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Sarah Palin's Secret Past Revealed!
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by Paul E. Richardson
Many have scoffed at Cindy McCain's defense of Alaska Governor (and GOP Veep candidate) Sarah Palin's foreign policy chops with the assertion that "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia."
Scoff not. The truth is so more startling still.
We have made thorough inquiries with our sources in Russia's far eastern region of Chukotka (just 53 miles from Alaskan America across the Bering Strait), and it turns out that Ms. Palin's connection with Russia may have more wrinkles than a 44-year-old Texas Armadillo.
Our source, which requested anonymity because he was specious, alleged that, in 1988 and 1989, when Palin was ostensibly employed as a "sports reporter" for KTUU in Anchorage and "helping out" in her husband's family commercial fishing business, she captained a fishing vessel which made several highly treacherous forays into Russian waters and at least twice landed on what was then Soviet soil. According to our source, Palin was carrying out secret missions, dropping sleeper spies onto Russian soil and slipping away under cover of darkness.
"This is very brave woman," said our Chukotkan informant. "She come very close to get caught many times. And she drop off secret anti-Soviet agents too."
There was no immediate, official comment from the McCain-Palin campaign to the revelation that Palin worked for US intelligence 20 years ago. But one influential Republican source did offer, on deep background, that "you media clowns don't know half of what there is to know about Little Sarah. Hell, did you know 'Palin' is derived from the Russian word for 'scorch'? I didn't think so. Dammit, when the American public finds out that this little woman was almost single-handedly responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's gonna be all over for the Angry Leftists."
Our Russian source was inclined to agree. "This is American hero. Russian hero too. International hero. And if you don't believe me she was spy, you just have to look at her family. You think it accident that all her children have code names like Willow and Piper and Trig? Truth, she is sometimes a hard thing."
And yet, the truth will always out...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Little support seems to exist for reopening a super-maximum prison in southern Illinois that has been closed for more than two years.
The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises reports (http://bit.ly/1KedlNW) the notorious Tamms prison remains shut down despite an effort from at least one Illinois lawmaker to push Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to get the facility operating again to help ease a crowded correctional system.
Illinois' inmate population hovers around 48,000 in a system designed to hold 32,000. The Republican governor has called for a 25 percent reduction in the prison population.
Tamms shut down in January 2013 when former Gov. Pat Quinn closed dozens of state facilities.
Prison watchdog groups had reported brutal conditions inside the prison and called the treatment of inmates there inhumane.

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CREATIVE PEAKS: In-house and Homemade
By Kelsey Dayton on April 26, 2016
Dancers learn what it takes to stage a production, beginning to end.
Members of the Junior Repertory Company are selling prints they created on canvas, like this one of the seniors in the company, Bean Shindell, Sydney Bryan, Noelle Huser, and Dylan Anderson. (Photo: Dancers' Workshop)
JACKSON HOLE, WY – It is a rite of passage for every dancer at Dancers' Workshop and it was something sophomore Hailey Barlow thought about for years. She contemplated the music, the movement, and even the inspiration.
Starting their sophomore year, members of the Junior Repertory Company choreograph their own dances set on fellow company members. They also shoulder all the work of putting on a full production from the lightning design to the advertising.
That effort comes to fruition this weekend in the New Dances/New Choreographers show, this year called "Reflections," that runs this weekend.
"We really focus on making dancers complete artists," said Cady Cox, co-director of the Junior Repertory Company.
Cox said it's rare for dance students in high school to have opportunities to choreograph. For those that plan on pursuing dance after high school, the experience gives them an edge. It benefits all the dancers, giving them perspective on what it's like to be on the other side of a production and helps them hone in on their own style.
"You become a better dancer when you are also a choreographer," Cox said.
Students learn the basics of choreography in class before working on the performance pieces. The show features a pointe piece, several modern and contemporary pieces and even an acro dance piece showcasing the dancer's flexibility.
This year many of the dances are introspective, Cox said.
Caroline Kucera, a sophomore at the Jackson Hole Community School, choreographed a piece inspired by self-deprecation, and how being hard on oneself can have toxic effects, Kucera explained. The contemporary piece features five dancers and movement Kucera describes as having a "heavy" quality to it. The dancers will perform in front of a mirror and at one point use it to size themselves up.
It was something all the dancers in the piece could relate to on some level, and she thinks it will resonate with the audience.
Choreographing the piece gave her a new skill set beyond learning just how to put movement together. She learned to make decisions, trust her gut, and take control of her rehearsals, she said.
Dancers also learn important skills applicable beyond dance, like how to write a press release and create an advertising plan, as well as lighting design and choosing music, said Lyndsey Larson, co-director of the company.
The students also created a photography fundraiser this year. They took photographs and printed them on canvas. The dance images are for sale and proceeds will benefit the company. The prints on canvas start at $100, and small photographs cost $25.
Studio No. 2 at Dancers' Workshop opens at 5 p.m. Friday. It will be set up like a gallery with the photographs of the dancers on the walls for sale. Refreshments will also be served. In addition to the student pieces, the company will perform an athletic, high-energy piece created by guest choreographer Lawrence Jackson at 8 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday. The senior dancers of the company will also unveil a surprise piece they created together.
As for Barlow, as a sophomore at Jackson Hole High School this year, she finally got to create the piece she'd thought about for years. Like she imagined, she decided to create a piece for only a few dancers. She also went with the style where she envisioned putting her dancers on pointe.
The piece is a contemporary trio and while the three dancers are on pointe, the style is far from traditional ballet, she said.
Her regular classes throughout her career at Dancers' Workshop inspired the piece. Classes provide evaluations noting where students are excelling and how they can improve. Barlow received the same correction for years.
"They said, 'take a risk, go beyond your boundaries,'" she said.
She stretched herself, taking creative risks as she created the piece she says is fast and dynamic.
While she'd envisioned her piece for years, she was surprised at how quickly the process moved and how complicated it can be creating movement to convey an idea
"I always imagined it simpler—like a leap and a kick," she said. "Now, not so much. I have a lot more empathy for choreographers." PJH
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Skam, interrupted: why is the phenomenally popular teen drama ending before its peak?
The show has been building towards high school graduation – but now it's ending before its lead characters finish school.
By Anna Leszkiewicz
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"Have you heard they started their bus already?"
"One month into high school – and they started their bus."
This Skype conversation between Eva and Isak comes early in the first episode of Skam. The phenomenally internationally successful series follows teenagers at a high school in Oslo. The "bus" they're discussing is a key plot point and concern of the students' lives. That's because, in Norway, graduating high school students participate in "russefeiring" – it's a rite of passage into adulthood, a celebration of completing high school, and a farewell to friends departing for university or jobs around the country.
