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Don't think twice, it's all right to watch some Vince Condella "mini-concerts"
Welcome to December: Here's what you're doing this month
Lowlands Group announces exclusive "hyper-local" beers for Lowlands Locals series
Listen to Ryan Mason and J Tyler Menz's 'My Brew Dads' comedy album
The Underground Collaborative has closed
Oh great, there's going to be another Jeffrey Dahmer movie
My layover at Mitchell Gallery of Flight, that museum in the airport
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It's been exactly a year since Giannis smoked James Harden in the head with a pass
Let's talk about Summerfest, and the Brewers saving the July 3 fireworks
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Semisonic treats Summerfest to greatest hits and brand new material in first Milwaukee show in 18 years
Rick Katschke
When the official Summerfest lineup was unveiled in spring, one of the biggest surprises was that Semisonic would be returning to the Big Gig after an absence of nearly two decades. The 2001 edition of Summerfest had been the last time the trio had played in Wisconsin, coming at the tail end of when they were touring in support of their third album, All About Chemistry.
On Saturday night, the U.S. Cellular Connection Stage hosted what was dubbed during the show as the "trio plus," consisting of the lineup of Dan Wilson, John Munson, and Jake Slichter, with additional assistance from Andy Thompson on keyboards and guitar, and Ken Chastain on percussion, keyboards, vocals and effects. After only playing a limited number of shows since 2001—with almost all of them taking place in the band's home state of Minnesota—Munson acknowledged the long absence. "We're happy to be back here in Milwaukee. It has been a while and we have missed you!"
The majority of the show consisted of songs from their first two albums. Since an expanded version of their platinum-selling Feeling Strangely Fine was released last year, it was plausible to assume that the show would center around cuts from that album. Instead, right from the start with "F.N.T." and "Across the Great Divide," the album that was most represented on Saturday night was their debut effort, Great Divide.
The first major surprise of the evening was when the band played "Ordinary Life," a song that didn't make the U.S. cut of All About Chemistry, but was included along with "Girlfriend" on the version of the album that came out in the UK and Japan. A few songs later, Semisonic presented a brand new song called "You're Not Alone." After consulting with the rest of the band, Wilson announced that this was the first time the band was performing the song live. "Alright, you're the first, you're the guinea pigs…or maybe we are." The song featured a riff reminiscent of "In The Veins" from their early Pleasure EP along with the chorus "You've always known, there's someone out there watching you as you go, just a feeling, you're not alone."
Semisonic also performed two covers that have been in their repertoire since the late '90s. Their joyous rendition of Prince & The Revolution's "Take Me With U" from the Purple Rain soundtrack got everyone dancing. Afterwards, Wilson paid tribute to Prince and shared his appreciation for the crowd's enthusiasm. "Thank you guys for giving us a happy night with you tonight. Whenever we do that song, we have of course some sadness, but that fucking guy was so great and so inspiring. It's nice to be able to enjoy that with you guys." The second cover was "I Got You" by Spit Enz, another staple from when the band toured behind Feeling Strangely Fine.
Later, Semisonic played another recent song called "Basement Tapes" which made its premiere a couple years ago when the band played a 20th anniversary show for Great Divide at First Avenue in Minneapolis. For this song, Thompson and Chastain briefly left the stage, ceding the space to Wilson, Munson, and Slichter. This was appropriate, as the song reflects on the early days of the band.
Thompson and Chastain would return for "Closing Time," in which Wilson encouraged the crowd to sing along. It was the second singalong of the night. Earlier, the crowd had participated in the "woohoo, woohoo, yeah yeah yeah" portion of "Delicious." However, with "Closing Time," every lyric of the hit song was sung by the crowd. The famous Clearmountain Pause at the end lasted for 20 seconds before the band dropped the final "I know who I want to take me home"s of the song. After a brief instrumental reprise, the band left the stage with many assuming that the show might be over.
However, after reemerging and joking that they had played so long that they didn't have many songs left to play, Semisonic finished the 90-minute show with "Singing In My Sleep." The band has been in the news recently as one of the performers that had master recordings destroyed in the Universal Studios fire that also engulfed the King Kong ride. During the encore of "Singing in my Sleep," Wilson alluded to this by changing the lyrics from "my soul to keep" to "my masters to keep".
On a cool, windy night with the end of the festival looming on the horizon, Semisonic offered both a greatest hits show and a preview of what might be coming. Assuming that another album might be in the works, hopefully that means another tour down the line. With any luck, it won't be another 18 years before the band returns to Milwaukee. Until then, Semisonic left their fans at Summerfest completely pleased.
F.N.T.
Across The Great Divide
This Will Be My Year
Completely Pleased
Secret Smile
In Another Life
Take Me With U (Prince & The Revolution cover)
I Got You (Split Enz cover)
If I Run
Singing in My Sleep
For those keeping score at home, that's six songs from Great Divide, five from Feeling Strangely Fine, two from All About Chemistry, two new songs, and two covers.
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Rick Katschke is the editor of VERDICT UNKNOWN, a nine-minute compilation of teasers for The People's Court. He once made David Letterman laugh.


