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Cheltenham Class Singles Tournament
[<<] [>>] by Michael James at Cheltenham Croquet Club
22 June 2014 (AC)
This was a tournament of five classes, banded by handicap. The top four blocks were Advanced play (though the players in block one decided to play Super Advanced) and block five was Level play. Thirty six players originally entered. Unfortunately however efforts to get four lawns (which were relaid last Autumn) ready for play had to be abandoned on the day before the tournament as the contractors stated that further cutting of the grass to the required height could cause unacceptable damage. This meant that the contest had to be reduced to 30 players (five blocks of six) for the available seven lawns and six local players agreed to stand down. This resulted in 15 matches for each session, so there was a delayed start in each session for one pair (in block 1).
Despite excellent weather throughout a substantial percentage of matches (in all blocks) went close to the 3.25 hour time limit or ended on time. This caused difficulties in fitting in the delayed matches. In block 1 one match in session three had to be pegged down and was not finished until after the end of session five. The players in block 1 decided to complete the tournament in two days (some players had to travel some distance each day to Cheltenham), with three sessions on day two. Four Triple peels were scored in all.
In block one Jaimie Mussi and Richard M Smith made steady progress, winning their first three completed matches, (though the 3rd round match between them had to be pegged down, so that all the fourth round matches could start). In round five Jaimie won again, but Richard lost to Dave Kibble leaving, at this point, Jaimie and Dave on four wins and Richard on three. Hence the pegged down match (with about 1.5 hours to go) effectively became the decider. As time wound down Jaimie built a lead of seven points as dusk fell and the last few minutes were played in minimal light, ending at 10.20pm. Richard failed to hit in after time was called and so Jaimie was the victor in the block with five wins, with Dave securing second place.
On the third day the final game in block two was a battle for minor places as Les Bowker had by this time won his 4 matches and had beaten the only other player (David Mumford), who could draw level with him on wins and did, as Les lost his last match. The other 3 blocks could only be decided after the completion of round five. Block three was won by Amanda Hames-Keward who had four wins, but beat the other player on four wins, Keith Davis. Caroline Denny won block four with five very close results netting four wins, with Brian Havill coming second on three. In block five Denis King ultimately triumphed, with 4 wins, over Angela Martin, who also had four wins, but had lost to Denis.

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BODA's Tall Collection: Why We Do It
Jack Lynch
The Wimbledon Championships are the oldest and most prestigious of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments. Standing alongside the Australian, French and U.S opens, Wimbledon hosts nothing other than class, top-quality tennis and a sense of Britishness that isn't found in many other places.
But as a whole, Wimbledon is awash in long-lasting traditions and features, such as the habit of calling the men's and women's competitions "Gentlemen's" and "Ladies," respectively. The upper-class nature of tennis has always come part-and-parcel with the sport, there's a reason why tickets are so hard to get hold of and sell at such a high price… It's supposed to be exclusive and sought after. For example, the Royal Box, the most prestigious area to watch competitors, has been reserved for members of the English nobility since 1922.
However, as the years have passed and the history has continued to grow, the iconicness of the historic Centre Court has seen some of the greatest athletes to ever live enter the (still) advertisement-free arena. But for all its grace, it's iconic all-white dress code for all participants still stands.
But why does it? Here we wanted to look into the reasoning behind Wimbledon's all-white traditions and due to the fact that our brand-spanking-new Pearl collection sits within the minimalist realms of the all-white Wimbledon - here's why it's not going anywhere any time soon...
The Wimbledon dress code was written in the 1880s, and the creators decided to make competitors wear all-white attire due to the fact that sweat stains were considered to be improper and unsightly. The all-white was brought in to minimise their visibility as sweat is more noticeable on colourful clothing.
From that period on, "tennis whites" were considered the attire for well-heeled tennis players, which described everyone who played in the first Wimbledon tournaments. Once the all-white rule was put in place, it was seen as disrespectful to go by anything else when playing on the grass.
The all-white look has been with the sport of tennis for a good while now, but it hasn't always been a popular look with the players. Players have indeed rebelled against the rules, with the most memorable event of noncompliance coming from Andre Agassi. The tennis superstar refused to play at Wimbledon from 1988 to 1990 because the dress code prevented him from wearing the flashy clothing that he felt most comfortable wearing. The vibrant look of Agassi was a part of his brand at this time, and he felt that the new-found dress code of the time was compromising it.
But even so, more recently, arguably the best player to ever play the game, Roger Federer was frowned upon after he was seen rebelling against the dress code win 2013 with a pair of orange-soled trainers - he was reprimanded for wearing these and was forced to change his look for the following game. The following year, fellow tennis legend, Martina Navratilova Said that tournament rules had "gone too far" when they told her that her blue-striped skirt was not up to the standards.
So with this being said, if even the biggest greats of the sport are being reprimanded for not following these rules, it looks like the whites of Wimbledon are here to stay for a long time. But, do we really want any different? Tennis is one of the only sports in the world that has continued to keep the same heritage since it was created. Its classical nature is what makes the sport so brilliant - so we say, keep the white. Players cladding in white is what we remember the sport for, and it's what makes it so great.


