I never understood why this quote was such a major theme to the movie because to me, it's really not that clever or poetic.
Is it supposed to be taken literally to mean that life has a lot of unpredicted and random occurrences? Or is it supposed to mean represent how simple Forrest is to find meaning in the quote because the quote doesn't really make sense since the box has a label with all the different flavours inside? Or something else?
Well, it means that you don't really know what a chocolate tastes like until you bite it. And in the end, you've tasted whether you liked it or not.
This applies the same for life. You don't really know what every day of your life is going to be until you live it. It may be great experience or can be worse, but you would not know it until you live it.
When you open a box of chocolates, there is a variety of flavors available. Problem is, since they are covered in chocolate, you can't really tell what any given piece of chocolate is going to taste like. You're going to eat a chocolate (you know you are! admit it! you want chocolate!), but you won't know what you are getting until you bite into it - and then it's done. Like it or not, you've tasted it.
You never know what life is going to give you. But you live nevertheless. So every day - every new experience - is something you really don't know about until you actually live it. It may not be an experience you like. It may be the greatest experience ever. But you don't know until you've lived it, and by then it's too late to not live it.
Forrest uses this quote to exemplify the randomness of life.
Forrest has had such a random, eclectic life - much like the variety of chocolates which is in the box. And Forrest, like someone without the box lid, hasn't been going through life with any sort of plan, he's just been picking up the next chocolate and just finding out if it's a toffee or something else once he has eaten it.
You removed the quote's meaning by only reading/providing half of it.
The quote fragment you provided is elucidated by the fragment which follows it (and which you didn't include for some reason) to wit: "you never know what you're going to get".
While chocolate snacks are generally supplied by the bag or as single bars, a "box of chocolates" implies a class of higher quality, and usually more expensive chocolates which are given as gifts to people close to, and very often romantically involved with the gifter. Thus they are common as dirt on store shelves around valentine's day.
These boxed chocolates are almost invariably "assorted", and while most packages provide an identification key for the contents, using this key is by no means foolproof or definitive, and in the end, you really never know just what you're going to get.
I think it has different meanings, at different levels. Life is a box full of chocolates, not just one chocolate. You pick one and eat it, you may like it, but you may not like the next one you have. But having a bad one or even good one should not stop you from trying the next one. Also, even though the box is full of chocolates, whether you like one or not is entirely dependent on how you perceive it, even if it looks good or bad to someone else other than you, who is not eating it. I think the movie captures these ideas.
It's quite a literal quote, your choices in life can lead to unexpected outcomes, but many of them will be something nice you may not have expected.
Of course. this was in a simpler time, when a box of chocolates didn't either explicitly list the chocolates and flavours, or just had a little card which you could avoid to experience the random luck of the draw.
I think it just represents the simple underlying meaning that life is full of surprises. You never know what you'll get. These were Forrest's mother's advice given to him to make him understand life.
You have to understand the literal meaning of "box of chocolates". They're not so common anymore, but at one time fancy boxes of chocolate-covered candies were the gift of choice to mothers and wives on the occasion of a birthday, anniversary, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, etc.
So, when offered you would take a piece and eat it, unsure of whether the particular piece would be something you like or something you don't like.
Thus, as Forrest's mother said, "You never know what you're going to get." It might be something you really wanted, it might be something that you simply have to tolerate.
I think the line is a bit deeper than you might think. It's about Forest's inability to understand the marking system on a chocolate assortment, or not even knowing that there is one. That type of abstraction is just beyond Forest. The writer is using the line to explain how Forest sees the world.
Toru Wantanabe, the lead character in Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood said, "Just remember, life is a box of chocolates. You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK'. Life is a box of chocolates" This novel was published in 1987, Forrest Gump, in 1994.
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. It means life is unpredictable. For example you could have a factory defect with your chocolates and have one or more missing or broken and you would have to deal with it. In life something unexpected could happen and you will have to deal with it.
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I love protocols and extensions as much as the next Swift developer, but when dealing with UIKit, sometimes you just need to subclass to share functionality or implement a reusable peice of UI. Recently I ran into this when subclassing UIScrollView — to implement the behavior I wanted in my subclass, I had to become the scroll view delegate to receive updates on scrollViewDidScroll(_:). This meant conforming to UIScrollViewDelegate and setting self.delegate = self — so far no issues. But what if someone uses your subclass and needs to receive their own updates for scrollViewDidScroll(_:)? It turns out there's a neat trick that will let you set a delegate for yourself while preserving the UIKit API — i.e., someone else can set your delegate property without messing with your own delegate.
Below is an example of how to preserve the superclass API while using it for your own needs as well. It's a UIScrollView subclass that listens to its own scrollViewDidScroll(_:) while allowing another class to be its delegate.
private weak var _delegate: UIScrollViewDelegate?
// 5. Call your own delegate's version of the method — it's an optional method, hence the ?
By overriding the property like this and using super's version for ourself, we can still have another class set themselves as our delegate, while having our own implementation called by super.
Point 5. says to "read on" and that's because there's a caveat, and some missing code in my sample. Since you're the superclass's delegate, you need to implement every delegate method and forward those to your own delegate. This can result in a lot of boilerplate, but isn't hard to implement — just copy and paste from the header file 😄. If you're implementing a subclass like this for a framework, it's well worth the effort to preserve the existing UIScrollView API. Even interally, you never know when someone might set the delegate property and spend hours (or minutes if you're quite intelligent) wondering why they broke your class. All in all, it's a neat trick when you need to subclass.


