Why is it that a baby born on Dec. 30, 2017 in South Korea turns two years old, just two days later?
Welcome to the crazy system of 'Korean age.' This is how it works: A baby is one year old at birth, and gains an additional year on Jan. 1 (not on birthdays). This method is called the 'counting age' system (saeneun nayi) in Korean; it originated from China centuries ago and spread to various parts of Asia, although it's not quite clear why this system arose. Some say that the culture of respecting mothers created the age system of counting a fetus's time inside the womb, although there's no clear-cut documentation for this theory.
And the confusion doesn't end here. South Koreans technically have three systems to count their years. In addition to the international and 'counting age' systems, South Koreans sometimes use what's called a 'year age' system (yeon nayi) — counting your age by simply subtracting the current year from the one you were born. So Psy, who was born on Dec. 31, 1977, would be 40 in international age, 41 in 'year age,' and 42 under the 'counting age' system.
To avoid the confusion, people often ask each other straight up, "Which year were you born?" And many people just use the international age system as they get older.


Going to a new place and acting like a tourist is a lot of fun. Now, I know a lot of travel/lifestyle people get wee bit pretentious about "looking like a tourist" when they travel— you know who you are! As much as I enjoy being "immersed in the culture/city/etc" and pretending to be a douche bag, I find great joy in looking like a tourist.
We spent a day of pure tourist fun in London. We started with the London Dungeon, which… I can't even begin to describe the pure, amazing kitsch of it all. We weren't allowed to take photos inside the event either. Therefore, I can only recommend experiencing it for yourself if you love fun, hilarious things and pure tourist-trap-cheese.
Here's our super-tourist-y photo booth shot for your pleasure and to give you an idea of what's in-store.
Next stop was the London Eye. When riding the Eye, make sure to browse the internet for ticket deals. We got a two-ticket deal between The Eye and the Dungeon (they are right next to each other) and saved on money.
The London Eye gives a great view of all of London and I hear it's also very pretty at night. Magically, they keep the glass fairly clean and photos turn out pretty well.
Be warned, you will be trapped in the ride for a few minutes with other tourists. They don't allow the pods to get too crowded, but if you are annoyed by strangers easily like I am, it can be challenging… but I'm a cranky old lady. I'm sure the rest of you will be fine with it.
We were incredibly lucky to have had a sunny day during our ride. Afterwards, we walked for awhile in search for our afternoon tea reservation at the Haymarket Hotel. Walking in new cities is my favorite thing in the world. I love when I walked and explored so much that my feet feel like they are dying. I live in Los Angeles where driving is a religion and it's such a treat for me to be places where it's possible to walk everywhere.
Walks in London can last for awhile, but it never feels like it takes forever to get anywhere.
Old cities are just too goddamn gorgeous.
As far as the afternoon tea, it was lovely. We were perfect ladies.
Seriously, the Haymarket Hotel does a perfect afternoon tea service. The decor at this little restaurant was perfect without feeling too stuffy with a great flair of fun and colors. The food was delicious and yes, somewhat overwhelming. Don't let the tiny food fool you… getting to the top tier of desserts felt like an eating marathon. Can't help filling up on scones and clotted cream though.


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Q: Ubuntu 16 doesn't recognize ng commands
The program 'ng' is currently not installed. You can install it by
  typing: sudo apt install ng-common

I got no erros during installation, how can i fix this?
Edit: this happens when i try to run ng new PROJECT_NAME

A: That's not how you install the angular command-line tools.
You need to use npm to install them globally:
npm install -g @angular/cli

If you want to install a particular version then use
npm install -g @angular/cli@x

(where x is version number for example. npm install -g @angular/cli@7)

A: To install it globally, Just run

npm install -g @angular/cli

After that run this command

npm link @angular/cli

and it should work seamlessly and If still not works

restart your system

A: I had the same problem because I downloaded and installed nodejs from the tar.gz package. I did the following to solve the problem:

*

*Deleted the nodejs folder (mine was in Downloads)

*Deleted npm and node from my path by removing then from ~/.profile

*Install nvm as explained here

*Install npm using sudo apt install npm. then upgrae using npm install -g npm@latest

*Updgrade node to lates using nvm install --lts

*Run npm install -g @angular/cli.

This should fix the problem. If you are still unable to use ng, then check your environmental variables to make sure it has been correctly set.

A: By running this command:

npm bin -g

you can see where the npm installs packages globally, including the angular/cli. When you run this command you'll probably see something like this in the output:
/some/directory/bin
(not in PATH env variable)

If so, as you can see in the parentheses, it's saying that this directory is not in PATH env! So what you need to do is to either change this directory to another directory (which is in the PATH env, e.g usr/bin) by npm config set prefix command:
npm config set prefix '/usr'

or to add this directory to the PATH env, by any way you know! But to do so for example you can add this line of code to the ~/.profile file:
export PATH=/some/directory/bin:$PATH

and then restart your computer.

A: This command worked fine for my issue. press ctrl+T. Then run the following command.
Before that make sure you have installed node js in your local machine. for the verification, you have already installed node js, run the following command on your terminal.
node --version

Then install ng packages by running following commands on your terminal.
npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

npm link @angular/cli

Then it will work fine. for the verification of work, fine run any ng command. for example, run on the terminal following command.
ng --version

A: first in whichever directory you are in come back to home directory

ie prashanth:~/Projects/angular2$ cd
   ---->
  prashanth:~$

then enter the following commands

npm bin -g
  outputs---> /usr/bin

next,

sudo npm rm -g @angular/cli

clear npm cache,

npm cache clear

then install angular-cli globally,

sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

now you r good to go, type

ng -v

and check the version installed.

A: The issue is not specific to Ubuntu version.
Edit (26 Aug, 2018):
Run npm list -g --depth=0 and see if @angular/cli@x.x.x is present in the results.
If it isn't, then you've probably installed angular in local scope.
Install it in global scope with Robert's method mentioned here.

If it still doesn't fix the issue, then reinstall angular completely:

*

*npm uninstall -g @angular/cli

*npm cache clear --force

*npm install -g @angular/cli

*Replace @angular/cli with angular-cli if you've installed an older version of angular.

If you have installed node by any other method, follow Edgar's method above.

A: As it says here and here it might be a memory issue. After I increased RAM from 1024 to 2048 the error gone.

A: As said here by manuelfink it is a memory issue. Installation needs at least 1GB ram.
Do not forget to run npm cache clean between every attempt.

A: The official Angular-cli documentation say that the installation command is:
$ npm install -g @angular/cli

Again, in the official github repo, installation section is the same command
I had the same problem on ubuntu 16, and after run with sudo, the npm install in that way, everithing goes ok

A: There is no error in node_modules permission
Actually angular 2 is updated to @angular/cli from angular/cli
If you mistakenly install angular 2 using

npm install -g angular-cli

then run

*

*

npm install -g @angular-cli

and then

*

npm install -g @angular-cli/latest

Thanks

A: Below steps solved my issue,

*

*Upgrade npm to latest
npm install -g npm@latest
2  Remove angular-cli if already exists
npm remove -g angular-cli

*Clear cache
npm cache clean
For latest version of npm you don't have to do this. It will correct itself. You can verify using ,
npm cache verify
4 Install angular/cli again
npm install -g angular-cli

A: It works for me
The problem like Refuse to delete old ng file means rename the ng file using mv target file new_file_name and installlsudo npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli.
click here to source

A: If nothing works, try out this simple step mentioned at https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/10728 bu 'Jikaworld'. Then try the remianing commands for installing angular. It should work.
sudo npm install -g @angular/cli --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

A: Use this command.
It will work perfectly.
sudo npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli

A: If you installed Angular CLI using YARN, you must do it globally. Otherwise you get this error. So the fix is:
sudo yarn global add @angular/cli

Then check your Angular version by
ng --version

Linux PopOS (Debian/Ubuntu)

A: It looks like you have the ng-common package installed on your system, which also provides the ng executable:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/all/ng-common/filelist
If you are not using ng-common then remove it using sudo apt remove ng-common
then remove node cache
and give a path to in .bashrc or .profile
alias='path/to/node_modules/angular-cli/bin/ng'

A: You have the wrong package:
Just
sudo apt remove ng-common
and
npm install -g @angular-cli
Restart your PC or Terminal

