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MIDNIGHT RAMBLINGS
A blog written in the dead of night and delivered to you in a brown paper bag. It's a cornucopia of tidbits, rants, and observations for the discerning eye. Good luck with all that. Now, for something completely different!
Archive for the Religion Category
NEW ZEALAND JOSEPH AND MARY BILLBOARD, TATTOO AND GRILLED CHEESE DISCOUNTS, BOOB FLASHING BACKFIRES, and TOOTHPICK STAGECOACH
Posted in Art, Entertainment, Humor, Life, News, Personal, Random, Religion, Uncategorized with tags Believe It or Not, billboard, boobs, cherelle, Christmas, controversial, dudfield, grilled, grilled cheese, Invercargill, kiwis, melt bar, naked, New Zealand, Ripley's, tattoed, tattoo, Terry, voodoo Monkey, women, Woodling on December 18, 2009 by mclassen
Joseph and Mary Christmas Billboard In New Zealand
OK. am I twisted? Because I find this really funny. A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny. The controversial billboard, erected by St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, shows a dejected-looking Joseph under bedcovers beside a sad Mary. Underneath the image, a caption reads: "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow." The dude just can' quite match up to the big guy. Church archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story and highlight the real significance of the festival. "What we're trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about," Cardy told local media. "Is it about a spiritual male God sending down sperm so a child would be born, or is it about the power of love in our midst as seen in Jesus?" The billboard has so far drawn the ire of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, which called it "inappropriate" and "disrespectful." It was also condemned as offensive by family values group Family First. You knew they were going to have something to say, didn't you? "The church can have its debate on the Virgin birth and its spiritual significance inside the church building, but to confront children and fhttp://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=999amilies with the concept as a street billboard is completely irresponsible and unnecessary," Family First director Bob McCoskrie told news website stuff.co.nz. Lighten up. I'd drive by it just for chuckle on my way…well, anywhere. Unfortunately the sign was defaced and covered with brown paint several hours after going up by an offended Kiwi. If you want to read more about this controversy here's the church's website: http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=999
Discount for Your Grilled Cheese Tattoo
Got a tattoo of a grilled cheese sandwich? If so this is your lucky day. An Ohio restaurant is offering lifetime discounts to people willing to make an indelible display of their love for grilled cheese sandwiches. Melt Bar & Grilled in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood specializes in spins on the grilled cheese and says anyone with a tattoo of the classic sandwich will get 25 percent off. I wonder if it comes with a pickle? The restaurant has hooked up for the promotion with a tattoo shop, which is offering its own discount on grilled cheese designs. See, even if you don't have one, it's still your lucky day. John Forgus of Voodoo Monkey Tattoo says he's been getting creative, giving one person a tattoo of Popeye holding a grilled cheese sandwich instead of a spinach can. OK, this is officially the strangest business promotion idea I've seen. Can I get some cheese and ink please?
Woman Flashing Boobs Struck by Distracted Driver
There's a certain irony in this story. There's also bare boobs, drunkeness and mayhem, all the ingredients of the perfect story. Cherelle May Dudfield was struck by a vehicle after she ran out into the road following a dare by friends. Always a smart move. The 18-year-old had been drinking with her mates when the incident happened, and had to be treated in hospital for cuts she suffered. I told, you alcohol. The teenager was also landed with a $240 fine for disorderly behaviour. "I stood on the centre line, flashed a couple of cars with my boobs, got back in and they [her friends] told me to do it again, so I did," said Dudfield. "And then I saw a car coming towards me, on the middle of the centre lane driving up towards me, so I decided to run. And then I got hit." See, boobs and mayhem. To demonstrate exactly how silly she had been, she later re-enacted her stunt for a TV station – but this time she was fully sober, and no one crashed. Yea, let's recreate this, only on video, to see if we can cause another accident. And Dudfield also gave a repeat performance to cows on her farm. Cows on her farm? Why is she flashing cows? Has she been running in the wrong social circles? Was one of her friends that dared her named Elsie? or Bossie? However, police officers did not see the funny side of her exposure, which happened in the small New Zealand town of Invercargill. "This was obviously an alcohol- involved offense," said Olaf Jensen, of Invercargill Police. "This girl put herself at risk with the actions she undertook, not only herself, but the motorists on the road." Leave it to these investigative geniuses to get right to the heart of the matter. Hey Olaf, quick thinking there.
Building a Life-size Stagecoach From Toothpicks
When I first saw this, I thought, OK, tiny model made out of toothpicks, let's check it out. I never dreamed it would be full size. Terry Woodling spent 15 years creating the Wells Fargo replica using wooden sticks and glue. Known as Mr Toothpick, he made models for years but this was his most ambitious project.It cost him more than $1400 but the model was bought for $160,000 by Ripley's Believe It or Not! "I never kept track of the hours I spent working on it, only the years," said the 72-year-old from Warsaw, Indiana. Amazing.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S UNDERWEAR, WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS, and A ROBBER WANTS A DATE
Posted in celebrities, Culture, Family, Humor, Life, Love, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Religion, Uncategorized with tags Britain, Couple, England, funeral, marriage, Married, New York, Queen Victoria, Royal Family, UK, United Kingdom, wedding on September 10, 2009 by mclassen
RETURN OF THE QUEEN'S PANTIES
Let me get this straight, they paid how much for a pair of Queen Victoria's panties? Ok, I can see where an argument can be made that these are historical artifacts. But, come on, we're talking about the Queen's bloomers here, and they're over 100 yeards old. Have they ever been washed? The underwear, which has a 56-inch (142-centimeter) waist, has been added to Britain's Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Kensington Palace. With that size you could darn near pitch a tent with them. It has a matching chemise, is embroidered with a "VR" and is believed to date from the 1890s. Queen Victoria had a 20-inch (51-centimeter) waist as a young woman. But curator Alexandra Kim said Tuesday "over the years, particularly having given birth to nine children, that changed entirely." Not only did she gain major poundage, she got cracked pretty hard with the ugly stick. The collection purchased the bloomers for 600 pounds ($993) earlier this summer. Kim said it's likely the item had been handed down to a servant after the monarch's death. Again, I have to ask, why would you want to save the Queen's underwear? If the servant was looking for momentos, I have to think this one is a little weird. Wow, a thousand dollars for Queen Victoria's panties. Amazing.
I HAD MY WEDDING AT MY SON'S FUNERAL
Some people think that in some cases a wedding can be kind of a funeral, but our next case is ridiculous. The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died after an upstate New York car crash have fulfilled his wish that they get married, and they did it at the child's funeral. I'm guessing that wasn't exactly what he meant when he wanted them to get married. I'm thinking Vegas. Amilcar Hill and Rahwa Ghirmatizion (ger-MAT'-ee-zahn) got married during Monday's funeral service in Buffalo for their son, Asa Hill. Asa died a day after his grandfather's car was involved a chain-reaction highway crash last week. Hundreds of people packed the church for Asa's funeral. The couple surprised attendees by getting married, which the parents say their son had been asking them to do. I bet they were surprised alright. Certainly makes for a full day for the preacher. The honeymoon had to be weird.
ROBBER NEEDS A DATE
What do you do when you rob someone's house? Why, return later and ask the cute chick you just ripped-off out for a date. Seriously. Police say 20-year-old Stephfon Bennett of Columbus, Ohio was among three men who robbed a couple late Sunday. There's a key word here, "couple." Where on any level did he think this was going to work. Columbus police Sgt. Sean Laird says the woman recognized Bennett as one of the robbers when he returned to ask her out. She had a relative call 911. Police say Bennett was arrested in front of the home. It's those first impressions, they'll get you every time.
