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Momentum is a funny thing; sometimes you’re on a roll and then…BAM! Stopped. Stuck in the mud. Or your head. Or whatever. I swear I posted a week or two ago last, but it has been almost THREE! Such a lollygagger. I haven’t gotten a ton of sewing done in that time, but I still have many garments to photograph and blog from February and March plus some oldies for Throwback Thursday.
That said, life has been a little busy, and I’ll use that as my excuse. We’re currently looking for a bigger home and readying our own house for sale. The real estate market here (and many places, per the many nationwide articles I’ve read) is pretty much insane at the moment: so little inventory, such high prices, very much a seller’s market. It’ll bode well when it comes time for us to sell our sweet little starter home, but this end is just a tad frustrating. We’ve been looking since late February and we are persisting because quickly selling our home is very attractive with a toddler around.
Speaking of a toddlers, I managed to make Cheeks some stuff for Easter. :D All three pieces are part of McCall’s 6873.
Pattern:Paprika Patterns’ Jasper, which I was lucky enough to obtain from a Perfect Pattern Parcel. (Remember those? So awesome! I still regret not buying the boys one…it had the Knight Hoodie in it! Alas, I did not know I’d have a boy then…)
Completed: January 2016 (I only remember this because I got it done the day before, maybe day of, my cousin’s baby shower!)
I decided not to wear makeup (OK, fine, I put a little lip gloss on…) for this blog post, but I did brush my hair. :P I don’t wear makeup on a daily basis, so I find the prettifying process the biggest hindrance I face (ha!) when it comes to actually getting photos of my makes taken. I decided to not give a f*ck for today’s post! :) Shout out to breastfeeding for the nice skin. I’m scared to quit you.
The moment I saw this pattern, I knew I had to have it…it was just a little different. OK, actually it’s so damn weird, and I LOVE IT.
This is Butterick 6241, view C. The piece de resistance from the February Retreat. I’ve shared some pretty basic makes so far, so thought I would throw this slightly more complicated monster into the mix next. Rawr! | {
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Bates Motel Season 1 Review “Trust Me”
Rejoice, Bates Motel fans! Not only did your favorite new show return tonight with a great new episode with “Trust Me”, but the show has been officially been renewed by A&E for a second season! With at least ten new episodes being produced, it makes it even more interesting to see how Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse are going to wrap up this season. We know these ten episodes have been shot, but there’s still a possibility that they’ll edit something or re-shoot parts of the last few episodes to give us somewhat of a cliffhanger.
Anyway, we’re only at the fourth episode tonight, so we still have quite a ways to go before we start thinking about an end game. There’s still quite a bit of craziness going on in the Bates family, and tonight’s installment picks up right where the last one left off with Norman breaking in to Officer Zach Shelby’s house. Except tonight we find out that Dylan was actually following Norman the whole time, and he actually helps him escape! When Dylan was first introduced on this show, I was prepared immediately not to like him. The rebellious absentee brother who hangs out with the wrong types of people is a TV trope that we’ve seen over and over again, but the combination of Max Thieriot’s performance and his strange camaraderie with Norman really help to set his character apart.
There seems to be a increased effort this week to vilify Officer Zach Shelby, as he’s quickly transformed into a bit of a skeezball. First he acts like a jerk to Norman as he’s walking down the street, and he also gets a little too grabby and gross with Norma when they meet up in the car. When we first met him, he was the good cop to Sheriff Romero’s bad cop, and he seemed genuinely interested in Norma and in getting to know her better. Now in the space of only about two episodes he’s seemed to be completely transformed into a total douchebag, although I did find it hilarious how disinterested Norman was in going fishing with him.
Zach was called away from his awkward fishing trip when he hears that Keith Summers’ hand was found by a local fisherman. Norma is quickly called in for questioning when they find a carpet fiber in Summers’ wrist watch, and she definitely didn’t acquit herself well in Romero’s interrogation.
Norman’s life is going a little bit better, however, as his relationship with Bradley took a big step forward tonight. Not only did he get invited over to her house in the middle of the night, but he actually ended up sleeping with her! While you can’t help but root for Norman for gettin’ lucky, it’s a little disappointing how fast this relationship is moving forward.
This is really my only complaint not only with this episode, but with the series in general: Everything is moving so fast! We only have ten episodes in this whole season, but there are a lot of great story lines here that are feeling a bit rushed. Shelby turning into a villain, Norma being called in for questioning, Norman sleeping with Bradley – It all feels so sudden. We aren’t even half way through the season, and it feels like these story lines are almost reaching their conclusion! I hope they can keep up this crazy amount of suspense every episode, and that we haven’t just peaked too early.
Random Thoughts:
– What was up with Bradley’s giant sunglasses? Was it just that she was crying all the time and wanted to cover her bloodshot eyes? It was a weird wardrobe choice, to be sure.
– There’s quite a bit of drama, suspense, and small-town mystery on this show, but you know what there’s not a lot of? Inn-keeping. Seriously, are we ever going to see any guests in this motel? There’s been a vacancy sign since episode one, for goodness sake!
– At least Norman made an effort to hang out with Emma tonight, but how is she going to feel when she inevitably finds out?! It’s a testament to this show’s writing and to Olivia Cooke’s performance that I already care so much about this poor girl.
About The Author
Luke is a licensed insurance agent by day, and a sharp-tongued TV reviewer by night. He sells entertainment insurance to people working in the TV and film industry, and then turns around to review their work! Apart from leading this conflicted life, he plays a lot of video games and enjoys his life in beautiful Santa Clarita, California with his wife and small pomeranian puppy. He hopes you enjoy his reviews, but also secretly hopes you disagree whole-heartedly because those comments are just as entertaining! | {
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This week’s breakthrough for UKIP should be welcomed by anybody who supports a healthy, vibrant democracy. The fact that a country as eurosceptic as Britain does not have a major national “out” party in parliament is an outrage, and if anything underlines the failings of the British political system.
One of the spin-offs for political reformers in Britain (even pro-Europeans) must be that the potential rise of a viable fourth party will show just how ridiculously unsuitable First Past The Post is as an electoral system in a modern multi-choice age. It’s not too fantastic to suggest that a strong performance by UKIP in a general election could result in the Tories winning the most votes but not the most seats. Could it make the Tories wake up (as their Australian counterparts did) to the fact that FPTP may not be the great voting system they think it is?
The other point which should be made is a warning about assumptions by the Tories that UKIP is somehow their errant gene pool, who can be coaxed back into the Tory fold. This may no longer be the case, because UKIP voters would seem to be exercised by issues wider than just the EU, including immigration and cuts to public services. Working class UKIP voters, for example, seem to believe that they are being undercut by workers from central Europe. Given that the Tories are not opposed to free movement within the EU, the only solution to that is tougher enforcement of employment regulations, something which the Tories would presumably be against. As well as that, talk of deals with the Tories is becoming much less attractive to UKIP as it develops a respectable tally in opinion polls as the “F**k you all” two fingered option to the political establishment.
Finally, UKIP’s rise should be welcomed because it has underlined the media obsessed paralysis of the three main UKIP parties. Every time Nigel Farage says something mildly off the political track, he gets accused of being a bigot or a racist, and guess what: it doesn’t hurt him politically at all, because he speaks in the language that non-political man down the pub speaks, and when you call him a bigot you’re calling Pub Man a bigot too, and he knows he’s not. Farage is by far the most entertaining player on the political stage since Boris, primarily because he doesn’t cage everything in get out clauses and political speak. In short, he sounds authentic, and politics could do with a bit more of that. | {
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Self-ratings of personality: a naturalistic comparison of normative, ipsative, and idiothetic standards.
The purpose of this research is to examine some of the implicit standards that individuals may use when they rate themselves on personality dimensions. Specifically, we compared ratings based on instructions that specified normative, ipsative, or idiothetic criteria with ratings obtained when subjects used their own (implicit) standards. In a series of three studies, we found that each of the explicit ratings was highly similar to the implicit-standard ratings and that there were substantial individual differences in the relative similarity of each of the explicit ratings to the implicit ratings. However, because the normative instructions elicited less extreme responses than any of the other instructions, there was a small but consistent tendency for them to be less similar to the ratings based on implicit standards than the ipsative or idiothetic ratings. The implications of this research for personality assessment and self-evaluation are discussed. | {
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Chris Brown Accused Of Robbery!
I truly hope this is not true. But, a woman by the name of Christal Spann says that Chris Brown and Tyga robbed her over the weekend. The 24 year old fan claims that Chris snatched her iPhone while they were outside a Miami nightclub this past weekend and drove off with it.
Chris Brown at The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Getty Images
According to TMZ, a police report claims “she followed Chris and Tyga out of Cameo nightclub early in the morning … and snapped a picture of Chris getting into his Bentley. Christal told cops … Chris allegedly, got upset when he seen her snap the picture on her camera phone and then allegedly grabbed it through the car window, saying, “B*tch, you’re not gonna put that on the Internet.”
A rep for the Miami Beach PD is saying, no arrests have been made and no warrant has been issued yet but the incident is under investigation. This comes right on the heels of WWE wrestler CM Punk challenging Brown to a “beat down” and a bunch of Twitter drama behind him performing and winning a Grammy.
Again, I hope he’s not that dumb, because this could be bad news for Chris. After all, he’s still on probation and one of the terms is that he obey ALL laws. If officials determine the allegations against him are true, his probation could be revoked and he could be looking at a automatic for four years. The incident is being defined as a “Robbery by sudden snatching,” according to the Miami Beach Police Department’s incident report.
Chris Brown Performs On NBC's "Today"-Getty Images
TMZ also reports the LA District Attorney’s Office is now keeping a close eye on Brown and is waiting to see what action, if any, the L.A. County Probation Department is taking. Meanwhile, Chris is letting his lawyer, Mark Geragos, deal with the Florida State’s Attorney’s Office.’ That being said, a rep from his camp said, “He will do whatever his attorney asks him to do. He is no longer in Miami, but if he needs to return for any reason, he certainly will. Chris has nothing to hide.”
As I said as of late, he’s been dealing with a lot of Twitter drama. The latest being, writer and comic Kevin Seccia, who offered $1,000 for the first person to ‘beat up the singer.’ Posting in a recent blog, Chris Brown is a horrible human being, he does not even pretend to be sorry for having brutally assaulted and threatened to kill a woman. I will pay the $1000 prize to ‘the first person to deliver proof that they hit Brown with ‘at least two solid punches.” Obviously, some people are really salty about the fact that he’s has bounced back and doing good.
Meanwhile, RadarOnline reports today, that Chris has stated that he’s done nothing wrong and that he’s hopeful that the evidence and true facts of the case will come to light.
Ironically, while some people continue to mock him and are still looking for Chris to pay for his mistake. And while they refuse to get over it, Rihanna has……. forgiven him. As a matter of fact, he was invited and attended her birthday party recently. On top of that, their making music together again. Dropping not one but two singles this week!
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When you've made $2.7 billion—nearly three thousand million dollars—it must be easy to believe you've got talent so extraordinary that it borders on magical power. Not many other people have made that much money. That you did surely proves you harnessed your gifts, and put in some hard work and grit and determination, in a way no one else was able or willing. If you can do that, you can do pretty much anything—a belief you can reinforce by paying people to tell you that, yes, you can do that. This appears to be what's powering Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO who now thinks he has what it takes to save America. So he's "seriously considering" a run for president.
Schultz has embarked on a PR blitz over the last few days, and has earned himself an impressive amount of free media. Not much of that coverage has been positive, probably because he has proven himself almost uniquely adept at misreading the political moment. This is not exactly gobsmacking, considering he's the same guy who once instructed his employees to write "Race Together" on Starbucks cups in order to force conversations on race issues with customers before they'd had their morning coffee. This initiative was greeted by a rare moment of unity across the political spectrum, as pretty much everyone agreed it was idiotic. The reception was so bad that Schultz deactivated his Twitter account, which he re-launched this week to fire off three tweets, all of which got Ratioed.
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The early signs are that his candidacy may also unite otherwise sworn enemies in pity and disgust. Schultz, it increasingly seems, is unable to grasp politics in general. A self-declared lifelong Democrat, Schultz has set himself up as a "centrist independent" in interviews with 60 Minutes and The New York Times. This earned immediate rebukes from Democrats and fellow billionaire centrist Michael Bloomberg, all of whom think Schultz could split the anti-Trump vote if he runs as a third-party spoiler and possibly throw the election to the Tangerine Generalissimo.
This was the sentiment that greeted Schultz at a book-signing event in New York City on Monday night:
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Literally 30 seconds into Howard Schultz’s appearance in NY, there’s a heckler telling him “don’t re-elect Trump.” The heckler also mentions how Schultz keeps getting ratio-ed. pic.twitter.com/Q6FUnT8YX8 — Max Tani (@maxwelltani) January 29, 2019
Bloomberg, for his part, is working off experience: he scoured the polling data in 2016 and elected not to run for exactly this reason. In today's climate, it's a reasonable concern: having lost some non-college-educated white voters to Trump, Democrats may lean on some college-educated suburban whites who have become disenchanted with the Trumpian approach of governing from manufactured crisis to self-inflicted fiasco, all while being an asshole to everyone who doesn't praise you on the TV. If there is any kind of natural constituency for a presidential bid from Howard Schultz—which assumes facts not in evidence—it would probably be well-off suburban white people who are wary of Democrats who are pledging to raise taxes to fund social programs.
If you're looking for more evidence a Schultz run could provide Trump with a better path to re-election, you only need to look to how the president is reacting to this development.
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Trump told the crowd at the Trump Hotel tonight fundraiser that he was trying to get Howard Schultz into the race with his tweet earlier today because he thinks he'll help him, per attendee. — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 29, 2019
And the very next morning, Trump's pravda network jumped into action to hold what they've surely identified as the party line:
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Ainsley Earhardt on Howard Schultz being heckled: “So ‘billionaire’ is a bad word now? Can’t make money.” pic.twitter.com/n8IAulLyzB — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) January 29, 2019
Fox News is a dependable ally to all rich people, but surely there's a reason they've chosen to defend Schultz, specifically, right now. It is not because they believe he will remove Donald Trump from the White House.
Schultz is paying some prominent Republican and Democratic strategists—including MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt and former Obama aide Bill Burton—to advise him on all this. He is likely forking over portions of his $2.7 billion net worth that are insignificant to him, but nonetheless very significant to these political consultants. It's hard to see these guys—who surely do not believe Schultz has a chance to become President of the United States but took the job anyway—telling him that he doesn't have a prayer when we're so far out from the actual contest and they've only just boarded the gravy train. But if Schultz is looking for a dose of reality—again, assumes facts not in evidence—then he doesn't even need to look to any op-ed page or Tweet Ratio. Just look at what the president and his apparatchiks think about his burgeoning political career.
One reason Schultz is no meteoric political talent is that, beyond any charisma deficiencies, he seems to believe being a "centrist independent" means you won't do much of anything—or at least nothing specific. Schultz's political views derive almost exclusively from the Church of Both Sides, the religion practiced in cable-news green rooms where Both Parties are Too Extreme, and the American People are Somewhere in the Center. Schultz even went so far as to call them the "silent majority," another display of his political savvy in that it's a callback to the race-baiting tactics of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy. It also came up in more recent times.
A Trump supporter holds a sign suggesting the "silent majority stands" with him. Mark Reinstein Getty Images
The defining gospel of the Church of Both Sides, besides the belief everyone should be more civil, is the idea the national debt is a guillotine hanging over the American republic. There are plenty of arguments against this as a basic principle. The dollar is the world's reserve currency, so the idea our debt will collapse the economy in the near or even medium turn is way overblown. Moreover, the gravity of the debt problem is closely tied to the consensus—built over just the last few decades—that Wall Street is responsible for creating money in our society through loans, while the government should back away from its method of creating money—running deficits.
Another argument that the debt isn't actually that pressing—or at least, that many people who talk about it don't actually care—is that Republicans continually run up the deficit with debt-financed tax cuts. For 40 years, they have claimed these will "pay for themselves" through economic growth, a theory based on a graph drawn on a napkin that has never, ever proven true. Just look at Kansas. Or the whole country, which was subjected to the Republican tax cut in 2017. It boosted GDP growth but barely even began to pay for itself, and also led to only modest hiring gains and no real wage improvements. That may be because the massive corporations who benefited most mostly used their savings on stock buybacks—a method of boosting share price in the short term, which in turn boosts the CEO's annual compensation—rather than on innovation or expansion. Schultz said the Republican cuts were a bit too generous to companies and insufficiently so to working people, but has largely refused to get specific on what he'd do on taxes.
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But even if the national debt is a huge problem we must solve in the medium term, it is not the most pressing issue of this political moment. Or, more to the point: balancing the budget will not solve any of the deep structural problems fueling the political extremism and social dysfunction in our society. The foremost issues in that regard are wealth inequality and decaying social mobility, on which Schultz has already staked out a familiar position: admitting there's a problem, but dismissing actual transformative solutions as too costly and unrealistic:
There is a problem that she has identified, but I think the way she’s going about it, unfortunately, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is] a bit misinformed. The problem is we have significant inequality in the country. The problem is we have about 40 percent of American families that literally don’t have $400 for a crisis. We have roughly 5 million young people, many African American, Latino, that are not in school, not in work, and one of every six Americans are food-insecure every night.
This was a response to a question about Ocasio-Cortez's proposal for a 70 percent top marginal tax rate. It is, frankly, a way to redistribute wealth from the top 1 percent, which controls 40 percent of the pie (and the top 20 percent, which controls 90 percent) to the bottom 80 percent, which controls just 10 percent of the wealth. In most Democratic proposals, this would be through government-funded education and job training and healthcare programs that strengthen the social safety net and increase social mobility. Schultz opposes this, but does not seem to offer an alternative, likely because doing something would involve him losing money. Philosophically, Howard Schultz appears to believe the fact that people like him have billions of dollars is completely unrelated to the fact that 40 percent of Americans don't have $400 in savings.
In fact, he made this explicitly clear Monday night: “I respect the Democratic Party. I no longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70 percent income tax in America." Except, at least according to the polling, he doesn't speak for the majority: 59 percent of registered voters support AOC's 70-percent top marginal rate in a recent poll. That is to say, Howard Schultz just doesn't want to pay a 70 percent tax—which would only apply to his income above $10 million—and neither do his rich friends. "The majority of Americans" just sounds better. He's running as an independent to prevent his taxes getting raised by a Democrat.
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And this is the most basic argument against running another billionaire against the self-styled billionaire in the White House. Most people, particularly those who acquire billions of dollars, do not want to give up what they have. Fixing the American economy so that workers get a fairer share of the pie will involve the obscenely rich giving up some of what they have, now or at least going forward. More than that, extremely rich people almost always struggle to grasp the problems facing working people because, over the years, they've just grown so disconnected from those lives.
That was part of the problem that faced Hillary Clinton in 2016, a very qualified candidate who believed, based on the stock market and speaking to pretty much everyone she knew, that the economy was on a big-time rebound under Obama and that she could run as largely an extension of his legacy. But 48 percent of Americans do not own any kind of stocks. The market doesn't affect them. And for many, their "real wages"—their pay when you account for the rising price of goods—have not budged much in decades. Many communities have not actually recovered from the Great Recession. This, too, is tied to an incentive structure in corporate America emphasizing short-term profits to maximize share price in the near term. The American economic system does not require modest tweaks, it requires a major overhaul where the vast majority of people get a much larger share of the pie than they currently do.
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These are the kind of problems identified by a candidate like Elizabeth Warren, surely one of those Schultz has deemed too far to the left, who has proposed workers should elect 40 percent of their corporation's board and floated a "wealth tax" of 2 percent above $50 million and 3 percent above $1 billion. This is based on the idea the short-termism of the American economy is robbing workers of just desserts and pushing it upwards towards a small cadre of executive types who then get a tax cut every time Republicans sweep into power. Schultz, if he is aware of these structural issues, is not proposing anything specific to deal with them. Maybe that's because he was very recently an executive at a major corporation, and would not have enjoyed having to cater to the interests of workers—particularly if it affected the share price. But the idea share price is the only concern for a corporate executive is, again, a relatively recent development.
Schultz's belief that most Americans agree with him seems to be rooted in a single data point he cited on 60 Minutes: that around 40 percent identify as "independents." That's true, but it has no actual bearing on what kind of policies they favor. First of all, most independents "lean" Democratic or Republican—they almost always vote that way. Most people just like to think of themselves as "independent thinkers" or otherwise immune to groupthink. Second of all, Schultz's brand of national-debt obsessed centrism isn't reflected in other polling. In general, three quarters of Americans favor higher taxes on the wealthy. In the poll showing 59 percent support AOC's top marginal tax rate of 70 percent, 60 percent of the independents Schultz claims to represent also support it. 45 percent of Republicans support it. 55 percent of Republicans oppose it, so it sounds like Schultz represents Republican voters on that issue.
In fact, he sounds—if not conservative—than resigned to a slightly modified status quo on a number of issues:
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he’s strongly considering running for president in 2020. Where does the billionaire Independent stand on key issues facing our country? https://t.co/b6zijMBLs7 pic.twitter.com/0O2jh56AB2 — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 28, 2019
Medicare For All is as unrealistic as The Wall? Even if you ignore that most every other industrialized nation has universal healthcare, just look at a study from George Mason University, one of the most conservative shops around, which found Bernie Sanders' MFA plan would cost less than our current system is projected to over the same period. Also, it would insure 30 million more people. Also, it's not "free," as Schultz said—it's paid for with tax dollars instead of insurance premiums. Also, 70 percent of Americans support it. But Schultz is trapped in a delusion courtesy of the Both Sides gospel, a steadfast belief that you cannot do anything ambitious because of the Debt Guillotine. Notice he said everyone should have "the right to access to quality healthcare." Nowhere did he say they could afford it. This is very similar to the rhetoric Paul Ryan would trot out while trying to force through the various Republican healthcare bills.
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In effect, Howard Schultz has positioned himself as a ludicrously rich would-be technocrat somewhere between Hillary Clinton and milquetoast Jeb Bush-style Republicans on the political spectrum. He's socially liberal and accepts the scientific consensus on climate change, but basically opposes any major changes to the economic system. (This may or may not have to do with a belief that the stratospheric degree of his financial success is unrelated to structural inequities in that system.) You may have noticed Donald Trump defeated all these people, albeit, in the case of Clinton, using a quirk of our electoral system. If we learned anything from 2016, it's that the country now demands someone who will understand the problems working people face and the visceral rage that our decades-long insistence on exacerbating those problems has created. Howard Schultz is not that candidate, because Howard Schultz has nearly three billion dollars and thinks racism can be addressed via notes on a coffee cup.
We don't need someone who thinks Donald Trump is rude and he cut taxes on rich people a little bit too much. Trump will not be the last racist authoritarian the Republican base nominates if we fail to address the economic despair that drives people at the fringes of his movement to throw in with him on the basis that the other option is the status quo. As we've seen these last few years, the country is ripe for fascism. Howard Schultz should stay on the sidelines, in his luxury box, and pay whatever relatively modest tax is levied on him by someone with an actual grasp on the existential threats facing American society. He could use the money he'll save by firing the political consultants who don't actually think he can win anyway.
Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.
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Blood on the Leaves
"Blood on the Leaves" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West from his sixth studio album Yeezus (2013). In the song West presents his thoughts on how fame can cause the destruction of relationships, while making comparisons of contemporary times to the lynching of African Americans in the United States during the pre-civil rights era. West delivers his vocals through an Auto-Tune processor, like on his 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak. It contains samples of both singer Nina Simone's 1965 rendition of Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit", and "R U Ready" by the duo TNGHT, who co-produced the track.
The song received universal acclaim from music critics, with many commenting on its lyrical message and praising its samples. It was named one of the best tracks of 2013 by multiple publications. Pitchfork later placed the track on their list of the 200 best songs of the 2010s. Despite not being released as a single, the song managed to enter charts in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Australia in 2013. A music video was set to be directed by American filmmaker David Lynch, but plans were abandoned. Since its release, West has performed the song live on multiple occasions, including at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and on the 2016 Saint Pablo Tour.
Background and composition
The song features production by the musical duo TNGHT, consisting of Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke and Canadian producer Lunice. Mohawke had previously worked with West on the 2012 GOOD Music collaboration "Mercy", along with other tracks on the compilation album Cruel Summer (2012). After working on Yeezus, Mohawke was introduced to an entirely new approach to songwriting. According to Mohawke, the duo's song "R U Ready", which is sampled in "Blood on the Leaves", was one of the first songs the two recorded together and was also one of the first pieces of music the duo sent to West to sample.
West had previously sampled the work of Nina Simone on the 808s & Heartbreak track "Bad News" and the Watch the Throne collaborative track "New Day" with Jay-Z. Rapper Travis Scott viewed West as "a genius" and the only person who would think of combining "Strange Fruit" with a Hudson Mohawke beat in the "crazy-ass song". When he first heard the combination, Travis Scott "was jumping on niggas' backs and shit, like, 'Ahhhh!'".
"Blood on the Leaves" is a hip hop song in which West delivers his vocals through an Auto-Tune processor, similar to his 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak. The song begins with a sample of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone's 1965 rendition of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday over rolling piano chords, after which West's vocals begins. After one minute, the song unleashes horns taken from musical duo TNGHT's song "R U Ready", along with animal growls that play sporadically throughout the rest of the song. He later interpolates the hook of rapper C-Murder's 2000 song "Down for My N's." West's verses center around the perils of fame, conspicuous consumption and drug-addled romance. He raps lyrics which have been speculated as a possible reference to Jay-Z being unfaithful to his wife Beyoncé.
Release
"Blood on the Leaves" was released on June 18, 2013, as the seventh track on West's sixth studio album Yeezus. According to Mohawke, "Blood on the Leaves" was originally intended to be the album's opener instead of "On Sight", but was changed "at the last minute" due to "the message ["On Sight"] puts across that [Yeezus] is a very different record." In November 2013, Mohawke announced via Twitter that the song was to-be released as the next single for the album, after "Bound 2" in August 2013. That same month, West subsequently announced the release during an appearance on 92.3 NOW. David Lynch stated his intentions to direct a music video for "Blood on the Leaves" due to his fondness for the song, but plans were abandoned after Lynch "never got [any] ideas."
Critical reception
The song received universal acclaim from music critics, with many commenting on its lyrical message and praising its samples. When reviewing the album for HipHopDX, Justin Hunte wrote that "Blood on the Leaves" is "[the] one song [from Yeezus] that must be heard immediately." The staff of Popdust rated the song three and a half out of five, describing it as "an epic Yeezy tale about a relationship gone sour over issues of money and celebrity and bad timing and possibly even an unwanted child, depending on how you interpret the final verse." The song was branded by Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone as being "a buzzing, bluesy, static-y track." The song impressed director David Lynch: "I think it's one of the most modern pieces and so minimal, so powerful but at the same time so beautiful. It's a great, great song." Gil Kaufman of MTV called "Blood on the Leaves": "a churning anthem about conspicuous consumption" and: "[an] example of West's signature dichotomy in which he melds the sacred and profane." The original version of Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit" recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 has been deemed: "shorthand for music that deals with racial injustice."
Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork called the song the "album pinnacle" and "a nightmarish story of divorce and betrayal," while Jody Rosen of Vulture stated that: "[West is] well aware how audacious to interpolate that sacred song into a monstrously self-pitying ... a melodrama about what a drag it is when your side-piece won't abort your love child." Nicholas Troester of conservative magazine First Things labeled the song as an "anti-abortion anthem" and thought the focus of the song is: "the tremendous selfishness of adults who cannot understand the importance of families or children."
Accolades
The song was named among the best tracks of 2013 by multiple publications. Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 20 on their list of the 100 Best Songs of 2013. Pitchfork ranked the song at number 11 on their list of the 100 Best Songs of 2013, writing: "Blood on the Leaves", more than anything else on Yeezus, melds repulsive content and magnetic music into a strike that leaves the taste of real blood in your mouth" and calling it "a conceptual enigma." XXL magazine ranked the song at number 24 on their list of the 25 best songs of 2013, writing: "Mixing personal memories of a menacing relationship with the horrors of lynching for a record is often looked at as a blasphemous feat at first—but Kanye West made the combination work. Sampling Nina Simone's 'Strange Fruit', West's 'Blood on the Leaves'...was a gorgeous metaphor of a failed relationship touted with bass, towering horns, and auto-tune effect reminiscent of '808s & Heartbreak'." Time Out listed "Blood on the Leaves" as West's 12th greatest song in March 2018. In 2019, Pitchfork ranked "Blood on the Leaves" at number 155 on their list of the 200 best songs of the 2010s, writing, "[The song] is a microcosm of what made Kanye both great and awful this decade", praising its beat, samples, vocals, and lyrics. Rolling Stone placed it at 75 on its list of the 100 best songs of the 2010s.
Commercial performance
Upon the album's release, the track charted at number 91 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and disappeared from the chart afterwards until making a re-entry at its peak position of number 89 on September 14, 2013. The track charted at number 28 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart initially, then went on to peak at number 27 in the same week as reaching its peak position on the Hot 100 and spent a total of five weeks on the chart. "Blood on the Leaves" was certified Gold in the United States in 2015, despite West releasing no album that year. It was later certified Platinum in the United States in 2018. In France, the track debuted at number 131 on the SNEP chart upon the release of Yeezus. It entered at number 174 on the UK Singles Chart.
Live performances
West performed the song live at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. He was originally supposed to perform "Black Skinhead", though changed to performing "Blood on the Leaves" instead shortly before the show. The performance was notable for its minimal lighting and forest-themed backdrop. Moments before taking the stage, West posted a photo of the backcloth on Twitter with the caption; "it's a tree that was used for lynching." Later he posted a message on his website, "This tree was used for lynching. Those who were murdered are buried in the ground around the tree. Blood on the leaves." The song was performed live by West on Later... with Jools Holland in September 2013. West omitted Jay-Z's name from the song's lyrics when performing it live at the X Games Austin 2014 Music Festival, where his name was also omitted from the lyrics of "Cold". Other live performances include Glastonbury in June 2015 and on the Saint Pablo Tour in August 2016.
Cover version and remixes
American musician Raury covered the song during his appearance on Hot 97 in September 2014. A version titled "Blood on the Leaves (DOGMA remix)" was released in June 2013, which includes Nina Simone's vocals being mashed. American rapper Waka Flocka Flame freestyled over the song's instrumental in May 2014 as part of his weekly series of freestyles every Monday, leading up to the release of his third studio album Flockaveli 2. A remix of the song was shared by Nicolas Jaar in February 2016.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the Yeezus liner notes.
Kanye West – songwriter, producer
Ross Bichard – songwriter, producer
Elon Rutberg – songwriter
Malik Jones – songwriter
Tony Williams – songwriter
Cydel Young – songwriter
Mike Dean – songwriter, additional producer
Lewis Allen – songwriter
Lunice – producer
Carlos Broady – co-producer
88-Keys – additional producer
Arca – additional producer
Noah Goldstein – engineer, mixer at Shangri-La Studios, Malibu, CA
Anthony Kilhoffer – engineer
Marc Portheau – assistant engineer
Khoi Huynh – assistant engineer
Raoul Le Pennec – assistant engineer
Nabil Essemlani – assistant engineer
Damien Prost – assistant engineer
Keith Parry – assistant engineer
Kenta Yonesaka – assistant engineer
David Rowland – assistant engineer
Sean Oakley – assistant engineer, assistant mixer
Eric Lynn – assistant engineer, assistant mixer
Dave "Squirrel" Covell – assistant engineer, assistant mixer
Josh Smith – assistant engineer, assistant mixer
Charts
Certifications
References
External links
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Q:
Surjectivity and composition in functions
Sorry for this pretty dumb question, but I couldn't find any answer to it.
Supposing we have a set $A$ and functions $f,g:A\to A$. Prove that if $f$ isn't surjective then $f \circ g$ isn't surjective.
