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Once reviled by the fashion industry, Dapper Dan is now revered. The hip-hop tailor turned Gucci collaborator on hustling, Harlem style and being an agent of change
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"Fashion is just a vehicle, it's an instrument I'm using to express something much deeper, to hopefully effect change." ~Daniel Day
The history of fashion is a tapestry of lives rich in incident, of steep rises and plunging falls, glorious advances and cruel reverses. Last night, you were the toast of the town. This morning, you're just toast.
The story of Daniel Day, better known as Dapper Dan, Harlem couturier to the early hip-hop community and associated uptown players, is as unlikely, as action-packed, as flamboyant as any whispered in the ateliers of the great houses of Paris and Milan, from which he was at first excluded, by which he was then prosecuted, and to whose leathery bosom he is now clutched.
It is a story that could have been written by Damon Runyon. A rag-trade picaresque, in which an African-American kid with holes in his shoes, fourth son of a maintenance man and a maid, who lived on his wits in the hardscrabble streets of East Harlem in the 1960s and '70s, ascended to ghetto superstar status in the '80s, having created the look of the most crucial pop subculture of the era, only to be banished from the limelight for decades.
Daniel "Dapper Dan" Day stars in Gucci's men's tailoring advertising campaign. The portraits, capturing him among familiar surroundings in Harlem, reflect his debonair personality and celebrate his cultural legacy.
And then, just recently, to return in triumph. Now in his 70s, Day finds himself fashion's man of the moment, the face of Gucci, a brand currently surfing waves of acclaim and success, and a collaborator with that label's creative director, Alessandro Michele.
"Surprised?" Day says. "No, not surprised. I never doubted myself. Flattered? No. My ego was already in control. What I am is thankful. Elated! Gucci: what they did is amazing."
My appointment with Day is at an address on Harlem's Lenox Avenue. I am deposited a block north of my destination, on the corner of 125th Street. Just a few yards from here, for a decade from 1982, stood Dapper Dan's Boutique, where he sold garments made to order, in leather, fur and exotic skins, embossed with the monograms of Gucci, Fendi and Louis Vuitton using a silkscreen technique of his own invention.
"People would go downtown and steal clothes and I would sell them from the back of my car."
Like the early New York DJs who sampled classic rock and soul for rappers to extemporise over, Day "borrowed" the branding of the European luxury houses and reworked it. This was long before those same houses cottoned on to the potency of street style, or even, in some cases, potential for a ready-to-wear business. In 1992, they shut him down.
Today the building on 125th Street is crowned by a billboard from which Day himself, sharp as a needle in a blue-check suit, brown ankle boots and a striped bow tie, looks down on the once benighted streets in which he made his name. The image is one of a number taken of him for Gucci's autumn/winter 2017 men's tailoring campaign.
The brownstone I'm heading to houses a shop, financed by Gucci, in which Day is ready to start a new bespoke service using Gucci fabrics decorated with Michele's prints, patterns and crests. This spring, a capsule collection, co-designed by them both, will go on sale in Gucci stores worldwide.
How did a septuagenarian New Yorker once shunned by mainstream fashion, and until recently hardly known outside his own neighbourhood — except by students of hip-hop folklore — come to be in business with a luxury megabrand?
Earlier that day, I'd seen two answers to that question, behind glass at the Museum of Modern Art, in Midtown Manhattan. There, as part of an exhibition called Is Fashion Modern?, a pair of Day's designs of the mid-'80s were on display: a leather bomber jacket emblazoned with the logos of Vuitton, and a blouson, black and white, with piping in Gucci's red and green stripes, and the interlocking double-G monogram repeated in panels at front and back.
Alongside these was a photo from 1989 of the Olympic sprinter Diane Dixon, wearing a custom-made Dapper Dan jacket, its mega-puff sleeves stamped with Vuitton logos. Next to that is another photo, taken in May 2017 in Florence, of a model on a Gucci catwalk, wearing a jacket of an almost identical design, only with the Vuitton logos replaced by Gucci double-Gs.
This is where this latest act of Day's unusual career begins: with an Instagram post from Diane Dixon, placing the new Gucci jacket and her Dapper Dan original side by side, above a caption: "Give credit to @dapperdanharlem. He did it FIRST in 1989!"
Dapper Dan's original boutique was next to a club, the site of an infamous street brawl between Mike Tyson and Mitch Green when Tyson came to collect a customised leather jacket in the 1980s.
Gucci grasped this potential nettle with alacrity. Michele's jacket was an act of homage to Dapper Dan. Gucci was "reaching out" in the hope they could work together. Day confirmed they were "at the table".
And here he is now, giving interviews in the house Gucci built him. Spry, slender, in a dove-grey Gucci suit, white Gucci shirt and black Gucci shoes. An Alessandro Michele-designed outfit, but it's had a remix: the tomato-red tie and matching socks are all his own.
"I went a little Harlem with the socks and tie," he grins, sitting in an elegant first-floor drawing room, its walls decorated with photos of some of his most celebrated clients: hip-hop pioneers LL Cool J, Eric B and Rakim and Salt-N-Pepa. "In Harlem, if you can afford clothes that match, you got money."
He straightens the tie. "In the Gucci campaign I wore this suit with a turtleneck: a European look. With this here, I'm in Harlem. We matchy-matchy."
Is there a difference, I wonder, between Harlem style and Brooklyn, say, or the Bronx? "Outside of New York," he says, "everybody wants to be like New York. Inside New York, everybody wants to be like Harlem. Harlem is the most looked up to. All the black communities in the States will tell you the same."
The first exemplar of the Harlem style that Day can remember seeing in the flesh was a man named Bobby Titus. "He had a job on Wall Street," he says. "I don't know what he did. He could have been an office boy. But he dressed like the white people at the time. Bobby had a black plongé leather Burberry coat. And his walk was amazing! My brothers and me, we'd get up early just to watch him walk past and go into the subway. He was so magnificent, so powerful. It validated us."
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It was only when he left Harlem, as a young man, that he encountered other struggling communities where dress was used to communicate the desire for social betterment. Recently, in Italy on Gucci business, he marvelled at the way that country's people are fastidious in their dress. "I said, 'You Italians! Either you all light-skinned African Americans or we all dark-skinned Italians.'"
Day is not only elaborate in his attire. He is florid in conversation, too. He is steeped in the history of African-American culture, not just as it pertains to fashion, but to music, philosophy, religion and more. So as well as disquisitions on black style, from zoot suits to Jay-Z (and that's just the zs), I am treated to symposia on the legacy of slavery, British imperialism, the Conquistadors, and the history of organised crime in America. It's fascinating and entertaining, and that's not the half of it. He didn't start out selling clothes. As a boy he watched his father play cards and dice games. By his early teens he had mastered them himself. He became a professional gambler, a well-known figure in Harlem, with money in his pocket: in his own term, "fly".
"Surprised? No, not surprised. I never doubted myself. Flattered? No. My ego was already in control. What I am is thankful. Elated!"
"In your world," he says to me, "the more degrees you got the more important you are. In the street world, the more hustles you got the more prestige you got. I learnt all the hustles, and I could dress good. Dressing is like a sleight of hand. People see you got this reputation? They wanna be the ones who get to say, 'I beat Dapper Dan.'"
The late 1960s was a time of consciousness-raising for many, including Day. He went back to school. He began to write for a student newspaper. He read widely. He travelled in Africa. He became involved in radical politics. He describes himself then as a revolutionary, but he also speaks of a "spiritual awakening".
"Two forces were pulling me. The street and the revolutionary thing. I got into metaphysics. I studied theosophy," he says.
He mentions the influence of the Beatles, as well as Helena Blavatsky, the Russian occultist, and the Black Panthers. (This spectrum of references, it possibly goes without saying, is rare in interviews with fashion designers. More often it's Prada and Madonna.)
Meanwhile, he had to earn a living. "People would go downtown and steal clothes and I would sell them from the back of my car," he explains. "That was a side hustle. But I had to make a choice. I could become part of the drug culture or separate myself from it."
In the 1970s and '80s, drugs flooded the inner cities. "My best friends turned millionaires, one by one, in the drug game," he says. "But I saw the devastation it brought."
There was a crack house across the street from Dapper Dan's Boutique. "I saw attractive women, young guys, professionals, go in before work. Sometimes they never came out."
Gucci and Dapper Dan opened a studio atelier in Harlem, an homage to the couturier's original shop Dapper Dan's Boutique, which was closed down 25 years ago.
The irony is not lost on him that some of the men responsible for moving heroin and cocaine into Harlem in those years were among his customers: prominent drug barons Azie Faison and Alpo Martinez — who gave his name to a Dapper Dan parka, "the Alpo" — were regular visitors to the store. Did he make a lot of money?
"You tell me," he says. "I had 12 workers in the daytime, 11 at night. Plus five people who were family members. I had a 2,000sqft factory on the East Side. I had a three-storey building on 125th Street. I bought a brownstone, Mercedes-Benz, put my children through college. Did I make a lot of money? Probably. Was I concerned about money? Absolutely not. The only thing that mattered was to spread the message about the dark side of the culture."
"Fashion is just a vehicle, it's an instrument I'm using to express something much deeper, to hopefully effect change."
Teetotal, a non-smoker and a vegetarian for 50 years, Day has nevertheless experienced that dark side at first hand. "I got a bullet in the base of my neck," he says.
One night an attempt was made to kidnap him from his shop. When he resisted, his assailant opened fire.
What rescued him? "Divine providence," he says. "It hit my ribs, ricocheted and landed this close to my jugular vein." He taps his neck. "I was 13 days in hospital. I said, 'It's time for me to go into the underground.'"
