Just Romantic Suspense: Why Make Them Suffer?
Hello again. It's always a pleasure to drop over and visit with you at Just Romantic Suspense. Comment on the post for your chance to win one of two digital copies of The White Carnation, Book One of The Harvester Series.
Today, I'd like to introduce you to my latest romance/suspense novel, The White Lily, Book Two, in the Harvester Trilogy.
A friend who reads all of my work asked me the other day why I made my heroines suffer. The question made me think, and I realized that yes, I do torture and abuse my heroines. I wouldn't wish what happened to Alexis in FireAngel, Misty in In Plain Sight, Nikki in On His Watch, Olivia in All For Love, Michelle in Echoes of the Past, Faye in The White Carnation and now Lilith in The White Lily on anyone, and yet, why do I do it? For effect. By nature, a suspense novel has to have the main characters facing danger—someone or something has to be out to get them, and the situation has to be dire enough to get the reader's heart pumping and make them keep turning the pages.
Think of it this way. If there is a massive accident in the opposite lane on a divided highway, why does traffic on your side slow to a crawl? Because people want to see. They are curious. I believe suspense readers want to be kept on the edge of their seats wondering what's going to happen next.
Novels aren't reality. Many of the stories, like the movies and television programs we watch, the ones that grip our attention, are larger than life, and sometimes, like in movies, we need to take a little literary license with what we do to our characters. Grisly murders, gory torture scenes, life and death situations build tension. But whatever happens has to do so for a reason—it has to advance the plot.
In The White Lily, both Lilith, my leading lady, and Jacob, the hero, have endured torture and it is that common element that serves as a stepping stone into a potential relationship. They've also suffered personal loss, another kind of torture that helps them bond, grow, and heal.
I won't stop torturing my characters anytime soon. Apologies to them all, but no matter what trials and tribulations they endure, they all end up with a happily ever after! And isn't that what we're all searching for?
FBI cult specialist Lilith Munroe lives in dread that one day the man who tortured her when a case went bad will find her again. So leaving her sanctuary in Quantico to join the Harvester Task Force in Boston is her version of hell. But the Harvester is kidnapping babies, and Lilith's profiling skills may mean the difference between life and death for the most innocent in society.
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I love suspense novels... that bit of danger... the characters overcoming obstacles to find a happy ending.
I agree, you have to put the leads through hell when writing suspense. It's more exciting and rachets up the tension.
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Prague – The defenders of the Slavia football trophy will compete in the Prague derby with Sparta in the quarterfinals of the MOL Cup home cup. The Czech champion and leader of the league table will have the advantage of the home environment. Today's lot at the FACR headquarters in Prague in Strahov decided that. In other matches, Olomouc will play against Slovácko, Jablonec against Mladá Boleslav and newcomer Hradec Králové against Bohemians 1905. The official playing day is Wednesday, February 9.
Slavia and Sparta competed in the cup for the last time in the semifinals of last year, and last year in June and White they clearly won 3: 0 at Letná. With the same result, Slavia defeated her old rival in the MOL Cup at home in the semifinals in 2019. The Red and Whites did not lose to Sparta six times in a row, the only defeat since the division of the federation they suffered with it in the MOL Cup in the quarterfinals of the 1995/96 season.
In total, it will be the 301st competitive derby. In the last mutual duel at the beginning of October, Sparta won the league at home 1: 0 and defeated Slavia after 14 competitive matches. The match between the rivals, which awaits the elimination phase of the European Conference League in the spring, was decided by the Slovak midfielder Lukáš Haraslín at Letná.
"The lottery is the way it is, we can't influence it. We got Slavia, so we have another good and difficult match ahead of us. We have to prepare for it honestly and do our best to manage it. It will be a derby, it's always a bit specific. It is necessary to start the league well in Budějovice and then manage the derby, "Haraslín told the club website.
In the table of the highest competition, the Spartans lose three points from the third place to the leading rival after the autumn. Last year's Pilsen Cup finalist, who has already dropped out of this year's MOL Cup, is in second place among Prague clubs.
The defeatist of the West Bohemians, Mladá Boleslav, will start in the quarterfinals in Jablonec, which struggled in the league in the autumn and currently holds up to 14th place in the table. Both opponents last competed in the cup in May 2016, when Mladá Boleslav won 2-0 in the final. The Central Europeans also won the November duel in Jablonec (1: 0).
The fourth team of the Slovácko league table will present itself in the quarterfinals of the cup in Olomouc, which is tenth after the autumn. At the end of October, the team from Uherské Hradiště clearly won 3: 0 in Haná in the highest competition and did not lose to Sigma five times in a row.
Hradec Králové, as a newcomer to the first league after the autumn, surprisingly ranks seventh in the table, while Bohemians 1905 are up to twelve. The teams competed in the opening round of the season and broke up 1: 1 amicably. Hradec plays home matches due to an unsatisfactory stadium in Mladá Boleslav.
The quarterfinals were originally supposed to be played later, at the beginning of February, after the first spring league round, they moved due to the adjustment of the date list of the highest competition. The final of the MOL Cup is on the program on May 4, the winner will secure participation in the qualification of the European Conference League. Slavia has won three of the last four years of the cup and defends the double as the reigning league champion.
Quarterfinals (official playing date February 9):
Olomouc – Slovácko, Hradec Králové – Bohemians Prague 1905, Slavia Prague – Sparta Prague, Jablonec – Mladá Boleslav.
Source: České noviny – sport by www.ceskenoviny.cz.
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Flexitarianism sounds like just another ludicrous portmanteau invented by millennials, to go alongside masturdating, chairdrobes and sexting. Actually, the concept — a combination of 'flexible' and 'vegetarianism' — is an adaptable philosophy that may represent the future of how we eat.
It is not really new. The American Dialect Society named flexitarianism the most useful word of 2003. To begin with it was embraced by only a few quinoa-munching yummy mummies in Hampstead. It entered the mainstream in 2009 when Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney launched Meat Free Mondays. Soon after, a horde of celebrities jumped on the flexitarian bandwagon, from Joanna Lumley to Leona Lewis.
The campaign was based on the motto that going veggie for one day a week can make a 'world of difference'. To some, this seems like an unlikely statement. Many will see the diet as a lazy cop-out from full-time herbivorism — simply 'vegetarianism with benefits'.
But the benefits are very convincing. My own school of flexitarianism involves two days of veganism a week and generally focusing more on plant-based meals, only adding meat to my plate when absolutely necessary. Admittedly, I frequently cave into a bacon butty on a hungover Sunday morning or a lazy Two for Tuesday Pepperoni Passion pizza. The beauty of flexitarianism is that I don't need to abstain entirely from my guilty pleasures. I've since found that filling my cupboards with ludicrous amounts of couscous, bulgur wheat and lentils and by constantly ensuring that my fridge is packed with plenty of fruit and veg has, for most of the time, reduced my carnivorous cravings.
Other flexitarians might take the diet a little more seriously than I do, whilst others far less stringently. Even for the least committed, however, as the McCartney campaign hoped to explain, just a mere day off from meat consumption a week can make a big difference. The 'suit yourself' ideology with its fairly lax rules mean that it is something everybody could easily do, while still making a considerable difference to your bodies, your wallets and the environment.
