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W00t. TV+Me = Do I have to go to work today?
Unfortunately, my puny honda could not handle the load so I must wait for it to be delivered. Oh the agony of wait. Work will be quite unnerving tomorrow as i wonder to myself "is it there yet, is it there yet".
Anyways, once it does arrive it will need to be properly broken in. We were thinking about watching The Rock (criterion collection), or The Matrix. Any films out there that you would suggest to awe us with the might of this new box? Movies that start with "The" get a plus in my book!
KB1 looked good on TV, KB2 looked even better in the cinema.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ?
I would pass on the Matrix. It's not as if we haven't seen it 100 times (in the theatre, on HBO, on Shotime, etc, etc).
Personally, I think "The Rock" is an excellent choice. The Criterion Edition is very nice.
Sometimes, though, I think that I want to go the other way, and appreciate something that is subtly creepy and engaging. For this, I recommend "Memento".
I would recommend "The Seven Samurai", but unfortunately, it was filmed in 2:1 (or 3:1, or something close) aspect ratio, so you don't get the benefit of the 16:9 aspect ratio you have.
I also think that "Spider-Man" is a good choice, as some of the views are quite grand (as well as the perspectives that they are presented in, due to the acrobatics of Spidey).
The most important question is, do you have a progressive scan DVD player with component outputs to take advantage of your HDTV?
Here's a good one. Finding Nemo. The animation is amazing anyway. It'd look great on a brand new TV like that.
How about Last of the Mohican's ?? Not exactly new but terrific nonetheless.
Is this your first wide screen television? If so, be prepared to be disappointed with most movies that shows sub-titles. When you play a movie that has sub-titles on a regular 3:4 screen the sub-titles appear on the black bar at the bottom of the screen (usually – see the two most recent star wars movies). On a wide screen television you will not see that black bar, hence you will not see the sub-titles. Very annoying.
or if you're into the arty kinda film, Gerry.
Try "The Gladiator" and "2Fast2Furious"
Can't go wrong with, uh, The Ronin either.
The Rock. No holds barred on of the best action films ever! Solid intense action. Well a nice big new TV is going to be one of my first purchases when I get up there to Redmond as well.
It has the capability of outputting higher resolution then progressive scan DVD (1080i and 720p vs 480p).
The picture quality through the DVI cable is *incredible*.
It's a little pricey compared with normal progressive DVD's, but worth it.
The sound and the effects in this movie are amazing!!!
You need a good DTS surround system to fully enjoy this.
My Dad always used this when he set up a new sound system.
You know I wasn't that impressed with A.I. But it is one of the films on my list to watch again when I get a big screen in the living room.
Turn the sharpness setting all the way down. Turn contrast way down, too.
To break in your screen, put it on broadcast TV for a day & come to work. We miss you.
The next day, put a DVD in on loop.
Continue such activities with a variety of media. Avoid things with a bright static image.
After 100 hours, adjust the convergence & borrow my Avia disk to tune the other settings.
The laboratory scene in Fifth Element is a MUST for checking out the glory of any new TV.
If you got a speaker set with it, Black Hawk Down, Top Gun, and Behind Enemy Lines are worth a look.
The audio in Black Hawk Down will blow your mind.
Animatrix rules. I was one of a lucky batch that got to see it in the theater during the last Seattle International Film Festival. That was an experience not to be missed.
Memento: I don't think will wow me on the TV. But I can try.
Spider-man I've seen way to much (they played it on my college station all the time), and i'm not enthralled enough with it to want to watch again. Spidey2 looks amazing though.
Dune movies sucked 🙁 (well, the extende duber directors cut of the one with Patrick Steward in it was almost decent). Such a shame for my favorite book.