Around that time, lawyers for Fendi began proceedings against him, alerted to his activities by an altercation outside his boutique involving another famous customer, the boxer Mike Tyson, who was photographed wearing a Fendi coat that no one at Fendi could place.
In 1992 he shuttered his shop, but he didn't retire. "I still lived by making clothes," he says. "I was the best-kept secret. I would travel from here to Chicago, Atlanta… All the major hustlers and rappers in the black cities knew me: 'Yo, Dap coming to town!'"
Gucci's suggestion they go into business together came almost exactly 25 years after the closure of Dapper Dan's Boutique. "They said, 'We want to give you back everything you built that was taken from you.'"
As for the future, that belongs to his children and grandchildren, who will inherit the business.
In the meantime, there are orders to be taken, garments to be constructed, all bearing the logos of Gucci. Only this time authorised. He hopes that young African Americans from backgrounds similar to his own will find something inspiring in his story. He wants to act as a Bobby Titus — the Harlem boy made good — on a grander scale.
"Fashion is just a vehicle," he says. "It's an instrument I'm using to express something much deeper, to hopefully effect change.
"That's what this is all about," he insists, gesturing around his splendid new shop.
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Why Does Everyone Suddenly Have A 'This One'?
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Why Everyone Needs To Stop Calling Their S.O. 'This One'
Katy Thompsett
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"Relationship status. Interested in. This is what drives life at college. Are you having sex or aren't you. It's why people take certain classes and sit where they sit and do what they do. At its centre, that's what The Facebook is going to be about."
Whether these words, spoken by a fictionalised Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's 2010 film The Social Network, express the real Mark Zuckerberg's belief that humanity's basest instinct – to get down and dirty – would be the lifeblood of his masterpiece, we will probably never know. Yet whatever that 'poke' button may or may not have been for, in the 15 years since its inception, the way we use Facebook has changed. And one thing we know for sure is that sex (and the pursuit thereof) is no longer what it's about.
What it is definitely about is showing off. As our lives have moved steadily online, increasingly targeted services have popped up to cater to our every whim. Thinking about booking your next holiday? There's an app for that. Want to order a stack of euros before you go? There's an app for that. Need someone to walk your dog while you're away? You get the drift. Facebook ceased to be a source of new connections the minute dedicated platforms like Tinder came along. These days, the hottest action on Facebook involves reminding your existing connections of the very nice life you already lead.
However frustratingly, for many there is no clearer indicator of a life successfully lived than the presence within it of a significant other. Per the rules of the social media brag, though, it is not enough to post a photo on your profile of you and your beloved sipping cocktails against a breathtaking sunset. To make it absolutely clear to your followers that yes, you are In A Relationship and no, you could not possibly be happier, there must be a caption and that caption must be worded in a very specific way: "Easter spent touring this one's home country." "This one has excelled himself today with the birthday surprises." "This one [heart eyes emoji]."
The speed with which 'this one' has become accepted shorthand for 'boyfriend/partner/spouse' is extraordinary, even by digital standards.
If you have not deployed this phrasing yourself, you almost certainly know someone who has. The speed with which "this one" has become accepted shorthand for "boyfriend/partner/spouse" is extraordinary, even by digital standards.
Urban Dictionary – frequently ahead of the pack in tracking contemporary neologisms – recorded its first definition of the term in August 2005: "An affectionate way of how someone might refer to their 'significant other', usually in the presence of that person and others." The accompanying usage example is speech-based – "I'm a vegan...but THIS one here loves his sirloin!" – but in the intervening years, the expression has migrated from IRL to URL. Crucially, it is now used less for the benefit of the "one" in question than to make a point to the wider online community.
There are two camps: those who use 'this one' joyfully and with abandon, and those who abhor its existence.
On that subject, though, the community is split. Anecdotally, there are two camps: those who use "this one" joyfully and with abandon, and those who abhor its existence. Are those of us in the latter camp just a bunch of under-shagged miserabilists, begrudging our friends their happiness while muttering about the dumbing down of language and how the French would never let this happen? A little, if not entirely. As an idiom it certainly seems contrived to signpost the user's romantic fortune and – particularly when punctuated with a series of kitschy emoji – is gushingly sentimental in a way that sits uncomfortably alongside our stereotypical British reserve.
Just brutally unfollowed someone on Insta for dropping a "this one". I won't rest until it's eliminated for good.
— Emer McLysaght (@EmerTheScreamer) May 10, 2019
I think the reason it generates so much distaste is more nuanced, however. Even accounting for the fact that women are the biggest users of Facebook and Instagram, "this one" (and its cousins "this boy" and "this guy") appears to be more popular among women than among men. To my mind it recalls the male comedians of the 1970s with their barbed references to "the old ball and chain" and "her indoors" – only strip out the casual misogyny and replace it with something approaching condescension.
Does that sound harsh? Maybe. In a paper from 2005 entitled "The Scope Of Internet Linguistics", the linguist David Crystal highlights a quirk of online communication that he calls "the absence of a nonsegmental phonology" or, in layman's terms, "tone of voice". This is the reason sarcasm is best avoided when emailing your boss or why a WhatsApp conversation descends out of nowhere into an argument. It is impossible to determine the tone of a person's words unless they are spoken aloud, thus we ascribe them our own meaning. My friend Sharon may have had the purest of intentions when she posted a picture of her husband in front of the television with the caption "Making dinner while this one watches the football!" but to me, on the other side of a computer screen, it is the linguistic equivalent of her bending down and ruffling his hair. Affectionate, sure. Infantilising? I can't help but think so.
Enter the arena of Mumsnet and it acquires a more troubling connotation. Here, where there is a degree of anonymity – i.e. no photograph to provide context and clarification – users refer not to "this one" but more generically to a "darling husband" or "darling partner", frequently abbreviated to "DH" or "DP". The sincerity of that "darling" is often up for debate, however. Take this response to a post from a woman whose husband was uncomfortable with her earning more than him: "Ignoring the fact that your DH sounds like a massive bellend, the way you work out your money seems a bit chaotic." From term of endearment to unabashed insult in the same breath. Snide remarks like this one set women against men in a way that, in 2019, feels regressive and dangerous. We're back to those 1970s comedians again.
It is important to remember, though, that what we share online is rarely an accurate reflection of real life. Last year, a survey of 2,000 UK adults by the relationship support charity Relate found that 51% of millennials portray their relationship as happier than it really is, while 42% use social media to give "the impression of a perfect relationship". This may go some way to explain the proliferation of terms like "this one" – we have identified them as a signifier of romantic bliss and, consciously or otherwise, used them to cultivate our online persona. I'd hazard a guess that most of your mates who drop a "this one" do so unthinkingly.
How and why it came about, we may never know. I suspect that the popularity of Bridget Jones' Diary (and later, Gone Girl), with its wryly written journal entries, has something to do with it. I wonder, too, whether the original third-person format of Facebook status updates – "Katy is [insert what you're up to here]" – established a distance between our real and online selves that we have since struggled to close. Our reluctance to use the possessive – "my boyfriend", "my partner" – could certainly be indicative of a tendency to think of ourselves in the third person. Or perhaps it is pure narcissism: a carefully positioned "this one" conveys to the people who matter that you have hit the relationship jackpot but in refusing to name your significant other, you ensure that the focus remains squarely on you.
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MIAMI (AP) The Miami Heat weren't supposed to be in this situation. Not now, anyway.
Coming home from Texas with their season on the line in 2011 was one thing. They were at the end of their first year together - LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh still trying to figure it all out and clearly a long way from it.
But this season they were the NBA's best team, one that lost three games in three months and made losing three times in one series look unlikely, if not downright unimaginable.
The San Antonio Spurs can finish Miami off Tuesday night in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, reaffirming themselves as one of the league's greatest franchises.
If so, the Heat's Big Three once again go from celebrated to devastated.
"We're going to see if we're a better team than we were our first year together," James said.
The Spurs took a 3-2 lead with their 114-104 victory Sunday night. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili were all brilliant again, and Danny Green added to what could become one of the most out-of-nowhere finals MVP campaigns ever.
One more victory makes the Spurs 5-0 in the NBA Finals, keeping pace with Michael Jordan's 6-0 Chicago Bulls as the only teams to make it here multiple times and never lose.
"We understand Game 6 is huge," Parker said. "Obviously, you want to finish in the first opportunity you get. We understand that Miami is going to come out with a lot more energy, and they're going to play better at home. They're going to shoot the ball better. Their crowd is going to be behind them."
None of that mattered two years ago.
Clearly reeling and their psyches shaken after dropping two straight games in Dallas, the Heat were blitzed early in Game 6. They never recovered, Bosh inconsolable as he made his way back to the locker room afterward while the Mavericks celebrated at center court.
James had to endure the criticisms that came with not getting it done in the finals, a story line that was put to rest last year but will be back again if the Heat don't manage to put together consecutive victories.
"We challenge ourselves to see if we're a better team than we were," Wade said. "Same position no matter how we got to it."