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UCSB Seeking To Gain Conference Edge, Hosts CSUN
May 2, 2018 at 11:39 am by Jorge Mercado
Running to first after making contact with the ball. Siavash Ghadiri/Daily Nexus
With a .500 record through conference play thus far, the UCSB baseball team is in need of a few more Big West wins if it really hopes to come out with the crown this season.
The Gauchos, coming off a solid 9-5 victory at Cal State Bakersfield this past Tuesday, currently stand at 21-18-1 overall and 6-6 in the Big West conference. This week, they welcome Cal State Northridge, who has struggled this year, posting a 19-24 overall mark and a 7-8 conference record.
CSUN, just 8-13 on the road, is coming off a big series win against Hawai'I, who is currently third in the Big West standings. Before that, the Matadors had lost five of their last six conference games being swept by UC Irvine and dropping two of three to last-place Long Beach State.
On the other side, UCSB picked up a big series win against UCR at home last weekend but failed to pull off a sweep which would have put them in a much better place heading down the stretch. The Gauchos can correct that with a sweep, or at the very least, a series win over CSUN.
Currently in fourth place, Santa Barbara has 12 games remaining against conference opponents, nine of which will be against teams currently ranked lower than them in the standings, including Cal State Northridge.
Needing wins, UCSB must rely on some of its key components in order to get the job done this weekend against CSUN.
Having an unusually down year, sophomore infielder Armani Smith has struggled at the plate. The sophomore is barely batting above .200 on the season. However, in the last five games, Smith has gone 6-16 (.375) at the plate along with eight RBIs. He also hit a three-run big fly in Tuesday's win against CSUB, his fifth homer of the season.
If Smith's big bat is back in action in the lineup, then UCSB truly has a solid starting nine. Sophomore centerfielder Tommy Jew has also been a great bat in the Santa Barbara lineup, currently slashing .294/.382/.451 on the season.
Last week, Jew received Big West Conference Field Player of the Week after leading the Gauchos to a series win over UC Riverside last weekend. The sophomore went 9-15 (.600) with seven RBIs, scoring six runs while also totaling four extra-base hits including his third home run of the season.
One thing UCSB will need to be cognizant of, however, is their pitching, as it allowed 24 runs against UCR and another five against CSUB. Sophomore Chris Lincoln (2.19 ERA, 2-2) and senior Stevie Ledesma (2.55 ERA, 5-2) have the second and fourth-best ERA marks in the conference respectively.
As a team, the pitching staff has a combined 4.10 ERA, and they will have their work cut out for them facing CSUN with their team batting average of .281, the third-best mark in the conference.
In fact, the Matadors also have the third best on-base percentage (.364) and even the best slugging percentage (.459) in the conference. A big part of that is because the Matadors have arguably the best long-ball hitter in the Big West in senior Albee Weiss.
The outfielder and catcher currently has 15 home runs on the season, a mark that is not only far and away the best mark in the conference but also sits at eighth nationally. Weiss also has 48 RBIs, the top mark in the Big West.
CSUN also has the conference's most efficient hitter as redshirt junior utility Trevor Casanova currently boasts a .380 batting average. Casanova also has 27 RBIs on the year. As a team, Cal State Northridge has three athletes batting above .300 on the year.
While the whole series will be intriguing, seeing how UCSB pitchers adjust to facing a strong offensive team will be a real treat. To be fair, however, CSUN has batted .257 in conference play, a mark that has them sitting seventh in the conference, so something will have to give.
For UCSB, this series is important because they have another chance to really step on the throat of a team that is a bit weaker than the rest in this conference. With CSUF sitting with a 9-3 Big West mark, Santa Barbara cannot afford to take many more losses in this conference season.
Santa Barbara hosts Cal State Northridge for a three-game set beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 4, at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
A version of this story appeared on p. 6 of the May 3rd, 2018, edition of the Daily Nexus.
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Mini is resurrecting one of its most famous models, a car that once belonged to Beatles member George Harrison. Decked out in psychedelic paintings, the legendary Beatle Mini Cooper appeared in the rock group's 'Magical Mystery Tour', and now Mini is dedicating a reinterpretation of Harrison's vehicle to the man himself.
The latest car is being produced strictly as a one-off for the brand's 50th birthday and will be given to Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison. The ceremony will take place at the world's biggest Mini fan event, Mini United, in the UK later this month and the car will then be auctioned off to aid a foundation that Harrison started back in 1973.
"George was a huge Mini fan and he would have enjoyed creating this new version. The fact that Mini's anniversary celebrations will also benefit our foundation has made it an enjoyable as well as meaningful collaboration." said Olivia Harrison.
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Eurovision 2012 prediction : Saturday's final
My starting-point for this prediction (which may well look very foolish in 24 hours' time) is that the bookies have called it completely wrong - I just don't see how either Sweden or Russia are going to win the contest. Sweden are unlikely to win because dance tracks always underperform at Eurovision, including those tipped for victory (Xandee finished a miserable 22nd, Kate Ryan failed to even qualify for the final). Russia are unlikely to win because juries comprised of music professionals hold 50% of the vote, and they're simply not going to go for a novelty act with dodgy singing, however beguiling it may be.
Looking back twelve months, it's quite astonishing how big a divergence there was between the juries and the public vote. Italy were the runaway winners with the juries, but finished just 11th on the televoting results, leading to an overall result of second. The disparity for Denmark and Slovenia was even more extreme - they were placed third and fourth respectively by the juries, but were a mere 18th and 22nd on the public vote. I must admit I'd completely forgotten about the Slovenian song until I looked it up a few minutes ago. It's really good, worth far more than 22nd place, so there's not much doubt that the juries were doing the job they were paid to do, and pushing the classier songs up the leaderboard. Realistically, therefore, for a song to have a chance of winning it needs to appeal to two very different constituencies, and attract a high level of support from both juries and the public. Azerbaijan were the only country that managed that feat last year, and were thus bound to win (not that I predicted it, of course!).
