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Great Artists and Syphilis
Bruce Everiss 27 April 2017 0
Syphilis almost certainly came to Europe from America with Christopher Columbus' crew. The first written records of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/5 in Naples, Italy. Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Syphilitic Man (above) is the first known pictorial representation of the disease. There was no effective treatment until the invention of antibiotics and still it kills more than 100,000 people a year.
Artists seem especially prone to the disease. Could it be their bohemian lifestyle, their existence outside the norms of society, maybe their propensity for travel, maybe their contact with models who were often ladies of easy virtue?
Let's look at a few of the more famous:
Édouard Manet. Died in 1883 aged just 51, having suffered a long, horrible, lingering death from the disease, with years of partial paralysis from locomotor ataxia and a foot amputation.
Paul Gauguin. When Rolf Harris was imprisoned for fondling girls the value of his work bombed. Yet people are happy to pay tens of millions for Gaugin's work, despite him not only being a paedophile of Jimmy Savile proportions, but also being syphilitic, infecting many of those dusky Polynesian girls you see in his pictures and many more. Gauguin died in abject poverty in 1903 aged just 54 in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, easing his long pain with morphine.
Vincent van Gogh. Committed suicide in 1890 aged 37. Before his death he suffered from poor digestion and a bad stomach, hallucinations, nightmares, stupor, absent mindedness, impotence, insomnia, and anxiety. Typical symptoms of syphilis. Vincent was treated for gonorrhea in 1882 and the grandson of Dr. Cavenaille, one of his physicians, said that he had been diagnosed with syphilis.
Francisco Goya. Died in 1828, in Bordeaux, France at the grand old age of 82. From 1792 an undiagnosed illness made Goya deaf, he then descended into paranoid dementia with noises in his head, temporary loss of vision and of balance. The nature of his artistic output changed drastically. Modern diagnostics have concluded that syphilis was the cause.
Albrecht Dürer. Died in 1528 aged 56, having been ill since 1521. During his final years, because of declining health, he produced very little, apart from a lot of preliminary work that was never carried through into pictures. Research now thinks that Durer was a promiscuous bisexual all his adult life, from which he most probably caught the syphilis that killed him.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Died in 1901 aged 36. A physical freak he spent a lot of his adult life with prostitutes, almost living in brothels at times. He allegedly caught syphilis from Rosa La Rouge, a prostitute who was the subject of several of his paintings.
Gerard de Lairesse. Died 1711 aged 70. A leading Dutch Golden Age painter, etcher, and art theorist. He had congenital syphilis, which made him blind in about 1690, after which he concentrated on art theory. Rembrandt, famously, pained his portrait in 1665, showing the ravaging effects of the syphilis.
Obviously the very nature of the disease means that people are going to be reticent about being infected, so we will never know the true extent of its effect.
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Chor-Rivest knapsack encryption
The Chor-Rivest scheme is the only known knapsack public-key encryption scheme that does not use some form of modular multiplication to disguise an easy subset sum problem.
8.41 Algorithm Key generation for Chor-Rivest public-key encryption
SUMMARY: each entity creates a public key and a corresponding private key.
Each entity A should do the following:
1. Select a finite field Fg of characteristic p, where q = ph, p > h, and for which the discrete logarithm problem is feasible (see Note 8.45(ii>).
2. Select a random monic irreducible polynomial f(x) of degree h over Zp (using Algorithm 4.70). The elements of F,; will be represented as polynomials in Zp[x] of degree less than h, with multiplication performed modulo f{x).
3. Select a random primitive element g(x) of the field F,; (using Algorithm 4.80).
4. For each ground field element i € Zp, find the discrete logarithm a, = logg(X) (x + i) of the field element {x + i) to the base g(x).
5. Select a random permutation я on the set of integers {0,1,2,... ,p - 1}.
6. Select a random integer d, 0 < d < ph - 2.
7. Compute с, = (an(.*) + d) mod (ph — 1) ,0 < i < p — 1.
8. A's public key is ((со, cb ... , cp^j),p, /г); A's private key is (f(x),g(x), n, d).
8.42 Algorithm Chor-Rivest public-key encryption
SUMMARY: В encrypts a message m for A, which A decrypts.
1. Encryption. В should do the following:
(a) Obtain A's authentic public key ((со, ci,... , cp_i),p, h).
(b) Represent the message m as a binary string of length [lg (£)J, where (}') is a binomial coefficient (Definition 2.17).
(c) Consider m as the binary representation of an integer. Transform this integer into a binary vector M = (Mo, Mi,... , Mp_i) of length p having exactly h l's as follows:
i. Set h.
ii. For i from 1 to p do the following:
Ifm > (Pj1) then set M,_i<—1, m-s—m - (pJl), U-l - 1. Otherwise, set Mf_i«-0. (Note: (") = 1 for n > 0; (°) = 0 for / > 1.)
(d) Compute c = Mc; mod (ph — 1).
(e) Send the ciphertext c to A.
2. Decryption. To recover plaintext m from c, A should do the following:
(a) Compute r = (c — hd) mod (ph — 1).
(b) Compute u(x) = g(x)r mod f(x) (using Algorithm 2.227).
(c) Compute .s(:r) = u(x) + f(x), a monic polynomial of degree h over Zp.
(d) Factor s(x) into linear factors over Zp. s(x) = П?=1 (x + where Ь € Zp (cf. Note 8.45(iv)).
(e) Compute a binary vector M = (M0, Mi,... , Mp_i) as follows. The components of M that are 1 have indices 7r-1(fj), 1 < j < h. The remaining components are 0.
(f) The message m is recovered from M as follows:
i. Set m<— 0, l<—h.
u. For i from 1 to p do the following:
If M,_i = 1 then set m<-m + (p{"') and l*-l - 1.
Proof that decryption works. Observe that
Since П?=о (x + 7r(*))Mi and s(a) are monic polynomials of degree h and are congruent modulo /(a), it must be the case that
Hence, the h roots of s(x) all he in Zp, and applying тг-1 to these roots gives the coordinates of M that are 1.
8.43 Example (Chor-Rivest public-key encryption with artificially small parameters')
Key generation. Entity A does the following:
1. Selects p = 7 and h = 4.
2. Selects the irreducible polynomial /(a) = a4 + За3 + 5a-2 + 6a + 2 of degree 4 over Z7. The elements of the finite field F74 are represented as polynomials in Z7[a] of degree less than 4, with multiplication performed modulo f(x).
3. Selects the random primitive element д(х) = За3 + За2 + 6.
4. Computes the following discrete logarithms:
5. Selects the random permutation 7r on {0,1,2,3,4,5,6} definedby л-(О) = 6,7г(1) = 4, 7г(2) = 0,7г(3) = 2, 7г(4) = 1, 7г(5) = 5,7г(6) = 3.
6. Selects the random integer d = 1702.
7. Computes
8. A's public key is ((cq, ci, C2, сз, c4, c5, ce),p = 7 ,h = 4), while A's private key is (f(x),g(x),n,d).
Encryption. To encrypt a message m = 22 for Л, В does the following:
(a) Obtains authentic A's public key.
(b) Represents m as a binary string of length 5: m = 10110. (Note that |_lg (4)J = 5.)
(c) Uses the method outlined in step 1(c) of Algorithm 8.42 to transform m to the binary vector M = (1,0,1,1,0,0,1) of length 7.
(d) Computes с = (со + сг + сз + ее) mod 2400 = 1521.
(e) Sends c = 1521 to A.
Decryption. To decrypt the ciphertext c = 1521, A does the following:
(a) Computes r = (c - lid) mod 2400 = 1913.
(b) Computes u(x) = <?(a;)<sup>1913 mod f(x) = x3 + 3x2 + 2x + 5.
(c) Computes s(x) = u(x) + f(x) = x4 + 4x3 + x2 + x.
(d) Factors s(a;) = x(x + 2)(ж + 3)(a: + 6) (so t = 0, i2 = 2, t$ = 3, t4 = 6).
(e) The components of M that are 1 have indices 7г_1(0) = 2,7г_1(2) = 3,7r_1(3) = 6,
and 7г^х(6) = 0. Hence, M = (1,0.1,1,0,0.1).
(f) Uses the method outlined in step 2(f) of Algorithm 8.42 to transform M to the integer
m = 22, thus recovering the original plaintext. □
8.44 Note (security of Chor-Rivest encryption)
(i) When the parameters of the system are carefully chosen (see Note 8.45 and page 318), there is no feasible attack known on the Chor-Rivest encryption scheme. In particular, the density of the knapsack set (co,ci,... , cp {) is p/ lg(maxcj), which is large enough to thwart the low-density attacks on the general subset sum problem (§3.10.2).
(ii) It is known that the system is insecure if portions of the private key are revealed, for example, if g(x) and d in some representation of F,; are known, or if f(x) is known, or if я- is known.
8.45 Note (implementation)
(i) Although the Chor-Rivest scheme has been described only for the case p a prime, it extends to the case where the base field Zp is replaced by a field of prime power order.
(ii) In order to make the discrete logarithm problem feasible in step 1 of Algorithm 8.41, the parameters p and h may be chosen so that q = ph - 1 has only small factors. In this case, the Pohlig-Hellman algorithm (§3.6.4) can be used to efficiently compute discrete logarithms in the finite field F4.
(iii) In practice, the recommended size of the parameters are p w 200 and h « 25. One particular choice of parameters originally suggested is p = 197 and h = 24; in this case, the largest prime factor of 19724 - 1 is 10316017, and the density of the knapsack set is about 1.077. Other parameter sets originally suggested are {p = 211, h = 24}, {p = 35, h = 24} (base field F3s), and {p = 2®, h = 25} (base field F2s).
(iv) Encryption is a very fast operation. Decryption is much slower, the bottleneck being the computation of u(x) in step 2b. The roots of s(x) in step 2d can be found simply by trying all possibilities in Zp.
(v) A major drawback of the Chor-Rivest scheme is that the public key is fairly large, namely, about (ph ■ lgp) bits. For the parameters p = 197 and h = 24, this is about 36000 bits.
(vi) There is message expansion by a factor of lg ph / lg (£). For p = 197 and h = 24, this is 1.797.
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Below are listed contact details and research interest information for medievalists in various departments at the University of Cambridge. The information presented on this page is intended to enable other medievalists at Cambridge and around the world to contact scholars with similar interests and to exchange ideas.
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Research: Theories of Language and Etymology in the Middle Ages, particularly in the construction of history, shared identity and nationality.
Research: Other Worlds in British and Irish Romance.
Research: Treason in Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance.
Research: My thesis was on eleventh- and twelfth-century insular and Norman texts (French and Latin: Fantosme's Chronicle , the Romance of Horn , the Roman d'Eneas , the Song of Dermot and the Earl, Gerald of Wales' Expugnatio Hibernica , Wace's Rou , and, oddly, the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as lots of comparative stuff) and I try particularly to be interdisciplinary in history and literature: the stuff I write is, I think, cultural history. I have a lot of ideological things to say about that, and about the old text/context debate, but I'll spare you here. I'm now writing a few papers - on Chaucer among other things - and looking for a second big project. Which may be in the Renaissance... or may not. Perhaps I shall hit the thirteenth century next and move forward in an orderly manner.
Research: I am most interested in the relationship between fifteenth-century English law, literature, history, and politics, particularly from 1377 to 1509. My MPhil thesis focused on the relationship between poet and patron as it is portrayed in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes . Currently, I am researching the role of fama in the same text, and this work has introduced me to the study of rumour, gossip, and the medieval ordeal. Other interests include Arthurian romance and Shakespeare's history plays (particularly the Henriad). I am proficient in modern Spanish and Italian, and am trying desperately to acquire some Latin.
Research: My dissertation is on monastic liturgy for the dead in the Carolingian period. Wider interests include: early medieval cultural history with particular focuses on monasticism, ritual, Iberia, and Italy.
Research: 15th-century religious writing in English; Lollardy; female education and learning in 14th-15th centuries; hagiography. Languages: some Old French/Anglo-Norman; medieval Latin.
Research: I am interested in medieval Scottish texts, references to geography and allusions to music in medieval writing. I've studied Old and Middle English, Old French and Latin.
For my PhD thesis I am producing a facing page edition of Brian Annesley's Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) with the closest extant base text of Christine de Pisan's Livre de la citee des dames (1405). Associated commentary will illuminate the utility of medieval texts in the early Renaissance. The Annesley edition will hopefully prove useful to at least four stakeholders: students who want to compare the Old French text with its first English translation; Christine scholars interested in the Tudor reception of her writing; academics who study Tudor translatiors; and bibliophiles curious about the history of Annesley's book.
I received my BA in English from the College of William & Mary (1995); MA in English and American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998); MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from the University of Cambridge (2003). Between my degrees I worked as a researcher for AT&T Law and Government Affairs in Washington, DC.
Research: I am currently working on the development of the short story collection in late Medieval Italy and France. I'm interested in the potential for reading the framework of exchange so characteristic of the genre alongside the actual movement and gift-giving of the manuscripts themselves. I'm particularly focusing on the potential of the frame to trap/position the reader within a particular approach to the text. Within this general theme, I'm also interested in the role of illustration within the framwork of the medieval text. I work mainly in Italian and French, but also make use of English, Spanish, German and some (limited, but getting there!) Arabic source material. More specifically, the texts I'm currently working on are: Italian - Il Novellino ; Decameron ; Novelle (Sercambi); (Salernitano) French - Les Sept Sages de Rome ; Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (1464); L'Heptameron .
Research: My PhD aims to provide a history of England's hermits c. 970 - c. 1215. Beyond this I enjoy researching all aspects of monasticism from ancient to modern (spirituality, literature, organisation, benefaction etc). Oh - and Oliver Cromwell.
Research: My PhD research focuses upon the history of fifteenth-century English towns. I am considering how late medieval, urban governments created a corporate civic identity through their records, artwork and buildings. In particular, my thesis concentrates upon Bristol, Chester and Norwich, but I am also considering other late medieval towns. Last year I completed an MA in Late Medieval Studies from the University of York and my dissertation was entitled 'John Carpenter's Liber Albus : the civic context'. My dissertation examined this London custumal in detail, with particular reference to the earlier political context of Richard II's seizure of London's liberties in 1392 and the Northampton-Brembre disputes of the 1370s and 1380s.
Research: Chaucer and Gower; Medieval Latin lyric; Historical linguistics/ language and cultural contact.
Research: I am researching the transmission of the role of Morgan la Fey from Celtic Sovereignty Goddess to Old French/Middle English representations. I hope to expand the study to include translations into Old Norse, Spanish and Italian as well.
Research: 1) Medieval ecology: the diversity of human-animal-environment relationships across Europe, focusing on a range of environmental and social contexts from the 11th-15th centuries, using archaeological, artistic and written sources supported by ecological and ethological analogues.
2) Physical and conceptualised predator-prey relationships in medieval culture and comparisons from other societies, including present-day Europe and North America. My Ph.D. explored human responses to the wolf and its environment in Britain and Scandinavia from the 8th-14th centuries.
3) Religious diversity across medieval Europe, particularly exploring the spectrum from pagan-Christian in Scandinavia and the Baltic region from the Viking Age into the late medieval period.
4) Seigneurial culture and expressions of �lite identity in art, literature, architecture and landscapes, with a focus on hunting in northern Europe, particularly from the 11th century.
Additional languages: fluent Polish, enough French and German for academic reading but not really conversation. Have experience of Old English, Old Norse and Latin through PhD research.
Research: Medieval canon law; intellectual history 11th/12th c.; medieval marriage. France is my major geographical area of interest.
Languages include Latin, German, French, Italian, and Greek.
Research: I am in the third year of my PhD, studying Anglo-Norman historical literature in prose, mostly from the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in the conceptual frameworks of these texts and their connections with English noble families. My MPhil looked at representations of giants in Anglo-Norman and Middle English chronicles and romances, and I remain interested in romances. I am also enthusiastic about Chaucer and fifteenth-century English poetry.
Research: My research focuses on late medieval alchemical poetry (fifteenth century) and its reception in Britain and continental Europe up to the mid-seventeenth century. Interdisciplinary approach (my background is in English literature and linguistics, Philosophy and Maths), multilingual materials (the majority of texts I am working on are written in English, but I am also considering Latin, French and German versions � interest in early modern practice of translation and adaptation of scientific texts).
Research: My PhD research concerns the three versions of the life of St Dunstan written in England between 1090 and 1130. My primary interests are the way in which meaning is conveyed within each text and the influences upon each writer's use of their source material. My wider concern is the cultural and religious history of England from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the aftermath of the twelfth century civil war (c1000 - 1200) and the reflection of this period within contemporary Latin historical writing. I have some German, a little French and hopefully improving Latin.
Research: I am currently researching the 'Medieval Mouth' in late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century English material, with a specific focus on Piers Plowman , Mirk's Festial and Lydgate's The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man . I am also interested in the medieval phyisological and natural philosophic understanding of the mouth, and hope to do some work on medieval dentistry.
More generally, my research interests include the body, notions of the sacred and the grotesque, and the medieval English mystical tradition. My modern French is passable, so I hope to branch out into medieval French texts at some stage too.
Research: My PhD is focused on the piety of the Angevin kings of England c.1154 - c.1216, in particular that of King John. By using a combination of chronicles and administrative sources, I am seeking to approach the subject from a range of different angles, and to consider the development of royal piety over time, as well as comparing Angevin piety with that of other European kings, in particular those of Capetian France.
Research: My research interests focus on the comparative post-Carolingian (c.850-1100) political development of the regions of Champagne and Upper Lotharingia (broadly from the Ile de France across to the Vosges). This research seeks to address the problematic of the mechanism and meaning of the transformation of the Carolingian world, at the local level. At present I am looking at the transformation of the institution of advocacy: counties and the principalities are next on the list. Thematic interests include the vexing question of 'the public' as well as the nature of lordship in these regions.


