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Q: Error creating a hitbox? So I have a HealthPickup class and a Player class. Each class has this line of code:
public static Rectangle Hitbox = new Rectangle(Pos.X, Pos.Y, Tex.Width, Tex.Height);

My question is, why is there an error on the Player class and not the HealthPickup class? Edit: If i step over the Player hitbox, the HealthPickup causes the same error.Is it something to do with my Rectangle? The error is a TypeInitializationException which details follow as such:
System.TypeInitializationException was unhandled
  HResult=-2146233036
  Message=The type initializer for 'TestGame.Player' threw an exception.
  Source=TestGame
  TypeName=TestGame.Player
  StackTrace:
       at TestGame.RPG.LoadContent() in C:\Users\Pyroglyph\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestGame\TestGame\TestGame\RPG.cs:line 41
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Initialize()
       at TestGame.RPG.Initialize() in C:\Users\Pyroglyph\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestGame\TestGame\TestGame\RPG.cs:line 33
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run()
       at TestGame.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\Pyroglyph\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestGame\TestGame\TestGame\Program.cs:line 15
  InnerException: System.NullReferenceException
       HResult=-2147467261
       Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
       Source=TestGame
       StackTrace:
            at TestGame.Player..cctor() in C:\Users\Pyroglyph\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestGame\TestGame\TestGame\Player.cs:line 20
       InnerException:

Edit: I stopped the error but I still need collision-detection, I'm using Console.Beep() to determine whether code runs or not. And, as per request, more code :)
public class HealthPickup : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameComponent
{
    public static Texture2D Tex;
    public static Point Pos = new Point(50, 50);
    public static Rectangle Hitbox = new Rectangle(Pos.X, Pos.Y, 32, 32);

    public HealthPickup(Game game) : base(game) { }

    public override void Initialize() { base.Initialize(); }

    public override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
    {
        //if (Tex.Bounds.Intersects(Player.Tex.Bounds)) //was testing other collision-detection methods
        //{
        //    Console.Beep(); //the only way I can check if it's being run or not
        //}
    }
}

In Draw():
GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.White);

        spriteBatch.Begin();

        // Create Useless Rectangles
        Rectangle player = new Rectangle(Player.Pos.X, Player.Pos.Y, Player.Tex.Width, Player.Tex.Height);
        Rectangle healthPickup = new Rectangle(HealthPickup.Pos.X, HealthPickup.Pos.Y, HealthPickup.Tex.Width, HealthPickup.Tex.Height);

        // Draw Sprites
        spriteBatch.Draw(Player.Tex, player, Color.White);
        spriteBatch.Draw(HealthPickup.Tex, healthPickup, Color.White);

        spriteBatch.End();

        base.Draw(gameTime);

Player class:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media;

namespace TestGame
{
    public class Player : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameComponent
    {
        public static Texture2D Tex;
        public static string Dir = "D";
        public static Point Pos = new Point(GraphicsDeviceManager.DefaultBackBufferWidth / 2, GraphicsDeviceManager.DefaultBackBufferHeight / 2);
        public static int speed = 4;
        public static Rectangle Hitbox = new Rectangle(Pos.X, Pos.Y, Tex.Width, Tex.Height);

        public Player(Game game): base(game) { }

        public override void Initialize() { base.Initialize(); }

        public override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { }
    }
}

A: This exception is thrown whenever a static constructor throws an exception, and in this case it seems like you have a NullReferenceException in the static constructor of the Player class.
EDIT:
The problem here is the Tex static field which isn't initialized before HitBox is created, and this explains the reason of the NullReferenceExcpetion that you get. So in order to solve the problem you have to initialize it, and you can do it in this way in the Player class:
public static Rectangle HitBox;
//other fields and methods

public override void LoadContent(){
    ContentManager content = MyGame.ContentManager;
    Tex = content.Load<Texture2D>("mytexture");
    //...

    base.LoadContent();
    this.InitializeAfterLoadingContent();
}

private void InitializeAfterLoadingContent(){
    Hitbox = new Rectangle(Pos.X, Pos.Y, Tex.Width, Tex.Height);
}

As you can see I created another method cause a problem comes when the graphics resources are needed to initialize. In XNA the Initialize method is called before the LoadContent, so what you need to overcome this problem is to create a method and call it after loading content. Also your Game class can be done as:
public class MyGame : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game {
   public static ContentManager ContentManager;
   //...

   public MyGame( ) {
        //...

        ContentManager = Content;
    }

    protected override void Initialize(){
        // TODO: Add your initialization logic here

        base.Initialize();
    }

    protected override void LoadContent() {
        spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);

        // TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
        //...

        this.InitializeAfterLoadingContent();
    }

    //you can call it however you want
    private void InitializeAfterLoadingContent(){
        //initialize your non-graphical resources by using the content info you need,
        //like the width and height of a texture you loaded
    }

    //...
}


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Study: Women Are Unrepresented In Leadership At The Top Mass. Companies
Zeninjor EnwemekaTwitter
Only one of the state's largest companies has reached gender parity in its leadership positions — and only one has a female CEO — according to a new study by the Eos Foundation.
The report, released Thursday, examined leadership across the 25 largest public companies based in Massachusetts and ranked them based on the representation of women. It finds that while women make up more than half of the state's population and people of color make up 30%, they are hardly represented at the executive level of the state's biggest companies.
"The companies that we surveyed employ a million people and are worth $900 billion. So, if we start with those 25 that goes a long way to making this state hopefully one of the first to lead on diversity and inclusion," Eos Foundation president Andrea Silbert said.
Eighty percent of the companies were marked as "unsatisfactory" or in need of "urgent attention" to achieve gender parity in the report.
Child care provider Bright Horizons ranks at the top of the list and is the only company that has reached gender parity across all leadership levels, according to the report. Insulet, a medical device company in Acton, ranks second and is the only company with a female CEO.
The study finds more than half of the companies do not have a single woman among their highest paid executives. Eighty percent of the companies were marked as "unsatisfactory" or in need of "urgent attention" to achieve gender parity in the report.
But Silbert points to some bright spots: Women now make up 31% of corporate boards. And 25% of executive leadership teams are women.
"The executive leadership team is where the next CEO comes from typically," Silbert said. "What that tells us is if 25% of the executive leadership teams are women we should be seeing a much highest percent in the CEO's office."
Silbert said the numbers show there is a pipeline, so she's focused on breaking down unconscious bias so "when it comes time to select your next CEO or your next CFO, women and people of color are considered for that position without bias."
But women of color face a bigger uphill battle — they make up just 3% of executive leadership positions at the state's top companies and 6% of corporate board seats, according to the report.
The report recommends companies provide unconscious bias training, examine their policies and practices, set diversity goals and focus on equity.
Studies have found that organizations with diverse leadership perform better, make better decisions and are more profitable.
The Eos Foundation report is part of the nonprofit's "Women's Power Gap" initiative, which aims to increase the number of women leaders in the state. Previous studies by the organization have found similar leadership disparities among the state's colleges and influential business groups.
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Zeninjor Enwemeka Twitter Senior Business Reporter
Zeninjor Enwemeka is a senior business reporter who covers business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy.

