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The College of Charleston Honors College expands on partnerships between faculty and student by creating a vibrant living-learning community where personal attention gives the support students need to reach their goals during and after college. Inside the CofC Honors community, motivated students live, learn, and grow together while pursuing their unique interests and goals – everything from study abroad, internships, research and service projects at home and globally.
The Honors College was originally established in 1967 as an Honors Program with just a few students. Today, the program has evolved into an Honors College with close to 700 students from across the nation and the world. As our community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff continues to grow, our commitment to academic excellence remains at the core of our program. The Honors College curriculum is rooted in the liberal arts tradition and challenges students to view the world from multiple perspectives. Honors students take about one-third of their courses through the Honors College – courses that are small, seminar style, and led by preeminent faculty members whose work is well known and respected among their peers. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 800 |
Large enough to use as a cooking pot, yet small enough to use as a bowl, the Vargo Titanium Sierra 750 brings new functionality to the classic Sierra cup design. Topped off by the Vargo original strainer lid with heat-resistant knob, its a multifunctional piece of cook and dining ware. Ultralight titanium construction, biocompatible, with foldaway handle, stay cool rim and mesh storage bag. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 801 |
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Custos Crypta
Guardians of the dead Pharaohs of Egypt for thousands of years, the Custos Crypta have long served the Egyptian Priesthood as creatures of power and a connection to the Gods. In form they are closely related to the Scarab and many believe they were sent by the God Anubis as a death icon due to their voracious appetite for flesh.
Their numbers have to be closely monitored by the Priesthood as they only have a short life cycle, less than a single year but towards the end of its life each one lays eggs for the next generation which have to be harvested. After careful study it was found they did not even need to procreate, that they were an asexual predator. Even just one released into the populace could be very dangerous due to their short lifespan and the large crèches they produce before death.
In numbers, with their scythe like blades and powerful jaws, the Custos Crypta leaves only the skeletons of their victims in their wake. This has made them a perfect guardian for the dead Pharaohs of Egypt. When carrying out the final seal of a Pharaohs tomb a number of slaves are left alive in its maze like passageways, not realising that they are not alone. Over time the growing young find and feed on their victims and anything else still alive until only their brethren are left. With no other food source and no need to procreate it seems only then do they turn on each other until only the strongest remains.
But that was during the time of Egypt's power. For nearly 5000 years the life cycle of the Custos Crypta has continued in the isolation of the tomb. Their only food sources those others that survive the birthing process. For five thousand generations they have been trapped within their own ecosystem. They have evolved to become more predatory, their bodies growing in size to be better able to fight and also provide more food when dead; their instincts have been honed to a razors edge, almost giving them the appearance of intelligence. A new threat to Humanity happily contained within stone and secrets, protected by mazes and traps. Or so we thought.
Crypt Grubs 1
Crypt Guardian
But Humanity in its curiosity has ventured back to Egypt, has begun to unearth those hidden places in its search to know what came before or in its greed for the gold and riches that were placed with the dead Pharaohs of Egypt. The outer chambers have been breached; people have died in the maze and traps never reaching the tombs heart. The scent of blood and new noises reach the latest form of the Custos Crypta, the last of this generation. From its favourite ambush point it views this new prey but with the intelligence it's form now possesses it doesn't rush in but calmly watches the creatures below.
With the archaeological team directly below it flexes its long legs and drops silently, arms ready to rip. Flaring its wings on landing it goes strikes fast and hard, in less than a second the four bodies lie upon the ground, a growing pool of blood extinguishing the crude torch they carried. Stopping only long enough to eat its fill the Custos Crypta traces back along the path of this new food source and for the first time in 5000 years one of its kind slips into the star filled night, a shadow of death.
Within the chamber containing the Pharaoh, electric blue gemlike orbs shiver at the touch of the cool air as the next generation of Custos Crypta enter the final growth phase before hatching. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 802 |
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What is the Supernatural Fandom?
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On : May 16, 2018
Supernatural first hit the screens in 2005 and had a little, almost cult, following. Over the years the show has gone from strength to strength and that small following has grown into a huge fanbase. The Supernatural fandom is everywhere. They are one of the most loyal fan bases of all the fantasy genre, and as loyal as the fans are to the show, the stars of the show repay that loyalty often. So why are the fans so loyal? What makes the Supernatural Fandom so awesome?
The cast is perhaps the biggest reason the Fandom is so loyal. They interact with the fans on a level unlike the cast of any other show, even minor characters are considered part of the SPN Family – Love them or hate them, the fandom know that the cast makes the show, the fandom want the show to continue as long as possible and therefore support is absolute.
So, what is so special about the cast? The two main characters, Dean and Sam Winchester are played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padaleki. Jared and Jensen became friends almost immediately and that closeness off screen gives a real sense of family on screen. They were soon joined by Mischa Collins who plays the angel Castiel on the show, who fits into the kinship like he had always been there. To use the phrase 'family' is an understatement, but that is what this show, and the relationship of the cast off screen, is ultimately all about.
Jared opened up to the world about his struggles with depression and anxiety. This resonated with so many people and helped the fandom to feel a bigger bond with him. Jared, Jensen and Mischa all do a lot of work for a variety of charities, including Jared's Always Keep Fighting campaign, Mischa's Random Acts, and Jensen and Mischa's You Are Not Alone. Funds from this go to the SPN Family Crisis support Network – a community support to help people with mental health issues. They also recently raised funds for hurricane relief when Harvey hit Texas and devastated so many communities. Other cast members that have raised money for charity's close to their hearts include Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer) and Mark Sheppard (Crowley) but it would be almost impossible to state all the charities that the SPNFamily support, they are numerous, but it is why the fandom love them so much. They are not shy about giving back to the community.
Many people think that Supernatural is just about demons, ghosts and things that go bump in the night, and that the fandom is just a bunch of Winchester obsessed crazy women, but it is so much more than that. The connection that the cast has with their fans is at a level rarely, if ever, seen – which proves a favourite quote from the show 'Family Don't End With Blood'.
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Do you know that a fortnight back around 93 people died in India due to monsoon lightning strikes? As per government data, in 2014, about 20,000 people in India were killed in incidents involving the forces of nature. Death due to monsoon lightning was the leading cause of deaths followed by heat stroke, floods and landslides. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 805 |
Much improved three bedroom DETACHED VICTORIAN HOUSE which was originally two cottages, MANY ORIGINAL FEATURES, two reception rooms, superb bathroom/shower room, OFF ROAD PARKING FOR THREE CARS, close to village centre.
Situated close to the village centre is this much improved three bedroom detached property which was originally a pair of cottages. The accommodation comprises a reception hall which leads to a sitting room with feature brick fireplace, a kitchen and a dining room. Upstairs there are three bedrooms which are approached via two staircases and a superb re fitted bathroom/shower room. To the rear of the property there is a courtyard style garden as well as off road parking for three cars, there is a driveway to the side. The property which retains many original features has double glazing and gas fired radiator central heating and a viewing is strongly advised.
The village of Great Baddow has a range of local parks with children's play areas, shops, primary and secondary schools, public houses serving food and real ales as well as various local shops and supermarkets. The village offers good road access in to the City centre, near by Park and Ride bus service which offers a regular service direct to the City centre and recently re furbished Railway Station. Junction 18 of the A12 is located just 1.1 miles away with connecting road links to the A130 & London M25.
Double glazed window to front aspect and solid wood entrance door, Feature brick open fireplace with raised brick hearth, wood floor, radiator.
Feature Victorian fireplace with tiled hearth, double glazed window to side aspect and double glazed sash window to front aspect, wood floor, four wall points, radiator.
Double glazed sash window to front aspect, Victorian fireplace, built in wardrobe, radiator.
Radiator, sink unit with antique style brass taps and tiled splash back sash window to rear aspect, exposed floorboards, access to loft space, door to second landing.
Feature radiator, stairs descending to entrance hall.
A superb room with suite comprising a claw and ball roll top bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, high flush wc, pedestal wash hand basin, tiled recess and part tiled walls, shower cubicle with fixed head shower unit, radiator, sash window to rear with fitted shutters, exposed floorboards. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 806 |
What it's like to be gay in Putin's Russia amidst an alarming — and frequently violent — government crackdown.
American evangelicals are losing ground at home in the culture war against homosexuality, but they've exported their hate politics to Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and beyond.
Inside the Washington, DC residence known as C Street, home to the fundamentalist group The Family, piety and corruption live side by side.
The behind-the-scenes story of how The Family brokered a truce between the pro-choice Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa, the anti-choice nun, by moving Clinton rightward on reproductive rights.
Key Congressional players behind the Stupak amendment, which would bar health plans from covering abortion, are members of a secretive evangelical group, The Family.
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power is a penetrating look at the untold story of Christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 807 |
The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training by Jerome B. Robinson. $14.95.
Today we're looking at Jerome Robinson's "Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training." This is one of my favorite books that we sell, mainly because it's highly focused on birds in training. It's designed for the walking upland hunter who is looking for a closer working dog, for folks that have the ability to use a lot of birds in their training.
Birds are a key part of training, but Jerome really focuses on that. And it's a key part of how he introduces the dogs to everything. So I've just enjoyed the method. It works well. But keep in mind you've got to have access to a lot of birds and you've got to have the ability to work your dog on a lot of birds for this method to work for you.
Check it out. "Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training."
"One of the best gun dog training books I've ever read."
This is a great product. One of the best gun dog training books I've ever read. The service was also excellent. The book came within 3 days. I'd recommend this book and this site to everyone.
The book has been great. I've learned a lot, and it's very informative.
"This was a great book."
This was a great book. It gave me some new ideas and training methods I am now putting to good use.
very informative, well written and simple to understand.
Very informative and easy as well as enjoyable to read.
"In-depth information makes it easy to understand how to train a dog to hunt."
Well written and easy to understand. In-depth information makes it easy to understand how to train a dog to hunt. I have never hunted a dog before, so I bought it more to understand the intricacies of the point, flush, force fetch and how to train. Ideally, if I had more land, more time and birds regularly available to me, I would use this book a lot more.
"An oldie, but a goodie. Picked up several tips."
An oldie, but a goodie. Picked up several tips. Easy to read and understand the psychology of what's going through your dogs mind when trying to instill certain behaviors.
For walking upland hunters wanting closer working dogs and have access to lots of birds for training.
The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training explains how to train a bird dog to hunt at a pace that suits a man walking, and to point and hold birds with all the elegance and style of a field trial champion. It combines successful traditional methods with modern electronic techniques to show how the nation's top professional gundog trainers develop reliable hunting dogs that are easy to control, exciting to watch, and stylish on point.
The author has traveled around the United States for more than 30 years studying how professional trainers develop the most dependable and enjoyable hunting dogs and passing that information along to readers. In this book, he provides everything a reader needs to know to train pointing dogs for hunting in the close-cover conditions found in most parts of the country today.
One of the greatest things I ever did for the readers of Sports Afield during my editorship there was to make Jerry Robinson Gundog Editor. Today, my esteem for his prose and knowledge is still without limits. Follow Jerry Robinson and your path to glorious and golden upland gunning over a great dog will become clear. Here, in one book, you will find everything you need to save time, money, and aggravation in developing the hunting companion of a lifetime. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 808 |
April 16, 2017 ~ St Peregrine Laziosi Diocesan Shrine. With the blessing of fire at the start of the Easter Vigil held at 8:30PM of Holy Saturday at the St. Peregrine Laziosi Diocesan Shrine, the Holy Week concluded and heralded in the joyful season of Easter.
With Parochial Administrator, Rev Fr Leonard Ma. Guiang, OSM presiding over the Easter Vigil Liturgy, the new fire, symbolizing our eternal life in Christ, was kindled and the Paschal Candle, inscribed with a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end') and the current year, was lit and the five grains of incense was affixed while processing into the darkened interior of the Shrine.
The Paschal candle represents Christ, the Light of the World. The pure beeswax of which the candle is made represents the sinless Christ who was formed in the womb of His Mother. The wick signifies His humanity, the flame, His Divine Nature, both soul and body and the five grains of incense inserted into the candle in the form of a cross recalls the aromatic spices with which His Sacred Body was prepared for the tomb, and of the five wounds in His hands, feet, and side.
At the sound of the "Gloria", the lights of the Shrine were turned on, illuminating everything and signalling the Resurrection of Christ. The blessing of water, which is primarily used for Baptisms, followed after the Homily was delivered. The congregation then renewed Baptismal vows and sprinkled with the newly-blessed water.
Christ is risen! And let it go out to every house and every family in the parish for in this year, we are invited as a parish to be truly a communion of communities. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 809 |
Recorded in person at breakfast time, Allison and Brian eat egg subs together! Topics include Wawa, mushrooms, pepperoni, raw onions, hoagies, and wondering how Top Four pull these kinds of episodes off so well.
Programming note: Allison's computer died midway through the recording and we salvaged her audio through Brian's microphone. If you don't want to hear the poor sound quality, use the chapter marker to skip to when we fixed her microphone. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 810 |
Q: ggplot stacked bar order stacks within bar I have a df that looks as follows:
Race n ID
White 7000 A
Black 1200 A
Asian 300 A
Unknown 100 A
Native American 50 A
Alaska Native 20 A
Other 5 A
White 300 B
Black 50 B
Unknown 20 B
Asian 10 B
Other 5 B
I want to create a stacked bar chart where the two bars are source A and source B and they are stacked in order of N. When I use this code:
ggplot(race_df) +
aes(x = ID,
y = n,
fill = reorder(Race,n)) +
geom_bar(position = "fill", stat = "identity")
The first bar for A is sorted correctly however the second bar B is not sorted in order of n. Is this because they do not contain all of the same values for race? Is there a way around this?
A: There is a way round this. Reorder the interaction of race and id according to N, and map this to the group aesthetic.
ggplot(race_df) +
aes(x = ID, y = N, fill = reorder(Race, N),
group = reorder(interaction(Race, ID), N)) +
geom_col(position = "fill", width = 0.5) +
scale_fill_brewer("Race", palette = "Set3") +
scale_y_continuous("Percentage", labels = scales::percent) +
theme_minimal(base_size = 20) +
theme(panel.grid.major.x = element_blank())
Note that the bars are now stacked in different orders; each with smallest on top progressing to largest on the bottom of its respective ID. The legend preserves the overall ordering and determines the color of each stacked segment.
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Recent weather conditions for Wyse Corner showed that it was overcast with clouds, with a high of 1.11 degrees and a low of 0 degrees. Wind was at 3.1km from the . The sun will rise at 04:12 EST and set at 18:11 EST.
Listed under Wyse Corner Campsites, located approximately 22.46km away. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 812 |
Helix Sleep mattresses with targeted cushioning conform closely, making them optimal for side sleepers. While hybrids with moderate cushioning don't conform as much and are ideal for all sleep positions. Lighter people may feel most comfy on variants with balanced support, while individuals who weigh 130 lbs or more tend to favor the variants with extra support.
Helix Sleep also markets 2 mattresses with dual-firmness, the Helix Dual Balanced (with balanced support and targeted cushioning) and the Helix Dual Extra (with additional support and moderate cushioning). Both of these variants have one 'Firm' side and one 'Soft' side, which makes them great for couples with different preferences. Last, the Helix Nightfall is a hybrid developed for larger, heavier people. This variant has an extra layer of memory foam for optimum support.
Cover – Originally, all Helix mattresses have the same cover, made of 100% polyester. I found it to be stretchy and thin, allowing for some nice breathability. However, if you prefer something more lavish, you can choose to swap out the regular cover for the UltraCool one, which is composed of a phase-change fabric to regulate heat.
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Base Layer – Last but not least, you will find a thin section of high-density poly foam. This section does not affect the feel of the bed too much, functioning mostly to provide the pocketed coils something off of which to react.
The firmness of the Helix will vary widely depending on the variant you select. The Helix Midnight and Dusk, have moderate firmness levels, which will be quite versatile and thus exceptionally popular. If you are more particular, however, Helix Sleep would be happy to provide you with additional options.
Laying down on the Helix Midnight, the memory foam layer feels soft and produces some quality body contouring, while the other materials in the Midnight work to counteract this and make an overall firmer composition. The individually-wrapped coils and the firmer support foams also assist with re-positioning.
For those who sleep on their back, there's just enough good comfort material here to conform to your lumbar while supporting your upper spine in a neutral position. For larger sleepers or those who want a firmer bed, there are two more choices for you in the Helix Twilight and Helix Dawn variants.
Many side sleepers should feel perfectly comfy on the Midnight, but, if you are wanting less pressure while still going with a flexible medium firmness, you may decide to check out the Helix Dusk, which utilizes a body-conforming latex-alternative foam that's breathable and gives the surface a small bit of bounce.
Side sleepers typically have to be mindful of pressure because they sleep with most of their weight on a tinier area. Those who are lighter than average or people looking for plenty of pressure relief might want to stick to the plusher models.
Stomach sleepers should feel supported in the Midnight, particularly if this isn't their main position or they have a tendency to change things up a lot. Firmer choices might be preferable for exclusive stomach sleepers so they can make sure their hips don't dip and over-arch their back.
Last, Helix Sleep suggests Helix for sleepers up to 350 pounds or partners that weigh a maximum of 250 pounds each. If you or your partner are significantly larger than average, the company has also produced a bed called the Nightfall that is built to accommodate a combined weight of 1000 lbs.
Bear in mind that if none of those options sound right, you could always check out the 4 other mattresses in the newest collection: the Sunset (plush, softer than the Moonlight), Dusk (medium feel, slightly firmer compared to the Midnight), Twilight (firm, designed for side sleepers), or Dawn (the firmest variant of the bunch).
Based on my observation, Helix surpasses expectations for hybrid mattresses in this space due to the quantity and quality of foam it incorporates, in addition to the pocketed coils which help keep motion at its source. If you're a light sleeper afraid that motion from the other side of the bed will wake you, you shouldn't have much concern with this hybrid. I would say that all of the Helix mattresses would be a good option for couples.
While purchasing a brand-new mattress, the majority of individuals wish to know whether they'll feel as though they are sinking "into" the mattress or laying "on top" of it.
Even though you are going to encounter some immediate sinkage in the uppermost foam layers, when you sink through those layers, you'll find the pocketed coils and feel fantastic support. This combo will interest a wide range of sleepers, but will suit stomach and back sleepers the most.
Though I do feel the memory foam collapse as I sit near the edge of the bed, the pocketed coils prevent the mattress from compressing a lot beyond that. I feel very secure seated on the mattress.
In my view, Helix mattresses are well above average when it comes to edge support compared to other bed-in-a-box brands, and this is because of their freshly updated edges that contain reinforcement in the coil system. There can be some compression in the comfort foams when you sit with all your weight on the side, but laying on the side will feel comfy and secure. Couples who need more space to stretch out normally love stronger edges.
Lying down, I feel like I could get close to the edge of the bed without feeling like I'll fall over or be ejected from the mattress. Overall, I believe the Helix has great edge support.
One of the best features of buying a bed-in-a-box online is the sleep trials they usually come with. Helix Mattress is not any different. You create the mattress that is meant for you, place your order, and in two weeks, it's delivered to your door. From the moment you click to buy the mattress, you've got 100 nights to check it out (minus the time for delivery, so it is more like 90 nights). If it is not perfect, you can return it for free, and receive a full refund.
Helix offers a generous 10-year warranty that covers defects, but it comes with a few limitations, exceptions, plus the burden of proof is on the purchaser (like most guarantees ). Needless to say, you must be the original owner of the Helix to use the guarantee, and you need to be sure that you save your receipt as proof of purchase.
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For regular cleaning, it is suggested to use cold water along gentle dish detergent to clean any dirt or stains. Make certain to clean using gentle circular movements, instead of rubbing.
The features of this mattress were thoughtfully constructed to provide choices whether you were looking for a mattress that stays cool all night, in the event that you needed one to cradle your curves with a thick comfort system, or both! The pocketed coil unit should offer great edge support and movement transfer is minimal with their individually-wrapped build.
I hope that I have provided you some idea of what the average consumer can expect from the Helix, but it truly does offer an impressive assortment of customization with an option for literally every specific desire or need. Your next best sleep might just be a brief online quiz away. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 813 |
• I feel like a wing in a steakhouse.
• I've worked my but off for the last 10 years now I am an "overnight" success.
• When I hit rock bottom it was a splat. When you fall that far you don't bounce.
• If you just keep going when you do something wrong it gets better.
• Nothing is less common than common sense.
• 5 enemies of unity: Poor communication, gossip, unresolved disagreements, lack of shared purpose, sanctioned incompetency's.
• In your organization negatives should be handed up positives should be handed down.
• In the church we will fry you for being an adulterer but don't for get gossip is in the same list.
• Its ok to have a problem and frustration but don't gossip hand it up.
• Gossip is when a problem is discussed with a person who can not solve the problem.
• Conflict is a spiritual gift for me!
• You have to cast a vision 21 times before somebody hears is. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 814 |
Selected at Wye College, England in the 1950's, Janus was originally praised for its early harvest qualities. Its extremely low yield however led it to being discarded as a commercial prospect in 1992. To date, it has never been used for breeding either. It is a cross between a Eastwell Golding, a New Mexico Wild American hop and other unspecified English hops. Janus exhibits very high myrcene potential and is said to have a pleasant, European aroma. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 815 |
Can you cram 100 hours of boat building into two twelve hour days?
Sandy and I found out the answer was no. But it was a lot of fun and a great attraction. We had done quite a bit of prep on the frames, side panels, and seats then staged everything the night before the show opened and glued the front stem and one side of the transom the night before the show so it would have overnight to dry. The next day we wanted to get the bottom on the boat but we talked too much and even managed to forget to cut the drainage holes in the frames.
The second morning the drainage holes were in and the bottom went down but not before noon. Then outside rails and almost one inside rail. But the day came to an an end and we had to admit that we were about five hours short of our goal of having both rails on, the stem and transom cut and the shear line sanded out.
Thank you Greg Hatten for coming by and helping out.
We donated our time to the FFF, and enjoyed this experience. The boat, trailer and oars was auctioned off that evening. It went for a little less than half price. That's a bit low but in this economy most of the auction items were selling below normal. The final price was $3,475.00 it was a great once a year deal for someone and made a good profit for the FFF.
I hope to see some of you there next year. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 816 |
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Parent-Child Relationships in Little Fires Everywhere: The Importance of Perinatal Mental Health Intervention
by breannslay · Published July 6, 2020 · Updated July 28, 2020
Little Fires Everywhere, the Hulu original limited television show adapted from the eponymous Celeste Ng's novel covers topics related with race, identity, motherhood, and pregnancy, among others. The show tells the stories of two families, Mia Warren (played by Kerri Washington) and Elena Richardson (played by Reese Witherspoon) in the 1990s planned town of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Mia and her teenage daughter, Pearl (Lexi Underwood), live a nomadic lifestyle; Mia is an artist; they have a limited income, at times live in their car, and move often, possibly as a result of Mia's search for artistic inspiration. Mia and Pearl move to Shaker and are temporarily living in their car. Elena, a journalist, discovers the car in a parking lot and an African-American woman living in the car. Elena, then calls the police to report the African American woman living in her car. Later, Elena formally meets Mia and Pearl at a showing for her rental property which they are interested in occupying. Elena offers Mia and Pearl the apartment and an additional job as her housekeeper out of her feelings of white-guilt. The Richardson's are a white upper-class family, including Elena's husband and her four children. On top of expectable familial frictions, Elena and her youngest daughter, Izzy (Megan Stott), are in constant conflict over Izzy's nickname, her hair, how she dresses, her sexual orientation, and so on.
The relationship that develops between Mia and Elena is conflictual as well. Their differences ignite in a parental rights trial (episodes 4-8) in which Mia's coworker Bebe Chow, a Chinese immigrant, sought to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left at a fire station shortly after she was born due to extenuating circumstances. Bebe's daughter is in the care of Elena's friend Linda McCullough (Rosemarie DeWitt) who—after years of tentatives and miscarriages—intends to adopt her. Elena's core belief is that both Bebe and Mia are bad mothers who did not make the 'right' choices for their children. Elena dedicates time to helping her friend win the custody trial. Elena's behaviors in assisting Linda, reveal her own fragility and difficulties coping with motherhood despite her self-righteous lifestyle. Her desire to defeat Mia and help her friend win the trial results in uncovering her antagonist's secretive family history. Through her research, Elena discovers that Mia had agreed to be a surrogate mother for a family in New York; however, after a traumatic event, she ran away and kept the baby as her own, telling the parents that she miscarried. Elena decides to inform Pearl of the true history behind her conception, fueling the already existing conflict between Pearl and Mia. Meanwhile, the feud between Elena and Izzy results in the former telling the latter that she never wanted her, causing Izzy to run away.
In both fictional cases, the conflictual relationships between mother and daughter can be analyzed delving into the mechanisms of infant attachment and its consequences on the development A Benoit study found that mothers' perceptions of and relationships with their infants are related to infant attachment behavior at 1-year old (1997b). Another study found a relationship between infant attachment behavior and adolescent emotional development (Warren, et al, 1997). Throughout the series, the spectator can observe that Elena struggles to balance her desire to move forward in her career with her expectations as a mother. In a flashback taking the story back to when she discovered to be pregnant of Izzy, Elena argues with her own mother, as she reveals being pro-choice and states that she did not want to carry the baby to term. She is ultimately pressured by her mother and her husband to avoid abortion and give birth to Izzy.
A standardized interview protocol, administered by mental health professionals to mothers during pregnancy to understand the parents' representations of their relationship with their unborn child, allows to classify mothers as either balanced, disengaged, or distorted. When this interview is re-administered a year after the birth of the child, the mothers' classifications resulted in an 85% stability in maintaining the same perception, testing prior to the birth (Benoit, et al, 1997a). This indicates that mothers who have distorted representation of their unborn child, maintain their distorted representation of the child even at 1-year postnatally. Elena may have been classified in the distorted category, as she was more preoccupied with her concerns about her career when she was pregnant and, later on, often acted in insensitive ways towards Izzy. Elena blames her pregnancy and birth of Izzy for not achieving her career goals, which builds the foundation of their tumultuous relationship.
Among studies on the matter, Suh et al., found that women with unwanted pregnancies were more likely to experience severe post-partum depression (2016). Saleem and Surkan found that children born from unwanted pregnancies demonstrate lower social-emotional developmental scores by kindergarten (2014). The conflictual relational pattern between Izzy and Elena continues into her teenage years. Izzy struggles emotionally with questioning her sexuality, bullying, and feeling outcast; however, she does not have a secure base or attachment to her mother and therefore is unable to utilize her mother for comfort and support. When Izzy ultimately runs away, it is because she feels she cannot be comforted, loved, or supported suitably in her home.
Mia's relationship with Pearl was an intentional pregnancy, although she did not intend to keep Pearl as she was acting as surrogate mother. Later into the pregnancy, after experiencing a traumatic event, an emotionally charged Mia chose to keep Pearl. The show does not indicate Mia having post-partum depression, though it is likely. Post-partum depression is not identified as readily for black women, possibly due to diagnostic biases (Suh, et al, 2016). Since Mia was also on the run and in hiding, she may have also had even less access to healthcare or support. Though Mia may have been initially classified as disengaged, she also entered the distorted classification after giving birth to Pearl. Mia's obsession with Pearl's protection stems from her fear of rejection if Pearl learns her true origins. Mia feels she needs to protect herself and Pearl from being discovered which requires keeping family history and details private. Mia became entrenched in her desire to protect Pearl as she believed Pearl belonged to her, demonstrating an unhealthy feeling of ownership over Pearl and often failing to recognize that her daughter is an individual. This kind of behavior is, in fact, characteristic of the distorted classification (Benoit, et al, 1997a). Even though predicated on falsehood, Mia and Pearl demonstrate a positive relationship and attachment to each other possibly due to the hardship they have endured together; nonetheless, when Pearl's identity is exposed, she loses trust in her mother. Pearl, like Izzy, begins to move to individuate from Mia. Individuation is expected in teenagers; however, both Izzy and Pearl seem to be motivated by anger and mistrust. Since a positive relationship was already established between Mia and Pearl, at the end of the narrative arc Pearl was eventually able to return to her mother and seek comfort.
Unfortunately, Izzy, unlike Pearl, is not able to return to her mother and seek comfort. Izzy, distraught from the news of Bebe losing in court and recently seeing Mia and Pearl move away, attempts to set her house on fire. In the television series, she is able to the be stopped by her siblings and her mother. Elena, in a dysregulated rage screams to Izzy, "I never wanted you in the first place." This results in Izzy running away from home and the siblings eventually finishing the proverbial job of burning down the house. In the opening scene of the first episode, the viewer hears how blame is placed on Izzy for burning down the house for revenge. In the conclusion of the final episode, the viewer watches as Elena, understanding the impact of her parenting, finally assumes the parental protective role of Izzy and takes responsibility in from the police for starting the fire in her home.
Distorted parental perceptions of their infants can last through childhood and adolescence. The importance of continued monitoring of maternal mental health is paramount. Though initial classifications of parent-child relationships can have lasting impacts, these classifications can change through increased parental support, family involvement, and mental health services. Individual therapies and dyadic therapies such as Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) demonstrate lasting positive effects (Lieberman, et al, 2006). Though one cannot accurately predict outcomes, especially for a television show, one can ponder how the fictional relationship between Elena and Izzy could change if intervention was implemented. This is not to say there were no other issues contributing to their tumultuous relationship. It does suggest, though, that an improved relational bond between Elena and Izzy could have prevented their house burning down.
Benoit, D., C.H. Zeanah, K.C.H. Parker, E. Nicholson, and J. Coolbear. 1997. "Working Model of the Child Interview: infant clinical status related to maternal perceptions." Infant Mental Health Journal 18 (1): 107-121.
Benoit, D., K.C.H. Parker, and C.H. Zeanah. 1997. "Mother's representations of their infants assessed prenatally: stability and association with infants' attachment classifications." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press) 38 (3): 307-313.
Lieberman, A.F., C. Ghosh Ippen, and P. Van Horn. 2006. "Child-Parent Psychotherapy: 6-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 45 (8): 913-918.
Saleem, H.T., and P.J. Surkan. 2014. "Parental pregnancy wantedness and child social-emotional development." Maternal Child Health Journal 18: 930-938. doi:10.1007/s10995-013-1320-z.
Suh, E.Y., P. Ma, L.F. Dunaway, and K.P. Theall. 2016. "Pregnancy intention and post-partum depressive affect in Louisiana pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system." Maternal Child Health Journal 20: 1001-1013. doi:10.1007/s10995-015-1885-9.
Warren, S.L., L. Huston, B. Egeland, and L.A. Sroufe. 1997. "Child and adolescent anxiety disorders and early attachment." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36: 637-644.
SUGGESTED CITATION: Slay, Bre-Ann. 2020. "Parent-Child Relationships in Little Fires Everywhere: The Importance of Perinatal Mental Health Intervention." PopMeC Research Blog. Published July 3, 2020.
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Bre-Ann Slay, M.A. LPC (CO) is a Doctoral Candidate in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver, where she also earned her master's in forensic psychology. Ms. Slay's clinical work and interests centers around infant and early childhood mental health, psychological assessment, child welfare, and popular culture.
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После нескольких лет выступлений во второй по силе лиге Италии с командами «Динамо» (Сассари) и «Римини Крабс», Филлой дебютировал в Серии А в 2008 году, когда клуб «Олимпия Милан» предложил игроку контракт дл 2012 года. Филлой выступал за клуб в сезонах 2008-09 и 2011-12, а также отправлялся в аренду в клубы второго дивизиона «Ваноли»,, «Скафати» и «Пистоя Баскет».
