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Study of serum zinc level in leprosy. Serum Zinc level was estimated in different types of leprosy by 'Dithiazone extraction' method in 75 leprosy patients comprising 15 each of Tuberculoid-Tuberculoid (TT); Borderline Tuberculoid (BT); Borderline Borderline (BB); Borderline Lepromatous (BL) and Lepromatous Lepromatous (LL). These findings were evaluated in comparison to 15 normal subjects serving as controls. Serum zinc level was observed to be significantly low in all types of leprosy except tuberculoid leprosy (TT). No significant difference was observed in serum zinc levels before and after 90 days of dapsone Therapy. The findings of our study are of considerable importance as zinc deficiency can be one of the factors involved in non-specific suppression of cell mediated Immunity (CMI) in lepromatous leprosy.

[Update 11:45 a.m.: CAA has promoted three more agents. Jessica Graboff has been promoted to agent in the commercial endorsements department. Jesse Adler has been promoted to executive in CAA Sports’ consulting department after serving as its coordinator, while Brendan Shields-Shimizu has been promoted to executive at CAA Marketing after serving as the coordinator of the department.] CAA has three new agents — Ryan Abboushi, Matt Martin and Jon Teiber, TheWrap has learned. All three have paid their dues, having risen through the ranks at CAA, which has a good track record of promoting talent from within. Martin previously served as a coordinator in CAA’s motion picture literary department, where he is now an agent. Abboushi has been promoted to agent in CAA’s comedy department, while Teiber has been promoted to agent in CAA’s motion picture talent department. Abboushi, Martin and Teiber follow in the footsteps of successful internal hires who came before them. Savvy young agents John Garvey and Charlie Jennings, who like Martin and Teiber are considered rising stars at CAA and make deals in their respective departments, also worked their way up the agency’s ranks.

AI Can Now Fix Your Grainy Photos by Only Looking at Grainy Photos - webmaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7HdI0-MIo ====== webmaven Noise2Noise paper: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04189.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04189.pdf)

"(Breathing deeply)" "Merle:" "You don't even know why you're here, do you?" "I didn't mean you no harm." "I lowered my gun, but you raised yours." "You were an asshole out there, just like you were on that rooftop back there in Atlanta." "What y'all did, leaving me up there-- people wouldn't do that to an animal." "We went back for you." "Ain't you thoughtful?" "We did, all of us" "Rick, Daryl, T-Dog." "Mm, T-Dog." "Yeah, big ol' spear-chucker, the one I was pleading with." "Mm-hmm, the one that dropped the key." "Tell me where he's at." "I'm sure T-Dog would like to bury the hatchet, let bygones be bygones." "He didn't make it." "Well, I hope he went slow." "Yeah." "How about the rest?" "Hmm?" "How about my baby brother?" "You can't tell me he's alive and then hold off on where he is." "No?" "Well, maybe the farmer's daughter will help me out." "Merle:" "Tell me something-- when she's scared and she's holding you close, and her trembling skin is close to you, her soft lips are touching you here, all over here, and over here... (gasps)" "feels good, don't it?" "I remember you." "Yeah." "You're the sneaky one, the one with nerve." "You don't scare easy, do you?" "I like that." "Now..." "I wanna know where my brother is." " (Grunts) - (muffled grunts)" "(grunts echoing)" "I wanna know where the sheriff is." "Ah!" "God!" "(Grunts echoing)" "Ah!" "(Chuckles)" "Merle:" "Yeah." "Now, I wanna know where they're hiding, where your camp is, and I wanna know now." " Merle:" "I wanna know now!" " (punches thudding)" " Where the hell are they?" "Tell me!" " (punches thudding)" "(theme music playing)" "(walkers rasping)" "(snarling)" "(groans)" "(growls)" "Should we help her?" "(Snarling echoes)" "(slowing heartbeats)" "(noises fade)" "(gunshots)" "Carl!" "Shit." "Is she bit?" "Gunshot." "Carl, get a blanket." "Beth, water and a towel." " All right." " Here?" "She's not coming in the cell blocks." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Steady now." "All right." "All right." "Thank you." "Shh." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Hey, hey, look at me." "Look at me." "Who are you?" " (gasps)" " Hey, it's all right." "Hey." "Look." "Hey." "No." "We're not going to hurt you unless you try something stupid first, all right?" "Daryl:" "Rick." "Who the hell is this?" "You wanna tell us your name?" "You wanna tell us your name?" "Daryl:" "Y'all come on in here." "Everything all right?" "You're gonna wanna see this." "Go ahead." "Carl, get the bag." "We'll keep this safe and sound." "The doors are all locked." "You'll be safe here." "And we can treat that." "I didn't ask for your help." "Doesn't matter." "Can't let you leave." "Oh, God." "Thank God." "Thank God." "Thank God." "How?" "Solitary." "Poor thing fought her way into a cell." "Must have passed out." "Dehydrated." "I'm sorry." "Oh, God." "(Birds chirping)" "(knocks)" "(knocks)" "Everything all right?" "I just came to tell you-- Mr. Coleman, he's ready." "Okay, I'll meet you in the lab." "Yes, sir." " Sorry about that." " Andrea:" "No problem." "I'll be back." "Actually, I could use your help with something now." "I said I'll be back." "No." "(chuckles)" "I wish it were just that." "(Door opens)" "We can tend to that wound for you, give you a little food and water, and then send you on your way." "But you're gonna have to tell us how you found us and why you were carrying formula." "The supplies were dropped by a young Asian guy with a pretty girl." "Rick:" "What happened?" "Were they attacked?" " They were taken." " Taken?" "By who?" "By the same son of a bitch who shot me." "Hey, these are our people." "You tell us what happened now!" "(Grunts) Don't you ever touch me again!" "You'd better start talking." "You're gonna have a much bigger problem than a gunshot wound." "Find 'em yourself." "Hey, shh, shh, shh." "Put it down." "You came here for a reason." "There's a town." "Wood bury." "About 75 survivors." "I think they were taken there." "A whole town?" "It's run by this guy who calls himself the Governor-- pretty boy, charming, Jim Jones type." "He got muscle?" "Paramilitary wannabes." "They have armed sentries on every wall." " You know a way in?" " The place is secure from walkers, but we could slip our way through." "How'd you know how to get here?" "They mentioned a prison, said which direction it was in, that it was a straight shot." "This is Hershel, the father of the girl who was taken." "He'll take care of that." "I gotta hand it to you, a lot tougher than I remember." "No surprise you lasted this long." "Shoot, I figured the way Officer Friendly abandoned people, he would have left you behind by now." "But he didn't do that, did he?" "Hmm." "So tell me, where y'all been at?" "It's just a matter of time before they come looking." "I'll bake a cake with pink frosting." "Would they like that?" "Ain't nobody coming." "Rick is." " And when he gets here" " He's gonna do nothing, not if he wants you and Bo Peep back." "Think I'm in this by myself?" "You can't take us all." "There's too many of us." "There ain't a pair of nuts between the whole pussy lot of you." "We've been on the road, not hiding in some dungeon." "Rick, Shane, Dale, Jim, Andrea." "Really?" "Is that right?" "Thank you." "Oscar:" "How do you know we can trust her?" "Beth:" "This is Maggie and Glenn." "Why are we even debating?" "Daryl:" "We ain't." "I'll go after them." "Rick:" "Well, this place sounds pretty secure." " You can't go alone." " I'll go." "Me, too." "I'm In." "I got the flash bangs and I got the tear gas." "You never know what you're gonna need." "Hey." "Hey, don't you worry about your old man." "I'm gonna keep my eye on him." " Wasn't this place overrun?" " It was." "And you cleared it out all by yourselves?" "Just the few of you?" "There were others." "Carl." " What you did for Mom" " I had to." "Yeah, I" " I know." "I know, and I'm sorry." "No one should have to go through that." "How long will you be gone?" "Look, if something happens while we're gone" "We'll be all right." "If anything happens, you get everyone locked in the cells, keep them all safe." " I will." " I know." "I know you will." "Take care of your sister, all right?" "Daryl's been calling her Ass-Kicker." "Ass-Kicker?" "Has he, now?" "I've been thinking, what should we really call her?" "What do you think?" "Remember my third grade teacher, Mrs. Mueller?" "Of course." "Her first name was Judith." "Do you think that's a good name?" "I think that's-- that's a fine name." "Judith it is." "Stay safe." "Nine lives, remember?" "Bring them back." "(Walkers rasping)" "# Hide your heart from sight #" "# Lock your dreams at night #" "# It could happen to you #" "# Don't count stars #" "# Or you might stumble #" "# Someone drops a sigh #" "# And down you tumble #" "# Keep an eye on spring... #" "Hey." "Mr. Coleman, this is Andrea." "Milton will bring you up to speed." "I'll see you for dinner." "Thank you for this." "You're doing us a great service." "(Door opens, closes)" "So, what exactly are you-- ?" "Could you cue up the first song on the record?" "Sure." "On my mark." " (Bowl ringing) - (music stops)" "(ringing continues)" "(music playing)" "My name is Milton Mamet." "Please raise your right hand off the bed if you recognize any of the following statements to be true." "Your name is Michael Coleman." "You were married to Betty Coleman." "Your children were Michael Jr. and Emily." "Very good." "(Whispers indistinctly)" "What did he say?" "He asked if I could keep it playing while we wait." "# Keep an eye on spring #" "# Run when church bells ring... #" "(grunting)" "(door opens)" "(raspy breathing)" "All righty, I want you to imagine how I felt fighting my way off that roof-- one hand, losing blood, walkers chomping down at me every step of the way." "Last chance." "Where's your group?" "All right." "Suit yourself." "You're a pretty big snack for this fella." "But you know what they say-- he's gonna be hungry again in an hour." "Go!" "Run, boy!" "(grunting)" "(shouting)" "(shouting)" "(panting)" "(music playing)" "Milton:" "After Mr. Coleman passes, we'll restrain him." "He'll reanimate." "I'll ask the questions again, record his responses." "I need you to end the subject's reanimated state." "All right." "I've been trying to determine whether trace memory and human consciousness exist after the subject has transformed, but I had no baseline to work off of till now." "Prostate cancer." "We didn't have the resources to treat him, so he volunteered to be the test subject." "He's been very cooperative." "He's a remarkable man." "You're close?" "We spent a lot of time together." "The song, the singing bowl, the questions-- we've done that a few dozen times." "These are cues that will hopefully linger in his unconscious mind even after he's died." "There is no unconscious mind, Milton." "When they turn, they become monsters." "That's all." "Whoever they once were is gone." "We'll see." "You haven't seen this before, have you?" "The transformation." "No." "No one in your family was-- ?" "I'm an only child." "My parents died when I was young." "Weren't you with anyone when everything went down?" "I telecommuted to work." "I never really..." " # Chills run up and down my spine... # - (breathing stops)" "# Aladdin's lamp is mine #" " # The dream I dreamed... # - (Milton clears throat)" "# Was not denied me #" "# Just one look #" "# And then I knew #" "# That all I longed for #" "# Long ago was you. #" "So, they know Andrea." "But they don't know she's here." "But they do know your brother." "He does." "But I don't know about her." "I've never seen her before." "Their people may come for 'em." "Maybe." "The kid and Andrea both say they went back for me." "So what?" "He won't break, say where his people are?" "He's a tough son of a bitch." "Picked that walker apart in minutes." "Maybe a winter in the sticks put some hair on his balls." "We'll need him for leverage if his people come." "What you try to kill him for?" " He pissed me off." " What's the girl say?" "I was just about to go talk to her next." "I'll take care of it." "(Metal creaking)" "(door opens)" "May I?" "Thank you." "We'll take you back to your people, explain this was all just a misunderstanding." "You tell us where they are and we'll drive you there." "I want to talk to Glenn." "I can't allow that." "Your people are dangerous." "Handcuffed my man to a roof, forced him to amputate his own hand." "I don't know anything about that." "You just tell us where they are and we'll bring them here." "You'll be safe, I promise." "No?" "Fine." "Let's try something else." "Stand up, please." "Stand up." "Take off your shirt." "No." "Take off your shirt or I'll bring Glenn's hand in here." "Go on." "So you gonna talk?" "You can do whatever you're gonna do." "And go to hell." "They have patrols." "We're better off on foot." "How far?" "Night's coming." "It's a mile, maybe two." "(Walker rasping)" "I know, what you did for me, for my baby, while I was... working things out-- thank you." "It's what we do." " Rick." " Down." "(Walkers rasping)" "Get in formation." "No gunfire." "Oscar." "There's too many of them." "This way." "Through there." "Come on." "Get the door." "(Flies buzzing)" "Rick:" "Keep it down." "Keep it down." "The smell, it's loud." "Oscar:" "What the hell is that?" "It's got to be a fox or what's left of one." "I guess Lassie went home." "(Pounding)" "(whistles quietly)" " Ah!" "Who the hell are you?" " We don't mean any harm." " Get outta my house!" " Okay, okay, okay." "We will, but we can't right now." " Now!" " Shut him up." "Man:" "Get out right now!" "There are walkers outside." " I'll call the cops!" " I am a cop." "Now I need you to lower the gun." "Don't do anything rash." "Everything's fine." "Let's just-- let's just take this nice and slow, okay?" "Look at me." "Hey, hey." "(Cocks rifle) Show me your badge." "All right." "It's in my pocket." "It's in my pocket." "Now, I'm just gonna reach down nice and slow." "Let go!" "Let go of me!" " (Walkers rasping)" " I'll kill you, you-- let go of me!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" " (Crunches)" " Ah!" "Help!" "They found me!" " Help me!" " Don't open that door." "Hel" "(walkers growling)" "Remember the Alamo?" "Daryl, help me with the door." "You've gotta be kidding." "He's dead." "Check the back." "It's clear." "One, two, three." "(Lock clicks)" "(sighs)" "(rasping) it's happening" "(ringing)" "(music playing)" "My name is Milton Mamet." "Please raise your right hand off the bed if you recognize any of the following statements to be true." "Your name is Michael Coleman." "You were married to Betty Coleman." "Your children were Michael Jr. and Emily." "Did you see that?" "He responded." "The fingers move." "That could be anything." "No, he can't raise his hand." "It's the angle." "I want to try again without the restraints." "No." "We may have tethered his consciousness." " We have to try." " No." "I know what happens if the subject comes for us." "That's what you're here for." "As soon as we pull the restraints, he'll lunge." "My name is Milton Mamet." "Please raise your right hand" "(panting)" "I think I'd like to record my findings while they're fresh." "Uh-uh." " Hey!" " Drop it." "(Wood clatters)" "Governor:" "We're through with games." "Now one of you is gonna give up your camp." "(Hammer clicks)" " The prison." " Merle:" "The one near Nunez?" "Governor:" "That place is overrun." "We took it." " How many are you?" " Maggie: 10." "We have 10 now." "10 people cleared that whole prison of biters?" "Huh?" "Hey," "Shh, shh, shh." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Shh." "It's all right." "(crying)" "(door closes, lock clicks)" "Governor:" "10 people." "That's deep in the red zone." " There's no way only 10" " So she's lying?" "'Cause if she's lying, that means a pretty sizeable force has moved into our backyard." "But if she's not, this group with your brother at its core has done something you told me couldn't be done." "They did it." "Your brother might be out there right now, searching for them." "Blood is blood, right?" "Makes me wonder where your loyalties lie." "Here." "You two get a small group and scout this prison." "I want to know exactly what we're dealing with." "Yeah." "You got it." "You kept your word." "That you'd be back." "Everything all right with Milton?" "What happened?" "Mr. Coleman died." "And did Milton find what he was looking for?" "No." "Hey, hey." "Shh." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's over now, huh?" "It's all right." "(Theme music playing)"

Prepare, long ramble ahead :p So two weeks ago my Santa contacted me saying that he wanted to personally deliver my gift cause he lives nearby and doesn't trust the post delivery her (I can understand that lol). I was a bit uncomfortable with strangers showing up at my doorstep so we decided to meet up in the city. Well today was that day and when we finally met he had this huge frame with him and I was screaming on the inside. Now I knew that it was a framed poster but I was dying to know what was on it! We went to the local McDonalds (very classy right), got some food and headed upstairs where we could sit in the corner and reveal this beautiful poster of my favourite KanColle character Hamakaze! I was so happy but needed to keep it down as not to disturb the other customers lol. He told me it's hand drawn by an artist from Singapore and custom made and I couldn't thank him enough and the artist who did a magnificent job! (Sorry for the shit quality, my phone sucks :c)

Churches, as an organization, can’t endorse political figures as a condition of their tax-exempt status, but 539 ministers challenged the IRS last year by endorsing or opposing a candidate for office. This Reuters graphic takes a look at where churches are endorsing or opposing candidates the most. [REUTERS]

Q: A geometry problem asking to prove point of intersection of $2$ cevians lies on circumcircle of the triangle. The points $P$ and $Q$ are chosen on the side $BC$ of an $acute$$angled$- $triangleABC$ so that $\angle PAB=\angle ACB$ and $\angle QAC=\angle CBA$. The points $M$ and $N$ are taken on the rays $AP$ and $AQ$, respectively, so that $AP=PM$ and $AQ=QN$. Prove that the lines $BM$ and $CN$ intersect on the circumcircle of the triangle ABC. I tried this problem and found that, $\angle AQC=\pi-\angle QAC-\angle ACQ$ & $\angle APB=\pi-\angle ABP-\angle PAB$ $\Rightarrow$ $\angle AQC=\angle APB$ ----(1) $\Rightarrow$$AQ=QN=AP=PM$ & $BC\parallel MN$ -{by midpoint theorem and eq. (1)} Also that $\triangle ABC\sim \triangle QAC \sim \triangle PBA$ I can't do after this. Sorry for not providing with figure. PS: Please give only analytic proofs. A: [As pointed out, the following proof is incorrect. See below for the correct version given by @maxim.] According to your finding:- (1) $AQ = … = AP$; and (2) $\triangle QAC \sim \triangle PBA$, we can say that $\triangle QAC \cong \triangle PBA$. This means $AC = AB$. In other words, $\triangle ABC$ is isosceles. Then, the figure must be re-drawn as below:- After forming the red circle (centered at P, radius = AP, diameter = AM), we have $\angle AYM = 90^0$. Similarly, $\angle AYN = 90^0$. Also, $\angle AZB = 90^0$. Since $90^0 = t + x_1 = t + x_2 = t + x_3$, X is another end point of the diameter of the circle ABC. Result follows by observing that CN will cross AY also at X by symmetry.

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Vijayashanti meets Rahul, returns to active politics Hyderabad, Nov 7 (IANS) After lying low for three years, veteran actress and former Member of Parliament M. Vijayashanti is set to become active in politics as she called on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday. Congress party leader incharge of party affairs in Telangana R. C. Kuntia and state party chief Uttam Kumar Reddy were also present during the meeting. Vijayashanti told Rahul that she will work for the victory of the party in 2019 elections. Party sources said she may get an important responsibility in the organisation. The actress-turned-politician was away from active politics since her defeat in 2014 elections. “Lady Amitabh”, the nickname she earned for her action roles in Telugu films, had joined Congress on the eve of 2014 elections after she was suspended from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for anti-party activities. Vijayashanti began her political career with the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1997 and served as General Secretary of the party’s women’s wing. She quit BJP in 2005 to float a separate outfit to fight for separate statehood to Telangana. She later merged “Talli Telangana” with TRS and was elected to Lok Sabha from Medak constituency in 2009.

New York Cosmos striker Raúl has announced he will retire at the end the season, calling time on a 21-year professional career that rates among the finest in the history of Spanish soccer. The longtime Spain and Real Madrid captain rose to global prominence during a 16-year career at the Bernabéu, leading the club to six La Liga titles, three Champions League titles and four Spanish Super Cups. He also scored 44 goals in 102 appearances for Spain. “When I signed for the New York Cosmos in December, I said I would evaluate how I felt towards the end of the year and assess whether I would continue to play,” Raúl said Thursday. “My decision is to retire from playing at the end of this season. I am fully focused on finishing the season strong and helping the New York Cosmos win the NASL championship. In the coming months I will decide the next step in my career. “Playing soccer has been part of my life for so long and the decision to retire is not an easy one but I believe it is the right time. I’m thankful to everyone who has supported me throughout my career and I look forward to playing my final games with the New York Cosmos over the coming weeks.” The 38-year-old striker, who left Madrid in 2010 as the club’s all-time leading goal-scorer, had later spells with German club FC Schalke 04 and Qatar’s Al-Sadd Sports Club before last year signing with the Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, the division below Major League Soccer. He’s scored seven goals in 26 appearances for the Cosmos, who currently sit top of the combined NASL table with 50 points from 28 matches played, and could make his final professional appearance on 7 November in the Cosmos’ semi-final playoff match against at MCU Park in Coney Island against an opponent to be determined. “Raúl is one of the world’s most iconic players,” Cosmos head coach Giovanni Savarese said Thursday, “I knew when we signed him what he would bring on pitch but his knowledge, passion, professionalism and commitment has exceeded my expectations. “In less than a year, Raúl has become a big part of the team and he will always remain part of the Cosmos family.” Raúl’s deal with the Cosmos included a stipulation allowing for him to take over the running of the club’s academy after his retirement.

/** * WebSocket Server Settings * (sails.config.sockets) * * These settings provide transparent access to the options for Sails' * encapsulated WebSocket server, as well as some additional Sails-specific * configuration layered on top. * * For more information on sockets configuration, including advanced config options, see: * http://sailsjs.org/#/documentation/reference/sails.config/sails.config.sockets.html */ module.exports.sockets = { /*************************************************************************** * * * This custom onConnect function will be run each time AFTER a new socket * * connects (To control whether a socket is allowed to connect, check out * * `authorization` config.) Keep in mind that Sails' RESTful simulation for * * sockets mixes in socket.io events for your routes and blueprints * * automatically. * * * ***************************************************************************/ onConnect: function(session, socket) { // By default, do nothing. }, /*************************************************************************** * * * This custom onDisconnect function will be run each time a socket * * disconnects * * * ***************************************************************************/ onDisconnect: function(session, socket) { // By default: do nothing. }, /*************************************************************************** * * * `transports` * * * * A array of allowed transport methods which the clients will try to use. * * The flashsocket transport is disabled by default You can enable * * flashsockets by adding 'flashsocket' to this list: * * * ***************************************************************************/ // transports: [ // 'websocket', // 'htmlfile', // 'xhr-polling', // 'jsonp-polling' // ], /*************************************************************************** * * * Use this option to set the datastore socket.io will use to manage * * rooms/sockets/subscriptions: default: memory * * * ***************************************************************************/ // adapter: 'memory', /*************************************************************************** * * * Node.js (and consequently Sails.js) apps scale horizontally. It's a * * powerful, efficient approach, but it involves a tiny bit of planning. At * * scale, you'll want to be able to copy your app onto multiple Sails.js * * servers and throw them behind a load balancer. * * * * One of the big challenges of scaling an application is that these sorts * * of clustered deployments cannot share memory, since they are on * * physically different machines. On top of that, there is no guarantee * * that a user will "stick" with the same server between requests (whether * * HTTP or sockets), since the load balancer will route each request to the * * Sails server with the most available resources. However that means that * * all room/pubsub/socket processing and shared memory has to be offloaded * * to a shared, remote messaging queue (usually Redis) * * * * Luckily, Socket.io (and consequently Sails.js) apps support Redis for * * sockets by default. To enable a remote redis pubsub server, uncomment * * the config below. * * * * Worth mentioning is that, if `adapter` config is `redis`, but host/port * * is left unset, Sails will try to connect to redis running on localhost * * via port 6379 * * * ***************************************************************************/ // adapter: 'redis', // host: '127.0.0.1', // port: 6379, // db: 'sails', // pass: '<redis auth password>' /*************************************************************************** * * * `authorization` * * * * Global authorization for Socket.IO access, this is called when the * * initial handshake is performed with the server. * * * * By default (`authorization: false`), when a socket tries to connect, * * Sails allows it, every time. If no valid cookie was sent, a temporary * * session will be created for the connecting socket. * * * * If `authorization: true`, before allowing a connection, Sails verifies * * that a valid cookie was sent with the upgrade request. If the cookie * * doesn't match any known user session, a new user session is created for * * it. (In most cases, the user would already have a cookie since they * * loaded the socket.io client and the initial HTML page.) * * * * However, in the case of cross-domain requests, it is possible to receive * * a connection upgrade request WITHOUT A COOKIE (for certain transports) * * In this case, there is no way to keep track of the requesting user * * between requests, since there is no identifying information to link * * him/her with a session. The sails.io.js client solves this by connecting * * to a CORS endpoint first to get a 3rd party cookie (fortunately this * * works, even in Safari), then opening the connection. * * * * You can also pass along a ?cookie query parameter to the upgrade url, * * which Sails will use in the absense of a proper cookie e.g. (when * * connection from the client): * * io.connect('http://localhost:1337?cookie=smokeybear') * * * * (Un)fortunately, the user's cookie is (should!) not accessible in * * client-side js. Using HTTP-only cookies is crucial for your app's * * security. Primarily because of this situation, as well as a handful of * * other advanced use cases, Sails allows you to override the authorization * * behavior with your own custom logic by specifying a function, e.g: * * * * authorization: function authSocketConnectionAttempt(reqObj, cb) { * * * * // Any data saved in `handshake` is available in subsequent * * requests from this as `req.socket.handshake.*` * * * * // to allow the connection, call `cb(null, true)` * * // to prevent the connection, call `cb(null, false)` * * // to report an error, call `cb(err)` * * } * * * ***************************************************************************/ // authorization: false, /*************************************************************************** * * * Whether to run code which supports legacy usage for connected sockets * * running the v0.9 version of the socket client SDK (i.e. sails.io.js). * * Disabled in newly generated projects, but enabled as an implicit default * * (i.e. legacy usage/v0.9 clients be supported if this property is set to * * true, but also if it is removed from this configuration file or set to * * `undefined`) * * * ***************************************************************************/ // 'backwardsCompatibilityFor0.9SocketClients': false, /*************************************************************************** * * * Whether to expose a 'get /__getcookie' route with CORS support that sets * * a cookie (this is used by the sails.io.js socket client to get access to * * a 3rd party cookie and to enable sessions). * * * * Warning: Currently in this scenario, CORS settings apply to interpreted * * requests sent via a socket.io connection that used this cookie to * * connect, even for non-browser clients! (e.g. iOS apps, toasters, node.js * * unit tests) * * * ***************************************************************************/ // grant3rdPartyCookie: true, /*************************************************************************** * * * Match string representing the origins that are allowed to connect to the * * Socket.IO server * * * ***************************************************************************/ // origins: '*:*', };

SE284-LL SKU: $245.00 $245.00 Unavailable per item Flower and Lace Earrings with Lapis LazuliThese medium size earrings are very lightweight and elegant. Lots of cut out work and engraving, with floral details give these earrings an antique feel. A 7mm cabochon lapis lazuli is set in a lacy bezel and a beautiful faceted lapis lazuli drop hangs from the bottom. These earrings are timeless and elegant!

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As star actor Hrithik Roshan turned 44 today, his fans wished him from across the globe. But later in the day, father Rakesh Roshan did something which was not only the biggest birthday gift for Hrithik himself, but for all his die-hard fans too! Rakesh Roshan took to twitter to announce the release of Krrish 4! Yes, you heard that right-Krrish 4 will be happening, officially! In his tweet, Rakesh Roshan gave the biggest birthday gift to Hrithik’s fans by officially confirming the making of Krrish 4 movie. Krrish 4 will be arriving in 2020, on the big eve of Christmas. Today is perhaps the best day to make the release day of Krrish 4 official. Christmas 2020 it is. A gift for all of you on Hrithiks birthday. Happy birthday @iHrithik The superhero caped-crusader has won the hearts of everyone and especially kids, since the release of 2006 blockbuster Krrish and its follow-up, Krrish 3, released in 2013, which was also a box-office mega hit. Now, it’s obvious that all the fans would be really very elated after getting to know this big announcement.

Heidi Klum may be old. Her vagina may be destroyed by building out an army of half breed babies. Her dignity may be violated thanks to Seal’s scarred face ravaging her cunt in some tribal way before taking her with his 12 inches of Africa….you know cuz her sex life was set up like some kind of African Tribe on White Tourist horror movie women everywhere masturbate to cuz they are perverts and secretly want to be taken and violated by a big man with an angelic voice too….but I will still look at her in her bikini….

