSVP required. Come to one session or all sessions.
Michelle Garand is deputy director of affordable housing and homeless prevention at Community Partnership of the Ozarks.
"The whole idea behind this is to get ideas and innovative thoughts and concerns from the community," Garand said. "Everyone that has a passion for homelessness or has ideas or resources or just wants to hear more about what is going on is encouraged to attend. We would love to have a broad representation from the community."
According to Garand, every Continuum of Care across the nation is required to have a strategic plan to end homelessness in their community.
Community Partnership of the Ozarks has facilitated the local Continuum of Care program since 1995 when HUD established the program nationally in an effort to coordinate housing and services funding for homeless families and individuals. The community’s local Continuum of Care serves as the planning body to address homelessness in Springfield and Greene, Christian and Webster Counties.
Members of the Continuum of Care will gather information and ideas from the public on Monday and Tuesday of next week. On Wednesday, they will use the information to help draft a 10-year comprehensive plan to end homelessness.
June 20 at The Library Station, 2535 N. Kansas Expressway:
• Aligning local goals with the federal plan to end homelessness — 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
How does the federal plan to end homelessness guide and direct local programming and funding priorities? The expert panel will open the discussion with information about the federal goals and outline local progress to end homelessness for veterans, youth, families and chronically homeless individuals.
• Strategies to address permanent housing needs — 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. (No lunch provided)
Increasing access to safe, decent and affordable housing is a primary goal of the Continuum of Care.
Expert panelists will discuss ways the Continuum of Care and its collaborative partners working to increase access to permanent housing for homeless households. The discussion will center on leveraging local and state funding, as well as collaborating within our community, to reduce barriers to housing for high-risk households.
• Local response to our unsheltered homeless population — 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Limited local resources means for some, there are simply no immediate housing options available. This can leave individuals and families unsheltered or living in places not meant for people to live. How do we, as a community, respond to the needs of the unsheltered homeless and the ‘hardest to house’?
June 21, Springfield Art Museum, 1111 E. Brookside
• How do we most effectively prioritize local funding? – 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
As federal and state funding becomes more competitive, we must think creatively about how we can work locally to address issues facing at-risk and homeless households. Expert panelists will share current strategies in place to focus funding to serve those most in need.
• Community Report Out – 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Results and recommendations from all sessions will be presented.
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In case you ever wondered about the definition of “hypocrisy”, you might just want to compare and contrast a couple of documents which can be found online today.
Exhibit A is the outrageous hit piece just published in the op-ed section of Berkeleyside.com by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the owner of the DailyKos website under his corporate umbrella, the very prosperous Kos Media LLC.
It’s billed as an endorsement of Kate Harrison’s opponent in Berkeley’s District 4 council race, but provides him with an opportunity for a gratuitous attack on Mayor Jesse Arreguin,
Exhibit B is the “Daily Kos Rules of the Road” , his proprietary site’s somewhat smarmy guide to making nice online. Let’s see how Mr. Moulitsas Zuniga follows his own rules.
Here’s one Kos Rule—don’t:
“· Insult the character, intelligence, or background of people with whom you are arguing. You want to win an argument? Then don’t engage in ad-hominem attacks.”
So then, check the lede of Markos Moulitsas’ op-ed:
“Donald Trump wasn’t the only political earthquake last November. When the dust settled and the votes were counted, local Berkeley politics had been dramatically reshaped. A strong, pro-housing candidate for Berkeley Mayor was defeated by a notorious NIMBY, Jesse Arreguín, whose claim to fame was voting against or abstaining from nearly 1,500 units of housing. Under his reign, a regressive, anti-housing faction has taken control of the City Council, intent on stopping development of any future housing.”
As you might have guessed, Jesse happens to have endorsed Kate for the seat he just vacated. Guess that makes him a “notorious nimby”?
And then there’s a little problem with facts, a topic which the Rules address admirably:
“Value the norms of a ‘reality-based community.’ Support your arguments with links to supporting documents and original source materials. Such original sources should be credible news and information sites.”
Just exactly where can we find that data which would prove that the guy whom Jesse beat in the recent election was a “strong, pro-housing candidate”? Kos’s endorsee was, after all, funded by a cool $100,000 from the PAC of the National Association of Realtors, not exactly a progressive bunch devoted to the provision of affordable housing.
And by the way, he lost. Not such a strong candidate, right?
More missing facts: How many units of housing did Mayor Arreguin vote for since he’s been on the Berkeley city council? A whole lot more than he turned down. Look it up, Kos.
The Kos site is billed as a way for Democrats to discuss important issues in a positive way:
‘We are here to connect, unite, work together toward a common purpose, whether it’s to elect more and better Democrats, to advocate for specific issues, or even to socialize among like-minded friends. But ultimately, we are fighting to make ours a stronger, more effective, more progressive Democratic Party. Given our clear goals, these are our only ideological prohibitions:
Advocacy for third parties or third-party candidates
Advocacy for voting against Democrats or not voting at all
Attacks on Democratic candidates based on right-wing rhetoric and frames.”
So why do you label Mayor Arreguin “the leader of a regressive faction”, Mr. Kos?
Haven’t you heard that Jesse, a Democratic party activist since the age of 8, was endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Party in the recent election?
And by the way, some of his supporters in that “regressive faction” were progressive Democrats before you were born, as were many of us way back when you were still a Republican.
Those same rules say Do:
"· Fight hard but fight fair. Write an argument, not an attack. Remember, other people are just as passionate, committed, and ornery as you are. That’s supposed to be an advantage for us, right? Democrats boast about having a big tent. Learn from those who oppose you; let their challenges help you formulate your positions more clearly and draw upon better evidence. "· Accept that reasonable people may in the end still disagree."
Who could argue with that? But what does Markos say about his target?
“The bottom line is that Mayor Arreguín is no progressive; he’s the leader of a regressive faction that’s currently working to preserve Berkeley in amber, fighting change, and making it unaffordable to all but the wealthiest. In fact, that’s exactly what conservatism is all about!”
No, Kos, your economic education seems to have stopped at Econ 101. Saying that building a huge number of expensive market-rate condos will eventually trickle-down to house low-income renters is the neoliberal equivalent of the bogus theories currently being pushed by the Republicans for health care. It’s a lot like the voucher-based education model espoused by Betsy DeVos.
Let the market decide? Not my idea of progressive.
My correspondent Tree Fitzpatrick deftly depicts Kos economics:
"He is so NOT a progressive. He's analogous to Whole Foods, selling overpriced food to the hip and hip wannabees but run by an avid libertarian. We progressives must be a coveted market, especially we progressive who are actually progressive. Whole Foods very calculatingly markets to a liberal/progressive market because that market spends a lot. Kos appears to use the Whole Foods phoniness the way WF does."
But let’s give the last word in this discussion to someone who commented on Berkeleyside.com about a year ago on an op-ed from an opponent of the luxury development at 2211 Harold Way:
“Real democracy is at the polls, not the people who show up at arcane meetings. And the voters have spoken clearly and convincingly... I know that's an inconvenient reality, but it is the reality nonetheless.”
Who could have said that?
A guy named Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, That’s who.
Click on his name above for more of his wit and wisdom as recorded for posterity on Disqus.
Someone should really out him to his bloggies, many of whom would be appalled if they knew who this sanctimonious twerp was when he’s at home.
Mayor Jesse Arreguin won the election. Get over it, Kos.
And dear reader, if you’re a voter in District 4 and you still haven’t turned in your vote for Kate Harrison, just do it now. We need another genuine progressive on the Council. | positive |
Brendan Rodgers calls upon Swansea City supporters to dress up as Elvis Presley to celebrate the club's Premier League survival.
Brendan Rodgers has asked as many Swansea City supporters as possible to dress up as Elvis Presley for the club's final home game of the season against Liverpool next Sunday.
The Northern Irish boss has made the request after the club survived in the Premier League, despite his side's credentials having come under huge scrutiny at the start of the season.
"Next week is going to be brilliant," said Rodgers. "I will be asking all the fans if they can wear as many Elvis Presley costumes as we can because when we got promoted the bookies said there was more chance of seeing Elvis Presley than us staying at this level.
"As a show of our achievement we'll ask for them to do that."