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using EBooks.Web.Factories;
using EBooks.Web.Models;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.UI;

namespace EBooks.Web.UserControls
{
    public partial class BookSearch : UserControl
    {
        public List<BookModel> AllBooks
        {
            get { return BookModelFactory.GetAll(); }
        }
    }
}

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"""
The neural networks module contains the implementation in
the neural networks, employed by fishermen when deciding how to
vote.
"""

import random
import numpy

def convert_edge_tuples(edges, label_to_neuron, neurons):
    out = {a: {b: 0.0 for b in neurons} for a in neurons}
    for (label_a, label_b), value in edges:
        neuron_a, neuron_b = (label_to_neuron[e] for e in (label_a, label_b))
        if not neuron_a in out:
            out[neuron_a] = {}
        out[neuron_a][neuron_b] = value
    return out

class LabeledNeuralNetwork(object):
    """
    This class implements the neural network itself. It takes parameters for a
    list of neurons in each layer (one input, one hidden and one output), and
    contains methods for updating the input, processing and retrieving the
    output.
    """

    # Connectivity: (a, b, val)
    def __init__(self, inputs, outputs, hiddens, edges):
        assert len(inputs) > 0, "No input neurons"
        assert len(outputs) > 0, "No output neurons"
        n = inputs + outputs + hiddens
        assert len(n) == len(set(n)), "Duplicate labels."
        self.inputs = {label: Neuron(0.0, Neuron.INPUT) for label in inputs}
        self.outputs = {label: Neuron(0.0, Neuron.OUTPUT) for label in outputs}
        self.hiddens = {label: Neuron(0.0, Neuron.HIDDEN) for label in hiddens}
        self.hiddens["bias"] = Neuron(-1.0, Neuron.HIDDEN) # add bias node
        connectivity_valid, err = self.validate_edges(edges)
        assert connectivity_valid, "Invalid edges. " + err
        self.edges = convert_edge_tuples(edges, {
            label: neuron for (label, neuron)
                          in zip(self.labels(), self.neurons())
        }, self.neurons())

    def labels(self):
        return [e for l in [self.inputs, self.hiddens, self.outputs]
            for e in l.keys()]

    def neurons(self):
        return [e for l in [self.inputs, self.hiddens, self.outputs]
            for e in l.values()]

    def validate_edges(self, edges):
        # Check that all labels in connectivity have a match
        n = self.labels()
        marked = {l: False for l in n}
        for (a, b), v in edges:
            for e in [a, b]:
                if not e in n:
                    return False, "%s is not a label." % e
                marked[e] = True
        for l in marked:
            if not marked[l]:
                return False, "%s is isolated." % l
        return True, None

    def set_input_values(self, values = {}):
        for l in values:
            assert isinstance(values[l], float), "Values have to be floats."
            self.inputs[l].value = values[l]

    def get_output_values(self):
        return {label: self.outputs[label].value for label in self.outputs}

    def get_output(self, label):
        return self.outputs[label].value

    def update(self):
        for n in self.hiddens.values() + self.outputs.values():
            # sigmoid
            n.value = 1/(1 + numpy.exp(
                -sum([m.value * self.edges[m][n] for m in self.neurons()])
            ))

class Neuron(object):
    """
    Neurons are implemented through this class which stores the value and type
    of the neuron.
    """

    HIDDEN = 0
    INPUT = 1
    OUTPUT = 2

    def __init__(self, v, type):
        self.value = v
        self.type = type


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Current Trends in Mathematical Analysis and Its Interdisciplinary Applications
Current Trends in Mathematical Analysis and Its Interdisciplinary Applications pp 311-349 | Cite as
Mathematical Theory of Incompressible Flows: Local Existence, Uniqueness, and Blow-Up of Solutions in Sobolev–Gevrey Spaces
Wilberclay G. Melo
Natã Firmino Rocha
Ezequiel Barbosa
This work establishes the local existence and uniqueness as well as the blow-up criteria for solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations in Sobolev–Gevrey spaces. More precisely, if the maximal time of existence of solutions for these equations is finite, we demonstrate the explosion, near this instant, of some limits superior and integrals involving a specific usual Lebesgue spaces and, as a consequence, we prove the lower bounds related to Sobolev–Gevrey spaces.
Navier–Stokes equations Local existence and uniqueness of solutions Blow-up criteria Sobolev–Gevrey spaces
The author Natã Firmino Rocha was partially supported by CAPES grant 1579575. The author Ezequiel Barbosa was partially supported by CNPq.
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P. Braz e Silva, W.G. Melo, P.R. Zingano, Lower bounds on blow-up of solutions for magneto-micropolar fluid systems in homogeneous Sobolev spaces. Acta Appl. Math. 147, 1–17 (2017)Google Scholar
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
1.Departamento de MatemáticaUniversidade Federal de SergipeSão CristóvãoBrazil
2.Departamento de MatemáticaUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisBelo HorizonteBrazil
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Melo W.G., Rocha N.F., Barbosa E. (2019) Mathematical Theory of Incompressible Flows: Local Existence, Uniqueness, and Blow-Up of Solutions in Sobolev–Gevrey Spaces. In: Dutta H., Kočinac L.D.R., Srivastava H.M. (eds) Current Trends in Mathematical Analysis and Its Interdisciplinary Applications. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15242-0_11
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15242-0_11
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Shapps takes over at DfT
Grant Shapps MP has replaced Chris Grayling as secretary of state for transport in Boris Johnson's new cabinet.
Mr Grayling, who was highly unpopular with the travelling public, resigned on Wednesday evening. He became a laughing stock after the Brexit Ferries debacle but was already the subject of national fury after presiding over the rail timetable failure last summer.
Mr Shapps, who was elected as Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005, was appointed vice chairman of the Conservative Party in 2005, before being made shadow housing minister in June 2007.
Following the 2010 election, he served as housing and local government minister in what was at the time the Department for Communities and Local Government.
In September 2012 he was appointed as co-chairman of the Conservative Party but was demoted from David Cameron's cabinet after the 2015 election. He was then minister of state at the Department for International Development between May and November 2015.
A brief statement on the Department for Transport website that 'In 1990, Grant founded PrintHouse Corporation, a design, print, website creation and marketing business in London' fails to do justice to his colourful business career.
Under the pseudonym Michael Green, he also ran the How To Corp company, which offered self-help guides that promised to help people become 'stinking rich'.
More recently, Mr Shapps was the self-appointed chair of the British Infrastructure Group of Parliamentarians (BIG), which 'brings together cross-party MPs and Peers dedicated to promoting better infrastructure across the United Kingdom'.
As its website concedes: 'There is no standing membership of BIG, rather Parliamentarians sign up to individual reports and their names are listed within each report.'
Despite, or maybe because of its limited membership, the BIG floated some controversial ideas about traffic management.
The We're Jammin' report published by Mr Shapps argues that councils 'are spending large sums of money installing and maintaining traffic equipment, like traffic lights and instructional signs, that are too often unnecessary and exacerbating congestion'.
It says: 'Removing many of these controls, particularly traffic lights, would go a long way to making road travel more efficient and better for the economy and saving individual motorists money.'
Robert Jenrick MP has been appointed secretary of state for housing, communities and local government following the resignation of James Brokenshire.
Cabinet in full
Prime Minister: Boris Johnson
Chancellor: Sajid Javid
Home secretary: Priti Patel
Foreign secretary: Dominic Raab
Brexit secretary: Stephen Barclay
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Michael Gove
Defence secretary: Ben Wallace
International trade secretary: Liz Truss
Health and social care secretary: Matt Hancock
Environment secretary: Theresa Villiers
Education secretary: Gavin Williamson
Culture secretary: Nicky Morgan
Business secretary: Andrea Leadsom
Housing and communities secretary: Robert Jenrick
Work and pensions, women and equalities: Amber Rudd
Justice secretary: Robert Buckland
International development secretary: Alok Sharma
Transport secretary: Grant Shapps
Welsh secretary: Alun Cairns
Scottish secretary: Alister Jack
Northern Ireland secretary: Julian Smith
Leader of the Lords: Baroness Evans
Party chairman: James Cleverly


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Il Ducato di Arjona è un titolo nobiliare spagnolo con Grandato di Spagna appartenente alla Corona di Castiglia. Insiste sul territorio dell'omonimo municipio andaluso di Arjona nella provincia di Jaén.

Storia
Si tratta del più antico titolo ducale con Grandato di Spagna che si conosca. Venne concesso per la prima volta nel 1423 come titolo vitalizio dal re Giovanni II di Castiglia a suo cugino Fadrique Enríquez de Castro, già secondo conte di Trastámara, che lo appose al suo nome divenendo Don Fadrique de Arjona. Questo ducato gli fu successivamente confiscato, ad opera dello stesso Giovanni II che glielo concedette in origine, poco prima della sua morte - avvenuta in carcere nel castello di Peñafiel nel 1532 - per l'atteggiamento ribelle verso la Corona spagnola.