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Milford educator aims to make STEAM education awesome
Diana Lockwood-Bordaña promotes STEAM learning through her business, STEAM Kids Awesome.
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MILFORD — When Diana Lockwood-Bordaña founded her organization STEAM Kids Awesome, the goal was to let students know there are people in the STEAM workforce that look like them.
"It's my little small business. I want to bring it to my local community, give back and have access to STEAM," said Lockwood-Bordaña.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, otherwise known as STEAM, is a concept that has been around for years, but Lockwood-Bordaña said it has recently started spreading broader and faster.
"Most people know STEM, but in my own experience, when I integrated the arts, I saw more student participation," said Lockwood-Bordaña. "I would say now is when STEAM is catching the most buzz because researchers like me have documented it, published it, and put it out there in the academic world."
After teaching in Atlanta for 14 years, Lockwood-Bordaña decided to get a doctorate in STEAM after hearing her fourth grade students saying they didn't like math and science.
"It was disheartening," she said. "I saw it as a problem that I wanted to address."
Graduating in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she saw an opportunity to educate children stuck inside.
"I started making little activity kits for them at home and gave them away because I wanted people to have activities," Lockwood-Bordaña said. "I started making videos on TikTok and YouTube and shared them with people with other people who were interested in doing experiments using their bathtub, or in the kitchen or the basement. It just started to catch on."
Lockwood-Bordaña later took her research from her dissertation and wrote and published the "Kid Scientist Handwriting Activity Book" and the "STEAM Kids Guide 2 Awesome!"
"I taught them how to set up their own maker space in their house and then using basic things in their house how they can do the activity and then relate it to an actual job in that field," she said. "If kids know they can focus on birds or fix the ocean or study sharks, then more kids might buy into science at an earlier age."
Through her consulting business, STEAM Consulting, Lockwood-Bordaña has worked with many organizations, including the Discovery Channel, and most recently, she participated in Shop Small Saturday on Nov. 26.
"I was at the Thomas Building here in Milford, and I sold out of my explosion kit, my eruption kit, invisible ink, and my robots kit," she said. "I was shocked and couldn't believe it."
Lockwood-Bordaña also tries to remain inclusive, donating over 100 books last year, including to Milford-based Boys and Girls Village, the Milford Library and the Milford schools system.
"I'm just trying to get as many kids access," she said. "It's so close to my heart to ensure people who can't afford books still have access to them."