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После этого Филлой вернулся в клуб «Пистоя Баскет 2000» до конца сезона 2016 года.
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The Shield, "Family Meeting": Goodbye, Vic Mackey
A review of the series finale of "The Shield" coming up just as soon as I take a closer look at my snake habitat...
"All those busts. All those confessions you got in this room, illegal or otherwise. All the drugs you got off the street tonight for ICE. You must be very proud of yourself. This is what the hero left on his way out the door." -Claudette Wyms
And, at the end of the amazing series finale of "The Shield," this is what Vic Mackey has left on his way out the door: one cop murdered by his own hands; another cop murdered by his protege; the protege having killed himself, his two-year-old son and pregnant wife; his last surviving partner doomed to life in prison because of his association with Vic; and a wife so disgusted by and terrified of him that she went running into witness protection to keep him from ever seeing their kids again.
As with "The Sopranos," the show we so often compared "The Shield" to, we didn't get either of the predicted endings, as Vic didn't die or go to prison. But the diabolical fate that "Shield" creator Shawn Ryan constructed for his anti-hero had elements of both. Vic may not be dead, but he's lost everything and everyone that ever mattered to him: his friends, his family, his reputation. And he may not technically be in jail, but his vengeful new federal boss has constructed his new job like a three-year prison stretch, with an ill-fitting suit as his uniform and a barren cubicle as his cell.
Now, I loved the "Sopranos" finale, but it was an abstract kind of love, because that show deliberately disengaged from its audience at the end, gave us a climax we're still puzzling over. "The Shield" has never been about abstractions. While it had thoughtful things to say about law-enforcement and urban life (and continued to do so through the finale), its pleasures were largely visceral. And you can't get more visceral than several sequences in the finale, which was the most satisfying end to a great drama series that I've ever seen.
Start with Vic and estranged, fugitive sidekick Shane's final showdown. Though it was on the phone, an in-person encounter couldn't have cut any deeper than the things each man said to each other: that Vic had negotiated a deal that would prevent Shane from saving his wife from prison, and that Shane knew Vic's own wife had turned against him to co-operate with police. And it was that call -- and Vic's taunts about going to visit Shane's kids while Shane rotted in prison -- that led to Shane's horrifying decision to kill not only himself, but his wife and young son, to ensure they remained "innocent."
(I take copious notes whenever I watch a show like this, part transcription of what's happening on screen, part capsule of my feelings as I'm watching, and when Shane's house was notably silent after he blew his brains out, I started typing "OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO" over and over, realizing what Claudette was going to find when she went into the other room. Just a massive gut punch. It still upsets me thinking about it a month after first watching the episode.)
And Shane's murder-suicide led to the first of two astonishing, entirely silent scenes by Michael Chiklis. Vic's ex-boss Claudette, unable to prosecute Vic for a single one of his crimes due to the blanket immunity deal he scammed, hurt him the only way she could: by confronting him with the truth of all he had done. Ordering Vic into The Barn's interrogation room -- and insisting he sit on the side of the table ordinarily reserved for the perps -- she read to him from Shane's suicide note, then laid out the crime scene photos of Shane, Mara and little Jackson.
Chiklis has never been better than he was in that scene, attempting to shut down all his emotions, not show Claudette how much this affected him. Every mannerism -- the glazed look in his eyes, the slight facial twitches -- was perfect, especially the way that, after Claudette left the room, Vic had to roll his head down to look at the photos, as if it was just an accident that he was doing so, because if he actively chose to look at the pictures, then they're real, and they're his fault.
In that scene, and in the mesmerizing final sequence -- four silent minutes of Vic adorning his cubicle with photos of his lost loved ones, impotently watching police cars go by on the street below, and reflecting on all his sins -- Chiklis showed Mackey's tough guy façade crack ever so slightly. But in both cases, outside forces -- first Vic remembering the camera in the interrogation room, then the office lights automatically turning off at 6 -- snapped him back to attention and raised his emotional shields.
(Ryan told me that it was a coincidence that both "The Shield" and "The Sopranos" had final scenes punctuated by the lights going out, but the difference between the two shows did get summed up nicely by the way that "The Shield" continued to move forward afterwards, where "The Sopranos" just stopped.)
The finale was dominated by the death of Shane and the destruction of Vic's life -- which included another final humiliation by Claudette, as she made him watch the arrest of longtime sidekick Ronnie -- but Ryan was able to provide satisfying grace notes for most of the major characters.
Dutch, once the butt of Vic's barbs and practical jokes, now stood as the respected cop who got to slap the cuffs on Ronnie while the rest of The Barn watched approvingly. (In possibly the series' funniest line, when Ronnie asked what he was being arrested for, Dutch said, "The last three years.") He also met an interesting romantic prospect (Billings' lawyer, played by Jay Karnes' real-life wife, Julia Campbell), and he and Claudette also got to put one final serial killer into the interrogation room. Though Lloyd hadn't given it up by the end of the episode -- even after we got to hear one final entry from Dutch's Amazing Serial Killer Fact File, about how the streets of LA are literally paved with dead bodies -- it was clear his confession was just a matter of time.
Also, sadly, a matter of time: Claudette's impending death from lupus. In a moment as dignified as it was heartbreaking (CCH Pounder, like Chiklis and Walton Goggins, deserves serious Emmy consideration), Claudette told Dutch that her medication had stopped working, that, "All I have to do is deal with this pain every day, and every day that I can, I will show up. Until the day that I don't." She'll probably outlast Lloyd, and she was able to get some small measure of justice (karmic, if not actual) on Vic, but her clock is running down, fast.
Vic's old rival, cop-turned-politican David Aceveda, seems a lock to win the mayoral election after being tangentially involved in Vic's final, biggest drug bust, and it's clear he'll be just as effective at cleaning up City Hall as he was in corralling Vic -- that is, not at all.
Ryan didn't like to make the series' themes too overt, but in the finale he brought back Andre Benjamin from OutKast as neighborhood activist Robert Huggins (he first appeared in a season three episode as the owner of a comic book shop), this time waging his own fringe party run for mayor, talking about "a new paradigm" for law-enforcement and a change to the "prison-industrial complex." In the end, while Aceveda was busy doing TV interviews taking credit for Mackey's work, Huggins was shot and killed while picketing a crackhouse -- trying to effect change instead of just talking.
For a series that was as fast and loud as any in TV history, after this finale what "The Shield" may be remembered for are the slow, silent moments: Claudette and Dutch looking at the tableau of Shane's murdered family, Claudette watching Vic try not to look at the crime scene photos, or Vic stoically decorating his cubicle.
Our final image of Vic Mackey isn't of him on the verge of tears (that came earlier), but of him tucking his off-duty gun in his waistband and walking out into the night, a brutal expression on his face that said he was looking for someone to hurt. I wouldn't want to be that someone.
Some other thoughts on "Family Meeting":
• Next to the tableau of Mara and Jax lying so peacefully on the bed, the bouquet in her hands, the toy truck in his, the most disturbing part of that storyline was the small scene of Shane helping Mara go to the bathroom because she was in too much pain to even wipe herself. That's a classic example of what David Milch used to talk about with "NYPD Blue": people noticed the nudity and language, but the relaxed content standards also gave him a much greater freedom to show small, painfully honest moments in the lives of his characters. I suppose a network show could have given a version of that bathroom scene, but it wouldn't have been as explicit and humiliating, and in turn wouldn't have made it as clear just how horrible things had gotten for those two.
• For that matter, Shane and Mara's discussion about what to name their unborn baby daughter is devastating (especially on second view). Shane and Mara brought all of this doom down upon themselves, but in that moment, Walton Goggins and Michelle Hicks made you forget about the murders and just think about Shane and Mara as parents who might never get to hold their kids again.
• Clark Johnson returns, not only as director (forming a neat loop with the series pilot in the same way he did with "The Wire"), but in a brief cameo as the U.S. Marshal introducing Corrine and the kids to their new home in Rockford, Ill. (Shawn Ryan's hometown, not coincidentally.) In the closing credits, Johnson's character is identified as "Handsome Marshal."
• Some people wondered last week how Vic could have such amazing recall of every crime he needed to confess to ICE to make sure it was included in the immunity agreement. This week provided a good explanation: Vic had studied up on Shane's blackmail file (and that, in turn, inspired him to remember the things Shane forget to write down).
• I loved how much smaller Vic seemed in that suit (I suspect the wardrobe department deliberately picked out one that was a size or two too big), and how pained he looked throughout the HR reps' tour of his new hell. Note that for help, he now has to dial 912 instead of 911.
• As Shawn discusses in the post-finale Q&A, the songs bookending the episode are "Los Angeles" by X, and "Long Time Ago" by Concrete Blonde. He initially wanted the latter song to start during the final scene but was convinced (by Landgraf, I think) to let Vic's exit to play out in silence. As it is, the song and the montage of classic "Shield" moments (I had forgotten all about Shane with the earbuds) was a reminder of just how far all these characters had come (and, in many cases, fallen) since a long time ago. Plus, it forced FX to run the final credits at their full size, instead of squishing the names of all the crew people in their victory lap.
• You could argue that the three uniformed cops -- Danny in particular -- got short shrift in the finale, but Julien and Tina were involved in the very engaging, mission statement-y Andre 3000 story, so I'm okay with that. You can't fit everything in, even at 90 minutes. Shawn does talk at length in our interview about why he never revisited the matter of Julien's sexuality, and you may have noticed the moment, as he and Tina are driving to break up Huggins' stump speech, that his attention is briefly captured by the sight of a very happy and playful gay couple holding hands on the sidewalk.
• Nobody has a kind word or thought for Aceveda in this episode, do they? Huggins dubs him "Mr. Asses-veda," and Claudette wouldn't even dream of telling this clown about her illness in the way she opens herself up to Dutch. Dial back seven years (three years in show time), and I think she would have much more readily told David about the lupus than Dutch-boy.
• All the major personal stuff obscured the Beltran takedown, but it did give Vic an opportunity for one last bit of creative problem-solving -- sticking Santi's head into the poisonous snake's habitat to make him talk -- and there were some other nice action/character beats throughout, particularly Ronnie's desire to finish what they started, and Ronnie possibly saving Vic's life by warning him about the gunman in the warehouse. (Look how happy Ronnie seems when he starts talking about cowboys, and how heartbroken Vic looks when Ronnie's back is turned. Vic is a bastard for selling out his friend, but at least he has enough self-awareness to recognize what he did.) Hell of a moment from David Rees Snell as Ronnie's being dragged away by the uniforms and the entire precinct is glaring at Vic with disdain. (Also, loved his disbelief as he asked Vic, "You told them... all of it?")
• Before we screened this episode a few weeks back, everyone -- the critics, the FX publicist, everybody but Shawn Ryan -- kept getting the title confused and calling it "Family Matters." Finally, Ryan cracked, "Just call it 'Urkel.'"
• Hands up, everybody who took one look at Olivia back in the season premiere and assumed, based on the show's past history, that Vic would wind up sleeping with her. Ryan said he knew that would be the expectation, which is one of the reasons he went with an attractive blonde for Vic's ICE contact. One of the things that jumped out at me when giving the episode a second view is how often Olivia reminds Vic to report to her office at 9 a.m. sharp tomorrow, making it clear how much she's looking forward to giving him some slight comeuppance for what he did to her.
• Have I mentioned yet how much I loved this episode?
If you have the time (say, if you have a long Thanksgiving flight ahead of you) and aren't ready to let the show go just yet, don't forget to take a look at the Shawn Ryan Q&A, which addresses, among other points, his thoughts on doing some kind of "Shield" movie down the road.
What did everybody else think?
Alan Sepinwall may be reached at asepinwall@starledger.com
Posted by Alan Sepinwall at 11:42 PM
Labels: The Shield, The Shield (season 7)
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
And I'm glad neither of the "predicted" endings for Vic happened. This couldn't have been more perfect.
Mackey behind a desk.
A fate worse than any of his teammates.
Unbelievably great final episode.
I got nothing else to say.
Unbelievable. Great, great ending. Clark Johnson's work was brilliant, particularly with the close-ups.
For 85 minutes I had this sinking feeling in my stomach. The next 20 left me numb. The closing montage made me emotional.
Damn good show.
Zack Smith said...
Small detail -- when Shane is on the phone with Vic, there's a weathered "Lost Cat" poster taped to it.
I'm reasonably sure that wasn't the same one Dutch strangled, but it was a bit of callback for me.
Ah, Vic. Cubicle hell. And he still has a bit of a smirk as he walks off.
Great show.
It's so cool to see these serialized shows start to reach their predetermined conclusions, and finally have them as complete units. It'll be fun to rewatch this and THE WIRE years from now and see how everything pays off.
Vic Mackey may be in prison, yet he's still free.
And perhaps somehow, some way, he'll get out.
"For tomorrow... is another day!"
That thought is terrifying and exhilarating all at once.
Thank you, Messers Ryan, Johnson, Chiklis, Goggins, Martinez Snell, Karnes, Marciano, Jace. THank you, Melle. Ryan, Dent, Garces, and most of all, above and beyond, thank you, Ms. Pounder.
OK, I lied, I have one more thing to say.
I loved how Vic's "prison sentence" lasts three years; it's one day of penance for each day since he murdered Terry.
12:01 AM, November 26, 2008
That was superb. This is brilliant writing to wrap up the individual character story lines. I especially liked the moment when Danni alertly darts into the break room at The Barn to make sure the suddenly unattended anniversary candle was blown out. This little detail of direction and editing captures the careful precision with which every component of this finale was constructed. Well done to everyone involved.
I have this very strong feeling that Vic goes home and kills himself. I don't see him living that life. he's ratted out his family at work and his bio family ratted him out. it's over.
Since David Rees Snell is my baby brother, I held out hope that Ronnie headed for Mexico, so his arrest was upsetting to me. Still, the bastard deserved it.
The scene of Mara and Jackson was the most emotional of the hour. I still feel sick inside.
Wonderful ending to an amazing show!
I would have liked Ronnie to end up at the goat farm.
R.A. Porter said...
It's ambiguous, but I thought Vic's smirk at the end as he picked up his gun was the confident, self-assured Vic thinking he'd never take the coward's way out like Shane. Confronted with everything, everyone and everything in his life taken from him...he still thinks he's going to figure a way to spin out of it.
Since David Rees Snell is my baby brother
If so, give him my regards for some excellent, excellent work.
FlopEJoe said...
I think what struck me the most is that, in the end, every single turn of Vic's fate was his own fault and his face showed that realized that very well. He didn't have to make the deal that put him in cubicle prison and Ron in real prison. Vic is such a bullcrap artist he could have probably conned Shane into believing there was one. BUT WAIT, he needed to get Corrine a deal which he learned was fake. She needed a deal, Shane and the innocents died, and Ron was going to prison because of him.
Also, I was so crazy saying "oh no oh no" when he was sitting in his cube remembering HR lady saying the lights go out. I thought, "if it goes black and the credits roll, I will curse Ryan's name till the end of time!"
that ending sucked ass!!!! i want to know what the hell is going to happen now! What happened to the kid that killed his mom? What about Vic's family what are they going to do now? Will vic try and find his family? Olivia played vic and just wanted him to get her bust! great show and great series but poor ending i was excpecting more!
Really no words other than to say that it's been a privilege to enjoy seven fantastic seasons of one of the greatest television series of all time.
The deat scene of Shane and his family was just brutal. Especially, when I noticed the truck Jackson is holding is a police car vehicle.
I burst into tears when Shane pulled the trigger and the tears did not stop for a good 20 minutes.
Ok so Vic is in suit-ant-tie-cubicle hell now. He truly got what he deserved.
Thank you to the cast, crew and writers. I am so sad to see such an amazing show end. The acting was brilliant, the writing was impeccable. Kudos to Shawn Ryan and all involved.
* PS, if that truly is your brother...Ronnie's arrest scene was one of the best I have seen on television. He nailed it. Please tell him thanks for an amazing job well done
afoglia said...
Wow amazing episode. Though I pieced together a lot of this from where the last few weeks were going (Ronnie arrested, Vic in purgatory, which left death as Shane's ending) the details were amazing. I couldn't figure out how Vic could stay free with Corrine still out there, but witness protection was genius. And even the parts you knew were coming were wonderfully executed.
Next to the tableau of Mara and Jax lying so peacefully on the bed, the bouquet in her hands, the toy truck in his[...]
Correction, Alan. It was a toy police car. I imagine Shane told Jax one last time that his dad is a cop before Jax got his drink.
Meldrick is unrecognizable without the goatee.
ok...Emmy discussion time
Who deserves one most for this season?
Chiklis...for sure
CCH Pounder? without a doubt
Walton Goggins- should and must win an Emmy for his performace this season.
Vic has Jackson's death on his hands. If he had not taunted Shane with the birthday and tossling his hair imagery, Shane would not have killed them.
I think when Vic sees that gun, he realizes he's not beaten. That he's still got power. it's just a matter of time, whether it be three years, or three weeks, that he'll come up with a plan. He'll always come up with a plan.
Great review as always. What an amazing finale to a great show.
Let's see...
Lem - Dead by grenade
Shane - Dead by gunshot
Mara - Dead
Jackson - Dead
Ronnie - In Prison. For the rest of his life. To be raped by Antwon & Co.
Claudette - Dying of Lupus
Vic - Desk work making $62,000 + Health Benefits. Um, that's more than I make at my boring office job.
So basically Vic is free, employed and surfing the net for the next 3 years? That's it? He's stuck behind a cubicle like the majority of working Americans and that's his punishment for all his sin?
Lame.
"Olivia played vic and just wanted him to get her bust!"
You think Olivia played him? Vic got her to cut him an immunity deal on what she figured was petty crimes and turned out to be for three years of murder, theft, and corruption. The fact that Vic Mackey avoids justice for all of his crimes comes down to the way he played her on that.
Her career will forever be marred by that immunity deal. She played him?
Vic Mackey = Marlo Stanfield
They got the exact same ending.
Complete BS. Vic's immunity deal was based on bringind down Bertran & "the blacks" in one bust, not 2.
Where was Vic going with his (uneeded)gun at the closing? To find Corrine & the kids? Julian still stays in the closet? Uh...OK. The kid serial killer never reveals the sick thrill he gets from killing? No one looks for the Mom's body NEAR WHERE HER BURNT CLOTHES WERE FOUND? Billings' counter suit just goes away (even though he was running a scam)? Ronnie couldn't "read" Vic well enough (after all they've been through), to realize the joint immunity deal wasn't gonna happen? Lastly, Vic's daughter is a slut one week, then she turns into the loving daughter. How?
1:07 AM, November 26, 2008
They got the exact same ending"
Except that Vic is not wealthy.
"that ending sucked ass!!!! i want to know what the hell is going to happen now! What happened to the kid that killed his mom? What about Vic's family what are they going to do now? Will vic try and find his family? Olivia played vic and just wanted him to get her bust! great show and great series but poor ending i was excpecting more!"
Dude, answering all those questions would take another season.
"So basically Vic is free, employed and surfing the net for the next 3 years? That's it? He's stuck behind a cubicle like the majority of working Americans and that's his punishment for all his sin?
Lame."
No, because all he's got now is time to think about how much he screwed over every single person in his life. Death or even prison would have been the easy way out for Vic. Sitting behind a desk, knowing he essentially caused Shane's suicide, knowing he sold out Ronnie for nothing, knowing his wife set him up and ran with the kids, that's pure Hell for Vic. It may not be as satisfying for you, but it really is the most fitting punishment they could conceive.
I'd also like to point out that I called this ending for Vic in last week's comments, Alan. I've been arguing with everyone I knew, who were all convinced Vic would either be dead or in an orange jumpsuit.
It was a good ending, but I wasn't blown away for some reason. The murder-suicide didn't shock me, nor did Vic's fate.
But I'm not saying it was bad, not at all. But from reading all the reviews, I expected to be hyperventilating in shock after watching this.
No, because all he's got now is time to think about how much he screwed over every single person in his life.
Vic is a sociopath. He has no conscience. Putting him in a cubicle to "think about" all the bad things he's done? Is he twelve? Time-out might work on a small child but not a hardened psychopathic killer like Vic Mackey. This ending was a cop-out. LOL.
Hell, I knew for a fact when Olivia showed up that Vic was going to screw her. How wrong I was. Completely the other way around. And I was sure Ronnie was going to skate, too. Poor, poor loyal Ronnie.
You know, I figured Billings' lawyer was too cute to just pop up in the last episode for no reason, but I didn't realize that Dutch would close out the show by finally getting a woman's number. Without trying. So without trying! (And it was nice that Billings got to sign off with one more stupid, self-aggrandizing lie. I love that sleazy bastard.)
Shane. Holy crap. I didn't really start to mist up until I thought back to the scene with the convenience store clerk. Shane knew what he was about to do. Shane. Goddammit.
I have this very strong feeling that Vic goes home and kills himself.
I don't. No way. No way in hell. The idea that Vic Mackey will internalize any of what just happened goes against everything we've learned about him over the last 7 years. When he dies, it might be bloody, but it won't be at his own hand. No, I think he went out to get some $#!+ done.
Do you think the lions and tigers in the zoo think they've got it made too?
On a lighter note: Thanks for these reviews, Alan. This was my favorite show, and I can't think of how they could have done a better sendoff. Well, worse. But that's the kind of show it was.
Jeff K. said...
I thought this was an excellently executed piece of drama. Wonderfully acted, written, directed, just all around top notch work.
That it was made in the midst of the writer strike without Shawn Ryan's direct involvement is a testament to the infrastructure Ryan had in place and the talent he had surrounded himself with. I thought it was tragic that he was forced to sit out his own show's wrap... tho I was glad to read he picketed the set where they shot Vic and Corinne's goodbye.
The character's fates were all right where they should have been -- none of them really had any other way out and it not feel like a cop out.
I like that we didn't need to see Dutch break the serial killer -- we knew it would happen. I like that the writers give us as an audience enough credit to know that... and I don't feel robbed in the slightest for not having been shown it.
For the record, for all I love the show and the characters, I don't think I've heard a worse idea than a movie. (Maybe a Sopranos movie...)
The characters are where they are -- left only to our imaginations to determine their fates. Do I need to see how Vic slogged thru the next 3 years? Nope. Do I want to see Ronnie and some Schillinger-type knocking heads so he can survive? Nope. Do I need to see Dutch grieve at Claudette's wake? Nope. The characters are no longer who they are; their situations are greatly changed from when we knew and loved them... to visit them in such different circumstances would feel more than a little AfterMASH-y...
Some things are better left unsaid.
(All that aside, if they wanted to do a standalone "prequel" type thing -- a "Bunk and McNulty" standalone piece which took place sometime between the 2nd and 3rd seasons, maybe... I might be able to get behind that... but I don't want any part of a follow-up movie.)
I loved the finale. It was a well-done episode. Now, don't get me wrong, I loved this show, and I loved this episode, but there is one thing I would've liked.
If there is one regret I have, it is that the show didn't revisit the moral ambiguity question and tried to paint it as black and white as possible. Well, they sort of did with Andre 3000 dying, but I wish it had taken it a step further.
To put it in another way, I would've been curious about revisiting the initial question. What are we willing to sacrifice? We've seen what Vic can do on the street. There is a certain relevance and significance to that type of individual. This is, by no means, a defense of Vic, as his crimes were heinous. But ... I have high doubts that the folks left at the Barn can control the streets as well as Vic could. They may try, and Claudette can show up each day, but there has been no suggestion that those left are up to the match. I would've liked to see a "things go on moment" where the streets are engulfed and the Barn is at a loss of how to handle it.
That said, fabulous episode. You can't hit everything, and they just about hit a lot of it. I wasn't as emotional as I thought (for example, Lem's death had me shaking). Shane's endgame, along with Mara and Jackson, was fairly clear by the end of last week, if not earlier. I also wasn't as excited as I was when Parricide happened. There was a tenseness to it. But for a series finale, moments like that would be somewhat flawed in many respects.
The beauty of the final episode was the character focus. We saw the small little interactions, with Vic and Ronnie's banter before charging in. We saw Shane getting coked up and losing it.
I don't think Vic kills himself. Shawn Ryan has essentially said he hasn't (in the interviews Alan posted). I think he wants to take out some anger, and it wouldn't surprise me if he was somehow motivated to vigilantism. Part of me wonders if he took his gun out to go downstairs to check on the cop situation below.
Is Vic Mackey a redeemable character? If so, there's a lot more they could explore, perhaps in different forms of media. Whether he is redeemable depends on how one perceives his role in society. To say he is an evil, bad man would be true, but also a limited view. He'll find his way out, though, and it would be interesting to pursue some sort of Vic Mackey story down the line, the redemption of Vic Mackey in some respects.
Btw, I liked the fact that they took pains to show that Claudette wasn't perfect. That she wasn't that strong that she could avoid spiting someone. I thought that was a good way to show the moral complexities of our world.
Hyde said...
I don't think the Vic/Marlo comparison is exactly the same, because while Marlo is exiled from the game, nothing he's done has or ever will weigh on him. Just by living as long as he has, he's beaten the odds. Whereas Mackey completely disgraced the job and lost his family.
One minor quibble with the finale was Shane's scene in the store when he bought the flowers. His behavior there--the forced joviality, the inexplicable gift of money--was textbook for someone who has decided to kill himself. It was always a strong possibility that he would go that route, but that scene eliminated any suspense.
His behavior there--the forced joviality, the inexplicable gift of money--was textbook for someone who has decided to kill himself.
I didn't get it until after. I just figured he was trying to do a good deed. But yeah, in retrospect.
Hey, I just realized: The presidential motorcade they've been talking about for weeks and weeks was a huge red herring! Ryan, you magnificent bastard.
Excellent finale in every way. Vic, Shane, and Ronnie's fates were all very fitting. Dutch and Claudette rocked. Poor Mara and Jackson, that was heart wrenching. Man, what a crazy, intense, f'ed up television show this was! It will be missed.
Marlo ultimately rebelled against his forced choice of leaving "the game." Only time will tell if Vic does the same.
Hyde wrote, "His behavior there [in the convenience store]--the forced joviality, the inexplicable gift of money--was textbook for someone who has decided to kill himself."
jim treacher responded, "I didn't get it until after. I just figured he was trying to do a good deed."
I just thought Shane was hitting on the checkout girl.
I can't help but be amused at just how similar Vic & Marlo's endings are, considering how often these shows were compared. Hell, they were both even wearing suits in their final scenes.
Also...how great was it to have see Kellerman and Lewis again on the same episode of television? (O.K., Kellerman only came in flashbacks, but still....)
The Shield vs The Wire
(LOL, you knew this was coming)
Ronnie = Chris
Shane = Snoop
Aceveda = Tommy Carcetti
Mara = Squeak (the girlfriend of Bernard)
The last words we hear Mackey say: "I gotta see my kids."
Poor, poor loyal Ronnie.
Any sympathy I might have had for him disappeared when he committed first degree murder in the season premiere, and I assume that was why they wrote that moment for him.
As for those concerned that there are still interesting things we now won't get to know about because the show is over, I assume that an old dramatic principal still applies: this series represented the most critical, memorable moments in these characters lives, and nothing that came before or happens after is as important or meaningful as what we got to see.
Aceveda's term as Mayor will be ineffective and unmemorable.
Claudette will finish out her time with honor and success. There will not be another Vic Mackey; she'll make sure of it. Eventually, she won't be able to come in anymore.
Dutch will finish out this case and his career competently and professionally. He will not encounter any more serial killers. Maybe he will hook up with Billings's lawyer and get married. He will not kill anymore animals.
Corrine and the girls will live a normal life in Rockford. Vic will never find them.
Ronnie will disappear into prison. His experiences will probably be typical for convicted cops. He'll probably get beaten up, maybe raped, but he won't be killed. He'll get old, he'll be forgotten, and eventually he'll die in there alone, unloved, and unmourned.
And Vic Mackey will waste away at his lousy job for the next three years, maybe packing on some pounds and letting his hair grow back, then he'll struggle to make ends meet via security jobs (if he can get any with zero references). He'll probably get another woman eventually, but she won't be smart or he won't be able to be real with her. Neither variation will be particularly satisfying. He'll just be, at best, a pathetic loser with little to suggest otherwise.
Corrine and the kids may be gone, but Danni is still there, and her kid is still Vic's?
But maybe Vic will be smart enough to know that he can't go there because she'll get a restraining order against him and jeopardize his immunity deal.
I can't believe its over.
What an amazing show, and what an amazing and satisfying finale.
One thing I've learned in all my time watching TV is that I want to be left satisfied with how they are portrayed in their final moments.
This show did ALL of that and was gripping and unblinking as it did it.
Just some moments that stood out to me:
- Vic saying goodbye to his kids at the house you just knew it was the last time he would see them.
- The short scene where Wymms looks down into the break room and sees Tina, Julian, etc. celebrating her 1 year anniversary. You could tell Wymms knew there was still some hope as good cops still existed.
-Wymms speech to the perp. So perfect in the way she defended Dutch and ended as she told him that he was a "guest of the county."
-Vic still not getting it that his life as he knew it was over. Practically begging Olivia for a new assignment to take down some Vietnamese gang-chacallit.
-Vic returning to the barn. He looked so foreign there and the "We're back a----les!" sign looked from another time and place.
-The last second, "Ronnie!" yell by Vic. As if his last gasp could somehow save his friend.
-His being led by the HR lady just screamed of a prisoner being led to his cell. Can you even imagine a brown paper bag with the initials "V.M." on it in the fridge?
-Vic is in the worst place imaginable. Its worse than prison. When he heard the sirens and just looked out the window knowing that he could never join the fight again is akin to taking away his freedom.
-His smirk at the end is part of Vic's behavior pattern that makes him who he is and what he is. His "plans" and thoughts that there's a way out, is what just continues to lead him down a road that led him to eventual nothingness.
I loved this show and I thank Shawn Ryan for being consistent all the way through its run.
I'm not sure I necessarily buy that, that this was the high point. Rather, I think Ryan's perspective, and it's something we see in modern media more, is that it is simply a point. That there is a past, and there is a future, perhaps better, or worse. Even Ryan somewhat hints at it with his comment of his curiousity of Ryans' life after these three years. In saying that, yeah, I could see a scenario where that is a highpoint.
Honestly, if I was to script what I would like to see ...
a) Barn falls apart. Claudette is ineffective as her physical struggles lead to people questioning her capabilities. This happens a lot in real life. Furthermore, the lack of an effective gang unit haunts Farmington.
b) Dutch doesn't do anything that great, but he is a friend to Claudette. He's not as good as he seems to think. Perhaps when Claudette is forced to retire, Dutch moves on and becomes some sort of profiler.
c) Much as I would like to see a good ending for Ronnie, it's hard to think anything like that could happen, considering all the enemies.
d) Billings, with the case behind him, becomes a surprisingly good cop ... but he cuts some corners. He's not Mackey, and he's definitely not as effective, but he makes some headways.
e) Acevada is the worm that he is. The self-serving individual keeps rising in power, although at some point, he'll meet a political match. Governor Aceveda? Wouldn't surprise me if he did put the hit out on Andre 3000.
d) Danny Sofer struggles to make ends meet, leading to her quitting the force to look for a private gig that's less dangerous. This wouldn't be too far out.
e) Julien Lowe eventually has a personal crisis where he has to confront his homosexuality again. As good a cop as he's become, he has to transfer. I also wouldn't be surprised if Julien, assuming the Barn falls apart, starts taking some chances. Not Strike Team level, but smaller. Perhaps this coincides with his personal crisis.
f) Corrine's life falls apart. This isn't a lady that can do witness protection. Family life also falls apart as the kids wonder, particularly Cassidy.
g) As for Vic, it depends. I don't think this is a man that gets stuck. For all the comments about Vic getting boxed in this final episode, when assessed within the spectrum of things, he is alive. He won and lost in the finale. We've had people like Marion Barry come back to power in the real world. Mackey is certainly as cunning as some of the best out there. I think he'd make it back ... but the question becomes, is it redeeming Mackey, or is it some form of vigilantism.