Students gather into groups, give their gang a name, wear matching coloured overalls, rent a big car or a van, and spend late April to mid May (17 May – Norwegian Constitution Day) continuously partying. They call it the "three week binge". It's a big fucking deal.
Skam, with its focus on teens in high school, has therefore spent a lot of time thinking about "russ". The show, which is set at the exact same time it airs, has followed its four main characters Eva, Noora, Isak and Sana (who each have a season of the show written from their perspective, a la Skins), as well as all their friends, from their first few weeks at school in September 2015. In other words, preparations take years, and we've heard a lot about the plans for their russ bus.
In season one, Eva has fallen out with her best friend, and is hurt when she hears she is moving on and has formed a new bus, with new friends, called Pepsi Max.
We meet one of the show's most prominent characters, Vilde, when we see her trying to get a bus of girls together. The show's five main girl characters, Eva, Noora, Vilde, Chris and Sana, become friends because of her efforts: they bond during their "bus meetings" and fundraising attempts. They flirt with a group of boys on a bus calling themselves "The Penetrators".
The latest season follows Sana's struggles to ensure the bus doesn't fall apart, and an attempt to join buses with rivals Pepsi Max. The joyful climax of season four comes when they finally buy their own bus and stop social-climbing, naming themselves "Los Losers". Bus drama is the glue that keeps the show together.
But now, in June 2017, a whole year before the characters graduate, Skam is ending. The architect of the girls' bus, Vilde, has never had her own season, unlike most of her friends. Many assumed that Vilde would have had her own season during her final year at school. Fans insist the show's creator Julie Andem planned nine seasons in total, yet Skam is ending after just four.
The news that Skam would stop after season four came during the announcement that Sana, a Muslim member of the "girl squad", would be the next main character. The show's intense fandom were delighted by the character choice, but devastated at the news that there would only be one more season. "I can't accept that this is the last season," one wrote on Reddit.
"I'm so shocked and sad. It's honestly just...weird. It doesn't make sense, and it's not fair. It's not fair that we're not getting a Vilde season. Most importantly, it's not fair that we'll never get to see them on their russ, see them graduating, nothing. It seems like such an abrupt decision. It doesn't serve the storyline at all."
No one has given a concrete reason about why the show ended prematurely. Ina, who plays Chris, said in an interview that "we all need a break".
Some fans went into denial, starting petitions to encourage Andem to continue with the show, while rumours abound suggesting it will return.
Many speculated that the show simply became too popular to continue. "I think that the show would have had six seasons and a Vilde season if the show didn't become popular outside of Scandinavia," one wrote. "I think the pressure and the large amount of cringy fans (not saying that some Scandinavian fans aren't cringy) has made making the show less enjoyable for the actors and creators."
Andem has stayed mostly quiet on her reasons for ending the show, except for a statement made via her Instagram. She recalls how very early on, during a season one shoot, someone first asked her how long the show would last:
"We were standing in the schoolyard at Nissen High School, a small, low-budget production crew, one photographer, the sound engineer and me. 'Who knows, but I think we should aim for world domination,' I said. We all laughed, 'cause I was obviously joking. None of us understood then how big Skam would turn out to be. This experience has been completely unreal, and a joy to be a part of."
"Skam has been a 24/7 job," she continues. "We recently decided that we won't be making a new season this fall. I know many of you out there will be upset and disappointed to hear this, but I'm confident this is the right decision."
Many fans feel that season four has struggled under the burden of ending the show – and divisions and cracks have appeared in the fandom as a result.
Some feel that Sana's season has been overshadowed by other characters and plotlines, something that is particularly frustrating for those who were keen to see greater Muslim representation in the show. Of a moment in season four involving Noora, the main character from season two, one fan account wrote, "I LOVE season tw- I mean four. That's Noora's season right? No wait, is it Willhell's season??? What's a Sana."
One popular translation account, that provides a version of the show with English subtitles, wrote of the scene: "A lot of you guys have been disappointed by the latest clip and you're not the only ones. We do want to finish this project for the fans but we are disappointed with how this season has gone." They announced they would be translating less as a result.
Others feel that the subject of Islam hasn't been tackled well in this season. Some viewers felt one scene, which sees Sana and her white, non-Muslim friend, Isak, discuss Islamophobia, was whitesplainy.
The final week of the show has been light on Sana. Instead, each character who never received a full season has had a few minutes devoted to their perspective. These are the other girls from the girl squad, Vilde and Chris, and the boyfriends of each main character: Eva's ex Jonas, Isak's boyfriend Even, Eva's current fling "Penetrator Chris" and Noora's on-off boyfriend William.
It's understandable to want to cover key perspectives in the show's final week, but it can feel teasing – we get a short glimpse into characters' home lives, like Vilde struggling to care for her depressed mother, but the scene ends before we can really get into it. And, of course, it takes precious time away from Sana in the show's final minutes.
Some were frustrated by the characters focused on. "Penetrator Chris" is a particularly minor character – one fan account wrote of his scene: "This is absolutely irrelevant. 1) It sidelines Sana 2) It asks more questions 3) It doesn't answer shit. This isn't even Sana's season anymore and that's absolutely disgusting. She didn't even get closure or ten episodes or anything.
"Sana has been disrespected and disregarded and erased and sidelined and that is fucking gross. She deserved better. Yet here we are watching a Penetrator Chris clip. How ironic that it's not even called just "Christopher" because that's all he is. "Penetrator Chris".
It's been a dramatic close for a usually warm and tight-knit fan community. Of course, many fans are delighted with the final season: their only sadness is there won't be more. One of the largest fan accounts tried to keep things positive. "I know people have mixed feelings about Skam and who deserves what in terms of screentime this season (etc)," they wrote, "which I totally understand.
"However, everything has already been filmed, so there is nothing we can do about it. I think this last week of Skam will be much more enjoyable for everyone if we focus on the positives in the clips ahead. Skam isn't perfect. People are allowed to disagree. But let's go into this week being grateful for everything Skam has given us."
Some fans choose to look to what the future holds for the show – an American remake. It will keep the same characters and plotlines as the original, and Andem may be involved.
Few think it will be a patch on the current show, but some are excited to have the chance to watch it teasingly as a group regardless. It seems unlikely that the US remake will compare in terms of quality – not least because the original was so heavily researched and tied to Norwegian culture. But for fans struggling to let go of Skam, it can't come soon enough.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 13:30 GMT
Profile: 'Forgotten' Cuba detainees
Lawyers for three former UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay are seeking a court order to get the Foreign Office to press for their release. Amnesty International says at least eight men who have lived for years in Britain are held at the US detention camp.
Some 500 people remain incarcerated at the Cuban jail
The UK government has not pursued their cases because the men never took British citizenship.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said that under international law the government can only take up consular matters in respect of British citizens.