Law scholar and Interim Dean of the School of Law, Prof. Lawal Ahmadu, has identified a connection between telemedicine, law, and national development, stating that telemedicine has so far failed to impact national development due to the absence of a supportive legal framework.
At the School of Law seminar on February 1, Professor Ahmadu critically examined some legal implications of tele-medical practice in Nigeria and identified several challenges the practice has faced. He went on to suggest legal measures that can be introduced to benefit telemedicine as a key component of the national healthcare plan.
Defining telemedicine as 'the practice of medicine from a distance using information and communication technology', the legal luminary contended that the presence of law in telemedicine is ever needed as it would improve the standard of healthcare delivery in the country.
The presence of the law, he added, would support telemedicine to meet the standards of conventional medicine. The same level of care as per conventional medicine would be provided with the presence of law. Any additional risks or limitations of telemedicine would be made known to the patient legally. Legal considerations such as electronic medical records, medical malpractice liability and freedom of information acts will all be implemented with the law anchoring telemedicine.
The speaker further observed that the medical curricula in Nigeria do not support telemedicine, hence the need for a review.
Prof Ahmadu argued that in instances where there is lax compliance with existing laws, it is the responsibility of stakeholders, especially lawyers, to institutionalize enforcement. Observing that legal practitioners in the country were not doing enough in terms of advocacy, he urged lawyers to get more involved in this process as it is the right step towards development.
One of the attendees, third-year law student Taslim Oladoja, suggested that there should be a separate and distinct law set aside for telemedicine instead of merging it with existing laws.


