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Today I have visions of tea, scones and arsenic dancing in my head. While scouring the stacks at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, I discovered that we have an incredible selection of Agatha Christie novels. For a mystery lover, this is a treasure indeed.
Dame Agatha Christie, the doyenne of the proper English murder mystery, is the best-selling novelist of all time. Born in 1890 in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon, England, she was educated at home by her mother and wrote her first novel on a dare from her older sister. She wrote the best-selling mystery novel of all time, (And Then There Were None), and the stage play that holds the record for the longest run, (The Mousetrap.)
Christie is the creator of two beloved detectives. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster who lives and sleuths in a small English village. (Christie once said that Marple was based on her grandmother who "expected the worst of everyone and everything and was usually right.") And Hercule Poirot, a dandy of a Belgian investigator, known for his meticulous dress and comportment. Hercule Poirot is the only fictional character ever to be honored with a full-page obituary in the New York Times. This happened upon his demise in the novel Curtain in 1975.
While many of Christie's works are widely known, (Murder on the Orient Express and Ten Little Indians, for example), there are many lesser-known titles worth checking out. Here are two of my favorites.
SLEEPING MURDER: Gwenda Reed, a young newlywed, arrives on the coast of England to purchase a home for her and her husband. She is drawn to a property called Hillside and, as she remodels the house, strange things begin to happen. She picks a certain spot to add a door and finds that a door had been there at one time. She envisions a certain kind of wallpaper, only to uncover that exact wallpaper in a locked room. She comes to believe that she was in the house before although she has no recollection of when or why. On an outing in London, she meets Miss Marple and the two hunt for the truth. Sleeping Murder was Agatha Christie's last novel, published posthumously in 1976.
HALLOWE'EN PARTY: During a children's Halloween Party, a young girl boasts that she "saw a murder once." While her fellow party-goers scoff at the idea, at the end of the evening the girl is found dead, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket. Was this the work of a random intruder or was she murdered because of what she said? Detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Not only is this an excellent read, there is a fantastic dramatization of the novel done by ITV, a British production company, and broadcast on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery. If you ever have the opportunity to catch it, please do. It fleshes out the characters and settings in a rich and luscious way.
Christie was a prolific writer, routinely writing two books a year. There is much to enjoy in her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections. The one to avoid? Agatha Christie claimed that The Mystery of the Blue Train was her least favorite to write. Don't you want to read it and figure out why? I do. The Cedar Rapids Public Library has it…
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Bešlagić, Edina, Chair of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sarajevo
Bešlić, Nermina, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo
Bešlija, Semir, Clinic of Oncology, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo
Bhat, Kishore, KLE Dr Prabhakar Kore Basic Science Research Centre, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka
Biagioli, Manuel, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence
Bijani, Ali, Social determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol
Bilalović, Nurija, Department of Pathology, Clinical Center of Sarajevo University, Sarajevo
Biniari, Leukothea, Agency for Quality Assurance in Primary and Secondary Education, Athens
Biščević, Mirza, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Clinical Center Sarajevo
Bite, Uldis, Division for Plastic Surgery, Department for Surgery
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Blount, Kevin J., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Chicago, Illinois
Blumencranz, Lisa, Agendia, Inc. Irvine, CA
Bogdan, Maja
Bogdanović, Gordana, Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic, University Clinical Center, Tuzla
Bogić, Marija, Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
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The Rewired Life
AboutAfter years of writing emails to friends about our various trips, I've finally gotten around to creating a blog about our restless travels. TheRestessTraveler (TRT) is a website about and for people who like to take the road less traveled. It's ground-centric as Karen and I like to wander, following our instincts rather than a set plan, and that's easiest to do on a motorcycle, RV, car, bus, train, taxi (ground or water), horse, wagon and — god forbid — our feet. We've been traveling together for more than two decades, yet we are still beginners in getting to know the world. We've just scratched the surface with entire continents still a mystery to us. We intend to work the problem vigorously. Blogs are suppose to be about what is happening now, yet much of the initial content for TRT will be a mash-up of where we've been rather than where we're going. We need to catch everyone up fast. Where to begin? Maybe my most recent trip chasing the Dakar off-road race in South America would be a good start. Or the life-changing (literally) trip to Nepal that I still think about almost every day even though its been…
Contact UsLiving life in places that are anywhere-but-the-middle-of-the-road, naturally cuts off modern tethers. So, while we'll do our best to respond to you quickly, please be patient while we wipe the dust of our faces, get our motors out of the muck, and finish up in the local outhouse…. here's how to reach us.
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Trip to the Other Side – Part 1
Spin the globe and you'll see Nepal on the opposite side of the world from Hollywood, just north of India and south of Tibet. It's a 20+ hour plane flight, even with the most direct route. Nepal is more than just geographically remote, its culturally distant as well. The villages and mountains seem barely touched by "today" with people living much like they have for centuries. That's not surprising given that Nepal was only opened to outsiders in the 50's, mainly as a result of Hillary's first ascent of Everest. The people of Kathmandu — Nepal's largest city– are making up for lost time though as they've created a totally engrossing mash-up of today's technology with a culture largely derived from centuries old practices. Walking the streets of Kathmandu made me think of the famous bar scene in the first Star Wars movie, where bizarre people and animals are the norm. Things are just way different here.
What are we doing here, you ask?
It's all Greg's fault, of course since he was the one who decided to have his birthday party in Kathmandu. Greg's wife, Sindhu, is from Kathmandu and they met while Greg was working in the Peace Corps. When Greg sent out the invitation to attend his BD party, KR and I both thought the same thing: "we gotta go!" It was the perfect excuse to go to a place on our list of places to visit, but admittedly not near the top. So, we cashed in a ton of frequent flyer miles and got on a plane to… St.Louis, and Chicago, and Delhi and then Kathmandu. Almost 48hours after shoving off on this birthday party trip, we landed in Kathmandu.
This is the story of our trip to The Other Side. I hope Nepal's Tourist Office will forgive me…
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What is the best evidence for pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis in trauma patients?
Is there a preferred agent for VTE prophylaxis in trauma patients? Is there a superior dosing strategy for these high-risk patients?
The selection and dosing of pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis in trauma patients has a troubled, controversial past. The literature surrounding the topic is riddled with small, conflicting trials and methodological flaws.
The Beginnings of the Controversy
Although the debate between low-dose unfractionated heparin (LDUH) and low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) has been a long-standing issue within the medical literature as a whole, it primarily made its entrance in the trauma literature in 1996 with an article by Geerts et al in the New England Journal of Medicine.1
The study by Geerts et al compared heparin 5000 units Q12hr to enoxaparin 30 mg Q12hr among trauma patients with an injury severity score (IIS) of at least 9. Among 344 patients randomized, the primary endpoint (proximal or distal DVT by day 14) was higher with heparin compared to enoxaparin (44% vs. 31%, p=0.014, RRR 30%, NNT 8). Although not statistically significant, enoxaparin had a higher rate of major bleeding events (0.6% vs. 2.9%, p=0.12). As a secondary endpoint, the study also demonstrated a reduction in proximal DVT rates with enoxaparin (14.7% vs. 6.2%, p=0.012, RRR 58%, NNT 12).
Although the findings of the Geerts study were generally accepted and influenced subsequent VTE guidelines, the study results should be interpreted with caution:
The study was not powered to examine the safety endpoint of major bleeding. Although not statistically significant, there was a much higher rate of major bleeding with enoxaparin. The study may have underscored the importance of weighing the risks and benefits of more aggressive pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis.