Nel 1430 la villa di Arjona, sede del ducato, venne assegnata ancora una volta dal re Giovanni II di Spagna a Fadrique di Aragona, figlio bastardo di Martino il giovane, senza che però venisse fatta menzione al titolo ducale che ne accompagnava la concessione. Da questo avvenimento deriva il dubbio della reale riassegnazione del titolo ducale di Arjona fino al secolo XX.

Nel 1902 infatti il ducato fu "riabilitato" e concesso con carattere ereditario dal re di Spagna Alfonso XIII a Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, diciassettesimo duca d'Alba, discendente di Beatriz de Castro la Vieja, sposa in seconde nozze del conte di Lemos.

Il titolo oggi

Attualmente il titolo è posseduto da Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, diciottesima duchessa d'Alba, figlia di Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó che lo annovera fra i suoi sei ducati con grandezza di Spagna.

Note

Voci correlate

 Titolo nobiliare
 Nobiltà spagnola

Collegamenti esterni

Titoli nobiliari spagnoli

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Following up on Google AdMob's industry-wide offer to build apps with its Software Development Kit (SDK), BrightRoll announced its AdMob Adapter which "allow publishers and developers to seamlessly integrate video ads into their mobile apps and generate revenue from premium advertisers," according to the company. Read the release. And, download BrightRoll's AdMob Adapter.
India's afaqs reports that Ogilvy and Marmalade Digital have launched demand-side platforms in India: "Neo@Ogilvy launched its DSP a week ago in partnership with Brandscreen, a leading DSP in the Asia-Pacific region and has already done a couple of pilot campaigns for two of its clients in New Delhi and Mumbai (...) Marmalade Digital, a relatively new digital technology company established in 2011, will launch its DSP on May 15." Catch the DSP fever.
On All Things D, Peter Kafka reports on yet-another-new-round-of-funding, this time its a new video ads/app company called Vungle. Kafka explains the premise: "Vungle's pitch is straightforward: They help app developers make video promo reels for their stuff, and turn them into 'in-app' ads (you can see a sample below). There are a whole lot of ways to buy in-app advertising for other apps already — it's a big chunk of the mobile ad business right now — but the Vungle guys argue that they make it easy. And that unlike iAd, AdMob, Millenial, etc., it's all they do." Read more.
On his Screenwerk blog, Greg Sterling reviews local display advertising and a new case study from PaperG (AdExchanger.com Q&A). During the piece, Sterling steps back and notes impressive results through automation, but also sees limitations: "This is one potential challenge I see with automated display ad creation: while the ads look good the landing page needs to be able to generate the conversion or other desired action. That involves at least some work on somebody's part - unless there's already a reasonable landing page from a past campaign or set up for lead capture." Read the details - including some fun tips.
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Basketball clinches playoff berth
The ENC men's basketball team is 15-7 overall and 9-6 in conference play, putting them in 4th place in the Commonwealth Coast Conference.
After a seven-game winning streak that lasted most of January, the Lions lost four of five from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2. Their lone win was an 89-83 overtime victory over Nichols College on Jan. 29.
Senior Chima Ezeigbo (Roanoke, Va.) scored his 1,000th career point in the win. He led the team with 18 points and 12 rebounds in the game.
On Jan. 23, the Lions lost by five points to Roger Williams, who they had beat by 29 points less than two months prior.
ENC started the game with a 9-2 run fueled by three 3-pointers, two by senior Mike McCoy (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) and one by senior Aaron Johnson (Roslindale, Mass.). Despite a six-point lead at the end of the first half, ENC lost to the Hawks 71-66.
"[Losing the game] just didn't seem right. Last time we played them, we executed, we did all the right things. The fact that we went there and they ended up beating us, it was just something that didn't fit too well," said senior Max Barbosa (Dorchester, Mass.).
ENC lost again on Jan. 26, falling to Wentworth 76-71. The Lions – led by 18 second-half points from Jaylen Owens (Johns Creek, Ga.) – cut the deficit to one point with about four minutes left to play, but the Leopards hit three foul shots in the final twelve seconds to capture the victory.
After their win over Nichols, the Lions lost close games to Salve Regina and Gordon College.
The Lions got back on track with their second win over the University of New England this season on Feb. 6.
Justin Wagner (Oklahoma City, Okla.) hit six 3-pointers in the 74-57 victory. He tallied 18 points on the evening.
Owens added a team-high nine assists that night, along with five steals.
Men's basketball's Feb. 9 game at Western New England was rescheduled to Feb. 14 due to inclement weather.
ENC takes on Curry College in the final home game of the regular season tonight, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Lahue PE Center.
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Q: Help with resetting Ubuntu 16.04 I installed Linux for the first time about 1 month ago. I love it. I'm running:

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*Ubuntu 16.04

*HP Compaq 6200 Pro SFF PC

*Processor: Intel core i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz*4

*Graphics: Intel sandy bridge desktop

*Architecture: 64 bit

I have so many issues, I don't even know where to start:

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*I can't connect to WiFi, so I have to use ethernet.

*Sometimes after a little while, my computer will freeze, but I can still hear that the computer is still running.

*I've used sudo apt-get install for so many things at this point that I don't know which programs are necessary and which ones are not.

How can I reset everything?
When I install Ubuntu I get the message that parts are missings. One of them is iscsi.
I ran my computer in test drive and Ubuntu ISO: both Ubuntu server and ubuntu desktop AMD64.
First, I synced and then launched my computer, but when I started it up, my computer froze.
I can't install NVIDIA, kernel, or iscsi.
I am so sad. And I'm sorry for my English. I hope that someone can understand my issue and can help me out.
Please be nice to me.
And no, I'm never going back to Windows.

A: Honestly? I would save all your data and then set up (clean install) your PC with Ubuntu 16 again. Don't worry, the first time I used Ubuntu I had similar experiences.

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Divine Mercy Sunday will be celebrated TODAY--April 8, 2018 with Mass at 3pm. "It would be a day of complete forgiveness and pardon, alike the day of atonement in the Old Testament (Lv. 16) - all our sins and the punishments due to them would be atoned for." Jesus said to St. Faustina, "I am giving them the last hope of Salvation, that is the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore my Mercy, they will perish for all eternity (Diary 965)". See bulletin inserts for 3/25 and 4/1, 2018 for more information and conditions to obtain the Lord's mercy. There will not be a 1pm Mass this Sunday (today)-- and Spanish Mass will begin at 4:30pm.
Click here for more information on "all are invited to the Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration.."
...My daughter, tell the whole world about My incon ceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of grace upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to confession and receive Holy Communion shall attain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.
The Feast of Mercy emerged from My vry depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy. (Diary, 699).
Trusting in Jesus is the essence of the message of mercy. Anyone with a vessel/container can draw water from the fountain of mercy. The water is there for us, and no one is excluded. All we need is a vessel to obtain mercy. Trust in Jesus Christ is the vessel. The size of the vessel is proportionate to amount of mercy that will be received.
Make the 9 days Novena of the Divine Mercy, From Good Friday to the following Saturday, pray the novena of the Divine Mercy preferably at 3 PM.
Go to confession reguJarly. It is one of the requirements to receive the promises of Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration.
Participate in the Divind. Mercy Sunday Mass and receive the Holy Eucharist. The Mass is celebrated at 3 PM.
Performing Works of Mercy is a Way of Christ and opening ourselves to become more like Him. There are seven Corporal and seven Spiritual works of Mercy.
God cannot force anything on us, not even his mercy. Ask and it will be given to you. Be bold & ask for lots of mercy.