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Q: extracting RGB from GIF image I need to extract  RGB byte values of each pixel of a small GIF stored on a PC (16x16 pixels) as I need to send them to a LED display that accepts RGB 6 byte color code.
After opening the test file and converting it to a 1D byte array I get some byte values, but I am not sure if that decodes the GIF frame and as a result will return my desired pure 192 byte RGB array?
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    {
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
        imageIn.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
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    }

Or maybe there is another method for doing that?

A: Use this method to get a 2d array containing the pixels:
//using System.Drawing;
Color[,] getPixels(Image image)
{
    Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap)image;
    Color[,] pixels = new Color[bmp.Width, bmp.Height];

    for (int x = 0; x < bmp.Width; x++)
        for (int y = 0; y < bmp.Height; y++)
            pixels[x, y] = bmp.GetPixel(x, y);

    return pixels;
}

Using the data returned by this method, you can get each pixel's R, G, B, and A (each are a single byte) and do whatever you want with them.
If you want the end result to be a byte[] containing values like this: { R0, G0, B0, R1, G1, B1, ... }, and the pixels need to be written to the byte[] in row-major order, then you do this:
byte[] getImageBytes(Image image)
{
    Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap)image;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[(bmp.Width * bmp.Height) * 3]; // 3 for R+G+B

    for (int x = 0; x < bmp.Width; x++)
    {
        for (int y = 0; y < bmp.Height; y++)
        {
            Color pixel = bmp.GetPixel(x, y);
            bytes[x + y * bmp.Width + 0] = pixel.R;
            bytes[x + y * bmp.Width + 1] = pixel.G;
            bytes[x + y * bmp.Width + 2] = pixel.B;
        }
    }

    return bytes;
}

You can then send the result of getImageBytes to your LED (assuming that that's how you're supposed to send images to it).

A: Your way will not decode it to raw RGB byte data. It will most likely output the same data that you loaded in the beginning (GIF encoded).
You will need extract the data pixel by pixel:
public byte[] imageToByteArray(Image imageIn)
{
    Bitmap lbBMP = new Bitmap(imageIn);
    List<byte> lbBytes = new List<byte>();

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        {
            Color lcCol = lbBMP.GetPixel(liX, liY);
            lbBytes.AddRange(new[] { lcCol.R, lcCol.G, lcCol.B });
        }

    return lbBytes.ToArray();
}

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The HigherEdPoints corporate tag line it takes a village to raise a mindTM was chosen long before the business concept became a reality on November 1, 2013, the day we launched www.HigherEdPoints.com. If we think about our own educational paths, from kindergarten and elementary school, through high school and into higher education, at every stage, there are dozens of teachers, administrators, peers and relatives who formed (or are forming) our own unique "village". If we're lucky, we can each think of at least one pivotal moment where a teacher, coach, peer, professor, made all the difference in our lives—and helped us set the course for our future.
Similarly, it took a supportive and enthusiastic "village" to launch this business. This inaugural "Higher Ed Points Heroes" is a salute to all of our original supporters and cheerleaders—from the time when this business was just an idea. We're one year old now—and that initial village has grown to include new members. We're so grateful to have such supportive and forward-thinking individuals cheering us on each and every day.
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Q: Spark - nondeterministic expressions not allowed using Delete FROM and exists The goal of this query is to delete the records that have the same keys of the new dataframe.
This is the query that I'm executing:
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As far as I know exists is deterministic. Is there another way to achieve the same result with another query?
The query is running on a Databricks cluster with Spark 3.2.1