First, the health advantages. Many studies suggest that reducing red meat intake and eating more vegetables, fruit and grains could reduce the chance of heart disease, limit cancer risk, curb obesity and in general improve one's longevity. A study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association found that early death from all possible causes was higher for those who regularly eat meat. A further review of half a million participants also found that those with low meat intake had a reduced risk of all-cause mortality of 25 per cent.
On top of this, vegetarian meals are apparently about 60 per cent cheaper than meat-based meals, as well as less calorific. A thicker wallet and a thinner waist doesn't sound too bad to me.
Beyond the health and economic advantages, the environmental effects of such a simple change in diet are colossal. It reduces our water consumption, for a start. The meat production industry is a huge water consumer. It is thought that rising demand for water in food production could, by 2050, contribute to land aridity and global droughts. Cutting our weekly meat intake can go some way to mitigating this concern.
Global warming would be affected by the change too. With reports suggesting that the meat industry makes up anywhere between 18 per cent and 51 per cent of global emissions, doing something as simple as replacing mince with bulgur wheat in one's chilli con carne or completing a salad with falafel, not chicken, is both incredibly easy and a virtuous step in the right direction.
For such a simple change in diet, it is clear that the effects are extreme and the derision unfounded.
Far from being a meaningless millennial phrase, flexitarianism is a lifestyle which could improve our health and make a difference to the planet. With flexitarianism, there's no need to go the whole hog — just go part-hog, and part-tofu.


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Difference between amphiprotic and amphoteric
by Madhusha
Main difference - amphiprotic vs. amphoteric
Amphoterism is the presence of amphoteric properties. Amphoteric substances are compounds that, depending on the medium, can act as acids as well as bases . The term amphiprotic describes a substance that can both take up and release a proton or H + . All amphoteric substances are amphiprotic. But not all amphiprotic substances are amphoteric; some oxides are amphoteric but not amphiprotic because they cannot release or take up protons. The main difference between amphiprotic and amphoteric is that amphiprotic refers to the ability to donate or accept protons while amphoteric refers to the ability to act as an acid or a base.
1. What is amphiprotic - definition, connections 2. What is amphoteric - definition, connections 3. What is the difference between amphiprotic and amphoteric - comparison of main differences
Key Terms: Acid, Amphiprotic, Amphoteric, Amphoterism, Base, Hydronium Ion, Hydroxide, Oxide, Proton
What is amphiprotic?
In chemistry, the term amphiprotic describes a substance that a proton or H + can both take up and release. An amphiprotic compound has both acidic and basic properties and can act as either an acid or a base, since an acid is a chemical species that can donate a proton, while a base is a compound that can donate a hydroxyl ion (-OH). to the medium. For example, amino acids are amphiprotic molecules. This is because amino acids are made up of amine groups (basic) and carboxyl groups (acidic).
Figure 1: Amino acids consist of an –NH2 group and –COOH.
One of the most important amphiprotic compounds is water. When an acid donates a proton to water, water can absorb this proton and form hydronium ions (H 3 O + ). When a base reacts with a water molecule, the water molecule donates a proton. Amphiprotic nature refers to the ability to both donate and receive protons. The amphiprotic nature of water describes the ability of water to be amphiprotic.
What is amphoteric?
Amphoteric refers to the ability to act as both an acid and a base. The behavior of these connections depends on the medium. Water is a good example of an amphoteric substance. Water molecules can give up protons or take up protons and can act as an acid or base. The lone pair on the oxygen atom of the water molecule helps to pick up an incoming proton.
Amphoteric nature means having amphoteric properties. Most oxides and hydroxides are good examples of these substances. An amphoteric oxide is an oxide that can act as either an acid or a base in a reaction to produce salt and water. Amphoterism depends on the oxidation state of the atoms in the oxide or hydroxide. Since most metals have several oxidation states, they can form amphoteric oxides and hydroxides.
Figure 2: Zinc oxide is an amphoteric oxide
For example, zinc oxide is an amphoteric oxide. It can react with both acids and bases. When reacting with sulfuric acid, zinc oxide forms zinc sulfate and water as end products. When zinc oxide reacts with sodium hydroxide (aqueous), sodium zincate (Na 2 [Zn (OH) 4 ]) is formed. When hydroxides are taken into account, aluminum hydroxide and beryllium hydroxide are the most common amphoteric hydroxides.
Amphiprotic: The term amphiprotic describes a substance that a proton or H + can both take up and release .
Amphiprotic: The term amphoteric refers to the ability to act as both an acid and a base.
Amphiprotic: Amphiprotic substances can both take up and release protons.
Amphiprotic: Amphoteric substances can act as both an acid and a base.
Amphiprotic: All amphoteric substances are amphiprotic.
Amphiprotic: All amphiprotic substances are not amphoteric.
The main difference between amphiprotic and amphoteric is that amphiprotic means the ability to donate or accept protons, while amphoteric means the ability to act as an acid or a base. However, not all amphiprotic substances are amphoteric; some oxides are amphoteric but not amphiprotic because they cannot release or take up protons.
1. Helmenstine, Anne Marie. "Amphiprotic Definition." ThoughtCo, March 8, 2014, available here . 2. "11.11: Amphiprotic Species." Chemistry LibreTexts, Libretexts, Sept. 6, 2017, available here . 3. Helmenstine, Anne Marie. "Amphoteric Definition and Examples." ThoughtCo, May. 4, 2017, available here.
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About the author: Madhusha
Madhusha is a BSc (Hons) graduate in Biological Sciences and is currently doing her Masters in Industrial and Environmental Chemistry. Her areas of interest for writing and research include biochemistry and environmental chemistry.
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Acute Confusion: Abrupt onset of a cluster of global, transient changes and disturbances in attention, cognition, psychomotor activity, level of consciousness, or the sleep/wake cycle.
Confusion is a term nurses use often to represent a pattern of cognitive impairments. It is a behavior that indicates a disruption in cerebral metabolism. Acute confusion (delirium) can befall in any age group, which can evolve over a period of hours to days. Factors that increase the risk for delirium and confusional states can be categorized into those that increase baseline vulnerability including underlying brain disease such as dementia, stroke, or Parkinson's disease and those that precipitate the disturbance like infection, sedatives, and immobility. The change is commonly caused by a medical condition, substance intoxication, or medication side effect.
A person with dementia can experience acute confusion (delirium). Careful assessment is indicated to determine prehospital function and deliberate with family to perceive deterioration.
Patient has diminished episodes of delirium.
Patient regains normal reality orientation and level of consciousness.
Patient verbalizes understanding of causative factors when known.
Patient initiates lifestyle/behavior changes to prevent or minimize recurrence of the problem.
Patient demonstrates appropriate motor behavior.
Patient participates in activities of daily living (ADLs).
Identify factors present, including substance abuse, seizure history, recent ECT therapy, episodes of fever/pain, presence of acute infection (especially urinary tract infection in elderly patient), exposure to toxic substances, traumatic events; change in environment, including unfamiliar noises, excessive visitors. Baseline information assists in developing a specific plan.