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Welcome home: Trips abroad put San Francisco's chaotic streets into perspective
Heather Knight July 13, 2019 Updated: July 13, 2019 7:45 p.m.
Welcome home: Trips abroad put San Francisco's chaotic...
1of2Terry Hamphill seen on Clara Alley on Friday, July 12, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif. Hamphill just returned from a six week vacation in Europe to find a homeless man urinating on his front door, refusing to move and screaming "F off!" at him.Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
2of2Terry Hamphill seen at home on Friday, July 12, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif. He lives in Clara Alley where he returned from a six week vacation in Europe to find a homeless man urinating on his front door, refusing to move, and screaming "F off!" at him.Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
Terry Hemphill flew into SFO in late May elated. He'd just spent six weeks in England, Portugal and Italy, and loved every city he visited.
The European cities Hemphill visited featured mostly clean sidewalks without needles, poop or heaps of trash. He felt safe working on his laptop in parks or cafes without worrying that someone would snatch the device. The public transportation was efficient and tidy. He didn't encounter people who seemed clearly out of their minds because of drugs or untreated mental illness.
There was some graffiti and litter, yes. And a few homeless people begging for spare change. But nothing like San Francisco.
Hemphill was one of scores of readers to respond to my column about visiting London and noting how the quality of life for visitors and residents of all income levels seems far better than our own.
"It made me think, 'Why can't we have decent things here?'" said Hemphill, a marketing contractor who's lived in San Francisco for 35 years. "Things have become so unhinged."
On the way home from the airport that May day, Hemphill raved to his Lyft driver about how impressed he'd been with the cities he visited.
But when he arrived at his South of Market condo on Clara Street, he couldn't get in his own front door. A man who appeared homeless had dropped his pants to urinate against the entryway. When Hemphill asked him to move, the man shouted "F— off!" and continued using the door as a toilet.
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What does London lack that SF has in abundance? Misery on the...
Chronicle readers like Hemphill cited cities on six continents that are faring better than San Francisco when it comes to quality of life. Antarctica didn't come up, but here's guessing there aren't deranged people left to wander into traffic there either.
From A to Z — Auckland, New Zealand to Zurich, Switzerland — and everywhere in between, other cities, including many without our astronomical wealth, are managing better than San Francisco, readers told me.
Spin a globe with your eyes closed, use your finger to stop it, and chances are, you've landed on a place that doesn't feature San Francisco's disgustingly dirty sidewalks.
Or more than 1,000 homeless people on a waiting list for shelter that never seems to shorten. Or a mental health care system — using the word "care" loosely — that releases people from the psychiatric emergency room back to the streets. Or headlines about how we don't see as many needles on the sidewalks because the city's legions of drug users have switched from heroin to the even more dangerous fentanyl and are discarding their foil instead.
For Hemphill, who managed to buy a condo in SoMa in 2002, when real estate was far more affordable, the urinating man with a foul mouth was just an everyday occurrence. On the streets around his little alley, people openly do drugs, dump heaps of old furniture and TV sets, threaten and scream at each other and, as he put it, "lie around in various states of distress."
His alley got a little cleaner and friendlier for a while thanks to the diligence of a neighbor, Brian Egg, who cleaned the sidewalks, watered trees and chatted with other residents while out walking his dog. That was before Egg's headless body was found last year decomposed in a fish tank. The case is still under investigation.
What has become of our beautiful-from-afar, but gross-up-close city? We've long lured visitors from all over the world here, but for how much longer? There's still a lot to love about San Francisco, but returning from vacation last week was the first time I can remember not being thrilled to come home.
Readers describing their experiences in other cities attributed the differences to several reasons. Some cities, such as London and Auckland, are in countries offering universal health care and a far more robust social safety net, which tries to catch homeless people and mentally ill patients before they're sleeping on sidewalks and wandering confused into traffic.
Bevan Dufty, the city's former homeless czar, praised London's No Second Night Out program, which tries to get newly homeless people inside immediately. Outreach teams find newly homeless people and bring them to one of three 24-hour hubs where case managers connect them quickly with services, shelter or tickets home.
In San Francisco, outreach teams often have nothing to offer homeless people because all shelters and treatment slots are full.
San Franciscans who have visited other cities recently also attributed differences to higher expectations for decency and civility elsewhere. Several readers talked about visiting Japan, where cleaners with tidy uniforms and even flowers pinned to their caps whisk into bullet trains between journeys and ensure they're immaculate. Signs are posted everywhere telling people not to litter. Public toilets are pristine.
"We counted the number of homeless people we saw in Japan. Eight," said a co-worker who visited Tokyo and Kyoto for her two-week honeymoon in May. "I pass at least that many on my way to work."
I asked her how many people she saw using drugs in public, even though I had a strong suspicion I knew the answer. Yes, zero.
Another co-worker described riding to work on the J-Church the other day and seeing a homeless woman sobbing that she was hungry and throwing herself against the sides of the train. All the passengers stared at their phones and ignored her.
I will never understand why San Francisco allows people to inject needles into their necks outside the Main Library, in BART stations and near City Hall. Safe injection sites? Great. More treatment? Even better. But the status quo? Not remotely OK.
While City Hall deserves much of the blame for playing around the edges while the crisis just gets worse, San Franciscans as a whole deserve some blame too. There are those who fight any shelter or housing near them. There are those who fight programs to compel the severely mentally ill into treatment. And too many of us have become complacent and inured to the misery all around us.
This complacency and paralysis struck Scott Knies while visiting San Francisco the other day. The director of the San Jose Downtown Association is on sabbatical and has been traveling locally and abroad for four months. As he walked along Mission Street, he saw a disheveled woman in Yerba Buena Gardens screaming vague threats. Pedestrians hustled along, and others moved away from her.
As far as Knies knows, nobody did anything to help her. He does not believe that would happen in other cities.
"The mentally unstable living unsheltered deserve a better fate than to be left to fend for themselves on our sidewalks," he said. "Her voice haunted me for blocks."
Some local residents described seeing people in other cities giving food to homeless people, shopkeepers regularly cleaning their front stoops and people disposing of their litter properly.
Pratima Gupta, a doctor who lives in the Lower Haight, just returned from Paris, a city that has seen a rise in homelessness, but not nearly to the levels of San Francisco and other cities in California. Gupta said she didn't notice as much trash in Paris and saw no human feces or discarded needles. She saw some panhandlers, but no major evidence of untreated mental illness.
She recalled her 6-year-old son, Nehru, telling her on their trip that he wished San Francisco was more like Paris. She assumed he was referring to the ever-present croissants and crepes.
"He said, 'No mom. It's because there's no homeless people,'" she recalled, noting her boy's comparison made her think. "We need to collaborate with other cities and learn from them. What are they doing right and what can we do better? We're obviously not doing something right here."
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The Strangers and Other Writings is a sewn hardback of 293 + xii pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 400 copies.
Sorry - out of print!
Introduction by Heather Smith
The Strangers and Other Writings includes previously unpublished and uncollected short fiction, non-fiction and poetry by Robert Aickman. Dating from the 1930s to 1980, the contents show his development as a writer. Six unpublished short stories, augmented by one written for broadcast, follow his fiction from the whimsical through the experimental to the ghostly, with 'The Strangers' a fully-formed, Aickmanesque strange tale. The non-fiction samples Aickman's wide-ranging interests and erudition: from the supernatural to Oscar Wilde; from 1940s films to Delius; from politics to the theatre; from Animal Farm to the canals.
Including: 'Preface', Fiction: 'The Case of Wallingford's Tiger', 'The Whistler', 'A Disciple of Plato', 'The Coffin House', 'The Flying Anglo-Dutchman', 'The Strangers', 'The Fully-Conducted Tour', Non Fiction: 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde', 'A Review of The Sporting Queensberrys', 'Are You An Anarchist Without Knowing It?', 'The Popular Poltergeist', 'Crime by Proxy', 'Crossfire: A Criticism', 'Gentleman's Agreement', 'Ghost Story Anthology Introduction', 'Postscript to Harry Price', 'The Avon', 'Irving in The Bells', 'The Bells of Bealings House', 'Magnificence, Elegance and Charm', ' "Ghoulies and Ghousties" of England', 'Some Notes on Delius', 'Review of Russell Kirk', 'Excerpts from Bulletin', Poetry: 'Pimlico', 'Thea'.
Accompanying The Strangers is a fifty-three minute DVD documentary 'Robert Aickman, Author of Strange Tales'. Featuring rare film, photographs and audio recordings, the film sheds new light on Aickman's role in the development of the ghost story, his interest in restoring the British canal system and his wider involvement with the arts. Jean Richardson and Heather and Graham Smith share their memories of Aickman's friendship, and writers Jeremy Dyson and Reggie Oliver evaluate Aickman's literary legacy.
Recommended summer reading in the Washington Post
'There are books, the publication of which represents a real literary event. This is the case with The Strangers...' Mario Guslandi, Nudge
'Featuring the first original short fiction collection of Aickman in three decades, The Strangers and Other Writings is the single most important release of the year by an independent publisher.' The Pan Review
'As a "behind-the-scenes" look at the evolution of a writer and a quasi-philosopher, this volume could hardly be bettered.' The Stars at Noonday
'Tartarus Press should be commended for this volume, which sheds so much light on Aickman's development and missteps as a writer, as well as providing us with the fine stories The Coffin House, The Flying Anglo-Dutchman, and The Fully-Conducted Tour, along with the stellar, sublime, wonderful The Strangers.' James Everington


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Palais de la Cité, Paris
Radiant French Gothic
Begun some time after 1238 and consecrated on 26 April 1248,[2] the Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns—one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom.
Along with the Conciergerie, the Sainte-Chapelle is one of the earliest surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité. Although damaged during the French Revolution, and restored in the 19th century, it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.
The royal chapel is a prime example of the phase of Gothic architectural style called "Rayonnant", marked by its sense of weightlessness and strong vertical emphasis. It stands squarely upon a lower chapel, which served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace, which was the seat of government (see "palace"). The king was later recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. His title became Saint Louis.
The most famous features of the chapel, among the finest of their type in the world, are the great stained glass windows, for whose benefit the stone wall surface is reduced to little more than a delicate framework. Fifteen huge mid-13th-century windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery (added to the upper chapel c. 1490) dominates the western wall.
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A portion of the first floor and lower level of this commercial block were renovated for the new juvenile court. The facility includes a courtroom, offices, public waiting area, accessible toilet rooms, interior sallyport, holding cells, new elevator, staff locker rooms, and a new closed circuit t.v. security system.