Micro summary: This A300 experienced a main landing gear tread separation, followed by a #2 engine failure.
Separation of the landing gear tire tread and subsequent ingestion of the tread into the intake of the engine.
After feeling a vibration in the aircraft during the takeoff roll, the cockpit crew heard a loud bang and the right-hand (number 2) engine failed. The captain rejected the takeoff and stopped the airplane on the remaining runway. Postincident examination revealed that the tire tread was absent from the number 3 tire on the right-hand main landing gear. One piece of black rubber resembling the tire tread was found lodged in the fan outlet guide vanes. Black smearing marks were observed on several of the fan blades and bent stator vanes of the engine, which also resembled the tire tread material. There was substantial damage to the engine and minor airframe damage.
On August 24, 1997, at 1350 hours Pacific daylight time, an Airbus A300 B4-203, N862PA, lost power to the number 2 engine and aborted the takeoff on runway 24L at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California. The airplane sustained minor damage. There were no injuries to the 3 cockpit crewmembers, 8 cabin crewmembers, and 254 passengers. The airplane was being operated on an instrument flight plan by Pan American World Airways as flight 6, a scheduled domestic passenger flight under 14 CFR Part 121. The flight was destined for John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
The cockpit crew reported feeling a vibration in the aircraft during the takeoff roll and then hearing a loud noise while accelerating past 145 knots. According to the captain, the airplane was loaded heavily with fuel and passengers and the takeoff decision speed (V1) was 159 knots. The captain rejected the takeoff and stopped the airplane on the 10,285-foot-long runway with about 800 feet remaining.
Postincident examination revealed that the tire tread was absent from the number 3 tire on the right-hand main landing gear. One piece of black rubber resembling the tire tread (2-4 inches long) was found lodged in the fan outlet guide vanes. Black smearing marks were observed on several of the fan blades and bent stator vanes of the engine, which also resembled the tire tread material. The number 2 engine fan was destroyed and several outlet guide vanes were damaged. There was a hole through the engine fan cowl at the 6 o'clock position. The engine's accessory gearbox was fractured to the left of the constant speed drive (CSD) and generator. Oil was leaking from the fracture and two broken oil return lines from the CSD and generator. Minor damage was also observed on the right-hand landing gear door, inboard flap, and all-speed aileron.
Metallurgical examination of the failed compressor fan blades revealed that features noted along the fracture surfaces were consistent with ductile overload and rapid tensile shear. The metallurgist noted that there was no evidence of metallurgical fatigue present at the fractures and opined that liberation of the blade tips occurred as a result of a "single overload event."
The aircraft's Lockheed model 209F flight data recorder was read out and evaluated at the Safety Board's laboratory in Washington, D.C. The specialist's report is attached. The report states that both engines were operating within normal limits for a period of time before a positive lateral acceleration and a decrease in longitudinal acceleration were recorded at FDR time 5195.2 seconds, after which the aircraft decelerated. The report also notes that there were four parameters reporting erroneous values. The four were engine vibration monitors for the fan and compressor of each engine.


The Arc System Works-developed Dragon Ball fighting game has finally been revealed at Microsoft's E3 press conference. Titled Dragon Ball FighterZ, this game is dynamic, fast-paced action with visuals that looks to capture the over-the-top aesthetic of the iconic anime series. With fluid and response combat, along with its striking animation could make this game the best DBZ fighting game. With all that in mind, a question arise, the question is: "Who's going to be in it?" I compiled all the characters that have been confirmed so far. And we'll make suggestions of which characters we would also like to see. Thus far it seems as only DBZ character will show up. However, DLC could make Dragon Ball Super characters be playable.
Gohan is the elder son of series protagonist Goku and his wife Chichi. While he shares his father's strength and courageous spirit, he tends to pull away from fighting and only resorts to it as a means of defending his family and friends. It seems that only SS2 Gohan is confirmed.
Goku is the main protagonist of the entire Dragon Ball series. He's a Saiyan that was originally sent to Earth as an infant with a mission to destroy it. However, he ended up losing his memory, which caused him to grow pure-hearted. Goku constantly trains hard to become a powerful fighter, which often results in him saving the universe in the process. Goku is embodiment of the series stands as whole.
Vegeta is the crown prince of the fallen Saiyan race. He first appeared as a villain, who worked alongside Frieza and his minions. However, he turned against the villainous emperor in favor of fighting alongside the Z fighters, all while striving to become the most powerful fighter in the universe. Pride and his rivalry with Kakarot makes him push himself passed his limits.
Future Trunks is Vegeta's and Bulma's son from an alternate timeline. While the couple eventually gave birth to him in the main timeline, this version of the character comes from an alternate era where the world was devastated by the Androids. Future Trunks first appeared in the aftermath of the Frieza Saga, having traveled back in time to warn the Z Fighters about the oncoming threat of the Androids, as well as to deliver medicine to Goku that would cure him of the heart disease he died from in the alternate timeline. Future Trunks was the second Super Saiyan and was the only that ultimately killed Frieza and King Cold.
Frieza is the emperor of the universe who's responsible for obliterating nearly the entire Saiyan race, which in turn caused the myriad conflicts present in Dragon Ball's earlier arcs. Frieza has a massive ego, believing that he is the most powerful life form in the universe. He kinda of a space hilter.
Cell is one of the primary antagonists of the Androids arc, the third major saga in Dragon Ball Z. A mad scientist named Dr. Gero designed him to be the ultimate fighter by giving him numerous advantageous genetic traits and abilities. Cell is obsessed to reach his last form. His tyranny is what caused Gohan to become a SS2.
Innocent Buu is the first and the least evil of Majin Buu's forms. He's the result of Kid Buu (the original and pure form of Majin Buu) absorbing the Grand Supreme Kai. Originally a villain to the ZFighters, Buu would later fight along side them.
And for shits and giggles Yamcha.
That's our list! Don't agree with it? Who else do you think should be confirmed? Let us know in the comments and on social media and for all things in entertainment and nerd culture, keep it locked on Talkies Network!