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A few days ago, I announced that I would be publishing a list of articles from the DNAeXplain Archives in the new tag categories. These tags divide the more than 500 DNAeXplain articles into groups that people will find useable.
The first category is Historical or Obsolete. These are items that were interesting at the time but aren't really terribly relevant today – except in a historical context.
An example would be the announcement of the Genographic 2 project in July of 2012. You may wonder why I didn't delete these. Looking back, these are somewhat like a genetic genealogy journal. A virtual walk down genetic genealogy memory lane.
So, if you want to know when something particular happened, you can probably find it here.
It's ironic that this list both begins and ends with the demise of GeneTree/Sorenson at Sorenson with the data base acquisition by Ancestry, and then the final demise of the Sorenson data base at Ancestry.
May I cast modesty to the wind and suggest that I am the reason you don't simply delete these articles — me, and perhaps many others like me? My personal DNA history, my experience with DNA, is captured on my lineage website: http://vincentfamily.org/DNA/2001-10-13_DNA_tested.htm. I need to update that web page with a link to this blog post for any (like me) who want to know more about SMGF. In a nutshell, you don't simply delete these articles because some unknown person in the future might want to read them. Genealogists are preservationists. They plant trees from which others will pick the fruit. They do so without reservation. They think, "Gee, I wish someone in the past had not thrown away that important record." They think, "Maybe someone in the future will be glad I didn't throw this away." Ok, so we're pack rats! I'll admit that. We store old, musty love letters. We keep old photos hoping someone, some day will be able to identify them. My parents kept such an old photo. 100 years after it was taken, I shared that photo of a man shoeing a horse with the mans aging grandson. He identified the photo and it made us both very happy. Until then, he didn't know the photo existed and I didn't know who the person in the photo was. Yep, you archive things. Good!
Yes, in fact, I'm digging through boxes in the basement today looking for something I just know I have someplace….
Lol That definitely describes me. The digging through boxes for something "I just know I have!!!


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I don't get why you group the results like that. It has no grounds since left never formed a government with the arab parties but did so many many many (most of them, actually) times with religious parties.
Great blog by the way, thank you.
Your welcome. I've explained this point many times. I'm tracking Phase 2 instead of Phase 3 because you need to pass Phase 2 to get to Phase 3.
To me, the interesting point of this poll is that the current coalition falls into a minority. If these results were to hold and there were no realignments (two BIG ifs), the main result could be to hand Liberman enormous bargaining power. While a centre-left government is inconceivable, I could see one with Yesh Atid and Liberman replacing the Chareidim. What do you think, Jeremy?
You always have to start with Phase 1. I think there will be a realignment. I think the next Knesset will be the first time that less than 10 lists are elected. I wouldn't be surprised if we also have a record low of lists that run in the next election. The easiest realignment is that Kulanu is not running by itself and will either merge with Likud (more likely) or Yesh Atid (less likely). Practically every Kulanu MK other than Azaria and Oren are former Likud members that have kept very good ties in there, Galant was in the army, but has many Likud ties. Liberman has run on joint lists in the past (2003 & 2013) and I could see him doing it again in the next election as well. We also want to see where Gideon Saar goes.
We are far off but if I was playing coalition building with the above poll as the official Phase 1 results, I'd predict a Phase 2 stalemate. If that was the case President Rivlin would probably give Netanyahu the first crack as building a coalition anyways considering the current coalition has the largest bloc. It is possible in that case that Netanyahu would proceed to cutting a deal with Lapid & Liberman for Phase 3 as you are suggesting at the expense of the Haredi parties.


Sometimes people try to exonerate or minimize David's actions towards Bathsheba and her first husband Uriah. The biblical author sees David as solely responsible for his moral failings, his sinful actions towards Bathsheba, Uriah, and others. David abused his power and authority as King of Israel here. The way of Jesus is to leverage our power and authority to bless others.


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Open Government and Open Science – facilitated by "Open Law"
by Julian Staben
The initiatives Open Government and Open Science demand the opening of political and scientific processes. While Open Science proclaims the opening of steps of scientific work to the scientific community and interested laymen, the closely related idea of Open Government labels the respective sister phenomenon for the area of governance.
But what is the importance of law for these transparency or opening phenomena?
Both initiatives are relying on access to law as a means or the object of their respective processes. Open Government claims that citizens in a democracy should have unobstructed access to norms and measures they are bound to and affected by in order to be able to open a dialogue about this with their representative and maybe be able to change it.1 Open Science itself welcomes the unrestricted access to the object of research – in this case legal studies. Accordingly, in order to open science and governance the law would have to be open.
In continental European legal systems written statute law prevails in most areas of law.2 Both phenomena are therefore dependent on access to relevant statutes. Of course, actors in these areas can always acquire edited statute books with the most important acts of law in the respective bookshops and many German laws are for instance available via www.gesetze-im-internet.de. But both options are either expensive or fall short of the manifold possibilities of the combination of law and technology.
Now, what are the possibilities to make the law more accessible to these movements?
An initiative that is dedicated to increasing the accessibility of law, is the project BundesGit run by Stefan Wehrmeyer. It is the aim of the project to digitally prepare all German federal acts of law in order to expand the (technological) possibilities of processing them. If one assumes that Lawrence Lessig's claim "Code is Law" is correct, then sometimes "Law is Code" might be correct, too. Therefore, Stefan Wehrmeyer uses the collaborative vision control system GitHub, which is normally used by programmers to upload their code and make it accessible to the public. Changes can be tracked using the version control. This already creates the conditions for the first possible use of the platform that is of legal academic interest: Changes in the law and single provisions taking place over years and decades can be made transparent to the user with simple tools. An interactive visualisation of the changes to the German Political Parties Act can already be found.
But the project also offers interesting opportunities for the legislative process, if the possibilities were embraced by the German Bundestag. All the different drafts and changes made in the course of legislation could be tracked and made transparent. References rendered superfluous by amending laws – the "error 404" of statutory law – could be prevented from early on. If a draft for a law has been suggested in an area of particular interest to a person, this person could be notified about possible changes in the law enabling them to participate in the discussion about the law. Passed and effect taking laws could be directly updated in the user's device. The bothersome updating of loose-leaf statute books would be a thing of the past.
Furthermore, this offers much more profound possibilities to a lawyer's everyday life embodying the idea of Open Science: Legal provisions could be linked to court decisions, papers and statute annotations published online.
These at the present time rather theoretical opportunities aside, the statutes are at the moment layouted in a quite readable way compared to other online sources. Even the Banana Quality Norm Regulation looks inviting to read in a way.
However, German law students will not take their tablets or notebooks with a BundesGit-Application to exams instead of their "Schönfelder" or "Sartorious" statute books in the foreseeable future. But in the long run the possibilities of the platform – maybe one day with the support of the Bundestag itself – will be used by academics, practitioners and interested laymen alike putting the ideas of Open Science and Open Government into practice.
1 About transparency and democracy Schauer, 2011 U. ILL. L. REV., 1348.
2 At this point this blog entry cannot focus on the practically not much less relevant access to court decisions
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During my working years, I paid for three independent financial planning sessions — the last after the 2008 financial collapse, to assess the damage. But only when my employer of 20 years wiped out my job in a budget cut in 2017 did I experience the retirement financial planning process and learn how it's very different.
Understanding the difference between financial planning and retirement planning can be critical to developing a retirement income strategy.
A financial plan is designed to focus on the accumulation phase of the work-life cycle, to make sure you have a general, but realistic, target of how much you'll need after work stops. It also helps ensure that you're saving and investing enough to hit that target when you do retire.
By comparison, a retirement financial plan is designed to focus in detail on expenses after the paycheck stops and how your various assets can generate an income stream that will cover those costs for the rest of your life.
Since I was 67 when my salary ended, the question "Will my money last?" became painfully real, even though I had saved fairly aggressively over the years.
And since I'm a financial pessimist at heart, I went through the complex retirement planning process twice with two planners (Toler and Truscott) to get separate professional analyses of my situation and make sure I understood their conclusions. At my age, even with my wife still working, I can't afford to get this wrong.
For anyone worried about being able to afford to retire, conducting such a detailed retirement financial plan can be extremely valuable. You'll protect yourself against a financial catastrophe as you get older and you'll see how much you can spend on the things you want to do (for me, that's traveling, sailing and writing).
Retirement financial planning is part of a licensed adviser's formal training, although some pros focus on it more than others. The key element is deep and comprehensive data harvesting: pulling together all possible information about your assets (savings, investments, income) and expenses (typically divided between essential and discretionary). This requires a lot of work on your part, but it's essential.
Next, your information is fed into a computer program that runs what are known as "Monte Carlo projections" to determine the likelihood of your having enough money to last your lifetime based on your intended retirement date. These projections incorporate a huge range of known and estimated variables including inflation and investment return risk.
The program typically links directly to your bank and investment accounts to get real-time financial data. The result identifies the big expense items that will affect your future financial security, the assets you have that can pay for them and how long your money is likely to last under both good and bad scenarios.
Big financial firms tend to have their own proprietary planning software, but for smaller or independent advisers the "big three" are MoneyGuidePro, eMoney and NaviPlan, according to Truscott. Advisers must pay expensive licensing fees to use this kind of software and take training and continuing education courses to remain current with the programs.
The programs let clients access their results online after the data gathering ends. They can then update and change factors and tinker with "what if" scenarios on their own.
In my case, both retirement plans came to the same conclusion: I can afford to retire, if I don't do something really stupid. And both showed remarkably similar probabilities of success of making my money last.
Toler used eMoney, which seemed to me more comprehensive but harder to use. Truscott worked with MoneyGuidePro, which seemed more intuitive; it presented results as a dashboard, rather than a spreadsheet.
If you use a fee-only adviser, expect to pay around $1,500 to $2,000 for a retirement plan. If you're a client of medium-sized or large brokerage firm, it may include the service as part of your investment fee.
I found both plans and the advisers who ran them to be excellent and well worth the cost and effort. As I start retirement, I now have a baseline I can trust to guide my annual financial reviews. The retirement plans have already helped my wife and me make a big financial decision: to postpone the purchase of a second home.
For me, having a retirement plan is making retirement a lot more fun with a lot less worry.