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Another Study of ISIS
Tags: Islamic State, Stern-Berger: ISIS -- State of Terror, Terrorism
About a week ago I wrote a few notes on my reading of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan. I followed that with Jessica Stern's and J.M. Berger's ISIS: The State of Terror. It's a great companion to former work; don't hold off thinking it might be redundant if you've already read the former.
One small detail but a most valuable asset is an appendix by a Brown University doctoral student, Megan K. McBride, providing one of the most readable and informative outlines of the history and nature of Islam and where the various movements that culminated in ISIS fit in to that overview. My first reaction to reading it was to want to contact the author and seek permission to post it in Vridar.
A principal difference from the Weiss and Hassan study is that Stern and Berger explore in much greater depth the way ISIS is really such a modern phenomenon with the strategic ways it has exploited modern communication technologies, especially social media. I first heard the expression "barbarism empowered by modern technology" as a graduate student to refer to the Nazi machine of World War 2. ISIS is reverting to the most primitive forms of barbarism but empowering that barbaric message through modern communications technology. Beheadings have been historically employed as a "mercifully" swift means of execution; not for ISIS where some deliberately seek out blunt knives to do the job. The object is to strike fear, of course, as well as demonstrate to idealistic potential recruits just how serious they are. Bizarrely bloodthirsty messages are somehow mixed with video shots of an ideal visionary society, a caliphate where children are happy (even if playing with decapitated heads on corpse-lined streets) and the true ways of Allah ensure a purified "utopia". Gone are the defeatist messages of the old terrorists like Al Qaeda with their expectations of being overwhelmed by godless forces and hopes for a future paradise. The heavenly kingdom is here now; the jihadists are strong and terrifying in their strength. That is their message and that is what makes them different from other terrorist groups.
What bewildered many of them (though perhaps not their leadership) was the failure of Muslims to rise up rejoicing with the announcement of the restored caliphate and to declare their allegiance to it. Most Muslims, of course, despised it, wanted nothing to do with it, loathed it. And that fact alone demonstrates just how isolated ISIS is within the broader Muslim community.
Still, Stern and Berger do conclude with a warning: we don't yet know the future of ISIS or the events precipitated via its emergence. A few terrorist breakaway groups — from South Asia to North Africa — have slowly come to recognize it. And the US policy of "decapitation" — targeting the heads of terrorist organizations — is more than likely going to backfire. Once a head declares "loyalty" ("bayah" — a religiously binding oath) to another such as Al Qaeda, and that oath is accepted by that other/Al Qaeda, it is binding. For a leader to change his mind and turn to, say, ISIS instead, or to its caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, then he steps on to a slippery slope. There remains nothing to prevent his own followers from likewise changing their minds and loyalties. But bayah is between individuals, not corporate bodies. Once a drone slaughters one leader there is no knowing to whom his successor will gravitate. To al Baghdadi, the caliph of ISIS?
The apocalyptic vision of ISIS reminded me of other religious cults that have established their own utopian kingdoms on earth. One I once took a special historical interest in was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led by Hong Xiuquan who saw himself as the literal brother of Jesus Christ. This was the Taiping rebellion in nineteenth century China. I think many mainstream Muslims look on ISIS in much the same way many Christians would look on the Taipings. That many ISIS followers were apparently bemused by the failure of more Muslims to welcome their caliphate only demonstrates how religiously illiterate (certainly limited) so many of them are. The foreign fighters are on the whole more ideological than the Sunni Arabs who have made up the core of ISIS. Indeed, both books make it very clear that ISIS was born from a Sunni attempt to "survive" as the Shia and Iranian sympathetic Muslims took over in Iraq. The propaganda appeal to many foreigners has been very significantly related to the idealism and sense of adventure particularly craved by youth. If reports of some defectors can be believed then the doctrinal idealism is not so pure in reality: ISIS fighters have apparently been seen smoking after an engagement even though condign penalties apply to smokers in ISIS held population centres; ISIS men have been seen having sex with one another in dark areas at night despite what we know is the public penalty for gays.* Hope, if that's an appropriate word, might be seen in the reports of rubbish being piled up in streets for weeks, and of electricity in certain areas being cut off for extended periods of time — as a result of some of the damage inflicted by the West's (and now Russia's?) aerial campaigns. How long can idealism hold out? Young girls, as we know, have also been attracted to ISIS, and some of these have only fallen into bitter experiences of unanticipated and unwelcome early pregnancies and the circumstances associated with that. So the difficult question arises: how are the disillusioned to be treated when and if they can ever return home? How can we know they are really disillusioned and not likely to be sleepers waiting for the right opportunities to cause further terror? And that's another strength of Stern and Hassan's book: the discussion of the "intellectual heritage" and organizational ties that have given rise to the "lone wolf" and similar attacks in Western nations. I found it well worth the read. Both books, just as both Nawaz's and Husain's biographies offer a more complete understanding of what the West is faced with today and into the foreseeable future.
This section of the book reminded me of Husain's observations of life in Saudi Arabia. Sexual repression is so severe there that men seriously harass (and worse) women as a consequence of being turned on by the sight of their eyes — all they can see of them in public! Back in Britain, Islamists sometimes in confidence will admit that they find the hijab (not to be confused with the niqab that allows only the eyes to be visible) covering is actually a sexual turn-on more than the sight of women who have their heads uncovered.
Author Neil GodfreyPosted on 2015-11-09 13:15:13 GMT+0000 2019-06-26 12:39:46 GMT+0000 Categories Politics & SocietyTags Islamic State, Stern-Berger: ISIS -- State of Terror, Terrorism
5 thoughts on "Another Study of ISIS"
Dan Jones says:
I agree that reading Weiss & Hassan's 'ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror' in no way makes Berger & Stern's 'ISIS: The State of Terror' redundant. (I also read them in that order). It's hard to know, but I probably got more out of Berger & Stern's book because I'd already read Weiss & Hassan's (which I read after Loretta Napoleoni's 'The Islamist Pheonix', and Patrick Cockburn's 'The Rise of Islamic State'). That said, if you could only read one of these, I'd suggested Berger & Stern's: it's got a good mix of history, personality, and delves into the behavioural and psychological aspects of ISIS in more detail than the other books. And as Neil says, the appendix is really useful too. FYI, my thirst for books in this area has not yet been sated: I'm about to read Will McCant's new book, 'The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State', which should be excellent.
Fully agree Stern and Berger's has more to offer than Weiss/Hassan's work. Also looking forward to Jason Burke's study that I believe is due out around now. His was the first in depth work I read on Al Qaeda.
David Ashton says:
Jason Burke's "The New Threat" (2015) to western nations from Sunni militancy is among the books on the Middle East on my shelves I proposed to include in a promised but not yet posted bibliography, and is recommended (e.g. its reference to modernity & the psychology of unemployed young males).
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When I look into my bookshelf for books that have enriched me or entertained me so as to present them here, I realize that this is one book which has given endless hours of entertainment to my family: first when my daughter was growing up (it continues to do so even now), and now, when my 2-year old son has started picture-reading it. Tiddler by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is a classic book that has a simple concept at its core – a fish that lies. Oh did I say, lies? Sorry, a fish that tells stories. What a fantastic way to introduce the word 'story' to our little ones.
Tiddler is a little fish with a big imagination. He is always late for class and tells tall tales as excuses. He met a mermaid or he rode a seahorse. Everyone including Miss Skate, a ray fish, who is his teacher, dismisses them as stories. But his close friend Johnny Dory likes Tiddler's stories. Now, one day, by a certain turn of events, Tiddler gets caught in a fishing net and doesn't turn up at class. How he manages to return, thanks to his reputation for stories, is the rest of the story.
I picked this book during a Scholastic book fair at my daughter's school and am still feeling pretty good about it.
A simple, delightful story with vivid characterization of the characters, or should I say fish?
The deep-sea creatures that are characters in the story make it an educational read as well.
A book with lots of potential for reading out loud to your child. The variety of emotions that are expressed lend themselves to a good amount of voice modulations and play-acting that one can do. This makes for wholesome bedtime entertainment for the family.
The expressive illustrations by Axel Scheffler that perfectly complement the story. My son particularly likes the page showing the big, wicked, bio-luminescent (light-emitting) fish in the deep-sea with scary looks and sharp teeth.
Looking at the colourful illustrations in this book, I wonder why we are not able to produce such endearing stories with expressive illustrations for children in the regional languages of India. Though some of the new-age publishers are doing a good job, we need more of this kind. I recently read Makadigaram by Vizhiyan (in Tamil) and The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, both on the same day. I could not help comparing them – Rs.30 with Rs.399, the colourless, verbose one versus the colourful expressive other. Is it because of lack of readers? Or is it because of lack of imagination? Or is it because of lack of publishers?
For endless hours of entertainment.
(y) Tough – reviewing a book for toddlers – great job.
I wonder why we are not able to produce such endearing stories with expressive illustrations for children in the regional languages of India.
Is it because of lack of readers? Or is it because of lack of imagination? Or is it because of lack of publishers?
I think it is a combination of the first and the 3rd reasons, which leads to a vicious cycle (a kind of deadlock?). Maybe you should address this question to an Indian illustrator and publisher.
Nice review. Most board books are from abroad. Kids enjoy it because of the colors, I enjoy it for the illustrations. I have also wondered why producing this is so difficult here. We have great illustrators too.
How many parents today take there kids to a bookstore and let them take whatever they wanted? (It would be a toy store) Not many people are interested in books… and many don't even know there are Picture books/ Comics other than the Amar chitra kathas. Reading requires loads of encouragement in the initial stage; and reading for pleasure is something very few kids do these days. Parents will rather get workbooks for the kids; than picture books.
Encouraging reading should start with parents. Then the situation can be changed.