Rodgers was talking after seeing his team lose 2-0 against Manchester United earlier today. | positive |
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Opus Codec | Signal Lounge Skip to content Signal Lounge Search for: Projects Resources Talks Help Wanted! (Discourse) Forum (Discourse) Code of Conduct About Signal Lounge A site for amateur wireless project socialising Resources Opus Codec by admin · December 15, 2019 Looking for an audio codec operating at higher bit rates than Codec2? Have a look at Opus Codec which is working in the 6 kbps to 510 kbps range. It can scale from low bitrate narrowband speech to very high quality stereo music. 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srm – Virtual Chris Virtual Chris Random IT Musings Skip to content Home About Log Insight Queries and Alerts vSphere 6 Upgrade Tag Archives: srm Site Recovery Manger 6.1 addfoldermapping API and matching folders across sites Update March 22, 2017: Added ” | Where-Object { $_.Type -eq “Folder”}” to primaryfolder.extensiondata.childentity (and the subfolder one) to filter the childentities to just folders. SRM added a feature in which you map folder inventories across vCenters by assuming the folders had the same name and same structure. I already had one method for replicating folder… Read More » Category: PowerCLI SRM Tags: api, folder mappings, inventory mapping, site recovery manager, srm How to connect to SRM 6.1 using powershell and WSDL/SOAP edit 07-27-2017: Updated the script with username/password variables and also dynamically determine srmserveraddr by checking the primary vcenter extension manager. This will not work if you have multiple SRM servers (ie, shared-site config) I hit some issues finding the addfoldermapping function through the api exposed with connect-srmserver cmdlet, so I decided to use WSDL based… Read More » Category: PowerCLI SRM Tags: powershell, soap, srm, wsdl Right-Sizing SSO Domain In a previous post, I lamented over whether a SSO domain should be big or small. I gave various pros and cons for having it either way, but I wanted to discuss how to try to design your SSO domain to be the right size (whether that is large or small) for your environment. One… Read More » Category: VMware vSphere Tags: psc, srm, sso Big SSO Domain or Small? I just recently completed the upgrade of the vCenters at my work, and it was a doozy. This was the most amount of planning that has been done for any vCenter upgrade, and mostly because the topology you go with you are pretty much stuck with. I had a dozen or so vCenters spread out… Read More » Category: SRM vSphere Tags: psc, srm, sso, topology VMworld 2015 – Day 1 Recap Day 1 started off a little slow but ended really well. I missed my Bart train and ended up getting into the city around 720. This wasn’t bad but I worried it was a sign. Breakfast for day 1 was croissants and fruit. A really light way to start the day. I went to a… Read More » Category: SRM VMworld 2015 Tags: srm, sto4856 Debugging and Modifying Netapp CMODE SRA for Kicks and Giggles I’m not sure who enjoys using the Perl debugger on Windows (certainly not I), but the process is still interesting. The Situation: So you are adding an array manager for a Netapp CMODE array, you hit click “Enable” but then you get an error. SRA command ‘discoverDevices’ failed. Storage system configuration error ensure that the… Read More » Category: SRM VMware Tags: cmode, debug, netapp, perl, sra, srm Error Pairing SRM Sites after Password Change In my last post, I discussed some issues I had when changing the DB password for Site Recovery Manager. I just wanted to quickly discuss a different error that I had during my couple of days of password changes. One of the tasks that you will have to do when changing passwords is to re-pair… Read More » Category: SRM VMware Tags: pair sites error, password change, shared recovery site, srm Updating vSphere Replication for Shellshock The last couple days have been busy as VMware has released updates for Virtual Appliances that are have the shellshock vulnerability. 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Perfectly imperfect | badyogidc About Contact me Private practice Tarot Readings Testimonial Section What I read Where I am badyogidc ~ We'll meet at the point our paths cross. Search: Perfectly imperfect 08 Wednesday Oct 2014 Posted by badyogidc in Life Lessons, Yoga ≈ 1 Comment We have all seen the pictures on Instagram and other social media platforms – perfect yogi bodies, in the perfect lighting, with appropriate shadows, striking a stunning pose. Hell, I’m guilty of setting up a picture and then waiting for the “Likes” to start rolling in. These posts often include either a scripture reference explaining why THAT pose is important or how that pose makes the yogi feel. But we’re missing out on our flaws. I have been concerned that non-yogis will either think these advanced asanas are easy to do and thereby risk injury. Or they get completely turned off by the perfect form, thinking they’ll never achieve that level of posture. It can be intimidating to walk into a classroom and see students in a beautiful expression of forward folding – back straight, legs strong, chest on thighs. I was working with a student standing on one leg in tree pose; her breath and energy were vivid reflections with her frustrations on not being able to stand easily on that leg. I walked behind her, activated my feet, slowed my own breathing, and lightly touched her shoulders. I asked her “Why do you care so much? Because I don’t.” Immediately her energy changed. Her breath slowed. And the tension she was allowing to build in her shoulders began to subside. Why do we care so much? Yoga is supposed to be peaceful and healing. But rather, we’re making it about image. Do not misunderstand, I think there’s a time and a place for projecting an image of “perfect form,” but the world is also aching for honesty. Ana Forrest called me out time and again on my push for perfection in my practice. I struggle daily with my mind dropping into old habits of critiques, judgement, and frustration when my forearm balance looks and feels accidental. But I’m beginning to catch my mind in these moments and tell it “who cares?” This is my practice today and it’s further along than it was yesterday but maybe not as far as tomorrow. So who cares? As a yogi on Instagram, I’m going to start with myself…and knowingly and willingly post pictures of me that are not the best form, with horrendous lighting, and possibly a bulldog in the background wishing I’d let him nap. Since #stopanddropyoga is a thing, I’ll challenge yogis to hopefully read this blog and to post a #perfectlyimperfect photo. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Post navigation ← Previous post Next post → 1 thought on “Perfectly imperfect” Kate B said: October 8, 2014 at 9:04 am Darin, I love this post — it really resonates with me, particularly in the world of instagram-perfect yoga postures. Yoga is more than perfect asana, and so much is in process, the progress and the journey. Thank you for this. 🙂 Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ Subscribe Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS) Archives March 2020 January 2020 July 2019 June 2019 March 2019 November 2018 July 2018 June 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 Categories #nothingforgranted Bad Yogi Beauty Reports Dragon Forrest Forrest Yoga Gratitude Intention setting Intentions Life Lessons Mending the Hoop Photographs Bakasana Yoga Selfies Postures Truth Uncategorized Yoga Breath Meta Register Log in Blog at WordPress.com. Follow Following badyogidc Join 41 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. badyogidc Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this: | negative |
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Collective church school worship provides everyone with the opportunity to: ╬ express praise and thanksgiving to God ╬ reflect on the attributes of God ╬ reflect on the teachings of Christ ╬ affirm Christian values and attitudes ╬ share each other’s joys and challenges ╬ celebrate special times in the Christian calendar ╬ foster respect and unity deepen spiritual awareness Southwark Diocesan Board of Education At Roehampton Church School we have an assembly every day, during which the above points are addressed. A Christian value, prayer, time for reflection and a song are included in each assembly. Assemblies Monday Values Assembly During this assembly a Christian or moral value or quality is explored and the children are encouraged to think about how this value could be demonstrated in our own lives. Each week a child is nominated by their class peers to receive a sticker award for demonstrating the previous week’s value. 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As musicians continue to react to the debut of Caitlyn Jenner, some have been more accepting of the transition than others.
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For some reason, Drake Bell decided to share his less-than-enthused take on the day's big news, tweeting "Sorry....still calling you Bruce." He deleted the tweet shortly thereafter, which we have screen-grabbed below.
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Shortly after deleting the above tweet, Bell sent a follow-up to assure people he wasn't insulting Caitlyn Jenner. Bell did, however, continue to refer to Caitlyn as "he" while speaking of Jenner in the present tense.
I'm not dissing him! I just don't want to forget his legacy! He is the greatest athlete of all time! Chill out! — Drake Bell (@DrakeBell) June 1, 2015
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Economists are talking about recession again - this time it's not unwarranted
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As Australia transitions away from the mining boom, it needs the rest of its economy to pick up the slack. That hasn't happened so far, which is why we're seeing some gloomy predictions, writes Greg Jericho.
Today the latest GDP figures will be released. The expectation is for them to be less than stellar, but at least positive. However, due to some poor recent economic data, the word "recession" has begun to get thrown around.
After such a long time without a recession, no treasurer would wish to be the one to preside over such an event. For Joe Hockey, the path away from recession lies with his hope that the budget measures for small businesses will enliven investment in the non-mining sector. And given the current poor state of investment in that sector, his measures will need to work.
Economists love to call recessions. The standard joke about economists and recessions is the one made by Paul Samuelson that some economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions. And there is certainly a great allure to being the one who predicts the bad times to come.
Australia has not had a recession since June 1991, which was the last time there were two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in seasonally adjusted terms.
Of course, such a definition is utterly stupid, and really should be thrown out as soon as possible. Any definition where an economy could shrink by 0.5 per cent in one quarter, rise by 0.1 per cent in the next, and then shrink by 0.6 per cent the quarter after and not be in a recession is complete lunacy.
There is for example no particular reason why we shouldn't apply the definition to GDP per capita instead of total GDP. But even that has flaws.
During the GFC, Australia's GDP per capita fell 0.2 per cent in the June 2008 quarter, then rose by 0.1 per cent in the September 2008 quarter, before falling by 1.3 per cent in the December quarter.
But apparently we weren't in a recession.
In the 12 months from June 2008 to June 2009, the unemployment rate rose by 1.6 percentage points. But no, we weren't in a recession.
Our economic debate would be much improved were we to acknowledge that far from going through the GFC without a scratch, we received a rather big scar.
But this is all history; what of the future? Last week when the latest capital expenditure data was released, it was accompanied with talk of recession.
The scary thing is the talk is not unwarranted.
Capital expenditure looks at the amount invested by companies on buildings and structures (roads, mines etc) and on machinery, plants and equipment. More investment invariably leads to more jobs, more economic activity elsewhere and generally more tax.
But the current capital expenditure picture is not good. That in itself is not a concern, for the picture hasn't been good for a while now.
Since the peak in June 2012, total new private capital expenditure has fallen nearly 12 per cent.
This is pretty much all due to the end of the investment side of the mining boom. We all knew it was coming, and perhaps it has come faster than we would have liked, but that in itself is not the concern from last week's figures.
The concern is that the non-mining side of the economy is not picking up the slack to the extent that might assist the transition from the mining boom.
The data showed that in the last quarter, capital expenditure in "other selected industries" - which pretty much includes everything not mining or manufacturing - fell 4.2 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms:
At the start of the year, the RBA was noting that growth of non-mining investment was expected to be "subdued", but at least there was the anticipation of it growing.
And what is worse is the outlook for the next 12 months.
Last week's figures contained the second set of estimates for investment in the year ahead. And it is not all that optimistic.
The estimate for investment in new machinery, plant and equipment in 2015-16 in "Other selected industries" is the lowest since the estimate for 2005-06:
That represents a 13 per cent decline from the second estimate made 12 months ago - the biggest fall since 1992.
Fortunately, estimates are just that. The end result is always much higher. Since 1989, the final investment on machinery, plant and equipment in the "Other selected industries" averages about 50 per cent higher than was estimated in the second estimate:
And we should hope that the final result does not see as great a fall as is currently expected. The May Budget forecast that mining investment would fall 25.5 per cent in the coming financial year. The second estimate for mining investment however projects a fall of 35 per cent.
Similarly, the budget predicted non-mining investment in 2015-16 would rise 4 per cent. But the combined second estimate for investment in all non-mining sectors (including manufacturing) is 10.4 per cent lower than 12 months ago. To get to the budgeted growth of 4 per cent would require the biggest improvement in actual investment over what was predicted in the second estimate since 2004-05:
And here Joe Hockey would have some cause for optimism. The major economic measure in the budget - the instant asset write-off of up to $20,000 for small businesses - is aimed squarely at the machinery, plant and equipment investment in the non-mining sector.
The Treasury secretary John Fraser might have told the Senate Estimates Economics committee that the intent of the policy was not "primarily... a macroeconomic restoration measure" but that rather it was "about building up the small business sector". But the only reason the Government is desperate to build up that sector is because it needs to get the non-mining sector going if it wants to keep the economy growing.
And while the estimates contained in last week's figures would not give one much hope, the reality is they would not have fully taken into account these measures in the budget.
For the impact, we will have to wait another three months to see what arises in "Estimate 3". If that shows a similarly bleak outlook, then it will be well and truly time to smash the glass and ring the warning bell.
It's rare that a budget measure designed to improve economic growth will be so easy to judge so quickly.
But the capital expenditure figures also show another cause for concern. Thus far the decline in the mining sector has been predominantly in Queensland.
In the past two years, capital expenditure in Queensland has fallen 30 per cent, whereas in WA it is down just 2 per cent.
Capital expenditure in WA however is 1.7 times the amount of that in Queensland, and it accounts for around 38 per cent of all private investment in Australia.
If (or perhaps when) WA's mining sector follows the lead of Queensland, it will take an almighty amount of investment in the other states to make up for it. It is an amount that will need more than just some tradies buying a $19,000 ute.
And if non-mining investment does not pick up the slack, it is very likely that we won't have to worry about whether the definition of recession fits the dire state our economy will be in.
Greg Jericho writes weekly for The Drum. He tweets at @grogsgamut.
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South Africa 326 (Peterson 84, de Villiers 61, Ajmal 6-96) and 182 for 6 (Amla 58, Ajmal 4-51) beat Pakistan 338 (Shafiq 111, Younis 111, Philander 5-59) and 169 (Ali 65, Philander 4-40) by four wickets
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Vernon Philander's burst sliced through the Pakistan middle order in the morning © Associated Press
A cracking match in Cape Town continued to be a great advertisement for Test cricket as it served up another yo-yoing session on the fourth morning which handed South Africa an advantage they never ceded, going on to complete their fifth Test win in a row and sixth consecutive series victory.