I think you'll really enjoy our episode "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris: Feels That Connect Us All." Just please look past the lingering laryngitis that makes me sound like Elaine Stritch … and the dodgy lyrical recall that makes me sound like Jonathan Winters.
Xanadu, book by Douglas Carter Beane; Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar; the 2007 Broadway Musical Comedy Xanadu, based on the 1980 film of the same name – on stage July 7-23.
You can get tickets at http://www.pennyseats.org shortly, and, yeah, I'll be playing the Gene Kelly part in Xanadu. Can't wait!
P.S. If you didn't see Zootopia yet, I highly encourage you to do so. It's just the satirical fable our nation needs right now. You can read my review here.
The show kicks off the sixth season for The Penny Seats and will run on Thursdays February 11th, 18th, 25th, and March 3rd, at Conor O'Neill's Irish Pub and Restaurant, 318 South Main Street, Ann Arbor. The two companies are partnering to offer a dinner theatre-style show, with dinner seatings available starting at 6:00 pm, and performances each night at 7:30pm.
Audience members can purchase tickets for the dinner-and-show package for just $20, or for the show only, for $10. Advance tickets (which are encouraged) are available online at www.pennyseats.org or by phone at (734) 926-5346.
Performances of The Canterbury Tales will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from June 16th – July 2nd, 2016 in West Park, Ann Arbor. Performances of Xanadu are set for July 7th– July 23rd , 2016 and will also run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at the park.
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6 Archaeological Discoveries Scarier Than Any Horror Movie
The 'Ghostbusters' Song Is Way Pervier Than We Realized
Adam Wears ·
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As we've demonstrated before, Hollywood has instilled in each of us a monumental misunderstanding of the practice of archaeology. The tools of the trade aren't so much fedoras, bullwhips, and smartass smirks as they are trowels, hand brooms, and tape measures.
Oh, and crucifixes. And holy water. Maybe a proton pack and some jumbo adult diapers. Why would you need any of that? Because you'll be wishing like hell you had them when you stumbled across ...
Pits Full of Nothing but Severed Hands
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While excavating a 3,600-year-old palace in the once-great city of Avaris, Egypt, a team of archaeologists (after, presumably, fending off no fewer than three vengeful mummies and losing half their team to flesh-hungry scarabs) unearthed four pits. Now, we've already established in previous articles that ancient pits are often wells of unspeakable stuff best left to fade into history with their abominations unmined, but luckily (for the purposes of this article), the researchers decided to keep right on a-diggin' anyway.
"What's in the pits?" you're probably saying right now, in your best angsty Brad Pitt impression. And that's somewhat appropriate, because it's hands. No bodies -- just a bunch of dismembered hands.
Possibly giant spiders.
These ancient hand recycling bins were found in the palace of King Khayan of the Hyksos, a West Asian people who once ruled over part of Northern Egypt. While two of the pits were located in an outer portion of the palace, the other two were right smack dab outside the throne room, indicating some ceremonial importance. According to Manfred Bietak, the leader of the excavations, "Most of the hands are quite large and some of them are very large," further signifying that they were all taken from adult males, and possibly that ancient Egypt was plagued by giants. Also, they're all righties, because even way back then no one wanted anything to do with the freak devil-hand.
So, like, what the hell? Are we unearthing the remnants of history's very first anti-masturbation campaign? The aftermath of some high-stakes forebear to odds and evens?
Thing T. Thing's long lost ancestors?
Actually, these hands are the very first physical evidence archaeologists have found of a practice that's widely represented in ancient Egyptian art, in which soldiers would lop off the right hands of their enemies and present them to their leaders, who would ceremoniously toss the hands into a pit and then unceremoniously toss each soldier a wealth of gold in exchange. By taking the right hand, you were symbolically stealing the source of your enemy's power and literally stealing 50 percent of his ability to flip you off.
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"Now, all our enemies: throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just d- oh wait."
That's interesting and appropriately brutal and all, but we prefer our theory that the ancient Egyptians once attempted to build an unstoppable army of chainsaw-handed warriors, before embarrassingly realizing that chainsaws were still a good three-and-a-half millennia from being invented. Oopsy!
Meet The Medieval Warrior With A Blade For A Hand
Frozen Child Sacrifice Mummies
Johan Reinhard
If there's one lesson we truly took to heart from our time in comedy school, it's that you should never, ever, ever ever, lead off a comedy article with an entry about child sacrifice.
So anyway, Capacocha was an Incan child sacrifice ritual in which only the utmost beautiful of children were chosen to trek to the top of an Andean mountain and freeze to death in order to please the gods. The ritual was often carried out to mark important events, to fend off natural disasters, or because the emperor damn well felt like it. By succumbing to the sacrifice, it was believed that the child would be elevated to the status of deity and achieve immortality. And in a way that's true, since archaeologists are now discovering these eerily well-preserved "ice mummies" and granting them brand new lives (in the mystical land behind your eyelids, while you futilely attempt to sleep tonight).
Nighty-night!
Probably the most notable of these sacrificial sites was discovered in 1999 on Llullaillaco volcano in Argentina. When Johan Reinhard and his team of high-altitude archaeologists busted into the stacked stone burial chamber near the summit, they found a scene literally frozen in time, complete with untouched ceremonial items and three children who, without closer examination, could easily be mistaken for nappers. These perfectly preserved mummies were dubbed Llullaillaco Maiden, Llullaillaco Boy, and Lightning Girl.
"No fair, why does she get the superhero name?"