The study used a controversial heparin dose (Q12hr vs. Q8hr). Proponents of heparin argue that Q8hr dosing is the more fair comparator, but heparin opponents will often point to a meta-analysis with low-quality study substrate.2
The Pro-Heparin Counterpunch
In 2010, a study by Arnold et al was published, which is a commonly used counter to the results from Geerts et al.3 The Arnold study retrospectively included 476 trauma patients admitted for more than 72 hours. Patients were included if they received heparin 5000 units Q8hr (note the higher dose compared to Geerts) or enoxaparin (30 mg Q12hr or 40 mg Q24hr). The study's primary endpoint (proximal DVT) was no different between heparin and enoxaparin (7.11% vs. 6.75%, p=0.999). Additionally, there was no difference in major bleeding events, although enoxaparin was numerically higher (3.8% enoxaparin vs. 1.2% heparin, p=0.09).
Although the retrospective study design by Arnold is less convincing than Geerts' randomized, double-blind study, it does raise the question regarding whether Geerts used a heparin dose that was an unfair comparison. Of note, the Arnold study did not distinguish between enoxaparin doses (30 mg Q12hr or 40 mg Q24hr), which is a significant flaw in the study design.
What Say the Guidelines
ACCP Chest 9 Guidelines (2012) 4,5
The most recent CHEST guidelines offer no preference between LMWH and LDUH in trauma patients.4 For major trauma patients, the guidelines provide a grade 2C recommendation equally to both therapies.
Notably, the CHEST guidelines do provide a firm recommendation in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.5 The guidelines have a 2B recommendation supporting LMWH as a preferred therapy over fondaparinux (due to less risk of bleeding) and over LDUH (due to superior efficacy).
EAST Guidelines (2002) 6
The EAST (Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma) guidelines, having been published in 2002, are now outdated. Regardless, the guidelines have a strong preference for LMWH over LDUH (primarily due to a lack of high-quality evidence with LDUH). The guidelines place a stronger recommendation for LMWH in patients with pelvic fractures, complex lower extremity fractures, and spinal cord injury. On the basis of the Geerts study, the guidelines also provide a level III recommendation for the use of LMWH in patients with an ISS of 9 or more.
Final Conclusions
Although once a strong recommendation, there is weak evidence supporting the superiority of LMWH over LDUH (heparin) in major trauma patients.
If heparin is used, a dose of 5000 units subcutaneous Q8hr (not Q12hr) is likely more appropriate, although the evidence is poor.
If enoxparin is used, a dose of 30 mg subcutaneous Q12hr has been studied more often in trauma patients. The higher dose may be more appropriate for patients at highest risk for VTE (eg, pelvic, long-bone, or spinal fracture), although the risks and benefits of VTE versus major bleeding need to be considered.
Geerts WH, Jay RM, Code KI, et al. A comparison of low-dose heparin with low-molecular-weight heparin as prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism after major trauma. N Engl J Med. 1996;335(10):701-7. PMID 8703169.
King CS, Holley AB, Jackson JL, Shorr AF, Moores LK. Twice vs three times daily heparin dosing for thromboembolism prophylaxis in the general medical population: A metaanalysis. Chest. 2007;131(2):507-16. PMID 17296655.
Arnold JD, Dart BW, Barker DE, et al. Unfractionated heparin three times a day versus enoxaparin in the prevention of deep vein thrombosis in trauma patients. Am Surg. 2010;76(6):563-70. PMID 20583509.
Gould MK, Garcia DA, Wren SM, et al. Prevention of VTE in nonorthopedic surgical patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 2012;141(2 Suppl):e227S-77S. PMID 22315263.
Falck-Ytter Y, Francis CW, Johanson NA, et al. Prevention of VTE in orthopedic surgery patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 2012;141(2 Suppl):e278S-325S. PMID 22315265.
Rogers FB, Cipolle MD, Velmahos G, Rozycki G, Luchette FA. Practice management guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: the EAST practice management guidelines work group. J Trauma. 2002;53(1):142-64. PMID 12131409.
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HBO responds to Trump's Game of Thrones meme
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*The second episode of Game of Thrones' final season airs on April 21.
Of all the apparatuses presidents have at their disposal for making pronouncements—press secretaries, official statements, televised addresses from the Oval Office—the one President Trump used to trumpet forthcoming sanctions on Iran is by far the strangest: a Game of Thrones meme.
On Friday morning the president posted the image above on Twitter. It's a picture of himself emblazoned with the phrase "Sanctions Are Coming" in a typeface not that dissimilar from the one used in the Game of Thrones logo along with the date "November 5." Subtle, it was not.
As soon as it went up, and as soon as it was clarified by the White House that the sanctions in question were indeed the ones that had been relaxed during the Obama administration and which Trump had been seeking to reimpose, Twitter went nuts. Folks began responding with memes of their own—"Indictments Are Coming" etc.—and even the show's cast got involved. Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, replied "Ew," and Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), in perhaps the best Twitter drag of the day, retweeted the president and just added "Not today." ("Not today," for those who don't remember, is what Arya Stark's swordfighting instructor, Syrio Forel, told her is what she should say to the god of death.)
Then HBO got in on the action, sending out a tweet reading, "How do you say trademark misuse in Dothraki?" Reached for comment the network added, "We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes." Trump evoking the show's logo and slogan, it seems, doesn't sit very well with the people who actually make the show.
But could the network or creators successfully sue? Probably not. First off, it doesn't seem likely that HBO actually wants to make a legal claim of trademark infringement. At most, the network is playing along. Trump referenced the show; they responded. Simple as that. But the response, and subsequent online chatter, did raise some questions about whether or not the president went too far.
Most likely, he didn't.
If HBO were to bring a claim, it would probably be for what's known as trademark dilution, says Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's intellectual property team. Typically, these are the kinds of claims companies make when they feel their very-famous trademarks are being used in ways that deplete the uniqueness, or dilute, their intended message. A company can't, say, put something that looks like the Nike "swoosh" logo on the side of a commercial plane or use "Just do it." to sell condoms.
A dilution claim also generally requires that the entity claiming infringement be able to prove the public was genuinely confused. Because Trump's tweet wasn't being used in commerce, and because it's unlikely anyone thought he was legit affiliated with Game of Thrones, dilution would be a hard argument to make. "I think this would be a tough, a tough case," Nazer says. "No one is likely to be confused that HBO is endorsing this tweet or sponsoring sanctions against Iran. My view is that this shouldn't be a viable suit."
Instead, Nazer says, Trump's tweet would be treated more like a parody—legally speaking. If, for example, Saturday Night Live did a sketch about waiting for a train in New York titled "The G Train Is Coming" that pokes fun at MTA tardiness and references Game of Thrones, that's not an infringing use. (It's also a funny idea, SNL. Please make that sketch and credit Nazer.) As for Trump's use of the Thrones font, the files used in typefaces can be protected, as is (presumably) the actual logo, but because Trump just uses a script that looks like the GoT emblem, the image the president tweeted is likely not infringing. It's ironic, but the bottom line is that the man who likes to take shots at the media is protected here by the First Amendment.
The parody aspect, though, is compelling, because the metaphor doesn't quite align. In Game of Thrones, "winter is coming" is a call to remain vigilant, and a warning that White Walkers could come and threaten the living when winter arrives. Yet winter has been coming on the show since the pilot; it's a slow march that's taken seven years. Trump's "November 5" warning promises something he intends to do in a matter of days. Also, one presumes, Trump thinks the sanctions are a good idea, but the coming of winter in Game of Thrones is something most sane people in Westeros fear. It's possible Trump wants Iran to be afraid of the sanctions, but the wordplay still doesn't quite land.
"It's kind of riffing on it, but it's hard to know what the satirical or parodic intent is here," Nazer says. "Winter in the Game of Thrones universe is kind of terrible, so I'm not sure if they really thought it through. There's probably nothing much beyond it looks cool."
Half an idea without any sense of its viability? Sounds about right.
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Q: Poor monitor contrast for certain colors I recently bought a monitor (LG W1930S). Everything went out smooth until I discovered certain colors are.. invisible. For instance on this monitor #EEEEEE and #FFFFFF look the same to me. On the old monitor there is a clear distinction between them. I am using the same (really old) graphic card: nvidia mx 440.
Is this the monitor's fault (do low-end monitors usually fail in this way?) or the graphic card is too old? Thank you in advance.
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The thing is I have seen the exact same model at someone else and it showed #EEEEEE perfectly. Does this mean I have to return my monitor ?