Das politische Berlin führt vor, was es am besten kann: rasendes politisches Handeln ohne Sinn und Verstand. Dafür aber Massenmedien-Tempo. News auf News, die keine sind. Dabei wird von auf der Stelle stampfenden Füßen so viel Staub aufgewirbelt, dass verborgen bleibt, was wirklich geschieht. Um die stampfende Gruppe von Jamaika-Bewohnern kreisen ebenfalls aufgeregt dampfenden Atem ausstoßende Journalisten, bewaffnet mit Block und Stift, mit Kameras und Laptops, immer auf Sendung, nie beim kritischen Hinschauen. Sondieren heißt „festlegen“ Und so werden wir täglich mit Meldungen auf allen Kanälen überschüttet, die von „Zeitdruck“ sprechen, von harten Verhandlungen, anstrengenden Nachtsitzungen, erschöpften Teilnehmern, eckigen Klammern, endlosen Papieren und umstrittenen Formulierungen. Und das alles zum Wohl der Wähler! Immer mit der Botschaft verbunden, einem Art Schrei nach Liebe durch uns Alle: Das ist eine Lehrstunde der Demokratie! So geht Kompromiss! So muss Politik sein! Respekt für die Teilnehmer! Gib du nach und du und du. Es muss doch gehen. Lassen wir mal etwas die Luft raus. Es sind „Sondierungsgespräche“, also heiße Luft. Wenn die heiße Luft besonders heiß ist, soll sie in Koalitionsverhandlungen abkühlen. Zeitdruck? Selbst gemacht. Es soll Dramatik vermittelt werden, weil sich wohl ansonsten die Wähler zu Recht gelangweilt abwenden würden. Und im Zeitdruck dann geht das Gestampfe und Getue weiter, und der Schrei nach Liebe wird noch lauter. Das Gesende und Geschreibe sendet und schreibt sich noch aufgeregter. Der aufgewirbelte Staub staubt noch dicker. So dick, dass man die Kulisse nicht mehr sieht, vor der sich diese Art von entfesseltem Politikbetrieb abspielt: der Reichstag, Sitz des Bundestages. Den muss man auch nicht mehr sehen. Er wird gerade politisch abgeschafft. Statt Sondierungen werden Festlegungen getroffen; sehr viele in sehr kurzer Zeit und unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit und des Grundgesetzes; ohne echte Debatte, ohne Nachdenken, gar gründliches Nachdenken. Denn egal, ob Sondierung oder Koalitionsverhandlung – sie sind nicht im Gesetzgebungsverfahren vorgesehen. Sie sind nichtig. Ihr einziger Zweck ist, den Deutschen Bundestag, die gesetzgebende Versammlung, auszuschalten. Denn im rasenden Gestampfe geht unter: Hier werden von ein paar Parteifunktionären die Beschlüsse des Parlaments vorweggenommen. Hinter verschlossenen Türen werden Festlegungen getroffen, die die Gesetzgebung der kommenden vier Jahre zementieren. Möglicherweise haben wir uns daran gewöhnt; auf diese Weise wurden ja auch in der GroKo und in der davor Maut, Mindestlohn und Mütterrente und so viele andere Gesetze vor dem Gesetzgeber festgezurrt, dass man über 200 Seiten brauchte, um das aufzuschreiben. Gewählte Parlamentarier im Urlaub Während also die gewählten Parlamentarier durch Berlin-Mitte streichen oder zu Hause nachdenken, wird ihre zukünftige Arbeit festgelegt. Das macht es für sie einfacher. Gelegentlich müssen sie in Berlin dann so tun, als würden sie beraten, debattieren, ergänzen, erläutern, kämpfen oder sonst was. Sie sind im Urlaub und lassen es über sich ergehen, dass ihre zukünftige Entscheidungen jetzt vorweg genommen werden. Schauderhafte Eckpunkte So hat die politische Praxis die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestags zu einer Art thailändischer Winkekatzen reduziert: Sie haben im Takt und nach Fahrplan der jetzt sondierten und dann in einem „Vertrag“ festgelegten Beschlüsse ihre Pfötchen zu heben. Na klar, es gibt noch Opposition; diesmal die SPD. Die muss man aber nicht mal überzeugen oder umstimmen; es reicht, die Rede zu Protokoll zu geben. Im Reichstag wird ja nicht mehr geredet oder gar debattiert. Es reicht das Protokoll, und das ist schriftlich. Das ist ein bequemer und dafür auch gut bezahlter Job inklusive Fahrkarte und steuertreier Aufwandsentschädigung und schöner Altersversorgung. Letztere ist wichtig. Die eigene Rente stellt keiner in Frage; und ihr Umfang hängt von der Dauer der Parlamentszugehörigkeit ab. Da grinst die Winkekatze verschämt. Nun wissen wir alle nicht, was da hinter geschlossenen Türen verhandelt wird. Das eigentliche Ziel des Sondierungsverfahrens ist es, den eigentlichen Souverän, die Wähler, möglichst auszugrenzen. Der Wähler hat einmal seine Stimme abzugeben und dann still zu sein. Ruhe ist wieder erste Bürgerpflicht, Und so werden Festlegungen getroffen, die schauderhaft sind. So viel ist schon klar: ♦ Es wird beim massenhaften Familiennachzug bleiben. Gerungen wird, just for show, nur um einige Wenige; die „subsidiär“ Geschützten. Das Gestampfe und Gestaube hat nur den Zweck zu verbergen, dass das große Tor sperrangelweit offen steht und jetzt nur um einen Nebeneingang gestritten wird. Jamaika erfüllt seine Aufgabe nicht, den massenhaften Zuzug in die Sozialsysteme zu stoppen. ♦ Das Geld reicht nicht. Zwar wird der Staat bis zum Ende dieser Legislaturperiode seine Einnahmen weiter grotesk erhöhen. In nur 10 Jahren von 540 Milliarden auf 800. Aber irgendwie ist das zu wenig für die vielen schönen Pläne, die da vereinbart werden. Auf der Strecke bleibt der Steuerzahler. Für eine nennenswerte Entlastung fehlen die Mittel. Die Frage, was mit den verausgabten 250 Milliarden eigentlich geschehen ist, warum dafür keine Schule gebaut und kein Lehrer eingestellt wurde – die bleibt offen. Es gab ja Zeiten, da begann eine neue Regierung mit einem „Kassensturz“. Man schaute, was war ausgegeben worden und wofür, was ist noch da? Diesmal wird einfach draufgesattelt, der Steuerzahler zahlt ja sowieso. ♦ Ein schwarz-grünes Rentenmodell wird erwogen; es wird zukünftige Rentner ärmer, die Wirtschaft leistungsschwächer, nur den Staat fetter machen – und den Bürger und Beitragszahler weiter entmündigen. ♦ Die Frage, ob wir mehr Staat brauchen, im überregulierten Deutschland noch mehr Gesetze und eine noch höher Staats-, Sozial- und Abgabenquote – diese Frage wird nicht gestellt. Sie muss auch nicht gestellt werden. Die Oppostion, die SPD, will das ja auch. Die SPD ist mentaler, stiller Teilhaber der Koalition. ♦ In der Wirtschaftspolitik jede Menge Vorfestlegungen; statt die vermurkste Energiewende zu beerdigen, kommen auf die Bürger neue Lasten zu. Welche Autos wir fahren, welche Technologien noch eingesetzt werden dürfen, wie die Kühe gefüttert und die Schweine am Trog stehen, welche Jobs wir machen – die Regelungswut kennt keine Grenzen. Der „Klimaschutz“ ist der Knüppel, mit dem jeder Widerspruch gegen staatswirtschaftliches Handeln niedergeschlagen wird. Stets wird so getan, als ginge Fidschi unter. ♦ Natürlich ist das alles nicht besonders demokratisch. Es gibt sogar welche, die poltern dagegen. Deshalb teilt sich die mediale Welt in zwei Gruppen: Öffentlich-rechtliche Sender und klassische Medien springen der sich selbst findenden Regierung freiwillig bei. Freiwillig und überzeugt, weil Politiker wie Journalisten in ihrer Mehrheit schon seit Jahren den gleichen, nicht hinterfragten „Narrativen“ folgen. Der Journalismus stellt sich heute kaum noch als Kontrollinstanz, sondern eher als „Erziehungsgehilfe“ dar, um skeptische Geister zu den „Narrativen“ des Mainstream zu führen. Und gegen die andere Gruppe, die notorischen Demokraten, Mäkler und Mitreden-Woller hilft das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, das jetzt ausgerechnet mit Hilfe der FDP gerettet werden soll. Der autoritäre Nanny-Staat Wer beispielsweise wie Birgit Kelle kritisiert, das kleine Mädchen dazu erzogen werden, zukünftig die Verschleierung zu akzeptieren als neue gesellschaftliche Norm – wird auf Facebook gesperrt. Das neue Narrativ lautet, die Normen der Einwanderer, deren Familien man ja jetzt nachholen will, nur nicht in Frage zu stellen. Die Ureinwohner und Steuerzahler sollen sich anpassen. Es ist der autoritäre Nanny-Staat, wie ihn die schwarzen, grünen wie roten Sozialdemokraten so lieben und immer weiter ausbauen. Freiheit zählt nicht beim rasenden Tun der Koalitionäre. Sie gestalten das Land um wie einen Sandkasten, denn nur sie wissen, was dem Bürger frommt. Übertrieben? Vielleicht ein wenig. Das Ganze dient nur nur noch dem Machterhalt einer kleinen Gruppe. Jetzt wollen neue begierig dazu stoßen. Dabei wandelt sich der Grundzug des früher liberalen Staates unter aktiver Beteiligung der FDP weiter ins Autoritäre. Wenn Merkel unbedingt weiter regieren will, soll sie doch eine Minderheitsregierung führen. Für die notwendigen Mehrheiten braucht sie dann wirklich das Parlament. Dann klappt der Kommando-Parlamentarismus nicht länger, es muß debattiert werden. Das wäre die Wiedergeburt des Parlamentarismus in Deutschland nach 12 Jahren Lähmung. Das sollten auch die Abgeordneten der CDU wollen.

Every Comment On Every Article About Bras Ever Previously: The comment section on every recipe blog. It sounds like you’re wearing the wrong bra size. Did you know that 400% of American women are wearing the wrong bra size? Most women don’t even realize that they’re wearing the wrong bra size. If your breasts have leapt off of your torso, you’re probably not wearing the right bra size. You should hand-wash your bras after every single use. If you wear the same bra two days in a row, most of what you think of as the bra’s fabric has actually been replaced by dead skin cells, and you’re disgusting. Um, I only own three bras and I bought them all ten years ago and I’ve never washed them, because boobs don’t sweat. YOU NEVER PUT A BRA IN THE DRYER, IT WARPS! Even the best bras can stretch and warp over time. A bra that used to be the right size might not be after a few weeks. If you don’t replace your bras every six months, you’re probably wearing the wrong bra size. You need to go down a band size and up a cup size. No, you need to go up a band size and down a cup size. No, you need to switch to using the middle hook and adjust your straps while reversing your band and cup size. There’s one perfect bra. It’s in a cave, and it belongs to a woman named Femputer. I saw her once. She looked incredible. She will never let me have it. Have you thought about getting fitted to see what bra size you really are? You’re probably wearing the wrong bra size. Has anyone considered that maybe bras are just uncomfortable? The right size bra is never uncomfortable. If you can find the right bra for your body, you’ll never experience pain or suffering for the rest of your life. You’ll die painlessly in your sleep, with your perfect, right-sized bra. Wearing the wrong bra size is probably why you can’t get a promotion at work. Only women who wear the right bra sizes get corner offices. I never wear a bra, and I’m the President of God, so much for your theory. If you’re not willing to spend $85 on a bra, you’ll never find one that fits. The lettered-cup sizing is a lie and a myth designed to keep women distracted from the real issues. There’s a better way to tell what size bra you should wear, but I can’t tell you what it is.

Inflammatory response after neurosurgery. Investigation into the inflammatory response in the central nervous system (CNS) is a rapidly growing field, and a vast amount of information on this topic has accumulated over the past two decades. Inflammation is a particularly interesting issue in the (traditionally non-regenerating) CNS, owing to its dual role in worsening or improving regeneration and functional outcome in certain circumstances. This paper reviews the current literature on the interactions between the immune system and the CNS in physiological and pathological states. The first part will provide an overview of the cellular and molecular components of CNS inflammation, this being followed by a discussion of the concept of systemic immunodepression after neurotrauma and neurosurgery. Finally, the delicate balance of immune responses in the CNS, with an emphasis on the beneficial effects of inflammation and possible therapeutic options, will be discussed.

last time this happened, ad muncher said they wouldn't be able to block the ads, nor would they ever try to. Later on, ad muncher went free and stopped being actively developed or something.Adblock plus seems to be able to block them with a plugin, at least. The changes are designed to ensure that users are safe from ad-borne security threats when watching videos, opening mobile apps or running any applications, the two Google executives blogged. Moving ads to HTTPS ensures that users will automatically have an encrypted connection with the ad servers, just like they have an encrypted connection when using Google Search and Gmail and YouTube. -The Article Somehow I don't recall ever hearing about MITM being an issue/factor with hostile Ads, as it's usually the Ads themselves that are foisting some scareware crap on the target. The marketing companies being constantly in a froth for money...the "screening process" (yes I'm smirking) for who gets to advertise what is total shit. Delivering malware over a "secure" connection - to me - makes about as much sense as having an attacker take a shower before they murder you.

Exercise Can Improve Your Brain…Even More Than Using Your Brain Last weekend’s New York Times Magazine contained several articles about the mind, and all the cutting edge research out there about how to improve the mind. One article detailed how playing “n-back games” can make you smarter; another about how exercise can lead to a better brain. Several studies have detailed how exercise can improve brain function, mood, and even improve memory in the past, but the newest research seems to seal the deal: Exercise really, actually does improve your brain…and for now, I’m going to wage my bets on exercise over n-back games. Past research has implied all kinds of mental benefits of exercise, but until recently, scientists hadn’t really parsed out the difference in effect of putting on our running shoes and, say, playing a board game. But last year, Justin S. Rhodes, a psychology professor at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois, led a study that teased out the differences. Rhodes’ team performed cognitive tests on four groups of mice, then injected them with a substance that allowed for tracking neurological changes, and put them into four distinct living arrangements: Group 1 was fed a gourmet diet of nuts, fruits and cheeses sometimes dusted with cinnamon, served with flavored waters. They slept in colorful plastic igloos in one corner of their cage, and were given neon balls, tunnels, mirrors and seesaws to play with in another section of the cage. Group 2 had all of the above, plus disc-shaped running wheels in their cages. Group 3 had no toys or exercise equipment, and were fed standard kibble. Group 4 had nothing to play with but a running wheel, and was fed standard kibble—no gourmet treats. After several months of running, playing, or lazing around their cages, the mice were given the same cognitive test that was administered at the start of the study, and researchers examined their brain tissues. Though we’re guessing the toys and gourmet treats made some mice a lot happier than others, the end result was that nothing improved brain function, except for running. According to the Times: “Only one thing had mattered,” Rhodes says, “and that’s whether they had a running wheel.” Animals that exercised, whether or not they had any other enrichments in their cages, had healthier brains and performed significantly better on cognitive tests than the other mice. Animals that didn’t run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes’s team was studying. “They loved the toys,” Rhodes says, and the mice rarely ventured into the empty, quieter portions of their cages. But unless they also exercised, they did not become smarter. That’s because exercise stimulates neurogenesis—the body’s natural production of new neurons in the brain—and it seems to help those new neurons plug into the existing neural network; a process that’s necessary in order for those new neurons to do any good. And although other activities, like learning a new language, can help link new neurons into our neural networks, scientists say that those neurons are then pretty much only fired up by practicing that activity; running, on the other hand, creates neurons that link in and activate in response to several activities (not just running). Researchers are still investigating the exact process by which all of this happens in the body and brain, but the end result is better cognitive function and significantly slower decline of brain function with age. Meanwhile, other researchers are trying hard to prove that mind games can actually make you smarter—an intriguing claim in its own right. But research there is less conclusive, and while playing iPhone games to make yourself smarter is a nice idea in theory, in practice, it feels a lot like sitting around watching TV—I’d rather go for a run.

2017-04-13 **List of headlines for articles I haven't written** Programming: - "Welcome to the Two-Tier Internet" - "Premature Optimization: Beyond Good and Evil" - "Why are Nerds Trying to Create a Crypto-Utopia?" - "Security isn't about Trust" - "URLs are Designed to Rot" - "Undefined Behavior: 'Undefined' does not Mean 'Has to be Shitty'" - "Memory is Unsafe" - "Remember when C didn't have Bounds Checking?" Other: - "The Internet Loves Boot-Lickers" - "The World is Full of Arguments that Sound Good but Aren't True" - "Some People don't Believe in Luck, Some don't Believe in Skill" - "Tired of Free Speech" - "Is Anonymity Legal?" - "Society of the Commons" - "When the Eternal September Finally Ends"

Q: Fastest way to retrieve data from a database in .NET? Using ADO.NET, what is the fastest way to retrieve data from the database and populate the data into my business objects? Which one should I use? DBDataReader , DBDataAdapter, or any other classes? Is there a way to make this process automated? Let's say based on property names and matching them with database field names? A: That sounds exactly like what an ORM or micro-ORM does. Here's the output of dapper-dot-net's performance tests (run about 1 minute ago, on a PC that is also busy doing some transcoding, so not 100% reliable - please run yourself)... This is also a very limited test - as always, tests should be representative of your specific environment - but since we can't predict your environment, we use our environment instead! I've marked the "dapper" ones as <==== dapper Running 500 iterations that load up a post entity Mapper Query (non-buffered) took 57ms <==== dapper hand coded took 57ms Dynamic Mapper Query (buffered) took 58ms <==== dapper PetaPoco (Fast) took 58ms Dynamic Mapper Query (non-buffered) took 59ms <==== dapper Mapper Query (buffered) took 60ms <==== dapper Dapper.Cotrib took 60ms <==== dapper PetaPoco (Normal) took 66ms Dynamic Massive ORM Query took 67ms BLToolkit took 88ms Simple.Data took 96ms Linq 2 SQL Compiled took 99ms NHibernate Session.Get took 127ms SubSonic Coding Horror took 128ms Entity framework CompiledQuery took 130ms NHibernate HQL took 132ms NHibernate SQL took 134ms NHibernate Criteria took 173ms Soma took 184ms Linq 2 SQL ExecuteQuery took 230ms Linq 2 SQL took 694ms NHibernate LINQ took 700ms Entity framework ESQL took 730ms Entity framework ExecuteStoreQuery took 735ms Entity framework took 991ms Entity framework No Tracking took 1011ms SubSonic ActiveRecord.SingleOrDefault took 4345ms (end of tests; press any key) A: If you want automated you are looking for an orm. You might check out some of the lighter wieght ones like massive, ormlite, dapper, and PetaPoco. A: Using ADO.NET, what is the fastest way to retrieve data from the database and populate the data into my business objects? Is there a way to make this process automated? Let's say based on property names and matching them with database field names? Dapper. Absolutely blazing.

The present invention relates to a horizontal frequency signal driving circuit for a CRT apparatus and more particularly to a multi-horizontal frequency signal driving circuit which can drive a flyback transformer for generating a stabilized high voltage in response to a signal having various frequencies. In a conventional horizontal frequency signal driving circuit, a relay or an analog switch has been optionally used in the input stage of the circuit for selectively processing the various frequencies. Now, assume that the next stage of the circuit is a conventional horizontal deflection circuit. Then, the following problem arises. As is well known, in a conventional horizontal deflection circuit, an input signal, i.e., a horizontal synchronization signal is processed through a horizontal oscillation circuit, a horizontal driving circuit and a horizontal output circuit, and the resultant voltage signal is supplied to one terminal of the primary coil of a flyback transformer (FBT) for generating a high voltage which will be supplied to an anode of a CRT. Connected to the other terminal of the primary coil of the FBT is a DC voltage power supply. In the case where the frequency of the input signal is changed, the oscillating frequency of the horizontal oscillation circuit and, hence, the supply voltage to the FBT are also changed to stabilize the high voltage output from the FBT. In this case, however, since the change of the frequency of the input signal is performed by a switching operation of a relay or an analog switch, the oscillating frequency and, hence, the supply voltage to the FBT may be unstabilized at the time of the switching point. Thus, at this point, the high voltage output from the FBT may be raised or lowered from a predetermined level. This has an adverse effect on the CRT display.

Dive deep into topics, issues and stories from the world of mountain culture. Each publishing cycle is highlighted by a feature well theme, drawing together like-minded by wholly independent stories from some of the best writers and photographers in North America. The opening pages of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine contain shorter, inquisitive and eclectic stories about local, national or international mountain culture where anything goes: profiles, adventure, essays, humour, history or oddity. The first pages in Coast Mountain Culture Magazine contain shorter stories that quip about beer and bikes, highlight people and places, and explore eclectic issues and ideas. Anything goes in Westside.

"Hey, how do you feel about cats?" was the message my secret santa sent me shortly after the matchups. I was a little worried, but hell I do like some (not all) cats, so I wasn't too worried, how bad could it be....? 100x better than I anticipated! To quote Mr Sanchez: "Because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important. And they'll tear us apart, Morty. But if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, Morty. And you're gonna be a part of 'em. And together we're gonna run around, Morty, we're gonna do all kinds of wonderful things, Morty. Just you and me, Morty. The outside world is our enemy, Morty. We're the only <belch> friends we've got, Morty. It's just Rick and Morty. Rrrick and Morty and their adventures, Morty. Rick and Morty, forever and forever, a hundred years Rick and Morty, s... things. Me and Rick and Morty runnin' around and Rick and Morty time. Aaall day long forever. All, a hundred days Rick and Morty forever a hundred times. Over and over Rick and Morty adventures dot com W W W dot Rick and Morty dot com W W W Rick and Morty adventures all hundred years. Every minute Rick and Morty dot com W W W hundred times Rick and Morty dot com." Thanks, best secret santa so far!

featured book featured book Cooking Comically Recipes So Easy You’ll Actually Make Them Format Paperback Price $18.95 Paperback ISBN 9780399164040 192 Pages 1 Oct 2013 Perigee Books 18 and up Overview This is not your grandma’s cookbook. Cooking should be as much fun as reading a comic book. Recipes should be cheap and easy. And the food has to taste good. That’s where Cooking Comically comes in. Tyler Capps, the creator of recipes like 2 a.m. Chili that took the Internet by storm, offers up simple, tasty meals in a unique illustrated style that will engage all your senses. These dishes are as scrumptious to eat as they are easy to make. This collection includes all-time favorites and original recipes from Cooking Comically, including Sexy Pancakes, Bolognese for Days, Mash-Tatoes, Pulled Pork (aka Operation Man-Kitchen), and Damn Dirty Ape Bread. Perfect for those who can barely boil water but are tired of ramen and fast food. Stop slaving. Start cooking.

What? Electronics Engineers Who Cannot Solder? What do they teach electronics students at college these days? Isn't soldering one of the core skills one is expected to know? I am sad and distraught. I am shocked and horrified. In short, I am flabbergasted (I think it fair to say that rarely has my "flabber" been quite so "gasted"). And what is the reason for my current state of discombobulation? Well, I'm glad you asked... A few days ago, my chum Adam Taylor posted a comment saying something like: "Max, you'd be surprised how many new electronics engineers don't know how to solder." Well, I must admit that I really didn't give much credence to this statement, and I sort of shrugged it off at the time, but now I'm starting to wonder... The thing is that I just observed a young engineer making the most appalling botch-up of a very simple soldering task. Once I'd fought my way through the smoke, I was staggered to discover what he'd been doing -- the board was burned, the excessive heat was causing traces to pull away, a bunch of pins were shorted together, and the component in question had gone to meet its maker. The sight of that poor board brought tears to my eyes (or maybe it was all the smoke and solder fumes). What do they teach electronics students at college these days? Isn't soldering one of the core skills one is expected to know? In my day -- when dinosaurs roamed the Earth -- all the students on my university course already knew how to solder before they'd even set foot on the campus (I don't know about the others, but I taught myself by reading hobbyist magazines like Practical Electronics). On the bright side, I am heartened to see that companies like SparkFun actually offer hands-on classes in soldering. Also, I just heard from my old friend, Alan Winstanley, who is the online editor for the electronics hobbyist magazine EPE (EPEmag.com). Way back in the mists of time, Alan created an incredibly useful online soldering (and de-soldering) guide featuring oodles of high-quality, close-up photographs. The great news is that Alan has just published a new e-book, which he describes as: "A much expanded and updated version of my original online work, with 80 all-new color photos showing everything a trainee or hobbyist needs to know to get started in electronics soldering." Alan kindly send me low-resolution versions of two of these images: I just bounced over to Amazon to take a peek at the Kindle edition of Alan's Magnum Opus, which he's modestly dubbed "The Basic Soldering Guide." In addition to teaching you how to solder and de-solder, this tome also explains the correct choice of soldering irons, solder, fluxes, and various tools. I think it's safe to say that I know at least one young engineer to whom I shall be recommending this little beauty. What can you learn about soldering in 45 minutes? Earlier this year, IEEE offered a two-night soldering course. I'll write about it in "Soldering for Engineers" tomorrow here at EE Times. I'll post a link when it goes live.

MOST POPULAR Aug 10, 2016 | 01:36 Trump mocks Clinton over emails Having caused a firestorm with his ''Second Amendment people'' speech in North Carolina Tuesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is back on the attack, mocking Democratic rival Hillary Clinton again over newly released State Department emails. Nathan Frandino reports. TRANSCRIPT + With criticism over his Wilmington speech still ringing in his ears, Donald Trump went on the offensive Wednesday, mocking rival Hillary Clinton after the latest release of emails from her time as Secretary of State. (SOUNDBITE) (English) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, SAYING: "A couple of very bad ones came out. It's called pay for play. Some of these were really, really bad, and illegal, if it's true. it's illegal. You're paying and you're getting things." The emails were obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch, after a Freedom of Information request. The Clinton camp denies the emails reveal anything of importance. Her supporters say Trump is trying to change the subject after Tuesday's controversial statements. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, SAYING: "Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment folks, maybe there is, I don't know." Trump and his supporters vehemently deny that he was advocating violence against Clinton. They say he was merely suggesting that so-called "Second Amendment people" go out and vote against her. But the outrage over this and many other recent Trump statements is unlikely to dissipate any time soon... nor are Republican efforts to topple Clinton with State Department emails. SPONSOREDSTORIES Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. *All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays.

Pharmacokinetics of enrofloxacin and its metabolite ciprofloxacin following single-dose subcutaneous injection in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). OBJECTIVE To determine plasma concentrations of enrofloxacin and its active metabolite ciprofloxacin following single-dose SC administration to black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). ANIMALS 8 captive healthy 6-month-old sexually intact male black-tailed prairie dogs. PROCEDURES Enrofloxacin (20 mg/kg) was administered SC once to 6 prairie dogs and IV once to 2 prairie dogs. A blood sample was collected from each animal immediately before (0 hours) and 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 24 hours after drug administration to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin. Plasma enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin concentrations were quantified with ultraperformance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, and noncompartmental pharmacokinetic analysis was performed. RESULTS Enrofloxacin was biotransformed to ciprofloxacin in the prairie dogs used in the study. For total fluoroquinolones (enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin), the mean (range) of peak plasma concentration, time to maximum plasma concentration, and terminal half-life after SC administration were 4.90 μg/mL (3.44 to 6.08 μg/mL), 1.59 hours (0.5 to 2.00 hours), and 4.63 hours (4.02 to 5.20 hours), respectively. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results indicated that administration of enrofloxacin (20 mg/kg, SC, q 24 h) in black-tailed prairie dogs may be appropriate for treatment of infections with bacteria for which the minimum inhibitory concentration of enrofloxacin is ≤ 0.5 μg/mL. However, clinical studies are needed to determine efficacy of such enrofloxacin treatment.

An inaccurate report on the conspiratorial website InfoWars led more than 100,000 individuals this week to sign an online petition calling for Comedy Central to fire a comedian who tweeted a tasteless joke about Barron Trump, President Donald Trump's 10-year-old son. The problem? The New York City-based comedian doesn't and has never worked for Comedy Central. Jenni Runyan, a spokesperson for the comedy channel, confirmed to Business Insider that the comedian, Stephen Spinola, "has never been employed by Comedy Central." The controversy started on Monday when InfoWars writer Paul Joseph Watson, a prominent conspiracy theorist, wrongly identified Spinola as a Comedy Central writer in a story about the comedian's tweet. A spokesperson for InfoWars did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the now-deleted tweet, Spinola joked that Trump's 10-year-old son "looks like a very handsome date-rapist-to-be." In a follow-up post, he doubled down. Spinola told Business Insider he suspected that after "Saturday Night Live" writer Katie Rich was suspended for a tweet on Trump's youngest child that conservatives went searching for jokes other comedians had made. At the time, his bio said he was a "Comedy Central content contributor" because the channel had featured some of his work on a show. New York City comedian Stephen Spinola. Facebook But Spinola has never worked for the channel in any official capacity. He has since deleted the tweets, acknowledging it was insensitive to joke about Trump's child. "I knew the tweets were wrong," he told Business Insider. "They are just dumb. They weren't something I would say onstage or something I stand by." The apology, however, has not quelled the anger on the internet directed at him. In addition to having thousands call for him to be fired from a network at which he is not employed, others have flooded him with messages online. "On Monday, I woke up to over 800 Twitter notifications. People were saying stuff on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube," he said. Spinola said he was initially amused but grew concerned when he started receiving cryptic death threats through social media and directly on his phone. "It was funny at first," he said of the attacks, "but then someone sent me an old address of mine and my grandmother's name asking how she was, insinuating they would hurt her." Though he said his grandmother had died years ago, Spinola said the constant flow of threats had him worried someone would take action against another loved one. "I had to delete every reference to my girlfriend online," he said. "Any trace that I have to my girlfriend." "I'm just hoping nobody is crazy enough to go through with any of the threats," Spinola added. "Any time I hear a door close outside my home now, I look out through my blinds." The comedian said he found the whole incident surreal, and repeatedly underscored that he didn't aim to "hurt Barron Trump's feelings." "I'm not political at all," Spinola told Business Insider. "I tweet about what's trending to get more followers, and I was making observations on Inauguration Day about what people looked like." "As a comedian, I make a lot of jokes that are not great," he later added. "A lot of comedians make a lot of jokes that are not great. I made a mistake by attacking a 10-year-old boy." But Spinola did say he found it odd that people were defending Barron Trump by "doing things 1,000 times worse." "Shows how dangerous fake news can actually be," he said. The White House on Tuesday issued a statement requesting privacy for Barron.

<html> <head> <script src="OLLoader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function test_String_startsWith(t) { t.plan(3); var str = "chickenHead"; var test1 = "chicken"; var test2 = "beet"; t.ok(OpenLayers.String.startsWith(str, "chicken"), "'chickenHead' starts with 'chicken'"); t.ok(!OpenLayers.String.startsWith(str, "Head"), "'chickenHead' does not start with 'Head'"); t.ok(!OpenLayers.String.startsWith(str, "beet"), "'chickenHead' doesnt start with 'beet'"); } function test_String_contains(t) { t.plan(4); var str = "chickenHead"; t.ok(OpenLayers.String.contains(str, "chicken"), "(beginning) 'chickenHead' contains with 'chicken'"); t.ok(OpenLayers.String.contains(str, "ick"), "(middle) 'chickenHead' contains with 'ick'"); t.ok(OpenLayers.String.contains(str, "Head"), "(end) 'chickenHead' contains with 'Head'"); t.ok(!OpenLayers.String.startsWith(str, "beet"), "'chickenHead' doesnt start with 'beet'"); } function test_String_trim(t) { t.plan(6); var str = "chickenHead"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "chickenHead", "string with no extra whitespace is left alone"); str = " chickenHead"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "chickenHead", "string with extra whitespace at beginning is trimmed correctly"); str = "chickenHead "; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "chickenHead", "string with extra whitespace at end is trimmed correctly"); str = " chickenHead "; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "chickenHead", "string with extra whitespace at beginning and end is trimmed correctly"); str = "chicken\nHead "; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "chicken\nHead", "multi-line string with extra whitespace at end is trimmed correctly"); str = " "; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.trim(str), "", "whitespace string is trimmed correctly"); } function test_String_camelize(t) { t.plan(7); var str = "chickenhead"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "chickenhead", "string with no hyphens is left alone"); str = "chicken-head"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "chickenHead", "string with one middle hyphen is camelized correctly"); str = "chicken-head-man"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "chickenHeadMan", "string with multiple middle hyphens is camelized correctly"); str = "-chickenhead"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "Chickenhead", "string with starting hyphen is camelized correctly (capitalized)"); str = "-chicken-head-man"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "ChickenHeadMan", "string with starting hypen and multiple middle hyphens is camelized correctly"); str = "chicken-"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "chicken", "string ending in hyphen is camelized correctly (hyphen dropped)"); str = "chicken-head-man-"; t.eq(OpenLayers.String.camelize(str), "chickenHeadMan", "string with multiple middle hyphens and end hyphen is camelized correctly (end hyphen dropped)"); } function test_String_format(t) { var unchanged = [ "", "${ ", "${", " ${", "${${", "${}", "${${}}", " ${ ${", "}", "${${} }" ] t.plan(7 + unchanged.length); var format = OpenLayers.String.format; var expected; for(var i=0; i<unchanged.length; ++i) { expected = unchanged[i]; t.eq(format(expected), expected, "'" + expected + "' left unchanged"); } t.eq(format("${foo} none"), "undefined none", "undefined properties don't bomb"); window.foo = "bar"; t.eq(format("${foo} none"), "bar none", "window context used if none passed"); var context = {bar: "foo"}; t.eq(format("${bar} foo", context), "foo foo", "properties accessed from context"); var context = {bar: "foo", foo: "bar"}; t.eq(format("a ${bar} is a ${foo}", context), "a foo is a bar", "multiple properties replaced correctly"); // test context with properties that are functions var context = { bar: "church", getDrunk: function() { return arguments[0]; } }; t.eq( format("I go to the ${bar} to ${getDrunk}.", context, ["eat pretzels"]), "I go to the church to eat pretzels.", "function correctly called in context with arguments" ); // test that things don't break var context = { meaning: function(truth) { return truth; } }; t.eq( format("In life, truth is ${meaning}.", context), "In life, truth is undefined.", "still works if arguments are not supplied" ); // test contexts where attribute values can be objects var context = { a: { b: { c: 'd', e: function() { return 'f'; } } } }; t.eq( format("${a.b.c} ${a.b.e} ${a.b.q} ${a} ${a...b...c} ${aa.b} ${a.bb.c}", context), "d f undefined [object Object] d undefined undefined", "attribute values that are objects are supported" ); } function test_String_isNumeric(t) { var cases = [ {value: "3", expect: true}, {value: "+3", expect: true}, {value: "-3", expect: true}, {value: "3.0", expect: true}, {value: "+3.0", expect: true}, {value: "-3.0", expect: true}, {value: "6.02e23", expect: true}, {value: "+1.0e-100", expect: true}, {value: "-1.0e+100", expect: true}, {value: "1E100", expect: true}, {value: null, expect: false}, {value: true, expect: false}, {value: false, expect: false}, {value: undefined, expect: false}, {value: "", expect: false}, {value: "3 ", expect: false}, {value: " 3", expect: false}, {value: "1e", expect: false}, {value: "1+e", expect: false}, {value: "1-e", expect: false} ]; t.plan(cases.length); var func = OpenLayers.String.isNumeric; var obj, val, got, exp; for(var i=0; i<cases.length; ++i) { obj = cases[i]; val = obj.value; exp = obj.expect; got = func(val); t.eq(got, exp, "'" + val + "' returns " + exp); } } function test_Number_numericIf(t) { var cases = [ {value: "3", expect: 3, expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: "+3", expect: 3, expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: "-3", expect: -3, expectWithTrim: -3}, {value: "3.0", expect: 3, expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: "+3.0", expect: 3, expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: "-3.0", expect: -3, expectWithTrim: -3}, {value: "6.02e23", expect: 6.02e23, expectWithTrim: 6.02e23}, {value: "+1.0e-100", expect: 1e-100, expectWithTrim: 1e-100}, {value: "-1.0e+100", expect: -1e100, expectWithTrim: -1e100}, {value: "1E100", expect: 1e100, expectWithTrim: 1e100}, {value: null, expect: null, expectWithTrim: null}, {value: true, expect: true, expectWithTrim: true}, {value: false, expect: false, expectWithTrim: false}, {value: undefined, expect: undefined, expectWithTrim: undefined}, {value: "", expect: "", expectWithTrim: ""}, {value: "3 ", expect: "3 ", expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: " 3", expect: " 3", expectWithTrim: 3}, {value: "1e", expect: "1e", expectWithTrim: "1e"}, {value: "1+e", expect: "1+e", expectWithTrim: "1+e"}, {value: "1-e", expect: "1-e", expectWithTrim: "1-e"}, {value: " 27 ", expect: " 27 ", expectWithTrim: 27}, {value: " abc ", expect: " abc ", expectWithTrim: " abc "} ]; t.plan(cases.length*2); var func = OpenLayers.String.numericIf; var obj, val, got, exp; for(var i=0; i<cases.length; ++i) { obj = cases[i]; val = obj.value; exp = obj.expect; got = func(val); t.eq(got, exp, "'" + val + "' returns " + exp); got = func(val, true); exp = obj.expectWithTrim; t.eq(got, exp, "'" + val + "' returns " + exp + " with trimWhitespace true"); } } function test_Number_limitSigDigs(t) { t.plan(9); var num = 123456789; t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num), 0, "passing 'null' as sig returns 0"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, -1), 0, "passing -1 as sig returns 0"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 0), 0, "passing 0 as sig returns 0"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 15), 123456789, "passing sig greater than num digits in number returns number unmodified"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 1), 100000000, "passing sig 1 works"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 3), 123000000, "passing middle sig works (rounds down)"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 5), 123460000, "passing middle sig works (rounds up)"); t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 9), 123456789, "passing sig equal to num digits in number works"); num = 1234.56789; t.eq(OpenLayers.Number.limitSigDigs(num, 5), 1234.6, "running limSigDig() on a floating point number works fine"); } function test_Number_format(t) { t.plan(9); var format = OpenLayers.Number.format; t.eq(format(12345), "12,345", "formatting an integer number works"); t.eq(format(12345, 3), "12,345.000", "zero padding an integer works"); t.eq(format(12345, null, ","), "12,345", "adding thousands separator to an integer works"); t.eq(format(12345, 0, ","), "12,345", "adding thousands separator to an integer with defined 0 decimal places works"); var num = 12345.6789 t.eq(format(num, null, "", ","), "12345,6789", "only changing decimal separator and leaving everything else untouched works"); t.eq(format(num, 5), "12,345.67890", "filling up decimals with trailing zeroes works"); t.eq(format(num, 3, ".", ","), "12.345,679", "rounding and changing decimal/thousands separator in function call works"); t.eq(format(num, 0, ""), "12346", "empty thousands separator in function call works"); OpenLayers.Number.thousandsSeparator = "."; OpenLayers.Number.decimalSeparator = ","; t.eq(format(num, 3), "12.345,679", "changing thousands/decimal separator globally works"); } function test_Number_zeroPad(t) { t.plan(6); var pad = OpenLayers.Number.zeroPad; t.eq(pad(15, 4), "0015", "left padding works"); t.eq(pad(15, 2), "15", "no left padding when equal to number of digits"); t.eq(pad(15, 1), "15", "no left padding when less than number of digits"); t.eq(pad(10, 5, 2), "01010", "radix modified and padding works"); t.eq(pad(10, 5, 8), "00012", "radix modified and padding works"); t.eq(pad(10, 5, 36), "0000a", "radix modified and padding works"); } function test_Function_bind(t) { t.plan(12); g_obj = {}; g_Arg1 = {}; g_Arg2 = {}; g_Arg3 = {}; g_Arg4 = {}; var foo = function(x,y,z,a) { t.ok(this == g_obj, "context correctly set"); t.ok(x == g_Arg1, "arg1 passed correctly"); t.ok(y == g_Arg2, "arg2 passed correctly"); t.ok(z == g_Arg3, "arg3 passed correctly"); t.ok(a == g_Arg4, "arg4 passed correctly"); t.eq(arguments.length, 4, "correct number of arguments ((regression test for #876))"); }; var newFoo = OpenLayers.Function.bind(foo, g_obj, g_Arg1, g_Arg2); newFoo(g_Arg3, g_Arg4); //run again to make sure the arguments are handled correctly newFoo(g_Arg3, g_Arg4); } function test_Function_Void(t) { t.plan(1); t.eq(OpenLayers.Function.Void(), undefined, "returns undefined"); } function test_Function_bindAsEventListener(t) { t.plan(4); g_obj = {}; g_Event = {}; g_WindowEvent = {}; var foo = function(x) { t.ok(this == g_obj, "context correctly set"); g_X = x; }; var newFoo = OpenLayers.Function.bindAsEventListener(foo, g_obj); g_X = null; newFoo(g_Event); t.ok(g_X == g_Event, "event properly passed as first argument when event specified"); g_X = null; newFoo(); t.ok(g_X == window.event, "window.event properly passed as first argument when nothing specified"); } function test_Array_filter(t) { t.plan(8); OpenLayers.Array.filter(["foo"], function(item, index, array) { t.eq(item, "foo", "callback called with proper item"); t.eq(index, 0, "callback called with proper index"); t.eq(array, ["foo"], "callback called with proper array"); t.eq(this, {"foo": "bar"}, "callback called with this set properly"); }, {"foo": "bar"}); var array = [0, 1, 2, 3]; var select = OpenLayers.Array.filter(array, function(value) { return value > 1; }); t.eq(select, [2, 3], "filter works for basic callback"); t.eq(array, [0, 1, 2, 3], "filter doesn't modify original"); var obj = { test: function(value) { if(value > 1) { return true; } } }; var select = OpenLayers.Array.filter(array, function(value) { return this.test(value); }, obj); t.eq(select, [2, 3], "filter works for callback and caller"); t.eq(array, [0, 1, 2, 3], "filter doesn't modify original"); } </script> </head> <body> </body> </html>

