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Eight years later teledildonics would pass from science-fiction predictions into vibratory reality, becoming the target of federal regulations and patent litigation. In 1999, NBC reported on a pair of "cyberdildonic" devices that were "likely to touch off a commercial land rush to the new frontier." That land rush has yet to materialize, but at the time SafeSexPlus.com founder Allen Hazday reported "brisk sales" of his $25 SSP adapter, a light sensor that attached to a user's computer screen with a suction cup. That device had an output for a sex sleeve or vibrator that a companion could control by remotely adjusting their partner's screen brightness and color. The second device, The Cyber Sex Suit from porn powerhouse Vivid Entertainment, never actually made it to market. The neoprene sex suit, outfitted with 36 sensors to convey a number of different sensations to the wearer via the internet, reportedly failed to pass FTC standards and disappeared by the early 2000s.
In 1998 Warren J. Sandvick, Jim W. Hughes and David Alan Atkinson were granted the patent for a "method and device for interactive virtual control of sexual aids using digital computer networks," now commonly referred to as the teledildonics patent. In 2015 that patent was transferred to a company called TZU Technologies LLC, which in turns sued just about anyone attempting to send tactile sensations across the internet.
Despite TZU's efforts, the field of teledildonics has grown, but not exploded. For years, sex-toy manufacturers like OhMiBod, Kiiroo and others have developed ever-more-sophisticated devices that communicate across great distances, and the adult-entertainment industry has found ways to capitalize on their ingenuity. Today, porn doesn't have to be a spectator sport. With the help of internet-connected sex sleeves and vibrators, you can watch the action and feel it too.
Which brings me back to Nazanin. Having embraced the awkwardness of the situation, I unplugged the Launch from its charger and, using the specified app, connected the ridiculously cumbersome fuck machine to my phone via Bluetooth. I then logged on to Flirt4Free.com, located Nazanin's profile, marked by a purple "two-way interactive" ribbon, and clicked to create a QR code that allowed me to connect my phone and, by extension, the Launch, to a private room.
Ten minutes and a few failed attempts later, I was ready to go -- at least from an IT perspective. I clicked on "start your show," as instructed, and, just like that, I was face-to-face with a gorgeous brunette some 3,000 miles away. I say face-to-face but the experience, while mutual, was still pretty one-sided. With my webcam disabled I would be both active participant and voyeur in my own pay-to-play sexual encounter. And, oh, how I paid.
From the moment I arrived in her virtual bedroom, the clock was ticking. Nazanin, with her board-straight brown hair, cherry-red lips, pale-pink bra and panties and white thigh highs, was like a hot therapist that charges by the minute. A small countdown clock just above our chatroom served as a reminder that this was a transaction, one with a strict time limit. Throughout our session the I received multiple notifications prompting me to add more tokens to keep time on the clock, and I acquiesced, knowing the money wasn't coming out of my pocket. In total, my first date with Nazanin lasted about 25 minutes and cost the equivalent of about $150. That might not sound like such a bad deal for a no-strings hookup with a gorgeous woman, but that's not exactly how things panned out. What I was expecting was instant gratification. What I got was a lesson in patience.
After a bit of small talk, Nazanin turned on the Fuse and tried to connect. Nothing happened. We turned them off and on again, and still no connection. After the third failed attempt I got a call from the PR rep, who'd been sitting quietly in our virtual room watching the IT clusterfuck unfold. She coached me through the connection process one more time. With my device up and running again, we dropped the call and I returned to the private room. This wasn't Nazanin's first failed connection of the day, and the IT team who'd been secretly standing by couldn't seem to make it work. Some 30 minutes of troubleshooting later, I'd run out of time and steam. There would be no virtual fucks to give that day.
Two weeks later, I was back in my bedroom, sitting in front of my laptop, bare-assed and ready for another go. This time, though, I was free of anxiety. While I never heard her voice -- we communicated through text chat only -- her patience and seemingly sincere sweetness showed through in her body language and facial expressions. She greeted me with the sort of smile you reserve for old friends, like we'd formed a bond over our shared frustration the first time we met.
We made some small talk about what we'd been up to since our first encounter, exchanged emojis and then got to work. I'd connected the Launch before entering the room, as I had two weeks prior, now it was up to Nazanin. She grabbed a two-pronged black silicone vibrator from a row of sex toys, which included a fleshy-pink dildo and an assortment of buttplugs with fur tails, and casually gave it a stroke. I felt nothing at first, but as my fingers returned to the keyboard the Launch sprung into action.
Something was happening. Nazanin fluctuated between typing and stroking, and the Launch reacted in kind. She continued on like this, smiling, giggling, flipping her hair and gently stroking the Fuse, while the Launch pounded aggressively against my inner thighs. With each featherweight stroke the cumbersome canister set to work between my legs with unexpected force. It was as if each gentle sensation from Nazanin's perfectly manicured fingertips gained momentum as it raced the 3,000 miles to my crotch, transforming into a mighty blow.
But it wasn't just the sensation that didn't quite sync. When Nazanin would break away to type, the Launch would continue thrusting, and when she'd start again, it would take a few seconds to spring to life. As is often the case with VoIPs like Skype, my masturbator was experiencing some lag.
Nazanin eventually asked if I could control her toy, which I did, by stroking the sides of the Launch. The tip of the vibrator lit up with each vibration and Nazanin smiled with satisfaction. In the end, we both walked away with a sense of accomplishment. Even if the experience wasn't quite seamless, we'd come together to tame the technology and we'd both benefited handsomely -- she monetarily, and I, animalistically. In the end, the power of the Launch and the realization that someone thousands of miles away was setting it in motion was enough to compensate for any technical shortcomings.
Our time together was pleasant, even exciting, but the promise of truly seamless virtual sex is still just that. Until these devices "just work," to quote the late Steve Jobs, the payoff likely won't be worth the investment for most. In total, my two Flirt4Free sessions cost the equivalent of $350, that's to say nothing of the time spent scheduling sessions and setting up the devices.
When Howard Rheingold coined the word teledildonics some 28 years ago, he envisioned a world of unending possibilities, where machines act as conduits for our wildest desires.
"Thirty years from now, when portable telediddlers become ubiquitous, most people will use them to have sexual experiences with other people, at a distance, in combinations and configurations undreamed of by pre-cybernetic voluptuaries."
His vision of the future included sensor-laden bodysuits with the "intimate snugness of a condom" that would connect over telecom networks, enabling long-distance affairs. We may never see the mainstream adoption of haptic sex suits or telediddler ubiquity, but Rheingold's prediction isn't totally DOA. The once-impossible dream of relaying physical connection across long distances has arrived. And it's a beautiful thing -- if you have the time and money to spare.
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A third area LGBT customer has filed a complaint against a Lyft driver.
D.C. police are investigating an incident in which a 30-year-old transgender woman said a Lyft driver touched one of her breasts to see if it was “real” after he repeatedly asked her if she was a “real woman or a man.”
The transgender passenger, who asked not to be identified by name, said the incident took place on Saturday, March 2, after she called Lyft for a ride from her D.C. residence to Hyattsville, Md., where she was meeting friends for dinner to celebrate her upcoming birthday.
In response to a request by the Washington Blade for a comment on the trans woman’s allegation, Lyft told the Blade in an email on Tuesday that the driver was terminated as soon as the company was made aware of the incident.
The trans woman who made the allegation said she found it odd that when the driver arrived to pick her up he directed her to sit in the front seat, saying the rear doors were broken.
“He started driving and then on the way to Maryland he started asking me if I’m a real woman or if I’m a man,” said the woman, who said she’s a native of El Salvador. “And then when we were like half of the way to Maryland he touched my breast and I moved his hand,” she told the Blade.
“And then he started asking me to show him, to prove to him if I was a real woman by showing him what is between my legs,” she said. “It was really scary. I was really scared.”
She said the driver a short time later confided in her that he is attracted to transgender women and has had sex with a least one transgender woman. The trans passenger told the Blade that after it became clear the driver was coming on to her she told him she was attracted only to women, with the hope that this would discourage him from further improper action toward her.
But she said things got even scarier as the driver stopped the car when he reached her destination in Hyattsville.
“He took me to the destination but when I get to the destination he locked the door,” she recounted. “And he was telling me to prove to him – because I asked him to open it – and he said prove to me that you are a real woman so you can go.”
She said the driver quickly unlocked the door when one of her friends, who had been expecting her arrival, approached the car.
“And when the driver saw my friend he gets a little scary and then he offered to pay for my drinks if I let him go with me,” the woman said. “He was offering me to pay all my drinks and also my food if I was able to let him come with me,” said the trans passenger. “I said no.”
A D.C. police report of the incident lists the driver’s alleged action of touching the woman’s breast without her permission as a misdemeanor sexual abuse offense. Upon conviction, such an offense can result in a maximum sentence of 180 days in prison and a maximum fine of $1,000 under D.C. law.
“Sexual Assault Unit detectives are currently investigating this case and at the conclusion the case will be submitted to the United States Attorney’s, and they will make the determination if the case will be prosecuted,” said D.C. police spokesperson Brianna Jordan.
Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the department’s LGBT Liaison Unit, said both the LGBT Unit and the department’s Latino Liaison Unit were notified about the incident. Parson noted that under D.C. police policy the immigration status of a crime victim “is irrelevant to any investigation we may be conducting.”
Heather Wydra, an attorney at Whitman-Walker Health who has represented the transgender woman on other matters, said the trans woman is in the U.S. legally. Wydra said she’s monitoring the police investigation of the trans woman’s allegations about the Lyft driver.
The trans woman told the Blade that she submitted a complaint against the driver with Lyft and a Lyft representative called her to say the alleged actions by the driver were unacceptable, against Lyft’s policies and the company would look into the matter.
The email message that Lyft sent the Blade on Tuesday says Lyft has a strict anti-discrimination policy and that violation of the policy can and does lead to permanent deactivation of a driver.
The report by the transgender woman of the alleged improper touching by a Lyft driver marks the third known case since February that an LGBT person in D.C. has filed a complaint about improper behavior by a Lyft driver.
Gay Arlington, Va., resident Matt Johnson told the Blade a Lyft driver ordered him to leave his car on Feb. 16 when Johnson mentioned he has a husband. Johnson said he entered the car outside the Dupont Italian Kitchen on 17th Street, N.W, where he works, and was going to his residence in Arlington when the driver said, “Please get out of my car.”
Johnson said he filed a complaint with Lyft and with the D.C. Department of For Hire Vehicles, which is investigating the complaint.
In a separate incident on March 7, gay D.C. resident Greg Alexander said a Lyft driver told him he was “going to burn in hell” after picking Alexander up at the Newseum and learning he had attended the opening of an LGBT-themed exhibit.
Alexander said the driver’s outburst came after the driver asked him what exhibit he had seen and Alexander replied that it was called Rise Up and was about the Stonewall riots and the LGBT rights movement.
According to Alexander, the driver started to chant biblical verses and initially declined to let Alexander out of the car “until you pray with me.” When Alexander refused and opened the door while asking the driver what would happen to him, the driver said, “You will burn in hell. God loves everyone but hates your sin.”
Lyft spokespersons told the Blade the alleged actions by the drivers that picked up Alexander and Matt Johnson violated Lyft’s strict policies of non-discrimination and appropriate behavior toward passengers. Lyft spokesperson Campbell Matthews said the company fired the driver who picked up Alexander.
Johnson received a message from Lyft in response to his complaint, which stated, “This sort of behavior by a driver is a violation of our Terms of Service and is something we absolutely do not tolerate in the Lyft community.”
Lou Chibbaro Jr. has reported on the LGBT civil rights movement and the LGBT community for more than 30 years, beginning as a freelance writer and later as a staff reporter and currently as Senior News Reporter for the Washington Blade. He has chronicled LGBT-related developments as they have touched on a wide range of social, religious, and governmental institutions, including the White House, Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the military, local and national law enforcement agencies and the Catholic Church. Chibbaro has reported on LGBT issues and LGBT participation in local and national elections since 1976. He has covered the AIDS epidemic since it first surfaced in the early 1980s.
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Homeless woman assaulted for defending Trump’s Hollywood star about to get YUGE surprise
Days ago, a homeless black woman was violently assaulted as she sat quietly, protecting Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after it had been vandalized with a sledgehammer. Apparently, thugs found her sign saying “20 Million Illegals and Americans sleep on the streets in tents. Vote Trump” to be highly offensive.
Within minutes, the pro-Hillary Clinton mob surrounded her, hurling racial slurs, when she was shoved to the ground as the mob laughed. The entire assault was gleefully videoed by a man who posted it to his “Koali Fikator” YouTube channel. His channel has since been disabled, but thanks to the Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review, you can see it here. It’s pretty harrowing.
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Att höra till världens tankesmedjetätaste länder är kanske inte det första man väljer att ta upp när man vill understryka hur bra vi har det här i Sverige. Men med hela 90 olika tankesmedjor kan vi faktiskt kamma hem en fjortondeplats i världen i den globala ranking som sammanställs varje år av tankesmedjeforskaren James G McGann vid University of Pennsylvania.
Tankesmedjorna, som så sent som under 1940-talet i princip var ett anglosaxiskt fenomen, utövar i dag ett stort inflytande över debatt och politik i västvärlden. Det inflytandet är inte jämnt fördelat. Enligt en rapport från kommunikationsbolaget Arena Opinion (del av fackföreningsanknutna Arenagruppen) från i fjol har näringslivsorienterade tankesmedjor 20 gånger mer pengar att finansiera sin verksamhet med jämfört med sina gelikar ur den fackliga världen. I Arbetsvärldens undersökning framgår att de också får ungefär fyra gånger fler pressklipp.
Det som har dragit frågorna om las och arbetsrätten till sin spets är invandringen
När Arbetsvärlden går igenom medieexponeringen i Sverige under valåret 2018 (TV, radio, print och webb) är det Svenskt Näringslivs-finansierade Timbro som överlägset toppar genomslagslistan. Därefter kommer Studieförbundet Näringsliv och Samhälle, SNS, med finansiärer från såväl näringsliv som fack och ideell sektor men med historiska kopplingar till Svenskt Näringslivs föregångare. På tredjeplats kvalar den fackliga tankesmedjan Katalys in (bildad av LO-förbunden i 6F), tätt följd av den gröna och liberala tankesmedjan Fores vars största finansiär är Centerpartiet.
Vi utmålar en konflikt men också ett hopp, vi ger ett alternativ
De flesta tankesmedjor har välprofilerade talespersoner som rutinerat argumenterar för idéer i debattartiklar och medieintervjuer. Företrädaren som toppar Arbetsvärldens lista är Katalys chef Daniel Suhonen, som leder med långt försprång framför enskilda Timbro- och Fores-profiler. Daniel Suhonen har även överlägset flest Twitterföljare: 11 800, en bra bit före Fores vd Mattias Goldmann som hamnar på andraplats med 9 367 följare.
Daniel Suhonen har under 2018 flitigt debatterat klassklyftor och Socialdemokraternas valstrategi.
Topp 20 Daniel Suhonen, Katalys (152) Andreas Johansson Heinö, Timbro (73) Siri Steijer, Timbro (67) Mattias Goldmann, Fores (64) Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, Timbro (53) Daniel Färm, Tiden (47) Lisa Pelling, Arena Idé (34) Enna Gerin, Katalys (29) PJ Anders Linder, Axess (28) Andreas Bergström, Fores (28) Jacob Lundberg, Timbro (25) Jesper Bengtsson, Tiden (23) Carl Melin, Futurion (15) Stefan Fölster, Reforminstitutet (15) Katarina Tracz, Frivärld (13) Sandro Scocco, Arena Idé (12) German Bender, Arena Idé (11) Johannes Forssberg, Centrum för Rättvisa (10) Ann-Therese Enarsson, Futurion (7) Hans Winberg, Leading Health Care (4) Bonus: Ekonomen Lars Calmfors har anlitats av både facken i 6F/Katalys för en rapport om industrimärket och Svenskt Näringsliv i Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådet, och kvalar in på listan i båda rollerna med 13 respektive 62 pressklipp. Räknar vi med honom i rankingen hamnar han på plats 5 (Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådet) och 16 (6F/Katalys-utredningen)! Källorna i den här rankingen har valts ut på basis av räckvidd och relevans för det offentliga samtalet. Källorna är: Aftonbladet, Dagens industri, Dagens nyheter, Expressen, GT, Göteborgsposten, Kvällsposten, Metro, SR, Svenska dagbladet, SVT, Sydsvenskan, TV4 + Expandera
Hur får Katalys genomslag i media?
– Vi drivs av en radikal, reformistisk idé men den blir aldrig starkare än den fakta vi bygger vår argumentation på. Vi kan ta tydlig politisk ställning åt vänster och har som princip att aldrig fuska med fakta. Det finns många människor som delar våra åsikter om ett rättvist samhälle och vi ger dem argumenten för de här åsikterna, säger Daniel Suhonen till Arbetsvärlden.
Katalys sticker också ut med en särskilt stor synlighet i förhållande till sin storlek.
– Vi är den minsta vänstertankesmedjan både till antalet anställda och budget, vi har varit tre anställda och nu är vi fyra. Arena Idè är ungefär i samma storlek men de ingår i Arenagruppen och man kan diskutera om de ska bedömas separat, säger Daniel Suhonen.
Kan man säga att ni pekar ut konflikter?
– Vi utmålar en konflikt men också ett hopp, vi ger ett alternativ. Vi har valt att inte vara en förment objektiv aktör som inte tar ställning. Vi kan uppmärksamma frågor med glöden och narrativet som behövs för att väcka liv i frågan. Vi arbetar med fakta, ideologi och temperament och det är en mix som slår igenom.
En vänster som inte förstår klass kommer aldrig att vinna
Under 2018 väckte ni liv i klassfrågan med en rapportserie om klassamhället. Varför är det viktigt att debattera klass?
– Därför att Sverige är ett klassamhälle och vi behöver förstå klass för att förstå utfall i det samhället. Om man inte har ett språk och siffror för det så kan man inte bemöta problemen kopplade till klassamhället. En vänster som inte förstår klass kommer aldrig att vinna, säger Daniel Suhonen.
Fores syns lokalt
Inkluderar man lokal- och landsortspress så är det ett annat namn som hamnar i topp vad gäller flest pressklipp: Fores vd Mattias Goldmann.
– Det är en medveten tanke hos Fores att vi ska vara en tankesmedja som fångar in hela landet och vi har filialer i Umeå, Malmö och Göteborg, medan huvudkontoret ligger i Stockholm. Vi gör lokala vinklingar för att vara aktuella i det lokala och regionala samtalet, säger Mattias Goldmann till Arbetsvärlden.
Topp 5 hela landet Mattias Goldmann, Fores (570) Daniel Suhonen, Katalys (498) Andreas Johansson Heinö, Timbro (277) Siri Steijer, Timbro (202) Jacob Lundberg, Timbro (156) I den här rankingen listar vi pressklipp totalt 2018 från alla källor inom radio, tv, print och webb i Retrievers mediearkiv. Vi har endast plockat bort pressmeddelandekällor. + Expandera
Under 2018 har han framför allt ägnat sig åt att debattera klimatfrågan.
Hur ser du på tankesmedjornas stora roll i det offentliga samtalet?
– Det är inte alls oproblematiskt. Jag är själv orolig för den här utvecklingen. Vi är inte demokratiskt valda och vi har inte medlemmar, så det väcker frågor om demokrati och transparens. Vi har försökt föra fram idéer om en branschstandard för tankesmedjor men det var inte så många som nappade, säger Mattias Goldmann.
Han skulle gärna se att en sådan branschstandard innehåller krav på att tankesmedjor redovisar sina finansiärer, sina huvudmän och eventuella påverkansuppdrag.
Redovisar ni var era pengar kommer ifrån?
– Ja, för summor över 50 000 kronor. Och att vi har satt en sådan gräns är egentligen av rent praktisk, administrativ orsak, säger Mattias Goldmann.
Vilka tre tankesmedjor skulle du peka ut som de mest inflytelserika?
– Fores, Timbro och Katalys. Timbro är intressanta för de arbetar på ett väldigt annorlunda sätt jämfört med oss, de kan ta i för att provocera fram en debatt medan vi inte säger någonting förrän vi har tänkt igenom det fullt ut och kan belägga våra slutsatser. Katalys kommer nu få ett inflytandet som gör att socialdemokrater till vänster stannar i partiet i stället för att gå till Vänsterpartiet vilket resulterar i att januariavtalet kan överleva. Och det avtalet innehåller mycket som ligger nära våra idéer, säger Mattias Goldmann.
Har du något exempel där du tycker att Timbro tog i?
– Ja, utspelet om hur stort semesteruttag man ska ha i somras.
Timbro dominerar i debatten
Den marknadsliberala tankesmedjan Timbro syns överlägset mest i debatten, och det är ett faktum som stämmer såväl när man tittar på Arbetsvärldens urval av medier efter relevans och räckvidd, som när man tittar på hela medielandskapet.
På Timbro är en av profilerna som syns mest Siri Steijer, programansvarig för Arbetsmarknad. Det är också i hennes rapport som det föreslås att den lagstadgade rätten till semester slopas.
Det är samma argumentation som facket använder sig av
– Jag förstår faktiskt inte varför just den frågan upplevdes som så kontroversiell. Det är samma argumentation som facket använder sig av när det kommer till exempelvis lönebildningen och andra frågor på arbetsmarknaden, nämligen att parterna ska få förhandla utan att politiken lägger sig i. Jag tycker att även semestern ska gå att förhandla om, säger Siri Steijer till Arbetsvärlden.
Stämmer det att Timbro inte belägger sina slutsatser lika noggrant som Fores?
– Jag skulle nog behöva ett konkret exempel för att kunna bemöta det påståendet. Men generellt kan man säga att vi jobbar med idéer som kan ha moraliska dimensioner och som kanske inte har prövats tidigare. Idéer måste man kunna diskutera utifrån andra parametrar än studier, säger Siri Steijer.
Under 2018 har Siri Steijer hörts i ämnen som las, etableringsjobb, ingångslöner, föräldraförsäkring, a-kassan och regeringsbildningen. Hon har också delat ut kängor åt så väl facken som Svenskt Näringsliv.
I en tid med trollkonton och populister som sprider fake news så är jag tacksam för alla seriösa tankesmedjor
– Det som har dragit frågorna om las och arbetsrätten till sin spets är invandringen som gjort att vi har en stor grupp som står långt ifrån arbetsmarknaden i dag. Därför behöver vi reformer som gör det enklare för de här grupperna att få jobb, säger Siri Steijer.
Ser du en risk för att ge argument åt högerpopulister, exempelvis att det är invandringens fel att arbetstryggheten hotas?
– Det är framför allt vänsterpopulister som för den argumentationen. Ur ett liberalt perspektiv erkänner vi att det finns en konflikt och att vi inte kan ha en sådan här välfärdsstat samtidigt som vi har en så stor invandring. Men det humana valet är då att ge fristad åt människor från krigsdrabbade delar av världen så att de inte behöver vara rädda för att få huset sönderbombat när de sover, säger Siri Steijer.
Till skillnad från Mattias Goldmann besväras hon inte av tankesmedjornas framträdande roll i det offentliga samtalet.
– Nej, jag tycker det är bra att idéer diskuteras med ett mer långsiktigt perspektiv än vad politiker och lobbyister har. Exempelvis har vi 20-års perspektiv på Timbro, säger Siri Steijer.
Även Daniel Suhonen på Katalys är mer optimistiskt vad gäller tankesmedjornas påverkan i debatten.
– I en tid med trollkonton och populister som sprider fake news så är jag tacksam för alla seriösa tankesmedjor som bidrar till en seriös debatt. Jag kan tycka att det är synd att de politiska partierna inte gör mer, de skulle kunna ägna sig mer åt opinionsbildning än de gör i dag, säger Daniel Suhonen till Arbetsvärlden.
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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has dealt a blow to the recruiting efforts of ISIS by launching cyber attacks on Twitter accounts used by the terror group to mobilize fighters. In a comprehensive strike called #OpISIS, the hackers have managed to breach hundreds of ISIS Twitter accounts and email addresses.
In a statement released by Anonymous, the vigilante cyber cabal said: "ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails and expose you... You will be treated like a virus, and we are the cure. We own the internet."
"Remember – the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State (ISIS) are not Muslims."
It also added that its members comprised of people from all over the world: "We are Muslims, we are Christians, we are Jews, we are hackers... We come from all races, countries, religions, and ethnicity."
"We are hackers, crackers, hacktivists, phishers, agents, spies, or just the guy from next door. We are students, administrators, workers, clerks, unemployed, rich, poor. We are young, or old, gay or straight. We wear smart clothes or Uggs. We come from all races, countries, religions, and ethnicity. United as one, divided by zero. We are Anonymous".
Anonymous uploaded a Pastebin link containing all the ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts that it has taken down along with a list of suspected ISIS-linked Facebook profiles. Given that ISIS' relentless recruitment and propaganda machine has relied so heavily on the use of Twitter as a medium, it'll be interesting to see how far this attack sets back the caliphate.
The hacktivist collective has form for affecting the operations of terrorist organisations. In November last year, Anonymous hijacked the Ku Klux Klan's Twitter account in the wake of threats made by the racist white supermacy group against Ferguson protesters.
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This Summer, the Guilt Is Gratis
Townies is a series about life in New York, and occasionally other cities.
Do you have a minute for gay rights? How about Planned Parenthood? The A.S.P.C.A.? Greenpeace? Save the clock tower?
It’s that season again. Of the many telltale hallmarks of summer in New York City perhaps the most unsung are the sidewalk volunteers. See them stationed there in their matching neon T-shirts, facing each other at either end of the block, requesting your personal information and your money. The world is their foosball table, and you are their teeny-tiny ball.
Most are well-meaning volunteers or college interns looking to thicken their résumés. Many are too young to have heard the Mitch Hedberg line regarding strangers who accost you on the street: “When someone hands you a flier, it’s like saying, ‘Here — you throw this away.'” In any case, these binder-brandishers aren’t really handing out paper; they’re doling out guilt. And that we already have on us as we round the corner.
The use of “Do you have a minute” over, say, “May I speak with you” or a simple “Excuse me” is pure genius. You can try a rueful smile and a shake of the head, or urgently attend to your cellphone, but it’s no use: keep barreling toward these people, and you are putting yourself on the wrong side of history simply because you happened to take a poorly timed trip to the grocery store. All you wanted was some yogurt and juice. Now here you are saying, in effect, that you cannot spare 60 seconds of your cushy life to address other people’s civil liberties. Not only are you a bad person; you’re a bad American. I hope you accidentally bought the yogurt that expires tomorrow, you utter jerk.
If I cared just a little bit more, I’d stomp back and defend myself. As it just so happens, I adopted my pet; I recycle; I live in Chelsea, a few blocks away from a store called the Rainbow Station, which, let me tell you, does not provide parking for rainbows; and I am scheduled to give a talk at a Planned Parenthood luncheon this fall. Do I have a minute for these causes? I have a lifetime for them! I live with them!
Kelsey Dake
Blame my mother, but I was taught not to engage with strangers. So I keep walking, faster and faster. I treat street guilt like scaffolding and just swerve around it, despite knowing that there’s always more around the corner.
But O.K., is the situation really so bad? Are these people any more of a summertime inconvenience than a subway car without air-conditioning or a malodorous city block? Wait: did I just liken unpaid volunteers for good causes to bags of trash? Speaking of bad people, it takes an extreme specimen of one to rant for an extended period of time about unpaid volunteers. So let’s move on. Let’s move on to the soap.
This summer there’s been a real boom on the product giveaway front. Several stores have stationed round-the-clock hipster girls and boys whose mission is to shove tiny soap samples (along with granola, candy and shampoo) in pedestrians’ faces. There is no social issue at stake here, unless you count basic hygiene as a social issue. And they want nothing from you, not your phone number, not your signature, not a donation.
But that doesn’t make it any easier to say no to them. No sooner have I dodged the teenagers with the clipboards than I find myself confronted with a fistful of promotional lollipops. Unlike fliers, these goods actually have value. Yet I can’t get away from them fast enough.
I recognize that it’s not a big deal for someone to give you a lollipop so long as that person isn’t standing in front of an unmarked white van. In the parallel universe known as the rest of the country, free stuff induces no crisis — just the occasional “thank you.”
But when you make your home in the middle of such an urban mess, it can be difficult to differentiate the motivations of one person trying to stop you from another person trying to stop you. In the end, it’s that decision — even the consideration of the attempt to make that decision — that you can’t afford to waste the 60 seconds on. Otherwise you’d never get anywhere.
Besides, what am I going to do with a miniature sliver of soap? Wash one of my arms? I am a bigger person than a little foosball man, if only on the outside.
An excerpt from this column appeared in print on July 3, 2011.
Sloane Crosley is the author, most recently, of the essay collection “How Did You Get This Number.”
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Townies, a series about life in New York — and occasionally other cities — written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there, appears on Thursdays. This week features an essay by Sandy SooHoo, a freelance photographer and writer who is working on a collection of essays.
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"And what happens when you go home?" "I..." "I don't want my dad to get in any trouble with the police." "No, no, nothing like that." "I can have someone go around, have a word." "Maybe." "Ms Woods?" "I'll be back in a bit." "Wait for me." "Yeah." "I'm Denise, by the way." "Amy." "Hi." "Hi." "I'm runnin' you home." "What's going on here then?" "What have we got?" "Young female, sarge." "Taxi driver found her about 20 minutes ago." "Oi." "Hey, wait here." "I met the victim at approximately 12am, but was called to X-ray." "And by the time that I returned at 1.25am she was gone." "Sir." "What did you talk about?" "She'd been beaten by her father." "Why?" "Uh, he doesn't like her being with black men." "Right, well, we really don't need that in the mix." "We have a report of a missing child come in this morning." "Uh, "Amy Elaine Reid." "White." "Age 15." "Dyed black hair."" "Call came in from the mom..." "Beverly." "Fits the description." "What do you think?" "I think it'll be interesting to see the father's response when we give him the death knock." "OK." "Anything else?" "I might have met him in the hospital." "Who, the father?" "There was a man who appeared to be looking for someone." "OK." "Well, let's get him in and let's do a formal ID." "Dismissed." "Thanks, sir." "Shall I set up a squad on the third floor?" "Why?" "It's obviously a domestic." "Just get the dad and we'll close the case." "Might be a good idea for me to take Woods along." "I think she'll be good with the mother." "OK, just get it done." "Yeah?" "Yes, sir." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Mrs Reid." "Yes." "Wonder if we might come in and have a word, please." "Come on through." "Uh, you reported your daughter missing." "Yes." "Does she have any other distinguishing features, Mrs Reid?" "Maybe something you didn't mention when you called in this morning." "Tattoo?" "Any scars?" "Have you found her?" "We found the body of a young girl." "It's a possibility judging from the photographs." "I'm very, very sorry." "No." "We need someone to make a formal identification." "Where's your husband?" "Paul?" "He's out looking for Amy." "You know where we might find him?" "I'll do it." "Did he say when he'll be back?" "I'll do it." "I want to see her." "They're ready for us." "I can't..." "I can't stand up." "That's OK." "Um, just hold on to me." "Will you stay with me?" "Yeah, of course." "You met her?" "Last night in the hospital." "I told her to stay put, but... she wouldn't listen." "She was in a fight." "Who with?" "Uh, her dad." "I know my husband." "He has a temper, but he wouldn't do that." "She, uh, she was with a friend." "Young girl?" "Ellen Carver." "She needs a priest." "The sacraments." "I'll look into it." "Paul Reid?" "In Three." "Uh, uh, tea." "Three sugars, no milk." "Beverly told me to give it to you." "How's she holding' up?" "She's very brave." "And Amy?" "I mean, is she being looked after?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Thanks." "You're sure Paul Reid is not the man you saw in AE?" "I'm sure, sir." "OK." "Would have been nice to place him at the hospital." "Still, I think we've got enough to hold him 'til we get something solid." "She was with a friend." "Name?" "Ellen Carver." "There was, um, well, she went to the club with her and then I think she was at the hospital as well." "Good." "I'll get someone on that." "Yeah." "OK, five minutes." "Yeah, all right." "Bye." "Post-mortem's ready." "You can report back to Sergeant Hanratty." "Sarge?" "Somebody waiting' for you." "WPC Woods, is it?" "Yeah." "I got your message regarding Amy." "Her wind pipe is ruptured and there's deep bruising here and here caused by fingers round her neck." "He was strong." "And this deep mark here is most likely from a ring." "She fought for her life, a lot of defensive wounds on her arms and her nails had skin under them." "Yeah, her father's got a scratch mark on his face." "There's a number of people coming forward from the club." "Witnesses to the first incident assault." "Why..." "What are you doing here?" "Uh, the family priest is here, sir." "So what?" "Um, to give her last rites." "Oh, right." "Well, it'll have to wait." "Make yourself useful." "Do the inventory." "Uh, personal belongings." "You record them, bag 'em up and then take 'em back to the property room." "OK." "Only other thing, she had sexual intercourse at some stage of the evening." "That's it." "This bruising on her legs." "Could the sex have been rape?" "It's possible." "We'll say she had sex." "We'll leave it at that." "Wait, no, sir " "Look, it's bad enough he's going down for murdering his daughter." "I don't think we need to drag in the black boyfriends for questioning." "I really don't want this to turn into another race thing." "Right?" "Yes, sir." "Right." "Call CPS, prepare the charges." "Paul Reid will be in court first thing Monday morning." "Arthur, thank you." "You OK?" "Her, um, St Christopher's medal on a chain around her neck." "It's missing." "Well, she was strangled." "It probably snapped off." "Well, then why wasn't it found with the body?" "You absolutely sure she had it?" "Positive." "I'm sorry you had to see her that way." "Has anyone spoken to her friend, Ellen Carver?" "Yeah." "She says she wasn't at hospital." "Well, she's lying." "Ellen?" "Can I come in?" "How you getting on?" "I saw you at the hospital." "My mom wants me to stay out of it." "Of course." "Do you believe in life after death?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I do." "I hope she's not angry with me." "Why would she be angry with you?" "We're mates." "We're supposed to stick together, you know." "You waited for her at the hospital, didn't you?" "That's being a mate." "Yeah." "But I didn't go back with her to Subotica." "Amy went back there after the hospital?" "She said some guy was giving her a lift." "She can be a bit mental sometimes." "Did you see the guy that drove her back to the club?" "No." "Why did she want to go back there?" "She met a guy there." "Do you know him?" "Sort of." "He's one of the DJ's." "That's him." "What's his name?" "Colin." "I think." "I've charged Paul Reid with the murder of his daughter and you have run off without permission to re-interview witnesses?" "Ellen Carver lied." "So, how does that change anything?" "!" "We still haven't accounted for this male at the nightclub." "Yes, we have!" "She was seen with a number of young men, most of whom were witnesses to her father violently assaulting her." "You see this?" "!" "This is everything I know that you don't!" "Paul Reid has a GBH against him, countless drunk and disorderly arrests going back years and four accounts where police have been called to intervene in domestic violence against his wife and his fucking daughter!" "The man was a time bomb who kills his daughter because she likes to screw black boys!" "Have you any idea what happens out there if he walks free?" "!" "Yes, sir." "And you, Woods." "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what's going on in that head of yours and, to be honest, I don't care." "But in case you're confused about what your job is, let me remind you you are not a detective." "You're not even a constable." "You're a Doris." "A plonk." "And from now on you will sit at the desk where you belong!" "And you will answer the phone and you will make cups of tea." " Do you understand me?" " Do you understand me?" "!" "Yeah." "Get out!" "'It's absolutely wide open as we go into round four." "The contestants have to think quickly on their feet to solve a mind-teasing problem." "And all those points now go into the master scoreboard with just one round left." "And look at that." "Jumping into second place.'" "You think that's going to help?" "Not now." "'From Fyvie Aberdeenshire, John MacAlistar!" "'" "I had that with your father." "I don't want to go around the track with another alcoholic." "Dad wasn't an alcoholic." "Do you not think you've gotten yourself into enough trouble with the drink?" "'Individual and then an open section on the buzzer.'" "Mrs Woods?" "That's right." "Um, my name's Ray Deans." "I work with Denise." "Is she here?" "Ah, she is." "Come on in." "She's in here." "Someone to see you." "Bad time?" "No, no, fine." "Thank you, Mum." "I just wanted to see how you were doing." "I'm fine." "You have to hang in there, you know?" "Look, I want to have a look at this DJ." "OK." "So, what do you think?" "About what?" "Going out for a dance." "To Subotica?" "Yeah." "I think that Ferguson will have your head." "Well, we're both off duty." "You look great." "Thanks." "That's him." "Give it a few minutes and, um, we'll take him outside for a quiet chat." "OK." "We better dance." "Police." "I didn't do anything." "I just wanna have a word with you, Colin." "Occupied." "You know this girl?" "Well?" "Yeah." "I got off with her, once." "Kissed her, but that was it." "That was it?" "Yeah." "Uh, I heard she's only 14 and I freaked out." "And then her dad comes in, goes mental, pulls her out the club shouting." "We have a witness that says she came back later that night to see you." "Yeah, I saw her." "And?" "I don't know." "She was dancing with other guys." "Who?" "Don't know." "And then later on I saw her crying." "I took her outside to see if she was OK." "She said she wanted to be by herself, so I left her to it." "Can anyone verify that?" "Um, yeah, the doorman." "The doorman?" "Is he working tonight?" "Yeah, back door." "OK." "Thanks." "What is it?" "That's him." "That's the guy from the hospital." "It looks like he's dealing." "Let's bring him in." "Well?" "Looked through the files." "Malcolm Holland has no previous." "Nothing at all?" "Clean as a whistle." "Bring him up from the cells, would you?" "Come on." "Where did you get that?" "This?" "Friend gave it to me." "You were at the hospital, weren't you?" "No, I wasn't." "But I get that a lot." "Walk." "I found those drugs on the floor in the club." "Decided to sell them." "How did you get the marks on your neck, Malcolm?" "Throwing some drunk out." "Goes with the job." "Last night?" "Yeah." "OK." "Do you know this girl?" "Yeah, I've seen her." "One of them little tarts from the club." "Her name's Amy Reid." "She was found dead yesterday morning." "Sorry." "She was at Subotica the night before." "Colin Nash, the DJ, says you were on the back door when he came back into the club and left Amy out in the back in the car park." "Yeah, I saw him go out with a bird and he came back in on his own." "She was out there crying." "Alone." "Vulnerable." "Surely it's part of your job to go out and make sure she's all right." "Car park's nothing to do with me." "How about the AE?" "We have a witness thinks she saw you there the same time as Amy Reid." "For the record, I'd like to say the same officer accused me of that in the cells." "Yeah, outside of interview." "It wasn't me." "I'm innocent." "I've been fitted up." "She has it in for me!" "Shut up." "What did Ferguson say?" "Bail him while the drugs go for analysis." "But - But what?" "He's out." "That's it." "Go back to the front desk." "I kept your name out of it." "A group of youth's gathering on your road." "OK, well, I can have a car come..." "Hello?" "Yeah, one sec." "You being looked after?" "Sorry, sir." "Sorry." "Um, he lied." "The fingerprints results." "His name's Mike Holland, not Malcolm." "Yeah, we know." "Malcolm's a brother." "He lied to lessen the drugs charge." "And your involvement in this fiasco is what exactly?" "But, sir, it says here that he was previously arrested for rape." "Yeah, but he wasn't charged." "When I saw him at the AE..." "Denise..." "Well, he's got St Christopher's just like the one that I saw..." "Oh, it looks just like." "Listen to what you're telling me." "You were concussed at AE." "The St Christopher, that's circumstantial." "Holland's previous arrests do not go into court with him." "We've got a case." "Very strong case with, with witnesses and the victim's own statement given to you before she was murdered." "And all the evidence points towards one man, Paul Reid." "We, the police, follow the evidence wherever it takes us." "Do you understand me?" "Right." "Here, file that." "Then go home." "You're suspended from duty." "Can I help you?" "Um, Paula Merris?" "Yeah?" "WPC Woods." "Can I have a quick chat?" "Yeah." "Uh, be a few minutes." "Mike Holland." "He's done it again and this time the girl didn't make it." "If you could give me anything." "How it happened." "No." "I don't want to talk about it." "I've put that behind me." "Well, we both know that's impossible." "It happened to you?" "Yeah." "I was 17." "He was a friend of the family." "I was out with a mate." ""Electric Blu" in Brixton Hill." "I wasn't feeling very well, so I went out for some... air." "Grabbed me." "Choked me... ..until I passed out." "I woke up in the back of his van." "Pitch black." "With him." "I must have passed out cos I woke up in an alleyway." "He uses his van." "He drags them into his van and that's where he does it." "That's the crime scene." "'Denise...'" "A woman was shot by an officer in a raid this morning." "It's kicking off." "We need to get around there before he's got a chance to destroy " "'We haven't got the manpower." "Listen, you're suspended." "Go home.'" "I'm going round to his address." "I'm getting that van." "Oh, shit." "Oi, oi, open up." "It's the police." "Open up." "Open up!" "Hey, hey." "Denise." "What the hell are you doing?" "He's getting rid of the evidence." "Oi!" "OK, come on." "Open up." "Stop washing your van." "We need to impound it." "No worries." "I'm all done." "Why don't you charge him?" "With what?" "But the MO from the victim " "Denise, listen to me, please." "I'm having SOCO give it a once over." "That's the best I can do." "He bleached it." "Yeah, and if it comes up clean you have to walk away." "What, so he walks?" "This could get you fired." "Walk away." "So what the hell are we doing here?" "We're doing our best." "Well, it's not good enough, is it?" "We've Armageddon on the doorstep and your presence would be appreciated." "I'm coming." "Van keys." "You're not supposed to be here." "Remember?" "What about the next one?" "What?" "What do we tell the parents?" "Sorry for your loss." "What the hell do you want me to do, Denise?" "We're doing our best." "That's all we can do." "If you can't live with that you have to get out." "Look, maybe the SOCO boys will find something." "Who knows?" "'The police are fighting to establish cordons...'" "'There've been disturbances spread in all directions.'" "You will be arrested!" "Desist and return to your homes!" "Desist and return to your homes!" "'Fires are still burning in Brixton in south London after an evening of rioting." "It began as a demonstration of anger after police had shot and seriously wounded a woman while searching her house." "Then a crowd attacked the police station and gangs of youths began burning and looting buildings.'" "We're gonna charge Holland with the murder of Amy Reid." "AB-negative blood." "That's a match." "And some strands of hair the same colour as Amy's found in the back of the van." "With everything else we've got, that's enough to go to court." "Well done." "Right." "Well, I'll prepare the charges then." "No." "The press have got wind of the fact that our new WPC was involved in nicking the suspect." "So, our betters at the Yard have decided that they would like to see her in front of this one." "What?" "You don't want it?" "No." "I want it." "Yeah." "Dismissed." "Sir." "I would like to read a statement on behalf of the Reid family." ""We would like to thank the metropolitan police for all their hard work and in particular WPC Woods who's sympathetic approach and steadfast dedication brought our daughter's killer swiftly to justice." "Thank you."" "I would also like to congratulate WPC Woods on a job well done." "WPC Woods, would you like to make a statement?" "Denise, we can't thank you enough." "This is for you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "You OK?" "Yeah." "Come on." "Let's have a drink." "Celebrate." "Lauren Hines." "Cause of death, strangulation." "The DNA recovered from Amy's clothing confuses things." "So, somebody else killed her?" "DPS are looking into the Holland case." "Mm-hm." "I think you'll find they're looking at you." "'This is BBC television from London.'" "Diana Princess of Wales has died after a car crash in Paris.'" "I promise before almighty God that my evidence shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "They're tearing me apart, Ray."