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12 Dividend Stocks Increasing Payouts
Texas Instruments and Kroger join a roster of companies raising their shareholder payouts and increasing dividend yields.
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joined a roster of companies raising their shareholder payouts this week.
boosted its quarterly dividend by 8.3% to 13 cents per share, payable Nov. 22 to shareholders of record on Nov. 1.
That brings its yield to 2.1% as of midday Friday. Texas Instruments also announced plans to buy back $7.5 billion worth of its common stock, throwing more money toward its shareholders.
Grocery store operator Kroger said Thursday it would increase its quarterly payout by 10.5% to 10.5 cents per share. The new dividend will be paid Dec. 1 to shareholders of record on Nov. 15, for a yield of 1.9% at current prices.
Marsh & McLennan, a risk consultancy firm, raised its shareholder payout by 5% to a quarterly dividend of 21 cents per share. That brings its yield to 3.4% as of midday Friday. The new dividend will be paid Nov. 15 to shareholders of record on Oct. 8.
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UDR, a real estate investment trust that manages apartment communities around the U.S., also declared a regular quarterly dividend on its Series E Preferred Stock for the third quarter of 2010 in the amount of 33.22 cents per share, payable Nov. 1, and regular quarterly dividend on its Series G Preferred Stock of 42.19 cents per share, also payable Nov. 1.
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BioMed also declared a dividend of 46.1 cents per share of the company's 7.375% Series A cumulative redeemable preferred stock for the period from July 16 through Oct.15. It will also be paid Oct. 15.
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Corporate Office Properties also declared a 50 cent dividend per Series G cumulative redeemable preferred share, a 46.9 cent dividend per Series H cumulative redeemable preferred share, a 47.7 cent dividend per Series J cumulative redeemable preferred share, and a 70 cent dividend per Series K cumulative redeemable convertible preferred share.
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"At our annual Financial Analyst Conference today, we outlined our intention to issue a dividend during the current fiscal year ending July 30, 2011," the firm said. "Size and timing of the dividend will be determined in the coming months, taking into consideration tax policy and broader market conditions."
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S03.E08: Unfit
AnswersWanted replied to AnswersWanted's topic in The Handmaid's Tale
Anyone can get away with anything at any given time on this show, and that's due to the terribly inconsistent writing. I don't buy that June attacking Ofmatthew so violently would go completely unnoticed, especially since she was screaming and cursing at her at the top of her lungs and forcing her half off the side of the bridge in broad daylight. That should have gotten someone's attention, and it would have but it just wasn't written to. The writers didn't want June caught or taken to task, so she wasn't, that's how they've been operating this whole season. Even in this episode, before Ofmatthew's freakout, we saw that regarding the entire group of Handmaids, all led by June, openly bullying Ofmatthew and not a single one of them got a mere crack across the knuckles for it, or a cattle prod jab to the ribs. The show only makes a big deal of consequences or punishment when it wants to further along the plot, but aside from that these characters get a free pass to do almost anything they want and everyone who supposedly would catch or punish them goes on standby. June is the most highlighted example because she's the main character we see usually getting away with shit, but she's certainly not the only one and it's just as ridiculous for her as it is for anyone else who's trapped in Gilead. In season 1 you got the sense of constant fear and trepidation and terror everyone felt, worried any little mistakes could mean certain death. Even in season 2 it was still present at times, like Serena's whipping or her finger being removed, or when Nick's baby bride thought about reporting him as a gender traitor, and also when she and her new lover were cruelly executed by public drowning. But this season is the season of no fucks given or taken when it comes to consistently and sensibility. The show will give itself a pass on whatever it wants to, from sexy tangos, to June losing her shit in open public, to a pregnant handmaid being gunned down.
That's probably my greatest source of frustration at the moment with this show. Some shows clearly run out of ideas and creative inspiration and it's blatantly obvious, so when you see them stretching for plots and storylines that are doomed to fail you get why. But this show has the complete opposite problem, they aren't lacking in potential, they have plenty to work with, both from the original source material and the quality of actors, mainly, that they've working with. But somehow they keep giving us the bare minimum, if that. There's no sense of quality control, they go for the most basic, hohum, contrived ideas and then act as if they've crafted incredible masterpieces. It's like this show has become a a Michael Bay production, all flash and no substance. Oh I think I hated on Nick plenty the first time around, heh. I didn't care for the character or the actor much. If he does come back this season, he'll probably be a general or something. But no matter what happens to him or anyone else on screen, time will always be made for June's nose hair pan, er I mean "closeup". That is a common issue with this cast and the writers. I ofteh just want to ask them, honestly, what show are they watching/filming, because it sounds like it'd be a huge improvement over the mess of a shit bomb THT has become. If you really went off their interviews you would think this show is one for the ages, it's baffling. I mean, I know most actors and writers hype their own work for obvious reasons. But the way they talk about this show seems borderline delusional.
Oh now there's an idea, I like it. Except there was a lot more Nick in that one...well, I guess that's still a sacrifice worth making, heh. Honestly that is one thing I will say has been nice about this season, Nick has barely been a factor. I was getting tired of his brooding boredom, especially after last season. I guess even the show forgot what else they could do with him after killing off his baby bride. Take three, I know well the feeling. This show has crashed and burned rather spectacularly from where it was in season 1.
I admit I fanwanked hard in season 1 because of how much I loved the book and seeing such a large chunk of it brought to life was really enjoyable. And it was right after...everything, heh, so that too fed into my desire to support this feminism heavy endeavor. But like you said, those great qualities that the book had, and season 1 displayed, are almost nowhere to be found. I honestly feel like I'm watching a rip-off of the original show, it's so unbelievably off base and seems to be portraying these characters as completely opposite to who they used to be. A sadist aunt like Lydia who thrives on inflicting pain and suffering on her "girls" now merely asks them nicely to mind her and behave. That's ludicrous based on what we've already seen from her, including this season. That horrid wench has brutalized Janine in a rage, she's zapped June with clear ferocity and desire to cause significant pain, but now she just sees no way around June's insolence, just no way at all...fuck off, show. And the handmaids...are they tortured prisoners of Gilead, sentenced to be raped and abused, or are they now just a bunch of gal pals ruining the joint, taking shit from nobody, giving no fucks whatsoever. Ah, HH, now there was a masterpiece. And it was meant to be a comedy. This show has become hilarious for all the wrong reasons. I now believe that the show has officially stopped trying to oppress its' characters within the show because it now freely oppresses its' viewers. Normally I'd want full writing credit for an idea, but in this case... *slowly backs away whistling* Heeeeee, I love this group. Amen. It's really sad to see what was once such an important voice of the story turned into a laughably bad joke. I remember wondering if I even wanted to start the thread for this episode, I was so let down by it, even more than I thought I would be. But then I just wanted to express my exact feelings in the moment so, heh, that came out. Were it not for this forum I probably would have checked out already. Oh, and welcome! We have wine, cheese and crackers, and limitless snark, please have as much as you like. Oh that is perfect. Now I want to see them doing one of those tragic and trashy sit down "tell all" reunions, complete with drunken slaps, hair pulling, and unintelligible screaming of every curse word known to man. Now that would have been a golden take on her backstory. When I realized they were going to involve a failed romance angle into Lydia's trigger moment I just had to sigh and roll my eyes. This character had more than enough established layers that they should have been able to cone up with something even half as good as you did. Her motivation could have been based on everything from religious fanaticism to being a sadist sociopath, the well to draw from was deep with Lydia. Instead the show just went with the basic package of "woman felled by lust" and it's such a tired, overplayed, trope at this point, so unoriginal and tedious. They could have dedicated the entire episode to Lydia, frankly with all the ridiculous handmaid bullshit they stuck in, I would have preferred a solo Lydia tale. Start her at the beginning of her day in Gilead, and as she goes through it, they could have flashed through her backstory, showing us pre-, during, and post Gilead Lydia. This show has forgotten not only how to tell a story, but also how to just merely entertain, imo. I don't want to spend twice as long as I did watching afterwards in my head trying to make sense of what I just watched, and connecting umpteen dots to complete the story they couldn't be bothered to finish themselves.
Tell the truth. This show is the one who made it clear to us what sort of society Gilead is, you don't just stop playing by its' rules, that will get you killed or you will end up in Jezebel's if you're a female to be prostituted to death basically. But now all these rules suddenly just have poofed, they don't apply to the most vulnerable members of this unforgiving society. Are they actually trying to say the second Lydia and her henchwomen saw their "girls" acting out so boldly they wouldn't have immediately been applying cattle prods and feet whippings, among other punishments, to get these troops back in line? There's no way these aunts would fuck around with even a sniff of such anarchy, they can't afford to. If the handmaids start revolting then they have a huge problem, they have to keep these women submissive and beaten down by the system by any means necessary. These fuckers once faked a mass handmaid hanging to "teach the girls a lesson", now they just wring their hands hopelessly, not knowing whatever can be done with these rowdy young ladies? That is straight up just fucking ridiculous. Here, the show would rather have Lydia dealing with the obvious ringleader, June, like she's her wayward niece whose been sent to her for the Summer to get back on the "right track" and improve her wild behavior. The harsh realities of this world no longer apply, and not only do we the viewers know it, the characters seem to as well, especially June. June may be fertile and she's proven she can deliver a healthy baby, but at this point Gilead wouldn't trust her to pee in a chamber pot unsupervised. Lydia would have marked June ages ago for reassignment, after all she is the one who in an earlier episode screamed at June she would have had her on the wall if she'd had her way. And if reassigned I could easily see June sent to DC, making sure her bad influence on the others was removed completely. It would be the perfect place for a rebel like her. A place where handmaids lose their ability to speak freely and are practically taught to kneel and heel for their masters, like proper pets. They would have either broken June by now or killed her trying, unless she managed to somehow get away. But instead we have unbreakable, unwavering June thwarting the system in its' face at every turn. And make no mistake, her Sisterhood of the Traveling Red Cloaks are all coming with her. Just try and stop them... Oy.
Plot Holes, Plot Armor, and Other Things a 2nd Year Film Student Could Do Better
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In that interview Miller sunk to a whole new low for me. Even if I still had any hope for this season to somehow make a miraculous come back, and I absolutely do not, but it I did this interview would have dashed it all to bits and pieces. In fact I would be furious for an entirely different reason. For him to practically say "fuck it, she lives because the story says so, the end", to me he might as well be telling me to shove it. I'd be the one still trying to give his ass the benefit of the doubt, trying to trust the process and his end game, but this is how he'd repay my good faith and viewership loyalty? GTFO with that mess. Miller clearly has no respect for the audience, I'm convinced of that. It's one thing if he felt people don't agree with his vision or his take on Atwood's work and he defended himself against the criticism, but he wants to basically wash his hands of his own writing choices and decisions, and is unabashedly saying anyone who has an issue with the terrible plots needs to chill by implying the method to his madness is that he's working with a predetermined ending, and that isn't even true. He has personally made or directly been involved in all the major decisions for this show, even when using Atwood's direct writings, but especially now he is the main head writer in control. No wonder the writing keeps punking us, because this jerk is a punk.
Just when I thought I couldn't stand Bruce Miller any less, he goes and does this. Okay, just...this is real, guys. Somehow, this is real... The Handmaid's Tale's Showrunner Shares What Keeps June Alive I...I've gone choleric again, I think I popped a blood vessel from internally raging so hard. So now he's back to claiming there is a shortage of handmaids even after we saw a goddamm massive hoard of them in DC, sure. Yeah...fine. Oh, and he also claims that: ...was he high when he gave this interview? Just feeling all the good vibrations he forgot what show and character he was supposed to be talking about? June is very wise...? She takes small chances...? This is madness! This has to be the most trolling interview he's given to date. They should have just put up a picture of him with both middle fingers up, laughing, surrounded by money. But I can't even get worked up about that too much, because this mf-er actually said this next: ...so lemme get this straight. Bruce Miller is basically telling us that since we know June "survives", supposedly, we just need to chalk everything up to happenstance, it doesn't really matter what's written on the show or how many times she fucks up royally or how many times she openly breaks the rules. She is going to live because it's already been predestined and therefore no other outcome can reached, bullshit writing and plots be damned. He is literally and figuratively incapable of writing anything that could interfere with June's survival. It's just not POSSIBLE. Now in the book: Dear sweet teenage jesus on a moped, mother Atwood must be crying blood tears right now. I never thought he would actually give us such a shitty, fucking copout, this really surprised me. He is officially the worst. At what exactly? I am just going to say "all the things", full stop.
Oh there just aren't enough expletives in the world at this point, heh. I never had to turn on a show the way I have with this one to be honest. Season 1 was like one of the best experiences I've ever had as a TV watcher, and to see what I'm seeing now, I feel personally attacked in so many ways. THT is no longer about the handmaid experience, imo, and not just because we don't see the "ceremony" anymore, or so much open brutality, but the whole universe seems to have shifted. I find it somewhat amusing that Miller developed the show "Eureka" but he hasn't got a clue about how to make this show appropriately function with its' subject matter. Watching the handmaids in this episode was baffling, they were handmaids in name only, but their behavior, their demeanor was like something out of a cheesy C movie drama on LMN about a girls' club at junior high where one member gets excommunicated. Not only doesn't June show fear anymore, though that's been happening all damn season, but in this episode almost none of them do either. It was too tempting for the writers, I guess, to pass up the chance to show June and her handmaid crew giving you all the attitude and "face!" because these ladies are hardcore. I could not roll my eyes enough about this bullshit. These women are watching and participating in hangings occurring every other day, they are still followed by guards who seem rather trigger happy, so much so in fact that they would actually fire on a pregnant handmaid, but none of that matters because hey're safe from repercussions the same way June is and so they operate as such. The writing team ensures these characters will hardly face a basic scolding, then there will always be some lazy excuse given for it and everything moves on until the next time. To me this current style of writing completely removes, not to mention ruins, the illusion these are tormented and tortured sex slaves, helpless, hopeless, victims in fear of the slightest mistakes or errors which could lead them to the colonies or the wall. If they wanted to start showing the handmaids resisting more and more, they skipped some pretty key steps. Step 1 should have been to provide these characters with actual resistance. We should have seen them actually pushing back, getting knocked down and then getting back up again only more determined than before, while all in keeping with the brutal, absolute consequences they sold us on during season 1. At this point any semblance of accountability for the key players has vanished, it's nonexistent. Everyone vital to the plot is always going to be safe and survive in this world, regardless of it being Gilead, a heartless, cold, cruel regime without any true sense of consciousness and morality. But if June wants to act out and mouth off, look out, she's the queen bee around here. I can't and won't accept that kind of fuckery just because she's the lead. I said something similar to this in another post of mine - if Miller wants to.make this show some kind of Sci-fi production where characters survive the impossible and improbable, and there's always some other worldly magic barrier that keeps the plot safe no matter what, I'd rather he stop halfassing it. When Emily was driven away with Holly at the end of season 2, I feel as if she was the last, true handmaid I've seen since. Just like June, these women may wear the uniforms and bonnets, but their handmaid roles are merely lip service now for the most part. They're daring and fearless and sassy and in your face about it in a place where a mere disagreeable word could get a finger removed or burnt hands just for starters. Yeah, I'll buy that, right along with Lydia being a secret dominatrix at Jezebel's. And I hope to god I just didn give them any ideas...
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June operates based on the plot, that's all she's been doing this entire season. She didn't escape when it made zero sense to remain in Gilead, she got tricked by Fred and Serena because of course she's super gullible when necessary, she leveled her path to Hannah by being dumb and careless as fuck, she apparently sees no point in working Lawrence for further favors as she displayed in episode 8, and now they've stuck her in a hospital room with the same handmaid they all are clearly aware she openly, like straight up in your faces, hates and despises, and yet they're going to act as if June isn't a huge danger to Ofmatthew, and on top of that she's being "driven insane" and will snap and attack another character impervious to any and all Gilead repercussions. This show has become the rollercoaster ride from hell. June has taken so many twists and turns as a character she's practically a pretzel. She does what she's written to do, like a plot barbie doll, she functions only to make shit happen while nothing actually happens to her, and seeing her lunge at Serena is not exciting or surprising to me, it's more pointless filler of so called "rebellion" that will render nothing earned or gained. For attacking a wife June would be sent to the colonies or hung, will she be? 'Course not, and it's tiring. She's not rebelling, she's not even resisting because June has no real resistance, she has to win and survive for the next episode to happen, so since this is just episode 9 we are on, June is guaranteed another pass for openly being the world's worst, most disobedient, and frankly unhinged handmaid. Honestly they should just have her rewire one of the hospital machines to explode for a diversion, then she could take someone hostage and make her way out to go on the run yet again. If Miller wants so badly to change June into this Sci-fi power princess then he needs to stop halfassing it. But this chick stopped being a handmaid at the end of season 2.
I'm an equal opportunity hater, heh, I can hate all aspects to a story that is a complete failure no matter which way I look at it. I am also more than willing to take the show at face value, and right now, imo, its' face value is that it is a god forsaken shit pit of pointless plots, stagnant storylines, and character assassination, when they even bother to focus on actually writing characters and not just putting people places to do things that will either shock the audience or other. I read a review about this episode that basically said the show gave us a great reason to not care about her or her reasons for being who she is thanks to such a poorly executed story, and I could not agree more. This back story did not humanize her or make her further complex and interesting, it made her a cheap caricature. I see no need why they would even what to have Lydia's backstory hing on such a stereotypical path to darkness, especially for a female. There was no need to involve a man at all with her. Regardless of it was a failed romance or spurred sex tryst, whatever the case may be, Lydia could have and should have been written as a person first, not a reeved up libido gone wild. There was so much more she could have been than a plain Jane religious pollyanna that took one failed night of sexual awakening and let it become the main motivator for her descent into darkness. They might as well have just made her a staunch virgin who always viewed loose, immoral women as little she devils who used their lustful bodies to defy god and brought his wrath upon the US, cursing it with infertility and pollution. This show continually wants to settle for telling a story that's severely lacking in creative, inspiration, and motivation.
Welp, I guess if they want to fully torpedo the premise this season ever had a point or purpose, this type of episode will do nicely. This is just getting ridiculous. June basically is playing 10 different characters at this point, and none of them are good. So we're back to a season 1 throwback, June in isolation losing her mind, but we're now holed up in the hospital, because sure, why the fuck not, and we're going to have a physical altercation that will surely lead to more of nothing because June and Serena are not going anywhere. Yawn. I already feel like this mess has truly turned into a horror show, they really didn't need to prove it with this kind of episode.
Oh no...so much beautiful, glorious hate, lost to the interwebs forever...a moment of silence please...heh.
_ Preach. It was like we'd entered the Handmaid Nursery School in the middle of class right after one of the girls had been "naughty". It was such a pathetic attempt to recapture the same horror scene we witnessed in season 1. That was such a belittling and dehumanizing experience to witness. This? Was positively shameful. They're so far off the mark they cannot even manage to match what they've already done before. It's astounding that these writers keep mining the same shit pit and they just go deeper and deeper. At this point they should have just left in that entire cast dance sequence to the Taylor Swift song, it would have fit in just fine. In fact it would have worked better than 95% of this season has managed to. But she did her hair and makeup though. Her HAIR AND MAKEUP!! And she wore SEQUINS!!! What is a woman if she can't get a man to give it to her? Well she becomes a bitter aunt who encourages rape and torture, that's what. So remember ladies, if you don't get the "d" there's no point in living life for yourself, none whatsoever, just give up. Give up and make sure the whole world BURNS!!!!!! THT just throwing down all the "More You Know" gems left and right.
Hah! Double jeopardy just took on a whole new meaning. BatJune (swoops down from the shadows) Fear not, lowly citizen handmaid, I saw the signal and- Handmaid (currently hiding in the bushes) : You've come to rescue me?? BatJune: Why would I do that? You have those safety bushes anyway. What I was wondering is do you happen to know where they took my daughter by any chance...? Handmaid: No, I...but I have a daughter too, her name is Ma- BatJune: Whoops, time flies when you don't care. Anyhoodles, I'm sure it'll all work out for ya. Oh look, here come some helpful dudes in vans! They're sure to give you a lift! Handmaid: Wait!! BatJune: Gotta go, it's scrabble night and I have the perfect 12 letter word score! Also this review, I want to share wine and cheese crackers with it. It's nice to see even some of the more ardent reviewers are throwing up their hands at this point. The show is just too messy and discombobulated to keep defending. "Unfit" is the worst episode of The Handmaid's Tale Yet I just want that title alone quoted at Miller and Littlefield through the world's largest and loudest megaphone for days and days and days straight.
No, you missed nothing, they gave us nothing to explain her rapid descent into madness to such a degree. Being upset and feeling alone is one thing, this chick lost every bit of her shit because June stared at her basically like the Joker on acid. They decided another handmaid had to pull a Emily, that's precisely what this scene reminded me of except in Emily's case we knew exactly what caused her to snap, crackle, and pop off, and we had been building up to it for weeks. But these writers just cared about having more mayhem suddenly go down, with June at the center of it all as always. The way she waggled her eyebrows at Ofmatthew and used her eyes to gesture towards Lydia right before she pointed the gun at her definitely gave me telekinesis vibes as well. It was quite possibly the most ridiculous scene this show has aired so far. And last season we had a magic wolf...I am actually nearly dumbfounded they found a way to top themselves, but yet I know I shouldn't be.


