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Q: Decrypting and reading a FileVault sparsebundle in Linux? My MacBook's HD started failing recently. Fortunately most of the data was properly backed up and most of the other important data could be retrieved by hooking up the drive with the help of an external USB enclosure, but the problem is that my home directory has been encrypted with FileVault and I currently don't have easy access to a Mac. So can the FileVault sparsebundle be somehow decrypted and read with Linux? A: Apparently Catacombae (aka "DMGExtractor") can read encrypted sparse images if you have the password.

Roman’s Revenge 2.0 are performed by Young Money leader Lil Wayne and the queen Nicki Minaj surfaced recently on the net. Lil Wayne has replaced Eminem’s part and this version is equal to the original which is features the Slim Shady. Enjoy listening to the remix after the jump! [Nicki Minaj] I am not Jasmine, I am Aladdin so far ahead, these bums is lagging see me in that new thing, bums is gagging I’m starting to feel like a dungeon dragon rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon I’m starting to feel like a dungeon dragon look at my show footage, how these girls be spazzing so f-ck I look like getting back to a has-been yeah, I said it, has-been hang it up, flatscreen, haha, plasma hey Nicki, hey Nicki, asthma I got the pumps, it ain’t got medicine I got bars, sentencing I’m a bad b-tch, I’m a cunt and I’ll kick that hoe, punt forced trauma, blunt you play the back, b-tch, I’m in the front you need a job, this ain’t cutting it Nicki Minaj is who you ain’t f-cking with You li’l brag a lot, I beat you with a pad-a-lock I am a movie, camera block you outta work, I know it’s tough but enough is enough [Chorus] Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Like a dungeon dragon, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Like a dungeon dragon, like a dungeon dragon [Lil Wayne] I eat your face off You n-ggas sweet as pie like this is a bake off I love Nicki’s curves, swing at the baseball I beat your brakes off H-H-Hi, I’m Tune’, salt in the wound I’m up in this b-tch, pardon the goons Throw dirt on the floor and get caught in the broom I like a big wet p-ssy with a fork and a spoon I got money and the power a woman in the shower And she don’t want nothin’ but my johnson, Howard Sour D’s and a swisher sweet, sweet and sour You scared? Go to church, say your prayers, read a Bible Huh, I don’t know what y’all on Please, I go in like goin’ Drink drink in my hand with the world in the other The uzi go “brrrrrrr”, stutter Ha, life is a puzzle, jigsaw All I do is win, my name should be “Victor” Old-ass rappers, I’m still the sh-t, old-a-s Pampers Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Foie gras, I hear you ducks is quackin’ I’m just pluckin’ my ashes, I’ma puff it and pass it I’m a f-ckin’ assassin, you should jump in a casket Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Like a dungeon dragon, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Rah, rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon Like a dungeon dragon, like a dungeon dragon [Nicki Minaj] (I-I-I-I-Is) Is this the thanks that I get for putting you b-tches on? is it my fault that all of you b-tches gone? shoulda sent a thank you note, you little ho now I’ma wrap your coffin with a bow “N-N-N-Nicki, she’s just mad ’cause you took the spot” word, that b-tch mad ’cause I took the spot? Well, b-tch, if you ain’t sh-tting, then get off the pot Got some n-ggas out in Brooklyn that’ll off your top I-I-I-I hear them mumbling, I hear the cackling I got ‘em scared, shook, panicking overseas, church, Vatican you at a stand, still, mannequin you wanna sleep on me? Overnight? I’m the motherf-cking boss, overwrite and when I pull up, vroom, motorbike now all my n-ggas gettin’ bucked, overbite I see them dusty-ass Filas, Levi’s raggedy-a-s, holes in your knee-highs I call the play, now do you see why? these b-tches calling me Manning, Eli (Manning, Eli!) Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Manning, Eli These b-tches calling me (Manning, Eli)

It was a difficult MLS expansion season for FC Cincinnati, one that got off to a rocky start and prompted the club to make swift changes. In came Gerard Nijkamp by the end of May, off an impressive seven-year stint with PEC Zwolle in the Netherlands, to put the team back on track as general manager. Entering after all first-team contracts for 2019 had been signed a few months prior, Nijkamp hasn't yet been able to make sweeping changes. This offseason has hinted at similar tight spaces to work with, considering the club still has 22 players under contract after announcing their end-of-season roster update, parting ways with the likes of Roland Lamah and Victor Ulloa. The news turned heads a bit, with many expecting a transitional offseason in Ohio following a 6-22-6 finish (31 points). That can still be the case, according to Nijkamp. “I see it more as a realistic and normal situation, it happens at a lot of clubs," Nijkamp told MLSsoccer.com last week. "When you have guaranteed contracts, you have to respect these contracts. … It’s a normal process. We know we’re not going to change everything in one season, it takes more years. To come into the new stadium, we’ll create more revenue, so we’ll be able to increase budget.” That's not to say there won't be a number of changes this offseason. As currently constituted, Nijkamp forecasts as many as five new additions to Cincy this winter, perhaps more if some current players join new clubs. They're also keeping an eye on moving into their new stadium in 2021. “You’re always limited, eh? You’d always want more money to improve the roster," Nijkamp said. "That’s a good thing, though, or the job would be too easy. There is enough room for improvement from the players we have under contract and the players we have to find. From this moment, we can identify around five players, and if there are players we have that will move or make a transfer, we can have more changes. But at this moment, that’s the situation with the roster we have.” Nijkamp added the club needs more quality in attack and another player or two in defense. That recruitment process is well underway. Nijkamp just returned from a trip to Europe, alongside team president Jeff Berding, in which Nijkamp did some scouting and had meetings with agents and clubs. “My network is strong in Europe," Nijkamp said. "The agents I talk with, the clubs I speak with, it helps FC Cincinnati a lot to find good players. I know also the club has a good network in South and Central America, we have to use that also. I want to find the next Allan Cruz. He came from Costa Rica; it’s an interesting market. My European network, the scouting department’s network, will help us a lot.” But Nijkamp doesn't want to simply get caught up in potential acquisitions. There are a few bright spots, despite the team's disappointing inaugural campaign, particularly Cruz. A highly-rated 23-year-old Costa Rican international, Cruz contributed seven goals over 22 appearances in his first season. In front of him, No. 1 overall 2019 MLS SuperDraft pick Frankie Amaya made 19 appearances in his first professional campaign, a non-insignificant amount of experience for a player who turned 19 last month. “From the moment I saw the team playing, my analysis was that there are good players and it’s not a surprise I point to Allan Cruz," Nijkamp said. "It was a great signing from management before I came here. We’re happy he made improvements and he’s on our team. Frankie Amaya got a lot of experience to show his potential. Hopefully next season with some better players around him he’ll make the next step in his career. They’re young players, Allan and Frankie, giving a good future for this club.” Head coach Ron Jans will get a full preseason with his new team and will hope to build on some improvements he ushered in, particularly in defense. Cincy had three clean sheets in their final five matches, which were their first since March. As for other players still on the roster, it was a rocky first season with Designated Player Fanendo Adi. He scored just one goal in minimal minutes as injuries and occurrences off the field limited his availability. The forward has been public with his frustrations and the club is open to the possibility of moving him on, suggesting a divorce may be best for both parties. “There’s no update, still the same situation," Nijkamp said. "He has a guaranteed contract. If there’s a club he likes and we like, we can sit together. If not, Fanendo will be here in January.” Is that a realistic possibility? "It’s difficult. If I could see the future then I’d be a multi-millionaire, but I’d still be in football," Nijkamp said with a laugh, before continuing his answer. "But I cannot see the future. Let’s see what happens over the next couple of weeks and months. We’ll make the right decisions for every party.” One thing's for sure: It'll be an interesting offseason in the Queen City as Nijkamp continues to make this squad his own.

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Breastfeeding Rates and Programs in Europe: A Survey of 11 National Breastfeeding Committees and Representatives. Among the world's regions, the WHO European Region has the lowest rates of exclusive breastfeeding at the age of 6 months with approximately 25%. Low rates and early cessation of breastfeeding have important adverse health consequences for women, infants, and young children. Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding are a public health priority. National breastfeeding data and monitoring systems among selected European countries and the WHO European Region are compared. Mechanisms for the support, protection, and promotion of breastfeeding are reviewed and successes and challenges in implementation of national programs are presented. National representatives of national breastfeeding committees and initiatives in 11 European countries, including Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, participated in a standardized survey. Results are evaluated and compared in a narrative review. Variation exists in Europe on breastfeeding rates; methodology for data collection; and mechanisms for support, protection, and promotion of breastfeeding. Directly after birth, between 56% and 98% of infants in all countries were reported to receive any human milk, and at 6 months 38% to 71% and 13% to 39% of infants to be breastfed or exclusively breastfed, respectively. National plans addressing breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support exist in 6 of the 11 countries. National governments should commit to evidence-based breastfeeding monitoring and promotion activities, including financial and political support, to improve breastfeeding rates in the Europe. Renewed efforts for collaboration between countries in Europe, including a sustainable platform for information exchange, are needed.

Q: Can we add client side validation to workflow initiation form (without infopath)? We are using SP2013 standard so Infopath form service is not available. By using SharePoint Designer 2013, I copied and renamed the OOB workflow "Approval - SharePoint 2010" to build a new workflow. I have no problem with the logic. Now I want to customize the workflow initiation form. The requirement is simple: Mark some field text in red color; If checkbox A is checked, force check checkbox B. Is there any workaround? I am considering use Jquery to add some classes. But it may modify other workflow forms since all workflow forms shared url "/_layouts/15/IniWrkflIP.aspx". Also when I open xoml.wfconfig.xml I can see the form fields. Can I directly modify the XML? If the workflow logic being updated will the xml be ruined? A: I don't think it is an ideal answer but at least it works in my case. In the system master page, include a Javascript file. Then in the file add follow JQuery script: var LastPartOfURL = window.location.pathname.split("/").slice(-1)[0].toLowerCase(); if (($.inArray(LastPartOfURL, ['cstwrkflip.aspx', 'wrktaskip.aspx', 'iniwrkflip.aspx']) >= 0){ CustomizeWorkflowForm(); } CustomizeWorkflowForm is the function to modify your workflow forms with JQuery. Hence, whenever the user browse 'cstwrkflip.aspx', 'wrktaskip.aspx' or 'iniwrkflip.aspx' the function will be triggered.

Insights on Sufism by E. L. Levin Tag Archives: peace in midst of storm Psychologists talk about the influence of genetics and the influence of environment. And all of us live in some kind of an environment, and that environment has some kind of influence on us. When they say environment, they’re not talking about the temperature. They’re talking about the parent, the parental units and their influence on […]

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Q: exim4 shared key permission on Debian On Debian, the exim4 key file is supposed to be /etc/exim4/exim.key with permissions: chmod 640 exim.key chown root:Debian-exim exim.key If I have already a key file in /etc/ssl/private, owned by group ssl-cert, how can I recycle it for exim? If I change the group of /etc/ssl/private dir to Debian-exim it works, but then for instance I would need to add openldap to the Debian-exim group, in order to use the key for slapd. Pretty unobvious, isn't it? Adding Debian-exim to the ssl-cert group doesn't work: it is the exim software itself to blame the configuration as unsafe. Which is the best-practice solution? A: If you use ACLs to make the key file readable by the Debian-exim group, does exim accept that? setfacl -m g:Debian-exim:x /etc/ssl/private setfacl -m g:Debian-exim:r /etc/ssl/private/key.pem

Q: MySqli prepared statment doesn't use updated variable value when executing the statement My prepared statement isn't using the updated value while executing , it's using the one i set before binding , is this how it should work? because in examples on w3schools it was using updated value, so i'm not sure what am i doing wrong here, under //winner comment is problematic part, $assqlst2 isn't using updated value of $pointswon(I put that echo just to make sure values are correct, and i'm not getting any errors in output). <?php $dbserver = ""; //database information is populated in my script, i didn't put it here because of security resons. $dbusername = ""; $dbpassword = ""; $dbname = ""; $dbrecievedPassword = $_POST['dbPassword']; $winnerid = intval($_POST['winnerid']); $winnername = $_POST['winnername']; $pointswon = intval($_POST['pointswon']); $loserid = intval($_POST['loserid']); $losername = $_POST['losername']; $pointsph = $pointswon; if($dbrecievedPassword != null && $dbrecievedPassword == $dbpassword) { echo "PWD_OK"; } else { echo "PWD_INCORRECT"; } $conn = new mysqli($dbserver,$dbusername,$dbrecievedPassword); mysqli_select_db($conn,$dbname); if($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: ".connect_error); } if($winnerid != null) { if($sqlst = $conn->prepare("SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE uid=?")) { if($assqlst2 = $conn->prepare("UPDATE table_name SET as_points=? WHERE as_uid=?")) { if($sqlst3 = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO table_name (as_uid,as_points,as_username) VALUES (?,?,?)")) { $sqlst->bind_param("i",$winnerid); $assqlst2->bind_param("ii",$pointswon,$winnerid); $sqlst3->bind_param("iis",$winnerid,$pointswon,$winnername); if($loserid != null) { //winner if(!$sqlst->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } $sqlst->bind_result($b1,$b2,$b3); $sqlst->fetch(); $pointswon = $pointsph + intval($b3); echo $pointswon." ".$winnerid; if(!$assqlst2->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } //loser $winnerid = $loserid; if(!$sqlst->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } $sqlst->bind_result($c1,$c2,$c3); $sqlst->fetch(); $pointswon = intval($c3) - $pointsph; $sqlst->close(); if(!$assqlst2->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } $assqlst2->close(); }else { if(!$sqlst->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } $sqlst->bind_result($k1,$k2,$k3); $sqlst->fetch(); if($k1 != null) { $pointswon = intval($pointsph) + intval($k3); $sqlst->close(); if(!$assqlst2->execute()) { echo $conn->error; } $assqlst2->close(); }else { $pointswon = $pointsph; $sqlst3->execute(); $sqlst3->close(); } } }else { echo $conn->error; } }else { echo $conn->error; } }else { echo $conn->error; } } ?> A: Does it really have to be nested? You can't just rehash a query and use it multiple times. If you want to, you just have to put it in a function, so you just have to call it when you want it: function query1($conn, $winnerid){ if($sqlst = $conn->prepare("SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table_name WHERE uid = ?")){ $sqlst->bind_param("i", $winnerid); $sqlst->execute(); $sqlst->bind_result($b1, $b2, $b3); $sqlst->fetch(); $sqlst->close(); } return array($b1, $b2, $b3); } function query2($conn, $pointswon, $id){ if($assqlst2 = $conn->prepare("UPDATE table_name SET as_points = ? WHERE as_uid = ?")) $assqlst2->bind_param("ii", $pointswon, $id); $assqlst2->execute(); $assqlst2->close(); } } function query3($conn, $winnerid, $pointswon, $winnername){ if($sqlst3 = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO table_name (as_uid,as_points,as_username) VALUES (?,?,?)")){ $sqlst3->bind_param("iis", $winnerid, $pointswon, $winnername); $sqlst3->execute(); $sqlst3->close(); } } After setting the functions, we can now proceed with what you want to achieve: if($winnerid != NULL){ /*** WINNER UPDATE ***/ list($b1, $b2, $b3) = query1($conn, $winnerid); /* CALL THE SELECT QUERY */ if($loserid != NULL){ $pointswon = $pointsph + intval($b3); /* POINTS GATHERED BY THE WINNER */ echo $pointswon." ".$winnerid; } /* END OF CONDITION $loserid IS NOT NULL */ query2($conn, $pointswon, $winnerid); /* CALL THE UPDATE QUERY */ /*** LOSER UPDATE ***/ list($c1, $c2, $c3) = query1($conn, $loserid); /* CALL THE SELECT QUERY */ $pointswon = intval($c3) - $pointsph; /* POINT GATHERED BY THE LOSER */ query2($conn, $pointswon, $loserid); /* CALL THE UPDATE QUERY */ } /* END OF CONDITION $winnerid IS NOT NULL */ else { list($k1, $k2, $k3) = query1($conn, $winnerid); /* CALL THE SELECT QUERY */ if($k1 != null){ $pointswon = intval($pointsph) + intval($k3); query2($conn, $pointswon, $winnerid); /* CALL THE UPDATE QUERY */ } else { query3($conn, $winnerid, $pointsph, $winnername); /* CALL THE INSERT QUERY */ } } /* END OF ELSE */

U.S. Forces in Germany Put on Alert in Exercise BONN — Troops and tanks of the U.S. Army Fifth Corps, taking part in a military exercise, were put on alert across three West German states at dawn Thursday, a West German Foreign Ministry statement said. It said the one-day maneuver, designed to test combat readiness, included tank and mechanized units and involved 21,400 troops.

Gallery Photos: Best of Colby Covington view 22 images It’s a good thing the UFC is sponsored by Reebok, and not Nike, otherwise Colby Covington might have some explaining to do. Earlier this week, Nike unveiled an ad to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its “Just Do It” campaign and chose former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the face. Kaepernick, who spent six years in the NFL, gained attention for his on-field political action in 2016, when he took a knee during the national anthem in protest of social injustice. Kaepernick, 30, hasn’t played in the NFL since and is accusing the league of colluding to keep him off the field because of the player protests he instigated. Nike’s ad features a black-and-white close-up of Kaepernick’s face and a message in white letters that serves as a clear show of support for his cause. Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO — Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018 “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” On Tuesday, Covington took to Twitter to rip Nike and Kaepernick for the campaign and called for a boycott of the athletic apparel giant. I grew up in Oregon and was around @Nike my whole life. It's funny watching a company that uses child slave labor overseas to make their products all of a sudden become humanitarians. #PatTillman is an NFL/American Hero. @Kaepernick7 is just a spineless sack of shit. #NikeBoycott — Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) September 4, 2018 I grew up in Oregon and was around @Nike my whole life. It’s funny watching a company that uses child slave labor overseas to make their products all of a sudden become humanitarians. #PatTillman is an NFL/American Hero. @Kaepernick7 is just a spineless sack of (expletive). #NikeBoycott Covington’s mention of Pat Tillman as an “NFL/American Hero” is in reference to the former Arizona Cardinals safety dropping his NFL career to joined the Army following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Tillman died while serving in Afghanistan. Covington’s scathing remarks against Nike and Kaepernick should come as no surprise. The still current UFC interim welterweight champion is a staunch supporter of President Trump and visited him at the White House last month. Trump has criticized the NFL numerous times for not forcing players to stand during the national anthem before games. On Tuesday, Trump said Nike’s Kaepernick ad sends “a terrible message.” Covington won the interim championship in June by defeating Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 225. The UFC wanted Covington to unify the title against undisputed champ Tyron Woodley in the headliner of this Saturday’s UFC 228, but “Chaos” was unable to meet that timeline because of injuries. Darren Till got the nod instead, and Covington will be officially stripped of his interim title once the bell rings. For more on the UFC’s upcoming schedule, visit the UFC Rumors section of the site.

Next week is the first ever Seattle Cocktail Week, with seven participating bars in Ballard. Kicking off on Monday, cocktail week includes 60 Seattle bars, with events such as master classes, seminars, pop-ups and bar takeovers all over the city from March 3rd through the 10th. Here’s the rundown for Ballard: The Gerald will have cocktail specials all week, including “Tea Time”, with Earl Grey infused vodka, Honey, Lemon, and Egg white for $9; “Keep Summer Safe” with Amaro Montenegro, Lemon, Becherovka, Honey, and Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic for $10; and their cocktail week creation, “Mr. Beauregard”, with (ri) 1 Rye, Pere Magliore, Carpano Dry, Bigallet China China, Honey, and an Edible Flower for $11. Gerald will also be hosting the following events: Monday, March 3: Temple Co-Authored Gin competition and after party. The competition’s winner will get to collaborate with Temple to create a special edition gin, last year I believe they crated 241 bottles. The after party is open to public and we will be featuring a cocktail by our very own Katie Frazier using last year’s Co-Authored Gin. Wednesday, March 6: Watchuwant?! Wednesday with Scratch Distillery. On Wednesdays, The Gerald has “Watchuwant?! Wednesday” where we provide the guest a card and they get to pick a base spirit, style, and flavor profiles and our bartenders create custom drinks on the spot. On this Wednesday, we will have a special edition where we feature Scratch Distillery products at a discounted price. Kim Karrick, owner and distiller, will be on hand to talk to guests about the great things they’re doing in Edmonds, WA. Sunday, March 10: Half-off all spirits. If you know us, you know we pride ourselves in the biggest back bar in Ballard with over 500 bottles. I thought it’s a great opportunity for us to close the first ever SCW strong and showcasing our backbar. Half off ALL spirits. Yes, all top shelf bottles will be available for this day as well. I also plan on making at least one bottle break even bottle available. Gracia (5313 Ballard Ave NW) will serve their Bozal Mezcal Flight, which includes three 1oz pours of Chino Verde Ancestral, and Tepeztate, Borrego for $30 ($45 value); their “Paraíso”, with Bozal Ensamble, Stiggens pineapple rum, house-made falernum, orange, lime, Giffard’s banane, and tiki bitters for $12; and “Smoke & Bitters”, with Bozal Ensamble, Meletti, orange bitters, and “surprises”. They’ll also host a mezcal celebration: Friday, March 8: Bozal Mezcal all day! New and rare Bozal Mezcal Celebration! Please join us at Gracia as we celebrate the many different varieties of Bozal Mezcal’s. Little Tin Apothecary (5335 Ballard Ave NW) will have gin cocktail specials all week, including “Birds & the Bees”, with a botanical and London dry gin, rose geranium liqueur, housemade lemon & lime shrub, housemade grenadine, coconut milk, and vermouth; “Spring Formal”, a London dry gin with botanical absinthe, rose vermouth, coconut cream, butterfly pea blossom and housemade grenadine float; and the “Koi Fish”, with London dry gin, housemade ginger puree, Hawaiian lilikoi, orange blossom, coconut cream, and limoncello. Ballard Annex Oyster House (5410 Ballard Ave NW) will serve special cocktail “The Thistle & Herb” with Botanist Gin, CioCiaro Amaro, Marchina Liquor, lemon juice, and a toasted rosemary sprig. The Matador (2221 NW Market St) will serve “Agave Soul”, which is Los Altos Añejo tequila, lemon juice, maple syrup, Hella Bitters Smoked Chile Bitters, and sage. Corner Spot (1556 NW 56th St) will be offering their Salty Chihuja, Dittas Fiore, and Corn & Oil for $9 each. Copine (6460 24th Avenue NW) has created two new $10 cocktails for the week, the “Cucumber Soda”, Cucumber-Infused Zyr Vodka, Scrappy’s Celery Bitters, Lemon, Club Soda, and Pink Salt; and a “Smoky Negroni”, which is an ESP Smoked Gin, Tanqueray, Contratto Apertif, Scrappy’s Seville Orange Bitters, with a Cava Float. For a full list of events for Seattle Cocktail Week, head over to their website. Photo from Seattle Cocktail Week’s Facebook page

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962 N.E.2d 15 (2011) The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cedric L. BOUCHEE, Defendant-Appellant. No. 2-09-0542. Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District. Modified opinion filed on denial of rehearing December 6, 2011. *16 Thomas A. Lilien, Deputy Defender (Court-appointed), Darren E. Miller (Court-appointed), Office of the State Appellate Defender, for Cedric L. Bouchee. Joseph H. McMahon, Kane County State's Attorney, Lawrence M. Bauer, Deputy Director, Scott Jacobson, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, for People. OPINION Presiding Justice JORGENSEN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. ¶ 1 Following a bench trial, defendant, Cedric L. Bouchee, was convicted of home invasion (720 ILCS 5/12-11(a)(6) (West 2006)) and criminal sexual assault (720 ILCS 5/12-13(a)(1) (West 2006)). He received consecutive prison sentences of six and four years, respectively. Defendant appeals, contending that his criminal sexual assault conviction must be vacated because, as charged, criminal sexual assault is a lesser included offense of home invasion. We affirm. ¶ 2 Counts I and II of an indictment charged defendant with home invasion, in that he entered the dwelling of T.C., knowing her to be present, "and while within said dwelling, committed a criminal sexual assault against T.C. in that he put his penis in the vagina of T.C." Counts III and IV charged defendant with criminal sexual assault in that "by the use of force said defendant placed his penis in the vagina of T.C." The State dismissed counts II and IV. ¶ 3 Evidence at trial showed that on March 7, 2007, defendant and Mychal Postlewaite went to the home of T.C., a high school classmate. Defendant forced his way inside T.C.'s house, pushed her down a hallway and into a bedroom, and forcibly had sex with her. ¶ 4 A jury found defendant guilty of both counts. The trial court sentenced him to six years' imprisonment for home invasion and four years' imprisonment for criminal sexual assault. The sentences had to be consecutive. See 730 ILCS 5/5-8-4(a)(i), (a)(ii) (West 2006). Defendant timely appealed. ¶ 5 Defendant argues that his conviction of criminal sexual assault must be vacated because, as charged in the indictment, criminal sexual assault is a lesser included offense of home invasion. ¶ 6 The supreme court established the one-act, one-crime rule in People v. King, 66 Ill.2d 551, 6 Ill.Dec. 891, 363 N.E.2d 838 (1977). Under that rule, multiple convictions are prohibited where the offenses are carved from the same physical act or where, with regard to multiple acts, one of the offenses is a lesser included offense of the other. King, 66 Ill.2d at 566, 6 Ill.Dec. 891, 363 N.E.2d 838; see People v. Lindsey, 324 Ill.App.3d 193, 200, 257 Ill.Dec. 644, 753 N.E.2d 1270 (2001). However, multiple convictions "should be permitted in all other cases where a defendant has committed several acts, despite the interrelationship of those acts." King, 66 Ill.2d at 566, 6 Ill.Dec. 891, 363 N.E.2d 838. "Act" is intended to mean any "overt or outward manifestation which will support a different offense." King, 66 Ill.2d at 566, 6 Ill.Dec. 891, 363 N.E.2d 838. "Decisions following King have explained that the one-act, one-crime doctrine involves a two-step analysis. [Citation.] First, the court must determine whether the defendant's conduct involved multiple acts or a single act. Multiple convictions are improper if they are based on precisely the same physical act. Second, if the conduct involved multiple acts, the court must determine *17 whether any of the offenses are lesser-included offenses. If an offense is a lesser-included offense, multiple convictions are improper." People v. Miller, 238 Ill.2d 161, 165, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498 (2010). ¶ 7 Here, defendant does not dispute that his conduct involved multiple acts. His home-invasion conviction was based not merely on his act of criminal sexual assault, but also on his act of entering the home. The entry was a distinct act that supported a different offense. See People v. Rodriguez, 169 Ill.2d 183, 188-89, 214 Ill.Dec. 451, 661 N.E.2d 305 (1996) (defendant properly convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion where, although both counts alleged a sexual assault, defendant's unlawful entry into victim's bedroom was a separate act supporting a second conviction). ¶ 8 Defendant argues, however, that criminal sexual assault is a lesser included offense of home invasion. In People v. Novak, 163 Ill.2d 93, 112-14, 205 Ill.Dec. 471, 643 N.E.2d 762 (1994), the supreme court held that the charging-instrument approach governs whether an uncharged offense is a lesser included offense of a charged offense. Initially, defendant based his argument on this approach, under which an offense is lesser included if it is described in the charging instrument. Novak, 163 Ill.2d at 106-07, 205 Ill.Dec. 471, 643 N.E.2d 762. However, after defendant filed his initial brief, the supreme court held in Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 173, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498, that the abstract-elements approach applies where, as here, the issue is whether a charged offense is a lesser included offense of another charged offense. Under this approach, "If all of the elements of one offense are included within a second offense and the first offense contains no element not included in the second offense, the first offense is deemed a lesser-included offense of the second." Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 166, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498. Whether one charge is a lesser included offense of another is a legal question, which we review de novo. People v. Nunez, 236 Ill.2d 488, 493, 338 Ill.Dec. 877, 925 N.E.2d 1083 (2010). ¶ 9 As Miller explained, the abstract-elements approach is "the strictest approach in the sense that it is formulaic and rigid, and considers `solely theoretical or practical impossibility.' In other words, it must be impossible to commit the greater offense without necessarily committing the lesser offense." Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 166, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498 (quoting Novak, 163 Ill.2d at 106, 205 Ill.Dec. 471, 643 N.E.2d 762). In Miller, the issue was whether retail theft was a lesser included offense of burglary. The court held that it was not, as "it is possible to commit burglary without necessarily committing retail theft." Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 176, 345 Ill. Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498. ¶ 10 Likewise, here, it is possible to commit home invasion without necessarily committing criminal sexual assault. See, e.g., 720 ILCS 5/12-11(a)(5) (West 2006) (a person can commit home invasion by entering and then "[p]ersonally discharg[ing] a firearm that proximately causes," inter alia, a death). Further, even if we may consider only the statutory subsection under which defendant was charged, it is possible, even under that subsection, to commit home invasion without necessarily committing criminal sexual assault. See 720 ILCS 5/12-11(a)(6) (West 2006) (a person can commit home invasion by entering and then committing, inter alia, criminal sexual abuse). Thus, under the abstract-elements approach, criminal sexual assault is not a lesser included offense of home invasion. *18 ¶ 11 Addressing Miller in his reply brief and on rehearing, defendant acknowledges that "subsection (a)(6) home invasion theoretically could be predicated on other sex crimes." However, he insists that, because the indictment "specifically charge[d]" that he committed home invasion by entering and then committing criminal sexual assault, it was impossible for him to commit home invasion, "[a]s charged," without committing the criminal sexual assault. Defendant, though, is merely reverting to the charging-instrument approach. Quite arguably, the indictment for home invasion described the criminal sexual assault, such that, under the charging-instrument approach, the criminal sexual assault was a lesser included offense. Although the abstract-elements approach does consider "the statutory elements of the charged offenses" (emphasis added) (Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 175, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498), it considers the charged offenses in the statutory abstract, not in terms of how they are framed in a particular charging instrument. As noted, it "considers `solely theoretical or practical impossibility.'" Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 166, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498 (quoting Novak, 163 Ill.2d at 106, 205 Ill.Dec. 471, 643 N.E.2d 762). When defendant admits that home invasion "theoretically could be predicated on" something other than criminal sexual assault, he essentially admits that his argument must fail. ¶ 12 Defendant asserts, however, that under section 12-11(a)(6) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (720 ILCS 5/12-11(a)(6) (West 2006)) home invasion is "analogous to felony murder, where the predicate felony is deemed to be a lesser-included offense of felony murder. People v. Smith, 183 Ill.2d 425, 432 [233 Ill.Dec. 823, 701 N.E.2d 1097] (1998)." Smith, of course, preceded Miller. However, in Miller, the supreme court stated that the abstract-elements approach is "equivalent" to "the same elements test" that is employed for double jeopardy purposes. Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 174-75, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498. The court then cited with approval an Arizona case that applied that test and held that, indeed, the predicate felony is a lesser included offense of felony murder. Miller, 238 Ill.2d at 175, 345 Ill.Dec. 59, 938 N.E.2d 498 (citing Lemke v. Rayes, 213 Ariz. 232, 141 P.3d 407, 413 (Ariz.Ct. App.2006)). In Lemke, the court noted: "[A]pplying the [same-elements] test, felony murder (based on an armed robbery predicate) is the same offense as armed robbery because armed robbery does not contain an element that is not also contained in felony murder. Indeed, the United States Supreme Court has consistently treated the predicate felony for felony murder and the felony-murder charge itself as the `same offense' under the Double Jeopardy Clause. [Citations.] That armed robbery is typically only one of several felonies that may be the predicate for felony murder does not matter because, under Harris [v. Oklahoma, 433 U.S. 682, 97 S.Ct. 2912, 53 L.Ed.2d 1054 (1977) (per curiam)], the predicate felony in a felony-murder prosecution is treated `as a species of lesser-included offense.'" Lemke, 141 P.3d at 414 (quoting Illinois v. Vitale, 447 U.S. 410, 420, 100 S.Ct. 2260, 65 L.Ed.2d 228 (1980)). Thus, we do not deny the viability of defendant's statement of the law as to felony murder. But the question remains whether felony murder is truly "analogous" to subsection (a)(6) home invasion. We conclude that it is not. ¶ 13 To be sure, like felony murder (see 720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(3) (West 2010)), subsection (a)(6) home invasion can be based on any of various predicates. However, critical to this inquiry is the fact that the same-elements test, and thus the abstract-elements test, is simply a rule of statutory construction: *19 "The assumption underlying the rule is that Congress ordinarily does not intend to punish the same offense under two different statutes. Accordingly, where two statutory provisions proscribe the `same offense,' they are construed not to authorize cumulative punishments in the absence of a clear indication of contrary legislative intent." (Emphases added.) Whalen v. United States, 445 U.S. 684, 691-92, 100 S.Ct. 1432, 63 L.Ed.2d 715 (1980). Thus, a predicate of felony murder is "a species of lesser-included offense" (Vitale, 447 U.S. at 420, 100 S.Ct. 2260) only because that classification is deemed to comport with legislative intent. See Whalen, 445 U.S. at 694 n. 8, 100 S.Ct. 1432 ("We have simply concluded that, [under the relevant statute], Congress intended rape to be considered a lesser offense included within the offense of a killing in the course of rape."). The question here, then, is whether treating a predicate of home invasion as an analogous species would contravene legislative intent. We hold that it would. ¶ 14 To commit felony murder, a person must attempt or commit a forcible felony "in performing the acts which cause the death." 720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(3) (West 2010). Felony murder is still first-degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(3) (West 2010)); the felony merely "provides the mens rea as a substitute for an actual murderous mental state" (People v. Holt, 91 Ill.2d 480, 485, 64 Ill.Dec. 550, 440 N.E.2d 102 (1982)). Because the felony supplies the mental state for first-degree murder, we can safely assume that the legislature did not intend to allow convictions of both the murder and the felony. ¶ 15 On the other hand, as the State points out, "[t]he gravamen of a home invasion offense is unauthorized entry." People v. Braboy, 393 Ill.App.3d 100, 113, 331 Ill.Dec. 959, 911 N.E.2d 1189 (2009). As relevant here, that gravamen is complete when a person "without authority * * * knowingly enters the dwelling place of another when he or she knows * * * that one or more persons is present." 720 ILCS 5/12-11(a) (West 2006). Although subsection (a)(6) home invasion requires the subsequent commission of, e.g., a criminal sexual assault, that criminal sexual assault is, of course, a discrete offense with its own elements, including its own mental state. See 720 ILCS 5/12-13(a)(1) (West 2006); People v. Terrell, 132 Ill.2d 178, 209, 138 Ill.Dec. 176, 547 N.E.2d 145 (1989) (mental state is implied). Whereas for felony murder the felony supplies the mental state for the murder—such that it is literally "included"—here the gravamen of the home invasion requires one criminal purpose, while the "predicate" offense (which actually occurs subsequently) requires a completely separate one. In that sense, the predicate is distinct. ¶ 16 Nor is the predicate necessarily "lesser." Subsection (a)(6) home invasion is a Class X felony (720 ILCS 5/12-11(c) (West 2006)) subject to a sentencing range of 6 to 30 years' imprisonment (730 ILCS 5/5-8-1(a)(3) (West 2006)). Criminal sexual assault is generally a Class 1 felony but under certain circumstances is a Class X felony subject to a sentencing range of 30 to 60 years. 720 ILCS 5/12-13(b)(1), (b)(2) (West 2006). ¶ 17 These facts demonstrate that the legislature could not have intended the result that defendant proposes. Assume that a defendant commits a home invasion predicated on a criminal sexual assault that is subject to the extended sentence. If criminal sexual assault is deemed "a species of lesser-included offense" (Vitale, 447 U.S. at 420, 100 S.Ct. 2260) of home invasion, the conviction of that offense would be vacated, even though the offense required (1) a criminal purpose separate *20 from that for the gravamen of home invasion; and (2) a sentence greater than that for home invasion. Certainly, the defendant might receive the maximum sentence for home invasion; but the legislature's judgment as to the penalties for the defendant's offenses would be thwarted almost completely. In a very real way, the defendant would pay for his home invasion but not pay for the criminal sexual assault. ¶ 18 It is well settled that, in construing a statute, we may not presume that the legislature intended to create either absurdity or injustice. People v. Zimmerman, 239 Ill.2d 491, 497, 347 Ill. Dec. 648, 942 N.E.2d 1228 (2010). In this instance, defendant would have us presume that the legislature intended that a person could commit the gravamen of a home invasion, and receive punishment for same, but receive no separate punishment for even a more serious sex offense that he commits inside. This despite the fact that, in general, the legislature has insisted that sex offenses be punished not only separately, but consecutively. See 730 ILCS 5/5-8-4(a)(i), (a)(ii) (West 2006). We simply cannot imagine that the legislature intended the result that defendant proposes. It would be more than merely absurd and unjust; it would shock this court's collective conscience. ¶ 19 For these reasons, we conclude that criminal sexual assault is not a lesser included offense of home invasion. Thus, defendant's convictions of both offenses must stand. ¶ 20 The judgment of the circuit court of Kane County is affirmed. ¶ 21 Affirmed. Justices BOWMAN and BURKE concurred in the judgment and opinion.