The Heat would also host Game 7 on Thursday. They're trying to join the 1988 and 2010 Los Angeles Lakers and 1994 Houston Rockets as the only teams to rally from 3-2 down by winning the final two on their home floor since the NBA Finals went to a 2-3-2 format in 1985.
Of course, the Heat - who won 27 in a row during the second-longest winning streak in league history - haven't put together consecutive victories now in close to a month.
"We're in a position where it's a must-win and everything that we've done all year comes to this point, and we have to win," Heat guard Ray Allen said. "We've found ourselves in so many situations this year, and we've thrived in tough moments because this is a tough team. We will be ready for Game 6."
So will the Spurs, and the Heat know it.
"I'm sure this team, they've been here before many times. They understand winning that last game is one of the hardest things you're going to do. And we understand it as well," Wade said.
"But you know what? It's the game; we've got to play it. I like our chances, just like they like their chances, in this series and in Game 6. We'll see. We'll see which team, which style is going to prevail."
Their four titles have made the Spurs respected but never beloved. Their first, in 1999, came following a 50-game lockout season, and they certainly weren't the team to help the NBA regain its jilted fan base.
Victories in 2003 over New Jersey, 2005 over Detroit and 2007 over James' Cleveland Cavaliers were all low-rated, lukewarm-interest series in which the Spurs were supposed to win and did, just not in a way that erased the idea that they had boring players with a boring brand of basketball.
Win this one, though, and they will surely get their due. They would be knocking off the league's winningest team and the game's best player, with Duncan at 37 and Ginobili soon to be 36, behind a more wide-open offense that has helped Green break Allen's finals record for 3-pointers.
Not that they're thinking about that, or anything else beyond Game 6 at this point.
"We'll reflect back and let it hit us when it's over. We still have a lot more work to do. There's still some business to be done. We have to carry it out and finish it," said Green, who was cut previously by the Cavaliers and Spurs and now has made 25 3-pointers in the first five games.
It looked as though the game was finally passing by the Spurs last year, when the young Oklahoma City Thunder blew by them with four straight victories after San Antonio had taken a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.
The Heat routed the Thunder for the championship and the Spurs brought back essentially the same team, believing another year in their system for players like Green and Kawhi Leonard was a better option than seeking out some quick-fix outsider.
That's almost always been the Spurs' way, and it's on the verge of again being the model for an NBA title - at the expense of the Miami one that once appeared to be the way champions would be built.
"I think every one of us wants this very badly from the top on down," Duncan said. "We're trying to play that way."
MIAMI (AP) LeBron James saved a championship reign, canceled a celebration.
The toughest part now might be topping this performance in Game 7.
"It's by far the best game I've ever been a part of," James said.
He wouldn't let the Miami Heat lose it - or their NBA title.
If the San Antonio Spurs want that, they'll have to fight just a little harder to get it. One last game, winner take all.
James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat beat the Spurs 103-100 on Tuesday night to extend the NBA Finals as far as they can go and keep Miami's repeat chances alive.
So close to being eliminated that they noticed officials bringing yellow tape out to block off the court for the Spurs' trophy presentation, the Heat hit a couple of big 3-pointers, got some defensive stops, and did everything else that makes great teams champions.
"We seen the championship board already out there, the yellow tape. And you know, that's why you play the game to the final buzzer," James said. "And that's what we did tonight. We gave it everything that we had and more."
Game 7 will be here Thursday, the NBA's first do-or-die matchup to determine its champion since the Lakers beat the Celtics in 2010.
And two the Spurs were oh-so-close to avoiding.
They looked headed to a fifth title in five chances when they built a 13-point lead with under 4 minutes left in the third quarter, then grabbed a five-point edge with 28 seconds left in regulation after blowing the lead.
"It's a tough moment. We were a few seconds away from winning the championship and we let it go," Spurs veteran Manu Ginobili said. "A couple rebounds we didn't catch, a tough 3 by Ray and a couple missed free throws. It's a very tough moment."
Nothing to worry about. Not with James playing like this.
Somewhere in there, early in the fourth quarter, James lost his familiar headband. He couldn't remember exactly when or how. Nor was it particularly important to him.
Losing the game would have been far worse.
"I guess the headband was the least of my worries at that point," James said.
Before that, he had been 12 minutes from hearing the familiar criticisms about not being able to get it done, from having to watch a team celebrate on his home floor again.
"He just plays with great force," Allen said.
The Heat said they welcomed this challenge, a chance to show they how much mentally tougher they were than the team the Dallas Mavericks easily handled in Game 6 that night.
"He just made plays. I don't think there's any two ways to put it," Duncan said. "We were in the right position to close it out and he found a way to put his team over the top and we just didn't make enough plays to do that."
Bosh had said Green wouldn't get open the way he has all series - and he didn't.
The Heat, the NBA's 66-win powerhouse during the regular season, will be playing a seventh game for the second straight round, having needed to go the distance to beat the Indiana Pacers in the East finals.
"See you in Game 7!" the public address announcer hollered as some Heat fans tossed their white T-shirts - the ones that hang on chairs in the arena. These read "First to 16 Wins," meaning the number of victories it takes to win the championship.
Parker's 3-pointer over James tied it at 89 with 1:27 left. He then came up with a steal, spinning into the lane for a 91-89 lead with 58 seconds to go. Miami coughed it up again and Ginobili made two free throws, and he hit another after a third straight Miami turnover to put the Spurs ahead 94-89.
But James nailed a 3-pointer with 20 seconds left, and the Heat had one more chance after Leonard made just one foul shot to give the Spurs a 95-92 edge. James missed but Bosh got the rebound out to Allen, the league's career leader in 3-pointers, who made another one from the corner to even it up.
Bosh finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Mario Chalmers scored 20 points and Dwyane Wade had 14.
After shooting 60 percent in Game 5, the Spurs hadn't cooled off when they traded Texas heat for the South Florida sun, making nine of their first 12 shots to open a 20-16 lead. Duncan made all six shots in the first quarter, but consecutive 3-pointers by Shane Battier and Chalmers late in the period rallied Miami to a 27-25 advantage.
Duncan made his first eight shots, scoring 13 straight San Antonio points over nearly 8 minutes in the second quarter. Boris Diaw finally stopped that stretch with a little scoop shot in the lane and Leonard tipped in a miss with 1.3 seconds left, capping the Spurs' 11-0 run to end the second quarter. It was 50-44 at the break.
With Duncan 37 and Ginobili nearly 36, the Spurs know they may never get another shot like this one.
Duncan knew how tough it would be to get back to the top six years ago, when the Spurs swept James' Cleveland Cavaliers for their most recent title.
San Antonio's leader told James afterward that the league would someday belong to him.
And on Tuesday, James refused to let it go.
Notes: James had his 11th postseason triple-double and second of this series. ... Allen moved two behind Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher (48) for second place in finals 3-pointers. Robert Horry, a former champion with the Spurs, made 56 3-pointers in the finals. Horry held the Spurs' record for 3s in a finals with 15 in 2005 that Green has broken with his finals-record 26. ... Duncan and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich appeared in their 210th playoff game together, moving 30 ahead of Phil Jackson and Bryant for most all-time.
THE FACTS: Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer to force overtime and then two free throws to help ice the Miami Heat's 103-100 comeback victory in overtime against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals Tuesday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
The series is even at 3-all, with Game 7 coming Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
The Heat trailed by 13 points late in the third quarter and were down 75-65 entering the fourth quarter. LeBron James scored 18 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to pace the Heat. James also had 11 assists and 10 rebounds for a triple-double. He now has tallied the last four triple-doubles in The Finals.
Mario Chalmers added 20 points while Dwyane Wade had 14. The Spurs were led by Tim Duncan's 30 points and 17 rebounds. Kawhi Leonard had 22 points and 11 rebounds and Tony Parker finished with 19 points and eight assists.
The Spurs led by five with 28 seconds left in regulation before the Heat went on a 6-1 run, capped by Allen's 3-pointer from the corner to force overtime. James gave the Heat the lead for good on a jump shot with 1:43 left. Miami sealed the win after Manu Ginobili committed a turnover, allowing Allen to ice with two free throws.
QUOTABLE: "We feel grateful we have an opportunity to play for a title in a Game 7. Our guys aren't looking for games that are less meaningful. We're looking for games that are more meaningful and there's nothing bigger than a Game 7."
THE STAT: The Heat held Duncan to just five points after halftime.
TURNING POINT: Leonard missed a free throw in the final 30 seconds of regulation, leaving the door open for Allen's 3-pointer.
QUOTABLE II: "We had them where we wanted, very close game down the stretch. Up two with two free throws and a few seconds to go, no timeouts. We were in a great spot. We just gave them another chance."
HOT: After a slow first half, James got it going in the second half. He faced more criticism if the Heat would have lost. Instead, he has one more game to further his legacy.
NOT: Danny Green, who was a favorite to win Finals MVP, finished just 1-for-7 from the field. He had a chance to force a second overtime but had his shot blocked by Chris Bosh in the closing seconds.
GOOD MOVE: James took it upon himself to be the aggressor in the second half. Without him in the third quarter, the Heat probably would have been watching the Spurs celebrate on their home court.
BAD MOVE: The Spurs will be kicking themselves after those final 28 seconds of regulation, with the missed free throws and turnovers.
UP NEXT: Game 7 at 9 p.m. ET, Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena.