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Logan Lucky (2017) FILMING LOCATIONS
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Where was Logan Lucky filmed?
The star-studded movie "Logan Lucky" starring Daniel Craig & Channing Tatum was filmed on location in Atlanta, Georgia and some scenes were done in North Carolina as well. In particular, the Hudson Hickory House was filmed in Douglasville, Georgia and shots were reportedly produced at the Thornhill Clubhouse in Duluth, GA. The Charlotte Motor Speedway was actually used in the film and is a real racetrack where NASCAR really does some of their races.
Logan Lucky follows two brothers who attempt to pull off a giant heist during the NASCAR race in North Carolina at the Charlotte Motor Speedway (a real and unchanged film location used for the movie) for their own monetary gains. They need some help with their adventure so they team up with their sister Mellie as well as a demolition expert named Joe Bang in order to help them get into the underground systems of the racetrack.
9/03/2016 – Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane & Hilary Swank are all in Atlanta, Georgia filming Logan Lucky at the Hudson Hickory House in Douglasville, Georgia
google street view > 6874 Bankhead Hwy, Douglasville, GA 30134
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October 2016 – Logan Lucky will be filming in at the Thornhill Clubhouse in Johns Creek, Georgia on the 4th and 5th of October
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09/06/2016 – Logan Lucky was spotted filming in Georgia at Taylor Farms Park this week.
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08/29/2016 – "Logan Lucky" is currently filming in Atlanta, GA. See below for casting info.
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'Logan Lucky'
When: 8/18/2017,
Starring: Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
First Published Aug 30, 2016, 9:55am
Brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina
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Nice find Dan! That should fix up well and without a whole lotta work. Quite a bargain too! You could put a good sized scope on that. Congrats.
I like the thread you started. Let's hope this will take some drama out of the other thread that always starts trouble.
That'a a bargain! I sold one just like it last year for $400. Necessary to help fund the 10" f/6 Super Deluxe Chrome Cave I bought. I think I made the right choice. But I'd love to get another non-chrome mount one day.
Nice find! Bullet-proof mount for a 6".
Bullet-proof mount for a 6".
Ain't that the truth! Congrats, Dan - and thanks for starting this thread! Should be a lot of fun.
Monolux 4380 - my first Classic purchase.
Sears 6336 - first setup before cleaning.
Russell, does your 50's Selsi have a model and/or serial number? Thanks!
When it comes to the price paid, sometimes, well I don't argue. There are some folks out there that are culling their stock and couldn't wish for something better than to pass on their classic scope to someone new who will take care of it; that's all they wish for. Sometimes, or even most of the time, those opportunities are rare. But when that does happen, I give my deepest respect to the previous owner, try to find out all the history so that I can pass it on as well. There is a divide between the obsessive collector and the person who really wants some sort of scope just because it has some flare of appeal to them. It's a fine line that I haven't and probably never will figure out.
The Not Dec Drive, aka Armstrong Drive Did not work out very well, so I replaced it with a "vintage" Meade Tangent Arm Drive from a person local to Tucson. It was a bolt-on fit and works, except it's a DC drive, but still, better that than none at all!
You gave me the idea! I agree, but hope the mods are OK with it!
Pricey but went down $500.
A little bit pricey but in the range. It does have the non-Armstrong worm gear driven Dec Drive, which is a big plus, but does it work? Does the RA Clock Drive work? Also has what looks like the original Dec Shaft Counter Weights, with Rust and all. But $2500? I would offer about $750 max and wait. The Paint and Chemicals to rebuild that, along with unknown optics say, "Show me more!"
If it was on the 2.5" Shaft mount i would pay $2.5k. That 1.5" mount is way toooo small for that hulking OTA.
as long as we do not talk about how the other thread drives prices up they will be very happy.
No, it has no markings or info at all except for Selsi on the label......in fact, I (or anyone else) am not positively positive that it is indeed an Asahi-built scope, I did a bunch of research, found stuff posted by several other owners, and found someone who had an instruction sheet that had an Asahi logo on it. Also, the EP's that came with it have a particular size - a 5.3mm - that is supposed to be unique to Asahi.
He contacted me though my Cave website. I had him send pictures to me. I valued it at $800 most. He has not verified a cave mirror or that the motors even work. He is also an electrician! In all fairness the scope is 2 hour away from his home and he cannot get to it to do the needed investigation. I have not seen the dome.
The equatorial head appears to be identical to my 1975 Cave.
The scope laying over the sink is something other than the 12.5" standing on end.
The ad says it come with a 10' dome but no picture.
I think the thread is a good idea, but the name is sooo close to the sale thread that I thought it was a new copy of it as happens periodically. Maybe call it "My Vintage Find".


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JK (guest) - March 17, 2006, 14:37
It was kind of fun. Not really funny and not boring. Somewhere between 65 and 68 on a scale from 0 to 100.
Bigun! (guest) - March 21, 2006, 17:42
That slap jumed it up to at least an 88 for me!
sally (guest) - March 25, 2006, 22:14
not too bad, nice
Juhgu - March 28, 2006, 16:13
Lame. I guess people come up with this crap when they have to be funny, instead of being spontaneously humorous.
Kimozabi (guest) - April 9, 2006, 01:20
Funny IMO.
the brigs (guest) - July 30, 2006, 07:37
Wow, I can't believe nobody's said 'OMG its the guy form the Shawn of the dead!1!!!1!omgrozoerzeaserz!!!!!1!!one'
Pat (guest) - September 13, 2006, 23:57
josip (guest) - October 13, 2006, 18:57
not funny!!!!
Towser42 (guest) - March 1, 2007, 19:41
Juhgu be dumb
fighting54 - October 20, 2007, 20:00
i gave it a thumbs up just for simon pegg slapping her hahaha
100% impressive
Kseniya Simonova sand art
A really upset tortoise
76% crazy
Slippery roads in Portland
Bicycle speed record fails
How contact lenses are made