Trouble is Heaven's goad. God applies it to good purpose in the life of the believer and unbeliever alike. For the unbeliever suffering often serves as God's rude awakening, a sharp slap intended to bring the sinner to his senses. It is a measure of the deceitfulness of sin that this aim cannot be achieved unless suffering is also accompanied by the grace of God. When suffering enters the believer's life, it functions like the potter's hand that shapes the clay. Distress is the discipline which proves that God is treating us as his children.
This means that those who seek the pastor are usually hurting. Alexandre Vinet notes: "the principle occasion of religion and the ministry is suffering." The pastor is exposed to the difficulties of the church more than anyone else. Many who come to him are suffering from self inflicted wounds. Often they expect the pastor to repair in a few minutes what has taken years to tear down. The nature of the difficulties the pastor must deal with run the entire gamut from physical to emotional to moral problems. The pastor sees people at their worst and is aware of the church's deepest flaws, exposure that can lead to depression or disillusionment. There is no "magic bullet" that will eliminate distress from the lives of those to whom we minister. More often than not our place is not to offer a quick fix but to exercise the ministry of presence. It is enough to be with people in their distress and serve as a reminder of God's presence with them. Even if we could make the trouble disappear, we might not be doing them a favor.
But the natural discomfort we feel over their discomfort makes us especially vulnerable to what Jeremy Begbie has called "the pathology of sentimentality." The sentimentalist, Begbie points out, cannot engage in another's pain as pain or face up to another's negative features. Those who sentimentalize the distress of the congregation are compelled to "keep on the sunny side of life." Begbie is writing about the effect of this pathology on worship and notes how music in the contemporary church has sometimes been "deployed as a narcotic, blurring the jagged memories of the day-to-day world, rather than as a means by which the Holy Spirit can engage those memories and begin to heal them." In the same way, the pastor is tempted to speak when he ought to be silent, offering up platitudes in the face of distress. Such words, though well meant, can blunt the sharp edged lesson God intends to teach through distress. In such cases it would be better if we were silent.
Perhaps it is time that we crossed over from the sunny side and joined God in the shadows.


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Q: Singularity of a surface $\DeclareMathOperator{\Grad}{grad}$I know a surface is singular at a point when gradient vanishes at that point.
If $f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2$ then $\Grad f = (2x, 2y)$ and $\Grad f(0,0) = (0,0)$.
Does this mean $f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2$ is singular at $(0,0)$? I don't see a cusp at this point and surface $f(x,y)$ seems to me having a tangent at $(0,0)$ which is the $x$-$y$ plane. Should I consider $\Grad f$ as normal to the tangent of the level curve at $(0,0)$ and as level curve $x^2 + y^2 = 0$ is indeed not a curve but only a point then the normal is not defined at this point? Thank you in advance

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I know a surface is singular at a point when gradient vanishes at that point.

$\newcommand{\Reals}{\mathbf{R}}\newcommand{\grad}{\nabla}$To clarify: If $F:U \to \Reals$ is a real-valued function on some non-empty open subset $U$ of $\Reals^{3}$, and if $\grad F(p) \neq 0$ at some point $p$ of $U$, the implicit function theorem guarantees that the level set of $F$ through $p$ is a regular surface in some neighborhood of $p$.
There are at least two snags with your proposed example:

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*Your surface is expressed as a graph, not as a level surface. If you express the defining equation $z = f(x, y)$ in "level set form"
$$
0 = F(x, y, z) := z - f(x, y),
$$
you find that $\grad F = (-f_{x}, -f_{y}, 1) \neq (0, 0, 0)$.

*The converse of the implicit function theorem is not true. The level surface
$$
0 = F(x, y, z) = z^{3}
$$
is the image of a regular surface, but $\grad F \equiv 0$ everywhere on the level surface.


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Q: IIS 7.5 Logs and ASP.Net 404 Custom Pages I want to make a custom 404 page for my site but I want to log all the normal information into my IIS 7.5 logs like the default 404 deals with so my Statics program can tell me things like what page got the 404 error, what was the referring URL to that broken page, and more. Do I have to do anything special on my 404 page to do this or has ASP evolved enough to automatically do logging for me if I return a 404 status code?

A: How you handle the errors determines how the errors will show up in the logs/responses.  If you simply use custom error pages, it will show up no different in the log than if you had used the OOTB pages.  If, however, you are writing an ASP.NET application, and handle/bury the exception, nothing will show up in the logs.
If you are writing a .NET application, this blog post provides a pretty good overview on how to properly handle errors for SEO.

A: ASP.NET Custom Error pages can be implemented in many different ways. The "worst" way are those that return a 301 redirection to "NotFound.aspx" (or similar), which will, of course, return a 200 status code. Unfortunately the IIS Manager actually lets you specify this method. If you're finding your 404s and 500s aren't being logged then check out this setting first.
Error pages, regardless of their implementation, must not issue any redirection and must set the status code to 404, that way IIS's logger will log it accordingly (IIS inspects the headers of all outgoing responses and uses that to populate the log).