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317 S.W.3d 898 (2010) ID/GUERRA LP, Appellant, v. TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION, Appellee. No. 03-09-00263-CV. Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin. July 23, 2010. *899 J. Winston Krause, Krause & Associates, LP, Austin, TX, for Appellant. Susan M. Wolfe, Assistant Attorney General, Taxation Division, Austin, TX, for Appellee. Before Justices PATTERSON, PURYEAR and PEMBERTON. OPINION DAVID PURYEAR, Justice. The Texas Workforce Commission (the "Commission") sent ID/Guerra, LP ("ID/Guerra") a notice informing ID/Guerra that it owed unemployment taxes. See Tex. Labor Code Ann. § 213.032(a) (West 2006) (specifying manner in which Commission must provide notice of assessment). After receiving the notice, ID/Guerra filed a lawsuit contesting the assessment. Id. § 213.032(c) (West 2006) (allowing employers to contest assessment by filing "petition for judicial review"). Almost two years later, the district court held a hearing regarding whether the case should be dismissed for want of prosecution. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 165a (allowing case to be dismissed due to failure of party to appear for hearing or trial "of which the party had notice"). Several months after the hearing, the district court signed an order dismissing the case. Five months after the case was dismissed, ID/Guerra sent a discovery request to the Commission. After receiving the request, the Commission informed ID/Guerra that it would not be responding because the case had been dismissed. Early the next month, ID/Guerra filed a motion to reinstate the case. In its motion, ID/Guerra asserted that the case was improperly dismissed because no notice regarding the hearing or the dismissal order was sent to its attorney even though ID/Guerra listed its attorney's name and address in its petition. As support for this assertion, ID/Guerra attached an affidavit from a deputy clerk for the district court and a printout from the district court's internal database. The affidavit specified that the district clerk's records for the case "reflect[ed] no attorneys representing [ID/Guerra] nor any address or other contact information for" ID/Guerra. Further, the affidavit clarified that because the *900 court's database had no address for ID/Guerra or its attorney, the district clerk's office "did not mail any notice" regarding the hearing or the dismissal to ID/Guerra "or its counsel." The printout confirmed that the court's database had no attorney listed for ID/Guerra. The record does not indicate whether the district court made any ruling regarding the motion to reinstate. However, a few days after filing its notice to reinstate, ID/Guerra filed this restricted appeal. See Tex.R.App. P. 30 (allowing party who did not participate in dismissal hearing to file restricted appeal); see also id. R. 26.1(c) (specifying six-month deadline by which restricted appeal must be filed). We will affirm the judgment of the district court. DISCUSSION In one issue on appeal, ID/Guerra contends that the district court erred by dismissing this case for want of prosecution. Specifically, ID/Guerra repeats the assertions it made in its motion to reinstate and insists that because the district court "sent no notice to [ID/Guerra] of either the Court's intent to dismiss, or of the hearing, or of the order dismissing the case," the district court's dismissal should be reversed. In order for an appellate court to reverse a dismissal in a restricted appeal, the error complained of must be apparent on the face of the record. Tex.R.App. P. 26.1(c), 30; see Norman Commc'ns v. Texas Eastman Co., 955 S.W.2d 269, 270 (Tex. 1997).[1] In light of the facts that ID/Guerra listed its attorney's name and address in its petition and that the Commission's answer also listed the name and address for ID's attorney, the affidavit and accompanying printout attached to ID's motion to reinstate would seem to demonstrate error on the face of the record because they show that the case was dismissed without sending notice to ID's attorney. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 165a(1) (allowing district court to dismiss case for want of prosecution only after providing parties and "each attorney of record" with notice of its "intention to dismiss and the date and place of the dismissal hearing"), 306a(1), (3) (requiring district court to send notice to parties or their attorneys that dismissal order was signed); see also General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. City of Houston, 857 S.W.2d 731, 733 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1993, no writ) (concluding that error was present on face of record when notice of intent to dismiss and dismissal order contained "an improper and incomplete address"). However, the motion and its attachments were not timely filed. Rule of civil procedure 165a states that a motion to reinstate must be "filed with the clerk within 30 days after the order of dismissal is signed" or within 30 days of the time specified in rule 306a. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 165a(3). Rule 306a contemplates situations in which a party or his attorney does not receive notice that a dismissal order has been entered and signed. Id. R. 306a(1), (4). In these circumstances, the rule specifies that the time to file a motion to reinstate begins on the date that a party adversely affected by the dismissal or his attorney receives notice from the clerk that the dismissal has been signed or acquires actual knowledge from another *901 source that the dismissal has been signed. Id. R. 306a(4). However, the rule clarifies that "in no event shall such period begin more than ninety days after the original judgment or other appealable order was signed." Id. (emphasis added). The dismissal order was signed in November 2008, but the motion to reinstate was not filed until more than five months later. Accordingly, even the extended deadline applicable when parties do not receive notice had expired, and the district court no longer had plenary power to reinstate the case or to consider the information contained in and attached to the motion to reinstate. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 165a, 306a. For these same reasons, we must conclude that we cannot consider the motion or its attachments when determining if there is error on the face of the record. See Carroll v. Carroll, 304 S.W.3d 414, 419-20 (Tex.App.-Waco 2008) (refusing to consider as part of record testimony presented during hearing regarding untimely filed motion for new trial), rev'd on other grounds, 304 S.W.3d 366 (Tex.2010); see also General Elec. Co. v. Falcon Ridge Apartments, 811 S.W.2d 942, 944 (Tex. 1991) (noting that rendering judgment on evidence trial court was not able to consider "undermines [the] judicial structure"); Laas v. Williamson, 156 S.W.3d 854, 857 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2005, no pet.) (stating that documents that were placed in record after judgment was entered are not part of record to be reviewed in restricted appeal); Stankiewicz v. Oca, 991 S.W.2d 308, 311-12 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth 1999, no pet.) (noting that record only consists of those documents that were on file with district court when judgment was entered); Barker CATV Constr., Inc. v. Ampro, Inc., 989 S.W.2d 789, 794 (Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1999, no pet.) (on reh'g) (concluding that in restricted appeals, appellate courts may not consider evidence "unless it was before the trial court when it rendered judgment"); cf. Ginn v. Forrester, 282 S.W.3d 430, 432-33 (Tex.2009) (explaining that affidavits from district clerk that assert that notice was not sent and that were filed for the first time in appellate court cannot support restricted appeal).[2] *902 In its reply brief, ID/Guerra attempts to distinguish the circumstances found in several of the cases cited above from those present in this case and, therefore, argues that those cases cannot properly support an affirmance in this case. Specifically, ID/Guerra contends that Falcon Ridge, Laas, and Barker involved situations in which a party attempted to file documents for the first time with the appellate court or attempted to supplement the record after an appeal had been filed but that the affidavit and printout that it relies on were filed with the trial court and were part of the record when the appeal was originally filed. See 811 S.W.2d at 943 (addressing affidavits filed for first time in appellate court); 156 S.W.3d at 857 (involving corrected return of citation that was filed as appendix to appellate brief but was not in clerk's record); 989 S.W.2d at 795-96 (concerning uncertified copy of amendment to return of citation that was included in supplemental clerk's record as attachment to letter submitted to trial court by party after appeal had been filed). Consequently, ID/Guerra insists that the cases should not be read as prohibiting appellate courts from considering in a restricted appeal documents that are filed after an order of dismissal has been signed but before an appeal has been filed. In this case, we are not presented with a situation in which an appellant filed a timely motion to reinstate and submitted documents supporting his assertion that the case was improperly dismissed. Consequently, we need not consider whether the record in a restricted appeal can include documents that were filed after a dismissal order is issued but within the time allowable to reinstate the case. Rather, in this case we have only determined that documents filed after the expiration of a trial court's plenary power do not become part of the record to be reviewed in a restricted appeal. Because filing documents after a trial court has lost plenary power deprives the trial court of the opportunity to consider the evidence presented in those documents in the same way that filing documents for the first time on appeal does, we believe that the principles articulated in Falcon Ridge, Laas, and Barker are applicable to this case as well. Other than those items untimely filed by ID/Guerra, the record is silent regarding whether the district court sent notice regarding the dismissal hearing and notice that a dismissal order had been signed. Because no obligation is imposed on district courts to keep records regarding whether notices were actually sent, the absence of proof in the record that notice was provided is "insufficient to establish reversible error in a restricted appeal." Ginn, 282 S.W.3d at 433; see Falcon Ridge Apartments, 811 S.W.2d at 943-44 (noting that typically record in dismissals will be silent as to "whether or not the required notices were given" and concluding that silence does not constitute error on face of record).[3] *903 For these reasons, we overrule ID's issue on appeal. Because ID's challenge to the district court's judgment relies on evidence that was not timely filed with the district court, the appropriate remedy is a bill of review "so that the trial court has the opportunity to consider and weigh factual evidence." See Ginn, 282 S.W.3d at 432; Falcon Ridge Apartments, 811 S.W.2d at 944; Laas, 156 S.W.3d at 857 (stating that documents "filed after judgment may be considered in a bill of review proceeding and on appeal from the denial of a bill of review, but not in a restricted appeal"); see also Caldwell v. Barnes, 154 S.W.3d 93, 96 (Tex.2004) (explaining that "bill of review is an equitable proceeding brought by a party seeking to set aside a prior judgment that is no longer subject to challenge by a motion for new trial or appeal"). CONCLUSION Having overruled ID's issue on appeal, we affirm the judgment of the district court. NOTES [1] The following three requirements must also be met before an appellate court may reverse a dismissal in a restricted appeal: (1) the appeal must have been filed within six months after the trial court signed the judgment dismissing the case; (2) the appeal must have been filed by a party to the suit; and (3) the party must not have participated in the trial. See Tex.R.App. P. 26.1(c), 30; see Norman Commc'ns v. Texas Eastman Co., 955 S.W.2d 269, 270 (Tex. 1997). None of those requirements are in dispute in this case. [2] As support for its assertion that this Court may consider items that were added to the record after the case was dismissed, ID/Guerra refers to various memorandum opinions. See, e.g., DC Controls, Inc. v. UM Capital, L.L.C., No. 05-07-01728-CV, 2008 WL 4648422, 2008 Tex.App. LEXIS 8018 (Tex. App.-Dallas Oct. 22, 2008, no pet.) (mem. op.) (addressing evidence that service of citation was sent one week after case was dismissed but before case was reinstated); Martin v. H & S Kadiwala, Inc., No. 05-06-00113-CV, 2007 WL 969593, 2007 Tex.App. LEXIS 2591 (Tex.App.-Dallas Apr. 3, 2007, no pet.) (mem. op.) (considering oral pronouncement at hearing occurring after dismissal order was entered when determining if there was error on face of record). However, none of those cases involved a situation in which evidence was filed after the trial court had lost plenary power. ID/Guerra also cites to a case in which an appellate court considered as part of the record an affidavit that was attached to a party's motion to reinstate but that was filed after the 30 day deadline for filing a motion to reinstate. See Cordero v. American Home Assurance Co., 281 S.W.3d 13 (Tex.App.-El Paso 2005, no pet.); see also Tex.R. Civ. P. 165a(3) (setting out deadlines for filing motion to reinstate). Although the affidavit was filed after the 30 day deadline, the affidavit specified that Cordero was not given notice of the dismissal until after the 30 day deadline had expired, and the court stated that the extended deadline for parties who do not receive notice of a dismissal order had not expired by the time she filed the motion and the affidavit. Cordero, 281 S.W.3d at 14-15, 15 n. 2; see Tex.R. Civ. P. 306a (setting deadlines for motions to reinstate when parties are not informed that their cases have been dismissed). In the present case, however, both the normal 30 day deadline and the extended deadline had expired by the time ID/Guerra filed its motion to reinstate and the accompanying attachments. Consequently, Cordero does not stand for the proposition that documents filed after the expiration of a trial court's plenary power may be reviewed as part of the record in a restricted appeal. [3] In its reply brief, ID/Guerra insists that a letter prepared by the district clerk in response to a request by ID/Guerra demonstrates "that the trial court failed to notify appellants of its intent to dismiss their suit." Specifically, ID/Guerra notes that it asked the clerk to prepare a supplemental clerks record containing copies of the following items: (1) the district court's "Notice of Intent to Dismiss," (2) its "Notice of Dismissal," and (3) its docket "sheet for the dismissal hearing." In response to the request, the clerk certified that those items were not part of the record on file at the district court. In light of that acknowledgment, ID/Guerra insists that there is error on the face of the record. However, ID's assertions ignore the fact that although district court clerks are required to mail notice regarding a dismissal hearing and regarding the signing of a dismissal order, the rules of civil procedure impose no duty "to record the mailing of the required notices." See Ginn v. Forrester, 282 S.W.3d 430, 433 (Tex.2009). Accordingly, the clerk's acknowledgment reflects "nothing more than affirmation of a silent record, which is insufficient to establish reversible error in a restricted appeal." Id.

A vitória esperada do Bayern com o carimbo de um menino da casa A vitória esperada do Bayern com o carimbo de um menino da casa A Eleven Sports, que detém o exclusivo para Portugal dos jogos da Liga dos Campeões, teve nas últimas 24 horas um crescimento em número de assinantes superior a 1000%. Uma subida que não será alheia ao facto de o Benfica se estrear na Champions 2018/19, bem como a estreia de CR7 na prova com a camisola da Juventus. Os valores atingidos, segundo disse ao DN fonte oficial da empresa, "superou mesmo as expectativas" dos seus responsáveis. Apesar de não fornecer números absolutos de assinantes conseguidos - justificando tal ser contrário à política internacional da empresa - a mesma fonte assegurou que o número de novos registos nas 24 horas que antecederam o início dos jogos da Champions foi mais de dez vezes superior ao que se verificava até então. Fechar Subscreva as newsletters Diário de Notícias e receba as informações em primeira mão. Subscrever Um tão elevado número de novos acessos representou também um desafio técnico acrescido para os computadores-servidores que estão na base de todo o serviço de streaming. E estes estiveram à altura das exigências. A transmissão do jogo decorreu sem problemas e o acesso online ao site português do serviço (www.elevensports.pt) também não registou quebras. Apenas houve registo de uma falha de alguns minutos no endereço internacional que está indexado pelo motor de busca Google a remeter para o site nacional (mais pormenores AQUI).

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We Are Aggressive Porcupines Trans people must defend our existence every damn day and it’s exhausting Today’s outrage comes out of Scotland, where Miss Transgender UK pageant organizer Rachael Bailey has stripped the current queen, Jai Dara Latto, of her crown for not being trans enough. Ms. Bailey, who is a trans woman herself, claims that a video showing Ms. Latto working out in boxers and a t-shirt proves that she’s really a “drag queen” and not a transgender woman. As I type this, I note that I’m wearing a t-shirt under my hoodie and boxers under my jeans. I guess I need to turn in my trans card at the local office. To borrow a phrase from my British friends, you have to be absolutely daft to think that your clothing choices have anything to do with what gender you are. Yes clothing is inherently divided by gender, but really, what the fuck difference does it truly make? And honestly, my wife looks sexy as hell wearing boxers. But this isn’t an article about whether wearing boxers makes you trans or not, this article is about the exhausting everyday existence of trans people everywhere. Everyday we are attacked by someone, usually in the media or using the media as a weapon. Today we were attacked by one of our own. Yesterday it was “debate” about a law regarding if we should be allowed to pee in school in the correct bathrooms. The day before that it was the Science Editor at New York Magazine (who I will not name out of principle, he gets off on the attention) arguing that biological sex is not an offensive term to trans people and then polling his general Twitter followers to back up his claim. How scientific indeed. Tuesday was the day that the South Dakota bathroom bill was passed by the state senate and sent to the governor’s mansion to be signed. Monday brought us Eddie Redmayne’s trashfire quote: It’s extraordinary how trans issues have come into the mainstream since we made The Danish Girl. Excuse me while I vomit in a bag. Last week, the previously mentioned human garbage disposal from New York Magazine published a 10,000 word adoration piece defending Dr. Zucker, self professed practitioner of the now banned and discredited practice of conversion therapy. In every case, we see our genders being denied. The essence of every bathroom bill is to tell trans people that their genders are not valid, that it’s all fakery or deception. Even Redmayne’s seemingly innocuous comments back up these social undercurrents, after all, he is a cis man who faked his way through a movie pretending to be a woman. When your average movie goer sees his performance and then leaves the theater and encounters an actual trans woman, they’ll have Redmayne’s smiling mug in their heads as he pathetically angles for yet another Oscar. They won’t see a woman, they’ll see a man pretending to be a woman, because that is the image constantly presented and reinforced. It’s been interesting recently as I’ve started to come out to the people in my life and slowly begun to transition into living as the woman I know myself to be. One thing that I keep running into with friends and family members is that they are all afraid to say the wrong thing to me. They’re worried that they’ll use the wrong words and that I’ll get offended. This puzzles me as I’ve never been the type of person to react angrily about anything. When pressed on why they’d be scared to upset me, the response has been “Well trans people always seem so angry all the time.” It’s true, society forces us to be defensive constantly. We are, in essence, aggressive porcupines. Let’s talk about why for a bit. When pressed on why they’d be scared to upset me, the response has been “Well trans people always seem so angry all the time.” It’s true, society forces us to be defensive constantly. We are, in essence, aggressive porcupines. If you’re a cisgender (meaning not trans) person reading this, would you mind performing a little thought experiment for me? Think of having to give an elevator speech about your life to the next person you see. If my guess is correct, you’ll start off with “I’m a (man/woman) and I’m (XX) years old…” It’s always the first or second piece of information that you give to someone to describe yourself. It is so important to you that you lead your own descriptions with it. When asked, my own daughter said that she would describe herself in the following way, “I’m a girl, I’m 6 years old, I like Star Wars (Me: yay!) and I once had pneumonia.” Gender is inherently ingrained for every person, trans or cis from the time that we learn to express ourselves verbally. Think of a baby being born, what is the first way that the doctors, nurses and parents describe the baby? “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!’ is declared, oftentimes before the baby as even taken their first breath. This is what trans people mean when they describe themselves “assigned (male/female) at birth” (abbreviated to AMAB or AFAB). We had no say in the matter, we were given the assignment by someone else. Now take a step back for a second and imagine the majority of people you run into every day denying you this basic descriptor of yourself. Every day the media runs a fresh story that denies your existence down to your most basic level of being. Every day some white knight actor is claiming credit for all the hard work and advocacy that you and your peers are doing. Imagine that any time someone tries to go on television to defend your most basic self definition, the producers grab the most hateful person available to sit opposite and argue against your existence “to be fair and balanced.” Think of this happening every day. Imagine you had to defend yourself from Twitter trolls every day who seek to deny you the right to describe yourself in your most basic terms. Pretend for a second that every online newspaper article has a comment section filled with the most hateful words thrown at you that you could ever imagine. I wrote a piece on my experience as a closeted trans woman who grew up playing sports that ran recently on The Cauldron by Sports Illustrated, a site with thousands of regular readers. The next day, someone wrote a fifteen hundred word WordPress blog post calling me a “tranny” (it was in the headline), repeatedly called me a man and suggested that I’m mentally ill and should be locked away. One of the author’s followers suggested he deserves a Pulitzer for it. I felt sick. Here was maybe my proudest professional achievement of my life, and trolls decided that I deserved to be erased from society. I was upset, you would be too. How would you feel running into that every day of your life? How would it make you feel if you started describing yourself to someone, “Hi I am a woman…” and they interrupted you to debate the very first word you described yourself with? Imagine doing this every day of your life. Picture yourself hearing comments as you shop in the store or eat out at a restaurant. Imagine getting dogpiled on Twitter by people asking for details about your genitals or people denying that you exist. How would you handle it all? You’d be probably be a little upset, maybe even completely enraged. Maybe you’d be in a constant state of defense. You’d be rioting in the streets if your humanity were denied on a daily, systemic basis in this way. So please, don’t you dare tell trans people to calm down. There’s a reason why I call the trans community “Aggressive Porcupines,” we need to actively defend ourselves every minute of every day or risk being erased. Don’t you dare tell trans people to “respect both sides.” There’s only one side and that is that we exist and that we’re allowed to decide for ourselves how we are defined.

Q: The effect of a voltmeter on the electron flow of a voltaic cell Due to a voltmeter’s strong resistance nature, how could electrons flow from anode to cathod? It is more reasonable to assume that a voltmeter would stop the redox reaction because the electrons could never reach the positive electrode. When I measure the potential energy between two electrodes with a voltmeter, is the reaction happening? If the reaction is not taking place, how come the potential difference exists? A: Yes, the reaction must be taking place for the voltmeter to measure the difference in potential. Remember $$V = iR$$ thus a voltmeter works by knowing its internal resistance, $R$, and measuring $i$. Also notice that if $i=0$ then $V = 0$, so a voltmeter must have at least some tiny current to work. The problem with a voltmeter is that you can imagine that a battery has an internal resistance. So the more current flowing through the battery the less voltage will be measured by the voltmeter. Thus the cell voltage measured by a voltmeter would be low, at least theoretically. $$V_\text{measured} = iR_\text{meter} - iR_\text{battery} = i(R_\text{meter} - R_\text{battery})$$ Modern voltmeters with integrated circuits and operation amplifiers have a very large internal resistance, and thus draw a very very small current since $R_\text{meter} \gg R_\text{battery}$ so: $$V_\text{measured} = i(R_\text{meter} - R_\text{battery}) \approx iR_\text{meter}$$ In the not to distance past voltmeters drew too much current to give an accurate reading for a cell, so a Wheatstone bridge was used. But even though the galvanometer of the Wheatstone bridge is used to detect "no" current, it still has some finite sensitivity, so the ideal of absolutely no current flow is certainly not reached. The other weakness of a Wheatstone bridge is the need for high precision resisters. So to measure the galvanic cell potential a Wheatstone bridge no longer has any practical usefulness.

Analysis of MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha With a strength of 303, the BJP is all set to have the highest number of MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha, with alliance partners adding 50 more seats to the NDA's kitty. The party to come closest is the Congress (52). Like 2014, there will be no Leader of the Opposition in the House this time either — the requirement for that is that the largest Opposition party should have won at least 10% of the seats (55). All the MPs will be sworn in on Thursday. Of the 542 elected MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha, the BJP's Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur perhaps has the most interesting profession according to her affidavit to the Election Commission — she is a "beggar" (Bhikshatan). While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has listed his occupation as "public life and political activity," Amit Shah has listed his professions as social work and agriculture. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has listed his profession as Member of Parliament. According to an analysis by PRS Legislative Research, 39% of MPs have listed their profession as political and social work. The second most common profession listed was agriculture, while 23% were involved in business. The following interactive gives an overview of the 17th Lok Sabha. Each circle represents an MP. You can zoom the visualisation to get a closer view. Use the Group by option to group the circles according to a parameter. For example, if you would like to see how many MPs are graduates, just select group by education. Similarly, you can colour the circles according to a parameter by using the Shade by option, size them or compare them with the other two dropdowns. In terms of educational qualifications, about 67% of MPs are graduates or postgraduates, while 4% are doctorates. About 11% have studied up to Class 10 or lower. As many as 20 MPs have net assets of over ₹100 crore. The top three MPs with the highest net assets are all from the Congress. Nakul Nath, who won from Chhindwara constituency in Madhya Pradesh, has net assets worth over ₹660 crore. D.K. Suresh, from Bangalore Rural constituency has net assets of ₹286 crore, while Vasanthakumar H who won from Kanniyakumari has net assets of ₹262 crore.

Schwelm station Schwelm station is the most important station in the city of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. All regional and S-Bahn trains stop at the station. Long distance services pass through without stopping. History The first station building was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847 along with its Elberfeld–Dortmund line. Since its inauguration, the station has been rebuilt several times, starting in 1865. In 1902, the platforms received a canopy and, on 8 November 1902, an underpass was completed to the second platform. In 1926, Schwelm became a railway junction, when the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm railway was opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1988, the station became part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, on line S 8 from Hagen via Wuppertal to Mönchengladbach. This uses a flying junction built by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1980s that takes the S-Bahn tracks from Wuppertal to Schwelm under the parallel mainline tracks running towards Hagen directly east of Schwelm station, connecting via a short section of the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm line (the rest of which is closed) to the partially closed Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway towards Gevelsberg-West. Platforms The station has four platform tracks, which are accessed from two island platforms. Services on S-Bahn line S 8 stop on tracks 1 and 2. The Regional-Express services on lines RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) and RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express) use tracks 3 and 4, which are also used by the non-stopping long distance trains. Only the S-Bahn tracks can be reached by lift. In the entrance hall of the station building, there is a Deutsche Bahn ticket office and ticket vending machines. After the timetable change in December 2007, one service an hour of line S 8 terminated at Schwelm station. Since the timetable change in December 2009, it ends once an hour in Wuppertal-Oberbarmen, so that trains operate every 20 or 40 minutes alternatively. Notes External links Category:Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Category:Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Category:S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Category:Railway stations opened in 1847 Category:1847 establishments in Prussia Category:Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis

Combat is 5e's advantage/disadvantage on steroids. I think Jeff may have suggested something along one of these lines once. The Tarot thing are relatively out of nowhere I think. Motives instead of classes is more like Vampire than anything else I can think of that I read, but still pretty much out of nowhere. Calm is obviously like Call of Cthulhu Sanity and probably nobody would want it any other way, though I hope Downtime puts a new spin on it. Most of the feedback has been too good to be useful. Just a lot of "I like the__! and the__!" which is nice but the sample is kind of self-selected--they're backing it so they're getting what they want. If anybody reading has anything they just thought of, hit me with it. I'm curious about how long-term play will work. In sunday's D&D game, we thought Agnes Steelheart was just fucking dead the other day until shenanigans restored her and it was clear it hurt. I want to figure out if the stack of rewards and interrelationships Demon City creates will eventually make that happen with a PC that's around long enough, or if you just basically have to choose between horror and that level of attachment. - - - I've run 5 playtests with my group so far. I've been calling them episodes, since it seems that we've been able to fit 1 or 2 main plot beats neatly into a session, with Downtime occurring at the end. Long term play has worked, though the newer way of rolling CATPACK scores that results in more middle-of-the-road numbers has meant a higher fatality/insanity rate. I'd say our group usually holds onto 2 or 3 of 5 PCs per session (with the exception of Episode 4, in which all PCs survived and nobody went insane). I think through our 5 Episodes, there is 1 PC who is still going strong, with multiple sitting in an asylum, and the rest are dead. To me it would seem on how often a Demon City campaign is run. If we ended up playing a weekly campaign, I'd argue for more durable PCs, to create more attachment before they're offed. But as is, we only play sporadically, and so the PCs act more as a vehicle for the group's own horror, with less sentimental attachment to the characters. Given the current state of our games, it seems death/insanity is treated as an inevitable, rather than like DnD where it isn't. Games that may have something similar to Motives (Maybe? I haven't read your take on it. But food for thought.):Ghostbusters characters had Goals like money, sex, science, fame, etc. The character got points when they accomplished stuff towards their goal. Adventure! had Inspiration points that could be gained and used to do certain things depending on the characters' 'facet'.Intuitive – Quicker reactions and better mental agilityReflective – Increased patience and bonuses to extended actionsDestructive – Additional damage and concept damagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure! Hunter: The Reckoning. Characters had a Virtue and a Creed, how they dealt with the supernatural.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter:_The_Reckoning Sorry it's not exactly feedback, since I haven't read the rules yet. Things are super tight right now so I haven't contributed to the Patreon. Yeah, I can't even afford three dollars a month, tight.I was just throwing out some ideas from other games, but it sounds like your game is already pretty well developed. My personal favorite part of the text has been the material on the real-world elements of investigation: The country, The police, archival-research, the realities of crime, etc. So much so I would be stoked to see some degree mechanical systematization in them, to sort of control, or direct, the action within these milieus. Maybe randomize their more colorful elements. This only because, as one who rests at the very comfortable but unremarkable tippy-top of the intelligence bell-curve, I benefit from the structure of rules to help evoke the inherent weirdness of these institutions while balancing their more mundane atmosphere. To help keep things Bladerunner when my mind naturally wants to up things to Judge Dredd levels, so to speak. As to what this might entail... Welllll... Hmmm...

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SHOCKING! Kim Kardashian And Taylor Swift Together Lie Naked In A Bed With Kanye West? Reportedly, Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift do not really share a very healthy relationship. But it seems Kanye wishes to share a good rapport with both of them !! Kanye has come again with his Kanye West move where he has released a video. The video,named as ‘Famous’, which reportedly took three months to make, was inspired by Vincent Desiderio’s2008 painting entitled, “Sleep.” It featured nude sculpture likenesses of Swift, West, Kim Kardashian, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Anna Wintour, and George W. Bush, all together under one sheet in an oversized bed. His song, “Famous” actually became ‘Famous” because of a line in the song which went like – “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous.” Seemingly West wishes to take the controversy ahead, by adding a visual to it. “It’s not in support or anti any of [the people in the video],” was officially West’s statement in Vanity Fair. “It’s a comment on fame,”he said. Where Kim seems to be fully supporting her hubby, saying that Taylor “okay-ed” the lyrics, Taylor feels that Kim’s version of events was “incorrect”. A spokesperson for the star said: “Taylor does not hold anything against Kim Kardashian as she recognises the pressure Kim must be under and that she is only repeating what she has been told by Kanye West. “Kim Kardashian’s claim that Taylor and her team were aware of being recorded is not true, and Taylor cannot understand why Kanye West, and now Kim Kardashian, will not just leave her alone.” Seems that this controversy really doesn’t wish to die for the time…..

SurvivingInfidelity.com Forum Archives That when exWH seems pissy with me and acts like I'm an annoyance just because I send one text asking if the kids are ok for the night that it's not me? Is it safe to assume that he's pissy for some other reason, ie his bat shit crazy OW and the fact that there are four kids there all weekend, it's bad weather and there is all of about 1,000 square feet of total living space? I sometimes automatically think, "fuck him. What did I do?". I guess I should knock that off and remember that his pissy attitude no longer has anything to do with me. BW - me ExWH - "that one" D - 2011 You get what you put in, and people get what they deserve. Hard as it may be, try to never give the OP any of your power or head space. Posts: 3627 | Registered: Jan 2011 Pass♂ 38122Member # 38122 Posted: 8:48 PM, October 27th (Sunday), 2013 I sometimes automatically think, "fuck him. What did I do?". That thought has one sentence too many. Change it to "fuck him" and that's all you need. You will never understand his motivations because you aren't an arsehole. Cheating louse: The Princess Two sons: Now 13 and 16 DDay: Nov 15/2012 Separated Mar 2/2013 after 17 years married. Will we ever be divorced? The best thing about hitting rock bottom is that everything after that looks fucking fabulous! Posts: 3237 | Registered: Jan 2013 | From: Ontario, Canada tryingagain74♀ 33698Member # 33698 Posted: 9:25 PM, October 27th (Sunday), 2013 Yep. It's safe to assume that he's a douchebag who doesn't want to spend another night sleeping with his kids in Tiny House. I'm sure that he's feeling pretty grumpy when he thinks about the house that you get to sleep in tonight! FBS; now happily liberated! Two DS and One DD It matters not how strait the gate,/How charged with punishments the scroll./I am the master of my fate:/I am the captain of my soul.--"Invictus," William Ernest Henley I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - Unknown Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page. Posts: 6687 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: Florida forlornheart♀ 40726Member # 40726 Posted: 9:08 AM, October 28th (Monday), 2013 Ignore the bastard. Don't let his bad attitude affect you. Live life happy knowing he's not your problem anymore. He's a headache to some else. It's safe to assume that he's a douchebag who doesn't want to spend another night sleeping with his kids in Tiny House. I'm sure that he's feeling pretty grumpy when he thinks about the house that you get to sleep in tonight! for sure! He gave up that beautiful house to live in the spare room of that shithole with that batshit crazy OW. Oh yeah, he hates his life every single day. BW - 40 DD - 7 years old D-day OW#1 2/2004;D-day OW#2 5/2010 Marriages that start this way, stepping over the bodies of loved ones as the giddy couple walks down the aisle, are not likely to last. Posts: 5194 | Registered: Mar 2004 | From: NY SBB♀ 35229Member # 35229 Posted: 3:11 PM, October 28th (Monday), 2013 That thought has one sentence too many. ^^THIS. Who gives a flying fuck if he's pissy? The sad clown is the moodiest biiiarrrrtch on the planet. Care Factor = Zero. One of the good things about getting rid of these trashbags is we don't have to tolerate their moods. If the contact is impacting you then I would reconsider contacting him. I know its hard - my girls were 4.5 and almost 2 when they first started spending 50% of their time away from me. It almost killed me. The sad clown had never put my little one to bed. His misery is no longer any of your business. Take it from me - this is how they roll, doesn't matter what you do or don't do. I may have reached a point where I'd piss on him if he was on fire.... eventually!! Posts: 5988 | Registered: Apr 2012 | From: Australia EvenKeel♀ 24210Member # 24210 Posted: 3:21 PM, October 28th (Monday), 2013 I limit my exposure as much as possible with X. I think I have texted 5 times in 4 years and spoke on the phone 2 times. The less opportunity we give people to shoot their guns at us, the less chance we get hit by that spray of buckshot. I am always disappointed when a liar's pants actually do not catch on fire.