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Before Trouble Breaks Loose: Is It Possible to Get Notified About Failing Network Components Without the Need of a System Admin?
When each day is a disaster waiting to happen, you may need help. In a world confused by cloud technology, blockchain systems, super smartphones, IoT, BYOD, and bigger challenges, someone must have an eye and hand on things.
Considering the risk and cost of failing network components, IT best practices demand effective alerts on mission-critical moves, Contemporary business practices have pushed IT well beyond managing local office networks. Networks now traffic in live streaming, email transactions, web conferencing, file sharing, and loads of other applications testing your best-quality bandwidth.
Before trouble breaks loose, what can IT do?
Map your baseline. Every business differs, and one approach does not fit all. There is not a cookie-cutter strategy.
IT must have some vision of how things should work in the specific business environment. The baseline will evolve over time, but there must be some sense of how the network infrastructure should perform. That baseline is the first clue to what devices, connections, switches, and routers are not performing.
Inventory the devices: IT must know what devices enjoy network privileges. Large networks are challenged daily with new and reconfigured devices.
IP addresses, memory utilization, hardware peculiarities all complicate a network and its management. Network management requires awareness of device inventory and alerts those devices present.
Structure preemptive alerts. Large networks need more than troubleshooting protocols. Any network is only as good, secure, and cost-effective as its alert structure.
You need a predictive warning system, not just a fire alarm. For instance, if you monitor your network using ipswitch, you have real-time network monitoring and deep-dive troubleshooting. Active monitors poll devices for an up/down or yes/no response while passive monitors follow SNMP traps, Syslog, and Windows Event Logs from networked devices and servers. Alerts report via email, text, or Slack for whole-team sharing.
Plan for capacity. Any network monitoring project must anticipate scaling. Any bandwidth must anticipate growth in users and devices. Building for growth gives IT a strategic role, more significant than its responsive mode. Network congestion may be the first alert, and unwinding it takes more effort and cost than planning for it.
Capacity planning differs from forecasting. Forecasting is descriptive and capacity planning is prescriptive. Capacity planning is a strategic practice that anticipates, budgets, and implements the logistical needs that keep IT aligned with organizational goals.
Is it possible to get notified about failing network components without the need for a system admin?
Yes, it is possible to get notified without the need for a system administrator. That's not to diminish or eliminate the role of an IT System Administrator. But, a quality alert system can relieve the System Administrator to play a more positive strategic role.