Abnormal attention is a significant diagnostic characteristic of delirium. Delirium is a state of mind, while agitation is a behavioral manifestation. Some patients may be delirious without agitation and may actually have withdrawn behavior. This is a hypoactive form of delirium. Some patients have a mixed hypoactive/hyperactive type of delirium.
Assess patient's behavior and cognition systematically and continually throughout the day and night as appropriate. Delirium always involves acute change in mental status; therefore knowledge of the patient's baseline mental status is key in assessing delirium.
Evaluate and report possible physiological changes (e.g., sepsis, hypoglycemia, hypotension, infection, changes in temperature, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, medications with known cognitive and psychotropic side effects). Such changes may be contributing to confusion and must be corrected.
Closely monitor lab results. Monitor laboratory values, noting hypoxemia, electrolyte imbalances, BUN/Cr, ammonia levels, serum glucose, signs of infection, and drug levels (including peak/trough as appropriate). Once acute confusion has been recognized, it is necessary to identify and treat the associated underlying causes.
Review medication. Determine current medications/drug use—especially antianxiety agents, barbiturates, lithium, methyldopa, disulfiram, cocaine, alcohol, amphetamines, hallucinogens, opiates (associated with high risk of confusion)—and schedule of use as combinations increase risk of adverse reactions/interactions (e.g., cimetidine + antacid, digoxin + diuretics, antacid + propranolol). Medication is one of the most critical modifiable factors that can cause delirium, especially use of anticholinergics, antipsychotics, and hypnosedatives.
Evaluate extent of impairment in orientation, attention span, ability to follow directions, send/receive communication, appropriateness of response. This should be done to determine degree of impairment.
Note occurrence/timing of agitation, hallucinations, violent behaviors. Assess for sundown syndrome. This phenomenon associated with confusion occurs in the late afternoon. The patient exhibits increasing restlessness, agitation, and confusion. Sundowning may be a sign of sleep disorders, hunger, thirst, or unmet toileting needs.
Aid with treatment of underlying problem (e.g., drug intoxication/ substance abuse, infectious process, hypoxemia, biochemical imbalances, nutritional deficits, pain management). Assisiting with treatment of underlying problem is important to maximize level of function and prevent further deterioration.
Orient patient to surroundings, staff, necessary activities as needed. Present reality concisely and briefly. Avoid challenging illogical thinking—defensive reactions may result. Increased orientation ensures greater degree of safety for the patient.
Modulate sensory exposure. Provide a calm environment; eliminate extraneous noise and stimuli. Increased levels of visual and auditory stimulation can be misinterpreted by the confused patient.
Encourage family/SO(s) to participate in reorientation as well as providing ongoing input (e.g., current news and family happenings). The confused patient may not completely understand what is happening. Presence of family and significant others may enhance the patient's level of comfort.
Give simple directions. Allow sufficient time for patient to respond, to communicate, to make decisions. This communication method can reduce anxiety experienced in strange environment.
Avoid challenging illogical thinking. Challenges to the patient's thinking can be perceived as threatening and result in a defensive reaction.
Provide for safety needs (e.g., supervision, siderails, seizure precautions, placing call bell within reach, positioning needed items within reach/clearing traffic paths, ambulating with devices). This is to prevent untoward incidents and to promote safety.
Avoid/limit the use of restraints. This may worsen the situation and increase likelihood of untoward complications.
Maintain normal fluid and electrolyte balance; establish/maintain normal nutrition, body temperature, oxygenation (if patients experience low oxygen saturation treat with supplemental oxygen), blood glucose levels, blood pressure. To treat underlying causes of delirium in collaboration with the health care team.
Communicate patient's status, cognition, and behavioral manifestations to all necessary providers. Recognize that patient's fluctuating cognition and behavior is a hallmark for delirium and is not to be construed as patient preference for caregivers.
Plan care that allows for appropriate sleep-wake cycle. Disturbance in normal sleep and activity patterns should be minimized as those patients with nocturnal exacerbations endure more complications from delirium.
Tell patient to decrease caffeine intake. Decreasing caffeine intake helps to reduce agitation and restlessness.
Manipulate the situation to make it as close to the patient as possible. Use a large clock and calendar. Encourage visits by family and friends. Place familiar objects in sight. An atmosphere that is close to the patient provides orienting clues, maintains an appropriate balance of sensory stimulation, and secures safety.
Identify self by name at each contact; call the patient by his or her preferred name. Appropriate communication techniques for patients at risk for confusion.
Offer reassurance to the patient and use therapeutic communication at frequent intervals. Patient reassurance and communication are nursing skills that promote trust and orientation and reduce anxiety.
Identify, evaluate, and treat pain immediately. Unmanaged pain is a potential cause for delirium.
Provide continuity of care when possible (e.g., provide the same caregivers, avoid room changes). Continuity of care helps decrease the disorienting effects of hospitalization.
Maintain patient's sleep-wake cycle as normal as possible (e.g., avoid letting the patient take daytime naps, avoid waking patients at night, give sedatives but not diuretics at bedtime, provide pain relief and backrubs). Acute confusion is accompanied by disruption of the sleep-wake cycle.
Assist the family and significant others in developing coping strategies. The family needs to let the patient do all that he or she is able to do to maximize the patient's level of functioning and quality of life.
Teach family to recognize signs of early confusion and seek medical help. Early intervention prevents long-term complications.


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Putin and Trump Talked. But Don't Bet on Real Change (Op-ed)
Both sides want to sell the Putin-Trump G20 meeting as a win. But real progress requires policy adjustments.
By Vladimir Frolov
Kremlin Press Service
Given the volatility of U.S.-Russia relations, President Putin and President Trump's encounter at the G20 Summit was destined to be a success.
How could it not be? With the bar set so low, anything other than a presidential brawl would pass off as a diplomatic breakthrough.
But while the dust is still settling, it is important to take stock of the meeting's tangible results, measured by the depth and breadth of issues covered. By these counts, the first presidential meet was underwhelming and a disappointment.
The meeting made clear just how little the leaders agree on. Both were entrenched. Neither side was prepared to explore serious compromises.
"It was a meeting of two strategic adversaries, who barely found a way to keep talking through their differences"
It was unrealistic to expect the first meeting would produce a strategic vision for the future of the relationship. But Putin and Trump could have announced a framework for continued discussions or at least committed to another meeting in November, during the annual APEC summit.
The only deliverable is a scrappy local cease-fire on a secondary front in south-west Syria, which went into effect Sunday morning. But even that agreement depends on the goodwill of actors not party to it, including Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran. Both are likely to violate it since it goes against their interests.
President Putin hailed the cease-fire as a breakthrough, but several other breaks in hostilities brokered within the past year have not lasted more than a month.
There was no progress on Ukraine. Moscow is eager to sell the appointment of a U.S. special envoy on Ukraine as a breakthrough. For Russia, it signals U.S. recognition that Ukraine is an issue for Moscow and Washington to decide between themselves.
In reality, the appointment is not a tool to decide Ukraine's fate behind its back. And the new U.S. envoy, Kurt Volker, is a hawk on Russian meddling in Ukraine.