A: personally i would blame the monitor. different monitors (especially between manufacturers) will display the same image differently, whether because of different programming in the controller or because of different components.
i have a dual monitor setup at home (two different brands) and while one looks OK the other usually looks slightly too green. and no matter how much i fiddle with the controls (either through the graphics drivers or on the monitor itself) i can not get them to look the same.

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Gaming fosters social connection at a time of physical distance
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, many of us feel we have no voice, no ability to affect change. There is nothing we can really do other than try to "flatten the curve".
Recent news coverage has noted World Health Organisation support of gaming as a way to escape from the daily reality of exponential curves and tragic news stories. This narrative reflects rapid change in how gaming is perceived.
It wasn't long ago video games were still being blamed for school shootings and real-world violence without evidence. "Game addiction" was touted as a new classification by the WHO despite the assurances of researchers and medical practitioners. Indeed, games have long been blamed for society's moral decline.
Now suddenly, video games have become a darling of shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders. They are a form of social engagement that allow humans to safely follow our instincts to gather together in a time of anxiety. They allow us moments of escape and a sense of agency when we feel we have none.
Gamers as loners
The historical narrative around gamers describes them as anti-social, in service to the myth of the lone teenage boy playing in a basement, perched on pizza boxes in the dark, dimly outlined by the glow of the screen.
This stereotype was never true. Games have always been social, from the first multiplayer board game in ancient Egypt to the installation of Pong! in a bar in Sunnyvale, California, to the arcades and neighbourhood gatherings of the 1980s.
During COVID-19, people aren't playing alone – they are using games to come together. Many are sharing their Animal Crossing connect codes to unlock multiplayer modes, and gathering in massive multiplayer games on PlayStation Network (which had over 100 million monthly users before coronavirus hit) or XBOX Live.
The free game Call of Duty: Warzone One has spiked in terms of online multiplayer activity, drawing more than 15 million players online within days of its release. The videogame industry is expected to fare better than other business sectors affected by coronavirus.
Players are finding not just an escape from the news of the pandemic or the same four walls of their home, but also social interaction, human contact, value in knowing there are others out there. It's the reason the industry is rallying around #PlayApartTogether, a promotion organised by gaming companies on behalf of the WHO that has gained more than 4.7 billion consumer media impressions (or times online content is consumed) worldwide.
Similarly, opinion pieces are now challenging our prior notions around screen time limits for children in isolation and the virtues of living online.
As an academic and a researcher, I'm tracking stories of how these lockdowns are giving us a chance to bond with family members. I've seen a friend connecting in new ways with his 11-year old son, because they are both at home and playing Minecraft.
Several colleagues are pursuing active research into how games are helping people cope in this time of stress and panic, how they are sharing information, and how their interaction with games is a tool for social survival.
The use of Twitch, Amazon's live streaming service for gamers, is up 10% globally and as high as 66% in hard hit areas such as Italy. The platform is also seeing users expand into non-game activities such as cooking classes, yoga or university lectures.
Games also give us a form of agency that is somewhat different than other media. They provide us a sense of control, the ability to be a hero or save the world. They give us the ability to explore, to compete, to solve. They can engage us in epic quests, allow us to solve mystery, conquer aliens, and more.
Australian charity CheckPoint, which provides mental health resources for gamers and the gaming community, is gathering stories of online connections during social isolation. They suggest gamers create an "interactive story" on their social media timeline, reach out to gamers they've lost touch with or try boardgames via an online tabletop simulator.
Although no one is suggesting games can give us real-life pandemic solutions, they can simulate a pandemic and help us explore response strategies that rely on cooperation. We can temporarily inhabit an alternate universe where we save the world from outbreak scenarios. They remind us we have agency and effect, that we can continue to strategise until we come up with winning solutions, and that there are often numerous ways to win.
Longer term, games can help more young people engage in science, technology, arts or maths careers or studies, and even engage both patients and doctors in research on health and well-being in new ways. All these outcomes seem critical to our long term future in ways they didn't just a few short weeks ago.
COVID-19 may be the turning point when the world realises playing video games is potentially a form of empowerment that brings people together to solve real world problems. It may be a critical moment where we reflect on the importance and power of play.
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Can you hack your own server?
I am not just a programmer, but to some extent a sys admin. Because of that responsibility (and the fact I have had servers compromised before) I am always interested in security. I think to stop crackers; you've got to think like them. When was the last time you tried to hack into your own server? If you don't know what your vulnerabilities are, how can you close them?
So, I assume you've heard the latest buzz about DNS Cache Poisoning and the subsequently released patches. It's rather interesting, and a bit unnerving that the "patch" for now simply makes the exploit harder to pull off-- not impossible. I guess that's basically because the patch simply makes name server requests more randomized. Anything more would require an overhaul to the DNS protocol itself.