So which countries are likely to have that dual appeal this year? Let's start by considering what will appeal to the juries. It wouldn't surprise me if for the second year in a row they give the nod to Italy. As you may have noticed, my opinion of the Italian song has been 'evolving' at a rate of knots over the last two or three weeks (as has my understanding of one of the key lyrics - it turns out that it's actually "you're an independent grown man after all"!). I now belatedly recognise that it's dripping with class, and I think the professional juries are bound to go with it, regardless of how much it might be overshadowed by the 'showier' entries later on in the running order. At the absolute minimum, I expect them to place it in the top three. It's a touch harder to judge how music professionals will react to an ethnic ballad like Serbia's - it depends what type of music professionals they are, I suppose. But surely they'll recognise the quality? And strange though it may seem, I also think the juries will go with Ireland. Jedward were actually quite a bit more popular with the juries than with the public last year, and Waterline is a stronger song than Lipstick.
I'm not sure the juries will be quite so kind to the contest's dark horses, such as Ukraine and Turkey, but nor do I necessarily think they'll push those songs out of contention completely.
Now let's move to the public vote, where all sorts of factors that are (or should be) irrelevant to the juries suddenly come into play with a vengeance - such as running order, visual gimmickry and political voting. And that's where I think Italy may run into a problem. Certainly there's no doubt that they have a much less favourable draw than Ireland, Serbia, Ukraine, Spain and Turkey. They also have fewer natural allies than three of those five countries. From the point of view of the visual impact of the performance, it's harder to make a direct comparison, because we've already seen the majority of the leading contenders in the semi-finals, but not Italy or Spain. I have seen dodgy video footage of a couple of Italy's rehearsals, for what that's worth. The backdrop looked stunning, and Nina Zilli's vocals were near-perfect, but she did seem to be holding back slightly on selling the performance visually, which makes it impossible to draw too many conclusions. She also didn't bother with the high note in the final "femmina", which is a pity, as it's a memorable feature in the studio version.
Although I was slightly disappointed with the visual impact of Serbia on Thursday night, Željko Joksimović sounded fantastic, as he always does. Unlike Italy, we don't even need to pose the question of whether he can attract public votes - he has a formidable track record of doing so in three previous contests, with very similar songs to this one. Some of that might be classed as political voting, but votes are votes. And he has a fantastic draw. So the stars seem to be aligned for Serbia this year, and my gut feeling is that they're the most likely winners. But it wouldn't surprise me if Italy or Ireland won, and Spain, Ukraine and Turkey all just about have a chance as well. Turkey are potentially this year's Marie N (the Latvian performer in 2002 who won with a striptease rather than a song) - they're carried by just one very strong visual gimmick, but it's not entirely inconceivable that could be enough.
On balance, this is how I see it working out...
Winners - Serbia (Nije Ljubav Stvar by Željko Joksimović)
2nd - Italy (L'Amore È Femmina by Nina Zilli)
3rd - Ireland (Waterline by Jedward)
4th - Russia (Party for Everybody by Buranovskiye Babushki)
5th - Spain (Quédate Conmigo by Pastora Soler)
Possible dark horses - Turkey, Ukraine, Iceland
Italy's second place is based on the assumption that they'll win the jury vote - if they don't, obviously their overall placing could be quite a bit lower. Until a few days ago, I'd have had the UK in the top five, but I'm not even putting them/us in the 'dark horse' category because Engelbert Humperdinck's performances in the rehearsals have been so patchy.
My own favourite songs are (in no particular order) Serbia, Italy, Iceland and Spain, but because of my personal rule that I only vote for songs performed entirely in a language other than English, I'll be voting for Serbia and Spain. Which I have some regrets about - the segments of L'Amore È Femmina that are sung in Italian are an amazing showcase for that language, and a perfect antidote to Terry Wogan's theory that "pop is an anglophone thing".
Last thought - I don't know if the Azerbaijanis are persevering with Leyla Aliyeva as the sole 'results host' tomorrow night, but I certainly hope so. She has an old-school panache about her that reminds me of female Eurovision hosts from a bygone era.
Lib Dem blogger Caron Lindsay on the launch of Yes Scotland -
"Nothing I have seen from anyone in the SNP has come close to persuading me that there is any need for independence other than they want it. As a highlander, I have as much of an issue about being told what to do by Edinburgh as I do London."
You see, this is one of the stock unionist arguments that baffles me. Edinburgh rule is just as bad and remote as London rule...therefore by definition London rule is better. How exactly does that logic work?
Labels: Eurovision, independence referendum, politics
Where is Romania in your prediction?
EricF May 26, 2012 at 6:04 PM
I like Estonia. More to the point I have abandoned all the reasons I formally had for wanting to see Scottish Independence as essentially trivial. There is now only one reason over-riding all the rest, and that is that we may be spared the asinine comments and embarrassing interviews carried out by the f**kwits the BBC chooses to send over on our behalf. I'm guessing Graham Whatisname will carry on in essentially the same vein tonight. Our telly's up the swannee so we'll miss it anyway!
EricF May 26, 2012 at 10:06 PM
TV came back at 10. Take it all back - Graham Norton was fine. For me still Estonia, or Germany, Spain or Serbia. Really good show. Hump not really in it.
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Q: Join within same table to retrieve hierarchy (Parent-Child Hierarchy) I have two tables - Master and Child. Child table contains hierarchal data for MainId stored in Master table.
Master.Name is Unique
Master.MainId = Child.ChildId
Child.ParentId = Child.ChildId
I have to retrieve all data from Child table for Master.RelDate and Master.Name. I thought it was a straight forward query but somehow not able to pull desired output. I'm ending up with just one Child table record no matter how I write query.
Is it to do with table structure or my query?
Note: None of the ParentIds and ChildIds are in sequence. That data comes from another system, I just put those values for simplicity.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#Master') IS NOT NULL BEGIN DROP TABLE #Master END
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#Child') IS NOT NULL BEGIN DROP TABLE #Child END
GO
CREATE TABLE #Master
(
    Id BIGINT IDENTITY(1,1),
    RelDate DATE NOT NULL,
    MainId BIGINT NOT NULL,
    Name VARCHAR(512) NOT NULL
)
GO
CREATE TABLE #Child
(
    Id BIGINT IDENTITY(1,1),
    RelDate DATE NOT NULL,
    ChildId BIGINT NOT NULL,
    ParentId BIGINT NULL,
    Label VARCHAR(20) NULL,
    Value VARCHAR(1024) NULL
)
GO

