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Suriye'de Gaziantep Üniversitesi'ne bağlı İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İslami İlimler Fakültesi ve Eğitim Fakültesi kurulacak. Bazı yükseköğretim kurumlarına bağlı fakülte, enstitü ve yüksekokul kurulması ve kapatılması ile adlarının değiştirilmesine ilişkin kararlar, Resmi Gazete'de yayınlandı. CUMHURBAŞKANI ONAY VERDİ Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın imzasıyla yayınlanan karara göre; Bandırma Onyedi Eylül Üniversitesine bağlı Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi, Biruni Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesine bağlı Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi, İstanbul Üniversitesine bağlı Hemşirelik Fakültesi, İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesine bağlı İletişim Bilimi ve İnternet Enstitüsü, Karabük Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Kocaeli Üniversitesine bağlı Turizm Fakültesi, Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesine bağlı Uygulamalı Bilimler Fakültesi, Munzur Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Muş Alparslan Üniversitesine bağlı Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Sakarya Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesine bağlı Uygulamalı Bilimler Fakültesi, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesine bağlı Erbaa Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi ve Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesine bağlı Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi ve Turizm Fakültesi, Ardahan Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Beykent Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, İstanbul Ayvansaray Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Şırnak Üniversitesine bağlı Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü kuruldu. KAPATILAN ENSTİTÜ VE YÜKSEKOKULLAR Söz konusu karar kapsamında; Biruni Üniversitesine bağlı Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü ve Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü ve Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Karabük Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü ve Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Kocaeli Üniversitesine bağlı Turizm İşletmeciliği ve Otelcilik Yüksekokulu, Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesine bağlı Uygulamalı Bilimler Yüksekokulu, Munzur Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü ve Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Muş Alparslan Üniversitesine bağlı Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Sakarya Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesine bağlı Uygulamalı Bilimler Yüksekokulu, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesine bağlı Erbaa Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesine bağlı Van Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Ardahan Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü ve Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Beykent Üniversitesine bağlı Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İstanbul Ayvansaray Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü ve Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Şırnak Üniversitesine bağlı Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü ve Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesine bağlı Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesine bağlı Turizm İşletmeciliği ve Otelcilik Yüksekokulu kapatıldı. İSİMLERİ DEĞİŞEN FAKÜLTELER Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne bağlı İşletme Fakültesinin adı İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Isparta Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne bağlı Tarım Bilimleri ve Teknolojileri Fakültesinin adı Ziraat Fakültesi, Selçuk Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne bağlı Sanat ve Tasarım Fakültesinin adı Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne bağlı Hacı Bayram Veli İslami Araştırmalar Enstitüsünün adı İslami Araştırmalar Enstitüsü olarak değiştirildi. SURİYE'DE 3 FAKÜLTE KURULACAK Resmi Gazete'de yer alan bir başka Cumhurbaşkanı kararı ile Suriye'de, Gaziantep Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne bağlı İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi (El-Bab), İslami İlimler Fakültesi (Azez) ve Eğitim Fakültesi (Afrin) kurulması kararlaştırıldı.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the United States is currently going through one of the darkest periods in its history both at home and on the international scene, where it has lost even the support of its traditional allies. Addressing Wednesday's cabinet meeting, Rouhani said today, the situation in the United States' domestic politics greatly differs from the past, and that America is currently experiencing one of the worst eras in its history. “Today, there are few researchers, intellectuals and experts in the US that share the same opinions as those in the White House, and some of them even explicitly refer to (American statesmen) as idiots,” he said. “This has rarely happened in US history.” “Today, Washington's allies are not standing by it politically, and even its traditional partners are proudly distancing themselves from the US,” he added. Rouhani also stressed that only a few “ill-famed” countries are currently supporting Washington. “The US is today in its worst situation globally, and even international organizations such as UNESCO, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Criminal Court do not approve of American policies.” Referring to Washington’s stepped-up pressure campaign against Iran following its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, Rouhani said the Islamic Republic is facing an “unsolicited” economic war and dealing with parties that have no respect at all for international law. The comments came days after US National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened sanctions against the ICC should The Hague-based court proceed with launching an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan or conduct any probe into Israel or other US allies. Last year, the US quit UNESCO, accusing the UN cultural agency of “anti-Israeli bias.” Back in May, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the 2015 Iran deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), despite objections from the other signatories to the accord. Trump introduced the first wave of anti-Iran sanctions in August and threatened that the second wave would “ratchet up to yet another level” in November. Nevertheless, the IAEA has repeatedly confirmed Iran's full compliance with the JCPOA, which has been endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

@ Sunday Times Books LIVE Disturbed delves into the psyche of South Africa’s most cold-blooded criminals Chris Mahlangu, who murdered Eugene Terre’Blanche, did not just bludgeon him to death, it was reported that Terre’Blanche’s body had been hacked and beaten 28 times with a steel pipe, a piece of broken steel from burglar bars. And this while he was lying on his back sleeping. It was a bloodbath. One young man clubbed a nurse to death with a piece of wood and her boyfriend into ICU. Another bashed both his adoptive parents unconscious with a cricket bat before stabbing each in the torso more than 20 times and then slitting his father’s throat. A male prostitute struck his friend so many times with a knobkierie after his “indecent suggestions” that he died of a skull fracture. Why would a heterosexual man who often sleeps with prostitutes pick up a boy at a shopping centre and molest him The book contains information about personality disorders, each criminal’s background, the day of the crime, the court case, Dr Swanepoel’s interviews and findings, as well as the follow-up prison visit – face to face with the convict.

NEW YORK, NY — Military Working Dogs are more intelligent than second and first lieutenants, according to an article to be published next week in Army Times. The article, titled “Who’s Got the Smarts?” examines groups of soldiers from different ranks, military occupation specialties, and career branches, and then orders them by intelligence. “We factored in several things,” said Times managing editor Richard Brown, “such as test scores, writing samples, and difficulty of day-to-day tasks. Then we took the data and assigned each group a composite intelligence score.” According to the Times, the top three smartest groups in the Army are brain surgeons, CBRN officers, and JAG Corps attorneys. The bottom three? First lieutenants, followed closely by second lieutenants, and then military working dogs. Pentagon sources have confirmed that in light of the article’s findings, Army brass has approved a policy to award Military Working Dogs the rank of Captain upon completion of basic dog training. A 2009 study found that the average dog has the cognitive ability of a two-year-old child, which Brown says is perfectly in line with his publication’s rankings. “A dog can perform basic arithmetic and can count to four or five,” Brown said. “They read body language, have an innate sense of basic fairness, and find their way through the woods. I challenge you to show me a first or second lieutenant who can do any of that.” “To be fair,” Brown countered, “the lieutenants did display the ability to shit in a toilet and hold their bowel movements until an appropriate time, giving them a slightly higher ranking in that category than the military working dogs that haven’t been housebroken yet.” Not everyone agrees with the findings. “I have no doubt that every single K-9 in my unit is smarter than a PFC,” said Army Sgt. Tyrell Wiggins, a dog handler from the 503d Military Police Battalion at Ft. Bragg. “I mean, Sparky here can sniff out bombs and can follow basic commands. I’d like to see a PFC do either of those things. And sure, he sometimes eats other dogs’ shit, but you wouldn’t ever catch him buying a 2003 Mustang for $24,000 and 14 percent financing.” Brown said it’s unfair, however, to look at one factor alone when determining intelligence. PFCs may indeed act like knuckleheads, but unlike junior officers, they aren’t innately dumb. They can eventually grow and mature, while junior officers must remain forever clueless. “The data we have suggests that lieutenants are a special kind of stupid,” Brown said.

Lil Peep also hasn't actively positioned himself as any of these things: songwriter, rapper, teen icon. He's just doing his thing, appreciating whoever is into it and waiting for everyone else to catch up. Most of the chat seems to be happening around him rather than with him—which is usually the first thing that happens when a visually bold artist bowls in out of nowhere, wholeheartedly owning a musical style that feels inherently confrontational because it fucks with a genre or backs one previously considered unworthy of critical validation (see also: Odd Future, Yung Lean or PC Music). The way Peep presents himself is both a hindrance and a help in that respect; it may throw a lot of heat on him and contribute to the reasons why he can rub people up the wrong way, but he also just got back from Fashion Week in Paris and Milan where he walked for Balmain, Marcelo Burlon, and Rick Owens, among others. Still, the question remains: who the fuck is Lil Peep, anyway? Clocking that he's been spending a load of his time in London recently, I asked Peep if he'd like to hang out with me and talk about himself. He was kind enough to take some time off from shouting about his debut album and doing improv comedy to meet me somewhere we both love: the cemetery.

Monday, December 27, 2010 Video Gives the GOP a Virus I just flipped through a copy of FreedomWorks’Rules for Patriots. Rule 9 is devoted to explaining “strategies” for the average citizen to make an impact on the political process. Along with encouraging the use of Facebook, Twitter, and blogging, Matt Kibbe, the organization’s President and CEO, explains the importance of YouTube: “Video has become the most powerful medium in the online world… You can start your own YouTube account for free… Having [various clips available] can prove invaluable.” It seems that a key strategy for American patriots is using video to their advantage. FreedomWorks, by the way, has been cited as one of the major organizing force behind the TEA Party movement. The TEA Party has its share of critics on the right. Karl Rove, for instance, has termed the grass-roots organization “unsophisticated.” The guy who was termed “The Brain Behind Bush” seems to have a yen for criticizing the uncouth among us which is odd, considering he had no problem with the casual “middle country, middle class” drawl that he directed for 8 years. Rove has also criticized one of the TEA Party’s major spokespeople, Sarah Palin, for creating her own reality show with TLC: “With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office’.” I guess the Republican strategist was not a big fan of Bedtime for Bonzo. The fact that Sarah Palin has her own reality TV show freaks people out. It freaks out the left because they now have indisputable ratings that prove how likeable the former Alaskan Governor really is. It freaks out the right because they can’t imagine how anyone would take a reality TV star as a serious Presidential candidate. After all, if the CEO of the WWE can’t win Connecticut, there must be no hope! Both sides can’t stop obsessing over the idea that Palin’s reality show is nothing more than a bid for the Presidency in 2012. Oddly enough, right-wingers feel the same way about Chris Christie’s YouTube channel. Only, in the case of the bombastic Jersey Governor, this video stardom is a good thing. One former Governor interacting with average citizens where they work negates them from the Presidency, while another current Governor telling voters to quit their jobs translates into prime candidate material. Republicans are fools. The Liberals have a right to be scared of Sarah Palin’s TV presence. They know the last great conservative leader was nothing more than an actor—a registered Democrat, mind you—who encountered one man’s true story of Communism and “saw the light,” going from B-movie career to a political powerhouse that helped shape an entire American generation. Liberals may be socialists, but they are not stupid. If they did not see a formidable challenge in Palin, they would not be spendingso much time trying to eviscerate her. The right-wingers, the Republicans, the Conservatives on the other hand, from the establishment rovers to the average voters, are playing right into the Liberals’ hand. “Oh, Palin has to sit this one out,” I’ve heard. “That job has to be handled by a man,” is another familiar complaint. “She quit her job as Governor to be a TV star,” is another familiar one. Worst of all is the complaint voiced by many but worded exceptionally by Charles Krauthammer, that “the outside activities” the Governor is engaged in would not help her if she decides to go for a Presidential run. “I told Alaskans I was going to do all that I could to promote Alaska,” Palin responded to Krauthammer’s criticism in a recent interview with Bill O’Reilly. The show, it seems, has little to do with promoting Palin and much to do with promoting our “domestic resources that can be tapped into” that would allow America to be “healthier, more secure, and more prosperous.” In other words, it is as if Sarah Palin is using video to illustrate the value of American Exceptionalism not only as an ideology, but as a strategy to improve the economy and national security. Well, Chris Christie has used the power of video to tell a lot of teachers they could just find new jobs. I think that sounds a lot more Presidential, don’t you? It must be because he’s a man. I mean, if a female politician told the media they were “thin skinned” and followed that with,“you should really see me when I’m pissed,” she’d probably be accused of “not being ladylike.” Oddly enough, Karl Rove was reportedly the one who put a bug in Chris Christie’s ear regarding a possible gubernatorial bid. I wonder if Rove was also the architect behind the Governor’s oh so sophisticated in-your-face strategy. Christie has outright denied that he will put a bid in for 2012, leaving many right wing supporters out in the cold. Palin has only commented that if she felt she were the right person, she would put her hat in the ring. Already, the alarm bells are sounding. Sarah’s list of right-wing critics is a mile long. In the meantime, Christie’s supporters are inviting him into Congressional strategy sessions. This fall, while bill S1872, the Governor’s “stepping stone to school vouchers,” sat dying in committee, Christie was out campaigning for Republican candidates across the country (perhaps expecting his new Democrat teacher-turned-Clinton lawyer-turned Education Chief to take up the cause?); Palin resigns as Governor to avoid the encroachment of her personal life onto her public office, and she's deemed simply unfit for the job. Video is a powerful tool in today’s political dialogue, but change is still a matter of personal choice. As long as right wingers choose style over substance the only kind of sophistication they’re looking to put in the White House equates to Tony Soprano in a RINO suit.

Friday, March 20, 2009 HERDING GROUP HEAVIES We’ve commented on it before, Herding Groups these days are brutally competitive. When Judge Janet Tunage Nahikian surveyed her final seven today at the Durham Kennel Club show in Raleigh NC, she had no idea that the German Shepherd Dog, CH Shoal Creek Sangria V Barick, had to get past three recent BIS winners in the group judging. Finishing two, three, and four behind Ria, a three year old bitch, were yesterday’s BIS winner, the Puli, CH Cordmaker Field Of Dreams, the Old English Sheepdog, CH Lambluv’s Daydream Believer, and the Bearded Collie, CH Tolkien Raintree Mister Baggins. Ch.Toasty's Treaasure Island (Treasure) won the Golden Specialty, Bravo and Sunset's Stealing Time(Sherman) won both Boxer Specialties, Laura King's Irish Setter Special won the Irish Specialty. Ch Quicksilver Sierra's Jaguar won the Greyhound Specialty. Sorry I don't know the rest of the winners. The all breeds start tomorrow NUMBER EIGHT NUMBER NINE NUMBER TEN SHOW INFO ****************** The author has been attending dog shows as a spectator and exhibitor for over 45 years. He is a retired management consultant who has advised multiple organizations affiliated with the AKC and the Cat Fanciers Association on business management, long range planning, customer service, and legislative matters. After 25 years of living in the big cities of New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, he now resides in his hometown of Memphis, TN. LET US HEAR FROM YOU We love to get e-mail from our readers. Send us your show reports, photos of your wins, and any other interesting tidbits you want to share with our readers. E-mail us at bill38112@aol.com

Friday, March 18, 2011 St. Patty's Day has come and gone, leaving us all with a lingering green-beer hangover and fuzzy memories of what seems to be some sort of Jayhawk-powered rocket ship. So how should you spend this weekend? First and foremost, basketball. Louisville's stunning first-round loss yesterday only solidifies Larryville's belief that the Hawks are coasting right into the championship game. Get drunk and keep believing. But make time for the UFO Conference at Liberty Hall as well. We'll likely be on hand this afternoon for the panel on "Mass UFO Sightings," which focuses especially on the 2006 O'Hare incident. Chip: "Nanoo, nanoo!" Richard: "Don't joke, Chip. This shit is real." Go here for details: www.ozufo.net Or perhaps you prefer your extraterrestrials to be foul-mouthed, pot-smoking little creatures voiced by Seth Rogen. In that case, check out Greg Mottola's new film Paul, in which Nick Frost and Simon Pegg befriend the titular alien. The AV Club says: "Pegg and Frost’s relationship is depicted with an almost homoerotic tenderness that doesn’t always extend to other aspects of the film." Chip: "I was really hoping the homoerotic element would extend to the interspecies relationship of the film as well, because the concept of boning an alien (in my case, of course, an alien woman) is fascinating to me, and I plan to ask the experts about it down at Liberty Hall today." Richard: "I wish Greg Mottola would have made Adventureland 2: Return to Adventureland instead of Paul." --- And here's your daily helping of SXSW coverage. Pitchfork reviews a set by Montreal's Braids: "Braids were already running late when they finished their soundcheck with Raphaelle Standell-Preston announcing that they'd be leaving for a few minutes, "because that's what we always do." Annoying! Hey guys-- some of us are on a pretty tight schedule here! But then I saw why they had left: the four members of the Montreal band were standing to the left of the stage, engaged in a passionate group hug. Adorable!" Richard: "Real hipsters don't hug. I'm distressed by this warm-and-fuzzy aesthetic infiltrating much of the scenester community lately. I like my indie bands apathetic and emotionless."

KFA88 – Remixed By Family EP (Executive Edition) Product Description IF YOU BOUGHT THE KF68 VINYL, YOU GET THIS EP FOR FREE! The Kniteforce classics get remixed by the KFA crew…what more can be said! The heavy lifting made to look easy…All of these remixes are stunning in their own right. Each artists translates a classic old skool tune into their own secret language. And the executive edition bonus tracks feature Shane and I one the remix tip as well as an even more bonkers remix from Scartat than the Six Days one just insane… Here is the track list / zip file contents. KFA88 – Remixed By Family EP: Dj Poosie – Gotta Get Down (Doughboy Remix) 2 Xperience – Never Give Up (Empyreal Remix) Future Primitive – Infect Me (Idealz Remix) Jimmy J & Cru-l-t – Six Days (Scartats WTF Did You Do Remix) Executive Tracks: Strange Brotherhood – My Ghost (Saiyan & Cru-l-t Remix) Alk-e-d – Raw (Scartat Remixxx) 5.00 out of 5 1 review for KFA88 – Remixed By Family EP (Executive Edition) 5 out of 5 Toao Taj – June 4, 2017: Killer remixes by all on this e.p Everyone brought something different to the table and it all rocks, it’s not dull or mediocre in the slightest

Families in Baghdad were preparing to go shopping for sweets, given to children to mark Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Instead, mothers and fathers bought coffins for their boys and girls killed in an incredibly deadly suicide bombing. The attack in the Iraqi capital Sunday was the most violent carried out by ISIS during Ramadan. The scope of the death may be shocking; the fact the self-proclaimed Islamic State was responsible is not. Ramadan began at midnight of June 6, but weeks before, the chief ISIS spokesman said jihadists should "make it a month of calamity for the infidels everywhere," suggesting attacks on military and civilian targets. And what a bloody month it has been, with militants or those pledging allegiance to ISIS carrying out attacks that have killed hundreds. There were three separate bombings in Saudi Arabia on Monday, including a brazen suicide attack outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second holiest place in Islam. Four security officers were killed, five others wounded. No group has said it's behind the Saudi attacks, but suspicion quickly fell upon ISIS. While it's impossible to say for certain that all of the violence over the last month was carried out with Ramadan in mind, the list of attacks between June 8 and July 5 is long and shocking: Most Muslims mark Ramadan by fasting, and limiting other regular pleasures such as smoking, praying and spending time with friends and family. They view with horror and outrage the way ISIS has tried to pervert the holy month with its call for carnage. The highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia, the Senior Council of the Ulema, said the attackers had "violated everything that is sacred." Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif called for Muslims to "stand united." There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites will both remain victims unless we stand united as one. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Medina?src=hash">#Medina</a> —@JZarif Hayder al-Khoei, the research director at the Centre for Academic Shia Studies and an associate fellow at London's Chatham House, expressed his disbelief. Nothing is sacred for these cowards. If they could slaughter Muslims in Mecca in the Grand Mosque itself, they would <a href="https://t.co/yL8xYsEQHM">pic.twitter.com/yL8xYsEQHM</a> —@Hayder_alKhoei Najib Rajak, the prime minister of Malaysia, said he was shocked by word of the attack in Medina. We condemn such vile acts happened especially within the Prophet's Mosque's vicinity in the holy city of Medina & this is not Islam. —@NajibRazak Setting aside differences, prominent voices in the Muslim world have united to condemn the violence, particularly after Monday's attack.

OH MY GOD! I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING! Okay, okay, okay, so For the past decade or so, the Harry Potter fandom has been wondering how Sirius was able to inherit 12 Grimmauld Place, Kreacher, etc. when he fully admitted that his parents disowned him when he was sixteen. And I’ve gone on record saying that perhaps the goblins don’t consider burning a name off of the tapestry to be the legal requirement to disown someone. But what if What if it was? What if Sirius was really disowned for a while? Now let’s talk about the other Black brother. We know that Regulus died when he was eighteen. So he would have been legally ‘of age’ in the wizarding world. Get those dirty thoughts out of your head and let’s instead talk about historical sexism. See, we know that the Black family extends all the way back to the medieval ages. Which means that it’s very very likely that the Black family is patriarchal - meaning that the man has the say. Okay, okay, okay, okay Now Let’s talk about Orion He was, most likely, a gigantic jerk He was a gigantic jerk who died in the same year that Regulus did. Here’s the thing For some reason, I always assumed that he died after Regulus. But it’s never specified. Which means If Orion died first, and Sirius was briefly disowned, Regulus would have been the patriarch of the Black family. So here’s this eighteen-year-old who is given the ability to dictate everything about his family. My child I love him So what I just realized was What if Regulus reinstated Sirius as a member of the Black family? You can even make the argument that Regulus did this after he found out that Voldemort left Kreacher to die and Regulus basically realized that his brother was right about Voldemort all along? And then, knowing that he was most likely about to die, Regulus made Sirius the beneficiary of the Black family. YES! THINK ABOUT THIS! Because it’s wonderful to think about. And it actually makes a lot of sense! And it can be supported with canonical evidence. And it would be the biggest middle-finger to Walburga which is always a bonus. And it is now my new favorite headcanon.

Plasmodium male development gene-1 (mdv-1) is important for female sexual development and identifies a polarised plasma membrane during zygote development. Successful development of Plasmodium sexual stages is essential for parasite survival, but the genes involved are poorly understood. We 'knocked out' the male development gene-1 (mdv-1) locus in Plasmodium berghei and found it to be important in female gametocyte activation. Indirect immunofluorescence assays show MDV-1 has a punctate cytoplasmic distribution in gametocytes. After activation of both females and males, MDV-1 is more peripherally located but in males exclusively it becomes concentrated in a few large foci. In vitro ookinete conversion assays that test the ability of activated female gametocytes to develop into retort stage ookinetes, suggests a complicit role for MDV-1, with the knock-out parasite producing 86% reduction in ookinetes. The retort stage ookinete develops from the zygote by increasing growth of an apical protrusion and MDV-1 locates at the 'leading' extracellular apical pole of this protrusion. In the fully developed ookinete MDV-1 is localised to the posterior pole. In vivo, the knock-out parasites demonstrate a phenotype in which there is a 90% reduction of parasite transmission to oocysts in mosquitoes.

Let a(f) = f. Let t(g) = 83644*g. What is t(a(c))? 83644*c Let l(y) = -2738*y - 5661. Let a(r) = -33*r - 68. Let b(c) = -333*a(c) + 4*l(c). Let z(v) = 34*v**2. What is b(z(w))? 1258*w**2 Let i(o) be the first derivative of o**2 - 3 - 5*o**2 + 0*o**2 + 0*o**2. Let d(x) = x + 4. Let q(c) = 1. Let s(g) = -d(g) + 4*q(g). What is i(s(w))? 8*w Let v(n) = 6*n. Let k be 36/10 - 18/(-45). Suppose -c - k = -6. Let d(f) = -4*f**2 + 0*f**2 + 2*f**2 + 4*f**c. Calculate d(v(b)). 72*b**2 Let v(x) = -2*x. Suppose -4*j = -3*c - 7*j + 21, -4*c + 5*j = -37. Suppose -20 + c = -4*s. Let m(n) = -n**2 - s*n**2 + n**2. Calculate m(v(z)). -12*z**2 Let j(w) = 2*w. Let n(k) = 355*k. Let u(s) be the second derivative of -s**3/6 + 34*s. Let a(x) = -n(x) - 426*u(x). Calculate a(j(v)). 142*v Let u(p) = 1857*p**2. Let o(i) = -2*i**2 - 2. What is u(o(v))? 7428*v**4 + 14856*v**2 + 7428 Suppose m = -5*n - 13, -4*n = 13 - 1. Let v(p) = p**m + 212*p - 104*p - 108*p. Let c(s) = 21*s - 2. Calculate v(c(o)). 441*o**2 - 84*o + 4 Let x(p) = 7*p. Let o(q) = 11*q. Let f(z) = 2*o(z) - 3*x(z). Let r(k) = 87*k - 1. Calculate r(f(c)). 87*c - 1 Let v(y) = -y**2. Let p(u) = 74*u - 6. Let h(i) = -81*i + 7. Let q(w) = 6*h(w) + 7*p(w). What is q(v(a))? -32*a**2 Let y(r) = 2*r**2. Let k = -586 - -589. Let h(p) be the third derivative of 0*p + 5*p**2 + 0 - 13/24*p**4 + 0*p**k. What is h(y(z))? -26*z**2 Let a(l) = 2*l + l - 2*l - 2*l. Let f(r) be the third derivative of -7*r**4/24 + 2*r**2. What is a(f(y))? 7*y Let t(y) = 676*y. Let b(k) be the first derivative of -k**2 - 309. Give t(b(w)). -1352*w Let u(q) be the first derivative of 3/2*q**2 + 0*q - 12. Let k(f) be the third derivative of -f**4/6 + 2*f**2. Calculate u(k(o)). -12*o Let k(x) = 4 - 1 + x - 4 - 6. Let i(u) = 3. Let q(t) = 7*i(t) + 3*k(t). Let f(g) be the third derivative of -g**5/20 - g**2. Calculate q(f(n)). -9*n**2 Let z = 23 + -3. Let o(t) = 20 + t - z. Let k(u) = 8*u. Let r(q) = k(q) - 4*o(q). Let y(p) = -p. Determine r(y(v)). -4*v Let r(w) = 10*w + 1. Let a(t) = 6*t**2 - 20*t. Let b(q) = 9*q**2 - 32*q. Let y(h) = 8*a(h) - 5*b(h). Give r(y(j)). 30*j**2 + 1 Let i(a) = 5*a**2. Let l(v) = 18159*v**2 - 1. What is l(i(q))? 453975*q**4 - 1 Let a(r) = -18*r. Let i(f) = -f**2 + 19667*f. What is i(a(w))? -324*w**2 - 354006*w Let q(x) = 7*x. Let d(z) = 2*z**2 + 4. Let w(k) be the first derivative of -2*k**3/3 - 3*k + 3. Let r(j) = 3*d(j) + 4*w(j). What is q(r(u))? -14*u**2 Let r(j) be the third derivative of 0 + 0*j + 25/24*j**4 + 25*j**2 + 0*j**3. Let k(q) be the second derivative of -q**3/3 - q. Give k(r(n)). -50*n Let l(u) = -169201 + 169201 - u**2. Let g(x) be the first derivative of -x**5/20 - 3*x**2/2 + 2. Let j(c) be the second derivative of g(c). Calculate j(l(f)). -3*f**4 Let p(k) be the first derivative of 2*k**3/3 - 26. Let w(a) be the third derivative of -2*a**2 + 0 + 1/12*a**5 + 0*a**3 + 0*a + 0*a**4. Determine w(p(b)). 20*b**4 Let q(n) be the second derivative of n**4/6 + 22*n. Let d(i) = -100*i**2. Give q(d(g)). 20000*g**4 Let s(h) = -h**2 - 6*h + 144. Let t(d) = -33*d**2 - 2. Calculate s(t(o)). -1089*o**4 + 66*o**2 + 152 Let d(m) be the third derivative of 2*m**5/15 + m**4/8 + m**2 - 8. Let k(s) = -2*s. Determine k(d(q)). -16*q**2 - 6*q Let i(t) = -3*t**2. Let n(c) be the second derivative of -185*c**3/6 - 43*c - 1. Give n(i(q)). 555*q**2 Let l(x) = -3*x**2 - 3*x + 2*x + 2*x - x. Let b(d) = 105*d**2. What is l(b(o))? -33075*o**4 Let d(c) = -3196*c**2. Let o(u) = 574*u. Calculate o(d(v)). -1834504*v**2 Let j(r) = 593*r. Let o(u) = u**2 - 77*u. Determine j(o(h)). 593*h**2 - 45661*h Let q(u) = 4*u. Let b(n) = -39*n + 175*n - 63*n + 93*n. Determine b(q(p)). 664*p Let l be (-5)/((-5)/(-4))*-3. Let q(f) = l - 6 - 16*f - 6. Let y(c) = -2*c. Give y(q(p)). 32*p Let g(o) = o**2. Let h(r) = -2513086*r**2. Give h(g(u)). -2513086*u**4 Let v(w) = 25*w - 6. Let s(u) = u + 6. Let q be s(0). Let l(b) = -1349*b + 323. Let h(n) = q*l(n) + 323*v(n). Let d(i) = 3*i + 0*i - 2*i. Give h(d(r)). -19*r Let s(b) = -29*b**2 - 11*b - 11. Let x(u) = -5*u**2 - 2*u - 2. Let p(n) = -2*s(n) + 11*x(n). Let j(w) = 18*w - 12*w**2 + 16*w - 34*w. Calculate p(j(a)). 432*a**4 Let c(y) = 5*y - 2. Let b(u) = 60*u - 25. Let v(d) = -4*b(d) + 50*c(d). Let h(w) be the second derivative of w**3/6 + 5*w. Calculate v(h(m)). 10*m Let g(r) be the second derivative of -5*r**3/6 + r - 12. Let j(b) = -26*b**2 + 1. Give j(g(q)). -650*q**2 + 1 Let a(u) = -23*u**2 + 3*u. Let r = -14 + 11. Let m(f) = -f. Let x(j) = r*m(j) - a(j). Let q(i) = i**2. Determine q(x(v)). 529*v**4 Let y(p) = -96*p. Let t(m) = -5*m**2 + 347837*m - 347837*m. Calculate t(y(g)). -46080*g**2 Let y(i) = 9*i**2. Let w(g) = 4*g**2 + 6. Let l(x) = x**2 + 15*x - 6. Let r be l(-15). Let j(u) = 7*u**2 + 11. Let p(b) = r*j(b) + 11*w(b). Calculate p(y(o)). 162*o**4 Let l(v) = -4717*v**2 + 212*v - 1060. Let t(k) = 111*k**2 - 5*k + 25. Let i(b) = 5*l(b) + 212*t(b). Let j(u) = u**2. What is j(i(o))? 2809*o**4 Let s(b) be the third derivative of -b**4/12 + 2*b**2. Let q(v) = -7*v**2 - 7*v - 7. Let m(x) = 7*x**2 + 6*x + 6. Let o(w) = 7*m(w) + 6*q(w). Give s(o(f)). -14*f**2 Let c(r) = -6*r**2. Let l(s) = s**2 + 1. Let j(t) = -3*t**2 - 4. Let a(m) = j(m) + 4*l(m). What is a(c(n))? 36*n**4 Let v(j) = 3*j**2 + 20. Let r(x) = -63*x**2 - 5*x. What is r(v(f))? -567*f**4 - 7575*f**2 - 25300 Let g(p) be the first derivative of -5*p**3/3 - 510. Let r be (-2)/4*(-6 + 2). Let o(b) = -3*b**2 + 3*b**2 - 3*b**r. Give o(g(i)). -75*i**4 Let x(r) = 52*r**2. Let t(l) be the second derivative of -l**4/4 - 11*l + 3. Determine t(x(g)). -8112*g**4 Let m(j) = -2*j**2 - 8*j + 165. Let v(i) = -47*i - 2. What is m(v(w))? -4418*w**2 + 173 Let x(h) = -8*h + 2*h + h + 0*h. Let w(m) = 5*m**2. Determine w(x(b)). 125*b**2 Let a(c) = 176*c**2. Let y(i) = -492*i**2. What is y(a(m))? -15240192*m**4 Let w(k) = -5*k. Let q(y) = 3 - 51 - 94*y - 94*y + 187*y - 32. What is w(q(t))? 5*t + 400 Let s(j) = -14*j**2 + 101*j + 1. Let r(q) = -257*q. Determine r(s(o)). 3598*o**2 - 25957*o - 257 Suppose -5*h - v + 1764 = 0, 2*v = 3*h + 4*v - 1064. Let y(f) = 1 + 350*f**2 - 1 - h*f**2. Let t(p) = -4*p. What is t(y(i))? 8*i**2 Let b(d) = 6*d**2. Let u(w) = 15*w - 2886 - 2887 + 5773. Give u(b(v)). 90*v**2 Let t(b) = 2*b. Let y(q) = -496465*q. Calculate y(t(i)). -992930*i Let o(a) = 37*a**2 + 158*a + 4. Let c(q) = 2*q**2. What is o(c(g))? 148*g**4 + 316*g**2 + 4 Let s(b) = 3 - 3 + b. Let l = 95 - 92. Let a(c) = -5*c - l*c + 2*c. What is a(s(m))? -6*m Let g(x) be the first derivative of -1/2*x**2 + 3 + 0*x. Let k(l) = -l - l + 6*l. Calculate g(k(t)). -4*t Let b(u) be the first derivative of 84*u**2 + 7. Let h(w) = w. Give h(b(l)). 168*l Let a(q) be the second derivative of -q**3 + 110*q. Let s(o) = 14*o**2. Calculate a(s(z)). -84*z**2 Let q(t) = -7*t. Let a(z) = -z. Suppose 0*f + f - 6 = 0. Let d(o) = f*a(o) - q(o). Let l(v) = -4*v. Let g(r) = 2*r. Let c(m) = -7*g(m) - 3*l(m). Give c(d(s)). -2*s Let u(m) = -2*m. Let x(a) = -7*a**2 + 6*a. Let y(p) = -7*p**2 + 7*p. Let w = 4 + -10. Let g(b) = w*y(b) + 7*x(b). What is g(u(h))? -28*h**2 Let w(r) = -18*r + 8. Let a(y) = -11*y + 5. Let m(b) = 8*a(b) - 5*w(b). Let o(f) = 27*f**2. Give o(m(t)). 108*t**2 Suppose b + 3*j = -2*b + 6, -b + 10 = -3*j. Let g(v) = b*v - 11*v - 7*v. Let l(i) = 2*i**2. What is l(g(m))? 392*m**2 Let q(o) be the second derivative of o**6/40 - 9*o**3/2 - 26*o. Let s(m) be the second derivative of q(m). Let b(a) = -5*a**2. Determine b(s(k)). -405*k**4 Let d(o) = -2*o**2. Let h(g) = 4*g**2 - 482. Calculate h(d(x)). 16*x**4 - 482 Let n(u) = u. Suppose -4*g + 12 + 8 = 0. Suppose i - g - 1 = 0. Let b(d) = d + d + 0*d + i*d. What is b(n(c))? 8*c Let c(p) = -p + 4*p + 12*p**2 - 223 + 223. Let q(r) = 4*r**2. Determine q(c(u)). 576*u**4 + 288*u**3 + 36*u**2 Let m(y) = -y**2. Let k(t) be the third derivative of -t**4/6 - 103*t**3/6 - 605*t**2. Determine k(m(d)). 4*d**2 - 103 Let d(r) be the first derivative of r**2 + 214. Let b(p) = 235*p. Give d(b(x)). 470*x Let i(y) = -2*y - 7. Let m be i(-6). Let x(s) = 2 - m*s**2 - 2 + 2*s**2. Let j(c) = -c. Let u(v) = 6*v. Let g(b) = 39*j(b) + 6*u(b). Calculate x(g(z)). -27*z**2 Let w(u) = -u**2. Let m(s) = -405 + 203 + 202 + 21*s + 7*s**2. What is w(m(j))? -49*j**4 - 294*j**3 - 4

Get Access... Black Slaves Who Could Have Been American Founders A courageous revolutionary during America’s founding period fought for freedom under his motto of “Death or Liberty.” One of his lieutenants declaimed, “We had as much right to fight for our liberty as any men.”1 In pursuit of freedom, these men rose against oppression and lost their lives in the struggle. Were these freedom fighters among the heroes who founded the United States of America? They were not. They were black slaves in Virginia who were born and raised during the lifetimes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. And, although they stood in staunch agreement with America’s founding principles and fought for those principles against their enslavement, they were executed by American authorities for so doing. Gabriel Prosser, leader of this 1800 slave rebellion, and his lieutenants took seriously the ideals of the American Revolution, the principles that men have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and have a right to rebel when those rights are denied. They were enraged at the hypocrisy of America proclaiming itself a free republic while denying these basic rights to several million Americans based on skin color.2 Prosser was but one of several black American slaves (or freed slaves) who led uprisings in a quest for freedom. Another was Denmark Vesey, a freedman who “lectured fellow blacks on the Declaration of Independence,”3 and who led his students in a slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1822. A third was Nat Turner, a slave who planned his original uprising to occur on July 4, 1831, a date the significance of which he fully comprehended.4 These and other such men of the time understood the meaning and importance of the principle of individual rights as well as did any of America’s Founding Fathers. But for the trivial fact of their skin color, these men could have been among the Founders of the United States of America. Many blacks of the revolutionary era understood the basic principles of America’s founding. And many of them—such as Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre, and Peter Salem, a hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill—fought at the side of white Americans in the struggle for independence from Great Britain. Indeed, five thousand of the roughly three hundred thousand soldiers who fought for American independence were black.5 Additionally, some black American slaves joined the opposing side in pursuit of freedom. Tens of thousands escaped to the British during the Revolutionary War, many serving His Majesty’s Army as laborers or soldiers. The British promised freedom to slaves who ran away from rebel masters—and many blacks took them at their word. Historian Benjamin Quarles explains that these slaves’ “major loyalty was not to a place nor to a people, but to a principle,” and a man of principle on this matter “was likely to join the side that made him the quickest and best offer in terms of those ‘unalienable rights’ of which Mr. Jefferson had spoken.”6 Britain, homeland of John Locke and birthplace of the principle of individual rights, during this period also faced uprisings from slaves who understood the meaning and importance of these Anglo-American principles of liberty. Samuel Sharpe, for example, a black slave in Jamaica, led a slave uprising in 1831 that cost the lives of fourteen whites and greater than five hundred slaves, most of the latter by trial and execution. Before being hanged, Sharpe said, “I would rather die on yonder gallows than live in slavery.”7 Many such uprisings occurred during the founding era, and the details often were gruesome. . . . Get Full Access ... This article is protected by copyright law. Permission is hereby granted to excerpt up to 600 words, providing that the excerpt is accompanied by proper credit to the author and a link to the full article at the website of TOS. For permission to reproduce longer excerpts, contact the editor at editor@theobjectivestandard.com. Sign up for TOS Weekly Get our FREE newsletter applying Objectivism to issues of the day. Shipping Fees & Policies Print and Premium Subscriptions Print and Premium subscriptions mailed to addresses in the United States include free shipping. Charges for Print and Premium subscriptions mailed to addresses outside the United States are as follows: Canada or Mexico: Subscriptions to Canada or Mexico are an additional $15 per year. 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An intersection of style, design, and commerce. And the occassional font. L’autostrade; I mentioned before that I wasn’t necessarilygoing to recount this chronologically, but it feels fitting to give the first post over to us driving to Acqui Terme from Malpensa aeroporto. Particularly given that Michael was the one who shouldered 100% of the driving…but perhaps I should backpedal a bit. As of Sunday morning, we had no actual way of getting from the airport to Acqui save taking a bus from the airport to Torino, and then taking local transit from there to Acqui and walking our sorry asses to Baur B&B, where we were to spend a nice majority of the trip, as this is usually our M.O. when traveling to cities we don’t know well. Then we were most helpfully informed that while feasible, this mode would not be optimal in experiencing the local area, so we caved and decided to rent a car. I’ll spare the ugly details–just know that I called AVIS while we were in line for our Amtrak train to Newark Liberty International to arrange for the car, and they came through in the clutch (…..sorry for the pun) in getting us an automatic, economy-class with literally 24-hours of notice. That said, we made it safe and sound to Malpensa (and, by the way, was given no problem walking through with my passport while Michael got a little business. I guess the officers are a sucker for a cute face) with our luggage in tact, and after thirty minutes of Michael chatting with the lovely AVIS agent at the desk and another twenty of us trying to find our damn car, we had our Fiat and started out–but, naturally, not without the terror of driving through the damn lot with cars parked EVERYWHERE and the fear that we may scratch a car before we even get anywhere. Following the signs, which were better than anticipated, we headed out to Acqui Terme: Thanks to the wonderful directions provided to us by our innkeepers (that I ably transcribed while in a bar in the Newark Liberty International airport) we headed out on the series of autostrade that first had us on the A8 to the A26, always heading towards the direction of Varese, Genova and ultimately Alessandria Sud: Bienvenuti a Italia! Two-hundred kilometers later, we passed through lots and lots of Italian plains (likely aborio rice patties according to our hosts) as we made our way to Acqui and the quiet, tranquil roads of the northern Italian countryside. I mean, we were passed on the far-left despite us going a good 120-140 km/hr while on the toll roads–now that we had to only go about 70 km/hr I could finally take in everything. Unfortunately, we hit the only clouds we encountered during the entire week as we were making our way along the SS-33, so these pictures are not nearly as vibrant as I’d like them to be. But I’d rather save the more extraordinary ones for later anyway: The cars (and the trucks in particular) made me feel like we were in a Playmobil set–mostly because they were all so familiar to me. Because I played with Playmobil playsets. Look at all the little houses! Dancing vineyards. Our trip, for the most part, was successful, but we did end up in a vineyard because we over-anticipated the traffic circles and Michael gracefully got our little Fiat out of it without getting it into a ditch. But I won’t show you Acqui Terme or our inn…just yet. You have to wait for that.