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Documents in JPMorgan settlement reveal how every large bank in U.S. has committed mortgage fraud
by William K. Black November 26, 2013 September 23, 2020
Bill Black: Justice Dept.'s failure to understand pervasive schemes of fraud in financial industry obstructs meaningful prosecution of banks
JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. And welcome to this latest edition of The Black Financial and Fraud Report.
Now joining us is Bill Black. He's an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He's a white-collar criminologist, a former financial regulator, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, and he's regular contributor to The Real News.
Thank you so much for joining us, Bill.
BILL BLACK, ASSOC. PROF. ECONOMICS AND LAW, UMKC: Thank you.
NOOR: So, Bill, what do you have for us this week?
BLACK: So, this'll be the first installment in what can we learn from the statement of facts that constitutes JPMorgan's admissions. This in that settlement that the Department of Justice is billing as the $13 billion settlement. As I've explained in the past, it's not that big, but it's still quite large in dollar terms. And we owe a debt of gratitude to Judge Rakoff, who's been giving the Securities and Exchange Commission a hard time about settling cases and getting absolutely no useful admissions from the people that perpetrated the frauds.
And so the Justice Department was embarrassed into getting this statement of fact, which was obviously closely negotiated with JPMorgan to try to not establish its criminal liability, but still is a remarkable document in terms of what it tells us about the fraud second epidemics, not just at JPMorgan, but also the criminality at Washington Mutual and at Bear Stearns. And it tells us about the whole secondary market frauds. And it tells us a great deal about why the Justice Department is batting .000 against the elite frauds.
So, to back up, the Department of Justice is only investigating the secondary markets sales. But there, the Justice Department has finally gotten to the point of essentially saying that there was a epidemic of fraud in sales to the secondary market. And what they've done in particular is endorse and piggyback and take advantage of the work of the Federal Housing Finance Administration, which is the conservator for Fannie and Freddie, and in that capacity has sued 18 of the largest financial institutions in the world and said that each of them engaged in fraud.
So, you know, stop right there. The United States government, now with the endorsement of the Justice Department, has said that after investigation it found that essentially every large bank involved in the secondary market sales to Fannie and Freddie committed fraud. And frauds and intentional crime. Right? So that's an extraordinary thing.
There were three of these epidemics of mortgage fraud that drove this crisis. Individually, each of the three fraud epidemics would have been the most destructive financial fraud in world history, but all three of them occurred at the same time and they're related. So the first two are in the mortgage origination phase, and that is what I've described in the past: the epidemic of appraisal fraud, led by lenders, and the epidemic of liars loans, also led by lenders and their agents. And that generated literally millions of fraudulent mortgages originated each year, most of which they sold to the secondary market. And since there's no fraud [incompr.] they had to, of course, engage in fraud in the representations and warranties–what we call reps and warranties for short–in the sale of these fraudulent mortgages through a further fraudulent representation to the secondary market.
So the first thing that we have is that there are admissions not just as to JPMorgan in this statement of facts, but also as to Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. And collectively, of course, we're talking about three of the largest and most elite financial institutions in the world. And the Justice Department says each of these engaged in fraud, which ought to be sort of the headline news, right, that three of the largest financial entities in the world engaged in pervasive fraud.
Now, this is particularly remarkable in the case of Bear Stearns and in the case of Washington Mutual, both of them acquired by JPMorgan (Washington Mutual is called WAMU by most people for short), because they're infamous from past investigations. So the famous phrase used by the industry–remember, the industry used the phrase liars loans. That was not something that prosecutors came up with to try to bias juries. Well, the phrase in the industry was "Bear don't care", meaning that Bear Stearns could care less about the quality of the loans that it was buying in the secondary market, that it was most happily deceived and such. And Washington Mutual's infamous for the investigations that found that it was one of those places that did have a literal blacklist of honest appraisers who refused to inflate appraisals, in which WAMU refused to send future business to honest appraisers because it wanted to engage in this massive fraud scheme of inflating appraisals.
Okay. So we've got not just really big, really elite, but incredibly infamous places, and we're getting confirmation from the Justice Department and from JPMorgan, the acquirers of these entities, that says, yes, these two entities ran this fraud scheme in the secondary market sales. But, of course, there's also the same allegations against JPMorgan and JPMorgan conceding to these facts as well, which, of course, leads to the obvious question: why haven't these senior officers controlling JPMorgan, Washington Mutual, and Bear Stearns been prosecuted for the crimes? And if for some reason they don't think they can prosecute the individuals, why don't you prosecute the corporation instead of letting it get off scot-free, apparently, with no criminal case? So that's the big take away at this point.
But as I say, there's a second story, and that is that the Justice Department still doesn't understand this industry, the fraud schemes at all, and it is still living in this mythical world in which this is supposedly the first virgin crisis. And that's why you still don't see President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder actually just making a flat-out statement that says, you know, we were wrong; this crisis really was driven by fraud, and it was driven by fraud in our most elite institutions, and it's a national scandal that they've gotten away with it without any prosecutions and that not a single one of the leading officers who led the frauds and became wealthy through the frauds, not only has a single one not been prosecuted, but we have not taken back a significant chunk of the money and left them, you know, with none of the fraud proceeds. We've done that in zero cases as to elite bankers. So in next installment we'll look at what the statement of facts tells you about how the Department of Justice unfortunately remains largely clueless.
NOOR: Thank you so much for joining us, Bill.
BLACK: Thank you. And happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
NOOR: Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
William K. Black
William K. Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He has taught previously at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and senior deputy chief counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement.
Black developed the concept of "control fraud" frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses the entity as a "weapon." Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined. He recently helped the World Bank develop anti-corruption initiatives and served as an expert for OFHEO in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae's former senior management.
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Animate with the General Update Pattern in D3 v4
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In D3, the General Update Pattern is the name given to what happens when a data join is followed by operations on the enter, update, and exit selections. When a chart's data changes over time and each update can both create new elements and destroy existing ones, the General Update pattern can help convey meaning to users. This lesson demonstrates the pattern using animated transitions on a column chart.
00:00 In this example, we have a basic column chart where we're plotting the test scores of five different people. We just have a simple HTML page here. We've got our chart div that things get drawn into. We're specifying the fill style of our rectangles here.
00:16 If we go take a look at our code, we can see that our data is just an array of objects that each have a name property and a score property. We're then using the D3 margin convention and specifying the margin's width and height.
00:30 Then from that, creating our SVG tag and the container graphics element. We're calling responsivefy so that everything stays responsive when our window resizes. Then we go on to creating our scales. Our X scale is a band scale.
00:49 Since we're creating a column chart here, that's what we want to use. Our domain for our X scale is just the list of name properties from our data. We're just pulling those names out, and using that to create our X scale so that we have everybody's names below their column.
01:06 We've got a little bit of padding so that we've got some space between our columns there. Then we attach that bottom axis to our chart. Our Y scale is just hard-coded to run from 0to 100 for its domain. Since they're test scores, we're just going to say it's 0to 100. We don't need to examine the data at all.
01:29 Finally, we go ahead and create the rectangles by doing select all rect, doing our data join, where we pass in the array of data objects. Then once we get to our enter selection, we append a rectangle. We set the X and Y based on our X and Y scales.
