The "backstop" has become one of the most contentious issues in discussions surrounding Brexit, but you'd be forgiven for mentally tuning out whenever someone mentions it on the news. In short, it's a legal guarantee – a safety net (the term comes from baseball) – in Theresa May's withdrawal agreement, designed to ensure that there remains no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
What happens to the Irish border will affect how goods and services are traded between the two countries, but it's also important because of what a hard border would represent for the people of Northern Ireland. Like many interstate borders in the EU, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is currently inconspicuous: there are no border posts, physical barriers or checks on anyone or any goods that make their way from one side to the other. Almost everyone believes it's imperative it remains that way, because reintroducing border checks would bring back memories of the Troubles – the 30-year long conflict between Republicans and Unionists in Northern Ireland that claimed more than 3,500 lives – and no one wants more violence in the North.
At the heart of the issue is the Good Friday Agreement, the 1998 peace deal that brought the Troubles to an end and created a new government that saw power shared between Unionists and Republicans, which many believe is under serious threat because of Brexit. The Brexit backstop, wrote businesswoman Dearbhail McDonald recently, "is about so much more than tariffs and trade. It is about our identity. Brexit tears at the heart of the Good Friday agreement, which allows people like me, a Catholic who grew up in Newry, or a loyalist from east Belfast, to identify as British, Irish or both – and to celebrate our different allegiances."
Many young people in Northern Ireland have grown up listening to older relatives' stories of customs and security checks and violence, and they're increasingly worried about what a no-deal Brexit could mean for them.
Victoria Johnston, 20, is a student and freelance writer who grew up eight miles from the border in County Fermanagh ("coincidentally, the same county as Democratic Unionist Party leader, Arlene Foster," she quips. They even went to the same school). Despite coming from a Unionist background, Johnston doesn't identify with any of the mainstream Unionist parties because of their stance on social issues, particularly when it comes to abortion.
There is a lot of fear – primarily due to the lack of information we've been given.
"I'm horrified by the disregard that those in power have shown toward the Irish backstop and indeed, the people of Northern Ireland," Johnston tells Refinery29, adding that despite "Brexit day" [29th March] being less than two months away, "those who live in border counties and communities have no idea what procedures have been put in place. We don't know if there will be infrastructure on the border; we don't know if we'll need a visa to travel to neighbouring counties; we don't even know if the conditions of our long-fought-for peace process will be upheld. We have been kept in the dark."
Johnston says Brexit and the border is the talking point among her friendship group right now. "I have good friends from County Donegal who have no idea whether or not they'll be able to cross the border with ease to travel to university on 29th March. There is a lot of fear – primarily due to the lack of information we've been given."
"My biggest fear at the moment would be a hard border and a return to physical infrastructure along the border. I'm also concerned about how this could impact travel across the region. The potential of a return to the violence of the past is also a legitimate fear among many," she says, pointing to the bomb attack in Derry in late January.
We are not being listened to.
A common view shared by the young women we spoke to is that neither the EU nor British government fully understands the gravity of the situation for the people of Northern Ireland or the Republic. "With the EU being adamant that there will be no renegotiations in regard to the backstop, we in Northern Ireland are very anxious," says Emma Bonner, 25, a graduate and current sports president at Ulster University, who believes her right to dual citizenship could be under threat – something that has barely been discussed outside of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. "Having been a baby during the peace process, I understand the importance of not having a hard border. I'm an Irish citizen and under the Good Friday Agreement I have the right to always be an Irish citizen."
Bonner also points out that Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU as evidence of the lack of understanding from outside. "That this has been ignored completely isn't only going against democracy, but also shows the ignorance that the British government have towards Northern Ireland, our history and our people. We are not being listened to." Brexit is one of the main conversational topics among Bonner and her friends, and while her gang may be "politically diverse," they share one belief in common: "We have come through a very violent history and we know the importance of peace. Brexit has and will disrupt this peace, which we millennials and generation Z will detest."
A hard border would be disastrous.
Northern Irish journalist Amanda Ferguson, 39, who was born and raised in north Belfast, County Antrim, has been covering Brexit for work nonstop and spends the rest of her time talking about it with friends. Ferguson, who doesn't identify with any of the main Northern Irish political parties, says "the vast majority are deeply concerned about what is happening". Ferguson also knows "a cohort of Leave-supporting Irish Republicans, who are delighted with how badly the negotiations are going." Their view? "The harder the Brexit, the closer to Irish unity they will be."
Sensible decisions need to be made – and fast, she adds, describing the current state of the Brexit negotiations as they pertain to the Irish backstop as both farcical and worrying, yet unsurprising. Ferguson points out that the British border on the island of Ireland wasn't even a consideration in the build-up to the EU referendum, and yet violence on that strip of land has become a very real danger. "I think a hard border would be disastrous. I am hopeful a deal will be struck in the final days before the deadline."
The women we spoke to are all clear on another point, which Johnston sums up. "It's important that those in the UK take stock of what's happening in Northern Ireland. There has been plenty of talk about 'the border' but very little conversation surrounding the people who live along the border. This hasn't been the first time that Northern Ireland has been ignored within the halls of Westminster and it won't be the last."
Ferguson is similarly adamant that an inability to understand the people of the North is doing everyone a disservice. "Belfast isn't as British as Finchley. We have a diverse population and a unique position in the UK. Some of us are British. Some of us are Irish. Some of us identify as both, as the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 provided for. Our peace wasn't an event, it is a process and it's fragile."
The DUP, Ferguson adds, are in the minority when it comes to Brexit. "Yes, it was a UK-wide referendum, but Northern Ireland voted to remain and that isn't always acknowledged. The majority of political parties here back the backstop. Most business leaders, farmers and civic voices are also in favour of the backstop. I want people to know the backstop and Brexit isn't just about the economy and trade and regulations. It's also about people and their way of life."


text:
from __future__ import annotations
from ..basics import *

# %% auto 0
__all__ = ['Hook', 'hook_output', 'Hooks', 'hook_outputs', 'dummy_eval', 'model_sizes', 'num_features_model', 'has_params',
           'HookCallback', 'total_params', 'layer_info', 'module_summary', 'ActivationStats']

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 13
@docs
class Hook():
    "Create a hook on `m` with `hook_func`."
    def __init__(self, m, hook_func, is_forward=True, detach=True, cpu=False, gather=False):
        store_attr('hook_func,detach,cpu,gather')
        f = m.register_forward_hook if is_forward else m.register_backward_hook
        self.hook = f(self.hook_fn)
        self.stored,self.removed = None,False

    def hook_fn(self, module, input, output):
        "Applies `hook_func` to `module`, `input`, `output`."
        if self.detach:
            input,output = to_detach(input, cpu=self.cpu, gather=self.gather),to_detach(output, cpu=self.cpu, gather=self.gather)
        self.stored = self.hook_func(module, input, output)

    def remove(self):
        "Remove the hook from the model."
        if not self.removed:
            self.hook.remove()
            self.removed=True

    def __enter__(self, *args): return self
    def __exit__(self, *args): self.remove()

    _docs = dict(__enter__="Register the hook",
                 __exit__="Remove the hook")

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 25
def _hook_inner(m,i,o): return o if isinstance(o,Tensor) or is_listy(o) else list(o)

def hook_output(module, detach=True, cpu=False, grad=False):
    "Return a `Hook` that stores activations of `module` in `self.stored`"
    return Hook(module, _hook_inner, detach=detach, cpu=cpu, is_forward=not grad)

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 30
@docs
class Hooks():
    "Create several hooks on the modules in `ms` with `hook_func`."
    def __init__(self, ms, hook_func, is_forward=True, detach=True, cpu=False):
        self.hooks = [Hook(m, hook_func, is_forward, detach, cpu) for m in ms]

    def __getitem__(self,i): return self.hooks[i]
    def __len__(self):       return len(self.hooks)
    def __iter__(self):      return iter(self.hooks)
    @property
    def stored(self):        return L(o.stored for o in self)

    def remove(self):
        "Remove the hooks from the model."
        for h in self.hooks: h.remove()

    def __enter__(self, *args): return self
    def __exit__ (self, *args): self.remove()

    _docs = dict(stored = "The states saved in each hook.",
                 __enter__="Register the hooks",
                 __exit__="Remove the hooks")

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 39
def hook_outputs(modules, detach=True, cpu=False, grad=False):
    "Return `Hooks` that store activations of all `modules` in `self.stored`"
    return Hooks(modules, _hook_inner, detach=detach, cpu=cpu, is_forward=not grad)