Nov. 7, 2018, 4:30 a.m.
Rohrabacher, a Republican who's served in Congress for 30 years, told the supporters and volunteers at his election-night party that Democrats had spent wildly to try to defeat him.
Leading in the vote count nearing midnight Tuesday and before the race had been called, a jubilant Mike Levin went ahead and claimed victory in the 49th Congressional District.
"We are going to win," said Levin, an environmental attorney in Orange County, as he awaited a tally from the San Diego County registrar of voters.
In a crowded hotel ballroom in Del Mar, accompanied by his wife, Chrissy, his two children and his parents, he told several hundred enthusiastic supporters and campaign workers that it was time to celebrate.
Nov. 7, 2018, 4:13 a.m.
To resounding cheers and applause on Tuesday, Democratic congressional candidate Josh Harder took the stage at a downtown Modesto banquet hall and said he was proud of running a campaign that didn't "get dragged down into the mud" but painted a brighter picture for the Central Valley.
If there has been any Central Valley congressional district with a shot of turning blue this election, it has been this one where Democrats hold a slight edge in registered voters and carried the last two presidential campaigns. And if there has been any candidate that supporters have believed could bridge the area's growing urban-rural divide, it has been Harder.
Nov. 7, 2018, 3:00 a.m.
Bob Schieffer, the elder statesman of CBS News, has been part of the network's midterm election coverage since 1970. But he was not getting into the prediction business on Tuesday night.
Few can argue with California Democrats that their sweeping victories on Tuesday are a clear mandate to set in place an agenda for the state that will last well into the next decade. Less clear, though, is what those marching orders should be — and whether voters will embrace the full panoply of demands that have lurched the state's dominant party leftward since the election of President Trump.
Nov. 7, 2018, 2:52 a.m.
California cemented its role as a defiant counterweight to the federal government on Tuesday as the state's voters elected Gavin Newsom, an enthusiastic adversary of President Trump, as their next governor.
Nov. 7, 2018, 1:56 a.m.
Rep. Jacky Rosen, dubbed "Wacky Jacky" by President Trump as he campaigned for Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, defeated the incumbent in a bitter race.
Nov. 7, 2018, 1:51 a.m.
Cox was met with cheers as he took the podium in the U.S. Grant Hotel's ballroom shortly after 9:30 p.m., telling the crowd that he'd called his opponent, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, wished him well and offered him assistance.
Nov. 7, 2018, 1:32 a.m.
Even in death, Dennis Hof remains larger than life.
Nov. 6, 2018, 11:58 p.m.
Democratic state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra has been elected to a full term as California's top cop, holding off a challenge from Republican Steven Bailey.
Becerra, a former congressman from Los Angeles, was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to replace the state's former attorney general, Kamala Harris, after she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
In his time in office, Becerra has made headlines by suing the Trump administration over a number of federal policies. Bailey is a retired defense attorney and judge from El Dorado County in Northern California.


Elected to Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997.
Mario Lemieux scored 690 goals and recorded 1033 assists in his 915-game career with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He began playing during the 1984 season and last took the ice during the 2005 campaign. Lemieux was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997.


Looking to access newsgroups while on the go? Nowadays its easier than ever, especially with current gen phones.
It's easy and simple to subscribe, manage and read news groups.
Limited support for binary groups so photos and pictures can be displayed as well. It's possible to add photoes into the photo album.
Quotes are displayed in different colors. Hyperlinks can be opened in the web browser Safari.
Filter available for read articles and quotes.
Backup feature (requires a Macintosh computer and the Mac application "NewsTap Backup Tool"), which can be used to save and restore preferences and subscriptions. This feature can also be used to import export "newsrc" files so you can synchronize NewsTap with other Newsreader applications on your Mac. This feature requires a Mac, currently it doesn't work with Windows.
It is available for $4.00 on the iPhone App Store. NewsTap is pretty easy to navigate and as noted by the list of features, has many different options to customize the iPhone newsreader to your liking. NewsTap Lite is also available for trial use.
Easy reading using colors for the different levels of quoting.
Screen to easily select what lines to quote when replying to someone.
Messages are grouped by thread using separators to clearly define thread changes and thread level indicators.
Starring of users and authors.
Mail forwarding of Usenet messages.
Although currently in beta, the Groundhog Newsreader is pretty stable on the Android system with little to no comments of any crashing (as often is the case with 3rd party applications) with its latest releases. Best of all, its Free.
NNTP, RSS and RDF Transport support.
SSL Encryption for NNTP support.


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The 2014 Nobel prize for economic sciences will be announced on Monday, October 13, 2014.
Last year, the prize was given to Eugene Fama, Lars Hansen, and Robert Shiller for their empirical analysis of asset prices.
Who will win in 2014?
The pool of obvious candidates has considerably thinned and thus it's becoming increasingly more difficult to pick the winners in any given year. History and development are fields that could possibly win and William Baumol and Dale Jorgenson aren't getting any younger.
Thompson Reuters makes many predictions based on citations and so its usefulness is low. They offer three predictions. Aghion and Howit, Baumol and Kirzner, and Granovetter. Of these, the only one I think might achieve it this year is Baumol.
Betting Organizations: I spoke to William Hill and other betting organization and they don't offer odds on this.


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Djurrättsalliansen är en svensk djurrättsorganisation som drivs i form av ideell förening. Organisationen arbetar för att öka djurs rättigheter och anser att alla former av djurhållning är oetiskt. Djurrättsalliansen förespråkar veganism.

Historia
I november 2009 publicerade gruppen smygfilmat material från svenska grisgårdar som påvisade dåliga levnadsförhållanden. Det väckte stor uppmärksamhet i media och kom att kallas grisskandalen. Två av Djurrättsalliansens medlemmar som hade filmat dömdes senare för olaga intrång.

Året efter, 2010, visade Djurrättsalliansen upp minkarnas situation på svenska minkfarmer genom att ha smygfilmat på en stor del av landets farmer.

Djurens Rätts pris, Guldråttan, delades 2010 ut till Djurrättsalliansen, för dess avslöjande av den svenska grishållningen. Priset delas ut årligen till någon eller några som har gjort en exceptionell insats för djuren.

I slutet av 2009 kunde Djurrättsalliansen tillsammans med Animal Defenders International se till att tre försöksapor från Smittskyddsinstitutet pensionerades och flyttades till ett djurhem för apor i England. De tre aporna, Bacill, Bacillusk och Baloo, kom till Smittskyddsinstitutet 2003 och användes i ett djurförsök kring hjärnforskning, där den ursprungliga planen var att de skulle avlivas efter försökets slut.

2014 omplacerade organisationen 243 chinchillor från Sveriges sista chinchillafarm för pälsproduktion.

Kampanjer

Djurrättsalliansen har bedrivit ett antal kampanjer (i urval):

 Kampanjen "Ett liv som gris", som publicerade bilder och filmer från grisfarmer i Sverige, gav upphov till stor uppmärksamhet i media och kom att kallas grisskandalen.