01:49 For our width, we're able to use the bandwidth method that is unique to band scales. That takes care of sizing our columns horizontally. Then for our height, we're again just using the score passed to our Y scale, and subtracting that amount from our height.
02:09 This is a nice functional chart, but it only renders once. Nothing changes over time. What we're going to do is look at the general update pattern, and how we can accommodate data that does change over time.
02:23 The first thing we're going to do is we're going to come over here to our HTML and add back some buttons that I created that each one of them just has an on-click handler that is going to call a method named render, and pass in a subject name.
02:37 I'm going to save that. We need to make a little bit of room for that in our chart. We're going to shrink this a little bit. Everything's laid out there. Now I'm going to paste in some data that is same basic structure, but instead of just a score property, we actually have math, science, and language properties.
02:58 You'll also notice that some of the people have a null value for some of the subjects. If a person has a null value, they won't be shown on the chart. All of this stuff with our margins, and our axes, and our scales, all of that can stay the same.
03:16 What we're really concerned with updating is this block of code here. This is what we're actually going to turn into our render function. We're going to say render. It's going to take a subject, and then we'll paste our code in here.
03:32 If I give this subject parameter a default value of math, and then I'm going to go update these. Instead of reading a score property, we're going to use that subject parameter and read that property name off of the data object.
03:49 Do the same thing down here, change that to subject. Then we'll go ahead and add a default call to render, which will use that default value of math. Now if we save this, we get the same data, except Billy is no longer there, because in our new data, Billy has a null value for math.
04:12 The first thing we actually want to do is handle those null values. It automatically handled that for us here because that value is missing. What we actually want to do is, when we call this method with a subject, we want to filter that array so that we only get back items that have a value for that subject.
04:35 For this, we're just going to use a simple array filter method, and say data.filter. Then when we get each item, we'll check for the presence of that subject. This is essentially saying if the math property, in the default case, has a truthy value, then it will be included. If not, it will not be included.
04:57 In order to handle things separately, we need to break out our different selections. If you'll remember, our default value that gets returned from a data join is the update selection. Essentially, these two lines here, it selects all of the rectangles that may be there, joins the data, and that gives us our update selection.
05:21 We get our enter selection from our update selection. Update.enter is where we're going to append the rectangles. Before we get to that enter selection, let's deal with the exit selection. Remember, the exit selection is where you have a DOM element whose corresponding data item is not in the data.
05:46 If we were to say update.exit.remove, that is going to remove any of the rectangles who don't have a corresponding data object in whatever data has been joined to the update selection. That will get rid of elements that we no longer need.
06:09 Any elements that we don't have anything for, so we're starting off here. Billy has a null value for math, and so he doesn't have an element. When we switch to science, where we does have a value, we're going to need to create a rectangle for him.
06:25 We can actually go ahead and cut this off here. We'll assign this to a variable named enter. Our enter variable is our enter selection. We're going to append a rectangle for everything in that. Then all of this code that actually sizes and positions everything, we want that to apply to our update and our enter selections.
06:47 To do that we're going to say update.merge, and then pass in our enter selection. This is creating a selection that is both our update and our enter selection merged together. If we save this, we get math re-rendered here.
07:05 If we click science, we see Billy does appear, and David gets removed. That is because David does not have a value for science. If we look at language, we see that Cindy is the one that doesn't have a value.
07:21 If we click language, Cindy disappears, and David comes back. Now we have a chart that will actually update based on whichever subject we tell it to render. This is nice, and it's entirely functional, but it would be even better if we could convey what was going on a little bit through animations.
07:43 That's what we're going to do now. If we come down to our render function, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create a transition that we can use throughout here. We're going to say d3.transition.duration, and I'm going to give it a one second duration.
08:02 Sometimes it's helpful to use a little bit slower of a duration when you're just working through things, so you can tell what's going on. The first thing that we want to do when the subject changes is we want to animate the items that are being removed out of the chart.
08:20 We've got our exit selection here, but instead of removing things immediately like that, we're actually going to say transition, and pass in the T instance there. We've got the duration already defined for us. We're going to set the Y attribute of those rectangles to be the height of our chart.
08:42 We're going to set the height attribute of those rectangles to be zero. They're going to simultaneously move down and shrink so that we get those nice slide out animations. When that slide out animation is done, then the element will finally be removed.
09:03 After the elements that are being removed have been transitioned out, then we want to update any of the items that are remaining on the chart. To do that, we'll just work with our update selection. We're going to say update, and again, .transition, and pass in our transition instance.
09:23 We're going to add a delay this time of one second, because we want this to happen after our exit transition. Actually, we'll just copy this code from down here, since this is what we want to happen. We're going to specify that the Y gets updated and the height gets updated.
09:49 There we've got that defined. Lastly, we just need to deal with our enter selection. We're going to slide everything out. We're then going to update things that are still there. Then we're going to slide in any new items.
10:03 To do that, we're going to go ahead, and we don't actually need this enter variable anymore. We don't even need this selection merging anymore. We're going to say take the enter selection, append the rectangle, but when it's initially appended, we actually want to use these same properties that we're using that we're transitioning out of.
10:30 We want things to start there for our new items. We'll paste that down here. The new rectangles are going to start at the bottom with no height. We can get rid of this line here, and this line here. Our X and our width can be set to their final values initially. There's no problem with that.
10:51 Then we can actually go ahead and do our transition again here. This time, we're going to set our delay to be two seconds, because remember, we've got one second for our exit transition, one for our update. That's two full seconds that we need before we transition things in.
11:11 Now we can copy these lines down here, because that's where we want things to end up for this as well. Now if save this, things update, and then they slide in. If we click on science, it's not actually working. Why is that?
11:31 Aha, in order for all of this to work, each of these elements has to be associated with the same data object, regardless of what subject is being rendered. To do that, we need to use a key function when we call the data function here.
11:49 What we need to do is define this method. It's again just going to be a little arrow function that gets each item passed in. We're just going to return the name. Essentially, what this is saying is when you do this data join, we want you to look at this name property to uniquely identify each one of these objects.
12:13 If we look at our data, the name property is unique, and we're just changing which subject we're looking at. We need that key function so that it knows which rectangles go with which data objects. If we save this, we've got to refresh. We've got a little bit of a delay there.
12:31 If we switch to science, David slides out, everybody updates, and Billy slides in. Go to language, Cindy slides out, update, David slides in. This is great. This is working perfectly. If we refresh, we see a little bit of a problem, though, because we've got that delay at the beginning.
12:50 That's because we're delaying our enter animation by two seconds, and that doesn't make sense to do on the first render. What we can actually do is make this conditional. We can say update.exit.size. If it's true, we'll use a delay of two seconds, if not, it's zero.
13:14 This is essentially saying if you have any items to remove from the chart, go ahead and implement that two second delay. If you don't, don't delay things at all. This isn't production quality code, because you may have an empty exit selection, but already have some items on there in your update selection.
13:35 For our purposes, this gets the point across. Now if we save this, it is immediately going to slide those in initially, then we can switch subjects, and we see a column slide out. Everything else updates, and then the new column slides in.