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 43
def dummy_eval(m, size=(64,64)):
    "Evaluate `m` on a dummy input of a certain `size`"
    ch_in = in_channels(m)
    x = one_param(m).new(1, ch_in, *size).requires_grad_(False).uniform_(-1.,1.)
    with torch.no_grad(): return m.eval()(x)

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 44
def model_sizes(m, size=(64,64)):
    "Pass a dummy input through the model `m` to get the various sizes of activations."
    with hook_outputs(m) as hooks:
        _ = dummy_eval(m, size=size)
        return [o.stored.shape for o in hooks]

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 46
def num_features_model(m):
    "Return the number of output features for `m`."
    sz,ch_in = 32,in_channels(m)
    while True:
        #Trying for a few sizes in case the model requires a big input size.
        try:
            return model_sizes(m, (sz,sz))[-1][1]
        except Exception as e:
            sz *= 2
            if sz > 2048: raise e

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 50
def has_params(m):
    "Check if `m` has at least one parameter"
    return len(list(m.parameters())) > 0

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 52
@funcs_kwargs
class HookCallback(Callback):
    "`Callback` that can be used to register hooks on `modules`"
    _methods = ["hook"]
    hook = noops
    def __init__(self, modules=None, every=None, remove_end=True, is_forward=True, detach=True, cpu=True, include_paramless=False , **kwargs):
        store_attr('modules,every,remove_end,is_forward,detach,cpu, include_paramless')
        assert not kwargs

    def before_fit(self):
        "Register the `Hooks` on `self.modules`."
        if self.modules is None: self.modules = [m for m in flatten_model(self.model) if self.include_paramless or has_params(m)]
        if self.every is None: self._register()

    def before_batch(self):
        if self.every is None: return
        if self.training and self.train_iter%self.every==0: self._register()

    def after_batch(self):
        if self.every is None: return
        if self.training and self.train_iter%self.every==0: self._remove()

    def after_fit(self):
        "Remove the `Hooks`."
        if self.remove_end: self._remove()

    def _register(self): self.hooks = Hooks(self.modules, self.hook, self.is_forward, self.detach, self.cpu)
    def _remove(self):
        if getattr(self, 'hooks', None): self.hooks.remove()

    def __del__(self): self._remove()

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 59
def total_params(m):
    "Give the number of parameters of a module and if it's trainable or not"
    params = sum([p.numel() for p in m.parameters()])
    trains = [p.requires_grad for p in m.parameters()]
    return params, (False if len(trains)==0 else trains[0])

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 61
def layer_info(learn, *xb):
    "Return layer infos of `model` on `xb` (only support batch first inputs)"
    def _track(m, i, o):
        params, trainable, shape = '', '', ''
        same = any((isinstance(x[0], torch.Tensor) and x[0].shape[1:] == x[1].shape for x in zip(i, o)))
        shape = apply(lambda x: x.shape, o)
        if hasattr(m, 'weight'): # non activation layer
            params, trainable = total_params(m)
        return (type(m).__name__, params, trainable, shape, same)

    with Hooks(flatten_model(learn.model), _track) as h:
        batch = apply(lambda o:o[:1], xb)
        train_only_cbs = [cb for cb in learn.cbs if hasattr(cb, '_only_train_loop')]
        with learn.removed_cbs(train_only_cbs), learn.no_logging(), learn as l:
            r = l.get_preds(dl=[batch], inner=True, reorder=False)
        return h.stored

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 66
def _get_shapes(o, bs):
    inp = o[first(o)] if (isinstance(o, dict)) else o
    return ' x '.join([str(bs)] + [str(t) for t in inp[1:]])

def _print_shapes(o, bs):
    if isinstance(o, torch.Size): return _get_shapes(o, bs)
    elif isinstance(o, tuple): return _get_shapes(o[0], bs)
    else: return str([_print_shapes(x, bs) for x in o])

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 67
def module_summary(learn, *xb):
    "Print a summary of `model` using `xb`"
    #Individual parameters wrapped in ParameterModule aren't called through the hooks in `layer_info`,
    #  thus are not counted inside the summary
    #TODO: find a way to have them counted in param number somehow
    infos = layer_info(learn, *xb)
    n,bs = 76,find_bs(xb)
    inp_sz = _print_shapes(apply(lambda x:x.shape, xb), bs)
    res = f"{type(learn.model).__name__} (Input shape: {inp_sz})\n"
    res += "=" * n + "\n"
    res += f"{'Layer (type)':<20} {'Output Shape':<20} {'Param #':<10} {'Trainable':<10}\n"
    res += "=" * n
    ps,trn_ps,j = 0,0,0
    infos = [o for o in infos if o is not None] #see comment in previous cell
    prev_sz = None
    for typ,np,trn,sz,chnged in infos:
        if sz is None: continue
        if j == 0:
            res += f'\n{"":<20} {_print_shapes(sz, bs)[:19]:<20}' # to avoid a double line at the top
        if not chnged and not prev_sz == sz and j > 0: res += "\n" + "_" * n + "\n" + f'{"":<20} {_print_shapes(sz, bs)[:19]:<20}'
        j = 1
        res += f"\n{typ:<20} {'':<20} {np:<10} {str(trn):<10}"
        if np != '':
            ps += np
            if trn: trn_ps += np
        prev_sz = sz
    res += "\n" + "_" * n + "\n"
    res += f"\nTotal params: {ps:,}\n"
    res += f"Total trainable params: {trn_ps:,}\n"
    res += f"Total non-trainable params: {ps - trn_ps:,}\n\n"
    return PrettyString(res)

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 68
@patch
def summary(self:Learner):
    "Print a summary of the model, optimizer and loss function."
    xb = self.dls.train.one_batch()[:getattr(self.dls.train, "n_inp", 1)]
    res = module_summary(self, *xb)
    res += f"Optimizer used: {self.opt_func}\nLoss function: {self.loss_func}\n\n"
    if self.opt is not None:
        res += f"Model " + ("unfrozen\n\n" if self.opt.frozen_idx==0 else f"frozen up to parameter group #{self.opt.frozen_idx}\n\n")
    res += "Callbacks:\n" + '\n'.join(f"  - {cb}" for cb in self.cbs.sorted('order'))
    return PrettyString(res)

# %% ../../nbs/15_callback.hook.ipynb 74
@delegates()
class ActivationStats(HookCallback):
    "Callback that record the mean and std of activations."
    order=-20
    def __init__(self, with_hist=False, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(**kwargs)
        self.with_hist = with_hist

    def before_fit(self):
        "Initialize stats."
        super().before_fit()
        self.stats = L()

    def hook(self, m, i, o):
        if isinstance(o, tuple): return self.hook_multi_ouput(o)
        o = o.float()
        res = {'mean': o.mean().item(), 'std': o.std().item(),
               'near_zero': (o<=0.05).long().sum().item()/o.numel()}
        if self.with_hist: res['hist'] = o.histc(40,0,10)
        return res

    def hook_multi_ouput(self,o_tuple):
        "For outputs of RNN which are [nested] tuples of tensors"
        res = []
        for o in self._flatten_tuple(o_tuple):
            if not(isinstance(o, Tensor)): continue
            res.append(self.hook(None, None, o))
        return res

    def _flatten_tuple(self, o_tuple):
        "Recursively flatten a [nested] tuple"
        res = []
        for it in o_tuple:
            if isinstance(it, tuple): res += self._flatten_tuple(it)
            else: res += [it]
        return tuple(res)

    def after_batch(self):
        "Take the stored results and puts it in `self.stats`"
        if self.training and (self.every is None or self.train_iter%self.every == 0): self.stats.append(self.hooks.stored)
        super().after_batch()

    def layer_stats(self, idx):
        lstats = self.stats.itemgot(idx)
        return L(lstats.itemgot(o) for o in ('mean','std','near_zero'))

    def hist(self, idx):
        res = self.stats.itemgot(idx).itemgot('hist')
        return torch.stack(tuple(res)).t().float().log1p()

    def color_dim(self, idx, figsize=(10,5), ax=None):
        "The 'colorful dimension' plot"
        res = self.hist(idx)
        if ax is None: ax = subplots(figsize=figsize)[1][0]
        ax.imshow(res, origin='lower')
        ax.axis('off')