Azhar Ali enhanced his outstanding third-innings record - he scored his fifth successive fifty-plus, third-innings score - and in the company Asad Shafiq, seemed to be gradually pushing Pakistan towards supremacy in the first hour and a half. As always with Pakistan cricket, though, the unpredictable happened and four wickets went down for five runs, making South Africa front-runners and further embellishing Vernon Philander's astonishing Newlands record.
From looking at a tricky target of around 250, South Africa were left chasing a more manageable 182, which they hunted down thanks chiefly to yet another half-century from the world's No. 1 ranked Test batsman, Hashim Amla.
South Africa's high-tempo pursuit was in contrast to Misbah-ul-Haq and Ali's cautious approach at the start of the day, adding only 14 off the first eight overs. South Africa were hampered by the absence of Morne Morkel, who was sidelined with a hamstring injury, but with Robin Peterson holding up one end, they continued to be accurate, though not unplayable. Misbah fell trying to sweep Peterson out of the rough, top-edging a catch towards short fine leg, and was visibly frustrated at that unforced error as he trudged off the field.
Shafiq was more adventurous than either Misbah or Ali, attacking Peterson when he bowled too full or too short. Though Steyn had upped his pace and Philander was his nagging self around off, with Ali moving beyond 60 and Shafiq confidently slapping Philander over the man at point for four, Pakistan were effectively on 159 for 4.
That was a position of great strength, especially given that South Africa would have to face the befuddling spin of Saeed Ajmal in the final innings, but the match turned in the matter of minutes. Shafiq defended a Philander delivery, and couldn't react quickly enough to either kick the ball away or deflect it with his bat as it bounced towards the off stump.
If that was unfortunate, the next dismissal was unforgivable as Sarfraz Ahmed advertised his lack of batting ability by inexplicably not getting either pad or bat behind a Peterson delivery that spun, not too alarmingly, from the rough to crash into the top of middle stump. Philander then added two typical dismissals, getting Ali to edge to the keeper before Umar Gul completed a pair by nicking to a wide third slip. It was a team hat-trick, and Pakistan were suddenly down to 152 for 8. After lunch, Peterson bowled Ajmal round his legs before Steyn rounded off the innings five overs later to leave South Africa facing a target of 182.
Alviro Petersen could have fallen to Mohammad Irfan twice - surviving a close lbw call in the first over and reprieved in the third as the replays showed Irfan had just overstepped - but he couldn't capitalise, trapped lbw by Gul in the fourth.
If that strike buoyed Pakistan, they were then up against two batsmen who are masters in the final innings, Graeme Smith and Amla. Smith used his tried-and-tested method of working almost everything to the leg side, and Amla unleashed several of his fierce off-drives to push South Africa along.
If Pakistan were to have any chance of defending the total, it would need another herculean effort from their first-innings hero, Ajmal. He used every trick he had, subtly varying the length, getting the ball to spin either way, and got it to hurry off the pitch and even dismissed three of South Africa's big batsmen - Smith, Amla and Jacques Kallis - but lacked enough support from the other end.
Kallis hit some regal drives in a 21, AB de Villiers was his usual busy self and Amla top scored with 58 to make sure Pakistan never had more than an outside chance of victory. There was time for Ajmal to complete a richly deserved ten-for when he had Faf du Plessis lbw before South Africa reached the finish line with four wickets to spare.
Siddarth Ravindran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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A 22-year-old woman working with a finance firm as data processor has lodged a complaint against her boss for giving her a Viagra tablet when she complained of a severe headache and sought permission to go buy a medicine.Inchara (name changed) has been working in a finance and investment firm in Jalahalli for one year. She alleged that for the last threefour months, she had been harassed by her manager, identified as Mallappa, aged around 38 years.In her complaint to Peenya police, she alleged that Mallappa would pull her dupatta and touch her inappropriately when they were no employees in the office.She said he offered a marriage since she had lost her father.He did this despite having a wife in the US.Speaking to BM, Inchara said, “I was helpless, I had no option and put up with Mallappa's harassment for months. I knew that no one would believe me if I had complained against him since he was the manager. I would be sacked instead.“She said he had approached her several times seeking sexual favours. “He even offered to financially support my studies and getting me a good job, but I refused“ said Inchara. | positive |
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands of people descended on the town for the annual event
Play has ended in a mass game of football that has been played in a Derbyshire town for centuries.
Ashbourne's Royal Shrovetide Football game involves two sides competing to move a ball to posts at opposing ends of the town.
It takes place across fields, streets, car parks and waterways each Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.
The game was won 1-0 by the Up'Ards, who defeated the Down'Ards in the two-day event.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Play takes place across fields, streets, car parks and waterways
Image copyright PA Image caption The two sides compete to move a ball to posts at opposing ends of the town
The Up'Ards - traditionally those born north of Henmore River - play against the Down'Ards from the south of the town's river.
Each game begins with a guest of honour throwing the elaborately painted ball into the crowd.
Prince Charles and the late Nottingham Forest and Derby County football manager Brian Clough are among the famous names chosen to "turn up" the ball in previous years.
Image caption The only goal of the game was scored by Kurt Smith, who poses with the ball and his friend Monty Lyon
This year the honour fell to Dallas Burston, a former GP who became a businessman, and John Stubbs, a retired dairy farmer.
Shop windows around the town were again boarded up ahead of the famously hard-fought contest.
Players were also reminded they were not allowed to climb over parked cars or enter cemeteries, churchyards and memorial gardens.
A goal was scored by Kurt Smith at about 20:20 GMT on Tuesday and it took nearly and hour for it to be confirmed. There were no goals on Wednesday.
Image copyright PA Image caption Traders across the town take precautions to stop windows being smashed
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1. The Seahawks' offense was radically different tonight ... in subtle ways
In 2013, the Seahawks split opposing defenses with a run-heavy attack that featured a lot of play action and the dominant shake-and-quake running of Marshawn Lynch. That was all evident against the Packers on Thursday night, but Seattle's offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell also threw in all kinds of new wrinkles, especially in the first half.
MMQB: This year it's the Seattle offense that could flash revolutionary talent
Seattle worked more with receiver distribution and location pre-snap -- the Seahawks were definitely more diverse with their formations than they were last year. Receiver Doug Baldwin was upset at national prognosticators in the run-up to the Super Bowl when it was said that Seattle's receivers couldn't consistently gain separation, but there are structures that give receivers openings through scheme, and the Seahawks are doing more of that now because they have Percy Harvin as the force multiplier. Defenses -- especially in the middle -- are forced to adapt to Harvin. Russell Wilson continued to excel in play-action, especially when Harvin was involved. They opened the second quarter with receiver Jermaine Kearse in the middle of Trips left, motioning to the right H-back slot ... and then they switched it up with a 10-yard run by Lynch. They ran out of wider formations a lot.
On the third play of the second quarter, Harvin ran a drag route for 33 yards to the Green Bay 33. Then, on the following play, receiver Ricardo Lockette got an embarrassingly easy touchdown off Wilson's stretch play-action, taking the defense to Lynch's side and leaving everyone going the wrong way. Lynch's touchdown with 3:41 left in the first half was a variation of that same slice handoff, which is called a "Pop Play" at the NCAA level. Baldwin told me after the game that had Harvin been healthy through the 2013 season, this is what the offense would have looked like. That's a scary thought. Wilson completed 19 of 28 passes for 191 yards, two touchdowns and no picks, and looked completely in control in ways he hasn't before. It's pretty clear so far that Wilson's red-hot preseason transferred over to the real deal just fine.
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2. Green Bay's no-huddle offense brought forth middling results.
The Packers went no-huddle more often in this game to attack Seattle's base defense -- something Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy talked about during the week -- but that's a problem because Seattle plays more from execution than scheme in their defense, and base is just fine with them. They did throw a few new wrinkles in there, consistently lining Michael Bennett up about three yards to the right outside the formation and throwing different nickel concepts at the Pack, but this was more about brute force than anything else. Aaron Rodgers alternated between coverage pressure issues and flat-out pressure inside and outside. Rodgers finished with 23 completions in 33 attempts for 189 yards, one touchdown and one interception, and appeared overwhelmed more often than not. And that was less about Rodgers and more about the most impressive unit in the 2014 NFL opener.
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3. Seattle's defense looked very much like the NFL's best all over again.
Richard Sherman still has not allowed an earned run. pic.twitter.com/iOR96p3rAa — SB Nation GIF (@SBNationGIF) September 5, 2014
This week, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman talked about what he's working on this season.
"Being disciplined and being patient. Not getting beat on the same thing twice. Having disciplined eyes and not getting bored in ball games. That’s pretty much it. Obviously playing deep ball and being multi-faceted in that respect."
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And what makes him bored? "Not getting the ball gets you pretty bored."
Well, Sherman must have been elite-level bored in this game, because he wasn't targeted once. Not one single target. Rodgers instead targeted bookend cornerback Byron Maxwell, who gave up some plays to receiver Jordy Nelson, but this looked very much like the defense that tore up the NFL in 2013. Safeties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas were head-hunters all night, linebacker Bobby Wagner was a force against the run, and the allegedly penalty-prone Seahawks D had just four flags all evening.
The Seahawks are certainly not suffering from any Super Bowl hangover, and they've served notice to the rest of the NFL that as long as they stay reasonably healthy, the road to the next NFL championship goes through the Emerald City and nowhere else.
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Studies that have ever been published or scrutinised outside razor companies seem to be rather difficult to come by.
The best I could find was Measurement of beard hair removal efficacy using image analysis, a study conducted by researchers at Gillette (kudos to Solveig_A on Reddit for fetching the full-text for me). Now, a warning: this study's primary focus was not actually about comparing two razors, but on techniques for finding statistically significant results even for marginal effects were to conduct such a study. That can make reading it a bit obtuse (I shall not get into why they might be motivated to conduct such a study...).
The first two experiments compare different types of shaving foam using a twin blade and a single-blade razor, respectively. They do not include results in such a way as to make direct comparison possible. However, the third experiment compared a single-blade and a twin-blade razor (Gillette's Trac I and Trac II razors, respectively) with the same type of shaving foam. According to their data, the twin-bladed razor was 1.6% more effective than the single-bladed razor, but that they could not reject the null hypothesis (that they were equally effective) at the α=0.05 significance level.
In short, this does not represent compelling evidence that a razor with two blades is more effective than a razor with one blade, which does not bode well for the claim that five blades are more effective than three.
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The Last, Last Cast
The day drew to a close. A deadline loomed. Not the usual,"I’ll be home about then", deadline, oh no, much more serious than that. This was the guests for dinner, "and don't you dare be late again" restriction. An unbreakable deadline.