EASTER ROUTE WRONG, HAMMER TIME, DANGEROUS FARTS, TOWN ELECTS CORPSE & DO RE MI
Posted in Culture, Family, Humor, Life, News, Politics, Random, Religion, Technology, video with tags archaeology, cellphones, Christ, Crucifixion, Dead mayor, easter, election, Gibson, Golgotha, Harry, Jerusalem, Jesus, Shimon, Stonebraker, Technology, The Passion, Viral Video on April 10, 2009 by mclassen
EASTER PILGRIMS TAKE WRONG ROAD
Author's note: So that we have the facts correct. This article is taken from a piece by Dalya Alberge published by the UK publication the Daily Mail. The actual article can be found here – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168891/Pilgrims-tracing-steps-Jesus-going-WRONG-way-2-000-years-says-historian.html
For the best part of 2,000 years, pilgrims have flocked to Jerusalem to retrace Jesus's final steps. The Via Dolorosa, or 'Way of Suffering', took them from the Praetorium, where He was condemned to death by Pontius Pilate, to the site of the Crucifixion – or so they thought. Now, it seems they may have been walking in the wrong direction. A respected archaeologist claims that pilgrims have been starting from the wrong end of Jerusalem and that the locations of two of the holiest sites on the route are 'completely wrong'. Shimon Gibson, a Holy Land specialist, said the traditional start of the Via Dolorosa, north of the Old City, should be at the other end of the city. Since medieval times, Christians have assumed that the Praetorium, the starting point of the route and the Roman headquarters mentioned in the Gospels as the scene of Jesus's trial, was the Antonia Fortress which stood in the north of Jerusalem. But Professor Gibson said there was 'no historical basis whatsoever' for this being the site where Jesus was tried and condemned to death by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Little of the fortress's structure has survived but, having surveyed the remains of its rock-cut base in intricate detail, he concludes that it could not have been more than a military observation tower. He said archaeological excavations pointed to the site of the trial being 900 metres away at the remains of a large paved courtyard south-west of Jerusalem, south of the Jaffa Gate. It was situated between two fortification walls with an outer gate and an inner one leading to barracks where it is most likely that Jesus was held. The open courtyard contained a platform of around two square metres – details that 'correspond perfectly' with the Gospel of John's account of Pontius Pilate sitting on a judgment-seat at an elevated place. Professor Gibson, who is based at universities in Israel and America, said: 'The astonishing thing is that thousands of Christian travellers and pilgrims pass by this site without realising its significance.' Those who visit the Rock of Calvary ( or Golgotha) within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at the traditional rock of the crucifixion are also at the wrong location, he believes. The professor's research, which will be published shortly in The Final Days of Jesus, shows that the site is too narrow to have accommodated one cross, let alone those of the two thieves crucified with Jesus. Professor Gibson believes the Crucifixion was some 20 metres from the traditionally accepted site, under an apse of the remains of the Church of the Martyrium. 'Pilgrims walk across this area… without realising its significance,' he said. Dr Mark Merrony, a specialist in archaeology of the Holy Land and editor of Minerva, the archaeological journal, said Professor Gibson's research matched details in the Gospel of John and other ancient writings. He added: 'This discovery provides a crucial insight into the final movements of Jesus and implies that the traditional Way of the Cross should be redefined. It seems likely that millions of pilgrims have been following an incorrect path of veneration.' But the Reverend Canon Bill Broughton of St George's, the Anglican cathedral in Jerusalem, said Professor Gibson's 'great work will embellish the [Christian] story and make it even more meaningful' but would not lead to the route being redrawn. He said: 'It's the Way of the Cross that we walk in terms of our faith and theology, not the archaeological evidence. 'Pilgrims of faith want the general pattern. It may not be exactly the same footsteps but, in reality, the place is sanctified by the presence of those who've been there and said their prayers.' The Right Rev Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, said: ' Archaeology is always open to questions from further research. The Church has nothing to worry about on that score. I always welcome fresh investigations.'
CELLPHONE MEETS HAMMER – RESULTS ARE SMASHING
One of my sources of extreme irritation in this technologically laden world is cellphones. It appears I am not alone. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 13 year-old Dena Christoffersen found that out the hard way. She sent or received about 20,000 text messages over about a month, and her parents' phone plan didn't cover texting. Oops, guess that can't be good. Her father, Gregg Christoffersen, introduced her phone to a hammer after getting a phone bill for more than $4,750. Ouch, I'm betting that wasn't in the budget. Verison has said they will work with them to reduce the bill. Dena has been grounded until the end of the school year. I suspect even after her grounding is over, a new cellphone is not in her future any time soon. Maybe they should have gotten her a Playstation instead.
ASSAULT OVER FARTS
In Waco, Texas, I've always believed that town should be spelled Wacko, five men are having lunch in a motel room. One starts passing horrendous gas. I guess he'd never heard of Beano. What do you do? Move? Get some fresh air? Throw up your dinner? Well, Jose Braule Ramirez came up with a novel idea. He grabbed a knife and and threw it at him and stabbed the guy in the leg and then once in the chest for good measure. No knows what he hoped to accomplish by this but it seems he felt jail would smell better which is where he is currently having all his meals.
TOWN ELECTS DEAD MAYOR TO FOURTH TERM
I'm always fascinated when things like this occur. Apparently, Winfield, Missouri re-elected their mayor about a month after he died of a heart attack. He was still a candidate because it was too late to print new ballots. I don't know why the couldn't have just drawn a line through his name. Intead he won overwhelmingly, which doesn't say much for the other candidate, by a margin of 206 votes to 23. Harry Stonebraker died of a heart attack back in March, but still remains Mayor. At least they won't have to listen to any long acceptance speeches. The only other person that I can think of that has experienced something like this is John Ashcroft when he lost his election to Mel Carnahan who had died in a plane crash. How do you explain something like that, "I lost to a dead man." It's got to hurt your ego. "I'm such a pathetic politician they liked the corpse better than me. " The aldermen said they would appoint someone to serve in the mayor's position. It was obvious no one wanted the live guy.
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVEN'T SEEN THIS, IF IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU SMILE, NOTHING WILL.
BRETT FAVRE COMEBACK, POLICE CAR FULL OF COCAINE, BUSTED SUBWAY STRIPPER, DRINKING AND STEALING, AND NEW ORLEANS ROLLER BULL
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BRETT FAVRE COMEBACK?
I couldn't let this go by without making comment. I'm a lifelong Packer fan, but I'm also a Packer fan, then from time to time, I'm a Packer fan, and did I mention, I'm a Packer fan. Like everyone, I was surprised and a bit saddened when the day came that Brett decided to hang up his cleats. I went through the mourning and then got used to the idea that there would be a young and quite promising replacement waiting in the wings in the form of Aaron Rodgers. OK, now comes the announcement that Favre, arguably the greatest quarterback to grace the field wants to return and not retire. This puts all of us fans on an emotional roller coaster. I'd love to see Favre play some more, but this certainly isn't fair to the kid that has been patiently waiting for his opportunity to shine. Aaron Rodgers proved last year when he stepped in for Favre in Dallas that he has excellent potential. He was told that it is his team now and the Packer organization is standing by that decision. One major problem. The Green Bay Packers are owned by the fans. Through the chaos of speculation and rumors over the weekend one thing remains clear, the decision as to whether Favre comes back to Green Bay may not be up to current management. Amidst protests at Lambeau Field, a call for an emergency stockholders meeting is being called. The stockholders being several thousand rabid Green Bay fans, no small number of which wouldn't mind seeing Favre play out the remaining two years of his contract. Certainly his performance last year proved he's still got Superbowl potential and is a long way from being washed up. Hence the big dilemma. Do you take back the known commodity or move forward into the unknown with possibly another Superbowl trophy hanging as the result? The Packer's management has a no win situation on their hands, if they proceed with out Favre and have a crap season, Ted Thompson the General Manager will take a lot of heat. If Favre comes back and happens to crash and burn, same result. But what if that second Superbowl ring is in the cards for Favre and he goes somewhere else and gets it. Ted Thompson would have to move to Siberia. Packer fans would riot. Maybe, the only solution IS to let the fans choose. That way they only have themselves to blame and maybe that's for the best all the way around.
POLICE DRUG CAR FULL OF DRUGS
Apparently police didn't search a car well enough before they decided to use it for themselves. In Dallas, Texas, a car that had been siezed from drug dealers was put into operation for their own undercover narcotics officers. While a police officer was cleaning the 2004 Black Infinity, he discovered some hidden compartments…with 50 pounds of Cocaine. We're talking a serious stash here. The drug cache hadn't been previously discovered and the police had been driving around with it for two months without their knowledge. It appears their initial search of the car wasn't all that thorough. Now they're trying to figure out who originally owned the car. Seems if they impounded it on a drug siezure, they might have some kind of record. I'm thinking they weren't too on top of things on this one.