While it would be nice to think that these kids willingly sacrificed their lives for what they believed to be the greater good, researchers have uncovered a much more disturbing story. The last year of the children's lives was an incredible whirlwind of lavish ceremonies, pilgrimages to the capital city of Cuzco, extravagant foods ... and an Incan shit-ton of maize beer and coca leaves. Because it's easier to get a kid to accept her fate when she's buzzed out of her goddamn mind, especially when said fate is freezing to death on top of a mountain.
If you're wondering how researchers were able to figure this out in such detail, they did it by testing the Llullaillaco Maiden's hair, which is like a braided history of the final years of her life. And while that's certainly amazing and "fuck yeah, science!" and all that jazz, the part we find most impressive is that they were able to do this ...
Jose Fontanelli
Wow, white people really can't resist touching the hair.
... without shitting their cleanroom suit when one of their colleagues belted out her best impression of that ghost girl from The Grudge (come on, you know someone did it). As if we needed any more proof that scientists are stone-cold badasses, that photo is it.
Mummies Got Packed With Mummy Snacks
Jigsaw Skeletons
Of all the careers in which stumbling across human remains constitutes a kick-ass day at the office, archaeology is the only one. So you can imagine the excitement when, back in the early 2000s, researchers discovered not one, but two curiously well-preserved skeletons beneath the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement in the Scottish Highlands.
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Even the skeleton has assumed the fetal position for what's coming next.
The skeletons were soon identified as a male and a female. However, after more than 10 years of studying them, professor of biomedical archaeology at the University of Manchester Terry Brown finally realized what had been bugging him about them for so long: certain pieces didn't seem to fit quite right. So Brown decided to pull DNA samples from various bones of the female skeleton, presumably while an undergrad stood right behind him whispering "Chi, chi, chi! Ha, ha, ha!"
What he discovered was that they hadn't found two skeletons at all -- they'd found two nightmare Voltrons painstakingly pieced together from six different corpses.
Need a hug?
Further study showed that, prior to being assembled, the bodies were first submerged in a peat bog (as we've mentioned before, bogs have the amazing dual ability to both mummify human remains and utterly destroy the pants you're wearing when you see the results). Now, here's where the whole thing reaches Clive-Barker-esque levels of fuckedupness: whoever tinkered up these Franken-skeletons knew that, while bogs are great at preventing decomposition, they aren't so great for bones (the acidic environment eventually breaks down calcium). So in order to get the bones just right, they must have plopped all those bodies into the bog, let them simmer in there for around a year, then fished them back out of the muck before assembling their Ravensburger puzzle for young cenobites.
Why would they go through all that trouble? Hell if researchers know. But given the fact that the composite bodies weren't buried until 300 to 600 years after they died, and the Scottish Highlands' known preponderance of immortals, we've got our suspicions (someone should question Sean Connery about this, is what we're saying).
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The Scene of a Mass Cannibal Attack
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In 1994, deep within the murky depths of El Sidron, a cave system in Northwest Spain, researchers discovered the desiccated remains of 12 Neanderthals. If that sounds like the spooky lead-in voiceover of a horror movie trailer, that's because this particular archaeological scene is one that could convince Hollywood that they've been casting cavemen all wrong as the slapstick stars of insurance commercials and children's cartoons, when their true calling is that of villains that could make Leatherface pee his suede panties.
You see, this wasn't some random collection of individuals; it was an entire family (three kids, three teenagers, and six adults). And the researchers hadn't stumbled across some kind of prehistoric caveman graveyard, either -- all 12 individuals had died suddenly, at the very same time.
One light bulb seems entirely inadequate for exploring a cave that is haunted by 12 cavemen.
But what could possibly cause an entire family of 12 to die at once? Flash cave flood? Venomous dino cave worms? No, nothing like that. The cause of these Neanderthals' deaths was, in fact, another band of Neanderthals. But this wasn't some long-forgotten battle of an ancient caveman war, or the aftermath of an overzealous game of cave football -- the solution to this prehistoric murder case was, unfortunately, much more gastronomic. This family, it turns out, was straight-up hunted for food.
"They appear to have been killed and eaten, with their bones and skulls split open to extract the marrow, tongue and brains," said Dr. Carles Lalueza-Fox, one of the researchers who have been studying the remains at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona for the past 13 years. And if his exceedingly detailed description didn't flip your gross-out switch yet, consider the fact that this was a full-on zombie-style buffet; there was no evidence of a fire, so the victims were devoured raw and with a vigor approaching that of the Sunday crowd at the local Sizzler.
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There was considerably less hair in the entrees, though.
Dr. Lalueza-Fox went on to posit that the find was most likely evidence of a bloody confrontation between two rival Neanderthal gangs -- you know, like the Bloods and the Crips, if the Bloods and the Crips slurped the marrow from each other's bones after pulling a drive-by.
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The Genocide Pit
"Mutilated and processed" is a phrase that you only ever hope to read on the label of your favorite lunch meat. Wait, no. That's not a phrase that you ever hope to read in any context whatsoever, but especially not in the one in which we're about to use it. You've been warned.