INSERT INTO #Master(RelDate,MainId,Name) VALUES ('2019-01-01',1,'Name1')
INSERT INTO #Master(RelDate,MainId,Name) VALUES ('2019-01-01',11,'Name11')
GO
INSERT INTO #Child(RelDate,ChildId,ParentId,Label,Value) VALUES
('2019-01-01',1,2,'Level10',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',2,3,'Level09',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',3,4,'Level08',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',4,5,'Level07',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',5,6,'Level06','This is level 6')
,('2019-01-01',6,7,'Level05',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',7,8,'Level04',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',8,9,'Level03','This is level 3')
,('2019-01-01',9,10,'Level02',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',10,11,'Level01',NULL) -- Always same
,('2019-01-01',11,NULL,'Root',NULL) -- Always same

INSERT INTO #Child(RelDate,ChildId,ParentId,Label,Value) VALUES
('2019-01-01',11,12,'Level10',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',12,13,'Level09',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',13,14,'Level08',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',14,15,'Level07',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',15,16,'Level06','This is level 6')
,('2019-01-01',16,17,'Level05',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',17,18,'Level04',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',18,19,'Level03','This is level 3')
,('2019-01-01',19,10,'Level02',NULL)
,('2019-01-01',10,11,'Level01',NULL) -- Always same
,('2019-01-01',11,NULL,'Root',NULL) -- Always same
GO

SELECT * FROM #Master
SELECT * FROM #Child

Desired output for RelDate = 2019-01-01 and Name = Name1
SELECT chld.*
FROM #Master mst (NOLOCK)
    INNER JOIN #Child chld (NOLOCK) ON (mst.MainId = chld.ChildId)
    LEFT JOIN #Child chld1 (NOLOCK) ON (chld.ParentId = chld.ChildId)
WHERE mst.RelDate = '2019-01-01' -- Input 1
AND mst.Name = 'Name1' -- Input 2

All the data from Child table
Id  RelDate ChildId ParentId    Label   Value
1   2019-01-01  1   2   Level10 NULL
2   2019-01-01  2   3   Level09 NULL
3   2019-01-01  3   4   Level08 NULL
4   2019-01-01  4   5   Level07 NULL
5   2019-01-01  5   6   Level06 This is level 6
6   2019-01-01  6   7   Level05 NULL
7   2019-01-01  7   8   Level04 NULL
8   2019-01-01  8   9   Level03 This is level 3
9   2019-01-01  9   10  Level02 NULL
10  2019-01-01  10  11  Level01 NULL
11  2019-01-01  11  NULL    Root    NULL

Thanks in advance

A: select c.* from #Child c inner join #Master M
on M.MainId = C.ChildId

Id  RelDate ChildId ParentId    Label   Value
1   2019-01-01  1   2   Level10 NULL
11  2019-01-01  11  NULL    Root    NULL

If this isn't the desired output, please provide your desired output.

A: It seams that data in the tables is kinda non logical. Especially with the 'Name11'. I assume that with every new rows you will lose one id from Childid column .Now we lose 'lvl2' at row 19.
I tried to figure out some solution, now my position here.
It works for 'Name1', but result for 'Name11' a bit different.
SELECT   t2.*
FROM #Master mst
      join  #Child t1 ON mst.MainId = t1.ChildId
           join  #Child t2 ON t2.parentid >= t1.ChildId

WHERE mst.RelDate = '2019-01-01' -- Input 1
AND mst.Name = 'Name1'           -- Input 2

order by t2.id
offset 0 rows
fetch first 10 rows only

Maybe it helps you a little. I will try to find a tricky solution.