Mustafa Özkent Mustafa Özkent is a Turkish musician, composer and arranger. Best known for his 1973 album, Gençlik İle Elele, he also earned a reputation as a demanded session player, arranger, and producer, "creating music that fused psychedelic and pop/rock influences with R&B grooves and jazz-influenced improvisations." He was referred by Andy Votel as the "Dr. Frankenstein of Anatolian pop". Biography Özkent started his professional career in the band the Teenagers in 1960. Embarking a career as a session musician and arranger, Özkent signed with Evren Records which was known for its high production standards and audiophile recording techniques. He started recording Gençlik İle Elele with a hand-picked team of musicians and released it 1973. In 1975, he went to Belgium and the Netherlands to study music. Later, he stayed musically active in Turkey, releasing solo records and producing music. In 2006, Gençlik İle Elele was reissued by British Finders Keepers record label, achieving rave reviews and commercial success. Following the success of the reissue, Özkent embarked a tour, performing the songs off the record on festivals such as Le Guess Who? and Europalia. Discography Releases Gençlik İle Elele (1973) Elif (1975) Günün Sevilen Şarkıları - 2 (1992) Mazideki Şarkılar - 1 (1992) Dijital Gitar (2005) Dijital Piano (2006) References External links Category:Living people Category:Turkish record producers Category:Turkish composers Category:Turkish guitarists Category:Turkish session musicians Category:Funk guitarists Category:Jazz guitarists Category:Musicians from Ankara Category:Anatolian rock musicians Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

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Lexus LS 460 F SPORT Review You may not have heard of the Lexus F SPORT brand, but the Japanese luxury car company thinks models like the LS 460 F SPORT will change that. Taking every discrete executive’s favorite sleeper-sedan and throwing some LFA-inspired sports magic at it, the LS 460 F SPORT may not give those in Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division or their counterparts at BMW’s M Sport labs sleepless nights quite yet, but it’s still one of the biggest shake-ups to the Lexus brand since it expanded into SUVs. That, lest we forget, was a decision that did Lexus proud, so it would perhaps be a foolish car fan that dismissed this niche curio as nothing more than a gimmick. SlashGear slipped behind the wheel to find out more; read on for the full review. LS 460 F SPORT Video Review Design and Interior It’s fair to say that the LS 460’s design – in fact, the whole L-finesse style language Lexus has adopted recently – is controversial. From the sides and the rear it’s a fairly sober sedan; nicely proportioned, with some strong body-lines that nonetheless aren’t especially challenging. Up front, though, it’s a somewhat different story, with the “spindle” grill proving most divisive. As we found with the IS series, the LS looks more cohesive in the metal than it does in pictures, but there’s no denying that the gaping grill – which some have compared, only perhaps a little unfairly, to the Predator’s yaw – is an acquired taste. It makes best sense on the F SPORT, we’d argue. If you’re going to roar up into the rear-view mirror of the person ahead of you on the freeway in a Japanese sports-sedan, you probably want to do it in something that’s fairly intimidating: Lexzilla on its way to crush another prefecture. Some of the other detailing is more subtle. The headlamps, with their hockey-stick daytime running lights and Xenon main lamps, are beautifully detailed, while the F SPORT badging is subtle: a few small insignia above the front wheel arches, and nothing extra on the trunk lid. The smokey black, lightweight alloys are eye-catching, however, as are the chromed tailpipes. It’s a handsome car, though as restrained – even in this most aggressive of versions – as you’d expect from a Lexus. Inside, that balance of luxury and restraint continues, for the most part successfully. The F SPORT is officially a five-seater – the airline style rear seating complete with reclining ottoman option is limited to the long-wheelbase LS 600 – and it’s a capacious one, with plenty of room even in standard wheelbase form. As you’d expect there’s plenty of leather, and although ostensibly the sports version, Lexus hasn’t skimped on luxuries like a X-direction motorized driver’s seat, and X-way power front-passenger seat, both of which have adjustable heating and cooling. The two outside rear seats get multi-stage heating (although not cooling) too, along with a powered rear blind, though Lexus fits the controls in the broad armrest so they can’t be reached if there’s a fifth person sitting in the middle. Obviously there are power windows, and the sunroof, wing mirrors, trunk lid, and tilt/reach adjustable steering wheel are all motorized too. Both front seats have three position presets, and the steering wheel is heated for those cold morning starts (something we scoffed at initially and then came to love). Even the doors will automatically ease themselves closed when you pull them mostly shut, while the analog clock uses GPS to set itself automatically. Dominating the center console is a 12.3-inch LCD display, broad enough to fit three separate panes of infotainment data on simultaneously if there’s need for it; more task-specific data can be pushed to an hourglass-shaped LCD in the driver’s binnacle, between the rev counter and speedometer. Our test car had the optional Mark Levinson audio system installed, complete with 19 speakers and a CD/DVD player; there’s USB, aux-in, and Bluetooth for hooking up external sources, though while multiple phones can be paired over Bluetooth, only one can be active at a time. Lexus doesn’t stint on what data is presented on-screen. There are plenty of buttons which can be clicked, and at times it can be a little confusing; happily you can adjust the extent of the controls that are shown. It’s also possible to bypass the joystick altogether: Lexus Enform – which comes with an app suite that runs on iPhone and Android handsets, for things like Pandora streaming – comes with support from a live customer services team, who you can summon through the infotainment system, have locate an address or point-of-interest, and then send the navigation instructions directly to the nav system. An “SOS” button on the upper console pings the same team with your location and the status of the car’s airbags and such if you’re in trouble. The audio system and standard dual-zone HVAC get physical buttons, but control is predominantly through Lexus’ joystick in the center console. It takes a little getting used to: it notches across and is only partially center-sprung, pressing down to select, with two shortcut buttons for the main menu and the map screen just above it. A touchscreen would be a whole lot easier. Once you’re familiar, though, the huge expanse of display makes using the system generally a joy: by default, the 2D map takes up the left two-thirds while the remainder is put aside for audio, HVAC, or other settings. Shortcuts on the wheel trigger voice commands and the hands-free phone functionality. If we’ve a complaint, it’s around some of the trim finish. Everything you might be expected to commonly touch – the buttons, the stalks, the wheel – are given a tactile soft-touch finish, with the exception of the gearshift knob, which is topped in hard plastic. Similar plastic runs in a silver, carbon-fiber-esque strip across the dash, and it simply doesn’t feel quite as premium as the real metal or wood in rival top-end sedans from Mercedes-Benz and BMW. That F SPORT magic This isn’t a direct competitor to Mercedes’ AMG or BMW’s M Series range; Lexus isn’t positioning the F SPORT brand as a “hardcore” sports sedan line. Instead, it’s billed as a warmer, more responsive driving experience for the slightly more eager driver. Someone who expects more than just silky-smooth limousine duty from their Lexus. So, the LS 460 F SPORT doesn’t actually get any more power than a regular LS 460, it simply changes the way that the car delivers that power. “More enthusiasm” is a good way of describing it: leave the driving mode dial in “Normal” and the car performs much like a standard 460; turn it to the left, to “Comfort” or “Economy” and it’ll waft with the best of them. Flick it to the right, however, and you wake the F SPORT system. In “Sport” and “Sport+” modes the air suspension – already around 10mm lower than the standard car – is progressively tauter, while the throttle response gets a little more eager, the eight-speed transmission a little quicker to shift, and, most noticeably in the Sport+ setting, the steering weightier and less assisted. Engine and Performance Lexus may not have given this particular LS any more power, but that doesn’t mean it’s under-equipped. The 4.3-liter engine pushes out 360 HP and 437 lb-ft of torque through the all-wheel drive (AWD) system of our test car; Lexus also offers a regular rear-wheel drive (RWD) version, which sacrifices a little handling in favor of a slight increase to 386 HP. On paper, it’s good for up to 130 mph – electronically limited – and a 0-60 mph time of 6.0s (or 5.4s for the RWD). In practice, the Lexus does a good job balancing the demands of an executive cruiser with some weekend sparkle. Under regular conditions, it surges to higher-than-highway rates without more than a grumble, and sits comfortably at speed with little complaint. Well poised, it’s still capable of slipping between lanes with a jolt of power, the air suspension smoothing out the transition to the point that passengers might not even realize you’ve changed. The changes wrought in Sport and Sport+ modes vary in their effectiveness, we found. Most impressive is the meatier steering feel delivered when set to Sport+, with the LS 460 F SPORT feeling direct and precise through corners, and belying the car’s size. The air suspension is another success, helping mask the not-inconsiderable 4,674 lb curb weight and keeping the car surprisingly nimble. Happily the brakes – Brembo opposed six-piston calipers with 14.8-inch ventilated discs up front, and opposed two-piston calipers with 13.1-inch ventilated discs at the rear – are comfortably up to the job of pulling the LS to a halt. In contrast, the F SPORT settings’ changes to the transmission, throttle, and the engine noise are less noticeable. Gear-changes are fast enough, but lack the immediacy we’d associate with a true sport sedan; the paddle shifters are tactile, but they too don’t have the snap-shift that would make us opt for them over the auto ‘box. The throttle, too, was perkier but never quite felt like it was fully rousing the 4.6-liter engine in the way it could, and the F SPORT seemed ever-reluctant to shake off its Lexus roots and truly roar. Those in the market for a $90k luxury sedan might not care about fuel economy. Still, the LS 460 F SPORT delivered an average of 15 mpg during our testing, which included a mixture of city, country road, and highway driving, in all of the five modes. Spend more time in “Economy” mode, or simply watch your right foot in “Normal” mode, and you could easily get that a few points higher; conversely, during more spirited “Sport+” driving we pushed it under 10 mpg. Price and Value Lexus is known for its high level of standard-fit tech, but even so, F SPORT ownership doesn’t come cheap. Our test car has a sticker price of $88,584 before delivery fees, of which $7,860 was for the F SPORT package, $2,090 for the F SPORT comfort interior (including the climate-control front seats, heated rear seats, power trunk lid, and power rear blind), $1,450 for the LED headlamps, and $1,570 for the Mark Levinson infotainment upgrade. More eager drivers not quite looking to the excesses of AMG or M Sport ownership might look instead to Audi’s A8, known for being a more driver’s focussed car, or indeed the Jaguar XJ. The XJ Supercharged, for instance, starts at $90,600 but gets a 5.0-liter, 470 HP V8 engine that’s considerably more powerful than the Lexus; alternatively, those rooting for the home crowd might find a bargain in Cadillac’s XTS, which squeezes 410 HP from its 3.6-liter twin turbo engine and costs from around $63,000. It’s an impressive car, though it lacks the supple, Bullet Train style cruising ease of the Lexus. If we’ve a lingering frustration, it’s Lexus USA’s decision not to offer the full F SPORT line-up in the US market. In particular, that includes not offering F SPORT versions of the company’s excellent hybrid cars (though you can apply F SPORT add-on packs to select hybrids, like the CT200h). Earlier this year, we drove the incredible GS 450h F SPORT, a car that quickly became our favorite Lexus hybrid for its combination of electric torque, aggressive performance and styling, and yes, a little fuel economy too. The company tells us that decision is one based on clarity of range: Lexus USA doesn’t want to muddy the perception of F SPORT as a fledgling sports brand by connecting it too greatly with hybrid branding. We can’t help but feel like the firm is missing an opportunity to dominate a new “sports hybrid” segment, though, much like how the Lexus RX has come to epitomize the hybrid SUV. Wrap-Up Lexus’ aspirations for F SPORT are humble, at least initially. Although cars like the latest IS have conclusively demonstrated that the brand is more than just Toyota with polish, there’s still a step from there to convincing keen drivers that models such as the LS can have legitimate fire in their belies. Halo experiments like the LFA help, certainly, but the Lexus audience is a traditionally conservative one. That’s showing signs of changing, however, and the IS is leading the way. New Lexus buyers are getting younger, and the concept of a car that both delivers on the superlative comfort historically associated with the marque and some driving excitement at the same time is no longer anathema. The LS 460 F SPORT doesn’t push the envelope too greatly – it’s more eager, not a frenzied animal – but its combination of refinement with urgency when you want it holds no small amount of allure. The admiring glances may be less frequent than something with an obvious bodykit from Germany, but there’s enough to differentiate the F SPORT from its more sober counterparts when you look closely. There’s a lot to be said for a car which can be a legitimate limo on the one hand and then deliver some driver satisfaction after you’ve dropped off your passengers. Lexus could have compromised on its core luxury proposition and made something more aggressive, but it would likely have turned off its typical audience in the process. As one of the first plays in Lexus’ performance gambit, this warmed-up LS holds enough intrigue to make it not only rewarding for today’s owner, but to leave us particularly curious about what’s next in line for the F SPORT treatment.

Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States accept Darwinian evolution as the basis for understanding how life on Earth developed. But although evolutionary theory is often portrayed as antithetical to religion, it has not destroyed the religious faith of the scientific community. According to a survey of members of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, conducted by the Pew Research Center in May and June this year, a majority of scientists (51%) say they believe in God or a higher power, while 41% say they do not. Furthermore, scientists today are no less likely to believe in God than they were almost 100 years ago, when the scientific community was first polled on this issue. In 1914, 11 years before the Scopes “monkey” trial and four decades before the discovery of the structure of DNA, psychologist James Leuba asked 1,000 U.S. scientists about their views on God. He found the scientific community evenly divided, with 42% saying that they believed in a personal God and the same number saying they did not. Scientists have unearthed many important fossils since then, but they are, if anything, more likely to believe in God today. The scientific community is, however, much less religious than the general public. In Pew surveys, 95% of American adults say they believe in some form of deity or higher power. And the public does not share scientists’ certainty about evolution. While 87% of scientists say that life evolved over time due to natural processes, only 32% of the public believes this to be true, according to a different Pew poll earlier this year. Given that scientists are much less likely than the general public to believe in God, it’s not surprising that the percentage who are affiliated with a particular religion is also lower. Nearly half of U.S. scientists say they have no religious affiliation -- describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular -- compared with 17% of all Americans. Among scientists there are far fewer Protestants (21%) and Catholics (10%) than in the general public, which is 51% Protestant and 24% Catholic. And while evangelical Protestants make up more than a fourth of the general population (28%), they are only a tiny slice (4%) of the scientific community. One notable exception is Jews, who make up a larger proportion of the scientific community (8%) than the general population (2%). But the Pew poll found that levels of religious faith among scientists vary quite a bit depending on their specialty and age. Chemists, for instance, are more likely to believe in God (41%) than those who work in biology and medicine (32%). And younger scientists (ages 18 to 34) are more likely than older ones to believe in God or a higher power. If a substantial portion of the scientific community is made up of believers, why do so many people think evolution and religion are incompatible? It may be because some of our most famous and prolific scientists, such as American evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and British physicist Stephen Hawking, were or are atheists and agnostics. But what about Francis Collins, the former head of the Human Genome Project, who was recently appointed as director of the National Institutes of Health by President Obama? Collins is an evangelical Christian who speaks passionately about his faith -- and also thinks evolution is an established scientific fact. As for Darwin, his letters indicate that he was probably an agnostic who lost his faith not because his groundbreaking theory was incompatible with religion, but because of his grief after the 1851 death of his favorite child, his 10-year-old daughter, Annie. And even then, he may not have completely rejected the idea of a higher power. The concluding sentence of “Origin of Species” speaks of a “Creator” breathing life “into a few forms or into one.” The passage raises at least a little doubt as to how the father of modern evolutionary theory might have responded to the question on belief in Pew’s recent survey of scientists. David Masci is a senior researcher at the Pew Forum.

Q: Accessing RelativePanel in DataTemplate of every ListViewItem in ListView UWP Windows 10 I want to access and change FlowDirection of the RelativePanel in each ListViewItem in its DataTemplate. I tried this exact method, had the same error: How do I access a control inside a XAML DataTemplate? I tried the solution given too, but I'm having _Container = MyFlipView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item); always return null, even if my item isn't null. I tried placing UpdateLayout() before it, in vain. I tried placing await Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () =>{ } around it, but also in vain, always returning null. This is my code: <ListView x:Name="MessagesListView"> <ListView.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType="ListViewItem"> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Stretch"/> <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/> </Style> </ListView.ItemContainerStyle> <ListView.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate x:DataType="data:Message"> <RelativePanel x:Name="RelativeDataTemplate" Background="White" Margin="10,5,10,5" MaxHeight="115" MinHeight="115" MinWidth="400" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageToBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageTo}" FontSize="14" TextAlignment="DetectFromContent" Foreground="Black" FontWeight="SemiBold" RelativePanel.RightOf="ImageEllipse" Height="20" Margin="10,30,10,20"/> <TextBlock x:Name="AgentNameBlock" Text="{x:Bind AgentName}" Padding="10,0" TextAlignment="DetectFromContent" RelativePanel.RightOf="ImageEllipse" RelativePanel.Below="MessageToBlock" FontSize="14" Foreground="#2d73b5" FontWeight="SemiBold" Height="20"/> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageDateBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageDate}" TextAlignment="Right" FontSize="14" Foreground="Black" RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="MessageToBlock" RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True" Height="20" Margin="0,30,20,20"/> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageYearBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageYear}" TextAlignment="Right" FontSize="14" Foreground="#2d73b5" RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="AgentNameBlock" RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True" Margin="0,0,20,0"/> </RelativePanel> </DataTemplate> </ListView.ItemTemplate> </ListView> foreach (var item in myListView.Items) { await Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { UpdateLayout(); myListView.ScrollIntoView(item); var _Container = myListView.ItemContainerGenerator .ContainerFromItem(item) as FrameworkElement; var _Children = AllChildren(_Container); var _RelativePanel = _Children // only interested in RelativePanel .OfType<RelativePanel>() // only interested in RelativePanel .First(x => x.Name.Equals("RelativeDataTemplate")); // test & set color _RelativePanel.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.RightToLeft; }); } public List<Control> AllChildren(DependencyObject parent) { var _List = new List<Control>(); for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); i++) { var _Child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i); if (_Child is Control) _List.Add(_Child as Control); _List.AddRange(AllChildren(_Child)); } return _List; } Any solution I didn't find yet? A: As we discussed, you used a ComboBox to choose the language(flow direction), so you can use Data binding and Converter to do this, for example: <Page.Resources> <local:FlowDirectionConverter x:Key="cvt" /> </Page.Resources> <Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}"> <ListView x:Name="MessagesListView" ItemsSource="{x:Bind messagelist}"> <ListView.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType="ListViewItem"> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Stretch" /> <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" /> </Style> </ListView.ItemContainerStyle> <ListView.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate x:DataType="local:Message"> <RelativePanel x:Name="RelativeDataTemplate" Background="White" Margin="10,5,10,5" MaxHeight="115" MinHeight="115" MinWidth="400" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" FlowDirection="{Binding ElementName=comboBox, Path=SelectedItem,Converter={StaticResource cvt}}"> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageToBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageTo}" FontSize="14" TextAlignment="DetectFromContent" Foreground="Black" FontWeight="SemiBold" Height="20" Margin="10,30,10,20" /> <TextBlock x:Name="AgentNameBlock" Text="{x:Bind AgentName}" Padding="10,0" TextAlignment="DetectFromContent" RelativePanel.Below="MessageToBlock" FontSize="14" Foreground="#2d73b5" FontWeight="SemiBold" Height="20" /> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageDateBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageDate}" TextAlignment="Right" FontSize="14" Foreground="Black" RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="MessageToBlock" RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True" Height="20" Margin="0,30,20,20" /> <TextBlock x:Name="MessageYearBlock" Text="{x:Bind MessageYear}" TextAlignment="Right" FontSize="14" Foreground="#2d73b5" RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="AgentNameBlock" RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True" Margin="0,0,20,0" /> </RelativePanel> </DataTemplate> </ListView.ItemTemplate> </ListView> <ComboBox x:Name="comboBox" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" ItemsSource="{x:Bind languagelist}"> <ComboBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <TextBlock Text="{Binding language}" /> </DataTemplate> </ComboBox.ItemTemplate> </ComboBox> </Grid> code behind: public ObservableCollection<Message> messagelist; public ObservableCollection<MyLanguage> languagelist = new ObservableCollection<MyLanguage>(); public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); messagelist = new ObservableCollection<Message>(); } protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) { //add data to messagelist languagelist.Clear(); languagelist.Add(new MyLanguage { language = "English" }); languagelist.Add(new MyLanguage { language = "Arabic" }); } MyLanguage class is quite simple: public class MyLanguage { public string language { get; set; } } and my converter is like this: public class FlowDirectionConverter : IValueConverter { public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language) { if (value != null) { var item = value as MyLanguage; if (item.language == "English") return FlowDirection.LeftToRight; else return FlowDirection.RightToLeft; } return FlowDirection.LeftToRight; } public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } }

Low-dose cyclosporin A and Tripterygium wilfordii inhibited porcine intestinal allograft rejection. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether Tripterygium wilfordii (TW) could be used as an immunosuppressant, and whether antirejection therapy with low-dose cyclosporin A (CsA) and TW was better than the treatment with large-dose CsA alone in intestinal transplantation in pigs. 100 cm intestines were transplanted by using two-step models. Four pigs which received large-dose CsA for 100 days and then were given TW survived 251.5 +/- 181.5 days; 2 of these died of pneumonia 92 and 97 days after the operations respectively. Five pigs which received low-dose CsA and TW for 100 days, then TW was the only drug used in the survival animals, survived 243.2 +/- 90.9 days; none of these succumbed to infection. All the grafts in those which were administered with low-dose CsA were destroyed by acute rejection at 12.4 +/- 2.6 days. These results indicated that TW had some immunosuppressive effects, and antirejection treatment with low-dose CsA and TW could be considered as an acceptable therapy in small bowel transplantation.

Q: Should I pass in filenames to be opened, or open files? Suppose I have a function that does things with a text file - for example reads from it and removes the word 'a'. I could either pass it a filename and handle the opening/closing in the function, or I could pass it the opened file and expect that whoever calls it would deal with closing it. The first way seems like a better way to guarantee no files are left open, but prevents me from using things like StringIO objects The second way could be a little dangerous - no way of knowing if the file will be closed or not, but I would be able to use file-like objects def ver_1(filename): with open(filename, 'r') as f: return do_stuff(f) def ver_2(open_file): return do_stuff(open_file) print ver_1('my_file.txt') with open('my_file.txt', 'r') as f: print ver_2(f) Is one of these generally preferred? Is it generally expected that a function will behave in one of these two ways? Or should it just be well documented such that the programmer can use the function as appropriate? A: Convenient interfaces are nice, and sometimes the way to go. However, most of the time good composability is more important than convenience, as a composable abstraction allows us to to implement other functionality (incl. convenience wrappers) on top of it. The most general way for your function to use files is to take an open file handle as parameter, as this allows it to also use file handles that are not part of the filesystem (e.g. pipes, sockets, …): def your_function(open_file): return do_stuff(open_file) If spelling out with open(filename, 'r') as f: result = your_function(f) is too much to ask of your users, you could choose one of the following solutions: your_function takes an open file or a file name as parameter. If it is a filename, the file is opened and closed, and exceptions propagated. There is a bit of an issue with ambiguity here which could be worked around using named arguments. Offer a simple wrapper that takes care of opening the file, e.g. def your_function_filename(file): with open(file, 'r') as f: return your_function(f) I generally perceive such functions as API bloat, but if they provide commonly used functionality, the gained convenience is a sufficiently strong argument. Wrap the with open functionality in another composable function: def with_file(filename, callback): with open(filename, 'r') as f: return callback(f) used as with_file(name, your_function) or in more complicated cases with_file(name, lambda f: some_function(1, 2, f, named=4)) A: The real question is one of completeness. Is your file processing function the complete processing of the file, or is it just one piece in a chain of processing steps? If it is complete in and of its own, then feel free to encapsulate all file access within a function. def ver(filepath): with open(filepath, "r") as f: # do processing steps on f return result This has the very nice property of finalizing the resource (closing the file) at the end of the with statement. If however there is possibly a need for processing an already-open file, then the distinction of your ver_1 and ver_2 makes more sense. For example: def _ver_file(f): # do processing steps on f return result def ver(fileobj): if isinstance(fileobj, str): with open(fileobj, 'r') as f: return _ver_file(f) else: return _ver_file(fileobj) This kind of explicit type testing is often frowned upon, especially in languages like Java, Julia, and Go where type- or interface-based dispatching is directly supported. In Python, however, there is no language support for type-based dispatching. You may occasionally see criticism of direct type-testing in Python, but in practice it's both extremely common and quite effective. It enables a function to have a high degree of generality, handling whatever datatypes are likely to come its way, aka "duck typing." Note the leading underscore on _ver_file; that is a conventional way of designating a "private" function (or method). While it can technically be called directly, it suggests that function is not intended for direct external consumption. 2019 update: Given recent updates in Python 3, for example that paths are now potentially stored as pathlib.Path objects not just str or bytes (3.4+), and that type hinting has gone from esoteric to mainstream (circa 3.6+, though still actively evolving), here's updated code that takes these advances into account: from pathlib import Path from typing import IO, Any, AnyStr, Union Pathish = Union[AnyStr, Path] # in lieu of yet-unimplemented PEP 519 FileSpec = Union[IO, Pathish] def _ver_file(f: IO) -> Any: "Process file f" ... return result def ver(fileobj: FileSpec) -> Any: "Process file (or file path) f" if isinstance(fileobj, (str, bytes, Path)): with open(fileobj, 'r') as f: return _ver_file(f) else: return _ver_file(fileobj) A: If you pass the file name around instead of the file handle then there is no guarantee that the second file is the same file as the first one when it is opened; this can lead to correctness bugs and security holes.

Q: Compile Qgis source : Links errors (Windows) I am actually trying to compile the source of the qgis git : https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS In order to compile it, I follow the steps of the tutorial here : http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html (starting on the step 4 "Buildings on Window") I manage to configure the CMake with all the dependencies and to generate the project. To generate the project I use MSCV10 but I also tried with MSCV express 2008 like in the tutorial. In the two cases, when I generate the project, I always have the following errors : LINK : fatal error LNK1181: impossible to open the file '....\core\Release\qgis_core.lib' LINK : fatal error LNK1181: impossible to open the file '....\analysis\Release\qgis_analysis.lib' I don't understand why the project tries to open a librairie which is not created yet to compile its code. Do you have an idea how to solve this problem ? EDIT : Apparently, the qgis_core.lib and others must be created during the build (this is why there are theses errors). But the lib is not created because of the errors : .\flex_qgsrastercalclexer.cpp(43) : fatal error C1083: imposible to open the hearder file: 'unistd.h' : No such file or directory Do you know how to add this header to the project ? I am not very used to MSCV Thank you very much Regards A: Additionally QGIS also needs the include file unistd.h, which normally doesn't exist on Windows. It's shipped with Flex/Bison in GnuWin32\include and needs to be copied into the VC\include directory of your Visual C++ installation. Source: https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/blob/master/INSTALL#L603 You need to stick to MSCV (express) 2008 if you don't want to compile all dependencies as well.