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(v) = 3*v**4 - 6*v**3 - 15*v**2 + 18*v + 12. Let s(f) = f**2 - f - 1. Let n(q) = -12*s(q) - z(q). Factor n(i).
-3*i*(i - 2)*(i - 1)*(i + 1)
Let n be ((-6)/90)/(20/(-240)). Let m(u) be the first derivative of -1 + 2*u**2 + 0*u + n*u**5 - 4/3*u**3 - u**4. Factor m(p).
4*p*(p - 1)**2*(p + 1)
Suppose -15*y + 10*y**2 + 4*y**2 + 0*y**2 + y**3 = 0. Calculate y.
-15, 0, 1
Suppose 0 = -5*m + 6 + 24. Suppose 2*d = 4*p - 0*d - 16, 0 = p + 2*d + m. Factor b**2 - p + 4*b + b**2 - 4*b**2.
-2*(b - 1)**2
Let b(z) be the second derivative of -4*z**2 + 0 + 2*z**3 - 2*z - 1/3*z**4. Suppose b(h) = 0. What is h?
1, 2
Let x = 106 + -740/7. Let a = 5675 - 5673. What is f in -2/7*f + 4/7*f**a + 0 - x*f**3 = 0?
0, 1
Let j(a) be the second derivative of -a**6/10 - 9*a**5/10 - 9*a**4/4 - 2*a**3 + 51*a. Determine z, given that j(z) = 0.
-4, -1, 0
Let h(z) be the second derivative of 1/150*z**6 + 0 + 0*z**2 + 1/50*z**5 - 1/15*z**3 - 1/60*z**4 - 6*z. Solve h(g) = 0.
-2, -1, 0, 1
Suppose -1 = b - 3. Factor b*v**5 - 4*v**4 + v**5 + 0*v**4 + 7*v**4 - 3*v**3 - 3*v**2.
3*v**2*(v - 1)*(v + 1)**2
Let v(n) = -6*n**4 - 32*n**3 - 70*n**2 - 62*n - 18. Let g(y) = 7*y - 30. Let w be g(4). Let f(h) = -h**4 + h**2 + h + 1. Let s(d) = w*f(d) + v(d). Factor s(b).
-4*(b + 1)**3*(b + 5)
Factor 2892*i**2 + 176/15*i**4 + 3600 + 5042/15*i**3 - 6840*i + 2/15*i**5.
2*(i - 1)**2*(i + 30)**3/15
Let z = -37 - -75. Let i = z - 35. Factor 0 + 2/7*u - 2/7*u**i + 0*u**2.
-2*u*(u - 1)*(u + 1)/7
Let z(n) be the second derivative of 1/108*n**4 + 0*n**2 + 1/54*n**3 + 7*n + 0. Find p such that z(p) = 0.
-1, 0
Let d = 2509 - 5017/2. Determine p so that d*p**2 + 0 + 0*p - 1/2*p**3 = 0.
0, 1
Let r(z) be the first derivative of 4*z**5 + 157*z**4 + 248*z**3/3 - 503. Determine m so that r(m) = 0.
-31, -2/5, 0
Let a(c) = 2*c**2 + 17*c - 7. Let v be a(-12). Factor -57*o**4 - 3*o**2 + 16*o**3 - o**2 + v*o**4.
4*o**2*(o + 1)*(5*o - 1)
Let h(g) be the first derivative of -g**6/1260 - g**5/42 - 26*g**3/3 + 26. Let p(y) be the third derivative of h(y). Factor p(t).
-2*t*(t + 10)/7
Let k(g) be the first derivative of -1/3*g**2 + 2/9*g**3 - 4 - 6*g - 1/18*g**4. Let l(c) be the first derivative of k(c). Factor l(q).
-2*(q - 1)**2/3
Factor 8/3 + 2/3*r**2 + 10/3*r.
2*(r + 1)*(r + 4)/3
Let h = -2423 + 2426. Let b(m) be the third derivative of 1/24*m**4 + 1/20*m**6 + 1/15*m**5 + 1/336*m**8 + 0 + 0*m**h + 0*m + 2/105*m**7 + 8*m**2. Factor b(d).
d*(d + 1)**4
Let v = -80627/9 + 8959. Factor 0*n + 16/9 - v*n**2.
-4*(n - 2)*(n + 2)/9
Let c = 887 + -883. Let y(z) be the third derivative of 0 - 3*z**2 - 1/12*z**5 + 1/120*z**6 + 0*z**c + 0*z**3 + 0*z. What is x in y(x) = 0?
0, 5
Factor -4*l**2 - 4*l**3 - 14*l**2 - 2*l - 6*l**2 + 33*l**2.
-l*(l - 2)*(4*l - 1)
Let n(p) = -25*p**3 + 10*p**2 + 25*p. Let f(d) = 8*d**3 - 3*d**2 - 8*d. Let x be 6/9*(-2 + 34/2). Let k(o) = x*f(o) + 3*n(o). Factor k(m).
5*m*(m - 1)*(m + 1)
Let z be (6/9)/((8/(-153))/(-4)). What is h in 3*h - 7*h**2 + 28*h**2 + 27*h**3 - z*h**3 = 0?
-1/8, 0, 1
Let n = 1288 + -23183/18. Let h(d) be the second derivative of -1/90*d**6 - 1/20*d**5 - n*d**4 + 0*d**2 + 8*d + 0*d**3 + 0. Let h(y) = 0. Calculate y.
-2, -1, 0
Let z be ((-2)/(-24))/((-14)/(-68)). Let p = z + -1/14. Suppose 1/3*t**4 + 0*t - p*t**3 + 0 + 0*t**2 = 0. What is t?
0, 1
Let l be ((-3)/(-1))/(-1) - 362. Let d = l - -2563/7. Factor 8/7*q**3 - d*q**4 + 4/7*q**2 - 10/7*q + 4/7 + 2/7*q**5.
2*(q - 2)*(q - 1)**3*(q + 1)/7
Let r(b) = 2*b**2 + 2*b + 4. Let z be r(-2). Let g be (-10)/25 + z/10. Factor 2/5*y + 0*y**2 - g*y**3 + 0.
-2*y*(y - 1)*(y + 1)/5
Let r = -186 - -171. Let d be (48/(-1320))/(((-1)/r)/(-1)). Suppose -d*u**2 - 2/11*u**3 + 0*u + 8/11 = 0. What is u?
-2, 1
Let c(g) = g**3 - 5*g**2 + 4*g. Let k be c(4). Suppose k*y - 3*y = -9. Suppose -22*n - 5*n + 6*n**5 + 11 + 39*n**2 - 15*n**y - 5 - 9*n**4 = 0. What is n?
-2, 1/2, 1
Determine h, given that -1200*h**4 + 138 + 5*h**5 - 2560000*h**2 + 96000*h**3 - 89 - 49 = 0.
0, 80
Let l(h) = -31*h**3 - 62*h**2 + 123*h - 34. Let i(z) = -370*z**3 - 745*z**2 + 1475*z - 410. Let f(o) = 2*i(o) - 25*l(o). Determine w so that f(w) = 0.
-3, 2/7, 1
Let a(q) be the second derivative of q**6/30 + 3*q**5/2 + 253*q**4/12 + 70*q**3 + 98*q**2 + 139*q. Determine f, given that a(f) = 0.
-14, -1
Let z be ((-18)/4)/(3*(-2)/12). Suppose 2*d = -z + 21. Factor -6 - 2*t**2 + 2/9*t**3 + d*t.
2*(t - 3)**3/9
Let l(h) be the first derivative of -h**5/10 + h**3/3 - h/2 - 88. Find f, given that l(f) = 0.
-1, 1
Let s be 13 - (-10 - (-4176)/208). Find r such that -2/13*r - 4/13*r**5 - s*r**2 + 30/13*r**3 + 12/13 + 2/13*r**4 = 0.
-3, -1/2, 1, 2
Suppose 95 = 18*a + 23. Let o(s) be the second derivative of -s + 9/20*s**5 + 17/6*s**a + 0 + 14/3*s**3 - 4*s**2. Factor o(t).
(t + 2)**2*(9*t - 2)
Let c be (1/1)/((-6)/(-144)*6). Let z(t) be the first derivative of -1 - 1/6*t**6 + 0*t + 0*t**2 + 1/4*t**c - 1/3*t**3 + 1/5*t**5. Solve z(j) = 0 for j.
-1, 0, 1
Let w(c) be the first derivative of -c**4/8 + 5*c**3/12 + 7*c**2/8 + 25. Factor w(o).
-o*(o + 1)*(2*o - 7)/4
Let s(v) = -4*v + 46. Let n be s(7). What is u in -3*u**5 - 26*u**4 - 3*u**5 - 4 - 2*u - 2*u**3 + n*u**4 + 12*u**2 + 10*u**3 = 0?
-1, 2/3, 1
Let m be (-2)/((2/1106)/(-1)). Find f, given that -f**5 - m*f + f**3 - f**2 + 1106*f + f**4 = 0.
-1, 0, 1
Let j(a) be the second derivative of 0 + 4/39*a**3 - 13*a + 0*a**2 + 1/78*a**4. Factor j(s).
2*s*(s + 4)/13
Let m(c) be the first derivative of -c**5/10 - 2*c**4 + c**3/2 + 23*c**2/2 - 16*c - 171. Find t such that m(t) = 0.
-16, -2, 1
Let g(z) = -2*z**2 - 2*z + 1. Let o(p) = 20*p**2 + 30*p - 1. Let l(u) = 22*g(u) + 2*o(u). Find d, given that l(d) = 0.
-1, 5
Let n be ((-4)/(-3))/(3 - (1 + 0)). Factor 1/3*g**2 - 1/3*g**3 + 0 + n*g.
-g*(g - 2)*(g + 1)/3
Let w(t) be the second derivative of t - 1/40*t**5 + t**3 + 0 + 0*t**4 + 4*t**2. Let k(p) be the first derivative of w(p). Suppose k(s) = 0. What is s?
-2, 2
Let l(x) be the third derivative of x**5/60 - 19*x**4/8 - 29*x**3/3 - 79*x**2 + 2. Factor l(h).
(h - 58)*(h + 1)
Let f = 105655/6 + -17609. Factor -1/6 + 1/3*i - f*i**2.
-(i - 1)**2/6
Suppose 4 = -4*p, 0*q - 3*q + 4*p + 40 = 0. Let z = q - 8. Factor -4*j + 4*j**2 + z*j**2 + 0*j**4 + 4*j**2 + 4*j**4 - 12*j**3.
4*j*(j - 1)**3
Factor 4/3*f**4 - 1440*f + 72*f**2 + 2700 + 32*f**3.
4*(f - 3)**2*(f + 15)**2/3
Let x = -1069/2 - -514. Let i = 211/10 + x. Factor 0*h - i*h**3 + 1/5*h**5 + 2/5*h**2 + 0 + 0*h**4.
h**2*(h - 1)**2*(h + 2)/5
Let p(u) = u**3 + 8*u**2 + 129*u + 1262. Let t be p(-9). What is h in 5/4*h**4 - 25/2*h**3 + t + 165/4*h**2 - 50*h = 0?
1, 4
Let w(q) be the first derivative of q**4/72 - 9*q - 11. Let t(h) be the first derivative of w(h). Factor t(j).
j**2/6
Let -162/11*j - 2/11*j**5 + 0 + 216/11*j**2 - 108/11*j**3 + 24/11*j**4 = 0. What is j?
0, 3
Let x be ((-4)/6)/(2/(-3)) + 1. Find q, given that q**x + 937*q + 12*q**3 + 3*q**5 - q**3 - 939*q + 11*q**4 = 0.
-2, -1, 0, 1/3
Let c(g) be the third derivative of g**7/210 + 3*g**2 - 36*g. Find s, given that c(s) = 0.
0
Factor 1/3*l**4 + 800*l**2 + 32000/3*l + 160000/3 + 80/3*l**3.
(l + 20)**4/3
Factor -20*d**5 + 14*d**2 - 4*d**4 - 3*d**4 - d - d**3 + 3*d**3 + 19*d**5 - 7.
-(d - 1)**2*(d + 1)**2*(d + 7)
Let s = 31 + -27. Suppose 0 = -2*m + 3*g + 12 + 4, s*m + 3*g = 14. Factor 111/5*y**3 + 27/5*y**m + 12/5*y + 12*y**2 + 0 + 18*y**4.
3*y*(y + 1)**2*(3*y + 2)**2/5
Let f(v) = -6*v**4 - v**3 - v + 1. Let j(q) = -41*q**4 - 61*q**3 - 50*q**2 - 6*q + 6. Let k(a) = -6*f(a) + j(a). Suppose k(s) = 0. What is s?
-10, -1, 0
Let k be (-1 + -1)*-1 + 8 + -7. Suppose -z = 4*d + 20, 0 = 2*z - k*d - 8 - 7. Determine f, given that z - 1/2*f**2 + 0*f - 3/4*f**3 = 0.
-2/3, 0
Let q = -1675/8 - -1687/8. Factor q*r**4 + 3/2*r - 9/2*r**2 + 3 - 3/2*r**3.
3*(r - 2)*(r - 1)*(r + 1)**2/2
Let s(g) be the first derivative of g**5/240 + 7*g**4/96 + 5*g**2 + 17. Let a(q) be the second derivative of s(q). Factor a(z).
z*(z + 7)/4
Let f(q) = -5*q**2 - 2*q + 0*q + 3*q + 4*q. Let y(n) = 9*n**2 - 9*n. Let a(g) = 11*f(g) + 6*y(g). Determine x, given that a(x) = 0.
0, 1
Factor -4/3*g + 11/9 + 1/9*g**2.
(g - 11)*(g - 1)/9
Let j(z) be the first derivative of -2*z**5/15 - 5*z**4/6 - 14*z**3/9 - z**2 + 348. Find h such that j(h) = 0.
-3, -1, 0
Let c(u) be the first derivative of -u**7/630 + u**6
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The photo above of Tom Crean was taken today, by WDRB's Rick Bozich at Indiana's open practice in Philadelphia. Known forever for bad pictures, this is a Good Picture of Tom Crean. The charcoal-colored workout shirt is a nice tone. Sleeves fit well. A good look. But, wait, has Tom Crean been working out? His biceps look larger. Has he been channeling your bad and angry tweets through long November and December nights into late swole sessions with Lyonel Anderson? Maybe. Maybe he has. Hmm. This is New Tom Crean. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Of course, this led to a natural progression of conversation within our CQ Slack channel. As Tom Crean turns 50 tomorrow -- could Tom Crean whip your ass? There is no reason to fight Tom Crean, and fighting is not, in the majority of cases, a good way of solving things, ever. Crimson Quarry dot com does not endorse fighting, and this discussion is merely for fun. You should only fight people over things such as slandering Arby's, or talking smack about the song I Know What You Did Last Summer by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. In this theoretical, say Tom Crean has a bad opinion about the frequency of radio airplay of I Know What You Did Last Summer by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello and you need to throw some hands with him. Would you win?
Our panel discusses.
Kyle Robbins: If I needed to throw hands with Tom, I think I'd be fine. I am not a jacked dude by any stretch, Crean might have me there and I'm fine with that. I'd probably make a few jokes at Tom's expense, he would retort, and then I'd offer to pay him to not beat me up. This is what I did in middle school and early high school, and it worked just fine. Fighting's how you end up with a stretched shirt collar on that nice new fashionable tee you just bought. Can't have that.
That said, in fairly good shape, I'm taller than him, longer arms. Reflexes start to go around 50, I'm half his age. I've got quickness on my side. If I'm able to wear proper clothes I'm not worried about damaging and the proper setting, I've got an advantage here. If we're in an open space with some room to work, this is cash in the bag. Use my agility and speed to roll right into a nice ankle tackle, land one jab, hop up and run. Real quick, like a cat. If we're in an enclosed space? He's probably got me beat.
In sum, Tom Crean could probably whip my ass in an enclosed space, but I would probably whip his ass in any sort of spacious area if given the proper time to change into workout gear.
Kyle Swick: Are you kidding? Of course he would. I can’t say for certain that Tom Crean has actually been in a fight, but surely at least half of all Harbaugh family gatherings end in some form of grappling and I can’t imagine Tom made it into the family without showing some mettle down in the Bone Pit. (The Bone Pit is obviously what Jim Harbaugh named the unfinished basement at his uncle’s house.)
I, on the other hand, have never been in a fight! I shoved my brother down at an apple orchard and broke his arm when I was eleven but that’s the extent of my battle experience. I’m woefully unprepared to take on someone in combat. What are the rules for this engagement? Are there rules? There are, assuredly, no rules down in the Bone Pit, meaning Tom is likely to come at me with anything and everything at his disposal.
Meanwhile, I haven’t lifted a weight in roughly two years. I’m not this helpless baby but I’m also not going to be impressing anyone. I have, like, just enough strength to not be the weak link on moving day, you feel me?
So Tom has the edge on me in experience and, in all likelihood, fundamental strength; both of which can be outdone with just pure, old country HUSTLE. The only problem is: you’re not going to out-hustle Tom Crean. Not in a billion years. I swear to God I’ve seen Tom Crean with my own two eyes walk off the court of Assembly Hall after a game only to see a picture of him on Twitter thirty minutes later scouting some 4-star in Indianapolis. Tom Crean will not fail at anything because of lack of trying. If you tell Tom he needs to kick my ass then there is nothing on this earth he’ll want to do more than kick my ass. I’m not going to want it that badly. I don’t want anything that badly.
Maybe, MAYBE if you wake me up at 7 AM on a Saturday and tell me that if I vanquish Tom Crean I can go back to bed, maybe then I’ll muster up the WANT to get it done but no promises because I’ll be very sleepy.
Ben Raphel: I'm a not quite in shape former high school tennis player. I don't lift, bro. If I did Crossfit, you'd already know about it by now, probably. In short, I'm no Rocky. Tom Crean coaches 15 D-I scholarship athletes and has to keep up with them every day. And his practices are known for being draining and tough. Plus as Kyle said, #dadstrength is key here. As is that Diet Coke consumption. So, my answer is yes.
Thomas Wachtel: Looking at Tom Crean in a suit, with those weird pants and all, I have to admit my first instinct is to tell him to do my math homework for me. And I was a Wells Scholar and have read a non-zero number of Star Wars novels, so I’m a dork too. The instinct has to be pretty strong. But here’s why Tom Crean could kick my ass:
1. Lots of workout time. I’ve coached before, and there are plenty of opportunities to jump on a bench and do a few reps. Seeing his arms now, I’m certain he has more PSI in his fists than I do.
2. Strategy. The dude’s built an amazing offensive scheme, I’m pretty certain he’d be able to pick apart my defense pretty quickly.
3. Pride. Crean’s already taken it from the internet over his weird facial expressions and inability to shoot a free throw, he has to know what’s coming if he loses a fight.
4. I only have one arm. This ought to be self-explanatory, but anything coming from his right is probably getting through. I’ve got length, but working with only an elbow on the left side? I’m toast.
Please don’t make me fight Tom Crean.
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Karen De Coster, Contributor
Activist Post
It’s amazing to see the number of individuals who are being persecuted for using their own property for productive purposes. This house and garden in Florida violated an “appearance code.” Appearance is always subjective, that is, until the government perverts definitions to enforce its arbitrary laws.
Individuals who defy the crazed American Lawn Worship Culture and instead plant useful, organic gardens are the new outlaws. Here’s a case from earlier this year, in a suburb near where I live, where a woman was treated like a criminal for growing contraband in her front yard: tomatoes, zucchinis, and peppers. Here’s how the lawn became a garden:
Bass got the idea to plant a garden in front yard after it was torn up over a busted sewage pipe.
‘There were piles of dirt outside and we knew we had to do something,’ Bass said. ‘We looked into putting in sod but it was shockingly expensive, so we starting looking into other books to do something a little more cost effective. We found pictures in a bunch of different library books of garden beds. It was perfect and we had a blank canvas.’
City ordinances usually require plantings in the front yard to be “suitable plant material.” Suitable according to a strange culture that worships chintzy, worthless lawns in place of innovative productive land use.
A neighbor on my street has a front yard that looks like a trash can flew over the house and emptied on the lawn – the whole square is littered with stupid plastic trinkets, dumb decorations, plexiglass, broken fencing, and unmaintained plantings. It looks like a trailer park dumping ground, and yet, it is all perfectly legal and city approved. The cars up on blocks are okay, as well as the front yard-turned-patio-bricks for the purposes of parking the family rust bucket on wheels. Yet a garden in my front yard – and I’d love to have one – would bring me citations and the threat of handcuffs.
In Massachusetts, these criminals were forced to disassemble their ingenious tomato garden. Here is an interesting quote from the article.
That, says Emily Broad Lieb, director of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, is a problem caused in part by ‘age-old zoning rules’ bumping into people’s desire to grow their own food.
‘It’s such a human thing,’ she says. ‘It’s not like they’re building a space shuttle on their front lawn.’
She sees the Newton case as a microcosm of a problem that is popping up more and more, from battles over rooftop and urban gardens to bureaucracy surrounding farmers markets. Modern laws often jettison agriculture and food production to backyards and far-flung rural areas, she says. But with individuals and communities now interested in taking back some or all of their food production, “people are starting to realize that we have to change the rules.”
This is not a uniquely American stupidity – Canada is also turning gardeners into lawbreakers. This beautiful garden in Quebec was also targeted by local totalitarians.
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Karen De Coster, CPA is a libertarian accounting/finance professional and freelance writer covering food freedom, regulatory abuses and free market economics. Please visit and support her personal blog at KarenDeCoster.com and follow her on Twitter @karendecoster.
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best," Trump said. "They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."
On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president.In his speech, he proceeded to bash Mexico and its people.Actor Rob Schneider took to Twitter to defend Mexico against Trump.Schneider is married to Mexican television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce.Just a few months ago, Trump expressed his disdain over Mexican director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu winning Best Picture for 'Birdman' at the 87th Academy Awards.Maybe someone should remind Trump that Latina beauty Paulina Vega , is the reigning Miss Universe; of the very pageant that he patronizes.
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The 77-year-old actor, who passed away on Monday morning, leaves behind a legacy of over 300 films and several memorable comic appearances
Sometimes it just takes a small role or two to make an artiste immortal. It could also become a cross to bear, covering up the many other talents, accomplishments and achievements. Despite the 300-odd films and about 30 TV shows behind him, actor Viju Khote, who passed away on Monday morning due to multiple organ failure, became synonymous with Kaalia, the henchman of the dreaded dacoit king Gabbar Singh that he played in Ramesh Sippy’s classic Indian Western Sholay.
He caught the public eye with the get up itself: bushy brows, twirled up moustache with tilak on the forehead and a taweez (talisman) around the neck. An entire generation, for whom the film has been a cinematic Bible of sorts, would easily recall the chain of events on screen. Kaalia along with two others from Gabbar’s troupe, on a mission to extort goods from the villagers of Ramgarh, is driven away by Thakur’s new recruits Jai and Veeru.
It leads on to the long, iconic sequence, involving Kaalia’s timid and frightful (and also untranslatable in English) exchange with a livid Gabbar, that has been by-hearted by many a fan: “Tera kya hoga Kaalia … Sardar maine aapka namak khaya hai … Ab goli kha”.
Just these two scenes in an over three hour-long film were all Khote had to make an indelible impact. As he said in a 2015 interview to The Times of India, the scenes involved ten days of shoot and fetched him a royal pay packet of Rs 2500 as well as the pain of falling down the unruly horse, not one but six times.
He went on to feature in many popular films like Qurbani, Karz, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge and the recent Golmaal 3. His last significant outing was Rajesh Mapuskar’s Marathi film, Ventilator.
Despite the role of a dacoit turning him famous, Khote went on to get circumscribed by comic appearances. Like Rajkumar Santoshi’s cult cornball flick Andaz Apna Apna where he is one of the two stupid bumbling sidekicks — Raabert and Bhalla — of the villain Teja. Their slapstick scenes together — involving time bomb, bichchu ka zaher (scorpion’s poison), Vasco Da Gama’s gun et al — have become legendary over time. As Raabert (not Robert, mind you) he turned the silly into sublime with a wisecrack like, “Sorry, galti se mistake ho gaya,” and goofily made Sharbat-E-Jannat the drink to raise a toast with for the giddy-headed. On TV he worked in Zabaan Sambhal Ke, Devrani Jethani and Aflatoon, but confessed in an interview about finding films and theatre more appealing.
What got entirely sidelined is his stint in Marathi cinema and in theatre. In the 2015 TOI interview he spokeabout acting with Amjad “Gabbar Singh” Khan in a play directed by his brother Imtiaz called To This Night A Dawn.
Acting seems to flow in the Khote blood. He was the son of noted theatre actor Nandu Khote and the brother of popular actor Shubha Khote. Veteran actress Durga Khote was his aunt and Bhavna Balsaver his niece. Viju and Shubha Khote and Bhavna Balsaver acted together in Zabaan Sambhal Ke.
Viju Khote had been ailing for long. “He did not wish to die in the hospital, so we had brought him home few days ago. It is a great loss for all of us,” said Ms Balsaver.
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< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 3 OF 3 · Later Kibitzing> Apr-24-14 gabriel112000 : Houdini's Immortal! Apr-27-14 paramount : thanks for the GOTD. expected it since a long time. Apr-27-14 Brown : This may be one instance when the computer might play better in the opening without "theory." Whites position looks like a strange load of crap to me, quite early on. It is terrible, in my eyes. I don't get the value of this game at all. It looks like Bronstein playing black, intentionally sacrificing material to throw off the computer evaluations. An ugly game save for one special move; 18..Na4. This paralyzes Whites development and allows Black to take over the initiative. Apr-27-14
Once : A fascinating game - for two reasons: (1) the way that the computer plays and (2) the different reactions we have seen in the human comments. Let's see if we can untangle both. First the game. At first sight you might think that Black does something that humans have been doing for centuries and computers usually find difficult. Black sacrifices pawns for positional compensation. For me the key position is this one, after 18... Na4.
click for larger view Black is two pawns down but has better coordinated pieces and strong pressure against the white position. Black has the bishop pair and open files and diagonals. White has a badly congested queenside. Just how is he going to untangle his pieces? If the Bc1 can't move than the Ra1 never comes out of its hidey hole and black is effectively a rook and a bishop ahead. The $64,000 question is whether that is worth the two pawns. If white can untangle himself he has an easy win on material. If white can't get out of the bind, black will increase the pressure and recover the material. How do we answer this basic question - "is the sacrifice sound?" I think there are two answers - gut/ experience and calculation. And that is why, up to now, humans have been better at these sorts of sacrifices than computers. Our gut instincts and experience are very hard to reproduce in silicon so the computer has to resort to a brute force analysis (which we could not hope to replicate). There is a way to inject human style thinking into computers and that is to tweak the evaluations to "reward" certain positional pluses. Having the bishop pair might be worth a certain proportion of a pawn, controlling an open file another chunk of eval, and so on. So the big unknown here is whether Houdini calculated the sacrifices through to a clear advantage, or whether it was influenced by these human tweaks - the computer version of playing on gut instincts. That may make the game a little less remarkable than we think. Throw enough computing power at a position and engines will find moves that seem initially startling. It's not magic - it's just the computer looking quite a bit further than we can, not making mistakes in its analysis and examining far more moves then humanly possible. Does this mean that we are entering a new era of computers playing romantic chess? Possibly, but I don't think such an era will last for very long or that attacking games like this will be common. Improvements in computer power and programming will mean that engines will get stronger at both attack and defence. So the chances of computer #1 finding a crazy sacrificial line will be outweighed most of the time by its opponent finding a successful defence. And, sad to say, a sacrificial line is more likely to have a hidden defence than a more solid line. Computers will take chess into new territory. They will find sacrifices that we would not have spotted, and they will also find satisfactory defences to them. Every now and again one computer will outply another and we will get a game like this. But a return to the play of Morphy and Tal? I don't think so. The second remarkable thing about this game has been the polarised reaction - either to over-praise the winner or over-criticise the loser. I suppose that's a natural human reaction. The level of analysis may be way beyond what we are capable of, but that doesn't mean that genius played duffer or that chess as we know it is about to change. It's another example of Arthur C Clarke's maxim - "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Apr-27-14
morfishine : There is no escape for Rybka after Houdini handcuffs White with <18...Na4> <26.Nb4> is the equivalent of a self-imposed strait jacket leading to the forced loss of a piece BTW: Harry Houdini was never known as "The Amazing Houdini" ***** Apr-27-14
Richard Taylor : I prepared and played this line once at my Chess Club a year ago as indeed my computer preferred Ivanchuk's line but I went wrong in a complex position and lost. Still it seems an interesting line.
No problems for Houdini! Apr-27-14 Brown : <Black is two pawns down but has better coordinated pieces and strong pressure against the white position. Black has the bishop pair and open files and diagonals. White has a badly congested queenside. Just how is he going to untangle his pieces? If the Bc1 can't move than the Ra1 never comes out of its hidey hole and black is effectively a rook and a bishop ahead.> Many of us have seen this q-side traffic jam <QSTJ> , of the q-side B locking in the q-side R over and over again, from both sides of the board. Happens much more with the Black pieces. Bronstein vs A Zaitsev, 1968
Petrosian vs Bronstein, 1956
Spassky vs Fischer, 1972
I imagine most strong FM and above human players would prefer Black after 18..Na4. The question is, would they see that position and go for it with 16...Nd3. As far as the early sac of h7, that is even easier to understand. Whites K is going to be stuck in the center, and White helps develop the h8-R for free. This is a good practical decision instead of going through contortions to save the pawn. If White is going to take three tempi to gobble a rook-pawn in the opening, then simply develop for those three moves. Apr-27-14
AylerKupp : <Once> The time when engines looked for only tactical and material considerations is long past. Many (all?) of the top engines "reward" certain positional pluses (and penalize positional minuses). For example, Stockfish DD provides evaluation bonuses and penalties for the following, among others: <Bonuses> :
1. Piece mobility in the middle and endgame (and different bonuses for each phase) 2. Outpost squares for knights and bishops (and an increased bonus if they are supported by a pawn). 3. Lower-valued piece (i.e. knight and bishop) attacking a higher-valued piece (i.e. rook or queen). 4. Number of squares within the area between the c- and f-files and the 2nd – 7th rank which are safe and available for each side's minor pieces. 5. Safe checks (patzer sees a check, patzer gives a check?) 6. If bishop can pin a piece or give discovered check via x-ray attack. 7. Major piece on 7th (White) or 2nd (Black) rank and enemy king trapped on 8th (White) or 1st (Black) rank. 8. Rook on open or semi-open file.
9. Advanced passed pawns, and/or pawns that are free to advance, increased if they have a free path to the queening square and/or they are supported by friendly pawn. 10. No pieces under attack by enemy pieces.
11. Have rook pawns and opponent has only a knight.
<Penalties> :
1. Higher-valued piece being attacked by a lower-valued piece or pawns. 2. Position of the defending king and threats against it. 3. If position is more drawish than it appears based on the full evaluation. 4. Opposite colored bishops in endgame.
5. Number of pawns on the same colored square as bishop. 6. Opponent has few pawns and you only have a knight. 7. Undefended minor pieces, even if not under attack. 8. Have rook pawns and opponent has rook or queen.
More positional considerations can be incorporated but it is always a tradeoff between the complexity of the evaluation function (the more complex, the more time it takes to evaluate) and the search depth (the faster the calculation of the evaluation, the deeper the computer can search in the same amount of time). Given that Stockfish gets to deeper depths faster than any other top chess engine, either other engines have more complex evaluation functions or less efficient search tree pruning heuristics. Apr-27-14 Brown : <AylerKupp> is it possible that any potential improvement "tweak" of the evaluative function could also make a new-version of a program weaker in the rare position? Apr-27-14
AylerKupp : <Brown> Yes, of course. It's all guesswork. Educated guesswork to be sure, but still guesswork. Engine developers postulate which factors and their relative importance (weights) will provide the engine with the best playing strength and then play thousands of games against other engines or the previous version of the engine. Then, on the basis of the game results, they will modify the weights and add or delete evaluation factors as needed. Apr-27-14
juan31 : First of all sorry to the experts, i have a question ¿ This is real chess, or a tool to study? Could be possible in other sports the use of prgrams to carry out, again sorry but the chess is a sport-science and art, not jus a program. Apr-27-14 Pulo y Gata : Houdini's immortal game? Apr-28-14
Once : <AylerKupp: The time when engines looked for only tactical and material considerations is long past.> Well, yes and no. All commercial chess engines evaluate positional factors - that much is well known. But the relevance of positional factors - and the extent to which they influence the choice of move - will depend on the position being studied. To take an extreme example, if an engine finds it has a forced mate it will not need to take into account any positional factors. In the case of today's game, we have a chess engine making a positional sacrifice. But every <successful> positional sacrifice has to result in a favourable tactical/ material outcome eventually. The player making the sacrifice expects or hopes to be able to win material, force mate or get a draw in an otherwise losing position. For me the question is the extent to which Houdini calculated that its sacrifices were sound and/ or relied on positional weightings. Apr-28-14
Once : <juan31> That's a very subjective question, so I'll offer a very personal and subjective answer. Chess is more than one thing. As originally conceived it is a contest between two human beings. You might call it a sport or a game. In such a contest, the game is testing the individuals' powers of concentration, memory, stamina, will to win, creativity, the ability to calculate accurately. A game of chess between two computers or a computer versus a human is still a contest but it is a rather different contest. The computer doesn't forget, so it is no longer a test of memory. The computer doesn't get tired or have emotions, so it is no longer a test of stamina or concentration or the will to win. What is more, the computer calculates accurately in part because it is storing its analysis in its memory. In effect, the computer "cheats" by making notes as it goes along - something that humans are not allowed to do by the laws of chess. Eventually it gets to the point where there is not much value in humans playing against computers. It would be like Usain Bolt running the 100 metres against a man on a motorbike. Not an equal contest. So at that point we could give up on computer vs computer matches. That's not chess. It's unrealistic. They're cheating. Except ... isn't it fascinating to see what they come up with? It's still a contest - it's simply a different contest. We do it because it's interesting. We want to know how far we can push this. We also expect that computers will find things which will benefit human players. Ultimately we may find that chess isn't a contest. It's really a puzzle. Chess may be "solved" when enough computing power has been thrown at it. Other games have already been solved in this way. But that won't stop people playing it. All that will happen is that human versus human chess will become (or has become?) a different sport to computer versus computer chess. In fact, that's no different to other sports where different categories of competitors compete in different events. Human runners don't race against horses or wheelchair athletes or motorbikes or formula 1 cars. Apr-28-14
Richard Taylor : These are 2 computers playing. Computers nowadays play as well or better than any living GMs. I think they are or will become simply better overall. But regardless of that, people will continue to play chess, and it is in fact the very imperfecions of their games that make it interesting. The mathematician John von Neumann who did maths on "game theory" didn't consider chess to be a true game, like tic tack toe, as it could (in theory) be solved. But it is still is and probably will always be - de facto - a game precisely because of error. If humans always played "perfect" chess like very advanced computers and say won or drew every game (the losers would have to either be weaker players or play more weakly on purpose) then the winners would lose interest in chess. We could never recall the infinite lines the computers might "learn" and nor could we ever play with as much precision (even without time restraints). So the game remains. Chess computers are useful analytical tools. They have also played some fascinating games in the tournaments played. Sadly, unlike the great players such as Rubinstein they aren't aware of their greatness, or the beauty of their games. Apr-28-14
Richard Taylor : But their's always Fischer Random and Transfer Chess. Apr-28-14
kevin86 : zzzzzzzz, excuse me, did I fall asleep? Apr-28-14 PJs Studio : By move 22. black had already jettisoned two pawns and then a third a move later? All for piece activity?? That thing's demonic. Apr-28-14
AylerKupp : < <Once> If an engine finds a forced mate it will not need to take into account any positional factors.> Yes, of course. "Checkmate leaves no weaknesses in its wake" – Horowitz. But I also think that a game between 2 engines also tests the computers' memory (amount of information that they can story in either RAM or disk), creativity (the factors incorporated into its evaluation function by the engine's developers), and the ability to calculate accurately (the accuracy of its evaluation function and search tree pruning heuristics). And both the computer and the human store their analyses in their memories; it is no more "cheating" by the computer to "make notes" by storing the results of its calculations in its memory than it is "cheating" for the human to "make notes" by storing the results of its calculation in his/her memory. And both of them need to be selective when deciding which calculations should be discarded once the available information is larger than what their memories can store. And computer vs computer matches <are> chess, but between different contestants, namely the developers of one engine vs. the developers of a different engine, and a test of how well they can utilize the hardware that the engines run in. And, at least for the foreseeable future, those contestants will be human. It's more like a motor race where the contestants are drivers and cars. If the cars are equal, then, luck aside, the better driver will likely win; certainly if the race is a long one and the course is challenging. If, however, the cars are not equal, then the better driver might not win if the performance difference between the cars is significant. In the later case we would be justified in praising the superior car's designers, builders, and mechanics. But it will still be a human (team) vs. human (team) contest. So, yes, human vs. human chess is a different sport than computer vs. computer chess or, for that matter, human/computer vs. human/computer sometimes referred to as centaur chess. And human vs. human blitz chess is different than human vs. human chess at classical time controls or human vs. human correspondence chess (with or without computers), or human vs. human blindfold chess. The possibilities are vast and I certainly hope that humans will always continue to play it in one of its many manifestations. Jun-22-14
Domdaniel : This is the game mentioned by <jdc2> , identical to move 13: D Reynolds vs A Lewis, 2009 From the British championship, though the players aren't particularly strong. Jul-09-16
perfidious : <Once....The second remarkable thing about this game has been the polarised reaction - either to over-praise the winner or over-criticise the loser. I suppose that's a natural human reaction....> One useful feature of computer analysis has been that 'annotation by result' is largely rendered as dead as the dodo bird. Even so, I agree that there is a strong tendency to be fulsome in one's praise or over-critical, depending on any number of factors peculiar to humans' personality. Dec-20-16 amateur05 : One of the most impressive games I've ever seen. Dec-20-16 talwnbe4 : 14. Nxh7 looks suspicious, since the g- and h-files are opened and it loses a tempo.. here my Rybka prefers 14. Na3 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Na3 h6 15. Ne4 Bd7 16. Bf4 Bg7 17. Rad1 and white has developed the a1 rook (Fruit 2.1) as domdaniel points out 14. a4 may even be better Dec-20-16 talwnbe4 : 16. Be3 instead of 16. Na3 also is a better for white here Jul-10-19
louispaulsen88888888 : Where did white err? Maybe we have to go back to move 9. 9.e6?! looks strange. Perhaps a normal looking move such as 9.h3 or 9.Na3 is better. Jump to page # (enter # from 1 to 3)
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Winning comes naturally to bronc rider Brady Caine. Ruggedly handsome, careless, and charismatic, he's riding high when he lands an endorsement deal with Lariat Western Wear that pairs him up with champion barrel racer Suze Carlyle. Brady and Suze couldn't be more different, but that only lights up their attraction. A stupid move on Brady's part lands Suze in the hospital, her career in tatters. Now it's a whole new game for both of them. Brady is desperate to help Suze rebuild her life, but he's the last person she wants around. Suze's got plenty of grit and determination, but learning to trust Brady again will take a very different kind of courage. This is the cowboy story you've been waiting for
Winning comes naturally to bronc rider Brady Caine. Ruggedly handsome, careless, and charismatic, he's riding high when he lands an endorsement deal with Lariat Western Wear that pairs him up with champion barrel racer Suze Carlyle. Brady and Suze couldn't be more different, but that only lights up their attraction. A stupid move on Brady's part lands Suze in the hospital, her career in tatters. Now it's a whole new game for both of them. Brady is desperate to help Suze rebuild her life, but he's the last person she wants around. Suze's got plenty of grit and determination, but learning to trust Brady again will take a very different kind of courage. This is the cowboy story you've been waiting for
Champion barrel racer Suze Carlyle has it bad for rodeo star Brady Caine, who lives for "buckles, broncs, babes, and beer." When the two are brought together on a photo shoot to promote Lariat Western Wear, a lucrative and much-needed endorsement deal, Brady accidentally injures Suze, potentially jeopardizing her career. Determined to make amends, Brady insists on taking care of Suze during her recovery, despite her protestations that she doesn't need anyone's help. And that's when Brady discovers how sexy an independent woman can be. -- Description by Gillian Speace
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OUTLANDER creator Diana Gabaldon has revealed Sam Heughan went from feeling like a rock star to rock bottom — when a boat scene left him sick.