SUBWAY STRIPPER BUSTED
In an effort to protest Chile's penchant for prudishness, a local stripper took her act onto the neighborhood subway system. Apparently the performance wasn't appreciated by the authroities who finally caught her during one of her impromptu performances. Personally I'm always up for a little entertainment during a long boring ride. Heck I would have been riding around just hoping to catch her act. Monserrat Morilles, 26, surprised subway riders all week stripping to skimpy underwear, but she refused tips. Who ever heard of a stripper that refused tips. She apparently used the subway poles for her act. She had been elusive all week, getting on quickly and then getting off just as fast so that she would avoid being busted. Monserrat's luck ran out. "This is just a beginning. We are starting an idea here that will grow and be developed further," she told Reuters as police and subway guards surrounded her. I never knew stripping could be political activism. We should use that concept in this country. Chilean media dubbed her "La Diosa del Metro" or Subway Goddess. She called her performances "happy minutes." Yes I can see having "Happy Minutes." More "Happy Minutes." "Chile is still a pretty timid country," said her manager Gustavo Pradenas. "People aren't very extroverted and we want to take aim at that and make Chile a happier country." Yes, happy, happy, happy, let's all be happy.
DON'T DRINK AND STEAL
Probably one of the worst things you can do before committing a crime is get loaded. Spending a few hours building up some false courage before a quick B&E is just bad planning. John Michale Baker of Winnsboro, Texas did just that and everything one going alright, at first. The lady of the house saw him going inside and called her husband, who hurried home to deal with the thief. In the meantime of course the police were notified. Baker was just making his getaway when he arrived. The husband recognized Baker and wandered over to chat with him and Baker apparently a friendly drunk obliged talking with the husband right up until when the police arrived. Moral: If you're gonna steal, steal don't talk.
RUNNING WITH BULL, NEW ORLEANS?
Now this is a sport I can get behind…or in front of as the case may be. As usual New Orleans has come up with a twist on an old custom and this one has less patients in the hospital. Picture it. Hundreds of men, women and children, most in white with red scarves around their waists and red bandannas around their necks, gathered outside a French Quarter bar, I can see where the bar is real important in this one, Saturday morning to be chased down Bourbon Street by members of New Orleans' roller derby league. Got that, Roller Babes. "Roller skates and a stampede through the Quarter — what could possibly go wrong?" said accountant Jason Medonia. Oh I don't know, those roller girls can be pretty rough when they want to. 33 roller girls in horned helmets from teams with names like Confederacy of Punches and Crescent Wenches, took off to pursue the runners and strike them resoundly with plastic baseball bats. Oh, baby hit me hurt me. And guess what, Elvis too. Behind them putted Elvis impersonators on motorized scooters. Now what can be more complete than that. OK, maybe a jazz band, but hey, they're not that hard to find. Sounds like a cool hot time in the Louisiana summer, bull, booze, and babes, everything we've come to expect from New Orleans.
OBAMA NASCAR LEFT TURN, SAVED BY LUNCHBOX, LOST AND FOUND, CITYWIDE POTTY TRAINING, AND WESTERN SPAGHETTI
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OBAMA AND NASCAR?
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Well, it doesn't get much stranger than this. BAM racing has solicitied the Barack Obama campaign to sponsor one of their cars. This would make for a strange combination indeed. Nascar and its fans are a bastion of right-wing conservative Republicans that lean to the left only on the racing track. It seems his money would be better spent elsewhere. BAM team spokesman Rhett Vandiver told The Associated Press on Friday that the team has made a sponsorship proposal to the Democratic presidential hopeful's campaign, and has made similar proposals to the campaign of Republican John McCain and at least one third-party candidate. It appears they are bound and determined to have some sort of political sponsorship no matter where it comes from. Sports Illustrated first reported the proposal on its Web site, saying Obama's campaign is in talks with BAM, a part-time operation that hasn't raced in recent weeks, to sponsor its No. 49 car in the Aug. 3 race at Pocono. "I don't know how far along the discussions are," Vandiver told AP. Asked about the talks, Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, "We get a lot of good ideas every day, but there are no such agreements in place at this time." But BAM's choice of drivers and car brands might turn out to be a little too sticky politically for the Obama camp. The car, a Toyota, the only foreign automaker racing in NASCAR, would be driven by veteran Ken Schrader. According to the Federal Election Commission's Web site, Schrader gave $1,000 to the campaign of North Carolina Republican congressman Robin Hayes in June 2004, and a total of $2,500 in 2003 and 2004 to the failed Virginia congressional campaign of Republican Kevin Triplett, a former NASCAR official. Also according to the FEC, Mrs. Ann Schrader of Concord, N.C. and Ken Schrader Racing donated a total of $2,000 to President Bush's campaign in May 2004. None of this makes any sense for Obama. It just seems stupid. It all looks like BAM racing is desperate to find sponsorship anywhere and is clutching for straws. A "vote for Obama" car zipping around the oval driven by Republicans, maintained by Republicans and built by Republicans is just wrong on so many levels. It just seems a little like the beginning of the apocalypse or at least a sign of it anyway.
LUNCHBOX SAVES MANS LIFE
Don't go anywhere without your lunchbox. Carlos Juarez says his lunchbox saved his life. That's quite a claim. He was waiting for his ride to work early Tuesday in his driveway when two attempted robbers accosted him, demanding money. Right in your own driveway, is nothing sacred? Carlos replied he had no money and the would-be thieves opened fire, hitting him twice in the side. Juarez said he reflexively held up his lunch cooler over his chest to shield himself from the bullets and the cooler was hit twice. It's not everyone that can say their lunchbox took a bullet for them, let alone two. "He thinks the cooler saved his life," Carlos Paz, a friend who translated for Juarez, told The Associated Press. "If he doesn't have the cooler, the shots come maybe in the heart." Juarez still has one of the bullets that was in the cooler. I might keep a souvenir too. A lunch container of rice and meat has a bullet hole, as does a package of gum also in the cooler. After Juarez was shot, he climbed the stairs of the apartment building with the cooler still in his hand. "Carlos, I got shot," he told his friend. Paz said at first he didn't believe it, but then saw blood on his friend's side and called police. Blood would give you a clue. Juarez, who was treated at a hospital and released, says doctors have been unable to remove two bullets from his side because of swelling. He also had a cut on his forehead that he suffered when one of the men hit him with what he thinks was a bat as Juarez reached for the cooler. Juarez, who came to the United States from Ecuador about five years ago, works for a concrete flooring company. No arrests had been made Wednesday.
$55,000 FOUND IN JAIL BATHROOM
Somebody lose something? Possibly a lot of money? Well check lost and found, it appears they have it. A correctional officer at the intake facility at the St. Louis County Justice Center in Clayton, Missouri, last week found $55,000 stuffed behind a toilet paper dispenser. The bundle of money was in $100 and $50 bills, said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne. Officials interviewed inmates about the money, but none admitted knowing anything about the stashed cash. I bet they didn't. Cash like that inside of prison sounds like a pyoff for something to me. That's one deal that won't go down.The money was placed in a special bank account until the owner can be determined, Byrne said. Or arrested, I bet.
CITY POTTY TRAINING RESIDENTS
Imagine, as a grown adult, your city trying to teach you how to properly use the restroom. That is exactly what one city in South Taiwan has started to do. To reduce over 340 tons of waste generated daily, Tainen launched it's new potty training program which is geared towards teaching its 764,000 residents to flush their toilet paper instead of throwing it in trash cans. Yuck. "An old habit is to throw toilet paper in the trash can beside the toilet, which causes a major stink that's bad for public sanitation." Ya think? When "Japanese and Western visitors come to Taiwan, they find this Taiwan toilet habit to be quite poor." I'd say that's an understatement. This habit developed because of pipe backup and clogging problems, however the current system can handle the load without backing up. In addition to solving the issue of trash buildup and smell concerns, flushing the toilet paper will actually save the city $600 million a year in trash treatment costs.
This is a creative little piece that I just found clever and fun.Check it out.