Maggie Smith Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career on stage, film, and television, spanning over 68 years. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama. Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards: for The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994) and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations that were for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001). Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Other notable films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016. Early life Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, Essex, on 28 December 1934. Her mother, Margaret Hutton (née Little; 1896–1977), was a Scottish secretary from Glasgow, and father, Nathaniel Smith (1902–1991), was a public health pathologist from Newcastle upon Tyne who worked at the University of Oxford. During her childhood, Smith's parents told her the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. She moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old. She had older twin brothers, Alistair (died 1981) and Ian. The latter went to architecture school. Smith attended Oxford High School until age 16, when she left to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse. Career In 1952, aged 17, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith began her career as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. In 1954, she appeared in the television programme Oxford Accents produced by Ned Sherrin. She appeared in her first film in 1956, in an uncredited role in Child in the House, and made her Broadway debut the same year playing several roles in the review New Faces of '56, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from June to December 1956. In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, written by Bamber Gascoigne. In 1959, she received the first of her 18 BAFTA Film and TV nominations for her role in the film Nowhere to Go. In 1962, Smith won the first of a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffer's plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams. She became a fixture at the Royal National Theatre in the 1960s, most notably for playing Desdemona in Othello opposite Laurence Olivier and earning her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1965 film version. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsen's The Master Builder, and played comedic roles in The Recruiting Officer and Much Ado About Nothing. Her other films at this time included Go to Blazes (1962), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Young Cassidy (1965), Hot Millions (1968), and Oh! What A Lovely War (1969). Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role of the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Vanessa Redgrave had originated the role on stage in London, and Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, when she played the role in New York. The role also won Smith her first BAFTA Award. In 1970, she played the title role in Ingmar Bergman's London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler, winning her second Evening Standard award for Best Actress. She received her third Academy Award nomination for the 1972 film Travels with My Aunt. She also appeared in the film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973). In the mid-1970s, she made several guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show. From 1976 to 1980, she appeared in numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, to acclaim; her roles included Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Virginia Woolf in Virginia, and opposite Brian Bedford in the Noël Coward comedy Private Lives. Also during this time, she starred on Broadway in Private Lives in 1975 and Night and Day in 1979, receiving Tony Award nominations for both. Smith received the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Diana Barrie in California Suite. For this role, she also won her first Golden Globe Award. Afterward, upon hearing that Michael Palin was about to embark on the film The Missionary (1982) with Smith, her co-star Michael Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Palin, warning him that she would steal the film. Her other films at this time include Murder by Death (1976) and Death on the Nile (1978). In 1981, Smith played the goddess Thetis in Clash of the Titans. For her role on television as Mrs Silly, she received the first of her four Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nominations. On stage, she won her third and fourth Evening Standard awards for Best Actress, for Virginia in 1981 and The Way of the World in 1984. She won three more Best Actress BAFTA Awards for her roles as Joyce Chilvers in the 1984 black comedy A Private Function, Charlotte Bartlett in the 1986 Merchant Ivory production of A Room with a View, and the title role in the 1987 film The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. For A Room With a View, she also received her fifth Academy Award nomination, and won her second Golden Globe Award. In 1987, she starred in A Bed Among the Lentils, part of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, receiving a second BAFTA TV nomination. She starred in the 1987 London production of Lettice and Lovage alongside Margaret Tyzack, receiving an Olivier Award nomination, and reprised the role in 1990, when it transferred to Broadway, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The play was written specifically for her by the playwright Peter Shaffer. In the 1990s, Smith appeared as Wendy Darling in the 1991 hit movie Hook, and also appeared in the hit comedy films Sister Act in 1992 and The First Wives Club in 1996. She also received a third BAFTA TV nomination for the 1992 TV film Memento Mori, and her first Emmy nomination for her role in the 1993 TV film Suddenly, Last Summer. She won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini, in which she played Lady Hester. She also appeared in the films The Secret Garden (1993), Richard III (1995), and Washington Square (1997). Her 1990s stage roles included Three Tall Women in 1994, which won her a fifth Evening Standard award, Claire in A Delicate Balance opposite Eileen Atkins in 1997, and The Lady in the Van in 1999. Due to the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is widely known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall, opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the title role. She has appeared in seven of the eight films in the series from 2001 to 2011. She and Radcliffe had worked together previously in the 1999 BBC television adaptation of David Copperfield, in which she played Betsey Trotwood and received a BAFTA TV Award nomination. She received her sixth Academy Award nomination for the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, and won her first Emmy Award for the 2003 TV film My House in Umbria. On stage, she starred as Madeleine Palmer, opposite Judi Dench, in the David Hare play The Breath of Life in 2002, toured Australia in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads in 2004, and starred in The Lady from Dubuque in 2007. Beginning in 2010, Smith appeared as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the British period drama Downton Abbey. This role won her a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. In 2014, the role also won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2012, she played Muriel in the British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and starred as Jean Horton in Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's play, directed by actor Dustin Hoffman. In a March 2015 interview with Joe Utichi in The Sunday Times, Smith announced that the sixth season of Downton Abbey would be her last (it was in fact the last to be produced). On 30 October 2015, Smith appeared on BBC's The Graham Norton Show, her first appearance on a chat show in 42 years. During the show, Smith discussed her appearance in the comedy-drama film The Lady in the Van, which was directed by Nicholas Hytner. In April 2019, Smith returned to the London stage for the first time in twelve years, starring in A German Life. The new play by Christopher Hampton was drawn from the life and testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel (1911–2017), in which Smith was alone on stage, performing a 100-minute-long monologue to the audience. Jonathan Kent took the directorial role. Personal life Marriages Smith married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967. They had two sons, actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969), and were divorced on 6 April 1975. Smith married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 June 1975, at the Guildford Register Office, and they remained married until his death on 20 March 1998. When asked in 2013 if she was lonely, she replied that "it seems a bit pointless, going on on one's own, and not having someone to share it with". Smith has five grandchildren. Health In January 1988, Smith was diagnosed with Graves' disease, for which she underwent radiotherapy and optical surgery. In 2007, the Sunday Telegraph disclosed that Smith had been diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2009, she was reported to have made a full recovery. Charity work In September 2011, Smith offered her support for raising the $4.6million needed to help rebuild the Court Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake in 2011 that caused severe damage to the area. In July 2012, she became a patron of the International Glaucoma Association, hoping to support the organisation and raise the profile of glaucoma. On 27 November 2012, she contributed a drawing of her own hand to the 2012 Celebrity Paw Auction, to raise funds for Cats Protection. Awards and honours Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours, and was raised to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours, for services to the performing arts. Smith was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to drama in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, becoming the third actress to receive the honour, after Sybil Thorndike (1970) and Judi Dench (2005). In 1971, Smith was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by University of St Andrews. In 1986, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bath. In 1994, Smith received an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Cambridge. In October 2017, Smith was conferred with an Honorary Fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an idealistic, unorthodox schoolteacher in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1978 film California Suite. She was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1991. Smith was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture in 1992. She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. On 10 April 1999, Smith received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (The Will Award) presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in recognition of her significant contribution to classical theatre in the US. On 9 February 2014 she was inducted into the Actors Hall of Fame. Smith had a star on the London Avenue of Stars until all of the stars were removed in 2006. In 1993, she was awarded with the BAFTA Special Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1996, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented her with the BAFTA Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow. At the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, she was celebrated with the Society of London Theatre Special Award. In 2013, she was awarded with the Evening Standard Icon Award. In September 2012, she was honoured with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award. She accepted the award, presented to her by Christopher Plummer, in a ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. In March 2016, Smith was awarded the Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts. In April 2016, she was awarded the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the performing arts. Filmography Film Television Video games Theatre 1952: Twelfth Night (OP) 1952: He Who Gets Slapped (Clarendon Press) 1952: Cinderella (OP) 1953: Rookery Nook (OP) 1953: Housemaster (OP) 1953: Cakes and Ale (revue, EF) 1953: The Love of Four Colonels (OP) 1954: The Ortolan (Maxton Hall) 1954: Don't Listen Ladies (OP) 1954: The Government Inspector (OP) 1954: The Letter (OP) 1954: A Man About The House (OP) 1954: On the Mile (revue, EF) 1954: Oxford Accents (WT) 1954: Theatre 1900 (OP) 1954: Listen to the Wind (OP) 1955: The Magistrate (OP) 1955: The School for Scandal (OP) 1956: New Faces of '56 (revue, EB) 1957: Share My Lettuce (revue, Lyric/Comedy/Garrick) 1958: The Stepmother (St. Martin's) 1959: The Double Dealer (OV) 1959: As You Like It (OV) 1959: Richard II (OV) 1959: The Merry Wives of Windsor (OV) 1960: What Every Woman Knows (OV) 1960: Rhinoceros (Strand) 1960: Strip the Willow (UK tour) 1961: The Rehearsal (BOV/Globe/Queen's) 1962: The Private Ear and The Public Eye (Globe) 1963: Mary, Mary (Queen's) 1963: The Recruiting Officer (NT/OV) 1964: Othello (NT/OV) 1964: The Master Builder (NT/OV) 1964: Hay Fever (NT/OV) 1965: Much Ado About Nothing (NT/OV) 1965: Trelawny of the 'Wells' (NT/OV) 1966: Miss Julie (NT/OV) 1966: Black Comedy (NT/OV) 1966: A Bond Honoured (NT/OV) 1969: The Country Wife (CF) 1970: The Beaux' Stratagem (NT/Ahmanson/OV) 1970: Hedda Gabler (NT/Cambridge) 1970: Three Sisters (Ahmanson) 1971: Design for Living (Ahmanson) 1972: Private Lives (Queen's) 1973: Peter Pan (Coliseum) 1974: Snap (Vaudeville) 1975: Private Lives (US tour and 46th Street) 1976: The Way of the World (SSF) 1976: Antony and Cleopatra (SSF) 1976: Three Sisters (SSF) 1976: The Guardsman (SSF/Ahmanson) 1977: A Midsummer Night's Dream (SSF/Ahmanson) 1977: Richard III (SSF) 1977: As You Like It (SSF) 1977: Hay Fever (SSF) 1978: Macbeth (SSF) 1978: Private Lives (SSF) 1979: Night and Day (Phoenix/ D.C./ANTA) 1980: Much Ado About Nothing (SSF) 1980:The Seagull (SSF) 1980: Virginia (SSF/Haymarket) 1984: The Way of the World (CF/Haymarket) 1985: Interpreters (Queen's) 1986: The Infernal Machine (Lyric) 1987: Coming Into Land (NT/Lyttelton) 1987: Lettice and Lovage (Globe) 1990: Lettice and Lovage (EB) 1993: The Importance of Being Earnest (Aldwych) 1994: Three Tall Women (Wyndham's) 1996: Talking Heads (CF/Comedy) 1997: A Delicate Balance (Haymarket) 1999: The Lady in the Van (Queen's) 2002: The Breath of Life (Haymarket) 2004: Talking Heads (Australian tour) 2007: The Lady from Dubuque (Haymarket) 2019: A German Life (Bridge) See also List of Academy Award records List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Tale Spinners for Children University College Players References Further reading Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star by Michael Coveney, Victor Gollancz Ltd, September 1992, . Later revised as Maggie Smith: A Biography, 2015. Maggie Smith. A View From The Stalls by Caroline Février, The Book Guild Ltd, released 28 March 2018, 330 pages, . 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Categories Blog Post: “Improve Yours, Or Help Someone Else Improve Theirs.” While it’s one thing to set the pace of creativity in your workplace, it’s completely different to be swimming in a sea of creativity pushing you to create your very best. In my first year at Bottle Rocket, I have been challenged harder than ever before to be at the apex of what is possible. We say every day that we “embrace the impossible”, and that was manifested recently with our annual Rocket Science event. If you have ever participated in a company hackathon before, just picture that effort on caffeine and steroids and you are getting close to it’s description. With my genius idea, and team of motivated stars, I imagined it would be short cakewalk to completion and success. My phone camera was at the ready to take pictures of co-workers doing keg stands and laughing uncontrollably. Instead, people brought the same level of effort we bring to our apps every day of the week. My fellow Rocketeers were serious about creating something amazing. Several even contributed on several projects during the evening, which ran from noon Thursday to 10 AM Friday. The enduring comment I took away from the evening was around two in the morning after we shipped our movie. When someone asked how our work was coming, to which I said, “Done, so I’m going to catch some rest before breakfast.” His response was telling: “You can’t be done. Either improve yours, or help someone else improve theirs.” I laughed, partially from exhaustion, and walked away thinking they were just razzing me. When I saw the other projects, some solo efforts, I realized what my friend was referring to. My movie was as done as it was going to get. We realized that any additional effort was going to be varying levels of diminishing returns. I shouldn’t have been done though. Several projects were amazing, and it would have been awesome to give them a little help to get more done. Others were good, but I would have loved to sit with them for an hour to chat about it. Not to say that I would have been the necessary voice to push it over the top, but it might. I got caught up in my silo. How often does that happen in our offices every day? As much as I’m happy to present our Rocket Science 2014 submission, I do so with a promise for every day after: I don’t want to ever be in the same position again of wishing I had looked across the way for who I could help. There are people at your work that need your help. You might not know who it is, and neither do they. Regardless, the two of you need to collaborate (plus a few other people in the world). My name is Chris Murman, thanks for visiting my space. As an IT consultant, I am constantly in search of ways to make the work we do better. This means bringing a lean focus to the products we make, a holistic approach to agile business processes, or an intense focus on the technologies of tomorrow. This blog is a collection of all thoughts related to those, and many more endeavors. Come participate in the conversation with me!

Ontogenetic development of nutrient transporters in cat intestine. Cats are unusual among mammals in several features of nutritional ontogeny related to their strict carnivory as adults. Hence we measured intestinal brush-border uptakes of three sugars and six amino acids, plus intestinal morphometric parameters, in cats from birth until after weaning. The ratio of amino acid to sugar uptake increases with age, in parallel with the increasing protein/carbohydrate ratio of the natural diet. At weaning, when galactose disappears from the natural diet of cats, the galactose/glucose uptake ratio declines steeply, implying a developmental sequence of multiple aldohexose transporters. Fructose uptake remains low at all ages. Uptakes of arginine (hyperessential to cats) and of lysine are notably high throughout the suckling period. The intense perinatal intestinal hyperplasia observed in many other mammal species is absent in cats. The developmental course of intestinal uptake capacities normalized to metabolic live mass parallels the course of relative body growth rates. The "safety margin" of uptake capacity over intake is greater for essential than nonessential amino acids and is greatest for the hyperessential arginine.

Electric cars are part of a broader debate about the country’s industrial ambitions. Under a plan called Made in China 2025, China hopes to become a dominant player in a number of other futuristic new technologies, like artificial intelligence and robotics. Chinese officials argue that the push will help develop China’s economy and make it less dependent on foreign technology, a dependence that could expose it to security risks. Some business groups and lawmakers — and increasingly, members of President Trump’s administration — say company executives give away valuable trade secrets for the sake of short-term gains. “Multinational firms are already starting to cave in to China’s policies, putting in jeopardy the future of this sector and countless jobs and economic benefits,” said Michael Wessel, a commissioner of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was set up by Congress to monitor the bilateral relationship. Auto executives insist that they are using good judgment. Rules that China issued in January requiring them to share technology are vaguely worded and could allow at least some components to be made abroad and imported. Chinese officials said here this weekend at China’s main annual automotive technology conference that they would introduce policies that would help attract more foreign investment in its new-energy vehicles, giving some hope to foreign auto executives. “We have no concerns relative to the amount of I.P. that has to be shared,” said Matt Tsien, the president of G.M.’s China operations, referring to intellectual property. General Motors has been collaborating with its partner, the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, on advanced hybrid cars like the Chevrolet Volt, which G.M. brought to China last spring as the Buick Velite. Hybrids like the Volt run on both battery power and gasoline. “We have a philosophy, from an overall perspective, that we build where we sell,” Mr. Tsien said. Ford said only that it would comply with all Chinese rules on joint ventures and that its new pact with China’s Zotye Auto is preliminary. Renault-Nissan said that its new joint venture with China’s Dongfeng Motor, called eGT, will design a new electric car that will be produced at a Dongfeng factory in the Chinese city of Shiyan. Honda Motor is planning to make an electric car in China next year, while Toyota plans to make a plug-in hybrid car in the country.

Cold Rain & Snow-> My Brother Esau-> Althea-> CC Rider, Bird Song, Looks Like Rain-> Deal Terrapin Station-> Playin' In The Band-> China Doll-> Drums-> The Wheel-> Throwing Stones-> Not Fade Away, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue Source: SBD>MC>DAT>CDR>WAV>SHN - entire first set except for aud splice during LLR. First three tracks of second set are SBD with the remainder from an unlineaged FOB audience recording. plus-circle Add Review comment Reviews Reviewer: Wet dog - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 8, 2019 Subject: awestruck After listening on the archive for many years I feel like I have found the most satisfying show to date. From the playing to the recording and finally to hearing the audience all around me it's a thrill ride beginning to end! The only thing missing is the LSD. but beings that I'm driving a big rig I really should stay sober. Enjoy the show!!! - March 8, 2019awestruck Reviewer: JamsOnly - favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 9, 2018 Subject: Dank Show Deep and Dark 2nd Set Jam Highlights: Playing In The Band, Jam, Drums, Space - March 9, 2018Dank Show Reviewer: kee-zee - favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 9, 2014 Subject: Bezerkeley~!~!~!~! WHITE FLUFF Great sound here..The boys were haven fun in this intimate setting. Taping was officially OK'd during this run. I love this little stint and the playing was pretty tight with a flaw or two..who fucking cares! I don't seek perfection..I seek the sound. Always fun in Berkeley and this show does not disappoint..so please.GIVE IT A WHIRL.Forever>Grateful>Forever Dead…LIFER@!@!@!@!@! - March 9, 2014Bezerkeley~!~!~!~! WHITE FLUFF Reviewer: jjg4762 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 13, 2013 Subject: Best Recording Love the nonsense of ragging on others on this website, We all have our thoughts on any giving show. So who is to say who is rite or wrong? I wont names but I think the person might get the jest of who am speaking of. These shows were the balls, POWERFULL B C T run in 84. I like these shows here better then the next 2 years they played there. I too was at each and everyone of these shows, but that doesn't make me an expert on sound or performance. The ones who taped these shows sure know there stuff. I give it 5 stars because of the sound and trippyness " ya I know it's not a real word " Rock on DARK SIDE you hit it rite on the nose. - December 13, 2013Best Recording Reviewer: Donna_Sucked and We All Know It - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 30, 2013 Subject: The Force? Silly hippy drippy nonsense below aside, this was a great run, was at all 6, and this was my favorite after 11/2. This is a very underrated show. Great year, '84 and '85 were fantastic years on tour then the stadium bs started in '86 then dylan covers and in the dark and nitrous and touch heads and it was all over. I had a good rode from '72-'85 so I won't complain, even saw some real good shows after '85 the crowd was just horrible at that point. Check out all of these BCT shows. - October 30, 2013The Force? Reviewer: enardi - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 3, 2010 Subject: Great show fantastic show, not a bad song in it. Terrapin>Jam is truely amazing give it a listen. very powerful show all around. As for the sound quality, the soundboard is great, as is the FOB, really it took me a some time to notice the source had changed, and theres no jarring cuts. Finally as for jerry man he is on, voice aside of course but its not too bad i suppose. - May 3, 2010Great show Reviewer: tonedef - favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 11, 2008 Subject: Well done. Nice! My favorite part has to be where Jer's riffing on J.S. Bach during the space. What a loss. - April 11, 2008Well done. Reviewer: stealthhippy - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 23, 2005 Subject: where have we all been??????????? whata find...not a bad tune on the entire set..short show..but wow!!!!!!!terrrapin-playin-the best damn china doll you'll ever hear..and jerry and phil are just wailing on every song..ll rain..althea...even esau..and the jamming...this ain't the DARK SIDE...this is the force baby!!!!!!!!A MUST HAVE SET!!!!!!!A1 an super sound except for a few audience patches.......5++ - March 23, 2005where have we all been??????????? Reviewer: Steinbergerman - favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 19, 2004 Subject: heavy, man The Terrapin>Playin>China Doll is some of the darkest, heaviest shit you will ever hear. The dark side of the force. - July 19, 2004heavy, man

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Op-Ed: Obama’s Gettysburg — Jobs and an IQ test for Congress Sydney - Although Congress may look like a verbal Vietnam, a more accurate analogy would be the Civil War. Why go to all the trouble of firing on Fort Sumter and seceding when you can just sit on your ass in DC, get paid for it and do more damage that way? Actually, Congress has probably done more damage than both those wars. America’s real power isn’t military- It’s economic, and has been for decades. American capital and credit built most of the post-war world. Now it spends weeks trying to decide whether or not to fund itself. Obama proposes a $447 billion dollar package of payroll tax cuts, incentives for employers and some political positioning. In setting out his program in the House chamber, Mr. Obama was, in effect, daring Republicans not to pass measures that enjoy support among independent voters and business leaders. If the Republicans refuse to embrace at least some of the measures, Mr. Obama will take them directly to the American public in the coming election year, portraying Congress as do-nothing and obstructionist. All due respect, NYT, but the American public’s opinion of Congress, now at all-time lows, wouldn’t be quite so polite when describing this happy little gathering of altruists. Bipolar America’s identity crisis now contains a very unhealthy measure of self-loathing and self-distrust. People simply do not believe that Congress even knows Main Street exists any more. The War Between The States is now the War Between the Vested Interests. You have to make an appointment with a publicist even to get shot at in this war. The national IQ, as "represented" (excuse the expression) by Congress, apparently has a decimal point to its left and needs to prove it can do basic arithmetic. This isn’t the Cold War. It’s a Civil War, just fought with dollars instead of bullets. Nukes can only kill you. Economics can send you broke for generations. Nations have collapsed more frequently because of economics than because of war. America’s baffling desire to destroy itself through apparently eternal mismanagement has finally torn the cushions off the economic car seats. The ride has been very bumpy, and since nobody could be bothered to pay to build any more road for the ol' national jalopy to travel down, it's a shaky suspension that's going cross country in future. (Well, why not beat a metaphor to death?) A comatose domestic economy means capital is stagnant at best. There’s no more apt comparison than the Civil War economies of the Union and the Confederacy. The Union had enormous economic power and manufacturing capacity. The Confederates barely managed to produce their own uniforms. The United States (the word “united” is supposed to mean something) is currently transforming itself from the Union into the Confederacy. It’s the loss of jobs- The economic powerhouse of the world is turning itself into a financially-based hot dog stand. Compared to the amount of money that has to move through the US economy every day just to keep businesses open, Wall Street is a pretzel sales franchise. A few billion per quarter is nothing. 328 million people can generate a lot of capital, and they’re not being allowed to do that. 9.1% of the workforce don’t have jobs. That means that percentage of people can’t contribute capital. The real economy has effectively shrunk, and the effect has been to rip money out of the business sector. At the time of Gettysburg, the Union hadn’t been doing too well. Lee had moved north, and the greatest battle of the Civil War, the decisive battle, in fact, because it decimated Confederate offensive power, took place over an encounter between Union troops and some Confederates who came into Gettysburg looking for shoes. The Gettysburg Address got panned by contemporary critics. It was considered “embarrassing” by an English commentator. Edward Everett Horton told Lincoln he said more in a couple of minutes than he’d said in an hour or so: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (This version of the speech is the only one in Lincoln’s handwriting, signed by him.) Obama’s jobs speech is being made at a historic low point in American history. Whether this Congress is of the people, by or for the people, is highly debatable. The fact is that like Gettysburg, the battle over jobs is critical to the future of the economy. If the dead are jobs, and the new birth of freedom is the right to have them, this unhallowed political ground is the battlefield. The living may yet have a future. This ugly backroom war has been raging mindlessly for nearly two generations. The result of war is eventually peace, and a time when the maimed, battered and soul-scarred can at least rest. Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles in American history, including both World Wars. The battle over jobs is infinitely bigger, and many more lives, current and future, are at risk. America will get up as usual the morning after the jobs battle, go to work or not go to work, get on to its brokers or its UI office, and read the casualty figures in stocks, bankruptcies, foreclosures and trashed lives. Appomattox looks a long way off. This opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com

I totally remember Pit Fighter. I first played it in the arcade and then rented it for my Sega. That game did indeed suck ass. I remember getting cramps in my wrist from playing this piece of shit game because the controls were so horrible. It was all about button mashing. haha damn that brought back memories I had the sega version It wasn't THAT bad on Sega, it was playable, but ***** was hard people in the crowd would hit you at sometimes the worst times. And that was the thing with games back then it was like even if the game sucked ass you had to do your damn hardest to beat it. I wasted so many hours on worthless games! I remember buying Shaq Fu on the SNES for 14 bucks at a thrift store called "Magic Mart" when I was like 13. I have no shame in admitting that I beat the game with every character available, and my favorite was the mummy dude, followed by the green goblin looking dude in the brown robe. I realized it was a sh*t game at the time, but this was back in the day when anything I bought I absolutely had to finish, and on the SNES that was pretty tiresome. "Plok" immediately springs to mind. Amazing platformer, very creative, great soundtrack, awesome art direction, but brutally difficult due to the fact that the devolpers didn't implement a save feature so you had to beat the entire game in one go or start over.

You are probably not aware of this, considering that this information matters only to TV writers and the people who get paid to consume their work, but the final episode of Empire’s record-breaking first season was titled “Who I Am.” Considering the events of the episode, this title wasn’t just on the nose, it was on the rest of my face, too. But that’s the way of Empire; it’s less the measured prestige drama we’ve come to expect and more the broadly rendered parable that thrived in the decades before The Sopranos changed everything. Part of its immense appeal is that it’s a simple, familiar story, and its message is spoken clearly. Empire is blatantly about identity, both personal and cultural. So much of this season revolved around Jamal coming to terms with being a gay man in the hip-hop industry and his father’s untempered homophobia, but Lucious’s two other sons struggled with themselves in other ways. Hakeem and Andre fashioned personas that were tailor-made to get their intractable, maniacal father to love them in the ways they were not loved as children. Hakeem became a stereotypical bling-obsessed Lothario with designs on being a larger-than-life superstar like Lucious. Producing extravagant music videos and having a woman by his side made him a man. Andre, on the other hand, chose business. He sought his father’s approval by molding himself into the ideal corporate figurehead. With Andre, you’d think he was born with a suit on and a calculator up his ass, but that’s far from the truth. Through 12 episodes, it became apparent that Hakeem and Andre chose these paths to please their unapproachable, emotionally withholding patriarch. In the end, Lucious picked Jamal to run Empire Entertainment — the son who was the most comfortable just being himself and who chose to stand defiantly against the very idea of conforming. If you’re Hakeem or Andre, that amounts to the ultimate betrayal. Fox Grantland’s David Jacoby observed in our finale precap that Jamal, Hakeem, and Andre are all different sides of Lucious’s personality: Jamal is artistic, Hakeem has swagger, and Andre has business sense. But what we learned in the finale is that just as these attributes are a put-on for his sons, so, too, are they for Lucious. Lucious Lyon is a character played by a broken, scared man named Dwight Walker who’s just trying to escape the ghetto. As a title, “Who I Am” could apply to any number of Empire’s characters, but it most aptly pertained to Lucious. The repeated flashbacks, showing him committing shockingly cold acts of violence, underlined that who he is is a killer with a deficiency of conscience and a deeply ingrained survival instinct. Dwight Walker came from a brutal world, and he never really left that place. He just created Lucious Lyon as a means to pass through the rarefied air of the music industry. Fox If these themes and character traits sound familiar, it’s because they are. A long time ago, Mad Men’s examination of the dichotomy between the real man, Dick Whitman, and the smoke screen of Don Draper gave us the poor boy who grew up to be a powerful, borderline sociopathic middle-aged man struggling with the damage he’s wrought throughout his life. With seven episodes left in Mad Men’s run, Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm have resisted the opportunity to make Don Draper a full-time villain. Even though his lies have become so much a part of who he is that he probably doesn’t even know when he’s not telling the truth anymore, Don retains a shred of humanity. Through the writing and the subtlety of Hamm’s performance, I see the love Don has for his kids and for Peggy, and how it tempers his tendency to act only in his own best interest. He’s a traumatized child underneath the superhero costume of wealth, power, and intellect that he created. Don Draper and Lucious Lyon share a lot with comic-book archetypes like Bruce Wayne/Batman. All three are characters who manufactured an adolescent power fantasy out of a traumatic upbringing. The journey of each of those characters has been dictated by what they’ve chosen to do when that fantasy became manifest. Lucious Lyon is not becoming a hero, though. That final image of Lucious behind bars communicates malevolence so loudly that my ears are still ringing this morning. This episode constitutes a full heel turn and requires a reexamination of the entire season. “Even God can’t kill me,” Lucious says in an ominous narration over a mirror image of the prison tracking shot from Cookie’s flashback in Episode 8. Lucious has never seemed to have much of an actual bond with his family, and even when he attempts to make amends at the start of the season finale, the gestures are ornate, tacky, and seemingly more about his overblown “legacy” than actual interest in the three men at the table with him. Wherever Cookie goes, she takes a family portrait with her. All Lucious takes is his hate, greed, and desire for power. Why is Lucious always so surprised when his children or his ex-wife reject him? He’s done nothing to earn their trust. Fox Conversely, Don Draper wants to love his family, but he has no idea how to do that in practice. That trait defines so many 20th-century TV dads, from Archie Bunker down to Homer Simpson, that it’s hard to see it as a coincidence. Don Draper’s reinvention story takes place squarely in the middle of the 20th century, a time of great social upheaval and class mobility. The Draper dream seems like it could only logically occur during prosperous times for white men in America. Don is forged in the shadow of World War II, rises to power in the Eisenhower boom years, and loses his bearings during the chaos of the ’60s and ’70s. At the end of the series, I fully expect to find him continuing to grasp for meaning, rather than being gifted any easy resolutions. Lucious Lyon, though, could exist only today. In the popular imagination, this is a boom time for African Americans, even if in reality it’s far from that. We live in a world of Jay Z, Beyoncé, Oprah, Barack Obama, and, well, Empire. The upwardly mobile black person becomes less of a novelty and more of a pop cliché every year. “If you try hard enough, you can be just like Will Smith,” we’re told. But we’re not all born to be Will Smith. In fact, most of us would kill to be DJ Jazzy Jeff. The dual identity is common in hip-hop, more blatant than in most other pop music genres. The MC name takes on Lucious Lyon–esque proportions and often becomes its own persona. Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar can have dialogues with themselves in the middle of their songs because they’re so good at inhabiting other characters, but I wonder: How much of their true selves did they have to give up to find their success? We try and try and try to be what we are not, in the hopes that we can fool enough people to make it over the hump. Hakeem pretends to be hard. Andre aspires to being accepted in white upper-class society. Lucious creates an Übermensch character to hide from the world. These are stories that are both specific to the black experience and, in some ways, totally universal. Who you are is almost never who you want to be.