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Q: NetBeans - How to stop annoying "insert button" popup from showing? If I hit tab multiple times to indent something, then I always get an anoying window showing up:

This is extremly annoying, how can I stop this?
UPDATE: I use Netbeans 8.2.
It seems to happen in .html files and also in blade templates but not in pure .php files.

I have to write something, if I then press tab a dropdown will appear sometimes if I then press tab again, then the Insert Button window shows.

A: I can't replicate your problem with NetBeans 8.2, but I can make that Insert Button window appear by doing the following:

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*Edit an HTML file.

*Press control/space to open the autocomplete menu as shown in the OP.

*Hit enter, which selects the first entry on the dropdown menu, which happens to be Button.

*The Insert Button window opens.

A second way of making that happen is:

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*Edit an HTML file.

*Type < to open the drop down menu of all HTML tags.

*Press backspace to switch to the menu in the OP screenshot.

*Hit enter, which selects the first entry on the dropdown menu, which happens to be Button.

*The Insert Button window opens.

In the second scenario the initial display of that drop down menu can be prevented:

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*Tools > Options > Editor > Code Completion

*Select HTML as the Language.

*Uncheck Auto Popup Completion Window.

*Click Apply then click OK.

The change is immediately effective, so typing < no longer triggers the display of the drop down menu. Since I can't replicate your problem it may not fix your issue, but it's worth trying. You can still request the drop down menu by pressing control/space.

A: Here is the right answer:

Simply go to Tools/Palette/Code Clips and remove everything from
  Palette (all folders and items).


Trials and tribulations in 15mm. All Stiggers' fault.
I never really meant to tool up with these leviathans. But, ages and ages, and ages, ago I finally made the effort to walk the wrong way away from Brighton's train terminus to try and find the Dice Saloon. And when I did find it, I discovered they were doing twenty percent off Flames stuff. They didn't have anything I really wanted in stock but a discount is a discount and hard to ignore. Plus these brutes looked, well, brutish so… Mind, I then had to walk around the hip and trendy North Laine area of Brighton with a Warhammer bag – looking a colossal knob, therefore. But, Hell, twenty percent! Read on….


The Simca 8 was a family car built by Simca in France between 1937 and 1951. It was offered in a variety of body styles and two engines were offered, one before 1949 and a slightly larger one after 1949. This 1949 car originally featured a race-prepped version of the earlier, 1.1-liter straight-four.
It was originally a road car, but was transformed into a racing barquette by a racing driver in 1950. The body was built in aluminium by Motto, an Italian coachbuilder. Once race-ready, the owner promptly registered it for the road! It was entered for the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans but never showed up, though it did compete in some other French sports car races in the early 1950s.
Discovered again after 2000, it was restored and the engine was redone and enlarged to 1.2-liters. It's just destined for the historic circuit with its new owner. It'll likely bring between $275,000-$335,000. Click here for more info.
Here's my pick of these four. The Chenard & Walcker Y8 was introduced at the 1927 Paris Motor Show and was built through 1930. It's powered by a 1.5-liter straight-four and it's called a "Tank." Chenard & Walcker were famous for their tanks, which were kind of squared off yet aerodynamic cars that were mainly destined for the track. Bugatti also built some racing "tanks" around this era as well.
This is a two-seat convertible and it probably doesn't have racing history, but plenty Chenard tanks saw track action. It's been in collections for decades and is largely original. No one knows how many of these were built, but there aren't that many around. This one should bring between $85,000-$160,000. Click here for more info.
When Rene Bonnet left Deutsch-Bonnet in 1961, he set up shop building cars under his own name. His first new model was the Djet and what we have here is a racing version of the road car. It's powered by a Renault-Gordini 1.1-liter straight-four and the body is fiberglass.
This car was raced at the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans with Bruno Basini and Robert Bouharde behind the wheel. It finished the race, but did not complete the minimum distance, ultimately resulting in an official "Not Classified" result, but more realistically they were 14th.
The current owner bought the car in 1989 and it was restored, with a 1.3-liter Gordini striaght-four installed in place of the original. Only three of these longtail LM6 Aerodjets were built and this is the nicest, most original one left. It should sell for between $300,000-$425,000. Click here for more info.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it: this looks like one of those tin toys that kids played with in the 1950s. In reality, it started life as as one of two custom-built Guépard race cars that were built in 1952 and 1953. Both competed in a race in 1954 and this one crashed.
The owner took it and while repairing it, decided to turn it into a World Speed Record car. Designed by Marcel Riffard, it's a sleek, Renault-powered streamliner with a body by Heuliez. The engine is a 750cc four-cylinder and it's unknown if it ever attempted any records, but it did do a speed run in 1998 after decades in a private collection. It's a unique car and should bring between $18,000-$30,000. Click here for more info and here for more from this sale.
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2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • ISSUE EIGHT CONTRIBUTOR
Lou Greene has spent most of her life trotting the globe: Fiji-born, Lou has also lived in Kiribati, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sulawesi, Germany, France, England and Scotland (at one point even residing in Edinburgh Castle). Now settled with her family on the Mornington Peninsula, she was originally educated in the UK, and has a Master of Arts (History) from St Andrew's University. Her work experience has ranged from four military tours in Bosnia, to managing Microsoft's UK Press Centre, to teaching at primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
In 2017 Lou received her first writing accolade winning the HNSA's First Pages competition; in 2018 she was long-listed for the Richell Prize and also completed Faber Allen and Unwin's 'Write a Novel' course; as well as being short-listed for this year's HNSA Short Story competition, she was also awarded an ASA mentorship.
Find out more about Lou's writing at https://www.lougreene.com
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The most important realized buildings of ingenhoven architects include: The Lufthansa HQ at Frankfurt Airport, the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the HQ of the Daniel Swarovski Corporation at Lake Zurich and the health resort Lanserhof at Lake Tegern. By 1997 the RWE-Hochhaus in Essen was completed. It is one of the world's first high-rise buildings with a double facade facilitating the natural ventilation of the office spaces. In the same year the design for Stuttgart Central Station was awarded first prize in the international architectural competition. In 2006, Christoph Ingenhoven received the Global Holcim Award Gold, one of the most highly-rated architectural awards for the project. A core competency of the office is the planning and realization of high-rise buildings. In 2012, the office was awarded the International High-rise Award for 1 Bligh in Sydney, a 139-meter high building certified with the highest Australian Green Building rating "Green Star, six star". At the beginning of 2017, the foundation stone for the Toranomon Hills Project in Tokyo was laid, the project comprises of office accommodation 185 meters in height and a residential high-rise reaching 220 meters. The buildings will be completed in 2019 and are after the Breezé Tower in Osaka (2005–2008) the second high-rise building project to be designed in Japan. The largest project by ingenhoven architects is Marina One in Singapore comprising of 400,000 square meters. The high-rise complex features two office and residential buildings that enclose a large public garden, in which 20,000 people will work and live. This "role-model" for tropical and subtropical megacities has been completed in 2017. The head office of the ingenhoven architects office is located in Düsseldorf Media Harbour. In addition the firm is represented internationally at locations in St. Moritz, Sydney, Singapore and Santa Clara in California, USA.


