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I thought about writing a critique of Aaron Bady's mostly very good review of Lincoln for a long time this morning. It was a tough call: I do have some enamel left on my teeth and I can think of nothing else that could threaten to grind it all down to dust than publicly saying anything — anything at all — that could be construed as a defense of either Steven Spielberg's politics or Barack Obama.
So I don't want to defend the movie, which I thought was fine for what it was. Actually, by the standards of Hollywood history flicks, I thought it was more than fine.
Bady's right to call out Kushner and Spielberg as card-carrying Obamaphiles. And it's more than clear, particularly through interviews, that Kushner and Spielberg want us to connect the dots they've carefully laid out between Abe and Barack. Obama himself has done everything possible to encourage the comparison—even being sworn into office on Lincoln's very own bible.
In their shared liberal revisionism, the Thirteenth Amendment becomes ObamaCare. The Emancipation Proclamation becomes a return to the marginal tax rates of the Clinton era. Thaddeus Stevens morphs into a fantasy of Bernie Sanders "doing the right thing" and sitting down with the prez to cut healthcare for the poor and elderly.
It's laughable. But instead of calling them out, too many leftists concede this characterization of Lincoln and the Republicans to the Obamaphiles. They seem to believe that the first crop of Republicans did little more than press an official rubber stamp on "history from below" which had already delivered its verdict across the land.
The argument seems to be: "Spielberg says Lincoln and Obama are rubber-stampers. They are. But he's wrong when he says that such men are the true makers of history." Then they go looking elsewhere for the real revolutionaries, who can't possibly have anything to do with these mere stampers.
The question is why are we letting Spielberg, Kushner, and Obama get away with this?
Abraham Lincoln and the early Republicans (to say nothing of the Liberty Party or Free Soilers before them) shared a vision of a radically different society. Wiping out slavery — either through immediate abolition or through the "cordon of freedom" policy of the Republican Party — was hardly a technocratic reform.
And when it became clear that the only way to get there would be through revolutionary means, they took it without flinching: slaves were being emancipated as "contraband" by the summer of 1861, with the first Confiscation Act — written and debated in Congress explicitly as an emancipation act — signed into law that August, less than four months after the start of the war. The endgame of military emancipation had long been on the minds of antislavery politicians, all the way back to John Quincy Adams who first laid out such a scenario in 1836.
Which part of this sounds anything at all like Barack Obama — the man who dives for cover whenever Ben Nelson sneezes? When did Obama ever promise to place the private health insurance industry "where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction"?
Don't let Spielberg, Kushner, and Obama make you forget that the Republican Party in 1860 was the culmination of a two-decade political project. To overlook this fact is to ignore a powerful lesson for today's American radicals and to play into the hands of revisionists in both reactionary and ultra-leftist camps.
If we're to find an antecedent for Obama and today's Democrats, we'd have an easier time with a party like the Whigs and a president like William Henry Harrison — in whom some anti-slavery men and women had invested a good deal of misplaced hope. Try this: what does the Democratic party in 2012 stand for? Nobody knows. Nobody could tell you. To say the same about the Republican Party of 1860 would be ludicrous.
To compare Lincoln to our current president would imply that there's some heinous but powerful and entrenched system of injustice that animates Obama and the Democratic Party just as a lifelong hatred of slavery animated Lincoln and provided almost the sole political platform upon which he rose to the presidency.
What great "moral, social and political" wrong gets Obama out of bed in the morning? Even in the post-Occupy Wall Street world, our president can hardly be bothered to say a bad word about wealth inequality or the 1%, let alone capitalism. And yet, from the time Lincoln joined the Republicans in 1854, his public speeches are pretty much a single-issue affair: the evil of slavery and why it must be stamped out.
Obama himself has often used Lincoln to legitimize his own hostility towards the left, in one speech asking rhetorically what a mid-19th century version of the Huffington Post would have said about all the exceptions in the Emancipation Proclamation. The implication is that they would have denounced Lincoln for such a compromised political document in the same manner that left-liberals repudiate Obama's ineffectual approach to compromise today. Which, as Eric Foner pointed out, isn't even correct:
That little exchange of Obama's reveals a deep misunderstanding about what happened in the Civil War . . . well we know what the abolitionists said about the Emancipation Proclamation . . . they said "right on, Lincoln! This is fantastic, this is great!" They celebrated, and then they said 'you've got to do more. You've got to go further . . . They didn't denounce Lincoln as a compromiser.
Abolitionists and Republicans, at heart, shared essentially the same principles and the same political project. With Obama, there are no core principles and no coherent political project to speak of. There's only the guiding hand of a narcissistic left-neoliberalism occasionally stroking the levers of state power in order to ensure our continuing domination by an all-powerful ruling class.