I would love to see Vic end up being the mentor to a young gun, sort of like what they potentially had with Kevin.
Having seen the brilliant finale of "The Shield", I can say that I think this show is the greatest television drama ever made.
I had been wondering for awhile if Shane might ultimately take his own life, but I never ever expected he'd also take Mara and Jackson with him. Wow.
I also loved Vic and Ronnie's reactions to what had happened.
All in all it was just a brilliant episode.
The finale was very good, but I have to say I disagree with you Alan that it was great. I thought it was solid and had some wonderful moments, it did not however take the show to another level where I would say The Shield is the greatest drama of all-time.
Shane was always the best character in my opinion and his ending was the best. In one of the commercial breaks I thought I would have him kill his wife and kids if I was writing this. Not because Im a sicko, but it was obvious that Mara and Jackson were slowing him down and if he had any chance to survive he would have to get rid of them and it was obvious Shane was not going to leave MAra for jail and Jackson to the system. The way that Ryan and Clark Johnson wrote and directed those final Shane scenes were excellent though. I guess Shane was tired of running and he probably would not have been abel to live with what he had done to his wife and kids, so his suicide made the most sense. I was glad that Shane was able to dish out some ether from the grave on Vic though. Shane's arc alone was worth watchin The Shield.
As far as Vic, I thought it was good but it had problems. Vic ending up without respect was the key thing in my opinion. Vic lived for respect and that was what his Shield epitomized. To see Vic without the respect of his peers and without his family and friends is a perfect ending for his story in theory, it is just that the ICE deal is so unrealistic that it bothers me. I just could not wrap my head around the immunity deal to completely enjoy Vic's ending.
The stuff with Ronnie was good. Dutch and Claudette had a solid ending, except I would have liked to have seen a confession. Acaveda's character was summed up nicely in the finale and I thought 3 stacks' character served as a nice parallel to the issue of cleanin up the streets.
A good run congrats to all involved. It is nice to know that we have Sons of Anarchy to kind of take The Shield's place. We have lost some amazing tv shows this year, The Wire/The Shield, and soon Friday Night Lights/Brotherhood.
UnwantedTouching said...
It was great. Hard to imagine how it could have been better. But at the same time, the way you've been building it up for weeks now Alan, I have to admit, I'm not as blown away as I expected to be based on your hints. However, I've only seen it once and might change my mind on subsequent viewings. I'm still most devastated by Ronnie's arrest, since his loyalty was turned against him. Alan, thanks again for your efforts in reviewing the show, it's always helped me develop a deeper understanding of each ep.
I think Hyde is right about the telegraphing of the ending of the Vendrell story, but I admit I didn't catch it at the time. I did Shane's actions at the cornershop odd, but I was already disoriented by the fact that the family came home in the first place. Coming home clearly indicates they'd given up hope, but Ryan smartly showed us how Mara and Shane were still processing the fact that they were done for, as with Mara only beginning to think about what's going to happen to the kids. It worked as a nice diversionary tactic (in my case) with the actors playing characters in denial about hitting bottom distracting you (me) from the fact that they were way past it.
And I'll admit, while Chiklis was great in this episode, and the scene with Pounder and Chiklis in the box was truly cathartic, I'm ambivalent about the "office hell" ending. It just seemed to depend too much on the concept of global-super-plus-good immunity that I had a little trouble getting past in last week's episode.
On the other hand, I can see how Ryan wanted the Strike team to end up broken in all sorts of ways (murder, suicide, literal prison, metaphorical prison). And the great final shot of Vic heading out into the night felt incredibly right.
toonsterwu said...
Yeah, I see from reading the Shawn Ryan interview that he doesn't see things the way I do either.
But artists aren't always the best authorities on their art. They often learn more about what they've done when they see how their audience responds. That's one of the things I love about art.
By the by, can anyone name any other series that's run for more than 2 or 3 seasons but remained so consistently good (BESIDES "The Wire")? I've been amazed by how good the Shield has been for so long. I feel like it never necessarily hit the highs that "The Wire" was able to reach, but that takes nothing away from Shawn Ryan and his team's accomplishments.
God, it was weird seeing Mackey in that suit.
Is it possible Dutch killed Rita? That he's been slowly progressing since the cat killing, albeit off-screen? That would've been a helluva twist.
GREAT, GREAT episode, obviously. But Alan, better then The Wire.....Ehhh I'm not to sure. I mean, I loved it and I really need to watch it again, but I donno about "greatest drama finale ever".
I have to say I was a bit disappointed by the finale but...I'll live.
Here's my take on the Lady or The Tiger type of ending.....
Dutch....is a serial killer. He killed the cat, the mom and the lawyer will be next. His whole speech about the man working for the city who built all those roads and bodies he buried along the highways came out of nowhere. He is really describing himself...he works for the city...he came to LA in first episode ("Why do people come to LA?")...he's the one who planted the woman's clothes in his dumpster...he's the one who is "playing the game."
Mackey..."serves" his three years at ICE...if he didn't run from the feds and police when all this thing was hanging over his head...why the hell would he run now? He'll do his time and get out in three years, then go hunting for his kids.
The VIEWERS: will be bored stiffed out of our minds as the last great show on television ends its run. This is the only show I watch on tv and now it has ended. Might as well cancel that cable subscription.
Thank you to everyone involved for such a great great show. I've watched each and every episode and have enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for your great work...can't wait to see you in your future projects.
That's a perfectly valid analogy for a lifetime prison sentence. Lions and tigers don't get to leave the zoo premises on their own for up to two thirds of the weekday, with the weekend off as a matter of course. They certainly aren't released into the citylife after three years.
I've re-thought it. Last night I thought Vic would kill himself. I think my opinion was colored by somehting my brother (DR Snell) said to me yesterday.
For seven seasons I've got nothing from him. Not a single hint about what was yet to come. (Unless you count "I shaved my beard")
Yesterday I begged him: just give me something. One thing. Does Ronnie kill Vic? Tell me that.
He said: Not technically.
So I went in with the idea that Vic would die.
Then I remembered something Ronnie Said to Claudette when he told her Vic was looking for Shane. He said Vic didn't want to kill Shane. Death was too good for him.
So, yeah. Vic serves 3 years in a cubicle.
Great show-great ending---
Small aside: Family Meeting was a perfect title in real-life. Last night everyone involved with The Shield watched it at an LA theatre, then had a party afterward. What a great way for them to say goodbye.
Now I have to get my hands on "The Wire" you guys talk so much about.
Thanks Alan for the blog!
What do I think? Personally I think you're overrating the ending. You don't even mention how similar Vic's fate is to Marlo's, so similar that the episode suffers for it in hindsight.
And Vic's fate is hardly a fate worse than death, as someone who works in an office I'm actually starting to resent this sort of idea. Your interview with Ryan makes it clear that Ryan himself doesn't think its a fate worse than death either, he pretty much said Vic gets away with it. If anyone thinks his fate is worse than death or being in jail they're fooling themselves.
Yes the series was visceral and moments of the finale were, but Vic's fate wasn't. Ultimately it was in keeping with his character to get away with it but I don't personally think the series itself demanded it, unlike say The Wire where Marlo's fate was perfectly in line with the thematic emphasis of that series.
Vic being forced to work in an office isn't the primary punishment. Vic might not be in jail, but he has lost everything and everyone he cares about.
His kids are gone. He will never see them again.
His ex-wife is gone. He will never see her again.
His reputation is irreparably shattered. Everybody knows that he is a cop-killer, in addition to everything else he pulled.
Two members of his strike team are dead, and Vic is, although perhaps not directly, at least indirectly responsible for both of them, and also bears some responsibility for the deaths of Mara and Jackson.
His one remaining friend, he betrayed and sent to prison for the rest of his life.
He is off the streets and in an office where he will never be respected.
Vic didn't "get away" with it. He might be serving a legal sentence, but he has lost everything and everyone he cared about.
Even worse, he is faced with the knowledge that all of his sins were in vain. All of his crimes, the ONLY reason he did that was for Corrine, and more importantly, his kids. And they're gone, forever. All of that murder, that theft, that drug dealing, that betrayal, was ultimately for nothing.
He's lost everything...for nothing.
Every remaining Strike Team member met a tragic end in this finale.
What a brilliant episode. I still can't get over it.
And all that would mean something if Vic gave a shit, but he compartmentalizes and shrugs it off. Ryan himself pretty much said Vic got away with it. I will say that at least the final season got to the core of who and what Vic is, although some fans refuse to see it.
Since all the critics saw the finale we've heard that Vic gets the fate he deserves, well sorry I don't think it was.
Jaw droppingly good and so much more fulfilling than the Wire and the Sopranos. (I do like the Marlo analogy.) FWIW, I didn't really see any of this coming.
Personally, I would have ended two beats earlier, *before* Vic goes into his drawer for the gun. That was a redemption of sorts, and I'm of the "Vic is irredeemable" school, but that's just a quibble.
A few continuity things.
What happened to Dani and her son? They make this a major plot point midway through the season, but now she's back, Vic's back--and now without a family--and she doesn't seem to notice or care. I would have just liked to have seen a single shot of Catherine Dent mentally calculating what Vic's deal might mean for her.
And on Ronnie. Don't they need some actual, oh, evidence to convict him? In a conventional immunity deal, the flipper has to testify against the flipee.
But Vic's not testifying. What do they really have on Ronnie?
Did anyone catch the preview in which Chicklis says something to the effect of "the conventional wisdom is that Vic Mackey ends up dead or in jail. We don't do conventional wisdom on The Shield."
Tucker Stone said...
The only thing that I felt left wondering about was Danny, her kid, and what Vic could do about that now. With her back in the barn, and Vic free to do as he pleases, couldn't that thing start up again?
Other than that--this was one of the finest pieces of television I've ever seen, and I'm glad I got to watch it while it was happening. I hope the DVD collections make their way to a lot of the people who have missed it--this show was one of the best examples of what can be done with tv that I've ever seen, and it's a masterclass in storytelling.
Thanks Alan--you and your gang of comment-leavers was my first stop after an episode ended. I would've loved watching it with my wife and not coming here--I'm just glad I didn't have to. This site and the people who show up here made a great experience that much better.
Loved the episode. Like a few others, I didn't foresee Shane killing Mara/Jackson until this episode, when they're preparing the raid and Julien says "There's no sounds of children from inside the house". I had the same reaction as Alan to seeing it play out. Just a stomach punch feeling.
For the ending, I don't see Vic "trapped" in a cubicle. His grabbing the gun & smirking says he has other plans. Finding Corinne, definitely. But more immediately, doesn't his new position analyzing ICE intelligence on gangs put him in the perfect position to work both sides of the fence, and shake down those gangs for protection money? Yes, he's trapped in the cube by day, but he's always done most of his dirty work at night. He'll still be free to do so. I wouldn't be surprised at all if there's a movie (obviously more Vic/family based than Strike Team-based) down the line in a few years.
When Vic taunts Shane on their last phone call about taking his kid's out on the birthdays, while he sits in jail...and tussling their hair, buying them an ice cream cone...That is Shane's breaking point. That imagery is plain torture to Shane and he cannot allow that to happen. He cannot take the chance that Vik makkey could ever touch, see or communicate with his children...ever. That is too much for him to bear.
Thus, Shane buys Jackson a toy police car and plans to kill his family. When he buys pens and gives the checkout girl an 80+ $$ tip, I knew he was going to suicide on himself and take his family with him. Money has been a crucial component to them getting away and to give away a large amt of it, was the tip off to what was to come.
The bathroom scene with Shane and Mara. She is in too much pain to even wipe herself. She is humiliated and broken down. Shawn Ryan has said that he was not there for the filming of this scene, due to the writer's strike and had to re-work a lot of the scene to avoid it being too comical and light. Well, he did a darn good job. I thought that scene was devastating as it becomes clear to Shane that Mara is in no shape to "run" anymore. It is over. This is the moment he decides to turn himself in to save his family. And then the phone call with Vic, ends all of that.
Shawn Ryan, thank you for staying true to us. Your fans from the beginning. From ep 1, the people who tuned in each week to watch this show. You never once forgot about us. You didnt pander to new fans or do anything to jeopardize our ride. You stayed true to yourself, and to your characters and to us, the fans. (Sopranos writer, take notes from this man!!!)
Vic's sentence was appropriate. He is left without a friend in the world or his family. A fate truly worth than death to this man. He is a pariah in a station where he used to be a god. He is treated with disdain by the people who used to adore and respect him.
The scene between Vic and Claudette was just...perfection. She plays this just right and so does he. I didnt realize until after that he doesnt speak at all during this scene, only she does but his face does all the talking we, the audience, needs. wow...just WOW!
Dutch boy's ending is also right on the money and rings true to me. He will remain Claudette's keeper and continue with his unsensational career. He finally gets a phone number from an attractive lady without even trying. (That lady was his real life wife by the way)
I was expecting something a little worse for the Ditch boy....he never did really pay for killing that kitten. or did he? hmmm
I feel a little bit sorry for Danny now. With Vic's kid's gone he is certainly going to focus his interest on her son now. She did not get much air time on the finale and neither did Julian. I think Tina had more face time with the camera and lines than Danny or Julian.
Thanks to the cast...MC, CCH and Walton Goggins...you ALL deserve Emmy awards this year for your amazing talent and performances.
I will truly miss this show. I am not ready for it to go.
I have mixed feelings about a movie in the future. I really do. I do believe that if anyone could do a post script movie justice, it is Shawn Ryan. If he could get the same cast back and crew, and come up with a worthy enough of a idea, I trust him to do it properly.
I just have to say that all of the people who leave comments here on this blog are some of the most thoughtful, intelligent tv watchers around.
I have checked numerous blogs, and the comments on this one, are by far, superior in every way to any other blog.
Kudos commenters!
I think the shock for those who weren't absolutely blown away by the finale (of which I would say I am one) rests with the fact that, really, there were no shocks. This all wrapped up in a very logical fashion, and it was all right there before us in the weeks leading up. Everything pointed to this. It was brilliant, powerful stuff and flawlessly acted, but it really wasn't a spectacle in the end.
The one thing I am having trouble with is that there is ABSOLUTELY NO PENANCE for Vic. None whatsoever. What did Vic lose that he didn't already know he was losing?
1) Corrine had told Vic earlier she wanted him out of her family's life.
2) At the end, Vic couldn't care less about Shane and had put him in the rear-view mirror as soon as he signed the deal with ICE.
3) Vic knew what he was doing to Ronnie when he signed the deal.
Sure, the suddenness with which everything occurred and how it all played out resonated with Vic, but only briefly. None of those endgames ultimately were a surprise to Vic. The band-aid got ripped off quickly, which we all know is better than having it slowly peeled off. Hell, we were led to believe he is now chained to a desk for three years with no hopes of working the streets again, and he dismissed that in all of four minutes at the end when he left with his gun and a smirk on his face.
Vic didn't lose. He won. Again. Like he always does. Antwon Mitchell-ville would have been his worst fate and it's not even close. You could even start a new series based around Vic's current landscape that would be pretty compelling. The curtain didn't drop on Vic in the least.
Just amazing. There are no words. I will say I think The Wire and The Shield both dropped the ball though. I wish that right after the finale, their main website changed over to some format that left some love for the fans!!!
I'd love to people to post some messages to the gang and tell them how much I appreciated all their work over the years.
SPA said...
me and everyone I knew thought Vic and the ICE agent would get getting it on... that's funny that Ryan knew those would be the expectations
All Billings got was two days back pay!!! HAHAHAAHHAHAHA!!! What a sap!
That just resonated with me!
"Personally, I would have ended two beats earlier, *before* Vic goes into his drawer for the gun."
I disagree. If the show had ended with Vic sitting at the desk defeated, then it would seem like his cubicle life is a fate worse than death and similar to prison. I'm inclined to side with the people here who think that three years of soft cubicle labor isn't exactly going to square Vic with the universe in terms of the horrible things he has done and that he is ultimately not as reflective as we have seen him at certain moments during the last two episodes. The last shot of the show really does suggest that Vic gets away with it, and that's how it had to be. As an audience, we have been rooting for him in the spite of some seriously evil deeds, and just because the worst of these (ruining Shane's family; selling out Ronnie; playing Olivia) have taken place right here at the end (and all of them were cataloged in the immunity confession) does not mean that the audience should be left off the hook by seeing Vic get what he truly deserves. In any case, what would that even be? Vic living to scheme another day leaves the audience in a similar purgatory to the one in which Vic himself mired at the end of the episode. I think this is the great accomplishment of The Shield, especially as compared to The Sopranos. Shawn Ryan implicates the audience for cheering the monster he created in a way that David Chase never really did with Tony Soprano. For those who suggest the finale wasn't visceral enough, I submit the real discomfort I felt watching it as evidence to the contrary.
Kevin Michaels said...
Absolutely incredible finale. Such an excellent wrap-up to a great series.
Everyone else has pretty much said everything there is to say - but a couple of moments stand out for me and demonstrate the beauty in both the acting and the writing:
-The utter desparation in Shane's expression while on the phone when he realizes that he is out of cards to play and that the situation is beyond hopeless. The pain and fear is incredible.
-Ronnie's excitement and elation after the ICE bust goes down to being told that one of the uniforms will give him a ride back to the station house, and then him back in the Barn in tears, after learning that Shane has taken not only his only life but Mara's and jackson's also (and this is before he realizes that Vic has sold him out)
-Vic in his nice little suit at his cubicle hell - forced to a nine to five hell for the next three years with no friends or family or respect (none on the street and none at the job....for a cop like him that's a killer). His face while being shown around by the HR lady was priceless.
What I will alsways remember about this show aside from the action was the beauty in the silences, the looks that passed between characters (the things said and unsaid), and the emotion each of the actors brought to their characters. Great stuff on a lot of levels.
I understand some of the angst about the unresolved issues, but I think some things are better left unsaid. Not every story needs to be tied up in a neat, tidy little package. Life isn't alwways about complete resolution and it's good to see that the finale stayed that course.
My congrats and appreciation to Shawn Ryan and his outstanding team of writers, actors, and production assistants for making this show happen. It was a great ride. And my thanks to you Alan, for giving us a forum to talk and trade thoughts/comments/ideas back and forth.
I'm going to miss this show -
I think Vic got what he deserved. It was towards the end of Season 4 that I began to think the proper end for Vic was to be left completely alone: no friends, no family, no one that wants to be anywhere near him. Death would've been too easy. Prison would've just been a new environment for him to master; it probably would've invigorated him rather than beat him down. Sure, in the office he can master 10-page reports and control the space around his little cubicle, but someone like Vic won't take any pleasure in that.
I also liked the image of Vic in the Barn, everyone staring at him like the pariah that he has become. Contrast that with the very first episode, when he completely owned the place.
It was always a strong possibility that he would go that route, but that scene eliminated any suspense.
Yes, it was telegraphed, but I disagree that it eliminated any suspense. I could see what was coming but I was still sitting at the edge of my seat with my hands over my mouth and my heart pounding. In fact I would say it was foreshadowed rather than telegraphed. Foreshadowing is a perfectly acceptable literary technique.
I recall wondering why Shane would leave the salesclerk so much money because I knew money was tight for them, but I did not expect him to kill them and himself. That scene was definitely a memorable one, although I can't call it a highlight.
What I like about the ending is that it can be interpreted in so many ways. Some think Vic won't be able to handle the cubicle life whereas others think Vic will try to get back into it from another angle.
I can see why some think Vic being office bound is not punishment enough, but I think it will be more difficult for him than the average person because he just doesn't get it. His attempt to get in with the Vietnamese even after Beltran has been arrested showed to me that Vic can't accept reality even when it faces him directly. He will never give up trying to get his kids and Corinne back, which probably won't ever happen. That is why Shane's suicide got to him, because Vic would never have given up like that.
Claudette's reveal to Dutch about her health was truly heartbreaking and her outlasting Vic is another phyrric victory to the growing pile of them in this episode.
It is a much more satisfying conclusion than the Sopranos, but it isn't as definitive as I thought it would be, which is not a bad thing.
Okay, I have not seen or heard this anywhere...and maybe I am crazy, but are we sure Dutch is not the serial killer? Remember the episode several years ago where he killed all the cats?
Butch said...
I'm really shocked that some people are saying the ending left them unsatisfied ("What happens next?"). I guess if you don't do a Six Feet Under-style montage, there are always going to be people saying "yeah, but then what?"
Bryan Murray said...
That was really great and there's not much to else to say that hasn't already been mentioned. Looking back on the episode, it seems like that each characters' outcomes was predestined but it was still amazing to see how it played out. The Shane ending was the ultimate gut punch but as soon as it happened I felt at peace--crazy how they a tv show can do that to me.
Has anyone seen The Mist? It was directed by Frank Darabont (Shield guest director), Laurie Holden had a big part, and the ending is very similar to Shane's murder-suicide. The book was based on Stephen King's novella but Darabont came up with his own ending. Wonder if Ryan was inspired. Both great and terrifying endings.
PokerFool said...
(First time reader of your blog)
I haven't gotten through all the comments, but here are my thoughts:
I thought it was a very good episode. The only thing I really didn't like was the Andre Benjamin story line. Seemed out of place and just wasted time.
But the scene with Mara and Jackson laying on the bed is just haunting. I actually feel sick to my stomach thinking about it. This is coming from someone who has two children (and one more on the way). Killing ones own child just seem unfathomable to me.
I think giving Mara and Jackson that fate was unnecessary. I would have really liked it to end by Shane being able to get a deal for Mara (or some how him getting blamed for that girls death). Then Shane can either kill himself/get killed/go to jail/whatever.
My wife has watched most of the episodes with me (Even though she says she doesn't like the show). But last night, she fell asleep while watching the final episode, and I am really glad she did, because I would not want her to see the murder/suicide scene. When she woke up at the end, she asked what happened to them. I told her that Shane killed them and himself. I actually wish that I didn't tell her the truth and said that he only killed himself and they were fine.
I've never been affected like this about a television show/movie/fiction before. (Schindler's List comes to mind though). I guess that proves that this was great drama.
The ending was awesome. The scene of Mara and Jackson was the most emotional of the hour and probably the most emotional scene I have ever seen on TV.
Everything Vic had ever touched has been destroyed. I could not see a better punishment for him than what he had to witness and deal with.
Thank you, to all that were involved with The Shield.
BT said...
Did anyone get the feeling that Billings was going to "miraculously" crack Lloyd and get the credit for it? Thus leaving Dutch as the "hard luck" Dutch Boy he was three years ago? Instead we get a confident, ladies man who will eventually head up the Barn...
I wish they built up the Mayoral race with Aceveda a bit more... as we can see from the finale, he will always be the political Mackey. I always thought they would off Aceveda throughout this series but he managed to avoid the cell phone pic scandal, the hooker obsession, the Mexicans, the Strike Team, and all the other predicaments the Barn put him in. It is so ironic that he managed to take credit for all of Vics success on the streets and the Barn and downplay the corruption. Though I imagine that with Ronnie being put away that Aceveda could be thrown under the bus as well.
This is my all time favorite show and it will be missed
Vic really doesn't get away with everything. Getting away with it would have involved more than just escaping incarceration, it would have meant not being exposed. If Vic had truly gotten away with it, he'd maybe still not be a cop anymore, but he wouldn't be ostracized. He'd still have friends and connections.
Now, he's got nothing, and everyone knows everything. He can't go to a cop bar and pal around with former colleagues. He can't call in any favors. He can't help. Hell, he probably can't even get an audience with
a slug like Acevedo ever again. Imagine that.
If he's ever going to have a friend again, it will have to be someone new, and he'll probably never be able to let anyone know the truth about who he is, either. He's truly isolated now.
Is it possible Dutch killed Rita?
Let me put it this way: No.
That's a perfectly valid analogy for a lifetime prison sentence.
Might as well be. Mackey's like a shark. He has to keep moving. Is he going to put up with this? If that last shot is any indication, no. But that doesn't mean he can't see the bars of his cage.
Just went back and watched that scene of Shane listening to his wife and son talking, right before he yelled out the title of the episode. Damn, this was a good show. I don't remember any episode of any show where we spent so much time just watching the characters think.
Culture And Comedy said...
GREAT review! The only thing that I would disagree with is that..just maybe...Dutch wasn't innocent this time. He's always been a classic psychopath (remember the cat-strangulation?) and I think that this was left open on purpose. I had this thought when the kid told Claudette, "..sometimes you don't really know people".
I'd like to toss out a theory on the murder/suicide of Shane's family. I think Mara was in on it and agreed to it.
First, we know that Shane and Mara's relationship is the antithesis of Vic & Corinne's. Their relationship is characterized by true partnership and openness, and they've been in it together the whole way. I don't see Shane making this decision alone.
Mara says that she can't make a car trip. She's in so much pain and resigned to losing the children, and that thought terrifies her. She's worried about what Jackson will think of them as he gets older, knowing what his parents became.
Although Shane clearly states that Mara and Jackson didn't know what they were drinking, remember that he is invested in the idea of her being an innocent. He tells Billings that she murdered the girl in self-defense (sorta true? but an exaggeration) and in the heartbreaking bathroom scene, he says she was innocent before he effectively ruined her life. Another cleansing of the past, since we all remember that Mara was far from innocent (stealing the money train cash? There are reasons we've all hated her!)
I believe that he clears her of guilt in the suicide note as one last act of protecting her. He's convinced himself that it was all his fault.
The final piece of evidence, for me, was his saying, "family meeting." What else did they have to meet about?
I don't know if this makes the result more, or less horrifying.
Great episode. Thought about it all day!
I completely agree with LMO. Because Shane called the "family meeting" I assumed when we saw Mara and Jackson that he had discussed a family suicide pact with Mara, perhaps convincing her that they must include Jackson because he'll learn about what his parents had done when he grows up -- possibly even from Vic. I'm still not convinced that isn't the way it went down, as opposed to the murder-suicide suggested by Shane's note. If all Shane did was give them something to drink, why call for the family meeting? My money says Mara went along with Shane's plan.
I agree that this ending is definitely a purgatory of sorts - and NOT a temporary three year one.
While Vic does get off relatively light compared to his sins, it's hard for me to imagine a fate worse for him because in death, his suffering would end. As noted already, he's lost everything that matters to him - as a "Type A" alpha dog, Vic now has no one to lead, no fawning associates. In fact, as shown by his return to the Barn for Claudette's picture show, it was clear that he was a pariah amongst his peers.
Not only are Corinne and the kids gone, never to be seen again, but his claim on Dani's kid is over (what judge would permit custody to a cop killer - even California isn't THAT liberal)?
Finally, the job he loved is lost to him forever - he can never be in law enforcement again, as no agency would touch him, and even if he could, what cop could trust him as a rat and copkiller? There was some interesting foreshadowing about his relative impotence without his badge in the episodes leading up to the finale after he quit from the Barn. There's no doubt in my mind that were he to go out on the streets after his ICE term, he's engendered enough hatred from so many parties that without the protection afforded by his badge, even Vic would eventually get killed.
I love Shawn Ryan's metaphor for Vic about him being a shark - it just keeps moving - and despite the tremendous personal loss that Vic has been dealt by the end of the episode, there's nothing for him to do but keep moving. However, with the way the writers have written out the consequences of his actions here in the finale, it's clear to me that while he leaves that ICE office with a smirk, it's empty bravado.
Also, if Ronnie's fate isn't worse than Vic's, it's got to be at least equal. He gets to suffer the rest of his life betrayed by Vic, and the target of harassment if not attempts on his life by Antwon Mitchell and his ilk.
I know that being "out of the action" seems like a big deal, but Vic's punishment is not a punishment at all.
Consider all that happened before, and put it in perspective. Here's "Vic's Fate":
1 - An unfulfilling, possibly gruelling job, which he must go to for 3 years and be paid $62K a year with a 401K, vacation time, weekends off.
So, in Vic's world, it's worse to do 3 years in a job you hate than to be killed or go to jail?
But of course, that's not all. There's:
2 - He never sees his wife and kids again.
Vic already got a taste of this at the end of season 1 when Corrine fled. He seemed to adjust somewhat in that time. And Corrine told him to his face that he has to pay a price, and that price was that he is out of his family's life forever. While he probably thought he could weasel out of that by manipulating her later, he was not entirely unprepared for it. And when Olivia explained the situation, he seemed to accept it with the one thing bothering him that he did not have a chance to say goodbye.
So all of that aside, he's now a freewheeling bachelor with a nice government job and no real responsibilities or obligations.
Which leads us to his existential issues.
3 - Guilt over Shane.
Vic was willing to kill Shane and Mara himself. The real tragedy is that Jackson was killed as well. But given what lengths Vic was willing to go to, in fact even pondering for a moment having to kill Jackson himself (when he said Jackson is too young to be a witness... he reached that conclusion after wondering if he had to kill Jackson, meaning he was capable of it). So Vic's guilt over Shane can be overcome in his twisted mind because he was almost the man that did the deed to Shane himself.
4 - Guilt over Ronnie
This is probably the biggest thing that will eat at Vic. Because he ruined all those lives, killed all those people, and did all that damage to protect the team, and in the end he is the one who ratted out the last guy on his team. But again, if Vic can get over the guilt of Shane, he can get over Ronnie, probably believing that what he did to Ronnie was the only really bad thing he'd done because he went against his own personal code of loyalty. But, Mackey has an internal card to play here even, because he rationalizes that it was either Ronnie or his family, and turning on Ronnie was to protect his family. And the fact that Corrine played him even further removes his culpability because he's now a victim of all these circumstances.
All things said and done, Vic Mackey got away with it all, with a paycheck and a steady job to boot. He's doing better than alot of people. And he deserved worse.
Might as well be [a lifetime prison sentence].
You have absolutely no sense of perspective, do you?
RE: Family Pact Suicide
Why wouldn't Shane share drinks with Mara and Jackson? Maybe he wanted to give them a proper burial?
I thought a brilliant end to a fantastic series. I am still haunted by the images of Mara and especially Jackson. That little boy holding his little police car is just too tough to take. A couple of things though.
When Shane called a family meeting I thought he was going to go off and kill himself alone. Did Mara know what she was doing or did Shane decide by himself that this was the fate that should befall his family?
I have to disagree with anyone who thinks Vic has fate worse that prison or death. So are you telling me given the 2 situations that you would rahter be Ronnie than Vic? I wouldn't. I am not saying that Ronnie will die in prison (Don't convicted poilce get put in protective custody?) but the implication is that he is going to be in prison for the rest of his life. Vic is going to work a job that "is not him" for 3 years. That is hardly a fate worse than death.
Also even though Shane killed his entire family I actually find him to be the better person than Vic. Vic has turned on everyone in his life. He truly is a sociapath with no remorse and no guilt. No pictures of Ronnie on his desk. If the goal this season was for people that were rooting for Vic to turn against him because of all the horrendous things that he did then they got me.