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Soon the suspects in the assault cases fantasized about having sex with children
January 17, 2023 by hairlossbimedi.com
Shortly after getting to know each other through a dating site, the two suspects in the Eindhoven adultery case imagined having sex with young children. Initially, the suspect's underage daughter appeared in the picture. The man on trial is said to have longed for "fresh meat".
As of August 2019, the two have put their ideas into practice in Eindhoven and the surrounding area, according to the files. According to the court in Den Bosch, this led to "horrific images" and "feelings of despair, fear and sadness" among their victims. The hearing in the case began on Tuesday in a packed courtroom. The ages of the victims ranged from one to six years.
Adultery and child pornography
The 54-year-old woman from Herkenbosch, Nancy D. , and the 54-year-old man from Hill, Peter S. They are accused of having sex with seven girls and having sexual intercourse with five of them. This happened while the woman was babysitting, and in some cases also when the parents were at home and didn't notice anything. Moreover, the two were making and distributing child pornography with the girls and they were in possession of this footage. The session made it clear that the couple had a very thoughtful act.
While the woman regularly listened to the suspect's story, shaking her head during treatment, S. remained firmly seated in his chair. They did not look at each other for a moment, calling each other "sir" and "ma'am". Later in the afternoon, Dr. X can imagine that the case had a "huge impact" on those involved.
The woman had to lick the toilet seat
The two suspects first met in January 2018. Soon, it reached SM. For example, the woman had to drink urine and lick the toilet seat. They also shared an interest in animal sex and Nazism. He was the master and the "father", she is the bitch and the bitch.
A year and a half later, Dr. In two babysitting locations. To carry out what they wanted to do to the little girls and what they are now on trial. The two suspects blame each other for who took the initiative and took the most responsibility.
D .: "It wasn't necessary for me, I did it on assignment. If you put something next to me, he would cut me off or accuse me of not being obedient enough. It hurt me, I didn't want to lose him. I never do anything. It was I also have to look it up in pornography. I never asked for anything, it was my fault. I lived in some kind of fantasy world." According to her, S. would say that she continues: then the children will find it normal. She is also said to have made a number of children "prostitute" at his request.
She was dominating
S thought otherwise: "It was her dominance. I told her not to do anything that hurt her. Then he swung to the other side. In some cases I gave instructions, but it basically went back and forth."
According to him, she did not want to listen when he asked her to stop the abuse. However, S. could not. Answering the judge's questions why he didn't put an inch in her way, continued to burden her with tasks, and even masturbated several times when viewing the photos. He admitted being sexually aroused by the videos, but denied committing adultery himself. However, he had sent a picture of his erect genitalia to the woman at least twice and they had phone sex more often.
Getting close to people
The sexual abuse was discovered in June 2021 after the parents of a then two-year-old girl saw photos from the nursery showing the sexual abuse with her. During the session, it became clear that there was intense contact between the two suspects before, during and after the abuse of the two girls. Almost everything D did with children, she referred to the suspect at specific times.
Pictures show that one of the girls is blindfolded, that the victims were threatened and that a child can be heard shouting "Mama, Mama". In a number of cases, a dildo, vibrator, and doctor's set were used. You can also see how D. is also pleased with himself several times.
Several of the victims will testify on Thursday or will do so. The Public Prosecution will present the demands on January 23, to be followed a day later by the response of the defendants' lawyers. Sentencing is scheduled for March 13.
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Edmond Cop In Trouble For Going Nude At Lake Arcadia
The human body is a beautiful thing. It comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are large, some are small, some are blanketed in thick, downy hair. Others are bespeckled with moles and pockmarks that look weird and should maybe get checked out by a doctor. My body is like a tube of pink Play-Doh that was rolled over a cat's bed. It's disgusting, so I'm in no position to judge anyone else.
It would be wonderful to see an easing of attitudes surrounding natural and nude bodies. After all, we're born with this weird equipment, and we all know what it looks like and how it functions, so what's the problem in being comfortable in our own skin?
With that in mind, I don't feel like drunk cops out at the lake are the best activists for this cause. From KFOR:
EDMOND, Okla. – An Edmond police officer is on paid administrative leave after a charge of outraging public decency was filed against him.
On July 23, police say Colter Morey openly outraged public decency by taking off his swimsuit at Lake Arcadia, allegedly exposing himself and boarding another man's boat uninvited.
According to court records, witnesses reported that Morey and a girl on the boat were attempting to switch bathing suit bottoms.
At some point, Morey reportedly told the man, "I am Edmond PD, I can do what I want," the police report states.
The man told police that the nudity wasn't a big deal to him, but what bothered him is that Morey stepped onto his boat uninvited and even allegedly took pictures of the man's boat numbers.
Other witnesses at the scene verified the man's account of what happened.
First of all, it must take massive balls to allegedly walk on somebody else's boat with the line, "I am Edmond PD, I can do what I want." I thought they were only allowed to do that when pulling over motorists on Broadway. Surely, the anonymous witness can attest to the size of the huevos in question, but they must be either the size of medicine balls or shriveled up like raisins in the sun.
We conducted some crack research on Mr. Morey. We learned his claim to fame as an Edmond policeman is rescuing a duck from a storm drain. We also found a photo from his private Twitter account that may have been taken the day of the incident, right before he switched into a girl's thong…
Listen. Most of us have gotten drunk and acted a fool at some point in our lives. But most of us haven't taken on the role and responsibility of policing their peers. The judgement required in the profession leaves little room for juvenile antics. If these charges are true, maybe it's time for this guy to transition to a life as one of those "hot cop" stripping telegrams, and abandon the force for good.
Also, it's incredible what kind of things police can get put on paid administrative leave for. They can shoot and kill innocent citizens and still get paid, so maybe this shouldn't be too surprising. If it came out that I was waving my dick around on a boat at Arcadia, I'd probably just get fired from my job without any further questions. Even Patrick might not want anything to do with a lake-going dick-swinger, banishing me to a life as a copywriter for Autotrader or :shudder: So6ix.
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S	Sonnermom says:
That was funny!
H	Hot Guy Thursday says:
How about we have a Hot guy Thursday? I would wear his underwear any day. More pics please. JS
Colter, that you?
c	cap1015 says:
I think in addition to Ogle Madness, it's time to have the Ogle D-Bag tourney of champions. Just think of the number 1 seeds:
A. Tuttle
R. Tate
B. Bates
Any number of elected officials
J. Exotic
I don't think fielding a team of 64 would be an issue.
I mean did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Hell No! Who's with me……………ahhhhhhhhhhh……………..
Razgriz says:
Tuttle will always win.
R	Richard says:
"outraged public decency" is a bit extreme isn't it?
I mean that is what it would be if I got naked in public but he seems like a decent looking enough fellow.
G	Graychin says:
Changing into his female companion's swimsuit bottom? If it was going to fit OK, it's likely that "shriveled up like raisins in the sun" is the closer comparison.
Was he going to put on her top next?
I'm pretty sure that Lucas is correct in surmising that alcohol was involved in this incident.
Oh this is good….
Looks like he protected his tweets!
W	Waco Kid says:
Innocent enough…. she promised if he took her to the lake he would get into her pants.
S	Steve says:
Needs more spray tan and steroids.
We need moar memes from teh Ogles. This one is a great candidate!
R	ReluctantRedneck says:
"I am PD and I can do what I want" – the FOP creed.