    def plot_layer_stats(self, idx):
        _,axs = subplots(1, 3, figsize=(12,3))
        for o,ax,title in zip(self.layer_stats(idx),axs,('mean','std','% near zero')):
            ax.plot(o)
            ax.set_title(title)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
~ Battalion Commander ~
~ 720th Military Police Battalion History Project ~
Return To Commanders Index
LTC Baxter M. Bullock, COL Ret.
Commanding Officer of the 720th MP Battalion, 18th MP Brigade
7 June 1968 to 11 February 1969 ~ Republic of South Vietnam
CPT Baxter M. Bullock the battalion operations officer and later adjutant at Fort Hood, Texas was promoted to MAJ in December 1960. At the departure of LTC Harold .K. Reynolds on 10 June 1961, MAJ Bullock served as the Interim Battalion Commander until the arrival of LTC Robert P. Hotaling on 24 July.
The interim command and a later command of the Battalion in Vietnam gives him the distinction of being the only officer to have twice served as the commander of the 720th MP Battalion.
LTC Bullock, a veteran of WWII and the Korean War, received command of the Battalion from LTC Zane V. Kortum on 7 June 1968.
On 11 February 1969 LTC Bullock passed command to LTC Robert M. O'Malley, Sr.
During his tour as commander the Battalion participated in:
The single company reorganization and consolidation of the Battalion operations in the Tactical Area Of Responsibility (TAOR) with B Company assigned; Increased counter insurgency and Civic Action Programs in the TAOR; Dedication of the Freedom Bridges at An Xuan Village; Operation Condor II, the movement of the Royal Thai Black Panther Division to Bearcat; Acquisition of a fifty-nine man Vietnamese Revolutionary Development Team in the TAOR; Suppression of the 30 August riot at the USARV Stockade (Long Binh Jail); Increased enemy activity within the TAOR (prelude to the 23 February 1969 Post Tet Offensive); Movement security of the 1st Air Cavalry Division from the Newport Docks to three base camps; Operation Holly, escort security for the Bob Hope USO tour; Operation Religious Services, security for Long Binh Post Christmas Services; Operation CONDOR III, Escort security for the second increment of 5,704 man Royal Thai Army Black Panther Division deployment from the Newport Army Terminal docks, Saigon, to Bearcat.
COL Bullock passed from our ranks on 6 March 1997 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 64 Site 1767.
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Jeff Whetstone's photographs and films imagine rural America through lenses of anthropology and mythology. Whetstone's Post-Pleistocene photographs illuminate the depths of wild caves in Alabama and Tennessee, where layers of human markings reveal millennia of cultural evolution. His ongoing New Wilderness project portrays a human-centric American wilderness and questions how our cultural connection to the mythology of the wild is revealed in contemporary times. Whetstone's work interrogates the stereotypes of rural people--ignorance, poverty, and self-destruction--and explores the complicated bond between people and the landscape. Whetstone's photographs investigate the role gender, geography, and heritage play in defining the human position in the natural world.
Over the course of his academic career, Whetstone has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Whetstone's work has been exhibited internationally and has received reviews in The Village Voice, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. Whetstone first exhibited video work in 2011 when his experimental narrative short, On the Use of Syrinx, premiered at the Moving Image Festival in New York. A second exhibition in 2011 at Julie Saul Gallery titled Seducing Birds, Snakes, and Men introduced Whetstone's work in animation, 16mm film, and video to a wide audience. He is represented by Julie Saul Gallery in New York, and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles. Whetstone earned his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Photography in 2001, where he was the recipient of the George Sakier Prize for Photography.
Jeff Whetstone was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and entered Duke University as a Mathematics major. He describes his long arc from the Sciences to Art as an effort to complete a circle. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and a certificate in Film Studies, Whetstone took a position as artist-in-residence at Applashop, a documentary arts co-op in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky. He worked for the local paper, where he may have been the only journalist in the nation to use an antique large format view camera. After receiving his Master of Fine Arts from Yale in 2001, Whetstone was appointed lecturer at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was named full professor at UNC in 2012. Whetstone joined the Princeton Faculty in 2015, and lives in Princeton with his wife, Stephanie, a writer. They have two teen-aged sons, a hound dog, and several reptiles.