I'm surprised that anyone felt left hanging by the Dutch-Mom killing kid story line. Claudette said that all they needed was a little time and he would break. I do think that the whole Dutch is the serial killer after his "road paved with dead bodies" speech but after Claudette tells the kid to get ready for his close up I think he kid showed a noticable smile. Maybe it was just me.
The final scene for me is just confirmation that really nothing has changed for Vic. He will eventually find his family or least go down trying to. He is the shark always moving forward and is not going to be slowed down by little things like not having a badge or "hey wait a second this is illegal". Be it vigilante or whatever you want to call it he is still going to be Vic Mackey.
As one who wasn't completely blown away initially, I gotta change my tune after rewatching it a couple times. It "rewatches" very, very well and truly was excellent. I still think I expected more after Alan's initial comments some weeks back, though.
Mackey is a freakin rat. He left his boy Ronnie out to dry. Vic should have tipped Ronnie off and sent him to the farm in Mexico Lem was gonna go to.
Ron, Shane wouldn't share drinks because then it would appear to the rest of the world that it was a family suicide pact. Even though I believe that is what it was, that's not what Shane wanted people to think. He wanted to take a bullet for the family (pun intended) and pin it all on himself, keeping the others "innocent."
I thought the ending was strong, but I think that the FX channel kept it from being truly exceptional.
Recognizing that ad revenue is what allowed FX to create The Shield and air it for seven incredible seasons, I felt that the number, frequency and timing of the commercials in the finale severely detracted from my viewing experience. Throughout the final season, the commercials were noticeably limited because of an exclusive partnership with Bud Light, which presented the show with "limited commercial interruptions." Several episodes had huge blocks of time, 20 to 30 minutes, without commercials, allowing the tension to build as the plot continued full steam ahead. When there were commercials, I don't remember them coming at a time that frustrated me or interrupted the drama in a disappointing way. In fact, they were sometimes used to gracefully progress the narrative, like during Vic's confession scene, when we don't see him confess to everything because we really don't have to.
But last night was different. For example, when the team from the Barn goes to Shane's place. That scene was absolutely brilliant, perfectly scripted, shot, acted and edited. And just as the dread is sinking in, just as the full extent of it becomes clear and we sit there shocked, taking it all in, FX cuts to some blaring commercial pimping a different show or crappy beer or whatever it is. The same thing happened at other points, like after Ronnie's arrest, and it really took me out of the moment and left me feeling disappointed in the network.
I'm sure that some of my disappointment was just realizing that one of my favorite shows was really ending for good. But I'm also disappointed that FX wouldn't let the show that redefined basic cable and made the network a success go out a bit more gracefully with regard to keeping its loyal viewers in its universe and truly savoring the experience, rather than subjecting them to the same loud Nip/Tuck previews or images of flying mutants. I thought it was in really bad form, because if any show deserves to remain uninterrupted in its final hour, it's The Shield.
Alan, since you were privileged to see the episode without commercials, do you have any insight? Did the creative team have anything to say about how commercials affected their work, especially the finale? Obviously commercials are part of the deal when writing for TV, but I can't help but think that the finale in particular will play much, much better uninterrupted on DVD, and I wonder if there were any scenes edited down or cut entirely to accommodate the commercials.
Not to be too morbid about it, but I'm pretty sure Shane wanted to be the last man standing to make sure everything went as planned with Mara and Jackson.
Yes. It's not about what you and I think is Hell. It's about what he thinks is Hell. And it's entirely of his own making.
I think I do, having watched every episode of this show. I think I understand this character, and why this ending is perfectly fitting for him. But if you'd care to provide the perspective you think I'm missing, I'm sure we'd all benefit.
As I mentioned in last week's review, I'm sure being able to see the final two episodes together in a darkened theater, without any commercial interruption, enhanced my appreciation of them. There were no breaks in the action for me, no jumping from Mara and Jax on the bed to a beer commercial.
But one of the things Shawn talked about that didn't wind up in the transcript was how being on basic cable instead of HBO or Showtime helped drive a lot of what made the show great. When writing ad-supported television, you want the scene right before the commercial break -- known as the act-out -- to be especially strong in some way so viewers will be motivated to stick around. Because Shawn wanted the freedom to rearrange the chronology of episodes -- deciding that the A-story worked better if it had three scenes in a row together instead of trading off with the two subplots -- he told his writers, "Write every scene as if it was an act-out." In other words, try to make every scene end on such an interesting note that it could work as the end of the act, no matter how Shawn would rearrange things in editing.
In this case, I could see how frustrating it would be -- Vic walking off into the night worked much better if it was immediately followed by the "Long Time Ago" montage -- but for most of the run of the series, the ad breaks were oddly beneficial.
I was so fed up with the commercials throughout the show that I actually turned it off when Vic walked off, Shawn Ryan's name came up, then the show went to commercial. During the series I didn't like to watch previews for the following episode, so I didn't even realize that there was an ending montage to the finale. Maybe that would've created a bit more closure that I thought was lacking.
Thanks for your insight about how the writing staff used commercials throughout the show. Indeed, they were masterful at doing that. But I think that technique (again, a necessity of the medium) was handled much more effectively during action-packed/heavily plotted sequences, especially when capped off with a badass laugh line from Vic or Shane. The breaks were effective in building anticipation and making us look forward to what lay ahead, and even gave viewers a chance to catch their breath.
But when delving into much more emotional territory--as so much of the finale was--the breaks definitely did the show a disservice, taking me as a viewer out of the show's universe and ultimately reducing the power of some key scenes.
Thanks for doing such a great job leading a thoughtful discussion of this show, which was my last remaining reason to keep cable. Perhaps we'll get lucky with something, like if Sons of Anarchy continues to improve as it has from the first episode, but I doubt we'll be seeing anything as significant, groundbreaking and entertaining as The Shield anytime soon.
I don't think that Dutch is the serial killer, despite the cat incident. First, the kid was played by Kyle Gallner and he's been the go-to juvenile psychopath in most shows recently. Second, Ryan himself said he didn't think that the cat incident was a big deal, so it doesn't appear as though he was writing Dutch to be this secret serial killer. Dutch and Claudette were set up to be the anithesis of Vic and Shane, and so her confidence in him was not misplaced. Dutch was never as slick as Vic both as a cop or with the ladies, but in this case socially awkward doesn't mean secret killer. This would have required Ryan to have been deliberately deceiving the viewers, and he was brutally honest about the despicable nature of the Strike Team, so I can't see why he would chose to do so with Dutch.
And I completely agree that jail would have been easier for Vic to handle than this office job. He would have been able to work deals in prison and probably would have lead a gang or two.
I don't see any scenario where Vic would have chosen death though. Only going out on a blaze of glory would have fit Vic's perception of himself as hero, and now he has to deal with the fact that others know that he is absolutely not one.
What a show! The ending was perfect. Everyone connected to the show did a wonderful job for seven seasons. Thank you thank you thank you!
It is my hope that this show continues, on some level. Vic could spring Ronnie from Jail. Dutch could corner the kid for the killing of his mother. Acevada could lose the mayors race. Face it, the show could continue in many directions. I am so sorry that we are losing one of the best shows on the air. You will be missed.
Ryan, if you're reading this please consider some type of future for this show and their characters.
LONG TIME AGO
When you turned out the light
and walked out the door
I said to myself
what did I come here for?
Did you have a good time
drinking whiskey and ryhme
and did you want to be
Bonnie and Clyde?
What goes on in your mind,
what goes on in your head?
Who did you think I would be
ha, well you got me instead.
You think there's some connection
that I'm your female reflection
but no...
I can be loyal
and (a) I can be true
but that's for somebody else
and it will never be you.
You think we're predetermined
but babe you're learning
way to slow...
But it seems such a long time ago.
He can see things
you'll never know how to see.
He's three times the man
you'll never know how to be.
I'll do anything he wants
and I'll go anywhere
he wants me to go.
And if that isn't love
then I guess I'll just never know.
But it seems a long time ago...
Come on now, get real. Vic got off very, very easy. The fate worse than death/jail is a wonderful literary concept, but in real life? Please.
First, it assumes that people are static, and can't change when forced to. Life and human experience shows us that people can and do change. So Vic won't see his family or be a cop ever again. That's too bad, but he's free to meet someone new and start a new family. Earlier in the series, Vic talked about how he loved golfing. Maybe he'll go be a starter at a golf course. Whatever. He's got OPTIONS. He's got FREEDOM, even though he doesn't see it yet because the wounds are too fresh. If he gets through the first few months without blowing his ICE deal, he's got the chance to find some happiness, which is a lot more than we can say for Ronnie or Shane. You can always start over.
Seriously, this "cubicle hell is worse than prison" talk reminds me of the 90 year old guy who drove his car though the Santa Monica farmers market and killed 10 people, and argued that he shouldn't be prosecuted for the deaths because the anguish he felt for killing the people was worse punishment than any prison sentence could be. Yet he's going to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow at home, at ease. Just b.s.
Come on now, get real. Vic got off very, very easy.
Don't tell us, tell Vic.
That said, I've loved this show from the beginning, and thought this season was the best season of any show ever. I don't know if I've ever seen better acting on TV or at the movies. I loved loved loved the ending too; I just don't feel that Vic's fate is all that bad. He's got an opportunity to land on his feet.
That said, based on the very end of the last scene, he's letting that opportunity slip by. Let's face it, Vic's going out into the night with a purpose, and that purpose is going to bust up his ICE deal. What card can he play then? Who's going to come to his aid when the audio file of his confession gets leaked?
In her final scene, Corrine tells Clark Johnson that their new home is "perfect."
Does she mean it?
"Don't tell us, tell Vic."
Clearly there's no telling Vic, now. He's feeling sorry for himself, just like that 90 year old. But in 3 months? When he's on a weekend golfing in Palm Springs, having a barbeque with some new friends, enjoying the little things in life that freedom lets you enjoy?
One last question that I have is what case do they really have against Ronnie. Would they be able to use Vic's testimony against him? Without it they have nothing.
I don't think they could do a movie with the Shane character...unless they go the prequel route.
He's feeling sorry for himself, just like that 90 year old. But in 3 months? When he's on a weekend golfing in Palm Springs, having a barbeque with some new friends, enjoying the little things in life that freedom lets you enjoy?
Sounds like you've got it all mapped out. Ryan should call you to write the TV movie.
I'm pretty sure Vic's gotta testify against Ronnie. That should be fun, although Ronnie's probably going to plead out to get some extra protection or TV credits or something
Kensington (don't know why I am directly responding to your posts)
I think she means it, relative to the moment she is in. Right then and there, it seems right for her.
I am just not sold, though, that
a) She is a woman that can live in witness protection
b) That her family life will be alright. At some point, the children will ask what happened, particularly considering how curious Cassidy was earlier in the year.
And for all the claims about Vic being emasculated, it was clear that the ending was meant to show that he still had some reach, albeit on the wrong side (the whole reach out to an old CI heard about the Vietnamese plot aspect).
Nah, Jim T, I'm not a writer, just a human. I don't know what Vic's gonna do (Ryan might not know either). I do know what cubicle-hell Vic CAN do, and cubicle-hell Vic CAN enjoy a golf weekend and a bbq. These are not options available to Ronnie or Shane.
Vic's human, and given time, humans can adapt. They can accept new circumstances, and they can adapt. Think Christopher Reeve (or Jason Street?). Think Bob Packwood. Think Tammy Faye Bakker. I'm sure they all felt like they were in hell, better off dead, etc etc. It's a heck of a thing, self-pity. At the moment, Vic's grieving for his former life, and feeling very sorry for himself. So right now, Vic may well feel that he's worse off than Ronnie or Shane. But grief is transient. Ask Vic in a year, if he makes it that long. If you still think Vic would answer the same way, if you think his perspective wouldn't change, then it seems to me you're saying that Ryan created a 2D character, which Ryan could take as an insult to his writing.
If you still think Vic would answer the same way, if you think his perspective wouldn't change, then it seems to me you're saying that Ryan created a 2D character, which Ryan could take as an insult to his writing.
Just because Mackey doesn't think the way you or I would doesn't make him two-dimensional. But if Shawn Ryan takes anything you say as an insult on my part, I guess that's his problem.
Shawn Ryan states outright in his interview that Vic got off easy compared to the other Strike Team members.
Do you view what happens to Vic as a fate worse than death?
As a shark and a survivor, no, I think as long as a shark's alive it can find some place to swim to, I think this is a bad situation for him, and I don't think he's gonna enjoy those three years. The tank's very tiny at the moment.
This is just another hurdle for Vic. A speed bump. He'll survive.
I agree with anonymous in that Vic will land on his feet. I had another post that assessed my several of the core characters endings were true to their characters throughout this series. The point is, Ryan has noted several times, in different formats, that Vic will find a way. He noted in an interview that Vic gets away with things because he deals with the same 3% of the population 97% of the time. Ryan notes the whole "shark" bit.
The ending fits. One thing not analyzed was that ICE got to Mackey a bit, as Mackey was caught off guard about his future, because ICE was a different animal that he hadn't had as much dealing with before. One of the strongest comments in the finale that no one mentions a lot is when Vic told Shane that Shane wasn't as smart. That's the one thing many often overlooked. In looking at Vic as a man who barged in and banged things down, we often failed to see that he was a man who could process and analyze information as quick as anyone.
In the end, the question becomes if he is redeemable. That, though, is a discussion for a different venue upon sociological needs. I think, in regards to Vic, that he'll find a way to get back on his feet. That's the thing with sharks ... you gotta find a significantly stronger predator to lock Mackey down, and he hasn't met that yet. They've peeled some skin off, but he's still there. Now how one views his future, though, comes down to how redeemable people feel Mackey is. I think he's redeemable, and I think that the ending opened a new chapter that could really be explored (the redemption of Vic Mackey), hence all the hinting about potential future Vic Mackey stories and not the Shield (as the Shield without the Strike Team isn't the Shield).
I think one thing I liked about the ending was how Julien came full circle and he was who Danny was at the start of the series, the veteran leader.
"All things said and done, Vic Mackey got away with it all, with a paycheck and a steady job to boot. He's doing better than alot of people. And he deserved worse"
Everybody is giving Ryan too much credit. It was a cop out ending in hopes for a movie or follow up mini-series. He followed the mighty dollar and you're all praising him for that.
He should have taken a cue from David Chase. Chase had the balls to kill off his main character (and his cash cow)but did it in a poetic and beautiful way that will have all of us discussing it for years.
This finale was sound and fury signifying nothing.
I continue to be baffled by the people who say there was no closure or too many loose ends. I have a feeling those people might not have been following the show since the beginning because the finale was exactly the way it should have ended. Shawn Ryan was talking specifically about his ICE gig but the fact Vic lost his family is the biggest cut of all. Almost all of his more extreme actions were driven by his desire to make sure his family was taken care of - such as the money train heist. He was also driven by the need to be the biggest, baddest player out there and that's been reduced to nothing. He'll keep moving forward because he's a shark but any traces of humanity have now been shattered. Simply amazing finale and the fact that we're still talking about it a day later proves how powerful it really was. On to Sons of Anarchy!
Just a great show.I watched from the first to the last and never missed one.It is without question one of the best I have ever seen.It will be missed.my only question is when does the dvd box set come out so I can start it all over again ?
I think the ending would've had more of a WOW impact if the last scene had been seeing Shane & his family dead. Show Vic & his dismal surroundings, looking at his pictures, then cut to the "shots fired" call that Dani & Co. responded to- could've been a report of the gunshot from Shane's house. Shane would've been dead when the police arrived, then cue the "Concrete Blonde" song.
Since Vic is addicted to power, corruption, & control, he can always moonlight with his old partner (Carl Weathers), and do moraly questionable "security work." That's IF Carl will have him-surely he heard that Vic killed Terry.
A well done ending, but not exactly shocking. By the way it was described, I was expecting torture of Vic or his family by the cartel. Or the Vendrells gunned down in plain sight.
The Vendrell ending was predictable, but beautiful. After Mara passed on the deal with Claudette, you knew death was imminent. But it was a great progression to get there. Losing the 100k, Shane's drug use, Mara capping that girl, and her mother not willing to take Jackson.
On the other hand, they missed an oppurtunity to do something with the Andre Benjamin character. What a good story that could have made- a threat to Aceveda, the black/Latino friction in LA, and a nice story arch with Tina. Instead, we get an Oz-like hour and a half. Imagine that story told over five or six episodes, where we got close to him.
A few other observations-
I watched for Francis Fisher's name in the credits. As soon as I saw Lloyd in the episode, I knew she was toast.
Cool to see Dutch's real life wife. Pretty lady, and I recall her way back in Herman's Head, and Seinfeld a few years later.
Antoine Mitchell was easily the best villian on the show. I found his killing of the young girl, far more shocking than anything that happened this season. Fitting that his name would be invoked last night.
Ronnie. Vic could have told Ronnie to escape several times in the past few weeks, and of course last night. Shane was right, Ronnie really was Vic's whipping boy.
I liked the way Shawn Ryan ended the series. It was good to see Vic in his own personal hell and not go with the obvious of either having Mackey go to prison or die. The fact that Vic has to live with the fact that he's responsible for the deaths of Shane, Mara, Jackson and Shane's unborn child is enough to for his conscience (if he even has one). But to know that he's ICE's, well Olivia's personal b**** for 3 years has to be eating at Vic's ego. He knows if he doesn't do what Olivia tells him to do, he'll wind up right where Ronnie is, prison. Just Ronnie's reaction when Dutch arrested him was priceless. I liked Andre 3000's character because it showed what Aceveda could have been instead of a weasly, self-serving jackass like a certain Tommy Carcetti. Like Carcetti, Aceveda let his ambition get in the way of doing the right thing. It was funny to see Billings' attorney flirting with Dutch and see Dutch be typical Dutch. I'm going to miss this show. It's like all of the good shows are gone now: The Sopranos, The Wire and now The Shield. Thank you Shawn Ryan, Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins, CCH Pounder and the whole cast and crew for 7 great seasons.
Mo Ryan said...
Thanks, Alan, for your interview post and for this recap. It's been great reading -- all of that plus the comments.
I don't really have anything to add, except this bit of trivia, which a reader of my site pointed out. Clark Johnson also had a bit part in the movie "SWAT," which he directed. He was billed as "Deke's Handsome Partner."
I look forward to his next Handsome appearance...
Come on now, get real. Vic got off very, very easy.[...] I loved loved loved the ending too; I just don't feel that Vic's fate is all that bad. He's got an opportunity to land on his feet.
I don't really have anything to add to this, except maybe that in situations like this I always apply the Newspaper Test™: if you read a news article about this cop who had, among other things, murdered another cop but cut an immunity deal and was now free with the only condition being working a desk job for three years, and the writer tried to convince you that this was somehow a horrible punishment, I'd think even the most haemorrhaging liberal would go blind from eye rolling.
For anyone looking for the song from the closing credits...
Concrete Blonde...Long Time Ago
The person who posted this made a very nice change at the very end...
Tommy Christopher said...
thanks for the awesome review, saving me the trouble of watching the finale.
I loved Season 1 of The Shield, but I've always thought that the show took a serious wrong turn with the "Co=pilot" episode. Ever since then, I've had trouble becoming invested in the story.
That left many pleasures still to be had from watching, but removed much of the emotional heft.
The course they set in that first episode was for an emotionally gripping tightrope for the viewer, in which the writers dared us to like Vic. In that co-pilot, they let him almost completely off the hook, and largely de-fanged the golem angle.
New Vic was much more like Andy Sipowicz than Bad Lieutenant, so the question of what we are willing to trade for order and security became an easy one.
Watching the show wind down was a reminder to me of how good it was, but how phenomenal it could have been.
SImply amazing, and I'm still emotionally overwhelmed by it all. Wednesday night I rewatched the episode, and watched the closing credits to "... Long Time Ago" a few times to relish those past moments, and then I deleted the entire season off my DVR. The finale was so tough, watching Shane do what he did and seeing Ronnie getting tossed under the bus, along with the fact that knowing my favorite show of all time was over with. It was just too much to revisit, like I need a break till the put out a complete series DVD collection (hopefully soon, and hopefully on Blu-ray).
I was a Mackey fan from the get-go, even after he dropped that rat Crowley, but I think the finale (after a second viewing) is the first time I've looked at Vic differently. Selling out Ronnie, that to me was the worst of his sins throughout all seven seasons. It just makes me sick.
And anyone who still puts "The Sopranos" ahead of "The Shield" is crazy.
"And anyone who still puts "The Sopranos" ahead of "The Shield" is crazy."
Or has, you know, taste.
Thinking ahead to the Emmys, Chiklis, Pounder and Goggins have to be sure things. Here's what I think:
• Chiklis --- "Possible Kill Screen"
• Pounder --- "Family Meeting"
• Goggins --- "Family Meeting"
All three were strong throughout the season, but the penultimate episode clearly had to be Chiklis' strongest (that f-ing pause!), and Pounder and Goggins (especially Goggins) were just so great in the finale.
Also, for the finale, Gus Haynes has to get a directing nod and Lisa Randolph a writing nod. And overall, if "The Sopranos" took home the series statue for that hackneyed final half of S6, "The Shield" has to be bringing it home next year. I mean, as great as S2 of "Mad Men" was, it wasn't even close to being the Final Act of "The Shield."
Or has, you know, different tastes.
Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking said...
I thought this was an outstanding showcase of quality to a show that clearly deserved it. This was one of the best written series in television history and I loved that we had the opportunity to see so many quality stories and characters wrap so wonderfully. I had Vic's final play by play as:
"——— Vic Mackey: After providing a heinous hour-long, mostly off-screen confessional of his crimes over the last seven seasons, Vic starts off this episode with the capture of both a cartel wheeler & dealer (Beltran) and a giant truckload of forbidden product. He finds out from Shane that Corrine has been cooperating with the police and has gone into witness protection. He is witness to Claudette's reading of Shane's terribly poignant goodbye letter. Vic stands numb stewing after seeing the crime scene photos of Shane and his Family and then becomes even more numb as Ronnie is arrested in a prelude to a very long prison stay. Vic's final path ultimatley has nothing to do with CI's, guns, footwork, or anything other than sitting at a cube-based desk and comptuer system, staring at summaries of gangland reports looking for patterns that will be detailed in one of 5 weekly reports - which shall be "10 pages-single spaced" - while searing a suit and tie. Vic will spend the next three years at a desk, staring at his incredibly small 14″ LCD monitor, listening to the sound of sirens, helicopters and buzzing/humming light fixtures in a non-descript office building, straining to breathe and not look terribly uncomfortable in his ill-fitting dress shirt and necktie."
The "answers" that are given here wonderfully underscored from one true fact: While he has the "control" to put the "people that love him" around him in photographs, he'll never hear any of their voices ever again.
I call that a vibrant and striking answer to a great show.
WOW What a terrific article followed by so many thoughtful comments!
I agree with a previous poster that Shane's suicide was on the wall as soon as Mara asked him totake her home last week. Jackson and Mara were more surprising but I had a dunny feeling that could happen as I watched and heard the "at least we'll be together" portion of Shane's exchange with Vic.
Amazing show. Very well done. I have to admit, they did it right. But no matter, I am so sad it's over. I guess I will start at the beginning with S1 again...
Ditto on restarting the series. I just started in on the beginning of "The Money Train" inside of season 2 and it's as fresh as the first time I saw it.
Another great nod to all of the things that eventually pay off in later episodes. It's great to revisit it and listen to the commentary tracks that are available.
scottatl said...
Alan, I hope you are still reading these posts.
I met Walton Goggins at a bar this summer in Atlanta and he told me this season would blow my mind. He was right.
This series had a beginning as good as NYPD Blue and an ending as good as Sopranos. That in itself is amazing.
A couple of thoughts on the finale:
Scenes to remember:
The last phone conversation between Shane and Vic was hard to hear and very powerful. It was clear after that, Shane had made the decision to end his and his family's lives.
The scene that you knew was going to come: Ronnie's realization that he did not have immunity and had been sold out by Vic. You had to feel bad for Ronnie at that moment.
The final scene - so many emotions - I caught myself watching the clock saying 'Is this it?'. You think Vic is about to crack and for a fleeting moment; will he meet the same fate as Shane? But in the end, the real Vic Mackey emerges and nothing will break him. It made me happy to see him grab his gun, get that look in his eye, and heads out into things that we can only imagine.
Great Show that will be missed.
And in the end...his only true lasting (last) friend...is Vic's gun...
This was fantastic and needs no follow up series,movie or anything else,except some emmys.
Remember, Vic is no longer a cop and he's made a lot of enemies that would love to smoke him. Cops don't look well on cop killers and may even seek revenge.They may conveniently allow him to die in an altercation rather than come to his aid.
Or, he violates his immunity deal,and it probably isn't too hard to do-just having that gun on ICE premises may be enough to do it- so that he intentionally ends up in prison and tries to be the respected big guy there.
HE WAS ALLOWED TO KEEP HIS GUN IN A FUCKING LOCK BOX. THATS WHERE IT WAS. IN A LOCK BOX. STFU UP ABOUT YOUR DUMBASS IDEAS ABOUT HOW HAVING THE GUN VIOLATES HIS DEAL AND PAY FUCKING ATTENTION
@anon, this lockbox...is it the one where we keep Social Security?
Somebody's grouchy!
stuartresnick said...
Maybe Claudette really did crack serial-killer-kid Lloyd?
It seemed to me that at the beginning of the interrogation, Claudette told the kid that his mother's clothes were found in Dutch's trash can, but NOT that they were burnt. Then later the kid slipped up and said, "He burned my mother's clothes!" revealing a fact he wouldn't know unless he were indeed the killer.
Is it possible that the series slipped in this "smoking gun" and let the viewers figure it out for ourselves? This isn't mentioned much in the online forums, though I did see one other person who agrees.
http://stuart-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/
http://home.comcast.net/~sresnick2/booboo.htm
this is a fantastic review. thanks. I was thinking the same thing, comparing it and contrasting it with the Sopranos finale. I must say, I much preferred the Shield finale. Mostly because it encapsulated what made the series so compelling: you glad Vic was finally culpable for all his actions, and he lost what mattered most to him, yet at the same time you felt sorry for him, and felt guilty for almost liking him.
Tony Soprano is the same way, and I always thought that series would end up similar. I liked the Sopranos finale even though there was much less payoff. The Sopranos finale was much more metaphorical. I always approached it as a commentary on American family's disfunction. I thought the end was cleverly upbeat. In the vein of, yeah, we're f'd up, but it's not all bad. There are still redeeming moments.
There was a glimpse of that in Vic's exit though. If you pay attention closely to Vic's fate as the lights go dim, when he straps on his gun on the way out, I took it to mean: there he goes again, playing fast and loose with the rules, ultimately even that hellish desk job won't keep him constrained and by the book. One could also approach this as a sociopathic delusion, much like Tony Soprano.
Watched the finale again last night and a few people here are exactly right - Shane and Mara decided together to end theirs and Jackson's lives. Sure, it was Shane's idea (he bought the pens, flowers and police car, and gave away all that cash to register girl beforehand), but why else call for the family meeting if not to discuss it with his wife? "Family Meeting" was the title of the episode - maybe a clue there? This one is pretty obvious. I'm surprised at how many people seem to think it went down exactly like Shane said in his note.
HenryPorter said...
I've been reading this website for a few days, on and off - and my one comment is that it is apparent from the number of length of the posts that this series had many, many devoted viewers and that the writing, acting and directing was supremely done. Excellent art exemplifies real life, and this series portrayed real life with its emotional trauma, pains, agonies, passions, and sadness.
I had never seen this show until a little over 3 weeks ago, but always meant to get around to it. So, I have jsut finished watching every ep this evening.
Reading these comments, I'm struck that it appears that no one else thought that Dutch might've killed the kid's mom? I was thinking that all the signs, how Dutch is smarter than everyone, THAT CAT!!!, his hang up about serial killers, all of it was going to show him as the serial killer he secretly was. Probably would've been cheesy to do, but the thought crossed my mind.
I've seen some comparisons to THE WIRE on these SHIELD posts. All I can say is that after watching at least 4 eps (usually a lot more) every day, I personally found THE SHIELD to be pretty claustrophobic, to the point that I was getting headaches watching the last season and pushed through the last 5 eps today just to get through it. Personally, it just doesn't have the repeat factor that THE WIRE has. Not that that lessens it, cause this is one of the best ever made, surely. I just don't think it will be anytime soon, if ever, that i will watch the whole series again. That being said, I've watched THE WIRE completely three times a counting and plan to do so at least once a year, if not more. It just never gets any better than that show.
This will sound odd, but the first thing that came to my head was the series finale of Alias (spoiler alert...years later!) All Arvin Sloane wanted was immortality...and then he gets it...and he's buried under a pile of rubble. Forever. All Vic wants is to be free of the mess of his own making, which means he sells out Ronnie (but not his family...interesting) and gives up all the horrible stuff he's done for this holy mecca of an ICE job...and he's trapped. Paperwork?? Computers?? I don't think I've ever seen Vic Mackey even touch a computer! The reason Mackey keeps moving (as did the show) all the time, like a shark, is because he can't think too deeply about what he's done. Does he have a conscience? I think he used to, he's just subverted it so deeply he has no idea which way is up. I don't think he can be compared to Lloyd. But is he any less dangerous? Of course not.
I kept thinking when he was putting up pictures of his kids, that even as shitty of a father as he was, they were the only thing that kept him grounded. The only thing that defined him, in his eyes, as a good person, with worth. And now...what does he have? Nothing.
Damn Walt Goggins and Michele Hicks--they actually made me CRY during the baby naming and during the scene in the bathroom. How is that possible? They're disgusting, and yet I felt such empathy for them. That's amazing writing and acting. I still didn't understand why they couldn't have tried to sneak out of town before the presidential motorcade...would it have been a surefire thing they would've been caught taking Mara to the hospital? Still...unbelieveable storyline from them.
As for Vic vs. Marlo--even if their fates were similar, the Wire was not built around Marlo and I didn't have any emotional attachment to Marlo or what he did as I did with Vic and the Strike Team, so I didn't think about their similarities.
But yes, I agree--one of the most satisfying conclusions of a TV show that need to tie up all the loose ends to still give you closure. Whew.
And I don't agree that Vic Mackey has no conscience. I think what makes him such a fascinating character (as opposed to someone like Marlo) is that he HAS one, and just keeps forcing it down whenever it's rude enough to appear. I think that's why those two wordless scenes between him and Claudette and the ending are so forceful. You can see him thinking about it and getting emotional...and then he just steps over that unfortunate pile of emotional crap and moves on the next thing. If he was just cold-blooded, he'd be one-note.
So I'm a little late commenting, but I just saw the episode. In a word..brilliant. I really only have one small gripe. The final song during the credits didn't really complement the finality of it all. I think "Overcome" by Live, which was the end of season 2 would have been the best choice. They may not have wanted to redo that moment, but I think the emotion in the that song matched not only that of Vic, but of all the viewers.
Well, I am even late in commenting. I started watching Shield about 6 months ago. Watched the first 3 seasons over 6 months, and then the last 4 seasons over the past 10 days. Whoa!
Lots of interesting analysis. I think everything has been discussed threadbare and I do not need to repeat it all, just a couple of comments below.
On the question of whether Vic got what he deserved? Would life-term or a death sentence be better? I think they are all different shades of punishment, and your preference is as good as someone else's, because our preferences are as much colored by the story as by what we value/see in our own lives. And irrespective of what punishment we feel is just, I do not think he walked away scot-free.