Many of his liberal supporters (and their reactionary opponents) claim that inside Obama's heart lies a "secret" progressive agenda waiting for the day when the Supreme Court finally turns, a Democratic congressional supermajority is restored, and the mean old people in the south finally die off. This implicitly suggests that Obama and the Democratic Party can be redeemed.
What was Lincoln's "secret" agenda? In September of 1861, it was abolition: "the powder in this bombshell will keep dry and when the fuse is lit, I intend to have them touch it off themselves." In November of 2012, we know Obama's "secret" agenda: a brutal fiscal austerity aimed primarily at social spending — a regression in the class project begun in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
Adolph Reed, no fan of Obama, said it best, pointing out Obama's "bizarre version of Lincoln that never manages to include the fucking Civil War, not even in relation to the Emancipation Proclamation [ . . . ] Lincoln's penchant for compromise was only with members of his own party; the Dems, after all, were at war against him."
This isn't to say that Lincoln and the Republicans were "great men of history," Obama is not a "great man," and therefore the lesson is that we must find new "great men" to elect. Instead, we should acknowledge the radicalism of these politicians and inquire instead into the rumbling movements that allowed them to get their hands on state power in the first place.
To accept that the Republican party and Abraham Lincoln were the political agents of this revolution is not to discount the hundreds of thousands of slaves who did, in fact, liberate themselves by escaping to Union lines and, eventually, taking up arms against the masterclass.
But in his essay, Bady ends up painting a misleading portrait of an all-but-defeated slave society that both downplays slavery's strength and resistance throughout the war and the enormity of the task of obliterating it — and thus the crucial role played by both the Union Army — including nearly 200,000 black soldiers — and, yes, Republican politicians.
Bady writes:
. . . that slavery was already all but dead by the time Lincoln got around to declaring himself an abolitionist, far less because the North gave slaves their legal freedom than because they had already effectively taken it, because it had become the new status quo that would have required force to dislodge. At the end of the Civil War, with the South defeated, the choice for the north was not to end slavery or leave it; the choice was to ratify the fact that it was already dead or to re-impose it by military force.
But slavery was not dead "by the time Lincoln got around to declaring himself an abolitionist." The vast majority of slaves were unable to escape, and by the war's end, less than 15% of the country's 4 million slaves had been emancipated. Du Bois's "General Strike" was no doubt of extreme importance, but it did not deliver the deathblow to slavery.
As James Oakes's forthcoming study of emancipation makes abundantly clear, "most slaves never left their farms and plantations, and in that sense most were never legally emancipated." In fact, had General Sherman failed to capture Atlanta in the summer of 1864, it is more than possible that Democrat General George B. McClellan — a man extremely hostile to emancipation — would have defeated Lincoln's re-election bid and overseen a Confederate defeat and a reconstruction that allowed southern states to re-enter the union with slavery intact.
It's not out of misplaced paranoia that Lincoln spent the spring of 1864 worrying about recently emancipated men and women being returned into slavery by a court decision or two. At a moment when he was all but certain that he'd lose re-election, Lincoln invited Frederick Douglass to the White House for a new, desperate scheme:
Lincoln's main purpose in initiating this meeting, however, was to seek Douglass's advice on how to increase the number of blacks who, in the event that he lost the election, could not be returned to bondage. Slaves, Lincoln said, were not coming into Union Lines as quickly as he hoped. He asked Douglass to devise a plan to send black 'scouts' behind Confederate lines to spread news of the Emancipation Proclamation and encourage slaves to escape — a kind of official institutionalization of the prewar Underground Railroad. A few days after their meeting, Douglass forwarded to Lincoln a proposal for putting into effect the president's remarkable idea.
In other words, it mattered a great deal that those who had their hands on the levers of state power were who they were — the culmination of political project at least two-decades in the making. This was not the path of least resistance for these men.
The vulgar Marxist reading of the Civil War is wrong: slavery could have survived indefinitely, just as it had originally flourished in the market revolution. It took not only a political victory but a military victory to ensure the slaves' liberation — a victory which 180,000 black men won by the bayonet, decisively turning the tide of the war.
Why should we let Obamaphiles claim Lincoln as their spirit germ when to claim him is to claim the leader of an idealistic third-party that helped drive the country to, in Seth Ackerman's words, "a radical, indeed violent, social revolution [ . . . ] one that expropriated, without compensation, almost one quarter of the productive wealth in the country." This is the revolutionary project that was the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
I share Bady's distaste for American presidents, "white saviors," and the US military. But disenchantment about the present shouldn't lead to excessive cynicism about the past.
Connor Kilpatrick is on the editorial board of Jacobin.
Whatever Spielberg says — there's no comparing an empty-suit like Obama to a radical like Lincoln.