Basically as I think, In order for a composite function to be surjective' both the functions that are getting composited (In this case functions $f$ and $g$) should be surjective.
Is that right or wrong? And how can I prove that?
EDIT: Question is solved, Check my answer.
A:
The statement is equivalent to $f\circ g$ surjective implies $f$ surjective, which is rather clear since : Let $y\in A$, there is $x\in A$ s.t. $y=f(g(x))$. In particular, if $u=g(x)$, then $y=f(u)$. We proved that $$\forall y\in A, \exists u\in A: y=f(u),$$
and thus surjectivity of $f$.
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Now that his impeachment trial is over, President Donald Trump has turned his full attention (when he’s not tweeting insults and carrying out vendettas) to campaigning for re-election in November.
He’s counting on his base – particularly the large percentage of conservative, older white evangelicals who voted for him in 2016 – to head to the polls for him again. They likely will, despite the distinctly un-evangelical words and actions he has littered across the landscape over the past three years. A few conservative Supreme Court justices and nonstop attacks on liberals, socialists and Muslims apparently go a long way.
Encouraged by evangelicals’ ongoing adoration, Trump isn’t writing off any group of potential supporters, no matter how unlikely.
Have you heard of Black Voices for Trump? It’s a real thing, and it includes such luminaries as former pizza salesman and presidential candidate Herman Cain and evangelist Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr.
“Apparently there are still a lot of gullible – and fearful – folks out there.”
They’ve got plenty of folks to win over, considering that only about 8 percent of African Americans voted for Trump in 2016. Things haven’t changed much, either. In January, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll reported that 9 out of 10 African Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance in the White House. Eight in 10 believe he is racist.
That’s not stopping Black Voices for Trump. They’re touting the historically low black unemployment rate, Trump’s support for cutting black incarceration rates and Trump administration policies that are “bettering the lives of black Americans.”
They’re not alone, either. Latinos for Trump and Women for Trump – representing two demographic groups repeatedly insulted and demeaned by the president – are also pushing for the president’s reelection. Like Black Voices, they have received money from his national campaign to back their outreach.
In view of these efforts, might I suggest a few additional groups the president should consider launching? How about:
Immigrants and Refugees for Trump. True, these folks first have to gain entrance to the United States, an increasingly difficult proposition in the Trump era. Then they have to avoid being arrested by ICE agents – and targeted by anti-immigrant bigots – long enough to gain citizenship so they can vote. But if they can manage those challenges, they’ll have the honor of voting for a president who has described them as criminals, rapists and terrorists.
Victims of Sexual Harassment and Assault for Trump. (Yes, it’s a long name, but V-SHAT makes for an interesting acronym.) This group has real possibilities. Heck, at least 23 women have accused Trump himself of everything from inappropriate touching and kissing to rape. So, he’s already demonstrated a “hands on” commitment to reaching this demographic.
Journalists for Trump. I know, I know, Trump regularly calls reporters “enemies of the people,” dismisses any story he doesn’t like as “fake news” and never misses a chance to slime The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. But there’s always Fox News, Breitbart, conservative talk radio and the Russian government funded RT. With few exceptions, they can be counted on to say and do as they’re told.
Contractors for Trump. As a real estate mogul, Trump reportedly has fleeced, ripped off or refused to pay hundreds, possibly thousands, of small contractors who have worked for him on building and development projects. When they bill him, he typically offers a fraction of what he originally promised to pay, then dares them to take him to court, where he can outwait or bankrupt them with his army of lawyers. Why would this group support Trump, you ask? To make America great again! And maybe keep alive their faint hopes of getting paid.
Muslims for Trump. This might seem the most unlikely group of all to support the president, but an organization with this name actually exists (based in Austin, Texas, of all places) and apparently was active during the 2016 campaign. I’m not sure what they’re up to this year, but there must be some American Muslims out there who actually like being stereotyped, ridiculed, threatened, feared and vilified. Go find ’em, Muslims for Trump!
Snark aside, it’s frightening to think that if Trump makes even modest inroads among women, Hispanics and African American voters, he could win several swing states crucial to his re-election.
Will it happen? Well, it did three years ago. And apparently there are still a lot of gullible – and fearful – folks out there.
Exhibit A: the older, fearful, white church folks who continue to believe Trump is God’s political anointed one, sent to deliver America from destruction at the hands of Democrats, godless humanists, socialists and brown-skinned immigrants.
Shakespeare’s Fool might say to them what he said to King Lear, who already had been duped by his own anger and arrogance: “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
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...an award-nominated Irish blog on Irish history and Irish politics-from today and yesterday:all 32 Counties !Updated a number of times each week . (Mirror site here)
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"1169 And Counting is a wealth of information on our Republican past and present , and demonstrates how the Irish political landscape , like that of any nation, will never be a black and white issue..."
IRISH BLOG AWARDS 2017 - ooops! It seems that our entry application was "not completed in time to be considered.." (?) and, as such, we are not now in the running. But we wish all the best to the successful entrants and to the organisers, and we hope all goes well for them on the day!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
VOTE 'NO' to Lisbon Two!
"Ní hea, No, Nein, Non, Nyet, Nope, Not, No Means No ..."What part of that don't they understand ?
On Thursday , 12th June 2008 , a vote was held in this State on the Lisbon Constitution/Treaty : for months beforehand we were repeatedly told by the political 'establishment' in Leinster House that that what we were being asked to vote on was "non-negotiable" , that we had to vote on it as it then stood , that it was legally impossible to have anything removed from it or inserted into it. Now that same political 'establishment' are asking us to believe that not only was it possible to change that Treaty , but that they had managed to do so to the "benefit" of this State's position within the EU !
However - Czech prime minister Jan Fischer, who chaired a meeting on the supposed 'new Irish Lisbon Treaty' (as his country presently holds the EU presidency) was questioned(on Friday 19th June 2009) on these 'Irish changes' and dismissed them as nothing of the sort : "The protocol("changes") will clarify but not change either the content or the application of the treaty of Lisbon. It is an explanatory clarifying text which changes not a dot nor comma of the Lisbon Treaty."What has actually been 'achieved' by those idiots in Leinster House is a promise ("guarantee") from the bigger political fatcats in Brussels that , at some time in the future, they might look at making a few amendments to the way the Lisbon Two Treaty affects this State! And Brian Cowan and his equally useless cabal of semi-political misfits were never going to get "changes to the Lisbon Treaty" due to the fact that Poland , Holland , Austria , Sweden and Britain used their combined 'weight' to 'lean' on Brussels , stating that if the Irish were to be offered a new Treaty then they , too , would expect the same offer to be made to them - so a compromise was agreed : Brussels would allow Cowan to claim that a "new Treaty" for the Irish was on offer but , at the same time , made it clear to Cowan that what they were offering was a promise that , if passed this time, they would perhaps - at some future date - take a look at the manner in which the Treaty affected this State. And please have no doubt that that is all that is on offer here - a promise from corrupt millionaire politicians in Brussels that they will , someday , give a curious glance over their well-padded shoulder at the way their tax laws are effecting finances in this State.
"The meeting and dinner heard how Ireland’s “intellectual mediocrity and lack of political courage” led to the rejection of the Lisbon treaty and included discussions of how to “cuddle and pamper” the Irish voter ahead of a new vote while at the same time “making pressures on them”.(From here.)
This video gives an apt description of the type of morally and politically corrupt politician and system that are now demanding we vote 'the right way' on the already failed Lisbon Treaty. And this video shows what those bent career politicians stand to loose if we don't vote the way they want us to . As Republican Sinn Féin have stated - "The decision to re-run the referendum on the rejected Lisbon Treaty in the 26-Counties next October represents an attempt to subvert the sovereign will of the people.All kinds of pressure is being applied to those allowed to vote to ensure that they arrive at the result Brian Cowen and the EU 'élite' demand....."(From here.)Once again, this blog will be campaigning for a 'NO' vote on the Lisbon Treaty , for the same reasons : the "guarantees" which Brian Cowen has received have been given to him by similar unprincipled characters and , even if they were to be written in blood , would still be worthless .VOTE 'NO!' and help keep the lifts and corridors of the EU building free of more political rats , who scurry around trying to find the 'Sign In' book before they head back home to the political brothels they come from .Sharon.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Two cultures overlapping in the one space , getting in each other's way sometimes . We have the hospitals , the machines , the learning and the money . And the petitions , the men in uniforms and robes and the buildings with bars and barbed wire.Muscles flex , people get hurt . Some of the kids suck a 'solution' from the bottom of a plastic bag. [END of 'DUBLIN 1980 : THE GLUE SNIFFERS'](Next - 'THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY' , from 1986.)
The British Labour Party's 'roll of shame' was recited dolefully - Harold Wilson,Merlyn Rees,Michael Foot and the awful Roy Mason. Tom Kelly , Seamus Mallon's young personal assistant , saved a gloomy moment - " A hung parliament in Westminster with the Unionists holding the balance and (P) Sinn Féin holding the ring in Dublin . The worst possible picture , right ? But politics is the art of the possible. "That won a smile from the old hands.[END of 'HOPE IN THE SHADOWS'](Next - 'THE HOWARD MARKS AFFAIR' , from 1980.)
A BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS.......A look at issues raised by Liz Curtis' recent book. From 'IRIS' magazine, August 1984.Review by Trisha Fox.
Just occasionally , a programme slips through that portrays oddly favourable points of view in some respects , though they might not be the primary intent of the programme maker .
A Programme in the 'Real Lives' series entitled 'A' Company , directed by Paul Hamann, showed a group of ex-British soldiers revisiting Belfast ten years after their first tour of duty . While the programme was primarily a propaganda exercise for the Brits , insofar as it portrayed relatively 'liberal' and informed ex-soldiers who stoutly maintained that their role had been that of 'peace-keepers' between sectarian factions , there did emerge several images favourable to Irish republicans .
The most memorable of these occurs after British Army Colonel David Hancock (see 'The Military Wing Of Unionism', here) is seen visiting a community leader , Frank Cahill, in Ballymurphy , whom he had first met while stationed in the area years earlier . Later , summing up his overall impressions , Hancock refers to his meeting with Frank Cahill : " The thing I shall remember is the dedication of the republican we saw this afternoon . No wavering after fifteen years of conflict on the streets . The same aims , same intentions , same dedication . It is foolish to plan a solution without taking a factor like that into consideration. " (MORE LATER).
Monday, June 15, 2009
WOLFE TONE COMMEMORATION 2009 : brief report and a few photographs.
Between eight hundred and one thousand Irish Republicans gathered , as we do each year , in Sallins Village on Sunday June 14th last and marched in a well-organised fashion to the grave of Wolfe Tone , in Bodenstown Graveyard . The procession was led by uniformed members of Cumann na mBan , Na Fianna Eireann and an RSF Colour Party , and was very well received along the route by locals. The Thomas DavisPipe Band from Cork , an extremely well-turned out and professional group , marched to and from the graveyard, never once missing a beat or a note as they done so. The proceedings were professionaly Chaired by Dan Hoban, Mayo, Peig Galligan(a walking encyclopedia of Irish Republicanism!) delivered a very fitting and respectful talk on the history of Wolfe Tone and those who supported the man and his objectives and Fermanagh Republican John Joe McCusker delivered a rousing oration , which was received with loud cheers by the large crowd gathered around the graveyard.There was , as usual , a great 'buzz' and atmosphere about the whole day - even the harassment doled out by the nine members of the State political police couldn't ruin the day , try as they might. Their repeated interruptions were brushed aside and ignored by the large crowd , members of whom openly sneered at them and pushed back when attempts were made by these cretins to detain them. Overall , the whole event went as planned and was an honourable tribute to one of our Founding Fathers - Republican Sinn Féin are to be congratulated for organising this Commemoration , as are those who made the effort to attend. Well done to us all!We publish with this brief report a couple of photo's from the day , and a link to where more of the same can be viewed -
Members of Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Éireann in Bodenstown , 14th June 2009. | {
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Murderous scientists have proven that animals slaughtered for Jewish and Muslim religious sacrifices feel the pain, but stunning the animal first terminates the torture. So, animal rights activists, it's time for a whole new type of holy war. [New Scientist] | {
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Rock ‘N Roll With Pepe Smith
So there I was, walking without a care in the world, checking my email on my phone when someone saunters past me with a very familiar stride.
Holy cow, it’s Pepe Smith!
I rushed back to Kenny Rogers and ran back to my friends after I very, very slowly recovered from my unbelievable denial. I said, “Guess who I saw! Pepe Smith!”
They replied, “Guess who’s with us in a picture! Pepe Smith!”
I almost pulled my hair out when I saw ALL MY FRIENDS posing with Pepe Smith. Apparently, my friend Muriel followed Pepe into the Adidas store and screamed her lungs out to have her picture taken with him: “PEPE SMIIIIIITH!!! PLEEEEEASE!!!!!!!” (I asked her, whatever possessed her to scream inside the Adidas store? She said she couldn’t care less because she wasn’t going back there anyway.)
I sank back into my chair inside Kenny Rogers. I guess the opportunity has passed. Then I see the same familiar stride headed my way.
Holy cow, it’s Pepe Smith – again!
Apparently, he was seated right beside us at Kenny Rogers. I then (finally!) had a picture taken with the rock legend. Of course, the shameless Muriel stood up and rushed to my side like the crazy fan she was, brazenly sharing the photo op with me (and I shall kill her for it):
How silly, Pepe Smith was still holding his claim number!
I never thought ordering yogurt and saying “Let’s rock ‘n roll!” would go so well together. I knew it; eating at Kenny Rogers would do me good one day.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
A Blog Hop With The Character Cafe’
It’s the first Friday of the month and that means a blog hop with The Character Cafe’ to show off the new images!
I was assigned this absolutely adorable image-SPOTTY! Don’t ya just love him!!! I’ve been wanting to do another easel card and thought this little guy would be perfect! He’s all colored with copics and I popped his cute little head and tail up with pop dots! All the fun paper is DCWV, I added some buttons with twine! Ok, onto the deets! Make sure you visit all the lovely ladies. Here’s the blog order-
We will each draw a winner from our comments to win the image we worked with. Instead of a freebie, the ladies are offering a sale—buy 6 images for $5.00. The sale will last through July 10th. Their is a grand prize to be won if you create a project using any TCC image and link to the blog. The grand prize is: 2 new release images and a $5.00 gift certificate to the store. You also have the chance to be the next guest designer! Have a great day and enjoy the hop!
Sarah, as always I adore your work! I love the colors that you choose and the way that you put them together. You always do such a wonderful job with these cute images! Thanks so much for sharing, and I especially love this little one. xoxo Maddy
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French magazine Charlie Hebdo mocks Harvey victims as neo-Nazis
(WSVN) - Controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo is drawing plenty of criticism for its latest cover, mocking Texas in the aftermath of Harvey.
Fox News reports the magazine’s cover reads “God Exists! He Drowned All the Neo-Nazis of Texas” along with an illustration downing swastika flags and arms in a Nazi salute submerged in water.
The weekly magazine relishes in controversy, which often invites backlash against the publishers. After a 2015 issue mocked an ISIS leader, two gunmen opened fire on the publication’s staff in their Paris offices.
The image of the latest cover sparked outrage on social media.
An evil, despicable cover. Also, the losers at Charlie Hebdo have a God-given right to publish it, & no one has the right to shoot them pic.twitter.com/isOVjkXPR0 | {
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WHAT THE FILM?! Gremlins
January 23rd, 2012 Dane Sager
What The Film?! is a weekly column exclusive to Under The Gun Review that brings to light the plot holes Hollywood hoped you’d never notice. Written by comedy writer Dane Sager, this column shows no mercy to films that try and pull the proverbial wool over our eyes.
If you know a film with major plot holes that you feel needs to be exposed, tell us! Email [email protected] with the subject “What The Film” and we’ll try to get your suggestion featured on the site.
This Week’s Movie: 1984’s Gremlins
This movie was suggested to me by our own Under The Gun’s Head of Photography, Melanie Hodgins.
You might not know it, but Gremlins is a very important movie. No, seriously, it is actually a part of Hollywood History. Not only was it one of the very first horror-comedies (winner of “best genre ever” award), but when this movie came out there were only four ratings a movie could have assigned to it. G for General Audiences, PG for Parental Guidance, R for Restricted, and NC-17 for “Damn it, I thought this was porn”. After Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came out, there was a public outcry about the amount of violence in PG movies, causing the creation of the PG-13 rating for movies not quite rated R but not friendly enough to be a PG. If you’re confused about how much “questionable content” that can go into a PG movie, watch 1982’s Poltergeist, 1975’s Jaws, or 1988’s Beetlejuice. All three movies contain a pretty decent amount of violence, blood, and profanity. They’re also all great movies that you should probably see anyway.
“I plan on remaking this movie every other year for the next 30 years” - Tim Burton
Gremlins was written by a young Chris Columbus, who later became well known as a director. Chris would wake up late at night to the sounds of mice scurrying around his dark apartment. Frightened by this, he decided to write a spec script about small creatures in the dark. It was initially written almost as a joke, he was only intending to release it to potential employers to show off that he could write, regardless of the topic. As luck would have it, Steven Spielberg ended up reading the script and loved how original and different it was. He insisted on the movie being made, launching Chris Columbus’ career.
“After I give the natives Syphilis, I think I'll direct a few Harry Potter movies”
The movie begins with Randall Peltzer, who is looking for a Christmas present for his son. He ends up finding a living furby type creature at an antique store in Chinatown. This probably wasn’t the best place to be looking for Christmas presents for his son to begin with, but he decides to purchase the strange creature because it was probably late and like, GameStop was on the other side of town, and like, he really had to go to the bathroom and had problems pooping outside of his own home (assumedly).
The creature, called a Mogwai, comes with very important rules: you never expose it to bright light, you don’t talk about fight club, you never get it wet, and the most important of all, do not feed it after midnight.
They also hate 3D movies just as much as the rest of the world.
Randall ends up naming the Mogwai “Gizmo” and gives it to his son, Billy. Shortly after Billy receives Gizmo, a glass of water is accidentally spilled on him. The family breaks the second rule within a day. This is why we can’t have nice things. Gizmo spasms violently and ends up producing five new Mogwai from his own body. The largest Mogwai (called “Stripe”) is violent and aggressive towards everyone and acts as a leader for all the new pets. Billy takes one of the Mogwai to school with him, giving it to his science teacher, Mr Hanson, to study. That night, Billy feeds the Mogwai after midnight, because this family doesn’t care about responsibility.
The next morning, Billy discovers that all the Mogwai have turned into cocoons except for Gizmo, who had not eaten the prior night. At the same time, the Mogwai at school who had also eaten after midnight, also cocoons itself. All the Mogwai in cocoons end up transforming into gremlins, violent lizard creatures with sharp claws and teeth. The gremlin at school ends up killing Billy’s teacher as the gremlins at home attack Billy’s mother, who ends up being the most powerful person in the movie as she ends up killing multiple gremlins.
She is seriously the most productive member of the family.
Ultimately, the family ends up destroying all the evil violent gremlins because of course they did, it’s a movie. Gizmo ends up being taken away by the man who ran the antique store in the beginning of the movie, telling the family they aren’t ready for caring for Mogwai yet and “Also no refunds, suck it”. There are two problems with this movie, one being that the Gremlin that killed Billy’s teacher is never taken care of. Despite killing off and destroying all the gremlins from their own household, nothing is ever every done regarding the gremlin at school. It’s probably in a hoodie, doing some sort of 21 Jump Street type scheme to get in with the cool kids before killing them.
The biggest issue being that you can’t feed them after midnight. Can you think of any creature from anything that has a time related problem everyday? What about Daylight Savings time? What if you’re in a state that doesn’t observe Daylight Savings time? What if you’re in Arizona while the rest of your time zone is after midnight, you’re prior to midnight? Does the Mogwai digestive system know the difference? It’s always after midnight somewhere. At what point after midnight does it become safe to feed them again? You can’t have rules like that, it’s like a cell phone provider having “free” minutes at night. When does night start and stop? It’s something so vague that you don’t realize you’ve been scammed into buying a non-functional phone till you realize that it doesn’t have service anywhere. Ever.
Some gremlins probably took out AT&T's cell towers or something.
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Tekkerz basically means skill. For example good tekkerz means good skill, bad tekkerz means bad skill and UNBELIEVABLE TEKKERZ! is basically the dogs bollocks. When people just say "tekkerz" it is usually good. | {
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So I just finished rebuilding a 350ci small block and I need a body to put this beast in. I've searched hi and low, but I'm a cheap bastard. Everything has been a bucket of rust or someone wants me to buy their rebuilt car. So if any of you gearheads know anyone who has a car body for sale, preferably under 1K, send them my way. I'm looking in the 1970's Chevy range: Camaro, Malibu, Chevelle, a Vega would be interesting to put a small block in.
I found a truck. 1965 Chevy Step Side. The front clip has been replaced with one from a Camaro. Awesome, power steering! I'm going to put in a 350 with 525/525 cam and a 700 trans with OD. I've already put 20" slicks on the back. Sweet! | {
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In 1942 Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Major Grau (Omar Sharif), an Agent from German Intelligence who believes in justice, is in charge of the investigation. An eyewitness saw a German General leaving the building after a scream of the victim. A further investigation shows that three Generals do not have any alibi for that night: General Tanz (Peter O'Toole), Major General Klaus Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence), and General von Seidlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray). The three avoid direct contact with Major Grau and become potential suspects. As Major Grau gets close to them, he is promoted and sent to Paris. In 1944 Paris, this quartet is reunited, and Major Grau continues his investigation. Meanwhile, a plan for killing Adolf Hitler is plotted by his high command, a romance between Ulrike von Seidlitz-Gabler (Joanna Pettet) and Lance Corporal Kurt Hartmann (Sir Tom Courtenay) is happening and Inspector Morand (Philippe Noiret) is helping Major Grau in his ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | {
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The newest version of Minecraft greets players with the sentence "You are a NIGGER," if they switch their language settings to Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
It appears to have been the doing of an unruly Minecraft user who was among many people who worked on language translations of the popular game. Minecraft's developers at Mojang have apologized and pinned this on the player-translator. The screenshot above is from Kotaku's Mike Fahey's version of the game.
The largely text-free Minecraft is playable in a multitude of languages (56 by our count if you include Pirate and Canadian English), and relies at least in part on user-submitted translations of the menus and other text.
Mojang's Jens "Jeb" Bergensten became aware of the problem today, tweeting the following:
This is certainly one of the hazards with crowd-sourced development; quality assurance becomes very important, and it's possible for things like this to make their way into a game that millions of people play. Still, it's a bummer that it happened.
Kotaku has reached out to Bergensten and Mojang for comment and will update if and when we hear back.
[Update, Jan. 28] Bergensten, in a statement to Kotaku called the slur the work of "pranksters," and said the version they vandalized is a "snapshot build" that is not pushed to all 5 million Minecraft users.
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Friday, July 15, 2005
I BELIEVE WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF TIMES
Last night, Catherine alerted me to the fact that Pauline Hanson was the subject of This Is Your Life. Thank you, Catherine. IT WAS GHASTLY. Possibly the most ghastly and astounding thing I have seen on television in the guise of polite wholesome fun. In attendance; Pauline Hanson, Mike Munro, Alan Jones, a bunch of uckin moles. With the repeated suggestion that a) this was an honour, and b) it was deserved. And everyone quite willing to laugh off deeply discriminatory and idiotic social ideas and instead talk about courage and conviction. What larks! It was like being locked in a room where there were menacing warning signs on all the walls with "Deploy critical faculties on pain of death" on them, but where no-one much minded the restriction anyway. And through all the screaming and the WHY, and the WHERE AM I, WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT DAY IS IT, WHAT LANGAUGE AM I SPEAKING, this persistent dreadful thought kept pushing its way into my mind:
THIS IS WHAT YOUR COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE, IS.
Seriously, is the end of civilisation nigh, or something? I would just like to know. Because last night, aside from the genius car ad with its "there's room for everyone" bit, the only bright spot, or, the only thing that remotely approached a decent spot, was KYLE SANDILANDS. Yes, exactly. Anyway, after Jackie O was all like, "we saw you at the airport and didn't make eye contact with you. WE LOVE YOU, PAULINE", Kyle became a person I would allow to continue breathing. He said this:
"she said, 'I don't know why the whole country doesn't like me', and we said, 'Because you didn't like Asians and Aboriginals. But now you've changed your mind, you've danced your heart out, the world loves you'."
Yes, that's it. That's the bright spot. Believe me, in context, this was actually a good thing to say. Because there was no limit to the gloss they were prepared to apply, eg. "After coming top of your class in Year 9, you dropped out of school at the age of 15...At 24, after years working as a waitress, you got a promotion. And became a barmaid at the Penthouse Club..."
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Motorhead
World-renowned heavy metal legends Motörhead have turned their attention to your intimate pleasure with their own range of branded sex toys. The Official Pleasure Collection boasts two bullets and two classic torpedo shaped vibes, all decorated with the band's iconic logo and branding - and delivers the sort of power and pleasure you'd expect.
Mötorhead are one of the world's biggest rock bands, having released 21 studio albums and countless singles including the hits 'Ace of Spades' and 'Overkill' - after which the vibes are named. Powerful classic vibrators and bullets are amongst the line up, each packing a powerful punch that captures the rock and roll lifestyle of the band perfectly. Prepare for the sort of mind-blowing orgasms you'd expect from the 'loudest band on Earth'. | {
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Q:
Как узнать кто занял порт и освободить его?
Я запускаю tomcat и получаю вот такую ошибку:
Error: Exception thrown by the agent :
java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 1099; nested
exception is: java.net.BindException: Address already in use (Bind
failed)
1099 порт занят а для запуска он нужен. Как понять кто занял и освободить?
A:
Если использованием скрипта catalina.sh с параметром stop не удалось завершить Tomcat и освободить порт, то можно сделать следующее:
Определить, какой процесс занимает порт, с помощью команды sudo netstat -tulp.
Остановить процесс с использованием команды kill {PID}, где {PID} - идентификатор процесса, занимающего порт (из вывода предыдущей команды).
Если предыдущая команда не смогла остановить процесс, можно использовать команду kill -9 {PID}, которая приведёт к принудительному завершению процесса.
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My Last Wishes
It's taken me about 5 months to write all of this. Sorry for the bad grammar in a lot of spots.
I WANT MY BRAIN DONATED TO THE BRAIN BANK!! I WANT MY BRAIN DONATED TO THE SPORTS LEGACY INSTITUE A.K.A THE CONCUSSION FOUNDATION. If you go to the concussion foundation website you can see where there is a spot for donatation. I want my brain donated because I don't know what happened to me and I know the concussions had something to do with it.
Please please please give me the cheapest burial possible. I don't want anything fancy and I want to be cremated. Once cremated, I want my ashes spread in the timber on the side hill where I shot my 10 point buck. That is where I was happiest and that I where I want to lay. Feel free to spread my ashes around the timber if you'd like, but just remember on the side hill is where I would like most of my remains. I am truly sorry if I put you in a financial burden. I just cant live with this pain any more.
I don't want anything expensive at my funeral or what ever it is. Please please please I beg you to choose the cheapest route and not even buy me a burial plot at a cemetary.... I also do not want a military funeral. If there are color guardsmen or anyone else at my funerial or whatever you have I will haunt you forever.
I want levi to keep playing clash of clans on my account. I am close to max have spent a lot of time playing that game. Though you think its stupid, I ask you keep playing it for me when you can and let my fellow clan mates know what happened. My phones passcode is 111111, so that's six 1's....
Levi gets my car, it will need a oil change and breaks/tires done her shortly. Please take care of old red. It will need cleaned out as well because I am a slob.
Thank you for being the best family in the world. I will watch over you all and please take my last wishes into consideration. Do not do something I do no want. Just remember, I don't want a military funeral like grandpas. It is my last wishes and last rights.
I am with the lord now.
-Look, Im sorry every one for the choice I made. Its wrong and we all know it.
November 13, 2015
Zac Easter texted his girlfriend shortly before 10 A.M.
“Can you call me when you get out of class? I'm in hot water right now and idk what to do”
He typed as he drove, weaving Old Red, his cherry red 2008 Mazda3, down the wide suburban boulevards of West Des Moines. He'd already been awake for hours, since well before sunrise. At 5:40 A.M., he texted Ali an apology: “Sorry about last night.” Then he started drinking. By now he was shitfaced and driving around the suburbs. She called as soon as she got out of class, and he was slurring his words. Ali was scared. She wanted him off the road. She talked him down and into a gas-station parking lot, and then he hung up.
“Do not leave,” she texted back at 11:27 A.M.
Ali Epperson was nearly 700 miles away, at her contract-law class at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland. In football terms, Zac had outkicked his coverage: Ali was an ex-cheerleader but no vacant princess. She had a diamond stud in her left nostril and a knifing wit. They were a pair of scrappers whose jagged edges fit. Zac loved Trump; he kept a copy of Trump: The Art of the Deal in his bedroom. Ali was a budding progressive: a first-year student at a good law school who'd interned at Senator Tom Harkin's D.C. office. They were just friends in high school; she used to cut fourth-period music class to hang with Zac. After they graduated, they became more than friends.
Sometimes he called her Winslow, her middle name, and only Winslow knew the full extent of Zac's struggles in the five and a half years since high school: the brain tremors that felt like thunderclaps inside his skull, the sudden memory lapses in which he'd forget where he was driving or why he was walking around the hardware store, the doctors who told him his mind might be torn to pieces from all the concussions from football. She knew about the drugs and the drinking he was doing to cope. She knew about the mood swings, huge and pulverizing, the slow leaching of his hope. | {
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AnimeNext 2010 cosplay photoshoot
Ladyofthethread as Count D
Source: Pet Shop of Horrors
This is one of those costumes that makes you say "...damn, I seriously need to get some photos", and thankfully ladyofthethread was willing to oblige putting it back on despite the insane heat outside. Extra thanks for that, and I think we managed a nice colorful set. Seriously, this costume's damn impressive.
The haze in this pic wasn't photoshop - it was so hot outside taking my longer lens out of my backpack caused enough temperature difference to make it fog up. It thankfully appears to have survived that, but damn, that was a scare...
Those pieces were all hand-painted then appliqued to her kimono. The result was quite impressive... | {
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"Ai yi yi."An assistant brings in some new Green Day T-shirts – they're her favorite band.Serena reanimates and does a bunny hop around the dining room. "Patrick Mouratoglou, her newish French coach and possibly her boyfriend, emerges from a backroom.And she would not have given a flying fuck what you thought.This is a woman who one minute is reading inspirational notes during changeovers and then, in the 2009 U. Open semifinals, threatening to personally make a line judge eat a tennis ball.(Evert now says Serena is the best of all time.) Hell, even dating Brett Ratner couldn't stop her. Serena and Venus Williams share a house in a gated community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where the rest of the residents have been enjoying the early-bird specials for years. On a misty March morning, Serena answers the door in sweats and a T-shirt, her long hair flowing in about seven directions."Come on in," she says, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
She's never been more dominant than now, at the age of 31, which is about 179 in tennis years.
The caravan heads to a court about a half-mile from the house and begins loading out the gear.
It's two days before the start of the Sony Open in Miami, one of the circuit's premier nonmajors and the first significant test for Serena since she was upset in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open after spraining an ankle that had ballooned to three times its normal size.
Serena has been giving tennis the two-finger salute for more than half her life. "Lots of my friends have been telling me lately that I'm spoiled," Serena says with a baffled look on her face. I'm not spoiled.'"I almost spit Coke through my nose. If she'd pulled a Jamesian I'm-taking-my-talents-to-South Beach event, she would have put it on pay-per-view and hawked her Home Shopping Network-all-under-a-hundred-bucks fashion line during the commercial breaks.
Serena's dominance has been fueled by not giving a shit what you or anyone else thinks about her methods. | {
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Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Y...et, given time, I think the press will bounce back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL » | {
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Video surfaced this week of frat boys singing a chant so off-the-charts offensive and brimming with textbook-style racism that it immediately went viral. It became a rare example of a story about bigotry that scarcely anyone even tried to excuse.