F*UCK SONY - F*CK SWGbiggest waste of money i ever spent.players were not even supposed to be able to unlock jedi charachters for another 6 MONTHS from now.they are "giving them away" basicly, to get more people interested.the game flat out doesnt f*ucking work right.there are a couple dozen professions you can be. all of them have some bugs in them, and some simply DO NOT EVEN FUNCTION ANYWHERE NEAR AS INTENDED.THERE ARE ENTIRE LINES OF SKILL TREES THAT DO NOT WORK. AT ALL.IF YOU REALLY *MUST* PLAY AS A JEDI, GO GET SOME SINGLE PLAYER STAR WARS GAME.SO NO TO BELOW - NOT COOL AT ALL.DONT GET SUCKERED IN BY THIS ATTEMPT TO DRAW MORE FANS IN WITH JEDI, THEY ARE ******** OVER THE GAME BALANCE BY RELEASEING THEM. they screwed over the community with player cities, people saved and prepared for weeks to start there own city, when the code was released.they released in without notice, plus they imposed a limit on the number of player cities there could be, so there was like a 15 minute land rush, when all the spots got taken, if you were at work you were screwed, no matter if you spent two months in preperation.griefing is rampant. the support is non-existant. the gm's are completely pointless. some guy named boourns got all his stuff more or less taken away by a gm, because of his name- yet people named -lord maul- are allowed to run around freely.pvp is controled by greifers and exploiters.the only two good things about this game, the interface is good, and the database rarely messes up, so items rarely if ever "dissappear" like in other games.but all in all its 95% bad abd 5% good. they also stopped supporting the game more or less all together. there were plenty of patches, like daily, with game fixes, with a big patch notes list for each one. they tailed off until it was like oince every three there would be a patch with 3 things fixed, and those 3 things were to get people to unlock jedi faster. there was still plenty of **** wrong with the game for them to keep up the patching. Well thats what you get when you get suckered by the evercrap developer otherwise known as sony. These types of games are just a waste of time for everyone since their general goal is simply to line the pockets of sony executives. The only solution is simply to not buy what ever bullshit they try to sell and convince others to do likewise. The resulting removal of all profit for the series will force sony to look at something else to get revenue from. It also in the process will create a dominoe effect to convince other companies to do likewise. Overall, it will lead to better standards in game creation but it all must start by simply refusing to buy the latest evercrap or evercrap wannabe product. Umm, first off you guys are all morons, this game is perfect with, Yes, some bugs but none of the classes are f**ked over, the ONLY bug i seen with a problem is a few rebel bases which could not be converted, other than that the bugs are nothing to worry about and small. You all need to shut the hell up this game is better than anyother game ive played, the economy is ACCTUALY ran by players not a ton of NPC crap in other games. Jedi does take hella alot of work to earn so shut up if you think its nothing to get, unless you got f**king 10million credits to spend from starting out then no. KTHX i played this game for 1 month then quit then waited 3-4 months played it for another 2 weeks and quit again im not going back to this game and yeah they are trying to suck you in and it takes months to be a jedi and if you die its got perm death which is lame plus its one buggy game im not gonna flame the game im just saying Many people thought it was a total piece of **** when they bought it. anon, you f**king in denial little *****.dont sit there and say that no classes are f**ked over.99% of squad leader abilites DO NOT WORK...AT ALL...WHATSOEVER...at least they didnt at the time i quit, which wasnt that long ago.and NO the economy isnt player run. people just find the terminal's witht he best missions to get money until sony nerfs them, then move onto the next best one.as long as there are terminal which gice money than its not a player run econmy.the game is such **** they had to make jedi available early to attract more, and they f**ked that up too.ignatius!!! ! ! ! !! ! ! !OMFG you got it right on the money, we just need more people like you and me, to get over the bullshit that sucks you in and makes you want it to be good (what anon is going through)i bet this is anon's first mmorpg. because you have to have this **** happen to you in like 2 or 3 mmorpg's before you realize its all the same bullshit.f**k even that old peice of **** UO still has bugs like this!!! swg screwed it self over big time i played commando class and only one line out of all of then worked it was utter crap and when sony fixed that line cause it had always been gimped 2 weeks down the track they f**kin nerfed it into the groud so we sucked againu would think after having the best mmorpg out for 5 years (most subcribers) u could atleast pull off an alright game BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they had to rush it out like friggen newbsf**k sos i say and there crap sif even think about buying everquest2 after this load of bullshit this is the best game ever guys u can roleplay luke skywalker even chewy pretty much ever charicter in the starwars universe its really cool u don't know what ya missing out on! like i'm playing a smuggler(han solo) and i can dress him up so he looks just like the real han solo its so cool and so much fun infact its wayyyy cool its the coolest of the cool like when i go see darth vader npc and role play with him he doesn't even know the diffrence between me and the real han solo so i quickly bend him over pull down his leather pants and suck his ******** clean!wow what a rush u guys should play too!!!com'on i bet u can suck up **** juice faster then me! u know they are going to nerf the **** juice int he next patch right?BTW: for real, another ****** thing about the game is all kinds of **** requires maintenance costs. and its pretty high.you cannot stop playing the game for a few dats because all your **** will burn down, your house, factories, and harvestors.you basicly have to work to keep these things going like a job, at first its kind of fun, and you can plan alot of ****. but then it becomes the same old monotonous "work" and you wonder why your not having fun. you really want to play a game where there is more fun, but you cant, because you have to go kill animals to keep your **** from burning down.also there is no point to becoming a jedi. the whole time you are trying to kill animals, then you unlock jedi and kill animals with a lightsaber. yay.oh and creature handling is total crap. it has nothing to do with the star wars movies, but creature handlers dominate the game. if you do nat have awesome creatures you will get killed by someone elses awesome creatures. lame.Pokemon Wars: Galaxies is what they should have called it.god anyone who still plays this is dumber than a retarded kid with a lobotomy ive said it before, ill say it again...the gaming industry as it is today is not ready to produce MMORPGsthe network technology is ready, the software is ready, but the companies themselves are not ready.MMORPGs require an extra level of servoce & content on an ongoing basis, dont think of it as a standard game, program it, release it, collect cash. Think of it as running an online theatre troupe inside an online theme park.The world has to be constantly changing, game events have to be so commonplace so as to seem almost mundane. GMs need to be actors, otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of the crowd.Its an entirely new level of game, you must throw out all preconceptions from the last 30 years of video gaming. programming the engine and maintaining the server is only 1% of the job that needs to be done.verant still looks at it like its a huge quake deathmatch server, and until they actually get serious about producing a dynamic world, thats all it will ever be. this is a really good game. mostppl that say it sucks have not played it at all and those that have and dont like it then they r entitled to theiropinion but if the game sucks then how come thousands of ppl play it then?even ppl that rnt really into star wars will probably like it seeing as it is quite addictive and by now ALOT of the bugs r gone so quit ur whinin u *******

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On the other side, Mr. Obama’s Persian Gulf allies, whom he has pointed to as crucial to the credibility of the air campaign, have expressed displeasure with the United States’ reluctance to go after Mr. Assad directly. For years, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pressed Washington to join the fight to oust the Syrian president. And for years, the United States has demurred. “We need to create an army to fight the terrorists, but we also have to fight the regime,” Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, emir of Qatar, said Thursday in an interview with New York Times editors. “We have to do both.” Mr. Obama told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that the United States would work with its allies to roll back the Islamic State through military action and support for moderate rebels. But he added, “The only lasting solution to Syria’s civil war is political: an inclusive political transition that responds to the legitimate aspirations of all Syrian citizens, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of creed.” Yet as the Syrian conflict transformed from peaceful, popular calls for change to a bloody unraveling of the nation, it also became a proxy battlefield for regional and global interests. Iran and Russia sided with Mr. Assad. Arab Gulf nations sided with the rebels, though not always with the same rebels. The United States called for Mr. Assad to go, but never fully engaged. The rise of the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, prompted Mr. Obama to jump in, but under the auspices of an antiterrorism campaign. The United States was not taking sides in the civil war, or at least it did not intend to. But the minute it entered the battlefield, it inevitably muddled its standing in Syria and across the Middle East, analysts and experts in the region said.

Every year, more girls are murdered in India and China than are born in the United States. It is estimated, 200 million girls are missing from the world due to abandonment, murder, or trafficking because of their gender. Gendercide, the systematic and methodical killing of girls due to their gender, has been an issue for years. Even though countries around the world are fighting for global female empowerment, one of the worst crimes against women is being largely ignored. The rampant slaughter of girls in India and China shows the grave impacts of basing a human being’s value on their status, wealth, or the monetary gain they have to offer. Families in India base the value of their children on whether they add or take away from their families status and finances. Similarly, China views females as less important than males because of their societal gender roles and one child policy. The world is turning a blind eye to the girls who are treated like property and stripped of their value and dignity. Because India measures people's worth by their social status and financial well-being, gendercide is rampant in India. This worldview is instilled in India through their dowry system. When families marry off their daughter, they have to pay a high dowry of money, possessions, or property to their daughter’s husband. When someone's son gets married, they gain money, possessions, or property from his wife's family. Sadly, families view their daughters as a financial strain on their family and abort them because they would rather keep their money and property than raise a daughter. They’d rather have a son because they can gain money instead of losing it. They look at children simply through the lens of what they have to offer them financially and socially. In the documentary, It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World, a mother openly talks about how she continued to have girls instead of boys, so she strangled her daughters. Other mothers and fathers will wet a cloth and put it over their babies face so they cannot breathe and suffocate to death. In India, the largest cause of gendercide is female feticide, which is “the sex-selective abortion of females.” To counteract this issue, India made it illegal to administer a sex-determination test. However, this law is not being enforced. In fact, the most prosperous doctors in India are successful because they accept illegal payments to determine the sex of a child while he or she is in the womb so that the parents of the child can decide if they want to abort their child. The decision of whether or not to abort their child is based entirely on the child's gender. The crisis of devaluing women in India and China does not only apply to babies, but also to their mothers. In It’s a Girl, there is a story about a woman who was abused and locked in a room without food or water because she refused to take a sex determination test to discover the gender of her twins. Three days later, her husband and mother-in-law fed her a cake baked with eggs, to which she was allergic. Their goal was to make her sick so they could take her to the hospital and pay the doctor to illegally determine the genders of her children. After her husband discovered both of the babies were girls, he pushed her down a flight of stairs and locked her in a room. Severely injured and bleeding, she escaped to her parent's house where she delivered her two baby girls. She had avoided going to her family before then, because having an unsuccessful marriage damaged her and her family’s social status, which is of utmost importance in India. There are many different causes for the deep-rooted prejudice against women in China. First, a family’s bloodline passes through their son since daughters “marry out” of their families. Parents also rely on their sons to financially take care of them when they are older. If they can only have one child, they want a son to guarantee they will be provided for in their later years. Gender roles in China also play a part in the son-preference in China. Traditionally, girls are encouraged to prioritize their family instead of their career. These ideas are being challenged to an extent, however, the beliefs and the consequences of these beliefs are still prevalent and grievously problematic. Due to the limited number of children Chinese families are allowed to have, and the disadvantage women have in China, families would prefer to have sons. Even if a family is open to having a daughter, the one-child policy can still force them to abort that child. Anyone in China can turn a woman in for being illegally pregnant and she will be forced to have an abortion. China's’ appalling view of women can be summarized in the loathsome Chinese saying that is declared in the faces of young girls, “You are only a girl. You are spilt water." The situation in India and China shows the dire consequences of not valuing human life. The murder of females based on their gender has caused such a wide gap in the ratio of females to males in China that it has created a market for sex trafficking, prostitution, and child bride kidnapping. Baby girls are often stolen or purchased from families so other families can secure them as future brides for their sons. One often overlooked factor of gendercide in India is religion. The Economist published an article titled “Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls” that focused on the contribution of sex-determination tests on gendercide. In response to this article, Edgar Dahl, who works for the Institute for Medical Ethics, University of Muenster, Germany, argued, “One of the most important reasons for preferring sons over daughters is religion. According to Hinduism, a man who has failed to sire a son cannot achieve salvation. Only a male descendant can light the funeral pyre and ensure the redemption of the departed soul. Thus, the fault does not lie with science but with religion.” Having a standard that grants or recognizes a human beings value is important. Genesis 1:27 declares that humans are made in the image of God. This standard grants every human being infinite intrinsic value outside of extrinsic societal measurement of worth. This unique Christian perspective offers something increasingly necessary that no other religion provides - an indisputable standard for every human's value. Without this standard, people try and fail to find a way to assign worth to humans that have been disadvantaged by their societies. Because these cultures let their monetary benefit to society dictate their worth, girls are disproportionately aborted, killed as infants, and neglected throughout their life. Sasmita Jenas’ research on the differences in the sex ratio between different regions of India support this argument. She writes, “In Kerala the females exceed in numbers, because of comparatively high status granted to females among Christians” (59). Imagine living as a woman in India or China - to simply be alive is a miracle. But every single day the girls living in these countries are murdered, aborted, exploited, trafficked, stolen, and abused. They live their lives being told they are not valuable. They are ignored and their opportunities are limited. Their friends, or even they themselves, might callously tell someone the story of how they suffocated or strangled their daughter because she was unwanted. This issue needs to be addressed because every human needs to be told they are valuable and treated like they are. The epidemic of not valuing human life seeps into other cultures, like the United States, through abortion regardless of gender. China and India show a horrendous example of what this can lead to - a gender, race, or subset of people being specifically mistreated. No one should ever be killed for being female. We must fight againist gendercide and sex-selective abortion.

"[J.D.] Work at a hospital long enough, you get used to anything." "Whether it's Dr. Kim, who makes patients take their pants off no matter what..." "Yep, you've got pink eye." "Can I put my pants back on?" "Right after I put some drops in." "Or nobody remembering Ray Ketay's 80th birthday." "Why aren't you making a bigger fuss?" "Uh, I would have, Mr. Ketay, but Dr. Reid is throwing a huge celebration for you later." "[J.D.] I should tell her about that." "Truth is, thanks to modern medicine, 80 isn't that big a deal anymore." "It's not like the olden days." "Let us not feel sorrow for Bobby Adams." "He was 12." "He led a full life." "He will be missed." "Especially by his beautiful wife, Jenny, who stood by him, even when he turned six, had a mid-life crisis, and was caught banging one of those naked people that brought us corn." "I'd be the oldest man in Pilgrim Village." "[J.D.] Still, you should always celebrate life because you never know when it will throw you a curveball." "Like with Dr. Cox." "He recently made a decision any doctor would have made, and because of it, three patients died." "At first, he was inconsolably sad." "After that, he started acting out." "In his defense, he did ask for dressing on the side." "Daphne!" "I heard that he attacked one of the busboys." "Yeah, I heard he bitch-slapped the maitre d'." "Enough, gang." "That's how rumors get started." "Gloria, I made a joke that you hooked up with Leonard, the security guard with the hook-hand, now everyone thinks it's true." "It is true." "And I'm never going back." "Gloria!" "[Makes kissing sound]" "[Kissing sound]" "I love me some white meat." "OK... well, make sure you put antiseptic on any puncture wounds, OK?" "Now I know Dr. Cox seems crazy mad at the world right now, but let's remember, three patients died." "What's amazing is that he can take a hit like that, one that would knock any of us out for good, and come out still standing." "That's why the man's an inspiration." "I mean, he is a rock." " [Pager beeping]" " Yep, he's the best damn doctor here." "Newbie, give me a little trouble?" "I'm having some help here." "Oh, no." "# I can't do this all on my own" "# No, I know I'm no Superman" "# I'm no Superman #" "All right, people, listen up." "We are a family." "And what do families do when one of their own is in trouble?" "When my brother came out of the closet my parents sent him to hetero camp." "Families not from Connecticut." "[J.D.] Pregnancy had made Carla a little hormonal." "Dr. Kelso, I asked you to keep this matter away from the Board." " Were you able to?" " Nurse Espinosa, I..." " Were you?" "!" " Yes!" "I told them Dr. Cox was taking a leave of absence due to problems at home." " Should anyone ask, you beat him." " Beat him." "Got it." "I couldn't believe how depressed he was." " It was so sad." " Oh, I know." "When I first heard about it, I was like, "Whoa, no way."" " You don't know what this is about." " Sure, I do, donkey-boy up in ICU." "We're talking about Dr. Cox." "Oh." "Well, if anyone's interested, there's a donkey-boy in the ICU." " Baby?" " No, Turk." "Now, Dr. Cox needs our help getting through this." "Jordan can watch him at morning and at night, but she's got Jack." " She's not that emotionally available." " I'm dead inside." "We're all going to spend time with him." "I've made up a schedule." "I have the first shift." " Any questions?" "Meeting is adjourned." " Oh." " Gosh!" " What?" "For God's sakes, Reid, there's a donkey-boy upstairs." "[Turk] Damn." "That boy is going to town on that carrot." "You fellas want to go to a real donkey show?" "It's really very tastefully done." "One of the women who entertains the donkey used to be on a soap." "Pass." "Standing invitation, every Thursday." "Always pass, sir." "Well, I'll ask Mickhead." "Turk, you know what bothers me?" "Dr. Cox shows up to work drunk, we act like nothing happened." "I don't know." "I kinda feel for the guy." "Besides..." "I am way too excited." "I start my orthopedic rotation today." "It is going to be awesome." "Turk was psyched because orthopedic surgeons are notoriously the most unemotional, jockish surgeons of all." "Turk was going to have a boss he could connect with." "Hey, guys, I'm Dr. Stone." "I'm your new attending." " All right, fellas." "Hands in." " Yeah." "[Stone] Mm." "Mmm." "[Turk] Dr. Stone?" "Usually, when people put their hands in, someone says, "Go get them!" or "whoo!"" "No." "No words yet." "I want you all to get comfortable with the feel of your brother's hands on yours." "As surgeons, we're constantly opening people up and looking around." "But have you ever stopped to open yourself up and look around?" " Whoa." " Mmm." "Whoo!" " Hey." "How's he doing?" " Hi." "He's not talking and he's..." "you know..." "What?" "Daddy drinks a lot." "First complete sentence." "Fantastic." "Thanks for doing this." "Hey, sunshine." "You gonna at least say hello?" "Nothing?" "Listen..." "I know you keep blaming yourself for this, but you just can't." "When my mom died, I thought that because I was a nurse" "I should have been able to prevent it somehow." "But over time I realized that bad things are going to happen and beating yourself up isn't going to help anyone." "That's it, sweetie." "Come here." "Come here." "Nurse, I need you to help me drain some fluid." "But first, we have to work on this patient." "Todd, take the scalpel and carve this into your arm." ""No nurse will ever touch your dangle."" " Christopher, come on." " Oh." "You know what?" "You're edgy because you're on the sidelines." " I know how that digs at you." " Yeah." "It digs at you right in here." "And that's OK, you know?" "What would you say if you could have that big knee reconstruction?" " Awesome." " You bet it is." " Right." " Yeah." "OK." " Finished." " Let's just take a second here to think about what we just did." "[Crying] We fixed an elbow, yeah?" "The last thing this man said before he went under was how much he enjoyed Sunday morning tennis." "Right?" "And I just, I think that's special." "And we're special." "This was special." "Thank you." "He actually said, "I think that's pretty special."" "Then he got all emotional." " I mean, how lame is that?" " It's pretty lame." "I'm just not into all of that sensitive touchy-feely stuff." "You hug me all the time." "And even that took a while." "Remember the first time you tried to hug me?" "Yeah!" "Your sports team won the World Series!" " What a game!" " A grand slam!" "With Dr. Stone it's different." "We're not friends." "What kind of guy gets all cuddly with people he just met?" "It's pathetic." "Dude, that's a little harsh." "How long have you been holding that button?" "Long enough for me to hear what you really think." "Great." "Is there another guy on this planet who's that sensitive?" "[J.D.] OK." "Let it out." "I got ya." "J.D.'s got ya." "Hold me tighter." "Little too tight." " There's a good spot." " [Sobbing]" " Elliot, why did I have to come?" " Because we're a couple, Keith." " We do things together." " OK." "Would it be OK if I moved?" "This couch is... uncomfortable." "Dr. Cox, I am not going to pretend to know what you're going through, but believe me, I've had my experiences." "Remember when I put my malaria patient through that painful procedure, when everyone knew he'd die anyway?" "You know what?" "I'm just going to go sit in the bathroom." "Know what I do when I'm having a really tough time getting through things?" "I just leave the city, get into nature, and just take stock of what's really important." "Just make sure you don't go to a popular parachute drop-zone." "I don't know if it was the adrenaline rush or because I thought he was an angel, but it's fastest I've gone from meeting to kissing." "Yeah." "True story." " I'm just worried about this mole." " Doesn't look cancerous." "Ah, get in there and take your pants off." " You gonna go talk to Dr. Stone?" " It'll blow over." "Plus, he's a surgeon." "Surgeons don't hold grudges." "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go scrub up." "By the way, your shift with Dr. Cox starts in ten minutes." "Turk was right." "Personal feelings shouldn't get in the way of a professional relationship, but they do." "What do you say we rebuild that knee?" "Actually, I think I'm going to let Dr. Norman here take the lead on this one, OK?" "Look, Carla, I have a real problem with what Dr. Cox did and I don't think I can go over there." "I'm gonna send somebody else over for you, OK?" "J.D. Was supposed to come but, um he... he's not coming." "[J.D.] I couldn't really worry about bailing on Dr. Cox." "The Stanleys' child was sick and I had just spent the last 20 minutes asking them awkward questions to rule out the possibility of child abuse." " Who would smother their own child?" " You'd be surprised." "There's Munchausen Syndrome, where a parent will intentionally harm their child to get attention themselves." "I've never heard of that." "Someone should do a public service announcement about it." "[J.D.] Hmm." "Someone should." "Had a tough day at the office, come home, make yourself some dinner, smother your kids, pop in a movie, maybe have a drink." "It's fun, right?" "Wrong." "Don't smother your kids." "That problem would be gone forever." " I am so mad at you." " Yeah, you big jerk." "How could you stand up Dr. Cox?" "Wait, is that what we came to yell at him for?" "Well, yeah." "What did you think it was?" "Apparently J.D. Told Mr. Ketay I'm throwing a birthday party." "He asked where the cake was." "I panicked." "I told him we got him a weekend in Vegas." " What?" " Can I see Celine Dion?" "Oh, anything you want, Mr. Ketay!" "You're going halfsies with me." "I can't believe you didn't show up at Dr. Cox's." "Do you have any idea who I had to send in your place?" "# Gray skies are gonna clear up" "# Put on a happy face Hap-happy-hap" "# Brush off the clouds and cheer up" "If you're not digging this," "I've got a hundred jokes about these." "# Sunshine all over the place" "# Just put on Put on" "# A happy face #" "Yeah." "I'm just not down with the whole drinking and doctoring thing." " Deal with it." " [Snaps fingers]" "Excuse me." "I'll never get a good surgery on this rotation." "I can help you with Dr. Stone." "He's one of my people." " He's a sensie." " What's a sensie?" "It's short for sensitive guy." "Our music is acoustic alternative." "We marvel at fireflies." "And when we help a drunk girl home from the bar, sure, we cop a feel a feel of her hair as we're pulling it back so she doesn't get vomit on it." "I'm having a weird med school flashback." "I think you held my hair back while I vomited." "It was our last year." "I didn't want you to get Jägermeister in your cornrows." " My Latrell Sprewell phase." " Hockey?" " Basketball." " Damn it." " What am I going to do about Dr. Stone?" " You're going to cry in front of him." "Laugh if you must, but it'll show you have emotional depth and it will trigger a nurturing impulse inside him that we sensies can't resist." "How the hell am I supposed to cry?" "You need to cry." "Let's brainstorm." "I could hit you over the head with a wrench." "Or..." "I could stab you in the gut with a knife." "# Knife-wrench" "Practical and safe." "Whoa!" "Ow!" " Oh!" "Oh, boy!" " Anyhoo, don't worry about crying." "I got this menthol from the pharmacy." "I read online that actors in Holly-weird spray their eyes when they need to fake-cry." "Why do you have five?" "I'm using it for the final death scene in my movie, Dr. Acula." "Last night, my German financier, Hans, rest in peace, died on the Autobahn." "So now I got to shoot the whole thing on my cell phone." "Hello, Bob." " No cheek kiss necessary." " Oh, good." "I had pipe breath." "So... when was the last time I was here?" "'97?" "I know it's been a while because Enid could still fit through that door." "I shouldn't joke, she's very ill." "I'm going to go take a shower." "Oh, Perry?" "I don't really know why I'm here, but Nurse Espinosa said if I didn't, she'd stop coming over to my house and giving instructions to my pool boy." "He speaks English, but doesn't have front teeth, so I can never look at him without laughing." "[Kelso chuckling]" "Anyway, I don't know what she expects me to say to you." "I mean, all you do is bust my ass day in and day out." "I guess you... you keep me in line on those rare occasions when I lose sight of things." "You could say we balance each other out pretty well." "[Sighing]" "Perry the hospital needs you." "I need you." "What the hell are you doing?" "Did Elliot leave without telling me?" "Why is there an intern in my bathroom?" "It's not my birthday." "She made me watch." "OK, there he is." "You ready?" "Ow!" "He's the one that needs to cry, you idiot." "Not me." "Ow!" "Oh yeah." "I forgot all about that crying stuff." "I was just... oh hey!" "Loose thread." " No!" " Got it." "# Knife-wrench!" "For kids." "OK, he's hugging Colonel Doctor which means you got about seven seconds." "A hug takes seven seconds?" "A good one does." "Here's the plan." "You're going to tell him a story that isn't inherently sad." "When you get emotional, he will think you're extra-sensitive." "I'll nail you with the menthol." "You'll be crying like a ten-year-old Pilgrim widow." "Here he comes." "And... black-tion." " Dr. Stone." " Christopher." "Yeah, you know, I'm just out here thinking about my wife." "She's pregnant with our first child." "[J.D.] Now come on, fishy." "Take the bait." "Children are pretty darn special." "I have seven of my own, and each one is just as compassionate as the next one." "That is the quality that me and my six ex-wives tried to instill in our children." "It's overwhelming here." "Exactly." "You know, my new wife, Carol, she is four months pregnant." " Congratulations." " We're separated." "Uh-huh." "We are not so different, you and I." "[J.D.] He's not a sensie." "He's a nut job." "It's hug time, Chris." "Come here." " Whoa!" " [Thump]" "Old habit." "So he has a mild concussion and they're going to let him rest for a while." "Good." "That gives us time to come up with a new plan." "Oh, no." "That's it." "I'm done." "There's no way we will have a relationship." "Not unless I want to bear his 17th child." "He's your attending, you have to connect." "You need somebody you can look up to, someone you can count on." "What you need is someone who will always have your back." "No, J.D., that's what you need." "That's what you've always needed." "Maybe after five years working here, that's not such a good thing." "I got to go and do my shift with Dr. Cox." "[J.D.] Right then I knew what I had to do." " Hey." " What's up?" "[# Gary Jules:" "Something Else]" "You're probably wondering why I didn't show up before, huh?" "I know you wanted me to, even though you'd never admit it." "Normally I would kill to get into this apartment, and you'd try and keep me out." "I say "try" because, at your Super Bowl party, which I was not invited to," "I was lucky enough to be able to watch the second half from right over there." "I was the bearded Domino's employee you invited in because I said I was a fan of Jerome Bettis, whoever the hell that is." "Anyway, I tried to convince myself the reason I didn't come earlier was because of you coming into work drunk." "But that's not it." "I was scared." "I guess after all this time," "I still think of you as, like, this superhero that will help me out of any situation I'm in." "I needed that." "But that's my problem, you know, and I'll deal with that." "I guess I came over here to tell you how proud of you I am." "Not because you did the best you could for those patients but because after 20 years of being a doctor when things go badly, you still take it this hard." "And I got to tell you, man, I mean that's the kind of doctor I want to be." "[J.D.] Maybe he just needed time to heal, or maybe he just needed to see how much everybody cared, but I'd like to believe it was because of me that he was finally able to say this..." "You don't drink scotch." "That's awful." "I'm glad you finally shaved." "[J.D.] That's the thing about family." "If you fall off the deep end, you can always count on them to rally around you." "And when you come back, you might get a quick hug a pat on the shoulder maybe just a nod but no words really need to be spoken." "Of course it's always nice when they are." "J. D thank you." "You're welcome."

Health woes pile up in the US 点击量： 时间：2019-03-02 10:20:00 BAD news piled up for the US this week. Not only could the number of obese American have been underestimated by as much as 50 per cent over the last 15 years, but Americans are not as healthy as their British counterparts. Majid Ezzati and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health found that men and women unintentionally give false information during nationwide health surveys. Women often underestimate their weight, while men overestimate height, both of which mess up the body-mass-index calculations used to work out whether someone is overweight. Ezzati estimates that during 2002, for example,

Audio coding is used in many applications and environments such as satellite radio, digital radio, internet streaming (web radio), digital music players, and a variety of mobile multimedia applications. There are many audio coding standards, such as standards according to the motion pictures expert group (MPEG), windows media audio (WMA), and standards by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Many audio coding standards continue to emerge, including the MP3 standard and successors to the MP3 standard, such as the advanced audio coding (AAC) standard used in “iPod” devices sold by Apple Computer, Inc. Audio coding standards generally seek to achieve low bitrate, high quality audio coding using compression techniques. Some audio coding is “loss-less,” meaning that the coding does not degrade the audio signal, while other audio coding may introduce some loss in order to achieve additional compression. In many applications, audio coding is used with video coding in order to provide multi-media content for applications such as video telephony (VT) or streaming video. Video coding standards according to the MPEC, for example, often use audio and video coding. The MPEG standards currently include MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, but other standards will likely emerge. Other exemplary video standards include the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.263 standards, ITU H.264 standards, QuickTime™ technology developed by Apple Computer Inc., Video for Windows™ developed by Microsoft Corporation, Indeo™ developed by Intel Corporation, RealVideo™ from RealNetworks, Inc., and Cinepak™ developed by SuperMac, Inc. Some audio and video standards are open source, while others remain proprietary. Many other audio and video coding standards will continue to emerge and evolve. Bitstream errors occurring in transmitted audio signals may have a serious impact on decoded audio signals due to the introduction of audible artifacts. In order to address this quality degradation, an error control block including an error detection module and a frame loss concealment (FLC) module may be added to a decoder. Once errors are detected in a frame of the received bitstream, the error detection module discards all bits for the erroneous frame. The FLC module then estimates audio data to replace the discarded frame in an attempt to create a perceptually seamless sounding audio signal. Various techniques for decoder frame loss concealment have been proposed. However, most FLC techniques suffer from the extreme tradeoff between concealed audio signal quality and implementation cost. For example, simply replacing the discarded frame with silence, noise, or audio data of a previous frame represents one extreme of the tradeoff due to the low computational cost but poor concealment performance. Advanced techniques based on source modeling to conceal the discarded frame fall on the other extreme by requiring high or even prohibitive implementation costs to achieve satisfactory concealment performance.

This section is intended to provide a background or context to the invention that is recited in the claims. The description herein may include concepts that could be pursued, but are not necessarily ones that have been previously conceived, implemented or described. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated herein, what is described in this section is not prior art to the description and claims in this application and is not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section. The following abbreviations that may be found in the specification and/or the drawing figures are defined as follows: 3GPP third generation partnership project BT Bluetooth™ BW bandwidth DL downlink (eNB towards UE) eNB E-UTRAN Node B (evolved Node B) EPC evolved packet core E-UTRAN evolved UTRAN (LTE) FDM frequency division multiplex GNSS global navigation satellite system GPS global positioning system IDC in-device coexistence IMTA international mobile telecommunications association ISM industrial, scientific and medical (frequency bands) ITU-R international telecommunication union-radiocommunication sector LTE long term evolution of UTRAN (E-UTRAN) LTE-A LTE advanced MAC medium access control (layer 2, L2) MM/MME mobility management/mobility management entity NodeB base station OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access O&M operations and maintenance PDCP packet data convergence protocol PHY physical (layer 1, L1) Rel release RLC radio link control RRC radio resource control RRM radio resource management S-GW serving gateway SC-FDMA single carrier, frequency division multiple access TDM time division multiplex UE user equipment, such as a mobile station, mobile node or mobile terminal UL uplink (UE towards eNB) UPE user plane entity UTRAN universal terrestrial radio access network Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity, wireless local area network (WLAN) technology based on IEEE 802.11 standard. IEEE 802.11 covers technologies certified as IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad/af/s/i/v for example. One modern communication system is known as evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN, also referred to as UTRAN-LTE or as E-UTRA). In this system the DL access technique is OFDMA, and the UL access technique is SC-FDMA. One specification of interest is 3GPP TS 36.300 V10.5.0 (2011 September) Technical Specification 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2 (Release 10) incorporated by reference herein in its entirety and referred to for simplicity hereafter as 3GPP TS 36.300. FIG. 1A reproduces FIG. 4.1 of 3GPP TS 36.300 and shows the overall architecture of the E-UTRAN system (Rel-8). The E-UTRAN system includes eNBs, providing the E-UTRAN user plane (PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol terminations towards the UEs. The eNBs are interconnected with each other by means of an X2 interface. The eNBs are also connected by means of an S1 interface to an EPC, more specifically to a MME by means of a S1 MME interface and to a S-GW by means of a S1 interface (MME/S-GW 4). The S1 interface supports a many-to-many relationship between MMEs/S-GWs/UPEs and eNBs. The eNB hosts the following functions: functions for RRM: RRC, Radio Admission Control, Connection Mobility Control, Dynamic allocation of resources to UEs in both UL and DL (scheduling); IP header compression and encryption of the user data stream; selection of a MME at UE attachment; routing of User Plane data towards the EPC (MME/S-GW); scheduling and transmission of paging messages (originated from the MME); scheduling and transmission of broadcast information (originated from the MME or O&M); and a measurement and measurement reporting configuration for mobility and scheduling. Also of interest herein are the further releases of 3GPP LTE (e.g., LTE Rel-10) targeted towards future IMT-A systems, referred to herein for convenience simply as LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). Reference in this regard may be made to 3GPP TR 36.913 V10.0.0 (2011-03) Technical Report 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Requirements for further advancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) (LTE-Advanced)(Release 10). Reference can also be made to 3GPP TR 36.912 V10.0.0 (2011 March) Technical Report 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Feasibility study for Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced) (Release 10). A goal of LTE-A is to provide significantly enhanced services by means of higher data rates and lower latency with reduced cost. LTE-A is directed toward extending and optimizing the 3GPP LTE Rel-8 radio access technologies to provide higher data rates at lower cost. LTE-A will be a more optimized radio system fulfilling the ITU-R requirements for IMT-Advanced while keeping the backward compatibility with LTE Rel-8. Coexistence of LTE and WiFi/Bluetooth/GNSS (e.g., GPS) radios co-located in a small device such as a mobile phone (e.g., a UE) can create problems. When these radios use frequency bands with a narrow guard band, or have some harmonic relationship, a conventional filtering solution may not be possible. 3GPP RAN2 has an active work item to study and specify LTE network solutions to aid a problematic UE so that the UE can address the problem.