 Kampanjen "§ 4 - Sveket Mot Minkarna" fick viss medial och politisk uppmärksamhet.. Länsstyrelsen gjorde då extrainspektioner vid några av de utpekade minkfarmerna men fann inte den utbredda vanvård som Djurrättsalliansen hävdat.
I januari 2019 uppmärksammades ett djurförsök på labradorer vid Göteborgs universitet av Djurrättsalliansen. Försöket väckte stor uppmärksamhet och engagemang hos allmänheten och på bara en vecka samlades över 84 000 namnunderskrifter in och överlämnades till Göteborgs universitet. Även många kända profiler som Louise Boije af Gennäs, Rickard Söderberg, Mian Lodalen och Lars-Åke Wilhelmsson engagerade sig i hundarnas öde och skrev en debattartikel i hopp om att rädda hundarna och musikproducenten Anders Bagge erbjöd sig att ta hand om en av hundarna.  I utlandet engagerade sig komikern Ricky Gervais och skådespelaren Peter Egan. Även engelsk massmedia följde hundarnas situation i Sverige. The Times, The mirror och The Daily Mail, rapporterade om djurförsöken på hundar vid Göteborgs universitet. Trots detta avlivades hundarna i slutet av februari 2019.
I juni 2020 filmade Djurrättsalliansen hur personal vid Sveriges största äggföretag, CA Cedergren, plågade hönor till döds. Hönorna slogs med påkar och en klämdes ihjäl i en dörr. Efter att SVT visade filmen för länsstyrelsen i Kalmar polisanmäldes händelsen.
Den 12 januari 2021 sände TV4-nyheterna Djurrättsalliansens smygtagna filmer från ett svenskt KRAV-slakteri . På filmerna, inspelade under flera dygn, slår slakteripersonalen grisar med kedjor, stampar dem i ansiktet och slaktar djur som inte är bedövade. Efter avslöjandet drog KRAV tillbaka sin certifiering och slakteriet stängdes. När länsstyrelsen hade gått igenom över 140 timmar av Djurrättsalliansens filmmaterial, polisanmäldes fyra identifierade personer på slakteriet för djurplågeri och brott mot djurskyddslagen. Filmerna från slakteriet drog igång en debatt i riksdagen om att införa obligatorisk kameraövervakning på svenska slakterier.

Kritik
I ett reportage i radioprogrammet Kaliber uppmärksammades år 2010 bland annat Djurrättsalliansens försök att få pälshandlare att sluta med sin verksamhet, i programmet uppmärksammades även påstådda kopplingar mellan Djurrättsalliansen och Djurens Befrielsefront.

I juni 2014 dömdes flera aktiva och framstående personer inom Djurrättsalliansen till fängelse av Göta Hovrätt för flera medialt uppmärksammade brott mot minkfarmare och deras anhöriga. De dömdes för bland annat brott mot griftefrid, olaga hot, skadegörelse och mordbrand. Brotten begicks i en annan organisations namn - Djurrättsmilisen. Djurrättsalliansen tog avstånd från handlingarna och de som dömdes för brotten uteslöts ur organisationen.

Källor

Se även

 Animal Liberation Front
 Djurens Befrielsefront
 Djurens Rätt
 Djurrätt
 Djurrättsaktivism
 Earth Liberation Front

Externa länkar
Djurrättsalliansens webbplats

Djurrättsaktivism
Intresseorganisationer i Sverige
Ekoterrorism

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Your pants maker is lying to you.
So, we all know that clothing sizes, granting that there never has been anything really standardized, have been gradually inflating, so that todays size 6 is more like yesterday's size 10.
Fine. But that's women's clothes, and to an extent, men's tops. But aren't pants supposed to be sold by waist measurement in inches?
I've recently lost a lot of weight and even more waistline, thanks to my new "don't make a complete pig of yourself all the time and ride your bicycle at least 7 hours a week, plus other activities" diet (note to publishers: let's talk book deal). So I've been buying a fair number of trousers so that I don't have to hold my pants up with one hand anymore.
Here's the score: measured waist: 34".
1" I can understand. But 4"? Pants are often sold in 2" increments, so that's off by two sizes.
I'm a 30" leg if you care, and the relax-fit tapered-leg is good for me because I have a cyclist's thighs, which is to say big and muscly. Just ask Eric. And also, because they were $20 at Able Auctions' Coquitlam liquidation centre.


I am studying hard for the Net+ exam and will take it hopefully within the next week. What test is harder Server+ vs Security+ ? I already have my A+ cert and hopefully in a week or two the net+ as well. Having both those certs which certification would be easiest to attain? I am somewhat thinking the Server+ since I already covered a lot of the hardware in the A+ and a lot of the networking in the Net+ exams. I am cramming this summer and going to add as many certs to my resume as I can. I had just the A+, but now I passed an MTA last week so that is two certs now. My goal is to have 4-5 certs on my resume sometime in the middle of August. Opinions on what cert is easier to get?
I haven't taken either but based on the fact you just finished A+ and still have it fresh in your mind I recommend you do server+ you are going to see alot of the same hardware concepts (Raids, ram, ect.) With some more server specific concepts.
Security+ I just started studying but there's more software/knowledge info than hardware.
Security+ involved more studying and more memorization for me. I enjoyed studying for the Server+ a lot more than Security+.
Server+ is almost like an "A+ Advanced" certification. Sort of continues on where A+ stops.
After you do Network+ go do Server+ unless in your area there is a lot of DOD jobs. Server+ is really an advanced A+. Good thing about Server+ you can get the voucher cheap and also the study guides cheap.


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Boko Haram Attacks Predominantly Christian Community in Nigeria
Home » Boko Haram Attacks Predominantly Christian Community in Nigeria
Islamic extremist militants from terrorist group Boko Haram destroyed three worship sites and an unspecified number of houses in northeast Nigeria Friday night (Feb. 21), sources said.
Thousands of people were displaced as the militants set three church buildings and the houses on fire in predominantly Christian Garkida, in Adamawa state's Gombi County, area residents told Morning Star News.
"Please, pray for Christians in Garkida, Gombi LGA and its environs, that God will take control over the current situation they're faced with," one resident told Morning Star News by text message during the attack, which local sources said lasted from 7 p.m. until midnight.
The charred buildings belonged to the Church of the Brethren (EYN), the Anglican Church and the Living Faith Church, area resident Watirahyel Mshelia said.
"The Boko Haram insurgents were in hundreds and came into the town in nine trucks, while some rode on 50 motorcycles," Mshelia told Morning Star News.
Another area resident, Manasseh Allen, said in a text message during the attack, "Our people in Garkida are right now running for their lives as Boko Haram carries out attacks on the community."
Allen said reports about an impending attack by Boko Haram reached Christians in the town at about 1 p.m. on Friday, but that Nigerian armed forces took no proactive steps to protect them.
"In spite of all the local intelligence reports on the afternoon of Friday, after the terrorists were sighted around Kwarangulum in Chibok Local Government Area, which is close to Garkida, no effort was made by soldiers stationed in the area to preempt the attack," Allen said. "I feel very sad about this."
The attack broke up a meeting of the EYN congregation's Christian Women's Fellowship, said Yohanna, another Garkida resident, Sunday.
Local media reported that the militants abducted an unspecified number of Christians. The number of casualties was unknown as many people had left town prior to the raid, though a military spokesman reportedly said one soldier had been killed and another wounded. The few remaining residents were said to have fled into hiding in the surrounding bushes upon sighting the Boko Haram invaders.
Adamawa Police spokesman Suleiman Nguroje confirmed the attack in a text message to Morning Star News.
"We have received a report that there is an attack in Garkida, and we've mobilized personnel to the area," Nguroje said.
Residents told Nigerian newspaper the Daily Trust that the assailants first attacked a military checkpoint on Friday before razing public and private buildings in Garkida. Saying the attackers held the town for hours, ransacking and looting buildings, a local resident told the newspaper that the insurgents overpowered police and vigilante defenders before burning a police station, police barracks, church buildings, a hospital, a health center, and the homes of two local officials.
The military had restored order and was patrolling the streets on Saturday (Feb. 22), a resident told the newspaper. The Daily Trust cited a security source as saying Boko Haram rebels, which seek to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, acted unchallenged for hours despite the presence of soldiers in the town during the siege.
A resident told another Nigerian news outlet that Nigerian army soldiers engaged the Boko Haram rebels in a gun battle but then pulled back for reinforcements, during which time the insurgents inflicted most of the damage. The terrorists reportedly advanced to neighboring towns after soldiers returned and drove them out.
Nigeria ranked 12th on Open Doors' 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution, but second in the number of Christians killed for their faith behind Pakistan.
–The Baptist Press
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Q: Why project cannot find references for WebJobs.Core? Following this I created a console .Net Core 2.1 application, and I'm using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Core NuGet v. 3.0.0-beta5. For some reason the project can't compile as it says it cannot find the assemblies. Why on earth?