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NHLPA Planning For Failure
Yesterday brought new lows in the NHL lockout. First, the NHLPA executive board voted to allow the players vote to give the board the power to dissolve the union, a move that would eventually lead the players to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NHL. The league followed by filing a class action suit of their own against the NHLPA claiming unfair labor practices. I agreed with this move.
Today we learned that the NHL included evidence and named 36 players in their filing. The NHL apparently included player tweets that show that the players planned on decertification all along. I believe that this shows that the players intended to negotiate in bad faith.
This is getting hilarious. The situation is spiraling out of control but as I mentioned in yesterday's NHL lockout article I believe that this shows that the NHL had been planning for the players move to dissolve the union. They were preparing to defend themselves from the union. The have been monitoring what the players have been saying. They have been compiling evidence.
I also said that I believed that the NHL would end up being the eventual winners, at least legally and from a collective bargaining agreement perspective (probably not when considering their financial losses resulting from this debacle).
I've believed all along that the players should keep their yaps shut. Players have publicly called Gary Bettman names. They have ridiculed the NHL. They have acted like they are in the Wild West and they haven't been reined in by Donald Feher. He should have demanded that the players shut their mouths. He should have told them what the consequences would be if they acted like infants.
It sure looks like Donald Fehr and the players were planning for failure. For me there's nothing more problematic for the league than the players own words. We're not talking about the brightest bulbs are we? We're talking about guys who are great at shooting or stopping a puck but when it comes to acting like grown men and using their noggins, there's not much there.
I sure hope that the NHL is on to something here. I sure hope they have a mountain of evidence against the players. That would be extremely funny. I want the NHL to bring the players to their knees. I want the players to be forced to come to the league, begging for the best offer possible. I want the players to have to beg for the last offer that the NHL placed on the bargaining table. I want the league to say "Go F yourselves...we are now offering you a 30% revenue share".
I want the big mouth small brained NHL players to learn their lessons. The turning point for me turning against the players came when one player called Bettman a cancer and Dave Bolland retweeted a fans tweet wishing for the death of Bettman.
Did Fehr apologize for that nonsense? I didn't see an apology. Did he publicly ridicule those types of comments? I didn't witness that. That shows me that the players were planning for failure. I don't think that they consciously planned for failure. I think they had a plan but it was being carried out by incompetent people. It was being carried out by big mouth players.
The NHL did things differently. Gary Bettman prevented owners and NHL team executives from talking about the lockout in any way, shape or form. He instituted hefty fines for anyone who went against the gag order. That was smart. Bettman knew that the league's own words could be used against them.
Why didn't the players do the same thing? As mentioned above I believe they have a Wild West mentality. It's a shoot from the hip approach. It's an amateur approach to negotiating. I believe that the players are acting like school children in a playground. They are running all over the place. I hope these immature and overpaid men pay the price for their approach. Maybe if they do, they will be forced to grow up and mature.
Read more of our NHL lockout articles.
Posted by Sportmentary at 6:32 PM
Labels: Donald Fehr, Gary Bettman, NHL, NHL Labor Dispute, NHL Labor Negotiations, NHL Legal Proceedings, NHL Lockout, NHL Palyers, NHL Work Stoppage, NHLPA
Derpherp December 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM
Writer of this article is off his rocker.
Bettman IS a cancer.
Sportmentary December 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM
I did think about not approving this post. I couldn't care that you think I'm off my rocker. Empty opinions like that are baseless but calling Bettmnan a cancer is going a little too far. The fact that you have no criticism for Donald Fehr who did the same thing to MLB is hilarious.
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Taho is a classic sweet treat in the Philippines made with silken tofu, sago or tapioca pearls, and a simple brown sugar syrup. Served warm, it's popular as a comforting breakfast or merienda (snack) any time of the day!
Taho is a classic sweet snack in the Philippines made with silken tofu, sago or tapioca pearls, and a simple brown sugar syrup. Served warm, it's popular as a comforting breakfast or for merienda (snack) any time of the day!
I was six years old when I had my first encounter with Taho. I was on vacation in the Philippines, alone in my grandmother's bedroom, peering out the window, spying the children my age walking to school. I remember observing their lovely sailor-style uniforms, and thinking to myself how much smarter they looked than my school's green plaid jumpers. The girls walked in pairs down the street, freshly washed from the morning rain, and I remember my cousin joining me and we decided to play a quick trick.
A boy was walking behind the girls, half a block away. Taking care to duck behind our second-floor windows, we gave a little whistle. We peeked over the ledge, and sure enough, the girls turned around and glared at the boy, poor thing. He was shocked and defenseless!
But then we heard a man's voice. Taho!!!! He cried. He had two metal covered buckets balancing on a wooden pole on his shoulders. I had never seen anything like it! Curious, I perched forward on the windowsill and watched as someone walked up to him with some pesos. The Taho man lowered his buckets to the ground and ladled something white and silky into a cup. From the other bucket, another scoop, this time a dark liquid.
The customer took his cup and sipped it. And even before I tasted Taho, I was mesmerized. I knew I had to try it.
Taho is a beloved snack in the Philippines, almost like a drinkable custard made with warm silken tofu, sago pearls, and arnibal, a simple brown sugar syrup. Sago pearls are similar to tapioca pearls, and like the boba you find in bubble tea. To the indoctrinated, it sounds like a crazy combination of ingredients, but believe me when I tell you, it is as delicious as I imagined, when I first spied taho from my grandmother's bedroom window. Served warm, it's sweet and comforting, the silken tofu much like a custard, with the satisfying chew from sago or tapioca pearls. When I first made homemade taho, I would use warm maple syrup as a quick substitute from the arnibal, and between you and me, that's a fine way to go about it, too.
Taho can also be found in China, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam, and I've seen different versions in the Asian markets here, stateside. In the Philippines, though, it's one of the first street foods I fell in love with, and part of it is from the cry of the vendors singing, "Tahoooooo!" in the early morning. But it really is absolutely delicious. It's a treat popular at breakfast, or for merienda (snack). I personally love eating it warm, but it can also be enjoyed chilled for a cool treat.
Looking for more merienda treats? I'm joining my fellow Filipina bloggers for a virtual merienda to celebrate Filipino Amerian History Month!
Taho is a classic sweet treat in the Philippines made with silken tofu, sago or tapioca pearls, and a simple brown sugar syrup. Served warm, it's popular as a comforting breakfast or merienda (snack) any time of the day!
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook the tapioca pearls according to your package instructions. This can be done in advance; just be sure to store the prepped pearls with some water or a little brown sugar syrup (next step).
Combine the brown sugar, water, and vanilla in a small saucepan and place over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, stir to dissolve the sugar, and lower heat to a simmer. Continue simmering for about 2-4 minutes and remove from heat. This syrup, or arnibal, can also be made in advance.
Place silken tofu in a parchment lined steamer. Steam for 10-15 minutes, or until heated through. Alternatively, you can microwave the tofu for about 2-5 minutes.
To serve, scoop slices of warm silken tofu into a small cup. Top with tapioca or sago pearls. Pour hot brown sugar syrup (arnibal) on top. Serve immediately, while warm.
Sago pearls are traditionally used in taho, but can be substituted with tapioca pearls which are more readily available. Both can be found at your local Asian market. I personally prefer using quick cooking tapioca pearls which are easier and faster!
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"Important Projects has cleared out the perpetual cocktail party that was its previous exhibition to make way for two Bay Area artists, Sean Talley and Kate Bonner. Both explore the possibilities of pushing canonical approaches — abstract line drawing in Talley's case, landscape photography in Bonner's — through unexpected technological hoops. Emphasizing "unassuming materials and refined processes," Talley describes his forms with digital software, then applies them to paper via graphite powder. Ceramic lattices and nests, the artist's latest interests, formally riff off of the drawings. Meanwhile, Bonner warps her landscapes through a process of digital manipulation, cutting, printing and photocopying, ultimately winding up with sculptural works mounted on MDF board. The conceptual concern here is with the notion of editing — an act of clarification or concealment, sometimes simultaneously. Some works articulate their content more emphatically in sculpture form. Others, severely fragmented, look like puzzles with some key pieces missing. Sean Talley and Kate Bonner run through December 7, at Important Projects (5432 Boyd Ave., Oakland). ImportantProjects.net"


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I tried to read Michael Dibdin's The Tryst, a novel he first published in 1989, but it was heavy going and I slowly got bogged down, so much so that I couldn't carry on as there was no pleasure associated with the endeavour. I read 40 pages and knew by then. Usually they say you should give a book at least 50 pages before you can be certain that it's not working for you. But I can tell a long time before that. Often I can tell after the first sentence.
I'll read Dibdin again if I get the chance. I haven't read his Zen series, as I find the Venetian detective too unsympathetic for my taste, but some of his stand-alone novels have been excellent.
What message is that? Would it have been better for him to die like so many others – teachers, schoolchildren – bombed from on-high by our brave boys – and for their deaths to be celebrated by The Independent as a blow against "militants"?
jb says: Hi Steve, don't interpret my comment as an endorsement for the wholesale bombing of Afghanistan. I've never supported that policy. The 'message' I was referring to was, I suppose, rather complex . . . but included the notion that conservative forces will go to almost any lengths to avoid even a small degree of change, irrespective of whether that benefits an enormous section of the population.
One can only feel for the civilian population of that country, bullied and harassed by both the Taliban and foreign troops.