The author has recently returned from South Africa, where the Scots actor is making the third series of the hit historical fantasy drama.
5 Sam was left feeling ill after having to repeat seasick scene Credit: Getty Images
But Sam — worshipped like a rock star by Outlander fans for his role as hunky Highland warrior Jamie Fraser — was swearing like a sailor when he turned green at the gills.
Diana, who is also a consultant on the show, explained: “They have these incredible full-sized ships with hydraulics on set which make them pitch and yaw like real ones.
“Sam had to throw up for one scene as it’s no spoiler to say that Jamie Fraser gets seasick.
“He was standing there with a page of script in his hand looking more than dishevelled, and he said to me he thought he really was going to be sick.
“Sam said, ‘They’ve given me egg whites tinted green with the most disgusting vanilla essence in it. And I have to hold it in my mouth until it’s time to throw up.’
“Of course, they shot the scene over and over again and at about the sixth time, Sam looked at the glass of egg whites before saying, ‘F**k my life.’ So acting is not all glamorous.”
5 Sam stars alongside Caitriona Balfe in Outlander Credit: Nick Briggs
Diana met The Scottish Sun at the plush Cringletie House Hotel near Peebles, which now offers Outlander breaks and even Jacobite-themed weddings and menus.
The US-born writer has become a regular visitor to Scotland since the first of her eight Outlander books was published in 1991. They’ve gone on to sell more than 28million copies and been translated into 39 languages.
Diana’s saga sees Second World War nurse Claire Randall — played by Irish actress Caitriona Balfe — travel back to the 18th century and the Jacobite risings.
The mum of three was working as a professor at Arizona State University and editing a software magazine when she decided to write a novel — and keep it secret from her hubby, Doug Watkins.
She admits: “My husband would have tried to stop me if he found out. Not out of any objection to me writing but out of fear I would drop dead.
“Because at the time I had two full-time jobs and three children under the age of six.
“So writing about Scotland was a complete accident. I never intended to show it to anyone.”
The tourist industry will be eternally grateful she did as Outlander has led to a massive visitor boom for all the locations seen in the first two series.
Doune Castle in Stirlingshire — used as the fictional Castle Leoch — had more than 71,000 visitors last year, up 44 per cent on the previous year.
Blackness Castle by the Firth of Forth — which provides the setting for Black Jack Randall’s Fort William HQ — recorded more than 22,000 visits, up 28 per cent.
5 Diana with Outlander cast
But Diana has many more personal stories about the ‘Outlander effect’. She says: “In the first and second seasons there are goats in the pen at Jamie Fraser’s family home Lallybroch.
“Those goats were rented from a Highland hill farmer along with his chickens.
“I was doing a talk at the Wigtown Literary Festival when the farmer turned up to say ‘Thank-you’.
“Apparently the money he got renting his goats saved his whole farm. He even brought the goats to meet me.”
She adds: “The first time I visited the set, where I was filming a short cameo, the Gaelic consultant Adhamh O Broin told me the show was also helping to regenerate the Gaelic language.
“He then said there was a weaving factory in the Borders that was about to shut its doors and go bankrupt until they started making the Outlander tartan.
“Afterwards my husband said, ‘So you’ve elevated the Scottish economy, saved the woollen industry and regenerated the Gaelic language. So what are you going to do next?’
“But the Outlander effect blows my mind all the time.”
The super-smart academic and highly motivated author — who will often write for hours during the night no matter where she is in the world — is a stickler for accuracy.
So it’s no wonder she scoffs at the historical version of events in Mel Gibson’s 1995 Oscar-winner Braveheart.
5 Outlander creator Diani is a consultant on the show
She laughs: “I mean, there’s artistic licence . . . then there’s rubbish. But I was happy when Braveheart came out around the time of my third book because suddenly all things Scottish became very popular.”
The film and TV rights for Outlander were sold four times over 20 years before it was finally adapted for the screen in 2014 by Star Trek writer Ron Moore, and shown on Amazon Prime in the UK.
Diana, whose books can be more than 1,200 pages long, smiles: “His pilot script was the only thing that didn’t make me turn white or burst into flame.”
Sony stumped up £37million to make the show, which included building Scotland’s first film studio in the old OKI factory in Cumbernauld with help from £4million of funding from the Scottish Government.
5 Diana meets Scottish Sun reporter Matt Bendoris
And even though the action has now moved overseas — with South Africa doubling as the Caribbean before the story continues in North Carolina — she believes the cast and crew will return again to Scotland.
Diana says: “I am hopeful we will get a fifth and maybe a sixth series, but we’ll just have to wait and see. I don’t know what will happen, but they might continue to use Cumbernauld for North Carolina because inside sets could be anywhere and there are enough places in Scotland that look like North Carolina.
“And, of course, even though the Scots emigrated, they stayed Scottish so there will be plenty of Scots in season four regardless.”
But although Diana’s a youthful-looking 65 years old, she warns her legions of fans that she — and her beloved characters — can’t go on forever.
The writer, currently working on her ninth Outlander book, says: “I think there are 10 books in the main series then a prequel about Jamie’s parents.
“But it is Jamie and Claire’s lives, so everyone’s got to die sooner or later — myself included.”
For more information and prices on the Outlander-inspired breaks and weddings, log on to cringletie.com
matt.bendoris@ the-sun.co.uk
Who'd be perfect for the role?
DIANA famously started writing Outlander after being inspired by an old episode of Doctor Who — but now she would love to see former Time Lord David Tennant in her hit show.
The author watched English actor Frazer Hines as Jacobite warrior Jamie McCrimmon — who was plucked from the Battle of Culloden by second doctor Patrick Troughton — in the 1969 episode The War Games.
And that got her hooked on the long-running sci-fi series.
She says: “We started watching Doctor Who as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby and she would get up during the night — and it was her dad’s job to stay up because I worked at night.
“They would go and watch television and at that time there was nothing on at 4am except the public television channel.
“So they started watching ‘Doccy Who’, as my daughter called it, and Doug got enchanted with it. He was telling me there were re-runs on a Sunday at noon.
“We came into the series with Tom Baker. But I would have to say that David Tennant is my personal favourite.
“I have nothing to do with casting but I would love for him to be in Outlander.
“The funny thing is there’s a scene in which a very odd priest officiates at a wedding ceremony. The guy they choose to do it was not at all what I had in mind — but had they chosen David Tennant, I would not have objected.”
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Foto: Inquam Photos
Comunismul a distrus România în anii `80 nu atât prin ideologie, cât prin prostie. Oricât de rigidă, eronată și brutală era doctrina comunistă față de viul vieții, niște oameni inteligenți și de bună-credință, aflați în posturi de decizie, ar fi putut să-i limiteze consecințele. Niște oameni care să nu aplice aidoma unor automate disperate orice elucubrație slobozită de Ceaușescu.
Or, criteriul principal de selecție pentru elita ceaușistă era prostia. Marea majoritate a guvernanților, de la Constantin Dăscălescu și Constantin Olteanu, până la Maria Bobu, Alexandrina Găinușe sau Susănica Gâdea, constituia o dictatură a imbecililor. A handicapaților oral, vorbind totuși limba română.
Îți recomandăm O demitere așteptată: Carmen Dan nu pricepe că nu se pricepe
La ministerul de Interne, Revoluția l-a prins pe hominidul Tudor Postelnicu. După 27 de ani, pe același post s-a trezit fiica spirituală a lui Postelnicu, madam Dan. A parașutat-o acolo domnul președinte Dragnea, adică cam ce-ar fi ajuns Ceaușescu dacă la bază nu era cizmar, ci chelner de bodegă sau frizer de cartier.
Bine, am înțeles că Madamdan de Teleorman e scula domnului Dragnea și că musai s-o vâre în ceva, dacă tot sunt la putere. Dar să pui, unde, decât în capul ministerului de Interne, cu nume și pronume, o secretară de școală generală din Videle care vorbește românește ca o repetentă, absolventă de ecologie la facultatea de drept, sau invers, capabilă să tranșeze Balena Albastră și s-o pună pe grătar, să facă liste cu jurnaliști complotiști antistatali de pe facebook, să-și descopere cu uimire ditamai microfonul băgat în spațiul intim și să mintă la mintea găinii pe toată lumea, polițiști, procurori, publicul și pe prim-ministru, e un atentat la siguranța națională.
Într-un puseu de prostie potențată de răutate, Madamdan a mers până la a cere demisia unui profesionist competent și responsabil, cum este comisarul Radu Gavriș, șeful Secției Omoruri, pentru că a îndrăznit să critice legile criminale ale justiției pesediste. Madamdan se dovedește astfel mai periculoasă decât polițistul pedofil, fiind în stare să lase fără apărare cetățenii în fața pedofililor, violatorilor, ucigașilor, numai ca s-o gâdile Daddy Dragnea sub bărbie.
De fapt, stimați republicani, Madamdan nu există. Tot ce-am scris este despre domnul Liviu Dragnea. Care, atunci când va ajunge la nu prea îndepărtatul moment al adevărului, mă tem că nu va fi capabil nici măcar de revelația din urmă a lui Tudor Postelnicu: „Am fost un dobitoc”.
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Q:
Given a DOI pointing to a resource, how can I programmatically know whether the access to the resource is free of charge?
Given a DOI pointing to a resource, how can I programmatically know whether the access to the resource is free of charge? E.g., if the DOI points to a research paper, how to programmatically know whether it is behind a paywall?
A:
It is probably impossible in general. The DOI is just a stupid number telling nothing specific about the content. You may decide on the so-called prefix of the DOI whether it belongs to a commercial publisher offering usually non-free content or to a publisher of free content. I am not aware of ready-made lists for this purpose, and there are prefix-owners publishing very mixed content what the licences are concerned.
You can just try to download the research papers, and when you cannot get a pdf file than conclude that you failed at a pay wall.
But this kind of conclusion may be flawed: You may use an institutional account where your institution has payed in advance, giving you a false positive (pdf, allthough in principle there exists a paywall, but just not for you and your institution).
You may get failures (false negatives) because the site you visit may have rigid measures against bots trying to download even free content.
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This limited run of 1000 picture disc vinyl and the CD version include a BONUS DVD with over an hour of video footage documenting the creative and entertaining process of FACE CANDY, plus a digital download of the album.
Are any of the profits from this going to help out his mom at all? I heard about some unreleased stuff "When In Rome Kill the King" record that was being sold right after his passing, and all proceeds going to "Kathy". From All descriptions I have heard she is an amazing person.
I can just now imagine my great grandson brushing off my old dusty box of records and finding this.
Oh wait, they won't have vinyl in 60 years?
The picture on the disk will make him curious enough to reinstate vinyl as a viable way to play/listen to music.
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Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:48 am
Captiv8
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 8546
Location: Third Coast
I'm right there with you Sage. The record was off-putting at first, but it's deep when you put the time into it. I don't know what to call Face Candy, other than unique and on some super jazz Burroughs shit. This is truly one of those albums that you can put on in your headphones and just stare at some clouds to. Don't sleep folks.
Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:56 am
anomalyLoserface
Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2625
Location: DFW, TX
I was wondering what the hell the sword was all about.
Then, I saw the black replacement fridge of the one that died and was beaten to hell years ago.
Everything just came full circle.
Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:05 pm
OM3N
Joined: 30 Jun 2002
Posts: 1297
Location: Thailand
anomaly wrote: I was wondering what the hell the sword was all about.
Then, I saw the black replacement fridge of the one that died and was beaten to hell years ago.
Everything just came full circle.
Wait whuhhh???
I literally have no clue what you are talking about. Please expound.......
Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:34 pm
anomalyLoserface
Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2625
Location: DFW, TX
it's the fridge video mentioned in "Strange Fame".
It's what he do cause he excited.
I'm really glad that Strange Famous is giving Face Candy the attention that it deserves. Kristoff Krane is a great dude and has a great message. I wish nothing but the best for him and everyone involved in this project.
@ Sage - At the end of your video I almost spit my water all over my computer... That was unexpected and funny as hell. Holy goddamn batman!
Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:31 pm
anomalyLoserface
Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2625
Location: DFW, TX
From what I've heard, I like this Face Candy better than the first one. I'll have to pick this up on payday.
Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:34 am
MYOWNCLICHE
Joined: 25 Jan 2004
Posts: 3887
Location: In side YOUR head
I heard about this on Soles board not to long ago and have been meaning to pick it up. Thanks for the reminder.
Quote: "Flawed Logic"
@ Sage - At the end of your video I almost spit my water all over my computer...
I did!!!! and out of my nose too!
Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:05 pm
iammessage
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 655
Location: ZOO DIRT, OH
i get to listen to this tonight, very excited, best friend from michigan i have not seen since he left to teach in Korea is driving down from michigan with this in hand. going to have a drink and listen to this tonight together for the first time. good night. i win.
Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:37 pm
NeuroA champion of Kurtis SP
Joined: 19 Jul 2002
Posts: 7852
the album cover was the only thing keeping me away ,you gotta admit its kinda scary
this is some really cool stuff, i liked the first face candy so i kinda knew what i was getting into, i think this new one maybe showcases the experience a bit more, and although its very abstract and made up on the spot, alot of the lyrics are pretty awesome and i think with repeat listens this record will open up more just like many great albums do, its great knowing that its all freestyled but if you listen to it not knowing that, its still pretty great, the first one i dont think you can do that with as much. this album is still new to me so i do need more time with it, but thats my first impression with it so far
Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:47 pm
NeuroA champion of Kurtis SP
Joined: 19 Jul 2002
Posts: 7852
"Grand's Sixth Sense" available for the first time exclusively through Crushkill Recordings. Features the pre-First Born era Eyedea & Abilities, recording on a 4-track at the ages of 14 and 16. Mastered from the original cassette by Brian Johnson at Winterland Studios.
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So @vixenvivi and I were talking and we decided my pets fit some BTS members perfectly! So feel free to judge/ laugh along at my dorkyness
First is Jin! My border collie's name is Princess so obviously she would make a perfect Jin considering he's the princess of BTS. She lives up to her name too, she hates going outside in the rain and demands to have her belly rubbed. On top of that she's the oldest so yeah!
Next is Jimin! This is my other dog, Sydney. She's a lot like Jimin in the fact that she's an attention whore! When I try to pet my other pets or pay attention to them she comes butting in and doesn't let me! She also literally follows me around everywhere I go which is sweet but can get annoying at times lol. She's the baby of the group just like Jimin is a part of the maknae line.
Suga! My cat, Frito is the exact animal form of Suga. He will be sleeping on the bed, I'll leave for work and come back several hours later and he will be literally in the exact same spot I saw him in before I left! He's also super sweet and cuddly. Lastly, he's the second oldest, just like Suga 😊.
Last but not least, V! My black cat, Zoey, is the weirdest cat alive. She doesn't meow but squeaks. She's super curious about everything and has the most alien looking eyes. Hence she is officially the alien of BTS.
So anyways I know this was super nerdy but I hope you enjoyed it XD I love my pets and I would probably have more if I had a bigger house... and more money lol. Maybe I'll get enough to have one for each BTS member XD
Do you have any pets? Do they match the personalities of certain Kpop idols? Comment and share!
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A person coming from Hartlepool or supporting the football club Hartlepool United (the greatest football team in the world) This refers to an incident during the Napoleonic wars when a French ship sank off the Hartlepudlian coast. The only suvivor was the ships monkey which was assumed to be French ashe (or she was talking gibberish) , tried for treason against the British crown and promptly hanged. So there Still it's better than being a fookin' Darlo fan (up yer ass George)
Monkey hangers are the greatest people in the world unlike Mackems and Darlo fans both of whom smell since they don't wash
Name given to people from the town of Hartlepool in the North East of England. The reason being during the Napoleonic Wars (around the 1800s) a monkey washed up on the beach at Hartlepool. The unfortunate primate was tried and executed because the locals thought it was French. This is referred to with some misplaced pride now as the town's football club's mascot is called H'Angus the Monkey.
"Hey, did you hear those Monkey Hangers elected their football mascot as their mayor?"
"Well, that's what happens when you live on the wrong side of the Pennines."
The proud fans of the best team in the north of england, nay the world. Famed for their play off highjinks and for putting their poor next door neighbours, (darlo fc) well and truely in the shade that is the beckoning conference!
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Q:
Problems placing view on top of SlidingPaneLayout
I want to place a view via include on top of a SlidingPaneLayout. In the layout preview of Androíd Studio it is displayed correctly but on my device the view won't show - why?
Here is the complete layout file:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
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I have to place the SlidingPaneLayout below the view...
Stupid question... sorry ;)
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Al hacer click en enviar quedaras regitrad@ a nuestro boletín el cual podrás cancelar en cualquier momento;no olvides revisar tu carpeta de spam.
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.
Frida es una labrador de seis años que está entrenada por la Marina para encontrar personas de entre los escombros. Ella, junto a sus tres otros compañeros, Eco, Evil y Titán, se han ganado el aplauso y los corazones de los mexicanos gracias a su labor de rescate, sobre todo, en el pasado sismo del 7 de septiembre, que dejó varias zonas en Oaxaca devastadas.
Frida, según informó Notimex, ha rescatado a más de 52 personas en México. A eso hay que sumarle su gran labor en la búsqueda de personas en el incendio que se registró en la torre de Pemex, también en los deslaves de Guatemala y en el terremoto de Ecuador.
Es por estos actos y su tierna cara, que los tuiteros le han dedicado miles de posteos, fotos, caricaturas y hasta proponen que ella sea el rostro de los billetes de 500 pesos. Aquí algunos homenajes:
Descansa un ratito, chiquilla. Bastante hiciste hoy. pic.twitter.com/x2bwH7Awtx — CHUMIBEBÉ (@ChumelTorres) September 21, 2017
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Alguien ya hizo un dibujito de Frida, la rescatista.
Obvio no estoy llorando. pic.twitter.com/bOQus0BwNR — Amador (@unadiana) September 20, 2017
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Frida ya ha localizado a más de 50 personas. #FuerzaMéxico pic.twitter.com/e63cR7kZox — Armando Espinal (@TuitEnBlanco) September 20, 2017
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AMIGOS! Ron y yo estamos vendiendo esta calcomanía de frida la perrita y todas las ganancias se van a donar para los damnificados RT! pic.twitter.com/LROBF8FHYv — Ren (@carlitoswayyyyy) September 21, 2017
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ATENCIÓN LECTORES:
Estos perros rescatistas realmente son héroes y nos han demostrado su gran corazón, tú también hazlo donando botitas para que no se lastimen sus patas.
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Por favor #CruzRoja digan sí estás son las botas que necesitan para los perros rescatistas?!! RT ayuden a difundir para donar!! pic.twitter.com/6Od1TOYi3y — mar (@tormentodehielo) September 21, 2017
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Tasting Her
Summary:The primal sense of taking in the essence, taste, smell, and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally, and emotionally. Once this special connection is made, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus before one’s eyes and tie arousal directly to them. Tasting Her explores the ultimate joys of oral sex from a distinctly male point of view.
I have oral fixations. I like to keep my mouth busy; I’m always chewing gum. Truth be told, while I like eating, what I’m particularly fond of is licking. Especially melty things. Ice cream is a favourite, and I’ve been know to have something like a dozen flavours in my freezer. And there’s nothing better than letting some great dark chocolate melt in my mouth.
Mmmmmmm.
But there is something better. Far, far better: going down on a woman. The first time I went down on a girl was so amazing that I just couldn’t believe it; given all the misinformation that my teenaged friends and I had been fed, it was an eye-opener to discover just how sexy it was. And how tasty a woman could be. A person could totally get hooked!
It was a formative experience.
The taste of a woman is intoxicating (in most cases: not everyone tastes the same), but the textures make my mouth water equally: I adore exploring all the folds, ridges and openings with my tongue. I can lap it up endlessly, get smeared all over (get drenched, really), and still want more. To quote Prince, I could pack a lunch and spend a while there.
So, ahem, yeah, I have oral fixations.
Over a decade ago, I read an article about the liberal sexual lives of today’s youth, how teenaged girls gave head to their guy friends for their birthdays. A part of me was stunned. But another part of me wondered why I hadn’t thought of that back then: nothing would have said “Happy Birthday” better than serving up cunnilingual birthday action.
(Heh heh… I love the idea that I owe a lot of friends for a lot of birthdays. One can always daydream…)
I would certainly do that today, if it was acceptable; it just wouldn’t be considered appropriate to offer in polite society. And it would be viewed with some suspicion, as though strings were attached to it. Of course, given my predilection, one could be forgiven for thinking that I’m also getting off on it. I would be. In fact, it might as well be my birthday.
Having said all this, a short story anthology revolving around cunnilingus is no small draw for me. So, when I stumbled on ‘Tasting Her’, I just had to pick it up. It must be noted that, unlike some people, I’m not the type to read before going to bed; I mostly read while in transit. So, yeah, my bus rides of late have turned into serious squirming sessions.
1. Cavanagh’s Ridge, by Jeremy Edwards: Our protagonist here is a man whose girlfriend gets too ticklish for him to get close to her pussy with his mouth. So he contrives to slowly get close to it, and its pleasures, under the guise of relaxing her. It’s not bad; I think that his gradual approach helped to build some modicum of tension on the page. 7.25
2. Snatch, by Donna George Storey: This one’s hot because it’s from the protagonist’s perspective: she discovers that her boyfriend likes to look at girls with shaved pussies online, so she proceeds to treating him to the real thing. What I didn’t like was that she broke his trust by browsing his sites without his knowledge. Still, the descriptions were tasty. 7.5
3. Teaching Teresa, by Gwen Masters: This one tells us how Trevor taught Teresa to relax into letting him go down on her. It wasn’t that Teresa was repressed sexually, hardly, it’s just that she had had bad experiences and was far too self-conscious to let men give her face. I liked this angle even if I wasn’t entirely convinced by his approach. 7.25
4. Queen of Sheba, by Jen Cross: This one is about Stephanie, a girl who confides in us about the best cunnilinguist she’s ever had. I liked hearing things from a first-person perspective, with respect to the sensations she felt. I also loved the finer descriptions of her body, including her body issues and how her lover helped her get comfortable with herself. 7.5
5. Suspension, by Craig J. Sorensen: I don’t know about this one; I’ve read (or seen on film) a number of stories about artists who seduce their models, so this seemed a bit run-of-the-mill to me. The ultimate outcome was sexy, yes, but I wasn’t really that interested in the journey there. It doesn’t make it bad; it was just of little interest to me. 7.0
6. Kiss the Cook, by Giselle Renarde: This one tells of an encounter between a woman and her married lover. It was great because it was told from her perspective, like she was recounting the story to us. I especially found it interesting how her description of the man would make him quite average and middle aged, but she doesn’t see him this way; she sees him as a sex god. But, mostly, her descriptions of the sex was hot, as was the whole shaving scene. 7.5
7. Happy Hours, by Adelaide Clark: I’m no great fan of B&D, so I wasn’t very taken with the setting and lifestyle. But the sex was hot because it’s orally-focused, and I loved that our narrator’s sex slave was basically used for his cunnilingus skills by a whole group of women – in what amounted to an orgy of pussy eating. Lucky devil. 7.75
8. Spill, by Alison Tyler: This one was H-O-T. I could sort of understand the protagonist, in that she needs structure in her life in order to deal with the world. That applies to her sex life, in that it only takes place on weekends. But, one evening, her boyfriend changes the rules of the game, ties her to the bed and puts a glass of scotch on her abs. He proceeds to lick her, telling her that she can’t spill any of his drink. But what does he have in store for her if she does? Or, rather, when she does…? 7.75
9. Rain Check, by Emerald: A couple meet on their mutual lunch break for some naughty stuff, but are interrupted on this particular afternoon. So they meet again later that evening, after he offers to eat her out – something she hadn’t let him do until then. I enjoyed her internal monologue, because it brought up a number of issues. But, mostly, I love the thought of him slowly caressing her clit with his finger as he talks her into letting him lick her. Mmmm. 7.25
10. Treatment for a Tongue Job, by Thomas S. Roche: A girl has a one-night stand with a guy who wants to film their encounter. She turns the tables and ends up taking the camera from him and getting a POV video of him going down on her. I enjoyed this one, but read it with a sense of remove. It’s meant to emulate those online videos couples shoot, with descriptions of what the camera is capturing and how the focus keeps shifting, …etc. For some, perhaps voyeurs, this might be appealing, but for me it did little. 7.25
11. The Goth Chick, by Lisette Ashton: It’s called “The Goth Chick”… of course I’m going to like it. But I didn’t like this one as much as I thought I would. For starters, I’m not into the swinger’s lifestyle. Secondly, what made the goth chick special wasn’t practical. Pretty, but not practical. So I just couldn’t get into the vibe of it. But I’d have loved to see a picture. 7.25
12. The Vitality of Youth, by Joanna Christine: This one’s pretty run-of-the-mill: a mature woman has the hots for her young landscaping specialist. But it’s well-written and it reads easily, even if it didn’t do much for me. I’m sure others would dig it. 7.5
13. Cunnilingus 101, by Rachel Kramer Bussel: This one is about a freshman pining for one of his classmates – a cute, but average girl, who sits in front of him in class. It was alright, mostly because I could relate to his desire and inability to make a move. But the outcome was unrealistic, the stuff of daydreams, and it wasn’t especially hot. 7.25
14. Read Her Lips, by Stan Kent: I really liked this one. Our protagonist is a guy who’s in between relationships and is desperately trying to find a partner through various social activities. He’s done them all, but he doesn’t meet anyone. However, he befriends a sizzling redhead who also goes to some of the same activities as him. A lesbian, he has no chance of bedding her, but they become partying buddies and, one evening, she boldly tries to reel in a waitress for him. Instead, she wins the girl and he gets to watch his friend pleasure the waitress – from up close. I just loved the whole idea of that. I’d love to be best friends with a hot redhead and go cruising with her, even if I consistently lost to her. And especially if I got to watch. Wow. The writing wasn’t as appealing, but this fantasy was exciting. 7.75
15. Down There, by Julia Moore: This is the story a fem who hasn’t been very successful finding pleasure through sex – even by herself. One day she crosses paths at the grocery store with the butchy work colleague she’s had her eye on. They hit it off. And get it on. Sexy stuff. I especially like the characterization of the protagonist because she has no sense of direction and her descriptions of just how easily lost she can get reminded me of a couple of friends of mine. It all felt very real to me. 7.5
16. To the Point, by Rita Winchester: I was a bit confused about what this one entailed because the story begins with the woman burning for her partner to put something on – without giving us a clue as to what that “something” was. But her burning desire was infectious and, even after discovering what it was, and the pain it would produce, it was a stirring piece. 7.5
17. Hold On, I’m Coming, by Kristina Wright: I found this one absolutely SMOKING. The protagonist gets turned on by Motown songs and can’t help but masturbate when she’s alone at home, spinning her tunes. That alone was a turn on. But then she’s caught in the act by her spouse, who assists her. The descriptions of how high she was getting, how intense it was for her, grabbed hold of my brain. By the time he plunged fingers into her, I was as into the scene as either of them. 8.0
18. Dropping the Hint, by Drew James Dyer: This one’s a bit… um… different. The protagonist is an accountant and his spouse is a biochemist. She communicates some of her more important messages by using an eye-dropper and giving him a taste of a particular liquid – with each having their own significance. In this story, she expresses her horniness by giving him a taste of her sexy moisture. I really loved the idea, if only because it’s so unusual, but I felt the writing wasn’t up to snuff; the descriptions were a bit goofy at times, not sexy. Of course, it didn’t help that it was from a male perspective… 6.75
19. Pause, by Sommer Marsden: The story is mundane: a girl has just decided to break up with her jerk boyfriend and is intercepted by a friend on the way out. Wanting to soothe her, he insists she come in for coffee. But she has other things in mind, and she proceeds to seduce him. Yeah, I know… And yet I liked the descriptions of her desire, all from her perspective. The sex, though, was nothing special. 7.25
20: All About the Girls, by Shanna Germain: I quite enjoyed this one because it established the protagonist’s desire quite well. I liked the way it started, how she explained why she liked men in the winter and women in the summer. It made sense to me. And I loved the way she described her initial encounter with Celia. The weak point was the sex itself, which was marred by a dingy setting. One nice touch: Celia pulled out a dental dam, something I’ve never read in such fiction before. I like it because it’s responsible, although it kind of muted the fantasy because much of the descriptions I would have liked to read were absent. Oh well. The lead-up remains very erotic. 7.75
21: The Dominance of the Tongue, by Teresa Noelle Roberts: This one was simplistic, taking place at a pool party, wherein a dom takes his sub inside to give her head – yes, not the other way around. The woman was HOT, and I almost wish I had been in the guy’s place (only the aftertaste of pool water spoiled the daydream), but there’s not much more to it than that. Nice, though. 7.5
As with ‘X: The Erotic Treasury‘, ‘Tasting Her’ is a grab bag with some being much better than others. But what I liked about it is that most of the authors were women, and we frequently got a woman’s perspective on the action. They say that the biggest sex organ is the brain. Well, getting into these ladies’ minds really stimulated mine.
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New technology is forever being introduced to the world, usually with the intention of enhancing the quality of our lives - so, obviously, the next thing to get the go-ahead is the world's first oral sex robot.
The campaign to bring VIECI's 'Autoblow AI' into being has been incredibly successfully, almost raising $250,000 (£200,000), which is 500 percent more than the company's target. Of course it did.
The machine is the world's first oral sex simulator that is capable of using artificial intelligence to teach itself to improve its performance - again, of course it is.
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"We spent the last three years listening to feedback from our 200,000 Autoblow 2 owners and in response built a new machine that mechanically better replicates the gliding and friction combination of the mouth and hand that men experience during oral sex," explained the device's inventor (and former lawyer) Brian Sloan.
Autoblow Is Ready To Go. Credit: VIECI
He also claimed the device was 'more human' than any competitors on the market, including its own predecessor, a non-AI sex toy called the 'Autoblow 2'.
He said: "By using artificial intelligence to, for the first time, understand the mechanics of blowjobs, we discovered and replicated techniques that make using our machine feel less robotic and more human."
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The actual Autoblow AI is very highly technical - containing intelligence similar to that found in a smartphone - it comes fully equipped with a 'flesh-like' sleeve and a 'five-inch long stroking plane' that is manipulated by infra-red sensors.
Along with the 'more human' aspects it also features ten different modes to enjoy - differing between 'full stroke' or 'fast edge'.
Autoblow Is Ready To Go. Credit: VIECI
If it sounds pretty appealing, bear in mind that a device like this does not come cheap - it's expected to set back customers around $249 (£194).
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And if that doesn't put you off, this next bit might - for the Autoblow AI to work, it needs to be plugged into a socket. Just put that into perspective for a moment guys, you're putting your favourite toy into a device that connect to a mains source of electricity. Hope that doesn't come as a shock to you (all puns intended, sorry).
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This TV series is about one group of outrageous friends performing mind blowing stunts. Much like Jackass, you will think: "Why would they do that?". Except in Jackass, everything is meant ... See full summary »
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What is the derivative of 4*d**2*q**3 + 26*d*q**3 - 4054*q**3 wrt d?
8*d*q**3 + 26*q**3
What is the third derivative of 152*b*q**3*z**3 + 3*b*q**3*z - 2*b*q*z**2 + b*z**2 + q**3 wrt z?
912*b*q**3
Find the first derivative of -359*f**4*o - 3*f**4*t - 740*o*t wrt f.
-1436*f**3*o - 12*f**3*t
Find the third derivative of 108*i**6*n**3 + 2*i**3*n*q**2 - 4*i**2 + 2*i*n**2*q**2 - n**3*q**2 - n**2*q**2 wrt i.
12960*i**3*n**3 + 12*n*q**2
What is the second derivative of 52*w**4 - 25*w wrt w?
624*w**2
What is the second derivative of -181*o**2*u - 2*o**2 + 1201*o*u + 2*o wrt o?
-362*u - 4
Differentiate 3*a**3*o - 2406*a**3 - 555*a*o with respect to o.
3*a**3 - 555*a
Find the second derivative of -1958*h**4 + 39*h - 1.
-23496*h**2
What is the derivative of 2*z**2 - 3197*z - 10760?
4*z - 3197
Find the third derivative of -4*p**5*r - 10*p**5 + 2*p**4 + 8*p**2 + 3*p*r + r wrt p.
-240*p**2*r - 600*p**2 + 48*p
Differentiate -o*p**2*t**2 + 2*o*p*t**2 + 78*o*s*t**2 + 36*o*t**2 - 2*p**2*s - 4*p**2*t**2 - 2*p*s*t**2 with respect to s.
78*o*t**2 - 2*p**2 - 2*p*t**2
Differentiate -2956*d**3 + 4*d + 16957 with respect to d.
-8868*d**2 + 4
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10248*b
What is the third derivative of -736*f**3*i**2 + 2*f**2 - 71*f*i**2 wrt f?
-4416*i**2
Find the second derivative of -15209*g**4 + 34855*g.
-182508*g**2
What is the derivative of -62*f**3*y + 72*f**3 + f*y - 1 wrt y?
-62*f**3 + f
Differentiate 244*q**3 - 2*q**2 - 386 wrt q.
732*q**2 - 4*q
Find the third derivative of q**6 - 3*q**5 + 1306*q**3 + 1893*q**2 + q wrt q.
120*q**3 - 180*q**2 + 7836
Find the second derivative of 2*z**4 + 2*z**2 - 296*z.
24*z**2 + 4
What is the third derivative of 3*n*r**5 + 17*n*r**4 + 2*n*r**3 - 2*n*r**2 + n*r - 5*r**2 wrt r?
180*n*r**2 + 408*n*r + 12*n
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-8*n*w + 8*s*w
Differentiate -108*z - 126.
-108
Find the second derivative of 325*d**2*f**2 + 35*d**2*f + 10*d*f - 2*f**2 wrt f.
650*d**2 - 4
Find the second derivative of -22*q**3*v**2*y + 2*q**3*y**2 - q**2*v + q**2*y**2 + 23*q*v**2*y**3 + 3*q*v*y + 57*q*y**3 wrt v.
-44*q**3*y + 46*q*y**3
What is the third derivative of 15*c*l**3 - 280*c*l - 122*l**4 - 4*l**2 - 2*l wrt l?
90*c - 2928*l
What is the first derivative of 3*d**2*p**3 - 12*d**2*p**2 + 2*d**2 + 120*p**3 - 2*p + 1 wrt d?
6*d*p**3 - 24*d*p**2 + 4*d
Find the first derivative of -398*p*v**2 - 819*p wrt v.
-796*p*v
Find the second derivative of 2*n**3 - 106*n**2 + 211*n + 1 wrt n.
12*n - 212
Find the third derivative of -163*a**4*l - 2*a**4 + 3*a**3*l + 1298*a**2*l wrt a.
-3912*a*l - 48*a + 18*l
What is the first derivative of 75*k**2 + 2*k*y - y - 900 wrt k?
150*k + 2*y
Find the first derivative of 1566*q**3 + 2692 wrt q.
4698*q**2
What is the third derivative of -15*m**4 + 23*m**3 - 86*m**2 + 11 wrt m?
-360*m + 138
What is the third derivative of -2317*y**5 + 8*y**2 + 2?
-139020*y**2
What is the second derivative of 855*z**3 - z**2 + 14028*z wrt z?
5130*z - 2
What is the second derivative of -1267*g**5*x**3 - 3*g**4 + 387*g*x**3 + 5*x**3 wrt g?
-25340*g**3*x**3 - 36*g**2
What is the derivative of -10443*r + 11884 wrt r?
-10443
Find the third derivative of -237*m**3 - m**2 + 37*m wrt m.
-1422
Find the first derivative of 61*v*x**4 - 2*v*x**2 + 172*v wrt x.
244*v*x**3 - 4*v*x
What is the third derivative of 1650*z**3 - 343*z**2 - 3?
9900
Find the third derivative of 2458*o**3 + 491*o**2 + 3*o wrt o.
14748
What is the derivative of -f*t + 1274*f - 199*t + 1 wrt f?
-t + 1274
Find the third derivative of 45*h**4*u - 3*h**4 + 8*h**2*u + 20*h**2 - 2*u wrt h.
1080*h*u - 72*h
What is the third derivative of 2*m**4*s - 64*m**4 + m**3*s - m**2*s - 809 wrt m?
48*m*s - 1536*m + 6*s
Differentiate 29*n**2 + 163 wrt n.
58*n
What is the third derivative of 16*o**6 + 36*o**3 - 397*o**2 wrt o?
1920*o**3 + 216
What is the derivative of -2*a*q**3 - 38*a*q**2 + 81*a - 5*q - 16 wrt q?
-6*a*q**2 - 76*a*q - 5
Find the second derivative of 4651*k**2 - k + 294.
9302
Differentiate -2440*g**4 + 2*g**3*i**3 + 2369*i**3 wrt g.
-9760*g**3 + 6*g**2*i**3
What is the second derivative of 119*z**4 - 30*z - 3?
1428*z**2
What is the derivative of -12*j**3 - 4*j**2 + 86*j + 4016?
-36*j**2 - 8*j + 86
What is the third derivative of 4*o**6 - 395*o**4 - 951*o**2?
480*o**3 - 9480*o
What is the third derivative of 82*i**6*o**3 + i**2*o**3 + 6 wrt i?
9840*i**3*o**3
What is the first derivative of -2*f**2*x**2 + 222*f*x**2 - f - 5*x**2 - 8 wrt f?
-4*f*x**2 + 222*x**2 - 1
Find the first derivative of -337*s**4 - 2*s**2 + 3*s + 1137 wrt s.
-1348*s**3 - 4*s + 3
What is the second derivative of -7*y**4 + 48*y**3 - 1042*y wrt y?
-84*y**2 + 288*y
Find the second derivative of 7*o**5 - o**2 - o + 314 wrt o.
140*o**3 - 2
Differentiate m**4 + 126*m**3 + 2*m**2 + 9027 wrt m.
4*m**3 + 378*m**2 + 4*m
Find the third derivative of -2*g*r**4 - 6*g*r**2 - 4*g - 12*r**4 + 5*r wrt r.
-48*g*r - 288*r
What is the first derivative of -663*w**4 + 43 wrt w?
-2652*w**3
Find the second derivative of n**4*s + 552*n**3*s**2 - 28*n*s**2 - 2*s**2 - 5*s - 4 wrt n.
12*n**2*s + 3312*n*s**2
Find the first derivative of 17955*d + 8858 wrt d.
17955
What is the derivative of b*f*o**2 - b*o**2 - 473*b + 5*f*o - f - 349*o**2 wrt b?
f*o**2 - o**2 - 473
Find the second derivative of 2*b**3*f*k**2*q**2 - 20*b**3*f*k*q**3 - 2*b**3*f*k*q + 3*b**3*q - 2*b*f*k*q**3 + 244*f*k**2*q**3 wrt k.
4*b**3*f*q**2 + 488*f*q**3
What is the third derivative of -4*j**3*n*s**2 + 3*j**3*s**2 + 53*j**3 + 5*j**2*n*s + 11*j**2 + 2*j*n*s**2 wrt j?
-24*n*s**2 + 18*s**2 + 318
Find the second derivative of 123*j*t**3 - 2*j*t - j + 5*t**3 + 108*t wrt t.
738*j*t + 30*t
Find the first derivative of 5*z + 626.
5
What is the third derivative of -2*f**6*x - 3*f**4*x + 9*f**3*x + f**2*x + 321*x wrt f?
-240*f**3*x - 72*f*x + 54*x
Find the first derivative of 10*a**2*o - 2*a**2 - 2*a*o + 6*o + 1 wrt a.
20*a*o - 4*a - 2*o
What is the third derivative of -3326*c**5 - 1432*c**2 wrt c?
-199560*c**2
Find the first derivative of 74*w**3 - w - 146.
222*w**2 - 1
Find the second derivative of f*h**4*i + 5*f*h**2 + f*h*i + h**4 - h*i - 2*h - 42*i wrt h.
12*f*h**2*i + 10*f + 12*h**2
Differentiate -452*c**3 - 11299 wrt c.
-1356*c**2
What is the derivative of 4502*m**2 - 2270?
9004*m
Find the second derivative of 581*r**2 - 60*r - 11 wrt r.
1162
What is the derivative of -4*i**2*p*u**3 + 6*i**2*p*u - i**2*p - 18*p*u**3 + p*u wrt i?
-8*i*p*u**3 + 12*i*p*u - 2*i*p
Find the second derivative of g*v**3 - 15*g*v**2 + 19*g*v + 49*g - 47*v**3 + 1 wrt v.
6*g*v - 30*g - 282*v
What is the third derivative of 217*f**3 - f**2 + 127*f wrt f?
1302
What is the third derivative of 286*f**3*w**3 - 61*f**3*w**2 + 3*f**3 + 5*f**2*w**5 - 2 wrt w?
1716*f**3 + 300*f**2*w**2
Find the first derivative of -607*g*j*r**2 + 2*g*r**3 - 1164*g + j*r**3 wrt j.