When you are saving for a house deposit, it can be hard to see the benefits in buying home brand milk and taking the bus to work. However, the more ways you find to cut your spending, the more you are able to save towards your home loan deposit, so you can be in your new home sooner, or you can afford a newer, bigger or nicer home.
As well as cutting your car use, your grocery bills and making your own cleaning products, if you are serious about looking for ways to save for your loan deposit, you need to think outside of the square too. Therefore, consider some of the more uncommon ways you can save money and you can find yourself uncommonly close to your goal in no time.
There is no doubt that it is useful to have a wall calendar or two in your home to help you keep track of time and commitments. However, instead of spending upwards of $20 each for calendars for your home this year, think about how you can reuse them. There are only seven versions of the yearly calendar so instead of buying a new 2011 calendar, find one from 2005, 1994 or 1983 where the days and dates will match up. You may know someone who keeps their calendars, or you can search eBay for a bargain, and a vintage calendar from 1966 to use.
Just because you are saving for a house it doesn't mean you have miss out on holidays or new and exciting experiences. Instead, save on your accommodation by staying in less expensive hotels, or even hostels. Plus, staying in hostels will allow you to experience a truer culture of your destination, rather than one glossed over with plush carpets. And remember, by saving so much on your holidays, you will be in your own home sooner, where you can install all the plush carpets and fluffy bathrobes you want.
Parties can be very costly, whether you are celebrating your birthday or celebrating your wedding. However, there are ways you can save on celebrations while you are trying save for a home loan deposit.
The save on birthday celebrations for example, look at where the birth date falls and consider whether there are friends or other family members having their birthday around that time. If so, you can plan a double celebration as you will have many of the same guests, and you can go halves in the hire of a hall, the food, drinks and decorations. At the same time, your birthday may fall around a holiday such as Easter or Mother's Day and in this instance you can celebrate with family or friends who are already getting together and catering the event, without you having to plan and pay for a separate party.
When it comes to your wedding you want to plan a special day to remember, but those memories don't come cheaply. You could easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on a wedding to celebrate one day of your life, when you could put that same money towards a home loan deposit and build a foundation for your marriage for life.
However, you don't have to elope or head down to the registry office to save on your wedding, instead, think about a double wedding. Do you have friends or a family member planning their wedding around the same time as you? Then why not share your special day with your best friends or your sister and plan a joint wedding. Again, many of the guests will be the same so you're not going to have a blowout of numbers, and when you can split the cost of the cake, the venue hire, the cars, the invitations and the flowers with another couple, the savings will be significant. Plus your guests will be able to save too, and they'll appreciate only having to buy one new outfit, and make on trip to the hairdresser and drycleaner.
They can be low in calories. Broth soups are both filling and low in calories and while they are popular with those on a diet, they can also keep you healthy so you avoid expensive medicines and doctor's visits.
They freeze well. This means you can make large batches and keep them on hand for those nights you don't feel like cooking, avoiding expensive take away or instant dinners.
You're not wasting food. Any left overs you have such as roasted vegetables, left over rice or pasta, or cuts of meat for example can be thrown into a pot of soup, rather than thrown away, and stretch you to another meal.
Cheap vegetables are made tasty. While it can be hard to stomach a plate of turnips, beans or beets, when they are presented on their own, stew them together into a soup and you'll have an affordable and tasty meal.
You can eat it any time of the day. If you haven't thought of soup for breakfast why not? A bacon and egg soup for example with some potatoes, herbs and spices makes for a filling start to the day, and you are enjoying your morning bacon without the fat fry up. Plus a child fruit soup can make an afford dessert, for example, try a berry or cantaloupe soup, a cream of mango or a chocolate soup for a treat.
You can add grains. Again to keep you healthy as well as keep down the grocery bill, look at adding some unusual grains you may not have used in your cooking before. Look at barley, quinoa, brown rice or couscous to bulk up soups for winter.
You can take it as a packed lunch. In a sturdy container of course, left over soup can make an affordable and tasty alternative to buying lunch at work each day, and you're also getting something warm and filling – much more appealing than another sandwich.
It has become so easy to replace things that break in our lives, that this tends to be the first instinct of most people. However, when you are trying to save money for your house deposit, stop and think before heading out to the store. It is so easy to replace broken items because their replacements appear to be so cheap, however, is a poorly made replacement going to be the answer, when you can get your original good quality item repaired for less than the price of an equivalent good quality item?
While they may be a little harder to find since most people will go for a quick replacement, rather than a quick repair, you can find repair shops for TVs and other electronics, shoes, bags or furniture. Not only will you be helping local businesses and helping reduce waste, you'll also be filling your life with quality items, and keeping your house deposit account safe from frivolous purchases.
Instead of spending hundreds of dollars a year on a gym membership you never have time to use, replace your desk chair with an exercise ball and workout all day. You can buy an exercise ball for around $15 which is much less than both a gym membership and an ergonomic office chair. At the same time you'll be building your core muscles, straightening your spine and avoiding back pain.
This means getting out into the real world and seeing your friends, not just poking them on Facebook, because when you foster relationships with family and friends you can also solicit dinner invitations. This means you can still get for meals, without having to pay high restaurant costs. Plus, you don't have to feel greedy as you save your dinner dollars for your house deposit, because once you're in your new home, you can return the favor with a big housewarming party for everyone.
You don't have to avoid having children all together to get into your dream home, but simply wait until you are in your home to think about it. This leaves all the money for doctor's visits, maternity clothing, a nursery, clothing and more – to be used for your home loan, because even before a baby is born they will be costing you money.
A unique way to save money is as simple as looking at the tags on your clothes before you buy them. If you make sure to buy only clothes which don't need dry cleaning, you can save on those costs each week, and put the money towards your home.
Start thinking about what you put onto your skin for your complexion as well as your bank account. Look at the chemicals in your cleansers and find natural alternatives to beauty products such as green tea and milk. And use less makeup each day, and try and use none at all and you will be surprised at how much you'll save when you don't need to restock at the cosmetics counter each week. Your skin will also thank you as you'll find your skin is clearer from wearing less makeup, and needs fewer cleanings.
It's rare for me to comment on a guest post but this time I felt compelled to do so. Some of the tips here are a bit outrageous but they get us thinking.
Some aren't possible; for instance, there's only a couple of places in the U.S. that have hostels so that's not happening.
The old calendar idea isn't a bad one but does anyone keep old calendars lying around?
Putting off children doesn't work if you already have children.
And finally, I actually tried #6 after reading it and found it an interesting experience. It does make you sit up straight. However, even the large ball I have isn't large enough for me to be able to comfortably reach my keyboard, which sits on top of my desk. But if I could, and I had a place for my mouse as well, I might employ that one here and there.