The white University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon members who were caught passionately belting out, "There will never be a ni**er at SAE ... you can hang him from a tree, but he'll never sign with me; there will never be a ni**er at SAE" were widely condemned by commentators, and slammed by horrified observers on social media. Two men identified in the clip have been expelled, and university President David Boren issued an epic, no-holds-barred response to their conduct, calling it "disgraceful" in a statement that oozed disgust.
Boren's actions were swift and decisive, and he did what he was supposed to do. But the most fascinating and instructive part of this story isn't about how to react when fraternity racism (or any other brand of racism) is caught on tape. Rather, this incident most saliently highlights how subpar our understanding of hate, discrimination, and white supremacy can be when these things don't come in made-for-YouTube, racial-slur-laden packages — which is most of the time —and how crippled Americans so often are when they try to understand individual racism, especially when it comes from young people.
The category of conduct that we can all agree is racist is ridiculously small
As Vox's Libby Nelson noted, the reaction to the SAE video was swift, and Boren's "We don't provide student services for bigots" statement stood out as unusually forceful, especially noteworthy in comparison to past, passive reactions to racism at other universities.
And there's been palpable silence when it comes to opposition to this decision. Nobody is protesting the students' expulsion. It's hard to find examples of anyone alleging that the students were misunderstood, or that they're targets of an unfair social media "witch hunt." Commentators haven't published op-eds lamenting that political correctness has run amok, or alleged that this is an example of white people being victimized in a changing America that fails to recognize their struggles.
This is unusual. It's easy to feel encouraged by the fact that most decent people are on the same page here.
But as Above the Law's Elie Mystal pointed out, this reaction was likely thanks to the fact that the fraternity members' conduct happened to fall into the insanely narrow category of behavior that Americans label flat-out racist and unacceptable.
Thank God Sigma Alpha Epsilon's University of Oklahoma chapter dared to go above and beyond to prove their racism. Thank God they actually sang a song. Because they pretty much could have done anything else without anybody suspending them or even complaining about racist behavior
He's right. Anything short of using a racial slur combined with an explicit celebration of exclusion and a joke/threat about lynching would have likely been dismissed as "racially loaded" or "controversial." Sure, it's nice when everyone agrees racism is bad and perpetrators deserve to be punished. But it's unfortunate that explicit, undeniable, beyond-the-pale behavior like the SAE members' is what it takes for us to get there.
The average kindergartener could understand that name-calling, excluding, and talking about committing violence against people because of their race would deserve a time-out. This isn't complicated. Most Americans, aside from actual robe-wearing Ku Klux Klan members, could probably be trusted see the chant was problematic.
Even the cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe, who inexplicably came to the consensus that the root problem here was not a belief that white people were better than black people but, rather, rap music (more on that later), at least understood that the students' conduct was out of bounds.
But that type of consensus — so limited to outrageous, unusual situations like this one — is useless if we can't count on it when racism shows up in our lives in other, more subtle ways.
Many people believe racism has to be spelled out or said out loud to be taken seriously or punished
Racist songs about lynching are shameful, and it's disheartening that people alive in 2015 think they're fun and appear to be thrilled with their underlying sentiments.
It's important to remember that things like this don't represent the kinds of racism that make life hard for African-Americans on a daily basis
But it's important to remember that things like this don't represent the kinds of racism that make life hard for African-Americans on a daily basis. The much more common issues faced by colleges students and people of color all throughout America have to do with structural inequality — which is maintained through deeply held prejudices against black people. Hateful tunes sung on buses by probably drunken frat boys reflect this prejudice, but they certainly don't cause it. And although the SAE members deserved the discipline they got, individual punishments certainly don't fix America's racism problem.
The recent PBS film American Denial made the case that everything from the racialized, police-involved violence that has captured the country's attention in recent months to educational inequalities, economic disparities, and the incarceration crisis all have a common root: unconscious racism, also known as implicit bias. The film's creators pinned the blame on a belief — so deeply entrenched that many of us aren't even aware we hold it — that white people are better and more valuable than black people.
(Further reading: What is implicit bias?)
But footage of sociologists explaining their research on the roots of ongoing racial inequality doesn't tend to go viral in the same way videos of college kids screaming the n-word do. That's unfortunate, because the former reveals a lot more about what's wrong with America.
In a great demonstration of this dynamic, MSNBC's Chris Hayes used a segment of his Tuesday program to connect the reaction to the SAE video to the way the two Ferguson, Missouri, police officers who sent racist emails were fired in the wake of a Justice Department report about egregious racial bias in their ranks, while others who engaged in "systemic violations of civil rights" weren't.
The problem, Hayes explained, is that a hyperfocus on things like emailed jokes and chants distracts from the type of racism that isn't spelled out in bold letters or screamed aloud while someone records it with an iPhone. "There's something going on when we have these moments of universal condemnation and point and shame and name and say, 'That's racist, that N-word, that thing happening on the bus,'" he said. "Let's get rid of that, because it lets everybody off the hook about what's happening off the bus."
Blaming black people for white people's racism is still a thing
Sure, the negative reaction is swift and nearly universal when a white person is caught saying the n-word. But people often tie themselves into knots to place the blame for racist language on, well, anything but the actual racism that still exists in the country. For instance, there's an ongoing, tired debate about whether the use of the word "ni**er" in rap music, by black people, means it's been officially stripped of its racist connotations when said in everyday life by white people.
Many have argued that the so-called double standard here is unacceptable — and plenty have replied that that's an insane oversimplification of what's meant, and felt, when different people use the slur or one of its variations.
Perhaps this debate would have been appropriate to reference in response to the revelation that, in addition to the video of the fraternity members on the bus, their house mother was caught on tape signing along to a string of N-words in a song by rapper Trinidad James.
But instead, the cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe did something completely perplexing, appearing to blame rap music for the song the fraternity members were caught singing on the bus.
The cast of Morning Joe appeared to blame rap music
Discussing the SAE controversy, cohost Mika Brzezinski mused, "If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that [rapper Waka Flocka Flame, who canceled an University of Oklahoma appearance after the SAE tape leaked, has] written, it's a bunch of garbage .... It's full of n-words, it's full of f-words. It's wrong. And he shouldn't be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself." (Brzezinski has since clarified, saying she wasn't drawing a "moral equivalency.")
Bill Kristol agreed, saying, "Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot [of] corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they've been hearing. "
Host Joe Scarborough got in on it, too, reasoning, "The kids that are buying hip-hop or gangster rap, it's a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked."
The three missed the fact that what was caught on video was a chant written by white people directly and explicitly about not letting black people into the group (and lynching them). Reminder: the lyrics were "There will never be a ni**er at SAE ... you can hang him from a tree, but he'll never sign with me; there will never be a ni**er at SAE."
It's hard to understand the logic that would attribute this to "hip-hop or gangster rap" music (recognizing the absurdity, Twitter users started the hashtag #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery). But the Morning Joe segment (and the take of Rush Limbaugh, who took their idea and ran with it, declaring that if Kanye West had sung the song "it would be a hit") offer a striking example of the way many Americans will manage to ensure black people are blamed for racism against them — whether it's bias by police officers, unfair treatment by teachers, housing discrimination, or, in this case, explicit, blatant expressions of hate and hostility.
Racism isn't going to die out with old people
Millennials are a little naive and delusional about race and racism. According to an MTV-sponsored national poll of Americans ages 18 to 24 conducted in 2014, 89 percent said they believed everyone should be treated equally, but only 37 percent said their families ever talked about race. A majority thought of themselves as "postracial."
(Further reading: Nothing is racist anymore: 17 racist incidents people actually tried to defend)
The vague interest in equality among this young crowd, combined with their lack of sophistication about how white supremacy operates, helps explain things like the annoying racial microaggressions that can make college tough for students of color these days. And their outlook makes the chances look slim that the next generation of leaders will be able to deal with inequality.
Slate's Jamelle Bouie, writing about the poll results, explained:
From these results, it's clear that-like most Americans-millennials see racism as a matter of different treatment, justified by race, that you solve by removing race from the equation. If we ignore skin color in our decisions, then there can't be racism. The problem is that racism isn't reducible to "different treatment." Since if it is, measures to ameliorate racial inequality-like the Voting Rights Act-would be as "racist" as the policies that necessitated them. No, racism is better understood as white supremacy-anything that furthers a broad hierarchy of racist inequity, where whites possess the greatest share of power, respect, and resources, and blacks the least. And the magic of white supremacy is that its presence is obscured by the focus on race.
The SAE members' use of the type of aggressive, racist language and sentiments that most people attribute to people their grandparents' age simply piles on to the racial ignorance of their more polite and well-intended peers. And it's another reminder that there's little reason to be hopeful the simple passage of time will diminish prejudice and hostility.
No, racists aren't going to naturally die out and leave the world a better place. New ones are going out into the world every day, and rarely will their conduct be this easy to identify and condemn.
Watch: Race isn't biologically real | {
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Shifting is over-rated. Might be worth it in an old beat up serged Triumph,
but in an S8, the auto makes sense.
Joe, what the hell am i saying, i know this is going to cause a shitstorm,
Pizzo
On 10/4/07, Wayne Dohnal <wd42 at hevanet.com> wrote:
>> I'd love to plan on an S8 for an upgrade path, but I just can't stand the
> thought of driving an Audi slush-o-matic. If they won't let U.S. drivers
> have a shifter any more I hope I can hold out for a DSG.
>> Wayne Dohnal
> 1994 S4
>> _______________________________________________
> S-CAR-List mailing list
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Ufes vai ter comissão para verificar candidatos
negros (Foto: Fernando Madeira/ A Gazeta)
A Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes) vai contar com uma comissão formada por professores universitários, para verificar se os candidatos que se autodeclararem pretos, pardos ou indígenas possuem esses aspectos fenotípicos, ou seja, se a aparência corresponde com o que declararam.
O motivo é evitar fraude no sistema de cotas da instituição.
A chamada Comissão de Validação de Autodeclaração Etnico-racial vai atuar no momento da matrícula presencial, quando o candidato entregar a documentação e também preencher o questionário em que se coloca como cotista racial.
Isso vai acontecer após o pré-cadastro online, que deve ser feito depois do resultado do Sistema de Seleção Unificada (Sisu), que agora funciona como processo seletivo para ingresso na universidade.
Sem perguntas, a comissão, com seis componentes, vai avaliar o candidato e dar o parecer sobre a validação ou não da autodeclaração para a ocupação de uma vaga destinada aos cotistas.
“A comissão não vai interferir e nem arbitrar ou controlar a declaração, mas vai validar diante da percepção do que garante a lei”, disse a professora doutora Patricia Gomes Rufino Andrade, coordenadora do Núcleo de estudos afro-brasileiros (Neab) da Ufes.
Ela se refere à norma federal 12.711 de 2012, que regulamenta no 3º artigo a reserva de vagas para pretos, pardos e indígenas em instituições federais de ensino superior.
Patricia salienta que os membros da comissão são professores doutores do Neab, qualificados, e que o tema foi discutido intensamente no último ano na universidade, inclusive com consultoria interna e seminário sobre o assunto.
“O que queremos é inibir as fraudes, pois já tivemos muitos questionamentos na entrada de cotistas. Mas isso é uma primeira experiência”, disse a professora.
Denúncias
Em março de 2016, o Coletivo Negrada, organização de universitários negros e indígenas, fez uma denúncia ao Ministério Público Federal (MPF) de que 40 alunos ingressantes cotistas haviam fraudado autodeclarações.
Na época, o MPF concluiu que não havia crime de falsidade ideológica e arquivou o processo. Mas o Negrada já cobrava a instituição de uma banca avaliadora, que existe em outras instituições como a Universidade de Brasília.
“Acreditamos que para barrar as fraudes precisamos de um mecanismo de fiscalização, não há como fazer isso sem conhecer as pessoas que estão se autodeclarando pretos, pardos e indígenas”, destacou a membro do coletivo, Mirtes Santos.
Ela reforça que a preocupação é garantir que as vagas reservadas a cotistas raciais sejam, de fato, ocupadas por eles. “Ainda não está tudo resolvido, precisamos que as pessoas façam o controle social, denunciando e buscando saber quem são as pessoas que estão se inscrevendo em vestibulares e concursos públicos como cotistas”, disse. | {
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Women are being warned against trying a bizarre new trend that suggests using ground-up wasp nests to tighten and rejuvenate their vaginas.
Some online retailers have been selling oak galls, which are nests that house wasp eggs before they hatch, and touting them as a natural way of cleaning female genitals.
The product reportedly is crushed into a paste and applied topically, with one listing on Etsy, which has now been removed, claiming it can improve a woman’s sex life.
They are also being advertised as helping to “heal episiotomy cuts, rejuvenate the uterine wall and clean out the vagina” after childbirth, though there are warnings that it can “burn” when applied.
Now, gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter is warning women not to get sucked in by the new trend after branding it “dangerous” — saying the practice is using “drying agents” to tighten the vagina.
Writing on her blog, she said: “Drying the vaginal mucosa increases the risk of abrasions during sex (not good) and destroys the protective mucous layer (not good).
‘Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina.’ - Dr. Jen Gunter
“It could also wreak havoc with the good bacteria. This is a dangerous practice with real potential to harm.
“Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina.”
But it’s not the first time the gynecologist has warned against using herbal remedies for the vagina.
Last year, she spoke out about the womb detox trend — which claimed to help women with endometriosis, ovarian cysts, thrush and fibroids.
Bags of perfumed herbs, known as Herbal Womb Detox Pearls, were being promoted as a health boost and women were being told to insert three of the balls into the vagina for 72 hours.
But Gunter explained: “Leaving a product that is not designed for prolonged vaginal use (and these are not) in the vagina is a risk for toxic shock syndrome. Just don’t do it.”
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I have watched Winnie the Pooh when I was a kid. That silly old bear. Never have I thought they would make a live movie adaptation of that beloved Disney cartoon. I watched it in a nearby cinema and there only a few of us in there. I also notice … | {
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Shocking footage has appeared online of a motorist eating cereal and using her mobile phone behind the wheel in Anerley.
The woman driving a cream-coloured Mini was filmed tucking into her breakfast and tapping away on her phone by a motorcyclist at a red light in Anerley Road.
She was caught on camera by the charity worker, 28, who commutes to work from Bromley and films his journeys with a helmet camera.
The man, who did not wish to be named, told MailOnline: “I just spotted it out of the corner of my eye and shuffled back to see what was happening because I didn't believe it.
'It really shocked me - but I've seen a lot of strange things in London. I've seen a lot more people using their phones in the last few months, it's getting worse.”
The footage was posted to YouTube under the name of KIZUKO1987.
The motorcyclist did not report the incident to police as he was doubtful it would be properly investigated.
He said: “I once tried reporting something like this but it was a waste of time.
“It was just a box-ticking exercise for them.”
The driver holds a bowl of cereal and uses her mobile phone (Pic: KIZUKO1987/YouTube)
Met Police confirmed they had not received any complaints about the incident.
Just weeks ago, a cyclist filmed another driver who was eating cereal behind the wheel of her red Land Rover as she drove along Creek Road, Hampton Court.
In the video, the cyclist is heard shouting to the woman: “Put that down! You’re on camera – you’re going to the police. I’ve got your number.
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The Cal GOP thinks the ACLU is "communist."
It's not a surprise that the California Republican Party is, ahem, a bit out of step with the mainstream of the state (you see a lot of Repubs holding statewide office right now? I don't.) And of course a San Francisco woman of color who isn't a complete right-wing loon is going to have trouble running for a state party office. But what made the Chron's story on Harmeet Dhillon so amazing was this:
"This is not a personal attack against Harmeet," Celeste Greig, president of the California Republican Assembly, said Tuesday. "The ACLU is a communist organization. Do we want somebody who is a member of a communist organization that has sued religious organizations numerous times because they don't like the cross and the Menorah" displayed on public property, Greig said, in explaining why she considers the ACLU - which has no official political affiliation - to be communist.
Gawd, we don't get to see that kind of red-baiting much any more. I used to get called a commie all the time; back in the 1980s, there really were some communists around, too. You'd see the RCP at rallies and events, and the CPUSA was still marginally functional, and there were Trots and Maoists and it was all very interesting, sorting them all out.
But outside of Cuba, there really aren't a lot of old-fashioned commies left. I miss them; nobody could give a four-hour stemwinder of a rhetorical speech like a commie leader. In the old days of the RCP, if you got accused of violating party discipline, you were sentenced to re-read "Combatting Liberalism," which was kind of like having a Catholic priest sentence you to saying ten Hail Marys for masturbating.
There aren't any communists at the ALCU; maybe once upon a time, but the left in America has moved way beyond that (oh, and the real commies never liked the ACLU -- they were never big on freedom of speech or the press.) Now we've got ten brands of anarchists, and a wide range of socialist types, and Greens, and progressives, and a whole lot of others with various ranges of economic critiques and analyses and social platforms, many of which I heartily endorse. But the commies have largely faded away. You'd think the GOP folks would know their enemies a little better. | {
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Ben Stokes has joined the long list of Kiwi sportsmen and women to break Australia’s heart this year, with his unbelievable century to steer England to a miraculous one-wicket win in the third Test at Headingley.
England were faced with the laughable prospect of chasing down 359 — the biggest run chase in the team’s history — to keep series the series alive with a 1-1 tie – only on thanks to Stokes’s innings of 135 not out.
Stokes has surprised the internationally cricketing community with this sensational save – mirrored only by the time he managed to get away with belting some bloke out front of a pub when he claimed he was defending civil rights.
However, unlike the punch-on, last night Stokes’ noble actions were 100% verified by the millions of people watching at the game and at home.
England started the day 203 runs away from the victory target and it looked like Australia had weathered Stokes’s brilliance when he only had one batting partner left with 73 runs still required. But he did it. And we lost the match.
This means Australia is one step closer to doing what we do best and choking against mediocre sides in underwhelming test series.
For Australian cricket fans, Stokes’ performance has once again reiterated the undeniable truth that cricket sometimes sucks. | {
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If you thought conservatives could “make nice” with liberals, that “both sides have the country’s best interest at heart,” you were wrong. This week more of the con-jobs and character assassinations the political left is attempting have been exposed, and if it doesn’t make you realize the Liberal Industrial Complex will stop at nothing to protect itself and destroy the Trump administration, nothing will. The economic news was all good this week, though you’d barely know it if you watched cable news.
In 2007, I sat down for a brief interview with an FBI agent. While we sat in a coffee shop in Wilmington, North Carolina, I outlined the case against Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University. My accusations were serious but irrefutable: Julio Pino was an Islamic jihadist who was actively conspiring with other terrorists seeking to murder American troops and innocent civilians. The FBI eventually got Pino. Unfortunately, it took them eleven years during which Ohio taxpayers were forced to pay the salary of a man who was openly planning to wage war on his own country.
When Pino finally entered a guilty plea in federal court last month, the charge was one count of making false statements to the FBI during an investigation dating back to 2016. The investigation concerned social media correspondences with a Facebook friend who identified himself as J.E.
Turns out, when you’re a famous musician with 28 million Twitter followers people are going to sit up and pay attention to what you tweet, regardless of the topic. So when rapper Kanye West, a man who got over 41,000 likes for tweeting the word “decentralize,” lit the social media world on fire last week with a series of tweets seeming to support President Trump, the world was quick to take notice. Is one of the most successful recording artists of our generation actually ‘waking up’ to the folly of liberalism?
Has Kanye actually been red-pilled? On the one hand, conservatives understandably but a little hypocritically took an altogether different approach with Kanye than the “shut up and sing” imploration they typically would take were such a celebrity spouting off the usual liberal nonsense.
To be vulgar once earned societal disapproval, ostracism from polite company and -- in my grandmother’s era -- put a young person in danger of having his mouth washed out with soap. Today, vulgarities are now mainstream. People speaking in a way that “would make a sailor blush” are now on primetime television and words once frowned upon in polite society are now a part of what was once known as cordial conversation.
The new drama “Chappaquiddick” captures the agonizing series of choices that resulted in Senator Kennedy’s biggest scandal. Kennedy’s tragic accident on Chappaquiddick Island in the summer of 1969 resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
The drama’s focus is less on the accident and more on the Senator’s actions after leaving the scene of the crash and failing to report the accident for 10 hours. Yes, Senator Kennedy was a Democrat, but the movie is less about any one party. It’s more about the absence of character and poor judgment. It shows how protecting one’s reputation and minimizing political damage can cloud the importance of doing what’s right.
Editor’s note: This column was co-authored by Tim Graham. One thing that defines liberals is their incessant desire to push political messages into every time and space. Their “compassion” and “inclusion” is perpetually shoved in our faces. That problem has metastasized under President Trump.
The urgency of their “resistance” is knocking down all the barriers. Don’t they know that most Americans don’t want politics invading every sphere? Can’t they see that audiences of sporting events and awards shows are suffering? They would plead that TV ratings for everything are down because fewer people are buying cable or satellite TV. But now we have evidence that this endless politicization is causing a backlash.
Democrats in farm states are busily warning their rural neighbors that President Trump betrayed them with his tariff pressures, which may especially impact U.S. farm exports to China. China has imposed a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soybeans, wheat, beef, pork and some other food products. Will this ruin .
American farm prices? Be of good cheer. The world prices for soybeans and beef are set by global supply and demand. Soybeans and beef are essentially commodities, not unlike oil. It doesn’t really matter whether China buys American soybeans or Brazilian beans because both those countries are willing sellers. If one sells to China, the other will sell to the other countries that also import to meet their sizeable food import needs
The anti-gun movement has held out the falsehood that they are not coming after people’s guns as a central core of their effort to hide their existential goal. The lid was blown off that charade when a 97-year-old man who previously occupied a position at the top level of our country (retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens) advocated for the abolition of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the paper of record – The New York Times. Before anyone jumps off a cliff about this proposition,
let me state who I am on this issue. I am not a gun owner. I am not a member of the National Rifle Association nor any other group that supports gun rights. I was fairly ignorant about essential elements of guns and gun owners until I did a series of columns on the subject and became knowledgeable about the subject of guns through extensive research and interviews. | {
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Link comment box to facebook page?
I got a really stupid question. But I'm in the startup-fase of integrating a webpage with Facebook.
My question is if a Facebook page has a App-id? If that's the case, how can I find it?
What I'm trying to do is add multiple comment-plugins and would like them to be linked to my page. Perhaps even so that the comments appears on the pages wall.
Thanks in advance!
A:
A facebook page doesnt have an ID, you need to register a new app for your page.
You can create an app here
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In fairness, he meant to say “janitor,” not “Jew,” and immediately corrected himself. Still, it’s an interesting mistake to make, given that he spent 20 years in the church of a racist, antisemitic pastor. | {
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David Rubin, the former mayor of Shiloh, Israel, urged the United States to build a wall to protect its borders, saying Israelis are thrilled with their wall.
Rubin pointed out that illegal immigration was slashed to ZERO in 2017 after Israel raised the height of its wall to make it harder to climb.
Rubin said many Israelis initially complained about the wall — the same way American liberals do now — but they’re happy now because illegal immigration has vanished. “Everybody is happy that we don’t have illegal immigration in Israel,” Rubin told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Rubin, who was born and raised in the United States, has been living in Israel for the past 27 years. He slammed the over-the-top whines from leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who repeatedly trash President Trump and his border wall as racist.
“It’s an obscene comparison I’ve heard too many times from the left,” said Rubin, the author of “Trump and the Jews.”
“Some of the Israeli left were complaining and even accusing the Israeli government of racism, but now, nobody is complaining. Everybody is happy that we don’t have illegal immigration.”
Rubin said between 2010 and 2012, some 55,000 illegal immigrants came into Israel, causing an immediate spike in rapes, murders and other violent crimes:
“You have to understand, Israel is a tiny country, so 55,000 illegal immigrants in just a couple of years is a lot of illegal immigrants. And most of them settled in southern Tel Aviv. The rapes and murders in Southern Tel Aviv skyrocketed in those few years. The Israeli government under pressure from the grassroots mainly — grassroots protests of the residents from South Tel Aviv and other towns that were being overrun by these illegal immigrants. The Israeli government made the decision that they were going to build a wall — a high-tech steel wall — on the southern border between Egypt and Israel. It was built over the next few years. In 2016, the wall was up. In 2016, there were 11 illegal immigrants who entered Israel. Then they raised the height of the wall an additional several feet. And in 2017, there was not one illegal immigrant that made it through the southern border into Israel. [The wall] works.”
Trump may declare national emergency to build wall. Sounds like a great plan, but is it legal? | {
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Since 1982, the last week in September has been observed as Banned Books Week, during which readers are reminded that there are still people out there trying to get books like "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- yes, "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- banned from schools and libraries. In the year 2010. Yeah, I know.
Comics have been a frequent target of book-banning for decades -- as we all learned from Dr. Wertham, sequential art has always been the most effective way of warping young minds with subversive ideas -- but according to the ALA's list of books that have been either banned or challenged (meaning someone unsuccessfully tried to have them banned), concerned parents are still going after them, and as usual, their reasoning is often absolutely insane.
That's why, in order to show solidarity with the people trying to keep these books -- comic and otherwise -- from being taken away from readers, I've gone through the ALA's list and picked out their seven most ridiculous reasons in order to do what I do best: Make fun of them for being stupid.
Unsurprisingly, "Twilight" books are frequent targets of banning attempts, which pretty much comes with the territory when you're the most popular books on the market. Just ask J.K. Rowling, who I believe responded to frequent allegations of her "Harry Potter" books being tools of Satan by saying, and I quote, "Haters gonna hate," and then brushing her shoulder off.
I may be confusing her with Jay-Z. I do that a lot.Anyway, according to the ALA, "Twilight" and its sequels are frequently removed from school libraries for being too sexual, and loath as I am to defend Stephenie Meyer, I have to ask: Really? Is there a segment of the populace that finds longing looks and tedious moping to be unbearably erotic?
Admittedly, I've only actually read "Twilight" and half of "New Moon" and a librarian friend tells me that they do pick up a little, but descriptions of beds that collapse under the weight of their passion don't really seem all that bad, and while the birth scene in "Breaking Dawn" is, by most accounts, truly horrendous, that's less sexual and more just awful.
I mean, at that point, why not ban it for Meyer's misuse of the word "literally," or for the fact that Bella is a completely unlikeable protagonist, or because Edward's a straight-up creep? If we're going to start banning things just because they suck, we're going to be here all day.
I have a pretty hard time believing that anyone would think the height of Alan Moore's literary fan-fiction was actually harmful, because seriously, what's the worst that could happen from reading this? They might get interested in finding out where all the literary mash-ups originated and read some PG Wodehouse or George Orwell? Perish the thought! I do have to admit, though, that there is a pretty good chance it'll turn you off Jack Kerouac forever.
Of course, coming to that conclusion assumes that the people who want to ban these books actually bothered to read them, and I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
That said, I can understand why someone might want the book removed from their local library, even if I don't agree with them. After all, in some places, comics -- all comics -- are still shelved with kids' books, and as it draws from "Fanny Hill" and features a Tijuana Bible set in the world of "1984," there's an awful lot of sexual content in there that folks might not want their kids picking up alongside the Berenstein Bears. But saying that it "constitutes a public safety issue in that it encourages sexual predators?" That might be going a little bit far.
Even more hilariously, the petition in Nicolasville, Kentucky that sought to ban "Black Dossier" also went after a few other library, including two books by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk and the DVD "You Can't Fix Stupid" by Blue Collar Comedy Tour mainstay Ron White.
I would genuinely like to see the criteria that was used to determine that these two works were even remotely similar, but my theory is that while they went after Moore for "Black Dossier's" sexual content, their beef with White was more about how he referred to them as unfixable.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Newberry award-winning 1967 novel tells the story of a bunch of children with a keen interest in archaeology who secretly play a game where -- as you can probably tell from the title -- they imagine themselves to be in ancient Egypt. It's gotten praise for encouraging both imagination and research in kids, but critics have pointed out that the plot, which involves someone murdering other children in the neighborhood, may be a little too dark for the intended audience.
The complaint raised in Witchita Falls, Texas last year, however, had a slightly different problem:
"I'm not going to stop until it's banned from the school district. I will not quiet down. I will not back down. I don't believe any student should be subjected to anything that has to do with evil gods or black magic."
You might think that sounds a little crazy, but brother, I hear you. You let your kids read a book that includes descriptions of how Egyptians worshipped four thousand years ago, and pretty soon, you've got a house full of fifth-graders with jackal heads, weighing hearts against feathers and tracking mud from the banks of the Nile over your carpet.
Could This Happen... In YOUR Town?
According to the ALA, The first volume of "Dragon Ball" was removed from middle school libraries due to its violence and nudity, and while I haven't watched or read anything "Dragon Ball"-related since high school, that sounds a little extreme. I mean --
Well, you know, cultural differences in Japan allow for --
...yeah, all right. Maybe save that one for high school.
Considering that it was explicitly designed for thirteen year-olds, it's a little surprising that "Stuck in the Middle" was pulled from middle school libraries. It is, after all, a book where sixteen cartoonists, like "Ghost World" creator Daniel Clowes and Aaron Renier of the highly underrated "Spiral Bound" relate stories of their own middle school days...
...so if nothing else, you'd think that the true story aspect would spare them.
That's not the case, though, and according to the ALA, it boils down to the fact that it includes "words most parents wouldn't want to hear from their children," which makes me think that somewhere, there's a master list of words parents don't want to hear that each book has to get checked against before it can be put in a library. And that, my friends, is a list I want to see. After all, while "hey, I bought a drum kit with my allowance" and "don't get mad, but I borrowed the car" are definitely on there, I can assure you that "mom, I'm dropping out of college to become a freelance writer" ought to be somewhere close to the top.
When Stephenville, Texas's Independent School District decided to hop on the ban wagon, they went all out, Not only did they ban Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy," they also banned the entire series, including books that haven't come out yet.
Putting aside for the moment that the Supreme Court has, in the words of Walter Sobchak, roundly rejected prior restraint...
...I actually have to respect that Stephenville ISD is so committed to censorship that they are shattering the space-time continuum to literally ban books from the future. It's one of the weirdest things I've ever heard, and it just so happens that Richelle Mead is actually a friend of mine, so I was able to get her take on it as well:
ComicsAlliance : What's it like to have a book banned IN THE FUTURE?
Richelle Mead : I first heard about the banning from a sci-fi artist who lives in Texas and is very pro-active about arts and whatnot down there. The FUTURE part came from a special time machine. Er, actually, I found out about the future part from another Facebook friend. Who may or may not be from the future.
But to seriously answer the question, The situation is more amusing to me than anything. First, because when I hear "banned books," I think of the greats -- Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger. How "Vampire Academy" is in those ranks is beyond me.
Second, I can understand how whatever board came up with this list in Texas thought they were doing something good. But, the fact that they've banned the series in its entirety -- before the content can even be reviewed -- makes it hard to take seriously. It makes me wonder just how careful the review was. Not that I would approve of banning even if someone had read the book a hundred times. It feels unreal.
CA : It says you were banned for "sexual content or nudity."
Mead : Well, here's the extent of the content. In Book 1, clothes are shed and making out ensues. In Book 2, two teens have (protected) sex essentially "off-camera." In Book 3, sex again, very "fade to black." Book 4, making out. Book 5, heavy semi-clothed making out. And Book 6... is not available to the public.
CA : I think you mean "Only available to the public OF THE FUTURE."
Mead : Yes. That is exactly what I mean.
I applaud the school district for their forward-thinking initiative in banning books in the future, and look forward to local legislation finally putting an end to space-drugs and jet-pack crime.
So what beats banning a book in the future?
This actually happened.
"Pulled from the Menifee, Calif. Union School District (2010) because a parent complained when a child came across the term 'oral sex.'"