Last month, a judge said claims of torture at the camp meant the government might have an obligation to act on their behalf.
The men's solicitor Gareth Peirce called the ruling "the first ray of light that we have had".
Bisher al-Rawi, 37, of London
Businessman Bisher al-Rawi is an Iraqi citizen with UK residency.
He was arrested, along with his Jordanian business partner Jamil al-Banna, at Banjul airport on a business trip to Gambia in November 2002 on suspicion of links to terrorism.
Their lawyer Rabinder Singh has said these arrests were "far from any theatre of war". The pair were moved to Guantanamo Bay early in 2003.
Mr al-Rawi reportedly came to England in 1985 after his father was arrested by Saddam Hussein's secret police.
He has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years. His immediate family are UK nationals, but he retained Iraqi citizenship to preserve a link to their homeland.
Jamil el-Banna, late 30s, of north-west London
Jamil el-Banna, who had been living in north-west London, is a Jordanian with refugee status in the UK.
He has also been detained in Cuba since early 2003 following capture in Gambia in November 2002.
The father-of-five has never seen his youngest daughter who was born in April 2003.
Amnesty argues that the UK is obliged under international refugee law to make representations on his behalf.
Mr el-Banna's case has been taken up by his Brent East MP, Sarah Teather.
Omar Deghayes, 36
Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, 36, grew up in Brighton and studied law at British universities. He wanted to be a human rights lawyer, says Amnesty.
He was granted refuge status with his family in the 1980s and has been held at Guantanamo for more than three years, the campaign group said.
Mr Deghayes was arrested in Pakistan before being transferred to Cuba.
Amnesty says he had applied for citizenship but missed an interview because he was abroad. He is accused of committing terrorist acts against the United States, but his lawyers claim it is a case of mistaken identity.
His lawyers claim he has been rendered virtually blind by the use of pepper spray and the gauging of his eye during his detention, but is still constantly subjected to high light levels.
Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer, 39, of London
Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer, originally from Saudi Arabia, had been living in the UK since 1996.
He is reported to have travelled to Afghanistan in August 2001 to carry out voluntary charity work.
Cuba detainee Shaker Aamer with his daughter Johina and son Michel
According to Amnesty, his wife heard from newspaper reporters in January 2002 that he had been captured.
His first letter from Guantanamo Bay was dated 16 February 2002.
He had been applying for citizenship and had indefinite leave to stay in the UK when he was captured.
The Independent has reported that he lived in London with his wife and three children, all British citizens, and worked as an interpreter.
A fourth child has been born since his capture.
Benyam Mohamed al Habashi, 27
Benyam Mohamed al Habashi was born in Ethiopia but sought asylum in the UK in 1994 and was given leave to remain, says Amnesty.
The campaign group says after seven years in the UK he converted to Islam. He travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan and was arrested by Pakistani immigration officials at Karachi airport in April 2002 while intending to return to the UK.
Last summer he was among Guantanamo detainees to go on hunger strike to protest against the conditions and their lack of access to a judicial review.
Ahmed Errachidi
Ahmed Errachidi is a Moroccan who lived in London for 18 years, where is wife and two sons currently live, says Amnesty International.
The campaign group says he travelled to Pakistan on a business venture but went to Afghanistan to offer humanitarian help during the war. After his return to Pakistan he was captured by authorities and eventually taken to Guantanamo, it says.
Ahmed Ben Bacha
Ahmed Ben Bacha is an Algerian who was living in Bournemouth. His case has only recently been filed and little is known by Amnesty at this stage.
Abdulnour Sameur
Abdulnour Sameur is from Algeria and lived in south Harrow, Greater London. He was given refugee status in 200, says Amnesty.
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Latest Casino and Gambling News, Economy/Finance, Philippines
The Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation has released its financial results for the first six months of 2016 showing a 2.5% increase year-on-year in net income to $51.9 million.
The state-owned firm operates over 30 casinos in the Philippines including the Casino Filipino Tagaytay and stated that its gross earnings for the six-month period reached $570.9 million, which represented a 29.7% rise year-on-year, while net income from its gaming operations swelled by 19.6% to $553.1 million and was 29.4% ahead of its $427.7 million target.
The Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation also serves as the regulator for the East Asian nation's entire casino industry and explained that it had net second-quarter earnings of $318.2 million from its gaming operations, which represented a 35.4% increase quarter-on-quarter, with total revenues for the three months to the end of June growing by 33.1% from the previous quarter's $245 million to stand at $326.1 million.
However, expenses also rose with total six-month operating costs swelling by 3.7% year-on-year to $149.2 million while it contributed $369.6 million to the state including $262.1 million direct to the Bureau Of The Treasury. By law, the Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation is required to hand over half of its annual gross earnings to the government but it was recently found to have fallen short between 2011 and 2015 to the tune of just over $327 million.
Since 2010, the Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation has more than quintupled to in excess of 12,000 the number of terminals offering slots, table and card games it operates in its eGames outlets and this was seen as a major player in the firm reporting net income for the whole of last year of just beyond $80.1 million, which represented a 16.2% boost year-on-year.
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Q: Can I install ubuntu to a hard drive via sd card? I don't have a usb drive or cd, all I have is a sd card, could I wipe my hard drive and install ubuntu with some sort of file I can put onto an sd card? I don't really know how any of this works please help

A: Yes you can. Go to the download link for ubuntu and download the ISO. If you are on windows, use Win32 Disk Imager to write the ISO to the SD card. If you are on Mac, use Etcher. When it is finished writing to the card put it in the computer you are installing to and open the boot menu when you turn it on (probably Esc, F2, F10 or F12) and select the SD card and hit enter. That should start Ubuntu booting and you can install from there.

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Ryan Zinke Did Big Coal's Bidding and Gave Away Public Lands, Insider Reveals
Michaelson writes: "A congressional hearing today revealed proof that Donald Trump's controversial 2017 decision to dramatically shrink two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, was a gift to the energy and mining industries."
Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. (photo: Alex Wong)
By Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast
Andrew Wheeler, lobbyist turned EPA boss, also secretly met with then-Interior Secretary to leave valuable uranium deposits out of protected areas.
dramatic congressional hearing today revealed proof that Donald Trump's controversial 2017 decision to dramatically shrink two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, was a gift to the energy and mining industries.
To Trump's critics, this seemed obvious even at the time. But now we know that the government official tasked with drawing the final map was told to exclude certain coal-rich areas from the monuments, that secret meetings were held between the Department of Interior and uranium mining interests before the sham public process even began, and that now-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was among the lobbyists involved in the secret deals.
First, as early as March 2017, then Sen.Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) had provided the Trump administration with a revised map of Bears Ears, in an email–obtained by The New York Times pursuant to a Freedom Of Information Act request–saying that it would "resolve all known mineral conflicts."