*b - 10. Let y(w) = -w**2 + 3*w + 7. Give j*y(h) + 5*p(h). -2*h**2 + h - 1 Suppose 3*g - 4*o = 6 - 18, 5*g + 28 = 4*o. Let r(u) = -10*u - 8. Let a(m) = -7*m - 5. Give g*a(z) + 5*r(z). 6*z Let w(f) = 3*f**3 - f**2 - f + 2. Let x(a) = -16672*a**3 + 5210*a**2 + 5210*a - 10420. Calculate 5210*w(y) + x(y). -1042*y**3 Let l(y) = y. Suppose -6*u - 34 = -23*u. Let i(g) = 0*g - 4*g - g. Give u*i(o) + 6*l(o). -4*o Let n(u) be the first derivative of 3*u**2/2 - 4*u + 258. Let v(j) = -4*j + 3. Calculate -3*n(g) - 4*v(g). 7*g Let k(y) = 12*y**3 + 4*y**2 - 2*y - 2. Let m(n) = 2*n**3 + 3*n**2 - n - 1. Give -k(l) + m(l). -10*l**3 - l**2 + l + 1 Suppose -62*p - 2940 = 7662. Let s(m) = 1615*m**3 + 171*m**2 + 171*m + 171. Let t(n) = -19*n**3 - 2*n**2 - 2*n - 2. What is p*t(v) - 2*s(v)? 19*v**3 Let m(s) = -2*s**3 - 5*s**2 + 16*s - 33*s + 19*s - 5. Let x(d) = d**3 + 6*d**2 - 2*d + 6. Determine 6*m(u) + 5*x(u). -7*u**3 + 2*u Let k(j) = 7*j**3 + 4*j**2 + 7*j - 4. Let x(z) = 13*z**3 + 7*z**2 + 13*z - 7. Let l be (4/5)/(-2)*(-40 - -50). Determine l*x(a) + 7*k(a). -3*a**3 - 3*a Suppose -3*o + 2*g - 35 = 0, -2*o - 2*o - 3*g = 58. Let f(s) = -6 - 3*s + s + s + 4. Let j(z) = 2*z + 4. Give o*f(n) - 6*j(n). n + 2 Let r(o) = o**3 - 3*o**2 + 3*o + 4. Let g(w) = -2*w**3 + 4*w**2 - w - 5. Determine -3*g(m) - 4*r(m). 2*m**3 - 9*m - 1 Let s(r) = -2*r**3 - 4*r**2 + 3*r + 63. Let d(z) = -2*z**3 - 3*z**2 + 2*z + 65. What is 4*d(b) - 3*s(b)? -2*b**3 - b + 71 Let w(y) = -3*y**3 + 2*y**2. Let j(t) = 9*t**2 - t**2 + 3*t**3 + 8*t - 14*t**3 - 8*t. Determine 2*j(a) - 9*w(a). 5*a**3 - 2*a**2 Let x(s) = 2*s**2 - 35*s - 11. Let g be x(18). Let k(a) = -3*a**2 + 4 + 10*a**2 - 8 + 1 - 9*a**3. Let c(v) = -13*v**3 + 10*v**2 - 4. Determine g*k(b) - 5*c(b). 2*b**3 - b**2 - 1 Let l(z) = -5*z - 111. Let d be l(-21). Let r(x) be the first derivative of x**2/2 + 7. Let g(m) = -3*m. Calculate d*g(a) - 13*r(a). 5*a Let d(b) = 2*b**3 - 127*b**2 - 3*b - 3. Let m(i) = -10*i**3 + 636*i**2 + 14*i + 14. Give -14*d(l) - 3*m(l). 2*l**3 - 130*l**2 Let h(j) = 15*j - 7. Suppose 0 = -510*s + 517*s - 49. Let b(p) = 5*p - 2. Calculate s*b(u) - 2*h(u). 5*u Let g(a) = 35*a**2 + 25*a + 25. Let z = 2288 + -2294. Let x(l) = -9*l**2 - 6*l - 6. Give z*g(o) - 25*x(o). 15*o**2 Suppose -6*u = -u - 55. Suppose u*y - 13*y - 4 = 0. Let i(o) = 4*o**3 - 2*o**2 + 2*o - 2. Let g(r) = 0*r + 1 + r + r**3 - 2 - r**2. Determine y*g(z) + i(z). 2*z**3 Let a be (-6)/9 + (-33)/(-9). Let w(n) = -2*n**2 - 5*n + 5. Let b(r) = 2*r**2 + 1217 + 6*r - 2*r + 0*r - 1221. What is a*w(i) + 4*b(i)? 2*i**2 + i - 1 Let s(f) = 210*f + 8. Let x(r) = 1050*r + 38. Give -14*s(h) + 3*x(h). 210*h + 2 Let z(h) = h**2 - 1. Let v = 53 - -7. Suppose -13*q = -q - v. Let n(i) = -7*i**2 + 5. Give q*z(d) + n(d). -2*d**2 Let f(l) = -l**3 - l**2 - l + 1. Let z(u) = 4*u**2 - u - 1. Let n(r) = 7*r - 218. Let k be n(31). Determine k*z(s) - f(s). s**3 - 3*s**2 + 2*s Let z(u) = 7*u**2 + 6*u + 43. Let r(l) = -l**2 - l - 1. Give 6*r(d) + z(d). d**2 + 37 Let p(t) be the first derivative of -t**4/4 + 4*t**3/3 - 6*t + 190. Let h(j) = -j**3 + 3*j**2 - j - 5. Calculate -4*h(v) + 3*p(v). v**3 + 4*v + 2 Let i(m) = 2*m**3 + 15*m + 15. Let b(c) = 3*c**3 + 28*c + 31. Let u(r) = -4*b(r) + 7*i(r). Let z(k) = k**3 - 4*k - 10. What is 4*u(h) - 7*z(h)? h**3 - 6 Let n(l) = l**2 - 1. Let i(h) = -2*h**2 + 1. Suppose c - 3 = j, 3*j = -c - 3 - 6. Let a = -2 + 18. Let m = a - 19. Calculate j*n(w) + m*i(w). 3*w**2 Let k(j) = 11*j - 5. Let m(l) = l + 1. Let y(h) = -h - 2. Suppose 0 = -2*a - 3*o + 14, a - 2*o - 21 = -7. Let r(q) = a*m(q) + 6*y(q). What is -3*k(s) + 8*r(s)? -s - 1 Let v = -2 + 3. Let p be 15/5 + (4 - 1). Suppose -8*j = -p*j - 10. Let w(n) = 1. Let f(d) = -d**2 - 2*d - 5. Give j*w(o) + v*f(o). -o**2 - 2*o Let u(c) = 187*c**2 + 3. Let x(f) = 4862*f**2 + 77. Give 77*u(i) - 3*x(i). -187*i**2 Let h(l) = -l - 2. Let g = -527 - -529. Let t(c) = 4. Let p = -3 - -7. What is g*t(i) + p*h(i)? -4*i Let j(b) = 6*b**3 - b**2 - 4. Let s(c) = 2*c - 12. Let k be s(4). Let n be k/14 + 23/7. Let h(w) = 7*w**3 - 2*w**2 - 5. Give n*h(v) - 4*j(v). -3*v**3 - 2*v**2 + 1 Let v(o) = -48*o**3 - 9*o**2 - 7*o - 5. Let b(l) = 24*l**3 + 4*l**2 + 3*l + 3. Calculate 9*b(h) + 4*v(h). 24*h**3 - h + 7 Let f(a) = 3*a + 7 + 6 + 2*a - 7. Let o = 18 - 12. Let j(v) = 4*v + 5. Suppose -2*n - n = 15. What is n*f(w) + o*j(w)? -w Let v(u) = 165*u**3 - 44*u**2 + 44. Let d(j) be the third derivative of -11*j**6/120 + j**5/20 - j**3/2 - 62*j**2 + 2. Give 44*d(z) + 3*v(z). 11*z**3 Let n(a) = -231*a + 14. Let c(o) = -58*o + 3. Determine -9*c(j) + 2*n(j). 60*j + 1 Let j(m) = -m**3 - 4*m + 2. Let l = -1575 - -1574. Let n(c) = -c**3 - c + 1. Give l*j(g) + 3*n(g). -2*g**3 + g + 1 Let b(n) = -2*n**3 - 2*n**2 - n. Let y(d) = 9*d**3 + 11*d**2 + 2*d - 1. What is -6*b(x) - y(x)? 3*x**3 + x**2 + 4*x + 1 Let p(l) = -6*l**3 - 5*l - 4. Let b(t) = 59*t - 5 + 0*t**3 - 7*t**3 - 65*t. Give 4*b(w) - 5*p(w). 2*w**3 + w Let b(a) = -a + 1. Let m(j) = -24*j - 2. Let s(x) = -77*x - 5. Let z(r) = 19*m(r) - 6*s(r). Determine -40*b(c) - 5*z(c). 10*c Let j(m) = 2*m - 5. Let t be (-24)/16 + 51/6. Let y(s) = 3*s - 5. Let o(p) = 4*p - 6. Let b(h) = 2*o(h) - 3*y(h). Calculate t*b(v) + 4*j(v). v + 1 Let s be 5*1*(-9)/15. Let o(w) = -w**3 + 3*w**2 + 3*w - 3. Let c(q) = 4 - q**3 - 4*q**2 + q**3 + 2*q**3 - 4*q. Suppose -2 = 60*m + 238. What is m*o(i) + s*c(i)? -2*i**3 Let j(d) = d**2 + 1. Let o(m) = -14*m**2 + 18. Calculate 12*j(w) + o(w). -2*w**2 + 30 Let u(k) = -44*k + 16*k + 1 + 29*k. Let s(o) = 1 - 3 - 2. Determine -s(d) - 4*u(d). -4*d Let a(z) = -17 + 36 - 3*z + 2*z - 20. Let o(d) = 2*d**2 - 2*d - 7. Give -2*a(r) + o(r). 2*r**2 - 5 Let x(r) = 770*r + 176. Let f(z) = 186*z + 15. Let i(g) = -67*g - 5. Let c(u) = 3*f(u) + 8*i(u). Determine 176*c(p) - 5*x(p). 22*p Let l(n) = -4*n**3 - 4*n**2 - 2. Let j(b) = -b + 5. Let y be j(2). Let c(w) = -w. Let a be c(y). Let u(r) = 7*r**3 + 7*r**2 + 3. Determine a*u(s) - 5*l(s). -s**3 - s**2 + 1 Let f(m) be the third derivative of 7*m**4/24 - 7*m**3/6 + 2*m**2. Let x(n) = n + 9. Let g(c) = -3*c - 12. Let b(j) = 4*g(j) + 6*x(j). Give -5*b(i) - 4*f(i). 2*i - 2 Let x = 5 - 2. Suppose -x*m + 17 = 2. Let l(g) = g + 7. Let a(h) = -2*h - 11. What is m*a(b) + 8*l(b)? -2*b + 1 Let s(f) = f + 1. Let x(m) be the first derivative of 3*m**2 + 7*m + 24. Give 28*s(a) - 4*x(a). 4*a Let w(v) = 14*v**2 - 15*v - 9. Let t(q) = -3*q**2 + 3*q + 2. Give -11*t(l) - 2*w(l). 5*l**2 - 3*l - 4 Let l(y) = -2*y**2 - y + 4. Let r = 22 - 10. Let h(b) = -b**3 + 11*b**2 + 14*b - 20. Let m be h(r). Let f(w) = -2*w**2 - w + 3. What is m*l(v) - 5*f(v)? 2*v**2 + v + 1 Let y(q) = -2*q**3 + 13*q**2 - 12*q - 5. Let k(s) = 15*s**2 - 13*s - 6. Calculate -5*k(d) + 6*y(d). -12*d**3 + 3*d**2 - 7*d Suppose 4 = -a - 5*s - 28, 0 = -6*a + 5*s - 52. Let g(k) = -30*k**2 + 12*k. Let u be (-15)/3 + -1 + 1. Let h(w) = 12*w**2 - 5*w. What is a*h(d) + u*g(d)? 6*d**2 Suppose -2 = -8*f + 6. Let n(m) = -8*m**2 - 7 + 28*m**2 - f + 8*m. Let q(o) = 7*o**2 + 3*o - 3. Give 3*n(p) - 8*q(p). 4*p**2 Suppose 2*i = -4*b, 2*i = i + 3*b + 10. Let o(p) = -9*p + 22. Let v be o(i). Let k(n) = -2*n - 4. Let r(w) = 4*w + 9. Determine v*k(f) - 6*r(f). 4*f + 2 Let v(d) = 36*d + 13. Let b(q) = -19*q - 6. Determine -5*b(w) - 2*v(w). 23*w + 4 Let c(f) = -f**2 - f. Suppose -4*r - 3*s = -17, 5*r + 7 = 6*r - 2*s. Let p(g) = -2*g**2 - 5*g - 2. Calculate r*c(n) - p(n). -3*n**2 + 2 Let h(r) = -r**2 - r + 1. Let o(x) be the first derivative of 3*x**4/4 - 7*x**3/3 - 7*x**2/2 + 7*x - 21. Calculate -14*h(b) + 2*o(b). 6*b**3 Suppose -34*b + 75 = -9*b. Let a(p) = -p + 3. Let g(v) = 2. Give b*g(w) - 2*a(w). 2*w Let l(y) = -4*y - 2. Let x(r) be the third derivative of r**4/24 + 10*r**2. Let p = -9 - -16. Let k = 8 - p. Give k*l(m) + 3*x(m). -m - 2 Suppose -4*h + 24 = -0*h. Let k(i) = i**3 + i**2 + i - 5. Let x be k(0). Let s(b) = 8*b + 5. Let w(o) = -o + 4 + o + o + 6*o. Determine h*w(g) + x*s(g). 2*g - 1 Let q(n) = 11*n**2 - 7*n - 23. Let l(y) = 10*y**2 - 6*y - 24. Determine -7*l(h) + 6*q(h). -4*h**2 + 30 Let d(j) = -4*j**2 - 2*j - 4. Let g = 3526 - 3517. Let t(m) be the third derivative of -17*m**5/60 - m**4/3 - 17*m**3/6 + m**2. Determine g*d(y) - 2*t(y). -2*y**2 - 2*y - 2 Let n(b) be the first derivative of b**3/3 - b

Transcript Panel 1 Beaver: "But what do you need our socks for anyway?" Steve: "And where did the delivery guy go..?" Xarlaxian King: "The left socks of Earth are the richest source of the rare element chizanunium. It is the element which fuels our ships." Panel 2 Xarlaxian King UNFOLD!s a collection of alien pictures while DAB!'ing one of his three eyes with a handkerchief. All three characters are sobbing and Steve BLORT!'s his nose loudly. Xarlaxian King: "Without your socks we can never get home to see our families again! I miss them so much!" Beaver: "Sniff! That's so sad!" Xarlaxian King: "OK, we reproduce asexually so they are technically all my identical clones, but I miss 'em all the same..." Panel 3 Beaver and Steve take off left socks, to reveal their human feet. Beaver: "Your story has touched our hearts - here are the last of our left socks!" Xarlaxian King: "Oh! With these socks we will finally have enough fuel to return home!" Panel 4 Panel 5 [INSIDE...] A Xarlaxian is comforting the king, who is holding a white sock.. Xarlaxian King: "Oh boo-hoo I miss them so much..." Xarlaxian: "There there..." Panel 6 The Xarlaxians' faces turn into devilish smiles as they LIFT their slimy disguise robes and PUT-ON! some white socks. Xarlaxian King: "Ha ha! Earthlings are such suckers!" Xarlaxian: "But they do make very good socks!" Xarlaxian's Foot: "Mmm - toasty!" Fun Facts Beaver and Steve have human-like feet underneath the socks they've been wearing all along.

Alright, I admit. I’m a huge “data” nerd! I enjoy gathering it, organizing it, and using it to help me make the right decisions. Over the years I’ve collected a wide range of data points, but answers to one question in particular really fascinate me. “Why did you start blogging?” I put together a top 10 list of the most common replies based on the personal aspirations and distinctive individuality of each blogger I chat with. Can you guess the most popular reason by far? If the first thing that popped into your mind is “I wan’t to be heard!”, you’re not alone! Our unwavering desire to be heard is a strong one. We want to have our ideas and opinions acknowledged, discussed – and even challenged. The majority of bloggers strive for an audience, be it beginners working on their first ever blog post, or well established social behemoths with millions of readers. It’s the end-game; the ultimate goal we all pursue, and it’s not supposed to be easy to get there. What’s harder than writing a blog post? Finding an audience to read it. If your goal is to be heard, you need to fucking scream! We spend so much time crafting our thoughts into these prefect morsels of information, yet so little time finding an audience to read and acknowledge our work. The average blogger spends roughly 3.5 hours creating a blog post, yet only about 15 – 20 minutes promoting it. Let’s imagine for a minute that the process of writing your blog post is like a three hour road trip to a friend’s secluded cabin by the lake. For the sake of this analogy, the time it takes to write a great blog post is essentially the journey you’re making to get there. During your drive you encounter traffic, narrow windy roads, a flat tire, bad weather, killer zombies, and a number of other distractions along the way. Seriously — Worst. Drive. Ever. Do you stop and turn back when the going gets tough? Hell no, you press on until you get there. Unless you’re a quitter that is. If you give up that easy, then what you’re about to read next will terrify you. A completed blog post is just the first of many steps. It’s published! My work is over, it’s time to celebrate. Ugh, nope. It’s what you do after you hit that publish button that will set you apart from the rest. Back at the imaginary cabin, your gear isn’t just going to magically sprout legs and carry itself inside. Your food isn’t going to materialize into a half dozen deliciously cooked meals, and your fishing rod will definitely not hit up the dock, attach a lure and start reeling in rainbow trout. Making the trip out to the cabin was just the first step, it’s what you do after you get there that counts. Putting in the effort into turning your weekend into something awesome is just as important as getting there in the first place. Because the truth is, no one will do it for you – you yourself are in charge. Don’t believe the “if you build it, they will come” fallacy. It’s the single biggest reason most bloggers fail to secure an audience for their content and ignore the 80/20 principle. Having said that, finding an audience is no easy feat. In fact, most successful bloggers will argue it takes considerably more effort than the blog post itself. It’s a slow and steady process as each little plug here, a share there, a mention or a comment compounds the next until you start seeing serious results. Step 2, 3, 4 and 5 should be spent on nothing but blog promotion. Every time you publish a blog post, you must invest the time into promoting it! If you don’t, you might as well get comfortable with the idea that your blog may already be dying. So seek out relevant forums, communities, social media groups, and join them, be active, and share! Anywhere your blog posts will be on-topic and appreciated is where you want to be. There are hundreds, even thousands of communities and resources built around the very things you’re likely blogging about, so seek them out and get your hands dirty. And if push comes to shove, you can build your own community (we did!). In addition, be sure to regularly send out newsletters containing your blog posts to your ever growing list of subscribers. As long as you share your post where readers expect it, the small wins will eventually start to pile up. When your blog posts are being spread around organically via word of mouth, it’s a sure sign that you’re doing it right. Your audience is growing, so keep going! If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Enough of this one-sided consumption! Join our live community today!Engage with other bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, and content creators such as yourself; share awesome content and links, engage in discussions, participate in voting, and more! I started my "interweb" journey in '97, and since then I've been actively developing, designing and blogging. My goal is to work with bloggers and their audiences to create a next generation blog experience! Thanks for the article. This is a point I’m learning, oh so painfully. As a brand new blogger (just in my second month), I’m learning that building my audience is like pushing a boulder uphill from a stand still. It’s taking a lot of concentration and effort at the start. I’m just hoping that once I get rolling the momentum will make the journey a whole lot easier. I must confess, though, that I’m starting to enjoy the process. I’m learning from others, being inspired by others, and get small wins by way of a meaningful comment here or there.… Read more » Brilliant tips, most bloggers make the mistake of thinking that after publishing the work is done.Many do not realize that publishing is the small part,after publishing you have to promote your blog like crazy to get views. Very informative,thanks for sharing Thank you – this is an reall interesting post and you are right. The most important and time consuming thing is to actually promote your post. Which forums can you recommend and which ones are you using? It all depends on the subject you’re blogging about. Always start with the low hanging fruit, i.e. social media channels on twitter (hashtags) and facebook (groups) as they are the most accessible. You can seek out classic forum-like communities as well, however if you do find an established community, be sure to check out the rules so you don’t end up coming off too spammy. Best of luck in your search!

Search Albo talks frankly and unapologetically about these topics, which makes his play funny and poignant. It seems that in our society certain words are hard to talk about. Words like sperm, masturbation, in vitro fertilization, and fertility clinics are just a few that seem difficult to roll off the tongue. Yet these words are the very center of Mike Albo’s new, one man show, Spermhood. Albo talks frankly and unapologetically about these topics, which makes his play funny and poignant. Albo’s work entitled; Spermhood: the Diary of a Donor, gives us a first-hand account of Mike. He is a gay male, in his forties. Caroline,a lesbian and her partner had have decided they want to conceive a child and have asked Mike to be the donor. For the next 80 minutes the audience gets a first-hand account of Mike’s journey to fatherhood. We receive a glimpse into the world of sperm donation and fertility processes. Surprisingly, the steps involved can be rather exhausting for everyone. There are strict and thorough testing requirements that everyone must undergo in order to become a donor and a recipient. Albo’s play it’s not only funny, but very real. In one of his, comically awkward moments he describes what it’s like trying to get aroused from watching cheesy straight porn. He also talks about his dating life, his lack of a sex life, and his preoccupation with his cell phone. Two or three times throughout the play he stops the show to check his dating profiles on his phone. Not only are these funny moments, but they show us just how dependent we have all become on our devices. But when he is not making us laugh hysterically, which he does often, his quieter moments are vulnerable and sincere. These are the real moments, where we see that there is a person underneath all of the hoopla that the topic creates. Just when you think the process is all for nothing, they become pregnant Director, David Schweizer does a good job telling the story. Albo and him get to the heart of the piece, which can be tricky in a a play that can seem very surface level and one-dimensional. The only issue with the play is the excessive movement of Albo. He never sits still, and at times his frequent movements seem like nervous energy exuded by the actor, rather than coming from the play itself. Sometimes you wish he would just sit still for a second, instead of feeling the need to run around the stage all the time. Yes, the subject matter for this play is awkward and perhaps a little taboo. But if we really get honest with ourselves we can all relate.. And if Albo can become so honest on stage about his exploits as a sperm donor shouldn’t we have the courage to get honest with ourselves about our own lives? Spermhood plays Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 pm. At Dixon Place 161A Chrystie St. through May 28th. www.dixonplace.org or by calling (866)-811-4111or Dixon Place at (212) 219-0736.

Birdman's legal issues continue to worsen and now the hip-hop mogul will have to give up his Miami mansion. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the Cash Money Records co-founder has been ordered to immediately surrender the possession of keys and security system access to his 20,000-square-foot compound. Baby has been embroiled in a fight with EMG Transfer Agent and was hit with a $12 million foreclosure lawsuit in December of last year. According to a previous report, the lawsuit is for Birdman's Miami mansion, as well as a North Miami office space which houses his Hit Factory Criteria Recording Studios. Birdman initially took a loan for the home in 2015 and the suit claims he defaulted on the loan in February 2017. In related Birdman news, rumors of a relationship with Toni Braxton were fueled by a recent collaboration from the two. On the new song "Heart Away," Braxton hints at a relationship with Baby. “He took my heart away, bad man with good manner/Played me like I was a habit/Middle finger, he could have it/I used to dream of livin’ lavish/Now a girl’s a livin’ legend," she sings. As for Birdman, he raps about taking a woman out of a bad situation, spitting, "So much pain, I took you away from it/When I pull up on you I'm stuntin'/You got a bad man feeling good/Got a rich nigga from the hood." Birdman has yet to respond to allegations in the foreclosure lawsuit.

Every time a block is mined, a certain amount of BTC (called the subsidy ) is created out of thin air and given to the miner. The subsidy halves every four years and will reach 0 in about 130 years. And here guys and gals is the whole difference between the First World and Third World, between a free society and controlled society: "At the conclusion of the meeting senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand..." In a free country you do what you like as long as it is not illegal. In a controlled un-free country you can only do what is legally allowed. As a side note, too bad for Thailand, missing the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency train. They will regret it. My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. You are the next. RUN TO THE BANK AND GET YOUR MONEY OUT! My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. You are the next. RUN TO THE BANK AND GET YOUR MONEY OUT! Shit do you know if you can still make a transfer to your tba off an exchange? My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. You are the next. RUN TO THE BANK AND GET YOUR MONEY OUT! When a senior official at a central bank tells you point-blank, "buying or selling bitcoins is illegal", unless you have a seriously large legal fund and willing to fight all the way to the constitutional courts if necessary, you take it seriously. My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. You are the next. RUN TO THE BANK AND GET YOUR MONEY OUT! Ok, may be I'm not aware about legal procedures in Thailand.it seems like sharia court, where judge makes decision according not to law but by their own opinion. When a senior official at a central bank tells you point-blank, "buying or selling bitcoins is illegal", unless you have a seriously large legal fund and willing to fight all the way to the constitutional courts if necessary, you take it seriously. So we can make anyone in Thailand do illegal things by sending them an private key/brainwallet with Bitcoins?Just knowing it makes you the (or one of the) owners of the Bitcoins.E.g. Brainwallet-pw with some miliBitcoins: pinkelephant So we can makle anyone in Thailand do illegal things by sending them an private key/brainwallet with Bitcoins?Just knowing it makes you the (or one of the) owners of the Bitcoins.E.g. Brainwallet-pw with some miliBitcoins: pinkelephant

I’ve created a list of revolutionary products funded by the Venture Capitalists who funded Juicero, a wifi-enabled juicing machine that sells for $400 and whose juice packets can be squeezed by hand. Without further ado, here’s the portfolio of truly innovative and groundbreaking companies funded by Juicero’s Venture Capitalists. The one on the right is green because of the dollar bills you blended into it. $100 Wifi-enabled diapers. These bad boys will beep loudly and uncontrollably when your “little one” takes a dump in them. They’re basically methane gas detectors hooked up to a fire alarm on your baby’s butt. $250 Blockchain powered pasta strainer. This one is self explanatory. For those of you who aren’t caught up with the newest tech, a pasta strainer is a device that looks like a large bowl (a bowl is like a cup, but bigger), and it has a number of holes on the bottom to drain water. $475 Bluetooth sandals. These incredible Bluetooth sandals will pair with you phone in order to track your steps and massage your feet. Plus, it will give you a small, very safe, and only slightly painful electric shock if you walk off the path that your phone’s map app tells you to walk. You haven’t really lived if you haven’t tried Bluetooth sandals. $500 IoT silverware. What’s that? You’ve already got a fork? No, you’ve got a dumb fork. This is a smart fork. It can do smart things, like send you a push notification when you eat one too many Ben & Jerry’s. Just make sure you don’t try to use any of this silverware on soup; they are NOT waterproof. Seriously, that’s a fire hazard. $1299 Voice-activated microwave. Let’s say you’re trying to microwave some popcorn, but you’ve got your iPad in one hand and your other iPad in the other hand. With a normal microwave, you’d need to put down one of the iPads before microwaving your popcorn. But not with this incredible device! Seriously, this microwave changed my life. $8000 Robot that shampoos you. I know, $8000 is a lot of money. But think about it this way — the average adult spends 2 minutes every day shampooing their hair. If you make $130,000/year, like the average new grad in Silicon Valley, then your time is worth $62.50/hour. So that 2 minutes then is worth just over $2, meaning this robot will save you $760 every year! That means it will pay for itself in only 11 years. One word: wow. $125 Solar powered toothbrush. This is a deal and a half. A toothbrush that you don’t need to plug in anymore? Count me in! The only downside is that you need to leave your toothbrush outside for 12 hours every day to charge. $400 Rainbow LED can opener. Your boring old can opener is boring and old. Try something new, like a Rainbow LED can opener! It cycles through the rainbow as you circle the can, meaning you’ll never again wonder how close you are to being done opening a can. $999 AI trash can. To be honest, I don’t actually know what this one does. $650 Soylent mixing machine. Are you tired of mixing your powdered Soylent in a blender? Try this $650 Soylent mixing machine. My personal favorite feature is that it refuses to mix anything except for Soylent in order to protect you from accidentally mixing anything that’s not Soylent. If you can think of any other products that Juicero’s VC’s might want to fund, leave a comment below and I’ll be sure to reach out to them with the best ideas. If you liked this story, make sure to follow me and leave a ❤️ down below. For a weekly collection of interesting stories, essays, and satire, you can subscribe to my newsletter here. Also, check me out on Twitter!

And that is exactly what fashion darling Alessandro Micheledelivered at the Gucci Fall 2016 show last week. We are unabashed fans of extreme fantasy visionaries here at Damselfly, and no one has our mermaid fins a-fluttering more than this latest offering from Gucci’s RTW collection. The addictively opulent show was literally an ethereal magic fairy wonderland on crack. Think of a love child between Willy Wonka and Cara Delevinge and you are getting close to the vibe here. Models came streaming down the catwalk in an array of colours that would make a god damn rainbow look bleak and we f$&king loved it.

These two pieces originally appeared online at stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com. Responses to either or both of these pieces, as well as letters telling further “Stories from the War Zone,” are strongly encouraged and can be sent to StopPatriarchy@gmail.com or submitted through the website StopPatriarchy.org. Rape is NEVER the victim’s fault. Let me repeat that: Rape is NEVER EVER EVER EVER the fault of the victim. If you were raped, suspect you were raped, or if you were coerced by words or charm or threat, and may not call it rape, but still feel violated, IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT. We live in a RAPE culture, a culture where people think that rape has to do with sex. Rape has little to do with sex; it is about one person controlling another: whether through physical violence, emotional pressure, or leveraging of power or other social capital, to the point where the victim of the rape feels anything from humiliation all the way up to fear for their life as the dominant emotions. Any female, from the age of 6 months to 90 years old, of any nationality, from any walk of life, wearing any kind of clothing, doing any kind of work or activity (sometimes even sleeping in her own bed), is at risk. Any female in any physical environment, at any time of day or night, is at risk. It could happen in her own home, at a college frat party, at her kindergarten playground, at her church or temple, at her job, in her car, on the street, on the bus or subway, etc., etc., etc. The aggressor could be her boyfriend, her teacher, her priest, her husband, her friend, her date, a stranger, her employer, her boss, her client, her co-worker, even her father/brother/uncle/ or other family member, etc., etc., etc. This idea that women that get raped somehow asked for it: by their dress, by their behavior, by the work that they do—like prostitution, or pornography, (or babysitting!!), those ideas are wrong. Let me be clear, they are wrong because morally it’s wrong, not to mention ludicrous, to blame a victim of a crime for the crime that someone else committed against them. BUT moreover, those ideas are wrong, meaning that those ideas don’t reflect reality; they don’t accurately describe why rapists rape women. Remember that list of things to do to avoid being raped or assaulted? They include things like: don’t walk by yourself late at night, bring a whistle with you to blow if you get attacked, keep your car doors locked, check the back seat of your car when you’re getting into your car, never give a ride to a hitchhiker, etc. This is sound advice, and many of the points these lists make are important for women to follow. However, those lists can make it seem like rape is just some natural and permanent part of our landscape. “Now here’s Vanna with the forecast: Well Todd, it appears that there’s a big rape cloud threatening the area around Main St., so if you own a vagina, you’re gonna wanna lock your car doors, or better yet, just not go anywhere tonight if you don’t have to. Make sure you lock your doors tight if you live in that area!” How come they don’t give out a list similar to the ones that women get, but geared toward rapists and potential rapists??? Feel like raping a woman? Then you need to carry a whistle with you, and blow the whistle on yourself if you feel like raping your date. We also have these ideas that only vile, evil, old, gross men are the rapists. Look around you the next time that you are in public. Realize that one out of every four women that you see has been raped. In the U.S. every two minutes a woman is raped. How many women is that? Who is it that’s doing all this raping??? The fact is, it isn’t mainly old gross evil men who are strangers to the women that they rape. 80% of women who are raped are raped by someone that they know, they probably trust, and maybe the woman even likes and admires him. Most women that have been raped, sexually assaulted, or molested blame themselves, and it is UNACCEPTABLE that this culture reinforces patriarchal notions of blaming victims for the crimes that were done to them. Furthermore, if you know and trust someone, and they are already a part of your life, how the hell is that list going to help you? It won’t. The straight-up fact for women the world over is that we live in a world that degrades us simply on the basis of our gender. We didn’t do anything to deserve the kind of punishment and outright brutality that one can be dealt if one happens to be a woman. This is a painful fact…I think that many times women try to figure out what their “mistake(s)” were, so that they can feel some control or find some logic in the betrayal and the crime that took away their control and their choice. If we can find some way that we fucked up, then we can protect ourselves and prevent it the next time that it might happen. Or if we can figure out, “Why did I deserve this?” then we could avoid it by being a better “good girl.” But it’s just wishful thinking, it’s bullshit to try to think that way, to try to wrest power from a situation where one was deprived of power, in a culture where all women are subverted on account of their gender. Women everywhere are under these common threats of violence, and it’s intensifying. There is no way to avoid a culture of rape, a society that has become saturated with porn, the sexualized degradation of women and young girls. People have to recognize that no amount of women blaming ourselves, blaming other women for their rapes, no amount of denial or avoidance is going to drown out the fact that half of humanity is under attack. There is a real need to stand up against this shit, and part of what can happen when you stand up against it is that you start to see more clearly where the blame actually lies, and you begin to gain the ability to put the blame firmly on the patriarchal society we live in, the culture it gives rise to, and the rapists it produces. A part of this fight to defeat the war on women has to include us telling ourselves, our friends, and any one that we meet that confides in us about a rape or sexual assault that IT IS NOT OUR FAULT!!! It is not said often enough, and we need to say it, firmly know it, and tell others…because part of how that internalized blame gets reinforced is through how society treats women after they are assaulted or raped. THEY NEED TO HEAR THE MESSAGE, LOUD AND CLEAR: IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT. No more whispers—let’s shout it: RAPE IS NOT OUR FAULT!!! Get out of the shame, and the blame, and all of those head games, and START FIGHTING TO STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN! And you will probably find that all the crap thoughts finally, finally, finally have somewhere to go, some fucking usefulness. And under all the weight of all that hurt and horror there is probably a wellspring of fury that is just a whisper…just a wisp. As you get further into this, the whisper grows, until the rage that you didn’t even identify as actual rage can get channeled into something really earthshaking. And there are so, so, so MANY of us, and this fury moves DEEP in us. And we aren’t getting angry just to feel better, or to try to get even, we are out fighting to create a world where women aren’t preyed upon; we are out to create a world without rape, a world where women are treated as HUMAN BEINGS in EVERY sphere of society. This is something that both women and men should welcome and actively foster. And all this is WELL worth fighting for.

Hi all! From March 2-5, 2017, SCALE 15x will take place in the Pasadena Convention Center, LA, CA, USA. And of course, we’ll be there! Frank gives a talk, so do I, and we have a booth. I hereby summon @g33kdad as he has offered to help at the booth Of course, we’d love to have more volunteers. Any other American Nextcloud fan up for helping us kick ass in California? It’ll get you a free SCALE ticket, lots of fun and of course hugs from me, Frank and Matt…

A defence solicitor who represented Limerick gangland figure John Dundon has said he will be seeking a review of his conviction for the murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan. John Devane is seeking the review in the wake of the Garda phone recording controversy which saw telephone conversations recorded in garda stations across the country including Henry Street Garda station in Limerick. John Dundon (30), from Hyde Road in Limerick, was sentenced to life in prison last August for the murder of the 28-year-old Garryowen rugby player. Shane Geoghegan died after he was shot five times in a case of mistaken identity as he walked home in the early hours of November 9th 2008. “While I sympathise with the Geoghegan family obviously. I certainly believe that John Dundon’s telephone calls and consultations were listened to both inside in the garda station and I would go so far as saying also his telephone calls in the prison and to his previous solicitors and also to me,” said Mr Devane. “I am looking at a number of high profile murder cases and I am also looking at some other matters including a couple of rape maters and matters where people have been convicted - I have always believed in the wrong - of IRA membership,” he added. Mr Devane described the recording of telephone conversation as “disgraceful” and said John Dundon’s case would be high on his list of priorities. “I know that prison calls are always recorded and evidence has been gleamed and used in the past even in objections to bail for certain other people because of telephone calls made from the prison to other family members. Certainly John Dundon’s case will be high on my list of priorities and I will be going to Portlaoise tomorrow,” he said. “It’s an absolute disgrace and to say that the commissioner didn’t know about that I believe is like the organ grinder not knowing the music that he is playing ….I believe that the current Minister for Justice should do as Commissioner Callinan did and fall on his sword,” he added. Mr Devane said he was currently sitting down with counsel to look back at cases over the years in which he claims telephone conversations were “interfered with”. He also claimed today that he was previously warned by a senior garda that his own phone was “being monitored”. “This is an absolute disgrace. Whatever about my telephone being monitored, I’m not silly enough or stupid enough to advice a client of issues that might be of a sensitive nature over my telephone. But to think that the guards can monitor a conversation that might take place over a telephone or in a Garda station is an absolute disgrace,” he said. “I have suspected that for a long, long, time and when advising people I have often had to write down my instructions to people so that they would follow rather than saying them out and letting the guards hear the advice I was giving or the answers that I was getting to the questions I was putting to the client. “ I have had to write my instructions to the client. That is dreadful in this country where there are laws to protect the citizens against this type of eavesdropping. Watergate eat your heart out,” he added.

These Words and Phrases Will Help You Sound Like a Damnation Character Wondering what in tarnation they’re talking about in USA Network’s new series, Damnation? The show’s creative team took special care to employ language straight from the 1930s, including slang terms that aren’t used much in modern society. So if you’re unfamiliar with certain words, don’t fret: Even if you initially think Seth Davenport (Killian Scott) and Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green) are just bumping gums (see below), this glossary will help you better understand what’s being said. Bit: A prison sentence Example: “Dumb bastard busted a bottle over some copper's head and ended up serving a three month bit.” Boozehound: A drunkard Example: “He talks up a big story, but half the time that boozehound doesn’t even know what he’s saying.” Broad (sometimes called a dame): An attractive woman Example: “For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you why a broad like that would go out with an ugly mug like him.” Bumping gums: Talking nonsense Example: “Hoover won’t get reelected. Quit bumping gums.” Chicago Typewriter (sometimes called a Tommy Gun): A submachine gun favored by criminals, known for its distinct shape and high volume of fully automatic fire Example: “If you want to take out a gangster in style, use a Chicago Typewriter.” Flapper: A young woman who behaves in an unconventional manner Example: “She may look like an angel, but that flapper’s got the heart of the devil.” Giggle juice: Liquor Example: “You can’t trust a man who lets secrets spill after a little too much giggle juice.” Hooch: Liquor, particularly whiskey Example: “That dude slings back more hooch in one night than I can drink in an entire year.” Horn: A phone Example: “Get Stephen on the horn and let’s clear up this payment issue.” Make tracks: To leave quickly Example: “I don’t know how or who busted his head open, but we better make tracks before they throw the blame on us.” Moonshine: Particularly strong liquor produced without government authorization Example: “You put a shot of moonshine in Nicky and he’ll talk you half to death.” Pinkerton: A semi-official detective agency that started in the United States around 1850 Example: “Even if the law isn’t smart enough to connect Bill to Tom’s murder, the Pinkertons will come after him in good time.” Proprietor: Owner of a business establishment Example: “He came out West with the intentions of being a saloon proprietor, but only found his way into an early grave.” Sedition: Speech or behavior meant to incite rebellion against those in charge Example: “These trouble-makers keep up with their rabble-rousing and they’re going to be charged with sedition.” Speakeasy: A saloon that, during Prohibition, illegally sold alcoholic beverages Example: “Finding a speakeasy in this town is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.” Strikebreaker: Someone who breaks up worker-related rebellions by continuing to work regardless of protests. Example: “That strikebreaker knows that if he shows his face again, I’ll beat him until Sunday.” Revenuer: A government official who enforces the prohibiting of alcohol Example: “I don’t care if he’s a Republican or Democrat, I ain’t voting for a revenuer.” Trigger men: Hired gunmen; assassins Example: "Al Capone and his trigger men took out some Irish enforcers during the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Whorehouse: A brothel Example: “On Sunday mornings, you’re more likely to find Zachary in a whorehouse than a church." Yankee: A native of the northern United States; often used derisively Example: “Those arrogant Yankees are always sticking their noses where they don’t belong.” Yonder: “At a distance” or, colloquially, “in heaven” Example: "I have a mind to send you up yonder if you keep running that mouth!" Visit the Damnation website to get the latest news, watch videos, and learn more about the series. New episodes of Damnation air Tuesday nights at 10/9c on USA Network.

Quand elle relate la suite d’événements qui l’ont conduite en garde à vue, Leila ne peut s’empêcher de souffler entre deux phrases : « C’est une histoire de fous. » Cette cadre commerciale de 43 ans n’imaginait pas en ce lundi soir du mois d’août qu’en appelant la police, comme simple témoin d’une agression, elle serait emmenée au poste pour « violence sur personne dépositaire de l’autorité » et renvoyée devant le tribunal correctionnel, après avoir été elle-même étranglée et frappée… par un agent. Il est presque 22 heures quand Leila, vêtue d’un imperméable beige, remonte la rue Legendre, dans le 17e arrondissement de Paris. A quelques dizaines de mètres d’elle, elle aperçoit trois personnes s’en prendre physiquement à une femme au sol. La scène a attiré tout le voisinage au balcon. Les nombreux témoins interrogés par Le Monde la décrivent tous comme très brutale. Une femme assène notamment un grand coup de casque de moto à la personne au sol, tandis qu’un homme la saisit et la projette violemment contre une voiture. Leila appelle donc la police et se rapproche du groupe pour protéger la victime. Plusieurs passants la rejoignent pour tenter de faire cesser les coups. Une quinzaine de minutes plus tard, une voiture débarque à tombeau ouvert dans la rue. Plusieurs fonctionnaires en civil, brassard orange au bras, en sortent, pistolet au poing. « Lorsque la police est arrivée sur les lieux, j’étais choqué de les voir arme à la main, nous braquer agressivement », raconte Farid, témoin de la scène qui a souhaité rester anonyme. « A l’origine, ils intervenaient pour un individu armé sur la voie publique », explique-t-on de source policière, pour justifier la tension ambiante. Les agents commencent par séparer les protagonistes de l’altercation. L’un des agresseurs se tourne alors vers Leila et lui intime par deux fois l’ordre de se taire : « Tu n’as rien vu, tu ne dis rien. » Cette dernière se rapproche de l’un des policiers et signale à plusieurs reprises cette tentative d’intimidation. C’est alors que les choses dérapent. « Elle n’opposait aucune résistance » Le fonctionnaire, barbe fournie et casquette vissée sur la tête, l’empoigne à la gorge en l’étranglant, lui fait traverser la rue et la plaque contre un mur. Ne pouvant plus respirer, Leila pousse des cris et pleure. « Elle n’opposait aucune résistance et criait “Je ne vous ai rien fait, c’est moi qui vous ai appelés”, puis à plusieurs reprises “lâchez-moi, vous me faites mal” », raconte Isabelle, une autre témoin (le prénom a été changé à sa demande). Le policier desserre son étau et lui balance un coup de pied dans les jambes. « La dame avait le visage choqué, elle n’avait rien fait, elle demandait au policier pourquoi elle se faisait agresser, raconte Romain (qui n’a pas non plus voulu donner son identité), qui crie lui-même au fonctionnaire d’arrêter. J’ai vu parfaitement – j’étais à un mètre de distance – comment il l’a lâchée et lui a ensuite mis un coup de pied très fort sur les jambes. » Il vous reste 51.11% de cet article à lire. La suite est réservée aux abonnés.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tucker CarlsonEx-Pence aide: Trump spent 45 minutes of task force meeting 'going off on Tucker Carlson' instead of talking coronavirus Biden town hall draws 3.3 million viewers for CNN OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Cheney asks DOJ to probe environmental groups | Kudlow: 'No sector worse hurt than energy' during pandemic | Trump pledges 'no politics' in Pebble Mine review MORE chided acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyMick Mulvaney to start hedge fund Fauci says positive White House task force reports don't always match what he hears on the ground Bottom line MORE over a statement he made this week that seemed conflict with President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE's immigration policy. According to audio obtained from The Washington Post, Mulvaney said the U.S. is desperate for more legal immigrants. "We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we've had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants," Mulvaney said. Carlson claimed that Mulvaney, one of Trump's closest aides, is seemingly determined to undermine the administration's policies. ADVERTISEMENT "Everything about that statement is dishonest and stupid. For one thing, Americans don't want more immigration," Carlson said. The Fox News host added that the nation is "enjoying a tight labor market right now," claiming that while immigration is down, employment is up. "That means there are fewer available workers; therefore, employers must pay higher wages to those workers," Carlson continued. Mulvaney concluded his statement by saying that the current administration wants immigrants to come in a "legal fashion." However, Carlson rebuked the acting chief of staff's claim, supposing that Trump and Mulvaney have been at odds for several years on this issue and others. The television show host then cited comments made by Mulvaney in 2016, when he called the president "a terrible human being" but added that he would still support him. Mulvaney has since dismissed these claims, calling them a joke between the chief of staff and Trump. "We joked about it. ... What's wrong with Washington, D.C.? People spend a lot more time looking at what people say instead of what they do," he said.

Tupac Sex Tape Surfaces The tape, shot in 1991, begins with a bunch of groupies in a living room during a house party. Tupac walks into the room with his pants down to his ankles, his shirt off … sporting several chains. Tupac — whose head is shaved — pulls one of the women toward him, and she begins performing oral sex. As she does her thing, an unreleased song of Tupac’s is playing in the background, as Tupac is singing along and dancing, wiggling his hips. And it gets even better. As the woman services Tupac, who is holding a cocktail in one hand and a blunt in another, Money B from Digital Underground walks over to him. Tupac puts his cocktail arm around Money B, continues singing and dancing … and the woman never stops. As the tape ends it appears he’s ready to begin sexual intercourse. It’s unclear if there’s another tape. We’ve learned the person in possession of the tape is making plans to release it.

Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington’s huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity. —Paul Craig Roberts Roberts’ newest book, How America was Lost (463 pages, from Clarity Press, 2014) is a compendium of 135 columns (bracketed by an intro and conclusion), written between August, 2008 and December 31, 2013. Roberts himself should require no intro to anyone a little hip to the alternative news media (where many of these columns were posted), or, for that matter, to any older codger aware of Roberts’ work as an associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal—or, to even-older codgers who may recall his role as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan years. (During those years, Roberts helped shape “supply-side-economics”—for which “the Left” has still not forgiven him; and about which Roberts writes persuasively in his 2013 book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism.) This is one busy guy! And smart! Being somewhat hip, and accelerating towards codgerdom, I must declare that PCR is simply one of America’s best chroniclers of this sad, brutal era of imperial overreach and moral decline. Anyone who wants to understand where we’ve been recently, where we are now, and where we’re heading, had better read this book pronto! These hundred-plus columns hammer home some basic themes: Our Constitution has become little more than “a scrap of paper” (quote attributed to G. W. Bush—and sure does sound like something that moron would say!). Also, the official narrative of 9/11 is a “hoax.” That preposterous narrative has been used to justify our Nuremberg-Standard “war crimes” against Muslims (killing, wounding, traumatizing and displacing millions) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and Syria. Our “unitary executive” is an excuse for “Cesarism.” Our Legislative and Judicial branches have surrendered their powers to our dictatorial Cesar—Obama (and his advisors!) and the quondam triumvirate of Cheney-Bush-Rummy—with barely a whimper. Our once vigorous middle class has been pummeled to a pulp thanks to jobs-offshoring, Supreme-Court maleficent decisions like “Citizens United,” and a rigged electoral system controlled by multi-billionaire oligarchs like the Koch Bros and Sheldon Adelson. Matters look none-too-sanguine for our future, of course, what with our “presstitute” media (a PCR neologism) lulling us with non-news or patent lies. Then, of course, there’s NATO. In case you’ve been too lulled, you may have missed the fact that NATO—originally a defensive alliance—has been transmogrified (since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991) into America’s imperial army, with “puppet,” bought-out governments in France, England, etc. (27 countries at last count) fighting America’s “War on Terror,” and everything else, and pushing nukes right up to Russia’s borders, itching for a fracas (possibly nuclear!) with the Bear in his selfdom! And if that isn’t madness enough—let’s “Pivot to Asia,” challenge China in the South China Sea and see if we can’t chop-suey the planet! Personally, I think our descent into the lower circles of the Inferno began long ago, but for Roberts we at least made obeisance to a system of Laws. They may have been imperfectly observed — what with slavery and Tribal People’s genocide, but nobody had ever thought to codify our vileness (before Bush special counsel, John Yoo!). The die was cast for that codification when the invincible Soviet Union proved less than invincible and, cosmeticized with hubris, we proclaimed ourselves, in the spellbinding words of Madeleine Albright, “the indispensable people.” Such a people certainly had a “right” to override UN mandates against bombing the hell out of Serbia (to wrest Croatia into our orbit), or, later, to turn “no-fly zones” in Libya into free-fire zones. The Executive branch of such a people, supported by a wimp, campaign-financed Congress, could pooh-pooh Constitutional protections against unlimited detentions and advance to torturing suspected “terrorists” (under Bush). “Cesar” could then order the killing of American citizens, without trials or convictions, in foreign countries — call it trial-by-drones — under Obama! (And our grinning, change-we-can-believe-in Prez could kibitz about his “kill-list” skills!) One other sad theme: we good ole American, Bible-thumping, burger-chomping, coke-drinking (and snorting), true-blue, sports-o-manic folks and jokesters have let it happen! So, Roberts writes columns/chapters like, “Americans Submit to Tyranny,” and “Insouciant Americans,” and “Does America Have a Culture?”…you get the picture! (“Insouciant,” like “presstitutes,” is one of PCR’s favorite words!). We just don’t seem to give a damn anymore! Maybe we’re just too worn out, the kaleidoscope of our changing world whirls too fast, and, let’s face it, our educational standards have been declining for decades!) America seems to be dying the way fish die — from the head down. With NATO spending some 70% of the world’s war-making budget (and comprising 15% of the number of countries in the world—and less than that in terms of population), we have enough weaponry/wizardry to blow up the whole lollapalooza many times over. But, we’re led by dead-head fish like Bush, Cheney, Obama, SC “Justice” (sic) John Roberts, warmongering jerk-offs like McCain and his lollypop side-kick Lindsey Graham, and misled by “Pussy-Riot” celebrants like Madonna, Bill (hate the Muslims!) Maher, and even the admittedly witty Colbert. If Maher and Colbert and the rest really want to interview and support progressive, humanist, small-“d” democratic feminists—why not talk to Americans Kathy Kelly, Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin? Perhaps it was inevitable? How could we poor saps keep track of our government and corporate power with anything approaching the surveillance powers of our NSA state? No-punches-pulled Roberts calls it our “Stasi” police state—with a nod to East Germany’s infamous Cold War apparatus (kids’-play to what’s happening in the US now!). Thanks to the more recent revelations of Snowden, Manning, Assange, Greenwald (and, earlier whistle-blower, Binney)—to all of whom Roberts has dedicated his book—the author devotes much of the latter part of How America Was Lost to this all-encompassing surveillance net. “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom,” Jefferson wrote. And, I recall as a teen, seeing billboards of a charismatic presidential candidate named John F. Kennedy, with that quote on those billboards. But, now we must ask, even as the sardonic Roman poet Juvenal asked, Cuis custodiet ipsos custodes? Towards the end of this 450-page book, probably melancholic about our “insouciance,” Roberts writes, “I sometimes wonder whether Americans like being spied upon, because it makes them feel important.” We are overwhelmed with ennui, anomie, and existential meaninglessness. Again, Roberts propounds: “Being spied upon is the latest craze of people devoid of any future—but desperate for attention.” There are tenuous tendrils of hope…. Germany, the effective, virtual leader of the EU, could shake loose from NATO, reach for rapprochement with Russia. And, our trodden masses may finally awaken! (Chris Hedges, in his recent work, has also expressed hope for a revolutionary awakening!) And then there is the tendril that could strangle the world: Our “New World Order” very much depends on compacts/understandings/contracts/treaties established during World War II—like Bretton Woods, etc. Today, America’s fundamental strength as the dominant superpower lies not in our military prowess nor alliances, certainly not in our cultural values, nor our now off-shored manufacturing. Principally, it lies in the fact that the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. As the BRICS and other nations begin to realize they are better off without that system, our flimsy superstructure can crash upon our heads. Roberts cites Oliver Stone’s and Peter Kuznick’s book, The Untold History of the United States and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States as two essential books for understanding the true, unembellished story of America. I saw the Stone-Kuznick 10-hour Showtime documentary based on their book, and I devoured Zinn’s book over a decade ago, and I agree with Roberts. I would add—to better understand our 46-year Cold War mania (now being revived!)—William Blum’s Killing Hope. And, for hammer-blow accounts of where we are now, add How America Was Lost.

An illegal alien allegedly operated a sex trafficking scheme in Goose Creek, South Carolina, delivering illegal alien prostitutes to clients, according to federal immigration officials. Maria Antonia Zavaleta-Perez, a 40-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, is accused of running a brothel where she allegedly trafficked illegal alien prostitutes across state lines and sold them to clients for cash, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Zavaleta-Perez, who went by the nickname “La China,” would bring prostitutes, who were also illegal aliens, from North Carolina to South Carolina or have a co-conspirator drive the girls. For about a week, ICE agents allege, Zavaleta-Perez would house two of the girls, sell them to clients, and then trade them out for another two girls a week later. The illegal alien allegedly would drive the girls to a client’s home or have them bring clients directly to her house in Goose Creek and charge clients $50 to have sex with the girls. When ICE agents surveyed Zavaleta-Perez and her victims, they noticed multiple stops at various locations where illegal alien prostitutes are often delivered. Zaveleta-Perez is now being held at the Charleston County Detention Center for charges including illegal entry into the U.S. State officials expect that Zavaleta-Perez will be turned over to U.S. Marshals. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

6 Times Bollywood's Cultural Stereotypes Were Lazy AF Yes, we know you only just got over all the discussions around Coldplay's latest video and, honestly, we are sorry for bringing this up again. If you logged on to any form of social media during the weekend, when the English rock superstars launched the video for their latest single 'Hymn For The Weekend', you probably belong to one of the following three camps: a) You love the video and you think it's beautifully shot and are proud that they chose to feature India. b) You detest the video and think it's yet another instance of the West's fascination with Indian exotica (aka cultural appropriation). c) Who cares? Coldplay is stupid. Everyone is stupid. Ever heard of a band called Muse? Blur? That's real music, bruvs. 'Hymn For The Weekend' by Coldplay feat. Beyonce, from their latest album 'A Head Full Of Dreams' Well, regardless of what your opinion about the video (or the song) may be, the conversations around cultural stereotyping have shed light on the lazy clichés the West often relies on to depict India. But when we'e speaking about laziness, can good old Bollywood ever be left behind? Here are a few examples of horrendous cultural stereotyping in mainstream Hindi cinema, starring well-known actors and actresses, that have been watched and celebrated by millions of people since. It might explain why we are where we are. 1. 'Hawa Hawai' from Mr India (1987) What a lovely song, right? An absolute classic. But wait, what's up with those background dancers? Oh, right, they're deliberately being made to look outlandish so as to make Sridevi look even prettier than she already is. Fair enough. But then you get to the four-and-a-half minute mark and you realise they're in blackface for... no real reason whatsoever. So much for sensitivity to centuries of oppression. 2. 'Chai Mein Chini' from Roop Ki Raani Choron Ka Raja (1993) India is in the same continent as China. And Japan. And yet, for some reason, we seem to know nothing about these cultures. 'Chinki', 'cheeni', 'Nepali' — they're all the same to us, apparently, and this song from Satish Kaushik's early '90s disaster does nothing to dispel that idea. Here we have Anil Kapoor in mild blackface along with Sridevi dressed as a geisha (traditional Japanese female entertainers) pretending to be... Chinese, apparently. A line in the song goes 'Bachcha, tujhe mein kachcha chaba jaaungi' ('Kid, I will eat you alive') —because that's what Chinese people do, of course. 3. Dharmendra in Razia Sultan (1983) This big-budget epic by Kamal Amrohi (Pakeezah), based on the life of Razia Sultan, may to be the only Hindi movie that has ever had an African protagonist. There's just one problem: that black male lead is a man from Punjab we all know as Dharmendra, playing an Abyssinian slave named Jamal-ud-Din Yakut, in blackface. Sigh. 4. Chunky Pandey in Housefull (2010) and Housefull 2 (2012) Let's file this one under 'Stereotyping So Lazy It Failed Jr Kg'. In Sajid Khan's smash-hit (which has a second sequel coming out soon), Chunky Pandey plays an "Italian" man named Aakhri Pasta (a reference to the 1986 film Aakhree Raasta). While the exaggerated Italian accent, hand gestures, and empty references to Robert De Niro are obvious red flags, he's also prone to saying 'señorita' and 'gracias' — which are, of course, Spanish (aka Not Italian) words. Yes, of course, the whole thing's a joke — Aakhri Pasta, as a character, is very clearly meant to be an Indian man impersonating an Italian quite badly — but one suspects that this slip-up was brushed away with "Oho, Spanish-Italian, no one will know the difference yaar." 5. Innumerable white back-up dancers in various Bollywood songs There are hundreds of examples of this, especially in the last 15 years. Caucasian women gyrating in barely-there clothing, often behind the lead pair of the movie, chosen because they "have better figures and are more willing to expose them". To young Indian males who have been watching this for years, this translates very easily to 'all white women are easy'. Incredible India, indeed. 6. Mehmood in Padosan (1968) All South Indians are 'Madrasis'. All South Indians speak Hindi in a funny accent and say 'Aiyyo!' all the time. All South Indians are Brahmins. All South Indians wear lungis. Here's a scene from a much-loved Hindi cinema classic that checks off all these boxes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge appeared poised Monday to toss out a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump by porn actress Stormy Daniels. Judge S. James Otero said in U.S. District Court that a tweet the president wrote in April appears to be "rhetorical hyperbole" and speech protected under the First Amendment. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued Trump in April after he said a composite sketch of a man she said threatened her in 2011 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with the real estate mogul was a "con job." Trump tweeted that the man was "nonexistent" and that Daniels was playing the "fake news media for fools." He retweeted a side-by-side photo comparing the sketch with a photo of Daniels' husband. Otero said he would rule later, but that Trump's statement seemed like an opinion and speech protected under the First Amendment. "To allow the complaint to go forward and to have one consider this to be defamatory in the context it was made would have a chilling effect," Otero said. Attorney Ken White who blogs about the case and talks about it on the podcast "All the President's Lawyers" said he thinks Otero wrote a tentative ruling that he would finalize and issue soon. If Daniels' defamation case if thrown out it would be similar to a ruling by a New York state judge who dismissed a lawsuit by a political strategist who claimed her reputation was trashed when Trump falsely said she had "begged" for a campaign job and called her a "dummy" on Twitter, White said. "The court basically said, 'It's Trump, it's Twitter, he known for throwing around insults and this can't be understood as anything other than exaggerated rhetoric,'" White said of the New York case. Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said outside court that he would appeal if the defamation suit was dismissed. He said it was ironic that Trump was relied on the First Amendment to shield himself from legal trouble. "I witnessed something here today that I never thought I'd witness," Avenatti said. "That is: Donald Trump having a lawyer stand up in a federal court and espouse on his behalf the virtues and how important the First Amendment is in America. This is the same Donald Trump that has crapped all over the First Amendment and the news media for years." Story continues Otero scheduled a hearing Dec. 3 to discuss Trump's efforts to dismiss another lawsuit by Daniels over a hush-money agreement related to their alleged affair. Daniels sued Trump and his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who negotiated the deal, so she could speak publicly about the sexual tryst without fear of reprisal. Cohen had threatened to sue her for $20 million. Lawyers for Trump and Cohen now say the deal that paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet was invalid and they won't sue her for breaking it. Daniels has said she had sex once with Trump in 2006 and carried on a friendship with him for about a year. Daniels had said the agreement should be invalidated because Cohen signed it, but Trump didn't. Trump's attorney said the president never considered himself as a party to the agreement and doesn't dispute Daniels' assertion that the contract isn't valid. While Trump and Cohen want the court to toss out the litigation as moot, Daniels' lawyer wants to keep the case alive. Avenatti, who has frequently and aggressively criticized Trump in the news and has said he's considering challenging him in the 2020 presidential race, wants to take testimony from Trump about whether the deal was inked to silence Daniels while he was running for president. Cohen has pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations for arranging payments to both Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Essential Consultants, the company Cohen set up to make the payment to Daniels, wants Daniels to return her $130,000 payment. Avenatti wants the defendants to pay his legal fees. Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, said he would ask Daniels to pay the president's legal bills if he succeeds in killing the defamation suit.

We urge readers to do a word search for "Moody's" in the official department of justice release below. Here are the highlights: DOJ COMPLAINT ALLEGES S&P LIED ABOUT ITS OBJECTIVITY - when it downgraded the US? - when it downgraded the US? HOLDER SAYS S&P'S ACTIONS CAUSED `BILLIONS' IN LOSSES - did Moody's actions, profiled previously here, which happens to be a major holding of one Warren Buffett, cause billions in profits? - did Moody's actions, profiled previously here, which happens to be a major holding of one Warren Buffett, cause billions in profits? HOLDER SAYS `NO CONNECTION' BETWEEN S&P SUIT, U.S. DOWNGRADE - just brilliant Pure pathetic political posturing, because it was the rating agencies, whose complicity and conflicts of interest everyone knew about, who were responsible for the financial crisis. Not Alan Greenspan, not Ben Bernanke, and certainly not Wall Street which made tens of billions in profits selling CDOs to idiots in Europe and Asia. Of course, the US consumer who had a gun held against their head when they were buying McMansions with no money down and no future cash flow is not even mentioned. Full release from the US Depratment of Promoting Injustice for kleptocrat bankers Department of Justice Sues Standard & Poor’s for Fraud in Rating Mortgage-backed Securities in the Years Leading up to the Financial Crisis Complaint Alleges that S&P Lied About its Objectivity and Independence And Issued Inflated Ratings for Certain Structured Debt Securities. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services alleging that S&P engaged in a scheme to defraud investors in structured financial products known as Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). The lawsuit alleges that investors, many of them federally insured financial institutions, lost billions of dollars on CDOs for which S&P issued inflated ratings that misrepresented the securities’ true credit risks. The complaint also alleges that S&P falsely represented that its ratings were objective, independent, and uninfluenced by S&P’s relationships with investment banks when, in actuality, S&P’s desire for increased revenue and market share led it to favor the interests of these banks over investors. “Put simply, this alleged conduct is egregious – and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis,” said Attorney General Holder. “Today’s action is an important step forward in our ongoing efforts to investigate – and – punish the conduct that is believed to have contributed to the worst economic crisis in recent history. It is just the latest example of the critical work that the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force is making possible.” Attorney General Eric Holder was joined in announcing the filing of the civil complaint by Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Stuart F. Delery, and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California André Birotte Jr. Also joining the Department of Justice in making this announcement were the attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa and Mississippi, who have filed or will file civil fraud lawsuits against S&P alleging similar misconduct in the rating of structured financial products. Additional state attorneys general are expected to make similar filings today. “Many investors, financial analysts and the general public expected S&P to be a fair and impartial umpire in issuing credit ratings, but the evidence we have uncovered tells a different story,” said Acting Associate Attorney General West. “Our investigation revealed that, despite their representations to the contrary, S&P’s concerns about market share, revenues and profits drove them to issue inflated ratings, thereby misleading the public and defrauding investors. In so doing, we believe that S&P played an important role in helping to bring our economy to the brink of collapse.” Today’s action was filed in the Central District of California, home to the now defunct Western Federal Corporate Credit Union (WesCorp), which was the largest corporate credit union in the country. Following the 2008 financial crisis, WesCorp collapsed after suffering massive losses on RMBS and CDOs rated by S&P. “Significant harm was caused by S&P’s alleged conduct in the Central District of California,” said U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Birotte. “Across the seven counties in my district, we had huge numbers of homeowners who took out subprime mortgage loans, many of which were made by some of the country’s most aggressive lenders only because they later could be securitized into debt instruments that were given flawed ‘AAA’ ratings by S&P. This led to an untold number of foreclosures in my district. In addition, institutional investors located in my district, such as WesCorp, suffered massive losses after putting billions of dollars into RMBS and CDOs that received flawed and inflated ratings from S&P.” The complaint, which names McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and its subsidiary, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (collectively S&P) as defendants, seeks civil penalties under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) based on three forms of alleged fraud by S&P: (1) mail fraud affecting federally insured financial institutions in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341; (2) wire fraud affecting federally insured financial institutions in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343; and (3) financial institution fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344. FIRREA authorizes the Attorney General to seek civil penalties up to the amount of the losses suffered as a result of the alleged violations. To date, the government has identified more than $5 billion in losses suffered by federally insured financial institutions in connection with the failure of CDOs rated by S&P from March to October 2007. “The fraud underpinning the crisis took many different forms, and for that reason, so must our response,” said Stuart F. Delery, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department’s Civil Division. “As today’s filing demonstrates, the Department of Justice is committed to using every available legal tool to bring to justice those responsible for the financial crisis.” According to the complaint, S&P publicly represented that its ratings of RMBS and CDOs were objective, independent and uninfluenced by the potential conflict of interest posed by S&P being selected to rate securities by the investment banks that sold those securities. Contrary to these representations, from 2004 to 2007, the government alleges, S&P was so concerned with the possibility of losing market share and profits that it limited, adjusted and delayed updates to the ratings criteria and analytical models it used to assess the credit risks posed by RMBS and CDOs. According to the complaint, S&P weakened those criteria and models from what S&P’s own analysts believed was necessary to make them more accurate. The complaint also alleges that, from at least March to October 2007, and because of this same desire to increase market share and profits, S&P issued inflated ratings on hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of CDOs. At the time, according to the allegations in the complaint, S&P knew that the quality of non-prime RMBS was severely impaired, and that the ratings on those mortgage bonds would not hold. The government alleges that S&P failed to account for this impairment in the CDO ratings it was assigning on a daily basis. As a result, nearly every CDO rated by S&P during this time period failed, causing investors to lose billions of dollars. The underlying federal investigation, code-named “Alchemy,” that led to the filing of this complaint was initiated in November 2009 in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Over the past three fiscal years, the Justice Department has filed nearly 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants including more than 2,900 mortgage fraud defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit www.StopFraud.gov . Due to public interest in this case, the Department of Justice is releasing documents that may not be in an accessible format. 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Before a significant chunk of the population got access to the internet, there was a time when the word, ‘rape’, used to mean something. It was looked down upon as being one of the most heinous acts of violence a person could inflict upon a fellow human being, alongside murder and torture. unfortunately, that isn’t the case anymore. As if the ever growing epidemic of fake rape accusations wasn’t enough of a cause of concern, the internet became a “safe space” for one of the most hateful group of people on this planet to throw this extremely vile word around, calling a random stranger, ‘rapist’, from the comfort of their couch and without worrying about any kind of consequence. The group I’m referring to is, of course, SJWs, or Social Justice Warriors. And the occasional White Knight. These folks can be seen in action on some of the most popular subs on the notorious website Reddit, i.e. r/tumblrinaction and r/whiteknighting. I’ve seen these people get offended on the most ridiculous things (FREAKING water bottles, healthy food or Twitter follow preferences of certain celebs, for starters) and throw the most contemptible insults one can imagine, at the ones they’re arguing with. Nothing is off limits. Not even rape. I have seen people get called rapists and paedophiles for absolutely no reason other than the fact that the ones throwing around these words had run out of insults. I used to feel the utmost pity for these people. Sometimes, I used to just let out a chuckle and scroll down the news feed. Today, I was called one. And it stung real hard. I’m sure as hell not laughing now. It began when I posted a screenshot on a Reddit sub called r/IAmVeryBadass. The sub is dedicated to mock those tough keyboard warriors who type out profanities and all kinds of threats, geared towards some stranger that’s probably sitting thousands of miles away. The screenshot featured a guy throwing threats left and right, even going as far as threatening a user to rape his girlfriend. Look for yourself. I took a screenshot, omitted the usernames, and posted it in the sub. And thus the drama ensued. The top comment branded the man in question as being “a misogynist who would probably rape a women”, and rightfully so. The guy was after all threatening to rape a woman. A Reddit user named u/dissenter_the_dragon chimed in, and asked the commenter “whether he was referring to the person making a rape threat, or the OP (that’s me), who is a regular poster at r/mgtow and r/mensrights?” Then the user added that they’re going with both! This user, dissenter_the_dragon, without ever having met me, and without having an ounce of proof against me, indirectly referred to me as being a misogynist as well as a rapist. And they did it in the most casual manner possible, in a humorous tone, like it meant nothing to them. I remember reading about an incredibly horrible gangrape case around five years ago. That was the first time I realized how low a human being can stoop to, disregarding any consequences to the victim as well as themselves. I began suffering from insomnia, spending countless nights reliving the moment the victim was raped, and how quickly a person’s hopes and aspirations for a bright future got destroyed beyond repair because a group of human scum decided to have their way with the victim. I even used to fantasise and make up scenarios in my mind, where I’m torturing these worthless excuses for human beings, in an abandoned basement. Basically, my mind was fucked up, almost to the point of no return. But I did. And I made sure to always do my bit towards this very scathing issue, and make as many people aware of the heinous consequences of rape, as I possibly could. Imagine my utter disgust, when out of the blue, a random ignorant keyboard warrior (still unsure whether they were an SJW, a white knight, or just a sad lonely human being) brands me as being a possible rapist, just because I associate myself with, and post in men’s rights and MGTOW groups! The feeling sure as hell wasn’t a pretty one. It stung inside. Another user chimed in and assumed that I was someone who migrated to these groups when r/incel (incel is someone who defines themselves as being unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, and some of them are known for blaming women for their state) was shutdown. I wasn’t surprised at all. These folks are not known for carrying out a logical argument, without assuming stuff and resorting to childish insults. I couldn’t just see the accusation thrown at me and not respond. They needed to learn that it WAS NOT OKAY to throw around this extremely vile word without having known the person they were targeting. The user had made a comment down the chain, stating that Men’s rights activists and MGTOWs need to be hugged more by their parents, and that they make sure to always hug their daughter. The user apparently couldn’t think of anything else but to throw another insult at me, to which I replied as I saw fit. They fired back with using the classic Nazi insult, editing their comment to state that it was of course a metaphor, after I replied that I hated Nazis growing up, and still do BTW. It’s worth noting here that, THEY STILL HAVEN’T TRIED TO CORRECT ME. We have exchanged a a bunch of comments by this point, but they still haven’t said anything to mean that the rapist reference was a mistake, which means that they are still maintaining the fact that they did indeed see me as a misogynist and a rapist. This becomes important down the line, when they try to retract their statement, stating that they actually referred to me as ONLY a misogynist and not a rapist, when they realized that what they spewed was an incredibly stupid thing to say, and the downvotes had started to pour in. They also falsely accused me of accusing the man in the screenshot of being a rapist when all I did was just mention what the man himself stated. This usually happens when someone like this user runs out of arguments to make. Feast your eyes upon this travesty. The comment chain stretched down further, as the user got themselves tangled into their own web of lies. Another user chimed in, who were most probably a backup called in by the dragon in desperation. The backup didn’t respond beyond these exchanges. But the accuser kept at it, clinging to it and embarrassing themselves further in the process. They even tried to make me go their route, and engage in the hilariously creepy act of stalking someone’s Reddit profile to find some dirt on them. I responded that that wasn’t something I do, unlike them. There’s a highly upvoted and well received post on the popular subreddit, r/unpopularopinion, demonizing people who stalk someone’s profile in hopes of finding something to use against them in an argument. Finally, they gave up and just let their true self run wild in the open for everyone to see, blatantly accusing me of actually hurting women. They kept at it for a while before quitting for good. As the ‘conversation’ came to an end, I realized something. I had just wasted a good chunk of my day, arguing with someone who had called me one of the most vile things anyone could say to a fellow human being. What if someone calls me a rapist again, someday? There’s no shortage of SJWs and white knights on the web, and they don’t hold anything back while insulting you, if they feel that their safe space has been invaded. This one didn’t eve need their space invaded in the first place! Will I waste more time with trolls like these in the future? The answer is a resounding NO! If the person is awful enough to refer to you as a rapist, based on your activity in subs that are against their ideals, then that person is definitely not worth having a debate with you. You will only end up wasting your time when you decide to feed the troll. So why this article, if I had decided to not waste my time on people like these anymore? Here’s why. The word ‘rape’ has lost it’s meaning. Every other day, you’ll read a news stating someone being falsely accused of rape. More often than that, you’ll see ignorant folks throwing around this vile word to insult complete strangers on the internet. These people are dangerous. They are someone who could potentially accuse a person of a terrible crime in the future, just to get back at them, like multiple fake accusation cases in the past have taught us. Shaming these people is a necessity, for the sake of a completely innocent person who could be a potential victim of these horrible beings. The one I encountered was a parent of a little girl. Imagine what kind of despicable teachings these people could pass on to their children? Even the thought of little children being raised up by someone like this person, makes me shudder. More importantly, instances like this one being out there in the open for everyone to see, is a tiny drop in the large ocean of content that would help people realize that: Rape is not a joke that can be thrown around as an insult. People have lost lives in horrible manner while being raped and some have survived rapes to live incredibly tough lives because of how society looks down upon rape survivors. It’s the last thing one should joke about. The ones who joke about it are absolutely vile human beings, and should be systematically named and shamed in the open for everyone to see. Rape is no joke, and people need to start learning this simple fact, before it’s too late. Massive edit: I somehow forgot to include the screenshot that formed the title of this dissection. Here it is:

Apparently it’s big in the US, where Barack Obama is a big fan, and naturally after London electedtheir answer to ‘Change we can believe in’ in May, the Conservatives are equally enamoured with the nudge phenomenon too. (It’s interesting to notice how much Obama and the Conservatives have in common: it’s as if the entire political spectrum in the US were situated to the right of our own… because it is.) Where some political philosophies may emphasise people’s rights and freedoms, others their responsibilities, and others the state’s responsibilities to serve and protect them, ‘nudge’ politics is based on the idea that people are basically extremely stupid, and therefore need to be told what to do. Were such a philosophy espoused by the left, it would no doubt be ridiculed as the nanny state gone mad, but of course this is the new, cuddly and most critically electable Conservatives and it’s therefore perfectly acceptable to the right for them to come out with this idea. We’re all idiots The nudge idea is actually quite a reasonable one, as far as it goes. In its propensity to continue to ruin its planet, its self-destructive urge to binge-drink, over-eat and overindulge with drugs, the human race is often its own worst enemy. So unless you take the extreme libertarian view that everyone should be left to get on with it, whatever the consequences (even if those consequences could ultimately be, for instance, the deaths of millions in climate change-caused disasters), giving people a nudge in the right direction is not a bad idea. The idea is to provide people with the state-determined ‘best’ option as the default choice, while still allowing people to choose other paths if they disagree. So you enrol someone for a pension but give them the chance to cancel it if they don’t want to pay into it; perhaps you even reverse the current organ donation situation, requiring anyone who doesn’t want to donate organs to carry a card to make their wishes clear. So where can we see this approach in action already? Where are there millions of people, most of them not really understanding what they’re doing, making uninformed choices which can have bad consequences for thousands of others, all of which can be mitigated by sensibly chosen default options? There’s a 90%+ chance you’re looking at it now: Microsoft Windows. Curtains for Windows? The vast majority of the world’s computers run Windows, and certainly almost anyone without the first clue about computers will be using it, probably without even realising they’re doing so. (That’s not to suggest only the stupid use Windows: I have first, second and third clues about computers and still choose to use it.) For a long time, ease of use, to encourage computer take-up, trumped security. Don’t know what this webpage alert about needing to install the rootkit.exe plugin means? Don’t worry, just hit Enter and the page will work fine. Users’ freedom to do as they pleased in the short term outweighed the benefits to everyone in the long term. (Don’t understand this pension scheme terms and conditions document? Just throw it away and forget about it for now, then.) But it soon became clear, halfway through Windows XP’s life, that this approach simply wasn’t good enough any more in the always-connected internet age. Suddenly those auto-installing ‘plugins’ were turning into huge internet-wide ‘botnets’ of unknowing computer users’ systems, working together to send spam, attack web sites and generally make internet users’ lives a misery. Improvements nudge into view Microsoft responded with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), which was effectively a significant new release of the operating system but was shipped as a free service pack to try to get it out to as many of the existing millions of XP machines as possible. This release was an early example of some pretty tough ‘nudging’. Vast swathes of default settings had been changed to favour security over ease of use. The firewall was turned on by default, important system patches awaiting installation nagged users into submission, and the browser didn’t even prompt you prominently to install plugins (encouraging casual ‘Yes’-clicking to rid yourself of the nuisance of a pop-up dialog box), instead notifying you through an unobtrusive strip to be sought out only if you were wondering why something obviously wasn’t working properly on the page. A nudge too far? The trouble is, even that didn’t appear to be enough. I’m one of those people that gets called on to sort out parental acquaintances’ PCs when they go wrong, and I’ve seen even the most well-patched XP SP2 machines crippled by all kinds of malware that’s tricked its way onto people’s PCs. I once found someone who had actually paid to ‘renew’ a piece of fake anti-virus software that had tricked its way onto his computer – past his existing anti-virus software. So Windows Vista ups the security and nudging to a whole new level, with administrative elevation prompts often described as ‘intrusive’ in reviews. These pop up whenever you try, or anything else on your system tries, to do something which requires administrative privileges: installing software, changing system settings, generally doing anything which could feasibly result in your computer being turned into a lean, mean, spamming machine, or worse. Mrs. Pushing the boundary (the wife formerly known as Mrs. Stop Boris) got a bit fed up with these prompts, and Vista’s other beefed-up security credentials and went back to XP. It’s not an uncommon tale (albeit mixed in with the usual teething problems caused by hardware companies keener to sell you new hardware than to spend a few hours writing a new driver for their old hardware), and it illustrates the fine balance to be found between nudging people enough and pushing them too far. Nudge off Those of us who know what we’re doing with computers can of course disable all the nudging, although I rather like knowing when something wants admin rights so I haven’t. Governmental nudging would be unlikely to come with a universal off-switch in the same way. Even at the individual decision level, how would Cameron strike the balance mentioned above successfully? It needs to be easy enough to opt out of, say, a pension plan for those people who genuinely understand the options and don’t think that’s the best one for them, yet hard enough that uninformed people focused on the short term don’t spot a tick-box which to them appears to say “Don’t give away 5% of my money each month after all”. Con-tradictions And as with so much of Project Cameron, it could appear that he is seeking an impossible compromise between fundamentally different approaches, like free-market economics and environmentalism, or hugging hoodies but throwing away the key if they’re carrying a knife. Is this the party David Davis has apparently decided he would like, one which defends liberties and freedoms (apart from freedom from the death penalty and homophobia, of course 😉 ), or is it instead another party which will want to tell everyone what to do for the greater good? Are the two reconcilable in a single manifesto? If and when some concrete policies start appearing from the Conservatives, perhaps we’ll find out. Advertisements Like this: LikeLoading... Related One Response Nudge politics might be behind some of the worst decisions made by majorities in recent elections: Boris, Bush, etc. It also explains why superior political candidates who have everything on their side, like Obama, aren’t wiping the floor with their half-brained, dog-whistle nudge-nudge-wink-wink opponents. But it’s not like Cameron even needs to nudge the electorate at present: notice how quiet he’s gone since Labour started to sink like a lead balloon? Meanwhile, the Tories get over 50% in the polls, people predict them getting a 164-seat majority in 2010, and Labour cries into its muesli. I can’t really stand another 18 months of this: I wish Labour would either pull their finger out and fight back, or give up now and call a general election, so the Tories can win and then we can get to work on kicking them back out again. About me Unlike most people living in Zone 6, I think of myself firmly as a Londoner. My pride in proclaiming myself as such suffered damage when my campaign to stop Boris Johnson becoming Mayor failed in May. I now contribute to BorisWatch.co.uk and have started this blog for non-Boris-related posts.

31) to b + l*f and give b. 105 Rearrange (-9*l + l + l - 3*l + 4*l + l + 1 + 3*l - 1 + (-2 + 5 - 1)*(l + 0*l + l) + 1 - l - 1)*(-2*l - 2*l + 3*l) to the form v*l + z*l**2 + c and give z. -1 Rearrange (2*x - 6*x + x)*(-1 + 1 + 885*x**2 - 847*x**2) to z + w*x**3 + h*x**2 + m*x and give w. -114 Express 3*t**2 + 0*t**3 - 1 - 15*t**4 + 9*t**4 + t**3 in the form y*t**4 + n*t**3 + r + g*t + q*t**2 and give q. 3 Rearrange -16*k - 2*k**4 - 2*k**4 - 3*k**2 + 6*k**4 + 21*k - 2*k**3 to the form i*k**2 + y + p*k**3 + b*k**4 + o*k and give p. -2 Express 2*a**3 + 2*a**4 - 15*a**2 - 4*a**2 - 4*a**4 - 40 + 38 in the form q*a**2 + o*a**3 + d + p*a + h*a**4 and give h. -2 Rearrange 5 - 3 + 0 - 2*d to n + l*d and give n. 2 Express 2*l**2 - 101*l + 103*l + 5*l**2 as a*l**2 + h + d*l and give a. 7 Express (-2*o + 3*o - 3*o)*(-7 + 2 + 3) in the form u*o + n and give u. 4 Rearrange (-4*q + 2 - 2)*(-5 + 4 + 1 - 63*q) to the form v + h*q**2 + c*q and give h. 252 Rearrange (-17*q + 40*q + q)*(0*q + 5*q - 3*q) to o*q**2 + f*q + l and give f. 0 Express -2*h**2 + h**2 - 4*h**3 + 0*h**3 in the form z*h**3 + g + l*h + o*h**2 and give z. -4 Express -2*u**4 + 14 - 2*u**3 + 2*u**3 - 7*u**2 + 5*u**2 as x + i*u + j*u**2 + p*u**4 + l*u**3 and give x. 14 Express (4 + 1 - 4 + (-2 - 2 + 2)*(0 - 2 + 1) - 5 + 3 - 6)*(-g - g + 3*g)*(2 + 1 - 2) in the form r*g + w and give r. -5 Rearrange (0*s**2 - 2*s**2 + 3*s**2)*(2*s - 2*s + 3*s) - 2*s**3 - 4*s**2 + 4*s**2 + (-3 - s**3 + 3)*(-5 + 1 + 6) to d*s + m + b*s**3 + z*s**2 and give d. 0 Express -323*i**2 + 323*i**2 + 118*i**3 + (3 - 2 + 1)*(-2*i**3 - i**3 + i**3) as p*i + o + c*i**3 + y*i**2 and give c. 114 Express (-5*i + 4 - 4)*(0*i**2 + 0*i**2 + i**2)*(-3*i + 3*i + 3*i) in the form k*i**4 + p + t*i + w*i**3 + d*i**2 and give k. -15 Express (7 + 4 - 44)*(0*l + l + 3*l + (2 + 0 + 0)*(2*l + l - l)) in the form d + m*l and give m. -264 Rearrange 87*i**2 - 73*i**2 - 56*i**2 to r*i + h*i**2 + f and give h. -42 Express (1 + 1 - 12)*(z**2 + 2*z - 2*z) as u + a*z**2 + n*z and give a. -10 Rearrange 112 - 55 - 58 + 4*x**3 + 7*x**2 to o*x + g*x**2 + j + n*x**3 and give o. 0 Rearrange -25*c + 89*c - 48*c to x*c + s and give x. 16 Rearrange (5*z**4 - 2*z**4 + 0*z**4)*(13 - 20 + 9) to the form v*z + p*z**3 + j*z**4 + d*z**2 + x and give j. 6 Rearrange (1 + 1 - 3)*(2*t**2 - t**2 + 0*t**2) + 22*t - 22*t - 15*t**2 + (1 + t - 1)*(-t - 3*t + 5*t) to the form p*t**2 + i*t + y and give p. -15 Rearrange (3*z - 5*z + 7*z)*(3 - 4 + 0)*(0*z - 2 - z + 1) to j*z + i*z**2 + x and give i. 5 Express 0*v - 396*v**3 + 21*v**2 + 397*v**3 + 0*v as j*v**3 + x*v**2 + h + i*v and give x. 21 Express (-2 - 3 + 1)*(0*x - 2*x + 0*x)*(-4 + 4 - 2) in the form y*x + s and give y. -16 Rearrange 44*v - 4*v - 18*v to s + o*v and give o. 22 Rearrange -9 - 30*x + 5*x + 11*x + 12*x to the form h*x + j and give j. -9 Rearrange ((-2*l + 5*l - 4*l)*(1 - 4 + 5) + l - 2*l - 2*l + 2*l + 3*l + 0*l + (0 - 2 + 1)*(l + 1 - 1))*(0 + 2 - 1) to a*l + c and give a. -1 Express -16*n**2 - 24*n**2 + 8*n**2 as o + b*n + m*n**2 and give m. -32 Express 3*w**4 + 23*w**2 - 2*w - 2*w**2 + w**3 - 27*w**2 + 2 in the form a*w**4 + r*w**3 + o*w + k*w**2 + h and give r. 1 Express -9*s - 1 + 23*s - 2*s**3 - 10*s in the form z + y*s + t*s**2 + n*s**3 and give n. -2 Rearrange 1 - 75*s**3 - 3*s**2 + 2*s**2 + s**2 to the form c*s**3 + j*s**2 + a*s + f and give c. -75 Express -23*x**2 + 0*x - x + x in the form y + d*x + u*x**2 and give u. -23 Express (-w**2 - 2*w**2 + 4*w**2)*(1 + 2 - 4) + (-3*w + 8*w + 4*w)*(-2 + w + 2) in the form p + d*w + j*w**2 and give j. 8 Rearrange 4 - 2 + 4 - 9*z - 2 to the form d*z + j and give j. 4 Express -8*l**2 - 6 + 2*l - 4 + 8 in the form c*l**2 + k + b*l and give c. -8 Express (2 + 1 + 3)*(6*x - 3*x - 4*x - x + 0*x + 3*x + (3 - 2 - 2)*(-x - 5*x + 4*x) - 2*x - 2*x + 3*x) as u*x + i and give u. 12 Express (0*p + p - 2*p)*(31*p - 43 + 43 - 3*p + 3*p - p + (0 + 0 - 1)*(-p + 0*p + 2*p)) as c*p + h*p**2 + f and give h. -29 Express (2 - 2 + 3)*(-416 + 416 + 12*p)*(-p - 2*p + 2*p) in the form k*p + j + u*p**2 and give u. -36 Express -2*x + 0*x + x**4 - 2*x**4 - x**4 + 3 - 2*x**3 - 2*x**2 as j*x + h*x**2 + c*x**4 + r + d*x**3 and give c. -2 Rearrange ((0*o + 2*o - o)*(3 - 3 + 2*o**2) - 4*o**2 + 4*o**2 + o**3)*(-3 - 2 - 2) to h*o + d*o**2 + g + q*o**3 and give q. -21 Express (4 - 10 - 3)*(9 - 9 + w) as c*w + r and give c. -9 Express (-6 + 2 + 4 + 1)*(-10 + 10 - 3*o) as a*o + w and give a. -3 Express 621 + 19*t - 621 in the form u*t + y and give u. 19 Rearrange 93*w - 93*w + w**3 + 14 to the form b + c*w**2 + i*w**3 + u*w and give b. 14 Rearrange 3 + 9*d**2 + 0 - 4*d**2 + 0*d**2 to v*d**2 + b*d + y and give y. 3 Rearrange 94*v**2 + 3 - 2*v**3 - 3*v - 88*v**2 - 1 to k*v + h + d*v**3 + g*v**2 and give k. -3 Express (0*q - 2*q + 0*q)*(-8 - 7 - 16)*(0 - 1 + 3) as m*q + j and give j. 0 Rearrange -2*q**4 + q**4 + 9*q**4 + (2*q**4 + q**4 + 0*q**4)*(-2 + 4 - 4) to j*q**2 + b*q + y*q**4 + g*q**3 + s and give y. 2 Rearrange -1 + 2*f**3 + 3 + f**4 - 26*f + 29*f to i*f + v*f**2 + s*f**4 + o + a*f**3 and give i. 3 Express -7 + k**3 + 9*k**2 - 2*k + 13*k**2 - 29*k**2 + 5*k**2 as a + j*k**3 + g*k + f*k**2 and give j. 1 Express -4*d**3 - 13*d + 13*d - 2*d**4 + d**2 + 1 in the form l*d**4 + x*d + v*d**3 + a*d**2 + r and give v. -4 Express (4 - 2 - 5)*(t**3 - t**3 - 2 + t**4) as a*t + f*t**3 + r + j*t**4 + d*t**2 and give d. 0 Express (1 - t - 1 + t**2)*(t**2 + 4*t**2 - 2*t**2) as a + y*t**2 + g*t**4 + x*t + w*t**3 and give a. 0 Rearrange -46*n**2 - 525*n + 10*n**2 + 525*n to the form g*n + r*n**2 + j and give g. 0 Express -2*c - 5 + 18*c**2 - 20*c**2 - 10 + 5 as n + g*c + l*c**2 and give g. -2 Rearrange (-2*p - p + 4*p)*(-51 + 51 + 10*p)*(3*p - 2*p - 2*p) to the form t*p + s + j*p**3 + a*p**2 and give s. 0 Express 86*a**3 + 2*a - 88*a**3 - 3*a - 3*a**2 + a**2 as r*a + t + y*a**2 + d*a**3 and give d. -2 Rearrange -10*z - 6*z + 16*z + 62*z**2 to i*z**2 + r*z + j and give j. 0 Rearrange (z - 1 + 1)*(z + 0*z - 3*z) - 4*z**2 - 2*z**2 + 5*z**2 + z**2 - z**2 - 2*z**2 - 3*z**2 + z**2 - 4*z**2 to h*z + b*z**2 + i and give b. -11 Express -14*l**2 + l + 58*l**3 - 3 - 30*l**3 - 29*l**3 as p + d*l**3 + f*l**2 + x*l and give d. -1 Rearrange (-115 + 55 - 153)*(4 + 2*k**2 - 4) to the form f*k + j*k**2 + c and give j. -426 Express (-20*a + 25*a - 75*a - 184*a)*(3*a**3 - 6*a**3 + 2*a**3) in the form d*a**3 + u*a + o*a**2 + f*a**4 + y and give f. 254 Rearrange 0*j + j - 2*j + j + 0 + 0 - 3*j + 2*j - j + (1 + 1 + 0)*(3*j - 2*j - 3*j) - 12*j + 31*j + 9*j to the form y*j + k and give y. 22 Rearrange 4 - 5 + 1 - 3*n to d + w*n and give w. -3 Rearrange 23*l**4 + 3*l - 2*l - l**2 - 25*l**4 - 4*l**2 to p*l**2 + o*l**3 + b + y*l**4 + i*l and give i. 1 Rearrange (0 + 0 - q**4)*(-3 - 3 + 1) to i*q**2 + y*q**4 + p + f*q**3 + c*q and give y. 5 Rearrange (4*n**2 + 11 - 11 + (1 + 2 - 5)*(-2*n**2 + 2*n**2 + n**2))*(-7*n**2 + 3*n**2 + 3*n**2) to z*n + u + w*n**2 + m*n**4 + x*n**3 and give m. -2 Express (3*z - 2*z - 4*z)*(92*z + 142 - 142) as x + w*z + q*z**2 and give q. -276 Rearrange 2*y + 2*y + 2*y**4 - 2*y**3 - 4*y - 4*y to o*y + n*y**3 + z*y**2 + a*y**4 + j and give n. -2 Express -o**4 - 1 + 0 + 3 + (0*o + o + 0*o)*(-8*o**3 - 77*o**3 + 42*o**3) in the form g*o**4 + j*o + b + u*o**2 + z*o**3 and give b. 2 Express (-4*h + 2*h + h)*(-2*h - 3 + 3) - h**2 - 2*h**2 + 0*h**2 + 2*h**2 - 2*h**2 + 7*h**2 in the form k*h**2 + z + c*h and give k. 6 Express (3*w**3 + 3 - 3)*(w + 4 - 4) + 3*w**4 - 2*w**4 + w**4 + 7*w**4 - 8*w**4 + 17*w**4 as i*w**2 + h*w**4 + g + m*w + y*w**3 and give h. 21 Rearrange ((2*i**2 - 2*i**2 - 2*i**3)*(-1 + 4 - 2) - 3*i**3 + 2*i**3 - 3*i**3)*(-2 - 4 - 8) to the form o*i**2 + d + h*i + v*i**3 and give v. 84 Express -2 - 1 + 12*q**4 + 4 - 10*q**4 - 19*q**2 in the form w + c*q**3 + l*q + i*q**2 + z*q**4 and give i. -19 Rearrange 34*x**2 - 143*x**2 + 62*x**2 to h*x**2 + s + y*x and give h. -47 Rearrange (-v - 2*v + 2*v)*(-230*v - 217*v + 23*v - 28*v) to j*v**2 + f*v + h and give j. 452 Rearrange 3*f + 0 + 2*f - 2 - 7*f to h*f + r and give h. -2 Express (4*b - b - 5*b)*(-19*b**2 - 9*b**2 + 5*b**2) in the form q*b**3 + z + g*b + o*b**2 and give q. 46 Rearrange (-5 + 5 - y)*(-y**3 + 0*y + 0*y) - 7*y**4 + 3*y**4 + 2*y**4 + y**2 + y**2 -

Pagan-Alomar says that Lustica threw her to the ground and straddled her, using her legs to hold down her arms. The officer then repeatedly punched her in the face with her right fist -- as she held her handcuff key between the fingers of the hand she used to throw the punches, Pagan-Alomar says.