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import org.magenta.DataSupplier;

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import com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken;

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Review: the Streamlight Microstream is your new replacement for your tired cellphone light
A powerful EDC light that fits in the palm of your hand.
By Matt Sampson | Published Jun 23, 2021 9:36 AM
The Streamlight Microstream. (Matt Sampson)
If Surefire was the Coke, Streamlight has always been the "Is Pepsi okay?" of the tactical flashlight market. Always resting at a slightly lower price bracket, Streamlight has remained poised to provide flashlights that work to a more budget-conscious end of the market. From rail-mounted weapon lights like the HLX to the handheld lights that include the subject of today's review, Streamlight targets the people who want on-paper performance for less of an up-front investment.
The Streamlight Microstream's stats on paper are fairly impressive, being under four inches in length, and boasting 250 lumens and 1,150 candela, all powered by a rechargeable lithium battery. In addition to this, it's lightweight at just over a single ounce, features a double-sided clip, two operation modes, and has an attractively tactical bronze finish on its aluminum body. But is it actually just as good for less? Let's answer that question.
Editor's note: the Streamlight Microstream also made Task & Purpose's roundup of the best EDC flashlights of the year.
As a quick disclosure: this flashlight was provided to me for this review free of charge by Task & Purpose, and I'm not sponsored by Streamlight or any of the companies that I review.
Streamlight Microstream flashlight
Materials: Anodized aluminum
Beam range: 134.5 feet
The Streamlight Microstream comes in a simple paper-wrapped clamshell package, which as we know, is my favorite type of packaging. Pretty much all the pertinent information regarding the capabilities of the flashlight is on the package, barring a small paper manual inside, so the cost-cutting measures are in full effect. The package includes an inexpensive lanyard that attaches via a decidedly janky ring that hooks under the pocket clip. Probably not how most people will carry it, but it's an option if you feel like adding to your IT guy lanyard. The pocket clip features both forward- and rear-facing clip options, for the express purpose of clipping the light onto the brim of a ball cap or cover for hands-free use. This feature requires you to take the time to fiddle with getting the light clip onto the brim, as the rearward clip is very tight and will likely require some break-in to fit without needing to remove your hat first.
The Streamlight Microstream (Matt Sampson)
The light itself is a very compact 3.8 inches, fitting neatly inside my closed fist, and with the rubberized thumb switch within easy reach. The switch itself can be momentarily held on, or fully depressed to click on. If you double-tap, it goes into a lower power mode if you don't want to ruin your natural night vision as much, such as in a situation where you just need to read something in the dark versus searching for a light switch in a large darkened room. Switching between these modes can be confusing, especially if you have fat fingers like me, requiring you to wait a second after shutting off the flashlight when in low-power mode for the light to reset. I've seen other lights that have a switch where you can twist the rear cap to select the different modes, but those lights were nearly triple the price of the Microstream.
The beam itself is bright, cast by an LED bulb, and creates a roughly four-foot-wide spread at 10 feet, and a 10-foot spread at 30 feet. The "throw distance" of the beam is effectively 30 feet maximum, in spite of the stated 68 meter maximum reach, and I'd place the optimal distance at no more than 20 feet for actual feature identification. This is definitely a light that is more suited to indoor or close-quarters usage, which matches its compact size and low price tag. Powering the light is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery with 370 milliamp hours, and 3.7 volts, which gives the light 90 minutes of constant power on high, and 210 hours of power on low. Charging the battery from empty to full takes roughly four hours, and the charging port accepts normal micro-USB cables. To access the charging port, simply slide the shroud around the light head forward, which exposes the micro USB port on one side, and a small LED light on the other side, which grows red while charging, and green when fully charged.
The manufacturer advertises the Microstream as being reasonably sturdy, not making any sweeping claims, but pointing out the construction and water resistance. The body of the light is made of painted aluminum, and the coat of paint is applied evenly and thickly enough to withstand minor scuffs. The lens itself is made of polycarbonate, which offers a reasonable level of impact resistance, but makes it susceptible to scuffs and scratches. This could theoretically lead to increased beam diffusion in sandy environments over time, but at that point the light is cheap enough to where you could just purchase another one. The manufacturer states that the light is water-resistant to one meter, which basically means that you can use it in the rain or it can get mildly splashed. I wouldn't submerge the light at all, and definitely would take the time to dry it out before use in case you do drop it in shallow water. The pocket clip is made of durable steel that seems to hold its shape very well, and it's coated to resist rust under normal conditions. Finally, the thumb switch has a rubber cover, which seems reasonably thick and sturdy, providing durability while also ensuring that the switch is still easy to actuate.
How we tested the Streamlight Microstream
The most obvious test was to go into a dark room and see how well it lights things up, and how much detail I could see in the dark.The beam illuminated my entire hallway on high mode, and cast a much less harsh beam on low, while still allowing me to see crucial details like entrances, and where the hallway ended. Shining the light off my balcony and onto the street outside, it allowed me to see colors and major details from the second story, which is in line with the advertised capabilities. All in all, this is pretty good performance for a $30 light that's the size of a tube of chapstick.
The Streamlight Microstream in action (Matt Sampson)
The second test was a drop test. I dropped it from the second story out onto the sidewalk, and flicked it on. It worked without any issues. After this, for the third test, I dropped it in a sink full of water, pulled it out, patted it dry, and turned it on. It worked just fine.
Finally, to test the durability, I walked over it, hammered it with a heavy rubber mallet, and bounced it against the wall a few times. Still working. While I wouldn't call this a supremely durable, all-weather light, it's durable enough to withstand regular everyday use. However, should you anticipate counting on a light in adverse conditions, I'd highly recommend spending more than $30 on a flashlight and investing in something explicitly suited to wet, hot, or high-impact environments.
What we like about the Streamlight Microstream
The Streamlight Microstream is cost-effective, providing 250 lumens at a very affordable price, which allows nearly anyone to have a compact light in their pocket that's vastly superior to their phone without having to shell out a considerable amount of money. The light is very handy, and the switch is easy to use even with gloves. The paint job is applied very evenly, and the bronze color scheme gives this light a very attractive and high-quality feel. Finally, the fact that it's USB-rechargeable means that you don't have to worry about swapping batteries as much as you would with an alkaline-powered light that uses AAAs, for instance.
What we don't like about the Streamlight Microstream
The high and low modes are a little finicky to toggle between, and you can accidentally engage the low function if you accidentally double-push the button, which then requires you to pause, wait a second, and then try again. It's understandable to just have a dual-function switch at this price point, but some sort of separate hardware switch to easily toggle between modes would be preferable. Additionally, there's no red-lens mode, even a lens cover, which would definitely expand the utility of this light for military purposes, even though that's outside of what this light is advertised for. Finally, I wish the charging port cover was screw-down, to improve the water resistance somewhat.
This is the optimal throwaway backup light for anyone, be they mechanics looking for something to keep in their breast pocket to have in case they have to look into an engine bay in a hurry, someone who wants to have a compact flashlight in their vehicle for emergencies, or even someone who wants to have an emergency flashlight on their person at all times that does more than their phone. At the prices they're asking, it's hard to say no to the Microstream, and it's priced at a point where you could purchase multiples.
FAQs about the Streamlight Microstream
Q: How much does the Streamlight Microstream cost?
A: MSRP is $34.05 at Walmart.
Q: Does Streamlight have a lifetime warranty?
A: Streamlight warranties their products to be free from defects for the lifetime of the product, excluding things like light bulbs and normal wear and tear.
Q: Does the military use Streamlight?
A: Yes. Hilariously enough, the issued U.S. Marine Corps boot camp flashlight is now a modified Streamlight Sidewinder, called the "Sidewinder Boot," replacing the old J-shaped lights of yesteryear. In addition to this, you can see Streamlight products in use mounted to the helmets and vests of many U.S. service members.
Q: Can I use the Streamlight Microstream to blind my opponent so that I can whip out some ninja stars or something in a self-defense situation?
A: I bet you carry a butterfly knife and nunchucks, don't you?
Matt Sampson is an 0861 in the Marine Forces Reserve and a Virginia native. In his past life, he worked in tactical gear retail and is an avid firearms enthusiast. The farthest the Marine Corps has sent him from home is Oklahoma.
Matt Sampson
Matt Sampson is a commerce reporter for Task and Purpose and The Gear Locker, and a contributing writer for The Drive, and Car Bibles, covering everything gear and tech-related. He lives in Fredericksburg, VA or Richmond, VA, depending on the day. Contact the author here.