That the human rights movement may, despite the good intentions of its participants, propagate a "damning metaphor" of the human rights "victim figure" as a "powerless, helpless innocent"[1] is a familiar worry among practitioners. The worry seems not to have gained much traction in the philosophical literature on human rights, which has so far focused, broadly, on either theoretical puzzles generated by the idea of a universal set of rights for "all peoples and all nations"[2] or the structure and content of the human rights duties of the globally affluent. Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights is an unusual -- and welcome -- collection of philosophical essays that takes the empowerment of the globally disadvantaged to be normatively central in human rights advocacy.[3] The shift in focus yields interesting theoretical insights. Serene Khader, for example, argues that gains in women's economic opportunities through microcredit schemes do not reliably lead to women's empowerment and, indeed, may be incompatible with advancing gender equality: these schemes can be set up so that accessing economic opportunities depends on complying with patriarchal relations. Amy Allen's broader study of the right to development is correspondingly more encompassing in its critique. Drawing on literature from a diverse range of disciplines, Allen argues that development programs have in fact made things worse for the globally impoverished and, in particular, contributed to their disempowerment, having developed into a set of economic institutions in which "the poor are effectively rendered voiceless" (254). Allen suspects that some part of the failure has to do with a kind of mindless theoretical conservatism. The paradigm of development, Allen argues, presupposes colonial ideals of historical progress and social evolution that encourage a pernicious understanding of beneficiaries as backwards and under-developed. David Ingram makes a distinct but consonant point about the social science of poverty research. The methodological bent toward "quantitative rigor," Ingram argues, has the effect of obscuring background institutional factors that are not readily quantifiable but together coerce individuals into sub-optimizing behavior (48). Research that abstracts from these background factors promotes an understanding of poverty on which "families and individuals end up playing the decisive roles" (49). The contributors put forth diverse accounts of the specific mechanisms through which poverty results in disempowerment, and whether and how the framework of human rights can help with the problem. Khader argues that increasing what she calls "feminist agency," or women's ability to challenge sexist norms, needs to be an independent objective of anti-poverty interventions. The problem with existing interventions, on Khader's view, is that they assume that gender equality would be a natural outgrowth of women's economic gains. Alison Jaggar, who is similarly concerned with women's empowerment, builds on previous work on "transnational cycles of gendered vulnerability that place women in systematically weak bargaining situations" to criticize the World Bank's focus on national responses in its recent World Development Report (178 and passim). For instance, Jaggar argues, the gender impacts of the global migrant worker market cannot adequately be addressed without tackling transnational factors like global economic inequality and the global prevalence of certain gendered norms and structures, e.g., on domestic responsibilities. This push to look to broader dynamics is a recurrent theme. In addition to Ingram's methodological point, we see throughout the volume calls to understand poverty and related global problems as part of what Gillian Brock calls "systemic injustice" (141). Thus Elizabeth Ashford argues, for example, that it is a mistake to confine responsibilities for improving sweatshop labor conditions to employers, since improvements may be economically unfeasible for individual employers, who themselves face tight economic options. Ashford's point is about responsibilities for reforming choice situations -- e.g., between sweatshop labor and inadequate subsistence -- that are both unjustifiable to those facing the choice and empirically unnecessary (at least on certain assumptions about how the global economy could operate). Alan Wertheimer also addresses the phenomenon of resorting to dire choices in severe poverty, but takes up the distinct question of when the consent of people making such choices could nonetheless be valid, i.e., normatively transformative. Focusing on cases of consent to participate in research, Wertheimer argues that voluntariness in the descriptive sense of having acceptable alternatives is not necessary for valid consent. Wertheimer's point is interestingly compatible with Ashford's. It would have been nice to see the two contributors engage more closely with each other's essays and how they might relate (especially since the volume grew out of a conference). Trafficking is another topic on which contributors might have fruitfully interacted. Leslie Francis and John Francis utilize the framework of existing anti-trafficking law to propose increased legal enforcement as a feasible and appropriate response, while also acknowledging that particular legal interpretations, changes in enforcement culture, and, in some jurisdictions, legal reform may be necessary to prevent increased enforcement from actually making the problem worse by fueling fear and mistrust among trafficking victims. John Christman, meanwhile, wages a wholesale attack on the idea of trying to address the problem of trafficking through existing legal frameworks. Francis and Francis's essay can be read as a subtle response to Christman's criticisms. The volume contains numerous positive proposals on institutional reform. Many are provocative and will, I hope, trigger further discussion. Some, like Francis and Francis's argument on enforcement and Anca Gheaus's interesting argument for labor-exporting states' responsibilities over migrants' children, are anchored in fairly developed areas of human rights law and are, correspondingly, quite specific. Most of the proposals, however, remain schematic, and so leave the reader wanting to see the details more rigorously fleshed out. Consider, for example, Allen's argument that the right to development needs to be fleshed out in terms of a "pluralistic understanding of human rights obligations," on which individual states are both allowed and required to advance the interests and rights of their own citizens, subject to the constraint that individual state policies do not together undermine "the possibility of protecting human rights worldwide" (265). Allen argues that the pluralistic conception is superior to both the "state-centric" view, which makes non-state development obligations conditional upon states discharging their obligations fully, and the "internationalist conception," on which all state and non-state actors have direct obligations to promote the right to development. Allen then concludes that the pluralistic conception would, in "practical terms . . . entail an obligation to restructure the existing international financial and political institutions and renegotiate existing debt and trade agreements to make them fairer and more equitable to the developing world" (266). But this is a particular, certainly not obvious, interpretation of the requirement to act consistent with the "possibility of protecting human rights worldwide," for which Allen does not provide much argument. In "practical terms," it of course makes all the difference in the world whether the pluralistic conception yields obligations as robust as reforming international trade and financial institutions, or instead is compatible with the status quo and its default of political inaction. Similar worries apply to Diana Meyers's argument for "a capacious moral category of economic refugees" (85). Meyers believes that this conclusion follows from an understanding of poverty in a national economy with a large deficit in decent work as a coercive choice situation, in which undocumented migration is the least hazardous of available options. But even if the point about coercion is correct, more needs to be said about why the solution needs to include recognizing economic refugees, rather than aiding the challenged national economies. Other proposals, such as Claudia Card's interesting suggestion that we attune policy to poverty that is "evil," or rises to an injustice that involves intolerable harm and admits of no moral excuse, presuppose previous or forthcoming work. Nonetheless, the policy suggestions in this volume are helpful in identifying empowerment as an important and independent objective of reform. Take, for example, Ann Cudd's comparative assessments of the Grameen Bank's microcredit scheme, Nike's anti-exploitation initiative, and Cemex's commercial partnerships. Cudd's argument for the Cemex model over the other two relies importantly on the kinds of participation and agenda-setting opportunities afforded to the intended beneficiaries. Human rights practitioners have been stressing the importance of community participation and stakeholder engagement for some time,[4] so it is helpful to see, even in outline, what a philosophical argument for incorporating these considerations would look like. [3] I cannot help but note, though, that the book's cover photography, like many visual accompaniments to work on human rights and development, strongly suggests the victim-as-"powerless, helpless innocent" metaphor.

Thursday, October 04, 2007 Busy is an Understatement So, um, why did I think it was such a good idea to start taking classes while we are preparing for a major campaign at work? It is crazy-busy in my life right now. I haven't had a chance to tell you about my applique class or the earrings I made and I won't get to take photos to decorate such a post because tonight I have CPR and it is just always dark when I try to take a decent photo. I'm a total nut. In about an hour on the bus, I read crazyauntpurl's new book Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Car Hair. It was good. It's not quite as funny as the blog, but it's all written in really short chapters for those with no attention spans. It made me a little sad that I never went to the WeHo SnB because that would have been my Stitch n Bitch (see map below), and how many times did Kate try to get me to go? How many times did I try to make myself go? But I thought people would think I was a crap knitter because I sometimes use Lion Brand, or because I rarely do anything very complicated, or when I was doing complicated things, like Sissy's poncho, I needed total silence and to do lots and lots of counting. I worried they'd think I was a smart ass and a fat ass. Clearly, I should not have worried; I should have just gone. But the book ends on a pretty happy note. I've got a little quote over on the 101 page. View Larger MapThey wouldn't let me show you the 2.8 mile line from my house (Pickford @ Robertson) to that crazy space near Hancock Park. But that was it. 2.8 miles. Don't you miss the Farmer's Market? I have a friend who lives on Lucerne (near Larchmont) and I love to go to the Farmer's Market with her. Now there is also a large shopping center there (The Grove). The traffic and crowds in LA are annoying, but I still love Los Angeles. Oh Anna!I have taken CPR so many times in my life but when my daughter was a baby and choked I totally froze. It was fortunate that we were eating with my girlfriend who whipped my daughter up, flipped her over and did the whole infant thing. Interestingly enough I did have presence of mind to perform CPR on my elderly father after he choked on his dinner. The one thing that they don't tell you is that sometimes things don't pop out right away. Sometimes you have to do CPR multiple times before the object is dislodged. My father irrate at all the paramedics and firefighters that responded to our 911 call(I ask you why did they send the ladder truck?) proceeded to finish his dinner. My mother and I did not:)Heres hoping you never have to use it! Projects You Shouldn't Miss 2018 Smalls SAL Archives Subscribe to Stitch Bitch Follow by Email Google Uses Cookies Dear Europe, you're so cute thinking there is such a thing as privacy on the internet. This blog is powered by Blogger, owned by Google, and thus uses cookies. The only opt out is to not read the blog. You're warned. But still adorable.

Discover Direction (One Direction) When spunky red-head Annabelle, or Anna, gets her dream of singing professionally, she feels her life is finally hitting a bright spot, almost making her forget that horrible day just seven years ago. Almost. Naturally, Anna was discovered by SOMEON... Chapter 3 “LIIIIIIAAAAAAAMMMMM!” I yelled giggling. Liam was charging toward the water with me in his arms. One thing was good though, I still had my shirt and shorts on so they hadn’t seen them yet. “Yes love?” He asked stopping on the sand. “Please don’t put me in the water.” I gave him my puppy dog eyes and his face softened. Much to the boys disappointment, Liam sighed chuckling and setting me back on my towel. The boys were talking so I took the opporotunity to strip down to my bathing suit. I sat my cloths in my bag and grabbed my phone, knowing it wouldn’t be long before the questions from these five boys poured in. Just like I suspected, Zayn opened his mouth and began the questions. “You have your bellybutton pierced?” He asked. I nodded fiddling with my belly ring and smiling at the memory of when I got it. It was just two weeks after I got it pierced. *FLASHBACK* “OH MY GOD! John! Why are we at the mall?!” I asked burying myself farther into the passenger seat of John’s two door pickup truck as we pulled up to the Mullinger mall. “Because, I want food, and you need to have at least one normal teen girl experience.” A sixteen year old John said to me with the thick country accent he possessed since he was from Texas. I groaned and rolled my eyes. “BUT I HATE THE MALL!” I said as John opened my door and dragged me out of the truck. At sixteen I was VERY stubborn. Come to think of it I always have been, and I still am. I’m a stubborn bitch but John doesn’t mind. “Oh please? For me? Besides, they have belly rings!” He said and I instantly perked up. I loved my new belly piercing and I was looking for a new ring for it. “Ok. But not for you. For food.” I said as he slid an arm around my waist. “That’s my girl!” He smiled. I rolled my eyes. We walked through the mall and John lead me to the jewelry store. “See.” He said gesturing toward the belly rings. We walked over looking through them. John found the most amazing one I had ever seen! It was a white heart with a red center. My favorite colors. “It’s so cute!” I said as John handed it over to me. He smiled at me with a look that said ‘I told you so!’. I rolled my eyes and we walked up to pay. John was at a loss for words when he saw the girl at the counter. She had waist length blond hair and crystal blue eyes. Apparently she was a fan of mine. “Oh my gosh! Your Annabelle James! I’m Brittney! I watch you on youtube! You’re amazing!” She was such a sweet heart! “Cool! So would you like to go out with John sometime?” I asked her laying a hand on John’s shoulder. I knew I’d be in for it later. “Sure!” She said smiling. *END OF FLASHBACK* Two years later the two are still together. I smiled at the memory but my smile vanished when I realized I had zoned out. But that wasn’t the only thing the boys noticed. They noticed my tattoo’s as well. Oh shit, I’m in for it now! “You have tattoo’s too?” Zayn asked in awe. “Um, yeah..” I said unsure of what else I could say. “What are they of?” Harry asked. “Well this one,” I said pointing to my right side. “is a Marilyn Monroe quote.” It said ‘Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius, and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’ I had gotten it on my seventeenth birthday. “Then this one,” I said pointing to the four leaf clover on my ankle. “is so I never forget my roots.” I had gotten that on my sixteenth birthday. “Then this,” I said holding out my wrist so the boys could see the black music note on my right wrist. “is to never forget what I love the most.” The boys smiled at the fact that each tattoo I have has a purpose. I rolled over onto my stomach. Bad mistake! “What’s that one mean?” Louis asked referring to the tattoo on my back with the dates ‘3.8.92 – 7.10.03’, I felt the tears well up in my eyes and I bit my lip willing them not to fall. I rolled back onto my back looking at the five boys who’s faces fell when they saw me. “Um, can we please not speak about that right now?” I asked biting hard on my lower lip. The boys nodded, sympathetic looks on their faces. Liam wrapped his arms around me and I buried my head in his chest still refusing to let the tears fall. My phone blared with ‘Best Damn Thing’ by Avril Lavigne and I smiled knowing Brittney was calling me. “Hey Brit!” I said squealing as she did the same. The boys covered their ears and I rolled my eyes. I put Brittney on speaker and set the phone on the sand. “ANNA!” She squealed. I laughed at my girls weirdness. “Right then what’s going on? Keeping John in line I hope.” She laughed and I heard John yell “HEY!” in the background and I laughed. “No! You know he never listens to anyone other than you!” She giggled. “True, true.” I said smiling. “So are they as hot in person?” Brittney asked referring to the boys with her Texas accent. Yep, that’s right! She and John are BOTH from Texas and BOTH moved to Ireland. Weird right? “Oh yeah, they’re really hot.” I said rolling my eyes at the boys smirks. I never lie to these two and I’m not going to start now! Even if it’s something this small. “You’ll have to send pictures! By the way, I saw Louis’ tweet! You and Liam are SOOOOOOOOO cute!” I blushed and apparently, so did Liam. “Brit, I just met the boy today! Besides, you know what happened last time.” I said getting really pissed at the thought of my asshole ex. “Annabelle, I can tell you already, Liam is NOTHING like Jordan.” “Just drop it Brit. The boys and I are at the beach, I’ll ring you later on, yeah?” “Sure, bye lady leprechaun!” “Later! Keep my Johny in line!” “HEY!” John said. Brit and I giggled and we all exchanged goodbyes and ‘I love you’s and hung up. “So we’re hot huh?” Louis said smirking. “Some of you.” I said returning his smirk. “Who would that be, then?” “Like hell I’m ganna tell you!” “I’ll work it out.” “Uh huh, keep telling yourself that Lou. So boys, are we just ganna sit here or are we going in the water?” The boys all smirked and before I could work out what was happening, Niall had picked me up and was carrying me bridal style to the water. The boys followed, except Zayn, him not being able to swim and all. “NIIIIIALLLL! PUT ME DOWN YOU LEPRECHAUN!” The boys chuckled and Niall dove into the water still holding me. When we resurfaced Niall was still holding me but he was in hysterics. “NIIIIIIIIIAAAAALLLL!!!” I whined. “Yes love?” He asked still chuckling. I rolled my eyes as he sat me down in the water. “You’re mean.” I pouted. “Aw! I’m sorry! Can you forgive the leprechaun?” by now the boys had joined us in the water, except Zayn obviously. “I’ll think about it.” I said and before he had time to react I swam out of the water and turned around sticking my tounge out at the immature blonde boy. Hell who am I kidding, I’m just as immature. I saw him chuckling and walked back over to my towel and to Zayn. “Evil leprechaun.” I said to Zayn as I sat next to him. He chuckled and threw an arm around me. “Hey Zayn-ey! SMILE!” I said turning my phone to Zayn and snapping a picture. I logged onto my twitter. >@AnnabelleJamesMusic : I’m the nice one so im sat on the beach with my Zayn-ey soaking up the sun! little mr.ScaredOfWater ;) love you Zayn-ey! @onedirection #WaterPhobia :3< Zayn chuckled and I leaned against him. “So, you can tell me. Who do you like in the band?” I blushed at his question.

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Florida has a fuck-load of legitimate claims to the dawn of death metal. And seeing as how deep and wide death metal’s influence is today on heavy music in general, it’s safe to say that Tampa’s Obituary are a pretty big damn deal as one of the genre’s most indisputably canonical bands. Kicking off right here in Orlando, their first headlining North American tour in more than three years will feature the band ripping fan-requested material off their definitive first three albums in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their third LP, The End Complete, widely considered to be their magnum opus. In tow will be a black-hearted mob of equally misanthropic metal bands including Chicago’s Broken Hope, Wisconsin’s Jungle Rot, California’s Decrepit Birth and Chicago’s Encrust, all of whom will be looking to do you harm. – Bao Le-Huu

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Basically, when it comes to poops, nobody does them better than me. Or at least, that’s what I thought before discovering the Squatty Potty on Reddit (while I was on the toilet, no less). Before I knew it, the Squatty Potty—a $25 stool that helps you squat, instead of sit, while you poo—was in my shopping cart. The Squatty Potty—essentially a step stool that sits on the floor in front of the toilet—first rose to fame on Shark Tank, where its founders claimed that proper pooping posture makes all the difference (more on that posture below). Since then, it's become the hottest piece of bathroom paraphernalia on the market. But uh, does it really make it easier to poop? I would be the judge of that with my own Squatty Potty review. First, I wanted to learn a little more about the Squatty Potty—like why squatting is better than sitting. It turns out that pooping is a little more technical than sitting on the seat and doing your business. The rectum and the anal canal are poop's last stop before leaving your body, and there are a few muscles down there that make sure that we don’t automatically poop our pants every time we sit. One muscle (called the puborectalis) pulls the rectum forward, which creates a 90-degree angle that kinks your colon (like a garden hose) when you're sitting or standing, thereby helping to keep the poop in place, explains women’s health certified specialist, Lori Mize, P.T., D.P.T. But it also means that when we sit to poop, there's a kink in the way, she says. Enter: the deep squat—not only does it help build a juicy peach, it’s also the only position where that magical muscle fully relaxes, straightening the kink in your bowels and letting things flow as nature intended, explains Mize. According to one small study published in Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, squatting helps relax the puborectalis muscles, opening the rectum and straightening the colon, which could make for easier pooping. Gabrielle Kassel Another thing the squatting position might help with: reduced straining. “For women in particular, straining is a problem because repeated straining over many, many years may weaken the pelvic floor, which can lead to bowel control problems and even the pelvic floor dropping,” says Mize. But here's the good news: Another study published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences found that pooping while in the squatting position results in less effort, less strain, and more satisfactory bowel emptying—a win-win-win, if you will. The Squatty Potty may also be helpful if you're prone to hemorrhoids, suggests research published in Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. After all, the less you're straining, the lower your changes of developing a swollen vein in your rear, says Mize. According to Peter Stanich, M.D. a gastroenterologist with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, those with constipation (and, likely, hemorrhoids) are really the Squatty Potty's intended market: “The purpose of the Squatty Potty is to make pooping easier and faster for people who are constipated or who have incomplete evacuation,” he says. “Using it when you’re not constipated and don’t have to strain won’t cause any harm, but you don’t necessarily need your pooping to be faster,” he added. Again, I have zero issues pooping, so Stanich predicted the Squatty Potty wouldn't have an effect on me; still, I was curious if I would feel emptier after a week using the tool. After all, sometimes, frequent pooping can be a sign that, each time you go, you aren't actually getting everything out, says Rudolph Bedford, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. All in all, squatting was starting to sound pretty good. I opened up the Squatty Potty and started using it as soon as it was delivered. Here's the thing about the Squatty Potty: You can't miss it—it's literally a plastic stool that fits around the base of your toilet that you put your feet on while you poo (again, so you can put your body into the squatting position comfortably). The first time I used my Squatty Potty was after yoga. I shimmied my sweat-drenched leggings down mid-calf, tried to step on the stool, and tripped. Turns out that stepping onto a nine-inch stool with compression leggings around your ankles isn’t easy. So, after catching myself on the sink, I took my pants all the way off and lowered my Squatty Potty by two inches (it's adjustable, btw). Gabrielle Kassel It took me two good minutes to actually get into pooping formation, so by the time I sat on the toilet, I was sure I was going to poop my pants from the delay. I’d rank my first usage as a solid D. Not only did I have to do it half-naked, but the whole thing happened so fast I didn’t even have time to scroll through Instagram or play a level of Candy Crush while on the pot (which, honestly, is probably a healthy thing when it comes to pooping). The second time I used it was after my second cup of joe for the day. This time, I was wearing a pair of boyfriend jeans (much easier to navigate). I shimmied them down to my ankles, and popped a squat. Then, I lifted my legs to rest them on the stool. Getting into position was much quicker this time—I was getting the hang of it. And no, there was no straining. My third poop of the day also went smoothly (yes, pun intended). Gabrielle Kassel Because I work from home, most poops happen in my apartment, where I stored and used the Squatty Potty. And while there is a certain shamelessness required to chronicle your week of poop, I was not about to lug my stool with my on the subway and to my gym. Which meant that I’d have to defecate without my accessory at least once per day—which also ended up happening without any issues. Honestly, it was a total breeze to use the Squatty Potty—but it took some getting used to, mentally. With my legs on a stool and my knees near my chest, sitting on the squatty potty felt like I was a giant sitting on a normal-size person's toilet—or at least an adult using a kid's potty. Even Mize and Stanich warned me that the setup might take some getting used to. Of course, I did get used to it—and honestly, my whole Squatty Potty week went off without a hitch...dare I say, it may have even been boring and anti-climactic. Did I have the promised best poops of my life? No. Did I feel emptier? Eh, not really. But to be fair, when you’re already pooping four times a day, it’s hard to feel emptier. Overall, I decided to stash the Squatty Potty away in the closet by the plunger (it made my Brooklyn apartment feel smaller—a definite downside). But, tbh, if I ever get a bad case of constipation or hemorrhoids, I'll definitely pull that baby out again. A Part of Hearst Digital Media Women's Health participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.

Blog spicy caramelized spam + scallion pasta spicy caramelized spam + scallion pasta You know those foods you can’t help but eat on repeat? Those (often pantry-based) dishes that you come back to again and again, even when the fridge is freshly stocked and the cooler weather is begging you to finally crank the oven and get creative? If you know me, you know I’m talking hot dog sammiches, breakfast for dinner, stick-to-your ribs soup. Yes, soup. Even in the summer I can’t get enough. And this pasta. You guysssss, I can’t oversell this pasta enough — and trust me, I’m about to try. It’s fast, simple and positively addictive. Topped generously with furikake, it’s like musubi married pasta. Married corned beef hash. I LOVE CORNED BEEF HASH.But, like, the glorious, should-be-reserved-for-camping canned kind that you can get all super crispy on the edges. Did I lose you? Are you like, gerl, corned beef hash is not at all where it’s at. If you are, I’ma bet you’re also like, gerl, spam is for email filters, not mah mouf! To which I say: you’re wrong. And then I beg of you: let this pasta change your mind. Just…just trust me. This one time. Because crumbly browned bits is why. Because caramelized. Because it’s spam that’s been liberated from the limits of its jellied, rectangular, so often misunderstood form. Weirded out by the idea that you’re literally mashing canned meat with an implement intended for boiled potatoes? No worries. You’ll feel better when we add it to a panful of sharp and sweet scallions. Mine were plucked straight from this week’s heaping CSA bounty. Do I get a sick sense of satisfaction mixing farm-fresh green things with tinned food that was surely intended to survive the apocalypse? You betchur cloth-diapered butt I do. Speaking of Lana, she’s so close to giggling I can hardly stand it. I don’t know when that shit typically happens, but I can see her trying so hard. Instead, she smiles these huge, gummy grins and coos with such ferocity I think sometimes she surprises even herself. Like, multi-syllabic coos that are no doubt indicative that Chris and I have created a lyrical genius who is prepared to melt America’s hearts with her long lashes and Mexicasian allure. We’re crossing our fingers she’s over this whole spit-up phase by then, but I feel like with those heavenly pipes, people would surely forgive a dribble or two. Sorry, detour. Ok, make this pasta, duuuuudes! And then make it again. And most probably again. And bring it to all the potlucks. And then make it one more time. Get it? On repeat. Because that’s how…that’s how I, um, started the post… Yeah, you got it. K, bye. Cook pasta until al dente according to package instructions; drain and set aside, reserving ¼ cup cooking water. (I like bow ties for this, but orecchiette would be awesome, too.) Heat butter in a medium saucepan or Dutch oven over med-high flame until just frothy. Add chopped scallions, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until bright green, 2-3 mins. Meanwhile mash spam with a potato masher until crumbly (about the texture of ground pork). Add spam, sugar, sesame oil and chile flakes to pan and cook until spam is browned and crisp in places and scallions are deeply golden and caramelized. Add pasta along with a splash of the reserved cooking water (start with a tablespoon or two -- we're just looking to help things cling together) and cook another minute to allow everything to meld and heat through. Serve pasta (either piping hot or at room temp) topped with more chopped scallions and plenty of furikake. Enjoy! Notes This pasta dish comes together super fast, is ridiculously flavorful (and, ok, a little indulgent) -- and is guaranteed to make even the wariest of eaters a big ol' fan of spam. It's great served piping hot, but I've eaten leftovers enough times to note that it's great at room temp -- or even cold, straight from the fridge -- too, which makes it kinda perfect for picnics of potlucks. Yum! I have never had spam before! But, I did eat plenty of vienna sausages as a kid with my grandpa–which on the spectrum of canned meat-foods is pretty damn low. I imagine this is a salty wonder and I like that sorta thing. Also, I love that furikake sprinkle! I’m so torn between stay tiny forever and get big enough to do stuff and eat stuff and say stuff! But we live in the TINIEST of houses, and I fear for just how much smaller it will feel once she becomes mobile, so I know I’ll be longing for these days soon enough. And do we need to have a serious heart to heart about this not having had spam situation? Chris wasn’t a huge spam fan until he met me (I think he had maybe only had it kinda cold and…lethargic before….), but now he’s a true convert — and I tell you this because he has a serious weakness for those little tinned Vienna sausages. I think he likes the whole “don’t have to have teeth to eat them” aspect. No shame, lady. No shame. 🙂 Totally, Steph! An instant classic. And thank you for the reminder that I didn’t properly acknowledge the slab plates. They’re my new fave from Ms. Akiko Graham (Akiko’s Pottery). I’ve got a post coming up where I explain just how very sweet that woman can be. Not sponsored or anything. I just seriously <3 (and her work) her to pieces! Heheheheeee I love this! When I would hang out with my boyfriend from HS and his family on Saturday mornings, we would grill up some spam, sliced REAL thin, and then eat it with homemade waffles covered in butter and brown sugar. Now that’s goooooood. Spam haters just haven’t experienced it the proper way yet. I’m all about this pasta. Ok, no offense to your hubs, but that HS bf sounds like a keeper based on his breakie style alone. I bet he doesn’t have half the PS chops of that man of yours, though! Seriously, that kid is skilled! And I feel like THIS is the dish to turn spam haters (or the spam-adverse) into spam luuuuuvers. And if not, we can gladly eat their portions. 🙂 Hahah! Yes, Robert is seriously skilled in the Photoshops. I agree – this dish could totally convert a spam-hater. And don’t worry, I’m still good friends with the ex. I actually shared this recipe on my FB yesterday and tagged his whole family. They all approved, whole-heartedly! This is seriously high on my “to-make” list, plus you used my favorite little bow tie pasta ….. spam!! so glad you browned it really well because pale, floppy spam makes me really sad. do have to say that i’ve never had spam with pasta (not sure why, because i love sausage with pasta and spam goes with all sorts of carbs). Oh man, pale floppy spam. I could say so many things, but I won’t (shocking, I know…). And never had spam with pasta! Not even boxed mac n’ cheese? Not to totally out myself as a sometimes fan of processed crap, but tiny cubes of browned spam + a little shells and white cheddar action (it can be Annie’s or something else from the hardwood floor aisle of the grocery store if it makes ya feel better) is a real walk in the park! Don’t be freaked, Millie! Think of it like an uncased pork hot dog. Or maybe don’t. Is that making it better or worse? Either way, I promise that if part of the freak out has to do with its weird, block-like appearance, this recipe totally eases you past that. And yes, the caramelization is a BIG part of the tasty factor! I was raised in the south and had NEVER even thought of touching spam. Then I fell in love with a hawaiian chinese boy who had his own spam musubi supplies. I was doomed. I am now mildly obsessed. Don’t ask how much I ate last time we went to Hawaii to visit the family. I need this pasta, like, yesterday. Maybe this is dinner tonight… Yassss! These stories bring happy tears to my eyes. There is really so much to love about spam. And if you grew up in the South, did you guys ever eat scrapple? I know I hadn’t had it until I moved to the Midwest, and it was like the Middle-America version of spam. Of course, most people think it’s awful, but I love it! Processed meats are sometimes kinda where it’s at. 🙂 Never had scrapple! My mom was a bit of a snobby southerner and tried her best to keep us classy (thanks Mom! I don’t say ain’t or fixin’ to!). However, I do like a well prepared headcheese, in all of its creepy glory. We did this have this immediately for dinner, and it was just as glorious and junky as I imagined. Might have doubled the recipe and had surprisingly few leftovers, but who’s to say?! I made this and it was so good! I’m an island girl, so there were absolutely no qualms about the spam part. I think the magic touch in this is the sugar and sesame oil – giving it that salty/sweet aromatic goodness that makes it special. I dry sauteed some kale and added it at the end to make it a little more “guilt free.” I might be delusional on the health benefits of adding kale to spam, but YUM! I know this post is old but I just stumbled upon it tonight. I make a somewhat similar recipe where I use canned corned beef hash and cook it in a cast iron skillet with some butter to help it crisp up and sesame oil and some Tabasco for depth of flavor and then a little spice. I spread it out in a single layer and give it plenty of time to crisp up before flipping and letting that side get nice and crispy. I then combine it with furfale (sp?) of other similar size pasta and scallions. My husband isn’t a fan of corned beef hash (he will actually say he is not a fan and I learned early on that is code for I don’t like this) so I tend to be on my own but he doesn’t mind spam as much as long as I crisp it up (he’s only had it when I made it and the first time it didn’t get very crispy because I overcrowded the pan) so this will be the perfect compromise! Thank you. Girl, I LOVE canned corned beef hash. Seriously, such a sucker for it. So your version sounds even more amazing! Glad that this will get your hubby on the “crispy canned meat + pasta” wagon. It’s a good place to be. 🙂 Thanks for reading! DISCLAIMER: The Pig & Quill contains some contextual affiliate links and sponsored content. An affiliate link is a link in which retail partners have agreed to pay a small commission for purchases made from that click-through. As always, I recommend only those products that I would purchase for my own kitchen and home. 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Antide Janvier Antide Janvier (1 July 1751 – 23 September 1835) was a French clockmaker. Life Antide Janvier was born in a village in the Jura, and learned the basics of his trade from his father, and was educated in Latin, Greek, mathematics and astronomy by a local abbé. At age 15 he built an astronomical sphere which he presented to the Academy of Sciences of Besançon, which won him wide admiration, and he began his career as an apprentice watchmaker. He gained a reputation as a maker of ingenious and complicated clocks, including many astronomical clocks and clocks showing the tides. He was also famous for his "double pendulum clocks", also called "Resonance clocks", which he was the first to make. He eventually became Louis XVI's royal clockmaker. After the French Revolution he spent time in prison because of this royal association and then fell on hard times; his hardships were increased by the death of his wife in 1792. He sold his watches and equipment and designs to Abraham-Louis Breguet, who sold watches under his own name. Following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles X, he was awarded a small pension beginning in 1826, but died in poverty and obscurity. Works He authored and published an important textbook on the theory and practice of watchmaking: "Manuel Chronométrique ou précis de ce qui concerne le temps, ses divisions, ses mesures, leurs usages", Published 1821 by Didot, Paris (267 pages, Frontispiece and 5 engraved foldout plates). He also produced a written account of twelve of his very original timekeepers, which was published 1827 under the title "Recueil des Machines composées et exécutées par Antide Janvier", which has been reissued 1995 in facsimile format by publisher "L'image du Temps" (56 pages). The largest, publicly-accessible, collection of Antide Janvier's masterworks is in the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse. Books Antide Janvier, Celestial clockmaker by Michel Hayard, 1995. Antide Janvier, Celestial clockmaker by Michel Hayard, 2010 - Second edition completed and enlarged. Category:1751 births Category:1835 deaths Category:French inventors Category:French clockmakers

No wonder why Perry's hiding from voters and editorial boards given the recent reports that he's accepted millions in campaign funds from political appointees to state agencies and that he's given sixteen million dollars of our taxpayer funds to these campaign donors. Texans are demanding that Governor Perry be held accountable on his "pay-to-play" scheme in selling out our state government to enrich his campaign, and the bank accounts of his campaign donors. Rick Perry again proved what a coward he is by stiffing Texans and skipping out of Sunday’s gubernatorial debate. With a looming $21 billion budget deficit and the recent scandals showing Perry’s willingness to sell out our state government to campaign donors, it’s no wonder he’s afraid to face the people of Texas in an open debate. Texans are tired of long-time career politicians like Rick Perry, who hides from voters in his $10,000 per month, taxpayer-funded rental mansion, and refuses to be held accountable for his record. We encourage voters to get the facts for themselves at www.PerryIsACoward.com. Please help us spread the word about Perry's refusal to stand up and face Texans like a man on Facebook and on Twitter! Also, if you live in one of the many Texas cities we're running our print ad in, please go out and grab a copy on Tuesdayso you can post a picture about it on our Facebook fan page! Disclosure: Donations will be used by the Back to Basics PAC to advocate on behalf of Texans against the hypocrisy of self-serving politicians. written by Noelle Bell aka slinkerwink, Director of New Media

MythBusters test 'Breaking Bad' finale's killer car Any Breaking Bad fans here? Do you remember the series finale where Walter White modifies his car to pack a remotely operated belt-fed M60 heavy machine gun in the trunk? Well, if you're thinking that ending sequence was a little over the top, you might want to think again. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters fame have just put Walter's killer-car myth to the test...and it actually worked! The two Discovery Channel superstars reconstructed the contraption by mounting the weapon on a chair swivel and a conduit. An electric garage door motor and a series of wrenches acting as a hinge pivot the weapon left and right, spraying 7.62mm NATO ammunition all over a makeshift set (similar to the one in the Breaking Bad showdown between Walter and a group of white supremacists). As an added bonus, series creator Vince Gilligan was present for the demonstration. So they had the car, the gun, the bullets and Vince--it was time to take out some bad guys. Continue reading below ↓ The trio watched the experiment from behind a protective wall of bulletproof glass, and what do you know? The killer car took out every target on set! The bullets easily ripped through the wall, saving Walter's ass...well, sort of (spoiler alert: he dies in the end). The final verdict? The killer-car contraption is plausible. Check out the video below. If you're viewing this on a mobile device and can't see the video, please click here.