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January 19, 2023By HealthySimulation.com Writing Team
We need to Be READY to help teens in crises. Worldwide, there are almost 1.3 billion adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19, of which 42 million are in the U.S. They represent a specific group with distinct challenges. Understanding and preparing for these specific needs will allow healthcare workers across the globe help adolescents and teens in crises. And they are needing help. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says 16-18% of adolescents had 1 or more emergency department (ED) visits yearly. That's at least 6.5 million ED visits every year in the U.S. alone. The numbers may vary from country to country, but the reality is the same – teens are in EDs in large numbers.
But why are teens in the ED? Falls and unintentional injuries account for about 40% of ED visits. But beyond these, other causes are more specific.
Accidents: Motor vehicle accidents is the second highest cause of teens at the ED – amounting to 10 percent of teen visits. In 2019, almost 258,000 teens were treated in EDs for injuries suffered in car crashes. Every single day almost seven teens die due to road accidents. Proper Assessment and Triage for these patients could effectively help prevent more serious injuries, preserving limbs and even more importantly help saving lives.
Mental Health: Mental Health America says one in 10 youth are experiencing depression and one in six teenagers has a major depressive episode (MDE) needing treatment at the ED every year. The CDC reports that, in 2020, there was a 31% increase in mental health–related ED visits for teenagers compared to the previous year. These patients need support from healthcare workers who are well-experienced in first aid care so that they may provide mental health support while simultaneously attending to physical well-being.
Self-Harm and Suicide: Teen suicide is a big concern. The CDC says 19 percent of teenagers have 'seriously considered' it in the past year, 16 percent made a suicide plan, nine percent attempted suicide, and three percent needed medical treatment for a suicide attempt. The situation was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in girls. Between February and March of 2021, attempted suicide rates increased by 51 percent for teen girls. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and other first responders are often left to assess, treat and save these patients with little to no specific training with teenage patients.
Substance Abuse: Alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco are the most abused substances by teens. Six percent of American youth – that's over 1.5 million – reported a substance use disorder each year. Misuse of prescription pain relievers (396,000 cases/year) and hallucinogens (370,000 cases/year) are high among teenagers. Frequently, drug overdose cases end up at the ED. The first goal is to rescue the patient's health. The long-term goal is to support the teenager in their path to recovery. But successful entry to rehabilitation often depends on how overdose patients are cared for at the point of care. To deliver effective care, healthcare workers need specialized training geared toward teenage patients.
Sexual Assault: Statistics paint a grim picture. 4.2 percent of all assault victims requiring medical treatment are victims of sexual assault. In a six year period, nearly 21,000 teenagers were admitted to EDs as confirmed sexual abuse victims and ED admissions for adolescent sexual abuse doubled from the start to the end of this period. Medical treatment, trauma care, psychological support and evidence collection needs to be done carefully and correctly. And doing all this under pressure, to a traumatized teenager, at the point of care is not an instinctive skill learned from experience. Treating a teenage sexual assault victim appropriately is critical for their well-being, for justice, and for their rehabilitation.
What Do We Need to Help Teens in Crises?
Protocols: Triage and treatment protocols do exist, but these are often made for adult or pediatric needs. Yes, teens are either children or adults and treated medically as such. But in situations of substance abuse, self-harm, mental health crises, treating teens as an adult or a child is not the best practice. There is value in developing protocols specifically for teens. These will provide clear guidelines for first responders and EMTs instead of depending on their situational assessment. Protocols allow frontline healthcare workers to use their valuable minutes administering treatment as opposed to deciding which form of treatment to administer.
Training: Protocols do not improve patient outcome simply by existing. They are useful only if healthcare workers are trained on following them. We need to educate first responders on the most common teen crisis scenarios. Then train them to handle complex situations, often a mix of physical trauma and mental health issues. Healthcare workers need to practice on teen-specific scenarios, in the classroom, in the field, and in the hospital. For this, they need realistic teenage simulators, not embodied in either adult or pediatric manikins.
Simulators: Existing adult or pediatric manikins are useful tools for training first responders and healthcare workers. But practicing procedures like blood draws, intubation, or sexual assault victim triage on adult manikins does not prepare the EMT to treat teen patients. Similarly, pediatric manikins are no substitute for teen patients. We need simulators that have both external physical (tattoos, piercings) and internal physiological characteristics (adolescent pelvis, pubic hair) of teenagers. Currently, there are no teen simulators in the market. And teenage patients are a big patient population whom healthcare workers treat daily. From continent to continent, the need is the same. A lifelike teen patient simulator is more representational of what will be encountered by EMTs and other healthcare workers, making for a superior training and practice experience.
And there is one entering the market soon.
Advanced Teenage Trainer
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July 27, 2018 Digests
Posted By Administration, Monday, July 30, 2018
Kansas Supreme Court
REAL PROPERTY—STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
LCL V. FALEN
RICE DISTRICT COURT—COURT OF APPEALS IS AFFIRMED
DISTRICT COURT IS REVERSED, CASE REMANDED
No. 115,434—JULY 27, 2018
FACTS: The Mary Louise Falen-Olsen Trust entered a contract to sell 200 acres of real property to Sammy Dean. The Trust owned all of the surface rights plus an undivided one-half mineral interest. It is undisputed that the Trust intended to sell the surface rights and retain the mineral interest. RCAT was the closing agent and title insurer. The deed prepared by RCAT did not include any reference to the mineral reservation. Neither of the co-trustees noticed this omission before they signed and filed the deed. LCL purchased the property in April 2014. At the time, LCL acknowledged that the mineral rights would not come with the property. RCAT again acted as the closing agent, and the deed again did not note the Trust's mineral rights reservation. After the sale closed, LCL inquired about the difference between the deed's language and its understanding of what it purchased. RCAT conducted a title search and discovered that none of the deeds included the reservation of the Trust's mineral interest. LCL refused to sign a corrected deed. The Trust first learned of this in August 2014, when royalty payments were suspended. LCL filed a petition to quiet title to the mineral interests. The Falens both filed an answer denying LCL's ownership and filed a third-party petition against RCAT for negligence and breach of contract. RCAT moved for summary judgment, claiming that the statute of limitations began to run in January 2008, when the original deed was prepared. The district court granted that motion, but that decision was reversed by the court of appeals, which found that the Falens did not sustain any damage until August 2014, when the royalty payments stopped. RCAT's petition for review was granted.
ISSUES: (1) Negligence cause of action; (2) breach of fiduciary duty cause of action
HELD: In the context of a statute of limitations, "substantial injury" means "actionable injury". There are two inquiries relevant to determining when the statute of limitations began to run – when did the Falens suffer actionable injury, and when did the existence of that injury become reasonably ascertainable? They were injured when the 2008 deed was filed because their mineral interest title became clouded. This injury was compounded in 2013, when their ability to reform the title became much more limited. But there remains a genuine issue of material fact about whether the Falens reviewed or understood the deed before signing and filing it. And factual questions remain about the Falens' continued receipt of royalty payments. Because of these factual disputes, summary judgment was inappropriate and the case must be remanded for further factfinding. The Falens' breach of fiduciary duty claims extended to the 2014 deed, meaning that the petition was filed well within the statute of limitations.
STATUTE: K.S.A. 58-2222, 60-511(5), -513(a)(4), -513(b)
DUE PROCESS—HABEAS CORPUS
IN RE HABEAS CORPUS BY SNYDER
ORIGINAL ACTION—WRIT DENIED
FACTS: Clay Snyder was charged with several off-grid felonies in 2012. He was found not competent to stand trial because of an intellectual disability in 2013; Snyder has microcephaly. That finding has renewed on multiple occasions, most recently in 2016. Snyder was involuntarily committed for the first time in 2014. Medical personnel have testified that it is unlikely that Snyder will ever be competent to stand trial. Snyder petitioned for original habeas relief, asking that he be released from confinement because of violations to his speedy trial, due process, and equal protection rights.
ISSUES: (1) Speedy trial; (2) due process; (3) equal protection
HELD: The speedy trial clock for Snyder's criminal trial remains suspended because Snyder is not competent to stand trial. Although Snyder maintains the right to a speedy trial, he cannot be constitutionally tried until he is competent. The competency statutes in Kansas provide deadlines that suggest a reasonable time to attempt to restore a defendant's competency. The state complied, and then used a lawful civil commitment procedure to justify his continued restraint. Compliance with statutory procedures must be strict, and delay could serve as the basis for a constitutional claim. Snyder's equal protection argument was not adequately briefed and is thus deemed abandoned.
STATUTE: K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 22-3302(4), -3303, -3303(1), 60-1501
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT
IN RE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SNYDER
PAWNEE DISTRICT COURT—AFFIRMED
FACTS: In 2012, Snyder was charged with multiple sex offenses. He asked a judge to determine his competency to stand trial. He was found not competent, and those findings have persisted. In 2016, the district court found that Snyder was not competent and that there was no substantial probability that he would obtain competency in the foreseeable future. Consequently, the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services commenced involuntary commitment proceedings against Snyder. The district court held a bench trial and heard evidence that Snyder was intellectually disabled and dangerous to others, which warranted further treatment. The district court determined that Snyder met the criteria for involuntary commitment, and he appealed. The case was transferred to the Kansas Supreme Court on its own motion.
ISSUES: (1) Equal protection; (2) due process; (3) sufficiency
HELD: The Care and Treatment Act provides for the involuntary commitment of certain mentally ill persons. It excludes from civil commitment a mentally ill person who is diagnosed solely with an intellectual disability. But a person with an intellectual disability may be involuntarily committed if that person has been accused of an off-grid felony and found incompetent to stand trial. The state has a rational basis to treat potentially dangerous individuals differently, negating Snyder's equal protection argument. Snyder was given due process because the state was required to prove not only that he was charged with an off-grid felony but that he was likely to cause harm to self and others. There is no constitutional bar to the state civilly committing an individual whose mental condition cannot be cured. There was sufficient evidence presented to show that Snyder is likely to cause harm to himself or to others.
STATUTE: K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 22-3303, -3303(1), 59-2946(e), -2946(f)(1), -2946(f)(3), -2966(a)
POLICE POWERS—SEARCH AND SEIZURE
IN RE J.O.
JOHNSON DISTRICT COURT—COURT OF APPEALS IS AFFIRMED
DISTRICT COURT IS AFFIRMED
FACTS: In 2015, the Prairie Village Police Department arranged for controlled drug buys in Shawnee, Kansas. On two occasions, a confidential informant was sent to buy drugs from J.O. in Shawnee. There were no Shawnee officers present at either buy and the Shawnee Police Department never provided assistance. After the buys, J.O. was charged with multiple drug offenses. J.O. moved to suppress all evidence obtained from the controlled buys on grounds that PVPD had no jurisdiction to operate in Shawnee. The district court agreed that PVPD exceeded its jurisdiction by operating in Shawnee. But the motion to suppress was denied because J.O. had a voluntary encounter with the CI and was neither searched nor seized by PVPD officers. The district court admonished the PVPD to respect its jurisdictional boundaries and warned of potential recriminations if those boundaries were not followed. J.O. appealed, and the court of appeals agreed with the district court that the exclusionary rule was not an appropriate remedy for this case. The petition for review was granted.
ISSUE: (1) Application of exclusionary rule
HELD: Statutory limits exist to protect the local autonomy of neighboring cities and not to protect citizens from encroachment by law enforcement. The court of appeals erred when it found that the PVPD properly requested assistance. The PVPD's continued failure to follow K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 22-2401a is troubling. But in the absence of an individual right, J.O. cannot claim any injury that would justify suppression.
STATUTES: K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 22-2401a(2); K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 22-2401a; K.S.A. 22-3216
constitutional law—criminal law—traffic stop
state v. glover
douglas district court—affirmed
court of appeals—reversed
No. 116,446 - july 27, 2018
FACTS: Officer stopped a vehicle assuming the driver was the registered owner (Glover) whose driver's license had been revoked. No other information supported this assumption, and the officer did not try to confirm the driver's identity before initiating the traffic stop. Glover was in fact the driver. State charged him with driving as a habitual violator. He filed motion to suppress evidence obtained during the stop, arguing the officer lacked a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity when he stopped the car. District court granted the motion on stipulated facts, finding the officer's assumption was unreasonable. State filed interlocutory appeal. Court of Appeals reversed, 54 Kan. App.2d 377 (2017). Review granted.
ISSUE: Reasonable suspicion for vehicle stop
HELD: Officer lacked an articulable and reasonable suspicion that the unidentified driver did not have a valid driver's license. Officer's assumption was only a hunch unsupported by a particularized and objective belief. Opinion reviews general principles about reasonable searches and seizures, the distinction between assumptions and inferences, and reasons for rejecting the owner-is-the-driver presumption. State has burden to prove the officer had reasonable suspicion that the driver of the vehicle—not just the registered owner—had a suspended driver's license. To draw inferences in favor of the State based on lack of evidence in the record impermissibly relieves State of its burden. Court of appeals is reversed. District court's judgment is affirmed.
STATUTE: K.S.A. 20-3018(b)
competency—criminal procedure—evidence—juries
saline district court—affirmed
FACTS: Jenkins, Parker, and two others burglarized two apartments and killed one resident. Jenkins was convicted of first-degree murder, aggravated burglary, and theft. For threats and actions thereafter against his wife and son, Jenkins also was convicted of criminal threat, domestic battery, and criminal restraint. Jenkins appealed. Some nine months later, prosecutor reported that a juror sent her gifts which the prosecutor returned, and some two months later the same juror sent the prosecutor a holiday greeting. District court conducted a hearing each time, finding no juror misconduct had influenced the jury's verdict. Jenkins also sought resolution of his pretrial motion for a competency hearing. Case was remanded to district court which found a retrospective competency determination was feasible and that Jenkins had been competent at time of his trial. On appeal Jenkins claimed: (1) insufficient evidence supported his convictions of first-degree murder, aggravated burglary, and theft; (2) district court erred in finding no evidence of juror misconduct; and (3) district court erred in concluding a retrospective competency hearing was feasible.
ISSUES: (1) Sufficiency of the evidence, (2) juror misconduct, (3) retrospective competency hearing
HELD: Under facts of case, the evidence viewed in light most favorable to the State was sufficient to establish that Jenkins aided or abetted others in committing the aggravated burglaries and theft, and that Parker shot and killed the fatality victim during the aggravated burglary of that victim's apartment.
No abuse of district court's discretion in finding no juror misconduct had occurred. Juror did not contact prosecutor until well after trial had ended, and juror had based his verdict on the evidence. No need to consider whether the alleged juror misconduct created a fundamental failure in the proceeding.
Factors in McGregor v. Gibson, 248 F.3d 946 (10th Cir.2001), are applied to determine if it is feasible to retrospectively determine a defendant's competency. Here, three McGregor factors are discussed with factual comparison to State v. Ford, 302 Kan. 455 (2015), and State v. Murray, 302 Kan. 478 (2015). All three factors support the district court's ruling that a retrospective competency determination on Jenkins' competency at the time of trial was feasible.
STATUTES: K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 21-5402(a), -5402(c)(1)(J), -5801, -5807(b); K.S.A. 21-3205, 22-3302
appellate procedure—constitutional law—criminal law—search and seizure
state v. ton
johnson district court—affirmed
court of appeals—affirmed
FACTS: Using a confidential informant tip, supporting information, and drug dog alert, officer obtained search warrants to open a UPS package and to search a residence once the resealed package was delivered hours after the scheduled delivery time. Marijuana discovered in the package and the residence led to Ton's conviction for possession of marijuana with intent to sell and failure to pay Kansas drug tax stamp. Ton filed motion to suppress, arguing the officers lacked a reasonable suspicion to detain the package past the scheduled delivery time. District court denied the motion, finding the package was not seized until police removed it from the UPS facility after the scheduled delivery time, and there was reasonable suspicion to seize the package. Ton appealed the reasonable suspicion ruling, and also argued the package was detained for an unreasonable length of time. Court of appeals affirmed in unpublished opinion, concluding the police had reasonable suspicion of criminal activity that justified seizing Ton's package, and did not reach question of whether reasonable suspicion was required or not. Panel declined to address Ton's unreasonable-length-of-time claim which was presented for first time on appeal. Ton's petition for review granted.
ISSUES: (1) Reasonable suspicion, (2) preservation of length of time issue
HELD: No error found in panel's analysis. Government had reasonable suspicion to seize the package, whether reasonable suspicion was needed or not.
Ton affirmatively narrowed the scope of his Fourth Amendment claim in the suppression hearing to an argument that reasonable suspicion did not support seizure of the package. Record on appeal thus lacks findings Ton needs to support argument about the detention being an unreasonable amount of time. Panel's decision to not address the merits of this additional argument is upheld.
STATUTES: None
Kansas Court of Appeals
ATTORNEY AND CLIENT—INTENT
CALHOUN V. STATE
SEDGWICK DISTRICT COURT—AFFIRMED IN PART
REVERSED IN PART—REMANDED
FACTS: Calhoun was convicted of multiple high-level felonies. The jury was instructed that it could convict Calhoun if it believed Calhoun was either the principal or an aider or abettor. The jury instruction on aiding and abetting allowed the jury to find Calhoun guilty if it believed that the crimes were a "reasonably foreseeable" consequence of the intended crime. At trial, Calhoun admitted that he participated in the robbery but denied committing any of the violent crimes with which he was charged. After Calhoun was convicted of some, but not all, of the charges he faced, two jurors came forward with reports of a compromise verdict. Calhoun's motion for a new trial was denied. Calhoun's convictions were affirmed on direct appeal and his petition for review was denied. Calhoun then filed a timely K.S.A. 60-1507 motion which argued, in part, that both trial and appellate counsel were ineffective for failing to argue that the jury instruction on aiding and abetting was inappropriate. The motion was denied and this appeal followed.
ISSUES: (1) Trial errors; (2) aiding and abetting jury instruction
HELD: K.S.A. 60-1507 can be used to correct trial errors only if exceptional circumstances exist. Calhoun never argued the existence of exceptional circumstances, and the court will not consider allegations of trial error in this proceeding. The aiding and abetting instruction given to the jury allowed for a guilty finding if the jury believed that any of the crimes with which Calhoun was charged were reasonably foreseeable consequences of the intended crime of aggravated robbery. Supreme Court precedent establishes that this jury instruction is not appropriate for defendants, such as Calhoun, charged with specific intent crimes. Trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to this instruction, and appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise this issue on direct appeal. The jurors' comments about their confusion shows that the jury was improperly influenced by the inappropriate instruction. For this reason, Calhoun's convictions for aggravated kidnapping, attempted voluntary manslaughter, and criminal threat are reversed based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
STATUTE: K.S.A. 21-3205, 60-1507
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Kerry didn't take the map with him, so after several hours of going in circles we ended up in the middle of nowhere.
Greg asked for a pay raise.
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Nyirbaktai Tattay István (Kisvárda (Szabolcs megye), 1863. március 20. – Budapest, 1939. november 5.) tábornok, honvéd-százados, vezérőrnagy.