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[2017-04-24] NH Today – Tech Talk
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Joined Jack on NH Today as we look back in time when internet started way back in the 70s, especially Macintosh. There are so much to reminisce and appreciate as we consider what we are enjoying now with technology.
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Jack Heath: Craig Peterson from our Tech Talk side of things joins us in the Auto Fair listener lines. Craig, good morning. How are you sir?
Craig Peterson: Hey good morning. Doing well. I'm back out west and I'm out in Phoenix yet again for another conference.
Jack: Well not a protest but a conference.
Craig: A conference. Exactly. It hit a hundred degrees here yesterday. So it's a little bit of a shock to the system.
Jack: Someone might be talking about that. It might be like an environmental thing. I know. I'm kidding. It is probably a little warmer out there. But anyway, Craig, interesting because I was listening to America's First News coming in and some of these old video games. And even like old Apple computers going back to the 1970s like an Apple II are fetching a pretty penny now in the collector circuit.
Craig: Yeah, they are. In fact one of the original Apple Is just brought in a pretty penny. And what's interesting too is there's a website out there that has been grabbing archives of the internet for decades. And it's kind of fun for me to go back and look at my websites, you know, of Mainstream which is my company, way way back. But they have also grabbed all of the Macintosh programs from the 1980s and as well as those Apple II ones you've mentioned, and they're making them available online which is really kind of cool. So if you used to play some of those old games on your computer or have some other pieces of software out there, the internet archives got a collection of these things that you can go online and play with. I've got a link to it right there on my website. And it includes an emulator Jack. So you don't have to have an old Mac or and old Apple II, it's all built in. And our computers are so fast and cool, it will run in your web browser. It's really kind of cool to play with.
Jack: Hey Craig, get an ending you want. Of course his show Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. Craig Peterson with an O-N.com. I want to stay clear of all of the politics or the sexual harassment stuff and the merits of anything or not in the cases. But obviously, Fox felt that there was enough there to force O'Reilly out. No more O'Reilly Factors. He's on his own. He has a podcast tonight was announced on his website for those people who subscribe to his website. It's going to be his first kind of live thing, or it's not going to be live but his first. But do you know one thing people do not know, Craig? Anyone who watched the O'Reilly Factor? The show is not live. He taped it early afternoon or early evening before every show. It's all taped. But that's neither here nor there. My point was he's going to do a podcast tonight in his website. Forgetting all the controversy and the case around Bill O'Reilly and I mean that unless you want to comment. Your opinion is yours. Do you think that things are changing? The point where he can, because we've seen Glenn Beck and others try this, do you think he can push his own podcast as you have enough of a following where he doesn't need the network in your mind or do you think he's going to still wind up in a traditional media platform with the new media?
Craig: Well he could definitely end up in a news platform in another station. But podcasting works. And kind of depends on how you're going to monetize it. But you have guys out there that talk about politics. Alex Jones, right? He's out there. He has a podcast that's very popular. And he's monetizing it by selling vitamins and other types of supplements and things. So O'Reilly's definitely going to have a very strong podcast following. There are millions, more than half of Americans who listened to a podcast recently. That's amazing statistics. And if you have enough listeners, advertisers will pay to be on your podcast. It's yet another way of very narrow targeting and I think Bill O'Reilly might well be on to make some good money off of that.
Jack: Of course with this severance in court, I don't know how much he has to pay out for his lawsuits. He probably has a little time here to have it ramped up. Alright. Craig have a good Monday. Enjoy the balmy temperatures out what did you say, Arizona?
Craig: Yeah, in Phoenix.
Jack. Alright. Thank you very much.