The final map, adopted in December 2017, was almost identical to Hatch's map.
Second, as first reported by Roll Call, on April 5, 2017, a top Interior Department official held a secret meeting with lobbyists for Energy Fuels Resources, which holds 350 uranium leases in and around Bears Ears. The lobbyists included current EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, who set up the meeting by noting his work on the Trump presidential campaign.
Those meetings took place before Trump's April 26 announcement to review national monuments, including the Obama administration's designation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. The public hearing process that Zinke subsequently pursued—in which he talked to various stakeholders about the designation—appears now to be a sham.
What precisely Wheeler asked of Zinke is still unknown, but lawmakers should demand to know the details. It's not just the 3.2 million acres of the two natural areas that are at stake but also Wheeler's reputation and, with it, his ability to have the public's trust as he spearheads the administration's environmental policy.
Third, at the hearing—held by the House Committee on Natural Resources— Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) cited testimony provided to the Interior Department's Inspector General by Tyler Ashcroft, the specialist actually tasked with drawing the final map. Ashcroft testified under oath that he was told to exclude certain coal leases from the monument areas, even though there were dinosaur fossils found in the same area that are found nowhere else in the world.
According to Huffman, Tyler said "we were told that they are out regardless."
"That is fundamentally antithetical to the type of open and exhaustive process that you've represented," Huffman scolded Roberson. "The value of this land isn't some shale, which can be found anywhere in the world, it's the fossils that are unique on the planet."
Ashcroft's testimony is contained in a report of the Interior Department's Inspector General. That report, released in January 2019, cleared Zinke of manipulating the borders to benefit former congressman Mike Noel, a staunch Trump supporter who owns land within the original monument.
But contrary to media reports, it did not clear Zinke entirely. And Huffman's citation of it suggests that there is still much the public does not know.
Finally, in December 2017, Trump announced that he was slashing the two monuments: Bears Ears by 85 percent, Grand Staircase by 47 percent.
Remarkably, it's possible that none of this is illegal.
Under the Antiquities Act, the president has virtually unlimited discretion to designate monuments, with no formal review process required. (Whether he can un-designate them is the subject of two pending lawsuits against Trump's action.) That has angered Republicans and Democrats alike. As Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), the ranking Republican on the committee, put it, "There are no rules. There is no process in the law."
Rep. Bishop blamed President Obama for his alleged lack of transparency as much as the Democrats on the committee blamed President Trump.
Whether it is technically legal or not, the breadth of the deception, corruption, and misinformation described at the hearing astonished some members of the committee. "So much for draining the swamp," said Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA).
At the hearing on Tuesday, Ed Roberson, the Utah State Director of the Bureau of Land Management, was the government's sacrificial lamb. He duly, and apparently honestly, testified that he had no knowledge of Zinke's back-room deals, and, on the contrary, had conducted a thorough set of meetings with stakeholders in Utah, where the monuments are located, from Native American tribes to commercial interests to local government officials.
But by the time he held those meetings, Zinke had already made his decision behind closed doors.
As to Wheeler's involvement, there's nothing technically illegal with a mineral lobbyist meeting with the Department of Interior, as long as those meetings are disclosed. That's what lobbyists do.
But Wheeler met in secret, and then stood idly by as Zinke and his underlings conducted a series of sham public meetings and, when they finally announced the rollbacks in 2017, lied about the way they were decided. While Wheeler is now running the EPA, two years ago he participated in a secret deal that undermined the public trust, even if that process is not codified in law.
Indeed, the misrepresentations continued at the hearing itself. Several Republican committee members said there were no major mineral or coal deposits within the monuments' original vicinity.
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Could they be affected by the file system and / or position on the disk?
Demos are in the Games partition.
I will could change this again when my replacement 16G CF arrives which could be as soon as tomorrow as it has been sent but I'd prefer to understand the problem (if any) first before making blind guesses.
Maybe SetPatch is causing some problems? Some things do not work properly without it, so it stands to reason it may affect some things when it is run. Also are you using CWB? stuff like Fblit and some other options can break some programs as well.
For the most part, no, I'm not using CWB stuff. What I've done is load CWB and now I'm also looking at AmiSys but on FSUAE and then I'm deciding what I like and cherry picking it. Don't know if that's the "done thing" or not! Anyway, so I'm running AntiClick and StickyRMB from CWB but I think that's about it so far. I stopped running FBlit and FText because I was getting graphic glitches on my Indivision but I think they were a red herring. I've fitted a fan now and the glitches are history.
I'll have to try commenting out setpatches and see if it helps but I don't know if OS3.9 works without it?
I've heard that pfs3 can cause problems with whdload, but not seen this myself. However you could try with sfs or just plain ffs to rule that out.
Happy to give that a whirl when my 16GB card arrives on Monday (i guess they thought sending a CF card by DPD was somehow doing me a favour!). Is SFS as large partition compliant as PFS3? I would prefer to stick with the "500MB WB, 1GB Data, Rest Games" layout if I can but I guess Data could be shunted to the end if it causes problems.
Yes it is but with 16gb you also need to patch the scsi device, I recommend Chris/Toni's version, it's included with the classic workbench packs.
Yes the 3.9 rom update includes an updated scsi device that provides large disk support so you should be all set, however this particular version does have issues with some CF cards.
This is the reason I was always against doing a large disk support tutorial as there are so many quirks. If you disable the rom update you obviously won't have large disk support in place so bare that in mind.
lol! right, ok - this is fast turning into another large disk thread so my apologies, but I'm getting a bit confused here!
I have OS3.9 with BB1 & BB2 installed. BUT, I had to disable the rom update from BB2 and go back to the rom update from BB1 since I couldn't boot with the BB2 rom update enabled.
Right this second I guess thats fine as I am currently running off my backup 4GB card until the 16GB comes back from RMA but obviously when the 16GB card is here I will want to copy everything off of the 4GB onto the 16GB using the quickest and easiest method which I assume will be Dopus 4 (I never did like the Dopus 5 I bought, it did all sorts of weird things to my icons and colours).
I'm not running CWB but I have it on FS-UAE so I can easily copy files to / from it.
First thing, I'm going to try re-enabling BB2 rom update as I've not tried that while being back on 4GB. But what then?
I just re-enabled the BB2 rom update, rebooted and everything it fine and I'm running Arte demo from DH2: as I type this. But of course I'm on a 4GB drive at the moment.
Not sure what that means or what I need to do when the 16GB comes back!
If your CF card isn't compatible with the scsi.device of BB2 then what will happen is after the first reset you will see a guru and get stuck in a reboot loop.
Ideally with the ACA1233 you should be using Maprom to load in a custom Rom with the BB2 updates as it will make your system faster and also do away with the reboot.