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You might start off with experience, education, working hours etc. You continue to expand upon YOUR reasons.
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Solar-powered homes in Thailand store excess energy as hydrogen
A new residential complex in Thailand will be completely off-grid, running on solar-powered hydrogen energy storage.
The Phi Suea House development in Chiang Mai consists of four family homes and several other support buildings, fully powered by 114 kW of photovoltaic panels generating around 441 kWh of electricity per day, Gizmag reported recently.
During the day, excess solar power is used to run electrolysers and produce hydrogen. This is stored until it is needed, typically at night, and is then transformed back into electricity using fuel cells.
It's a dream to have 24-hour access to the power of the sun. With our renewable power system and hydrogen energy storage, we have fulfilled this dream, said Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, initiator of the Phi Suea House project.
The housing complex is expected to be fully operational by the end of January. It will also feature solar hot water panels to heat water, double-glazed windows, thick walls, natural ventilation, efficient fans to reduce air conditioning use, and large windows and lower-power LED lamps to minimise the energy required for lighting, Gizmag reported.
CNX Construction, the company behind the Phi Suea House, believes that further advancements in the technology and lower costs will result in similar projects being developed in Thailand and all over the world in the coming years.
The technology behind this system is still very new, the company said. There are some systems already running in labs at leading universities worldwide and small numbers of similar hydrogen energy storages have been deployed as backup power systems for telecommunications in remote areas, but the Phi Suea House is the first project worldwide where this ground-breaking technology is being used as the main energy storage for a multi-house residential development.
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Q: Will I face any trouble consuming SOAP WS manually? There's this SOAP RPC v1.2 which I have to integrate to. Not a complex one, two operations only.
My question is fairy simple, even though I haven't seem to figure it out: Is it wrong or trouble to implement this integration code on my own, instead of using stuff like Apache Axis ou CXF?
It seems to me that's just XML going back and forth over TCP... Am I wrong?
Thanks in advance.