155 S.E.2d 59 (1967) 208 Va. 44 CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY v. C. E. ESTES et al. Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. June 12, 1967. *60 R. Harvey Chappell, Jr., Richmond (Frank C. Bedinger, Jr., Bedinger & Bedinger, Boydton Christian, Barton, Parker, Epps & Brent, Richmond, on brief), for appellant. Ivy P. Blue, Jr., N. Leslie Saunders, Jr., Richmond (A. G. Hutcheson, Chase City, Blue Gordon, Saunders & Neblett, Richmond, on brief), for appellees. Before EGGLESTON, C.J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON, CARRICO and GORDON, JJ. I'ANSON, Justice. The issue presented in this case is whether the right of first refusal to purchase certain property granted to Cities Service Oil Company under a lease applies to a public judicial sale so that Cities Service may acquire the property at the price offered by the highest bidder. On October 5, 1954, O. H. Mull and Elsie H. Mull, his wife, leased certain property in Chase City, Virginia, to Cities Service for use as a gasoline filling station for a term of fifteen years with an option to renew the lease for an additional five years. The lease was duly recorded in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg County. *61 The first paragraph of section 13 of the lease granted Cities Service an option during the original term of the lease or any extension thereof to purchase the property for $45,000. The second paragraph of the section granted Cities Service a right of first refusal, and reads in part as follows: "In the event that the Landlord at any time during the original or extended term hereof shall receive a bona fide offer satisfactory to it for the sale of the above described premises * * * the Landlord shall give the Tenant written notice of the terms and conditions of any said offer and the Tenant shall have the option and first refusal for thirty days after receipt of such notice within which to elect to purchase * * * on terms of said offer. If Tenant shall elect to purchase * * * the premises pursuant to the option and first refusal herein granted, it shall give written notice of such election to the Landlord within such thirty-day period, and upon such notice being given, the transaction shall be closed within sixty days subsequent to Tenant's notice of election. Upon such closing, the Landlord shall deliver to Tenant * * * a full covenant warranty deed conveying a good and marketable title, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances * * *." O. H. Mull died intestate on January 13, 1962, survived by his wife, Elsie H. Mull (now Elsie M. Bagley), five adult children and an infant child, Herman R. Mull. At his death Mull owned several parcels of real estate, including the piece which is the subject of the lease with Cities Service. On May 28, 1965, Elsie M. Bagley, as guardian of Herman R. Mull and in her own right, filed a bill of complaint in the court below praying among other things for a decree authorizing and directing a sale of the real estate Mull died seized and possessed of, and that the property under lease to Cities Service be sold subject to the terms of the lease. In their answer, the adult defendants joined in the prayer of the bill, and a guardian ad litem was appointed to represent the interest of the infant. The cause was referred to a commissioner in chancery who, after hearing the evidence recommended that the property be sold. The chancellor, by his decree, confirmed the commissioner's report, appointed special commissioners to sell the property at public auction, and directed that the Cities Service property be sold "subject to any leases existing against * * * subject property." The notices of sale of the Cities Service property similarly stated that the property was to be sold subject to all provisions contained in the recorded lease between O. H. Mull and Cities Service. The special commissioners reported to the court on December 6, 1965, that the parcels were offered for sale at public auction on November 27, 1965; that the sale was well attended and the bidding was spirited; and that the highest and last bid on the property under lease to Cities Service was made by C. E. Estes in the amount of $31,100. Cities Service, which had not been made a party to the suit, filed a petition on December 7, 1965, praying that the sale to Estes not be confirmed. It asserted that under the second paragraph of section 13 of the lease it had a right of first refusal to purchase the leased premises, and that it had thirty days from November 27, 1965, in which to exercise its right and purchase the property for the amount of the highest bid. Within the thirty-day period, Cities Service notified the court and all parties in interest that it exercised its right to purchase the property for $31,100. In a written opinion, the chancellor held that the lessee's rights under section 13 of the lease ran with the land and were binding upon the heirs; that the first paragraph of section 13 gave Cities Service an option to purchase the property at any time during the original term or extension of the lease for $45,000; that the lessee's right to purchase under the second paragraph *62 was conditioned upon the happening of certain events; and that a judicial sale was not one of the events which rendered the right of first refusal exercisable. The heirs of O. H. Mull, being satisfied with the price the leased property brought at the sale, have not filed a brief in this appeal. Cities Service assigns as error the chancellor's interpretation of the second paragraph of section 13 as not applicable to a judicial sale. Estes, the only other party to this appeal, does not question that the Mull heirs are bound by the terms of the subject lease. See Code §§ 8-682, 8-701, 1957 Repl. Vol.; 32 Am.Jur., Landlord & Tenant, §§ 301, 304, pp. 281, 283. His position on this appeal is that a judicial sale is not within the terms of the second paragraph of section 13. The chancellor correctly viewed the right of first refusal in paragraph 2 of section 13 of the lease as different from the option to purchase in the first paragraph. A right of first refusal is distinguished from an absolute option in that the former does not entitle the lessee to compel an unwilling owner to sell. Instead it requires the owner, when and if he decides to sell, to offer the property first to the person entitled to the right of first refusal. Barling v. Horn, 296 S.W.2d 94, 98 (Mo., 1956). See generally, Annot., 8 A.L.R.2d 604 (1949); Annot., 34 A.L.R.2d 1158 (1954); 32 Am.Jur., Landlord & Tenant, § 299, pp. 278, 279; 91 C.J.S. Vendor & Purchaser (1967 Cum.Supp., § 19.1, p. 113). The question whether a judicial sale is the occasion for the exercise of a right of first refusal is one of first impression in Virginia and has been considered by few other courts. Cities Service relies on the case of Price v. Town of Ruston, 171 La. 985, 132 So. 653 (1931), which held that the right of first refusal does apply to a judicial sale. There Arilla A. Price permitted the Elks' Lodge to construct a third floor on her building. The lodge agreed that in the event it "shall desire to sell" the third story, Mrs. Price "shall be given the option and preference of purchasing the same at the price at which it shall be offered." The lodge borrowed construction money and secured the loan by a mortgage on the third floor. Upon default on the loan, suit was instituted to foreclose the mortgage and the property was sold by the sheriff to the town of Ruston, the last and highest bidder. The heirs of Mrs. Price tendered the amount of the highest bid but it was refused. The court interpreted the expression "in the event the party of the second part shall desire to sell" to include a sale, whether it be made willingly or because of financial inability to hold the property. Thus it held that the right of the Price heirs to purchase the property prevailed over the highest bidder at the sale. In affirming the judgment of the trial court and rejecting the argument of the town of Ruston, the court said: "It is argued in appellant's brief that the only way in which the Price heirs could have availed themselves of their so-called option, at the sheriff's sale, was to make a bid higher than that for which the property otherwise would have been sold. That construction of the option would make it worthless in case of a forced sale; because, regardless of the contract, Mrs. Price and her heirs and assigns have the right, in common with every body else, to make the last and highest bid for the property at a forced sale. * * * "It is suggested that the interpretation which the district judge has given to the clause in question made it utterly useless and unavailing for anyone except the Price heirs to bid on the property at the sheriff's offering of it for sale; but that is not quite correct, because the Price heirs were not bound to take *63 the property at the highest price bid, and would have not taken it if the price had not been satisfactory to them." 171 La. at 991-992, 132 So. at 656. In McCarter v. York County Loan Company, 14 Ont.L.R. 420 (1907), defendant company leased a dwelling house to the plaintiff, McCarter. The lease contained the following clause: "Provided that if the lessors obtain during the said term an offer to purchase the said premises, before accepting the same the lessee shall be given the option of purchasing on same terms as in said offer." Subsequently an order was entered declaring the company insolvent, and a liquidator, who was appointed to wind up the company's affairs, sold the premises without giving plaintiff an opportunity to exercise his option. The court held that the order did not in any way cut down the rights of the plaintiff or change his position; that the liquidator was authorized to sell the premises, but only subject to the terms and conditions of the lease; and that he was bound to submit to the plaintiff, who had not waived his rights, the offer received. Estes relies on In re Rigby's Estate, 62 Wyo. 401, 167 P.2d 964 (1946), and Draper v. Gochman, 400 S.W.2d 545 (Tex., 1966), reversing, 389 S.W.2d 571 (Tex. Civ.App., 1965). The court in Rigby's Estate held that the right of first refusal conferred by a lease was not exercisable at a judicial sale. The administrator of the lessor's estate sold the property to pay the debts of the estate and the expenses of administration. The lease provided that the lessee had the first right to purchase the property on the terms that the lessor "shall then demand." The court said that upon the death of the lessor, title to the property passed directly to the heirs, and the administrator was not selling on their behalf. Since the court viewed the administrator as being neither an agent of the heirs nor as deriving any power from them, it concluded that the judicial sale was not a voluntary sale as to which the lessor intended to give the lessee the right of first refusal. In the recent case of Draper v. Gochman, supra, the Texas Supreme Court held that the right of first refusal given to a lessee in the event that the lessor "desires to sell or dispose of his interest" did not apply to an involuntary sale by foreclosure under a deed of trust. The court pointed out that a foreclosure sale is made whether or not the owner desires to sell. We agree with the reasoning of the Louisiana court in Price, supra, and the Ontario court in McCarter, supra. Since a right of first refusal is inserted in a lease for the benefit of the lessee, we must interpret it with that purpose in mind. First Nat. Exchange Bank v. Roanoke Oil Co., 169 Va. 99, 113, 192 S.E. 764, 770 (1937). The chancellor in his written opinion recognized that the purpose of the rights granted in section 13 of the lease was to protect the expenditures made in the premises by the lessee and the good will the gas station operation had established at the location. However, he was of the opinion that adequate protection was afforded by paragraph one of section 13, which contained the option to purchase at any time during the term of the lease or any extension thereof. If Cities Service had considered that the first paragraph of section 13 provided it with adequate protection, it probably would not have insisted on including the second paragraph. Under the second paragraph Cities Service obtained greater protection than would be afforded by its right in common with anyone else to make the highest bid at a sale. More important, however, the presence of the specified price option in the first paragraph does not provide a basis for distinguishing between a private sale and a judicial sale under the second paragraph. *64 Estes argues that applying the right of first refusal to judicial sales would depress the bidding at such sales because the holder of the right of first refusal will not have to participate in the bidding, and other prospective buyers will not want to bid for property which can be taken from them within thirty days after the sale. However, as the court in Price pointed out, it does not follow that it is useless for anyone but the holder of the right of first refusal to bid. The holder of the right is not bound to purchase, but instead he has an election. If he decides not to buy because the bid is too high, then the high bidder may acquire the property. Estes' final argument is that the requirement in paragraph two of section 13 that the lessor furnish a general warranty deed indicates that the parties did not contemplate a judicial sale, for in such sale only a special warranty deed would be executed. However, in the light of the purpose for which Cities Service obtained the right of first refusal, and since there is no ground to distinguish a judicial sale from a private sale in terms of such purpose, we do not find the provision for a warranty deed indicative of an intention to exclude judicial sales. Where Cities Service, for whose benefit the general warranty requirement was inserted, is willing to accept a lesser deed, the requirement presented no obstacle. Cf., Hill v. Gulf Oil Corporation, 200 Va. 287, 292, 105 S.E.2d 625, 628 (1958). For the reasons stated, we hold that the right given to Cities Service under the second paragraph of section 13 of the lease does apply to the judicial sale in this case. Hence the decree is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to the court below to permit Cities Service to exercise its right under the subject lease and to purchase the property from the special commissioners for the sum of $31,100. Reversed and remanded.

Whitney Wright has her ass invaded by Manuel! Whitney Wright is a hot Oklahoma native that's made her way out West to show us how much of a slut she is. She's waiting on the table, face down ass up, in a hot lingerie set with thigh high stockings. Whitney shows off her body as she rubs her tight pussy and pulls aside her panties exposing that she's got a bejeweled butt plug in her asshole already. Manuel fingers her tight cunt before pulling out his massive cock for her to suck on. Whitney gives an enthusiastic bj, making sure to pay attention to the balls (also giving Manuel an amazing rimjob), and she squeezes that cock between her perfect tits. She takes a deep pounding in her tight little pussy as Manuel fucks her hard on the bed. This whore won't be happy til she feels that huge cock in her tiny asshole, so Manuel takes that little ass and makes it his own. Whitney gets a hard anal pounding before Manuel blasts his load all over her face.

This is a zine dedicated to black metal written by a follower of the left hand path, This zine has been around in a different format for a while and I have decided to make an edition for www.blogger.com, for more information email occultblackmetalzine@yahoo.com, new albums as well as classic albums will be reviewed on here as long as their good quality black metal, Monday, August 17, 2015 K.L.L.K/Between The First Heliocentric And The Great Deceiver Of Light/Mithra!Infrasound/2015 Cassette Review K.L.L.K are a band from France that plays a very atmospheric form of occult black metal and this is a review of their 2015 ep "Between The First Heliocentric And The Great Deceiver Of Light" which was released by Mithra! Infrasound. Nature sounds start off the cassette giving the music an avant garde atmosphere and after awhile the music starts to get more heavy and brings in an atmospheric black metal sound along with soem grim high pitched screams a few seconds later that also have a depressive feeling at times and both of the tracks are very long and epic in length. Most of the music sticks to either a slow or mid paced musical direction and you can also hear melodies being utilized in certain sections of the recording and as the ep progresses the music also starts mixing in experimental elements at times giving the songs more of a ritualistic feeling while some of the slower riffs also adds a touch of drone to the recording and there is also a brief use of deeper vocals. K.L.L.K plays a style of occult black metal that is very raw and atmospheric while also adding in different influences to give their songs more of an original feeling, the production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Indo - Europeanism, Celtic Rituals, Cosmogonies, Julius Evola, and Mithraism themes. In my opinion K.L.L.K are a very great sounding atmospheric occult black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Rahu". 8 out of 10.

Truth Is Sin PREVIOUS: The Revelation FIRST: The Chosen Few Alliott and I do not get right to the shagging. She tells me that as soon as my ribs tape themselves back together we can shag. But right now I need booze, bed rest — and to explain what in the hell was going on with Natasha. Which is, admittedly, a much more intimate way to spend time with someone. But I don't want to be intimate. I want my back blown out by a girl who roller derbies with her clones. Instead, Alliott goes out to retrieve Alex's body. I relay all the sordid details of my failed relationship over the phone. When she returns, we spend the rest of the night researching Natasha Tokyopop in one of the bunkrooms that KMZ offers its members. Alliott's fancy laptop lets her access information from other realities, so we go on an interdimensional web surf and dig up as much as we can on her and her group, the Chicago Wraiths. Things have changed since I left home. When I say 'home', I don't mean 'house'. I mean 'universe'. I mentioned this way back when, but I left Natasha by physically leaving my home reality and fleeing here. This universe is more primitive than my original — for whatever reason, the government keeps a tight lid on the occult. Which is just fine by me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman is queen. But where I'm going, I'm not queen anymore. I'm barely even a pawn. My only hope is to make it to the other side of the board, and to get there I'll need as much dirt as I can dig up about Natasha. And these are the facts. Fact: Chappell Wraith Securities is a subsidiary of Wraith Enterprises, a veritable conglomerate with its hands in private security, aerospace and demonic engineering, and Moon mining. Fact: Wraith Enterprises are based on the moon, and can only be reached via Way or shuttle from a space elevator. Fact: Wraith Enterprises have built a space elevator. It's all very space-age and fancy — and a far cry from the shit we used to get up to. That moonbase used to be a moon coven. The space elevator didn't exist. We spent our time figuring out how to dunk on cops, not privatize them. But that was a long time ago. If I know Natasha, she's set up all manner of counter-spells to ensure that I can't get there by magical means. I'll have to do it the old-fashioned way — or at least, as old-fashioned as my home gets. Fact: The space elevator is utterly inhospitable to human beings; the G-forces caused by the sheer speed of travel would turn me into jelly. Fact: Robots make the journey fairly often, performing repairs or otherwise overseeing the function of the elevator. Conclusion: If I want to reach the moon, I'll need to be a robot. Or something mostly robot. Unfortunately, I'm mostly human. This will have to change. Which is a whole bundle of problems on its own, as the Inside Man helpfully points out (by hijacking my vocal chords to voice his opinions). It's not the augmentations themselves I'm worried about. Once I have my heart back, I have a half-dozen different formulas I can use to regenerate my fleshy bod. The problem is getting them in the first place. There are three legitimate — well, semi-legitimate — sources for augments: Anderson Robotics, the Servants of the Silicon Nornir, or one of the underground Maxwellist clinics. Anderson charges a fortune, and if I try to jailbreak so much as a finger it's likely to blow up and take the whole arm with it. If I let the Servants get ahold of my biometrics, I might as well just walk into prison. And if I get upgraded at a Maxwellist clinic, they'll fill my brain with so much scripture there won't be room for me. There's no shortage of illegitimate augment rings, but most of them are janky as fuck. If I just went to any old back-alley doctor I'd be as likely to get a perfect full-body transplant as my organs harvested and brain wired to a crypto-mining rig. That leaves exactly one option: Farhan Jahaniam. Then I remember that I beat Farhan to death with his own arm a few months ago. I'm stumped. "MachineGod," Alliott says. "You could see MachineGod." I snort. "MachineGod? He only augments influencers. He doesn't deal with peasants like us." "You're not a peasant anymore." Alliott turns the laptop towards me. The headline onscreen reads, "Bringing Down the House". I read through the article quickly. In short? Oneiroi Eurtec is crippled. Alliott and I wrecked their datacenter and most of their human capital. The upset at the deathball match did the rest. My balaclava-clad face and the name "Chicago Spectre" are plastered all over the news. "We smashed up Oneiroi Incorporated and became overnight millionaires," Alliott says. "How much more influential can you get?" "So what?" I say. "You want me to just walk into his place and say, 'Let me in, I'm the Rookie'?" Alliott taps her prosthetic arm. "It worked for me." The next day we assemble a list of augmentations that I'll need to survive the trip up and make plans to meet the MachineGod. Before I head out, I dress to party, swapping out my helmet for a rave mask and cat-ear headphones. Then I strap my skates on and promptly fall over. A stream of invectives shoots out of my mouth with enough force to knock someone else over. My skates are rocket-powered, but the juice flows from my heart. A heart which I don't have. Alliott is struggling to hold in a laugh. I see red and imagine wrapping my hands around her throat. Then I force the feeling back down. This isn't her fault. She's not to blame here. Natasha is. She's the reason why Alliott and I have to ride the train instead of letting the city melt into a blur of light and metal. She's the reason I'm weak. I shift my fantasy to wrapping my hands around her throat instead. I keep the cat headphones on while on the train, but the rave mask gets bundled into my pocket. Nobody pays attention to us; we're just a couple of weirdos in a city of thousands. My chest aches, but I ignore it by thinking about all the ways I can kill Natasha. There's a flash of red — real this time — that entices me to look out the window as we enter the crimson-light district. The corporate district is where money is made; Neuneukolln is where money is stolen. But the crimson-light district is where money is spent. You can get a full-body augmentation courtesy of Anderson in the morning, shop for blood diamonds in the afternoon, and then cap the day off with an eight-course French dinner. Or you can buy a sexbot, have it upgraded with combat programming and equipment, and then have its facial features completely resculpted to resemble your favorite waifu. There's a reason the Bank of Eurtec was built here. The crimson-light district is the peak of unethical consumption. It's a black hole into which money disappears. The train stops right by MachineGod's temple, but there's not much to see aboveground. Like an iceberg, most of his domain is below the surface. The only indication of life is EDM rising up from a staircase nestled between a sex shop and an armory. I strap the rave mask to my face, then we head down. There's a roided-up bouncer at the bottom of the stairs. She's sporting a second pair of cybernetic arms grafted to the sides of her ribs, and looks like she's already planning to throw me back up. "Tell the MachineGod that the Black Queen wants in," Alliott tells her. She sizes us up for a moment and her eyes go far away. "The MachineGod welcomes his newest acolyte." The doors open. I walk into MachineGod's neon coliseum. It's sweltering and muggy. The strobe lights are an ugly neon pink. The floor itself is a giant subwoofer; TeddyLoid rattles my teeth with every step. Everyone here is mashed together and wired up. Thick black cables dangle from the ceiling like a puppet master's strings, plugging into every exposed orifice they can find and replacing people's blood with EDM. In the center of this sea of flesh and metal is a massive ring of steps leading up to a shiny steel dais. Atop the dais sits a combination throne and turntable set. MachineGod's twelve apostles lounge on the throne's enormous armrests. Each of them wears a simple white sling swimsuit and high heels, exposing their cybernetic flesh for the titillation of the crowd. A pair of disembodied hands expertly scratches the turntable, wired to the suspended, dismembered body of MachineGod himself. MachineGod is a lot of things. A power player in the Eurtec underworld; an information broker who operates on an industrial scale; a complex messiah; a thrower of parties; an influencer, a pusher, a God. Some people claim that he's a rogue AI — a prototype Norn that escaped onto the Internet. Others think he's an actual god — an avatar of Mekhane or Vishnu, adapted for the modern age. Still others argue that he was the first person to figure out how to emulate consciousness on a machine. Nobody knows for sure. Nobody really cares either. What's important is that the MachineGod fought and died for our right to party. He's our lord, savior, and DJ. And this is his most sacred temple. MachineGod's thick, muscular torso is directly above the center of the throne, underneath a mounted head and surrounded by four separate pairs of arms and legs. Robotic manipulators pop out from hidden rails under the steps and grasps his parts, bringing them together and stringing thick spindles of wire between them as they descend. In one fluid movement, the grippers detach themselves and MachineGod's body clicks together as he lowers himself onto his throne. MachineGod's eyes glimmer like diamonds against a face sculpted by a neo-renaissance surgeon. His biceps compete for my attention with his bronzed, sleekly toned thighs. His apostles scoot closer, leaning against him and fondling an abdomen chiseled to perfection. With four hands, he caresses them. With the other four, he mixes a beat that makes my heart bounce in my chest. His voice resonates in my ear. "Welcome, Rookie, to my temple!" At the sound of my name, the crowd parts around me like the Red Sea, opening a path to the dais. I hear murmurs in the crowd. They're talking about the Bank of Eurtec. The Phitransimun Combine. Oneiroi Inc. "Tales of your exploits have spread far and wide. To the Black Queen, I offer my acknowledgment. Have you come to seek my blessing?" I nod once, not trusting myself to speak. Instead, I let the Inside Man take over my voice. "MachineGod!" we say. All eyes turn to us. "I request your blessings. Augment me." MachineGod laughs — a quick burst of record scratches that pierce my ears. "How bold! I would expect nothing less from the woman who broke Oneiroi's back. What do you desire?" I rattle off a list of augments. "Full-body augment. Ceramic frame. Protection for high G-force and orbital re-entry. Full cognitive upload. I need my chest organs intact, brain optional. I need to be combat-ready. Unarmed, knife-fighting, guns, the works. Cognitive overclocker. Infrared tracking and magnifying lenses. Weapons. Something bladed. And something to interface with computers." "I do not bestow my gifts lightly. What would you do with them?" he asks. "Would you be my apostle? Or my champion?" "Neither," we say. "I want them so I can kill my ex. On the moon." He laughs again. "Entertainment! Truly, hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned. And what do you offer in return?" The music fades away. "What will you sacrifice at my altar?" "What do you want?" we ask. MachineGod contemplates. "What do I want, I wonder?" A bassline comes on, getting faster and faster. The crowd waits with bated breath to hear his answer. The upper steps of the ring descend, lowering the throne onto a wider level of the dais. All the while, MachineGod studies us like ants. "Ah!" he says aloud. "That will be your sacrifice." A television screen lowers itself from the ceiling. The turntable flips over, revealing an operating table. The lowest step of the dais flips upward, becoming a ring looming over the throne. Camera lenses open up on the ring, and a series of manipulators with surgical tools emerge. A long, black cable with a pointed jack extends from the ring. "The Ophanim shall be the tool of your ascension. You shall be reborn in a forge of music. And in return, I would have your memories. I would know how your love curdles to hatred. I would share that emotion with my people." The screen turns on, showing our face through the viewpoints of everyone wired up in the club. "Those are the terms of my blessing. Will you accept?" We think it over. The Inside Man isn't certain that he can censor all my memories. It's one thing to fuck with organic brains — it's another thing entirely to fuck with silicon ones. But then I think about the way Alliott looked at me when my skates didn't work. The impotence I felt. How good it's going to feel to choke the life out of Natasha. "We — I accept your terms." The beat drops. The crowd roars. MachineGod's apostles slide from the throne and descend the steps. They surround me and sweep me off my feet, carrying me up to the table. Before I can blink, I'm strapped down and staring up at the ophanim. MachineGod wraps his hand around the jack and jams it through a hole in the table into the base of my skull. I feel a sharp pain, and then nothing. NEXT: The Vice Girls

As you might expect before we dive into the details about Siralim 3’s gameplay systems, we should talk about the story and the game’s characters first. At the end of this post, I’ll also talk about a pretty big change coming to the way the game “feels” when you play it. Let’s get started! The Story Although the game is called Siralim 3, you won’t be ruling over Siralim this time around. Instead, you’ll take charge of the kingdom of Nex, one of Siralim’s closest allies. You see, as you might have noticed in Siralim 2, the king was kind of an asshole. Those bosses he mercilessly slaughtered were simply trying to protect the world from his mad ideals. His people, including his most trusted friends, were loyal to him only out of fear. But after a while, bullying his own kingdom wasn’t satisfying anymore. He decided to attack and invade other kingdoms, not caring whether they were friend or foe. Countless kingdoms succumbed to the king of Siralim’s wrath, and as it turns out, Nex is the only remaining kingdom in Rodia that hasn’t been completely annihilated. But the hour of war is now upon us in Nex, and we must rally our people to try to fend off the attack. You’ll start the game in Nex, which is under attack by a preliminary force of Siralim’s army. While the people of Nex are quite familiar with summoning and using creatures in small-scale battles, a century of relative peace has left your kingdom with its guard down. Very few of your people will survive the attack, and even if you manage to fend off the invaders, re-building your castle requires time that you don’t have to spare. If you manage to repel the attack, waiting around for recovery is not an option. You need to take the battle to Siralim and destroy the king and his army once and for all. Even the gods no longer believe in the king of Siralim, and they regret placing trust in him to use the Nether Orbs for good rather than evil. As you might have expected, they’ve come to you to help Nex overcome this war. They will serve a much larger role in this game than they did in Siralim 2, and their personalities are now a lot more fleshed-out and interesting. Sidenote: if you choose to be a queen in Siralim 3, the antagonist will be the queen of Siralim instead of the king. NPCs and Castle Upgrades Well, spoiler alert: most of the people of Nex will die within the first 10 minutes of the game. You had a blacksmith, but he was beheaded. The tavernkeeper was eaten alive by horrible Nether Creatures. And the enchanter? Well, you don’t want to know what happened to her. In previous Siralim games, you could unlock these NPCs and other features by completing castle upgrades. However, that isn’t how it works in Siralim 3. Instead, you’ll meet and recruit these people during your travels as you seek out a way to destroy Siralim. Some of these people simply might be looking for a kingdom to join, while others might be under attack or give you a task to complete in exchange for their undying loyalty. Others might even be defectors from Siralim. From a gameplay perspective, I think this will make the game flow a lot more smoothly. The castle upgrade system in previous Siralim games presented an illusion of choice; after all, when would you not want an enchanter in your kingdom? Aside from that, rituals made this system feel even more cumbersome, so those are not in Siralim 3 at all. Now, you’ll simply unlock these NPCs as you progress through the game’s storyline. After moving in to Nex, many of these NPCs will have side quests for you which will unlock even more of their potential. For example, the blacksmith will give you quests that, upon completion, unlock new artifacts for him to craft. A Classic Game In some ways, Siralim and Siralim 2’s progression feels kind of cheap. For the most part, you and your creatures leveled up every battle or two, and while resources may have been scarce early on in the game, you probably had so many later on that you didn’t know what to do with all of them. Aside from that, the levels of your creatures didn’t seem to matter that much – a level 300 creature could fare pretty well against a level 350 creature. In Siralim 3, leveling up will take a bit longer than before. Don’t worry, the pacing of the game will remain the same – I’m not going to make it more of a grind or anything, but I want each experience level to have more of an impact on your successes and failures than in previous games. Aside from that, creatures will gain stats exponentially when they level up. For example, in Siralim 2, each level simply granted a creature +20% to all of its base stats. In Siralim 3, each level grants a creature +20% to all its base stats as it did before, plus an additional amount equal to a function of its level. With the help of these changes, leveling up should feel a lot more rewarding and impactful. You’ll also find that the resource system is more balanced than before. Power Balance has been removed from the game, so there’s no need to worry about that anymore. In addition, Power is now considered a normal resource just like Brimstone, Crystal, Essence, and Granite. Each resource will still be used for different things, and I am trying to make sure that players value all resources equally. Another major change is how the death penalty is handled. In Siralim 1, you lost a percentage of your total resources when your party was wiped out. I don’t really like that since it had a tendency to increase the game’s difficulty simply because you died. That feels really inconsistent to me. That’s why in Siralim 2, the penalty for dying was a loss of Power Balance. But not only is Power Balance not in Siralim 3, it also caused players a lot of frustration because Power Balance was so tedious to maintain. The worst part about both of these death penalties is that because of the way the math works out, these penalties either annoyed players or players simply didn’t care about them at all, so they were happy to recklessly charge into a realm without considering the consequences of death. Instead, here’s how the death penalty works in Siralim 3: every item you acquire in a realm (aside from resources) will be added to a “Pending” category in your inventory because they’re all tainted by Siralim’s corruption. These items cannot be used while they’re “pending”. After you find the Teleportation Shrine and teleport to a new realm or back to Nex, the Teleportation Shrine will dispel the corruption from these items so you can add them to your inventory. If you die in battle, the items will be lost forever. This death penalty will add a bit of tension to the game because if you find an extremely rare item a realm, there’s no guarantee you’ll be able to keep it if you die in battle. And since enemies now continuously spawn in realms, you can’t try to cheat the system by clearing out all the enemies and then opening up the treasure chests. This death penalty only applies to realms past a depth of 10. Huge thanks to Umaro on our forums for this idea! What do you think of Siralim 3 so far? Are you excited? As always, if you have any suggestions for the game or want to talk about this post, please leave a comment here or check out our forums!

Q: How to extract numbers from a string using regular expressions? This little challenge just screams regular expressions to me, but so far I am stumped. I have an arbitrary string that contains two numbers embedded in it. I need to extract those two numbers, which will be n and m digits long (n,m are unknown in advance). The format of the string is always FixedWord[n digits]anotherfixedword[m digits]alotmorestuffontheend The first number is of the format 1.2.3.4 (the number of digits varying) eg 5.3.20 or 5.3.10.1 or 5.4. and the second is a simpler 'm' digits (eg 25 or 2) eg "AppName5.2.6dbVer44Oracle.Group" It shouts 'pattern matching' and hence "extraction using regexes". Can anyone guide me further? TIA A: The following pattern: (\d+(?>\.\d+)*)\w+?(\d+) Will match this: AppName5.2.6dbVer44Oracle.Group \__________/ <-- match \___/ \/ <-- captures Demo And will capture the two values you're interested in in capture groups. Use it like this: var match = Regex.Match(input, @"(\d+(?>\.\d+)*)\w+?(\d+)"); if (match.Success) { var first = match.Groups[1].Value; var second = match.Groups[2].Value; // ... } Pattern explanation: ( # Start of group 1 \d+ # a series of digits (?> # start of atomic group \.\d+ # dot followed by digits )* # .. 0 to n times ) \w+? # some word characters (as few as possible) (\d+) # a series of digits captured in group 2

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Gay and Lesbian Activism With a Sense of Humor INFO: CONTACT: Site Resources: Fun Stuff: 04/29/2009 Add the Liberty Counsel to the list of folks willing to lie about what does and does not constitute a true sexual orientation: The DSM IVR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose mental disorders) lists more than 30 "sexual orientations" and "Gender Identity Disorders," including pedophilia. The hate crimes bill does not limit "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" and, thus, includes all these disorders and fetishes. ... Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: "Sexual orientation and gender identity include pedophilia and every imaginable deviant fetish. Cross-dressers and pedophiles find refuge in this so-called hate crimes bill, while veterans and grandmas are left to fend for themselves. Obviously, this bill is not about the prevention of crime but is all about pushing a radical sexual anarchy. This bill will crush free speech and trample free exercise of religion."Hate Crimes Bill Protects Cross-Dressers and Pedophiles but Not Veterans or Grandmas [Standard Newswire] *What the American Psychological Association clearly says about sexual orientation: Your thoughts These guys don't ever take the time to do any independent research. When one of the lying liars says something, all of the others just continue quoting the original liar. That is one underhanded way of maintaining some level of plausible deniability. Oh, well, that "sounded" true, and I was just quoting a source that I "thought" was credible, so I didn't really "LIE" about it, I was just mistaken. Because if these lying liars actually read the language that they supposedly "quote" from, rather than the language from the other lying liars, then they would know the truth... and the truth just isn't as politically expedient as the quote from the lying liar is.

Q: Function Optional Parameter in VBA Not Working I have the following function which, in an Excel cell, is written as =FACING_CHANGE(live, optimal, [override]): Function FACING_CHANGE(live As Integer, opt As Integer, _ Optional override As Range) As String If override.Value <> "" And IsNumeric(override.Value) = True Then opt = override.Value End If If live = opt Then FACING_CHANGE = "SAME " & live ElseIf live > opt And opt = 0 Then FACING_CHANGE = "DELETED" ElseIf live > opt And opt > 0 Then FACING_CHANGE = "DECREASED" ElseIf live < opt And live = 0 Then FACING_CHANGE = "ADDED" ElseIf live < opt And live > 0 Then FACING_CHANGE = "INCREASED" End If End Function Which returns a string result. I'm having trouble with the optional override parameter. It's of type range right now because a blank cell returns a 0 if override were an integer, which is valid. I need it as an optional param because in most but not all cases it will be used with the 3rd parameter. When I insert a breakpoint and step through, the function exits automatically at the first if statement (If override.Value...). Below are some results. Any help would be appreciated! A: When your Range optional parameter isn't specified, your function receives it as Nothing. Then when this line runs: If override.Value <> "" I bet VBA is blowing up with an "object reference not set" error, because you're accessing a property on an object reference that's Nothing. Solution is to simply check whether override Is Nothing before accessing it.