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Jack Cohen has been a highly regarded photographer for Music events since 2008.
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For the past 4 years Jack has co-produced the popular streamed video show Smooth Saturdays with Aysha. Jack has co-hosted this show for the last year. Smooth Saturdays with Aysha interviewed renown artists from the recording industry, played album cuts and in studio guests played live.
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Tuberculosis (TB) and Buruli ulcer (BU) are distinct but serious diseases caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium ulcerans respectively. TB causes hundreds of thousands of deaths each year and millions of people are infected worldwide. The emergence of multi-drug resistant strains is a major concern. Tim's group is using the power of genomics to better understand how Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes disease and to use that information to help develop an effective vaccine. BU is a neglected disease and each year, 5000 to 6000 cases are reported from 33 countries across the globe, predominantly from rural regions in West and Central Africa. The disease involves subcutaneous tissue and has several manifestations but necrotic skin ulcers are a common presentation, caused by the proliferation of bacteria beneath the dermis and a secreted bioactive bacterial lipid toxin called mycolactone. Employing genomics, Tim's group has been at the forefront of describing the biosynthesis and role of mycolactone but the role of this molecule in the natural ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans is not understood. Epidemiological studies frequently link BU occurrence with low-lying and wetland areas, and human-to-human transmission is rare, suggesting an environmental source of the mycobacterium. Despite more than 70 years of research, the environmental reservoir(s) and mode(s) of transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans remain unknown. Tim's group's research aims to address these key questions.
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Internet2's Chief Innovation Officer Florence Hudson continues her travels to gain insights into the R&E community issues and needs. Most recently, she participated in the University of Washington's 3rd Annual TechConnect Conference with a presentation about future-proofing your career and environment through diversity and inclusion, and co-presented with University of Washington's Chuck Benson on Internet of Things (IoT) systems on a campus. She then traveled to Virginia Tech, to better understand smart campus opportunities, researcher needs, and IoT, and to join CIO Scott Midkiff for a discussion about the journey from engineer to Senior VP and gender diversity in engineering and IT. Following Virginia Tech, Florence keynoted and participated in a panel on IoT impacts on both urban and rural America at the 2016 Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, thanks to Mark Johnson from MCNC who hosted her keynote and panel. And this week she keynoted at KINBERCON 2016, speaking about key information and communications technology trends in the R&E community plus the need for more diversity in IT. Many thanks to Kelli Trosvig and Chuck Benson @ the University of Washington; Scott Midkiff, Scot Ransbottom and Aaron Bond @Virginia Tech; Mark Johnson @MCNC; and Wendy Huntoon @KINBER for their hospitality the past month!
Please make plans to participate in an exciting line up of CINO sessions at the upcoming 2016 Global Summit in Chicago May 15-18. CINO sessions will feature Healthcare and Life Sciences, Smart Campus, IoT Working Group, End-to-End Trust & Security Working Group, Distributed Big Data & Analytics Working Group, Gender Diversity, and Innovation Development globally.


I didn't know much about this film going in. I remember seeing previews back in that day, something about floating roses and naked high school girls, but that's about all I knew before hand. I would like to state for the record that I absolutely love seeing movies I know zero about. There is nothing more thrilling than a movie blowing you away when you least expect it. That is however, becoming more and more difficult in this day and age of spoilers and the evil internetz. So please do yourself a favor, if you haven't seen this movie and know nothing about it, go watch it before you read this. Please? I'm serious.
Anyways, I loved Sunset Boulevard because right from the gate you knew the main protagonist was dead/going to die. American Beauty pulled a very similar stunt and it worked to keep you guessing. My wife probably will brag she figured it out from the beginning but it was still a great maneuver to keep viewers on their toes. Besides, my wife figures out all the movies ahead of everyone else. An even better move was to have the movie narrated from the beyond by the posthumous lead. Kevin Spacey fills the roll of a forty something experiencing a mid life crisis, lusting after a seemingly unattainable teenage girl perfectly. The rest of the cast is also perfect and really pieces together a portrait of American insanity. Things are not always as they seem in this film and I think that really mirrors life. We all put up fake walls to keep people from knowing who we really are. We must protect our dirty little secrets.
But I want to talk about the real beauty of the film. When Kevin Spacey's character realizes the life he'd been looking for was right in front of him the whole time; then he is shot. Afterlife narrator Spacey ends the movie by reminding us that there is beauty everywhere in the world if we are willing to look. We spent some much of our time nit picking and complaining about the small things that we often forget to stop and enjoy their beauty as well. In the end life is the most beautiful thing we have and we should be grateful because that life is all we have. This was definitely worthy of its Oscar win.
American Beauty is a film that I had wanted to see since it was released in the late 90s (which really doesn't seem that long ago to me even though it's now 2011...hmmm now I feel old...). However, I never got around to seeing it, even though I would always comment if someone brought it up "Yeah, I really want to see that." In fact, I put it in our Netflix Que over a year ago, LONG before the husband and I started our Best Picture Project. (Wow! Don't you just love Netflix...it might just be like my favorite thing ever). So we finally got around to watching it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was predictable, but that doesn't mean it was bad or anything. Kevin Spacey rocked it and TOTALLY DESERVED his Oscar for Best Actor that year! Now if you haven't seen American Beauty, I ask you to PLEASE stop reading here as the next part of this post contains spoilers (or keep reading if you are the type that likes to be spoiled).
I loved the music, cinematogrophy, acting and theme of the movie. I did find Spacey's character to be a bit whiney and "whoa is me" but then again, that behavior is essential to the film's meaning and ending. Thora Birch, who I always remember as Teeny from Now and Then, my favorite childhood movie, was great as well. Mena Suvari, who I remember best from American Pie, was good too. Really, I couldn't complain about any of the acting. Also, I got to see what Sandy Cohen would look like with grey hair thanks to the movie. If you don't know who Sandy Cohen is and have never seen The OC, shame on you! Even the husband liked the first two seasons!
Anyway back to the movie, yes I did find it predictable as I mentioned before. I love movies that start out with the dead person narrating... very Sunset Boulevard-esque! I knew that by the end of the movie Spacey's character would realize what a good life he had led, but it would be right as he was about to die. I knew as soon as I laid eyes on him, who Spacey's "killer" would be. Yes, the creepy neighbor who was stuck in the 1950s and a war veteran, who seemed to never have gotten over his time in the war...PTSD perhaps? I also knew that as soon as this character had a brief meeting with the other neighbors, who are gay, at the beginning of the film, that he totally had some homosexual tendencies and was over compensating. When I made this remark early in the film, the husband rolled his eyes at me. This character was fascinating and the way they portrayed his "stuck in the past" personality with the shots of his home (all old decor), his rigid family rules, and a wife, who was the epitome of a traditional 50s wife, was incredible. As the character had an encounter with Spacey's character over a mis-understanding, I shouted "Oh my God he is gonna kiss him." And then BOOM! He did! When Spacey didn't reciprocate, I knew the neighbor wouldn't be able to live with his secret out and that Spacey would soon bite the dust.
However, before Spacey bites it, he finally gets his chance with his daughter's high school friend (Suvari) that he had been disgustingly, yet hilariously lusting over the entire movie. I knew though before they almost "got it on" that something "shocking" would happen...which wasn't at all surprising to me. Early in the movie when they were making her appear to be some big ole hoochie, I said, "I bet she really is just a virgin." CABOOM! Right again! As they are about to do it, Suvari tells Spacey it was "her first time." This revelation ultimately snaps Spacey back to reality and he sees her as just a young girl and no longer a fantasy. After a bout of awkwardness, Spacey finally asks Suvari how his daughter (Birch) is doing (who of course was pretty much ignored by him the entire movie). It is around this time that Spacey's character finally begins to realize his whole life just hasn't been a big pile of dog crap. In his final scene on screen, he looks at a photo of his family and sees that he did have a good, "beautiful" life. Right as he realizes this, he is shot (of course), in what is perhaps one of the most breathtaking scenes of the film. While we never see the creepy neighbor shoot Spacey, we understand that it is he who did as he returns to his home covered in blood.
The end comments about how there is beauty everywhere really pull this film together. So often we complain, whine and don't realize just how good we have it. And like Spacey's character, we never realize what we have until it's too late.
So now that my rambling review is over (and hey I didn't even touch on Spacey's wife in the film...I could probably write an essay), was American Beauty worthy of its Oscar Best Picture win? Absolutely.