The day had been slow. I fished Te Rae spit at Kuratau on Lake Taupo (North Island, NZ). Most fish that jumped on the line jumped off. The few that did not, deserved to grow to a size where in a year or two they might least put a small bend in the rod. So now it was down to finite timing. Given a fair wind, light traffic, and no traffic cops, there must be time for just one more cast before the 40-minute drive home.
Out flew the cast. Nothing. Surely there is time for just one more – the definite last. Out went this final cast and just as surely, nothing. Time for the absolute last, no nonsense final, end, finish, finito and absolutely last cast. Nothing, nil, zilch.
I could be a wee bit late surely? Probably expected. Besides, to arrive on time might set a dangerous precedent. Out fired the very last definite 'one for the road' cast. Nothing. Then out of the corner of the eye, wasn't that a swirl on the water? Faint hope pushed a strong case for just one more. Out it went, and back it came, unmolested.
OK, deep breath, small prayer and time for the ultimate, ' the lucky last.’ Out it went, back it came. The lucky last, unlucky.
The rest went pretty much to plan, for those who are late.
I turned the car onto the main road, and into a long stream of crawling traffic. This day someone decreed that all the cattle trucks in this country would be on this road at the same time. Finally clear of the cattle trucks, the freight trucks took over.
Probably by no coincidence a caravan driven by the dirty digit of destiny threw a wheel right at the tight turn near Waipehi. Traffic backed up for miles.
On arrival I expected a cool reception, but I was wrong. ' Cool’ was far too mild a word. I met a cold dinner, colder stares, frigid tone of voice, and the icy-clear unstated promise of more frost when the guests left. I was not wrong. All my excuses about the traffic, this time factual, meant nothing. Crawling into the fridge to get warm seemed a very viable option.
The danger of the last cast is not confined to straining relationships.
My lad Eddie, and I, spent a fruitless day sitting in the aluminium dinghy chasing yellowtail kingfish. The huge berley trail we constructed was working well, but off the coast of Chile. The only fish we saw that day was our bait.
It was time to go. Way past time given the results of the day. I set about cleaning up the boat, ready to leave.
Still in his pre-teens, Ed had not yet learned the futility of fishing for fish where fish are not. He decided to cast out one more bait, a snapper bait, ' just in case’, while we cleaned up. Carefully he rigged a pilchard and cast it a short distance from the boat. The bait hit the water, and Ed reached out to drop the rod in the holder.
We both saw it at the same time. A big kingi shot out from under the boat, grabbed the pillie, and departed at high speed. Ed, off balance, and with pillie-coated slippery hands, had no chance. The rod slid from his hands, bounced once on the side of the boat, and disappeared. Definitely the last cast.
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The trouble with the last cast is that the timing of the
cast is not always at the end of a fishing trip.
The last cast can arrive with no warning. As the good book nearly said, the first shall be last.
For 40 minutes I bounced out to Takatu Point, from Sandspit, an hour and a bit north of Auckland, and anchored up. I set up the berley, and rigged up. I cast out the bait, and just as the bait hit the water, a steep boat wake hit the 'tinny' (Kiwi speak for 12 foot aluminium dinghy). The boat lurched, I reached out for the side to hold on, dropped the rod, and over the side it went.
When the swearing stopped I reached for my second rod. The second rod I always carry. Where was it? It could not have gone over the side, could it? Even my declining powers of observation could soon work out that that if you cannot see a rod in a tinny, there are not too many places for it to hide.
The gloom of my long slow trip back to Sandspit did not lift by finding my second rod right where I left it, still in the back of the car.
If it is true that the first can be the last, then it can also be true that first last cast may not be the final cast.
To my eyes Lake Otamangakau is not the most beautiful place on the planet even in kind weather. It is a definitely dreary place, surrounded in the main by tussock and low scrub. In bad weather it is distinctly less than lovely. But the fish, that is the draw. Big fish. Hard to catch, but caught, what a reward.
This day the weather was plain awful. A freezing breeze blew a cold wet-mist into every nook and corner of the lake, and through every pore and seam of my wet-weather gear. The lake was grey and sullen. Nothing stirred, no birds, no fish, and no other anglers. Any horror movie maker would love this scene.
For four hours I had slogged around the edge of the lake, casting to the merest hint of fish, to no avail. I could not even catch the weed.
Cold, damp, thoroughly disillusioned, and with an appointment looming back at a motel, I started to trudge back to the car. As I walked round the lake edge I spotted a tiny ripple some 50 metres along the beach. Just another methane bubble I grumbled as I trudged along. As I neared the area where I saw the ripple, another small ring waved across the surface.
"Just one cast, absolutely just one" I promised myself, in fierce determination to fulfill this vow.
Out went the nymph, and it settled under the small indicator. I waited, gave the line a twitch, and waited, twitched and waited. I was just about to reel in, and may in fact have begun to do so, when the indicator did not bob under the water, it slowly slid under, hardly making a ripple.
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"Caught in the damn weed," I muttered to me – the only person listening.
I pulled up on the rod, and something pulled back hard, and fast. The fish fought deep and strong, but eventually I slid up the bank a beautiful hen that might have given 4kg (8lb) a distinct nudge.
As I released the fish I noticed many more ripples in the area. All over the area.
"Better have one more last cast" I said to my now very enthusiastic audience of me.
In the next half hour or so I landed two more trout, and hooked more, on a succession of last casts, until as suddenly as it livened up, the water returned to its sullen unmoving former self.
Now a much more happy chappy I strolled back to the car. As I neared it, the mist parted and the sun came out. As the sun turned the lake from surly to sparkling, the water in front of my parked car erupted in a frenzy of rises. Feeding fish everywhere.
"Just one more, I cannot leave this", I argued to my non-argumentative self.
Out went the nymph, and back it came, again and again. Out went new nymphs, followed by dry flies, and back they came, repeatedly. Dry fly and nymph combinations hit the water, followed by smelt flies – all spurned. Last cast after last cast tempted no fish, yet fish were feeding everywhere.
"OK, this is it, the very last cast", I promised myself, and out it went. I twitched it back a long way. There were just one or two metres of fly-line out from the tip, when the water heaved and rolled as a very big fish pricked by the hook heaved half out of the water, and then raced back towards the deep. The line slashed off the water around my feet, and out through the guides. My excitement knew no bounds, right up until the moment the line came up tight, very tight. Too tight. The leader cracked wickedly in the early evening quiet. Crushed, I lifted my foot up from where it firmly anchored one of the loose loops of line. (Yes, again damn-it, yet again!) That cast now definitely my last.
Ban Last Casts
Ban last casts I say. They are a pox and a blot. The despotism of deadlines should not extend to anglers. Hasn't it been decreed that every hour we spend fishing is added to our allotted life span? To cut back on fishing time is to cut back on life itself.
Too often I heard over the counter of the tackle shop I owned a complaint from a customer that they were doing too little fishing because they didn’t have enough time. Arrant rubbish of course. We all get exactly the same amount of time. The same 24 hours, all day, every day.
It is the priorities we set ourselves that get in the way. Silly inconsequential priorities like jobs, mortgages, families, ad nausea. To restrict ourselves further by tight deadlines, and frantic last casts, is foolish.
Besides every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it – the anguish that is – and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first. | positive |
In an escalation of a diplomatic row with Moscow, the State Department has given Russia three days to vacate a consulate in San Francisco, a chancery in Washington D.C. and a consular annex in New York. The decision comes a month after the Russians ordered the U.S. to vacate two facilities used by hundreds of diplomatic personnel and reduce its presence to 455 staff in retaliation for a new round of congressionally-mandated U.S. sanctions reluctantly signed by President Donald Trump—as well as a December shuttering of New York and Maryland facilities used by Russian intelligence. The move suggests State will not return those facilities, as the White House has reportedly considered. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said “the spirit of party invoked by the Russians” prompted the closure and, while the U.S. is “prepared to take further action,” Washington wishes to “avoid further retaliatory” steps.
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Residents at downtown Los Angeles’s not-so-tony Cecil Hotel received a bit of unwanted news this week when they were advised not to drink the water. It seems that a corpse, the remains of a Canadian woman named Elisa Lam, had been found in one of the water cisterns supplying the hotel, possibly contaminating the water supply. The water, per one British visitor, had a funny taste and color, presumably from the rotting flesh in the pipes.
We will leave the task of sorting out the grisly details behind the tragic death to the LAPD. But whether the water had become dangerously contaminated is a different issue. The question before us, then, is this: how quickly does a dead person decompose? And what effect, if any, does the fact that her body was found floating in water have on the rate of decomposition?
Decomposition has been well characterized—in fact there is even a word for the process (taphonomy) and a facility at the University of Tennessee, referred to as the “body farm,” devoted to the scientific study of decomposition. Forensics experts need to understand what breaks down when to accurately backdate when a murder might have occurred.
Forensics experts consider that animals decay in five major stages—a process that takes a few weeks for most of the degradation, then many more months till a body is reduced to skeletal remains. The first stage is “fresh”—the immediate aftermath of death, when oxygen is no longer supplied to the cells and anaerobic bacteria (which do not require oxygen to survive), already present in staggeringly high numbers in the digestive tract, begin to really proliferate. And by high numbers, consider this: on a normal day, there are 10 times more bacteria in and on our body than the number of cells that constitute “us,”—i.e., the human self, the ego and the id and the superego, and the accompanying package known as the body. By the numbers, we are composed of 100 trillion cells. Ten times that number means we are surrounded and occupied by a cool quadrillion bacteria, a staggering, even unimaginable, number. I mean, Christ was born, if he was born, only 64 billion seconds ago. The number of bacteria we associate with is 18,000 times larger than that.
Anaerobes, especially in the exponential growth phase seen after a death, cause two large problems: they make that familiar forgot-to-empty-the-fridge rancid odor and also metabolize various nutrients into gas. This creates the second stage of decomposition—bloat. As its name suggests, bloat quickly becomes visible because the malodorous gas created by the anaerobes fills the abdomen and other tissues, making the corpse appear like the Michelin man. The next stage is equally sobering. Called “active decay,” this is when insects—maggots and flies and the like—begin to pick the corpse clean, and tissue that has been liquefied by putrefaction spills into the environment. The other two stages of decomposition, “advanced decay” and “remains,” can be read about here.
Given that the woman in L.A. had last been seen two to three weeks before the discovery of her body, she likely was at some stage of putrefaction, the pace of which was slowed by submersion in water. Still, it is likely that billions or even trillions of new bacteria had overtaken her body, with many spilling into the water. Furthermore, as she moved to the end of putrefaction and into active decay, the liquefied tissue likely supplied even more bacteria into the Cecil Hotel water supply. Water supplies are equipped to handle some amount of bacteria; indeed American municipal water is treated with various antibacterials, such as chlorine, to keep drinking water safe. The amount of bacteria, though, from a decaying animal would easily overwhelm the range of what routine treatment could prevent.
So we have a situation that is gross, yes. Creepy and extremely sad, oh yes. But, bacteria and all, is the water dangerous? Probably not as much as you would think.