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Rachel Uchitel Preggers
Rachel Uchitel: Natural beauty or world's largest cubic zirconia?
Life is full of tests. Some might seem a little "challenged" at first glance; like Rachel Uchitel. However when it comes to tests, some make up for it on their orals! Now for those asking "Who the fuck is Rachel Uchitel?", then might I answer "It's clear that you've got better things to do". I can add that this was the one that blew – maybe literally but let's say only figuratively – Tiger Woods out of the water. That was back in the days when Tiger Woods was almost perfect or something. Like Achilles he had his heel, and if there's anything Uchitel knows about it's heels! Before you knew it Tiger's Swedish Sweetie was hopping mad and folks were reading about it on the gossip sights. Tiger took a little while to get his nerve back and has only recently started winning golf games again.
Uchitel has had a busy time since then. In fact her dance card's been booked tighter than Alexandre Dupree – remember her (she's the one who brought down Elliot Spitzer, who nowadays can't even find regular employment on cable news though once upon a time he was Gov of NY)? She's made some attempted forays into the heady world of reality TV. She also got involved with celebrity shyster Gloria Allred (& she'd sue me for that if she knew who the fuck I am!). By got involved I mean she hired Allred to get her some money and wound up trying to get some money out of Allred when she thought that Gloria had sold her out by convincing her to take a deal. See what we mean here when we talk about "back stabbing- infighting" etc. Just another day on the school yard – only Shakespeare with his alleged "angelic wit" and his confirmed weakish spelling ever envisioned the world as a stage!
That bag's life had had more ups and downs than a B movie ingenue -and it's had it's ins and outs too. Those ins and outs bring us to the very latest Uchitel story. Seems that her hole works both ways! By that I mean she's got herself all knocked up (belief it or not it's more than some of her kind are capable of!). Some of you might be doing double takes over that kind of news. 1st the ironically named "Christopher" Hitchens gives up the ghost in time for Christmas – now this slut goes and shoots the shit out of the Evolution Theory! So it's a bad time for ats all over. Lest you doubt me, here's a picture of Ms. Uchitel that proves her reproductive organs actually do extend above the cervix – so see then for yourselves!
Yet another Daily FAIL
Wasn't that heartwarming, what with her decked out like a candy cane in time for Christmas? The bitch looks totally busted, but seems not too know it; which makes her look even more totally busted! BTW her hubby is Matt Hahn – that's the guy there in the shot who doesn't know how far up his own ass he stuck his head by marrying Ms Uchitel! Now here comes the really good part. Ms Uchitel only found out that she was in the family way when she auditioned for The Amazing Race. As part of the auditioning process she had to take a drug test. No fucking kidding – reality TV ain't anything you can memorize lines for so high school was right for teachin' you to cheat! Anyhow the test come back positive for pregnancy!
BTW I can not confirm that Rachel Uchitel shares a plastic surgeon with German actress Xenia Seeberg, only that there is a strong "family resemblance".
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Wonder Woman Love
Foxy Struts It!
Meggers struts it in thigh hi's. From the good folk at Evil Beet – don't let the name fool you; still don't know what beets have to do with it.
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Love and the age of Reality TV
Just because bloggers want to go on mad drunken tears for months at a time doesn't mean that the exciting world of celebrity gossip comes to a stand still. In fact it goes remorselessly on. There are the new and developing stories like Kim Kardashian's alleged marriage and very real divorce, after on 72 days to whomever it was that she was married to. While Kim hummed and hawed about giving the wedding gifts back – "why should I? People wanted me to have them and they help me feel better after my divorce" the mercenary TV personality might say -others wanted to know if it was true that she got a big 20 million pay out for the marriage, in the way of deals from cable TV nets works. For the amount of time that she was married those massive too big to fail pay outs almost amount to what Mike Tyson used to get fore his seconds in the ring, back in his glory days. Of course a marriage can be far nastier than any boxing match.
Truly love is a many splendored thing. Kim isn't the only one to show it either. One of the big on going stories was the Passion of Saint Mel. Mel got into some heavy duty trouble when he started two timing Jesus with some Russian slut on the make. That wasn't the best public relations follow up for his hi profile DUI and subsequent separation from his wife Robyn. When Mel got his new Russian sweetie Oksana Griegorieva preggers the shit hit the fan. That ultimately lead up to a whole mess of tape recorded phone calls get made public on celebrity gossip sites like Radaronline – you know how those commies are for wiretaps! It also lead to some domestic abuse charges in which Oksy claimed that she had been sacred and abused by a man who would not allow her the space for her love and gratitude to flow freely, and express it's dubious existence in that way; as opposed to expressing it's dubious existence through tape recorded phone calls and criminal charges.
Anyway that thing has come to a head now, for now. Mel has had his big court case on his crime against womanhood, and the judge has handed down the sentence. Basically it's the usual celebrity deal consisting of community service, with some kind of rehab stint to get tacked on later if Mel ain't enthusiastic about the comserve. Some celebs, like Lindsay Lohan, seem to have a real problem with that stuff. Any way here's a short clip of our hero in his big meet up with the judge and she laid down the law – Hollywood style. Go on and grab a closer look cause you know that you want to!
no good deeds go unpunished even in Hollywood
BTW tings are getting nasty for the Kardashians with lots of rumors about her mom falling out with her BFF Kathy Lee Gifford. The National Enquirer is also reporting on some kind of Kardashian Oprah Winfrey rift. It's apparently a falling out over charity in Haiti. While both women went there to be seen in the presence of the world's unfortunates; Oprah roughed it with Sean Penn – and you can't get much rougher than that except maybe Mickey Rourke 15 years ago, while Kim seemed more interested in snagging 5 star accommodations and getting pedicures! BTW Kim says the whole thing was way exaggerated. As if this wasn't bad enough the Kardashains are having some problems with the help – no revolutions from down in the bowels of the Bastille or anything, as in the following short video:
I just hate it when people are exploitative, or exploited! Speaking of which Rick Perry has aimed some new gimmick at teens. That shows he has vision, meaning that since kids are too youg to vote he must be aware that he's already blown it this time around. As for the gimmick – I think he's floating a rumor that he's related to singer Katy Perry or something.
Just what the youth of America crave – more Jesus! Anyway Jerky Dicky ain't the only hi profile Repub making waves. Ron Paul is doing it without Jesus. He merely made recourse to a pop culture short cut by way of American Idol contestant Kelly Clarkson, and a Twitter outrage! Here's somwething from that from our good friends over at the Young Turks (not that I know them personally or anything, I mean beyond trying to borrow money!)
That brings us to our final story of the day, and back to the themes of sex and crime with none other than Paris Hilton. Apparently the snow's been falling out of season for her down in sunny California!
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Cape Town mayor Dan Plato has a look through the art pieces on display.
Visual artists exhibited and promoted their art pieces at the Cape Town Civic Centre, on Thursday 21 March, as part of the City's Human Rights Day commemoration.
The event formed part of the City's Emerging Artist Programme, which aims to assist under-resourced artists with opportunities to showcase their work.
Mayor Dan Plato said that the training would help the artists to move from studios to the professional market. "Cape Town has a huge talent pool, but the work of these artists and many others sometimes goes unseen by the public. We want to create a space where skilled artists are able to display their work and get much-deserved exposure," he said.
The programme will run seven exhibitions until June, with each exhibition opening the South African Sendinggestig Museum as part of First Thursdays, a free event. The exhibition will remain at the museum for a week after the opening and will move to a different location for the remainder of the month. The City's arts and culture department finds different artists, every month to exhibit their work, and manages the programme.