A: Actually, you do not need to install Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Core NuGet v. 3.0.0-beta5.
You could just try to install Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs version 3.0.0-beta5. Then it will work.
This Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs package contains the runtime assemblies for Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host. It also adds rich diagnostics capabilities which makes it easier to monitor the WebJobs in the dashboard. For more details, you could refer to this article.

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This project addresses the formation of defects in parts manufactured from polymer matrix continuous fibre reinforced composite materials. Predictive numerical models will be developed to study the effect of variability in the defect formation process. Finally the collective learning from the experimental and numerical work will be used to develop strategies to mitigate against defect formation during manufacture. The key focus will be on out-of-plane waviness, which is the end result of a complex interaction of factors.
An experimental and numerical programme is being undertaken to explore the compaction behaviour of carbon fibre prepreg material under processing conditions consistent with automatic fibre deposition, hot debulking and pre-cure consolidation in an autoclave. Two main concurrent deformation mechanisms were observed in a bespoke experimental programme; shear flow, where the laminate behaves as a highly viscous incompressible fluid, and percolation flow where the pressure gradient causes resin flow relative to the fibres.
An analytical model, based on micro-structural considerations and addressing the percolation/shear flow transition, was developed. The flow transition is a complex process, occurring at various scales and associated with high heterogeneity of the pressure distribution within a single ply and/or fibre tape. The chosen resolution of the model is at the tape level since the end target of this work is the characteristic scale of fibre wrinkle formation. It is not possible to capture the flow transition at this scale structurally. Hence a pragmatic concept is needed. The transition from shear flow to resin bleeding is considered as an event rather than a process. It is postulated that there exists a critical shear at the flow front at which the squeezing flow appears to be blocked. Upon this blocking, resin loss is considered to be the result of bleeding along the fibre channels, which makes squeezing and bleeding models compatible. Hence, before and after the transition, the model material response is described by conceptually similar equations. The model then only needs the input of three parameters that can be determined relatively easily from one single compaction test.
Simulations of the experimental programme were performed using the material parameters derived from the experiments. The tape dimensions and initial fibre directions were input as material parameters. This introduces some level of nonlocality into the model as the behaviour of one point in a ply is made dependent upon the geometrical and mechanical characteristics of the ply it belongs to. An excellent match between experiments and FE predictions was obtained. Proper model comparison against more complex geometries is now needed to fully validate the model.


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Q: Is it good practice to name a method of a objects property in JavaScript? I have heard having names for your anonymous functions helps with debugging.
JQuery:
$( "p" ).on( "click", function clickHndlr() {
    /* body...*/
});

Node:
var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter,
    emitter = new events.EventEmitter();

    emitter.on('customEvent', function customEventHndlr (message, status) {
        /* body...*/
    });

Vanilla JS:
button.addEventListener('keypress', function buttonHndlr() {
    /* body...*/
});

But what about an object?
var starShipChecker = (function() {
   var publicAPI = {
     checkForWarpDrive : function(starShip){
       if(!starShip.hasOwnProperty('warpDrive')) {
           starShip.warpDrive = undefined;
           console.log('Your star-ship, the ' + starShip.name + ', now has warp-drive!' +
           '\n' + 'Use the addWarpDrive method to apply the maximum warp relevant to your ship Class...');
       } else {
           console.log('Your star-ship, the ' + starShip.name + ', has warp-drive already!' +
           '\n' + 'But use the addWarpDriveMaxLevel method to apply the maximum warp relevant to your ship Class...');
       }
     },
    addWarpDriveMaxLevel : function(){}
   };
   return publicAPI;

})();

Would you get the same benefit? Or is it different because they're methods?
checkForWarpDrive : function checkWarpDriveLikeYouWereScotty(starShip){  /* body...*/},
addWarpDriveMaxLevel : function addWarpDriveLikeYouWereScotty(){  /* body...*/}

A: Yes. Same benefits (and more) there.
However, engines/debuggers are getting increasingly more intelligent, and will implicitly name the function by the key of the object property they are part of. ES6 even requires that (check the .name property). But if you were using ES6, you'd probably be using a method definition anyway :-)


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Q: Certs and Redhat Openshift In openshift we have hosted Spring boot based microservices. One of the microservice sends an email by connecting to a smtp server. There smtp server is part of the organization and it is not an external server. When the service tries to send an email I get the below error: This error occurs only in the higher environment and not in lower level DEV environment. What could be the reason?
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target. Failed messages: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not convert socket to TLS;

From the pods terminal when I try the below command
curl --ssl-reqd --url 'smtp://mailhost.myorg.com:587' --user 'usrname:pwd' --mail-from 'fromaddress@myorg.com' --mail-rcpt 'toaddr@myorg.com' --upload-file mail.txt -vv

and I get the below error EVEN in DEV.
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* About to connect() to mailhost.myorg.com port 587 (#0)
*   Trying 10.46.113.103...
* Connected to mailhost.myorg.com (10.46.113.103) port 587 (#0)
< 220-SVR.MYORG.corp ESMTP
< 220 Welcome to the Myorg Secure SMTP Relay
> EHLO mail.txt
< 250-myserv.myorg.corp
< 250-8BITMIME
< 250-SIZE 26214400
< 250 STARTTLS
> STARTTLS
< 220 Go ahead with TLS
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
*   CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* Server certificate:
*       subject: CN=myserv.myorg.corp,OU=SSL Servers,O=MyORG Inc,C=US
*       start date: Sep 21 13:41:03 2020 GMT
*       expire date: Sep 21 14:11:03 2022 GMT
*       common name: myserv.myorg.corp
*       issuer: CN=MyORG Inc Issuing CA,OU=Certification Authorities,O=MyORG Inc,C=US
* NSS error -8172 (SEC_ERROR_UNTRUSTED_ISSUER)
* Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user.
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
* Closing connection 0
curl: (60) Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user.
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
 bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.

So my question is

*

*When I do the curl, why it wont work in DEV and in higher environments

*When I make my service send the email, why does it work in  DEV and not in higher environments

A: You need to add the mail server certificate to the jre cacert inside your docker container with commands like this:
COPY mailServ.crt $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security
RUN \
    cd $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security \
    && keytool -keystore cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -trustcacerts -importcert -alias config -file mailServ.crt

The 587 port il the default non-secure and secure port for SMTP (some legacy ISP still using 465 for ssl). May be in your DEV environment SSL is not enabled on port 587, whereas in production SSL is mandatory.
As for curl, may be you need the option --cacert mailServ.crt. Moreover in DEV environment you probably have your self-signed certificate mailServ.crt in your JDK cacerts, but curl does not use it unless you put --cacert mailServ.crt. You might use the --insecure option as suggested for self-signed certificates as well.


And get chased by dogs.
It's not every day that we happen upon old and rare footage showing a pair of Bugatti EB 110s prototypes testing in the snow and ice. Fortunately, today is that day, so you're in luck. The EB 110 was the world's premiere supercar until the McLaren F1 came along and stole the spotlight, but the Bugatti was still quite something. Power came courtesy of a 3.5-liter quad-turbo (yes, quad) V12 with 550 hp, distributed to all four wheels through a six-speed manual. Performance was darn impressive, even by today's standards.
Zero to 62 mph happened in 3.2 seconds and the GT version reached a top speed of 213 mph. If these prototypes look a bit Lamborghini-ish, then your eyes aren't fooling you; they were designed by Marcello Gandini of Miura and Countach fame, hence the scissor doors.
The final EB 110 design was altered, so seeing these Marcello-penned test mules is particularly special. This video shows both EB 110 prototypes testing in the Italian Alps, and engineers are clearly having a good time. They're doing donuts, skidding around on ice, plowing through snow, and even going up and down a ski slope. And there were dogs present, for some reason.