A: SOAP and RPC are protocols (it means everything is well defined by rules and steps), so yeah, basically all you have to do is follow this rules and steps in your implementation and you should be completely fine.
And yep, both SOAP and RPC define XML as the standard format for data transfers, so  we could say that all you have to do are XML parsers to interpret the data you exchange.

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It seems to me that's just XML going back and forth over TCP... Am I wrong?

You are not wrong. It's XML over HTTP. You can populate values into an XML template to send the request and then parse the XML response. Whether or not this is easier to implemented and maintain may depend on your application, but it's usually easier to generate stub classes from the WSDL file.

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This is also a great way to keep animals out of your pool, especially since there are sprinkler systems that come equipped with infrared beams, which can detect the movement of animals! If the beams detect animal activity, the sprinklers will begin to spray. The spray of water is a great way to scare animals off without causing them any harm.
There are chemicals you can spray on the areas surrounding your pool that will deter animals from coming any closer. You can even create your own mixture by combining water and Cayenne pepper in a spray bottle. Another combination, which consists of onion, water and jalapeno pepper may also help keep critters at bay.
Some people choose to purchase pool covers as a way to keep animals from diving in for a dip. If you're looking for something that has additional functionality, there are pool covers you can purchase that have a solar component, which will help warm the water.
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Troy Millikan, a Savannah native, is an enthusiastic trial lawyer. He attended the University of Georgia Undergraduate and Law School obtaining two degrees in six years. He practiced law in Atlanta until 1972, where he also taught Business Law at Atlanta Law School and was elected to the Executive Board of the State Bar Younger Lawyers section. Mr. Millikan moved to Gainesville in 1972 and was in partnership with other lawyers until he established his own law firm in 1980. His law office is located near the downtown area of Gainesville, Georgia.
Mr. Millikan says, Trial practice and college football have numerous things in common; the necessity for thorough preparation, clever strategy, and intense and focused execution of a well thought out battle plan. I enjoy the challenge and competitive nature of each endeavor and hope to continue participating in trials and watching Georgia football for many years to come."
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While at the University of Georgia, Mr. Millikan was sports editor of the Pandora Yearbook. And upon learning that Vince Dooley was selected as the head football coach, he placed in the Pandora a prophecy, "Dawn of a New Era." Fortunately, for Troy and other Bulldog fans, his prophecy proved true as the greatest era of Georgia football (before Kirby Smart) began with the coaching career of Vince Dooley. After Dooley, Mr. Millikan welcomed the new coach, Donnan, with a bumper sticker "A NEW DAY'S DONNAN." He later celebrated the success of Coach Mark Richt with a Bumper sticker, "THERE IS NO QUIT IN THE DAWGS OF RICHT," and a letter to the editor which praised the character and mentor abilities of the coach.
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It wouldn't be Super Bowl without Universal and after dropping trailers for their most prized tentpoles Furious 7, Fate of the Furious and even the first Jurassic World, the studio is back with their latest big push for the latter's June 22 sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom which ran right before kickoff.
The trailer above features Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard encountering a whole new set of dino-problems. There seems to be plenty of focus on Owen's (Pratt) relationship and connection with Blue the velociraptor — which was established in the first installment of the reboot. At the same time, the trailer doesn't skimp on dinosaur-centric scares and adventure with a gun-toting Howard taking more of a front seat when it comes to action as Isla Nublar falls apart around them. The film also gives us glimpses of new cast members Justice Smith and Toby Jones.
For about six months prior to the opening of Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Force Awakens back in 2015, the first Jurassic World held the record for the best domestic opening of all-time with $208.8M. That figure now ranks third behind Force Awakens ($247.9M) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220M). Will Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom make B.O. history again? Similar to the the 2015 title, no other major studio release dares to compete against the J.A. Bayona-directed pic in mid-June.


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Young people have opportunities to spend time with their peers outside of school and college. They are supported to develop and maintain friendships and relationships. They can access their community and feel safe and confident.
A discussion paper from the Centre for Welfare Reform published in association with Paradigm on a new form of community-brokerage - Help and Connect - a model which is being piloted by Skills for People in Newcastle.


After getting some fun new toys for Christmas, [IceColdFreezie] set up this kill counter for Team Fortress 2. At first glance, we weren't that impressed. It's an Arduino and a few LEDs. Then we saw that it was counting the kills in binary. We're not sure if it gets much geekier than that. You can download the source code and try it out yourself. Just don't make more than 31 kills.
Is there an API to get the kill count? That's the most intriguing part to me.
Hm – doesn't "counting in binary" mean that he only didn't bother converting the data into some other form but simply outputs it to the ports of the AVR?
LOL its tens of times easier to (program something to) count in binary than in decimal… But yeah, I agree with Kyle that the interface is way more interesting.
C'mon you guys, read the damned link before posting.
He must be using "con_logfile" command and checking for his steam name on new entries on the file.
As I said in the video description, its nothing too spectacular or useful.
Also, @poot: Could you explain how that would work? It sounds cool and I'd like to simplify it all but I have no idea how to do that stuff.
He should have made the arduino into an aimbot.
arduino + vb!!! oh god what have you done!
@IceColdFreezie: See http://www.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm for a parallel port primer. Outputting a byte value to the base address of the parallel port will make that value appear on pins 2~9. Inpout32.dll (http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Ports/Parallel_Port/Inpout32.dll_for_Windows_98/2000/NT/XP.html) can be used to access the parallel port via two simple functions, P/Invoked from VB (or just about any other programming language).
Of course, parallel ports are (sadly) increasingly rarely found on PCs, though they do provide a decent number of I/O lines at sensible voltages. Using USB may well be overkill but it's the most widely accessible port these days.
Gee, eleven wires? I cloned it a couple minutes ago with only six.
Really, though, pretty cool little thing. Might throw one together and take it to my PC gamer friend's house.
binary counting is a 5 minute "project". . . especially on an arduino.
@ICeColdFreezie: Use Inpout to use the parallel port. it consists of inpout32.dll for the executable but you'll need to get the .lib to compile your own program. I'm sure it works with C/C++ and I think I saw a VB port one time. You could just directly connect the LEDs to the Parallel port pins through resistors.
Believe me, i'm as surprised as you are, haha.
i am going to make this right away, yes, yes, yes i am… NOT! there should be a category "arduino related junk" for these kind of things. sorry, but that is the (sad?) truth.
Remember back when you started out in electronics yourself. Blinking a LED was an accomplishment, counting in binary on a few LEDs a cool thing. This post must be very motivational to IceColdFreezie.
Why bother soldering up a parallel port connection (like serial ports, do computers even reliably still have these?) when you can shunt out an 8 bit value to 8 pins in 1 line of code with the direct port access (if you pick consecutive pins of course).
Given it's still "something hanging off my computer" I think I'd go for the Arduino solution for expediency.
I really don't see how making something count in binary is cool. It seems like a step backwards, a unnecessarily harder way to do a simple task. I bet if Ford made a new car that required the driver to step out every few minutes, open the hood, and adjust a knob for the ignition timing (which had an Arduino flashing an LED whenever the timing was off) then hackaday would basically be all over it as the ultimate car for geeks.
This site used to be cool before it turned into an obnoxious rambling commercial for Arduinos.
Interesting project. Also… good job patiently putting up with the criticism.
It's not the site that is crazy about arduinos it's that people grow up with knowing only arduinos, all other sites with projects are also full of arduino stuff because that's what people out there most often use.


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GroupMe is advertised an easy way to connect with the people that matter most to you by chatting with their phone number or email address. Similar to its predecessor, Skype, the application boasts that it can replace the functionality of smartphones in general by texting with direct conversations and using a web browser version that connects to all of your conversations at her desktop.
Now GroupMe has rolled out its beta version 1.9.2.9 with an added Media Search function (first spotted by MSPU). Tapping the button will open an image and GIF gallery with a search bar. Users can find exactly how they want to communicate with the list of pre-selected media that will post directly in the conversation with their friends, co-workers, and family.
The current version of GroupMe on Windows 10 Mobile doesn't have the feature yet, but the feature is similar to that of other social networks. We have no doubt that it will be part of a release update shortly.
Do you use GroupMe for communicating with your friends?