The present invention relates to a thin-film transistor and, more particularly, to a thin-film transistor (element) for use in a driving circuit for a liquid-crystal display device and to a method of fabricating the same. At present, liquid-crystal display devices driven by thin-film transistors (TFTs) as thin-film semiconductor elements are used widely in a notebook personal computer, a vehicle navigator, and the like and requested to be further reduced in size, weight, and cost in the future. To respond to the request, there has been developed a polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor which allows integral formation of even driving circuits for a pixel portion with a substrate having a display portion and the pixel portion for the display portion formed therein and higher performance thereof has been pursued. Referring to the drawings, a method of fabricating a conventional polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor will be described. FIG. 1 is a structural cross section of a thin-film transistor of the type termed xe2x80x9ctop-gatexe2x80x9d produced in accordance with a conventional method. In the drawing, 1 denotes a transparent insulating substrate made of quartz, glass, or the like, in which glass is used normally in terms of cost; 2 denotes a polycrystalline silicon thin film; 3 denotes a gate insulating film; 4 denotes a gate electrode; 5 denotes an interlayer insulating film; 6 denotes a source electrode film; 7 denotes a drain electrode film; and 13 denotes an underlying layer (so-called undercoat), which is formed with the view to preventing some components of a substrate material from being diffused in the polycrystalline silicon thin film but may not be formed in some cases depending on the substrate material or a method of processing the substrate. In practice, such thin-film transistors used as switches for the pixel portion and in driving circuits therefor are arranged in rows and columns in vertical and lateral directions and at locations determined by the display surface of a liquid-crystal display device as a product and by the driving circuits formed in the peripheral portion thereof However, since the foregoing is so-called well-known technology and is not relevant directly to the present invention, intentional depiction thereof is omitted. A method of fabricating the thin-film transistors, which is relevant directly to the present invention, will be described briefly herein below, though it is so-called well-known technology. First, a silicon dioxide thin film 13 is formed as the underlying layer on the transparent insulating substrate 1 made of glass or the like by plasma chemical vapor deposition (PCVD), sputtering, or the like. Then, an amorphous silicon thin film is formed entirely over the substrate or at a specified location thereon by PCVD, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or sputtering. Next, an excimer laser is applied to an amorphous silicon thin film thus formed to temporarily melt the amorphous silicon thin film (so-called laser annealing), thereby forming the polycrystalline silicon thin film 2 composed of grains (particles) each having a relatively large diameter by utilizing the crystallization of silicon during the solidification thereof. Next, the polycrystalline silicon thin film is processed into a specified configuration determined by the arrangement of transistors (elements) on the substrate. In short, so-called patterning is performed. Next, the gate insulating film 3 is formed on the patterned polycrystalline silicon thin film by normal pressure CVD, PCVD, sputtering, or like method and the gate electrode 4 is formed at a specified location on the gate insulating film 3. Next, the interlayer insulating film 5 is formed and contact holes are formed by etching in the portions of the interlayer insulating film in which the source and drain electrodes of each of the transistors are to be formed. Next, the source and drain electrodes 6 and 7 of each of the transistors are formed by using the contact holes, whereby the polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor is produced. It will be appreciated that, if necessary, the cleaning of the substrate, the implantation of impurity ions required by the element to perform its intrinsic function, i.e., phosphorus (P) or boron (B) ions into the source and drain regions, a heat treatment subsequently performed to join a dangling bond or expel excess hydrogen, wiring required by the element to perform its intrinsic function, and the like are performed in addition to the foregoing process steps. Since these process steps are also well-known technology and not relevant directly to the present invention, the description thereof is omitted here. A description will be given next to irradiation conditions for laser annealing. To improve the characteristics of the thin-film semiconductor element, the film should have a large and uniform crystal grain diameter. If the crystal grain diameter is to be increased by laser annealing, it is effective to perform irradiation with high energy or irradiate the same portion several times. As a result of such irradiation, however, the grain diameter loses uniformity, the characteristics of the thin-film semiconductor element vary greatly, or heat is transmitted to the glass substrate to cause the deformation of glass or the diffusion of a glass component into the thin-film semiconductor, so that the performance of the semiconductor element degrades against expectations. It is to be noted that the heat resistance temperature of the glass substrate used in the liquid crystal display device is 600xc2x0 C. Under the present circumstances, therefore, poly-crystallization is performed by applying a laser under conditions which are a trade-off between the size and uniformity of the crystal grain diameter and the adverse effects of heat on the glass substrate. In addition to the foregoing, there has been adopted the approach of optimizing the energy density of a laser beam in consideration of the thickness of a silicon film or the like, though the description thereof is omitted here since it is not relevant directly to the present invention. However, the method encounters the following problems during melting recrystallization. (1) FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a polycrystalline silicon thin film formed by melting recrystallization involving excimer laser annealing. As shown in the drawing, numerous projections 11 are formed at a surface of the polycrystalline silicon thin film 2, particularly at the grain boundaries. Moreover, tramp materials (xe2x80x9cimpuritiesxe2x80x9d in another technical field) 12, which are unnecessary by nature for the transistor element to perform its intrinsic function, e.g., oxygen in an atmosphere, hydrogen from moisture, boron (B) from glass pieces jumped from a HEPA filter, and the like are taken in by the surface portion. In this case, these tramp materials are not only located in large quantities in the surface which is chemically and physically unstable during the polycrystallization of the amorphous silicon during which the amorphous silicon is temporarily melted at a high temperature achieved by laser irradiation and then solidified but also segregated at the upper surface of silicon from the lower portion thereof with solidification (aggregate in a large quantity from inside silicon). In particular, the tramp materials are assumed to be segregated in large quantities in the projections, which are chemically unstable because of the segregated tramp materials. If oxygen is a tramp material, it is bonded to silicon as a semiconductor in an extremely complicated and unstable state instead of reacting therewith to form a silicon dioxide. It is to be noted that oxygen forms compounds with silicon, carbon, or the like belonging to Group IV at a ratio of either 1:1 (e.g., a carbon monoxide or silicon monoxide) or 2:1 (e.g., carbon dioxide gas or a silicon dioxide) and therefore does not achieve a constant composition. Under special conditions such as in the surface of the amorphous silicon which is solidified immediately after melted, an extremely complicated compound is formed accordingly. The use of a material obtained by mixing at most 30% germanium or at most 5% carbon in silicon is also examined at present and the development of the material, which is not pure silicon, is pursued since it has various characteristics of easy crystallization because of its lower melting point and the capability of providing a high mobility. However, since the materials used in these cases are inherently mixtures, the surfaces thereof in particular suffer non-uniformity resulting from projections and depressions and increasing segregation of not only the tramp material but also the intrinsic semiconductor material. In the top-gate-type transistor, the surface portion is a portion in contact with the gate insulating film. Therefore, the surface projections adversely affect the insulation resistance of the overlying gate insulating film. On the other hand, the segregation of the tramp materials destabilizes the interfacial portion with the gate insulating film for the reason stated above. Both of the surface projections and the segregated tramp materials adversely affect the performance and reliability of the thin-film transistor as an element and may cause variations in the performance or the like of the semiconductor element. Although ion doping is performed subsequently with respect to the source and channel regions by using PH3 and B2H6 to form a C-MOS structure and a heat treatment is performed for the activation thereof, the presence of the projections impairs the uniformity of the impurity ions implanted. This qualitatively causes variations in the characteristics of the TFT. (2) Although the trade-off irradiation conditions described above ensure the uniformity of the characteristics of the polycrystalline silicon as the active region of the thin-film semiconductor element, the electric characteristics thereof including field-effect mobility are reduced compared with those of a monocrystalline silicon semiconductor element. Accordingly, it is difficult to constantly provide circuit functions sufficient for a future liquid crystal display device. As a result, it has been demanded to develop a polycrystalline silicon film having no projection at the surface thereof, particularly at the interface with the gate electrode portion, and no segregation of tramp materials after laser annealing or having a surface in a stable state and develop a thin-film semiconductor element with excellent performance. It has also been demanded to develop thin-film transistors each having excellent electric characteristics including field-effect mobility, while ensuring the uniformity of numerous thin-film semiconductor elements formed on a substrate. To attain the foregoing objects, during the fabrication of a top-gate-type thin-film transistor (element) in accordance with the first group of the invention, a polycrystalline semiconductor thin film is formed by irradiating an amorphous semiconductor thin film formed on a substrate, particularly a thin film made of silicon or containing silicon as a main component, with a laser beam and thereby polycrystallizing the thin film. The polycrystalline semiconductor thin film is then exposed to an active, reactive gas such that a surface layer thereof is etched away, whereby a surface of the polycrystalline semiconductor thin film is planarized and surface portions in which tramp materials are segregated are removed. Moreover, the type of the reactive gas is determined carefully and the etching process using the reactive gas is performed inventively such that a thin-film semiconductor element with high mobility and high reliability is provided. During the formation of a top-gate-type transistor on a substrate in accordance with the second group of the invention, an amorphous semiconductor thin film, particularly a thin film made of silicon or containing silicon as a main component, is formed and polycrystallized by laser annealing, similarly to the first group of the invention. However, the second group of the invention is characterized in that means of mechanical polishing or not only mechanical but also chemical polishing is adopted to planarize a surface of the polycrystalline semiconductor thin film and remove surface portions in which tramp material have been segregated. Moreover, a ceramic-based thin film with a high hardness is formed on the substrate such that the substrate is planarized by mechanical and chemical polishing and the tramp materials are removed. The thin film is also used for proper formation of the semiconductor thin film and for the retention of the strength of the substrate. For this purpose, the material and thickness of the ceramic-based thin film and the engineering and mechanical properties thereof are determined carefully such that a thin-film semiconductor element with high mobility and high reliability is provided. The third group of the invention is similar to the foregoing two groups of the invention in that an amorphous semiconductor thin film, particularly a thin film made of silicon or a material containing silicon as a main component, is formed on a substrate and polycrystallized by laser annealing. However, the second group of the invention is characterized in that a heat treatment is performed at a high temperature of 550xc2x0 C. or more and the atmospheric gas during the heat treatment is determined carefully for the planarization of the surface, for the growth of the polycrystalline semiconductor into a larger crystal, and for the removal of the tramp materials segregated in the surface. The third group of the invention also planarizes the surface portion of the polycrystalline silicon thin film and removes the projections in which the tramp materials have been segregated in the top-gate-type transistor, provides an excellent interface with the gate insulating film, and provides a thin-film semiconductor element with high mobility and high reliability, similarly to the foregoing two groups of the invention. However, the third group of the invention is slightly different therefrom in that it is also applicable to a bottom-gate-type transistor in terms of promoting the growth of a crystal.

Let f(v) be the first derivative of -2*v**3 - 5*v**2/2 - 6353*v - 2470. What is the derivative of f(s) wrt s? -12*s - 5 Differentiate -4223 - 1594 - 5961*z**3 + 2683 with respect to z. -17883*z**2 Let b = 264 - 258. What is the second derivative of -6 - 1 + b*g**5 - 5*g**3 + 1 - 1 - 2*g wrt g? 120*g**3 - 30*g Suppose -10*b = 11*b - 4872. Find the second derivative of -g**3 + 15*g - b*g**2 + 2 - 79*g + 514*g**2 - 425*g**2 wrt g. -6*g - 286 Let q(k) be the third derivative of -1679*k**8/84 + 2531*k**4/24 + 304*k**2 - 4. Find the second derivative of q(g) wrt g. -134320*g**3 Let g(m) = m**2 - 19*m + 20. Let z be g(18). What is the first derivative of 4*b - b**2 + b + 17 - 52 - b**z wrt b? -4*b + 5 Let o(n) be the third derivative of -889*n**4/6 - 4925*n**3/6 - 3189*n**2. Find the first derivative of o(a) wrt a. -3556 Let p(o) = 34*o**4 - 49*o**2 - 17*o + 5825. Let m(v) = -51*v**4 + 73*v**2 + 24*v - 8737. Let x(r) = 5*m(r) + 7*p(r). Find the first derivative of x(f) wrt f. -68*f**3 + 44*f + 1 Let i be (-40)/28*-5*7. Differentiate -66*l**2 - 4 - 69*l**2 + i + 29*l**2 with respect to l. -212*l Let x(r) be the first derivative of 17 - 43/5*r**5 + 0*r - 40/3*r**3 - 1/2*r**4 + 0*r**2. Find the third derivative of x(b) wrt b. -1032*b - 12 Let f(y) = -4*y**3 - y**2 - y + 4. Let c(i) = -3445*i**3 + 13*i**2 + 13*i - 92. Let v(r) = c(r) + 13*f(r). Differentiate v(a) wrt a. -10491*a**2 Let d(m) be the second derivative of 0*m**2 - 13/4*m**4 + 0*m**3 - 66*m + 0 - 13/20*m**5. Find the third derivative of d(x) wrt x. -78 Suppose -5*u + m + 191132 = 0, -2*m - 2*m + 152896 = 4*u. What is the third derivative of 88*w**2 - 38226*w + u*w - 21*w**6 wrt w? -2520*w**3 Let x(w) be the second derivative of 0*w**2 - 41/20*w**5 - 31/2*w**3 + 0 + 0*w**4 - 1/15*w**6 - 161*w. Find the second derivative of x(v) wrt v. -24*v**2 - 246*v Suppose 0 = -11*w + 430 + 725. Let d = -83 + w. What is the third derivative of -2*q**2 + 21*q**2 + d*q**3 - q + q wrt q? 132 Find the second derivative of 480*l**4 + 1487*l**4 + 12*l + 14*l - 407*l**4 + 10*l wrt l. 18720*l**2 Suppose -5*b + w + 165 = -b, -w - 205 = -5*b. What is the third derivative of -b*v**2 + 1 + 2*v**3 + 1 + 17*v**3 wrt v? 114 Let s(m) = 9*m**4 - 30*m + 3. Let v(n) = 15*n - 329*n**3 - 5*n**4 - 2 + 329*n**3. Let r(i) = 4*s(i) + 7*v(i). Differentiate r(a) with respect to a. 4*a**3 - 15 Let k(w) be the second derivative of -716*w**4/3 + w**3/3 + 1131*w**2/2 - 716*w. Find the second derivative of k(i) wrt i. -5728 Let m(t) be the first derivative of 2/5*t**5 - t - 1/2*t**4 + 0*t**2 - 82/3*t**3 + 9. Find the third derivative of m(b) wrt b. 48*b - 12 Suppose 10 + 65 = 25*d. Find the second derivative of -28 - 2*c**2 + 2*c**3 + 2*c**3 + 2*c + 8*c**d + 7*c**3 wrt c. 114*c - 4 Let n(p) = p**4 + 15*p**2 + 195*p - 19. Let r(q) = 2*q**4 + 32*q**2 + 389*q - 34. Let v(z) = 11*n(z) - 6*r(z). Find the second derivative of v(j) wrt j. -12*j**2 - 54 Let o = -140 + 141. Let c be (6 - (32 + o))*4/(-6). Differentiate 56*t - 5 - 6 + c - 20*t wrt t. 36 Let s(t) = 2*t**2 + t + 1. Let m(i) = 30*i**2 + 56*i - 2368. Let u(o) = m(o) + 6*s(o). Differentiate u(h) wrt h. 84*h + 62 Let l(r) be the first derivative of -17*r**4/4 - 8*r**3 + 4*r + 78. What is the third derivative of l(o) wrt o? -102 Find the second derivative of 290*j - 185466*j**2 + 185466*j**2 - 2 + 0 + 31*j**3 wrt j. 186*j Let l(o) be the first derivative of -224 + 231*o + 86/5*o**5 + 0*o**4 + 0*o**3 + 0*o**2. What is the derivative of l(w) wrt w? 344*w**3 Let s(j) be the third derivative of 211*j**9/84 + 403*j**5/60 + j**4/8 + 1005*j**2. Find the third derivative of s(g) wrt g. 151920*g**3 What is the third derivative of 4446628 - j**2 - 4446628 - 888*j - 25*j**6 wrt j? -3000*j**3 Let t(v) = 1. Let i(d) = -21*d**2 - 13*d - 44. Let w(k) = -i(k) - 4*t(k). Let u(n) be the first derivative of w(n). Differentiate u(b) wrt b. 42 Let w(g) be the second derivative of g**5/10 - 1925*g**4/6 - 907*g. Find the third derivative of w(u) wrt u. 12 What is the second derivative of -622*v - 1133 + 1131 - 286*v - 72*v - 4801*v**5 wrt v? -96020*v**3 Let p(i) = 6*i - 40. Let d be p(7). Find the second derivative of -7*w - 43*w**d - 4*w + 5 + 18*w wrt w. -86 Suppose 0 = 4*x - 59 - 13. Suppose -3 + x = 2*q + 5*i, 4*q = 5*i + 45. Find the third derivative of q*c**5 + 20*c**2 + 7 - 22 + 15 wrt c. 600*c**2 Let r = 688 - 685. What is the derivative of 16 - 12*a - 154*a - r + 20 wrt a? -166 Let v = 4 - -2. Let t = 181 + -178. What is the third derivative of 3*c**3 - v*c**2 - 5*c**2 - 7*c**2 + 10*c**t wrt c? 78 Let y = -316 - -383. What is the first derivative of -40*g - 27*g - 195 - 121*g**3 + y*g wrt g? -363*g**2 Find the second derivative of 58044*c + 9860*c**2 + 58046*c - 189 - 116085*c wrt c. 19720 Let j(s) = -s**2 + 23*s - 27. Let i be j(21). Let q(c) be the first derivative of -i*c - 13 - 16 + 2*c**3 + 45*c. What is the derivative of q(o) wrt o? 12*o Suppose -a - 5 = -24. Let v be a + -15 - (2 + 0). Find the second derivative of 46*m**v + 6*m**4 + 0*m - 4*m - 46*m**2 wrt m. 72*m**2 Let f(q) = -5995*q**2 + 40*q - 211. Let u(d) = 8993*d**2 - 56*d + 317. Let w(c) = 7*f(c) + 5*u(c). Differentiate w(k) with respect to k. 6000*k Let p = -12 + 21. What is the first derivative of -18*x + 31 + 17*x - p*x wrt x? -10 Let q(z) be the third derivative of -67*z**7/30 + z**4/12 - 148*z**3 + 1630*z**2. What is the first derivative of q(o) wrt o? -1876*o**3 + 2 Let a(w) be the second derivative of 13*w**6/10 + w**5/2 + 961*w**4/4 + 6444*w. What is the third derivative of a(z) wrt z? 936*z + 60 Let m(a) = -195*a + 10. Let f = 20 + -32. Let y be m(f). What is the second derivative of -y + 2350 - 20*w - 14*w**2 wrt w? -28 Let g(u) be the first derivative of 612*u**3 - 1121*u**2 - 126. Find the second derivative of g(b) wrt b. 3672 Let c = 12 + 21. What is the second derivative of 21*l**4 + c*l - 153*l**2 + 5*l + 153*l**2 wrt l? 252*l**2 Let k(s) be the third derivative of s**7/210 - 28*s**5/15 - 2*s**4/3 - 1882*s**3/3 - 4*s**2 - 88*s + 1. What is the derivative of k(p) wrt p? 4*p**3 - 224*p - 16 Let b(r) be the second derivative of 143*r**6/3 - 3*r**5/20 - 5989*r**4/12 - r - 11467. What is the third derivative of b(p) wrt p? 34320*p - 18 Let k(c) be the first derivative of 2709*c**5/5 - c**2 - 4935*c - 2295. What is the second derivative of k(x) wrt x? 32508*x**2 Let q(n) be the second derivative of 2449*n**6/30 + 643*n**2 - 1060*n. Find the first derivative of q(t) wrt t. 9796*t**3 Let m = -36 - -146. Find the first derivative of -81 - m*v + 34*v - 29 wrt v. -76 Let d(f) be the first derivative of 299 + 0*f**3 + 0*f**4 - 234/5*f**5 - 321*f + 0*f**2. What is the first derivative of d(k) wrt k? -936*k**3 Suppose 17*w = 15*w. Suppose w = -8*o + 12 + 12. Differentiate 20*u - 17*u - 2 - o with respect to u. 3 Let i(j) be the third derivative of 325*j**8/84 - 61*j**4/24 + j**3/3 - 948*j**2. What is the second derivative of i(s) wrt s? 26000*s**3 Suppose 0 = -p - 0*z - z + 67, -162 = -2*p + 5*z. Let a be 2214/574 - (-12)/(-14). What is the second derivative of w + 2*w - 71*w**2 + 31*w**a + p*w**2 wrt w? 186*w Let c(d) = -d**2 - 1370*d + 239. Let g(k) = -4*k**2 - 4109*k + 719. Let i(a) = -7*c(a) + 2*g(a). What is the derivative of i(s) wrt s? -2*s + 1372 Let h = 289 + -275. Find the first derivative of 23 + 11*x**3 - h*x**4 - 15*x**3 - 3*x**4 + 40 wrt x. -68*x**3 - 12*x**2 Let h(p) be the third derivative of p**7/35 - p**4/6 - 203*p**3 - 729*p**2. What is the first derivative of h(a) wrt a? 24*a**3 - 4 Find the third derivative of -812*a + 15157*a**2 + 404*a - 5503*a**2 + 408*a - 1327*a**4 wrt a. -31848*a Differentiate -174*m**2 - 242 - 843 + 6*m - 6*m - 459*m**2 wrt m. -1266*m Let a(q) = -11*q + 157. Let c be a(14). Find the second derivative of 4*f**2 + f**3 + 7*f**c + 2*f - 14*f + 2*f**2 wrt f. 48*f + 12 Suppose 2 = 2*m - m. Suppose 0*h = 12*h - 120. Differentiate -u**m - h*u**3 - 2*u**2 + 3*u**2 - 11 wrt u. -30*u**2 Let t(a) be the second derivative of -3*a**6/10 - 77*a**3/6 + 3735*a**2/2 + 158*a - 6. Differentiate t(o) with respect to o. -36*o**3 - 77 Let y(l) be the third derivative of -26*l**7/35 + l**6/60 + 169*l**5/12 - l**2 - 13. Find the third derivative of y(u) wrt u. -3744*u + 12 What is the first derivative of 6*p -

Leo and Libra Love Compatibility LEO & LIBRA SEXUAL & INTIMACY COMPATIBILITY - 90% When a Leo and a Libra come together, they don’t need much time to build up a healthy sex life. With Leo’s confidence, and Libra’s sexuality, they tend to inspire each other to become great lovers when together. Their sex life is usually filled with respect, and they feel free to try out new things with one another. If they found their relationship on a strong mutual attraction, they could enjoy a satisfying sex life for a very long time. Leo doesn’t mind being seen and Libra is a sign that represents the public eye. Although this says something about their sexual preferences too, they will usually be well behaved in public. As soon as any restrictions show up, they will have to play out their passionate scenarios at any time, and in any place in which they get a chance to be alone if only for a minute. Libra is a sign of Saturn’s exaltation and it is easy for them to wait and be rational, but with passionate Leo they find it hard to stay in control. LEO & LIBRA TRUST - 40% It is not that often for Leo and Libra to share a relationship filled with mutual trust. The problem here arises from their understanding of the Sun, for it rules Leo and falls in Libra. To add to that, Leo is a sign of Neptune’s fall and Libra can often sense the dishonesty behind Leo’s confident act, if there is any. The problem lies in the fact that they both like to be seen, but in an entirely different way. Leo wants to show everything they’ve got and Libra wants to get approval from other people. None of them understands the other, and this can become a reason to get jealous and mistrustful. If they wish to remain in a trusting relationship, they need to find approval and a suitable audience in each other to begin with. Only then will they be able to move on and look for these things in other people without arising suspicion. LEO & LIBRA COMMUNICATION AND INTELLECT - 85% When it comes to the rational side of their relationship, Leo and Libra have a very nice way to support each other’s personalities and communicate. The sextile between their Suns usually makes it possible for them to respect each other, and help each other build stronger personalities, free of judgment of any kind. Their elements of Fire and Air fit perfectly and there is a passionate approach of Leo for every idea of Libra. Their communication is fast and inspiring, although sometimes hard to ground through constructive ideas if Libra doesn’t rely on its cold and rational relationship with Saturn. The problem arises if Libra feels any sort of jealousy at their Leo partner for their sometimes unfounded confidence and that inner sense of security. The only way for Libra to learn how to feel confident as well is to accept this ability of Leo as the best part of their beautiful character. If Libra starts judging Leo, making assumptions on how their partner should behave but doesn’t, their mutual respect will fade and they will both miss the point of their relationship. LEO & LIBRA EMOTIONS - 99% These two signs represent our loving relationships and marriage, and when you look at this couple, you will see that their love for one another is real, obvious, shown and leading them in a certain direction. They will never end up in a relationship with no future, and their belief in love will move them towards marriage, children and growing old together, if only they share enough trust and love. Ruled by the Sun and by Venus, these signs represent one of the basic planetary cycles of love that is often connected to periods of eight years. If they stay together longer than that, they might as well walk down the aisle and have a bunch of kids. LEO & LIBRA VALUES - 75% Nothing holds greater value for Leo than someone’s strong personality and their own pride and heroism. Libra, on the other hand, values justice and one’s ability to be the hero – something they often think they lack. They are finely compatible when it comes to matters of the Sun and they complement each other well in a way that helps them both learn about expressing themselves and their abilities and strengths. The problem with this couple is in their relationship toward Saturn, and while Leo represents its detriment, Libra exalts it. Although this can be a lesson to be learned, the challenge of responsibility they take on unequally can tear them apart. Leo needs to get serious and realize what their responsibility is to fit into the thing Libra values most – reliability and tact. LEO & LIBRA SHARED ACTIVITIES - 60% There is a strange similarity in the speed of these signs. Leo is a Fire sign and as such it shouldn’t be slow as a Water sign or and Earth sign. Libra belongs to the element of Air, and it should be faster than any other element. But when you look at these two signs, you will see that Leo would like to sleep 20 hours per day, and Libra needs to think about everything twice and carefully choose activities and words they want to say. This doesn’t sound that fast, does it? If they share the same interests, they could have an endless field of possibilities for shared activities. They will mostly enjoy “red carpet” events and the fancy gatherings where they can both show one another to the world. The biggest problem in their choice of activities lies in Libra’s indecisive nature that Leo simply doesn’t understand, and usually doesn’t have patience for. This is where they might give in to the temptation to “help” them decide, taking over the wheel and deciding instead of them. This can lead to mutual lack of respect, even though it seems like a little thing that no one would even notice. They need to give each other time, and stay as independent as possible. SUMMARY - 75% If you want to sum up the relationship between a Leo and a Libra, you have to understand that their bond involves the beautiful and challenging dignities of Saturn and the Sun. They have a lot to learn from each other, and the main goal of their relationship is to reach the point of shared respect and responsibility in a perfect balance of power. It will sometimes be hard for them to overcome the need for competing, trying to determine who is a better, smarter or a more capable person. Even if they don’t, their relationship will be something to enjoy and show off in public.

Michael bay The ‘American dream’ survives an armed assault. Wildly successful movie directors often bemoan their successes and say they long for a time when they will be able to just make smaller and more personal films. Then they don’t. George Lucas said it for decades after Star Wars, and yet, despite the fact that he could have paid for smaller and more personal films with the loose change in his multi-zillionaire pockets, somehow he just never got around to it. Now that he has sold Star Wars and his whole business to Disney for a cool $4 billion, maybe Lucas will. I hope so—at least for the sake of camp, because who knows what inadvertent comedy might emerge from the mind of the writer-director responsible for the worst line of dialogue in motion picture history (“Hold me, Anakin, hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo”). The latest example of the “I need to make my passion projects” trope is Michael Bay, the unimaginably successful director of the three Transformers movies. For the last of those he earned—are you sitting down?—$125 million. Bay is the kind of person who was able to say, without any sense of shame, that he was moved to make Pearl Harbor in 2001 after having a really cool dream in which he saw how to film a Japanese bomb blowing up the USS Arizona and killing 1,177 Americans. His dream became that movie’s “money shot,” and the moviegoing public found the feast of destruction Bay was serving up somewhat disquieting: Pearl Harbor was a box-office disappointment. Bay’s new passion project is a $26 million movie called Pain & Gain, and it does not speak well of Bay that its repugnantly comic depiction of a group of idiot psychopaths who torture and kill people is so personal for him. This overheated, overdone, overstimulated, overdrawn, overlong piece of garbage is based on a completely crazy true story—so crazy that it needs no embellishment. And yet, Bay cannot resist jumping up and down, waving at us, making sure we know he’s there with the slow motion and the fast cars and the strip clubs and the flashbacks and flash-forwards. All of it revels in the psychopathy of its lead characters and excuses their evil on the grounds that they had been fooled into seeking a shortcut to wealth by the false promises of the “American dream.” The story is this: In 1995, a Miami businessman named Marc Schiller was kidnapped by four men who knew each other from a muscle gym. For a month, they tortured him and got him to sign documents divesting him of his property and goods. Then they set him on fire and ran over him with a car, but failed to kill him. The hapless Miami police were skeptical of Schiller’s story; only a respected private eye named Ed DuBois realized Schiller was telling the truth. The gang moved on to kill others before it was finally rounded up. The movie version tries to turn this grotesquerie into a comment on the “American dream.” The ringleader, Daniel Lugo, is played as a kind of unholy innocent by Mark Wahlberg; all he wants is success, and he fixes upon Schiller, here called Victor Kershaw. The depiction of Kershaw is the true outrage of Pain & Gain. Tony Shalhoub plays him as a greedy, grasping, vulgar New Yorker with a giant Jewish star dangling from his chest who has Shabbat dinner with his family. “You know who eats salad?” he says. “Poor people.” That Bay is himself Jewish does not excuse the stark anti-Semitism of his portrait of Schiller/Kershaw. Quite the opposite. Now, it is true that Schiller ended up going to prison for Medicare fraud, though the chief witness against him was one of his kidnappers. Even so, there is no question that he was tortured for 30 days, that Russian roulette was played at the side of his head, and that he had a car driven over his head. Whatever Schiller’s crimes might have been, Bay had no moral license to make it appear as though Schiller somehow deserved the unspeakable torments to which he was subjected. Indeed, no one seems to argue in real life that he was anything but a decent husband and father—and someone who cooperated with authorities for years without a thought to the jeopardy in which he might be putting himself. In the words of Pete Collins, the Miami New Times reporter on whose series of articles the movie is based, “Not only had Schiller demonstrated extraordinary courage and endurance in surviving the Sun Gym gang’s torture and attempts to kill him, but he later proved to be indispensable in prosecuting the case against his captors.”

1. どう考えても合理的でない行動 #catmeme #funnymeme #petmeme Saved Petsさん(@savedpets)が投稿した写真 - 2016 1月 6 12:00午前 PST 2. せっかく買った新品のキャットタワーに、満足してもらえない悲しさ 3. 訓練しようと思って作った猫トイレが、遊び場に I used to be a little shit with my litter tray... Salem Pitchersさん(@salem_slalem_solomon)が投稿した写真 - 2015 5月 16 12:53午後 PDT 4. 1日の始まりはこんな感じ 5. 大事な家具は、大体こうなる 6. シャワーを浴びると、見学者が現れる 7. 猫の毛を入れたくないと思っているところに、寄ってくる 8. 毛玉が、そこらじゅうにある 9. 振り向くと、こんな眼差しに見つめられている 10. トイレットペーパーが、日々攻撃される 11. 可愛がろうと思ったのに、この顔 12. シルク・ドゥ・ソレイユを、自宅で観られる 13. 洗濯物は、猫の遊び場に 14. 家の中に安全なものは何一つなくなる。夕ご飯もこんなことに...... 15. 入れる箱の大きさを、完全に見誤った 16. お腹をさらけ出して「かわいがって」 17. キャットフードがないのは、エサ入れの中だけ 18. サンダルが、ひどい扱いを受ける #catownerproblems 😳 Holly Nealonさん(@hmn7643)が投稿した写真 - 2014 6月 16 10:43午前 PDT 19. 遊んだ後は、こんな感じになる 20. いつも見張られているように感じる 21. 罪悪感なしに、ご飯を食べられない 22. どんなにつらいときも、涼しい顔 23. 家にある植物は、いつも危険にさらされている 24. モップ掛けを、何かの遊びだと思っている 25. 家の主が、人間ではなくなる 26. 窓が猫のくつろぎスポットに 27. 仕事が全然終わらない 28. ソファを占拠 29. ようやく甘えてきたと思ったら、お尻を目の前に...... 30. 紙袋は、何時間も遊べる遊び道具 31. 家で一番暖かい場所は、猫のもの 最後にもう一つ、飼い主だけがわかる気持ち。たとえ世界の何かと交換できると言われても、飼い猫を手渡すことなどない。やっぱり自分の猫が一番だと思っているから。

Investigation of hypersensitivity potential of diacetyl by determining cytokine profiles. Exposure to chemicals in workplace settings leads to significant occupational diseases related to hypersensitivity reactions. In recent years, diacetyl which is used as a food additive is thought to be as an important hazard due to its sensitization potency for worker's health. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the sensitization potency of diacetyl for the purpose of its hazard evaluation. Nonradioactive ex vivo local lymph node assay: BrdU-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method with short-term and long-term exposure protocols were conducted based on animal welfare principles. As end points, lymphocyte proliferation, cytokine releases, and total serum IgE levels were measured by ELISA method. After short-term dermal exposure to diacetyl, primary Th1 cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) and Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-13 levels were significantly increased relatively to vehicle control, whereas such significant increases were not observed in long-term exposure. According to our measurements of IgE levels after long-term dermal exposures to chemicals, diacetyl led to significant increase. In conclusion, the findings that showed significant increases in IL-13 and total serum IgE levels induced with diacetyl can be relevant to respiratory sensitizing hazard of this chemical.

Really depends on when this is going down. Sounds like a great idea, but I'm gonna exchange this goddamn rain for the Spanish beaches for a couple of weeks AND someone was kind enough to plan exams IN THE MIDDLE OF MY VACATION !@#$%!