It's the Dictionary! It's got the definition of "Family" in there, too; are you saying you're against families? Against "religion?" Are you, dare I say it, against "America?" Seriously, Concerned Parent, I'm not a judgmental person (note: this is a lie), but if you think The Dictionary is too hot for school, then I've got to assume that the problem here does not lie with Merriam-Webster.
The ALA's entry goes on to say that "Officials said the district is forming a committee to consider a permanent classroom ban of the dictionary." It does not, however, identify whether officials added "Oh yeah, that's totally what we're going to do," nor does it identify how hard officials rolled their eyes, or whether other officials were invited to "get a load of this moron." | {
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Has the former Yasser Arafat mouthpiece and "Palestinian" infiltrator (or is that just plain "traitor"?) in the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Ahmed Tibi (Ta'al) turned away from integration and become a racist?
I ask that question out of intellectual honesty and a search for the truth.
You see, Israeli Arab leaders have made much "noise" recently about a new study conducted by the Geocartographic Institute called, "Index of Racism Towards Arab Palestinian Citizens of the State of Israel". Notice the title of the study includes "Palestinian" (i.e., a member of a "national" group at war with the Jews of Israel).
It "bothers" Israeli Arab leaders that after years of war and terrorism, 63% of Israeli Jews agree with the statement, "Arabs are a security and demographic threat to the state." It "troubles" them that 41% of Israeli Jews want separate places of recreation (cafes, malls, etc.) between Arabs and Jews. Forget the fact that you have to be concerned that every Arab you see when walking down the street might be a suicide bomber (so far, not one Jew has blown himself up at a mall trying to kill other Jews).
It "hurts" them, that half of Israeli Jews express fear or discomfort when hearing people speaking Arabic near them. How am I to tell the difference between a "good Israeli Arab" and a "murderous Palestinian" when I hear Arabic? It "angers" them, that 18% of Jews said they feel hate when hearing Arabic speakers. What was that percentage in the US after 9/11?
Back to Ahmed Tibi.
He used to be such a nice mole for Arafat; probably was a cute baby, too. So, why the turn toward apartheid-style Arab segregationism now?
Speaking not long ago to Israel Radio, Tibi called on the American State Department to dedicate part of its foreign aid monies to Israel, specifically to Israel's Arab sector. Tibi wants to build an Arab university in Nazareth, as well as an Arab hospital in the Galilee.
Why the fall-back to voluntary segregation? Until now, Israeli Arabs have enjoyed the use of Israeli hospitals (there are Arab doctors and nurses, as well as patients) and benefited from enrolling in Israeli universities (even earlier than Israeli Jews, since Arabs are exempt from military conscription). There are Arab professors at Israeli universities, as well as students.
Is this the beginning of their drive for "Palestinian" apartheid-style "autonomy" in the Galilee, which will end in irredentist demands for secession from Israel and attachment to a Palestinian state?
One thing we know, even before Hamas was elected to rule the Palestinian Authority, is that the Arabs want "Palestine" to be a Judenrein (clean of Jews), Arab-only state.
And Ahmed Tibi is not alone. Not long ago, Israeli Arab leaders met with a group of forty foreign diplomatic officials. They insisted that twenty percent of all foreign aid to Israel be earmarked for the Israeli Arab community. They want 20% of international donor money to be for Arabs only, while the other 80% of aid to Israel should be for both communities, as it has been until now.
So, who are the real racists?
After the results of the Geocartographic study were published, Tibi said, "Overall, it pays to be racist in Israel because you don't pay a price for it, and you can always explain it away as a security need and a self-defense mechanism." I see Ahmed has learned the lesson well, calling for apartheid-style segregation himself.
With 58% of the "Palestinians" choosing Hamas to represent them in "Palestine", and Israeli Arabs freely proclaiming their support for the Hamas victory, is it any wonder that the study found that 40% of Israeli Jews believe that the state should encourage Arabs to emigrate from the country?
Continuing his intellectual dishonesty, Tibi added, "Racists have a long time ago moved from the street to government benches. Every anti-Arab phenomenon is accepted with understanding within Israeli society."
Has he conveniently forgotten the banning of Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach party, and the consistent persecution (both legally and in the media) of those Jewish political activists that warn of the existential dangers a violent Arab minority represents to Jews in Israel?
Tibi, by the way, has drawn comparisons between American soldiers in Iraq and German troops of the Third Reich. The Arab MK has stated repeatedly that upon viewing atrocities attributed to the soldiers, he is reminded of the actions of the German troops. Yet, he wants American aid for Arab-only projects.
Fellow Arab MK Taleb Al-Sana also used the study to attack Israeli society, saying the results are a
stain on democracy, moral bankruptcy, and a complete failure by the Israeli education system. In my opinion, this shows we're not talking about a few people, but rather, a worrying phenomenon that places question marks over the Zionist movement. The mosquitoes of this racism apparently grew in the swamp of incitement against the Arab public, as well as the occupation and the settlements. This is definite proof that occupation corrupts.
Likewise, responding to the study, Hadash MK Mohammed Barakeh said racism against Israeli Arabs "is a direct result of the official racist discrimination policy that has been led by all Israeli governments. This policy was extended in light of the occupation, which created Libermanism, Kahanism, Olmertism and Netanyahuism," he charged.
This is the same Mohammed Barakeh who said in the Knesset not long ago that, although he was sworn in as an Israeli MK, "I admit here that I am not loyal to a state that is Zionist and Jewish."
Notice an interesting phenomena, all these Israeli Arab members of Knesset (who are equal citizens, legally entitled to be elected to Israel's parliament - unlike in Judenrein Palestine) are attacking Israeli society and its institutions for causing the poll results, rather than looking closer to home for the answers.
No, it's not the vicious mass murder of Jews in malls, cafes and on buses by Arab terrorists that causes Jews to feel uncomfortable around Arabs. No, it's not the apartheid-style (or is that Nazi-style?) demand for a Judenrein Gaza, a Judenrein Palestine, even by so-called moderates like Mahmoud Abbas. No, it's not the consistent polls for the last five years showing 50-80% "Palestinian" support for suicide bombings, or the fact that Hamas garnered 58% of the vote in the recent elections in the Palestinian Authority. No, it's not the recent announcements by Hamas leaders of their intention to continue what they euphemistically call the "resistance", better called genocidal attacks against Jews in Israel.
No, It's not the public support Israeli Arabs, both leaders and led, both educated and not, have voiced for the Hamas victory in the PA. No, it's not the growing active participation of Israeli Arabs in terrorism against Israeli Jews. No, it's not their own admission of disloyalty toward the State of Israel. No, it's not their own call for apartheid-style segregation, and Arab supremacist rights in Israel itself. No, it's not any of the above reasons that many Jews have negative feelings toward Arabs in Israel.
No, it's all the Jews' fault, according to Tibi, Al-Sana, Barakeh and others. How intellectually "honest"; how utterly perfidious of them. It sounds to me like classic anti-Semitism, Jew-hatred and Judeopathy. | {
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Movies opening in Orlando theaters this week
‘Horrible Bosses 2’ and ‘Penguins of Madagascar’
Horrible Bosses 2 Here’s a drinking game in the making: Every time a member of the incoming Congress pays lip service to the sacrifices of the working man and woman, you and your friends have to act out a scene from Horrible Bosses. Heck, by the time the new GOP majority has finally drafted legislation making all collective bargaining illegal, maybe we’ll have moved on to quoting Horrible Bosses 2. Honestly, signs are somewhat mixed for this sequel, with director Seth Gordon not deigning to return – although his replacement, Sean Anders, did co-write the very funny We’re the Millers, whose Jennifer Aniston is back on board for this second bossy bitch-fest. (Or is it a bitchy boss-fest?) The plot finds our heroes going into business themselves, but within a startup environment so cutthroat that they have to resort to kidnapping in order to stay afloat. Sounds timely, all right: I sure wish somebody would fit that Papa John for cement overshoes. Either way, this is bound to be the most fun you can have at a movie that was produced by Brett Ratner. (Now there’s a marketplace untouched by the dirty hand of competition.) (R)
Penguins of Madagascar It’s a good thing you checked in here before throwing down with this movie, because you could have ended up hopelessly confused. Penguins, see, is a direct sequel to Madagascar 3, and as such has nothing to do with the TV series The Penguins of Madagascar, which follows its own continuity. There! Don’t you feel fully prepared now? And doesn’t discussing the “continuity” of animated Antarctic birds make you want to impale yourself on a dried-out herring? Well, cheer up: Imagine what sort of arcana you’re going to have to ingest to have a chance at the RPG. (PG) | {
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Johnny Marr has called longstanding rumours that Factory Records turned down The Smiths a “crock of shit”.
The band signed to London’s Rough Trade records and in a new interview with NME, which is on newsstands from today (February 19) and available digitally, Marr has said that the band were never refused a deal by Tony Wilson’s famous Manchester label. “If you were a musician in Manchester at that time, it was almost the law that you went on your hands and knees and begged Tony Wilson for his papal blessing to stick you in the studio, and I wasn’t about to do that,” said Marr.
The guitarist added that he didn’t want The Smiths to be “assimilated” into the label’s distinct aesthetic, saying: “So much has been made of Factory apparently turning The Smiths down, but that’s a crock of shit. The Smiths would have signed to Factory over my dead body… I didn’t want to be assimilated into the Factory aesthetic. Before we knew it, we would’ve had side-partings and khaki shorts, with bongos round our necks… No disrespect to A Certain Ratio.”
Johnny Marr was interviewed as part of NME’s 30th anniversary special to celebrate the release of The Smiths’ debut album, ‘The Smiths’, which came out in February 1984. The issue also includes rare photos of the band from 1983-84 and interviews with famous fans of the group. | {
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We all know Josh Ostrovsky, aka The Fat Jew, is out there in terms of personality/business ventures. But this one probably takes the cake for the greatest/funniest thing I have ever seen from … Read More | {
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Vanshaj Khera : I may be saying this a 1000th time but Graham Norton is the man we all need to host the oscars.
Rihanna And Little Mix : I love how Rihanna loves her memes and finds them hilarious and doesn’t take it seriously ❤️
Burghandy B : Lmfao!😂😂 "Why was Prince playin the bass in my face?" I think people like to think MJ is weird but that line made him seem so real and down to earth
MelissaRuth96 : Emma Stone's shock and innocence is the best 😂 This show never fails to make me laugh.
LightFuse : Allegedly
Riley Christensen : *Can Graham please host the golden globes?*
ann : I NEED GRAHAM TO DO MORE OF THESE FAN TWEET THINGS. the taylor swift one and zayn hair one have been so hilarious. i need him to share our tweets more lmao
Martin Biesel : World's biggest music stars.... Ok
Sabrina Zanoletti : I am from Honduras and honestly i love this Irish man
Vanshaj Khera : Music Stars with Graham Norton. A lethal Combination.
Martyna M : Taylor ♥️♥️♥️
Thinkeverclear : Graham Norton should receive some honorary Oscar for being the best talkshow host. This man is so f*cking good. It always seems that his guests are really enjoying themselves on his couch. Never the dull standard questions you hear on other talkshows, always something fresh and funny. Chapeau for Graham Norton and his team!
Ms Cutie : I like him! Wish his show aired in the U.S
Vanshaj Khera : British People are as classy as wine.
HollyBlueAgitated : get Eminem
Lisa Heisey : Those are the "world's biggest musical stars"? I must live on a different planet.
Kira-Rey-from-nowhere Skywalker : I love the Graham Norton sow. Jamie was the best in this video. Will Smith was the funniest. But where the hell was Cher and Dawn French checking out that microphone?! I don't forget the old episodes! | {
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Tatiana Talks
Yes, it has been awhile. Feel free to fill the comments with complaints about what a unreliable blogger I am. I deserve it. But I had a reason (note, I did not say a good reason).
Those of you that follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook know that a month or so ago I declared that I was officially tired of blogging about douchy guys. Not only did it get boring, it started to feel self-defeating. The more I blogged about jerks, the more focused I became on jerks, the more convinced I became that world was filled with nothing but jerks.
And then I met the Rock Climber.
Spoiler alert: I am not involved with the Rock Climber (so, no, I didn’t drop my blog for a guy) nor did anything happen between the Rock Climber and I (well, we did hug, which is sort of a big deal for me), nor will anything happen between us (he’s about 20 and lives in Colorado). You may now continue reading the blog with your lowered expectations.
As you may know, Lana moved to Colorado about two years ago and since she moved has been begging me to come visit her. As soon as I emailed Lana that I booked my trip, she scheduled us to spend one of my days there rock climbing. In case you couldn’t tell from my blog I’m not exactly the rock climbing type. I’m not coordinated, or rugged, or skinny. Still, Lana was really excited about it and so I agreed so long as we could spend the next day at the spa fixing my manicure.
Our guide for the day, Rock Climber, was everything he should be: young, rugged, and cute. He smiled a lot, carried one of those big backpacks with all the pockets and places to store things (and actually used all the pockets and storage), and said “awesome” a lot. I couldn’t have written a better wilderness guide if I wanted to.
Now, I won’t bore you will all the details of the day – there were tears, cuts and scrapes, cheers and lunch – and will just skip to the good part.
It was the last climb of the day and Rock Climber thought we should try to tackle a particularly tough looking rock face. Lana agreed. I scoffed.
The first part of the climb was easy – well easier than I thought it was going to be. As I neared the top, neared Rock Climber, it got harder and I got tired. I couldn’t get my footing, my legs and arms were shaking, I kept slipping and I couldn’t catch my breath. Then I slipped again, this time falling completely off the rock (but not to my death thanks to Rock Climber) which is when I really started to freak out.
Over my heavy breathing and heart palpitations and the voice in my head screaming “this is good enough.” I could hear Rock Climber telling me to “Sit back in my harness. Relax. Breathe. Try putting your foot there.”
I shook my head. “I can’t do this.”
“Look at me.”
I looked up.
“I think you can.”
I honestly think I can say no man has ever looked at me that way before. He wasn’t just saying that; he really believed it. No man has ever believed in me like that.
Sure, I was (or rather, Lana was) paying him to be so supportive. But I can’t imagine holding my fat butt 20 feet off of the ground was a whole lot of fun for him. In fact, I think it probably would have been easier for him to look at me and ask, “You’re really done? Okay, catch your breath and I will ease you down.” Sadly, I’m pretty sure if he were any of my ex-boyfriends that is exactly what he would have done.
But he didn’t. He thought I could do it and as it turns out he was right. | {
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Parody country Pakistan has reduced itself to the proverbial ‘dhobi ka kutta’, no one gives them the respect they keep crying for. Pakistani-origin singer Adnan Sami who recently embraced Indian citizenship has been on the receiving end of abuses from Pakistani trolls who target him for voicing out his support to India.
On 14th August, Pakistan’s Independence Day, a troll asked him whether he will tweet on the Independence Day. Sami very coolly mentioned that he will. But on 15th August.
A troll then asked him whether he has slaughtered a cow, otherwise Hindus will kill him. To that, Sami replied that the day they would look beyond the cow, maybe they could progress in life.
The day you look beyond a cow, ‘maybe’ you will progress in life! We are looking at the moon!! https://t.co/avEeo9qGJQ — Adnan Sami (@AdnanSamiLive) August 14, 2019
“We are looking at the moon,” he said.
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When Sami tweeted to wish India a happy Independence Day, another Pakistani troll taunted Sami for not being ‘faithful’ to his ‘motherland’. “How could he prove to be loyal to the country against which his father fought war?” he asked.
I’m seeing All the indians saying “Proud of You” ? Can You imagine that upto what extent those people are sick , that they are honouring a man who did’nt proved faith-full to his mother-land .
How could he prove to be loyal to the country against which his father fought war. — Noman Masood (@nomi__ism) August 14, 2019
Sami’s father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun while his mother Naureen was from Jammu, India. His father served as Pakistani Air Force pilot before he became a senior diplomat representing Pakistan and served as ambassador of Pakistan to as many as 14 countries.
Sami slayed the troll by telling him that Jinnah, who propagated the ‘two-nation theory’ and was instrumental in dividing India into India and Pakistan, was also not faithful to his motherland.
Really… Jinnah was not faithful to his motherland… What should we call him then?? https://t.co/BivMlau1y6 — Adnan Sami (@AdnanSamiLive) August 15, 2019
Sami asked the troll, by that logic, what would he call Jinnah, who was also born as an Indian (in undivided India), but divided her.
This is not the first time Sami has shut up trolls. In October 2017, he held a concert in Srinagar where former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was acting sore-loserly by sharing pictures of empty chairs at the concert. Sami had called him out and taught him a lesson on how art should be above politics. | {
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500 S&W factory squib load almost got me!
Yesterday I became the proud new owner of a slightly used .500 S&W Magnum. I've been dreaming about owning one of these for quite some time, and yesterday was the day. I picked it up for what I think was a fair price. In addition to the gun it came with 60 rounds of factory ammo (20 round lots from 3 different manufactures)
Well today I had a few work related issues to deal with, but I was able to sneak out in the afternoon for an impromptu shooting session to test my new toy! I decided to shoot my .44 Magnum to work my way up to the .500. After throwing a few cylinders of some hot .44 hand loads down range, I decided it was time to unleash the mighty 500.
Having never fired a .500 before, and watching a few videos of people accidentally touching off 2 rounds from instinctively gripping the trigger during recoil, I decided it would be wise to only load 1 round at a time. I touched off my first round and was surprised at how much of a blast came from the gun, but also relieved that the recoil wasn't unmanageable for me.
Next I decided to try one each of the 2 other boxes of ammo I had with me to compare the recoil. Although I would doubt my accuracy would win any competitions, I was begging to settle into my new toy and enjoy it. After firing the 3 rounds, I decided to try a full cylinder from one of the ammo manufactures. Rounds one and two went off just fine. When I went to fire shot 3, I heard a click but no BANG! After waiting a few seconds for a hang fire, I went to open the cylinder to but to my surprise it was jammed.
At this point I was thinking that the stupid S&W lock had turned itself on from excessive recoil. After packing up my stuff, and swearing at S&W and their stupid locks, I went home with three live rounds still in the cylinder.
Once I got home I inserted the stupid lock key to see if it had indeed locked itself. Unfortunately it hadn't. Next I took a flashlight to look at the cylinder gap and could see a sliver of copper shining back at me. It was a squib. After grabbing a hammer and cleaning rod I pushed the bullet back into the case, thus freeing up the cylinder to move.
It appears that the primer did ignite and pushed the bullet just enough to engage the rifling but not enough to travel down the barrel significantly. The powder appears to be partially burnt as well. I can only imagine the outcome had the bullet traveled down the barrel, became stuck, and then I fired another round of full house .500 S&W Magnum!
Moral of the story? Always, Always, Always check the gun after a misfire!
Now the big question, what to do with this batch of factory ammo? Contact the company to see if they will make it right?
Yeah that is not good. Crappy factory ammo. I hate the stuff. When I got mine I bought a box of 350 grain factory loads. It had a nice boom to it. When I loaded up some of my own it was a different gun. Much much bigger explosion. Really good stuff. It would be seem to be easy to notice a squib with the ones I made. I will probably never put factory ammo in it again.
I don't know about anyone else, buuuuuttttttt to my naked eye it looks like there are 2 different types of powder that came out of the case!! A sperical ball and a flake type powder. Nice Smiths BTW, Thank God nothing real bad happened!
I have to agree with them being handloads. There is definitely two different types of powder there. Also, I have never seen factory ammo in a bag. What brand are they supposed to be? What is the headstamp on the case and bullet weight?
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A young couple who stopped to take pictures at a scenic overlook in the Utah mountains thought the screams sounded like children playing in the distance at first. But as the cries persisted, Spencer Dryden and Cleo Jackson realized it wasn't kids. "Do you really need help?" Dryden yelled into the woods below. "Yes, I need emergency help," a woman said. "Call 911 right now." Dryden, 20, told the AP today that he traversed down a steep mountainside until he found the injured woman who had been trapped in her crushed car for two days. His girlfriend drove down the mountain to get cellphone reception and call for help. Their actions yesterday saved the life of Heather Blackwelder, 29, who plunged through a guardrail and several hundred feet off a steep and winding mountain road, authorities said; the cause of the accident is not yet known. Blackwelder suffered compound fractures to her legs but is expected to survive.
Though the road is well-traveled, her car landed in a spot covered by trees that made it difficult to see. It could have been days, or weeks, before she was found, Utah County sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. "She's very, very lucky to be alive," he said. Dryden found Blackwelder dirty, covered in dried blood, and unable to move her arm or legs. She complained of back pain. The entire car was smashed—except the driver's seat where Blackwelder was trapped, Dryden said. He promised her that he would get help and ran back to the switchback road in search of water. The first driver he stopped was skeptical of the story but eventually gave him water. Dryden rushed it to Blackwelder, then went back to the road. He ran into Mormon missionaries with walkie-talkies who called for help. A few hours later, Blackwelder was pulled from the wreckage and flown to a hospital. She was in serious condition today at the Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo.
If our thieving politicians weren't lining their pockets with every penny that goes into D.C. anymore we could afford patrols to drive those kinds of roads a couple of times a day looking for broken guard rails!
Pete
Sep 12, 2015 12:08 AM CDT
Finally, someone found a good use for those darn Mormon Missionaries! Good they had their trusty walkie-talkie.......
No-Left-Turn
Sep 11, 2015 10:35 PM CDT
It seems nearly this exact scenario happens every year or two. Glad she was found. | {
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Mason Tries To Sit in Nolan's Seat in Class & Ava Is Not Having It on 'The Perfectionists' New Episode
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Dylan (Eli Brown) holds Ava (Sofia Carson) back from attacking Mason (Noah Gray-Cabey) again in this clip from tonight's all new Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.… Read The Post Here | {
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'Despite White trying to prevent his mother speaking, Judge Magill demanded to know the facts of the previous matter' (stock photo)
A mother was verbally abused by her Co Fermanagh son in court after she revealed he had committed an earlier offence the judge was unaware of.
Nathan White (19) of Drumclay Park, Enniskillen was detected driving without insurance on July 21 last year in Clogher. The R-driver pleaded guilty yesterday at Dungannon Magistrates' Court.
His lawyer asked District Judge Peter Magill to consider a short driving ban in lieu of penalty points, as the standard six points would revoke White's licence for a mandatory six months.
This was agreed and Judge Magill imposed a £100 fine along with a one month ban.
He allowed 16 weeks to discharge the fine but White's mother said: "He'll need longer than that. He's already paying off another fine from a different court."
Despite White trying to prevent his mother speaking, Judge Magill demanded to know the facts of the previous matter.
It transpired White had been fined at the end of November for speeding.
Judge Magill said: "So he has already had a chance? That changes things. I don't see how I can overlook this."
He increased the ban to two months, at which White clenched his fists to his face and told his mother to "f*** away off".
Noting this, Judge Magill said: "You seem somewhat disgruntled. Make sure you don't come back."
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Over 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this beautiful blue and green ball we call Earth are now extinct. Im not a scientist, but George Carlin said it and I believe it. Of course, Carlin (may the Big Electron rest his cranky old soul) was saying that we should stop trying to save endangered species and instead leave them alone and let them go gracefully. Im not advocating for that. Frankly, I wouldnt want to live in a world without the endangered slow loris. Enough said.
When it comes to MMO mechanics, many have evolved and some have even become extinct over the years, but maybe we shouldve been a little more proactive about saving them. Sometimes, you only realize how cool something was after its gone. The poor thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) knows what Im talking about.
Most of my experience with old school mechanics came from EverQuest, the game that once sucked years of my life away like Count Rugens Machine in The Princess Bride. Your experiences may vary. (And I'll admit that these mechanics are still alive in aging games, so they're not really extinct yet...but I simply wanted to write an article with a thylacine in it, so I had to get creative.) Here are three MMO mechanics we really shouldve tried to at least keep on the endangered species list for a while.
SPAWN CAMPING
In this age of instances and fair play systems that let everyone partake in the fun of killing a rare monster and gain something in the process, spawn camping has gone the way of the dodo. But once upon a decade or so ago we were still camping out waiting for the elusive bad guy and praying to the MMO gods that someone wouldnt get the drop on him before we did.
As much as we all grumbled about the long hours spent camping a rare spawn, this mechanic had one thing going for it--it brought us together. For instance, if one of your guilds beloved mages needed that stupid Pegasus Feather Cloak for his mage epic, then you did what good guildies do--you headed out into the wilds of South Karana with your best Ranger and Druid buddies trying desperately to track the elusive (read: randomly spawned) flying horse, Quillmane. And, while you killed Splitpaw gnolls out of sheer boredom and frustration because that mother*&$%#@ would...not...pop, you talked with your guildies. You joked, you laughed. You had fun, together, as a guild or a group.
I could write chapters on how the social experience in MMO gaming has quickly vanished. Part of it definitely died when spawn camping did.
CORPSE RUNS
As far as I know, the corpse run died out with EverQuests introduction of guild halls in the Dragons of Norrath expansion. Suddenly, you could summon your dead body to the guild lobby and all the holy shit Ive got to get my corpse or itll rot and Ill lose everything urgency was extinct for good. I know, I know, youre saying, But what the hell was ever fun about a corpse run?
If youre an old school EQ gamer youve got a corpse run tale. Its a given, like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. We all had them. My own introduction to corpse runs came when I was just a level 5 druid stumbling around Kelethin.
Seriously, you dont want to stumble in Kelethin, because its a tree city and there are platforms. With no railings. And falling kills you.
So, I was stumbling around Kelethin and, whoops--I fell to my death. No matter how long I wandered around under the city looking for my poor broken body so I could recover my meager possessions (I had just acquired a pretty decent club, after all), I couldnt find it. I shouted to the zone, "Has anybody seen my corpse? A kind Necromancer answered and said that he could track it for me. He did, and we became friends, and later guild mates. And there would be many corpse runs--some of them guild encompassing and epic--to follow. The corpse run mechanic made you have to rely on other players, a big part of the joy of social gaming ... until Dragons of Norrath killed that fun once and for all.
BEING KoS
Remember when factions mattered for more than just lore and PvP? Back in the good ol days in EverQuest, if you played a Dark Elf and you happened to wander into, say, Felwithe, a bunch of High Elf guards would run out the minute you came into view and kick your ass. Invitations to group in some zone with goodie-two-shoes guards left you saying, Uh, they dont like me much there. The term for this mechanic was blunt--you were KoS, for Kill on Sight.
But you could work to improve your faction by killing certain mobs or completing certain quests. It took a while, but after some dedicated faction grinding you could get those same guards to stop wanting to draw your blood and merely scowl at you instead. And seriously, whats not to like about a mechanic like that? It made the world much more alive and immersive. But, for one reason or another, game developers must have decided that they wanted their players exploring every nook and cranny of the world theyd created, and having guards wanting to kill you probably wasnt conducive to that.
Because game developers are vain, and also maybe because players are lazy and dont want to have to work faction in order to interact with certain parts of the game, the days of being KoS have vanished from existence. Thanks a pantload, guys.
Next week well explore a few more mechanics that are on their way to becoming fossilized remains. What are some of the old school MMO mechanics you loved to hate, yet still miss? Share a comment below. | {
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Look guys, at the time of writing this in 2012, id had a breakdown, but fuck me, i could not write something like this again. I thought id take out the bits I knew was Not my imagination and post them here. I got a lot of stick for this off you guys, but man, ive re-read it, this is utterly weird! All this Id written on disclose, i also said a lot of things that didnt make sense. A lot of people on here were taking the piss, that slowed me down immensly, my channeling skills only lasted a few days. And a lot was said about a ww3, i hope to God that dont happen! interesting read never the less!
Ww3 is the ultimate end of the world scenario. Other possibilities like meteorites and solar flares should be wiped off as a possibility. Because "aliens" would not allow this to happen. But they cannot come down to earth and interfere with our free will.
We must prevent the upcoming war. The war happening is a real possibility.i can see spirits pointing at my phone telling me how important this is. My dreams of ww3 are by far the scariest dreams. I wake up from them, they terrify me. You think you can just hide? You think they will not blow up where you live? Because danger seems to happen somewhere else ?
Lets look at the chemtrails. Look out your window now, they are always there. They have us on lock. They are spraying chemtrails everywhere. Even at city centres in Wales. You cannot hide from chemtrails. You cannot hide from the war.,which is what I am scared of. And is the reason I have been writing all of this.
We must pull more non believers of conspiracies in, in order to suceed in stopping the war. If we pull enough in, I promise it will stop. We must speak about this more openly. At first it will be embarrassing, that a promise also. But the embaressment must be endured. There are other ways. But this way will be the easiest. I rest my case
Im a grey. Like it or lump it. My alien origins are the greys. I can speak with them, they say this. We are not here to make you laugh. We are here to help you. We have big eyes, for a reason, eyes are windows to the soul. people calling us weird are not aware of who we are. We can have a laugh, our sense of humour is light . we are only here to help. Our logic is denied time after time. Time does not exist. You believe in time, but you do not believe in us. And if you say "i believe time and aliens" why dont you laugh at time? . Why do you not look at the stars, we will give signs if you ask. Shooting stars are meteors . But they are mostly triggered by us. You laugh at us because you are scared. There are scarier people on your planet. You are not real. Nothing is real. Its logic
Evidence evidence evidence. They will bring movies out about us thats for sure. I can see earthquakes,. And paying attention to the vibe my writings are giving is the most helpful evidence. we are only here to help. We are sensitive to thoughts. We read your thoughts and we see your thoughts. We turn your thoughts into digits, and read the digits. We collect digits from your mind. There is a digital dimension, which we can read, amoung other dimensions. Everything is digits. You humans can also read digits. Its not rocket science. Our saucers are vehicles in the playground of space. We are your good friends.we have been watching your planet a long time. We want to write more. We are not evil, if we wanted to destroy you, we would of done that by now. If you want visual evidence, the stars are always out. Ask the stars a question, count on us to answer
Just to clear some things up. I am not actually a grey . But I have been a grey. They have called me there friend and said we have known eachother. Most of us have alien backgrounds. The greys say they have friends reading this
And I need to say. Peoples judgements block my channeling. So try not to judge. Your spelling is what it says on the tin. Your spelling are spells. Judgements are magic spells that affect my channeling. Please refrain.
Us greys can zip through space like a zip strikes down a jacket. We can move from 1 side of the universe to another in less than an instant. Travelling to another universe takes longer. Like a motorway trip in your car. We have seen similiar planets in these (next to) infinite universes that exist. At the edge of your universes are sights words cannot describe. We have not explored everywhere in your universe. Universes are our favorite places. Do universes go on forever ? Nobody knows, because nobody has reached the end of the universe. The universe is not just made from circle planets. There are blocks, multidimensional shapes, spinning disks, mysterious clouds of energy. There is a whole lot to explore. Our planet is nothing like your planet, our structures are tall. We have creatures on our planet, similiar to yours. We dont have pets, we choose not to own life. But within context, our creatures can time travel, and teleport. We have not landed on your planet yet (as far as you know) because of the vibes. They are to different to ours at the moment. It is not the right timeThe greys want to speak about people. It is essential you start taking aliens seriously, we do not care if you call us aliens. It is not about the words you use, but about the feelings attached behind them. There is an ugliness on your planet. You must blank it out. Place all your attention on the truth. You do not need to use the techniques the individuality sketch has said to use. Just do the right thing. Doing the right thing is not a technique. It is built into you. we like to make promises, we promise your world will not end, this is the most important thing. We do not wish to scare you. A war can be seen as a possibility. You will not be able to hide from this war, if it happens. You cannot hide from radiation. This must be avoided at all costs. This is scary, even for us, this would be a dark event. Your planet has took beatings. Ww3 must be avoided for your childrens sake for your families sake, for your friends sake, for gods sake. You/we must work together to stop this. We must use logic, Love and common sense. The war must be prevented
Hey. This might seem a bit odd but is there a way I can private message you on this site? It's hard to explain why I need to contact you on here without saying to much. All I can say is that I don't really want to say what I have to say here because I know how people can react about subjects like this. It's cool if you would rather not though. I understand you might think its odd me asking.