It was the PCMCIA network card. If I reboot without it everything works fine. I'm cool with that, I only need the card in when I actually want the net.
And the CF was getting corrupted by the latest, latest scsi.device (Doofus? D something or other). I did find one that works and have left it at that for now. It looks like I do need to create my own custom 3.9 ROMs though.


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The magnitude and scope of China's urbanization are unprecedented. As the urban landscape continues to depart from the uniformity of the socialist city, the social and economic interactions that take place in cities, and state interventions intended to regulate such interactions, become increasingly complex and at times contradictory. As a field of research, urbanization has come to provide a conceptual container for the study of populations and the built environment within spatial concentrations of human habitation and exchange. Recognizing the breadth of urbanization research, we acknowledge an immense body of literature. The contributions in this part posit historical and empirical findings as a means of analyzing the change that has occurred within China's urban system, ...
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Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Wu, W., Wu, W., & Gaubatz, P. (2018). Urbanization and Spatial Development: Introduction. (Vols. 1-2). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436085
Wang, Ya Ping, Yanglin Wang, Jiansheng Wu, Weiping Wu, Weiping Wu, and Piper Gaubatz The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China. 2 vols. 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436085.
Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Wu, W., Wu, W. and Gaubatz, P., 2018. The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China. Vol. 2. 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436085> [Accessed 28 Jan 2023].
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At the heart of the rendering pipeline is the render script. This is a Lua script with the functions init(), update() and on_message() and it is primarily used to interact with the underlying OpenGL rendering API. The render script has a special place in the lifecycle of your game. Details can be found in the Application lifecycle documentation.
In the "Builtins" folder of your projects you can find the default render resource ("default.render") and the default render script ("default.render_script").
Copy the files "default.render" and "default.render_script" to a location in your project hierarchy. You can, of course, create a render script from scratch but it is a good idea to start with a copy of the default script, especially if you are new to Defold and/or OpenGL ES rendering.
Edit your copy of the "default.render" file and change the Script property to refer to your copy of the render script.
Change the Render property (under bootstrap) in the "game.project" settings file to refer to your copy of the "default.render" file.
The default render script provides a number of different projections for drawing your game content, with the default being a stretch projection. The other projections provided in the default render script are fixed fit and fixed projections.
To be able to control the draw order of objects, you create render predicates. A predicate declares what should be drawn based on a selection of material tags.
Each object that is drawn onto the screen has a material attached to it that controls how the object should be drawn to the screen. In the material, you specify one or more tags that should be associated with the material.
In your render script, you can then create a render predicate and specify which tags should belong to that predicate. When you tell the engine to draw the predicate, each object with a material containing a tag matching the list specified for the predicate will be drawn.
A detailed description on how materials work can be found in the Material documentation.
Below is the code for a custom render script that is a slightly modified version of the built-in one.
The function init() is used to set up the predicates, the view and clear color. These variables will be used during the actual rendering.
-- that allows us to change the state of OpenGL between the draws.
-- can update the view matrix with the value the camera provides.
-- Set the depth mask which allows us to modify the depth buffer.
-- Clear the color buffer with the clear color value and set the depth buffer to 1.0.
-- it will be properly drawn and depth testing will work from thereon.
-- Set the viewport to the window dimensions.
So far this is a simple and straightforward render script. It draws in the same manner every single frame. However, it is sometimes desirable to be able to introduce state into the render script and perform different operations depending on the state. It may also be desirable to communicate with the render script from other parts of the game code.
-- Someone sent us a new clear color to be used.
-- set view (and possibly projection) of the rendering.
-- Change the clear color.
This message is sent from camera components that has acquired camera focus.
The engine will send this message on changes of the window size. You can listen to this message to alter rendering when the target window size changes. On desktop this means that the actual game window has been resized and on mobile devices this message is sent whenever an orientation change happens.
-- The window was resized. message.width and message.height contain the new dimensions.
Draw debug line. Use to visualize ray_casts, vectors and more. Lines are drawn with the render.draw_debug3d() call.
Draw debug text. Use to print debug information. The text is drawn with the built in "system_font" font. The system font has a material with tag "text" and is rendered with other text in the default render script.
The visual profiler accessible through the "toggle_profile" message sent to the @system socket is not part of the scriptable renderer. It is drawn separate from your render script.
A draw call is the term used to describe the process of setting up the GPU to draw an object to the screen using a texture and a material with optional additional settings. This process is usually resource intensive and it is recommended that the number of draw calls are as few as possible. You can measure the number of the draw calls and the time it takes to render them using the built-in profiler.
Defold will try to batch render operation to reduce the number of draw calls according to a set of rules defined below. The rules differ between GUI components and all other component types.
This means that if two sprite components in the same collection proxy has adjacent or the same z-value (and thus comes next to each other in the sorted list), use the same texture, material and constants they will be grouped into the same draw call.
Has the same blend mode.
Rendering of nodes are done per component. This means that nodes from different GUI components will not be batched.
The ability to arrange nodes in hierarchies makes it easy to group nodes into manageable units. But hierarchies can effectively break batch rendering if you mix different node types. It is possible to more effectively batch GUI nodes while maintaining node hierarchies using GUI layers. You can read more about GUI layers and how they affect draw calls in the GUI manual.


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ELAINE KURTENBACH
Associated Press January 27, 2014
A container ship is docked at a port in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Japan's trade deficit surged to a record 11.47 trillion yen ($112 billion) in 2013 as the shutdown of nuclear power plants swelled the nation's energy import bill. Provisional data Monday showed that exports rose 9.5 percent to 69.8 trillion yen ($680.9 billion), while imports jumped 15 percent to 81.3 trillion yen ($793.2 billion). (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's trade deficit surged to a record 11.47 trillion yen ($112 billion) in 2013 as the shutdown of nuclear power plants swelled the nation's energy import bill.
Provisional data Monday showed that exports rose 9.5 percent to 69.8 trillion yen ($680.9 billion), while imports jumped 15 percent to 81.3 trillion yen ($793.2 billion).
Japan's trade deficit in 2012 was 6.94 trillion yen. The deficit has been rising as costs for imports have surged with the weakening of the Japanese yen and increased purchases of foreign oil and gas. Japan's nuclear reactors have been offline for safety and regulatory checks after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The largest shortfall, 13.2 trillion yen ($128.8 billion), was with the Middle East, source of the largest share of resource-scarce Japan's imports of oil and gas.
The weaker yen is a mixed blessing for Japan. It is boosting corporate profits due to higher yen-denominated income for companies that earn a large share of their revenues overseas.
"Our imports are affected both by the yen's value and also by oil prices, so we will be watching the situation," chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Monday. He reiterated Japan's eagerness to buy lower-priced shale gas from North America, pending U.S. approval of such exports.