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Micromolding in Capillaries (MIMIC)
D. J. Lipomi, R. V. Martinez, L. Cademartiri, and G. M. Whitesides. 2012. "Soft Lithographic Approaches to Nanofabrication." In Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, edited by K. Matyjaszewski and M. Möller, 7: Pp. 211-231. Amsterdam: Elsevier BV. PDF
M. D. Dickey, D. J. Lipomi, P. J. Bracher, and G. M. Whitesides. 2008. "Electrically Addressable Parallel Nanowires with 30-nm Spacing from Micromolding and Nanoskiving." Nano Letters, 8, Pp. 4568-4573. PDF
M. Boncheva, S. A. Andreev, L. Mahadevan, A. Winkleman, D. Reichman, M. G. Prentiss, S. Whitesides, and G. M. Whitesides. 2005. "Magnetic Self-Assembly of Three-Dimensional Surfaces from Planar Sheets." PNAS, 102, Pp. 3924-3929. PDF
B.D. Gates, Q. Xu, M. Stewart, D. Ryan, C. G. Willson, and G. M. Whitesides. 2005. "New Approaches to Nanofabrication: Molding, Printing, and Other Techniques." Chemical Reviews, 105, Pp. 1171-1196. PDF
D. Ryan, B. A. Parviz, V. Linder, V. Semetey, S. K. Sia, J. Su, M. Mrksich, and G. M. Whitesides. 2004. "Patterning Multiple Aligned Self-Assembled Monolayers Using Light." Langmuir, 20, Pp. 9080-9088. PDF
S. K. W. Dertinger, X. Jiang, Z. Li, V. N. Murthy, and G. M. Whitesides. 2002. "Gradients of Substrate-Bound Laminin Orient Axonal Specification of Neurons." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, Pp. 12542-12547. PDF
T.W. Odom, J. C. Love, D. B. Wolfe, K. E. Paul, and G. M. Whitesides. 2002. "Improved Pattern Transfer in Soft Lithography using Composite Stamps." Langmuir, 18, Pp. 5314-5320. PDF
G. M. Whitesides and J. C. Love. 2001. "The Art of Building Small." Scientific American, 285, Pp. 32-41. PDF
T. Deng, G. M. Whitesides, M. Radhakrishna, G. Zabow, and M. G. Prentiss. 2001. "Manipulation of Magnetic Microbeads in Suspension Using Micromagnetic Systems Fabricated with Soft Lithography." Applied Physics Letters, 78, Pp. 1775-1777. PDF
P. J. A. Kenis, R. F. Ismagilov, S. Takayama, G. M. Whitesides, S. Li, and H. S. White. 2000. "Fabrication Inside Microchannels using Fluid Flow." Accounts of Chemical Research, 33, Pp. 841-847. PDF
H. V. Shah, S. T. Brittain, Q. Huang, S.-J. Hwu, G. M. Whitesides, and D. W. Smith. 1999. "Bis-o-diynylarene (BODA) Derived Polynaphthalenes as Precursors to Glassy Carbon Microstructures." Chem. Mat., 11, Pp. 2623-2625. PDF
J. Hu, T. Deng, R. G. Beck, R. M. Westervelt, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Fabrication of Arrays of Schottky Diodes Using Microtransfer Molding." Sensor Actuat. A-Phys., 75, Pp. 65-69. PDF
O. J. A. Schueller, S. T. Brittain, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Fabrication of Glassy Carbon Microstructures by Soft Lithography." Sensor Actuat. A-Phys., 72, Pp. 125-139. PDF
W. S. Beh, I. T. Kim, D. Qin, Y. Xia, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Formation of Patterned Microstructures of Conducting Polymers by Soft Lithography and Applications in Microelectronic Device Fabrication." Advanced Materials, 11, Pp. 1038-1041. PDF
N. L. Jeon, I. S. Choi, B. Xu, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Large-Area Patterning by Vacuum-Assisted Micromolding." Advanced Materials, 11, Pp. 946-950. PDF
T. Deng, L. B. Goetting, J. Hu, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Microfabrication of Half-Wave Rectifier Circuits Using Soft Lithography." Sensor Actuat. A-Phys., 75, Pp. 60-64. PDF
Y. Xia, J. A. Rogers, K. E. Paul, and G. M. Whitesides. 1999. "Unconventional Methods for Fabricating and Patterning Nanostructures." Chemical Reviews, 99, Pp. 1823-1848. PDF
A. V. Zhuk, A. G. Evans, J.W. Hutchinson, and G. M. Whitesides. 1998. "The Adhesion Energy between Polymer Thin Films and Self-Assembled Monolayers." Journal of Materials Research, 13, Pp. 3555-3564. PDF
N. L. Jeon, J. Hu, G. M. Whitesides, M.K. Erdhardt, and R.G. Nuzzo. 1998. "Fabrication of Silicon MOSFETs Using Soft Lithography." Advanced Materials, 10, Pp. 1466-1469. PDF
P. Yang, T. Deng, D. Zhao, P. Feng, D. Pine, B. F. Chmelka, G. M. Whitesides, and G. D. Stucky. 1998. "Hierarchically Ordered Oxides." Science, 282, Pp. 2244-2246. PDF