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Title: Hauhauism: An Episode in the Maori Wars 1863-1866
Author: Stuart Barton Babbage
Publication details: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, 1937, Wellington
Part of: New Zealand Wars (1845–1872)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence
Hauhauism: An Episode in the Maori Wars 1863-1866
HAUHAUISM — AN EPISODE IN THE MAORI WARS — 1863–1866
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HAUHAUISM
AN EPISODE IN THE MAORI WARS
S. Barton Babbage, M.A. (N.Z.)
Introduction by the Rt. Rev. Herbert Williams.
Mr. Babbage has given us a short, clear and concise account in this book of the events which led up to this strange Maori cult, the background of the events of the Maori Wars, the spread of the religion, and its form and significance. An understanding of the cult is necessary to the study of the Maori Wars of the 'sixties. Pai Mariri, or Hauhauism, was in the main political. The prophet and founder, Te Ua, may have imagined himself inspired in the religious field, but his followers were concerned with hostility to the Pakeha. A little more wisdom and justice on the part of the Government would have sterilized the soil in which the half crazy prophet sowed his seed. At the time, however, the new religion was of national importance to Maori and Pakeha, and it was succeeded by the Ringa-tu cult.
The author has put his whole subject into correct perspective, and has given us a carefully documented account that will appeal to every student of New Zealand history.
The introduction contains an historical retrospect, and shows how the ground was made ready for the sowing of the seed of this fanatical cult. The first chapter deals with the rise of the prophet, Te Ua Haumene; the rapid development is shown, and its spread over a large territory. The terrible events following are graphically portrayed—the journeys of the messengers with the head of Captain Lloyd, and the martyrdom of the Rev. C.S. Volkner. Then comes the decline of Hauhauism, and a study of its general significance. Valuable appendices contain a Maori account of Te Ua, an article on existing nius, a selection of Hauhau chants and prayers, and the full text of Sir George Grey's proclamation. A very extensive bibliography is included. The book illustrated with maps and pictures.