Apart from energy imports, Japanese manufacturers increasingly are relying on overseas sources for components for electronics and other products. The recovery in exports so far has failed to offset those costs and Japanese consumers are paying sharply higher prices for fuel and food.
Japan's deficit with China, its biggest trading partner, rose more than 43 percent in 2013 to 5.02 trillion yen ($49 billion). With the U.S., it logged a surplus of 6.1 trillion yen ($59.5 billion), up nearly 20 percent from a year earlier.
December's deficit was 1.3 trillion yen ($12.7 billion), the fourth straight month of increase.
Japan's economy emerged from recession a year ago and has been gaining momentum, spurred by strong government spending and monetary stimulus. That has also pushed demand for imports higher, a trend likely to continue at least until a 3 percentage point increase in consumption tax to 8 percent takes effect in April, said Marcel Thieliant, an economist for Capital Economics in Singapore.
So far, most of the increase in exports has come from the yen's weakening rather than an increase in export volumes, he said.
"On the one hand, we expect the yen to weaken further, which should keep the cost of imports elevated. On the other hand, export volumes are likely to pick up as global growth is accelerating," he said in a commentary.
The worse-than-expected trade data coincided with a flurry of selling on Tokyo's stock exchange, where the benchmark Nikkei 225 fell below 15,000 for the first time in two months following last week's selloffs in Europe and the U.S. The index closed down 2.8 percent at 15,005.73.
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"Chapter 149. Phimosis Reduction." Emergency Medicine Procedures, 2e Reichman EF. Reichman E.F.(Ed.),Ed. Eric F. Reichman. McGraw Hill, 2013, https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=683&sectionid=45343795.
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A phimosis is a condition in which the foreskin cannot be retracted behind the glans of the penis.1–19 It interferes with cleaning under the foreskin, allows the accumulation of secretions and debris (i.e., smegma) under the foreskin, and may predispose the patient to infections and possible malignancy.18 It is classified into two subgroups: physiologic and pathologic. Physiologic phimoses occurs naturally in newborns. In males younger than 4 years of age, it is normal for the foreskin to not be retractable. In older boys and adults, the foreskin can usually be retracted without difficulty.1 Pathologic phimoses is the inability to retract the foreskin after it was previously retractable or after puberty, usually secondary to scarring of the foreskin. Surgical treatment for a phimosis has been known for hundreds of years.2 A Byzantine surgeon by the name of Oribasius, in the fourth century AD, gave a seemingly well-acquainted description of a technique involving forced dilation of the constrictive foreskin, scalloping out of its inner surface, then stretching it over a parchment-wrapped lead tube placed between the filleted skin and the glans.2 Current techniques for the management of a phimosis in the Emergency Department are simple and remain an important intervention directed to relieving urinary obstruction.
At birth there is a physiologic phimosis in the majority of male neonates. This is due to natural adhesions that exist between the foreskin and the glans of the penis. During the first 3 to 4 years of life, as the penis grows, epithelial debris (i.e., smegma) accumulates under the foreskin and gradually separates the foreskin from the glans. Intermittent penile erections aid in allowing the foreskin to eventually become retractable. The foreskin of most males will retract easily by the age of four. Forcible retraction should be categorically discouraged as this can result in scarring and constriction.1 For a nonobstructive phimosis in children, topical steroids and topical conjugated equine estrogen have shown excellent results in releasing the stubborn physiologic adhesions between the foreskin and the glans.3,4
A phimosis can be the cause of other problems or be a result of other medical conditions. Recurrent infections such as balanitis or balanoposthitis, repeated urinary catheterization, forceful foreskin retraction, and poor hygiene can lead to scarring of preputial orifices causing a pathologic phimosis. Pathologic phimosis may also arise in diabetics due to the presence of glucose in their urine giving rise to an infection of the foreskin. Once acquired, a phimosis can become a paraphimosis if the foreskin is retracted and not promptly reduced. It can result in urinary tract infections from bacterial colonization of the phimosis or secondary to urinary obstruction. Some males may report painful erections, hematuria, preputial pain, or a weakened urinary stream. Other complications of a phimosis include recurrent balanitis, other local infections, urinary retention, carcinoma of the penis, and easy growth of venereal warts and other sexually transmitted diseases. It may also be due to local trauma (known as Tristram Shandy syndrome) or the congenital lack of conversion to a mobile foreskin.5 Penile carcinoma deserves special mention. Coexistent phimosis is seen in up to 52% of cases of penile carcinoma. The need for timely follow-up should be impressed upon the patient regardless of the intervention required in the Emergency Department.6
The sole indication for the surgical release of a phimosis is urinary obstruction that cannot be relieved by passing a urethral catheter. A dorsal slit of the foreskin should be performed only after failure of noninvasive techniques. Most patients with a phimosis rarely require any emergency intervention and should be referred to a Urologist on an outpatient basis.
The ability to pass a urinary catheter (Foley or coudé) into the bladder eliminates the acute need for the reduction of a phimosis. Patients with bleeding disorders, gross infections of the foreskin, who are immunocompromised, or who have lesions of the foreskin should have a urinary catheter placed into the bladder rather than an incision of the phimotic foreskin. If a catheter cannot be inserted into the urethra in these patients, a Urologist should be consulted prior to any invasive procedures. Patients with a nonobstructing phimosis should be referred for an elective circumcision and not have a dorsal slit procedure.
Povidone iodine or chlorhexidine solution
Sterile drapes
1% lidocaine without epinephrine
Lidocaine Uro-jet
5 mL syringes
Hemostats, straight or straight Kelly clamps
Urinary catheters (Foley, coudé)
#15 scalpel blade on a handle
3-0 or 4-0 chromic catgut or Vicryl on a noncutting needle
Needle driver
Petrolatum gauze
1 to 2 inch bandage
Topical antibacterial ointment
The use of tissue glue of the type normally found in Emergency Departments has been studied in children undergoing circumcision.7 It was shown to increase infection, bleeding, and wound dehiscence when compared to suture. The use of suture must be recommended at this time to close the wound edges.
Explain the benefits, risks, potential complications, and aftercare of the procedure to the patient and/or their representative. An informed consent should be obtained and placed in the medical record.
Place the patient supine with their genitalia exposed. Prepare the penis for any intervention. Clean the penis of any dirt, debris, and discharge. Apply drapes to isolate the penis. Apply povidone iodine or chlorhexidine solution onto the penis. If possible, apply the solution under the foreskin using a cotton-tipped applicator if necessary. If the patient has pain in the area of the foreskin, or if a procedure other than catheter insertion is to be performed, the penis should be anesthetized. Refer to Chapter 146 for the complete details regarding penile anesthesia. Alternatively, infiltration of local anesthetic solution can be used to anesthetize the foreskin. Draw up 5 mL of local anesthetic solution without epinephrine into a syringe armed with a 27 gauge needle. Inject a subcutaneous wheal of local anesthetic solution 2 cm proximal to the distal end of the foreskin. Continue subcutaneous infiltration circumferentially around the penis with the local anesthetic solution. The patient may require intravenous sedation or procedural sedation prior to the injection of local anesthetic solution into the penis.