Devilishwork wrote:Hey. This might seem a bit odd but is there a way I can private message you on this site? It's hard to explain why I need to contact you on here without saying to much. All I can say is that I don't really want to say what I have to say here because I know how people can react about subjects like this. It's cool if you would rather not though. I understand you might think its odd me asking.
Us greys can zip through space like a zip strikes down a jacket. We can move from 1 side of the universe to another in less than an instant. Travelling to another universe takes longer. Like a motorway trip in your car. We have seen similiar planets in these (next to) infinite universes that exist. At the edge of your universes are sights words cannot describe. We have not explored everywhere in your universe. Universes are our favorite places. Do universes go on forever ? Nobody knows, because nobody has reached the end of the universe. The universe is not just made from circle planets. There are blocks, multidimensional shapes, spinning disks, mysterious clouds of energy. There is a whole lot to explore. Our planet is nothing like your planet, our structures are tall. We have creatures on our planet, similiar to yours. We dont have pets, we choose not to own life. But within context, our creatures can time travel, and teleport.
Why do you not look at the stars, we will give signs if you ask. Shooting stars are meteors . But they are mostly triggered by us. You laugh at us because you are scared. There are scarier people on your planet.
Wow, I mean just WOW! I've had experience with them for 11+ years now, day in, day out. They told me "for the rest of my life" and that was back in 2002 or so and its been this way ever since, they seem to like me or something, seems like they are using me for something.
It was back in the spring of 2003, when this experience was still a new occurrence to me. I had arrived home at night and where I was staying was nice and dark, I always loved astronomy since I was a kid, I was even during some astrophotography at that time to, taking long exposure shots of Mars but, this night I step out of the car and just started looking at the stars, a bright star caught my eye and one of the prominent ones that had been speaking to me said "That star" I can't remember exactly how the rest unfolded, but the next thing I realized, I was being pointed out star after star until I was looking at a straight line of 5 stars directly overhead. He told me "There is something about those stars" I felt like I was given an assignment to figure out, so I went inside grabbed some notebook paper and went back outside and sketched the stars and there positions relative to direction, the line of stars stretched from the northeast to the southwest. I went back inside and pulled up a star chart program I had on my computer and looked up each star, I was able to identify each star with a little bit of info on each star as well. It turned out that all the stars were nearby stars, the furthest star which I remember off the top of my head was Hamal at 66 light years away, it turned out that all the stars luminosities compared to our Sun were similar except Hamal shinning at several hundred suns compared to the others around 50 suns give or take. The temperatures of the stars were similar to each other with the exception of Hamal, which was rather cold in comparison and all the stars were actually binary star systems, except Hamal, of course. I was rather amazed at my conclusion, all those stars are similar to each other, except Hamal. This was very strange to me, because it felt like scientific communication. I recently had finished school for a chemistry degree and I know that in science we have rules, rules, rules and there are always exceptions to the rule too. This felt like the same thing, I was looking at a scientific principle described to me, by showing me stars! It was a few nights later, I was driving down the road and they said "Look up" and I looked into the night sky as I was driving and saw a brilliantly bright meteorite, that blazed across about a quarter of the sky. The very next night I was told to look up again and saw another meteorite that was exactly the same size.
At that time, I was trying to figure out what the hell was happening to me, I was already in the midst of an experience that had been occurring to me for little over a year. I was at the point that I had just lost my mind, I was suffering from a psychotic break. They were trying to convince me that they were really real and can see me, they would tell me things that I was doing or one time I remember I misplaced my keys and I was tearing apart the living room looking for them, a voice inside my head said "bathroom" so I stopped and went to the bathroom and my keys were on the counter. They tried to tell me that they were there, I countered with the argument, no, you are my subconscious, I already knew that I placed the keys on the bathroom counter and forgot about it and somehow a message from my subconscious short-circuited to my conscious via a voice inside my head. I told them that I need information that I could have no previous knowledge of and damn, did they ever deliver!
Thanks for posting your story, I love hearing about other peoples experiences.
Devilishwork wrote:Hey. This might seem a bit odd but is there a way I can private message you on this site? It's hard to explain why I need to contact you on here without saying to much. All I can say is that I don't really want to say what I have to say here because I know how people can react about subjects like this. It's cool if you would rather not though. I understand you might think its odd me asking.
no point asking me anything now brother, im back to normal lol
I haven't been normal since December 2001, ask away, though not to certain if I can answer anybody's questions, from my own experiences and from the very few that have felt comfortable talking about it, seems like we understand in our own ways that we are able to put together.
Devilishwork wrote:Hey. This might seem a bit odd but is there a way I can private message you on this site? It's hard to explain why I need to contact you on here without saying to much. All I can say is that I don't really want to say what I have to say here because I know how people can react about subjects like this. It's cool if you would rather not though. I understand you might think its odd me asking.
no point asking me anything now brother, im back to normal lol
Did you take any drugs before making this thread?
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The N.S.A. ---------- Those damn fedz. How many times have you heard or read that? A lot I bet. But do you HONESTLY ever think about that statement? For example, if you say it what part of "fedz" do you hate? Hmm. Makes you sorta think about what branches you know about...lesse...CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service. Right? How 'bout the NSA? "NSA? WHats that?" Ahh. Glad you asked. NSA is a part of our government that we should all know about. In a recent movie, _Sneakers_, a small side of the NSA came out and was exposed to a lot of people. Most probably said "I didn't know they existed." Other said "Yeah, I knew about them but didn't know what they did." Bet a lot people still don't know that much about them. When I went into the movie I didn't know about them really. Well, good ole me went and decided I want to know a little more about them. Bad move. I found the one part of the government that scares me more than any other branch. I went out and read the book _The Puzzle Palace_ written by James Bamford. On the cover it says "Inside the national security agency, America's most secret intelligence organization". Yep. Most secret. That just begins it. Anyway, the following information was taken straight from the book and I think you should read it all. Pretty interesting stuff in there actually. Do you know how big the NSA is? July 1954- Project K was begun. $19,944,451 dollars. It called for a 3 story Glass and reinforced concrete structure in the shape of an 'A'. 1.4 million-square-foot main building. 60,000 square foot basement. Fall 1957- Project K completed. But it had cost $35,000,000 instead of $19 million. June 1963- New Headquarters building started. Estimated cost $12 million. 512,000 sqaure feet. After it was done it made it the size of the CIA building, and the capitol of the US put together. It housed 7,560,000 linear feet of telephone wire, 70,000 square feet of permanantly sealed windows, a cooling tower capable of holding 11 million gallons of water a day and the nation's longest unobstructed corridor- 980 feet. For the record. CIA Building - 1,228,000 sq.ft. Capitol Bldg.- 718,740 sq.ft. Total - 1,946,740 sq.ft. NSA Building - 1,912,000 sq.ft. -This NSA complex is surrounded by a ten-foot Cyclone fence crowned with multiple rows of barbed wire. Along the fence are warnings telling you not to take pictures or making sketches of the building. Inside this fence is another, consisting of five thin strands of high-voltage electrified wire attached to wooden posts. After that is ANOTHER Cyclone fence reinforcing the others. This last fence is occasionally patrolled by armed guards with dogs. -Within this building are many different security measure that will make you wonder what they are hiding. Anyway, there is a kitchen with people slaving over stoves 24 hours a day. -There is a medical complex with emergency unit, x-ray machine, operating rooms etc. 1966 - The 'S' Building was completed. This $5.7 million dollar building is 261,516 sq.ft. and was designed as the home for the Agency's Communications Security Organization (COMSEC). Early 70's - There were 5 buildings housing about 35 hundred men and women. Also added was a mess hall that can seat a thousand people, an $844,000 recreation building, and a $2,000,000 Troop Support building to house the administration activities of the three service cryptologic agencies. 1972 - A $2.6 million Sensitive Materials Center was started to contain the millions of miles of intercept tapes produced yearly. The 100,000 sq.ft. facility holds millions of tapes. 1973 - The $3.5 million Logistics Building was begun. Once the 125,400 sq.ft. building was completed the NSA spent $53,000 moving 700 vanloads of paper and office equipment. Half a million cubic feet of the building is used to store the paper on which intercepts are printed. What to do with all that paper after it has been read, analysed, and burned. In a 1980 report by the Government Accounting Office, the NSA classifies somewhere between 50 and 100 million documents a year. Late 1972 - Plans for a $1.2 million "classified waste destructor" to get rid of all the excess paper That enough for you? I think not. Under way or now finished. - $6.5 million Facility Control Center - $2.5 million Logistics Support Center - $2.5 million addition to the Troop Support Facility - $2 million dollars are scheduled for road improvements - $3.5 million is scheduled for other stuff such as underground communications to a beefed up security check point. - $92 million - 1,000,000 sq.ft. addition to the Headquarters-Operations building complex. Yep. That is 92 million. Add all that up and consider the years it was spent in. You have a part of the goverment that dwarves the FBI, the CIA, and the Secret Service, yet most people don't know shit about it. You wonder where all that tax money REALLY goes? Do you know what the NSA really does? In one sentence they basically try to keep the US government's communications secure while trying to break other countries communications codes. That is all they do. And they need all that equipment and all those people and all that money. 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Was I harsh in my beta review of Medal of Honor? Yes. I was cutting, scathing and wounding. But rightfully so, as even developers and EA staff seem to have agreed that the first public beta was 'pretty damn rubbish'. So, they did what very few companies seem to do these days: they went back, and they made the game better. And to prove it, for four days, everyone with a PC could jump in and check it out.
But the revamped gameplay wasn't the main focus; there was something much more pressing. The Taliban. Oh, no, wait - the 'Opposing Force', as they're known now. After public backlashes from every direction, EA decided to remove that word. Why? Was it to protect free speech? Was it to honour those who gave their lives overseas? Was it to milk every last piece of publicity and free advertising out of this 'scandal'? Who knows. The only thing you need to know is that this removal is possibly the biggest public victory in the history of gaming.
Let's go back to the start. Medal of Honor features the Taliban as your cannon-fodder in the single player. In multiplayer, you could play as either the United States Marine Corps, popping heads from twenty metres, or as the Taliban, capping knees from point-blank range. This went largely unnoticed by most due to the fact that, in their minds, it didn't really matter. But then the press got hold of the story.
And boy, did they have a field day.
Fox got involved, inviting a 'gold star mom' to speak out on why she thinks Medal of Honor is a horrible and sickening piece of 'entertainment'. In the UK, Liam Fox, a Conservative polititian and the Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom called for it to be banned, labelling it 'un-British' and 'shocking', comments quickly revoked by the coalition Government (and resulting in a sharp slap on the wrist for Mr. Fox). EA remained strong, saying: "Most of us have been doing this since we were 7; if someone's the cop, someone's got to be the robber, someone's got to be the pirate and someone's got to be the alien. In Medal of Honor's multiplayer, someone's got to be the Taliban."
Let's not get bogged down in those claims and arguments that blocked out the gaming sun like oh-so-much controversial ash; you have an opinion on each of them, and each of them are valid in some way. The most important thing was that EA had no plans to remove those 7 letters.
Of course, as we now know, hell yeah they did. In fact, after the last straw fell (MOH being banned from various on-base Gamestops in the US), EA decided to remove the feature to play as the Taliban from the multiplayer. "We are making this change for the men and women serving in the military and for the families of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice," said Greg Goodrich, the game's executive producer. Gamers were confused, opinion was split, and EA were either shouted at or praised, seemingly in equal measure. What was lost on people was the fact that, now, Medal of Honor was lost on the press.
I played the PC beta. It makes no difference whatsoever. The OPFOR look like the Taliban. They fight like the Taliban. They speak, shout, move and shoot like the Taliban. The only thing missing are those 7 letters. It changes absolutely nothing; every single facet of this 'Opposing Force' screams Taliban, and ask anyone over the age of about three to give the team a name, 'Taliban' would be used 90% of the time. For all intents and purposes, I played for much of those four days as a member of the Taliban, shooting and killing American troops. So why has gaming won?
Gaming is at one of those incredibly pivotal points in an entertainment form's life, an echo of the times when comic books were banned due to being too violent, when Rock n' Roll was attributed to teenage rebellion, when moving pictures were 'useless' and destined to fail. The Medal of Honor scandal proved gaming has pushed into the mainstream. EA have removed 7 letters from the multiplayer aspect of a video game. In this video game, you kill and kill and kill, blowing up American soldiers or plugging PKM rounds into oncoming insurgents. It's bloody, violent, morally questionable and startlingly accurate in detail. Yet, now that the word 'Taliban' doesn't feature, it's totally fine. Little Jimmy can rack up headshots all day long, and millions around the world can pump lead into each other as they please; the media don't raise an eyebrow over the gruesome or morbid nature of the game's focus.
EA removing the Taliban option was the best choice they've ever made; free advertising, appeasing the masses and proving a point. Are Fox inviting a 'gold star mom' on the question the blood and gore? Are politicians going red in the face over the huge number of deaths you'll cause? Hell no. Now that the headline-grabbing element has gone, these people, who called for the game's ban in the hope that no man, woman or child would ever play one second of the game couldn't care less whether Medal of Honor flops or hits big. You may think it hypocritical, but these people did honestly believe they were right in attacking EA over this matter - they thought they would protect society as a whole, something that should, on some level, be praised. But something like Medal Of Honor, with the removal of a single word, is now a totally valid form of entertainment.
It's a testament to how far along games have come, and how socially accepted they are now, that no fuss is kicked up over the graphic nature of a title sure to sell by the millions. Medal of Honor proves that gaming has finally reached mainstream status.
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You have to believe in your heart that you will, trollofhalo-chan~!
But seriously, do you see that many other anons who aren't obvious log-out trolls trying to dodge red thumbs?
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Zayne’s eyes snapped open. His head felt foggy and his body was so weary that it took him a few moments before he was able to pull himself out of bed. The sky outside was still pitch-black. It had to be three or four o’clock in the morning. What could have woken him from his sleep so abruptly?
Then Zayne heard it – a loud but muffled voice calling out from the living room. “Seriously, dad?! You too?!” It cried.
He glanced over at the bed behind him and finally noticed that it was empty. Hope, he realized, his groggy mind clearing a bit. Zayne rose to his feet and slowly made his way toward the living room. Hope’s voice grew clearer with every step he took.
“Look, can we please talk about this later?” Hope sighed heavily. “Or better yet, not at all? I’m an adult and this is my job. Can’t you understand that?” She paused, rolling her eyes at whatever she heard on the other end of the line. “Yeah, okay. Bye.”
“Hope?” Zayne muttered as he finally reached the couch where she sat.
“Oh God, I’m sorry.” She sighed, placing her phone at her side. “I didn’t mean to wake you.”
“It’s okay.” He replied, smiling slightly despite his confusion. “What are you doing up so late? And… Why are you yelling at your parents?” Carly and Ralph had returned home from their visit barely two weeks ago, and everything seemed fine when they left… What had they done to piss her off so soon?
His girlfriend shook her head. “It’s so dumb. So, I got an email with the proofs from my big Vogue shoot at like midnight. They’re so amazing, Zayne.” For a moment, she smiled. “I didn’t wanna wake you up, so I was gonna wait and show you in the morning. But I did send them to my sister…”
“Okay…” Zayne wasn’t quite sure where this was heading.
“And Sadie loved them… But maybe too much.” Hope continued. “A little bit after I went to bed, my phone went off…” She paused for a moment, sighing. “It was Sadie. She got way too excited about the pictures, and ended up doing the stupidest possible thing she could have done.”
“What?”
“She sent them to my mom.”
Zayne furrowed his brow. Clearly Hope was upset that Carly saw the pictures… But why? “I don’t get it. Shouldn’t that be a good thing?”
“You’ll understand when you see them.” She assured him. “Anyway, I guess mom totally lost it and ended up showing dad, and that got him flipping out too… It’s ridiculous. They’re totally overreacting!” Hope shook her head slowly. “So I decided to call them and try to do some damage control… As you can probably tell, it didn’t go over so well.”
Zayne couldn’t shake the feeling of dread that had started creeping up on him as Hope told her story. “I guess I still don’t really get it.” He said slowly. “I mean, what the hell could be in these pictures that got your parents so worked up?”
“I’ll show you.” Hope smiled, reaching for her phone and handing it to him. “And you’ll see how ridiculous they were being.”
Zayne raised an eyebrow curiously as he began scrolling through the pictures.
“You know my mom… Of course she’d freak. But I never thought dad would.” Hope laughed softly to herself. “They’re beautiful though, aren’t they?”
It felt as though all the breath had been sucked from Zayne’s lungs. “Jesus, you’re practically naked.”
“Um… not really. But so what?”
He finally lifted his eyes from the screen of the phone, his gaze resting upon Hope’s face. “Why the hell would you ever take a job like this?!”
“Like what?!”
Zayne felt his cheeks grow hot as his anger slowly bubbled up to the surface. “Like you’re in a…” For a moment, he almost seemed to be struggling to find the right word. “A porn magazine or something!”
In an instant, Hope was on her feet. “What the hell did you just say?!”
“You heard me.” Zayne fought to keep his voice steady as he rose from his seat as well. “I can’t believe you’d do something like this!”
“This has got to be some kind of sick joke or something… You sound just like mom and dad!” She narrowed her eyes at him as she spoke.
“Yeah, well maybe for once you should actually listen to them!”
Hope looked almost disgusted as she spoke. “What’s wrong with you?! You know how much this job meant to me! How can you be such a dick about it?!”
Zayne tried in vain to calm himself before replying. “Maybe I’m just a little surprised, okay? I mean, how can you take a job like this without telling me first?!”
“Why should I have to tell you anything?!” Hope snapped back at him.
“Because I’m your boyfriend! Or maybe you forgot that while you were busy parading naked in front of some photographer… In a shoot that the whole friggin’ world gets to see! I thought you were above trashy shit like this, Hope.”
Her jaw literally dropped open at his words. For a moment, she seemed to be struggling to find her voice. “Okay, first off, I’m not naked, okay?!” She managed to choke out at last. “Jesus Christ, grow up, Zayne! This is my job. This is my body. And you know what? So what if I was naked? Why the hell should I have to ask your permission?! You don’t own me!”
“You’re right, I don’t.” Zayne agreed. “I never said I did! But this is like my birthday all over again… Maybe even worse! It’s like you were hiding it from me or something.”
“What the hell would I have to hide?!”
“I dunno! I just…” He shook his head slowly. “Can you seriously look me in the eye and tell me it’d be perfectly fine if I whipped out my dick in front of some female photographer without telling you first? Maybe plastered pictures of it all over billboards and magazine covers for women to drool over?”
Hope shrugged, the scowl never leaving her face. “It’s your body. Be my guest.” She paused for a moment. “Know what? Why don’t we do it? Rent out some billboard space for a nice big dick pic, huh? You should be able to afford it with all that money that you aren’t using for your restaurant!”
“What the hell?! What does that have to do with anything?!”
“Everything.” Hope practically hissed at him. “You throw a damn fit any time someone tries to point out that you aren’t doing shit to work on this ‘restaurant’… You haven’t for months! You keep snapping at me to mind my own business and let you worry about your career… And then what do you do? You turn around and pull shit like this!” She cried, throwing her hands up in exasperation.
“You’re jealous, Zayne. You can’t handle watching me succeed. And you know what? That’s your problem, not mine!” Hope pointed at him accusingly as she spoke. “You can’t keep going on like this! You need to let someone help you, for Christ’s sake! This is eating away at you. It’s changing you! Can’t you see that?!”
Zayne said nothing for a few moments as the weight of her words poured down on him. Somewhere in the back of his mind, it was like a small voice was calling out to him – Stop! Calm down! Listen to her!
But there was another much louder voice that drowned it out.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” He shot at her venomously. “Don’t pretend you have any idea what this is like for me!” Zayne narrowed his eyes as he continued. “Not everyone has it as easy as you do! Some people actually have to work to get what they want, okay?! Some of us have real jobs! We can’t all get paid to just stand in front of a fucking camera all day and call it ‘work’!”
It felt like someone had pulled the rug out from beneath Zayne’s feet. The thick fog of jealousy and anger that had clouded his mind seemed to vanish in an instant. Holy shit. What the fuck did I just say?!
“Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. I didn’t mean that. Shit. I didn’t mean it. I’m sorry… God, I wasn’t thinking… I just –”
“Fuck you.” Hope’s voice was barely above a whisper. “Fuck you. I’m so sick of you making me feel like shit all the time for doing what I love. And I can’t stand watching you act like a victim when you won’t get off your ass and actually do something about it!” The venom in her voice stung more and more with every word she spoke.
“Maybe modeling isn’t a ‘real job’ to you… But at least I have a job.” She shook her head slowly. Her anger seemed to have been replaced by… something else. “I can’t take these jealous tantrums anymore. I can’t stand hearing you talk to me like this.” Hope paused for a moment. Her voice was shaking as she continued. “I love you, Zayne. More than anything. But I am so fucking tired. And honestly, I don’t know if I can do this anymore.”
Zayne felt a sudden heaviness in his chest. “W-what are you saying?” He whispered.
“Exactly what you think I am.”
“Please. Hope, I didn’t –”
“Look, I just…” She bit her lip for a moment. “I just need a break, Zayne.” Hope said at last. “And so do you.”
“But I –”
“I don’t wanna talk about this anymore, okay? Not tonight.”
“I…” For a moment, Zayne considered trying to argue again. But what would be the point? Hope was absolutely right, wasn’t she? “Okay. I’ll… I’ll just… Go, I guess.”
It was like the room was spinning. How could he have said any of that? How could he be such a jerk? How could any of this be real? Maybe he was imagining it… Maybe it was a nightmare.
He fumbled through the dimly lit apartment, grabbing his car keys and slipping on his shoes in a daze. Zayne hesitated as he reached the front door, praying that Hope would say something – anything – to stop him.
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Q:
Is it possible to put an if else statement inside an if else statement?
So basically, what I want to do is to use "if / else" as switches for program to choose a path.
I want more indented if / else NOT to work, if my elif statement was false. Is it possible?
Code:
aStr = "abcdef"
char = "e"
if aStr == '':
return False
elif len(aStr) == 1:
if char == aStr:
return True
else:
print "Python is stupid"
return False
else:
And it returns "Python is stupid", which I don't meant it to do!
A:
If you want it to run when it's not true, you need to reverse your logic in the elif:
aStr = "abcdef"
char = "e"
if aStr == '':
return False
elif len(aStr) != 1:
if char == aStr:
return True
else:
print "Python is stupid"
return False
The if (and by extension, elif) statement runs the block if the given expression is true. If you want to check if something isn't true, you reverse the logic (putting a not in front of it, or using the inverse operator).
Note that the Pythonic way to check for an empty string is to do if not aStr:, rather than check for equality vs an empty string.
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This
is a test of our collective democracy and republic... "I
do believe the Donald is not that dumb!"
Trump
Has started to implement his Plan... Which may be "A Billion
Dollar Plan!" He would not be the first wealthy tycoon who
wanted to change American Politics. However, Trump's plan is somewhat
of a mystery and travels for me along the lines of inciting racism, and other,ethic traditional activities which may continue to divide America! Is the 'Trump'ster helping to fuel this latest surge in racial acts?
"I would like to present a question and that is
this... 1"
How important is it to have a free world as we know it?
[real
important] 2Also,
how do we know that we are free and that we are truly a free
society? [govt. Is govern by our participation, not just politicians, bureaucrats, and other constitutional keepers!]
3also as a
caveat to these questions ...Is America still a 'Representative
democracy, or have we allowed those who handle a big infinite never
empty purse to owned our policy, policy makers, and the halls of
government?[does the government still belong to people or
corporations?]
These
are the questions you need to ask yourself.
"Don't
put it on the 'Donald he's just giving people what they want".Or what she is thinking said one woman. {who has shown to be a plant} So... here is a
question, is the 'Donald, playing into the hands of the bigot,
racist, closet segregationist, mindset of the prejudicial folks who
reside in America? Or is this whole thing with the Trump a
'Stage another Platform?
Or is this the image of a new
Donald, which is to me a contradiction to a prior image of the
'Donald?
It's
somewhat of a puzzle especially, from a person that has the world on
a string, Trump, has had a number of woe's and he has just
made things worst-off! "many folks have said and commented"
Unless this is an April fools joke that will be revealed in April
2016. Where or what ever gave 'Donald J. Trump, the idea to venture
for a position as POTUS '45! This move is still suspect as
to what is the Billionaires motive to upset his near to perfect world
and Apple-Cart?
This
is all speculation but it sets forth on a new and open dialog
hopefully to fixing our collective and national issues. I think it
will also bring out the worst who have nothing good to say about
diversity. Another accomplishment may bring forth all of the
characters that are Un-American, if there is such a plan...
The
Plan Hi Jacked … is what I call it...
which I believe
is what Mr Trump may be doing. I would think that he is smart enough
and sharp enough to know when he has crossed the line. His latest
blunder outlawing Muslims is a direct violation of the US
Constitution which is our contract and unites us all of every faith background tradition its our collective Law! Which forbids the banning of a
religion. I fail to believe that Trump did not make that as a
mistake... A recent Pastor who has been seen as a supporter of
Mr Trump, says and agrees that we have to do something. [maybe
not a ban ] Such as a Moratorium, which may be 1
A move presented to help a back-pedal motion for the Trump camp in
which I'm sure they will use if no other options are available for the Trump Camp.
We
are a republic which is govern by a document not the whims of a body
politic...it would be like changing the first Ten Amendments to suite
a majority and overruling a minority and their constitutional
rights? "Is this a way to show to the racist, religious zealots,
systemics, along with the mental ill, who will lose their life for
there zeal. “regardless of the faith, tradition or thing” This is
what is harming our republic and union, let not the fear and other
aberrant behavior hinder or twist our way of life liberty and
pursuant to live life. Understanding that 'Religious freedom is our most precious tenet to our unification as one nation.
Nothing shall divide us, religion, race or nationalism. For we are one
and one for all to hurt harm the lest of these in there right to
worship shall not be infringe. Which includes the US Constitution
that enables that right!
We
might as well have a State Religion... and maybe we should ask the
'Donald should we insure that other religion's, that might need to be
banned like certain radical forms of the Christian Identity
Movement... Since we are going to built a 'Wall and now we need
to stop all Muslims from entering our Country. According to [dt] We
are seen as weak in the eyes of China and Obama is weak , and a third
of the Republican base thinks he{Donald Trump} is the man for the
job... Especially, regarding our dilemma with a so called Islamic
Muslim Jihad towards America, and the Western world! “which will
change according to Trump 'when he becomes President? “ I like Mark Cubans remark the best about the "Trump'ster!"
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American ideas, ideals, in a changed and continuous changing world, hopefully to a better place. When it comes to the truth in the world it calls for a separate line of defense. If Governments cannot keep people safe then who, what and where shall it arise. To a free and open press...more especially too those who serve and continue to serve our republic, system and way of life! Many would say and call Assange, Snowden, and the like as a traitor. I would they are if you are on a side that wheels the power in there respective governments. 'democracy is the vehicle we use to spread equality through a republic such as America. Not to say this invention in which we call on the pen, wit and intellect of the men who set us on this mission. Such as Paine, Madison, Jefferson as a few and the sincerity in relations Ben Franklin. Is this thing 'democracy set upon a republic going to fall apart do to its inability to compromise or work in understanding?
Only, these are the facts upon which they built this house called 'a Republic and so shall we fault or lose this gift to humanity because of an ideology or other point of view? The US Constitution is as close to a perfect balance as we have in earth today! Of course I am bias and prejudicial to a fault. However, I hope that the 'democracy in this republic by the people and for the people idea will continue flourish. It is known in today's world as oppose to the world of yester-years, and since the founding of a nation. We have a key to a world of free-speech, and plurality and not since the days of the Saraseans http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=1077
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Our current Dalai Lama
is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of
Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word
далай (dalai) meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan
word བླ་མ་bla-ma (with a silent "b") meaning "chief,
high priest ...do you think that the Dalai Lama is for Peace and
can be called ours? and is there a...
Need To Know
Ours...because
not only is the (Dalai Lama), dedicated too his traditions, mores,
and ways, but also to world peace. 'I do believe My view and comments
are not and endorsement for the faith or belief in Buddhism, but the
belief in Peace not War. As a thought, if all our religious,
spiritual, ministers, rabbi's, imam's, popes, cardinals, bishops,
priests, priestess, prophets, and prophetess practice, live and begin
to usher us (Americans and people in the World) into the ways of
peace and harmony. How much War, and Military equipment would we need
to have, manufactured or purchased? If 'We the people in America, as
well as in the World thought in this way who would we fight and War
against. I wonder' first of all...
Why Should We
Continue
in the ways that only profit and promote the manufactures of durable
goods, equipment and armament, that create maim and destroy our race.
It is estimated that the U.S. Government will spent upwards to 57
billion dollars, to help care and rehabilitate Veterans who have been
wounded, from the Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars alone. Not to mention
those who have died. If the Dalai Lama, Popes of both Orthodox and
Roman Catholic faith declared war on War itself, as well as the other
super powers of this planet earth. What would happen if they
(collectively) requested all of us within that faith and belief were
encouraged too 'Get Up and Stand Up' that is to Stand up for
the right to have Peace not War Remember, as far as I know
there is not another planet earth waiting on the sidelines with and
option when we destroy this one. So I wonder are both of these
beliefs and actions a racket
Is Religion A Racket-Is War A Racket
Ifyou've wondered as I have
after doing some reading, as well as being a member of the U.S. Armed
Forces for more than 20 years. As well as the chance to go to war and
yes I have seen, experienced others (brothers and sisters) who have
been maimed, dead walking alive, sociological and psychologically
impaired in the mind due to War. So there are two ways a man can go
towards ...what he knows and the fear of change or something new or
better. Which can be mere speculation or altruistic in thinking,
would the Dalai Lama and other religious, spiritual and faith gurus,
of today agree to what I am proposing. 'A Declaration of Peace 'I
know that Jiddu Krishnamurti would agree. For (40) forty years or
more 'Krishnamurti, appealed to the United Nations leaders and
diplomats of the World. And reminded the (our) World Leaders, about
there unending, and senseless Wars. Can peace be as profitable as War
The Promotional Peace Appeal
I
can't really say that I know making Peace as oppose to War is a new
idea. My question is how do you on a personal level feel about
gathering all (with no exceptions), our collective faith, religious,
spiritual leadership, whether closed minded or free in thinking, in
belief and traditions. To declare, demonstrate and live in the ways
of harmony and peace. First of all ...by promoting and commanding a
Worldwide Peace declaration appeal to America and the World. Of
course many would or may say, this has been done and proposed. So is
this thought and appeal being altruistic, and frivolous. For even
thinking up some shit like this. To get all the faith, spiritual and
religions to command peace and to demand peace through issuing a
Peace Declaration. Jacque Fresco of the Venus project made a comment
that conjure up this thought for me. Mr Fresco stated that if just
the estimated 1
880,000 Roman Catholics alone began to demonstrate and declare a
peace appeal. I believe alone, would generate not only buzz but
results. However...
Hypocrisy
Prevails ...
We
are earthlings, humans and a race of people who have failed to live
in a higher order of thinking obviously. We in America have and are
promoted as one of the greatest democracy within this World. Many
American Catholics, Protestants and Non-denominational people make up
over half of the population and have been giving lip service to this
Peace on Earth and goodwill to all men. Is it being hypocritical, as
well as promoting this farce with just lip service, and have truly
failed to take any action it seems. Is this due to the chains of
consumer capitalist bondage that we desire, and submit too?