Q: Where did the term "Goofy" (referring to boarding stance) come from? My mom tore me a new one when, while teaching my little sister some snowboarding tips, referred to her stance as "Goofy". I told her it was the common term used in snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, but she was convinced that this was just another one of my cunning attempts to undermine the confidence of her dear daughter. Wikipedia is clear on the fact that there is no negative connotation to the term, but offers little insight (and no references) on how the term came about, or whether there's ever been a more favourable technical term for 'right foot leading'. She threw the book at me, so I'd like to throw a couple back her way. What's the origin of "Goofy"? A: The original terms goofy-foot and goofy-footers (later shortened to goofy) appear to have become popular in surfing during the early sixties. I agree with FumbleFingers: it's likely both the surfing term and Disney's Goofy character comes from the earlier goofy meaning of stupid, silly, daft. In fact, after watching the 1937 Disney animation Hawaiian Holiday, Goofy surfs with whichever foot forward makes him face us. He attempts to surf three times. The first two are unsuccessful and he can't stand up on the board. The third time is (more) successful: first he surfs left-foot forward (regular stance) towards the right, so his body is facing us. Then he turns and surfs right-foot forward (goofy stance) towards the left, again so his body is facing us. The earliest instance I found in print is Desmond Muirhead's 1962 Surfing in Hawaii: a personal memoir: People who put their right foot forward are called 'goofy foots'. 2007's The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English agrees with 1962: goofy foot noun a surfer who surfs with the right foot forward. Most surfers surf with their left foot forward. AUSTRALIA 1962 A 1963 Paradise of the Pacific magazine defines some surfing terms: As or the language, it is probably altogether as intelligible to the unpractised ear as Kurdish might be in Kansas City. In the lexicon in use by the cult, a surfer is a cork top, beginners are gremlins or kooks, a loudmouth a hodad; a goofy foot, a strange type; a hot dogger, an expert. A May 1963 Billboard picks out Shean and Jenkins with their Goofy Footer Ho-Dad single (listen on YouTube) as a winner in their novelty spotlight of the week, selected for "potential to become top sellers". Two very funny sides that could attract play and sales. ... Flip is somewhat on the surf kick with a sort of beatnik poeatry narrative. Funny material, well carried off. A June 1963 Billboard magazine lists a record by The Lively Ones called Goofy Foot as a four-star single (listen on YouTube). The four-star rating is awarded to new singles with sufficient commerical potential in their respecitive categories to merit being stacked by dealers, one-stops and rack jobbers handling that category. These show the term was becoming more popular and widespread. An early etymology is suggested by the 1970 Studies in English by the University of Cape Town's Department of English says: Surfers who have a right foot forward stance are known as goofy-footers, or simply goofy surfers. This is doubtless derived from the older American expression "goofy", which means "ridiculous, silly, . . . nutty". A: According to the Goofy Foot Surf School: "Goofy Foot" is one of the oldest terms still current in surfing jargon. It describes a right foot forward surfing stance and was coined from a Walt Disney film in the 1950s [actually, 1930s] in which Goofy surfed with his right foot forward. The phrase has made its way into use in all boarding sports distinguishing the stance from a regular or natural foot which has the left foot towards the front of the board. A: I think there's no real justification for thinking the Disney character (or some cartoon sequence where he surfs goofy) had any special role in the origin of the surfboarding usage. OED: goofy (slang) 1: Stupid, silly, daft. 2: (surf-riding) goofy foot, footer, surfer, one who rides a surfboard with the right foot forward instead of the left. The surfing usage arose in the mid-60s, and fairly obviously it was based on the earlier sense - as indeed was Disney's character, since the word was common long before the cartoon. Wikipedia: left-handed has many slang terms, including lefty, southpaw, goofy. The fact that Wikipedia is at pains to point out there are no negative connotations to a cack-handed (or should that be cack-footed?) surfing stance may owe something to a wish not to offend. In boxing or snooker, for example, right-handed/footed players may well take a somewhat jaundiced view of their opposite numbers, because they're more likely to be caught off-guard by them. I'm no surfer, but I find it easy to imagine one might be slightly nervous of surfing near a goofy foot. Apart from anything else, there might be more chance of a collision. I don't want to overstate that, but it seems more than enough to have allowed a "potentially" derogatory usage to catch on.

Let f(g) = 4*g**2 - 1 + 7*g + 4 - j*g**2. Calculate f(-5). -7 Let u = -15 + 11. Let n(p) = 1 + 0 - 16*p + 21*p - p**3 - 3*p**2. Give n(u). -3 Let n(g) = -g**3 - 2*g**2 - 2*g + 2. Let i(f) be the first derivative of f**4/4 + f**3 + 3*f**2/2 - f + 4. Let z(y) = -3*i(y) - 4*n(y). Give z(0). -5 Let c(u) = u**3 - 3*u**2 - 4*u - 2. Suppose -4*x = -6*x + 26. Let n = x + -9. Determine c(n). -2 Let v = -6 + 9. Let w(d) = 3 + d**v + 0 + 1 - 3*d - d**2 - 7. Give w(3). 6 Let j(w) = -4*w**3 + w**2 + w + 1. Let p(o) = -o - 5. Let i be p(-8). Suppose -i*q = q + 4. What is j(q)? 5 Suppose -4*n = 12, 5*n = 2*v + 4*n + 5. Let p(t) be the second derivative of t**4/12 + 2*t**3/3 - t**2 + 3*t. Determine p(v). -2 Suppose 4*o - 5*p = -12, -3*p - 6 = 2*o - 6*p. Let k(w) = -w**2 + 4. Calculate k(o). -5 Suppose 4*g - 1 = 3*g. Suppose 5 = -w + g. Let n(v) = -2*v - 5. Determine n(w). 3 Let l(y) = -y**3 + 3*y + 3. Let v be 3/(-5 - 42/(-12)). Determine l(v). 5 Let w = -6 - -16. Let g(z) = z**3 - 9*z**2 - 11*z + 5. Let m be g(w). Let x(n) = -n - 12. What is x(m)? -7 Let u(j) = -j**3 - 2*j**2 + 2*j. Let l be 10/4*(-6)/5. What is u(l)? 3 Suppose -2*s + 4 = c, 3*c + s = -0*c + 32. Suppose j = -2*h, -j + 2*h = -4*j + c. Suppose -f = 2*f + j. Let g(t) = t**3 + t**2 + t + 1. Determine g(f). -5 Let a(r) = -r**3 + 6*r**2 + 7*r - 6. Suppose -15*n + 11*n = -28. What is a(n)? -6 Let d(w) = -w**3 - 4*w**2 - 4*w - 2. Suppose 16*c + 33 - 1 = 0. Give d(c). -2 Let g(i) = 3*i + 0 + 4 + 0*i - 4*i. Suppose w - 1 = -t, 3*w - 4*t + 12 = -6. Let a = 2 + w. Give g(a). 4 Let m(h) be the second derivative of -h**3/6 - 5*h**2/2 + 7*h. Give m(6). -11 Let d(a) be the second derivative of a**5/60 + a**4/12 + a**3/3 - a**2/2 - 2*a. Let f(u) be the first derivative of d(u). Let g = -9 + 6. Give f(g). 5 Let k(i) = 3*i**2 - 7*i - 5. Let m(q) = 7*q**2 - 14*q - 10. Let f(b) = -9*k(b) + 4*m(b). Calculate f(-7). 5 Let c(n) = -n**2 - 7*n - 6. Suppose -5*o + 1 = 21. What is c(o)? 6 Let d(s) = s + 2*s - 4*s. Let h be (3/6)/(3/24). Suppose z + 2*n = 1, 0*z + h*z - 3*n = -18. What is d(z)? 3 Let u be 1*1/(-1 + 0). Let g = u - -1. Let i(n) = -9*n + 10. Let s(w) = 5*w - 5. Let m(o) = 4*i(o) + 7*s(o). Determine m(g). 5 Let s = 23 - 11. Let u = 7 - s. Let w(c) be the third derivative of -c**6/120 - c**5/12 - c**2. What is w(u)? 0 Let r(u) = 3*u - 2. Let y be 2/(-8) - 43/4. Let a = -13 - y. Give r(a). -8 Suppose -5*f + 3*x - 1 + 9 = 0, 4 = -4*x. Let o(t) = -t**2 + f + 4 - 4*t + 1. Give o(-5). 1 Let k(n) = n**3 + 5*n**2 + 5*n + 5. Let r be k(-4). Suppose 6 = 3*l - 0*l. Let v(g) = 2*g - l*g - g**2 + 1 - g. What is v(r)? -1 Let y = -6 - -3. Let b(m) be the first derivative of 3*m**2/2 + 9*m - 1. Let r(a) = -1. Let f(j) = b(j) + 6*r(j). Give f(y). -6 Let s(m) be the first derivative of -4*m + m**3 + 1/4*m**4 + 1 + 1/2*m**2. Give s(-3). -7 Let k be ((-2)/(-2) - 4) + 1. Let j(d) = 4*d**2 - d - 2. Calculate j(k). 16 Let r(j) be the first derivative of j**2/2 - 4*j - 4. Determine r(-5). -9 Let v(m) = m. Let x = 18 - 21. Calculate v(x). -3 Suppose -x = -1, 2*x = -5*l - 0*x + 12. Let f(v) be the second derivative of -1/6*v**4 + 0*v**3 + 6*v + 0 + 1/10*v**5 - 1/2*v**2. What is f(l)? 7 Let v(n) = -n**3 + 3*n**2 - n + 4. Let g(m) = 6*m**3 - 16*m**2 + 5*m - 19. Let h(u) = -2*g(u) - 11*v(u). Determine h(0). -6 Let j(v) = -5*v**2 + 12*v - 6. Let h(z) = -2*z**2 + 9*z - 4. Let m(o) = 5*o**2 - 26*o + 11. Let s(q) = -7*h(q) - 2*m(q). Let b(p) = 3*j(p) + 4*s(p). Give b(6). -6 Let x(z) = -z - 4. Let a be 1/(-4) - (-1)/4. Let p be (-10)/(-5) + (-1 - -1). Suppose -l - 4*l = v + 23, -p*l - 3*v - 17 = a. Give x(l). 0 Let v be 1/2*(-1 + 9). Suppose -5*j + 0*j = 0. Let u(y) = -2 + j*y - 3*y - 5*y**2 + v*y**2. Determine u(-2). 0 Let o(y) = 6*y**3 - y**2 + 1. Let a be (2 + -1)/(-1)*-1. What is o(a)? 6 Let w(o) = -o**3 + o**2 - 2*o + 1. Let x be w(1). Let m = -2 + 4. Let n(g) = -g**2 + 4*g**2 + 0*g**m - 1. What is n(x)? 2 Let w(c) = -16*c + 1. Suppose 3*z = 4*a - 19, a + 0*z = 4*z + 21. Calculate w(a). -15 Let a(d) = -9*d**3 - 12*d**2 - 23*d - 8. Let z(u) = 4*u**3 + 6*u**2 + 11*u + 4. Let p(o) = -3*a(o) - 7*z(o). Give p(-5). 11 Let r(w) = -3*w**2 - w. Suppose 0 = 4*a - 3*l + 39, 5*l - 1 = 24. Let u = -10 - a. Let f = u + 3. Calculate r(f). -2 Let p(q) be the second derivative of -q**4/12 + q**3/6 - 7*q**2/2 + 30*q. What is p(0)? -7 Let n(p) = -p**3 + 4*p**2 - 3*p. Suppose 0 = 4*j - 25 + 1. Let h(d) = d**2 + d + 2. Let a be h(2). Let k = a - j. Calculate n(k). 2 Let r(c) = -c**2 - 22*c + 2. Let j be r(-22). Let w(m) = m**2 + m. Determine w(j). 6 Let z(i) = -i**3 - 2*i**2 - i - 2. Let f be z(-2). Suppose -y = -0*y - 1. Let u(w) = -y + f*w**2 + w**2 - w - 3*w**2. Determine u(-1). -2 Suppose 0*a + 6 = 2*a. Let z(t) be the first derivative of -1 - 8*t - 1/3*t**a - 1/2*t**2 + 1/4*t**4. Give z(0). -8 Let m(f) be the second derivative of f**6/240 - 7*f**5/120 + f**4/12 - f. Let y(r) be the third derivative of m(r). Give y(5). 8 Suppose 0 = 2*n + 18 + 14. Let v be (2/4)/((-2)/n). Suppose 0 = -v*b - 11 - 5. Let z(h) = -h**3 - 4*h**2 + 3*h + 5. What is z(b)? -7 Let k(y) = -y**2 - 2*y + 1. Suppose -4*x - x + l - 8 = 0, -5*x - 5*l + 10 = 0. Let n(c) = 2*c**2 + c + 1. Let i be n(x). Suppose i = -g - 0*g. What is k(g)? 1 Let q(o) = o - 2. Suppose -7*i - 190 = -12*i. Let z(r) = -r**3 - 4*r**2 + 3*r - 2. Let m be z(-5). Let y be i/(-8) + (-2)/m. Determine q(y). -7 Suppose 7*p - 16 = 33. Let b(x) be the third derivative of -x**6/120 + 2*x**5/15 - 7*x**4/24 - 5*x**3/6 + x**2. Calculate b(p). -5 Let g(a) = -a + 2. Let z(c) = -c**3 - 9*c**2 + 10*c + 3. Let x be z(-10). Suppose -x*s + 3 = -4*s. Calculate g(s). 5 Let p(a) = -9*a**3 + 4 + 9*a**3 - 2*a**2 - a - 3 - a**3. Give p(-2). 3 Let c(u) = -3*u. Let y(z) = -z. Let a be (-15)/(-21) + 4/14. Let d(p) = a*c(p) - 2*y(p). Calculate d(-3). 3 Let a(n) = -n**3 + 6*n**2 + 8*n - 10. Suppose -5*i + 53 = -27. Suppose 0 = -4*f + 3*d + i, 4*f - 4*d - 13 + 1 = 0. Calculate a(f). -3 Let s(l) = l**2 - 5*l + 7. Suppose -5*g - 16 + 1 = 0. Let a be (-7)/g - 2/(-3). Suppose -5*b = -28 + a. Give s(b). 7 Let v(a) = -a - 2. Let d(b) = -1 + b + 1 - 2. Let n be d(0). What is v(n)? 0 Let a(f) = 9*f**2 - 5. Let z(j) = 9*j**2 - 4. Let q(b) = -2*a(b) + 3*z(b). Let i(y) = -5*y**2 + 1. Let t(m) = -11*i(m) - 6*q(m). Let l = 11 - 9. Determine t(l). 5 Suppose -5*l + 10 = -3*l, -4*m + 3*l = 7. Let r(d) be the second derivative of -d + 1/2*d**m + 0 + 5/6*d**3. What is r(1)? 6 Let x(c) = c - 4 - 6 + 1. What is x(5)? -4 Let p(w) = 9*w + 11. Let v(l) = -5*l - 6. Let i(y) = 4*p(y) + 7*v(y). Give i(-5). -3 Suppose 5*m - f - 4 - 11 = 0, -3*m + 17 = f. Let x(s) = s**2 + 0*s**2 - m*s + s**3 + 3*s. Suppose -8 = 5*l + 3*l. Give x(l). 1 Let g(l) = -l**3 - 10*l**2 - 7*l + 21. Let x be g(-9). Let u = 10 - 6. Let o(z) = -2*z - 1 + x*z - u. Calculate o(5). 0 Let f = 6 - 4. Let l(u) = 0*u**2 + u**3 - u - u**f + 0 + 1. Determine l(1). 0 Let m(t) = -7*t**2 - 3*t - 5. Let v(g) = 3*g**2 + g + 2. Let r(o) = -4*m(o) - 9*v(o). Suppose 5*n + 0*l + 18 = -3*l, n + 4*l + 7 = 0. What is r(n)? 2 Let t = -62 + 55. Let y(n) = -n**3 - 6*n**2 + 6*n - 2. Determine y(t). 5 Let i = 12/13 - 23/39. Let b(o) be the second derivative of 2*o + 0 - 5/2*o**2 - i*o**3. Give b(-5). 5 Let z(y) = -4 + 8*y + y**2 + 0*y - 4*y. Calculate z(-7). 17 Let m(c) = c**3 - 7*c**2 + c. Suppose 0 = t - 4*r - 7, 28 = 4*t - r - 4*r. Calculate m(t). 7 Let k(i) = 7*i - 8*i + 5*i. Let g(b) = b - 7. Let j be g(5). Determine k(j). -8 Let r(m) = 2*m - 4. Let o be r(3). Let h(k) = 2*k**2 + k. Let c be h(-1). Let y(t) = -6*t + 2 + c - t. Give y(o). -11 Let v(f) be the first derivative of -f**2/2 - 6*f + 1. Let z(l) = -3*l**3 - l**2 + 2*l - 1. Suppose -4*i - 6 = 3*g - 1, 3*i = -6. Let q be z(g). Determine v(q). -3 Let h = -13 - -20. Suppose p + 3 = 2*p, 0 = 5*t + 5*p - 25. Let c(y) = 0*y + y + h*y**t + 1 + 3*y - 3*y. Determine c(-1). 7 Let o(y) be the first derivative of y**2/2 + 8*y + 2. Let s be 19*1/1 + -2. Let r = 12 - s. Give o(r). 3 Suppose d + 3 = -d - 5*u, -2*d + 5 = -3*u. Let m(v) = -2 - 5*v + d + 3*v. Let j be -4*(-1 - 2/(-4)). Calculate m(j). -5 Suppose -5*j + 10 = 5*i, 2*j + 3*i = -0*j + 4. Let x(q) = q - 4. Calculate x(j). -2 Let m(d) = d**2 + 8*d + 12. Let k be m(-4). Let c(h) = -h**3 - 3*h**2 + 4. What is

For Arno Arr Michaelis, anti-social behaviour became a kind of addiction as a kid. "Hate was just another part of the thrill," he says. "Really what I craved was to repulse civil society and nothing appals people more than a swastika." He joined a neo-Nazi skinhead group in the US for seven years and was part of the worldwide Hammerskin Nation movement. By 1994, Mr Michaelis was a single parent to his young daughter in Wisconsin. He decided to leave the group after a friend was shot dead in a street fight and others were jailed. "It finally hit me that if I didn't change my ways, death or prison would take me from my daughter," he says. "The violent extremist person needs to get to the point where they think, 'this is f***ed up, I can't do this anymore'." Now, Mr Michaelis is one of several former extremists leading efforts to reform those attracted to far-right or Islamic terrorism around the globe. "We want to get them talking about it, that's basically like therapy 101," he says. Mr Michaelis believes governments, including Australia's, aren't doing enough to learn from experiences like his to confront rising far-right extremism. "The States is just as far behind as Australia if not more so. Mainly our Government doesn't see white nationalism as a threat. "Even if they were able to admit that it was a threat, I don't know that they're going to be able to put a lot of resources behind it." 'Nothing's going to change unless there's a body count' Matthew Quinn is the founder of Exit Australia, a program established in 2016 that monitors and works with extremists to disengage them from violent ideologies. He says Australia is more than a decade behind when it comes to soft intervention for non-Islamic extremists, such as those on the far right. Soft intervention includes programs that police, community leaders and schools could refer people vulnerable to extremism to, before they become entrenched in the ideas and join an extremist group. "Myself and others have been banging our heads on the wall to try and get the Government to listen to these other violent extremists coming up," Mr Quinn says. "They're just spreading the hate and influence online, they've talked about doing attacks and nothing's done." White nationalist demonstrations in Charlottesville famously escalated into a far-right terror attack in 2017. ( The Indianapolis Star via AP ) Mr Quinn says following the Christchurch attack, he and others expected Government to convene counter-extremism leaders to improve programs for far-right extremism, but there was no communication. "We don't actually think the Government is taking it seriously until there's another violent extremist attack by a far-right — or any other violent extremist other than ISIS — in Australia." Mr Quinn claims that in a large number of the cases he has worked on, individuals who were identified as potential extremists were not referred to any form of intervention program before they became radicalised. Since 2014, at-risk individuals have been able to be referred to the Government's Living Safe Together programme. But Mr Quinn claims many have not been referred for soft interventions. "I know of cases and investigations going on at the moment, many that I've been involved in, where violent extremists [have been known to police but not referred for intervention]." He wants a policy shift to encourage police to make referrals for soft intervention, rather than the current system which favours monitoring an individual until there is sufficient evidence to make an arrest. The ABC spoke with someone else who has worked on the frontline of Australia's counter-terrorism efforts, but did not want to be identified. He backed up Mr Quinn's claim that at-risk individuals were not being referred to disengagement programs and suggested a belief existed within government and policing circles that an arrest — rather than soft intervention — gave an improved perception of community safety and made it seem as if police were "doing something" about the problem. He says it's distressing Government is not taking the threat of right-wing extremism seriously. "Nothing's going to change unless there's a body count … right-wing extremists are seen to be unthreatening hillbillies with mental health issues. "They don't acknowledge there's a problem … the Government has identified their "other", the radical Islamists, and ignored the white extremists." The NSW Police Force said in a statement to the ABC that a number of State and Federal programs exist that can be tailored to an individual wanting to travel to and from conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. But the statement made no mention of initiatives targeted towards the far right. Far-right extremism is a global problem. Here, supporters of a white nationalist political group in the US give Nazi salutes while taking part in a swastika burning. ( Reuters: Go Nakamura ) A spokesperson from the Department of Home Affairs said the Government's countering-violent extremism strategy addresses all forms of violent extremism, including far-right extremism. "All extremist groups are taken seriously, regardless of the background of the perpetrator." Current government-funded counter-violent extremism programs in Australia include deradicalisation programs in the prison system, online programs to identify extremists, and community projects that encourage social harmony. In a statement, the Multicultural Affairs Minister David Coleman said: "I regularly meet with community leaders to discuss our counter-violent extremism and social cohesion programs to ensure they are fit for purpose." The Minister also emphasised that the Coalition's 2019-20 budget includes increased funding for grassroots initiatives with $71 million pledged for a social cohesion package. But experts like Mr Quinn say little of this is dedicated to the far right. Australia could look overseas International groups that harness the experience of former extremists are finding success, in a model that could be replicated in Australia. The US State Department's director of counter-violent extremism, Irfan Saeed, has been working with Australian authorities on counter-terrorism. He says Australia's approach needs to adapt so communities' members are at the forefront. Mr Michaelis works with Serve to Unite in the US and is in the process of setting up a hotline which families and extremist groups can call for help. He says there is one thing that drives every violent extremist he has met in his 10 years in the field. "In every single instance, it's suffering that drives people." Arno Michaelis's work to prevent violent extremism involves addressing the social issues that drive people to extreme groups. ( Supplied ) His approach is to use his own experience to show it's possible (and desirable) to leave an extremist group. Survivors of extremist attacks are also becoming active in prevention. In Norway, Bjorn Ihler became interested in rehabilitation after surviving the 2011 mass shooting on the island of Utoya that killed 77 people. He's worked to rehabilitate around 40 fighters from the Middle East and North Africa and supporters of far-right movements through his organisation Khalifa Ihler Institute. "There's a lot of former extremists, people who've been engaged in far-right movements or Islamists, who are now heavily working against violent extremism and helping others," he says. Bjorn Ihler says some of the best people he knows are former extremists who've turned their lives around. ( Supplied ) Mr Ihler's team identify people who engage with or share extremist content on social media. "They've been surprisingly responsive and a lot of them are engaging in dialogue, sharing the reason why they've been radicalised," Mr Ihler says. Enticing someone to leave a group, he explains, comes down to practical solutions like employment and protection from those who would see an ex-member as a traitor. Education is key Across the different types of extremism, education is a factor that comes up time and again in preventing radicalisation. Rahmatollah Andar is a former member of the Taliban and can vouch for the need to educate youth. After eight years of fighting, he was imprisoned for three years for his involvement with the Taliban. "The upbringing of my family and the place where I studied in Pakistan influenced me," he says. "The fight of the Taliban is not straightforward, they call it jihad, but jihad is a holy war, and this is not." Rahmatollah Andar was a member of the Taliban for eight years and now works with Government to stop people joining such groups. ( Supplied ) Mr Andar says the Taliban wouldn't let him leave. "They kidnapped my brother and I had to fight against them and I started an uprising," he says. Mr Andar now works with the Afghan Government in counter-violent extremism to educate those who may be influenced to join. "The youth [who join Islamic State or the Taliban], they have no education, they haven't studied, they live rurally where the Taliban are strong", he says. "In Afghanistan, death is normal and the chance to live is limited, especially for people working in counter-violent extremism." Saba Story Media & Research Organisation's Nangyallah Nang says his group focuses on contextualising holy text and streamlining religious rulings so it comes from approved channels, not recruitment groups. Counter violent extremism work in Afghanistan has focused on religious education as many religious leaders aren't able to interpret Koranic text. ( Supplied ) "We are graduating thousands of Ulema (religious leaders) a year, but there are no employment opportunities. They live in the districts with poor economic conditions," he says. "When the extremist groups come to them, they offer them some amount of salary." To offer an alternative, SSMRO trained thousands of students of religion to work in local radio stations to disseminate counter-violent extremism messages to the 2 million people who tune in. Mr Nang says while some youth were completely opposed to hearing counter-terrorism messages, many others abandoned support for the Taliban after their interaction. Beatriz Buarque's organisation Words Heal the World uses a similar approach in Brazil. Words Heal The World works with university students in Brazil to combat hate speech by producing media content. ( Supplied ) They target university students, working with them to produce messages to challenge hate and their own stereotypes: 88 per cent of participants enrolled in their course indicated they had a different perspective on an ethnic or religious group on completion. "Students write articles, they do interviews, they produce short documentaries, social media campaigns and events, like a day about anti-semitism," Ms Buarque explains. "When they change their own misconceptions, they reproduce this with their friends, with their families and with their community." In Brazil and the UK, the course has become an elective at two major universities.

Charlie Crist is too stupid to be elected governor of Florida. Appearing on Bill Maher’s Real Time show, the former Republican turned Democrat stated that the embargo against the Castros’ Cuba should be lifted because it isn’t working. Politico reports: “I mean the embargo has been there – what – 50 years now? I don’t think it worked. It is is obvious to me that we need to move forward and I think get the embargo taken away. Really. I believe that,” Crist said Friday during HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The Republican-turned-Democrat, who is challenging incumbent Gov. Rick Scott, made the case for lifting the embargo as a jobs creator for his state. “From a selfish point of view as a Floridian, I’d like to see that happen because a lot of construction would be required on the island, and South Florida could be the launching pad for all of that and really create some jobs for the people of my state,” the former governor said. Maher said the issue was mishandled. “If we had done the right thing, years ago, Cuba now would be St. Bart’s, and all the kids who are going on spring break would be there next month having a great time and drinking Mai Thai’s,” the liberal comic said. Maher said there aren’t many Florida politicians standing up to the “small Cuban community.” “Well I think they need to, I think it’s the right thing,” Crist said. Both airheads miss the point. The original reason for the 1958 embargo was due to the Castro regime seizing American companies and American private property without compensation. We have yet to be reimbursed for those seizures and until we are, the embargo is the only leverage we’ve got. The embargo expanded when Cuba embraced the Soviet Union and adopted Communism, and neither Castro brother has given the slightest indication that they will halt their brutal oppression of the Cuban people. The reason Communism is still there is not because the embargo isn’t working, but because Cuba is a gangster state and employs every resource in its power to suppress free speech, free association, and alternative political parties. What exactly does Maher mean when he says “if we had done the right thing years ago…”? What would have been “right”? Carry on in our relations with Castro as if nothing had happened, as if the expropriation of American property is just fine, that murdering thousands of citizens met with our approval? And Crist needs an intervention to disabuse him of his laughable Cuban construction boom. First, what bank in their right mind is going to loan Cuba any money after they defaulted on $11 billion in loans from the west in 1986 and lack any hard currency to build anything? Second, does he really believe Cuba would employ south Florida construction firms over Cuban ones? Or hire Floridians to work on any construction projects instead of native Cuban labor? I hope someone reminds the Cuban population in Miami who said it was the “right thing” to stand up to the “small Cuban community.” Mr. Crist’s political “courage” is likely to cost him in November. After the show, Crist amended his statement slightly: “If we want to bring democracy to Cuba, we need to encourage American values and investment there, not block ourselves out and cede influence to China,” the statement said. “It will take time, and we must do it in a way where American investment helps people, not the dictatorship.” If China wants to loan money to those scofflaws, let them. Russia forgave nearly $30 billion in Cuban debt just this past December. What’s the point in relaxing the embargo unless Cuba demonstrates a willingness to change? If anything, the regime has become more repressive since Raul Castro took over for his ailing brother. At the very least, we should demand compensation for property illegally seized by the regime after the revolution before negotiations begin to lift some or all of the embargo.

The wheels on the Spartan bus will go round and round all the way to Marquette. That's right, the visitors will make that 7-hour trek this year. I guess this is all part of the continuing tough-guy challenge - but maybe MSU's saving a few drachma to build that sparkly new arena. Anyhoo, will the Olympic-sized rink be site of an ambush by the cranky wildcats, who are in a mild tailspin? As Tim "tDean" Staudt would sign off, "only time will tell" :D giwan 11-16-2011, 03:14 PM But aren't like minded schools WI, UM, MSU supposed to fly to the UP? Or is MSU special? aygwm2 11-16-2011, 03:55 PM The Saturday Nov. 19th game will be on FSD at 7:30pm. http://www.ccha.com/assets/1/workflow_staging/Events/600x90/18714.JPG RaceBoarder 11-16-2011, 04:01 PM The Saturday Nov. 19th game will be on FSD at 7:30pm. http://www.ccha.com/assets/1/workflow_staging/Events/600x90/18714.JPG This is key... Can not wait to watch the game on Saturday night at a local establishment... aparch 11-16-2011, 04:31 PM The Saturday Nov. 19th game will be on FSD at 7:30pm. http://www.ccha.com/assets/1/workflow_staging/Events/600x90/18714.JPG Reminder, it's FSDet+.... We're on the PLUS station that night, NOT FSDetroit. FSDetroit is already in the area filming for the MHSAA, so they decided to stick around and put the MSU game on since the equipment is already in the area. For those of you who have idiots running the TV's at your local establishment who can't seem to find hockey. Ever. ( "What game? Oh we don't get that channel.") This is likely a stretch, but would anyone on here have any ideas on how I could watch this in Milwaukee? I only have Time Warner Cable, and have no way to get it at home..... :( aygwm2 11-16-2011, 06:40 PM Wildpantswilly -- I don't know about TV channels, but you can stream the games this weekend on America One for $8 a game if you follow this link: http://webb.nmu.edu/SportsAthletics/Sports/Components-SportHP/SportHPButtons/btn_watch.png If you have any questions let me know. http://webb.nmu.edu/SportsAthletics/WatchTheGame.shtml or this if that doesn't work. Wildpantswilly 11-16-2011, 08:01 PM aygwm2 - I was hoping to catch it at a bar or something. I have been using my office to watch the games lately, but it has been getting quite expensive. It seems impossible to watch the game in MKE considering I have had a hell of a time finding Red Wings games here too..... First-world problems :( NMUFAN21 11-16-2011, 09:46 PM Try Buffalo Wild Wings, they're usually pretty good about getting games. There must be a few in the milwaukee area. RaceBoarder 11-17-2011, 01:12 AM Try Buffalo Wild Wings, they're usually pretty good about getting games. There must be a few in the milwaukee area. Most sports bars with a "Sports Pack" should have FSD+.... http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/channelfinder/ That is the link for their channel listings for various cable/satellite providers... Just call ahead, and most bars can get you an answer if they have the channel or not... You might need to suggest the channel # based on their provider, so have the link handy... Usually if they have FSD, they should have FSD+... Most "Chain" sports bars (BWW, Tilted Kilt, Hooters, Applebee's, Etc.) should be able to accommodate you... Just be sure to offer a decent tip with your 1st round to ensure that you can keep a TV turned to the game... Wildpantswilly 11-17-2011, 09:33 AM Most sports bars with a "Sports Pack" should have FSD+.... http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/channelfinder/ That is the link for their channel listings for various cable/satellite providers... Just call ahead, and most bars can get you an answer if they have the channel or not... You might need to suggest the channel # based on their provider, so have the link handy... Usually if they have FSD, they should have FSD+... Most "Chain" sports bars (BWW, Tilted Kilt, Hooters, Applebee's, Etc.) should be able to accommodate you... Just be sure to offer a decent tip with your 1st round to ensure that you can keep a TV turned to the game... Thanks guys, I appreciate your help. I'm hoping for a sweep this weekend, this team has to keep up the momentum at home. The crowds give them an enormous home rink advantage, and it is attracting new underclass fans, which could really help the program going forward. Let's go Cats! uffda-man 11-17-2011, 10:58 AM If I recall correctly, does FSD+ have a Live Web Stream? Seems I remember watching the 'Cats take on Ferris State two seasons ago on FSD+ web stream. Anyone know for sure? owslachief 11-17-2011, 10:32 PM Not to gloat - ok scre3 that I'm gloating: Mid-to-SE Michigan residents can, in addition to viewing MSU-NMU in standard 2D vision, can (if you're a Comcats subscriber) watch Saturday's game on stunning HD 2D! on ch.707 Fox Sports Detroit Plus HD. Standard-vision on channel 901 w/ a repeat on channel 201 at 12:30 am on Sunday ... just in case you didn't believe what you just saw davyd83 11-18-2011, 06:26 AM The wheels on the Spartan bus will go round and round all the way to Marquette. That's right, the visitors will make that 7-hour trek this year. I guess this is all part of the continuing tough-guy challenge - but maybe MSU's saving a few drachma to build that sparkly new arena. Anyhoo, will the Olympic-sized rink be site of an ambush by the cranky wildcats, who are in a mild tailspin? As Tim "tDean" Staudt would sign off, "only time will tell" :D Yeah, the "grueling" 7 hour trip must have been something. I heard they made it a 3 day trek with overnight stops in Gaylord and Seney on the way! owslachief 11-18-2011, 10:45 AM Yeah, the "grueling" 7 hour trip must have been something. I heard they made it a 3 day trek with overnight stops in Gaylord and Seney on the way! Ooooh that doesn't leave much time for dilly-dallying. owslachief 11-18-2011, 10:46 PM Thanks guys, I appreciate your help. I'm hoping for a sweep this weekend, this team has to keep up the momentum at home. The crowds give them an enormous home rink advantage, and it is attracting new underclass fans, which could really help the program going forward. Let's go Cats! We like it. May we have some more? boot_walt_kyle 11-18-2011, 11:19 PM Just another travesty from the great leader walt kyle!!!!! aygwm2 11-19-2011, 01:01 PM Right now, I suppose there's plenty of blame to go around with this current squad, especially with "bike-gate" and all the conspiracy theories floating around, and the 18-1/2 minute gap in the tapes, and all the cover up, and pretty soon Woodward and Bernstein. But I think Coach Kyle put a positive spin on last nights MSU game. See recap and interviews at the Mining Journal's sit http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/569238/Puck-luck-not-going-the-way-of-NMU-hockey-team.html?nav=5010 . And, aren't there 25 players on this team? I wasn't watching last nights game real close, but I see defensive breakdowns quite a bit--and not with the defensemen so much, but with wingers back-checking. Plus this team does not seem to do a very good job of transitioning out of their own zone. The first goal of the night by Krug--he was all alone on the weak side of a rush by MSU. Then just minutes later Kesti takes an elbowing penalty--not a good way to start a game. I missed the 36 second goal to start the 2nd period--how did that happen? NMU down by two right off the bat in the second period and then they don't score until late in the third period to move within one. They seem to be back on their heels and playing catch-up much of the time--that's tough to sustain throughout a season. They beat St. Cloud early in the season--and look at St. Cloud they've been a .500 club and then beat Minnesota last night. Like the Mining Journal says: "Puck luck not going the way of NMU hockey team". noremorse1 11-19-2011, 04:18 PM I hope the Cats can end their drought tonight. Will be home with my little one watching it on TV. Last nights game NMU at least had more SOG... it is just too bad it wasn't a win.