However, I do have a quibble with the Ronnie's deal. Yes, I understand it was meant to provide more suffering to Vic. However, lot of this was out of character for both Vic and Ronnie. I think the writers made a few changes in 7th season because of the necessity of closing the series. I also read many comments about Snell's acting abilities, and the comments about Lem going away giving Ronnie time to show his acting chops as well as his dark side. But ... that's not how he was shown for 6 seasons. This seemed to be change only to close the series. Ronnie killed for the first time in 7th season. Also, the effort Vic put up in finding Lem's killer showed he cared about the team as much as his family. How many times he put work over family, and I do not think there was a dénouement which made him realize family was as important as his team. Yes, in the end he was forced to take a call, it could have gone either way, and people can justify or read it a hundred ways, but to me it seemed like a writer's shortcoming in how to handle the series endgame than what was consistent with Vic and Ronnie's character.
They could have equally well shown Vic putting Ronnie over his family, his family getting killed by Shane, and Vic being in a miserable state at the end of the series. I am sure with a week's writing the writers could have made a lot more alternate endings which were true to the spirit of the series and equally painful to Vic (assuming that's what they wanted to do).
Anyway, good series ... good analysis.
Pushing Daisies, "Robbing Hood": Open thread
Sons of Anarchy: Kurt Sutter Q&A
Sons of Anarchy, "The Revelator": To destiny run, ...
Today I am thankful for... the new 'Cupid' trailer
The Shield: Shawn Ryan post-finale Q&A
NBC announces January schedule: Friday Night Light...
Getting caught up: Fringe and Pushing Daisies
Terminator, "Strange Things Happen at the One Two ...
Heroes, "The Eclipse, Pt. 1": Power blackout
HIMYM, "The Naked Man": Look! Down on the couch!
Clear eyes, full hearts, holiday break for 'Friday...
Sepinwall on TV: Talking with 'Sons of Anarchy' cr...
Chuck, "Chuck vs. the Gravitron": All your base ar...
Best drama endings ever?
Dexter, "About Last Night": I feel so... used
Sepinwall on TV: '24: Redemption' review
Entourage, "Return to Queens Boulevard": Every lit...
Sepinwall on TV: 'The Shield' creator Shawn Ryan l...
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Nightman C...
ER & Grey's Anatomy: It's a teaching hospital, stupid
The Office, "Frame Toby": Caprese for everyone!
30 Rock, "Gavin Volure": He hates those sex dolls!...
You get a cancellation! And you get a cancellation...
Life, "Badge Bunnies": Young officers in love
Sons of Anarchy, "The Sleep of Babies": Missing th...
House, "Emancipation": Double your parallels, halv...
The Shield, "Possible Kill Screen": The eyes of Vi...
What are your favorite memories of 'The Shield'?
Terminator, "Complications": Twice the Toby
Big Bang Theory, "The Lizard-Spock Expansion": Is ...
Sepinwall on TV: 'The IFC Media Project' review
HIMYM, "Woooo!": The tears of a slutty clown
Heroes, "It's Coming": Love shock, baby, love shock
Chuck, "Chuck vs. the Fat Lady": What's opera, doc?
Dexter, "The Damage a Man Can Do": Life almost (bu...
Entourage, "Play'n with Fire": Meadow lands Turtle
SNL: Live from New York, it's Justin Timberlake!
30 Rock, "The One With the Cast of 'Night Court'":...
Grey's Anatomy, "These Ties That Bind": Of course,...
The Office, "Business Trip": Take off, to the Grea...
ER, "Heal Thyself": Greene day
Sons of Anarchy, "Capybara": Stand by your Opie
Life, "Black Friday": Let's go to the mall (today)
Sepinwall on TV: Ricky Gervais special makes light...
House, "The Itch": Two steps forward, one step back
Fringe, "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones": The Godfathe...
Sepinwall on TV: Edwards returns to 'ER,' 'Top Che...
The Shield, "Petty Cash": It's hard out here for a...
Heroes, "Villains": Back to before the beginning
Terminator, "Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today": Pause, re...
HIMYM, "Not a Father's Day": Socks to be him
Chuck, "Chuck vs. the Ex": Kiss me, kill me
Dexter, "Easy as Pie": The key lime code
Entourage, "Seth Green Day": Short people got good...
Sepinwall on TV: Dipping into the mailbag
NBC gives 'Life' the back nine
Friday catch-up: Life on Mars, ER, Private Practic...
Grey's Anatomy, "Rise Up": Hahn solo
The Office, "Customer Survey": Say hello to my lit...
Sepinwall on TV: 'Summer Heights High' review
30 Rock, "Believe in the Stars": Help me, Oprah Wi...
Welcome to the Friday graveyard, Dollhouse
Sons of Anarchy, "Better Half": My old ladies
South Park, "About Last Night": Obama's eleven
Life, "Jackpot": Sucker Ponch
Looking ahead to 2009: Scrubs is back
Help me, Wolf Blitzer. You're my only hope.
The Shield, "Party Line": Getaway day
Time to exercise your franchise
Grey's Anatomy: It's, like, how much less gay coul...
Sepinwall on TV: 'Life' review
HIMYM, "Happily Ever After": Ted has fear! A thous...
TV news round-up: Ben Silverman hates us, but Amer...
Entourage, "Pie": Somebody stole my line!
Dexter, "Si Se Puede": Partners in crime
SNL: No one dies harder than John McCain... | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 821 |
Holy Trinity Byzantine Catholic Church Conemaugh, PA
Church: (814) 535-2417
Rectory:
Priest: Reverend Robert F. Oravetz
Holy Trinity Byzantine Catholic Church
217 Fourth Street
Conemaugh, PA. 15909 Get Directions
Originally, the future parish family of Holy Trinity Church traveled 35 miles eastward from Conemaugh, Pa. to attend religious services at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Johnstown. After a number of years, there appeared to be a sufficient number of faithful to warrant the establishment of a parish in Conemaugh. Since funds were low, the founders decided to erect an all-purpose church basement to be used for religious services, school and meetings. Finally, under the leadership of Father Alexander Dudinsky, the first pastor, the parish family gathered together for the dedication of the cornerstone by Most Rev. Eugene Garvey, Bishop of Altoona, on October 4, 1908.
At first, the Liturgies were held in a parishioner's home, then in the Lodge Hall on Railroad Street. In 1916 the congregation decided the church should be completed. Two years later the long-awaited dream of the faithful community of Holy Trinity Church was fulfilled – construction was completed and the church was dedicated.
During 1924 and 1925, the interior of the church was decorated and dedicated by Most Rev. Basil Takach. In the course of World War II, 216 young parishioners served in the Armed Forces, six of whom lost their lives in the service of their country.
A new church rectory was built and dedicated by Most Rev. Nicholas Elko in 1963. In 1964 extensive renovations of the church and social center were completed.
Divine Liturgy Schedule
Sundays: 9:00 AM
Priest:
Reverend Robert F. Oravetz
Confessions: 8:15 AM or by appointment
Reconciliation: Contact rectory to make appointment
Marriage: Contact rectory at least 6 months in advance
Anointing: Contact rectory to make appointment
Adult Education: Offered at various times throughout the year. Please check bulletin.
Annual Parish Festival: Pentecost Patronal Feast Day
St Ann's Ladies Guild
Blessed Bishop Theodore Romzha Men's Fraternity | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 822 |
Oscar Palmer Robertson, born 24 Nov 1938, by Russell Hoban, Casein on Masonite, 1961: Few players in basketball history have rivaled the talent and versatility of the NBA All-Star known to fans as "The Big O." Averaging upwards of twenty-five points per game during fourteen stellar seasons with the Cincinnati Royals (1960-70) and the Milwaukee Bucks (1970-74), Oscar Robertson amassed a career record of 26,710 points to become the top-scoring guard of all time. His superb playmaking and rebounding skills coupled with his phenomenal ability to sink baskets from virtually anywhere on the court, made him both a defensive weapon and an offensive threat. Although some of his achievements have since been equaled or exceeded, Robertson continues to hold one of the most remarkable records in all of pro basketball, for he is the only player ever to have double digit averages in scoring, rebounding, and assists-a "triple-double"-throughout an entire season.
Image published by cliff1066™ on 2008-09-20 15:27:39 and used under Creative Commons license. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 823 |
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),
chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome'),
safari = require('selenium-webdriver/safari'),
phantomjs = require('selenium-webdriver/phantomjs'),
firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox'),
By = webdriver.By,
until = webdriver.until,
test = require('selenium-webdriver/testing'),
generalParameters = require('./../generalParameters'),
dateFormat = require('dateformat'),
Condition = webdriver.Condition,
WebElementCondition = webdriver.WebElementCondition;
test.describe('Task 14', function() {
var driver;
test.before(function() {
var options = new chrome.Options();
options.addArguments(["start-fullscreen"]);
driver = new webdriver.Builder()
//.withCapabilities({'marionette': true})
.forBrowser('chrome')
.setChromeOptions(options)
.build();
driver.getCapabilities().then(function(caps) {
console.log(caps);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10000/*ms*/);
});
});
test.it('Task 3 - should do login by Admin', function() {
driver.get('http://localhost/litecart/admin/login.php');
driver.findElement(By.name('username')).sendKeys(generalParameters.authorithation.admin.login);
driver.findElement(By.name('password')).sendKeys(generalParameters.authorithation.admin.password);
driver.findElement(By.name('login')).click();
driver.wait(until.titleIs('My Store'), 1000);
});
test.it('Task 14 - check new window', function() {
driver.get("http://localhost/litecart/admin/?app=countries&doc=countries");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()=' Add New Country']")).click();
driver.findElements(By.className("fa fa-external-link")).then(function(externalLink){
console.log("Всего найдено внешних ссылок = " + externalLink.length + "\n");
driver.getWindowHandle().then(function(mainWindow){
for(var i = 0; i < externalLink.length; i++) (function (x) {
driver.getAllWindowHandles().then(function(oldWindows){
driver.actions().mouseMove(externalLink[x]).sendKeys(webdriver.Key.SHIFT).click().perform().then(function(){
driver.wait(untilThereIsOtherWindow(), 5000).then(function(){
getUniqueWindow(oldWindows).then(function(newWindow){
driver.switchTo().window(newWindow);
driver.close();
driver.switchTo().window(mainWindow);
console.log("Окно " + x + " = " + newWindow + " открылось и закрылось\n");
});
});
});
});
})(i);
});
});
});
function untilThereIsOtherWindow() {
return new Condition(
'until new window present',
function(driver) {
return driver.getAllWindowHandles().then(function(result) {
return result.length === 2;
});
});
};
function getUniqueWindow(oldWindows) {
return driver.getAllWindowHandles().then(function(result){
for (var i = 0; i < oldWindows.length; i++) {
var str = oldWindows[i];
for (var j = 0; j < result.length; j++) {
if (result[j] !== str) {
return result[j];
}
}
}
});
}
test.after(function() {
driver.sleep(2000);
driver.quit();
});
});
| {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaGithub'} | 824 |
A steel vault in your back pocket.
The mighty U lock has long been the top choice for securing bikes due to its simple design, solid materials, and immobile parts. Abus contributes to the market with a streamlined, German approach and advanced engineering to offer the lightweight yet reliable Granit Plus 640 U-Lock (9 Inch). This lock is lighter and stronger than its predecessor thanks to a 12 mm-thick (0.47 in) hardened steel shackle, increasing its security rating to a 12 on Abus's 1-15 scale. This 9 Inch version of the Granit Plus 640 U-Lock is great for high theft risk areas or added security on a high-quality bike with quick-release that requires a little more length than the 6 inch version.
Weight: 1123 g (2.5 lb). Includes two keys and Abus Code Card for an additional replacement key. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 825 |
Due to a misattributed song on my iPod, I have been under the impression that I disliked Ben Rector's voice. That is, until recently, when I downloaded a Tour De Compadres sample album.
His song "When I'm with You" had such a unique sound that I had to listen to more. That's when I gave the Tulsa native's latest album, "Brand New" a shot.
I've been listening to it for about a week now and am already planning which album to buy next.
Rector is a talented lyricist but even more clever when it comes to song topics.
My favorite on the album is definitely "Crazy," which seems to be my life anthem. It's for all the listeners whose night life is anything but crazy and typically includes cooking at home and renting movies on the weekends.
In "My Favorite Song," Rector compares his girl to a song, referencing various other musicians, such as Johnny Cash and John Bon Jovi. Though a fun addition, I found this track far too cliché.
"The Men That Drive Me Places" is a humble, piano-based tune that compares hard-working men to Rector himself.
He ponders how many blue-collar citizens deserve recognition, yet he is the person crowds pay money to see. The melodies are catchy (some much more than others), but the lyrical perspectives are consistently unique.
"Note to Self" is another clever song where he makes a mental checklist of things to do and things to be, reminding himself to think of others more.
The album has that hometown pop-rock sound and leans slightly toward folk. The best part?
Every song is written from Rector's experiences, not his label's checklist.
As you listen to the album, you feel like you are living Rector's life in the passenger seat.
He catches this perfectly in one of the tracks, when a stranger on an airplane concludes that life looks pretty good from 30,000 feet.
Comparable to NeedtoBreathe, Dave Barnes and even Jon Foreman, Ben Rector has created a well-written album that I enjoy listening to at any time. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 826 |
package chat.viska.xmpp.plugins.jingle;
import chat.viska.xmpp.CommonXmlns;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import rxbeans.MutableProperty;
import rxbeans.StandardProperty;
public abstract class RtpContent extends Content {
public enum MediaType {
AUDIO,
VIDEO
}
public static class Description implements Content.Description {
public static class PayloadType {}
private final String name;
private final List<PayloadType> payloadTypes;
private final IceTransport transport;
private final MediaType mediaType;
public Description(final String name,
final MediaType mediaType,
final List<PayloadType> payloadTypes,
final IceTransport transport) {
this.name = name;
this.payloadTypes = Collections.unmodifiableList(new ArrayList<>(payloadTypes));
this.transport = transport;
this.mediaType = mediaType;
}
public IceTransport getTransport() {
return transport;
}
public List<PayloadType> getPayloadTypes() {
return payloadTypes;
}
public MediaType getMediaType() {
return mediaType;
}
@Override
public String getName() {
return name;
}
@Override
public String getNamespace() {
return CommonXmlns.JINGLE_RTP;
}
}
private final StandardProperty<Boolean> enabled = new StandardProperty<>(true);
public abstract MediaType getMediaType();
public MutableProperty<Boolean> enabledProperty() {
return enabled;
}
}
| {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaGithub'} | 827 |
For the 20 or so years before we moved to Las Vegas, we lived in the Florida Keys. We operated our first private concierge service there, helping people with hotel and guest house accommodations, restaurant recommendations, and dive and fishing charters. Since we owned a boat and Paul was a licensed captain, we thought we would offer to marry a few especially romatic couples. Because being a captain was not sufficient to officiate marriages, Paul became a notary.
Our first ceremony took place on a balcony at the Pier House in Key West. Ironically, we only married one couple on our boat. The rest were mostly intimate sunset ceremonies on beaches mostly in Marathon or Key West. As a service to our married couples, we photographed the ceremonies and created a web page for each couple to share with their friends and families.
In creating this new web site, we have tried to honor the couples we had the honor of marrying by republishing their photos and their ceremony information here. While we have received a few requests over the years to unpublish their announcements because the couples had gone their separate ways, we hope that those who remain here are still happily married and fondly remember the day they exchanged their vows - as we do of our vows 47 years ago. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 828 |
What characteristics and features make CCW Breakaways the best tactical pant?
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CCW Breakaways were designed for movement . . . the same kind of movements you perform in gym clothing. Jumping. Striking. Climbing. The videos webpage demonstrate the mobility and agility you need. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 829 |
You might have suspicion Punch-Out got a start on a NES, though a array indeed began in arcades. The strange Punch-Out!! will be entrance to Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan after this month as Arcade Archives Punch-Out!! and will be published by Hamster.
Fans have been increasingly outspoken about a miss of a Virtual Console on a Nintendo Switch, so hopefully Arcade Archives Punch-Out!! comes west to give us some retro integrity to waves us over.
The strange Punch-Out!! arcade cupboard had a singular setup. It housed dual monitors. The tip guard showed a compare stats while a bottom one was where a tangible gameplay took place. Arcade-Archives Punch-Out!! will concede we to switch to a straight blueprint on your Switch so we can replicate a arcade's classical setup.
There's no word nonetheless either or not Arcade Archives Punch-Out!! will recover in a US or not. The arcade cupboard came out here in a 80s, and Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out have been long-lived favorites, so it would make clarity to recover it in a West as well. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 830 |
Demolition of old Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge underway in New Haven, should be completed by 2014 (video)
Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Investigations Editor
Demolition of the east approach for the old Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge continues on Stiles St. in New Haven on 7/20/2012. This allows for an approach to the new bridge to be completedPhoto by Arnold Gold/New Haven Register AG0457A
NEW HAVEN -- Excavators are up on the unused section of the old Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, with workers doing initial demolition of structures like guardrails and parapets as highway traffic whizzes by.
Significant demolition of the old, unused portion of the bridge over the Quinnipiac River, the section that used to have northbound traffic, is scheduled to begin this fall, officials said.
"We'll take the structure apart piece by piece, starting with the deck, and the pieces will be hauled off for recycling," said James Croll, assistant resident engineer on the project with H.W. Lochner Inc. of New Haven. "All of the concrete and steel will be recycled."
The steel will be cut into small pieces. Girders will be cut into 15-foot sections to fit on trucks, then will be hauled to recycling plants, according to Croll.
The last pieces of the old bridge will be gone by late 2014, according to John Dunham, supervising engineer with the state Department of Transportation bureau of engineering and highway operations.
"It is a process. You have to do it piece by piece as you shift traffic over," Dunham said.
According to Croll, demolition of the superstructure (steel and concrete roadway) is expected to cost about $4 million, with demolition of the substructure (the piers and foundations) to cost $5 million, for a total of $9 million.
Portions of the underwater substructure will remain, but will be removed to a level below the mud line, according to Dunham.
"(The work) should not have a big impact on traffic -- that's why we do it in small segments," Croll said.
Demolition has been under way for weeks on the Stiles Street bridge, causing Stiles Street to be closed. The bridge had to be removed for construction of a new east approach to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge. Workers also are removing an earthen embankment in the vicinity.
Southbound highway traffic will still be using the old bridge until early summer of next year, when southbound traffic will shift onto the first span of the new bridge.
Demolition of the old Q bridge's main spans is slated to be finished in late 2013.
Traffic is running on three lanes northbound on the new bridge and the same will be true when southbound traffic is moved to that span. Once both sections of the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge are open, there will be five lanes in each direction with full shoulders.
When the old portion of the highway is gone, the second half of the new bridge can be built. The new southbound Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge and additional lanes on Interstate 95 are expected to be open to traffic in June 2016. All planned enhancements are scheduled to be complete in November 2016, Dunham said.
According to Dunham, the original Q bridge was completed in 1958 at a cost of $16.5 million, so it lasted a little more than 50 years, the typical life expectancy for bridges from that era. The new $554 million bridge has a 100-year design lifespan, he said.
Visit www.i95newhaven.com for updates on the project.
Call Michelle Tuccitto Sullo at 203-789-5707. Follow her on Twitter @nhrinvestigate. Register staffer Ed Stannard contributed to this story. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 831 |
What is MySavings Rewards Program?
We would like to inform you that ICICI Bank MySavings Rewards Program is discontinued with effect from January 1, 2017.
Customers will earn reward points for savings account transactions done till December 31, 2016 under the program. New points will not be issued for savings account transactions done from January 2017 onwards.
All the points earned under the program for savings account transactions till December 31, 2016, will continue to be available for redemption as per the existing process till expiry of the points. (Points are valid for 3 years from date of issuance).
Please note that you will continue to earn PAYBACK reward points under ICICI Bank Credit Card and Debit Card Rewards Programme. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 832 |
Contrary to popular belief, freshwater sawfish are not sharks; they are fish from the ray species that have the bodies like sharks and snouts (called rostrums) like sharp blades. Found in countries like Africa, Australia, Pakistan and India, these fish have between 14 and 23 toothlike denticles called rostral teeth that rest on either side of their rostrums. Male freshwater sawfish have more rostral teeth than the females. When sawfish are born, these denticles protrude less, and are covered by a tissue sheath, so that they don't injure the sawfish moms during the birthing process.
Freshwater sawfish can grow to 20 feet (6 meters) in length. They gather their food by swinging their rostrums from side to side to separate invertebrates from the surfaces they live on, and to stun schools of fish. These sawfish also like to eat freshwater prawn and shrimp. Other predators in the water know not to mess with them and rarely do, but sharks and saltwater crocodiles sometimes take their chances, typically hunting juvenile sawfish, which are smaller in size.
The indigenous peoples of Western Australia have long relied on the meat of freshwater sawfish for survival. The animals' other body parts are valuable commodities, too: For example, people sell their fins in Asia, process their livers for oil and make their skin into leather. The eggs, liver oil and bile of the freshwater sawfish are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.
"It actually felt very strange on the line. A bit like a stingray in a way, but the jarring I could feel wasn't the stingray's tail hitting the line. It was the rostrum teeth..." | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 833 |
Q: Symfony functional tests in a sub-request oriented scenario In a Symfony 2.6 / PhpUnit 4.6 environment, I am looking for a way to individually test one single request only, in a scenario where that request might invoke at a later stage (while rendering the template for example) a sub-request.
Concretely, given the following Page Controller
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
class Page extends Controller{
public function viewAction(){
return ...
}
}
Which will render a Twig template containing the following line, which will invoke a sub-request to the Widget controller:
{{ render(controller('AppBundle:Widget:footerLatest')) }}
The Widget controller has it's own logic, maybe it's pulling something from the database:
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
class Widget extends Controller{
public function footerLatestAction(){
$foo = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('ModelBundle:Foo')->findBy(...);
return [
'foo' => $foo
];
}
}
In my functional tests for the Page controller I will mock the Doctrine dependencies
namespace AppBundle\Tests\Controller;
class PageControllerTest extends \Tests\TestCase{
public function testDetailsView(){
$someMock = $this->getMockBuilder('ModelBundle\Entity\SomeEntity')
->getMock();
$entityManagerMock = $this->getMockBuilder('Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager')
->setMethods(array('persist', 'flush', 'getRepository', 'clear'))
->disableOriginalConstructor()
->getMock();
$repositoryMock = $this->getMockBuilder('ModelBundle\Repository\SomeEntityRepository')
->setMethods(['findOneBy', 'findBy'])
->disableOriginalConstructor()
->getMock();
$client->getContainer()->set('doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager', $entityManagerMock);
...
}
}
At this point the problem is clear: in each controller test I will make I have to take into account all the sub-requests it might invoke, and this thing snowballs to something which might look hell.
My thought is that I can safely consider that each request (either master or sub) should be treated as completely distinct things, and thus tested distinctly, ie the Page controller will have the PageControllerTest which will not invoke sub-requests (it would have nothing to do with any sub-request at all), even if it normally would. And the Widget controller would have it's own WidgetControllerTest.
So, how can I "disable/ignore" sub-requests in functional tests? Or is there a better approach?
A: If you are testing the controller then the whole logic behind the request must work. It is no longer a real unit test but a functional test. So all must work. Not just a small part of the request.
If you have a simple DB and are not using any driver specific things you can always switch to in memory SQLite DB.
Edit your config_test.yml like this:
doctrine:
dbal:
default_connection: default
connections:
default:
driver: pdo_sqlite
memory: true
And prepopulate the DB with the data you need for the test.
If you can't use SQLite you can always configure a real DB with,for example, test_ prefix. It will get a bit more comlicated if you want to put this into automated build/deplozment but definitely doable.
| {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaStackExchange'} | 834 |
Don't know which type of mortgage loan is best for you?
Conventional fixed loans require a minimum of 5% down and a fairly good recent credit history. Down payments must be from your own funds. The interest rate remains the same for the term of the loan.
Conventional adjustable rate loans also require a minimum of 5% down and a fairly good recent credit history. The interest rate remains fixed for the first 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 years. The rate will adjust with the market after the initial fixed rate period according to the terms established when you close. A low initial rate may help you qualify for a larger loan.
Government loans often allow slightly less-than-perfect credit records. They are not restricted to first time home buyers. If you've had a bankruptcy discharged and good credit since, you may qualify after two years. Gift down payments are permitted. Government loans allow a higher debt ratio than conventional loans. FHA loans require only 3% down and can be fixed or adjustable rate loans. VA loans have a zero down payment and are fixed rate only.
Non-conforming loans often allow imperfect credit and higher debt than conventional loans. Some loans can be approved with limited documentation of income, debt, employment and assets. These loans offer substantially higher interest rates, but may allow you to buy a home when your credit is poor or you are self-employed. Most, but not all, require substantial down payments. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 835 |
RyanAW doesn't have a personal statement currently.
I have been looking to buy a new guitar for awhile now and recently I played a PRS SE and really liked it. I was just looking for information on it and other people's opinions.
I'm looking for an effective way to build alternate picking speed(especially left hand speed). I want to build overall speed and not for any particuler piece. I've been working with a few of the lessons and they seem to help. I know this will take a lot of time and patience. I'm just looking for a What is the most effective way to go about doing this.
I thought it might be beneficial to just about every if there was and electrical metrenome on the site. I tend to find myself without a metrenome when practicing on the computer. Just thought it would help a lot of guitarists.
I listened to him the for the first time today and I was amazed.
I am seriously considering getting an epiphone les paul.
Other users have left no comments for RyanAW. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 836 |
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. Going by the name of Max Beerbohm, he became known for his big personality and humor....mehr sehenSir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. Going by the name of Max Beerbohm, he became known for his big personality and humor. Beerbohm began writing while being educated at the Charterhouse School and then at Merton College, Oxford. However, as he was not an enthusiastic student, Beerbohm dropped out of school when he became popular in social circles. He continued his career as a writer, illustrator and later worked as a radio broadcaster. Beerbohm released several collections of his work, including short fiction, caricature sketches, and one novel.weniger sehen
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Plant cytokinesis is orchestrated by a specialized structure, the phragmoplast. The phragmoplast first occurred in representatives of Charophyte algae and then became the main division apparatus in land plants. Major cellular activities, including cytoskeletal dynamics, vesicle trafficking, membrane assembly, and cell wall biosynthesis, cooperate in the phragmoplast under the guidance of a complex signaling network. My research focuses on the self-organization processes that govern phragmoplast functions. I will give a general overview of plant cytokinesis, and present our recent data on the gamma-tubulin independent microtubule nucleation by the plant-specific protein MACERATOR and a conserved member of TPX2 protein family.
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CCleaner for Mac: As Good as Windows?
By Phil South / Jul 31, 2016 / Mac
If you are a Mac or PC user you have to make sure your machine is regularly "cleaned." This means employing some kind of software to automatically scan through the machine and remove unnecessary file clutter for speed and to save space.
For years the standard in PC cleaner software has been CCleaner, and now Mac users can benefit from the experience that the Piriform developers bring to the table. In this article we will look at a new free Mac version and see how it compares to its older brother on Windows.
Installing and running is easy. Just go to the download page and download the .dmg file. After opening the disk image, drag the icon to the alias for the Applications directory, then navigate to your Applications directory and run the software.
Running the software opens a window with two buttons: one for analysing the system and one for runnning the Cleaner. This purges your system from detected files which can be safely removed. There are tools and options menus, too, but those two buttons are the things you'll make the most use of.
Both the Windows and Mac free versions contain the same two basic features described on the website as "faster computer" and "privacy protection." What this boils down to in real terms is the primary use of cleaning software, that is to say safely and securely scanning your system intelligently for anything which might be deemed superfluous and erasing it. Plus, you get the bonus benefit of privacy protection via the cleaning of cookies, history and other browser data. (Safari is cleaned by default, being a Mac, but other browsers can be selected in the Applications tab.)
CCleaner has the dual purpose of making your machine leaner and faster but also reducing clutter in ways that would takes hours, if not days, to do manually and with the need for a lot of research to properly identify files and their purpose before deleting.
CCleaner has a lot of Windows experience with this kind of work, and Piriform developers have decided to bring this technology to the Mac because although OS X is a usually very tidy operating system, it still generates a lot of junk if you don't keep an eye on it. Being able to address this routinely and easily is a huge boon.
Obviously, although CCleaner has a free product, there is a premium level, and it would be remiss of us not to note the differences.
Mac Premium Features
As well as the basic features on the Mac version, if you pay for the upgrade to the premium level of the product you also have Automatic Browser Cleaning, Real-time Monitoring, Automatic Updating and what they call "Priority Support." This is an extra to make up for the lack of a Premium Plus level upgrade path like there is on the Windows platform.
Windows Premium Features
At the premium level on the Windows version you have Complete Cleaning, Real-time Monitoring, and Automatic Updating. For an extra $10 at the Plus level you also have Defragmentation, File Recovery and Hardware Analysis. These are fairly advanced features and very welcome on Windows where there is less operating system intervention or "training wheels" (as there is on OS X) and much more free access to the lower levels of the system by users which is a good thing if you love to hit the metal, so to speak.
Clearly the premium features on both platforms are not important at the free level, as the offerings for the Mac and PC version are for all intents and purposes the same. The main differences occur when rising to the Premium level by paying a fee. On the Windows version (and the higher cost Plus version not available to Mac users) you have a much wider toolset of features.
Whether these higher level features will be available to Mac users in the future is not clear, but as a Mac user you can console yourself realizing that the plus features are less important in a Mac environment where the OS takes care of a lot of that sort of maintenance automatically. In any case the upgrade to the premium product is only $19.99 and doesn't necessarily represent a major expense.
If you have any questions or observations about CCleaner for Mac, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
Phil South
Phil South has been writing about tech subjects for over 30 years. Starting out with Your Sinclair magazine in the 80s, and then MacUser and Computer Shopper. He's designed user interfaces for groundbreaking music software, been the technical editor on film making and visual effects books for Elsevier, and helped create the MTE YouTube Channel. He lives and works in South Wales, UK.
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Degree of comparison is typically an inflectional feature of some
[adjectives](u-pos/ADJ) and [adverbs](u-pos/ADV).
Most [nouns](u-pos/NOUN) and [proper names](u-pos/PROPN) in Afrikaans can be diminutivized,
and the `Degree` feature is also used to mark diminutives of nouns.
### <a name="Dim">`Dim`</a>: diminutive form
A diminutive form is labelled as such; as its lemma, the non-diminutive form is given.
#### Examples
* _Tree vir tree sal ons dit maak, soos die spreekwoord lui, landsgenote, groot dinge begin met klein <b>treetjies</b>._ "We will do this step by step, as the proverb says, big things start with little steps."
### <a name="Pos">`Pos`</a>: positive, first degree
This is the base form that merely states a quality of something,
without comparing it to qualities of others. Note that although this
degree is traditionally called "positive", negative properties can be
compared, too.
#### Examples
* _die <b>internasionale</b> gemeenskap_ "the international community"
### <a name="Cmp">`Cmp`</a>: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another
object.
#### Examples
* _Dit word toenemend <b>sterker</b>._ "It gets increasingly strong."
### <a name="Sup">`Sup`</a>: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other
objects within a set.
#### Examples
* _Ons sal ons pogings verskerp, geïnspireer deur die entoesiasme, hoop en veerkragtigheid van die Suid-Afrikaanse mense in 'n strewe na dit wat die <b>beste</b> is vir ons almal._ "We will intensify our attempts, inspired by the enthusiasm, hope and resilience of the South African people in pursuit of what is best for all of us."