Is
it possible for the U.S. faith, religious and spiritual communities
to agree on a Peace Compact or Declaration. As opposed to a War
declaration agenda? That is what many of us within America have
promoted, by saying nothing that opposes War. I do believe that the
majority of leaders such as the Dalai Lama, and others who can come
together in one accord and begin to promote Peace. Things would
change I do believe... if given the support as oppose to a War
agenda. So why don't we do just that with a Compact and Declaration
for Peace. If more religious, faith and spiritual leaders
participated in the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) movement and began to
declare Peace in conjunction with the wealth disparities there would
be a change and more participation 'I do believe as well. So is
religion also a racket that is aligned with the Corporatocracies,
Plutocrats and and Politicians?
Carter,
Irvin, is
an essayist, and humanist, who writes about his personal
observations, experiences and image-perception. Also,
dialogs on how we can make it better. For
all of us, not just a privilege few. Carter; is a a
member of the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia and has been
transformed by renewing his mind for all men and women of our kind
instead of the imagination realm, that bears a false witness.
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12:47 PM PDT, August 2, 2008
Federal officials have been underestimating the number of new AIDS infections in the United States by 40% every year for more than a decade, researchers said today.
Using sophisticated testing to identify new infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that there are about 56,300 new infections each year -- not the 40,000 figure that has been gospel for so long.
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A prominent AIDS organization yesterday accused the federal government of doing too little to fight AIDS among black Americans, in whom the size and scope of the epidemic resembles that seen in many African nations.
In a 55-page report, the Black AIDS Institute argued that AIDS should be viewed as a threat to the entire black population, and not just specific high-risk groups. Unlike in white Americans -- and in the citizens of most industrialized nations -- HIV in American blacks is increasingly transmitted heterosexually through "networks" where men especially have many sex partners at the same time, the report noted.
The report's authors asserted that the black AIDS epidemic here is being overlooked as the United States is allocating unprecedented resources to fighting the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
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I'm using LM 13 XFCE and did something to screw up the install. Is there a way to save all my downloaded updates so I can simply add them to my re-install without have to download them all over again? Thanks.
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Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy–Rey is due to hold talks in Bogotà this week. Bilateral ties are tarnished over Switzerland's role in mediation efforts with the leftwing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
The official aim of the three-day visit is to boost bilateral relations, launched 100 years ago.
But the Colombian government has accused a Swiss mediator, Jean-Pierre Gontard, of transporting ransom money for the rebels.
Fischer, a professor of history at the university of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany, says Swiss interests in Colombia have always been driven primarily by trade interests.
He also highlights Switzerland's role as a mediator in the conflict in the region and in border tensions in the 1920s. Colombia for its part considers Switzerland as a friendly nation, although not a strategic partner.
swissinfo: What impact do the allegations against the Swiss mediator have on the visit by Calmy-Rey to Colombia?
Thomas Fischer: The visit has been carefully planned between the two sides. Neither of them will try to compromise the other.
But relations will only normalise once Colombia either produces evidence against Gontard or investigations are closed.
It is not clear to me whether the Colombian government was fully aware of the consequences when it withdrew the mandate of international mediators and accused Gontard of being an accomplice of the Farc rebels.
swissinfo: Why is Bogotà still focusing its attacks on Gontard after the suspension of all international mediation?
T.F.: It is no secret that the government of Álvaro Uribe never favoured a negotiated solution with the rebels and the involvement of non-governmental organisations.
But nor could the rebels show convincingly that they are seriously interested in a peace deal.
In such a climate of antagonism it is very difficult for anybody, particularly when they come from outside. The Swiss mediator is a victim of the situation and it is typical that he has been labelled as 'useful idiot'.
swissinfo: Is it realistic for Switzerland to keep up its offer to help as a mediator in Colombia?
T.F.: Switzerland should continue to offer its good services in talks between the government and rebels.
It should also continue its humanitarian role and provide legal assistance and know-how in efforts to deal with Colombia's violent past and compensation of the thousands of displaced people.
Switzerland's role is limited, because it is difficult to convince the wider public at home about missions outside Europe.
Ultimately it's all up to Uribe and the Colombian population whether they will allow Swiss help.
swissinfo: How plausible are the allegations by the Colombian government that the Farc rebels receive support from groups in Switzerland and other countries in Europe?
T.F.: It is not unlikely that Farc representatives live in Europe, including Switzerland, and that there are a handful of self-righteous Farc sympathisers here, as well as in other parts of the world.
But the material and ideological support from Europe is not decisive for the rebels. The Colombian conflict has domestic reasons.
But it is there is no denying that part of the money for the rebels comes from the drugs trade, also in Europe.
swissinfo: The Red Cross emblem was misused in the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from the hands of the Farc rebels. How far will the Colombian government go?
T.F.: It's the declared goal of Uribe's government to destroy the rebels and the end justifies the means for the authorities.
It appears Uribe does not care about the damage done to the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by the improper use of its emblem during the liberation of 15 out of hundreds of hostages.
Nor does the government seem to be concerned about a loss in its own credibility on an international level.
Colombian governments have traditionally given little attention to human rights. But the rebels who take hostages and use child soldiers are no better.
swissinfo-interview: Geraldo Hoffmann
In brief
The visit by Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey to Colombia, due to begin on Monday, is aimed at fostering bilateral relations launched 100 years ago.
She is to meet her Colombian counterpart as well as President Uribe to discuss tensions between the two countries over Swiss involvement in negotiations with the leftwing Farc rebels.
The foreign minister will also visit projects on humanitarian aid and civilian peace building, as well as meet representatives of Swiss firms and other Swiss expatriates in the region.
Afterwards Calmy-Rey will travel to Brazil – Switzerland's most important trading partner in Latin America - to promote political consultations on a regular basis and to boost cooperation in various areas.
end of infobox
Swiss aid to Colombia
The Swiss government spent about SFr7.5 million ($7.1 million) on development, aid and economic cooperation with Colombia last year.
The humanitarian aid unit of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been active in Colombia since 2001. Its aid budget is around SFr4 million ($3.8 million).
Since 2002, Switzerland has worked towards facilitating a mechanism for dialogue between the leftwing Farc rebels and the Colombian government, alongside France and Spain, to achieve a humanitarian agreement aimed at freeing hostages.
Switzerland, as well as Norway and Spain, has also taken part in peace talks between the Colombian government and the country's other main guerrilla force, the National Liberation Army.
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Moments ago I received a shocking message from Tommy Robinson’s family.
The court date for Tommy’s legal appeal, scheduled for next week in London’s Royal Courts of Justice, has been cancelled.
The excuse? The government’s lawyers say they’re not ready.
That’s a damnable lie, of course.
Tommy has been languishing in prison since May 25th. The Attorney General — what could be called the UK’s largest law firm — has had a month and a half to prepare. They have every legal expert at their disposal. They have unlimited resources.
But they simply want Tommy to rot in jail longer.
Every day for Tommy in prison is like a week — because he’s in solitary confinement, for his own safety from Muslim prison gangs who would kill him if they could.
*Tommy is ready for his appeal.
*Tommy’s lawyers are ready — and his new team have only been working on the appeal for two weeks.
*The judge is ready — Lord Justice Brian Leveson, the most senior criminal judge in the UK.
But someone — somewhere — in the government wants Tommy to stay in jail just a little bit longer.
This is a “stitch-up”, as Tommy would say.
So much for the land of the Magna Carta. So much for the rule of law.
I will continue to send you news as I receive it from Tommy's family or his lawyers.
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A comedy set in North Philly, an undocumented struggling to make it and a fictional crime drama are among the scenarios presented by local filmmakers at Filmadelphia, a series by the Philadelphia Film Society (PFS) Theater at the Roxy
Okay: you’re on a train. It’s the last train in the world and the world is covered in ice. An evil overlord rules the train with an iron fist and the leader of your scrappy rebellion just died, so who do you pick to be your new leader – the young Asian woman with clairvoyant abilities, her middle-aged father that knows all the codes to unlock train security systems and kicks bad guy ass, the level-headed black woman that’s trying to find her son, or the unstable white dude that ate people when times got tough? | {
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Q:
Getting Syntax error while executing following query in ms access
I am trying to swap the value from m to f, while executing following query, Getting Syntax error
UPDATE GenderSET sex = CASE sex WHEN 'm' THEN 'f' ELSE 'm' END
A:
CASE ... WHEN is not supported in Access SQL. You can use an IIf expression instead.
UPDATE Gender SET sex = IIf(sex = 'm', 'f', 'm')
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OKAY, THIS IS THE LAST I’LL DRAW OF TEEN STEVEN AND CONNIE….FOR NOW. I PROMISE. I REALLY need to get to the other things I need to finish. I JUST REALLY NEEDED TO GET THIS OFF MY CHEST/////
I was listening to the song “Oh It Is Love” by Hellogoodbye while I drew this AND I JUST. IT’S SO CUTE AND HAPPY ////////. Also! Somebody made a Connverse mix on 8tracks, WHICH MAKES ME FEEL SO HAPPY AND MELTY INSIDE, pls listen to it, it’s rly cute. (✿ ◕ᗜ◕)━♫.*･｡ﾟ
Edit: I uploaded a slightly smaller version to replace the original size one, tumblr made it look super shitty, hopefully this makes it look a little better?
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Britney Spears‘ new music video Womanizer was released, and besides the song being one of the most annoying things I’ve ever heard, the video is an upgrade compared to her last two. Now I don’t know why the media keeps calling it a comeback. I mean, Britney is in the news every single day, where exactly is she coming back from? Anyway, her body is the only thing making a real comeback and you will see some of it in this video. Just turn the volume down and fast forward, like you do in porn. | {
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leecas:
nudityandnerdery:
See, what you need to understand is that “Not all guys are like that” is never going to work. Because you’re answering an entirely different conversation than what women are actually saying. You think women are saying “Every man is a predator and a danger to me.” And you’re replying, “But I’m not like that.” But women aren’t saying that. They’re saying “There are too many situations where women have to worry about their safety,” and you’re saying “That’s not important.” They’re saying “Women are constantly told it’s their fault if something bad happens,” and you’re saying “Don’t worry about it.” They’re saying “Too often, women find their trust violated by men,” and you’re saying “But you should trust me!” They’re saying “So many men have decided that what they want is more important than anything about a woman.” And you’re replying “I’m exactly like that.”
How do I respond to this without sounding biased toward my own sex (male)? I’ll give it a try.
When I brazenly say things like, “Why are men so aggressive?” or “Why are women passive-aggressive?” hopefully one of the first things I’m going to hear is, “Not all of them are like that.” Thank God people actually point out how stupid I sound making sweeping generalizations, which couldn’t possibly be true, because they are stereotypes. A stereotype is an inherently false concept of a group of people as a whole. Due to the tendency for people to misconstrue stereotypes as true, they often perpetuate the idea that the majority of a specific group of people exhibits a cluster of specific characteristics. In reality, only the subset of a population of that group exhibits those specific characteristics. So, of course, it’s offensive to the individual when they get lumped into a group that has just been rudely criticized in conversation. An example of this is given by the original poster when he/she points out the man’s defensive statement “Not all guys are like that”.
If an individual man or woman reacts defensively to a sweeping generalization made about their in-group, they are completely justified in defending it; no one can rightfully request for an individual to abandon their in-group for the sake of an argument based on stereotypes.
Having said that, I understand the original posters argument, claiming that women are justified in seeking their own safety…but why is it that the implied act of remaining wary of men is the sole method given for securing one’s safety? For what reason does the OP qualify the aggressor in this case as men?Certainly men can be aggressive toward others, but aren’t women capable of harming others as well? By targeting men as a group, OP yet again uses the common male stereotype to bolster his/her argument with what seems like evidence, when in actuality is only baseless conjecture that only functions to further polarize the women vs. men debacle.
So to sum up, I know its difficult to make arguments on tumblr without utilizing some go-to sweeping generalizations about sex or race, but if OP wants to make an argument that both sides will read and respect, he/she will have to rely less on offensive stereotypes and more on fact and reason. | {
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Q:
JPA delete bidirectional entity
I am having some problems with JPA. I am new at this topic so my question maybe is really stupid, but i hope some of you could point me to the right direction.
I have Project and User entity. Every user can have as many projects assign to him as it can.
I created the relationship bidirectional
User OneToMany -> Project,
Project ManyToOne -> User
My problem is that if i want to delete a user i want all the projects to be deleted as well, but i receive an error at that point:
Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException:
DELETE on table 'USER_DATA' caused a violation of
foreign key constraint 'PROJECT_USERNAME' for key (Test Use1312r1).
The statement has been rolled back.
Error Code: -1
Call: DELETE FROM USER_DATA WHERE (USERNAME = ?)
bind => [1 parameter bound]
My User entity looks like this:
@Entity
@Table(name="USER_DATA", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"USERNAME", "link"}))
public class User implements Serializable {
@Column(name="USERNAME")
@Id
@NotNull
private String name;
@Column(name="USERROLE")
@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private UserRole role;
private String password;
private String link;
// Should be unique
private String session;
@OneToMany(mappedBy="user", cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
private Collection<Project> projects;
My Project Entity like this:
@Entity
@Table(name="PROJECT")
@XmlRootElement
public class Project implements Serializable {
@Id
private int id;
private String name;
private String description;
@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
@Column(name="START_DATE")
private Date beginDate;
@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
@Column(name="END_DATE")
private Date endDate;
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="USERNAME", nullable=false,updatable= true)
private User user;
And my BL:
public User getUser(String userName) throws NoDataFoundException {
EntityManager em = DbConnection.getInstance().getNewEntity();
try {
User user = em.find(User.class, userName);
if (user == null) {
throw new NoDataFoundException("User is not found in the DB");
}
return user;
} finally {
em.close();
}
}
public void deleteUser(String userName) throws ModelManipulationException {
EntityManager em = DbConnection.getInstance().getNewEntity();
try {
User userToBeDeleted = getUser(userName);
em.getTransaction().begin();
userToBeDeleted = em.merge(userToBeDeleted);
em.remove(userToBeDeleted);
em.getTransaction().commit();
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new ModelManipulationException(
"Error in deleting user data for username" + userName
+ "with exception " +e.getMessage(),e);
}
finally{
em.close();
}
}
Thanks in advance guys.
A:
after the merge call, are there any Projects in userToBeDeleted.projects? I suspect there are none, which prevents any from being deleted. Cascade remove can only work if you populate both sides of bidirectional relationships, so check that when you associate a user to a project, you also add the project to the user's project collection.
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In the rare instances when courts roll back Christian privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is not persecution; it is the steady march toward equality.
Wire fence surrounding the exercise yard for death row inmates at the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise.
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UPDATE, March 29, 7:20 a.m.: The Supreme Court did the right thing and stayed Murphy’s execution at the 11th hour. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh changed their votes from the nearly identical Alabama case mentioned above. Several observers attribute the change of heart to the strong dissent written in that case.
“It’s happening again.” American justice seems to favor Christians, everyone else be damned. Texas is set to execute Patrick Murphy, who became a Buddhist a decade ago, and the state gave Murphy a choice: he can have either “a Christian prison chaplain or no chaplain present.”
“Die with our god or die alone,” the Lone Star State appears to be saying. Murphy challenged this as a violation of his First Amendment right to religious freedom. He lost at the lower court and is set to be executed today. The appeal is pending.
Last month, the Supreme Court did the same thing, denying a Muslim man access to a Muslim cleric during his execution. Why? Because he waited too long to ask. We are in such a rush to kill prisoners that we cannot honor their constitutional right to religious liberty.
Pause to appreciate the hypocrisy here, which is at least threefold. First, if this were a Christian murderer to be executed, he’d have spiritual comfort. It’s only those pesky minority religions whose rights get trampled. Second, the courts are saying that keeping to a schedule is more important than our “first freedom”—at least when it comes to those of minority faiths. Finally, think of the Supreme Court’s other decisions involving religion and the government.
Think of the Trinity Lutheran decision, which held that excluding a church-run school from a statewide grant program was religious discrimination. There, “only a state interest ‘of the highest order’ [could] justify the Department’s discriminatory policy.” Apparently, killing someone on schedule is a state interest of the highest order.
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Or think of Masterpiece Cakeshop, the gay wedding cake case in which the court essentially allowed this one instance of discrimination against LGBTQ citizens by a bakery because the state said some mean things about the bakery owner’s religion during the state’s enforcement action. Justice Kennedy explained that Colorado’s “hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.”
Christian privilege exists in America, even on death row. In the rare instances when courts roll back that privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is not persecution; it is the steady march toward equality.
Delaying an execution to give a condemned man spiritual comfort costs us nothing, except the sanctity of that unjustified and unjustifiable Christian privilege. That’s what these judges are protecting and in doing so they are undermining the very Constitution they swore to protect. This is just plain wrong. | {
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Washington D.C.—
President Donald Trump has long prided himself on having “one of the great memories of all time,” but not Mr. Trump is forgetting he ever said that.
While news of his RussiaGate scandal explodes with indictments of Trump campaign staffers and even early administration staffers, Trump is suddenly suffering memory problems related to a cornucopia of meetings, phone calls, and conversations regarding his election and presidency.
“I don’t remember saying I had the best memory,” Trump said in brief comments to reporters while traveling on his trip to Asia. “So I probably never said that, because I do have a great memory. One of the best. It’s been widely reported that everyone who knows me thinks I have the best memory they have ever seen. Ever heard of. But no, I don’t believe I ever said I have a great memory. The hackers have gotten really good at making fake videos of me saying things, and then CNN is so fake and dumb that they air obviously fake videos of me. I never said it. And as far as Russia goes, I’ve never heard of any Russians ever involved with anything I’ve ever done. This Jared Kushner fellow, I barely know him. I think he was an errand boy. Manafort? Never heard of him. Flynn? This person does not exist. I never hired him or worked with him. The fake news completely fabricated his entire existence. I’d remember a guy named Flynn.”
Okay, Mr. President.
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1. Introduction {#sec1}
===============
Human race has been plagued with parasitic infection since the time immortal. One of the most daunting infestations amongst them through common flies is Myiasis. Myiasis, a term, introduced by Hope (1940) \[[@B1]\], refers to invasion of tissues, organs, and certain body cavities of live human vertebrate species by the dipteran eggs or larvae which commonly manifests as furunculoid lesions. Zumpt \[[@B2]\] defined Myiasis as an infestation of live human and vertebrate animals by dipterous larva, which at least for certain period of its lifecycle feeds on host\'s dead or living tissue, liquid body secretions, and fluids or ingested food.
It is pandemic; prevalence is specifically related to latitude, lifecycle of various species of flies, and third world countries. Higher incidence is reported in tropical, subtropical regions of Africa, America, and South East Asia, where warm, humid climate prevail almost throughout the year; commonly seen amongst people where sanitation, personal hygiene is often ignored and close association with domestic pets exists. Infestations are common phenomenon in skin, nose, eye, lung, ear, anus, and vagina but oral manifestation is exceptional \[[@B3]\]. Incidence of oral myiasis as compared to that of cutaneous myiasis is less as the oral tissues per se are not permanently exposed to the external environment \[[@B4]\].
Oral myiasis is more commonly ascribed to predisposing anatomical, medical conditions where oral cavity is being exposed to external environment for a prolonged time, mouth breathing, anterior open bite, incompetent lips, cerebral palsy \[[@B5]\], following tooth extractions \[[@B6]\], neglected mandibular fracture \[[@B7]\], patients undergoing mechanical ventilation \[[@B8]\], and certain local pathological conditions such as cancrum oris \[[@B4]\], and oral malignancies \[[@B9]\].
We present a case of oral myiasis in the maxillary anterior region in a patient with neurological deficit.
2. Case Report {#sec2}
==============
A young 12-year-old male child with neurological deficit reported with his father with chief complains of swelling of upper lip and jaw, discomfort with upper front teeth region since 4-5 days. On examination the patient was moderately built with waddling gait. Extra oral examination revealed incompetent lips, a solitary, large, diffuse, swelling of size approximately 4 × 3 in size associated with upper lip with overlying skin tense, and shiny ([Figure 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}). The swelling was tender to palpation, soft, and edematous. Intraoral examination revealed mutilated labial gingiva in the region of the maxillary incisors with multiple fenestrations.
The anterior labial gingiva showed a poorly defined swelling measuring 3 × 1 cm with detachment and exposure of underlying bone. Deep burrowing, with multiple cavitations, was seen. Multiple larvae were noted crawling within the gingival lesion ([Figure 2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). The surrounding mucosa was inflamed and tender to palpation but bleeding and discharge were not evident. Based on clinical findings and presence of maggots, a provisional diagnosis of oral myiasis was made.
Cotton bud impregnated with turpentine oil was placed at the orifice of the socket for approximately 10 minutes. 14--16 maggots were manually removed with the help of hemostats (Figures [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"} and [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}). Patient administered Inj Amoxycillin + Potassium Clavulanate and Inj Metronidazole IV for 3 days. The larvae were mechanically removed for next three consecutive days with exploration, curettage, and warm saline irrigations till no further larvae could be found. No attempt was made to administer antiparasitic drug Ivermectin.
3. Discussion {#sec3}
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Myiasis of orodental complex is a rare entity commonly caused by common Indian housefly Musca Nebulo. They are found commonly in human habitats with poor hygiene and passable sanitation especially during summer and rainy season. Clinically, myiasis can be classified as primary or secondary \[[@B10]\]. They are based upon host dependence \[[@B11]\], mode of infestations, and anatomic sites \[[@B12]\]. Primary myiasis is caused by larvae that feed on living issue (biophagous). This form of myiasis is commoner in cattle and rare in humans. Secondary myiasis is caused by flies that feed on dead tissue (necrobiophagous). This is the more common type and infests patients with lesions that have necrotic cavities \[[@B13]\]. Severity myiasis depends upon location of infestation, lesions, and tissue inflammation. Many species of Dipterous flies among the genera Chrysomya and Cochliomyia have been reported to be the most important obligatory myiasis among human and/or domestic animals \[[@B14], [@B15]\].
The lifecycle of a fly commences with egg stage followed by the larval stage, the pupal stage, and finally the adult fly. The requisites for egg laying and survival of the larvae are moisture, necrotic tissue, and suitable temperature. Thus wounds, open sores, scabs, and ulcers contaminated with discharges make possible way for the same. Modes of infestation in humans may occur in two ways, either accidentally with direct inoculation by the fly or by ingestion of infected material such as meat. In the present case, the location of the lesion is in the anterior part of the maxilla, implying a direct inoculation of the tissues.
The condition is frequently associated with mental deficiencies \[[@B10], [@B16]--[@B18]\], where dexterity and impetus for maintaining oral hygiene are poor. Although the disease affects children commonly, a few cases of oral myiasis in children less than three years of age have also been reported \[[@B19]\]. These patients are completely dependent on their caregivers; however, in situations of low socioeconomic level these caregivers tend to neglect the oral hygiene of the patients because of the lack of health education \[[@B3]\]. The patient\'s precarious oral hygiene and halitosis are the probable risk factors in the present case in addition to its mental status.
During the lifecycle of the parasite, the developmental transition via the larval stage, at all times, requires an intermediate host. The prevailing oral hygiene status provided the suitable substrate and temperature for the larvae. The stage of larvae lasts for six to eight days during which they are parasitic to human beings. They are photophobic and tend to hide deep into the tissues for a suitable niche to develop into pupa \[[@B20]\]. The present case also showed the larvae burrowed deep inside the wound in upper labial vestibule.
Standard guidelines for management of oral myiasis do not exist, but more than a few authors note that the ideal approach is to remove all larvae and perform surgical debridement \[[@B11], [@B21]\]. The treatment incorporated in our case was simple and involved usage of antilarval measures (turpentine oil) followed by removal of the larvae \[[@B22]\].
Treatment approaches other than procedural removal of the maggots include occlusion and administration of larvacides \[[@B11]\]. These techniques can be used in addition to manual removal, or if manual removal is not possible. By depriving larvae of oxygen, occlusion of an infested wound either kills the larvae or induces them to move more superficially where they can be removed more easily. Occlusion of infested wounds with a variety of substances has been described, including petroleum, nail polish, animal fat, beeswax, paraffin, hair gel, and mineral oil with varied success \[[@B11]\].
Early diagnosis, with adequate and careful surgical exploration of the lesion, seems to forestall extensive tissue damage and morbidity, and the necessity for complex surgical repairs that might be indicated at late stages of the disease. Early surgical treatment of oral myiasis is also important where esthetics is an issue, as in the present case. When there are multiple larvae in a single focus, and in advanced stages of parasitic development and tissue destruction, surgery should be complemented by treating the defect with turpentine oil or a comparable solvent capable of irritating the parasites and forcing them out of hiding. The possibility of oral myiasis should come to mind in relation to oral mucosal swellings with no apparent diagnosis in patients from areas where parasites that cause myiasis are endemic.
4. Conclusion {#sec4}
=============
Oral myiasis is a rare and preventable disease. It can be prevented by controlling fly population, maintaining good oral and personal hygiene such as reducing the decomposition odor, cleaning and covering the wounds, and educating the susceptible population where basic sanitation is of low standard.
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[^1]: Academic Editors: Y.-K. Chen, A. Epivatianos, C. Evans, and A. Kasaj
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Sam in the comments.
Edit: I’m only 10 min in and he’s such a hypocrite. He’s complaining that Sam told people too much information when answering questions on a twitch stream (after telling her she can answer questions as long as it’s honest) and the example he gave is she answered the question what cereal he eats for breakfast. Uhhh so he’s the only one that’s allowed to give out TMI about people lives? Like that time he revealed his ex’s deepest secrets on twitter and in a video that’s still up on his archive (or maybe encore) channel? He’s complaining he invited someone into his life and now he doesn’t know what details they’re going to reveal. Like cereal is so harmless. She hasn’t revealed any secrets. Jesus. He’s acting like a victim when he’s done waayyy worse.
Edit 2: lol people in the stream comments are pointing out exactly what I said and now he’s justifying it because he “was pissed” and needed to prove he was not the worst boyfriend she ever had. | {
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‘Porn shouldn’t have a monopoly on sex’
French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie makes a controversial splash with “Stranger by the Lake” (released in France June 12), a slow burn of a thriller about sex, desire and murder among a group of gay men. Here’s our interview with the director.
When it premiered at Cannes last month, French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie’s “Stranger by the Lake” (“L’inconnu du lac”) had festival goers buzzing for days.
Set along the sun-dappled shores of a lake in southeastern France, the film is a slow-building, meticulously crafted, fully engrossing thriller about a gay man’s infatuation with a moustachioed stud who may be a cold-blooded murderer. As provocative for the ideas about desire, transgression and narcissism that it examines as for its graphic scenes of man-on-man coupling, “Stranger by the Lake” earned Guiraudie the Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes.
Just days before “Stranger by the Lake” hits French theatres (it will be released later this year in the US), FRANCE 24 sat down with Guiraudie, whose unassuming manner and sing-song Southern accent belie an acute sense of artistic purpose.
Here are some highlights.
F24: “Stranger by the Lake” offers a rather bleak vision of the gay community, in which physical desire takes precedence over everything – including moral considerations. Did you intend the film as a commentary on the gay community specifically, or could it have been about heterosexuals?
AG: I actually tried to write the screenplay about heterosexuals, but it didn’t work. So the idea became to explore a world I know. For me, making movies is about mixing personal experience with something more universal, more linked to collective human experience.
The film in some ways stems from my own past sexual liberation as a gay man, when I discovered a sort of sexual utopia, a world of pleasure and liberty, without the engagements that heterosexual couples faced. There was no risk of anyone getting pregnant, for example, so there was far less pressure surrounding sex.
But I started to realise, little by little, that this sexual liberation was becoming a sort of quest for sexual ecstasy at any price. The question that haunts the film is: where is this relentless search for pleasure leading us? There’s that very guilt-inducing moment in the movie when the inspector asks the protagonist: “What are you all doing? One of you has been killed, we found the body, and yet you continue as if nothing happened?”
AG: Personally, I think marriage is ancient Judeo-Christian nonsense. That said, I would never speak out against the movement for marriage equality. I didn’t take any public stance – though I would not have been opposed to it, if asked – but I did end up getting involved a bit and marching in a few of the demonstrations in favour of gay marriage and adoption when I saw the staunch opposition. That’s what made me react. I didn’t expect the opponents of gay marriage to be so virulent.
AG: I certainly would never distance myself from it. In any case, when you make a movie featuring naked men having sex with one another near a lake, the “gay” label is unavoidable.
My ambition in making this film was also to re-visit how sex is portrayed onscreen. My idea was to re-integrate graphic sex scenes into a real story, with dialogue and everything. I wanted to show that porn shouldn't have a monopoly on sexually explicit content.
Alain Guiraudie ® Cannes Film Festival
But if we’re talking about a renewal of “Queer cinema” in France, that supposes there was already a “Queer cinema” here, and I’m not sure that’s true. We have François Ozon and André Téchiné [two openly gay French filmmakers whose work often deals with gay themes].
I think French cinema is just starting to move beyond the point where homosexuality is a sociological subject in and of itself – and it was certainly time to leave “La Cage aux Folles” [the original French film remade by US filmmaker Mike Nichols as “The Birdcage”] behind.
Part of the problem may be that there aren’t that many gay filmmakers in France. Maybe if there had been a more prominent gay French director in the New Wave movement – a French Fassbinder or Pasolini – things would be different.
F24: Several US critics have called “Stranger by the Lake” Hitchcockian. Is he one of your references? Who are the filmmakers who inspire you?
AG: Hitchcock is so much a part of today’s cultural fabric that even if he’s not a direct influence on me, his work has had an impact. I still watch his movies regularly.
AG: I’ve already written the screenplay, but I need to rework it. Obviously, after “Stranger by the Lake”, things are no longer the same. I think I dug a little deeper in “Stranger by the Lake”, and so this new project may end up being more ambitious than I initially envisioned.
It’s the story of a young manager sent by a big industrial group to close down a small milk factory in rural France. But the workers resist, and he decides to join them – especially since he falls in love with a slightly crazy man who works at the factory. | {
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If you are not already aware of who the Trailer Park Boys are then shame on you. The Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian mockumentary television series created by Mike Clattenburg, which focuses on the lives of three trailer park residents living in Nova Scotia. The series ran through seven seasons and had two feature length films released before it finished in 2007. Since then it seems that the main characters, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles have been searching for a way to make a bit of money through a live tour.
We managed to get a few snaps of the trio on stage, as well as a couple of videos as the pictures were just not doing the show the justice it deserved.
Out of all the people going, no one had a firm idea of what was going to be included in the night, all we knew was that Ricky, Julian and Bubbles would be there. It ran very similar format to a stand-up show with added features.
The recurring theme of the night was that Bubbles had come across an entry method into the next Jackie Chan movie, all he needed to do was make a short video to prove he had the skills.
What followed was a stroke of genius, out came the boys all dressed in their space gear, similar to their rocket launching attempts in Season 5. Bubbles had the idea of filming a mock-space launch on their portable camera in the hope that this would pass Jackie Chans screening. As you can see from the pictures, Bubbles had really gone all out on the production value.
There was no shortage on money-making schemes from the guys though as shortly after Julian was wheeling out a trolley of hotdogs to sell to the crowd. It actually went down surprisingly well with many people paying up to £5 each. I say ‘up to’ as there was someone who tried paying near 50 pence and got shot down quite quickly.
The guys went on to perform a quiz show, dubbed ‘Are you smarter than a 1st grader?‘. From the outset Ricky was not confident with his skills, but was seemingly enthusiastic about his money making idea; opening a school.
Following the tragic outcome of Bubbles’ quiz show, we were enlightened with a selection of “facts” from Ricky’s book of learning which included:
“Who evr named ginni pigs r stupid. they taste pretti good but nothing like baccon”
We were then entertained by Julian showing a series of pictures he had caught of Ricky, in a dumpster, picking up puddle butts (the puddle had already cleaned them!). I managed to snap a couple of these shots so take a look at the gallery below for the pics, including one Ricky caught of Julian.
I think everyone would have been a little disappointed if there was no Randy or Lahey appearance, however we weren’t kept waiting for too long until the guys set up a Skype conversation between everyone (crowd included) and Randy and Lahey based back in the legendary Sunnyvale Trailer Park. It truly was a moment to saviour, even with the whole auditorium joining together to wish the guys a big ‘Fuck Off!’.