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Plovers among migration champions of vast and varied shorebird clan
Photo by Janice Humble • A killdeer wanders in a grassy area near the Wal-Mart on Volunteer Parkway in Bristol. The killdeer, a species of plover, is one of the more common shorebirds found in the region.
I'm always glad to lend a hand at identifying birds. If you're uncertain of a bird's identification and have a photo of the bird in question, assistance is an email away. Janice Humble emailed me seeking some help with identifying the bird in a photograph attached with her message. She noted that the bird was accompanied by a companion in the grassy area near the Wal-Mart on Volunteer Parkway in Bristol. She also noted that the two birds uttered loud "peeps" during her observation.
The bird turned out to be a killdeer, a species of plover native to North America. Plovers belong to the family of shorebirds that include various sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers, stilts, avocets and other species. The killdeer is a rather common shorebird that finds itself at home far from the seashore, often present in habitats such as pastures and golf courses, as well as the grassy areas near the concrete and asphalt jungles that surround Wal-Marts and other such shopping complexes.
The killdeer's famous for its faking of an injured wing. When its nest or young is threatened, a killdeer will go into an elaborate display, fluttering the "injured" wing and uttering shrill peeps to distract the potential predator. If successful, the bird will lure the predator away from the nest or vulnerable young. Once at a safe distance, the killdeer undergoes a miraculous recovery and takes wing, leaving behind a bewildered and perhaps chagrined predator.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • A Killdeer explores near a stream bank.
Other North American plovers related to the killdeer include American golden-plover, black-bellied plover, Pacific golden plover, Wilson's plover, piping plover, snowy plover, mountain plover and semipalmated plover. About 70 different species of plovers exist around the world, including such descriptively named birds as little ringed plover, red-capped plover, three-banded plover and white-fronted plover.
Musick's Campground on Holston Lake has been one of the best area locations for seeking shorebirds during their migrations. The shore near the campground has been a magnet for persuading unusual shorebirds to pause their journey to rest, refresh and refuel. The location's privately owned, but individual wishing to bird the shoreline can enter by signing the guest book located a small but well-marked kiosk. Some of the most memorable shorebirds I've seen at Musick's Campground over the years include whimbrel, dunlin, sanderling, greater yellowlegs, short-billed dowitcher, American avocet, black-bellied plover and semipalmated plover. In recent weeks, the location has hosted such unexpected shorebirds as red knot and red-necked phalarope.
While the neighboring states of Virginia and North Carolina offer coastal birding opportunities, my native Tennessee remains quite landlocked. This fact poses a challenge for birders looking to capitalize on the seasonal migrations of shorebirds. Fortunately ponds, mudflats on the shorelines of lakes, riverbanks and even flooded fields offer adequate substitute habitat for many shorebirds. While the Mountain Empire region may lack a seashore, migrating shorebirds have learned to make do.
Photo by Jean Potter • The American golden-plover, like this individual, is a long-distance migrant among the varied family of shorebirds.
This varied and far-flung family is also known as "wind birds," a term which is an allusion to the capacity of many species of shorebirds to undertake nothing less than epic migrations. Many of the shorebirds that pass through in the spring are in haste to reach their nesting grounds as far north as the edge of the Arctic tundra. In fall, many of the same birds are eager to return to destinations in Central and South America ahead of cold weather and times of scarcity.
The plovers — the sedentary killdeer excepted — are among the champions of long-distance migration. According to the Audubon website, the black-bellied plover spends the brief summer season nesting in the world's high Arctic zones but disperses to spend the winter months on the coasts of six of the globe's seven continents.
The Pacific golden-plover's twice yearly migrations represent an even more impressive feat. This shorebird often nests in Alaska and winter in Hawaii. The website Phys.org notes that research on this plover has revealed that the bird is capable of flying almost 3,000 miles in a mere four days. The website also reveals that those plovers wintering in Hawaii cannot lay claim to longest migrations. Some Pacific golden-plovers nest even farther south in the Pacific, reaching the Marshall Islands.
Photo by Jean Potter • A black-bellied plover stands out from most relatives when it wears its nesting season breeding plumage.
Shorebirds represent only a single family of birds migrating through the region in the fall. Songbirds from warblers and thrushes to vireos and flycatchers, as well as raptors and waterfowl, wing their way through the region every fall. Get outdoors with a pair of binoculars and have a look. It's almost impossible not to see something, which may turn out to be a delightful and unanticipated surprise.
To learn more about birds and other topics from the natural world, friend Stevens on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ahoodedwarbler. To ask a question, make a comment or share a sighting, email him at ahoodedwarbler@aol.com.
This entry was posted in Abingdon, Birding, Birds, Carter County Compass, Common Birds of Northeast Tennessee, Elizabethton Star, Erwin Record, Fall migration, Friends of Roan Mountain, Killdeer, Plovers, Shorebirds, Uncategorized and tagged Autumn, Bird, birds, Birdwatching, Bristol Herald Courier, Elizabethton Star, Erwin Record, Johnson City Press, Jonesborough Herald and Tribune, Killdeer, Kingsport Times-News, McDowell News, nature, Plovers, Shorebirds on September 10, 2017 by Bryan Stevens.
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Senior spotlight: Plymouth's Streblow eyes deep run
Plymouth's star guard does a little bit of everything for the Panthers.
Senior spotlight: Plymouth's Streblow eyes deep run Plymouth's star guard does a little bit of everything for the Panthers. Check out this story on sheboyganpress.com: http://shebpr.es/2icT5F4
Andrew Hildebrand, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 9:37 p.m. CT Dec. 21, 2016
Gary C. Klein/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Plymouth's Gwen Streblow aims for the basket against Sheboygan South last week in Plymouth. Plymouth's Gwen Streblow (34) aims for the basket against Sheboygan South Nov. 15, 2016 in Plymouth.(Photo: Gary C. Klein/USA TODAY NETWORK-)
As schools prepare to break for the holidays, basketball teams in the area utilize the brief lull to take stock of their early season progress.
One local group that's likely happy with the work they've done in its early schedule is the Plymouth girls team, due in large part to standout senior Gwen Streblow.
She's averaging more than 16 points per game and has led the Panthers to a 7-2 overall record. It's a positive start, but Streblow said she's got much grander plans for her final season.
"I know every game could be my last," she said. "Injuries happen, so I need to play every game like it's my last. When each game is over, I know that's one less game left for me to play. I just want to get things done this year. I want to go further than we've ever gone. I definitely think we have the team to do it."
If she wants the Panthers to reach those kind of heights, she knows she'll have to set the tone, and that needs to happen on both sides of the court.
"I'm a key defensive player," she said. "My dad has pounded it in my head since a young age that defense wins games. I really have focused on my man-to-man defense since I started. I'm also a good slasher and driver, but I can hit the three too. I'm not a point guard, so I'm not beating people off the dribble, but I'd definitely say I'm a good first step player."
That talent didn't show up by accident though. Streblow puts in the time during the offseason.
"I play AAU and I've been playing that since sixth grade," she said. "I have that throughout the summer and we also have summer league at Sheboygan South High School, so we have those games, as well. There's the traditional AAU tournaments throughout the year."
Streblow's senior status has added another wrinkle of responsibility this year. She's now looked on as one of the team's top leaders, and she said she takes that very seriously.
"It's a super important role to me," she said. "There's girls up on varsity that this is all new to them. They need that encouragement and they need to feel like they have a role on the team. Everyone out there has a role, and it's very important to be encouraging, because it can be very intimidating on the court, in front of all the fans."
While the season is still in its early stages, Streblow's senior year will eventually come to an end, and she said when people talk about this group, she wants them to say they gave it everything they had.
"I want to be remembered as a team that played really hard and had intensity every game from the get-go," she said. "We played as a team and we were really good."
Streblow's focus remains on the task at hand. She's determined to carry Plymouth to new heights, but when the Panthers finally make their exit, with or without that gold ball, it could be the end for the star guard.
"I was thinking about playing basketball after high school, but I'm really not sure," she said. "I guess I'll just play it by ear and after the last game, I don't know what my feelings will be about playing after high school. Just wait and see."
Andrew Hildebrand: ahildebran@gannett.com or follow on Twitter at @ByAHildebrand
Sheboygan Lutheran's Jacob Ognacevic nears 2K point, 1K rebound club
Plymouth's Aiden Reilly, football player of the year, 'exceptional'
Sheboygan Lutheran welcomes tough competition as defending state champs
Kiel focused on 'family,' not championship loss
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There is no reason to play ignorant. The word is out. 'The World of Us' is officially a yuri title!
Anyway, everything is sorted now and I am back. Past few days have been twitter spent enjoying the forever entertaining world that is DC Films. Speaking of which, so begins the week in which we are, for the first time ever, going to see a Live Action Justice League.
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Scientific theories are rarely refuted by counter-example. On the contrary, anomalies give information about special situations, leaving the scientific basis of the theory stronger, because better informed. Radiometric dating, planetary motions, and variations in atomic weights provide examples.