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Reáliskolai tanulmányainak végeztével 1879-ben a császár és királyi báró Lenk 5. számú tüzérezredhez mint csapatnövendék belépett és a budapesti hadapród-iskolába rendeltetett, ahonnét 1883-ban mint hadapródőrmester a császári és királyi 69. gyalogezredhez helyezték át, ahol 1884-ben tiszthelyettes lett. 1885-ben a székesfehérvári 65. honvéd zászlóaljhoz helyezték át, 1886 májusában hadnaggyá nevezték ki a 18. gyalog féldandárhoz, 1887-ben a 19. féldandárhoz helyezték és ott mint zászlóalj-segédtiszt működött. 1887-88-ban a felsőbb tiszti tanfolyamot elvégezte; 1890 májusában főhadnagy lett. 1891. júniustól október végeig a 82. honvéd gyalog-dandár segédtisztje volt és innét a 18. honvéd gyalog-ezredhez helyezték át. 1893-ban a brucki lövésziskolát elvégezte; azután áthelyezték a 20. honvéd gyalog-ezredhez, ahol 1897-ben századossá léptették elő. 1909. október végén a székesfehérvári gyalog-ezredhez őrnaggyá nevezték ki. A hadidíszítményes Ferenc József-rend tisztikeresztje, a hadiékítményes és kardos III. oszt. kat. érdemkereszt, a Signum Laudis, a Sebesültek érme és a Károly-csapatkereszt tulajdonosa volt. Elhunyt 1939. november 5-én, örök nyugalomra helyezték 1939. november 8-án délután a Farkasréti temetőben a római katolikus egyház szertartása szerint (2-11). Neje nemes Gardos Ilona volt.

Cikkei a Ludovika Akadémia Közlönyében (1889. Terepbirálat, harczászati tanulmány, 1893. Hírszerzés, hírszerző járőrök viselkedése); lyrai költeményei és humorisztikus tárczái jelentek meg a Kőszeg és Vidékében, a Soproni Hirlapban, a Fünfkirchener Zeitungban és a Fehérmegyei Hirlapban «nyirbaktai» és «nybty» jegyek alatt.

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 Esti Ujság 1909. 247. sz.
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 A magyar legújabb kor lexikona. Szerk. Kerkápoly M. Emil. Bp., 1930. Europa ny.