But he then proceeded to sound at least cautiously optimistic about the prospects of precisely such progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front. The new American government was committed from the get-go. Israel had a stable coalition sensibly determined to work 'bottom up' as well as 'top down.' Moves were ongoing to improve the Palestinian economy and security capacity. The ideological gulfs were bridgeable. And Hamas had some hard choices to make.
As he said, given 'all we've been through over the years,' such assessments might sound risibly rosy. But Blair does have his feet on the ground: The central characteristic of his mission has been to concentrate on detail – the advocacy of specific projects to improve day-to-day life in the West Bank, the focus on specific Israeli security concerns.
We have a new government here and we're hearing about a determination to build from the bottom up with the Palestinians, including assurances that economic projects that had been stymied will now be advanced. There's also a new American presidency that is trying to invigorate the process, and talk of possible new Arab League thinking – though it's not clear how true that is. In contrast to Annapolis, which did not lead to any breakthrough, do you have the sense that there is genuinely a chance now of something substantial changing for the better?
The short answer is yes, I do. You'd be nuts if you were naively optimistic after all we've been through over the years. But I do think this is a moment of opportunity. A moment of truth. After many months of semi-paralysis, frankly, for all sorts of reasons, we now have a new American administration that, from the outset, is determined to focus on [this]. We've got a new Israeli government that, at least for the time being, is secure with an empowered prime minister. And I think the Palestinian side of the politics are a little clearer too, in a way.
There is a consensus that you have to build from the bottom up as well as negotiate from the top down. That is absolutely the right thing.
It's also a moment of decision because once you take the three 'headings' – politics, economics and security – you have to put substance into that… Each of these things take decisions… Over the next few months it will become apparent, one way or another, whether the Israelis are really prepared to build from the bottom up, and whether the Palestinians are really prepared to understand that the only state that Israel will tolerate as a Palestinian state is one that is a stable and secure neighbor, and that requires, obviously, decision-making on their part too.
I don't know what will come out of the next few weeks, but it seems to me that people are reflecting from the beginning on their policy… I'm confident that people will take the decisions with the right will and intention, that we can move it forward.
What do you see as having become clearer on the Palestinian side?
For the moment, at any rate, people are going to carry on working with Prime Minister Fayad… I feel the Palestinians themselves are ready now to push ahead on security and capacity. There is a whole set of proposals now on the rule of law for the Palestinians, supported by various parts of the donor community, for things like courts and prisons and the judiciary and the prosecution service and so on, along with further training with [US] Gen. Dayton of the [PA] security forces. So all that is moving along.
People are saying to Hamas, 'You've got a decision to make.' If you want to change and get on board with a two-state solution, that's your decision. If you decide that you won't, that's also your decision, but we want to move ahead. I see the next few weeks as when we try and devise a framework that then takes us forward at least to the end of the year.
I don't see the faintest prospect that Hamas is going to accept Israel. Therefore, what's going to happen to Gaza in this kind of framework?
It can't be put to one side. We've got to do what we can to help the people there. I am sure from all the contacts I have in Gaza – I mean habitually non-Hamas contacts; people in business and civil society – that if people think there is a serious momentum moving this whole thing forward, the majority of the people in Gaza will want to be part of it. I don't have a doubt about that. So the most important thing is for us to concentrate on getting this thing moving forward.
The Israeli government has practical objections to Palestinian statehood. The Israeli prime minister is saying, 'The way the world works, statehood gives you the right to do things that, in the Palestinian case, we would feel threatened by: if they aligned with Iran, if they start importing weaponry…' How serious a problem do you think that is? And on the other side, there's the Palestinian refusal to define Israel as the state of the Jewish people. Are these red herrings, that can be left aside, that won't interfere with an effort to change things, or are these issues that have to be tackled, real problems?
If everything is moving forward, these are resolvable issues to the satisfaction of both parties… I always get out a map now when I'm talking about this issue to people in Europe or in America. You get out a map showing the Israel-Palestinian territory. Then you get out a map showing the position of this plot of land amongst the broader region. And you educate people to the fact that, for Israel, you can't contemplate a Palestinian state that is not stable and secure. That's just the way it is. Now, likewise for the Palestinians, they can't contemplate a state if it's separated and broken into little bits, or even big bits.
So there is a reality check that you can give people that makes it very obvious that these types of questions, in the end, can be resolved if everything else is moving forward, because the world will be there to resolve it. And actually they're not that hard to repair.
Settlement-wise, is it too late for a two-state solution?
Can you elaborate a little?
Provided people understand what the problem is with the settlement issue: It is where the Palestinians see not just the issue of settlements – the concept of land swaps is already there – it's where they see it as effectively breaking up the Palestinian territory. In particular where you've got outposts and so on that then have to be guarded. For example, as I saw when I was down in Hebron recently, it's hard, impossible sometimes, for the Palestinians to develop their own land, whilst they see land being developed around them, actually in contravention sometimes of Israeli law.
This will be something to be discussed over the next few weeks and it's probably not sensible to get into all the details, but I personally believe that, again, there are ways around this issue. The answer to your question is no, I don't think it's gone so far that we cannot still have a Palestinian state. But it is important that people are alive to the sensitivity of this, because it will be one major issue that has to be tackled at some point.
You met with Netanyahu [on Wednesday]. What's your sense of the degree of sensitivity on settlements? How is he going to reconcile his own ideology, coalition constraints, international interests, the position on the ground and so on?
My view is that he most certainly can play the role of peacemaker. He understands that this is going to be a very tough challenge internally and externally. His big preoccupation is the security of Israel. He's very focused, obviously, on the issue of Iran.
He also understands – and this is certainly something that I stress constantly to people in Israel, including him – that people like myself are completely sympathetic to the security question. We also believe it is possible, consistent with that and provided the Palestinians adhere to their responsibilities, to give the Palestinians control of their own territory and a state.
My view is that he understands that. But, you know, we're at the beginning of this journey. It's for him to speak for himself. The policy review of the Israelis will come out, I assume, in advance of the visit to Washington.
I think the bottom-up approach [being advocated by Netanyahu] is absolutely sensible, simultaneous with a political negotiation top-down. You need the two things together… It was actually at my request several years back that the predecessor to Gen. Dayton was first appointed, precisely because after the [Ariel Sharon Temple Mount] visit [in 2000] and after the [second] intifada had broken out, and all the troubles and so on, and particularly what I saw in and around the disengagement from Gaza, I suddenly understand what the Israel problem was. It wasn't actually about a negotiation over territory per se, it was really about a fear over the nature of the state that would be created.
From that moment on, I really focused on [trying improve the security] capacity of the Palestinian side and economic development of the Palestinian side – giving people a stake in the future, but also understanding that in this small territory you simply cannot have a situation where you've got gangs of militia and allies of Iran in charge. You can't. You can't. I wouldn't stand for that if I was Israel.
There is a way of Israel making its case, which is both to explain their genuine security concern and how the nature of a Palestinian state dramatically affects that concern, provided that at the same time, they are prepared to help the Palestinians and empower the ones who really do want to take the right decisions and make progress.
Will there be more money now for the Dayton program of training Palestinian security forces?
Israel had a government that pushed for an accord and couldn't reach it. What lessons should be learned from the failure of Annapolis?
On Annapolis, they did get into the detail, and they did get further than people think. But if you put all your eggs in the top-down basket, it won't work.
What is required for an agreement to happen? The agreement must pass a minimum credibility threshold on the ground. In other words, if Israel cannot see that the Palestinians could possibly handle their security, Israel is not going to agree. Whatever the detail of why they don't agree, they're not going to agree.
Likewise, if the Palestinians think, here we are, we're going to be asked to make serious compromises on things like refugees – which goes back a long way into their history – if the facts on the ground make them think that the occupation, as they see it, is not going to end, they're not going to make these concessions.
My point all the way through is that you've got to have the top-down and the bottom-up going together.
The problem has been that the relationship between those two things has not been properly understood. In particular, we have not understood the essential nature of capacity building on the Palestinian side.
The key to understanding a state is that states are not about maps. States are about institutions. They're about governing capacity. They're about what actually happens within that defined territory. You can have a map with a border that isn't what I would recognize as a state in any functioning sense.
That's my reason why I don't think [Annapolis] worked in the end.
And yet there are ideological positions that couldn't be reconciled last time. Do you think these current players – Abbas and Fayad, and Netanyahu and his coalition – can reconcile the ideological gulfs?
Yes I do. The world is different. There is another issue that is the focus of attention: not just Iran, but the whole [question] of does this region modernize or does this region stay in the past? Not staying in the past, one part of that, is two peoples living together here in this small bit of territory, when if they did live together in peace they could make it into, obviously, a highly successful and vibrant part of the world.
The state of Israel is an extraordinary creation in a way. The way that Israelis did that – created and built it – is not a bad model in many ways.
Israel says you have to stop Iran. Hillary Clinton says you have to move forward on the Palestinian track. How should this tie together?
It's all part of one issue, which is: Do we move forward in peaceful coexistence? Different cultures, different faiths. That's the only way the modern world works, given the power of globalization. It's important that Israel gets its security, that the Palestinians get the justice of statehood, and it's important that Iran does not get a nuclear weapons capability. We're going to have to move on all fronts.
And how much time is there left on Iran?
It's difficult to judge. We are far more likely to avoid confrontation if we are absolutely clear and plain right from the beginning, with no ambiguity, that they cannot have a nuclear weapons capability.
David Horovitz is the founding editor of the online newspaper The Times of Israel.
He was previously the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily, before stepping down in July 2011 after almost seven years, and editor and publisher of the award-winning newsmagazine The Jerusalem Report.