JESSE JACKSON, BARACK OBAMA TALKS DOWN BLACK PEOPLE, FOLDING COUCH DEATH, AND HUMAN MIRROR
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JESSE JACKSON WOULD LIKE TO CUT OFF OBAMA'S NUTS
Well, once again Jesse Jackson thought nobody was paying attention when he made an offhand remark that even has his son a bit disgusted with him. Jackson said the "hurtful and wrong" comments Sunday came in response to a question from a fellow guest during a break from taping "Fox & Friends." The guest asked about speeches on morality Obama has given at black churches. Jackson said at a news conference that he had replied that Obama's speeches can come off as speaking down to black people and that there were other important issues to be addressed in the community, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison. He said he was not aware the microphone was still on. Now that's just stupid. What makes him think they would have turned it off? Although personally, I think Obama talks down to everyone. Fox News aired Jackson's comment Wednesday night, including a slang reference to his wanting to cut off Obama's testicles. Ouch, dude that's harsh. The report bleeped out the slang but made clear what Jackson said. "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize," he said in a written apology released earlier in the day. "My support for Senator Obama's campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal." Well, it certainly doesn't sound like it. Jackson's problem is he got caught. The opinion and the statment still exists. Jackson said he called Obama's campaign to apologize. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton noted that the Illinois senator grew up without his father and has spoken and written at length about the issues of parental responsibility and fathers participating in their children's lives, and of society's obligation to provide "jobs, justice and opportunity for all."He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson's apology," Burton said. Oh, boy all is rosey once again in politics land. Jackson's comments sparked something of a family feud. His son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., said he was disappointed by his father's "reckless statements." "His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee and I believe the next president of the United States, contradict his inspiring and courageous career," the younger Jackson said. "Reverend Jackson is my dad, and I'll always love him. I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself." Ouch, that's going to leave a mark. Jackson, may have apologized, but I don't think that's how he really feels. These "off the record" comments were rather strong. I say it's a no confidence vote for Obama from Mr. Jackson.
DEATH BY FOLDING COUCH
If you're drunk don't let yout wife put you in a folding couch. In St. Petersburg, Russia a man came home drunk which didn't make his wife happy. St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall. The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying. Apparently the wife didn't notice what she had done. I'm not certain she hadn't had a few to drink as well. The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband. Video on the television channel's website showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear lying headfirst between the cushions. Emergency workers said the man died instantly. What a way to go.
HUMAN MIRROR
This was a project that took place on the New York subway systems. There were 10 sets of identical twins involved and they wanted to see how people reacted. Its a cool vid so check it out.
PRINCE HARRY HAMMERED, MAN REPORTS DRUGS STOLEN, POSTCARD TO J.R.R. TOLKIEN, FACE IN THE TREE, AND GORBACHOV KILLS ZOMBIES
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PRINCE HARRY GETS HAMMERED IN LESOTHO
Prince Harry worked up a sweat Tuesday as he carted wheelbarrows of cement mixture, filled a ditch and hammered nails from old roofing boards. The young royal was helping refurbish a school for mentally and physically disabled children under the auspices of a charity he founded in the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho in memory of his late mother. Asked if Princess Diana, known for her charity work around the world, would be proud, he said simply: "I hope so." I'm sure she would be. We see so much today about what The British Royal family is doing to create the newest flap, but we rarely hear about what they are doing that makes the world better. Harry and his regiment from the Household Cavalry were helping put in wheelchair access, build a new kitchen and lay fencing around the Thuso Center. "I love physical labor," he said at the start of a three-week visit. "It would be wrong to be a patron of a charity and not get involved." How often do you hear somebody that's rich and famous say that. The African trip by members of the Household Cavalry has been planned for some time, but the decision to help the project in Lesotho was suggested by Harry. The Prince first visited Lesotho in 2004, when he met young tuberculosis and AIDS sufferers. Harry and his regiment put in eight hours a day working on the center, occasionally getting in a game of football with local villagers. Violet Moqolobane, 44, a disabled woman who works at the center, was impressed to see the tall, redheaded Harry taking part in both games and work. "Most chiefs don't act like him," she said. "They think they are so important." Pootsela Tseisa, 24, said Harry was behaving as true royalty should. "He loves us. We are one for him, not black or white," he said. "This is a good example that we should follow. It doesn't matter how rich or how wealthy your family is."
MAN CALLS POLICE TO REPORT DRUGS STOLEN
They say that drugs affect your mind and destroy brain cells. In this case it was probably true, but truthfully, I'm not sure he had too many to start with. An East Hartford, Connecticutt man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine. You can tell already, this plan is flawed. Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and a woman $8 for drugs he never received. Maybe he should have called Walmart. Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics. During his arraignment Tuesday, Judge Bradford Ward asked Minnefield, "Did you really think the police were going to go after the people?" He added that his question was rhetorical. Well, considering they were suppossed to be dealing, they might want ot consider it. Prosecutors later dropped the charges. Laura Weslund, Minnefield's public defender, said no drugs were ever found. Of course not, he never got them. This story is just full of brilliant deductions.
THE TREE WITH A FACE
Sometimes nature can play strange tricks. This one is pretty cool. The face-tree was brought into the Daily Times newspaper in Maryville, Tennessee on Monday, by Ernest Ward, a groundskeeper at the local Magnolia Cemetery. Ward said it was found on Monday as he and co-workers cleaned up debris from a weekend storm. According to him, a former worker at the cemetery believes the face is a spirit. If it is a spirit, you just cut it in half, how do you think it feels about that?
LOST TOLKIEN POSTCARD FOUND
Have you ever been tearing out a wall or getting a room a found something kind of cool stuck in the wall or behind something. That's what happened to a demolision man from England as he was stripping out a house where Lord Of The Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien used to live. Stephen Malton, who runs Prodem Demolition in Bournemouth on the south English coast, was working in the house in the nearby town of Poole before it was bulldozed to make way for a new construction project. "Before we demolish a house we do an internal strip out," Malton said. "One of the main features was a fireplace, and upon removing that we came across three postcards. The third one was a postcard dated 1968 and addressed to J.R.R. Tolkien." That would be so cool. Malton said research on the Internet suggested that the carved wooden fireplace with marble inlay, a feature of the house when Tolkien lived there from 1968 to 1972, was already worth up to $250,000. "To tie in both the fireplace and the postcard, we are talking about a price of around $500,000 for the combined pair." That would be even cooler. That's one heck of a payday. The postcard was addressed to Tolkien at the Miramar Hotel in Bournemouth, where he and his wife Edith often stayed. It is from "Lin," which Malton believed could be fellow fantasy author Lin Carter who wrote "Tolkien: A Look Behind 'The Lord of the Rings,'" published in 1969. He also helped finish writing the Robert E. Howard, Conan series along with L. Spraque DeCamp, as well as wrote dozens of fantasy stories of his own. Depicting a scene from Ireland, it reads: "I have been thinking of you a lot and hope everything has gone as well as could be expected in the most difficult circumstances." This is an immense find for fantasy collectors. Malton was not sure what the "difficult circumstances" might be. Tolkien had achieved fame by the time he moved to Poole in 1968. He remained in Poole until his wife's death, when he moved back to Oxford. Tolkien died in 1973, aged 81.
GORBACHOV MEETS ZOMBIES
Now for a bit of culture? from the other side of the world. Below is a link to a music video by a Russian metal band called ANJ. It portrays a battle axe wielding Mikhail Gorbachov fighting a legion of Zombies, saving Mother Russia and bringing western culture to the zombie besieged country. The video is hilarious and a lot of fun. Check it out for some fun Russian humor.
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MCCAIN'S CENSORSHIP OR SECURITY, SAVED BY A CUP OF TEA, DECAPITATED MAN AND THE COP THIEF, AND MARRY YOUR DOGS
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SECURITY OR CENSORSHIP AT MCCAIN RALLIES
Are the candidates taking security too far? The video below shows a 61-year-old librarian being harrassed and removed from a John McCain town hall meeting in Denver, Colorado. Now as I understand them, town hall meetings are where you meet the candidates and then ask your most probing questions of them to see if they are worthy of your vote. It is also suppossed to be a forum where you express your opinions to candidates to see if they are willing to do something about the issues that are most important to you. This video clearly shows the people in charge of the McCain camp and the meeting trying to stop some individuals who might have dissenting opinions of McCain from even attending the rally. They cite security as their reasoning for refusing the admittance. The police are then called and tickets are issued for trespassing at a public event! Is this Security or censorship? Are our politicians more interested in the orchestration of their gatherings than maybe having a rogue question catch them off guard? How are we to have a political process when the process is quelled. This video shows a disturbing trend with individuals who are obviously no danger to anything being ushered out of sight, out of mind and then to add insult to injury with fines and court appearances when they are performing a valid exercise of their political, not to mention constitutional rights. Last I looked, this was still the United States wasn't it? Did I miss a meeting?