Internet-based screening for Chlamydia trachomatis to reach non-clinic populations with mailed self-administered vaginal swabs. Testing for Chlamydia trachomatis by nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) using self-collected vaginal swabs (VS) is acceptable and accurate. The objectives were to implement an educational Internet-based program for women to facilitate home screening, to determine whether women would request and use self-collected VS kits, to determine associated risk factors for infection, and to determine satisfaction with the process. The website, www.iwantthekit.org, was designed to encourage women > or =14 years to obtain home-sampling kits. Kits could be obtained in the community, requested by Internet/e-mail, or telephone. Users mailed the self-collected VS to the laboratory. Swabs were tested by 3 NAAT assays. Respondents called for results. Forty-one of 400 (10.3%) women were chlamydia positive; 95.1% were treated. Questionnaires indicated 89.5% preferred self-collection, 93.5% rated collection easy/very easy, and 86.3% would use the Internet program again. Black race and age <25 years were associated independently with being chlamydia positive, while use of birth control and non-consensual sex were protective. Thirty-six of 41 (87.8%) positive samples were positive by all 3 NAATs, 5/41 (12.2%) were positive by only 2 NAATs, and none were positive by only 1 NAAT. The Internet/e-mail request method was better than the community pick-up approach because 97.2% of kit requests were e-mailed and 87.5% of kits returned for testing were e-mail requested. Women will use the Internet to request and use home-sampling kits for chlamydia. NAAT testing performed well on dry-transported VS. High prevalence was detected and questionnaires indicated high-risk sexual behavior.

z + 114*p**2 + 6*z Find the first derivative of -2*o**4 + 1072*o**3 + 18*o - 685432. -8*o**3 + 3216*o**2 + 18 What is the second derivative of -696736*a**3 - 2598*a + 37? -4180416*a Find the third derivative of -2250*g**2*t**3 - 430*g**2*t**2 - 4*g**2 - 13*g*t**2 + 19*t**6 wrt t. -13500*g**2 + 2280*t**3 What is the second derivative of -2*c**4 - 19*c**2*f**2 - 166*c**2*f + c*f + 12*c + 491*f**2 wrt c? -24*c**2 - 38*f**2 - 332*f What is the derivative of -91*f*r - 1123969*f - 1530*r**2 wrt r? -91*f - 3060*r Find the second derivative of 20635*c**2*n**2 + 2*c**2 - 469*c*n**2 - 6*n**2 - 4 wrt c. 41270*n**2 + 4 Find the second derivative of -2*v**3 - 130626*v**2 + 504*v - 325 wrt v. -12*v - 261252 Find the third derivative of 175886*p**4 + 515*p**2 - 763 wrt p. 4221264*p Find the third derivative of -17903*o**3 - 115*o**2 - 12*o wrt o. -107418 What is the third derivative of -11983*v**4 + 39212*v**2 wrt v? -287592*v Find the third derivative of -30051*h**5 + h**4 - 32*h**2 + h + 862. -1803060*h**2 + 24*h What is the derivative of 3219208*k**3 - 2413276 wrt k? 9657624*k**2 Find the first derivative of -i**3*l**2*o - 2*i**3*l + 160*i**3 - 3*i**2*l**2 - 522*i*l**2*o + 2 wrt o. -i**3*l**2 - 522*i*l**2 Find the second derivative of 377317*y**3 - 642024*y wrt y. 2263902*y Find the third derivative of 72045*m**3 - 285*m**2 - 2*m + 40 wrt m. 432270 What is the third derivative of 1154003*p**3 + 334758*p**2 - 3? 6924018 What is the derivative of 2116*r**2 + 606*r - 483239? 4232*r + 606 Find the second derivative of -4462537*n**4 + 371747*n + 1. -53550444*n**2 What is the third derivative of -3720405*g**5 + 228*g**2 + 6295? -223224300*g**2 Find the second derivative of 133435*m**2*q**3 + 58*m*q**3 - 214*m*q**2 - 9*m*q - 2*q**3 wrt m. 266870*q**3 Find the second derivative of -4*n*z**5 + 1285*n*z**3 + 3*n*z - 8*n + 8*z wrt z. -80*n*z**3 + 7710*n*z What is the third derivative of -c**4 - 715*c**3*s - 10*c**3 - 3*c**2*s - 2*c**2 - 3*c + 76*s wrt c? -24*c - 4290*s - 60 What is the third derivative of -6*f**4*y - 7545*f**3*y - f**2*y + 60*f*y + 76 wrt f? -144*f*y - 45270*y What is the second derivative of -s*y**3 - 194*s*y**2 + 8960*s + 2*y**3 + 5*y**2 - 5*y wrt y? -6*s*y - 388*s + 12*y + 10 What is the third derivative of d**4 + 371*d**3*o*r + 12*d**3*o + 9968*d**2*o - 2*r wrt d? 24*d + 2226*o*r + 72*o What is the third derivative of -2036*m**4 + 5*m**3*n**2 + 3*m**2*n**2 + 12793*n**2 wrt m? -48864*m + 30*n**2 What is the first derivative of -414920*p**3*v + 25727*p**3 wrt v? -414920*p**3 Find the third derivative of 307746*w**3 - 565302*w**2. 1846476 What is the second derivative of -1936*b**2*j + 3*b**2*p - 62223*b*j - j*p wrt b? -3872*j + 6*p Differentiate -43102*f*q**2*s**2 + f*s**2 - 929*f*s + q**3*s with respect to q. -86204*f*q*s**2 + 3*q**2*s What is the third derivative of -33*f**4*o + 5186*f**3*o - 144025*f**2*o - 2*f**2 wrt f? -792*f*o + 31116*o What is the third derivative of -7236*j**6 + 4*j**4*l**3 + 2*j**2 - 236*j*l**3 + 3*l**3 + 2*l wrt j? -868320*j**3 + 96*j*l**3 What is the second derivative of -109939*p**3 - 78437*p + 2? -659634*p Differentiate 13120*m - 35978 with respect to m. 13120 Differentiate 335836*i - 584085 with respect to i. 335836 Find the third derivative of -148*j**3*o*s**2 + 8*j**3*o*s - 4*j**3*s**2 + 650*j**2*o*s + j*o + 5*j*s**2 wrt j. -888*o*s**2 + 48*o*s - 24*s**2 Find the second derivative of -15637*d**3 + 60055*d wrt d. -93822*d Find the first derivative of 3798304*o + 2145270. 3798304 What is the second derivative of 2*u**3 - 2252131*u**2 + 446*u + 1279 wrt u? 12*u - 4504262 Find the second derivative of -2*x**4 - 4263*x**3 + 46*x - 18. -24*x**2 - 25578*x Differentiate 31623*d**2 - 66526. 63246*d Find the second derivative of -6*c**4 + 63*c**3 + 2*c - 21606. -72*c**2 + 378*c What is the first derivative of 25*b**4 - b**3 - 9*b**2 - 143*b - 2119835? 100*b**3 - 3*b**2 - 18*b - 143 Find the third derivative of -2*f*g*m**2 + 2188*f*g - f*m**3 - 2*f - 118679*g*m**3 - g*m**2 - g wrt m. -6*f - 712074*g Differentiate -1365*f**3*u**4 - 9*f**3*u + 2*f**3 - f**2 - 9561*f with respect to u. -5460*f**3*u**3 - 9*f**3 Find the third derivative of 47936*s**5 - 52681*s**2 wrt s. 2876160*s**2 Find the second derivative of 1406316*i**4 - 4131*i - 149. 16875792*i**2 Find the second derivative of -1020*a**3*o**3 + a**3*o + 2*a**3 - 97*a + 425*o**2 + 94*o wrt o. -6120*a**3*o + 850 What is the second derivative of 459*s**3 - 6*s**2 + 42526*s wrt s? 2754*s - 12 Find the third derivative of -60849*a**3*t - 2*a**3 + 2*a**2*t + 41311*a*t wrt a. -365094*t - 12 Find the first derivative of -2281*k**3 - 123*k**2*u**2 + 676*u**2 + u - 719 wrt k. -6843*k**2 - 246*k*u**2 What is the third derivative of -166032*a**4 - 355*a**2 + 3*a - 14? -3984768*a What is the first derivative of -2*j**4 - 3*j**3 - 1780*j**2 + j + 669842 wrt j? -8*j**3 - 9*j**2 - 3560*j + 1 What is the third derivative of -154471*x**3 - 416641*x**2? -926826 Find the third derivative of 323*h**4*n + 7*h**3*n*w**3 + 5*h**3*n + 2*h**2*w**2 + 5*h*n*w**3 - 1340*h*n*w**2 wrt h. 7752*h*n + 42*n*w**3 + 30*n What is the third derivative of -4*a**5 + 24839*a**3 + 2*a**2 + 34757*a - 2 wrt a? -240*a**2 + 149034 What is the third derivative of -163087*g**3 + 578*g**2 + 16*g wrt g? -978522 What is the derivative of 321941*q**2 - 907830 wrt q? 643882*q What is the derivative of -98655*k*l**2*m - 11*k*l**2 + k*l + 1003*k + l**2 + 3*l wrt m? -98655*k*l**2 What is the third derivative of -3*z**5 + 27213*z**4 - 2*z**3 - 35632*z**2? -180*z**2 + 653112*z - 12 Find the third derivative of 22*b**2*c**3*y**3 + 4818*b**2*c*y**3 + 2*b**2*c*y**2 + b**2*y + 3*b**2 - 85*b*c**3*y**2 - 2*c**3*y**2 - 11*c*y**2 wrt y. 132*b**2*c**3 + 28908*b**2*c Find the third derivative of 1749815*v**3 - 86*v**2 + 2374*v - 2. 10498890 What is the first derivative of 2*t**4 + 2*t**2 + 1492*t + 10996? 8*t**3 + 4*t + 1492 What is the third derivative of -171*n**5 + 57*n**4 + 1428*n**2 - 3? -10260*n**2 + 1368*n Find the third derivative of 57*c**3*n**2 + 2*c**3*n + 2656*c**3 + 2*c**2*n**2 + 1682*c**2*n + c*n**2 - 70*n**2 wrt c. 342*n**2 + 12*n + 15936 Differentiate 362*q*s**2 - 2*q*s*u + 4*q*s + 10*q - 336929*s**3*u + 2*s**3 + 3*s**2 with respect to u. -2*q*s - 336929*s**3 Find the second derivative of -378*j*y**2*z - j*y + 69*j*z - 90*j + 13*y**3 + 2*y**2*z wrt y. -756*j*z + 78*y + 4*z Find the third derivative of 58403*f**4 - 2*f**3 + 318534*f**2. 1401672*f - 12 Find the third derivative of -3*j*q**3*r**3 + 758*j*q**2*r**3 + 2*j*q**2 - 3*j*r**3 + 69268*q**3*r + 6*q**2*r**2 wrt q. -18*j*r**3 + 415608*r What is the first derivative of j*k*l + 3*j*k - 153*j*l + 2*j + k*l - 19275*k - 138*l + 1 wrt k? j*l + 3*j + l - 19275 Find the second derivative of 88*c**2*t**3 + 3*c**2*t**2 - c**2 - 19*c*t**3 - 20873*t wrt t. 528*c**2*t + 6*c**2 - 114*c*t What is the third derivative of -4*r**4 + 28588*r**3 + 1067991*r**2? -96*r + 171528 What is the first derivative of -17859*g**4 - 10631 wrt g? -71436*g**3 What is the second derivative of -204150*h**2 + 1796*h + 2? -408300 Find the second derivative of -p**2*x**2 - 1289*p**2*x - 12*p**2 + 7*p*x**2 - 2491*x**2 wrt x. -2*p**2 + 14*p - 4982 Find the second derivative of 3392*h**3*n**2 - 62*h**3*n + h**3 - 7*h**2*n**4 + 64*n + 1 wrt n. 6784*h**3 - 84*h**2*n**2 Find the first derivative of 114523*l + 20332 wrt l. 114523 What is the first derivative of 16674*r**3 + 49*r**2 - 1669236? 50022*r**2 + 98*r Find the second derivative of 8*h**4 - 1290*h**3 + 72562*h. 96*h**2 - 7740*h Find the first derivative of 9*z**2 + 3942*z - 105574. 18*z + 3942 Differentiate -3*a**2*f + 4*a**2 + a*f**2 - 5010*a + 749*f**2 - f + 4 wrt f. -3*a**2 + 2*a*f + 1498*f - 1 What is the second derivative of -3*g**3 - 11703*g**2 - 38956*g - 4? -18*g - 23406 What is the first derivative of 3*o**4 - 19444*o**2 + 371234? 12*o**3 - 38888*o What is the second derivative of -177776*b**3 + b**2 + 12*b + 3977? -1066656*b + 2 What is the third derivative of -2776*y**4 - 158*y**3 - 1205*y**2 + 3*y - 10? -66624*y - 948 Find the third derivative of 72*a*c**3*m**3 - 2410*a*c**3*m - 13*a*c**2*m**3 + 6*a*c**2*m**2 - 2*a*c**2*m - 7*a*c*m**3 - 7*c*m wrt c. 432*a*m**3 - 14460*a*m What is the third derivative of -39186*j**3*x**3 - 1700*j**2*x**2 - 2*j

Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer Let’s bang humanity’s drum by looking at the most recent issue of In Style. The always-on-the-pulse feature editors have asked a bunch of celebrities what the most sexy things are. As always with such quizzes, potential answers are introduced as either/ors: culture or In Style or the editing process has locked these stars into picking from a list of already sanctioned-as-sexy things. Thus, sexiest clothing: nothing but heels. Sexiest calendar: nothing but firemen. Sexiest music? If you guessed Marvin Gaye: right! If you guessed Barry White? Surprisingly, no, but whatev. Gaye and White get enough exposure as the coffee/tea divide of morning talk show sexuality; straight and black is the most sexual (through our culture’s curious stranglehold on “true” things from like 1877), both a celebration and the ugliest stereotypes of our history held up in outstretched, cupped hands. So what I learned from the article is that a) old is the new new so b) therefore, black men make real sexy music for knocking boots and that c) consequently, what everybody wants is to see Eva Longoria-Parker dancing only in heels on a fire pole to “Sexual Healing.” Hell, the magazine even tries to cut the middleman out of our presumed shared fantasy, even though there’s no music, no fire pole, and Longoria-Parker is actually dressed in the picture. The entire fantasy is reduced to a red arrow pointing at her shoes. And the earth collectively orgasms. Or at least the foot fetishists do. …well, I mean, they don’t really, at least by In Style’s standards, since apparently the vast multitude of human desires can be expressed through multiple choice. But this is the cultural stagnation Wolf Parade has always wanted to escape, right? This is why Spencer Krug (still) presents horses and horse riders and other animals as the building blocks of our cultural erection, teasing homoerotic fantasy as suture for the constricting heteronormative imperatives of commercial and consumer sexuality. Plus, he discovers himself, often painfully, in his out-of-city therapeutic fantasies. Boeckner is also riding horses this time, screaming, “and what you know can only mean one thing,” or “they still don’t mean a thing,” or, rephrasing himself, “it don’t mean a thing.” That’s the crux of Wolf Parade’s assault on the modern condition: no matter how active you are on the fringes, your activities get filtered through successive levels of hierarchy until they become either/ors. Get out of the suburbs, get out of gossip rags, “let the needle on the compass swing,” get away from appliances, those “100,000 sad inventions.” “Get to where?” is the question, and if Boeckner chronicles the decline of modern society because he knows everyone and their respective knowledge and experience is “rooted to the place that you spring from,” Krug always seems to be out in the wilderness searching for isolated springs to call home. And even if Boeckner slips occasionally into outdated retaliations against 1950s domesticity/white flight/suburban whatevers, or if Krug could have the most awesome (and sexiest) zoo in the world if he collected the fantastic creatures littered across his Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown imaginings, Wolf Parade the band, in unison voice, still manages to say “the modern world sucks in general, so find hope in the specifics” better than anyone. And so Krug’s in the forest and Boeckner’s in the urban core, and they reach across the suburbs at one another to hug the hurt from the world. Of course, if Wolf Parade want to fuss with dominant mentalities, their efforts are at the mercy of the epic frivolity of indie-fandom, because let’s face it: we’re no better than In Style half the time. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in 2005, it did so late in a year full of half-cocked victories and against the first real tidal wave of blog hype. It seemed like a cataclysm of rock tropes forced through the sieve of the band’s—and especially Krug’s—peculiar mentality. It was exciting enough that the album’s midway-lull was ignored. Okay: I’m not backhandedly shitting on Apologies to the Queen Mary, to be clear. I’m just pointing out that the hype surrounding it meant that liking its sexy indie heels meant something. Which makes sense, since indie culture isn’t a rejection of commercial culture; it’s a modification, right? We’re so hard-wired as humans to define ourselves through the shit we buy (or own)—Boeckner’s “100,000 sad inventions”—that we produce alternative consumer cultures where the objects we own mean what we want ourselves to mean and then we turn around and say we live a different way than our parents. It’s true and it’s not true, and I think Wolf Parade’s politics and aesthetic are, consciously or unconsciously, mitigated by that fact. Especially given that Boeckner and Krug may be saying the same things but coming at them from different angles, making subcategories of Wolf Parade identification strategies: Krug-fans and Boeckner-fans. At Mount Zoomer may mean we have to lighten up a little: Wolf Parade is not going to save the world, and they may not even save rock ‘n’ roll, but they can show us alternative visions of what rock could be. In that sense, Wolf Parade’s sophomore slump manifests itself entirely in their stupid choice for their new album’s title; otherwise, At Mount Zoomer is a tremendous success, even as the Sub Pop promo department is throwing around The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) and Marquee Moon (1977) as catch-alls for what it means to rock today. Old is the still new sexy; reissues are the new hype; punk is better than prog—“so don’t front, prog geeks, ‘cause we don’t want you,” they mean; rock operas are fashionable again; Krug screams “fire in the hole.” I’m a prog geek, at least in part, and I’m telling you: this album is less and more important than that, because it still means liking Wolf Parade means something even as it interrogates what that something is and makes it harder to choose between Krug and Boeckner (not for lack of trying) as ways to situate yourself within a selective interpretation of what the band does or is. Hell, At Mount Zoomer might even be contentious! Or maybe it isn’t, probably, since 2008 seems to think that out is the new in as long as it isn’t too out. And that’s the main reason the Sub Pop one-sheet’s comparisons work: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway saw Genesis reeling in all of their prog fetishes, internalizing them within pop songs; Marquee Moon saw Television transforming proto-punk into prog. In Sub Pop’s estimation, then, At Mount Zoomer is like, say, condensing the entire riffage of King Crimson into a 2×2 Bento Box and icing it with the best riff in the world ever—yes, I’m talking about the hook of Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby”—and then having the Buzzcocks record it in a basement somewhere. It’s a cubist approach to music, as opposed to the surrealist rendition; everything fits against everything else comfortably, rather than everything always trying to escape. And I’ll cop: it’s actually easy to hear the fractured strains of “Back in N.Y.C.” in the keyboard riffs that drive Boeckner’s “Soldier’s Grin,” easy to hear Gabriel-ian theatrics in Krug’s every yelp, easy to hear Verlaine-ian technique in the guitar solo on “Fine Young Cannibals.” But Wolf Parade aren’t drawing in so much as filling up. If, as is the typical perception, their music used to play urbanism (Boeckner) and anti-modernism (Krug) against one another, I think they’re starting to see the relationship between the two and, consequently, to capture a whole mess of details inside the structure of their aesthetic, making this album more cerebral than the immediately ragged Apologies to the Queen Mary. In part, complicating the either/or of Boeckner/Krug is due to the rest of the band seeming more present here. Arlen Thompson’s drums are more integrated into the dynamic range of the songs, Hadji Bakara’s sound manipulations are even more subtle and more crucial than before, and Dante DeCaro’s additional guitar work gives added range to the band’s sound. But the easiest way to note the difference is how each album starts: if “You are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son” shelters Krug’s fantasies of emotional detachment (I love how he revels in emotional pain) inside a stark drum/keyboard duet that screams, “RAWK,” Boeckner’s “Soldier’s Grin” begins with a hilarious synth riff that undermines, however briefly, any expectations you had for what At Mount Zoomer should sound like, or at least what Boeckner songs should sound like. And, indeed, among the Boeckner-fans cries of “too much Krug Korg” is the main complaint around the office. Funny, since the Krug-fans seem concerned with a lack of Krug. I’m in the middle, happy to see a closer union of the two styles manifesting itself in a complication of the band’s overall sound. In fact, I like At Mount Zoomer more than the band’s debut, even if many of my colleagues—at least according to their ratings—don’t. And yes, that means I would have been on the low (but certainly not the Alexander low) end of the Queen Mary indie-crush spectrum. It was initially surprisingly to me, since I like craziness, that my favorite thing about At Mount Zoomer is how Boeckner’s grown as a writer. In hindsight, though, this probably was inevitably his album to grow, as it’s becoming increasingly clear that Krug’s Sunset Rubdown side project isn’t an outlet for non-Wolf Parade material so much as a venue for his prolific creativity. But even if 2005 Krug-style gems like “Grounds for Divorce” or “You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son”—songs that splayed and reorganized the corpse of pop music on an operating table—are a thing of the past, Wolf Parade’s version of 2008 Krug is enticing for entirely differently reasons. “Bang Your Drum” is a good example: the surrealist approach he takes with Sunset Rubdown is reigned in, and so elliptical verse structures run in place before crashing into elliptical choruses that run at full tilt before Krug grabs the mic and leads his non-existent audience in a rousing chorus of incredibly meaningful singsong non-words. Krug and Boeckner share cerebral concerns: you reach the edge, you could “take a dive,” but “how can you turn away?” If I were reaching, I’d say Krug’s increasing refusal to write outside of the niche he created for himself is itself a rejection of the indie music he’s supposed to produce: he’s less a musician now than he is a personality, alternately directing his audience and splashing his fantastical whatevers on the ground in front of them. Maybe he’s berating himself for lauding life in the wilderness while living in Montreal, though his few tales of the city are equally self-denigrating, as “California Dreamer” shows. Either way, Krug’s Sisyphean chord progressions usher in inspired and related musical work from the band: the end of the song is a miasma of noises working at counter-purpose. The brilliance of this and many moments like this on At Mount Zoomer is that the band manage to build hectic and moving moments out of calculated chaos. Check “An Animal in Your Care,” where a threaded and subtle guitar riff that sighs in the background of the initial parts of the track suddenly becomes an epic, thundering outro. Point being, even if Krug’s gotten more internal, looping about himself in the most fascinating ways, it’s the band+Boeckner that keeps him grounded, just as the band+Krug leavens Boeckner’s compositions, uniting his straightforward delivery with the eclectic approach the band increasingly excels at. Even “Grey Estates,” At Mount Zoomer’s closest equivalent to “Modern World” or “Shine a Light,” is a bustling mini-prog/surf workout. It’s the band’s finest pop single to date, I’d say, and it’s actually kind of funny: despite how complex it is, if you compare it to “Shine a Light” or “Modern World”—songs that have a similar feel—the old tracks are much slower. Every odd keyboard riff and noise that appears here seems to be calculated into the structure of the track; every shift impacts the meaning of the song. Boeckner’s best when he’s at his sharpest, but the band’s ability to complicate that sharpness here, on “Language City” and on “Soldier’s Grin,” is fascinating; his rock songs cloaked in carnival clothing, they move like the zombies in the video for “Thriller,” or at least the ones Krug digs up in “An Animal in Your Care.” Pop songs. Even “Kissing the Beehive,” a gasping outro that sort of takes the idea of a Boeckner/Krug duet to its illogical extreme, works perfectly with its Spector-drum riff, spiralling guitar squalls, and kind-of-funny backing vocals. And that vaguely cinematic riff that rolls over the middle cinches the whole melodrama of the piece together in a way that screams “seriously” and “don’t take it so seriously” in the same breath. Either/or, right? Except “Kissing the Beehive” makes it hard to know where one starts and the other begins, and Wolf Parade in general are making it increasingly hard to talk about this band like it’s urban/rural, modern/anti-modern, or Boeckner/Krug. In retrospect the album title almost makes sense: Wolf Parade express a longing for a fantasy world that maybe only they still dream of, one they can only grasp through the release of making music, and so in name At Mount Zoomer declares, “Here we are, standing on our peak, happy in this moment, at the studio that our drummer made with his own two hands.” Whether you like it more or less than their debut, this album means that in 2008 this band lives on despite their hype and despite the way they’ve been constructed in indie fandom. They’re just Wolf Parade, fucking shit up for breakfast.

Det är inte bara processtekniker i nanometer och antalet beräkningsenheter som grafikkortstillverkarna AMD och Nvidia konkurrerar om. För att göra bolagens grafikkort än mer attraktiva erbjuds ofta spelpaket som följer med på köpet, så kallade bundles. AMD har fram till nu erbjudit spel som Borderlands 3, Ghost Recon Breakpoint och Gears 5, men nu i februari uppdateras spelpaketen med färska speltitlar. Samtliga aktuella grafikkort som positioneras över Radeon RX 550 får tre månaders Xbox Game Pass, vilket ger tillgång till ett brett bibliotek av spel. Där tar dock likheterna slut, och paketen segmenteras snabbt upp beroende på grafikkort. Med budgetmodellen Radeon RX 5500 XT medföljer kommande Resident Evil 3, nyligen lanserade Warcraft III: Reforged samt det högteknologiska skjutarspelet Ghost Recon Breakpoint. För mer högpresterande Radeon RX 5700 och storebror RX 5700 XT stryker både Ghost Recon och nyutgåvan av Warcraft III på foten, medan Resident Evil 3 behålls. Dessutom medföljer kritikerrosade Monster Hunter World, vilket inkluderar både grundspelet samt den frostiga expansionen Iceborne. Spelpaketen finns tillgängliga via deltagande återförsäljare från och med den 4 februari, och kampanjen löper till och med 25 april. Det är värt att nämna att färska Radeon RX 5600 XT ser ut att bli utan något spelpaket. Källa: Videocardz Vad tycker du om spelen AMD inkluderar med sina grafikkort, får de dig att klicka hem ett nytt kort omgående? Diskutera i kommentarstråden!

OLIVER CROMWELL THROWING OUT THE PARLIAMENT - 1653 Dismissal of the Rump Parliament Go here for more about Oliver Cromwell . Go here for more about Cromwell's Rump Parliament Ejection speech . It follows the full text transcript of Oliver Cromwell's speech dissolving the Rump Parliament, delivered at London, England - April 20, 1653. It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! More History Previous Page Die Juedische Frage Back to First Page Back to Speeches Main Page Next Page Do You Want Total War?

Forhandlingerne mellem DBU og Spillerforeningen er brudt sammen, og kvindelandsholdets VM-kvalifikationskamp mod Sverige er derfor aflyst. Det meddeler DBU's pressechef, Jacob Wadland, ude foran DBU's hovedkontor i Brøndby onsdag formiddag. - Vi har nu meldt ud, at spillernes udeblivelse medfører aflysning af kampen på fredag. Det er selvfølgelig dybt beklageligt, siger han og fortsætter: Læs også : Svensk forbund venter fortsat på afklaring fra DBU - Vi har orienteret svenskerne om, at der ikke er noget hold, der kan stille op. Ukendte konsekvenser Konsekvenserne af en udeblivelse har Uefa og Fifa ikke ville forholde sig til, før der var noget konkret. Det er der imidlertid nu, men i DBU ved man ikke, hvad udeblivelsen betyder, fortæller elitechef, Kim Hallberg. Læs også : Fortsat ingen spillere til samling: Kvindelandsholdet selvtræner igen - Vi har selvfølgelig forsøgt at høre Fifa og Uefa, og deres svar er meget klart: Der findes ikke nogen fortilfælde, og i øvrigt er det deres uafhængige disciplinærinstans, som tager beslutningen, siger Kim Hallberg. Men hvis I har været i dialog med Fifa og Uefa undervejs, har de så ikke fortalt jer noget om, hvad konsekvenserne kan være? - Nej, fordi der findes ikke nogen regler om, at hvis man vælger at strejke på grund af ens fagforening eller andet, så er konsekvenserne på en bestemt måde, siger Kim Hallberg. Kvindelandsholdet selvtræner lige nu i Dragør. DR Sporten kunne ikke få en kommentar fra spillerne inden selvtræningen, men arbejder få at få en kommentar, når træningen er overstået. Officielt har Danmark indtil klokken 12 torsdag til at sætte navne på spillerne i truppen.

My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong I feel it is shortsighted to mistake this explosive growth as being sustainable — in fact, I feel 2017 was arguably the worst year for cryptocurrencies yet. To understand why, let’s revisit what I learned from the currency I created as a joke. RUBBISH! The DA the Police Chief and the Mayor have endorsed the notion that you abandon your privacy when you set your trash out on the curb. So we figured they wouldn’t mind too much if we took a peek at theirs. Boy, were we wrong Why dolphins are deep thinkers Dolphins can also use tools to solve problems. Scientists have observed a dolphin coaxing a reluctant moray eel out of its crevice by killing a scorpion fish and using its spiny body to poke at the eel. A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of the controller — and your need to win It turns out that you — the named person you consider yourself, with hands and a brainful of electricity, the individual who profoundly wants absolute control over this existence and moreover to win — is utterly dispensable. In fact, the game plays better when you’re not running it. New Zealand creates special refugee visa for Pacific islanders affected by climate change As some Pacific countries prepare to relocate entire communities, New Zealand’s newly-elected Labor-led coalition government has become the first country in the world to introduce a climate refugee scheme. Google’s Latest Search: What Happened to Its Bikes? Google built a massive business organizing the world’s information, but it’s struggling to keep track of the bikes it provides for employees to get around its giant headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Local residents tend to ride off with them. Who Owns Aokigahara? Japan is a prop in these videos, and in the case of Logan Paul, sadly, Japan’s very serious problem with suicide was a prop. For the past year I’ve been doing research on media representations of Aokigahara inside and outside Japan… The case for defeating death We’re taught that death is natural and that trying to escape it is wishful lunacy. However, these researchers have made tangible discoveries. They’ve published studies in highly respected journals and attracted serious amounts of funding. When they say it’s possible to live longer, and maybe forever, it’s tempting to believe them. Productivity is dangerous I often see shit like, “Ten Habits I Have QUIT to Get More Done,” and I think, “Maybe quit writing posts like this.” If you’re waking up at 4 a.m. to write 1,000 words about how you write 1,000 words every day, what are you actually getting done? Just stay in bed. Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen – Project Syndicate – Medium Legal setbacks in the US have forced the tobacco industry to concede that its products are harmful, and that for decades cigarette producers deliberately misled the public about the health effects of smoking. But these “corrective statements” do not mean that the war with the industry is over. Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again The editorial meeting of the future “In the future, we’ll instead organize the editorial meeting around this all-important question: “What can we help the public understand or do today?” We won’t start with our ideas — we’ll start with the information gaps the public demonstrates they have, and focus our efforts squarely on filling those gaps.” We are sleepwalking toward war with North Korea But here’s the genuinely scary thing. Numerous conversations with US policymakers, former US government officials, and experts all point to one disturbing conclusion: Far from being unthinkable, a war with North Korea is becoming more likely by the day.

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35. Let w(l) = -17*l - 20. Let j(h) = -4*m(h) - 7*w(h). Determine c(j(r)). -9261*r**2 Let o(r) = -3*r - 8. Let w(g) = -12*g. Let y(v) = -v. Let i(n) = w(n) - 10*y(n). Give i(o(f)). 6*f + 16 Let r(c) = 2*c - 11. Let u be r(10). Let v(h) = 5*h. Let d(g) = -9*g. Let z(s) = u*v(s) + 4*d(s). Let o(p) = 3*p**2. Determine z(o(q)). 27*q**2 Let c(f) = 7*f**2. Let u(y) = y**2 - 6*y - 5. Let v be u(7). Suppose -2*h - 5*s = 6, 5*h = 2*s + s + 16. Let a(n) = -6*n - v*n**h + 6*n. Give c(a(k)). 28*k**4 Let p(l) be the second derivative of -7*l + 0*l**2 + 0 + 1/3*l**3. Let s(a) = 3*a**2 + 5. Let r(u) = 4*u**2 + 6. Let k(g) = -5*r(g) + 6*s(g). Give p(k(v)). -4*v**2 Let y(w) = 717*w**2. Let a(u) be the first derivative of -u**2 - 397. Give y(a(q)). 2868*q**2 Let h(g) = -2*g**2. Let o(f) = 648810*f**2. What is h(o(w))? -841908832200*w**4 Let f(b) = 207425*b**2. Let i(o) = -3*o. Give f(i(n)). 1866825*n**2 Let y(k) = -7*k**2 + 4*k**2 + 4*k**2. Let v(l) = 15*l**2 + 4*l + 4. Let i(g) = 451*g**2 + 121*g + 121. Let b(f) = 4*i(f) - 121*v(f). Calculate b(y(m)). -11*m**4 Let p(f) = -f. Let x(w) be the first derivative of -w**2 + w - 14. Let n(o) = -o - 1. Let r(m) = 3*n(m) + 3*x(m). Calculate p(r(z)). 9*z Let d(l) = 169*l**2 - 10*l. Let n(c) = -84*c - 3. What is n(d(p))? -14196*p**2 + 840*p - 3 Let z(d) = 60072*d**2. Let o(r) = 2*r. Determine o(z(i)). 120144*i**2 Let d(k) = 201*k**2. Let t(c) = 4*c**2 + 21. Calculate d(t(u)). 3216*u**4 + 33768*u**2 + 88641 Let n(c) = c**2 - 2*c - 4. Let x(d) = 14*d**2 - 8*d - 16. Let r(g) = -4*n(g) + x(g). Let o(y) = 5*y**2 + 5*y. Give r(o(j)). 250*j**4 + 500*j**3 + 250*j**2 Let x(d) = 4*d. Let c(z) = 11*z. Let t(j) = 12*j - 1. Let a(n) = -7*c(n) + 6*t(n). Let g(m) = 4*m + 5. Let v(w) = -5*a(w) - 6*g(w). What is x(v(s))? 4*s Let b(k) = 2*k. Let n(v) = 169009*v. Determine n(b(t)). 338018*t Let r(a) = 5*a. Let f(s) be the first derivative of s**4/6 + 29*s**2/2 + 12. Let t(v) be the second derivative of f(v). Determine t(r(x)). 20*x Let v = -174/5 - -4181/120. Let k(c) be the third derivative of -v*c**4 + 0 - 8*c**2 + 0*c**3 + 0*c. Let y(p) = 13*p**2. Determine y(k(m)). 13*m**2 Let l(f) = -f + 1. Let d(q) = 3*q**2 + 6*q - 6. Let m(n) = d(n) + 6*l(n). Let u(r) = -24*r**2 - 5*r**2 + 26*r**2. What is u(m(b))? -27*b**4 Let i(n) = -134746*n**2. Let g(x) = -x. Give g(i(p)). 134746*p**2 Let q(y) = 424*y. Let c(k) = 316*k**2 + 2. Give c(q(d)). 56809216*d**2 + 2 Let x(j) be the second derivative of 10*j**3 + 2*j + 21. Let i(t) = -t**2. Calculate i(x(y)). -3600*y**2 Let n(u) = 38*u**2 + 8*u - 16. Let s(q) = 25*q**2 + 5*q - 10. Let i(g) = -5*n(g) + 8*s(g). Let a(o) = 9*o**2. Give i(a(m)). 810*m**4 Let r(x) = -5*x**2. Let p(v) = 43*v**2. Give r(p(f)). -9245*f**4 Let g(i) = -i**2 + 3*i + 30. Let z be g(7). Let d(u) = -46*u**2 + 37*u**2 + 29*u**z. Let t(b) = -3*b. What is t(d(v))? -60*v**2 Let o(j) = 3*j**2 + 2*j - 2. Let g(l) = 11*l**2 + 7*l - 7. Let s(r) = -6*g(r) + 21*o(r). Let k(u) = -312*u**2. Give s(k(d)). -292032*d**4 Let g(v) = 11*v + 2. Let w(y) = 1. Let f(q) = 2*q - 6. Let s(l) = -f(l) - 6*w(l). What is g(s(h))? -22*h + 2 Let q(r) = 50*r. Let j(f) = 95014 - 95014 - 16*f. Determine q(j(u)). -800*u Let a(g) = -51*g + g**2 + 51*g. Let v(h) = 28*h. Let i(k) = 28*k. Let u(d) = 2*i(d) - 3*v(d). Give u(a(o)). -28*o**2 Let q(j) = -j. Let b(m) = -2*m**2 - 9*m + 4431. What is b(q(d))? -2*d**2 + 9*d + 4431 Let l(m) = 2*m - 8. Let b(n) = -3*n - 4. Let p(u) = 5*u + 5. Let i(t) = -5*b(t) - 4*p(t). What is l(i(v))? -10*v - 8 Let n(l) = 18*l**2. Let a(x) = -20*x**2 + 7*x. Let q(g) = -6*g**2 + 2*g. Let b(f) = 2*a(f) - 7*q(f). Determine b(n(j)). 648*j**4 Let a(v) = -12*v**2 - 34*v - 3. Let r(z) = -6*z. Determine a(r(q)). -432*q**2 + 204*q - 3 Suppose 57*b - 62*b + 145 = 0. Let w(k) = b*k - 13*k - 7*k - 8*k. Let r(j) be the second derivative of 3*j**4/2 + j. What is r(w(i))? 18*i**2 Let f(q) be the third derivative of -q**5/30 - 2*q**3/3 + 116*q**2. Let u(y) = 5*y. What is f(u(j))? -50*j**2 - 4 Let p be (106/4)/((-12)/(-288)). Let c(i) = -10*i**2 + 636*i - p*i. Let j(w) = w. Give c(j(k)). -10*k**2 Let n(u) = u - 1. Let f(v) = 100*v - 75. Let c(q) = -f(q) + 75*n(q). Let b(z) be the second derivative of z**3/6 + 87*z - 8. What is b(c(j))? -25*j Let s(o) = -o**2. Let q(b) be the third derivative of 0*b**3 - 1/6*b**4 + 0*b + 0 + 8*b**2. Determine s(q(i)). -16*i**2 Let i(u) = u**2. Let q(z) be the third derivative of -z**8/3360 + 11*z**5/60 + 6*z**2. Let m(a) be the third derivative of q(a). Give i(m(v)). 36*v**4 Let d(z) = -6*z. Let b be 0/(-5 + 24/8). Let y(f) be the second derivative of b + 0*f**3 + 1/12*f**4 - 5*f + 0*f**2. Determine y(d(x)). 36*x**2 Let d(o) = 29*o**2. Let r(n) = 226*n - 5. Calculate r(d(z)). 6554*z**2 - 5 Let l(f) = 712*f. Let h(q) = -49*q**2. What is l(h(s))? -34888*s**2 Let l(p) = 0*p**2 + 2*p**2 - 3*p**2. Let x(q) be the third derivative of q**5/30 - 301*q**2. Give l(x(z)). -4*z**4 Let u(y) = 4*y**2 + 5*y + 10. Let z(v) = -3*v**2 - 4*v - 8. Let r(i) = -4*u(i) - 5*z(i). Let t(k) = 145*k**2. Determine t(r(p)). 145*p**4 Let k(y) = 5*y**2 + 3*y. Let a(p) = 5*p - p + 33*p**2 - 27*p**2. Let g(d) = 3*a(d) - 4*k(d). Let h(j) = 16*j**2. Give g(h(n)). -512*n**4 Let n(i) = -5*i**2. Let u(p) = 6*p**2 + 15*p - 12. Let y be u(16). Let a(s) = y - 1764 - 4*s. Calculate n(a(d)). -80*d**2 Suppose k = 6 - 0. Let r(t) = -5*t + 5*t - 2*t**2 + k*t**2. Let v(w) = -w. Let g(f) = 2*f. Let s(d) = -g(d) - 5*v(d). Give s(r(l)). 12*l**2 Let z(s) = -s**2 - 6*s - 2. Let o be z(-5). Let c(g) = -o - 6*g + 2 + 1. Let r(y) = y. Let j(k) = 6*c(k) + 33*r(k). Let l(a) = 2*a. Give l(j(m)). -6*m Let m(h) be the second derivative of -h**3/2 + 479*h. Let z(q) be the third derivative of q**4/4 - q**2. What is m(z(n))? -18*n Let g(n) = 0 + 0*n - 2 - n - 1. Let s(y) = -1. Let t(q) = 5*g(q) - 15*s(q). Let u(r) = 3*r. Calculate u(t(j)). -15*j Let u(n) = 3. Let x(z) = z - 18. Let o(b) = -6*u(b) - x(b). Let r(k) = 181*k. Determine o(r(t)). -181*t Let q = -43 - -53. Let r(p) = -q*p**2 - 2*p**2 + 9*p**2. Let x(j) = 4*j**2 + 3*j**2 - 6*j**2. Determine x(r(c)). 9*c**4 Let q(x) be the second derivative of -x**3/3 + x. Let m(u) be the second derivative of -5/3*u**3 + 0*u**2 - 12*u + 0. Give q(m(a)). 20*a Let v be (25/(-100))/(1/(-8)). Let b(y) = -5*y**v + 0*y**2 + 12*y**2 - 9*y**2. Let a(q) = -4*q + 3*q - 2*q. What is b(a(p))? -18*p**2 Let d(t) = -t + 36192. Let c(k) = -2*k. Give c(d(j)). 2*j - 72384 Let l(k) = 2*k. Let y(o) = o - 1. Let x(d) be the first derivative of -2*d**2 + 3*d + 9. Let p be (-1 + 0)/(2/6). Let b(w) = p*y(w) - x(w). Determine l(b(z)). 2*z Suppose -6*w = -3*w - 384. Let a(z) = w*z + 0 + 0 - 137*z. Let x(j) = j. Determine x(a(t)). -9*t Let a(b) = -658 + 326 - 100*b + 332. Let m(g) = 2*g**2. What is m(a(n))? 20000*n**2 Let t(j) = -4*j. Let x(m) = -646515*m**2. What is t(x(u))? 2586060*u**2 Let i(w) = 2*w**2. Let o(j) = 18436*j**2. Give o(i(g)). 73744*g**4 Let i(u) = u. Let q(s) = 10*s - 2418. Determine q(i(f)). 10*f - 2418 Let b(m) = -4*m**2 + 6*m + 6. Let a(w) = w**2 - w - 1. Let p(r) = -6*a(r) - b(r). Let v(s) be the first derivative of 2/3*s**3 - 3 + 0*s**2 + 0*s. Give v(p(g)). 8*g**4 Let i(o) = -233*o + 4 - 2 + 145*o - 3. Let w(v) = v**2. Determine w(i(n)). 7744*n**2 + 176*n + 1 Let l be 1/(-4) - 5/(-4). Suppose -w = -7 - l. Let m(y) = 4*y - 3*y - y - w*y. Let u(j) = 2*j**2. Calculate m(u(a)). -16*a**2 Let n(i) = i**2. Let z(c) = -c + 21560. Calculate n(z(g)). g**2 - 43120*g + 464833600 Let w(o) be the second derivative of o**4/12 - o. Let t(a) = -7*a - 30. Let v(i) = 8*i + 36. Let m(r) = 6*t(r) + 5*v(r). What is m(w(f))? -2*f**2 Let q(g) = 17*g. Let w(l) = 5*l**2 + 4*l + 8. Let z(x) = 4*x**2 + 3*x + 6. Let v(f) = 3*w(f) - 4*z(f). Give v(q(n)). -289*n**2 Let z(v) be the second derivative of 0 + 0*v**2 - 5/3*v**3 - 27*v. Let y(p) = 5*p**2. Give y(z(o)). 500*o**2 Let n(s) = -28*s. Let q(z) = 3*z + 31898 - 31898. Determine q(n(g)). -84*g Let l(b) = -76*b**2. Let o(h) = 622*h**2. Calculate l(o(i)). -29403184*i**4 Let q(h) = -82*h**2. Let o(u) = 851*u + 3. Calculate o(q(t)). -69782*t**2 + 3 Suppose -3*t = 4*w - 16, 3*t = -4*w + 8*t + 48. Let g(h) = 0 - w*h**2 + 0. Let k(s) be the third derivative of s**5/60 - 6*s**2 - 20*s. Calculate g(k(z)). -7*z**4 Let f(a) = a. Let k(r)

Exatamente 61 anos atrás, 4 de outubro de 1957, a turma do “nosso céu nunca será vermelho” teve uma horrenda surpresa. Um bip-bip repetidos nos noticiários de TV e rádio era a voz de uma lua artificial, um satélite criado pelo Homem e colocado em órbita não pelos EUA, a nação mais avançada da Terra, mas pelos seus inimigos russos comunistas. A percepção geral era que os comunistas eram atrasados e burocráticos, os Estados Unidos se sentiam seguros separados pela distância geográfica e tecnológica, as pesquisas com mísseis estavam em andamento e ninguém achava que os soviéticos desenvolveriam algo relevante por um longo tempo. Em tese não estavam errados, mas esqueceram que mesmo uma burocracia soviética, quando focada em um objetivo e o chicote comendo, produz resultados. No caso, pânico e confusão. As pessoas ficaram apavoradas, houve gente achando que os russos haviam colocado bombas atômicas no espaço, o efeito simbólico e psicológico do Sputnik abalou os EUA enquanto nação. Arthur Clarke disse que no momento em que o Sputnik foi colocado em órbita os EUA se tornaram uma Potência de segunda classe. Universidades e radioamadores captavam seus sinais, transmitidos em 20,005 MHz e 40,002 MHz. Usando dados de observações de rádio astrônomos da Universidade de Illinois conseguiram programar o ILLIAC I, primeiro computador de uma instituição de ensino nos EUA para calcular a órbita do satélite, e ele levou apenas dois dias pra fazer os cálculos! O público se assustava de noite vendo o Sputnik passar pelo céu, observando um país indefeso. Nikita Krushev, premiê da União Soviético e dono de um estilo quase trumpesco tirou onda dizendo que os americanos iriam dormir sob uma lua soviética. O Sputnik era uma esfera de metal de 83,6 kg e 58 cm de diâmetro. Projetado para durar duas semanas, suas baterias resistiram por 21 dias, mas seus efeitos são vistos até hoje. Enquanto o grande público se apavorava vendo o pontinho brilhante no céu, nos laboratórios e escritórios do Pentágono o medo era outro. O Sputnik era simbólico, sim, mas a verdadeira mensagem estava no foguete R-7, essencialmente um míssil balístico intercontinental levemente modificado, ele demonstrou que seria capaz de lançar uma carga capaz de atingir os EUA, e se as bombas atômicas da época ainda não eram tão pequenas e leves quanto o Sputnik, isso era uma questão de tempo. Em teoria os EUA deveriam ter feito um lançamento em setembro, e colocado em órbita o Vanguard-1, que seria o primeiro satélite artificial, mas uma série de atrasos e confiança que os soviéticos não lançariam tão cedo adiaram a data. Por baixo dos panos os EUA estavam sofrendo de uma burocratite soviética que deixaria Stalin envergonhado. Havia nada menos que TRÊS projetos simultâneos de satélites sendo desenvolvidos, um pelo exército, outro pela marinha e outro pela força aérea. A Força Aérea estava desenvolvendo o PGM-17 Thor, mas o míssil estava bem atrasado e modificá-lo para servir como lançador de satélites consumiria mais tempo ainda. O Exército tinha um programa conjunto com a Marinha, começado em 1954 para colocar um satélite em órbita em 1957, Ano Geofísico Internacional, mas os planos de adaptar um foguete Jupiter-C para lançamento foi rejeitado pelo presidente Eisenhower. O racional é que os soviéticos não gostariam de um foguete militar lançando um satélite militar que sobrevoaria a União Soviética. A proposta da Marinha era, no papel, mais inofensiva. Eles queriam usar o Vanguard, um foguete criado com a junção de dois foguetes de sondagem civis. O Exército por sua vez continuou a desenvolver o Jupiter-C e sua versão lançadora de satélites com 4 estágios, o Juno, mas como era um foguete militar estratégico, mesmo pronto em 1956 ele foi cancelado, em parte para agradar a Marinha, que não estava feliz com o desenvolvimento paralelo. O resultado é que quando o Sputnik foi lançado em 4 de outubro, todo mundo entrou em pânico e para tentar livrar a cara, correram para lançar de qualquer jeito. Em seis de dezembro de 1957 um foguete Vanguard TV-3 levou para o espaço o primeiro satélite americano, o Vanguard-1. Se você considerar uma altitude de 1 m 20 cm espaço, claro. Aqui o glorioso lançamento, transmitido ao vivo pela TV para todo o pais: O satélite foi jogado longe, começou a transmitir e um jornalista chegou a sugerir que alguém fosse até lá e desse um tiro pra livrar o coitado de sua miséria. Não seria grande perda. O Vanguard-1 era uma bola pífia de 1,4 kg de peso e 16 cm de diâmetro. Krushev, com seu humor habitual chamou o Vanguard-1 de “satélite-toranja”. No meio disso tudo, extremamente puto estava Werner Von Braun, ele comandava o desenvolvimento de mísseis do Exército, foi obrigado a encaixotar o Juno e disse com todas as letras que sabia que o Vanguard não iria funcionar, e que eles poderiam ter colocado um satélite no espaço em 60 dias. O empurrão que faltava foi o lançamento em 3 de novembro de 1957 do Sputnik 2, com nada menos e 508 kg de massa. Era preciso salvar a cara dos EUA de qualquer jeito. Sem opção, Eisenhower deu carta-branca para Von Braun, que reunindo sua equipe tirou o Juno da naftalina e correu para preparar o bicho, atualizando circuitos, adaptando o satélite Explorer-1, de 13 kg e 2 metros, mostrado aqui em uma foto clássica sendo erguido pelo Dr. William H. Pickering, diretor do JPL, onde o satélite foi construído, pelo Dr. James A. van Allen, roqueiro e cientista responsável pelos instrumentos e o Dr. Wernher von Braun, pica das galáxias. Em primeiro de fevereiro de 1958 o Explorer-1 se tornou o terceiro objeto em órbita lançado pelo Homem, um pequeno alívio para o público, mas a sensação de que estavam em segundo lugar só se solidificou. (Sim, isso foi em 1958 e nossa gloriosa agência espacial ainda não conseguiu desenvolver essa incrível e avançada tecnologia. Se inventassem um foguete movido a desculpas o Brasil estaria colonizando Alfa-Centauro). Verbas foram despejadas na área militar para desenvolvimento de foguetes e mísseis, mas as cabeças pensantes do governo entenderam que o buraco era mais embaixo. Em fevereiro de 1958 o Presidente criou a DARPA, a Agência de Projetos Avançados de Pesquisa, e em 29 de julho criou a NASA. No mesmo ano o Congresso aprovou o National Defense Education Act, uma legislação que investia em Educação em todos os níveis. Foram aplicados o equivalente hoje a US$ 8,7 bilhões aparelhando escolas, dando bolsas de estudo, capacitando professores e estimulando crianças e jovens a seguirem carreira em STEM, sigla em inglês para Ciência, Tecnologia, Engenharia e Matemática. Você não, Tedson. A visão era de longo prazo como raramente se vê em governos sérios e nunca se viu aqui no Patropi. Os EUA estavam educando as crianças que virariam os engenheiros que projetariam os mísseis foguetes e submarinos do futuro. A National Science Foundation teve seu orçamento aumentado de US$ 296 milhões (corrigidos) para US$ 1,1 bilhão. Em 1968 o orçamento já era US$ 4,6 bilhões. A NASA custeava e fomentava pesquisas a ponto de chegar a bancar 10% das pesquisas pagas com dinheiro do governo. Alguns dizem que o modelo moderno de pesquisa acadêmica nos EUA surgiu por causa do Sputnik. Quando Kennedy se comprometeu em 1961 a mandar um homem para a Lua ele sabia que não seria fácil, mas também sabia que não seria impossível, pois eles estavam investindo em pessoas, não em máquinas, e quando você educa a capacita toda uma geração, o céu não é mais o limite.