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Q: Overlay an InkCanvas on a custom WinForms control I have a custom WinForms control that displays some graphics. I need to overlay an InkCanvas on top of this control. The InkCanvas should be "see through" (transparent background, visible ink). This InkCanvas allows the user to sketch on the graphics being displayed.
I know about the airspace issue in WPF/WinForms interop (the fact that WinForms elements hosted in a WPF window will always stay on top of all other components). So obviously I cannot achieve the desired effects in WPF. I decided to go about the problem the other way around (host an InkCanvas in a WinForms form and overlay the InkCanvas on my custom control).
The problem is that the WinForms ElementHost cannot be made "see through" (no transparency can be set). I tried deriving ElementHost with the following override
protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
    get
    {
        const int WS_EX_TRANSPARENT = 0x20;
        CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
        cp.ExStyle = cp.ExStyle | WS_EX_TRANSPARENT;
        return cp;
    }
}

But this will make the whole thing completely transparent (the sketches are not visible any more).
How can I have the "see through" InkCanvas with visible ink overlayed on the WinForms control?

A: Based on the comments and lack of answers, we can safely assume that what I want to do is impossible unless we do the "window layering" hack that @Hans Passant mentioned.


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Andy Carroll: English football's great regret
Words By Seb Stafford-Bloor
A strange week for West Ham and Andy Carroll: brutalised by Manchester City at home on Wednesday night, it had seemed as if the talk of rejuvenation had been premature. With Dimitri Payet quarantined for the wins over Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough, it was tempting to believe that those fractures were starting to heal. But then City came, they played that exhilarating attacking football, and Slaven Bilic was left feeling familiarly despondent.
But worry not: the win at St Mary's confirmed that West Ham are now back on track and that, realistically, Pep Guardiola's team had just been encountered at an inopportune moment. Bilic's side are tight, resilient, and everything they weren't two months ago.
And Carroll is finally healthy. The targetman's importance to West Ham is beyond dispute (only once this season have they lost when he's scored), but his long-term worth is tenuous. No matter how good his form is and regardless of the goals he scores, the fear that another injury is close never really goes disappears – a player of his size is only ever a jolt or a bad landing away from another spell on the sidelines and so it would be naive to assume his involvement over any great length of time.
But those are localised concerns, issues for Bilic and the club's fans alone.
In broader terms, how will Carroll be remembered? He turned 28 in January and there's a sense that, no matter what he does between now and his retirement, he will always be a prisoner to his past. In only two of his five West Ham seasons has he taken part in more than 20 Premier League games and only once in his entire career has he been involved in more than 30. Given how concentrated his contribution has often been, that's a terrible waste.
The fear is that he will never fully escapes that Liverpool transfer-fee. Because of Derek Llambias' dreadful posturing in its aftermath and the unfortunate fall out with Brendan Rodgers, Carroll has been forever tainted by that deal; it quite unfairly made him a laughing stock and, in this emoji-driven age, the figure of no little fun. £35m for that guy?
There really are times when Carroll looks like he could have been worth every penny of that fee. Because he has so often been under-conditioned, those occasions have been rare, but there have inarguably been games in which he has looked unstoppable. Not, of course, in the same way as Cristiano Ronaldo or Leo Messi routinely do, or even in the same manner as Dimitri Payet sometimes did but, in his own inimitable style,Carroll has been formidable more times than he's given credit for. Imagine what that might have been amplified to had it not been for the injuries?
He's always been the victim of a certain snobbery and assumed to be solely one-dimensional: he is the fabled "big man" at the top of the formation. However, while it would be contrary to describe him as a player of any great nuance, it would be equally reductive to describe him as a blunt, heavy object. There have been times when, right at the top of his form, Carroll has looked like a contemporary Christian Vieri: extremely good in the air, certainly, but equally awkward to deal with in all manner of situations. And yet while Vieri was a European forward to die for at the turn of the Millenium (Internazionale broke the world transfer record to sign him from Lazio), it's still assumed that only in England would a club pay what Liverpool did for Carroll.
British football and it's tired, outmoded imperatives; isn't that the line?
It's nonsense, of course. As long as the game is played, the attributes embodied by both will be cherished and without a significant change in the rules, someone of Carroll's body shape, strength, and aerial abilities will always be enormously effective. And fascinating, too, because who doesn't enjoy the contrast of him crashing over a centre-half with his occasionally balletic finishes.
The prevailing hope is that these final years of his prime are injury-free and successful. If nothing else, it would satisfy The curiosity as to what Carroll might have been in the Premier League and, ultimately, to England. Regardless, though, isn't it time that that notorious £35m was allowed to represent the extent of his potential rather than the dysfunction of Liverpool's transfer committee? British football has had umpteen unfulfilled talents and we mourn them all. But not Carroll – not a forward who, on his day, nobody has really learned how to neutralise. It's actually rather strange.
Maybe that's what will change in time: rather than being an emblem of broadcasting contract decadence and deadline day panic, perhaps he will eventually be seen as the once-in-a-generation force that he probably should have been?
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Alan Trounson, California's Dr. Stem Cell
Alan Trounson, seen in October 2006, is president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
(James Braund / Bloomberg News)
By Patt MorrisonColumnist
In 2004, with President George W. Bush dead set against stem cell research, California just went ahead and did it. Voters made stem cell research a state constitutional right, and endorsed $3 billion in bond sales for 10 years to cement the deal. CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created under Proposition 71, has become a world center for stem cell research, and its president is Australian Alan Trounson, a pioneer in in vitro fertilization. As Proposition 71 approaches its 10-year anniversary, Trounson offers a prognosis.
It's been almost 10 years since California funded what may be the world's biggest stem cell research program. What are you up to?
We are working hard to get six or seven projects to clinical trials. We have more than 70 [total] programs moving [toward] clinical trials. It's a lot of work to chaperon.
I'll give you three examples: one, linking genetics, or genomics work, to stem cells, integrating the two. We're going to create a center in California that will bring a lot of [genetics] studies and clinical work to a new level.
Secondly, we've set up a structure for banking the 3,000 cell lines from "induced pluripotent stem cells" that we turn into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. We call them IPS cells. You take a skin cell or blood cell and convert it to the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell.
We've also taken samples from patients with complex diseases, and we're banking these so scientists can "interrogate" these diseases — like heart disease, Alzheimer's, blindness. We are targeting a range of conditions — autism, cerebral palsy — for which we have scant understanding of causes and major drivers. This is material for long-term research studies.
What we're doing is meaningful. Somebody with cancer may have a better treatment. Parkinson's patients might be in a clinical trial around 2016, 2017.
Are Californians getting enough bang for their buck?
I think we're way ahead of what people predicted. Nevertheless, it takes a lot of time to do this. I think we're hurrying carefully.
I'm intending to set up a network of stem cell clinics in California in the next couple of years, to make treatments available as clinical trials or as registered treatments for patients. I'm going to ask the [CIRM] board for about $70 million to get that set up. It will make California a go-to place for stem cell therapies. I want to make sure it's part of our medical fabric.
An Oregon scientist reports that he has cloned human stem cell lines. Is Oregon doing something different from California?
The one thing that's different is that we can't compensate women adequately for donating eggs [as a source for creating a particular type of stem cell]. We can pay for the cost of drugs but not for the time and inconvenience. So that really does limit the number of women who would like to donate eggs to research, and that's a handicap. I think it would be very useful to develop those cell lines.
The words "cloning" and "human" together set off alarm bells for some people.
[Under Proposition 71] we can't do any reproductive cloning. We can't do it and we shouldn't do it — none of us wants to do that — but we would like to make those cell lines.
Is stem cell research highly competitive now, as it was in the 1980s, when you were beginning your work?
I don't think it's very competitive at all. There's a little bit of competition between California and Harvard, but that will always be the case, I suspect. What's important with [California's] $3 billion is that it's taken away a lot of the silliness of the competition — that you hold your data and you don't show anyone and you wait until you [get it published] in a journal. In Australia, there's very few funds for this kind of work and so it's extremely competitive — you don't know what others are doing even in the same laboratory. That's not the case in California. People are collaborating, and that's why we're moving so fast because we work together. Scientists like to reach out to other scientists.
Could embryonic stem cells become unnecessary because other cells can be just as adaptable?
Maybe longer term. IPS cells have a very strong memory of what they were, whether they were a blood cell or a skin cell. Embryonic stem cells don't. We have to find out whether IPS cells can [really adapt] or whether they'll be poor relatives of the embryonic stem cell. Embryonic stem cells are being used for therapy, but IPS cells are being taken from patients with different diseases to interrogate those diseases. They're not therapeutic at this time.
What surprises have you encountered?
I'm surprised all the time. That you can actually create a cure for HIV/AIDS with stem cells — that's in clinical trials [in Denmark] now. That we found how to jump a skin cell to a pancreatic cell or a cardiac muscle cell. Every month comes a new surprise, tumbling toward totally different medicine that we'll have in 30 or 40 years' time.
This work is still controversial. Your team in Australia created the technique that has allowed 5 million in vitro fertilization babies to be born worldwide. But you were still called a "baby murderer." Astrophysicists don't get that kind of reaction.
In the surveys I've seen across the U.S., you get 70% or 80% of people very much in favor [of stem cell and IVF work]. If we get cures or treatments for some of these debilitating diseases, which is going to happen over the next four or five years, people will embrace what's necessary to help a Parkinson's patient or someone who's got Type 1 diabetes. I'm not afraid of what some small sector feels outrage about. It's their right, but it's not the majority feeling.
Have you faced such personal criticism here?
Not really. Last year I was invited to the Vatican to present a paper, but when I sent in a summary of what I was going to say, they decided not to have it. They sent a check to the treasurer of California and the treasurer rang us up and said, "What the heck is this check from the Vatican for?" It was for the inconvenience!
Will California own patents from the research?
I expect there's a lot of intellectual property with some of these [treatments] that will be really big returns for California. But it'll take some time; the so-called blockbuster treatments will take 10 years or more. Gov. [Arnold] Schwarzenegger pointed a finger at me and said, "We're going to give you the opportunity to deliver this, but understand it's a 25-year gig." The feds put $3.8 billion into the human genome project and the return from that, according to a study, is about $1,400 for every dollar.
The big story about CIRM last year was its conflict-of-interest protocols. What's being done?
The [national] Institute of Medicine gave CIRM management strong positives. They had issues on conflict of interest. They felt if the [schools represented by] deans of medicine on the board were the recipient of CIRM [grants], they were potentially in a conflict of interest. The board decided to take away the [grant-making] vote for those [members, at least temporarily]. They also had a view that if the patient advocates [on the board] were strongly advocating for [research for] a disease, that was another kind of conflict. They [changed] some patient advocate roles in some grant selection process. I didn't see this as a problematic issue, but from the point of view of the Institute of Medicine, it didn't look right, and I can understand that. Much has been done to correct that.
You and your wife got married so that she could come here and work.
We didn't really feel it was necessary; we'd been together 20 years and have two lovely boys, but she couldn't come to America without being married to me. She's a scientist — not a stem cell scientist — but [once she got here] she couldn't work at universities in California because of [potential CIRM] conflicts of interest. So she's back in Australia, doing her work and loving it, but it's not optimum. But this is an important job which I promised to do.
Do you get letters from people with diseases asking for help?
All the time. I try to be supportive and send them to talk to the best people in that area. There would be dozens a week who write to me.
You have a heart condition; will this research one day benefit you?
I've got atrial fibrillation; I don't think it's going to help that. But I have a brother who has HIV/AIDS, and my mum died of lung disease.
What do you hear from your colleagues around the world about what California's doing?
They always say, "You've got the best job in the world. How did California do this?" That's California. California is a can-do place, and when they want something, they stand up and do it. Many of [my colleagues] want to come to California. It's just a wonderful place. You could sail it off the coast of America and it would be the most wonderful country in the world.
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This interview was edited and excerpted from a taped transcript. An archive of Morrison's interviews can be found at latimes.com/pattasks.
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison is a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist who has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes. Her broadcasting work has won six Emmys and 11 Golden Mikes. Her book about the Los Angeles River was a bestseller, and she was the first woman in nearly 25 years to be honored with the L.A. Press Club's lifetime achievement award. Pink's, the legendary Hollywood hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her.