A CUP OF TEA SAVED MY LIFE
What do you do when you're confronted with a knife weilding thief? Why you make him a cup of tea of course. A 30-year-old Tokyo, Japan woman was walking along a corridor in her apartment building with her daughter on Monday when a man brandishing a knife demanded money. I hate it when that happens. When the housewife told him she had none, the man barged into her apartment. Apparently he didn't believe her. Hoping to calm him, the woman made the thief a cup of tea, whereupon he put his knife away and began a 20-minute monologue about his life. The dude had a Dr. Phil moment. Or maybe it was a Jerry Springer moment, we don't actually know what he said to her. The woman then gave the man 10,000 yen ($93.34) and ran outside to call the police from a pay phone. The guy should have been paying her for the couch time. Police rushed to the scene, but the thief had fled and is still being sought. See, a spot of tea can save your life, quick thinking, a friendly ear, it's all good.
COP SAYS DECAPITATED MAN GAVE PERMISSION TO STEAL HIS BELONGINGS
I can't believe any one actually bought this load of bull. A Caledon, Germany, police captain, Dawid Johann Jullies claiming that a decapitated car crash victim had given him permission to take the floor mats and hub caps from the wrecked vehicle, was subsequently found innocent of theft by an internal police hearing when the investigators concluded that the decapitated victim did indeed give permission, contrary to the family's claims that this was impossible. What? How stupid were these people? Subsequently, a court agreed with the family and found the officer guilty of theft, sentencing him to 3 years in prison, suspended for 5 years. So in other words, he got off with a "don't do it again." However, Julies became the police station commissioner the very next day, or ironically, the head of the police station, despite having been found guilty of theft by the court. There's nothing like rewarding larceny. Yep let's give him a promotion. Somtimes there's just no justice.
MARRY YOUR DOGS, NO MORE "LIVING TOGETHER"
Do you have nore than one dog? Well, don't let them live in sin anymore, get them a wedding and make their life legal. Yes, it's a new trend, like Americans didn't have anything else to spend their money on. The popularity of dog weddings is on the rise and Reverands are finding that a little pet wedding can add an extra boost to their coffers. For the 63% of Americans who own pets, there's a growing sector of the $40 billion dollar pet industry waiting to sell them wedding-related services like pet marriage counseling, pet wedding planners, pet caterers, pet trainers, and even special pet priests who conduct actual certified pet weddings. As one reverend told the Chicago Tribune: "Marriage for an animal is almost like marriage for a human. An animal union is more like a blessing under God. Well, I am a reverend," Scott said. He apparently didn't want to give his full name. "If you're in a family with two animals and they want to unite in a wedding, what difference does it make? It is not a sign of the Apocalypse. It is a sign that animals often seek to form a lasting bond and have deep commitment." Keep telling yourself that Scott. Pet owners can make the wedding even more official by getting a real human marriage license and setting up a gift registry at PetSmart. You didn't think big business wasn't going to get in on this did you? Question: If the dogs are legally married and they have puppies, does selling them constitute puppy slavery? Does the married couple have recourse to get their children back? I bet there's some lawyer out there willing to test this.
IT APPEARS SOMEONE FINALLY FOUND A USE FOR THAT ORDAINMENT LICENSE THEY GOT FROM THE BACK OF ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE FOR $20.
EBAY VOTE AUCTION, CZECH NUCLEAR PRANK, CEMETERY POT, AND FED EX DOPE DELIVERY
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TEEN PUTS VOTE UP FOR AUCTION ON EBAY
This may turn out to be a hard won lesson in civics. A University of Minnesota student named Max P. Sanders decided to offer his vote for the next presidential election up for auction on Ebay with a starting bid of $10. Anybody see a problem with this? Yes, it's illegal. His listing encouraged buyers with the words "Good luck!" and "You're country depends on You!" It appears he flunked English 101. Now that the Minnesota prosecutors have gotten involved, he's claiming it was all a joke. "We take it very seriously. Fundamentally, we believe it is wrong to sell your vote," said John Aiken, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, 'I can be bought.'" Yes voting, you know, that thing that most Americans ignore on election day. It's refreshing to know somebody out there takes it seriously. So seriously in fact that Sanders was charged with one count of bribery, treating and soliciting. If found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison a hefty $10,000 fine. To add insult ot injury there's an uploading fee from Ebay for the auction. By the way, no one bid on the auction. Talk about a bust all the way around. I bet we won't be seeing that one again.
CZECH ARTIST'S NUCLEAR EXPLOSION PRANK
I have to admit that I can appreciate a prank as much as anyone. I even like to pull a few myself. This one is too weird for words, but we're going to try. A group of artists hacked into a national television weather broadcast to show a fake nuclear explosion in the Czech mountains. Members of the Prague-based Ztohoven art group admitted tampering with equipment at the public broadcaster Czech Television so viewers watching a live panoramic shot of the Krkonose, or Giant Mountains, in June last year saw a flash of bright light and a fiery mushroom cloud rising on the horizon. That would have scared the crap out of me. Seven artists were acquitted of spreading false information in March but the state prosecutor appealed the verdict. An appeals court in Hradec Kralove, east of the capital Prague, overturned the decision last week in a ruling made public Monday, court spokesman Michal Strnad said. The court ordered a new trial for a date yet to be set. If found guilty, they face a maximum three-year jail term. The group claimed the aim of its project was to show how reality could be manipulated by the media. I don't see why they couldn't have picked some other subject than nuking the neighborhood. Czech Television called such stunts "improper" and said they could scare many people. Ya think? In December, Prague's National Gallery awarded Ztohoven the new NG 333 prize for young artists. The 333 stands for the size of the cash prize – 333,000 koruna or about $22,000. I think they should get their money back.
MEN CAUGHT GROWING POT IN CEMETERY
The caretakers of a Vietnam cemetery were busted for growing pot within the plots. Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker team at the cemetery in Hanoi's outer district of Hoang Mai, and Ho A Lau, 46, after the authorities found cannabis plants grown on a 25 square meter (82 square feet) patch, the Vietnam Labour Confederation-run Lao Dong newspaper said. That is a seriously lot of weed. Police have detained the two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital Hanoi. Rookies, it figures. The fate of these two is uncertain as Vietnam has basically a double standard towards drugs. Vietnam has strict drug trafficking laws, including in some cases the death penalty, but it has long been used as a transit point for trade in heroin, hashish, opium, amphetamine pills and other illegal drugs. They may just punish them for being dumb enough to get caught. They seem to have a "as long as it doesn't come to our attention, we're OK with it" attitude.
FED-EX GETS IT WRONG, RECIPIENT ARRESTED
Since we're on the subject, never send your dope Fed-Ex. They just might go to the wrong house. A mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana. That's alot of pot! Police tell The Baltimore Sun they learned about the shipment when it was delivered Tuesday to the wrong resident. That's when they developed a sneaky plan to catch the dude it was really going to. Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment's intended recipient, 30-year-old Richard Gwatidzo. That's what you get when you trust a shipment like that to a delivery service. What ever happened to a brown paper bag in the dead of night? He was charged Thursday with possession of a large quantity of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute along with other drug related charges. He should have been charged with stupidity along with a substandard IQ.
UFO FESTIVAL, PUB HELD HOSTAGE, TRAPPED UNDER A CAR, AND CALIFORNIA FIREBALL
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ROSWELL UFO FESTIVAL
This past week once again brought out UFO believers from everywhere as Roswell, New Mexico held its annual UFO Festival. For those of you that are completely out of touch and have been living in a hole in the ground, Roswell is the site of what is considered this countries most probable crash of a UFO. The news broke on July 8, 1947 and many people at the time admitted having seen the debris including the Army's own public relations man, Jesse Martel. But of course the feds scrambled to cover up the incident and everyone retracted their previous stories, some say under penalty of treason. Of course many don't buy the story that it was all a mistake and the crash was actually that of a real "flying saucer." This has made Roswell famous and annually, alien enthusiasts gather there from all over for the UFO Festival. This actually seems like it would be a lot of fun. There are costume contests for dressing up like an alien, there are workshops on UFO encounters and Government cover-ups. Heck there's even a rock band called Element 115 with an alien drummer. This is a gathering for anyone and everyone that has anything to do with UFOs and aliens. There's even a dog alien costume contest. CBS did their morning show from this year's festival. You can tell it's in an out of this world time in the old town this week. Now if they could just get the aliens to show up.