The use of topical anesthetics such as lidocaine jelly, prilocaine creams, or combinations (EMLA, LET, and LAT) is not recommended.8 The application of these mixtures requires an occlusive dressing and 60 to 90 minutes for the anesthetic effect, which may then be inadequate.
Topical Corticosteroids
Up to 85% of pathologic phimoses that are mild to moderate will respond to the application of topical steroids to the preputial orifice. It is reasonable for the Emergency Physician to prescribe 0.1% to 0.05% betamethasone dipropionate applied twice daily for 4 to 6 weeks with appropriate Urologic follow-up if there is no urinary obstruction or a urinary catheter can be placed.11 The application of topical corticosteroids is the most cost-effective treatment if the circumstances permit.19
Urethral Catheterization
Attempt to pass a size 16 or 18 French Foley or coudé catheter into the bladder. If this is too large, attempt to pass the largest possible catheter. Please refer to Table 145-1 for an age-based list of proper catheter sizes. Care should be taken to avoid forceful placement of the catheter between the foreskin and the glans. Correct catheter placement will be confirmed by an outflow of urine. Refer to Chapter 142 for a complete discussion of urethral catheterization.
Foreskin Dilation
Most simply, the opening of the prepuce can be stretched. The patient's penis should be thoroughly anesthetized prior to performing this procedure (Chapter 146). Consideration should also be given to administering intravenous analgesics, intravenous sedation, or procedural sedation (Chapter 129).
Insert the jaws of a closed hemostat just inside the foreskin. Slowly open the arms of the hemostat 2 to 3 mm. Palpate the foreskin to feel both jaws of the hemostat. If the jaws are not palpable, immediately remove the instrument as one of the jaws may be in the urethra. If both jaws of the hemostat are palpable, open the arms to dilate the opening of the foreskin. Remove the hemostat. Clean the glans and undersurface of the foreskin with povidone iodine or chlorhexidine solution. Insert, using strict aseptic technique, a urinary catheter if required (Chapter 142).
This approach is not the ideal technique as it carries significant risk of injury to the patient. Inadvertent placement of the hemostat jaw in the urethra can lacerate the urethra and glans of the penis. Dilating the foreskin can cause irregular tears. Injury may require operative intervention and circumcision to correct any iatrogenic trauma.
Dorsal Slit of the Foreskin
The preferred method to correct an obstructing phimosis in the Emergency Department is the dorsal slit procedure. The patient's penis should be thoroughly anesthetized prior to performing this procedure (Chapter 146). Consideration should also be given to administering intravenous analgesics, intravenous sedation, or procedural sedation (Chapter 129).
Insert the bottom jaw of a straight hemostat between the foreskin and glans at the 12 o'clock position (Figure 149-1A). For those individual patients or cultural situations where dorsal incision of the foreskin, much less excision, is cosmetically unacceptable, a ventral approach may be substituted which will yield an apparently uncircumcised penis without obstructive symptoms.9 Advance the hemostat until the tip of the jaw is at the coronal sulcus (Figure 149-1A). The coronal sulcus is where the foreskin attaches to the penis. Depending on the etiology of the phimosis, adhesions may be encountered. These should be gently broken as the hemostat is advanced. The skin of the foreskin is relatively thin and the jaw of the hemostat should be easily palpated. The tip of the jaw should be seen to tent the skin at the coronal sulcus when properly placed (Figure 149-1B). It cannot be overemphasized that the Emergency Physician must be confident that the instrument has not been inadvertently placed in the urethra. If the jaw of the hemostat cannot be felt and cannot be seen tenting the skin of the foreskin, remove the hemostat and reinsert it.
Dorsal slit of the foreskin. A. A hemostat is inserted under the foreskin and advanced to the coronal sulcus. B. The hemostat is elevated to tent the skin and confirm it is properly placed. C. The dorsal slit has been made. D. The foreskin is retracted. E. Interrupted sutures are placed in the cut edge of the foreskin.
Once properly placed, close the hemostat to crush the foreskin at the 12 o'clock position. Allow the hemostat to remain closed for 2 to 3 minutes to thoroughly crush the foreskin. Remove the hemostat. Insert a scissors and advance it with the same attention to position the tip at the coronal sulcus. Incise the crushed tissue to the level of the coronal sulcus (Figure 149-1C). If straight scissors are not available, a #15 blade may be used to cut the crushed skin after another instrument is placed underneath the foreskin to protect the glans from injury. This method of using a scalpel blade is dangerous and not recommended because control is reduced and the potential for error is unnecessarily increased.
Retract the cut foreskin. This will leave an open wound edge on both sides of the midline (Figure 149-1D). Suture the open wound edges using 3-0 or 4-0 chromic gut suture in an interrupted or running pattern. Begin suturing from the midline to the distal end of the incision (Figure 149-1E).5 Return the foreskin to its "resting" position to guard against a newly acquired iatrogenic paraphimosis. Generously apply a topical antibacterial ointment over the suture line and loosely cover it with a bandage of petrolatum gauze and gauze squares. Apply a piece of tape to hold the dressing on the penis. The tape should not be applied circumferentially as this can cause ischemia to the penis.
Should it be desired, a complete circumcision can be performed after the dorsal slit incision. Using two hemostats, make a series of crushing bites along the foreskin at the level of the coronal sulcus. Use caution not to crush the skin on the shaft of the penis. Using scissors, cut the foreskin along the crushed tissue. Approximate the wound edges using 3-0 or 4-0 chromic gut in an interrupted pattern. Carcinoma should always be considered as an etiology of a phimosis and all excised tissue sent to pathology for histologic evaluation.18
Preputioplasty
The preputioplasty is an alternative surgical treatment to the more radical dorsal slit and circumcision. This tissue-sparing surgical technique can achieve full resolution of a phimosis. Although not typically performed in the Emergency Department, the preputioplasty is a conservative, less traumatic, and less invasive procedure. The procedure consists of one or more short longitudinal incisions which release the stenosis and they are then closed transversely allowing a widening of the phimotic ring and loosening of foreskin (Figure 149-2).13
The preputioplasty. A. Penis with tight phimotic ring making it difficult to retract the foreskin. B. Foreskin retracted under anaesthetic with the phimotic ring or stenosis constricting the shaft of the penis and creating a "waist." The dotted line represents the vertical incision line. C. Incision closed laterally with interrupted sutures. D. Penis with the loosened foreskin replaced over the glans.