Sacred Ridge in Colorado is an ancient Native American settlement consisting of 22 pit houses. Pit houses, in case you're not familiar with them, are pretty much exactly what they sound like: a home constructed by digging a pit into the ground and assembling a roof over top of it. On the list of foreboding things, they rank fairly low.
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Unless you imagine that giant anthropomorphic ants lived in them, which they totally did.
But one day, as they were cataloging the usual pots and tools and petrified turds and such, researchers stumbled straight into a conundrum: they didn't have enough room on their checklist for the stupid amount of two-headed axes spattered in human blood that they were finding. Oh, and on a related note, the pit homes were absolutely filthy with (here it comes) "mutilated and processed" human bodies.
Bribable maids with questionable morals hadn't yet been invented.
In what must have looked like the aftermath of a horrific explosion at an old-timey chainsaw factory, 33 people had been diced into nearly 15,000 horror nuggets scattered all over Sacred Ridge. In case you're no good at word problems (or Nightmare Math wasn't a required subject when you went to school): to arrive at this answer, you take each person and divide them by around 450 (with an ax).
As if that wasn't bad enough, there's also evidence that, before being butchered, burned, and pulverized, the victims were hobbled (yes, like in Misery) and generally beaten about the feet and ankles, because that's an asshole thing to do. And if you still don't feel like you need a Clorox shower, take a gander at this: even with the astounding number of human bits scattered about all willy-nilly, some were conspicuously missing -- because the killers took heads, hands and feet as souvenirs.
An "I went to the massacre at Sacred Ridge and all I got was this stupid t-shirt" shirt isn't good enough for some people, we guess.
So what happened here, exactly? The superlative failure of history's very first sausage factory? Nope -- by analyzing the teeth and whatever other parts of the victims could be pieced back together, researchers discovered that they were of a different ethnic group than the other residents at Sacred Ridge, meaning that what we have here is a case of good old-fashioned genocide.
Future archaeologists may one day dig up that sentence and display it in a museum as history's most egregious misuse of the term "good old-fashioned."
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(Modern) Petrified People Parts
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The thing about human artifacts is that we're still cranking them out. So you don't necessarily have to sift through an eon's worth of dust to find something that'll haunt you to the end of your days. Do you think archaeologists a couple hundred years from now won't be completely aghast when they use their telekinesis app to lift a relic from the rubble of current civilization, only to discover that it's a My Little Pony-themed fleshlight?
Case in point: Girolamo Segato.
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His wallet says "Creepy Motherfucker" on it.
Just a couple centuries ago, Segato was either one of the batshittedest or most brilliant bastards ever to raise a stethoscope, depending on your level of squeamishness. He remains the only man in history to petrify another human being via methods that modern science can only determine to be "fuck, magic, we guess."
So in a way, it's fitting that he practiced it on house elves.
The Italian naturalist and part-time cartographer was also an avid traveler. Inspired by the mummies he saw on a tour of Egypt, the 26-year-old Segato decided he'd like to pursue creeping people right the hell out for a living. So he devised a method by which he could turn dead people to stone -- you know, as one does. Many of his specimens have survived, and you can virtually peruse them at the Anatomical Museum of the University of Florence. Be warned, however -- apparently, the only thing that floated Segato's boat more than playing Medusa was playing with nipples, and some of the samples there could quite possibly ruin boobs for you.
This person stared at them for too long.
Modern science has been able to determine that Segato injected some unknown chemical mixture that infiltrated even the tiniest of blood vessels -- meaning that whatever he did, he did it when the subject was freshly deceased -- but beyond that, no one knows how in the everloving fuck he pulled off his flesh-to-stone transmogrification.
Chances are it'll stay that way, too. Segato once destroyed all of his notes in fear of someone stealing his technique, and he died unexpectedly at 44. Sadly, the sole practitioner of human petrifaction took his unique knowledge with him to his grave.
Some might say it wasn't so much "sadly" as it was "Oh thank God"-ly.
OK, everyone would say that.
Beneath a monument of Segato's visage (which depicts snakes growing out of his head, because subtlety hadn't been invented yet), his tomb in Florence reads "Here lies decayed Girolamo Segato from Belluno, who could have been totally petrified if his art had not died with him." You know what they say: one man's art is everyone else's horror.
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For more finds that make us a little uneasy, check out 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain and The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries.
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A man was killed and a woman injured in the shooting on the 16000 block of East Warren.
Detroit police released a composite sketch Monday of a suspect in a double shooting that occurred last month on the city's east side.
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Amicus Brief Center at
Pending merits cases and the info required to execute an amicus filing. Check Supreme Court docket for official dates and addresses.
Bucklew v. Precythe
Certiorari Granted on April 30, 2018
The date for argument has not yet been set.
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due within 45 days of grant of certiorari, which would be June 14, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due within 30 days of the filing of the Petitioner's Merits Brief, which would be July 14, 2018 if the Petitioner files on its deadline.
Counsel for Petitioner
Robert N. Hochman
Sidley Austin, LLP
One South Dearborn Street
rhochman@sidley.com
Party name: Russell Bucklew
Counsel for Respondent
D. John Sauer
Supreme Court Building, 207 West High Street
john.sauer@ago.mo.gov
Party name: Anne Precythe, et al.