COUPLE BARRICADE THEMSLEVES INSIDE OF PUB
Pray that this doesn't happen in your favorite tavern. When a devout Christian couple took over a pub and promptly banned swearing, takings plummeted. What were they thinking? But when the brewery decided to kick them out and bring in more tolerant managers, they decided to barricade themselves in. 'They're coming o take us away, ha ha." The couple, named John and Krista Fleming, are holed up in the flat above The King's Head, in Islington, north London, England until the dispute is settled in court. A patron said: "The new managers are great and it's back to how it was, a proper pub with atmosphere." The new landlord said: "They are still there. It's a very strange situation." The Brits are too nice. In America we'd have gone in with guns and tear gas and dragged them out saying they were starting a cult.
WOMAN PINNED UNDER CAR FOR TWO DAYS
This is a tale of people paying attention. A very alert postman saved the day in this story so it pays to give him a card at Christmas and keeping your dog leashed up. 91-year-old, Betty Borowski's mail carrier noticed Tuesday that the previous day's mail was still in her mailbox, police said. He rang the doorbell and then asked a neighbor whether he had seen Borowski lately. He hadn't, so they called police. Borowski, who lives alone, became stuck June 29 while looking for her keys; her head apparently got pinned by the axle, Greendale Police Chief Rob Dams said. Note to self: get a broom to fish for keys under car. "She was pretty well wedged in there," Dams said. "It looks like she crawled under headfirst." Firefighters lifted the car with a jack and removed Borowski, who was dehydrated and confused. It turned out her keys were in the car door. Note to self: look in door before fishing for keys under car. Note to reader: get to know your mailman, make him your friend.
FIREBALL GIVES A SHOW IN CALIFORNIA
I have to admit, this would have been really cool to see. From the Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and appearing to fall toward the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday morning. Explanations of the mysterious object were scarce. I just love a mystery. San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of calls related to a fireball moving at high speed in the northwest sky around 10:40 a.m. "We got quite a few reports. It started with a gentlemen in the Lake Arrowhead area reporting a fireball in the Meadow Bay area, and then we started getting calls from all over," said San Bernardino County dispatch supervisor Tom Barnes. "Fire crews in Barstow and on I-15 near Stateline came up on the radio and reported an object in the sky moving very fast across the northern sky and described it as yellowish green in color with streaks of debris. It looked like it burned up before it hit the ground." Barnes said the department has "basically determined it was most likely not an aircraft and was probably man-made or a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere." There's a real difinative answer. "Events like this do happen around the world. But a bright meteor is not something people would usually recognize in the day," said Lance Benner, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. "The eyewitness account suggests it was a small asteroid hitting the atmosphere." The fact that it was spotted in daylight suggests it could have been farther away than it appeared, Benner said. He said it could have landed several hundred miles away. I still have to admit this would have been something to see. This is the time of year where the earth approaches the Van Allen Belt where meteors are plentiful and watching for shootintg stars is usually quite productive.
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import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';
import { MatListModule, MatIconModule, MatToolbarModule, MatCardModule } from '@angular/material';
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { StationItemComponent } from './station-item/station-item.component';
import { LineListComponent } from './line-list/line-list.component';
import { LineComponent } from './line/line.component';
import { StationComponent } from './station/station.component';
import { ElevatorStatsComponent } from './elevator-stats/elevator-stats.component';
import { ElevatorItemComponent } from './elevator-item/elevator-item.component';
import { TitlebarComponent } from './titlebar/titlebar.component';

import { ElevatorStatsService } from './elevator-stats.service';
import { StationService } from './station.service';
import { LinesService } from './lines.service';
import { AboutComponent } from './about/about.component';

@NgModule({
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    AboutComponent,
    AppComponent,
    StationItemComponent,
    LineListComponent,
    LineComponent,
    StationComponent,
    ElevatorStatsComponent,
    ElevatorItemComponent,
    TitlebarComponent,
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  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    MatListModule,
    MatIconModule,
    MatToolbarModule,
    MatCardModule,
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  providers: [StationService, LinesService, ElevatorStatsService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
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Leptogomphus risi – gatunek ważki z rodziny gadziogłówkowatych (Gomphidae).

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Leptogomphus
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1932 roku

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Q: drf-yasg: How to change operationId?
How do I change the name of the request that appears automatically in redoc-ui when using drf-yasg.
For example: In the image, you can see that that the request is named fid_data-entities_update, it is picking this up from the URL.
How do I override/rename it?

A: You can use the @swagger_auto_schema(...) decorator to override the operationId spec as using operation_id parameter
from rest_framework import generics
from rest_framework.response import Response
from drf_yasg.utils import swagger_auto_schema

class OperationIdOverrideAPI(generics.ListAPIView):

    @swagger_auto_schema(operation_id="Your awesome name")
    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return Response({"message": "ok"})

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A Touch of Class (known as ATC until a lawsuit filed by the producer ATB forced them to change their name) were a German dance-pop act known for their hit single "Around the World (La La La La La)".
Joseph 'Joey' Murray, Sarah Egglestone, Tracey Elizabeth Packham and Livio Salvi met in Hamburg in the late 1990s while performing in the international Broadway theatre German production of the musical Cats. The four became friends and formed a dance group, meeting producers Alex Christensen and Thomas M. Stein in 1999 and beginning to produce material as ATC, aka A Touch of Class.
Their first single was "Around the World (La La La La La)", an English-language cover of the song "Pesenka" by Russian act Ruki Vverh!. It was a number one hit in Germany, amassing huge amounts of airplay and occupying the top spot for six weeks. Their debut album was Planet Pop (2000), released through Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Republic Records. The record won the group an ECHO Award for Best Dance Act.
Following that they released several singles to varying degrees of success but never recaptured the energy of "Around the World (La La La La La)". The group split in 2003.

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I am not fond of any government-anointed day to honor or celebrate something other than Independence Day. To me, such "official" days obligate me to be part of the crowd and limits my ability to do things at my chosen time my way to honor the mothers in my life, laborers, veterans, etc. Even worse, when i receive such praise and affection, i wonder if it was heartfelt or driven by the requirements of the lemmings for dads, veterans, etc.
But hey, people have fun and enjoy it, so what the heck. After all, even a curmudgeon like me can play the game.
The current generation of moms in our family is rather spectacular. Blythe is a beautiful Mom. Kate and Abby are tremendous moms. The Prichard moms continue to be amazing. The Jewell moms also are super. Their love, caring, and parenting promises a grunch of good people in this world to be and gives me hope.
Then in my generation, Blythe's mom's greatest strength is her love for her daughter and grandson. My sister Martha and sister-in-law Carla are great examples of great moms and it is beautiful to watch them with their grandchildren.
And then, of course, there is Maureen. i will save most of my praise of her for our private, quiet celebration today. But she is the glue that holds us together, and her love for Sarah, Blythe, Jason, and Sam cannot be overstated.
It began, at least in what history i have available, with the previous two generations.
i shall not address how wonderful my mother was as a mom – we never, ever called her "Mom." She was always "Mother" or "Grandma." Even though she has been gone a week shy of two years, it is too emotional for me to write of her even now.
Mother, her sisters, and our grandmother were the seeds of all this. Even Aunt Bettye Kate Hall, who never had her own children, was seen as the second mother to all of us.
My father's mother, "Mama" Jewell is one of my sweetest memories. I was seven years old when she left us, but i still remember her love.
Then there was Granny, simply an amazing, amazing woman: four children, full-time caregiver, taking care of her father as well as her children; then all of the eleven grandchildren, then "housemother" to a mass of Castle Heights junior (elementary) school boarders.