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El resilvestrament plistocè (de l'anglès Pleistocene rewilding) consisteix en la reconstrucció dels ecosistemes plistocens a través de la reintroducció d'espècies animals (sobretot grosses, conegudes com a megafauna) desaparegudes durant els darrers segles o mil·lennis en una regió determinada.
Aquests projectes són econòmicament i tècnicament difícils de realitzar, ja que les espècies de grans dimensions només poden ser reintroduides en aquells països on hi ha prou espai i baixa pressió humana. Pot semblar, per tant, quelcom utòpic, però en alguns casos (de vegades involuntàriament) s'ha demostrat que una espècie pot adaptar-se bé a un entorn en el qual havia viscut milers d'anys enrere. Un bon exemple és el dels cavalls a l'Amèrica del Nord, que van desaparèixer al començament de l'Holocè però es van tornar a estendre amb èxit, gràcies a la intervenció de l'home, a partir del , formant les actuals poblacions de mustangs.
Gènesi
El concepte de resilvestrament plistocè va aparèixer després dels descobriments paleontològics que proven l'extinció en massa d'animals grans entre finals del Plistocè i el començament de l'Holocè (especialment fort a Amèrica, Austràlia i Europa però també documentat a altres continents, fet que hauria alterat dràsticament els ecosistemes. Aquestes desaparicions d'espècies formen part del que s'ha anomenat extinció de l'Holocè.
Les causes d'aquestes extincions són encara discutides: un caça excessiva, un canvi climàtic sobtat, noves malalties, o potser una combinació d'aquests tres factors, podria haver causat aquest desastre ecològic. Pels defensors del resilvestrament plistocè, els factors antròpics són claus per explicar l'extinció massiva del començament de l'Holocè.
Segons alguns investigadors, aquestes extincions haurien provocat una reducció de la biodiversitat vegetal i animal en el seu conjunt, ja que els animals grans tenen una gran influència a través de la seva acció sobre els ecosistemes.
Així, cap al final del plistocè (fa aproximadament entre 13.000 i 10.000 anys), una gran part de la megafauna mundial va desaparèixer. Amb la pèrdua dels grans herbívors i les seves espècies depredadores, molts dels nínxols ecològics importants per al funcionament dels ecosistemes es van quedar sense ocupar. En paraules del biòleg Tim Flannery, "d'ençà de l'extinció de la megafauna fa 13.000 anys, el continent americà ha tingut un greu desequilibri faunístic". Això significa, per exemple, que els gestors de parcs nacionals a Amèrica del Nord han de recórrer al sacrifici d'exemplars per mantenir la població d'ungulats sota control, degut a la manca de grans predadors.
Paul S. Martin (autor de la hipòtesi de l'extinció de la megafauna americana degut a un excés de caça per part de l'home durant el Plistocè) afirma que les actuals comunitats ecològiques a Amèrica del Nord no funcionen adequadament en absència de la megafauna, perquè gran part de la flora i fauna nativa van evolucionar sota la influència dels grans mamífers.
En un moment en què moltes espècies de grans dimensions (elefant, rinoceront, grans felins…) que han sobreviscut fins ara estan de nou en perill d'extinció (incloent Àfrica i Àsia del Sud, en el qual sempre s'havien conservat), va sorgir la idea de tornar a introduir-ne alguns d'ells en indrets del món on la presència humana és baixa, com l'Oest dels Estats Units, Sibèria, Patagònia, Sud-àfrica… En molts casos, per tant, les espècies reintroduïdes no serien les originals, ja extingides, sinó els equivalents ecològics més propers, entre les espècies existents d'altres regions. Així, els elefants asiàtics podrien assumir el paper del mamut colombí a Amèrica del Nord i dels gomfotèrids a Amèrica del Sud. Els camèlids sud-americans o el camell bactrià asiàtic podrien substituir als camèlids extingits d'Amèrica del Nord, del gènere Camelops.
Aquest projecte va ser proposat pel Zoòleg nord-americà Josh Donlan el 2005, a la revista Nature, però pel cas d'Europa també s'han fet propostes més o menys concretes
Crítiques
La principal crítica a la proposta del resilvestrament plistocè considera que és poc realista assumir que les comunitats actuals són funcionalment similars al seu estat de fa 10.000 anys. Els opositors sostenen que hi ha hagut temps més que suficient perquè les comunitats es desenvolupin en absència de megafauna i, per tant, la reintroducció de grans mamífers podria interferir en la nova dinàmica dels ecosistemes i causar un col·lapse. Per altra banda, molts dels taxons considerats per a la reintroducció, especialment per Amèrica del Nord, són al·loctons i podrien perjudicar les espècies autòctones, competint amb elles o trasmetent-los noves malalties.
Alguns detractors del resilvestrament plistocè a Amèrica del Nord plantejen un programa de conservació alternatiu, a través del qual els taxons autòctons d'Amèrica del Nord encara existents podrien ser reintroduïts en parts de les seves àrees de distribució natural d'on es van extingir durant els temps històrics. Una altra forma de resilvestrament podria implicar les tècniques de desextinció, que en un futur permetrien reviure algunes espècies extintes a través de la clonació o la cria selectiva.
Referències
Vegeu també
Megafauna del Plistocè
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A new study by Red Hat highlights open source software's growing acceptance, but reservations remain
Leon Spencer (ARN) 16 January, 2017 11:53
Red Hat A/NZ regional vice president and general manager, Max McLaren
The use of open source software in the Asia-Pacific region is on its way up, with more than half of those surveyed in a new study by Red Hat already implementing or embracing the technology.
At the same time, however, the research suggests that concerns around the security of open source software remains, despite its rising popularity among enterprises, with 56 per cent of respondents viewing open source security as a potential risk if not a major concern.
Meanwhile, almost a fifth (18 per cent) of respondents view open source security as "far less secure" than traditional licenced software – resulting in a major concern. Regardless, 26 per cent of those surveyed agreed that open source is "highly secure" and not a concern.
The research, carried out by Forrester on behalf of Red Hat, saw 455 CIOs and senior IT decision-makers from nine countries in Asia-Pacific surveyed, including 51 from Australia.
The findings, laid out in the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation report, indicate that 51 per cent of respondents from Australia have either implemented or plan to expand their open source implementation – just under the average of 52 per cent for the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
"It is encouraging to see that more than half of the respondents from Australia have now implemented or are looking to expand their open source architecture," Red Hat A/NZ regional vice-president and general manager, Max McLaren, said.
"I believe that the knock-on effects of this, in terms of product development and enhanced service delivery, can prove to be beneficial for enterprises across a range of industries in Australia," he said.
Unsurprisingly, for a study commissioned by the world's largest enterprise open source software company by revenue, the research found that, among CIOs and senior IT decision makers, open source is no longer viewed as just a cost-saving option by organisations, but a strategic investment that can lead to digital innovation.
Despite the shift in how businesses view open source software and its benefits, cost continues to play a major factor for enterprises.
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Across Asia, two-thirds, or 66.67 per cent, of senior IT decision-makers believe that "open source is a cost-saving initiative," while 34 per cent believe "open source is a strategic investment."
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The female national team of South Africa, will face the defending champions, Nigeria in the final of the 2018 African Women's Cup of Nations, AWCON.
South Africa recorded a 2-0 victory over Mali in their semi-final match at Cape Coast Stadium on Tuesday, while Nigeria defeated Cameroon 4-2 on penalties after the match ended 0-0 in regulation time.
This will be the second time both teams will meet at AWCON 2018 after the Banyana Banyana defeated the Super Falcons 1-0 in their group stage.
Both teams will play in the final on Saturday at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Thembi Kgatlana opened scoring for South Africa against Mali in the 31st minute with her fifth goal of the competition.
And after an intense battle between both sides, Lebohang Ramalepe netted the second goal for her side nine minutes from time.
The winner of the third-place playoff between Cameroon and Mali will clinch the third qualifying spot on the continent.
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Karim Benzema was left celebrating a new Real Madrid landmark on Wednesday as he scored his 200th goal for the Spanish giants against Viktoria Plzen.
Benzema's form has been questioned in 2018-19, as a fine start to the season led to an acute goal drought as results turned sour at the Santiago Bernabeu.
And, after drawing another blank at the weekend in Solari's Liga debut victory over Valladolid, Benzema returned to scoring ways in the Champions League.
The Frenchman struck early on Wednesday to put Madrid 1-0 ahead against the Czech team, in a game crucial to their hopes of making it through to the last 16.
It was his first since the corresponding fixture on October 23 against the same opposition, and only his second in the last 12 outings.
The goal also marked Benzema's double century for Madrid, with whom he has starred since moving from Lyon in June 2009.
Benzema needed 428 games to reach 200, a ratio of just under a goal every two matches, with 46 coming in the Champions League.
And he wasted no time in pushing his tally to 201 as Madrid ran rampant in the Czech Republic.
Casemiro added Madrid's second of the evening before the striker swooped again, Gareth Bale hitting another to send his side into half time with a 4-0 advantage.
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Q: Promise as a part of state in redux I have a situation when it would be really convenient to have a promise object as a part of the state. In short - there is a state which contains all the info which user gave in the question-answer mode and after some answer it would be nice to send a call, result of which will be needed after several more questions:
Q1 -> Q2 -> Q3 - -> Q4 - - -> Q5 -> Q6 -> Q7
\ - - Call to API - - /
Before Q7 I need to check result of call after Q3. It would be really easy to do with promise as a part of the state and then just subscribe to result.
But I have inner feeling that it should not happen. Is it ok to do it this way?
I don't think that my code will help to understand, so feel free to just ask questions if it's not clear.
A: You can use redux-promise middleware, Your actions will return you promise if that action is completed, in-flight or failed. So you can easily manage questions and make call exactly at the right time you needed based on the promise. I have a sample example in my github account which shall explain how to use it. Let know if you find it useful.
Below is suedo code
Action controller
export const action_CALL = () => {
return {
type: SOME_CALL,
payload: new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let wait = setTimeout(() => {
resolve('DUMMY ... Few questions answered in x mins');
}, 2000)
}),
};
};
Reducer
export const countReducer = typeToReducer({
[SOME_CALL]: {
PENDING: (state, action) => ({
...state,
answered: false,
}),
REJECTED: (state) => ({
...state,
answered: false,
}),
FULFILLED: (state, action) => ({
answered: true,
callResponse: action.payload,
})
}
}, initState);
This approach will give you fine-grained control.
A: You should not do that because serializing your state would not be possible anymore. How much of a problem that is, not sure, it might only break the devtools or some persistence/hydration library you are using or will use. But to stay true to redux and its simplicity, reduce your scenario to a single truth:
*
*Is the current question past Q3 but still before Q7? I imagine a selector could determine that because the current question is surely part of the state already.
*Has a request been made to fetch the data?
Based on that you send the request:
if (currentQuestion > 3 && currentQuestion < 7 && !isDataRequested) {
dispatch(callToApi()); // this sets isDataRequested to true.
}
This will work with persisting and hydrating the state.
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When it comes to sheer off-the-factory-floor capability, few things come close to the original Hummer H1. Honestly, the military SUV is one of the most badass vehicles ever to exist and needed virtually no improvements. But that hasn't stopped the folks at Mil-Spec Auto from trying – and succeeding – with their 'Launch Edition' #001 Hummer H1.
Let's start with what they did under the hood: this monster is equipped with a hand-built 500-horsepower 6.6-liter turbodiesel LBZ V8 engine that is capable of a whopping 1,000 foot-pounds of torque. That, paired with a beefy suspension and Nitto Ridge all-terrain tires makes for one extremely capable off-roader. But the sheer capabilities don't come without a measure of comfort, as evidenced by the in-house developed custom interior done up with marine-grade leather, water-resistant duck canvas, paracord safety grips, a JL Audio premium sound system, LED interior lighting, and a host of bespoke options. If you want to get behind the wheel of this monolithic SUV, however, you'll have to get into contact with the brand themselves to learn pricing and availability.
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Washington to reveal new name on Feb. 2; won't be RedWolves
by: STEPHEN WHYNO, Associated Press
Washington Football Team takes the field before a NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Football Team on Sunday, January 2, 2022 in Landover, Maryland.(Shaban Athuman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
Washington's NFL team announced Tuesday it will unveil its new name on Feb. 2 and that it will not be the Wolves or RedWolves.
Commanders, Admirals, Armada, Brigade, Sentinels, Defenders, Red Hogs, Presidents and the status quo "Washington Football Team" were among the other finalists.
"We are on the brink of starting a new chapter, but our history, our legacy cannot be lost along the way," team president Jason Wright said in an episode of the team-produced show "Making the Brand." "Now, more than ever, it's important that we stay connected to our roots. We understand the importance of choosing a meaningful name: one that will anchor the team for the next 90 years and beyond."
Wright said the decision was made not to go with Wolves or RedWolves because of trademarks held by other organizations. Those possibilities were popular among Washington fans.
The new helmets and uniforms will feature the franchise's signature burgundy-and-gold colors, with three stars on the collar and stripes on the shoulders of otherwise plain jerseys. In a "Making the Brand" clip showing him getting a look at one of the helmets, coach Ron Rivera said: "I love this. Right on. I think the look's going to be hot."
A trailer teasing the reveal included a "W" logo making an appearance.
The video featured the messages: "Hail to the greats that laid the foundation for our legacy," "Hail to the fans we consider family," "We are and always have been Washington," "We will fight for our community" and "Together we will define our future."
Photos of franchise greats were mixed in with current players meeting with military personnel and fans.
The organization dropped its old name in July 2020 after decades of complaints that it was racist toward Native Americans and recent pressure from team sponsors. The decision was made to be known as the Washington Football Team that season, which stuck around for 2021 while the front office went through a lengthy rebranding process.
"Our journey to a new identity is a marathon, not a sprint," Wright said. "To get it right, we had to take every step of the process seriously, and the destination is a sum of all those parts."
Washington was the first team in the four major North American professional sports leagues to move away from Native American imagery amid a national reckoning on race. Cleveland in Major League Baseball followed suit, adopting the new name Guardians that is now in effect after settling a lawsuit with a roller derby team by the same name.
MLB's Atlanta Braves and the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks have defended keeping their names.
Wright made it clear during the rebranding process that Washington would not use any sort of Native American imagery moving forward. He, Rivera and others have made references to wanting to honor the once-storied franchise's tradition, which includes three Super Bowl championships.
"I just think the heritage and the history of our team is what's so important, and, as fans, I think we're going to rally around that team," Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs said. "I'd say probably what's more important about naming the team, it's trying to bring everybody together. … That's the one thing that we've got going for ourselves is the loyalty that we have for that team."
Washington has not had a lot going on or off the field in recent years. The league fined the team $10 million after an investigation into workplace conduct, owner Dan Snyder squabbled with minority partners before buying out their shares, the front office took criticism this season for botching late safety Sean Taylor's jersey retirement and over the past 15 years the team has not won a playoff game.
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DPT Laboratories has announced today that Jeanette Riedle has been named senior director of continuous improvement.
Riedle was previously vice-president of global business transformation programmes at KCI in San Antonio, where she was responsible for overall program management for corporate-wide projects, including global standardization and leveraging of new technologies. She has 14 years' experience in the health care industry.
At DPT, Riedle will lead the effort to develop and implement a continuous improvement strategy and culture across all divisions of the company, including pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, as well as corporate support areas.
"Jeanette's programme management experience in business transformation and process excellence will help us take our commitment to quality systems to a new level," said Rick Bentzinger, DPT vice-president of human resources.
"These initiatives will play a critical role in maintaining DPT's position as the leading provider of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services for semi-solid and liquid products, and in expanding our position in the sterile and specialty products market."
"It's gratifying to be a part of a company that shares my passion for process improvement and recognizes its importance in creating a positive customer experience," said Riedle. "DPT understands that this investment in the customer experience makes all the difference in its level of success as a business."
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Q: Wix 3.5 & IIS7 - WriteIIS7ConfigChanges Failed - Whilst attempting to install three web applications as virtual directories to default website I'm hoping somebody could perhaps help me with a problem I'm experiencing using Wix 3.5.2519.0 on a Windows Server 2008 with the IIS7 & IIS6 Compatibility features installed.
The MSI log file
We are encountering the following errors whilst attempting to define three virtual web application directories beneath the default web site, as recorded using the /log <filename> option of msiexec.exe:
Action 17:05:57: StartIIS7ConfigTransaction. Starting IIS Config Transaction
Action 17:05:57: RollbackIIS7ConfigTransaction. Rolling back IIS Config Transaction
Action 17:05:57: CommitIIS7ConfigTransaction. Committing IIS Config Transaction
Action 17:05:57: ConfigureIIs7Exec. Configuring IIS
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed get sites section
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed to search for Website
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed get sites section
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed to search for Website
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed get sites section
ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x800700b7: Failed to search for Website
Action 17:05:57: WriteIIS7ConfigChanges. Installing Config Keys and Values
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x800700b7: Failed get sites section
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x800700b7: Failed to read sites from config
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x800700b7: Failed to configure IIS application.
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x800700b7: WriteIIS7ConfigChanges Failed.
Action ended 17:05:57: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Action 17:05:57: Rollback. Rolling back action:
Rollback: Installing Config Keys and Values
Rollback: Configuring IIS
Rollback: Committing IIS Config Transaction
Rollback: Rolling back IIS Config Transaction
The Wix component declarations
There are three websites requiring installation, they are each declared with component xml syntax in the wxs file as follows (they're not identical but they're pretty close):
<Component Id="DataServiceVirtualDir" Guid="9AC00BDC-D710-429f-B68B-8130DB17C90C">
<CreateFolder/>
<iis:WebVirtualDir Id="OurApplicationDataService"
Alias="OurApplicationDataService"
Directory="DATASERVICEDIR"
WebSite="OurApplicationDataService"
DirProperties="OurApplicationDirProperties">
<iis:WebApplication Id="OurApplicationDataService" Name="OurApplicationDataService">
</iis:WebApplication>
</iis:WebVirtualDir>
</Component>
The website declarations
Likewise, they are declared with the following website elements and supporting elements:
<iis:WebSite Id="OurApplicationDataService" Directory="DATASERVICEDIR"
Description="OurApplication Data Service">
<iis:WebAddress Id="AllUnassignedData" IP="*" Port="80"/>
</iis:WebSite>
<iis:WebSite Id="OurApplicationSecurityService" Directory="SECURITYSERVICEDIR"
Description="OurApplication Security Service">
<iis:WebAddress Id="AllUnassignedSecurity" IP="*" Port="80"/>
</iis:WebSite>
<iis:WebSite Id="OurApplicationProcessingFacades" Directory="PROCESSINGFACADESDIR"
Description="OurApplication Processing Facades">
<iis:WebAddress Id="AllUnassignedFacades" IP="*" Port="80"/>
</iis:WebSite>
<iis:WebDirProperties Id="OurApplicationDirProperties" WindowsAuthentication="no"
AnonymousAccess="yes" AnonymousUser="OurApplicationUserID" />
<iis:WebDirProperties Id="SecurityDirProperties"
WindowsAuthentication="yes" AnonymousAccess="no" />
Summary and conclusions so far
So this mysterious installer error, 0x800700b7, appears to be screwing it all up.
Interestingly, an earlier iteration of the installer installed fine, and uninstalled fine several times previously. However, now when attempting to uninstall the previous installer and install the new installer, the uninstallation fails with exactly the same errors, literally the failing part of the uninstallation log file is near identical to the log section above.
If I copy the web application binaries into the desired installation directory and wire up a virtual directory manually via the IIS7 management console, it all works fine, and the websites respond to requests appropriately.
As far as I can tell, the IIS7 website and target installation directories are all empty, blank and otherwise sanitised in preperation for the installation.
Not much on Google about this one, I'm thinking I may just have to reinstall IIS7 on the box to see if it makes the problem go away, but that is the nuclear option so to speak.
Anybody any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
A: This might be a bit late since you already rebuilt the server, but I was getting this exact same error.
The ultimate cause of the error was the apppool was using the wrong version of .NET for my application. I solved it by assigning the application it's own app pool instead of using the default app pool on the server. You probably set the default apppool on your server to the version that your application required and that is why it worked in the end.
<Directory Id='WebAppFiles' Name='WebApp'>
<!-- The component to define the Virtual Directory.-->
<Component Id="WebVirtualDirApp"
Guid="your-guide-goes-here">
<!-- The virtual directory we are installing. -->
<!-- The Alias attribute is the name thata will be put into IIS.-->
<!-- The Directory attribute is the "Physical Path" property in
IIS and needs to tie to an ID specified in the setup. -->
<!-- The WebSite attribute ties to a <WebSite> element in the
setup file. As this is an example of installing into the
"Default Web Site" that element is not under a component.-->
<iis:WebAppPool Id="YourWebAppPoolId" Name="YourWebAppPool"
ManagedRuntimeVersion="v2.0" />
<iis:WebVirtualDir Id="VDirApp" Alias="[VDIRNAME]"
Directory="WebAppFiles" WebSite="DefaultWebSite">
<!-- Turn the Virtual Directory into a web application. -->
<iis:WebApplication Id="TheWebApplication"
WebAppPool="YourWebAppPoolId"
Name="[VDIRNAME]" />
</iis:WebVirtualDir>
<!-- This is pretty important. If the CreateFolder isn't there the
WebVirtualDir won't get created as there's no files in this
component.
http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03483.html -->
<CreateFolder/>
</Component>
</Directory>
A: I've recently been struggling with a similar error; the main difference being that we had app pools mentioned in the "WriteIIS7ConfigChanges" errors as well. A lot of searching online (how I came across this post) suggests that your issue could have been due to various bugs that have since been fixed by Wix. We are using Wix 3.7.1119.0, however, the most recent RC as of the time of writing, so there is at least one other way to get this error.
What I ultimately found was that some unrelated permissions issues were causing our install to fail, and then the rollback was also silently failing on one of the steps, messing up the server configuration. We were inserting
<system.transactions><machineSettings maxTimeout="00:30:00"/><defaultSettings timeout="00:30:00"/></system.transactions>
into C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config, but the rollback step that was supposed to remove it was erroring out with an "access is denied" message. Any install attempt after that initial failed attempt resulted in the ConfigureIIS7Exec errors. Going in and manually removing the transaction timeout settings from machine.config caused the "Failed to search for Website" error to go away, and our install to complete successfully once more.
A: I ran into this, too. I was seeing the following messages in my install logs:
MSI (s) (B8:74) [11:11:24:699]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSICF14.tmp, Entrypoint: WriteIIS7ConfigChanges
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x80070002: Failed get AnonymousAuthentication section for DirProp
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x80070002: Failed set Authentication for DirProps
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x80070002: Failed to configure IIS DirProperties.
WriteIIS7ConfigChanges: Error 0x80070002: WriteIIS7ConfigChanges Failed.
I opened up IIS Manager, and when I clicked on the site that I was trying to install to, I got an error about the / pointing to an invalid directory.
I clicked on sites -> went to the right pane, right-clicked on the site in question, and both "Application Pool" and "Physical Path" were blank. As soon as I set those and applied the changes, I was able to go forward just fine. No idea how my Default Web Site config got borked, but fixing it under IIS Manager resolved the issue.
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Public Hearing Underway About Vaccination Exemptions
By Mike Massaro • Published February 19, 2020 • Updated on February 19, 2020 at 3:16 pm
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Hundreds of people are at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford as lawmakers hold a public hearing on a controversial bill.
The bill would eliminate the state's religious exemptions for certain vaccines for public school students. It would only allow exemptions on school vaccination requirements for medical reasons.
Some who oppose the bill say the state should not be allowed to interfere with someone's belief system, including chiropractor Dr. Jason Jenkins. He said he'll be among the many advocating for keeping the exemption.
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"I'm not telling someone else how to practice their belief system, but the state really shouldn't tell us how to practice ours," said Dr. Jenkins.
Some who support the bill said it's a way to continue protecting against illnesses we don't see anymore.
The bill would leave only medical exeptions for children whose immune system is compromised, who have cancer or have an adverse reaction to vaccinations.
Pediatrician Dr. Richard Uluski said, like other pedatricians, his office has a policy for vaccines similar to those in public schools.
"It's our policy that you have to vaccinate your child in order to come to this practice. It's not only for the safety of your child, but also the children waiting in the waiting room," Dr. Uluski said.
Governor Ned Lamont also spoke out in support of this bill, saying this is a public health issue and not vaccinating is putting other people at risk.
"When it comes to the health and safety of our kids, it is our responsibility to act out of an abundance of caution. Vaccinations are safe. They are the reason dangerous diseases disappeared for decades," Lamont said in a statement.
The line to get into the building was long before the hearing started.
Some who oppose the bill said the state should not be allowed to interfere with someone's belief system and that the constitution ensures religious freedom and religious rights should be protected.
Some who support the bill said it's a way to continue protecting against illnesses we don't see anymore, including measles.
The hearing is expected to go on throughout the day.
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Lets have a recap…before I do some articles on the Aston Villa financial meltdown, now that I've finally got some time to address it.
A couple of days ago MOMS shared on social media an article (below) that was published on the website over two years ago, that covered concerns at the time about Tony Xia and his supporting cast's buy out of Aston Villa. Stan Collymore commented on the article's "scarily accurate detail" and recommended every Villa fan should read it.
Another Villa supporter called it 'prescient'.
It was looking back at the above article and to the time of when Tony Xia and Villa CEO Keith Wyness took over the running of the club, that got MOMS thinking back to when MOMS first met both Xia and Wyness, and what they said about the funding of the club at the time.
The encounter at the Fans Consultation Group meeting is documented in the below article and minutes of the meeting with Tony Xia and Wyness.
Look at the answer the number one. It only reinforced the sentiment in the above article, when Wyness implied the finances were sound for two years (that's all they have to prove to the EFL for the 'fit and proper' test), then afterwards, there seemed to be a distinct cloud of uncertainly.
While Villa were still acting like a Premier League club off the pitch and almost assuming they would get promoted, Villa's recruitment on the pitch screamed short-termism, with next to no eye on future seasons.
The desperation of the gamble is there for all to see in the way they spent big on loan wages, especially John Terry and Robert Snodgrass's Premier League level wages.
The puzzlement is why with the squad they have didn't they perform like a Premier League team on the pitch? After all, after early injury issues and bedding in new players, they still managed to find themselves in an automatic promotion spot in mid-February with the injury situation cleared up. It was time to do what Newcastle did and play as the big fish in the small pond, on the front foot. Instead, caution and conversation gripped Steve Bruce's approach.
"Expect madness" in the upcoming two week a high profile Villa supporter told me this week. With every day that now passes, Villa Park is certainly resembling an asylum.
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A new mechanical grinder processes baobab fruit in Benin
contributor: John Kosowatz
In Benin and elsewhere in Africa, rural villagers depend on the fruit of the giant baobab tree as a much-needed cash crop. But processing it is a chore. The baobab fruit is about the size of an American football with a shell as hard as a coconut and workers have to beat it with large mortars and pestles.
Now, working with a women's cooperative in Benin, a group of Pennsylvania State University engineering students have mechanized part of the task. They created a device that separates the pulp from the seeds. Beginning in 2010, the students designed and fabricated three versions of the machine, tested it and refabricated it in Africa using local tools and materials to ensure it could be repaired or replicated by local villagers. It was an exercise in engineering, manufacturing and cultural awareness.
"It was a lot of trial and error," says team leader Matt Zellers, a June graduate who earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. "We were able to create a design that was effective for someone else."
The machine is powered by a 120-V AC motor that rotates a milled grinder against a stationary mesh to grind the fruit pulp into powder and separate it from seeds and fibers. It can process about 100 kilograms per day of the fruit.
Baobab fruit. Photo by Lưu Ly / Wikimedia Commons
Baobab fruit is high in many vitamins and is in demand in Europe. It appears in several products, including as a sweetener or a thickener for jams and jellies. The fruit has a tart, tangy taste and is used in drinks throughout Africa.
PSU students have been investigating solutions to baobab processing since 2008 when engineering Professor Rick Schuhmann became aware of the situation. Schuhmann, director of PSU's Engineering Leadership Development Minor, Leadership Innovation and Global Resource Challenges, says it was an ideal way to engage students in hands-on, problem-based learning.
Students produced a website on the baobab project, and in 2010 a member of a baobab cooperative in the village of Natatingou, Benin, emailed Zellers looking for help.
"I was kind of blown away by that," says Zellers, who took the request to Schuhmann. He gave the go-ahead, but insisted the students work with the co-op to understand the local operation and how it fit into the community.
"We began by assessing what their needs were," Schuhmann says. "We wanted to be careful. We could design a big machine and destroy the jobs of 30 workers, so we moved slowly through the process."
The team's first prototype was a large machine, fabricated on campus at PSU's machine shop, from student-produced CAD images. Zellers says it took the team eight weeks to develop the prototype. After on-campus testing, the students disassembled the machine, and shipped it in five boxes to Benin where they were to reassemble it over winter break in 2010. Unfortunately, one of the crates containing most of the key assembly parts was lost in transit.
Although the students could not test or operate the machine, they used the time to work with the women of the co-op to further determine needs and conditions later used in tweaking the design.
"Seven thousand miles from home and we couldn't do anything," recalls Zellers. "But it was a good lesson."
The team went back again in December 2011, this time with a smaller machine but troubles came again. They didn't have the right motor. The students used a 120-v motor, but it blew out when they first plugged it in. The team salvaged the 220-v motor from the original machine but still needed to fabricate new parts for those damaged in the mishap.
Fortunately, one of the villagers found a machine shop with a lathe, drill press and welding material. On the last day of their stay, the students finally got the machine operating.
The goal was to get them finished by December, says Zellers, because the processing season is from January to April.
By the third iteration, the team had reduced the machine's size by half. This time, they took it to Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenueurs (EMI), a Moroccan university with which PSU works to promote cross-cultural collaboration.
The current version of the baobab processing machine rebuilt in Morocco. Photo courtesy of Penn State College of Engineering / Flickr
Prior to the visit over spring break in March, the PSU student design team worked remotely with their Moroccan peers via computer hookup. At the campus in Rabat, students from both schools replicated the machine in four days using equipment and material available locally. The idea, says Zellers, was to build the machine with African parts on the African continent. They wanted to confirm that it could be repaired and maintained by the co-op.
But it wasn't easy. The Moroccan equipment was not as advanced as PSU's computerized water jet and other tools.
"We had to do things by hand, and that obviously is not as accurate," says Zellers.
In the end, the students produced two machines; a processing operation in Togo bought one, and the Benin co-op the other. Although Zellers has graduated, another group of engineering students will pick up the project again when school begins in September. Wish them luck.
John Kosowatz is Senior Editor at the website for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME.org.
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How to use Android Pie's search bar to control your phone's settings
If you've got a Pixel with Pie, you can toggle apps on and off from your search drop-down
By Barbara Krasnoff Mar 4, 2019, 3:59pm EST
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When Android 9 Pie was introduced last year, it brought with it a new feature called Slices, which would allow features from third-party apps to exist within the Android interface. While you've been able to ask Google Assistant to toggle some things on and off for a while, the latest implementation of Slices has made it easier to access a variety of Android settings from within Google search — assuming, of course, that your Pixel is equipped with Pie.
It's very simple: search on something like Bluetooth or Night Light using the Google search box on the home screen. The last choice on the search drop-down menu will have a toggle for that feature. We were also able to do a search on "volume" and got an adjustable range.