"Subs created by:" "David Coleman." "Hell yeah!" "That's it?" "I guess I gotta pull out the big guns." "Hey!" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Huh?" "Fishing, dumbass!" "I'm Firecracker Jim, God damn it!" "Fishing?" "With dynamite?" "Yeah." "You signed the damn permit." "I need to start reading those things." "Don't worry." "I'm an explosives expert." "Oops." "Shit!" "Oh, my God!" "It's a miracle!" "You're damn right it is." "I can touch my Peter!" "♪Brickleberry!" "♪Brickleberry!" "We're all gonna miss Edith." "I feel so lucky that I got to know my great-great-grandmother." "Thank you all for coming." "I know..." "Wait, wait, wait." "I'd like to say a few words." "Edith was very special to me." "Every time we made sweet love was like our first time, at least for her." " She had Alzheimer's." " Who the [Bleep] is this guy?" "She used to love my poetry." "Here's one more for you, Edith." "Edith was a little racist." "She said she did not like black faces." "But I had a black part that she loved with her heart, and that part broke her hip in five places." "Beautiful." "Just beautiful." "I'm sorry, Denzel." "Looks like you're taking Edith's death pretty hard, huh?" "What?" "No." "She was 112 years old." "That bitch should've been dead 30 years ago." "I'm sad because I made love to the oldest woman on Earth." "I've done it all now." "Where do I go from here?" "Hell?" "So, what's this big, important news?" "Yeah, Woody, what are we doing... uh!" "Yes!" "Oh, my God." "She's completely healed." "And my rash is gone." "I wonder if it cures bitch." "I think my hymen just grew back." "Don't worry." "It'll be gone after happy hour." "Rangers, old Woody has discovered a miracle." "As you can see, this lake cures any ailment, from the common cold to cancer." "You could have just told us." "Yeah, sure, but this way was more fun." "How were you sure it would work?" "Connie could have... uh!" "I could get used to this." "There must be a scientific explanation." "Yeah, asshole, there is." "I was chosen by God to heal the sick." "And another reason not to believe in God." "The Lord works in mysterious ways, and right now, he wants me to be rich." "Sick people, lost souls, deep pockets, blah blah blah." "Religion equals money!" "Now, we've got a lot of work to do." "Work?" "You were supposed to take me snowboarding today." "Sorry." "No time, Cubbykins." "Daddy is God's prophet now, and I do plan to profit." "Yeah." "Another scam that'll blow up in your face." "I want to shred the slopes like Shaun White." "He gets lots of ass for an ugly woman." "Shred the slope?" "You've never even seen snow." "Wait." "You've never seen snow?" "Could somebody explain to the diversity hire that bears hibernate?" "That means sleep for a long time, Denzel, something you should be familiar with." "Take it easy on Denzel." "He's had a rough day... uh!" "What's wrong, Denzel?" "Ever since I was a little boy, I had a dream." "And then, I realized that dream." "And now..." "Shit!" "Sorry, I couldn't listen to any more of that." "God, this would be so much more satisfying if that lake wasn't there." "Connie, Steve, go round up every sick, gullible, emotionally needy, dumbass, lonely loser with a bank account." "Denzel, Ethel, take Malloy up the mountain to snowboard." " Stat!" " So, that's it?" "You're gonna exploit this lake?" "Exploit the lake and help the sick and disabled." "Imagine what they'll do with a new lease on life." "Oh, my God!" "Honey, ever since I blew my arms and legs off, I've been dying to do this." "Oh!" "Oh, Lord!" " Oh!" "Oh, God, yeah." " Mmm!" "Mmm, oh!" "Oh!" "Oh, Jim!" "Oh, Lord!" "Oh!" "Oh, Jim!" "Oh!" "Damn." "Malloy, are you really gonna use all this junk?" "Are you really gonna bitch the whole way up this mountain?" "All right, almost there..." "You spoiled little shit." " Little what'd you say?" " I said, "nice hat."" "Oh, thank you." "Okay, we're here." "Watch this." "All right." "I can't snowboard." "And I can't stand this white, cold stuff." "Uh, that's snow." "This is snow?" "You should've told me!" "It sucks!" "Let's get out of here." "That's it?" "A five-hour hike for that?" "No, uh-uh." "We ain't leaving this spot till you build a snowman or some shit." "Guys, I found some rope." "You'll probably want to hang yourself before you freeze to death." "All right, this isn't so hard." "Praise Jesus and good morning!" "We'd like to tell you about Miracle Lake." "Praise jes..." "Praise... prai..." " Praise Jesus, and good mor..." " Let me stop you right there." "We're Scientologists." "Come on in." "We'll tell you about it." "Oh, no, scientology is only for the weak-minded." "We're not falling for that." "I can't believe we're Scientologists now." "Don't worry, I'm sure we can quit any time we want." "What the hell are you doing here?" "We're here to spread our message of peace and love." "Oh, no, you don't!" "We're spreading our message of peace and love, you [Bleep]suckers!" ""Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob."" "Woody "be-gatting" a headache!" "God!" "Why the hell did you write this gibberish?" "Oh, hey, Malloy." "Where's Ethel and Denzel?" "Freezing to death in an ice cave." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "Ice cave, that's nice." "Good morning, brothers and sisters!" " You suck!" " Okay." "Welcome to the Miracle Lake Church of God, his holy mistress Mary, and their love child, the baby Jesus." "Please put your praying hands together!" "And welcome to the stage God's BFF..." "Reverend Woody!" "Amen!" "Hallelujah!" "Miracles?" "Oh, brothers and sisters, have I seen miracles!" "Like when, uh... shit, uh, like when Moses turned, uh, fish into wine." "Or like when the Holy Ghost gave birth to Adam and Eve." "Who's with me?" "Hey, I didn't write this crap, okay?" "The point is, this lake before you is the greatest miracle of all." "Well, what do we have here?" " I'm blind." " I can see that." "I'm not blind." "Now, what can I do you for?" "Fix your bum knee or something?" "Okay, okay." "You don't have to get an attitude." "By the power of Grayskull, alakazam!" "Poom!" "It's a miracle!" "I can see!" "I can see!" "But I can't swim." "Oh, my God, I've got to start getting the money up front." "All right, I'm in." "Jesus saves, but he doesn't trust banks." "Cash only, people." "This is by far the best idea I've ever had." "What?" "Your idea?" "But this is small potatoes." "Real evangelists make big money." "I'll whip you into shape." "In the beginning, God created heaven and heaven." "Ow!" "Earth!" "You hesitated." "Real evangelists know the Bible front..." "To back." "Jesus Christ!" "Good." "Crying on command." "That's lesson two." "Now let's cover showmanship." "Dance!" "Faster!" "Enough!" "Even God rested on the fourth day!" "Ow!" "Seventh!" "Where are we?" "We fell into some kind of ice cavern." "This must have been a glacier, frozen over years ago." "Oh, my God." "That looks like a Neanderthal woman frozen in ice." "She must be at least 400,000 years old." "Uh, that's more than 112, right?" "Yeah." "First off, we've got to... hey!" "What are you doing?" "Oh, I'm [Bleep] this bitch. [Taps ice]" "Lights go up." "Cue the music." "Cue the blacks." "♪Let me tell you a little story about this here lake." "♪Talking about Miracle Lake." "♪Michael J. Fox jumped in now he don't shake." "♪Talking about Miracle Lake." "♪We got Stephen Hawking, walking, and talking." "♪Yeah!" "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪If you got cancer, this lake's the answer." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪You got Crohn's disease, well put your mind at ease." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪If you've got glaucoma, well make yourself at home." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Thrombosis, cirrhosis, it will change your prognosis." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪You've got irritable bowel, jump in, grab a towel." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪If you have leukemia..." "Bulimia? "Emphysemia"?" "Screw it!" "Just jump in!" "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Take me to the water right now." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Jump on in it's a Miracle." "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Yeah, Lord!" "♪Miracle Lake." "♪Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "♪Uh-huh." "♪Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "I can't believe we made the greatest archaeological find of all time, and you just want to bang it." " Yeah." "What's wrong with that?" " Everything, you freaking weirdo!" "And, in case you didn't notice, we're trapped." "We could die in here!" "Don't you get it?" "Oh, I'm about to get it." "No condoms." "Where'd you get all this stuff?" "Oh, I never leave home without my emergency sex pack." "Excuse me." "I got business to take care of." "Now, baby, I know you probably feeling a little jetlagged by traveling 400,000 years into the future, so let me catch you up." "Dinosaurs are dead, we landed on the moon, and they made a sequel to Dirty Dancing called Havana Nights." "Now let's get down to business." "I'm gonna make you feel right at home, girl." "Oh, yabba dabba do me!" "Got it!" "Not a Flintstones fan." "Hey, where are the key lights?" "Careful with the stained glass." "Come on, people, TV crews are covering this live." "Just think of how much more money we'll make when millions of people see firsthand what a gentle, godly man I really am." "Who's that Dick on a stick?" "I wanted a blue-eyed Jesus, not a Jew-guy Jesus!" "I feel like I'm praying to my goddamn accountant!" " How much did all this cost?" " I don't know!" "A shitload." "Ask my accountant." "The man is right." "It cost a shitload." "I have to apologize for my behavior a little earlier." "Let's get to know each other." "Denzel." " Krog." " Krog?" "That's a beautiful name." "Aah!" "No!" "Stop!" "Let me go!" "Man, what the hell?" "Oh, I see." "Y'all liked it rough back in the ice age." "Okay." "Krog like talking shadow." "That's racist as hell, but I like it." "Krog give happy cave to you." "Damn!" "That's some B.C. bush right there." "Okay, how do you like it?" "Maybe we start out Missionary, and then..." "Oh!" "Whoa!" "Take it easy!" "Take it easy!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Oh, no!" "Slow up!" "It don't bend that way!" "Ah!" "That was wonderful, baby." "I wish I could stay here forever." "Denzel, I made it to the top!" "Gotta go!" "Yep, that's right, Guinness Book of World Records!" "400,000 years old." "Herman, Paddy, Liam!" "A new world record!" "Oldest white woman [Bleep] by a black man!" "Hooray!" "Whew!" "That's done." "What?" "What are you doing here?" "Krog love." "We mate for life." "What you talking about, Krog?" "My chillins, if you want to heal, you've got to give." "You gotta give till it hurts!" "You gotta give until you say, "ow!"" "Your kids don't need Christmas." "The Devil made up Christmas!" "What's a college education got on spiritual rejuvenation?" "Ooh, all material things are evil!" "Except for the Jesus jet, which is awesome!" "Oh, brothers and sisters, it's healing time!" "Who's first?" "Me, me!" "Pick me!" "We've got a harelip here." "I repeat, a harelip." "This guy is a gold mine." "A hilarious gold mine." "And what is your name, my son?" "Menjamin Mippman." "His name is Cinnamon Biscuit." "By the power vested in me by God!" "And Mel Gibson's movies!" "I now pronounce you healed!" " Oh, did it nerk?" " What the...?" "You're healed again!" "Did it nerk nat nime?" "Heal, heal, you harelipped son of a bitch!" "Heal!" "Uh, Cinnamon, you okay?" "Mr. Biscuits?" "Mr. Biscuits!" "Oh, great, it worked that time." "My harelip is gone." "See?" "I can speak normal now." "I don't sound ridiculous no more." "Praise Jesus!" "Another miracle!" "He stole our money!" "Get him!" "Crucify him!" " He's a fraud!" " He's evil!" " String him up!" " What are you doing?" "Hey!" "No!" " Crucify him!" " Come on, man!" " Kill him!" " People, please." "Is this any way to treat a man of God?" "Yeah, what if they had done this to Jesus?" "Shut the [Bleep] up, Steve." "Reverend Woody just needs to have a conversation with his friend and business partner, God." "I promise the lake will be up and running in no time." "The most important thing to remember is, no one needs a refund." "Can we at least stone his ass?" "I don't see why not." "Ten bucks a rock sound fair?" "You know, this is not... ow!" "Ow!" "Hey!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Gaah!" "Hey!" "Ooh!" "Now, Krog, I like you, but, uh, I'm not really ready for a serious relationship." "What are these rocks and bones for?" "Wait, are you moving your stuff in?" " What are you doing to my walls?" " Krog redecorate." "What the hell is this shit?" "A stick man fighting a buffalo?" " I gotta get some air." " You not go." "You never leave Krog." "Are you happy now, Dick?" "I don't want to do this anymore, Malloy." "Those people are monsters." "Hey, this money train ain't stopping." "Now, try again." "Oh, God, please return the power to this lake..." "For the sick people." " And for the money." " He knows about the money, Malloy!" "God!" "Can you hear me, God?" "Yes, Woody, I can." " You're not God." " No, but I do play him for a living." "Anyway, where's this Miracle Lake I've heard about?" "I could use a dip." "I've got the most bothersome case of penis pox." "Well, this used to be Miracle Lake, but she don't work no more." "Oh, you don't want to go in that lake." "Why, that's where I dump all my medical waste." "Medical waste?" "So that's the reason this lake had powers?" "Why the hell did you dump medical waste in there anyway?" "Well, you did sign this permit." "Whew!" "I gotta stop getting drunk and signing permits." "How's it going, Captain Caveman?" "Not good." "Krog's crazy." "She had me locked in my cabin for days." "I had to distract her with a crudely carved wheel and jump out the window." "Wow, I can't believe thawing out and making love to a 400,000-year-old Neanderthal didn't work out." "It looked so good on paper." "Ethel, you've got to help me!" "Well, I do have three ex-boyfriends who work at the Natural History Museum." "Well, four if you count the janitor." "I'm sure they'd take her off your hands." "Wait, wait, wait." "Hold on." "Are they gonna do a bunch of crazy-ass E.T. experiments on her?" " Probably." " Good, [Bleep] that bitch up." "There she is!" "A living, breathing Neanderthal." "We can't be too careful." "She looks strong." "Uh!" "Wait, wait, back up." "So you're telling me that it was medical waste that gave this lake its power?" " So it would appear." " Well, there's only one thing to do." " Tell people the truth." " Dump in more medical waste." "Yeah." "What the hell was I thinking?" "The truth." "Don't look at me, fellows." "I'm fresh out." "But I do keep a meticulous inventory of my illegal dumping for tax purposes." "Good thinking." "If you recreate the batch, it should have the same effect." "Aah!" "Where you been?" "Krog worried sick." "Oh, what are you doing here?" "You're supposed to be stuffed in a museum or some shit." " What happened?" " Amazing news today." "A prehistoric ice woman was found in a National Park." "Oh, eeh!" "Scientists plan to do a bunch of crazy-ass E.T., experiments on her." "Uh, I'm sorry, baby." "Oh, how about I make you a fancy dinner?" "I'll grab the Kool-Aid." "You grab the fish sticks." "Okay, baby." " Let me out!" "Let me out!" " Don't worry." "I'll thaw you out when I'm ready for a serious relationship in about 400,000 years, you crazy-ass cro-magnon bitch." "Kill him!" "Dump it!" "Hurry, dump it!" "Dump it!" "Dump it!" "It's working." "It's working!" "We're back!" "Hear me ye sick and dying losers!" "Miracle Lake is back in business!" "Let's do a mass healing!" "Everybody in!" "The waters fine!" "Well we did it Doc." "I can't believe we were able to recreate your medical waste exactly." "What are the odds we'd find a three pound two ounce Armenian fetus?" "Armenian fetus?" "Oh drat my sloppy handwriting." "That says two pound three ounce Iranian fetus." "Iranian, Armenian, what difference could it make?" " Oh." " It's a miracle!" "What did you do?" "All these people are..." " Malloy, it doesn't heal people anymore." " Yeah, I know."

Today's trade figures show David Cameron has a battle on his hands boosting Britain's exports. But he's gone to the right part of the world to do it. In the Budget last month, George Osborne again cited his favourite trade statistic - that the UK exports more to the Republic of Ireland than to all of the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) combined. In fact, as I tweeted at the time, that's not true. It hasn't been true for a while. In 2011, 8.7% of UK exports went to the Brics, compared with 6% to Ireland. The share going to the Brics was also slightly higher in 2010. But Ireland did take a larger share in 2009: 7% compared with 6.6% for the Brics. It's good news that our exports to India, China and others have been rising since then (less good that our exports to Ireland have fallen off a cliff). But the new trade figures underscore how much more needs to be done if we want to catch up with the likes of Germany and count on those markets for a significant part of our growth. Economists at Citi reckon that Britain has the lowest share of exports going to the Brics in the European Union. The data show the trade deficit widened again in February, to £8.8bn. That's the largest gap between our exports and imports since September. The deficit in January has also been revised up. What's disappointing is that it's exports driving the deterioration - the value of our sales to other countries fell by 3.4% between January and February, while our imports from the rest of the world were broadly stable. And, most surprising, it's exports from outside the European Union that have dropped, by nearly 9%. Exports to countries in the eurozone actually rose in February, by more than 3%. Falling exports Does this mean that the government is talking nonsense when it says the eurozone crisis is hurting the recovery? Not necessarily. For one thing, the monthly figures jump about enormously. If you look at the average of the past three months, exports to non-European countries have risen by 2.7%, while exports to the eurozone have fallen by 1.2%. Looking at trade with individual countries, you can see our exports to the crisis economies have been hit hard. Our exports to Spain, Portugal and Italy have all fallen by well over 10% in the past 12 months. Our exports to Greece are down by nearly a quarter. But, as you know, other parts of the eurozone, notably Germany, are doing much better. And so are other EU countries, like Sweden, not inside the euro. Thanks to them, our trade with the European Union as a whole has been holding up, though the last few months have shown signs of weakness, even there. It's dangerous, and almost certainly fruitless, to dwell on one month's trade statistics - or even three. The fall in exports to America and China at the start of the year could well turn out to be a blip. And Britain's trade numbers get revised so often, and so dramatically, that Sir Mervyn King, for one, has said he doesn't take them seriously until they are at least a year old. Still, these are not statistics you would want to see if you were pinning most of your hopes for a decent UK recovery on exports. They do suggest that David Cameron is right to be piling on the air miles in Asia this week. Though, when it comes to export destinations, it will surely be a while before Burma makes it to the top ten.

"A single blow to the base of the neck can be a fatal stroke." "Master, these things which we are taught I cannot do them." "You find the exercises too difficult?" " No, master." "Too cruel." " And to be killed?" " What is that?" " I must learn these exercises to defend myself?" "Learn first how to live." "Learn second how not to kill." "Learn third how to live with death." "Learn fourth how to die." "Just run your hands through that thick fur." "By gum, I tell you true, Andrew this here's just like the old days when we brought in pelts so thick you'd just..." "Husband, look!" "It's Tom Wilson." "Take him around back and saddle my horse right away." "Do you know what happened?" "I saw it." "It was an ambush." "Where?" "Where the road crosses the stream in the woods." "He has come a long way, my husband." "May he not rest?" "I have hot tea." "Yeah." "Get some tea and something to eat." "I won't keep him a minute." "I'm Andrew Swan." "I am Kwai Chang Caine." "You saw the murderer?" "He broke the rider's neck with a blow from his hand." " His hand?" "He threw something at the driver." "Did you see his face?" "No." "But I would know him from the way he moved." "It was unusual." "Well, you've done your civic duty." "I'll take the body to town, myself." " Want me to come with you, Mr. Swan?" " No, it's all right, Dan." "You're Oriental, aren't you?" "My mother was Chinese." "Then I think you'd better stay here." " Do you live around here?" " No." "I seek work." "Well, I'm looking for strong hands to work in my forge." "Then I will work for you." "Good." "Dan, show him where he can kip." "Come on, friend." "I'll show you your fancy quarters." "You can go to lunch." "Right." "You got nothing better to do than curry that old waybelly?" "Makes him feel young again." "What's this doing over here?" "I told you to wear that!" "Pa, ain't nobody gonna be shooting at me." "You're sure of that, huh?" "What's Mackey doing back so soon?" "He looks drunk." "He's hurt." "There was two of them." "One in a tree." "A fiend himself." "Oh, no." "I'm burning up." "Who shot you, Mackey?" "Got me with this." "Andrew Swan's men done this to you?" "One had a mask." "All in black." "Other looked Chinese." "Big." "Japanese, more likely." "Pretty decent for an Englishman." "Pays good wages, but gets a lot of work out of you." "Someone else lives here?" "Swan's blacksmith." "Queer kind of devil." "You ought to hit it off just fine." "He is also Japanese?" "Brought him back from his last trip." "Takes the wife and girl, you know." "No gun?" "I do not use one." "You work here, you better think about starting." "Hey, Pa." "It's Wilson." "Who shot him?" "His neck was broken, I understand." "You understand, huh?" "The man who brought him in said so." "There's no wound." "Noah, why aren't my pelts on the St. Louis run?" "We got lumber contracts, Mr. Swan." "He don't want to hear that, son." "Swan he still thinks me and him are young and simple." "He don't want to know the times, they are changing!" "You don't change, Noah." "You still want to put me out of business and take it over for yourself." "I got my own business." "And I know enough to mind it." "My condolences to Mrs. Wilson." "Tom was a good man though foolish enough to work for your father." "I ain't through talking to you yet, Swan!" "You want to shoot me in the back like you did my brother?" "You'll never have a better chance." "My pa didn't kill your brother." "Barlow, come here." "Mackey said something about a big Chinaman." "Yeah." "If Swan's hired a Chinese killer we're gonna have to guard every wagon." "You go find me that Chinaman and bring him back here." "I want to talk to him." "Master say you from China." "Master?" "Mr. Swan." "If you are priest, China then I am samurai." "Aggie." "I mean, Miss Swan." "Mr. Jones." "It's a nice day, isn't it?" "You have come a long way to tell me what I already know, Mr. Jones." "Won't you call me Abe?" "It just don't make sense." "I haven't done anything to you." "Just because our fathers don't like each other that's no reason why we can't be friends." "You have given the most important reason that we cannot be friends." "That's no reason at all." "I'm me." "And I am my father's daughter." "I came to see the doctor." "They told me in town he was out here." "I'm sorry." "Perhaps my father knows of him." "Yes, the doctor's been here." "He said he was going out to the Russell place." "He's got some sick kids." "I'm sorry about yesterday, Mr. Swan." "It's too late, Abe." "You're a nice boy, but it's too late." "Good, China." "Keep hot." "I must post some letters." "My father does not wish me to go to town alone." "I will go with you, if you wish." "My father wishes." "May I ask your name, please?" "Kwai Chang." "You are called Aggie?" "That is what my father makes of Akiko." "Akiko." "That is what you should be called." "A woman should do as her father wishes." "Your father is honored to have so obedient a daughter." "But sometimes I am not so obedient." "Could it be that this is one of those times?" "I fear it is." "My father said to ask the smith to escort me to town." "He did not forbid you to go with me?" "No." "Then perhaps since your father hired me as an apprentice to the smith perhaps you have not disobeyed your father but merely anticipated him." "These were my wishes too." "You must think me as bold as an American woman to come alone with you this way." "Does it make you lonely to be always in your father's trading post?" "And you, Kwai Chang?" "Are you not also lonely sometimes?" "Sometimes." "When I think of where I come from." "My heart goes out to her." "To who?" "Your wife or..." "I have no wife or..." "Forgive me." "I am a woman and, therefore, overly curious." "It pleases me to see a girl so lovely with so curious a mind." "Others would be less patient." "All right, girl." "You take this thing right on in to the freight yard." "And, you." "You keep your hands right where they are in plain sight." "Bring that thing right up here!" "Take a look." "That's him." "Came in nice and easy, boss." "Get down." "Please, he works for my father." "You go on home to your pa, where you belong." "I got no quarrel with you." "And tell him I've got his Chinese bushwhacker." " Kwai Chang." " Go to your father." "Be an obedient daughter." "It was not I who killed your driver." "You work for Swan." "His own daughter just admitted it." "Today." "Not yesterday." "You and your mother will be loading for the rest of us when they come." "Perhaps Mr. Jones will not come." "Oh, he'll be here." "He's been looking for an excuse for a long time." "Well, it's time it was all settled." "Either Jones and his son will be dead, or I will be." "And I, my husband." "Jones won't kill women if it ends wrong." "But it won't." "Father?" "What will happen to Kwai Chang Caine?" "Oh, Jones will send him to the marshal." "Father, I know him." "He could not kill." "You don't know anything about Caine." "None of us does." "Much as I hate Noah Jones Caine may have murdered one of his men." "But he came to you." "Well, I don't know why, Aggie." "He's Chinese." "He's not like us." "I am not like us." "Forgive a humble wife for intruding." "Your father has spoken." "It is not a daughter's place to question his word." "Look, I'm sorry." "I'd like to help Caine." "He works for you." "He's worked for me for less than a day." "Look, I owe him nothing." "And there's nothing I can do." "It is not a simple thing to be a younger woman in this strange land." "But for you, my daughter, it is less so." "You were not much older than I when you became a wife." "How did it come about, Mother?" "It was arranged by my father in proper way." "And when it is my time it will be arranged by my father?" "There is much time, daughter." "I am thirsty." "Are you ready to talk?" "Yes." "Well, talk." "Who hired you to ambush my wagon?" "I did not do it." "I witnessed it, as I told you." "You're gonna hang right there until you decide to tell me the truth." "I have already done so." "Ever seen that before?" "It is a shuriken." "There!" "You recognized right away what was thrown at my driver." "The man." "Is he alive?" "Just barely." "I can help him." "Sure." "Help him right into the next world a little faster, you mean." "If he is not helped, he will die." "Well, you better pray that he don't." "Because if he does that rope is gonna go around your neck." "Mackey." "Take some water, Mackey." "Well, where's the doc?" "He couldn't come." "Did you tell him this man is dying?" "Look at his arm." "He's up at Russell's." "Four of the kids got diphtheria." "Doc wouldn't let me come near the house." "He said..." "He said what?" "He said it sounded to him like his arm's gotta come off." "Who cut you loose?" "Does the driver still live?" "Yeah." "But he's gonna lose his arm if he lives at all." "You could have gotten clean away." "The tip of the shuriken carried a poison." "I must have herbs from my bag in the trading post." "I can get them." "Can you save his arm?" "I will try." "Caine." "Is he hurt?" "Listen, Aggie." "I've come for the Chinaman's things." " He says there's some kind of herbs." " Daughter!" " Please." " Listen." "You want me to take a message to him for you?" "You're a lady." "Act like one." "No." "There is nothing." "Get inside, Akiko." "I want the Chinaman's bag, Mr. Swan." "That's all." "What?" "He says there's some kind of medicine or herbs in it." "He needs it for Mr. Mackey." "Please, Mr. Swan." "The man is dying." "Husband, Mackey has done us no harm." "Come with me." " Master." " Where's Caine's bag?" "China not come back, so..." "Mr. Swan I gotta warn you." "If Mackey don't live, my pa's going to come back here looking for blood." "You tell your father if he comes here I'll be ready." "A shuriken?" "Yes, master." "From China's pouch." "Anything else I can do?" "For this man, no." "The violence has not ended." "You must not give in to it." "He's still sweating a lot, eh?" "That is good." "Is he going to make it?" "Yes." "He will require two more of these poultice." "And then it will be finished." "What do you know about the Swan girl?" "She is very lovely and an obedient daughter." "Do you like her?" "Yes." "If your father's hatred is not ended Akiko may be killed." "I think you better hold your gun on him, son." "He's done good here, Pa." "And he's killed a man." "This time we're going to see he don't get loose." "Now, I'm sorry it has to be this way." "So am I." "Kwai Chang I saw you leave." "I thought they had hurt you." "Forgive me." "I am wicked." "You will rightly be angry at my boldness." "I do not forgive you." "I am grateful." "You are leaving?" "I escaped in the night." "Jones will be here looking for me." "Last night my father prepared rifles to await Jones." "I do not like guns, but he's my father." "Why does your father hate Jones?" "I do not know what began their anger or if they truly know themselves." "I have seen a tree, Akiko, struck by lightning." "Inside, a small fire grew and devoured the tree." "I am afraid, Kwai Chang." "And I do not hate." "I fear to stay, and I fear to leave." "What should I do?" "You must choose." "You think I should leave here alone?" "I, too, am afraid of guns and hatred." "And so I choose to leave." "Perhaps you have come to an age when you must seek out your own life and your own future." "I must consult my father." "He will make the arrangements if he approves." "Arrangements?" "I cannot be so disobedient." "It is the proper way, Kwai Chang, for a woman like me to marry." "Akiko I have no thought of marriage." "I think only of your safety." "I am ashamed, Kwai Chang." "Akiko there is no need for shame." "It was no doubt foolish." "My duty is to stay with my father and stand against his enemies." " Akiko..." " I cannot bear to have you see my face." "Akiko." "Look." "It is the face of a young girl who has made a very small and flattering mistake to think the affection and respect of a humble man to be worthy of her love." "Thank you, Kwai Chang." "Yet I do not know what to do." "I am still afraid." "Speak to your mother." "If you wish I will take you to a place of safety." "If we leave, where will you be?" "Where the road meets the creek." "I will wait for you until midday." "What beautiful image have you made, grasshopper, to please your eyes?" "The branch of a tree." "Is not painting the joyful reaching out of a man so filled with beauty that there is not room enough in him to contain it?" "Master I do not know if I should speak of what it is that troubles me." "I have seen a girl." "Her hair is soft and rich." "Her voice liquid." "Her eyes bewitch me." "My sleep is filled with restless dreams." "My wakefulness with longings." "How shall I know if this is love?" "What do you see?" "Two glasses joined together." "One filled with sand." "One only?" "The other is empty." "Look." "To know love, be like a running brook which deaf, yet sings its melody for others to hear." "Feel the pain of too much tenderness." "Awake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for yet another day of loving." "Empty yourself and yet be filled." "An old man tells you this is how to know love." "Husband, I am troubled." "You're afraid?" "I have waited to speak." "But Jones' men were attacked by a man who became a part of a tree and fled with the wind." "A man dressed in black with a mask." "That's right." "And I have heard Mackey is now well but was in great danger from a shuriken dipped in poison." "Where did you hear that?" "From Kwai Chang as he was leaving." "You've heard correctly." "The report is of an assassin." "A ninja?" "May I have some more tea?" "Forgive my boldness, husband but have we a paid assassin?" "I've never lied to you, and I don't like to hold things back from you." "What need have we for ninja?" "Jones' men have been killing our men." "That's why we need a ninja." "And Akiko?" "We'll just have to make her understand, that's all." "I do not like this but I have given my life to you." "And in return you have given only kindness." "I am yours in all that you do." "We have been together years." "Is it too late to speak of love?" "No." "Then I love you." "I will get your tea." " Mistress?" "Mistress?" " Yes?" "I have been to town." "The wagon driver is dead." "Mr. Jones has men, and they search for Caine." " I must warn him." " It is too dangerous." "I could warn him." "He is where the creek crosses the road." "Wait!" "You must tell him that I..." "I can't come because I will only burden him." "And he must escape at all costs." "Perhaps when this is all over..." "Tell him I will be with my father." "Tell him..." "Tell him..." "Tell him to be careful." "Beast." "Ninja." "Tell me, what makes the shadow?" "The arm of the sundial." "But what of the sun?" "Yes." "The sun." "Both help us." "They tell us time." "Yet does not that sundial standing in the way of the sun defeat its light?" "Master, I do not understand." "Like many things you teach me it is a contradiction." "Shoot the arrow." "Which brings it to its target?" "The bow or the arrow?" "Launched, the arrow has no choice but to seek its target." "Yet without the arrow the bow is an empty promise of flight." "Still I do not understand." "When you must choose between one good and another or one evil and another remember this:" "If men would contend with you seek not their death but choose your own life." "Jones, turn around and go back." " Not without Caine." " He's gone." "This is my place, Noah." "You come in here, and I'll kill you." "Kwai Chang Caine did not kill anyone!" "Aggie, please." "Get out of the way." "Here is your assassin." "And here are his weapons." "There was two ambushers." "Him and you." "Well, actually, Mr. Jones." "Chinaman here was on the other side of the creek." "Pa, there's been enough killing." "Swan, you hired a killer." "And what do you call those two?" "Each of you seeks to be the stronger in his hatred." "But can you not have the strength to end it now?" "Stay out of this." "It's between Jones and me." "And when one of you is killed what of these others?" "Will they honor your ancient hatred with yet another killing?" "Father." "You love me." "Would you use this against me?" "Or you, young Mr. Jones?" "Or you?" "If Noah Jones kills you Mother will seek his life blindly out of grief for you." "And if you kill Mr. Jones will not his son, loyal to his father, continue?" "And so on endlessly?" "Kill me then, Father, if that is what you wish." "It's coming to me that I don't want to be the next dead man here, Mr. Swan." "Or the next killer." "Well what do you want to do?" "Shoot it out with an old man and a couple of women or go get a drink somewheres?" "Where?" "It is over." "Admit it." "Come on, Pa." "It can't be over." "If it is not over then who will you kill but yourself?" "I am sad to see you leave, Kwai Chang." "And I to go." "To think a thing of such beauty kills." "As hate kills a loving heart." "I will treasure this, Kwai Chang because you made me see myself in it for the first time." "I hope I shall pass this way again." "I too." "I will be older and wiser then." "Not too much wiser." "[ENGLISH"

I don’t just refuse, I don’t tolerate a-holes fullstop - nullnullnull http://www.codingninja.co.uk/i-dont-just-refuse-i-dont-tolerate-a-holes-fullstop/ ====== jiggy2011 Problem is , how do you define an "asshole". I know a few people I consider complete a-holes but they seem to be very popular with everyone else. Likewise I know a few people who are disliked because they have a number of weird personality traits but I don't take offense to them at all. ~~~ nullnullnull I guess, it's subjective to a degree. There probably is a slight grey area. But on the whole, I think its the "generally" recognised a-holes. i.e. some- one most would describe as an a-hole. ------ factorial This blog post is ludicrous. Seriously, how bloated does your head have to be to insert your own quotes in your blog articles? Check this out: "There is nothing, in software engineering that can’t be done by other “non- genius” programmers. Further no one developer is greater than a community of developers. - Coding Ninja" Are you so sure about it? A million mediocre mathematicians couldn't have achieved what Grigori Perelman did, and a million of mediocre developers couldn't have produced the tools we use nowadays. There is absolutely no evidence that a community of average guys could have come up with something like LIPS or Smalltalk. If you claim otherwise, then please mention ONE example. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants, and only a myopic cretin would deny the staggering impact they have on all our lives and our profession. For further reading, dear OP, check out this post by Joel Spolsky: <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html> ~~~ nullnullnull The reason for the self quote, is because the block quote only has one style on that theme. Thus in the past readers have been confused between external quotes and internal quotes. That is the reason (as a means of reference). Secondly, the example you gave is about mathematics. In that context I agree. But in the context of software programming this is not the the same. The statement stands. ~~~ factorial Do you know who McCarthy and Alonzo Church were, what the lambda calculus is, and in which way LISP relates to mathematics? If this is all Greek to you, then please look it up. Next time, though, please do some research BEFORE you write blog posts. It will save you from being ridiculed. ~~~ nullnullnull Yes I'm aware, you still haven't backed your statement. The context is "software engineering" not about creating the next LISP. So please answer that before throwing ad-hominem's? ~~~ factorial Who creates the tools that allow, in your world view, average programmers to compete with "geniuses"? Further, you are the one making bold claims, so the burden of proof lies on you. There are more than enough examples of great software written by "geniuses". But now please mention one great (groundbreaking) project that was written by an army of mediocre programmers. Let's just make it a little game. I'll go first: Don Knuth: TeX Now is your turn! ~~~ nullnullnull No, you have completely miss-represented that article. No where did I say to the effect that a group of non-genius can be the same as a genius. This is something that you injected (incorrectly). Now you are asking me to defend something that you incorrectly suggested and attributed to me! The claim I made (if you actually read it carefully) is that in current field of software engineering (99.99% of software, boring Line Of Business software, OS, Kernels etc.) can and are done by average developers. And they do not require "super developers" with inflated ego's aka the a-holes. You however taken away that to some how mean "geniuses". That is an error on your comprehension and interpretation. So please do calm down your nerd rage :) ~~~ factorial I'll quote you again: "There is nothing, in software engineering that can’t be done by other “non- genius” programmers. Further no one developer is greater than a community of developers. - Coding Ninja" If you think that kernel programming is easy and can be done by "average" programmers then you are either so far ahead of the curve that you don't even realize it, or you are a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I strongly suspect that it's the latter. The important stuff gets done by truly outstanding people. To deny this is nothing but laughable. ~~~ nullnullnull I didn't say anything about easy or hard (again you are injecting). Yes kernel programming is hard. However it is not "impossible" : case in point-> The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (by Noam Nisan). Your average CS student can do this (from nand to tetris). Kernel development is hard (without a doubt), but not impossible. "The important stuff gets done by truly outstanding people. To deny this is nothing but laughable." Once again, you are adding things that do not exist in the original article. ~~~ factorial You must be joking! The book you are referring to accompanies a course called "CS116". What about digging through some graduate school course catalogues instead? Of course Kernel development isn't impossible. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any kernels in the first place. But of course it is the domain of a rather small number of people. ~~~ nullnullnull I'm well aware of the course, what exactly is your point? Your second part of the sentence makes no sense either, what is your point? I've demonstrated that kernel development, although "hard" is possible even by students (hence the reference to the book and its related course). You have offered nothing in response.