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How Private Equity Is Driving Change in Retail
Virginie Morgon
30/01/2019 - 3 mins
Consumers have always demanded innovation from the retail industry. Shopping habits and product demands are constantly evolving, and retailers invest a significant amount of capital to monitor trends and cater to fluctuating behaviors. Recently, advancing technology has quickened the pace of change and made it even harder to win consumer attention in an increasingly crowded marketplace. More than ever, success requires financial and managerial flexibility and adaptiveness—areas where private equity can play a vital role.
Below, read my thoughts on three key areas where our industry is partnering with retailers to help them keep ahead in the fast-changing sector.
Data-Driven Content
Successful brands make smart use of consumer data to inform product decisions and better address changes in taste. Pairing traffic and ticket volume data with advanced analytics is a proven and powerful way to understand consumer behavior and create effective product and experience strategies. In addition, progressive content strategies are increasingly important as consumers lean towards companies that are customer-centric and look for products that they connect with. Data informs retailers' ability to stay at the forefront of trends and make intelligent forecasts rather than reactive decisions. Private equity provides capital and guidance to retailers to enable them to harness these data-driven strategies. At Eurazeo, we take it a step further by investing in companies that generate these insights. Our Eurazeo Growth investment in Content Square, a user experience analytics and optimization platform for leading brands that wish to understand how customers interact with their products, brings to life our belief in the power of well-harnessed data.
Evolving Distribution
Sophisticated e-commerce capabilities and competition for more efficient delivery logistics are driving a revolution in how retailers operate. The industry is increasingly targeting sales to millennials while deploying "customer-centric" models, resulting in greater digital commerce, both online and via social media. AI is fast becoming a force, used in everything from e-commerce image searches to language processing in chatbots and data analytics in order to reach consumers across every available channel. According to Marketing Dive, retail will soon overtake banking as the biggest investor in AI. The power of AI will allow retailers to create more personalized customer experiences, increase business insights, and enable automation, all resulting in a stronger and more evolved retail market. We are already seeing this with the emergence of more digitally native brands in partnership with concept stores, as more retailers are using physical space to experiment with technology, location size, or customer services. Eurazeo Brands' portfolio company Bandier has used this strategy to create a thriving e-commerce business, supported by concept spaces that allow consumers to interact with the brand on a personal level before making purchasing decisions.
Why is retail becoming more customer-centric and why is that important? A big part of the shift is due to younger generations' demand for transparency. Millennial and Gen Z consumers will continue to seek out socially and environmentally responsible practices and transparency in the brands they support. Even beyond younger generations, consumers of all ages are demanding authenticity from brands at every step of the supply-chain process, from sourcing to sales. They expect direct communication and connection with brands, and companies need to use every channel to give them the access that they seek, as well as to articulate their corporate mission and core values through transparent dialogue. A good example of this is Vestiaire Collective, a Eurazeo Croissance investment and community platform on which users can buy and sell pre-owned luxury fashion and accessories. At the center of its strategy and mission is the concept of a like-minded community within which members interact and engage with one another throughout the purchasing process, and which utilizes word-of-mouth to spread the word of its mission and purpose in the fashion world.
The rapidly evolving retail industry requires significant investment in order to stay at the forefront of data analytics, AI-based logistics and distribution channels, and community building. Private equity firms have tremendous amount of capital to deploy, putting private equity in a strong position to partner with retailers to adapt and continue to drive change in the industry. Our investment division Eurazeo Brands is focused on being the partner of choice for brands – using capital and expertise to help brands grow into thriving businesses.
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Hippies in Hell in the Heartland: How I Drink Your Blood and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Mirror the Culture Wars in America
By Aaron AuBuchon
America has always been at its own throat for one reason or another, but man… lately it's been going gangbusters. Conventional groupthink dictates that people give lip service to unity, but in truth a lot of Americans are gleefully sharpening their knives and licking their chops, looking horny-forward to getting a taste of their neighbor's blood and soft parts. And we act like this is some new story, but it's not, and it hasn't been for a while. In fact, it's been pretty similar for the last 50 years. The culture wars that are still being fought in America today arguably got their start in the social upheaval of the 1960's. According to author Jeffery Aaron Snyder:
"Before the '60s, the irreverent and unsettling sporadic messages of radical artists, academics, and politicians had largely failed to reach normative Americans, who continued to believe in God, hard work, American exceptionalism ('their nation was the best in human history'), and 'traditional' gender roles." *
The conversation in American society (and in human history) has often revolved around an us vs. them duality: colonial vs. loyalist, north vs. south, Allies vs. Axis, and so on. It all amounts to the usual good vs. evil duality, where my tribe is good and their tribe is evil. But in the 60's the culture began having a conversation about the morality and value of simply being American, arguably for the first time. And the way that conversation often played out was to create a simple line of demarcation, a clear way to tell the tribes apart: urban vs. rural. I think that most generalizations are generally soft-headed, but to risk exposing my own mostly mushy melon, rural America was (and is) more conservative, more suspicious of change, less interested in trends, and generally far less open to talk that doesn't place America at the center of the known universe. Urban America was (and is) more progressive, more interested in change, less interested in traditions, and generally far less open to the idea of America as a fundamental good in the world. That city people regularly make fun of country "rubes" and that country people cast a jaundiced eye towards folks from urban environments ("y'all ain't from around here, are ya?") are popular stereotypes. City people were seen as dangerous interlopers by rural folks, and urban people often found rural environments backwards and scary.
Filmmakers have also found these stereotypes worth exploring, digging in up to their collective armpits. Interestingly, most films that take on the city/country divide are often about people from urban environments entering rural areas, and the woe that befalls them there (see Easy Rider 1969 and Deliverance 1972 for well-known examples.) This isn't terribly surprising, as filmmakers are almost always urban dwellers themselves, so it would be easier for them to imagine a situation where people like themselves are thrust into a rural landscape than to imagine what a person born and raised rural would experience in the city. Low-budget horror filmmakers were no different, and in the early to mid 1970's two films would emerge that would use this theme to explore the two very different sides of the conversation, creating metaphors for what happens when city progressives are confronted with rural traditionalists in their own environment. I Drink Your Blood (1971) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) would each create an aggressively oversimplified and terrifyingly singular antagonistic "family" which not only held up a mirror to the times in which the films were created, they held up and almost perfectly reflected each other.
If there is one thing I find irresistible in a behind-the-scenes making-of story, it's any indication that someone involved decided specifically to make a film that would be intentionally disgusting and horrible, and lucky me, that's how I Drink Your Blood (IDYB) came to be. In 1970, notorious exploitation producer Jerry Gross contacted writer/director David Durston with one thing in mind: to make the "most graphic horror film of all time" according to Durston, who went on to detail the catch Gross put in place: no vampires, no werewolves, no supernatural elements of any kind. Gross wanted realism; he wanted a picture that went "for the jugular." Apparently, Gross, who Durston likened to P.T. Barnum, was envious of the fistfuls of cash that Night of the Living Dead was making, and wanted some fistfuls of his own. It's somewhat mystifying that Gross decreed that the film have no supernatural elements, as the supernatural was still pretty common in horror in the late 60's and early 70's, but he did, which forced Durston, admittedly not a huge horror fan himself, to dig deep for a story. Eventually he found one, based on the true (and goddamned horrifying) story of a town in Russia that suffered an outbreak of rabies after a diseased wolf burst into a one room schoolhouse and began attacking children. From there, he had the foundation of his plot, which Gross loved and told him to flesh it into a full script.
As Durston sat down to write, the papers were filled with news about the recent capture of the Manson family who were responsible for the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, which naturally led him to think that maybe his little rabies story needed a satanic hippie cult, so that was added as well. Manson and his cadre of strung out jackasses, were perhaps the greatest cultural "I told you so" in American history. Since the first hippies popped up, there had always been folks (often rural) that were very uneasy about the new way of thinking promoted by the subculture, as Merle Haggard sang about in his 1969 classic Okie From Muscogee. When Manson and his merry band came on the scene, every single person who had ever worried that anti-war kids reading horoscopes might end up butchering a bunch of people felt they had had their fears validated and then some. Consequently the Mansonoids were perfect boogeymen, and are a firm foundation upon which Durston could sculpt his characters. What ended up on screen was a wide-eyed Satanist cult that seemed ripped from the fever dreams of the aggressively anxious. Each of these characters chewed a hell of a lot of gritty scenery, and spat back a big juicy glob of insanity that feels both ridiculous and kind of compelling. At least to me.
The film starts brilliantly, as we join a late-night satanic ceremony already underway in the deep woods. Everybody is naked (except for actress Ronda Fultz as Molly) and we are treated to a monologue of depravity by cult leader Horace (played by the stunningly athletic dancer/actor Bhaskar). From there, the ante is upped quite a bit when they actually slit a live chicken's throat as part of the ceremony. Normally, wanton animal slaughter bothers the shit out of me in films, but Durston says that the cast ate the chicken for dinner that night, and it looked like a pretty clean kill, so I give it a grudging pass.