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Article| August 01 1981
Structure of nuclear ribonucleoprotein: identification of proteins in contact with poly(A)+ heterogeneous nuclear RNA in living HeLa cells.
S Mayrand,
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B Setyono,
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J R Greenberg,
J R Greenberg
T Pederson
https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.90.2.380
S Mayrand, B Setyono, J R Greenberg, T Pederson; Structure of nuclear ribonucleoprotein: identification of proteins in contact with poly(A)+ heterogeneous nuclear RNA in living HeLa cells.. J Cell Biol 1 August 1981; 90 (2): 380–384. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.90.2.380
The processing of heterogeneous nuclear RNA into messenger RNA takes place in special nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles known as hnRNP. We report here the identification of proteins tightly complexed with poly(A)+ hnRNA in intact HeLa cells, as revealed by a novel in situ RNA-protein cross-linking technique. The set of cross-linked proteins includes the A, B, and C "core" hnRNP proteins, as well as the greater than 42,000 mol wt species previously identified in noncross-linked hnRNP. These proteins are shown to be cross-linked by virtue of remaining bound to the poly(A)+ hnRNA in the presence of 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 0.5 M NaCl, and 60% formamide, during subsequent oligo(dT)-cellulose chromatography, and in isopycnic banding in Cs2SO4 density gradients. These results establish that poly(A)+ hnRNA is in direct contact with a moderately complex set of nuclear proteins in vivo. This not only eliminates earlier models of hnRNP structure that were based upon the concept of a single protein component but also suggests that these proteins actively participate in modulating hnRNA structure and processing in the cell.


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Professor Muses: Racism, Police Let Children Die
Biden Says He Will "Do Something" While In Uvalde
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Joe and Jill Biden are visiting Uvalde, Texas, today, in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting.
Waukesha, Wisconsin, was unavailable for comment.
Regardless, the situation in Uvalde has currently united people from all across the political spectrum on one singular issue: the police decision that had local law enforcement standing around outside instead of aggressively trying to engage the shooter.
we have unity here for once
Left and Right are both furious at the Police who stood by and did nothing or even blocked parents from saving their kids
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) May 27, 2022
Reportedly, even the law enforcement on the scene objected to the decision that was made by Chief of Police Pete Arredondo to not move in and engage the shooter. He is the head of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department (yes, the school district has its own police department) and was the commander on the scene who made that call. That was the same call that the BORTAC agents eventually ignored and went in to take out the shooter themselves.
An off-duty BORTAC agent was the first to arrive. The agent "basically said let's get this done" and began planning a way into the room, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told the Washington Post. More BORTAC agents arrived around 15 minutes later, and within minutes of getting a key to unlock the door, a variety of law enforcement officers followed a leading BORTAC agent holding a ballistic shield provided by a U.S. marshal."
The same source said the shooter was hiding in a closet at the time and burst out firing at the officials, who returned fire and killed Ramos. One BORTAC agent received minor injuries after his head was grazed by a bullet and his foot struck by shrapnel."
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. The report noted that agents saw children piled up and huddled together around the room, some of them alive and others dead."
This would also explain how some of the children in the room were able to survive the massacre. The shooter was no longer paying attention to them – he was lying in wait for law enforcement by hiding in a closet. Law enforcement has been scrambling to explain the decision to not storm the school ever since, not to mention those LEOs who were "upset" but still didn't go in.
Well, those in charge are going to have a lot of time to think about their decisions, now that the Department of Justice has announced that they will be conducting a "Critical Incident Review" of law enforcement's actions.
DOJ spox: "At the request of Uvalde's mayor, DOJ will conduct a Critical Incident Review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting… The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions & responses that day…"https://t.co/7YEOnckjsy pic.twitter.com/xGzK7LRILL
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) May 29, 2022
And now here comes Joe Biden, who is in Uvalde to pay his respects and talk with the survivors. There were plenty of demonstrators out there, too, and the message was loud. "Do Something™!"
Crowds scream "Do something" at Joe Biden in Uvalde, Texas
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 29, 2022
Reportedly (and it's not clear that the crowd heard it, at least not in the above video) Biden said "We will."
At Robb Elementary School, Biden stopped at a memorial of 21 white crosses — one for each of those killed — and the first lady added a bouquet of white flowers to a pile in front of the school sign. They viewed individual altars erected in memory of each student, and the first lady touched the children's photos as the couple moved along the row."
After visiting the memorial, Biden attended Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where some victims' families worship. As he departed to meet privately with family members, a crowd of about 100 people began chanting "do something." Biden replied, "We will," as he got into his car."
It was not immediately clear what the president was suggesting. He also planned to meet with first responders before returning to his home in Delaware."
Do Something™ is always a bad reaction, because no two people can agree with what the Something™ is. Kamala Harris has already decided what the Something™ should be – she's pushing for an "assault weapons ban."
Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on "assault weapons" on Saturday after she spoke at the funeral of a woman killed in the Buffalo, New York grocery store mass shooting earlier this month.
She called the firearm a "weapon of war" that has "no place in civil society."
"We are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like. You know, we're not looking for a vaccine. We know what works on this," she told reporters outside of Air Force Two at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, referring to the series of mass shootings that have plagued the U.S. "Let's have an assault weapons ban."
Yeah, that ban worked so well the first time, right?
If Do Something™ means the DOJ calls the police chief and other law enforcement onto the carpet and holds them accountable for their actions that day, fine. I think that everyone wants answers to why the police failed to act swiftly and decisively when children were bleeding out inside that classroom. Passing gun control legislation or an "assault weapons ban" is not a "Something™" that will actually bring about change.
So what did Biden mean when he said "we will"? He means whatever his staff tells him it will mean, after they poll-test it.
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American Human says:
I could have told you six months ago what Biden's "Do something" would be today. Make that 6 years or even 20 years ago.
Lloyd says:
"Joe and Jill Biden"….I'd sooner listen to Ma & Pa Kettle..!!
Uvalde – The Case For More Guns - United Push Back says:
[…] Joe Biden says he is going to "Do something". It won't help you, whatever he […]
Biden: 2nd Amendment Isn't Absolute - United Push Back says:
[…] and they especially hate the 2nd Amendment. They want to ban it all as that is, according to their rationale, much easier to do than to address the REAL elephants in the room, which includes fractured […]
Humility says:
Wow, great! Is he going to :
Reopen the asylums and work out the necessary difficult rules and laws for involuntary commitment? Establish suggested minimum procedures for active shooter and hostage situations? Establish a resource for state and locals to reach out to for help when dealing with mentally handicapped people?
or just:
Rant about controlling an evil inanimate object that is allowed for all his military, DHS Police, DOJ Police, and private security? Political grandstand? Get an ice cream?