There has been zero progress on North Korea. Moscow and China both want the United States to accept a nuclear North Korea, capable of deterring U.S. attacks. For Russia, North Korea's nuclear and missile programs are a check on U.S. global power.
Washington has two remaining options for containing North Korea — building missile defenses in Asia and imposing sanctions on companies doing business with the country. But Moscow is focused on stalling both.
Lastly, there is a stalemate on bilateral issues, including Russian meddling in the U.S. election, diplomatic security, and sanctions. There was no commitment on the New START Treaty which expires in 2021, or efforts to salvage the INF Treaty, a cornerstone of European security.
Putin did win one important point: Trump signaled he was eager to forget the row over the Russian election meddling without making Moscow pay much of a price.
But Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov may have oversold Trump's reaction, by saying that Trump accepted Putin's assurances the Kremlin did not meddle in the election.
Lavrov's comments will not go down well in the U.S. Congress, and it may make legislative action to impose sanctions for Russian interference more likely. The proposal to create a working group on cybersecurity is a good way to punt the troublesome issue, but will not make it go away completely.
Putin also lost a humiliating point to Trump. He failed to secure the release of the seized Russian diplomatic properties, also known as the dachas. Apparently, Trump did not feel Putin yielded enough ground on Russian meddling and diplomatic security.
Putin Meets Trump (Finally!)
It was a meeting of two strategic adversaries, who barely found a way to keep talking through their differences — this is the "success" both sides are keen on selling to their domestic audiences.
But dialogue and discussions are not policy goals. They are a means to finding solutions. And those require painful compromises on core interests for which neither side is ready.
Going forward, the relationship will remain adversarial. Moscow may moderate its media message. It may stop accusing the U.S. of abetting terrorists in Syria. But substantively, the agenda will remain contentious.
Real progress will require serious policy adjustments or reversals on issues like Ukraine and North Korea.
The views expressed in opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the position of The Moscow Times.
Vladimir Frolov
Vladimir Frolov is a Russian political analyst and columnist.	@vfroloff
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Pissed Jeans and Lindsay Hunter Raise the Bar for Feminist Punk
Cam Lindsay
Courtesy of Erbu Yildiz
Pissed Jeans are a thinking person's sludge-punk band. It'd be pretty simple for a band that kicks up this much of a racket to spew out nonsensical or meaningless lyrics, but these Philly dudes see their music as an opportunity to provide some truly biting commentary on the important stuff. It's part of the reason why they've recently been taking four years to release a new record. Good shit takes time.
Their new LP, Why Love Now, marks their first since 2013's Honeys, and it seems to be arriving just when we need it. Confronting issues like gender politics and social stratification, the band made sure that their message of tolerance was heard loud and clear on their fifth album. Smack dab in the middle is a centerpiece called "I'm a Man," featuring Ugly Girls author Lindsay Hunter delivering a satirical monologue of heated, acerbic and lascivious wit. It might just be the most feminist track you'll hear in 2017.
Why Love Now was produced by No Wave icon Lydia Lunch, a seasoned artist whose creative output over the last 40 years has been extensive, but not so much as a producer. Still, Pissed Jeans felt that Lunch was the perfect visionary to help achieve the level of abrasiveness and innovation that they were searching for. Turns out they were right.
We called frontman Matt Korvette early on a Tuesday morning to discuss what it was like working with the legendary Lunch, why they don't want to leave their day jobs and why punk isn't gonna get better with the Trump administration.
Thanks for doing the interview at 9:30 in the morning.
Fuck it! Y'know, I'm awake! I'm just happy to work with anyone's schedule. I'm already up and working. It's not like I'm rolling out of bed with an empty six-pack.
The new album, Why Love Now, took four years, just like the last record, Honeys. When you began making an album, did you expect it to take that long?
Mmmm … I figured it would take a while. Time flies by. It's hard to believe it's been four years. I don't know what I'm doing to make time go by like this, but we really just take our time. I think now, more than ever, we want to make sure our albums are as good as they can be. We're not just filling it up real quick to get one out there. We don't operate on the year-and-a-half album schedule like other bands. I mean, if it works for other bands, that's awesome. We just don't have the ability to come up with enough material that we think is of a level of certain quality quick enough.
Are you guys hyper-critical when it comes to the music you make?
I feel like we're all really psyched on everything we've done. There isn't a record where we're shaking our heads or trying to never talk about it again. But with this last record, it's been a bit tricky because we want to keep sounding like Pissed Jeans, so we don't want to just rewrite our old songs. There have been songs we've come up with that sound really good, but they sound almost like a band that sounds like Pissed Jeans. So, we had to whittle those away until we had songs we were psyched on.
Would you say there are more or less "fuck that shit" type songs on Why Love Now than usual?
Huh. I would have to do some statistical analysis on that to really answer this intelligently. It's hard to say, but I feel like there is a lot of major anger on this record directed at a lot of different places. But I feel like that's always been in the DNA of Pissed Jeans.
I feel like there will likely be more anger on the next Pissed Jeans record.
Yeah, we have no plans of stopping. We've been a band for so long, but if you condense the time that we've spent actively being a band, it's probably only three or four years. Only because we take long breaks. If we had to do this as a career, I'm not sure. Maybe it would work out great, but we never go out there thinking, "Uh, time to go out and do our song and dance again so we can eat tomorrow." Instead, playing music is just a great mini-vacation from real life for us.
So, you guys all have day jobs. Have you ever wanted to pursue music as your main profession?
Not really. I don't know. I like just having a life where I work and then can be done for the day and not worry that my art is marketable or that enough people are liking it. My nine-to-five job is not based on people liking me. Like, I don't have to give them my personality and entertain in order to get paid. It's nice not having that pressure, so I can do whatever I want with the band. Honestly, if no one showed up, it would be a bummer, but at least I would be pleased that I could do what I wanted to do. And, of course, if people love Pissed Jeans, that's great! I'm all for that. But we're not gonna try and have social media giveaways every week just to keep fans interested. I don't fault artists that do that either. I'm sure it's nice to be a full-time musician, but we've never really considered that.
How does a band get Lydia Lunch to produce an album? She's not exactly known as a producer.
Well, it was pretty simple in this case: We just reached out and asked her, and she agreed after some discussion. We just thought it would be an interesting idea, and it worked out really well.
So, what made you think of her as a candidate to produce the album?
Previously we had worked with Alex Newport, who is really great and taught us so much. We're so proud of those records he did, and we'd love to work with him again some day. But honestly, we felt like mixing it up because we had done two records in a row with him. And I wanted to throw a wrench into the works, because we're a pretty well-oiled machine in how we write songs. There aren't many surprises between us anymore. So, I wanted to take us out of that comfort zone a little and bring someone in who is very different from us and see what would happen. It was a little risky. Working with Alex would have been the opposite of risky.
What was it like in the studio with Lydia?