Society has successfully defined what kind of looks and features one must have to be considered beautiful. And there are many (not just women) out there who doubt their looks, internally hating certain features that they are born with, and are more than ready to ‘correct’ them. We’ve all heard of the ‘lion lady’, Jocelyn Wildenstein. If you haven’t then, Ms Wildenstein has undergone numerous plastic surgeries in a desperate attempt to regain the affection of her husband. Simply put, he loved lions, so she decided to make herself look like one. Likewise there was a young girl in South Korea who was constantly surrounded by people with ‘perfected’ looks. She feels pressured to fit in and have long desired to have the same mannequin look. However, without the support of her parents, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Just how far would she go to change her looks and achieve self acceptance? In a video titled “Human Form”, Young Inhyung draws pictures of small girls with perfectly symmetrical features, almost doll-like. Even as a child, she is already in delusional on how people should look. She visits a cosmetic clinic one day, but was told that she wouldn’t be able to afford the plastic surgery. She then turns to her mother for support, but her mother says she’s too young for surgery. Remember as a teenager, where all you wanted was to have the latest mobile phone and $hit; well this girl is asking for a new face! #kidsthesedays Inhyung walks home in the dark and spots a flyer on the wall ‘Research Participants Needed for Plastic Surgery’ which caught her attention. Inhyung decides to participate and she eventually signs the disclaimer forms. Next she is seen on the operation table undergoing the surgery. Stupid, stupid, stupid! With high hopes, she dreams that she will finally wake up to a ‘perfect’ face. However, the surgery had gone awfully wrong and Inhyung is left with her face bloodied in bandages. You cannot help but feel sorry for her. Human form, an award-winning South Korea horror short film depicts the influence of what is perceived to be beautiful on a young girl. And please take note the genre is horror. In our current generation, not just women, but men too are very much into enhancing their looks. We feel the pressure to become what society deems as beautiful and acceptable. But sadly, not all stories are with happy endings. Perhaps it’s just a matter of time till we end up like that: surgery obsessed.

Q: What countries in the world have legalized both abortion and cannabis? As far as I am aware, Uruguay is the only country in the Americas that has legalized both abortion and cannabis: Abortion was legalized in 2012, followed by same-sex marriage and cannabis in the following year. I know of many countries where either abortion or cannabis are legalized, but I'm not aware of other examples where both are. Are there any other countries in the world where both abortion and cannabis are legalized on a country level (ie: not just on some states)? A: I looked at Wikipedia's very nice maps about this: Here is a map about the legality of marijuana. Blue means that it is fully legalized. I am only counting these, based on the specific wording in the question. The dark blue countries here are ones where abortion is "legal on request". If I look at the overlap, abortion is legal on request and recreational marijuana is legalized (as opposed to unenforced or decriminalized) in: Canada Uruguay South Africa (growing and using but not sale) Georgia (growing and using but not sale) Interestingly, these are actually all of the countries (that I know of) with nationally legalized recreational marijuana. This list originally counted states and territories in the US, but I removed it. Note: there very likely are some islands that I missed in the alt-text list. Sorry if I did—feel free to correct me in the comments! Also, if anyone is reading this in the future and notices that some of these are outdated, please comment and tell me! View the alt text in the source of this answer for a complete list. All information in this is based on Wikipedia's articles on marijuana laws and abortion laws, along with their articles on marijuana in the Northern Mariana Islands and in Guam. A: Abortion in Canada is legal at all stages of pregnancy, even though provision of services varies from province to province. Abortion is the premature ending of a pregnancy. Inducing an abortion was a crime in Canada until 1988, when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the abortion law as unconstitutional. Since then, abortion has been legal at any stage in a woman's pregnancy, and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the Canada Health Act. The Canadian Encyclopedia: Abortion in Canada Cannabis in Canada is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. Cannabis, also known as marijuana (among countless other names), is a psychoactive intoxicant that was banned in Canada from 1923 until medical cannabis became legal in 2001. The consumption and sale of recreational cannabis was legalized and regulated on 17 October 2018, after Parliament passed Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act. The Canadian Encyclopedia: Cannabis Legalization in Canada

Listed buildings in Astley Abbotts Astley Abbotts is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the small village of Astley Abbotts and is otherwise rural. Apart from a church, all the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, farm houses and farm buildings, most of them in the countryside around the village. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources Category:Lists of buildings and structures in Shropshire

Shiv Sena president, Uddhav Thackeray, has demanded that the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj outside the Mumbai international airport must get a ceremonial umbrella. While speaking at a Shiv Jayanti programme on Sunday, Thackeray said, "We have told those concerned many times, be it the Airport Authority or GVK, that you have made our Maharaj (Shivaji) stand here exposed to the elements. We will not tolerate this. If you cannot do it... the Shiv Sena and Shiva premis will erect a ceremonial umbrella here." "Shiv Jayanti is not just another day. It is a festival for Maharashtrians and Hindus like Diwali, Dusshera, Ganesh Utsav, Navratri and Gudi Padwa," he added. The Shiv Sena and Hindutva groups celebrate Shiv Jayanti according to the Hindu calendar.

Newspaper headlines: Trump allegations and footballers' mental health By BBC News Staff Published duration 28 February 2019 image copyright Reuters image caption Mr Trump tweeted that Cohen, pictured, was "lying in order to reduce his prison time". Many papers assess Michael Cohen's claims about Donald Trump - and four words feature prominently on the morning's front pages: "racist", "cheat", "liar" and "conman". The Telegraph says Cohen's "explosive" appearance before Congress saw him deliver a "character assassination" of his former boss - accusing him of running for office to boost the profile of his brand "on a platform of hate". According to the Guardian, the Trump presidency "was pushed into deep legal and political peril", with testimony that will be "seized upon" by those calling for his impeachment. The Financial Times says Republicans responded by attacking Cohen's credibility , after he portrayed himself as a "fool" who "blindly served" Mr Trump, but was now setting the record straight before going to prison. 'Hateful new low' In what it calls a "hateful new low", the Daily Mail says Jeremy Corbyn tried to block Chris Williamson's suspension from the Labour Party, before he was forced to withdraw the whip from his ally after a mass revolt by 38 moderate MPs. image copyright Getty Images image caption Chris Williamson said Labour had been "too apologetic" over anti-Semitism but later said he "deeply regrets" the remarks The Independent website says it's been told by a string of senior Labour figures - including two on the party's front bench - that Mr Williamson was about to be suspended, until Mr Corbyn's office "directly intervened". A shadow cabinet source is quoted as saying: "They hide behind process, but these decisions are always taken by the leader's office." 'Unexpected move' According to the Times , the world's largest sovereign wealth fund is betting that Britain "will emerge from Brexit stronger outside the European Union". In what it describes as an "unexpected move", the paper says Norway's £740bn wealth fund will increase its exposure to British companies, property and bonds "regardless of the outcome of Brexit negotiations". The paper says this is despite a 12% fall in the value of its UK investments this year. The fund's chief executive is reported to have said : "With our time horizon, which is 30 years-plus, current political discussions do not change our view of the situation." 'Chill says Wills' With the headline: "Chill, says Wills", the Sun says Prince William has urged people to come together , in what the paper describes as a "thinly veiled plea for Brexit unity". The front page of the Daily Express highlights the same speech in Belfast, saying the Duke of Cambridge "issued a rallying cry" for calm and leadership. image copyright Reuters image caption Prince William was speaking on the first day of his and Catherine's visit to Northern Ireland The Mirror says Prince William has criticised football clubs in his role as president of the Football Association, accusing them of exploiting young players by treating them solely as financial assets, and not caring about their mental health. The former England striker Stan Collymore, who described his experiences of depression in the Mirror , tells the paper the prince's comments are "potentially game-changing". 'Too little, too late' The launch of BritBox - a joint venture between the BBC and ITV to rival Netflix - is criticised. The Daily Mail is one of several papers to complain that the new subscription service will feature "old programmes we've paid for already".

Get a Life <div class="image"><img alt="20070608rupert_sm.jpg" src="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/20070608rupert_sm.jpg" width="345" height="145" /></div> With public enemy no. 1, <strong>Paris Hilton</strong>, temporarily behind bars, the city turned its attention to more-mundane threats — like the alleged plot to blow up JFK airport. For Mr. 9/11, <strong>Rudy Giuliani</strong>, the foiled plan confirmed that he was the only presidential candidate qualified to keep the country safe — or to use the phrase <em>Islamic terrorist</em>, for that matter. “If you hear them utter those words,” he said of debating Democrats, “give me credit for it.” Budget officials warned that scary $3 subway fares were in the offing but estimated that some of that cost could be offset by making the city a gay-wedding destination. The other option is Rollerblading everywhere: The city’s transportation commissioner seemed open to closing Central Park to auto traffic during the summer. 0 Shares Share Photo: David Karp/AP With public enemy no. 1, Paris Hilton, temporarily behind bars, the city turned its attention to more-mundane threats — like the alleged plot to blow up JFK airport. For Mr. 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, the foiled plan confirmed that he was the only presidential candidate qualified to keep the country safe — or to use the phrase Islamic terrorist, for that matter. “If you hear them utter those words,” he said of debating Democrats, “give me credit for it.” Budget officials warned that scary $3 subway fares were in the offing but estimated that some of that cost could be offset by making the city a gay-wedding destination. The other option is Rollerblading everywhere: The city’s transportation commissioner seemed open to closing Central Park to auto traffic during the summer. Federal investigators examined State Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno’s lucrative investments in horseflesh. A Harlem man claimed that a cold can of Boost energy drink went down smoothly but that his resulting erection would not. (He’s suing.) An East Side insurance broker was busted firing arrows into his neighbor’s apartment. (He’s sorry.) The crime rate continued to fall in America’s Safest Big City (except where Hiltons were concerned, naturally — Paris’s brother Barron was mugged near Penn Station), possibly because of incompetence: A hit man — distracted, one would assume, by the impending Sopranos finale — botched a job on an accused mob associate of John Gotti’s. Rupert Murdoch sat down to try to make an offer to the Bancroft-family owners of The Wall Street Journal that they couldn’t refuse, as the always newsworthy Ron Burkle reached out to the paper’s union. Muhammad Ali took an honorary doctorate at Princeton, Oprah and others fêted Ralph Lauren at the CFDA awards, and dirty hypodermic needles poked Staten Island beachgoers. Mayor Mike kept cool. “You can’t sit there and worry about everything,” he said of the JFK conspiracy. “Get a life.” —Mark Adams

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He wasn't brought to Toronto with the intention to play many minutes, that's just not the reason he was signed. Answer me this, how many teams in the league are carrying third string PG's who can make a real positive impact on the game? I think it's easy to point the finger now in hindsight but I don't remember hearing you praising Lin prior to this five game stretch. its not even about who praised Lin.. its not even like i think Lin will keep this up... its about whos the better player & Lin is better then AC no doubt.. AC might have had a 13 year NBA career but how many of those years were spent being 3rd string??? quite a bit i think... Er...excuse me...why is everyone considering Steve Simmons to be a good source? He probably discussed this with his step brother Vecsey in NY. Lin is like scores of NBA ballers. They all have talent. Sometimes stars align. Then opposing coaches and players go..wtf,,,,and design schemes to stop the new pest on the block. Lin can only be truly assessed when he has gone thru the wars for about half a season. Until then good luck to him. btw...I dont like the Knicks (full disclosure). They used to try to buy teams....because they could...like the Yankees. nobody, literally nobody as in zero or less than one executive saw what lin was. to give shit to any of them for not jumping on him is retarded. feel good for the new rudy. we missed a chance but that is no ones fault and new yorks lucky gain. if im new york and lin continues this pace the rest of the season. i trade carmello to completely stack the team around lin and amare. its not even about who praised Lin.. its not even like i think Lin will keep this up... its about whos the better player & Lin is better then AC no doubt.. AC might have had a 13 year NBA career but how many of those years were spent being 3rd string??? quite a bit i think... by the way...what impact has AC had in the last 5-6 seasons???? None! in hindsight the people of pompei were stupid. it wasnt a question about who saw that the volcano was coming just that the volcano is a better player than man. in hindsight the people of pompei were stupid. it wasnt a question about who saw that the volcano was coming just that the volcano is a better player than man. anyone living next to a active volcano are stupid... damn things going to blow eventually right...LOL anyways my only real point was that anything is better than AC & it just so happens Lin has been playing well... i would have done the trade even before Lin went on a tear... with bayless out we need someone who can eat up more minutes than AC can.. anyone living next to a active volcano are stupid... damn things going to blow eventually right...LOL anyways my only real point was that anything is better than AC & it just so happens Lin has been playing well... i would have done the trade even before Lin went on a tear... with bayless out we need someone who can eat up more minutes than AC can.. Another factor in Lin's emergence has been D'Antoni's belief in him. Sources say that Lin was outplaying hampered Baron Davis badly in practice and that that helped him earn D'Antoni's trust. And with Douglas and Shumpert struggling mightily and Davis' sore back killing him, D'Antoni had no other options but to give Lin the opportunity to play through his mistakes. Carter has been in the league for 13 season. Lin had been passed on twice by all 30 teams in the draft and then subsequently cut by two of them. How would anyone honestly come to your conclusion prior to these last five games? The Knicks didn't even have a clue. They fell face first into gold. Credit to Colangelo for seeing something where most other did not. Why would we credit Colangelo? He didn't make the move so whatever he might have thought shouldn't necessarily deserve accolades. The Knicks might not have had a clue but the facts are they signed him and he's playing on their team. The coach had the foresight to play him and the rest has been history. Wouldn't it still make sense logically to give the credit to the team that actually has the player on their roster? The question I would ask is why is Carter on our roster instead of BC taking a flyer on another young back-up 1? He's taken flyers on Bayless, J Wright, Ajincia, Alabi, J. Johnson, etc yet we are still trotting out an over-the-hill veteran point guard. I welcome veterans on this Raps team but the Carters, Butlers, and Magloires of this league are bottom of the barrel imo. Why would we credit Colangelo? He didn't make the move so whatever he might have thought shouldn't necessarily deserve accolades. The Knicks might not have had a clue but the facts are they signed him and he's playing on their team. The coach had the foresight to play him and the rest has been history. Wouldn't it still make sense logically to give the credit to the team that actually has the player on their roster? The question I would ask is why is Carter on our roster instead of BC taking a flyer on another young back-up 1? He's taken flyers on Bayless, J Wright, Ajincia, Alabi, J. Johnson, etc yet we are still trotting out an over-the-hill veteran point guard. I welcome veterans on this Raps team but the Carters, Butlers, and Magloires of this league are bottom of the barrel imo. Re the Carter hire....I understand Casey and he have a good relationship and have been together before. It may have been a favor to Casey seeing the team he was saddling him with! Ironically, if Smith had been eligible to be signed two weeks ago, the Knicks probably would have cut Jeremy Lin for financial reasons because his contract wasn’t guaranteed and he hadn’t convinced D’Antoni he belonged in the mix. The Knicks pursued Smith for a couple of weeks and D’Antoni said they would be “very aggressive’’ in offering their $2.5 million cap room exception on him as they were looking to add his 3-point shooting ability. New York Post You're taking it out of context. My post was in response to a post criticizing Colangelo not trading Carter for Lin because Lin is obviously(yeah, now in hindsight) the better player. My point was that Colangelo identified a good target and persued said target. That's what you should want/expect as a fan. If he always does that then he's always doing his best to put the team in a good position. So my point was, don't slam him for not getting the trade done, give him props for identifying a good target that most hadn't identified. If you don't want to pat him on the back then fine, but it makes completely no sense to slam him for not getting the deal done. You're taking it out of context. My post was in response to a post criticizing Colangelo not trading Carter for Lin because Lin is obviously(yeah, now in hindsight) the better player. My point was that Colangelo identified a good target and persued said target. That's what you should want/expect as a fan. If he always does that then he's always doing his best to put the team in a good position. So my point was, don't slam him for not getting the trade done, give him props for identifying a good target that most hadn't identified. If you don't want to pat him on the back then fine, but it makes completely no sense to slam him for not getting the deal done. But thats the point I'm making. As a GM I could say that I saw Rudy Gay play in his first few summer league games and knew he was going to be a player (as an example). I might also try to call the GM and make the trade for him but if no deal goes down whats the difference? I'm sure Colangelo has tried to swing or contemplate bad deals and they didn't go through but he's not criticized for them, nor is there any report on them. The failed Matt Barnes signing is probably a good example of this. That deal not going through was probably a good thing in the end. I just think we should reserve accolades for the GM based on the team he puts together, not what he might have put together or for what potential he saw in a player that he couldn't acquire, imho. But thats the point I'm making. As a GM I could say that I saw Rudy Gay play in his first few summer league games and knew he was going to be a player (as an example). I might also try to call the GM and make the trade for him but if no deal goes down whats the difference? The difference here is no one criticized you in this thread for not being able to seal a deal in time even though it wasn't even established that he had more worth than Anthony Carter. Not to mention it was known that Lin was probably going to get cut anyway to make way for Baron Davis coming back and to sign one of Mike James or J.R. Smith(they just cut Balkman to make this happen, a guy who probably carried far more respect around the league than Lin only a couple weeks ago).

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Finally! Here’s the sanctioned and official photo shoot from W Magazine’s August cover story, featuring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender promoting Prometheus, because it’s not like that movie didn’t come out seven weeks ago. Oh, wait. I previewed the photo shoot yesterday, and last week I wrote an open letter to Charlize telling her to BACK OFF The Fassbender. Did she listen? Of course not. Now, I get that a lot of you Charlize-loonies think that she and Fassy are hot together and you think they’re boning of course, because how could ANY dude not want to hit it with your ice queen? But I’m still of the opinion that Charlize has an uncomfortable, one-sided attraction to Fassy and she’s really trying to make it happen, and he’s just not into it. You know what it reminds me of? The way Julia Roberts was (and probably still is) with Clive Owen. Julia is ALL ABOUT Clive and he’s like, “Eh, she’s nice. But does she know I’m married?” Anyway, some highlights from W’s interview (you can read the full piece here): Charlize on her Young Adult character and Michael’s Shame character: “I would like to see a romantic comedy between those two characters.” Fassy on the first Charlize Theron movie he ever saw: “The Devil’s Advocate. I knew nothing about it before I went, and during the movie I thought, Well, who’s this person? I had no idea what the movie was about. Charlize on her first Fassy movie: “Hunger. A friend said, “You have to see this movie. It’s the best thing I’ve seen in my entire life.” I thought, Just chill out, okay? But I was absolutely blown away by it. It was, like, all bets are off from now on. This is the guy.” Fassy on how he dies in so many movies: “I try to die in most films I do. In 300 I was killed by arrows. In Inglourious Basterds I got my testicles blown off through my ass… I had two exit wounds sewn into my pants: one on each butt cheek. It was a great death.” Fassy on sex scenes versus death scenes: “I don’t know. Sex scenes sound like more fun than they are. Death scenes are easier, really. Maybe because I’ve died so many times. I’ve had a lot of practice. In my movies, I’m often naked or dying.” A funny exchange: W: What’s harder to do? A death scene or a sex scene? CT: It depends on who you’re doing the sex scene with. I don’t have issues being naked [pauses]. That sounds very slutty. MF: Kind of. I didn’t want to say anything, but yes. CT: What I mean is, I’m not hung up on my body, and I’ve been lucky to work with people I’ve been really comfortable with. I’ve had maybe two occasions where… MF: It’s been uncomfortable. CT: And Michael’s one of the two who did not make me feel very comfortable [laughter]. MF: I was a robot! I like where he (jokingly!) slut-shames her. I would imagine he’s friendly and nice to all of his costars and SOME of them just read it the wrong way and convince themselves that Fassy is their immortal beloved (coughCharlizecough). Now, I completely understand how that can happen, which is why I haven’t issued a Fassy-fatwa on Charlize. I can’t hate her too hard because WE ARE THE SAME. I too could easily convince myself that Fassy is my immortal beloved and perhaps if I just organize a sketchy, leather-clad photo shoot and shove his face into my biscuits while he’s hanging upside down… maybe THEN HE WOULD LOVE ME. They wish. They’re just trying to call dibs on the “hey we photographed two celebrities!” schtick, like Interview is all about “hey here’s Jack Nicholson interviewing January Jones”. These pictures would had about the same effect (meaning not very much) with models. Seeing photos of these two interacting naturally would have been much more interesting… photo assumption and all… Also, these faux “couple” photos just needlessly aggravate the female/gay fans. I always loved Rebecca Hall until they posed her rubbing up on Jon Hamm (and until she apparently skeeved with that fugly Mr. Winslet fellow). Anyway, hands off the Hamm/Fassy/etc.! Well, in my experience the amount of aggressiveness in courtship is not something you can do much to change. I tend to be fairly aggressive with guys I don’t really care about emotionally. I tend to get extremely shy with guys I have crushes on. And I tend to be extremely friendly and nice to pretty much everybody, and get mistaken often (more like all the time, what is it with guys that makes them think when you smile at them, you’re interested?!), so I can relate to both of them. Srsly, Zuckenberg had quite the thinking there when he invented the “relationship status” and “interested in” thing. The same for me! I’m open and chatty with men I don’t care for and guys always think I’m flirting with them (I’m not, it’s called being nice!). But guys I like, I clam up, though I’m getting better at NGaF and having confidence no matter how pretty they are. I don’t think she’s the kind of guurl to take “no” for an answer. Especially since probably 99 % of the men she’s after will jump at the opportunity. Unfortunately for her, as luck will have it, Fassy is in the improbable 1 %. Just youtube the Oscar Roundtable with Charlize, Fassy, Clooney and others – she is all but SITTING on him. She irritates me at times, but I tend to agree – I can’t blame her. And it’s horrible when you’ve got your eye on someone who really doesn’t think the same way as you. We have to handed it to her though. She’s not afraid to come off as desperate. But what’s with Fassy’s slut-shaming? For someone who has done quite audacious photo shoots for Shame, this seems a bit hypocritical doesn’t? Yes,i’m talking about that one,now,if she only put her face straight to his peen ,then it would look more interesting than that,rather than shying away from it,you know she wants it!Then i’ll feel more slutty too!lol! Honestly, nothing against Ms. Theron, but her character’s development in Prometheus seemed forced and kind of haphazardly thrown into the plot. They could have cut her character out for all I cared. And the ship’s captain reminded me of Chef from South Park. I made mention of this observation to my husband while in the theater and thereafter, whenever the captain said his lines on-screen, my husband would lean over and whisper in his best Chef voice, “you got to find the clitoris”. I was laughing so hard at one point, I almost had to leave the theater. I don’t like these pictures. It just feels so TRY TOO HARD. Both of these people are attractive, but that doesn’t mean there is going to be chemistry. I don’t see any chemistry. And this spread does not fit Charlize. I don’t see her in a bondage situation. I think this is more for her next movie then anything else. Sexy doesn’t have to be so in your face. It simply is. You don’t have to have two people all tied up and in awkward poses to say sexy. And obviously Charlize is trying to add to her image. The man is not into her. he has a girlfriend and is not into her at all. It is a bit much that she keeps pushing it. And yes men jokingly say things but sometimes the joke is speaking the truth. she needs to bark up another tree. Does he get so many questions about sex, sex-scenes, type of women he likes, his peen, sex,… ets., ets. because he talks happily about it?Or he talks about it anyway? I’m getting sort of “try hard” vibe from him.Not really sexy. He doesn’t bring the topic up. He’s asked about it and then answers frankly, which encourages more reporters to ask more questions. I wouldn’t say he’s try-hard at all, just not very savvy about celebrity “journalism” and how to deflect. Yes, it seems kind of obvious to me Charlize has “made herself available” & has been politely rebuffed by Fassbender….just my impressions. And…this has occurred on such a public forum (a magazine interview/article no less)…maybe Charlize should just move on…..God knows if I had done/said what Charlize did….and was politely rebuffed…that’s what I’D DO….for sure! I’m a bit surprised Charlize didn’t already know that (Fassbenders “type”), but maybe she did, and her attraction was so strong she thought she’d just go for it??? Yes, I think Charlize is gorgeous…but you know, it’s NOT ALL ABOUT LOOKS. There’s so much more at play when it comes to attraction. Honestly, I think when it comes to sexual attraction/chemistry, it can all boil down to A MOLECULAR LEVEL….& despite how good one looks/appears….that may not “do it” for the other person. Kaiser has mentioned about 1,000,000 times that Fassy *seems* to prefer dark-skinned women. It kind of grates on me when people make blanket statements that he *ONLY* dates brown-skinned women as if he has some sort of fetish. Personally, I’ve dated black guys in the past and my boyfriend now is black (I’m white) but in between that I’ve dated dudes of all different colors-white, brown etc. Sometimes you just fall in love with who you fall in love with and it has nothing to do with a “type” or a skin color preference. *shrugs* Fassy has dated Asian, White, Black, Mixed race women. Tall, medium and short women. Every type under the sun. Dating one Black woman doesn’t mean that is the only type of woman he will date from now to eternity anymore than dating an Asian woman means he only dated Asian women from then on. Difference between a fetish and dating based on shared interests. I’ve dated Black and Latino men doesn’t mean I have some kind of fetish for only Black and Latino men. I date White men too. Would date an Asian man if we connect. Someone needs to tell that woman the ‘once you go Black you never go back’ rule is just a joke. Meh, I don’t think she’s interested in him at all. I think they’re just good mates, get on really well and are very comfortable with each other. That’s what I get from any interviews they’ve done together. If anything, I think she’s just enjoying the fact that she knows he’s hot property and gets to tease people a bit with the relationship they have. And really, slut-shaming? To me, and I would guess most (certainly British/Irish) people, that’s just playful banter, and these two playing off each other. This was awesome. Thanks, Kaiser. This is the charming Fassy we know and love. I love Charlize to death but she doesn’t have a chance in hell with him. Her comment about her YA character and his Shame character starring in a rom com cracked me up. But yeah, these photos are terribly unsexy and try-hard. They’re both gorgeous people but this spread really shows some serious awkwardness and lack of chemistry IMO. I too could easily convince myself that Fassy is my immortal beloved and perhaps if I just organize a sketchy, leather-clad photo shoot and shove his face into my biscuits while he’s hanging upside down… maybe THEN HE WOULD LOVE ME. Kaiser, you had me laugh so hard with that line I almost peed my bed >.< First I wanna start by saying I love Michael through thick and thin no matter what to the ends of the earth . I would be on my knees for him in a micro- second. But I wish interviewers would STOP asking him about sex and his penis. There is way more to this man then just sex. I do realize that sex sells but I want more of him . This was just my rant for the day . You have to understand the psychology behind this. Charlize Theron is VERY much into Fassbender. You can see it in all of their interviews, all of their public appearances, etc. Look at her body language. She wants him bad. She is desperate. Charlize Theron is also aware of the fact that Fassbender will be starring with Noomi Rapace in Prometheus 2 (and probably 3) while Theron’s character, Meredith Vickers, died in Prometheus. So the only opportunity she got now to getting close to him is making Fassbender do a hot photoshoot with her. And oh how convenient, they both have been in W Magazine before. So my guess is that: 1) Charlize Theron talks W Magazine into it. 2) Fassbender says yes. NOT because he REALLY wants to do it, but because of the fact that she is Charlize “Academy Award Winner” Theron. It’s good for his acting career. It gives that extra boost. Besides, it makes more fangirls swoon and keeps him on the Top Sexy Male Actors list. 3) Look at the energy behind this photoshoot. Charlize Theron is very aggressive, dominating. While Fassbender is not really emotionally involved and seems to be doing it without big enthusiasm. He is actually almost scared of Charlize Theron’s energy. We have to keep in mind that Fassbender has a girlfriend and that makes Charlize Theron probably more desperate, knowing that he is taken. And remember Charlize Theron’s speech where she said that she “want to work with Fassbender’s d**k”? Well, there you have it. They both did a very good job in Prometheus. But I like the characters, not the actors behind them. ….and WHYYYYY no one noticed that CT and MF had a Sex Scene (David/Vickers) in Prometheus? It was probably cut (will hopefully be in the extended edition Prometheus DVD) – but LOOK they are totally spilling it in this interview: “MF: It’s been uncomfortable. CT: And Michael’s one of the two who did not make me feel very comfortable [laughter]. MF: I was a robot!” Wow, these comments are slightly cray cray. And I can’t get on board with Fassy the person. I like Fassy the actor. But the person may or may not be guilty of domestic violence. And if it weren’t for all the critical acclaim and the shadowy girlfriend, this bit of news would have been a much bigger ordeal. As for Charlize, I think it’s funny that people are trying to create an argument that Fassy doesn’t want her or that there is any sort of wanting on either end. Charlize is without a doubt one of the most beautiful women in the world. She doesn’t need this dude. Creatively, sure. But physically, she can do much better. Sorry Kaiser, much love <3. ITA with you about Charlize. I don’t think she’s the “most beautiful woman in the world” but I really don’t see her crying into her pillow at night over Fassy. It seems like she had some fun flirtation with him and that’s it. As far as Fassy The Woman Beater. Personally, I give people the benefit of the doubt when it’s a case of being convicted in the “court of public opinion”. It was her word against his and charges were dropped. This is not like Chris Brown where we had pictures of a brutal beating or Mel Gibson’s constant rage-capades captured on audio. Sorry, but it’s just unfair to crucify a guy’s reputation based on one isolated incident that was never proven. That being said, if he has another “questionable” incident with domestic violence, I think most Fassy fans will dump him because where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s so strange how gossip sites constantly imagine women are panting after men who don’t want them. That’s not the way the world works. And Charlize Theron? Who could get just about anyone she wanted? She’s far too good for Fassbender, who even if he isn’t an abuser, is nothing special. I think people are desperate to have a new Hottest guy and the next hottest couple. Thing is hot couples just happen. It can’t be predicted or invented. I just think Fassbender is unfortunately falling into a niche in his interviews. It works on women, but I don’t know if he has that much needed male audience yet. And in my mind that is necessary for longevity. Women fawning all over him is not what he needs. Sorry women’s taste change so much. Now it is Fassbender until the next guy comes. They are both so beautiful and sexy, but this photo shoot really is awful. They have no chemistry in these pictures. For a contrast, I’d like to point everyone to this picture of Joseph Gordon Levitt and Claudia Schiffer (who I would never have thought to put together but HOT DAMN):\ Isn’t Charlize a new mom? Shouldn’t she be focusing her energies on her son for a few months before trying to jump someones bones? I know people are going to disagree with me but I just can’t imagine wanting to run around with guys when I have my adorable bundle at home. I know there comes a time when single moms want to date and maybe have their hookups but geeze can’t she lay off of it for a few months. Stop bitching about Charlize! Just accept that she has a bit of a crush on him, and they are friendly. Charlize kicks ass hard whether she is kind of pathetically into Fassbender or not. She’s talented, hot, and funny. You guys make it sound like she’s a mousy wallflower who just got stood up for prom. I’m not bitching about Charlize…I am complete f*cking jealous of her! I mean did you see picture #1…I want my hands to be where her’s are damn it! I am talented, hot and funny in my own way so why can’t I pose in leather with him huh? Some damn women get everything. Hmph. Charlize knows how to pose people…what are you talking about…her face is incredible… That Fassbender guy is ruining the pictures…He’s couldn’t be more wrong. Charlize on the other hand needed to be photographed solo!

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# How to Contribute ## Getting Started - Fork the repository on GitHub - Read the [README](README.markdown) for build and test instructions - Play with the project, submit bugs, submit patches! ## Contribution Flow This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like: - Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work (usually master). - Make commits of logical units. - Make sure your commit messages are in the proper format (see below). - Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository. - Make sure the tests pass, and add any new tests as appropriate. - Submit a pull request to the original repository. Thanks for your contributions! ### Format of the Commit Message We follow a rough convention for commit messages that is designed to answer two questions: what changed and why. The subject line should feature the what and the body of the commit should describe the why. ``` scripts: add the test-cluster command this uses tmux to setup a test cluster that you can easily kill and start for debugging. Fixes #38 ``` The format can be described more formally as follows: ``` <subsystem>: <what changed> <BLANK LINE> <why this change was made> <BLANK LINE> <footer> ``` The first line is the subject and should be no longer than 70 characters, the second line is always blank, and other lines should be wrapped at 80 characters. This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various git tools.

Jennifer, 24yo and a resident of a village near Liège in Belgique, got pregnant seven months ago. However, since the beginning of her pregnancy, she says she is a virgin and is convinced that God gave her a child. Her family and friends laugh the last 7 months. A Facebook group has even been created to make fun of her « Jennifer pregnant virgin, Jesus return » now deleted. Jennifer ignored their mockery from the beginning but now fate of silence. From the beginning I know I have a distortion of my private parts that could have caused this, but I’m sure this is not possible, it is God who has given me this child. Her gynecologist explains her case: Jennifer is actually a virgin, considering the state of her vagina, but has a deformation of the vaginal cavity. An opening is at the bottom thereof, thus leading to the rectum. (Editor’s Note: As shown in the diagram accompanying the article) It is therefore quite possible, and likely, given its location, the pregnancy is due to sodomy. Jennifer has since reportedly confessed to actually had more anal sex in order to remain a virgin for her wedding, her family is very attached to it. The story does not, however, remains fully understood, doctors interviewed, it is very strange that passed through the rectum sperm have managed to go back to the womb, even if it is theoretically possible. Moreover, it is very surprising that Jennifer never felt gene, its deformation can cause the flow of fecal matter in her vagina.