-607*g*r**2 + r**3
What is the third derivative of 1903*l**3 + 656*l**2 wrt l?
11418
Find the second derivative of 1830*b*v**3 - b + 2*v**3 - 2*v - 7 wrt v.
10980*b*v + 12*v
What is the derivative of 8055*n - 21894?
8055
What is the derivative of -k**3 + 494*k + 607 wrt k?
-3*k**2 + 494
What is the second derivative of 22*c**4 + 3*c**3 - 45*c?
264*c**2 + 18*c
What is the second derivative of 3*m**5 + 43*m**4 - 7*m**2 - 3*m + 674 wrt m?
60*m**3 + 516*m**2 - 14
What is the second derivative of -19946*v**3 - 17174*v wrt v?
-119676*v
Find the third derivative of 1806*k**6 - 1483*k**2 wrt k.
216720*k**3
What is the third derivative of -19715*j*t**3 + 3*j*t + 466*t**2 - 2*t - 1 wrt t?
-118290*j
Differentiate 6697*b**3*t + 7*b**3 - 472*b wrt t.
6697*b**3
What is the third derivative of -2*a*k**6 - 222*a*k**5 + 8*a*k**2 - a*k + 8*k**2 wrt k?
-240*a*k**3 - 13320*a*k**2
Find the second derivative of 12*c**2*p**2 + 174*c**2*p + 19*c*p + 52*p**4 wrt p.
24*c**2 + 624*p**2
What is the second derivative of 944*o**5 - 4*o**3 + 6242*o?
18880*o**3 - 24*o
What is the first derivative of -2176*n**2*x + n**2 - x - 913 wrt x?
-2176*n**2 - 1
Find the first derivative of -9*j**3 - 4*j**2*o - 16*o + 12 wrt j.
-27*j**2 - 8*j*o
Find the third derivative of h**6*l + 63*h**6 - 59*h**2*l + 3*l wrt h.
120*h**3*l + 7560*h**3
What is the second derivative of -135*j**3*l*t**
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted stabbing someone to death when he was a teenager.
A 16-year-old Mr Duterte stabbed the unnamed individual “over a look”, he said.
“I already killed someone. A real person, a rumble, a stabbing. I was just 16 years old. It was just over a look,” he said.
A spokesman for the controversial President, who has launched a violent offensive against drug gangs in the country, later claimed the comments had been made “in jest”.
But Mr Duterte has previously admitted killing three men while mayor of Davao.
“Bullets from my gun went inside their bodies. It happened and I cannot lie about it,” he said in a statement last December.
Thousands of people have been killed in a nation-wide crackdown on drug users since he took office in June 2016.
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, Mr Duterte, 72, said he spent his youth “in and out of jail” and would have “rumbles here, rumbles there”.
Filipino protesters burn caricatures of Trump and Duterte prior to the US President's visit
His spokesman told AFP the remarks should not be taken seriously, dismissing the comments as an example of the President's "colourful language”.
Mr Duterte’s hardline drug policy has been widely criticised by the international community but was part of an election campaign promise to reduce crime.
He has dismissed criticism of his adminstration, saying he does not “care about what the human rights guys say”.
“I have a duty to preserve the [next] generation. If it involves human rights, I don’t give a sh*t,” he said.
The 72-year-old President’s latest comments came as he offered to host a “world summit” to explore how nations can protect human rights.
“Let’s have a summit of how we can protect human rights for all human race,” Mr Duterte said shortly after meeting with the Filipino community in Vietnam, where he also renewed his attacks against United Nations human rights expert Agnes Callamard.
“What makes the death of people in the Philippines more important than the rest of the children in the world that were massacred and killed,” he asked.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
I live on my own, have a successful career and am a mature adult (at least most of the time.) But there are still other adults that make me second guess myself, question my instincts, and either frighten me, intimidate me, or make me feel uncomfortable.
These are the following people:
THE DENTIST
The dentist may be the only adult I still lie to. When I make my once a year visit, I’m always asked: “how many times a week do you floss?” I’m a grown man, with a job, with purpose, with responsibility, but suddenly I feel like a little boy. I instinctively lie because I don’t want the dentist to yell at me. I also brush my teeth furiously right before the appointment; the goal being that this will trick the dentist into thinking I’m taking care of my teeth. But he knows the truth. I don’t know why I’m so afraid of the dentist, but I know I’m not the only one.
THE BANKING AND FINANCE GUY
As I get older, more people talk about money. It seems everywhere I go, there’s always a group of banking and finance guys. They speak in acronyms, wear blue button down shirts, and make me feel insecure because I have no idea what they’re talking about. But to save face, I nod my head, bitch about the economy, and pretend to be on the same page. I’ll never admit my ignorance because I don’t want to be lectured, teased, or patronized.
THE BOUNCER
Bouncers hate me and I hate them even more. I’ve never met another adult that makes me feel so self-conscious. Here’s something from an old entry:
A picture of me must be presented at the annual Bouncer’s Convention labeled: “Treat him like shit and do not let him in.” No matter where I go, I always seem to have a run-in with one of these muscle heads (my friends know exactly what I’m talking about.) I’m never on the right list, wearing the right clothes, or know the right people.
I try to be friendly and treat the bouncer like a human being: “So how’s the night going? Where are you from? Did you see that game?” Nothing. No response. It’s like they are programmed to be sub-human.
I try to keep my cool as hot chicks cut me in line. I guess it makes sense; they’re hot. But when I see D-bags with gelled hair and gold chains skip in front of me, that’s when I start to lose it.
When it’s finally my turn to enter the club, I have to deal with being judged by the bouncer. I endure the ridicule as he teases me about my clothes, hair style, and lack of dope jewelry. Sometimes I ignore it, pay the absurd cover, and then walk in. But sometimes they don’t let me in so I snap. I criticize the overgrown man for being narrow-minded and irrationally threaten to sue him and the entire club for sexism. That’s when more bouncers/security guards come out, stare me down, and tell me to go home. As I walk away with my tail between my legs, one thought comes to mind…
I am a Bouncist. I have no problems with people of different ethnicities, races, sexual orientation, age, height, or religion. But I do have a problem with bouncers. It is not fair to stereotype or generalize, but all bouncers are evil and terrible people. I am a full-fledged Bouncist. I think bad thoughts about them and if there were rallies against bouncers, I would probably attend. Maybe I am ignorant. Maybe there are nice bouncers out there. But until I meet one, I am committed to my beliefs, and will embrace my bouncism.
THE COP
Many people become cops in order to intimidate people. Well, it works on me. I probably have an issue with authority (hence, several of the people on this list.) I get scared when a cop comes towards me or even looks in my direction. Coincidentally, I’ve never had a direct issue with a cop (knock on wood.) Maybe it’s because I’m afraid of them.
One time, a cop approached me on the subway. I didn’t do anything wrong. I had dropped off some of my high school students, and now was just sitting there. But I started to get nervous. Maybe I did something by mistake. I was suddenly sweating. The cop leaned over and I was ready to get reprimanded. Instead, he complimented me for reaching out and helping the kids. I was definitely flattered for just a moment. Then he yelled at someone near me and I became intimidated again.
THE CLEANING LADY
I’m a pretty messy guy. I occasionally make my bed and put away the dishes, but normally, I’m very lazy (just ask past and present roommates.) The only day I feel a sense of urgency is the hours before the cleaning lady arrives. (I use the term “cleaning lady” because that’s all I know. I’ve never met a cleaning dude, but maybe they exist as well.)
Suddenly, my bed is made, my clothes are folded, and the kitchen counter is spotless. It’s a subconscious act that clearly makes no sense. Her job is to CLEAN the place, but for some reason, I have to clean beforehand and make it presentable. The last thing I want is for the cleaning lady to arrive and judge me. She has a special power that cannot be explained.
THE CLOWN
These things freaked me out even before I saw Stephen King’s It. I remember once staying in a hotel decorated with clown statues; they were everywhere! I don’t who the hell would do this, but it scared the crap out of me. I thought these things were gonna spring to life and attack me in my sleep. What were my parents thinking…why would we stay at this place?
I was frightened of clowns as a kid, and I’m still frightened today. I won’t even go to the circus. I am clown-phobic.
THE BETTER ATHLETE
I was jogging the other day, and this bastard zipped right by me. My instincts immediately kicked in and I picked up the pace (much like a dog chasing a car.) I passed him for a moment. And then he caught up again. Then we were side by side. Finally, he shifted into high gear and was gone. I ate his dust, and hung my head in shame.
No matter how old I am, I hate losing in sports. I cried when I lost as a kid, and I cry when I lose now. I’m pretty good at sports, but for every court, field or track I’m on, there’s always gonna be someone that’s better.
Sometimes, when I lose, I make excuses like: I wasn’t trying, I’m too old, or I’m hungover. But in the end, there are just a lot of really good athletes out there. These athletes force me to question my athletic ability, confidence, and work ethic.
Sure, they make me try harder, and dig deeper, but they also make me lose so I don’t like them very much.
THE BOSS
I’ve been fortunate to have some pretty good bosses over the years (Yes, I am kissing up. I don’t know who’s reading this.) But even around the best boss, I am very self-conscious.
When I’m around the boss, I feel like the FCC is in my brain censoring every joke that pops into my mind. It’s one thing to crack up the boss, but it’s another thing to offend him/her. As a result, I tend to tiptoe around the boss, and talk about mundane things such as the weather, good lunch spots, or vacation plans. I do not talk about which co-workers I think are hot or what I really did on my vacation in Vegas. As a result, I can never fully be myself.
THE CELEBRITY & THE HOT WOMAN
I put these adults in the same section because they both make me react the same way: like an idiot. I desperately want to talk to them, but I don’t know what to say. I rehearse my speech, and awkwardly make an advance. No matter how great my speech sounds in my head, it always comes off horribly. The celebrity/hot woman feels uncomfortable, and prays that I stop talking to them. For some reason, I don’t.
I sweat, turn red with embarrassment, and continue to trip over my words. Eventually, the celebrity/hot woman retreats, and then my friends make fun of me.
I don’t care if it’s for a car, a pair of jeans, or for a charity, please stay away from me. My heart pounds in fear any time a salesman comes into my general direction. It could be a simple “Hi, how are you?” and I already start to freak out.
And I never know who’s really out to help me or who is gonna rip me off. Plus, they’re gonna force me to make a choice about something. I hate that. I’d prefer if they just left me alone.
As far as dealing with Greenpeace, these people are hawks. They eye you as you walk towards them, and get ready to pitch their latest world saving speech. The first few times I crossed their path, I was sucked into 15 minute conversations that were just the worst. But I eventually learned to avoid them by using my cell phone. I’ve created a 3 minute conversation template where I pretend to talk to someone on the other line. After 2 minutes, they usually stop following me. And for one minute, I get to act cool like someone actually called me.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Several years ago I was in Las Vegas for a bachelor party. I tagged along with my older brother and his friends who were six years older than me. The weekend was filled with booze and debauchery, but only one memory stuck in my mind.
One day, we were sitting by the pool, and I met a beautiful girl named Jackie. We talked and flirted, and flirted and talked. We sat in the hot tub, and shared some drinks and laughs. I somehow maintained eye contact despite her revealing bikini. I was completely on. I got her number, and we made plans to meet up later.
My brother and his friends treated me like a hero that day. How did I do that? I have no idea. I was just an ordinary nice guy and somehow managed to score an incredibly hot girl’s number.
But once the sun set, everything changed. Jackie and her friends met up with our group at a club. She was a wearing tight jeans and a loose tank top. Damn, she looked good.
And that’s when Tim noticed her. Although Tim didn’t look it, he was the player of the group. He was the smooth talker; the one who always got the girl. He immediately sniffed her out and was on the prowl. She laughed at his jokes and they flirted. My day’s work seemed to vanish from her memory banks.
Throughout the night, there was a back and forth. She’d have a drink with me, and then a dance with Tim; a gambling session with me, and then a conversation with Tim.
I turned to my brother and his friends and asked: “Do I have a chance?” They laughed and shook their head: “Don’t you know who you’re dealing with? He’s the favorite. You’re the underdog. You don’t stand a chance.”
But I didn’t give up. I tried everything: I bought Jackie drinks, made her laugh, taught her blackjack. And Tim just sat their cool, calm, and confident. When she disappeared for the night, I figured I’d continue the competition tomorrow.
I shrugged my shoulders and walked back to my room calling it a night. When I opened the door, that’s when reality slapped me in the face. Jackie and Tim and were breaking the bed together. I shielded my eyes, and slammed the door shut.
A devastating loss for the underdog.
NBA FINALS, GAME 7
That’s how I felt last night as I watched the favorite LA Lakers win the NBA finals.
As a long time Boston fan, my heart and soul was riding on this game. But I was watching as more than just a fan.
The Boston Celtics were the #4 seed. They were too fat (Big Baby Shrek) Too short (Donkey Nate.) And too damn old (almost the entire team.)
And the Los Angeles Lakers had the best player in the world, the best coach in the world, and the better athletes.
LA was Tim. And I was the Boston Celtics.
And once again, the underdog succumbed to the favorite.
The Celtics had a solid lead in Game 7 (and in the series), but they just couldn’t finish. They were completely spent by the 4th quarter and were hanging on by a thread. Playing without their starting center Kendrick Perkins, they still competed with heart and determination. They got killed on the boards, but they didn’t hang their head. Instead, they scrambled for loose balls and hustled on every play. They played vicious defense and made Kobe Bryant look like Ron Artest. Unfortunately, Ron Artest somehow morphed into Kobe Bryant, and the Lakers came through in the end.
The Celtics overachieved the entire playoffs. Most picked them to lose in the 2nd round, and some doubted they could even knock off the Heat in the 1st. But the Celtics slowed down the Flash; dethroned the King; and then used kryptonite on Superman. Their last showdown was with the Black Mamba. Their journey sounded like a video game or a sub plot from Lost.
The Celtics beat teams with the best players because they had the players with the best team. They came together. They united. They played on grit, determination, heart, and leadership. Doc Rivers tried every trick in the book to motivate this team (have you read the money in the ceiling story?) And it worked. They were one.
Then they finally faced a foe that learned from them. The Lakers didn’t play as a team until they had to. They didn’t try until they had to. They hadn’t been challenged the entire playoffs. They strutted with confidence and arrogance. They were the prototypical favorite.
It wasn’t until their backs were against the wall for the first time ever, did they realize if they wanted to win, they needed to play as a team. The backbreaker for game 7 wasn’t from Kobe. It was from Fisher, Artest, Gasol, and Vujacic.
The Lakers learned at just the right time. And even though the Celtics knew from the beginning that it took teamwork to win, it just didn’t matter in the end.
Because the favorite always wins.
Year in Review
It seems like the entire sports year has gone to the favorite. There are no underdogs anymore. There are no Rudys, Rockys, and Hickorys. There are only the Tims, the Lakers, the Dukes, and the Yankees. I made a good run back in the day and so did Butler, the Celtics, and whoever the Yankees play. But in the end, it doesn’t matter. Heart and determination doesn’t matter anymore.
The Lakers were the straws that broke the underdog’s back. It was as if Kobe Bryant and the Lakers took a cute, little puppy—the underdog— slashed its throat, and pressed it against the camera for all to see.
It was nauseating.
I wish my life didn’t revolve around sports. I wish I didn’t take these games so personally, but I do. The average male life span is 77 years-old. The average male life span of a sports fan is 70 years-old. The average life span of a Boston sports fan is 35. The small town of Boston is in the sports news every single year. There’s always a big game. And those big games wear us down. I’m exhausted. Sometimes, I wish I rooted for the Lions, or the Clippers, or the Royals. And then I wouldn’t have to endure the pain of losing when it mattered; the agony of getting so close and then failing.
Whether it’s a Boston team or an underdog, my heart is displayed for all to see. I joked with a friend that I was wagering my left kidney on the series. If the Lakers win, I lose it. If the Celtics win, I get nothing except the satisfaction of winning.
I lost again last night. Just like that time in Vegas.
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. The favorite always comes out on top.
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Racism Review
For Valentine’s Day: Race, Racism and Online Dating
It’s Valentine’s Day. Here in the U.S., the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold in the mid-19th century (about 1847). Now, the Greeting Card Association estimates that some 190 million cards will be exchanged this Valentine’s Day.
The online dating service OKCupid analyzed their internal data by race (in 2010) and found that: “although race shouldn’t matter … it does. A lot.”The way OKCupid works, in case you’ve never dipped your toe in the waters of online dating, is that you set up an ad, or “Profile” describing yourself, your interests, what you’re looking for in a date. Then, when people read your profile, they can send you a “Message” within the site, indicating their interest in you.
What the data show pretty clearly is that in figuring out who gets “messages” and “replies” – or traffic from potential dates – race matters. The patterns for the straight crowd looks like this (from here):
White men get more responses. Whatever it is, white males just get more replies from almost every group. We were careful to preselect our data pool so that physical attractiveness (as measured by our site picture-rating utility) was roughly even across all the race/gender slices. For guys, we did likewise with height.
White women prefer white men to the exclusion of everyone else—and Asian and Hispanic women prefer them even more exclusively. These three types of women only respond well to white men. More significantly, these groups’ reply rates to non-whites is terrible.
Black women write back the most. Black women are by far the most likely to respond to a first contact attempt. In many cases, their response rate is one and a half times the average, and, overall, black women reply about a quarter more often that other women.
The interesting contradiction is that OKCupid also asks people “Is interracial marriage a bad idea?” and, as with most liberals, the responses are overwhelmingly positive in the direction of “no, not a bad idea” (98% answering in the negative to the question). They also ask “Would you prefer to date someone of your own skin color/racial background?” Again, a huge majority (87%) say no. OKCupid chalks this up to a collective “schizophrenia” about race.
In same-sex dating “the prejudices are a bit less pronounced,” but the predominance of white men persists. Here’s what the gay-lesbian dating looks like (from here):
White gays and lesbians respond by far the least to anyone.
Black gays and lesbians get fewer responses. This is consistent with the straight data, too.
Asian lesbians are replied to the most, and, among the well-represented groups, they have the most defined racial preferences: they respond very well to other Asians, Whites, Native Americans, and Middle Easterners, but very poorly to the other groups.
The folks analyzing this data at OKCupid rightfully note that they’re the only ones (among dating sites) releasing this data, and take pains to note that there’s likely nothing uniquely ‘biased’ about their users:
It’s surely not just OkCupid users that are like this. In fact, it’s any dating site (and indeed any collection of people) would likely exhibit messaging biases similar to what [is] written up [here]. According to our internal metrics, at least, OkCupid’s users are better-educated, younger, and far more progressive than the norm, so I can imagine that many sites would actually have worse race stats.
It’s an interesting point that highlights in many ways, how facile our thinking is when it comes to race and racism. We’re stuck, it seems, in the collective myth that “racism” looks like Bull Connor, when in fact, racism can – and often does – appear to be “well educated, younger, and progressive.” As Sharon P. Holland notes in her excellent book, The Erotic Life of Racism(Duke U Press, 2012), these quotidian, daily choices about who we choose to love shape not only individual, personal lives, but also the contours of collective society.
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Very interesting perspective on race relations! Ha. Never thought to examine online dating but wow, in some ways an easy way to collect data. It’s all just right there. Makes me wonder about our younger, upcoming generations and a sort of racial apathy I’m sensing amongst them. The passionate, fiery awareness of the 60s/70s seems to be slowly wearing off. In it’s place, are youngsters being wooed by “Post-Racial Era” rhetoric into believing race doesn’t matter or exist anymore? Does this lead them to sleepwalk through the critical dating years of their youth; never examining the deeply rooted racial framework of our society that clearly still affects their choice of partners???
I have used the online dating site, Plenty of Fish, in the past. It’s astounding how many user profiles (often white) outright state in their “about me” sections that the person is not interested in being contacted by people of other races, especially if they are Black. Sometimes the users justify it saying “I’m not racist,” and sometimes they don’t. They are often very strong in these opinions. I just don’t understand why they completely close off their options of who they will date to people that they have never even met. Very sad.
I don’t know, guys…this just seems like the latest in the whole “the black woman is the least valuable human being in the world” bull (among other unfortunate implications)…Let’s break it down a bit…
Look at the relative percentages between the men and the women. Overall, men reply *at much higher percentages* than women. The female percentages are in the teens through low thirties, while the male percentages are in the low thirties to low sixties. Keep in mind that these are percentages of replies, so we’re looking at the ratio between the number of messages received and the number of replies sent in response. We do not have specific data on the number of replies (not to mention the quality—a “hay babie ur hawt” is much different from a thoughtful and original personal response) that each group receives on average, but we might make a few projections…
What I think is happening is that black women generally *get fewer messages* on these sites and, therefore, their reply percentages are higher than average (though still lower than the average male reply percentages). Likewise, since men tend to send out more messages than women on average, their reply percentages tend to be higher. If you compare the black women’s red row of doom and gloom on the “female sender” chart to the black women’s universally non-prejudiced row of Oprah green on the “male sender” chart, the numbers are essentially the same (with the male percentages still running slightly higher). It’s not that black women would let any Mike, Tyrone, Min-ho, or Sanjay “get it” while none of these fellas would give her the time of day (which is what the article not-so-subtly suggests)—they are still slightly choosier than the men, strictly going by percentages (which are below 40 percent across the board). And if, once again, we consider quality, it is likely that all these numbers essentially tell us is the percentage of *quality first responses* (however each receiver interprets quality) worthy of a response that each group receives. Yes, race is likely a factor, but not in the same way that these scare-tactic articles have interpreted it.
If you’re a black woman and you’re reading this, the message that you shouldn’t walk away with is “Great, more confirmation that I’m the least desirable female on the planet.” It should be, “Well, maybe I won’t get as many replies on these sites, but race might actually be a great screening mechanism. I might even be lucky, since I don’t have to sort through as many unsuitable responses.”
Bottom line? These incomplete figures really should not be used to propagate age-old stereotypes about black women, white men, or any other racial group.
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KRON 4 reporter Stanley Roberts seems like the kind of tattle-tale who was a teacher’s pet in middle school, but to his credit, his snitching hasn’t resulted in any stitching, and he’s turned it into a career. In his most recent “People Behaving Badly” segment, he caught a motorcyclist breakin’ the law. When the guy on the bike realizes he’s being filmed, he confronts Roberts, and WHAT HAPPENS NEXT…might not surprise you, but there’s some tasty comeuppance to chew on. Thanks, real-life Perd Hapley! Via Reddit Now check out… The Funniest Moments From ‘Sons Of Anarchy’s Seven Tragedy-Filled Seasons by Dustin Rowles Save for last season’s best and most exhilarating episode, “Dam,” Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy has been more twisted than fun over the last couple of years. As the body count piled up along with the blood and grief, that’s understandable. There’s not as much to laugh about. But lest you forget, back in the day, there was a very different tone to Sons of Anarchy: It was fun and often very funny. The show’s early sense of humor, in fact, is what hooked so many of us: SAMCRO may have been bad-ass murderers and thugs, but they had a good time with it. There was more camaraderie and less backstabbing. There were more jokes and less murders. It’s not necessarily better or worse, but Sons of Anarchy is definitely a different show than it once was. So, before Kurt Sutter and the gang sign off for one final time tonight, let’s take a quick look back at some of the funniest moments in a series beset with tragedy.
1. In the pilot episode, Bobby is supposed to perform as an Elvis impersonator, but the club promoter double booked an Asian Elvis for the Korean tourists. So, Half Sack beats up the Asian Elvis, who STAYS IN CHARACTER while he takes his pummelling. 2. Remember, before he became the SAMCRO rat, Juice was the simple-minded comic relief on the show, who’d constantly get hazed for doing idiotic things. For instance, here, where he’s discovered by Sheriff Hale. “Get out of here before I slap indecent exposure on you,” Hale says. “Sorry Chief,” Juice says. “I’m not sure what … I gotta go. I’m late for my 8 o’ clock feeding.” 3. Before Gemma was raped, and before Tig was nearly killed by Pope, and before everything went to hell, Tig and Gemma used to have a flirtatious, funny relationship (that actually led to a one-time sexual encounter). Here’s Tig after Gemma pushed him out of the way in the first season episode, “Hell Followed.” “This is why I beat hookers.” 4. Before he got shot in the neck in the sixth season, Clay delivered maybe the funniest extended sequence of the series. “Can I get an AMEN FOR P*SSY?!” 5. The amazing cameo from Stephen King in season three, “Caregiver,” where he plays a creepy character named Bachman (Ha!) who disposes of bodies (of course, he feels them up first).
6. In the season four episode “Family Recipe,” Chucky hides a dismembered head in a pot of chili. Chucky: Hang on, Gemma. Hang on. It’s not ready. Gemma. Hey! Gemma (stirs Chili and the head pops up): Hey! Did you follow the recipe? Chucky:I had to add a few things of my own. Gemma: I can see that. Take it to Happy, I think he likes it that hot. 7. You can’t beat Opie’s vows to Lyla for pure romance: ” I promise to treat you like my leathers and ride you as much as my Harley.” 8. Half Sack was always good for a laugh, but never moreso than when he showed Tara his infected testicle and Tig walked in and blew chunks upon witnessing the elephant-sized ball. 9. This is how you stop the prospect from calling you, ‘Ma’am.’ "There. Now you've had your hand on my tits, you can't call me ma'am anymore." Yes ma’am indeed. S06E01. #AnarchyEnds pic.twitter.com/8wUQjDGXOU — Katey Sagal (@KateySagal) September 1, 2014 10. The quality is not great on this clip, but the funniest — and maybe only funny — scene from this season was an exchange between Tig and Ratboy during a stake-out: Tig: What if you stopped asking questions?
Ratboy: What if you weren’t such a dick?
Tig: What if, when we’re done here, we go to your house and I rape your mama?
Ratboy: What if you find her on top of your dad slamming a big black dildo in his ass while he’s calling out my name?
Tig: Nice touch. Then, later, while Ratboy is hunched down over Tig’s lap. Ratboy: Are they gone?
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Vaginal bleeding in an infant secondary to sliding inguinal hernia.
Vaginal bleeding in infancy is rare and, to our knowledge, has not been reported in association with an inguinal hernia. A premature infant with a known reducible inguinal hernia developed vaginal bleeding at 8 months. Work-up revealed no coagulopathy and no endocrine abnormality. Physical examination and ultrasound found no anatomic lesion responsible for her bleeding. At surgery, she was found to have an indirect hernia in which the uterus, fallopian tube, and ovary were sliding components. Her vaginal bleeding ceased after herniorrhaphy. Vaginal bleeding in a child with an inguinal hernia may occur when the uterus is a sliding component of the hernia.
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British Islamic State jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria are trying to make ricin and anthrax in secret terror labs, according to MI5 sources, amid mounting fears that the UK is unprepared for basic bio-terror attacks. The question should be why are ISIS fighters being allowed to re-enter the UK as if they had been on vacation instead of spreading terrorism and slaughtering innocent civilians in Iraq and Syria?
The SUN Jihadis who fought with the Islamic State in war-torn regions of the Middle East were trained in making the basic but deadly bio-weapons. It is believed they learnt from online manuals which teach terror tactics with step-by-step guides.
Both ricin and anthrax are deadly poisons which can be made by anyone with basic scientific knowledge, senior MI5 sources told the Daily Star . It is feared the terrorists could target supermarkets or contaminate water supplies.
The warning comes amid mounting concerns from security chiefs that the UK is not prepared for bio-terror attacks. Last night a source told the Star: “We know that al-Qaeda terrorists have tried to manufacture ricin in the UK in the past. We now suspect members of IS based in the UK are attempting to do the same.”
They added: “The use of chemical and biological weapons by Islamic State is a threat which is being treated very seriously. “These are weapons which are relatively easy to manufacture but can have deadly consequences.
An Islamic State bomber discovered with a plastic bag full of excrement, animals testicles and explosives, is a chilling warning the terror group are planning for biological warfare, according to an expert. Mohamed Abrini (below) was said to have made the rudimentary bomb with the intention of spreading bacterial infection when he wreaked havoc in the worst terror attack in Belgian history.
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Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
Also the my career gameplay is so much better than 2k14 on last gen. I don't know what went wrong . I really enjoyed mycareer in 2k13 but the player awareness took a huge hit in 14. It is almost unplayable on 360. On next gen the gameplay is so fluid I find myself playing both mycareer and MyGm a lot and finishing games. In the past I would sim as much as possible.
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I'm very tough on 2K because I feel like their product has stalled since they had no competition. But with this version, I'm super impressed. Once the server patches up, this has the chance to be the best basketball game of all time.
I advise everyone who normally skips playing associations to give mygm a shot. You have control over EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY of the organization
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Also the my career gameplay is so much better than 2k14 on last gen. I don't know what went wrong . I really enjoyed mycareer in 2k13 but the player awareness took a huge hit in 14. It is almost unplayable on 360. On next gen the gameplay is so fluid I find myself playing both mycareer and MyGm a lot and finishing games. In the past I would sim as much as possible.
Yeah, 2K14 is almost as frustrating as 2K12 on the 360. Teammate AI is just the worst.
I catch all the Chris Smoove videos on YouTube for 2K14 on PS4. Game looks much more fluid. Still have some dumb teammate AI where they won't shoot when wide open. I really don't like how things are scripted into the game. That bothers me. Especially about earning a starting spot. If you are one of the top picks, you should freaking start right away. Scripting missed FTs, have a bad game just so you can have a cut scene is ridiculous.
Smoove had a game where his team was up 15 at the half. He didn't play but the last few minutes in the game and his team was down 12 and had to lead his team back. I can understand if he was in and they started to lose, but it was scripted that way. If his team wasn't up 15 at half, he might have been played sooner.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
except it was working just fine the last 3 days. It isn't a corrupt file.
I read a tip that if you press A exactly at the "17,000 hours" part of the intro, it works, and you'll be able to navigate the menus. Shockingly, it did.
2K says they have a patch coming this week that will address this.
I'm now facing this same issue. I quit, launched again, pressed A as the video begins, then pressed it a few more times for good measure, and it didn't help. Am I supposed to press and hold A, am I supposed to only tap A one time and then wait?
*edit* I got it. I powered off my Xbox, and when I turned everything back on a couple minutes later, tapping A once and then letting the video finish without doing anything further seems to have done it.
Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
You just have to go through a few steps telling it what your equipment setup is, your provider, that kind of thing. You can have it so that turning on your xbox (by voice or otherwise) automatically has the kinect turn on your TV, your Uverse box, and if you have an audio receiver that too.
My provider isn't listed so I don't get the full experience, but I think in your case you'll likely be fine, and if so once it knows your provider, your specific box, and your local channel lineup, you can just use the xbox for everything, short of perhaps DVR functionality, but all the means is grabbing your usual TV remote for that part, which is what I do for all my TV stuff after I tell the Xbox to go to TV.
Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
Once the Xbox One gets deeper with apps and I guess the new Arcade? (Are they making a new Xbox Live Arcade specifically for Xbox One or no?) It'll be great.
I only have NBA 2K14 and Killer Instinct, and all the demos you can get right now, which is 4, but I still like it, even though it doesn't have a lot of content just yet.
Man, EA just like they always do for next gen systems the first year, mails it in. NBA Live sucks, the graphics don't impress, FIFA 14 looks the same as last gen, except for the crowd, and I've yet to play Madden 25, but I've heard it's not good. Again, I'm not surprised, usually sports games the first year on new consoles suck, although I'm pretty happy with 2K14.
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Last night I check UPS and the site tells me that my package is scheduled for early delivery today instead of on Wednesday. I checked it this morning and it still said it was at the UPS facility. I figured that is fine because it was early and then decided to check it now and it still is not saying it was out for delivery. I guess I will just have to be patient and get it tomorrow.
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Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
Anyone else have the problem on NBA2K14 where you've synced up another controller and tried to sign in your friend as a "Guest" or they sign in with their Xbox Live account and when you get to Quick Play on 2K, it just shows one Xbox Live account, and no guest.
Had to keep signing in and signing out and eventually, it recognizes the guest/Live account, but the Kinect seems to think that I'm the guest. It asks me, "Is this you?" and it has the guest tag above my head on the screen.
Really frustrating and I think that's more on 2K right now. Maybe the patch fixed it, IDK. But it's kind of pathetic it took almost 30 mins for my friend and I to finally be able to play a game on 2K. I mean we almost gave up.
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Another complaint I have is that there is no onscreen indicator of your controller's battery life.
I haven't picked up a play and charge kit for my controller so I've just been using batteries. I have had my Xbox One for a few weeks and the controller is still running on the set of batteries that came with it, and I mean when it is idle it goes into low power mode from what I hear so your controllers will tend to last a while.
But it would be nice to have an indicator somewhere like there is with Xbox 360. Does the controller beep or something?
Just a small complaint, as it isn't really a big deal and I'm sure something like that will be added in an update later on down the road.
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Anyone else have the problem on NBA2K14 where you've synced up another controller and tried to sign in your friend as a "Guest" or they sign in with their Xbox Live account and when you get to Quick Play on 2K, it just shows one Xbox Live account, and no guest.
Had to keep signing in and signing out and eventually, it recognizes the guest/Live account, but the Kinect seems to think that I'm the guest. It asks me, "Is this you?" and it has the guest tag above my head on the screen.
Really frustrating and I think that's more on 2K right now. Maybe the patch fixed it, IDK. But it's kind of pathetic it took almost 30 mins for my friend and I to finally be able to play a game on 2K. I mean we almost gave up.
I dealt with that issue was really annoying I just turned the xbox off and back on and allowed the guest, idk if there was a patch but now all I have to do is turn on 2 controllers and it will let me play without signing in the guest
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Re: Xbox One Random Thoughts
I agree the controller not having a battery icon anywhere is a bit annoying. I know it is supposed to have a much better battery life, but it would still be nice to know where it is.
The xbox is working great with my TV except it does not like the Uverse Home screen where you have to hit ok on the controller. I wish I could disable that through Uverse then it would be perfect. The voice commands are really responsive and once I figured out how to do some of them I only touch my uverse controller to go to my DVR and to bypass their home screen.
I only have AC4 right now and I wish they would have just dropped the Templar vs. Assassins stuff and gone full pirate. The pirate stuff is just fantastic and it is just awesome to swing across while being shot at and land on the deck of an enemy ship and start causing havoc.
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To millions Sean Connery will always be the ultimate 007, but the most famous Bond girl believes nobody does it better than Daniel Craig.
As Pussy Galore, Honor Blackman frequently locked horns – and lips – with Connery in 1964’s Goldfinger.
But, despite this, the 89-year-old insists Craig delivers a more multi-dimensional character than Connery ever could.
“I’m sorry to say he’s a better actor – but I think Sean would acknowledge that,” she says. “I think Dan is terrific. He’s capable of so much more.
“Sean was perfection as Bond only as Ian Fleming wrote it. He was a Mr Universe entrant, he was handsome and very, very sexy and had that ridiculous accent.
“Now it’s no longer like Ian Fleming, it’s more like The Bourne Identity. It’s a different kind of film.
"But that doesn’t make any difference to the fact they’re super films and Daniel is probably the best actor that ever played Bond.”
But Honor qualifies her praise for the new style of Bond movies, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Craig’s fourth outing in Spectre, due to be released in November.
And her views are not politically correct these days.
She says: “You’re talking to somebody who is terribly biased.
"Ian Fleming wrote a certain character and it was fun when we accepted he was a misogynist and a brutal fellow, but we loved him just the same.
"But nowadays, unfortunately, we find that totally unacceptable. Now he has to love somebody, he has to care about women, he has to do all the things Fleming never intended.”
She believes the Bond franchise has evolved so much that the door is open to more radical changes – including a black 007.
With hunky Luther actor Idris Elba in the frame, it’s a topic that sparked controversy, when former Bond, Roger Moore, appeared to suggest he wanted an “English-English” Bond.
Moore later clarified he wasn’t talking about the ethnicity of a future 007.
Honor is unequivocal. “I think he can be anything he likes,” she says.
“Why can’t he be a black man? You have to be a good actor and you’ve got to be a very attractive man – that’s half the battle – otherwise you can’t play Bond.”
Honor turns 90 this summer but her mind is still as razor sharp as Pussy Galore’s claws – and her views are always forthright.
The mere mention of plastic surgery sends her into a mocking frenzy.
“Some people’s eyebrows keep going up and up, don’t they?” she says, laughing.
“It’s terribly worrying, I suppose if it goes on long enough they disappear into their hairline.
“I think everybody is much more conscious about everything – whether they’re sexy, whether their eyelashes are long enough, whether they should have a nose job, whether they should replace their bosom or get a bosom.
“It drives me insane. I haven’t had any work done. It’s a bit late – if you looked at my wrinkles you’d know.
“You do see people looking like a chipmunk with great fat cheeks and you know it has to be false because nobody of that age would have that amount of flesh on their cheekbone.”
Then there are those like Joan Collins – who is a decade younger than her – who still look glamorous despite saying they’ve never gone under the knife.
“Joan is a sort of one-off,” says Honor. “She’s depended on her looks and her clothes and being a sex symbol all her life.
"That’s been the most important thing – acting has been secondary. I should probably get hit for that.”
So, if Honor cares what anyone thinks, she certainly isn’t letting it show. These days the glamorous gran has bigger problems to contend with.
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She’s battling scoliosis, a crippling back condition that gradually twists the spine and can leave sufferers with a hunchback.
As a result Honor is set to bring her long and distinguished career to an end as she fights the agonising illness.
“By the end of this year I’ll probably chuck it in,” she says.
“It’d be a great regret because my career has been so interesting – some of it fun, some of it torture – but it has filled my life.
"It’s an effort at this stage of life. And since nobody is forcing me to make it, I don’t see any point in putting myself through it.”
Though Honor has struggled for years with the condition, her scoliosis has deteriorated to the point where it drastically limits the roles she can accept.
“It makes it hell for me to walk any distance,” she says.
“I might just become a hunchback I think, me and Richard III. I am doing my pilates and if I didn’t I think I would turn into a hunchback.
"When I leave pilates I am striding about, unfortunately it doesn’t last that long.
“I don’t have a wheelchair now, I expect I probably will, it depends if I make the effort to keep my back in shape.
"The thing I fear is my back becoming worse and worse and not being able to get around.”
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Born in London’s East End, Honor’s aspirational father, a statistician, gave her the best start in life by sending her to the Guildhall School of Acting.
He also paid for elocution lessons – her 16th birthday present instead of a bike – which would banish any Cockney tones in favour of the more plummy sound of her peers.
She married at 23 to businessman Bill Sankey though they had no children and divorced after eight years.
She wed again to actor Maurice Kaufmann in 1961 and the couple adopted two children, Lottie in 1967 and Barnaby in 1968.
They divorced in 1975 and Honor says she is happily single.
Perhaps because of her humble start in life she has distinctly left-of-centre views.
In 2002 the republican turned down the offer of a CBE. Though she’s a traditional Lib Dem voter she says her sympathies could lie with Labour.
“The Conservatives bend like mad to the money and they can’t help it – they’re all those kinds of people,” she says.
Honor also sympathises with Labour leader Ed Miliband: “He’s been hammered an awful lot and if everybody shut up and let him got on with it, and gave him confidence he’d be a far better man.”
But Honor, who lives in Notting Hill, West London, doesn’t agree with the mansion tax.
“People are living in houses that didn’t cost the earth, but now they do and far beyond anything they expected.
They don’t have the back up if they start slamming the tax on it. It makes much more sense on salaries and corporation tax.”
Despite her origins she went on to enjoy a glittering career.
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She gained small roles in TV shows and films up to 1962 when she landed the role which would make her a household name in the UK – leather clad karate-chopping action girl Cathy Gale opposite Patrick Macnee in The Avengers.
In 2000 she and former Avenger Joanna Lumley received special Bafta awards for their performances.
But Goldfinger made her an international star.
For the next 25 years she appeared in stage shows including The Sound of Music and TV dramas ranging from Columbo to Doctor Who.
In 1990 she was introduced to a new generation by playing man-eating mum Laura West in family sitcom The Upper Hand with Joe McGann and Diana Weston.
The hit series ran until 1996.
Since then Honor has taken small parts in TV dramas, including Casualty and Corrie.
Her latest role in Gold’s comedy You, Me & Them pivots on characters Ed and Lauren, played by Anthony Head and Eve Myles, who, despite a 26-year age gulf, are crazy about each other.
Honor appears in tonight’s episode as Ed’s eccentric mother Rose.
What made her take the role? “It looked like fun and it’s not very taxing,” she says.
“I hardly accept anything. I’m not on the breadline so I don’t have to work, it’s a question of: Is this a pleasure?
(Image: Kobal)
“The whole atmosphere is much more fun in a comedy. I suppose after I did The Upper Hand it led me into a world that is more amusing and more pleasant to go to work in.
“To be honest people don’t rain scripts on a lady of my years because there aren’t that many parts.”
She also admits she hasn’t got anything else coming up, so it may be the last time we see her on our TVs.
“Oh there’ll be floods of tears...” she says, mocking the idea that we will be sad to see her disappear from our screens. She might just be surprised.
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Flirt with customer and tell him i like his sexy accent He's deaf
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Hillary Clinton has a problem. How does she escape blame for the tragedies that are now engulfing the Mideast when, as Secretary of State for four years, she was responsible for many of the policies that have produced this mess?
In a lengthy interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, we got the answer: Clinton said that a lot of it happened because Barack Obama, her former boss, just wasn’t aggressive enough.
Before getting into that argument, however, Clinton took a shot at a phrase that Obama has used privately, and apparently proudly, to describe his vision of what U.S. foreign policy should be: “Don’t do stupid [stuff].” (In the actual quote, the president allegedly used a barnyard vulgarism instead of the word “stuff.”)