To commemorate all of them, i include a piece i wrote about the Prichard mothers almost ten years ago. They all are gone now but not forgotten; never forgotten.
Bettye Kate Hall, Evelyn Orr, and Estelle Jewell, with Granny, Katherine Prichard, 1971: mothers supreme.
in that little skirmish we often forget.
in yet an earlier century.
a decade after the war.
and the attendant feelings thereof.
each with some grit in their craw.
to take care of her own.
taking hits, sinking to the shallow harbor depths.
west a bit, in the big city.
he found on the southern trek several years before.
admiring their fire and grit and pluck.
fire in their bellies, grit in their craw, pluck in their spirit, gleam in their eyes.
spread with the four winds, remembering.
fire in their bellies, grit in their craw, pluck in their spirit; gleam in their eyes.
Such a lovely world they have shown us.


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Märt Rask presented overview of courts administration and administration of justice
Today, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Märt Rask gave to the Riigikogu an overview of courts administration, administration of justice and the uniform application of Acts. Rask noted that the report discusses the general developments of courts administration, performance of the judicial system is analysed on the basis of court statistics and closer attention is paid to one legal sphere. Rask drew attention to extremely speedy entry into force of some Acts after they had been proclaimed which is not in conformity with the Constitution. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court also discussed the issues of state fees. In that connection, he proposed to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the high state fees which are currently in force on how individuals are guaranteed judicial protection of their fundamental rights.
When speaking about courts administration, Rask mentioned the fact that there has been no substantive, parliamentary discussion of the Courts Bill which is currently in the legislative proceeding of the Riigikogu. "227 judges are employed in courts as at today. The number of vacant places of judges is 15 which is the highest number of vacant places of judges in the last five years. And that in a situation where the workload of courts has increased in all types of proceedings. Vacant places of judges inevitably mean that the duration of proceedings is longer and availability of administration of justice decreases," underlined Rask. He added that, in 2009, more appeals, statements of claims and criminal matters had been submitted to courts than in 2008 which meant that the workload of courts increased significantly. As the main reasons of delaying of civil proceedings, Rask mentioned difficulties with delivering procedure documents to participants. The duration of proceedings is also prolonged by suspension of proceedings in awaiting for resolution of some other legal dispute, complexity of the civil proceeding and the great number of mandatory procedural acts arising therefrom.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court discussed in depth some aspects of penal law. Rask: "On the basis of explanatory memorandums of several Acts and the opinion of experts, there is reason to say that we have taken the road of overcriminalising." Rask stated that 55.6 per cent of the Estonian population of 15 to 74 years of age who are capable of working has been entered in the punishment register for commission of different misdemeanours and criminal offences. Persons who have a punishment in force or who have been punished for an offence constitute more than a half of the population. "Massive punishments devaluate the effect of punishment and make the condemning attitude of the society towards commission of offences hypocritical if not sympathising," said Rask. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court made a proposal to the Riigikogu to organise a comprehensive scientific revision of penal law within the coming two or three years in order to define on the basis of values the objectives and directions of the long-term development of penal law. He suggested organising the punishment system which is currently in force and developing the system of non-punitive sanctions.
Comments were presented by Evelyn Sepp, Mai Treial and Väino Linde.
The Riigikogu passed with 77 votes in favour the Act on Amendments to the Rescue Service Act (618 SE), initiated by the Government. The purpose of the amendments is to specify the procedure for granting the old-age pension of rescue service workers and the benefit of a rescue service worker in expectation of old-age pension, the procedure for calculation of the years of service, and to provide appointment and designation of a rescue service worker to another position at a governmental authority or an international organisation. Nobody voted against the Act and nobody abstained.
The Product Conformity Act (702 SE), initiated by the Government, was passed with 75 votes in favour. The purpose of the Act is to ensure safety and conformity of the products placed on the market and the free movement of goods. It is a general Act which provides the requirements for ensuring product safety, the bases for product conformity attestation, standardisation, accreditation and organisation of market supervision, insofar as these have not been established by other Acts. This Act enters into force at the time and pursuant to the procedure provided for in the Product Conformity Act Implementation Act. Nobody voted against the Act and nobody abstained.
The Product Conformity Act Implementation Act (703 SE), initiated by the Government, was passed with 73 votes in favour. The purpose of the Act is to introduce the necessary amendments on the basis of the principles provided in the Product Conformity Act. The implementation Act repeals the Product and Service Safety Act, the Product Conformity Attestation Act and the Technical Regulations and Standards Act. The regulation of these Acts is replaced by the Product Conformity Act. The Act enters into force on 1 October 2010. Nobody voted against the Act and nobody abstained.
The Act on Amendments to the Packaging Excise Duty Act and the Packaging Act (707 SE), initiated by the Government, was passed with 73 votes in favour. The amendments provide the time of entry into force of the contract entered into between the payer of excise duty and the packaging recovery organisation, and the prohibition to retroactively transfer the obligations provided by the Act. In connection with termination of application of export customs procedure to board supplies of water craft or aircraft, exemption from the packaging excise duty is established for packagings of the goods taken on board of water craft or aircraft carrying out international travels from Estonia. Packagings taken on board of water craft or aircraft carrying out international travels will be exempt from deposit. The amendments harmonise the classification of packaging material in the Packaging Act and the Packaging Excise Duty Act. Nobody voted against the Act and nobody abstained.
The Act on Amendments to the Consumer Protection Act (754 SE), initiated by the Finance Committee, was passed with 57 votes in favour. The purpose of the amendments is to reduce double resource costs arising from establishing of the sales tax in Tallinn because undertakings will have to prepare to change price tags and other information intended for customers. The added provisions are intended to mitigate the requirements for disclosing the price arising from the Consumer Protection Act. The Act provides a transition period for updating prices from 1 June until 31 July. This enables to add the sales tax to the price of goods or services only at the cash register, provided that relevant information is set out at the entrance of the service hall of the trader or at the cash register. The Act enters into force on 1 June 2010. One member of the Riigikogu voted against the Act, nobody abstained.
On the motion of the Legal Affairs Committee, the first reading of the Transformation of Debts and Debt Protection Bill (743 SE), initiated by the same Committee, was concluded. The purpose of the Bill is to enable to natural persons who have payment difficulties (debtors) transformation of their debts, to overcome payment difficulties, to avoid bankruptcy proceedings, to learn to manage financial obligations which may emerge in the future and to restore solvency. Legitimate interests of both the debtor and his or her creditors are taken into account in this process. A debtor is deemed to have payment difficulties if he or she will likely not be able to perform his or her obligations at the time when they fall due. The Bill was sent to the second reading.
For more details, read the verbatim record of the sitting (in Estonian):


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Planning for Surge of Disaster Victims? Discharge the Healthiest from Every Hospital, Experts Advise
A nationwide blue-ribbon panel of healthcare experts recommends that hospital plans for a surge of disaster victims should begin with a strategy to empty their beds of relatively healthier patients.
Preliminary data suggest that such a strategy could safely empty 70 percent of a hospitals inpatient population within 72 hours. So-called surge capacity is tight in the nations hospitals, shriveled by years of decreases in patient capacity, cost controls, managed care, regulation and nursing shortages.
Led by Gabor Kelen, MD, head of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, the panel concluded that all hospitalized patients at any given time should be routinely ranked according to how sick they are and assigned a constantly updated score based on their vital signs, present condition and prognosis. That number would put them at a moments notice into risk groups that would rapidly inform decisions to discharge them or send them to another facility should a major disaster occur.
There is consensus among healthcare officials that, whether dealing with a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina, a possible terrorist attack like September 11, or epidemics like SARS or avian flu, affected hospitals have few means of making room for large numbers of incoming casualties, Kelen says.
In one common disaster response, medical centers would set up additional beds wherever they can (in hallways, cafeterias, etc.). But, concerned that staffing levels could not expand to care for so many new patients, the authors of the study, in the latest issue of the journal Lancet, say disposition classification is a must.
Without this sort of system in place, the worry is that a hospitals resources would be quickly overwhelmed in a major crisis, says Kelen. So not only would the disaster victims not get adequate treatment, but neither would the patients who are already hospitalized.