Though humans are no match for the vulture and other carrion-picking birds that eat rancid decaying flesh every day (they have stomach acid that could fry an egg and an immune system seemingly capable of mopping up all manner of stray toxins), we are pretty well equipped to survive. We too have a stomach full of harsh hydrochloric acid (at least those of us not on antacids or proton-pump inhibitors such as Nexium or Prevacid) and can take a pretty good wallop. Furthermore, unless the woman was poisoned with anthrax or botulism or some other bacterial toxin that might be proliferating in her remains, the bacteria would not be lethal, just nauseating. I suspect that vomiting and a day or two of stomach misery would be the worst that would happen to the hotel guests, if that.
So, rather than a public-health crisis, we are left with miffed, on-a-budget tourists with a story to tell, a hotel that will likely go under from the bad publicity, and yet another grim, unexplainable death, once again of a young person drawn to the flash and eternal promise of L.A. only to find a boulevard of broken dreams—the one true Hollywood ending, one we all have seen far too many times. | positive |
DES MOINES, IA - MAY 16: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks to guests gathered for the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner at the Iowa Events Center on May 16, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. The event sponsored by the Republican Party of Iowa gave several Republican presidential hopefuls an opportunity to strengthen their support among Iowa Republicans ahead of the 2016 Iowa caucus. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Senator Rand Paul told Talk Radio 1210 WPHT midday host Dom Giordano that most of America agrees with him when it comes to privacy concerns.
“Inside the Beltway, I’m very unpopular. I’m maybe the least popular person in Washington right now, but once I leave the Beltway and I get out and I visit voters in New Hampshire, or Kentucky or Iowa or wherever I go, South Carolina, we have hundreds of people who show up to every event and to a person, they think the government has gone too far. They don’t trust the President with their information and frankly, they don’t trust any president. If you interview people under 40, 83% of them in a recent survey said that the government has gone too far in collecting our records.”
He feels that at least half of the other Republican candidates for president disagree with the 83% of people in that survey, and they are in turn “out of touch.”
“They’re welcome to have that opinion. They’re welcome to viciously attack me, but in the end, I think the position that I’ve taken is the correct one with regards to the 4th Amendment, but I think it’s also the one that ultimately, the American people will rally around.”
Paul also spoke about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement should not be classified.
“I see no reason why a trade agreement would be classified. In fact, the act of classifying it really ends up, I think, damaging their public relations to such an extent that all of America should demand that we see it now, because if you’re making something secret it makes it seem as if the government has something to hide.”
Paul feels that it’s a big mistake not to let the American people read the bills before they are voted on. This would also give him and other elected officials more than enough time to analyze exactly what is in these bills, something that he does not feel currently exists.
“Now, I did go through it with two staff members, it’s 800 pages, and we weren’t able to find anything explicit, but it’s difficult to read and understand something in an hour or two because you have to refer to the Federal Register, which is hundreds of thousands pages long, sometimes, to figure out exactly what’s in it.” | positive |
About c : Is-char-signed-or-unsigned-by-default - Howtofusion Linux Tutorials Skip to content Howtofusion Linux Tutorials Search for: Howtofusion Linux Tutorials HowtoFusion - Linux Howtos and Tutorials. Uncategorized About c : Is-char-signed-or-unsigned-by-default by howtofusion · January 13, 2010 Question Detail In the book “Complete Reference of C” it is mentioned that char is by default unsigned. But I am trying to verify this with GCC as well as Visual Studio. It is taking it as signed by default. Which one is correct? Question Answer The book is wrong. The standard does not specify if plain char is signed or unsigned. In fact, the standard defines three distinct types: char, signed char, and unsigned char. If you #include <limits.h> and then look at CHAR_MIN, you can find out if plain char is signed or unsigned (if CHAR_MIN is less than 0 or equal to 0), but even then, the three types are distinct as far as the standard is concerned. Do note that char is special in this way. If you declare a variable as int it is 100% equivalent to declaring it as signed int. This is always true for all compilers and architectures. As Alok points out, the standard leaves that up to the implementation. For gcc, the default is signed, but you can modify that with -funsigned-char. note: for gcc in Android NDK, the default is unsigned. You can also explicitly ask for signed characters with -fsigned-char. On MSVC, the default is signed but you can modify that with /J. C99 N1256 draft 6.2.5/15 “Types” has this to say about the signed-ness of type char: The implementation shall define char to have the same range, representation, and behavior as either signed char or unsigned char. and in a footnote: CHAR_MIN, defined in <limits.h>, will have one of the values 0 or SCHAR_MIN, and this can be used to distinguish the two options. Irrespective of the choice made, char is a separate type from the other two and is not compatible with either. According to The C Programming Language book by Dennis Ritchie which is the de-facto standard book for ANSI C, plain chars either signed or unsigned are machine dependent, but printable characters are always positive. According to the C standard the signedness of plain char is “implementation defined”. In general implementors chose whichever was more efficient to implement on their architecture. On x86 systems char is generally signed. On arm systems it is generally unsigned (Apple iOS is an exception). Now, we known the standard leaves that up to the implementation. But how to check a type is signed or unsigned, such as char? I wrote a macro to do this: #define IS_UNSIGNED(t) ((t)~1 > 0) and test it with gcc, clang, and cl. But I do not sure it’s always safe for other cases. Tags: ccharsignedtypes You may also like... About linux : Read-lines-from-a-file-and-tokenize-each-line-to-extract-specific-word-in-shell-script March 29, 2020 by howtofusion · Published March 29, 2020 About python : How-to-split-the-dynamic-array-values-one-by-one-using-Python December 24, 2019 by howtofusion · Published December 24, 2019 About linux : ERROR-cannot-access-function-args-in-this-context-near-identifier-stparg-at-usrlocalsharesystemtaptapseti386registersstp20410 August 24, 2022 by howtofusion · Published August 24, 2022 Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Follow: Next story About c : Why-do-inode-numbers-start-from-1-and-not-0 Previous story About unix : Diff-files-present-in-two-different-directories Search Search Recent Posts About linux : Why-gcloud-container-clusters-get-credentials-messes-up-my-Linux-user-permissions About linux : How-to-List-all-the-available-disk-spaces-and-convert-the-same-into-megabytesgigabytes About linux : problems-in-flutter-flutter-in-linux-The-terminal-shows-flutter-failed-cannot-find-installed-snap-flutter About linux : lsmod-shows-Used-by–2 About php : Get-available-free-memory-in-PHP amazon-web-services android apache assembly awk bash c c# c++ centos cmake command-line cron debian docker file gcc git grep java kernel linux linux-kernel makefile multithreading mysql networking node.js operating-system php process python python-3.x raspberry-pi scripting sed server sh shell sockets ssh terminal ubuntu unix windows Howtofusion Linux Tutorials © 2022. All Rights Reserved. Powered by - Designed with the HowtoFusion Go to mobile version | negative |
DETROIT -- Belle Isle's 982 acres of woods, trails, landmarks and activity centers can be overwhelming for first-time visitors to the island park.
Well, there's an app for that.
Audio-D Tours developed a 2-hour-28-minute program designed to serve as a personal tour guide, whether taking in Belle Isle by foot, vehicle or book.
Detroit's Belle Isle state park displays an array of autumn colors As the temperatures grow colder and November draws nearer, the trees on Detroit's Belle Isle, are beginning to change colors.
"Audio-D's mission is to help you explore the history, art, and architecture of our favorite city, Detroit, Michigan," its website reads. "Understanding and taking pride in the heritage of this great town and its inhabitants is one spark that helps keep the pistons churning toward new and lofty goals.
"Sharing these stories with our fellow citizens and the rest of the world is our little contribution to that effort."
To download the free mobile application, search for "izi.TRAVEL" on either Android or iOS cellphones. Once the application is downloaded, search for "Exploring Detroit's Belle Isle."
The app advises potential users to download before making it to the island, due to "spotty cell service" in the park. Longtime Detroit radio personality Dick Shafran narrates the tour, which aids the exploration of more than 40 spots on Belle Isle.
In addition to its navigational duties, Audio-D's tour has information hours of operation, prices, how to get on the island and speed limits.
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For those of you like me who have read almost every book that has been printed of what has happened after the events of The Return of the Jedi will be disappointed about what is to come. It has been suspected from the time that Lucasfilm was bought by Disney that things would be changing and we have seen many of those changes already. Although it has not been officially confirmed by Disney/Lucasfilm, tweets from the Lucasfilm Story Group are suggesting that the Expanded Universe will be “disposed” to make room for a more cohesive canon. So this means that the movies and any other media can and will override the EU if necessary. According to Leland Chee, who is a member of the Story Group, says this:
As much as I have loved the old timeline, there was a lot of work that needed to be done to clean it up. We’ve heard that JJ Abrams won’t be using the EU as part of the films, so it is giving us something new to look forward to in the new films and new opportunity for the story to develop into something that we’ll all love again. So the Lucasfilm Story Group will be deciding what’s canon and what’s not. So will the EU be disposed of completely? Not all of it, it just seems they are trying to get rid of the G/T/C canon and make one official cohesive canon.
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If you’re in space and you want to clear a room full of bad guys in a hurry, the first person you probably think of is Dark Matter’s Four. Serious, intense, and a man of few words, he may not be much for conversation, but thankfully his alter-ego Alex Mallari, Jr. is a much more gregarious person. He happily agreed to spend some time answering our questions, which I’m more than happy to share with you.
We talked naming katanas, more backstory for Four, how to stab someone on TV, and Russia, to name a few subjects. Please read on and enjoy the conversation. And please check back soon, we’re going to have more Dark Matter interviews coming up shortly! We’ll be talking with Joseph Mallozzi, Melissa O’Neil, Jodelle Ferland, Roger Cross, and chatting even more with Alex Mallari, Jr. If you have any questions you’d like answered, leave them in the comments section below and we’ll try our best to get you some information.
TIBS: Joe recently said in a post-show Periscope session that you named your sword “Monday”, but he didn’t remember why you’d given it that name. Can you please give us the juicy details?
AMJr: Why did I name my katana Monday? Quite simple, nobody likes it when Monday comes around, lol.
TIBS: Four is pretty damned stone cold when he wants to be. His family past is enough of an explanation for that, but is there anything else driving his rage?
AMJr: What we’ve learned about Four is merely the tip of the iceberg. There is surely more to him than his family feud and we’ll be introduced to a little more of him and his backstory in the next few episodes of season one. Until I read the scripts for the final few episodes while filming season one, even I thought it was all about the family feud and the character choices that I’ve made. But then Joe hit me with some extra baggage that makes Four’s story that much more interesting and will surely leave the viewers wanting more!
TIBS: Will we see more about the Ishida Empire or will we have to wait for season two to find out if Four ever gets to meet with his brother? (Fingers and toes crossed for a season two, by the way.)
AMJr: Arguably, Four’s backstory is the most prominent one amongst the crew. It was introduced in the pilot episode, was given a little more detail in episode six, and then got a little more in depth in episode nine. Did I mention there’s still more to be exposed of him in the next few episodes? What I’m trying to say is, there’s no way we open that book and not get to the bottom of it. When we get to see that is an answer we’re all going to have to wait for.