Interestingly, with some of these features you don't have to type in the exact name of the feature — for example, do a search for "bright" and you'll get the toggle for Adaptive Brightness. However, while "Wi-Fi" with a dash will get you a toggle for your wireless connection, "WiFi" will not. (Sometimes, spelling can be important.)
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Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Ubuntu Community Discussions > The Cafe > Anyone else excited today?
View Full Version : Anyone else excited today?
I checked Distrowatch.com this morning and these were the headlines.
The top three distros (at distrowatch) have a major release on the same day! I'm definitely going to give Suse 10 a try.
Dunno what's going on next week. The consensus around slashdot is that suse has jumped the shark so I'll probably skip it. Mandrake was an ok desktop, no idea what is different (if anything) in mandriva.
Hmmm... time to fire up apt-get again.
Thanks for the info. Will be d/l this (Ubuntu RC1) tonight so I can get rid of my problem with Colony1.
Next week is the scheduled final release of Breezy. P.S. What does "jump the shark mean"?
It means SUSE has passed its' prime and can only go downhill from here. Here's the wikipedia entry for the phrase Jump The Shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_the_shark) explains the origin of the phrase.
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I need to get a php environment variable that specifies which SSL protocol version is used between client and server (I mean TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2 etc.).
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That server has got OpenSSL/1.0.1t.
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Three Teachers of Viqarunnisa Responsible for The Suicide of Aritree Adhikari, Suspend Teachers
Mr. Rajib Sharma, Editorial Asst. of The News: Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid speaks to the journalists at his office on Wednesday.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Wednesday said the probe body, formed by his ministry, had found three teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College responsible for the suicide of Aritree Adhikari.
The three accused are school's acting principal Naznin Ferdous, morning shift in-charge Jinat Akhtar and class teacher of class-IX Hasna Hena.
The minister came up with the disclosure while briefing journalists at his office.
On Tuesday, the education ministry formed the three-member probe committee led by Professor Mohammad Yusuf, director of Dhaka regional education office, to submit its report within three days.
However, the committee had finalised its report working over day and night, the minister said.
'The probe body has found that three teachers had threatened the victim's parents and behaved with them rudely when they came to meet them,' he said.
Aritee could not tolerate the humiliation of her parents and eventually committed suicide, the minister added.
'We've recommended the managing committee of the school to suspend the three accused teachers and decided to cancel the Monthly Pay Order of the three teachers,' said Nahid adding that the decision of cancellation of the MPO has already come into effect.
'We've also recommended the managing committee to take necessary administrative steps and other legal steps necessary.'
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Q: conan set option variables for cmake while building recipe I'm trying to build arrow with conan + cmake. As you can read here, I have to affect an option variable to avoid optimizations based on my machine, because the code I'm building will be used in many computers, some of which don't have AVX2 as mine does (the options available in the conan arrow recipe are limited and don't include SIMD level).
Here's arrow's relevant piece of the cmake:
define_option_string(ARROW_RUNTIME_SIMD_LEVEL
"Max runtime SIMD optimization level"
"MAX" # default to max supported by compiler
"NONE"
"SSE4_2"
"AVX2"
"AVX512"
"MAX")
I tried adding the option as part of the conan install command:
conan install .. --build=arrow -e:b ARROW_RUNTIME_SIMD_LEVEL=NONE
and even setting it as an environment variable (and several other crazy ideas). But it doesn't matter. The end result is that cmake sets the default (MAX), as shown in this part of the build output:
-- ARROW_RUNTIME_SIMD_LEVEL=MAX [default=NONE|SSE4_2|AVX2|AVX512|MAX]
-- Max runtime SIMD optimization level
This looks like it should be something simple, but I cannot find information on how to do it, not from arrow nor from conan.
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Heart at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, IL
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Heart make a stop at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Tinley Park for their Love Alive Tour, with special guest Sheryl Crow.
Talk about a powerful lineup! Heart and Sheryl Crow together on one stage for a night crammed full of hit after hit, giving all in attendance a wonderful summer's evening stroll down memory lane as they both took a retrospective look at their extensive back catalogs.
The Love Alive Tour sees a selection of strong and musically influential women as direct support to Heart, including the likes of Joan Jett, Brandi Carlile and Elle King. For their Tinley Park show, that honor fell on Sheryl Crow. This year is ramping up for Crow whose new album, Threads, is set for release on August 30. In amongst her numerous hits, she gave a sneak peek of songs from her upcoming release – "Prove You Wrong" which she recorded with Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris, and "Still The Good Old Days" which she recorded with Joe Walsh.
Plowing through the hits, Crow took the crowd back a whopping 26 years to her first single, "Leaving Las Vegas," as well as "All I Wanna Do" and "Strong Enough" which were all taken from her debut album Saturday Night Music Club. With this number of hits under her belt, she proved that she's every bit the headliner in her own right. The crowd showed they were in fine singing voice as they sang along to the likes of "Soak Up The Sun," "My Favorite Mistake" and "If It Makes You Happy" before the set was closed out with a solo-infused "Everyday Is A Winding Road."
With a set filled with classic hits, the memories came flooding back to the time when we first heard the songs, and you couldn't help but be astounded by the fact some of these songs are 26 years old but have clearly still stood the test of time. With more new music around the corner, we look forward to hearing more from this collaborative album.
It was the tour we thought might never happen again, but luckily the Wilson sisters have put their differences behind them and have taken to the road once more. During the last three years, Ann and Nancy have been off doing their own thing. This break seems to have worked wonders as they have come back more vitalized than before. The tour is aptly named after their iconic song, showing that they are ready to move on.
Getting straight down to business, their set began with the classic "Rockin' Heaven Down," followed by "Magic Man" and "Love Alive." The set was filled with classic hits such as "These Dreams" and "Crazy On You" but there were also a large number of covers scattered throughout the night, such as Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" and "I Heard It Through The Grapevine."
Heart are one of those bands that you realize you actually know way more of their songs than you thought you did. Their songs are such deep-rooted classics that we've all heard at various points in our lives but maybe hadn't put that final piece of the puzzle together. The rock duo has their fair share of power ballads that you can't help but belt out the moment you hear them. "What About Love?" and "Alone" are two such songs that evoked the vocalist in all of us as we strained to hit the notes, something that Ann Wilson doesn't have any problem doing.
The Love Alive Tour has been extended until mid-October.
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Q: Как вывести текст в определенном месте формы Есть одна форма без textBox. Вопрос такой: можно ли при открытии формы отобразить в определенном месте необходимый текст, не используя textbox и label? И если да, то каким способом возможно это реализовать?
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Label label1 = new Label(); //создаем новый label1
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namespace Markup\JobQueueBundle\DependencyInjection;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Builder\TreeBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\ConfigurationInterface;
/**
* This is the class that validates and merges configuration from your app/config files
*
* To learn more see {@link http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/bundles/extension.html#cookbook-bundles-extension-config-class}
*/
class Configuration implements ConfigurationInterface
{
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
public function getConfigTreeBuilder()
{
$treeBuilder = new TreeBuilder();
$rootNode = $treeBuilder->root('markup_job_queue');
// can specify a list of allowed queues
// can specify a configuration file (.yml) that can be evaluated using cron syntax
$rootNode
->children()
->arrayNode('topics')
->useAttributeAsKey('name')
->prototype('array')
->addDefaultsIfNotSet()
->children()
->integerNode('prefetch_count')
->defaultValue(5)
->min(5)
->end()
->scalarNode('consumer')
->defaultValue('markup:job_queue:consumer')
->end()
->end()
->end()
->end()
->arrayNode('rabbitmq')
->addDefaultsIfNotSet()
->children()
->scalarNode('host')
->info('RabbitMQ host')
->defaultValue('localhost')
->end()
->scalarNode('username')
->info('RabbitMQ username')
->defaultValue('guest')
->end()
->scalarNode('password')
->info('RabbitMQ password')
->defaultValue('guest')
->end()
->scalarNode('vhost')
->info('RabbitMQ vhost')
->defaultValue('/')
->end()
->scalarNode('port')
->info('RabbitMQ port')
->defaultValue('5672')
->end()
->end()
->end()
->arrayNode('cli_consumer')
->addDefaultsIfNotSet()
->children()
->booleanNode('enabled')
->info('If enabled, the supervisord config writer will use the golang cli-consumer instead of the php consumer')
->defaultFalse()
->end()
->scalarNode('log_path')
->info('The path into which to place rabbit-cli-consumer log files')
->defaultValue('/var/log/rabbitmq-cli-consumer')
->end()
->scalarNode('config_path')
->info('The path into which to place rabbit-cli-consumer configuration files')
->defaultValue('/etc/rabbit-cli-consumer/config')
->end()
->scalarNode('consumer_path')
->info('The full path to the binary rabbit-cli-consumer')
->defaultValue('/usr/local/bin/rabbitmq-cli-consumer')
->end()
->end()
->end()
->scalarNode('recurring')
->info('The path to a .yml file containing configuration for recurring jobs')
->validate()
->ifTrue(function ($v) {
if ($v == false) {
return false;
}
//check that the file has a .yml extension
return (strpos($v, '.yml') === false);
})->thenInvalid('Recurring Console Command configuration must be in .yml format')->end()
->defaultFalse()
->end()
->scalarNode('supervisor_config_path')
->info('Path to store supervisord configuration files. Your supervisord configuration should load all files from this path')
->defaultValue('/etc/supervisord/conf.d/')
->end()
->integerNode('job_logging_ttl')
->defaultValue(1209600)
->end()
->booleanNode('clear_log_for_complete_jobs')
->defaultFalse()
->end()
->booleanNode('use_root_dir_for_symfony_console')
->defaultFalse()
->info('Choose whether to use a Symfony app root directory for the location of the Symfony console script. Defaults to app root for Symfony 2, and bin/ for Symfony 3+.')
->end()
->end()
->end();
return $treeBuilder;
}
}
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Alcoholism drug might cure HIV
During a recent study, researchers in Australia and the United States have come to know that generic medication disulfiram is capable of waking up the virus responsible for causing AIDS from dormancy. Experts say that it's a big stride towards killing the said virus.
For those who don't know: disulfiram is basically a drug designed for combating alcoholism. However, when the research team in search of a cure for HIV/AIDS tested the effects of the drug, they found that it possesses the ability of drawing out dormant AIDS virus from places it hides in a patient's body allowing the killing of the virus.
Disulfiram is sold under the brand name of Antabuse, but you can also buy it in its generic form. During the study, the drug was given to a total of 30 HIV patients in Australia and the US. Each of these patients was already taking ART (antiretroviral therapy) drugs.
In a study published in the widely read journal The Lancet HIV on Monday, November 16, the researchers wrote that at the maximum given dose, they found evidence that dormant HIV got activated. They also mentioned that the patients didn't experience any adverse effect after being treated with disulfiram.
Julian Elliott of Alfred Hospital, Melbourne's department of infectious diseases informed that waking up the virus marks just the first step of the process of eliminating it. H added that the next step would be getting those cells to die. Elliott was one of the members of the research team carrying out this study.
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HIV latency, which involves keeping the virus dormant by using ART drugs, turns out to be one of the biggest obstacles when it comes to curing viral infections responsible for causing AIDS. According to numbers put up by UNAids, the HIV program of United Nations, the past four decades have seen around 34 million people dying of HIV/AIDS, which makes the findings of this study extremely significant.
Scientists believe that knowing how to wake up the AIDS virus in dormant cells and then finding out how to destroy it would be an effective cure strategy. However, something like that is unlikely to happen very soon as researchers will have to put in more efforts for finding the perfectly effective combination of drugs.
SOURCEThe Lancet | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 877 |
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This semester we will write to save Salt Lake City from a zombie apocalypse!
Welcome to English 2100 Technical Writing. This semester we will write to save Salt Lake City from a zombie apocalypse! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 879 |
I process my guitar in real time through my laptop ( Win xp and Audiomulch as a vst host).
This is dedicated to substitute what was a big rack of effects and mixers.
My audio path has the guitar as only source and I don't use any samples.
I loop in real time ( through Mobius).
Are Vsts stressed more ( more cpu use) with this kind of use rather than when processing pre-recorded material like several tracks of a mix ?
not directly, but latency being a factor, you have to use lower buffers for real time use -- so yes, you generally incur more cpu stress with real time use.
this is what I was suspecting.
So it means that the most important thing to invest in it's processor speed.
Ram: more than 4 Gb should be pointless given I am not using samples.
Same should be for hard disk speed: 5400 rpm shouldn't limit real time processing.
Are these assumptions correct ?
Real Time Vocal Pitch Shifting VST plug-in?
Is there a VST/RTAS meter plug that calculates RMS average in real time ?
Step sequencer vst with scale transpose and real-time rec? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 880 |
Please ensure children come each day with skates, a CSA approved helmet, and outdoor wear as we will be skating, and playing outside at various times throughout the day.
In consideration of the acceptance of my application and the permission to participate in a program sponsored by the Township of Seguin, I hereby waive and forever discharge the Township of Seguin, it's employees, agents, officers and elected officials from all claims, damages, costs and expenses in respect to injury or damage to my person or property, however caused, which may result from my participation in the program.
Personal information is collected under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, RSO 1990 and regulations thereunder and will be used to register participants in the program. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 881 |
Soyuz 31 foi uma missão à estação espacial soviética Salyut 6, lançada do Cosmódromo de Baikonur em 26 de agosto de 1978. Parte do programa espacial Intercosmos, levou o primeiro alemão (então oriental) ao espaço, Sigmund Jähn.
Tripulação
Lançados
Aterrissaram
Parâmetros da Missão
Massa: 6 800 kg
Perigeu: 196.8 km
Apogeu: 259.9 km
Inclinação: 51.64°
Período: 88.81 minutos
Pontos altos da missão
Aterrissou na Salyut 6. o seu grupo retornou na Soyuz 29. Transportou o primeiro viajante espacial alemão, assim como o cosmonauta veterano Bykovski (que já havia voado sozinho na Vostok 5 em Junho de 1963). Apos o grupo Yastreb ter saido da Salyut 6 na Soyuz 29 em 3 de Setembro, o grupo Foton transferiu a Soyuz 32 para o porto da frente da Salyut 6. Mover uma Soyuz de substituição para o porto da frente se tornou um processo padrão; isto liberava o porto traseiro para as naves Progress de suprimentos.
Ver também
Astronáutica
Exploração espacial
Programa espacial soviético
Salyut
Soyuz
Referências
Ligações externas
Soyuz 31 - NASA
Soyuz 31 - Weebau
Vídeo: Soyuz 31 (DDR documentary)
Soyuz spacecraft flights
Soyuz 12, 17, 18, 21, 25 - 29, 31 - 40 (7K-T, 11F615A8)
Soyuz 31
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Police seized weapons and drugs in a raid last weekend that took place only 250 metres from a police station in central Oslo.
Six weapons and a stash of crystal meth were found in an apartment in Grønland run by a criminal gang made up of members from the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
Police found around one kilogram of the drug crystallized metamphetamine, three automatic weapons, a hand gun, a revolver, a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition.
Kåre Stølen, police chief at Grønland Police Station said: "Getting six weapons away from the streets is a very important piece of police work."
Police made the findings during an examination of a rental apartment situated only 250 metres from the Grønland police headquarters. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 883 |
Seaboard Marine CMRC…Look out for Matthew Vieira
Nov 13, 2014 Sports 0
Just like Ryan Rahaman, his involvement in motor racing is no accident, but
Young and upcoming Superbike racer Matthew Vieira seen with the chequered flag following one of his victories earlier this year.
rather flooded in his ancestry, having a long extraction of family members who've either participated in the sport or are still doing so.
Superbiker Matthew Vieira was born into a family of motor racers who were among the most dominant in their time and this young and precocious rider has set his sights on following in their footsteps, especially his father and mentor Mark.
Matthew, who rides a Kawasaki, will be competing in both the Superstock and Supersport categories at this Sunday's Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship and according to him he is eager to challenge the opposition in his quest to come out on top.
The young Vieira said apart from his hunger to establish himself as one of the emerging riders his real ambition is to do well for the fans and his sponsors.
Definitely one of the top riders to graduate from the Novices category, Vieira dominated the Race of Champions Meet in March, racing to three wins from as many races.
He, however, will have to contend with the likes of 'new kid on the block' Nikhil Seereeram and Heranand Boodram in the Superstock division, while his elevation to the Superspirt category will pit him against the likes of seasoned campaigners such as Stephen Vieira, Carlos Rodrigues, Joel Neblett and Ricardo Fagundes.
The promising racer paid tribute to the support of parenta Mark and Sadika, while the assistance of Navin Seereeram and Paul Yearwood were recognised as well.
Thanks were also extened to the following sponsors namely Maye's General Store, Mohamed's Enterprise, Truck Masters, Jumbo Jet and Game Express among others. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 884 |
As they matured Speedking became a much respected band developing a loyal following in Ireland. They released two EP's and a great album (Cause & Effect) along the way. Like so many others, I was a fan of the band and felt they were like the next Thin Lizzy to emerge out of Ireland.
They where courted by record companies but sadly it didn't happen with the same old excuse of not knowing how to market them in the modern heavy rock genre.
So I was delighted to see his old band mates , Gerry Black Jnr, Paul McCabe & Ronan Morgan join Niall for his first solo project which is completely different to the heavy rock they played in their Speedking days.
I recall that I used to say to them, `you guys won't be playing this music when you are in your 30's' and I was proven right.
It was a pleasure to work on the album `Awareness' and to hear how Niall's songwriting and musicianship has developed into this creative, original and eclectic kind of world music style.
When Speedking were formed back in 1999, little did they know that a path of success lay ahead of them. By 2003 the results of this commitment began to appear as the first glimpses of original brilliance emerged. That summer, Speedking recorded their first demo EP; "Welcome To My Head". This successful recording is a symbol in itself of Speedking's progression, from their musical inception on the local scene through to a breakthrough stint on US rock station Zeta 7, where the EP stayed in the top 5 of their request play list for 13 weeks.
Niall played tenor saxophone with The Trampz an 11 -piece funk and soul outfit from Ireland. With a revivalist approach to funk/soul that has its roots in music of the 60s and 70s, The Trampz fuse superb musicianship with ball bouncingly funny lyrics to create one hell of a funky, feel-good show. The tight-knit bass, drums and guitar section is complemented by percussion, organs/keys and The Raging Horns brass section; all of which is commanded by the slightly manic/always entertaining frontman, Kevin Johnston. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 885 |
We we pleased to be able to assist a local landlord with financing to purchase a terrace house for refurbishment. Though this is one of the smaller deals we have been involved in, it demonstrates the diverse areas of the UK we have been involved in. Must admit we were not familiar with Porth before this, but finding out you can still pick up a three bedroom property for under £80,000 is some places certainly made us notice!
Delighted to have an article published in The Planner Magazine exploring our volunteer experiences with the RTPI and Planning Aid. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 886 |
Do: Know your auto insurance coverage. Edmunds.com recommends you brush up on your auto insurance coverage before you ever need to file a claim. It's especially important to re-read your policy and understand your coverage. Also double check that your policy is complete, providing your family with the protection they might need in case of an accident.
Do: Call your insurance company to report the accident and initiate your claim as soon as it is safely and feasibly possible to do so. Reporting the accident and claim immediately will help ensure you're reporting what happened while the details of the experience are still fresh in your mind. Plus, it lets the insurer know you're operating in good faith and eager to work with them to resolve your claim.
Do: Get a case number for your claim from the claims adjuster you first speak with. Ask if it's possible to deal with this same person throughout the processing of your claim, and record his or her name and phone number. Always use this claim number on all correspondence with your insurer.
Do: Complete and file any specific forms the company asks you to fill out or provide, including estimates for the cost of repairing the damage. Keep good records of every conversation, correspondence and piece of paper that is exchanged between you and the insurance company.
Don't: Change or enhance your version of the crash in an effort to inflate or ensure the claim will be paid. Making outrageous insurance claims is fraud, and can land you in serious trouble if discovered.
Don't: Sit back and wait for the claim to resolve itself. Claims adjusters are people too, with job pressures and schedules as busy as yours. It's perfectly acceptable to keep in touch with your adjuster - in a polite and courteous way, of course - until your claim is settled to your satisfaction.
Don't: Avoid filing a claim because you think having a claim on your record will prevent you from saving on car insurance. Many factors determine your auto insurance rate, and some companies offer accident forgiveness and car insurance discounts for drivers whose records are otherwise unblemished.
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verb (used with object), let, let·ting.
to grant the occupancy or use of (land, buildings, rooms, space, etc., or movable property) for rent or hire (sometimes followed by out).
to cause to; make: to let one know the truth.
verb (used without object), let, let·ting.
to slacken; abate: We were too near success to let down in our efforts.
to allow to descend slowly; lower.
Aeronautics.(of an airplane) to descend from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or a similar maneuver.
Also let into.to insert into the surface of (a wall or the like) as a permanent addition: to let a plaque into a wall.
Also let in on.to share a secret with; permit to participate in.
to free from duty or responsibility; excuse.
to allow to go with little or no punishment; pardon: The judge let off the youthful offender with a reprimand.
to terminate; be finished; end: When does the university let out for the summer?
to slacken; diminish; abate: This heat wave should let up by the end of the week.
to cease; stop: The rain let up for a few hours.
let up on, to treat less severely; be more lenient with: He refused to let up on the boy until his grades improved.
let someone have it, Informal. to attack or assault, as by striking, shooting, or rebuking: The gunman threatened to let the teller have it if he didn't move fast.
1. suffer, grant. 3. lease, rent, sublet, hire.
Let us is used in all varieties of speech and writing to introduce a suggestion or a request: Let us consider all the facts before deciding. The contracted form let's occurs mostly in informal speech and writing: Let's go. Let's not think about that right now. Perhaps because let's has come to be felt as a word in its own right rather than as the contraction of let us, it is often followed in informal speech and writing by redundant or appositional pronouns: Let's us plan a picnic. Let's you and I (or me ) get together tomorrow. Both Let's you and me and Let's you and I occur in the relaxed speech of educated speakers. The former conforms to the traditional rules of grammar; the latter, nonetheless, occurs more frequently. See also leave1.
(in tennis, badminton, etc.) any play that is voided and must be replayed, especially a service that hits the net and drops into the proper part of the opponent's court.
Chiefly Law. an impediment or obstacle: to act without let or hindrance.
verb (used with object), let·ted or let, let·ting.
Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
a diminutive suffix attached to nouns (booklet; piglet; ringlet), and, by extraction from bracelet, a suffix denoting a band, piece of jewelry, or article of clothing worn on the part of the body specified by the noun (anklet; wristlet).
used as an auxiliary to express a request, proposal, or command, or to convey a warning or threatlet's get on; just let me catch you here again!
(in mathematical or philosophical discourse) used as an auxiliary to express an assumption or hypothesislet "a" equal "b"
"stoppage, obstruction" (obsolete unless in legal contracts), late 12c., from archaic verb letten "to hinder," from Old English lettan "hinder, delay," from Proto-Germanic *latjanan (cf. Old Saxon lettian "to hinder," Old Norse letja "to hold back," Old High German lezzen "to stop, check," Gothic latjan "to hinder, make late," Old English læt "sluggish, slow, late"); see late. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 888 |
Consignment quality, quantity and diversity combined at Mecum Auctions' inaugural Valley of the Sun collector-car event, March 14–17, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. In four days, 1,300-plus vehicles generated $39-plus million for the Walworth, Wisconsin-based company.
The top three cars were led by a legendary 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T Convertible (Lot S101), which brought $1.43 million. One of 12 built and one of only five with the A833 18-spline 4-speed transmission, the classic muscle car also has the optional Super Track Pak, including a 4.10-geared Dana 60 Sure Grip differential, extreme-duty suspension and cooling components and power front disc brakes. Liveried in Plum Crazy, the legendary Mopar packs the 426/425-horse Hemi with a hydraulic cam profile, new for this year.
A 1932 Duesenberg Model J Rollston Torpedo Berline (S123) sold for $880,000. Debuted at the New York Auto Salon on December 1, 1928, the Model J carries an inline-8 designed by the great Fred Duesenberg, displacing 420 cubic inches and producing 265 horses. This J546 is the only Model J by Rollston Coachworks with the Style 342 Torpedo Sedan or Berline body.
Completing the top three, a 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO (S71) attracted $770,000. In two-tone Nero with a Grigio Silverstone Opaco roof, Serial No. 178078 is one of 599 produced and one of just 125 sent to the U.S. The six-liter V-12 engine develops 661 HP and 488 lb-ft of torque connected to a paddle-shifted F1 Superfast six-speed.
The top ten cars also included a 1970 Plymouth Superbird (F164), $357,500; 1969 Chevrolet Yenko Camaro (F140), $231,000; 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback (S144), $225,500; 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Fastback (S80.1), $209,000; 2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe (S192.1), $195,250; 1962 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible (S110),$187,000; and a 1989 Ferrari Testarossa (S76.1), $181,500.
Following the event, a 2016 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta was sold for $5.5 million.
For more information, see Mecum.com and call 262.275.5050. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 889 |
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Big shoes to fill: Rishabh Pant on replacing Dhoni
Sports July 26, 2019July 26, 2019
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New Delhi: Young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, who is touted to be the future of Indian cricket, knows he has big shoes to fill as the person whom he will be replacing is none other than legendary captain M.S. Dhoni.
In an interview with Hindustan Times, Pant spoke about the challenge of replacing Dhoni, both as a batsman and a wicketkeeper.
"I know those are big shoes to fill, but if I start thinking about it there will be a problem. Right now, I am not thinking about what people say. I am just focusing on what I have to do," he said.
"I just want to do well for my country. That's the only thing I am focusing on. I take the challenge positively. Now I have to see what I can learn, and what I can do to improve," he added.
The 21-year-old, who has played almost all his ODI matches with Dhoni, said there are many things to learn from the 38-year-old.
"The way he reads the game, that is the first thing. Then, he is always very calm in pressure situations. There are many things to learn from him. And off the field he is always very helpful too," he said.
BCCI chief selector M.S.K Prasad, while announcing the squad for the upcoming West Indies tour, made it very clear that Pant is the future wicket-keeper of Indian cricket and will play in all the three formats of the game.
However, while Pant is being readied with an eye on the 2020 World T20, the team management doesn't wish for Dhoni to hang his boots as that could create a sudden vacuum in the set-up which will be hard to fill if Pant suffers an injury by any chance going into the next showpiece event.
The left-handed batsman also insisted that the atmosphere within the team's dressing room is very friendly where anyone can take advice from any other player.
"The best thing about this team is that you can talk to anyone and ask them for advice. And if you feel like you have a suggestion, you too can pitch in," he said.
"Virat bhaiyya always listens, he never thinks like if he is the captain he shouldn't listen to a youngster. In fact, it gives players like me great confidence that your captain is listening to you, taking your suggestions, even though you are just a youngster. That is a very big deal for me.
"The other senior players also help me a lot. Young players don't tend to get overawed in such situations when the senior players help you," he added.
Pant will be the lone wicketkeeper in the limited-overs leg of the West Indies tour which comprise of three T20Is and three ODIs. However, he will be joined by Wriddhiman Saha for the two-Test series, which are part of the ICC Test Championship.
Published on: July 26, 2019 at 14:43 IST
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We have a big, beautiful, light and friendly loft space with a couple of desks available on 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. It's perfect for designers: graphic, web, game, product, interior, information, animation, UX or apps. We are located in the Flatiron District, with huge windows facing Madison Square Park. Find out why so many great designers chose our neighborhood. It's incredibly convenient to subways, top restaurants, shopping, fitness clubs, nightlife and more. Enjoy Shake Shack with friends and the free WiFi in Madison Square Park. There's even a concert every Wednesday evening in the summer.
$550 monthly. No long-term contracts. One month security deposit.
We have a big, beautiful, light and friendly loft space with a couple of desks available on 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. It's perfect for designers: graphic, web, game, product, interior, information, animation, UX or apps. We are located in the Flatiron District, with huge windows facing Madison Square Park. Find out why so many great designers chose our neighborhood. It's incredibly convenient to subways, top restaurants, shopping, fitness clubs, nightlife and more. Enjoy Shake Shack with friends and the free WiFi in Madison Square Park. There's even a concert every Wednesday evening in the summer. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 891 |
In this 7 part series, learn how herbs can treat many acute and chronic illnesses including respiratory infections, digestive illness, ear infections, sore throats, auto-immunity, first aid, and skin treatments. Students will get hands-on instruction on how to prepare and use herbal remedies. Participants will take home a bottle of tincture and a jar of salve that are made during the sessions and will also build a booklet of reference handouts to keep. This series includes two complementary field classes in the wilds to focus on plant identification and land stewardship. This series is designed to accompany the Herbalism II Series, but may also be taken on its own. The cost is $190 for the series, which includes a supplies fee to cover the cost of all herbal preparations. Space is limited and registration is required. This class is offered through The Source and takes place at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
The Summer Series runs from April/May though September and includes 6 field trips, giving members the opportunity to develop relationships with wild places and living plants while creating their own field notebook. Field trips include a variety of different ecosystems such as the desert basin, foothills, mountain forests in different elevation zones, and riparian environments. By the end of this series, students will be familiar with a wide range of plants and landscapes of New Mexico. The Winter Series runs from October through March and includes 6 sessions, each with hands-on medicine making, discussion, and independent research. Members will get the opportunity to prepare a wide variety of herbs and experience them as different forms of herbal remedies. Participants will make vapor balm, sunscreen, lozenges, mouthwash, bath salts, an acetous tincture, and an elixir.
Students may enter the Advanced Herbalists Group in either October or April, depending on available openings. Annual membership costs $390 plus tax ($417), including all your supplies, and space is strictly is limited. Payment plans are available – please inquire. Students who have completed the annual class may elect to continue the Summer Series field trips and pay for summer membership only. Please contact instructor to register.
Making handcrafted herbal body products in class. Make your own in the next round of Body Bliss or Kitchen Cosmetics.
With Instructor Rachel Furnari ~Cannabis and its flowers are truly "outta this world"! From the colors, to the smells, to its adaptations, this plant is truly cosmic. This class is meant to cover the anatomy of the cannabis plant as well as the delivery system options available. This class is great for those who are interested in learning about the plant itself and how to begin using it, medicinally. Class will include a list of simple recipes that can be made in ANY kitchen. Class costs $25 and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Cold and flu season is upon us, so get ready with this class on herbs for respiratory health. In this 2-hour class, we'll talk about how to use herbs to strengthen the lungs and to ease runny noses, coughs, colds, fevers, and sinus infections. We will also discuss herbs for chronic lung issues and make vapor balm for everyone to keep. The class costs $25 and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Donna O'Donovan ~ Join us in making a hydrosol and aromatic tincture distillate. Learn how to create your own basic still from items in your own kitchen. A number of folk methods in creating stills will be explored and you will be delighted with the results. We will tap into the world of forest and tree medicine and work with trees that can be freshly gathered this time of year. The aromatic tincture will be from regional plants in the area. This will be a hands on demonstration with two unique preparations for you to take home. We will assemble and operate the stills in class and also discuss what hydrosols and essential oils are. Additionally we will explore the benefits of using hydrosols, which require lesser plant material to make a therapeutic, aromatic product. Learn applications on how to use and make your own unique, aromatic tincture distillate, too. This is another way to deepen your experience in medicine making with a fun and hands on class on distillation. Class costs $39 (all supplies included) and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Angie True ~ One in five Americans are now estimated to have some kind of autoimmune disease, with over 40% of these thyroid disorders. From psoriasis to lupus, rheumatoid arthritis to Type I diabetes, more autoimmune diseases emerge every year, and it has become one of the top ten leading causes of death in all females under the age of 64. Yet many remain unaware of what could be causing their vague and varied symptoms, and may even be misdiagnosed with a mental health problem. Even if receiving a correct diagnosis, there is little treatment available in the allopathic medical world. The good news is that there is so much that can be done to prevent, treat or even potentially put autoimmune conditions into remission! Join us to explore the many plant- and nutrient-centered strategies available for self-treatment, with a special focus on thyroid disorders. We will take a tour through the layers of these environmentally, ancestrally & culturally-induced conditions, from lab testing, partnering with autoimmune-literate physicians, emotional & spiritual healing, the most effective dietary plans, herbal pathways and more. Class costs $35 and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Help us restore Bosque habitat, Yerba Mansa, and other native plants. Our restoration work thus far has been focused on removal of invasive Ravenna Grass from the understory, along with the replanting of Yerba Mansa and other native plants. These events are open to all members of the community so bring your family and friends. Work takes place at our restoration site located along Tingley Drive, south of Central. Park in the lot at the south end of all the fishing ponds, which is .8 miles south of Central. Wear protective long sleeve clothing and bring work gloves and a shovel, if you have them. City of Albuquerque Open Space will train our field crew and provide gloves and tools for those who don't bring their own.Please RSVP with the number in your group so we know how many volunteers to expect.