Not the most eloquent and inspiring exhortation you’ve ever heard, is it? Sounding a bit like a schoolyard scold, Clinton told Goldberg, “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
I wonder how many of Obama’s top aides are now saying privately that picking Clinton as his secretary of state, and thus the top administrator of his foreign policy, would make a list of “stupid stuff” that happened in his administration?
Goldberg introduced the core of the controversy his article would create by writing:
President Obama has long ridiculed the idea that the U.S., early in the Syrian civil war, could have shaped the forces fighting the Assad regime, thereby stopping al Qaeda-inspired groups — like the ones rampaging across Syria and Iraq today — from seizing control of the rebellion.
He’s delighted to report that Clinton doesn’t agree:
Well, his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn’t buying it. In an interview with me earlier this week, she used her sharpest language yet to describe the “failure” that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising.
Goldberg then includes a direct quote from Hillary, in which she doesn’t hesitate to put the “failure” tag squarely on her former boss:
“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.
Got that? According to Clinton, if the U.S. had simply been more willing to support the forces battling Syria’s dictator, things would be a lot different in the Mideast today. As a result of these failures, she says, the world now faces much more serious threats from Muslim extremists.
“One of the reasons why I worry about what’s happening in the Middle East right now is because of the breakout capacity of jihadist groups that can affect Europe, can affect the United States,” she said. “Jihadist groups are governing territory. They will never stay there, though. They are driven to expand. …”
Thanks for the grade-school lesson, Hillary. It isn’t like we didn’t already know that.
In an effort to keep this contrived controversy for getting hotter, Clinton called her former boss two days ago to say that nothing in the Atlantic article was meant as an attack on him or his leadership. Sure thing, Hillary.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said both Clinton and Obama planned to be at a party on Martha’s Vineyard this week, and that “she looks forward to hugging it out when they see each other.”
Isn’t that sweet? In the meantime, the murder and mayhem continue as the barbaric forces of the ISIS march across Iraq.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
–Chip Wood
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Rostam Batmanglij Leaves Vampire Weekend…Kind Of
Streets are said to be flowing with the tears of hipsters.
Vampire Weekend co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij has announced he’s finished with Vampire Weekend…sort of. In addition to news that he’s “no longer a member of VW,” Batmanglij also said that he plans to collaborate with other Vampire Weekend co-founder Ezra Koenig on future projects and “future VW songs.” Okay…so you’re not done with Vampire Weekend? Even with this somewhat vague announcement soon-to-be former Vampire Weekends are already declaring the band’s fourthcoming LP as the band’s worst. Keep in mind that no music has been released, Rostam has worked with the band on some of the songs (possibly all of them), and Ezra Koenig (the vocalist and songwriter) is still with the band. Yeah, this thing has FLOP written all over it.
While commenting on the news of Rostam’s departure, Ezra Koenig stated that the band’s next album’s “working title is ‘Mitsubishi Macchiato’…for obvious reasons.” The most obvious reason is because the album is going to suck, so it deserves a shitty title. Am I right, Rostam-era Vampire Weekend fans?
Rostam helped Ra Ra Riot with two songs on their upcoming album, Need Your Light, which resulted in a very Vampire Weekend-y song called “Water”. Watch the video for it below, and forget all about a Mitsubishi Macchiato.
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So this Jazz player Rudy Gobert was the first to be diagnosed in the NBA and he was joking around touching everybody's stuff before he knew he had it. There's that video of him touching all the microphones as he was leaving his press conference, and it's reported that "Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings." What a dickhead. I mean, I get that this was before his diagnosis but .... just an all time bad move. Was he already experiencing flu-like symptoms when he was doing that stuff? I wonder.
Unrelated note, I feel like the Knicks have burst onto the scene of being the worst franchise in American sports lately. Which is not to say they haven't been bad for a long time already but with the Spike Lee stuff and other various news bits I've heard about, they are really a complete joke right now. It goes beyond having a bad team on the court, the way they handle PR and other stuff is so bad. Their response to the Spike Lee incident was so poorly worded.
So this Jazz player Rudy Gobert was the first to be diagnosed in the NBA and he was joking around touching everybody's stuff before he knew he had it. There's that video of him touching all the microphones as he was leaving his press conference, and it's reported that "Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings." What a dickhead. I mean, I get that this was before his diagnosis but .... just an all time bad move. Was he already experiencing flu-like symptoms when he was doing that stuff? I wonder.
I can say with knowledge due to the fact of being in an NBA locker room regularly in a past life of mine, it is careless but it is the norm. These guys share a lot of things within their locker (cologne, lotion, things of that nature). Maybe there was heightened awareness over recent weeks but I doubt it was radically different. The fact that players went out of their way (off the record, obviously) to say that didn't help Gobert's cause, though. It appears they have a second positive case on their team but that appears the extent as everyone else tested negative.
The issue is the second player was present at a nearby high school in Oklahoma, where the game was set to be played, so who knows the ramifications.
I can say with knowledge due to the fact of being in an NBA locker room regularly in a past life of mine, it is careless but it is the norm. These guys share a lot of things within their locker (cologne, lotion, things of that nature). Maybe there was heightened awareness over recent weeks but I doubt it was radically different. The fact that players went out of their way (off the record, obviously) to say that didn't help Gobert's cause, though. It appears they have a second positive case on their team but that appears the extent as everyone else tested negative.
The issue is the second player was present at a nearby high school in Oklahoma, where the game was set to be played, so who knows the ramifications.
you used to be in NBA locker rooms? do tell. (you might have told it before but I don't recall)
The way he was mocking the virus by touching all of the microphones to germ them up, followed by the report that players said he was being careless, makes me wonder if he did the same thing to them in the locker room. At best, he went about his normal business as you describe. At worst, he kept joking about it in the locker room and did the same stunt that he did to the media's microphones/recorders. Given that Jazz players reportedly are calling him careless, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than just everyday touching of items.
you used to be in NBA locker rooms? do tell. (you might have told it before but I don't recall)
The way he was mocking the virus by touching all of the microphones to germ them up, followed by the report that players said he was being careless, makes me wonder if he did the same thing to them in the locker room. At best, he went about his normal business as you describe. At worst, he kept joking about it in the locker room and did the same stunt that he did to the media's microphones/recorders. Given that Jazz players reportedly are calling him careless, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than just everyday touching of items.
I haven't mentioned it lol. Just a past life working with teams (four) and doing work for them in different natures.
I mean, he really wouldn't have to do much out of the norm of their day to day routine. They shared training tables, training equipment, personal items (if someone needed to use it) so even if he was being careful, the NBA would have had to ramp up the preventative measures and I doubt they did that to the fullest level available (not a knock on them, but it's just a fact of life probably). Normal business was going to have close interaction.
Any NBA player or coach of note from about 2010-2018, that came through Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma...I interacted with them lol. Some a lot more than others, and talked to them directly. Some in a one-on-one setting. I've seen two championship celebrations after they won and have held the trophy twice.
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subbak asked: Do you think Jace wouldn't be so hated by a section of the fanbase if you hadn't made the mistake of giving him trash-talking counterspells flavor text? Or is it just all JTMS's fault?
The trash talking counterspell was a mistake. I started it when writing for Ertai back during the Weatherlight Saga. Players liked it so we kept doing it. When the planeswalkers came along, we swapped in Jace’s name because he was the blue planeswalker.
The problem is Jace never talks like that. Read all his stories, it’s not his character. So yes, a lot of this negative perspective comes from a mistake we made that we have since rectified.
Here. I’m making flavor text errata. All smart ass counterspell Jace flavor text is now made by Race, an obnoxious blue mage we haven’t focused much on. : )
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"Las Vegas." "Millions of suckers flock to the city every year and lose hundreds of millions of dollars." "It's a city of dreams." "The guests who come here dreaming of getting rich quick keep betting for hours and hours until they win the kind of money they want." "Split." "The more guests bet, the more money casinos make." "Only casinos win in the end." "The odds are not in the guests' favor." "At least, they weren't supposed to be..." "Black jack!" " I'm so sorry, Orlan." "Ha-ha-ha." "After I started playing with you, I got luckier and luckier." "No." "You're wrong." "It's not that you are lucky." "I'm the unlucky one." "Ever since then I've been helplessly unlucky." "All right!" "I'm on a roll." "Orlan?" "Huh?" "Hey!" "Where do you think you're going?" "Wait!" "No, sir." "I'm not finished yet tonight." "Dean, we should go." "What are you talking about?" "I'm on a roll." "We should get to what we came here for." "Besides, luck can only last so long." " That's so true." " Luck doesn't last very long." "But misfortune does last." "Man." "Right when I was on top of my game?" "You know, fortunes don't last that long." "They were lasting a long time." "Oh..." " Hey, look." " Hmm?" "I am lucky today." "I'm gonna go talk to her." "Don't butt in." "Dean." "What?" "Don't stop me." "Huh?" "About Mr. Orlan?" "Right." "I'm a roulette dealer, not black jack." "So I don't know much about him." "But I've heard some terrible stories." "I heard that he ended up giving out a month's worth of winnings in only three days." "And after he lost every night, he cried and said he was possessed." "Possessed?" "It was just an excuse." "Everyone has a losing streak, you know." "But the casino is huge." "I'm sure there's still plenty more money in their vault." "I need to get going." "Oh, sorry." "I'd be happy to take you home." " Take care." " Thanks." "Come to my roulette table soon." "I will." " Sam." " Hmm?" "Sam." "So, what do you think of what she said?" "All she said was that Orlan was a total mess." "Right?" "Every gambler has a losing streak." "Well, except for me." "But his story was way too much." "Besides, him being possessed kind of bugs me." "Could be a curse or black magic." "That's just stupid." "It's the pathetic excuse of an unlucky guy." "Ow." "Ouch." "Man, you trip like a kid." "Shut up!" "I'm fine." "Hmm?" "How come there's a roulette ball on the floor here?" "Dean?" "My head." "Ouch!" "Now I'm the one with all the bad luck, damn it." "What are you talking about?" "We have this nice room because you won at the tables." "That's different." "Oh!" "What...?" "What the heck is this?" "What's wrong, Dean?" "Look, Sam." "There's a weird old geezer on my shoulder." "Who?" "And where?" "Huh?" "You gotta be kidding me." "Here!" "This is what he looks like." "Take a better look." "You're the one who told me to draw him." "Just for the record, I'm a better artist than you." "A spirit in the form of an elderly man?" "Here it is." "Look!" ""A Japanese god." "It possesses people and sucks away their luck."" "He is called the poverty god." "And is the old guy still with you?" "Yeah, he's lounging on the bed." "I see." "Well "the poverty god brings misfortune to the holder of the old coin."" " Old coin?" " Yeah." "Looks like it's an ancient Japanese coin." " Oh!" " What's the matter?" "Dean, where did you get that?" "Off of the floor earlier." "Dean!" "So it's all because of this damn coin, right?" "Yeah." "Now, that should do it." "Right." "Let's hope so." "That sure was a stroke of bad luck." "What a mean-spirited god Japan has." "I wonder if throwing away the coin was enough to get rid of him." "Dean?" "What are you doing?" "I've had it!" "I'm using salt and fire to let him die peacefully." "I don't think gods die." "This should take care of it." "Oh, here it comes!" "Huh?" "There." "Now, that should've done it." "Let's get out of this town." "What is it?" " This thing was in my car." " Ah!" "It's a cobra." "Dean." "Let's get back to the hotel." "What the hell?" "Oh, no." "My laptop." " Gentlemen." " What?" "You set a fire before you left, didn't you?" "The sensor detected smoke and activated the sprinklers." "We'd like you to pay for all the furnishings that sustained water damage." "Damn it!" "All the money I won is gone." " It's getting worse." " Yeah." "This geezer's tougher than I thought." "I'll find a way to get rid of him." "You'd better hurry up." "We're in deep doo-doo." "Yeah." "I'm gonna go do some research." "You just stay here." "Okay?" "Mm-hm." "You hear me?" "Not a step outside." "Mm-hm." "I'm counting on you, Sam." "Good." "Damn it, Sam." "Put it where it won't fall." "I wish I had my laptop." ""The poverty god never goes away."" "I'm not giving up." "Never!" "Prisoners convicted of robbery, serving sentences in Golden Valley in northwestern Arizona, escaped on the night of the 7th." "Adolf Hudler and four other prisoners..." "Hmm?" "Oh!" "Come on!" "All right!" "The engine started." "You're a genius, bro." " You bastards!" " Shoot!" "Get in, quick!" "Damn it!" "You idiot!" "You wanna die?" " Let me drive." "I'll pay you double." " Hmm?" "Huh?" "Ah!" "I'll get you, bastards!" "He's coming after us." "Damn." "You won't get away!" "Dean, answer the phone." "I hope he's okay." "Wasn't that Dean's?" "Dean?" "Dean!" "What happened?" "Are you all right?" "Impala." "My Impala." "Stand back." "Stay away!" "You two!" "Weren't you staying in Room 205?" "Not good." "Dean, we've gotta run." "I can't take this anymore!" "Wait up!" "I never dreamed we'd be camping out here tonight." "Shut up." "Did you find anything useful?" "Well, I did look everywhere, but..." "The poverty god never goes away." "He keeps causing misfortune until the possessed person dies." "I see." "Here." "Have some bread." "I wanna eat a cheeseburger." "You can't be picky." "You're penniless." " You have some money." " Go buy one." "What a jerk." "You idiot." "It's so noisy." "I can't sleep well out here." "Dean!" "Dean!" "Where did he go?" "Don't tell me..." "Dean!" "Dean, where did you go?" "My wallet's gone." "I can't take it!" "How can I lose 10 hands in a row?" "Please go easy on me, Katty." "I'm sorry, but I must take this." "You're out of luck." "I'm in it with this geezer instead." "Dean!" "I knew I'd find you here." " You're fast." " What are you thinking?" "That geezer's misfortunes are getting more and more severe." "You may end up dead the next time." "Stay in a safe place." "Well, my wife was..." "Look at that." "There is no safe place." "Isn't this your fault, Dean?" "Stop!" "Stop it!" "What the hell is going on?" "Come on." "Open it now." "It's not opening." "Let me use your card." "Stop!" "This is a key to the vault!" " Let go!" " Uh!" "This is the East Floor on the 2nd floor." "The alarm went off." "Stop." "That's it for you." "You try anything funny, I kill this girl." "Now give me your key." "Dean, don't wander around too much." "You never know when or where an accident will happen." "Shut up!" "Don't be so loud." "Oh!" "Are you all right?" "Dean!" "Hey, that's Katty!" "So, what are you gonna do?" "Stand by and watch her die?" "But I can't hand over this key." "I see." "You leave me no choice then." "She's gonna have to die." "Pulling a pretty girl's hair?" "What do you think you're doing?" "Quick, Katty, get away." "Huh?" "What do you think you're doing?" "If you don't want me to shoot your brains out, let go of Adolf, you bastard!" "Were you in on this?" "You have just ruined my comfortable future." "You may think you got unlucky, but I've hit rock bottom." "I've never been dumped by the girl I rescued." "Like I care?" "I have no use for you." "Get lost!" "Die!" "Oh!" "Don't come back to me!" " Ah!" " Adolf, let's run!" "We can't, Katty." "We are completely surrounded." "Ha." "You've gotta be kidding!" "You can't see the geezer anymore?" "Nope." "Now I can go without worrying about him." "Go where?" 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Comedian Seth Meyers on Tuesday joked that President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE has a tiny voice inside of his head that expresses self-doubt, particularly that Vice President Pence is more qualified for his job than he is.
"We here at Late Night have the ability to record the tiny voice that is inside Donald Trump’s head," Meyers said on NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."
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"You might be surprised to know that, like everyone’s inner voice, Donald Trump’s is filled with paralyzing fear and self-doubt."
Meyers then aired a clip of Trump standing next to Pence, who was speaking at a press conference. As Pence made his address, the tiny voice mockingly spoke to Trump, saying that his vice president appeared more presidential than he does.
“Hey Donald, it’s me, the tiny voice in the back of your head. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Because I am thinking that Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceMomentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election McConnell urges GOP senators to 'keep your powder dry' on Supreme Court vacancy MORE looks a lot more like a president than you do," the dubbed-over voice said in the clip.
The tiny voice also targeted Trump's style of speaking.
"I mean, look at him. He’s killing it right now. Speaking in complete sentences, turning the page each time he finishes a page, not making insane gestures. He looks like a real president," it said.
"And look at you, you look like a guy who won a contest to stand next to a president. I mean, he’s a complete freak and all but at least he can fake being normal. How does it feel to be weirder than Mike Pence?"
Meyers has been a frequent critic of the president on his show.
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"Back in the olden days before le Deluge, the preeminence of ones family totem-pole was said to have been determined by how closely your parents were related to one another (incest being best). This practice died out in most places, but thankfully not in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, lest the world might have been robbed of the chromosomally deficient genius of The Shit Dogs - the inbred kings of redneck punk! Like a southern-fried Ramones with Hapsburg chins and multiple personality crises, the Shit Dogs over the course of five unbelievably crude blasts dealing in themes of violence, cannibalism and possibly hemophilia, sound unsure if they want to be the Stooges or Black Sabbath; as the cheese whose history the band celebrates grows riper and more inhabited by the second. Hailing from the city that housed the last remaining leper colony in the continental U.S., The History Of Cheese is a soundtrack of frayed denim, resin scrapings, mildewed walls and t-shirts with cigarette burns. A bar band thug collision with accidental greatness sure to appeal to fans of the Crucified, the Imperial Dogs and Teenage Queers. Originally five songs squeezed onto one 7, the attentive quality assurance department at Last Laugh Records has finally given the 5 songs that comprise the Shit Dogs magnum opus the lebensraum they have always so rightly demanded. YOU BUY IT! " - Last Laugh.
"The definitive collection of tracks by this nutcase Baton Rouge punk band who have previously appeared on Killed By Death #5 and #8«, this includes the tracks from their two mega-rare 7" releases, plus their track on the legendary 1980 "N.O. Experience Necessary" compilation LP, as well as previously unreleased cuts. Imagine (if you can) a unique mix of 3-chord RAMONES-like melodies with HAWKWIND-style guitar freakouts and goofy lyrics and youve about got it. 16 tracks, plus liner notes and photos!" -Rave Up
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LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Who is to blame for the Colorado Planned Parenthood shoot-em-up? By gosh, it has to be the “transgendered” if we’re to believe Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
Never mind the juvenile logic fallacy of equating being transgender with committing a crime, uttering a false statement based on dubious, unconfirmed information to make a very public hack-at-the-knees of one of the most marginalized group of people is criminal in itself. Cruz’s short-term elevation came at the expense of more misery, violence and death to transgender people.
Real reporters, in this instance, from the New York Times, looked into Cruz’s claims and found nothing of the sort — not trans, nor a leftist activist. Indeed, the further one looks into the background of the shooter, the closer his ideals reflect those of Cruz himself.
Zach Ford of ThinkProgress sums Cruz’s behavior up:
“Cruz’s claim that Dear [Robert Lewis Dear, the shooter] is transgender mirrors other attempts by conservatives to demonize transgender people. As was most recently seen in the successful effort to defeat Houston’s LGBT nondiscrimination protections, conservatives eagerly spread the myth that transgender people are somehow “dangerous” to women and children. Cruz’s implication that being transgender motivated Dear’s attack relies on the same myth. Transgender people have done nothing to earn such labels — indeed, transgender protections have taken effect across the country with zero impact on the safety of women and children.”
——-
Just when you think the GOP couldn’t go any lower, ugh.
t/h Autumn Sandeen
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/11/29/3726311/ted-cruz-planned-parenthood-shooting-transgendered/
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Politiet jagter en bil i Hvidovre-området. Føreren påkørte en politimand og stak af.
Københavns Politi er tirsdag eftermiddag på jagt efter en mand, der har påkørt en betjent og stukket af.
Hændelsen fandt sted i Valby, hvorefter gerningsmanden stak af i retning mod Hvidovre.
En patruljevogn standsede et køretøj, som så bakkede mod betjenten. Køretøjet ramte ham, så han væltede ind over motorhjelmen på sin egen bil, oplyser Københavns Politi til TV 2.
Politimanden er uskadt.
Leder over det meste af Sjælland
Politiets vagtchef Lars Vestervig oplyser onsdag morgen klokken 07.00, at man stadig leder efter ejeren af bilen.
Ejeren af bilen er en 23-årig mand, og det drejer sig om en sølvgrå Seat Altea. Politiet vil gerne høre fra borgere, der har set bilen på 114.
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>> THE THING HE SAW THAT.
>>> A REMARKABLE RISE AND FALL
IN HERE CAREER AND LIFE.
SHE WAS BORN POOR BUT HAS
WORKED HARD AND ROSE TO TV FAME
ONLY TO MISS OUT ON THE DREAM
PROMOTION.
TAMRON HALL IS MAKING A BIG
COMEBACK.
SHE IS A NEW MOM, A WIFE AND
NOW A TALKSHOW HOST.
ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER SANDY
KENYON GOES BACKSTAGE FOR HER
FIRST SHOW.
SANDY?
>> Reporter: SHOW NUMBER 1
BEGAN WITH TAMRON HALL AND HER
MANY FANS GETTING REACQUAINTED.
>> YOU HAVE TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO
YOU ARE.
>> Reporter: SHE LIKES TO SAY
WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL AND
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE FAMOUS TO
GET HER TO LISTEN.
>> THIS IS ABOUT INSPIRATION.
THIS IS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE ALL
GOING.
>> Reporter: IN FACT OUR FIRST
GUEST WAS A MAN WHO SPENT
ALMOST HALF A CENTURY IN PRISON
FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT.
>> MR. RICHARD PHILLIPS.
WE MAY NEVER HAVE THE
EXPERIENCE HE HAD, BUT WE CAN
RELATE TO THAT DESIRE AND THAT
WANT TO EVEN IN THE FACE OF THE
MOST DIFFICULT ADVERSITY GET
BACK UP.
>> Reporter: CELEBRITIES WILL
HAVE A PLACE ON HER SHOW IF
THEY HAVE INSPIRING STORIES TO
TELL.
FANTASIA PERFORMS THE SHOW'S
THEME SONG AND AS THE DEBUT
MADE CLEAR, HER OWN UNIQUE
STORY WILL BE REFERENCED OFTEN.
>> AT A POINT DURING THE SHOW
DID YOU EVER REFLECT, TAKE A
SECOND TO REFLECT ON THE LONG
ARC THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE?
>> ABSOLUTELY AND I THOUGHT IT
BACK BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO
FALL TO MY KNEES AND CRIED.
>> Reporter: SHE LISTENS WITH A
SPECIAL KIND OF EMPATHY,
ENHANCED AT THE FIRST SHOW BY
THE PRESENCE OF HER MOM AND HER
SON. BUT THIS IS A TEAM EFFORT
HEADED BY BILL GETTY WHO GUIDED
>> THE VIEW " FOR SO LONG AND A
CIVILIZED APPROACH TO TALK ON
TV.
>> I DIDN'T JUST SEE A FACE, I
SAW WIDE-OPEN LANE.
>> Reporter: A WIDE-OPEN LANE.
TAMRON PAY TRIBUTE TO TWO HOST
WHO INSPIRED HER DURING HER
FIRST SHOW AND AT ONE POINT
MONEY BETWEEN AUDIENCE MEMBERS
LIKE PHIL DONA
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Oh, sad day… Knife Party (mostly just Rob, though, it seems) are doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit right now, and of course the top question has to do with Pendulum.
empw, a moderator on many of the electronic music subreddits, asked, “So… how’s the new Pendulum album going?” The answer will likely leave you confused and a little sad.
Keep-management-and-fans-happy answer: It’s not going at all (yet). We have a bunch of unreleased material from the last two albums that we still love, and would like to finish / re-work into something new, but we’re not actively working on it just yet. Honest answer: It’s been nearly 5 years since the last Pendulum album – even if we do release new material, it will most likely sound completely different, just because…well, people change, and get bored of things, etc. I have no real desire to make drum’n’bass anymore, I have no desire to fuse it with rock, and I sure as fuck don’t have any desire to tour with a live band. Around about the time we started Knife Party, I really lost my heart for the project. I remember playing Glastonbury 2011 on the main stage – we played just before Beyonce to a crowd full of parents and their kids waiting to sing “Crazy in Love”, staring at us with blank faces. I was watching the TV coverage of the show afterwards and I just thought “how the fuck did it turn into this? this isn’t the kind of project I wanted to be involved in at all”. It wasn’t even the crowd response, I just didn’t like anything about it. On top of that, we weren’t making any money since we were spending it all on crew members wages, freight costs, transport, production assistants etc (touring with a band is REALLY expensive). Now, we were never into it for the money, but as you start getting closer to 30, you start to think “oh yeah, I have to…be able to eat food n stuff” – and if your heart isn’t in the project, well, there’s not much point in continuing. We’re contracted for another album. I have no idea what’s going to happen. I don’t really want to do one – I’d prefer to work on something else with KP or perhaps a new project altogether. If I have to do it, then I will, but that’s never a great place to start making music. TL;DR – maybe. dunno.
We appreciate the diplomatic answer, but the honest one kind of leaves you wondering if there was a new Pendulum album, would you even want to listen to it? That last line really says a lot, “If I have to do it, then I will, but that’s never a great place to start making music.”
tl;dr beyonce killed pendulum
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O presidente da República Jair Bolsonaro deve assinar nesta semana a Medida Provisória (MP) da liberdade econômica. As informações são da colunista Mônica Bergamo, da Folha de São Paulo.
Jair cumpre uma das promessas feitas no inicio do seu mandato. O objetivo do Ministério da Economia é desburocratizar e diminuir os custos de atividades chamadas de baixo risco em propriedade privada, como padarias, tabacarias e pequenas lojas de departamentos. A desburocratização foi algo que Bolsonaro sempre mencionava nas suas sabatinas e debates em épocas de campanha.
Pelas novas regras, essas pequenas empresas de baixo risco não precisarão mais, por exemplo, de alvará de funcionamento nem o sanitário. Com isso, o Estado irá se concentrar em fiscalizar empresas de alto risco.
A medida provisória será assinada pelos ministros Paulo Guedes e Sérgio Moro, que comandam as pastas da Economia e Justiça, respectivamente.
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Why do I have no retention?
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This is sort of a plea for help.
I feel as if I've depleted any kind of intelligence I had.
Freshman and sophmore year, I had no dreams, and nothing to aspire to. Because of that, my GPA was complete crap. I think it was barely higher than 2.3ish. Junior year, I took physics, and my physics teacher said words to me on the first day that really changed my views on my future.
"You're a brilliant mind, son. You just don't have anything to aspire to, and that's no good. Remember that guy who aspired to nothing a while back? Exactly."
I decided to pay attention in physics, and I found it to be incredibly easy. I ended the year with a 109 in physics, and he had to take AWAY 4 points. I got my GPA up that year to a 2.755, and after doing the math, I discovered that I can get it up to a 3.1ish this year.
The problem?
Well, I feel brain dead in everything I do. I decided to take 6 AP classes to challenge myself. I'm passing with an A in everything but regardless, I've learned that it doesn't represent what I'm learning. I have no retention - I go to AP Calculus every day and I find it annoyingly hard. This coming from that guy who had absolutely no problem in physics.
I feel as if I'm only passing because my teacher is really easy on us. Everyone has at least a high B.
I pay attention in class, and when I go home, I have trouble doing the problems, because I don't remember anything at all. The next day, in class, when he asks us questions about the homework, I look at it and I think to myself, "How the hell did I do this?"
Does anyone have any methods of improving retention, or do you think this is just a problem of motivation(That's what my guidance counselled told me)
I think you hit the nail on the head; it is probably just motivation. There are methods you can try that may help solidify your comprehension of the material. For example, before I start a new chapter in a textbook, I try to remember as much as I possibly can from the last chapter, particularly the definitions of the key terms. If I feel there is a significant hole in my memory, I go back and review, because if I didn't remember it, it is likely that I didn't fully understand it at the time.
Ultimately, however, if you aren't motivated, it's going to be hard to excel.
Something else to keep in mind is not that you've decided to start challenging yourself, you're going to find out where your limits are. There's nothing "wrong" with you because you're struggling to remember things. Everyone struggles with this as some point. Your struggles likely have to do with the fact that you're getting new information at higher rate and higher degree of complexity than you ever have. Your old methods for absorbing it aren't as efficient.
The good news is there are a lot of things you can do about it. These include:
(1) Take a hard look at how you're studying. Is there anything you can do to improve your tehnique? Do you simply have to watch less TV and put more time in? Do you need to review topics more frequently? Do you need to solve more problems? Simpler or harder problems?
(2) Have you over-extened yourself? You may have to gut it out for the rest of this year, but next year you'll know that this many intense courses keeps you from funtioning at your mean. Do you have any committments you can put off for a while while you focus on your studies (but still maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle)?
(3) How much of your time are you spending on unimportant things? How much of the noise in your head is devoted to unimportant things? What can you do to reduce these?
(4) What are the goals and motivations of your friends and the people you spend the most time with?
(5) Do what you can to live as healthy as possible. Get enough sleep (don't underestimate this one). Eat healthy. Exercise. Avoid unhealthy activities like smoking.
First of all, I always learned mostly from the textbook, until I decided I should probably make the most of the lectures, since I was there anyway. Anyway, if I didn't remember the lecture, I would usually be fine because I have the textbook.
As far as remembering the lectures goes, I do have some tricks. I got this idea from when I had physics or electrical engineering labs in my undergrad and the TA would go over the procedures at the beginning. Sometimes, there was really no choice but to pay very good attention and remember everything, so that I would know what to do.
Part of it is motivation. You can pretend like you are going to be beheaded if you don't remember everything in the lecture. I recall imagining that. Haven't done it in a while. So, then, what I did was try to keep summarizing everything that had been said up to that point in the lecture in my mind, while still listening to what was being said. It takes some practice to get good at it. Also, it's really hard to do it if you have to take notes (and if you have a good textbook, usually, you don't need the notes). So, when I did it, I generally wouldn't take notes, or else I would just write down only the main points or things that seemed like they would be hard to remember. Then, after the lecture, you have to keep doing that in your mind. Summarize everything that was said. Of course, like any good tool, you should use it only when it's applicable. In calculus, there are a lot of calculations that might be better written down, rather than remembered. It might be better just to try to see if you just follow why everything is being done, and then go over it again as soon as possible after class.
For any kind of retention, there are four main things you need to know. The first is that you have to practice remembering without looking. It does no good to review things by looking at what's in your book or your notes alone. Try to read one paragraph. Then, see if you can recall everything in that paragraph without looking at it. That's the way to make it stick. Read paragraph, summarize it without looking, read paragraph, summarize it without looking. Pretty simple. Then, review it once more later in the day, again, without looking. If you absolutely can't remember, then look and try it again.
The second thing to know is that you need spaced repetition. An easily remembered guideline is when you learn anything, review after one minute, one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year. Don't take it too literally--you have to experiment. But, if you want to remember anything, all it takes is review. And, needless to say, it has to be done the way I said, without looking.
The third trick to remembering things well is that you need to make them memorable. If you are reading a novel, imagine what's happening as vividly as you can, and then you'll remember it better. When it comes to math, for me, that means understanding it. If I understand deeply, then I remember better. Pictures and using your imagination are very helpful in improving retention. Studies have proven this, by the way, I'm not just saying this. Unfortunately, here, you're somewhat at the mercy of the way the subject is being taught. Your teacher may not be showing you all the pictures that help to remember everything. There are a lot of triangles that you can draw for trigonometry. Finally, some of these tricks are accessible only to people who have very strong visual thinking skills. For example, to remember what the derivative of sine is, there is a picture that flashes before my mind's eye. Part of the trick is that visualization aids memory, but another part of the trick is that I am actually checking that my answer is correct through visual reasoning, not just recalling it by rote. Using pure memorization is dangerous because it's easy to remember it wrong. If you understand it, you can check that it's correct. The sine derivative trick is one particular secret that I think is not known to many people other than myself (Tristan Needham discusses the corresponding trick for tangent in his book Visual Complex Analysis). Even for me, if I teach the typical calculus student, I'm not likely to mention it, simply because I expect that they will find it too foreign.
Finally, the fourth trick to retention is how you structure your knowledge. The underlying principle here is that things are easier to remember if they are related to each other. So, you want to try to relate one thing to as many other things as you can. Again, this can be difficult if it's not already done well for you by your teachers and the curriculum itself.
I should also mention that learning by doing is also a good strategy. Do extra problems. That's another way to improve retention.
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A grotesquely vicious group-beating and robbery video has been posted to YouTube showing a bunch of teenagers brutalizing a terrified boy and yelling racist expletives at him while he pleads for mercy.
Police say the 17-year-old Asian male who was beaten and robbed in the video clip was attacked on Sunday in an alley behind an Elementary School in Chicago, according to WMAQ-TV.
The video shows five males striking the victim with kicks and punches as they swarm around him, yelling racial slurs. Police, however, claim that the incident “did not appear racially motivated.”
After being choked, dragged across the ground, and taking numerous blows to the head and face, the victim was eventually able to escape. He was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released.
Some of the attackers show their faces in the video, and the accomplice filming the attack may have been the one who uploaded the film to YouTuve, which could be useful to police if a prosecution is mounted.
You can watch the assault on video below without the disturbing audio courtesy of WMAQ-TV (Content warning for violence still applies):
There is also the full version available from LiveLeak, with audio to portray the truly heinous nature of the assault. WARNING, it contains vile, racist, and graphic language, including repetitions of ‘F*** you N***** and “Am I speaking Chinese N*****?”:
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Mark Zuckerberg has spent this week sitting in a giant hall having people who know nothing about the nuances of technology, and the way the internet monetises itself, telling him what he is doing is wrong. It’s important because it shows how little our elected officials are aware of where society is heading.
Zuckerberg answered questions in a very matter of fact way. To give him the benefit of the doubt, he answered truthfully, but also knowing that the policies and terms his business hold are there to protect and indemnify his business from action.
When you sign up to a service you agree to its terms. When you download an app and link it to your profile, you agree to what information they take from you and how that company is able to use it.
We’ve not been unaware of this fact because we’ve all done it. We’ve all said, “yes you may have access to my camera” when you install an app on your phone. But we’ve been willfully ignorant of what that actually means. And the senate was very right to make it explicitly clear to Mark that the vast, vast majority of people who use his company have no idea what they’re agreeing to.
It’s sad to have to remind people of the fact that if a product is free then they’re actually the product. It’s also sad to have to reference an episode of South Park that exposed years ago just how fragile the click-yes-to-agree TOS culture we live in is ripe for problems.
And that’s where this problem rests. As far as I’m aware, legally, Facebook has done nothing wrong. Their terms are so broad and their permissions so prevalent that they can individually look at any case of “wrong-doing” and say that the person who feels slighted agreed to the things that they feel wronged by.
So the solution therefore is legislate, right?
Of course it is. In the EU data protection and privacy laws exist and are much stricter than they are in America. And because it’s a bloc of countries you can establish a uniform standard that makes the interconnected society we live in today.
This feeds into an issue that’s been on Americans minds recently, in the form of net neutrality. It’s all well and good repealing that concept and allowing ISPs to control themselves. But that’s in America. Any legislation the USA passes to control Facebook and other social networks handling of their citizens’ data applies only to America. So what fucking use is a law if it only applies in America when dealing with a company that has its tentacles smothering every corner of the globe.
America has been aware of this problem for a while now but hasn’t acted upon it because the media has had no interest in trying to police it: gambling. It is illegal to gamble in the state of New York. But some bloke in Yonkers can log into his computer and place a bet on Duke to beat Kansas and there’s basically fuck all the government can do because the company processing that bet is based in Gibraltar.
So if you can’t govern or you can’t control the ways that your people are moving through life then what can you do?
Realistically? Learning to accept that we’re truly moving into a global society. We have this functionality, well it’s not really functionality anymore, it’s just a part of human existence: the internet. And as the years go by the amount we use it to live our daily lives will only increase. It exposes the very core problem the world faces today, but is actually something we’ve seen broken down and overcome over history before: nation states.
Nations are just the extension of what humans have developed over time as a way to streamline quality of life for all within them. When we first started grouping together thousands of years ago we were tribes, then tribes settled down and became villages, into towns and so on. Civilisation is at a key precipice where those in power want to protect what is already theirs without accepting that the future is a world where there are no borders, there is no distinction between human to human, we’re all part of the same group.
The internet was the game-changer, it is making us ask questions about how we relate and deal with each other on a level we never thought we’d have to. And it exposes the limitations of the systems our governments have to make our lives better.
I hate this example but it really does crystalise what i’m getting at: in science fiction when you have a ship crew off meeting aliens and all that bollocks they never present themselves as representatives of America or Russia or Brazil or whoever. They are almost always from Earth. They’re human, they’re standard bearers for the human race.
As hopelessly idealistic as that is, it is the eventuality of our pursuit of happiness. One day we will all march from the same drum , the values we hold dear won’t differ from region to region, they will be commonly held human values. It’s why now people are exasperated when beliefs held in one part of the world are not shared in another. The only reason that shock exists is because we’re able to communicate freely and rapidly those ideas because of the internet.
This trial of public opinion of Facebook is important because it will show how weak the world we live in today is at understanding where we’re headed as a global community. Words will be said, apologies noted, laws passed, but the problems will grow. Companies will not moderate their behaviour totally because they only have to accede to individual nations. Did you know that there are different qualities of Coca-Cola around the world? They categorise them on a scale. Japan and the United Kingdom have the highest quality Coca-Cola, places like Africa have the worst. That exists because the laws in different countries enforce different practices from the same company. That’s how flawed a nation-state government is.
Humanity as we know it exists because humans seek out the path of least resistance. We’re not the strongest, we’re not the fastest, but we are the smartest. We hunted in packs with tools because we can outwit a beast. We grouped together because it simplified survival. But as time has gone by we haven’t adapted to this next stage of evolution. We view the digital age as partnership when in reality it is very much going to be an extension of who we are and how we operate. Now more than ever we need lawmakers and citizens to be cognisant of how important it is we appreciate the world we’re in now. Not entering, we’re in it. Right now, we’re at the first few hurdles to our next ascension.
The issue at hand is so few can see it.
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“Bloom”
Troye Sivan belongs to a growing crop of young pop artists, like Kehlani and Tove Lo, who are unafraid to be candid about their queer sexuality. His 2015 “Blue Neighborhood” video trilogy offered a moving portrait of two boys falling in love, and didn't shy away from depicting the sensual aspects of their relationship. Pop music has a long history of encoding queer themes in music coy enough to be palatable to straight audiences, but Sivan has come of age in an era when being direct about your sexuality won’t blacklist your music from the Top 40.
If Sivan’s debut album, Blue Neighborhood, ringed its discussions of queer love with nostalgic melancholy—it was an album about growing up, after all—then his latest single, “Bloom,” is all about living in the delicious present. A gentle, rolling beat and stripes of electric guitar cut through airy synth pads, lending the track a bright 1980s mall pop sheen that could’ve been borrowed from George Michael. Vocally, Sivan’s as open and earnest as he’s ever sounded, breaching his falsetto during the chorus. But instead of merely hinting at the possibility of getting fucked, like you had to in the ‘80s, Sivan dives into the experience in exhilarating detail. “Might tell you to/Take a second, baby, slow it down” he sings. “You should know I/I bloom/Just for you.”
He claims the song is “100 percent about flowers,” as if he expects us to believe he’s not using that imagery like a gay Georgia O’Keeffe. “Bloom” is quite possibly an anthem dedicated to first-time bottoms, and it uses such a gentle, playful metaphor that it's hard not to be enchanted by it. It's one of the few mainstream pop songs to imagine queer sex as not just a good time, but as something natural, pure, and innocent: two boys rolling in the grass inside their own private paradise.
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Coagula
Coagula (real name Kate Godwin) is a fictional character and former member of DC Comic's Doom Patrol. Kate is a trans woman, one of the first transgender characters in comics, and remains one of the only transgender superheroines. The character was created by transgender science fiction writer Rachel Pollack. According to the Comics Journal, Rachel Pollack based the character's civilian name on two friends of hers, transgender writer and actress Kate Bornstein and the transsexual activist Chelsea Goodwin. Rachel wanted to create a positive portrayal of a lesbian transgender lady.
Fictional character biography
Kate gains her powers while working as a prostitute. One of her customers is Rebis, a radioactive intersex person; after Kate has sex with them, she discovers she can coagulate liquids and dissolve solids at will. She first tries out for the Justice League, but is rejected by them. She meets the Doom Patrol while battling a villain called the Codpiece, who has devices such as a gun, a drill, and a spring-loaded boxing glove built into a special codpiece he designed and built. Coagula dissolves the device.
Early on Kate is identified as a lesbian, but as the series progresses it becomes clear she is bisexual. She begins a romance with Robotman.
The name Coagula comes from the alchemical term "Solve et Coagula", meaning "dissolve and coagulate".
A while after the Doom Patrol split, Kate and Cliff take teammate Dorothy Spinner on a camping trip with the intention of telling her she is adopted. However, after hearing this, Dorothy suffers a mental breakdown. This causes her to generate a powerful psychic explosion, killing Kate and supposedly killing Cliff. Following this, Dorothy falls into a coma.
Powers and abilities
After having sexual contact with Rebis (Larry Trainor + Elanor Poole), Coagula gained the power to turn solids into liquids, and to coagulate liquids into solid. She needs to be in touch with the object to make the change occur.
References
Category:Comics characters introduced in 1993
Category:DC Comics LGBT superheroes
Category:Fictional bisexual females
Category:Fictional prostitutes
Category:Fictional transgender and transsexual women
Category:Female characters in comics
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Hot 97's Ebro Darden to Drake: 'Do Not Play With Me!'