TIBS: When you film the scenes where you run someone through with your sword, what are you actually holding and how is the effect created?
AMJr: Typically, when we film anything with the katana we have three things on deck: the “really” which is a dulled metal version, the wooden one that I use for the fight sequences, and then the stub which is the handle of the sword that we use for stabs and slices. So basically the actions and reactions are timed by myself and the other actor; the rest is up to our guys in post to do all the magic.
TIBS: What did you like the most about filming Dark Matter?
AMJr: This is always a tough question to answer because I loved it all. But if I had to choose something, I would have to say that it was the environment that we had on our sets. The cast and crew just seemed to be in sync, everyone always had a positive and upbeat energy. What was super fun was the conversations we would all have after a new script would come out. An hour or two after we’d receive the new script, you couldn’t turn a corner on set without running into someone who either had new questions or new theories about the storyline.
TIBS: If I recall correctly, you said you lost 30 pounds over the course of filming Dark Matter. Was this from intense workouts for the role or was there another reason entirely?
AMJr: After episode three, I decided to go vegan on top of the intense workout regimen and schedule I had for myself. That said, it was for the character. I have a vision of how I want Four to look and I also want to be more athletic so that I can do more in the fight and training sequences.
TIBS: You recently returned from Moscow where you were filming a new series. Can you say anything about it? If not, when can fans expect to hear more?
AMJr: Unfortunately, I can’t say anything about it yet. But you know me, I’ll be sure to post about it once I’m given the thumbs up to do so.
TIBS: Did you enjoy spending time in Russia? Was it your first time there?
AMJr: It was my first time in Russia and it was an unforgettable experience. The architecture over there is beautiful!
TIBS: If you couldn’t be an actor, what would you like to do?
AMJr: I would be a DJ. I mean, I’m a DJ already, but I would’ve taken that seriously enough to bring it to another level, know what I mean? I love music and it’s such an amazing feeling when you get lost DJ’ing and the crowd is right there with you getting lost in your mix – I absolutely love it! No feeling like it.
TIBS: Can you tell us something about yourself we might not already know?
AMJr: Contrary to Four, I’m a goof and am childish for the most part. I love to laugh, I’m a terrible singer but I sing all the time anyways, I dance when I hear music, I want to be a voice for the animals, I love spontaneity, I’m a gentleman, and I’m a dreamer.
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Shockwave, the world’s fastest truck, is so fast that it can actually outrun a Japanese bullet train. The four-ton Peterbilt Semi is powered by three jet engines and hits speeds nearing 400mph. It generates a whopping 36,000 horsepower, covering a quarter mile in just 6.5 seconds.
The incredible vehicle was first built by Les Shockley in 1984. 64-year-old Neal Darnell purchased and rebuilt it along with his son Chris, 31, in 2012. It now holds the world record for the fastest jet-powered full-size truck – 376mph. “It’s an awesome experience,” said Neal. “You won’t believe it until you see it.”
Shockwave is equipped with three Pratt & Whitney J34-48 jet engines that were taken out of US Navy trainer jets called the T-2 Buckeye. Each jet engine is capable of producing 12,000 horsepower in afterburner, which makes a total of 36,000 for Shockwave. It holds 190 gallons of fuel, burning 180 of it per performance.
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Chris, who takes turns with his father driving Shockwave, said: “The added afterburners double the horsepower and thrust, so Shockwave literally has six times the power of the jet airplane these engines came in. On acceleration, the driver experiences about 6G.” To stop the beast, they use two 16-inch ring slot military parachutes that produce an impact of up to negative 9G.
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The father-and-son duo intend to show off Shockwave in special performances across US and Canada. “It is some ride,” said Chris. Well, he could say that again. Don’t miss the video of the beast in action – it’s not exactly what you’d call eco-friendly but the sight is something to behold!
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Alexan at Kenmore – Bascom Northwest Ventures Menu Home Properties About Contact Us More Back Alexan at Kenmore The Alexan is an 163 unit garden style apartment community located on 8.95 acres in Kenmore, Washington, minutes from the employment centers of downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue. Bascom’s business plan focused on creating better curb appeal and amenities for the property. Bascom’s renovation budget of $1.63M or $10,000 per unit was utilized to create a new leasing office, fitness center and tot lot, as well as, for landscaping upgrades along with unit upgrades including adding in-unit washer/dryers. As a result of Bascom’s upgrades rents were increased by over 36% and The Alexan sold in December 2007 at a $20,000,000 sale price, which yielded a 50.90% IRR and a 3.39 multiple on capital. City Kenmore, Washington Units 163 Renovation Budget $1.63M ($10,000/ unit) Debt Partner Merrill Lynch Equity Partner Individual Private Investors © Bascom Northwest Ventures 3801 East Florida Avenue, Suite 503 Denver, CO 80120 | negative |
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“Corrections” Nigerian Newspaper Grammar Columnists Consistently Get Wrong II - Notes From Atlanta Page Nav SHOW Main Menu Home Politics of Grammar Column About Me My Scholarly Works Awards & Honors Study in America Contact Me About This Blog Trending popular Contact Form Name Email * Message * “Corrections” Nigerian Newspaper Grammar Columnists Consistently Get Wrong II Farooq A. Kperogi Sunday, March 15, 2015 Sunday Trust Facebook Twitter Linkedin Pinterest Email By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Continued from last week 8. “Strike action.” Many well-known grammar... By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Continued from last week 8. “Strike action.” Many well-known grammar columnists in Nigerian newspapers advise against the use of the phrase “strike action.” Recently, in condemning the use of “strike action” in a news story, one columnist sarcastically quipped: “You can as well embark on strike inaction!” Another columnist said “strike action” is erroneous because it is formed by false analogy to “industrial action,”—the same way that Nigerians say “of recent” (instead of “recently”) by false analogy to the idiom “of late.” They are wrong. Strike action, which is often simply shortened to “strike” in everyday English, is the outright cessation of work to register employee grievances. It’s a legitimate, even idiomatic, expression in all native varieties of English, as I will show shortly. But what is the difference between “strike action” and “industrial action”? The term “industrial action” has two related meanings. Its first meaning is that it’s an umbrella term for all kinds of industrial protests, including strike actions. Its second and more specific meaning is that it is a form of industrial protest where workers merely deliberately slow down their productivity rather than stopping work outright. In the United States this sense of the term is often called “job action.” Industrial action, moreover, is not necessarily always inspired by job-related grievances; it is sometimes politically-motivated. Other terms for the second sense of industrial action are “go-slow” in the UK (which incidentally means traffic jam in Nigerian English!) and “slow-down” in the United States. Now back to “strike action.” All the corpora I consulted showed that “strike action” occurs more frequently in British English than in any variety of English. The Corpus of Global Web-Based English, for instance, has 399 matches for the expression in British English. That is the highest of any variety of English. It appeared only 41 times in American English, 139 times in Canadian English, 74 times in Irish English, 78 times in Australian English, 59 times in Nigerian English, etc. Here are a few recent examples of the use of “strike action” in prestigious British news media organizations: “This on the basis Unions threatened strike action prior to and during the games”—BBC, 2012; “The Unite union yesterday ruled out strike action by tanker drivers over Easter in order to focus on talks”—the Daily Mail, March 31, 2012; “UK travellers hit by European strike action # People travelling by air from the UK have been hit by today's strike action, with British Airways cancelling eight round-trip flights between London and Madrid and Barcelona, and two return services to Lisbon”—the Guardian, November 14, 2012. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary of English recognizes “strike action” as idiomatic. It says “strike” can function as a modifier, and gives this example to illustrate this point: “local government workers went on strike action.” Again, this is the dictionary’s definition of “strike” as a verb: “undertake strike action against (an employer).” So how did Nigerian grammar columnists come about the superstition that “strike action” is a Nigerian newspaper usage error? Well, perhaps it’s because they don’t find the expression in their editions of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, which appears to be their most trusted grammar bible. 9. “Oftentimes.” This word is synonymous with “often,” and occurs more frequently in American English than in any variety of English. But Nigerian grammar columnists are almost united in insisting that the word is an exclusively Nigerian English usage—and that it is wrong. Well, they are wrong. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of English both describe “oftentimes” as “the North American form of ‘often’.” They also say it’s “archaic” in British English. But an examination of the record of contemporary British English usage doesn’t support the claims of the dictionaries. According to the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, British English is second only to American English in the use of “oftentimes” in place of “often.” A recent BBC article identified “oftentimes” as an Americanism that has crossed over to British English, especially among the youth. Maybe it’s more accurate to call “oftentimes” a hitherto British archaism that has regained, or is regaining, currency in contemporary British English via American English, where it has always been extant. Because modern dictionaries are now influenced by more accurate, real-time, web-inspired corpora of how people actually use the language, I expect the Oxford dictionaries to revise their characterization of “oftentimes” as “archaic.” In fact, Oxforddictiinaries.com, the most up-to-date online dictionary in the Oxford family, no longer describes “oftentimes” as North American or archaic. The version of the word everyone agrees is archaic is “ofttimes.” 10. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Nigerian newspaper grammar columnists say this rendering of the old-fashioned English expression that means whatever is acceptable for one person is acceptable for another is wrong, and insist that it be rendered as, “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” But both variants are equally acceptable. Although the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary has an entry only for “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,” other bigger, richer dictionaries acknowledge that “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” is an acceptable variant of “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” Concluding thoughts This series is by no means intended as a censure of Nigerian newspaper grammar columnists, who actually do a praiseworthy job of raising awareness of bad usage in the Nigerian news media. My intention is merely to alert people who are influenced by these columnists to some usage prescriptions the columnists have popularized, which have no basis in evidence. Many of the usage superstitions that I’ve identified in this column were first spread, at least as far as I know, by the influential former Concord grammar columnist Bayo Oguntuase and uncritically repeated by others. Here are the issues I’ve noticed with the columnists. First, they all seem to be over-reliant on the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, which is a good but severely limited dictionary. Second, where they go beyond the Learner’s Dictionary, they allow themselves to be held prisoner by usage books that are no more than the idiosyncratic pet peeves of snooty, self-appointed grammar police. Third, they mistake American usages and variants, most of which were introduced to Nigerian English by Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dele Giwa, and other influential American-trained Nigerian journalists, as errors. Re: “How was your night?” As usual, your grammar column in the Sunday Trust of March 1, 2015 was enlightening. I write to answer your invitation for elaboration on the possible SOURCES of the expression "How was your night?" in (Nigerian) English. A possible source could be a SOCIOLINGUISTIC one. If we consider most alternatives to the English "Good morning" in many Nigerian languages, we discover that they connote the nocturnal/dusk-dawn period. Consider these few examples: HAUSA: "Ina KWANA?" [KWANA= night time, sleep]; IGBO: "IBOLA ci?" [=dark hours]; YORUBA: "e KARO?" [=same]; BABUR-BURA: "g3r PI ya?" [=sleep, night time]; KANURI: "nda WATU?" [=dawn phases; FULBE: "AWALI jam?" [=same]. So even from these examples, we can see how the sememe "YOUR NIGHT" got eventually "smuggled" into Nigerian English. In those Nigerian languages, asking about a friend's/neighbour's NIGHT may have performed some phatic function deep rooted in native sociocultural antecedents on NEIGHBOURLY CARE/COMMUNAL UNION. I hope you find these explanations significant. We are proud of you. Dr. Ahmed Umar, Department of English, Federal University, Dutse. 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Philadelphia Eagles rookies met with media prior to the team's first minicamp practice on Friday afternoon. Carson Wentz had his own press conference while other rookies were available in the locker room. Here are some of the highlights from what was said.