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Adj. 1. a cappella - sung without instrumental accompaniment; "they sang an a cappella Mass"
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Directed by Aje Films, Senth5, who started singing at a tender age as an acapella member recently got a record deal with IMO RECORDZ , and has released his first single Belly Dancer.
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February 17 also marks the AcapeLOVE competition, a venue for talented groups to sing their hearts out for prizes and bragging rights the Acapella style.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who at 75 continues to experiment with new things, has sung an acapella song.
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THE [euro]100,000 Bar One Racing Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase features a rematch between stable-companions Polidam and Acapella Bourgeois, winner and runner-up in a valuable Grade B chase at Navan last month.
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By Melissa L. Pilewskie, MD, FACS Thursday, June 23, 2016
The DCIS Treatment Controversy
The appropriate management of women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) remains an area of ongoing controversy. DCIS is a noninvasive breast lesion diagnosed in more than 60,000 patients annually in the United States, currently accounting for 20 to 25 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses. The standard treatment of DCIS is associated with excellent survival and includes surgical excision by lumpectomy or mastectomy, with or without adjuvant radiation or endocrine therapy. While little data exist on the natural history of untreated DCIS, some small studies suggest that 40 to 50 percent of low-to-intermediate-grade DCIS will progress to invasive carcinoma. (1), (2), (3) Given that more than half of patients with DCIS may not progress to a potentially life-threatening disease, there has been growing interest in studying observation and alternative strategies for this patient cohort.
DCIS Observation Trials
Two current European trials are comparing the safety of observation to standard surgical excision, with or without adjuvant therapy, for women with low-risk DCIS. (4), (5) The LORIS trial is currently enrolling patients who meet the definition of low-risk DCIS: women 46 years of age or older, with no significant family history or personal history of breast cancer, who are diagnosed with screen-detected calcifications alone, asymptomatic, non-high−grade DCIS by core needle biopsy. Patients are randomized to surgery versus observation alone, consisting of an annual mammogram and exam, and the primary endpoint is ipsilateral invasive disease-free survival at five years. The LORD study is often discussed in addition to the LORIS study, but it has not yet started recruiting patients
Is "Low-Risk" DCIS Truly Low-Risk?
We recently examined our DCIS patient population at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and identified patients who met the LORIS trial eligibility criteria. Only 16 percent of our patients with DCIS met these inclusion and exclusion criteria, emphasizing that the observation study results will apply to a minority of our patients. However, even among this highly select cohort of our patients who underwent surgical excision, 20 percent were found to have invasive breast cancer on final pathology. This upgrade rate is very similar to that reported in a meta-analysis of all patients with DCIS at the time of surgical excision, regardless of tumor grade or presentation. (6)Interestingly, the invasive cancers identified in this highly select, "low-risk" population were not all small, estrogen receptor positive, node-negative tumors, but rather were heterogeneous in regards to tumor grade, size, receptor status, and nodal involvement.
While adjuvant therapy is often considered optional for women with DCIS alone, it is the standard of care for women with invasive cancer. Our study found that 93 percent of women with invasive cancer received additional adjuvant radiation and/or endocrine therapy, and 18 percent required chemotherapy. Thus, the finding of invasive cancer at excision significantly changed management.
These results emphasize that outside of a clinical trial, surgical excision is warranted for patients with DCIS diagnosed by core needle biopsy given the clinically significant upgrade rate to invasive carcinoma.
The Road Ahead: Novel Therapeutic Targets
The results of the LORIS and LORD randomized clinical trials will provide important data on the risk of invasive cancer development over time among a select DCIS patient population, as well as patient preference and comfort with the omission of therapy for stage 0 breast cancer. Patient preference should be a strong driver to inform future DCIS study development, as it is unknown whether women would prefer five years of endocrine therapy versus a one-time surgical excision or potentially alternative novel therapies.
We are currently in the early stages of studying the use of both exercise and topical endocrine agents that may provide therapeutic benefits without significant systemic side effects. While these emerging endeavors are exciting, the available research highlights the need for improved risk stratification to improve identification of DCIS patients with a lower risk of harboring invasive carcinoma who may safely avoid standard therapy.
Rosen PP, Braun DW, Jr., Kinne DE. The clinical significance of pre-invasive breast carcinoma. Cancer 1980; 46(4 Suppl):919-25.
Sanders ME, Schuyler PA, Dupont WD, Page DL. The natural history of low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in women treated by biopsy only revealed over 30 years of long-term follow-up. Cancer 2005; 103(12):2481-4.
Collins LC, Tamimi RM, Baer HJ, Connolly JL, Colditz GA, Schnitt SJ. Outcome of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ untreated after diagnostic biopsy: results from the Nurses' Health Study. Cancer 2005; 103(9):1778-84.
Elshof LE, Tryfonidis K, Slaets L, van Leeuwen-Stok AE, Skinner VP, Dif N, et al. Feasibility of a prospective, randomised, open-label, international multicentre, phase III, non-inferiority trial to assess the safety of active surveillance for low risk ductal carcinoma in situ - The LORD study. Eur J Cancer 2015.
Francis A, Thomas J, Fallowfield L, Wallis M, Bartlett JM, Brookes C, et al. Addressing overtreatment of screen detected DCIS; the LORIS trial. Eur J Cancer 2015.
Brennan ME, Turner RM, Ciatto S, Marinovich ML, French JR, Macaskill P, et al. Ductal carcinoma in situ at core-needle biopsy: meta-analysis of underestimation and predictors of invasive breast cancer. Radiology 2011; 260(1):119-28.
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Director, Strategic Planning and Research, RISE Program
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A: Here is a "one-liner" that doesn't involve touching the inner HTML text. It works by wrapping every node with its own paragraph and then unwrapping every br, so that the adjacent sibling and first-child selectors can be used to find the point where the wrapping paragraphs should start.
Edit: I had to make this even longer in order to specially exclude headers, blockquotes, and anchors containing images with source attributes. A more performant implementation would be to loop over the child nodes without jQuery; if you need this to run often then let me know and I can provide an alternate implementation. It was difficult to work around the way jQuery handles text nodes, which is by pretty much discarding them for every operation except .contents().

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    When you quote: "And whoever strives only strives for [the benefit of] himself."

    There is another: "And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives, and that his effort is going to be seen, then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense."

And neither will this one

    I fight for myself.

Keep me

    I am special.

    There is nothing more special than everything