Magyar katonák
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Bitter taste receptors (Tas2Rs) are a subfamily of G-protein coupled receptors expressed not only in the oral cavity but also in several extra-oral tissues and disease states. For example, mammary epithelial cells express Tas2Rs, and their expression is downregulated in breast cancer. Tas2R expression was also observed in colon and pancreatic cancer, among others. As several natural bitter compounds from plants have displayed beneficial effects in ovarian cancers, the expression of several Tas2R subtypes was characterized in ovarian cell lines and patient tissue samples and their functionality was determined. Our qPCR analysis of 5 TAS2Rs shows that mRNA expression of several Tas2Rs was significantly reduced in ovarian cancer cells when compared to healthy tissue. Tas2R14 was also shown to be expressed using immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry on epithelial ovarian carcinoma tissues. Tas2R proteins were also expressed in various ovarian cancer cell lines and their expression was decreased with receptor-specific siRNAs. Noscapine stimulation of ovarian cancer cells resulted in an effect on apoptosis that was receptor-dependent. Our results demonstrate that Tas2Rs are expressed in ovarian cancer and their activation has an impact on cell survival.


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In the future, farmers will look back on old farming techniques and marvel at the wastefullness of dumping tons of chemicals all over the ground. Why didn't they just put the treatments where they are needed?
We have already seen this idea applied to kill bugs. Now it is also used for killing weeds.
Here is an example of a way that robots can be used to target weed killing herbicide on the farm. This robot is solar operated for long days in the field. It uses stereo vision to search out weeds among the crops. When it finds a weed, it reaches out with a special cutter arm and chops it off. Next it sprays the remaining stem with a squirt of herbicide. So there! Nasty weed!
A team of engineers led by Dr. Lei Tian at the University of Illinois came up with the idea of the solar driven robot from other research they were doing. While working on remote sensing of crops they have to walk the rows taking measurements to compare actual readings to remote data.
One day, one of the poor overworked grad students fainted from the heat. Maybe there was a better way than grad student slavery?
Their first robot was okay but the batteries ran out every couple of hours. So the solar panels were added to supply continous power. And the panel shades the cameras for better visual identification.
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A 'priceless' Neolithic stone circle in Orkney which is more the 4,000-years-old has been vandalised.
Damage to the Ring of Brodgar includes graffiti which has been engraved into one of the stones at the site near Stenness.
It is believed to have been caused sometime between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Inspector David Hall said: 'The stones at the Ring of Brodgar are priceless historical artefacts and the damage caused cannot simply be estimated in monetary terms.
'For someone to damage them in this way is a particularly mindless act.
'I would urge anyone who has visited the area over the last weekend to think back and if they believe they may have seen something suspicious, even if it didn't seem of much note at the time, to let us know.
It is within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney Unesco World Heritage Site.
This also includes a large chambered tomb called Maes Howe, the Stones of Stenness and a settlement – Skara Brae.
The ring was built around 2,500 to 2,000BC and covers an area of almost 8,500 square metres.
It is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles – behind Avebury and Stanton Drew – and is the largest in Scotland.
One of the stones has already been vandalised, carrying a Norse runic inscription, while at least one other has been struck by lightning.
Sir Walter Scott wrote in 1814 of the Ring of Brodgar and Stones of Stenness that 'Stonehenge excels these monuments, but I fancy they are otherwise unparalleled in Britain'.
Historic Environment Scotland notes suggestions that the sites and monuments in the surrounding area were used for astrological observations from the Ring of Brodgar, but it is very hard to find conclusive evidence.


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Videodrome es una película canadiense de ciencia ficción y terror de 1983. Escrita y dirigida por David Cronenberg está protagonizada por James Woods, Sonja Smits y Deborah Harry en sus papeles principales. Ambientada en la ciudad de Toronto en los años 1980 la trama muestra al director ejecutivo de un pequeño canal de televisión que logra interceptar una transmisión televisiva que muestra formas extremas de violencia y tortura. El protagonista irá perdiendo la cordura a medida que trata de descubrir la fuente de la señal, sufriendo progresivamente extrañas y violentas alucinaciones.

Distribuida por Universal Pictures fue la primera película de Cronenberg con apoyo de un importante estudio de Hollywood. Si bien resultó un fracaso de taquilla, con un presupuesto de $5.9 millones y una recaudación de $2.1 millones, la cinta recibió críticas favorables en aspectos como los efectos especiales y de maquillaje, la dirección, la actuación de Woods y Harry, y su temática críptica y psicosexual. Entre los galardones que obtuvo se incluye el premio a mejor dirección en la quinta entrega de los Premios Genie.

Calificada por Andy Warhol como "La Naranja Mecánica de los ochenta" el filme es considerado como un clásico de culto y es citado como una de las mejores películas del director además ejemplificar el subgénero de horror corporal.

Argumento
Max Renn es el presidente de CIVIC-TV una estación de televisión UHF de Toronto especializada en programación sensacionalista. Disgustado con la configuración actual de su programación, que consiste principalmente en pornografía suave y violencia gratuita, busca nuevos contenidos que lleguen a una nueva audiencia.

Una mañana lo convocan a la oficina clandestina de Harlan, quien opera una antena parabólica no autorizada de CIVIC-TV que puede interceptar transmisiones procedentes de lugares lejanos como Asia. Harlan le muestra a Max "Videodrome", un programa de televisión sin trama, aparentemente transmitido desde Malasia, que muestra la brutal tortura y el eventual asesinato de víctimas anónimas. Creyendo que este es el futuro de la televisión Max ordena a Harlan que comience a emitir el programa sin licencia y experimenta una primera alucinación a la que seguirán muchas más. Entrevistado en un programa, Max defiende la programación que emite su estación ante Nicki Brand, una psiquiatra y presentadora de radio, y el profesor Brian O'Blivion, un analista y filósofo de la cultura pop que solo aparece en televisión si su imagen se transmite al estudio en un televisor desde una ubicación remota. O'Blivion ofrece un discurso que profetiza un futuro en el que la televisión suplanta la vida real.

Max sale con Nicki y, durante la cita, ella se excita sexualmente cuando este le muestra un episodio de "Videodrome" y lo convence de tener sexo sadomasoquista con ella mientras lo miran.

Max acude, una vez más, a la oficina de Harlan, donde este le dice que el retraso de la señal que hizo que pareciera venir de Malasia fue una estratagema de la estación emisora original y que "Videodrome" se está transmitiendo en realidad desde Pittsburgh. Al enterarse de esto Nicki viaja, bajo la apariencia de un viaje de negocios, a Pittsburgh con la intención de audicionar para "Videodrome" pero nunca llega a regresar a Toronto.

Max contacta a Masha, una directora de pornografía softcore, y le pide su ayuda para descubrir la verdad sobre "Videodrome". A través de Masha, Max se entera de que no solo las imágenes no son falsas sino que "Videodrome" es la "cara" pública de un movimiento político. También le comenta que el profesor O'Blivion es conocedor del programa y está vinculado con el mismo. Max inicia la búsqueda de O'Blivion localizando un refugio para personas sin hogar donde se alienta a los vagabundos a participar en sesiones de maratón para ver televisión. Max descubre que el objetivo del refugio, dirigido por Bianca, la hija de O'Blivion, es lograr la visión de su padre de un mundo en el que la televisión reemplaza todos los aspectos de la vida cotidiana.

Posteriormente Max ve una cinta de vídeo en la que O'Blivion le informa que "Videodrome" es un campo de batalla socio-político en el que se libra una guerra por el control de las mentes de los pueblos de América del Norte. Poco después Max comienza a experimentar alucinaciones perturbadoras en las que su torso se transforma en un agujero que funciona como una videograbadora. Bianca le dice que estos son efectos secundarios de haber visto "Videodrome" yaa que lleva incorporada una señal de transmisión que hace que el espectador desarrolle un tumor cerebral maligno. O'Blivion ayudó a crear el programa como parte de su visión para el futuro, pero cuando descubrió que iba a ser utilizado con fines malévolos, intentó detener a sus socios pero estos usaron su propio invento para matarlo. En el año anterior a su muerte, O'Blivion grabó decenas de miles de vídeos, que ahora forman la base de sus apariciones en televisión.

Max es contactado por la productora de "Videodrome", Spectacular Optical Corporation, una compañía que tras la apariencia de una empresa dedicada a los productos ópticos en realidad se dedica a la fabricación de armas. El jefe de Spectacular Optical, Barry Convex, ha estado trabajando en secreto con Harlan para mostrar a Max "Videodrome" con el objetivo de que lo difunda por su emisora, como parte de una conspiración para causar tumores cerebrales fatales a gente de clase baja obsesionados con el sexo extremo y la violencia.