It was awesome. She was as crazy as you'd imagine her to be. There was no lull in her energy. She was ferocious and hilarious and scary and intimidating. She would just fire off thoughts on the songs, and be engaged in what was going on. But she didn't really tell us what to do, which I wouldn't have wanted anyway. We were just there to get her feedback and criticism, and it was great. We got so many good stories out of her. Honestly, she was super motivating in ways I wouldn't have expected. Like, she could tell when we needed some positive reinforcement, and it was great. The first day I was recording vocals, I wasn't as good as I expected and I was feeling stressed, and that night she just texted me the most encouraging statement, and then I just got really energized by that.
I hung out with her a bunch outside of the studio. I was kinda her handler. Like, I would get her two bottles of white wine before picking her up to go to the studio. If you're a band on Sub Pop, you might as well use that leverage to have some fun, y'know? And she wasn't looking to grab a paycheck wherever she could. She definitely wanted it to be something she would care about and be proud of.
Was there any discussion of Lydia contributing vocals to the album?
Not really. Maybe in the future? We didn't want to just shoehorn something in. If there was a part that called for it, then definitely, but nothing came up. And she was content. She's got nothing to prove. And she's one of the most confident people I've ever met. She can easily have nothing tomorrow and live happily, while the rest of us would probably hang ourselves because we were unable to survive. She would gather up a bunch of garbage and make a sweet penthouse out of it.
Men are really ruining the world right now, and so a song like "The Bar Is Low" seems like very apropos.
It's pretty topical, yeah. But that was just me being legitimately disappointed in the state of what is expected of guys — myself included. It seems like every week there is a dude who's being outed for, y'know, harassing his ex over texts for the last three years. And he's either my favorite bartender or he plays guitar in an awesome band, and now I'm finding out he's been keying his ex's car or writing rude messages on Venus and Serena's YouTube page. You know what I mean? What the fuck? It's just a real bummer that it's not shocking anymore. I'm probably a bit naïve, too. That shit has been going on forever; it's just now it's able to come to light more. Maybe it's a good thing that it's coming up and being revealed instead of getting completely ignored or nobody knowing about it.
I've gotten rid of some records over the past couple years by bands that have revealed themselves to be assholes.
There's so much of that! You get fatigued with all of the outrage, and it's like, how can you get so upset when it becomes a weekly thing? I don't have any solutions for it other than to not tolerate [it] myself and to make sure I'm not doing it, and to have uncomfortable conversations with people in my social sphere who are tolerating it. That's all I've got.
"I'm a Man" would make good entrance music. Where did that song come from?
I'm a big fan of Lindsay, and we became friends out of mutual appreciation, I guess. And we just had this track, and I thought it would be cool to have a different vocal take on it. I wanted Lindsay to write something for the record, maybe even just for the inner sleeve, but I don't think anyone reads inner sleeves anymore, so I didn't want it to be wasted. So, I asked if she had anything to go with the track, and she sent us "I'm a Man," but it was too long, so she edited it down and recorded it. I thought it was horrifying and frightening and implicating and so uncomfortable to hear. I was thrilled.
What did Lydia think of it?
Oh man, she was moshing to it. It was great! That was the test, because she's the queen of uncomfortable, provocative, stalker-y sex reading, and she was fist-pumping and throwing chairs. So, that was a good sign.
I noticed you misspell "ignore" in "Ignorecam."
Yeah, I play a lot of phone-based Scrabble. So, I guess that was my homage to seeing words as a jumble. It just seemed more interesting to get it wrong.
So, when you play it live will you try and get the spelling wrong the right way?
That's the beauty of Pissed Jeans. I don't even really have to turn my microphone on. Singing is completely secondary to whatever else is happening. No one will be checking up on that.
What was the impetus for writing the line, "I used to play punk, now I'm just singing the blues"?
Outside of the context, it's just kinda trying to sound pretty hopeless, like I'm wistfully remembering my youth. That was the type of mood I wanted to have. But I think it's also a weird spot to be in a band that came out of DIY warehouses and basements and continues to exist years later, when the initial tastemakers who loved us early on have clearly moved on. I mean, how can you not? You're not gonna pretend that Pissed Jeans is a cool secret, because we're not anymore. We're in a weird spot where we are beyond hype. We made it through that cycle, and now we just exist as a regular band. I'm always curious as to how people place us. Because I always see myself more as that 24-year-old punk playing in a warehouse than I do playing Pitchfork Fest.
Tell me about the press photo, where you guys are standing in front of the Kurt Vile mural.
It was Brad [Fry, guitarist]'s idea. We just thought it was a funny idea. I just love the thought of us posing in front of graffiti art as if we didn't realize it was already the album cover to a very well-liked guy from our town. Kurt Vile is cool and a friend of ours, so we knew there would be no issue. He's got a great sense of humor. Like, if anyone wanted to pose with a Pissed Jeans album cover, I'd be psyched.
I also love how that wall has changed so much since that album cover. Now it's a bank parking lot, and that area has undergone this supreme gentrification. The way time has progressed in the last few years I thought was very interesting.
The best thing about it is the elderly lady driving by right in front of you.
We didn't plan that. But when we saw it happening, we said, "Snap one when they go by!"
Finally, what do you make of people saying that Trump being president will inspire punk rock the same way Reagan did back in the 1980s?
I think it's so stupid. It just seems very antiquated and irrelevant. Anyone who's treating it like punk hasn't been relevant over the past decade just hasn't been paying attention. And anyone who thinks you need awful tyranny to make good songs is just silly to me.
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Cases reported "Pregnancy Complications"
1/216. Massive rectal bleeding due to jejunal and colonic tuberculosis.
A case of massive rectal bleeding due to colonic tuberculosis in advanced pregnancy with intrauterine foetal death is reported. Patient was treated with resection of the left colon and left transverse end colostomy with closure of the rectal stump. hysterotomy for the removal of the dead foetus was performed. The patient improved in health with antitubercular treatment. The colorectal anastomosis was performed after 4 months. Massive rectal bleeding in intestinal tuberculosis, though rare should be kept in mind.
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2/216. Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency: variable expressivity of maternal illness during pregnancy and unusual presentation with infantile cholestasis and hypocalcaemia.
patients with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency present with a Reye-like syndrome, cardiomyopathy, or sudden unexpected death. We describe an unusual presentation in a patient with unsuspected LCHAD deficiency. The proband presented at 2 months of age with an acute infantile hypocalcaemia and vitamin d deficiency associated with occult, unexplained cholestatic liver disease. Sudden, unexpected death occurred at 8 months. Molecular analysis revealed homozygosity for the prevalent LCHAD (1528G > C, E474Q) mutation. The mother had pre-eclampsia during the third trimester of her pregnancy. In a subsequent pregnancy, she developed severe acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) and intrauterine fetal death at 33 weeks of gestation. In conclusion, infantile hypocalcaemia is an unusual phenotype associated with LCHAD deficiency. The maternal pregnancy history documents that fetal LCHAD deficiency is associated with a spectrum of maternal illnesses ranging from pre-eclampsia to life-threatening AFLP.
3/216. A staff dialogue on a socially distanced patient: psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and caregivers.
Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and encourages the healing process. The center sponsors the Schwartz Center Rounds, a monthly multidisciplinary forum where caregivers reflect on important psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and their caregivers, and gain insight and support from fellow staff members. The following case of an hiv-positive woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer during a twin pregnancy was discussed at the May, 1999 Schwartz Center Rounds. The patient was in drug rehabilitation having been dependent on crack cocaine, with a past history of syphilis and gonorrhea. She was single and her other children were in foster care. Initially she was suspicious and non-compliant. A plan was negotiated to biopsy the cervical lesion after cesarean section and with confirmation of malignancy she underwent radical surgery and subsequently radiotherapy. Despite the almost insurmountable social and educational distance between her and her caregivers, they managed to bond and facilitate care. Although there were compromises with which staff were uncomfortable, the relationship was maintained and continues.
4/216. Recurrent fetal thyrotoxicosis in a woman with Graves' disease: case report.
The thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins are generally believed to be the cause of hyperthyroidism in Graves' disease. Placental transfer of these antibodies from a mother with autoimmune thyroid disease can result in fetal thyroid disorders. We report the case of a 31-year-old woman who had a history of Graves' disease. She received thyroxine therapy for post thyroidectomy hypothyroidism. Two years after the thyroidectomy, she became pregnant. Unfortunately, intrauterine fetal death occurred in midgestation. One year later, she became pregnant again. In the 26th week of gestation, fetal thyrotoxicosis was diagnosed using clinical pictures, including fetal tachycardia and cardiomegaly, and a hormonal evaluation of a periumbilical blood sampling (T4: 18 micrograms/dl, T3: 65.3 ng/dl, TSH: < 0.03 microU/ml) was performed. Antimicrosomal antibodies were not detectable in either the maternal or fetal blood. In this case, high levels of TBII were detected during pregnancy and crossed the placenta to result in a thyrotoxic fetus in the second pregnancy. We recommend that both the regular monitoring of the thyrotropin receptor antibodies of pregnant women with a history of autoimmune thyroid disease, and routine measurements of the fetal heart rate and intrauterine growth during gestation be mandatory for the early detection of fetal thyroid disorders. cordocentesis for measuring fetal thyroid function is helpful in reaching a definite diagnosis and for guiding therapy.
5/216. Report on intrauterine drug exposure during second trimester of pregnancy in a heroin-associated death.
A 17-year-old girl was found dead in a public toilet with fresh needle puncture marks. She was 18-20 weeks pregnant with a male fetus. Drug screening of her blood and urine indicated recent heroin use. Chronic drug use was confirmed by hair analysis. amniotic fluid as well as fetal and maternal tissues and body fluids were analyzed by GC/MS and HPLC. All the fetal specimens were investigated, and the following levels of drugs were found: 6-monoacetyl-morphine (blood: 152 ng/g; amniotic fluid: 128 ng/g; brain: 140 ng/g; lung: 110 ng/g; liver: 2 ng/g; kidney: 40 ng/g), morphine (blood: 1360 ng/g; amniotic fluid: 604 ng/g; brain: 710 ng/g; lung: 1030 ng/g; liver: 2060 ng/g; kidney: 1100 ng/g), codeine (blood: 70 ng/g; brain: 60 ng/g; lung: 60 ng/g; liver: 90 ng/g; kidney: 70 ng/g), and morphine-3-glucuronide (amniotic fluid: 209 ng/g; brain: 170 ng/g; lung: 325 ng/g; kidney: 231 ng/g). morphine-6-glucuronide was present in the maternal circulation but could not be detected in the fetal circulation.
6/216. Congenital hyperthyroidism: autopsy report.
We report the autopsy of a stillborn fetus with congenital hyperthyroidism born to a mother with untreated Graves' disease, whose cause of death was congestive heart failure. The major findings concerned the skull, thyroid, heart, and placenta. The cranial sutures were closed, with overlapping skull bones. The thyroid was increased in volume and had intense blood congestion. Histological examination showed hyperactive follicles. The heart was enlarged and softened, with dilated cavities and hemorrhagic suffusions in the epicardium. The placenta had infarctions that involved at least 20% of its surface, and the vessels of the umbilical cord were fully exposed due to a decrease in Wharton's jelly. hyperthyroidism was confirmed by the maternal clinical data, the fetal findings of exophthalmia, craniosynostosis, and goiter with signs of follicular hyperactivity. Craniosynostosis is caused by the anabolic action of thyroid hormones in bone formation during the initial stages of development. The delayed initiation of treatment in the present case contributed to the severity of fetal hyperthyroidism and consequent fetal death.
7/216. Gangrenous sigmoid volvulus in a pregnant woman.
A rare case of gangrenous sigmoid volvulus in a pregnant woman causing intestinal obstruction is reported. The patient had intrauterine foetal death. Laparatomy for resection of sigmoid colon and hysterotomy for removal of dead foetus was carried out. Terminal iliac colostomy with closure of rectal stump was done in the first surgery. The patient underwent colorectal anastomosis 2 months after the first operation and recovered uneventfully.
8/216. pemphigus vulgaris in pregnancy: a case report and review of literature.
pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an uncommon, immune-mediated bullous dermatosis, which, during its active phase, has been associated with infertility. pemphigus vulgaris during pregnancy is exceedingly rare-only 26 cases with immunopathological confirmation have been reported. The disease may be associated with adverse neonatal outcome, including prematurity and fetal death. Transient skin lesions may occasionally appear in the neonate. We report a patient who conceived during the active phase of PV, required high doses of corticosteroids to control the disease, and was delivered of a pre-term, appropriate-for-gestational age newborn.
9/216. perinatal mortality and maternal mortality at the Provincial Hospital, Quang Ngai, South vietnam, 1967-1970.
The perinatal mortality, maternal mortality, infant mortality rates, and the complications of delivery at the Provincial Hospital of Quang Ngai, South vietnam are described. The perinatal mortality is the only valid statistic available as the infant usually leaves the hospital within three days of delivery. knowledge pertaining to the 4th to 28th day after birth is scanty and there is insufficient knowledge about the first year of life. infant mortality is estimated at 277 per 1,000 live births. The perinatal mortality 64.6 per 1,000 live births, and maternal mortality, 106 per 10,000 live births are extremely high in contrast to Western countries. The high perinatal mortality is attributable to deaths during birth, the neonatal and immediate postnatal period. The high maternal mortality is primarily due to caesarean section, anemia, uterine rupture, toxemia, post-partum hemorrhage and puerperal infection.
10/216. Hemophagocytic syndrome in pregnancy.
BACKGROUND: Hemophagocytic syndrome is characterized by nonmalignant histiocytes that undergo uncontrolled phagocytosis of normal hematopoietic cells. Clinical severity ranges from complete recovery to rapid deterioration and death. CASE: thrombocytopenia was discovered upon routine initial prenatal evaluation of a 24-year-old, gravida 2, para 1, at 29 weeks' gestation with a history of necrotizing lymphadenitis. Cytopenia and elevated transaminases developed, followed by hyperpyrexia. The patient delivered and her postpartum course was complicated by coagulopathy, multiorgan failure, and death. bone marrow biopsy confirmed hemophagocytic syndrome. CONCLUSION: early diagnosis of hemophagocytic syndrome during pregnancy might be helped by recognizing symptoms and signs, including a history of necrotizing lymphadenitis, and obtaining a bone marrow biopsy.