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**We are pleased to announce the **GRASS GIS 7.4.2 release****
What's new in a nutshell
After a bit more than four months of development the new update release GRASS GIS 7.4.2 is available. It provides more than 50 stability fixes and improvements compared to the previous stable version 7.4.1. An overview of the new features in the 7.4 release series is available at New Features in GRASS GIS 7.4.
Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many small, but useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface. Segmentation now support extremely large raster maps. Dockerfile and Windows support received updates. Also the manual was improved. For a detailed overview, see the list of new features. As a stable release series, 7.4.x enjoys long-term support.
Binaries/Installer download:
winGRASS 7.4.2: 32bit standalone installer | 64bit standalone installer
winGRASS 7.4.2 OSGeo4W: 32bit OSGeo4W installer | 64bit OSGeo4W installer
EPEL6 (CentOS6, RHEL6, ...)
Fedora and EPEL7 (CentOS7, RHEL7, ...)
ubuntugis-unstable (Ubuntu LTS - Bionic, Xenial) | grass-stable (Ubuntu non-LTS)
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https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.2.tar.gz
To get the GRASS GIS 7.4.2 source code directly from SVN, see here.
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.4.2-News
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures74 (overview of new 7.4 stable release series)
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/ (list of available addons)
First time users may explore the first steps tutorial after installation.
The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (https://grass.osgeo.org/), commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
The GRASS Development Team, October 2018


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Navalny's Surprisingly Inevitable Results
By Citizen M | Published: August 19, 2013
The Kremlin's latest experimentation with the veneer of democracy has only one possible endgame: Sergei Sobyanin will win the Moscow mayoral election this September with an overwhelming majority of the vote, and Alexei Navalny will go to jail. But in the meantime, what changes will Navalny have been able to effect in the minds of his electorate?
Having shunned the local television debates that, he says, are simply a ploy to take up his time whilst limiting his exposure, Navalny has taken his campaign to the streets, where he says his efforts will bring him face-to-face with 1% of the electorate. (This Guardian piece has the insight into his methods, as well as his illuminating comment that 1% 'is not many … but the electoral power of each person is enormously powerful. If you speak to 10, you will convince six of them.' And whilst Navalny makes his way around the country winning voters over to his way of thinking, what of Sobyanin? Vladimir Frolov paints an exciting picture of the effects of Navalny's campaigning on Vladimir Putin's puppet and current acting Mayor. Rather than simply 'adding legitimacy' to what was to be a shoo-in, Navanly may be also throwing some spanners in the works:
Navalny's revelations about luxurious realestate registered in the names of Sobyanin's daughters, allegations of nepotism to help the business of his son-in-law and wasteful spending on city projects have tarred Sobyanin's reputation. His refusal to participate in the debates exposed his weakness as a politician. His ratings are sliding. A run-off could damage him permanently.
But this is not an accident of democratic process, says Frolov. He argues that this goes exactly to plan, and that high-level tensions in the Kremlin have caused fears amongst 'others with claims to Putin's succession', who want to ensure that Sobyanin will not be able to be named as Putin's successor in 2017. In other words: don't expect any surprises. The now-popular narrative of the charismatic and quixotic Navalny mounting a surprising and significant 'test for the Kremlin' is exactly what they want you to believe.


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Bradford West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Naz Shah of the Labour Party.

Constituency profile
Bradford West covers the Bradford city centre, Manningham, Allerton and Clayton. It has a significant Pakistani population and a majority of Muslim voters.

History
Before 1974, the Labour and Conservative Parties held the seat marginally in various years, since which time the Labour Party always won the seat, with the exception of the 2012 Bradford West by-election. In 1981, however, Edward Lyons, the sitting Bradford West MP, joined the newly established Social Democratic Party, consequently losing the seat at the 1983 general election.

In 1997, the seat was one of only two Labour seats in the country, the other being Bethnal Green and Bow in London, to have seen a swing towards the Conservatives away from Labour. This was because the local party association had selected a Sikh, Marsha Singh to stand when the majority of the seat's population is Muslim.

George Galloway of the Respect Party won the seat in the 2012 Bradford West by-election with 55.9% of the votes cast; his 30.9% majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3%) margin. Despite Galloway's threats to contest the result, he neither launched a legal challenge nor stood again in 2017, in which Shah surpassed his record by winning a majority of 48.1%, the largest margin for a Bradford West MP in any incarnation of the seat. Despite Galloway not standing, his former Respect colleague Salma Yaqoob did stand as an Independent, garnering 6,345 votes (13.9%), not far behind the second-placed Conservative candidate.