Convex posteriormente inserta una cinta de vídeo, con la intención de hacer un lavado de cerebro, en la protuberancia surgida en el torso de Max. Bajo el influjo de Convex, Max asesina a sus colegas en CIVIC-TV y luego intenta asesinar a Bianca O'Blivion, pero ella logra detener a Max mostrándole una cinta de video de Nicki siendo estrangulada hasta la muerte. Bianca luego "reprograma" a Max para volverse contra "Videodrome". Por orden de Bianca, Max mata a Harlan y a Convex. Tras hacerlo se refugia en un barco abandonado donde Nicki se le aparece en un televisor. Ella le dice que con sus acciones ha debilitado "Videodrome" pero para vencerlo por completo debe ascender al siguiente nivel y "abandonar la vieja carne". Posteriormente la televisión muestra una imagen de Max disparándose en la cabeza lo que provoca la explosión del estudio donde está. Recreando lo que acaba de ver en la televisión, Max pronuncia las palabras "Viva la nueva carne", apunta el arma a su cabeza y aprieta el gatillo tras lo cual la pantalla funde a negro.

Reparto

James Woods — Max Renn
Sonja Smits — Bianca O'Blivion
Debbie Harry — Nicki Brand
Peter Dvorsky — Harlan
Leslie Carlson — Barry Convex
Jack Creley — Brian O'Blivion
Lynne Gorman — Masha
Julie Khaner — Bridey
Reiner Schwartz — Moses
David Bolt — Raphael
Lally Cadeau — Rena King
Henry Gomez — Brolley

Producción

David Cronenberg recuerda que durante su infancia solía captar señales de televisión provenientes de Buffalo (Nueva York), a altas horas de la noche, cuando una estación canadiense finalizara sus emisiones y le preocupaba la posibilidad de ver algo perturbador no pensado para el consumo público. Esta experiencia sentó las bases para la trama de Videodrome. En su juventud fue estudiante de ciencias en la Universidad de Toronto aunque luego se decantó por un diploma en Literatura. Durante este tiempo Marshall McLuhan ejercía como profesor de ciencias de la información en la misma universidad y a menudo se le acredita como una influencia para la película Videodrome.

Con un presupuesto aproximado de 6 millones de dólares el rodaje de la película comenzó el 19 de octubre de 1981 con una primera semana dedicada a capturar imágenes que servirían como insertos en los monitores durante la película. Estos incluían los monólogos televisivos del Profesor Brian O'Blivion, las escenas de tortura del programa "Videodrome" y las escenas de pornografía suave de los programas "Samurai Dreams" y "Apollo & Dionysus".

Se usaron cintas de video Betamax como elementos para insertar en la ranura del estómago de Max porque las cintas en formato VHS eran demasiado grandes para caber en la falsa herida abdominal. La pantalla ondulante del televisor, que resultó ser una de las imágenes más icónicas, con el que Max interactúa se creó usando un proyector de vídeo y una lámina de goma dental. El diseñador de efectos visuales de la película, Rick Baker, declaró:

Finales

Se rodaron tres finales diferentes y el finalmente utilizado, en el que Max se dispara en un barco abandonado, fue idea de James Woods. Una de las intenciones iniciales para el final fue incluir un epílogo después del suicidio, en el que Max, Bianca y Nicki aparecen en el set de "Videodrome". Se muestra que Bianca y Nicki, como Max, tienen hendiduras en el pecho de donde emergen órganos sexuales grotescos y mutados. Cronenberg describió su visión original del final de la siguiente manera: "Después del suicidio, Max termina en el set de 'Videodrome' con Nicki, abrazándose y besándose y cosas como esa. ¿Un final feliz? Bueno, es mi versión de un final feliz: el chico se encuentra con la chica en el set de 'Videodrome', con la pared de arcilla tal vez cubierta de sangre, pero no estoy seguro. Imágenes de renacimiento freudiano, puro y simple". Tras el lanzamiento de la película en The Criterion Collection el director atribuyó su decisión de omitir el epílogo al menos parcialmente a sus propias creencias ateas, ya que la aparente resurrección de Max y Nicki en el plató de "Videodrome" podría interpretarse como que habían ido a una vida futura, mientras que el propio Cronenberg no cree en una.

Música

Una composición original fue compuesta para Videodrome por Howard Shore. La partitura se compuso para seguir el descenso de Max Renn a las alucinaciones de vídeo, comenzando con una música orquestal dramática que incorpora progresivamente, y finalmente enfatiza, la instrumentación electrónica. Para lograr esto Shore compuso una partitura completa para orquesta antes de programarla en un sintetizador digital Synclavier II. La partitura renderizada, tomada del Synclavier II, se grabó y se reprodujo en conjunto con una pequeña sección de cuerdas. El sonido resultante fue una mezcla sutil que, a menudo, dificulta saber qué sonidos son reales y cuáles son sintetizados.

La banda sonora también fue publicada en 1982 en disco de vinilo por el sello Varèse Sarabande. En 1998 y 2000 el mismo sello reeditó la banda sonora en formato de disco compacto. El álbum en sí no es solo una copia directa de la partitura de Shore sino un remix. Shore ha comentado que si bien hubo pequeños problemas con algunos de los números acústicos, "en general creo que les fue muy bien".

Recepción

La película obtiene valoraciones positivas entre los críticos profesionales y los usuarios de portales de información cinematográfica. Se ha descrito como una "película tecno-surrealista inquietante" y "ardientemente intenso, caótico, indeleblemente surrealista, absolutamente como nada más". La revista Fotogramas le otorga una puntuación de 2 sobre 5. Juan Luis Caviaro en su reportaje de EspinOf "David Cronenberg: 'Videodrome', la nueva carne" analiza los paralelismos con Scanners (1981) y reseña "la trama, en el fondo muy simple, y bastante similar a la de 'Scanners' (el héroe marginado contra el villano que pretende dominar una nueva especie de humanidad), da pie a Cronenberg para explorar los temas que le interesan, y para ofrecer al público otra buena ración de poderosas imágenes que se quedan grabadas en las retinas, posibles gracias al formidable trabajo de Rick Baker(...) destacar igualmente la impecable interpretación de James Woods(...) y la inquietante composición musical de Howard Shore, imprescindible para adentrarnos en el turbador, enfermo, sucio relato de Cronenberg".

Janet Maslin de The New York Times (1983) la "innovación" de la película, elogió la actuación de Woods por tener una "ventaja muy auténtica" aunque reseñó "al final se vuelve grotesca y pierde un poco la coherencia, su comienzo es magnífico y su ingenio se sostiene prácticamente durante toda la película". El personal de Variety (1983) escribió que la película "demuestra ser más fascinante que distanciante", y elogió los "impresionantes efectos visuales". Gary Arnold de The Washington Post (1983) le dio a la película una crítica negativa, llamándola "estúpida y aburrida: demasiado fallida como para sobrevivir a la exposición que tendrá por parte de los amantes del terror, que por otro lado acabarán desilusionados con la obra". Adam Smith de Empire (2015) le dio a la película 4 de 5 estrellas calificándola como un "ejemplo perfecto" de horror corporal e indicando que "Cronenberg es el director vivo más importante que existe en el género del terror. Tardarás mucho tiempo en olvidar esta película". Trace Thurman de Bloody Disgusting (2015) la enumeró como una de las ocho "películas de terror que se adelantaron a su tiempo". También fue seleccionada como una de las "23 películas más extrañas de todos los tiempos" por Total Film. Nick Schager de Esquire (2018) clasificó la película en el número 10 en su lista de "las 50 mejores películas de terror de la década de 1980".

Durante un extenso análisis para Cultugrafía, el crítico cultural Alberto Hernando advierte sobre la "monstruosa teoría de sistemas" que subyace en la película de Cronenberg: "Max, el personaje de James Wood, no solo consume la señal de Videodrome sino que también es consumido por ella. La Nueva Carne es la integración del cuerpo en el sistema de la tecnología: la unión mano-pistola. Otra imagen inolvidable por su encarnizada carga conceptual: Max conectándose con Videodrome a través de un beso con la televisión, la realización material de su deseo erótico de penetrar en el canal de BDSM. (...) Ninguna imagen muestra tan visceralmente este cambio de agencia del usuario a favor de la herramienta/sistema que la programación de Max mediante unas cintas de vídeo que introduce por la ranura de pliegues carnosos y palpitantes que le ha nacido en el vientre, como un VHS o una disquetera viviente."

En el agregador de críticas Rotten Tomatoes tiene una calificación de "fresco" del 78%, basada en 51 críticas profesionales, y del 80% entre las 41.213 valoraciones de los usuarios del portal. Su consenso dice: "Visualmente audaz, desorientador y simplemente extraño, las reflexiones de Videodrome sobre tecnología, entretenimiento y política todavía se sienten frescas hoy".