Should a court evaluating an as-applied challenge to a state's method of execution based on an inmate's rare and severe medical condition assume that medical personnel are competent to manage his condition and that the procedure will go as intended? Must evidence comparing a state's proposed method of execution with an alternative proposed by an inmate be offered via a single witness, or should a court at summary judgment look to the record as a whole to determine whether a factfinder could conclude that the two methods significantly differ in the risks they pose to the inmate? Does the Eighth Amendment require an inmate to prove an adequate alternative method of execution when raising an as-applied challenge to the state's proposed method of execution based on his rare and severe medical condition?
Whether petitioner met his burden under Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), to prove what procedures would be used to administer his proposed alternative method of execution, the severity and duration of pain likely to be produced, and how they compare to the state's method of execution.
Contact the Supreme Court Press at (888) 557-2152 to Schedule Service
Note: Ths data is unofficial.Check Supreme Court docket for official dates and addresses.
Vernon Madison v. Alabama
Certiorari Granted on February 26, 2018
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due May 22, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due July 31, 2018.
Bryan A. Stevenson
Party name: Vernon Madison
James Roy Houts
Office of the Alabama Attorney General
jhouts@ago.state.al.us
Party name: State of Alabama
1. Consistent with the Eighth Amendment, and this Court's decisions in Ford and Panetti, LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: CC-1985-001385.80 CERT. GRANTED 2/26/2018 may the State execute a prisoner whose mental disability leaves him without memory of his commission of the capital offense? See Dunn v. Madison, 138 S. Ct. 9, 12 (Nov. 6, 2017) Ginsburg, J., with Breyer, J., and Sotomayor, J., concurring).
2. Do evolving standards of decency and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment bar the execution of a prisoner whose competency has been compromised by vascular dementia and multiple strokes causing severe cognitive dysfunction and a degenerative medical condition which prevents him from remembering the crime for which he was convicted or understanding the circumstances of his scheduled execution?
Herman Avery Gundy v. United States
Certiorari Granted on March 5, 2018
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due August 2, 2018.
Sarah Baumgartel
Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.
52 Duane Street
sarah_baumgartel@fd.org
Party name: Herman Gundy
Noel J. Francisco
United States Department of Justice
SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
Party name: United States
(1) Whether convicted sex offenders are "required to register" under the federal Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act ("SORNA") while in custody, regardless of how long they have until release.
(2) Whether all offenders convicted of a qualifying sex offense prior to SORNA's enactment are "required to register" under SORNA no later than August 1, 2008.
(3) Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), which requires interstate travel, where his only movement between states occurs while he is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and serving a prison sentence.
(4) Whether SORNA's delegation of authority to the Attorney General to issue regulations under 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d) violates the nondelegation doctrine.
Denard Stokeling v. United States
Certiorari Granted on April 2, 2018
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due within 45 days of grant of certiorari, which would be April 23, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due within 30 days of the filing of the Petitioner's Merits Brief, which would be May 23, 2018 if the Petitioner files on its deadline.
Brenda G. Bryn
1 East Broward Boulevard, Suite 1100
Party name: Denard Stokeling
Counsel for Respondents
Question Presented
Whether a criminal alien becomes exempt from mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. 1226(c) if, after the alien is released from criminal custody, the Department of Homeland Security does not take him into immigration custody immediately.
Lamps Plus Inc. v. Varela
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due within 45 days of grant of certiorari, which would be June 14, 2018
Andrew J. Pincus
apincus@mayerbrown.com
Party name: Lamps Plus, Inc., et al.
Michele M. Vercoski
McCune Wright Arevalo
3281 E. Guasti Road, Suite 100
mmv@mccunewright.com
Party name: Frank Varela
In Stolt-Nielsen, S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. this Court held that a court couldmnot order arbitration to proceed using class procedures unless there was a "contractual basis" for concluding that the parties have "agreed to" class arbitration. 559 U.S. 662, 684 (2010) (emphasis in original). This Court explained that courts may not "presume" such consent from "mere silence on the issue of class arbitration" or "from the fact of the parties' agreement to arbitrate." Id. at 685, 687. The arbitration clause at issue here did not mention class arbitration. A divided Ninth Circuit panel majority (Reinhardt & Wardlaw, JJ.) nonetheless inferred mutual assent to class arbitration from such standard language as the parties' agreement that "arbitration shall be in lieu of any and all lawsuits or other civil legal proceedings" and a description of the substantive claims subject to arbitration. App., infra, 3a-4a. The question presented is: Whether the Federal Arbitration Act forecloses a state-law interpretation of an arbitration agreement that would authorize class arbitration based solely on general language commonly used in arbitration agreements.
Theodore H. Frank et al. v. Paloma Gaos
Andrew Michael Grossman
Baker & Hostetler LLP
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
agrossman@bakerlaw.com
Party name: Theodore H. Frank et al.
Donald Manwell Falk
Two Palo Alto Square, Suite 300
dfalk@mayerbrown.com
Party name: Google LLC
Kassra Powell Nassiri
Nassiri & Jung LLP
47 Kearny Street, Suite 700
kass@njfirm.com