At the 2019 general election Shah increased her vote share by 11.5%. This was easily the highest increase in the Labour Party's vote share in any constituency in the United Kingdom, in an election where Labour's vote share decreased in all but 13 constituencies. This means that Bradford West has bucked the national trend twice, as it also did in 1997. Bradford West, since 2019, can be considered one of the safest seat in West Yorkshire for Labour.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Bolton, Great Horton, Heaton, and Manningham.

1955–1974: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Great Horton, Heaton, Manningham, and Thornton.

1974–1983: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Heaton, Little Horton, Manningham, Thornton, and University.

1983–2010: The City of Bradford wards of Clayton, Heaton, Little Horton, Thornton, Toller, and University.

2010–present: The City of Bradford wards of City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, and Toller.

Members of Parliament

The constituency was originally created in 1885, but was abolished in 1918. For the 1955 general election the constituency was recreated, following a boundary review.

Elections

Election results

Elections since 1918

Elections 1885–1918

See also
 List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Notes

References

External links
nomis Constituency Profile for Bradford West — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.

Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1955
Politics of Bradford

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, says about one in 20 Americans over the age of 12 years used a prescription opioid in 2010 non-medically; this means the individual used the medicine to get high or to treat a condition for which it was not prescribed. Using opioids non-medically also increases the risk for physical dependence, addiction and overdose.
Ultram addiction and prescription drug abuse is on the rise across the United States. There are now more people addicted to prescription drugs like Ultram than to heroin. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, or NIDA, estimates there were 1.9 million adults in the United States addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2010; in comparison, an estimated 329,000 Americans are addicted to heroin. Second only to marijuana, prescription painkillers are the most abused drugs among young Americans.
High addiction rates may be the result of widespread availability. Americans use more opioid painkillers such as Ultram than any other nation. While Americans account for about 5 percent of global population, they consume 80 percent of the world's opioid supply, according to the Institute of Addiction Medicine.
Treatment rates for substance abuse problems like Ultram addiction are on the rise too. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports the U.S. admission rate for opioids other than heroin increased 414 percent in a ten-year period. In 1997, about seven people in 100,000 sought help for a substance abuse problem. By 2007, this number rose to 36 admissions per 100,000 people.
Addiction is a neurological disease that affects the brain's reward, memory and motivation circuitry in a way that results in certain specific behavioral and physical changes. Ultram addiction causes an individual to crave this drug and engage in drug-seeking behaviors.
Ultram addiction is a primary condition, meaning it arises on its own and not as the result of another illness.
Ultram addiction is a chronic disease. An individual may struggle with this condition for months or years, and suffer countless cycles of remission and relapse. Ultram addiction requires long-term treatment and professional rehabilitation.
Without proper treatment, Ultram addiction is progressive. Left untreated or undertreated, opioid addiction may result in disability or premature death.
While addiction and dependence are both substance abuse problems, these are two separate and independent conditions. Anyone who uses Ultram can become addicted to this drug, physically dependent upon it, or both.
Your body adapts to the presence of some foreign substances, such as Ultram, by adjusting its own chemistry. If you use this drug for a long time, these chemical changes become more permanent. Your body learns to depend on a certain level of Ultram to feel "normal." If your Ultram levels suddenly drop, your body struggles to maintain chemical balance. Doctors refer to this process as detoxification. You feel this battle for stability through unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.
Taking large doses of Ultram or using this opioid for a long time may increase your tolerance to opioid medicines. Increase tolerance means your body has learned to tolerate the effects of Ultram. Increased tolerance also means you have to take stronger doses of Ultram to achieve the same pain-relieving or euphoric effect.
A doctor will diagnose you as suffering from Ultram addiction if you feel withdrawal symptoms when you stop taking this drug. Taking an inadequate dose or using a drug like naloxone also result in withdrawal symptoms in an opioid-dependent person.
While specialists characterize opioid dependence as a physical consequence of chronic drug abuse, addiction is defined as a set of behavioral, cognitive and emotional changes brought about extended drug use.
You can be addicted to something but not physically dependent upon it, and vice versa. For example, you may depend on medication to keep your blood pressure in check. If you forget to take your antihypertensive, your blood pressure will rise but you will not crave the drug or engage in drug-seeking behavior.
In contrast, an individual can be addicted to cocaine without being dependent on it. This person will feel cravings and seek out more cocaine when his supplies run low, but he will not experience flu-like withdrawal symptoms.
Ultram addiction causes the individual to engage in drug-seeking behavior, such as presenting phony prescriptions at pharmacies or altering prescriptions to get a stronger dose or more Ultram in each container. Another drug-seeking behavior is to telephone or show up just as the doctor's office is closing, pressuring staff to write a prescription quickly so they can go home.
An addict may pretend to misplace prescriptions to gain multiple copies or tamper with written prescriptions to get more pills in a bottle. Some people engage in "doctor shopping" to gain written prescriptions from several physicians. Others acquire drugs free from friends, relatives or buy it on the black market.
The DEA calls this "diversion" because of the way prescription drugs are diverted from legal, therapeutic use to illegal abuse.
It is important that family members know addiction is a disease, not an indication of poor child rearing or a lack of moral character. Family members frequently play a critical role in recovery; it is common for a family member to locate the treatment facility the addicted individual eventually chooses.
Family members should know that everyone related to the addicted individual shares an increased risk for developing an addiction at some point in their lives. While there is no one single "addiction gene," researchers think biology can make a person more vulnerable to addiction. This susceptibility may be the result of the interactions of several genes.
It is important to recognize that, while some people are genetically pre-disposed to develop an addiction, family history does not doom you to become an addict. Environmental factors, like work stress, financial trouble or relationship problems, also influence the development of Ultram addiction.
Many addicted individuals are hypersensitive to stress, and this hypersensitivity seems to run in families. Hypersensitive individuals with poor coping mechanisms tend to do poorly in times of stress, self-medicating with drugs or alcohol. Children learn how to deal with stress by watching their parents and these children may use substance abuse as a coping mechanism when they get older.
Ultram addiction causes collateral damage that affects and endangers the entire family. Ultram addiction diverts household money that could have been used for rent, groceries or childcare. Addiction also erodes work performance, increasing the risk for loss of income or termination.
As Ultram addiction progresses, you spend more time looking for and doing drugs and less time with your family.
Ultram addiction creates an emotional chasm between family members. Addiction causes neurological dysfunction that disrupts the emotional bond between a parent and a child. In the worst-case scenarios, Ultram addiction results in homelessness, separation, divorce or removal of children from the home.
Ultram addiction introduces dangerous characters into your home. In the earliest stages of addiction, you probably kept your family at a safe distance from drug dealers but, as addiction deteriorates your ability to make sound decisions, you invite criminals into your home to buy drugs or to get high.
Using Ultram without a prescription is illegal, so keeping illicit Ultram in your home increases the chances that police will raid your house. Collateral damage may include arrest, court appearances and jail time.
Keeping Ultram in the home is unsafe. A child may accidently discover and consume a toxic dose of this powerful opioid medicine.
Parents should know prescription drug abuse among teenagers and young adults is on the rise. Prescription pain relievers are widely available and commonly prescribed, so many young people mistakenly believe opioids are less harmful than illicit drugs.
Caring for a family member with an Ultram addiction can be difficult but rewarding for everyone who participates in recovery efforts. As with any chronic disease, a strong family unit plays a critical role in treatment and rehabilitation. The treatment and recovery experience works best when the individual feels physically, emotionally and spiritually safe in his home environment. Family members should recognize Ultram addiction as a neurological disease and avoid blaming the individual for his illness.
The family should work as a network that supports the addicted individual in his attempts to quit Ultram. Every member of the family should encourage the individual to seek and complete treatment.
The family may choose to hold meetings, where individuals are encouraged to share their feelings about the addiction or to plan treatment strategies. The addicted individual does not have to participate in these meetings; in fact, she may be upset when she first learns the family is discussing her illness. These negative feelings will fade with time and treatment.
Each person in the family can participate in treatment in age-appropriate ways, taking over daily chores so the addicted individual can attend meetings, for example. A grandparent may cook meals, a young child can do light housework and an older child with a drivers license can run errands. Ultram addiction and other substance abuse problems have a negative effect but participating in recovery efforts can have positive benefits for everyone involved.