The North Carolina Republican Senatorial Committee launched a new fundraiser late last week. The fundraising site features an image of a man entering a woman's bathroom and encourages donations to "thank NC Governor Pat McCrory and Legislative Leaders for fighting to keep our children safe and passing a common-sense law to stop grown men from sharing locker rooms and bathrooms with young girls." I'll pass, thanks. Painting pure bigotry as an attempt to "protect" women from the dangers of bathrooms is an old American story, and one we have a duty to reject. A refresher: Last week, North Carolina passed a law, known as H.B. 2, which the state claims will protect cis (or non-transgender) women like us. The bill came in backlash to a local Charlotte ordinance that extended non-discrimination protections in public accommodations to LGBT people and would have prohibited discrimination against transgender persons when accessing restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. State Senator Phil Berger, of North Carolina described H.B. 2 as an attempt to reverse Charlotte's ordinance, which, he wrongly claimed, created "a loophole that any man with nefarious motives could use to prey on women and young children." A remarkable number of 'bathroom bills' have cropped up in state legislatures in 2016: so far 44 anti-trans bills have been introduced in 16 states. In all of these contexts, strategists rely on a bigoted myth that sexual predators pretend to be trans women to gain access to women's bathrooms to invade, harass and rape them. This myth is based on bigots' party line, which we unequivocally reject: that trans women are not "real" women but instead dangerous men. These untruths endure in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There are no documented cases like that Senator Berger describes. Instead, trans women are the ones at tremendous risk for sexual victimization. Just this weekend, in the wake of H.B.2.'s passage, a trans woman was raped in the bathroom at New York's Stonewall Inn. Trans women forced by laws like North Carolina's to use men's bathrooms are often met with violence and harassment. While "bathroom bills" put more women at risk, their proponents' pretend they advocate for them to protect us. Now, more than ever, women need to make sure state legislatures hear loud and clear that we refuse to be used as props to support transphobic and bigoted bills that hurt our trans sisters and deflect energy from real work to end gender violence. This is a feminist issue that requires our anger and our advocacy. Women -- by which conservatives always mean white, cis, heterosexual women -- have been pawns in the war on equality before. And bathrooms have often been the set on which conservative anxieties have played out under the guise of our "protection." Historically, segregationists argued that white women would get venereal diseases from contact with black women in the bathrooms. Conflicts over the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High centered on bathrooms. One white student reported at the time, ""Many of the girls won't use the rest rooms at Central, simply because the 'N*****' girls use them." Feminists lost a major battle, the campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment, in large part because of the salience of the bathroom myth. Phyllis Schafly and other opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment speciously but effectively argued that an ERA would usher in an era of gender neutral bathrooms where rapists could attack women. Racism always lurked behind these arguments: anti-ERA opponents asked, "Do you want the sexes fully integrated like the races?" North Carolina seems to have a particularly troubled history with the bathrooms. In the book Sex, Gender, and the Politics of the ERA, Donald Mathews and Jane Hart describe a woman legislature overhearing a male colleague state, ""I ain't going to have my wife be in the bathroom with some big, black, buck!" We may have lost the battle for the ERA for now, but existing anti-discrimination law is enough to strike down H.B.2 and other proposed laws like it. Civil rights attorneys currently challenging the law in federal district court make clear that H.B.2. violates Title IX, which prohibits schools from discriminating against students based on sex, which includes gender identity and transgender status, as well as the Constitution. Even the Attorney General of North Carolina believes the statute is unconstitutional and has refused to defend the law against suit. "Bathroom bill" proponents might pretend they care about some kinds of "good" women, but their broader agenda seeks to entrench male supremacy. The strategists behind the most recent bathroom wars on trans individuals are national organizations such as Family Research Council, which has been deemed a hate group, and the Alliance Defending Freedom, whose mission is in part to "recover the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries." H.B.2. proponents are up in arms about the non-existent risks of men pretending to be trans women to prey on girls in school bathrooms, but these same legislators have otherwise been noticeably absent from genuine efforts to address the very real problem of gender violence in education. These are also the same lawmakers we see stripping away the rights of women (and though usually not mentioned, transgender men and gender non-conforming people as well) to access reproductive health care. Sexual assault and rape are terrible harms that deserve legislative attention. That makes it a particular shame that efforts like H.B.2., a "solution" in search of a problem, put trans women at greater risk while diverting energy from useful efforts to promote everyone's safety and equality. Perhaps North Carolina legislators are so used to ignoring women's voices that they assumed we would sit by silently as they used some women's bodies as an excuse to discriminate against other women. But let us be clear: we refuse to be your shield.

Dear Diary, He came for me, just like I knew he would. My hero sung the most wondrous song that literally shocked eternity. The flabbergasted Lord of the Dead freed my soul from this bottomless pit. I felt as light as a feather as I floated up alongside Orpheus but I had this nudging sense of uneasy confliction. We were so close to returning to the life we had planned but my dear Orpheus made the fateful mistake of looking back at me after Hades had told him that was the one thing that was forbidden. As Orpheus’ loving gaze met mine I was torn back down to this Hell. So that is all my last hope for escape wasted on a frivolous glance, slightly stupid if you ask for my opinion. Although I will tell you things are looking up, I’ve been receiving attention from Hades himself for the past six months, too bad Persephone will be back soon. Yours truly, Eurydice

Survivor Gabon is off to a roaring start and the gay connections have never been easier to spot. Jerame and I have a habit of watching the first episode of reality shows and guessing which contestants are part of the family. As the opening minutes rolled past last night, lawyer Charlie Herschel was easy to spot. Not only is he cute as a button, he's friendly, cheerful and quite fey. He also has one heckuva man crush on fellow contestant Marcus Lehman. (Not that I blame him. Marcus, dubbed Georgia's hottest bachelor by Cosmopolitan Magazine in 2006, is absolutely stunning.) As we watched last night, there was one part where Charlie goons over how hot Marcus is and Marcus tells the cameras how flattered he is by Charlie's attention. Marcus is standing around in his underwear while the two talk and we both looked at each other and said, "Well, I'd be drooling all over him too if he stood around in his undies all the time!" But when Marcus's dick popped out of those boxer briefs and CBS didn't notice? Voyeuristic gold. Picture after the jump. (Clickety to embiggen, of course) The relationship between Charlie and Marcus is unique to our community. I have to admit, I'm usually one of the gay guys with a major crush on the friendly straight guy. I must admit though, I usually end up in bed with my "straight" friend. (Wonder how Charlie will end up? I'm guessing with his heels in the air!) While Charlie gushed over Marcus... "I feel that I have a special bond with Marcus. Ever since I saw him on the mat and he picked me, I just felt this connection in his deep, blue beautiful eyes." ...Marcus wasn't too into the idea of romancing Charlie. "The thing with Charlie is, I think he's attracted to me but you know, I'll be honest. I don't see any romance between Charlie and I. I think he's a great guy, you know. I can see that he's handsome and smart and all those things. I really can appreciate that about him. It's just not really the way I roll. I'm straight, so... We're in Eden, but there's no two Adams here." Hey, who needs romance? My favorite thing about sex with hot straight guys? Sending them back home afterwards! Personally, I'd be happy with either Charlie or Marcus. They are both extremely good looking, smart as can be, and have winning personalities. I'd be pleased as punch to see either of them smile at me in the morning! During one of the competitions shown last night, for a brief instant you can see Marcus's penis pop out the fly of his underwear. There's not too much to see, honestly, but when mooning over reality show contestants is your hobby... That wasn't meant to be a small dick joke, by the way. Leave a comment We want to know your opinion on this issue! While arguing about an opinion or idea is encouraged, personal attacks will not be tolerated. Please be respectful of others. The editorial team will delete a comment that is off-topic, abusive, exceptionally incoherent, includes a slur or is soliciting and/or advertising. Repeated violations of the policy will result in revocation of your user account. Please keep in mind that this is our online home; ill-mannered house guests will be shown the door.

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Seven years later, John Oliver still can't quite make sense of his first 48 hours in America. Then a 29-year-old comedian working the London club and stand-up circuit, he flew to New York on a Sunday evening and reported to a studio overlooking the Hudson River in Midtown Manhattan the next morning. Several hours later, he was standing in front of a packed audience and riffing on President George W. Bush's latest social faux pas, trading quips with Jon Stewart as The Daily Show's new "Senior British Correspondent." "I just finished the thing and it all happened in a blur, and J.K. Rowling was sitting in the audience," he recalled in a phone call with BuzzFeed on Thursday. "And I could have presumed I just hallucinated it. And then she came around afterwards, just to say, 'Well done.'" Oliver babbled a response, tripping over his dropped jaw and sputtering out a few words of gratitude to the Harry Potter author. "She kind of gave me a hug and told me to calm down," Oliver said. "And that's kind of everything you want from a moment like that, having J.K. Rowling hug you and say everything's going to be OK... It was like a one-evening guardian angel, and my guardian angel was the creator of a boy wizard. I remember getting back to the place I was staying in, looking at my still-full suitcase, and thinking, What the fuck just happened?" Like her magical characters, Rowling was able to foresee the future. Despite warnings from his agent that he shouldn't rent an apartment in New York at first because he'd "probably get fired within four weeks," Oliver has become a Daily Show mainstay. That Oliver has lasted so long there is in and of itself a feat; he was stepping into huge shoes left by the recently departed Stephen Colbert and Ed Helms, who would soon be followed out the door by fan favorite Rob Corddry. Most of the correspondents introduced since Oliver was hired, from Olivia Munn to Wyatt Cenac, have also left. Now 36, Oliver will assume the unenviable task of filling in for Stewart on June 10, when the longtime Daily Show host heads off to the Middle East for 12 weeks to direct his first feature film, Rosewater, an adaptation of the memoir of a former Iranian political prisoner.

The firing of Andrew McCabe last week should have come as a shock to no one. Still, that didn’t stop the perpetually outraged left from making a huge stink about it. On Twitter, Rosie O’Donnell called Attorney General Jeff Sessions a “spineless f***ing elf” and said she hopes Sessions ends up “in jail for life.” Billy Baldwin, the younger brother of Alec Baldwin, called the firing “one of the most blatant & egregious political cheap shots I’ve ever seen.” Seriously? Anyone who has paid attention to the embarrassing scandals plaguing the FBI would know Andrew McCabe’s firing was long overdue. McCabe was referenced in the infamous text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way he gets elected— but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok texted Page in the summer of 2016, while Hillary Clinton was under investigation. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” McCabe was also aware of the thousands of classified emails on Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop weeks before alerting Congress. More recently, we learned a yet-to-be-released report on the Department of Justice Inspector General investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation accuses McCabe of “lack of candor” (in other words: lying) under oath, which is a fireable offense. Ethics officials in the FBI even recommended his dismissal. What does Rosie O’Donnell have to say to them? Okay, we don’t expect Hollywood liberals to know better, but former Obama administration officials have also jumped into the fray, with similar apoplectic tweets. Former Attorney General Eric Holder said of the firing, “This is dangerous,” and took issue with the timing of the firing, as McCabe was fired just before he was eligible for a full government pension. “The timing appears cruel and a cave that compromised DOJ independence to please an increasingly erratic President who should’ve played no role here,” he tweeted. Ben Rhodes, the aspiring novelist turned Obama deputy national security adviser, tweeted, “The whole ‘attack the FBI that is investigating you and humiliate career public servants’ strategy maybe isn’t the best approach to either governing or the Russia investigation.” Perhaps the most amusing statement comes from Obama’s former CIA Director, John Brennan, who attacked Trump’s response to McCabe’s firing. “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America… America will triumph over you.” Republican strategist and former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo scoffed at Brennan’s tweet when he spoke with PJ Media about McCabe’s firing. “This is what draining the swamp is all about,” he explained. “President Obama weaponized the Department of Justice and politicized the FBI. We’re just now meeting the real culprits, like Andrew McCabe, and it looks like the IG report will introduce us to more. I think McCabe leads us to leaky James Comey and the trail opens up from there to include players from across the Obama national security operation. That’s why the most brazenly political among them, like John Brennan, are squealing the loudest.” Caputo has a point. Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for stonewalling the Fast and Furious investigation. Ben Rhodes bragged to the New York Times that the Obama administration lied to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal. John Brennan likely perjured himself in testimony regarding the bogus Steele dossier. It says a lot when key players in the most scandalous administration in history are trying to scandalize the firing of someone who is not only suspected of helping to protect Hillary Clinton from indictment in 2016 and using the resources of the FBI to sabotage Trump, but someone who also lied under oath, and whose termination was recommended by the FBI itself. It’s clear that their knee-jerk outrage is really a smokescreen for the rampant corruption in which these Obama administration alums took part. Republicans have taken a lot of flak for wanting to purge rogue partisans from the FBI, but in the wake of McCabe’s firing, the FBI’s objectivity is now being doubted by Democrats, who only see McCabe as their latest poster boy for “the resistance.” One Democrat congressman even offered McCabe a job just so McCabe—who, I remind you, the FBI recommended should be dismissed for lying under oath—can get his full government pension. Can you imagine if a Republican tried to hire a disgraced government official who lied under oath? Hatred for Trump runs deep and strong in the Democratic Party, which only sees justice through a partisan lens. It’s clear that the left still feels the sting of 2016, but that’s no reason for Democrats to rush to Twitter or the television cameras screaming bloody murder. Every firing isn’t the end of the world—certainly not this one. Even Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and Trump critic, conceded, “You know, his firing may be justified.” Perhaps Democrats need to be a bit more selective on what actions they decide to be outraged over. When you get outraged over a completely justified dismissal, Americans will ignore you, even when you have a real reason to protest.

A Tasmanian best-selling author says he feels betrayed and shamed by his own publishing company for signing a book deal with prominent US "alt-right" provocateur Milo Yiannopolous. Hobart-born Bradley Trevor Greive, a former Australian Army paratrooper whose Blue Day Book featuring animal photos and humorous captions sold an estimated 20 million copies, attacked publishers Simon and Schuster (S&S) for their deal with Yiannopolous, who he described as a "hate peddler". "They have shamed me and tainted my book," Greive wrote on his Facebook page. "I am livid and nauseated in equal measure, and I know that many other S&S authors feel exactly the same way." Yiannopolous, a 33-year-old US-based Brit, has expressed views on Islam, feminism, social justice, homosexuality and other issues that have enraged many and resulted in him being banned from Twitter. He is reportedly set to release his book Dangerous with the S&S-owned affiliate Threshold Editions in March this year, in a deal reported to be worth $US250,000. "To share a printing press with Milo Yiannopoulos cheapens us all," Greive said. "It's one thing to liberate a rat from the sewer, but something else entirely to place its likeness on our coat of arms." Publisher 'does not condone hate speech' Yiannopolous, who is openly gay, has also infuriated much of the LGBTI community with his opinions, which include the view "no-one would choose to have a gay child rather than a straight one - it would be like wishing that they were born disabled". Greive described the book deal by S&S as purely a commercial decision "and an ill-conceived and wildly irresponsible one at that, with serious cultural ramifications". "Yes, free speech must be defended, and yes there is money to be made - but that is what shitty extremist blogs and online newspapers are for," he said. In a statement on their Twitter account, S&S - which has released books by prominent US conservative figures including Donald Trump, former Bush-administration figure Dick Cheney and right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh - said "we do not and never have condoned discrimination or hate speech in any form". S&S said while "many may disagree with the books we publish" the opinions contained on the pages "belong to our authors". Outrage part of sales plan, author claims Milo Yiannopoulos' publisher says the opinions contained in the pages "belong to our authors". ( Supplied: Facebook ) Greive singled out S&S executives Carolyn Kroll Reidy and Louise Burke, alleging the two were banking on outrage to fuel book sales. "Self-styled provocateurs like Yiannopoulos rely on shock and unforgivable cruelty to attract an audience and we'll soon see this double-headed snake give insidious form to Threshold's entire marketing plan; indeed Carolyn Reidy and Louise Burke are counting on it in order to reap a handsome return on their considerable investment," he said. The Yiannopoulos book deal has led to a backlash from some in the literary community, with the Chicago Review of Books declaring "in response to this disgusting validation of hate, we will not cover a single S&S book in 2017". Greive said he supported the reviewer's ban and denied it was censorship. "Let me be absolutely clear, this is not about about censorship, far from it. Yiannopoulos has unlimited access to far-right and alt-right media outlets," he said. As of today, Dangerous is ranked 11th on the "hot new releases" for online book seller Amazon.

Are borders stupid? 51. Posted byMel.(Travel Guru 4567 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Q' [quote=Mel.]A person who has trained their mind to be intellectual has trained their mind to be open and receptive to all kinds of information. Yeah, i think that would be truely using their education. As for taking action. It depends on what action people take. I am not so sure subjecting themselves to being murdered and beaten is such a good idea. But maybe they had no way of knowing that such violence would happen [ Edit: Edited on Feb 13, 2007, at 5:48 AM by Mel. ] 52. Posted byMel.(Travel Guru 4567 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Gelli I mean the European Union. I know it's getting picky, but Slovenia is part of the EU, and even (now) the Euro, yet was part of Yugoslavia. Admittedly they managed to avoid all but 5 days of the war, but... What i am really wondering is what we can do to make the world fairer? So we stop exploiting people, in the third world and stop human rights violations and wars and destroying the environment? If getting rid of restrictions wont do it, what will? The reason I am mentioning the European Union is to try and see what we have done well, so far. Human rights, in the EU countries are well developed, arent they? And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Not saying they are perfect, but how did we get as far, as we did? [ Edit: Edited on Feb 13, 2007, at 5:47 AM by Mel. ] 53. Posted bymikeyBoab(Travel Guru 5077 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Are Borders stupid? Yes, I much prefer Waterstones. 54. Posted byIsadora(Travel Guru 13926 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Mel. What i am really wondering is what we can do to make the world fairer? So we stop exploiting people, in the third world and stop human rights violations and wars and destroying the environment? If getting rid of restrictions wont do it, what will? The reason I am mentioning the European Union is to try and see what we have done well, so far. Human rights, in the EU countries are well developed, arent they? And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Not saying they are perfect, but how did we get as far, as we did? I need claification, please. Who are you speaking of when you say "we"? I am assuming you mean all "first world" countries (though that's a misnomer in and of itself) and not just the EU and/or the US. Also, in saying: And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Do you mean against each other? 55. Posted bytway(Travel Guru 7273 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Mel. Human rights, in the EU countries are well developed, arent they? And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Not saying they are perfect, but how did we get as far, as we did? Yeah - the EU, and most of the rest of the world, did great by Rwanda by sending too few troops and turning their backs on genocide. Eliminating borders does not magically fix foreign-aid problems. I think what you're trying to say, Mel, is that by eliminating borders we eliminate the "foreign" in foreign aid - and become one big country that must help one another to help ourselves. Again, great idea - won't happen. The world will never think alike. Even in pre-established countries - even here in Canada - there are groups trying to break free to start their own, new country. 56. Posted byMel.(Travel Guru 4567 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting tway I think what you're trying to say, Mel, is that by eliminating borders we eliminate the "foreign" in foreign aid - and become one big country that must help one another to help ourselves. Again, great idea - won't happen. The world will never think alike. Even in pre-established countries - even here in Canada - there are groups trying to break free to start their own, new country. Do we have to be all the same, in order to take the needs of others, into consideration? Is it not just a matter of being open minded and developing better diplomatic skills? 57. Posted bytway(Travel Guru 7273 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Mel. Quoting tway I think what you're trying to say, Mel, is that by eliminating borders we eliminate the "foreign" in foreign aid - and become one big country that must help one another to help ourselves. Again, great idea - won't happen. The world will never think alike. Even in pre-established countries - even here in Canada - there are groups trying to break free to start their own, new country. Do we have to be all the same, in order to take the needs of others, into consideration? Is it not just a matter of being open minded and developing better diplomatic skills? OK, I need to clear this up: Topic 1: Elimination of borders Topic 2: Better, more focused foreign aid Apples and oranges. 58. Posted byMel.(Travel Guru 4567 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Isadora Quoting Mel. What i am really wondering is what we can do to make the world fairer? So we stop exploiting people, in the third world and stop human rights violations and wars and destroying the environment? If getting rid of restrictions wont do it, what will? The reason I am mentioning the European Union is to try and see what we have done well, so far. Human rights, in the EU countries are well developed, arent they? And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Not saying they are perfect, but how did we get as far, as we did? I need claification, please. Who are you speaking of when you say "we"? I am assuming you mean all "first world" countries (though that's a misnomer in and of itself) and not just the EU and/or the US. Also, in saying: And the European Union countries have not had a war for over 60 years. Do you mean against each other? I suppose, I am talking about Citizens of first world countries. I could call them Westerners, but that probably would not be accurate, either. I mean, those who are benefiting from the exploitation of people and resources in the third world. The more I find out, the more it seems that there is hardly anything one can buy or do, without exploiting people. We can of course buy morally, if we pay way more for products and buy fair trade etc. But we are subjected to our own economic system. We only get payed so much, for doing our jobs. And there is the race, against inflation... And even if we do buy all fair trade etc products, how many of us would be doing it. Would it be enough, to make any difference. Would we be sacrificing our money, for nothing?yeah, I mean the countries, in the EU have not had a war, against each other, in over 60 years, or waged war on other countries. Maybe we are doing something right? 59. Posted byMel.(Travel Guru 4567 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting tway Yeah - the EU, and most of the rest of the world, did great by Rwanda by sending too few troops and turning their backs on genocide. Eliminating borders does not magically fix foreign-aid problems. That is exactly the lack of caring I am talking about, when I say we use the world as a playground, but dont look after it. 60. Posted bytway(Travel Guru 7273 posts) 11y Star this if you like it! Quoting Mel. yeah, I mean the countries, in the EU have not had a war, against each other, in over 60 years, or waged war on other countries. Maybe we are doing something right?

After 18 years on the run, an honor killing fugitive has admitted to murdering a factory worker who made a pass at his sister. Tabraz Mohammed, 39, had learned 24-year-old Soheil Mumtaz had been making advances towards his sister, at the biscuit factory where they both worked. He believed his family’s “honour” has been damaged and devised a plan to lure the 24-year-old to a meeting. Mohammed, then 21, repeatedly hit Mr Mumtaz over the head with a hammer outside his home on Kenilworth Road, Luton, on April 4 2001. He was left in a critical condition, but died five days later on April 9. His killer then fled the country to New Jersey, in the United States, where he lived in secret for nearly two decades. But in August this year, Mohammed was extradited from the United States. The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit worked with the US authorities to carry out the extradition process. He appeared at Luton Magistrates' Court on August 7 charged with murder. During a brief hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday Mohammed pleaded guilty to murder and was told he would be sentenced on Tuesday 3 December. Mohammed, whose last address was given as Southwood State Prison, New Jersey, appeared shaven headed in the dock. He was remanded into custody to be sentenced on December 3 at St Albans Crown Court. As he was led from the dock, there were angry shouts from the public gallery calling the defendant a "prick" and "son of a bitch". Other high profile honour killing cases have shocked the UK in recent decades. In 2003, Shafilea Ahmed, the 17-year-old British Pakistani girl from Bradford, was murdered by her parents in front of her siblings after she rejected a suitor. It wasn’t until 2010 that Shafilea’s sister, Alesha, found the courage to speak out about she had seen. Speaking at her parents trial Alesha told the jury: “I think I had just had enough. “My state of mind was not very good at the time. I was living between two cultures and trying to please everyone. "It was not me any more and I was doing things which were out of character - like turning to drink at university. “I was not being myself any more and I just let it out. What happened to my sister had haunted me for a long time.”

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Episode 104 May 10, 2016, Maddox Tipping 786 Bureaucracy 741 Post-Credit Scenes 81 We open this week's show with discussing the social media meltdown revolving around the word "cuck." Over the weekend I made a simple meme that made fun of both major political candidates, as they're both as likeable as a shot of bleach. Guess which side had a COMPLETE MELTDOWN? Turns out that these people, for all their bloviating about PC culture being too sensitive, are quite sensitive! Want to reproduce my results? Just follow these simple steps: 1. Make an innocuous joke like this: 2. Sit back and enjoy the overly-sensitive, crybaby dipshits try to insult you with the only word in their vocabulary: "cuck." Here's an example from a more advanced writer, notice the conjunction of the word "cuck" and "master" to create the compound word, "cuckmaster"? Pretty clever. This writer even manages to use 3 other words: So I made this video in response, and the cry-babies proved my point that they're overly sensitive and thin-skinned by expressing their outrage. Just look at the votes/comments: Dick tries to explain the old Shakespearean meaning of the word, which is essentially putting other's interest before your own. Others have pointed out that this manifests itself in the phenomenon of raising another man's offspring. Oh man, how embarrassing! I can think of nothing more insulting in this world than someone who would either A) get off to watching other people having sex or B) would want to actually raise a child they didn't father/mother. Look at these suckers getting cuckolded! Special thanks to Harry's for sponsoring this episode. Go to Harrys.com/BIGGESTPROBLEMS and use the promo code, BIGGESTPROBLEMS, to get $5 off your first purchase. Big announcement this episode: we'll be taking the next two weeks off so I can take time to focus on launching the new podcast and network. More details soon. But I won't leave you hanging, as we'll have best-of episodes in its place, with mix-and-match problems. Sound off below about your favorites. We'll be back to live episodes on May 30th. And for those who still want a little extra to tide you over, here's this month's bonus episode if you haven't checked it out, available for $1.33! Dick starts us off this week with his problem, which is a big one in my opinion: tipping. It's a phenomenon that most people outside the United States aren't familiar with, as it's virtually unheard of in most of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It puts you, the customer, in the position of also being the server's manager. You can't sit down and just enjoy your meal because you have to constantly be evaluating your server's performance. It's like becoming a temporary HR manager every time you get a sandwich at a restaurant: fun for no one. Then I bring in a problem that's as cumbersome to spell as it is to abide: Bureaucracy. It's in every facet of our lives, from phone companies, computer companies, cable companies, appliance companies, plumbers, electricians, power companies, gas utilities, the water company, garbage collectors, debt collectors, banks, universities, government, home owner's associations, game tournaments and church. Everywhere we go in life, there's needless and unwieldy procedures that people follow to a T. Every time you call tech support, you have to deal with a long list of touch or voice options, then you deal with a rep who makes you repeat their steps in the same order every single time. There's no deviation from the script, no room for efficiency. Just needless and rote adherence to procedure. Vote up Human Robots! Then Dick caps the episode with an episode-capper, post-credit scenes. He hates them because he has to pee. Don't we all? Well I certainly did during this episode, and while I was draining my python, Dick told a story about him and his man that you'll have to listen to at the tail end of this episode. Really drives the point home. Thumbnail Sources: Telemarketer

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds I tell my constitutional law students that there are a couple of statements that indicate that a speaker is a constitutional illiterate who can safely be ignored. One is the claim that the Constitution views black people as ⅗ the worth of white people (actually, it was all about power in Congress, with slaveowners wanting black people to count 100% toward apportionment so that slaveowners would get more seats in Congress, and abolitionists wanting them not counted at all so that slaveowners would get fewer seats in Congress; the ⅗ compromise was just that, a compromise). The other hallmark of constitutional illiteracy is the claim that the First Amendment doesn’t protect “hate speech.” And by making that claim last week, Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate, revealed himself to be a constitutional illiterate. Then, predictably, he doubled down on his ignorance. In First Amendment law, the term “hate speech” is meaningless. All speech is equally protected whether it’s hateful or cheerful. It doesn’t matter if it’s racist, sexist or in poor taste, unless speech falls into a few very narrow categories — like “true threats,” which have to address a specific individual, or “incitement,” which must constitute an immediate and intentional encouragement to imminent lawless action — it’s protected. The term “hate speech” was invented by people who don’t like that freedom, and who want to give the — completely false — impression that there’s a kind of speech that the First Amendment doesn’t protect because it’s hateful. What they mean by “hateful,” it seems, is really just that it’s speech they don’t agree with. Some even try to argue that since hearing disagreeable ideas is unpleasant, expressing those ideas is somehow an act of “violence.” The suicide of expertise: Glenn Reynolds France's dark horse from the far left: David Andelman There are two problems with that argument. The first is that it’s idiotic: That’s never been the law, nor could it be if we give any value to free expression, because there’s no idea that somebody doesn’t disagree with. The second is that the argument is usually made by people who spend a lot of time expressing disagreeable ideas themselves, without, apparently, the least thought that if their own rules about disagreeable speech held sway, they’d probably be locked up first. (As Twitter wag IowaHawk has offered: “I'll let you ban hate speech when you let me define it. Deal?”) The response to Dean was merciless: First Amendment law expert Eugene Volokh responded, "No, Gov. Dean, there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment.” If there were, neither the Westboro Baptist Church — whose hateful speech the Supreme Court recently held protected — nor the many people referring to Trump supporters as Nazis and “deplorables” would enjoy free speech. As Volokh writes, if people want “hate speech” to be unprotected, they’re calling for a change to the First Amendment, and it’s a big one. They should not only admit that, “they should explain just what viewpoints the government would be allowed to suppress, what viewpoints would remain protected and how judges, juries and prosecutors are supposed to distinguish the two. And claiming that hate speech is already 'not protected by the First Amendment,' as if one is just restating settled law, does not suffice.” POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media Of course adults sneer at Millennials: Christian Schneider Dean then doubled down with the constitutional illiterate’s usual fallback, that you could ban “hate speech” as “fighting words” under the 1942 case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, which allows a ban on “fighting words.” (Journalist Dan Gillmor commented: “Disappointing, to say the least, to see Dean digging the hole deeper on his flatly incorrect original statement.”) But “fighting words” aren’t hate speech. Fighting words are direct, person-to-person invitations to a brawl. Expressing political or social views that people don’t like isn’t the same thing, even if people might react violently to those views. And that’s good. If, by reacting violently to views they didn’t like, people could get the government to censor those views as “hate speech” or “fighting words,” then people would have a strong incentive to react violently to views they don’t like. Giving the angry and violent the ability to shut down other people’s speech (the term we use for this in constitutional law, Gov. Dean, is “heckler’s veto”) is a bad thing, which would leave us with a society marked by a lot more violence, a lot more censorship, and a lot less speech. Is that really what you want? Because that’s what we’d get, if we followed the advice of constitutional illiterates. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @USATOpinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To submit a letter, comment or column, check our submission guidelines.

Apopka, FL – Six Apopka police officers are under investigation after video was posted online showing cops roughing up and berating two men who were simply waiting for a ride to work. A video of the incident shows extremely aggressive and unnecessary actions by the officers involved, which are indicative of the increased calls for police oversight and accountability by the American public. The two men said they were simply sitting on a curb outside of a cellphone store after business hours, waiting for a ride, when approached by the overly aggressive officer. Now one of the men has spoken out, claiming that he feels he was racially profiled. “If you’re African-American, you’re going to be profiled,” Niblak said. Initially, one of the men can be heard politely explaining to the officer that he is waiting for a ride, stating, “I understand that ma’ am. I’m just sitting here waiting for my boss. I just wanna go to work. That’s it.” When one of the men tells the cop that she needs to “follow the law.” The officer seemingly takes this comment as a personal affront. Considering that at that instant she has already ascertained that these men were sitting on the curb as they waited for a ride, there should be no reason to continue with the investigative stop. But, as is all too common the case, this officer’s ego has taken over, and she has decided to show theses men who has the “authority.” While the officer’s initial reasoning for the contact is valid, once ascertaining that the men were simply waiting to be picked up, the situation should have been a non-incident. As we all too typically see in these types of situations, rather than accept that these men were simply sitting waiting for a ride, the officer decided to escalate the incident. The video, recorded by one of the men, begins only minutes after the initial contact by the officer and runs for a few minutes after. “Whoa, I’m just trying to go to work,” one of the men can be heard saying as a number of officers pull up and get out of their vehicles. Keith Niblak, a U.S. combat veteran who served two tours in Iraq and a tour in Afganistan, said he was treated extremely unprofessionally by a ranking officer at the scene. “He was like, ‘No, you’re not a vet. You’re a punk. You’re a (expletive), you’re a coward,'” Niblak said. The video shows Niblak being thrown to the ground and cuffed by cops after complaining that he felt he was being racially profiled. “The police are paranoid of us because we are terrified of them,” Niblak said. The video ends as one of the cops violates the civil rights of the men by taking and throwing his camera, effectively forcing the man to stop exercising his First Amendment right to film. “They grabbed his phone and threw it,” Niblak said. When the officer stopped these gentlemen, they should have politely refused to give their names and then asked, “Am I being detained?” If the officer said “no,” they should have then calmly walked away. Incident over. Or, if the officer says, “you are being detained,” they could have invoked their 5th amendment right to remain silent. If you are ever arrested and the officer continues to question you, then use the magic words “I’m going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer.” If the officer is persistent in continuing the questions, repeat those words again. They are your best protection if the unfortunate situation arises in which you are arrested. In this incident, police claim that there has been an increase in cellphone store burglaries, which led to the investigation. However, the issue isn’t with the initial investigation but the utter disrespect and contempt that these men were shown by police for simply questioning the actions of “authority.” Perhaps if cops began to treat people as human beings, they would find less resistance amongst a large segment of the population. “I would love for them to just train better,” Niblak said. The instant storm trooper reaction seen in this video is the problem. Until police decide to fix this authoritarian element within their own ranks, the calls for increased transparency and accountability for law enforcement will continue to grow louder.