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your recent posts remind me of my life in the north west.. It was a period of my life full of happy memories. It is truly a special place.. I wish you a safe journey. It looks quite snowy!
Glad to evoke good memories.
And it was a blizzard!


This was the explosive start to a mail I received recently from an obviously frustrated entrepreneur. The irony is apparent. As Govind (not his real name) struggles to raise a few crores to scale up his business, thousands of crores have been pouring into e-commerce and asset-light technology-driven businesses patterned on an Uber or an Airbnb. While it is possible that some of these new models will become big in India, the fact is that many of the individual companies funded will crash as each model is likely to witness only two or three big winners.
Govind is not alone. Other types of new ventures are facing similar problems. A recent article in Mint points out that dozens of innovation-driven tech start-ups are struggling to raise money to take their businesses to the next level.
Over the years, at the aggregate level, there has been a substantial increase in the funds available to Indian businesses from private equity and venture capital. Today, large international funds have an Indian presence. Though there are frequent murmurs about the vagaries of the Indian taxation system, billions of dollars of venture capital/private equity investment have been pouring into India.
But I wonder whether these are the only type of investors we should be seeking. The classical venture capital model is predicated on seven-eight of every 10 investments tanking, one-two having some moderate success, but huge returns on one in 10 investments that make up for the poor returns on the others. Recent reports speak about blurring of lines between private equity (which typically comes in at a later stage) and venture capital as everyone wants to be at the party.
How do we catalyze such investments by domain experts? Here the role of seed capital for new funds comes in. Israel's famous Yozma model which brought into that country highly accomplished tech investors with substantial operating experience has been around as a role model for a couple of decades. It's good to see that we have finally realized the value of Yozma.
In its quest for growth and employment, the current government has actively embraced a pro-start-up stance. One of its initiatives is the recently announced India Aspiration Fund (IAF) built on the Yozma concept. IAF is conceptualized as a "fund of funds" and will invest in venture capital firms, not directly in enterprises. I am hoping that the government will ensure that its 2,000 crores is well-distributed across investments in different sectors and business models.
But even the IAF will not be able to meet the needs of all types of firms. I often come across business ideas that have moderate risks with moderate returns that don't fit the profile a typical venture capitalist is looking for. Unfortunately, these firms lack the assets that could be offered as collateral security. Our already risk-averse banks are now focused on addressing a huge problem of non-performing assets (NPAs), so it's unlikely that they would be very enthused to fund such businesses anytime soon.
Much has been written and debated about the recent criticism by Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy that India has not been the source of major inventions in the decades since independence. While there has been a tendency to blame our scientists and engineers or the government, I would lay some of the blame on our financial system as well. Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital!
Herd behaviour or what organization theorists would call isomorphism is not uncommon as a risk mitigation strategy. But, as a student of strategy, I would back distinctiveness any day. Doing whatever everyone else is doing can't create a distinctive competitive advantage and that is true for investment firms as well.
In our work on building innovation capabilities, we emphasize the importance of building creative confidence. This is not a term we coined, in fact it comes from the Kelley brothers of the iconic design firm, Ideo. Creative confidence has a special resonance in India where over a couple of hundred years we lost our faith in our own creative abilities. But successful innovation requires not only the creative confidence of the inventor but the confidence of the investor to back new ideas.
What kind of an investor is likely to have that confidence? Probably one who has the experience of doing it himself. As Govind wrote in his mail, an investor with a primarily financial background is unlikely to have the confidence to back a radically new idea.
Sometimes, I wonder whether there is a fallacy in basic economic theory. For, Economics tells us that in an efficient market, investments will go into the most productive applications. But, is driving consumerism or bringing more taxis onto India's already jam-packed roads the best use of money?
In the adoption of technology or new business models, India tends to imitate the West with a lag. But, given that our needs are so different, does that really make sense?
Not so long ago, there was a lot of interest in innovation at the bottom of the pyramid, and so-called frugal innovation. These were seen as critical to solving the myriad social problems that India faces. But now these have been displaced, at least from media glare, by the stratospheric valuations of online food or grocery stores. It would be a mistake to lose sight of the importance of these innovations and we need to find ways of continuing to support and nurture enterprises built around them.
In many cases, these enterprises are social enterprises with positive societal externalities. The National Innovation Council under the previous government had a plan to create an India Inclusive Innovation Fund to support such enterprises. I hope this idea is not lost in the noise and excitement that we are seeing today.
Govind is being very naive. It's easy to blame investors for being short-sighted, but the truth is that more startups fold and investors lose their money. I wonder what his approach would be if it were his money on the line ?
I completely agree with the creative finance for creative ideas.
However, as far as remarks on Uber /Ola (without naming them) are concerned, physical mobility on privately owned or hired vehicles will be the transitory innovation till public systems are built.
This point also aside, the practicality of finding a innovator being the investor is the toughest idea being suggested here. I have always felt, as an onlooker though, that right people in the business operations and decision making positions are more important than funding. Today funding is synonymous with valuation race that is being played out like those tiny videos that loop over infinitely.
The Yozma model of India will require a huge investment (not only finance) in skilling and scaling the human resources. The incubators across India have suddenly got out of news and the new poster boys are Engineers/MBAs/CFAs/CAs emulating the popular models that can quickly go up the valuation ladder and sit atop while the investor are busy holding the shaky ladder not allowing any other method to scale up the wall.


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Q: Google App Engine Python ImportError Module Not Found I'm using Pydev 1.5.9 and the latest version of google app engine, developing in eclipse 3.6
I've set up my environment, and I have my base code executing fine.
Now I'm trying to import the simplejson library using
import simplejson
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*adding the simplejson folder to a
"pydev source folder" within eclipse

*tried adding simplejson folder as
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*tried adding simplejson in PYTHONPATH

I am still encountering an error when I attempt to run using SDK dev server.
'    import simplejson
ImportError: No module named simplejson'
What is the best way to import external libraries into a Python App Engine project using Eclipse and Pydev?

A: Don't know if this will help with the Google App Engine, and may be too late, but the breadcrumb trail might help someone.
I had a similar problem in pydev and the solution was quite simple.  Here is the pydev doc which talks about the subject of imports and configuring the interpreter in pydev.
The bit that I had missed, and caused a few hours of frustration, was that I had to press the Apply button in the Window > Preferences > PyDev > Interpreter - Python.  This causes pydev to rebuild its internal indices and if you have added the libary into your PYTHONPATH somewhere (I just dropped it into the python/Lib folder) it should resolve your import problem - it did mine in any case.
Make sure you have automatic builds switched on for your project or rebuild your project if not.
HTH

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Thirty youth from 23 countries gathered at the International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition in Hiroshima to learn about, share ideas and make plans to increase youth engagement in the nuclear disarmament movement.
The Summit, held August 28 to 30, was hosted by Soka Gokkai International and co-organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Mines Action Canada, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and us, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The summit began with a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and surrounding Peace Memorial Park, close to the hypocentre of where the atomic bomb hit at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945. Each participant could visit the museum at their own pace and let the exhibition sink in. Afterwards, we paused at the cenotaph to remember, to reflect and offer flowers to those lives that were taken too soon.