Mr. Ludlam organised a trip for a group of Year 4 children to take part in a Tri Golf Tournament. It took place at Redhill School and, as usual, Mr. Ludlam said the children were a credit to the school! Seven teams entered and we came third!! Well done to Remario, Cody, Cayden, Maria, Halima, Suhan, Ellie-Mae and Verity!


← Ask yourself four diet questions. Or I will.
Australian Doctor asked me today if they could publish my thoughts on the $7 co-payment. I have dark thoughts.
Apologies in advance to my medical specialist friends. It's not your fault.
Imagine yourself in charge of Australia's health budget – heaven forbid! On your desk are two cash-filled buckets, marked 'primary care' and 'specialist/hospital care'. Your job is to remove some money from one or the other bucket, to be spent elsewhere. Unrestrained by short-term political gain and beholden to no interest groups (we are only imagining), your decision requires going back to basics.
Basics, of course, means health consumers. Patients. People. You reckon doctors can generally look after themselves, so you are only interested in patient outcomes. Which pile of cash is currently giving patients the most 'bang for their bucket'?
You turn to the best available evidence – a novel approach, not without political risk. Dr Barbara Starfield, paediatrician and President of International Society for Equity in Health, researched this very question extensively over decades. She and her John Hopkins University colleagues analysed every relevant published study, and can answer your question unequivocally – the same answer regardless of your country's economy. Don't touch the money in the primary care bucket.
Depleting primary care results in worse health outcomes, for all important measures. These outcomes include mortality (all-cause, cancer, heart disease, stroke, infant) low birth weight, life expectancy, self-rated health, mental health and suicide.(1) Not much left, really, unless you think waiting times for MRIs are equally important.
Notably, these worsened outcomes do not occur to anything like the same extent with reduced specialist care and hospital services. We may like to think they do, but evidence suggests otherwise. In the U.S., for example, each one fewer GP per 10,000 population is associated with a five per cent reduction in measured health outcomes, in rich states and poor, city and rural.
In other words, if you took one doctor's wage from the primary care bucket and tipped it into the specialist bucket, the population health would worsen. If you Robin-Hood the money the other way, outcomes improve.
But what about bulging hospital waiting lists, you protest? And cardiac surgeons who save two lives before breakfast?
No one would deny that specialist and tertiary care is crucial, but the fact is that a robust primary care system is even more crucial. More lives depend on it and, dollar for dollar, considerably more health is gained by it. Ideally, you wouldn't remove any money at all, but if forced to make a choice, less harm results from leaving primary care alone.
This may be counter-intuitive if your knowledge of the system is gleaned from newspaper headlines and complaint letters. Adding up coronary stent insertions is easy and immediate; any bean counter can master it.
But improving the average health of entire populations is much harder to measure, which is why we invented epidemiologists. These wonderful creatures can smooth out the inherent uncertainties of interactions with GPs and other primary care providers, and miraculously count the number of lives saved.
Millions of brief interventions save thousands of lives, and prevent or relieve untold suffering, disability and mental anguish. So powerful is the measured effect, these statistics hold true even when diluted by the 'easy stuff' – the common colds and work certificates.
Amidst the daily confusion of intense, 15-minute doses of human discourse, epidemiologists reveal all the catastrophic events which never took place. The souls who cheated death in primary care cannot be named with wrist tags, but can most certainly be counted.
I work in Aboriginal health, where prevention is everything. Like most GPs who work in poorer neighbourhoods, I am willing to accept that the rosy world of user-co-pays exists somewhere, but I'm too busy to go looking for it. Some days, it seems half my work is nabbing unsuspecting fathers who have brought their kid in to see me, and suggesting that dad needs a health check, too.
Let's fit you in and talk about smoking, exercise, belly size. For seven dollars. And measure seven dollars' worth of cholesterol to get your CV risk. And your child's scabies rash honestly won't go away unless we treat you and all the other little seven dollars in your family. Sorry? What do you mean you might think about it and come back later? Oh, you just need a certificate.
Maybe I'll be lucky. Maybe politicians will recognise that every Aboriginal health service losing $13 every consultation is the antithesis of 'closing the gap', and they will exempt us. Maybe not.
Even if we become a unique exemption, the irony is that the gap will close even faster, because the average health of the other 97.5% of Australia will reduce. I doubt the original concept involved closing the gap at both ends.
A healthy society needs a robust primary care health system. Don't mess ours up. That's my advice – for free.
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Should the Future Fund eventuate, may I propose a hypothesis for investigation? The #1 prob facing primary care delivery is getting the uninspired recipient to invest just a little in their own health outcome? Or perhaps completely unexpected advice to cut the fags, cutback the booze and trim the tum isn't worth $7 to a disenfranchised patient. Whom you lost thru trite rituals of checking BPs and updating the mental health plan, because in this era of online patient communities their awareness of the complexity of a chronic ailment is better than the GPs.
That makes complete sense. How I wish policy was made with evidence and rationality in mind. Well written.
Amen! Also, love the use of 'robin-hood' as a verb. Sharing this, everyone should read it, not least for the bucket drawings.
Ah yes, my dear AMWA mentee. Using nouns as verbs is either incompetent or brilliantly inventive. Whenever I find myself guilty of the former, I point out that Shakespeare started the rot.
Great article. Unlike Americans who can argue they didn't know any better, we have can't. But health is a luxury good and we don't buy value we buy reputation. And prevention is much harder for politicians to sell than fancy curative medicine after the fact.