The system Kelen and the other panelists envision puts patients in one of five categories, based on their considered risk of a life-threatening or life-impairing medical problem within 72 hours of hospital discharge. Patients classified as minimum risk could go home upon being discharged. Those in the lowrisk group could also be transferred home depending on the severity and scope of the disaster. Those in the moderate category could not go home but could be transferred to a facility offering basic medical resources. Highrisk patients could only be transferred to an acute-care facility and very highrisk patients could only be served in a critical care facility.
Only a score-card system can take the emotion out of the decision-making process in the midst of a major disaster, Kelen notes. It would also eliminate cumbersome bureaucracy, like the need in some hospitals to have the doctor who admitted the patient also sign the discharge paperwork. And, says Kelen, such a disaster plan would create an ethical framework through which patients could be discharged and admitted based on the level of care they require.
In a follow-up study, being planned now, a panel will score 4,000 real patients and by closely examining their progress post-discharge, determine whether or not the classification system would have actually worked in disaster conditions.
The authors note that the logistics behind transferring such a large number of patients to other facilities were not examined in this particular exercise but are hardly trivial. Kelen also said the system could be implemented outside of a disaster situation as a tool to manage even routine, everyday overloads of hospital resources.
Source: Johns Hopkins


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The main issue with the MacBook Pro (without Touch Bar) was its lack of USB-A ports – so it may be worth considering how this might affect your workflow. The MacBook Pro is also heavier than the MacBook Air (the Air is also reduced to £799 from £949). Despite these minor points, the MacBook Pro is still the "best mid-sized Mac laptop available from Apple", as reviewed on Macworld, our sister site.
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Join us for a Christmas Batlow at the Clovelly Hotel.
We'll be there from 2pm!
Batlows were a flowing for Mumford & Sons 'Gentleman of the Road' tour.
Both Premium and Cloudy on tap! Oh yeah..
Australian Cider Festival has just been announced. Tastings from over 20 of the best local and international cidermakers (including us!), a great music lineup and all things apples..and pears. Head here for tickets.
Pour all of the cider into a large pan on a low heat and warm it through for a few minutes. Add all of the spices and fruit juices and turn the heat up. Once boiling, turn down to a simmer and leave to tick away for 5 to 8 minutes. As everything infuses you'll get the most delicious layers of flavour.
Pay attention and add a few tablespoons of sugar to taste. You don't want it to be sweet; you just want the sugar to join up all the different spices so you get a harmonious taste. When you are happy with the flavours, ladle the mulled cider into the mugs and serve while warm and delicious. It's nice to leave bits of spices floating around in the cider when you serve it, but if you want yours to be clear and perfect just pour it into the glasses through a sieve.
A few photos from the first ever Batlow CiderFest. A great day of cider and all things apple.
Big thanks to Harald and the CiderFest team for such a great day. Looking forward to next year already!


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 Luciana Paluzzi (* 1937), italienische Schauspielerin
 Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1623–1698), italienischer römisch-katholischer Kardinal
 Beda Umberto Paluzzi (* 1936), italienischer Benediktiner-Abt von Montevergine


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Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J.
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J. 2002;2(3):64
Electromagnetic Interference in Implantable Rhythm Devices - The Indian Scenario
Johnson Francis, MD, DM.
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Medical College Calicut, Kerala, India.
Address for correspondence: Dr. Johnson Francis, "Pulikkottil", Thondayad, P.O. Chevarambalam, Calicut -673017, Kerala, India. Email: johnsonf@vsnl.com
Implantable rhythm device (IRD) is the generic name for the group of implantable devices used for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Devices in this category include cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and implantable loop recorders. Since these devices have complex microelectronic circuitry and use electromagnetic waves for communication, they are susceptible to interference from extraneous sources of electromagnetic radiation and magnetic energy. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is generally not a major problem outside of the hospital environment. The most important interactions occur when a patient is subjected to medical procedures such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrocautery and radiation therapy. Two articles in this issue of the journal discusses various aspects of EMI on IRD1,2 . Together these articles provide a good review of the various sources of EMI and their interaction with IRD for the treating physician.
Prof. Seymour Furman has given an excellent suggestion during his editorial preview of these articles. He has called upon the Indian investigators to assess the situation in the local community. Shree Pacetronix Ltd., the only Indian manufacturer of pacemakers, has informed that no case of EMI has been reported in their pacemakers, though a well designed study to test this aspect has not been conducted so far. They also mention that their pacemakers incorporate EMI protection. Largest number of devices implanted in the country are from Medtronic Inc. They have not received reports of EMI from India. It is likely that most or all instances of EMI may have gone unreported.
Cell phones are fast becoming the common man's commodity in Indian cities and it is likely to be the single most common source for EMI. Cell phone operators in India follow the European standards of GSM (Global System Mobile) cellular telephony. D-net (900 MHz, digital pulsed) and the E-net (1,800 MHz, digital pulsed) are being used by operators in the country. C-net (450 MHz, analogue) which was being used in European countries, is not being used by any of the major operators in the country. An IRD is most vulnerable to EMI during interrogation and programming. It is not advisable to have an activated cell phone in the vicinity during this process. Pacemaker patients really suffering from EMI due to mobile phones are very rare unless the phone is positioned in the pocket just over the pulse generator. The contralateral pocket or the belt position of the mobile phone guarantees undisturbed operation of the pacemaker in most patients. A risk analysis reveals that the portion of patients really suffering from EMI due to mobile phones is about 1 out of 100,0003. As Prof. Furman suggests, keep a cell phone in the opposite hand and ear from the implanted device and enjoy life.
MRI is an important diagnostic modality in various disciplines of medicine. A number of patients are put through MRI for orthopedic purposes without recognition of their IRD. In general, MRI is contraindicated for a patient with an IRD; but recent studies have shown that MRI using 0.5 Tesla is unlikely to produce irreversible changes in the pacemaker4. If a patient with an IRD badly needs an MRI, it would be worthwhile to check up whether the local system is operating at 0.5 Tesla or above. Higher magnetic fields give faster acquisition of images, but are more likely to interfere with the function of the IRD. Systems working at 0.5 Tesla are available in the country so that it may be considered in such situations. Interrogating and reprogramming the IRD before and after an unavoidable MRI is mandatory.
According to a press report which appeared in February 2002, Wilson Greatbatch, pacemaker pioneer, was planning to build an MRI-proof pacemaker with fiber optic leads and low-power semiconductor laser5. If his efforts bear fruit, in future we may be able to subject patients with an implanted pacemaker to MRI without any hesitation.
Radiation therapy with the IRD in the radiation field is likely to destroy the device by damaging the very sensitive CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) circuitry. In case of dire necessity, it is advisable to explant the pacemaker and reimplant it in a different location. Patients with IRD are advised not to linger within weapons detectors or theft detectors. The potential for exposure to such devices are rapidly on the increase in our country due to various reasons.
An increasing number of pacemaker-bearing individuals are being transported by air. Although modern pacemakers are effectively shielded from electromagnetic interference (EMI), the magnitude of electromagnetic radiation in cockpits of general aviation aircraft is higher and of a different nature than experienced in daily life. A recent study showed that modern pacemakers are unaffected by EMI in the cockpit environment of single-engine fixed-wing aircraft.6
In conclusion, most patients with IRD can lead a near normal life with certain precautions to avoid EMI. It is important that the treating physician be aware of the potential sources of EMI to which each particular individual is likely to be exposed and choose the type of device and site of implant accordingly.
1. Okan Erdogan. Electromagnetic Interference on Pacemakers. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2002; 2(3):3. [Free Full Text]
2. Marcos de Sousa, Gunnar Klein, Thomas Korte, Michael Niehaus. Electromagnetic Interference in Patients with Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Implantable Loop Recorders. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2002; 2(3):4. [Free Full Text]
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This is a scarf & hat set I made for my step-mom for her birthday.
The scarf pattern is Stolen Moments (Ravelry link) but I made it much narrower to be a scarf instead of a wrap.
The hat pattern is Basic Ribbed Hat (also a Ravelry link). Thank you, EOL, for modeling it for me before I mailed it off.
I toyed with the idea of making a hat in the lace pattern of the scarf, but decided that New Hampshire winters are too cold for hats with holes.
The yarn is Lobster Pot wool and mohair blend in the "Beach Plum" colorway. I used 2 skeins.
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