Hot 97's Ebro Darden to Drake: 'Do Not Play With Me!'
He's taking no prisoners.
Published August 9th
The rumored but now largely debunked beef between Drake and Eminem left a lot of bodies in its wake.
Hot 97 radio host Ebro Darden, who circulated a message relaying that Drizzy would have “something” for Em if he ever initiated a beef, has since backtracked and explained that everything he and Drake talked about in private was in a joking manner. It was too late for the Toronto native though, as he called out all of Hot 97 during a show last Thursday (August 5) in New York.
Well, now Ebro’s not playing about this situation or any other and has words for Drake or anyone else trying to test him. During a segment from his show this morning, (August 9) the gloves came off as Ebro explained what happened and why everyone needs to chill out.
“We had an absurd conversation about speculative rap beef that was so absurd that the idea that Marshall Mathers, Eminem, would jump up and protect Joe Budden and go at Drake,” he said. “That is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard.
“It is ridiculous so Drake is really mad about that? Hit the button! Do not play with me. None of y’all,” he continued. “You know what time it is with me. I’m cool with everybody. I don’t go nowhere with security. Everybody in the hood knows me. It’s not an issue with me, ever. I’m keeping it clean for everybody and I appreciate the love at MSG.”
Damn. Well, at least we know where Ebro stands. Is this thing finally over? Funkmaster Flex seems to think it isn’t. We’ll see if that leg of the beef continues to stand. Check out what Ebro had to say below.
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SÃO PAULO - No terceiro dia como vereador de São Paulo, Fernando Holiday (DEM), de 20 anos, disse que vai apresentar uma proposta para revogar o Dia da Consciência Negra, data celebrada em 20 de novembro. Em entrevista à TV Câmara nesta quarta-feira, 4, o jovem afirmou ainda que vai propor o fim das cotas raciais em concursos públicos municipais da capital.
O dia 20 de novembro foi escolhido como homenagem à morte de Zumbi dos Palmares, líder do Quilombo dos Palmares, assassinado neste data em 1695. Já as cotas raciais em concursos públicos municipais foram implementadas pelo ex-prefeito Fernando Haddad (PT) no primeiro ano de mandato, em 2013.
Ao Estado, o parlamentar detalhou a proposta nesta quinta-feira, 5: "Seria alguma outra data que relembrasse a libertação dos negros, mas que homenageasse outra figura e que não tivesse o nome 'Dia da Consciência Negra'. Este nome é segregacionista, acaba de certa forma sendo racista. As pessoas devem ter consciência humana, independentemente da cor da pele."
Após ter sido eleito com pouco mais de 48 mil votos, agora como vereador Holiday voltou a reforçar bandeiras de sua campanha. Muitas delas foram apresentadas na internet, onde o ativista do Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) ganhou destaque.
Em novembro do ano passado, o jovem publicou em uma rede social que é "um absurdo" existir uma data como o Dia da Consciência Negra, que "homenageie um homem assassino escravagista."
"Vou ter propostas de várias frentes, algumas delas mais polêmicas, como propor o fim das cotas raciais em concursos públicos municipais em São Paulo. É um debate que há muito tempo venho encampando, contrário às cotas porque acredito que elas reforçam o racismo ao invés de ajudar os negros. Vou propor a mudança da justificativa do Dia da Consciência Negra, que é um feriado complicado, que muitas vezes pode atrapalhar esse combate (contra o racismo)", explicou Holiday na TV Câmara.
O vereador disse também que vai apresentar propostas para revogar todo tipo de legislação ou burocracia que atrapalhe o microempreendedor e o microempresário da periferia, "que hoje sofre com uma série de papeladas e processos burocráticos para montar seu próprio negócio ou contratar alguma pessoa".
Outra ideia defendida pelo parlamentar é a proibição de homenagens em sessões solenes a ditadores e genocidas "ou qualquer personagem ou fato histórico que tenha atentado contra os direitos humanos e a liberdade em algum momento da história."
"Já protestei na Câmara contra uma homenagem que fizeram a Fidel Castro em uma sessão solene que teve. Pretendo trazer essa experiência e esse idealismo para dentro da Câmara, uma casa legislativa que é a casa do povo, para que respeite as liberdades também quando for homenagear alguém", afirmou.
Na entrevista, Holiday não citou outras personalidades que poderiam ter homenagens barradas.
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Charity fundraising balls and balloon raffles etc :)
The charity I work for has a fundraising ball coming up for which we are the beneficiary (sorry crap sentence there). We don't really do this kind of fundraising much, but it has been suggested that we run some kind of raffle type thing (as well as a normal raffle), where a piece of paper is put inside each one of lots of balloons, some of which are winners for different amounts, and people buy them/bid for them etc.
Does anyone have any experience of how this works exactly? Anyone been to an event where this happened and can remember it?
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A Domino's driver has been suspended after photos were taken of his filthy delivery vehicle.
The unnamed worker's car was littered with piles of rubbish - including coffee cups full of cigarettes.
He also had mounds of receipts, pastries and other old bits of food strewn across the floor, seats and dashboard.
Shocked witness Hannah King took a series of photos after coming across the vehicle while in Taunton, a town in England, and sent it to bosses at the popular chain.
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King said she was so shocked by the state of the vehicle, which she claims was parked opposite Domino's pizzeria, that she tweeted the franchise.
She said: "Domino's acceptable state for a Taunton delivery driver's car? Costa cup full of fag butts to name but one."
King also took a number of photographs of the vehicle. The pictures show a significant amount of rubbish inside including receipts, pastries and coffee cups.
She added: "It is just vile.
"I am just shocked that someone, let alone a food delivery driver, could let their car get to that state.
"It's vile inside and I can't imagine the germs festering in there while food is being transported. And how did the store manger or staff not see it? He's been reported before for the state of his car so clearly nothing was done then."
The photographs were reportedly taken at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6. Hannah had not ordered pizza from the takeaway and was just passing when she noticed the delivery vehicle.
Domino's confirmed the driver in question had now been suspended pending an investigation.
Louise Butler, a spokesperson for Domino's commented: "Our delivery drivers are expected to maintain a high level of vehicle cleanliness at all times, and whilst an isolated incident, this is clearly wholly unacceptable.
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"The colleague concerned has been suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation and we've been in touch with King to offer our apologies, which she has accepted.
"We've also reminded the store of the importance of maintaining brand standards with regular car spot checks to prevent a reoccurrence."
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Rapper/actor Shad Moss, better known as Bow Wow, has a message for Donald Trump after he bashed Snoop Dogg’s “failing career.”
On Wednesday, the president took to Twitter to slam “failing” rapper Snoop Dogg, who this week released the video “Lavender,” which features Snoop Dogg shooting a Trump lookalike with a toy gun.
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“Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!” tweeted Trump.
In the video, directors Jesse Wellens and James DeFina depict an America where everyone’s a clown, including president “Ronald Klump.” After Klump holds a press conference to announce the deportation of all dogs, Snoop chains up the Clown-in-Chief and shoots him with a fake pistol.
Since the video was released, it has drawn criticisms from U.S. senator and hip-hop fan Marco Rubio, who said that the rapper should be “very careful” about such depictions. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, also registered his displeasure with the “Lavender” video, telling TMZ: “It’s totally disgraceful, Snoop owes the president an apology. There’s absolutely nothing funny about an assassination attempt on a president.”
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Bow Wow’s dig at Trump’s wife Melania comes two months after she reached a settlement with a blogger, Webster Griffin Tarpley of Maryland, who suggested that she might have worked as an escort before becoming First Lady.
Trump also sued Tarpley and the Daily Mail in September, claiming that a story saying that Trump worked for a modeling agency where the models also worked as escorts, inaccurately painted her as a sex worker.
The White House has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.
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June 2, 2011
goin' up california with an achin' in my heaaaaarrrrt. part one.
road trips are super cool. super cool like picnics or camping or going to disneyland!
wait, all of these kinda could involve a road trip...ok, maybe i just like trips.
anyhoo, the hank and i went on one this last weekend. we decided on tuesday that we'd make the haul up to sequoia national park and walk inside some big ass trees. {sorry for ditching your bbq, mom. me = worst daughter ever.} but oh, what big ass trees we did see! we attacked those trees - walked through them, walked around them, hugged them, touched them, sang to them, danced for them, meditated with them, et cetera, et ceteraaaaa. and look, we took pictures of all the fun! yeeeaaaah.
not only can you see right through that tree but check out the moss all over it's tree friends! hank felt right at home here. he's not a tree but he did grow up around them.
tree = wood = shelter.
that there's some serious roots.
nature's heaviest fishing pole.
i apologize for the serious lacking in fashion here. we were just driving through and didn't pack for 39 degree weather. it was a quick, try and find anything warmer than tank tops and flip flops! moment.
jeans with sneakers? um, no.
Oo, that reminds me!!
the first time i went back home with hank, to his home state of connecticut,
he wanted to take me to his old watering hole. his friends were going to be there
and i'd get to meet them all. i got dressed and chose jeans, heels and a cute top. i walked out
to tell him i was ready to go; he looked at me like i was an alien and suggested i change -
that i was too overdressed, that i might consider wearing my sneakers with jeans instead.
um, what?
no, i will not wear my running shoes with jeans. nope.
he pleaded that i change, explaining that i wouldn't fit in. that girls there didn't wear heels.
gah!
so, to appease and not embarrass my new bf, i did it. i basically looked like i do in the above pics.
but at a BAR, with other people, people that weren't hiking.
and i bet you can guess what all the other ct gals were wearing in that bar.
yes, yes, heels and jeans.
eff balls.
end, scene.
so yeah, it was cold there. luckily! on our way back down south, it got much warmer - beautiful in fact. we stopped in and around SLO and rode the 1 all the way home. it was lovely.
stop in tomorrow-ish to see pics from the sunny side of the road trip!
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2014 was a great year for conspiracy theorists running for office, but these extreme politicians couldn’t do it without the help of a conservative media bent on pushing outlandish conspiracy theories from the fringe into the mainstream. Here, gleaned from our weekly Paranoia-Rama, are the conspiracy theories that shaped the year.
Immigration Insanity
While the temporary increase in unaccompanied child migrants coming to the southern border this summer has since subsided, the children fleeing violence in Central America provoked a year’s worth of fear mongering and conspiracy theories from conservative commentators and politicians.
One member of Republican National Committee speculated that the children were actually anti-American “warriors” who would soon “rise up against us,” an anti-immigrant activist suggested that they were child soldiers bent on waging war against the U.S., and Phyllis Schlafly and Alex Jones told their audiences to start worrying about becoming slaves to immigrants.
Republican members of Congress came up with their own conspiracy theories. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama accused Democrats of using immigration as part of the party’s “war on whites,” Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said Democrats planned to turn the child migrants into illegal voters, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota warned that the government would use the immigrant children “to do medical experimentation” and a whole host of GOP politicians falsely claimed that the child migrants were carrying Ebola, a disease that has still not infected a single known person in Central America or Mexico.
Ebola Ebola Ebola
Is anyone surprised that conservatives cynically turned a disease ravaging West Africa into a political attack on Democrats and immigration from Latin America? Republican officials and conservative pundits went as far as to suggest that President Obama would deliberately infect Americans, including military service members, with the disease as part of his nefarious, Big Government agenda, or to further his purported goal of punishing America.
What Turned The Kids Gay This Year?
The right-wing adage that gay people “cannot reproduce so they must recruit” children is still alive and well, and this year many anti-gay conservatives continued to worked overtime to propagate the homosexual recruitment myth. Televangelist Pat Robertson warned that Hollywood is turning children gay through “girl-on-girl movies,” while radio host Kevin Swanson said movies like “Frozen” are trying to “indoctrinate my five-year-old to be a lesbian.”
Gordon Klingenschmitt, a televangelist who was recently elected to the Colorado state legislature, said a Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Al Franken would “require pedophilia in all public schools” and “require pro-gay child recruiting.” He even hosted a whole show about how parents should avoid interactions with “a gay” lest he “recruit” their kids. Conservatives also railed against Common Core and other education efforts by warning that they would turn kids gay.
Gay Nazism
Religious Right leaders who hope to criminalize homosexuality and strip LGBT people of marriage rights and antidiscrimination protections are pretty sure that conservatives are the real victims of oppression. And they not afraid to use absurd historical analogies to prove their point.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins charged that gay rights supporters are getting ready to “start rolling out the boxcars to start hauling off Christians” to concentration camps, Rick Santorum feared “reeducation camps” for gay rights opponents and pastor Scott Lively claimed gay people are using against conservatives “the same ‘blood libel’ used against the Jews by the Nazis.”
Others drew comparisons to slavery and Jim Crow, with Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association alleging that gay people have become “our new slave masters” who will “send us to the hole if we refuse the massa’s demands” and “Trunews” host Rick Wiles warning that Americans “will be saves” to the newly powerful “homosexuals and sodomites.” Wiles even said that gay people in America may soon realize Adolf Hitler’s dream of creating a “race of super gay male soldiers” who are determined to “slaughter” Christians.
Cliven Bundy Hysteria
Becoming vocal cheerleaders for Cliven Bundy — a Nevada rancher and anti-government extremist who refused to obey several court orders to pay decades of back grazing fees — may not have been the best idea for Republican politicians and Fox News pundits. Even Glenn Beck seemed horrified by the racist and violent messages coming from the Bundy ranch.
Bundy’s supporters, however, insisted that the government was using the Bundy standoff as a way to prepare for “civil war,” “mass graves,” “FEMA camps,” “tyranny” and “jihad.” After all, Bundy said that God was on his side.
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Review: Chris Ethan – Jingle Spell
Summary: It’s the most horrible time of the year.
Smooches under mistletoes and tacky reindeer decorations.
Newly single, Davey has had enough of wasting his love and having his heart broken. Better to be single, he decides. No more dates. No more falling in love. No more dreaming of happy ever afters. Those are for movies.
He’s resolute.
And then Avery steps into his life, bringing care, compassion, and tenderness in his path.
Davey’s so tempted to hope again. But can an online date and a brief encounter turn into anything other than an ephemeral sexual encounter?
Is there a future for them? Will Avery stay? And most importantly, can Davey bear to offer up his heart to the season’s love—just one more time?
Review: Davey doesn’t hate Christmas time. It’s just not a great time for him. He is lying next to his boyfriend and catches him on Grindr, causing an early morning breakup. Now he has to deal with stupidity of the season at the mall while also dealing with a bitter boss. “He hated feeling like this, being so unlike himself, but he couldn’t help it. His soul was black and his mood was blue.” You feel for him. “All he wanted was a guy who could stay in a relationship with him for more than two months. It wasn’t too much to ask, yet so impossible to attain. In the six years since he’d come of age and out of the closet his most notable partnership had lasted five weeks and ended over what else? A text message.”
A customer with sad grey eyes and a sprinkle of salt-and-pepper hair buying a beautiful scarf makes the day a little brighter, even if said man doesn’t ask Davey out. A night out is what he needs, so off to Grindr he goes, where he talks with a sweet man named Avery, who of course is the scarf man and they make a date.
Davey really is pretty needy. He has a pretty terrible past and he’s always trying to make the next guy THE guy, which doesn’t usually work. But this time it just might be the right man as they get to know each other (and sort of have an insta-love going on). Up until this point, the book was a 4 for me because I liked both Davey and Avery and I appreciated how they were getting to know each other. Then a blast from Avery’s past shows up and his response to Davey left me cold. I lost respect for him and at that point, Davey was so low I just wanted him to find someone else. “Just his damn luck. Alone and battered, yet again.” I think it bothered me because Avery came across as so much younger and immature than he was supposed to be and had been up to that point.
So this is a sweet holiday story with two lonely men who find each other.
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Pedophilia has been widely viewed as a psychological disorder triggered by early childhood trauma.
Now, many experts see it as a biologically rooted condition that does not change — like a sexual orientation — thanks largely to a decade of research by Dr. James Cantor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Cantor’s team has found that pedophiles share a number of physical characteristics, including differences in brain wiring. It’s now thought that about 1 to 5 per cent of men are pedophiles, meaning they are primarily attracted to children.
These findings have been widely accepted among scientists, but have had little impact on social attitudes or law. However, we are left with the alarming question: if some men are born pedophiles, what should society do with them?
Bolstered by this research, pedophiles who have never molested children are seeking social acceptance.
‘We can resist’
Ethan Edwards has always loved little girls.
For years, he told himself his feelings were protective and loving, nothing more. But when he hit 50, he found he couldn’t stifle his desires any longer.
“I realized that young girls certainly took my breath away, more than grown-ups are usually charmed by kids,” he says.
Edwards, using a pseudonym, wrote about this realization on Virtuous Pedophiles, a website he co-founded for pedophiles who have never molested children. The group says their attraction is one they were born with and cannot change, but can control.
Edwards says the goal of Virtuous Pedophiles is to prevent child abuse, by reducing the stigma against non-offender pedophiles.
“We do not choose to be attracted to children, and we cannot make that attraction go away,” reads the website, which has about 200 members.
“But we can resist the temptation to abuse children sexually, and many of us present no danger to children whatsoever. Yet we are despised for having a sexual attraction that we did not choose, cannot change, and successfully resist.”
The biology of pedophiles
Sitting inside his office at the College St. research hospital, Cantor is surrounded by books on sexology and eccentric decor — a framed sign that reads “Data Is My Porn,” a throw pillow that spells “penis” in Braille.
Down the hall at the Kurt Freund Phallometric Lab, Cantor’s research team conducts experiments on convicted sex offenders. The men view nude images of children and adults of both sexes, while a device measures blood flow to their penises.
The method, called phallometry and invented by Freund in the 1950s, accurately measures sexual interests in 90 per cent of men, Cantor says.
“It’s the most obvious test in the world,” he says. “The procedure gives us a relative measure of how he reacts to the adult categories versus the child categories.”
His team has found that pedophiles share many physical characteristics. They are shorter, on average, than other men. They are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous. Their IQs are about 10 to 15 points lower. Finally, they are more prone to childhood head injuries — which Cantor chalks up to a natural clumsiness.
These physical characteristics are determined before birth, so the explanation for pedophilia must be in part prenatal, Cantor says.
“It’s become harder and harder to explain pedophilia on just (early childhood events). It’s either purely biological or a mix of biological and experiential. But pure experience can’t explain these data.”
Cantor, an internationally respected clinical psychologist, has also conducted studies with sex offenders using MRIs. He has found they have less white matter — the connective tissue that carries messages to other parts of the brain — than other types of criminal offenders.
The evidence suggests pedophilia results from atypical wiring in the brain. Cantor calls it “cross-wiring”: the stimuli that usually evoke nurturing and protective reactions in adults is instead evoking sexual reactions in pedophiles.
Similar experiments are being conducted across the globe, most notably at Berlin’s Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, but Cantor’s research has greatly influenced the view among researchers that pedophilia has a biological basis.
Pedophiles are thought to be overwhelmingly men. About a third of those men prefer boys, about a third prefer girls, and a third will be attracted to both.
Although female sex offenders exist, they are rare and it is more difficult to test their desires. Queen’s University sexologist Dr. Meredith Chiversconducted a similar genital-based test on women, but found, curiously, that females respond to everything — including images of bonobos copulating. (One theory is that during evolution, women developed this response as an automatic defence mechanism for rape.)
Some researchers disagree on whether the brain differences in pedophiles occurred before birth or in early development. Regardless, many are coming around to the view that pedophiles cannot be “cured” — but some can be stopped from molesting children.
Preventing child abuse
“Not all sex offenders who target children are pedophiles, and not all pedophiles are sex offenders,” says Dr. Michael Seto, a pedophilia expert and forensic researcher with the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.
Seto, a former colleague of Cantor’s at CAMH, has found that only 50 to 60 per cent of convicted sex offenders are pedophiles. The rest have sexually abused children for reasons beyond attraction — personality disorders, chaotic households or violent impulses.
His research has focused on psychological traits shared by sex offenders, potentially providing insight into why some pedophiles molest children, while other “virtuous” pedophiles like Edwards are apparently able to control their urges.
Seto has found that sex offenders are much more likely to have a sexual abuse history than other types of criminal offenders. Certain traits, including impulsiveness, risk-taking behaviour, sexual preoccupation and lack of empathy, are also shared by sex offenders.
He has argued forcefully for pedophilia to be thought of as a sexual orientation — an idea he acknowledges is controversial, but hopes will actually help prevent child abuse.
“Right now, it’s really slanted so that the treatment services are for people who have gotten into trouble,” he says. “Obviously, we need that, but I think where there is a big gap is in terms of prevention. How do we reach people who are sexually attracted to children and are aware of it?”
One of the concerns with labelling pedophilia a sexual orientation is the potential for parallels to be drawn with homosexuality. Seto is quick to point out the difference between orientation based on age, and orientation based on gender.
However, if pedophilia was widely viewed as a sexual orientation, effective treatment could focus on self-regulation skills — avoiding acting on one’s urges — rather than trying in vain to change sexual preferences, he wrote in a research paper last year.
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“Pedophiles will remain hidden if they continue to be hated and feared, which would impede efforts to better understand this sexual orientation and thereby prevent child sexual exploitation,” he wrote.
Mandatory reporting laws make it incredibly risky for pedophiles to tell therapists about their desires. In Canada, one is only required to report to the police if a specific child is at risk, but the laws can be misunderstood by mental health professionals, says Seto.
The Harper government recently announced tougher measures against child predators, including a public sex offender registry. Seto says this is misguided, given that the recidivism rate for convicted sex offenders is actually quite low, at about 10 to 15 per cent.
“One of the worries would be that would further drive individuals underground,” he says. “It could also lead to problems that decrease the likelihood they can successfully be integrated.”
Ironically, Cantor says the idea that pedophiles are born, not made, can be used to support opposing political views — some will say “lock ’em up and throw away the key,” while others will call for sympathy and therapy.
Cantor often receives emails from distraught men seeking guidance on controlling their desires. The side effect of strict mandatory reporting laws is that people don’t come in for help, he says.
Pedophiles among us
To the unassuming onlooker, Ethan Edwards leads an ordinary life in Pennsylvania. He is in his mid-50s and works as a software developer. He was married for more than a decade and raised three daughters. He is well-respected in his community.
But Edwards harbours a secret that, if exposed, threatens his entire livelihood and reputation. He is attracted to girls as young as 4 — and although he says he has never molested a child, his desire is enough to make him a monster in most people’s eyes.
“For me, the biggest problem with this is the isolation,” he says in an interview over Google Chat. “Everyone else thinks I’m sick and dangerous. Well, not everyone, but most of society.”
Edwards is actually a rarity among pedophiles, in that he managed to suppress his desires until he was middle-aged. Most pedophiles become aware of their urges at puberty or by the time they are young adults; many will describe their desires as romantic, not just sexual.
He is also able to maintain relationships with adult women — he says he was attracted to his wife while they were married. Perhaps surprisingly to some, he says he was never attracted to his daughters, citing an innate repulsion to incest.
Even now that he has accepted he is attracted to children, he swears that he will never act on his urges.
“I think it’s because my protective instinct towards children is so strong,” he says.
Edwards says he has never seen any child pornography. Instead he looks at seemingly innocuous photos of children — almost always wearing clothes, at least bathing suits. Cantor calls it “victimless,” although some might dispute that.
He launched his website with Nick Devin, also a middle-aged professional using a pseudonym, after meeting him on another support group, b4uact.org. Both felt sex with children was inherently wrong, and they wanted to create a website for other pedophiles with that view.
On Virtuous Pedophiles’s “First Words” page, pedophiles — many of them teenagers or young adults — describe their relief at finding the group.
“I am in my late 20s and have been dealing with unwanted attraction to young boys since I was a teenager,” writes one member. “Though I have never acted on these attractions with anyone, this is my primary sexual attraction, and it bothers me greatly. I have considered suicide many times.”
Many pedophiles online do not share the viewpoint of Edwards and Devin.
On some sites, anonymous writers advocate for lowering the age of consent.
“It should be clear to anyone with any grey matter that pedophilia is just another oppressed sexual orientation or interest, and age doesn’t somehow magically make consensual sex between two people into something evil,” writes one user.
Another writes: “Nobody will ever quite understand the pain that we feel . . . seeing and longing for something we love but cannot have . . . and if we reach for it . . . we are accused of being sadistic monsters who only want to hurt kids. It will not last forever. Things will change.”
Edwards says he is disturbed by the activists that are “pro-contact” and hopes that young, struggling pedophiles find his group first.
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You look so pretty,
I love that dress.
Thank you, you look pretty, too.
Oh well that's so
sweet of you to say.
So it's 2018 now, isn't it?
I haven't seen you since
2017, what's changed,
what's happened?
I've had some of those out.
Oh there's is that
two teeth are gone?
One's coming in?
Oh boy.
Two are gone.
Two are gone.
That one's coming in.
Yeah it looks like a perfect
place to put a straw.
You can just put
a straw in there
and suck on like a
shake or something.
OK.
I put it in there.
It's been my birthday as well.
Oh really, how was that?
It was great, we
went to the snow.
You went to the snow?
Yeah.
And did you do, what
did you do in the snow?
Tubing, and we built a snowman.
That looks like a
whole lot of fun.
Yeah.
That's not, was that your
first time in the snow?
Yes, it was.
Really?
It's very cold in
the snow isn't it?
You look like you're
having a lot of fun.
I am.
Those are some cool sunglasses.
Is that so people
won't recognize you
because you're famous?
No.
So I hear you're
taking hip hop classes.
Yeah.
What is your
favorite dance move?
I don't know what it's
called but it's this.
And this one.
Yeah I think that's Twitch's
favorite dance move, too,
I see him do that all the time.
So you're watching
my "Game of Games,"
I understand, what's
your favorite part
of "Game of Games?"
I like the buttons part.
Oh when I push the buttons?
When I make people
drop and stuff?
How come you like that?
I like it better
because they fall
into the pie and
blindfolded musical chairs.
They start dancing so crazy.
I know, I know, it's
so fun isn't it?
So I heard also that
you like scientists now.
That's your new thing, is
you're following scientists?
Yes, I got a book
from the bookstore
and it had scientists in it.
You're six, right?
Yeah.
OK so that's the
book you bought?
Is a book about scientists?
Yes.
OK so tell me what
scientists you're following.
Who do you like?
I think there's some pictures
of ones that, who is that?
That guy has a fancy name.
But I think I need to
pronounce it like this.
It's French, Antoine Lavoisier.
He recognized and named
hydrogen and oxygen
on the periodic
table, but he's best
known for knowing what
oxygen does in combustion.
Wow, OK.
And who is this?
That's Daniel Bernoulli.
Oh that's right.
And what is he known for?
His principle explains
how airplanes fly.
It's because of the
shape of the wing.
The wing is shaped so
that the air flows faster
over the top of the wing
and slower underneath.
It's like the air has a
little slide to go down.
Yes and who's this?
That's Galileo.
I love that drink.
OK.
Well it was named
after him, I'm sure.
Tell me about Galileo.
One of discoveries
was about motion.
Something only has to
be pushed or pulled
if there's a force
slowing it down.
So if you had a
ball on the ground,
the ground would create
friction and the air
would create the drag.
But if that same ball
were up in space,
it would keep going without
having to be pushed or pulled.
K. And who's this right here?
That's Isaac Newton.
Look at his hair, he's
got a lot of hair.
Tell us about Isaac Newton.
Newton discovered
the law of gravity.
He even what about
a math version
of his discovery to predict
how the moon, comets
and planets move.
Wow, OK.
And this is who?
You know what's funny?
I think that's a
picture of Robert Hooke.
You're right, it's not funny,
you're absolutely right.
What's funny is you
know all of this stuff.
That's what's funny.
But, actually, I really
can't say for sure.
Because there isn't an
exact portrait that exists.
His friend, Isaac Newton,
either lost the picture
or destroyed it.
I see.
So and he was the first
person to do what?
He was the first
person known to see
actual cells under
the microscope
after it was invented.
Wow, that's amazing.
But we're not sure
if that's him or not.
All right.
That's my best guess
of what he looked like.
Well if anyone watching is
related to him, knows him.
Sir, if you're watching,
please get in touch with us.
Karaoke is your new thing to do.
Yeah.
So you go to bars and where
do you, where do you do it?
At home.
Oh at home.
We have a special karaoke
stage in the corner.
Oh Wow, that's great.
And so what's your
favorite song?
I like "Let it Go."
Of course you do,
that's your go-to song.
Yeah.
I look foward to you doing
that in a bar one day.
That would be--
all right, well I
don't know what kind of
machine you have at home.
But we got you one.
Because, I don't know
what you have, but let's
see what we got you.
Because nobody puts
Brielle in a corner.
That's going to be yours.
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Q:
Woher kommt das Adjektiv "vollschlank"?
Woher kommt das Adjektiv vollschlank?
Warum bedeutet es quasi das Gegenteil von dem, was es ausdrückt?
Wie nennt man solche Wörter?
A:
Wikipedia nennt als Herkunftsangabe:
Das Wort „vollschlank“ ist in der Zeit um die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert entstanden, als „voll-“, aus der Wirtschaftssprache kommend, allgemein eine Intensivierung ausdrückte, wie etwa in den bis heute üblichen Wörtern „Vollmilch“, „Volldampf“ oder „vollinhaltlich“. Vgl. Lutz Mackensen: Die deutsche Sprache unserer Zeit. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1956, S. 74.
Diese Angabe stammt aus dem Artikel über Euphemismus, wo vollschlank als Beispiel genannt wird. Allerdings bezeichnet ein Euphemismus allgemein einen sprachlichen „Ausdruck, der eine Person, eine Personengruppe, einen Gegenstand oder einen Sachverhalt beschönigend, mildernd oder in verschleiernder Absicht benennt“, und nicht konkret ein Wort, dessen (teilweises) Gegenteil gemeint ist. Vollschlank ist ein Euphemismus; die Bedeutung als rhetorische Figur (Oxymoron) beschreibt splattne in seiner Antwort. Allerdings bin ich gar nicht sicher, ob es ein Oxymoron ist (siehe Kommentare).
A:
Das Wort vollschlank ist eine beschönigende Bezeichnung (Euphemismus) für dick (oder fett) und wird meist mit einem Augenzwinkern verwendet.
Ich glaube auch, dass das Wort ein Oxymoron ist. Darunter versteht man eine rhetorische Figur, bei der eine Formulierung aus zwei gegensätzlichen, einander widersprechenden oder sich gegenseitig ausschließenden Begriffen gebildet wird. In unserem Fall werden die Begriffe voll (im Sinne von füllig, mollig) und schlank zu einem gewollten Widerspruch zusammengefasst.
Update
Ich bin nicht überzeugt von der Herkunft des Wortes, wie sie in der Quelle im Wikipedia-Artikel über Euphemismus angegeben ist. Dieser Google-Ngram-Graph legt nahe, dass das Wort erst im 20. Jahrhundert aufkam:
(Link zum Google-Ngram-Viewer)
A:
Zur Herkunft kann ich nicht viel neues sagen. In einem Kommentar wurde schon einmal Grimms Wörterbuch erwähnt:
-schlank, adj., neues modewort, das richtige schönheitsmasz der weiblichen fülle bei schlankheit bezeichnend.
Laut dieser Seite ist dieser Abschnitt 1933 fertiggestellt worden. Das passt zu dem NGram, das @splattne in seiner Antwort anführt, und würde nahelegen, dass die in der Wikipedia angeführte Quelle um vielleicht 20-25 Jahre daneben liegt. Jedenfalls würde es mich wundern, wenn ein um 1900 enstandenes Wort gut 30 Jahre später noch als "neues Modewort" bezeichnet würde.
Aber Du hast noch zwei andere Fragen gestellt:
Warum bedeutet es quasi das Gegenteil von dem was es ausdrückt?
Wie nennt man solche Worte?
Falls Du damit andeuten willst, dass das Wort allein aufgrund seiner Bestandteile etwas wie "sehr schlank" ausdrückt, so würde ich das als eine falsche Annahme zurückweisen. Die Regeln, wie im Deutschen Zusammensetzungen gebildet werden, sind so frei, dass man aus den Bestandteilen eines Kompositums nicht direkt auf seine Bedeutung schließen kann. Jemand, der saumselig ist, ist nicht unbedingt selig. Altklug ist etwas ganz anderes als altersweise, unheimlich nicht das Gegenteil von heimlich, ober- hat in obergärig eine andere Funktion als in oberfaul. Vergleiche auch besenrein und stubenrein oder unfertig, schlüsselfertig und schlagfertig. Ein aus voll und schlank gebildetes Adjektiv könnte zwar bedeuten "völlig / ganz und gar schlank" - aber es muss es nicht, und deshalb halte ich es für folgerichtig, dass es dafür keine spezielle Bezeichnung gibt.
Was es aber gibt, sind Wörter, die mehrere Bedeutungen haben, von denen zwei ein Gegensatzpaar bilden. Droge z.B. kann ein Heilmittel bezeichnen oder ein Rauschgift, umfahren das Passieren eines Hindernisses oder die Kollision mit selbigem. Solche Wörter nennt man Januswörter oder Autoantonyme. Vollschlank alleine kommt dafür nicht in Frage, weil es nur eine Bedeutung hat. Wenn wir es aber mit dem Begriff Wort nicht so ganz genau nehmen, könnte man sagen, dass die Wortgruppe voll schlank und das Adjektiv vollschlank zusammen eine Art Januswort bilden.
Abgesehen davon stimme ich natürlich den anderen Antworten zu, die das Wort als Euphemismus einordnen - für seine heutige Verwendung und unsere heutigen Vorstellungen und Bewertung von Schlankheit. Wenn ich mir den Eintrag im Grimm so ansehe, bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob das damals auch schon so gesehen wurde. Ich finde, man könnte ihn auch lesen als
schlank plus soviel Fülle, dass eine schöne Figur dabei herauskommt
Oder anders ausgedrückt: wenn Schlankheit damals gar nicht so das Schönheitsideal war, dann war vollschlank vielleicht gar nicht beschönigend, sondern abmildernd und sogar "verbessernd" gemeint. Voll könnte dann tatsächlich, wie in der Quelle des Wikipedia-Artikels genannt, als Intensivierung gebraucht worden sein, aber nicht im Sinne von "besonders", sondern eher von "noch besser als".
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Reply to post: Re: Shitstorm V2
Re: Shitstorm V2
Aye, Dan 55. IMO the referendum should've been an EU-wide one on how to fix the EU, rather than whether we in the UK should stay or leave. I don't particularly want us to leave the EU, but I don't want to have untrammeled immigration to continue without their being very serious consequences for those who immigrate and then refuse to accept the local laws and mores. Ironically, it's the business far right that is most keen on completely free movement of people, as it lets them reduce labour costs, whilst the unwashed far right screams about the influx of foreigners.
Meanwhile the impact of immigration on local culture and societal norms is quietly ignored - because there's perceived to be no economic impact. The immigration question isn't about racism, it's about culture. I've spoken to several immigrants who feel as strongly about this as I do - they've come to the UK because of our generally tolerant society, and the last thing they want is for the UK to be turned into the kind of religously dominated bullying kind of society that they've moved her eto get away from. So far as I'm concerned, I don't care what colour a person is or where they're from - if they're in the UK, and adhere by our laws, customs and mores, they're British. If anoyone's here that doesn't accept that, no matter even if they were born here, then I do wish they'd bugger off to somewhere that suits them better instead of trying to turn the UK into a totalitarian hellhole. I gather from a French friend that there's folk over in France feel the same way there, too.
All this crap about being concerned about immigration equating to racism is unadulterated bullshit. There's not been a lot of sense spoken about sovereignty or trade issues, either. A pox on all their (the Leave/Remain campaigns) houses, for spreading disinformation. I think the referendum should be scrapped, and replaced with some kind of vote on how to fix the EU so that it doesn't cause so many within it to be unhappy about it.
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Heartbreaking Video Shows Dog's Final Goodbye to Dying Owner
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Remember the heroic pitbull puppy that saved a Brooklyn, N.Y., teen from a would-be rapist?
Well, that pup has earned his treat.
Apollo, a pitbull credited with saving its owner's girlfriend from a possible sexual assault, was honored Thursday during a special ceremony at New York City's Hotel Pennsylvania.
Following a limo ride to the venue, the canine was showered with gifts and a special cake.
Maya Fairweather, 18, told the New York Post in a Nov. 30 story that she was approached from behind in a Brooklyn park one night while taking Apollo for a walk. The assailant attempted to remove her pants, at which point Apollo sprung into action.
The five-month-old puppy chomped on the leg of the attacker, who struggled to free himself before running away.
"If you're good to your dog, your dog is good to you," Fairweather said.
She has one message for her attacker: ” I just hope he bit the s— out of you” https://t.co/96OhA7TSPr — New York Post (@nypost) November 30, 2016
"He's a great dog. I actually am proud because I wasn't there," said Apollo's owner Carlos Guzman.
"That was actually my job to be there and help her out on that occasion, but at least Apollo was with her."
Watch the above clip to learn more about this heroic pitbull.
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On Wednesday, not long after Arizona Senator Jeff Flake took to the Senate floor to denounce Donald Trump’s media-bashing as “despotic” and “authoritarian,” the president proved him right by releasing his “Highly Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards.” Flake’s earnest speech and Trump’s petty “awards” represent opposing Republican views of the media—but both of them deserve criticism, for different reasons.
Trump’s much-hyped “awards” ended up being nothing but a blog post on the Republican National Committee’s website that listed 10 articles from mainstream outlets allegedly guilty of “unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news.” The first item wasn’t news at all, but New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s mistaken prediction on election night in 2016 that the stock market would “never” recover from Trump’s victory. Other items included stories that were misreported but quickly corrected, as when Time magazine falsely reported that Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office. What the list mainly demonstrates is that large media organizations sometimes make factual errors, but have a useful process for correcting them.
It’s easy to dismiss the Fake News Awards as just another example of Trump’s clowning. Josh Barro, a senior editor at Business Insider, cautioned that liberals were too quick to frame this silly stunt as an example of an attack on the free press:
If you keep telling people non-terrifying things are terrifying — and the president’s whining about the media is definitely not terrifying — people will stop taking you seriously. https://t.co/sNH6elTKbt — Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 18, 2018
But if the Fake News Awards were faintly ridiculous, Trump’s larger pattern of attacking the media, including repeated calls from the White House for journalists to be fired, is deeply disturbing, for reasons that Flake’s speech helped illuminate. As Flake noted, Trump is a purveyor of numerous falsehoods, both trivial (the size of his inaugural crowds) and serious (birtherism, and the claim that the Russian collusion story is a “hoax”). By attacking the media, calling major news organizations the “enemy of the people,” Trump is pursuing a familiar authoritarian tactic of trying to discredit independent institutions that can hold power in check.
“No longer can we compound attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence,” Flake said. “No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these assaults on our institutions. And Mr. President, an American president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly deflect and distort and distract, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path. And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to the danger.”
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The Islamic State traces its most gory and sadistic practices straight to Allah and Muhammad.
[](/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg)To understand why the Islamic State not only decapitates its “infidel” captives, but also mutilates and mocks their corpses—and all to sadistic laughter—one need only turn to the Koran and deeds of Islamic prophet Muhammad.
The Koran exhorts believers to “Fight them [those who oppose Islam], Allah will torment them with your hands, humiliate them, empower you over them, and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts” (Koran 9:14-15).
As usual, to understand the significance of any Koran verse, one must turn to the sira and _hadith_—the biography and anecdotes of Muhammad, respectively—for context.
Thus we come to the following account concerning the slaughter of ‘Amr bin Hisham, a pagan Arab chieftain originally known as “Abu Hakim” (Father of Wisdom) until Muhammad dubbed him “Abu Jahl” (Father of Stupidity) for his staunch opposition to Islam.
After ‘Amr was mortally wounded by a new convert to Islam during the Battle of Badr, Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, a close companion of Muhammad, saw the “infidel” chieftain collapsed on the ground. So he went to him and started abusing him. Among other things, Abdullah grabbed and pulled ‘Amr’s beard and stood in triumph on the dying man’s chest.
According to Al-Bidaya wa Al-Nihaya (“The Beginning and the End”), Ibn Kathir’s authoritiative history of Islam, “After that, he [Abdullah] cut his [‘Amr’s] head off and bore it till he placed it between the hands of the Prophet. Thus did Allah heal the hearts of the believers with it.”
This, then, is the true significance of Koran 9:14-15: “Fight them, Allah will torment them with your hands [mortally wounding and eventually decapitating ‘Amr], humiliate them [pulling his beard], empower you over them [standing atop him], and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts [at the sight of his decapitated head].”
The logic here is that, pious Muslims are so full of zeal for Allah’s cause that the only way their inflamed hearts can be at rest is to see those who oppose Allah and his prophet utterly crushed—humiliated, mutilated, decapitated. Then the hearts of the believers can be at ease and “healed.”
This is surely one of the reasons behind the Islamic State’s dissemination of gory videos and pictures of its victims: the new “caliphate” is trying to heal the hearts of every believer inflamed for the cause of Allah.
If this sounds too farfetched, consider the following picture of a decapitated “infidel” from the Islamic State’s websites. The Arabic caption to the left says “healing for hearts”—a clear reference to the aforementioned Koran verse:
Koran 96:15-16 also alludes to the fate of ‘Amr and offers more context applicable to the Islamic State: “No! If he does not desist, we will surely drag him by the forelock—a lying, sinning forelock.”
According to al-Alusi’s tafsir, or exegesis, after Abdullah placed his foot on the dying foe of Islam, ‘Amr opened his eyes and recognized him. The once proud chieftain lamented that he was being killed by a common “goat herder,” to which Abdullah replied, “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it.” He then sheared his head off. “But he could not carry it, so he made holes in the ears and put thread through them and dragged the head to the prophet. Then Gabriel, peace be upon him, came laughing and saying, “O prophet, you got an ear and an ear—and the head between for a bonus!”