Get to know 75+ medicinal plant species in one location and learn how to turn your yard into a medicine garden. This class takes place in an urban medicine garden (in ABQ) and focuses on plant identification, cultivation, harvesting, and uses for common medicinal plants in the southwest garden. Class costs $25 and space is limited. This class is for continuing Albuquerque Herbalism students only and registration is required. Contact us to register for this session.
The Ecological Herbalism Series is a 4-part series of interdisciplinary classes that explores the relationships between people, plants, and the land. Taught from ecological, botanical, and geographical perspectives, the course aims to connect herbalists and nature lovers to the local surroundings by illuminating medicinal plants and the dynamics of the landscapes that make up central New Mexico. Each of the four classroom sessions will focus on a different region's ecosystem(s) and the plants we find there including mesa country, the Chihuahua Desert, the riparian valley, and the mountains. This course will make an excellent companion to the Wild Herbs of New Mexico Series (see above). Register via the UNM Continuing Ed website.
With Instructor Rhonda Newby-Torres: Hand crafted cocktails are delicious, inventive, and all the rage! Unfortunately, many of the ingredients available on the market are full of high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, dyes and preservatives. In this class, learn to make your libations healthy and organic by infusing your mixers and liquors with beneficial herbs and natural flavors. Participants will make and take home vitamin-packed Grenadine and all natural Triple Sec- 2 essential mixers in any bartender's apothecary. In addition, participants will sample and learn recipes for several basic infused liquors as well as more complex recipes from a traditional New Mexican Christmas whiskey to hand-crafted local Gin to EmergenC Rum . All participants will also receive a Craft Cocktail recipe book with class recipes as well as cocktail suggestions. We will finish the class off with a homemade, healthy cocktail! Participants must be 21 years old or older and have a valid ID during class. Class costs $38 per person including all supplies and space is limited. Registration is required and class takes place at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Rachel Furnari ~ This course is intended to give herbalists beginning basics of how and why this medicinal plant collaborates well with the human body. It is proven that most beings possess what's called the "endocannabinoid system". It is believed, as humans, that this exact system is linked to complete holistic balance. With imbalance comes great chronic illness (mental and physical) and disease. Please join us to learn more. Class costs $25 and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Make your own hand-made gifts for the holiday season or pamper yourself by making your own herbal skin care products. Come learn about herbs for healthy glowing skin and make your own luscious body butter, facial cleanser, aftershave, foot and body scrub, and fizzy bath bombs. Take home all of the pampering delights we make in class and get ready to make gifts for yourself and friends. This half-day class costs $70 with all supplies included and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Make your own moisturizing skin cream and healing lip balm and learn how to infuse them with herbs, customized for your needs. Plus we'll make an additional surprise body product recipe that I know you will love. This is a fun hands-on class and students will take home what we make. The cost is $35 which includes all supplies and space is limited. Registration is required and this class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Learn about wild spring foods available to us right here in Albuquerque. Harvest and prepare a wild-spirited meal with other dinner guests. Enjoy good company and hearty, homemade foods from nature. Class fee includes instruction and main course: $28 and is limited to 8. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
In this 2-hour class, students will learn to identify, harvest, and prepare common edible weeds in your yard as well as wild foods on the mountain. We will also prepare a delicious snack using plants discussed in class. Students are encouraged to register for companion field trip classes such as Native Plant Medicine: Wild Herbs of NM or Urban Medicine Garden (see below). Class costs $28 and is limited to 15. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Rhonda Newby-Torres ~ Explore wild foods from your backyard to the mountains in this course that focuses on plant ID, hands on fun, and eating! At the wild food tapas evening, students will engage in harvesting, preparing, and enjoying several wild flavor profiles while learning to identify and appreciate the abundance of wild food in our bio-region. Come with an appetite for knowledge and delicious food! The class cost is $38 (including all supplies). Space is limited and registration is required. Class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Angie True ~ In this workshop we will work with local plants to make mother essences as well as stock bottles for you to keep. Know that practicing the art of subtle, earth- based medicine is not a mechanical process, however – it is an enchanted one. In this experiential immersion, we will explore potent experiences in healing through our connection to place. We'll learn consciousness-expanding techniques and delve into practices for cultivating intuition. We will also feast in the forest on gorgeous floral salad and mocktails! Designed for all levels of experience, this class serves as a gateway between self and the green world. Here is where we will learn how to open enduring channels of communion and communication. Our session begins in the classroom at The Source at 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE and then we will carpool to our mountain field trip. Pack a notebook or journal, any additional food & drink, your sense of humor and an open heart ready to travel beneath and beyond the everyday world. This full day class costs $85 (plus tax) including all your supplies. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Gardeners and Herbalists, put those pesky weeds to good use! In this 1.5 hour class, students will learn about local medicinal weeds commonly found in parks, fields, yards, roadsides, and waste areas of the Albuquerque area. Herb discussions will include identification, wild habitat, cultivation, harvesting, preparation, dosage, herbal actions, and healing uses for each plant. Class cost is $15 and space is limited. This class takes place at The Source, 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Angie True ~ Botanical dreamwork is a practice of remembering and honoring the places where the wild within and the wild without intersect. Helping us to drink more deeply from the powerful underground currents each of us contains, certain common plants have the uncanny ability to bring forth bubbling springs of vividly illuminating images, while others provide protection or speak to specific types of questions. In the first portion of the workshop we will explore ways of supporting truly restful sleep, conditions that can interfere with sleep as well as dreaming, and developing or enriching a daily dreaming practice. Next we will work with a selection of classical dreaming herbs, all of which grow or can be grown locally. Each student will take home their own personalized dreaming tea blend and wildcrafted dream pouch, as well as a sample dream salve. Choose this half-day class only for $55 (see 15% discount offer below) or register for both Botanical Dreaming I and II for a discounted $100 (with all supplies included). See below for Botanical Dreaming II description. Space is limited. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Angie True ~ In this class we begin to further explore where different types of dream-inducing herbs and elements may take us, and how to negotiate this both human and more-than-human territory. Here in this rich underworld we may be visited by powerful animals, beautiful strangers or familiar terrors and we sit with them, we host them, we listen to the healing messages they bring. In this workshop we will cover intermediate dreaming topics and techniques, including ways to increase your dreaming, dreaming for specific situations, ethics and safety around using herbal oneirogens – or dream-inducing plants – and crafting a sustainable dreaming lifestyle. Also covered is how to work with certain kinds of dreams that are crucial to a healthy and creative life, including nightmares, bereavement dreams and dreams that may warn of illness. Next we will work with a selection of powerful herbal oneirogens. Each student will develop their own plant dream incubation and custom oneirogenic formula, along with a dreamwork primer and the opportunity to continue botanical dreamwork in small groups beyond. Choose this half-day class only for $55 or register for both Botanical Dreaming I and II for a discounted $100 (with all supplies included). See above for Botanical Dreaming I description. Space is limited. This class takes place at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE and registration is required. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Stress is something we all encounter in our daily lives, but it effects each of us individually. In this 2.5 hour class, you will learn about the cascading effects of stress in our bodies and how these physiological responses become unpleasant symptoms such as muscle tension, headaches, and difficulty sleeping. We will also discuss how herbs can help us to manage our physical manifestations of stress. The class will end with students preparing a soothing herbal foot bath for themselves, so bring your own cushy bath towel from home and get ready to relax. The class costs $28 and is limited to 10. This class is offered through The Old School and takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Take a native plant walk with discussions on medicinal herbs and the natural history of the Bosque. This class is offered as a fundraiser for the Yerba Mansa Project. Class cost is a minimum donation of $25. This field class can be taken on its own or as a complement to the Medicinal Herbs of the Middle Rio Grande class.
Learn how to use kitchen herbs for health and healing. In this 2 hour class, we will discuss 10 favorite herbs that most of us already have handy in our kitchen spice racks. Participants will learn the medicinal properties of these culinary herbs and how to prepare them as medicine. Class cost is $15 and is limited to 15. It takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Medicinal Plants for the Southwest Garden: Free Community Class!
In this 1.5 hour class, participants will become familiar with a variety of medicinal herbs that can be easily cultivated in their own yards. Topics include growing conditions, harvesting, and uses for each herb. This class is free of charge and is offered through Plants of the Southwest at 6680 4th St NW. Since seating is limited, bringing a camp chair is recommended. RSVP on Facebook or call 344-8830.
Just in time for Valentine's Day…Make good tasting herbal remedies that everyone will crave in this fun hands-on class. You'll make a glycerite, medicinal gummies, and no-bake herbal cookies. Take home (or eat) the products we make and find a good hiding place for these yummy medicines. This 2-hour class costs $35 including all supplies and is limited to 10. Class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
In this 2 hour class, you will learn how to use herbs for first aid treatment of common injuries and mishaps. We will discuss the best plant medicine preparations to pack for travel and hikes and prepare an herbal healing clay to get your own first aid kit started. For those who want more options for their herbal first aid kit, I will bring along some of my favorite first aid kit preparations for purchase. Class costs $28 and is limited to 12. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Take a walk with wild medicine plants. Sessions focus on plant identification and ecosystem dynamics. Class takes place in the mountains. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
With Instructor Angie True ~ High vibrational medicine from simple wayside flowers has been around for tens of thousands of years. In this interactive workshop, we will learn about flower essences to treat stress, fatigue, depression, fear and many other types of imbalances, which can eventually affect physical health, and vice versa. This is not just a class on how to begin using flower essences with intelligence and discernment, though it is that as well. The art of subtle, earth-based medicine is an enchanted one. Through guided meditation, story and concocting two of your own custom flower essence formulas to take home — as well as a bonus bottle for acute situations — we will explore the Welsh countryside of the Bach remedies as well as flowers for meditation, cleansing and healing in other divergent times and places. Join us to sample sensual floral teas and desserts! This half-day class costs $55 including all supplies and space is limited to 15. Class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle Blvd. SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
This 2-part class on medicinal plant landscapes is offered as a fundraiser for the Yerba Mansa Project. This half-day class includes a session on the Bosque and a second session on the Sandias. Class cost is a minimum donation of $65 including all supplies and students will take home the herbal products prepared in class. Students have the option to register for a companion class Wild Herb Walk (see below), which includes a field trip to the Sandias. This class is offered through The Source and takes place at 1111 Carlisle SE.
Yerba Mansa is a plant that stands at the heart of many herbal traditions in the larger Southwest and especially here in the Rio Grande Valley. Herbalists turn to this herb for a wide range of conditions but we may find ourselves taking availability of this plant for granted. Yerba Mansa is a wetlands plant from a desert environment and is thus largely dependent on habitats that are becoming increasingly threatened. The Rio Grande Bosque provides a large percentage of its habitat in New Mexico but the ecology of this riparian environment has become increasingly unbalanced due to water diversion, population growth, the steady rise of non-native species, and the inability of native keystone species to reproduce in the absence of flooding. This class will provide an in-depth look at Yerba Mansa's medicinal value and its relationship to the Rio Grande Bosque. Class discussions will include the role of Yerba Mansa in its natural habitats, how it functions in our bodies, harvesting, medicinal preparations, and cultivation. We will also take a look at some of Yerba Mansa's companion medicinal plants in the Bosque and prepare a famous turn-of-the-century Yerba Mansa remedy for everyone to take home.
Plants play so many roles in our lives and in the ecosystems that they inhabit. They are food, medicine, beauty, and inspiration for us while also playing critical roles for the support of wildlife and the earth. When we understand the reciprocal relationship between plants, the land, and ourselves, we can begin to understand the true power of wild herbal medicine. Plants connect us to our local landscapes, making us one with the wild lands in our area and helping us to rediscover ourselves as part of the wilderness. In this classroom session we will delve into one of the most prominent landforms of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the medicine plants that inhabit this mountain. In doing so we will explore the major ecosystems and key plants along with their healing characteristics, extraction methods, and practical applications. Discussions will focus on medicinals of primary ecozones such as Globemallow, Pedicularis, Blue Vervain, Figwort, Usnea, and others. Students will also prepare a Globemallow tincture using a technique for water-soluble plants.
Join guest instructor Jessi Walsh for this new class on botanical drawing techniques. All levels and ages are welcome and encouraged, no experience necessary.
Working in the field with Herbalist Dara Saville as our guide, this is a plein air drawing class which marries the soft gesture of the botanical still life with the focused clarity of the plant ID illustration. Paying special attention to light and shadow, line and form, we will learn how to really look at our living plant models in their specific environment in order to capture our plants using various drawing techniques. Class takes place in the mountains and a discounted registration is offered for those taking the Wild Herb Walk (see above) in the morning. Class costs $38 alone (includes a sketchbook, charcoal, and eraser to keep) or register for both classes for $60. Participants may wish to bring a camp chair. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Join guest instructor Claudia Millan Rounds for our newest specialty class. Learn about the history of essential oils and how to easily use these potent oils in your daily life. Class includes a hands-on lab in which you will make two aromatherapy balms: one relaxing and one stimulating. The cost is $30 (including all supplies) and is limited to 10. This class takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
All educators, families, classrooms, and kids interested in learning about the Bosque or participating in The Yerba Mansa Project are invited to attend this free educational day at Bachechi Open Space's environmental education building. The program includes six individual 1-hour class sessions designed to introduce participants to Bosque habitat and ecology as well as orient educators and youth groups to The Yerba Mansa Project. We have put together a program of professional educators from Albuquerque Herbalism, BEMP (Bosque Ecological Monitoring Program from UNM and the Bosque School), Hawks Aloft, City of Albuquerque Open Space and other organizations to teach on topics related to plants, animals, and water dynamics of the Bosque. The final schedule of classes will be emailed to registered groups or families and participants may come for all or part of the day's events. Find out more about The Yerba Mansa Project for students, families, and educators or Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Join me in the Traditions Garden and the City of Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center for this two and a half hour herb class focusing on traditional healing plants of New Mexico. The class includes a slideshow presentation to introduce you to our local medicinal and edible plants with continuing discussions during a guided tour of the Traditions Garden. Topics include plant identification, medicinal and other uses of local plants, and plant preparations. This class is offered exclusively through The City of Albuquerque Open Space and takes place at 6500 Coors NW. Class costs $25 and space is limited. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
In this 2 and half-hour class, learn how to make herbal body products that are safe and healing for the most sensitive skin. This is a hands-on class in which we will prepare a salve, body powder, and bath herbs. Take home the products made in class. The cost is $45, which includes the cost of all supplies. Class is limited to 8. This class is offered exclusively through Inspired Birth and Families and takes place at 6855 4th St. NW, Suite E-2 in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Join me in this 4-hour intensive class to learn how herbs can aid many of the most common illnesses. Topics include coughs, colds, fevers, sore throats, swollen tonsils, upset stomachs, earaches, allergies, eczema, and more. We will also make a tincture and prepare a medicinal infusion. Participants will receive reference handouts and take home a bottle of tincture prepared in class. The cost including all supplies is $50 and class is limited to 12. This class is offered through The Old School and takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE. Get notified when the next session opens for registration.
Join guest instructor Deborahlise Mota for this class designed for both the inspiring herbalist as well as the experienced practitioner. Learn the profound benefits of essential oils and how to incorporate them into your herbal pharmacy. Use essential oils to increase the effectiveness of your formulas, improve your health, and enhance your practice. This specialty class costs $39 and takes place at The Source at 1111 Carlisle SE.
Contact me to inquire about a class designed especially for your group.
In this ongoing herbal education program the members of Mandy's Farm are becoming familiar with a variety of common herbs and how to use them for everyday health and wellness. Topics include herbal foods, hygiene products, skin care, first aid, relaxation, sore muscles, the common cold, gardening, plant identification, and gift making. These classes take place at the Appaloosa Art Space. Contact me to inquire.
This 4-session experiential herbalism series is designed specially for kids, parents, and siblings to discover local medicinal plants and how to make simple herbal remedies together. The series includes a wild herb walk, classroom sessions with slideshows and discussion, garden planting, and multiple hands-on herbal remedy preparations. Each registered child will take home a calm balm and glycerite in addition to various herbal edibles prepared and consumed in class. Classes are designed for children aged 6 to 12, but can be adapted to varying ages. Each session is 2 hours. Contact me to inquire about offering this series (or a variation of this series) to your group. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 892 |
Q: como mostrar datos en cardview a partir de una consulta en JSON Tengo varios cardview y quiero insertar imagenes y el valor de unos Ratingbars desde una base de datos, pero sin hacer el archivo php podrian ayudarme por favor?
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Q: Updating inventory quantities using the Shopify API I'm trying to update products using the Shopify API. Here's a sample XML request to update the title, weight and inventory of a product:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<product>
<id type="integer">100159400</id>
<title>150 Watt Mini Stereo Power Amplifier</title>
<variants type="array">
<variant>
<id type="integer">233139732</id>
<grams type="integer">700</grams>
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</product>
I get a 200-OK after PUT /admin/products/100159400.xml. The title and weight (grams) get updated just fine, but not the inventory quantity. This is consistent for all other calls: I can update every field but the inventory quantity. Ideas?
A: That product does not have inventory tracking turned on. In your admin, you should see that the inventory level shows as infinity.
To change this and start tracking inventory, you need to set the inventory_management field on the variant to shopify. The following XML should do the trick:
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<id type="integer">100159400</id>
<title>150 Watt Mini Stereo Power Amplifier</title>
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<grams type="integer">700</grams>
<inventory-management>shopify</inventory-management>
<inventory-quantity type="integer">222</inventory-quantity>
</variant>
</variants>
</product>
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Due to its historic roots with the Royal family, and to mark the upcoming Diamond Jubilee, the Borough of Greenwich has recently been appointed a new title. The Royal Borough of Greenwich. So I thought this green and pleasant part of London deserved a little blog post of its own. Luckily for me it's only a short stroll from home, so stroll I did on a recent ridiculously balmy spring day.
When you're in Greenwich, it doesn't feel like London any more (or Kansas for that matter). It's so pretty, leafy and green, green, green! There's a gorgeous large park where not only can you wind your way up to the Royal Observatory, the home of Greenwich Meantime and stand on the line, but also frolic in the grass, collect conkers, picnic under the trees and admire the far reaching views over the the Royal Naval College, the Maritime Museum, St Paul's Cathedral, the O2 arena, Canary Wharf and the city beyond. Before rolling all the way downhill again! And for the horse lovers amongst you, Greenwich Park will be hosting the equestrian events for this year's London 2012 Olympic Games.
There's also the Thames foot tunnel where you can literally walk under the river in around 6 minutes flat. The wonderful Cutty Sark (the world's only remaining Tea Clipper) is a big local highlight and has just been resurrected to its former glory following a terrible fire and will be relaunching ready to meet its public next month. Maybe in time for the London Marathon on 22nd April where the Cutty Sark is one of the most memorable landmarks of the course.
Aside from all the history and grandeur of Greenwich, there are lots of quirky and cultural things to be found. For those who like film and theatre, there's The Greenwich Playhouse and the Greenwich Theatre, both of which put on some excellent productions. Then there's the Greenwich Picturehouse, a great cinema with comfy seats and a bar. And a visit to Greenwich wouldn't be complete without a visit to Greenwich Market which has been around since the 1960's. This covered market sells everything from vintage collectibles, antiques, crafts, jewellery, clothes and art, as well as a diverse selection of world food.
And not forgetting the open air market too just along from the cinema, which is more of a flea market selling curious odds, sods and bric-a-brac. Always good for a rummage and a bargain. And if fans are your thing (as in in cooling, not screaming), then why not venture to The Fan Museum, the world's only museum dedicated entirely to fans. Located in a lovely old house, the museum is home to a collection of over 3,500 fans, dating back as far as the 11th century. And when you're all fanned out, why not take tea in The Orangery overlooking a secret fan-inspired garden which is literally an oasis of tranquility.
Just across from the Fan Museum is a newsagent. Nothing unusual about that, except if you look closely in the small ads on offer in the window, you'll see a few funny ones such as 'For sale: parachute, used once, unopened'. It's enough to make you titter.
As I walked down towards the market, I happened upon a Pearly King cab driver with his button-embellished pearly black cab. With songs blasting from his speakers, he was chivvying up the locals (and tourists of course) with his renditions of good old Cockney classics such as Knees Up Mother Brown and Any Old Iron. I ended up walking all the way to the river with I've Got A Lovely Pair Of Coconuts stuck in my head!
There are a multitude of fantastic places to eat and drink in Greenwich, but my favourite pub is the Trafalgar Tavern, a fabulous historic old pub situated on the edge of the Thames with stunning views over the river. Charles Dickens no doubt enjoyed a pint of mead here back in the day. And not only is it a great watering hole, but it does excellent food too. And once you've decided it's time to bid Greenwich farewell, what better way to leave than via the Thames Clipper which zooms you along the Thames back to the heart of London, leaving beautiful Greenwich in its wake. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 895 |
Many people are getting interested in Taoist magic nowadays, and a lot of westerners who have no Chinese background wants to learn it too, but they all fear the language barrier. This article is to make it 100% solid and clear for everyone that you DO NOT need to know Chinese for learning the Taoist magic or Taoism from us! We speak English too and we can teach in full English!
What About the Spells, Scriptures and the FU Talismans?
No worry, because spells and scriptures are in English pronunciation form, and we have non-Chinese speaking masters who can guide you and teach you how to learn the words better too. Treat it like a bunch of sounds and you are good to go. You do not need to be 100% accurate with your sounds for the magic to work. The main point to keep in mind is that as long as you are our disciples, you go the heart spells, and you have trust and faith in us and yourself, then your magic is guaranteed to work.
FU Talismans are in Chinese, but you can also treat them like scribbles and a bunch of pictures. Do more and they will get better looking. Some symbols like the FU HEADS are really symbols that even Chinese won't understand, so the Chinese won't do better than westerners in this case.
You do not need to understand the words for a spell to work.
What makes a spell, a FU talisman, or any magic work, is not the wordings and symbols, but the proper inheriting power transmitted to you, cultivated by yourself and bonded to the lineage by heart.
Your heart spells and your relationship with the lineage is the key to unlocking the resource pool of the lineage. When you can access this pool of gold nuggets, any magic is going to work as long as you know which magic you are doing and for what purpose.
Right, Chinese do have an advantage over the westerners because of the language system, yet they also have a common problem and that is they all have a lot of things stuck in their mind already, which puts more and more restriction on their development in learning. Whereas the westerners have no idea of what the words means, so they are easier to teach since they are like a blank sheet of paper, we don't need to erase your page before putting on something new.
For example, when we write Tin Law sun, Dei Law sun, the word "sun" 神 is often interpreted by the Chinese as a "god", and many will just think that it is a deity, or spiritual being, while it is explained in our previous article that it is not about any entity, but a used as a verb.
Magic does not use Chinese words the normal way, and many words are weird looking words with weird combinations that make no sense to a Chinese person, especially the words in the spells. They all have their deeper meanings inside, which is taught to the disciples when they have learned for a while and got the foundation rooted into their heart.
The lineage has the magic in Chinese, but you do not need to know Chinese to learn the magic. Basically, you treat spells as sounds and words as pictures, then you are good to go. As long as you do the spells daily, it will bring you to a point where you can say it without using your brain. Everything is built up and developed with time and daily effort.
What about "just in case" or "what if" moments where you need to request help from the lineage or the pre-heaven side of the lineage for an emergency situation, yet you don't know Chinese? Don't worry, the pre-heaven side of the lineage, with our grandmasters there, they are not Chinese too! You communicate by thoughts and in your own language, and there is no need for you to learn Chinese to do things right or request for help etc.
Some asked, can magic be in English? YES! That is right, it can. However, it is just too weird if we have spells in English and it feels like we are doing Harry Potter here, then no one will believe it is real Taoist magic at all. As you can see, many people look at things from the surface and the first impression can kill every potential. We can do spells and magic in any form, but Chinese seems to be the most legit looking way which works for everyone. If you learned long enough in our lineage, maybe you can witness the English magic side and see how it's like yourself!
Oh right, don't worry, Chinese magic works on ANY spiritual cases! Some Chinese really do believe the hoax that Chinese magic cannot cure problems for non-Chinese spiritual issues....! Hilarious!
Last but not least, rest assure that you are in good hands, as long as you do what you are taught. Practice the heart spells, heart scripture, your daily cultivation, and be a good disciple, then your magic is for sure going to work. Nothing can go wrong if your heart is not wrong. The heart is everything, enough said. Ordain today, and get started in learning! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 896 |
Q: Why I can't start a thread 2x in my Activity? I push a web service call in my activity to a thread (shown below). The first time I do this in the activity it works fine (gets the text from my edittext and loads the service to get lat/lng data)
But when I click the back button (emulator) and try to fire off this thread a second time it blows up after the .start(); in my click handler. What might I be doing wrong here? thanks
private Thread getLocationByZip = new Thread() {
public void run() {
try {
EditText filterText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.zipcode);
Editable zip = filterText.getText();
LocationLookupService locationLookupService = new LocationLookupService();
selectedLocation = locationLookupService.getLocationByZip(zip.toString());
locationHandler.post(launchFindWithLocationInfo);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
};
private Runnable launchFindWithLocationInfo = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
Intent abc = new Intent(LocationLookup.this, FindWithLocation.class);
startActivity(abc);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
};
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.location);
locationHandler = new Handler();
findViewById(R.id.findbyzip).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
getLocationByZip.start();
}
});
}
Update
After the great advice I went with an AsyncTask so if anyone finds this going forward the above thread/handler model looks something like the below as an asynctask
private class LocationLookupTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Location> {
private ProgressDialog dialog;
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
this.dialog = ProgressDialog.show(LocationLookup.this, "", "Loading...");
}
@Override
protected Location doInBackground(String... zips) {
Location selectedLocation = null;
for (String zip : zips) {
LocationLookupService locationLookupService = new LocationLookupService();
selectedLocation = locationLookupService.getLocationByZip(zip);
}
return selectedLocation;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Location location) {
this.dialog.dismiss();
((AppDelegate) getApplicationContext()).setSelectedLocation(location);
Intent abc = new Intent(LocationLookup.this, FindWithLocation.class);
startActivity(abc);
}
}
Now to call this in the onclick you would do this
findViewById(R.id.findbyzip).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
EditText filterText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.zipcode);
Editable zip = filterText.getText();
LocationLookupTask task = new LocationLookupTask();
task.execute(new String[]{zip.toString()});
}
});
A: You can't start a thread twice:
It is never legal to start a thread more than once.
Taken from Thread.start().
So, you need to create a new thread and start that one.
A: You can not call twice the start method of the Thread class, I suggest you also control the logic within the method onCreate since according to the life cycle of an Activity that method may be called by Android lifecycle Activity Manager.
Furthermore i suggest you to avoid this approach and consider to use the AsyncTask provided by the Android SDK.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html
A: If you really want to do this without creating a new class or using AsyncTask, you could just make a method to get a new Thread on each call:
private Thread getLocationByZip;
private void getLocation() {
getLocationByZip = new Thread() {
public void run() {
try {
EditText filterText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.zipcode);
Editable zip = filterText.getText();
LocationLookupService locationLookupService = new LocationLookupService();
selectedLocation = locationLookupService.getLocationByZip(zip.toString());
locationHandler.post(launchFindWithLocationInfo);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
};
getLocationByZip.start();
}
Then replace getLocationByZip.start() in your code with getLocation(). However, I agree that an AsyncTask would be a better way to go, though this would work for you.
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package org.schors.vertx.telegram.bot.api.methods;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
public class GetUpdates extends TelegramMethod {
private Integer offset;
private Integer limit;
private Integer timeout;
@JsonProperty("allowed_updates")
private String[] allowedUpdates;
public GetUpdates() {
}
public GetUpdates(Integer offset, Integer limit, Integer timeout, String[] allowedUpdates) {
this.offset = offset;
this.limit = limit;
this.timeout = timeout;
this.allowedUpdates = allowedUpdates;
}
public Integer getOffset() {
return offset;
}
public GetUpdates setOffset(Integer offset) {
this.offset = offset;
return this;
}
public Integer getLimit() {
return limit;
}
public GetUpdates setLimit(Integer limit) {
this.limit = limit;
return this;
}
public Integer getTimeout() {
return timeout;
}
public GetUpdates setTimeout(Integer timeout) {
this.timeout = timeout;
return this;
}
public String[] getAllowedUpdates() {
return allowedUpdates;
}
public GetUpdates setAllowedUpdates(String[] allowedUpdates) {
this.allowedUpdates = allowedUpdates;
return this;
}
@Override
public String getMethod() {
return "getUpdates";
}
}
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My last column, "Stop playing games with the budget deficit (Feb 3) was written one week before Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York state's comptroller, issued his analysis of the Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget draft..
The irrationality I outlined fell short of anticipating the following mea-culpa expressed in the current comptroller's analysis "The SFY 2010-2011 enacted budget relied on $16.7 billion in non-recurring or temporary budget resources; and overly optimistic tax revenue projections causing a dramatically worsened state's structural deficit. How dramatic? These tenuous entries constituted 30per cent of all the monies in the state's operating fund.
With a half measure of repentance evident, the new budget is "less reliant on temporary and non-recurring actions relying on 'only' $7.7 billion, a 54 per cent reduction." You can't make this stuff up.
Gov. Cuomo plans to transform the budget process, eliminating a $10 billion deficit without borrowing or tax increases. The details involved are shown in the comptroller's analysis with 57 cents out of every dollar saved from (equally shared) reductions in Medicaid and school funding.
Would have loved to have been in the back room when this decision was reached. Medicaid is budgeted at over $58 billion and has been ravaged by years of well documented fraud, wasteful spending and inefficiencies beyond anyone's imagination. Time to get serious and evaluate where are tax dollars are spent. Every dollar saved could be a dollar gained to support valued education funding.
The rest of the gap-closing exercise is about what you might have expected. Over 9,748 layoffs are envisioned if concessions are not forthcoming. How likely? Ninety-four percent of the state's work force is represented by unions (earning on average $98,854 annually), these workers are hardly willing to give back 14 per cent in salary increases gained since 2007. Also, very minor adjustments appear in the gap-closing exercise concerning the funding of public authorities and, possible gains made through consolidation etc.
The analysis referred to is available on www.osc.state.ny.us. Its use by local officials and school administrators is highly recommended. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 899 |