Lots of rural people take a great deal of pride in the fact that they understand the natural world and that they live in harmony with it. They understand the wilderness via proximity, and consequently feel that city people aren't as connected to the land. They are of the land, and that defines part of their identity. So seeing a naked hippie death cult in the woods outside a small town committing a purposeful act of blasphemy would probably raise the hackles of people from small towns all over America. Taking it a step further, a young teenaged girl from the community tags along with a less committed member of the cult and witnesses the naked devil ceremony (where we learn that Satan is an acidhead). She is chased and attacked by the cult members and it is implied that she probably is raped, and is certainly roughed up. To my mind, this sets up the metaphorical relationship from the get-go that implies what the "city" folks represent: first they defile the land, and then they defile the (maybe) virginal white teenaged girl in the story. Why does it matter than she's white? Because the cult is mostly not white, which has a bunch of implications that are beyond the scope of this article, generally. But the fact that the cult contains people of East Asian, South Asian and African-American heritage certainly means that they are a more heterogeneous crowd than the denizens of the town upon which they descend. At the very least, that implies something outside the realm of the rural American town, places that are often defined by their overall ethnic sameness.
Durston wrote the cult as an affront to everything that the average small-town American in 1971 (or 1991, or 2011) would deem as normal, rational or acceptable. They worship the devil. They rape. They beat up an old man. They hunt and eat rats. They are so over-the-top as boogeyman caricatures that it is tempting to dismiss them, but I find their power is in their blatantly exaggerated delivery. Because on the one hand, they are unquestionably the enemy, but they are written and performed in such a hysterical and insane way as to make you question the very thing they appear to represent. They don't seem real, and some of that seems to be Durston showing his hand a bit: these kinds of people exist, but they are exceedingly rare, and the idea that they would end up in your little dead-end backwater is pretty silly, Mr. and Mrs. Nervous Smalltown America.
The insanity of the cult of city dwellers is a perfect mirror for the family of country cannibals in Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (TCSM). Much has been made (possibly too much) about how Hooper found inspiration from his Wisconsin relatives relating the urban legends that were based on very grisly facts concerning native son Ed Gein and his enthusiasm for doing crafts with dead bodies. I feel like his story is sort of the flipside of the Manson one, at least symbolically. Manson and his family are the symbols of everything "wrong" with the city, whereas, Ed Gein is a symbol for that which is "wrong" with small towns. In this case, a small, insular community gestated and nurtured a completely macabre lunatic right in its bosom, and when his murderous, cannibalistic exploits came to light, everyone who knew him seemed stunned, even though all of them agreed that Eddie was "a little odd." This myopia about the bad behavior of some rural folks from those around them thanks to generations of the ties that bind is certainly part of the subtext of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, though.
Demographically, TCSM is the flipside of IDYB. Instead of being a mixture of "weird" beliefs and ethnicities, the antagonists in TCSM are the opposite: a family whose gene pool seems about six inches deep, who hold onto an anachronistic lifestyle that has reshaped them into a stationary living freakshow. But exactly like the Satanists in IDYB, they were written as over-the-top caricatures; so much so that Hooper felt he was making a sort of black comedy during production. Again, here you have people that are so incredibly strange, that it feels impossible that they might be real people. That the films feel so tonally different is good to gnaw on a bit, as both had their "family" of antagonists played by actors whose writer/directors told them to play it up, but the result is one film that feels campy and sort of fun, and one that feels grimy and deadly serious. Why is that? It doesn't seem like "better" filmmaking on the part of Hooper. If anything, it seems like maybe the tone that he achieved was more intense than what he initially wanted. And my contention that one film feels more intense than the other isn't written on a stone tablet carried down a mountain; your results may vary. But they certainly feel different from each other, while sharing a lot of similarities.
The settings of each film bear mentioning. Both are set in areas that have been reshaped negatively by the ever-present and unending bugaboo of the rural lifestyle: progress. Both films present a small town whose denizens have chosen performative futility in the face of overwhelming outside forces. In IDYB, the little town of Pottersville is nearly abandoned thanks to the looming presence of a dam that is being constructed on the nearby river, which once completed, will drown the town. This inevitability doesn't stop the protagonists of the film from staying on there to offer the wildly unnecessary services of animal doctoring and baking of meat pies, respectively. Hey guys, the people are gone… who is going to buy a meat pie or have a dog with a sore leg? But this mirrored the flight away from rural areas that had been happening for years and was in high gear as the baby boom came of age. Likewise, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a film whose backdrop is one of an evolving world where the decisions made in urban areas trickle down to the folks in the country. In this case, a couple of things have happened: the local beef industry has selected a more efficient tool and method for slaughtering cattle, and international politics have created gasoline shortages everywhere, including the setting of the film. Both of these things are necessary for the plot of TCSM to unfold the way it does. I've read some articles that hold the Chain Saw family up as some sort of labor heroes whose life's work was rendered obsolete thanks to technology, an idea that I think is silly nonsense if we choose to believe what they actually say in the film. When discussing the finer points of animal slaughter with the Hitchhiker, Franklin mentions the gun used to kill the cattle. This prompts a very negative response from the Hitchhiker. The gun is bad he says. He further says that the sledge is the only right way to murder a bovine animal, and says it with absolute finality. This suggests (to me, anyway) that the family made a decision to hold onto a technology rather than to learn the new one. They obstinately stood still in the face of change, and the world moved on. The slaughter facility ostensibly would still need people to operate the murder gun, but rather than just learning how to use it and keeping their jobs, it would seem that the members of the family chose some sort of self-imposed hardware purity and instead just went off to open a roadside gas station (which is a job, a fact that complicates straight Marxist theorizing) while simultaneously going just batshit crazy. They chose a different path. So, I think that the suggestion that they were "victims of capitalism" is dumb. They were, in my opinion, victims of their own stupid intransigence. Progress happened and they decided to stand still in its stream and instead applied their atavistic murder method to young home invaders and their friends. This actually strikes me as a perhaps unintentional indictment of unthinking, absolute tradition in the face of unstoppable change. The message seems pretty clear to me: if you don't change with the times, you become something dark, desperate, and cancerous. Both films take place in a rural environment that is dirty, chipped, rotting, and at least partially abandoned. And the indigenous characters try to craft a new normal in that environment, continuing to do things as though nothing had changed. The difference is that in IDYB it comes across as quaintly futile and in TCSM it comes across as the watering can in their fully blossomed psychosis. But in each, outside urban forces beyond the control of the rural characters create a situation that leads the characters to try to futilely preserve a way of life that is destined to fail. Interestingly, Texas Chain Saw takes it a step further, in that the family have moved on from their time in the slaughterhouses and are now selling meats and gas from their roadside gas station. But even that evolution is stalled by the energy crisis of the early 1970's and their gas station can't sell gas because there is no gas to sell. In this case, they are forced to rely on their other business to make ends meet, the selling of mysterious cuts of meat from their own smoker.
Not to read too far into it, but city and country people also tend to have a fundamental horror of the consumption habits of the other group. City folks who would eat tripe soup at the local Mexican taqueria might recoil at the suggestion of pickled pigs feet in the country, while a bunch of folks from down home might happily tuck into chitlin's, but feel revulsion at the notion of caviar. The TCSM situation seems an amplification of that general sense of otherness, the feeling that "those people" might feed you anything, the savages. The image of Franklin with that half eaten cigar of almost pornographic sausage jutting from his moist lips takes on a whole new meaning when you get a bit further into the film, and the notion that the next unsuspecting irritating brother out with his sister's patient friends might have a stick of Franklin hanging out of their mouth is some horrifyingly next-level circle of life stuff.
Both films posit really interesting bad guys and simultaneously rather two-dimensional and often irritating protagonists. The hippie kids in TCSM mostly bitch at each other, make bad decisions, perform home invasions, etc. The salt of the earth townsfolk in IDYB make bad decisions, initiate confrontations they can't hope to win, and manage to make a very bad situation exponentially worse. I get being very upset when your sister is (maybe) raped and (definitely) beaten during a satanic ceremony and your grandpa is beaten and dosed with acid (the trippy kind, not the dissolve-y kind) when he walks into a coven of dangerous Satanists by himself, but when little Peter decides to seek justice via rabies infected dog blood, he become at least as responsible for the carnage that follows as the cult. In fact, the horrific events of both films wouldn't have happened without the horrendous decisions of each respective group of supposed protagonists.
Both films deal with the issue of culture clash and the idea of basic property and propriety. In both cases, the city dwellers show up and insinuate themselves into the workings of the insular community in ways that are unwanted and uninvited. The satanic hippie cult (who incidentally went by "Sadus, Sons of Satan") take advantage of the abandonment of the town by essentially squatting in a house, while the daytripping hippies from TCSM assume that they are allowed to just walk into a rural home even after being warned against exactly that kind of behavior by a local. It makes you wonder if, when being respectively bludgeoned to death or hung on a meathook, Kirk or Pam remembered the Cook telling their group specifically not to go screwing around other people's property. One hopes a nice "I told you so" when meeting their maker would deliver a proper level of shame. Anyway, back to the point: in both films, city folks don't respect property rights, and in both the punishment is swift and severe. Everyone in the cult dies as a result of the rabid meat pies, and all but one of the van hippies dies as a result of their decision to go have a look where they weren't invited.
There are other films that have dealt with these concepts (notably Hershel Gordon Lewis' 1966 sophomore gruefest Two Thousand Maniacs), but these two are interesting for their timing and the fact that they were both produced specifically to play the kinds of theaters that are mostly found either in major cities or rural areas: grindhouses and drive ins. They were mostly oriented towards audiences that were representative of the represented demographic. Films of this sort played one of two places: gritty urban grindhouses or (mostly) rural dusty drive-ins. The audiences in each were made up of folks that would recognize the characters onscreen as either representative of their demographic, or a wild overstatement thereof.