In the afternoon, participants met with Ms. Toshiko Tanaka, a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear attack on 6 August 1945 and well-known enamel artist. She survived the attack at 2.3 km from the hypocentre. Though she only recently started to tell her story, she shared her experiences with a very captive audience.
A conversation with the Mayor of Hiroshima, Mr. Kazumi Matsui, followed. He offered a brief introduction and afterwards participants discussed the special role of the city of Hiroshima and ways to engage decision makers in order to advance nuclear abolition.
The following day focused on peer-to-peer training sessions, to review the previous day, and agree on actions for the future. Workshops were held on how to best reach out to younger people, uniting the movement and how gender matters for nuclear disarmament. In the afternoon, in a joint brainstorming session resulted in concrete commitments by participants for the coming year.
The two days of intensive work prepared the group to host a public forum on 30 August 2015 for 250 young people from across Japan. During its opening session, dignitaries such as the United Nations Secretary General's Envoy on Youth addressed the forum and its participants all stressing the important role of youth for advancing nuclear abolition. Following the opening session, Naomi Tagawa, (on a Hibaku Piano: a piano that survived the nuclear attack) performed and "Hiroshima Lost – A Labor of Love", a film by filmmaker and Hibakusha, Mr. Masaki Tanabe, premiered. The film demonstrated the daily life in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, before and after the bomb was dropped.
To inspire attendees for the afternoon brainstorming session, young activists from Japan, Kenya, Romania, Thailand, and the United States presented their successful youth campaigning to the audience. The following action planning session encouraged forum attendees to use their newly acquired knowledge, about the horrific impacts of nuclear weapons, to actively pursue nuclear disarmament.
The International Youth Summit concluded with the presentation of a youth pledge entitled Generation of Change: A Youth Pledge for Nuclear Abolition. The pledge is open for signature now!
Have a look at Facebook for some pictures and impressions from Hiroshima!


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Standing Rock: The view from 2 women who attended Oceti Sakowin Camp
Singer-Songwriter Aliza Hava and Scholar and Operations Manager for the Dominican University School of the Arts and Humanities, Keiko Ehret, tell .us about Standing Rock and their adventures at the camp. This interview is not what you expect- it will startle you from another view.
Photo Credit Adam Alexander Johannson
This is destined to become an iconic photo of an iconic event
"Standing Rock" refers to Camp Oceti Sakowin, an encampment of water protectors from the Dakota and Lacota Sioux Nations near Lake Oahe along the Missouri River.
The water protectors are exercising their first amendment right to peacefully assemble to protest the building of a new Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that is routed under the Missouri River.
The Missouri River Basin supplies water to millions of people and an oil spill would affect everyone downstream. Energy Transfer Partners had to reroute the original pipeline because it came too close to Bismarck and the predominately white residents there objected.
The Sioux Tribes filed a lawsuit alleging the Army Corps of Engineers violated several U.S. Laws treaty provisions when they gave DAPL an easement to build on federal land and land that would endanger sacred sites on the Sioux Reservation.
Standing Rock is an unparalleled historic event...
including the largest coming together of Indian Nations in cooperation and allegiance since Little Big Horn—than 300 nations gathered there in support of protecting water. Allies came from all over the world and the United Nations denounced the tactics used against peaceful prayerful people protecting their land and water. American Veterans also joined in solidarity as well as Indigenous from around the globe.
Police, pipeline security and a hired division of Blackwater used water cannons, fire hoses, tear gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades to intimidate the protectors in violation of their constitutional right to peacefully assemble in protest.
Others who gathered in solidarity came from Nature Herself—a herd of buffalo that spontaneously showed up, eagles, and geese who flew over at the moment of victory as the word came that the pipeline would be suspended.
This single event of Standing Rock and peoples standing up for their rights became a rallying cry, a model for prolonged peaceful protest, and a flashpoint for the environmental movement.
The speakers on the podcast program were Aliza Hava and Keiko Ehret from the San Francisco Bay area of California. Aliza is a singer-songwriter, bandleader for Eve of Eden Folk Rock Band and activist who worked in Israel/Palestine as a musical peace activist; Keiko is Director of Operations for the School of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Dominican University.
Interviewer Barbara Kaufmann is staff and Lead Volunteer for the Arts Sector for the Charter for Compassion International and is herself and activist, artist, writer and journalist. She has written for magazines, newspapers, blogs and The Huffington Post and is the Founder and Steward for "Words and Violence" a publication now in its 4th edition—a program about bullying in all its incarnations including in the last edition, how we bully the planet.
Story and podcast created for the Charter for Compassion International courtesy of Walking Moon Studios- people who tell story about fierce compassion in images.
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https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Reed-City-boys-fall-to-Clare-54-36-after-break-14976305.php
Reed City boys fall to Clare 54-36 after break
John Raffel, john.raffel@pioneergroup.com
Published 1:03 am EST, Wednesday, January 15, 2020
REED CITY - After nearly an entire month removed from high school basketball, the Reed City boys basketball team resumed its campaign with a 54-36 loss at the hands of the Clare Pioneers on Tuesday night, Jan. 7
Tight defense and inaccurate shooting were the themes of the first quarter for both sides, with the Pioneers going on top 10-9 after eight minutes of action.
Clare's offense improved with the onset of the second quarter and the Pioneers went on a 10-3 run that took up nearly the entirety of the frame until RC converted a free-throw with 1:33 remaining before halftime.
Going into the locker room at the half, Reed City trailed 23-16 after stringing together a couple of positive offensive possessions.
Points were not easy to come by in the second half for Reed City, as the Coyotes managed to score just two points in more than four minutes of game time and struggled to put together any fruitful possessions on offense.
RC trailed 36-21 after three quarters and couldn't mount a comeback in the last quarter, which allowed Clare to extend its lead to 20 points with less than sixty seconds remaining in regulation.
Zac Saez and Payton Hansen had 10 points apiece for Reed City.
"I thought our kids played really hard and they played good defense," coach Jesse Kailing said. "We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. We definitely improved from the last game. That's what we have to continue to do."


Later in this post, I'll verify what my existing version is.
Today I will be working with data that is housed on my development Linux server in the cloud.
When running a Mongo DB deployment, it's important to follow best practices.
If your instance size is no longer the right option for you in AWS, resizing may require you to make manual modifications.
To do this, I'll need to make some changes to my Mongo DB configuration — I can start , and edit accordingly.
As a replica set, my cluster will have an oplog, which our Mongo DB Atlas data migration service will use in the migration process.
2017-05-04T.126 0000 I CONTROL [initandlisten] Our standalone Mongo DB instance now is a single node replica set with an oplog, permitting us to start the migration process.
In order to permit access to my single node replica set for the migration to take place, I will need to make just a few more changes.
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Attempts to assess the impact of divorce on children are inherently compromised by the same methodological problem as with adults: establishing the relevant baseline for comparisons.
Now, she shares excitement over coming together with her co-star.
From the outside, it seemed like they had a glamorous, happy life..Kristin says the fairy tale didn't end "happily ever after."After four years of marriage, Lance and Kristin announced their divorce.