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Obscenity and Ira Isaacs
Ira Isaacs on trial for distributing extreme porn
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3rd March
Offsite Article: Ira Isaacs Obscenity Case Goes to the Jury...
US jury to consider obscenity case involving bestiality and scat videos
See article from business.avn.com
Update: An Obscene Case of Harassment...
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Ira Isaacs dragged into court for the third time on the same charges
t was almost five years ago, on July 24, 2007, that the original government indictment against Ira Isaacs was filed in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. After two failed attempts to nail him for obscenity in the intervening years, the Justice Department is going for a third swing at the Ira Isaacs ball. On Monday, the parties will gather at 8:30 a.m. in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for jury selection.
The last attempt failed when the jury didn't agree on a verdict.
3rd May
Comment: Extreme Verdict...
Ira Isaacs found guilty at the third attempt
28th April 2012. See article from business.avn.com
A Los Angeles jury has just found Ira Isaacs guilty on all five counts in his obscenity trial.
The jury began deliberating the charges of producing, selling and shipping the four charged movies:
Mako's First Time Scat,
Hollywood Scat Amateurs 7 and 10,
Japanese Doggie 3 Way
Isaacs looked pensive as the jury filed into the courtroom, and was visibly shaken as the jury foreman read the guilty verdicts on the five counts, each of which could net him five years in (likely) a minimum security federal prison.
Isaacs' attorney Roger Jon Diamond told AVN that he felt his client had several grounds for appeal, but a final decision as to whether Isaacs will appeal the verdicts has not yet been reached.
Offsite Comment: If Porn Isn't Art, Does It Still Have a Right to Exist?
Ira Isaacs basic defence was that hi work was art.
3rd May 2012. See article from thedailybeast.com , thanks to Nick
Obviously Hollywood Scat Amateurs #10 was never intended to be art, and that's the real problem with the art argument: it covers up what's truly valuable about these films, which is that they allow us to critique of the notion of obscenity itself.
The California obscenity statute defines prurience as a morbid, degrading, unhealthy interest in sex. But this sells all sexual minorities down the river. Is it more degrading to see a representation of your desire, or be deemed perverted by the state? In 2012, should the state still be passing judgment on the consensual sex lives of others?
In the end, the jury pronounced Isaacs guilty on all counts and got home before rush hour. That's not surprising, given that they'd been instructed not to consider what a deviant subset might find normal, or even what they themselves might find normal, but instead to imagine the values of the community at large. Even in Central District of California---the home not only of the nation's porn industry, but also of bedroom communities from San Luis Obispo to Orange County---that leaves a lot of room for sexual missteps.
...Read the full article
Update: Mistrials and Misjudgments...
Porn maker Ira Isaacs sentenced to 4 years in jail
Full story: Obscenity and Ira Isaacs...Ira Isaacs on trial for distributing extreme porn
See article from xbiz.com
Fetish porn producer and distributor, Ira Isaacs, has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison and fined $11,000 at federal court in Los Angeles. After serving his sentence, Isaacs will be subject to three years of supervised release.
Isaacs attorney Roger Jon Diamond indicated that his client will appeal the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Isaacs was found guilty in April 2012 on five counts of violating federal obscenity laws over the distribution of Mako's First Time Scat, Hollywood Scat Amateurs #7, Hollywood Scat Amateurs #10 and Japanese Doggie 3 Way.
It was the third obscenity trial for the distributor and producer, who all along contended that the works he had been charged with have artistic value and can't be deemed obscene. The first two ended with mistrials.
Update: Appealing
29th January 2013. See article from xbiz.com
The attorney representing Ira Isaacs has filed an appeal on behalf of the fetish filmmaker and distributor with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Attorney Roger Jon Diamond filed court papers with the 9th Circuit claiming that Isaacs is entitled to an appeal to have his convictions and sentencing tossed because the jury in his case was improperly instructed, his own testimony was restricted and thus a violation of due process, and because he faced double jeopardy after two earlier trials on the same offenses ended with mistrials.
Update: Obscenely expensive prosecution...
Ira Isaacs' appeal against a US obscenity conviction is rejected
See article from hollywood.patch.com
A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of the fetish filmmaker Ira Isaacs who was sentenced to four years in prison for producing obscene material and mailing it across state lines.
A Los Angeles jury convicted Ira Isaacs in April 2012 of five counts connected to the production, sales and shipping of the films Mako's First Time Scat , two volumes of Hollywood Scat Amateurs and Japanese Doggie 3 Way . Two earlier trials were declared mistrials.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena rejected Isaacs' arguments that the lower court made errors in regard to jury instructions and abused its discretion by excluding the defendant's proposed expert testimony.
Defense attorney Roger Jon Diamond said he would discuss with Isaacs whether to file a petition for rehearing before the full 11-judge appeals panel. Diamond said:
This case is a relic from the George W. Bush days. It's been a big waste of money and resources.
The case against Isaacs was originally brought in 2007 by Department of Justice prosecutors with the now-defunct Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. Isaacs was charged under an updated indictment in 2011. Isaacs has spent no time behind bars since the convictions.