We were also treated to some reenactments in an attempt to show the emotion Bubbles could add to the Jackie Chan movie. The performance was tainted by a pretty sub-par Cyrus impersonation but I dont think that was too much of a concern as it still had everyone in fits of laughter.
The last section of the perfomance was something I personally had been holding out for, Bubbles playing ‘Closer to the Heart’. We did only get treated to an introduction after Ricky interrupted complaining about Bubbles singing voice. It was epic nonetheless, and I have the video to prove it.
Overall the show was a delightful step away from the stage shows, comedy stand-ups which you commonly get. I did really wonder how it was going to work, but it seemed Bubbles was the key piece to the show and tied it all together perfectly. I would have liked to have seen more inclusion from Julian and Ricky, but then again you would need their nemesis’ there; Lahey and Randy, as they very much play of each other.
If you get the opportunity to see this show, whether its in the UK or U.S then I would definitely recommend it.
I did manage to get some videos as well which I have uploaded to YouTube, you can view them here. Please note the audio quality is not that great on some of them.
And for those not aware, there is a new show from the team which you must watch –
“The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour”
I have also written a post about the new Jim Lahey book, The Dicshitnary
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Hi there, I'm raising my concerns about how racist threads are flooding Voat these days. Free speech is the core value of voat, plus I kinda enjoy clashing with nazis, so I'm not here to ask to kick racist people on sight.
My main issue here is that racist threads are rising everywhere on Voat, and specially on large default subvoat. v/news, v/worldnews, v/politics, etc.
There are subs like v/niggers where they can happily discuss about who hates muslims the most, so why are mods allowing this in popular default subs ?
Today I'm browsing voat almost exclusively to fight a bit with nazis, while at first I was here to find an alternative to reddit. I found actual news here some times ago.
Free speech can be respected on Voat, everyone can have its place, but it doesn't mean anarchy must prevail and no rules has to be set. These propaganda thread should not be treated with indifference, because slowly the true identity of Voat is turning from a free speech alternative to reddit to a stormfront alternative with reddit-like CSS sheet. | {
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Q:
Trying to get some mappings to work in vim
There are a few mappings I want to work so I can use VIM more like a regular text editor I found this answer which seems to work for most people, most people not including me.
The idea is to use shift plus arrow keys for selection from normal mode but instead it just causes my curser to get stuck and does nothing else.
Also I'm trying to get multi-cursors working in vim but when I use my key mappings I get this error
E78: Unknown mark
Here are my key-mappings:
" Buffer switching
map <leader>p :bp<CR> " \p previous buffer
map <leader>n :bn<CR> " \n next buffer
map <leader>d :bd<CR> " \d delete buffer
" Increment numbers
nnoremap <A-a> <C-a>
nnoremap <A-x> <C-x>
map <Leader>c :call vroom#RunTestFile()<CR>
map <Leader>s :call vroom#RunNearestTest()<CR>
map <leader>t :A<CR> " \t to jump to test file
map <leader>r :r<cr> " \t to jump to related file
map <leader>E :Explore .<cr> " \E to open file explorer in root
map <leader>e :Explore<cr> " \e to open file explorer in current dir
"nerd tree mapings
map <C-n> <plug>NERDTreeTabsToggle<CR>
"shit plus arrow for selectio mode
" shift+arrow selection
nmap <S-Up> v<Up>
nmap <S-Down> v<Down>
nmap <S-Left> v<Left>
nmap <S-Right> v<Right>
vmap <S-Up> <Up>
vmap <S-Down> <Down>
vmap <S-Left> <Left>
vmap <S-Right> <Right>
imap <S-Up> <Esc>v<Up>
imap <S-Down> <Esc>v<Down>
imap <S-Left> <Esc>v<Left>
imap <S-Right> <Esc>v<Right>
"copy and pasting
vmap <C-c> y<Esc>i
vmap <C-x> d<Esc>i
map <C-v> pi
imap <C-v> <Esc>pi
imap <C-z> <Esc>ui
"multi-cursor mappings"
let g:multi_cursor_next_key='<leader>d'
let g:multi_cursor_prev_key='<leader>s'
let g:multi_cursor_skip_key='<C-x>'
let g:multi_cursor_quit_key='<Esc>'
" Removing escape
ino jj <esc>
cno jj <c-c>
vno v <esc>
" Remove highlights with leader + enter
nmap <Leader><CR> :nohlsearch<cr>
" Ruby hash syntax conversion
nnoremap <F12> :%s/:\([^ ]*\)\(\s*\)=>/\1:/g<return>
I'd also like to add I'm very new to vim beyond basic text editing so I don't doubt that I'm doing things wrong, ignorant to some aspect, etc, so please take that into account when answering.
Pressing shift+left results in D being outputted to the terminal.
Pressing shift+right results in C being outputted to the terminal.
A:
I found the answer (eventually) and solved the other problem as welll.
The solution lies in this answer on a unixstack question.
First you need to tell vim the escape key codes used by your terminal.
I have done this here:
function Allmap(mapping)
execute 'map' a:mapping
execute 'map!' a:mapping
endfunction
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2 <S>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2A <S-Up>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2B <S-Down>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2C <S-Right>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2D <S-Left>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2d <S-d>')
call Allmap(' <ESC>[1;2s <S-s>')
Then I just attach the commands I want to the declared key mappings:
map <S-Up> v<Up>
nmap <S-Down> v<Down>
nmap <S-Left> v<Left>
nmap <S-Right> v<Right>
vmap <S-Up> <Up>
vmap <S-Down> <Down>
vmap <S-Left> <Left>
vmap <S-Right> <Right>
imap <S-Up> <Esc>v<Up>
imap <S-Down> <Esc>v<Down>
imap <S-Left> <Esc>v<Left>
imap <S-Right> <Esc>v<Right>
"multi-cursor mappings"
let g:multi_cursor_next_key='<S-d>'
let g:multi_cursor_prev_key='<S-s>'
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Foul Bachelorette Frog
wearing a maxi skirt while in the meat aisle of the store when period hits full force and starts running down my leg
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The Antichrist will be pompous, boastful, an aggressive warmonger, a sinister schemer, a cunning trickster, a liar, a deceitful murderer, prosperous, a blasphemer against God, shall not regard the god of his fathers, have fierce features, have no desire for women, but have a regard for the god of fortresses. (These descriptions are from Daniel 7, 9, 11.)
As you can guess, Obama, AOC, Soros, Trump and the Pope can not be the Antichrist because they do not fit the biblical guidelines.
Thus, how can we be sure who is the Antichrist?
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day [of the Lord] will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.(2 Thessalonians 2:3)
The Apostle Paul stated that we would know who the Antichrist is for sure when the Antichrist sits in the Temple of God in Jerusalem, defiling the Temple.
But of course, we first need the Temple to be rebuilt.
There are a couple of other ways we can figure out who the Antichrist is, but we will talk about them in the future.
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The annoying habits of highly effective people - ezhil
https://www.economist.com/node/21751671
======
DecayingOrganic
"The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western
cultures is rooted on the belief that success is due mainly, if not
exclusively, to personal qualities such as talent, intelligence, skills,
smartness, efforts, willfulness, hard work or risk taking. Sometimes, we are
willing to admit that a certain degree of luck could also play a role in
achieving significant material success.
But, as a matter of fact, it is rather common to underestimate the importance
of external forces in individual successful stories. It is very well known
that intelligence (or, more in general, talent and personal qualities)
exhibits a Gaussian distribution among the population, whereas the
distribution of wealth - often considered a proxy of success - follows
typically a power law (Pareto law), with a large majority of poor people and a
very small number of billionaires. Such a discrepancy between a Normal
distribution of inputs, with a typical scale (the average talent or
intelligence), and the scale invariant distribution of outputs, suggests that
some hidden ingredient is at work behind the scenes."
I would highly recommend people here to take a look at:
[https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068](https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068)
~~~
data_spy
I understand what you are saying to a degree, however I've had more success
than many colleagues due to me spending time every day to improve myself
(usually technically). What you are saying is like saying some people are thin
due to genetics, which can be true, but also many people are thin because they
workout.
~~~
uratool
1\. how do you know you are not a screaming asshole that other people
tolerate, with your inflated sense of self worth about your technical ability
being your motivator for demanding more - so you call it success.
Have you overcome any longstanding relationship issues with anyone in your
life? have you supported someone through a mental breakdown?
The very fact that you measure your success "over" your colleagues to me
highlights that at no point have you been working towards making a better
world.. I mean its cool that you are an aspie and all but ts actually of not
much use to the humanity.
~~~
dang
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.
[https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
(Also, it's not ok to have a trollish username on HN, since that basically
trolls every thread the account posts to.)
------
phakding
Never understood people's infatuation with reading CEO biographies. I've read
a few and never found anything in it that could relate to. May be I am not
meant to be one of those people. Even if I worked hard, got in at work at 5 am
every day, I don't think I could go from being a lowely team lead to cto or
CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation. I don't think it just works that
way. I could be very wrong, but that's my experience.
~~~
manigandham
You're focused on the actions rather than the results. Common mistake.
People become leaders by creating and commanding change that positively
affects the company. Land a major deal or create a new product line that
doubles revenue? You're getting to the top.
Working harder than the others is part of this process, and sometimes that
means you come in at 5am, but it's not a requirement nor is it something that
anyone in that position actually focuses on as more than just a means to an
end.
~~~
CalRobert
I remember when I was early in my career and fixed an enormous flaw in ad
allocation for a large online publisher. It led to easily over a million extra
in revenue that year.
My boss was delighted to take credit for it while also ensuring I stayed on
message that it wasn't actually a result of him screwing up and being
generally incompetent. I eventually figured I had nothing to lose and talked
to his boss (politely of course) just saying how successful that had been and
that I had plenty of other ideas for improvement. It was not well received.
But I hear my old boss is doing quite well these days.
~~~
manigandham
Dishonest people will be a constant obstacle, but communication is also
important so others know what your contribution is. There can't be progress
without measurement.
Being accurate and quantifiable without becoming confrontational is an art
though, but ultimately necessary. Going over people can often lead to worse
results. Eventually the truth does come out but whether it's worth the time
and effort is up to you.
~~~
CalRobert
I had another offer lined up when I decided to chat with the boss' boss. It
went about how I expected, I took the offer, and learned a good deal about how
business works in the process.
Communication is important - very important - but it's also often what people
focus on when the reality is just a bigger pain in the ass ("so and so is a
selfish twit who takes credit for others' work" is much harder to say than "we
need to address communication issues between departments")
~~~
manigandham
I think that's an issue both in communications and in handling people.
For example, did you have to take credit for that particular situation? What
was the true downside of your boss taking credit? Why not cover for him and
gain the ally? Build the relationship and you'll often find that it pays back
in multiples.
Business is 99% about relationships. The only way you can get what you want is
by helping others get what they want.
~~~
justaguyhere
I don't get it - his boss took credit for his work, likely without his consent
or even knowledge (I'd guess he came to know _after_ his boss took credit).
And yet, you want him to cover for his boss? He also mentioned his boss was
incompetent. How can you trust such a person to watch out for you, even if you
let it go?
~~~
manigandham
Because relationships matter, and that's how you build that trust in the first
place.
Why not work with them, teach them, and make them better. Instead of being
upset, be on their side. Almost always, they'll help you in return. Being
confrontational and going around them though, will only guarantee more
negative outcomes. Remember that your boss's boss and other colleagues
probably don't want to deal with someone who is seemingly more interested in
getting credit rather than getting things done.
~~~
CalRobert
I'm glad your life has led you to have such faith in management. I hope it's
because you've been treated well. If you're early in your career and think
this is how it works most places, I worry you may be in for a rude awakening.
I had a colleague who once told me "the trick to making good ideas happen is
to make your boss think it was their idea". And they were completely right! It
didn't stop them from quitting in frustration years later having never been
promoted.
------
dkarl
At one time I thought highly successful people would be more like each other
than less successful people. I believed it even more when it was explained as
the Anna Karenina principle. But my experience hasn't borne it out. There are
many things you can point to as advantages or "best practices" but in the end
it all seems to dissolve into our penchant for telling stories. One guy is
successful because he was born into it, it's all he saw growing up, every
element was demonstrated for him and instilled in him as normal his whole
life. Another guy is successful because he was born with nothing and had to
fight for every little thing, and he kept fighting for the next thing until he
had a whole company. These are both coherent stories, but they don't explain
the difference between those two and all the other people who were born to
success but reverted to the mean or who were born into poverty and stayed
there.
I've seen people succeed with vastly different, contradictory strategies. I've
seen engineers promoted to management earn respect by getting in the weeds and
doing unwanted grunt work, and I've seen engineers promoted to management stay
so hands-off from technical stuff that new employees assumed they were MBAs
who didn't understand the work they were managing. I've seen people with
humble origins flaunt them at every opportunity and others all but deny them.
I've seen people who immersed themselves in detail to see the whole picture
and people who carefully rationed the information they consumed to avoid being
overwhelmed, systematically delegating the responsibility for details.
Conclusion: that's the wrong way to try to understand the difference between
luck and skill. Suppose you ran a huge experiment where you had 1000 chess
grandmasters, 1000 masters, 1000 good amateurs, and so on down to 1000 chronic
duffers, and they each inherited a thousand games starting at move eight
(crediting the first seven moves to luck, circumstances, and childhood.) You
wouldn't learn much by asking whether the winners attacked or defended, opened
the middle or jammed it up, preferred their knights or their bishops. Those
aren't the right questions. A grandmaster doesn't move a knight just because
she likes knights, or because moving knights is the baller thing that all the
grandmasters do. It's because it accomplishes something in their situation. If
life was a game you could play over and over again, with executive control
gradually fading in starting in the teenage years, a brilliant player might
play each lifetime very differently. It's an interesting thought experiment to
ask what skills you would develop as you "played" dozens or hundreds of
lifetimes! Certainly not rigid rules like "wake up at 5am" or "wear the same
thing every day."
~~~
dtujmer
Wow. This is honestly the best analogy I've ever seen. I still think that some
particular behaviors are generally good and should be emulated (like e.g.
exercise) - but even there you'll find exceptions. But taking CEO quirks and
designing lives so that they include them... That's just guessing the
teacher's password
([https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS/guessing-t...](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS/guessing-
the-teacher-s-password)).
~~~
galfarragem
The analogy of inheriting a position in a game played by somebody else is
great. Winning or loosing depends on how you finish it. What I can't agree is
using chess itself: in chess there's no luck, if you play better than your
opponent you will certainly win. In life, even after you inheriting the
position, luck is a relevant factor, and the better player can loose.
Paraphrasing Nassin Taleb, a good player is somebody that optimises the
chances of _black swans_ to happen in life. But even this might no grant you a
win.
------
motohagiography
Given this issue a lot of thought, mostly after reading Jeffery Pfeffer's
views about how most CEO biographies are designed to kick the ladder away
behind them.
Given the exponential / power law distribution of returns, if you are anywhere
on the left hand side of that curve, you are doing phenomenally well, even if
your actual place on it is random. This curve is the mechanism behind the
Matthew Effect as well. To get there, you just need to survive long enough to
end up on it somewhat randomly. The competitive environments in offices are
really about getting exposure to opportunity - not reaping the rewards of
work. This is why some seemingly dumb people do well. They have the
relationships that get them exposure to the opportunities to end up somewhere
randomly on that exponential curve.
You'll notice that people who fail or stagnate in offices are the ones who
have been isolated from peers, customers, sales people, and other sources of
exposure to randomness, and that is not an accident. Highly successful people
ensure they are at the front of the queue for those random opportunities, and
whether they do that through merit or mendacity is ultimately immaterial.
Being smart is not about problem solving or abstraction, it's an instinct for
always getting the option on opportunity.
Absolutely recommend Pfeffer on this.
------
siruncledrew
I think another thing that influences annoying habits of "effective" people is
that no executive/manager is going to hold a CEO accountable for being
late/strolling into work, whereas if a CEO didn't like it that person would be
be immediately told to stop and change their behavior.
~~~
JumpCrisscross
> _no executive /manager is going to hold a CEO accountable for being
> late/strolling into work_
I did this. I had just been promoted to the lowest manager position at a
global bank. Our global head had a habit of starting meetings late.
After one, I asked to speak privately. I said I had been working hard with my
team on improving their timeliness. They responded, and our mornings became
more productive as a result. But once a quarter they came to these meetings
and saw the top guys in our division stroll in late. It undid work I fought
hard for, and which I continued to believe in.
He thanked me for my perspective and was never late again. (Another example:
CEO assigned our intern class a book assignment. I proceeded to reject the
author’s thesis.)
Organisations that don’t permit upwards feedback are, in my opinion,
unhealthy.
(In the interest of balance, I have also given upward feedback that was
rejected. The reasons for their rejection changed how I worked going forward,
every time productively.)
~~~
toomuchtodo
Were you ever terminated or had your contract not renewed for providing
upwards feedback that was rejected?
~~~
maerF0x0
on this thread. There is defensible feedback and there is just being
contrarian. If you have a reasonable position, you may just be missing the
CEO's context and they should be smart enough to see the gap and fill it in
for you. Without requiring a pink slip.
~~~
toomuchtodo
Defensible feedback can still get you fired.
~~~
maerF0x0
In the world of at will employment, everything, anything and even "nothing"
can get you fired.
------
weberc2
What a strange, disappointing article. I was expecting trends in annoying
behavior, but this was just some low-grade complaining about rich people. And
I'm not complaining about people complaining about rich people, I'm
complaining about the poor quality of the complaints:
\- Richard Branson once said that he didn't like when people were late, but
Virgin's trains aren't very timely
\- Tim Cook would probably be just as successful if he got up three hours
later (opines the writer)
\- General fear mongering about the dangers of executives like Jobs and
Zuckerberg wearing the same attire every day
~~~
FabHK
It's the _Bartebly_ column, an entertaining look at work, not a scientific
paper or even news.
------
mamon
I always laugh at this obsession with early rising. Many factory line workers
wake up at 4:30 am every day, because their shift starts at 6:00 am, and
somehow that does not make them billionaires.
~~~
matwood
Getting up early is a sign of discipline, but it's only a start. It's a
mentality of going after every day with a sense of urgency.
Obviously not everyone can become billionaires, but most people can better
themselves by adding more discipline to their lives.
~~~
randomsearch
Getting up early - before you’ve had a full sleep window - is a sign of
idiocy, not discipline. Those people are damaging their health and will
underperform at work, even if they don’t realise it.
Read “why we sleep”.
~~~
matwood
Where did I say not to get enough sleep?
------
randomsearch
Anyone who thinks cutting down on sleep is a good idea should read “why we
sleep”.
Don’t do it. You’ll be less effective at work and you’ll seriously damage your
health. Fact.
------
wffurr
[http://archive.is/TtLIn](http://archive.is/TtLIn) non-paywall link
------
harry8
It's not an exact analogy but if you start with the idea of "Characteristics
of lottery winners." As the base and make it entirely up to the author to show
with evidence that their content is actually better than that when they
discuss CEOs, you'll avoid a bunch of total BS.
------
amai
Related to the topic I can recommend the book Hansen: Great at Work
([https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Performers-Less-
Achieve/dp...](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Performers-Less-
Achieve/dp/1501179519)). It is probably the first statistical analysis on what
makes people really successful at work.
~~~
FabHK
I'd recommend _Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
(2016)_ by economist Robert H. Frank. He details how much of success is luck.
Pertinent xkcd, _Survivorship Bias:_
[https://xkcd.com/1827/](https://xkcd.com/1827/)
------
lbriner
Rsing at 4:00am is more likely to either be the symptom of someone addicted to
their work above all else but it also probably shows the fragility of life at
the top! If you were Tim Cook, what would you do next in a company with
billions of spare cash to keep the investors away from your door and without
losing focus?
I don't think I would sleep if that was me!
~~~
sgillen
Could also just be a circadian rythm thing. I’m sure there are many otherwise
normal people who’s biological clock would prefer to sleep early and wake up
at 4.
------
rconti
So the article starts out by saying that you won't be successful just by
emulating Tim Cook (rises early) or Jeff Bezos (putters in the morning).
Shouldn't the author have just ended it there by concluding that neither one
of these habits is necessary in order to be successful, rather than going on
complaining?
~~~
skrebbel
Yes, but the Economist probably pays them for a certain minimum length.
------
scottmcleod
Uhh this article is useless click bait.
------
exabrial
I wouldn't call Tim Cook an effective manager though. He centralizes decisions
on himself and had been turning Apple's reputation and Halo-effect into cash
rather than innovation.
~~~
briandear
Have you ever worked for Apple? What you see and reality aren’t always the
same.
As far as innovation, have you used Apple Watch? Have you used CoreML? ARkit?
Has any other company shipped a 7nm chip? Do you know the products in the
pipeline?
It’s pretty easy to snipe when news reports are your only source. It isn’t
like Tim Cook publishes meeting minutes or Craig F or Eddy Cue are sitting
around discussing Tim’s management style.
iPhone or iPad wouldn’t have been possible without Tim because he created
systems to actually produce and ship the thing. Look at the efficiency of
Apple’s supply chain — nobody else can come close. That success is the very
definition of “effective manager.”
If we want to talk of inept managers, we would have plenty from which to
choose, but Cook isn’t one of them.
~~~
waivek
Are there any resources that speak about Apple's supply chain? I'd love to
learn more.
------
keyle
Are articles like these even worth writing still? We're many years out of this
type of self/help gluttony now, aren't we?
~~~
toofy
I thought we were as well, but here we are :/
------
shay_ker
CEO biographies are interesting just like any other biography, I suppose. But
never once have I heard/read, "I read this other CEO's biography and decided
to copy their habits, and that was my secret."
~~~
dkarl
You do read, "My success happened because of an inspirational encounter with
this other revered CEO (whose own book was a best-seller, hint hint)" but
that's such compelling marketing that I wouldn't bet on there being any
reality behind it.
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-1
Let q = 18 - 1. Solve -3*m - q + 5 = 0 for m.
-4
Let u = 12 + -11. Solve b + u - 6 = 0 for b.
5
Let o(l) = -l**2 - 3*l + 5. Let r be o(-4). Solve -2*w - 5 = r for w.
-3
Let s be (-1 + (-8)/(-2))*2. Suppose -4*v - 5*k - 5 = -32, 2*k = s. Suppose 25 = -2*i + 3*o + 2*o, -5*i - v*o + 15 = 0. Solve i*x - 12 = -3*x for x.
4
Let b = -11 + 15. Let v be (1 - 1)*2/b. Solve -d + 5*d = v for d.
0
Suppose -4*n + 13 + 3 = 0. Solve -16 = n*o - 0*o for o.
-4
Let d be (-1)/2*(1 - 1). Suppose 0 = -4*c - 3*i + 25, d*c + i = 3*c - 9. Suppose -c*k = -k - 12. Solve -f = k*f for f.
0
Let s = 20 - -10. Let n be s/18 - (-2)/6. Solve -3*p = n*p + 25 for p.
-5
Suppose -4*p + 15 = -3*p + 5*a, -5*p = 3*a - 31. Suppose 3*o + 5*b - 25 = 7*o, p*b - 25 = 3*o. Let m = 0 + o. Solve 10 = 5*q - m*q for q.
2
Let v be 4*(-4 + 8)/8. Solve -10 = -3*j + v for j.
4
Let w(c) = 7*c - 27. Let s be w(5). Solve 0 = -y + 4 - s for y.
-4
Let i(m) = -m**3 - 19*m**2 - 20*m - 35. Let q be i(-18). Solve -2 = k - q for k.
-1
Suppose 0 = -5*p + 5*u + 25, -2*u + 25 = 5*p - u. Solve -p*l = -7 - 18 for l.
5
Let l = 10 + -6. Let s be ((-6)/l)/3*-6. Solve v + s = -2 for v.
-5
Suppose 2*v + 4 = j, 4*j + 2*v + 8 = -2*v. Suppose -n - n = j. Solve n = 3*d - 9 - 3 for d.
4
Suppose -3*m = -m - 24. Solve 0*j - m = -3*j for j.
4
Suppose -12 = -j - 0*j. Let i = -8 + j. Let u be 2/i + 3/2. Solve 6*r - u*r - 4 = 0 for r.
1
Let b be ((-5)/10)/((-3)/30). Suppose b = -y + s, -5*y - s + 6 = 1. Suppose 0 = -3*u - 5*f - 10 + 41, 4*f - 22 = -u. Solve y = 3*k - u*k - 3 for k.
3
Suppose -152 = -5*t + k, 2*t + 0*t = 4*k + 68. Suppose -5*f - t + 110 = 0. Solve 3*n = -n + f for n.
4
Let x(y) = -y + 14. Let h be x(10). Let p be -6 - -4 - -1*h. Solve -p*j = 3*j + 20 for j.
-4
Let r be 2 + (-5)/(20/(-8)). Suppose -r*w + 22 = 7*h - 4*h, -h - 2 = -w. Solve -h*q + 4 = -2 for q.
3
Suppose 3*t + 0*t = -2*m - 5, 5*t = -3*m - 10. Let g = 17 - 11. Suppose -a = -g*a + 45. Solve a = m*r - 16 for r.
5
Suppose 2*f = -k + 13, -4*k + f = -5 - 2. Solve -k*x - 22 + 7 = 0 for x.
-5
Suppose 0 = g + 3*g - 20, 3*w = -3*g + 45. Solve k = -k + w for k.
5
Let z = -15 + 19. Solve -2*y - 2 = z for y.
-3
Let u(s) = s**2 + 10*s + 5. Let j be u(-7). Let r = j + 10. Let m be (r/10)/((-3)/15). Solve 2*t = m + 1 for t.
2
Suppose -68 = 2*t - 72. Solve 4 = 2*g - t for g.
3
Let v(q) = q**2 + 9*q + 14. Let a be v(-7). Solve -h - h - 6 = a for h.
-3
Let o(s) = s**3 + 7*s**2 - 9*s - 6. Let i be o(-8). Suppose a = -c - 1, -2*c - 1 - 1 = -i*a. Solve a = 7*r - 2*r for r.
0
Let i(u) be the second derivative of u**5/20 + u**4/3 + u**3/6 + u**2 + 3*u. Let c be i(-3). Solve 2*z - 4 + c = 0 for z.
-2
Let w(o) = o**2 + 3*o - 3. Let g be w(-9). Let l = g - 36. Suppose z + 4 = 5*s, 4*z + 5*s - 12 = -3. Solve -z = -4*k + l for k.
4
Let n be 3 + ((-11)/(-22))/((-2)/4). Solve -n = -2*j - 4 for j.
-1
Let x(u) = -2*u - 8. Let b be x(-6). Let f = -2 + b. Let q be (-2 - (f + -3)) + 1. Solve 2*r - 6 = -q*r for r.
3
Let u be 1 + 5/10*(-2 + 8). Solve -h - u + 1 = 0 for h.
-3
Let h(u) = u**3 - 10*u**2 + 13*u - 9. Let q be h(8). Let k be q/(-2)*(-8)/(-12). Suppose 1 = 3*g - 2*x, g - k = x - 3*x. Solve 4*c - 5 - g = 0 for c.
2
Let f be (-3)/(-18)*-4*-3. Suppose -3*s = -h - 4*h - 12, -f*s = 5*h - 8. Solve -2*y - s = -y for y.
-4
Let d be ((-4)/(-6))/((-10)/(-75)). Let s be 4 + 0 + -1*2. Suppose -d = -b - o, 5*b - s*b = -5*o + 17. Solve 0*u - 4 = b*u for u.
-1
Suppose 5*b = b. Suppose 0 = -b*q + q - 2. Let y be (24/(-10))/(3/(-15)). Solve -5*k = -y + q for k.
2
Suppose -a - 10 = t, -8*a + 3*a = 3*t + 30. Let y = 12 + t. Solve -y*b = 2*b for b.
0
Suppose 4*p = 14 + 14. Let i = p + -5. Solve 0*q + i*q = 6 for q.
3
Let j(g) = -5*g**2 - g**3 + 21 + g + 23*g**2 + 5*g**3 - 3*g**3. Let q be j(-18). Solve q*d + 2 = 4*d for d.
2
Let u be (-56)/(-6) - 10/(-15). Suppose -z - z - 5*t - 16 = 0, -5*z = 5*t + u. Solve -3*a + z = -2*a for a.
2
Let k(n) = -3*n**2 - 3*n. Let s be k(-3). Let y = -13 - s. Solve y = 2*o - 1 for o.
3
Suppose -i = -2*i + 4. Solve -4*z + i = 16 for z.
-3
Suppose 19*c - 20*c = -5. Solve 0 = -c*f + 4 + 11 for f.
3
Let f(u) = -6*u + 7. Let b be f(3). Let l = 16 + b. Solve 0 = -0*n - l*n - 10 for n.
-2
Suppose 0 = 5*p, -2*o + 13 = -5*p + 3. Solve 2*n = o*n for n.
0
Suppose 3*s + 1 = 4, -4*s + 24 = 4*t. Let v = t - 3. Solve -3*m - 10 = v*m for m.
-2
Suppose 3*r + 3*f + 53 = -70, 15 = -3*f. Let g = 96 + r. Let q be g/(-8)*(-2)/3. Solve -i = -0*i - q for i.
5
Suppose 4*a - 5*a = -3*r + 15, 5 = -2*a + r. Suppose -2*i - 10 = -4*g, 4*i - 35 = -5*g - i. Let f be ((-2)/(-1))/g*8. Solve a*v + 2*v = f for v.
2
Let s(u) = -u**2 + 4*u + 4. Let q be s(4). Let j = q - -1. Suppose -2*w = -5*i + 6 - 32, -5*i = -3*w + 29. Solve j*g = 2*g + w for g.
1
Let r(j) be the second derivative of -j**4/12 - 7*j**3/6 - 5*j**2/2 - 4*j. Let a be r(-5). Solve 15 = a*u - 2*u for u.
5
Let m = -3 + 9. Solve 3*o = -0*o - m for o.
-2
Suppose -3*v - v + 36 = 3*s, 3*v + s - 27 = 0. Suppose v*a - 4*a + 10 = 3*o, 0 = 3*o + a + 2. Solve o*p + p = -5 for p.
-5
Suppose 6*g = 16 + 8. Solve g*s - 5 = 3*s for s.
5
Suppose -o - 5*q + 9 = 0, -3*o - 3*q + 11 = -o. Let c = o - 11. Let g(h) = h**3 + 6*h**2 - 10*h - 6. Let x be g(c). Solve 4*j = j - x for j.
-5
Let n = 8 + -3. Solve n*i = 3*i for i.
0
Suppose 27*s + 18 = 30*s. Solve 2*l + s = -l for l.
-2
Let n(v) = -v**2 + 3*v + 4. Let p be n(5). Let k(t) = 4*t + 5 + 0*t + t**2 - 12. Let b be k(p). Solve q + 3 - b = 0 for q.
2
Suppose 5*c + 3*p = -0*c + 38, -10 = c + 5*p. Solve -j - j = c for j.
-5
Suppose 2*g = -3*c + 23, -3*g + 0 = -2*c - 2. Suppose -2*l = -5*t - 14, g*l - 14 = 2*l + 4*t. Solve 0 = 2*a - l*a - 15 for a.
-3
Suppose 3*i = -4*g + 2, 2*g - 5*i - 16 = -2. Solve g*d + 3 = 9 for d.
3
Let l = -12 + 16. Suppose 5*q + l*j - 20 = 0, 12 = 3*q - 3*j + 2*j. Solve p - q = -2 for p.
2
Let a(b) = -b - 4. Let t be a(-4). Let w(z) = z**2 - 3*z + 6. Let u be w(4). Let k be (-7)/(-35) + 8/u. Solve -c - k + 3 = t for c.
2
Let c(t) be the first derivative of -t**4/4 + t**3/3 + 4*t + 1. Suppose 0 = p - 2*p. Let l be c(p). Solve 0 = -l*f - 0 - 16 for f.