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DC Boss: Henry Cavill Didn't Fit New Superman Role
He probably would've loved to know this before he quit "The Witcher."
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright to Be De-Aged in New Film 'Here'
'PREVIOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE'
The new AI-driven tech will alter the actors' appearances in real time while shooting, changing the game for post-production VFX work.
Basketball Coach, 22, Busted Impersonating 13-Yr-Old Player
WIN AT ALL COSTS
Arlisha Boykins allegedly popped on the jersey of a missing player and played alongside students.
Capitol Police Nab Cop Impersonator With 'Stash of Knives'
Max Eli Viner, 37, was arrested on suspicion of police impersonation and possession of a prohibited weapon, police said.
FBI Searched Penn Biden Center Offices in November: Report
It is not clear whether any more classified documents were found there.
Steve Bannon Returning to Breitbart After Election
BACK TO THE CESSPOOL
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 2:31PM ET / Published Nov. 02, 2016 11:59AM ET
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon said Wednesday that he plans to return to Breitbart following the election. Prior to joining the Republican presidential nominee's campaign, Bannon was CEO of the far-right website that has acted, throughout the entire election cycle, as a top booster of Donald Trump's candidacy. "My term of duty here ends on the evening of the 8th," Bannon said on Breitbart's SiriusXM radio show, which he hosted up until his departure for the campaign. "I look forward to being a part of [Breitbart] again. It's something I miss a lot." During the same interview, Bannon hailed what he views as a positive force in global politics, with nationalist movements on the rise in the United States and Europe. "Regardless of what happens next week—obviously I think that we're going to win and I've thought that from day one—but there's a sea change in politics."
Read it at BuzzFeed News


IN my earlier article, I outlined various reasons why I believe Israel is losing the worldwide PR campaign. Included was that Israel commonly utilizes terminology which contributes to their predicament. The country's unique dilemma pertaining to media hostility against things Israel says or does and their problems attributed to little or no support from many mainstream news agencies. I ended explaining that Israel is unsystematic in their PR attempts and appears to concentrate on methods that affect people already pro-Israel.
Therefore, I believe Israel needs to establish a comprehensive, global PR goal, much like international business or regional warfare, and a strategy of how to obtain that PR goal. The overall plan should be coordinated by one source, or one office, and they delegate instructions and guidelines to all PR individuals, agencies, institutions and volunteers to ensure consistency and focus.
In spite of the mainstream media's resistance, the mainstream is where Israeli politicians and representatives need to direct their attention. Getting the message disseminated to the public whether the public chooses to hear it or not. This should be done whenever a representative of Israel is speaking or is interviewed on TV. And, combating a myth or a lie never ends. You must continually correct the story over and over until it is completely extinguished. This is done by politely but firmly challenging reporters and news personalities every single time misinformation, misleading or prejudice jargon are used.
I cannot stress how important it is that Israel eliminates the dangerous terminologies which have gravely distorted how Israel and the Israeli are perceived worldwide. In addition to the embarrassment it causes, the perilous law risks it poses, and preventing Israel from attacking enemies (when they know they should). The destructive PR gives anti-Israel individuals and establishments the excuse they need to assault Israelis with ludicrous accusations, videos, and photos while these "establishments" are perceived as politically correct.
Moreover, these establishments are perceived as politically correct because Israel is perceived to be occupiers, apartheid, human rights offenders, war criminals and politically incorrect. This is as well in fact why Israel will never, with their current PR agenda, be able to make the so-called Palestinians (Arabs) look worse.
As a result, confronting reporters and news personalities repeatedly whenever misinformation, misleading or prejudice jargon are utilized is imperative. Only then will the world begin to understand and see that the Arabs were deceivers, claiming to be a non-existent race, and among other things maybe the so-called Palestinians were misleading or deceitful about everything.
In the beginning confronting the media will be a hassle, but it must be done because repetition and being right will eventually prevail. Yes, I know it's unfair. News agencies and networks have armies of staff to research and immediately provide bios, questions, reports, sources (many times unnamed), word traps and statistics to their TV news personalities through earpieces. They are also prepared far before an Israeli representative enters the interview. Yet, they don't treat Arab representatives or Arab rulers with the same contempt. But, who says you have to play by "the news's" rules and sit there while you are verbally ambushed and battered. I say don't.
Israelis have been creative in all their conflicts, wars and in business. Use that same ingenuity and resources to design an aggressive PR plan to win the information battle. For example, today we have the luxury and speed of mobile devices, laptops and cell phones to retrieve information in seconds. Why not use communication microphones and ear pieces? Have your own analysts on standby ready to investigate, confirm, back up, monitor and instantaneously provide correct, consistent and viable information to the Israeli representatives.
If that means an entourage following the Israeli representatives, so be it. The news agencies have a huge system, wired and willing, equipped to speedily support their personalities and reporters. Consequently, I'm sure, the "news" would appreciate the extra effort Israel would undertake to be truthful and correct on live TV (I'm being sarcastic because the "news" will probably feel insecure and threatened).
Study "news" strategies and that of former successful PR campaigns. Apply their tactics. Utilize and coordinate willing individuals and organizations whether Jew or gentile. As a rule, people are skeptical about accepting information from another religion, and today because of Arab propaganda, especially believing information from Israel.
In general, it's easier to change opinions from the inside out. Not from outside in. Accordingly, use gentiles which know the culture, how to defend, and clarify subjects to their own societies mainly because there are an estimated 2 billion Christians, 1 billion Hindu, 500 million Buddhist and only 18 million (at most) that worship Judaism. (In case you were curious, there are about 1.6 billion Muslims).
What is more, contrary to the way some Jews believe, not all Christians are trying to convert Jews to Jesus Christ. Rather, some Christians sincerely want to help because they feel Israel is being maligned unfairly and that they believe it is the right thing to do.
Also read: What every Israel-supporting Christian should know!
Learn from surveys and statistics which "illustrative" words sway opinions and what language is best for maximizing worldwide dispersion and understanding. What dialect of that language is best, and what "look", whether male or female, has the best positive imaging and acceptability in delivering the idea or information you want to distribute. Israel has an existing, sizable pool of potential, multilingual talent directly available from the Israel Defense Forces and entertainment industry. Use it.
Put into operation what nearly everyone has known since the beginning of television. That proper TV exposure combined with surveys, marketing and advertising can increase sales, enlarge audiences, influence behavior and change outlooks. In the early days of TV coverage at political events and primaries, government parties quickly discovered that imaging was imperative and perception crucial. This is true today.
Additionally, more comprehensive communication devices, PR techniques and ides are available, including Internet, to combat the injustices, and promote Israel's positive images.
But most of all, be in control of the perception, distribution, interviews and "news" people. Particularly challenge the use of secret, unnamed or unconfirmed sources. This "unnamed sources" or ambiguous policy has become common practice among many news agencies. Regrettably, this controversial trick gives a story or issue instant hype and sensationalism, with a type of credibly and in turn acceptability.
Unfortunately, once something is said in the news, it's almost impossible to reverse. So, as much as achievable, without danger to life, sources need to be named because much can be said in the shadows but can't be proven in the light.
Moreover, don't let the "news" or the TV news reporter/personality control or intimidate you. Keep them accountable. Be prepared (like they are) and you'll be on equal ground to accurately defend the injustices and explain the realities. Who knows? Maybe Israel will start another worldwide trend and return "the news" to truth and responsibility in reporting.
In conclusion, Israel is famous for inventions and pioneering a host of items related to computers, communications, information, intelligence, debating and entertainment (among many other things). Surely, they can find a way to win the PR campaign.
Next articleWhat might really happen if Israel attacks Iran?


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"""Let's learn to test with neo4j!  Maybe.