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The Global Economic Effects of Pandemic Outbreak, COVID-19 in Malawi
14 Pages Posted: 20 Sep 2020 Last revised: 12 Dec 2020
See all articles by Lloyd George Banda
Lloyd George Banda
University of Malawi
Blessings Kamanga
High Court of Malawi
Date Written: September 18, 2020
On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 that started in December 2019 a global pandemic. Since then COVID-19 has claimed 928,890 deaths as of 15 September, 2020. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has swiftly evolved and spread across all the countries in the world. The spread of the new coronavirus is a public health crisis that has posed a serious risk to the macroeconomy through the halt in production activities, interruptions of people's movements and cut-off supply chains. On 2 April, 2020, the then president of the republic of Malawi, Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika confirmed the first 3 cases of COVID-19 in the country. There are now 5,701 cases, 3,762 recoveries and 178 Deaths as of 15th September 2020.
Keywords: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ebola, Influenza, GDP, Supply & Demand Shocks, Hunger
Banda, Lloyd George and Kamanga, Blessings, The Global Economic Effects of Pandemic Outbreak, COVID-19 in Malawi (September 18, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3694911 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3694911
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O tajique ou tadjique (no alfabeto cirílico: ; no alfabeto árabe: تاجیکی; no alfabeto latino: tojikí; AFI: ) é uma variedade moderna do persa falada na Ásia Central, principalmente no Tajiquistão, país onde é língua oficial. O tajique, idioma indo-europeu da família linguística iraniana, também tem grande número de falantes no Afeganistão, no Uzbequistão, no Cazaquistão e na Quirguízia.