Karl Dean easily defeated Craig Fitzhugh in Thursday night's Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Democratic candidate for Tennessee Governor and former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean talks to the media at his primary election returns watch party at Clementine Hall Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.
Karl Dean easily defeated Craig Fitzhugh in Thursday's Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a November general election where he'll try to become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in the Volunteer State in a dozen years.
In a landslide, Dean, former mayor of Nashville, won the Democratic nomination with around 75 percent of the vote, crushing the nearly 20 percent captured by Fitzhugh, the minority leader of the state House. Mezianne Vale Payne, a nurse from Gainesboro, finished with 5 percent. Dean will now face Republican nominee Bill Lee, a Franklin businessman.
It was a sweeping victory, with Dean winning 89 of 95 counties, including more than 87 percent of the vote from his home turf of Davidson County. He also won the state's other biggest Democratic stronghold, Shelby County, where Fitzhugh, of Ripley in West Tennessee, had stronger geographic ties.
Fitzhugh appeared to win only six counties in and around his House district.
The outcome capped a yearlong primary fight during which Dean, a heavy favorite from the beginning with a significant fundraising advantage, ran as a "pragmatic, commonsense, get-it-done" Democrat, not a partisan ideologue.
Dean, losing his voice, doubled down on that message during a short victory speech before a couple hundred supporters at a former church-turned-event center in West Nashville. He was greeted to the stage by chants of "We want Karl!"
"This energy is what we need to carry us through to Nov. 6," Dean, flanked by family, said. He applauded Fitzhugh, whom he spoke to earlier in the night, for running a "very spirited campaign."
"We are going forward. We are going forward in this together," Dean said. "I am proud of the very positive message we kept throughout the primary election. And we're going to keep it positive. That is what I want to do. ... I don't think people want hyper-partisanship."
Fitzhugh campaigned as "a Democrat who isn't scared to be one" — and yet he only rarely put Dean on the defensive for some of his more moderate positions, particularly the former mayor's strong support of publicly financed, privately operated charter schools.
"When we got into this race we knew we'd face long odds," Fitzhugh said to about 50 supporters gathered at a conference room inside the Cumberland Apartments in downtown Nashville. "Our campaign didn't have the most money, but I think we had the most heart."
Although Fitzhugh, 68, had support from many of his Democratic peers in the state legislature, Dean picked up endorsements in recent weeks from the state's two Democratic congressmen, Jim Cooper of Nashville and Steve Cohen of Memphis, a sign of Dean's clear front-runner status. Dean's fundraising edge gave him a major advantage on television with ads.
Out of the gate, Dean, 62, is the most formidable candidate Tennessee Democrats have fielded for governor since former Gov. Phil Bredesen won his re-election in 2006. But Dean will still be an underdog in Republican-dominant Tennessee come the Nov. 6 general election.
"I wouldn't have got into this if I didn't think I could win," Dean said when asked by reporters about the uphill fight he has running in a Republican state. "I'm not doing this for my health obviously. I've lost my voice. I'm doing it to win.
"Tennessee has a tradition where every eight years we alternate the party in the governorship," he said. "I think our state's more moderate than people really understand. And I think people want somebody who's going to be practical and pragmatic and get things done."
Dean will try to emulate the type of centrist campaign that has put Bredesen in strong position in his U.S. Senate race against Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn. The tandem of Dean and Bredesen puts two former Nashville mayors at the top of the Democratic ticket, but it's unclear how much they will campaign with each other.
Dean enjoys the ability to self-fund some of his campaign, having already poured $1.4 million into his primary run. He's positioned himself as a pro-business Democrat who, like Bredesen, has historically found success in Tennessee.
He's pushed Medicaid expansion to try to reopen rural hospitals that have closed. He's also touted better school funding, teacher pay and pre-K expansion rather than more controversial education reforms he backed as mayor, such as charter schools.
But winning in politically red Tennessee won't be easy. Republicans will look to paint him as a liberal — an effort that got underway Thursday night.
"Democrat Karl Dean is just another left-wing, big-government politician who will break his promises, dodge accountability and raise taxes," Jon Thompson, spokesman for the Republican Governors Association, said in a statement.
He called out Dean for supporting a property tax hike as mayor and Nashville's increased debt load under his watch.
"Karl Dean will take Tennessee backwards, and his record makes it clear that he simply does not believe in the policies that have made Tennessee the economic engine it is today," Thompson said.
Dean's socially progressive record as mayor could open himself up to further Republican attacks.
For example, he supported a nondiscrimination policy for gay, lesbian and transgender employees of city contractors, opposed a state bill allowing guns in parks, and successfully fought a referendum to make English Nashville government's official language.
Each were popular positions in Democratic-leaning Nashville, but they might not play as well in more conservative rural parts of the state.
To win in November, Tennessee Democrats, including Dean, are looking to capitalize on what they hope is a national revolt against President Donald Trump that trickles down to Tennessee.
But Republican candidates, including Lee, spent much of the campaign running to the right to shore up conservative support. Each routinely touted their support for Trump — backing that they believe is in line with the politics of the state. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 with 61 percent of the vote in Tennessee.
Dean's history as Davidson County public defender, a role that he held in the 1990s, also could provide Republicans with ammunition to allege that he's soft on crime because of various people his office defended. His public defender record came under attack from Rep. Bob Clement in Nashville's 2007 mayoral race, won by Dean.
Holly Meyer and Michael W. Aldrich contributed to this report.


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Incredible Senior Athletes
My report on Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques, showing that vigorous exercise in later life helps to prevent heart attacks by stabilizing plaques, should be a strong stimulus for people to continue exercising at any age.
This week at the USA Track and Field Championships for men and women over 30, 101-year-old Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins won her age-group 100 meters race in 40.12. She holds the World Record for 100-year-olds in the 100 meters at 39.62, an age-group world record by six seconds. The women's 1500 meter race also had some very fast age group records. Here are the women's 1500 meter winners with their equivalent mile times:
• 46-year-old Sonja Friend-Uhl: 5:00.31 mile
• 52-year-old Judy Stobbe: 5:31.24 mile
• 68-year-old Sabra Harvey: 5:59.98 mile
• 80-year-old Jeanne Dapranoran: 8:44.93 mile.
World Record 105-year-old Bicycle Racer
In my opinion, Robert Marchand is the most amazing senior athlete of all time and marathon runner Ed Whitlock is a close second. At age 105, on January 4, 2017, Marchand rode his bicycle an incredible age-group-world-record of 14.01 miles in one hour, to a standing ovation of "Robert, Robert," while dozens of TV cameramen captured the moment. When he was 102, he rode 16.73 miles in one hour to set the world record for men over 100. No one over 100 had ever recorded riding that distance before him, and the record still stands. Most 20-year-olds cannot average anywhere near his 16.7 miles per hour for one hour. A scientific review of world records in many different sports by people over 100 calls Marchand's one-hour-track-cycling the "best sports performance ever achieved by a centenarian" (Age Ageing, Nov 3, 2016;45(5):729-733). It is 50.6 percent of the current world record for that event for any age: 33.88 miles, set by 35-year-old Bradley Wiggins in 2015.
World Record Senior Marathon Runner
Canadian Ed Whitlock was the first person over 70 (at age 73) to run a marathon in less than three hours (2:54:48). A review of world records for running shows that his time adjusted for age is equivalent to running a marathon in a person's prime in 2:04:48, less than two minutes off the present world record of 2:02:57. As a schoolboy in London in the 1940s, Whitlock ran a mile in 4:34 and then stopped running. He took up running again in his 40s. At age 48, he ran his fastest marathon, in 2:31. On October 17, 2016, at age 85, he ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes 34 seconds to become the oldest person ever to run 26.2 miles in under four hours. Whitlock died of prostate cancer at age 86, on March 17, 2017.
• Vigorous exercise in later life helps to prolong lives and prevent diseases. Specifically it stabilizes plaques in arteries to help prevent heart attacks. See Even a 100-Year-Old Can Improve with Training
• Caution: If you have plaques blocking your arteries, vigorous exercise can cause a heart attack. Before you start an exercise program or plan to increase the intensity of your existing program, check with your doctor.


On October 16th, 2018, Khon Kaen University and Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University under royal patronage, coexisted for their MOU ratification ceremony held at KKU's Sirikunagorn Building. Presented at the signing ground were the two universities administrators including; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kittichai Trairatanasirichai, a KKU president, Dr. Supoj Saikaew, an acting president of Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, Assis. Prof. Dr. Denpong Sudpakdee, a KKU vice president for academic and communication affairs, and Assoc. Prof. Sasinan Setawatanabodi, a Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University's vice president for academic affairs.
The allies agreed to assist each other on the general education development, which especially focusing on the monitoring of learning outcomes and learning standards, academic administration, research and training, and personnel and student development. The MOU additionally tightens the relationship between the two universities.
Dr. Supoj Saikaew, an acting president of Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University said the university has learnt from different places about educational management and it has been long collaborated with KKU. Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University has emphasized on creating good graduates. It is obvious that greater number of Rajabhat students are working for communities after their graduation. The students are therefore encouraged to learn more from the communities by means of social laboratory. KKU's Mekong Institute has been renowned for its social laboratory and its achievements have set good examples for regional development for other universities.
123 Moo 16 Mittraphap Rd., Nai-Muang, Muang District, Khon Kaen 40002,Thailand.