USA: A transgender woman just committed suicide. Trump supporters respond in the worst way possible A transgender woman just committed suicide. Trump supporters respond in the worst way possible Donald Trump loyalists recently took pleasure in the news of a transgender woman’s suicide, openly celebrating on a Facebook page to honor her memory. Last Wednesday in Pierre, South Dakota, Lizzy Waites committed suicide out of loneliness and desperation. She posted her suicide note publicly on her Facebook page. “I’m so sorry to all the people I hurt by killing myself. I truly am. I’ve been hurting so bad and I can’t form words to communicate it to you,” Waites wrote. “I’m so lonely.” According to the Daily Beast, Waites’ partner, Amanda — whom she had been with for 9 years and with whom she had a 5-year-old son — was about to write her last goodbyes as a comment on the Facebook note when hateful messages from profiles invoking Donald Trump’s name and face began posting hateful comments. Facebook user Jaroslav Tiptek changed his profile picture to a photoshopped image of Lizzy’s face, writing, “I’m glad he is gone.” Another commenter whose profile used the name “Oi McVeigh” wrote, “Lol good riddance.” What may have drawn the ire of Trump’s supporters was a paragraph near the end of the note, in which Lizzy Waites wrote, “The pills are taking effect and I can’t think straight. I love you all,” before writing, “Dump Trump. Kill him. Mike Pence too. Goodnight white pride. Steal the hats and destroy them. Best [sic] fascists with a baseball bat.” Amanda Waites told the Beast that in the full context of how many transgender Americans are constantly fearful for their lives, especially under a Trump administration, the last part of the note seemed to be her last push of resistance against a system that constantly disenfranchised her. “I know people thought there was a lot of hate and awful things spewed at the end of her note. I don’t think people understand that she was worried about her basic civil liberties,” Waites said. “She had been harassed by a boss for using what some people believe to be the wrong bathroom.” As the trolling continued, Lizzy’s brother, David McClure, heard about his sister’s death from his mother, prompting him to call a friend to confirm. When he heard about the ongoing harassment of Lizzy and her loved ones by Trump supporters on Facebook, he pulled over to the side of the road and cried. “That day was horrible and those fucking Nazis made it worse,” McClure told the Daily Beast. “I hate the world a little more now.” Amanda was eventually successfully in getting Facebook to memorialize Lizzy’s profile, which the social media platform does for users who have passed on, limiting the people who are able to comment on posts. Amanda remembered her former partner as a “renaissance woman,” saying she chose to remember her by her many talents, rather than the flood of hateful messages from people who never knew her. “She was good at everything she picked up. If she decided she wanted to learn Japanese, she’d learn Japanese. If she wanted to be a calligrapher, even though she had the world’s crappiest handwriting, give her a month. She was a calligrapher,” Amanda Waites told the Beast. Waites’ suicide, according to Amanda, was likely brought on by a persistent decline in her mental health, which was exacerbated by the outcome of the presidential election. “She was so worried about if she was going to have basic civil rights. She was working so hard. She had her medications stable. She had a great therapeutic team,” Amanda told the Beast. “The election felt like a turning point. She got really hopeless after that. It’s really, really conservative here. She was afraid that unless national politics got better, local politics were going to get worse.” David McClure encouraged LGBT youth suffering from depression to not give in to their despair and reach out to someone, even him if necessary.

Four years ago, Christine Milne, then Greens leader, rang out of the blue to chat about multinational tax avoiders. We discussed terms of reference for a possible Senate Inquiry. The final report came down yesterday evening. Billions of dollars have since flowed into the national coffers as a result of that inquiry. New laws were passed, Tax Office enforcement was ramped up, global tech giants were forced to pay income tax in Australia. The whole exercise in community awareness improved corporate behaviour. The report has a solid tranche of recommendations in it which will bring in more billions still. Alas now there will be more politics and lobbying to contend with, and it’s London to a brick the Government will ignore it. The Senate Inquiry is finished. It’s final report on Corporate Tax Avoidance has been handed down. Following the first hearings of the Senate Economics References Committee in 2015, the Tax Office went after Google, Apple, Facebook – a raft of tech giants – compelling them to recognise revenue earned in Australia as Australian – rather than from some place offshore. It is still pursuing the oil majors Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP, over the almost $100 billion in loans they have with their foreign associates offshore, a mighty “debt-loading” ruse which allows them to siphon profits to tax havens via interest payments. And to think that, just like the Royal Commission into the banks, the government and the business lobby said there was no need for an inquiry into tax avoidance by multinationals. They should kick-start this inquiry again, keep it running indefinitely: with biannual hearings. For the corporate tax avoiders and their enablers will surely exploit every chink in every new law and crank up fresh schemes to rip their profits offshore. This very week, BHP struck a $340 million settlement; pinged by Queensland authorities for a “Singapore marketing hub” royalties rort. The fight against large corporate tax avoiders will not end. Corporations are getting bigger, more powerful, while their emissaries infiltrate governments and buy their favours and their policies with party donations. Over four years, while some 4,441 Tax Office staff were shown the door, over five years, the architects of global tax avoidance – EY, PwC, Deloitte and KPMG – harvested $1.7 billion in consulting fees from the Commonwealth government alone. The Senate Economics Committee’s final report, titled Much Heat, Little Light So Far, is a bi-partisan affair and its recommendations must be welcomed, although they don’t go far enough, and whether anything significant will come of it now lies in the hands of parliament. There is a deep schism between proposals and government action. One illuminating aspect is the “Dissenting Statement” to the Inquiry’s findings by the Greens who can speak more freely on account of not being on the corporate donations gravy train with the major parties. More on that later. Among the key findings (paraphrased for the sake of explanation): Recommendation 1 The “thin capitalisation” rules (how much debt a company can owe itself) be amended so the worldwide gearing ratio is the only method by which interest related deductions should be calculated for the purpose of tax treatment in Australia. Australian operations of multinationals are typically geared much higher than head office offshore due to a higher tax rate here than that of the havens in between Australia and head office. Recommendation 2 An independent review into transfer pricing. This may well have been on the Tax Office menu, looking, as it is, to rev up its investigations into chronic profit shifting by Big Pharma. Recommendation 3 The ATO transparency data threshold should be lowered to capture companies with a total income $100 million or more. This makes sense, the more transparency the better. According to Tax Office sources, transparency, rising public awareness and and therefore greater corporate accountability have led to more responsible behaviour by large companies on the tax front, ergo increasing tax receipts in the hundreds of millions. Recommendation 4 Companies, trusts and other corporate structures be required to disclose information regarding their beneficial ownership. A central register should be set up; it should be accessible to all and at low cost (not the extremely high access prices now charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for access to public information. Recommendation 5 All corporate entities including trusts, with income above a certain amount, should lodge “general purpose” financial statements with ASIC. Despite fielding questions about this in the 2015 inquiry, the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) is apparently still dithering over its review into general purpose reporting. Recommendation 6 The government undertake an independent, public review of ASIC’s fees and charges to “explore options for reducing or eliminating fees to access company information, including financial statements”. ASIC is a cash cow for government. Thanks to high company registration charges, various corporate fees and high fees for access to public statutory information ASIC returns a plush dividend to the federal government each year and is left with the scraps to prosecute ever larger companies. Recommendation 7 Country-by-Country reports be made publicly available free of charge. This information would include high level data on how much revenue is collected and tax is paid in jurisdictions in which companies operate. Recommendation 8 The existing voluntary tax transparency code be converted to a mandatory code for all large and medium corporations operating in Australia, including subsidiaries of multinational corporations. Recommendation 9 The ATO include a dedicated section on the number and value of significant tax settlements of $50 million or greater in its annual report. No brainer. Recommendation 10 The government finalise and release its response to the Callaghan report into the Review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. (Ed: and political parties should stop taking money from oil companies so this dream of tightening up the PRRT can become a reality.) Recommendation 11 The government overhaul uplift rates for future PRRT-eligible projects, so as to make them less generous. Recommendation 12 The ordering of deductions be rationalised for future PRRT-eligible projects so those with the highest compounding rates are used first for tax deduction purposes. 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The Shabogans are the invisible underclass on Gallifrey. The plebs. The nobodies. The skivvies. They're not the posh drop-outs. They're not the soup-making rustics. They're the unseen guttersnipes trapped inside the Capitol. They always leave the room just before you enter it. They're the vandals who shoot stasers at the Seal of Rassilon. And maybe, sometimes, they do more than that. Maybe they riot. Maybe they erect barricades. Maybe they throw stones. Maybe they daub things like "GALLIFREY WILL NEVER BE HAPPY UNTIL THE LAST CASTELLAN HAS BEEN HANGED WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CARDINAL" on the walls of the Time Toilets. Because if there is hope, it lies in the Shabogans. I'm Jack Graham. Gothic Marxist. Advocate of the struggle in terms of the strange. Shakespearean villain. Doctor Who fan. Less an organic intellectual than a one-man morbid symptom. And I did this: This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show. Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's). Content Warnings as ever. Permalink / Direct Download / Soundcloud The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/beccalew IDSG 62 (on Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel, etc): https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-weinstein-part-2-cancel-culture This week, Daniel is joined by a special guest Ed Burmila who blogs at Gin and Tacos and hosts the Mass for Shut-Ins podcast. A free-form chat about the way things are and the way they're going. Fun despite the depressing subject matter. Content Warnings, as ever. Permalink / Direct Download / Soundcloud Ed's Twitter: @edburmila Gin and Tacos blog: http://www.ginandtacos.com/ Mass for Shut-Ins: https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/ Another of our occasional movie episodes, this time looking at famous (and bad) 90s movie American History X starring Edward Norton as a neo-Nazi skinhead. Content warnings apply. Permalink / Direct Download / Soundcloud Also, we introduce our new theme music, courtesy of Lune the Band. The final (for now) part of of coverage of the IDW's Weinstein brothers. Back to Eric, with special reference to his boss Peter Thiel and the Gawker affair, Eric's response to Becca Lewis' Alternative Influence Report, and to Eric's thoughts on BLM and the current protests. Warnings Apply. Permalink / Soundcloud Notes/Links: Owen Thomas, Gawker, "Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People." https://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, "The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?" https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/ Steven W. Thrasher, "Peter Thiel's Gawker War Not His First Brush With a High-Priced Vendetta." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/05/peter-thiel-gawker-lawsuits-james-okeefe-acorn Maureen O'Connor, Gawker. "Christina Hendricks Says THese Giant Naked Boobs Aren't Hers, But Everything Else Is." https://gawker.com/5890527/christina-hendricks-says-these-giant-naked-boobs-arent-hers-but-everything-else-is Maureen O'Connor, Gawker, "Olivia Munn's Super Dirty Alleged Naked Pics." https://gawker.com/5890506/olivia-munns-super-dirty-alleged-naked-pics-lick-my-tight-asshole-and-choke-me" Bollea v. Gawker at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker Rebecca Lewis, "Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube." https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ Full PDF: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf Eric Weinstein abuses Becca Lewis ... We return, apologetic for the delay, with the next part of our investigation into the Weinstein brothers (no, the other ones). This time, it's Eric - mathematician, hedgefund manager, cultural commentator, founder of the Intellectual Dark Web (or at least of the name), and persecuted/suppressed victim of conspiracies (to hear him tell it anyway). We don't always cover Nazis. Sometimes we have to cover people like Eric who, while not Nazis, are part of the current reactionary ecosystem. And what a part he is. More about Eric, particularly his connection to Peter Thiel, next week. Content Warnings, as ever. Direct Download / Permalink / Soundcloud Plus we're on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, and all the podcast catchers. Notes/Links: Eric Weinstein website: https://ericweinstein.org/ Eric Weinstein YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88 Eric Weinstein CV: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/CV/Eric_Weinstein_CV_July_17_2003.pdf Eric-Weinstein.net About Page: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/about.html "During my training in pure mathematics, I became equally interested in real world problems. While much of the challenge in research mathematics revolves around the specialized tools needed to attack narrowly defined problems, as a consultant, I sometimes find ... This week, Daniel and Jack discuss Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two alumni of the Intellectual Dark Web, their 'origin story' as 'public intellectuals' in the Evergreen College kerfuffle of 2017, and their current views on Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights as expressed in their Dark Horse podcast. Jack gets angry and giggly. Next week, we will move on to Bret's brother Eric Weinstein. Content Warning. Permalink / Direct Download / Soundcloud Bari Weiss, "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html Bret Weinstein homepage: https://bretweinstein.net/ Heather Heying homepage: https://heatherheying.com/ Evergreen State College at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College Programs and Courses at Evergreen. https://www.evergreen.edu/academics/programs Bret Weinstein Explains the Day of Absence on Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-st73zhZL3A Bret Weinstein on Tucker Carlson, May 26 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9nFced_eo Jacqueline Littleton, "The Truth About the Evergreen Protests." https://medium.com/@princessofthefaeries666/the-truth-about-the-evergreen-protests-444c86ee6307 Noah Berlatsky, "The Real Free Speech Story at Evergreen College." https://psmag.com/education/the-real-free-speech-story-at-evergreen-college "Another Side of the Evergreen State College Story." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/evergreen-state-college-another-side_b_598cd293e4b090964295e8fc ... In this bumper episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the recent response to us by Matt Heimbach and Jesse Morton on their Walk on the Right Side podcast. Also, we do a news roundup, taking in Camilla Long, Lauren Southern, Andrew Neil, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool and Hank Hill; Tucker Carlson and his writer Blake Neff, recently revealed as a racist forum poster; the arrest of Steven Baca; and the latest scary developments in Portland as ICE/DHS start black-bagging protestors, featuring the rise to instant fame of Tazerface. Also... the triumphant return of Cantwell News. Content Warnings Apply. Permalink / Direct Download / Soundcloud Notes/Links: Cantwell's additional charges. https://www.fosters.com/news/20200714/jailed-white-nationalist-from-nh-faces-more-charges Blake Neff exposed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html Tazerface16 assulted. https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1285037835058180097?s=20 Tazerface aka "Chris David" describes the assault: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1284999020188807168?s=20 Chad Loder thread on ABQ militia shooting: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1272715820938850304?s=20 Steven Baca arrest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/albuquerque-militia-shooting-protest/ Take a Walk on the Right Side Episode 6. https://anchor.fm/take-a-walk-on-the-right-side/episodes/Episode-6-Pandemic--Protests-and-Reciprocal-Radicalization-Gone-Wild-egk0ah/a-a2m68bt ... There will be a new episode of IDSG along later today. In the meantime, here is a substantially re-edited and rewritten/updated section of something I wrote and originally published for supporters only at my Patreon. As it happens, the subjects discussed below have a fair bit of relevance to the main topic to today's forthcoming new IDSG. * On 31st May 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted : “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organisation.” The statement is meaningless in real terms. As has been widely remarked, ‘ANTIFA’ (even Trump’s use of all-caps is telling of where he’s getting his ‘information’) is not an organisation at all. It is not a group of people who do things; it is a way of doing a certain thing, namely: opposing fascism. To be specific: it is a strategy of direct action for confronting fascists, fascism, or things deemed liable to incite or encourage the growth of fascism. It is a diffuse, rhizomatic, leaderless cloud of people; connected not by membership or hierarchy but by shared goals and tactics - and even that very broadly. Nor, as has also been widely remarked, does Trump - or indeed ...

The Hidden Candidate When Gore Vidal died a few weeks ago, eulogies quoted his famous observation that “the more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.” Vidal originally wrote these words in a 1972 essay on Howard Hughes, but who could read them today and not think of Willard Mitt Romney? Blessed with parodically presidential good looks, yet cursed with the unconvincing mannerisms of an early-generation android without its update patch, Romney is that most discombobulating of political phenomena—a boring enigma. Trying to figure out his true nature is akin to facing a block of polystyrene. You can’t see inside, and you can’t get a toehold. You’re left with analogies. Romney has been dubbed the next Herbert Hoover, awarded the honorary George H.W. Bush “Wimp” prize from Newsweek, and compared to a porn-movie queen because he changes his positions so often (this last from Arlen Specter, who only changes parties). Those of a more artistic bent have dubbed Romney a latter-day Zelig or, more arcanely, the Man without Qualities, although this is an insult to Robert Musil’s fictional hero, who may have shared Romney’s unwillingness to take a firm position on anything but at least had the courtesy not to seek political power. The paradox of Romney is that even as he wants to run the world, he’s busy running away from its gaze. Although neither a dope like Dan Quayle nor an ignoramus like Sarah Palin—he has read Guns, Germs, and Steel even if he didn’t quite understand it—he has waged a campaign most memorable for its absence of specific ideas. While implying that President Barack Obama is somehow not a real American—for a phantasm to win he must turn his opponent into one, too—Romney basically asks voters to trust in his economic acumen and his leadership. But how can you lead when nobody can find you? He hides from his religion, his political achievements, his big scores at Bain Capital, his tax records, his old public utterances, his new public utterances—hides from everything that might not appeal to whatever voters he happens to be wooing at that particular moment. “Forget about yesterday,” he seems to be saying, “What matters is who I say I am right now.” A great many empty suits have run for president, but seldom has one been so willing to flaunt his own lack of vision. Indeed, he’s the only nominee I can remember who, in choosing his running mate, was hoping to gain substance. There is, of course, nothing strange about a candidate pretending to be somebody else, but when Richard Nixon unveiled the “New Nixon” in 1968, you knew who he was pretending not to be. With Mitt, you suspect even Romney himself doesn’t know. He’s something new in American politics, if not American culture: a potential president so weightless that he makes Charles Foster Kane look as grounded as Dwight Eisenhower. At least you could tell what that mogul yearned for deep down inside, even if it was only that stupid sled. While it would be invidious to suggest that Romney has no inner life (a quality that, to be fair, worked wonders for Ronald Reagan), even veteran Mittologists aren’t quite sure what goes on behind the synthetic smile. But they start with the Oedipal. As the worshipful son of a successful businessman whose “brainwashing” gaffe put the kibosh on his presidential hopes, Romney couldn’t fail to learn lessons from his father’s political failures, although he picked up the wrong ones. Tossing overboard what was admirable in George Romney’s legacy—his principled stands within the GOP on issues like civil rights—Mitt became so cautious that even his sister says that he uses vagueness as camouflage. But as the great Sigmund would remind us, an obsession with bottling up what you think will always produce its own elaborate symptomology. Romney rarely speaks off the cuff without landing in trouble. Even more than Joe Biden, who’s Metternich by comparison, he’s a walking gaffe-o-matic, which may be the most likably authentic thing about him. *** The most unlikably inauthentic is his way of shifting positions to win favor, then acting shocked, even offended, when it’s suggested he’s done so. It’s tempting to write this off as sheer opportunism, and to be sure, shamelessness is no small part of his M.O.—just think about that trip to Israel with Sheldon Adelson. Yet watching Romney in action, I’m struck that he can’t understand why everyone seems to fixate on his constantly shifting positions. Such puzzlement may finally point us to one of the keys to his character. Unlike most of us who care about politics, Romney thinks of policies and ideologies as being external, contingent. In his mind, what he says and does are distinct from who he is. In this, he’s a true child of the automobile industry. Romney grew up knowing that what ultimately mattered in Detroit wasn’t any model’s ever-changing features—swooping fins, good gas mileage, nifty little side portholes—but whether the public wanted them enough to buy the car that year. Far from representing some enduring value to be fought for, these features were conditional and evanescent—they changed in accordance with shifting tastes. If the public wanted big grilles, you gave them big grilles; if they wanted power windows, you installed push buttons. The only unchanging consideration was the popularity of the brand. The models themselves didn’t matter as long as a Cadillac was always a Cadillac—and made money. Romney has pursued his political career in the same bottom-line spirit. He approaches every election like someone rolling out that fall’s cars. When running for office in Massachusetts, he brought out a sporty model that was gay-friendly and rather liberal; pushing for the Republican nomination after the dire Bush years, he played the luxury sedan; trying to get votes from Tea Party types, he has dressed himself up as a Hummer and chosen as his veep a zealot who used to give staffers copies of Atlas Shrugged for Christmas. For Romney, Paul Ryan’s only an accessory, like optional four-wheel drive, designed to close the sale with the party faithful. What matters is triumph of the brand itself, The Romney. If Romney’s view of life has any principled underpinning, it comes from his faith, but on the campaign trail, Mormonism has turned into the religion that dare not speak its name. His campaign staff always treats it as un-American bigotry when somebody points out that a presidential hopeful’s ultimate concern (as the mid-century theologian Paul Tillich called religion) is not wholly irrelevant to his candidacy, especially when, like Romney, he’s deeply embedded in his church’s institutions and power structure. Yet, in fact, it’s the candidate’s own fear of bringing up the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that intensifies the old perception that it is a cultish outlaw religion. A bolder candidate would embrace the achievements of the Mormon Church and its culture. An authentically homegrown American religion, it’s steeped in this nation’s founding values, from the celebration of honesty, hard work, and financial prosperity to a rich sense of family and community—all held together by a domineering patriarchy. Deeply and, for some, oppressively conservative, it offers a vision of life that millions of Americans might well find appealing. Romney has made the calculated choice not to do this. In keeping his faith largely under wraps, he reflects the identity crisis of Mormonism. Like his church, Romney is at once desperate for mainstream acceptance (he yearns, after all, to be president) yet equally desperate to make sure that we don’t know too much, that we’re kept outside. Small wonder that, out on the stump, Romney often seems uncomfortable in his own carefully tended skin. There’s just so much he’s reluctant to talk about, even the worthwhile things he’s done along the way. Before the Salt Lake City Olympics, for instance, he persuaded local organizers to set aside their hostility to homosexuality and approve an anti-discrimination employment clause for gays and lesbians. Yet what’s disquieting is that, all these years later, you can’t be sure what led him to do it. Was he trying to avoid an international scandal that might hurt the Salt Lake games? Could he have been trying to protect Mormonism from seeming bigoted and provincial? Did he think it would help him when he ran for governor in Massachusetts later that year? Or was it possible he just thought it the right thing to do? As with so many things about Romney, we just don’t know, and he’s not talking about it now. *** The one unwavering constant of Mitt Romney’s life has been the pursuit of success. He wanted to make oodles of money (if he has a Rosebud, we know it’s green) and ascend to the most powerful office in the land, which he’s one unnerving election away from doing. There is, of course, nothing wrong—or inherently Republican—about such grandiose ambitions. Bill Clinton chased those very same goals, albeit in reverse order (which may actually be less admirable). Yet what makes Romney so depressing is that he embodies everything hollow and joyless about the great American dream of success. He’s gotten astonishingly rich without ever showing the pleasure in his good fortune that made this country swoon for FDR and JFK and Ronald Reagan—heck, he even pretended not to care about his wife’s dressage horse in the Olympics. Even worse, he unstintingly seeks power but conveys no abiding awareness that he could use his success for the greater good. Say what you will about Reagan and Clinton, George W. and Barack, these men know what it means to dream of greatness—they wanted to make history. Romney? He just wants to get ahead. Despite all his weaknesses—his lack of ideas, his low “likability” ratings, his maladroit campaigning—Romney just may get elected. Which will bring us back to the same spooky question: Who is Mitt Romney? At best, he will morph back into what his early champions claimed he is—a smart, temperamentally conservative CEO who casts himself in the role of a nonideological problem-solver. This is not impossible. After all, Romney possesses the sense of entitlement, not to mention the vanity, of a successful businessman who, accustomed to being boss, isn’t about to let those Tea Party twerps push him around one second longer. It’s delightful to imagine self-serious Vice President Ryan being sent on fact-finding missions to Moldova and Guinea-Bissau. In this happy scenario, President Romney will try to reclaim some of the political center in search of the next marker of personal success—re-election. This is a diverting scenario, to be sure. Yet judging from Romney’s two years of pandering to the Tea Party, he’s far more likely to prove an Oval Office weakling with Ryan as his Dick Cheney. Indeed, it’s easy to picture the Romney administration being driven by congressional radicals whose fervent passion and ideological certainty would turn him into the world’s most distinguished-looking rhinoceros bird, riding atop a rampaging beast he couldn’t control even if he wanted to. The Bush years were a demonstration of the ghastly things that can happen when a conservative president starts working for the hard-liners supposedly working for him. Would that happen under President Romney? Such is the man’s elusiveness that nobody can say for sure—not even Romney himself. In the 21st century, there could be no more foolish or dangerous political wager than betting a Republican president will prove more moderate in the White House than he sounded during the campaign.

Fitness Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The year is 2001. I am in a bar, talking to a gay man. He might be trying to pick me up; I can't tell. He takes another sip of his almost-drained drink and looks me up and down. "How old are you?" he asks, with a mouthful of beery spittle. "I'm 25," I reply. He surveys me again as if looking at a child's finger painting. Finally, he speaks. "If you want a body, you're going to have to get on with it pretty quickly." "What are you talking about?" "Your body," he sighs. "You don't have one. You've no shape. By the time you get to 30, it'll be too late. Start going to the gym as soon as you can." He walks away. If there's one thing you're going to need as a gay man, it's a body. You can try telling me different, but nine times out of 10 you're not going to get much interest from another gay man just because you look as if you read a lot of books. Looks count, even if they are only a beautiful lid on a simmering pot of ugliness, despair, bitterness and venom. Don't believe me? Fire up Grindr, the social networking app launched in 2009 to help gay men to chat, and, if the stars are aligned, to meet each other and 'date'. When I write 'date' in Grindr terms, it usually means the kind of date where two perfect strangers meet up and fuck. Just so you know. You select your potential partner by browsing a gallery of tiny thumbnail pictures, lined up together like the world's worst mosaic. Users have less than a square centimetre to make an impression, and while most of us need a pretty face to experience the first stirrings of arousal - or at least a half decent face, depending on the time of day, how long it has been since 'the last time' and how many vodka and tonics you've had - many users decide to cut straight to business and get out their best weapon. No, not that, you're not allowed to show that. No, it's the bod, the rack, the torso - buffed, shiny, preened and, nine times out of 10, headless. Yes, these gods are so confident in the appeal of their sculpted trunks that they don't even bother including their face. "I have a body like this," they drawl. "Why on earth would you care what I look like?" Flicking through these prime cuts of flesh can be a humbling experience. A few brave or fetishised exceptions aside, everyone has everything in the right place. An array of eye-popping guns, perfect pecs, killer abs and broad shoulders awaits you. It pays not to look down at your own torso while you're surveying the merchandise, especially if you're standing next to an open window at the top of a large building. The urge to jump may just be too strong. You wonder to yourself how they have the time to get bodies like this. And why they want one. What's spurred them on to get so ridiculously pumped that any character your torso had has smoothed out of existence by the tyrannical spin class-loving gym bunny within that they never knew was there? I partially blame that poster. You know the one, the oh-so-sensitive, muscle-bound babyfather, emotionally cooing over the new-born in his arms, while a universe full of women (and gays) swooned at his beach ball-sized biceps. Until then, musclebound bodies were restricted to wrestlers and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sure, there'd be weightlifters in the gym and selected movie stars who were 'built' but everybody else was either weedy or podgy, with only the odd natural Adonis scattered in between. Watch some television from the 1970s or early 1980s. Glamour sagas like Dallas and Dynasty aside, everybody is fairly average. Potbellies, scrawny legs and, rather upsettingly, funky teeth are the order of the day. Gradually, as Eighties' aspirations began to be more body-focused than wallet-aligned, everyone started to look a little buffer, more toned. The war against podge had begun. Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer ripped off their vests in Top Gun for a slow-mo, trouser-bulging volleyball match and suddenly, every man wanted to be able to disrobe at a moment's notice and not feel ashamed of their tummy. Some corners of the media held out longer. British soap operas, for example, used to be the last bastion of the ugly. There'd be one token 'phwoar', sure, but everybody else was distinctly average - lumpy, bumpy and boring to know. Shirts would stay reassuringly on. But now those days are gone, and the ugliest and lumpiest of actors are resigned to waiting for the BBC to do another Charles Dickens adaptation so they can play a character part. The younger male stars are all ripped and look like they've just fallen from the pages of the underwear section of the catalogue. They pull off their flimsy cotton Ts at any opportunity, or have scenes conveniently set post-shower, so they can show off their mile-wide chests and xylophone abs. At home, millions of men gulp and resolve to renew that gym membership. But is it realistic for all of us to acquire this body beautiful? Our 9-5 existences don't usually lend themselves to rigorous, continual exercise, rounds of protein shakes and special eating regimes delivered to our door. Are we chasing the impossible? I don't want a six-pack, which is handy, as I'm unlikely ever to get one. They look ugly, harsh, as if you don't do anything else except slog at it in the gym to have this alien stomach, which, of course, you are required to show off at any given opportunity. I go to the gym; I've got a 'body', but I've got a real one. There's hardly any fat and a few T-shirt friendly muscles are in attendance, yes, and the tummy's flatter than many men my age, but it's real. It's a body that likes a few beers, has been known to eat badly and likes to go for a run. I can look in the mirror at it and know that it's mine - that it's living along with me and I'm not killing myself to make it look impeccable. And, most importantly, it's not for display. You only get to see it if I really want you to. So, Grindr galleries, keep your bowling-ball guns and starving stomachs. Work on, if you must, on honing the perfect chest. And knock yourself out when it comes to those abs. Because when those eager eyes tire of looking at faultlessness and uniformity, they'll come looking somewhere else, for something real. And I'll be waiting.

We've probably all had the experience of being stuck in line at the pharmacy with a box of prophylactics, some tampons and some apple sauce, and found out far too late that we don't have the cash to cover it. Don't you wish there was something else you could trade instead of that "money" stuff you never seem to have? Well many parts of the world are way ahead of you, ditching money in favor of... Advertisement 8 Airtime Continue Reading Below Advertisement Everyone has a damn cell phone these days. You can't urinate on the front doors of a library any more without at least three passers-by phoning the cops and having you picked up. For that reason, maybe it's not entirely surprising that in some rural parts of Africa, cell phone scratch cards have actually become a form of currency. Despite having a GDP on par with your average 7-Eleven, the Congo has several million cell phones and subscriptions have increased 150% in the last year, which means everyone in Buttfuck Nowhere, Africa really wants to talk to someone else all the time. Now that they can, they've taken to buying airtime vouchers or "scratch cards" and texting the codes to others who can then use the codes to redeem the cash value right away in a sort of rudimentary money transfer system that happens instantly and costs the price of a text message. Continue Reading Below Advertisement The practice is so widespread that these scratch cards are now acceptable currency for bribing officials. As an added bonus, you can pay the bribes remotely with this method, so there's no need for the cops to even take you downtown to bribe the judge when you can pay them all off at the same time. Ah, technology. Simultaneously bribing multiple government officials to quietly overlook your backyard sex parties has never been easier. 7 Cocaine Continue Reading Below Advertisement Guerima, Colombia may be the most intense little village you've never heard of. While it's unlikely they're all skydivers drinking Mountain Dew and listening to one of those screaming, loud bands the kids these days love so much, the residents do have enough blow to keep themselves wired and tweaking 24/7. The President of Guerima. It seems Colombia, in an effort to do something to curb its drug trade, has tried to stop Marxist rebels from trafficking in cocaine. One of the ways they did this was to deploy the army to remote areas and block access to places where cocaine is grown and processed, places like Guerima. Continue Reading Below Advertisement So imagine a little town in Idaho growing potatoes until one day the army comes and stops anyone from coming in and buying those potatoes to make delicious, addictive, potentially lethal french fries. Now the little town has a shitload of potatoes and no money. So how do you get by? The people of Geurima, (population of 1,000), just replaced cash with powder. Without FARC rebels paying for cocaine, the people of the town use it to conduct transactions amongst themselves and, according to reports, one gram will get you a bottle of Coca-Cola. If this society can actually pull off their homemade economic system, well, kudos. But we're betting heavily that the "Trapping 1,000 People in a Tiny Village with Nothing to Do But Pass Cocaine Around" Plan is eventually going to backfire in a pretty huge way. Continue Reading Below Advertisement

Q: Valid comments keep dissappearing A few days ago I wrote a comment to Make linker use bank 0 in relocatable mode. Basically I was trying to explain to the OP that declaring things he obviously doesn't know that much about as "stupid" is a bad idea here. He does not know how to get something he wants from the PIC MPLINK linker, but instead of asking, has declared the linker stupid (his word) and has also declared that "There is no way to tell the linker to start filling from bank 0...", and even complains "There should be a better way". No question was ever asked. This is no place for such childish rants. I said that in a comment, but it mysteriously vanished after a day or so. My downvote of the question was even negated. Today I noticed the OP had been back to edit the question, but instead of fixing or removing the offensive parts, he left the original intact and even added "For those who didn't understand the question (or didn't want)...". I feel strongly that this sort of childish attitude does not belong here. Engineering is about carefully reasoned rational decisions. There is no place for emotional outbursts. We are not here to listen to whines about how this or that doesn't work or how someone had a bad day. Doing that only makes you look stupid and noises up the site. I again left a comment explaining that, but it has now vanished without a trace too, obviously deleted by a mod. In my opinion the whole question should have been deleted. I don't see by what logic we can keep a emotional outburst that is a rant only pretending to be a question, but not keep the comment pointing that out. Not only does such nonsense not belong here, but the OP needs to hear that it is not acceptable. If the comment saying such keeps getting deleted, then he's not going to learn that, and worse, he may actually get a positive result from his actions. That teaches some bad things not only to the OP, but anyone else watching. I have now written a comment for the third time. I think it's important for the OP to see it. I want him to know that I am withholding help, and why. And yes, I do have suggestions for how to use the linker effectively in his situation. A: I highly doubt that the OP is suggesting that the engineers at Microchip are idiots and don't know how to build a linker. People get frustrated, and, as is the case of the OP, might blame the tools whether they mean it or not. It's really baffling that you got so hung up on something that was said in passing. It's really no mystery why your comments got deleted. They were rude, and you tried to assume too much about the OP. Your cheap shot, Such comments reflect on you, not the tool..., should have made this abundantly clear: Elitist attitudes are not welcome on Stack Exchange. I don't see by what logic we can keep a emotional outburst that is a rant only pretending to be a question...       - Oh, the irony. A: I agree that the way the question was asked is not ideal - the OP is obviously having a tool problem and is frustrated. A better corrective approach would have been to address the issue without making personal insults towards the OP. The way you tackled the problem makes it feel very petty and childish on your part with comments that go way beyond trying to correct the "stupid tool" remark. The hostile approach towards the OP decreases the chances that your feedback will be considered, and creates a situation where people are arguing over minor differences. I'm not saying that you need to sugar-coat everything, but you also don't need to flame people into oblivion. A: I haven't read any of Olin's comments, the third one also was removed, but I think I can can see what happened. I'm not familiar enough with PIC development tools to comment on the core of OP's question, but I know Olin does have a lot of experience with PICs, and we know Olin has a short fuse. Add to that an OP blaming his "stupid" tools for his own errors, and you get a strong reaction from Olin, which in turn challenges OP, etc. I think Olin is a great contributor here, and most of the time he doesn't mind explaining extremely basic things to newbies, but he's very strict on doing the things right, and has little patience with people who mess up things, especially if they then blame their tools. I removed the inflicting "stupid" from the post, hoping to defuse the debate this way, but Olin thinks I'm unjustified rewarding OP by this since now his question will be answered as if nothing was wrong. And that's also Olin. Call it a sense of justice, but I don't agree with it. Some questions or answers also irritate me, and IMO don't deserve those upvotes, but it is the way it is, and I simply keep away from them, maybe leaving a comment. But my comments don't get removed, so there must be something different in the wording between Olin's and mine :-). (I actually found it somewhat funny when I heard that Olin is one of the most flagged users, I mean being a top contributor and all.) So maybe a slightly less harsh wording may help, and else just let it lie and move on. Given your experience and the fine answer he could have gotten from you, that should be enough punishment :-). Have a nice weekend, all.