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Keselowski wins; Busch unlucky in Vegas again
The Sports Xchange
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
Distributed by The Sports Xchange
LAS VEGAS -- In the closing laps of Saturday's Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch was close enough to make Brad Keselowski uncomfortable.
It didn't help that Keselowski's engine sputtered when the voltage in his battery dropped dangerously low.
But Keselowski built a big enough lead after a restart on Lap 168 of 200 to ward off Busch's charge in the closing stages of the race.
Keselowski's first win of the season, his first at LVMS and the 28th of his career left Busch, a Las Vegas native, frustrated in his 11th futile attempt to win a Nationwide Series race on home turf.
Busch was runner-up for the second straight year and third time overall.
"Kyle's one of the best in the business and he deserves a win here, and he's been real close, just like we have," said Keselowski, who was leading on the final lap in 2011 before a blown tire knocked him back to third.
"These races aren't getting any easier to win. I drove as hard as I could every lap, knowing that Kyle was coming there, especially at the end. We were having some troubles with the engine there, and I knew it was just a matter of time before he caught me. I was just trying to get through as much traffic as I could and extend that time, and was counting down the laps. It felt good that everything worked out at the end."
Kyle Larson ran third, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and rookie Chase Elliott.
Matt Kenseth, Brian Scott, Trevor Bayne, Chris Buescher and Regan Smith completed the top 10, leaving Smith and Bayne tied for the series points lead.
Busch dropped to the rear for the start of the race, because his crew made an unapproved adjustment to the No. 54 Toyota after impound, replacing a frayed alternator belt.
By Lap 12, however, Busch had cracked the top 10 and continued to advance through a 56-lap green-flag run to start the race.
When NASCAR slowed the field with a debris caution, Busch was third, having gained two positions during an exchange of pit stops under green.
But Keselowski was dominant during the middle third of the race, and after a restart on Lap 75 -- a result of the second caution for Dylan Kwasniewski's brush with the Turn 3 wall on Lap 70 -- he drove away from Busch, who was running second.
A second cycle of green-flag stops put Busch in the lead on Lap 131. By then, there were seven cars on the lead lap.
Busch had a half-second lead when NASCAR called the third caution on Lap 148 because of debris in Turn 2.
During pit stops under yellow, Keselowski overshot his pit stall, dropped three positions and restarted fifth on Lap 152, with Busch leading the field to green.
Seven laps later, after an intense battle for the lead, Kenseth spun in Turn 4 trying to keep pace with Busch but adroitly kept the No. 20 Toyota off the wall and saved the car from damage.
Keselowski rocketed into the lead moments after the subsequent restart on Lap 162 and held it the rest of the way.
Busch picked the outside lane for that restart and immediately dropped positions to Keselowski and Elliott but didn't consider that choice a decisive factor.
"I stepped on the gas, and it felt like I was holding a parachute, the way those guys went by me," Busch said. "I was third before I even got to Turn 1. Junior was pushing me there for a little bit.
"I don't know happened, if he fell off me or what, but ... it just wouldn't go."
Immigration officers at O'Hare detain 3 children who are U.S. citizens: Congresswoman calls it 'kidnapping of children by our government'
4 Chicago cops fired for alleged cover-up of fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald
Judge sentences U. of I. killer Brendt Christensen to life in prison after jury unable to decide on death sentence
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This blueprint aims to extend the Juju subordinate service concept, provide support for a number of application server technologies in two ways: charms for some of the most common application servers and tools to enable users to create charms for their own application to be deployed on top of any compatible application server.
Application server technologies such as Django, JavaEE or Ruby on Rails work in a similar way: an application server provides a runtime and services to a number of applications it hosts, such as access to data sources, configuration options, etc in a way that shields the applications from the underlying topology.
As a sysop, I want to deploy a web application container on a cloud node.
As a sysop, I want to deploy a web application onto a compatible container node.
As a sysop, I want to define a named data source in a web app node and add a relationship to a database node for that data source.
Properly gathering best practices from developer communities, and integrating that knowledge into the framework charm itself.
CharmTesting should be leveraged here to exercise a framework charm with traditional workloads, and to specifically repeatedly exercise the individual functions of the framework charm.
Framework charm development will need a base set of application charms to test the functionality of the framework itself. There could also be an "exerciser" framework charm that specifically and exhaustively tests each function of the framework (where a 'normal' application charm may not exercise all the functions or do it repeatedly).
Release not may not be applicable here, but we should blog about framework charms so folks now they are available to use.
- Lack of ability to work locally hurts adoption.
- Tie in messaging of the dev story with local provider landing.
- sherpa will really help this story too.


DC Comics Rebirth Spoilers & Review: Superman Villain Brainiac's & New 52 Lobo's Fates Revealed In Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps #12!
DC Comics Rebirth Spoilers and Review for Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #12 follow!
…collectors and hoarders. The GLC and Sinestro Corps are trying to save themselves and Tomar Tu's people who are trapped as their city was bottled by Brainiac.
Then we get the splash page teams shot of the GLC and Sinestro Corps!
…but they start going after and destroying Larfleeze's collections. We do get a glimpse of what happened to New 52 doppleganger Lobo in DC Rebirth; the new look Lobo is part of Larfleeze's collection while the classic Lobo is wreaking havoc in Justice League vs. Suicide Squad.
Enter Green Lantern Hal Jordan, White Lantern Kyle Rayner and rogue Guardians of Galaxy Ganthet and Sayd.
…as the combined teams continue working over Larfleeze's collection to his dismay.
While I didn't expect Brainiac to die, I do like the possibilities it opens for him and Brainiac. That part of story seemed rushed though. The ending corps' partnership was also a surprise. Solid story and art. 8 out of 10.


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Would i need an install kit of any sort or can i just put these in?
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If you are a candidate for dental bone surgery, your dentist may use ultrasound to cut. This ultrasound technology is known as Piezoelectric Bone Surgery.
Dentists have been using ultrasound in their practices for many years to assist in the removal of plaque and other dental procedures and surgeries. The technology for the use of ultrasound is constantly advancing and in recent years ultrasound technology has expanded in the area of dental bone surgery.
Ultrasound has been used in many dental and medical procedures as it provides a better tool for surgeons and practitioners to achieve the best results. Ultrasound used in surgeries, for example, allows for sharp, clean cuts to tissues that result in less bleeding and a faster healing time for patients.
This is significant for dentists who perform dental procedures that require cutting into bone, including extractions, dental implants, bone grafts and contouring, ridge expansions, crown lengthening, periodontal therapy, orthodontic microsurgery, and endodontic surgeries.
In Piezoelectric Bone Surgery, an ultrasonic frequency is generated by pushing an electric current over piezoceramic rings. Their movement results in a vibration that is sent through an amplifier that yields the ultrasonic frequency.
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Q: Significance of two arguments in fread? When reading the documentation for fread here, it explains that the two arguments after the void *ptr are multiplied together to determine the amount of bytes being read / written in the file. Below is the function header for fread given from the link:
size_t fread(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream);

My question is, other than the returned value from the function, is there really a behavior or performance difference between calling each of these:
// assume arr is an int[SOME_LARGE_NUMBER] and fp is a FILE*
fread(arr, sizeof(arr), 1, fp);
fread(arr, sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int), sizeof(int), fp);
fread(arr, sizeof(int), sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int), fp);
fread(arr, 1, sizeof(arr), fp);

And which one would generally be the best practice? Or a more general question is, how do I decide what to specify for each of the arguments in any given scenario?
EDIT
To clarify, I am not asking for a justification of two arguments instead of one, I'm asking for a general approach on deciding what to pass to the arguments in any given scenario. And this answer that Massimiliano linked in the comments and cited only provides two specific examples and doesn't sufficiently explain why that behavior happens.

A: There is a behavior difference if there is not enough data to satisfy the request.  From the page you linked to:

The total number of elements successfully read are returned as a size_t object, which is an integral data type. If this number differs from the nmemb parameter, then either an error had occurred or the End Of File was reached.

So if you specify that there is only one element of size sizeof(arr), and there is not enough data to fill arr, then you won't get any data returned.  If you do:
fread(arr, sizeof(int), sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int), fp);

then arr will be partially filled if there is not enough data.
The third line of your code most naturally fits the API of fread.  However, you could use one of the other forms if you document why you are not doing the normal thing.