-4
Let s be -2 + 2 + 1 + 2. Solve -2 = -w - s for w.
-1
Suppose 7*x - x = 12. Suppose 2*a - 4*a = 0. Solve x*v + 5 + 1 = a for v.
-3
Suppose 20 = 7*f - 15. Solve -6 = f*i - 1 for i.
-1
Let j = 5 + -2. Suppose -5*a - 14 + 1 = j*b, -3*b = -a - 17. Solve -b*n + 0 = -12 for n.
3
Suppose -4*v + 25 = v. Suppose 12 = -4*o + 4. Let f = v + o. Solve 0 = f*h + h for h.
0
Let z = 18 + -17. Solve d = -z - 3 for d.
-4
Suppose 3*d - 7 + 1 = 0. Solve 2*l = -0*l - d for l.
-1
Suppose -5*z + 2*j = -9, -5*z + 2*j + j = -6. Suppose 5 = z*u - 4. Suppose -3 = -3*i - 6, -3*v + 57 = 3*i. Solve k - v = -u*k for k.
5
Let b(y) = y - 3. Let l be b(4). Let n be 65/10 + l/(-2). Let t = n - 2. Solve -3*d + t*d = 0 for d.
0
Suppose -20 = -v - 3*v. Suppose v*u + 11 - 61 = 0. Solve -b + 6*b = -u for b.
-2
Let u be (-3)/6 - (-22)/4. Solve -u*a = 6 - 1 for a.
-1
Let w(n) = n - 2. Let c be 6/(-15) - 168/(-20). Let l be w(c). Solve 0 = -3*o - 0*o + l for o.
2
Let f = 149 - 142. Solve y - 3 = -f for y.
-4
Let j(r) = -r**2 - 2*r + 5. Let u be j(-4). Let w be (0 - (-2)/(-3))*u. Let s be 1/(7/3 + (-2)/1). Solve -w*b = s*b + 20 for b.
-4
Suppose 4*k = -5*w - 2, 1 = 4*k + 2*w - 3. Let b = 8 + -5. Solve 0 = -b*n - k - 1 for n.
-1
Suppose 15 = 9*s - 39. Solve 0*v + 2*v = s for v.
3
Suppose -2 = s - 2*s. Let d = 2 - 4. Let x be 12/5 + d/5. Solve -x = r + s for r.
-4
Let t be 3 - (-1 - (2 - -3)). Solve 0 = 7*x - 4*x - t for x.
3
Suppose 5*k - 26 = -2*l, 0*l + 5*k - 5 = 5*l. Let x(f) be the third derivative of -f**5/60 + f**4/6 - f**2. Let i be x(l). Solve r + 12 = -i*r for r.
-3
Let y(m) = -2*m + 9. Let w(p) = -p + 5. Let a(o) = -5*w(o) + 3*y(o). Let h be (1 + -1)*-1*1. Let v be a(h). Solve -f - v*f = 6 for f.
-2
Let w be (-86)/(-30) - (-1)/30*4. Solve 5*d + 7 = -w for d.
-2
Let l(r) = -6*r**3 - r**2 + r - 1. Let s be l(1). Let t be 8/10*(-70)/s. Let n = t - 6. Solve -2*m + 20 = n*m for m.
5
Let f be (-2)/4*(-11 + 3). Let g be 15 + 1/(-4)*0. Solve g = f*r - 1 for r.
4
Let s(j) = 9*j - 12. Let l be s(3). Solve 0 = 2*h - 5*h - l for h.
-5
Let x(j) = 3*j**2 + 3*j - 4*j**2 + 0*j**2. Let z be x(3). Solve z + 6 = 2*c for c.
3
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A CHAMPION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES? PROVE IT.
At the W20 Summit in Berlin, Ivanka Trump remarked that her father is a "tremendous champion for families" and asserted his commitment to empowering women. Like the audience who booed her, I’m sick of hearing her make this ridiculous claim. Has her father done anything to promote and protect women's rights?
What Trump has done is take active steps to demean and hurt women. One of his first actions in office was to sign an executive order that reinstated and expanded the global gag rule, a move that will prevent thousands of women abroad from accessing essential medical and family planning services. Then, he signed legislation that allows states to withhold federal funds from abortion providers. This puts the work of organizations like Planned Parenthood that not only perform abortions but also provide crucial healthcare services to women at risk. In addition to his assault on women’s health, Trump publically defended Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News television star, who was accused by several women of sexual discrimination and harassment. And who could forget all of the sexist and misogynistic things that Trump said and did before he became president?
Is this what being a champion for women and families looks like? If Ivanka wants to tout her father's support for women's issues, he'll first have to do something that warrants her praise. As for Ivanka herself, where does her support lie? She says that she's an advocate for women's rights, but where was she when her father signed these abominable policies, and why is she so vehemently defending him? Of course she's not responsible for everything her father says and does, but now she’s a member of this administration and must take responsibility for its actions, even when they don’t mesh with the public persona she wants to have. Being a bystander isn’t noble or something to laud.
Ivanka, let your actions match up to your words. If you and your father are the champions for women and families that you say you are, prove it. | {
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Saturday, November 14, 2015
#ParisAttacks
Thanks to decades of the Jewish-led promotion of multiculturalism, open borders, mass immigration, diversity, hate laws, Holocaust denial laws, socialism for non-Whites, and other nation-wrecking policies in only White nations, it is hardly surprising that the attacks occurred in Paris on Friday the 13th.
What is surprising is that anyone would believe that the Jews stand in solidarity with the Europeans. | {
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., described President Trump as a "profound liar" on Wednesday and claimed there was no comparison between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
His comments came as "The View" host Abby Huntsman asked about Biden's string of gaffes — most recently, a war story he told that appeared to contain elements of three separate events.
"Trump is in another world altogether," Sanders said. "Trump is a profound liar. I mean it's ... embarrassing to have to say this because what Trump says doesn't mean anything — because he often just makes it up and it has nothing to do with reality. I don't think that is Joe Biden at all."
During his interview, Sanders also knocked Trump for calling the Vermont senator "crazy Bernie." He suggested that was ironic and that Trump was living in a "glass house," a clear jab at Trump's mental stability.
BERNIE SANDERS: TRUMP IS LIKELY THE 'MOST DANGEROUS PRESIDENT' IN HISTORY OF US
He added that he has refused to respond to Trump's tweets because the president quickly changes his mind within minutes.
“When people ask me, 'What do you think about what Trump said five minutes ago in a tweet?' I say ‘I’m not going to say anything because 10 minutes from now he’s going to change his view,'” Sanders said.
Sanders and Biden have emerged as two of the top Democrats poised to challenge Trump in 2020 and seem to offer competing visions for the party.
While Sanders has become a symbol of democratic socialism, Biden faces criticism for not going far enough on issues like health care.
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"All I can say is I have known Joe for many, many years in the Senate, and worked with him when he was vice president — we're friends," he said on Wednesday.
"Joe and I have our differences in terms of our vision for the future and our records are very different. Joe voted for the war in Iraq, Joe voted for the Wall Street bailout, I did not. Joe voted for the — some very bad trade deals, which I didn't vote for." | {
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Hello all,
You will have to excuse me if the question looks dumb ;)
I didn't use CJKAnalyzer and I could still search japanese characters. Actually I used it
first but then I thought of testing with just the standard analyzer. It worked with standard
analyzer also.
I was able to search the metadata of our objects that has chinese and japanese characters.
I think lucene is internally storing unicode characters. So should it matter if its standard
analyzer or CJK analyzer?
When do we have to use CJKAnalyzer really?
Praveen
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Q:
Trouble registering screen boundaries for certain inputs (down and right)
I am creating a scrolling shooter for DMG using gbdk, it is based off some youtube tutorials and this example. In fact the link is the skeleton of my program. My issue is that the screen boundary conditions aren't working properly for down and right inputs. For up and left, they work correctly however, and the code for those is basically the exact same. I have also compiled the code from the link above, and it works correctly there. Apologies in advance, I have a childish sense of humor, so the game is penis-based.
The main differences between the skeleton code and mine is that I use a meta-sprite for the player, and an array for the x and y coordinates of the player. I have tried using individual integers for the locations and changing the bounds of the screen, but nothing seems to work.
#include <gb/gb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "gameDicks.c"
#include "DickSprites.c"
#define SCREEN_WIDTH 160
BOOLEAN ishard = TRUE, playing = TRUE;
struct gameDicks flacid;
struct gameDicks hard;
INT8 spritesize = 8, dicklocation[2] = {20, 80};
int i;
void moveGameDicks(struct gameDicks* Dick, UINT8 x, UINT8 y){
move_sprite(Dick->spriteids[0], x, y);
move_sprite(Dick->spriteids[1], x + spritesize, y);
move_sprite(Dick->spriteids[2], x, y + spritesize);
move_sprite(Dick->spriteids[3], x + spritesize, y + spritesize);
}
void setuphard(INT8 dicklocation[2]){
hard.x = dicklocation[0];
hard.y = dicklocation[1];
hard.width = 16;
hard.height = 16;
//load sprites
set_sprite_tile(0,0);
hard.spriteids[0] = 0;
set_sprite_tile(1,1);
hard.spriteids[1] = 1;
set_sprite_tile(2,2);
hard.spriteids[2] = 2;
set_sprite_tile(3,3);
hard.spriteids[3] = 3;
}
void init_screen()
{
SHOW_BKG;
SHOW_SPRITES;
DISPLAY_ON;
}
void init_player()
{
SHOW_SPRITES;
set_sprite_data(0, 8, DickSprites);
setuphard(dicklocation);
}
void input()
{
if (joypad() & J_UP && dicklocation[1])
{
if (dicklocation[1] <= 16){
dicklocation[1] = 16;
}
else{
dicklocation[1]--;
}
}
if (joypad() & J_DOWN && dicklocation[1])
{
if (dicklocation[1] >= 150){
dicklocation[1] = 150;
}
else{
dicklocation[1]++;
}
}
}
void update_sprites()
{
moveGameDicks(&hard, dicklocation[0], dicklocation[1]);
}
int main()
{
init_screen();
init_player();
init_screen();
while(playing)
{
wait_vbl_done(2);
input();
update_sprites();
}
return 0;
}
What I expect is to be able to move the player up to y = 16, and down to y = 150. When it hits these values, it stops moving until you go the other direction. Instead, what I see happen is that the up direction works as expected, but as soon as the down key is pressed - no matter the y-location - the player is immediately sent to the bottom of the screen. From there, pressing up sends it to the very top. Further, the player can only move from the top position to the bottom, and not scroll in between. I'm baffled by this because the conditions are the exact same (except for the y-values), so I don't understand why they behave so differently.
A:
Using an unsigned int may help here as an 8-bit integer will only hold values from -128 to 127, which might cause undefined behaviour when you compare it with over 150, pushing it to a negative value?
You have defined dicklocation as an INT8, when it would be better as a UINT8 or even longer if you plan on ever having a screen size larger than 255 bytes.
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Where the art of Allison Engel goes to die. | {
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Comment out the class_alias() functions in phpunit6-compat.php because these break PhpStorm code completion. (These files aren’t actually used by the testing framework, we only downloaded them so they could be included in the Project Configuration’s Include Path.)
PHPStorm has no way of knowing what’s going on in, or how to auto-complete, $app.
I’ve gotten around this in the past by creating an “Inception Proxy” alongside a .phpstorm.meta.php configuration but for a new Silex project I’ve inherited this is not possible.
Pro-tip: If your IDE doesn’t know what’s going on then neither will the poor jerks who inherit your code.
Looking for a solution to this I discovered the PHPStorm Silex Plugin. It’s a bit wonky but it does the job. (sometimes the IDE doesn’t recognize $app and I don’t know why yet.)
For the Silex Plugin to work it requires a manually created configuration file in the project root named “pimple.json”. This file more or less duplicates the functionality of .phpstorm.meta.php but I digress… Pimple.json can be automatically generated using Pimple Dumper.
While developing a plugin for WordPress I was having trouble linting CSS files in PHPStorm. One file in particular was giving hundreds of false positives for errors related to paths:
The right side gutter is all red but most of these errors are wrong.
This bothered me. I wanted to fix the reported errors but the reporting was wrong. Most of the time there was nothing to fix. After much fiddling I discovered files under a folder marked as Resource Root can be referenced as relative: | {
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Come evidenziato dalla foto, ho posizionato al centro raspberry. E intorno possiamo vedere il dc-dc step up per i 12V del monitor, il circuito audio alimentato a 5V e il cavo usb proveniente dal dircuito tastiera. Il cavo giallo porta il video e il cavo accanto l'audio analogico. Ho usato alette raffreddamento per vraffreddare opportunamente i chip del Pi dato che l'ho overcloccato. Un avviso importante, le alette vengono fornite con biadesivo, ma secondo le mie prove attenua molto lo scambio termico. Meglio togliere il biadesivo e usare la pasta termoconduttiva. Ho fissato poi ai lati dell'aletta delle gocce di termocolla. Nel circuito ho usato un raspberry pi 1 per motivi di assorbimento energetico. I powerbank hanno un uscita di massimo 2,1A ed è sufficiente per un pi1 con monitor, ma risulta poco adeguato per un pi2 o pi3. Si può usare un pi zero anche , a patto di aggiungere un hub usb e un circuito audio usb. Si può comunque usare un pi2 o un pi3 a patto di usare un ottimo powerbank da almeno 12000mah con doppia uscita a 2A, di cui una va ad alimentare solo raspberry, e l'altra ad alimentare audio e dc step up per monitor. Facendo così se non si overclocca il pi2 o il pi3 l'assorbimento dovrebbe non superare i 2A forniti dal powerbank. Nel caso del pi1 o zero, il powerbank può essere da 6000mah 5V 2A in grado di tenere acceso il tutto per un paio di ore. | {
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Monday, December 19, 2016
THANK JONESY IT'S MONDAY
Christmas is cancelled it is now Trumpmas.1. Toss out that jesus and replace it with a Donald Trump doll. 2. Trash the tree and put up a wall in your living room.3. Buy Kendo sticks for the family so you can bully and beat whiny liberal tampon chewers on Trumpmas.4. Real American by Rick Derringer will be played all day instead of Christmas music.5. Place the Trumpmas gifts on the side of the Trumpmas wall. 6. The proper greeting for this holiday is MERRY TRUMPMAS. 7. All women are in the kitchen preparing The Trumpmas Dinner.................Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes and Spinach.TIS THE SEASON TO BE TRUMPIN ~~~ JONESY VIGOROUS ~~~ | {
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Starring Kori Cioca, Jessica Hinves, Robin Lynne Lafayette, Ariana Klay, Trina McDonald, Elle Helmer, Hannah Sewell, Rob McDonald
Directed by Kirby Dick
Expectations: High.
A good documentary will try to educate its viewers about a certain topic, or seek to raise awareness about an issue that’s flying under most people’s radars. An excellent documentary will do both, and The Invisible War is that documentary. I went into The Invisible War with an idea that rape in the military existed, but I had no real knowledge of how widespread it is, or how the military judicial system works (or doesn’t work). I came out knowing a lot more about these issues, and in terms of raising awareness, I don’t know that I’ve ever been more angry while watching a documentary. The idea that servicewoman (and men) are subjected to such fucked up treatment is absolutely infuriating, and the fact that their cries for help go largely unanswered, sometimes resulting in the victims being persecuted again by the system, is arguably worse than the original crime.
The military’s justice system is much like the Catholic church’s; they have their own system in place to combat crime and deal with it (or not deal with it) however they see fit. Crimes that happen within the military are handled solely by the military, so instead of an impartial investigative organization overseeing everything, oftentimes the perpetrators themselves or their close friends are the ones in power over the investigation. This creates an extremely hostile environment for reporting crimes of this nature. In the months following the release of the film, action has been taken to change how the military handles these crimes, which is a great step in the right direction, but there is always more to be done.
One of the most shocking revelations of the film was not a horrific story of rape, or a callous tale of how a commander told a young recruit that they should just suck it up and move on. Every victim’s story was heartbreaking and hard to listen to, but the thing that shocked me the most was the military’s preventive posters, specifically the tagline, “Ask her when she’s sober.” The then-current director of the program states how the preventive methods are working and how they’re a real positive. Sorry, but a poster that says, “Ask her when she’s sober” isn’t helping anything. Not only is it ridiculous, the statement places the blame on the victim. Don’t worry about your own sobriety at all, just ask her when she’s sober because when you ask when she isn’t sober, she’s totally a slut and she’ll do whatever you say only to regret it in the morning and then we’ve gotta do all kinds of paperwork to save your ass from a dishonorable discharge. So just ask her when she’s sober, it makes our job easier. What total bullshit.
This fact is hammered home once again when a military training video is shown, involving a women who is harassed and chased around a barracks. She runs into a pair of men, but when she tells them the situation their first response isn’t, “How can we help?” or “Who did this to you?”, it’s “Why are you wandering around alone, without a buddy?” So basically: it’s your fault someone tried to rape you because you didn’t walk around with a chaperone at all times. Any organization that knowingly allows this kind of shit to happen, and produces subliminally sexist training videos that do nothing more than tell women they’re at fault, is flawed right down to its core.
The Invisible War is an important movie, and one that could help to save the lives of young women and men who enter the military with hopes and dreams of serving their country, only to leave with a shattered life and no support channels. Change is happening, but it is never enough. Wherever assholes have power, they will exert it over the weak, and the military is designed to specifically attract and breed aggressive, asshole people. Ideally, a soldier should hold themselves to a higher standard, but unfortunately that just isn’t always the case.
In terms of filmmaking, The Invisible War is extremely well put together. There were a couple of aspects that I felt could have been improved upon, but delving into these or even mentioning them is a moot point with this film. The sheer power of the information and the victims’ struggles overrides any petty claims from an armchair critic. If you value your country in any meaningful way, and you wish to see it move forward from long-held bullshit practices, then The Invisible War is one of the most important awareness-raising documentaries of our times.
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*h. Let f(r) be the first derivative of 0*r**z + 0*r - 2 + 1/3*r**3. Give g(f(o)).
50*o**4
Let t(f) = 148*f**2. Let r(s) = 2*s + 11320. Give r(t(h)).
296*h**2 + 11320
Let r(v) be the third derivative of -9653*v**4/12 + 3*v**2 - 820. Let c(a) = -a**2. Calculate c(r(w)).
-372721636*w**2
Let x(s) be the third derivative of s**5/60 + 110*s**4/3 + 4*s**2 + 68*s. Let y(w) = -w**2. Give x(y(l)).
l**4 - 880*l**2
Let n(b) = b. Let d(f) = -f**2 - f - 1. Let m(c) = 105 + 2*c - c**2 - 113 + 2*c**2. Let q(z) = -4*d(z) - 2*m(z). Give n(q(p)).
2*p**2 + 20
Let p(k) = 46*k. Let l = 763 - 693. Let r(t) = -25*t - 14*t + l*t - 22*t. Calculate r(p(j)).
414*j
Suppose -72*v - 2265 = -128*v - 95*v. Let r(k) be the third derivative of 0*k**3 + 1/24*k**4 + v*k**2 + 0 + 0*k. Let g(u) = 10*u. Give g(r(t)).
10*t
Let w = 2 - -5. Let y(b) = 5*b - 14286*b**2 + 7141*b**2 + 7139*b**2. Let r(l) = -9*l**2 + 7*l. Let c(j) = w*y(j) - 5*r(j). Let n(a) = -a**2. Calculate n(c(g)).
-9*g**4
Let b(i) = -2*i. Let o(z) = -305603135*z + 2. Determine o(b(m)).
611206270*m + 2
Let s(q) = 20*q**2. Let d(v) = -v**2 + 4*v. Let k(m) = 3*m**2 - 10*m. Let l be 4 + 17/(-2) + 5/10. Let p(h) = l*k(h) - 10*d(h). Calculate s(p(b)).
80*b**4
Let z(y) be the second derivative of -25*y**4/12 - 219*y. Let g(v) = 3*v + 15. Let j(k) = 32*k + 168. Let m(s) = 56*g(s) - 5*j(s). Calculate m(z(a)).
-200*a**2
Let h(z) = -2*z**2. Suppose 3*s - 75 = -3*k + 5*s, -4*k + 4*s = -96. Let d = -21 + k. Let p(c) = -306 + d*c**2 + 306. Calculate h(p(f)).
-72*f**4
Let v(l) be the second derivative of 0*l**2 - 3*l - 1/4*l**4 + 0*l**3 - 3. Let i(x) be the third derivative of x**4/4 - x**2. What is v(i(p))?
-108*p**2
Let g(r) = 2*r + 12. Let q(c) = 112*c - 227. Let w(f) = 19*g(f) + q(f). Let u(v) = -3*v**2 + 4*v**2 + 0*v**2. What is w(u(a))?
150*a**2 + 1
Let g(t) be the first derivative of 0*t + 0*t**2 - 16 - 2/3*t**3. Let c(v) = -17*v**2 - 2. Calculate c(g(w)).
-68*w**4 - 2
Let r(c) = -c**2 - 30*c + 6. Let q(u) = -4*u**2 - 135*u + 27. Let l(k) = -4*q(k) + 18*r(k). Let m(x) = 808*x**2. Determine m(l(y)).
3232*y**4
Let l(i) = 3*i. Let z(h) = 23834*h**2 + 84*h. Give l(z(k)).
71502*k**2 + 252*k
Let z(w) = 2*w + 3*w + 4*w. Let i(d) be the second derivative of -13*d**3/6 + 453*d. Determine z(i(m)).
-117*m
Let b(z) = -38*z. Suppose 24*v = 5*v + 38. Let s(c) = 3*c - 75*c**2 + 73*c**v - c - 2*c. Determine s(b(i)).
-2888*i**2
Let b(q) = q**3 + 9*q**2. Let y be b(-9). Let o(k) = -2*k**2 + y*k**2 + k**2. Let g(n) be the second derivative of 13*n**3/6 + 1458*n - 1. What is g(o(x))?
-13*x**2
Let z(w) = -57*w**2 + 17399 + 58*w**2 - 17399. Let k(o) = 346*o. What is z(k(h))?
119716*h**2
Let z(n) = -n. Let x(g) = -421375297*g. Give z(x(p)).
421375297*p
Let m(z) = -66*z**2. Let g(h) = 34*h**2 - 29*h + 3. Let d(a) = -102*a**2 + 77*a - 8. Let c(r) = -3*d(r) - 8*g(r). What is c(m(u))?
148104*u**4 - 66*u**2
Let j(r) = -4704821*r**2. Let t(d) = -2*d. Give j(t(g)).
-18819284*g**2
Let i(m) = 1206017*m. Let u(j) = 2*j + 5. What is u(i(d))?
2412034*d + 5
Let p(c) be the second derivative of -c**4/12 + 2*c. Let q(n) be the second derivative of 0*n**2 + 0*n**3 + 0 - 323*n - 3/2*n**4. Calculate p(q(o)).
-324*o**4
Let q(f) = 7*f**2 - 2*f + 6. Let g(l) = -3*l**2 + l - 3. Let c(y) = 2*g(y) + q(y). Let m(z) = 3*z - 5. Calculate m(c(r)).
3*r**2 - 5
Suppose 2*l = 4*r + 24, -l + 27 = -4*r - r. Let v(p) = 9 - 12*p**l - 9. Let a(c) = -34997*c + 34997*c - c**2. Determine a(v(j)).
-144*j**4
Let c(p) = -35514535*p**2. Let g(m) = m**2. Determine c(g(u)).
-35514535*u**4
Let p(h) be the first derivative of 5*h - 69 + 31 + h**2 - 5*h. Let d(c) = 30*c**2. Determine p(d(s)).
60*s**2
Let j(b) = -b**2 + 6. Let f(y) be the first derivative of 2*y**3/3 - 1027. Give f(j(n)).
2*n**4 - 24*n**2 + 72
Let p(b) = 120*b - 3. Let u(x) = -124*x. Let i(z) = 103*z. Let o(c) = 6*i(c) + 5*u(c). Calculate p(o(d)).
-240*d - 3
Let a(l) be the second derivative of -4*l**3/3 - l. Let m(h) = 0 + 0 + 15587929*h**2 - 15587935*h**2 + 0. Give a(m(o)).
48*o**2
Let y(h) = h - h - h + 0. Let f(a) = -28*a**2 + 21*a - 168. Let s(v) = 5*v**2 - 4*v + 32. Let r(q) = -8*f(q) - 42*s(q). Calculate y(r(u)).
-14*u**2
Let f(w) = w**2 - 7*w + 4. Let o be f(7). Let m be 1/(-1)*(-14 + o). Let b(d) = -m*d**2 + 7*d**2 + 2*d**2 + 2*d**2. Let s(j) = -35*j**2. What is b(s(z))?
1225*z**4
Let d(t) = 43*t - 579*t + 189*t + 22*t. Let z(p) = -3*p**2. Give d(z(n)).
975*n**2
Let s(l) = 1090054*l + 3. Let d(p) = -p. Give s(d(m)).
-1090054*m + 3
Let o(s) = -2*s + 47*s**2 - 115*s**2 + 67*s**2 - 15*s. Let y(q) = -25*q. Give o(y(p)).
-625*p**2 + 425*p
Let q(g) be the first derivative of 5*g**2/2 - 2940. Let l(j) = 767*j + 1. Determine l(q(c)).
3835*c + 1
Let g = 20 - 20. Let o(i) = g*i + 5*i - 2*i + i. Let q(t) = -309*t**2 - 318*t**2 + 613*t**2. Determine o(q(m)).
-56*m**2
Let g(w) = -14*w. Let r(s) be the first derivative of -29 + 23/2*s**2 + 0*s. Give g(r(m)).
-322*m
Let o(x) = 2*x**2. Let d(u) be the second derivative of -2915*u**3/6 - u**2/2 + 4054*u. Calculate d(o(c)).
-5830*c**2 - 1
Let y(n) = -2*n - 3. Let v(t) = -4*t**2 - 270*t - 20. Calculate y(v(o)).
8*o**2 + 540*o + 37
Let o(x) = x**2. Let p(i) = 6478*i + 123. Let b(h) = -209*h - 4. Let y = 233 + -110. Let q(a) = y*b(a) + 4*p(a). Calculate o(q(c)).
42025*c**2
Let c(u) = -u**2 - 378893*u + 378893*u - u**2. Let p(j) = 8*j**2 - 4*j - 6. Let a(y) = 25*y**2 - 11*y - 17. Let m(t) = 6*a(t) - 17*p(t). What is m(c(b))?
56*b**4 - 4*b**2
Let z(j) = j**2. Let q(a) = 20*a**2 - 5*a + 11. Let x(n) = 10*n**2 - 3*n + 6. Let h = 90 - 87. Let r(c) = h*q(c) - 5*x(c). Calculate z(r(g)).
100*g**4 + 60*g**2 + 9
Let u = 1066 - -378. Let t(w) = -u*w - w**2 + 1444*w. Let n(r) = -2*r - 11. Let c(j) = -2*j - 11. Let k(g) = 2*c(g) - 3*n(g). Determine k(t(s)).
-2*s**2 + 11
Let z(s) = 2*s**2 + 15*s. Let l(t) = t. Let m(o) = -o. Let r(h) = -2*l(h) - m(h). Let a(v) = -2*v. Let p(c) = -a(c) + r(c). What is z(p(k))?
2*k**2 + 15*k
Let m(u) = -u. Let r(x) = 184*x - 4234. Give r(m(h)).
-184*h - 4234
Let u(y) = -14*y. Suppose 0 = l - 5*o - 69 - 275, -4*o + 1633 = 5*l. Let g(r) = -2*r - l + 329 - 2*r + 2*r. What is g(u(h))?
28*h
Let f(s) = -s. Suppose -23*p + 208 = -15*p. Let h(d) = -64*d - 176*d + p*d - 21*d - 116*d. Give h(f(m)).
351*m
Let b(k) = 4*k. Let a(u) = 3*u**2 + 3809726. Calculate a(b(j)).
48*j**2 + 3809726
Let l(z) = z**2 - 1. Let q(y) = 928*y**2 - 5. What is q(l(s))?
928*s**4 - 1856*s**2 + 923
Let h be 3 - 3 - ((-4)/2 + 0). Let u(l) = -l**2 + 7*l**2 - 2*l**h - 12*l**2. Let z(w) = 5*w**2. Give z(u(m)).
320*m**4
Let q(d) = -2*d. Let c(b) = 805359*b - 1. What is c(q(w))?
-1610718*w - 1
Let w(v) = -787*v**2. Let h(p) = -145*p**2 - 628*p. What is h(w(f))?
-89808505*f**4 + 494236*f**2
Let l(o) = -2*o**2. Let t(i) = -2298*i**2 - 447*i. What is t(l(r))?
-9192*r**4 + 894*r**2
Let s(x) = -x**2 - 105087*x - 1. Let u(r) = -10*r. Determine u(s(t)).
10*t**2 + 1050870*t + 10
Let s(l) = -9*l + 11073. Let d(w) = 2*w - 70. What is s(d(g))?
-18*g + 11703
Let i(a) = 9*a**2. Let c(n) = -1. Let j(f) = f - 9. Let k(p) = 3*c(p) - j(p). Let o(t) = 6. Let s(y) = -3*k(y) + 3*o(y). Determine s(i(q)).
27*q**2
Let y(a) = -a**2 - 6*a - 111415. Let p(o) = 24*o. Give y(p(c)).
-576*c**2 - 144*c - 111415
Let y(n) = -5*n**2. Let w(m) be the second derivative of 17*m**4/3 - 39*m. Let t(i) = 6*w(i) + 85*y(i). Let z(x) = 2*x. Determine z(t(h)).
-34*h**2
Let y(f) = 98*f. Let u(n) = 780689*n. Give u(y(b)).
76507522*b
Let f(a) be the second derivative of -2*a**4/3 + 488*a. Let y(i) = -2. Let g(l) = l**2 + 7. Let k(u) = -6*g(u) - 21*y(u). Determine k(f(d)).
-384*d**4
Let r(g) = g. Let q(i) = 40*i + 3. Let m(b) = b**2 + 8*b - 19. Let j be m(-10). Let d be q(j). Let f(o) = -o + o + d*o**2. Determine f(r(l)).
43*l**2
Let f(c) be the first derivative of -41*c**3/3 - 1589. Let o(r) = 45*r + 3. What is f(o(y))?
-83025*y**2 - 11070*y - 369
Let t(u) = 9*u**2. Let n(c) = 222 + 468*c - 447 - 88*c + 225. Give n(t(b)).
3420*b**2
Let b(u) be the first derivative of -1/2*u**2 + 0*u + 7. Let i(s) = -6*s. Calculate i(b(v)).
6*v
Let l(h) = h**2. Let w(f) be the third derivative of -89*f**5/60 - 5*f**4/12 + 2*f**2 + 22. Calculate w(l(j)).
-89*j**4 - 10*j**2
Let u(q) be the third derivative of 0*q**3 + 69*q**2 + 0 + 1/12*q**4 + 0*q. Let m(h) = 11*h - 1. What i | {
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Brazilians are rallying in defense of a jailed transgender woman after photos emerged showing her bruised and disfigured.
According to local news outlets, Veronica Bolina was arrested on April 10 on suspicion of attempted murder of her elderly neighbour. Police say a fight broke out days later when Bolina masturbated in a cell shared with male inmates, and that she bit an officer's ear when he attempted to intervene.
Activists and those close to Bolina have since questioned the official account. A friend told Brazil's R7 news that Bolina was angered by the prospect of being placed in a cell with men.
In a recorded statement attributed to Bolina, she said police needed to "contain" her and denied being tortured. Public defender Juliana Belloque expressed doubts about the testimony, however, telling Globo that Bolina may have been intimidated by the police in the room.
On Twitter, Brazlians sent messages of support with #SomosTodasVeronica ("We Are All Veronica"): | {
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