Based, then, on the treatment of ‘Amr bin Hisham (AKA “Abu Jahl”) as recorded in Islam’s core texts—Koran, hadith, sira, and tafsirs—all sadistic acts being carried out by the Islamic State were in fact committed by the earliest Muslims and all to the complete approval of Muhammad (and apparently the “angel” Gabriel, too). They include:
•Beheadings and mutilations (e.g., holes in ears of ‘Amr)
•Humiliation and gestures of triumph (feet on chest of fallen victim, dragging his body, or head, on the ground)
•Laughter, mockery, and celebration (for the hearts of the believers are now “healed”)
Indeed, along with the “healing for hearts” image above, consider some other pictures taken from the Islamic State’s websites and how well they conform to the above accounts describing the slaughter of ‘Amr#:
Note how in the following four pictures, to demonstrate that the enemies of Islam have been brought low, as Koran 9:14-15 promised, Islamic State members make it a point to place their feet atop their fallen corpses, most of which were first decapitated. Note also how the ubiquitous black flag of Islam is always raised above the fallen “infidels”—a reminder that “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it,” as Abdullah told ‘Amr, with his foot on his chest, before beheading him.
Note the jocularity in the following picture—reminiscent of the “angel” Gabriel laughing and joking about the mutilated head of ‘Amr. (If Allah’s angel finds such human carnage amusing, shouldn’t Allah’s jihadi servants as well?)
The following picture is reminiscent of how ‘Amr’s head was treated: mutilated and dragged on the ground. In this case, it is a decapitated body that is being degraded:
The next two pictures are of especial interest because they actually use the relatively arcane Arabic word haz (bottom left-hand corner), which literally means “to make an incision,” to describe the beheading of Islam’s enemies. The standard Arabic word for “cut” generally used to describe a beheading is qata‘. That the word used (haz) is the same word found in the early jihad literature is no coincidence and indicative of the source of inspiration: Islam’s scriptures.
In short, not only are the members of the Islamic State closely patterning themselves after Muhammad—whom Koran 33:21 exhorts believers to emulate in all ways—but even in the most sadistic of details are they finding support in their prophet.
Nor should it come as any surprise that Muslims are aware of these accounts from early Islamic history. After all, the near hagiographic Battle of Badr, including the story of ‘Amr’s slaughter, is routinely glorified worldwide in mosque sermons, on Islamic satellite stations, and in Islamic texts. It is a source of great pride.
Thus when young Muslims express their anger and frustration at the state of affairs of the Islamic world, their clerics council them to go to the jihad in Iraq and Syria and decapitate themselves an infidel—which, according to the Koran, should “heal their hearts.”
(Perhaps that’s why one former British rock star and convert to Islam is so eager to decapitate Christians? Perhap that’s why a jihadi savagely pulled out and bit into the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier—to heal his own heart by sating his rage against Allah’s “enemies”?)
Such Muslims join the jihad, and not only do they decapitate, but they mutilate, humiliate, and laugh at the disgraced enemies of Allah—in perfect emulation of the Islamic glory/gory stories they grew up on.
This is the true cult of jihad which few non-Muslims can begin to comprehend—and little wonder, considering that their political leaders, professors, and media continue to babble foolishly about how Islam is the “religion of peace.”
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how sleep inducing it is. My personal theory is that its so boring that most people just fell asleep while watching it- they probably had a really nice dream but accidentally mistook that dream for the anime they were watching before they fell asleep, it makes sense.As someone who stayed awake through the whole thing I guess its my duty to share my knowledge with others and let everyone know that they were wrong when they gave Yuru Camp△ a 10/10 and went around calling it really good and stuff. You're welcome!!!First things first, the characters are garbage. They all follow a simple stereotype each, which mind you isn't really a bad thing, choosing a stereotype to base your character off of and start doing the groundwork to creating an actual "character" is perfectly fine. The problem with Yuru camp△ is that they kind of forget to do the actual "creating characters" part of that. Sure hey might *look* like people, they all got arms and legs and all the other parts that make a human look like a human, its not until they actually start moving around and doing things until you start to realise you're watching an anime- not about real people, but about robots programmed to "act" like human beings. Sadly whoever created these robots failed to grasp that you need more than one character trait if you want to trick people into thinking your robots are real flesh and blood humans.Now remember, I'm not saying that all anime characters have to be like real people, not every anime can be like Neon Genesis Evangelion and 3-Gatsu no Lion after all. Especially with a "CGDCT" anime where the whole point of the show is trying to make the characters "cute", the best way to achieve this is apparently by making all the characters act like total morons/retards. And it works, just look at shows like K-on!! which is a very well-liked show and it follows the whole "making most of the characters seem like they have some kind of disorder" thing perfectly. But the difference between K-On!! and Yuru camp△ is that whoever wrote K-on!! at least googled the definitions of "comedy" and "entertainment" before they decided to make a series that tries to be "COMEDIC" AND "ENTERTAINING". You see what I'm trying to get at here? Yuru Camp△ has many scenes where people are talking, but that's all they do, they just talk to each other, sometimes a character might say something and the others start laughing- I assume what they're laughing at was supposed to be meant as a "joke" but it wasn't, they just said a random thing and people started laughing for seemingly no reason. Was the joke that there was no joke there? Like some kind of anti-humour? If so then, well, please don't make EVERY joke in your anime an anti-joke, because it makes you come off as a person who just has no idea how comedy works. I can't for the life of me understand why Yuru Camp△ has a "comedy" tag when there is no comedy to be found, its just as much of a comedy as something like Boogiepop Phantom or Legend of the Galactic heroes. As in not a comedy at all. The most essential part of being a comedy is that you need something to laugh at, but sadly that is not here in Yuru Camp△.So I guess you should understand now that this show has bad characters. There's Nadeshiko who was programmed to be obnoxious af. Aoi who was programmed to be obnoxious af. Chiaki who was programmed to be obnoxious af. And finally Rin who they actually forgot to program a """"personality"""" into but that was probably for the best since I don't think I can handle one more obnoxious freak around here. But I guess that's a double-edged sword since at the very least the obnoxious freaks are DOING *something*, Rin just sits there... or walks there... or collects pinecones for HALF AN EPISODE.... WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING ELSE. Rin is one of the main reasons *why* Yuru camp△ is so boring in the first place.Anyway, this isn't a review of Yuru Camp△ its a review of the Yuru camp△ *Specials* so I guess I should talk about what makes the specials in particular so bad too, huh? I hope you understand, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about why the show itself was bad too in case anyone who accidentally liked it stumbled upon this review.These specials consist of three short little episodes. The first of which tells the tale of when the camping club got their club room at school and also serves as a prequel to the entire series, I suppose. They kind of just sit there though, and talk about getting some camping gear but upon looking up the prices and whatnot of all the supplies needed for camping they realise that they are poor and can't afford any of it. And that' about it, nothing really special goes on here.Episode 2 is about Aoi and her identical little sister being lying scumbags and attempting to trick the other club members into believing their false lies. Nothing else really goes on, I can't give you an example of what the lies actually were or why they were stupid/not funny because to be quite frank I forget what they were due to the anime being so forgettable.Episode 3 is both my favourite and my least favourite. Its my favourite because I suppose they actually DID something... aside from sitting there and talking but my least favourite because it was the longest episode of all, lasting an entire twelve minutes. In this episode they get stranded on an island after jumping out of a plane like retards and then they go camping on the island. The episode ends with them realising that they should actually try to get help to get off the island instead of, well, camping. Help never arrived and I can only assume that the whole scenario ends with a Lord of the Flies situation.And now with that quick summary of the specials not only do you not have to watch the specials now and not waste like 20-something minutes of your life, but you can use those 20-something minutes to watch a good anime like Sakura Quest which actually knows how to write characters AND have comedy.I had a bunch of other points I wanted to make while watching the specials but unfortunately I forgot them all, which I suppose perfectly sums up what this show is like anyway. "Forgettable". Have a good day~
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Tag: african fashion
Hello there.. Have you been well? Do you ever have those days where nothing makes sense and you question everything around you and even yourself. Your steps feel heavy like you’re wading through swamp water. Another day another brown life taken too soon and his name made into a trending hashtag. It’s exhausting. I might have been born in Africa but living in America and having brothers the same age as Jordan Edwards, I have no delusions that they could very well be in the same situation. Our brown and black skintones are a death sentence in America and the fear can be overwhelming. But every time I want to give up and bury my head in the sand as a form of survival, these words flood my mind:
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Maya Angelou’s powerful words of defiance and resilience are like a soothing balm on a fresh burn. Reminding us to keep hope alive because that’s the only thing that matters. So I keep rising, like my grandparents and ancestors before them, I keep rising with the hope to live and thrive and honor all that I am. Joy in a world that is hell bent on holding you down is a revolutionary act so I choose joy and hope every chance I get. If you are a brown or black skinned king or queen choosing joy and hope over fear every morning, I salute you! To those who have been lost to senseless violence I honor you. The revolution lives on.
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Tokyo Teasing
This photo set was shot in an old house in Tokyo, Japan. Hitomi kills a bright blue bra and a second-skin pair of jeggings, basically super-tight, thin jeans that show the crack of her sweet ass. This was the first Hitomi layout to be chosen for her SCORE magazine debut in January ’13. Hitomi was the covergirl and this issue marked the first time that American and European magazine readers were exposed to this Asian wonder. Hitomi herself Tweeted her approval from her home in Japan when she saw this issue. N.W. had to write, “Hitomi’s knockers are like bombshells or torpedoes. Just gorgeous. And her huge areolae…I just love them. This, for me, is the closest one gets to female perfection.”
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This time last week, I was traveling home from Austin after a jam-packed three days of nonstop music at SXSW 2015. Many who make the trek to the annual industry rodeo do it with an eye on discovering new artists. That certainly fits in the mix when I’m down there – and the sets I caught by California rapper Boogie and Indiana singer-songwriter Elephant Micah were impressive – but my primary focus is catching up with Philadelphians at the festival to see how they fared.
We already saw some of this – the afternoon I spent with Vita and the Woolf as they bounced between unofficial showcases, or the night I hung out at RECPhilly and What Scene?’s all-Philly hip-hop-centric showcase on 6th Street. Here are six more Philly bands who, in one way or another, impressed me at SXSW, beginning with the band whose photo you see at the top of the page.
1. Sheer Mag – I am happy to report that this garagey South Philly five piece is not, in fact, bullshit. I certainly had my doubts when the hype hit last year following the release of their debut 7″. It got a Pitchfork writeup before the band had really begun to tour, and music bloggers and blaggers subsequently bean tripping over themselves to scream about Sheer Mag like they were some freaking musical revolutionary force, the next coming of The Clash. Whenever that happens, I’m immediately suspicious. But we can’t really fault the band for how industry dumbasses react to them, and taken on their own merits, they’re a fun crew. I caught them at a super late night set at Las Vegas Hotel. I lost my wallet at their show and still had a good time. Their live act is loud, unhinged and intoxicated; verges on the sloppy, but they’re relatively tight players and hold it together in the end. Songs are pretty generic, but you can tell watching them slam around the stage that Sheer Mag freaking means it, is in the moment and is doing it for nobody but themselves. I don’t expect they’ll have a long, prolific run; I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re no longer a band in two years, and are a minor local music footnote in ten. But for right now, while they’re not brilliant, they’re better than not bad.
2. Left & Right – The Red River Street club Valhalla was maybe half filled when this Philly-via-Charlottesville four-piece (and recent Key Studio Sessions stars) took the stage on Thursday evening, but this didn’t faze them. Like Sheer Mag, Left & Right are in it for themselves, and they rocked it as I’m sure they’ve been rocking the packed clubs they’ve been playing on tour with Diarrhea Planet (they hit Underground Arts on April 7th). Their sound intertwines rumbling BigMuff riffs with sparkling guitar leads; some moments simmer, some are a storm. The walls around the stage are filled with a checkerboard of old LP covers and it set a solid backdrop as the LNR Dudes stomped around, dove out of sight and into their pedalboards, returned amid bracing noises and delivered a set to outstretched arms hoisting Lone Star cans.
3. Pine Barons – These Jersey guys are in a pretty enviable place right now. They have super catchy indierock anthems and are tight performers, they’re on tour as direct support for their Philly BFF’s The Districts playing lots of sold out rooms, and they’ve got a new album in the can, waiting for somebody to release it. Hopefully this SXSW helps them out with that. I caught them at the Rachel Ray BBQ day party, and their short set had a lot of fire and energy. It was a hot and sunny day and I definitely got sunburnt. I also got serious Weezer vibes from Pine Barons’ very poppy new songs, which crosses surprisingly well with the Built to Spill / Dr. Dog approach of their earlier material. Excited to hear more from them.
4. The Districts – Of course I couldn’t hit this year’s SXSW without catching these guys. Like Courtney Barnett, they were ubiquitous, and it seemed at points like I couldn’t turn a corner without bumping into a District or four. Bruce Warren sung their praises previously, and I would just add that their live game right now is on, and that their Thursday night set at Parish was jammed with energy and excitement; “Peaches” is catchy and lively, “Young Blood” rips it up more than ever. Very excited for their Free at Noon next week.
5. A Day Without Love – When Brian Walker bought a badge and booked his spring vacation to SXSW, he didn’t expect to perform. He was going more to hit the panels, see bands, network and get some perspective on approaches he could take with his ever-evolving emo / alt-rock project A Day Without Love. It was one of those deals where somebody ran into him and was like “hey dude, want to play my unofficial day party?” Which can be hit or miss, but when you didn’t think you had a gig, anything is good. The party was at a sushi restaurant a half hour walk from downtown, there were maybe fifty people in attendance – which isn’t a bad crowd considering that Walker usually plays house shows here in Philly and had never played Texas before. The folks putting on the show seemed to be of the electro-jam-rock Lotus-ish variety, and one of them rushed behind Walker to provide drum pad accompaniment on an iPad as Walker performed. When he realized it was going on, he laughed and was like “Whaaat?” during a solo; his songs played sans beats brought the focus on his gripping words and fierce delivery. There was a lot of applause.
6. Creepoid – When I interviewed Creepoid for City Paper five years ago, bassist Anna Troxell had this great quote: “I’m turning 28. I’m not tryin’ to thrash anymore.” That mindset evidently went out the window, since when you see Creepoid now, she’s a force of nature, a dynamic presence front and center and slamming around to the drumbeats of her husband Pat and the roaring guitars of her bandmates Sean Miller and Nick Kulp. The band’s set at the Noise Showcase on Saturday afternoon was the last one I saw before catching my flight. It was filled with loud new ragers and lots of dry ice. The upcoming album sounds like it’s going to be solid. And, despite the band’s relocation to Savannah last year, they still introduce their sets saying “We’re Creepoid, we’re from Philly.” Love these guys.
For more coverage of SXSW 2015, click here.
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Q:
Why is Sanji wanted alive only?
In One Piece manga chapter 801, all the members of the Straw Hat Crew have gotten new bounties on their heads, being shown on those wanted posters. Do you guys have any ideas as to why Sanji's poster only stated wanted: alive only? What makes him so special that the government wants him alive?
A:
I also thought about this question and I have to agree that at the moment we can only guess what is the reason behind everything with Sanji.
Here are some facts:
Sanji is the only crew member about whom, we know nothing about (his family and his hometown). We just know he is from the North Blue.
Sanji has a very noble behavior and acts like a gentleman, which could be because of his education.
Sanji calls himself "Mr. Prince" in little garden.
Zoro calls him "Prince of idiots" during the fight with Foxy.
Sanji's following quote is also very suspicious:
Another point is that Sanji mentioned he was born in the North Blue and knew the land "Noland". Additionally, he wore a red-white hat two times (also in his zombie form), which have the same color as the buildings in the Lvneel Kingodm.
And these are just a few clues about Sanji. It seems obvious that Sanji's history must be quite interesting. It's possible that Sanji has some secret information which the Marines need, or he is an aristocrat, or maybe even a World Noble whom they want to get back alive.
Additionally, I remembered this video with lots of speculation about Sanji.
It's very interesting.
Enjoy.
A:
This was unknown when you asked, but later in chapter 812 we learn a bit. Along the line, up to 875, we get the following conclusion.
Sanji's dad did that. It is because he wants to capture him to marry one of Big Mom's daughters. The reason why Sanji was needed by his father who told him before "Don't you ever consider yourself my offspring again" is because whoever marries Big Mom's daughter becomes her pet. No Vinsmoke wants that. They just want an aliance with her. So his father realizes he had his old "failure of a son" and asked for that condition for the bounty. Before then, Sanji's "gentleman attitude" is a bit not like his father wanted, so he is locked up in a cell and runs away.
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I know what some of you will think. I am thinking it myself. Careful, careful.
Remember the “invitation” by the Good Men Project Magazine to add our voice to a purportedly fair examination of the men’s rights movement on their website? Remember the knife-in-the-back set-up by Editor Henry Belanger painting us all as frothing, whining, tin-foil hat wearing nut cases, inviting his readers to deride and ridicule us – right out of the gate?
I remember it well. I put my trust in Henry and he fucked me for it. No problem. Scummy is as scummy does and his readers still got a face full of information that they were clueless how to respond to in any other way than to follow Henry’s low rent lead.
Now, I am about to prove that either Henry was representative of all of blue pill society and that the stench of misandry-disguised-as-men’s-movement has spread everywhere, or that there is reason to think otherwise.
An invitation has been extended, which I have accepted, from the promoters of the Ultimate Men’s Summit for me to present at that event. The (mutually) chosen topic is “Why some men are angry at feminism.”
I hope to speak well and in a way that justifies the incredible support I have been given by those who regularly frequent this website.
I also want to say that I refuse to allow my experience with Henry Balanger of The Good Men Project to reduce me to paranoia or to alter my values to the point that I refuse to extend trust until I am given reasons not to.
I have spoken at length with Lion Goodman, the summit liaison who approached me regarding an appearance. My impression of him thus far guides my conscious about participating. He strikes me as a bright, energetic man who is overly but unconsciously influenced by feminist propaganda (like the other 99% of men). That being said, he also gives me the impression he is open-minded, fair, principled and genuinely interested in what I/we have to say.
I could be wrong, but that is my honest impression and I am going with it.
That being said, I would like to ask AVfM supporters to register for the event and give a brief call in to my interview (each segment only lasts 30 minutes) to add your thoughts into the mix, as well as to phone in and participate in other presentations.
Thanks again in advance for your participation. This won’t be AVfM Radio, but I won’t be sugar coating either.
My appearance there will be Thursday, June 16th at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, US.
Register for the summit HERE.
Read my summit profile HERE.
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Eclipse Leaves Listeners in the Dark
My first thought upon hearing the first few minutes of Veil of Maya’s new record: “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!” I couldn’t tell if this was some kind of joke. It sounds exactly like the last record. And the last record sounded exactly like the one before that. I’m really at a loss as to how the band could put this record out and not think it sounds too much like their previous albums.
I couldn’t even fully enjoy listening to the album because while I was listening to it I had to pause and find where in their previous albums I had heard a riff before. And for the most part, I was successful. The album starts off the same way all VoM records do: a minute-long song with an eerie sounding intro that leads into chugging. “20/200” sounds a lot like “Pillars” from The Common Man’s Collapse or “Martyrs” from [id]. It kept bugging me because I knew it sounded like something else too. I eventually figured out that the song I was reminded of is Born of Osiris’ “Rosecrance” off The New Reign (also the first track of that album). No, they’re not note for note the same part, or exactly the same rhythm. But they’re similar in enough in my book. The VoM intros are minute-long songs with open chugging separated by sharply played dissonant chords. I’m willing to give VoM a pass on this one, because it seems like structuring the intros this way is intentional. Maybe the band thinks of it as an homage to their previous albums, or maybe even consider it a signature of theirs.
Besides the intro, there are many other moments throughout the album that remind me of their other songs. The cascading riffs and harmonies in “Divide Paths” are very similar to “It’s Not Safe to Swim Today” from The Common Man’s Collapse. The beginning of “The Glass Slide” sounds exactly like “Mowgli” from [id]. From the guitars, right down to the drum beat. Give the two a listen. There are many other examples, but I think you get the point.
Some of my favorite moments of the album are actually in “The Glass Slide.” I love 1:26-2:36 because it actually makes musical sense. They start out with a riff, and build upon it with layers. But then they totally ruin it by cutting to a riff that has nothing to do with anything that was in the song before. At 2:41 it sounds totally cliché how the drummer hits the cymbal. I’m no drummer, so I can’t say exactly what it is (china?) And afterwards they go back into the first riff of the song. This would make sense if they had organically built up to it, but that isn’t the case. It’s just kind of haphazardly placed there, and it kind of ruins the song for me, because on top of the riff having no business being there, it reminds me too much of “Mowgli.”
There are basically two aspects of Veil of Maya’s sound on this album. The aforementioned parts that are tried and true staples of the band’s sound, and then the new ideas. I have to say that I absolutely love the new parts. There are really cool moments throughout the album, such as the Periphery-esque melodicism in “Winter is Coming Soon.” I know Misha Mansoor played a hand in the production in this album, but the song is still cool. See, I don’t really care when things “kind of” sound like each other. But it’s undeniable when one thing blatantly sounds like another.
I know that when you’re writing a new album it’s hard to balance new ideas with old ones. You don’t want to stray too far from your original sound, because that would alienate your fans. You’ve built your fame on a particular sound, so I understand why you wouldn’t want to mess with a successful formula. At the same time, you really don’t want to be regurgitating the same sound over and over. So far, I think Veil of Maya have been relying too much on their old bag of tricks. [id] had great moments, and I would argue that Eclipse has some of the best ideas of any VoM album. However, it is by far their weakest album. One reason in particular is that the songs are so short that the cool ideas are never fully developed (the total runtime of the album is about 28 minutes). Another reason is because I have to sit through parts that I’ve already heard in previous albums. There’s really nothing that cohesively brings these riffs together as a song. And on top of that, there’s nothing that ties these songs together into an album. Rather than feeling like an album, this feels like a collection of random songs. That’s not really bad or anything, but at least the previous two albums had a distinctive feel.
For the record, The Common Man’s Collapse is by far VoM’s best album, with All Things Set Aside right behind it. [id] and Eclipse sit behind those two, because even though they have great moments, it feels like there’s too much recycling being done. The trend started with [id], and it continues on Eclipse. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the song lengths have been getting shorter with each album. I’m not saying that song length alone determines a song’s quality, but between the rehashed ideas, and the shorter song lengths, it seems like inspiration is running short. Hey, I know it’s hard to write in between tour cycles. But as a listener, I can’t escape my disappointment.
When I was listening to [id], I felt like I was listening to B-sides of The Common Man’s Collapse. The similarities are even more apparent this time, and now I feel like I’m listening to B-sides of B-sides. It’s like if you took the last two albums, put them in a blender, and then constructed the songs for this new album by putting the pieces together.
Now this is total speculation, but from what I can gather (interviews, etc.), Marc Okubo, the guitarist does the majority of the writing. It’s easy to tell then, why so many of the ideas sound the same; it’s because there’s only so much variety that one man can come up with. It also explains why the band’s sound has stagnated a bit. Hell, I couldn’t come up with four albums’ worth of material on my own and not have shit sound the same.
I really want to like this album. I honestly do. I respect Marc Okubo as a guitarist, and a musician. This album frustrates me because I know there’s the potential for something great. With more focused writing I think Veil of Maya could create something truly memorable.
3 Responses to Eclipse Leaves Listeners in the Dark
i actually agree, the really good moments left me wanting more like the songs like Winter and the Glass Slide. Otherwise this will quickly fall out of rotation for me and becoming boring like ID eventually did. I like the album but I think it could have been WAY better and I think Vicious Circles is one of their worst songs to date.
Glad to see that you agree man. I felt bad giving them a bad review because they seem like cool dudes and I’m still a fan of theirs.
I agree about “Vicious Circles.” I was surprised they released that as their single because I don’t think it’s a very good song. The intro is kind of annoying and reminds me of Born of Osiris. This song also showcases the poor songwriting I mentioned in the review, such as the interlude-type thing at the end, and the breakdown that comes out of nowhere.
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A 28-year-old Algerian migrant was arrested in the Swiss municipality of Holderbank this week after attempting to rape a woman after breaking into her home.
The incident saw the Algerian asylum seeker break into the woman’s home as she was sleeping and attempt to rape her while laying on top of her and holding her mouth and nose closed with his hand, 20 Minutes reports.
The victim was able to wrestle herself free of the asylum seeker and flee to a neighbour’s home where she rang the doorbell — only to be attacked and punched in the face by the pursuing migrant, who broke the nose of his victim before running away.
At around 3 a.m. the woman was able to contact local police who were able to locate the would-be rapist hiding in a nearby bush relatively quickly.
Somalian Asylum Seeker Broke Into Hospital To Rape Woman Giving Birth
https://t.co/10ILNfjch1 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 4, 2018
Investigators say that the asylum seeker, who was believed to have been using drugs and alcohol prior to the attack, was able to enter the home of the woman because the door had been left unlocked.
Police spokesperson Bernhard Graser commended the victim, stating that she had shown courage during the ordeal and saying she was “able to overcome the shock and confront her attacker. This is impressive.”
The break-and-enter methods used in this case echoes similar sex attack cases in recent years, such as an incident in the German town of Neuenhaus in 2017 that saw a Somali asylum seeker breaking into a retirement home and sexually abusing two elderly men.
While he was sexually abusing the second man, the wife of the 87-year-old attempted to confront the migrant, who struck her, leading to her death.
UK: Gambian Migrant Subjects 11-year-old to ‘Horrifying’ Rape https://t.co/scNXr4SOAV — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 16, 2019
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Jihad — a fundamental right?
The film “Waltz with Bashir” about the first Lebanon War has been harshly criticized for presenting the actions of Israeli soldiers in total isolation, without context, without a reason. I admit that I haven’t seen the film and don’t intend to.
But I have seen a short (90 second) animation about Israeli restrictions on Gaza made by Yoni Goodman, who was animation director for “Waltz with Bashir”. It was created for Gisha, an Israeli NGO “whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents”.
The short film shows a young Palestinian who is prevented from following a bird, representing his freedom or aspirations, by huge hands. They block him in every direction, even sink his rowboat when he tries to follow the bird out to sea. Ultimately the hands place the bird in a cage as well. At one point, he sees rockets fired at Israel — from a location far from him — and almost immediately he is buffeted by nearby explosions as Israel retaliates. That’s the context — no Hamas, no suicide bombings, no thousands of rockets over 8 years.
Since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has developed a complex system of rules and sanctions to control the movement of the 3.4 million Palestinians who live there. The restrictions violate the fundamental right of Palestinians to freedom of movement. As a result, additional basic rights are violated, including the right to life, the right to access medical care, the right to education, the right to livelihood, the right to family unity and the right to freedom of religion.
Ignoring the absurdities like ‘freedom of religion’ — is participating in jihad an absolute religious right? — it’s clear that the rights of Palestinians to complete freedom of movement conflict with the rights of Israelis (to life, etc.) because of the very real phenomenon of Palestinian terrorism. But the film, and Gisha, don’t mention Israeli rights, and this constitutes a major distortion of the moral question.
It might make sense to say that Israeli restrictions are not necessary, or too harsh. But it doesn’t make sense to ignore the aspect of the rights of Israelis. How can Gisha be so ignorant or stupid not to see this?
The answer is not that they are ignorant or stupid, but that their distorted ideology does not recognize the equivalence of Israeli and Palestinian rights. The ‘post-colonial’ viewpoint that they apparently share with other contemporary left-wing groups, holds that in a colonial situation — which they think describes Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians — there is a fundamental asymmetry between the colonizer and the colonized.
For example, in this view the colonizer is racist, but the colonized people — even if they behave violently and hatefully toward the colonizers — cannot, by definition, be racist. In this view, racism is in part a power relationship, and it only flows one way, from the powerful to the powerless.
Another example is violence: when a colonized people uses violence, even terrorism, against a colonizer, that is ‘resistance’ and can be justified; but the attempts of the colonizer to protect itself are simply violence employed in the service of maintaining the subjugation of the colonized people and is never justified.
So it seems that for Gisha, there are not human rights. There are only the rights of those humans that — in their opinion — are oppressed.
And this is probably what underlies Gisha’s position. There is no need to look at Palestinian violations of Israeli rights because as ‘colonizers’, Israelis have no rights. Q.E.D.
When you watch the film below, ask yourself these questions:
What purpose is served by portraying the Palestinian as alone?
Why does the Palestinian have a face but Israel only has hands?
Why does the rocket firing take place far from the Palestinian?
Where is Iran in all this?
Gisha is funded in part by the European Union, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and the UK Government Global Opportunities Fund. It lists as “primary funder” a US non-profit named Echoing Green, a charity which funds “social entrepreneurs”.
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9 Responses to “Jihad — a fundamental right?”
You should really see that film Waltz with Bashir. Fearing to watch it without knowing whether it is will have any significant impact on your aesthetic senses sounds more laborious than sitting passively in front of a film screen for less than two hours to see one of the most advanced and developed pieces of art produced in the past decade.
Really, if you can manage to detach yourself from needing some contextual explanation for the film’s content, and just roll with the film for a moment, you will find it is one of the most visually effective and engaging pieces of art work.
Sometimes, art does not have to have meaning, reason, or purpose beyond its own existence. Your sensitivities to the nature of the content are allowing you to judge something from a particular angle, but that is not the viewpoint or perception shared by all.
Otherwise, I don’t really understand the title of this blog in conjunction with the minor diatribe about Waltz.
How can you be Pro-Israel and deny other Israelis the right to their freedom of expression, that is not particularly anti-Israeli so much as it is an introspective depiction of a series of events that occurred in the past?
Are you not propagating the right of Israelis to live in a Jewish society, free from the threat of terrorism, by advocating retaliation and defense? Then, if that is the case, you should question your impetus to expend energy propogating against that which you strive toward, and focus on real enemies, antagonists, and anti-Israeli propogandists. Which, you will not find amongst Israelis, unless you are overly defensive.
Read the review of the movie linked to in the first sentence of my post, and you will see what the problem is with this film. If you are an Israeli who knows the story of the war, the fact that the PLO had set up a base in Lebanon and was launching attacks and firing Katyushas at Israel from it — then you understand that the invasion was justified (even if you think it should have been limited to 25 km, etc.) But a foreigner only sees Israel being pointlessly brutal. Read the review, it’s very good.
Of course Israelis have a right to free speech. I also have a right to not patronize commercial works of ‘art’ that have a propaganda goal to hurt Israel.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of Israelis who act in a way that hurts the state. There’s no way to stop them if we want free speech, but we certainly have the right to use our own freedom of speech to oppose them.
This is how confusing things can get when one person’s perspective is taken as, forgive the pun, “G-d’s word”, on a matter inherently subject to varying viewpoints. Take care not to make idols out of those persons’ opinions that you respect, especially when there really is no arguing aesthetic renditions, since art is inherently flux.
The invasion is not depicted as unjustified. What it does depict is an invasion that occurred, and then provides informative insight on the nature of a Evangelical Christian involvement and responsibility in the incursion.
If anything, the film is anti-evangelicals, which could be one of the reasons that you likely find affinity in opposition. Or maybe you are really comfortable reading and commiserating about some peice of moderately documentary art that you could have seen and informed yourself about at this point, rather than backbiting on the basis of one person’s perspective about the film.
I mean, I would feel real confused if I made absolutist comments about something on the basis of one person’s opinion and blindly followed that opinion to the point that I was foresaking other clearly identifiable affiliations serving as the basis for an entire blog about Israel.
I feel almost certain that the fractionalized disposition amongst members of religions, could be the basis for the breakdown in humanity. You are aware of such disparate factions of Islam; Palestinians are not respected by wealthy Arabs, wealthy Arabs do not adhere to strict fundamentalist Islam, fundamentalist christians do not recognize moderation in christianity. I don’t really see room for Judaism to follow suit at the point where Israel is concerned, without subjecting Israel to significant threat.
Be clear on whether the propoganda is sincerely designed to hurt Israel, before you jump on that boat, because it may capsize.
Being demonstrative about anything so subjective is very obscure. At least from my perspective.
My post was not about “Waltz with Bashir”. In two sentences I said it had been criticized, and then I went on to discuss the 90-second propaganda video made by Yoni Goodman, who was also involved with it. I didn’t make absolutist comments about “Waltz with Bashir”, unless you count my saying that the review had convinced me not to go see it. But that wasn’t even in my post.
The short video was propaganda and my post was about why it was made as it was, and why Gisha thinks as they do.
You have to fogive me for being so argumentative and propogating that you should still see the film, but I have a member of my family who oft says they do not intend to see films or read books on the basis of scant or isolated information, so I may have become overly propogating on that point, myself, as a force of habit.
Otherwise it would have taken me a lot longer to contive those long defensive comments, had they not been recycled from repetition.
Oh . . . and per your suggestion, I just read the bit by Katie Green on that Blog you attached a link too.
I realize that some people with possibly less exposure to art may be inclined to head some isolated review, however, please note that Ms. Green is really citing reasons based on an absence of material content. Since she is not the director, writer, or artist at issue, her opinion about what is missing as being cause for ill sought regard for Israel results in needless paranoia about anti-Israel propoganda.
Furthermore, I find is poignant that her commentary about bad press for Israel rests on the isolated opinion of visiting Autralian Christians in the theater in Jerusalem. Likely because they were cognizant of the anti-evangelical undertones in the film. If anything, Israelis worried about Christian evangelical support would likely rush to defend them against their own Country and citizens. Which is terribly disturbing on a variety of extreme levels.
Just some thoughts. And those earlier comments were not as pre-fab as I made them appear in my prior comment, in fact – DO NOT FORGIVE ME. I make no apologies after reading the basis for your intent not to see the film and for even bringing it up in your blog today in such a remotely controversial tone.
And that little video is really nothing like the film. You should also not engage in guilt by association, just because one film produced by someone that worked on Waltz is seems pro-Palestinian.
My comment is not about the debate between ME and Vic Rosenthal about seeing ‘Waltzing with Bashir’. It is actually about the short film described by Vic Rosenthal. I have also read a description of the film made in the ‘Jerusalem Post.’
My only comment is that one- sided propaganda of this kind is shameful and treasonous when done by an Israeli. Here is a person who is showing no concern whatsoever for the security concerns , for the sufferings of his own people. Rather he is defaming them and joining a very large international cast in doing so. He is providing more reason to hate Jews and Israel at a time when there is increasing hatred of Jews and Israel.
Shame on this guy. Being talented is not enough , one also needs to be a decent human being.
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As the American Empire transforms itself from a constitutional republic into a social democratic monstrosity – where everyone is "equal," and no one is free – egalitarianism is the fuel that runs the engine of imperialism. A perfect example is the recent announcement that the US military is getting with the times and allowing women in combat. What’s pretty disheartening is that not even the woman’s-place-is-in-the-home Neanderthals of the "traditionalist" camp even bothered to oppose this: for them, a more efficient war machine is much more important than any attachment to such "archaic" ideas as the men do the fighting while the women wait at home.
This innovation was followed up pretty quickly by a new proposal: that as long as we allow gays in the military we ought to allow transsexuals in, too. After all, the usual objections to women in combat don’t apply to them: they have the genetic makeup of men, and the sexual equipment of women (or as close as surgical science can conjure) – so why not?
In America, everyone has the "equal right" to kill, torture, maim, and otherwise abuse those who dare defy the wishes of our wise and benevolent rulers. This is what happens when egalitarianism displaces liberty at the core of the American psyche.
Women, gays, transsexuals, and presumably dwarves afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome – all have an "equal right" to commit mass murder. Did the leftists who brought this Political Correctness down on our heads ever dream of the uses to which it would be put? And now that they’ve "grown up" and made their peace with the Empire, do they even care? Of course they don’t. All they care about is the great god Equality, on whose altar every value they every pretended to hold is being slaughtered.
It isn’t just them, however: militarism is a disease that spreads without effort, once it’s implanted in the body politic. It quite naturally infects the sciences, what with the diversion of scientific and technical talent that might have gone into productive civilian projects, and I’m not just talking about the hard sciences. Witness the co-opting of the "soft" science of anthropology by the same people who brought us the war in Afghanistan and the "COIN" strategy that was supposed to give us victory. These folks have created the so-called Human Terrain System, which seeks to utilize anthropology as a weapon in counterinsurgency warfare. Billions are being poured into "scientific research" on how best to subdue recalcitrant natives out in the colonies: when you’re talking about the military-industrial complex, it isn’t just Lockheed-Martin and Boeing.
The marriage of science and militarism is nothing new, but there are some resistors. As Inside Higher Education reports:
"The eminent University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins resigned from the National Academy of Sciences on Friday, citing his objections to its military partnerships and to its electing as a member Napoleon Chagnon, a long-controversial anthropologist who is back in the news thanks to the publication of his new book, Noble Savages." [Hat tip: Jordan Bloom at The American Conservative]
You don’t have to be an anthropologist to get in on the action: yes, you too can access via live webcast the April 3 Pentagon/NAS "workshop," "New Directions in Assessing Individuals and Groups,"and hear the keynote address by Frederick Vollrath, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness and Force Management. I’ll bet those anthropologists are making out like bandits!
As for Napoleon Chagnon – could a novelist have gotten away with such a name? – he is an extremely dubious character who apparently believes violence is not only genetically encoded in humans, but that there is an evolutionary bias in favor of homicidal homo sapiens. Instead of an atavistic trait surviving from pre-civilized man, wars of aggression – according to the Chagnonite version of biological determinism – are the mark of high civilization. It is a Bizarro World perspective on the nature of human progress, one that owes much to that great anthropologist, the Marquis de Sade.
Chagnon dismisses his critics as "left-wing anthropologists" and "anti-Darwinian romantics": he and his claque present themselves as true "scientists," and treat the study of anthropology – that is, of human nature – as if it were one of the "hard" sciences, like chemistry. Armed with "scientific" certitude, their one-dimensional view of life – "impoverished," as one critic remarked – is the perfect instrument of the modern Warfare State: bloodless, dogmatic, and cruel. Chagnon’s elevation to the NAS – which used to be a prestigious organization – is an absolute disgrace, and Prof. Sahlins was right to render his resignation in protest.
Citing his own objections to Chagnon’s research methods – see here – Sahlins went on to explain the core reason for his resignation. Because of "the toll" that military action overseas "has taken on the blood, treasure, and happiness of American people, and the suffering it has imposed on other peoples,” Sahlins said, “the NAS, if it involves itself at all in related research, should be studying how to promote peace, not how to make war."
In this age of Empire, militarism pervades American culture like a poisonous fog, hypnotizing a complacent population with narratives that valorize and justify a foreign policy of perpetual war. It reaches into every corner of everyday life, from the war propaganda spewed forth by the "mainstream" media to the movies we watch and what we learn in "science" class. Once this kind of cultural rot sets in, it is hard to root out: this is the true meaning of decadence, of a society suffering the latter stages of a fatal hubris.
Yet root it out we must. The battle for peace must be waged on the cultural and scientific front, as well as in the day to day world of the pundits and the Washington policy wonks. Indeed, victory on the battlefield of the culture necessarily precedes success on the political front, as we should have learned back in the 1960s.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
I’m having great fun on Twitter these days, and I urge you to join me on this wonderfully interactive site: you can do so by going here.
I’ve written a couple of books, which you might want to peruse. Here is the link for buying the second edition of my 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, with an Introduction by Prof. George W. Carey, a Forward by Patrick J. Buchanan, and critical essays by Scott Richert and David Gordon (ISI Books, 2008).
You can buy my biography of the great libertarian thinker, An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000), here.
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Mind-Set Development - Why & What?!
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Engaging with your deepest inner-self is the fastest way to results because it is this ‘’rendezvous’’ with one’s self which ignites that little something inside you. What makes you tick might not make the next guy or girl become dance! Having an end goal is great, it gives you purpose and direction yet it is kind of irrelevant. What really matters and spurs you on is your motive rather than your goal. Yep, we all want to look appealing, hench, ripped, stacked or whatever other word you use to describe BUILT!
However, we will all share very different reasons. There will be lads who crave the look of Kirk Miller purely to add another name to the list of girls they have had the pleasure of ‘’dating’’ as where others will want to look like Dorian Yates because they want to be Mr O! This is the bit I want to focus on today and get out of you, what is your motive, your reason, your why? Really, what is it? This isn’t something you have to openly share – at 16 I would have been ridiculed by many of my peers if I said I was going to appear on TV as a trainer yet that was always my true goal – to become regarded as one of the best and whilst I am barely on the first step of that ladder, I am on it!! Are you on yours? If not, hop off the one you have started to climb and get running up the one you really want to reach the top of.
Knowing your motive is one thing, maybe it is to become the ultimate pulling machine on the dance floor (although I can’t promise granite arms and a v-shaped latt spread will work) but you also need to dig a little deeper – why? Why is it you want to achieve this so badly? By now you have your end goal, before that you have your motive and before that your why. Although I am somebody who doesn’t believe in most of the fluffy s*** you read in these ‘’mental preparation’’ articles I do believe in this. In essence this thought process provides the very reason why you get up early to do cardio, prepare your meals, forego your favourite junk food, train your ass off in the gym and repeat it tomorrow. That represents something which holds extreme value to all of us from those of us who have dreams of stepping on the Olympia stage right down to those who have dreams of turning heads on a beach in the south of Spain, and everywhere in between.