It is never too late to encourage your loved one to seek treatment - it is possible to arrest the progression of addiction at any time. Do not let your family member hit rock bottom before encouraging treatment. Rock bottom may include overdose, arrest, jail time, divorce, foster care or other collateral damage.
Recovery begins only when the addicted person recognizes the problems his illness causes. Some family members are tempted to shield the addicted individual from the consequences of his substance abuse, but this enables the addictive behavior to continue. Family counseling can help you learn how to support your loved one without enabling her addiction.
Friends, family and co-workers may recognize the signs of Ultram addiction. The signs of addiction may be subtle or obvious, and signs may arise slowly or quickly.
The neurological changes brought about by Ultram addiction changes the way a person behaves, thinks and feels. Rehabilitation and long-term abstinence can restore some of this neurological function.
A person struggling with Ultram addiction may use this drug excessively, at higher doses or more frequently than he intends, even while he voices a desire to quit or attempts to quit several times. He continues to use Ultram, despite being aware of the physical, psychological and social harm it causes. It may seem to others that he lacks the will or ability to quit using Ultram.
She may lose excessive time looking for, abusing or recovering from drug abuse, despite the significant negative impact on relationships, school or work. Her behavioral repertoire narrows so that soon she participates in drug abuse and not much else.
Physicians prescribe Ultram to relieve pain but some people use this drug to self-medicate emotional pain. Ultram addiction actually reverses this effect, increasing anxiety, feelings of sadness and emotional pain. Ultram addiction also increases your sensitivity to stress.
Ultram addiction may make it difficult to indentify your feelings, express them to others or distinguish your emotions from other bodily sensations.
The neurological changes brought about by Ultram addiction causes certain characteristic physical and psychological symptoms.
The 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health notes the rate of substance abuse among males was twice as high as drug use among females. In 2010, only 5.9 percent of female respondents admitted to using illicit drugs, as compared to 11.6 percent of male survey participants.
While fewer women use illicit drugs like cocaine or heroin, females are more likely to use prescription drugs, such as Ultram, to get high or to treat a condition for which it was not prescribed. Females are also more apt to combine prescription drugs like Ultram with alcohol, marijuana or other opioids.
Men and women engage in substance abuse differently. Men party in social settings, while women are usually solitary drug abusers. Women with drug problems claim fewer friends than their male counterparts. This discrepancy could be due to the social stigma against drug use among women, compared to the relatively lax attitude about male drug abuse.
Men and women begin abusing drugs like Ultram in different ways. Males start using drugs such as Ultram to get high, whereas women start using drugs recreationally after receiving a psychoactive drug to treat an illness.
Women are less likely to enter and complete rehabilitation. There is a variety of social, psychological and financial reasons for this.
Women with addictions are frequently in relationships with a partner who also has a substance abuse problem. These women may feel they are abandoning their loved ones if they quit taking Ultram. Additionally, it is difficult to change the behaviors associated with addiction while surrounded by friends or family who are getting high.
Women with substance abuse problems such as Ultram addiction have co-existing psychological issues such as a poor body image or eating disorders. Women with addiction to opioids say they have low expectations for their lives. Females with addictions have less education, fewer marketable skills and less job experience than do addicted males.
Women face additional barriers to recovery, such as affording appropriate treatment in a specialty facility or finding someone to watch a child while mom is in rehabilitation.
When left untreated or treated inadequately, Ultram addiction can cause disability or premature death.
There are two phases of treatment for Ultram addiction: detoxification and rehabilitation. Detoxification is the medical process of lowering opioid levels in your body. When undergoing standard detoxification, you can expect several days of intense withdrawal symptoms as you adjust to the lack of opioids.
Rehabilitation addresses the cognitive and behavioral aspects of your Ultram addiction. Rehabilitation commonly includes behavior modification and counseling to help you learn how to live without opioids.
Every year, about 27,000 people died in the United States from accidental drug overdose, about one person every 19 minutes. Since 2003, more people die from accidental overdose of prescription painkillers such as Ultram than from heroin and cocaine combined. For each unintentional overdose, hospitals admit nine more people for treatment of substance abuse problems.
Some people try self-detoxification, or "going cold turkey," to overcome Ultram addiction. Cold turkey refers to the way your skin looks during detoxification: pale, bumpy, cold and clammy, similar to a plucked turkey.
When you attempt self-detoxification, you can expect five or more days of flu-like withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms may cause complications. One complication is aspiration, which is vomiting then inhaling stomach contents into the lungs. Aspiration may cause fluid in the lungs or lung infections. Another complication is dehydration resulting from severe vomiting or diarrhea.
The primary complication associated with detoxification is relapse. You can ease withdrawal symptoms by waiting it out, by taking a drug that mimics the action of Ultram or by taking another dose of Ultram. Many people relapse just to stop the uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms.
Some people create homemade treatment plans that use medication to reduce withdrawal symptoms. Once such remedy is The Thomas Plan, which includes Xanax or some other medication to calm anxiety and encourage sleep, Imodium to curb diarrhea, plus vitamins and supplements to soothe body pain and muscle aches.
While The Thomas Recipe reduces withdrawal symptoms somewhat, it does not protect you from dangerous complications or relapse.
Relapse increases your risk for toxic overdose. Any amount of detoxification reduces your tolerance to Ultram - it is possible to overdose on a smaller amount than you used to take before attempting detoxification.
Ultram overdose is a life-threatening medical emergency. If you think you or someone you know has taken a toxic dose of Ultram or any other substance, seek emergency assistance immediately by going to the emergency room or calling an ambulance, whichever gets the patient to the hospital the fastest. For immediate help, contact your local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222.
Emergency department doctors administer naloxone and other medications to reduce Ultram to non-toxic levels. The toxic effects of opioid overdose often outlast the benefits of naloxone, so doctors monitor your opioid levels and administer more naloxone if your opioid levels start to go up again. It is important to remain in the hospital long enough to stabilize your opioid levels.
Nurses will monitor your vital signs, watch for complications and establish an airway to help you breathe. They might pump your stomach or administer charcoal to absorb excess Ultram. Nurses and doctors will perform CPR or other life-saving procedures as necessary.
If you have not taken an overdose and are in otherwise good condition, you might benefit from DRT, or Drug Replacement Therapy. This treatment replaces Ultram with methadone, Suboxone or buprenorphine. DRT drugs mimic the effects of Ultram, so you will not experience withdrawal symptoms, but these drugs do not cause the euphoria associated with other drugs. DRT allows you to put off the detoxification process temporarily while you participate in behavioral modification. After you develop the tools to live without Ultram, you will wean yourself from the replacement drug or go through the detoxification process.
If you are like most people, you will have trouble quitting the replacement drug. Harvard Medical School estimates one-quarter of methadone DRT patients eventually quit using drugs altogether, while another 25 percent continues to take the replacement drug for life. About half of all DRT participants go on and off methadone for the rest of their lives.
DRT is just one type of Medication-Assisted Treatment, or MAT, approved for use in treating Ultram addiction. Medications reduce the overpowering symptoms of withdrawal, helping you tolerate the process long enough to successfully detoxify your system.
Rapid detox is the most humane and efficient type of opioid detoxification available today. During rapid detox, board certified anesthesiologists administer the usual detoxification drugs and anti-withdrawal medications alongside sedatives and anesthesia, so you doze in a restful "twilight sleep." When you awaken, you will not recall the difficult detoxification process. Instead of a few days, you are ready for rehabilitation in a few hours.
Detoxification is only the first stage of treatment for Ultram addiction. Detoxification alone does little to change long-term drug use or addictive behavior. Rehabilitation and behavior modification is also essential in the treatment of Ultram addiction.
Ultram addiction is a complex but treatable disease that affects neurological function and behavior. Prompt and effective behavior modification reduces the risk for relapse.
Everyone experiences Ultram addiction differently, so no one therapy works for everyone. There is a variety of treatment options, from outpatient counseling centers to long-term, residential programs. Individual, family and group counseling and other behavioral therapies are part of most types of treatment. Medications are a critical part of treatment for many patients, especially when combined with counseling and other behavioral therapies.
No matter what form of treatment you choose, it must be convenient and readily available so that you can easily participate long enough for treatment to be effective. You must remain in treatment long enough to restore neurological function affected by Ultram addiction. A qualified counselor will continually assess and modify your treatment plan to be sure it continues to fit your changing needs. Your counselor will also monitor for drug use, as relapses are common.


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