Party name: Paloma Gaos, et al.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) permits representatives to maintain a class action where so doing "is superior to other available methods for fairly and efficiently adjudicating the controversy," and Rule 23(e)(2) requires that a settlement that binds class members must be "fair, reasonable, and adequate." In this case, the Ninth Circuit upheld approval of an $8.5 million settlement that disposed of absent class members' claims while providing them zero monetary relief. Breaking with decisions of the Third Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, and Eighth Circuit that require compensating class members before putting class action proceeds to other uses, the Ninth Circuit held that the settlement's award of all net proceeds to third-party organizations selected by the defendant and class counsel was a fair and adequate remedy under the trust-law doctrine of cy pres. The question presented is: Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award of class action proceeds that provides no direct relief to class members supports class certification and comports with the requirement that a settlement binding class members must be "fair, reasonable, and adequate."
United States v. Jason Daniels Sims
SET FOR ARGUMENT on October 2, 2017.
This case has been joined to No.17-765
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due within 45 days of grant of certiorari, which would be June 7, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due within 30 days of the filing of the Petitioner's Merits Brief, which would be July 7, 2018 if the Petitioner files on its deadline.
Chris Tarver
Federal Defender Office
1401 W. Capitol, Suite 490
chris_tarver@fd.org
Party name: Jason Sims
Whether burglary of a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is adapted or used for overnight accommodation can qualify as "burglary" under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. 924(e)(2)(B)(ii).
United States v. Victor J. Stitt, II
Timothy Carl Ivey
Federal Public Defender, N.D. of Ohio
1660 West Second Street, Suite 750
timothy_ivey@fd.org
Party name: Victor Stitt, II
Rose Mary Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania, et al.
J. David Breemer
Pacific Legal Foundation 930 G Street
Party name: Rose Mary Knick
Counsel for for Respondent
Teresa Ficken Sachs
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin
tfsachs@mdwcg.com
Party name: Township of Scott, Pennsylvania
Whether the Court should reconsider the portion of Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-96 (1985), requiring property owners to exhaust state court remedies to ripen federal takings claims, as suggested by Justices of this Court? See Arrigoni Enterprises, LLC V. Town of Durham, 136 S. Ct. 1409 (2016) (Thomas, J., joined by Kennedy, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari); San Remo Hotel, L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco, 545 U.S. 323, 348 (2005) (Rehnquist, C.J., joined by O'Connor, Kennedy, and Thomas, JJ., concurring in judgment).
Alternately, whether Williamson County's ripeness doctrine bars review of takings claims asserting that a law causes an unconstitutional taking on its face as the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth and now Third Circuits hold, or whether facial claims are exempt from Williamson County, as the First, Fourth, and Seventh Circuits hold?
Mount Lemmon Fire District v. John Guido, et al.
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due May 7, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due July 5, 2018.
E. Joshua Rosenkranz
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
jrosenkranz@orrick.com
Party name: Mount Lemmon Fire District
Don T. Awerkamp
Awerkamp & Bonilla, PLC
6891 N. Oracle Road, Suite 155
da@abdilaw.com
Party name: John Guido, et al.
Under the ADEA, does the same twenty-employee minimum that applies to private employers also apply to political subdivisions of a State, as the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits have held, or does the ADEA apply instead to all State political subdivisions of any size, as the Ninth Circuit held in this case?
New Prime Inc. v. Dominic Oliveira
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due within 45 days of grant of certiorari, which would be May 14, 2018
Theodore J. Boutrous
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
tboutrous@gibsondunn.com
Party name: New Prime Inc.
Jennifer D. Bennett
Public Justice
jbennett@publicjustice.net
Party name: Dominic Oliveira
1. Whether a dispute over applicability of the FAA's Section 1 exemption is an arbitrability issue that must be resolved in arbitration pursuant to a valid delegation clause.
2. Whether the FAA's Section 1 exemption, which applies on its face only to "contracts of employment," is inapplicable to independent contractor agreements.
Markle Interests, L.L.C., et al., Petitioners v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.
Certiorari Granted on January 22, 2018
This case is joined to No. 17-71
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due by April 23, 2018
Mark Miller
mm@pacificlegal.org
Party name: Markle Interests, LLC, et al.
Timothy S. Bishop
Mayer Brown, LLP
tbishop@mayerbrown.com
Party name: Weyerhaeuser Company
John Thorvald Buse
jbuse@biologicaldiversity.org
Party name: Intervenor-respondents Center for Biological Diversity and Gulf Restoration Network
Party name: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.
Question One
2. Whether an agency decision not to exclude an area from critical habitat because of the economic impact of designation is subject to judicial review.
Question Two
Weyerhaeuser Company, Petitioner v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due April 23, 2018.
1. Whether the Endangered Species Act prohibits designation of private land as unoccupied critical habitat that is neither habitat nor essential to species conservation.
Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Mony Preap, et al.
Certiorari Granted on March 19, 2018
Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner or Neither Party are due by June 1, 2018.
Amicus Briefs in support of Respondents are due by August 6, 2018.
Party name: Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.
Michael King Thomas Tan
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
125 Broad St., 18th Floor
mtan@aclu.org
Party name: Mony Preap, et al.
Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" categorically a "violent felony" under the only remaining definition of that term in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)(an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another"), if the offense has been specifically interpreted by state appellate courts to require only slight force to overcome resistance?