Jalen Mills expects to start out at cornerback
Jalen Mills, drafted in the 7th round out of LSU by the #Eagles, said he'll start out at CB: pic.twitter.com/M8Ncfvqnyy — Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) May 13, 2016
Mills is listed as a safety on Philadelphia's roster, but he said he expects to start at cornerback. This is a possibility he hinted at in an interview last week. Cornerback is arguably a more valuable position so some teams like to try their defensive backs out there first before moving them to safety, and not the other way around. The Eagles already have a lot of bodies at cornerback, however, and they need some more at safety. So Mills ultimately might end up on the back end.
Mills was also asked about the character concerns from his past.
Jalen Mills says that alleged assault was first time he's gotten in trouble in his life and asserted his innocence in incident. #Eagles #LSU — Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardo975) May 13, 2016
Jalen Mills, who was charged w/ battery assault of a woman (dropped after completed program), on why was he charged: pic.twitter.com/HtD1e5etk1 — Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) May 13, 2016
Halapoulivaati Vaitai is start out at right tackle
#Eagles OT and #TCU product 'Big V' says that he hopes to improve on his run blocking, currently playing RT. pic.twitter.com/nPUmFwtJSK — Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardo975) May 13, 2016
Some have suggested Big V belongs as a guard in the NFL but the Eagles clearly see him as an outside player. In an ideal world, Big V can take over at right tackle when current starter Lane Johnson eventually replaces Jason Peters at left tackle.
Alex McCalister denies being dismissed from Florida
#Eagles rookie DE Alex McCalister said he wasn't kicked off Florida's team before bowl game. Said was just one report; coaches cleared up. — Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) May 13, 2016
Alex McCalister says that his early season and previous suspensions at #Florida was 'being young and dumb,' skipping meetings, etc. #Eagles — Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardo975) May 13, 2016
Florida DE/Eagles 7th-round pick Alex McCalister said he wasn't kicked off the team, and that "it was blown up" by the media. — Josh Paunil (@JoshPaunil) May 13, 2016
@Mfranknfl he said he was injured. Tore ligaments in his ankle. — Martin Frank (@Mfranknfl) May 13, 2016
So McCalister said he didn't play in the final game because he was hurt; not because he was dismissed. Here's what our Gators writer contact previously had to say about McCalister:
"His dismissal wasn't from something big. It was just him violating an undisclosed team rule with only one game left in the season, and [Gators head coach Jim] McElwain making an example out of players who think they can slip up at any point. I wouldn't be worried about him as a trouble maker."
Byron Marshall will play WR and RB
UDFA RB Byron Marshall (Oregon) said the #Eagles will try him out also at WR. Has versatility. — Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) May 13, 2016
No surprise here because Marshall played both positions in college. With that said, he's officially listed as a running back and he wears a running back number (No. 39). His best shot of making the team is probably at running back because the Eagles have a lot of bodies at receiver. Being able to be a contributor at both spots would help his chances of making the final roster, though.
Wendell Smallwood apologizes again
Wendell Smallwood apologizes for 'anti-Philly' Tweets and now that he's here, he loves Philly. Grew up #Eagles fan pic.twitter.com/KL67J461Xt — Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardo975) May 13, 2016
Wendell Smallwood says he sees himself as an every down RB Says ppl think hs's small, wants to prove ppl wrong 'I'm not small.' #Eagles #WVU — Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardo975) May 13, 2016
Smallwood already apologized for his old tweets during a press conference shortly after he was drafted, but he was asked about them again today for some reason.
First look at Carson Wentz during practice
Here are some pictures/video of your future Eagles franchise quarterback.
Carson getting ready for first practice with #Eagles pic.twitter.com/KqGd75V7U2 — Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) May 13, 2016
Wentz getting in some work. pic.twitter.com/ZWAbJzZWBW — Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) May 13, 2016
Starter-caliber stretching out of Wentz right here. pic.twitter.com/Dxz7CY1bIK — Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) May 13, 2016
This is what a first-round handoff looks like ...@cj_wentz pic.twitter.com/vi2GoltVGV — Bob Grotz (@BobGrotz) May 13, 2016 | positive |
Donald Trump, seeking contestants for the third season of "The Apprentice," is interviewed at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2004. (Ric Francis/AP)
In 1980, in one of his first big TV interviews, Donald Trump was asked whether television was ruining politics.
“It’s hurt the process very much,” Trump told NBC’s Rona Barrett. “Abraham Lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television. He was not a handsome man, and he did not smile at all. He would not be considered to be a prime candidate for the presidency — and that’s a shame, isn’t it?”
But in the years since Trump lamented the negative effect of TV, he has embraced it as no other presidential candidate in history and has even derided rival candidates he deems not telegenic. Hillary Clinton, he said, doesn’t have “a presidential look, and you need a presidential look.”
On Monday, Trump is set to face Clinton in a presidential debate before as many as 100 million viewers, an unprecedented audience for a U.S. political broadcast that would approach Super Bowl ratings. As a former reality-show star with unmatched TV experience, Trump will walk onstage with expectations that his showman’s flair will be on full display.
While real estate made him money, TV made him famous. Trump, who has never held elected office, became a household name through television, mainly his starring role for 14 seasons in “The Apprentice” and “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The self-described “ratings machine” is as defined by television as past presidents have been defined by military or public service.
Fired ‘Apprentice': How TV helped Trump dominate the 2016 race Embed Copy Share Play Video 2:14 Sam Solovey was the first controversial contestant on “The Apprentice” and was dramatically “fired” three episodes into the first season. Solovey reflects on his interactions with Trump and how the performance skills Trump developed as a television entertainer has helped him surge towards the top of the Republican field. (Alice Li/The Washington Post) Sam Solovey was the first controversial contestant on “The Apprentice” and was dramatically fired three episodes into the first season. Solovey reflects on his interactions with Trump and how the performance skills Trump developed as a television entertainer has helped him surge towards the top of the Republican field. Donald Trump never stopped being a showman. (Alice Li/The Washington Post)
“He had a lifetime of experience with TV, and he understands the power of the medium in a way that many presidents have not,” said Leonard Steinhorn, an American University communications professor who teaches a class on the presidential election. “Donald Trump set out in this campaign to dominate the [TV] experience, to keep people glued in and to define the parameters of how we all experience this election. Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the artfulness or the personality to compete with that.”
Clinton supporters criticize Trump as a shallow, small-screen showman; they say voters want more than a TV talent in the Oval Office. In the end, they say, 90-minute one-on-one debates will starkly contrast the candidates’ depth of knowledge. Public opinion backs that up: Most Americans have higher debate expectations for Clinton than Trump, according to Clinton supporters criticize Trump as a shallow, small-screen showman; they say voters want more than a TV talent in the Oval Office. In the end, they say, 90-minute one-on-one debates will starkly contrast the candidates’ depth of knowledge. Public opinion backs that up: Most Americans have higher debate expectations for Clinton than Trump, according to one recent survey conducted by CNN.
“If he was a genius at using TV, more people would like him,” said Stuart Stevens, chief adviser to Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012. “His belief is all coverage is good coverage. Maybe that’s true if you are selling condos, but it’s not true if you are selling the presidency.”
Clinton hopes to use Trump’s airtime against him by running TV footage of him in her ads. One spot shows children in the glow of a TV screen who are watching Trump imitate a reporter with a physical disability and then describe Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly as having “blood coming out of her wherever.” The ad ends saying: “Our children are watching. What example will we set for them?”
But even Trump detractors acknowledge that his ease on TV has enabled him to connect with millions of voters in a country where people watch an average of five hours of television a day.
Every presidential candidate since a cool John F. Kennedy defeated a sweaty Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 presidential debates has valued the importance of TV. Trump has set himself apart by figuring out how to get more airtime than any candidate in history.
‘He’s reset the rules’
“I’ve never seen anybody get the time he’s gotten,” said Ed Rollins, a veteran Republican operative and co-chairman of a pro-Trump super PAC. “He’s more than willing to pick up the phone, call [Fox News’ Sean] Hannity, call CNN. He’s reset the rules for a modern-day campaign.”
No one has seen the drama series based on Trump's life — until now Embed Copy Share Play Video 2:44 Donald Trump wanted a weekly TV drama based on his life. It never aired. But The Washington Post recently obtained a scene from the pilot script — and enlisted actors. (McKenna Ewen,Thomas LeGro,Lee Powell/The Washington Post) Donald Trump wanted a weekly TV drama based on his life. It never aired. But The Washington Post recently obtained a scene from the pilot script — and enlisted actors. Donald Trump wanted a weekly TV drama based on his life. It never aired. But The Washington Post recently obtained a scene from the pilot script — and enlisted actors. (McKenna Ewen, Thomas LeGro, Lee Powell/The Washington Post)
Trump has a practiced understanding of what grabs TV viewers: saying or doing the unexpected, speaking in short sound bites, repeating himself, not appearing scripted, being blunt and over-the-top.
He uses the nicknames “Crooked Hillary” and “Crazy Bernie” and creates made-for-TV scenes such as his dramatic opening at the Republican National Convention, when he appeared onstage backlit in a cloud of fog to the music of Queen’s “We Are the Champions.”
“This guy is gold on TV. That was a huge factor in why they turned over their airwaves to him,” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written a book on presidential debates. “He was getting on TV on his own terms. There were allowances made for him because of his ability to drive ratings.”
Cable news was in a viewership slump until Trump came along during the summer of 2015. He boosted ratings and advertising dollars, and got more network attention than any other candidate. Hannity, for example, taped a Trump town hall Wednesday in Cleveland that is scheduled to air this week. The federal “equal-time rule,” enacted decades ago to give opposing candidates matching airtime, does not apply to cable broadcasts.
Trump’s love of TV goes way back. His childhood home in 1950s Queens featured one of the neighborhood’s first TV sets, with a bulky console and tiny screen. In the 1980s, he boasted to reporters about the TV in his Cadillac stretch limousine.
“The only time I could never reach him was when he was watching wrestling,” said Jon Bernstein, a Trump attorney in the 1980s. “If he was watching a wrestling match he wanted to watch, you couldn’t get him till he was done.”
In the 1980s, Trump began sitting for network TV interviews and appeared regularly on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” In the 1990s, he made cameos in movies and Pizza Hut commercials, and he appeared in TV sitcoms, including “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Suddenly Susan” and “Sex and the City.”
TV remains his constant companion. At his desk in Trump Tower, there are usually two staples: a Diet Coke and a switched-on television.