Fra næste skoleår skal underviserne i dansk, samfundsfag, matematik og de øvrige fag på VUC Syd i Sønderjylland undervise efter fastlagte planer. Udvalgte lærere er i dette skoleår i gang med at udarbejde en vifte af undervisningsforløb til hvert fag. Forløbene – også kaldet læringsplaner – er en færdig pakke til lærerne med et tema, tekster og opgaver til eleverne. Det har givet anledning til flere overvejelser blandt lærerstaben både i forhold til pædagogikken, lærerens rolle og forberedelsestiden. Lærer og TR-suppleant Jannik Gorm Hansen fortæller, at der er både mange muligheder, men også bekymringer forbundet med læringsplanerne. ”Meldingen har været, at kursisterne har ønsket en ensartet struktur og tilgang til undervisningen. Men ensartet i forhold til hvad? Taler vi form, indhold eller begge dele? Det er mere komplekst end som så,” siger Jannik Gorm Hansen. Tænker lærere ens? Cirka 80 lærere ud af skolens 200 lærere er i gang med arbejdet med læringsplanerne. Lærerne kunne søge om at være med i arbejdsgrupperne, men derudover blev nogle lærere udvalgt af ledelsen. Jannik Gorm Hansen er med i gruppen, der skriver læringsplaner til dansk. Han har tidligere udarbejdet læringsplaner til skolens fjernundervisning, men nu hvor det skal bruges til den almindelige holdundervisning, har det sat mange nye tanker i gang om undervisning. Tanker, som Jannik Gorm Hansen ikke helt kan sætte ord på, fordi der logisk set ikke burde være forskel på fjern- og holdundervisning. Men det er der. En af hans overvejelser går på, at hans kollegaer bliver tvunget til at bruge hans undervisningsmateriale i deres undervisning. ”Hvem siger, at jeg har de samme tanker som min kollega? Har vi samme tilgang til stoffet, og vil vi bruge det samme materiale?” siger Jannik Gorm Hansen om nogle af de pædagogiske overvejelser, han har gjort sig. Læs: Elever dropper bøgerne og laver dem selv En vejlederrolle Derudover tænker han over, om lærerens rolle vil ændre sig med læringsplanerne, hvor opgaver og tekster bliver lagt direkte frem til eleverne. ”Det kan være, at det ændrer vores rolle, så vi får en mere vejledende funktion. Så kan man sige: Er det godt eller skidt? Det vil tiden vise. Men frygten er, at man vil blive reduceret til vejleder fremfor den undervisende og formidlende rolle, som vi har i dag,” siger Jannik Gorm Hansen. Selvom uvisheden og de bange anelser fylder, så understreger Jannik Gorm Hansen, at læringsplanerne ikke har været testet af i praksis endnu, og der er derfor mange gætterier og tanker, men ingen erfaringer endnu. ”Man kan hurtigt skabe sig nogle billeder på forhånd af de meldinger, der kommer, fordi de lyder meget firkantede. Men vi ved ikke, hvordan læringsplanerne kommer til at fungere i praksis. Måske kommer de til at fungere fint, lige som de gør i fjernundervisningen,” siger Jannik Gorm Hansen. Lærer: Vi mangler svar Blandt de menige lærere er der også usikkerhed at spore. Gymnasieskolen har været i kontakt med en lærer på VUC Syd, som står uden for arbejdet med læringsplanerne. Hun ønsker at være anonym, da hun er bange for at blive udstillet som illoyal over for ledelsen. ”Vi har en masse spørgsmål som lærerstab. Det eneste, vi ved, er, at kursisterne ønsker en mere ensrettet form for undervisning,” siger hun. Hun fortæller, at læringsplanerne afviger fra hendes tanker om god undervisning, fordi undervisningen bliver standardiseret med læringsplanerne. Måske flere undervisningstimer Læreren fortæller, at mange af hendes bekymringer også handler om, hvorvidt lærerne får den nødvendige tid til at tilpasse læringsplanerne til deres behov og temperament. Det handler nemlig også om, at læreren viser en passion, for det hun underviser i, for det er der, man fanger flest elever, forklarer hun. ”Jeg er nervøs for, at pædagogikken går tabt, og at man presser flere undervisningstimer ind, fordi vi ikke skal forberede os så meget. Hvis det er de samme ting, vi kører år efter år, så bliver det også meget ensformigt for os. Det er også min bekymring, hvordan vi får den faglige medindflydelse på det, vi laver?” siger den kvindelige lærer. Hun understeger, at hun og hendes kollegaer vil tilpasse sig, så godt som muligt, men at ledelsen også må være lydhør. ”Det er fint nok, at vi prøver det af i en periode, men det er vigtigt, at der så også bliver justeret til og set på, om det overhovedet fungerer.” Læs: Lærere: I-bøger er for dårlige Genkendelighed på tværs af fag VUC Syd udleverer iPads til alle deres kursister. Hans Jørgen Hansen, der er direktør for VUC Syd, forklarer, at dette er en del af baggrunden for udviklingen af læringsplanerne, og at de skal være tilgængelige på tabletten. ”Det handler om at få noget rigtig godt og relevant materiale til den platform, som vi bruger. Det er vigtigt, at vi øger kvaliteten af de materialer, som kursisterne får i et digitalt miljø, og at vi øger brugervenligheden,” siger han. De to lærere, som Gymnasieskolen har været i kontakt med, peger på, at læringsplanerne gør undervisningen mere ensrettet, men den betegnelse er Hans Jørgen Hansen ikke enig i, da han synes ensrettet er et ”fælt ord”. ”Hvis man som kursist har seks fag og seks lærere, der bruger forskellige programmer og teknikker, så er det ikke en særlig brugervenlig oplevelse for den enkelte kursist. Der er vi i gang med at skabe nogle anderledes standarder, så man får en højere grad af genkendelighed, uanset om man har dansk eller samfundsfag,” svarer han. Læringsplaner er kvalitetssikring Hans Jørgen Hansen peger på, at der bliver en højere grad af videndeling, men også kvalitetssikring af det materiale, der bruges i undervisningen, når underviserne laver læringsplaner til hinanden. ”Det ikke kun er baseret på den enkelte lærer, men det er baseret på en faggruppe, der har lavet noget og taget stilling i fællesskab,” siger Hans Jørgen Hansen. Men kan man ikke vende det om og sige, at lærerens professionelle dømmekraft svækkes? ”Nej, det tror jeg bestemt ikke. Det er stadig lærerne, der varetager den daglige undervisning,” svarer han. ”Lærerne bruger de læringsplaner, som nu bliver udviklet. De enkelte lærere kan derudover vælge forskellige former for supplering, og det går jeg helt stærkt ud fra, at man vil vælge at gøre.” Hans Jørgen Hansen understreger, at lærerne stadigvæk skal skabe en fornuftig tilpasning til de kursister man har, uanset om det er hold- eller fjernundervisning. Selvom lærerne skal tilpasse læringsplanerne til deres kursister, ligger der så ikke også, at lærerne skal forberede sig mindre? ”Uddannelsessektoren er presset i øjeblikket. Så selvfølgelig er det her en måde at øge kvaliteten ved at samarbejde på en anden måde. Men vi har ikke lagt op til som sådan at reducere på forberedelsen. Det kan godt være, at vi omlægger noget af det, så arbejdet med at lave læringsplaner er en del af forberedelsen. De kollegaer, der ikke er involveret i læringsplaner, kan så undervise et par timer mere. Men samlet set er det ikke tænkt som en spareøvelse,” siger Hans Jørgen Hansen.

by I’m indebted to my friends for these thoughts. Are you familiar with the Turing test? The trouble with the Turing test is that it’s a very unsatisfying test. It doesn’t seem to be able to demonstrate definitively what we would want it demonstrate. But the other trouble is that it’s the only possible test. To decide against the Turing test as a measure for the reality of Artificial Intelligence is to decide in advance of any test or evidence that Artificial Intelligence is impossible and, thus, can never be demonstrated by way of any test or evidence. But this is what the new church policy does. Its obvious to everyone what would happen if we let gay families be part of Mormon congregations: they would look like normal, happy, healthy Mormon families, they would talk like normal, happy, healthy Mormon families, they would serve and love and mourn and give their lives to the church like all the other normal, happy, healthy Mormon families. In other words, they would be happy, healthy Mormon families and people would stop caring altogether that they were gay. They would pass the Turing test. So we can’t let them take the test. This policy change stinks to high heaven because the policy transparently acknowledges that this is the case. We have zero confidence in the capacity of our doctrines to speak for themselves and win the day. We have zero confidence in the ability of the church as a whole to judge for themselves good from evil. If we’re wrong about gay families, then let’s at least have the guts to trust our doctrines through to the end without signaling up front that we don’t actually trust them by procedurally rigging the test from the start. The policy looks and feels and smells like cowardice. And though the Turing test is pretty unsatisfying on a lot of levels, I don’t see any other possible test. It must be the case that we’re actually cowards.

Unlike my fellow Patheosi, I did not remain cool and collected in the wake of the latest papal interview. Actually, I was pissed off, and I spent two days writing and re-writing a post that — try as I did — never evolved into anything more than a petulant rant about Pope Stupidhead Francis. Honestly, I was just gonna go with it, since it’s been a while since a I threw a good blog tantrum. Then last night, the Ogre and I were talking about his dissertation. His adviser had given him a quote to think about, and he played the song the quote was from for me: Listening to the song made me realize how small and petty I’d allowed myself to become. I’d spent hours sifting through the interview to find all the negative threads and unravel them, only to patch them back together using criticism and snark. Bloggers do that a lot. I’ve done it myself. It’s a real temptation, partly because it’s fun to be snarky and people like to read snark, but partly because it’s much easier to be destructive rather than constructive. It’s so much easier to point out what’s not good in someone else’s words than it is to write good words of my own. Sometimes — some rare times — that can actually be a good thing, when it leads to fruitful dialogue with necessary distinctions. All too often, though, what I end up doing is pointing out all the edges of a crack to prove to the world how cracked it really is. But the world is cracked. We’re all cracked in some way, and some of us are downright broken. Christ, for example. He allowed Himself to be broken for us. In a splintered, fragmented world, grace works like that. Not through perfection and holiness, but through pain, suffering, blood, tears…in all imperfect things, grace will be there. Every crack lets in the light — even on the papal plane. Especially on the papal plane. This song is incredible because it’s what our faith should look like on the street, in our homes, on the internet, and yet it’s so far from what it usually looks like. I know that I, at least, do not often — or ever — ring the bells that still can ring. I don’t know that I even see them. I’m usually far too busy lamenting the ones that are broken, because I’m not good enough to fix them, and there’s no point in even trying if I can’t do it right. Like confession. I need to go to confession. I thought twice this week about going to daily Mass or stopping in at the adoration chapel, but decided against it, because I need to go to confession — there’s no point in seeking God until I’m forgiven, right? And love — love should be done only the right way, according to the Catechism and the Summa, because anything less than that is not actually love, right? It has to be properly ordered, or it’s not love. If, for example, a friend or relative is struggling with addiction, or in the throes of mortal sin, it’s better to tell them like it is and then keep my distance, right? Because if I don’t, it’ll be like I’m enabling them. Better to let them know I’ll always be here for them, and then be somewhere else until they figure it out and get back into a state of grace. Sometimes I can’t believe myself. I, of all people, should know better than to think – even for an instant – that grace waits on perfection. I think grace has a hard time with perfection, actually, because perfection doesn’t exist outside of the Triune Source of grace. The rest of us sometimes think we’re perfect. or even just doing okay, and that’s when we tend to block out grace — precisely because if we’re doing okay, we don’t really need more light. We just need to fix that crack. In my life, when things have been broken and I’ve been shattered, grace has been so thick that it’s practically tangible. Those are the moments when I’ve learned what love is, even though no one’s love for me was ever completely perfect or rightly ordered at every moment. The Ogre’s love for me was all kinds of disordered in the beginning, as was mine for him. But it was a refuge. It was cracked love, but it was love nevertheless. It still is. Even in a sacramental marriage, even when we’re both trying to love each other perfectly, our marriage still looks like a shattered plate our 4-year-old tried to glue back together. Full of cracks. And light. Everything is like that, and everyone is like that. Pope Francis is not perfect, and he’s definitely going to keep saying all kinds of cracked things. That’s good, though. The more cracks there are, the more light will come through. I just have to learn to see the light instead. photo credit: chidorian via photopin cc

Q: What is the iOS user preference for notifying user must restart the app correctly? I have an app that uses sharing of CoreData in iCloud when activated by the user. Upon activation, the app needs to be restarted because most of the sharing code is done in AppDelegate. What is the accepted way of not only notifying the user to restart the app, but making sure the app is truly restarted and not just put in the background? A: There is no accepted way, because this is a sign of a badly designed app. Apps are not allowed to simply exit (Apple will reject the app for this). Asking the user to force-quit your app is like hanging a big, flashing "crap" sign on the app. The fact that code is in the app delegate is no excuse. First, you can (and should) move that code out of the app delegate. Second, even if it's in the app delegate, any object can be disposed of and re-created. That includes the entire Core Data stack. Reinitializing Core Data and your UI is a big step but it's possible. If you need to reinitialize things, then do it.

07-18-2014 • arclein Other rich kurgan burials dating to the second half of the third millennium B.C. have also been found in the south Caucasus,said Makharadze in another paper he presented in February at the College de France in Paris. The appearance of these rich burials appears to be connected to interactions that occurred between nomadic people from the Eurasian steppes and farming communities within and near the south Caucasus, Makharadze said.

On board were three crew and nine passengers including two NKVD secret services agents who were guarding a 'large sum' of money. Picture: Russian Searching Movement The bodies of three men and one woman were found on a remote slope above the Amur River in Khabarovsk region, it was announced. The Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boat vanished on 26 June 1935 after taking off from Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinksy en route to Khabarovsk. Lengthy searches at the time failed to find the seaplane or any survivors, although because the incident was promptly classified by the Soviet authorities, full details did not emerge. The Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boat vanished on 26 June 1935 after taking off from Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinksy en route to Khabarovsk to be found near Lazarev village. Pictures: The Siberian Times, Russian Searching Movement On board were three crew and nine passengers including two NKVD secret services agents who were guarding a 'large sum' of money. Two million Soviet roubles at 1935 prices was worth around $2.26 million US dollars. Members of a search group which found the wreckage after an expedition indicated that there was no money at the site, presumably having been ransacked by treasure hunters who - plainly - had not reported earlier finding the stricken seaplane. For years there have been rumours about the Savoia-Marchetti, including claims the plane was sabotaged. Members of a search group which found the wreckage after an expedition indicated that there was no money at the site. Pictures: Russian Searching Movement Wreckage suspected to be from the 1935 crash was spotted by loggers nine years ago, but it has taken until now to organise for the Russia Search Movement to reach the site deep in the taiga in a region the size of the country of Turkey. The NGO speculated that the pilot had been seeking to follow the river in poor weather when he hit a hillside. 'Probably the pilot noticed too late a steep slope, tried to turn left to gain altitude, but his airspeed was not enough,' said a searcher. The plane crashed around 1 hour 15 minutes into a 5 hour 20 minutes flight. 'Probably the pilot noticed too late a steep slope, tried to turn left to gain altitude, but his airspeed was not enough.' Pictures: Russian Searching Movement 'The passengers were still lying where they fell, thrown out of the wooden cabins of the plane along with the remains of the seating and seat belts. Around them lay their personal items,' said the Russia Search Movement. There were no reports of cash being found at the site.

Russell Allphin is serving an LDS Mission in Salta Argentina. This is a collection of his experiences and letters home. Monday, January 30, 2012 ¡Hurra por la intoxicación alimentaria! Hello Hello, Glad to hear all is well on the home front. That’s crazy that it’s snowing and all back in Utah. It is blazing hot here and I ‘m sweating a ton! It’s just so hot all the time! Yeah! I ‘m not gonna lie, this wasn’t really a great week. We went to a member’s house to eat and the dad of the family (he looks like a turtle) just loves to egg on new missionaries. So he kept saying stupid things in Spanish to try and make me look stupid...and it worked. I just felt kind of down. I know the language takes time but, man, sometimes I really wish I could learn it all the sudden, you know. We had an o.k. work week. Elder Rasmussen is the district leader so he does the baptism interviews so we went to do this interview with this guy who does nothing for a living, just bums around. I was waiting in this house while Elder Rasmussen did the interview. The house I was in was about 10 billion times worse than the stinky house you guys went to in Spanish Fork (except this house had a tin roof so was HOT and stinky) so I had that going for me, which was nice! We had a baptism on Saturday night but then I got some kind of mean food poisoning from a nasty pizza. I was throwing up and had diarrhea all that night (hooray) so was confined to my bed all Sunday. And for no reason I got really homesick as well. It was just the worst combo to have--diavomithomsickorrhea. I was really down all Sunday and was still a little down earlier today but now my stomach feels kind of better and so does the homesickness. It was so nice to hear from you guys today and to know you guys pray for me all the time. If you could pray for me to feel better I would really appreciate it. Sorry if this letter is kind of a downer, I don’t want it to sound bad but, truth be told, it just wasn’t really a fantastic week... Some good things, though, are that I got the letter you sent me, Mom. You sent it to me a little bit before I went out of the MTC and It was so nice to hear from you. I don’t know if I told you guys yet but there is a mountain right by us and this mountain is about 19,000 ft—you should see it, it’s huge! And now to answer your questions: Mom’s Questions: Other than this week I have been well. Some weeks are really cool and then some weeks just really aren’t...cool. I have stayed dry. We did have rain and we did get muddy but so far I haven’t had a dire need for boots as of yet but I ‘m staying dry. The Spanish is coming along. Little by little. It’s frustrating at times but I’m trying not to stress about it. I did get the Molly photo ha-ha-ha it’s brilliant! I’m glad to see the shampoo-horn tradition is being kept up. Yes, I can see the photos on the computer so keep sending them. But here is a heads up: A lot of the cybers here don’t accept usb input because people have viruses on usbs then infect the computers. So until I find I cyber that will accept usbs, I can’t upload photos, sorry. Dad’s questions: I played the guitar at one of our investigators houses and I played the charango at a member kid’s house...it was sooooo cool! Yeah we cover the whole spectrum finding investigators. We clap doors, talk to people on the street, referrals—the whole shebang! About our investigators: We have this lady named Griselda who is this really nice, sweet old lady that is ready to be baptized. We also have two investigators named Maxi and Nuella that are a young couple who are going to get baptized pretty quick here. We are also teaching a 10 year old kid named Jesus who is getting baptized pretty soon too. His family are all members and are so nice. It’s interesting that there are houses where you can really feel the spirit more than others. Jesus’ house is always really strong with the spirit. It’s easier to speak and to listen in his house cause it feels so nice. We’ve taught just about all the lessons and they are, at times, pretty easy to teach. I got to lead the lessons a few times and that was very cool. But yeah, if you want just pray for the investigators in general, that would be way cool of you guys. I forgot to tell you guys: Last week we actually had a zone conference and it was all in Spanish so I had no clue what was going on much of the time but it was nice! I don’t know anybody in my zone yet but I’m making all the friends I can. Have I eaten anything gross? Argentinians love their hard boiled eggs and put them in the most unnecessary of dishes (like salads and stuff) and you know how much I love eggs. But other than that we haven’t had any Andrew Zimmern-type foods. We have a place called the "Comodin" it’s like the Wal-Mart of Jujuy...cept there is a guy whose only job is to chase dogs out of the store. Well-well family, it’s been a blast talking to you guys. Sorry if I forgot anything. If you have any more questions, do ask. I do miss you guys a whole bunch but I know you guys are all good and that you’re all happy. I’m so thankful to have the greatest family on earth. I love you guys so much. Keep praying for me and, yes, I will for sure pray a lot as well—for everything. I love you It’s all good.

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The truth about pirates of Somalia - hoffcoder http://www.africaontheblog.com/the-truth-about-somali-pirates/ ====== muyuu They forgot the part where they repeatedly rape female crew, and where they murder crew for petty reasons. Some people will feel good about "supporting the poor guy" though. ~~~ Spooky23 I think the original author's view of piracy was irrevocably tainted by watching "Jake and the Neverland Pirates". Academic sympathy for highwaymen or pirates is easy when they aren't trying to rob, ransom, or kill you. They also forgot the part where the able seamen manning those ships aren't exactly living the high lives themselves. Those sailors help captive or hurt are supporting families back at home, and sacrifice alot to do so. ------ etherael Yeah, this is stupid. They kidnap and murder pleasure cruising civilians on small yachts as well as raid, rape and murder in beach side resorts in bordering countries. You'll excuse me if I have zero sympathy. ------ enko > during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when broken hazardous waste containers > eventually found their way onto Somali shores leaving a large majority of > the population suffering from various illnesses, such as radiation sickness This sounds extremely doubtful. Tsunami-borne hazardous waste containers breaking up in Somalia en masse? _Radioactive_ waste!? And a "large majority" of Somalians were poisoned by this? I don't usually like to play the wiki-pedant but a very big [citation needed] on that. ~~~ eaurouge The dumping of hazardous waste on third world countries isn't exactly news. The given example may (or may not) be inaccurate but this is something that's been going on for decades. ------ icegreentea I think its key to keep in mind a couple view points here, that all try to minimize going to black and white. a) Consider that in general, treating the cause is more effective than treating the symptom, even if you find that kind of unsavoury. No doubt the pirates have done some bad things that are (and should be!) crimes. But just piling on the warships and spec-ops to interdict/kill all of them isn't exactly the best way to solve it, as it appears to leave one of the root causes of the phenomenon untouched anyways. We can draw parallels to American street gangs. Yes, they do totally crappy stuff. But now that we bothered studying them, we can see part of the reason of their existence is that they fill a hole in the lives of many young people in certain situations. This by no ways truly justifies theirs actions, but helps explains them, and ultimately if we want to resolve the problem in a real way (beyond just killing them all), we need to listen. b) Worthy causes can be linked to unworthy actions. People struggle with this all the time. Some people have trouble allowing any blemishes on the characters that lead their cause. Other people relish in the blemishes, and use them to discredit the entire movement. Typical examples are the slave owning Founding Fathers, and the plagiarizing Dr Martin Luthur King. ~~~ memracom Who knew that people would be human, and so imperfect? ------ spingsprong John steals Simon's fish. Therefore it's okay for Simon to rob Andrew? ~~~ eaurouge It may not be okay, but Simon may have no choice but to steal. Some of the things we do (in the US and other developed nations) have far- reaching global consequences, in certain cases destroying lives and livelihoods. But we're always outraged when these affected people react in ways we find uncomfortable. ~~~ stronglikedan > Simon may have no choice but to steal There's always a choice. Thievery is despicable. ~~~ ozy123 You can't envisage a single scenario where you would steal? Or where it was the lesser evil? ------ bausson Wow, I was quite taken aback, expecting to read about al-quaida, got robin hood instead. Still, it is only one source, but having this version of this story of those so-called pirate is definitely a plus. ~~~ stefs i've read that while the pirates were fishermen in the beginning (who really didn't have much choice), when people realised how profitable it was the trade was taken over by soldiers/mercenaries. the soldier-pirates are a lot worse than the fisherman-pirates and don't give back to the community quite as much. ------ cup On a side note, Somalia now has a semi-autonomaus transitional federal government and is actually doing a relatively good job. Not only have they implemented a .so domain but they're starting to organise and regulate the booming telecommunications industry. ------ ozh "However, an eye for an eye will make the world blind" Heh. True. ------ CmonDev Love the black strip on the top. You don't even notice it until you need it. ~~~ johnchristopher You mean that black bar ? [http://imgur.com/KdwcTRD](http://imgur.com/KdwcTRD) ~~~ durzagott This is what I see: [http://imgur.com/aI79G4g](http://imgur.com/aI79G4g) Chrome, Ubuntu 13.10 ------ cratermoon Libertarian Paradise!

// Copyright Neil Groves 2009. Use, modification and // distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version // 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // // // For more information, see http://www.boost.org/libs/range/ // #ifndef BOOST_RANGE_ALGORITHM_UPPER_BOUND_HPP_INCLUDED #define BOOST_RANGE_ALGORITHM_UPPER_BOUND_HPP_INCLUDED #include <boost/concept_check.hpp> #include <boost/range/begin.hpp> #include <boost/range/end.hpp> #include <boost/range/concepts.hpp> #include <boost/range/detail/range_return.hpp> #include <algorithm> namespace boost { namespace range { /// \brief template function upper_bound /// /// range-based version of the upper_bound std algorithm /// /// \pre ForwardRange is a model of the ForwardRangeConcept template< class ForwardRange, class Value > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME disable_if< is_const<ForwardRange>, BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_iterator<ForwardRange>::type >::type upper_bound( ForwardRange& rng, Value val ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<ForwardRange> )); return std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val); } /// \overload template< class ForwardRange, class Value > BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_iterator<const ForwardRange>::type upper_bound( const ForwardRange& rng, Value val ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<const ForwardRange> )); return std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val); } /// \overload template< class ForwardRange, class Value, class SortPredicate > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME disable_if< is_const<ForwardRange>, BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_iterator<ForwardRange>::type >::type upper_bound( ForwardRange& rng, Value val, SortPredicate pred ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<ForwardRange> )); return std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val, pred); } /// \overload template< class ForwardRange, class Value, class SortPredicate > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_iterator<const ForwardRange>::type upper_bound( const ForwardRange& rng, Value val, SortPredicate pred ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<const ForwardRange> )); return std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val, pred); } /// \overload template< range_return_value re, class ForwardRange, class Value > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME disable_if< is_const<ForwardRange>, BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_return<ForwardRange,re>::type >::type upper_bound( ForwardRange& rng, Value val ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<ForwardRange> )); return range_return<ForwardRange,re>:: pack(std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val), rng); } /// \overload template< range_return_value re, class ForwardRange, class Value > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_return<const ForwardRange,re>::type upper_bound( const ForwardRange& rng, Value val ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<const ForwardRange> )); return range_return<const ForwardRange,re>:: pack(std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val), rng); } /// \overload template< range_return_value re, class ForwardRange, class Value, class SortPredicate > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME disable_if< is_const<ForwardRange>, BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_return<ForwardRange,re>::type >::type upper_bound( ForwardRange& rng, Value val, SortPredicate pred ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<ForwardRange> )); return range_return<ForwardRange,re>:: pack(std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val, pred), rng); } /// \overload template< range_return_value re, class ForwardRange, class Value, class SortPredicate > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_return<const ForwardRange,re>::type upper_bound( const ForwardRange& rng, Value val, SortPredicate pred ) { BOOST_RANGE_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( ForwardRangeConcept<const ForwardRange> )); return range_return<const ForwardRange,re>:: pack(std::upper_bound(boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng), val, pred), rng); } } // namespace range using range::upper_bound; } // namespace boost #endif // include guard

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Relaxnews Low inventory levels and reports from analysts and tech blogs seem to point to a new entry-level all-in-one Apple computer that could be revealed as soon as next week. As the date of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference draws near, the rumor mill is shifting into overdrive. And if every story was taken to be completely and utterly true, when Apple's CEO Tim Cook takes to the stage on June 2 to deliver his keynote, he would be announcing everything from a smartwatch and a 12-inch iPad to an iPhone phablet and the acquisition of Beats Audio. The reports of a new desktop computer deserve further consideration primarily because of Ming-Chi Kuo. He's an analyst with KGI Securities with a formidable track record of successfully predicting Apple's product roadmap. In April, in a note to investors seen by Apple Insider, he said that Apple would "likely" launch a lower-cost iMac that would help it compete with other manufacturers in emerging markets such as China and Brazil. Fast forward one month and French apple site MacBidouille is claiming that Apple is working on a new iMac without an Intel processor. Instead, according to its sources, the machine uses the same processor found in the latest iPhone although with more cores. Bringing the processor in-house could conceivably slash the ticket price of the computer without making performance painfully slow. It might only be used in smartphones and tablets, but Apple's A7 processor is more than capable of powering a desktop computer. And, just as this story broke, shipping times for iMacs ordered directly from Apple jumped from next-day to three-to-five days, suggesting either that inventory is being run down, or that the company is reducing availability ahead of a new product launch. Slashgear did some digging and found that in the US, Amazon is out of stock of both models and that other retailers are also struggling to maintain their current supplies. The last time the existing range of iMacs got an update was in September. There was no change to the computer's design but both the 21.5-inch and 27-inch models got significant processor upgrades to the latest Intel Haswell quad core i5 chips and RAM was also nudged up to 8GB as standard. However, pricing stayed the same. In the US, the entry-level 21-inch model, with a 2.7GHz processor, costs $1299 while the top-specification 3.4Ghz 27-inch model retails for $1999. In April, Apple upgraded the specifications of its MacBook Air ultra-mobile notebooks while also shaving $100 off their retail prices and there's a good chance it could now be turning its attention to the desktop range.

Pages Monday, 6 June 2011 Pikachu, Bunnies and Kick Ass Toddlers Click to sign up Today is the It's All About Fun blogfest hosted by Alex Cavanaugh. These are just a few of the many (MANY) games I play--both outdoor and electronic. Some of the games I love aren't for everyone but they sure are for your kids, so if you have any (or you're a kid at heart) then gather 'round and let the fun begin. League of Legends If you're a fan of the original Warcraft III Frozen Throne, then you've probably heard of a little custom game called DOTA (Defense of the Ancients). This is a MMO where you and your team select a hero and defend your king from the enemy team. Yes, it has some (vague) similarities to chess. The difference, however, is that each champion has signature abilities and styles--and as they level (max 25), you must equip them in magical gear or risk being trampled by your foes. For many years the game has remained unchanged. Until League of Legends... League of Legends is a production of a California based software company called Riotgames, and was developed by the minds behind DOTA. It blends elements of RPG and MMO, for a unique game play experience. Here, you play the role of a summoner and while you must still choose a random champion, you can customize their play style with Runes and Masteries, which enhance their stats, and summoner spells that give the game a bit of variability. What truly makes this game standout are the characters. Annie One of my most favorite is a crazy kid called Annie who uses fire and carries a teddy bear that is more than meets the eye. Pokemon Latios and his baby sis Latias I do not care that it is a game for kids. I have loved it since day one and still do twelve years later. I have outgrown many of my child hood fads--action figures, Yu-Gi-Oh, watching cartoons, etc.-- but Pokemon excites me to no end. I guess it's the idea that I can own a pet (I love animals) and train it to kick ass! Either way, Pokemon remains one of televisions's most successful cartoons, and the video games rake in billions for Nintendo with every new release. Aion This MMORPG PVPvsPVE is similar to Warcraft - from it's play style to the UI (User Interface - controls); however, unlike WOW, Aion boasts the most impressive graphics of its generation and an addictive list of classes that will never cease to amaze. Did I mention you can fly at Lv 10? It follows the struggle of the Deavas, humans gifted with magic and the power of flight. The great mother Aion created dragons called Balaur to protect the world. Balaur Guardian Deity General But they slowly became aware of man's weakness and defied their duties--destroying everything in hope of claiming the world of Aion as their own. To combat them, Aion gifted humans with the power of Daevas and a great war ensued. The world was torn as a result of this battle. The top half, Asmodae, became a world of darkness and strife. Its inhabitants adapted to their feral homes by growing manes and extended claws; while, Elysea, the bottom half, is rich with the sun's light--a paradise like no other, where's it's people, the Elyos (aka the bunnies), are gorgeous and happy. At the character screen you have to choose which faction to join: the feral and powerful Asmodians with black wings, fangs and manes, or the beautiful white winged Elyos. Either way, you will have to battle against the other in impressive aerial battles worthy of World War I. The fate of the world rests in your hands, but you will soon discover there is a far more terrible threat then the Elyos or Asmodians. Aion is a MUST for any avid fan of MMORPGs. Elyos vs Asmodian This has been fun. Thanks for letting me share some of my favorite games. What are some of yours? I can't wait to find out! the pictures from Aion alone could inspire some great fantasy fiction. saw your "secret identity" page and wanted to say the Avatar may not be my favorite movie of all time but it's in the top 5 on my list. i think i did a post about it right after it came out. maybe that's what i'll watch tonight with the family. Aion sucks compared to World of Warcraft (which is a far superior game despite the graphics engine differences). I played a little of it but it was pretty boring overall once you got leveled up. I was in a top 200 guild for three years...in Wrath of the Lich King the rival horde guild on our server (Prophetic) completely collapsed because ten of their core went to Aion. Then they later came back and ended up moving over to Premonition's server on Sen'jin. We had a WoW guild get-together at Blizzcon and six of us posed for pictures with the Elitist Jerks guild from US-Malganis and watched Premonition do a Live Raid. It was pretty fun seeing the Premo guys in action. Simon - Dragon Quest is on the DS, as long as its there it will NEVER have good graphics. Tim - Will do! Michael - You are right. At lv 55 Aion is pretty boring, and it's lategame cannot compare to WOW. However, I do like the classes--the overall feel and the ability to fly. I rolled a SM and was kickass. The only class I couldn't beat was the Ranger, or an Assassin that ambushed and silenced me. I was also an amazing Cleric, and was in high demand on my server. :D Jomama - Pokemon is fun because you get to play-out the ultimate fantasy of owning a magical pet and training it to be great. Pokemon for life!Definitely my biggest obession since I was a child. I strayed away from it in middle school and high school, but when I got to college literally every guy I knew had found the emulators and was playing. We'd all get back from our various pursuits and meet up in the common room to compare pokemon. Good times Just recently got back in to final fantasy 10 and am going to be looking in to older titles in the series

When it comes to ideas and interests in life, my teenage years seem have been the most formative, as they probably were with most people. During the 80s along with my brother and two friends I started riding my racing bike seriously, and with that came the obsessing over continental... The hell of the high street. The high Street is an awful place, dirty and depressing, the standard council herringbone brickwork stained with spat out chewing gum, dog shit and human blood. I used to lay herringbone brickwork whilst the Fatty would sit watching in his BMW smoking...