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Il presente e il futuro. Il Napoli punta Verdi, non perde di vista Deulofeu, sta stilando il contratto di Younes e con l’Ajax ha un rapporto privilegiato, sin dai tempi di Milik. Al punto che anche per il Napoli il danese Kasper Dolberg, attualmente ai box per infortunio, resta una traccia da seguire per il futuro. Ve ne avevamo parlato poco più di un anno fa, segnatamente il 24 novembre del 2016, quando avevamo titolato “Esclusiva: Napoli, voglia di Dolberg. Ma per ora l’Ajax…”, tornandoci poi il 5 dicembre con “Il retroscena: Dolberg, stop dell’Ajax al Napoli con una motivazione”. Sottolineammo come per il Napoli quella sarebbe stata una pista da monitorare, malgrado la resistenza opposta all’epoca dagli olandesi. E nei dialoghi continui con l’Ajax, tramite intermediari, il club azzurro ha fatto sapere di essere interessato – per il futuro – ad assicurarsi le prestazioni di un centravanti rampante (classe 1997) che ha stregato tutti e che i Lancieri, secondo tradizione, non hanno intenzione di cedere a gennaio. Ma per l’estate è prevista un’asta, dopo i tentativi recenti di qualche big inglese ma anche di Monaco e Borussia Dortmund. In questa lista di pretendenti c’è anche il Napoli, che da quando vi abbiamo segnalato l’interesse – ripetiamo è trascorso oltre un anno – ha convinto sempre più per le indubbie qualità che lo segnalano tra i giovani attaccanti in rampa di lancio su scala mondiale.
Foto: ajaxnow.nl
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Um homem que havia acabado de praticar um assalto a uma idosa em Campinas, no interior de São Paulo, foi surpreendido no fim da tarde desta sexta-feira (1º). Ele foi derrubado e imobilizado por um lutador de jiu-jítsu e muay thai que passava pelo local, na Rua Santo Antonio Claret, no Jardim Chapadão, e viu o momento em que o homem fugia com a bolsa de dinheiro da aposentada de 74 anos.
Idosa teve ferido leve no braço após ação do
suspeito Foto: Kleber Tomaz/G1)
"Eu estava passando [de carro] e flagrei ele assaltando uma senhora na esquina. Ele jogou a mulher no chão, pegou a bolsa e saiu correndo. Chegando aqui eu consegui o imobilizar", contou ao G1 Hugo Gervásio, de 26 anos, ainda enquanto segurava o suspeito e aguardava a chegada da Polícia Militar (PM).
Após parar seu automóvel no meio da rua e ir para cima do assaltante, foram 20 minutos com os braços em volta do pescoço do homem. O lutador aplicou um mata-leão, nome de um golpe conhecido também como gravata.
Vários curiosos presenciaram a cena e apoiaram o lutador, antes da chegada dos policiais. Ele recuperou a bolsa da idosa e devolveu à ela. "Já passei por muitas situações como esta e não pude fazer nada. Sei muito bem o que eu estou fazendo aqui", disse Gervásio.
Sempre fui contra a violência e a favor das pessoas de bem. A senhora que foi assaltada tinha por volta de 75 anos por tamanha falta de respeito. Por isso agi tomando todos oscuidados para não se tornar uma tragédia, mas não falo que isso foi um exemplo", completou.
Faca usada pelo suspeito na ação.
(Foto: Kleber Tomaz/G1)
Segundo o soldado Allan Pisatto, que depois prendeu o suspeito juntamente com outros PMs, o homem detido é Cacielino Rocha, de 25 anos. "Ele já tinha passagem anterior na polícia por tráfico de drogas quando chegou a ser preso e solto", disse o policial militar. Questionado, o preso não quis falar com a equipe de reportagem para dar sua versão.
Segundo testemunhas no local, o suspeito carregava uma faca e, ao ser confrontado pelo lutador, a jogou para dentro de um quintal. A arma estaria dentro da mochila de Rocha.
Ainda se recuperando do susto, a vítima do assalto contou como foi a ação do suspeito. "Eu estava andando com a carteira embaixo do braço quando ele se aproximou e disse: perdeu! e saiu correndo". Ela disse ainda que não conseguiu ver se o homem estava ou não com a faca na mão. "Eu caí no chão", falou ela, mostrando um hematoma no braço. A mulher estava voltando da farmácia.
O suspeito foi levado para o 1º Distrito Policial (DP), onde o caso foi registrado como roubo. "O ladrão detido confessou o assalto a idosa na delegacia e foi indiciado pelo crime, tendo de ficar preso agora", disse o soldado da PM.
O lutador de jiu-jítsu imobilizou o assaltante logo após o roubo (Foto: Kleber Tomaz/G1)
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WEST MICHIGAN – Getting drunk off of a vodka-soaked tampon: it’s not necessarily a new trend, but one whose continuing popularity is still alarming to those who know the dangers.
It’s exactly how it sounds: girls soak tampons in alcohol, typically vodka, and insert them into their vaginas, but it isn’t only girls doing it. Boys are also taking part in this alarming trend.
A quick search on YouTube shows it’s more common than many would think.
Sarah Gibney and Briana Pattinson are in college now and aren’t afraid to talk about what they witnessed in high school.
“I know a lot of kids in high school who did it. They would do it in football games, and in class and stuff, so no one would smell their bottle or catch them drinking,” Gibney said.
Doctors say it’s more dangerous than people think. According to Dr. Marianne Chai, a child adolescent psychiatrist, participants get intoxicated a lot faster because it gets absorbed directly into their blood stream.
Dr. Chai said there’s also no way to get rid of the alcohol once it’s absorbed. Because it’s never been in your stomach, vomiting isn’t going to help.
Click here for more information on how to talk your kids about trends like this and others.
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Megan rubah, fox was named the 3rd ranked Sexiest Woman Alive oleh Smartasses.Net on Saturday, March 17th 2012, when Smartasses Online Magazine revealed their ever-popular “who's who” of the hottest women on the planet via Twitter. 2012 marked the seventh annual tahun for Smartasses puncak, atas 100 Sexiest Women List, which comes out every St. Patrick's Day. For Fox, it was her sixth straight tahun on the list, and puncak, atas ten. In 2011 she was ranked 4th, and rubah, fox is the only two-time winner of the Sexiest Woman Alive award, being named in both 2009 and 2010. For lebih visit her bio page on link
Megan rubah, fox seems to have a penchant for wearing her eight-year-old stepson’s clothing and has been pictured wearing his tiny T-shirts. The sexy 24-year-old has been pictured wearing a green Defender of the Universe shirt, and a bintang Wars kemeja which showed off her toned midriff. But the kemeja belonged to husband, Brian Austin Green’s little boy. Have anda ever seen a kid's kemeja look better? Megan rubah, fox can make anything smokin' hot, but this is ridiculous. Which of these shirts looks hotter on the beautiful Megan rubah, fox ?
Megan rubah, fox was named the 4th ranked Sexiest Woman Alive oleh Smartasses.Net on Thursday, March 17th 2011, when the online men's magazine revealed their everpopular who's who of the hottest women on the planet. 2011 marked the sixth annual tahun for the increasingly populer Smartasses puncak, atas 100 Sexiest Women List, which comes out every St. Patrick's Day, to coincide with March Madness. For Fox, the only two time Sexiest Woman Alive on the Smartasses puncak, atas 100, it was her fifth tahun on the list. Last tahun she was her detik term as Sexiest Woman Alive. For more, visit Smartasses.Net.
link is of Irish, French and Native American ancestry and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Darlene Tonachio and Franklin Foxx, who dropped an "x" from his surname. She has one older sister. Fox's parents divorced when she was young and she and her sister were raised oleh her mother and her stepfather. She berkata that the two were "very strict" and that she wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend. She lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself.
rubah, fox began her training in drama and dance at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At 10 years of age, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, rubah, fox continued her training. When she was 13 years old, rubah, fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. rubah, fox attended St. Lucie West Centennial High School but tested out of school via correspondence at age 17 in order to pindah to Los Angeles.
Kardashian says she went to the L.A. premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen this week to hopefully catch a glimpse of the actress. "That's really the only reason I'm here," she said, adding that her beau Reggie semak, bush also has a thing for Fox.
rubah, fox told June's Esquire being sexy comes naturally.
See Megan Fox's sexy transformers red carpet style.
"I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores," she said. "It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on."
Still, she said, "If anda know how to take control of [being a sex symbol], then it can be powerful. But I have no idea how to handle it yet, how to deal with it."
Megan rubah, fox is FHM sexy and another beautiful brunette is extending her reach as one time reality castoff Melissa Rycroft has moved from "The Bachelor" to a very successful run on dancing with the Stars to a part time dokar, pertunjukan on Good Morning America. GMA is ABC's warm up for "The View" each weekday morning.
Megan is FHM Sexy! (Image: Splash News)
If that doesn't work out there is always playboy Magazine. lebih here on Melissa (and a cute bikini foto from Jennifer Cox on the reality TV bintang turned news reporter.
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For Megan - rubah, fox has topped the US FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poling - for the detik time. Fox, who has drawn comparisons to Angelina Jolie, and has been lighting up the red carpets of world capitals for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, was also named the sexiest woman in the world in 2008. Jennifer Lopez was the only other bintang to carry the honour twice, in 2001 and 2002.
anda know my mind got to thinking the other hari when the heavens opened and Emmalee diposting those lovely topless pictures of Megan rubah, fox on the set of her new flick. We certainly are a society transfixed on celebrities, aren’t we? I can hear my boy, Hopp, now: “I’d let her do me.” Hell wouldn’t we all?
After a few steamy menit of uh, deep thinking something else came running into my frontal lobe: The Celebrity 5. anda know, that little daftar anda have in your head (or printed and laminated) of the 5 artis you’d be free to have sex with should a miracle transpire that put anda into a situation to do so? It’s kind of silly, but we cinta movie stars and live for putting things into daftar form.
I’ll admit, I am quite old fashioned and when I am with a woman; I kind of think of myself as only being with her. I don’t tend to fantasize about other women, famous atau otherwise. To me, it’s kind of the whole point in being with her, she’s the one I want to be with! But I know I’m quiet company on that one. Furthermore, I don’t see being obsessed about Megan rubah, fox atau Angelina Jolie any “better” than being all hot for the girl...
Actress Olivia Wilde is happy being Megan Fox’s girl crush. rubah, fox had once revealed that she has a girl crush on “sexy” House bintang for years.
And Olivia doesn’t feel offended. "She said, ‘I’ve had a girl crush on anda for years, and I hope that doesn’t offend you.’ And I said, ‘Why would it offend me? I think it’s wonderful,’” rubah, fox News quoted Olivia as telling Maxim magazine.
“Then I berkata something really nerdy like, ‘I should send anda a thank anda card!’ She said, ‘Yeah,’ and I just kind of withered. Thank anda cards are not sexy!” she added.
CNBC is reporting that Kodak is offering $5,000 to the person who can identify “Rose Boy”, the teenager famously and heartbreakingly snubbed in a "Kodak moment" while trying to hand deliver a beautiful yellow rose to the equally beautiful Megan Fox.
CNBC indicates that the transformers bintang is "upset" about missing the young man’s attempt to hand her a bunga outside the theater in london where Megan rubah, fox was on hand for the premiere of the new “Transformers” blockbuster.
“Although this thoughtful gesture fell victim to ‘the wrong place at the wrong time’,” the firm’s press release says, Eastman Kodak Company believes that fate has other plans for this "idealist young lad."
Kodak is asking the "Rose Boy" to “come meneruskan, ke depan and identify himself so that the company can help arrange a real rose exchange.”
Kodak is offering to pay for travel expenses for the boy and his family.
Los Angeles, CA (Advertiser Talk) 25-Jun-2009 — FHMonline is entertained to foretell Megan rubah, fox as the succeeder of FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2009 poll. The transformers actress becomes exclusive the ordinal blackamoor in the 15 assemblage story of the enquiry to keep her blot at the crowning (after Jennifer Lopez in 2001/2002).
But despite her perceived beauty, the 23-year-old told rubah, fox News that she suffers anxiety attacks if she sees her own image, saying: "I never look at myself, even in still photographs... I don't look at anything."
The transformers bintang added: "I panic if there is a monitor in the room.
"I immediately go into like an anxiety attack.
"I'm insecure, I think most actors are pretty insecure."
She also worries about making stupid komentar which may come back to haunt her.
Megan said: "I'm not coping very well with all this. Really I'm insane and I don't know how to control my mouth, but I'm working on it."
Megan Fox, the actress who is often compared with the Tom Raider star, Angelina Jolie, is in news again. No, it's not for the sequel of the movie Transformers, where the actress will be seen again, but, yet for one lebih time, rubah, fox has topped in U.S. FHM's 100 sexiest women.
Buzz up!This year, too, Megan rubah, fox has topped US FHM's 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2009 poling for the detik successive year. The transformers beauty, who came detik to Cheryl Cole in the British version, has become the detik woman to retain her crown following Jennifer Lopez's twin win in 2001 and 2002.
The top-five name in the daftar includes: Jessica Alba (second), Scarlett Johansson (third), Jessica Biel (fourth) and Madeline Zima (fifth). The names have been reported in The Sun.
The ever news-making pop diva jumped from 100th place in 2008 to this year's No12.
Oooops! almost forgot to mention, there is a new face that has entered the daftar this time – Britney Spears. The ever news-making pop diva jumped from 100th place in 2008 to this year's No12. Indeed a news, isn't it?
Model-turned-actress Megan rubah, fox is so unhappy with her appearance that she "panics" and suffers "anxiety attacks" if she sees pictures of herself.
Megan rubah, fox (Reuter Photo)More Pics
The " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen " star, who has been voted one of the world's sexiest women, is unhappy with her appearance and hates being confronted with gambar of herself, reports femalefirst.co.uk .
"I never look at myself, even in still photographs. I don't look at anything. I panic if there is a monitor in the room and I immediately go into like an anxiety attack. I'm insecure, I think most actors are pretty insecure," berkata the 23-year-old.
Generations of Hollywood aktris gathered to honor women in film over the weekend. Among them: Jennifer Aniston (pictured here in AP foto oleh Matt Sayles), holly Hunter, who was among the honorees, and Jodi Foster. Among the veterans was Blythe Danner, who is a grandmother (she’s mom to Gwyneth Paltrow, who has two children). At the other end of the age spectrum was 16-year-old Selena Gomez, who can only hope she has as long and successful a career as some of the other attendees. Time will tell.
Popping up in a few European venues over the weekend were Megan rubah, fox and Shia Labeouf, who were promoting their movie ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.’ Fox, who seems to cinta mugging for the camera, chose a stunning gaun for the Berlin event in particular.
It’s a rare gift enjoyed when Shakespeare’s verse is applied to bums and rendered perverse
A few people have komentar thus far on Ms Fox’s textual tattoo scrawled across her shoulder blade: “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”
It is, as people have surmised already, a quote from King Lear. The King is being dragged off to prison with his beloved daughter Cordelia, and he tells her:
KING LEAR No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news;
King Lear, Act V, Scene 3
It goes on a bit lebih but anda get the drift I’m sure. I’ll leave anda to metaphorise the significance of a emas gilt kupu-kupu (assuming it is emas the kupu-kupu are gilded with, which may not be the case). I’d say as winged creatures gilded kupu-kupu would be all style and no form, like the people you’d expect to see...
Celebrity Megan rubah, fox wore jewellery from Amrapali, India’s leading fine jewellery company, while participating at the Russian premier of the film "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen". The event took place in Moscow on June 16. rubah, fox selected a pair of emas and rose-cut diamond earrings from the house of Amrapali.
Amrapali retails its jewellery at London's Selfridges, De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam, Tsum in Moscow, and Globus in Switzerland, having earned the repute for its beautiful, modern interpretations of classic Indian fine jewellery.
In an interview with British GQ, "Transformers" beauty Megan rubah, fox talked about recreational drug use. But after the interview, rubah, fox explained her quote was taken out of context. While on the final leg of a whirlwind, international press tour to publicize her starring role (opposite Hollywood young turk Shia LaBeouf) in the highly-anticipated, CGI-dominated, blockbuster-to-be, mega-sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Megan rubah, fox has been busy answering pertanyaan about drug use.
When the gorgeous, 23-year-old rubah, fox isn’t signing thousands of autographs, answering countless ridiculous media inquiries and smiling for the cameras while strolling down the red carpet, she's had to address pertanyaan after her confession to British GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly) about her regular use of recreational drugs. According to Fox, her quote, taken from a lengthy interview for the publication, was misconstrued, taken out of context and was completely misunderstood.
“I wouldn’t call it recreational drug use, because that makes it sound like I’m going to klub and doing cocaine, things like that,” the Tennessee-born beauty explains. “I talked about the...
OK, that settles it. Megan rubah, fox can deny it all she likes, but she's the new Angelina Jolie.
First we had the "Transformers" bintang talking to GQ about a past relationship with a stripper named Nikita. Then there was rubah, fox talking about her girl crush on Olivia Wilde ("so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands").
Now, completing the circle, we've got Kim Kardashian telling ET that she has a girl crush on Fox.
"Megan rubah, fox is so hot. She is like my girl crush and I don't have girl crushes," Kardashian berkata at the "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" premiere.
Remember when it was cool for female celebs to say they thought Angelina Jolie was hot? (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Janet Jackson, to name two.) And Jolie was always saying tantalizing things like, "I always play women I would want to date"?
Where has the time gone?
Fully completing the Fox-Jolie transformation: There are rumors circling that rubah, fox will take over as Lara Croft.
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And the NYC junket for his new film, I Origins, Michael Pitt dished on how he'd like to see the series come to an end. One word: revenge!
"I think my son should assassinate Nucky Thompson," Pitt said. "My son is about 11 now. Yeah, he needs assassinate Nucky."
Looking back on his time on the series, Pitt singled out a scene he shared with Aleksa Palladino, who played his wife, Angela, as his favorite.
"It was a scene where they were meeting after a long time," he explained. "It was a husband and a wife and she slaps him ii the face and then we just start making out."
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I don’t think of myself as much as a reader or writer. Reading was hard for me early on in life, but I grew out of it and learned to deal with it. I didn’t grow out of writing, not the actual getting ideas out, but me actually writing. I have broken my hand and arms 5 times, that is what made it a struggle for me. So you could say I don’t have a problem with reading so much now, but writing is still the same. No matter how I feel about either doesn’t change me having to actually do them. Early on in life I was discouraged about reading.
In the first grade I was held back for my reading. I didn’t read as well as everyone else did. I was the only one in class who had to take the same grade twice, and that was a big deal for me. Back then I thought I was stupid for it and that everyone would look at me different. I didn’t want to be the dumb one or the idiot of the class. As that year went on and I started to get the gist of things, I knew that it was a good thing for me. By the end of the year, I was reading better and I felt a lot better. I started to take home books and read them on my own.
The only place I read before was school, I wasn’t challenged at home by my mom to read or do any kind of school work. It was up to me to learn and take matters into my own hands. If I wanted to learn or do anything for school I had to do it myself at home or at school. I don’t recall a time when I was made to sit down and do my homework like normal kids. Since I didn’t have help or made to do anything at home, I didn’t work on my writing much. So from the start my writing was bad, I never had practice with it. If you don’t practice at anything you’re not going to be good at it.
I could never read my own writing. It was always sloppy, and I write really fast. I could come up with good ideas to write but by the time I wrote it down, I couldn’t read what I’ve said or I would forget. I would have to write something multiple times just so you can read it. My teachers would ask me what I wrote, and I couldn’t even tell them. By the end of my fifth grade year I had a really good reading level. I think it was on six grade level. That was a big accomplish for me, from getting held back for my reading to being above my reading grade.
I knew getting held back helped, even though I was a grade behind. That was the worst part about it, being back in the same grade. Once I got to middle school I was always the oldest in my grade. When people ask why, I was kind of embarrassed to say. I would lie and make up an excuse. It was something I never really told why until about high school. By the time I got to high school it wasn’t that big of a deal and I wasn’t the only one that got held back. The best teachers I have ever had was in middle school and they were my reading teachers.
All three years they were the teachers I always wanted to see. My eighth grade teacher was the biggest one to impact me. She actually got me to like reading the most. I guess it was just how she taught, and she always made us read books that I liked personally, like Twisted by Laurie Anderson and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the two first books I actually enjoyed reading. I would say they helped me to started enjoying reading. By the end of eighth grade I was finally on the level of reading I liked and was in a reading class foe advanced readers.
In middle school my handwriting was at an all-time low. I broke my arm for the first time in six grade and it was my left hand, the hand I write with. Every year I was in a cast for something. So on top of my writing already being bad I had a cast on. For the whole seventh grade, I got a computer to type everything on because of my arm being broke. Eight grade I didn’t get to use the computer which sucked but my writing still sucked but it become known. You actually didn’t have a reading class in high school, so I honestly didn’t read a book on my own, unless I had too.
So I think that’s when I stopped reading a lot and letting it be. I didn’t mind to read in class when I had to, but as far as me going to the library and getting a book that never happened. That’s how I am now, I don’t mind to read, but I don’t push myself too. I am content on where I’m at with it, but now that I’m in college I need to start reading. High school came around and my writing actually got better. I didn’t break anything since middle so that wasn’t a problem. I had a teacher to actually help me on it and slowed me down. My writing then is how about where it is now.
It’s not the best but it’s eligible. Now I could actually get what I was thinking on paper. Now that I am college I’m going to start to like both. It sucks but no matter what I’m going to have to do it, so why not begin to like it. I like to learn and want to learn as much as I can, so actually picking up and a book is going to be what I have to do. I still don’t think of myself as a reader or writer, but I will by the end of college. Now that I’ve been through the struggle of it all, now is the time to do the best I can do, and you won’t get anywhere without both.
When I was 7 years old I had arrived just to America. I didn’t know nothing but the basic words like yes/no. I was in enrolled in school the 2nd week of being here. I went straight to seventh grade. I remember walking into class wearing blue Levis jean and a gray polo tucked in, with my hair combed to the side. Then I sat next to this most beautiful girl I saw for the first-time. I knew then that I wanted to go to class every day. She was my age and always used to help me with my...
My mom was reading a Snow White to me when I was a child at night. My mom's voice just like a soft music, relax myself and easy to go into sleep. I think that was a wonderful moment that I fell in love with books. At that time, the friendly relation between books and I were begin. During the childhood, I read a lot of fairy tales at nights. Every time when me mom wanted to read a fairy tale to me, my mom and I would lie down on the bed, and then I would close my eyes...
Reading/Reading Efficiency Reading is the ability and knowledge of a language that allows comprehension by grasping the meaning of written or printed characters, words, or sentences Reading involves a wide variety of print and non-print texts that helps a reader gain an understanding of what is being read. In Which ways can language arts now influence reading efficiency? Since the most important four language arts are listening speaking, writing and reading, all Of them are interwoven and they just be able to work hand in hand before efficient reading can be accomplished. For instance, when we read we do not...
Reading nightmares exist at many different levels. There are nightmares at the national and state levels. There are nightmares within the field of reading education, and with teachers across all subject areas. This is a key point in the article “Exploring reading nightmares of middles and secondary school teachers” by William P. Bintz. At the national and state levels, research indicates that students experience a declining interest and slowing development in reading from the seventh grade on (Farr, Fay, Myers , & Ginsberg, 1987). They “demonstrate gains in reading during the early years, these gains seem to taper off in...
During my childhood, I grew up listening my mother's stories. Most of them were from the Bible and some other about animals. My mother in certain way impulse me to love reading in the way I do now; she taught me how to enjoy it. At the age of five I started to try to imitate her by telling the stories that I knew to my youngest cousins; it was a very exciting activity for me, to the point that it became my hobby. Even a few teachers of the Bible School for Kids in the Church, knew about my...
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The journey of my prior life mostly regards my education from the beginning of learning English to the final decision when I was in the last year of high school. My English when I was in primary school was quite terrible. I gained a little bit of knowledge there. I scarcely read, wrote, or listened. I did not know any aspects of it and just wondered why I had to learn this alien language. When I came into secondary school, I was thinking that English in the school was still a low standard. Apart from my dullness, I realized if...
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IF THERE is such a thing as a born artist, Joan Miro was one. Almost as soon as he learnt to write, he handed his parents a note which read: "I wish to become a painter." They enlisted the young Joan at art school, but he did not do well there, and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers. His career as a clerk was short. Miro took to sketching in the ledgers. He also fell so ill that he was sent to the family's country house to convalesce. The influence of the landscape around Mont-Roig, in southern Catalonia, can be seen...
We, as a society, place great value, and therefore great pressure, on children being able to read at an early age. We want them to read as early as they can. One could even say that a measuring stick for success in a child's development is often how early they began to read. There are bragging rights for parents who have early readers, just the same way as when a child first learns to walk and talk. Yet as the child grows up there is less emphasis on reading and more on sports, extra-curricular and academic achievements in math...
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It started, as these things invariably do, with an email from a publicist.
The situation was thus: the fine folks from Harley-Davidson were looking to shine the light on the ’72 Harley, the latest and greatest model from their Dark Custom Line, with an all-expenses-paid trip to Chicago’s Wild Fire Harley-Davidson. Fair enough…except for the fact that I don’t own a motorcycle, it’s been more than ten years since I’ve ridden on a motorcycle, and, given that the ride in question – on the back of my brother-in-law’s bike – was so goddamned terrifying (he turned a corner, my feet dragged on the ground, and I was convinced that both our asses were about to hit the fucking pavement) that I’ve never thought for even so much as a moment about buying a motorcycle.
Ah, but the pitch wasn’t just about motorcycles. Indeed, the phrase used to describe the expedition was “a jam-packed day of ass-kicking and whiskey drinking.” Now, not being much of a scrapper, I can take or leave the former, but when you bring up the latter…? Sir, you have my undivided attention.
And that, my friends, is how I came to get…
Pre-Game
Because of the designated start time on Saturday and the terribly unhelpful flight times from my home base from Norfolk (ORF) to Chicago, it was agreed that the most convenient time for me to arrive into O’Hare would actually be on Friday…and after this was agreed upon, I then begged, pleaded, and ultimately annoyed my hosts into getting me on the earliest possible flight, so as to be in Chicago for as long as possible.
Coming down the escalator, I was met by a driver holding up a card with my name on it, which is an experience that every flier should have at least once in their life. In short order, I had been deposited at the front door of The Drake Hotel, a gorgeous establishment right in the heart of the city, and – to my utter amazement – I was able to check in immediately, go right up to my room, drop off my bags, and hit the streets of Chicago.
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Muslim groups are urging a widespread protest at the BBC over a Have I Got News For You joke they say was Islamophobic.
On Friday’s edition, host Sharon Horgan said: ‘The Independent described the Dostoevsky metro station… as the Mecca for suicides. Not to be confused with the Mecca of suicide bombers – which is Mecca.’
The joke received a slightly uncomfortable reaction from the studio audience, and is now set to lead to a torrent of complaints to the BBC.
Campaign group The Muslim Public Affairs Committee said: ‘By making such a comment she is giving the message that the holiest site in Islam is the centre of all terrorism and that Islam is inherently linked with violence.
‘This offhand comment does nothing except reinforce the message that Islam has something within its fundamental beliefs that makes it a threat to civil society Allowing this comment to go unchecked justifies the statement and condones such demonisation, as the comment implicitly implies that all Muslims are terrorists and all terrorists are Muslims.’
It urged viewers to email the BBC demanding an apology; echoing an online campaign being propagated by individuals on Islamic forums and via Twitter.
Today, Horgan apologised if any offence was caused, saying the line was ironic – and said she had received threats from those who misunderstood that.
In an internet post she said: 'I am anti any prejudice of any kind. And particularly the generally lazy media portrayal of Muslims or any blanket negativity towards Islam.
'But HIGNFY is a political satire. Its job is to hold a mirror up to most media prejudice. It deals in irony and in that sense it does the OPPOSITE of what it’s actually saying.
'Any of the comments on here, which are suggesting I am racist or in any way anti-Muslim are a load of nonsense. HIGNFY, like all good satire plays on prejudices and that’s exactly what we were doing with this joke.
'Really hope that people understand this and stop threatening me. But if anyone misunderstood the intention of the joke – for it was a joke – then I apologise for any offence caused.'
Here is the joke:
Published: 6 Jun 2011
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To begin this I should start with a confession:
I believe in sex. It is an integral part of being human. Healthy sex makes for strong communities and happy people. Love in all of its colors, partners and kinky curiosities is to be enjoyed by those who are in it. Understanding the self and expressing personal identity are interwoven in our sexual experiences. As it is our bodies that create each successive generation, healthy sexual choices are at the root of creating a healthy nation.
THE WHY:
I was eating a bowl of cereal when a radio news story perked my interest. It was March of 2009. A translator relayed this quote from Pope Benedict during his recent trip to Africa:
“I would say that this problem of AIDS cannot be overcome merely with money, necessary though it is. If there is no human dimension, if Africans do not help, the problem cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics: on the contrary, they increase it. The solution must have two elements: firstly, bringing out the human dimension of sexuality, that is to say a spirtual and human renewal that would bring with it a new way of behaving towards others, and secondly, true friendship offered above all to those who are suffering, a willingness to make sacrifices and to practice self-denial, to be alongside the suffering.”
Wait, did the Pope just say that prophylactics will increase the AIDS epidemic in Africa and offer self-denial as the remedy?
Why yes, he did.
A few days later the Lancet called upon the Pope to retract his comments, saying that anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and health advocates fighting to contain the disease. No retraction was given.
In 2010 the Pope engaged the condom debate again, this time stating that encouraging condom use amongst prostitutes, with the intention of reducing the risk of HIV infection, may be an indication that the prostitute is intending to reduce the evil connected with his or her immoral activity.
Now the Pope was conflating being a prostitute who practices safe sex with encouraging a moral deficit. Had he any compassion for their position in life; their poverty, their plight?
Apparently not.
Over the next few years Benedict’s fervent embrace of a more “traditional” Catholic doctrine continued to make me wonder what time-machine he had fallen out of. Homosexuality as a moral disease… Same sex-marriage as a threat to world peace… Gender as clearly definable… Each time a new message from the Pope hit the airwaves I became frustratingly perplexed. I felt I had to do something.
Eggs Benedict exists because I believe it is my responsibility as an able bodied person living in our current cultural climate to incite further discussion about the direction our leaders point us in. As an artist, my thoughts manifest in my artwork best. It’s a pretty simple relationship. During the production of this piece I made many intentional choices; from selecting a cheerful moment from the Pope’s earlier years to reproduce, to going with a festive color palette, to putting great care into the making of the portrait to ensure that both the subject matter and the materials were on some level being celebrated in the midst of the questions that their combination raises. I made these choices because it is important to me that this piece opens more doors than it closes, by remaining both glorious and irreverent at the same time, if that’s possible. Like other portraits I have made, I see Eggs Benedict conceptually existing in a grey space between the black/white nature of political statements- creating room for a nuanced experience that has an added degree of complexity.
THE HOW:
In May of 2009 I made a donation to a health advocacy group in exchange for 6,000 condoms. The piece was intended to be quite a bit smaller than it is now, as I had chosen a 1/4″ mesh to weave the condoms through. The focus of the image was limited mainly to the Pope’s face. It was while creating the tonal range by inter-stuffing the condoms that I ran into my first hurdle. The small grid wouldn’t allow for the thickness of 3-4 condoms that some of the tones required. I needed to scale up.
I also began to notice that the latex was breaking down, and that several of the first condoms woven in the grid were beginning to become ashy, losing their vibrancy. I was presented with the second hurdle; learning more about latex degradation. In order to do that I needed to spend some time experimenting with different preservation techniques and essentially put constructing the piece on the back burner.
Over the next year and a half I laid condoms in window sills, on top of book shelves under fluorescent and incandescent lights, dipped them in castor oil, Astroglide, sprayed them with WD-40 and Armorall, as well as dusted them with talc. The results were pretty clear. First and most importantly, the condoms needed to be non-lubricated in order to inter-stuff them in an expedient fashion. Secondly, condoms treated with spermicidal lubricant, Armorall, WD-40, and castor oil crumbled or became more prone to snapping within 12-18 months. Talc, though effective in sealing the latex dulled the colors. Sunlight, fluorescents and heat also were a detriment to the material.
These findings led me back to the design board, this time drawing up an airtight case with plexiglass sides on the front and back that I could then flood with argon gas. Filing it with a silicone based lubricant was also a preservation option I played with (and the idea of putting a bubbler in could be fun) but the cost and weight of the piece would increase greatly. Gas being more cost effective and less gimmicky won.
I also decided to include more of the Pope’s body in the image, including the gesture of his hands and more papal garb. The stitching surface had trippled by 2012, which brought me to the third hurdle: Finding more condoms.
By the fall of 2012 I had relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin over 1,000 miles from my first condom connection in Memphis, Tennessee. My second search began similarly to how I had conducted it before. I began by calling and visiting AIDS testing centers and calling health advocacy groups in search of a helpful person who might be interested trading donations for condoms.
Trying to create a connection this way was tenuous to say the least. First off, the organizations that supply testing and sexual health information have been under fire for a number of years, and more recently following several conservative referendums are walking both political and financial tight ropes. The last thing I wanted to do was in anyway jeopardize the crucial services they provide by involving them in a project that could potentially be politically inflammatory. I found myself skirting the exact content of the piece until the last minute with the first two organizations I spoke with, as if the don’t-ask-don’t-tell rule might make it easier for both of us. I felt like I was seeking contraband, goofy as it may sound. My request for 14,000 condoms in specific color quantities inevitably brought the conversation around to the goals of the project. Thankfully it was embraced by each person I spoke with.
While waiting to hear back from a these contacts I was encouraged to try and secure the condoms by creating my own account with a national sexual education group. As luck would have it, my new job teaching at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design had the added benefit of affiliating me with a 501c3 non-profit institution… and apparently that’s all it takes.
In mid-November 2012 the cases of condoms arrived. I began unwrapping, unrolling, stuffing, configuring and stitching the portrait. During those months I sat on the couch at night, exacto blade within reach, methodically slicing open hundreds of foil wrappers, pulling out their contents, unrolling them and then bagging each color group. (New fact to wow your friends at the next cocktail party: You can fit 500 unrolled condoms in a gallon bag; just give yourself 4 hours to do so.) For those of you who are curious as to how long this has taken, I began to time myself during the middle of the project to see exactly how long each row took to decipher color, inter-stuff condoms, triple fold (yes, all of the condoms are folded) and stitch through the mesh. The answer: 1 hour and 20 minutes per horizontal line. As there are 101 horizontal rows, the stitching the portrait took roughly 135 hours. Unwrapping, unrolling and bagging took nearly the same amount of time.
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I finished stitching the week Pope Benedict retired.
THE PIECE:
The images that follow are of the completed stitch-work for Eggs Benedict. I am currently building the frame that will hold the stitch-work as well as a plexiglass aquarium that will encase the both the frame and the stitching. More images will be posted when it’s ready!
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UPDATE: Trump is no longer attending this event. More details below.
WASHINGTON ― Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is campaigning with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Wisconsin on Saturday, though it kind of seems he didn’t want you to know that.
Ryan’s campaign released a media advisory Thursday titled, “Paul Ryan to Attend Annual Fall Fest in Walworth County.” It’s an event in Ryan’s home state, and the advisory lists lots of state officials attending.
Oh, and three paragraphs in, it mentions Trump will be there too.
It’s the first time the two will appear together since the Republican National Convention in July. Got any questions about Ryan’s decision to share a stage with Trump? “All questions related to Mr. Trump should be directed to the Trump campaign,” the release says.
The speaker condemns the GOP nominee all the time. He’s called him out for joking about someone shooting Hillary Clinton, anti-semitism, racism, insulting a Gold Star family, praising an Iraqi dictator, inciting violence, and associating with white supremacists, among other things.
But Ryan is still endorsing Trump for president.
UPDATE: Oct. 8, 12:30 a.m. ― Trump is no longer attending the event after a bombshell video was released Friday night showing Trump saying incredibly offensive things about women.
“I am sickened by what I heard today,” Ryan said in a statement. “I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests. In the meantime, he is no longer attending tomorrow’s event in Wisconsin.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
HUFFPOST READERS: What’s happening in your state or district? The Huffington Post wants to know about all the campaign ads, mailers, robocalls, candidate appearances and other interesting campaign news happening by you. Email any tips, videos, audio files or photos to [email protected].
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Son, We’re Going to Talk About Sex
How does a dad start the conversation?
— I’ve asked hundreds of men if their fathers ever talked to them about sex and relationships, beyond the usual exhortation to wear a condom. Thus far only one has said yes.
A friend recounted how as a boy back in New Zealand his school hosted a father and son evening on this very topic. On the day, however, dad made an excuse and backed out, sending older brother along instead. When the two boys arrived at the school, there were almost no men to be seen. Most of the lads were with an older brother, cousin, or on their own.
The boys squirm and smirk at the beginning, uncomfortable at the prospect of men talking about sex.
Judging by the boys I meet, things have not changed much. With no teaching from our own fathers, I meet very few men who have had meaningful conversations with their sons about sex and relationships. Many find the topic too difficult and don’t go there. Others outsource the job to school. Some say it’s better their boy finds out for himself from his friends or online. These men don’t realize a father’s input is the most important of all, in spite of the groans and push back they might receive bringing up the topic!
How do you start the conversation? I’ve taken groups of fathers and sons out to the bush where we gather around a fire. We create a ‘sacred space’ where anything can be said with no fear of judgement or ridicule. Getting away from the normal routine of life allows for something new to emerge.
The boys squirm and smirk at the beginning, uncomfortable at the prospect of men talking about sex. The fathers must push through their own embarrassment. But soon they share openly how their bodies started changing at puberty. I’m always glad to hear an excruciating story of the first wet dream or masturbation. Everyone laughs and the ice is broken.
The men share about their first crush, what it was like to fall in love, the mistakes they made, and how women should be treated. Some men talk about their struggle with porn. The boys listen raptly because they hear total honesty from a variety of men, not just their own dad.
The boys ask questions which different men answer. Father and son take the discussion deeper later on. Some men have had the first conversation with a son who reveals he is gay. This is so critical. Anything can be discussed because a channel of communication and trust has opened.
How does it affect the maturation process of our boys when we avoid these conversations?
What do the boys really want? Honest stories from men they trust and then your advice. No matter how promiscuous or inexperienced you were, how awful your introduction to sex might have been, or how (in)adequate you feel for the task now. Your authentic experience, for better or worse, will counteract the avalanche of false information he receives everywhere else. Even better, he will feel comfortable coming to you with questions and concerns, without shame or embarrassment, if you keep the channel open.
How does it affect the maturation process of our boys when we avoid these conversations? I hear complaints from many young women of how men brag about real or imagined sexual encounters not just at the pub but on social media. For them, women are conquests, not human beings. No one taught the young men the importance of treating women with respect and dignity.
I heard of a mother recently saying her teenage son won’t introduce her to a girl because the relationship is ‘just for sex.’. The woman condoned her son’s contempt toward the young lady, telling her friends she wished such arrangements were available when she was at university. That father never taught his son sex is a profound, intimate expression of love between two people.
And what about porn? What do our boys expect of real women after watching two-dimensional images online? I know young women often feel compelled to comply with something they don’t want to do. Some are traumatised by men’s weird, degrading demands as discussed in the TED Talk The Great Porn Experiment by Gary Wilson.
Do you think your son knows how intimidating he can be to girls? Is he aware of his power? A friend’s daughter challenged the behavior of a group of boys at a social event and became the target of many abusive, threatening messages on social media. Their fathers did not teach them about restraint or honor.
A father’s calm and loving voice, sharing wisdom as well as mistakes, provides guidance to a boy on his sexuality and how to treat the opposite sex with dignity, care, and respect.
If your son reveals he is gay, he needs you just as much to both to listen and guide him.
It’s not just for your sake of your sons and their sons, but all the women they will interact with in life.
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Softballer13 stole 2 bats from me!!!!!!
We did a trade and when I got the bat he sent it was just an empty box. He had insurance on it so no big deal right......wrong!! I waited 4 months for the PO insurance to finally pay out to him 300 bucks. So he gets that money and emails me to tell he is just going to send the bats I sent him originally back to me and keep the money!! I said there was no way you are going to keep my bats for 4 months and then send them back!! He finally agreed to buy a S2 which was the bat I was supposed to get and have it sent to me. A couple days later with no contact I email him and tell him I will be contacting police and he emails me back saying his wallet got stolen and the MO he had for me was in it. He says he is going to sell all his bats and then have that person send me the money which is fine because I just want this thing over.... well it has been another week and he has not contacted me again so I will be contacting the local police Mon.
Police and the Postmaster general.
That is MAIL and Insurance FRAUD. It would be worth the $300 to hear his story in JAIL.
I would give him until about midnight tonight and then sick the dogs on him. I hate Jerks that are SCUM of the Earth. I can't imagine screwing or getting screwed this way. I would tell him he has until midnight to paypal you the money, with the paypal fees, and if he doesn't, you are turning all the correspondence over to the authorities and the POSTAL SERVICE. This is a FEDERAL OFFENSE... Therefore, he has 2 choices. If he does pay you, then you decide whether he "deserves" to be turned in anyway.. He owes you, now he needs to pay you TODAY.
Hey, what service did he use to send the bat? It should say the weight of the package on the label...most softball bats end up weighing out at about 2-3 pounds. And it should say that on the label. You will have a HUGE peice of evidence against him if the label on the box does not show that weight. This would show that he did not send a bat.
If he used the USPS....he could be in very serious trouble. Look at the label and find the weight.....
I believe he sent the bat originally but it seems somewhere down the line he deceided to screw me. I have even got 2 emails from his "girlfriend" saying how impatient I am being.... after 5 freakin months Iam being impatient?? I couldn't believe it
i believe who you are talking about is Jason Reed.he lived in NH i think.i did a deal with him and it went smooth but right after that i read a bunch of posts from different memebers where he had screwed people over.
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