~$ python -m bs_test.test_models

"""

from bs.models import graph, url, password, Quest, User, Usergroup, username
from py2neo import Graph, Relationship, authenticate, Node
import unittest

if username and password:
    authenticate(url.strip('http://'), username, password)

class TestModelMethods(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.graph = graph

        self.user1 = User('testdoug')
        self.user2 = User('testbob')

        self.user1.register('dougspw')
        self.user2.register('bobspw')

        self.usergroup1 = Usergroup(groupname='testgroup',
                                    session={'username': self.user1.username})
        self.usergroup1.register(self.user1)

        for obj in [self.user1, self.user2, self.usergroup1]:
            node = obj.get()
            node.add_label('Test')
            self.graph.push(node)

        q = Quest(group=self.usergroup1, questname='newquest')
        self.quest1 = q.register(self.usergroup1,
                                 self.user1,
                                 'quest1',
                                 {'xp': 100, 'gold': 100})
        self.quest1.quest_node.add_label('Test')
        self.graph.push(self.quest1.quest_node)
        for rel in graph.match(start_node=self.quest1.quest_node,
                               rel_type='pays'):
            rel.end_node().add_label('Test')
            self.graph.push(rel.end_node())

    def tearDown(self):
        """Delete all 'test' nodes."""
        self.graph.run("MATCH (n:Test) DETACH DELETE n")

    def test_new_user(self):
        """Add a new user and check that the graph is updated."""
        self.user3 = User('testjim')
        self.user3.register('jimspw')
        user3_node = self.user3.get()
        user3_node.add_label('Test')
        self.graph.push(user3_node)

        self.usernode = self.graph.find_one("User", property_key="username",
                                            property_value=self.user3.username)
        self.assertEqual(self.user3.username, self.usernode['username'])

    def test_add_member_to_group(self):
        """Add user2 to usergroup1 and check that membership is updated."""
        self.usergroup1.add_member(self.user2)
        check_list = [member.username for member in self.usergroup1.find_users_by_rel('in')]
        self.assertIn(self.user2.username, check_list)

    def test_add_owner_to_group(self):
        """Add user2 to usergroup1 and check that membership is updated."""
        self.usergroup1.add_owner(self.user2)
        check_list = [owner.username for owner in self.usergroup1.find_users_by_rel('owns')]
        self.assertIn(self.user2.username, check_list)

    def test_new_owner_is_member_of_group(self):
        """Add user2 to usergroup1 as an owner and check that membership is updated."""
        self.usergroup1.add_owner(self.user2)
        check_list = [member.username for member in self.usergroup1.find_users_by_rel('in')]
        self.assertIn(self.user2.username, check_list)

    def test_add_quest(self):
        """Add a new quest to a usergroup."""
        quest = Quest(group=self.usergroup1, questname='newquest')
        self.newquest = quest.register(self.usergroup1,
                                       self.user1,
                                       'newquest',
                                       {'xp': 100, 'gold': 100})
        quest_node = self.newquest.quest_node
        quest_node.add_label('Test')
        self.graph.push(quest_node)
        for rel in graph.match(start_node=quest_node, rel_type='pays'):
            rel.end_node().add_label('Test')
            self.graph.push(rel.end_node())

        self.assertEqual(self.newquest.creator, self.user1)
        self.assertEqual(self.newquest.v_reward['gold'], 100)

    def test_quest_get(self):
        from_db = self.graph.find_one("Quest",
                                      property_key="id",
                                      property_value=self.quest1.id)
        self.assertEqual(self.quest1.get(), from_db)

    def test_add_quester(self):
        self.quest1.add_quester(self.user2)
        rel = graph.match_one(self.user2.get(),
                              'can_complete',
                              self.quest1.get())
        self.assertIsNotNone(rel)

    def test_complete_quest(self):
        self.quest1.add_quester(self.user2)
        self.quest1.complete(self.user2)
        from_db = self.graph.find_one("Quest",
                                      property_key="id",
                                      property_value=self.quest1.id)
        self.assertEqual(from_db['active'], False)
        self.assertEqual(from_db['completed_by'], self.user2.username)

    def test_complete_quest_negative(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
            self.quest1.complete(self.user2)

        # self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.quest1.complete, self.user2)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()


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@interface TPAddContentViewController : UIViewController <UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate>
@property TPSettingsPanelViewController *sourceViewController;
@property NSString *contentType;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIPopoverController *popOver;
@property NSString *contentName;

@end


I really enjoy your classes, not only the movement, but any instruction you add. I am afraid not everybody absorbs what you try to convey but this is part of what Daoists call: the Dusty World. Please keep teaching your way.
Such a great class!!! I left feeling 100% better, felt better about myself and even have better posture...you are a great teacher!
Thanks so very much for your Yoga class last night! It was my first time attending ~ the class was special and enjoyable and just what I needed after working all day. Your Saturday class sounds great too!
I have attended a few of your classes and truly love the way you teach and heal through Yoga.
I thank you for your excellent teaching, your concise instructions and your calmness.
Your class is such a joy and I always look forward to practicing.
Awesome Class! So thankful and grateful for you and your passion and dedication to teaching us!
Thank you for an excellent yoga class yesterday. I will definitely be back! I appreciated the topic. I felt very serene afterwards.
I attended the last two Yoga classes and enjoyed both immensely.
I heard about your awesome yoga classes through a friend.
I'm a fan of your class!
Love this class and look forward to it every week. The stretches and balance postures are wonderful.
Peggy, you are the best instructor for me! The class is the best! I hope to keep you forever!
Wonderful teacher who pays attention to the class' needs. Great personality.
Excellent healing class. Peggy, you are one of the best!
Excellent class. Best form the Best!
I think that Kat is a natural teacher who has ease with adapting the class to all capabilities. She is clear and concise in her instructions. She also made all of us feel engaged and able. I would relish the opportunity to continue to learn under her tutoring!
I love Cat's classes because they always challenge me but I don't realize it until the class is over!


Elder Abuse and Quality - Accountability in Aged Care Seminar is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Aug 15 - 16, 2019 at Lakes Resort Hotel, West Lakes, South Australia, Australia. CPD Hours: 11 Hours Overview: Elder abuse is a shocking event and it is not limited to institutional care. Early identification and action are essential. Attend this seminar and gain confidence in preventing and actively responding to this problem. Learn about: • What exactly is elder abuse? • Codes of ethics and conduct you must know • Who are the most at risk for abuse? • What are the warning signs? • How can you identify a victim who cannot speak up? • Why do people not tell others of their abuse? • Mandatory reporting imperatives • What is the role of the new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner? Need for Program: Elder abuse is a major issue in our society. Every year in Australia, up to 10% of people over 65 years old are estimated to be victims of elder abuse. However, the tendency is to assume that elder abuse is as manifest as overt sexual abuse and blatant assault, but it is far broader than that. A lack of knowledge and understanding of elder abuse can lead to incidents that could be prevented. Therefore, it is critical that all nurses and other health providers are able to identify cases of elder abuse, understand why it happens, and what their professional obligations are in regards to intervention and reporting. Purpose of Program: The purpose of this seminar is to educate health and aged care providers on the prevention, detection, and appropriate intervention of elder abuse, including their accountability for mandatory reporting. Learning Outcomes • Use knowledge of the breadth and complexity of elder abuse to better assess and monitor older adults in your care • Be confident in your duty of care and understanding of legal requirements that apply in relation to elder abuse • Effectively respond to suspected elder abuse, including reporting and documentation.
Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) / Assistants in Nursing (AINs) Aged Care Seminar is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 09 - 10, 2019 at Lakes Resort Hotel, West Lakes, South Australia, Australia. CPD Hours: 11 Hours.0 Min Conference Overview: Personal Care Attendants (PCA), Assistants in Nursing (AIN), and other carers in aged care are crucial to the wellbeing of older people. Attend this seminar and improve your understanding of: • How pressure ulcers develop and how to prevent them • Why skin is an important measure of health • Why deterioration occurs and what to do • Why falls happen, their consequences, and how to prevent them • Feeding and nutrition • Talking appropriately with residents and relatives • Elder abuse Need for Program: PCAs, AINs, and other carers now represent the main workforce in aged care. The increasing complexity of the special needs of older adults is resulting in a greater demand for more comprehensive quality care. Today's aged care workforce demands caregivers to have fitting and high calibre skills and knowledge to ensure the wellbeing of this vulnerable population. Purpose of Program: The purpose of this seminar is to provide PCAs, AINs, and other carers who work in residential and community aged care with new knowledge and skills relating to the comprehensive care of older adults. Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of this program it is expected that the participants will be able to: • Older adults whose condition is deteriorating will be rapidly identified and the appropriate action initiated. • Meaningful conversations between residents, relatives and staff will be enhanced. • Pressure injuries in older adults will be prevented as a result of improved knowledge of skin health. • Residents requiring assistance with feeding will be properly nourished to maintain their wellbeing.


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