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Niagara's Peller Estates offers a very chill icewine experience
BARBARA RAMSAY ORR
Niagara-on-the-lake, ont.
Visitors to Peller Estates' 10Below Icewine Lounge sip icewine while surrounded by walls of carved ice.
It feels very odd to be slipping on wool gloves and zipping up a parka when the temperature outside is in the upper 20s. But visitors to Peller Estates in Niagara-on-the-Lake are happy to bundle up for an iced experience, no matter what the season.
That's because ice is big these days and not just in winter. With travellers looking to tick off another box on their must-do list, iced hotels and bars are exotic and, well, chill, especially for visitors who do not have a real winter.
Now, Niagara has its own frosty experience, and it's somehow more authentic and locally grounded than many other places in the frigid bar lineup.
10Below Icewine Lounge, by Peller Estates, is designed for guests to experience the exact temperature at which icewine grapes are harvested, to explore the complexities of its production and to savour the layered flavours of the winery's three icewines – vidal blanc, riesling and cabernet franc.
There is no denying that sipping from a chilled glass of icewine, held in gloved hands while surrounded by walls of carved ice, adds sparkle to the enjoyment of one of Canada's most famous liquid exports. At 10Below, the adventure is submersive, designed to engage all of the senses.
A visit begins with dressing for the cold.
The winery provides fur-trimmed parkas (rather fetching, actually) and gloves that are smartphone-compatible, which is a different kind of cool. It's a design detail that makes a selfie set against the carved ice walls easy to post. Inside the ice room, there's an ice bar, benches and an elegant ice chandelier.
On the chilly walls there are etched graphics that spell out some of the salient facts about icewine. A sommelier will tell you a bit about icewine production and its history and then pour you a taste of the Niagara region's world famous, super-concentrated wine.
The lounge is both Canadian in its icewine theme and Canadian in execution. Designed and built by Hensall, Ont.-based Iceculture Inc., which has designed and built ice lounges and sculptures around the world, the structure was created from more than 13,000 kilograms of crystal clear ice blocks. It holds up to 15 people, and is intended as a place to sip and savour the elixir sometimes referred to as "liquid gold" but also as an opportunity to learn about the wine's production, a time-consuming and concentrated process, and one that Canada has come to own.
Canada is the world's largest producer of icewine, exporting the coveted sweet wine globally. It's a pricey tipple, but with one frozen grape producing but one drop of icewine, and because it takes 10 icewine grapes to produce one millilitre of concentrated ice wine, it's no wonder why the wine is so prized and so expensive.
10Below is the last stop on a tour of Peller Estates ($15 a person), or it can be a separate experience with tastings of all three icewines produced by the winery ($20 a person). The space is also available for private bookings – imagine a girls' night out with time in 10Below followed by dinner and a wine pairing in the winery's restaurant.
Dinner at Peller Estates can be a continued exploration of the delights of icewine. Celebrity chef Jason Parsons has developed some lovely dishes using the product – such as his icewine-braised pulled pork with peach salsa, or his icewine-poached lobster – to illustrate the wine's complexity and versatility.
For a different treatment and a bit of luxurious indulgence, try a glass of Peller's Ice Cuvée, a traditional méthode sparkling wine made from chardonnay and pinot noir grapes, with added flavour from the vidal icewine. Icewine with bubbles! It's nice to get iced in Niagara.
The writer was a guest of Peller Estates Winery. It did not review or approve the article.
Other places to shiver
Chill Ice House (82 Bathurst St., Toronto, 416-901-3330, chillicehouse.com)
This bar gives you a cape and gloves, serves drinks in ice glasses in a room with ice sculptures and glacéed booths. A heated adjacent bar allows chilled patrons to warm up. Closed Monday and Tuesday. $20 cover charge, includes one drink.
Hôtel de Glace (9530 rue de la Faune, Quebec City, 877-505-0423, hoteldeglace-canada.com)
Sleep in a room made of ice, on an ice bed, but wrapped in warm bedding. This is a quirky and entertaining way to spend a night, and each year the artistry of the ice creations seems to get better. Once is enough, though. There's also an ice chapel for those who want a unique wedding venue. $18.25 for a tour, $766 a night, 2017.
The Ice House Winery (14774 Niagara Pkwy., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., 855-331-6161, theicehouse.ca)
This place is not iced, but concentrates on the production, history and promotion of ice wine. Try its N'Ice slushie for a cool treat.
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What an exciting day this is! My favorite huMAN is a year older and we're very happy about that!
And that means we have about two and a half weeks left of free stamps and accessories!
I'm really going to have to step up my game. Doodles designed an awesome card for her human to make and give to MY favorite huMAN. Isn't this awesome?
We shared this card on Saturday's test run of our new camera, but we hadn't really worked all of the camera settings. I told Ann that it was a bit dark so I thought you'd like to see a really good look here.
You see, Doodles' human is part of our Master Stamper community. Yep. She's been there since the very beginning when we started back in – was it 2011? Yep. December 2011. Just over 6 years.
We have over 200 videos with written instructions. That's one of the things that our members like – written instructions that they can keep.
And you can try us for just $5 for your first month. You can try it here while the offer is still active.
And we've got even more surprises for our Wednesday stamping show – especially those who like to comment. I hope you can make it – either on Facebook or on YouTube! Are you following us? The more, the merrier!
We've only god 2-1/2 weeks left to earn a free limited edition stamp set or accessory during our biggest sale of the year, Sale-A-Bration.
Earn a free selection from our limited edition Sale-a-Bration list.
What a great handmade birthday card idea!