Rehearsal is repetition. Rehearsal is repetition. Rehearsal is repetition. - Raiders of the Temple of Doom's Last Crusade - One Man Performs Three Indiana Jones Movies in One Hour. And a bit.
Rehearsal is repetition. Rehearsal is repetition. Rehearsal is repetition.
Today, a word or two (or 1421, to be more accurate) about the rehearsal process for the first season of Raiders of the Temple of Doom's Last Crusade. As I mentioned earlier, the brilliant Russell Fletcher had agreed to be the show's director, and after we formalised our arrangement with a contract, we both mapped out a rehearsal schedule for the show that took into account our various work and family commitments. I remember we couldn't rehearse on September 4th, 5th or 11th, because I was shooting a small role in the movie Now Add Honey, for example. It was quite tricky, but eventually we got there. This was one of the times that, as the show's producer, I was glad that I was the only person in the cast. It certainly made this scheduling easier than it would have been with more people in the show.
77 hours of rehearsals in total. They took place mostly at Russell's house, sometimes at my house, and we did manage to get a few in at a great production space called Revolt Productions, which was run by a friend of Russell's.
So, what was the process like?
Well, the earlier rehearsals consisted of Russell and I "getting the script on its feet", working through it, and devising and locking in all the staging and choreography. We'd go through the show, scripts in hand, quite slowly, one scene at a time, repeating it as often as necessary, with me jotting down all of our agreed moves - and sometimes lighting or sound effects - in my hard copy of the script. After each session, I'd take those notes and type them up into the next draft of the script. This gave me a document that I could use to also rehearse at home, in between 'official' rehearsals, marrying the moves to the words, so that eventually the whole thing would become second nature.
As I became more and more familiar with the words and the moves, and they started to sink in to my head, we'd rehearse longer and longer sections of the show, rather than just single scenes. Eventually, we got it to a stage where we could rehearse each of the three sections of the show (Raiders, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade) from start to finish.
Little by little, my stamina improved to the point where I could finally manage to do all three, one after the other, from start to finish, and keep the required energy levels up. But it wasn't easy. This required more cardio fitness than I'd ever been called on to provide in any other show. But the constant repetition of the show served to train me up physically as well as mentally.
The whole opening section was too rushed and shouty. I would love it if from the very start you have vocal and physical discipline that slows down and is VERY focused. Every change to different characters should be sharp – BE STILL in the next character before you start speaking.
Dive to centre stage for the Belloq exchange. We missed Indy saying "Belloq." You cannot be on the floor for sightlines. You need to be up for Indy.
Marcus / Musgrove scene – I thought this scene too lost all physical discipline – you need so much more stillness. Your body seems to move uncontrollably, whereas we need characters in tableaux to delineate them clearly. Later in the show, esp. when you're going fast, you can afford being rubbery, but you must set up the convention before you break it. The focus was too side to side. What will separate this show from any other is the ability to use the audience as the camera and CLEARLY define character changes. This will also affect and support your vocal discipline. This scene was rushed rather than excited – the stakes of possibly finding the ark MUST BE HIGH. Your control and blocking must be crisp. Marcus STILL, hands in pockets, Indy moving like a cat – he should pack trunk from stage right.
Toht needs articulation – couldn't understand him.
Indy needs to be excited that the Germans are digging in wrong place. I found Indy too mumbly last night. You need him to be very articulate and give him the same vocal athletics as you do the other characters. Otherwise it seems like he doesn't care. He needs to be warm towards his friends and steely to his enemies. Take us on the emotional ride.
Map room – some humming when stepping over model city, gets louder when you put staff in place.
Step into light for song and stay in light. You don't have to move too much till tap dancing. Be sweet and delicate.
Delineation between Lao Che and Indy. Lao was hands on knees? He needs much more mischievous bad guy energy. Evil. Lost character a bit.
Shaman needs to be more articulate and have more gravitas – its that fine line again between being tempted to send him up all the time and setting a clear high stakes premise for the story. He sends himself up anyway with the "stolen children" line.
Shorty was too big and cartoony last night. Needs more stillness. Your size makes it funny anyway. You don't have to oversell it. And don't kick the trunk.
Vocal energy w puppets needs to be bigger.
Must decide which character is moving in scenes and which ones are still. ESP in Marcus scenes – I think he's just standing w hands in pockets. Will make stage business more interesting and help delineate character.
Marcus should be more flustered and hot.
Both Indy and Connery need to make bike noises – diff ones would be fun. Be emotional, not shouty.
Hitler needs to be played more out front – and bring him downstage a bit.
Underscoring as you ride into the sunset needs to be fun and TRIUMPHANT – it's the finale!!!
So, as you can see, he really was polishing this show. I was, and am, so grateful to Russell for all of his incredibly detailed work.
By the end of that laborious, painstaking, fastidious - but still very enjoyable - process, we were finally ready.


New to all this charcoal talk, can someone explain to me the thermapen? - Page 2 - The BBQ BRETHREN FORUMS.
If you want the fastest (and easiest to find), get the orange one.
It's an old joke at this site about which color is fastest.
Please ignore previous posts. Green means "Go," which means green is the fastest.
The true benefit of the Thermapen is that you don't have to hold your hand over the heat while a lesser unit counts up from ambient to the IT one or two degrees at a time. Also makes a great "buttah" probe.
BBQ Apprentice - Old Country Brazos offset, 22.5 WSM, Various gassers, portable grills, etc.


After beginning his professional baseball career at the age of 17 in Caracas, Venezuela, Chico Carrasquel played for the White Sox from 1950 to 1955. In 1951 he was the first Latin American to play in the Major League All-Star Game. His first challenges as an immigrant and a baseball player included the language barrier: management wanted all the Latin players to speak in English.
In those days, in the 50s and the end of the 40s, the Spanish players, they said, "Oh, we can't go. That's for the white people, that's for the black people." . . .
If we played good ball, the fans at Comiskey don't care if you were black, or white, or a Latin player, because you played good. We got a chance to show those people and they recognized.


Please use the following form to submit warranty service requests for your Charleston Home.
What is the sum of six added to 5?
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In this amazing new book, Peter Sis employs the artist's lens to give us an extraordinary view of the life of Galileo Galilei. Sis tells his story in language as simple as a fairy tale, in pictures as rich and tightly woven as a tapestry, and in Galileo's own words, written more than 350 years ago and still resonant with truth. "Starry Messenger" is a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book.
Description: Stated first edition, signed by Peter Sis on the blank page opposite the title page along with a drawing of a star. Jacket in protective mylar. Caldecott Honor Book, no sticker.


Neuromyelitis optica, or NMO, is a disease that affects your eyes and spinal cord. It's also known as Devic's disease. It's not very common -- only about 4,000 people in the United States have it.
NMO happens because your body's immune system attacks healthy cells in your central nervous system (your brain and your spinal cord). These attacks can happen over days or weeks -- this is called monophasic NMO. Or you may go a long time between attacks, even months or years. This is called relapsing NMO. With relapsing NMO, symptoms go away but can come back and get worse over time.
Men and women are equally likely to get the monophasic type, but women get relapsing NMO much more often than men. Children also can get the disease.
Optic neuritis: inflammation of the optic nerve (this carries information from your eye to your brain). You might feel sudden pain inside your eye. That can be followed by problems like not seeing clearly or even blindness. It usually happens only in one eye, but it can happen in both.
Transverse myelitis: inflammation of the spinal cord. This can cause problems with your arms and legs, including pain, weakness, numbness, or paralysis. It also can lead to loss of control of your bladder and bowel. You could have nausea, vomiting, hiccups, a stiff neck, or a headache.
Children who have NMO may seem confused, have seizures, or fall into a coma.
MS usually happens more slowly and over a longer time.
There is a blood test for NMO, but there is no blood test for MS.
An MRI usually looks normal when you first get NMO but not with MS.
With NMO, you might have nausea, vomiting, and hiccups. This doesn't usually happen with MS.
Doctors aren't sure what causes NMO. It doesn't seem to run in families, but many people who have it also have other autoimmune diseases, in which your body mistakenly attacks healthy cells. Or they may have family members who have them. Some examples of autoimmune diseases are type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and vitiligo.
Your doctor will examine you and check your thinking, vision, speech, strength, and reflexes. He may want to test fluid from your spine and your blood. More than 70% of people who have NMO have a certain protein in their blood called an antibody.
Your doctor also may want to look at your spine to see if it's inflamed. One way to do that is with a test called an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). It uses a large magnet and a computer to create an image of your spinal cord.
You also might need to see a doctor who specializes in treating eyes (ophthalmologist).
There's no cure for NMO, but you can do things to feel better or treat an attack. Symptoms often get better with steroids or corticosteroids that help with inflammation. Other drugs may help keep your body from fighting off the good cells and prevent future attacks.
You also might need several medicines to treat symptoms such as pain or bladder or bowel issues.
Your doctor also might suggest a treatment called plasmapheresis. This is when your blood is circulated through a machine that gets rid of the antibodies.
Cleveland Clinic -- Diseases and Conditions: "Devic's Disease."
Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation: "NMO Fact Sheet," "NMO Patient Resource Guide."
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: "Understanding Autoimmune Diseases."
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: "Neuromyelitis Optica."
National Organization for Rare Diseases: "Neuromyelitis Optica."