The films are from the same era, and concentrate on things that are thematically related: consumption, otherness, insanity, and tradition. One might expect them to cause very different reactions in different audiences, which isn't to say that all people from a population are monolithic in practice, but that some similarities might develop. My recommendation is to go have a look at them back to back and see if the deep divide doesn't trigger some recognition in you. For me, a guy who came from a rural town of 10,000 and moved to an urban region of 2.5 million, the result is that both movies have a particular resonance in me. The urban cult in IDYB seems as exotic and interesting as it is farfetched and ridiculous. Though no less ridiculous, my run-ins with backwoods backwards rural meanness as well as the lucky masterful craft of TCSM make the murder-rubes of the cannibal family feel pretty plausible to me. I saw both for the first time when I lived in a rural setting, and while IDYB rolled off my back easily, TCSM made me wonder how many of the glaring, glazed-over and hostile eyes that bore into me at various times when I was growing up there weren't simply irritated with how obviously poorly I fit into their tribe, but were actively wondering what my skull would look like as a bowl from which they would eat my ground skin and eyeballs.
A pole I stick in the ground a lot: I think that Freudian analysis of films is generally dumb. Symbols are only rarely shared across cultures (or even a culture), and they aren't shared at all unless they are commonly seen, regularly defined and most importantly, fundamentally agreed upon, something that horror symbols almost never are. You can tell me all day long that a knife is a penis in Halloween (1978) or that the monster's brief friendship with the old blind man in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is a conversation about homosexuality, but there is nothing in the text that forces me to concur. Talking about what symbols mean with any degree of certainty strikes me as the kind of clownishness that should make grown people with half a brain blush with embarrassment. It suggests a cultural sameness, a singularity of subconsciousness that strikes me as even more fanciful than astrology. On the other hand, I think that looking into yourself and seeing what art does to you personally is a fascinating exercise. What I'm getting at is that neither of these films is specifically about American cultural relationships, but looking at how you feel about them when someone frames them that way is an interesting exercise. So the question is, when you examine how you feel about the characters, plot points, and themes these movies have introduced, what's your takeaway? And then, what does that tell you about you? The conversation I'd like to start with this article has nothing to do with me defending the symbols I describe here. It has everything to do with asking a question: based on what you see in these two movies and the time in which they were produced, what do you think?
For me, these movies are a way to look at the silly and illogical boxes into which we might allocate whole populations of our neighbors if we choose easy explanations and agree to the conventional wisdom of our ideological allies. Stylistically I Drink Your Blood and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may seem pretty far apart, but thematically they seem to me to be two sides of the same mirror that we can hold up to our society. How much of the hypocrisy is reflected back at us may well be an indication of how much our own tribalism allows us to see.
*Snyder, Jeffrey Aaron. "America Will Never Move Beyond the Culture Wars." The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2015, https://newrepublic.com/article/121627/war-soul-america-history-culture-wars-review.
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Aaron AuBuchon ran face first into Frankenstein on TV at age five, slicing open his heart in the process and leading him to discover that his blood was one part red food coloring and nine parts spooky crap. It's been a downhill ride ever since. When not watching or reading about horror, cult, and exploitation films, Aaron teaches film and video production and film studies at Webster University in St. Louis, where he inflicts those nine parts on any undergrad that shares his compulsion. He also writes about horror films (and other kinds of films sometimes, too) for publications such as Grindhouse Purgatory, Midnight! Magazine, We Belong Dead and HorrorHound and books like A Pictorial History of Hammer Horror and the upcoming EuroHorror and Mistresses of the Macabre. View all posts by Aaron AuBuchon
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The bad news about 10 Downing Street is that tourists can't see much of it these days, thanks to defensive measures put in place to foil the threat of terrorism. The good news is that all the beefed up security gives the street the air of steely importance fitting for the residence of the British Prime Minister.
You can still get your photo taken at the end of what is a very short street and, with a good zoom lens and some careful positioning, the famous shiny, black, oak door with the police officer standing guard will be in-shot. Failing that, a snap of the street sign is a good sub.
Even before the terrorism scares, random visitors were never allowed indoors and that's also good news, as there's a fair chance the interior is more intriguing in the imagination than in the reality. Winston Churchill said it was, "shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name it bears," while William Pitt the Younger, who lived there the longest of any PM, called 10 Downing Street, "my vast and awkward house".
The bit of No. 10 we know and love was first built in the 1680s, but the familiar townhouse is only part of the picture. There is another house at the back, known to experts as The House at the Back, built in 1530, and a cottage, called Mr Chicken's Cottage, which over the years have been melded into the whole to create a huge home complete with important government offices, such as the Cabinet Office.
Whatever its architectural disasters and delights, the point about No. 10 is its history. Portraits of all previous Prime Ministers adorn its walls, royals have played house here, wars have been planned and won in its meeting rooms and, more important than all that, a cat once again stalks its corridors. Cherie Blair had the last moggie sent away due to allergy trouble, but now a new cat by the name of Sybil has taken up residence.
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Alec Baldwin: We Need To Overthrow The Government – By Voting
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By Roxy Hamilton	 Last updated Jul 20, 2019
In case you missed it, here's a video out from several months ago featuring Alec Baldwin giving a fiery speech. NBC News tweeted it out as if the actor and vocal Trump critic Alec Baldwin was telling a group of Democrats they needed to "overthrow the government" under President Donald Trump. That is not the full context of what Baldwin said or proposed. It is misleading.
"We need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump," Baldwin said at a Democratic event in New Hampshire. NBC left out the context but put forth that portion of the quote. Before he encouraged the audience to "overthrow" the government, Baldwin stated the way to do it was in an "orderly," "formal" and "lawful" way. Context is everything.
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"The way we implement change, the way we implement change in America is through elections. We change governments here at home in an orderly and formal way," Baldwin stated. "And in that orderly and formal way and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump."
At a different point in his remarks, Baldwin criticized Trump and Republicans in Congress:
"There is a small cadre of people currently in power who are hell-bent on continuing a malicious immigration policy that has set this country up for charges of human rights violations by the global community," Baldwin said. "This cadre has looted money from the federal treasury and deposited it directly into the bank accounts of their most ardent political supporters so that they and several generations of their descendants will have the resources to maintain the GOP in political power for as long as possible."
Alec Baldwin: "We need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/J332cZA7rf
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 15, 2018
At the time, Baldwin was hinting at running for office himself but joked his wife would divorce him if he did. It is unknown if he still intends to run. He stated last summer that he could beat Trump if he ran for president. "Let's overthrow the government of Donald Trump peacefully, lawfully and with extreme prejudice. Let's make America great again, by making Donald Trump a casino operator again," Baldwin said.
Baldwin continued his attacks on Trump and the GOP for their treatment of women:
"They view and treat women as human beings that are not entitled to the same constitutional protections that men are. They are sons, they themselves are sons, husbands, fathers, and yet when the time arrived in the thick of the #MeToo movement to set politics aside and establish that women's rights were more important than political expediency, they failed and it was ugly," Baldwin said.
Alec Baldwin was and is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton. He is a close friend of Bill Clinton as well and politics has always been an option for him.
Although it sounded initially as if he was calling for the violent overthrow of the government, in reality, what he is calling for is Americans to do so by voting. The method of his proposed "overthrow" at this Democratic fundraiser in New Hampshire was through the ballot box.
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GANASSI TEAM'S 100th WIN COMES WITH CHAMPIONSHIP
By Dave Lewandowski | Indycar.com
SONOMA, Calif. -- Scott Dixon's victory in the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway delivered Chip Ganassi Racing Teams' 100th Indy car win.
It is the second Indy car team with 100 victories, joining Team Penske with 178.
Dixon, who earned his fourth Indy car championship with the win, also produced the team's 99th win on June 6 in the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Dixon is one of 12 drivers to have won an Indy car race for the Indianapolis-based team, and he's the team leader with 38 (his first win was in 2001 at Nazareth Speedway with PacWest Racing). Dixon moved closer to Al Unser (39) for fourth on the all-time Indy car victory list.
"We win them as a team, and just I feel very blessed to obviously do what I do. I love IndyCar racing," said Dixon, 35, who completed his 14th year with the team. "I think the Verizon IndyCar Series is one of the best series in the world. We put on amazing races, and the talent that we have here, the depth, is fantastic. I feel blessed and love waking up to myself being an IndyCar racer as a champion and hope for many more years."
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, founded in 1990, has 11 series championships and four Indianapolis 500 victories. Michael Andretti recorded the first victory on March 20, 1994, in the Australian FAI IndyCar Grand Prix.
The names of the Ganassi IndyCar drivers over the years are some of the sport's greats: Andretti, Arie Luyendyk, Alex Zanardi, Jimmy Vasser, Juan Pablo Montoya, Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Dan Wheldon, Kenny Brack and Tony Kanaan. Bruno Junqueira, Charlie Kimball and Jeff Ward also have won races for Ganassi.
Ganassi, 57, began competing in Indy car racing in 1982. He made five starts in the Indianapolis 500, with a best finish of eighth in 1983. He also drove sports cars in competition. He purchased an interest in Patrick Racing, which whom he had raced, in 1988, and in 1990 started his own Indy car team.
Posted by Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations on 31 Aug 2015