Shots fired at ODPO on border of 012 and 014. Did Kulbida bring the shitheads from Englewood with him? From Fox News: The men—ages 18, 20 and 27—were in a dark-colored SUV that pulled alongside the off-duty officer's vehicle about 11 p.m. in the 2400 block of West Division, police said. The men flashed gang signs at the officer, and the officer pulled away. Off duty assigned to Area North Saturation Team was driving in his personal vehicle eastbound on Division at Washtenaw on 23APR15 at approximately 2250hours when a black Trailblazer, occupied by multiple M/4/early 20's began flashing gang signs at him. Torres continued driving east and the vehicle followed. Torres heard gunshots being fired from the offenders. Torres called 911 as the vehicle continued following him and shooting at him. Torres lost the offenders and drove to the 014th District. Beat 1465A stopped the offending vehicle a short time after the initial call and Torres was able to identify the offenders and the vehicle. Multiple shell casings found at multiple locations. A citizen called 911 to report seeing the offenders dump the firearm and this was recovered by the E.T.'s. Three offenders transported to Area Central where the investigation continues. No injuries to anyone at the time of this report. The F. O. P. medallions, police hat bands, police memorial plates, all serve one purpose in this day in age. They make you a target at the worst time, when you're off duty. No one cares that you're the police so stop advertising it. P. O. C. Mota. I second, about removing Medallions and FOP stickers. I will go one step further. . . if you are commuting to work in your uniform, COVER UP! If you don't, you deserve getting fucked with. Even your Dickie shouldn't be visible. Your FTO shoulda' told you that. Better yet, finished getting dressed at work. Even a plain white tee shirt is a dead giveaway. Just thankfully God was threr or angels protecting this officer, To Mota talking about the police items on your vehicle that I agree to 100%, why tempt anyone! I had a brand new car Black in color,went to a suburban mall about 2 years ago, came out big scratch right down center of hood, not a possible accident deliberate, had FOP sticker on windshield thought a police hater, now my new car no stickers. If your the police stickers and assorted police items don't help, if your stopped your the police you can ask for a courtesy without displaying to the world your "the police!" The F. O. P. medallions, police hat bands, police memorial plates, all serve one purpose in this day in age. They make you a target at the worst time, when you're off duty. No one cares that you're the police so stop advertising it. P. O. C. Mota. Two weeks ago, I saw in unincorporated Maine Twsp (Niles) a car driven with Police Memorial License plates with the Memorial emblem (on the left side of the plate) and the "LE" on the right side of the plate.The license plate read 'ALLAH'.Pictures are available...How do you guys feel about that? Anonymous Anonymous said...Two weeks ago, I saw in unincorporated Maine Twsp (Niles) a car driven with Police Memorial License plates with the Memorial emblem (on the left side of the plate) and the "LE" on the right side of the plate.The license plate read 'ALLAH'.Pictures are available...How do you guys feel about that? 4/26/2015 12:03:00 AM I thought specifically religious plates, as well as offensive plates (profanity), weren't allowed by the state.

Q: How can I loop an array starting at 0 while the key of the array is not starting at 0 in php? For example, I have an array like this: $array={'199' => 'a','200' => 'c', '23' => 'd'} I would like to use for each loop to loop through all the elements. However, the key is not started at 0. One of the solutions I figured out is to use $i++ to represent the index of each element. Are there any other solutions? Thank you very much! A: foreach(array_values($array) as $key => $value) { echo "key: $key, value: $value\n"; } That's how you iterate over an associative array

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The Satanic Temple, a burgeoning community of worship devoted to the Dark Lord, has performed a "Pink Mass" over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps Jr.'s mother. The Pink Mass is a Satanic ritual performed after death that turns the deceased's straight spirit into a homo one—it's not unlike the Mormon practice of baptizing the dead, only much gayer. On Sunday the Satanic Temple, which first came into the national spotlight last January when the organization announced its support for Florida Governor Rick Scott, went to the Phelps family graveyard in Mississippi to perform the ritual. (Two Pink Masses were performed, one with a female couple and another with men.) I contacted Lucien Greaves, the Temple's spokesperson and officiator of the ceremony, to find out what exactly the Pink Mass entials. While he didn't get into specifics, he told told me via email that "there were, in fact, scriptures recited, candles lit, and a ceremonial proceeding that we may eventually post the details of at our website, westboro-baptist.com. That is, if the Pink Mass generates sufficient interest to the point that other responsible parties, respectful of the graveyard, wish to perform their own." The idea for the mass came about in April, when the WBC announced their intention to protest the funerals of the Boston Bombing victims. The church never showed up, but later issued a statement saying they were there "in spirit." As is always the case when WBC does or says anything, both the initial plans and the subsequent statement pissed off everyone in the world, including Satanists. And so, according to a press release, the Satanic Temple decided that a ceremony celebrating same-sex couples "at the gravesite of Fred Phelps' mother was an appropriate way to meet the Westboro Baptists, 'in spirit,' but this time on our terms." Now the spirit of Catherine Idalette Johnston is officially into other chicks, meaning her gravesite is a viable target for one of her son's "God hates fags" protests. Lucien told me, "We believe that Fred Phelps is obligated to believe that his mother is now gay in the afterlife. Further, if beliefs are inviolable rights, nobody has the right to challenge our right to believe that Fred Phelps believes that his mother is now gay." When I asked Lucien if the Temple has plans to perform Pink Masses on any other deceased members of the Phelps family, he said, "We haven't gayed Fred's father yet, or his great-aunt, Irene Jordan, who raised him after his mother died. We will perform Pink Masses for each of them, and more descendants of the Phelps, each time they picket funerals or applaud horrific terrorist actions, as they are known to do. Fred himself is getting pretty long in the tooth, and I hope to be presiding over his Pink Mass before long." The Temple is encouraging other gay couples to make the trek to Magnolia cemetery in Mississippi and suck each others' faces at the grave. They say that every time a same-sex couple makes out over the grave of a Pink Mass recipient, the spirit of the deceased "is pleasured in the afterlife," presumably with spooky ghost orgasms. And for couples interested in performing an official Pink Mass of their own, Lucien told me, "I would encourage them to try to arrange such a thing with us, so that we might have a High Priest formally officiate." In addition to supporting Republican politicians and turning ghosts gay, the Satanic Temple has launched a bid to adopt a highway in New York City. They are hoping that their Pink Masses will raise awareness for their highway campaign, which is lacking in public support. You can watch a video about the project above, and they've set up an Indiegogo page where you can donate money and help the Temple achieve their dream of contributing to the betterment of society by keeping our highways clean and litter-free. In conclusion, your mom likes to scissor now, Fred.

Sarah Palin: My favorite sign was 'I am Joe Mama' David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Monday October 27, 2008 Print This Email This At a rally in Leesburg, Virginia on Monday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spoke enthusiastically about the variations on "Joe the Plumber" with which many of her supporters have recently been identifying themselves. However, she may have overstepped the bounds of good taste when she suggested that among her favorite signs was one reading "I am Joe Mama." "I really got to hand it to Joe the Plumber," Palin began. "A lot of folks around the country, they identify with Joe, and we see posters even here today. We saw posters recently -- Doug the barber, and Christine the florist, and Cindy the citizen. We've got Joe the plumber's son, Jack the hunter, Vickie the realtor. Yes!" "One of my favorites last night, it was 'I am Joe Mama,'" Palin concluded, to laughs and shouts from the audience. It seemed clear from the intonation with which Palin said the phrase and the laughs it received that she knew it was meant to mock the ethnic pronunciation of "Your mama." Done knock-up style the joke might read: Did you hear Joe was here? Joe who? Joe mama. One poster at the liberal message board Democratic Underground quickly suggested, "There is the sound clip for the day. Fantastic. She is a total idiot." Another added, "The expression 'You mama!' coming out of that mouth is shocking enough. Puerto Rican dialect annuciates [sic] the "y" as "j"... Talk about shooting 2 moose with one bullet." Palin's use of an ethnic accent is reminiscent in some ways of an incident in 2007 where Hillary Clinton was accused of making fun of southerners because she had adopted a southern accent to recite a verse of a gospel hymn during an appearance at a black church. However, in Clinton's case the charges were of pandering to her audience, not of racism -- and even those charges were shown to be misplaced. One critic suggested at the time, "Andrea Mitchell, while narrating the segment on the political duel between Obama and Hillary in Selma, Alabama this weekend portrayed Obama as having authentic appeal, while picturing Hillary resorting to heavy-handed political tactics. But that heavy hand turned to flat out mocking with part of her speech that has been placed online. Clinton, once a resident of the Governor's mansion in Arkansas, tried to fake a southern accent and it came across as a cheap and nasty ploy." Talking Points Memo then came to her defense, writing under the headline "Yet Another Wingnut Sliming Of Hillary Proven To Be Bogus" that "Hillary was actually quoting the hymn lyrics of someone else -- while clearly and very openly imitating (not very well, it turns out) the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in. There was nothing phony about it at all." This video is from CNN.com, broadcast October 27, 2008. Download video via RawReplay.com

J-S46042-19 NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : DAVID CHARLES TANNER : : Appellant : No. 108 EDA 2019 Appeal from the PCRA Order Entered November 27, 2018 In the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County Criminal Division at No(s): CP-45-CR-0000072-2012 BEFORE: PANELLA, P.J., OLSON, J., and COLINS, J.* MEMORANDUM BY COLINS, J.: FILED SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 Appellant, David Charles Tanner, appeals from the order entered November 27, 2018, dismissing his first petition filed under the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA).1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm. On December 14, 2011, the Commonwealth charged Appellant with three counts of rape of a child, three counts of statutory sexual assault, and two counts of aggravated indecent assault.2 The charges related to allegations that he had vaginal and oral sexual intercourse with a 12-year old female victim on three or four occasions in November 2011. ____________________________________________ * Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court. 1 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546. 2 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 3121(c), 3122.1(a), 3125(a)(7)-(8), respectively. J-S46042-19 On July 2, 2012, Appellant pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child.3 On November 2, 2012, the trial court sentenced Appellant to 84 to 168 months of imprisonment and directed Appellant to comply with applicable sexual offender registration requirements under Megan’s Law III, which was then in effect.4 On the date of his sentencing, Appellant completed a “Notification at Sentencing” form in which he acknowledged that he would be subject to lifetime registration under Megan’s Law III. Notification at Sentencing, 11/2/12, ¶11; see also 42 Pa.C.S. § 9595.1(b)(2) (expired). The Commonwealth filed a timely post-sentence motion for the modification of the term of imprisonment imposed upon Appellant, which the trial court denied on February 1, 2013. Appellant did not file a notice of appeal from the November 2, 2012 sentencing order or the February 1, 2013 order denying the Commonwealth’s post-sentence motion. On May 17, 2018, Appellant filed, pro se, his first PCRA petition in which he alleged that the retrospective application of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) to Appellant violated the ex post facto clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania constitutions pursuant to Commonwealth v. Muniz, 164 A.3d 1189 (Pa. 2017). On May 31, 2018, ____________________________________________ 3The remaining charges against Appellant were nolle prossed on September 30, 2016. 4 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9791-9799.9 (expired). Megan’s Law III remained as the operative sexual offender registration legislation in Pennsylvania until its successor legislation, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9799.10-9799.42, went into effect on December 20, 2012. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9799.41. -2- J-S46042-19 the PCRA court entered an order scheduling a hearing on the petition and granting Appellant’s counsel, who had previously been appointed to represent Appellant in 2014, leave to file an amended petition. Appellant’s counsel, however, did not file an amended petition. The Commonwealth filed an answer to the PCRA petition, and following the hearing, the PCRA court entered an order directing the parties to submit briefs concerning the issue raised in the petition. On November 27, 2018, the PCRA court filed an order and opinion dismissing the PCRA petition. The PCRA court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction over the petition because it was not timely filed within one year of the date upon which the judgment of sentence became final and Appellant did not file his petition within 60 days of the date the Muniz decision was issued as he was required to do in order to avail himself of the PCRA’s timeliness exceptions. PCRA Court Opinion, 11/27/18, at 4-5. On December 26, 2018, Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal.5 Appellant presents the following issue for our review: Whether the PCRA court erred and abused its discretion by dismissing [Appellant’s] PCRA petition as untimely where a material change in law, and the [Appellant’s] subsequent knowledge and discovery thereof, makes his filing timely? Appellant’s Brief at 5 (unnecessary capitalization omitted). ____________________________________________ 5Appellant filed his statement of errors complained of on appeal on January 18, 2019. On February 6, 2019, the trial court entered a statement in lieu of opinion, in which it indicated that it was relying on its earlier opinion. -3- J-S46042-19 The PCRA provides that “[a]ny petition under this subchapter, including a second or subsequent petition, shall be filed within one year of the date the judgment becomes final.” 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1). A PCRA petition may be filed beyond the one-year time period only if the petitioner alleges and proves one of the following three exceptions: (i) the failure to raise the claim previously was the result of interference by government officials with the presentation of the claim in violation of the Constitution or laws of this Commonwealth or the Constitution or laws of the United States; (ii) the facts upon which the claim is predicated were unknown to the petitioner and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of due diligence; or (iii) the right asserted is a constitutional right that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States or the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania after the time period provided in this section and has been held by that court to apply retroactively. Id. Any petition attempting to invoke these exceptions “shall be filed within 60 days of the date the claim could have been presented.” 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(2).6 “The PCRA’s time limitations implicate our jurisdiction and may ____________________________________________ 6 In Act 146 of 2018, the General Assembly changed the timeframe for asserting a timeliness exception under Section 9545(b)(2) from 60 days to one year, effective December 24, 2018. Act of October 24, 2018, P.L. 894, No. 146, §§ 2, 4. The legislature provided that this amendment “shall apply only to claims arising one year before the effective date of this section or thereafter.” Id., § 3. Appellant’s claim arose on the date Muniz was decided, July 19, 2017, more than one year before the amendment to Section 9545(b)(2) went into effect; therefore, the expanded timeframe for asserting a timeliness exception under the current version of this provision is not applicable to the instant petition. -4- J-S46042-19 not be altered or disregarded in order to address the underlying merits of a claim.” Commonwealth v. Greco, 203 A.3d 1120, 1124 (Pa. Super. 2019). Appellant concedes that his PCRA petition is untimely.7 See PCRA Petition, 5/17/18, ¶4. Furthermore, Appellant acknowledges that his May 17, 2018 PCRA petition was filed more than 60 days beyond the date that Muniz was issued on July 19, 2017. Appellant’s Brief at 12-13. Nevertheless, Appellant contends in his appellate brief that, pursuant to Commonwealth v. Burton, 158 A.3d 618 (Pa. 2017), an incarcerated, pro se PCRA petitioner is not presumed to have knowledge of information that is of public record and his petition was timely based on the date he became aware of the Muniz decision. Id. at 11-13. This claim fails. In Burton, our Supreme Court held that a pro se prisoner cannot be presumed to have knowledge of facts of public record for the purposes of the newly discovered fact exception of Section 9545(b)(1)(ii) of the PCRA. 158 A.3d at 638. In his PCRA petition and appellate brief, however, Appellant has invoked the timeliness exception set forth in ____________________________________________ 7 Appellant did not file a direct appeal from his sentence, and therefore his judgment of sentence became final 30 days after the trial court denied the Commonwealth’s post-sentence motion on February 1, 2013. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(3) (where a defendant does not file a direct appeal, judgment of sentence becomes final at the expiration of the time for seeking review); Pa.R.Crim.P. 720(A)(4) (where the Commonwealth files a timely motion to modify sentence, the defendant’s notice of appeal from the judgment of sentence shall be filed within 30 days of the disposition of that motion). Appellant’s PCRA petition filed on May 17, 2018 was therefore patently beyond the one-year time period allowed for in the PCRA. -5- J-S46042-19 subsection (b)(1)(iii), asserting that our Supreme Court recognized a new constitutional right with retroactive application in Muniz. See PCRA Petition, 5/17/18, ¶4; Appellant’s Brief at 12.8 In contrast to the newly discovered fact timeliness exception of subsection (b)(1)(ii), a prisoner who asserts the timeliness exception for a newly recognized retroactive constitutional right under subsection (b)(1)(iii) is deemed to have knowledge of the underlying judicial decision on the date it was issued, regardless of the date that the petitioner became aware of the decision. Commonwealth v. Brandon, 51 A.3d 231, 235 (Pa. Super. 2012); see also Commonwealth v. Leggett, 16 A.3d 1144, 1146-47 (Pa. Super. 2011). “Neither the court system nor the correctional system is obliged to educate or update prisoners concerning changes in case law.” Brandon, 51 A.3d at 235 (citation omitted).9 ____________________________________________ 8 Even if Appellant had pleaded the subsection (b)(1)(ii) timeliness exception in his PCRA petition based on his discovery of the Muniz ruling, this would also fail. As our Supreme Court has explained, “judicial determinations are not facts,” and therefore “decisional law does not amount to a new ‘fact’ under section 9545(b)(1)(ii) of the PCRA.” Commonwealth v. Watts, 23 A.3d 980, 986-87 (Pa. 2011). 9 While Brandon and Leggett preceded our Supreme Court’s decision in Burton recognizing the limited access that pro se prisoners face in accessing information, the rule announced in Burton abolishing the presumption that pro se prisoners have access to publically available information was confined to the subsection (b)(1)(ii) timeliness exception. 158 A.3d at 638. Furthermore, the Court in Burton specifically distinguished the statutory language of the subsection (b)(1)(ii) and (b)(1)(iii) exceptions noting “that, unlike subsection (b)(1)(ii), subsection (b)(1)(iii) precludes consideration of the petitioner’s knowledge and an assessment of due diligence.” Id. at 636 (emphasis in original). Consequently, Burton did not alter the holdings of Brandon and Leggett that a prisoner is presumed to be aware of changes in -6- J-S46042-19 Accordingly, because Appellant did not file his PCRA petition within 60 days of the date that the Muniz decision was issued as required by Section 9545(b)(2), he could not avail himself of the PCRA timeliness exception of Section 9545 (b)(1)(iii). The PCRA court therefore correctly ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to reach the merits of his petition. See Greco, 203 A.3d at 1124. Moreover, even if Appellant had filed his claim within 60 days of the date that the Muniz decision was issued, his appeal would still fail to trigger the Section 9545(b)(1)(iii) timeliness exception because our Supreme Court has not recognized that Muniz is retroactive. In Commonwealth v. Murphy, 180 A.3d 402 (Pa. Super. 2018), a defendant filed an untimely PCRA petition as to his 2009 conviction on sexual offenses, claiming that his lifetime registration was unconstitutional pursuant to Muniz. This Court explained: Appellant’s reliance on Muniz cannot satisfy the ‘new retroactive right’ exception of section 9545(b)(1)(iii). In Commonwealth v. Abdul–Salaam, [] 812 A.2d 497 ([Pa.] 2002), our Supreme Court held that, [s]ubsection (iii) of Section 9545 has two requirements. First, it provides that the right asserted is a constitutional right that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States or this court after the time provided in this section. Second, it provides that the right “has been held” by “that court” to apply retroactively. Thus, a petitioner must prove that there is a “new” constitutional right and that the right “has been held” by that court to apply retroactively. The language “has been held” is in the past ____________________________________________ the law and therefore the 60-day period of Section 9545(b)(2) begins on the date that a judicial decision is issued. -7- J-S46042-19 tense. These words mean that the action has already occurred, i.e., “that court” has already held the new constitutional right to be retroactive to cases on collateral review. By employing the past tense in writing this provision, the legislature clearly intended that the right was already recognized at the time the petition was filed. Id. at 501. Here, we acknowledge that this Court has declared that, “Muniz created a substantive rule that retroactively applies in the collateral context.” Commonwealth v. Rivera–Figueroa, 174 A.3d 674, 678 (Pa. Super. 2017). However, because Appellant’s PCRA petition is untimely (unlike the petition at issue in Rivera– Figueroa), he must demonstrate that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that Muniz applies retroactively in order to satisfy section 9545(b)(1)(iii). See Abdul–Salaam[, 812 A.2d at 501]. Because at this time, no such holding has been issued by our Supreme Court, Appellant cannot rely on Muniz to meet that timeliness exception. Id. at 405-06 (emphasis in original); see also Greco, 203 A.3d at 1124-25. To date, our Supreme Court has not ruled that Muniz is retroactive. Accordingly, Appellant’s untimely PCRA petition does not satisfy the requirements of the Section 9545(b)(1)(iii) timeliness exception. For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the PCRA court’s dismissal of Appellant’s PCRA petition.10 Order affirmed. ____________________________________________ 10 Finally, we note that Muniz appears to have no application here because Appellant was initially notified at sentencing that he would be required to report as a sexual offender pursuant to Megan’s Law III and there is no indication in the record that SORNA reporting requirements were retrospectively applied to him. -8- J-S46042-19 Judgment Entered. Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary Date: 9/13/19 -9- 

1. Field of the Invention Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relates to a thin-film transistor (TFT) display panel and a method of fabricating the same, and more particularly, to a TFT display panel having improved electrical properties and improved reliability by fabricating a oxide TFT and a method of fabricating the TFT display panel. 2. Discussion of the Background Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are one of the most widely used flat panel displays (FPDs). An LCD includes two substrates having electrodes formed thereon and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the two substrates. The LCD applies voltages to the electrodes to rearrange liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer and thus control the amount of light that passes through the liquid crystal layer. With the soaring demand for LCDs, and in particular higher-quality LCDs, a lot of research is being conducted to develop LCDs with improved current and light tolerance. Oxide TFT display panels using oxide semiconductors as active layer patterns have high mobility, light insensitivity, and low-temperature deposition properties. Due to these properties, oxide TFT display panels are increasingly used in LCDs. An oxide TFT display panel includes oxide active layer patterns made of an oxide semiconductor, a passivation layer disposed on the oxide active layer patterns, and a gate insulating film disposed under the oxide active layer patterns. If the passivation layer or the gate insulating film contains hydrogen atoms, the hydrogen atoms may react with or diffuse into the oxide active layer patterns. Accordingly, the oxide active layer patterns may become conductive, rendering the oxide TFT display panel unable to perform its function.

'Maudie' Paints Intimate Portrait Of Canadian Painter Maud Lewis The movie "Maudie" is the true story of a painter whose work is so exuberant you'd never guess what a difficult life she lived. In a moment, NPR's Susan Stamberg will tell us about the art and legacy of the real Maud Lewis. But first, our critic Bob Mondello reviews the film. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: She is tiny, her frame bent, fingers crippled by arthritis, though she's barely in her 30s. Still, it's her brother who looks nervous when he tells Maud she's going to have to stay with their Aunt Ida. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MAUDIE") ZACHARY BENNETT: (As Charles Dowley) I sold the house. SALLY HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) Our house? BENNETT: (As Charles Dowley) Maud, mom left it to me. HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) I'll look after it. BENNETT: (As Charles Dowley) You can't look after yourself. HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) I'll get a job or something. BENNETT: (As Charles Dowley) A job - a job doing what? HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) I don't know. MONDELLO: It's easy to see why her fellow Nova Scotians might underestimate Maud. She walks with a limp, talks tentatively. But she's far from helpless. When the town eccentric comes into the general store looking for a live-in maid, she spies an opportunity. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MAUDIE") LAWRENCE BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) What can I do for you, Everett? ETHAN HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) I'm looking for a woman. BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) A what? HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) A house maid. BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) Not the kind of thing we sell. HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) Am I an idiot? Well, I need you to write - can you write... BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) A sign. HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) Yeah. BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) OK. HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) Looking for a house maid. Must have her own - what's the word I'm looking for? BARRY: (As Mr. Davis) Sense of humor? HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) No, cleaning tools. Must have her own cleaning tools. MONDELLO: The sign is barely up before Maud, played pluckily by Sally Hawkins, has grabbed it and started walking miles to Everett's place. He is a fish peddler, seriously anti-social, living in a wooden shack. Played by an almost unrecognizable Ethan Hawke, Everett is startled when Maud negotiates a tiny pittance of a salary and starts cleaning, cooking and, though he bridles at this, adding color to things around the house using leftover house paint. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MAUDIE") HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) Who told you you could paint fairies on the wall? HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) They're not fairies. They're birds. HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) Well, who told you you could do that? HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) Well, you did. HAWKE: (As Everett Lewis) What? HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) You said, make the place look all right. I think it looks all right. MONDELLO: They're quite the pair - Maudie crabbed, Everett crabby. Still, there's something about them together that kind of works, partly because Hawkins and Hawke are remarkable, partly because the filmmakers let them make much of small things - the looks on their faces, say, when she starts popping bright, cheerfully painted cards in with his bills and a New York visitor offers to pay more for her card than for his fish. The world doesn't give this woman much, but then, not much is required to make her happy. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MAUDIE") HAWKINS: (As Maud Lewis) I love a window. The whole of life already framed. MONDELLO: Maudie's life was so constricted, but her gaze so expansive, as is her movie. I'm Bob Mondello. Now here's Susan Stamberg with a look at the real Maud's art. SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: There's no rain in her clouds, no gray in her shadows. Maud Lewis' small paintings are bright with sunshine and filled with blue skies, crystal snow, calm waters. They're pictures of joy. It's folk art. No formal training. SHANNON PARKER: Often with a very cheeky sense of humor. STAMBERG: Shannon Parker is curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. There are 55 Mauds in their permanent collection. Why do you have that many? Do you have them because she's local or because she's good? PARKER: I'd say both. She's a local artist who, if we didn't collect them, especially in the beginning, nobody else would have. STAMBERG: The gallery also has Maud and Everett's house. After they died, the province of Nova Scotia bought the pint-size house and gave it to the gallery. Money was raised to restore it, and in 1998 the house was moved right in. In her final years, Maud told the CBC she rarely left home. STAMBERG: Inside, surrounded by walls, bread boxes, cookie sheets, a stove she'd covered with cheery painted butterflies and tulips and swans - canvas was too expensive and hard to get - Maud also brushed her house paint onto beaver boards and Masonite, all original from her imagination. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) LEWIS: I've never seen any paintings from other artists, you know. STAMBERG: Hadn't seen other artist's work. She saw what she saw, lots of animals - cows, horses, cats. PARKER: Oxen with their brilliantly lashed eyes. STAMBERG: With her gnarled hands, Maud Lewis started out painting 25 cent Christmas cards with her mother. Then came landscapes on the boards. PARKER: And that she charged originally $2 and eventually up to about $5. She was very hesitant to ask for more money. STAMBERG: Now they sell for anything from $8,500 to $20,000. She became known in the late 1960s. Passing tourists saw her sign, paintings for sale. There was a magazine article, then the CBC interview. Eventually she couldn't keep up with the demand. She sold her pictures wet. Curator Shannon Parker thinks Maud's popularity, her story, is a work of slow magic. PARKER: They didn't have a lot of money. They had no running water. They had no electricity. There was a very limited - what she was able to do with her life. And yet her artwork was what she wanted to do. And it's something she was able to do and touched so many other people. That's pretty amazing.

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Q: Extending JMeter or write complex scenario? I have several thousands of files, some of them contain HTTP request and some of them contain corresponding HTTP response. I want to create some script, which spawns hundreds/thousands of threads and each thread should take HTTP request, send it to the server and compare response from server with corresponding response file. I'm not sure if I have to create custom sampler with configuration, or I can use existing pieces of JMeter functions to create one? Also I was not able to find reliable documentation of how to extend JMeter with new Samplers. This one seems to be outdated: http://www.jajakarta.org/jmeter/1.7/en/extending/JMeter%20Extension%20Scenario.html May be somebody could advice where I can find latest guide, covering creation of Samplers? For example, how to create Sampler which will take a directory as argument and iterate over every file in that directory, then make request/compare response and tell JMeter if that one was correctly processed by WEB server along with timings? A: I think you should just use regulat JMeter scenario. Implement list of files with CSV Data Set, spawn some threads with this set with Thread Group. Each thread gets the name of the request/response files pair from CSV Data Set, uses HTTP/TCP sampler to send request and an Assertion (Response Assertion) to verify response. MD5 assertion can be even faster way to check the response.

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A multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) is a technology for transmitting data from a data source to multiple receive ends (such as user equipment) by means of a shared network resource. While providing a multimedia service, the multimedia broadcast/multicast service can effectively use the network resource, and implement high-rate multimedia broadcast and multicast. An evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast service (eMBMS) technology (also referred to as LTE (Long Term Evolution) broadcast) is an LTE-technology-based evolved broadcast/multicast function that develops based on the MBMS technology. The eMBMS technology is dramatically improved in such aspects as a logical architecture, a transmission manner, and a channel structure, and can support a broader bandwidth and provide better experience for a user. The eMBMS technology uses a point-to-multipoint transmission manner of a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) protocol defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force. By using the point-to-multipoint transmission manner of the FLUTE protocol, content that needs to be transmitted is converted to multiple FLUTE files, each file is processed in a particular manner and encapsulated into a FLUTE packet during transmission, and the FLUTE packet is transmitted to multiple receive ends by means of the Internet. Within a specified time interval, a service of transmitting MBMS user data on a FLUTE channel by means of the FLUTE communication protocol may be referred to as a FLUTE session. Files corresponding to data of a same service are sent to multiple receive ends by means of only one FLUTE session. If data is lost or damaged in a transmission process of the FLUTE packet, user equipment (UE) on the receive end may request, by using a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the file, a file repair server to repair data. As the eMBMS technology develops, a multi-FLUTE-session feature is proposed in the 3GPP R12 standards, that is, data of a same service that the UE is concerned with/is interested in may be transmitted to the user in multiple FLUTE sessions, and the user may freely select to receive a FLUTE packet corresponding to the service in whichever FLUTE session. However, for the problem that data is lost or damaged in the transmission process of the FLUTE packet, a solution provided in the prior art is effective only when a same service can be sent to the receive end by using only one FLUTE session, and if data is lost or damaged under the multi-FLUTE-session feature, data cannot be repaired.

The Preparation of Enantiopure [6]- and [7]Helicenes from Binaphthanol. A general and efficient synthetic methodology for the preparation of enantio- and diastereopure [6]-, and [7]helicenes is developed. Commercially available chiral binaphthanols are utilized to generate the arylene-vinylene precursors, which undergo helical folding via photocyclization to give enantio- and diastereopure [6]-, and [7]helicenes. These optically pure helicenes could be easily obtained via silica gel column chromatography without the use of expensive HPLC or chiral resolution reagents. The configurations and structures of these helicenes are confirmed by CD spectra and X-ray crystallographic analysis. This work provides a new method for preparation of enantiopure helicenes.