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World's Biggest Pub Quiz tops £200,000 for charity
At the King's Arms, Dorking, 'Mark's Men' won The World's Biggest Pub Quiz 2019
The World's Biggest Pub Quiz, organised by PubAid in March this year, has raised more than £230,000* for hundreds of charities, including over £94,000 for Prostate Cancer UK, the event's official charity partner.
This is the first time that money raised from the quiz has topped the £200,000 mark since its launch in 2016 and is a 21% uplift on the 2018 amount. The average sum raised per pub this year was £160, up from £134 last year. The quiz has raised a total of £750,000 over the four years it has been running.
Co-founder of PubAid, Des O'Flanagan, commented: "We're delighted with this impressive total raised by the quiz, which we know will be put to good use by the wide range of charities and worthy causes it benefits.
"The substantial increase in the average amount raised per pub is welcome and we think it shows that, after four years, the quiz has become a popular fixture on many pubs' calendars, something that licensees and their customers look forward to every year. It meant that this year, more publicans were promoting the quiz, attracting more quizzers and often adding additional fundraising activities like bingo or raffles, to increase the amount raised on the night.
"The quiz not only raises money, but also shines a spotlight on the great work that pubs do for charity. More than £100 million is raised by pubs every year, an incredible amount which reflects their vital role at the heart of their local communities."
He added: "We are grateful to every pub, pub company and brewer who supported this year's quiz, and also to our charity partner since 2017, Prostate Cancer UK; they have driven the quiz with huge professionalism and enthusiasm and have undoubtedly helped to raise its profile over the last three years."
Jon Eserin, Associate Director of Fundraising at Prostate Cancer UK, said: "It's been brilliant to watch the World's Biggest Pub Quiz grow over the past three years and we feel lucky to have been able to play a part in that as PubAid's official charity partner. We are extremely grateful to all the venues who have chosen to support Prostate Cancer UK this year and who have raised funds that will help stop prostate cancer being a killer.
"As well as helping us to raise an incredible amount of money, our partnership with PubAid has allowed us to reach men and raise awareness of a disease which kills one man every 45 minutes. We thank PubAid for their ongoing support and look forward to seeing the World's Biggest Pub Quiz grow from strength to strength."
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PUB QUIZ 2019 – KEY FACTS
Based on a post-event survey of 94 participating venues
An estimated 1,438 pubs ran for the quiz this year
91% of licensees liked this year's quiz questions and 74% liked the promotional posters
50% of participating pubs also ran a raffle on the night, and 17% held another type of fundraising activity
The most popular night to hold the quiz was on the Sunday (19%), followed by Thursday (18%)
22% of pubs asked for questions to be made easier, while 6% asked for them to be harder
70% of pubs who took part are 'definitely' planning to run the quiz again in 2020 and a further 24% are 'likely' to repeat it.
*Total number of pubs who have reported monies raised (986) plus an estimated 452 pubs who have not yet reported the sum they raised, multiplied by the average gift (£160).
About Prostate Cancer UK
Prostate Cancer UK leads the fight against prostate cancer. We fund ground-breaking research, drive improvements in treatment, and fight injustice in care. Now we've set ourselves the toughest challenge yet: to stop prostate cancer being a killer.
Through shifting the science over the next 10 years to focus on radical improvements in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and support, we can make prostate cancer a disease the next generation of men need not fear.
Key headline statistics
11,500 men die from prostate cancer in the UK each year. That's one man every forty-five minutes.
It's the most common cancer in men, with 400,000 living with and after the disease in the UK. 1 in 8 men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. The stats are 1 in 4 in black men.
Prostate cancer is set to become the most commonly diagnosed cancer of all in the UK in 2030 – which is why we must all act now to curb its power to kill.
Anyone with concerns about prostate cancer may contact Prostate Cancer UK's Specialist Nurses in confidence on 0800 074 8383 or online via the Live Chat instant messaging service: prostatecanceruk.org. The Specialist Nurse phone service is free to landlines and open from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday with late opening until 8pm on Wednesdays.
Visit prostatecanceruk.orgnow to help beat this disease.
PubAid
PubAid is a working party created in 2009 to highlight the work done by UK pubs for charity, sharing the message that UK pubs raise over £100m per year.
The PubAid Steering Group is led by co-founder Des O'Flanagan and includes a number of well-known figures from the pub world, who lend their time and other resources to help spread the positive messages about pubs' role at the heart of their communities.
Ros Shiel
ros@shielporter.com
Prostate Cancer UK
Harriet Argyle
Out of hours: 079 8432 5001
harriet.argyle @prostatecanceruk.org
World's Biggest Pub Quiz
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Baron André Henry Roland Casimir d'Erlanger (* 24. November 1895 in Woodbridge; † 2. Januar 1937 in Lomaso) war ein französischer Autorennfahrer.

Karriere im Motorsport

André d'Erlanger war in den 1920er-Jahren Mitglied der Bentley Boys und bestritt für die britische Automarke Sportwagenrennen. Zweimal ging er für das Team von Walter Owen Bentley beim 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans am Start. 1927 fuhr er gemeinsam mit George Duller einen Bentley 3 Litre Super Sport. Der Wagen schied aus, da Duller in den Maison-Blanche-Unfall verwickelt war.