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Q: Music Harmonic analysis: Chord identification I'm struggling with identifying the chords in these measures because the notes on the base clef staff are not part of the chord in the top staff. This piece is in F# minor, so the top chords by themselves would be i,v,v,VI, but what happens when you consider the notes on the bottom staff? I know your supposed to consider base everything off the bottom note, but I don't know what they would be, unless those notes are considered non-harmonic tones. Thanks. A: A little context would help: a few more measures on either side, the name of the composer/era, etc. However, as a general rule, when the melody is in the bass like this the harmonic analysis focuses on the upper notes, and bass-melodic non-chord tones are identified in relation to them. For example, beat 2 of the first measure and beat 1 of the second look like classic double-neighbor figures in the bass.

1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a urine-receiving pad for men, to be applied to sick person, old people and incontinent patients, in which a laminated sheet having an absorbent core is formed into a bag into which a penis can be inserted. 2. Prior Art A conventional urine-receiving pad for sick person, old people and incontinent patients is a sheet-shaped urine-receiving pad having an absorbent core to envelop a penis. A diaper is then applied to a wearer to secure the urine-receiving pad in position. However, since this sheet-shaped urine-receiving pad should be deformed into a shape for enveloping the penis, it is difficult to wear. Further, there is a problem of easy leakage of urine from the top of the pad thus deformed. Accordingly, Japanese Laid-Open Utility Model Publication Nos. 160815/1988, 44913/1992 and 26828/1994 disclose urine-receiving pads provided with an opening for insertion of a penis. However, this type of prior urine-receiving pad suffers from the problem that when a wearer moves or turns over, the penis easily comes out of the opening for insertion, or when much urine is excreted, urine leaks through the opening for insertion to the outside of the pad. This is because there are differences in shape, size and direction of the penis in individuals. Therefore, it is difficult to form the opening for insertion fitting for all penises. Further, even if the opening for insertion fits for the penis at the time of wearing the pad, the penis may be excessively compressed by the opening by swelling of the penis. Accordingly, it is necessary for the opening to be broad enough to receive the penis, which however results in easy coming out of the penis from the opening and easy leakage of urine through a gap formed between the opening and the penis. Further, because the shape of the opening for insertion is unstable, a person who looks after a wearer is required to hold the penis of the wearer directly with one hand while spreading the opening widely with the other hand, to insert the penis therein. The present invention is to solve the above-described problems in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a urine-receiving pad for men which can be easily attached to a penis and removed therefrom, while preventing easy coming out of the penis during use. Another object of the present invention is to provide a urine-receiving pad for men which is wearable without touching the penis directly with hand. Another object of the present invention is to provide a urine-receiving pad for men where urine hardly leaks from the opening for insertion of the penis.

Very smart piece by Janani Balasubramanian in The New Inquiry 0n the move in the US by the Federal Drug Administration to reclassify human excrement as an ‘Investigational New Drug.’ I actually tweeted about a similar story on the BBC website last year, which outlined the growth in the use of fecal transfers to treat a wide variety of auto-immune conditions. In short: what doctors are realising is that shit is very fertile. It contains vast numbers of bacteria that help with healthy gut function. What a fecal transfer does (usually via an enema) is reintroduce proper levels of these bacteria into the digestive tract. Gross, huh? Well, this is one of the core issues: the need to get over the shame long-associated with everything surrounding defecation: Collective shame around shit looms so large as to seem like an unchangeable fact, even as fecal transfers offer significant curative properties. How many of us shit as discreetly as possible to avoid being heard? How many avoid shitting in front of intimate partners? And yet, in our flight from shit, we’ve created overly-pure spaces that have ended up as profoundly unhealthy. This is the key sociological parallel: what fundamentalist communities do is work to shit out all that they find impossible to digest, but the result of this is a weakened body that attacks itself: Whether what’s pushed away is shit, people, or disturbing ideas, the agent of this rejection is always an asshole. One of the more significant seams that Vaux explored back in the early 2000s was based on the idea that ‘God is found in the shit.’ It is our relationship to this alterity, our ability to reintroduce it into our bodies, that is key to an empathetic and healthy society. Balasubramanian goes on to reference Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger, which was a great inspiration for my first book The Complex Christ. Douglas writes: Where there is dirt there is system… uncleanness or dirt is that which must not be included if a pattern is to be maintained. What we classify as ‘dirt’ is important, as it highlights what our systems of purity are, what criteria we use to judge who’s in and who’s out. Yet these dirt boundaries are often complex and moveable. A can of coke dropped in a newly-ploughed field is litter, is ‘dirt.’ Yet put the same can in the fridge, and now it is the earth from the field that is dirt. It is ‘matter out of place.’ Thus this move to reclassify shit as fertile medicine requires us to think about the place of ourselves and others in the world. Which bodies do we consider out of place? Women bishops? People who are gay? Immigrants? The attempts to purify spaces by excluding these ‘dirty bodies’ has only resulted in dis-ease and decay. Shit can be shared, and shit can heal, because it is the mark of our contiguity with our environments. No one lives autonomously, even within a single body. What we must do is begin to understand it as a gift, as an integral part of our cycles of involvement with our ecosystems. One of the phrases I’ve been mulling recently is from Gary Snyder’s book The Practice of the Wild: Each one of us at the table must recognise that one day we will become part of the meal. The less bucolic configuration of the same idea of ourselves as parts of larger cycles of material is the more scatalogical one: Each one of us in the bathroom must recognise that one day we will become part of the shit. When our bodies decay they will become the ‘dirt.’ They will be disposed of in a manner that separates us from that which remains living. We will be excluded, expelled, discharged. Important then that we live in a manner that is reflective on our dirt boundaries, and considers carefully the ways that our attempts at purity exclude. Sterile surfaces are those upon which nothing can live. We should avoid this. [Thanks Darryl Schaffer for putting me on to the article] --//-- Click here to receive updates, and hear first about new projects

Yesterday, we talked about Lena Dunham. And, believe me, I am very much done talking about her and would love to never talk about her again, but in six months she’ll probably talk out of her ass again, so we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. That said, I want to talk about one aspect of the latest Lena mess that goes far beyond her. In a society where disbelieving victims is the norm, only very recently—as in the last few months—have we seen a real push to change this narrative, to eliminate the default idea of the lying woman and the poor man accused of a heinous crime he simply could not have done, or if he did do, she must have been asking for it, or if he did do it and she was passed out in the street, he’s still a nice boy who deserves a future even though he ripped hers out from between her legs and destroyed it forever. The shift is slow and small, but it’s happening. Monsters are being seen as monsters. These evil humans, who have gotten off on ruining lives for decades, are finally facing some kind of consequence. But I’m going to let you in on a secret: it’s not just the cut-and-dried monsters out there doing this. People can be terrible and nice. At the same time. And that’s where Dunham and Jenni Konner come in. Because their friend was accused of rape. They like their friend. Their friend is good to them. Their friend has never, would never hurt them. He’s a good man. He couldn’t have done this. So she must be lying. Lena Dunham is a wretched pińata of moronicisms. But she’s by no means alone in this line of thinking. For some, the problem is rooted in toxic masculinity and entitlement to women’s bodies, and how seeped into our culture they are to the point where we accept up to a certain level of this as completely normal. Just “boys being boys.” When we hear about the massive list of things Harvey Weinstein did, most sensible humans possessing basic empathy know that it’s terrible. Because his crimes are clear cut. But as people’s notions of consent and what constitutes acceptable interactions with other people are challenged, this is where a sense of denial and confusion seems to be kicking in for a lot of men. Unwanted touching, sexually charged “jokes” and comments, even instances of coerced or nonconsensual sexual encounters, there are those who genuinely believe they did nothing wrong because they have always thought of this stuff as OK, because this is what they grew up around, saw on TV and in movies, and never thought to themselves “this isn’t OK.” They are only now having to face that they may have done terrible things to people, and when confronted with the idea you might not be a good person, people go on the defensive. They diminish, they minimize, either knowingly or genuinely believing what they did wasn’t that bad. And their friends, because they love them, believe them. Because no one wants to believe someone they trust could do this kind of thing. And then there’s just your standard sociopaths. People who pretend to be good and kind but aren’t. They’re manipulative, and they’re good at it. And their friends, because they love them and because they’ve been conditioned by this person, believe them. Because no one wants to believe someone they trust could do this kind of thing. People are capable of kindness and warmth and capable of committing unspeakable acts. Your mileage may vary on how much you’re willing to forgive and ignore. But when all else fails, listen to the victims and try believing.

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:39:53 +0000 From: Matt Buck Subject: My Fantasy 23 My Fantasy - Chapter 10.5 - Lovers' First By mattbuck matt_v_jellicle@hotmail.com Disclaimer: The following story is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to real events is entirely coincidental. Furthermore, it is a story of graphic sexual content which you may find shocking, disturbing, disgusting or otherwise offensive. By continuing, you agree that you are reading this of your own free will, and that it is legal for you to view such content, and thus that all responsibility for your actions rests with you. Copyright notice: Copyright mattbuck, 2003. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non- commercial No Derivatives licence version 2.0 England and Wales. Essentially, feel free to share this, but don't sell it or change it. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ More stories can be found on my website - http://mattbuck.irongalaxy.com I am on the prolific authors page - /nifty/frauthors.html#mattbuck Feedback: I welcome all comments, suggestions and (constructive) criticism. Send them to matt_v_jellicle@hotmail.com Codes: MM, Anal-Oral (MM), Anal (MM), WAM (Custard, shower), Exhibitionism Danny and I slipped out the front door to John's house at about 6pm that day, leaving behind the sounds of nine fucking teenagers. I guess we could have stayed and fucked there, but quite frankly, something more private would be much better. We walked through the city, me occasionally kissing Danny's cheek or wrapping my arm around him. He'd try to shrug it off, if there was anyone in the same street, but when we got to an empty street, he was all over me, kissing like there was no tomorrow. I hungrily kissed him back when our lips met, pushing my tongue into his mouth. My hands were both on his back, one by his ass, the other at his shoulders. His, by comparison, were on the middle of my back and the back of my head, pulling me into an even deeper kiss. I loved the feel of his body pressed against mine, and the thrill of possible discovery. I longed to feel his nude form pressed against me in his bed... oh god that thought made me horny. My hand on his ass moved inside his trousers, now touching the bare skin since we'd lost his boxers in the mud at John's house. I moved my hand so that it was pointing vertically downwards, and started to push between his legs until I was fondling his balls. When we reluctantly stopped kissing, I withdrew my hand, making a show of enjoying the smell of it. "Do you get turned on by playing in public?" Danny asked me. "Never before," I replied, "but just being with you is the greatest turn-on ever, and I'm determined to savour every moment." "If you want, we could keep playing here. After all, it's dark, seemingly private..." "And cold." I finished, starting to shiver. "Do it in summer. Let's just get into bed, for now." "Well, I do have a game we could play on the way..." He stood in front of me, and opened my flies, followed by the button on my boxers, and pulled by hard cock out into the cold night air. Grabbing it in his (cold) right hand, he started to lead me through the streets. Our walking caused his hand to move up and down my cock, masturbating me gently. I admit, I never thought he'd be willing to do that sort of thing. I don't know how many people saw us on the way to his house, since 6pm on a Sunday in February is a fairly inhospitable time, but I enjoyed every second of it. There were no lights on when we reached his house, and he pulled some keys out of his pocket to unlock the door. He tucked my cock back inside my trousers, and opened the door, turning on the lights. The house seemed fairly unremarkable, a normal suburban house. I followed Danny through to the kitchen, where he asked me what I wanted to drink. "Hmm... fresh créme au Danny, please." I joked. "Sorry, but I can't serve that sort of drink this early in the evening. Please choose instead from our extensive range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages." We both laughed at this, and eventually decided on our drinks, and sat in the lounge for a while, Danny in the corner of the sofa, me lying along the sofa with my head on his chest. It felt so good to just relax with him, just lying there on him. I could have stayed like that forever, but Danny said he needed to get up. I heard his footsteps recede up the stairs, and took the opportunity to tuck my cock back into my boxers and do up the button again. I then stood up and looked around the lounge. There were a few family photos, one of someone (Danny, I assumed) as a child of about 5 years. There was also a big picture of a sunset behind Glastonbury Tor. The carpet was plush, as was the sofa. I looked round the curtain and out into the street. Most of the downstairs lights were on, behind their own curtains, and there was no one in the street. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I whirled round, and saw Danny standing there. "You hungry?" He asked. "Yeah. And startled." I replied. "What've you got?" "I have absolutely no idea." He laughed. "Want to just go raid the cupboards?" I just smiled at him. After a while, we eventually made some sandwiches, and found some chocolate cake and custard for afters. We moved upstairs into his bedroom, taking the food with us. We'd eaten the sandwiches, sitting on his bed; before we realised we'd forgotten the plates. Danny started to get up to go and get some, but I stopped him. "Your chest would make a perfect plate," I said, "but you might want something to stop the bed getting messy." He licked his lips at me, and pulled off his T-shirt, exposing his flat chest. I could hardly wait, and was putting my arms around him and nibbling his left ear as he searched for a waterproof coat in his cupboard. He always smelt so delicious... Oh god yes... He turned his face and I kissed him on the lips, savouring the moment. He pushed me away, laughing: "Ged-off. Do you want any food or not?" He put the thin waterproof down on the bed, outside up, and lay on it, putting his hands underneath his head on the pillows. I unwrapped the cake, and placed it on his chest before slicing it down the middle with one of the spoons we'd brought. I lay the pieces flat-side-down on his chest, side-by-side, and picked up the carton of cold custard. His nipples were hard and I couldn't resist giving them a quick lick. He shivered, and I was slightly worried about the cold, but he didn't seem to care, so who was I to judge? I moved so I was straddling his stomach, one knee on each side, and held the custard over him like the Sword of Damocles. Then, slowly, I started pouring. For a second, nothing came out, then a steady flow of thick yellow custard, dripping down onto his chest, coating it and the cake halves. He looked so sexy, the cold custard flowing down over his hot flesh. I kept pouring until the carton was empty, then picked up the spoon. The first cut, moving down through the chocolatey goodness, until the spoon touched his skin. This first bit I took for myself, licking the spoon erotically after I'd swallowed the cake. The next, I let him have. Again, I cut a piece off, but this time moved it towards his mouth. He opened up for me, and took it, scraping the spoon clean with his lips as it passed. We continued in this way until the whole thing was eaten, and I must say, it was the best I ever tasted. I looked down at Danny: his lips were moist and clean, smiling, but his chest was covered in custard and small lumps of chocolate. He looked beautiful. I swirled my right index finger around on his chest, coating it in custard before sucking it into my mouth. His next finger, I fed to him, letting him suck it clean. I stripped off my T-shirt, and bent down to lick patterns in the custard on his chest, tracing paths to his nipples, before sucking on them, nibbling and biting hungrily. I then placed a trail of kisses up the side of his neck, ending at his oh-so-sexy lips in a passionate kiss. My chest touched his, momentarily pulling back at the cold, before squelching down fully. I wrapped my legs around his as his tongue played with mine. I could have kissed all night, but we had other plans. Danny pushed me off him so he could sit up. The custard started to slide down his chest, looking delicious. He ran his hand over his stomach, scraping up some of the dripping custard, and licked it off, smiling at me. He pulled the raincoat off the bed, and laid me down where he had been, on my back. He got on all fours, straddling my legs, and proceeded to lick up the custard on me. I lay back and gave into the sensations. His tongue fell gorgeous sliding over me, and I longed to return the favour. When he had licked my stomach clean, he stopped, and pulled me up. "Come on, Matt. You want a shower?" How could I refuse? He undid my trousers and pulled them down, followed by my boxers, leaving me naked. He pulled down his own trousers, and I knelt to help by getting his boxers off. He retreated from me. "Matt, if you want me, you're going to have to live with my boxers." I assumed that he'd put them on when he'd gone upstairs earlier. They were white, simple (made of cotton) and sexily tight. His cock was tenting the front without pulling the waistband away from his lithe form. Must be strong elastic. He came back towards me, pushing down on my head to get me onto all-fours. He climbed up on my back, his hands on my shoulders. His legs wrapped around my chest, he delivered a quick slap on my ass to get me moving. We started moving, but I stopped a few times simply to feel his hand on my ass again. When we reached the bathroom, he dismounted and turned on the shower. The custard was back on his stomach again now, so again he dragged a hand across it to remove it. I was sure that I'd dripped on the carpet on the way. He told me to get in the shower while he used the toilet, and I complied. The warm water washed away the custard quickly and I set about rubbing myself under the water, since there was no soap or shower gel. Presently, I heard the flush go, and Danny asked me to turn off the shower. He climbed in, and pulled the shower curtain back behind him. He kissed me, pulling his body tight against mine, smearing me with custard again, the fabric of his boxers rubbing against me in delicious torture. "Matt, these boxers are a sort of present for you. Get down and wash my ass, but don't remove the boxers until I tell you." He passed me the showerhead, and turned on the water. I first kissed each cheek of his ass, before pointing the spray at his left cheek. Suddenly, there were some letters there: "I L YOU" I eagerly sprayed his ass totally, and revealed the full message: "I LOVE YOU MATT" I was almost speechless. All I could say was, "I love you too, Danny." He turned around and smiled at me, pulling me up to my feet again and into a deep kiss. As we parted, Danny giving my tongue a final, playful, suck, he said: "I knew you'd appreciate them. I love you, Matt. Do you want to appreciate what's underneath as well?" I nodded and kissed him lightly on the lips again, followed by a trail of kisses down his body, weaving a path around both his nipples (loving the custard taste), one after the other, down his flat stomach to his waistband, the up again, around his belly-button, and around his left side. Over onto his back, lower now, back at the waist. I pushed his boxers down slightly, and kissed the very top of his ass-crack. I gathered up some saliva, and let it out of my mouth right there, before pulling his boxers up again, and kissing up his back. I knew that the saliva would be running down, right over his asshole... he'd love that. A quick kiss-trip up to his shoulders. He had braced his arms against the wall, and I kissed his slightly-sweaty armpits. Now, down again. Each bone of his back receiving attention. This time, I pushed his boxers down off his hips, but they couldn't go far since he had his legs apart. I used this to my advantage, and went head-down into them, letting my hair rub against his sensitive areas. I hadn't finished playing yet, though. I knelt now, and licked along the ridge in the centre of his bollocks, before taking the back gently between my teeth and giving a little tug. Upwards again, I pulled his ass cheeks apart, and looked lustfully at the tight hole they had been concealing. I thrust my face into his crack, savouring the aromas of pure unadulterated Danny, playfully tracing the letters of "I love you Danny" right over his asshole, before pushing my tongue into him. He always tasted so good. I slid my body up his, loving the feel of the custard between us. I wrapped my arms around him, kissing his neck while he sprayed the water between us, rinsing us both off. Danny turned round in my arms and wrapped his own around me, embracing me and giving me a light kiss on the lips. He turned off the water, and led me out of the shower. We towelled off, and went back to the bedroom. After an awkward silence, I said: "Danny, don't do anything you don't want. I love you too much for that." "Matt, I do want this. More than anything. I want you; I love you. Just... go slowly." "Since it's your first time, you might want some Vaseline or something. Any idea if you've got some? There are other things we can use if you don't have any." Danny went off downstairs to find the Vaseline he reckoned his parents kept around for garden use. I climbed into his bed to wait for him. I didn't have to wait long. He came back bearing a jar of lube, and sat on the bed. I reached out a hand and stroked his thigh gently. He got up and pulled the covers off me, took some Vaseline on his fingers and spread it over my cock. The lube was cold, his hand warm, and his tight grip getting me so high. He gave me a few wanks to spread the Vaseline and then passed me the jar, presenting his ass to me. I started warming him up with one finger lubricated only with my spit. I pumped it in and out a few times, then pulled it out, tasted it, and added another finger. I repeated this, gently pushing my third finger in. I then pulled out again, and used two fingers to rub Vaseline all round his asshole, inside and out. I rubbed his right cheek gently, and told him to turn around. This was it. The culmination of my love for Danny, and his love for me. I told him to squat over my cock and then slowly extend his legs forward, holding himself up with his arms. I reached forward and found his asshole, positioned my cock by it, and told him to push down. After some brief resistance, my cock slid into him, and his ass cheeks came to rest on my body. His eyes were slightly glazed as he got used to his arse being invaded for the first time. He was effectively sitting on my hips, which was slightly painful for my cock, so I pulled him down a bit so he was leaning forward. He was so sexy, and for that night, he was mine: I couldn't ask for more. We stayed that way for a few minutes, neither of us moving much. I watched the steady motion of his chest with his breathing until he looked down at me, and nodded slightly. I rolled us over, with his help, so that he was looking up at me. I used one hand to hold myself up while the other caressed his cheek. He used the time to wrap his legs around my waist so that he was ready. Softly, he whispered, "Go on." I could never deny him, and started my first out stroke, before pushing back in. I was going very slowly, just letting him get used to it. His arms wrapped around my back, hoisting him into a position that, though it made it hard to fuck, let him kiss my lips softly. "I love you." He said. "I love you too." I replied. He lay back on the bed, and moved his hands to my ass, tenderly squeezing my cheeks as I slowly upped the pace of my fucking. He let out a moan of contentment. I wished I could give his cock some stimulation, but I knew that I'd fall over if I tried to use my hands. My cock was certainly getting a lot of stimulation; his ass was so nice and tight around me. Suddenly, he shouted "fuck" so (rather conversely) I stopped fucking him. "What?" I asked, "Are you hurt?" "No, it's just... I don't know. You touched something. It felt like I was about to cum. Keep going." Seeing my look of concern, he added: "Don't worry, I love it." I started again, slowly, but getting faster as Danny urged me on. Every so often he would grunt, and sometimes gasp or say "fuck" under his breath, so I guessed I'd hit his prostate again. I was getting close to cumming, and asked him, in or out. "In," was his reply, "see if you can make me cum from it." I started fucking him harder, trying to work out the exact spot I needed to hit. It didn't take long until I found it, and I tried to hit it as much as possible just before I came explosively in his ass. I tried to keep fucking as I came, Danny moaning under me, and just as I finished, his cock spurted its first stream of pearly cum over his chest, his eyes rolled upwards in surrender to the feelings. I waited until his cock was only dribbling before pulling out of his arse, and lying down on his chest. I stroked his cheek, and kissed his neck as his cum distributed itself over our chests, in a way sealing our love. His arms wrapped around my back, holding me gently. This was my dream, my new raison d'ˆtre, my love for him and his for me. We lay there for a long time, just enjoying being together in his bed, and finally that was how we fell asleep, safe in each other's arms.

Lego was founded as a small carpentry workshop in 1932 in Billund, Denmark. From its humble beginnings, this tiny company of 10 employees has ballooned into empire that employees thousands and drives more than $35.8 billion Krone ($5.14m USD) each year. The iconic bricks can be found in almost every child’s playroom, and Lego is the proud brand name behind countless video games, movies, comic books, theme parks, and action figures. Furthermore, the company shows no signs of slowing down. It’s this commitment to innovation and growth that will bring Lego deep into the 21st Century. Here’s how this analog toy company uses marketing and product development to stay modern in an increasingly digital world. 1. Understanding the target market – Lego is Parent-Approved While kids are the primary target audience of any toy company, smart businesses also market to parents. These are the breadwinners who actually open their purse strings to buy the product. Understanding this, the creators at Lego brand their products as a creative outlet for kids and an opportunity to grow their interest in STEM. Their website features an Education section with activities to promote learning through the toys, from preschool through middle school. Outside of the main Lego marketing tactics, there are entire communities that utilize these toys for learning. The STEM Laboratory created a set of 100 Lego Challenge Cards which asks kids to complete logic or math tasks with the bricks. Today’s parents are concerned about the toys their kids play with. By creating a parent-approved product, Lego makes it easy to access the wallets of its target audiences. 2. Partnerships and licensing – Lego Taps Into Existing Fanbases Lego’s marketing strategy depends just as much on licensing as coming up with its own ideas. Star Wars is a Disney brand, but still a major revenue driver for the company. In December 2015, panic ensued over a “Lego shortage,” when stores couldn’t keep their Star Wars sets on the shelves. The company worried that it wouldn’t be able to ship everything before Christmas. 60% percent of Lego’s revenue comes during the holiday season, giving the company a banner year even if some of the toys arrived late. This creates a third target audience for Lego: collectors and fans who want to buy the merchandise and save it for resale value. Lego isn’t just for kids and parents, it’s for adults as well. There are multiple blogs dedicated to covering Legos and their value. For example, when Carrie Fisher passed away last year, the blog BricksFans created a dedication to Lego Leia. 3. Creating memorable experiences – Legoland is Following the Disney Expansion Model A huge sign of success for any brand is moving from books and toys to the world of theme parks. These attractions take years to build, which means companies aren’t likely to invest in a temporary fad. Not only are Legoland theme parks thriving in Florida and California, the owners are planning to expand into Japan, Dubai, and Korea. Legoland is operated by Merlin, the second largest theme park operator behind Disney. Like Disney, Merlin is expanding the theme park experience to start the second families arrive. Families can stay in Legoland hotels where each room is a new theme, thus opening up a new market to compete with. Watch out Hilton and Marriott, Lego is coming for your hotel revenue. 4. Tapping into feedback – Lego Listens to Its Customers In 2014, Lego Batman was named the best-selling superhero video game of all time, after selling 12.81 million copies worldwide. It’s no surprise that Lego chose this character for their big-picture film, knowing that even fair-weather Lego fans would enjoy Batman’s sass and snark. The Lego Batman Movie is just one example of the company listening to its customers and giving them what they want. Many executives have emphasized this as an important part of the brand’s success. “The motto of our founder was: Only the best is good enough,” Conny Kalcher, Lego’s VP for Marketing told Marketing Week. “If you are constantly working on improving what you do…you build up loyalty and its transparent to people how what the company says, they do.” As long as Lego refuses to rest on its laurels, it will continue to create toys that kids and parents will love. _____ Read next: Referral programs for educational toys – Goldieblox

dis bitch is ma homie. im glad he moved to chicago and i got to meet him. people with superior taste in music is suprisingly hard to find these days, plus he likes to hump inanimate objects with pretzel sticks hanging out of his nose Hehe...one of my oldest SG friends and I have so many fond memories of him 'doing a Kinto'! He's been too kind to me and a lot of fun and I hope his new life away from the miserable UK treats him well. Can't believe I haven't said how great this guy is yet. He's got a funny accent but he seems to communicate with Parisians very well. Hence he was a superb guide round the France. A true brother and truely dependable. A rare and good soul. The best Frenchman I know (and the only Frenchman I know). He is cool, intelligent, funny, entertaining, charismatic... except when he's drunk - then he becomes a slavering Hulk-like Gallic monster, squashing Chavs and smashing buildings while yelling "Fuuuuuuck!" through a mouthful of booze and Lexomil. Beware!...

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Forget about the record. Forget about the standings. The Chicago Cubs are going to suck for a while, but at least they will be interesting while being so. The Cubs called up outfielder Brett Jackson and third baseman Josh Vitters Sunday. The pair of former first-round picks are the Cubs two most MLB-ready prospects, and both find themselves in situations where they could stay for a while. The Cubs outfield future does not include Alfonso Soriano. Nor does it include David DeJesus. However, the future very well could include the left-handed hitting Jackson. Baseball America‘s #32 prospect entering this season, Jackson was batting .256 with, 15 home runs, 27 stolen bases and a .338 OBP in AAA Iowa. Jackson’s most troubling statistic was his 158 strikeouts. That is 158 strikeouts in 407 at-bats. That is a strikeout in 39% of his at-bats. Scouts say he has great bat speed, which I translate to “he looks great when he strikes out all the damn time.” Hopes are high for Jackson, but a quicker, less powerful Adam Dunn does not get me very excited. Vitters, like Jackson, plays a position the Cubs are thin on. The third overall pick of the 2007 draft did not zip through the farm system like many hoped, but you can’t forget that he is only 22 years old. The right-handed hitter was batting .304 in AAA Iowa with 17 home runs and 68 RBI. He only struck out 77 times in 415 at-bats. Vitters’ bat appears major league ready, but he does have one little problem. His glove stinks. Of the two prospects, I expect more out of Vitters. His bat could help the Cubs and while he is no Ron Santo at the hot corner, he has to be better than Luis Valbuena, right? Jackson will attract more attention because he is a “higher rated” prospect, but there is not getting around all those whiffs. If ya can’t hit the damn ball, you can’t hit the ball. I do not see either of these prospects as long-term solutions due to their major holes. Theo has does a great job of reloading the farm system, and it is worth remembering that these are not his prospects. Jackson and Vitters are Jim Hendry remnants and I expect them to perform as such. The Big

What About Us (Jodeci song) "What About Us" is a song by American R&B group Jodeci recorded for their second album Diary of a Mad Band (1993). The song was released as the third and final single for the album in August 1994. A "Swing Mob" remix of the song featured additional production by Timbaland and introduced former Swing Mob member Magoo. Track listings US Promo Vinyl and 12" "What About Us" (Radio) - 4:25 "What About Us" (Album Extended) - 4:38 "What About Us" (Album Instrumental) - 4:38 "What About Us" (Acapella) - 4:38 "What About Us" (Jeep Mix) - 4:40 US Vinyl and 12" "What About Us" (Album Version) - 5:20 "What About Us" (Swing Mob) - 4:36(feat. Magoo) "What About Us" (Mr. Dalvin Version) - 4:26(feat. Mr. Dalvin) Personnel Information taken from Discogs. production: DeVante Swing remixing: DeVante Swing, Mr. Dalvin, Timbaland Joel "JoJo" Hailey - Lead and Background vocals Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey - Background vocals DeVante Swing - Background vocals Mr. Dalvin - Background vocals Chart performance Notes External links Category:1994 singles Category:Jodeci songs Category:Song recordings produced by DeVante Swing Category:Songs written by DeVante Swing Category:1993 songs Category:Uptown Records singles

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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ==============================================================================*/ #include "tensorflow_data_validation/anomalies/path.h" #include <gmock/gmock.h> #include <gtest/gtest.h> #include "tensorflow_data_validation/anomalies/test_util.h" #include "tensorflow/core/lib/core/errors.h" #include "tensorflow/core/lib/core/status.h" #include "tensorflow/core/lib/core/status_test_util.h" #include "tensorflow_metadata/proto/v0/path.pb.h" namespace tensorflow { namespace data_validation { namespace { using testing::ParseTextProtoOrDie; MATCHER_P(EqualsPath, path, absl::StrCat((negation ? "doesn't equal" : "equals"), path.Serialize())) { return path.Compare(arg) == 0; } TEST(Path, Constructor) { EXPECT_EQ("a.b.c", Path({"a", "b", "c"}).Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("", Path().Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("a.b.c", Path(ParseTextProtoOrDie<tensorflow::metadata::v0::Path>( R"(step: [ "a", "b", "c" ])")) .Serialize()); } TEST(Path, AsProto) { const Path p({"a", "b", "c"}); Path result(p.AsProto()); EXPECT_THAT(result, EqualsPath(p)) << "result: " << result.Serialize(); } // If compare identifies things as -1, 0, and 1 correctly, the rest of the // methods can be tested with three examples. TEST(Path, Compare) { EXPECT_EQ(1, Path({"a", "b", "c"}).Compare(Path({"a", "b"}))); EXPECT_EQ(-1, Path({"a", "b"}).Compare(Path({"a", "b", "c"}))); EXPECT_EQ(0, Path({"a", "b", "c"}).Compare(Path({"a", "b", "c"}))); EXPECT_EQ(-1, Path({"a", "b", "c"}).Compare(Path({"a", "d", "c"}))); EXPECT_EQ(1, Path({"a", "d", "c"}).Compare(Path({"a", "b", "c"}))); EXPECT_EQ(0, Path().Compare(Path())); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, Less) { EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) < Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b"}) < Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) < Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, GreaterOrEqual) { EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) >= Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b"}) >= Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) >= Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, Greater) { EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) > Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b"}) > Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) > Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, LessOrEqual) { EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) <= Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b"}) <= Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) <= Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, Equal) { EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) == Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b"}) == Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) == Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } // See TEST(Path, Compare) above. TEST(Path, NotEqual) { EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) != Path({"a", "b"})); EXPECT_TRUE(Path({"a", "b"}) != Path({"a", "b", "c"})); EXPECT_FALSE(Path({"a", "b", "c"}) != Path({"a", "b", "c"})); } TEST(Path, Serialize) { EXPECT_EQ("a.'.b'.'''c'''", Path({"a", ".b", "'c'"}).Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("a.(b'.d).'((c)'", Path({"a", "(b'.d)", "((c)"}).Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("''", Path({""}).Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("", Path().Serialize()); } TEST(Path, Deserialize) { std::vector<Path> paths_to_check = {Path({"a", ".b", "'c'"}), Path({"a", "(b'.d)", "((c)"}), Path({""}), Path()}; for (const Path& path : paths_to_check) { Path result; TF_ASSERT_OK(Path::Deserialize(path.Serialize(), &result)) << "Failed on " << path.Serialize() << "!=" << result.Serialize(); EXPECT_THAT(result, EqualsPath(path)) << "result: " << result.Serialize(); } } // If a path has steps that have quotes that didn't need to be quoted, // Deserialize works anyway. TEST(Path, DeserializeSillyQuotes) { Path no_silly_quotes; TF_ASSERT_OK(Path::Deserialize("'a'.'b'.'(c'')'", &no_silly_quotes)); EXPECT_EQ("a.b.(c')", no_silly_quotes.Serialize()); } // If a path has steps that have quotes that didn't need to be quoted, // Deserialize works anyway. TEST(Path, DeserializeBad) { const std::vector<string> bad_serializations = { "a'", "'a", "(b", "c'd", "'c'd'", "''cd'", "'c'''d'"}; for (const string& bad : bad_serializations) { Path dummy; tensorflow::Status status = Path::Deserialize(bad, &dummy); EXPECT_EQ(status.code(), tensorflow::error::INVALID_ARGUMENT) << "Deserialize did not fail on " << bad; } } TEST(Path, GetParent) { EXPECT_EQ("a.b", Path({"a", "b", "c"}).GetParent().Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("a", Path({"a", "b"}).GetParent().Serialize()); } TEST(Path, GetChild) { EXPECT_EQ("a.b", Path({"a"}).GetChild("b").Serialize()); EXPECT_EQ("a", Path().GetChild("a").Serialize()); } TEST(Path, size) { EXPECT_EQ(3, Path({"a", "b", "c"}).size()); EXPECT_EQ(0, Path().size()); } TEST(Path, empty) { EXPECT_EQ(false, Path({"a", "b", "c"}).empty()); EXPECT_EQ(true, Path().empty()); } TEST(Path, GetLastStep) { EXPECT_EQ("c", Path({"a", "b", "c"}).last_step()); EXPECT_EQ("a", Path({"a"}).last_step()); } TEST(Path, PopHead) { EXPECT_THAT(Path({"foo", "rest", "of", "path"}).PopHead(), ::testing::Pair("foo", Path({"rest", "of", "path"}))); EXPECT_THAT(Path({"foo"}).PopHead(), ::testing::Pair("foo", Path())); } TEST(Path, PrintTo) { Path p({"a", "b", "c"}); std::ostringstream os; PrintTo(p, &os); EXPECT_EQ(p.Serialize(), os.str()); } } // namespace } // namespace data_validation } // namespace tensorflow

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