O tajique é considerado uma variante do persa falado no Afeganistão e no Irã, como resultado das fronteiras políticas, do isolamento geográfico, dos processos de padronização e da influência de idiomas como o russo e as línguas turcomanas dos países vizinhos. O idioma padrão é baseado nos dialetos do noroeste do Tajiquistão, na região da antiga cidade de Samarcanda, que foram consideravelmente influenciados pelo uzbeque, idioma vizinho. O tajique mantém diversos elementos arcaicos em seu vocabulário, pronúncia e gramática, que se perderam no resto do mundo persófono, em parte devido ao seu relativo isolamento nas montanhas da Ásia Central.

Distribuição geográfica
As mais importantes cidades onde era falado o tajique/persa na Ásia Central, Samarcanda e Bucara, localizam-se no atual Uzbequistão, país em que os tajiques formam a maior parte da população das cidades mais antigas, como estas, e da província de Surxondaryo, no sul, ao longo da fronteira com o Tajiquistão. As estatísticas oficiais estatais uzbeques declaram que a comunidade tajique forma 5% do total da população do país. Estes números, no entanto, não incluem indivíduos de origem (étnica) tajique que, por diversos motivos, declaram-se como uzbeques. Durante a uzbequização ocorrida no período soviético, supervisionada por Sharof Rashidov, chefe do Partido Comunista do Uzbequistão, os tajiques tiveram de escolher entre permanecer no Uzbequistão e registrar-se como uzbeques em seus passaportes, ou trocar sua terra natal pelo Tajiquistão, país vizinho, montanhoso e com agricultura menos desenvolvida. Estatísticas independentes estimam que os tajiques possam formar até 45% da população do Uzbequistão.

Os tajiques também compõem aproximadamente mais de 80% da população do Tajiquistão, e esta língua persa é dominante em quase todas as regiões do país. Alguns tajiques são bilíngües, especialmente no Badaquistão, no sudeste do país, onde as línguas pamiri são as línguas maternas da maior parte dos residentes.

Os tajiques também são o grupo dominante no norte do Afeganistão, e formam grupos majoritários em bolsões isolados em outros pontos do país, particularmente em áreas urbanas como Cabul, Mazar, Kunduz, Ghazni e Herat; chegam a somar de 25 a 30% da população do país. No Afeganistão, os dialetos falados pelos tajiques são escritos com o alfabeto perso-árabe, e são conhecidos como dari, juntamente com os dialetos persas de outros grupos afegães como os hazaras e os aimaq. Cerca de 50% dos cidadãos afegãos são falantes nativos do dari.