*p**2 Find the first derivative of 2*d**4 - 20*d**2*v**3 + 2*d**2*v + 2*v**3 + 7*v**2 wrt d. 8*d**3 - 40*d*v**3 + 4*d*v What is the second derivative of 17*n**3 - 20*n**2 + 1174*n wrt n? 102*n - 40 What is the third derivative of 48*m**6 - 131*m**2 + 2 wrt m? 5760*m**3 Find the third derivative of l**5 - l**4 - l**2 - 256. 60*l**2 - 24*l What is the second derivative of -g**2*u**2 + 35*g**2 - 10*g*u**3 - 2*g*u - 11*g - 4*u**3 + 2*u**2 wrt u? -2*g**2 - 60*g*u - 24*u + 4 Find the third derivative of 5*d*x**3*y**2 - 193*d*x**3 + 2*d*x**2*y**2 - d*y + 2*x**3*y - 8*x*y**2 - y - 4 wrt x. 30*d*y**2 - 1158*d + 12*y Find the third derivative of 951*c**4*w - 9*c**3*w**3 - 14585*c**2*w**3 wrt c. 22824*c*w - 54*w**3 What is the first derivative of -35*f**3 + 2*f*i - f + 395*i wrt f? -105*f**2 + 2*i - 1 Find the third derivative of -591*b**3 + 1977*b**2. -3546 Find the first derivative of 168*d*t**2 - 2*d*t - 859*d wrt t. 336*d*t - 2*d What is the second derivative of -3*d**2*l**4 - 21*d**2*l - 23*d*l**5 + 4*d*l + 2*l wrt l? -36*d**2*l**2 - 460*d*l**3 Find the second derivative of -1466*a**3*p**3 - a**2*p**3 - 317*a*p**3 + 3*a wrt a. -8796*a*p**3 - 2*p**3 Find the third derivative of 2*a**3*q**4 - 17*a**3*q**2 - 7*a**3 + 86*a*q**4 wrt q. 48*a**3*q + 2064*a*q Differentiate 106*o**2 - 2*o - 850 wrt o. 212*o - 2 Find the first derivative of -5*d**3*o - 75*d**2*o - 5*o + 30 wrt d. -15*d**2*o - 150*d*o Find the third derivative of 23*o**6 + 18*o**3 + 3*o**2 + 307. 2760*o**3 + 108 Differentiate 2*n*z**3 - 2*n*z + 489*n - z**3 - z - 746 with respect to n. 2*z**3 - 2*z + 489 What is the third derivative of 79*l*m**3 + 2*l*m - 3*m**3 - 52*m**2 wrt m? 474*l - 18 What is the second derivative of -7*m*r**4 + 1795*m*r - m + 10*r**4 wrt r? -84*m*r**2 + 120*r**2 What is the first derivative of -2*i**2*j + 2149*i**2 - 2*j - 7231 wrt i? -4*i*j + 4298*i Find the first derivative of 103*k**4 - 300. 412*k**3 What is the third derivative of 4948*t**4 + 6633*t**2 - 2? 118752*t Find the third derivative of -423*h**3 - 1479*h**2 wrt h. -2538 What is the third derivative of -13*b*u**2*z**6 + 4*b*u**2*z**3 - 2*b + 4*u**2*z - 37*u*z**2 wrt z? -1560*b*u**2*z**3 + 24*b*u**2 What is the third derivative of b**3*u**3 - b**3*u**2 + 2239*b**2*u**4 - 1506*b**2*u**2 + b**2*u wrt u? 6*b**3 + 53736*b**2*u What is the derivative of -498*y**3 + 57 wrt y? -1494*y**2 What is the second derivative of -16827*q**4 - 5582*q wrt q? -201924*q**2 Find the first derivative of -2*o**3 - 203*o + 2326 wrt o. -6*o**2 - 203 What is the second derivative of 20*w**3 - 2*w**2 - 294*w? 120*w - 4 Find the second derivative of -8*i**2*j**2 - 2*i**2 + 24*i*j**2*q**2 + 2*i*j*q**2 + 2*i*j wrt j. -16*i**2 + 48*i*q**2 Differentiate 2*r**4 - 9*r - 17 with respect to r. 8*r**3 - 9 What is the second derivative of -638*g**4 - g + 166? -7656*g**2 Find the first derivative of 10*g**2*k**2 + 3*g**2 + 47*g - 7775*k**2 wrt g. 20*g*k**2 + 6*g + 47 Differentiate -2*h**4*l**2 + 480*h**3*l**2 - 808*l**2 wrt h. -8*h**3*l**2 + 1440*h**2*l**2 Differentiate 4707*n - 3404. 4707 Find the first derivative of -14*h**3*x**4 + 6*h**3 + 10*h**2 - 4*h*x**4 wrt x. -56*h**3*x**3 - 16*h*x**3 What is the second derivative of 58*o**3 - 16*o + 5? 348*o What is the second derivative of -355*p**3 + 2*p**2 + 315*p wrt p? -2130*p + 4 What is the second derivative of 503*j**2 - 102*j - 2? 1006 Find the second derivative of 1646*n**4 - 15*n - 1 wrt n. 19752*n**2 Find the first derivative of -q**3 - 6*q**2 + 20*q + 5320 wrt q. -3*q**2 - 12*q + 20 Find the second derivative of -126*g**3 + 6*g**2 - 1575*g wrt g. -756*g + 12 Find the third derivative of 11*h**6 - 6*h**5*p + 22*h**2*p - 6*h**2 + 2 wrt h. 1320*h**3 - 360*h**2*p What is the second derivative of -2633*z**2 + 21018*z wrt z? -5266 Differentiate 2*b**3*m**2 - 3*b**3*m - 283*b**3 - 2*b*m**4 wrt m. 4*b**3*m - 3*b**3 - 8*b*m**3 What is the second derivative of -20*j**2*m**2*y**2 - 5*j**2*y**2 + j*m**2*y - j*y**2 + 16*j wrt j? -40*m**2*y**2 - 10*y**2 Find the third derivative of 133*h*w**4 + 5*h + w**2 - 8 wrt w. 3192*h*w What is the second derivative of b**5*g - 14*b**4*g**2 + 2*b*g**2 - 11*b wrt b? 20*b**3*g - 168*b**2*g**2 What is the third derivative of f**3*w**3 + 7*f**3*w**2 - 14*f**3 + 18*f*w**3 + w**2 wrt w? 6*f**3 + 108*f What is the second derivative of -8*b*u**5 - 8*b*u**2 - b*u + 21*b wrt u? -160*b*u**3 - 16*b What is the second derivative of -2*h**2*p**3*r + 2*h**2*p**3 + 65*h**2*r + h*p**3*r - 2*h*p**2*r + 3*h*p**2 - 3*p*r wrt h? -4*p**3*r + 4*p**3 + 130*r Find the first derivative of y**3 + 874*y + 983. 3*y**2 + 874 Find the first derivative of 11487*o + 8937. 11487 Find the third derivative of -2*u**5 - 202*u**3 - 254*u**2. -120*u**2 - 1212 What is the third derivative of -4*h*r**4 - h*r**2 - h*r - r**4 - 4*r**3 - 109*r**2 wrt r? -96*h*r - 24*r - 24 Find the first derivative of -209*t**3 - 87 wrt t. -627*t**2 Find the second derivative of -3*i*r**2 - 23*i*r - 4*i - 3*r**2 wrt r. -6*i - 6 What is the second derivative of -36*m**5*u**2 - 2*m**3*u**3 - m*u**2 + 65*m + u**3 wrt m? -720*m**3*u**2 - 12*m*u**3 Find the second derivative of -5927*u**5 - 1043*u wrt u. -118540*u**3 Differentiate -8732*j**3 + 2*j**2 + j + 12177 with respect to j. -26196*j**2 + 4*j + 1 Find the first derivative of -433*g**2 - 107 wrt g. -866*g Find the second derivative of -5748*d**3 - 923*d wrt d. -34488*d Find the third derivative of 31*q**3 + 144*q**2. 186 Find the second derivative of -5292*x**2 + 3*x - 79 wrt x. -10584 What is the second derivative of -3*k**5*q + 4*k**2*q - k*q + k wrt k? -60*k**3*q + 8*q Find the second derivative of -449*k**3*z**2 + 9*k**2*z - 258*k*z**2 + 6*k*z wrt k. -2694*k*z**2 + 18*z Find the third derivative of 1073*l**5 - 2*l**2 - 69*l. 64380*l**2 What is the second derivative of a**2*p**3 + 7*a**2 + 743*a*p**3 + a*p + p + 43 wrt p? 6*a**2*p + 4458*a*p What is the second derivative of -248*b**2 - 66*b? -496 What is the third derivative of 190*b**6 - b**5 + 57*b**2 - 1 wrt b? 22800*b**3 - 60*b**2 Differentiate j*s*x + 3*j*s + 7*j*x - 6*j + 3*s*x - 11*s wrt x. j*s + 7*j + 3*s Find the second derivative of -32*k**2*s**2 + 5*k**2 - 6*k*s - 3*s**4 wrt s. -64*k**2 - 36*s**2 Find the second derivative of -22*i**3 - 41*i. -132*i Differentiate -101*p**2*s**3 - p**2 - 42*p*s**3 + 18*p wrt s. -303*p**2*s**2 - 126*p*s**2 Differentiate 29*j**4 - 3*j**2*n + 127*n with respect to j. 116*j**3 - 6*j*n Find the second derivative of 866*m**5 + m**2 - 248*m. 17320*m**3 + 2 Find the second derivative of 1338*h**2 + 143*h + 4. 2676 Find the third derivative of 6*f**2*g**3 + 2*f**2*g**2 + 30*f*g**3 - 14*f*g**2 + 2*g**4 + 1 wrt g. 36*f**2 + 180*f + 48*g Find the second derivative of 2*h**3*y**3 - h**3 - 2*h**2*y + 43*h*y**3 + 2*h*y**2 + y wrt y. 12*h**3*y + 258*h*y + 4*h Find the second derivative of 27*h**2*n**3 - 5*h**2 + 7*h*n**3 - 82*h*n**2 wrt h. 54*n**3 - 10 Find the second derivative of 5*d**2*h**3 + 11278*d**2*h*y - d**2*y - 129*h**2*y wrt h. 30*d**2*h - 258*y Find the third derivative of -p**4 + 52*p**3*y + 2*p**3 + 3*p**2 - y - 2 wrt p. -24*p + 312*y + 12 What is the third derivative of 55*g**3*x - 22*g**3 - 14*g**2*x + 16*g**2 + 3*g wrt g? 330*x - 132 Find the third derivative of 56*s**6*w**2 + s**4*w**3 - 5*s**2 + 5*s*w**2 - 3*w**3 wrt s. 6720*s**3*w**2 + 24*s*w**3 What is the third derivative of -138*q**4*u**3 + 2*q**4*u + 7*q**3 - 8*q**2*u**3 + 244 wrt q? -3312*q*u**3 + 48*q*u + 42 What is the second derivative of -3673*j**3 + 2*j + 656? -22038*j What is the second derivative of 9218*w**3 - 334*w wrt w? 55308*w Find the second derivative of -7841*h**2 + 13366*h wrt h. -15682 What is the second derivative of -41*l**2 + 38*l - 8? -82 What is the derivative of b**3*t**2 + 95*b**3 - b - 2*t**3 wrt t? 2*b**3*t - 6*t**2 What is the second derivative of 634*z**2 + 280*z - 2 wrt z? 1268 What is the second derivative of -14*q**2*z**3 + q**2*z + 2*q**2 + 78*q*z**3 + 1835*q - z wrt z? -84*q**2*z + 468*q*z Differentiate -113*b**4*r - 5*b**3*r**2 + 510*r**2 wrt b. -452*b**3*r - 15*b**2*r**2 Find the third derivative of -l**3*q**3 + 2*l**3 + 813*l**2*q**3 + 31*l*q**2 wrt q. -6*l**3 + 4878*l**2 Find the second derivative of -1117*f**2 + 1155*f wrt f. -2234 Find the second derivative of c*t**2*x**3 - 6*c*t

*6/360 + c**3/6 + 2*c**2. Let u(k) be the first derivative of v(k). Find the third derivative of u(n) wrt n. 120*n**2 Suppose 7*p + 5 - 5 = 0. Let d(l) be the second derivative of 0 + 2*l + 1/6*l**3 + 0*l**4 - 1/5*l**5 + p*l**2. Find the second derivative of d(v) wrt v. -24*v Let c(b) = -48*b + 21. Suppose -l - 10 = -6*l. Let x(u) = 1 + l - 5*u - 2*u. Let j(g) = 4*c(g) - 27*x(g). Find the first derivative of j(h) wrt h. -3 Suppose 4*b + 8 = 8*b. What is the second derivative of -3*f + 2*f**2 - 5*f**b + 0*f wrt f? -6 Suppose m = -4 + 6. Let p be 92/22 - 4/22. Differentiate p*w**2 - 1 - 3*w**m - 2*w**2 with respect to w. -2*w Let u be 2/10 + (-52)/10. Let k = -3 - u. What is the second derivative of 0*f**2 + f**k - f - f - 2*f**2 wrt f? -2 Let o = 4 + -4. Suppose o = u - 2 - 1. What is the derivative of -2*f**u - 1 + 5*f - 5*f wrt f? -6*f**2 Find the second derivative of 0*c + c**3 - 4*c**3 + 2*c wrt c. -18*c Let u(y) be the third derivative of -1/3*y**3 + 0*y**4 - 1/30*y**5 + 0 - y**2 + 0*y. Differentiate u(v) with respect to v. -4*v Let t(n) be the second derivative of 1/4*n**4 + 0 + 2/15*n**6 + 0*n**2 + 0*n**5 + 0*n**3 + 2*n. Find the third derivative of t(x) wrt x. 96*x Let x(r) = -7*r**3 - 2*r + 5. Let m(a) = -6*a**3 - 3*a + 4. Let c(n) = -2*m(n) + 3*x(n). Differentiate c(h) with respect to h. -27*h**2 Let t(i) be the first derivative of -18*i**5/5 + 14*i**3/3 + 39. What is the third derivative of t(l) wrt l? -432*l Suppose -4*x = -2 - 6. Let r be 3/2 + 3/x. Find the second derivative of r*f + 3*f**2 + 2*f - 3*f wrt f. 6 What is the derivative of -3 + 4 - 7 - b**2 - 3*b**2 wrt b? -8*b Suppose 0*k + 2*k = 4. Find the second derivative of t + 0*t + t**5 + 4*t - k*t wrt t. 20*t**3 Let s(r) be the second derivative of -r**6/6 - 4*r**3/3 + 9*r. What is the second derivative of s(c) wrt c? -60*c**2 Let w(t) = -t**3 - 5*t**2 - 4*t + 4. Let p be w(-4). What is the second derivative of -3*z - 2*z**p + 0*z**4 + z wrt z? -24*z**2 Let h(b) be the second derivative of -b**4/12 + 4*b**2 + 5*b. Differentiate h(v) with respect to v. -2*v Let y(z) = -z**3 + z**2 - z + 1. Let x(u) = 38*u**4 + 4*u**3 - 24*u**2 + 4*u - 4. Let b(i) = x(i) + 4*y(i). Find the third derivative of b(v) wrt v. 912*v Let j(g) be the first derivative of -15*g**4/4 + 11*g**3/3 - 12. What is the third derivative of j(y) wrt y? -90 Let f(s) be the third derivative of s**4/24 + 7*s**3/6 - 2*s**2. Let y be f(-5). Find the third derivative of -m**5 + 2*m**y - 4*m + 4*m wrt m. -60*m**2 Let p be 1 + -1*1*-2. Let m be ((-3)/(-2))/(p/6). Differentiate -2 + 0 - 2*n**m + 3 with respect to n. -6*n**2 Let m = 4 + 4. What is the first derivative of 7 + 5*a**4 - 4*a**4 + m*a**4 wrt a? 36*a**3 Let c(b) = -1. Let w(g) = 3*g**2 - 5*g - 3. Let o(m) = 6*c(m) - 2*w(m). Find the second derivative of o(t) wrt t. -12 Let l(v) be the second derivative of -3*v**7/7 - 5*v**4/3 + 13*v. What is the third derivative of l(k) wrt k? -1080*k**2 Let q(k) be the first derivative of -k**7/840 - k**6/120 + k**3/3 - 1. Let r(o) be the third derivative of q(o). Find the third derivative of r(j) wrt j. -6 Let d = 21 - -4. Differentiate g**4 - 25*g**3 + 5*g**4 + 6 + d*g**3 with respect to g. 24*g**3 What is the derivative of 3 - 1 - 3 - 2*t**3 - 2*t**3 wrt t? -12*t**2 Let y(a) = 66*a - 144. Let i(m) = -5*m + 11. Let r(k) = -27*i(k) - 2*y(k). Differentiate r(n) wrt n. 3 Let c(a) = a**5 + 3*a**3 - 3*a**2 + 18*a - 3. Let u(s) = s**3 + s**2 + 1. Let g(m) = c(m) + 3*u(m). What is the second derivative of g(b) wrt b? 20*b**3 + 36*b Find the second derivative of -3*y**2 + 2*y**2 - 4*y**2 + 2*y + 4*y**2 wrt y. -2 Let x(h) be the first derivative of h**2/2 + 4. Let k be x(0). What is the second derivative of k*m**4 - m - m**4 + 2*m**4 - m wrt m? 12*m**2 Let a(y) = 8*y**4 + 13*y**3 - y**2 + 13. Let c(d) = 2*d**4 + 3*d**3 + 3. Let v(h) = 6*a(h) - 26*c(h). What is the third derivative of v(z) wrt z? -96*z Suppose -2*t + 1 = -t. What is the derivative of 3*x - 7*x + t + x wrt x? -3 Let j = 2 + -1. Suppose -5*w - 4*n + 25 = 0, -5*n + 7 = -3*w - 3*n. Differentiate j + w - 3*i**3 + 3 with respect to i. -9*i**2 Let o(s) = -4*s**3 - 2*s**2 + 4*s. Let x(c) = -c**2 - c. Let b(q) = -3*o(q) - 12*x(q). Find the third derivative of b(d) wrt d. 72 Let n be (8/(-14))/((-2)/7). Find the third derivative of 9*f**4 + 5*f**2 + 7*f**4 + 0*f**n - 8*f**4 wrt f. 192*f Let q = 11 - 17. Let z be (-2)/q - (-15)/9. What is the third derivative of -y**z + y**3 - y**2 + y**2 wrt y? 6 Let u be (-1 + (-8)/(-2))*-1. Let s(p) = 2*p**2 + 5*p + 2. Let b be s(u). Find the third derivative of -3 - d**b - 2*d**2 + 3 wrt d. -60*d**2 Let b(i) = -3*i**3 - 7 + 6*i**3 + 0*i**3 - 3*i**4 + 3*i. Let n(a) = 3*a**4 - 4*a**3 - 4*a + 8. Let c(m) = 4*b(m) + 3*n(m). What is the derivative of c(u) wrt u? -12*u**3 Let t(j) be the first derivative of j**7/280 - j**6/360 + 2*j**3/3 + 2. Let d(u) be the third derivative of t(u). What is the third derivative of d(r) wrt r? 18 Let n(c) be the first derivative of 0*c**2 - 2/3*c**3 - 2*c + 2. What is the first derivative of n(h) wrt h? -4*h Let k(i) = 23*i**2 + 4*i + 8. Let g(m) = 22*m**2 + 3*m + 7. Let b(a) = -4*g(a) + 3*k(a). What is the derivative of b(f) wrt f? -38*f Suppose -l + 4 = -2*l. Let v = l - -6. What is the third derivative of 0*a**3 + 0*a**2 + 2*a**v + 2*a**3 wrt a? 12 Suppose 0 = 2*r + a + 29, -5*r = -0*r - a + 55. Let k be r/30 + 22/5. What is the second derivative of -3*g**k + 4*g - 5*g + 4*g**4 wrt g? 12*g**2 Let n = 0 + -9. Let x(o) = -o**2 - 10*o - 5. Let b be x(n). Find the third derivative of -2*p**2 - p**b + 2*p**4 + 4*p**2 - 4*p**4 wrt p. -72*p Let u(p) be the first derivative of -4*p**5 - 4*p**2 + 30. What is the second derivative of u(k) wrt k? -240*k**2 Let o(j) = -j**2 + j + 2. Let m be o(2). Differentiate m + 0 + 3*d**3 - d**3 - 3 wrt d. 6*d**2 Let n(p) be the third derivative of 7*p**6/120 - 5*p**3/2 - 10*p**2. What is the derivative of n(z) wrt z? 21*z**2 Let f(h) be the first derivative of -13*h**5/5 - 3*h**2 - 3. What is the second derivative of f(x) wrt x? -156*x**2 Suppose 7 = -3*q + 22. Find the second derivative of -3*k**q + 2*k - 4*k - k + k wrt k. -60*k**3 Let m be (((-15)/10)/(-3))/15. Let i(f) be the third derivative of -f**2 + 0*f**4 + 0 + 0*f + 1/6*f**3 + m*f**5. What is the first derivative of i(c) wrt c? 4*c Let r(o) = -17*o**3 + 18*o**2. Let i(n) = n**3 - n**2. Let k(y) = 5*i(y) - r(y). What is the third derivative of k(p) wrt p? 132 Let n(d) be the third derivative of -1/4*d**4 - d**2 + 0*d**3 + 1/12*d**5 + 0 + 0*d. What is the second derivative of n(b) wrt b? 10 Let m(h) be the first derivative of 2*h**3/3 - 2*h**2 + 21*h + 59. What is the derivative of m(a) wrt a? 4*a - 4 Find the second derivative of 3*c**5 + 2*c**5 + 6*c + 8*c - 3*c wrt c. 100*c**3 Let q(x) be the second derivative of -x**4/4 + 7*x**2 - 11*x. Find the first derivative of q(f) wrt f. -6*f Suppose 5*g - 32 + 12 = 0. What is the third derivative of -5*m**2 + 4*m**2 + 4*m**g - 3*m**4 wrt m? 24*m Let i(t) be the third derivative of t**9/56 - t**5/6 + 16*t**2. What is the third derivative of i(r) wrt r? 1080*r**3 Let w(p) = 3*p**2 + 2. Let j(n) = -1 - 20*n**2 + 11*n**2 + 8*n**2. Let m(g) = -17*j(g) - 6*w(g). Find the first derivative of m(a) wrt a. -2*a Let b = 10 - 8. Differentiate p**2 + 5*p**2 - 1 - 4*p**2 + b wrt p. 4*p What is the third derivative of j**2 - 5*j**3 + 2*j**2 - 27*j**2 - j**3 wrt j? -36 Let x(z) = 3*z + 17. Let q(l) = 4*l + 25. Let s(a) = 5*q(a) - 7*x(a). Differentiate s(c) wrt c. -1 Suppose -3*w = o - 0*w - 18, 3*o = w + 14. Suppose 0*s = -2*s - 2, 2*d - o = -2*s. Find the second derivative of d*v - 4*v - v**3 - v wrt v. -6*v Let t(l) be the second derivative of 3/2*l**2 + 0 + 0*l**5 - 3*l + 0*l**4 + 1/10*l**6 + 0*l**3. Find the first derivative of t(m) wrt m. 12*m**3 Let j(y) = 4*y**2. Let n be j(-1). Find the first derivative of x + 3 + n*x + 6 wrt x. 5 What is the derivative of 5 - w + 0*w - 7*w wrt w? -8 Suppose -12 = -2*v - 2*v. What is the derivative of q**3 - q**v - 4 - 3*q**4 + 1 wrt q? -12*q**3 Let g(u) be the first derivative of 2*u**5/5 + u**3/2 + 3*u - 8. Let f(h) be the first derivative of g(h). Find the second derivative of f(k) wrt k. 48*k Let f(g) = g + 1. Let s(z) = 2 + 2*z + 2 - 3. Let r(y) =

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"the.prisoner.2009.part02" "You can tell a lot about a person from their apartment." "If you know how to look." "Here's to forgetting." "Some things." "There you are." "Here." "Don't you recognize your brother?" "Six?" "He's not my brother." "Why would a man deny the existence of his own brother," "When he's standing right in front of you?" "Because he's sick, demented." "Isn't that what you want me to think?" "Let us concern ourselves only with evidence." "Brought these from home." "Remember that?" "Stuff could be fake." "And does your flesh also lie, Six?" "You fell out of a tree and cut your arm." "You could have done it, while I was sleeping." "Buddy, we-we just want you back, the way you were." "You're not gonna catch anything." "Yes, I will" " I did last week." "Perhaps therapy might work, yes?" "What do you say, Six?" "Give the talking cure a try." "Oh, you would like that, wouldn't you?" "Meddling with my mind." "What are you afraid of, Six?" "A glimpse into your psyche," "Discovering that you are the problem, after all?" "I'm not afraid." "Come on!" "Good-- the sessions are booked." "A man with nothing to hide, is a man with nothing to find." "Good to see you, Six." "Home at last." "Hey, look who it is." "Hey, Uncle Six-- your not dead." "Hey, good evening." "Oh, it's good to see you." " Hey, dad" " I've made your favorite for dinner." "Barbeque pork wraps." "It's "Wonkers!"" "Let's go into the bar." "Ah, see, we never miss "Wonkers."" "46-5..." "Yes." "Oops, here we go." "Nothing." "I don't like pork." "Oh, go on-- it's your favorite." "There is something." "Okay, so, 765 is in love with 23-30," "But 23-56 is pregnant to 46-5," "And 913 had an affair with 23-30." "So, 765 is jealous of 23-30," "And so she, like, took her revenge by sleeping with 46-5." " 46-5." " Yes." "I'm leaving you." " No" " Yes." "Oh, no!" "Why?" "I love your brother." "You have a lovely family." "I know it..." "And I'm proud of it." "But it's not real, is it?" "And I'm not your brother." "My brother's dead, and I'm somebody else." "Six, it kills me to see you like this" "Did you take anything?" " What?" " Papers from my pocket?" "No." "Cause maybe you work for them." "I don't know." "I only know that none of this is real." "If you won't go to your therapy," "Then, I will." "I have to, because let me tell you," "I just want my brother back." "And it just kills me to" "Why is it so dark in here?" "Why does it feel so dark to you?" "Well, my home is not my home." "My brother's not my brother." "Nothing's real." "And what feels real to you, Six?" "Why should I tell you?" "Because it bothers you..." "Doesn't it?" "You can't cure your thinking with your thinking, Six." "You have to hand it over." "There is something in you," "Which you feel the need to find." "You feel the need to resolve it." "Am I right?" "Let me tell you something interesting." "Numbers on a phone, how they work." "They have a logic, a purpose." "I get the feeling this is not merely information." "When you borrowed my phone, the number you dialed," "It wasn't a number." "That's pretty observant." "What kind of a guy notices stuff like that?" "Just someone suspicious." "You didn't make a call." "There was something came into your head?" "I saw a seagull this morning." "Some kind of bird?" "Yeah, that's right, some kind of bird." "And I got to thinking..." ""Either you're a long way from home," ""Or we're a lot closer to the beach, than I realized."" "And what is "the beach?"" "That's where you go on vacation." "Tell us about your vacation." "Not much to tell." "Me and my brother," "We'd take the train to the sea." "We called it "the edge of the world."" "Giant salt water rod for him." "An old fishing net for me." "Wait a minute-- did you say "us?"" "Who's "us?"" "He is me..." "We are me." "I find it conducive to work in this way." "I can engage." "And I can reflect." "I think we're done here." "Six, wait!" "There's no requirement" "That you share your thoughts here with me-- us." "Simply to have them." "Six!" "Six, wait!" "I met your brother." "Seems like a sweet man." "He spies a lot." "I mean-I mean, I think he's a worrier," "And I think he's worried about you, Six" "He's not my brother." "Six, maybe you could just accept the possibility that he is" "Listen to me, I am not a number." "Right." "There was something in my pockets." "Did you take it?" "No, there was nothing in your pockets, six." "Six, there you are." "I was thinking, "what is the one thing" "That helps a man not dwell on his troubles?"" "Work-- huh?" "Come on-- let's go see the guys." "Hey, 130." "Look who's here." "hey, welcome back." "He's lost some weight, don't you think, boys?" "Looks to me like a man who needs a beer or 12." "We'll take you out with the boys tonight, six." "Put some flesh on them bones, huh?" "How do you fancy getting behind the old wheel?" "Why do you think I can drive this thing?" "You're the best there is, six." "But I've never driven a bus in my life." "Listen to him, boys." "How 'bout you just get behind the wheel," "And see if it all comes back to ya, huh?" "Fire her up." "Ah, as sweet as a honey nut wrap." "The village tour will depart in" "Approximately One minute and 20 seconds." "See the sights!" "If you've already seen them, see them again." " See ya - bye." "Your driver today, my buddy and my brother,Number six." "Coming up here, on your left," "Is the village museum of modern art," "Containing the famous painting of" "Crying 38-30, by 794." "And then, coming up," "One of the highlights of our tour, the clinic." "Every day is a sunny day in the village." "Moving on now, over to the corner," "The newly rebuilt "solar cafe."" "You were right, of course." "He is resistant to the possibility of revealing the six inside." "And why is that?" "He feels alone." "Oh!" "Very good." "He dreams of escape." "He feels rootless." "And yet, his roots are right here," "Under our feet." "What ails the man?" "He described..." "A fishing trip." "Fishing?" "We like six's fishing stories, don't we, 70?" "Some kind of fantasy." "Perhaps you'd do better" "Trying to find the two inside." "Why not, since I'm here." "We can have a poke around." "See what makes two tick." "The inside two." "I'm curious." "I want to know what's going on inside of me." "Let's start..." "My wife..." "I'm the reason she's the way she is." "Perhaps we should stay with the matter of six." "I know I can trust you." "I love my son." "But, I have thoughts," "If he knew me, if he truly know his father," "He might not like me." "Do you like me, 70?" "You are two, we all love you." "But, do you like me?" "I don't really know you." "I-- what I do know is that you are a wonderful man." "Of course." "You think I believe all of this therapy babble, do you?" "My mother sat me sideways" "On the potty when I was a toddler," "Now I want to sleep with her?" "Oh, grow up, man!" "Have you had sex with your mother, 70?" "No-- never." "Well, don't." "Two, if I might ask," "If you don't believe in the value of the talking cure-- it's not necessary for me to believe." "It is necessary for six to believe." "The sight to delights just don't stop, folks." "Actually, this is one of my favorite parts of the trip," "The desert." "My kids, they always say to me," ""Dad, what's beyond the desert?"" "And I tell 'em, "More desert."" "Around every dune, there's another dune, right?" "In a few moments," "We're gonna be pulling up for some light refreshments." "91 will be coming around with, uh, some delicious wraps." "And remember, take out your cameras." "This is one of the best views of the towers." "Where are you going?" "There's something I wanna see." "Ah, a very slight detour-- no cause for alarm." "Okay, everyone, this is an unscheduled stop." "Can you see it on the map?" "Who can tell me what it is?" "Some kind of bus that broke down?" "Ah, not even close." "What are you doing?" "It's an anchor." "Which means, somewhere around here is a boat," "Yeah, or a ship." "A ship means water, and water means ocean, right?" "What does ocean say to you-- anyone?" "Uh, this is what's known as a desert folly," "Which means it's a nothing." "No, it's not-- it means escape." "Escape of what?" "Yeah?" "Come on." "Something I wanna show you." "Where they are going?" "Will they just leave us here?" "What is this place?" "It's the ruins." "Were there ever trains?" "I don't get you, six." "It's the ruins-- it's the same as it's always been." "We came here every day, when we were kids." "We played soldiers, and hide-and-seek." "We used to call it the "edge of the world," remember?" "How can you forget that?" "Guess I do feel something, being here." "I can't-I can't deny it." "But, why?" "Why should I feel belonging," "When I've never been here before?" "Try to ask yourself,Do you- really think that whole family, those kids," "Are living their lives just to deceive you?" "Maybe." "If you're right," "There's no way out of here, then." "Can't we have life here?" "Isn't that something?" "Two people, like your brother,his family-- no-no-no-no-no." "That's what they want us to think." "313, you ever been on a boat?" "Why would I?" "You don't know what you're missing." "I noticed you, sitting on your own." "I decided that if I spoke to you," "You might wanna get to know me." "Is that so bad?" "Why tonight?" "Why choose the day that I resign?" "Well, maybe, it's a coincidence." "Do you know the way?" "Every day is a sunny day." "It's "wonkers!"" "Life is short." "It's the same thing, over and over," "Day in and day out." "It's like we can never escape." "I'm 16, your guide." "You driver today, my buddy and brother, number six." "Coming up here, on your left," "Is the village philharmonic hall." "And then, coming up," "One of the highlights of the tour..." "The clinic." "And next, today, especially for you," "The home of our great patron." "The one, the only, home of you know who," "Palais two." ""wow," being the operative word here." "Wouldn't it be amazing if two came out right now?" "Oh, he" "Much bigger than on tv." "He's coming.Okay." "It's good to see you looking so much better, six." "Driving your bus around," "Spending time with your brother." "Family is the greatest gift the village can give us." "Isn't that right?" "Hmm." "Perhaps one day, you will have a son, six." "I recommend it." "It's only when you have family," "That you learn the meaning of love." "Oh, do sit down." "Are we enjoying our little sight seeing trip?" " Wonderful." " Good." "And what do you think of your driver?" "There, good news." "One family, here on this bus, has won a holiday," "To the escape resort." "I have the ticket here." "And the lucky family is... 16." "Yes!" "I've always wanted to go to escape resort." "Can't wait to tell the kids." "Fantastic--thank you." "And that wraps up our tour for today." "I bet you're all ready for a beer, or 12." "Escape resort." "You're gonna come with us, aren't you, six?" "This resort, is it by the sea?" "A sea?" "Yeah, you know, the sea, the ocean, water, waves." "What do you mean, the pool?" "You gotta come, six." "Come away with me." "Life is short." "So come away." "You'd never escape the guilt." "913 wouldn't care." "You would break 46-5's heart." "His wife and his own brother." "I can't let you go." "You took them." "No, I found them in your pocket." "You fool around with me like everything's a joke." "What do you-you report on me?" "Tell them what I say to you?" "Why'd you take them?" "I like them." "I like the idea of another place." "I'm sorry, I-I don't wanna lose you..." "Lose our friendship." "I was being stupid, and look,it won't happen again." "I lied to you." "You really are suspicious of people, aren't you?" "You would be too if you worked there." "You haven't told me where you work." "I am" "I was an analyst for a company called "semicorp."" "We collect C.C.Tv footage from around the world." "I watch people, I see things." "I collect data and statistics." "My job is to look for patterns," "How we live." "Trying to find out what is going on," "And finding out what is going on is not good news." "Is that why you resigned?" "Why do you ask?" "Well, why shouldn't I be interested in you?" "Sorry, it's what that place does to you." "What you need is a distraction." "You know, I watch people like us,doing things like this," "And I write about them in my reports." "So, if you were watching us now, what would you see?" "Two people, a man and a woman in a room," "For one night," "'Cause that's all they're capable of anymore." "Please, tell me that is not true." "It's only a report" "It's what you believe." "It's what I see." "It's ridiculous, I know, but..." "I've been lying awake, thinking," ""Maybe if I came down, they wouldn't be here."" "You loved that thing." "You always say that." "I don't remember it at all." "Memory is fickle." "Six says that everything here is fake, unreal." "It's not possible." "I mean, why would the world be like that?" "It is like that, in six's mind." "Look at me, 11-12." "Is this real?" "Do I love you like" "No father ever loved a son before?" "When I was your age, I questioned everything." "Young men always doubt, challenge," "But never doubt your family." "Never." "Steven, come back." "Something happened, in you..." "A memory." "Your fishing trip, perhaps." "Your brother?" "Do you think it would help me to tell you?" "I know it would." "765 is in love with 23-30." "23-56 is pregnant to 46-59." "913 had an affair with 23-30," "So 765 is jealous of 23-30," "So she" "He's running rings around us!" "I see your fear, 70." "I've been watching you." "You know you're a prisoner-- you're just like me." "But you don't wanna know." "Well, I refuse to become you." "I do remember something about this place." "Like something happened here." "Doesn't that make it true?" "They do it to me somehow." "They do it to all of us." "One, two..." "Three, four, five..." "Six." ""Hello to you, who-whoever you are." ""I'm six."" "I'm eight years old." "You sound like such a clever, little six." "It's a trick." "You knew where it was-- you went straight to it." "It has to be a trick." "Has to be." "Tell me why you resigned, please?" "I worked on a floor called "analysis."" "We don't know who works on the next floor." "We never see them." "I started to notice something," "And like a good boy, I reported up." "And what was it?" "People changing." "Too many people." "So I sent in the report, got a three-word reply." ""Cease and desist."" "But if you could find out why" ""solutions" want you to stop" "Who are you?" "You work in "semicorp," you said "solutions."" "I didn't say, "solutions."" "No more bullshit-- who are you?" "Yes, I work there." "You sit there, you look at me," "And you tell me why you're here?" "You think you resigned-- maybe you did," "But it's not over." "They still control you." "I'm going on vacation with my brother tomorrow." "You called him your brother." "Do you see?" "I see I need to get out of here," "Before I become a part of this place." "I, be seeing ya." "There's a reason I go on those bus trips." "I heard the ocean once." "They stopped the bus." "I kind of wandered off away." "I heard waves crashing." "I heard the ocean." "You know, I'm all for a wild goose chase." "I'm an affirmative kind of guy, generally speaking," "But, "I can hear big water?"" ""Somewhere, there's a sound of splashing?"" "Please." "You mind if we just shut up and drive, please?" "Sounds good." "It's non-stop to the escape resort," "Departing in approximately four and half minutes." " Where is he?" " I don't know." "She's a crazy, six." "Man, we are right where we were," "And we were here, even before that" "And we are right here, again." "Maybe it was an illusion." "Maybe I never heard it." "Listen to me, you did hear something." "You have to keep believing that you heard it." "I wish I could." "I wish I could hear it now." "Try." "Listen." "Follow the towers." "Two put you up to this, didn't he?" "What?" "All this talk of the ocean-- yes, he did." "He wants to throw me off track." " We're going on a trip" " No, no, no, it's today!" " Where you going, man?" " My family!" "I knew you wouldn't let us down." "I told them-- didn't I tell ya?" "Six never missed a vacation in his life." "Come on, what are we waiting for?" "All right, everyone," "We're all gonna have a nice, normal vacation." "You can't get to the towers" "It's not possible." "You know that, six." "Do you know the way?" "Is it hot as hell in here" "Or is it me" "It really is a mystery" "If I die before I wake" "I pray the lord my soul to take my misery" "I could really use a drop to drink" "Feel like I was really in the pink" "I knew it was a dream when I don't sleep" "I'm slumbering" "There's still a promise dreamers keep" "I'm wondering" "Lay beyond the sea" "You hear me?" "You gotta cut this out!" "You gotta stop this!" "I found something the monster wants." "Something of mine from when I was a boy." "I keep trying to prove I'm right," "Find a way out." "But what if I am wrong?" "What if I am your brother?" "All you've given me is love and kindness." "I've repaid you with cruel accusations." "Maybe I am insane." "I'm sorry for all the pain I've caused you." "You're a good man." "I do trust you." "I'm glad I have a brother." "Six..." "I'm not your brother." "I'm sorry!" "Please, you've gotta help me, now!" "You've gotta help me." "I'm sorry." "I try to be a good father." "You know, give them something good to look back on." "This place, it's what you dream of." "For a guy like me, it's out of reach." "I'm scared of them, six." "They're watching us all the time." "Look at me, I'm shaking like a leaf." "Look, I need a beer." "What is it they want from me?" "They must have told you something." "My head is so confused with confusion." "I-I don't even know if what I just told you" "Is true or not." "The other place." "Something about you talking about some other place." "Are they really your family?" "I don't even know anymore." "I know it sounds stupid, but," "I sort of do think of you as my brother." "Me, too." "Six, is there another place?" "There is." "You gotta help me get out there." "They will get me-- they're gonna get me." "No, we'll get out first." "It isn't there, is it?" "Two will know we were out here." "He'll know that I betrayed him." "I promise you, we'll find it." "Steven, come back." "16, come back." "I'm only just getting started-- come on!" "Come back here!" "It's gone." "I have to tell you something." "Shh, uncle six-- "Wonkers" is on." "Your father" "Your father's dead!" "He drowned." "Yeah, well, 11-12, none of us can choose our family." "He swam in the ocean." "Taste the saltwater in his mouth." "Felt the power of the waves." "There is a way out of this place." "No matter how loudly you shout that there isn't!" "You're the one who's shouting, six." "The louder a man shouts," "The more profoundly he's wrong." "I'm not wrong." "I'm telling you the truth." "My brother is dead." "Six." "Saying these things about his brother" "It hurts." "Only a family can heal." "I didn't mean that." "I didn't mean "my brother."" "Six-- oh, six." "I am not a number" " I am not a number." "I am" " I am" "Yes, six." "My name is-- damn it!" "My name is" "I am six" "He's six." "I am six!" "That's right." "I am six" " I am six, you bastard!" "Six."

479*b**2 - 42 Let w(f) = 68*f. Let d(a) = -37*a + 8. Give w(d(u)). -2516*u + 544 Let t(y) = -2*y**2. Let f(v) = -1173*v**2 + 1178*v**2 + 1 - 1. What is f(t(p))? 20*p**4 Let n(u) = 2*u. Let z(y) = 597*y**2 - 13*y + 22. Let v(o) = 199*o**2 - 5*o + 8. Let k(w) = -11*v(w) + 4*z(w). Give n(k(a)). 398*a**2 + 6*a Let r(t) = 10229*t. Let d(p) = 751*p. Calculate d(r(x)). 7681979*x Let p(i) be the third derivative of -i**5/30 - 26*i**2 + 14. Let y(h) = 69*h**2 + 2. Calculate y(p(g)). 276*g**4 + 2 Let v(w) = -6*w. Let s(g) be the first derivative of 1510*g - 1510*g - 3 + g**2. Calculate v(s(z)). -12*z Let m(j) = 3*j. Let d be 134/(-2*(3 - 4)). Let f(c) = -c - 67 + d. Determine m(f(o)). -3*o Suppose -3*i + 46 + 41 = 4*d, -3*d = 0. Let t(n) = -i + 50 - 21 - 5*n**2. Let s(r) = -6*r. Give s(t(w)). 30*w**2 Let r = 277 - 277. Let k(j) be the third derivative of r + 0*j + 0*j**3 + 9*j**2 - 1/12*j**4. Let n(p) = -5*p**2. Determine k(n(q)). 10*q**2 Let x(g) = 8309*g - 2. Let u(o) = -o**2. Give u(x(c)). -69039481*c**2 + 33236*c - 4 Let k(b) = -2*b**2 + 94*b - 94*b. Let y(n) be the first derivative of -n**3/3 + 4*n + 4. Let a(l) be the first derivative of y(l). Determine k(a(h)). -8*h**2 Let v(d) = 2*d**2. Let n(y) = 2*y - 25 - 45 - 74 + 18. Calculate n(v(o)). 4*o**2 - 126 Let m(k) = 2*k**2 + 19*k. Let h(t) be the third derivative of -t**5/60 + 2*t**2 - 19*t. Determine h(m(v)). -4*v**4 - 76*v**3 - 361*v**2 Let z(m) be the first derivative of -m**6/180 + 13*m**3/3 - 12. Let a(l) be the third derivative of z(l). Let p(r) = 17*r**2. Calculate p(a(y)). 68*y**4 Let c(n) = -3*n. Let z be -2 - ((-1 - -2) + -5). Let s(x) = 9*x**2 - 4*x**z - 7*x**2. Give c(s(d)). 6*d**2 Let i(l) be the second derivative of -l**4/12 + 3*l. Suppose -p + 3 - 24 = -4*q, 5*q - 20 = -5*p. Let f(s) = -q*s + 12 - 12. Give i(f(a)). -25*a**2 Let u(w) = 0*w - 2*w - 3*w. Let v(x) be the first derivative of -x**6/180 - x**3/3 + 4. Let d(l) be the third derivative of v(l). Calculate u(d(q)). 10*q**2 Let i(r) = -5*r**2. Let d(v) = 16*v**2 - 8. Let y(q) = -3*q**2 - 3. Let m(x) = -d(x) - 5*y(x). Determine i(m(a)). -5*a**4 + 230*a**2 - 2645 Suppose 0*x = 9*x - 21924. Let n(m) = -x - m + 2436. Let u(i) = 84*i**2 - 35*i. Let l(z) = -7*z**2 + 3*z. Let o(v) = 35*l(v) + 3*u(v). What is n(o(c))? -7*c**2 Let a(t) = 4*t - 6. Let n(c) = 4*c - 8. Let v(u) = 4*a(u) - 3*n(u). Let f(q) = 6*q**2. Determine v(f(l)). 24*l**2 Let i(a) = -7*a**2. Let t(f) be the first derivative of -3*f**2/2 - 4*f - 4. Determine i(t(p)). -63*p**2 - 168*p - 112 Let l(i) = 43*i. Let j(c) = -83*c - 18. What is l(j(s))? -3569*s - 774 Let o(l) = -15*l**2 - 27*l + 2. Let d(f) = -f**2. Determine o(d(c)). -15*c**4 + 27*c**2 + 2 Let w(r) = 17*r**2 - 4. Let s(f) = -204*f**2. Calculate w(s(h)). 707472*h**4 - 4 Let d(m) be the third derivative of 0 - 16*m**2 + 0*m**4 + 0*m**3 + 0*m - 1/30*m**5. Let s(f) be the third derivative of f**5/60 + f**2. Give d(s(b)). -2*b**4 Let h(d) = 0*d - 2*d - 3*d. Let p(w) = -6*w - 7. Let s(r) = r + 1. Let g(y) = -2*p(y) - 14*s(y). Determine g(h(t)). 10*t Let o(h) = 2*h**2. Let p(j) = j**3 + 8*j**2 + 7*j + 6. Let w be p(-7). Let x = w + -4. Let n(g) = 1 + 4 + 2*g**x - 5. What is n(o(i))? 8*i**4 Let z(b) = -2*b**2 - 58*b. Let f(m) = -5*m. Let o(h) = h. Let c(s) = 4*f(s) + 18*o(s). Give z(c(x)). -8*x**2 + 116*x Let g(m) = 11*m**2. Let n(i) be the first derivative of -27*i**2/2 + 64. Determine n(g(y)). -297*y**2 Let w(j) = -10*j**2. Let h(k) = 1212*k. Determine w(h(s)). -14689440*s**2 Let w(a) = a. Let j(p) = -71874*p. Give j(w(y)). -71874*y Let n(f) = -f**2 - 6554. Let b(g) = 3*g. Determine n(b(h)). -9*h**2 - 6554 Let c(f) = -2*f - 1. Let s(b) = -7*b - 4. Let i(a) = 20*c(a) - 5*s(a). Let m(y) = -3*y**2. Give m(i(t)). -75*t**2 Let g(c) = -51*c - 1463. Let n(m) = -2*m. What is n(g(q))? 102*q + 2926 Let l(k) be the third derivative of -7*k**4/24 + 2*k**2 - 123. Let m(u) = 29*u + 1. Calculate m(l(i)). -203*i + 1 Let d(a) = -5439*a**2 - 5. Let o(q) = 4*q. Determine o(d(f)). -21756*f**2 - 20 Let l(h) = -3*h**2 - 27*h. Let v(o) = -o**2 - o**2 + 608 - 307 - 301. Determine l(v(z)). -12*z**4 + 54*z**2 Let k(o) = o**2. Let l(d) = -3*d**2 - 23*d**2 + 14*d**2 + 7 + 2*d**2. Calculate k(l(x)). 100*x**4 - 140*x**2 + 49 Let c(g) = 13*g. Let u(b) = -2*b**2 - 79. Determine c(u(m)). -26*m**2 - 1027 Let p(j) = 2*j. Let d(l) = 2*l**2 - 167*l - 4. What is p(d(m))? 4*m**2 - 334*m - 8 Let x(r) = 2*r**2. Let f = -42 + 61. Let k = -14 + f. Let q(t) = t + t - k*t - 5*t. Determine q(x(s)). -16*s**2 Let p be (9/(-18) - 1)/(-3 + 0). Let r(u) be the second derivative of 0 + 0*u**2 + p*u**3 + 2*u. Let g(i) = -2*i. Give r(g(k)). -6*k Let s(y) = -13*y. Let k(g) = -2*g + 3. Let m(a) = -43 - 3*a + 20 + 28. Let i(n) = 5*k(n) - 3*m(n). Give i(s(b)). 13*b Let j be 0/((-21)/(-14)*-2). Let r(g) be the third derivative of 1/30*g**5 + 0 + 0*g**4 - 3*g**2 + j*g**3 + 0*g. Let l(v) = 3*v**2. Give l(r(u)). 12*u**4 Let f(n) = 115*n. Let l(k) = k. Let j(g) = f(g) - 92*l(g). Let z(w) = w**2. What is j(z(p))? 23*p**2 Let h(x) be the second derivative of 17*x**4/3 + x**2 + 16*x - 2. Let g(f) = 2*f**2. Give h(g(b)). 272*b**4 + 2 Let d(i) be the first derivative of -2*i**3/3 - i - 4. Let n(r) = 24*r - r**2 - 40*r + 16*r. What is d(n(h))? -2*h**4 - 1 Let g(q) be the first derivative of -7/3*q**3 + 0*q**2 - 4 + 0*q. Let x(j) = -2*j**2 - j + 1. Let d(c) = -c**2 - c + 1. Let v(z) = -d(z) + x(z). Give g(v(h)). -7*h**4 Let u(f) = 5*f + 5*f**2 + 2*f**2 + 5*f**2 - 4*f**2. Let p(d) = 3*d**2 - 2*d + 4. Let t(n) = n**2 - n + 2. Let i(y) = -2*p(y) + 4*t(y). Give i(u(v)). -128*v**4 - 160*v**3 - 50*v**2 Let g(i) = i + 282. Let v(a) = a**2. Give v(g(y)). y**2 + 564*y + 79524 Let w(q) = -2*q. Let c(u) be the third derivative of 13*u**4/6 + 3*u**2 + 29. Calculate c(w(g)). -104*g Let s(q) = -2*q**2. Let a(r) be the second derivative of 9*r**5/40 - r**3 - 5*r. Let v(m) be the second derivative of a(m). Determine v(s(f)). -54*f**2 Let n(x) = -2*x**2 - x**2 - x**2. Let g(v) = 206*v**2 + 5*v + 5. Let a(s) = 82*s**2 + 2*s + 2. Let r(w) = 5*a(w) - 2*g(w). Determine r(n(b)). -32*b**4 Let r(w) = w. Let t(f) = f - 5 - 3*f - f + 6*f. Let s(d) = d - 3. Let q(u) = -5*s(u) + 3*t(u). Give r(q(z)). 4*z Let a(u) = u - 12. Let m be a(15). Let h be (3 - m) + -1 - -3. Let o(d) = 9*d**2 - 19*d**2 + 12*d**h. Let r(p) = 28*p. Give o(r(w)). 1568*w**2 Let u(j) = 8*j**2. Let p(z) = -2*z**2 - 2*z + 1. Let q(g) = 12*g**2 + 14*g - 7. Let o(s) = -14*p(s) - 2*q(s). What is u(o(h))? 128*h**4 Let h(x) = 3*x. Let r(v) be the second derivative of 2*v**3/3 + 3*v**2/2 + 33*v. Determine h(r(b)). 12*b + 9 Let g(q) = -45*q + 1. Let m(t) = -2526*t**2. Determine g(m(i)). 113670*i**2 + 1 Let w = 31 - 24. Let d = 9 - 7. Let z(k) = -w*k**d + 6*k**2 + 0*k**2. Let i(h) = -13*h**2. Determine z(i(u)). -169*u**4 Let q(x) be the second derivative of -13*x**5/60 + 11*x**2 + 12*x. Let l(c) be the first derivative of q(c). Let k(w) = 2*w. Determine l(k(m)). -52*m**2 Let y(v) = 467*v. Let h(s) = -25*s. Give y(h(j)). -11675*j Let k(s) = -2*s + 3*s + s + 0*s. Let t(q) = 5*q + 7. Let c(x) = -2*x - 2. Let d(y) = 7*c(y) + 2*t(y). What is d(k(z))? -8*z Let a(d) = -15*d + 4 - 4 - 2 + 5 + 16*d. Let t(s) = -13*s. Determine a(t(h)). -13*h + 3 Let a(h) = -1470*h + 492*h + 488*h + 488*h. Let j(n) be the second derivative of 0*n**2 + 0 - n + 7/12*n**4 + 0*n**3. What is j(a(o))? 28*o**2 Let g(j) = 16*j**2 + 2*j - 2. Let h(p) = 273*p**2 + 35*p - 35. Let a(l) = -35*g(l) + 2*h(l). Let r(i) = -16*i. Give a(r(v)). -3584*v**2 Let i(c) = 44*c. Let x(n) be the first derivative of 0*n**2 + 2/3*n**3 + 0*n - 10. Give i(x(q)). 88*q**2 Let t(g) = -22*g + 3*g**2 - 2*g**2 + 22*g. Let x(c) = 2*c**2 - 94. Determine x(t(b)). 2*b**4 - 94 Let o(j) = 5*j**2 - 6*j. Let l(r) = -9*r**2 + 11*r. Let x(i) = 6*l(i) + 11*o(i). Let v(g) = 5*g**2. Give x(v(w)). 25*w**4 Let q(n) = n - 3646. Let f(d) = 27*d**2. What is q(f(m))? 27*m**2 - 3646 Let j(m) = -215*m**2. Let r(i) = 53*i**2 - i. Determine r(j(w)). 2449925*w**4 + 215*w**2 Let o(j) = 3*j + 4. Let u(s) = 2*s + 3. Suppose -k - 3 + 9 = 3*f, 5*k + 5*f = 0. Let g(y) = k*o(y) + 4*u(y). Let z(v) = -4*v**2. Give z(g(r)). -4*r**2 Let v(o) = 363*o - 165. Let g(x) = -26*x + 12. Let a(t) = 55*g(t) + 4*v(t). Let h(d) = -d**2. What is h(a(w))? -484

Ridiculous Excuses Employees Give to Get Out of Work 'My dog at my homework' has become a thing of the past We’ve all had days that we just can’t muster the energy to go into the office. But instead of faking a sick day, some employees get a bit more creative. Here is what more than 1,000 U.S. office workers shared with Wakefield research in June on reasons actually used to get the day off. We can’t guarantee that the excuses work, but the creativeness will make you chuckle. (Reuters)

Cookstoves that can produce biochar, like the one pictured above in western Kenya, can be a key tool in fighting respiratory disease and boosting agricultural production In addition to wood, the stove burns garden debris, dried animal dung, and food material such as dried corncobs and coconut husks. A family cooking a pot of beans will use 40 percent less wood with the Estufa Finca than with an open-fire stove,... "In laboratory testing, these stoves reduced particulate matter emissions by 92 percent and the carbon monoxide emissions by 87 percent as compared to an open cooking fire," he said in an email. "These two are the big drivers of respiratory disease." "[Women] reported that the reduction of smoke in the house decreased irritation of their and their children's eyes, runny noses, coughing, chest discomfort, and difficulties in breathing, along with cost savings due to fewer hospital visits,"... "The real hook though, is the biochar," he said. The group harvests water hyacinth, an invasive species in nearby Lake Victoria that can be dried and converted into fuel briquettes for the cookstoves. SeaChar is developing an Urban Stove for use in homeless encampments in the Seattle area,... Replies to This Discussion Bio-char is a completely ridiculous green washing of burning down forests to make energy. We need to nip this nasty shit pushed by the new bio-char (what a ridiculous name) in the butt as soon possible. Indoor pollution from biomass-burning cookstoves can be greatly reduced if the kitchen has two, opposite, open windows. Up to now, most interventions have focused on improving the cookstove to lower emissions. And that would be fine, if there were enough improved cookstoves to go around. But there aren't. In 2012, only 2.5 million improved cookstoves were distributed, improving the household air pollution situation for exactly one-half of 1 percent of the world's biomass burners. "The improved cookstoves, which are supposed to reduce emissions, actually made the air quality worse under completely enclosed conditions," she said. "In contrast, we saw the greatest reduction in ambient particulate matter and carbon monoxide with an improved cookstove and with windows and doors open." They also learned that not all ventilation helps. "Having two windows open on opposite ends of the kitchen was best, whereas having all the windows and doors open was worse," Whelan said. "This is because having all outlets open creates turbulence inside the kitchen, and the smoke is not forced out." [emphasis mine] So an interdisciplinary team of Michigan Technological University students took a different tack. They decided to look for ways to improve the cooking environment, not just the stove. And they found a low-cost, highly effective way to reduce the impact of cooking over biomass fires without designing and installing high-tech, costly stoves.