Clean, prep, anesthetize, and prepare the penis as described previously. Retract the foreskin until it is completely proximal to the glans (Figure 149-2B). The phimotic ring will constrict the penile shaft (Figure 149-2B). Carefully make a superficial incision in the phimotic ring with a #15 scalpel blade or fine scissors (Figure 149-2B). The phimotic ring will open. Allow the wound to ooze for a few minutes. Close the wound using 3-0 or 4-0 chromic gut suture in an interrupted pattern (Figure 149-2C). Return the loosened foreskin over the glans (Figure 149-2D). Generously apply a topical antibacterial ointment over the suture line and loosely cover it with a bandage of petrolatum gauze and gauze squares. Apply a piece of tape to hold the dressing on the penis. The tape should not be applied circumferentially as this can cause ischemia to the penis.
Regardless of the technique, observe the patient in the Emergency Department for 45 to 60 minutes to confirm hemostasis. Observe the patient for full recovery from any sedation or procedural sedation techniques as per hospital policy.
The patient may be discharged with Urologic follow-up within 48 hours. Instruct the patient to return to the Emergency Department immediately if the wound is red, has a discharge, is swollen, or if fever develops. The patient should be given oral analgesics for pain control. Patients should be discharged on oral antibiotics whose spectrum covers skin flora. Cephalexin, 500 mg orally four times a day, is usually adequate. Between discharge and examination by a Urologist, the patient should practice gentle daily washing of the penis with soap, avoid placing any powders or creams in the area, and check the wound three to four times daily for signs of infection. Sexual intercourse and masturbation should be avoided until the incisions have completely healed.
The dorsal slit procedure will result in a "beagle-ear" like deformity. While not problematic in most cases, it may increase the chance of getting the foreskin entrapped in a zipper. The Urologist will often perform an elective circumcision for cosmetic purposes.
Direct mechanical injury to the glans or urethra by inadvertent placement of instruments into the urethra could be devastating but is easily avoidable by following proper technique. Increased bleeding may result if the skin is not crushed by the hemostat before it is cut with the scissors.5 It is also important to avoid advancing the clamp, and therefore the incision, beyond the comfortable limitation of the coronal sulcus. Otherwise, the skin on the penile shaft will be cut. This can result in a cosmetic defect and possibly skin sloughing requiring a skin graft. Lacerations to the penile shaft skin should be sutured with an absorbable suture. Wound infection and dehiscence are a possibility with any incision and greatly reduced in conscientious patients.
From a variety of disease processes, the endpoint of a phimosis causing urinary obstruction lends itself to simple correction by the Emergency Physician. If there is not complete urinary obstruction, a trial of topical corticosteroids is simple, cost effective, and may result in the resolution of the phimosis. Careful performance of the described techniques will result in an excellent functional and aesthetic foreskin repair.
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Jean-Pierre Geuens
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
City College and Art Center College of Design
As a professor at a filmmaking school, Jean-Pierre Geuens has been instructing students about the nuances of film for more than 20 years. His career began in France and carried him to filmmaking school at UCLA, followed by a career as a cameraman, before he turned to teaching.
Geuens has written many articles and one book on the subject of film—Film Production Theory—and contributed to two other books, which can be found on his website. He currently teaches at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
You teach film theory. What are classes like?
Well, as you might expect, we watch a lot of film. Where once we were lucky to have film prints, now there is an availability of DVDs for students to review. The curriculum used to be based on talking without seeing, and today students can learn by example. For bright, driven, aspiring filmmakers, it is even possible to educate themselves, without attending film school, by studying good film and DVD bonus tracks on their own. That and a good brain are the basis of a solid film education.
Do you have any advice for prospective students?
If you want to be an independent filmmaker, the most important thing to learn is discipline and critique. You need to teach yourself to look honestly at your work. Judge its quality with impartiality. Unfortunately, in film school, students don't make that many films. People may spend an entire year on one short film. I'm in the minority of film professors who believe that students should be producing in film school, not perfecting. Today things go fast in the film industry. Students need to learn to be quick and creative to stay in the game.
What's most important to learn in school?
Film school is about finding out who you are, it's not just about acquiring a specific amount of knowledge or the latest techniques. You need to learn who you are, what you stand for and how good you are. Technical knowledge without the self is nothing. There are plenty of technicians in this industry; what's important is to have people with viewpoints.
How does grading work?
The hardest thing about film schools is getting in, and once you're in, you're good enough. Grading is least important. Classes are generally a blend of group-based projects, personal projects and collaborations. Most people who graduate and stick with it will ultimately be working in some function on a film crew, so we try to expose students to all aspects of the industry.
What should students look for in a school?
Each school has its own style—L.A. is very much Hollywood, and portfolios emulate Hollywood values. NYU and UCLA have independent film programs. Other schools may be more experimental. The key is to research the filmmaking schools, find their style, and match that style to your own. If the match isn't a good one, students tend to drop out or transfer. Go see the films the school produces. Talk to students. Go into a classroom and spend an afternoon in class. It's about where you will fit the best.
What is the hardest aspect of filmmaking school?
Getting your feet on the ground. It's not easy to make a film. Right away, you discover your mistakes, and that can be overwhelming and disconcerting. During the editing process, things get complicated. You notice your mistakes. You realize that you haven't got all the shots you need, or that things aren't as you envisioned them to be. However, it's a wonderful learning process, and most people learn quickly from their mistakes while editing. The more you produce and watch, the more you learn.
What skills do students need to be successful in the industry?
Some people will make it, others will not. It's not so much about what it takes; a lot of people have what it takes. It's about how lucky you are, or whether or not you have contacts, or if you're getting noticed. Many students I expected to do well have not, and others have done very well. There's just no way of knowing.
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That is what film school is for. USC is especially well known for that. You start working with someone, and eventually you form a small crew. During a project, you use people you can rely on. You all move up the ladder together. Working with someone you know simplifies the creative process, because you already know their personality and style.
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Below you will find clinical usage information for all points along the (TH) Triple Heater Meridian . You may click on a specific acupuncture point for more detailed information including the location, clinical usages, and related patterns and conditions.
Similar to TH 3 which is used more clinically.
Lower: Constipation due to stagnation and heat in the body.
Middle: Issues with the chest & hypochondrium, often used with GB 34 for chest & rib pain, also "sudden turmoil disorder" (vomiting & diarrhea).
Upper: Febrile diseases with no sweating, eye redness & pain, ear pain, inflammation.
Sudden deafness, acute or chronic loss of voice, apahsia, combine with HT 5 & CV 23.
Ear problems of an excess or deficient nature, tinnitus, deafness, earache.
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Distal point for temporal headaches, shoulder a/or upper back pain, pain a/or inflammation in the throat.
Eye diseases with GB 37.