Uma grande diáspora de falantes do tajique ocorreu devido à instabilidade geral que assola a região da Ásia Central nas últimas décadas, com um grande número de tajiques que se deslocou para países como o Cazaquistão e a Rússia.

Dialetos
Os dialetos do tajique podem ser classificados nos seguintes grupos:

 Dialetos do norte (Tajiquistão do norte, sul do Uzbequistão e do Quirguistão).
 Dialetos centrais (dialetos de Mastjoh, Aini, Hissor e de partes de Varzob).
 Dialetos do sul (dialetos de Qarotegin, Kulob e do Badaquistão)
 Dialetos do sudeste (dialetos de Panj e Darvoz).

Os dialetos utilizados pelos judeus bucarianos da Ásia Central são conhecidos como bukhori, e pertencem ao grupo dos dialetos do norte. Podem ser distinguidos pela inclusão de diversos termos hebraicos, principalmente no vocabulário religioso, e utilizam, historicamente, o alfabeto hebraico. Apesar destas diferenças, o bukhori é inteligível, oralmente, a todos os falantes do tajique, em especial aos que utilizam os dialetos do norte.

Fonologia

Vogais
A tabela abaixo ilustra as vogais no tajique padrão (literário). Os dialetos locais freqüentemente têm mais do que as seis mostradas a seguir.

 A vogal aberta posterior foi descrita tanto como um  (na realidade uma média-posterior),, como um  e

Consoantes

Acento tônico
O acento tônico geralmente cai na última sílaba. Diversas palavras, no entanto, fogem a esta regra; alguns exemplos são бале (bale, "sim") e зеро (zero, "porque"). O acento também não cai em enclíticos, nem nos marcadores do objeto direto.

Gramática

A ordem das palavras do tajique é Sujeito-Objeto-Verbo.

Substantivos
Os substantivos não recebem qualquer marcador de gênero gramatical, embora receba alterações de acordo com o número.

O gênero costuma ser distinguido por alguma mudança de palavra, como мурғ (murgh, "galinha") e хурус (khurus, "galo"). Os modificadores 'нар' (nar), indicando o gênero masculino, e 'мода' (moda), indicando feminino, podem ser prefixados ou sufixados ao substantivo, como em хари нар (xari nar, "asno") e хари мода (xari moda, "asna").

O tajique possui dois números, o singular e o plural. O plural é indicado através dos sufixos -ҳо ou -он, embora empréstimos de origem árabe possam utilizar-se de formas típicas daquele idioma. Não existe artigo definido, porém o indefinido existe nas formas do número um (1), 'як' (yak), ou '-е' (-e), o primeiro posicionado antes do substantivo, e o segundo na forma de um sufixo - embora o objeto direto seja marcado pelo sufixo '-ро' (-ro), como em Рустамро задам (Rustamro zadam, 'bati em Rustam').

Preposições

Bibliografia
 Korotow, M. (2004) Tadschikisch Wort für Wort. Kauderwelsch ISBN 3-89416-347-X
 Lazard, G. (1956) "Caractères distinctifs de la langue tadjik". Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris. 52. pp. 117–186
 Lazard, G. "Le Persan". Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Wiesbaden. 1989.
 Windfuhr, G. (1987) in Comrie, B. (ed.) "Persian". The World's Major Languages. pp. 523–546
 Perry, J. R. (2005) A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar (Boston : Brill) ISBN 90-04-14323-8
 Rastorgueva, V. (1963) A Short Sketch of Tajik Grammar (Netherlands : Mouton) ISBN 0-933070-28-4

Ligações externas

 Ethnologue
 BBC news em tajique

Línguas do Tajiquistão
Línguas do Afeganistão
Línguas do Cazaquistão
Línguas do Quirguistão
Línguas do Turcomenistão
Línguas do Uzbequistão

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Todd Rokita & Clay Higgins
Compare the voting records of Todd Rokita and Clay Higgins in 2017-18.
Todd Rokita
Represented Indiana's 4th Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
Clay Higgins
Represented Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Todd Rokita and Clay Higgins are from the same party and agreed on 94 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 1127 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 70 votes, including 8 major votes.
Dec. 21, 2017 — Making further supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, for disaster assistance for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and calendar year 2017 wildfires, and for other purposes
May 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017
Dec. 20, 2018 — Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act
April 27, 2018 — Duncan of Tennessee Part A Amendment No. 114
Sept. 7, 2017 — Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 31
July 26, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Amendment No. 56