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Den of Thieves
Bank heist rips off Heat for little gain
"...by: Christian Gudegast. Starring: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, Brian Van Holt, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and..."
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Long-delayed historical fairy tale is an overdue oddity
"...Scodelario, Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Fan Bingbing, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Clarke and Ben Lloyd-Hughes...."
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American oil meets its match in honest farmers
"...Directed by: Edward James Olmos. Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Pablo Schreiber, Kate Bosworth, Martin Sheen, Edward James Olmos, David..."
Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review
Gosling and Chazelle's moon man biopic soars
"...Patrick Fugit, Ethan Embry, Lukas Haas, Shea Whigham and Pablo Schreiber...."
Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Rock's take on The Towering Inferno is a damp squib
"...Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan...."
July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
SXSW Announces Film Lineup
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more
"...and New. Cast: Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Jonathan Tucker, Mousa Kraish,..."
Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Michael Bay lends his firepower to this war that's not really a war
"...Directed by: Michael Bay. Starring: John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max..."
Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bow Wow plays a National Guard soldier who goes AWOL in the early Nineties in this unfoused drama
"...Starring: Seth Gabel, Shad "Bow Wow" Moss, Aidan Quinn, Pablo Schreiber, Malik Yoba and Jason Lew...."
Jan. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced
What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!
"...Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones, Julie White, Peter Friedman, Andrea Martin, Pablo Schreiber, La Chanze, Olivia Thirlby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (World Premiere)..."
Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
All Wrapped Up
Holiday Film Previews
"...Peter O'Toole, Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck, Liev Schreiber...."
Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW
Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party
"...Ken Watanabe, Mari Natsuki, Fisher Stevens, Nijiro Murakami, Liev Schreiber, Courtney B. Vance (North American Premiere) NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT..."
Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
A Year's Cheers
The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Eclipses for Austin, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Blanton Museum of Art..."
May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
"...von Scherler, Guillermo Diaz, Anthony DeSando, Donna Mitchell, Liev Schreiber, Nicole Bobbitt. Party Girl will do for library science..."
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Comedy Wham: Sixth Anniversary Show
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GetHuman: GetHuman-196125 - can you tell our other Uber customers when your case took place?
GetHuman-196125: Yes I can. It was middle of the night, on November 22nd.
GetHuman-196125: "Check Application Status" was why I was trying to contact.
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GetHuman-196125: I'd give them a four out of five for ease of finding your way to help.
GetHuman-196125: I'd give them a three out of five on communication.
GetHuman-196125: For that I would say two out of five.
GetHuman-196125: Try to deal with them early in the day or later. Don't forget any personal or account information you might need for Uber to know who you are.
GetHuman: Well there you have it. Some useful feedback and words from GetHuman-196125 taken from his Uber customer service problem that occurred on November 22nd, 2017.


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Charlie Crist's wife loses custody of teenage daughters
February 16, 2013 | Tom Tillison | Print Article
Photo Credit (AP Photo/Florida Governor's Office, Colin Hackley)
As New York socialite Carole Rome walked down the aisle in December 2008, she was escorted by her daughters from a previous marriage, Skylar, 10, and Jessica, 12.
The smiling groom: then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
When the Rev. David Miller asked who was there to give the bride away, the Huffington Post reported, the girls quickly answered separately, "I do."
Little did they know.
Four years later, on Feb. 1, a New York county judge temporarily awarded Carole Crist's ex-husband, Todd Rome, full custody of their two teenage daughters after allegations that Florida's former first lady abandoned the girls, according to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times:
The judgement, which Rome read aloud over the telephone to New Times — but declined to release — overturned the parents' joint custody, and follows two years in which Carole Crist hasn't returned phone calls, text messages, letters, or any communication of any kind with her children, said Rome's attorney, Mark Heller.
"It's shocking and very disturbing because these two girls are at a fragile point in their lives, and as important as a father is, a mother is very important," he said. "And [Crist] has been completely absent from their lives."
The New Times article noted that the decision isn't public record and couldn't be independently verified.
"She's completely abandoned them," Todd Rome said in a telephone interview Friday with the Tampa Bay Times, adding that his ex-wife has not seen or spoken to her daughters since June 8, 2011.
Carole Crist has not commented publicly on the custody order, nor has Charlie, who told TCPalm a few months before their wedding: "The girls are wonderful. I think the world of them and I look forward to spending a lot of time with them."
Of course, with Crist all but certain to run a second time for governor, news of his wife abandoning her children would have to be a deal breaker, no?
Silly me. I forgot. He's a Democrat now.
As for fate, it's ironic that many of those who'll support Crist's re-election efforts likely stood outside the church the day the former governor got married, protesting his support for banning same-sex marriage and gay adoption.
It turns out Crist was no more wedded to those positions than to his determination to spend "a lot of time" with his step-daughters.
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Thunder Storms Moving Through
Earlier this evening we had some thunder storms move along the coast and across the marsh area.
The first one is looking north across the salt marsh, and the second shot was taken with a fisheye lens and is looking south across the marsh pond.
And just in case anyone is thinking that I didn't shoot any wildlife today… there is an egret in the marsh in the first photo, and those two dark dots in the lower left of the second photo are alligator heads. 🙂
15 thoughts on "Thunder Storms Moving Through"
Linda on May 29, 2014 at 8:25 pm said:
love those shots, pictures of weather is cool, especially storms
Edna on May 29, 2014 at 8:30 pm said:
Phil, your pictures are all enthralling, contemplative and pleasing – be it wildlife and or nature. And your stories make us feel like we're right there with you. Thank you for sharing your remarkable gift with us!
vastlycurious.com on May 29, 2014 at 8:58 pm said:
Great spooky shots! I have to say it's nice to see some of your work other than birds. Love it!
Garden Walk Garden Talk on May 29, 2014 at 9:37 pm said:
Very lovely shots, Phil. I saw the egret right away too.
uthamz on May 29, 2014 at 9:55 pm said:
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George Weaver on May 30, 2014 at 12:46 am said:
Very cool, Phil. I like the fisheye too. And grinned about the wildlife…
anotherday2paradise on May 30, 2014 at 4:11 am said:
Beautiful shots, Phil, but those thunderstorms don't bode well for the roof repairs on our house in Florida. 😦
foxleylady on May 30, 2014 at 4:19 am said:
Stunning pictures, Phil! Doesn't it show how small we creatures are in the great scheme of things?!
niasunset on May 30, 2014 at 4:34 am said:
Great shot. Thank you ear Phil, have a nice weekend, love, nia
Linda on May 30, 2014 at 7:38 am said:
Beautiful shots, I see the Egret from afar in the first shot, that is a big marsh, and all the time I thought it was a little stream or a small marsh…great shots.
Leslie on May 30, 2014 at 9:36 am said:
Love a good thunderstorm at the beach! Mother Nature reminding us humans who is really in charge. Awesome photos!
Cowboys and Crossbones on May 30, 2014 at 2:39 pm said:
Fantastic shots – and sneaky you squeezing wildlife in there!
The Dancing Rider on May 30, 2014 at 5:05 pm said:
Really got that thunderstorm feeling from these! Love those shades of gunmetal and gray. I like seeing the egret in the distance, and those lurking two black heads!
acuriousgal on May 30, 2014 at 5:19 pm said:
David on June 3, 2014 at 2:50 pm said:
Like the effect of the fisheye lens.
Sky and Clouds, Wildlife Photography


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Andrzej Mostowski (zm. 1622) – pisarz ziemski płocki, poseł na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej
 Andrzej Mostowski (1913–1975) – polski matematyk