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Q: AxisError: axis 1 is out of bounds for array of dimension 1 when calculating accuracy of classes I try to predict 10 classes using this code
#Predicting the Test set rules
y_pred = model.predict(traindata)
y_pred = np.argmax(y_pred, axis=1)
y_true = np.argmax(testdata, axis=1)

target_names = ["akLembut","akMundur","akTajam","caMenaik", "caMenurun", "coretanTengah", "garisAtas", "garisBawah", "garisBawahBanyak", "ttdCangkang"]
print("\n"+ classification_report(y_true, y_pred, target_names=target_names))

But then I got an error message like this
AxisError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-a2b02b251547> in <module>()
      2 y_pred = model.predict(traindata)
      3 y_pred = np.argmax(y_pred, axis=1)
----> 4 y_true = np.argmax(testdata, axis=1)
      5
      6 target_names = ["akLembut","akMundur","akTajam","caMenaik", "caMenurun", "coretanTengah", "garisAtas", "garisBawah", "garisBawahBanyak", "ttdCangkang"]

<__array_function__ internals> in argmax(*args, **kwargs)

2 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py in _wrapit(obj, method, *args, **kwds)
     45     except AttributeError:
     46         wrap = None
---> 47     result = getattr(asarray(obj), method)(*args, **kwds)
     48     if wrap:
     49         if not isinstance(result, mu.ndarray):

AxisError: axis 1 is out of bounds for array of dimension 1

I already train the data and I need to know each accuracy.

A: My guess is that your test_data array is only one-dimensional, so change to
y_true = np.argmax(testdata, axis=0)

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Q: Not able to load CSV file in weka I am not being able to load csv file using weka, I have removed each and every special symbol even using text editor, still no luck. I am attaching the file, I will be obliged if solve this problem.
It shows "Wrong number of values, Read 31, expected 27, read token[EOL], line 3"
link : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By7zyIPDD6HJMmthWnZLSUk5aFE

A: You have planty of empty fields in your file and if you download it as .csv even the header gets three commas at its end.
e.g. your 6th line:

,Doug Walker,,,131,,Rob Walker,131,,Documentary,Doug Walker,Star Wars: Episode VII    The Force Awakens             ,8,143,,0,,,,,,,,,12,7.1,,0,,,

Simmilar to the suggestion in this post you could try s.th. like notepad++ or another text editor to replace ",," by ",?," to fill up your gaps.
Convert NA values to ? automatically while loading
I did this and then you get in your first row two question marks as column names wich obviously doesnt work, so change the first row to look like this:

color,director_name,num_critic_for_reviews,duration,director_facebook_likes,actor_3_facebook_likes,actor_2_name,actor_1_facebook_likes,gross,genres,actor_1_name,movie_title,num_voted_users,cast_total_facebook_likes,actor_3_name,facenumber_in_poster,plot_keywords,?,num_user_for_reviews,language,country,content_rating,budget,title_year,actor_2_facebook_likes,imdb_score,aspect_ratio,movie_facebook_likes,additionalColName1,additionalColName2,additionalColName3

if you try now to import your data weka starts telling you which lines it doesn't like and why. Btw. you did not "removed each and every special symbol"!
After removing a fiew lines with e.g. the Ç character it worked.
Thats just an ugly workaround, try filling the empty values and find a regular expression or a better way to save your file to remove the last three commas of every line, i was just too lazy for now. But i could load it into weka and that's what you wanted (:


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Q: ng-file-upload accessing fields in php I'm using the ng-file-upload to upload mysql via php.
The coding works but I am having trouble accessing the custom fields. Does anyone know how this is accessed in php? See me code here I am adding the field description: success which I want to recover in the PHP coding. The way accessing now using $_FILES['file']['description']; is coming up as NULL. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
JS
 $scope.upload = function (files) {
          console.log(files);
            if (files && files.length) {

            for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                var file = files[i];
                Upload.upload({
                    url: 'data/docmgmt/insert-docmgmt.php',
                    fields: {
                        'description': 'success'
                    },
                    file: file
                }).progress(function (evt) {
                    var progressPercentage = parseInt(100.0 * evt.loaded / evt.total);
                    $scope.log = 'progress: ' + progressPercentage + '% ' +
                                evt.config.file.name + '\n' + $scope.log;
                }).success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
                    $scope.log = 'file ' + config.file.name + 'uploaded. Response: ' + JSON.stringify(data) + '\n' + $scope.log;
                    //$scope.$apply();
                });
            }
        }
    };

PHP
<?php
include('../config.php');

$doc_id = 0;
$fk_company_id = 0;
$name = "Test";
$description = $_FILES['file']['description'];
$filename = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$content = fopen($filename,'r');
fclose($filename);

session_start();

if(isset($_SESSION['uid'])) {

    if ($_SESSION['username'] =="admin") //check Admin
    {
            $dbname = $_SESSION['dbname'];
            try {
                $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=$dbname", $db->id, $db->pass); //connect to db
                $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);    //error modes

                    //insert user details
                    $stmt = $conn->prepare('INSERT INTO docmgmt(doc_id, fk_company_id, name, content, description) VALUES(:doc_id,:fk_company_id, :name, :content,:description)');
                    $stmt->bindParam(':doc_id', $doc_id, PDO::PARAM_INT);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':fk_company_id', $fk_company_id, PDO::PARAM_INT);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':name', $name, PDO::PARAM_STR);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':content', $content, PDO::PARAM_LOB);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':description', $description, PDO::PARAM_STR);
                    //$stmt->bindParam(':fk_created_by', $_SESSION['username'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
                    $stmt->execute();
                    $return->isSuccess=1;
                    $return->user_id= $user_id;

            }// end try
            catch(PDOException $e) {
                $return->error = $e->getMessage();
            }//end catch
    }//end isset
}//end isset
print json_encode($return);

?>

A: Stupid me. Read the readme It sends it a s formdata. Hence to access description:
$description = $_POST['description']