Premios y nominaciones
A pesar de su pobre desempeño comercial la película ganó varios premios tras su lanzamiento.

En el Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Bruselas de 1984 empató con Bloodbath at the House of Death en el premio a la Mejor Película de Ciencia Ficción. Mark Irwin recibió un Premio CSC (Sociedad Canadiense de Cinematógrafos, por sus siglas en inglés Canadian Society of Cinematographers) a la Mejor Fotografía.

Fue nominado para ocho Premios Genie obteniendo un galardón para David Cronenberg como Mejor Director.

También fue nombrada la 89a película más esencial de la historia por el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto.

Bibliografía

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Videodrome Crítica en InternalBleeding (en inglés)
 Ensayos sobre la película en criterion.com (en inglés)
 Una lista de textos académicos sobre la película (en inglés)

Películas de terror de Canadá
Películas de 1983
Películas distópicas
Películas surrealistas
Películas de ciencia ficción de Canadá
Cine de terror de los años 1980
Películas dirigidas por David Cronenberg
Películas de Universal Pictures
Películas sobre televisión
Películas ambientadas en Canadá
Películas rodadas en Toronto


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Q: How would I produce JUnit test report for groovy tests, suitable for consumption by Jenkins/Hudson? I've written several XMLUnit tests (that fit in to the JUnit framework) in groovy and can execute them easily on the command line as per the groovy doco but I don't quite understand what else I've got to do for it to produce the xml output that is needed by Jenkins/Hudson (or other) to display the pass/fail results (like this) and detailed report of the errors etc (like this). (apologies to image owners)
Currently, my kickoff script is this:
def allSuite = new TestSuite('The XSL Tests')

//looking in package xsltests.rail.*
allSuite.addTest(AllTestSuite.suite("xsltests/rail", "*Tests.groovy"))

junit.textui.TestRunner.run(allSuite)

and this produces something like this:
Running all XSL Tests...
....
Time: 4.141

OK (4 tests)

How can I make this create a JUnit test report xml file suitable to be read by Jenkins/Hudson?
Do I need to kick off the tests with a different JUnit runner?
I have seen this answer but would like to avoid having to write my own test report output.

A: After a little hackage I have taken Eric Wendelin's suggestion and gone with Gradle.
To do this I have moved my groovy unit tests into the requisite directory structure src/test/groovy/, with the supporting resources (input and expected output XML files) going into the /src/test/resources/ directory.
All required libraries have been configured in the build.gradle file, as described (in its entirety) here:
apply plugin: 'groovy'

repositories {
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}

dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.+'

    groovy module('org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:1.8.2') {
        dependency('asm:asm:3.3.1')
        dependency('antlr:antlr:2.7.7')
        dependency('xmlunit:xmlunit:1.3')
        dependency('xalan:serializer:2.7.1')
        dependency('xalan:xalan:2.7.1')
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        dependency('xml-apis:xml-apis:2.0.2')
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test {
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    testLogging.showStandardStreams = true //not sure about this one, was in official user guide

    outputs.upToDateWhen { false } //makes it run every time even when Gradle thinks it is "Up-To-Date"
}

This applies the Groovy plugin, sets up to use maven to grab the specified dependencies and then adds some extra values to the built-in "test" task.
One extra thing in there is the last line which makes Gradle run all of my tests every time and not just the ones it thinks are new/changed, this makes Jenkins play nicely.
I also created a gradle.properties file to get through the corporate proxy/firewall etc:
systemProp.http.proxyHost=10.xxx.xxx.xxx
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyUser=username
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=passwd

With this, I've created a 'free-style' project in Jenkins that polls our Mercurial repo periodically and whenever anyone commits an updated XSL to the repo all the tests will be run.
One of my original goals was being able to produce the standard Jenkins/Hudson pass/fail graphics and the JUnit reports, which is a success: Pass/Fail with JUnit Reports.
I hope this helps someone else with similar requirements.

A: I find the fastest way to bootstrap this stuff is with Gradle:
# build.gradle
apply plugin: 'groovy'

task initProjectStructure () << {
    project.sourceSets.all*.allSource.sourceTrees.srcDirs.flatten().each { dir ->
        dir.mkdirs()
    }
}

Then run gradle initProjectStructure and move your source into src/main/groovy and tests to test/main/groovy.
It seems like a lot (really it's <5 minutes of work), but you get lots of stuff for free. Now you can run gradle test and it'll run your tests and produce JUnit XML you can use in build/test-reports in your project directory.

A: Since you're asking for the purposes of exposing the report to Jenkins/Hudson, I'm assuming you have a Maven/Ant/etc build that you're able to run.  If that's true, the solution is simple.
First of all, there's practically no difference between Groovy and Java JUnit tests.  So, all you need to do is add the Ant/Maven junit task/plugin to your build and have it execute your Groovy junit tests (just as you'd do if they were written in Java).  That execution will create test reports.  From there, you can simply configure your Hudson/Jenkins build to look at the directory where the test reports get created during the build process.

A: You can write your own custom RunListener (or SuiteRunListener). It still requires you to write some code, but it's much cleaner than the script you've provided a link to. If you'd like, I can send you the code for a JUnit reporter I've written in JavaScript for Jasmine and you can 'translate' it into Groovy.

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HollywoodNews.com > *NEWS > Box Office Report For February 14-16
Sun, Feb 16 2020 | Published in *NEWS, AWARDS, CELEBS, HEADLINES, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV
Box Office Report For February 14-16
Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, we only have a handful of new releases opening wide in Downhill, Fantasy Island, The Photograph, and Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as the second weekend for Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), or just Birds of Prey, if you'd prefer. How did they all do? Read on to see how the weekend turned out…
Easily taking the top spot was Sonic the Hedgehog, overcoming that horrid first wave of buzz when its initial trailer came out. Managing solid reviews after its rejiggered visuals, Sonic raced to a hearty $57 million opening. Suffice it to say, a new franchise is born. Considering its video game roots, this could be considered one of the more successful adaptations in some time. If nothing else, it's a win for Paramount after the disastrous start to the marketing blitz.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) fell to number two, continuing its disappointing box office run. Falling almost 50%, it took in just a little more than $17.1 million, seriously putting into jeopardy its sequel hopes. We could still see one, but for whatever reason, this just did not break as big as was hoped…
Third place was a close contest between Fantasy Island and The Photograph, with the latter headed towards fourth by a very slim margin. Fantasy Island (sporting some terrible reviews) is currently looking at $12.4 million, while The Photograph (representing the romantic options for Valentine's Day) is sitting right now on almost $12.3 million. Both are solid but unspectacular results, so I'm sure Sony and Universal, respectively, are somewhat satisfied with how the movies did.
Parasite jumped into the top ten, following its historic victory at the Oscars. A shade over $5.5 million represents a number of new viewers discovering the Best Picture winner for the first time, as well as some folks revisiting it after the Academy Award success!
Only managing the tenth slot was Downhill, which was dinged at the Sundance Film Festival by middling reviews. That kept it from being anything close to a hit for Searchlight, as the final haul for the weekend is looking like only about $4.6 million. Alas.
Opening in limited release, First Lady made about 60K on 68 screens, The Times of Bill Cunningham took in around 44K on just a pair of screens, and Ordinary Love grabbed almost 25K from a trio of screens…
Here now is what the (estimated) top ten looked like at the box office for this weekend:
1. Sonic the Hedgehog – $57,000,000
2. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – $17,115,000
3. Fantasy Island – $12,400,000
4. The Photograph – $12,270,000
5. Bad Boys for Life – $11,305,000
6. 1917 – $8,090,000
7. Jumanji: The Next Level – $5,700,000
8. Parasite – $5,500,500
9. Dolittle – $5,050,000
10. Downhill – $4,671,000
Beyond the top ten, here's some further results at the box office:
11. The Gentlemen – $2,730,000
12. Knives Out – $2,127,000
13. Little Women – $1,525,000
14. Gretel and Hansel – $1,493,261
15. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – $1,267,000
16. Jojo Rabbit – $924,000
17. Frozen II – $865,000
18. Just Mercy – $765,000
19. The Turning – $550,000
20. Spies in Disguise – $497,000
21. Portrait of a Lady on Fire – $440,907
22. Ford v Ferrari – $375,000
23. The Assistant – $212,352
24. Uncut Gems – $172,094
25. The Lodge – $126,000
26. Bombshell – $125,000
27. The Last Full Measure – $89,490
28. Like a Boss – $75,000
29. Weathering with You – $68,331
30. First Lady – $60,517
Until next weekend!


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