During an April interview in his office, Trump kept the Masters golf tournament on, watching pros putt while answering questions about his stance on abortion. And during a lunch interview with The Washington Post at his Virginia golf course last month, Trump rarely looked away from Fox News, pausing five times to watch himself on TV. “Look at this. It’s all Trump all day long,” he said during one moment of inattention. “That’s why their ratings are through the roof.”
Melania Trump has said that before her husband announced his presidential bid, a typical evening involved watching TV with their son, Barron. “Most of the time it’s sports, and when ‘The Apprentice’ was on, of course we watched ‘The Apprentice,’ ” she said.
His devotion to popular TV, including “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood,” has helped connect the 70-year-old to voters of many ages. Several years ago, he even His devotion to popular TV, including “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood,” has helped connect the 70-year-old to voters of many ages. Several years ago, he even tweeted about a Hollywood breakup: “Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again.”
David Greenberg, a presidential historian at Rutgers University, said such observations help Trump come off as having similar interests as many Americans, even though he flies around in a private jet.
Trump also did something that no presidential candidate had ever done: He dialed into cable news shows asking to go live to comment on what they were saying. “He’s a big personality in the age of celebrity,” Rollins said.
Watching TV vs. reading
Many people, though, find it frightening that the man who wants to be commander in chief spends more time watching TV than reading.
When asked last year who he consults for military advice, Trump famously said, “Well, I watch the shows.”
“When it comes to the input of information, his looks like one of the most undiversified portfolios I can think of,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and pop culture at Syracuse University.
Trump has said he has little time for reading, but he wakes up as early as 5 a.m. to the buzz of television news. Aides have said he spends hours listening to the morning shows.
Before the campaign, he was known to vanish in the afternoons to watch daytime TV in his penthouse, according to several friends and former Trump Organization employees. At night, he often relaxed in the glow of a talk show or wrestling match.
Clinton has said she finds HGTV home-renovation shows “very calming,” has binge-watched “The Good Wife,” and enjoys dramas such as “Madam Secretary,” “House of Cards” and “Downton Abbey.” But she is much more associated with stacks of briefing papers than a TV remote. She has also not shown the same ease as Trump in unscripted televised moments.
Trump capitalized last week on the fact that Clinton had been sick with pneumonia by talking about his “excellent health” with TV personality Mehmet Oz, best known as Dr. Oz. On the show, Trump theatrically pulled a letter from his physician out of his pocket, as though it were a surprise for the audience and proof of his good health.
That hour-long episode gave Trump valuable free airtime to tell viewers that he rarely gets colds, has very good levels of testosterone and can hit a golf ball farther now, at age 70, than when he was 30.
Also, last week, Trump’s campaign said he would give a major announcement about his longtime skepticism of whether President Obama was born in the United States.
Trump then led TV cameras on a tour of his hotel, getting a free commercial. He also put military generals onstage to talk about what a great leader he would be.
His “birther” announcement, in which he falsely blamed Clinton for starting the controversy, came at the end and lasted less than 30 seconds.
“We just got played,” CNN’s John King said on the air.
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Schroeder, the professor and author of “ Schroeder, the professor and author of “ Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail ,” said the long format of the general-election debate is very different.
“He has the element of surprise that makes him so difficult to prepare for,” he said. “She has the content down and the experience. Trump can do his zingers, insults and jokes, but not for 90 minutes.”
At his rallies, Trump sometimes replays a Barbara Walters interview in which he says he gave up his TV show and “two years of prime-time television” to run for president. Many think he has big TV plans — maybe even a new Trump TV platform — if he loses in November. Roger Ailes, the Fox News founder who recently resigned amid a sexual-harassment scandal, fueled that speculation when he became a Trump adviser. | positive |
Baseball is in an age of analytics, an age in which teams increasingly remove emotion from their decision-making.
So, why should hosting the All-Star Game make one iota of difference for the Cincinnati Reds if they are thinking about firing manager Bryan Price?
It shouldn’t.
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The Reds have lost eight straight games, albeit to three hot clubs, the Giants, Royals and Indians. They are now 18-25, 9½ games out in the NL Central – and just three games ahead of the last-place Brewers, who changed managers earlier this month.
I can understand the Reds not wanting to trade right-hander Johnny Cueto when he is a candidate to start the ASG – though if say, the Dodgers, made the right offer, I would accept it in a heartbeat without concern for the public-relations fallout.
I cannot understand, however, why the Reds would hold off on Price if they determine that a change is necessary. The All-Star Game is seven weeks away, for goodness’ sake. It already is sold out, and will shed a positive light on Cincinnati regardless of the condition of the local nine.
The time to act – if the Reds want to act – is now. But some familiar with the thinking of owner Bob Castellini would be surprised if he made an immediate move, saying that the owner is fond of both Price and general manager Walt Jocketty, and that he is wary of negative publicity as the ASG approaches.
Which isn’t to say Price is safe through the break.
Major-league sources told me Sunday that Castellini would meet with Jocketty and other members of the front office Monday morning, before the Reds begin a six-game homestand against the Rockies in the afternoon. However, another source told me that my report of a summit was, “100 percent false,” saying that Jocketty is out of town.
Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Paul Daugherty reached Castellini Sunday night and asked if there was anything he needed to know regarding Price.
“Absolutely not,” Castellini said.
In any case, Castellini-led meetings are not unusual for the Reds, and the team has other outstanding issues, including the fate of All-Star catcher Devin Mesoraco, who likely will require surgery to correct a left-hip impingement that has limited him to 45 at-bats this season.
It isn’t Price’s fault that Mesoraco likely is out for the season, or that Cueto missed his start Sunday due to elbow stiffness. It also isn’t his fault that Billy Hamilton’s on-base percentage is .256, or that Jay Bruce only recently began to emerge from his season-long offensive funk.
Still, the Reds’ minus-35 run differential is the fourth-worst in the National League – and Price, who is under contract through 2016, twice has lost control of his emotions in recent weeks, uncharacteristically.
The first incident occurred in April, when Price used the F-word 77 times during a 5-minute, 34-second rant suggesting that reporters should withhold information that might not benefit the team. The second occurred Saturday, when he was ejected during the exchange of lineup cards, before a single pitch was thrown.
If Price’s goal Saturday was to fire up his team against the Indians, it didn’t work – the Reds succumbed to right-hander Corey Kluber and Co., 2-1. And if Price’s goal in attacking the media was to discourage reporters from doing their jobs, that didn’t work, either (Price apologized for his language, but stood behind the content of his words, compounding his mistake).
Do I think another manager would help thrust the Reds into contention? Not with an offense that ranks 13th in the NL in runs per game and a bullpen that ranks last in the majors in ERA. But do I think the Reds could justify firing Price in an effort to inject new energy and salvage their season? Absolutely.
The most obvious replacement would be Hall of Famer, Cincinnati native and Reds roving instructor Barry Larkin, who managed Brazil in the most recent World Baseball Classic. But Larkin recently said he was not ready to manage in an interview with the official blog of the Reds’ Double-A affiliate, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.
The Reds always could elevate a member of Price’s staff, most likely third base coach Jim Riggleman, who previously managed the Padres, Cubs, Mariners and Nationals. If they wanted to take a bolder step, they could promote Triple-A manager Delino DeShields.
The choice is Castellini’s. It is not an easy choice, considering that the greater responsibility for the team’s shortcomings might rest with Jocketty. But one thing I know – whatever decisions the Reds make over the next two months, their image as the host of the All-Star Game should be the least of their concerns. | positive |
Investors Bob Pohlad, left, Wendy Carlson Nelson, far right, and Bill McGuire joined MLS Soccer Commissioner Don Garber at an announcement at Target Field in Minneapolis, Friday, March 25, 2015. McGuire's current team, Minnesota United, will play for two more years as a minor league team, then join the 24-team MLS roster in 2017 or 2018.
Guests Bill McGuire: Former UnitedHealth Group CEO, owner of the Minnesota United minor league soccer franchise
Minnesota United soccer team Owner Bill McGuire says he's open to allowing public ownership of the stadium he wants to build on the edge of downtown Minneapolis.
McGuire has been lobbying lawmakers to exempt the proposed stadium from property taxes. He originally said he'd want to retain ownership, but McGuire told MPR News' Tom Weber he'd be willing to sign the property over to Minneapolis, Hennepin County or some other public entity in order to get the exemption.
"We are not averse to that notion," he said. "But while the stadium would become a public entity in that regard, it still would have some very different characteristics than the other stadiums that are out there."
Minnesota's other pro-sports stadiums are publicly owned and don't pay property taxes, but McGuire noted they also received direct cash subsidies from state and local taxpayers. McGuire said he wants to build the stadium using only private money, but needs the tax exemption to make the plan work financially. | positive |
Getty/Scott Olson US stock uncertainty is shrinking to a degree not seen since the day after President Donald Trump's election victory.
Thank France.
On the heels of the first round of the French election, the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, plunged 19% as of 10 a.m. ET, on pace for its biggest daily drop since November 9. The index, which is a measure of expected price swings in US equities that serves as a barometer for investor nervousness, generally falls as stocks rise.
As such, the selling of VIX contracts usually translates to a bullish wager on the S&P 500. The benchmark rose 1.1% on Monday, headed for its biggest increase since the start of March, amid gains in other global equity indexes.
Investors were apprehensive heading into France's weekend vote. Now that the path looks clearer for centrist candidate and market favorite Emmanuel Macron to seize victory next month, they're feeling relieved.
Monday's drop in the VIX brings the gauge down to 11.89. Even before the decline, the index was looking subdued, trading well below its bull market average of 18.78. It was locked in the range between 10 and 14 for the first three months of 2017, and now sits there again.
Still, hedge funds and other large speculators aren't taking any chances. As of April 11, they were the most bullish on the VIX since the start of December, according to data from the US Commodity Futures Association. While those investors pared those bets slightly last week, their bullishness still remains above the one-year average. | positive |
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Election day has come and gone and now you’re either a devastated liberal, rattled Never Trumper or perhaps feeling a little vindicated like those of us who publicly supported the President-elect.
Yesterday also marked a coming out party for the Free Speech Club at the University of British Columbia. To mark the occasion, members of the club set up a table outside the student commons and proudly wore the now infamous red hats reading Make America Great Again and Make Canada Great Again.
A bold move given the rise of social justice warriors and censors on campus’ across the continent.
I was invited to come see what was going on and anticipated their event might get shut down but it turns out free speech and support for Donald Trump is fairly popular at UBC.
Watch as I speak with organizers, supporters and detractors alike, some of whom were civil and some not.
There were the usual baseless accusations of racism and violence attributed to Trump supporters but when you look closer, you find the racism and aggression comes from the other side.
It seems it’s often those opposed to Trump who condone bullying and intimidation.
In the end, the great news is that UBC appears to have so far resisted some of the infiltration of social justice warrior culture, but will it last?
UBC is a difficult school to get into and that means academics and studying come before activism and that’s the way universities should be! | positive |
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