After going through multiple records for the opening day, opening weekend and opening week, Sanju is now fighting it out for records when it comes to lifetime numbers of several biggies. This was evidenced on the second Friday when it collected Rs. 12.90 crore more. With this, the overall collections have now shot up to Rs. 215.41 crore. What this means is that in eight days flat, the film has now surpassed the lifetime numbers of Salman Khan's biggie Prem Ratan Dhan Payo that had collected Rs. 210 crore in Diwali 2015.
The film is still running at more than 3900 screens which means potential is to gather around Rs. 40 crore on each of the days. However even if the film runs to 50% capacity, Rs. 20 crore each is possible today and tomorrow. Hence, one now waits to see the kind of growth that the film evidences from this point on because while a second weekend of around Rs. 50 crore is for the taking, anything more than that would be truly superb.
Given the kind of huge push that the film had evidenced on its first Saturday, especially Sunday and then even on Monday, one would have expected an even higher number on the second Friday. This is the reason why now there is opportunity for the film to grow again. If the film sees a good curve from this point on and hits the Rs. 20 crore mark on the second Sunday, it would ensure yet another very good weekdays on the cards right through the second week.
A lifetime total in excess of Rs. 325 crore is definitely up there for the Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Fox Star Studios film. While that would pitch the film well beyond the Blockbuster tag, it would be interesting to see how much further does it go from there.


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My daughters each had a select few favorite Disney movies...don't get me wrong we love them all, but there were a couple that I just new the VCR had memorized, and really didn't need the tape to be pushed back in upon rewinding in order to play it again. One of those cherished movies is Sleeping Beauty, who can resist the scene of the dress transforming magically from pink to blue and back again? I ask you, who? In honor of that favorite scene our party just had to be pink and blue.
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Film, Psychology
The Extreme Misogyny of 'Vertigo'
Posted by Kaitlin Sansoucie on December 29, 2014 April 30, 2019
I often wonder why Jimmy Stewart, an actor known for having a wholesome nature in an out of character, would play increasingly misogynistic roles in Hitchcock's films over a span of a decade.
I'm sure he had his pick of other scripts and Hitchcock wasn't the only brilliant director around (*read any other piece I've written on him and you'll recognize my admiration for his skills, but not for his particularly twisted attitude towards women). So, why did Stewart dive into cahoots with Hitchcock in script after script, knowingly demeaning dozens of fellow actresses?
This baffles me, though it probably shouldn't: this was a period of high masculinism in post World War Western Culture. Still, the blatantly abusive treatment of costars must be addressed, even so many decades later, especially in the case of films that filmmakers still copy and revere.
Stewart often plays the savior. He's a detective healing from a fall or resigning after a big scare; the professor catching a lie; the businessman who's son was kidnapped- in all cases, he loses control and must regain it by the end of the film. In one case, he fails because he insists on becoming his own worst enemy. This is Stewart in "Vertigo" (1958).
Stewart begins somewhat impotent- he fails to catch a bad guy and fails to prevent the death of a colleague due to an extreme case of vertigo. He quits the police force and casually offers to marry his friend, an artist who turned down his proposal years before. But he has no passions and figures he never will, so she is as good as he'll ever encounter…until he drops her completely for a ghost.
Stewart's character, Scottie, is assigned to watch a wealthy man's wife to see what she's up to in her spare time. Judy, played by Kim Novak, is classically chilly, emotionally disconnected, blond, and naive- a Hitchcock leading lady. This character is beautiful, but nearly robotic in her movements. She is supposedly in a daze- swept away by the spirit of her long dead great grandmother- but really she's an imposter playing the role of a dead woman walking. The scheme falls through when the ex-detective Scottie not only fails to protect Madeleine, but to stay detached as a professional priority: he falls in love with the woman.
Scottie falls into an obsessive love with Madeleine- a woman who doesn't really exist. When he fails to save her, his obsession with her unearthliness grows. There she was, a ghost, possibly a figment- Scottie's waking dream. In this state, she can be found again and physically shaped if he looks hard and carefully enough. He succeeds: he spots a dead-ringer for Madeleine working in a shop, one day.
Scottie forces the shop girl, Judy, into leaving her independent life and living solely for the purpose of becoming the dead lover. Judy hesitates not only because the thought of having to become someone dead -killing yourself in the process, and all to be adored- is repulsive, but because she has already been the woman. Judy is reliving the past and the one she loved in that past is forcing her to do so…but not as herself, as she hoped: in the fateful guise, only.
Since the entire point of Novak's role is to exist in three roles -as Madeleine, as The Imposter, and as Judy- all for use by Scottie, as Dreams to fulfill his desires, and because this obsession can only fail, Madeleine, the imposter, AND Judy must die. The loss of all facets of this dream is inevitable and vital to understanding Scottie's absolute impotence as a character. But first he has to strain through to prove he has power…in all the wrong ways, leading only to suffering. Unfortunately, Novak's overcompensating pawn-like characters are doomed from the start.
In many ways, Novak's character is better developed because she gets pulled apart in such a physical way. She is also the object of an obsession focused in the gaze, so her appearance is almost taken from a myopic consciousness. She is viewed so up-close that we almost feel her emotions ourselves- quaking, excitement, pain. Unfortunately, since she exists as a vehicle for Scottie's satisfaction, she is taken less seriously and judged more as an object than the subject she proves herself to be in the course of the film.
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There will be a quiz or test on every Thursday.
Homework: Two main areas that you should do every night 1) prepare and study for the weekly quiz and the section test. and 2) work on your research project.
ALL QUESTIONS FOLLOW THE CHAPTER IN YOUR BOOK, SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER YOU CAN READ ABOUT IT IN YOUR BOOK.
What is a calorie? Why should we be aware of them? Why do plants need energy? How do they get energy? Why do animals need energy? How do animals get energy?
What is photosynthesis? What is good soil? Why is good soil important for plants? How is energy related to body heat?
How is energy related to metabolism? How is energy related to movement? How do we use energy in our sleep?
TEST on Chapter 7 on April 25. Be able to answer these additional questions: Forty years ago, college professors used to teach that all life comes from the sun. What does that mean? Why have the professors modified their teaching?
THE ASSIGNMENT: Using the internet, your relatives, friends neighbors etc. Plan a nutritious day of eating. You need a healthy breakfast, a healthy lunch, and a healthy dinner. Based on the advice you get from your sources (the internet, your relatives, friends neighbors etc) you must decide if something is healthy or not. For example is it ok to have ice cream for dessert if you have peas and carrots as a vegetable? Please include a calorie count for each meal. You may also have a healthy snack on this nutritious day. You may bring in a sample of your snack. Make sure the snack is the appropriate size. You are NOT feeding the entire class, only yourself. I prefer that you turn in this assignment electronically. The last day you can turn in this assignment is April 23.
What was Wegener's evidence for continental drift or Pangaea? What are mid-ocean ridges? What is sea-floor spreading?
Read and fill in pages 336 – 344 by April 11 Be able to answer these questions: What are ocean trenches and subduction? What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
Read and fill in pages 345 – 356 by April 18. Be able to answer these questions: Describe the three (3) types of plate boundaries. Describe the three (3) types of faults in rocks.
TEST on Chapter 7 on April 25. Be able to answer these additional questions: Describe the three (3) types of seismic waves. What is a tsunami? What causes tsunamis? What is a volcano? How are volcanoes related to plate tectonics? Describe the three (3) types of volcanoes.
Project due on April 23. Earhquakes, tsnamis, and volcanos. Research and report on one earthquake, one tsunami, and one volcano. Your report should include where it occurred, when it occurred, how it occurred, what effect it had on the region/people living in that region, I prefer that you turn this in electronically. Please include at least 5 pictures for each event. Make sure that your pictures are relevant to your event.