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Anonymous asked: Can black people fetishizes white people? I have friends who say, "I only date white girls." How can I explain that it's internalized racism/help them love themselves? Nothing against interracial dating, just when it's race specific like that, I think it's pretty clearly wrong. K: In these cases it’s not so much fetishization, since white women are put up on a pedestal and held up as the beauty standard. WoC are “othered” and therefore exoticized and fetishized. There’s a difference. I think your friends have some internalized issues that have a lot to do with the way Western media upholds white women.

Imagine a brilliant would-be killer arranges the following scenario: A coin will be flipped. If it’s heads, someone dear to you will die. If it’s tails, nothing happens. The bad guy — who is very bad indeed — will eagerly cheer for heads. But whatever the outcome, he’ll accept the coin’s verdict. Let’s add that if it’s heads, the death will be 100 percent certain. But it will also be instant, painless, and without warning. And if it’s tails, your loved one will never know about any of this. Nor will you, or anyone. In other words, no PTSD. Nor even the faint, fleeting trauma of a rollercoaster ride. And so, the coin is flipped, and… huzzah, it comes up tails! The bad guy is pissed. But rules are rules, so your loved one lives. Years pass. Then one day, some ingenious cops discover all of this. Being geniuses, they’re also able to establish — with full certainty — that the bad guy will never do this again. Indeed, he poses absolutely no threat to society. Given all this, was a crime committed? And should we lock the bastard up? If your gut is screaming YES!!! I agree, as would almost anyone. That monster put your bestie, kid, or partner in horrible jeopardy. For fun! Now, does the nature and severity of the crime change if the odds of death shift away from 50 percent? I would say yes, if they move a lot. For instance, if the would-be victim squeaks past a 99 percent chance of death, prosecutors would tend to view it as attempted murder. But with a 1 percent chance of death, many would question whether the villain truly wished anyone harm and the charge might be something like reckless endangerment. Intention and mindset matter more as the odds of a bad outcome plummet. Even imposing a one-in-ten-million chance of death feels criminal, if the bad guy’s praying like a Mega Millions ticket holder for the long shot. Whereas, if he deeply hopes that no one dies, this ceases to be a crime at some point. Particularly if there’s something in it for him other than a sadistic thrill. That just sounds selfish — but we’ve all made similar tradeoffs. This sounds strange, I know. But the perpetrator’s joy in the game is part of what makes it odious. So instead, suppose this guy would hate for anyone to die, or even stub a toe — but he desperately wants some Doritos. And to get his snack, he’s fine with making society bear a slim chance that someone croaks. Now, that just sounds selfish — but we’ve all made similar tradeoffs. Like, a lot of them. For instance, if you’re American, your country racks up about 400 billion car rides per year, at the cost of 40,000 or so road deaths. So regardless of who’s at the wheel — be it you, Mom, or Lyft — a 10-million-to-one game of Russian Roulette kicks off whenever you cause a car to roll. This shows us that when the odds of a calamity flirt with zero, we’ll serenely court outcomes as awful as death. Daily life would be impossible otherwise. No one likes to dwell on this reality. But it doesn’t violate our intuitions, because we realize that countless people die in the midst of truly mundane tasks. Far more chilling and less intuitive is the fact that long-shot, all-or-nothing bets are now placed on a global level too — with humanity itself the de facto wager. Such a bet was first faced and considered in 1942. It was analyzed methodically. Then three years later, the bet was placed. The odds of a disaster were on the low side (one in 3 million, maximum). But the stakes were towering. The gamblers were running the Manhattan Project. The risk wasn’t a nuclear war (yet), but that our atmosphere might burn up in a chain reaction triggered by their first atomic test. This prospect was first raised by Edward Teller, who later became the father of the hydrogen bomb. Robert Oppenheimer, who would soon lead the Los Alamos lab, called it a “terrible possibility”. For his part, the head of the project’s theoretical unit “found that it was just incredibly unlikely.” But that sort of language is more comforting when, say, discussing a big softball game. So top people were convened to assess the danger. And confidence mostly reigned by the time of the test. We now know this confidence wasn’t misplaced — so hats off to the team for getting it right! Although they were kind of right by fiat, since no one would be here to call them out if they’d blown it. It’s also worth noting that Enrico Fermi took bets on the burnt-sky scenario on the big day. Although he was joking, he scared the bejesus out of the enlisted men at the test site, none of whom could parse the reassuring math. But not everyone put the odds at zero. The one-in-three-million estimate came from Arthur Compton, who oversaw the project’s plutonium production. And I’d say he was as smart as anyone there (Compton won the Nobel Prize for specifying light’s quantization from assumptions about the subatomic interactions of X-ray photons and their scattering angles — a sentence I don’t even understand). As there wasn’t full consensus on the test’s utter safety, the team de facto accepted the small chance that they might incinerate the sky, and cancel the future. Could we say they had a moral basis for doing this? To be clear, I’m asking about the decision to proceed with building, then later testing a nuclear device, and not the bomb’s subsequent wartime use. Hard as it is for us to separate the two, the scientists faced the risk of an atmospheric ignition in 1942. A working bomb was years off at the time, the war’s outcome was unknowable, and Germany was at least as menacing as Japan. I’ll add that nuclear fission had first been discovered just a few years before — by German scientists. Allied intelligence also knew that Germany started its own atomic bomb project almost immediately thereafter. Subsequently, the Wehrmacht’s conquest of Norway put the world’s sole source of heavy water in Nazi hands. Though the German bomb project failed, there was no way to foretell this when Oppenheimer’s team assessed the atmospheric risk. Abandoning their project because of it would have therefore carried another risk: Hitler gaining a nuclear monopoly. Some would contend the Los Alamos team was immoral to risk torching the sky despite all that. However, it would be very hard to argue that they were selfish for it. They each faced the same doom as everyone else if things went badly, and no extravagant rewards if things went well. In other words, gambling with humanity’s fate — or refraining from doing so — was a public service back then. And any upside from gambling successfully was a public good. But how would you feel about all of this getting privatized? Both the act of gambling with humanity’s existence, and the payoff on the bet, if things work out?

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ROCKLAND, Maine — A 62-year-old Cushing man will spend five days in jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to assaulting his estranged wife. Fred E. Thomas pleaded guilty to 180 days in jail with all but five days suspended and was placed on probation for a year for domestic violence assault and indecent conduct. A third charge of unlawful sexual contact was dismissed. The incident occurred in July in Warren when his wife of 39 years, who was estranged from him, stayed at his place. He offered her $20 for sex, and when she refused he took out his penis and struck her with it, according to the prosecution’s version of events to which he pleaded guilty. Defense Attorney Justin Andrus said Thomas was tremendously upset that his marriage of 39 years was ending. He said his estranged wife was planning to go to Pakistan to meet a man she met online. “This was not his normal conduct,” Andrus told Justice Jeffrey Hjelm during the sentencing hearing in Knox County Superior Court. Assistant District Attorney Christopher Fernald asked for Thomas to serve seven days in jail while Andrus asked for just probation and no jail time. Hjelm said a jail term was appropriate in this case. “This was sexually aggressive conduct. This couldn’t be much more offensive,” Hjelm said. The wife did not seek jail time for Thomas but did ask that he undergo counseling for anger management, which was ordered.

Earlier this week, I had the displeasure of coming across the tweet above for a project called “Blacks at PWIs” being created by a Clark Atlanta student. Latrell Phillips went over to Georgia State and Georgia Tech to speak with their black students; the first student speaks on why her school, Georgia State is an unofficial HBCU, or a HWBU — Historically White Black University… Both sadly and hilariously, this isn’t the first time HBCU students have come across the weird dichotomy of Black Students at Predominately White Institutions claiming the title of attending a Historically Black College, while also slandering actual HBCUs to proclaim why their school is great. How exactly does that work? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but that isn’t exactly what’s happening here. In my quick recollection of Black Students attending PWIs but claiming their school is just like an HBCU, in the last 5 years I can think of Towson University, UNC — Chapel Hill, University of Houston, and now Georgia State & Georgia Tech. So with those students — and black students at other PWIs — making those comparisons in mind, here is a crash course to fix their stupid. What Does the ‘HB’ in HBCU mean? Towson has the nerve to say they’re the first PWI to become an HBCU on their wiki. Here is an idea, regardless of whatever school you’ve attended, go to google, and do a brief search on ‘First black student to attend (insert school name here). If you uncover a date or a year that your school integrated, go have a seat somewhere. Historically Black Colleges and Universities are any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans. Many PWIs didn’t integrate their campuses until the 1950s. In short: If your school ain’t let Black folks in to educate them from day one, you don’t attend an HBCU. Your School’s BSU doesn’t stand for Black Student University. I’m a fan of Black Student Unions. I think that many of them do really good work on PWI campuses creating a sense of unity and a bond among the Black students that attend. But that begs a question: Why would your school need a Black Student Union? Maybe it’s because your school wasn’t made with you in mind, and a club/organization came around so you could feel welcome? I’d say it would be a good idea to find out which HBCUs, have Black Student Unions. Of course, it’s safe to say there is no need for a the Black Student Union at a school that was created with people that look like you and has similar experiences to you in mind. How can you claim the HBCU title, while slandering HBCUs? How exactly is your school an HBCU? What are you claiming as the criteria? If you take away the Black Greekdom & Black Student Union Created events, what exactly gives you the feel that you attend an HBCU? Does your PWI have the negative characteristics you believe are exclusive to black schools too? To claim your PWI is an HBCU while expressing disparaging remarks about actual HBCUs is the equivalent to Rachel Dolezal talking about what’s wrong with Black women. This is not a post to slander or talk badly about PWIs. I’m a fan of people, especially Black people, gaining an education in any form. Those of us that graduated from HBCUs are very protective of our institutions, as we should be. People often don’t understand what the HBCU experience is that makes it unique to our institutions. You will never hear an HBCU student say their school is like a PWI or an unofficial PWI. Student populations don’t matter; Georgia State having a predominately black student body doesn’t make it an HBCU any more than West Virginia State University’s predominately white student body make it a PWI. It’s deeper than demographics, it’s deeper than the turn ups. Be proud of your school, your education, your experience without belittling or trying to change the narrative of the experiences of others. At this point, your views are the result of your own choice to be stupid. Do better, it’s for yours and everyone’s betterment.

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WASHINGTON -- In his testimony Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey described a series of highly unusual meetings and phone calls in which President Trump bypassed Comey's boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to speak with Comey alone. The investigation now pits a lawman with a long reputation for integrity against a president often ridiculed for falsehoods and conspiracy theories. In a "he said, he said" between Mr. Trump and Comey, the fired FBI director has a distinct advantage on Capitol Hill, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reports. "If it's his word against President Trump's, [Comey] comes out the winner," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, says. Not one senator from the Intelligence Committee has questioned Comey's memory or veracity. "I took it as, this is what he wants me to do," Comey said on Thursday, referring to his claim that Mr. Trump pressured him to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn's ties with Russia. Florida Republican Marco Rubio said Comey's startling admission -- that he leaked some notes last month -- only makes his story more believable. "I was, quite frankly, impressed by his honesty," Rubio told reporters. "That's the first time I've ever seen a witness come before Congress and admit they leaked something through an intermediary to get it to the press." Like most lawmakers, Rubio does not doubt that Comey felt pressured by the president. "Whether it rises to criminality, I think there's significant doubts about whether it rises to that level," he said. Some Republicans, like Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, did challenge Comey's interpretation of the president's words. "You may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said," Risch said, pressing Comey. "He said, 'I hope.'" "Those are his exact words, correct," Comey responded. The president claims that Comey's testimony vindicated him, but that it was also largely untrue. Comey argued you can't have it both ways. "As I used to say to juries when I talked about a witness, you can't cherry pick it. You can't say, 'I like these things he said, but on this he's a dirty rotten liar.' You've got to take it all together, and I've tried to be open and fair and transparent and accurate," Comey said during his testimony. Recordings, of course, would be the ultimate proof, and Friday the House Intelligence Committee sent a letter to the White House Counsel's Office asking them to hand over all tapes, if they exist, within the next two weeks.

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EDIT: err sorry for double post. But I will use it for this since its here Quote: Originally Posted by OliverGw In what respect? F@H is a single project that's both CPU and GPU. By dividing it up each time, the projects that never get any help would all see a nice boost from us friendly people at OCN. Everyone deserves a share of our collective computing power, not just the Moo and POEM guys I think thats what projects of the month are for. I just wished we went back to voting for POTM.Edited by goodtobeking - 11/27/12 at 6:36pm Ok, but even discounting the tiered prize system we've been discussing, do you not think my suggestion of choosing which project(s) to run each BGB would be of a huge benefit to the BOINC community as a whole? That way everyone gets a share of our help; after all, we do contribute a HUGE amount over a very short period of time during each BGB. The only problem I have with your idea Oliver is, if the prizes are split between each project how do you choose which one goes where? I see where your coming from and some ppl have suggested tier limit is widened for the more expensive prizes. But that would also push ppl away to join up. It shouldnt be about the prizes to join up for a BGB event, it should be because you want to give all your money to the electric company The only problem I have with your idea Oliver is, if the prizes are split between each project how do you choose which one goes where? I see where your coming from and some ppl have suggested tier limit is widened for the more expensive prizes. But that would also push ppl away to join up. It shouldnt be about the prizes to join up for a BGB event, it should be because you want to give all your money to the electric company Agreed there would be problems dividing prizes, but I don't think it would be impossible to reach a consensus. Prize division aside, the more important suggestion I think is deciding on different projects each month. Even if it was as simple as 1 CPU and 1 GPU each month... I dont think that picking projects to run each BGB is a bad idea. I wouldn't mind giving it a shot but that is up to the "higher ups". On a side note, is getting 50k ppd on f@h good, bad, ugly. Depends on what your running - gear wise Quote: Originally Posted by OliverGw Agreed there would be problems dividing prizes, but I don't think it would be impossible to reach a consensus. Prize division aside, the more important suggestion I think is deciding on different projects each month. Even if it was as simple as 1 CPU and 1 GPU each month... Well how about adding a voting option on a new thread and ask fellow boincers to pick a project to have as the following months potm. 2 for projects to keep us in the lead and 1 for "what the heck" project

Chemical composition and larvicidal evaluation of Mentha, Salvia, and Melissa essential oils against the West Nile virus mosquito Culex pipiens. The volatile metabolites of wild-growing Mentha spicata, M. longifolia, M. suaveolens, Melissa officinalis, Salvia fruticosa, S. pomifera subsp. calycina, and S. pomifera subsp. pomifera from Greece were determined by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The insecticidal properties of the analyzed essential oils were screened on Culex pipiens larvae. Additionally two of the main components of the essential oils, piperitenone oxide and 1,8-cineole were assayed against C. pipiens in order to define the affiliation between them and the larvicidal properties of the oils. The most effective oils were M. suaveolens (major constituent piperitenone oxide, 62.4%), M. spicata (piperitenone oxide, 35.7% and 1,8-cineole, 14.5%) and M. longifolia--Central Greece (piperitenone oxide, 33.4%; 1,8-cineole, 24.5% and trans-piperitone epoxide, 17.4%), which exhibited LC(50) values ranging from 47.88 to 59.33 mg l(-1). Medium activity revealed the oils of M. officinalis (terpin-4-ol, 15.8%; caryophyllene oxide, 13.2%; sabinene, 12.9%; beta-pinene, 12.1%; and trans-caryophyllene, 10.2%), M. longifolia--Southern Greece (carvone, 54.7% and limonene 20.0%), S. pomifera subsp. pomifera (trans-caryophyllene, 22.5% and trans-thujone, 21.0%), S. pomifera subsp. calycina--West Southern Greece (trans-thujone, 56.1% and 1,8-cineole, 10.4%), and S. fruticosa--population 2 (camphor, 23.1%; alpha-pinene, 12.7%; and borneol, 12.6%), with LC(50) values ranging from 78.28 to 91.45 mg l(-1). S. pomifera subsp. calycina (Central Greece) essential oil (trans-thujone, 26.5% and cis-thujone, 12.0%) presented rather low activity (LC(50) values 140.42 mg l(-1)), while S. fruticosa--population 1 (1,8-cineole, 31.4% and camphor, 22.6%) was the only inactive oil. Additionally, the constituent piperitenone oxide was found to be highly active (LC(50) values 9.95 mg l(-1)), whereas 1,8-cineole revealed no toxicity.

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In a slam against the fallen heroes of the embassy attack in Benghazi Libya, the night before the hearings into that awful terrorist storming of our consulate that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and 3 others, Susan Rice was given the "Great American Award" by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Let's not forget, this is the same woman who blatantly lied about the cause of the attack on 5 Sunday morning talk shows immediately after it happened. Rice stated that the embassy was attacked as a result of a YouTube video insulting Islam when she and everyone in the Obama administration, including the President himself, knew for sure that it was not. The organization is honoring UN Ambassador Rice for ”her work in advancing U.S. interests, strengthening the world’s common security and prosperity, and promoting respect for human rights” according to a press release. Got that, Rice is being honored for strengthening the world's common security, when she played a puppet for the Obama administration and willfully lied about a critical part of the Benghazi attack to cover up for the President's incompetence or something much worse. The entire Benghazi debacle goes to the heart of proper security for an American Consulate and this woman is getting an award honoring her for increasing security! Here is Gregory Hick's reaction, who testified yesterday at the Benghazi hearings, as he is being questioned by Rep Trey Gowdy, to Rice's comments on the Sunday talk shows about the YouTube video: Gowdy: Fast forward, Mr. Hicks, to the Sunday talk shows with Ambassador Susan Rice. She blamed this attack on a video. In fact, she did it five different times. What is your reaction to that?Hicks: I was stunned. My jaw dropped. And I was embarrassed. Gowdy: Did she talk to you before she went on the five Sunday talk shows? Hicks: No, sir. Gowdy: You were the highest ranking official in Libya at the time, correct? Hicks: Yes. Gowdy: And she did not bother to have a conversation with you before she went on national television? This administration is total garbage and the only reason they are still in power is racism and the ignorance that goes hand in hand with it. I cannot wait to hear what excuses liberals will make for this one. Knowing them and their unoriginal thinking, they will blame it on George Bush somehow. News out today shows that the official Benghazi report was edited 12 times by the administration. They removed all references to Al Qaeda and terrorism then gave it to Susan Rice who claimed it was because of the video Sorry Dave! He did something all right. He murdered at least 6 Americans and caused 27,000 drone attacks on innocent people. Plus the death of god knows how many of our service people. What were the Nobel people thinking? Sorry Dave! He did something all right. He murdered at least 6 Americans and caused 27,000 drone attacks on innocent people. Plus the death of god knows how many of our service people. What were the Nobel people thinking? This is why these awards mean nothing nowadays. They are given out to some of the most non-deserving people of all time. They are a joke. I would be ashamed to even accept this award if I was Susan Rice. Such a liar and disgrace to this country. Have to agree with John Stewart, what a joke! Typical liberal garbage! Just wait tell she has to go before the Benghazi hearing a explain where she got her information (lie) that it was spooned from a you tube video.

Tools Sylvester Stallone is 66 years old, yet apparently there remains a market who want to see him run around in his underwear punching people. His latest vehicle, Bullet to the Head is less a movie and more a testament to the ego of an unnaturally bulked up, tattooed, beef jerky-like senior citizen who still thinks he has what it takes to blow stuff up, fight guys with “deadly axes,” and slaughter tons of bad guys. This is America, and it’s fully within Mr. Stallone’s rights to mumble his way through another movie, and I certainly can’t fault him for getting a paycheck, but this is just awful. In a just world, this movie would’ve been sent straight to DVD, but Stallone’s recent vague resurgence put an end to this. The plot is both simple and needlessly convoluted. Basically, it’s a revenge film, with Stallone as James Bonomo, a hitman who wants to get back at the guys who offed his partner, and who’s being helped by a cop (Sung Kang) who wants to bring down the same thugs. Beyond this, however, the film is a jumble of plot twists, tied up around a crooked lawyer (a blessedly brief appearance by Christian Slater), a nasty mob boss (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a sadistic hired killer (Jason Momoa), and something to do with government bribes and corrupt cops. All it manages to do is bog down an already dumb film in nonsensical story, while we twiddle our thumbs waiting for the next confusing, chopped up action scene. It’s dull and aesthetically drab, propped up by an action star who’s no longer cut out for this stuff. ByJustin Souther

“Netball can be a bit bitchy…” one woman confided, as we warmed up around the korfball stand, a magnificent 11.5ft structure holding a big yellow hoop. “When I got to university, I went off football, because it was a bit loutish,” said a guy. You won’t run short of chat at a korfball game; there are always a couple of people in reserve, and often a whole five-strong team waiting to play. That’s so sweet, I think. It’s the team sport for people so nice they can’t get along with any other team sport. Maybe we don’t even compete? Maybe we just pass the ball to each other, like piggy-in-the-middle without a pig? Not so much: for the rules, imagine a cross between netball and basketball. Once you’ve got the ball, you have to shoot or pass it; you can bounce once, but you can’t dribble; the hoop is outrageously high, which makes it unusual for people to score from far away, which alters the dynamic. It’s truly unisex, but within that, rigorously segregated. Women mark women, men mark men; there weren’t enough men this Monday night, and from the alacrity with which three women offered to be men, I surmised that this was quite common. There were easily enough of us – 25 – to play a full match, eight at each end, but that involves quite a lot of standing about. If you’re an attacker, you’re not allowed at the defence end, so you’re just yelling “Shoot, shoot, shoot!” from across the line, and that’s in an ideal world. In (my) real life, I instead got distracted by a thought or insect, so when the ball returned I was woefully unprepared. To get more play, we divided into teams of five and played two mini-matches simultaneously. I had someone to mark, and I knew the basics: you want to stay between your person and the post; if they have the ball and you hold your hand above their head, they’re not allowed to shoot and they have to pass. If they move away from the post, it’s not necessarily the smartest move to chase them around – they won’t be able to shoot from out there anyway, and you’ll exhaust yourself keeping up with them (a sports-psychology point: it is much more tiring to chase someone you can’t see because they’re behind you than it is to run away from someone who’s in front of you). And that, give or take some rule adjustments for the mini game, is about it. It has all the triumphs and disasters of any small-team sport, everyone’s lungs full of air, waiting for me to catch a ball, sighing with relief when I do, mewing involuntarily with disappointment when I drop it again. It’s incredibly good for short bursts of cardio; in the hurly-burly, you forget to be lazy. But it’s completely emotionally brutal, all your human energy concentrated on thwarting one poor person you’ve never met who will, inevitably, thwart you. If this is the team sport for the too-nice, I might be too nice for all team sport. • Find a club near you at korfball.org.uk What I learned Possession is key – there’s no point shooting if there’s no one from your team underneath the goal to collect it.

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Saudi Arabia versus Jordan- Female perspective Before leaving for Jordan’s top tourist attraction, Petra, I go to check my email at the Internet Café. A twenty-two year old is the only one working. I catch her staring at me a few times. I halt my work to converse with her. She asks me how I like Amman. “I love the people I tell her, but frankly, I find the city dirty and ugly.” She nods and agrees. She is originally from Saudi Arabia. I note that she is wearing only a hajib (head scarf) “In Saudi Arabia women are forced to wear a full burka,” I remark, “but here you choose to dress in only a hajib.” She LOVES the fact that she has the freedom to choose. She detests that the Saudi government forces the burka on women. “Women cannot do anything in Saudi Arabia,” she tells me, “They cannot drive, leave the house without a male family member, go to the movies, there is nothing we can do! In Jordan it is very exciting, because I can drive, although I don’t yet know how … I can choose what I wear … I can do anything!” she exclaims. “In Saudi Arabia they are soooo religious. Everything shuts at the time of prayer. Even the stores ALL close. Five times a day. If they do not shut, the police come.” The Muslim hajib You don’t want to be in trouble with the police anywhere in the Middle East. In America, you at least have some rights. In fact, I wonder for a moment who has more rights, American prisoners, or Saudi women. “You are going to Petra alone?” she asks me flirtatiously. “Unless you wish to come with me.” Her eyes light-up. “I would love to, but my family … not so much.”

She’s back: Satanic Monster Energy drink lady Christine Weick disrupts Texas Muslim Capitol Day (For more info, click here; For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/102820610726/meet-muslim-prayer-protester-christine-weick-who)

In January we posted “What to Read When You Want Fire and Fury.” My own review of Resistance, Rebellion, Life: Fifty Poems Now (Knopf, 2017)) looked at the history of progressive political poetry. A piece about late-term abortion published in late January connects to a poem by Marge Piercy in the best of the three volumes I will discuss. The Rumpus and its readers value literature that tells truths, puts the traditionally marginalized at the center, reinforces resistance, and helps make sense of these anxious times. This review covers three anthologies that do the same. when her hands cup her breasts she enjoys her sweet strength sap ascends the oak dancing she causes the young to dance and to kiss she may carry a weapon a knife a gun a razor she may wear a belt of skulls contend for truth to the death she says and I will fight for you when she discharges her anger in laughter white lightning illuminates the horizon from pole to pole often she lays her hand over her eyes like a secretary leaving an office building at evening cradling that infant boy sitting him on her lap smoothing the folds of her dress :this means means pity arms crossed: this signifies judgment. My judgement is that this is flawless because it’s music, imagery, ethics, and empathy reinforce each other with inevitable symmetry. Marge Piercy reminds us what pregnant women faced before Roe v. Wade, and what they are facing again as legislation limiting abortion access advances across the country. Her poem, “The President Elect Speaks,” is rightfully frightening: many women will die alone in their bloody beds. It will be just the way you like it for women who dare to choose. This excerpt is a classic example of speaking truth to power, and if my father were alive he’d applaud. One of his friends, an OB/GYN, performed safe illegal abortions regardless of patients’ ability to pay. He faced jail. Now he might get shot. Nasty Women Poets generously gives room to longer works, like the stunner below by Rochelle Spencer, whose storytelling background is expertly evident. The poem is called “You’ve Known Girls Like This All Your Life: A Collective Memoir”: Stacia. Danielle. Sonya. Monique, Shannon, Kim. Those black middle class girls I grew up with here, right here in the South—they did everything perfectly, didn’t they? Beautiful and talented, Members of the Honor Society, Presidents of this or that club. You’d sees these girls in church on Sundays and Wednesdays, their hair whipped into sulky flatness from having bobby-pinned it to their heads the night before. If you were lucky enough to know the right people, you’d see them at house parties on Saturdays, looking cool and impressive in their ironed jeans tiny gold hoops- a nod to the chunkier jewelry Salt New Peppa and later TLC wore in their music videos. Boys respected them and somehow knew they were expected to marry them; to this day, I remember sitting in Mrs. Rogers’ fifth grade Language Arts class in the trailer’s mossy humidity, overhearing Kamau, a confident black boy – every schoolgirl’s crush – whisper to Adria’s back as she bent over her vocabulary worksheet “my mother said you’re the girl I should marry.” Adria’s quick and self assured nod didn’t surprise me then; nor did the fact that fifteen years later Kamau actually did marry her; nor does the fact that today they are still together -and quite happy. You could argue the twin pressures of racism and sexism squeezed these girls into diamonds That parts of them shimmered, black and glittering. But I think, more likely, looking back, that what these girls were doing was rebellion, rebellion Blacksouthernwoman style in the only way possible that didn’t involve drugs, or sex, or suicide. It takes a fine ear and control to make such specifics sing. “Fat Girls Get Groped Too” is by J.C. Reilly. It’s a detailed description of a subway violation and her action fueled by rage is so satisfying because of the way she explains the initial confinement of that rage: —but there is no space to step away in the crowded car, and I cannot make myself smaller— We know the silent questions the speaker asks herself and also hear “[t]he voices of a thousand women” advising her to stay visible and safe. Her unspoken panic is “metallic, mine,” making it ours when the train jolts and he crushes against her. After four stops, “his hand clamps on my breast again.” She then uses the motion of the train to ram her “elbow into his chest” and “stomps his foot for good measure.” The poem doesn’t end there or begin with the first quotes I chose. Consume it whole with the rest of the bold banquet in this book. Every anthology raises questions about what’s left out and what goes in. My questions about Nasty Women Poets are too minor to list. Not so with Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, a new release from Glass Lyre Press, edited by Diane Frank, Ami Kaye, Rustin Larson, Lois P. Jones, Gloria Mindock, and Melissa Studdard. Much of what’s here is first rate, but I wonder why former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky gets five pages, and Fred Marchant and Yusef Komunyakaa get none. Marchant was among the first Marines to receive an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and has work in Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, which was edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. Graywolf Press has published him for years. Komunyakaa won a Pulitzer Prize for Neon Vernacular after serving in Vietnam. He wrote the foreword to Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Refugees, a new title from Norton, and has a typically riveting piece in Bullets into Bells, an anthology in response to gun violence from Beacon Press. That said, what’s in Carrying the Branch is current and powerful. Here’s Connie Post’s contribution, “To a Woman Lost on the Road in Afghanistan”: I wish I could tell you where your son is I wish I could tell you why the mosque is fractured or why the ruined moon has dropped it’s shrapnel in your lap or why there are not enough prosthesis for everyone who is missing a limb I can only stand here and offer these beads of contrition that may or may not find the crater of your open hands Appreciate neatness and tight lines about the mosque and lack of medical devices for the wounded, which could refer to too many countries in the Middle East. Appreciate the interfaith connection at the end, a connection more necessary than ever. Kazim Ali is an award-winning poet with a wide, unflinching reach. “BIl’ in” begins with an unattributed quote, “From our roof you can see Tel Aviv, and then the sea”: The evening in the distance speaks the tongue of fire Empty canisters glitter in the field The light shines always in the next country but in our country Darkness has no ration limit We translate the Hill of Spring in our language of snow Night lies down here on our roof in August Listen to the sound of the fountain in the other side of the wall A long time before we had any argument about historiography each woman here grew wild thyme in the bullet-laden garden Each man measured in his mind the distance between his jail cell and the eastern shore of the sea. Ali faces the worst of circumstances, made almost manageable, even when, or especially when, some of that distance is enclosed in a “bullet-laden garden.” Jenn Givhan, is a Mexican American winner of the 2015 Pleiades Prize. Her “Protection Spell (Riot’s Eye)” was first published in Southern Humanities Review and is doubly chilling. It is art, and a reminder of how many innocent boys with dreadlocks have been killed: They’re chasing my boy, his dreadlocks streaming behind him like bed sheets from the second story window of a house fire. _______He & the asphalt dovetail I watch & I watch like a black hole swallowing a baby universe (This is the last of the gunmetal dreams. ) I wring the blood from my ribcage my world in your chest, child. ______When I was a child I believed God held us like a paper bag to the mouth of a panic attack. _______How I’m holding a city like my boy, my boy to my own siren wail— How the wind-as-breath______moved us, bent our tallest trees to snapping, like our songs. In “Still Warm,” Dorothy Subow Nelson provides encouragement and an apt segue to the last collection I will explore: The afternoon is still warm not blinding the crowd has thinned it’s been a day to relive the pain of centuries evil has a course to run until we see (each one) that categories kill It takes this long to stop mocking the turtle some things were not heard imagination is revelation at last you know how long it lives and how it dies. Join the voices in the underside let the sun find you unexpectedly on your way around now and then appear as a large mound in the sea. Nelson’s exhortation can be a metaphor for books, places to land, where treasures are unearthed and taken to where they are most needed. “In the last year, we’ve noticed poetry filling our social media feeds as never before… The voices of Rumi, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Danez Smith are bringing a new wind of hope, vigor, and clarity to a complex and tumultuous world.” This is from the opening paragraph of the introduction to How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times. The introduction is by its editors, Annie Chagnot and Emi Ikkanda. Elizabeth Alexander wrote the foreword, declaring that, “The poem is a force field against despair.” Ellen Bass, an editor of No More Masks, provides well-earned wisdom on the page that faces Dickinson’s “If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking.” Bass’s poem is called “The Thing Is,” and it illustrates Alexander’s point: to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, it’s tropical heat thickening the air , heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you again. “Obesity of grief” is the sound of shaped emotion and helps make the whole poem comforting, without being twee. Rebecca Foust’s “Abeyance” is affectingly germane. She’s the poetry editor of Women’s Voices for Change, and skillfully articulates hope for the safety of her transgender daughter. It takes courage to say, “I know I lack the words” after initiating a conversation: “I know the night lives inside you. I know grave, / sad errors were made, dividing you, and hiding / you from you inside.I know a girl like you / was knifed last week, another set aflame.“ She ‘s in her garden, where cabbages unfurl “to catch each ray of sun,” the catching giving her daughter and us the words we need, though perhaps not the way we expected. How Lovely the Ruins, with so much excellent work, is tarnished by a trite, longwinded poem by e.e. cummings. cummings was an unabashed anit-Semite, writing in 1939, “How well I understand the hater of Jews!” One must ask what Elizabeth Alexander and the editors were thinking, now that we have an occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who accepts support from swastika-waving racists. It would be easy and wrong to ignore the inclusion of cummings poem. Buy this book for its soothing, well-wrought gems. Ask the editors to remove cummings in the next printing. And thank them for including the poem Alexander wrote for Barack Obama’s 2008 inauguration. Let us recall that the Obamas hosted the first seder in the history of the White House. That ritual, as most people know, is a Jewish celebration of freedom and justice, often tweaked to welcome other traditions. The compilers of these anthologies used a reliable strategy to move the merch. Jane Hirshfield, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Ocean Vuong, and others with large fan bases help bump up the profiles of talented scribes who don’t fill performance spaces. Revered dead poets, including Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, and Claude McKay are also included. A.E. Stallings is an acknowledged master of formal verse and a respected translator of Greek. Her 1995 Cortland Review interview sheds light on her feminism, and she wrote “For Atalanta” for her daughter. It’s in Nasty Women Poets, but could easily replace the cummings poem in How Lovely the Ruins. I end with it because its sagacity is so essential, its sound so sweet: For Atalanta Your name is long and difficult, I know. So many people whom we didn’t ask Have told us so And taken us to task. You too perhaps will wonder as you grow And blame us with the venom of thirteen For ruining your life, Using our own love against us, keen As a double -bladed knife. Already I can picture the whole scene. 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The Iran Deal Is Worse Than Stupid — It’s Dishonorable Yesterday, in the immediate aftermath of the Iran deal announcement, I posted a short comment noting that Iran is responsible for more than 1,000 American military deaths since 9/11. That’s just a number, but for many of us those numbers have names — the names of men we knew. I will never forget the horrible days in March and April 2008, when Iranian-made IEDs periodically closed even the main supply route into our small forward operating base. I’ll never forget the hero flights, standing at attention as brothers carried the still bodies of their fallen comrades to waiting Blackhawk helicopters. And I won’t forget about the people who are even now learning to walk, and eat, and live again — recovering from horrific wounds. Yesterday, I got an angry message from a friend from my Iraq deployment, a man whose vehicle was destroyed by an Iranian-made IED. Some of the blood on Iran’s hands is his own. The American people need to clearly understand what their president has done. He’s granting billions of dollars in sanctions relief to a nation that put bounties on the heads of American soldiers. Iran isn’t ending its war against America. It’s still working — every day — to kill Americans, including the Americans Barack Obama leads as commander-in-chief of our armed forces. There is no honor in this agreement. Moreover, there is no honor in leaving innocent Americans behind — to rot in Iranian prisons — so that President Obama can declare peace in his time. Compared to rewarding killers and turning its back on innocent American prisoners, the Obama administration’s lies about the negotiations are a small thing indeed. After all, dishonorable people do dishonorable things. Advertisement Every member of Congress should be made to answer this question: Do you believe in rewarding regimes that place bounties on the heads of American soldiers? If so, then tell the American people. But don’t tell them that this agreement brings peace, because no reasonable definition of the term includes Iran’s deadly, 36-year-long terror campaign against America and its allies. Recommended Articles Most Popular To a certain kind of Rachel Maddow viewer, there are few more titillating preludes to a news segment than the one she delivered Monday: “If you have not seen it yet, you are going to want to sit down.” Maddow’s story began, as many of her stories do, with President Trump, this time focused on his hotel ... Read More Federal prosecutors in Washington have recommended that criminal charges be filed against Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, and the Justice Department has rejected a last-ditch appeal by McCabe’s lawyers, according to a report on Thursday by Fox News. This clears the way for what appears to be ... Read More Should we #BelieveAllWomen? Bill Burr is skeptical. People will say, “You can’t make something like that up,” he notes. “Well, did you see Star Wars? Somebody made that up.” He adds, “If women ran the world there’d be no war. Evidently there’d be no due process either.” As for “male ... Read More Early Monday morning, Donald Trump tweeted: “94% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, a record. Thank you!” Where the president got this specific number remains a mystery. Recent polls by YouGov put his GOP approval roughly ten points lower, and Gallup, which has tracked Trump’s popularity since he ... Read More Making the click-through worthwhile: Why last night’s Democratic presidential primary debate was so bad; a suddenly hot issue that surprisingly never came up last night; an important and under-discussed detail about that Trump resort in Scotland; and a very important appointment for this weekend. The ... Read More When John Bolton left his job as national security adviser -- President Trump says he fired him, Bolton says he quit -- the secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, weighed in. “The president’s view on the Iraq War and Ambassador Bolton’s was very different,” he said. Yes, they were very ... Read More ​​​He almost certainly doesn’t realize it, but Beto O’Rourke is likely to be the worst thing to happen to the gun-control movement in decades — and, if he continues in this mode, he may turn out to be the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party in a long time, too. In Houston last night, ... Read More