Nachdem er 1928 auf einem 2-Liter-Lagonda Gesamtelfter wurde, feierte er 1929 seinen größten Erfolg in Le Mans. Bentley feierte einen Dreifachsieg und hinter den Siegern Woolf Barnato und Tim Birkin und zweitplatzierten Jack Dunfee und Glen Kidston kam d'Erlanger mit Partner Dudley Benjafield als Dritter ins Ziel.

Statistik

Le-Mans-Ergebnisse

Literatur

 Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3.
 R. M. Clarke: Le Mans. The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923–1939. Brooklands Books, Cobham 1998, ISBN 1-85520-465-7.

Weblinks

 André d'Erlanger bei Racing Sports Cars

Rennfahrer (Frankreich)
Rennfahrer der 24 Stunden von Le Mans
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Gestorben 1937
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Clinton's Character
Of my suggestion that it's a little convenient for liberals to play the character card in the case of Rudy Giuliani when they tended to dismiss it where Bill Clinton was concerned, Matt writes:
But look, here, by the time the extent of Bill Clinton marital issues came to light in 1998, the man had been President of the United States for more than a few years, so it was hardly necessary to go searching around for hints and clues as to whether or not one would approve of his conduct in office. Indeed, my sense is that conservatives mostly regarded Clinton's misconduct in this regard as a kind of synecdoche (or maybe metonymy -- sorry, Mr. Glassman!) for an failed presidency. Most Americans, by contrast, viewed Clinton's presidency as reasonably successful and his conduct vis-a-vis his wife, children, and Monica Lewinsky therefore not-especially-relevant to their judgments.
Um ... the extent of Bill Clinton's marital issues only came to light in 1998? My sense is that the only people who were all that surprised by the Monica Lewinsky scandal were Clintonista liberals who'd managed to convince themselves that everything we knew about Clinton's years as an Arkansas hound dog had been invented by David Brock. Everyone else knew who Clinton was in 1992, and definitely knew by the time 1996 rolled around, and both times Democrats dismissed the character argument as irrelevant, and adopted the European principle that private lives shouldn't matter in politics - precisely the principle that Emily Bazelon wants to throw overboard where Rudy is concerned.
Now as I said, I'm by no means convinced that the GOP was right that Clinton's character should have disqualified him from the Presidency, and I'm certainly not convinced that Bazelon is right about Rudy now; it seems like too complicated a puzzle to admit to definite answers. You could argue, for instance, that Clinton's character shouldn't have mattered to his job performance, and the fact that it did is all the Republicans' fault, since they took their argument about Clinton's peccadiloes damaging his effectiveness as President and made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Myself, I incline toward John Derbyshire's recent take on the matter:
Clinton's greatest sin — this has been said before, but not often enough — was not resigning when the scandals began to occupy large parts of his time and energy. That was the sin of pride; and the key question is whether that aspect of the man's personality is connected with his philandering. I suspect that it is: The pride of surviving the assaults of one's enemies, even at heavy cost to the public duties one is supposed to be performing, seems to me not far removed psychologically from the pride of having one's way with pretty women, even at heavy cost to one's own marriage. I don't know how I could prove this, though, and so I leave this as an open question.
Or put another way: A philandering President can be a good President, and the country might have been better off had Clinton occupied the Oval Office in an era when his sexual dalliances would have been swept under the rug. But occupying it when he did, in an era of sexual harassment lawsuits, a prurient media, and an opposition desperate to bring him down, he needed to be willing to resign if caught abusing his power in the way he did - and his unwillingness to do so was a greater flaw than the original lechery, though perhaps, as Derb says, the two went hand in hand.
Sometimes I like to imagine that had Clinton resigned, we would have had six years of President Gore, followed by the election of Jeb Bush - the right Bush - in '04 by a nation tired of Democrat rule and ready for a smart Republican in the White House. But that's what we call wishful thinking.


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Q: How to open a webpage from an arduino uno I was wondering if it's possible to open an internet browser from code in your arduino IDE or any other sort of program connected to the arduino and in turn open a specific webpage.
My idea was to have a button on my arduino uno, once pressed, it would open a browser and a webpage in that browser on my connected computer.
I don't mind if the answer involves code outside of the arduino but it would be great if someone has an idea about how to do this sort of thing.
I've done a lot of research and I couldn't find anything relating to the topic which surprises me a lot as this seems like a simple task, anyway any responses would be greatly appreciated!

A: There are several ways to open a web page with the help of arduino.
But all of them have on thing in common and that is:
1.You receive the data in your PC
2.You tell your PC if the desired data is received open a webpage.
The best way I can think of telling you pc to open a web page is through a programming language. This could be C#,Java,Processing or any other language that has a library that support to monitor the serial port.
After that all you have to do is to say with the help of programming language if this received then open web page..
Here ara two useful links that might be of help:
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=138974.0
http://whichlight.com/blog/arduino-serial-out-to-browser/comment-page-1/

A: The cheap and easy way would be to make your Arduino appear as a USB keyboard and simulate the keypresses required. Of course, this is prone to breakage if the user is typing, not very cross-platform, etc. but it is fairly simple and doesn't require a program on the machine. I received a small USB dongle attached to an ad once that did this. They found a key combination that worked on both Windows and Ubuntu.

A: With an ASP.Net application you can easily do that,here is a a tutorial on this issue.
And after getting a signal from arduino all you have to do is to write in ASP.NET to open the required link

A: Yes, its totally possible given that you know how to code in python.
You can have your own program running that will monitor request from arduino uno using serial port. When it receives a particular set of bytes (say "0xabcdef"), it will call the function to open a browser and a web page.
Here are some of the sites that will help you know how to interface arduino to python and opening web browser using python.
http://www.olgapanades.com/blog/controlling-arduino-with-python/
https://docs.python.org/2/library/webbrowser.html

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